Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 31, Number 123, Decatur, Adams County, 24 May 1933 — Page 1

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IORKVOTE RS REPEAL BIG MARGIN — ilelotes Nearly 11-1 :M>rßii"ieal: New York I |('ity 40-1 M STATE TO Y REPEAL m Awlrk. May 24.-(U.R>— In-York’s vote of disapprov- - .r o f (lie iSth amendment ’■KnByMI hourly today on an fe-KMrhr of wet votes, cast ■ th®-* 1 ' special repeal joined with the Biffltesw’i ah already have visXfied lepeal of the amendtalßt fed belated returns servmloiilytl swell the margin ot __ ®NeW fork wet victory — apBsimafi) It to one. —•■ith&i’tly more than a thousK s >i® distriip to be heard from, the >i» i(K,r ffl|al 1.795,052. peal 166,096. "■tMMtate'a 8,837 districts, 7.repeal slate of 150 —-Bgates elected by a major ; ’•■abort |l..'nio.ooo. The state as bet Brtnrle, < the basis of returns Ifflfc,&b«l three-fourths of its pre-it-K-ftts, Uweht wet by about 11 to 'K anil'dripping New York City . ? *Bd wQiv more than 40 to one. hyXoovAl.''lining was the victory ■tma»yiup-siate election officials --■ notwti>er to count the vote , since even the few KsJHth' tabulation could not States ipe result. Some villages reported no dry Ss. OMily one. The Bronx provBthe weftesi county in the state. Stig tst for the repeal slati , nitß'*d s ' < a proportion of 65 to Manpattan voted wet by 51 1S B one. Sb Iy four small counties, —n of tin mi ■ solid up-state dry Ke. we® definitely recorded in r«t ■} arid column. ■Appeals .of national and state Mt®iMcrath eaders for a huge wet lie towi'“ a? an incentive to i "Bier state io vote speedily for real we® amply followed in per ■tagesßtlirough attempts to get k a big he failed. Only about K thofcgible voters went to the ” wM®' 1 ' was ,he sixth state to 1 i" fry pßhibition repeal. The oth- • .-w Jersey, Rhode Isspr® l Wi'onsin. .Michigan and » Iroming. ■ orayil ’atitieation of repeal will ■ acccrtlilished by the 150 de'en at large, at a convertyw.VMr *,*. JUiie 27. of repeal convention ■ONtSjED ON PAGE THREE) o ■■fflfcri.es Roberts | Teat hes At Nappanee — > .1. Roberts, pastor oi * u morning for Nappame, I( ffl«jB"ill attend the minister-: Htffl Wfcirtte this week. Rev Rob- ■ ’ lll “ instructors in the teach s. the subject i ( ! ■ffl|B Mythology”. lat o —— JUT BRITAIN 1 SUBMITS PACT I lew Draft For Use When f IWaiS'hreatens Is SubMi itted Today l5 en * T t’ May 24— <U.R) — A ,lew .[“'j® a consultative pact in hVl''® IB threatens was submitted ■'W Woriu arms conference to ' t ■ r Simon of Great |i'ihin. is aimed at conform- ■ *ttlithe attitude of the United lMffl°'’es that in the event I a bjy ]l, or threat of a breach 1 ill# Kellogg pact, either the |“ | neil, Ellie assembly, or a noil1/ ch'' 1 " 1P league may "prof consultation be F eR the council or the assembly FJ® of Ba id parties present ■3Rm H ' £* avis announced |gfflffl9d States will undertake Protection of its own K"*® 8 *' ley are engaged in would tend to de f ON PAGE THREE)

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Tri-County Meeting At Roll Thursday IA Tri-county meeting of the Py-, thian Sister lodges will be held at Roll, Thursday. The meeting will I be held .all-day and a pot-luck din-1 ner will >be served at the noon hour. ' Temples in. Blackford, Wells and Adams counties are included in the. tri county organization Members! from the local lodge are planning i to attend the meeting. o DECATUR HIGH I SCHOOL LISTED Local School Accredited YY ith Class A Rating By Association W. Guy Brown, principal of the Decatur high school, has been notified that the local school has been accredited by the North Central Association of Colleges and Secondary Schools for the period ending April 19. 19.14. In explanation of the term of ac-! crediting, the local school authorities have been advised that it is the established policy ot the 1 association to prepare each year a new list ot approved secondary I schools accorded this honor and that no school is accredited by the i association for a period longer than one year. The Decatur high school is accredited with a Class “A” rating, 'he highest awarded high schools , by the North Central Association. This rating enables graduates of the local high school to enter practically any college or university in the entire country without the necessity of entrance examinations, provided these students have credits in the high school 1 subjects required by the college or university for admission. Before any school can be considered for accrediting by the association it must be on the highest list of schools approved and accredited by the school authorities of the state in which * (CONTINUED ON PAGE TWO) SCOUT HONOR COURT IS HELD Several Scouts Awarded Badges At Court Held Tuesday Night A Boy Scout court ot honor was held at the Central school building Tuesday with Dr. Fred Patter- | son, scout executive in charge. Several scouts were promoted to first and second rank and a number were awarded merit badges. Scouts from the four Decatur troops name--Ily the Rotary, Lions, American Legion ai d Knights of Columbus were represented. The scouts will participate in the! i Decoration Day services to be held ! here Tuesday morning and following the program a board of review ■ meeting will be held at the Central ' school building. The scouts are asked to meet at the school at nine o'clock Tuesday morning at the ' school and join the Memorial day ! parade. I The next court of honor meeting! ' will be held Friday, June 9. This will be the last meeting until next September. The scouts who received awards i in, ran|[ were: Robert Beavers, Rob-1 I ert Wortbman, Monroe Fuhrman, i Doris Stalter, first class; Robert ! (CONTINUED ON PAGE THREE) I Two Enter Race In Wells County Frank E. Day, incumbent, and J. Fred Andrews, principal at Lancaster Central, have announced thieir candidacies for the office of county superintendent of schools , in Wells county. The election will I be held by the township trustees June 5. I ————— Meibers Restaurant Robbed By Hi-.lackers Rome City, May 24— (Special) - J Slot rnrehfne hi jackers entered the Assembly restaurant here, operated by Robert E. M-ibers of Decatur. The five men took a slot machine! at the place and robbed David Ba.k ! er, Decatur, attendant at the reel1 aurant, of |2. A slot machine also ', i was taken at Duck's Inn on the|' same day.

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Morgan M eets Pecora ft i By-- 1 !HG I , v ]k. . A.'. - - Ferdinand Pecora (left), counsel for the senate banking committee, shaking hands with J. P. Morgan just before the latter took the witness stand in Washington and spent three hours defending the practices and ethics of private banking. >

FORMER LOCAL f RESIDENT DIES ! 11 Mrs. Margaret Louthon Dies At Daughter’s h Home in Fort Wayne ' i < Mrs. Margaret J. Louthon, 75, a resident of Decatur for many;. years, died at the home of her ‘ ( daughter. Mrs. Benjamin F Hill.. i 2131 Fox avenue, Fort Wayne,!, early Wednesday morning. — She was born near Decatur May ( I. 1858 and was a daughter of Daniel and Mary Barnhart. She,] was married to George W. Louth- , | on on January 1. 1881 and three i children wore born to the union, I two of whom are deceased. Daniel i D. and Mary G. Louthon died in infancy. Surviving are the daughter. Mrs. Benjamin F. Hill, a grandson, George L. Hill, great granddaughter, Margaret Hill, all of Fort Wayne; three sisters. Mrs. Mary Smith. Mrs. Daniel Kitson and Mrs. J. C. Hower, all of Decatur. ( Mr. Louthon preceded his wife in death on April 6, 1908. Mrs. Louthon resided in Decatur until June 18, 1910 when the family moved to Fort Wayne. She was a member of the Trinity Methodist Episcopal Church in Fort Wayne where she served as a Sunday school teacher and was a member of the Ladies Aid Society of the church. She was formerly a member of the Decatur Methodist Episcopal Church. Mrs. Louthon was a charter member of the Women's Relief Corps in which she had served in ! every office, and was a member of the Pocahontas lodge. She served as presiding officer of the lodge several years ago. Funeral arrangements hare not been completed. o CHINA TROOPS LEAVE PEIPING Chinese YV’ a r Minister Orders All Troops To Evacuate City Peiping, May 24.—-(U.R>— Gen. Ho Ying-Ching, war minister, ordered all Chinese troops today to evacuate Peiping forthwith, leaving police responsible for order in the great North China commercial center. The Peiping zone thus was de-1 militarized by the Chinese as the Japanese armies hammered almost at the gates ot the capital. Stop Bloodshed Peiping, May 24.—(U.R) — China j seeks only a truce to prevent bloodshed in thickly populated Peiping, not a general armistice with Japanese forces approaching the old northern capita'. Ho Ying Ching, war minister, said today as the panic-stricken city awaited an expected attack. Japanese artillery banged away 20 miles north and 12 miles east of: ON PAGW TWO) I

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Sjx Repeal Groups Form Organization I Indianapolis, May 24. —(U.R) —Six prohibition repeal organizations have been merged as the Ignited: Repeal Council of Indiana. William E. Stokes. Indiana secre- h tary for the association against the ! ‘ prohibition amendment, announced that the six were joined for closer cooperation. United with Stokes' organization were units of the women's organization for national prohibition reform. Indiana State Federation ot | Labor, the voluntary committee of i lawyers, the physicians’ and surgeons' repeal committee and the , Indiana hotel association. John W. Eggman, Fort Wayne, has been named chairman of the council with 7 Stokes as executive director. —o DEMOCRATS TO AID IN REPEAL James J. Farley Announces Instructions to Speed Up Campaign Washington, May 24— (U.R) — Emergency taxes will be eliminated if the 18th amendment is repealed, President Roosevelt said today. This means, he explained, the automatic abolishment of those ! levies that now are in effect and are contemplated, such as the proposed $220,090,000 program for financing of the huge public works program. The president believes that sufficient revenues will accrue as the result of repeal to enable the government to accomplish this reduction in the tax schedule. Mr. Roosevelt declined to discuss the overwhelming vote for repeal it New York state except to remark laughlingly that "My home district went wet." Washington, May 24. —(U.R) —The entire resources of the Democratic party are being thrown Into the , fight for repeal of the 18th amendment. With full administration backing, Postmaster General James J. Far ley, national Democratic chairman, declared he was sending instrucJtions to every party leader to support and speed up the repeal cam-' paign. Repeal was one of the paramount issues of the party platform. Farley, cheered by the overwhelming wet victory in New York ; state, was hopeful that repeal (CONTTNUED ON PAGE TWO) 0 Edward Martz Reports For Annv Band Duty — Edward Martz, who recently passed a government clarinet music examination. reported for duty Tues ,day with the Eleventh infantry band of the U. S. regular army at Fort Benjamin Htrrison. Indianapolis., Mr. Martz attended C. M. T C, camps during the past two stinimers. and has been a member of i the local Junlo? band, conducted' | by Dave Rice.

MRS. BORMANN j IS PRESIDENT Mrs. Vincent Bormann Will Head Woman’s Auxiliary of Legion Mrs. Vincent Bormai n was elected president of the woman's auxiliary of the American Legion at the organization meeting held in the Decatur Country • Club, Tuesday night. Twenty-two members were enrolled at the meeting. Mrs. Beulah Brooks of Angola, district president of the woman’s auxiliary, presided over the meeting and completed the plans for the organization, assisted by Mrs. Ritter also of Angola. The newly elected officers were installed by Mrs. Brooks. Other officers are Mrs. Walter Gladfeld'er. first vice-president; Mrs. James Staley, second vicepresident; Mrs. Ralph Roop, secretary; Mrs. Clyde Butler, treasurer; Mrs. Frank Liniger, chaplain; Mrs. R.ymond Kohne, historian; Mrs. Adrian Baker, serg.ant at arms. The executive committee will comprise Mrs. Dav- Adams, ciuiirman, Mrs. lAlbert Miller and Mrs. C. K. Champlin. Mrs. Gladfelder, first vice-president, will also act as chairman of the membership committee. It was«decided to hold the meetings. of the organization on the third and fourth Monday rights of tlie month. The first meeting will be held May 29 at the Country Club, and every member is requested to bring *a guest who is eligible to join the organization. Women eligible membership are wives, .sisters, daughters or mothers -of American Legion members, Mrs. Bormann appointed the following memhens to the social com- ' (CONTINUED ON PAGE TWO) CONDITIONS IN WAYNE IMPROVE Employment Increase In Fort Wayne Exceeds Seasonal Trend Fort Wayne, Ind., May 24.—(U.R) j—lmprovement in industrial conditions and subsequent increase in employment in Fort Wayne since May 1 hits exceeded the usual seasonal trend, a survey indicated today. • Industrial consumption of gas and electricity has increased approximately 25 per cent over January figures, utility company officials reported. Increased employment and receipt of large orders have been reported by several manuffacturing firms. i The Allied Milla, Inc., said work hours at the local plant had been increased 30 per cent in the last 30 days. Production has been started and employment Increased at the recently organized Berghoff- : Schanz corporation. Approximately 700 former em- | oN*PA(.7k*TWO* *

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CHARLES DAWES NAMED ON LIST OF BORROWERS F o r m e r Vice-President Obtained Personal Loan From Morgan LIST GIVEN OUT BY COMMITTEE i Washington, May 24. — (U.R) —L ' Charles G. Dawes, former vice-: 'President of the United States, and ! Norman H. Davis, now acting as ! America’s anibassador-at-large in ! ! Europe, were named today in a list | !of ’prominent men to whom J. P.! Morgan & Co., made personal loans. I The list was made public at the start of the second day of the sen- i ate stock market investigating ! committee’s inquiry into affairs of the famouse house of Morgan. J. P. Morgan, head of the firm, was the witness for the second sue- 1 I cessive day and the hearing room : ! again was jammed and sweltering. The Dawes loan was repaid on April 20, 1932. The Davis loan, so far as the list showed, has not been j repaid. Charles E. Mitchell, former head' :of the National City Bank of New ! i York, now on trial in New York on income tax charges, was included in the group, with no notation of! a repayment. The Mitchell loan, it was reveal ! ed later, originally amounted to ihore than $10,000,000 but. was reduced to about $6,000,000 within a week. The collateral at that time i amounted to about double the! amount ot the loan, the witness. George Whitney, said. Whitney explained Mitchell i sought the loan when lending Wall street bankers came into the market crash after four days of collapse “to make some order out of the chaos" in the 1929 market crash. “It was not to stabilize the mar-' ket," he said, “hut to create a mar*(*CONT*NUED ON PAGE FOUR) AUTOPSY SHOWS GIRL WAS SLAIN • Two-Year-Old Gary Girl, F ou n d In Swamo, Murdered by Fiend Gary, Ind.. May 24— (U.R) —A | post mortem examination of the body of Mary Carolyn James, 2 year old daughter of a steel worker. revealed today that she had been murdered, supposedly hv a degenerate and the body thrown in a swamp. Deputy Coroner J. Robert Doty said someone apparently had seized the'child and struck her on the side of the face with his fist. Then, apparently fearful he had inflicted h fatal wound, the slayer beat the girl to death with a rock. There was a deep wound in the ■ back of the head in which rock i fragments were imbedded. Doty said there were no marks I I elsewhere on the body. Although | the body lay in swamp water. I ! none had entered the lungs. Mary Carolyn wandered away| from home yesterday forenoon i The body was found on the swamp! ’ : a half mile from her home in the ( late afternoon. It previously had ; been supposed she fell in the swamp and drowned. The child was one of the five children of Mr. and Mrs. Arthur James, who came here in 1925 ' from Elyria, 0., James is employ-J • ed in the mills of the National i Tube company here. II o Commissioner YVarns Against Damages 11 Amos Fisher, street commission- . er. issued a warning today to child-! . ren who have been damaging flowers and shrubbery in Memorial . Park on Winchester street. Mr.! . Fisher stated that if the damage • is not stopped, prosecution will be instituted against the children. L- o ;— Hosinski Nomination Confirmed Bv Senate I ! 1 Washington. May 24. —(U.R) —The ', senate late yesterday confirmed the nomination of Al W. Hosinski to jbe U. S. marshall of the northern I district of Indiana.

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♦ — REFERNCES Washington. May 24.—(U.R) — A person with SIO,OOO to deposit but with no personal ret- | j erences would be turned away j ; from the doors of J. P. Mor- | j ; gan & Co. J. P. Morgan, testifying he- ' - fore a senate sub-committee to- j j day, was asked by Senator | ; ! Fletcher, Dem., Fla.: 1 “Suppose I cam,e to your ' | bank with SIO,OOO — wouldn’t | ..you take it?” "No," replied Morgan, "not | ] ! unless you had a letter of in- i I troduction." * ♦ COUNTY BOARD HOLDS SPECIAL SESSION TODAY County Council Allows $1,402.50 Appropriations In Session VOTE FOR SALARY UNDER PROTESTS The Adams County Council met I in special session today and allowed appropriations totaling $1402.50. The appropriation for ’the balance of the county attendance [ officer’s salary was a point of j discussion and several members j of the board announced that they voted for it under protest and be-1 cause of the fact that the judge ‘ of the Adams Circuit court had mandated them to do it. Last fall the county council refused to make an appropriation i for an attendance officer for 1933. ; Mrs. Mabelle Myers, incumbent Ivas employed by the county board ! of education for a one year term j beginning last August. Since (January 1. 1933, no funds were ! available to pay the officer and 1 the council refused to make an additional appropriation for the balance of the 1933 salary. The matter was carried to court and Judge H. M. DeVoss ruled that in view of the existing Contract, the county had to employ the officer. The court- mandated the council to appropriate $691.50. represent- . ing the salary of the officer to August 1 of this year. Members of the council were emphatic in their statement that they would not have made the appropriation if they had not been mandated to do it. Two members of the council stated they would , not vote to employ an attendance officer next year and that they wanted “the public to know they do not favor making the special appropriation but had to do it because of the court’s mandate." Other appropriations allowed by the board were, circuit court dockets. SB6; circuit court special judges. $300; circuit court postage, $25. auditor’s office supplies and equipment. S3OO. The council adjourned at noon, all the members being present and signing the docket. OH— — RESERVE BANKS BUYING BONDS Federal Government Takes First Sten In Inflation Campaign Washington. May 24 <U.R>~ The government has begun its inflation campaign through purchases , of federal bonds in the open market by the federal reserve hanks. ! Secretary of Treasury Woodin announced the reserve banks had made an initial purchase of $25.000.0(10 of government bonds. This was the first action taken . under the inflation amendment to - the farm relief act. which gave President Roosevelt power to exi pand credit and currency by a variety of means. “That is the start of an inflationary step,” Woodin said. “It is being done to inject something into the market. In other words, to keep things moving along.’’ Woodin said additional purchases would be "entirely dependent’ upon conditions.” The new law authorizes the reserve bunks to buy up to $3,000,000,01X1 (B) of securities. When the reserve banks buy: (CONTINUED ON PAaE*TWO)’

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WOODIN AMONG MEN FAVORED IN PURCHASES List Contains Names Os Men Buying Securities Below Market SHARES SOLD AT COST TO FAVORED Washington. May 21. W Secretary of i’ reas ur y William H. Woodin and other prominent men were revealed today as on the list of those permitted to make “ground floor” purchases of securities through .1. P. Morgan and company. The list also contained the names of former Secretary of Navy Adams, John J. Raskob and Senator William G. McAdoo. Those named in the list were permitted to purchase securities at prices well below the current, market quotations. The stock was of the Alleghany Corporation, a Van Sweringen railroad holding company. Ferdinand Pecora. committee counsel, said in introducing the list as evidence in the Morgan inquiry that the shares were sold at S2O and New York stock exchange quotations at the time ranged between s3l and $35. J. P. Morgan himself took 175,000 shares of the “ground floor issues.” Other partners took allotments. The persons on the selected list were invited to participate in the financial transactions on the same basis as Morgan and his partners. The list also included General Pershing and Col. Charles Lindbergh. Ferdinand Pecora. committee counsel, put into the record a statement that on February 1, 1929 the Alleghany corporation issued 3,500.000 shares of its common stock of which Morgan and company bought 1.250,000 shares at S2O. ’ Tlie statement continued that these shares were sold at cost price to a “selected list." (CONTINUED ON PAGE TWO) MORRISON LAD IS RECOVERING Youth Injured by Hit-Run Driver Monday Night, Is Improving Henry Morrison. 13 year-old, son of Wiley Morrison, who suffered a broken leg when struck by a hitand run driver Monday night, is reported recovering satisfactorily at the Adams County Memorial hospital. The attending physician stated today that examination ha i disclosed that the youth also suffered a fractured skull. Tlie fracture is believed not to be serious and the boy’s full recovery is expected. Both bones in the lad’s right leg were broken below the knee. Sheriff Burl Johnson stated today that no definite clues to the identity of the driver have disclosed. The Morrison youth was struck as lie was crossing tlie intersection of South Eleventh and Adams streets shortly after 9 o’clock Monday night. Witneses stated that the driver of a car. Immediately after hitting the youth, turned out his lights and sped west on Adams street. The witnesses were unable to obtain Hie license numbers of the make of the auto but stated that it was a large closed car, either a coach or sedan. 0 _ Bloomington Favors New Sewage System Bloomington, Ind., May 24.—(U.R) , —Only federal approval was needed today to carry out the city’s proposal to Imlld e new sewage disposal system. In a special election yesterday, residents voted 2 084 to 1,587 in favor of building tlie plant with a $428,000 self liquidating loan from the government. Approximately 700 men will be given work on the project. Mayor Joseph H. Campbell said [today that blds will be advertised soon.