Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 31, Number 36, Decatur, Adams County, 11 February 1933 — Page 1

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"■CALENDAR -Jrfebruary [rm of court s ■ Number of Cases ' K Set l <»r Hearing ■ n Present Term ■ T JI’RY TRIAL Bet i f.brl ary 20 ■hri'r number of cases ■ix-di >et tor trial during term of the Ad■ircint . ~iii-t. Hearing of ■ will stall ill earnest ■v morning, with a fairKj calendar practically of the term. ■ [.'el,man term will run ■satui’daw April 8, with ■ew ter” then openingMunday. April 10. |Swr>-k of th- 20th Ills the ■. , «it li many state f ( >r h-aring. Four are ■ y. ac-h tor Tues- > -iml Friday. Four for Friday. K. comii ''' l ulemlar. as set ■. J.iik- llub-r M De Voss. i’ J..'hh Hancock Life InCo. vs. Kerr. . Tim-thy Fonts estale. ■ vs. Settler. ■ li-V u Hartman | ■ meeting. eouri I ■ ■s- S'.r v - clarence Kintz. ■». Spaiutl-r; State vs Le State v. Sullivan. _■;'! ' v« Kenneth Kris vs Kiting; State vs. Stat- vs. I.ott; State vs. 22 Stat- vs. John Huey, State v,s. Mitchell; State ■cas State vs. Roth. : St vs Bowman. J T special judge. Stat - vs Lenhart; Stat-' Slate vs. Bailer. Hr: Burnham; State vs. Oren B Michigan Furniture Co. 2‘—S-bl'ip vs Rukeway. ■ 2* ■ -burner vs. S one- ■<:. 1- Ruim-y Finance Co., vs. Johnson. sheriff, Judge Gil- ■ special judge. ■th 2 S> n- ex rel Smith vs. ■ J. F: I Pruchte, special Sla- >s. Ruggles; State Si.it- vs. Broughman; ■ vs. Mast ■6 — l-Skay Dairy Co. vs. ■ Sc-hmi z vs. Rutdirf et S—Stee'e vs. Wilson on "page four IsTRICT BILL Ito two crops ■ Diet Allotment To ■heat. Cotton; Light ■' Enforcement ■‘iiington. Feb n -U.R) The agriculture committee toto restrict the domestichili to wheat and cotton ■• 0 rt-port to the senate floor a separate cotton readapted to that crop, ■•klngton, Feb. 11— (U.R) — ■** »ets today seized upon tin■jjnient relief as a means to ■ prohibition enforcean|l announced a plan to ■ ,t "’ the proposed $8,400,00(1 H c «!fient fu n( | f or relief of B" 1 ** 1 unemployed youths. WF Tidings. D., Maryland, an■/d ”n the floor that he ■<l move to recommit the war ■Unent appropriation bill to ■«* f° r * nc ' uH i° n ° r an ■>.ooo item to aid voting ■brers. ■ ’aid he then would under-! ■ ,O strike from the justice ■ tment supply bill an identi■J 6 ® for enforcement. ■" lri Ks Is supporting the Cous- ■ Proposui ( | )at j o hless youths ■ °thed. sheltered and fed in ■ Posts. B/ Ont think any men in their minds would ditsagTee as to’ ■ e <irabilit y of spending money Kv Se wandering hoys as corn* V w ’th enforcement,” Tidings

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Statement Os Facts On Road Material Attempting to create an irnprf:. ■ion that the county c-onHnissionor:’. had awarded a contract for furnish-, ing sand and gravel to tie high way department at a price higher than the material could be purchased elsewhere, the Berne Witness , asks the question. "WjyY The answer is simple. In the first place the commissioners have not. awarded :i contract to anyone to furnish gravel or sand to the highwav department. In the second plaw Lucius Somers was the only person who submitted a propoa.il to furnish stuh material to the ■county, his quotation being one did-; lar a yard for washed gravel and W cents a ton for sand The confmissi. mers each year receive proposals from quarries for the furnishing of stone, stone screenings, sand and gravel to the high way department. The owners of the quarries submit their pricea 'and the commissioners have the privilege of buying from them at the prices quoted. No contract was awarded. Very little sand is purchased by the highway department. Some might be used during the year a d Mr. Somers riled his offer. It was placed on file and no order wis given to him. No other quarry filed « written proposal to furnish sand. SEVENTY-FOUR WILL GRADUATE High School Graduates of Four County Schools Are Announced An unusually large number of young men and women will be • graduated from four rural high schools in Adams county this 1 year. According to the tentative' list which has been prepared. 74 young people will receive diplomas In the Jefferson. Monroe, Ge neva and Hartford high schools. The Jefferson high school, witli ' a senior class of z 2, will liave the > largest graduating class this 1 spring in the history of the ' school. Geneva has the largest class 1 with 26. while Monroe has Hi j pupils in the senior class and ( Hartford. 12. The names of the probable graduates in the four schools are as follows: Jefferson Shirley Wiest. Ther I man Charleston. Chester SmileJune shoemaker, Archie Wendell. Karl Kauffman. Merrill Weaver. Royce Wall. Nora Smitley, Holman Egly. Raymond Miller. Raymond Bollenbaeher Bernice Be-h---“r. Cliristeon Sinbe-.-. Beatrice ‘ Lnttman. Arthur Jutte. Erancis Arno'd. Florence Peel. Esther • Brewster. Eleanor Miller, Herbert Miller. Richard Kelley Monroe — William Bovine. Delores Egly. Esther Fricke. George Garrett. Virgil Gilbert. Ikiris Laisure. Anna V. Liechty. Ernestine L’echty. Howard Nussbaum, Harold Ray. Jeanette Rich, l-oreno CONTINTKIi ON PACK l Ot'K ' o Cigarettes Cheaper New York Feb. 11-(VP)—War between the foul big toiia.ci empires of America, spread to a newfront today and cigarette smokers belief itted by the lowest ret. Hl prices since '’sweet cups” were a nickel a pack 30 years uga The war waged for years through every medium that might add to the army of loyal smokers of the leading brands through newspaper ai d ' magazine advertising, radio and vurious resounding claims to mellowing processes and tobacco selection entered the financial phase > when the American tobacco company announced a now wholesale price reduction to $5.&0 a thousand for Lucky Strikes less the usual ; trade discounts. As 3 result cigarette buyers at' ( the ration's lei-ding chain such as the Great Atlantic and Pi- , clfic tea company were aide to cartons at the rate of 10 cents a ' 'package of 20. <) Lobagola Freed —■" — ! i Ibh Labiggola. Afrioin lecturer who has been confined In the Adams county jail sin;« Thursday i morning wfis released this aiter- ! noon on bond of SI,OOO, furnished by ; Willard and .Mary Steele. Lobagola, ’was arrested on a el urge of sod-, c.my, filed hy two minor youths of Berne. >

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BANK BANDITS OBTAIN $5,500 AT WASHINGTON Two Employes Slugged For Delay in Opening Bank Vault NEITHER BANKER HURT SERIOUSLY Vincennes, Ind., Feb. 11— U.Fj—Three bandits who robbed the State Bank of Washington of $5,500 and slugged two employes today, eluded Vincennes police two hours later and crossed the 'bridge into Illinois. They were last seen heading toward East St. Louis by Sheriff Edward Rankin of wasnmgton, wno followed them here. The bandits drove a large sedan with Missouri license plates No. 562-527. Washington, Ind., Feb. 11 IU.R) Two bandits held up the State Bank of Washington today, beat two employee with tile butts of their guns and escaped with $5,500. Robert Fairton. 65. assistant cashier, was knocked to the floor unconscious when he was slow in carrying out a command Io open the vault. As Burton lay at t'ne bandits’ feet one of them turned to Ralpii Pipher. 25. bookkeeper, and said: "The old man's out. you’d better open it.” Pipher also was slow in carrying out the order and he was struck on the head as a threat. Burton recovered in a few minutes and physicians said ids <-o : i-.-oNTINFUtv ON FAfTF! FCltm -—— O — K. of C. Circus Ihe Fort Wayne council of the Knig Is of Columbus will conduct a circus at the Shrine Auditorium February 17 and 18 and the publi. is invited to attend. A fine program has been arranged, consisting of regular circus acts. Pickets for tlie circus are on sale in this city at the B J Smith Drug Co., and the Eits Restaurant. GEORGE OHLER DEATH'S VICTIM Prominent Adams County Farmer Dies After Extended Illness George Ohler, 73. prominent farmer of Adams county, and father of William F. and Kenneth A. Ollier of Decatur, died at his home seven and one-halt' miles northeast of the city at 11:50 o'clock Friday night, following an extended illness. Deatli was due to diabetes. Mr. Ohler suffered a stroke of paralysis lwo years ago and since tnat time had been an invalid. He had spent practically his entire life in Adams eotltlty. He was a member ot I lie East Liberty United Brethren Church of Allen county. The deceased was liorn in Seneca County. Ohio December 18, 1859. tlie son of Andrew and Mary Ohler. On March 11. 1886 lie was united in marriage to Susannah Alir and two children win Imni to the union. William F. Oller of Decatur, and Chattes E. Ohler. deceased. Mrs. Ohler died on August 18. 1898. On November 29. 1900 Mr Ohler married Malinda Peoples, who survives. Two sons. Forrest R. of near Paine. Ohio and Kenneth A. Ohler of Decatur were born to the union. Surviving besides the widow I and three sons are two brothers and three sisters: Phillip of Rising Sun. Ohio; Henry of Elsie. Michigan; Mary Plantz. Margaret Roop and Amanda Yoder of Rising Sun. Ohio. Two sisters are deceased. Funeral services will be held Monday afternoon at 1:30 o'clock at the home, seven and one-half miles northeast of Decatur, and at 2 o'clock at the Bast Liberty P. li. Church The Rev Chaplin will officiate and burial will be, made in the I. O. O. F. cemetery at Monroeville.

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iw—tn ' ■ A general view of tlie Rosenbaum grain elevator fire in Chicago Thursday night, where 1.630,000 bushels of grain were housed. The loss was estimated by company officials to lie at least sl.ooo.mm. The fire was fouglit witli the merellly at 7 below zero.

AUDITOR MAKES DISTRIBUTION Semi-Annual Distribution Os School Funds Made By Auditor County Auditor (Hen Cowan loday made the semi-annual distribution of the common school fund and tlie congressional school fund interest to the townships aiid school boards in the county. The total distribution amounteil Io $10,153.82. of which $9,597.81, was commo,! school fund and $555.98, congressional school fund interest. The distribut'oti is made on the number of children of school age in the county. Adame county is credited witli 6,074 chil-l dren of school age and the apportionment was figured at $1.671636 per capita. The following amounts were reee ved by the school units: Blu.i Creek. $436 30: French. $196.78. Hartford. $436.30; Jefferson. $394.51; Kirkland. $521.55: Mon roe. $1046.44: Preble, $518.21; Hoot. $546.62; 'St. Marys. $434.62: Union. $474.74; Wabash. $755..->8; Berne, $814.09: Decatur. $2,228.29. The county received less money than was paid in to the state. In j the common school fund. $11.344.30 : plus $3,216.56, a total ot' $14,560.86 was paid in and Hie county re c.eived only $9,597.84 The con-' gressional school fund interest is! not sent to the state and all of' the interest on the fund is dis tributed among local units. Tin- common school fund, im which $3,216.56 wad received in ; interest for the past six month;, amounts to $105,276.00. The con-; gressional school fund amounts | to $18,522.87.

States Collect Millions Os Dollars In Competition With Federal Taxes

(Copyright 19'13 by United Press) ; Washington, Feb 11. — (U.R> — States are collecting millions of dollars in competition wi'h fetter-' al tax agents, according to figures compiled by various United Press j bureaus throughout the country to-, day. These duplications, which run' heaviest in gasoline, tobacco, income and inheritance taxes, are to be discussed at the conference of- - caJled by President-elect Roosevelt to be held at the White House March 6. Some state legislatures are considering new taxes, many of which would compete with federal taxes already being collected. In these times both Washington and every state are grasping a- each hopeful source for revenue to check the mounting deficits which are running up all public debts at a rapid rate. An investigation ordered by con-1 ;gress has disclosed ,326 duplica'tionii, cases in which federal and] state tax collectors are scrambling

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Legion Meeting Adams post number 43 of the American Legion will hi 1! fit; regular meeting at the Legion hall it 18 o'clock Munday r ight. An mem ibers are urgently requested to be present. A district Legion meeting will be held at Van Wert. Ohio. Sunday. I The Ohio state commander will lie the principal speaker. A utimher. yf /Decatur legionnaires are planning ■to attend the meeting OPEN HEARING ON SACRIFICE Kentucky Mountaineer to Be Arraigned Today on Murder Charge Inez. Ky.. Feb. 11 (U.R) Monti- , tain folk poured into this village today to hear "the law" begin its reckoning with John Mills. 36, and eight members of his strange t mountain religious c ult, who are ; held In c onnection witli the killi ing of Mills' mother as a religions , sacrifice. Mills, glassy eyed and mutter- : ing in what his disciples call "the i tongue," was on his knees in ills cell as the hour grew near for his ' arraignment on a charge of mnri der. He was praying to "the ! spirit" to fulfill its promise and ’ bring his mother back to life, I "born anew, without sin." Mills was the only one of the nine charged with niurdei. Tile otliers, all but one either cliildr-'ti or wives or husbands of children ;of Hie dead woman, wen* ehargocl us accessories. Counsel for Mill;, I appointed by the state, planned to j enter a plea of temporary insanc’c.ntini'El - iin peue i-ni'i-

|Io get their hands into -the same 'taxpayer's pocket President-elect Roosevelt hopes Ito segregate the pickings from the taxpayers by sending the federal ‘government into one pocket and ! the states into another. He hopes, | insofar as possible, not only to win ‘the cooperation ot' governors in reducing irritation among taxpayers but the inequalities and injurious overloading of good revenue producers. With the one-cent federal gasoline tax put into effect last summer there is duplication In almost every state. Reports from United Press bur|eaus in Important state capitals re ‘vealed some of the more important instances of duplication as follows Alabama —Tobacco and gasoline taxes. ; Indiana — Four-cent gasoline tax | yielding $17,178,000 last year; inherltance -tax graduated up to 20 percent yielding $2,090,000; sales. Ilnconic and tobacco tax bills penciling in legislature. ' ’continued on"page ’two"*

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REVENUE BILLS WILL BE ACTED ON NEXT WEEK Administration Revenue Raising Measures To Receive Attention ONLY THREE WEEKS LEFT OF SESSION Indianapolis, Feb. 11. (U.R) Action on administration revenue raising bills will start in the Indiana [general assembly next week. Attention then will be turned to the sales and income tax bills pending in the house of representatives ways and means committee. Anlother administration revenue bill, that setting up a new method for taxing intangibles, will lie intro-' dticed early In (lie week. Although the past week was the most active and productive of tlie session, it may he overshadowed by next week. Tlie assembly's next five days will see final action on oilier remaining administration ’bills. Both tlie senate and house ! today were adjourned until Monday. With tlie $22,000,000 budget bill definitely on its way toward passage. Gov. Paul V. McNutt and ids consultants now know Hie amount needed lor operation of tlie state government for f>ach of the next two years. Thus, they can cause tlie revenue bills to lie moved. The budget bill is ready for second leading in the lower house and may be sent to the senate Monday or Tuesday. Hopes of finding revenue sources to replace tlie state 15 cent property tax levy and leave enough for tile state to share school costs locally are held hy administration leaders. Tlie sales and income tax measures probably will d*ie in committee since substitutes for them as they stand now are almost eetia tt to be introduced by Democratic leaders. M ist favored of the substitutes offered is that placing a, tin I 1 per cent lax on personal and business gross incomes after exemption for the first SI,OOO. it would replace both the sales and income tax bills, and its use appears certain. Sime only three weeks remain of the til-day session, all remaining major administration lulls must be well on their w.ty toward enactment next week to prevent a lastminute jam. The speed of action is accelerated by wishes of house and senate leaders to end the session before tlie March 4 inauguration of President-elect Roosevelt so Indiana Democratic leaders may it tend. Tiie assembly's 61 days will end March 6. Administration bills either signed or ready for signature include that reorganizing the state government, the one reducing county officials' salaries and that reorganizing the state highway commission. The last two eligible for signature yesterday, were not signed because they could not lie put in form for tlie house speaker’s and lieutenant governor's signatures to rciN'i-iN-mn <in’ "»rtg thiiftr GREENFIELD MAN RECOMMENDED Omer Jackson, Greenfield Attorney, Slated For U. S. Marshal Indianapolis, Feb. 11 (UP) — Selection of Omer Jackson. Greenfield attorney, as his choice for appointment as U. S. Marshal for the southern district of Indiana, was announced today by Senator-elect Frederick Van Nuys. Van Nuys said he will recommend Jackson's appointment to President-elect Franklin D. Roosevelt soon after his inauguration March 4. if appointed. J ickson will succeed Alt O. Meloy, incumbent Republican Marshal. Although Meloy's term runs until 1935. lie is expected to resign, it was said. Southern district headquarters uro in Indiana polls. Jackson is 11th Democratic chairman. His selection wa < upproved by R. Earl Peters of Fort Wayne, state Democratic chairman, and Thomas D. Taggart, Jr., National committemam

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« — ♦ SETS DEADLINE Indianapolis. Feb. 11. —(U.R) j After midnight Feb. 15. use of ! 1932 automobile license pluteu-| j will be Illegal. That deadline on last year's j plates was announced today j by James W. Carpenter, stale | auto license commissioner. He said slate and local police authorities after that time will be authorized to make arrests | for use of tlie old licenses. By | state law, Feb. 1 is the date for | use of new plates but t arpen- i ter granted the 15-day extension after first announcing an - indefinite extension. NEW COLD WAVE IS HEADED HERE Chicago Weather Bureau Predicts Sub-Zero Weather By Night Chicago Feb. 11 (UP)— First effects of a new cold wave adv Hieing from the North reached Chicago shortly after sunrise today. In a few hours tlie mercury vlunijied from 14 to 5 degrees. The U. S. weather bureau reported the temperature was continuing to tall and probably would revu-h five below by tonight. Chicago, Fell. 11 —(UP) —A new cold wave swept down from northern Canada toward the middle west today as tlie Nation barely recovered from tlie worst blizzard in 34 years. South winds that brought relief from temperatures ranging downward to 50 degrees below zero shifted to the northwest. The local United States weather bureau predicted i the mercury would drop t-o 10 below by tomorrow. Reports from northern states said ■ the new storm was "the worst in years.” temper nitres dropped in a few hours to low levels of a lew days ago. Central states, which suffered the heaviest toll in tlie 150 casualties of the first storm, will near tlie brunt of tlie new frigid spell, the ' weather buretu said. Another heavy snowfall will accompany tlie storm, predictions said. Temperatures in St. Piul dropped CONTINUED ON PAGE FOUR GOVERNOR SIGNS CONTRACT BILL McNutt Signs “Anti-Yel-low Dog” Contract Measure Late Friday Indianapolis. Feb. 11 U.R)—The ‘anti-yellow dog" contract bill passed by both houses of the Indiana legislature was signed late yesterday by Got. Paul V. McNutt. It prohibits contracts by which employes agree not tn join lahar organizations. Tlie act also prevents Indiana courts from issuing injunctions in labor disputes except in cases where threats or instance of unlawful acts is proven in court. Snell injunctions as those preventing strikes, employes from joining unions, collective bargaining or assembling by employes are prohibited. T. N. Taylor, president. Adolnh Fritz, secretary, and other officials of the Indiana state federation of labor watched McNutt sign the bill. Oppose Bill Bloomington. Ind., Feb. 11 —(U.R) — Indiana University students don't like the bill introduced in the Indiana house of representatives prohibiting hitch-hiking. ' ll is comparatively easy for a CONTINtIEn ON PAGE FGTTR 0 Missionary To Speak Miss Nell Breen, a returned missionary from British West Africa, will speak at a mission try meeting at the Mt. Pleasant Church Thursday night. February 16. at 7:30 o'clock. Miss Breen's home is in Holland, Michigan. T e missionary ijieeting will lie open to the public. The missionary will tell ot her expei ieuces atnoi.g the natives. She will speak at Pleai»ant Valley church Friday evening.

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BLAST CLAIMS MANY LIVES IN GERMANY TODAY Gas Tank Blast Lays City’s Industrial Section in Ruins DEATH TOLL MAY GO OVER 170 Neunkirchen, Germany. Feb. 11 (URi The industrial section of Neunkirchen was in ruins today alter the explosion of a gas tank that crushed buildings like cardboard. obliterated an iron works anti a benzol plant, ' hurled bodies and debris through the air for hundreds of feet, and was fell 150 mile awav. Police, firemen, soldiers, and volunteer rescue workers had recovered 61 bodies from the ruins early today. Police estimated tliat the deatli 101 l would reach at least 170. witli 1.000 -injured. Two hundred and eighty surviv- . ors were taken to hospitals in I serious conditions. Seven persons were killed by - ' tin- stones, pieces of steel, wood. : glass, and miscellaneous parts of i buildings hurled ovm the town. Tlie top of the gas tank was found half a mile away on a railroid ' track. The top was about 10) ■ feet in diameter. t The blast left remaining only - the chassis of a street car which I was passing the iron works and benzol plant when tlie explosion f happened. The tank supplied tlie entire ■ district with gas. An adjacent settlement of workI mens' houses was flattened, trail- " ping women and children. ‘ second explosion followed 1 the first blast. 1 Emergency hospitals and first i aid stations were set up aft T •’ the regular hospitals were filled. Medical supplies were command- ' eered and urgent appeals sent to « nearby cities for doctors and ’ nurses. Many residents of the disiri<t fled for several miles into the country. f Five hundred men were known to have lieen working in various ' plants near the gas tank. Poli-e estimated that most of today would be reipiired to make an accurate check of the dead. "I saw ten houses knocked flat simultaneously by the explosion.” an injured survivor told th 1 United Press. "In one slri-et, , every house was wrecked. Inhabitants of alt parts of the city fled from tlieii homes, believiat* , at first that a serious earthquake had followed iceent minor eattli shocks here. "Many women and children were trampled in the stamped n , Thousands of windows were shattered. and chimney pots tumbled into tlie streets. I saw doctors , performing operations in tint streets, and priests administering tlie last sacrument to tlie dying.” JAMES COX MAY BE APPOINTED Reports Intimate Ohio Democrat May Be Named German Ambassador Miami. Fla.. Feb. 11 (UP) — President-elect Roosevelt wijl appoint James M Cox to the increas--1 ingly important embassy it Berlin, it was reported reliably here today. Reports that Cox would become amb'issidor to Germany followed a conference here of the 1921) Pre--1 sidential candidate with Democratic National Chairman James A. Far- | ley. Robert Dunham of Chicago had been mentioned as a candidate for the gertn'an amliassadoi-bhip, lint now he is believed to be the choice for assistant secretary of the trea- . sury. Mt. Roosevelt’s ropresentativxyv j here were unable to verify reports . tbit President-elect now fishing in > tlie Bahamas, would stop at Har ina ! and Mi mi before ending his cruise at Jacksonville Wednesday. , When he left J icksonville aboard r the yaclrt Nourmahal, Mr. Roose- , velt raid he did not expect to stop at any port before his return. UONILhiUJUD GW PAUgi 'iwii”