Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 31, Number 114, Decatur, Adams County, 13 May 1933 — Page 1

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Mls KILLED ■ Hus storm m hIXENIA.OHIO b - v I eßot ■ '! l l |1( l"J^H 0 Strikes Eastern SubjSWctifi «f O hio Town Morning ■AL PERSONS IBaDLY INJURED (l ' lrlit ' Liia> Mav 13—<U.R>— '-ln.lifcrnan" struck <>"' eastern Xenia today, killii ** i injuring sever- — seriously, and flatH score of frame '**E S es, trees and telephone in the storm. KWctim was George! ad His mother-in-ars old. was blown window and injured rlios.. hurt were negroes. | heaviest in the was estimated at $75,000. and southwestern a fury of rain Streams, swollen by SKk. of precipitation, were their banks anti had a score of state roads, was tied up in Cincin--3.5 inches of rain fell The rain continued. / Mk . feared a repetition of ml of March ' ' property worth, dollars. had been washed csly damaged by the in; spring rains. — -- o —-Bm Examine Gandhi ißoWtl India. May 13 —(UP)-—I examined MahatGandhi today and found condition comparativethe following bulle-' iFCMBIi slept 11 hours during k IBWf 4 -A'ausea is still present *1 Bit M)t troubl-some. Gandhi is M W*® ' !, ‘ !e are no compln a- ■ H 9 H examined the | eaderi nthe marble asS -9 IHBB" ol '" S propeeteil M in behalf of India's un- ■ The examining physi f f O - 1 Wt " 'lf'tors Ansari. Gilder, ■ iistanrl li Purnshotta.m. and Pa- | Hat Market Open Mbs " pat Market, now localI Grocery, South SecII aS 61 wlll b e Qpen from 7 to H 4® !k Sunday morning, lit PROGRAM ■OR EDITORS ir a W ;t * Convention Will At Indianap- ] Solis June 5-8 ■®B May 13 — (UP)— arrangements for the editorial association conlJl^B t 0 h e held here June sio today. USK*” 1 "' nt ive -committee inl,laf arrangements are to hold cornerstone lay KlB <iSPS tor ,lle George Rog f"B®k Memorial at Vincennes | !,|^® p editors are touring the the convention. tour will end at ( City June 13 instead of ' I f jßß as originally plained From editors will go to Chi- j | r ?0 Kspend June 14 and 15 at the . mb |, ' a * r - of 30(1 newspaper prize in competition in stales , jf‘‘Kheld here during the com Q® It is described as the first MB I exhibition ever held. LT® speakers at the convenbe Douglas C. McMurtrie. C 1 typography expert. Tho I New York publisher; Nicholson, Hoosier ■ Gov. Paul V. McNutt will ; ,| lp annual dinner June S < H. C. Hotaiing. St. Paul. secretary for 14 yeats. I II Ade humorist, will add . L f^® p touring party at Purdue 11

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Girl Hangs Self After Auto Mishap ' I .-» -•■■ -IA ■ K I Marie Bode, 14-year-old Riverside, 111., girl, who hanged herself in remorse for running down a 7-year-old boy with her automobile. The girl died in vain, for the boy, Lawrence Dow Jr., also of Riverside, whom she thought would die, will live. The girl, overwhelmed with grief after the accident, hanged herself in her bedroom. DAIRY FARMERS STRIKE TODAY Illinois, Wisconsin Dairymen Ignore Farm Organization Order Gi'ic.iL’o. May IT-4M9—North-ern Illinois dairymen went on , strike by the thousands today, coi operating with milk producers in I Wisconsin. Dairymen in Lake, McHenry and Boone counties voted to join the strike at a mass meeting last night at Woodstock, attended by 4,000 persons. Five farmers took picket posts at sunup at the Bowman company plant at Crystal Lake, which usually handles 62,000 pounds of milk daily. The five said they intended to use “peaceful persuasion" to prevent milk delivery. Several hours later, only two dairymen had run the blockade. A dozen others turned hack and waited in town with their loaded trucks for developments. E. L. Bost, Harvard, chairman ! of the Woodstock meeting, said only two men stood up to vote ' "No." TValter McLaughlin, state director of agriculture, instructed sheriffs in counties throughout ■ the northern part of the state to see that milk shipments were not Interfered with on the highways. Sheriff Lester Edinger had 75 deputies on patrol at dawn in McHenry county, of which W'oodstock is the county seat. Officials of the Pure Milk Association, whose 18,000 members in northern Illinois and southern Wisconsin supply Chicago’s milk, said there was no immediate danger of shortage in the city. Picket Roads Appleton, Wis., May 13—<U.R) — . Milk producers picketed all roads ; into Appleton today, defying the order postponing a national farm strike. Irate farmers uttered threats to ■ ***N I'lN'I’ED OM PAUIG THREE' O Phi Delta Kappa Meeting Fee UHom, of Muncie will attend the regular meeting of the Phi Delta Kappa Fraternity Monday evening and explain to the local I members news pertaining to the National Convention which will be ; held in Muncie this year. Mr. UUomi is an interesting speaker and all, members are requested to attend o— — Further Payments To Be Made Teachers Chicago May 13—(UP)—Assured • that tbirte ci million dollars for back salaries would be available within four days, some 4.1100 school teachers decided against staging a protest march through the loop today. They alternately cheered and booed when letters from Melvin A. Traylor, president of the Flrat National Bank, and Mayor Edward J. Kelly were read. .

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COMPROMISE ON WAR DEBTS IS UNLIKELY NOW Latest Indications Are That No Revision Is To Be Made Soon FRENCH PROPOSAL REFUSED FRIDAY (Copyright 1933, by United Press) Washington, May 13 — (U.R) Democratic leaders of house and senate have been advised by the highest administration sources that President Roosevelt has : abandoned all intention of seeking | congressional authority to revise or compromise the war debts. This information was interpreted today by party chieftains as j also foreclosing all possibility that the chief executive might seek power to grant a moratorium on Europe’s $140,000,000 June 15 payments as a trading point in the forthcoming world economic conference. Great Britain, among other nations. has made no provision in its budget for the June payment. The United States therefore apparently must face wholesale defaults unless there is an unexpected change in this country's attitude. Word on capitol hill of the ad- ' ministration’s decision coincided with a rebuff of a new French proposal. Ambassador Andre De Laboulaye of France discussed the June payment with both Mr. Roosevelt and Secretary of State Hull last night. Both the ambassador and Hull declined to discuss their ■ talk, but in an informed quarter it was learned that France offered ' to'~Yay the' $2b.PlW.h(TI* last December if the United States would grant a moratorium on the money due next month. The President is represented as feeling that he cannot make such a promise. Recalling that Great Britain paid what was due last *••*«•»*- » • — » - *• rrnNTTVTTRn nv pig? two ANNA NIETER DIES FRIDAY Mrs. Herman Nieter Dies Friday Afternoon At Fort Wayne Hospital Mrs. Anna Nieter 37, rural route 7. Fort Wayne, sister of Mrs. Max Thieme and Walter Boenker of Ad- ■ ams County, died Fiiday afternoon at 3:30 o’clock at the Lutheran hospital. Mrs. Nieter was born in Fort Wayne. She was united i.n marriage ‘ to Herman Nieter, who survives, j She w-as a member of the Martini Lutheran Church and of the Lutheran Ladies Aid Society. Surviving are th.e husband, one daughter, one son, her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Fred Boenker of Marion township; tour sisters. Mrs. Max , Thieme, (Adams County. Mrs. Lawrence Bradtmiller and the Misses Elsie and Bertha Boenker of Marion towiiisliip; thie° brothers, Walter Boeniker of Adams county and Louis and Arthur of Marion township. Funeral services will he hold Monday afternoon at 2 o’clock (DST) at the home and at 2:30 1 o’clock at the Martini Lutheran, Church with the Rev. August C. ■ Buuck official ling. Burial will be made in the church cemetery. o State Conservation Man Here Next Week Dr. M. T. Jay of the state conservation department will lie in Decatur the first of next week to organize conservation, fish and game clubs or other activities of the department. Any one interested will be promptly answered If writing to Dr. Jay at Portland or to the Department of Conservation, room 126 State House, 'lndianapolis. Hamburger Fry At Phi Delta Monday A hamburger fry will be held; in the Phi Delta Kappa fraternity hall Monday night at 8 o’clock. | Every member of the organization is asked to be present al the meet-, la «’ —— l

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Decatur, Indiana, Saturday, May 13, 1933.

Stone Worker Named For Poisoning Son Bloomington, Ind., May 13—(UP) An indictment charging John Davidson, 47, iniemployed stone work- [ er, with manslaughter in connection with the poison death of his seven year old son, Robert, was among 18 true bills returned by the Monroe county grand jury yesterI day. Davidson was accused of giving his son home made wine. The cor- ! oner’s verdict attributed the child’s death to acute alcoholism. Ronald Gilber, Depauw university j student, was indicted on a reckless , driving charges growing out of an automobile collision in which Bluford Young, Monroe county farmer I was killed. , o HANSEL FOLEY IS GANOIDATE Monroe Resident Announces Candidacy For ! County Superintendent Hams-el Foley, Monroe, today announced his candidacy for the of- ( fice of superintendent of the Adams county schools. Mr. Foley’s announcement is the first made for the office. Township trustees of Adams ’ county will meet Monday, June 5 to elect a successor to Clifton E. Striker, who was chosen for the office in 1929. Mr. Foley is well known in Adams county, He was formerly principal at Kirkland high school and ■ also taught in the Monmouth and ■ Washington township grades. He is married and has one child, a boy. ; Mr. Foley is a Democrat. Mr. Foley is a graduate of Ind ■ tana University with an A. B. de- • gree and has taken considerable I graduate wonk at Indiana Univer-, I sity, Ball State Teachers’ College [ at Muncie, and the State University i of lowa at lowa City. He has had ten years of active. , teaching experience in the grade and high schools. He was the only candidate opposing Mr. Striker in the 1929 election. Fire Department Is Called Friday The local fire department ' answered a call to the Ben Hur lodge rooms above the Holthouse .Drug company store on North S ■ ond street shortly before 8 o’clock Friday night, when smoke from a ; clogged chimney, alarmed lodge members. No damage was reported. o ; Public Is Invited To Elks’ Program The public is invited to the mother's day program to be given at the Elk’s home at 2:30 o’clock Sunday afternoon. Former Judge J. T. Merryman will deliver the tribute to mother and the officers of ■ Decatur lodge of Elks will be in charge of the service. Mrs. L. A. Holthouse will direct the music and singing. o FEW CLUES TO BANK ROBBERS Only Meager Clues Obtainable to Lucerne State Bank Robbers ! Lucerne, Ind., May 13 —(U.R)—lnvestigation of (he attempt to rob’ the Lucerne State bank yesterday, and the resultant wounding of two women, was hampered today by lack of clues. Mrs. Doris Miner. 22, and Mrs. Ethel Jones. 22. Star City, were slightly wounded by machine gun bullets fired from the rear seat of the bandit automobile. In addition to the machine gun fire, the bandits had emptied revolvers at Everett Gregg and Lawson Selders, hank employes, and had fired a high-powered rifle ' from the fleeing car. Sheriff Homer Stonebraker said. The driver of the car and the person manning the machine gun undoubtedly were men, disguised , as women, he said. Lester Powlen and Homer Huntj er, Lucerne, reported they raced ' the car through Winamac but lost | track there. The bandit car, struck a drove of hogs during the . flight, killing two, but the car ap- 1 IgaregU/ waa not damaged,

STEADY RAINS 7 CAUSE THREAT Continued Rainfall Swells St. Mary’s River To Flood Proportions The St. Mary’s river continued to rise today, the rain last night | and today swelling the stream to flood proporions. None of the roads leading to Decatur was inundated at noon, but with continual rainfall this morning there was danger that the wat : er might come up to the road bed at several points. There will not be any golf at the Decatur Country club Sunday. Borum’s Run is out of banks and the fairways north of the creek look like a small river. The water ex- ! tends within 200 feet of the ninth green. All of the territory west of the road and north of the creek is inundated. Looking in the direction of the river, the fields appear to be flood ed several hundred feet from the banks. At tlje Smith bridge, north of Decatur on state road number 27. the overflow spreads over a large area. It would require a sev- ' eral feet rise before the road at this point would become inundated ' Reports from the south part ol the county along the Wabash were that the river was rising. The lowlands were flooded. The state road was still open at nooro today. Creeks and ditches were runnning fast and it la expected that the rivers will reach a high point iby tonight. The overflow today is higher than at any Lime during the January and February thaws and with a heavy downpour today it appeared there was more danger from high water than any previous time this season. Angered Youth Cuts Artery, Dies Later Elwood, Ind., May 13 —(UP) — Robert Allen. 18, at w d because' his mother told him to stay home, smashed his fist through a window, severed an artery in his arm and bled to death. LARWELL SHADY DEATH'S VICTIM Preble Youth Dies At Home Today Following Extended Illness Larwell J Shady, 27 son of Mr. and Mrs. Albert Shady of Preble, died at his home ::t 11 o’clock this morning, following a-n extended illness. Death was due to complications. Mr. Shady had been ill for the last four years. He was born at Magley, January 24, 1906, a son of Mr. and Mrs. Albert Shady. He spent his entire life in Adams County, and was a former employe of the General Electric company in this city. He was a member of the Scottish Rite. Surviving besides the parents are two brothers, Dortha of Kirkland Township and Waller es Fort Wayne; and four sisters, Mabel Gilbert of Monroe; Flossie Bogner of Decatur; Nina Zimmerman of Preble and Ethel Shady at home. Funeral services will be held Monday afternoon at 1:30 o’clock at the home and at 2 o’clock at the ! Zion Reformed Chunch, with the Rev. C. M Prugh officiating. Burial , will be mAde in the Bluffton ceme-1 tery. The body was removed to the Shady home in Preble from the S. E Black Funeral home in this city at 4:30 o’clock this afternoon. Charles Band Named Washington May 13—(UP) —The appointment of Charles Brand of Minnesota as assistant to George G. Peek in the dministrtion of the Roosevelt commodity relief program was announced today by! Secretary of agriculture Wallace. Street Department Is Repairing Sewer The sewer on South Winchester street is being repair d by the city street department. Excavations are being made at several points between Penn and the intoresection of Line street. Improper connectidns prevented the water from running away and changes are now being made. The sewer on North Tenth street was recently repaired; by the city. u

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FARMER STRIKE IS POSTPONED BY OFFICIALS — Leaders Announce Indefinite Postponement Os National Strike MANY FARMERS DISSATISFIED St. Paul, Minn., May 13— (U.R)— The national farm strike has been ! postponed indefinitely by leaders of the movement, but from the ranks of the strike organization came mutterings of dissatisfaction today. In Wisconsin, a milk strike, second in three months, was ordered despite the postponement of the national movement. Elsewhere in the midwest members of the National Farm Holiday Association attacked action of their leaders in abandoning strike plans until the! results of President Roosevelt’s farm legislation became evident. The United Press learned author- , itatively that Milo Reno, picturesque chief of the holiday associtation, and 14 directors, would meet I within two weeks to survey effects of the new farm bill. If they decide results do not meet standards predicted by the president, a new strike date will be set and the embargo carried out as planned originally. The meeting will be held in Des Moines, headquarters of the association. Reno, who came here yesterday for the conference with leaders of three other states which resultd in cancelling of the strike, left for Des Moines on a midnight train. "We have in no way retreated from our fundamental demand for , guarantee of production costs for’ the farmer.’’ Reno said. He explained the strike was post- | poned “out of respect for our chief executive and regard for the opinion that public sentiment is in favor of giving the administration an opportunity to fill its promises.” A dramatic move by Gov. Floyd Olson of Minnesota just before he submitted to an operation for appendicitis snapped the last opposition to strike postponement. Governor Olson dictated a message from his hospital bed. urging suspension of the strike. Two days ago lie returned from Washington, where he conferred with President Roosevelt and received a promise that the administration would urge financial companies to be lenient with farm mortgages. Governor Olson revealed that Secretary of Agriculture Henry Wallace had told him he favored a “fair exchange clause" under which price of wheat and other commodities would be increased to equal in buying power corresponding units of industrial production. Wallace told Olson, the governor said, that he hoped to set the price of wheat at 94 cents a bushel, and raise other commodities corresi pondingly. In his plea for suspension of the (CONTINItFfD ON PAGE TWO) WOULD INSTALL RADIO SYSTEM System Is Urged For Coperation With Indiana State Police Indianapolis M.iy 13—(UP)—(Agitation for a state police radio system) was renewed today follov ng an attempted 'bank robbery at Lucerne yesterday and a successful holdup at the Paragon state bank Thursday. Al G. Feeney, director of the public safety department, said the state police are seriously handicapped by lack of radio communiI cation. Patrolmen on duty cannot I be reached unless they happen to lie at their headquarera he pointed out. Until recently state police had , no police powers a»id were of little value In ch ihing bank robbers. But now that they are vested with police powers, Feeney believed they should be a valuable aid in prevent- , ing holdups and apprehending ban- ' dlts. He expects to confer with offici.ils of the Indiana Bankers Association with a view toward obtainj Lug their assistance in establishing a police radio,

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Reserve Board Head .. ra Nominated by President Roosevelt for membership in the Federal Reserve Board, Eugene R. Black, of Atlanta, Ga„ has also I been named by :the President for Governor of that body. Black, who is Governor of the Atlanta Federal Reserve Bank, will succeed Eugene Meyer, who formerly headed the board. BANKERS WILL - DISCUSS LAWS New Indiana Bank Law Will Be Studied In Regional Meetings Indianapolis, May 13—’.U.R) —Indiana's new bank law. most provisions of which go into effect July 1, will be discussed at 16 regional meetings of bankers and employes throughout the state. W. A. Collings, president of the Indiana Bankers association, announced the program yesterday. Dates for meetings, counties and presiding officers follow: May 15. Indianapolis — Marion, Shelby. Morgan. Hendricks. Johnson and Hancock. W. S. Greenough, Indianapolis, presiding. May 16, Lebanon —Clinton. Tipton, Boone and Hamilton counties. Paul Morris, Lebanon, presiding. May 17. Lafayette Benton, White, Warren. Fountain, Montgomery and Tippecanoe. W. R. McQueen. Lafayette. May 18. Peru — Miami, Cass. Wabash. Carroll. Howard, Grant and Huntington. J. H. Shirk, Peru. May 19. Dunes State Park —• Lake, Porter. Newton and Jasper. J. M. Givens. Porter. May 22. South Bend Laporte St. Joseph, Elkhart. Starke, Marshall. Pulaski and Fulton. I). B. Smith. Mishawaka. May 23, Fort Wayne — Allen. LaGrange, Steuben, Noble. DeKalb. Kosciusko, Whitley. Wells and Adams. D. P. McDonald. Fort Wayne. May 24, Muncie —Madison, Jay, Blackford. Randolph and Delaware. Fred 1). Hose. Muncie May 15. Brazi’ — Vermillion, Parke, Putnam. Vigo and Clay. D. P. Carpenter. Brazil. May 16. Linton 'Sullivan. Knox. Greene. Daviess and Martin. Horace Humphries, Linton. May 17. Evansville—Pike. GibICONTINCFn ON PAGE THREE) 0 — Fear Germany Will Renounce Treaty London, May 13—(UP)— Widespread fears were felt in London today that the German relchstag would renounce military clauses of the Versailles treaty when it convened Wednesday in special session to discuss the Geneva disarmament crisis. Possibility of reoccupation of the Rhineland by allied troops was being discussed in Great Britain. o Thinks Compromise Can Be Arranged Berlin, May 13—<U.R>—The German government believes that a compromise can be arranged to save the disarmament conference the United Press learned today while Nazi officials prepared for convening of the relchstag Wed- i nesday when Germany’s disarmament position will be defined.

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FLOOD WATERS SWEEP CENTRAL INDIANA AGAIN Scores of People Are Driven From Homes In Central Indiana MANY BUILDINGS ARE DEMOLISHED Indianapolis, May 13—<U.R) —Flood waters anti twisting xvinds swept through central Indiana today leaving scores of people homeless and widespread property damage. The stricken area stretched from Kokomo to Indianapolis and Brazil and along the western Indiana border. Rain fell in torrents again today sending rivers and streams ■ over their banks and inundating ■ hundreds of acres of bottom • lands. 1 A tornado struck Center Point in Clay county, unroofing barns, ■ wrecking chicken houses, blowing down chimneys and trees and putting telephone and electric lines out of commission. I The storm was accompanied hv a deluge of rain which raised Eel river and its tributaries to flood stage. Another twister destroyed 20 buildings in Kokomo within an area of five square blocks. A I steady rain caused Wild Cat. Kokomo .and Pete’s Run creeks to leave their banks. Howard county farmers despaired of being able to raise a corn crop this year because so much of their land is under water. Continued rain again would flood • homes in the Kokomo lowlands. The same twister caused consid- , erable damage to the orchard dis- . trict at West Middleton. Tall buildings were leveled and scores ' of trees uprooted. At Indianapolis White river ' reached its highest stage in many years. Several persons were forced from their homes, being transported to safety in boats by police. Workmen placed 1.000 sandbags on the Warfleigh levee and asked for more assistance when the water broke through at Parke avenue. White river had reached 17 feet, only one foot below flood stage and was rising steadily. A torrent of rain in Indianapolis this morning aggravated condieions and hampered rescue work. o ,— Prison Dentist Dismissed Friday Michigan City. Ind.. Miv 13 — (UP) —Dr. J. C. Sawyer, dentist at the state prison for 25 years, was dismissed yesterday for selling to■ba 1 co to inmates. The dismissal was ordered by.. Warden Walter H Daly after one of the prisoners protested he had been charged $1 by Dr. Sawyer for a package of cigarets and 50 cents for plug tobacco. Warden Daly haid a cache of tobacco, hidden behind a trip door, was found in the dental quarters. Gov. Paul V. McNutt will appoint a successor to Dr. Sawyer. The prison dentist is paid by inmates for whom he does work. o Hold Baccalaureate Services Sunday The (baccalaureate services tor the 1933 graduating class of the Decatur high school will take place Sunday night. May 14 at the Methodist Episcopal Chiir”h. The march of the senior class will start at 7:30 o'clock. The baccalaureate sermon. "Giving Mountains Away" will l>e given by Rev. R. Linman. pastor of the First Christian Church. Rev. M. W. Sundermann will give the invocation. Rev. G. O. Walton will read the Scripture lesson and Rev. C. Perry Gibbs will lead in prayer The benediction will be pronounced by Rev. C. M. Prugh. Itinerant Ordered To Leave Decatur Joe Hale, an itinerant giving his home as Erie, Peunnsylvanla, wig ordered out of town this morning by chief of police Melchl. Hale was tak n into custody late Friday afternoon when he appeared In the l business district In a highlv intoxicated condition and was lodged In the county jail overnight,