Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 31, Number 126, Decatur, Adams County, 27 May 1933 — Page 1

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. I COUNCIL S leives bids r „ |F EQIJIPMENT L Hf Firms Make Material And At Plant H) CONTRACTS JUNE 6 |Hitv council in eontinon lust receives Iron.. .">1 firms lor material ami ■frln~i at the Citv Light H' K r Plant, tli« probein'; referred to lineman, eonsultof Indianapolis Kin: !a I ion. of the council Tuesday afterhear representasupply and - present ami at the regular council Tuesday w 'll he awarded. knoun what equipment will pm chase. Mr. tabulate all the pro-< ivnrii here for the. The engineer’s on the material and bid was $20,000 and tabulation of tlie low totaled between was the superA uni’ of four of these was offered at about lie's and 1929. prices by the city for this amounted to $12.0n0. may purchase only in aters this I next firm-, submitted 64 proThe equipment and maon im hided water h aters. pumps. control equipment. a . pipe coverings.' I^^Bm run - md other equip mi 'd as necessary I^^Bettcim which if installim rmi-e plant efl’ii i'>>■ costs. than tt'i firm representathe meeting lasi Th'- chamber was and extra chairs were IH corridor to accom- i t!m i.b'smeh. The bids la Mr. Brossntan and I by son. IIBe I '■' st ° f Bidders M list of bidders follow Mfg. corn., Fort Wayne: Clevelend: Steam Turbine Corp., j X V- Flein Softener ■ C". Indianapolis; Pump MB and Equipment Co.. IndiM S. E. Fenstemaker co.. Chicago Pump Co.. ll^B 1 : I-athrop-Trotter Co., ('inFt. Wayne Engineering Co., Fort Wayne: The Mfg. Co., Springfield. <> . Pittsburg. Pa: ON PAGE TWO) ■ FIGHTING ■OBERESUMED pßCostly Fighting May ■f e Re-enacted In || Peiping, China May 27. — (U.R) — Fears ■Vie bloody, costly fighting of might be re-enacted here ■■n the minds of foreign inilitoday when the ■* s, ‘ commandant announced day and night pa°f Japanese troops would the city. Patrols, the commandant necessary to protect l'^B* ~e subjects because of the ■B op arising from an attack by Chinese several days n a Japanese sentry. ■ ' situation, the commandant as serious still because the p had failed to carry out ( Promise to demilitarize the , B l ' Ho Ying-Ching. Chinese , ■''; r of war, said today that, ■ *y-Hsiang, the Christian gen- ■ of the most formidable ' ■ es China, had re-entered the d| id military scene Ho said, had revolted and Kalgan, lip miles northwest , old northern capital, be- ’ B O NTINIIEL> on PAUbYwU)

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Vol. XXXI. No. 126.

Public Library Will Be (. losed Tuesday The Decatur Publie Library will be closed all day Tuesday. May ;>p in observance of .Memorial Day. Starting June 1, the Library will opmr at 12:30 o’clock each afternoon and close at 5 o’clock, reopening at 6:30 and closing at h:3O. at nigi.it. These hours will continue throughout the summer months. TAX PAYMENTS H EPORTED GOOD I Amount of Delinquent Tax Figures Less Than Nine Per Cent Assuming that all the taxes paid during the spring Installment period were for onedialf of the amount due for the year, the amount of delinquent tax due after the May payment, is less than nine percent, figures in the office of County Treasurer John Wechter show. Current taxes paid in the May installment amounted to $177,703.60. The hill for the entire year is $388,306.83. One-half of this amount is $194,153.40, leaving only $16,449.80, delinquent. if credit is taken for the entire amount paid as the spring installment. This percentage does not work out exactly that way as many taxpayers paid the whole year’s taxes last May. These payments are included in the total receipts. However the spring installment is always larger than tiie November payment and the amount of delinquent tax at the close of the year may exceed the nine percent total. County officials were more than pleased with the total payment. The percentage of delinquent tax for the half year Is 8.47 per cent, one of the lowest averages in recent years and probably one of the 1< west in the state. The total tax bill due in Adams county this year is more thin $300,000 less than the 1932 total. In the May payment $8,927.40 of delinquent tax was paid. The amount of delinquent tax carried over from the previous year was $40,009.56. BIBLE SCHOOL OPENS MONDAY Kirkland Daily Bible School Will Open Monday Morning The Kirkland Daily Vacation Bible School will open Monday morning at 8:30 o'clock in the Kirkland Community building. The school will h>» in session for two weeks and all children of the community from four to six years of age are urged to attend. The school is under the direction of Mrs. S. L. Cover of Chicago with Eileen Byerly and Ilene Smith as secretaries. Miss Lillian Grisso of Anklesvar. India, a return missionary, will teach missions in the school and Miss Helen Eaton of Chicago will teach a class in Sacred Music which will be open to any young person in the community. Others teaching in the school are Rev. H. H. Meckstroth, RevDavid Grether. Rev. Edgar John son. Fern Dilling, Marie Hildebrand, Mary Reinhard. Leah Griffiths. Mildred Hensclien, Verena Smith. Victoria Stoneburner. Selma Peters and Mary Dettinger. A class in religious drama will be conducted each evening at <. 30 o’clock and all members of the alumni are requested to be present This class will be held in the community building and opens Monday evening. —o Indianapolis Milk Pools Merge Friday Indianapolis. May 27.—(U.R)—The two chief milk pools operating here, representing the majority ot milk producers and distributors merged late yesterday. They are the Indiana Dairymen s Association. Farm Bureau sponsored. and-’ the Indianapolis Dairy Producers’ Council. A one cent Increase in milk prices will result, It was predicted. ’Regular" distributors now are delivering quarts at S cents with a 7-cent price in stores.

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World’s Fair Opens Today " irV -;i- - ■ JtabJfll ■ ■ ; ,j.w>iiiiiwvwiiuum»uMMnMKwaa*>r- i a— tmmaife An aerial view of the Illinois Host Building at A Century of Progress Exposition at Chicago, which , is ready to welcome visitors at the fair. The building is in the foreground, with the Avenue of Flags on the right. In the background is the Shedd Aquarium.

AUXILIARY TO e HOLD MEETINGS l First of Will Be Held Monday Evening A series of business meetings , and social entertainments have t been plannee! for the American Legion woman’s auxiliary, organized ( at the Decatur Country Club last Monday night. £ The first of the series of entertainments will take place at. the .1 Country Club, Monday night, May' f,29, at 7:30 o'clock. This meeting will lie kr the form of a short busts ness meeting and a bridge and i bunco party. ■ Women eligible to be menubers t of the woman’s auxiliary are the . wives, mothers, sisters or daughI ters of American Legion members . Meetings are scheduled for the second and fourth Mondays of,the month. Mrs. Vincent Bormann is president of the auxiliary. The committee in charge of tlhe arrangements requests that all members and prosepctive members .itten d this first meeting. Refreshments will be served and a door prize will be given. The committee members include , the Mesdames Albert Miller, Vernon Aurand. Raymond Kohne and Pau! Briede. 200 Reported Killed i, Tokio, May 27 — (UP) — The >. Bonin islands off the coast of Japan . were rocked today by a terrific exr plosion in which 200 workers were i 1 reported killed or injured. i The victims were engaged in> un- ; derground work on an engineering -1 project. DELAWARE AND e NEVADA VOTING 1 Two States Cast Ballots i Today On Prohibition Repeal Question Dover. Del.. May 27 — (U.R) —Determined to dispose quickly of the 1 wet and dry question, Delaware voted today for delegates to a state repeal convention, i Only 17 delegates -all at large ’ —will be elected. The repeal convention will meet June 24. Both wet and dry leaders were ' optimistic. Wets claimed Wilm- ' ington would safely carry the state i for repeal hut drys contended downstate voters would swing the state. (’arson City, Nev.. May 27.—(U.R) I—Nevada, with the smallest popu- , lation of any state in the Union, ; but most of it "(flipping wet" votI ed today for delegates to county < conventions which will meet June 10 to elect representatives to a t state repeal convention Sept. 5. Despite the wetness of the state , j Nevada repealed its state liquor law In 1923,-the Anti-Saloon i gue, W. C. T. U. and church groups have waged a determined Nght to - arouse dry sentiment. Wet loadtiers appealed to constituents to vote a possible upset.

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File Damage Suit Against Murderess | E Hammond, Ind., May 27. —(U.R> — i A suit asking SIO,OOO damages was on file today against Mrs. Daisy: Harmon, 53, serving a life term in ; women’s prison on charges of kill-', ing her 12-year-old ward with pois-l 1 on. The suit was brought by Frank ! S. Lowery, administrator of the estate of the slain boy, Anthony I Btabender, on behalf of his moth-i er, Mrs. Katheryn Fox, two halt sisters and a half brother. Mrs. Harmon, a Hammond widow, ' confessed poisoning the child to collect an insurance policy on his j life. She had been asked to care * for (he boy by hfs foster farther j INTANGIBLES TAX DUE TODAY Today Is Deadline For Placing Stamps On Intangibles Indianapolis, May 27—iU.H) — Deadline for payment of intangibles taxes, originally set for today, was extended this noon by the state tax board. Banks, corporations and individuals holding more than 1,000 intangibles in number will be given until August 1 to pay their taxes. Individuals or organizations holding less than 1,000 intangibles in number will be given until July 1 to make payments. The board said only $192,000 had been received from intangibles so far. When the law was passed during the 1933 legislature it was estimated the revenue would be nearly two 1 million dollars. Today was the deadline for placin stamps on intangibles and tlhe I sale of the stickers was brisk at | the County treasurer's office. Up to and including yesterday; the sale of stamps totaled $4,495. The treasurer has received sb.'6ti ’ of the stamps and the amount fln hand today was a little more than S9OO. Notes, mortgages, stock in for-: .' eign corporations and taxable i , bonds must bear stamps. The pen , laity for not having the stamps at- h t tached is an assessment four times the amount of the tax and placing , of the intangible property on tlhe tax duplicate, on which the regular property tax is assessed. Indiana , j road bonds and government bonds < are not taxable. , .I o _ McNutt Speaks At I Vincennes Memorial l Vincennes, Ind., May 27—(U.R) — Gov. Paul V. MoNuft was the , principal speaker here yesterday 1 at the historical field day at ■ George Rogers Clark Memorial 1 ■ and the old Indiana territorial ■ i capitol building. History reviewed centered i E around Clark’s capture of Fort ■ Sacksville from the British. That capture marked the first i big extension of American terriiltory westward. Without ft. the (United States might have remaini ed a seaboard nation, McNutt | | caid.

STOCK MARKET PRICES SPURT Stock Exchange Has Big Day Today; All Prices Stage Spurt i New York, May 27. —(IJ.R) —Spread lof inflation psychology today re- | suited in one of the most active t Saturdays in the history on the stock exchange; soaring prices tor E grains; a rise to new seasonal tops in cotton; a new 3% year high in EMay sugar; a 100-point rise in. gilJver; a sharp drop in the American dollar. Closing prices registered gains ranging to more than 10 points. Union Pacific closed at 112 up 10%; Du Pont 78% up 7%; American Telephone 119’4 UP 5% points, and U. S. steel 53 up 1%. Stocks mounted to the best levels in two years with tickers so far behind the market that traders were unable to use the tape for a guide. By 11:45, or within 15 minutes of closing time, tickers were nearly a half hour late. Sales were around 5,000,000 shares. Quotations were abbreviated to the limit. Bond tickers carried floor prices at 10-minute intervals to facilitate trading. Frenzied short covering and new buying came into the market at the opaning. The rise really began in I the last quarter hour yesterday when the street was appraised of the administration’s plan to abrogate officially the gold clause. After the New York close further gains were made in the coast markets and early today international issues soared in London. The dol(CONTINUED ON PAGE TWO) SENTENCE FOUR IN FORT WAYNE Slot Machine Hi-,lackers Given Heavy Fines And Sentences Fort Wayne, Ind., May 27. —(U.R) Heavy tines and penal farm sentences were given four suspected ringleaders of a slot machine hijacking gang by City Judge Bert A. Fagan here yesterday. Norman Manier, Robert McCune, Jack Curley and Philip (one arm : ed) Schneider were found guilty on charges ot petit larceny and fined SSO and costs each and sentenced to 90-day terms. Additional fines of SSO on assault and battery charges were given all but Schneider. Appeals Io the circuit court were granted. The charges culminated a series of attempts at slot machine.Jiljacking during the past several weeks. o Find Four Bodies East Portal, Colo., May 27—«( UP) —Burled 10 ,fe t deep in snow in the shattered cabin of his mono-1 plane, the bodies of Di. Victor De i war, 35, of Grand Junction and his j three passengers were found today.

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TWO OFFICERS KILLED TODAY AT SOUTH BEND Two Policemen Slain, Indianapolis Bandit Killed In Battle WIFE IDENTIFIES BANDIT’S, BODY] South Bend, Ind., May 27— (U.R) —The body of a man who killed two policemen this morning before he was slain by a third officer was identified today as Donald Murdock 35, alias Donald McGlemore, Indianapolis. The identification was made by Miss Josephine Frost, who said she was Murdock’s wife. South Bend, Ind., May 27. —(U.R) —Two South Bend policemen were killed and another wounded early j today in a gun battle with an unidentified driver of a stolen automobile. Their assailant was killed by the wounded officer, Dan Martin. The dead patrolmen were Delbert Thompson and Charles Farma. A companion of the unidentified killed was arrested and held for questioning. He gave his name as Thomas Santos, and said he was a gypsy traveling with a carnival playing on the edge of town. After several hours of questioning, police said that he had given them no information regarding his companion. Thompson was patrolling his west side beat early this morning when he recognized the license plates on a stolen car. He commandeered a passing motorist and caught up with the first machine. The driver and a passenger stepped out. Thompson started to question them when the driver started shooting. The policeman fell mortally wounded while his assailant ducked down an alley. The passenger, later identified as Santos, ran across the street to a restaurant where he was arrested. (CONTINUED ON PAGE TWO) CONGRESS MAY AMEND MEASURE Resentment Over Morgan Inquiry Stirs Up Controversy Washington, May 27. — (U.RI — Congressional resentment stirred by the Morgan investigation appeared likely today to result in senate amendment of the administration’s business recovery bill to lay new tax burdens on large, rather than moderate, incomes. Proposals for sharp increases in the upper brackets of the income tax. coupled with heavier surtaxes, were gaining support. The recovery me .sure, carrying a huge public works appropriation and broad powers for the federal control of industrial production and working conditions, passed the house yesterday after the hardesttight of the present session. Despite a ’’closed rule" which prevented any real effort at amendment. opponents of the bill were able to muster a rote ot’ 137, but 265 voted for final passage. Insurgent leaders of the house considered the rote a "moral victory" and predicted the senate would effect whoh sple revisions in the $700,000,000 revenue clause. This section, although revising the "net loss" income tax provision under which many of the rich escape taxes, still bears heavily on tiie “little fellow.” Income tax rates on the lower brackets are boosted to provide revenue to finance the $3,300,000,000 (B) public works plan. In addition, the present one-cent federal gasoline tax is increased to one and threefourths cents. All of the nuisance’’ and excises' carried in the 1932 revenue act are expended for ?n additional year, E until July 1, 1935. I A last minute compromise trans-' furred the electric energy tax from consumer to producer. The house, at the last minute, plugged one income tnx hole. It altered the "net loss" section to prevent carryover of losses from i one year to another for purposes of i income tax dedeuetion Few believe I the senate would be content with: this comparatively mild revision. I

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I Aged Woman Found Beaten To Death — Flint, Mich. May 27—(UP)J-Mrs. Bruce MacDonald. 65 wealthy widow of a former banker was found I beaten to.deatllr in the bedroom of | her home here today. The body was : discovered by her maid. Police started a search for her 1 17-year-old son, Balls, missing from the MacDonald home since, night. The aged widow, reputed to be one of the wealthiest women in ’ Fli.rjt, was slain, sometime between i midnight and 8:30 A. M„ police E said. Her head had been crushed iby blows presumably from two I book ends, found near her body. LEGALITY OF~ GOLD REPEAL QUESTIONED Constitutionality of Legislation Is Debated By Congressmen LEADERS BELIEVE MEASURE IS LEGAL Washington, May 27 — (U.R) — Constitutionality of legislation proposed by the administration to abrogate the gold clause in all public and private obligations, present and future. V'as debated today while congress moved for early action on the measure. Aiming at passage in the house on Monday, the house tanking i committee was summoned to meet this morning to approve the resolution affecting $70,000,000;000 (B) of public and private bonds, mortgages and contracts calling for i payments in gold. Administration spokesmen were confident the legislation was constitutional. They held that dealings in gold "affect the public interest" and therefore are subject to federal regulation. They described the measure as intended to legalize the situation which has existed since the United States went off tiie gold standty'd. eliminate all uncertainty about future non-gold bonds being :on an equal basis with present obligations, and make all obligations payable tr. any kind of United States money. Since the banking holiday no one lias been able to obtain gold, even though he held bonds calling for payment in the metal. Legally, however, the treasury and other issuers of bonds, have remained under obligations to pay gold. At the same time the treasury has power to take gold away from any who might obtain it. The present legislation, in the administration view, simply clears up this contradictory situation in away fair to all. The “gold clause” crept into * "CONTINUED ON PAGE TW’O) — o River Pollution Is Investigated Fart Wayne, Ind., May 27 —(UP) — Protests by New Haven citizens that the Maumee river is being polluted by sewage from the city of Fort Wayne are being investgiated here by the Board of Public Wofiks and a special coinn. il committee. The iispection of the stream between here and New Haven has revealed that offensive condition's prevailed at only two points. Construction of-a sewage disposal plant is urged by the New Haven group. This would necessitate the use of Federal Funds but j Mayor William J. Hosey of Fort Waynie does not want to borrow money for this purpose. 0 • President Signs Securities Bill Washington May 27 — (UP) — President Roosevelt today signed the securities control 'bill designed Ito give investors protection agalnrst unsound securities. Congressional action was com- ' pleted on the "Blu<> sky" measure I Tuesday. The new law guarauitees to investors coin|plete information <»q seeurtities offered for sale. It requires data on all domestic and foreign stocks and bonds sold in ( inter state commerce be filed with the federal trade commission!. Missrepresentation ot such securities would be punishable by a ' i maximum penalty of $5,000 fine | I am) five years imprisonment. <

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JAMES FARLEY GIVES MESSAGE | OF ROOSEVELT Thousands Jam Soldier Field To W itness Opening Ceremonies DEDICATE FAIR TO WORLD UPLIFTING Soldier Field, Chicago, May 27. ( U.R) President Franklin D. Roosevelt speaking through his entinissary, I’ostmaster General Janies A. Farley, dedicated A Century of Progress today as a harbinger of a century of even I greater progress. | The President dedicated the 1933 W'orld Fair to a I "world uplifting which will culminate in the greater happiness ■; of mankind and release all peoples from the outworn processes and I policies that have brought about such a commercial and industrial depression as has plagued every couptry in the world." Farley : said. Amid a scene of awesome beauty and splendor, the genial Farley addressed massed thousands in this memorial amphitheatre adjoining the color-riotous wonder- ! land that is the exposition. His words were heard by dignitaries j from all over the world. Optim- ; ism was the keynote of Farley's own talk as well as his message from President Roosevelt. 11th World's Fair Chicago. May 27 —(U.R)— The gates were thrown open to the world’s fair today amid pompous ceremonies by dignitaries from many lands. ; I The fair, ckrisiened A Century lof Progress, is the 11th international exposition. It revealed to the hundreds of thousands of first day visitors a $30,0(H),900 symbol of industrial America's rise from wilderness prairie and ! forest. The opening day of the fair, completed despite years of deep depression, found the city tingling with excitement. Streets were gay with flags and banners. The day dawned clear and . bright. Sunshine and moderate temperature were assured for the ! parade and opening ceremonies. A slight breeze was blowing" toE ward the exposition from the lake and the mercury was near 70 degrees. Crowds gathered early along swank Michigan Boulevard* to watch the procession of high- offiI cials. foreign groups in native costume and army and navy units marshalled to participate in tho opening ceremonial at Soldier (CONTINUED ON PAGE TWO) WILL OBSERVE MEMORIAL DAY Business Generally Will Be Suspended In Decatur Next Tuesday Business will generally he suspended in Decatur next Tuesday. Memorial Day. A majority of ibusiiliess houses will be closed, with the j exception of theaters, restaurants, 'confectioneries and pool rooms. lui atcordalic® with annual custom. no issue of the Decatur Daily Democrat will he published on that date. No mail deliveries, either city or rural, will be made Memorial Day. The Decatur public library also will be closed all day. Adams Post number 43 of the American Legion will conduct memorial services Tuesday morning at 9 o’clock. Services will be held at the Catholic cemetery for Dr. Frank W. ts>se and at Maplewood cemetery for Frank Mallinn. Following these services, a parade will be staged, concluding with a short service at the Soldiers and j Sailors Monument Organizations in the parade will then go to Berne where another short service will be held. Both the lAdams and Cort thea ters will have show Tuesday. Sport tans wil Ifind sufficient entertainment Memorial Day. The Snedeker j State A. C.’s will play both morn- ' ing and afternoon games and the I Decatur Athletic Club will play In ■ tiie afternoon.