Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 31, Number 130, Decatur, Adams County, 2 June 1933 — Page 1

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Illis COUNTY ■KING UNITS >0 GET 53,454 ■ Total Will Be ReKed In First Excise Krector’-' Payment ■ \TI R GIVEN fl TOTAL OF $1,804 Hotal of $3,454 will be reMby Adams county and K units in the county Mthe first distribution of H fees and permits eolBbv the state excise diE during the first two df the operation of the Ka alcoholic regulatory H total to be distributed Ke state is $879,959.11. of will lie distribth.- balance to next November. will receive $1,804; Monroe. SSO. Atlants will receive $1,400. Fry. state excise director, the following statement in known the amounts to be bv th-- different taxing ' alcoholic regulatory law enthe last session of the in anticipation of Fed<>f the prohibition lias taken its place ■of the most prolific sources ■ernniental income. ■s with genuine pleasure th.it director’s office can anthat nearly $1,000,000 has in the two months HKu- elapsed since the federal laws were modified. exact amount already for ■otion is $879,959.11, which raised from file" sale of ■ permits, whiskey permits, fl gallonage taxes, whiskey ■ taxes and malt taxes. Os ■uni $.181,946.90 is ready for ■late distribution to counties. ■ and towns which, under the fltory act, share in the profl A total of $498,012.21 will ■i in the state excise fund un■vember Ist. when it will be fluted by the audtor of state school unit in the state ■ basis of enumeration. This ■of course, will grow consider■tiring the next few months. ■ now on the excise director's ■ will distribute funds to conn■ities and towns every thirty ■ Legitimate Business ■nierlv hundred of thousands ■lars were spent in the illegal ■in liquor. 'The business paid ■es, but cost additional thous■in unsuccessful law enforce- ■ Now it is a legitimate bus- ■ bearing a rightful share in ■ SI of government, both nat- ■ state and local. ■ a office will begin to mail ■ecks Friday to the counties. ■ and towns which share in the Ration of permit fees. This ■, under the law, will go into ■neral funds thus tending to ■HNUED ON PAGE FIVE) Mr~ o IMS PATROL ITATE CAPITOL lb Dakota Governor alls Out Guards To Prevent Bloodshed mark. N. D„ June 2.—(U.R)—-A *ny of national guardsmen ■led North Dakota's modernisiw capitol under martial law a te today while enemies of William A. Langer charged calling of troops was a deft cal maneuver. ‘Ker. a robust executive who 16 only Republican governor °f the Alleghany mountains, fed he ordered out ‘he guard ev ent bloodshed in strife beJ contractors and laborers "'8 on the $4,000,000 building, “tired and fifty striking labor “o were picketing the tower 1 Picture dispersed as guarTls“nder Adjutant General Her ■ Hrocopp took their stations. 0 other companies, one a ma■Aun unit, wero ordered held nulncss. Governor Langer anc«d that the entire city would "acej under mart | al )aw | r Pr disorder threatened from °NTINUED ON PAGE HVE** 1

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Speaker I Kt wHE J ■ -®Wfl Rev. Father Joseph Seimetz will deliver the address at the annual commencement exercises of Decatur Catholic high school this evening. Father Seimetz will also award the diplomas to the 19 high school graduates and to the 28 eighth grade graduates from St. Joseph's Catholic school. The exercises will be held in the Catholic high school auditorium. EXPECT LIGHT VOTE TUESDAY Neither Side Has Made Active Campaign On Wet-Dry Election County Clerk Milton C. Werling was busy todav getting the supplies ready for the special wet and dry election next Tuesday, June 6. The ballots Ymd election supplies for the 34 precincts in the counU’_wjll ue distributed to the j inspectors Saturday. The inspectors must call at the county clerk's office to obtain the sup , plies. The election booths will open at six o’clock a. m. Tuesday and remain open until six o’clock p.m. It is believed the result of the election in this county will be known by nine o'clock Tuesday night. The question to be voted on is the ratification or rejection of the 21st amendment. This amendment if adopted by 36 of the 48 states will repeal the 18th amendment. To vote for repeal of the 18th amendment the voter must vote for ratification of the 21st amendment. To vote for maintaining the 18th amendment the voter must vote against ratification of I the new amendment. The names of Jacob Long and Frank McConnell appear on the ballot under the head "For Ratification.” The names of Amos Ketchum and Edison Sprunger appear under the column. “Against Ratification." If Long and McConnell receive the majority vote Tcontini’Ed on page three) — Mrs. Joel Frv Dies At Bluffton Today Bluffton June 2 — (Special)— Mrs Joel Frv died this morning of erysipelas, which developed from | injuries received in aim automobile accident last Friday. Mrs. Fry was born at Berne in 1849. Her marriage to Mr. Fry took place in 1880 at the Mennonite Church at Berne. Surviving are the husband and six children: Mrs. Della Zimmerman, Adams County: Arley Fry. Lansing, Michigan; Mrs. Metta King of Ossian: Miss Ada Fry and Homer Frv, both of Fort Wayne; and Walter Fry.. Adrian Michigan. Funeral services have not been •completed. . o Country Club To Be Legion Headquarters The opening next Monday of the management <4 \dams Post No. 43 of the American Legion, means the establishing of Legion head quarters at the dub house, David Adams, post commander stated today. Headquarters will be maintained there throughout the summer and the club house will probably beI come permanent headquarters for the post. The golf course is free to all out- | of-tow<u Legionnaires next Monday, I Commander Adams stated. A numI her of visitors are expected from ; posts in Van Wert, Fort Wayne. I Bluffton. Portland, Huntington and I other places.

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SEN. HARRISON I SEEKS CHANGE IN WORKS BILL Finance Chairman to Seek Revision Os All Revenue Provisions — NO INCREASED INCOME TAXES Washington, June 2.—(U.R)—Chairman Harrison of the senate finance . committee said today he would seek a complete revision of the revenue raising provisions of the industrial recovery-public works bill as passed by the house including substitution of a capital stock j tax for increased income taxes. Harrison also proposed that the additional three quarters of a cent gasoline tax provision in the house bill will be reduced to one-half of one cent. The revised program he said would raise $227,000,000 or $7,1000,000 more than the necessary annual revenues needed to finance the $3,300,000,000 public works program. The tax on stock dividends to be ( collected at the source rather than I from the individual as was provid'ed in the house bill was favored 1 by Harrison. The Mississippi Democrat also believed private bankers should be eliminated from those receiving benefits of the capital gain section of the 1932 revenue act. “In view of the revelations in 1 connection with the Morgan investigation. I believe we should eliminate private hankers from the exemption provided tor such bankers in the security loss section of the revenue act of 1932. The Harrison tax schedule will raise the following amounts: tax jof dividends, $70,000,000; capital I stock tax. $80,000,000; administrative changes of $15,000,000: gasoline increases of % cent -per gallon, j $62,000,000; a total of $227,000,000. | “I believe." Harrison said, “that inasmuch as this bill is designed to help industry, the corporations ■of the country should pay their share of its cost." The tax on capital stock based ’ on the net worth of a corporation would amount to 1-10 of one per I cent. Harrison said he would present his revenue raising program to the committee as soon as it began studying additional tax sections of the bill. He said the committee would study the Ickles’oil control amendment today and probably would not be able to reach the tax sections before tomorrow. MANY EMPLOYES MAY LOSE JOBS State Reorganization Law Takes Effect Automatically June 30 Indianapolis, June 2.—(U.R) Jobs of many statehouse employes were threatened today by the approach f of June 30. i That is the date when Gov. Paul > V. McNutt's state government res organization law takes effect auto- . matically. ; It is the date when all office hold* ers and holdover employes will be i dismissed automatically if not re- . appointed. That will lilt numerous stenographers, members ot the i state industrial and tax boards and 1 nearly all members of institutional ; boards and commissions. Announcement of McNutt's newj i industrial board is expected mom entarily. William A. Faust, Elwdbd, is expected to be the only present member retained. Neither Chairman Philip Zoerch- » er nor Gaylord Morton. Ft. Wayne, both holdover members of tbe tax j ) board, have been reappointed. J ♦ » (CONTINUED ON PAGE THREE) ——OMrs. Roosevelt At Indianapolis i I Indianapolis, June 2 —(UP)—Mrs. - Franklin D. Roosevelt is expected r to make a brief stop at municipal airport here Sunday afternoon • while on a westward plane trip, C. ,\ A. MeCollom, local traffic repfe- • sentative of transcontinental aed i W’estern Air. said today. ■ | Mrs. Roosevelt's plane will lap 1 II at 3:39 p. m. for a lOmiinute stoj, MeCollom said.

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Decatur, Indiana, Friday, June 2, 1933.

Freed by Fleeing Convicts Oh, m j— JKShi U:.« fcWMWfI ! mV l| V* ■ ■»? fl •V# f ■ " vw m - wo I - w If .1*4 ' * s Mrk. M. J. Wood (center) of Kansas City, Kan., is shown here with her husband (right) and ('apt. Stanley Beaty, after she was set free by convicts who escaped from the Kansas state penitentiary Memorial Day, The fleeing felons had taken possession of the Wood automobile to aid in their escape and had forced Mrs. Wood, her daughter, and her daughter’s friend, Cloris Wears, to accompany them.

DECATUR LADY DIES SUDDENLY ( I < ii Mrs. Henry Haugh Found ‘ Dead of Heart Attack This Morning Mrs. Rosa Goldner Haugh, 66, : < wife of Henry Haugh, died sudden- ! < ly this morning at her home at 204 ; South Tenth street of a heart at- 1 tack. Mr. Haugh had been down-11 town this morning and when he re-11 turned at 10:15 o’clock he found: 1 Mrs. Hough dead. | 1 Cornore Bob Zwick investigated ! ‘ and found the cause of dea-.h was I organic heart disease. Mrs. Haugh was born in Kirkland township November 24, 1886, a. daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Lewis Goldner. She was a member of the Zion Lutiheratni church. She was united in marriage to Henry Haugh November 12, 1896. No children were born to their union. Surviving besides the husband , are the following brothers ac:d sis- ; ters: William Goldner, French | township; Ed and Eli. Preble township; Alfred, Decatur route 4; Mrs. Cora Menawich, Fort Wayne Mrs. Catherine Fuhrman, Grove (City. Ohio; Dallas Goldner, Decatur. Mrs. Emily Shady, Columbus, Ohio. Fui.'.eral services will be held Monday afternoon at 1:45 o'clock at the home and at 2 o'clock at ' the Zion Lutheran church, Rev. Paul Schultz In charge. Burial in 1 the Decautr cemetery. The body will be taken to the | home of the Zwick funeral parlors ! Saturday morning. o— Mississippi Man Enters Guilty Plea Charles Martin, Mississippi, ar-| rested Tuesday night when caught in the Ervin Hoti home on Mercer! avenue, plead guilty to petit lar-' ceny before Mayor George Krick in 1 <ity court Thursday night. Mayor Krick withheld sentence I until Wednesday. June 7. Martin had obtained about $35 or S4O in! clothing and silverware when he | was caught by Mr. Hott, who call-1 Jed Night Policemen Miller and | ; Cottrell. o Student Omitted From Honor Roll The name of Robert Coffee was! unintentionally omitted from thei list of students on the Decatur high ■ school honor roll yesterday. Coffee' was placed on the honor roll with j four A plusses.

Miss Vesper Gibbs To Graduate June 5 Miss Vesper Gibbs, daughter of; Rev. and Mrs. C. P. Gibbs ot this city, will receive her A. B. degree in Fine Arts at the eighty-third commencement of Mac Murray College, Illinois Woman’s College at Jacksonville, Illinois, Monday morning. June 5. Miss Gibbs has been a member , of the Student Government Asso-; ciation and the staff of tbe college annual, the llliwnco. She was president of the Indiana club and has taken part in the May Day pageants as well as serving on the costume committee. Miss Gibbs is a member of Belles Lettres Society and was secretary this year. o__ 0 __ REPAINT POSTS ON SECOND ST. Ornamental Light Posts On Second Street Are Being Repainted The ornamental light posts on 1 Second street are being repainted. The standards are painted white an:d the base and top a green color. I j The electric light committee or-' ’ dered the posts painted at this time iso a clean and bright appearance) would be given to the street. City I officials pointed out that much traf-1 i fie would pass through Decatur this i summer, due to the world’s fair, and councilmen stated they wanted I the town' to look spic and span, j Discussing the upkeep of orna- | mental lights in the city, M. J. Myloti, superintendent, stated there ■ is much wilful destruction by boys and motorists. The globes on the | posts cost from five to seven doll lars each. month the repair bill was ] $127, not including the time it took j to replace the globes and light ' bulbs. I A string of new lights was plae- i I ed near the Smith bridge at the i I (CONTINUED ON PAGE FIVE) t o Children’s Day Program Sunday I A Children’s Day program will Ihe presented at the Union Chapel (United Brethren church in Root I township Sunday night at 7:30, o’clock, standard time. Music and recitations, dialogues, (drills and exercises by the children I will be features o( the program, i and music will also be furnished I |by a young peoples’ choir. The I 'public Is invited to attend.

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ORGANS MADE MONEY DURING PANIC IN 1929 Senate Probe Todav Reveals J. P. M o r g a n Firm Made Profits TO INVESTIGATE RAILROAD FIRM Washington, June 2. — (U.R) —■ Stock market operations which showed that J. P. Morgan and company made money even during the desperate days of 1929 , were lost in crumbling stock prices were made public today in the senate Morgan ! investigation. Some of the market operations went back to 1926, but questioning by Ferdinand Pecora, committee counsel, revived the dramatic epi-1 socles of black October 1929. when Morgan partners joined with Guggenheim Brothers and five banks in a “panic pool" to maintain stock prices. Inquiry also revealed a list of persons who obtained personal loans from J. P Morgan and company. On the list was Frank W. Stearns of Boston, one time confidante of the late Calvin Coolidge. The Stearns loan was paid off May 2. 1930. The amount was not given. Another highlight of the morn- ■ ing was the questioning of Senator Reynolds. Democrat of North Carolina, who attempted to elicit from George Whitney. Morgan partner, whether any members of the British royal house, King Albert of the Belgians and Premier Mussolini of Italy were on any of (CONTINUED ON PAGE FIVE) THREE KILLED IN AIR CRASH Army Corps Privates Killed, Four Companions Are Injured San Bernardino. Calif., June 2. —<U.R) —Arr v air officers todav ' began an investigation of at, airplane crash in Cajon Pass which killed three army air corps privates and injured their four companions. The plane, a dual-motored bomber. apparently struck the rocky walls of the pass in a heavy fog ! yesterday. The dead: Private Charles M. Leadbetter. Roseburg. Ore.: Private Lawrence D. Romano. Syracuse, N. Y.; I Private Addison K. Spencer. Pittsburgh. Pa. The injured: Private Paul L. Blinka. Allee. Tex., fractured arm and internal j injuries; Lieut. E. D. Kennedy, Kansas City. Mo., compound frac- ! ture of left leg. bead injuries, and ( severe shock: (Sgt. Seymour R. Decker. Elmira. N. Y.. fractured ( left leg and internal injuries. Physicians said the condition ' of Kennedy and Blinka was critiTcTintTnued’on page FIVE) Senate Approves Washington, June 2 —(UP)—The senate today accepted the house : version of the Wagner bill providing for establishment of a nation I wide employment service by the federal government in cooperation ! with states. After being signed by vice-presi-dent Garner and Speaker Rainey, j the bill goes to the White House. Green Water Bathing Beach Opens Next Week Tbe Green Water Bathing Beach located north of Decatur on State Road 27, will open the middle of ‘next week, Calvin Yost owner, announced today. A number of Improvements are I being made at the bathing beach land everything will be in readiness next week for the opening of the bathing season. A two foot cement retaining wall ' has been placed around the shallow part of the water and new sand has . been, placed at the bottom of the I pool. The stand and bathtag houses have been repainted and several I other improvements have 'been made.

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Rally Speaker | ||pK OH i Miss Elizabeth Cooper of Indi- , anapolis, executive secretary of, the Indiana Christian Endeavor, , Union, who will speak at the Adams County Christian Endeavor Rally in the First Christian Church in Decatur, Sunday afternoon at 2:30 o’clock. DRYS RALLY AT BERNE TONIGHT Judge Mann of Terre Haute Will Speak At Mennonite Church The Adams County Allied Dry 1 Rally will be held in the Mennonite church at Berne, tonight, June 2. The address of the evening will ; be given by Judge Earl M. Mann of Terre Haute. Special musical selections will ,be sung and Rev. M. W. Sunder-1 man, Adams county dry president, , and Arthur D. Unversaw. Allied Louth chairman, will also talk at the meeting. Judge Mann has held various offies. He was elected to the Indiana General Assembly in 1921 and the following year was named deputy prosecuting attorney of Vigo county in which capacity he served for four years. He was also the Vigo , I county pauper attorney and in 1926 was named judge of the Superior ) court at Terre Haute. For the last seven years Judge Mann has been a teacher of the Temple Methodist Brotherhood class of Terre Haute, the services of which are broadcast every Sunday. During the fall of 1932 he addressed the Men's Congress at Fort Wayne, and at present is state chairman of the Allied forces for prohibition. The public is invited to attend this rally at Berne tonight. Following is the program: Invocation — Rev. Suckan. Berne Mennonite church. Selections — Cross Reformed church orchestra. ( “Be Strong’'—Male choir of Mennonite church Selection —Male qr.artet. Missionary church. Selection —Mixed quartet. Evangelical church. Reading—“ The Second Election” ; . I —Miss Maxine Steiner. I Why Vote—Rev. M. W. Sunderman. Adams county dry president. How to Vote —Arthur D. Unversaw. Allied Youth chairman. , Offertory — Rev. Herman. Evangelical church. Offertory organ solo —Mrs. Men-, nas Burkhalter. Address — Hon. Judge Earl M. 1 Mann of Terre Haute. • Benediction—Rev. Conrad, Cross Reformed church. Veterans Block Wins Test Vote Washington June 2—(UP) —The ’ senate veterans block won a significant test vote today when the chamber agreed 59 to 21 to suspend rules and consider the Trammell amendment to the independent offices supply hill, limiting compensal tion reductions of veterans with , i service disabilitiee to 15 per cent. Hawks In Effort To Break Record Ix>s Angeles, (’allf June 2 —(UP) Lieut-cotnmander Frank Hawks ' roared away from Municipal airport at 5:51 A. M. today in a speI dally designed plane piloted by a mechanic robot which he hoped i would land hint in New York in II record breaktag time without a i j stop. I Hawks- sought to break his own i , former west to east speed record of 17 hours and 38 minutes.

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LEWIS BETCHEL RECAPTURED BY DEPUTY TODAY Officer Reports That Kansas Fugitive Failed To Show Fight POSSE CLOSES IN ON 2 COMPANIONS Siloam Springs. Ark.. June 2—(U.R) Lewis Betchel, life term fugitive from the Kansas state prison was captured todav at a farm near Drippine Springs. The capture was made bv Floyd (Henn, deputy sheriff of Delaware county, Oklahoma, who reported that Betchel showed no fieht. Other members of a Delaware county posse were reported closing in on two companions of Betchel. Fire On Truck Miami, Okla.. June 2 — (U.R) — Fugitive convicts from the Kansas state prison fired a barrage of bullets at a speeding truck near Siloam Springs. Ark., today. The convicts, who escaped Tuesday, blazing a trail of crime in four states, evidently attempted to stop the truck to obtain gasoline for an automobile they bad just stolen from Cleveland Beaty. The truck driver ran the gauntlet of gunfire without stopping. Jean Moyer, who heard the shots, and Mrs. Joe Moore, who saw the fugitives take to the dense woods, put posses on the trail. Rob Bank Miami, Okla.. June 2— (U.R) — Eleven fugitive convicts from the Kansas state penitentiary left a hot but elusive trail of depredations today in the tri-states mountain zone. Reports of their marauding activiities came always after the convicts had fled to some new , retreat. Rank robbery was added to the ■ lengthening chain of criminality that marked the flight of the desperadoes from the penitentiary at Lansing on Memorial Day. Murder, abduction and petty robbery already were in the sequence. Sheriff John York of Craig county siiid today there was no doubt that five of the mutineers, led by Wilbur Underhill and Harvey Bailey, notorious killer and gunman, were ti e bandits who l held up the Bank of Chelsea late yesterday and escaped with $2,500. A witness identified a picture of Underhill as one of tbe bank bandits. York said the methods and descriptions of the bandits were identical with those of the Kansas convicts whose flight has spread through Arkansas, Missouri and Oklahoma hills. The Chelsea bandits were trailed to a notorious rendevous of desperadoes near richer. Okla. (CONTINUED ON PAGE THREE) SEES SPECIAL SESSION SOON Special Session of Legislature Is Predicted By Merchant Bloomington, Ind., June 2.—(U.R) —A special session of tho state legislature next fall was predicted Iby Fred Weidman. South Bend, temporary chairman of the Association Retail Dealers of Indiana, at an organization meeting of retail merchants in the seventh congressional district here yestterday. Weidman said failure of auto and drivers' license fees and the beer taxes to meet early expectations will result iu a four or five million dollar state deficit by the end of the first year of the McNutt | administration. He said gross income tax funds would be transferred to the general fund to offset , these losses. If the gross income tax law is held constitutional in g court test case to be filed by the association, I efforts to have the legislature allow retailers to pass the tax on to consumers will be made, Weidman ,said. A board of 15 directors appoint- . (ed for the seventh district include (CONTINUED ON PAGE THREE)