Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 31, Number 144, Decatur, Adams County, 19 June 1933 — Page 1

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DNAPED MILLIONAIRE IS RELEASED

•BERSHIP ([REDUCED WOCAL CLUB Bmbpr of Commerce ■ill Start Membership ■ jive Wednesday Hal dues are I SLASH El) IN HALE ■hesf are' days of “new ’Hr Decatur Cham. Kflm!’.'’ . >'■ c lias iilatigur■afli< ' > renew member4in • > -ganizatioii in a and ala new and lowfee. dues, now six arrears, have been >st®d of committees and nr tiibership solicitors. I. i;,ustein. retired mer|i all i"' r fjr Decatur. has |MI as.-d to call on every fcle■eialier in the city, ■at’wtii' 1 'pe of the new deal ■MB Mr Bernstein will begin poljßexi Wednesday. He will I »a|i> ’ ' urers, merchant <. Kersßnd professional men ask- ■ thena to join the Chamber of ■wji tlberson. president of the in announcing the .-very person interest- ■ ■tT ’ - an active Chamber to join. The dues cut in half, making the one and in keeping times. the Chamber of Com a membership of about < were $5 a year. Un [Ai.i plan it is hoped that will be increased 200. Many did uol Join ■ w account of the expense I aj|p> some deliberation the of the civic organization ■*<> cut the dues to $2.50. Hlkiiinber of Commerce mam on PAGE TWO I 111 OEBT WILL IE DEFAULTED eißh Government V ill ■ Reconsider DecisBion To Default nne 19 —(U.R) —The sharp- ■ the America.) war debt te ■!! not cause the governBit ■ reconsider its default on government indicated Press today. insistence that of annuities past due prefe Debt revision negotiations II W inspire the cabinet to redebt question in parlin sjmkesrnan said. The position is clearly stated concerning the .lune pajfcient. and France will con- ■ suspend payments until a ■tot agreement has been ■. the spokesman said. WF ranch position as redefin hflli? spokesman was just the jK> to the American. Revisaid, must precede pay- ■ government appeared tinthe fact that invitations to Great Britain but not to France, for ■ions of the entire debt Even if France wished belated payment, it would ■ossible before fall, if was out. Parliament will ad ’8 July 10 and the government • ask authorization to pay "8H reconvenes in October. •her Porter To I Attend Convention June 19. — (Special) — •' 0. Porter of the Decatur ■go Company has made res•>ns to attend the semi-an-•n'vention of the Associated •'ge Industries of America in •>. June 21. 22 and 23. CoopMm all over the country will Big subjects to he discussed ■e effect that repeal of the •nth Amendment would have B cooperage Industry, effect • legalization of beer on the Bge industry. Industrial Re- • act and suggested changes ■le rules and specifications of, ■age and cooperage stock.

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Slain Officer i w SR*"* r V ■2,1 ■Mwm. ,w mmmm Raymond .1. Caffrey, agent of ; the Bureau of Investigation. De-' partment of Justice, one of the: officers slain by machine gunners in Kansas City, Mo. NO OBJECTIONS ON ASSESSMENT County Board of Review Has Received No Objection On Taxes Taxpayers in the county are evidently satisfied with the assesstfients made on personal property this year, the County Board of Review’ not having received a single objection up to date. Hearings o.i the assessments began last Thursday and were conj tinued Friday and Saturday and resumed today. So far nu one has objected to the assessments by the assessors and the board has not ordered any horizontal changes. No objections were offered by taxpayers in Union, Root. Preble. Kirkland, Washington. St. Marys, | Blue Creek or Monroe townships, i A schedule of hearings was made tip by the board whe.i it convened. The big cut made in the county tax bill this year evidently has appeased the demand for lower taxes and those who had personal property assessed last spring are satisfied that their taxes will he less, in view of the lower valuations. Corrections hi the assessors blanks are being made by the board of review and the work is progressing nicely. — —— Attend Picnic At Huntington Sunday Several Adams county people attended the Northern InTli na Jersey parish pie-ie at Huntington Sunday The picnic, sponsored by the Huntington county Jersey breeders was held at Memorial park and was largely attended. Among those from here who attended were. Mr. ami Mis. Roy Price C(in ' ty Age " t L. E. Archbold and family and Sol Mosser and family of Geneva. Mr Price represented t’o Cloverle n Creameries. Im-., of this ci'y at the , meeting. — —o ERVIN BLOCKER DEATH’S VICTIM Adams County Resident Died at County Hospital Saturday Night Ervin Blocker, 30. a lifelong resident of Adams County, died at the Adams County Memorial Hosiptal Saturday evening at 5:45 o Hock. Mr. Blocker was a patient at the local hospital where he submitted to a major operation aid pneumonia developed. The d ceased was born west of ! Decatur. June 11. 1903. a son of Mr. and Mrs. George Blocker. He was never married. Survmng are five brothers 'nd two sisters. Llvin. Russ 1. Harold. Sterling a«l Beli’nan all of Wells County. Mrs Rus sel Blair of Petroleum: and Mrs. Noah Runyon of Geneva. Funeral services will he held Tuesday afternoon at two o clock ut the Union Chapel Church and. i burial will be made in the M. . -■ I Cemetery, wet of Berne.

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POLICEMAN IS I DEAD OFWOUNDS Lafayette Officer Dies j Following W ounds Sus- ■ sered Friday Lafayette, I d.. Jun? 19 —(UP)— I Three men rrested after a downtown gun battle with police here ' 3 last week wer? identified today as i members of a gang of eight which’ " held up two banks at Cullom, Illinois. June 3, terrorizing the town. Howard Italmr ~ Cullom b.nker, ami two other witnesses made t:he iiientitication. They were acconi-. pinied here by Sh riff Harry Reeh- I le, Paxton Illinois. ! — Lafayette. Ind., June 19—(U.R)— > The death of Patrolman J. Wesley I Wilson, 43. spurred Lafayette I officers to renewed efforts today | in their attempt to link his slay- J ers with other serious crimes. Wilson was one of three policemen wounded in a gun fight last Friday night with James Richardson, 33, Nashville, Tenn., and ’ Frank Byrd, 29, Indianapolis, * bandit suspects. , ' Richardson was fatally wound- ’ ed, dying Saturday afternoon. Byrd was less seriously hurt and physicians say he may recover. I Patrolman Paul Klinker, 30, is I still in critical condition but ' attendants at St. Elizabeth’s hospital said, he spent a restful night , and probably will pull through. He was shot in the lung and pelvis. Patrolman James McDonald, 26. third to be struck by the gunmen's bullets, was only slightly; wounded and is recovering. The shooting took place across . from the courthouse in downtown Lafayette when officers attempted to question the two suspects. An employe of a bank at Cullom. ( 111., which was robbed recently, t attempted to identify Byrd and , Richardson yesterday as one of , the bandits. He said he thought j | ICONTtNCKD ON PAGE THHEEI O MORE EMPLOYES HIRED AT PLANT About 25 Additional Employes Start Work Todav at G. E. Plant About 25 additional employes i started to work this morning at the Decatur plant of the General Electric company, bringing the total employed up to nearly 200. E. W. Lankenau. plant superintendent. announced today. Employment has been increasing at the local plant within the: last two months. Six employes started to work last week and the plant has been and will continue 1 to operate five days a week, Mr. Lankenau stated. Notice was also posted this morning at the local plant that a five per cent wage increase would become effective July 3. It will affect 11 persent employes. In commenting on the increased activity at the G. E. plants in Fort Wayne and in this city, company officials stated: “At the Broadway. Winter street ami Decatur shops of the General Electric campany there has been increasing activity in j certain departments in recent I months. “Orders recently received, par ticularly in the small motor departments at Broadway jind Decatur and in the' refrigerator department at Winter street seem to insure continued activity tor, some months to come and more employees are being added in these departments, preference, of course, being given to former employees. I “Other departments are rela-i Lively inactive and offer no opportunities at this time for additional employment.” Intensive Search Underway For Flier Nome, Alaska. June 18.—(U.R)— A search by sea and air was being made today for James Mattern, round the world flier missing in the Arctic since he took off from : Khabarovsk, Siberia, five days ago. ; The navy repair ship Argonne, ’ stationed in the Prlbiloffs, was ready to assist three coast guard, cutters in the search of the remote, islands of the Aleutian chain after receiving instructions from Wash-1 1 ington.

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Released | W 1 ' k • W Jh ' 1 % ■ • 1 x • ■ William Hamm, Jr., wealthy St. Paul brewer, kidnaped last Thurs-' day, was released early this morn-! ing near Wyoming. Minn. Ransom, of somewhat less than SIOO,OOO i was paid Saturday night. BOARD ACTS TO CONTROL WEEDS County Ajrent Explains Methods of Eradicating Noxious Weeds L. E. Archbold, Adams county agent, appeared before the county commissioners in special session this morning, exnlai 'ing the results of the demonstrations held last week on th? control of Canada thistle and other noxious "-oeds.. The commissictneps and Ralph, Roop, eou'-ty roid supervisor, request that anyone noticing a patch of Canada thistle, European bind weed, quack grass, or sow thistle on l e public highways in Adams county, report to the assistant road supervisor of the district. The supervisor will spray these patches, with sodium chlorate according to the recommendation of the county agent’s office. Officials know that the law applies only to Canada thistle, but they are anxious to give what assistance they can iji helping er .dicat.■ other noxious weeds. Anyone wishing to learn in great-1 ed detail of the provisions of the Canada thistle law should make in-1 quiry of a township trustee or the county agent. oCrash Victim Dies Indianapolis. June 19. —(U.R) —Earl Garlinghouse, 19, one of. four Terre Haute residents injured in automobile accidents here Sunday, died today in a local hospital. He received a fractured skull when his car was sideswiped on U. : S. road 40 near Plainfield by a hit and run driver. Other occupants of the car were James Motz, 19, his wife, Ruth, 21. and Mrs. Garlinghouse.

: Recovery Program Provides Netv Weapons Against Racketeering

(Copyright 1933 by United Press) Washington, June 19— (U.R) — The industrial recovery program has provided new weapons for a fight to stop racketeering. Broad powers granted by the industrial recovery act, the farm adjustment act and the securities control bill include authority to move against the underworld of business that has preyed on legitimate trade. They make it possible to reach on one hand the heavy-jawed j racketeer who, with a squad of | thugs at his back, wrings his | < tribute from terrified milk deal-j ers. for instance; and on the other the glib stock salesman with a i brief case full of worthless securi- j ties. Extermination of racketeering! is not the prime object of the re-1 covery program, but it is an ini-1 portant by product. The recovery . legislation is designed to increase i consumer Inlying power by reduc--1 ing hours so that more people can work, by insuring a living wage so that more people <«., buy the ! products of factories and b_> qiv- ; ing to the farmer a fair prim for his produce so that lie can again

CONTRACT IS I GIVEN SAUTTER Harold Sautter Submits Low Bid On Plumbing And Fixtures t The contract for plumbing anil fixtures in the new ladies r st room to be placed in the basement under the northeast corner of the Court > house, was award, d to Harold Siu- 1 tter by t ie county commissioners ■ today. Two bills were filed on the job and Sautter wis low bidder. His price was $509.60. The bid of A. J. s Moser and Co., was $558. The con- a trai tor is to furnish all labor a-d < material required for the job. The 1 ' specifications on the plumbing con- i form with those ordered by the slat board of health and a state i inspection of the job will oe made t before the work is approved. The former comfort station on :' th? first floor of the court will, 1 'be made into an, office for the 1 county assessor. The work of re- j ’ modeling this room, which has an 1 outside entrance on the south side s ’ of the building will begin soon, the 11 commissioners stated. The asses- 1 sor’s office is .row located on the ■ : second floor and objection has al- 1 ! ways been made by John Felty, ' ' county assessor, that the room was not large enough to carry on the 1 duties of his office and that it was , difficult for Interested parties to . find his office up stairs. —o Sponsor Program And Sale At Van Wert, O. —— The Van Wiert County Granges are sponsoring a Literary program and auction sale at Van Wert fairgrounds. Friday June 23. The program will be held at 8 o’clock, EST, and the public is invited. Col. Fred Reppert of this city will auction off the pigs donated by one of the inem'bers. Seven Granges are members of the county organization. WILL CURTAIL COTTON CROP Secretary Wallace Announces Program Designed to Help Growers Washington, June 19—(U.R)— A | comprehensive program for cotton ! designed to restore pre-war prices and drastically curtail production ■ in the Current year was announced today by Secretary of Agriculture Wallace. The program contemplates leasing up to 10,600.000 acres of cotton land with payment of cash benefits to farmers of between , $100,000,000 and $150,000,000. j No definite action will be ordI ered by the government until j after a campaign has been conducted among cotton farmers to j secure agreements to limit production. In the event sufficient pledges : are secured farmers will be offer- ; ed two variations of acreage re- ' *CONTINI’I?I> (IN PAGE TWO!

become a purchaser. This requires industry to maintain minimum wage standards. Industries must be protected against cut throat competition or the whole structure collapses. That is where elimination of racketeering enters as part of the program. President Roosevelt himself emphasized that the govetkiment must protect industries which play the game. ‘ We must protect them from the i racketeers who invade organiza- ! tions of both employers and worki ers." he said when he signed the | industrial recovery bill. Attorney General Cummings al- ' ready has begun a fight to stamp i out rackets. He has been limited i chiefly to activities which inter--1 seres with interstate commerce. I Now he may act against any who violate the fair play industrial codes being set up by the department of agriculture and general Hugh Johnson, industrial administrator. Still further federal action may follow an investigation of racketeering now being started by a senate committee.

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COMMITTEE TO | MAKE THOROUGH INVESTIGATION Senate Committee Will Resume Stock Exchange Probe Monday BANKING PROBE WILL COME FIRST Washington, June 19. — (U.R) —: Through Inquiry into the New York . stock exchange, investment trusts and holding companies has been de-1 cided on by senate committee in-. vestigators, the United Press was informed today. Investigation of private banks, which began with spectacular revelation of J. P. Morgan & Co., business a d income tax secrets, will ‘ be resumed next Monday with Otto Kahn of Kuhn, Loeb & Co., as the first witness. Dillon, Read & Co., 1 will be investigated afterward. Beyond 'that Ferdinand Pecora, ' ' senate banking committee counsel, , ' projects a hearing on the operations 1 of the Chase Securities Corpor- 1 atlon, securities affiliate of the I Rockefeller-controlled Chasae Nat- 11 iomfl Bank, In a communication to his aides,, Pecora announced a return to the i stock exchange which was the fo-' cus of inquiry at the outset in February. 1932. “We will investigate the stock ] exchange, investment trusts and hold companies before we get. through." Pecora said. “We expect to go extensively into the ex-; change, its operations and practises. I want to get a complete pic- I ture of the wav it functions and I the w;ay wheels turn within it.” . I Chairman Fletcher of the bank- i ing committee was asked if the i Knhn. Loeb investigation would touch upon income tax matters. “It is likely.” he replied, “that , . the inquiry will connect up with j , their former income taxes. That , is not the primary purpose of the ; inquiry, but it will lead up to that.” , The Morgan investigation reveal(CONTINUED ON PAGE THREE) Suits On Intangible Tax Under Advisement South ’Bond, Ind.. June 19. —(U.R) Judge Fred J. Bingham of St. Joseph superior court today had vfnder advisement a series of suits validity of the new state tar on intangibles. His decision is expected within two weeks and regardless of the verdict an appeal will be taken to the state supreme court, it was indicated by attorneys. During the hearing before Judge Bingham. Saturday, attorneys Joseph Hempfling, Roland Obenchain. Harry S. Taylor and Walter R. Arnold argued that the law was "unconstitutional and discriminatory.” Joseph W. Hutchinson, deputy attorney general, defended the tax. ANOTHER HEAT WAVE IN STATE — Indiana Swelters Under ; Another June Heat Wave; Manv Drowned Indianapolis. June 19 — (U.R) — Indiana sweltered under another June heat wave today as tempera ' tures soared to 1011 degrees above zero for the second time this i month. , j The burning sun sent, thousands of persons scurrying to lake and river resorts over the week end. The outings were marred by six drownings. 1 Three persons lost their lives in 1 Salamonie river at Marion when 1 George Endsley. 17, and Vernon Leach, 16. drowned in an unsuc- ■ cessful attempt to save Paul End i sley, 19. Two others perished In the . White river at Shoals while another was drowned in Whitewater I river near Richmond. The forecast for Indiana is continued warm tonight and Tuesday. ' J, H. Armington, meteorologist at I the U S. wea’her bureau said there was no relief in sight for at ] i least 36 hours. Vincennes was the warmest citv ; in Indiana Sunday, according to Armi.iglon’s rephrts. The ther- | monmtei there showed a maxi I (CONTINUED ON PAGE THREE)

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Fighting for Life V J Worry, sorrow and despondency are written plainly on the face of; David Lamson. Stanford University publication official, as he sits in court at San Jose. Cal., at the 1 opening of his trial on a charge of slaying his wife, Allene, who , was founu dead in their campus l nome. DRYS ORGANIZE IN LAST STAND Prohibitionists Organize For Last Stand In Old Dry South Atlanta. June 19 —(UP) —Prohibitions rallied their forces in the traditionally dry southland today for a last desperate stand against I repeal of the eighteenth amend ment. A “Coutm-11 of War”, attended by prohibition leaders from virtually every southern state’ and presided over by Methodist Bishop James Cannon, Jr., and anti-saloon league superintendent F. Scott Mcßride, met last week in Birmingham. Mcßrid publicly conceded that unless the south holds fest, the eighteenth amendment is doomed. "Intensive efforts will be made" he said, “to hold Alabama and Arkansas, first of southern states to face the test.” Alabama atfd Arkansas on July 18 are to elect instructed delegates to repeal conventions and Tennessee will do the same two days later South Carolina will vote Nov. 7. North Carolina votes on Nov. 10. No date has been set for other southern states. Not. since*the days when Carry Nation led a militant tight to drive th- saloons out of Kansas, have the dry forces been aroused to such a desperate fight as impe ds in Dixie Bishop Cannon, addressing the “Council of War" declared that “If the south stands firm the fight to repeal the eighteenth amendment will fail. But I offer no predictions ■ as to what the south will do.” Prohibitionists believe tljat if they can hold the 10 states of the "Old South" they can win the I three others necessary to block repeal elsewhere. Thirty-six states must ratify the repeal amendment to make it effective. The 10 states aibout which the j battle lines are being drawn arAlabama. To nessee, Arkansas, Mississippi, Georgia. Noil) Carolina South Carolina, Florida, Virginia and Louisiana. I The situation in each, briefly, is: Albanra - votes July 18 on repeal delegates. Drys waiting vigorous house to house campaign. Tennessee —votes July 20 on rei peal. Arkansas —votes July IS on re peal Considered the “dryest” state in the nation. Mississippi Gov. Sennett Conner is polling legislators on attitude toward special s, ssion to legalize sale of 3.2 beer and possible arrange for repeal vote. Georgia—no move oward repeal. I (CONTINUED ON PAGE TffREE) — Auditor Completes Tax Distribution County Auditor Glen Cowen has comp eted the distribution of the May taxes and his report has been sent to the state board of tax commissioners for approv; 1. Distribution of the funds will be made as soon as the state board gives its O'. K. The May collection of taxes amounted to about $186,900. Each i taxing unit in the county and the state of Indiana receives a share of the taxes. A

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CAPTORS FREE WILLIAM HAMM THIS MORNING Ransom of Somewhat Less Than SIOO,OOO Paid Saturday Night KIDNAPED MAN IS UNHARMED SI. Paul. .June 19 (U.R) William llamni, kidnaped multi - millionaire brewer, was reb ttsed near Wyoming, Mi'in., shortly before 7 a. m. today, after payment Saturi d:>v night of ransom “somewhat less |han $100,000“ whieb (lie abductors had ’ originally asked. William Dunn, sales manager of the Theodore Hamm Brewing Co.. of which Hamm is president, was notified at Duluth and with Inspector Charles Tierney of St. i Paul drove south to get Hamm. Hamm was reported to have reached his home in St. Paul at 8:30 a.m. He was rushed into the house through a rear door while a crowd of curious spectators and ! newspapermen swarmed about the front of the palatial Hamm grounds. Hamm was immediately questioned by detectives. He was reported uninjured but tired. Dunn and Tierney arrived in Duluth at 4 a. m. and registered at the Hotel Duluth where they announced they were expecting a telephone call. The call to Dunn and Hamm’s release occurred at approximately the same time. Meanwhile in St. Pan! a nhvsielan and nurse had been called to the home where Mrs. Hamm, the kidnaped man's aged mother, was renorted near collapse. Wyoming is on trunk highway No. 1. between the Twin Cities and Duluth. It was on this same highway that the ransom navment was made Saturday night. A Hamm Brewing Co., truck and a specially designated automobile figured in the payment. At least five men wore believed , to have taken part in the kidnaping. The truck which had been originally designated as the “pavoff” vehicle separated from the automobile north on highway No. 1 to a point between Pine City ami Rush Citv. Two automobiles drove alongside the “payoff" car and indicated the raisom was to bo thrown iout. Dunn who drove the ransom car, threw out the currency and continued north. In St. Paul, as soon as word was 1 received of Hamm's safe’v. nolice started their delaved hunt for the kid lapers. Chief of Police Thom- . as Dahill. accomnanied bv several i aides, sned northward out of the city. Cruiser automobiles began raids previously determined upon, to obtain information. SEN. ROBINSON WILL RUN AGAIN Indiana Republican Seni ator To Start Campaign This Summer Indianapolis, June 19.—(U.R) Sen. I Arthur R. Robinson, Indianapolis. ' Republican, will start his campaign for renominatiou and reelection ■ late this summer, he announced today after his return from Washingion. ' His announcement quieted reports that he might not run again. '' Robinson said he would leave '■ next week for Alaska, the only s Uniled State.s possession he has • not visited since he became a member of the senate committee on ! territories and insular affairs. • Returning in late July, he will begin to stump the state, contihuing until the next session of congress in January. • A hitter fight is expected when he opens his campaign. Many Indiana s Republican leaders, hoping to see e new blood injected into the state II organization, want Robinson to *■ withdraw. Wet members of the I party are dissatisfied with his stand s in favor of prohibition. H His backers will be sided by vet--9 erans compensation enthusiasts. II The fight probably will be cllmax- ” <“d at the party's state convention «i (CONTINUED ON PA(4E TWO)