Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 31, Number 111, Decatur, Adams County, 10 May 1933 — Page 1

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ORNADO AGAIN CLAIMS HEAVY TOLL

Paraguay Issues Formal Declaration Os War On Bolivia

WE OF WAR jiIIECLASED HIyPBESIOENT "■lapti" ll Is Based On ;? jivi; ’s Alleged AggresUWsioi And Violence '*»(JBLE BREWING «v : 'K( E JUNE, 1932 1 ttkelKuilion, Paraguay, May ,r ».hE*!!' Paraguay declared today. ~~«wa> the first formal dec■iof <>f war since Guate■Uclai'i'd war on the cenFnsa in 1918. Be bresident signed the Bee [declaring war under ■Spotters recently voted y. '"’e " ‘tcclareil a state Paraguay. —■ft’ •clHiation was based on i aggression mid violation ' i at tai integrity of Parats sk ■ Mitiuiitj with the Bolivian also in view of the failthetsßtal peace efforts. I was brought to a •rrNis in the last week when ■Mt Eusebio Ayala of Parasigned the declaration ■ Mticunced that if the lioliv- *” bonl,) Paraguay.Bew "the defenseless populasacrifice lives —those of i ptisoners— in retaliation." retorted that if Paraguay single Bolivian prisoner, i: onj J military planes would the capital, Asuncion, and #m cities. ■litl. n pl«nes last week dropptiiontßoßl al I’orta Pinasco amt ■Mon the Paraguay river, kill ■Mff n civilians and endanger- . and other foreign part len ■•off - I.ohman, an American, to the foreign office ■rd. r that Bolivian airplanes injolMllSsi died his property in the for 35 minutes, caus- ' ifll damage. w . ■Mmrp’ se of today s dedaipjuTfc. : ireiuti observers here hemainly to force the ... Argentina and Chile. It sinKaped that making the war "ou d force both nations -J’Bwtre their neutrality, thus exports of munitions and to Bolivia and bringing He efforts of the League of Napact hitherto have kept declaring war, despite (’ ( g^^kreak of hostilities, such as , Japan and China, ColomPeru. Greece and Tin key. incidents, between Paraguay has been in progress a year, since June 15 has been of a most nature, fought with ■jlevice of modern war, inairplanes,' tanks, artiiiery guns. Casualties'have , many thousands, the never having been accurestimated, although almost . over 20,000. i o Arrested ’ After Gun Battle ' M^fr Onil ' ,n(i " May 10—<U ' R)_ feien. arrested after a gun [ \j^H wl, h a gasoline station prowere held on charges of s burglary today while po- 1 information concernrecords front PennsylHmen, Roy J. Black, 27, Latand Murray Leranzo, 44. Pa., were captured after oWB Schwartzel had frustrated id ei| ipt to enter his filling stao j® m °uth Garden iStH Club Organizes Monmouth Garden Club held ’’■* anlza tio n nieetln g Tuesday iret-B'K at the Monmouth high Officers elected were Everpresident; Donald ■ vice-president; Teddy HobI tre tary-tre. : surer; Glen Mer"'■’’•‘Porter. Thirteen members Th? next meeting , llfc *d at We school at Ip.m. 1 '’"■Say,

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Must Go to Trial MM •*. x- ■ aMI < ■ v - 1 r * jt Mbir* , W "Ww®.*« sr-r Ernest J. Stevens, Chicago hotel man, as he appeared in Chicago court Tuesday, when Judge Philip L. Sullivan overruled a motion to quash the indictment charging him with embezzlement of Illinois Lite Insurance Company funds.

DAIRY FARMERS WIN INCREASE Pure Milk Association Wins Increased Price For Product (By United Press) Bitter attacks on Secretary of Agriculture w anace were launched today by leaders of the national farmers holiday in central states as they pushed plans for the farmers strike called for Saturday. The attacks centered on abandonment pf the farm price fixing amendment to the administration farm relief bill. President Milo Reno- of the holiday group charged Wallace with breaking faith with the farmers. He demanded that Wallace resign, if he did not believe farmers entitled to production costs. Chicago, May 10. —<U.R> — The Pure Milk Association, represeiving 18,000 dairy farmers in the Chicago area, today won a 30cents a hundred increase in the market price of milk. An agreement with Chicago milk cotftpanies raising the price from $1.45 a hundred pounds of milk to $1.75 a hundred pounds was announced. An increase of a cent a quart in the retail price of milk in Chicago is expected to result. The agreement came after more than 24(hours discussion by dairy and milk firm represent* Ives with Dr. Clyde L. King, Philadelphia milk price arbitrator. The retail price will not be set until after a conference in Washington to attempt to obtain protection under the new' farm legislation against cut-price competition in the milk industry. The new price to farmers' will become effective not later than ICON! INI’EII ON PAGE THREE' FARM BUREAU MEETING HERE District Meeting Will Be Held In Decatur, Monday, May 15 A fourth district Farm Bureau meeting will be held in this city, Monday. May 15 in the auditorium of the Decatur Library building on Third street. The meeting will begin at 7:30 o’clock and Lewis Taylor. Indianapolis. chairman of the bureau's department on tax and legislative matters will be the principal speaker. Mr. Taylor’s subject will be taxes and an explanation of the state's new gross income tax law. There Is much interest in this subject. members of the committee sta'e and Mr. Taylor will deal with It in an instructive way. Joseph Winteregg. of Berne, county chairman, will preside at the meeting. .J

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Boy Scout Campaign Drive Is Progressing J C. C. Pumphrey, chairman of the ’ , Boy Scout campaign, announced I that the soliciting committees were ; making fine progress and that lie I' expected the job to be completed this week. More than SSO has already been turned in and Mr. Pumphrey was i advised that one committee had about cue hundred dollars to be turned over when the canvass wins completed. The quota is SSOO and the solicitation is being done by menibefs "f the Decatur service dubs. The money is used to carry < n scout aciivities through the Anthony Wayne Boy Scout' area council. H.W. THOMPSON GIVES READING Appreciative Audience Attends Fir s t Public Reading of Poetry , An appreciative audience enjoyed Harry W. Thompson’s first pub- : lie rendition of hi- poetry last might 1 in the Catholic school auditorium. 1 The reading was sponsored by the ■ Alpha. Phi Delta fraternity and young peoples groups from the Catholic, Methodist, Presbyl-.-i ikyi ■ Baptist, and Zion Reformed churches. ' The Rev. Father Joseph J. Hen- ’ nes, in the introduction, wished Mr. Thompson, good fortune on his mew career ■ « a poet. He continued by saying that "from the verse he has written in the 1 st year he might be called Adams county’s poet.” Chalmer Fisher opened the program with a vocal solo. Mr. Thompson then came upon the stage. He began, with a short talk on poetry. I poets in gener.iJ, and his own aspirations. He prefac d each poem with lan interesting background, telling 'why it was written. The settings made the poems doubly interesting. He read tour of his own poems and oihe by Papl Lawrence Dunbar. • , These were very w a ll received. I , During the intermission, Paul M. ( i Saurer sang two vocal solos. I The second part of the program ' included serious verses of his own , and James Whitcomb Riley. He. (CONTINUED ON PAGE THREE) | o Clerk Receives I Monthly Bulletin i The monthly bulletin of the fish i and game division of the state conservation department hap been i received at the county clerk’s ■ office. At the present time, from i May 1 to June 15, Inclusive, it is ■ unlawful to fish for any of the' I commonly called game fish There is no closed season on the coarser ■ fish such as catfish Os all varie- • ties, suckers, carp, ordinary sun- . fish and white perch. The season • will open again on game fish after ■i 12 p. m., June 15. I Statistics on the game warden service for the month of April show: arrests, 18: convictions, [l6; cases pending, 0; cases disl missed, 2; flues and costs, $368.10,

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Decatur, Indiana, Wednesday, May 10, 1933.

LEGISLATORS APPROVE BILL ON INFLATION Only Signatures Are Needed To Make Inflation Measure Law FINAL APPROVAL IS GIVEN TODAY Washington. May 10 — (UP) — The administration’s unprecedented currency inflation, fi rm relief and mortgage reduction bill receiv- i ed fi>.ial approval of congress today 1 and awaits only the requisite signatures to become 1 iw President .Roosevelt assured the ; nation in an address last Sunday evening that h? would resort to,, inflation “when, as and if necessary." The 'bill is in three sections. Its currency infli tion and farm relief i provisions are discretionary with the President but the third section providing for scaling down of the farm mortgage debt must become effective. Final approval came today after the sen te receded from the so called Simpson price fixing amendment which would have authorized the secretary of agriculture to guarantee fixed prices to farmers for that portion of their product consumed in the domestic market. To Conference The senate refused to recede from its i mendments to the Tennessee JVhlley development bill which includes the plan for government operation of the Muscle Shqgls plaint, and ordered the legislatfou sent to conference. Favor Work Bill A 30 hour week hill, including drastic provisions for regulation of industry and esti blishment of minimum wages, was reported favorably by the house labor committee. Soldiers Hospital Will Be Open May 12 The government hospital for soldiers at Marlon will 'be opened to the public on May 12, national hospital day This is the first time that the public has hid the privilege to visit the national hospital. Paul Graham, local Legion iiair* and a member of the hospital board will attend the opening. Epworth League Program Changed The program to be presented by the Epworth League of the Pleasant Mills Church Thursday evening. May 11 at 7 o’clock will be given at the Pleasant Mills school, instead of at the church as was previously announced. The program will include a one act farce ‘ Foiled, By Heck" two comedy sketches and music by the Ramblers. A social hour will be held in connection with the program and refreshments will be served. o— PAY INCREASES ARE REPORTED Cities Throughout Nation Report Raises of 5 to 12 *4 Per Cent New York, May 10—(U.R) —The response to President Roosevelt’s j appeal for industrial pay increases I was reported today in United | Press dispatches from widely, sep-[ arated cities, which told of rises! of from 5 to 12% per cent. Supplementing yesterday’s re-[ ports of more pay for 50,000 men in 25 states, such industrial cent-1 ers as Cleveland. Detroit, Philadelphia. Los Angeles and Lowell, i | Mass., sent news of higher wjiges in automotive, baking, ice cream manufacture, dress manufacturing. silk mill and chain cafeteria lines. Optimistic reports of other sorts, based on expectation of stimulated prices and generally improving conditions, were plentiful. A Binghampton, N. Y„ shoe manufacturing company assured

♦ - — ■ ♦ EXTENDS TIME Indianapolis, May' 10.—(U.R) — . | Mptorists caught without the I [ | new drivers license after today : ! will have 72 hours in which to [ | buy one, Al G. Feeney, state I i public safety department direc- | | tor. announced. No further ex | ’ tension of the deadline will be j I given, he said. ♦ ♦ GIVES WARNING OF BAD MONEY Local Merchants Are Warned of Counterfeit Currency Notes Local merchants are warned to 1 .be on the lookout for counterfeit currency whiih lias been circulat- . ing widely in Indiana cities for the past few weeks. Chief of police Mel- . chi has receiv'd bulletins from the i secret service division of the U. S. I treasury department describing these counterfeit notes. Counterfeit currency which is be i ing circulated includes $5 U. S. notes, and $lO and S2O federal reserve notes. The U. S. notes are of the series of 1928, with check letter and face plate number “D 342 back plate ‘310”. These notes have a portrait of Lincoln Serial number on these notes varies. The, $lO notes are on the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago, "G" in circle to left of portrait) portrait of Hamilton badly blurred; printing has greyish tone. The S2O notes are on the Federal Reserve Bank of New York; portrait of Jackson. These notes twe in unusually active circulation. COUNTY CLERK RECEIVES ACTS 160 Copies of Acts of Indiana Assembly Are Received Here — I County Clerk Milton C. Werling today received 160 copies of the 1 Acts of the 78th Indiana general assembly, the books being received for distribution in this county. 1 Mr. Werling stated that the law required that copies hv distributed first among the attorneys, : justices of the peace, township, city and county officials, before any distribution is made to individuals. i The books contain 1392 pages. 1257 being used in printing the i laws passed by the last session ! of the legislature. All of the hills which did not have an emergency clause attached to them will become law as I soon as Governor McNutt issues i a proclamation; following the re- 1 ceipt of advices from county i clerks that they have received the > copies. This is expected by tho 1 end of the week Mr Werling stated he would be glad to favor those who desire a . copy of the Acts as soon as the | official roster was completed. Aged Millionaire Is Found Murdered New York. May 10—(U.R)—Ed- ’ ward A. Ridley, 87 year-old millionaire, who for two years had sought the slayer of his secretary, was murdered today in the squalid sub basement office from which! he conducted real estate opera- ; tions. Beside him lay his latest secre- j tary, Lee Weinstein, also murder- i ed. The aged man who had i sworn to devote the rest of his , life to tracking down the murder- , er, had been bludgeoned to death, i j o Burns Prove Fatal To Jay County Youth Portland. Ind.. May 10—(U.R)— ' Burns suffered in a fire which started from back firing of a truck he was cranking caused the death today of Max Moore, 16. north- i' west of Portland. The back fire of the motor caused an explosion of gasoline in the carburetor. Moore’s clothing waa ! Jgnitad.

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COUNCIL WILL RECEIVE BIDS FOR MATERIAL City Council Will Receive Bids May 26 For Material Suggested RECOMMENDED BY EFFICIENCY MAN The city council will receive bids May 26 for material and equipment at. the City Light and Power Plant, recommended by Charles Brossman, consulting engineer, in a survey made by him, explaining how operating costs could be reduced and the plant’s efficiency Increased. The proposals will give the council an idea as to the cost of proposed improvements and machinery changes, together with efficiency guarantees offered by manufacturers. The recommendations made by Mr. Brossman are grouped under nine items and include the following equipment: Water softening equipment. Deareating heater. Superheaters. Live steam purifiers. Boiler feed regulators. Combustion control system. Boiler feed pumps, stoker and blower drive. Pipe coverings. Drip line installation. The legal notice to bidders reads: "All bids to be made according to specifications as filed with the city clerk and with the engineer.—The city reserves the right to reject any and all bids or select such bid as is best suited to its requirements.” The equipment for which the council will receive bids, is included in the estimate of $22,865, made by Mr. Brossman. This equipment, based on t(ie engineer's survey will increase the plant’s efficiency and result in lower operation costs. The council is desirous of reducing the light and power rates and it is planned to turn back the savings made in operating, to patrons through reduced rates for electric current. A meeting of the council was held Tuesday evening and Mr. Brossman explained in detail the findings in his report and suggested that the council receive bids on the equipment. Future improvements such as economizers, air superheaters and pulverized fuel use. will not be taken up now. These would entail a greater expenditure than the council would care to make at this time and improvements would not be necessary under present load or production conditions. The central heating system plan was not ti ken up by th? council. This venture could not be done until after the needed improvements and changes were made and the council desires to obtain information and facts on the matter before it is committed to a policy! leading to installation of a city-wide steam heating system. CONFISCATION OF FUNDS MADE Nazi Government Confiscates Funds of Socialist Party Today Berlin, May I(’.—(U.R)—The Nazi government confiscated funds of the socialist party and all its affiliated organizations today, a move regarded as ons of the most important steps in the second phase of the Hitler “revolution." This phase is the eradication of Marxism in Germany. The drastic conflcation order destroyed the last vestige of Marxist opposition to the Nazi regime outside the prison camps, where hundreds of communists and socialists are held in “protective custody." It applied to the socialist party itself, the reichs banner, a uniformed "army" of socialists somewhat similar to the Nazi storm troops, and the socialist press, numbering 135 newspapers. In the March elections the social.(CUN'UNUBD ON PAGE TWO)

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To Head Lions ■ a ■■■ Dr. Burt Mangold, local dentist, was elected president of the Decatur Lions club at the annual election of officers held Tuesday night. Other officers who will serve during the ensuing year also were chosen at last night's meeting. BURT MANGOLD IS PRESIDENT Local Dentist Is Elected President of Decatur Lions Club Tuesday i [ Dr. Burt Mangold, local dentist, - was named president- of the Lions i Club at a business meeting of the organization held Tuesday night t ; at the Rice Hotel. 1 Other officers elected were W. • F. Beery, first vice-president; Dr. H. Frohnapfel, second vice-presi- ‘ dent; Don Farr, third vice-presi- ’ dent; N. A. Bixler, treasurer and ' Bob Zwick, secretary: H. W. ■ Leatherman, tail twister: Harry 1 Knapp, lion tamer. The board of I directors will include W. F. Beery, C. L. Walters. Clifford Saylors and ’ Ralph Yager. 1 The annual convention of the Lions clubs of Indiana, twentyfifth district of Lions International, will he held at Bloomington on May 14, 15 and 16. Dr. Claude B. Paynter of Salem, district governor of the southern half of the state will preside. Walfred Lindstrom of Angola, district governor of the Lions Chibs in northern Indiana, will assist in conducting tho sessions. There are 103 Lions Clubs in Indiana with an aggregate membership of approximately 2.800 business and professional men. Delegates to the convention will' discuss problems involved in rendering to their communities j the maximum of service. Principal addresses at the con- ' vention will be given by Charles H. Hatton of Wichita, Kansas, president of the International Association of Lions Clubs and Professor Robert Phillips of Lafayette. International Director of the Lions Association. Included in the program for the three days will be a cabaret dance ; for Lions and their wives and | [ women friends, following the dis- : trict governors’ banquet. The election of district gover- \ nors for the two Indiana districts will be held the last day of the i convention, and the host city for J the 1934 Indiana district conven- ■ tion will be selected. n—< Five Women Hurt In Bus Accident 'I J Richmond. Ind.. May 10 —<U.R)— ! Five women were njured and 15 others escaped with minor bruises J last night when a bus went into ; ! a ditch at a turn on state road 38. > two miles west of Hagerstown. The women were members of the auxiliary of the Eagles club at Anderson and were en route to Richmond for a Mother's Dav meeting. Mrs. G. Ttterffs, with scalp: wounds, and Mrs. Della Miller. ’ with cut hands, were given first I aid treatment and returned to their homes. Mrs. Barnara Souders received two fractured ribs. Mrs. Hattie Boys suffered from a , wrenched back. Mrs. Frank ColI lins, believed the most seriously ) hurt, was brought to a hospital hero,

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STORMS CAUSE HEAVY LOSS OF LIFE IN SOUTH At Least 42 Are Known Dead After Tornado Last Night And Today HEAVY DAMAGE IS DONE IN INDIANA Nashville, Tenn., May 10 (U.R) A tornado that struck southern Kentucky and north central! Tennessee last night and early today killed at least 42 persons and injured 150 or more, reports to Red Gross headquarters here stati ed. Rcpotls hero listed casualties as follows: Beaty Swamp. Tenn., 28 dead and 100 injured: Tompkinsville. Ky.. 12 dead and 30 inI jitred, and Lebanon, Tenn., two . dead and ten injured. Reports which could not be ! confirmed because telephone and telegraph lines all were down, said many others were killed at Byrdstown. Jamestown, East Port and Jacksboro, Tenn. (By United Press) Winds of unusual velocity swept ' through southeastern Indiana last night. Adding to the damage caused 12 hours earlier in central sections of the state. Unofficial estimates of the total I damage ranged from SIOO,OOO to I $225,000. Houses and barns were wrecked, six persons were injured, | communication facilities were made l useless and livestock and poultry ■ were destroyed. ' Counties visited by the two ‘storms include Marion. Wayne, L Fayette. Randolph. Ripley. Warren, i Madison. Delaware. Rush. Hamilton. Tipton. Grant and Henry. Lightning aided in the destruc- . tion in the morning storm while . i hail accompanied the wind and rain I in maqy localities last night. Three homes were destroyed at ■ Mays, near Rushville, last night f and a score of others were damaged. Mrs. Cicero Ryan was struck by flying glass but was not seriously hurt. Traveling southeastward, the storm whipped into a small community near Versailles. Four homes and a barn were wrecked. Two men were reported to have been slightly injured. The loss in Madison county alone was estimated at $50,000. A section of roof was blown into the business section, blocking traffic (CONTINUED ON PAGE CWOt DECATUR TO BE HOST NEXT YEAR 1934 District Convention of Pythian Sisters Will Be Held Here The 1934 convention of the Pythian Sister lodges in District No. 4 will be h -Id in Decatur, it was announced at the twenty-third annual : convc: ;iivn of the district lodges held in Portland, Tuesday. Fifteen women from Decatur attended the conv ntion. The comities included in the district include : Huntington. Wabash. Mtsiiii. Gracit, I Blackford, Wells, Adams. Jay Large delegations from lodges in the district were present rit the meeting which was In two sessions, morning aid afternoon. The morning program included j registration and the routine busiI'ness, and during the afternoon session two addresses' were given. Ocie V. Jellison. Grand Senior talked on "My Pot of Gold." and the grand chief. Ida Penry of Auburn i spoke on the subject, "Let’s Get i Together. Several women front this city hold oftie?s in the district organization. Mrs. J'tmes Bain is a past grand chief, .Mrs. Al Bur.lge is a past grand trustee aid Mrs. Sam Shamp is assistant mistress of records and rxtrresposidence. Nlnu Mills of Marion is the district deputy grand chief. Those from Decatur who attended the meeting were the Mesdatnes Charles Beiceke. Earl Butler. Al lluidge. E. B. Macy. S. E. Hite, Wilson la-e. Grant Fry, Janies Bain, Fred Limn, Tillman Gehrig, Charles Burdge, Ed Whitright, Kannie Fris toe, Delton Passwater and S. E. Shamp.