Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 31, Number 124, Decatur, Adams County, 25 May 1933 — Page 1

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■EASES IN ■AL PLANTS (PAST WEEKS wleaf Creameries, ■ng Company Are ■ading The Way |r companies ■low INCREASES ■nr is getting up steam e jevival of industry and ■lent. noticeable in■having been made in ■ month in several of ■ plants. ■ng the field in increas■uction and employ■uring the last month ■e Cloverleaf Creamer- ■-„ and the Decatur ■ Company. ■ ’ter print department of Irerleaf Creameries was' )ni Huntington to the Dent this week and 15 addi1s were employed. catur Casting Company Is ; 140 people this week, an of 50 since the middle of schedules have been keysix and six and one-halt eek. -neral Electric Company w employs about 160 peoerating five days a week, ired with two and three months ago. ry weather the past few e concerns depending on or raw products have p production and are runto six days a week, ent--xtra men and making hipments. Among these LaFontaine Handle Comthe Decatur Cooperage package or carton butter the Cloverleaf Creameries acked at the local plant, tpper, general manager of pany announced todhy. ed the butter print defrom Huntington and 15 girls were employed in room. We now have beand 100 people on the it payroll and are shrpp- ; ten cars of butter a e feel much encouraged \e business will continue re.” the creamery exeeud. s of butterfat are heavier .1. due to a more complete , ■' of Hie 1..« al d (try tel• ■idenced by the fact that ■dams county farmers are ■ their product to the local , ■ than was ever noted in the ■of the company, Mr. Klep- ■ c'l ■e Decatur Casting plant, in- , I orders in several lines of ■ hiring.' especially the autoland allied industries, have ■liii doubled the production lest few months. Last April ■ t had HO people on the pay- 1 Id today 140 were at work. ■Cowan general manager of fINUBD ON t’AC.E SEVEN K - ——-- o tur Woman Is j Awarded Damages Jngton. Ind., May 25.—(U.R) Ages of $1,500 were awarded |' t Percell, Decatur, by a cirf" r t jury her" yesterdav in ft for $25,000 against William P'-r. whose automobile struck |e abutment during a snowIn 1931 while she was riding pin. She charged reckless ' rase was one of the few tried |y under the rigid guest laws ' I state, which require evi- ’ [of recklessness or intent. I I Earl Butler Is Vice-President I J. Earl Butler of this city i hosen vice president of the I Il's auxiliary of the Adams ’ f Rural Letter Carriers at the nation meeting held in Gene- I sdnesday evening. sr officers of the auxiliary i ifs. Dpuje Neaderhouser of ' secretary and C6rs of the Rural Letter Car- 1 i ‘l'ffUilzatlon are Simon LehRerne president; Louie Nearer, Berne, vice president 1 J. Sprtinger, Berne, secrend treasurer.

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Holds U. S. Purse - - I His nomination by President Roosevelt for United States Treasurer confirmed by the Senate. William Alexander Julian, of Cincinnati, <)., is pictured at his desk in the Treasury Department as he tackled some of the problems that awaited him. He'll be sworn in shortly. DELAY DECISION OVED WAR DEBTS British Government May Delay Decision Until Payment Date I .on don, May 25.—(U.R) —The government will not reveal its decision regarding payment of the Juno 15 war debt installment to the United States until the day payment is due. it was said authoritatively today. Chances for payment seemed slightly better than even. According to informed opinion here, though British newspaper correspondents at WashingtiMi predicted default. The Times' Washington correspondent reported today that the United States delegation to the world economic conference June 12 was making its preparations on the assumption that there would be an enforced default by Great Britain and others. Good news of progress toward currency stabilization and restoration of friendly relations with the Irish Free State today helped to balance bad mws regarding the war dPbt and disarmament situations. It was announced in Dublin that Premier De Valera and three Irish ****NTINUED ON PAGE FIVE) WOMAN IS CIVEN DEATH SENTENCE Widowed Mother of Three Children, Sentenced For Murder LaGrange, Texas. May 25. —(U.R) —Mrs. Mary bach, 33, widowed mother of three children, today was sentenced /<> death in the electric chair for slaying Henry Stoever, 58, a farm hand. Tattered and barefooted, the children tugged at the dress of their 200 j pound German-speaking mother as she listened stolidly to pronouncement of the verdict. Her attorneys gave notice of appeal. Mrs. Dach, owner of a small farm near Schulenberg, pleaded guilty to the murder charge, saying she shot Stoever last February and burned ills body in a pit under a chicken house on her farm. The body was dug from the pit early last month. A district court jury received the case late yesterday and returned its verdict at 10 a. m. The defense had asked that, in consideration of the children, she be given a short prison term. In her statement of confession, Mrs. Dach said she killed Stoever because he attacked her and mistreated the children.

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MORGAN PROBE FAR-REACHING Three Days of Senate Investigation Shock Nation's Capital Washington, May 25. — (U.R) — Three days of the senate's Morgan banking investigation have shaken gallons Washington as nothing has since the Teapot Dome disclosures. Far-reaching results are design- ■ ed to come out of this super-drama. Just as congress was about to raise income taxes on the average i citizen J. P. Morgan revealed he was paying no income taxes. His mighty liaiiking house is shown to be free from government regulation and examination because it classes itself as a "private banking institution.'' Large numbers of prominent men representing the blue book of American policies, finance and prestige are shown enjoying inside stock buys at 110 and sls below the market. The story still is unfolding. The late ex-President Calvin Coolidge was one of the favored ground floor friends of the Morgan house. The first quick outcry from Senator P.orah after Secretary of Treasury Woodin was revealed as an in' side buyer of stocks at bargain prices is regarded as forshadowing the reaction. The momentous import of the disclosures is in startling contrast with the calm stage in the "million 1 dollar" caucus room of the senate ' office building, where the scene is , taking place. Under four glittering chandeliers sits the reigning price of American finance. Morgan the magnificent, calm, smiling and only occasionally wiping a head of perspiration away as he shifts up-, * (CONTINUED ON PAGE TWO) WORLD FAIR TO OPEN SATURDAY 1933 World Fair Will Open At Chicago Saturday Morning Chicago, May 24 —(U R) — America's brilliant pageant of the century — the World's Fair of 1933— telling in its panoramic spread of the nation's rise from a pioneer country, opens here in 36 hours. • Stretching tor three and one-half miles along the shores of Lake Michigan, the titanic exposition re ceived its 11th hour touches today to insure readiness for its inauguration Saturday morning. Nearly a half million visitors are expected the opening day. A twomile parade down Michigan boulevard with dignitaries of state and nation leading the procession will precede opening ceremonies in Soldier Field stadium. At 9 o’clock Saturday night, a beam of light that started from the distant star Arcturus during the world's fair of 1893 will be captured and transformed into current that will turn on a maze of multicolored lights over the vast exposition grounds. in magniture, the exposition belies an accurate word picture. It contains more than 12,000 free exhibits. Its winding aisles and corridors if placed together would extend more than 82 miles, to view *(CONTINUED ON PAGE FIVE) o Louthan Funeral Services Friday Funeral services for Mrs. Margaret J. Louthan, 75, sister of Mrs. Mary Smith, Mrs. Daniel Kitson and Mrs. J. C. Hower all of Decatur. who died at the home of her daughter, Mrs. Benjamin F. HUI in Fort Wayne, Wednesday morning, will be held Friday afternoon. A short service will be held at the home, 2131 Fox avenue, Fort Wayne at 1:30 o’clock, central standard time, and at 2:30 o clock at the Decatur Methodist Episcopal ■ church. Burial will be made in the Decatur cemetery. Rev. Leppeer, Methodist pastor from Fort Wayne will officiate at the services and the Women’s Relief Corp of Decatur will hiave oliarge of the services at the home and the Fort Wayne Pocaihontas | will conduct the burial at the ceme•tery.

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Decatur, Indiana, Thursday, May 25, 1933.

♦ ♦ WEAR HIS FLOWER j • His fixed bayonet was pointed toward the enemy. His steel I helmet was tilted down pver | | determined eyes. An unseen | I seen machine gun sprayed his | i path with death, but he went j forward tor America. In a poppy-studded wheat j i field he fell. They buried him j , after the wave of battle had I I swept by. and poppies sprang | ' up around his grave. His vic- j i torious comrades* returning to | ■ America, brought memories j and the poppy. On Saturday, May 27, the ; men of the American Legion | will ask people to wear a poppy, j The women of the American | Legion Auxiliary will offer pop- | pies on the streets and will i give an opportunity to aid the war disabled, the widows, and j the fatherless children. i . ♦ STEINER SEEKS COUNTY OFFICE Russell Steiner, Former Hartford Principal, Out For Superintendent Russell Steiner, former principal l of the Hartford township high school, today announced his candi--1 dacy for the office of superintendent of the Adams county schools, subject to the election by the town ship trustees, June 5. Mr. Steiner is a graduate of the county and has always made this : county his home. He has lead twelve years of teaching experience ■ in the schools of Blue Creek. Hartford and Wabash townships. Mr. Steiner is a garduate of the Hartford township high school and Ball State Teacher's College. He has had graduate work in the school of administration and supervision tat the University of Michigan. He is a member of Epsilon Pi Tau. national honorary fraternity tor industrial arts. He is married and has one daughter. The entrance of Mr. Steiner in the superintendtent's race brings the total to four candidates. Others . having previously announced their candidacies are Clifton E. Striker. , now serving his second four-year ; term in the office; Hansel Foley, former Kirkland high school prin- , cipal; and Robert J. Mann, principal of the Kirkland high school. MANY CHARGED WITH RIOTING — Fifty-seven Charged With Rioting At Mine Near Princeton 1 Princeton, Ind., May 25. —(U.R) — Warrants issued in Gibson circuit . court, charging 57 persons with rioting at the Somerville cooperative mine, near here, yesterday, were being served by Sheriff Geo. Hitch and deputies today. Meanwhile, work continued uninterrupted at the shaft. A blanket affidavit charging that pickets threw pepper Into Hie eyes I 'UOHTTNPBP ON PAGE TWO)

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DECISION MAY BE POSTPONED State Supreme Court Considers Legality of Beer Control Law Indianapolis, May 25 —(UP) — idiana's beer control law comes before the supreme court today fort the first time. However, its entry is indirect and the court’s ruling- on constitutionality of any part of the law is only a possibility. Hearing was to be held at 2 p. m. on a writ of prohibition issued by t.Tie court last week. It temporarily prevents Judge protem E. Mlles Norton of Lake superior court from acting further iir the restraining order he had granted to John Tenkeley. -East Chicago city councilman. Under Judge Norton’s order Tenkely is able to sell draught beer without interference from authorities ■ even though his sale is in violation of the state beer law. The question today is whether the writ against Judge Norton should be made permanent. The court will decide whotheV he may proceed with the Tenkely case and hold a hearing on the latter’s plea for a permanent injunction. But the supreme court can , stretch the point and rule on constitutionality of the provision sane-: tioning only bottled beer. Validity of other parts of the beer law also can be considered. The court may rule immediately ■ or wait until after the Indiana repeal election, June 6. Judge Norton said he would not attend tilie hearing this afternoon but would be represented by counsel. PLAN APPEAL TO SUPREME COURT Directed Verdict of Acquittal Is Given Tom Mooney San Francisco, May 26.—(U,R>—A direct appeal to the United States supreme court appeared today to be the next step in Tom Mooney's fight for freedom. L§ss than two hours after a directed verdict acquitted him of an old indictment charging him with one of the 10 deaths in the 1916 Preparedness Day bombing, Moonoy was back in San Quentin peeling potatoes, but grimly determined to carry on the fight to a higher I tribunal. Chief of his appeal counsel, i Frank P. Walsh, said application I would be made to the U. S. su- ! preme court for a writ of habeas page eight* I Cramer To Graduate At Indiana Central i Dave Cramer, son of George Cramer. Decatur route 3, will graduate from Indiaina Central College at Indianapolis, June 8. He will receive a bachelor of science degree. Mr. Cramer is a member of the Philomusean Society, the Collegiate dramatic society end the I Booster < iub. For the past year he served as president of the Booster, club.

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DEVELOP FIGHT OVER RECOVERY TAXATION BILL Serious Opposition Develops In House During Two Votes COMMITTEE VOTES FAVOR AMENDMENT Washington’ May 25—(UP) Pres, i Roosevelt's vast industrial recovery taxation bill rode throuh a dangerous storm of house opposition today to win two vital test votes. The margin of victory, however, was so narrow that it left administration leaders apprehensive. The votes came on a resolution limiting debates and amendments on the measure to which an amend- i ment will be introduced later providing for a change in tjie capital gains' and losses provision of the income tax law to insure larger col-; lections from the wealthy. Vote Amendment Washington, May 25 —(UP) The J house ways and means committee today voted to bring an amendment to tlie pending business recoverytaxutio nbill to alter the capital gains and losses provisions of the present law to insure larger collections from the wealthy classes. The action was taken at a hostily summoned meeting called to consider the Morgan revelations before the Senate investigators which developed that the great international banker had paid nd income taxes for the past three years. A subcommittee ’headed by Rep. Riagon, Dem., Ark., was named to draw up the new tax section designed to plug holes in the income tax law. Other members of the subcommittee are Reps. Vinson, Deni., Ky„ and Treadway, Repn., Mass. , At the same time the full committee approved an amendment to the tax section of the pending bill which would transfer the electrical energy tax from the consumer to the producer. The section, as it is now written, would continue the tax until July 1, 1935, with the consumer bearing the burden. Rep. Ragon announced that his subcommittee would work all of today on the proposed amendment to the capital gains and losses section and would place their proposal before the house tomorrow for inelusion in the tax section of the business recovery measure. County Board Will Receive Bids June 6 The county commissioners will receive bids on Tuesday, June 6, for the winter’s supply of coal at the court house, jai|, arage, and county infirmary. Specifications call for two oars of coal in the court house basement three cars at Hie infirmary, one car each at the jail and garage. Sealed bids will ibe received. O-, FEDERAL JUDGE IS ACQUITTED Senate Acquits Judge Louderback Os Impeachment Charges Washington. May 26.—(U.R)—Federal District Judge Harold Louder- | back of San Francisco, acquitted on impeachment charges by the senate yesterday, was looking forward today to a long rest after the • grueling trial. He was acquitted on each of five counts on the impeachment charges brought by the house last session. The allegations were based on his action in various receivership cases. A two-thirds majority on any one I count would have been necessary for conviction. On only one count j the fifth, based on his appointment iof H. B. Hunter as receiver in the Rnsselll Colvin bankruptcy case, <iid a bare majority vote guilty. The vote on this count was guilty 45: not guilty 34. Votes on the other four counts were: first, guilty 34, not guilty 42; second, guilty 23, not guilty 47; third, guilty 11, not guilty, 63; I fourth, guilty 30, not guilty 47.

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Envoy From Vatican ! * liKHt * The Most Rev. Amleto Giovanni ’Cicognani, new Apostolic Delegate from the Vatican to the United I States, is pictured on his arrival in New York, eiv route to his official | residence in Washington. He was welcomed by a. distinguished gathering of American eeclesiasts. PLAN SERVICES MEMORIAL DAY Adams Post of American Legion Will Conduct Services Tuesday The program for the animal Memprial Day services Tuesday, May 30, conducted by lAd'ams post 'num- ! ber 43 of the American Legion was announced this morning by David. Adams, commander. Those participating in the program will meet at the Legion, hall promptly at 9 a. m. Services will. be held at the Catholic cemetery | for Dr. Frank W. Lose. Services will then be held at the Maplewood cemetery for Frank Mlalian. Following the two services at the cemeteries, the parade will form on Third street, between Madison and Jefferson streets. The parade will move north on Third to Mon-. roe. thence east to Second and then to the Soldiers and Sailors Monument at Liberty Way. Short services will be held at | the monument. The Boy and Girl Scouts wil Ising. “America", Floyd Hunter, acting chaplain, will read the prayer, a salute will ibe given by the firing squad, and taps will be played by the entire drum corps. Two wreaths will be placed on the monument for the soldier a.nd sailor dead. The line of inarch, as announced i this morning is as follows: Colors; drum corps; firing squad, ■ led by Hez Cochran; Civil War veterans; city officials; Spai’iish-Am-erican War veterans, led by Jess Roop; American Legion, led by Burl Johnson; woman's auxiliary, under Mrs. Vincent Bormmnn; girls scouts, led by Mrs. Bryce Thomas; • and the boy scouts, led by Bryce Thomas. , The W. R. Cl, which has pre- ; ’ vionsly taken part in Memorial Day ' services, will not take an active ! part this year, but members of the organization will be taken to the cemeteries. j No services will bo hold at tho river bridge this year, as the local post will hold services at Benue at ■ 11 o'clock Persons furnishing cars for the trip to Berne are requested to be on Second street in front of tile Legion hall by 10:15 o'clock. John Moore Funeral Rites Held Today Funeral services were held today for John D. Moore, 79. who died at his home four miles southeast of Geneva, Tuesday afternoon. Interment was in the Salamonia cemetery. Mr. Moore had been ill for some jtime with paralysis. His condition : became serious last Wednesday. He was horn in Shelby county. Ohio, January 27. 1854. He had resided near Geneva for the last 38 years. Surviving aiV the widow and four children, Mrs. W. L. Meehan of near Portland; Mrs. Mabel Cope pf Portland: Harvey Moore |of Geneva, and Mrs. Clarence Wagner of Michigan.

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INQUIRY SHOWS EX-PRESIDENT ON MORGAN LIST Late ex-President Given Opportunity To Buy Securities OTHER LEADING MEN ARE LISTED Washington, May 25. —W-R) — The late Calvin Coolidge was revealed today as a favored purchaser of J. P. Morgan and Company securities. The name of the man who was President of the United States during the boom years’ was revealed on a list of nationally prominent persons given opoprtunities to make quick turnover in securities ottered through the famous banking house. Ferdinand Pecora. committee counsel, told questioners at the luncheon intermission that former President Coolidge exercised a "ground floor’’ privilege offered him. Pecora said that the Standard Brands stocks, offered at $32 in June, 1929, actually was issued in September. 1929, and in two weeks passed $45 per share. The list was made public after the inquiry had developed an effort to establish whether the Morgan firm offered opportunities to make quick profits in the expectation that political favors would be offered in return. . A letter from John J. (Raskob, former chairman of the Democratic ’ national committee, was the basis ' of the attempt to connect Morgan I favors with political returns. Raskob wrote that he hoped the future would-give him “an opportunity to reciprocate” for the courtesies ex'tended by the Morgan company. Morgan, explaining testimony I that he paid income 'axes in England during the years lie paid no income taxes in the United States, said that the taxes were under the CONTINUED ON PAGE FIVE) Condition Os Rev. Gibbs Is Critical The condition of Rev. C. Gibbs, pastor of the Decatur Methodist Episcopal Church, who is a patient at the Methodist Hospital in Indianapolis. was reported to be very grave today. Rev. Gibbs' daughter. Miss Vesper Gibbs, was in this city today and stated that in an operation performed on her father at the hospital a cancerous condition was found and his condition is critical. Dr. Janies Crain To Speak Here June 1 Dr. James A. Crain, president of the National conference of organizations supporting the Eighteenth amendment and general secretary i of the board of temperance and social welfare of the Disciples of Christ, will speak at the Decatur Methodist church Thursday. June 1, at 7:30 p. m. Dr. Crain is a national leader in the prohibition movement and is ’ now making a speaking tour of Indiana in the interests of the dry 1 cause. GENEVA YOUTH BADLY INJURED Walter Muth Sustains Broken Leg When Struck By Auto Walfter Muth, son of Mr. and Mrs. Henry Mntili of Geneva is a patient at the Adams County Memorial Hospital suffering with a broken right leg and an injury to his head, which he received when he was struck by an automobile while riding his bicycle. The accident occurred Wednesday evening almi't 6 o’clock in Ge- ' nevi. The lad was sit ruck by the ear driven by J. M. 'Amstutz of Berne, when he rode from behind a truck into the path of the car. The boy was going south on State road 27 In Geneva, and Mr. Amstutz was going north. Wlalter wus thrown to the pavement and received a broken right leg and a gash on the back of his head. He was removed to the local hospital.