Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 31, Number 40, Decatur, Adams County, 16 February 1933 — Page 1

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fifIETE PLAN iNfILDMASS WING HERE J® U r Meichant" Make fMalPlan' \» Enthus’rWiastic Meeting fir COMMITTEES 4 BaRRAM’EMF.NTS ■ev:. ---' :■'••••■ in V r -.i.iiai.'- v. ;t~ held eVeiling at the (ernnierce rooms u^Ki. ; ere i onipleted tor "'• ! armors ami t<< ! >' . m> idenl to liet'igi Klick, Wild -4B ■ i,r of (V i illi-J pre-r'.. I”' 1 ' s, ' s ' , m-mled 5^8.,..... *. ■•• ' an,oil I I<» k .. uii.l ’.oiium. V.' V> M 'Wil relative t> ;'.r I'pera - in* the plat; K >..•■ „!> bloill-s d-ZHld tile llU’CLillg and parking . ■ gaiherit g today. IBj. sjX"| Appleu m f. -. that extra . • •„ i ,i>-d for .1 vs.. • ommittee B* Vc II lined > Iliff « sk. care of. ji Nlbiu k. .1 composed ’ I. Bernstein. K..ei:i:i.-- .1 Voglewi de. s. Kit soli. »as ilia' firm have at More ?■•■■■ it.line .it 11.e ‘ ’ ted to |Hd- io. . m■n ’ - . i K. :■■• 'l.im-'d ehuil Mot- ■ •■uni..- to get in tom !i |jr-ar:- •■!.! rn.-n Kil .dine .|| I ~t ||,.T -. ■w-.-.i , . .at territoi y. : the Brid y me.d KI-:;-: offered to haiMbit and time .if the meeting Mkast over WOWO at noon toME 5...,1,., ..,] M ,|| )H| .j J,,,,. Motel- lo.al plant attended the and announced that Mr. oy pace VAvf ■GET BILL IS IST TO SENATE Mt Budget Measure Was ■wd Bv House Late I Wednesday MW*Poh:i, I -1,. 16. (U P) ■ budget hili. p . Bged by the M Ute yesterday tinder stts■*J ®f the rules, wu» sent to ■•Me today where it may be Mu this week. Moptlation of 122.05X.223 for ■•utes next biennium is pro- ■ by Uie bm which is being ■ administration leaders ■Wtte I, $127,057 higher than B ’ original recommendation M Mate budget committee. M house added $35,057 and in one reduction of |lo,ooo, LT lncrf, nse being $25,057. The . otents were made by the Mting as a committee of the lat<ir the lxx * y P assei l IBS' ' lO *’ Remsintter of the * ' increase was made up the *a>s and means committee 11 reported the bill to the 0 last week. " rtlfn "ndor budget figures Udi' current biennium now wnu’ The new bud- “ become effective Oct. 1. Pal additions made to the Ihcr 1P *' ollae y ps torday were „ w,e the salary of Lieutenji'n? 01- M. Clifford Townsend an,.' 80 to f 6 -000 annually and Mroprlate SIO,OOO for corn •hr ad ' Former lieutenanthave been in active work on page f'lVE)'

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McNutt To Broadcast 1 Governor Paul V. McNutt will 1 speak over an all Indiana radio! hookup from 3:30 to 4 o'clock Sun ! day afternoon on a program arrang j 1 ed by the department of Indiana. ' American Legion. The speech will I be broadcast over stations WOWO. Fort Wayne. WFBM. Indianapolis, and WGBF. Evansville. - Local legion officials announced i that the legion hall here will be | open at 3 p. m. Sunday and any I legionnaires wishing to hear tho I program may tune in at the hall. , LOCAL PEOPLE | ■ TO ATTEND MEET II Number of Decatur People Will Attend Boy Scout Meeting i ’ More than 20 Decatur people are planning to attend the a..nnal meeting of the Anthony Wayne Area Council of the Boy Scout- at Fort Wayne next Saturday night. . A dinner and program will be held at North Side high school a..d , scout leaders and others interested , in scouting will attend. The public is invited. Charles Howard Mills, activities , director of the St Louis Boy Scouts I will be the principal speaker at the , | meeting. He will discuss. ■ Scouting, .land (Today's Emergencies". Mr. Mills has had 23 years experience in scouting. It is exiiected that al least 200 scout leaders from the Fort Wayne 1 jarea will attend the meeting. The 1 dinner will be served in the school cafeteria at 6:15 o'clock and the program will begin at 7:30 o'clock. ' Among those who are going from here age the scout master I’. Bryce Thomas. C.tT Pumphrey and others. DELEGATION TO ! GO TO MEETING I Decatur Men Will Attend t Special Meeting Os Highway Group ' - At a meeting of local memlrers s of the Chamber of Commerce, it ' i was decided to send a delegation to I • Ottawa. Ohio, Tuesday, FebrAry! s 2S, to attend a special meeting of' ? the Ohio Benjamin Franklin High-1 -way association which will be held j at the DuMont hotel at 11 A. M The - meeting has been called at the ree quest of the required number of of- -. ficers and members and it is report- ■ ied that at this time, effort will be made to reinstate the old route for the highway. At a meeting held a month ago. a resolution changing the route so as I , to miss Van Wert. Decatur, Hunt-1 , ington, Wabash and Peru a: d run , through Fort Wayne, was adopted. lOf course when that fact became known there were many objections g from those towns ami cities whi. h have worked for the road the past 12 years and were eliminated The matter is important because in June the route designated us the Fr.nl e lin highway is to be made a U. S. e road, carrying the same number i- entirely through the I'nited States. " Janies Elberson, president of the p Decatur Chamber of Commerce, announced last evening that he will r urge that several cars of interested boosters attend the Otawa meeting '- and will also see that others get hi ' touch with the Indiana commission. n presenting to them the real tacts h , , , - . . ...... CONTINUED ON PAGE THIIEJE 1 O Slow Investigation e e Denver, Feb. 16 —(UP)—lnvest!d gation of the kidnaping of Charles e Boettcher 2nd, wealth young Dene | ver broker who is held for $66,000 e ransom, was retarded here late e yesterday when Mrs. Boettcher failed definitely to identify a reputed s alcohol runner as one of the men v who abducted he husband Sunday I- night. o — p Dance Tuesday e '•| A dance will be given in the Elk's kllome. Tuesday night, February 21, J for Elk members only. Music will ” be furnished by the Royal Collegers [ 'ithe same orchestra that played at k 4he last Elk lines. Dancing will ’ (Start at 9 o'clock.

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WETS WITHDRAW OPPOSITION TO BEER MEASURES Hundreds of Fanners Protest Additional Property Taxes i GOVERNOR SIGNS HKJIIWAY BILL! Indianapolis, Feb. lt> <U.R)j Administration leaders i scored another victory in the Indiana legislature today i with announcement that extreme “wet" I) e mo e rats j would withdraw their opposition to the beer control ' bi I. Both houses pul in an active mornims and renresentalives agreed to hold their second night session starting at 7 pin. Fifty-nine bills will be considered on third reading Hundreds of farmers here for a meeting to protest additional property taxes jammed the stat»house corridors and legislative chambers. Their presence prompted Gov. Paul V. McNutt to announce that five or six administration revenue raising bills would be introduced 'n the house early next week. Opponents Os the beer hill, mostly representatives from the larger cities, said they would drop llieit fight for draught beer it five cents a glass. Their action practically assured passage of the measure when it comes out of the senate committee on public policy. The senate passed nine house bills this morning One of the n ost important would abolish th - * offices of < ity treasurer In TT.ini-" round. Whiting, East Chicago and Gary, placing their duties in th ■ hands ol the Luke county treasnr-1 I er. Gov. McNutt signed an adminis- j •ration bill alwlishing the offices] of county highway superintendents. Their duties will be taken | over by county highway surveyors unless commissioners wish to | rehiie their superintendents and] give them the title of “snper——e CONTINUED ON PAGE FIVE O Extinguish Fire [ T. e local fire dep rtment made a i run to the Bryce Roop residence, ] 330 North Tenth street. Wednesdaynight, shortly before six o'clock ! where a small roof fire was quickly extinguished .Sparks from the chimney caused the -mall fire and no damage was. reported. FORGE VOTE ON REPEAL TODAY Senate Scheduled to Vote On Repeal Resolution Late Today Washington. Reb. 16—(UP) —The senate today voted to -e---peal the 18th amendment. The issue now goes to the house where speaker Garner is planning to bring it to a test Monday mrists he has suffi cient votes for passage. The vote was 63 to ZZ. A two-thirds vote is required for submission of a conatitut tional amendment to the states. Washington, Feb. 16 il'Fl—lA. victorious "Wet" onslaught last night bowled over senite “drys" to force a vote at 3 p. m. today on the revised Blaine eighteenth amendment repeal resolution which more nearly •conforms with the Democratic platform. Victory for the Democrats and the "wets" came suddenly The prohibition defense crumbled completely. their leader agreeing to a final vote today after finding their fight .against it in vain. Democrats, under the guidance of their leader. Sen. Joseph T. Robinson. struck from the Blaine resolution the provision giving congress power to ban the saloon and voted to make ratification by state conventions Instead of legislatures. The powerful Robinson assumed leadership last night drove his Democrats Into line and their wet ad-1 ON PAGE FIVE

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Decatur, Indiana, Thursday, February 16, 1933.

Target of Bullets I 1 ■ - ■■ | * £fiM I W v '- President-elect Franklin D. Roosevelt narrowly escaped death from the gun of a would-be assassin at Miami. Florida, las', night. '1 he millets apparently intended for Mr. Roosevelt critically wounded Anton J t'ermak. mayor of Chicago, and also wounded five other persons. The assailant was immediately captured by police.

MOOSE WOMEN j TO GIVE PLAY George Washington Program Will Be Presented February 22 The Women of the Moose will : present a George Washington pro I gram Wednesday evening, February 22, in the Moose auditorium 01 North Second street. The public is cordially invited to attend. Tiie program will include musical selections, and the presentation of a one act pity, "Mother and Son." ; The play takes place six days after j the death of George Washington s father. The George Washington program is sponsored by the library committee of the lodge, with Mrs. Lula Shaffer and Mrs. Ira Lehman in j charge. Following is the complete program: America —audience. “Rock-A-Bye-Moon— Miccie Lee. I Memories —by a group. The play. "Mother and Son." by | the following characters: Mary Ball Washington—Florence! Noll. Jasper, a negro servant —Sol Lord Mrs. Littleton, a neighbor bora Cook. * Betty Washington. sister so George Vivian Noll. Silly, a young negress- Ruby Miller. Samuel Washington, brother to George—Charles Cook. George Washington — George Heate. Jessie, a negro nurse—Laura I.ee John Washington, brother to George—ißuster i.ee. Charles Washington, brother to George—Donie Eicher. Father of the Land we Love -by a group The Meatiest Man in Town Miccie I.ee. That Little Boy of Mine —group. Pianist —Miss Dorothy Haley. Ruling Favors Dale Muncie. Feb. 16.—(U.R)—The Mun-1 cie city council lost its flight to oust Mayor George R. Dale today under a ruling by Judge John S. Lairy of Logansport, sitting as a special judge appointed by Gov. McNutt. Lairy held the council had no right to remove Dale without bringing impeachment proceed lugs. Dale’s office was declared vacant by the city council last September following his conviction in federal court on charges of conspiracy to! violate the prohibition laws.

Exhibit Opens The public is urged to attend the [exhibit of 150 fine art masterpieces < which will be displayed in the building formerly occupied by the Beavers and Fryback store, by the irt pupils of the Decatur high school, tonight and Friday night. February 16 and 17. An admission of 10 cents will be charged, the proceeds to l.e med for the benefit of the public school picture fund. The public, by attending. will help the boys and girls <c cure pM-tifres Jor their school rooms. i The exhibition will be shown from 4 to 5:30 o'clock in the afteri noons and from 7 to 9:30 at nights : The display will include reproductions front the French, Italian. I Flemish. English. Dutch, Spanish. [Germ n and American Schools. Miss Kathryn Kauffman, teacher of art in tile public schools, lias charge [of the arranging of the pictures in ithe exhibit. ALLOW APPEAL : WITHOUT BONO House Passes Measure Aiding Counties To Appeal Court Rulings Indian ipolis. Feb. 16 -liT) A senate bill allowing counties to appeal adverse court rulings without supplying bonds passed the house 84 to 0 under suspension of rules today. It was sent to Gov. Paul V. McNutt. He is expected to sign it soon. Representative Frank G. Thompson, D.. of Bluffton, explained that enictmeit of the bill was needed before Saturday to allow Adams County commissioners to appeal the Wabash River dredge suit without expense of providing high bond. The bill applies to all counties but in the case of Adams County is an emergency measure. The project calls for dredging of the Wabash River from a point in Ohio to Adams County. Total beneI fits assessed by tiie ruling are $176.000. o Firm In Receivership Toledo. Feb. 16. —(U.R)— The Willys-Overland company, one of the country’s largest manufacture ers of automobiles for a quarter! of a century, was placed in receivership late Wednesday by Federal Judge George P. Hahn who appointed as receivers John N. Willys, chairman of the board, and L. jA. Miller, president.

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SUGARFACTORY i NAME SELECTED Decatur Company Will Be Known As Central Sugar Company, Inc. The Decatur sugar factory will operate under the name of tlie Central Sugar Company. Inc., and incorporation papers will probably be filed in Indiana, L. E. Snyder, general superintendent in charge of opening the local mill slated to day. All financial details pertaining to the purchase of the local plant are being handled through Dale W. McMillen's office in Chicago. Mr. McMillen, who is president of Allied Mills, is the principal owner of the local factory and Mr Snyder is associated with him. In addition to paying for the bonds on the local plant, the news owners also assume the indebtedness due beet growers from the 1930 campaign, taxes and court, costs, following the receivership proceedings instituted against the old Holland-St. Louis Sugar company. The amount involved was not divulged. A trade or brand name for the sugar will lie selected sometime during the next few months and i sugar made at the local mill will j be marketed under an individanl brand. Word was received today that Mr , McMillen will arrive here early Fri(day morning. He will be accompanieil by his son. Harold McMillen and Ferd Christen, advertising director in the Fort Wayne office of Allied Mills. The meeting of farmers and beet | (CONTINUED ON PAGE SIX) LIST PROGRAM FOR CONFERENCE Announce Program For Annual Methodist Church Meeting Here The program lor the annual meet-1 ing of the Fort Wayne district of| the Methodist Episcopal church to be held at Decatur. February 271 and 2S. was announced today. Bishop Edwin F Lee, the Metho-: i dist missionary bishop of Malaya land the Philippines, will be one of] I the principal sneakers at the meet-, ing The entire program is as follows: I February 27 r.Ofr-i-Examlnations: Candidates for license to preach: local preach-1 ers in course of study; candidates] for reception trial, for orders and] recognition of orders. 2:00 —Devotional period: “I Am the Way.” Rev. James C. Bean. ] Fort Wayne. 2:36—Organization; appointment of committees; filling reports. 2:40 —“The Merged Church Service," Rev. Benjamin Kendall. Pern; discussion. 3:10 —Oral reports’ Pastors — I number of days spent in special evangelism, number of conversions, new members received, iio reuse or !decrease, advocates, world service, conference Iwnevolences, what is the outlook'’ District stewart —] what are being used to meet the ministerial claims in full'’ What is the outlook'’ 3:so—Song service, led by Mr. cnNTiNtmn PAGW FIVE —o Children Free All school children will be ad- j milted free to t! e Circus and Carnival for the remainder of the week, : members of the Decatur Emergency relief Association, an ounced tod y. The circus will be held Thursday. Friday and Saturday nights in the | Bowers building on East Monroe | street. The Swiss hand from Berne will appear on the program for tonight’s circus. Interesting entertainment has been a feature of each night's performance this week. Last night Boh White's orchestra played a number of musical selections. Various organizations con-] duct booths in the building, and the proceeds from the admission and the booths will be used to feed the | unemployed of this city during the: remainder of the winter months. Admission tonight will be ten •cents for adults plus a can of corn. iThe children will be admitted tree. 'The public is urged to attend.

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PRESIDENT ■ ELECT FIRED ON AT MIAMI, FLORIDA Anton .1. Cermak. Mayor of Chicago, Is Seriously Wounded by New York Gunman; Is Reported Resting Fairly Well This Afternoon But ( ondition still Critical; Standing on Running Board Os Auto When Wounded. Miami, Fla. Feb. 16. — (U.R) — President-elect Franklin D. Roosevelt, saved from an assassin’s bullet by the heroism of a woman, departed for New York today leaving behind him dangerously wounded his friend. Mayor Anton Cermak of Chi cago. Mayor Cermak was “resting more at 2:15 p. m. today than at any time since he was shot last night, the United Press was advised at Jackson Memorial Hospital. He remained in a serious condition, however, it was said. Surgeons have not operated to remove the bullet which wounded him. Miami, Fla.. Feb. 1G. —W.R)—An attempt was made last night to assassinate President-eFect Franklin D. Roosevelt. Mayor Anton J. Cermak of Chicago was critically wounded, i and four other persons were hit. but Mr. Roosevelt himself escaped injury. , , . . Mayor Cermak, potent enemy ot gangland in < Incago and hailed as the man who turned the tide of battle against crime in that city, was fighting for his life today. Physicians gave him an even chance to recover. The others wounded were: Mrs. Joseph Gill, wife of a Florida utility magnate. Her

•’** ■ ’•■’-I’** _£_2 GUNMAN TELLS HIS OWN STORY Guiseppe Zangara, Attempted Murderer. Tells Story To Police —— Miami, Fla.. Fob. 16 — (UP) — Guiseppe Zangara. tiie ?>3 year old bricklayer who shot at the Presi-dent-elect. told this story of his crime, police said: "1 have hated presidents and kings since I was a boy. i have always hated the rich and powerful. ‘‘l have a sore stomach, too. a:nd (that has made me hate. 1 "When 4 read in the Miami news- | papers that Roosevelt w • coming Ito Miami. I bought with eight dollars a gun with which to kill him. I "I got to the scene early, but the crowd was too big for me to get [near tile platform. [ “I meant to shoot him while he [was talking, but the crowd was in [tiie way and 1 am a short man. [ I have always. listed the rich and powerful I hoped that I would I have better luck this time than I | did in years ago in Italy when I [bought a pistol to kill King Victor [Emmanuel. The same thing blocked (me in Italy as blocked me here. [There was too big a crowd. ' I guess I tried to kill Roosevelt CONTINUED ON PAGE FlVg” BANKS REOPEN IN MICHIGAN Detroit Banks Make $25,000.000 Available To Depositors Detroit, Fob. 16 -(U.R) —A swelling stream of cash, life blood of Michigan’s industry and commerce, was ready today to pour from tiie state’s banks closed temporarily by Gov. William A. Comstock's extraordinary eiglitday holiday proclamation. Business as usual or almost as usual was expected to be general | throughout the state. Detroit banks made $25,000,000 available to depositors and were prepared to continue nearly all normal , banking functions witli the exception of free deposit and withdrawal of money. Virtually every bank in the state was expected to open today for tiansaction of at least a limited amount of business. Large motor concerns, the backbone of Michigan industry, were passing out their pay rolls in cash or arranging to cash pay checks. Heavy gold and cash shipments pour'd into the state. Ready Cash in Sight Some bankers expressed tiie opinion that more ready casli than since the flood time of prosperity would soon be passing across the counters of grocery stores, meat markets and other establishments in the normal course of business. The crisis was generally relievCONTINUED On’paGE FIVE* ’

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I condition was critical. Miss Margaret Cruise, Newark. N. J., slightly wounded. William Sinnott. New York detective, wounded in head. Russell Caldwell. 5, slightly [hurt. The President-elect escaped [injury by the narrowest of . margins. The assailant was a (crazed Italian bricklayer from [Hackensack, N. J. He rose in a •crowd of thousands which had turnled out to welcome the President- ■ [elect from a vacation trip and spatl|tered bullets around the Roosevelt -1 automobile. ; i The assailant, Guiscppi Zangara, 1 33. and his roommate. Andra VaiI enti. were held safely by police as- . ter aroused Floridians had threat- .! ened violence. I Mr. Roosevelt arrived here aboard Vincent Astor’s yacht, Nour- ■ mahal, at 7 p. m. yesterday after : a ten-day cruise of southern waters, resting in preparation for the ardors of the presidency. Jovial, tan- • tied, appearing fit in every way. lie received news papermen to discuss his trip, and conferred briefly with , intimate advisers. Then he left tiie yacht to accept the formal welcome of Miami officials and to drive in a motor parade to Bay Front Park, at the end ■ of Flagler street, the principal business thoroughfare of the city. A crowd of thousands waited there. As he concluded and the crowd broke into cheers, Mr. Roosevelt leaned over and shook hands with Mayor Cermak. who was standing on the running board of the car. Then the President-elect sat down abruptly—and at that moment six shots were fired. Events happened faster than Hie I eye could record. From stories ot witnesses pieced together later, it I appeared that just as Mr. Roos.* velt concluded speaking. Zangara, who had been standing, stopped, ■ some 35 feet from Mr. Roosevelt's car. suddenly straightened and pulled a pistol from his pocket. Mrs. M. J. Cross of Miami, standing next to him. saw the gun and ’ tried to grasp it. Zangara stood 1 upon a chair, Mrs. Cross leaped for his gun hand. Zangara fired. Mayor Cermak fell to his knees, ' A secret service man leaped to pro- ■ tect Mr. Roosevelt. The driver of the car, his presence ot mind unshaken, slipped the machine into ' gear and almost before the crowd realized what was happening, started away. ’! Mr. Roosevelt waved his hand lo show ho was unhurt He seemed ca'm. He did not then know that anyone had Iwen injured. Detectives and secret service 3 men leaped upon Zangara as he r stood with the still-hot gun in his j hand. The crowd surged around. There were cries of “ivnch him.” I e rnNTTNT’Fn nv paqf! hvr t o Funeral Friday ,■ 1 Funeral services for Mrs. Elizabeth B. Murphy, 46. of Dayton. Ohio, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. John W. Murphy of this city, who died at 1 her home Tuesday morning, will ’’ he held at 9 o’clock Friday morning at the St. Marys Catholic church ( in this city. Burial will be made ’ in the St. Joseph cemetery. The body was brought to the parents ■ home in this city Wednesday after- ' i noon.