Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 31, Number 12, Decatur, Adams County, 14 January 1933 — Page 1

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DECATUR SUGAR BEET PLANT SOLD

fecatur FaHs To Obtain Sectional Tourney Again This Year

AND lIMTH GO lOFORTWAYNE ■er Ada m s County ■earns Will Play hi ■ Bluffton Sectional ■GIONAL ( ENTERS ■ALSO ANNOUNCED ■ilinnapolis. .lan. 1 I—<UR) ■Assignments of Indiana ■t schools to sectional and ■onal centers lor the state ■nipionship tourneys were ’■oiincetl today by ConiArthur 1.. Trester, ■here will he 61 sectional ■ers and 15 reuionals. ■he sectionals v ill he ultiv■March 3 and I and the will be held March ■ rhe state finals will be held ■>,;.< 1’.1.1 house at In.iianapMarch 17 and 18. centers and teams, by include: 8 Wells. 6 Adams Monroe, Geneva, Hartal twp.. Kirkland twp. ami I twp.) Wayne It’ential) —l2 All ■ ’ Adams I Decatur and Mon-! 7 Dekalb, 8 Whitley’ S Jay. 3 Bluekford. 2; (Ridgeville and Jeffercompleting follow: H:. » ti~i.it! a. Greenfield. Angola. Kendallville. I Warsaw. Mbotningtim — Martinsville. City. Brazil, Terre Haute. ■oiumbus Ft atik'.in. GreensScottsburg Shelbyville Attica, t'lint.m, Greencastle. .Ceiral) — RockOwensville, Can-1 Mori Wayne (Central) — Bluff-; Fort Wavne. Huntington, ■tland. ■»y—Laporte. Gary. V.ilparal Kokomo. Marion W.i- --■, Tipton. ■ebanon Fowler. Frankfort, Lebanon. ■ogatisp.o-; Flora. Logansport, Peru. — Elkhart. North Rochester. Mishawaka, — Richmond. Muncie. Lynn. Albany — Bedford. JefferSalem, Seymour. — Connersville, LawrMilan. Rushville, Huntingburg. SulVln Times, Washington. Illi RELIEF IS KCESSARYNOW ■nocrat Senator Says ■mediate Relief Leg isolation Is Imperative ■ ■«lilngton, Jan. 14 — (UP) — ■•latlon to help the f irm tax■r Md to lighten his mortgage ■ en is necessary immediately, ■ to r Harrison, Dem., Miss., told ■“tilting and currency sub-com- ■** today. must take up the matter in j way" h e sa id. «i n ~i y O pj„. ■ might to be done t this sesof congress.” ■tore the full committe tire bills ■■bored by senate Democrats to ■> federal funds to the assisl- ■ 0 farm and home taxpayers ■ to refinance the $9,000,000,000 ■ arm mortgage debt through I Construction finance corpora■7 y . 8 hearing w.is on Hartl- ■ mil to permit R. F. C. loans ■ ' e,lt to Pay two years taxes ■ or kaged homes and farms. b * s would be conditioned on ■**reetnent not*to foreclose for ■*’ Period. of the bill” Harrison ON Page four*"*

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Would Control Sales I Indianapolis Jan. 14 —(UP) — A jbill proidlng for closer control of Ischool books sales in Indiana will (be introduced in the legislature, Monday by Senator Russel P. Ke-' hoe, Democrat of Jeffersonville. I I The bill provides for extending I the time allowed for making |chauges in school books and to per-1 mft a closer unity in selection of books by state schools. ADAMS COUNTY PEOPLE ATTEND Many From This County Attended Annual Agricultural Meeting One of the most successful agricultural conferences ever held at Purdue University closed Friday noon. Thousands of persons attended the various sessions during the day. A large number of persons from Adams county attended the Guernsey Breeders banquet Wednesday evening. Mr. Hausin from the Hoard's Dairyman farm gave the principal address. The Indiana Home Economics ! Association met for a luncheon I Tuesday noon. Four hundred atI tended the luncheon Mrs. E. W. ' Busche of this county was a member of the executive committee.! | She was also choseu vice-presi- ! lent o f the Master Farm Home makers Guild. Thursday evening several hundred men and women attended the Indiana Dairy Association I banquet. Sol Mosscr of Adams I county was awarded a bronze I medal for having a h'gh producing crwrtvupn an picf arx o WOMAN KILLED BY HERJ.OVER '6O-Year-Old Toledo Man Kills Clerk Then Commit® Suicide Toledo. 0.. Jan. 14 (U.R)— A 60 year old iover, crazed because his rdvanees were spurned, today ' rhot and kil’ed Mrs. Cord Adams, ! 35. a grocery clerk. An hour later, after a wild chase, police found the assailant dead from poison in his wrecked an tomobile. He was identified as Arthur D. Cameron. Cameron entered the store where the woman was employed. Mrs. Adams, a widow, saw him and shouted: “Stop him: my God, “‘on him.” Before she could flee from beh'”d the counter where she was waiting on customers, Cameron "in-tied a revolver nt her. She fell and died before she could be i taken to a hospital. Police took ! up the chase for the car in which 1 Cameron fled They followed him ito Ottawa Paik, where the car was found smashed against a I (CONTINUED ON PAGE SIX) Dr. Shelby To Speak Dr. W. D. Shelby, representing the Indiana Farm Bureau, will be the prliiciral speaker at a meeting I to be held at St Johns, six miles north of Decatur next Tuesday I evening, to which every one is i cordially invited. This is another of the meetings | which are being held over the) I county for the purpose of informing those who produce eggs and noultry as to how thev can easily Improve the grade and thus add to their income. For some time. California eggs and pnultrv have led the van for grade and it is | the purpose of this campaign to I nlace Indiana in line with them. Dr. Shelbv's ta’ks are interesting amt hetn f ul and those who have heard him. dec’sre every one who Is interested In the poultry ami egg business should have the i information he gives. Those meetings are all open to 1 I the public and are for educational ' purposes only.

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Prison ‘Profs’ 8& XI ip fci* a. m w i /n k .. . MiiI—TWIW"TTM •WMaMMfe JMBI I ; A correspondence school for convicts at Statevi'le and Joliet, 111., prisons was opened recently, with 'cr nvicls acting as "professors " Three of the "facul y" are shown here. From left to right: Richard Loeb, who is serving a P9-year sentence for the mur ’er of Lobby Franks, is registrar and director of tho schooi; Edward Dillon, society baudit, once a studen at the University of Kansas, who teaches classes in English li’eratuie, and Mark Oettinger, serving a ’e m for forgery, who teaches mathematics.

AlieilßN BEATS KENDALLVILLE Red Devils Will Meet Winner of Decatur-Bluff-ton Game Tonight BLUFFTON WINS Bluffton, 28; Decatur, 17 (final). The Auburn Red Devils entered the championship game of tjje annual blind tourney held at the Decatur gym today by defeating the ; Kendallville Comets in the opening I game this afternoon. 32 to 26. Auburn will meet the winner of the second afternoon clash between Decatur and (Bluffton at 8 p. m. tonight. Kendallville will play the loser of the second game as a preliminary at 7 p. m. After playing to a 10-10 tie in (the first quarter, the Red Devils gradually increased speed. At the half Auburn was leading 17 to 15 and at the third quarter, fl to 16. Williams was the outstanding star with a total of 14 points. L. Holbrook led the Comets with nine points. ■ Auburn FG. FT. TP. Berg 2 2 6 Boshon 10 2 D. Merchanthouse 10 2 Williams 6 2 14 Myers 10 2 R. Merchanthouse 2 0 4 Krider Oil Thimlar 0 11 Totals 13 6 .32 Kendallville Hart 3 0 6 L. Holbrook 3 3 9 Pfeiffer 113 Nartker 2 0 4 P. Holbrook 113 Stoneburner 0 11 ToUle 10 6 26 o FAMILY CAMPED AT STATEHOUSE Charity Organization Finds Home For Family At Indianapolis Indianapolis, Jan. 14. — (U.PJ — Cecil Allen and his family, who yesterday set up their home on the statehouse lawn, had moved today into a five-room house. The lean-to they built yesterday on the lawn after being evicted from their home was gone. Crowds attracted yesterday were harangu- , ed by speakers as the four Allen | children romped on the lawn. Charity agency officials in the afternoon found a house for the family, the rent to be paid from | relief funds. On being informed, Mr. and Mrs. Allen said they would consult the unemployed council committee which seemed to be in charge. The committee said It would Investigate whether the house was "fit for children.” and asked use of Governor Paul V McNutt’s llm- , ouslne to go Inspect the house, i They were given taxicab tare. | The committee found the house satisfactory and the family was 1 moved at nightfall.

Decatur, Indiana, Saturday, January 14, 1933.

Wants Modest Sum Wilmington, Del., Jan. 14. —(U.R> i —Libby Holman Reynolds Is willing to relinquish all “but a modest I suin’’ of her own and her baby’s I I inheritance from the estate ofl (Zachary Smith Reynolds if the re-1 I mainder is devoted to public use, . her father, Alfred Holman, an j ' nounced here. Estimating the sum involved at I I $20,000,ud0, Holman suggested an endowment in memory of Smith Reynolds and his father, the to- • bacco millionaire. The fund would be used to "help her fellows, trapped in the labyrinth of economic disorder." Mrs. Reynolds considers herself and her child entitled to modest sums from the estate because she has been deprived of her earning power as a Broadway singer, Holman explained. o — TO OPEN DRIVE FORMEMBERS Elks Will Open Membership Campaign I Here Next Tuesday Members of Decatur lodge of Elks will open a campaign next Tuesday for the renewal of memberships and reinstating former members ot the lodge, details being completed at a meeting held Friday at the Elk’s home. The canvass for membership dues will begin next Tuesday afternoon and continue for two days, continue for two days, concluding Thursday night with a general meeting. The campaign is in charge of H. L. Yager, L. A. Holthouse and C. C. Schafer. The lodge has a roster of more than 200 members and every effort will be made to have all members pay their dues to the first of the yoar or until April 1, 1933, flcsal year of the lodge. Individual Elks will be given the names of several former Flks and of those now on the roster end will call on them personally, Inviting them to renew their membership and to take advantage of the facilities offered at the Elk’s home. The Elk’s home is supported through membership dues and club receipts. The dues are $12.00 a year. o Complete Annual Run i The Paulding Sugar Company, Paulding, Ohio, completed its annual run last Monday. A total of 88,900 tons of beets were received at the plant during the campaign, i The amount of sugar made was not r announced and plans for operating i the plant next year were not an- 1 nounced. A Paulding business man furnished the finances tor operat- ( ing the mill this year. i o 1 Obtain 100 Cords — ■' — I Decatur unemployed men will 1 complete the cutting of wood at the Fred Fuelling farm Monday. Nearly 1 100 cords of wood have been cut on this farm. Part of the men will 1 go to the Al Gage farm Monday to cut wood.

SCHOOL PLAY IS WELL RECEIVED 1 '■ Auditorium Filled to Capacity For Central School Play Friday The auditorium of the Decatur high school building was filled to i capacity Friday night, when the Central school pupils presented the three act comedy, "Red-Head-ed Stepchild," by Charles George. Much credit is due the cast which ably presented the clever play, thought to have been the best eighth grade play presented in recent years. The production was directed by Miss Grace Coffee, teacher at the Central school, in her usual capable manner. Miss Helen Haubold. supervisor of music In the public schools had charge of the musical numbers. and Miss Florence Haney supervised the specialties by the hai monica band. Stage furnishings were furnished through the courtesy of the W. H. Zwick and Son store. The stuj dents who took part in the preI sentation of the annual play were Elaine Gaffer. Viola Ellsworth, Evelyn Adams, Harold Zimmerman, Catherine Jackson, Lewis Beery, Wendel Smith, Catharine Murphy, Bob Brodbeck, Bernice Pickford, Ruby Ladd and Lois Sovlne. o First Round Second Team Tourney Berne 26, Kirkland 20 Pleasant Mills 20. Monroe 13 Monmouth 20, Hartford 11 Jefferson 36, Geneva 21. Semi-Finals Berne 27; pleasant Mills 12. o SENATOR LONG HAS INFLUENCE Louisiana Senator May Sway Vote On Philippine Measure Washington, Jan. 14 —(UP) —The Filipino people, agitating for independence since Ferdinand Magellan claimed the Archipelago for Spain in 1521, today awaited the verdict of the Louisiana "Kingfish" Senator Huey P. Long. The Philippine independence bill vetoed by President Hoover and reapproved by the house will be taken up by the Senate today or early next week, and Senator Long an ardent tnlbusterer, holds the key to the situation. The office of Senator Hawes, Dem., Mo„ reaffirmed tlje 'ntention of the sponsors of the Philippines bill to consider the President's veto today. The Philippines legislative mission was advised of a tentative agreement for prompt consideration. It was expected, however, that administration supporters would try to delay a vote until Monday to get the country’s reaction to the veto message. ~ CONTINUED ON*"

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HUBERT 0. MOOR ' CONViCTEOBY ■ JURORS TODAY j I School Teacher Who Confessed Slaying Wife Is Sentenced By Jury DEFENSE MOVES FOR NEW TRIAL Marsha 1. 111., Jan. 1-I—(U.R) i Hubert C. Moor, school ! | teacher, who confessed he ; shot his wife to death he- ’ cause she left dirtv dishes in | the sink, was found guilty of first degree murder and his penalty fixed at death by a iury in circuit court here to--’av. The jury returned its verdict at noon after having deliberated since 8 p. tn. yesterday. Moor was brought handcuffed into the court room to hear the verdict. ] He showed no emotion as he list-) etied to the foreman read the verdict. Defense moved immediaely for . a new trial and Judge Charles Shuey set next Monday or Tues-' day for hearing on the motion. If the motion is overruled Judge Shuey will set the date for Moor's i i execution which will take place t in the electric chair at Chester, |i 11!., state prison. i The jury sent word to Judge 1 Shuey at 11'45 a. m. that it had -eached a verdict. There was a I brief wfdt while Moor was brought I from the county jail. The court ’ -'om filled rapidly as news spread 1 a veidict had been reached. < Carl Carothers, 23 year old car-i CONTINUED ON pAOE FOUR )’ 0 — NICKIENNEMO,: DEATH’S VICTIM: £ — Berne Resident Dies at Adams County Hosnital Today i Nicholas Jenney. 60. well known ( Berne resident, and wealthy real j 'U->te owner, died at the Adams . Memor’al hospital, here, at ■ n’c’ock Saturday morning. Death , -’is due to double pneumonia, n-hinh deve’oned af‘er an operation performed Wednesday morning He had been in failing health ” for several weeks. t;i*> deceased was born in Can- ( ton Bern. Switzerland In Septem- ( ber, 1872. He came to this coun- , try in 1893, and had resided in ] Berne for the last 25 years, where he conducted a whgon shop on West Jefferson street. He was a ’k'Hed workman. Mr. Jennev owned considerable p-operty In Ohio, Berne and Minnesota. He was united in marriage to Del'a Sheets who preceded him in death 10 years ago. There were no children Surviving is a brother, John Jenney, of Jay county, and one brother in Switzerland. IBs parents. two brothers and two sisters nrecoded him in death. Fnner’l services will he held ■*o’'d' , v afternoon at 1:30 o’clock 'rom the Evangelical Church in Pcrne. end burial will be made in the M. R, E. cemetery. o__ I Greece Makes Payment Washington, Jan. 14—(UP)—Secretary of treasury Mills today announced that the Greek Government on January 7 transferred to the United States treasury. $65,376 representing 30 per cent of the semi-annual interest of $217,920 due November 10 last on the Greek reconstruction loan. o Fire Destroys SBOO Mt. Vernon. Ind., Jan, 14 —(UP) — Eight hundred dollars la currency was destroyed when the home of Fled Schiff near Poseyville caught fire from a defective flue. Schiff’s wife and four daughters escaped from the house just as the. roof collapsed, *

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♦ * HIS LUCKY OAY I Roy Emmerllng of Wauseon, ’ | Ohio, has no fear for Friday, ' | the thirteenth. He believes | | that it la Ills lucky day. He | l has had a long series of for- . ) tunate happenings on this day | i and believes that his good luck i | culminated yesterday when he married Miss Elizabeth Jelinek of Wauseon, Ohio. The couple procured their j license from the Adams county clerk, and were united in j marriage by Rev. Charles j j Prugh, Friday, in the parsonage of the Zion Reformed l | church. ADVOCATES OF EXPANSION OF CURRENCY GAIN House Leader Rainey Announces Support of Inflation Scheme PLAN EXTENSIVE USE OF SILVER Washington, Jan. 14—-(UP)—Ad-vocates of expansion of currency through more extensive use of siler today gained a powerful support in house majority leader Henry Rainey. Meanwhile, the house bloc driving for outright inflation through a $3,000,000,000 (B) monetary issue, was encouraged by the promise of hearings before the banking and’ currency committee. Kep. Busby, Dem., Miss., said ho had been told that the committee was willing at least to give consideration to the drastic measure. Rainey, a leading candidate for. the speakership of the nejtt house, said he would advocate a plan whereby federal silver purchases could be extended and the additional metal be used as backing for CDNTTNVFT! ON PAGE STX Bandit Takes S6OO Pennock, Minn., Jan. 14 —(UP) — Crawling over the counter into the cashier’s cage of the state bank at Pennock, a bandit today obtained approximately S6OO in a robbery. The man had a heavy red beard, witnesses said. Cashier W. E. Berglund said the bandit entered the bank at 11:55 a. m. and demanded that he and R. Christopherson, a director of the bank, stick up their hands. They compiled. Then the bandit crawled over the uird rail and entered the valt where he took the bank’s currency. LFGISLATORS PREPARE BILLS Democrat Legislators Are Preparing Administration Measures Ind’anapolts, Jan. 14— (U.R) — ■’"'naraHon of administration bills occupied attention of Demo"ratio legislators who remained i here for the weekend. Gov. Paul V. Mc\utt has asked : that all of the administration measures be Introduced in the two houses within 10 days. The coming weeks should see 'ntroduction of bills legalizing beer, reorganizing the public ser•ice commission into a three member body, establishing a sales 'ix and a state income tax and ie‘ting up a new intangibles tax. An administration bill repealing : 'h» Wright “bone dry" act will be 1 introduced with the beer bill alI hough one repealer already Is before the house nubile morals com•n ‘'ee. An old age pension bill •111 be another major administration measure All of these bills have been | written and are being drafted 1 finally with approval of McNutt. Provisions of the beer bill is 1 ON PAGE THRBE "

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BONDHOLDERS MUST APPROVE OF ALL DETAILS Little Doubt Is Held Here But That Bondholders Will Approve Sale PURCHASE MADE BY CEREAL CONCERN The beet sugar plants of •he old Holland St. Louis Sngur Convanv. located in 'h's city, and >i Holland and S* Louis. M’ch'gan have been «n'd «uh'ect to the approval of the bond holders end sh« court to ti ffmup of men honor'd bl’ Dale' W. McM :, lcn of Chicken and formerly of Fort Wavne, The deal was worked out by w arrv C. Fair, vice-nresident of 'he O'd First National Bank of Fort Wavne. and a representative of »he bond holders. Letters were sent to the bond holders today and the deal must he closed or rejected by February 15. giving thirty days to complete arrangements. Mr. Fair staled this af’ernoon that lie believed the deal would be consummat-- I and that the Decatur plant will operate this year. Mr. McMillon is the pres'dent of Allied Mills. Inc., one of the largest cereal manufacturing concerns tn the country, with headouarters in Chicago Mr. McMi'len and a group of men interested with him were here this week to insnect the local property and were impressed with its value. Pay All Liens Under the proposition as arI ranged, the new owners will assume and immediately pay all liens aud costs against the property. including the SIOO,OOO due the farmers as the balance of the CONTINUED ON PAGE FOUR JUDGE ORDERS SUIT DROPPED 8500 000 Cnnsniracv Suit Agoinct famous Architect Is Dismissed Chicago. Jan. 14. —(U.R) —The love storv of Frnest R. Graham, one of , »he nation’s hest known architects, | and Mrs. Alma N. Anderson as ' measured in hundreds of thousands of dollars was told in Superior court records today. Only the outline of the story had been revealed when Superior Judge °anl McWilliams ordered the $500,000 conspiracy suit of Mrs. Anderson a romance writer, against the Architect dismissed. There were intimations that settlement of the case had been reached nntfltde of court. TTsrdiv had this matter been d!icosed of when a new legal cotnu'lcapon of the b''-»'ed romance arose. ’ T 'h“ Canada Life Assurance Co., of iToronto asked the federal court to internret the rights of five persons to divide a SSOO monthly annuity which Graham ordered paid to the comely 46 year-old authoress. Those named were Edwin Mark[ham. Bn-vear-old poet whose work, '"The M’n With ‘he Hoe” is a byword fn America. I. R. O'Crowley and T.nhv c. McTXnnell. New York attorneys, Robert E. Qurke, Chicago attorney and Mrs. Anderson. Mrs. Anderson exnlained the action arose over a loan made to her by Markham which was secured by I the annuity. A 10-year love affair between the architect, now 64. and the writer mN-CTNT'WD DN PA GF FDTTR .— o Special Meetings A series of special meetings will begin at the Decatur First Metho- ' diet Episcopal church Sunday. Rev. B. H. Franklin, pastor of the church, will be assisted by his brother. Rev. E. E. Franklin of Normal City Methodist Episcopal Church at Muncie. Special services will he held each afternoon at 2 o’clock except Monday md Saturday and services each evening except Saturday. Rev. Franklin is am axperieneed worker and an outstanding preacher.