Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 30, Number 106, Decatur, Adams County, 3 May 1932 — Page 12

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MORE PAYROLL PADDING FOUND I I Sen. Fess Employs Relative At Toledo: She Draws Nice Salary Washington, May 3. —(UR) Being < not only a l’nitei| Stages senator < but also chairman of the Repnbli i can national committee, Senator,i Simeon D. Fess of Ohio is a very i busy man. indeed. j i That Is why he must have secre i taries scattered around in various . places. I He has several in his senatorial I office on capitol hill. . 1 He has others in his Republican < national committee headquarters I' downtown — but here the taxpayer! gets a break because these are not I or the government payroll. Senator Fess also has his daugh-! ter-in-law doing "clerical work" in ' her home in Toleci ■. O. —at s2.2:><i a year, government money. Dorothy Fess is listed in the official congressional directory lis one of the assistant clerks of the] senate library committee of which her father-in-law is chairman. Her address is given in this directory -[ issued last January—as the Carl ton Hotel here. But when this cor respondent tried to reach her at i ' lite Carlton, the desk clerk report ed that Senator Fess lived there i nt that he couldn't recall any one ' named Dorothy Fess. She lives with tier husband. Lehr , Fess, a lawyer in Toledo and form-i er parliamentarian of the House of 1 Representatives here when his father was in tbit branch. Senator Fess is not singled out ns unique in doing this. The practice Is common in both houses and, in both parties. The senate Demo- < ratio leader has a brother-in-law. 1 the president of a hank in Little 1 Rock, Ark., on the senate payroll 1 Speaker Gamer has his son on the * payroll to represent him in Vvale. Texas. Rep. Henry T. Rainey, house Democratic leader, may. as 1 he did in an interview with the ! Vnited Press last week, condemn 1 this practice as a means of build s ing political fences back home at 1 government expense. But he is - assailing a practice that is rapidly ' growing in favor here. In reporting on the various forms 1 of the family payroll racket as ‘ worked in congress—the pin money which congressmen wives’ draw as •• clerks for work some of them nev- 1 r do, the college hoys and girls 1 who draw pay from the house and > senate payrolls, the aged relatives, t the unsuccessful in-laws, the polit-j < leal heelers back home taken care i of at government expense—the J I nited Press correspondent has discovered no indication that congressmen feel conscience-stricken in face of the unemployment situation which has become increasingly acute in many sections. “Wives t and children first” is a popular rule' 1 in the congressman s code. < Perhaps 50 to 60 per cent of the members practice it. regarding it t as a vested right. It is one of the i first things the new congressman I is tipped off to by older members I when he arrives here. That is why the house voted down two to one—l but without a record vote—the attempt of Rep. Mouser. Repn., 0.. to include in the omnibus economy i bill a provision against employ- : rnent of absentee relatives. One new congressman came here i last fall and was about to hire a i man with former experience as a congressional secretary’ when he was told be could put his wife on the payroll, pick up a stenographer here cheap, and get by. Which he ; t proceeded to do. i There is a classic story of a. | middle-western congressman who I

Republican Winner I H < - *.J ■Mfe; Jr DAVID HOGG Republican congress from the Twelfth district who defeated Dr. Harry O. Jones, of Berne, for the Republican nomination for congress in the Fourth district. Hogg made a whirlwind campaign in the past week. The issue was wet wet and dry betwen the two can didates.

died a few years ago. He had his wife on the payroll. She got a divorce. Did he strike her off the payroll? No. He gave her the clerk hire as alimony. Senator Fess was quite willing to explain about his daughter-in-I w and manifested no feeling when questioned. "I keep her in Ohio," he explained. "because there is considerable secretarial work out there which she can attend to better than some, one here. She is not really a clerk on the library committee. Site is an assistant clerk of my office st fl assigned to work in Ohio.” "Where does she have her office tn Toledo?" the senator was asked. Well. It is mostly clerical work and ‘Hr does It all at home” he replied. In the summer time when 1 go to my home in Yellow Springs, Ohio, during the recess, she comes down there to help me with my work.” LOCAL PASTOR . WILL RETURN Rev. M. W. Sunderman to Serve Another Year At Evangelical Church Rev. M W. Sunderman pistor of the First Evangelical Church here for the last four years, was reassigned to the Decatur pastorate, at the i losing session of the eightieli annual Indiana conference of the Evaineiical churches which was held in Dayton. 0.. last week. Members of the Decatur EvangeAppears In Broadcasts Cedric V -ilewede, -son of Mr. and Mrs. Olem Voglewede of this city, who is 1> ated at Milwaukee. Wisconsin. will appear in a novel radio program over the Milwaukee Journal Station each Tuesday. Thursday and Saturday nights from 5:45 tn 6 o’clock. The p ogram will dramatize the humor in tlie news of the day. The featu.e will be introduced by the roar of the ;>res-es. as its theme sang, and will he superintended by the "Cub Reporters —Tommy and Seedy.' one . f whom is Mr. Voglewede. The reporters will introduce the skits and take the parts of the chiracters mentioned in the news stories. Incidental and characteristic music will he played by Elwyn Owen, organist. Tl.ie broadcast will become a regular program and 1 cal residents interested are asked to tune in and also to send postal cards to the radio station expressing their sentiments in regard to the feature. Will Bind Blanks County auditor Albert Harlow took tie m rtgage exemption blanks to the Fort Wayne printing company today for binding. May 1. w is the last day to file tlie exemptions. Mr. Harlow did not state hjw many blanks were filed, but estimated that the total was larger than a year ago. o Dancing Kept Him in Trim Tac ma. Wash.. —(VP) — Judge Hackett lectured John Maurer, 71. and John Walker. 73. for fist-fight-ing. Maurer admitted his prowess came font dancing and "swinging the girls around." 0 u. Road Boasts Safety Record Boston.— (U.R) —The Boston & Maine railroad boasts that during the lust 13 years it has operated its passenger trains 9.792.5611.000 passenger miles without a single fata’ity to a passenger.

DECATUR DAILY DEMOCRAT TUESDAY, MAY 8, Dm

Bosse Nominated In Four-Cornered Race fife ™ ■ It . $ T wr' I ■ ED. A. BOSSE B sse defl ted thre> opponents fur the Democratic nomination for prosecuting attorney in the Tuesday primary. He will opp >< Ca’ F. I'eterson, Republican Horn nee in the November election. The Democratic nomination is tantamount to election in Adams county. Bosse has served as Democratic county chairman for the last two years. , '

DREDGE CAUSE RECESSES TO SEPTEMBER 12 • ONE, | of Pythias home on Third stre-t. ■ Adam.: coun’y had to <!■ fray the ■ i extra expens* of rental and : peei.il i bailiff, while Miss Anna Smith. I regular court reporter took the I evidence. Judge Dore B. Erwin. I surrendered th- services of the j court reporter in order to save I additional expense an I Miss Smith I worked untiringly at both jobs. Tli> case has been a codiv cue. i 1 The sum of ? :.*>7s was paid to the s-“<-ia| judge, the fee being $25 a I day Ind o Eister was appoint* ', by Governor Harry I-eslie. The petitioners s \ to dredge I the Wabash river, beginning in’ ; Mercer conntv. Ohio, near the Celinti reservoir and extend; to a noin' near Linn Greve. Adnnsj I County, the <ity of Bluffton an!, I about 300 property owners, com-1 I prise the remonstrators. It is not known what action the county ■ ouncil will fake next I fall am! if the body r*fuses to I make tlie appropriation, it is pos- , sible that the county might he I mandated to make the appropriaI ,10 "- 0 - WOMAN'S CLUB HOLDS PARTY CONTtNVFf ’’R'.'M PXGE <'VE‘ The Trinity Trio, composed of | the Misses Betty Franklin. Edwina iShroll and Sara Jane Kauffman. sang two numbers, "Tiptoe,” and > May Day Song.” Miss Ixiuise Haubold accompanied at the piano.. The < ramatic department of the" Junior Aris department presented , a cleve* one mt play, “Betty Be- ; have.” It was a corned” and the scene was in Betty's room at Lind-, wood school for girls. The cliarlacters were Betty, a pupil, played 'by Miss Kathryn Hower; Elen (Ward, another pupil, enacted by I Miss Miriam Haley, and Miss Kathryn Engeler took the part of the new pupil. Miss Jeanette O'Neill. Mrs. Charles Knapp assisted by | Miss Dorothy Young, president of the Junior Arts club, had charge of the direction. Mrs. Dan Tyndall and Mrs. L. A. Holthouse of the Music Section of the Woman's Club sang two se'ecitions. "Sylvia.” and "Trees." Mrs. !Carrie T. Haubold accompanied at I the piano. A mournful one-act play. "Marthat’s Mourning," was presented by ithe Dramatic Department of the , Woman's Club. The characters were Miss Eva Acker. Martha's aunt; Mrs. Frank Downs, a nelghibor, and Miss Helen Christen as i Martha. Miss Grace Coffee was the j directoress. Following the program the girls were invited to the gymnasium where Miss Jeanette Clark had dcharge of several dances. The first was a bowery tap dance in costume, the second a Spanish tambourine

' d nee, and the third a folk dance in costume. The Misses Eve'yn I Kohls and Virginia Miller accom- r ; ..nied at the pidno. At the dos.* of the entertainment : irefreshments were served to the i .girls and members of the Woman's club who were present. Special events will be held dur-, I i .'ng the week tor Girls' Week, and . a hike will be he'd Saturday morn- < ng with Miss Jeanette Clark in . i charge. o , I FUNERAL HELD HERE TODAY .tK' f • N ‘TA ••»/»!• M%f 2 L «|VU* - J Gilliam Berling, Indianapolis. Burial was made in the Si Joseph Catholic cemetery. /OUR INJURED IN ACCIDENT — CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONE) i Hired cheek bone, the bone being' pushed in, leaving an indentation The skin was not broken and after, ::n X-ray wa- taken it was decided, not to operate at the present time.' Unless complications set in, ha’j injury will not prove serious, it was! stated. Arthur, age 8. was the most ser-! iously injured of the children, re-; •eivlng a severe g.sh on the side of, , his fare that required nine stkehes! Ito close. The cut ran from the top | ' of h;s head/throngh his ear. wfiich I ias part idly severed, to his jaw j bone. iHe s-uffered considerably, , from loss of blood. James, age 9. received a bad gash ! on hi; leg. between the knee and, he ankle. Four stitches were re-1 •quired to close this wound. Cowan For Auditor K Glsn Cowan Glen Cowan, who four years ago was defeated for the Democratic nomination for auditor by 47 votes v.-as successful in Tuesday's primary, defeating three opponents by a 1 rge majority. He will be opposed in the November election by i Frank Amstutz Berne, Republican. I |

Edward, age 7, had two fingers , prrially cut off, but otherwise was not injured. t daughter, Betty, age 2 was not ■ injured. The driver of the other car I was not injured. M s. Raudenbusii was bringing, her children to this city, where the j three boys a e pupils at the St. j Joseph S.lhool. The Daniels car was I c ming east and approached the | intersection wi.h state road 27. He failed to stop and crashed into the Iliudenbush car, driving the latter, into the ditch where it turned over. 1 1 he windshield and door windows | were broken, ttie glass cutting the child en. B th cars were damaged beyond re ai . it was stated. Mr. Raudenbush is employed at the Elevator at Monroe. O— — Institutes Large Suit Greenville. O , May 3. —Albert J. Frost, Portland. Ind., trustee in j bankruptcy for the J. A. Lon;! 1 Company, a creamery product;, firm, has instigated a $478,272 suit against shareholders in the defunct j concern in Darke county, Ohio. i courts. I . Otillie Hole et al. and the estate I of the la’e George W. Mannix, Jr.. ; are the finn's only i Darke county shareholders, it was I stated but they ere held to be per sonally liable for the firm's indebt- : edness. and a judgment against I them in the alove sum is peti- | tinned. Assets of the firm have been I appraised at $267,182. leaving a balance of $478,272.19, which is i termed immediately payable. o Health Station Will Be Conducted Here The montciiy Adams County Baby Health Station will be held in the Decatur Public Library on Friday, Muy 6. from 9 o'clock in the morning until 4 o'clock in the afternoon. D. Dorothy Teal and Miss Nancy Gibbs. R. N.. of the Child Hygiene division of the State Board of Health, will be in charge, assisted by a locil committee from the Psi lota Xi sorority. MoJiers In Adams County are invited to bring theV children to the station for a free complete physical examinaticn. Children under two years of age will be examined. The purpose of the station is to help mothers keep well babies well, thus laying a foundation for good health in later yea.s. Cock and Dog Inseparable Menlo Park, Cal., — (UP) —A gamecock who will fight anybody or anything to protect his bulldcg pal . fs one of the proudest posessions of J. C. Walrath, of Menlo Park. The rooster, "Cockle,” and the dog "Boots,” are inseparable. Walrith said. The chicken, he explained, rides around on the dog’s back and the first sign of an attack on the dog. goes into action with wings beating and spurs flashing.

AWARDS MADE BY PULITZER “Os Thee I Sing" Is Awarded Drama Price For Year 1931 — New York, May 3. — (U.R) — "Os Thee 1 Sing." a satirical musical | cotnetiy which lampoons American politics and political methods un-: i mercifully, has been awarded the I annual Pulitzer prize for drama, it i was announced today. The prize for the best novel written by an American during the] ; year goes to Pearl S. Buck, (. hina born daughter of a missionary, for . I her book. “The Good Earth,” a ' ! story of present-day life in China. I Mrs Buck lives in Nanking. The award for public service was i von by the Indianapolis News, for , hts successful campaign to ellmin |, 1 ate waste in city management and [ Ito reduce the tax levy. The prize 1, •for newspaper correspondence is' war led to Walter Duranty, Mos , iiow correspondent for the New' Y rk Tines, for his articles on the I progress of the five-year plan, and j i lo Charles G. Ross, of the St. Louis I I Post-Dispatch for an article entitled . ‘ The Country's Plight—What Can | Be Done Aliout It?" The cartoon award goes to John I T McCutcheon, of the Chicago Tri-1 bttne. for his drawing ent it cd "A I Wise Economist Asks a Question." | Gen. John J. Pershing wins the {award for history with his book of •memoirs, "My Experiences in the ' World War,” and Henry F. Pringle j is given the prize for the best bljegraphy. his "Theodore Roosevelt." ! The best volume of verse, in the | Opinion of the judges, was “The Flowering Stone.” by George D:l---j lon. Traveling scholarships, worth sl.(»ofi, we e awarded to Frank R. Kel'ey. Brooklyn; Selma Hautzik. NewYork. and Johnathan D. Springer,' Port Chester. N. Y.. a l students at he Columbia School of Journalism. | Ernst Bacon. San Francisco mu-1 sic student, and Francesco Roggeri. | New York art student, likewise re- • reived $1,900 scholarships to con- I inue their studies in Europe. "Os Thee I Sing." the libretto' for which was written by George! Kaufman and Morrie Ryskind. is I’he first musical comedy ever to • receive a Pulitzer award. It is concerned with a presidential campaign in whTTIi the prime ] issue is love. Running on a "Plati form of Love." the bachelor candidate for President promises he will ( marry the winner of a beauty coil-, test if elected. During the campaign. however, he falls in love 1 with another girl and his political speeches consist of proposals to her. He marries the second girl, snubbing the beauty contest winner, and trouble develops. Twins come to the White House and more trouble deve’ops. No award was made this year for the best newspaper editorial, and the award for the best example of a reporter's work during the year I I-as been deferred. Mrs. Buck's novel received almost unanimous acclaim from liter- , ary critics when it was published , last year and even now continues ’ to hold its place on the best-seller , lists, more than a year since publij cation. O —; Plan Variety Concert , A variety concert will be given ■ by the Immanuel Walther League t and the Immanuel Mixed Chorus in the Lutheran Church in the Bleeke - Settlement in Adams County. Satt urday and Sunday nights. May 7 ■ and 8. The concert will begin at 8 i o'ol ck standard time, and the proi gram will consist of songs, dialo- « gues, playlets, monologues, and stunts. The mixed chorus includes thirty five voices, and there are twenty •, ersons in the male (h rus. The > public is cordially invited to attend the prog am and enjoy the ■ musical nutirbers. Roop Is Renominated i i IK* < t. yA.' SmmSSE, Wl '' ?, 1 Ralph E. Roop I, | Ralph E. Roop, incumbent surj veyor who was renominated by the ? Democrats in yesterday's primary s over Harley Ehrsam. Roop's majjority was about 500 votes.

Bockman Is Winner ,•«$ ** ,’E iifc A Water Bockman Walter Bockman won the Demo cratic nomination for recorder over elert Anderson, Ella Peoples, William Hartings, and James Brown in the closest contest of yesterday's | ptimary. I.’ockman is a memb“r »f i the local American Lerion. Tin : Republic?nr. failed to nominate a candidate against him. • ♦ Operetta Announced I * An operetta, "l'p in the Air" in i two act-, will he presented bv the j Glee Clubs of the Decatur high : school. Thursday evening. May 5. The production will be presented in the school auditorium, beginning a' 8 n. mThe musical presentation, under the direction of Miss Gladvs ! Schindler, supervisor of music in' ' the public schools, will have a cast I of approximately 50 boys and go's. ; who have been rehearsing for the prodn tion of this musical comedy' wr ’’en 1c Den Wilson. There are twenty musical num I '-e<-s which comnrlse solos, due's. , choruses, sente of which will be I a-eoinpanied hv spe.- ititv dance ! The dances will he under the su- : pervision of Miss Jeanette Clark. 1 r hvsical education director. Mas Cm Coffee las be. n 1 coaching the sneaking parts in ’h° pl-y wbi h form the nlot. The I scene of the play is laid in the | garden of the McColbtm residence n Beverly Hills. Calif. The story of the two act operetta centers about George Burltank, a big business man. who tolerates no one but a young m->n of brawn and daring a« a candidate forth- 1 hand of his daughter. Bettv. who is already wooed, much to his anJ coyanl'e. by Harold Post, a young I ir-'n of tlie onnori'e fvne j Bu bank’s friend. McCollum, a movie magnate, proposes to stage a spectacular flving stunt by a young aviator. Joe Bennet, who has applied for a job in the movies. and offers a prize to any amai teur who will make a parachute I I Jump. I'm Carter. Harold's busybody friend, seizes on this as 'he young ! tc.-’n's onnortunity to make good ,' 9 nd devises various alibis which , | will prevent his actunl going up I while gaining the credit for brav- ! orv. One by one the alibis fail ; and Harold gets more and more deeply involved, anti finally Is ' forced to go through with the stunt in spite of himself. o Shoes and $24 Bought Site PORTLAND. Ore. — (U.R) —The I entire b'oek on which the Hotel • Portland stands once sold for q ' pair of Hoots and $24. Across the 1 • s’reet the old post office site was I ftirthased for $15,000 and now • cannot he sold for less than ' $1,750,000 by congressional enact- ■ ment. o Tree Grew Around Horn ' Meoford, Ore.—(U.R)- Fitty years ago Gede Provolt of William.- Creek placed an ox horn in the fork of a I tree. The other day he was chopping up a block of wood and found the oxhorn, completely imbedded.

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