Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 31, Number 73, Decatur, Adams County, 27 March 1933 — Page 1

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Lodge Will Observe 33rd Anniversary The 31lrd anniversary of tin- organization of the loeal Hen Hur lodge will be observed in the Hen Hur hall. Friday night. An invitation has been extended to the Fort Wayne lodge, and a large delegation from that organization is expected to attend.. .A program and games and amusements will be furnished durit g the evening and all members of the local Ben Hur lodge and their families are urged to be present. LATIN CONTEST HELD SATURDAY Three Decatur Pupils, One Monroe Student Win County Contest Three pupils of the Decatur high school and one from .Monroe won the Adams Comity I-atin contest held in the local high school Saturday. The winners of this event will compete in the district contest of the State I. tin contest to lie held at the Central high school in Fort Wayne on April S. Marie Grether of the Decatur school wis Ute wt. ner of division one, beginning latin. and Harvey Habegger of Monroe w is second. In the second division Harriet Fruchte Decatur, was first, and Jack Grether. also of this city, was seco <1 Division two in the contest included pupils taking se.ond year Latin. Pins were awarded to the winners during the aftenioo by county superintendent of schools. Clifton E. Striker. A program w - al o presented by the Latin Club of the local high school. Five schools from Adams County were represented in the co. test. Jeltersnn township, Monroe, Berne, Pleasasi Mills, and Decatur. Mm. C O. Porter unit Miss Clara Reppert are teachers of Latin in the Decatur school. tCONTINI’ISD OX CAiti: TWO) AIR DISASTER KILLS THIRTEEN Two Houses Arc Destroyed By Plane Flying Blind In Storm Oakland, Calif.. Mar. 27 tlffi) An air disaster in which 13 persons were fatally burned in the splintered wreck ge of h ’Use and plane reached the concluding phases of an investigation today. Department of commerce officials completed a confidential report on the crash Saturday night of a Varney speed lines airliner which before burying its blazing nose in a nearby orchard drove through two houses, leveling them in flames to the ground. Twelve victims, including a mother and her four children, were burned beyond recognition. Ihe father died last night. Two houses were fired by the hurtling plane which pilot Noel B. (Little Jackie) Evans was attempting to bring through a blinding rain to Oakland airport. Ruling as passengers were Miss Lavelle Miller and Herman L. Brow hot hos lx>s Angeles, southern tetmmim of the route. Ail were killed. Groping for an emergency landing, Evans swooped low ovei ,he 1 thinly settied district l„ t». . Howard and San Leandro. Oakland suburbs. The roar of his stricken I ship brought frightened residents ,to their windows v o was Joe Arisa. 40. whose family and four guests preceded him tn death. 1 Before striking Arisa's house, the ■ *OX)NTINCED ON rvlL m l. Wins Third Prize )! Miss Mary Hoy. 514 Nort Thit ' atreet. Decitur. receiver! a prize o. $lO in the News-Sentinel > third an t nual state tournament doping coni test. Miss Elsie Waltke of I ‘ Wavne was the first prize witin r in the contest and Miss Florentine . Heckman, also of Fort Mayne «as (1 • i Miss Hoy is 2« yens old and has played muchhisketball having been f a member of the G.E. Girl* - Fort Wayne. The two other ptiz ; winners have not taken active part - in athletics. The first and second » prizes were $25 a'd 115 tesp>< lively.

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13 Die In Plane Crash Photo shows men examining charred motor and propellor of ,he burned Varney tri-motor speed lane that fell into a house in Hayward. California, killing thirteen persons.

LOCAL PASTOR DELIVERS TALK Rev. Prugh Speaks To Young People In Combined Meeting Sunday “The volatility of present economic and pol ical trends in the i European countries makes it impossible to predict what condi-1 lions will he in the future." said Rev. Charles M. Prngh in a talk before the Epworth League of the Mt hedist t hureh and the Chris- ■ twiii 44n<U»«vai’.«f Ah* Xiuu. lilJarjnJ ed church in a combined meeting held in the Methodist church Silnday afternoon. Rev. Prngh, as a student of theology, spent fourteen mow’hs at Heidelberg University in Ger many completi v his education He saw at first hand the conditions which resulted in he present crisis. Rev. Prngh began his talk with a short history of the Gorman empire and republic. Ho said that the defeat in he World War ami the resultant treaty of Versaißos had much to do with Germany's presen distress. “Adolnh Hitler, hough mn n V of his principles if carried out would be disastrous, is the only man who has a chance to lead Germanv out His persecution of ; the Jews todav is the result of his campaign promises -o ake the wealth away from the Jewish capi italists." he continued. i Hitler is a Catholic when the i needs of Germany do not make i him otherwise. His party proi fesses Chris> ianity. His porsecui tior of tlie communists and other dangerous elements in the coun - try is recognized as necessary by ■ the public. However, the powers ■ he has received, which are greater than any other ruler in Europe )CONTINUITt) ON PAGE TWO) DEMONSTRATION WELL RECEIVED Bov Scout Exhibition Frii day And Saturday Was Well Attended ’ Dr Fred Patterson, chairman of the arrmgement.s committee, and ' c. C. Pumphrey, general chairman , of tlie Decatur Boy S out Merit , Badge demonstr tion held la-t week, expressed their appreciation today to everyone who helped make the affair a success. They wished especially to tliauk the spo sors I who took care of the booths, )A. D. I Suttles, who donated the building. Avon Burk who donated the fuel, i- and the Decatur Junior b ud. Everyt thing used in the exhibit was donatr ed. P It was estimated that over fifteen s hit died people -aw the exhibition Tlie inclement weat er cut down » the attand n. e on the last day. u The committees in charge were II pie sed with the Intereat shown In e Scouting by poisons who saw the t demonstration. They feel that it will il bring about a better understanding of tlie work ami ideals of the movement.

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Decatur, Indiana, Monday, March 27, 1933.

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Barton Pogue Chosen Commencement Speaker , Barton Reese Pogue of Upland, well known poet who has spoken in Ad. ms County on previous oecas-j ions, lias been selected the speaker ' for tlie 'd ins County high school] commencement exercises, it was ir.i- j nounced today. I arge classes will be graduated ] from the seven Adams County high , ischools located at Geneva. Hartford. Monroe. Pie saut Mills, Kii.Uand, Monmouth and Jefferso.’. The exercises will be held be- , jtween April 24 and May 1 in the’ various schools and Mr. Pogue will ! deliver tae address at each of the ' programs. ijie county high school cantata , —Wilf lie presented at the Mennoriite | church i. Berne on April 14 it was announced. Pupils in tlie county schools will participate. RESTRICTIONS ARE MODIFIED Banking Commissioner Modifies Restrictions On Class B Banks Indianapolis. March 27 (UP) — Restrictic s placed on class B state hanks after the n tional holiday were modified today by Lut er F. Symons, state banking commisuicner. The new order removed the restriction witch prohibited withdrawals on savings and certificates of deposit for 90 days. I:stead, it permits withdrawal of five per ■•ent on all classes of deposits made prior to February 27. The first order permitted withdrawal of five per cent only on cheesing deposits. All deposits made on and after (CONTINt’ED ON PAGE THItEE) o —— Large Crowd Attends Opening Os Drug Store it luge crowd attended the opening of the new B. J. Smith Drug Company on North Second street. Saturday. The store moved into, the new modern building two doors south of the former location, reO. Uy. Door prizes awarded at the opening went to Miss Amanda Ktuckenberger. Decatur, Lester Hunter, Berne: Argo Sudduth, Decatur: Miss Effie Laturner. Willshire. Ohio; .Miss Katherine Bucher and .Miss Helen Hoile, Decatur. Don’t Miss It I The New Bvatrire Burton Serial MARY FA IT II Wednesday in Daily Democrat

DONATE FIFTY LOTS TO NEEDY Lots Have Been Donated To Relief Association For Unemployed ; At le st 50 lots liave been donat-’ led to the Decatur Emerge cy Rellief Association for the unemployled garden movement in Decatur. Will Linn, local clothier, who was Irece- tly reappointed chiirmin ol the unemployed garden moveme t. jhas charge of the g rden plots. Mr. | Linn is also county chairm.u of the unemployed relief commission, having been appointed by the district chairman, Fred B. Shoaff of Fort Wayne. Efforts are being made to secure a large number of lots for the unemployed nd anyone having lots to offer, or seed, espeei lly seed potatoes, is asked to notify Mr Linn, Dr. Burt Mangold, or T. R. Noll. The Emergency Relief Association of Decatur will defray a part of the expense for the seed, hut limited funds iiiuko it impossible to bear the entire burden of buying the seed. The individual garden s last year proved to be very siiccc iful. Mr. Linn stated today, and an attempt will be made to secure more lots this summer tor me who have no work. The hospital ground, located south of the hospital and containing approximately five acres, has been donated to the garden movement and will be divided into small plots. Individual lots will be provided for those who desire them a d a community garden will also he conducted. All unemployed persons in the city may work i: the community garden, and tlie crops will be p! red in storage for next winter. o FIVE SUSPECTS ARE ARRESTED Five Me n. One Badly Wounded, Under Arrest At Marion As Suspects Marion, Ind . Mar. 27- U.R) — Five mon. one believed mortally won ded, were under arrest here ( today as suspects in a series of safe robberies in Marion. Sweetser. Huntington. Jonesboro and Peru. Officials at Gra t county hospital reported this morning that Billy Browning. 43, Toledo. O . probably will be arable to survive bullet wounds in he arm and abdomen. He was shot by police when he tried to escape. Tlie other suspects gave their names as Hay Shawl. 35. Detroit. Mich.: John McHenry. 36. and Ted Elbert, 35. both of Toledo, O„ and Lewis (Big) Rngg'es. 32, Marion taxi driver. All deny any coip'ection wt h the robberies They were arrested when Marlon and state police raided a house on tlie edge of the downtown district. In the building were found two badges similar to those worn by federal agents, j (CONTINUEJD* On'paOE *TWG) ' '

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DECATUR LOAN COMPANIES ARE OPENED TODAY One Opens Without Restrictions; Other (liven Restricted License ALL BUT SIXTEEN IN STATE OPENED Indianapolis. Mar. 27 —<U.R) —All but 16 of the state’s 37S building and loan associations were Issued licenses to reopen by the state banking department today. General. unrestricted licenses were issued to IS3 ins’ itutions, 175 were put on a restricted license basis. 10 were closed and six were taken under consideration. The licenses are effective today', allowing immediate reopening of the associations so authorized. Those issued a general license will resume their normal business except that hoarding and gold or gold certificate withdrawals are prohibited. Depositor stockholders in the restricted license associations will be allowed to withdraw up to 50 per cent of their stock investments as of March 6 when the banking holiday became effective. On deposr’s made after March 6. withdrawals may be made under the association's regular withdrawal system. Such deposits must be kept separate from old deposits and 50 per cent of the new deposi s must be kept in cash Withdrawal limits of different natures oidinarily are used by building and loan associations by authority of Indiana laws. Among the associations receiving the general or unrestricted licenses ,’oday were: The Provident Building and ICOXTINT’KD ON PAGE I'Oflt) TWO INJURED IN ACCIDENT Mrs. Harry Erhart And Daughter Suffer Cuts And Bruises Mrs. Harry Erhart and daughter Maxinc of near Monrae suffered cuts and bruises i an automobile accident which occurred at the intersection of J ekson and third streets, Saturday evening about 4:30 o’clock. Mrs Erhart received several cuts on her face and the little girl was badly bruised. The child was brought to the office of a local physician today for examination. Mr. Erhart, the other occupant of the car was uninjured and Lawrence Omlor. driver of the other ear in the accident, escaped injury. The Erhart and Omlor cars collided at the street intersection. The back of the Erhart car wa, struck, turning it completely around. F:hart was driving east on Jackson street and Omlor was going north on Third. The door of the Erhart car was forced open, throwing Mrs Erhirt and the child onto the brick street. Union Barber Shops Announce Price Cui Union barber shops today announced 25 cent h ir cuts. The former price was 4<> cents. On Wednesday. hair cuts are only 15 cent at the Union shops. At other shops the price of hair cuts and shaves range from 10 to 15 cent t. Church Os God To Take Part In Services The Church of God located on Cleveland street will take part in the Good Friday union services this year, it has been an ounced. The protestant c.lurches of the city will unite in observing Good Friday, when the minister of each of the churches will deliver a short address and the various churches will he represented with musical num I hers. This is the first time in recent years that the Church of God has -taken part in the union services. Rev. Glenn Marshall is pastor of ‘the church.

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Kidnaped Ohio Boy Returned Home Sunday Masury. 0.. March 27. —-U.R) — Peter Myers. Jr., 15, held captive by kidnapers a week, was safe at home with his parents today. The boy was reunited with his fa her yesterday when Myers, acting in accordance with instructions, met an agent of the kidnapers in Youngstown and was driven, blindfolded, to the spot where his son. was waiting. “They treated n>e fine.'' Peter tolck his father. He said he had been locked in a bedroom all the time. Tlie kidnapers passed food through a door and blindfolded him when they took him to meet his father. He was unable to give he location of the house. Myers refused to say whether he had paid any ransom. JEWS OUSTED FROM PLACES OF INFLUENCE Hitler Government Will Continue Ouster From High Positions OFFICIAL DENIES ANY ATROCITIES Berlin. March 27.—(U.RJ—Retaliatory measures against Jews in Germany were decided on by the Nazi party oday to balance the “atrocity propaganda” being circulated in foreign countries. The government, it was understood, is prepared to countenance retaliation in exac’ ratio to th? extent foreign governments countenance the atrocity propaganda. i Retaliation will take 'he form of a boycott of Jewish goods and shops, a sharp reduction of the number of Jewish students permitted at German universities, and curtailment of the licenses granted to practising Jewish physicians and lawyers. (Copyrigh. 1933. by the Unite I Press i Berlin. Mar. 27 — (U.RI -Ousting of Jews from influential positions in Germany will be continued “until the house is cleansed" but not bv means of a pogrom. Dr. Ernest Hanfstaengel. chief of the foreign press section of Chancellor Hitler's organization, said in i statement to the United Press today. “If we had wanted to conduct a pogrom ag’inst the Jews it would all have been over now.’’ he said. “The Jews who already have been ousted were put out because thev were morally and politically unfit to safeguard German interests." Asked the basis of the current wave of anti-semitlsm in Germany, ICO STINTED ON PAGE TWO) Prosecuting Attorney Moves Law Offices Ed A. Bosse. Adams counlv prosecuting attorney, has moved his office from the Erwin building on South Seem 'd street to the K. of (’. building. Mr. Boste h»s moved into an office with J. T. Merryman. DECATUR BANK WILL PAY TAX First State Bank Will Pay Special Tax Os 25 Cents On Deposits The First State Bank of this city will pay the special tax of 25 cents on each SIOO of savings deposited in the bmk, C. A. Dugan, president of the institution announced today. The law. 'known as an “Act taxing deposits in barks and savings banks", exempts public deposits, non-resident deposits, charitable deposits of other banks. On all other deposits a tax of 25 cents per hundred is levied and the locil bank will absorb this tax. Mr. Dugan stated. "Through the absorbing of this tax all our dealings with depositors and the amount of their a counts rem’ins strictly confidential a.-, wa v ill not bi' required to furnish a list of those deposits object to tax". The. bank deposit law was passed by the recent session of the state legislature and Is effective this month.

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ALL FARM AID AGENCIES ARE REORGANIZED Order In Effect Abolishes Farm Board of Hoover Administration IMMEDIATE SAVING OF TWO MILLIONS Washington. Mar. 27 U.R) President Roosevelt today issued an executive order which in effect abolishes the Federal Farm Board and sets up in its place a farm credit administration in which, will be centered till of the government’s agricultural credit agencies. Immediate savings of two million dollars and establishment of a “sound and permanent system of cooperative agricultural credit" are contemplated ir the order, the firs’, issued under t ie sweeping powers of reorganization given Mr. Roosevelt by the special session of congress. The order will become effective in 61 days unless vetoed by con gress. Henry Morgenthau. Jr., selected by President Roosevelt to head the farm board, becomes governor of the new farm credit administration. In this fashion, then, the farm board set up as the Hoover administra ion’s answer to the farm relief problem, passes into discard after a career of spectacular attempts at price pegging of cotton and wheat. These stabilizaion operations, forbidden under the new organization, cost the government some ♦350.600.ft0n. Approve Plan ! Washington, March 27- -(U.R) - President Roosevelts reforestation unemployment relief plan was approved unanimously today (CONTINUED ON PAGE FOUIt) ILLINOIS MINE LEADER KILLED .John Ward, Union Leader, Killed By Gunmen in New Outbreak West Frankfort, 111.. March 27— (U.R’ — John Ward, progressive miners union leader, was shot and killed and two companions .well? wounded today bv gunmen as the dying coal mines warfare flared again. The assailants speeded away in a motor car after he attack which followed a weekend marked by new tension in the turbulent coal fields. The outbreak marks a renewed drive by the Progressive Miwrs. Union to organize the southern Illinois mining districts. First violence came at Eldorado. 111., in a clash of progressives and the rival Untied Mine workers >n which three progressive union members were wounded. Hundreds of men were deputized in Franklin < ounty, one of th” richest coal mine centers in the country, as air horities sought to prevent bloodshed. Progressive sympathizers employed airplnces to fly over mine towns dropping pamphlets urging the miners to “strike off their chains" by revolting from the established United Mines Union li udership. Armed officers patrolled railroads and mines with orders to prevent all picketing. United mines officials issued a warning that any members heeding the ■strike call of the Progressives would he discharged after wo days absence from work. It was the second attempt by the Progressives to assert their supremacy in tile Franklin county territory. The first was a fiasco when deputies repulsed a mutch of 18.000 mirers In the “battle of Mulkytown." last August. Convention April 18 The 20th annual convention of the eighth district of the Indiana Federation ol Women s Clubs will he held in the Presbyterian Church in A, derson April 18. Mrs. A. F. Meeks of Muncie, district vice-pre-sident has announced 'All club women are invited to attend the convention