Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 30, Number 48, Decatur, Adams County, 25 February 1932 — Page 1

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Will Send Delegates Several Adams Count;’ high schools will send delegates to the county i latin contest to be held at Berne, , Saturday. February 27. it was announced today The cnn'- e Is open I 1 to all high schools in the county. W. Guy Grown, principal of lie- 1 < atur high school, today announced I the r’presentativ* s chosen from the local school. They are: Latin, | division one; Jack G ether, first; > Dorothy Summer- and Harriet Fruchte, second; division two, Edward Somtn-rs. first; Barbara ' Krick second; division three. Mary i IG ace Zimmerman, sh s:. and Min- | I nfe Moyer, second. I Both list and second representa- ; I fives will compete In the conte.4. i’ , was stated. CANTATA WILL BE REPEATED Central Pupils To Give Observance Program Second Time Tonight ■ "George Washington. The Father of Our Country." a two part cantata by Ira I! Wilson, which wan presented by the Central Schord I grade pupils on Monday. February i 22. will be repeated tonight. The musical play will again be | presented in the Bemtu high I school assembly and the curtain . will rise at 8 o'clock. No a lnns-i.m i will bt charged, and the public Is cordially invited to attend. a combination cantata ami i'ajtcant with special lighting i effer re * ter the charge of lsiwi-1! i Smith. A spei ia! musical liiinii.er will b ■ -played by a string er. emble composed of pupils who have only received special instrirc'ions din ing ; the last two years under the tHier-- ■ tion ' of Miss Gladys Sohindl r. i music supervisor. The program will start promptly | at 8 o'clis i. tonight, with musical I selections by the Central school orjehestta. A number of patiiotic [songs will he sung by individuals and t'.te Colonial and Eighth grade chorus, aieomiiani- d by the Cenlr:i! I school orchestra. The choruses will ' be dressed in colonial costtimes. A boy-' whistling chia its will al- • ' (UONTINI IN* <»N’ PACE TWO) DEBATE TEAM IS DEFEATED Local Negative And Affirmative Squads Lose Close Contests The Huntington high school negative debating team was awarded a decision over the Decatur high school af.irmattve team in a contest held at the Library hall, Tuesday evening. J. E. Stoner of North Side high school. Fort Wayne, was the Judge. A second debate took place at 8:30 o'clock between the Huntington affirmative and the Decatur negative teams. This debate proved tp he one of the closest of the season, and after some consideration the decision was awarded the Huntington team. Those who participated in the Decatur affirmative team were Gail Franklin, Sara Jane Kauffman. Milton HoiTman, and Dorothy Little. The negative team comprised Edward Martz, Betty F isinger. and Dorothy Little. The final interscholastic debate oX the season will be held at Columbia City this afternoon and evening. Eileen Burk. Betty Frisinger and Dorothy Little, members of t'he team, will not debate today because of illness. — —- —■ Hitler Made Citizen Berlin, Feb. 25.— (U.P) —Adolph Hitler, loader of the German Fascists, was appointed an official of the state of Brunswick today, thus endowing him with German citizenship and enabling him to run for president. Hitler, it was understood, would be technically attached to the Brunswick legation in Berlin Hitler was formerly an Austrian.

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SHANK FAVORS I ASSESSMENTS BY REAL VALUE Tax Board Representative Talks to Cartners And Assessors Today NO SET CUT IS PLANNED bulletin The township assessors met with County Assessor John Felty at 1:30 o’clock this as ternoon for final instructions and to receive their supplies. The matter of aopraising real estate will probably come up and an agreement as to the plan of assessing may be reached. Cuts of 25 to 40 per cent in the values may be made. I’lic shite board of lax commissioners is to ,i <4cller.ll average percentage cut in le-d estate values this year, Bav Shank, special reprt'sc 1 dative of the state hoard, emphasized in a meet1 iny held in the court room Ibis morning with township assessors and tanners. When asked the question if a ’ certain per cent could b« deducted from the apniaisements as now on record, Mr. Shank stated that "such a plan Is just so mm h junk j and is a joke." Mr. Skunk stated that real estate and all other property | should be assessed at ith •-wv ; cit.sh value." He read paragraphs from the state 1 tux law which sßecifJes that property shall be a-’.sess.-d ;.t it- cash value and [ raid ‘hat no general reduction I could be made in any taxing unit. : that is on the basis of cutting i farm land and oilier real estate appraisements. ",0. 4<» or 50 per| tent. The i-oitrt roam was crowd ‘<l ‘ and the session lasted for nearly | three hours, beginning at niue-| I thirty o'clix k. t'ounty Assessor: i John Felty atend.-d the meeting. I The meeting moved along) I nioo’lilv during tin time Mr. | I Shank devoted to explaining the: i personal ptoperty schedules. As I 1 the meeting wore on the crowd I liecame a little restless and final-1 ) ly one farmer took the floor and , I -stated that “whaL we came here , lor was to discuss the real estate) i appraisements and find out wliat I it should be appraised for." , Mr. Shank then explained that it should be assessed as the law i intended. "You assessors are go-1 ing to make the appraisement) because the law says you should. 1 This value should be just, equal and right. I do not know what ray farm is worth and yet these assessors must place a value on it. Bo careful, get them equal and uniform." was the advice given the I assessors. "This talk that the Farm Bureau , is putting out that values should (CONI fN'URD ON PAGE TWO) ——o LEW W. COOPER DEATH'S VICTIM -— . Indianapolis Man. Known Here Expires; Was 111 Since First of Year Word was received here of the death of Lew W. Cooper. Indianapolis business man, who is well known in this city. Mr. £ooper died at a hospital in Indianapolis where he was a patient since the first of the year. He is a relative of Mrs. Bertha M. Ellis. M s. E. G. Coverdale, Mrs. Jack Teeple, and Mrs. Ed Cof.ee of this city. He visited here a number of times and had a wide acquaintance Surviving is the widow and two children. Mrs. Robert Branham, the former Marion Cooper who is known here, and Lew W. Cooper, Jr. Funeral services will be held at ; Indianapolis, Friday afternoon at 2 o’clock. Dr. and Mrs. E. G. Coverdale and daughter Mary Madeline will leave tonight for Indianapolis to attend i’lic services.

Decatur, Indiana, Thursday, February 25, 1932

A Real Closeup .■ MMr a*.- — w.. ;• '■ - - > | ‘ wmL oisii - M Mrs. Anne (“Fili") Stillman McCormick kissing her husband. [ Fowler McCormick, good-bye, as she departed from <’iii< aeo for Boston , tor visit witli her new granddaughter, born recently to the wife of her ) son. "Bud" Stillman./ Insert is picture of Mrs. McCormick who pos.-d , for photographer just before hei train pulled out

LEO SAYLORS IS APPOINTED Decatur Man Named On Election Board as Democratic Member lam Saylor, Decatur automobile dealer today was nam d election commissioner of Adams county for the prima y and general elections of 1932 by Ed. A. Bosse, Adams county Democratic chairman. Mr. Saylors accepted the appointment and will serve on the commission together with .Milton c. Werling, who by virtue of his office as county clerk is a member and a republican to be named by Paul H. Graham. Republican county chai.man. The first task the new commission has is to district the county for delegates to the state convention. The board also has jurisdiction over the printing of primary and general election ballots, ordering election supplies and otherwise conducting the election. It is' regarded as one of the most important boards in tlie county and frequently it is called on to make important decisions concerning elections. ' , Chairman Graham will name bis member in the next few days and the board will meet probably within the next week to make plans for the election. Hower Has Operation Carl Hower, Decatur man who was injured Wednesday afternoon, underwent an operation this morning at t'he Adams County Memorial Hospital. His londitlon is regarded as fair. Mr. Hower’s left arm was crushed about the elbow and an artery in the arm was severed when a branch of a tree he was sawing down, struck him on the arm.

Missionary Is Safe Washington. Feb. 25. *(U.R) Rep | Hogg. Repn. Ind., .aid today that I tlie state department had assured him that Miss Roxie Lefforge of Huntington. Ind., was safe in FitI chow, China. Hogg was asked to inquire as to Miss Lefforge's safety by her uncle George L. Jordan of Huntington. He said her relatives had not heard from her since Dec. 5. Miss Lefforge was superintendent of a mission school on Haitong Island and it was feared she had been captured by bandits. Hi gg said the department had caliled Fuehow and ■ been informed that she was there and well. REVENUE AGENT I IS IN DECATUR Government Man To Aid Local People In Filing Tax Reports Otis Heck, fisldman for the Internal revenue department is in the city today for the purpose of assisti ing taxpayers in the filling out ot | their income tax bianss. Mr. Heck is located in tlie Post office building* on Liberty Way. He will be in tile city all day Friday he announced. Members of corporations who are required to fill out the blanks for last year will also be assisted by Mr. Heck. ■The service rendered by Mr. Heck is free to the taxpayer and he will be glad to answer any question concerning the filling out of the schedules. Returns ar the 1931 income tax must be made not laterTnan March 15th. No changes have been made in the exemptions this year, although congress is considering re vamping of the income tax law.

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POLE RAISING ! WILL BE PART ) OF RALLY PLAN • 50-foot Hickory Pole To Be Raised In Decatur By Democrat Leaders NOTABLES TO BE ON PROGRAM I \ hicktirv po’e i’:iisin.<4, symbolic of I )< inoci :itic ctiinpaions of 2.”> vetirs uyo. will open the fireworks lor the Democratic Igiiiquel ant! rally to be held here I'hursilav,, . March io. \ .‘lO-looi pole has been ohlained and will) * be raised in the up-town dis-) trie! of the citv just before the banquet. All the old time program will) bo carried out. The American i I Legion drum corps will lead the; i parade to the pole-raising and the: proper ceremony will be given. A Democratic banner will be I I placed on top tin- pole. A coni I j mittee headed by Chris Eicher, I I county highway superintendent is , I in charge of securing tin- pole and i ) making arrangements for the raisi Ing. Several members of the ticket, committee left early this morning ) for F.-rt Wayne. Auburn. Angola.) LaGrange and Kendallville vwhere ) they will dispose of the 151) tickets; | still unsold out of the original: i find tickets. Sides in Adams county have > i jieen much larger than first antiei-; , naled, and indications are that, ■ there will lie more than tint) l>em-| loc-ats Ip re fur the big meeting. Walter Myers, speaker of the! i 1931 House of Jt< presentatives I land candidate for the Democrat ie ’ nomination for I’nited States sen- : , ator stated yesterday in a tele-f i phone conversation with Chairman; Eil A Bosse that he would b<; here i for the meeting. • Frederick VanN’uys. opponent of Myer ; for the nomination. form< r i state chairman and Hie Indiana ; Democrat who nominated the Samuel M Ralston for president I : in 1921 also Will attend the meet-| I ■ (CONIINI EH i>X I'AC.E CIVIB DEATH CLAIMS MONROE WOMAN Mrs. Margaret .lane Everhart. 73. Dies After 7-Year Illness .Mrs. Margaret Jane Everhart. 73.!' wi e of the late David M. Everhart, I ; died at the home of her son. Abslom * | i Everhart in Monroe, at 3 o'clock. Wednesday afternoon of com plica- I tions. Mns. Everhart had been an ' invalid for the past 7 yea s. and was 1 in a critical condition the past 3 < I weeks. Mr Everhart w. s a member of , the Monroe M n.ioiiist Episcopal! ■ hureh or many years. She reeid- ‘ I | ed in Monroe the last 21 years, and for tile past 7 years lived with her son, and with her daughter Mrs. fHilda Crist. She was born in Tuscarawas County, Ohio, July 26, 1848, the 1 daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Reuben McCurdy. She united in marriage to David M. Everhart on February--14. 1885. He preceded her in death 4 vears ami. Surviving ar-» the foliowin step children: Absolni and Mrs. Hui- 1 da Crist of Monroe, and Leßoy 1 Everhart of Niles. Mich., 9 step 1 grandchildren; 7 step great grand- 1 children, and a sister, Mrs. Elizabeth Head of Findlay, Ohio. Three : sisters and 1 brother preceded her 1 in death. . -V ..-S- s, I ((\)NTIN'I’I’7I) ON PAGE TWO) 0 Plan Benefit Bridge The Tri Kappa sorority will sponsor a series of benefit bridge pa - : ties in Decatur, toe first of which will be hold at the home of Mrs. i Bell on Monroe street,. Tuesday night. March 8. The games will start at 8 o'clock and tickets will be placed on sale ■ by members of the sorority.

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Branch Funeral Friday — Ma tinsville, Ind, Feb. 25 —(t'P) A s-dal committee o 20, ten from each branch of the Indiana genera! la-sembly, will attend the fimerd 1 services for'former Governor EmI met F. Branch here at 2:30 I’. M. |tomov.ow, the family has been inI formed. The committee was named by i Lieutenant Governor Edgar P. ) Bush, and Walter Myers, speaker 1 of the house. Governor Harry G. Leslie and several othe. stale offi.ials also will i attend. Honorary pall bearers will be I Governor Leslie. Fred Cunningham, I Fred A. Simps, Frank C. Dailey, Eben H. Wolcott. Ronald A. Foster. Homer Elliott. Dixon 11. Bynum and F. E. Schortemeie., all of Indianapolis, and Harry McDowell, Winamac. Activeall bearers will be Harvey W. Bain. Harry F. Button, William G. Bray, Eugene C. Shireman, F. T. Singleton and Dr. R. H. Eg- i iiert. SHERIFF WORKS ON 3 SUSPECTS Trio Held At Fort Wayne Thought Implicated In Wertzherger Holdup ■While no confessions had yet 1 been obtained from Charles Biddle, Kenneth Arnold and Roy Martz, Fort Wayne young men i held in Hie Allen county jail charged with robberies at Ossian and New Haven, for the luvld-.tp I Tuesday night of the Wertzherger -tore in Deeat'ir. Sheriff Burl 1 Johnson was busy on the case al l I day today. Criminal affidavits have been filed in Adams circuit court against the trio charging them with the hold-up and t'ne warrants will be served Friday. it is thought. Sheriff Johnson said late today that lie would go to Fort Wayne again in Hie morning and talk with the trio. An affidavit charging the men with stealing four now typewriters from the Monroe high school on February 20 was also filed in court today. Their bond was fixed at |2s<)o in the larceny ease. The bond in the hold-up case, j charging them with automobile: banditry was fixed at $5,000 an;l the court named Sheriff Johnson I as the agent to return the men to county. Automobile Recovered The automobile belonging to F. W. Wilkerson of Defiance. Onio, | was recovered in this city by night policemen Arthur Clark and Ed Miller of Decatur. The car was stolen two weeks ago fiom in front of the Wilkerson residence in Defiance. It was located last evening on Elm street of this , ‘•'tyPNEUMONIA IS GAUSE OF DEATH Mrs. Emma Barkalow Is Victim After Illness of Week’s Duration Berne, Reb. 25---< Special) —Mrs. Emma Barkalow. 75, died at 5 o'clock this morning at the home of her sister-in-law, Mrs Amos Me- : Cune, 4 miles northeast of Berne of a week's illness of pneumonia. She was born in Monroe township. March 30. 1856, the daughter of John and Mary McCune. She spent most of her life in Adams County. She was united in marriage to James Young of Berne, who preceded her in death 20 years ago. and in 1921 she was married to Richard Barklow. who died 6 years ago. Eleven brothers and sisters preceded her in death. Funeral services will be held Saturday afternoon at one o'clock a. ihe Maple Grove church, southeast of Berne. Burial will he in the M. , It E, Cemetery. :

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CHINESE HAVE HEAVY LOSSES DURING ATTACK iCrisis Believed Near As Both Sides Reinforce Their Front Lines JAPAN ISSUES NEW STATEMENT Shttnqhiii. (Friduv) Feb. 26 <U.R) Tlie .hipanese hurled their military strength against the Chinese lines north of Shanghai Thursday and earlv today in a crushing offensive designed to shatter C.hina’s lines between Shanghai and Woosung. Th® Chinese, forced back, suffered heavily under the withering ! rain of shells, bombs nnd machine ! gun bullets, their casualties being estimated at 2,000 or more. Lieut. Gen. Kenkichi I’yedii. commander of the Japanese 9th division. announced early today that the artillery battering would he continued all night preparatory Io a massed attack on the strategically important town of Taz-.in". about 10 miles northwest of tbo city, on the road to Littho. The Japanese planned, after capturing Tazang. to turn their i strength against the Chinese lines |in Chapei. the native city of Shanghai, bringing the war again to the gates of the internation.il settlement. A Japanese communique at 10:30 last night announced that 1 the Japanese had advanced 2<lO 1 yards in the Kiangwan area. The i action was most heavy at the , village of Kiaochiachen. captured by the Japanese, whdre the communique estimated :!00 Chines • I ) were killed. However, only '<> II were wounded and 15 taken prisi oners, indicating the fierceness of i) the attack. Tlie Japanese placed their citsi | unities all during Ihe day at 80. ' Despite the superior offensive weapons of the Japanese and their heavy casualties, the Chinese stood their ground with amazing valor and as far as foreign observers could tell, the Japanese gains were not great. At midnight, the Chinese began shelling the Hongkew qnartm* of the settlement, shells falling in j Woosung and Chapoo roads north <<•< i\**!*i vi im . ON '■ o:c <' \ ■ FORMER BERNE WOMAN EXPIRES Barbara Myers, 60, Dies At Home In Ft. Wayne; Funeral Is Sunday Mrs. Barbara Myers. 60, wife of Labanah Myers, passed away r.f. her home, 3716 Logan avenue, | Fort Wayne, at 9:30 o'clock this | morning, following a week’s ill- ) ness of influenza. She was born it Berne. Juno 22, 1871, a daughter of Jacob and j Mary Scliwartz Eicher. Her marj riage to Mr. Myers took place on | January 6. 1898, in Adams county. Surviving are the husband, am! I four children. Mrs Mary Eichar, Labanah J. Myers and Ralph V. Myers all of Fort Wayne, and John E. Myers of Pennsylvania; the following brothers and sisters, Peter J. Eicher and Mrs. K. Nussbaum. Burr Oak. Mich.; Jacob Eicher. Berne; Mrs. Lizzie Schragg. Oakland, Calif.: Mrs, Mary Stauffer, New Haven, and Mrs. Fannie Schwartz. Centerville, Mich. Two brothers are deceased. Funeral services will he held Sunday afternoon at 2 o’clock ar. the home. Burial will be in the Lindenwood cemetery at Foil; Wayne. o Senator’s Wile Dies Battle Ground. Ind.. Feb. 25. (U.R) —Mrs. Edith Baker Garrott. 12. wife of State Senator I. Floyd Garrott, committed suicide at her home here today. She had been ill for several months. The widower, a daughter, two sisters and two brothers survive. Funeral services will be held iSaturdny at lb a, tn ut the ftimilv I home.