Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 31, Number 63, Decatur, Adams County, 15 March 1933 — Page 1

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HIRTY ARE KNOWN DEAD IN TORNADO

rst State Bank Reopens Todau Under Class A Ratina

1 Iff BANK ? bus without MOTIONS ■ hi’iiiii \ullmrizing Mpenir.g I> Received "”W This Morning ’■BIF 'M* GENEVA ■S's \|.s() OPEN I'irsl St.ite Bttitk oi '3^K; V (,i» ip <1 10l business .i slate |><tlilillllles before to for ui'iici aI banking Iniiie classified tts bank. ■ d:iss .V banks are ■Milled I" n|ieiale without except on 0111-01-low ll checks. ip..i iif lib* local rli.it no restin' pL)<' ’I checkin lr wn>o!rai' on certil'i- . ilc|>osiior> nil .Im Usual regu The b."’k ""'si comply ■Mhs resen li-nis governing of nnl-nf to" n checks. Preble Bank Open -■ Farm- rs 'i.ii< Bank at s also re, el veil a permit to ■ias n A" bank and i iff b.n k -iiod busfiie »:t!eiu restrictions on ntwsjgc received by the ■ft'.-it- li.i'o. ."id t lie r’.irtnei s reads. classified as an “A" iwei Mail'll 15. for all pm poses except as pi o- !■ ■ ."."dalinns number ■»» in 'lie Win acceptance ■rtHsifhation and request at (icce." requests for the stat" were forwarded to the (kpiioi .nt ibis mornitv.t banks. the Fit; t Sta'e Bank and i'.v !■.■<■ ii tions up to the ■ Psoi-y Ibiieevi'tt ordered '-.ma holiday, offeci. ‘ .... resumed busi ■ uxln ,ii ill., normal wav an I bv >n.'U’’ <1.».,<(•,>• s The classification two ban.s is the highest state. They were among in the sta'e to receive ■permits |B Money is Deposited the tn dav banking holi■tbe local bank received more ■ IT'i.iuhi >i i a sh from doposi' ■hr win. ' r,.c„ipts wore issued ■Boday these amounts weio to the accounts of tin* ■ and individuals. Entry iri sheets could not be ■ befon l>. cause of the Indi ■ Confident that the lank Mi reonen as soon as the ■ permit was received, deIff their money for siifo to he credited to their Buts later ■ Geneva in Class “A” gy fanli of Geneva received BPNTTS'I'po puop. -rwci Kr ° —■— — WOO COLD hRNED IN HERE r*State Rank Announc--8 Receiots of Coins And Certificates ' e 19'13 gold rush continues and W. March 17. the final d"te by the government for the exS ,n K of gold coins and certifiJ 1 iR expected that the total W’ will be more th* n the entPioiint mined or panned hv the "Piners. I First State Bank in this J-9.200 had been received up n today in gold coins and cer'es ' of which $3900 was in ’ ‘fa request of the governe coins and certificates are r cd to the Federal Reserve ," Chicago to build up the reporve of the United States., coins and certificates are n,L°, ut of hilling and '.ire ex silver courrency, which ' find its way In the regular ““fa of business.

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Dog, Pony Show In I Decatur Saturday I Van's performing dogs and ponies, seven well trained canines and two Shetland ponies, will j,resent a free exhibition here Saturday, March 18, at 2 p. in. in the I business district. This free show is being sponsored by Decatur business men. The act which is . a one rinp circus on a stage, in- ] eludes trained dogs in dancing, high diving feats, drilling, riding, wire walking and aerobatic performing. The educated ponies show real ability in drilling. ' waltzing, bucking and eake wall, ing. Mr. and Mrs. Van an<l their son have appeared In circus and vaudeville- acts throughout the country and are said to have an j act of real merit. START REPAIR WORK ON FARMS I Work On Buildings Dam- < aged By Heavy Storm Is Speeded Vp Work on (he farm buildings destroyed by wind Monday night ( was speeded up today to get the grain in before a rain. Every ' available- shelter is being used and where no buildings were left ’ standing corn fodder is being used 1 for shelter. ‘ Sheriff Hurl Johnson is using ‘ every precaution to prevent looting and to date none has been 1 reported. Many of the fences, * especially of the old rail type, are ' down aaid in some instances the ’ livestock is loose. Sheriff John- ' son made an estimate that thirty- 1 five barns are down and the dam-' I age may run as high as $150,000. 1 A large (M-rcent of the farms * were insured. Investigators from the various insurance agencies ' were at work today, taking care 1 of claims. The damage to the ' Andrew Fuelling properly Is i thought to be the largest not covered by insurance. line of the 1 most fortunate cases was th ■ I slight damage done- to the Houk ' brothels' farm. They had twenty- 1 two head of cattle in a barn which was completely demolished. I The stalls afforded a protection I to all but one cow which was hit on the nose by a falling beam a.id killed. The test were dug out unhurt. The city of Decatur donated a ■truck to the unemployed and about twenty men went out to ] help where needed. They spent most of their time yesterday at the Andrew Fuelling farm. They were not permitted to work at some of the farms before the Insurance investigator examined th- It claim. 1 Herman Ehinger. general man- t ager of the Citizens Telephone t company, sthted today that the I 101 l lines between Decatur and t Fort Wayne will not be open U'r.til | tomorrow night. Long distance r calls are relayed by the way of < I.luffton. 1 Martin J Myloll. superintendent of the city ligh! and power com- I .- - - - - - - - • • i (CONTINUED ON KIC.E THREE) . o Case Under Advisement ■- - \ Washington. M irch 15 —(UP) — J The supreme court took under ad- t visement today |he case of Bishop i James Cannon, Jr., reform leader of i the Methodist Episcopal Church t South, which grew out of his failure t to report contributions to his 1928 1 politk'iJ activity. i 0 8 Bury Shoaf Baby Thursday Afternoon Funei'il services for Rene Lon f Shoaf. 109 North Eighth street, will a be held at the home Thusday 'afternoon at 2 o’clock with Rev. B. H. j Franklin, pastor of the Methodist € Episcopal Church officiating. Bur- f ial will be made in the Decatur cemetery. The baby was born at the Adams county Memorial Hospital shortly 'before ti o’clock Tuesday evening. It was the first child ia the family. I Surviving besides the parents are <1 the grandparents, M- and Mrs. Roy t Steele of Decatur, and Mr. and Mrs. 1 C. W. Shoaf of route 4. Decatur.; Tile body wus taken to the W. H. r 7,wick and Son Funeral home and 1 was removed to the Shoaf home I early this afternoon. it

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ROOSEVELT TO SUBMIT PLANS TO AID RELIEF President Is Expected To Send -Message To Congress Thursday TO GIVE RELIEF TO UNEMPLOYED Washinglmk March 15 (U.PJ — A two-point program calling for the immediate employment of at least 200.(Hit) men in the national forests and experimental farm relief will he submitted to congress scon by President Roosevelt, it was announced at the White House today. Mr. Roosevelt was expected to semi a message to capitol hill to morrow on the unemployment relief feature. He will ask permission to put people to work not only in the national forests bit. also on other government l projects that would not conflict with work now being done. As to farm relief, the White House would not divulge all the terms of the measure now in the process of drafting. It was learned, however, that it would embrace the abandonment of marginal or unproductive farm lands ar.d a sizeable reduction in acreage. The president was represented as feeling that this legislation - termed the "constructive” part of his program —should be enacted without delay. It was stated that he was desirous of having the farm recommendations, for example. adopted in order that they could be put into effect as early as April. Unless the farm recommendation are adopted at the earliest possible moment no real good can result from them until next year, it was explained. Secretary of Agriculture Wallace. aftei a conference with the president said that every effort would Im- made to have the farm hill ready tomorrow. EXHIBITION OF SCOUTING HERE Boy Scout Merit Badge Exhibition Here March 24 And 25 The building formerly occupied by the Beavers ami Fry back store has heen chosen as the Icxaticei for the Boy Scout merit badge exhibition and demonstration w iii-h will be held in this city Friday ■ nd Saturday. M rch 24 and 25. (' C. Pumphrey is general chairman of the event aml Dr. Fred Patterson is chairman of the arrangements committee. The exhibition will open Friday night'it 7 o’clock and continue until It) o'clock. The Salurd y program will be held during the alter ~oon and evening. ■lt is planned that the exposition will make clear the educational activities in which a scout is led to engage for the purpose of e r iing pirllcnlar merit badges. The public is expected to be informed thiough the exposition of the vocational guidance portion of the scout program. .It is expected to prove unsuaully Interesting Io parents of scouts and prospective scouts. The work required to at lain merit lodges is stamp collecting, electricity radio, pioneering, wood working. plumbing, d drying, chemistry, first aid. photography, firemanship and bird study. Merchants interested in the activies of scouts are sponsoring the displiy, and the exhibition will be opened to the public. o Steel At New High New York March 15 — (UP) — United States Steel preferred tod y reached fi7. up 11 points over the close of Maa' h 3 and a new high for the year. United Si tes steel common was quoted at 30. 5-8 up 4 3-8 from the March close. cVtnerlcan Telephone was at 103% up 5 7-8. I

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Decatur, Indiana, Wednesday, March 15, 1933.

The End of Illinois Dry Laws u ’ & A. ’ liiik iHiH. - I ■ I V ff¥‘ Yl ‘ TFWTFWFMBBBHBwiiieMu-i-. . (l;.vet ioi' Henry Horner of Illinois, photographed as he signed the bills repealing the Illinois prohibition and search and seizure laws. At left is his secretary. Arthur P. O'Brien. This action leaves ,'he } federal dry laws as the only curb on rum sales.

REOPEN MANY BANKS TODAY Numerous National And State Banks Authorized To Open Chicago March 15 —(UP) — Reopening of additional banks in mid - I Ameiii" today shared interest with ti e first trading in 10 days on the i Chicago stock and curb exchanges. ; Numerous National and State ) banks outside Chicigo and clearing ' house cities were authorized to ■ open tod> y. In Illi :ois. Edward J. Barrett, state auditor, announced 77 additional banks would be al!awed to reopen under state supervi-1 sion. The Federal reserve bonk in Chi- ! cago authorized reopenings of hund reds of hanks in the middle west. ; Other fedei’il units at Minncap.i lis and St. Louis took similar action , affecting the area. The Chicago boird of trade, where lite world's greatest grain trading pits are located, will resume general buying and selling tomorrow. In the entire history of that excharge, trading never befor had been suspended for 10 day period. Bettered by three years of depressed quotations, brokers on La Salle Street were optimistic at ,he accumulat io 1 of bulli ,h new:, over the b nk holidays. In New York the stock exchange <"OKrivi'Rt> <>v i>»<7i.-'*’.avs* * 1 GLEE CLUBS TO GIVE MINSTREL — Pleasant Mills High School Clubs Will Give Show Friday — A novelty minstrel show,' ' Breeze Inn'' will be presented by the Glee Clubs of the Pleasant Mills high school in the Pleasant Mills auditorium, Friday night, March 17, at 8 o’clock. Forty characters will take part in the minstrel. Lively dances and snappy songs ■ will be features of the musical i presentation. The public is invited to witness this program. The characters are as follows: Interlocutor Elton Archer Dixie Dandy Harold Dolch Black Bird Thomas Halberstadt, Jim Crow Rill Davis Pork Chops Ralph Burke : : Ashestor Fred Edgell Pernicious Lester Workinger| 5 Alexander, negro cook Loren Troutner, ■ “two”*

Zion Lutheran Church Lenten Services Tonight Services will be held tonight at 'the Zion Lutheran Church beginning at 7:30 o’clock, when the third jof a series of six Passion meditations will be offered. These evening i services, which consisted of a re'view of the history of Jesus' Passion, with sermon, prayers. Lenten ! hymns and benediction, have been , well attended this year. Rev. Paul 'Schultz pastor of the church, stated. ; Rev. Schultz will deliver the address tonight. A hearty invitation is again exte ded to the public to attend these Passion medit itiona. BOARD MEMBERS ARE APPOINTED Judge DeVoss Appoints Members To Three Boards Today Huber M. DeVoss, judge of the Adams circuit court. today announced the appointment of members of three different Adams county boards. Members were , appointed to the Decatur library ; board, board of children’s guard mils and board of charities. Samuel Black and Dan Ty tlali were appointed to three year , lei ins on the board of charities. ! Their ernis will begin March 24. 1933. They succeed Cal Peterson land Fred Patterson. John It. Parrish was appointed la member of tin Decatur library board, succeeding Superintendi ..: M. F. Worthmail, who announced j his resignation. Mi. Parrish was I a ipoi ited to a Iwovear term bei ginning March 1. 1933. Mrs. Sarah Krick uml Mrs. Her 'man Ehingei were reappointed to ■ three-year terms on the board of : children's guardians Their new I terms will begin March 24. 1933 The members of the board of i children's guardians are: Mrs. I). !D. Heller, chairman; \V. Guy Brown, secretary: Mrs. W. E. Smith. Mrs Henry Krick. Mrs. Herman Ehi. ger and Otho Lobensteln of Monroe. Mrs. Kirck and Mrs. Ehinger were reappointed. The members of the board of | charities: Mrs. D. D. Heller, presii dent. W. Guv Brown. Samuel Black. Dan Tyndall. Mrs. Fred r-nvs-TX’f-Tsf-i nv nxiiw -sTrnTTF — o Filling Station To Aid Storm Sufferers Ed and Francis Ellsworth, proprietors of the Hi-Way Filling Stallion. announced today that all perIsons suffering losses in Monday night's severe windstorm, the station will donate one dollar's worth of merchandise.

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EXPECT SENATE WILL PASS BEER MEASURE SOON Predict Legalization Os Beer Will Be Completed This Week SENATE MAY MAKE SOME AMENDMENTS Washington. Mar. 15. (U.R) The | senate finance committee today amended the house 3.2 per cent beer bill Io include wine and fruit juices and ordered a favorable report to the senate. "I predict legal beer by April 3,” said Senator Reed, Repn., Pa., as he emerged smiling from the committee room Chairman Harrison said no other provisions of the bill had been changed and that as approved by ! the committee it permitted unrestricted advertising of the legaliz ed beverages as was provided in the house bill. "We may be able to get to the beer hill today after disposing of the economy legislation," Harrison said. Later Chairman Harrison somewhat modified the beer-wine program, explaining that it probably would not come before the senate 'until tomorrow. Senators who sat last night were anxious to adjourn today after disposing of the economy bill and possibly several nominations. The legalized beverages may be placed on sale in states which permit it 15 days after President < Roosevelt signs the bill modifying the Volstead act. Washington. March 15 —(UP) — iCongressional prohibitionists were on the run today as the senate finance committee was called to approve a beer bill asured of early passage. Under the schedule approved by Democratic Senate leaders. President Roosevelt will be able to sign this week the bill modifying the volstead at t to legalize beer. The Brew will go on sale 15 days thereafter in states which permit it. The house will) a whoop ye:,ter day rolled up a t’.lti to 97 majority for unrestrictetl manufacture and sale of 3.2 per cent beer. It was the first time since the beginning of prohibition that house dtys failed to record at leist I t) votes for their cause Chairman H' rrison of the Senate ■ finance committee said he expected to be able to report the bill favorably at noon. Senate majority leader Robinson said the measure would be taken up 's soon Roosevelt economy dictatorship bill is passed. He believed debate probably would begin tomorrow. Senator Borah, Repn, Idaho, may try to put in the new hill a prohibition against sale of beer to mi .- ors. Western Senators, especially from the pple and grape districts of the Pacific coast, are eager to legalize wine ami fruit juices along rnNTiNt'Kn ov r>A<itr riiitim.CALIFORNIA TO SEEK MILLIONS Earthquake-S tri eke n Areas W ant Millions For Reconstruction Los Apgeles. March 15—(U.R) — Millions of dollars for reconstruction were sought today for communi.les hard hit by the earthquake. Four tremors shook the metro‘pclitan area yesterday. Tottering walls in several districts crashed to the ground. The Orange conn ty courthouse at Santa Ana was ordered vaett ed because walls bulged to an alarming degree. A shock of minor intensity was felt in Long Beach at 3:14 a. m. today. 1:: one of the shocks, Mrs. Mabel Humphreys, 36. was critically injured when she was flung six stories to the ground as a bridge connecting two wings of a hotel gave way. The struc'ure was weakened in Friday’s shock. The death list hovered at 129. CONTINUED ON PAGE FOUR

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Thieves Obtain Eggs And Fruit In Robbery Thieves broke into the ('. P. Heckalhorn residence, south of the I Dent school house Tuesday night. I A quantty of eggs and canned fruit was taken by the thieves. Sheriff Burl Johnson and Night Policeman Ed Miller investigated , the robbery. Several clues to the vandals were discovered and it is, t hought likely arrests will be made in a few days. ; FATHER REINIG GIVES SERMON L Fort Wayne Pastor Continues Series Os Lenten Sermons The Rev. Dither Alfred Reinig, assistant pastor of St. Mary's church. Fort Wayne, in continuing 1 his series of sermons on lhe passion and suffering of Jesus Christ, at St. Mary’s Catholic church in this city Tuesday evening, used for his text 1 the gospel of St. Luke. it was the second meditation on . lhe Passion to be delivered during 1 the Lenten season at the local 1 church. ‘And Jesus said to the chief priests, and magistrates of the , temple and the ancients, that were , come unto him; Are ye come out. t as it were against a thief, with ( swords amd clubs". Father Reinig depicted a graphic picture of the trial of Jesus before the high priest and of the insults ; heaped upon Him before the high tribunal. As the gospel relates, the t first trial was held at night arid the T next morning. Jesus was taken before Pilate, where lie was condemn ed to death. "Do not condemn the judge or the witnesses who believed Jesus. When you commit sin. you offend Him more than those who sought , his death and odered His crucifixion. Ask Him to have mercy o.i you" _ was tlie lesson illustrated by the speaker. Following the sermon Benediction of tile Blessed Sactament was ' given by the Rev. Father Joseph Seimetz, pastor. FRANK J. CORR 1 CHOSEN MAYOR I- — . Aiderman L Temporary i Mayor of Chicago, Succeeding Cermak 1 Chicago, March 15—(U.R) -Frank 1 J. Corr, a little known alderman just completing his first term but supported by Democratic leaders, toda became Chicago’s temporary mayor. '■ He fills lhe vacancy created by ‘ .the assassination of Anton .1. Cermak, the immigrant boy who was shot down as lie talked to Presi- * dent-elect Roosevelt in Miami. ‘ Fla., last month. ’ Corr was chosen, 33 to 0, after foui boms of bitter debate between Democratic “regulars" and a coalition’ of Republicans and some of Certnak's closest friends. Sixteen supporters of Aiderman . John S. Clark, Democratic chairman of the council finance com- | mittee, refused to vote in the final balloting. Patrick A. Nash. Cook county I Democratic chairman amd so-call-ed "boss," supported Corr. A withered basket of lilies, left alter the finneral for Cermak, was on the desk of the late mayor - as the 50 aidermen assembled - last night to pick his successor. - Tlie battle opened over who should - be chosen as temporary chairman. ‘ Regulars'' asked that aldermen - sign their ballots. Aiderman ? John Bowler, who was with Cer--1 mak when he was shot, led the fight against this procedure. s "If the late mayor were here, 1 ' mNTINtTRn nN PAGE "rt4RRE " ' o Blythe Hendricks Named 1 Indianapolis, March 15.—(U.R)— Blythe Q. Hendricks, Indianapolis, ‘ former newspaper man and radio sports announcer, today was appointed to succeed Charles H. s Parrish, Greensburg, as director of information service for the state highway and conservation "I departments. 1

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STORM ACROSS THREE STATES CLAIMS LIVES At Least 500 Persons Are Reported Injured In Southern States HEAVY PROPERTY DAMAGE CAUSED Nnshville, Tenn., Mar. l.'». (U.R) A tornado ent a narrow path across three states last night, leaving 30 known dead, al least 500 injured, anil property damage estimated in lhe tens of thousands of dollars. Relief work was concentrated today in the remote Cumherland mountain region along the eastern Kentucky-Ten-■essec border, where Hie tornado readied its greatest fury and caused the heaviest loss of lib Eighteen of those killed were in tills section, approximately 70 miles long. Scores were homeless, sheltered in stores and public buildings, and it was feared the death toll might monnt when com--1 tnunications were restored to isolated mountain, communities. Eight were killed in Prudeu, Tumi., a mountain town 12 miles west of Cumberland Gap. At Harrogate. Tenn., three miles east of the Gap, two were killed. The tornado hit again at Kingsport, approximately 35 miles east of Harrogate, where five were killed. The dead by communities: ' Nashville. 9; Pruden. 8: Kings- ' port. 5; Harrogate, 2: Bellwood. ‘ 2; Lebanon, 2; Mill Point. 1; ‘ Oswego. 1. ' One hundred national guardsmen were mobilized in Nashville and placed on guard duty in the ‘ city's devastated section. Searcli- ' ers still were removing debris and there was a possibility more : bodies would bo found. The Nashvlle electric light systors in General hospital treated tern failed temporarily and doc- ‘ scores cf injured by candle light. Heavy lain and hail stones reported by observers to be as large as , eggs preceded and followed the tornado and handicapped lhe search for victims. The storm first was reported in Caruthersville. Mo., on the Mississippi river, approximately miles above the Arkansas line. It moved in a general sou hwesterlvdirection to Lepanto. Ark., 50 1 miles distant, where injuries and property damage were reported. , Then it veered southeastward. i re's:-’ the Mjasissippi at Memphis. 45 miles away. Swerving northeast, tlie s orm leached furious intensity in Nashville. 185 miles from Memphis, and thence moved on to Oswego where it swerved easterly, roared over the Cumberland Gap. caused heavy damage in Bristol. Va.. approximately 90 miles from the Gap and was lost in the rente'e Virginia hills. The total charted distance was 543 miles Rescue parties wm-'t into the. Tennessee and Virginia mountains hut were driven hack by hail aiid rail). They planned Io set out again. EXTEND INCOME TAX DEADLINE Treasury Department Advances Deadline Date To March 31 Washington. Mur. 15. (U.R) Tho (leadline on income tax payments has been advanced to March 31. The 16-day respite was granted by the treasury at the last minute to aid hard-pressed taxpayers whose funds still are tied up by • banking difficulties. Returns on ■ 1932 incomes and the first quarterly tax payments were to have beet due at midnight tonight. Persons faking advantage of tho extension will he required to pay | one-halt month's interest, at tlie rate of six per cent a year, on a . quarter of the total tax. On a total tax of SIOO and a , quarterly payment of $25, the In- . terest would amount to six cents. Under the extension, the return . and the first payment must be made ,; by midnight March 31. The other , payments would be due on June CONTINUED ON PAGE FOUR