Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 31, Number 97, Decatur, Adams County, 24 April 1933 — Page 1

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I LATION MEASURE IS INTRODUCED

PENCE AT ijjINGTON IS hMEO TODAY levll! and Macdonald E U L> Conference ■Hjiily Today ■y SESSION i Il OX SCHEDULE Aoi'il 21. — IKwiil llllcihl llltlltT seen in in- || t ] ct inferences of L’niliule. Presnlenl | ;ii><| Prime Ministin.ilil went into :in- | ii;iv Innhlle soon jkl'asl today. lore pressing, ahead ilire economic front ml lisclv interlock>r.<l(»>r»csi<m meas»e include: nption of the cold r America and Britain. lon of war debts.' is down of tariff and i harriers. • ivcment of European rotisli armament redttcexpanded consultative its. [ only a few hours workinc until midnight. MacDonald loft early to have in the anartment of his old friend nod of the senate [Briens committee. era short call at th° ’l"’ tf'ino minbd back to the White settled down with elt in the oval to he an all BMr’ broken only by a irip to the Canadand American ex hid worked at the until midnight, gatnat lite slate denart■fcf to wrestle with the med foreign exhoping to have a rt who i called to the ■iso at 3:30 p. m . French Premier Ifcrjgf until tonight, whiled ■I" i.x pu?R THUER) IESTIGATE EBY DEATH Jury To Probe I Beauty Winr’s Death Hl- Apr. 24.—<U.R>—o'is death of Lola inner of beauty and ant n sts today brought n her body recovered mis river almost two she disappeared. jury was called in y. Tito young woman, rs t at Bloomington, •ed Fob. 27 and no nd until her body was re last week. lion indicating drownthe cause of death iquiry. ■ekerbitz. sweetheart of asked to appear nt the ■ter Kenneth Wells, her authorities there had ■'era' quarrel on the eve ■er s disappearance. ■'? denied the couple had ■nils had been voted the Btitul girl in her high ■ss and a’so won a perBmtest. IsaT ~ ■ —tHr IyFS Bcatur Merchants ■•■ng something new. P Thursday’s paper. '<

DECATUR DAIEY DEMOCRAT

Vol. XXXI. No. 97.

Fann Home Partially Destroyed By Fire The entir- upper story of the farm home occupied by the I.estei Rainey family, located one-fort!. I mile north of Monroe, was com plet.dy destroyed by fire. Saturday afternoon, at 3:30 o'clock. Tie fire was caused by a spark from the chimney. The Monroe firn I‘department was c illed to the Rainey home a.nd assisted in extingulshiiig the fire. The farm is owned by Dr. M. F. Parrish of Sturgis, Michigan formerly of Monroe. Practically all , furniture was removed from the house and escaped damage. 51 ENROLLED ' IN CALF CLUB Thirtv-right Bovs And Thirteen Girls Enroll In Adams County Thirty-eight hoys and thirteen girls are enrolled in the Adams county 4-H calf duh. This is the largest enrollment the Adams county has obtained since the organization was formed. Members of the Adams county club are: Holsteins: t’halmer Baumgartner. Treva Baumgartner, Eugene Danin's. David R. Hahegger. Eli W. Hiibegger. Joel (’. Hahegger. lester Mare'i''. Silas G. Maz.elin. Elmer Nussbaum Leo Nnssbanm. , Chester H. Schwartz. Gerhart R. Schwartz. leßov Schwartz. Millord Schwartz. Rov G. Schwar z. Clara Stetirv. Byr-n Tricker. Franklin Steurv. I mine's Von Cimten. Sherman Von Onnten. Pe’er J Mizulin Clarence SchreeV FTitldah 1. Steury. Rav mond Ko : ter. Guernsevs- Marion Burke. Mabie Warvev Triadvs Hnrvev. Rosanna ' Harvey Vovle Will. Eleanor ifir schv. Helen IHrschv. Kenneth Hlrsehy. I ewis Kold«wov. Juanita 1 oilman. Polb-an"-) Lehman Mor vlri McCov Max Moser. Ned Moser. .Tames Mose«; Richard Mases. Robert Striker. Jersovs: J'onno'h Arnold. Honrv I Rieb<*ricb. C.'e” OrifH'hs. Ardon Mosser Hugh Dovjri Mnsser. Av-sh're- W..~h pi.-n...' T’-ti m* Prues'lt'e T ohm''.. Knthorino r ohma ’ Thomas L n h;nan and Wilhtrd Annrovo* I «••»« To 1" Coiintipc Jud’anattolis. Anril 24 — (IIP) The director of the recoiislrnetlo ’ finance cornoration h■« annroved applications of 15 Indi ns counties for loans during Mav. Wave Coy secretary to the governor, announced tod v upon his return from Washington. Th? application of Igiwrence (Oir’ty w's the only one falling to obtain the director's approval. Coy said. It will have to be revised. The R. F. (’ board is expected to t ke final a tion on the requests todav. Loans will ire granted only, for M y Ail the applications had been for May an>.lnne. Countie i whose annlicatio' s were approved re V rmillion. Vanderburg. Sullivan. Vigo. Madison. Howad. Grant. Elkhart. Allen. St. Joseph, I Potto. Delaware. Lak. Marlon and St Joseph. o ROB ROSEDALE BANK OF $1,500 Two Bandits Stage IToldUn of Southern Indiana Bank This Morning Terre Haute. Apr. 21 -(U.R) Two bandits who robbed the Roseda'e National Bank of arproximaiely $T,500 and kidnaped Fred Hayward, conservator, met two other men in another machine near North Terre Haute, local police were told. A farmer living at the northern edge of the city reparted he witnessed the meeting. The two bandits released Hayward about a mile and a half from Rosedale and sired toward Terre Haute. Their auto was similar to one used hv four men who robbed two Terre Haute bank messengers of $40,000 last week. Fred Connelly, cashier, and Hayward were in the hank when it was held up. Connelly was forced to face the wall while the bondlla took iull the available money.

Starr, National And la<rraa<l<inn| News

THOUSANDS OF UNPAID SCHOOL TEACHERS RIOT Chicago Teachers Demoralize Financial District By Huge Parade TEACHERS MARCH ON LEADING BANKS Chicago, April 24 <U.R) Thousands of school teachers demoralized the financial district today, forced three big banks to close temporarily and heckled general Clmrles G. Dawes, chairman of the Board of the City National Rank and Trust company. Former Vice-president Dawes became so nettled that lie shouted above the din: “To hell witli the trouble makers." The teachers, marching in protest of non-payment of 29 million dollars owed them in hack salaries. converged on the City Nation al. the Continental-Illinois hank, the Harris Trust and the First National bank. The first three closed but the First National remained open after its president. Melvin A. Travlor, agreed to meet wit ha delegation of teachers. Officials of Die Ci‘v National I a* first denied that Dawes was in the city. When the clamor increased and it was feared the 200 nolice stationed in the financial district would be obliged to use ‘ lheir clubs. Dawes appeared outside th.- bank. Boors and hisses greeted him. A chorus of taunts arose. Some of the charges were: ' Tluttw s 4he uu>o wlui Uuac.wxul SO million dollars for his own bank hut won't lend any to the teachers!” “He wen a'org with Samuel Instill in cheating us." Repeatedly Dawes tried to make liimsel* heard. Finally he did se after someone shouted somethin* ‘ about a teacher having his elootricity turned off while in Washington seeking iction on the salary problem. o DONATE GROUND TO UNEMPLOYED Five Acres In Hanna Addition Wi l Be Used For Gardens About five acres of ground in the Hanna aildition, wes: of Decatur, which was recently donated to the city for park purposes, has been turned over to Will Linn, chairman of the community garden move ment for the unemployed. A niee'ing of the unemployed will be held Tuesday evening at 7:30 o'clock at the County Garage on First street, for the purpose of working out a nlan to plant and cnl ivate the nlot of ground. Mr. I.inn stated hat the tract of land, offered by the city of Decatur would lie in addition Io the individual gnrdei plots donated by citizens for the use of the unemployed. The committee has about 50 of these garden lots aid seed will be distributed to lite gardeners as soon as weather conditions permit. Tlie committee is In need of seed po atoes and persons having a supply of potatoes suitnhle for planting are asked to donate them to the local garden committee. Seed will he donated for planting in the five acre tract of land and at the meeting Tuesday evening details pertaining to getting. lite projest under way will be determined upon. o—. - Meet Tuesdav Night To Organize Team Announceme"t was made today tliat a city tennis t ani will be org nlze l in Decatur again this sum mer For the past several se .sons, the Deiatur team has played regularly scliediU-d matches with team:; from other cities. The first meeting of the season will be held at the Alph i Phi Delta fraternity rooms at 7:30 o’clock Tuesday evening. All Interested are requested to attend this meeting •

ONLY DAILY NEWSPAPER IN ADAMS COUNTY

Decatur, Indiana, Monday, April 24, 1933.

In Poison Mystery n£!lKiO ■r 1 f »■ J ss&f * 3 HR* « V ''i- jaMMI |L H # J ■ mI H ri ■< It f w 1: ' I ’ I ■MM'iWMt ... 4 -fiArV' Mrs. Daisy Harmon (left),, 52-year-o!d Hammond. Ind., woman who was arrested Friday on order of Coroner Andrew Hofman for questioning about the fatal poisoning of 13-year-old Anthony Brabender (right). Tile hoy, who wan left in Mrs. Harmon's care, died April It. following a violent illness. Vital organs were sent to the University of Indiana, and large quantities of arsenic were found by the toxicolgis .

WINNIE JUDD IS | FOUND INSANE; I Jury Finds Arizona Murderess Insane; Committed To Asylum State Prison, Florence, Ariz.. ' April 24—'U.R;—Winnie Ruth Judd ' faced a life “term'' in Arizona state hospital today by the decree of a jury whose insanity verdict saved her from the gallows. A nlne-to-three vote of the panel <srf2 Pinal county railroad hands, homesteaders and merchants, returned at the end of a week-long sanity hearing in superior court, staved off the execution of Mrs. Judd next Friday for the murder; of Agnos Ann Leroi. Insteaxl, Judge C. L. Greene was to sign commitment papers today | which will permit Mrs. Judd's tran<er to the state hospital at Phoenix There 'he famed ‘blonde tigress.” still failimr r.pnarently. to comprehend her last-mlriite rescue from death, will enter a whitelined room in the women's ward for surveillance by hospital alien, ists. Al'houeh she forestalled execution by the jury’s verdict and the Arizona law forbidding hanging of insane persons. Mrs. Judd thereby did not win freedom. She must remain in the hospital as long as she lives, or until such time as she is de'ermiied legally sane. If ever she is found to have regained her mental balance the den h sentence automatically he comes effective. Not a nitiver of emotion passed Mrs. Judd's, face when she stood In the dnskv courtroom Sa‘nrdnv evening and. heard the verdict which eranted her tlw- al crnative of life in an insane asvhim *« death on *he gibbet Her husband Dr William (' Judd the nn'c member of her family pre ent, likewise accepted the decision calmly. For n month Mrs. Judd will be rriven sneclal treatment at the hospital while nsvcliintrists determine her mental status. Later sh?

Roosevelt Building Reputation Unequalled Bu Other Presidents

(Copyright. 1933. by United Press) | Washington. April 24— (U.R) Franklin D. Roosevelt already has j initiated more important policies | during his first seven weeks in ' office Ilian the average president I has in a four-year terra. However, nart of them still are I in an undigested stage, either I awaiting congressional action or I in the first phases of adminis- ■ trative application. Abandonment of the gold stand- ; al economic conversations, multi- j ard. beginning of the inlernation-j pie efforts to ease the depression | and action to bring real economy tn'o the government have -made for the president In less than two | months n reputation for doing things almost unequalled in the i annals of American history. The following major measures i still are awaiting final action by congress: Farm relief.

Jay County Woman Burned To Death Portland, Ind., lApril 24 - (UP) — Burns suffered in an oil explosion ! caused th today of Mrs. EdI wnd Stitzer. 39. living six miles northwest of here. i Her husband's arms were so bad- ! ly burned that amputation may be | ne. essary and their son. Robert, i was 'burned : bout the hands, physiI cEns said. . The explosion occurrau when ' Mrs Stitzer tried to start a fire with ! kerosene. MONROE SCHOOL GRADUATES 16 Commencement Exercises Will Be Held at Monroe Wednesday Night j Sixteen members of the Monroe high school senior class will receive diplomas at the annual i commencement exercises WednesI day night. April 26, at 7:30 ! o’clock. The exercises will he held at the Monroe M. E. church. 1 The commencement address will be delivered by the Honorable Barton Reese Pogue of Upland. i Miss Anna Verena Liechty wilt deliver the valedictory and Miss Jeanette Rich the salutatory. County Superintendent C. E. Striker will present the diplomas. The sixteen graduates are: i Carmen L. Schwartz. Doris Laisure, George W Garrett, Delores j M. Egley. William Edward Boivin, ! Virgil K. Gilbert, Helen Mary . Roop. Ernestine E. Liechty. Anna Verena Liechty, Alice Jeanette i Rich. Esther Ru’h Fricke. HaroM Ray. Gordon T Sprunger, Howard D. Nussbaum. Glennys LaViha Roop and Lorene Rich. The complete program for the commencement exercises: March- Orchestra. Floyd Johnson, director i Prayer Rev. K. M. Dunbar i Selections —Orchestra i Salutatory—Jeanette Rich Address Barton Reese Pogue i Valedictory—Anna Verena Liechty Selection -Orchestra Presentation —Supt. C. E. Striker Benediction—Rev. Vernon Riley.

[ Credit expansion. Securities control. Relief for small home owners. Tennessee valley-Mnscle Shoals development. Half billion dollar direct unemployment relief bill.. Industrial contro' program. A log of major official acts by the president and their subsequent history, omitting some for brevity, follows: March 6: Closed all banks; 4.000 still closed; declared embargo on gold. Marcli 9: Slent emergency banking legislation to congress: approved same day. Marcli 10: Sent to congress a message asking authority io prune 5400.000.0<M1 from veterans’ and $100,000,000 from federal payrolls: both put into effect. March 13: Allowed hanks to be- \ ON*TAGK *TWO* *

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FOUR KILLED AT PORTLAND EARLY SUNDAY Three Young Men, Girl, Killed At Grade Crossing Sunday THREE KILLED BY TRAIN AT ANDERSON (By United Press) Grade crossing accidents took seven lives in Indiana Sunday. Four were killed at Portland when their tar was struck by a Pennsylvania passenger train, and three died at Anderson. Gerald Sisk. 31. driver of the Portland car. failed to heed an electric flasher signal, officials said Others killed in that accident were Glen Bricker. 22. Edward Steel, 29, and Helen Gibson. 20. Sisk. Bricker and Steel lived in Polingtown. Miss Gibson was from Portland. Carried 800 Feet Portland, April 24 —(U.R) — The automobile was carried down the track for SOO feet before the train could be brought to a stop. Three of the group. Miss Gibson. Bricker 1 and Sisk, were dead when taken from the wreckage. Steel died two hours after the crash at the Jay County hospital. He never regained consciousness. He had internal injuries. The bodies of tlother three were badly mangleu. The train had io be backed up to enable the crew to extricate the bodies from the wreckage. The auto was ground under the front truck of the locomotive. Miss Gibson was employed at the Hoosier Print shop here. She was the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. )7afry Gibson. She is also survivI ed by one brother. Leßoy, and seven sisters. Perna. Dorothy. ; Lucile. Ruth. Bertha. Gladys and Mary Evelyn, all at home. The > body will be taken to Westfield. 0.. for burial. Steel eame to Jay county about five years ago and was living in a , house owned by the Sisk family. He is survived by his mother. I Mrs. Amvie Mizner of Walhalki. Mich., and a brother and a sister. ( living in Michigan. Funeral services will be held here at the Williamson chapel at 9:30 o’c'o-k I Wednesday Burial in Gravel Hill ‘ ICONTTNT'RP r>X PAGE TWO) 1 Annual Roundun At Purdue Next Week The annual 4 H club roundup will be held at Purdue University May 3,4, and 5. County winners from all ov.tr the state will attend. Adams ci i: ty winners who will go to the ’ roundup ar?: sewing club. Heien Hirsehy, Beihold and Alice Reinhard; calf chib, Lester Mazelin, Gerhard Schwartz and Gladys Harv y; corn club 1931. Lawrence Blum; 1932 corn club. Dan Habeg1 ger. Miss M "eline Robin. 4-H duh leader of Jefferson township and county agent Archbold will accomp. nv the winners. BITTER FIGHT ON WORK BILL Industrialists Fight Bitterly Against Federal ; Supervision Washington, April 24— (U.R Alarmed industrlalisls mid a thoroughly aroused house minoritv today joined forces for a stand i against the administration's pro-t posal for federal supervision of ■ industry. The Black-Connery bill, revised to meet White House specifica- ■ tions, comes to its crucial congressional test this week. Tomorrow. hearings begin before the house labor committee which may well decide the economic course of the nation. The proposal: 1. A 30-hour week, six hoqr day for nil industry to make more jtibs. 2. A minimum wage for all ■ workers to raise mass purchasing nower to the highest possible level. 3. National regulation of |iroductlon to equalize units within *rCONT*NUI*iUoN VaQ*E* T\VO*T'

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Montpelier To Hold District Meeting The semi-annual district meeting of the Rebekah lodges i.i District No. 31. im hiding Ad ms. Wells and i Blaokford counties, will be held at i Montpelier, Tuesday April 25. There will be an afternoon and evening sessions with dinner served ! following the afternoon progr. m. Mrs. Carrie Kirkwood, district deputy president will have charge of the business meeting during which - the election of officers will be held. Mrs. Margaret Miller of Huntington. the assembly vice-president. ' will condui t the school of instructions. The Hartford City lodge will exemplify the degree work and candidates from the various lodges will be initiated into the order. All m nibers ot' the local lodge are invited to attend the meeting. CLEAN-UP WEEK OPENS TUESDAY City Trucks Will Aid In Annual City CleanUp Campaign Everything w.is in re diness today for the opening of City Cleanup week Tuesday. The city trucks wil Ist irt out in the morning and the winter's accumulation of bottles, cans, debris and other unsightly material from the alleys and premises will be gathered up and hauled to the city dump. i The trucks will make a complete circuit of the city and citizens are I requested to place the cans, bottles ; and other materiil in boxes or b r- ' rels so men on the trucks can pick it up. Amos Fisher, street commission- ■ er and a force of men will be engaged in the clean-up drive. Women • of th? Civic Section of the Woman's I club urge everyone to cooperate . and to assist in the campaign to I make Decatur spic and span. > i o JULIUS NAYPHE HERETHURSDAY Assyrian Entertainer Will Anpear At High School i Auditorium Julius Ceasar Nayphe, an Assyrian. a brilliant speaker and entertainer. will appear on a program ! in the Decatur high school Thursday night, April 27. st 8 o'clock. I All members of churches and Sunday schools ar.? invited to atI tend the program which will ini elude a marvelous interpretation of ' the Twenty third Psalm. The admini sion of 10 c nts will be paid at the • door; no tickets will be sold. Nayphe is th? son of Assyri n i Christian parents and was born in ' Damascus, reared in Palestine at ■ Caesarea Philippi and has the blood temperament and scholarship of the i t:r East, its lite an diLs lore. I His mastery of English is com- • plete, with an accent of the Orient. He appe 4s in the striking colorful costume of his native people. In the progri.ni, "The Shellherd’s Song of (he Hills of-Judea” Nayphe appears clad in the habiliments of a trusted Kh’pherd, with rod and staff in hand. He explains why ' Th? good , shepherd giveth his life for his sheep.” and describes th? rod. staff still waters, and the oil. with which . the head is anointed. Tie complete Psalm ami manv other parts of the Bibl- ire unfolded in a clear, convincing manner. The interpretation Is unique, e ter taining, educational and fa l imiting ■ to old and young like. o —— ' Carl Lehman Named Class Valedictorian I Superintendent F. M. of the . Berne high school announced tod ly . that Carl Lehman, son of Mr. and . Mrs. William Lehman of Wab'sh , township would act as valed'ctori in . at the commencement exercises of ,' th graduating class this spring. Carl Iris had the highest grades of any member of the senior cl >ss dur- . ing the four years. . o Two Bovs Drowned i ! Ne* Albany, Ind.. April 24—(UP1 ‘ Two 10-year-old boys were drown ed h re over the woek-e d when ■ they fell into Silver Creek. They 1 j were John V. Helfrisli and William ‘ Schaeffer.

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SENATE READY TO GIVE GRANT TO ROOSEVELT Will Approve Extraordinary Power to Expand Credit And Currency FOUR PROVISIONS IN INFLATION PLAN Washington, April 24—<U.t.' As inflation debate swept over a startled senate, Senator Borah, R. of Idaho, informed questioners off the floor today that he contemplated an amendment to the administration inflation plan which would authorize opening of all closed banks with an immediate payment to depositors of 60 cents on the dollar. Washington, April 21 Senator Thomas, 1)., oi Oklahoma, today presented bill Io the senate as a profile administration inflation gram under which 2(M> billion dollars of purchasing power could be transferred from bank depositors to the debtor classes. Thomas was the administration spokesman today chosen because he drafted the plan upon which President Roosevelt's inflation program is based. His cold, clipped words, seemed almost to shock some of his colleagues. There was a flurry of questions. Republicans did not annear greatly interested. Most of them left the chamber after . the querem call. “This amendment in my judgment is the most important pro position that ever lias come '> ■ fore the American congress or < ary parliament in the world.” Thomas said. Washington. Apr. 24. —(U.R) —The most momentous week in post-war American financial history begins today with the senate debating and preparing to approve an extraordinary grant to President Roosevelt of power to expand credit and currency. Mr. Roosevelt is -eager for the authority — unmatched by that ac corded any chief executive since congress told Abraham Lincoln to start the money presses spinning in 1862. But supporters of the administration inflalion bill sponsored by Senator Thomts, Dem.. Oklla.. Emphasized its objective is far different from the 1862 greenback is me. They explain the added curremy contemplated in this economic einICONTINI’I'ID OX PAGE TWO) Boy Scouts Will Present Magician Frye, world traveled magician, will appear at tie Decatur high school auditorium Tuesday night at 8 o'cloik. Frye crowds fifty dith rent and distinct tricks and illusions i: to lis performam •. Tickets are i»-: g sold by the boy scouts nd may also he secured at the door Tuesday night. GRAIN PRICES GO UP AGAIN Ontimistie News Cause Price Raise On Chicago Board of Trade Chicago, Apr 24. — (U.R) Grain prices zoomed again on the Chicago board of trade today, wheat .opening 1% to 1% cents above the last close. Optimistic n'-ws from this country and abroad spread the gains through all pits, with corn gaining 1V S to 2% cents a bushel. Wheat prices at the opening were: May. 69P b . up 1% cents a bushel; July. 70*4 up 1% and September 71%. "P % centra bushel. A rush of buying orders followed the gong, sweeping May and July wheat futures to the highest prices for the crop. New highs were touched by July corn and oats and hv all delli cries of rye. Routine nows went unnoticed as the “inflation boom” in the nation’s largest grain market continued. The 2% cents advance at Winnipeg was an Important spur to the price gain.