Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 31, Number 16, Decatur, Adams County, 19 January 1933 — Page 1

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VABASH RIVER DREDGING IS ORDERED

•SEVELT AND ■OVER CONFER ■EARLY FRIDAY i!M t jv ( . Foreign Policy Sr,oal Set Hy Coun- ■ irv's U'aderTARIES TO •yriFNI) MEETING dan. 1!* — (U.R) A fKiviiir ami effective Ameri-, b> Europe's debt j demand mil far eastern; » U C ,1,. anal SCI today by |ioi and President ! -ii the two nre|>:ir--3 conference. Roosevelt was expected) tad.iTin Wliitc House K >n ign |>olicy was ] • 11 a.m. tomorrow. rs believe that | ■ conferenee. the! debt nego-l may revived heforej ■ i Ii - considered prob- j lie Hoover administra-; void to Mr Boose-i ■ iiie debt negotiaconducted by the' intent tat her than hy, VII sitn.a ' ■ ilnann phis wete coming. Mr lio n. I ami Mr. Boose-' onfereneo. of Nations warned that unless ii made a satis-: report Cieneva's con- ■<:: proposal before Friday. will move on r.o a re Japan's Manchurian ad-, This carries the portl-i B ■ on-mo of Japan.i military movements) e r eat wall of f’hina are ■ anxiety at the state de i Beni :r in foreign otTices oel powers. m Chinese legation made! It i (aide from its govern-1 which asserted that the! Bril' were 'planning an up-; in Tientsin" The legation l Oi- t'hitiesp government ■ Japan had decided to posl-iin.i-ioi of .lebe! province k'i ' 1 1f P'l'tj If BANDIT I IS ARRESTED ■ of Gang Who Held HlNoitli ludson Bank ■ Is In Custody ■>’. In<l„ .Km. 19 - l HP) —Mike ■ 21, was identified today as five !>u! (ids who held up the •ludoiii r. diana, stale hank and escaped with Hi wa- arn-ued today bv two dees nn a trip from the under and was identified hy cashier ■ Peterson of the North JudKish, police said, made confession that he was one North .iiidson robbers and ■ participated in a Bradley. 111holdup last August. of the North Judsott loo;. Bin one dollar hills was rocov- ■ fmm » safety deposit box ft' d. ■ r the Clary bank. P ob Bank of $3,500 ■ non ' Mich.. Jan. 19 ~(UP1 — ■ Polite robbers who told the ■“it cashier and a woman ■** w on't shoot unless we ■ o, heid i.j, ilie state hank here B? } escaped in a waiting autoB *‘ U ‘ J:: ' r >" u after locking C. ■e ivitt, assistant cashier and ■ 4 Conrad, clerk, in the hank — Resignation Bj° min lfton, lnd„ Jan. 19—(UP) of Gov. Paul V. Mc■j 8 dean of the Indiana llniver■J w school was revealed here Btv*v. * n 811 a,,nou acement of V ® anges for the second semB, soccessor has not been r,* c * u tt has been dean

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Nearly 500 Attend Approximately 500 persons at tended the evening session of the Mo 1 roe Farmers Institute which! was held in the high school auditorium above the Model Hatchery | in Monroe, Wednesday. Tne porn show was held in confieetion with the institute and the largest number nf entries was exhibited than in many years. There were 114 entries. Eighty members enrolled for the institute next year. The former offieers were re-elected as follows' Everett llice, chairman; Russel Mitchell secretary; Ruth Mitchell assistant secretury; and Hattie Longenberger, treasurer. 'An unusual program was presented during the evening when two! plays were given hy .lay County, the j Imperial Quartet of Adams County sang, and the Jefferson Township; Ramblers performed. THREE SHOT IN STREET BATTLE Two Robbers And One Policeman Wounded at Joliet, Illinois Joliet. 111., Jan. 19, (U.R) A gun ! battle fought hy three robbers and ' a police squad in a Joliet street j today ended with one robber prob- j ably fatally wounded, and another robber and a policeman less ser-! iottsly wounded. The third roblier escaped. His two wounded companions were! from Cary. Indiana. The battle climaxed a running exchange of shots as the police car pursued the rohlters' automobile through west side streets The trio had robbed the R. F. Hall clothing store at Mendota. Ui„ eluded Mendota police, then speeded through Aurora with Aurora police firing. Tite wounded: “Pee Wee" Hybarger. said to lie an ex-conviet, married and the fa,her of three children, 457 Harrison avenue, Gary. Body riddled with shotgun slugs and probably will die. James Wagenhauser. 24, also of 457 Harrison avenue, Gary. Shot behind left ear. Policeman Michael Obstinik, shot in left arm. The wounded robbers were taken to St. Joseph's hospital. Police believe the bullet which wounded Policem it Oh.itinik was the one which had passed through Wageuhaiiser’s neck, through a mischance <>' the shorn lug The robbers took ill! suits of clothing and considerable other merchandise from the Mendota store. The loot was recovered after the shooting here. o Meat Is Donated T. R. Noll, Washington township trustee, announced today the donation of 100 pounds of boiling beef for distribution to the ttlif mployed in Decatur and Washington township. The beef was donated hy Orlev Smith, residing south of Deca jtur. JAPS, CHINESE CONTINUE FIGHT Troops of Roth Nations Concentrate Outside The Great Wall Peiping, Jan 19.—(U.R)-Manchou-kuo and Japanese troops were concentrated outside the great wall today while Chinese regulars and Irregulars received orders from Marshal Chang Hseuh-Liang to prepare to revel the invaders along the border of Jehol province. Fighting continued outside the wall despite a heavy snow which filled passes and covered north China. Japanese artillery failed to dislodge Chinese at Chaoyang. where the Chinese commander reported he had halted two Japanese armoured trains. Chiuese officials here demanded the arrest, on grounds of treason, of Chinese militarists commanding Manchoukuo troops. The activity of the Manchoukuo troops and the concentration of * * CUNU-NUBIt GN PAUJfi FIVE

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LEADERS CLAIM EXTRA SESSION I IS INEVITABLE Failure Os Legislative! Program Likely to Cause, Special Session MANY MEASURES FAIL OF ACTION Washington, Jun. lit — |UP) — i congressCb-iial leaders I today conceded the complete collapse of their once-ambitiouß prnI grams for the short session. Prohibition repeal, beer, farm relief. am! budget-balancing legislations one hy one have fallen prey toj j divided party opinion, a senate fill-1 buster, and determined Republican ! opposition. The program will he put over I j until the special session which con-1 gressional leaders today will tell 1 | Presiilent-e'lect Roosevelt now is | inescapable. One piece of legislation leaders 1 lof both parties ate convinced must j pass immediately—the drastic I-a- --| guardia-Mickeown bankruptcy hill j designed to scale down debts and; penny extensive industrial reor-i! j ganiz it ion upon a sounder financial ! basis. It is conceded better than an ! even chance of approval. The house i judiciary committee expected to reI port the bill today. The tragi comic collapse of hudI get-balancing will be made official ; tomorrow w hen the House ways and means committee inters the rei mains of the Democratic tax plan. ,; Majority party members of the committee already have caucused and decided that nothing can he i done about taxes in the remaTning six weeks of the muddled short session. This was their answer to Pre-j sident Hoover s plea for immediate ; taxes and bigger economies. , 1 The senate filiburster, led hy the leather-lunged Huey Long ot Ixniis- . liana, has prevented the passage of any important legist 11»ion in that body, except for the Philippine independence A't. The first of eight apFproprution hills necessary to keep the government running has yet to CONTINCKn ON PA ft FI FIVE* " WINNIE JUDD IS ON STAND AGAIN l 'X Tells Story of Deaths of , Two Women From W itness Stand Phoenix, Ariz., Jan. 19. — (U.R 1 —Winnie Ruth Judd, condemned murderess is mentally and physically unsound, it } was charged today as a defense motion was made to striKe out an ner testimony I at the preliminary hearing of J. J. Halloran, prominent Arizona lumberman accused as an accessory after murder. Phoenix, Ariz., Jan. 19. — (U.R) — Haggard from two days of hysteria oil the witness stand, Winnie Ruth Judd was recalled today to pursue , her charges that John J. (Happy j Jack) Halloran played a ‘‘respon- | slide" role in the killings of Agnes I Ann Leroi and Hedvig Samuelson. Tears mingled with hitter words ji ot denunciation of ;lte wealthy lumberman us the convicted woman. testifying at his preliminary hearing on accessory charges, described for the fiigt time how she - killed her two friends In a purport- - ed quarrel. She is under sentence I to hang Feb. 17 on a charge of I shooting Mrs. Leroi. l Her testimony today was to be i preceded by a conference of attor- > < "k t -f-f —v -f *• ’ CONTINUED ON PAGE THKRK " BULLETIN I William Yager, 56, a prom--1 inent resident of Kirkland township for many years, and father of Ralph Yager of this ' city, died at his home at 3:00 o'clock this afternoon, follow--1 ing a several weeks illness. • Mr. Yager became ill about : a month ago. Tuesday night he suffered ) stroke of par- ‘ alysis and since that time his condition had been regarded as critical.

Decatur, Indiana, Thursday, January 19, 1933.

Mob Attacks Relief Station Six policemen ami a civilian rioter were injured in Chicago I Wednesday when a mot) of 400 persons descended on a food relief | j station. An unusual scene is the above photo, with policemen, armed | ! with shotguns, standing guard at the station after the riot.

WILL SENTENCE ! JOSEPH A. LONG ... . . i Portland Man Will Be Sentenced By Federal Judge Friday Morning Fort Wayne, Jan. 1!) — (UP) ■Joseph A, Lons, former Portland millionaire whose defense against charges of violation of a conspiracy to violate the national bankruptcy act collapsed against the governments overwhelming barage of evidence in United States district court here last week will be brought into court for sentencing Friday morning at 10 o’clock. With Long will come his son-in-1 law, Allan Rice, and Walter R. Hill, a Union City real estate dealer, who entered pleas of guilty to indictments against them and appeared for the government against lxmg until the former produce dealer whose business activities once extended over most of the nation admitted his guilt without attempt- j ing defense. The three men and Miss Esther R. Brigham, Long’s private secretary for nearly 14 years, were indicted for the alleged concealment of property, bonds, and real estate valued at $2:yj.687.89 belonging to Long only a short time before he filed a petition of'vohmUry bankruptcy here in 1931. fienlt ring or Long and his felCONTINTTEn Cf . ACSFI TWO GROCERS AGREE ON INCREASE — Independent (J r o c e r s| Agree On Increase In Chain Store Tax Indianapolis, Jan. 19— (U.R) — Representatives of independent grocers agreed on a 500 per cent; maximum increase in chain store license fees yesterday at a meeting of t:he house ways and means committee. They approved the figure after; failing to put over a proposed in-j crease, of 900 per cent in the topi bracket. Agreement was tentative, as the I committee deferred action pend-! ing recovery of Rep. Albert F. Waisman, D„ Indianapolis, who is ill. The chain store hill, as introduced. provided for increasing fees on 20 or more stores from $25 to $250. Grocers were warned at the enmmlttee meeting that if they *" CONTINUED" CWrPAOB*THUEIfi'*

Seven Injured j Chicago, Jan. 19 —(UP) —Two po- 1 licemen and five participants in a demosLialion at the l.awadulc- ! relief station were recovering today [from bruise* incurred when MPT persons stormed the building. Five demonstrators, including two women, were -arrested. The outbreak occurred after Mrs. j ! Betty Hoff, superintendent of the! Istation. abided by a ruling of re-; lief commission and refused to confer with a group which said it represented the unemployed council. A resei ve squad of nearly Kill policemen quelled llie diatiiibunte after missies were_ hurled through windows of the station. GIRLS SPONSOR LOCAL PROGRAM Prominent Pianist And Composer To Appear at i High School Tonight The Girls Glee Club of Mi* De-1 ' catur high school will sponsor the Red path program to he given in the • high school auditorium, tonight at S o'clock. Miss Margaret Ringgold, 1 a prominent pianist and entertain-r 1 will appear or. the program. The girls glee club and the girls trio will also sing several numbers Admission for the performance is • 20 cents, and the public is cordially invited to attend. The complete projgram will he as follows: Piano selections. "Stacitato Etude" Rubinstein, "Resaw," Nevin and “Scherzo in B Minor" Chopin— Mis- Ringgold. Readings, “Languid Man” “The | Old Chest. Upstairs." "The Monkey in the Zoo,” and “The Dance of the jl ap. r Dolls"— Miss Ringgold. A group of original piano entnI positions. I Girls Glee Club, ' Allah's Holiday" j Prime, and "I Love A Lassie,” Zamec ntk. Plano, “Prelude ii C Sharp Min!or". Rachmanioff, and a group of Russian numbers by Miss Ringgold. 'Sylvia'' Speaks, and “Japanese Sunset" Deppen—Girls Trio. Piano, “Spanish Tango,” “Argentine Tango,” and “La Rita,'—Miss] ! Ringgold. Dies At Hospital •j Frank Rumple of Route 1. Rock- ■ ford, Ohio, died at the Adams Conni ty Memorial Hospital at noon today Mr. Rumple had been a patient at ■the local hospital for about six ' days. 1 He had lived near Rockford practically all his life amt had been • engaged as a farmer. The body was ’ removed to the Ketchum Funeral |Home at Rockford today.

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APPROVE BILL STOPPING SALE OF TAX LANDS State Income Tax Measure Is Introduced In House Today NEW BILL PROVIDES BOTTLE CAP TAX Indianapolis, Jan. 19 (U.R) Administration leaders in the Indiana legislature moved swiftly today toward carrying out their platform pledges on prohibiion, uucmploymeott relief and taxation. To aid the unemployed 'he I house gave final approval to a ; Hill providing a moratorium on | sale of tax delinquent lands until I the second Monday in February, 19:14. It was sent to Gov. Paul V. McNutt for approval. The administration bill providing a state tax on incomes of individuals and corporations was it i I'oduced in the house hy Representative Albert F. Walsman, Democrat of Indianapolis. It provides a gffafduated scale j ranging from 1 per cent on the I first $1.(100 of private income to j six per cent on $6,000 or more. | The corporation rate is the same except that it starts with one and | (CONTINUED ON PAGE FIVE) SENATORS HOLD BRIEF SESSION One Bill Passes; Other Introduced In Short Session Wednesday Indianapolis, Jan, 19. —(U.R) —The : Indiana Senate passed one bill, advanced eight to engrossment and received 10 new ones in a brief session last yesterday. The bill passed was hy Sen. Elias C Swihart, D„ Elkhart, which restores the law as it was prior to the 1932 special session, permitting the sheriff to levy rests tip to 3Vi per cent on sale of property on execution or decree. Chief among the new hills intro-) d'K'ed was one by Sen. Fred A. ! Egan, D„ Gary, which protects women in industry by an eighthour day limit. The hill, ode of the most progressive measures ever introduced in the assembly, called for a sixhour day or 48 hour week; allows a nine-hour day in canning industry where goods are perishable; limits overtime to 78 hours in one I year, and provides seats, with hacks, for women in factories, eleva.ors, hotels and the like. A nine-hour day ror women is permitted when Gte overtime is used to provide a still shorter day FONTTNIIED ON PAGE FIVE COON HUNTERS WILL BANQUET Banquet Will Be Held At Boniface Restaurant This Evening The coon hunters will banquet ait six o'clock this evening at the Boniface restaurant on South Winchester street and are all primed for a big feast and a good time. The guests will be the men who have participated in coon hunts around here the past several years. The three coons to he I served tonight were furnished by Ross Harden and Harl Harvey. Sim Burk will act as toastj master and the principal address will he made by Rev. E. E. Frank- | lin, of Muncle, who, along with ! his other many accomplishments, | is a hunter of considerable fame. Guests at the event this evenj ing will be: John Stoutenhury, i Fiank Baker, Ross Harden, Wayne I Berger, Harold Harvey, Marvin! Stoutenhury, C. D. Ktinkle. Arthur ■I Karl Colter. Rev. E. E. I Franklin. Rev. B. H. Franklin, C. I D. Tecfile, Hubert Schmitt, Roy II Johnson, C. A. Burdg. Dan Tyn11 dull, Leigh Bowen, Sl;u Burk and 1 Cal E. Peterson.

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Police On Duty Yokohama, Jan. 19 — (UP) — Police guards were on duty today at the plant of the American-owned j Singer sewing machine company j which was raided yesterday by i Japanese ruffians allegedly hired after a strike of Japanese employes I Police officials 'questioned 138 pri | soners arrested in connection with the laid. Joseph dark Grew, United States (ambassador, urged the government to provide better protection for American liven and property. WOULD DIVIDE CIRCUIT COURT Separate Courts May Be Established In Jasper, Newton Counties Indianapolis, Jail. 19— (U.R) After a four year delay, separate circuit counts probably will be established in Jasper and Newton counties, it was learned today. , In 1929 the Indiana general assembly passed a bill dividing the present joint circuit in half, each county to have its own judge and prosecutor. , The bill was given to Gov. Harry G. Leslie on the Saturday before lie Monday on which the , legislautre adjourned. The law requires that a bill must be in the hands of the governor two days before adjournment. Leslie refused to act on t the measure, declaring that Sunday did not count as a day. Then a mandamus action was brought in Marion county superior court to force printing of the ; hill which would make it effective. The. action was appealed to the supteme court hy Setretarv of State Frank MavrJr. Today the attorney general’s office announc-' ed that the appeal would be dismissed. Meanwhile the only copies of) the bill have mysteriously disap-; poared. One copy was removed from the legislative reference library at the request of Governor Leslie. The governor said his) copy had been lost. It is hoped hy sponsors of the measure that the copy in the CONTINUED ON PAGE THREE RESOLUTION IS PASSED TODAY House of Representatives Urges Congress To Repeal 18th Amendment Indianapolis, Jan. 19 —(U.R) — A resolution memoralizing congress to repeal the 18th amendment was adopted by the Indiana house of representatives today, 73 to 18. The resolution, was introduced by Representatives John F. Ryan. Terre Haute; Marion .1. Rice, Evansville; Man in J. Downey. East Chicago. Harry M. Riedinan, Uronkville, and Thomas A. Hendricks. Indian npnli:\ Tt inquests congress to submit the amendment to state conventions for ratification. Before Senate A joint resolution memoralizing congress to submit an amendment lo state conventions repealing the 18th amendment was introduced in the Indiana senate today by Sen. Chester A. Perkins. D., South Bend. It was referred to the committee on federal relations. The resolution requests congress to propose to ithe states ratification at state conventions called for the purpose. ''Absolute prohibition is repug nant to the basic principles of American government and after a test of 14 years ill has not only failed to endear itself to the hearts of the people blit has inspired a combined national resentment as shown by refusal of the people to obey the law. amounting almost to nullification and bordering on rebellion.” the j resolution read. “The tnx burden of sunnorting) jibe farcial and insincere attempts at enforcement has contributed io; 'the excessive costs of living and .I he people by a large majority have placed the Democratic party, whose platforms pledge repeal, in power."

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JUDGE KISTER MAKES RULING | THIS MORNING Special Judge Orders Drain Established In His Decision COST ESTIMATED AT $126,697.50 Special Judge Henry Kister of Princeton, presiding in the Adams Circuit Court in the Wabash river dredge case today found for the petitioners and ordered the drain established. Judge Kister’s decision was rendered at eleven o’clock this morning before attorneys and a number of spectators interested in the famous case. The court estimated the costs of the proposed drain at $126.697.50 and the benefits at $176,491.36. No damages were found for Adams county or for the City of Blufl'ton, which municipalities were remonstrators in the case. Benefits of $1,370 were assessed against Adams County. It was estimated at 2:30 o’clock this afternoon that a petition for a new trial would be field by C. J. ) Lutz, chief of counsel for the rej monstnalors. If the petition is denied an appeal to the Indiana Supreme court will be taken, attorneys intimated. The court announced that damages along the valley, where farm lands were badly cut by the proposed drain, had been increased and tit a t small damages were, awarded near and below the erminits. In the court's findings the citv of Bluffton, it was held that if tha drain was constructed it would have a greater carrying capacity jand that the city power plant would loot be damaged by overflow. In the case of Adams county the court found benefits to roads and stated that the law did nut provide fop awarding of damages to the conn* I ty. The Court's Findings The court based its findings on the following estimated costs of j construction and assessed benefits: Costs Cost of earth excavation. 924.257 cubic yards at 9c per cubic yard $ 83,183.13 j Cost of stone excavation, 7.276 cubic yards at $1.50 per cubic yard.... 11,064.00 Damages to lands where no remonstrances were filed 3.525.00 Damages to lands where remonstrances were filed 8,325.37 Cost of survey and clerk's costs 6.500.00 Expense during construction and Incidental expense 7,050.00 Attorney fees allowed 7,050.00 Total coat $126.697 50 Benefits Benefits to lands conceded $125,21716 | Benefits to lands situated in Indiana where remonstrances were filed 42,189.20 | Benefits to public highways in Adams county where remonstrances Were filed 1,585 00 Total Indiana benefits $168,991.36 Benefits In Ohio 7,500 00 Total benefits assessed $176,491.36 Township Benefits Benefits were assessed to two townships in Adams county. They are, Hartford township. $25, reduced from S7O; Wabash township, $l9O. Affects Much Territory The petition for dredging amt straightening the river chanted affects much territory in Jay ami Adams counties. Beginning til a point one mile east ot the Indiana state line at the Willshire road bridge, the proposed dredging of th eriver would extend southwest o u point near the Jimtown i bridge in Hartford township, Ad- ; nms county. The territory affected is about 30 miles in length, although only ! about 22 miles would be ImprovI ed. The channel of the river would he shortened approximately six ami one-half miles, by tukCONTINUED ON PAGE FIVE