Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 31, Number 28, Decatur, Adams County, 2 February 1933 — Page 1

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|l WASSURANCE ■car factory ML OPERATE iS,bL w. McMillen And fcociates Hold Conference Here TS READY " Within short time ?W<uraiue that the Decatur will operate this given last evening , SI IK t i W McMillen and as--«W>ies nt' Chicago, in a conAHMut held here with a tew i)W business men hurriedly when it became known <-iW y r McMillen and his ■nW would arrive at five '<Kk. the n line (4 Mefavorably known ten ituri tieeause of extens'S . L t . .-valors through west Wert, where the home ofthe ,>!d McMillen company r for years. Later Mr. r *® llpn 1 ted in Fort Wayne h e built a stock food bustwo years ago became us Allied Mills, since which has o oiled in Chicago. is paitiiularly anx the beet growers in the '(■..re immediately adjacent to .iMplac-. including this and snr- ■ ’ counties win become cunt muons boosters for for cooperation I asset that benefits both the operators of a coin ertt. In a short time will be ready and said it would be one mßii- Mt sure would please. grower in the territory. effort will be made to secure' jy eater p it of the 12,000 beet desired within trucking of tn-- plant and as much within a twenty-mile deal for the sale of the was tn.ci - through Harry vice-president of the Ohl >»®t National link of Fort Wayne. accompanied the party here PERUSE FOR IHIL-HWAY BIDS Bad Number 27 IncludJd In Projects Os Highg way Commission i —— Feb. 2-(UP) The nnmission today adfor bids on 95 miles of pav--2d miles of grading eati■’■alto rest $2.100,00 ami provide for 6.406 unemploy d. fcr the construction will Hum India as share of Federal relief aid. Hugh II ■ e.ster. dir-ctor of lhe announced w ill be ope: ed Feb. 21. agreement with the fed-(Mtovernm-nt all work must be will work on *a 30-hour basis, permitting two shifts ■ tints spreading employment twice as many men. ■nirrssFul bidders will be reqniremploy their laboretu from submitted by relief agencies in ■ COUUUsb where roads al- being ■LM Prefeie.xe wiii be given ■Mdsof families and depend -nt;s. ■ order to expedite the work ■ Assure completion by July 1. *■'*?« involved is divided into rion projects. Barnhurt the basis that each project V ? tnploy an average of 200 men ■is two shifts, approximately 6.■Hirers will profit directly." ■ CONTINUED o.n page two B f uneral Friday Buneral services for Han 'Spot' ■‘"Worth, state motor police ■' who died Monday uiglil al the ■® s County Memorial hospit'il. ■ ** held at the Methodist church B 8 Friday afternoon at 2 o'clock. -■' B. H. Franklin, pastor of the wm be in charge of the B’kM. B” rllil will be made at the River- ■ cemetery at Geneva. The Ma- ■ r lodge of Geneva will have ■ r * e of services at the grave.

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Vol. XXXI. No. 28.

Off to Prison | r ' jggMc 1 ra p j < BBd|C Jr 2 .4 r I ; Ls < |L wF j |k • 4s' I w. .'•*& ■■ Mis. Inez Carrell, 29-year-old Chicago widow, who killed her three children last June by drowning them in a bathtub in a hotel at Mattoon. 111., has been given "inert y" sentence of from one to fourteen years, which she will serve in the women's reformatory at Dwight. 111. INTRODUCE 4i SENATE BILLS Upper House Receives 14 New Measures Wed--nesday Afternoon Indianapolis. Feb. 2 - (UP) — Standing committees in the Senate worked overtime today in an effort to clear away some of the 41 new bills introduced yesterday afternooIt was the largest number offered in the. senate for any one day of the present session. Four Democratic Senators, Chester A. Perkins. South Bend, William I’. 'Dennigan. Vincennes: Jesse E. Wudc. Mt. Vernon and I’m sell P. Kehoe, Jeffersonville, presented four companion me sures calling for repeal of the Wright bone dry law and providing drastic penalties for drunkeunes, driving while dru:.k, and revocrlio i of licenses of stores used for liquor sales. Administration hills providing for the sale of beer and repeal of the Wright law are awaiting ction in the house. The hills were referred to the committee an Public policy, of which Senator Fred A. Egans, D.. Gary is ciiairman. Cigaret Tax Sen. Herbert V. Tormohien R„ Portland, presented a cigaret tax CONTINUED ON PAGE FIVE WOULD REDUCE COUNTY UNITS Consider Bill to Consolidate County Governmental Units Indianapolis. Feb. 2 —<U.R> —Consolidation of county governmental : units Is proposed in a bill to be i submitted to Democratic members of the general assembly at a caucus Saturday, it was learned . from reliable sources today. > The bill is said to be similar in many respects to that providing for reorganization of state hoards and departments into eight separi ate divisions. The Democrats will be asked to ’ approve the conntv bill on grounds that It will moan a saving of millions of dollars annually by curtailment of costly local governI mental services and avoidance of duplication. Proof that the bill has administration backing is contained in ‘ the tact that Rep. Wilfred Jessup, ' D., Centerville, has charge of its 1 introduction in the house and Sen. Walter S. Chambers, D„ New- ’ castle, in the senate. \ ’ Jessup is credited with authorship of the state governmental ’ reorganization bill. The number of township trus I (CONTINUED ON PAGE SIX)

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POLICE SEIZE J DOCUMENTS IN HEADQUARTERS; r Communist Quarters Throughout Prussia Are Searched Today ( I CHANCELLOR MAKES ‘ FIRST STATEMENT , ( Berlin, February 2 ( UR>— ‘ Police rttitletl communist headquarters through Prus- 1 sia today in their search for ' documents to prove that the ' communist party activities 1 are illegal. I'he offensive 1 began a few hours after ('.htmcellor Adolf Hitler had 1 denounced communism in 1 his first manifesto to the ! nation, and politicians believed 1 his government would seek to nut- t law the entire confmunist party. 1 The raids were similar to lhe “persecution’’ against which Hitlers Nazis protested before they came into power this week. Restaurants and cases patronized by I communists were raided, as was Liebknecht House. Berlin communist headquarters. Nineteen communists were arrested on charges of resisting the police. There has been no suggestion of expelling German communists, although foreign members of the party may be deported. Hitler is credited with plans to outlaw the party, which would mean the loss of their 100 seats in the reich- ’■ stag, sequestration of their headquarters and branch offices, seizuse of funds and suppression of newspapers, and penalties for communist leaders on grounds of I sedition and subversive activities. Gives Interview (Copyright 1533, by United Press) Berlin. Feb. 2 -(U.R> Germany must find herself again or capitulate to Bolshevism. Adolf Hitler,\ new Fascist chancellor, told lhe United Press today in the first CONTTNITED ON PAGE TWO URGE FURTHER FEDERAL HELP Recommend Additional Appropriation of $150,000,000 To Aid Needy Washngton, Feb. 2—4(UP)—Appropriations of $150.000,(M0 more federal funds to . id the unemploed was recommended today to a senate committee by Charles A. Miller, present of the reconstruction finance corporation. .Miller, testifying ala tanking and currency sub-committee hearing on the W.tgner bill to increase the corporation's unemployment aid funds said th it one state, presumably Illinois, was "within six weeks of exhaustion of Its $45,000,000 share of the $300,000,000 so far appropriated." Under terms of the 1932 relief act $340,000,000 was provided for R. F. C. relief loans to states, No state, however, could obtain more th in $45,000,01)0 of the fund. Miller emphasized that he was expressing a personal opinion insuggesting additional funds and not that of the R. F. C. Board. A senate manufacturer's subcommittee meanwhile heard Steven Raushonbush, Pennsylvania director of Industri il relations, testify that uticonilition il federal anil state relief amounted to a subsidy to sweat-shop operators who are paying women and children from $2 to $4 a week in tw.iny eases for 54hour week. Washington, Feb. 2—(UP)—Defenses of the reconstruction finance corporation's $90,000,000 loan to Charles G. Dawes’ Chicago Bank as having prevented disaster to the country was made today before a senate banking and currency subcpmmittee by Charles A. Miller, president of the reconstruction finance corporation. Restores Citizenship Washington. Feb. 2 —(UP) —President Hoover restored Thomas W. Mill jr former alien property custodian, to citizenship today. • Miller, wno served during the administration of President Harding, was sentenced to 18 months impri-, sor ment at Atlanta on ch trges of defrauding the government in 1928.

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Decatur, Indiana, Thursday, February 2, 1933.

Farmers Revolt Aga Surges Across The Chicago. Feb. 2. tU.P.) The dis J quieting rumble of farmers' pro- t tests against high taxes and t meagre profits .surged across the i entire middle west today, commanding the attention of officials a from Washington to the most se- 1 eluded hamlet. r From sporadic outbreaks in thei f corn belt area, it had grown to ap widespread revolt against tax sales' I and mortgage foreclosures. In at *' least 10 states an air of militancy j* prevailed as farmers planned con |' certed opposition to enforced sales 1 of their land and livelihood. Encouraged by victories in their f first encounters, farmers said they 1 would push on until congress and a state legislatures enact measures I 4 to restore grain production and hog-1 raising to a profit basis. A tense situation arose today in 1 lowa, where feeling against en-|’ forced sales was keenest. Thous - ands of acres of black, fertile corn 4 land were posted for delinquent tax 8 sale. •Postponement of the sales I have been forced several times. i‘ Determined bands of farmers • were organized in more than 70 of, 1 the state's 99 counties. They said ' they would block the sales, either ’ by persuasion, strategy or by force. I s Occupying a prominent position! in lowa's tax sale opposition was PROF. SCHUTZ TO SPEAK HERE j: .1. Raymond Schutz Will I Speak To Woman’s Club Monday J. Raymond Schutz. A. 8.. M. A. educator, preacher, traveller and lecturer, will speak before the Woman's Club next Monday night in the Library hall. The program will be in< the charge of the Literature department of the club. ' The subject of Mr Schutz' add ress will be “An Adequate Life of philosophy for an Age of Disillusionment.'' Mr. Schutz is a prominent speaker and has appeared .on many programs. He was gradual-d from Otterbein College and the University of hicago. He is a graduate student of both the University of California rnd Yale University. He tnade four trips to'Europe including study in t.ie University of Oxford. England and Geneva. Switzerland. He served as a high school principal for five years and a college professor for eleven yeans. For ten years he was pastor of the First Brethren Church at North Manchester. Among other prominent activities, he was gov-mor of the Indiana District of Kiwanis International; and president of t.e Indiana Council of Religious Education. He spent two summers in Gliau tauqua won't, and delivered more than 3,000 lectures in 17 states in eleven years. He makes an average of more than 30 comm nceme. 4 addresses annually. GARAGE MOVES FEBRUARY 15 Saylors Motor Company Will Move To South Second Street The Saylors Motor Co., of this city has leased the Schug buildings on South Second street and about February 15th, will move mto the building. The building was formerly occupied by the Ford gai'age. It has a| frontage of 44 feet on Second street and extends east 132 feet. The Saylors Motor company is now located in the Bucher and Tonneller buildings on North First street. The company, owned by Clifford and Leo Saylors was established here In June, 1926. They tire dealers for the Dodge and Plymouth automobiles 'and besides having the agency in this county, have associate dealers in Jay an 1 Wells 1 counties. Clifford Saylors announced that the company would occupy the entire two floors of the building and that the auto repair and painting departments would be located on the second floor. A display room for new automobiles will be installed , on the aorthMfde of the building and several changes made, on the inside before the unto firm occupies , the new quarters.

linst High Taxes i Entire Middlewest Mlles Renn, national president of the Farmers' Holiday Association, the organization behind the scores ’ in the tax revolt Meanwhile the forces of state administration hurried through the legislature an emergency relief measure. Gov. Clyde L. Herring took personal command of both houses to force through a measure providing for a state centrak conciliation committee, which will have final jurisdiction in all mortgage issues arising between farmers and mortgagors. Throughout nearly a dozen other slates, meanwhile, drastic means to halt foreclosures were being adopted while authorities, alarmed at the rising rural sentiment, prepared conciliatory measures. States in which the situation was acute included Illinois, Minnesota, Nebraska, Wisconsin, North Dakota. South Dakota, Oklahoma. Texas and one eastern section. New Jersey. In Oklahoma, where a “council of defense" was organized to combat foreclosures, an attorney scheduled to sell a widow's farm was i kidnaped and driven in an automobile several miles from the scene. He was released unharmed. | Gov. Miriam A. Ferguson of Tex-r-ONTINITEP GN PAGE EDI'H Continue Strike Detroit, Feb. 2.— (U.R) —Former Ford body builders at the Briggs Manufacturing Co., plants here will I continue their strike, though the j company has hired tyiough old and I new workers to resume body pro- ’ duction. Nearly 1,000 tool and die workers met across the street from the main Briggs plant at Highland Park last night and voted not to give up. While the vote was being taken 2,00(1 other strikers continued picketing the plants. Sam Hampton and Roy Stark were arrested during the meeting, charged with participating in disturbances yesterday in which a truck carrying car bodies from the Briggs plant to the Ford works was seized and overturned. MARY E. OLSON DEATH'S VICTIM Sister of Decatur Man Dies At Richmond Hospital Wednesday Mrs. Mary E. Olso". 69. sister of Ross Wolfe of Decatur, die 1 at the State Hospital in Richmond. Wednesday morning at 6 o’clock. Death was due to peneumonia. Mrs. Olson had been a pitient at the hospital for the last six vears. She was born in Union township. April 20. 1863, the daughter of Sylvester and Hannah Wolfe. Her first marriage was to Junies Thompson W. Luckey who was killed in an automobile accident at Angola two years ago. Two children by th it marriage are Mis. Ethel Kindlesparker of Rich Fellow, and Lorenzo Luckey of Wilmo.it, Michgian. ‘ Her second mariage was to Edward Olson. 2702 Taylor street, Fort Wayne. Surviving besides the husband and two children are two sisters and a brother Emma Spaulding of Kansas City, Mo.; lida Parker, Ligonier; and Ross Wolfe. Decatur. Five grandchildren also survive. Funeral services will be neld at the S. E. Black Funeral Parlors Friday 'afternoon nt 1:30 o'clock and burial will be made in the East Salem Cemetery. The body was brought to the Black Funeral Home Wednesday To Name Officers The election of officers of the Decatur Chamber of Commerce will take place at a meeting of the direc- . i tors to be held at 7:30 o’clock this evening in the Chamber ot commerce rooms. Theodore Grallker, president of the organization called the meeting, i Three new directors. Oscar Lankenau. Daniel Tyndall and James Elberson, will take office tonight. Other directors of the Chamber i of Commerce are Wilson Lee. Ferd ; Litterer. Henry Schulte and A. R. . Holthouse. Following the organlza- • tion of the board the officers and I directors will plan the annual mem- . bership campaign and endeavor to , enlist every merchant naid inannfaci Hirer in the city as a member in ,1933.

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MUSCLE SHOALS PROJECT WILL BE DEVELOPED President-elect Roosevelt Plans Development of Great Project EXPECT TO EMPLOY NEARLY 200,000 Warm Springs, Ga., Feb. 2. — (U.R) — The greatest public development project any nation ever has attempted is planned by President-elect i Roosevelt in’ the Tennessee watershed, it was revealed today. A gigantic program combining public power development, farm relief and employment is planned by Mr. Roose-i velt, with Muscle Shoals as the i fountain-head. Parts of a dozen states would be affected by the plan, which Mr.; Roosevelt said would put 60,000 to] 75,000 men to work in its first year, i and eventually would give direct; employment to perhaps 200,000. Cheap power would be the center of the scheme, as outlined by Mr. Roosevelt. It would have the combined purposes of encouraging both urban and rural development, and of serving as a governor to regulate private power prices. Mr. Roosevelt himself described his program as “something no country has ever attempted before on so vast a scale." If it met with success, it would serve as a model ' for similar undertakings in other areas. The states affected by the 1 Tennessee plan would-4fe Virginia, : North Carolina. South Carolina, ' Tennessee. Alabama, Kentucky and parts of Mississippi. Missouri. Ar- : kansas and Louisiana. . As part of his sweeping pledge ■ of a “new deal" tor America, the president-elect hopes to initiate ' this year the first steps of the pro--1 ject. which calls for: 1. —Greater land utilization. 2. Reforestation and aiiore station. 3. Elimination of marginal lands. * ’cox I IXI'EI • GN PAGE I'IVE) I New Department Os Store To Open i As a mea. sos a; qu'tinting shoppers with the new downst .ins department of the store, the Schafer Hardware company, today announces a 25 per cent, discount sale, f opening next Saturday, on china 1 a: il glasswire, blankets and alum- ' inum wire. ' The china aud glassware, blan- ' kets and dry good'- department have been moved to the south room ot lhe building and special displays • have been arranged for the open- ‘ ing Saturday. 1 Many departments and much tew ' merchandise have been added 1 since the holidays and the public is ’ invited to vist the convenient and 1 modern shopping center. 0 MANY PROTESTS TO SALES TAX Trade Organizations Stagt ing Bitter Fight Against Tax i 1 Indianapolis, Feb. 2. — KIJ.R) — While lhe general assembly's im--3 mediate concern was state government reorganization and beer, attention outside me legislative chambers was focused today on the sales tax proposal. Both praising and protesting B opinions on the sales tax proposal 1 are pouring into the office ot .. Gov. Paul V. McNutt. a Meanwhile, he is attempting to get in touch with Gov Martin S Conner. Mississippi, to come here f and explain workings of the sales : tax in his state. ~ Gov. Conner was the proponent |. of the model Mississippi sales tax law after which the Indiana adr ministration bill is fashioned, il Gov. Conner has conferred with ■ Illinois officials on the subject. i. The latest sales tax protest ( | came from representatives of trade and industry who met at the 0 Columbia Club yesterday at the) invitation ot' the Indian. State u Chamber of Commerce. ' WNTIOTEIToirjpAGfiFIVE*'*

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To Speak Here | ■i' 1 Ik ( J. Raymond Schutz Prominent educator and lecture er, who will speak at the Woman's club meeting at Library hall Monday night. Mr. Schutz will speak on "An Adequate Life of Philosophy for an Age of Disillusionment." MORTGAGE TAX 0F5211.50 PAID This Amount Paid To ' County Recorder Dur- ] ing January < i The sum of $211.50 was paid to ■ : County Recorder Walter Bockman during the month of January as , tax on real estate mortgages filed in his office. The law provides that a tax of 50 cents on the SIOO lie paid on ■mortgages, which payment exempts the mortgage from taxation. The ■ law became effective January 1, 1933. Recorder Bockman in explaining! the purpose of the law made the following announcement: ( “Mortgagee may pay taxes on mortgages recorded prior to Jan. 1. 1933, by electing that said mortgage shall become subject to the tax prescribed by section 4 of the Acts of General Assembly, special ' session, 1932. Which reads as fol- 1 lows: “Sec. 4.—A tax of fifty cents for each one hundred dollars and each remaining major fraction thereof of principal debt or obligition which is, or under any contingency may be secured at the data of the execution thereof or at any time thereafter by a mortgage on real property situated within the state recorded on or after the first day of January. 1933. is hereby imposed on each such mortgage, and shall he collected and paid as provided in this act. If the principal debt or obligation which is or by any contingency may be secured by such mortgage recorded on or after the first day of January, 1933, is less than one hundred dollars, a tax of fifty cents is hereby imposed on such mortgage, and shall be ■collected and paid as provided in this act. "All mortgages on real property situated wilhin the state which are taxed by this act and the debts and the obligations which they se-j cure, shall be exempt from other taxation by the state, counties, cities, and towns, except that such mortgage shall not be exempt from the taxes imposed by the inheritance tax law of this state. ■ “Persons holding mortgages recorded prior to January Ist, must elect to pay tuxes on same before March Ist. In the event that said mbrtgage tax has not been pa'd by this time same shall become sub i ject to the regular tax rate of the various townships. "All mortgage taxes are payable to the recorder of the county.” o Defeat Attempt Washington Feb. 2 —(UP)—An at- > tempt to abolish the federal farm : board by eliminating its entire appropriation front the independent offices supply bill was defeated to- : day by the house. Demands Arrest I I Washington, Feb. 2 —(UP) —Sen- , 'Jtor Robinson. R„ of Ii diani. today demanded that the state department apprehend William C. Bullitt " who has been said in reports quoted by Robinson to lie representing President-elect Roosevelt on debt matters la foreign capitols.

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ONLY FIFTEEN VOTE AGAIHST BILL IN HOUSE Measure Will Consolidate Government Into Eight Divisions GIVES GOVERNOR ABSOLUTE POWER Indianapolis, Feb. 2— (U.R) — Identical bills providing drastic reorganization of the state government in Indiana passed the house ahd senate today assuring ultimate enactment. The bill passed smoothly through the house 80 to 15 but triumphed in the senate 39 to seven only after drawing bitter attacks from the Republican minority and Senator Chester A. Perkins, D., of South Bend. The senate vote was taken while Perkins stood on the floor shouting charges of treason at his colleagues. The senate bill now goes to the house and the house bill goes to the senate. Since they are identical, whichever is passed first will be submitted to the governor. Indiananolis, Feb. 2.—<U.R) — The administration’s government reorganization bill, consolidating nea r1 y 200 boards and departments into eight divisions, was passed by the house of representatives today, 80 to 15. Eierht Republicans and seven Democrats voted acainst the bill. The only Republican favoring it was George E. Denny, Madison. Before the measure was brought to a vote Rep. Fred S. Galloway. Dem.. Indianapolis, attempted to insert an amendment making Purdue and Indiana universities coma under provisions of the bill. They had been purposely excluded because each is a separate municipal corporation. The amendment was defeated. The motion of Rep. H. H, Evans, Newcastle. Republican floor leader. to have the bill made a special order of business Monday also was defeated. The bill, which centralizes control of both executive and admin! > trative branches of government in the hands of Gov. Paul V. McNuit, is intended to save the state between $2,000,000 and $3,000,000 annually. It provides for the establishment of eight departments under thf) headings of executive, state, audit and control, treasury, law, commerce and industries, public works and education. Each department will have its own head but will be controlled by a board consisting of the governor, CONTINUED GN PAGE FIVE HIJACK TBUCK LOAD OF BUTTER Contents of Hijacked Truck Valued At Nearly $6,400 Chicago. Feb. 2—<U.R) —Machine* gun hijackers who told their victims they were watching for a liquor truck, commandeered a load of Wisconsin butter near Palentine today. The truck, loaded with 32.00)1 pounds of butter aud 1,000 pounds of oil was valued with its loud at $6,400. Five bandits, four armed with revolvers and one with a machine gun halted the truck as it neared Palentine on a trip from West Salem, Wis. “We were waiting for a liquor truck " the leader or the hijackers said. "Hut since you fellows came along you'll do just as well.” The hijackers bundled Homer Shaffer, Palentine, and R. Mack, Chicago, drivers of the truck owned by lhe Western Wisconsin Freight Line, Hammond, Ind., into a touring car. They were driven about tor several hours during which time the butter was transferred to another truck. The men finally were released not far from where I they were captured. The truck was found abandoned in Cicero.