Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 31, Number 67, Decatur, Adams County, 20 March 1933 — Page 1

wEaTHEP X rain, turnto snow tonight jroMb'y nort " east portions morning. S’, 11, portions.

UISEPPE ZANGARA EXECUTED TODAY

loosevett Signs Economy Bill; Agrees On Beer Bill Today

■omy BILL ■ SIGNED BY fc PRESIDENT K. Roosevelt Power SSlash Government Kperatiiiji Expenses ■u ENACTMENT ■ji.HTI DELAYED M;ir. 20 U.P) <■>( 10,0011.00(1 economy Klliim ilecpiv into xclefnid providing |r <. w.is ogned today by l’<oo<evell. ■uni :i ' I'iiiif (leleguH,,i power Iroin congress ol now is free Io ■) |h, billion doline velerr„o .ilinosi s4oi. mid. (hh) |Ho pruii'' jii r. iiitli.ooo from of fop-ral employes. |HtOnjlP.i ' I .Util til" est inmtKuu.mhi.ikhi iii taxes from beer an I I lie ? I .'T.ime.nihi ■fte lax the measure is exto brins lie budget to a > .i o ' - lore tile Im credit the federal gov oim tn • es the i.ieasttre eo -th. week-end bv ■ - .'f>ei leaders it ’ ;>p ( -d the meaHthMiu:!: tie’,.: protests of p wer. in im du:. 0 alter tite sen- - ■ post hu-te In the White r“ter:in- .I'l will he annlied ' • !:’>•— ”i a rough schedule by >• .1.1:1-. administra ami designed to ent Mm.iWh from ho post war ■by drasti. i. auction of no >- ■tr c ■me, .. .! disability pav ■» reserved officers retired ■ and other items in the long ■ oipen-Hi’- nd allowances If HI. RITES 1 HELD SUNDAY ■ham Spichiger Bur- ■ Sunday Afternoon ■Ai Berne Cemetery ■ne. Iml., Mar. 2(1, (Special ■wnocrat Funeral services ■ Abraluiui Spichiger, 70, of ■ord township, who was found Bon his farm in French town Friday afternoon were held Hftcrn on at two o'clock y 1 * - Berm Reformed chun h. ■ was made in the M. R. E. ■*ry. B* body of Mr. Spichiger was “1 w his farm at .3:30 o'clock »y afternoon, death was due 1 heart attack. Mr. Spichiger I with his hriiher, David in ifbrd township. He owned the I 1 in French township and freitif visited there. f * as hoi : in French lownApril 18. 18(12, the son of 1 and Fannie Spichiger. Ho '*** Rosa Crick, who preceded death. Mr. Spichiger was r *Ww by trade? rvivlng is one son, Leander ttc Wayne; one brother, David Harford township, two halt brrs, Beu Gerber o[ Heine and " Berber of Fart Wayne, and ai sister, Mrs. Fred Dubacn wnn Grove. I s Number Os Live "’tock Killed In Storm ' Sehniitt of the Decatur Ren- ( onipany listed the .'lumber l e, hogs a nd horses gathered several of the farms In the 0 area, along the Adatns-Al- "(>' line. The livestock wan ? J 1 the storm. The follow k g Ti? * dS Arthur Schroe2 ’ or seß, 5 tows, 4 hogs; Henortnan. 2 horses, 5 cows. 21 "heep; Hauck Tiros., one 0 1 ? 1 Miller, 4 horses. 7 cows 6 , farm. 10 hogs; Scott s'' horaes. 2 cows; Oscar "Wer. 3 cows. art^c” 1 stalwl ,hat ,hla was tut Ai ' Bt ° f the aninia ' s billed 1I? , ’ l<> < ’ Pa H inlm is were ■Port Wayne.

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Vol. XXXI. No. 67.

What’s in a Name? ■ WsW? I —■* The fourth hearer of the Roosevelt name Ho hold the post, Colonel Henry L. Roosevelt, newly-appoint-ed Assistant Secretary of th.' Navy, is shown at his deslc in Washimgton. Theodore Roosevelt, w'ho afterwards became President, was the first Roosevelt o hold the position; Franklin D„ now President, was the second; Colonel Theodore Roosevelt. Jr., the third. 11. L. Roosevelt is a sixth cousin of the President. STUDENTS GIVE PLAYS SUNDAY Pupils of StJoseph School Present Program Sunday Night The pupils of St. Joseph s Path 1 olic school presented a program of clever playlets at Catholic high school auditorium Sunday evening, in observance of the feast of &t. Joseph and honoring lie Rev. Father Joseph A S. imetz, pastoi and director of the schor. 1 Sunday was the fe?st of St. Joseph, patron saint of the sclrml and likewise the namesday of the pastor ot Si. Mary’s parish. .The pupils from the first to , eighth grades participated in the program and 13 presentations were Expressions of goodwill in song and recitations were extended to Father Seinm z. A large crowd attended the pr gram, presented under the name of "Th-* Magic Gallery.'' The following program was given: The Racket Brigade Grade 1 Prologue, Two Would-be latdies. Just After the Civil War 3rd & 4tli Grade GiriAn Old-fashioned Teacher and Het Class Ist Grade Gills The Land of Mother Goose Ist & 2nd Grades The Doll Shop 3rd Grade Girls The Making of the Flag (CONTINUED ON PAGE THIiEEI FAMILY FIGHT CAUSES DEATH Row Over Bridge Game Results In Death Ot Indianapolis Man JndN .napois. Mkrch 20—(DPI— A family row, caused by a bridge game, resulted last night in the deat'i of Von Taylor, 35. His wife, Mrs. Catherine Tayl rr. told police th it her husba. d fell on , the sidewalk when he chased her from their home. Taylor died last night in City hospital of a fractured skull. He was found unconscious on the walk early yesterday by a milkman. Mrs. Taylor said that iier hnsb'itd , chased her after Mr. and Mrs. Ralph 1 Smock Ind l“f» *her Taylor became angry in the bridge game. 1 She told police he first fell in the 1 house, breaking a Irnttle of whiskey : he carried, then arose, struck her twice nd chased her out of the house where he fell again 1 She said she did not return to the .1 house but went to the Smock home where site sped tile night. Police found her there yesterday. o 11

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LATE BLIZZARD HOWLS ACROSS 1 MIDDLEWEST VV inter Gale Adds New Torment To Flood Stricken Regions AT LEAST ELEVEN LIVES ARE LOST (By United Press) A late winter blizzard howled across the middle west oday. adding new torment to a region already beset by surging floods. At least 11 lives were lost. Wet snow was piled into towering drifts in Minnesota. Wisconsin and pans of lowa. Drizzling rain 1 hat turned to sleet Imre telephone lines to the ground anil made paved highways slippery in Illinois. The wintery gale which whipped out of the northwest a few hours before the official arrival of spring, was heading toward Indiana anil Ohio where melting snows ind spring raiuis have turned quiet streams into boiling orrents and pushed rivers beyond their banks into tlie streets of a dozen cities. Nearly one third of the bottom'and farms along the Ohio river in I.xdiama were inundated. Hundreds cf families were driven from heir homes along the same river in Ohio. The situation threatened to become tlie worst since 1913. Cincinnati, Mar. 20 -lU.E— Hundreds of families wore homeless and <J her hundreds were leaving Ohio river bottom land today (fit' the slowly mounting river, already beyond flood stage, threatened the worst overflow since 1913. At least five persons were known to have died. Fifteen hundred families were made homeless in Cincinna. i. Bellavue. Ky.. authorities reported the river had Invaded the homes of 700 inamilies. tCIINTINI IJ> ON l-AGE Tinti:i:i JOHN BEELER DIES TODAY Aged Man Dies At Home Os Son In Hartford Twp. This Morning Berne, Ind.. Mar. 20 (Special to Democrat) John Beeler. 83. died Monday morning at 450 o'clock at the home of his son, Fred Beeler, in Hartford township. Death was caused by heart disease. Mr Beeler had been in failing health for the lasi wo weeks. Tlie deceased was born in French township May 20. 184:). the son of Abraham and Matlie Beeler He was married to Mary Meshberger May 10. 1871. Sh> preceded him in (bath on December 9. 1891. • Surviving are tile f llowin children: Levi Beeler. Fort Wayne; Noah of Beulah. Michigan; Abe. Wabash township. Mis. Jacob Myers of Vera Cruz; Fred of Hartford township. Mrs. Roy Merica of Fort Wayne and Mis. C. G Brown of Lake Fails. Mint) o sila One sister. Mrs. Sarah S'udebaker, of Fort Wayne. Funeral services will be held Wednesday afternoon at two o'clock at the St. Johns Reformed church at Vera Cruz and burial will be made in the church cemetery. Tickets On Sale For North Ward Program Tickets for tlie annual North Ward play will go on sale Tuesday, it was announced today. The tickets will be sold by t ie pupils of the school and a reduction has been m de in: the : (hnission this year. iA.ll grade children will be admitted for lo cents and high school pupils and adults will be 15 cents. The musical playlet, ‘Goldilocks' Adventure” in three acts has been chosen as the presentation this year and is b set! on the cbirmlug story of Goldilocks and the three bears. The play will be presented In the Decatur high school auditorium FriIda night. March 31.

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Decatur, Indiana, Monday, March 20, 1933.

Former Decatur Lady Dies Sunday Morning Harvey Brodbeck, 833 Dlerkes street, received word from St. Louin 'Missouri, Sunday mor ing. of the de th of his mother, Mrs. Sarah C therlne Brodbeck, 72, a resident of Adams County for many yearn. Mrs. Brodbeck h id lived in Decatur until a few years ago when she went to St. lamis to make her home with a son, Floyd Brodbeck. Surviving are three sons: Rollie, Floyd and H irvey Brodbeck. The body will arrive in thin city I Tuesday morning for burial and fu oral iirr.ngements will he made later. NO IMMEDIATE DANGER HERE No Danger Os Flood Stage Being Reached Here At Present Time At noon today there was no immediate danger of any of the principal roads leading into Decatur being inundated because of tlie high waters. The St. Marys river was out of b i-iks and the lowlands were flood ed. Creeiks were swollen and running fast and the weather man promised more rain or snow. The river continued to rise during the day. All the roads were opened and it would take a rise of several feet before the water would cross the roads at points generally inundated during the time of flood. The overflow was high .orth of Decatur near the Smith Bridge on state road number 27. It would require a few feet rise before, water would come up to the road. Fields were flooded and macadam roads were soft. Motorists who got off the main roidway were mired in the mud. South of Decatur the water was high, but it would require several teet rise to reach the road at the Country club site. Part of the golf course p rallel with Borums run was inundated; East of Decitiir i i the Bellmont park addition there was no immediate danger of the waler coming across the roads. ———o- . House Passes Bill By Overwhelming Vote Washington Mari 3 20— (UP) —i The house todiy overwhelmingly passed the Steigall bill granting state han'.is equal privileges under emerge , y financial legsil ition with national institutions. Tlie measure now goes to the senate as a substitute for the Robihsou bill earlier pissed by that chamber. Chief object of the legislation is to allow the state hanks to obtain emergency currency on the same terms and with the s.iliie eiillateial requirements as national banks. PETITION FOR REDUCED RATES Five Towns In Adams County Will Benefit by Proposed Reduction The Indiana public service commission has been asked to approve new rite schedules for electric service in 15 small towns served by the Indian a Service Corporation. Officials of the corporation have held meetings with town boards and consumers in all the towns concerned a: <1 ..greed on new rates. Petitions have been filed with the commission to approve these schedules. Five Adams county towns which will benefit by the lower rates are: Bobo, Preble, Pleasant Mills, Linn Grove and Peterson. Other tow s affected are latud and Coesse in Whitley county; Harbers Mills, Cr. fgville. Lancaster and Keystone In Wells county; New Corydo:: and College Corner In Jay county; Majenica in Huntington county aud Landess in Grant county, Residence rates u der the new schedule, will be nine cents each for the first 30 Kilowatt hours, six cents for the next 30, and three cents for ill over Gil kilowatt hours used per month. The minimum bill 1 would be |1 per mouth.

ESTABLISHMENT OF PEACE GOAL OF MUSSOLINI Peace Pact Projected By Italian Dictator During Conference BRITISH PREMIER LEAVES FOR PARIS Rome. Mar. 20. (U.P.) The establishment of “peace in Europe for at least one generation” is the g nl of tlie projected four power peace pact designed by Premier Mussolini, the Italian premier told the press today. “We do not desire to impose any 'decisions on other nations." he said. "We seek only to induce others to cooperate in establishing peace in Eurape for at least one generation. Prime Minister Ramsay MacDonald of Great Britain, here for the momentous week-end conversations after which Musso.ini’s dramatic proposals were announced, told English and American newspapermen that lie and Mussolini had “examined the problem from all angles in sucli away as to pacify Eurape.” "This will not be an imposed peace,” lie added. MacDonald who with Sir John Simon. British foreign minister, is leaving Rome today for Paris to discuss the Mussolini peace plan with the French government, revealed that the United States will be "informed” of the project. "It is absolutely essential that neg itiations occur between all." he said, discussing Ms forthcoming Paris conversations and later negotiations to be held with Germany. “The United States will also be informed. If we should omit any power we should be absolutely beaten. It is useless for us to try to recreate mankind. We must Teilize manV emotions. We are (CONTINUED ON PAGE TIIItEE) MAKE ATTEMPT TO KILL HITLER Reveal Plot To Take Life Os Adolf Hitler, German Chancellor Munich, Mar. 20. (U.R) Police Commissioner Himmler of Munich today reported an attempted plot on the life of Chancellor Adolph Hitler, shortly Itefore the chancellor left Brown House, his headquarters, for an airdrome enroute to Berlin. According to Himmler, three tier sons, ::ne speaking German and the other two Russian, arrived in Munich in an automobile bearing Berlin' license (dates and at 7:30 a. m today stationed themselves behind the monument to Richard Wagner, close to Hitler’s house on Prince Regent Square. They were armed with pistols and hand grenades, the officers said. A witness informed the police who rushed to the scene but could find no trace of the men. Himmler declared that the Mu- ! nich police had received word from Switzer' ind that ' members of the Ts lick.i < former name of ’ i.c Russian secret polite) were preparing to assassinate Hitler and other Nazi leaders. Expressing satisfaction that the attack was averted. Himmler stid lie hoped there would be no further attempts as "the assassination of Chancellor Hitler and the resultant excitement of tlie people would re- ' suit in a program of unprecedented bloodshed.” o— Local Chih Members Obtain Food Donations Font members ot the Decatur Lie’s club solicited 1(1 farmers in Kirkland and Washington townships l.st week and obtained a on ntity of food for distribution by ■t ie Decatur Emergency Relief Assoclatici.i. Food donated by the farmers Included 54 dozen eggs. 17 gallons of lard und 650 pounds of 'corn meal.

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Fair Competitor If N W * , Miss Bunny Bainbridge, of Ashe ville, N. who lias been chosen to represent her ci y in the nationwide contest to lie held for the purpose of selecting the Grand Beauty Queen of the Chicago World's Fair. The winner of the Queen's title will receive a $5,000 prize in addition to her expenses io the Exposition. SCOUT PLANS MOVE FORWARD Boy Scout Merit Badge Demonstration Here March 24 And 25 Plans for the Boy Scout Merit Badges demacstration moved rapidly forward today as the material from a recent exhibit from Fort Wayne w:s being set up in the Niblick building on South Second street. The demonstration will be held M rch 24 and 25. The demci stration will be in varying stages ot' completion and will illustrate to-the getter: 1 public just what sort of work the scouts are doing. Each iperit badge requires knowledge of the fundamentals of a vocation or study. Expert examiners work with the boys. The follow) g men are working with the scouts and their sponsors in setting up the booths: Francis Howell, first aid; Marcellus Miller, electricity; Edward Jaberg, pioneering; August Walters, plumbing; Amos Ketihnm. woodworking; Roy Price, dairying; A. A. Ad ins, cliemistry; Brvee Thom s fireniai..ship; Edward Jaberg. bird study; Robert Arhbaucher metal work; Paul Edwards. photography; Marcellus Miller. radio; Steve Everhart, stamp collecting. 3 ere will be a court of honor tonight in the Central school house at 8 o'clock. Sixteen awards will be given. LENS REMOVED FROM THROAT Indianapolis Do c tors Fashion New Tool To Perform Operation Indianapolis. Mar. 20.—(U.R) —A To year-old Fort Wayne girl, Dorothy Branning, was recovering in the Ri'ey hospital tor children todiy from an operation in which a flashlight lens was removed from her throat. Doctors, finding no surgical instruments which would grasp the slick glass, turned to the hospital powerhouse engineer who aided them in fashioning the tool by which the lens was removed. They fashioned a steel toll with a cup-shaped flare ai d hoc'k at the end. H d it failed, a delicate knife operation would have been the last resort. Today the doctors took the improvised tool to a surgical instrument hottim for duplication in a more finished form for future use. The lens, an inch and a quarter in diameter and one-fourth of an inch thick, lodged in the child’s throat March 15. Physicians said ft was tlie first operation of Its kind on record tn a similar case in Philadelphia, doc(UUNTINL’ED ON PAGE Vh’kEe/

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LEADERS AGREE ON ALCOHOLIC BEER CONTENT Measure Is Expected To Become Law By Tomorrow Evening AGREE ON RETURN TO 3.2 CONTENT Wtisliiii.oioii, Mur. 20 -U.R) -Semite amt house conferees agreed on a beer-wine bill lodav calling for legalization of beverages with 3.2 oer cent alcohol. But adjournment of the house until tomorrow put off for one day at least the lime when America can drink the new beer, wine and fruit juices. The senate want ahead witli plaais to ratify agreement of tlie conferees today. House action tomorrow under suspended rules ' could put the modification measure in President Roosevelt’s 1 hands before nightfall and assure legalized wine and beer on April 5. Tlie bill docs not become effective until 15 days after it is enacted. The conferees struck from he senate modification bill the Borah amendment to forbid sale or gift of the legalized beverages to minors under 16 years of age. Return to 3.2 per cent, was an abandonment of the senate amendmer which last week lowered the house bill tn .3.05 per cent. To, compensate for this recession on the part of tlie senate conferees. : representatives for the house accepted tlie senate amendment exending the act to include wine and fruit juices. MURDERS WIFE, TAKES OWN LIFE Indianapolis Contractor Slashes Throat With Razor Sunday Indianapolis. March 20. — (U.R) —i Stains found on bathroom walls and partially burned rags at the home of Mrs. Ella Evans. 52. were being analyzed by a coroner’s physician today to determine whether she wis killed at home. Her dismembered body was found in an automobile driven by her husband in Cincinnati yesterday. ■ The husband, Charles D. Evans, 54. ' local contractor, committed sui- 1 cide with a razor blade while fight- ! ing with policemen who discovered 1 tlie body. The couple bad been estranged ' for some time ami Evans was un- 1 der court orders to pay ss)l monthly alimony to his wife, records here showed. Divorce action was started by Mrs. Evans March 1. The dead woman's negro maid told police she last saw her employer Thursday afternoon. She said Evans told her “Mrs. Evans is gone" when she appeared for work Friday. Evans disappeared Friday after moving his personal effects to another house he owned, police were told. (C( >.N TINI ED (IN PAGE TIIREEI 1 n ; , Local Man’s Father i Is Seriously 111 1 J. Ward Calland, maniger of tlie 1 Central Sugar company of this city ‘ was called to Summerfield, Ohio. ‘ Sunday, because of the serious ill- ' ness of his father, Herman J. Call- ' and. Mrs, Calland accompanied her husband. Mr. Calland's father is 1 73 years of age and his condition 1 liis been critical for some time. 1 o Boys Break Shades On Ornamental Lights Hoys Inoke the 'l'mdcs on two orn mental light posts on Madison street last Saturdqy. Neighbors report th it the boys threw stones at i tlie shades. Tlie posts in front of Mrs. B? J. Terveer’s Hal ve Kitson's home were damaged. The shades nlope cost about three dollars, plus? the cost of the bulbs and the time required to replace them, h

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CERMAK SLAYER ELECTROCUTED THIS MORNING Utters Words of Hatred For Capitalists With His Last Breath DECLARED DEAD AT 9:26 O’CLOCK Rtiiloi'tl, Alii.. Mar. 20. (U.R. A snarling, scornful (linseppi Zangara spat out his last words of hatred lor a capitalistic world at 9:17 a. tn., and commanded Sherifl Dan Hardie to “push the hution.” Nine minutes later he was declared dead, in retribution lor lhe assassination of Mayor Anton J. C.ermak of Chicago. With the snme bravado, the same grimly satirical comments that marked the pain-ridden bricklayer's demeantor since lie fired six sliots in his mad attack on Franklin D. Roosevelt. 33 days ago, he made his exit byway of l he state prison's electric chair. At 9:26 a. m. the prison doctor applied the stethoscope over nis heart and aimounced Zangara was dead. "Lousj- capitalists.” lie taunted tlie witnesses in the execution chamber as his guards led him Through the door. Then, with a touch of the sarcasm that marked his court appearances, he demanded ; “What! Nobody taka pictures?" “No scared of chair! You no have to put me in chair." He seated himself in the ehaii', and spoke again. "Push the button!” Sheriff Dan Hardie, upon whom fell lhe duty of throwing the switch, said. "Just a minute. Joe." Apparently the scornful prisoner was attempting to phrase one more sentence. It appeared to bo "Good-bye." The electric current, jolting ; hrough the small body, cut the words short. The doomed man spurned all otters of religious solace, and whe I .’ the prison chaplain. U (). Sheffield, entered the cell to read from the scriptures, Zangara barked out, defiantly: “Get tlie hell out of here.” The chaplain, however, remained in he cell, and Zangara listened with some degree of attentiveness as verses from St John, the (CONTINUED ON PAGE TIIIIEEI O Windows Broken At Farm Bureau Plant About 25 windows were broken at the Decatur Produce plant of the Farm Bureau Association in this city over the week-end. Bays threw stones at tlie windows, k ocking out about every glass in the place. The matter was reported to officials and an investigation is being made. AWAIT MESSAGE OF KIDNAPERS Fifteen-Year-Old Ohio Youth Kidnaped By Three Armed Men Masury, 0.. March 20 —(UP) — Frantic, parents of Peter Myers. 15. whisked away from his home 36 hours ago. waited anxiously today for word from the kidn ippers. The youth, son of a reputedly wealthy tavern proprietor here, was abducted by three men, armed with a submachine gun, who held up t :e family chauffeur in tlie driveway of the Myers home. Although asserting that he was financially unable to pay even sl,000’ ransom, the father waited impatiently. A note left with the chauffeur. Mike Stevens, said: "Keep your mouth shut. Don't tell police. Well be back or get i>u touch with you." Tlie note did not ask a ransom " onld be m ide "I don't to ow how I could pay them anything,” he said. The note was crumpled in his hand. "If they o, ly asked |ll)G I couldnot pay it now. Everyone knows there is no money. I'll do everything .in mi power to get my boy back but the can't expect nte to pay 'something I haven't got.”