Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 30, Number 180, Decatur, Adams County, 30 July 1932 — Page 1

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■SEFEES. ft TAX WILL RyTB i; DGETS Lii of Cas Tax And tßegistration l ees K Help ( ut Taxes ■eliminate | IO( \| levies Ek. dh Moll of the ■in tax and the auto lion h's to counties. E gL| tow ns w ill he wel- |),. am ind \d:ou> ME,ml possihlx <llllllll- - re|)r< and th. cilx s levy Ireiiiiir ami upkeep of Im.m’ « K'rt.--.>-i V. th- local units. be ample. is thought all ri)a 'l all< l street the old s -' s ' s*.<>_>«>•• year and the K&|tin of the tax ad fees on Kr basis it is the intenlegislator- to eliminate lloctq levies levy for road repair ES:t was reduced to eight hundred dollars. The was equal to about an levy. Valuation Slumps mortgage exemptions from the city’s valua--1 next valuation on which will be figured is re54,849,071 .00. This is a of $1,365,046 00. the $0,214,117.00 the 71 cent levy proM « 4,120.2:: in revenue. Tisei this year based on the , '4'i. equal tn a 22%' 1 gasoline tax and auto funds can be used for street repair fund, the this purpose < an be elim- ■ taking up part of the ■ Funds from the electric fj»i water department might to the city's generthe way of charges to a:,d an effort will to keep the budget be■tO.OoO and $35,000. George Krick and city would like to reduce but with the big drop in Hns it might lie impossible Bls the same levy this year igl roduce less than B luring the current year. H r ■ n K Season Opens; Mny Licenses Issued ■y-two hunting and fishing ■ *eer add by Miss Cleo ■ . deputy county clerk, up to I lock this afternoon. I Ouirrel season, which comes ■ pay. August Ist. was given S reaß °n for the unusually I lale today. I " er ' in K. county clerk. I. that the law places a big *' Uve squirrels per day and I ’ !hat s< iu>rrel 9 may not be I ce Pt for breeding (purposes. I Actions are placed on the I [Piney squirrels. REACH CLASS IN ELOCUTION — FV Thompson To Be nictor In Reppert’s Auction School [> Thompson, former Deca--1 let. will be an instructor tt° n o' tbe 2 6ttl semi-annual >e Reppert .Auction School “Wna m lhig city Mt , ll(l|iy he first time Mr. Thotnph * Ugbt a cla «» at the aucrov at 'd the new department o a n , Very POpular w *h the 0 auctioneers. horn * , Keppert ' 'President of idems h ted t<Klay that about er \ 8 have enrolled in the term, representing 14 ‘ ‘ hßunlon hnd Ca ‘>ada. ct a»known auctioneers ® the n l ’ tTUCtors and In addiehL l ße8 ’ publk: auctions t Be m The Claßßea *>» he Park, northeast of

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Daniel Schafer Is Commissioned Officer Daniel Schafer, son of C. C, Schafer. returned home last night from | Plattsburg Military Training Camp, where he was commissioned a secj ond lieutenant in the infantry. Dan 1 (attended the camp with two companions who were graduated with him from Culver Military Academy last June. He Intends to enter college again this fall. BOOSTS ORDERED I BY STATE BOARD IN 24 COUNTIES ■ — Assessments On Real Estate And Improvements Ordered Raised NO INCREASE IN ADAMS COUNTY Indianapolis. July 30. — (U.R) A decrease of approximately a billion dollars from last year's total assessed valuation of Indiana real es-| slate was reported for this year by the state board of tax commissioners. Preliminary review by the board of assessments submitted by county auditors showed Indiana prop erty valued at four billion dollars. | compared with five billion dollars last year. Increases were ordered for the following counties. Allen, 10 per cent on lands and lots. Boone, 10 per cent on lands and lota. Daviess, 15 per cent on lands, 10 per cent on lots, and 15 per cent on and lots. Delaware, 10 per cent on lands, lots And improvements. 'Fountain, 15 per cent on all lands.' lots and improvements. Gibson, 10 per cent on lands. Grant, 20 per cent on lands ami CONTINUED ON PAGE THRWE MANY ATTEND C. E. RALLY Decatur People Attend Convention of Christian Endeavors at Berne Approximately 50 persons from Decatur attended the Adams C unty Christian Endeavor Rally and Echo Convention held in Lehman Park at Berne. Friday night. Miss Martha Depp of Berne and Miss Evelyn Kohls of Decatur were chosen president and vice-president of the lAdams County Union of Christian, tEndeavor, respectively, at the election held in connection with the meeting. Other officers chosen were Miss Naomi Neuenscliwander, Bente, secretary: Ix?roy Stauffer, Berne, treasurer. The rally was an out-door meeting and a pot-luck supper was served nt 6:30 o'clock, followed by a program in the pavilion. Carl Luginblll, county president, presided. The Christian Endeavor shield was awarded to the Mennonite organization which had the largest number registrations at the state convention held in Bedford in June Mr. Luginbill presented the shield to Miss Frieda Lehnim, representative of the Mennonite organization. The shield had formerly been | presented to the local Evangelical unit at a recent Country rally, but will now become the permanent 'property of the (Berne C. E. lA. truck 1 owned by A. R. Ashbaucher, was used to convey the Decatur people to the rally. Thy local C. E. societies to express their thanks to Mr. Ashbaucher for the use of the truck. The program was opened with a song service conducted by Freeman Burkhalter, with Fiances Burkhalter presiding at the piano. The devotionals were led by Rev. W. Baumgartner of the Berne Reformed Church. * An interesting report of the state convention was given by Homer Augsburger, (president of Porter dis trict, find remarks were made by other convention delegates. Special musical selections were played by an orchestra from Berne, and tlie Misses Martha Jane Linn, Madeline Spahr, and Helen Becker , sang a vocal number, with Miss Arline Becker, accompanying. The meeting closed with the Mizpah benediction.

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Veteran’s Camp in Flames B, 4 . b - ▲jib L. t - : _mr I - JSsMyHUrJ . -f r , 4 i When the bonus veterans fled Washington into the suburb of Anacostia, the troops went into action, driving tin- ex-service men before them. The above photo shows the burning of tile Anacostia encampment of the veterans, witli the dome of the Capitol B tilding in the background. In all. fifty-one acres of [ temporary dwellings were burned in this single enc imptnent.

LOCAL MEN GO TO CONVENTION - Decatur Legionnaires And Drum Corps To Attend State Convention — Members of Adams Post No. 43 !01 the American Legion were planj ning to go to Kokomo today and Sunday to attend the fourteenth I annual convention of the state or- ’ ganization. Delegates of the local post are I Ernest Stengel. Berne, post commander; Lloyd Baker, Leo Ellinger and Paul Graham of this city. A I movement is under wav to'enter | the name of Mr. Graham as a canI didate for Fourth District comi mander. The Decatur drum corps, under the direction of Walter (Joy) Bock man will attend the convention and march in the big military parade to be Monday afternoon. Legionnaires and visitors to the i convention city will have the opI portunity to see both of the gubernotorial candidates. Iliul V. Me . Nutt, Democratic candidate for governor is a former state commander and a past national commander of the American Legion. Raymond Springer. Republican candidate for governor is a former stat*’ commander of the Legion Both men will attend the convention. The convention continues over to Tuesday and several of the Adams county members are planning on attending the three-day session. Union Picketers Stop Miners From Working Terre Haute, Ind.. July 30 —(UP) —Union picketers were successful in preventing emiplvyees of the Independently operated Dixie Bee mine near here from entering the shop for the third successive day when they turned back 20 workmen at the outskirts of Terre Haute today. REV. WALTON ACCEPTS CALL Cincinnati Minister to Become Pastor of Local Presbyterian Church — r — Wilson Lee, trustee of tl(e Presbyterian church, received word today that Rev. G. O. Walton of Cincinnati, Ohio, would accept the pastorate of the local Presbyterian church. Rev. Walton will begin his ministry in this city, September 1. The local church issued a call to Rev. Walton, on July 20. following a congregational meeting of thej church members. The call was formally accepted today. Rev. Walton and his wife expect to move into the Presbyterian manse the first of September. There are no children. At present he is pastor of the Line Street Presbyterian church in Cincinnati. Rev. Walton will succeed the late Rev. H. H. Fernthell, who died on| Christmas eve, 1931. Since that time the local cfiurch has beeii| without a regular pastor and sev-j eral candidates for the pastorate have filled the pulpit from time to time.

Decatur, Indiana, Saturday, July 30, 1932.

One Killed, Another Wounded In Shooting Milwaukee, Wis., July 30—(U.R) — Charles Sawyer of Hoytville, Ohio. ; president of the international Baby Chick association, was shot i ! to death and Reese V. Hicks of Kansas City, Mo., executive secreI tary, was wounded seriously today by C. A. Norman of Knoxville. Tenn., who attempted suicide. ; The shooting occurred after . Norman had been expelled from . ’ (he association. • I o Farmer Falls From Wagon; Dies Later • Pittsboro, 'lnd July 30—(UP) — - Injuries suffered by Frank Robbins, ■i sff, farmer, when he fell from a wagon on his farm near here, resulted in almist instant death. GERMANYTO VOTE SUNDAY Members of Reichstag To Be Elected; 21 Tickets In The Field Berlin, July 30— (U.R) —Thirty . seven million German voters will i march to the polls Sunday to elect a new reichstag, and they have . only to select their choices from the 21 different tickets in the .' field. They entered the last day of the election campaign geared to a point of excitement seldom equall- , ed in a country that takes its ' politics more seriously than any other nation in the world. At midnight tonight, a “political truce” will be effective to last for ten days. The truce was established J'ty an emergency degree issued by President Paul Von Hindenburg prohibiting indoorand outdoor political gatherings from July 31 to Aug. 10. The last hours of the campaign before the “deadline” on political activities were featured by an attack on the Von Papen regime by ex-Cliancellor Heinrich Bruening and an address broadcast to , the United States by the chancellor. Groups of Adolnh Hitler’s brown shirts were mobilized in various parts of the country, but the move was not considered dangerous.- It is Hitler’s custom to send ’ his militia to the polls to protect voters from attacks. Among the questions the voters were expected to decide were: ■ Will the Von Papen-Schleicher cabinet of aristocrats and military . chiefs, resting on the authority of the president and the sword of the army, remain in power? , Will Hitler have an opportunity to impose militant fascism upon ,| the nation? Will the election produce a deadlock between fascists and antifascists and leave Germany a victim of civil strife? Bruening was removed frbm office— many political quarters claim through the influence of Defense Minister' Gen. Kurt Von , Schleicher —to make way for the i Von Papen cabinet of landowners and militarists. Bruening closed ( his campaign against the new .1 regime with a warning to the gov- , I ernment to “quit toying with the , constitution’’ and urged the voters CONTINUED*ON PAGE SlX*"*"*

INJURIES FATAL , TO YOUNG GIRL —4 Miss Mary Neptune, Formi erly of Decatur. Dies in Toledo Hospital Miss Mary Neptune, 21 year old ' daughter of Mrs. Celeste Neptune i of Toledo. O„ and a half sister of Dr. J. G. Nrffitune of this city, died I at St. Vincent's hospital. Toledo, j Friday evening, following an exI tended illness. Death resulted from injuries which Miss Neptune received ' when she fell on the floor jxf. a i high school gymnasium nearly two years ago. She was engaged in teaching dramatics at the school and was attending a social function of the school at the time of the accident. Mir Neptune had been a patient at the hospital since that time. Several operations were performed to relieve her suffering. The deceased was horn in De.aI tur. the daughter of Dr. J. Q. and 1 . Celeste Kintz Neptune. Her father, well known Decatur dentist, died a few years ago. She resided in this city where r she attended the Decatur Catholic [ high school until two years ago I when she went to Toledo to make > her home. She completed a i course in dramatics and was teach- > ing that subject in the Toledo schools. > Surviving are the mother, a sis- , ter, Mrs. Dale Koos, and three . brothers. Robert. Teddy and Jack. , all of Toledo. Her grandmother, . Mrs. Gabriel Kintz of Toledo also survives. I Funeral services will be held . Monday morning at 9 o'clock from . the Catholic church in Toledo, O. . Burial will be made in Toledo. 1 0 5 CANDIDATES FOR COMMANDER Talk of Naming Legion Head Starts as Delegates Gather In Kokomo Kokomo, Ind., .July 30 —(UP)— The advance guard of the state deiPirtment of the American Legion arrived here last night and this morning to conclude preparations for the opening of their annual convention this evening. . Throughout today members of the 40 and 8, the organization’s fun- ’ makers, entertained in the streets ' with their parades and flouts. Ralph F. Gates, Columbia City, state commander, and Ollie A. 1 Davis, Tipton, State adjutant, registered and issued credentials to . the 598 delegates and alternates. At least five candidates were expected to announce for the post of commander. Those mentioned iprominently included Wayne M. Arm--1 strong. Indianapolis; William O. ' Nelson, Anderson; Bruce L. Peters i Cambridge City; L. V. Hauck, Mor- ' ristown, and A. R. Axton-Porter, 1 Whiting. I Cities expected to make bids for ■ the 1933 convention included Fort ■ Wayne, Terre Haute, Evtinsviße • and Elkhart. 1 The state auxiliary is holding its convention simultaneously.

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TWO IMPORTANT MEASURES PASS LEGISLATURE Session Adjourns Following Passage of Gas And License Tag Bill BILL PASSED IN SENATE Indiimapolis, July 30 — (UP) — I Two of the most controversial relief measures of the special legislative session had been disposed of in a Whirlwind finish to a hectic week when the house adjourned late yesterday, a few hours after the senate had sent the bill re-al-locating gjisoline and auto license taxes, to the G vernor. The house moved swiftly in its afternoon session, disposing of the budget reduction bill, effecting saving of approximately 1,600,000 in three hours, iln the morning session the house had sent to thin! reading the Stein-Frailing general salary reduction bill, promising a saving of $8,000,000. it will be up , for final considemtion Monday. In its short afternoon session the senate adopted the municipal rights league bill, similar to < ne passed by the house, removing municipally owned utilities from jurisdiction of the public service commission. The budget bill 'passed by the I honse provides for a general cut of • 15 per cent in appropriations for f maintenance of nil state depart- [ meats and institutions except those of penal and benevolent character. The house met at a committee of the whole, with Democratic house , leader Delph L. McKesson, had I warned that adjournament would . not come until ofter disposition had ( been made of the bndget bill. t James M. Knapp, Hagerstown 1 CONTINUED ON PAGE SIX POOR RELIEF COSTS $5,057 1 All Townships, Except French. Have ExpendiX ture For Poor Relief ( Poor relief in Adams County for , the first six months of 1932 has L cost $5,057.24, according to figures compiled in the county auditor's ( office. Washington township, which includes the city of Decatur has the largest expenditure. Up to June 30th of this year. $2,648.08 was paid ' for poor relief in this township. j Five of the townships now have a deficit in the poor relief fund. . They are, Union, $251.18: Root, $757.11: Washington. $1,080.61; 1 Blue Creek, $511.81; Wabash, ' $230.70. French township has a clean slate for more than two years. No money has been expended for poor relief in this township since 1929 and then only $100.25 was spent. Probably no other township in the state has such a record. For several Hyears the township has not made a levy for poor relief. The amount of money expended by the townships in the county for the past six months follow: Union, $142.11; Root. $532.08; Preble. $194.10; Kirkland, $86.75; Washington $2,648.08; St. Marys, $519.85; Blue Creek. $151.12; Monroe, $298.03; Hartford. $124.17; Wabash. $355.95; and Jefferson. $5. Compared with other counties, the amount expended in tills county for poor relief is under the average for a county the size of Adams. o Zion Reformed Church Will Elect New Pastor The members of the Zion Re--1 formed church will meet Sunday following the morning worship ■ service, to select a new pastor for | the church. They will vote on the candidate. Rev. Ernest Fledderjohann of Chicago, who will preach l his trial sermon preceding the eleci tion. ■ | Rev. Fledderjohann has been fill- . ing the pulpit of the church for the I past several Sundays. He is a ■ cousin of tlie late Rev. A. R. Fledderjohann. > The new pastor will succeed the lale Rev. A. R. Fledderjohann, who i was killed in an automobile acci-j [dent May 12.

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jState Policemen Will Curb Reckless Driving ; I Indianapols, July 30 —(UP) —Ten II state policemen under lieutenant Walter J. Wilson, Chestertown, 1 were assigned today to patrol the 1 Dunes state highway to curb reck--1 less driving. week-end 56 arrests on reckless driving chnrges were • made on the highway. Twenty-five ipc-lice were assigned to Kokomo for the opening of the American Legion state convention. AMERICA NEED HAVE NO FEAR FROM EUROPE French Premier States Position In Connection With Lausanne Treaty ■| I NO BARGAIN MADE REGARD WAR DEBTS i I (World Copyrighi 1932 by the United Press) , Paris, July 30 —(U.R)— America need have no fear that a European bloc has been formed to drive a bargain with the United States on payment of war debts. Premier Edouard Herriot said today in an > exclusive interview with the United Press. The French premier consented ’ to clear the clouds of misunder- ■ standing which have hovered over . the I-ausanne reparations settle- . ment and supplemental agreements as they affect the XTnited ’ States. , In doing so, he said: 1 — Tlie impression that France I has an agreement to act jointly I with Britain in dealing with war debts owed the United States is , false. 2 — The Lausanne settlement is provisional within the framework of a world settlement of the question of international debts. 3— So far as Herriot is concerned. no further move will be made I I regarding the debt situation until | after the presidential election in the United States. in his office at the Quai D’Orsay where the walls are hung with * costly tapestries, Herriot himself offered a contrast with the gold and crystal atmosphere. He is sturdy and vigorous, a plain . French citizen who puffed hard otil his pipe as he spoke with gallic earnestness to the writer and [ Ralph Heinzen. manager of the United Press bureau in Paris. Herriot was informed tliat many [ conflicting reports regarding the Lausanne agreement had been cir- ' ciliated abroad and that the impression prevailed in some quarters that France had an agreement with Britain to act jointly in dealing with the United States on war debts. America has no need to tear a European bloc to drive such a bargain, the premier replied with 1 great emphasis, deploring the false statements attributed to him. He emphasized that there is no such agreement between Britain and France. Tlie so-called “gentleman’s agreement” at Lausanne, he explained. was nothing more than an CONTINUED ON PAGE THREE ; o WOMAN DIES AT HOSPITAL Mrs. Elvira Ripley of Willshire Dies at Local Hospital Today Mrs. Elvira Ripley, 35, wife of Forest Ripley of Willshire, Ohio, ■ Route 1, died at two o’clock this morning at the Adams County Memorial Hospital following an operation Friday. Mrs. Ripley was ill , only two days. She was brought to the local hospital Friday where an operation was performed in an attempt to save her life. She was born July 12, 1897, u daughter of Theodore W. and Mary Baker, who reside near Chattanooga Ohio. Surviving besides the parents are the husband and two children at . home in Mercer county, Ohio. Funeral services will be held Monday afternoon at two o’clock i (C. S. T.) at the Evangelical Lutheran church at Chattanooga, Ohio. Burial will be made in the Ripley | Mausoleum at Chattanooga.

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REMAINDER OF BONUS OUTFIT ROUTEDTODAY Evidence Hooks Up Convicts And Communists With Inciting Riot CONDITIONS ARE BACK TO NORMAL Washington, July 30—1U.R) — The Justice department announced today it had discovered that six of the members of the bonus army held under J arrest here have previous prison records including John Pace, leader of the so-called j "Left Wing,” element. Washington, July 30 <U.R) i The bonus armv was routed I ttwlav and federal troops | were order e d withdrawn I from the capital. War department officials announced that “normal conditions hail been restored in the capital.” Thus ended the bonus war on the Washington front. It began at mid-day Thursday. It ■ cost one life. Upwards of 60 were injured. It finally brought federal > troops to the capital. General Douglas MacArthur, I phief of staff of the army, ordered the troops back to their barracks He announced at noon that tlio order would be effective at 1 p m. Control of the city is restored I to the metropolitan police whose efforts Thursday to protect treasury agents in the eviction of bonus marchers led to a battle of bricks and finally gun play. Troops entered the city at 3 p. ' ni. Thursday. They are leaving after 46 hours of intermittent. 1 scattered excitement and disord- : er. 1 Troops and bonuseers fired the huts an<j hovels from which the ' homeless, jobless thousands were ' evicted. Army patrols were withdrawn 1 from the streets of Washington proper earlier today. A detail remained on tlie Anacostia flats. MacArthur's orders sends these last representatives of the armed force of the nation back to their CONTINUED ON PAGE SIX HOLD WOMAN FOR MURDER Susan Rumer, Wife of Boxing Promoter. Held For Death of Friend Long Branch, N. J., July 30. —■ (U.R) —Susan Rumer, attractive wife of John Rumer, boxing promoter, was under arrest on a homicide charge today in tlie fatal shooting of Edwin Connors, Hot Springs, Ark. Connors was shot to death in the Rumer home. Rumer was held as a material witness. The shooting last night about 8 o'clock, was not revealed until early today. The police announced they a!So> are looking for two others sought as material witnesses, men known only as John and Jack. According to police, Connors left his Asbury Park summer home about 7 o’clock after telling his wife, Lou. 30, that he was going for a ride. Patrolman ' Peter Hyland, they said, found Connors dead with Mrs. Rumer seated in a chair holding a revolver. She told Hyland, policq said, that she killed Connors because "he was scheming to injure my husband." The Rumers' permanent home is in Indianapolis, according to police. They live here during the summer months. 0 Pres. Hoover Names U. S. Shipping Board Washington, July 30 —(UP) —President Hoover today appointed T. V. O'Connor of New York, Samuel S. Sandberg of California and IH. I. Cone of Florida as members of the U. S. Shipping board. They will compose the board under provision of the economy bill passed by the last congress, authorizing its reorganization.