Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 31, Number 72, Decatur, Adams County, 25 March 1933 — Page 1

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|ATUR SCOUT fiHIBITIONIS ■ELL ATTENDED K Badge Exhibition H n Jn Niblick BuildH ing Friday {■iBITION OPEN ■ T HH \l TI- KNOON ■ n ,| the )<l;**iiit blare <>l Kviuiiiic b'titl speaker, ■niii.mi it'"'* ;; 1 V VCi '- Band. lit*' ham* He pounding. sawing. n ',. (l | scwnlv hoys, ■li/lnmp <>l a thousand M n | feet, Decatur's first Bov Scout Merit K. dfinolislialion opened HVnight m l' K ' Niblick on South Second leaders, .out friends nrl Geneva. Wl'ftl. other towns agreed »a- the m.st successful ever heal in a city of There was all the exKl and rtl'«wy of the earrival with none of dem.'iis rated what they and what they will do future Fourteen booths fmir'ee-. •it badges saw all 'he work done their eyes bridges ww» radio' '•' oiled Youth to ago <| I Man Depreshurried under an ava of energy and activity. follows a partial list of gathered front the book: Harold FenDale Aspy. Leonard He: lie! t Fe-asel, Donald ■ Clare: e Hartley. Herman ■.Hn;!: Ralston, all of Geneva ■ the follc.wine front Fort Lane Hobrock, scout Ks./ troop bl Joe Warner. ■ commissioner: M. J. Hop■l. I. lie < liki". area ox.-eu Mrs Hotchkiss; Mr. ami Gt 11> Mara: ' ens. John 11. area -..up chairman. ■ president. Lewis Moore ot will come tonight. tnsa - tiie-en; from (loner a I Communi'y W. with I) F Grill, scoutUnited i'.tc'hren troop, ■kh Per. |'„ I. I’ckerly. scout ■ff. Nearly sis v persons front \Vrii, obi ■ ! icluding ■ecu tris.p . -ill Scounmist> r Mtrnwii greater than last is expect, d this afternoon ■boas” Th" demonstration ■ba: 2 this as ernoo.i remain open until five The evening program at seven o'clock and until ten o'clock. The Junior Band will again- be and Gerald Cole will remessages at the radio for free transmission to any 'he country over his r transmitting station in Par || | )00 (h were: ■“P C*llec ing (Paul GruHarold Zimmerman. Fred Kirsch. Robert Lehman. ■m Shell. - I I.e,i Kirsch, spoil Marcellus Miller in charge; ■ Smith, Dick Girod. Arthur Dan Holthouse. ■jMring-n,ee Hardware Co.. Edward Jaberg in charge ■J* Drake. James Highland ■* Arnold. John Gray. Dill ■*- P»t Murphy, Eugene DanBeery. (Kocher Luminol ■pnnor) Uwell J. Smith in HfJP’VED ON PAGE F*VE* * ■ww Blocher I Dies At Geneva ■“*» Bio. her. 82, died at the ■ I hl " niece, Mrs. Harvey Geneva, Friday morning ■ ock following a serious ill a Week Mr, Blocher had ■. g, '" T ' alld tor several years. ■ *a- r er WaS * )Orn ' n <> ern,an y ■, fonnerly engaged In the KZ le . bll »lness at Pittsburgh. K s ..’ a ' Following the death K hu* ? 1 ' Ino ' ed ,o Geneva to Stan.? 0 ' 11 '' with hls nl«c« besides Mrs. Brown is an ■i dw UghtP1 ' Adelt ® e ' Ki re< l ueg fed that no K»th a Ce “ be held ' Tb * "‘ lu> " t 0 Mr - Mm *» Kl «e n , , reluat '‘ d - -<l the ashes h ‘to Pittsburgh Monday.

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May he U. S. Envoy -x j ■ T'" itt s. .M jHr ■B «aBJk f ■h TSA-- y Dave Hennen Morris, prominent New York lawyer, who is being metmioned for the post of I'nited States Ambassador to Germany, following the refusal ot former Governor James M. Cox. of Ohio, to accept the position. Morris, a native of New Orleans, La., and a Harvard graduate, has Jong been associated with social work in New York. SENATORS SEEK MODEL MEASURE Senators Devising Model Beer Bill For District Os Columbia Washington. March 25. — Hj.R) — Biblical miracles and the cornpar alive merits of drinking beer in- ' side or at tables outside a legiti|mate_t;asi auratit perplex senators [as they seek to devise a model beer bill for the District of Columbia. i At issue, also, are disputes closer to the capitol—whether, for instance. 3.2 per cent beer shall be sold in the house and senate restaurants. The house has voted not to prevent such sale. Inn the senate must still decide. Hotels and restaurants are disturbed over pro|M)sals that barbecue stands be permitted to dispense legal brews. The caiiit.il beer bill passed the house March 23. After senate subcommittee hearings yesterday. Chairman Tydings said he hoped to report a hill to the senate next Wednesday. Tile bill is intended to serve as a model for other communities. As it passed the house, it forebatie sale of the legalized 3.2 per cent beer, wine and fruit juice to perMBs under IS years of age. Licenses could be issued for con sumption at hotels., restaurants and clubs. Other places could sell beer for consumption off the premises. Annual license fees would be 1100 and $25, respectively. The h'ONTIN'I'WD ON' PAGE TWO) KIDNAPERS SAY OHIO BOY SAFE Father of Kidnaped Youth Receives Note From Kidnapers Youngstown. O Mar. 25.—(U.R) — Peter Myers. Masury tavern keeper. received a note from the kid napers of his 15-year-old son. Peter, Jr., telling him the boy is safe, he revealed today. The letter, which came by mail said: “Mr. MyersS: We are glad you called the law and newspapermen off. You will hear from us soon. Petey is sate. Keep this quiet. (Signed) "The Abductors" Prior to receiving the note. Myers had heard no word from his son since he was whisked away a week ago tonight by three men armed with a machine gun. Myers told police today he is convinced the note was genuine, pointing out hat the paper and handwriting are the same as the note left by the abductors with the Myers' chauffeur, M|ke Stevens, when the boy was kidnaped. Myers refused to show the note to officers, or to reveal the post mark on (he envelope. The reference in the note to ‘ **CONTINU'EI> ON PAGS TWO)

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FIVE PERSONS BURN TO DEATH THIS MORNING Explosion Os Gasoline Stove Causes Deaths Early This Morning TWO OTHERS ARE SERIOUSLY HURT Woodward, Okla.. Mar. 25—«U.R) —Five persons, were burned to death today when a gasoline stove on which whisky mash was cooking exploited at the home ot Hoy Smith near Fargo, Okla. The flames spread rapidly through the house, trapping in their beds the five who were burned to death. Two others. Smith and his two-year-old son. Donald, were critically burned. The dead were Mr. and Mrs. Nick Smith, parents of the injured man. Mrs. Roy Smith, his wife, their three year old daughter, and Mrs. Stine.nan, sister of Roy Smith. Smith explained the tragedy after being brought to a hospital here. "I got up at 4 a. tn., to put six gallons of whisky mash on the gasoline stove." he said. "I had just started it cooking when something exploded. 1 just had time to grab Donald and run out with him. and then the whole house was in flames. We had to make whisky o keep from starving." Berne Petitions For Lower Rates Indianapolis March 25 —(UP) — A petition askit g the Indiana service corporation to reduce its electric rates in Berne was filed today with the public service commission. Senator Thurman A. Gottschalk of Berne headed the list of 12 petitioners. o ESTATE CLAIM BEFORE COURT Lihhy Holman Reynolds’ Claim To Estate Placed Before Court Bal iniore, Md . March 25. -(U.R) -Libby Holman Reynolds' claim to a share of the R. J. Reynolds tobacco millions for her infant son has boon placed before the Baltimore circuit court tor decision. The Safe Deposit and Trust company, trustees of the Reynolds estate, asked the court to take jurisdiction over the estate and determine the share to which various claimants, including the former Broadway torch singer, are entitled. Neither the company nor its attorneys would reveal the value of the estate, widely reported to approach $100,000,000. The will I of R. J. Reynolds is understood to have left about $20,060,000 in trust for Smith Reynolds. Miss Holman's husband, who died of mysterious gunshot wounds nt Wiriston-Saleni. N. last summer. The trustees asked the court to rule on the validity of the divorce of Smith Reynolds' first wife, Ann cannon Smith, and his stibse *7< ’< »X I I NI’F.D ON PAGE I’l VE) Former Decatur Mau Dies At Hicksville, O. Word has been received here of the death of William Russel of Hicksville. Ohio, for many years a resident of Decatur, who died at the home of his daughter, Mrs. Fred Cleland. Fridiy afternoon. Mr. Russel died suddenly. He had not been HL The deceased was born in Decatur. a son of William and Winifred Russel, both deceased. He was married to Aminda Poling of this city, who survives, together with the daughter and i grandson. Two brothers. Art of Fort Wayne and Joe of Warren. Ohio. ..nd two sisters. Mrs. Elwood Stevens of Michigan and Mrs. Teck Stetson of Hammond also survive. The body will be brought to Decatur for burial. Funeral services will be held Tuesday afternoon at 2 o’clock at I: [the Robert Poling residence on For- ( uax street in this city.

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Decatur, Indiana, Saturday, March 25, 1933.

♦ -fll TWENTY YEARS AGO Many of our readers will re- i member twenty years ago today, March 25, 1913. That day not a train entered i Decatur, practically every highway was closed and “Decatur i was an isle in a vast sea of water.” That was the heading across the page of the Daily Democrat that evening. Water ; ! was over the roads north, east I H and south of town and many i | families had to he moved, in i the territory of Steele’s park, | . | the water stood several feet in i the residences and there was | considerable loss to property. I The flood became dangerous on Sunday and the streams i continued to rise during the ' i week, the danger extending over the entire week. News ’ i that the reservoir at Celina had | .1 | burst brought fear to many. ! i Schools were dismissed and i people prepared to seek refuge | on the high spots. In Fort | | Wayne. Huntington, Peru and i many other places the damage i was heavy and a number of 1 : lives were lost. j i < » I

LIME SLUDGE TO BE AVAILABLE I Officers of Central Sugar Co. Agree To Keep Supply Available More than 20.000 yards of marl or lime sludge from the sugar plant have been distributed on farms in the northern part of Adams county in the last two years. This Is equi . valent to 10.000 tons of agricultural limestone, and is sufficient to lime 5.000 acres of land. The use of this material has a tremendous beneficial effect on the production of sweet clover, alfilt'a and red clover, enabling the farmer to balance Illis HxesMck rations with home grown stuff. Indirectly it will increase the yields of corn and sm ill grains, thus lowering the production cost per bushel. lOfftciers of (the Central Sugar company had plumed to close this source of lime when beginning tneil spring work, hut L. E. Archbold, county agent, has prevailed upon them to keep this source of lime opens so that the some:• within easy hauling distance can avail themselves of this raateri 1. Ihe length of time this pond will be kept open depends on the interest the farmers displav. — o South Bend Man Named Indianapolis. Mar. 26 —.(U.R) —Appointment of John Smoger, South Bend, as field representative of the store tax division of the state tax board for the northeastern Indiana district was announced late yesterday by Gov. Paul V. McNutt. o — DENY REPORTS OF ATROCITIES Jewish Veterans In Berlin Deny Anti-Semitic Acts In Germany Berlin, Mar. 25.-—(U.R) —The Jewish war veterans association today handed the United States embassy in Berlin a statement condemning “exaggerations'' in reports on antisemitic acts here, and retpiested that it be cabled to the United States. "Our duty toward our country as well as to the truth leads us to correct reports of alleged anti-Jew-ish atrocities." the statement said in part. "Maltreatments and excesses have occurred, which we are unwilling to excuse, but such happenings are unavoidable in the case of revolution and the authorities have always energetically Intervened whenever feasible. “How*ever, those who participated in the attacks are for the most part irresponsible elements working in tiie dark. We know that the government disapproves of maltreatment accorded Jews.” The statement condemned reports circulated by ‘so-called Jewish intellectuals who sought a safe refuge spreading news full of ex aggerations and harming their own 1 people.’’

WILL OBSERVE > GOOD FRIDAY Protestant Churches Os Decatur Will Hold Union Services The Protestant church of Decatur will observe Good Friday, April 14, the day on which Christians commemorate the crucifixion of Jesus Christ, with a three-hour union service. The Good Friday program will possibly be held in the Zion Reformed church this year, although definite announcement of the place for the union service has not been nijide. (The observance will begin at 12 o'clock noon and continue until three o’clock. Schools will be dismissed during the three-hour period so that pupils may attend the services. The general theme of the program will be the seven last sayings of Christ. Each minister will participate in the service and groups and choirs will represent the various churches in song. A detailed program has not been arranged but will be announced upon completion. The churches which will take part in the union services will be the Methodist Episcopal. United Brethren. First Evangelical, Zion Reformed. First Christian. Baptist and Presbyterian. Separate services will be held on Good Friday at the St. Mary's Catholic church and the Zion Lutheran church. Tragedy Averted Leesburg. Ind., March 25. — (U.R) —Tragedy was narrowly averted last night when six hundred persons attending a Leesburg high school play became panic stricken as fire broke out in the switchboard electric system. They stampeded for Che exits but none was injured. Damage to the switchboard was slight. STATE VOTE ON REPEAL JUNE 6 Governor McNutt Expected To Issue Proclamation Soon Indianapolis. March 25- (U.R) — Indiana probably will vote on the prohibition repeal question Jun? 6. Gov. Paul V McNutt said late yesterday. He is expected to issue a fotttiai proclamation in a few days. On the da e he sots, delegates will he elected to the convention to decide whether Indiana favors repeal of the 18th amendment. A total of 329 delegates will be elected on the basis of one for each county plus one for each 10.000 population or major fraction thereof. If ’the "election is held June 6. tiie convention will be held June 26 a, 2 p. m.. in the house of representatives chamber. Since no one may vote for both wet and dry candidates, split delegations to lite convention are not expeo ed. Straight ticket voting is allowed. With delegates pledged publicly to one side of the question or the other, outcome of th econvention will be known with the election. Drys and wets are expected to prepare slates containing the exact number of delegates to be elected from the counties. Start Preparations Indianapolis. March 25 'U.R) - Federal machinery for collection of the $5-a-barrel beer tax in Indiana and for inspection and licensing of state breweries and medicinal whiskey dealers was operating today. George L. Winkler and J L. Hodges. Indiana inspectors for (CONTINI’RD ON PADR SIX) Four Persons Are Killed By Train Elizabethtown. Kay.. March 25 — Four persons were killed near here todiy when a north bound Louisvilleand Nashville passenger train crashed into their automobile, smashing it to bits. The dead are Herman Gill. 44; Leland N. Taylor, 20; Elmer Cole. 22 and Arnold Casey, 24, all of : Owensboro. Ivan Terrill, fifth member ot the 'Party, was injured critically.

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TO INTRODUCE NEW BILL FOR UNEMPLOYMENT New Measure Is Expected To Call For Reforestation Only LABOR LEADERS OBJECT TO PLAN Washington March 25 (UP) - Senator David Walsh of Mass., indicated today alter a White House ; conference that a substitute bill for unemployment.relief would be offered in congress Monday. A: cording to Walsh the new measute will call for reforestation only and will give to the president the right to say how details of its terms will be carried out. The present measure now specified the exact method by which the unemployment relief would be ad--1 ministered. Mr. Roosevelt, it was under stood was -agreeable to the suggested changes. • Labor Objects Washington. March 25—(UP)-—' The senate labor committee meets i today to begin modifying President Roosevelt's reforstation army plan to meet some of the objections of labor leaders who denounced the program as a “regimentation" of American workers. Chairman Walsh said the changes would assure the voluntary char- i acter of the unemployment relief project and eliminate its more military features. Mr. Roosevelt hopes to care for 250,000 of the jobless through the reforestation wonk. To help states and cities care for other unemployment. the administration virtually has decided to make direct grants to states which have exhausted their borrowing power. Previous advances to states through the R. F. C. have been on a loan, basis. The President feels many of these loans cannot be repaid and may as will be written off now. Money for direct grants would be raised through issuance of federal bonds, perhaps to the extent of $500,000,000. Some oppo' cuts of the reforestation pint contended th t i. e mea- ' sure was drafted by the administiation would give the government power virtually to conscript jobless men and put them to work in the woods. Committee members said it never ' was the President's intention to bring any man into the forestry airny against his will. They were ' assured that he would nctept any changes to make this cleat. No changes are expected in the [ $1 a day wage which President Wil- , liatn Green of the American federa- ' lion of labor declared would en d .nger National living standards. Committeemen hope to have the measure ready for house and senate ' eonsideratio nthe latter part of next week. I DEBT QUESTION IS HELD OPEN Discussion of War Debt Revision Held Open For Present Washington, March 25.— (U.R) — Secretary of State Hull indicated today that the question of whether the United States would discuss war debt revision with defaulting countries such as France was being held open for the present To clear up what he regarded as a misunderstanding in some quarters on this subject. Hull stated: “As to the governments that are in default or have deferred their payments on the inter-government-al debts. I cannot say at the present time that we would sit in with those governments in future discussions of the debts." At the same time, Hull made It clear that he was anxious to obtain the cooperation of all governments. regardless of their status as debtors in preparation for the world economic conference. Hull's statement today marked a shift in policy from the Hoover administration. Although it made no formal statements the Hoover administration closed th*' door on debt discussions with the defaulters until they had paid their in-; stallnients due last December 15. i (CONTINUED ON PAGE SIX)

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Committee woman? Mrs. Harriet Mack, of Buffalo, N. A’., who has been proposed as Democratic National Committeewoman to take the place left vacant by the death of Miss Elisabeth Marbury. Mrs. Mack is the widow of Norman E. Mack, who was a Democratic National Committeeman for many years. STATE BOARDS FACE SHAKEUP Governor McNutt Considers Many Changes In Board Lineups Indianapolis. March 25.— (U.R) —• Boards of trustees of Indiana's penal and benevolent institutions, as well as those in charge of state departments, face a general shakeup. Gov. Paul V. McNutt has indicated numerous changes are under consideration. Only recently he said he was thinking of reducing hoards of trustees of all institutions from four to three members. Under the present setup, the boards consist of four members, two from each major political party. Should McNutt reduce their memberships ta three, it is assumed two Democrats and one Republican would get the positions. Authority to reorganize, or even eliminate all institutional boards at his pleasure, was granted McNutt in the state government reorganization measure passed by the special legislative session. The only change to date, however. has been appointment of a partly new state armory board. Tiie state board of agriculture and the state board of health appear most certain to be reorganized Two Democratic members of the latter. Drs. John Hare, Evansville. and Frank Creagor, Indianapolis. recently conferred with the governor. The agriculture board shake-up was strongly indicated when the general assembly passed a measure, introduced by administration leaders, specifically allowing such reorganization of that body. One change already has been made in the state tax board. Albert F. Walsn.stj, Indianapolis rep(CONTINUKD ON PAGE SIX) Q Ketchum Appointed Board Secretary Indianapolis, March 25—(U.R) — Appointment of Sen. Anderson Ketchum. Greensburg. majority floor leader in the last legislature, as secretary of the state tax board was announced late yesterday by Gov. Pau! V. McNutt He will take the tax board post April 1. succeeding Lewis O. Chasey, Marion, former secretary to former Gov. Harry G. Leslie. Chasey took the lax board post in January when Leslie retired. Ketchum is a former deputy clerk of the supreme and appellate courts. Myrtle Shafer Is Granted Divorce Myrtle Viola Shafer was granted a divorce from Carl Wayne Shafer In the Adams circuit court this morning. The plaintiff also was awarded custody of four children and a support allowance of $3 weekly Upon a statment by the defendmt that he did not intend io conform io the order of the court, tiie defendant was ordered comI mitted to the Adams county jail tor a period of thirty days.

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TWO ARE DEAD, EIGHT INJURED IN COLLISION Sedan And Bus Sideswipe; Five Passengers Escape Injury DEAD PERSONS WERE OHIO RESIDENTS Angola. Inti.. Mar. 25—.'• uw — A sedan carrying eight Ohio residents and a Cleveland to Chicago bus sideswiped in a big snow storm here today caus in g two deaths and the injury of eight others. The dead were identified as Dale Hotchkins, 55, and Mrs. Emma Miller, 35, both of Middlefield, Ohio. The injured included six other passengers in the sedan, which was driven by Hotchkins. They were Moses C. Burkholder, 44. his father,. Eli M. Burkholder. 70; his wife. Anna. 38; Mrs. Nancy Burkholder. 20: Elizabeth Burkholder. 2. and John C. Morton. 40, all of Middlefield. Two bus passengers. Miss Mamya Davis. 28 of Chicago and Miss Laura Thurston, 30 of Akron, O„ completed the injured list. All those hurt were brought to a hospital here. Five other passengers in the bus escaped. Hotchkins was driving tiie Burkholder family and the others to Middlefield after they had attended a funeral yesterday near Elk- . hart. The snow was so heavy that it , obscured vision. Approximately > 15 inches covered the ground. The accident occurred on U. S. Road 20, nine miles east of here . near the Ohio line. Today's heavy snowfall was in- . directly responsible for numerous . other automobile accidents in . Northeastern Indiana. Killed in Illinois . Chicago. March 25 —(U.R) —Slush and slippery pavements todav : brought death and injuries as a . late March winter scene came to (CONTINUnn ON PAGE SIX) 0 Wallace Testifies Before Committee Washington, March 25 —(UP)— Congress must grant “Broad and Flexible powers” to the administration if the farm problem is to lie solved. Secretary of agriculture Wallace testified before the senate agriculture committee toitey Wallace appeared before the committee to combat ~n incipent com- • mittee revolt which threatens to cut to pieces his authority over farm production as provided tor in the Roosevelt farm relief bill. OBTAIN $47.50 AT LAW OFFICE Theft Is Discovered at Office Os Herman Myers, Local Attorney Herman H. Myers, Decatur attorney. reports the theft of $47.50 from the safe of his office on South Second street. The money taken was from funds kept on hand to make paments to depositors in the Peoples Loan and Trust Company. It is believed the theft occurred .*4 the noon hour Thursday. Mr. Myers was out ot town Thursday and the theft was not discovered until late Friday afternoon. No one was in the office for a short time Thursday during the time of the fire at the K. of C. building and it is lielieved the theft occurred at that time. 1 he soleu money was in a money sack in the office sate. The thief took the 47.50, leaving nine cents remaining In the sack. The safe > was not locked, althougli the inner <)-><?•■ was closed. The thief did not . disturb any papers In the safe and , it is evident that the robber was familiar with the office. , | Mr. Myers stated this morning - ti l t n O ;burgi,ary insurance was i carried on this money but that persons having money coming from . this payment will not suffer any . loss. The money is pari of that paid . by stockholders of the bank on .'their assessment. Mr. Myers is rail ceiver for the hank in collecting this assessment.