Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 31, Number 132, Decatur, Adams County, 5 June 1933 — Page 1

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IROUND-THE-WORLD FLYER IS SAFE

|2 PUPILS TO >raduatefrom Bade schools HL Lr.nff CommenceEm t Will Be Held At ■ ■Berne .lune 10 By ( ONR \I > TO W LIVE ADDRESS ■tllass of 242 pupils will "Beivt’ ilipl" m as at the Ad- ' common school >1! exercises to be ■The li s{ ot names was reJHiMn by ('. E. Striker. M cimerintendent. I'* 1 ' will be held in K Herne Auditorium at two j'lil Rev. J. 1.. Conw ■fol), vin? is the program: Orchestra. it-'-. M. O Herman, Qua I,! - Rev. J. L. Conrad, Quartet. . Ilin C E. Striker. ■)lu.- —Orchestra. w.re mailed today i i< .-xp . led that sever.,', pie will attend the ex The class this year ■tall, r tlian a vear ago when 3m; were graduated from th" grade. All of the 12 townrepresented Sa , 1,11, list Ilf all gvadmu.'< "i! on page 5 of this issue. Florence Lund ■ Named President ■w ■2r Flor-nee Robert s-i .nnd of daughter of Rev. and ,T. Roberts of this ei'y e.-'od pr sident of t e WoMission iry Conve’tion .1 Brethren Church wl i h in Columbia City list Mrs. Yund will replace Mrs of Huntington. w'i a° president of the conferKin be relieved of the office. ■ Rtn and Mrs. Roberts attended and were accompan ■M? following women of the fKai church, the Mesdames Lillie Elzey. O W. Brown, Robenald. Misses Clara Mumma and M Uvena WilMore than 300 delegates atthe meeting, and those atthe sessions report a spl nKd Convention. Many visitors wenB>rd Os Review [Convenes Today ? county board of review con1 this morning. m>'■eting in the of County Assessor John ■S’ in the court house. two members appointed bv 'are Wt ifr d Gerke of and Ernest Reichof Geneva. The other mentthe hoard are. Mr. F It y. the . ■■’n. County treasurer John . ■hter and Auditor Glen Cowen, lerk. comparing of the assessor's IB* 1 * with the auditor’s abstract M*e> today. (“Is Counlv Names Bay Superintendent lfft on, June 5 — (UP)—Frank ay was reflected superinten--1)1 the Wells cou ’ty schools by >wnship trustees this morning, a former principal at Rock- ( enter high school, will com- ■ p liis first te rm In August. I Election Returns ■ |he vote by precinct in the ■® and dry election in this ■ u bt.v Tuesday will be compil- I ■ >.v the Daily Democrat and I results given to those who 1 ■ ■ Since only one ballot need | I* counted the result should ■ Known by nine o'clock. The | , ■’hectors are asked to tele- I B'mie the vote in their precinct | ■ ■? I * !p Democrat, 'Phone | | K* b I'HOUSAND as soon as ■ p -'' have it counted. I ♦

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Lands Safely * Ws>s >’ t- ‘J- js ' I " ” InPpF I * — -,w. ~ Jimmy Mattern, trans-Atlantic flyer, landed safely on island off Norway Sunday. He continued his flight today, arriving at Mos- ■ cow this morning. Mattern is attempting to set a new speed I record for an around-the-world flight. SOCIETY WILL GIVE PROGRAM Missionary Society To Give Program Wednesday At Local Church A special program and pageant will be presented at the Presbyterian Church Wednesday night at 8 o’clock by the Women’s Missionary Society. The program is scheduled at S o'clock so that members of other churches may attend, following the regular prayer services. The public is cordially invited to attend. Rev. G. 0. Walton will give a short talk at the meeting and special musical selections will be rendered. The pageant, "America’s Call to Service" will be presented and a social hour will follow the entertainment. The cast of characters for the pageant is as follows: America Miss Dorothy Young Her Attendants — Misses Catherine Engeler and Bernice ('loss Possessions, corn, wheat, fruit, coal, forests, silver and gold— Mesdames R. E. Glendenning, M. A. Frisinger, Carrel Cole. ' UctWTINVED ON PAGE FIVE) , SWIMMING POOL OPEN THURSDAY Municipal Swimming Pool To Open; Registration Next Two Days The Decatur municipal swimming pool at Waterworks pm k will be opened to the public Thursday afternoon, W. Guy Brown, director, announced this morning. The pool has been completely cleaned, the bottom and the sides repainted. On Tuesday afternoon, from 1 to 4 o'clock, boys will register at the pool. Br vs under 14 will be given certificates by Mr. Brown, while those over 14 must have a doctor's certificate. Wednesday afternoon, from 1 to 4. girls will register with Miss Geraldine Hower. Miss Hower will certify girls under 14 years of age, while older girls must have a doctor’s certificate. Every child using the pool must have a health certificate. The municipal pool has been In operation for the past seven years The number of children using lhe pool has Increased rapidly, particularly during the last three years. Three years ago| 8,000 swimmers took advantage o the facilities, two years ago| 12,000 and last year 20,000.

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C. E. STRIKER I IS REELECTED TO THIRD TERM Berne Man Is Re-elected Superintendent of Adams County Schools AUDITOR CASTS DECIDING VOTE Clifton E. Striker of Berne, was re elected county superintend- : ent of schools at the qiMdrennial meeting of the board of township trustees, held at the county audit<r’s office in this city toda?/. Mr. Striker was elected on the fiisi ballot. County Auditor Glen Cowen casting the deciding vote. The election was a four-cornered one and two of the candidates reI ceived one vote each and one candidate four votes. Striker re- : ceived seven votes. , Russell Steiner, former principal of the Hartford townshin l schools, was th" runner-up in the I election. He received four votes. : Hansel Foley oi Monroe, former ptincipal of the Kirkland township schools and Robert J. Mann, pres- ' er.t principal of the Kirkland s< bools, each received one vote. The law specifies that the conn'y auditor shall act as clerk of the board and in case of a tie ■ vole shall cast the deciding vote. Mr. Striker received six of the trustee votes. Auditor Cowen i cast his vote in favor of Mr. Striker and the election was over. Mr. Striker is serving his second term as county superintendent. He was first elected in 1925 and again in 1929. He. is a resident of Berne and following his gradua- | tion from the Berne schools. J taught school in Monroe, Wabash and Hartford townships. He then I entered Indiana university and i was graduated with an A. B. de- ' gree. In 1930 he received a Master's degree and has taken postgraduate work at Chicago univerICONTTNITED ON PAGE FIVE) DELAY ACTION ON INCREASES House Leaders Will Delay Consideration of Vet Increases Washington. Jun? 5 — (UP) — House leaders definitely decided today to dely consideration of proposed increases in veterans’ appropriations in a desperate hope that President’s dramatic "appeal to the nation” might reverse congressional sentiment. The agreement was announced by sp:aker o.f the house Rainey who said the Independent offices ! supply hill carrying the senate rider adding $170,000,000 for veterans’ compensation might not be considered by the Chamber until late this week. • Democratic chieftains were faced with a Presidential ultimatum that they must either reject the se ate or else raise new taxes to ensure a balanced budget. Although firmly convinced that r substantial house majority favI ors increasing the ex-servicesmen’s allowances, the leadership will make an effort to sustain Hie Pre sident. Party strategy rills for postponment of the issue as long as possible. allowing the growing rebellion to “simmer down.” It is hoped that threat of new taxation will jrouse public pretests to conteract the drive for compensation increasUtCONTTNVED ON PAGE STX) Dance School Revue Thursday Night The second annual Violet Reinwald Vevue will be held in the Decatur Catholic high school auditorium Thursday evening, June 8, at 8:15 o’clock. The revue, with its beautiful costliming and finished dancing, promises to be one of the best ever produced by the Reinwald School of dancing. Tickets will sell for 35 cents for adults and 15 cents for children and may be procured from any pupils of the Decatur dancing school which is I i under the direction of Mls:i Patsy, Fullenkamp.

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Decatur, Indiana, Monday, June 5, 1933.

Reelected | ▼ iMi \ -re f. ' Clifton E. Striker, Adams coun- ' ty school superintendent, was reelected to serve his third term in I the office at the quadrennial elec- ■ tion by the 12 township trustees ■ this morning. Mr. Striker was • first elected to the office in 1925 and was chosen for his second • term in 1929. i BIBLE SCHOOL i OPENEDTOOAY Daily Vacation Bible School Opens At Central Building Today i The Decatur Daily Vacation Bible , 1 School opened this morning with I 165 pupils present. The enrollment was classified as follows: kinderI garien, 45; primary, 64; junior, 33: ! : i intermediate or graduating class 23. ’ Rev. M. W. Sundeman, pastor of the Evangelical church, is dean of 1 the school and Rev, C. R. Lanman 1 of the Christian church is supervis-1 'ior of the playground. Mrs. F. W. Downs, is principal of the school and teacher of the primary department, assisted by the Misses Mina Collier and Ruth Winnes. The first year kindergarten teachers are Mrs. Carrel Cole and the Misses Helen Becker and Ruth Macklin. Mrs. Herman Myers and I Misses Catherine Murphy and Elizabeth Miehls are teachers of the second year kindergarten clast- j I The junior teachers are the Misses Dorothy Spuller and Helen Shroll and Mrs. C. M. Prugh is the r intermediate teacher. Mrs. Prugh is also in charge of the chapel music and Miss Dorothy Spuller is j pianist. Any children enrolling during the j (CONTINUED ON PAGE SIX) o Monroe Man Hits Light Post Sunday ’! I Harry Ehrsam, Monroe, escaped injury about 9 o'clock Sunday j I night when the auto he was driv-1 ' ing struck a light post on South ; i Winchester street near the S. E. 1 Hite grocery. ' The light post was badly dam- ■ aged, with a probable expenditure i of $35 necessary for repairs. The I front end of the auto was badly I damaged, the front axle being broken, fenders damaged and bumper ■ badly bent.

Congressman Farley Replies To Inquiries On Farm Legislation

Congressman James I. Farley, in response to numerous Inquiries about farm legislation, has compiled a list of the new measures, sending a copy to the Daily Democrat. The following explanations are given by Mr. Farley on the several measures already passed by congress: “Under an executive order, which became effective on May 27th. the following agencies were consolidated into a single agency known as the Farm Credit Administration: the Federal Farm Board, the Federal Farm Loan Bureau, that portion of the Reconstruction Finance Corporation which has to do with the management of the twelve regional agricultural corporations, and the Crop Production Loan Office and the Seed Loan Office. 1 "The activities that will be carried on by the various divisions of the Farm Credit Administration are as follows: 1. Mortgage loans of farm property. “These are made by the twelve: [Federal Land Banks, under the. terms of the Farm Loan Act as I

COUNTY BOARD HOLDS SESSION Commissioners Hold Regular Meeting; Bills Are Allowed The county commissioners met In regular session today, devoting the morning *o cheeking and al- | lowing of bills. The claims of Mrs. Maybe) Myers, county attendance officer, were allowed. These claims will lie paid as soon as approval is given by the state board of tax • commissioners. The attendance officer has not been paid since last December, order for payment being issued by Judge H. M. DeVoss in a mandamus proceedings i brought by Mrs. Myers. The commissioners announced that finances of the country highway department would not permit them to request an additional appropriation of highway funds for paying members of the unemployed group for work on roads. The ; county appropriated $3,000 for the work and this fund is now exhausted. The commissioners will receive bids Tuesday for installing equipment in a woman’s comfort sta- ' tion in the basement room under ; the northeast corner of the court I house. The toilet room on the first floor of the court house will| be moved to the new location Bids will also be received by i the commissioners tomorrow for ' furnishing the winter’s supply of I coal at all the county buildings. o — Guernsey Breeders Will Meet Tuesday Peter B. Lehman, president of the Adams county Guernsey breeders cattle club, has called a meeting of the association for Tuesday evening, in the directors room of the First Bank of Berne. O"e of the matters tor discussion will be the possipility of showing cattle in connection with the Junior 4-H club fair in August. COUNTRY CLUB FORMALLY OPEN Decatur Huh Is Onened Todav Under Legion Management The Decatur Country Club was formally opened today under the > management of Adams Post No. I 47 of the American Legion. A number of visitors were presI ent from posts in nearby cities and an exhibition golf match by i Pete Duran, professional from the i Fort Wayne Elk’s country duh I was staged at 2:30 o'clock. A program will be given at the club house at 7:30 o'clock this 1 evening for Legionnaires. Dr, H. I O. Jones of Berne will deliver a talk. Transportation to the club house will he furnished from the Lesion hall on Second street. Golf course privileges were extended to all visiting Legionnaires , today, the local post acting as i host.

i I amended, including the amends intents made by the Emergency . ■ Farm Mortgage act of 1938 and lite . | rules and regulations heretofore prescribed by the Federal Farm Board and hereafter by the goverI nor of the Farm Credit Administra .'tion. These first mortgage loans are made either through National i Farm Loan Associations, of which .'there are approimately 4,650, or di- . rectly by the banks. ,! “The Emergency Farm Mortgage act of 1933 provides also for direct J loans to farmers by the Farm Loan . i commissioner to an aggregate .‘amount of $200,000,000. These are i made on the security of first or . second mortgages on farm property by agents of the Farm Loan Com- . mlssloner, having offices at each of the land banks In Indiana, all persons interested should common- , icate with Mr. Robert L. Immel. ( agent farm loan commissioner. .Louisville, Kentucky. App'icatfons 'for loans should be made to him. ior to the agent of the farm loan 'commissioner In our district. 1 “2. Crop loans, as heretofore adI ~ II (CONTINUED ON PAGE FIVE)

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SENATE PROBE | TURNS TO RAIL INVESTIGATION — O. P. VanSweringen Tells Os Rise Os Himself And Brothers ALL MONEY USED HAD BEEN BORROWED Washington, June 5. —(U.R) —The : senate investigation of J. P. Mor,'gan and Company turned today to , I scrutiny of the vast railroad empire financed by the Morgan inter- . ests. O. P. VanSweringen, one of the brothers who built a great railroad I network with Morgan aid, told the senate stock market investigating committee of the 17-year career which brought the VanSweringen ■ from real estate developers to railroad monarchs. , The VanSweringens and their , in the venture borrowed every dollar necessary for acquisition of the Nickle Plate in 1916, , it was developed in testimony. The two million dollar cash payment to the New York Central in the Nickle Plate transaction was obtained in . a loan from the Guardian Trust & ' Savings Company of Cleveland, M VanSwearingen testified. ’ At the noon recess, Ferdinand r Fecora, committee counsel, said the VanSweringens, in the Nickle j. Plate deal had obtained “control of a railroad without putting up a ' five-cent piece.” ■ “If they put up anything of value,’’ he added, “it was stock of the r Cleveland Terminal Company. Thu value of that we do not know.” f VanSweringen explained to Pe- •' 1 "(CONTIn'iTe'D ON PAGE SIX) Volunteer Firemen Will Meet Tuesday t The monthly meeting of the De- [ Oatur volunteer firemen will be held Tuesday evening instead of Wednesday, as previously announced. The change is made because the local firemen will attend the annual Northern Indiana industrial and volunteer firemen's convention I at Bluffton Wednesday. Monroe Man Injured In Auto Accident John Yoeman of near Monroe received severe injuries in an automobile accident which occurr.d Saturday evening near Rockford, t Ohio. 1 Mr. Yoeman was enroute to . Rockford when he came to a jog , in the road. He was unable to see • the turn in the road and crashed ini to a telephone pole. His nose was ' cut off and he was badly cut and > bruised. The car was practically i demolished. McNUTT URGES STATE REPEAL Governor Explains Reason For Banning Draught Beer In State Gary. Ind.. June 51—(U.R) —Draught beer was banned in Indiana because Gov. Paul V. McNutt wants the state to vote for repeal tomorrow. He revealed this fact at the Gary Press Club address Saturday night, answering Lake county appeals for keg beer. Defending attacks on other provisions of the beer law. he said Importers are necessary in the collection of taxes on beer made outside Indiana and to handle shipments into the state. Profits of the importers are nominal, he said. Discussing state government costs McNutt said that within 30 days after his inauguration economies were effected totalling sl, 500,000, that 1,000 state employes were dropped and 169 government departments were consolidated into nine divisions. “My enemies have called the new state government plan a dictatorship," he commented. “Hut it is not that. 1 am the general manager. the constitutional officer re- > sponsible to the people.” Indiana's 1933 tax bill will have been reduced by $38,723,000, or 30.18 per cent, by the end of the year, he estimated. last year's . bill was $128,535,000 while that for 1933 he estimated to be $89,811,000.

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In New Navy Post /y J h I AX ■ Rear Admiral William D. Leahy, who has been named by President , Roosevelt as chief of the Navy j Bureau of Navigation. He is 58 years old and was formerly chief of the Bureau of Ordnance. Ad-1 inhal Leahy has been commander of the Destroyer Scouting Force; since 1931. INDIANA CASTS VOTES TUESDAY Hoosiers Will Vote On Prohibition Repeal Amendment Tuesday Indianapolis, June S.—(U.R) — Ini terest in the Indiana repeal elec-' tion quickened today as citizens of the Hoosier state prepared to re-' cord their first popular vote on prohibition. Except in eases of local option,! ' a state wide vote never has been 1 taken on the wet and dry question. The polls will open tomorrow at 6 a. m. and close at 6 p. m. By ■midnight it should be known definitely whether Indiana has joined • the list of states favoring repeal of the 18th amendment. The state constitutional convention will be held June 26 in the statehouse, with 329 official dele- ; gates. Each county is permitted one delegate plus one for each 10,- , 000 population. Two factors created last minute interest in the election. First was the series of mass meetings , county rallies and speeches on behalf of the anti-re-pealists yesterday. Second was the repeal election in Illinois today. Many persons believe that the j (CONTINUED ON PAGE SIX) Ed Musser Named Vice-President Ed Musser of this city was elected vice-president of the Adams ' County Christian Endeavor organization at a rally held in the First Christian Church in this city Sun- ■ day afternoon. Marion Sprunger of Berne was elected president; Walter Hawbaker of Geneva, treasurer; Mrs. Nao- ■ mi Neuenschwand ’r. Berne, secretary. The rally was presided over by Homer Augsburger, Berne and the principal address was given by Miss Elizib th Cooper of Indianapolls. The Mcnnonito Christian Endeavor Society of Berne was pre sented the shield for the largest number of members present at the meeting. o_ —, Mrs. Esther Kipt'er Dies This Morning Mrs. Esther Kipfer, 37, wife of Ulrich Kipfer Grabitl. died at 2 o’clock this morning at her home following an operation for the removal of a tumor front her liver. She was a daughter of Mr. and Mr:;. Henry Bertsch, of Leo. She formerly lived east of Bluffton in Adams county and nine years ago moved to Grabill. Surviving are the husband, parents and eight children. Henry. Alfred. Joseph. Elsie, Maryann, Margaret, Alice and Ephriam. One sister, Mrs. Matilda Bertsch.; Fort Wayne and five brothers, I also survive.

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BAD WEATHER FORCES FLYER DOWN ON ISLE James Mattern Is Nearly Three Hours Ahead of Previous Record FEARS WERE FELT FOR HIS SAFETY Moscow. June 5.— — Janies Mattern, clipping three hours off the around-the-world flight record to this point, dropped down to a skillful landing at the Moscow airport today and prei pared to resume his way across Siberia with only a few hours delay. The dauntless Texan, despite bad weather over the Atlantic | which forced him to come down j and waste almost a whole day on an island off the south coast of Norway, speeded on with such purpose on his solo flight that he was 51 hours 31 minutes out of New York when he landed here. Wiley Post and Harold Gatty, who circled the world eastward from New York in 1931 in 8 days, 19 hours and 15 minutes, were 54 hours 34 minutes nut of New York when they landed here. They I stayed nearly 12 hours, whereas Mattern planned to resume within three or four hours towards Nbvo- ■ sibirsk. 1.700 miles distant. Mattern drove his red. white and blue monoplane the 1.100 miles from Oslo. Norway, in seven hours, averaging 157 miles an hour. Despite the wet field he landed perfectly. The weather over this region had been clear- ! ing since early morning. Aviation officials, foreign cor I respondents and Soviet newspapermen and photographers after 16 hours of sleepless vigil, cheered Mattern's landing. “It seems almost like getting home again,” he said, as he extended greetings to Americans ' whom he met after the Borisov crash. He covered the distance from Oslo smoothly, except for part of the way over the Baltic, where he was obliged to fly blind. He entered the Soviet Union at the Soviet-Esthonian frontier. While Mattern ambitiously honed to push on to Novosibirsk. 1.700 miles eastward of Siberia, Soviet officials suggested it would he better to stop at Omsk. 400 miles short of Novosibirsk. They were almost certain tn insist that he follow the southern route, along the trans-Siberian railway, through Omsk. Novosibirsk. Irkutsk (on Lake Baikal) and Khabarovsk, ■ near the Pacific coast. Describing his trans-Atlantic flight. Mattern said: “It sure was a tough passage over the ocean. Last year’s flight was like going to California by comparison.” EDITORS MEET IN INDIANAPOLIS Editors Meet In Annual Convention At Indiana Capitol Today Indianapolis. June 5 (U.RF-Tlte task of welding 12.600 weekly and small daily newspapers into an aggressive national force was undertaken today at the opening of the annual convention of the National Edt iorial Association “Our convention keynote will be to solidify the ranks” said Justus F. Craemer, Orange, Cal., president. “It was the press of the nation that kept its head during the hank moratorium. If the newspapers of the nation had been as hysterical as big business, this country would still be in the doldrums.” Mayor Regional H. Sullivan of Indianapolis and Lieut. Gov. M. Clifford Townsend welcomed the hundreds of delegates today. Publishers and editors from every section of the nation were In attendance. Walter D. Allen. Brookline. Mass, is vice president of the organization: Harry B. Rutledge. Chicaeo. executive secretary: and W. K. Aikens. Franklin. Ind., treasurer. Highlight of today's program (CONTINUED ON PAGE FIVE)