Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 31, Number 70, Decatur, Adams County, 23 March 1933 — Page 1

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KIMATES OF ■mAGESVARY CONSIDERABLY 'Bnd Ho"- "tores \ie ■dh Damaged By *nok \nd Water S) THEORIES J \iii-. \n< ed smoke caused a Kb" J the K. of ( . n u ilii-' xloiv brick ■ur, al Hi-- corner of K (l „ eel s I slr< < l-s K hi: _. .1,1-1 i_;<- Io Ibe Ku; Io i> coni incd lli- lliird floor, Ksiniil 1 " iler d.miK unices i ’ Hie second :IHI | ph -■ liniidiso in II" ■sun 111. Insl floor ' 'ill as --I’.i hie loss. :pS r;(! anywhere from - 'os* to the i 'tna || ,!siliilii y ex. cd || of lli" 'oltim Tii'W ■-linin’.'d th-ii Kt $5,000. Uric mibus has ari-l ' uiius on ’h" ' "'libli'"’ insur ,'.-.I th" Kj finer Teeple an.l . be Shoe anil \uto License an- In. .ii'-.l on the first fire cit lier in die 'liar - I lie stairway ■.. ». ■ eleva'or. Two u - med ’lie nt tin- One dealt ■p. r When firemen Mm at tli. nbli'-c. til" elevatshirk ~ lit 'le below tbe ■ floor :e:i! • ■ fire seemed tn ■tais il- -iraiglit up th" ■ rid • I et wen tlie ■t and - • Tim stairway to Mtlir »' around -’m ■kir sli c " est and w itids to ■w a- r d w'is i fir" tlie tn tor conMss nr. | have worn off. Mlf .i or tlie w ires ■ ’..■ ■ fir.- and spread Me shaft Maili, si ,|rway back of the ■tor 11. was entirely ■don: ar. the fl,lines shot '<■ ■oof 1’ : nossilde that the ■tartwl ~t the foot of 'he ■ Wairwai and then spread ■d the slvift and upward. ■ li'nz. mead between 'lm ■t and rof to about what MffINITI ii\- PAGE FIVE! IE tRF. HELD iindianapolis ■ Suspected of Killing Komen Hold Under I Heavy Guard Nipulis. March 23—'UP) f fn suspected of slaying Sgt. B Jones. Indianapolis polive- ■ under heavy gu ird hero R fo |lr in the Marion county Bhtl the other shackled to a R* fity hospital. By were returned at midnight ■ Covington, Ky., after Gov. buffoon granted their extraPhillips. 21, Cincinnati, who •frosted with t-he five men in M near Erlan ger. Ky.. was rest Covington upon reeom•Hon of detective Fav Lit vis iianapolis. 'Prisoners are Willium Manor. * Sohwartz. Al Thompson. EdMiller and Fred Adams. ® n is suffering from a bullet 1,1 the foot and was taken e hospital. Ibsd of policemen armed with ”h shotguns, machine guns “ s returned the suspects to •Polis. An aiiii mohlto stolon J-<ifanapolis was found in the Possession, was return to said it was the car used . > escapp a ftp r j nn p 8 was hen he Interrupted the roba hue garage last mouth.

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Woman Badly Burned Early This Morning Berne, Ind . March -23. —(Special to Democrati Mrs. John Wolfe. 50 residing a few miles northeast of Berne. w..s seriously it :d possibly fatally burned thia morning it her home. Mrs. Wolfe was eng ged in doing tlie family washing nnd wan carryi. g a bucket of scalding hot water, when she slipped and fell, throwing tlie water over her body. Both legs and n arm were badly burned. A Berne doctor w is called and lie stuteiphat she may recover if complications do not set in. RECEIVE WORD OF DEATH HERE B. F. Arendt, Well Known Here. Died Last Week In Michigan News received here today announced the deatli of It. F Are dt, til. at his home in St. Louis. Mich igan. a wees ago today. Funeral set vices were held in St. Louis last Saturday Mr. Arendt was for many years general sus>erintei dent for tie plants of the Holland-St. Louis Sugar Company and visited here ftetiuently. The past several yens since tlie Conti ent il Company took over tlie Holl.ndSt. Louis sugar company he had served as superintendent at St. Louis and was still in charge of that pla t. He visited here frequently and was well known by many in this locality. Mr. Arendt whs considered one of the outstanding men in the sugar biisltrnss and had assisted in various capacities in factories all over thicountry and in Cuba and Europe. He was president of a Colorado sugar company prior to beginning his duties i: this section. He be came ill about two weeks ago with a severe cold and died as the result of pneumonia which developed soon after lie bee ,me sick. LATIN CONTEST HERESATOROAY Adams County Contest Will Be Held At Decatur High School ’ The Adams Con ’y Latin contest ‘ will be held tn the Decaiur hi-’li s 001. Saturday March 25. Miss Clai-i Reppert. < minty chairman ■ of latin. announced today. Five schools from this county will be represented i tlie contest. Jefferson township. Pleasant Mill-. Monroe. Berne, and Decatur. Marie Gtether and Agnes Nelso will represent the Decatur high school in division 1. and Harriet Fruchte and 1 J.o k Gn iher ■• re entrants i the I second division Mrs C 11 P and Miss Clara Reppeit ace teachers of tlie local contestants. r Tlie district contest of t e state ' Latin co. ti it will lie held t ib. Central high school in F.irt Wayne on April Ik. Tlie schools entered in tlie county event, tlie teachers of tlie various 1. ,ti. classes, mid tlie pupils who . will participate in tlie contest are . as follows: Jefferson township. Dor as Pet ty, teacher. Division 1. Willard Kurtz and Doris Miller; Division 2. Helen Huser tnd Edythe Si yder Pleasant Mills, Mary Gulick • teacher. Division 1, Marcile Myei . ~-i iyi iNI llli ' iN PAGE FIVE! William Hahn Dies At County Infirmary i William Hahn, 77, an inm ite at the Adams County Infirmary died this morning at 8:45 o'clock, following a paralytic stroke Mr. Ha lan had made his home at the coui.ty i farm since April HI, 1925. He had never married. i Surviving are three brothers and i two sisters: Mrs. John Knavel of . Decatur; Mis. James Lalsure of i west of Monroe; lAbe Hahn of De--1 catur. and Charles aid Thomas Hahn of Daleville. I The body lias been removed to the i Lobenstein funenil parlors In Mon - roe. Funeral arrangements have , not been completed.

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Roosevelt Signs Beer Bill * wWa’ > ’ ™ a r \ 4 ri LI JK r ii• ®f3l L’-”' ffllß -II aIIImW President Roosevelt s:g..nd into law the bill allowing the sale of 3.2 per cent beer a.nd wines from midnigh (eastern time), April 6. onward. In his se.it at he head of the cabinet table, and in the pres en<of m w naperme.' ami photographers, the Presi lent glrnrcd over the five one-half pages of the enrolled Pleasure and placed his signa ure on the last rage, thus ending thirteen ?ars of drought. Photo shows the Presidon; seated at his table just al er sig ing the hill. In hack of the President, left to right, are shov -1: Represen atives Parsons of Illinois; McCormick of Massachusetts; Mr. Heefelham. ( lerk of the House; Representatives O'Connor and Cullen of New York, and Sabath of Illinois.

MANY FAMILIES ARE HOMELESS Nearlx 1,000 Families Are Driven From Homes By Floods .Marietta. Ohio. M.ir li 2S—( Fl' I - Flood danger throughout the Ohio valley is passed, a cording to an announcement today by I'nited States wc ther bure .u officials. Tl.e a nouncemenr followed a rep >rt that tlie Ohio and all its main tributaries were falling at 10;3U a. ni. from Franklin. Penn., to Cini cin ati. Pi< eipiiation was slight nd cold weither prevailed over tlie entire area. By Fnited Press Nearly 1,000 families were homeless today as crests of the Hooded Ohio and Wil tish rivers neared tlie pocket section < . Indiana. Cold weather has cnecked the fliiod-s somewhat and only lowlands are expected to lie inundated. Families driven out by tlie mud- , dy waters were given refuge in homes of friends and relatives, school Imuses or other public buiidings. Crest of the Ohio river is expect- ! ed to reach Evansville tomorrow 1 idi\itini'i-:t• i>n i- \<;t: thi:i:i-:i WILL REQUEST REDUCED RATES Public Senice Commission Will Ask Telephone Reductions Indianapolis Mar: h 23 (UP) ■ Requests tor voluntary stale wide reductiiv s in telephone rates will t lie made to officials of the Indiana t Bell Telephone company by the pub- • lie service commission it a confererne set for next week, it w s learned today. I dilations that the public serr vice commission, newly appointed by Gov Paul V. McNutt, will seek t reductions in long standing utility I rates throughout the state were - given this week when tlie commisi sioners met with heads of four of ■ the largest Indiana utilities. I Those companies, however, represented only electric, gis and I w iter services. f Another meeting with heads of f font comp'iniis will lie eld Tues- - day when rates will lie discussed i definitely. The font companies are the Public Servi e company of Ind- > iana. the Northern I diant Power company, tlie Northern Indiana . Public Service comp ny. md the Indituia Service Corporation.

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Decatur, Indiana, Thursday, March 23, 1933.

Funeral Services Heid This Morning Funeral services for Lemuel Louis I I Syphers. 67. of Fort Wayne and a j former resident of Decatur, who died Monday, where held this morn- , 'TUr.it the Klaeh,: and Sons F inei 'l I Home in Fort Wayne with Dr. Ent- i est Wareing officiating. Burial | was nude in the Decatur cemetery. : Mr. Syphers resided in Decatur before moving to Fort Wayne. He ' operated the Peoples Restaurant in this city. He w.,s a brother of Grant j Syphers of Decatur. SMALL NATIONS IN AGREEMENT Fore? Immediate Consideration of Macdonald Arms Plans Geneva. Mar. 2:1. (U.R) The > small nations of Europe, angered at i being excluded from tlie Italian proposal for a treaty among the ■ four major powers to preserve the ! peace of Europe, forced the general ' disarmament commission today toj agree to immediate consideration i of the MacDonald arms plan. Discussion of the proposals of; . Premier Ramsay MacDonald of . England will start tomorrow. The commission had planned t.i adjourn over Easter, but the small na ions appeared to fear that direct disarm nient negotiations among tlie major powers might result from I four power pa< t proposal. I Wlien chairman Arthur Hender'<a is i ixri:i > *>N c \<:t-: i'i vi:>

' < ’ ' X I I .x I !•« I ’ ' ' X ■ X ’ I I . il.’.' Popular Enthusiasm Aids Roosevelt In Gelling Program Through Congress

Washington, March 23 'U.R) ‘ Three things explain the secret of 1 President Roosevelt's striking ' ability thus far to get what he . wants from congress. 1. Tremendous popular enthusiasm for his program. 2. The patronage blub. 1 3. His winning personal ways : in dealing with congress. Accustomed for years to bitter ' fighting between the White House and congress. Washington lias f marvelled at the rapid-fire action of congress in carrying out Presi- ■ dent Roosevelt's wishes® 1 Many doubt if this will continue long to be as striking as it has f beer thns far Senators are sharpening th dr I knives to carve the farm bill. * Members in both houses privatelv ■ have been somewhat resentful ' that they have been forced to vole bills sotnei'tnes even before ‘ printed copies were available. Chairman Jones of the house

CASE COMES TO ABRUPT FINISH State Moves For Directed Verdict For Defendant In Suit Today The trial of the State (gainst August Schlickman, alleging disposal of mortgaged goods, came to an j abrupt conclusion this afternoon iw ien Ed Bosse, prosecuting attorI ney. filed a motion for a directed .verdict for tlie defendant. Tlie moition was sust lined by special Judge Ferd bitterer. Tlie prosecuting attorney stated that several of his wit e>"i ' were unable to testify because of illness and tint he could not prove tlie guilt of the accused without this | testimony, therefore he moved for ;the direeed verdict. The case opened this morning. Jurors selected to try the case were Henry J. Kies Elmore Conk, Douglas Elzey. Walter Cable. Rufus HuIser, Ira Wagoner, Henry CrownI over. Adam Beinz. James It. Crosier David Mettler. Anton Thieme and , Leonard Merryman. o — Three Berne Men Suffer Theft Loss Berne. Ind.. March 23—-/Special to Democrat) —Three Berne men, Otto Stuckey. Henry Amstutz, and Fred Kamholz and a number of others' i terested in silver fox ranch at Gn bill, snl'feied a loss of ; approxinuW "ly $3,500. Wednesday night, wlien lb silver f.ix"-. were I stolen from the ranch. The loss was not covered by in uirance.

I agriculture cotntnittei declined tn f sponsor the farm bill Chairtna i ,' Smith of the senate agriculture committee is rubbing his hands to ' I get at the farm hill and perform a series of major operations on it. Chairman Connery of the labor committee refused to sponsor the reforestation employment bill. J House Majority Leader Ryrns was so cool toward the economy bill J with its drastic veterans cut that , < hers took the lead in forcing . the measure. ! This only makes the president's driving record the more amazing to Washington Congress has , acted, hut not always willingly. . Senators and represeMatlv-'s pledged for years ito prohibition . have voted for beer. Others who elwavs voted to give the veterans . anything they asked now have I voted to strip down some of those , payments. M How has he done it? First, the nationwide popular ‘ j *?coiwi N ra>*ox *iTun? 7tv ** *

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WOMAN DEFENDS REFORESTATION PROGRAM TODAY Frances Perkins Defends Roosevelt Plan In Committee SECRETARY FAVORS 30-HOUR WEEK BILL Washington. Mur. 23.— (U.R) Secretary of Labor Frances Perkins. first woman member of an American cabinet, today defended tlie Roosevelt sl-a-day reforestation program against implications that it would create open air “sweatshops." Secretary Perkins appeared before a joint congressional committee considering the bill to recruit 250)1(10 jobless men for work in the woods. Miss Perkins told Senator Black, Dem., Ala., that she was in favor of his 30-hour week bill and believed the government should use all its influence to maintain satisfactory wages and standards of living. Washington. March 23. (U.R) The civilian employment army proposed by President Roosevelt in his job-finding program should be allowed to work on private as well tis public forests, R. Y. Stuart, chief of the United States Forest Service. suggested at a joint congressional committee hearing today. Stuart said there were 161,000.000 acres of federal forests largely west of the Mississippi. State and federal forests east of the Mississippi aggregate 22,000.000 acres. But he said only 54 per cent of all forest lands in the United States are under forest protection against tire, disease and insects. After a conference with Chairman Connery and Walsh of the house and senate labor committees. House Majority Leader Byrns ICOX'TINUF.I > i >N I’ACi: THItEEI GRANT PERMITS TO 36 BREWERS Fort Wayne Plant Among Those Permitted To Start Operations Chicago March 23 —I UP) The final step necessiry to permit distribution of maty of the Unions beers of pre-prohibition days was taken here today when E. C- Yellowlee granted permits to 3fi brewers. Among those given formal perimission to operate under the new beer-wine law were Blatz. Cream City. Schlitz. and Pabst of Milwaukee, Ulas nd Prima of. Chi ago. ami Berg off of Fort Wayne. Ind.. All have made beer that was sold over the bar in pre-war days. .1. diana permits gr uted were: Berghoff Products company of Fort Wayne. K mm and Sehellinger Company of Mishawaka and South Bend Beverage and Ice association. Advertising Illegal Washington. March 23 — (UPI — Solicitor H. J. Donnelly of the postoffice department. said todiy that newspaper advertising of beer and wine before April 7 is illegal a d that publishers who print such advertisements were liable to a m i.ximum fine of $1,060 and six mont ,s imprisonment. Don, elly explained that the beer wine bill signed yesterday by President Roosevelt would repeal tlie Reed "bone-dry" amendment of 1917. which prohibited carriage in tlie mail of matter advertising or soliciting orders for "spirituous, vinous, malted, or fermented, or other intoxicai|ng liquor of any kind." This law will remain in effect n: til April 7. he said. Farm Paper Editor Visits Adams C ounty C F. Christen, editor of the Farm and Dairy Weekly, published at Salem, Ohio, was i visitor in toe county W. ilm sda' He Visited file Cloverleaf Creamery and made a trip through the dairy centers in Adams county, considered one of tlie leading dairy counties in the istate.

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FIVE CENTS A GLASS Chicago, Mar. 23. — (U.R) Brewers today predicted a live- ■ cent glass of beer despite federal and state taxes. From St. Louis came the word that Budweiser's would : sell over the liar for 5 cents for ; a 6 or 8 ounce glass. A schoon- i er will retail at 10 cents and grocery stores will sell a case j of 12 pint bottles of the frothy | beverage for $1.20 to sl.lO. Milwaukee experts estimated I that beer there would match the St. Louis quotations. A , barrel of Milwaukee beer will cost between $lO and sl4. EXHIBITION OF BOY SCOUTS OPENS FRIDAY Complete Preparations Today For Scout Merit Badge Exhibition WILL BE HELD IN NIBLICK BUILDING Final prepirations were being made today for the opening of Decatur's first Boy Scout Merit badge demonstiation to be lield in the Niblick building on South seco. :d street. Friday evening. Saturday afternoon and evening. Boy Scouts under the supervision of Carl Pumphrey, general chair- ■ man of the show, were busy "11 day ■ putting final touches to the booths and exhibits and Mr. Pumphrey announced that everything would be ready for the grand opening Friday evening. Thirteen booths are being erected in the building. T.ie following subjects will be displayed; Electricity ■ and radio; photography; woodworking; metal work; pioneering; chemistry; firemi nship: plumbing; bird study; first aid; dairying; stamp collecting. Tlie sponsors of the booths are: P. Kirsch n d Son; Paul Edward:;; Kocher Lumber Co; A. R. AshI baucher; Smith Drug Company; City of Dec.tnr; August Walters; H. P. Schmitt C. C. Pumphrey; . Cloverleaf Creameries; Paul Gra- ' ni Insurance ’ The exposition is openp u the public and tlie doors of the building will lie opened at seven o'clock. (CONTINI'ED ON PAGE THREE, Choir Meets Tonight The Senior choir of the Zion Re- . formed Church will moot in the church tonight, immediatelv following the church service to practice . for the Easter Cant la. Every member of the choir is urged to be present. McNUTT NAMES BANK DIRECTOR President of .Jeffersonville Bank Heads State Department — Indianapolis March 23 ’U.R) Richard A. McKinley, president of ■ the Clark toitnty Slate hank. . Jeffersonville, was appointed director of the state banking department by Gov. Paul V. McNutt today. ■ He will succeed Luther F Sy- ' nions. R„ Lewisville, state btwiki ing commissioner since 1926. McKinley will head tlie new , banking department to be estab- ■ lished July 1 under authority of the state banking act of the last . legislature. By that time McNutt will have appointed tlie new non-salaried five-member banking commission , to control tlie department. Much of tlie task of organizing , tlie new department, administering new banking laws and aidign . hanks to conform with strict pro- , visions of the new law will fall , on McKinley. , He is a former treasurer of the i Indiana Banker’s association. , Symons was appointed deputy ♦♦ ♦ • (CONTINUED ON PAG£ SIX)

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GERMAN LEADER IS VOTED GREAT POWERS TODAY < Reichstag Votes Sweeping Power To Chancellor, Then Adjourns DEMANDS REVISION OF FOREIGN DEBTS Berlin, March 23.— <U-R’ — Dictatorial powers of the most sweeping nature, placing him even above the constitution ot the republic, were granted to Adolph Hitler, Nazi chancel- , lor. by the reichstag tonicht. The legislators, thoroughly dominated by the Hitler machine. voted away their own powers by 491 to 44 and then adjourned indefinitely. Hitler demanded revision of Germany's foreign debts today, explaining that otherwise the nation could not lift the existing currency restrictions. Addressing the reichstag. which convened to act on legislation giving him almost supreme dictatori ial power, he promised "ruthless extermination" of internal enemies, indicated no present attempt to restore the Germany monarchy would be permitted. He also demanded Germany's place in the sun as the peace agreement proposed by Premier Benito Mussolini as a "broad- , minded attempt to assure the peacefill development of Europe." He , thanked Italy for understanding . Germany's national rebirth. I He added he would seek a compromise with other powers with which difficulties existed but on , condition that an agreement be reached ending the distinction he- . tween victors and vanquished in , the World war. Hitler said Germany wished to > maintain friendly relations with ,• Soviet Russia but that the fight against communism is Germany’s I own affair, with which foreigners . could not meddle. The uprooting of communism - would proceed ruthlessly, he conJ (CONTINUED ON PAGE TWO) PROMISE LEGAL BEER IN APRIL Governor McNutt Pledges Beer Wil! Be Sold In State First Day Indianapolis, March -23.— (U.R) - Legal beer will be on sale in Indiana April 7. Gov. Pau! V. McNutt pledged today. At the same time he ordered Paul ' Fry, state excise director, to speed ‘ up the issuance of permits and ' licenses for the brew. Fry had announced yesterday that it would he June 1 before beer could be sold in Indian.’. He said it would take that long to get the license machinery in motion. Later he modified his statement to about three weeks. McNutt pointed out that Indiana ' was the first state to enact beer I control legislation and he saw no reason to delay on technicalities or red tape surrounding permit issu- . unces "We will lie able to retail some beer in this state the first day it is authorized and will increase outlets rapidly from that date." Im added. f The governor indicated in his press conference late yesterday that party organization back wet delegates to the repeal convention. "Repeal is a Democratic party .platform pledge." he explained. 'There is every reason why the party should work to keep its prom- ; isos." McNutt is planning to issue a f call for election of delegates to the t repeal convention some time this week I i Earthquake In Greece ’ Athen . Mandi 23 i UP) — A heavy earthquake shock rocked tlia 1 eastern portion of tlie Peloponnesus peninsula and islands In tlie lonian sea todiy. ('onsiderable damage was done, hut no casualties were reported. Panic-stricken inhabitants of villages fled to the open, and camped "tlll'lC.