Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 31, Number 66, Decatur, Adams County, 18 March 1933 — Page 1

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ROM ISE APPROVAL OF TWO MEASURES

Borfh Side Upsets Muncie Bearcats In State Tourney, 28-24 /1_ • _ . . - • - - _ — _ —

MINS WIN ■nfinalgame pis MORNING K, Wa\ne I’l'ani I’roK e . EiiM Major Upset H ()f Tournament ■efm \STI !■: WINS ■roißxi.i i l\ti rs Mur. IS 'U.P) ol liulctiitipolis, Kfi Si,| t ol I"i t Wayne, ■tncistk :il’<l Martinsville |ii C s< mi-1 ilhils i>l' iiigli school haski lInuriiaiiu'iii tonav alter , ;,| Ihrilltii” mornin.; Ks scheihllcil Io meet al Kp. in. anil Martinsville ■ Tin- wiltlx'i.- will play f‘>r Htitlr a: 8 p. m. . ,-hll.mated Logans■in the only .•*r>ime game «._> far in tin- tonrtinnieid a il-spH .c • i.i-t iinarlft ral- ■ The si •••re was 24 to 21. The playing time elded with ■count at 20 all. coasted to a 38 to ■tfra'ry met Vtt.tonnes in the Mud rame oi ilie 'iuarter.fin.il The ease with which th ■ «as ai i enabled me ■gn<ig placets m save their ■pili for 1 ■• iiii final game ■brthsvill. han I" come from ■ten to defeat Bedford. 22 to a slowly fought game. ■jt Wayne s unexpected vic Bt uncle eliminated .1 Which had been picked by !o win the tournament. Ide was ahead early in th" ■ hut failed to outlast the te! North Side players. Wins Easily jfcnapolis. March 18 .U.R) Bridge coasted to ait easy 38 S rictory over Vincennes toll is the si i-uml round of th" I high school basketball finaN. hsrtridge, the Indianapolis eu in the tournament, held a fcrt»hle lead tlirmtghrO the a shading Vim et». 23 tn 1 Sc half and io to 21 at the of the third quarter. hr scoring ability of Jim BTTVTtRb nv nartH TWttW r?e Crowd Sees Dog, Pony Show Urge crow.i . IW the free perMce given here this afternoon * lan dog and pa y show. The ferm was located at the corner Py* o * l anf l Second streets. K iho» was given by sever I Phtr men ha: ts to please the of shoppers who visited here By It Will Os INTONCERMAK •U of Late Chicago Mayor Is Piled For Probate Today Mar. 18.—(U.R) The will t’h < ° '* '• Vor J- Cermak "ago. a docttnienl disposing rstate of approximately $250. ' *»* filed for probate today. e *ill included bequests of 48 P w ‘ and charitable institutions r°r®atives receiving the major .. 0 ,lie funds. Assistant Pro- . udge Oscar S. Caplan an"*d that at the time the will “fawn J an . 25 1929 was Cer . ’ P an to leave $100,(8)0 to each 8 children and $200,900 to each 8 grandchildren. * *tate was so depleted by ' J d(>ne by the mayor and "'cal donations that at the, or hk ,| BH th it totalled far an at the time the will was r stipulating specific gifts of 'OOO to $5,000 for several I ir/^ a and hospitals and tnakt tm #C be( ltiestß to certain of htaV r 6" and grandchildren, willed that the remainder estate be divided into five one-fifth going to each of his jer« and tWo : flflhM u hlB atd nephews.

DECATUR DAECV DEMOCRAT

Vol. XXXI. No. 6G.

(ongressional Angel .80l Many a ('<> tgressman has reason to be grateful to this ymiiig lady She is Margaret McMann, 24-year old secretary io Speaker Henry T. Ila'-tey. < f Illinois, who acts as ■ advisor in-chief" to Congressional "freshmen" and their wives. If they want an apartnto.t, a cook, a maid or what-have-you, Miss McMann is right there with the information. She also helps the members to organize their offices. START WORK ON SCOUT BOOTHS VV <> r k On Pioneering Booth For Scout Exhibition Next Week Work started today on the pioneering booth for the Hoy Scout Merit Badge Demondratio, to lr held at Niblick building on South Set ond street. March 24 and 25. There will lie thirteen different merit badges demotrsir ted in twelve booths as follows: electricity, radio, p otograph, woodworking. metal work, pio eering. chemistry, firemanship. plumbing, bird study, first id. dairying, stamp collecting. The exhibits are limited to this number because of lack of room. Next year it is hoped to h ive i greater number. there are altogether b 6 merit badges which include nearly every possible vocational subject. M:vy merit b dges are of particular interest to farm boys: others especially to city hoys. A glance it the list shows a tremendous range. An outstanding expert in each field iaa been tailed uprei to prepare the reuirr merits and outline the program which opens to the scout, doors of knowledge and power. The rest of the list re: agriculture, ngling. animal i'dustry, archery, archJtet'fil e. art, astronomy. athletics, automobiling, aviation. basketry, bee keeping, beef ptedu tioii. blacksmithing, b<>okhindi. g, botany, bugling, business, cimping, canoeing, carpentry, cement work, chemistry, citrus fruit cultuie, civic, conservtion cooking corn farmi. g. cotton farming cycling. dramatics, farm home, farm • layout, farm mechanics, first aid to animals, forestry, foundry practice, fruit culture, g 'tdenlng luondicraft litsing, bog ami pork produetiai. horsemanship, Indian lore, insect life, interpreting, journalism, landscape gardening, leathercraft, leather work, life saving, machinrnNTtNITEII AM PACSt THHPk o Rev. Arthur Folsom Speaks Here Monday Rev, Arthur Folsom, minister of the Plymouth Congregation Church in Fort Wayne will he the speaker at the Woman's (Tub meet! g. Monday night, in the I.ibr ry hall. The Civic Section will have charge of the program, nd thd meeting will open at 7:45 o'clock. Rev. Folsom will .speak on ' Beautification." He is a member of the • Fort Wayne Garden Club. French : Quinn of this city will introduce ’ the speaker. Miss Helen Hattbold will h-'ve charge of the mtlalcal • 'program.

9l«ie. National And (■lerafeUoanl Newt

BITTER FIGHT IS REPORTED IN FAR EAST Chinese Troops Launch Vigorous Attack Against •la pan esc JAPS SAY 3.000 CHINESE KILLED Hsifengkow, Mar. 18. (U.R) Japanese positions were strafed by lire of Chinese troops late today, opening a vigorous attack between Huerling and Fanehiakow. Fierce fighting was reported in the sector as Major General Halloti's infantry responded with a counter-attack. The battle continued despite the lowering shades i of dusk. The Chinese launched the offens- ■ ive ifter suffering a serious reverse: at Chiehlingkow. a gateway of the great wall. Lieut.-Gen. Matsuzaki's Japanese troops captured this stronghold after a brisk engagement, marked by hand to hand fighting. The Chinese defenders were routed southward. Chinese losses for the campaign were reported at 3.1)00 killed. Sporadic activity of Chinese troops was reported in Jchol province. The Kwantung army head quarters announced that "considerable remnants" of Gen. Chang Hsueh Liang's defense forces were ac ive neir Lingyuan and Chienpin They were offering but feeble resistance to Japanese troops, the announcement said. Headquarters expected to annihilate the stragglers before rnnny days. A unit of Gen. Tang Fit-Ting's defenders was dispersed near westward from Ch toyang after a brief skirmish early ibis week. General Gliao Kuo-Tseng, commander of the former Chienpin cavalry brigade, CONTTNttEn ON PAGE THttWE — O Mrs. Daniel Erwin Gives Corn To Needy Mis. Daniel Erwin has donated fifty bushels of corn to the unemployed o' De fur tn be made into corn me I. MOVIE COUPLE IN SEPARATION Joan Crawford And Doug Fairbanks, Jr.. Are Separated Hollywood, Mar. 18 ;u.R,'—-Joan Crawford, glamorous film actress has separated from her actor-hus-band. Douglas Fairbanks. Jr. The famous Hollywood couple, whose separation often has been rumored in recent months, "could not get long." Miss Crawford said. Her announcement of estrangement cSme one day after Fairbanks had been named in a $50,0(10 alienation of affection suit by Jorgen Die:z, chemical engineer, who charged him with theft of the love of Mrs. Solveig Dietz, scenario writer. “I do not contemplate any divert e .action." Miss Crawford said. “I want it definitely understood that the Dietz suit has nothing to do with our separation. 1 have known of the case all along and 1 intend to do everything I can to help Mr. Fairbanks if the suit ever comes to a hearing. “Mr. Fairbanks and I have discussed a separation for more than a year.” Fairbanks did not issue a state-r ment. but it was reported he was hopeful of a reconciliation. While his wife remained in their luxurious Brentwood home. Fairbanks ' went to the home of friends. The marriage of the couple climaxed a whirlwind courtship which ' had its start when Doug, Jr., was 1 playing the lead in "Voting Woodley" on the stage here and Joan ' was : nightly attendant. On June 3. 1929, New York pap ' ers told of their marriage in that ' state. In months that followed ! their return from a European trip, Doug and Joan were pointed out 1 as Hollywood's ideal married couple 1

ONLY DAILY NEWSPAPER IN ADAMS COUNTY

Decatur, Indiana, Saturday, March 18, 1933.

Howard Wisehaup Speaks At Chapel J. Howard Wisehaupt, an alumnus of the class of 1910 of the Decatur high school talked to Hie students of i). H. S. yesterday' morning at chapel. He gave reminiscenses of his own school work and the value of continued education. He said. "Those who succeed in school work usually succeed n the world. It will be almost impossible for one who has not completed his educatiqu to gqt a job in the' future. Your job at the present is to continue your education." He continued giving homely examples to illustrate his points. ELIMINATION IS PROTESTED Decatur Citizens And Shippers Protest Taking OtT Trains Protests against the taking off of at least two freight trains on, the Nickel Plate railroad, which servos this city with shipment lie! ween St. Louis and Toledo. 1 have been mailed to railroad offi- : rials by Decatur citizens and ship pers. The railroad company is co .sidering eliminating two freight trains between Frankfort, Iml.. and Delphos. Ohio, diverting some of the shipments over the Erie railroad, making connections at Kingsland, bv way of J.lnffton. This would leave one train a day each way. Objections to the change aie being made all along the line. The eliminatrng of the trains would affect several persons living in Decatur and Delphos and there is a possibility that the (rack between Decatur and Delphi’s may be junked. Members of the Chamber of Commerce and of the Decatur Rotary club have written the rail toid officials. protesting the change. Shippers from Decatur have also registered their objections Amo the large shippers over the Nickel Plate are the Cloverleaf Creameries. Inc., the Decatm Produce plant of the Farm Bureau Association, Kri"kTyndall Co.. General Electric company Burk Elevator Co., and others. The Nickel Plate mud Erie railroads are owned by the same r.tockholders grouped in the Via Sweringen holdings and the consolidation of elimination of trains is being planned as an eccncmy measure, railroad officials slate. o _ Commissioners Allow Claims On County The comity commissioners met i i continued session tod ly and allowed claims against the county, which were carried over from the meeting on March 6. The claims totaled more tha. i $12,000. C ecks will be mule out by County Auditor Glen Cowen at once. LEAGUE VOTES AGAINST PERU * Peruvian Delegate to League Os Nations Leaves Meeting Geneva, Mar. 18.— (U.R) —Following the precedent set by Japan, the Peruvian delegate to the League of Nations walked out of a meeting ,of the league council today when decision in the Leticia dispute was against his country. When the council adopted a report assigning the disputed border territory of Leticij to Colombia, I delegate Garcia Calderon left the chamber. "This does not mean Peru's withdrawal from the league," Calderon ( assured the United Press. As the report was adopted Cal- ( deron arose from his place at the , council table, fumbled for his pap- , ers on the table top and shoulder- ( ed his way past rows of silent dele- ( gates. | A state of unrecognized but actu- ( al warfare has existed for months . between Peru and Colombia. It , CONTINUED ON PAQE THREE 1

STATE BOARD GIVES WARNING TO TAXPAYERS Tax Board Warns Money Hoarders of April 10th Deadline BANK DEPOSITS ARE INTANGIBLES ndianapoli'S Mjiro'i 18—(PPI Money hoarders were warned today by the st ite tax Immiiil th it April 10 is the deadline for making bank deposits eligible for the new st (e intangibles tax rate of 25 cents on each SIOO. A statement by Phillip Zoercher pointed out that if money is not on 'deposit then, it will be eligible for current property tax rite. The property rate usually i i 10 times higher thin the new intangibles rate, he pointed out. Under the new intangibles law to be administered by the tax board, banks will pay from their own funds 25 cents tax on e:ch SIOO of their di posits. Oidiuai ily money subject to property tax rates is assessed March 1 la. g witli other property. However. since the intangibles lav, taxes money and will not be effective until next month, the tax board extended the March 1 ssessmeiit date to April 10 to allow money to be taxed at Lie lower intangible rate. Since the st te cannot tax the federal government, deposits in federal postals savings banks will be f ixed to depositors. Those depositors will be taxed al the 25 cent intangible rate Money in safety boxes or in hiding will be subject to the prevailing property tax rate. Zoercher pointed oirt. The pen ilty for failure to pay the i. tangibles tax is four times the rate plus 10 per cent interest. {) — Makes Appointment Vatican City, March 18- il'P) Pope Pius XI appointed Vmleto Cigognani as Apostolic delegate to W.ishingfon today md conferred on him the title of Archills" op of laiodi< ea. ASSESSORS IN MEETING TODAY Township Assessors Make Second Report In Meeting At Berne The township assessors met at L'erne today witli County Assessor John Felty, making their sei n l report sieve the job of assessing property staii ed March 1. Tiie meeting was largely devoted to a discussion of the law concerning the paying of a special tax on intangibles, such as stock inci.rporations, mortgages, shares in building and loam companies and other p< rsonal property. This property is ncr assessed by the assessors, lint the owner must place stamps on the certificates. Tiie stamps are to lie sold by the county treasurer. The county treasurer has mx yet received the stamps and definite information’ concerning the provisions of the law could not be given by any local official The mortgage filing lee law passed last year by the special session of the legislature is reu?aled and hose who took advantage of the law up to the time the new intangible law was passed will have the fees refunded, according to information received by th ecounty assessor. Q Gold Received Here Is Sent To Chicago The First State Bink of this city has forwarded to the Federal Reserve Bank in Chicago, more than s(>,''CO in gold coin and ibout $22,000 in certificates. Yesterday was the final day for turning in the coins ind certificates in exchange for currency. Most of tiie gold brought to the local bunk was deposited to the credit of depositors and wis sent by the bank to Chicago tiie last shipment was made 'this morning.

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EXTEND SCHOOL MORTGAGE DATE Law Extending Mortgages Five Years Is Effective April 1 The law extending school fund mortgages five years will become effective in this county, April 1, and legal notice citing some of the provisions of the law has been published. Tiie law also provides that tiie rate of interest, after April 1. shall he five per cent per annum. Heretofore Hie interest rate was six per cent. Auditor Glen Cowen has prepared a list of loans held by the county. In some cases the mortgages are past due and in many cases one, two. three or more years of interest is due. Tiie county iris : SIIB,OOO loaned to property owners on school fund mortgages. Tiie following notice, relative to tiie provisions of the new law follows: "All school fund loans existing on April 1, 1933, and the mortgages securing the same are extended for the period of five years from said date conditional on the nuntgagois, or holders of the title of properties mortgaged filing with tiie auditor of the county written acceptance of the terms of this act within six months from April 1. 1933. “All mortgagors or holders of title to property mortgaged who are delinquent on payment of interjest on April 1. 1933. will be required to enter into a contract with the county auditor on behalf of the j providing the payment of such interest in equal installments, exj tending over a period of not to exceed five years: such contracts to lie approved by the Attorney Gen er.il. and tiie Board of Commissioners. The county shall not prosecute suits to foreclose mortgages because of delinquent interest rep resented in such contracts so long as the terms of such contract are complied witli: in case of default in payment of.such interest suit may he instituted after two years from April 1. 1933. "Where lands have been so mortgaged nd the mortgagor is unable to make payments thereon, the Board of Commissioners may accept in the name of the county a conveyance of such land from the owner thereof and take possession thereof. "Nothing in the act shall he cons.rueil to operate to release or modify the lieu of the stite on mortgaged property as held at the time and prior to the date the act takes effect. ' Heber Hutnbarger Speaks Over Radio Heber Humbarger, Manager of the Huntington pl nt of the Cloverleaf Cre meries. Inc., spoke over WOWO at one o'clock this afternoon. Mr. Humgarger was a guest speaker of the 1. diana Farmer's Guide magazine, published at Huntington. His talk dealt with the liquor i. dustry and what the repeal of the federal nd state laws meant. FIVE BODIES FOUND IN CAR Believe Ma n Drowned C hildren And Himself Deliberately Cleveland, 0., March 18—<U.R) Five bodies, a father and tour children, were found today in an automobile submerged in the waters of Cuyahoga river, south of Cleveland. Authorities expressed i lie belief the man had drowned himself and children by driving his small sedan off a 10 foot embankment into the river. Tiie victims tentatively were identified as Alexander Grant. 45. machinist, and his children. Alexander. Jr.. 9; George. 8; Jeaiiet e, 6. and Janies, 4. Their identity was traced through the license number of the automobile. Mrs. Ethel Grant, the man's wife, mid his brother, David Grant, reported to ipolice that they had been searching for Hie father and children since they ' left home last night.

Price Two Cents

New U. S. Senator I - I ** !■“™————■———“ ““““ — • Governor John E. Erickson, who resigned as Governor of Montana o enter tiie United States Senate as successor to tiie late Senator Thomas J. Walsh. Erickson began his third successive term as Governor nt' his Stall l.isl November. Lieutenant Governor Frank H. Cooney succeeds him as State Executive. SEVERAL SEEK DISTRIBUTION Many Persons Are Considered Applicants As Beer Distributor The .lines of at least a dozen firms and individuals have hern mentioned as applicants for the iob of beer distributor in Adams ecinty. The appointment is expected to be made within a few w eeks. Formal application for the up pcintment has been made by only a few of he persons and firms mentioned. Applications are to be sent to Paul Fry, Indianapolis excise director, who was named by Gov. Paul MiNntt yesterday. Applicants for the job come from Decatur. Berne and Preble Adams coii.'ity will have only one distributor as :he population of the county is under 20,0(81. A license fee of SI,OOO a year i will be charged the wholesale distributor. Bond of $5,000 must also he given. In the case of retailers, a bond of $2,000 must be furnished and an annual license fee of SIOO will be charged. Restaurants S3OO Proprietors of hotels, restaurants and clubs which come under provisions of tiie act will he required to file, on applying for permits. a penal bond in the sum of SI,OOO. Annual license fees uro S3OO in Hie case of restaurants, hotel dining room or boat having accommo- ' dations for serving any number of guests no: to exceed 50 persons 1 An additional fee ol SIOO is added for each group of 50 possible • guests. When there are accom- ' modations in excess of eve mill Holes of 50. Hie license fee will be I charged as though the excess ac- 1 commodations were exactly 50 in 1 number. Fees for Clubs Clulis are to pay for their Been- 1 ses at tiie in e of SIOO for the first ' 500 members or fraction Hereof, living in Indiana, and 10 cents for each new or additional member. The law says that "when ’ tiie club registers a new or addimNTfNTTFD PAGF THKFJE 0 $77 Given To Needy As Receipts Os Show A total of $77 was turned over to t'l e unemployed of Decatur as pro- i ceeds from the special presentation of the Elks mi strel last Sunday. Tills amount represents the total receipts, as there was no expense in putting on the show. The unemployed today expressed their deep ipprecl ition to the El'its lodge, members of the cast who gave their time willingly for this purpose. They also wish to Hia. k officials of the Catholic school, who I donated the use of the school auditorium for the staging of the show. I

YOISR HOME PAPERLIKE ONE OF THE FAMILY

QUICK ACTION SLATED EARLY IN NEXT WEEK Congressional Leaders Hope To Approve Beer Bill Monday FARM RELIEF TO COME SOON AFTER Washington, March 18. (U.R. Prompt and final approval of beer and stale hank relief early next week was promised todav by congressional leaders. Farm relief was just behind on the program over which leaders and committeemen worked while the' house and senate took a dav off after eight days' labor at the emergenev speed ordered bv President liooscvelt. House and senate groups hoped to reach an informal agreement today on beer, to insure enactment of Hue measure Monday and permit Hie brew to go on sale byApril 4. There was every indication the senate would he forced to accept 3.2 alcoholic percentage set by the house hill. The house yesterday rejected the senate figure of 3.5 and ordered the measure to conference. Senate conferees cawnct lie appointed officially until Monday. But it was expected they would meet informally today so that Monday's action will be only routine. Tiie house has agreed to take up Monday a hill permitting all state hanks to obtain emergency loans from the central federal reserve hanks on the same terms as federal reserve member banks. 'The senate has passed a similar measure The house agriculture committee continued hearings on the Roosevelt farm relief program and hoped to have it ready for a house vote early next week. The committee called Secretary of Agriculture Wallace and other officials to explain details of the complex measure. Wallace tcld a senate commit-' tee yesterday the plan would involve taxes of perhaps $800,00(1.COO c ■ food products. The money would be paid to farmers in return for reducing their prodmtioii. Curtailed production the administration hopes, would lift commodity prices to pre-war levels. restore farm purchasing power. and boost the whole country (CONTINUED ON PIAGE THREE) EVANSTON MAN ADMITS PLOT Unemployed Gardener Confesses To $50,000 Extortion Plot Evanston. 111.. Mar. 18.- (U.R)—An unemployed landscape gardener. Axel Peterson. 54. confessed today to attempting to extort $50.C00 from Mrs. James A. Pjtten, widow of Chicago "when kink" so that lie could pay a mortgage on his home. Peterson was arrested last night as he prowled near the Patten estate. Among his former employ. • - were,thi Pattens, formar VicePresident Charles G. Dawes, Rufus D.iwes. head of Chicago's century of progress fair, and Northwestern university, police said Five letters, pidice disclosed, had been sent to Mis. Patten demanding that $51'.000 he paid unless she wanted “something terrible" to happen to her. The last gave directions for leaving the money and Peterson was trapped when be was found near the place where the money was to x have been turned over. Peterson in his confession to police was reported to have said that a mortgage on hfs home was about to bo foreclosed and he was too proud to ask his children to help him His life savings, police said he told them, had been tost a short time igo in a gold mining venture and he bad been unemployed for the past two years. Police had been guarding the Patten home since the first note was received early this month. Mrs. Patten was so alarmed by the letters that she summoned her son, I John, home from Florida.