Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 31, Number 1, Decatur, Adams County, 2 January 1933 — Page 1

WEATHER Fair tonight and Tuesday. Not much change in temperature.

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lINERAL FOR BEV, SEIMETZ HELU TUOAY undreds Attend Service t St Mary’s Church For ' Beloved Parish Priest ISHOP NOLL DELIVERS SERMON I Amid the solemnities of |i<‘ church, attended by the It. Bev. Bishop John F.’Noll, B. D., Fort Wayne, and other ■nirch dignitaries, parishBners, friends, local minisBrs, and public officials, ■mend services were held liis morning at St. Mary’s liitholic church for the Rev. father J. A. Seimetz. vener■>le pastor of the local ■lurch fur nearly 19 years, ■hose death occurred last Wednesday. ■ A solemn Requiem high mass, fciram Fpiscopo, (in the presence ■ the Dishop| was celebrated at Bn o’clock by the Rev. Father ipseph Seimetz. pastor of St. Patrick’s Catholic church. Chest- i ■town and nephew of Decatur's | ■ceased priest. The funeral ser-jj ■ce began at 9:30 o’clock withj ■c chanting of the office of the! ■ad by the visting priests. ■ Assisting at the mass were five ■ecatur tnen, ordained to the ■iesthood since Father Seimetz ■ ■came pastor here in 1914. ■bout 100 visiting priests attend--11 the service. l!

I Bishop Noll epoke on the prie.•uod and the Catholic religion ■>e course of his sermon. “’’fc friest is ordained for man tA ne! San follow the teachings of Gm father Helmets has meaaund u In every requirement of th >rieethood. We gather here toda Iv honor him.” Bishop No!' gi«i r | Bishop Noli urged members < ■he parish to pray for their b loved deceased pastor and to thin If him as he did during hit mar ■ears as spiritual leader of tl ■angregation. Through an amplifying syatoi te singing and chanting of tl nass and the sermon were >roa< I ist to an overflow assembly ,1 he auditorium of the Caiholl chool building. Bishop Noll performed the se Ice of absolution Sfffmr Tumuhu over the casket) ami prayers ft he dead were then recited. the St. Joseph Catholi ( ..-.cry, Father Seimetz re;l e ritual and performed til r-remony, consigning the body | is uncle and parish priest I other earth the cemetew ich for many years Fathf

dmetz laborer to improve aiil . xutify. Participants/in the mass were Deacon —Rey .Leonard Delniig‘r. pastor St/ Patricks, Oxford. I Sub-deacom — Rev. Ambr oie Kohne. Assistant All Saini, lammond,'. Master/ of ceremonies — Rr. SUudon i Schmitt, assistant ft. Pauls, Marion. Deatdns of honor to Bishop |-| Rev. Vincent Ehinger, C. P. 1 labrie/j Monastery. Des Moim i; : •XiitTINUET) ON PAGE THtiRI " I 'RES. HOOVER / ENDS CRIHSfI I starts Return Trip to 1 I Washington After 10 i Day Fishing Trip 1 I 1 alm Beach. Fla., Jan. 2—(IP) 1 “b resident Hoover started bad to ’ Washington and work today a er 1 [ days of fishing and crulsinj In j thern waters. I 1 |A special train carrying the re- 11 lent a.nd his party was to 1< vei 9 a.m. Mr. Hoover expecte, to, back at the White House T es- ' m morning. Th» preeMent and Mrs. Hot rer v oked fit and rested. Mr. Hoork s I I a was ruddy and slightly qu.n- e 1 . tied. He felt tn the words of of bls Intimates, "fit as a fid- 8 C 2 ** w Years Day the Hoovers I vent to church at the Royal Poln- a . * Cbapel and spent the rest of I day and evening aboard the ti rht Sequoia, which Mr. Hoover t ■ bis guests boarded “* m, Georgia, December j>

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fre it a good example to follow ts Father Time flips over another pan ihis diary and takes ue into a New Year. Smile, like June Via-ek, Arming film queen, is doing. Fori.et 1932 with its hopes and dis- i ■anointments, and crash into 1933 with a big, wide grin and the firm Termination to find that earner around which prosperity has beea bj hiding. Now all toge&er: ‘ Goodbye. 1932! Hello, 1933!”

IjShannahan Elected Hohn N. Shannahan v .ected firman of tne NhTtprn Indiana jblic Service (’ompen ? at a ineelk of the board o ( directors held sterday, succeeding Samuel InJr., who re.igned. •(Bernard P. Shearon, of Ham-

Li Is secretary of the ; * ny. vas also elected treasurGeorge F. Mitchell [

■ho resign'd. JB Mr. Shannahan and Lawrence K. lAailahen were elected memtiers of [tie board of directors, succeeding! F»iflr. Thsull, Jr., and John H. Gulick,! *viiu retired from the board. NEW LAWS TO i AFFECT COUNTY Interest On Bank DeposMs i Os County Removed By New Measure * Two new laws which became efifectlve January 1. affect Adams ’county and Its Income during the sear. I The guaranteed public depotitory law will take all the interest which (•he coumy obtains on bank de-i [ »osits. Under the law this inter- j (est money is sent to the state to | iform a three and one-halt million,

1 dollar fund, out of which all public i deposits will be paid when public! fluids are tied up in closed banks, paring 1932 Auams county earned $2,897.73. The interest rate this year on public deposits is tWo per'cent, per annum on the lowest balance carried by the taxing uoit.i The law was changed this year from ithe old system cf paying two per per annum on the aver- , age dteily deposits. In 11931 the county obtained |S,1051.11 I in interest from county I banks > The new law naturally reIduced » the amount of interest i which tould be earned and In addlPIAGe’ THREE) jd From Train an. 2—(UP)— Police ! v tad with * possible kid-' n as result of seisure ‘ o >m an outbound Rock wis taken from the' t men who represented , I s detectives Suspicion i ■}.. • kidnaping was raised I I said they had no re-1 I such arrest. travelling on the train ■ , as issued to F. D. Fore- N >n, Kans. 4—o j....jr Pastor Dies |i 'harles J. Roberts received i its morning of the death of essmge-r, pastor of *he Un't- I thren Church in Lafayette. I ral services will be held at I reen Tuesday afternoon at ok. Bishop H. H. Font o£ polls will preach the funeron. ' 1 Kessinger was a former pas- < he Decatur United Brethren j and was at one time Confer- :i t of the conforr

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JUDGE DEVOSS NAMES AIDES Ed Green to Succeed F. V. Mills As Bailiff; Miss Smith Is Retained ■ Huber M. DeVoss assumed his I place as Judge of the twenty-sixth' j judicial circuit of Indiana this ' morning, and will preside over the ' Adams circuit court during the next six years. He succeeds j Judge C, L. Walters who was ap- | pointed by Governor Leslie folj lowing the death of Judge Dore 1 8. Erwin. Judge Walters will open low offices in the Peoples Loan & Trust Company building. One of the first acts of Judge | DeVoss was to announce his apI polntments. Ed. Green; former county reouider and former sheriff, was named as court bailiff, succeeding Fred V. Mills who has held the place with credit the past two years. Dallas M. Hower was reappointed court bailiff. Miss Anna Smith was reappointed court reporter. She has served the past two years and is recognized in this part of the strte for i her ability. I Judge De Voss will not appoint ' , the county probation officer until I he has opportunity to officially adjust the matter of appropriation j with the county council. Mrs., ■ Faye Smith-Knapp, who served as ' probation officer under Judge D. I B. Erwin and Judge C. L. Walters will continue in the office until further order of the court. Later in the year Judge DeVoas' j will appoint members of the board of guardians, board of charities, rONTWl'p'r' ON PAGE three * o JAMES WATSON DENIES RUMORS Veteran Indiana Senator nt>ni>q Hp Will Run For Office In 1934 Indianapolis, Jan. 2.—(U.R>— Senator James E. Watson. Indiana's veteran Republican floor leader of the United States senate, today flatly denied rumors that he will run for the senate nomination In 1934. "I absolutely will not," was his answer to the question of whether he would seek to return to congress In 1934 when the term of i Senator Arthur R. Robinson ends To reports that he may seek to ■ become a representative from his home district, the tenth, in 1934, he; answers: "1 am not contemplating running for public office at all. I don't know why peopls want to talk poll tics now," Senator Watson said. "I want a little rest from It.” He said that when he leaves the senate at the end of the present session he will enter the practice of law in some Indiana city. The senate probably will pass the beer bill sent to it from tne house of representatives a tew jdaya ago, he commented. •

Decatur, Indiana, Monday, January 2, 1933.

TRAGIC DEATHS OVER HOLIDAY TOTAL NEAR 100 New Year Celebrations ! Are Marred by Violent i Deaths Over Country FIVE ARE KILLED WHEN CLUB BURNS — (By the United Press) To many persons over the nation the New Year today soelled tragedy and death as the quota of holiday fatalities mounted toward the 100 I mark. ' Violence in its many forms deft its mark in numerous 'cities. Spectacular shootings took several lies. There were fatal fires and the usual high [auto fatality list. Polson liquor iquaffed by New Year’s celebrants! killed fewer than in past years. Fire that started two hours as- ' ■ ter a gay New Years dance burned five to death at Vallejo, in the worst of the week-end catastrophes. The fire destroyed the three-story, wooden Elks club building. One man was near death from burns. larry Fay, ‘big shot” of New | York gangs, died of bullet wounds as a gay crowd gathered in his night club. Two bullets from a .revolver fired by an intoxicated (employe ended the career of the [underworld leader who had lived under threat of death for years. A night club duel took two lives in Chicago. Frank Buglio, 35, Capone gangster, entered a case with his cousin “Cowboy” Buglio, brandHshlng revolvers. A fight followed in which the gangster and a negro patron were slain At Revere. I Muss., bandits entered a chib as a( New Year’s party was at its height | and shot down Mike Richard!,' proprietor. Storms raged on the Pacific ! coast and floods threatened in southern states. No deaths were reported in either of these disturb-! ances of nature. However, a partyi of six narrowly escaped being lost in a blinding blizzard on the windswept slopes of Mount Hood. A veteran mountain dog led Ilia; ’ CONTINUED ON PAGE 'tHUKE 0 On Trial Tuesday — Floyd Death and Bernard Hain Decatur men, will go on trial before Judge Slick in federal court at Fort i Wayne Tuesday morning for the alleged theft of goods from an international shipment This case will bbe the f.rst tried n the Fort Wayne court this year and will open at 10 | o'clock. '

Review Os Events In Adams I County During Past Year (Compiled from the Daily Democrat files)

January 1— Wechter, treasurer; Mil-1 ton Werllng. clerk; Dennis' Striker, county commissioner, assume office. 2— Frank O Martin elected presi-1 dent of board of county com-! miss loners. Contracts for 9,583 acres of: beets secured to date. Judge Edwin strikes off six ( old cases from docket. 3 — 300 automobile license plates sold Saturday Motion for new trial In Joseph Everett murder case argued. 1 4—lo petitions filed with commissioners for new roads. Recorder s annual report shows 1,713 instruments recorded. James Briggs, Geneva, named hospital trustee. 5 — Farm house on Jim Beery farm west of Decatur burns. 6 — Delta Theta Tau reports >376.05 was spent by Good Fellows Club. I 7 —Beet acreage totals 10,514 | acres. B—CountyB—County poor funds show deficit of $1,351.52. 11—New trial denied Joseph Everett by Judge D. B. Erwin. 14 — Joseph Everett goes to prison at Michigan City. 15— Sixteen graduate from Rep-1 pert Auction School. John Kichenberger named to fill vacancy on county council. 18 —County basketball teams go to Bluffton and Fort Wayne for I sectional tournaments.

Miller Boy Honored Leo J. Miller, son of Mr, and Mrs. Charles J. Miller, 226 North Seventh street, has been notified of his promotion to senior degree in the league of Curtis salesmen, an organization maintained for its most successful boy salesmen by the Curtis Publishing Company of ( Philadelphia. Leo has received a wrist watch lin recognition of his splendid work, land a senior pin which marks hl? | degree. A certificate of his new i (rank has been sent him. The next 'degree to reach is the graduate degree. Each graduate member may apply for sums up to a total of i [$l5UO exclusively towards his college expanses until the $260,000 offered by the company for this purpose is at work. Leo. 14. is a freshman in the Decatur Catholic high school, and is a member of Troop No. 64 of Boy Scouts of America. , MAYTRIMARY IS DISCUSSED Many Mentioned As Possible Mayoralty Candidates In Decatur i With the start of 1933. much talk 1 is heard concerning likely candid-; ates for Mayor in the Democrat pri-| mary to be held next May. So far more than a half dozen names have i been mentioned Mayor George M. Krick has not; stated whether he intends to be a candidate again, and it is known that many of his friends are urging him to run. No official announce-, ments have been made by any of | of those mentioned and it is believ- [ ed that most of the aspirants are I willing to wait a while before start-( (Inga campaign. I Others mentioned as likely can ' Idltes Include O. L. Vance, member [ 'of the present city council; Joseph 'Hunter, councilman; August Hel-I I man, restaurant proprietor; Ira ■Fuhrman, 'insurance represeuta-, ( tive; R. D. Myers, retired furni-l (ture dealer; J. T. Merryman, former judge and local attorney; and (Herman IGill'ig, councilman and: chairman of the city finance com- ( mlttee: Dr. Burt Mangold and Ed-i ward Berl-ing. Other names also are! :being mentioned and several have' been spoken of as candidates for the five places on the city council, lit is believed that some will an(nounce their intentions in the next few weeks. The city committee will re-organ-ize in about a month Dr. Mangold is present city chairman. The chairman is elected by the city precinct committeemen and vicecommitteemen. The crga-nization is held at the call of /the state committee. /

120 —Tom Allwein and Mary Grace i Zimmerman lead D. H. S. hon- 1 or roll. . | I ,21 —Broken lantern causes barn to I burn on Roy Lewis farm south-. 1 east of Herne. I 1 25—A. L. Rarrar announces as Democrat» candidate for con- 1 gress. . 29— Local men organize Pound-A- ] I Minute Off Club. 30 — Kirkland wins way to finals in ( county basketball tournament. Monmouth wins county basket- , ball championship. 31 — New church bell dedicated at , Zion Reformed church. , February ’ 1— February term of > ourt opens. 2 — Groundhop falls*to tee shadow. 3 — Glen Cowan candidate for county auditor. 5 — Adams county Democrats plan big rally in March. ( 6— Decatur Yellow Jacke s beat t Bluffton. Commodores beat ( Celina. ( 8— Dr. Bulgin closes revlv il services at Methodist chui th. 9- Sapp speaks to ( hamber of Commerce. F. 1. Li terer, A. R. Holthouse and Theodore ( Graliker elected direclors. 10 — City c.fflccrs Jtnove Into naw , offices. J 11— Statistics show more than twice , as many blr.hs as deaths In Adams county in 1931. | 12— Theodore Graliker elected | president of the Chamber of , Commerce. Decatur merchants , offer a "Back When Sale." j - oii* PAGE'tWO 1

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DEBT OF CIVIL CITY IS WIPED FROM RECORDS I Light Department Cancels $32,000 Indebtednes City Incurred FIRE HALL IS INCLUDED The civil city of Decatur today received for a New Year’s present one of the finest gifts ever presented to the taxpayers. The electric light department of the City Plant cancelled a debt of about $32,000 (it held against the civil city by resolution adopted by the (council, which said “all is (squared.” The debt which the civil city owed to the olec'ric light department was for building the new enIgine house on North Seventh [street, the remodeling of the city hall and advancing money for other Improvements, which the civil city received credit. The engine house cost more than $26,000 and the remodeling of the [city hall building totaled more than $4,000. By action of the council ,the engine house now belongs to i the civil city and all the improve- | ments made at the city hall building also can be pointed to as [possessions of the city. • For several years the electric light department has been holding notes as evidence of the debt which | the civil city owed the resolution [adopted by the council cancels I these notes and gives the city civil (city a clean slate. I No levy for interest on the notes i was made this year and councilmen believed the best way to handle the matter was for the department to cancel its debt and present to the city, free of charge I the Improvements made. j The engine house and remodeling of the city hall was paid for out of the earnings of the electric i light department and there is not [one cent of debt owing on either | improvement. MAY CONTINUE HALLORAN CASE Trial of Alleged Murder Accessory May Be De- | layed Few Days Phoenix, Ariz., Jan. 2. — (U.R) — Prosecution of John J. (Happy Jack) Halloran, indicted as an alleged accessory after the murder of Agnes Ann Leroi. for whose death Winnie Ruth Judd has been [condemned to die, depended today upon the attitude of a new county prosecutor. Renz L. Jennings today replaced as prosecutor Lloyd Andrews, who last week obtained the indictment from the county grand jury. ' Jennings was reported contemplating a request for a continuance (when Halloran is arraigned tomorrow so that he may have more opportunity to Investigate the charges that the wealthy lumberman helped dispose of the bodies of Mrs. Leroi and Hedvig Samuelson, whose death also has been blamed on Mrs. Judd. A request for continuance will be vigorously fought according to Frank O. Smith. Halloran's attorney. who said he would demand an early trial or dismissal of the indictment. Joe Wolpert Critical The condition of Joseph Wolpert, 1409 West Monroe street, who is ill with pneumonia was reported to to be critical today. Mr. Wolpert is an employe of the Cloverleaf Creameries in this city. —— . — —o - ■ — — Shot During Holdup Evansville, Ind., Jan. 2—(UP) — Clarence Bass, 37, Evansville, was in a serious condition in St. Marys hospital hero today suffering from wounds be said were received in a holdup. , Bass told police he was shot by holdup men late Saturday and that he remaned in his automobile. Four hours before he received aid. The holdup men took $75 from him and shot him, leaving his sitting helpless in the automobile.

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The Rt. Rev. Bishop John F. Noll, D. D. of Fort Wayne, attended the funeral this morning <>f the Rev. Father J. A. Seimetz, pastor of St. Mary’s Catholic church, whose death occurred last Wednesday. Bishop Noll delivered the sermon at the funeral mass this morning.

COMMISSION FILES REPORT President’s Research Committee Describes Many Changes In Life New York, Jan. 2—(U.R)—ln 1568 printed pages. President Hoover’s research committee investigating modern social trends described today the problems arising out of the industrial, physical and social changes since the turn of the century. The report draws a discomforting picture of the decline of the family as a regulatory influence on life, but holds the hope of a higher degree of coordination beI tween agriculture, labor, industry, government, education, religion and science. ! j Among other findings of tLe commission were these: “Two great departments of our American system, the governmental and the economic organizations, are growing at a rapid pace, while two other historic Institutions, the church and family, have declined in social significance, ■ though not in human values. “The church and the family I have lost many of their tradition'll regulatory influences over human behavior, while industry atri I labor have assumed a larger deI giee of control over the conduct !of our people. But government, like the fami’y, has been backward in strengthening its scdlal services to meet new conditions. “Our standard of living for the very near future may decline because of the low wages caused by unemployment, possible slowness of business recovery and the conttntieD on page three o NAME STRIKER AS CHAIRMAN Dennis Striker Is Chosen Chairman of Adams County Commissioners Dennis Striker, commissioner of the Third district was.named chairman of the Adams county board of commissioners at their first meeting of the yeir this morning. Mr. Striker is now serving his second year as a member of the board. Phil Sauer, elected commissioner from the first district at the November election, attended his first meeting today. Frank Martin, who was re-elected from the second district last November, still has another year of his present term to serve. The commissioners made a ruling this morning that the members rotate yearly as chairman of the board. Mr. Martin is the retiring chairman. Only routine business was conducted at this mornings session. The board members a.so consulted trustees of various tow ships concerning poor relief. Til -se conferences were expected to last through this afternoon. A few of the townships are facing a deficit because of the large amount of relief they have been forced to extend during the past year.

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ALL OFFICERS DEMOCRATS IN ADAMS COUNTY Four New Officials And Four Old Ones Start Terms Today OFFICES ARE OPEN TODAY Eight Adams county Democrats assumed offices todav as the result of the general election last November. Os the eight, four succeeded other officials and four succeeded themselves. H. M. DeVoss, Decatur ' attorney and former Mayor, ' assumed Jurisdiction of the Adams . circuit court (26th judicial <lis- ■ trict) succeeding Judge C. L. 1 Walters, appointed last summer by Gov. Harry Leslie to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Judge D R Erwin. I Judge De Voss opened court thi-i morning and after making his apnointments he ordered a recess until Tuesday morning in observance of the holiday. Ed. A. Bosse. Decatur attorney i today succeeded Nathan Nelson 'as prosecuting attorney. Basso defeated Cal. F. Peterson. Republican, last November. Mr. Nelson i stated that he would continue to I practice law in this city. Hi s offices are in the Morrison blinding. Sheriff Burl Johnson started his second two-year terra today. ; He announced Hie reappointment of Deputy Dallas M. Hower, who has served in that capacity for ' three sheriffs. Johnson defeated David Campbell. Republican, last ■ November by more than 3,000 i votes. > Walter Bockman. Decatur sales-.; i man and World War veteran, to- ■ day started a four-vear term an , county recorder, succeeding Mrs. i Clara Anderson of Geneva. BoekIman will not have a full time . deputy, he said, because the law i does not provide a salary for a cox'rrwTTFn nq pace thttre INAUGURATION [j TO PE MUNDAY New Governor Will Receive Oath of Office At State House Indianapolis, Jan. 2. — Arrangements for the inauguration of Paul V. McNutt as the thirty-third gov- > ernor of Indiana oh Monday, Jann- . ary 9, 1933, are announced by th ■ inaugural committee composed ut i Meredith Nicholson, Indianapolis i author; Floyd E. Williamson, auditor of state and Elmer F. Strain adjutant general-appointee. j The inaugural ceremony w< take place at the west entrance io, the statehouse, where a plat for. aj will be erected extending over tfbfj steps and to the sidewalk The ® will be an amplification system 1stalled that will carry the procee M Ings of the program to the cr>ov Jk on Senate avenue and West Mark ■ street. Senate avenue, from Was inf ington to Ohio street, and o ej block of Maiket street, west iff the statehouse, will be closed tfl traffic before and during the prof gram. Plans have also been made for a atuluwldu hookup of -ns;? stations for broadcast of the ceri monies. From 11:20 until 11:50 o’cloC the morning of January 9th. tlief will be a concert by the ludiai American Lrglon hand from ti •vest steps of the statehouL Promptly at 11:50 o’clock, trumpet-4 ers of the 139th Field Artillery wilt j sound attention and color guards'! bearing the state, national an<jj post colors of the American Legii n; and the colors of the 326 Field Af| tillery, of which Mr. McNutt !>• SV member, will advance in ironi the stage. 1 Governor Harry G. Leslie an®# Governor-elect McNutt will ent.-r'l the stage from the west door >t B the statehouse and ndvanrn tn 1114 I front of the platform, at whh'fl nolnt. Meredith Nicholson win IJL® troduce R. Earl Peters, of F rt 1 Wayne. Indiana Democratic stat* I chairman, who will officiate bi tin I program. Prayer will be given by i the . ReV w - Henry McLean, pastor I CONTINUED ON PAGE THJiEH* ,1