Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 31, Number 148, Decatur, Adams County, 23 June 1933 — Page 1

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fcCTACULAR parade TO 7 MRK AMERICAN LEGION I MEETING HERE SUNDAY L Corps, Bands, Junior Baseball Teams Bov ■Scouts And Distinguished Visitors to Form I ine ■rs March; Former Governor Brucker of Michi■gan and State Commander Nelson ,\rc Coming ■legionnaires From Indiana And Ohio to Attend' ■rhe line of march for the big military parade to be held ■ Sunday afternoon at one o’clock (AST) j n connection ■ the Northern Indiana convention of the American 1 e ■ was announced today by Dee Frvback, chairman ■More than a dozen Legion bands and drum corps are B ted for the parade Among those who have notified the |g committee that they will be here are: Bluffton Fort ■e. Warren, Angola. Sturgis, Michigan, Celina and Van ■, Ohio. ■rhe Berne band of 40 members and the Decatur Jum-.r ■ under the direction of David Rice will also march in' ■grade. I v

parade will form at the Kr u s Th rd and Marshall ■ts. It will proceed east Marshall si reel to Second ■ south on Second to ■ter avenue, south on Mer■avenue. to the Decatur Krv club. ■e'revit wing stand will be a i th- corner of Second ■e. W I.a"k-naii. superintei: ■of th>- G. neral Electric Co., ■ prisiet i.-ician and David ■ band director. ■ parade « II be a spectacular ■h keeping with all Legion ■ order of formation follows: ■ Fryhack, parade marshal, ■tna state motor police. ■r.r Krick and city of■ernor Wilbur Brucker of ■tan and William (). Nelson, ■commander of the Legion, ■er distinguished guests. corps ami binds, ■atur Junior band, ■ncity band. ■or baseball teams in uniform. ■ Scouts. ■ittir Drum corps. ■liters of the parade commit ■tides Mr Fryback are Harold ■is. Paul Sanrer. Edgar Yod■t Zerser, Clyde Butler. ■enter Brucker. Commander ■• Pleas Greenlee, secretary’ ■rernor Paul V. McNutt and ■distinguished visitors will as-. ■at the Elk's home on North ■d street and join the parafl •• ■at point. They will be the ■ of the local post at a noon ■on. ■r- — —o If. Sullivan Is I Pastor At Oxford ■ Father Nelson 'Sullivan of ■(ton. former assistant at St. ■ church. Pent, has been ■ pastor of St. Patrick's ■. Oxford, succeeding the late ■Tather Deininger of this city, ■appointment was made by the I Rev. Bishop John F. Noll of ■Wavne. yesterday. r~ o li'e Lewton Is I Named Secretary fconto. Ind.. June 23—(UP) — r l * rs ot' pg| j o ta Xi sorority p Mrs. (Elizabeth Colvin. Won, grand President today in closing session of their thirty--1 tenual convention. •watomi Inn. Angola, will Ibe •toadquarters of the 19114 Conion. •*- Mildred Sebring. \VashingT fce pesident; Miss Eloise Decatur, secretary; Miss 'nine Fettlg, Eeymour, treasurf' 88 Virginia Guisinger. Peru. ptiWts; and Mrs. Anne Dtiem>*ivisor. Miss Margaret Crowe, wiirg. editoress. and Mrs. Wa"•tKhes, Kokomo, charity treas ’ere ne-elected. f**' o- ' — To Limit Wheat Crop Is Near W°n. June 23—(UP) Agre Py the United States, Canad t. , alia and Urgent! .a to limit p production a:’d so rtise farm , ’eetned near today, piresentatives of the “big four" conferred until early today Plan for a 12H to 15 per cent t®n In wheat acreage for two • “heyj agreed to mo’t again but the meeting was '"‘■'l at the last moment until «y. _ I

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PAGE THE FIREMAN * | | The Daily Democrat office i | was “comfortably warm" this J : afternoon, due to the fact that j 1 I the place was heated by the | • | steam heating system. It is i1 1 | the custom at this office to | 1 1 j burn up part of the old waste 1 . j paper every day, but in the last ■ i few days the supply accumu- i | lated and the man in charge of the basement kept poking it j Into the furnace. Today it had i to be burned out and before anyone knew it "we had steam f| up." And my how hot it seem- ~ i | ed then. Investigation showed ; l i that the boiler was carrying about three pounds of steam I and the radiators in the office | and printing department were • i sizzling. At 2:30 o'clock the temperatur dropped to 91 degrees. |' which is not so bad consider- I' ing we had a nice hot fire on the 23rd day of June. ♦ ♦ NEWSPAPER MAN 11 MAY FILL POST Newspaper Executive Maj Be Chairman of Repeal Convention — Indianapolis. June 23. — (U.R) Two newspaper executives, one a Republican and the other a Demo- ' ' crat. stood out tod.iy as the foremost candidates for chairman of | the Indiana repeal convention June , 26. The Republican is Henry W. Marshall, publisher of the Lafay- j ette Journal and Courier and long time foe of prohibition. The Democrat is Thomas McCullough. general manager of the Anderson Bulletin and close friend ol ‘ Gov. Paul V. McNutt. h To one of these men. it is be -1 lieved will go the honor of direct- , ing the convention which definite- , ly removes Indiana from the list , of “bone dry" states. ■ Governor McNutt had decided U would be an astute political move i for Marshall to be offered the chair . manship The Lafayette publish- | er wrote the repeal plank in the Republican state platform last j summer and has been one of Indiana's foremost crusaders against the 18th amendment. But many Democratic leaders, believing their party should be given credit for repeal, are urging M< • Cu'lough’s selection because of his political faith. McNuH as a result, may swing j his support to his old- friend. ; Another prominently mentioned :, for convention chairman is • l) 1,1 W. Eggeman, Fort Wayne, former , Allen county judge and l Notre Dame university football : star His selection would please i the large repeal blm PAGE-FOUR) Labor Federation Foresees Up-Trend Washinton. June 23 — (I • » More than 496.000 pergo s re timed to work in May nd “there is reason to b Here that foundation for an” uptrend may be forming" the , . American federation of labor said , today. The federation estimated | that tin 1 : mploynient had declined by i 1,200,006 since March 1.

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NAZI WEBS f ENFORCE ORDER Decree Outlaws Socialist Party, Second Largest In Germany Berlin. June 23. —(U.R)—Socialists joined communists in hiding throughout the retch today as Nazi ■ storm troopers and local authorities began rigid enforcement of the cabinet decree outlawing the socialist party, the second largest in Germany. The decree, one of the most sweeping ever issued, deprived all socialists elected by the people of their offices, confiscated the party's property. and prohibited socialist newspapers or socialist meetings. The socialists hold 121 seats in the reichstag and many in state diets, all of which : ow are eliminated. The decree and the order outlawing the communist party deprives 30 per cent of the German electorate of direct representation. The decree charged the socialists with preparing for “high treason” by maintaining connections with leaders who fled to Prague. Czechoslovakia. since the rise to powe,r of Chancellor Adolf Hitler, i Public employes and workers in public plants were forbidden to adhere to the socialist party, and it was s.iid that in future socialists and communists would be regarded as identical. One reason for the ban was said to be the party's failure to discipline Otto Weis who sent a tele- i gram to the international labor conference at Geneva, declaring the German delegation had no right to i represent German workers. CREDIT POLICY BEING RUSHED Agricultural Policv Rushed To Prevent Further Foreclosures Washington June 2'3 —(I'P),—The government's new agricultural credit policv is being rushed into op-r---ation to save farmers from loss of their property by foreclosure. With $2.2M.000.000 available to meet the emergency. Governor Morgi nthau of the farm credit administration has perfected and started the machinery for refinancing the burden of agricultural debt. At the s m time, he seeks to scale down many mortgages to meet present conditions. . The credit act seeks to. bring financial aid to farm debtors in three main ways: 1 Loans to firmer® from the federal land hanks at low interest rates and over a long term period. 2. By the land banks hiking power mid refinancing mortgages now held by banks, insurance companies and private individuals. 3. Direct loans from the govern-1 ment to farmers. • •

Decatur, Indiana, Friday, June 23, 1933.

♦—— * i Chamber of Commerce Memberships Previously reported 65 Additional 20 i | I Total 85 j i I. Bernstein, who is calling on i every prospective member stat- | ed that those who wished to | join and had not been solicited, I could mail their checks for i $2.50 to him and that receipt I cards would be issued. ♦ -♦ STATE POLICE NAB SUSPECTS Two Men Suspected of Hi-jacking Beer Truck Are Arrested Indijiiapolis, Jun.' 23 —(UP) — Two of four men suspecteit of hijacking a truck load of beer near Seymour Wednesday night weer arrested today by state police. They gave their names is Thomas E'all. 42, living oil a truck farm outside the Indianapolis City limits, i and John S. Dunkin, 32, St. Louis. Capt M' tt Leach of the state police said the beer was found in a : barn on Fall's place. Leach and eight officers lay in wait until 4 A. M. this morning in hopes that buyers of the beer would appear. When they failed to show up the police seized the beer and arrested Fall who was asleip in his house. Dur.ikin was picked up .it a rooming house. The suspects were brought to the Marion county jail for questioning. Capt. Leach blamed the men for another hijacking job and predicted that two more 'arrests would be made soon. Robert Freeman, 29, Louisville, was driving the truck which was hijacked near Seymour. He was kidnaped and held prisoner in '.n automobile all night while the bandits drove the truck to India, apolis and unloaded it. The load consisted of 300 ebses of Fails City beer bound for Chillicothe, Ohio. No cTm. T. C. For Basic Candidates iWord has been received here that no Citizens Military Training Camps for basic or first-year cerfdidates will be held this year. This elimination has 'bee* made necessary in order to stay within tlie reduced appropriation necently made by Congress. Indianapolis Couple Killed In Auto Wreck Newcastle. Ind., June 23—(U.R) — Two persons killed when their automobile overturned on state road 3. near here last night, were identified today as Clarence Ware, 33, and Violet Parish, 23, both of Indianapolis. Bodies of the two were found lin the wrecked car some time j after the accident occurred.

COAL INDUSTRY IS ORGANIZING Cooperation In Industry At Hisrhest Point Since World War Washington, Jtine 23 —(UP) — Cooperation in the bituminous coal industry has reached under the national recovery act its highest point since the world war. administrators Hugh S. Johnson said today. Recognizing the problems faced by the industry in reaching a code of fair competition that would be workable in all sections. Johnson said that he w?s “very much encouraged by what they are doing.” Johnson, at the second press conference since his appointment, said that his administration was speeding the organization of a cousum- ' ers’ advisory board and that the Imard would be organized before next Tuesday, when public hear- , in'gs begin on the proposed code for th? cotton textile industry. The consumers' board will work side-by-side with boards representing employers and labor. Johnson said, in order that the interests of the e.ntire public will be represented in the final agreement. The administrator disclaimed any intention of setting up an industrial “czarism." “Wihat we want" he said, “Is an: industrial self government. The problem is different now from what it was with the war industries board, if want to avoid my czaristic appearance of fact." ALCOHOL STILL IS DISMANTLED Still With 5,000 Gallon Capacity, Is Discovered In Chicago Chicago June 23 — (T’P), A ' gigantic alcohol still with a dally I capacity of 5,000 gillons, said by I prohibition agents to he “the larg- ■ ' est ever discovered in Chicago," ; | was being dismantled by f deral - authorities today. i Prohibition administrator M. L. ■ Harne, who led the raiding squad, ■ I said owners of the still had dis- ■ covered a new method of manufacturing mash. Hydro!, a conibinution of grain and sugar, was used instead of the customary corn sugar. . Harney Slid. 1 Th ■ still occupied two floors - above a malleable iron company. •, Tarney estimated it had cost 250, >IO6O. A catlo-d of 50 gallon drums > was found on an adjacent, railroad , siding. Harvey said. a"d there w'is f evidence that alcohol had been i shipped in bulk in tank cars. 1 Six mien were arrested but they j protested they were employed by 1 iron company.

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UNITED STATES < CONCENTRATES ' FOR recovery! Roosevelt Administration, Will Work On Domes- ] tic Recovery WILL CONTINUE IN WORLD CONFERENCE (Copyright, 1933, by the UP) i Washington, June 23. —(U.R> —The ; Roosevelt administration has de-I I elded to concentrate everything on , I | its domestic recovery program irre-' spective of international develop-! 1 ments, the United States learned t ; today. | 1 While the United States will not i 1 ' withdraw from the world economic ] > conference, the administration feels I 5 that its chief hope is that other | can be induced to concen-] * trate in a similar way upon inter- ] I nal recovery. I The Roosevelt administration is determined that nothing shall hinder its main drive at home. If the I ! London conference can agree upon any measures which will facilitate' that program, so much the better. I But this government will join in I 1 nothing that might retard or en-1 I danger it. That is the policy behind the I sharp rejection of temporary cur-1 I rency stabilization, and the policy ! I behind the Couzens resolution at | ( I i London urging the other govern-. 1 ments to go into internal expans- I 1 ion programs similar, to America's j ' When Prime Minister Mac Do- I ‘ | aid and other foreign visitors came | 1 | here a few weeks ago they were i told in effect: the United States | ' intends to pursue a domestic policy I ’ based upon reaching a higher price |' level using inflation so far as 1 (CONTINUED ON PAGE SIX) j ( 0 CHLORINE GAS I I TANK EXPLODES Thirty-Six Persons Are Gassed at Indianapolis This Morning J dianapolis June 23—(UP) —A i warehouse explosion which set free ' i a tank of chlorine gas sent 36 per’'sons to hospitals here today. None was believed seriously | harmed. Several children were i j among those gassed. Police, nation-' ' I'd guardsmen and Fort Harrison] ] troops equipped with gas masks I threw a cordon around the area of ] ‘ several blocks and attempted to evacuate all residents. A general alarm brought every available ambulance in the city to the stricken section. ’ The blast occurred when the cap ‘ was blown oft’ a 150 pound tank of chlorine gas which men were at1 tempting to load on a truck. T was standing neurby watching a man load a large can into a truck when the can dropped." explained Fred Wifkler, an eye witness. “The man seemed dazed and th. n I saw several boys topple over." Both the men who were loadliug the lank onto the truck at the Warehouse were overcome. Police were informed that a leak developed in the tank yesterday and it was decided to take it to Fall Creek ‘ and sink it as a precautionary measure. !q Decatur Students Received Honors f - ■ ’ Bloomington, Ind., June 23.- ■ (Special)—Josephine Archbold and ’ Harry Dailey of Decatur were the ! I recipients of several student hon- I ors during their college careers . which came to a close at the 104th , annual commencement exercises - June 12 of Indiana university. Miss Archbold who received, the i A.B. degree in English was a mein- ] • her of the Kappa Alpha Theta sor- : , orlty; Pleiades, an organization of i socially prominent junior and sen- j i ior coeds; Le Circle Francais, a] . society of students proficient in the , study of French, and the Junior ] i' Prom committee. I ] Mr. Dailey, who received the A.B. 11 degree in physics, was a member 11 of the Phi Delta Theta fraternity, [tfie Sigma Delta Psi national hon : Horary physical education fraternity. i and Phi Beta Kappa, national hon-1 'orery scholastic fraternity.

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SIXTY FIVE MEN EMPLOYED TO REBUILD YARDS AT CENTRAL SUGAR PLANT Improvements Are Being Made to Facilitate Quick And Easy Unloading of Beets This Fall And to Promote Plant Efficiency; Total of More Than $60,000 Will Be Expended For Improvements; Mill Work Continuing. Work got underway today on the rebuilding of the yards at the Central Sugar Company plant, about 65 men being employed. | Three steaam shovels were working, a fleet of trucks' were engaged in hauling dirt and activity compared almost to the building of the big factory in 1912 was seen on every hand. The program of improvements and remodeling the yards will entail an expenditure of more than $60,000, L. E. Snyder, general superintendent of the plant stated, and assure the operation of the factory next fall. The general contract for the entire job has been let to <_ — the Indiana Engineering Com-

ROTARY CLUB HEARS KINLEY: 1 Lamp Company Manager Speaks To Decatur Rotarians Thursday An interesting talk on the won- , ders of electricity and the indue- I; tries contribution to mankind was I; given before the Rotary dug last 11 evening by H. A. Kinley, manager |; of the Westinghouse Lamp Com- : pa::y of Toledo. Mr. Kinley’s subject was presented under the title, “It may be true —but". He dealt with inventions and exhibits on display at the world's fair in Chicago. “Through the laboratories of the ! great electrical companies, uncanny inventions have been brought forth. You probably won’t believe it when ; you see it. That’s why I 'have selected the title for my subject”, Mr. i Kinley stated. The, speaker told of the scientific inventions made in the world of electricity. He lold how the electrical eye. electric palat“ and electric ear were perfected and what electricity was doing for industry and medical science. Electric devices have been invented which measure to a fraction: of a millionth of an inch. Mr Kinley stated. He told of a new light, I which wli n focused on an object making up to 20.000 revolutions per i minute showed the object as stand- ■ ing still. The program was in charge of' M. J. Mylott. superintendent of the , i city light and power plain —, o HOLO JEFFREY RITES MONDAY John VV. Jeffrey, Former Decatur Resident, Died Wednesday Funeral services for John W. Jeffrey, age 68. who died Wednesday morning, will be held at 10 o'clock Monday morning al the Jeffrey home. 518 E. Creighton avenue, Fort Wayne. Rev. De Witt Johnson and Rev. Fred T. Thornburg, will officiate Burial will be made in Lindenwood cemetery. Fort Wayne. Mr. Jeffrey lived in Decatur a •number of years, moving to Fort Wayne about 15 years ago. He was I employed as bridge builder by the Pennsylvania railroad for nearly ; 48 years and was placed on the retired list May 21. " Disarmament Meeting Has Been Postponed London. June 23 —(UP) - Re- ■ sumption of the world disarmament conference at Geneva today was i officially ixist poned until October. The postponement was announced by League of Nations officials ' participating In the world econoi tni< conference. The nneertainity of the world isituition during the economic conference negotiations convinced Arthur H nderso.il. pre-ident of an arms conference that it would l>e better to postpone arms.discussions ‘ until after the economic conference e.uds. |

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pany of Fort Wayne. The plans were made under the direction of Harry Offut, president of the Engineering Company. George Sprunger, of F’ort Wayne, formerly of Berne, is the superintendent of construction in charge. The excavating work has been sub-let to Yost Bros., of this city. A track crew, engaged in pulling up the old railroad track and laying a new track east of the old one is also employed on the job. Mr. Sprunger stated that about 65 men were employed on the different projects and that the job would give employment to more men later. In connection with the rebuilding of the yards, the reconditioning and renovating of the sugar mill is also progressing, about 30 men being employed inside the factory, under the supervision of H. C. Okfsen, plant superintendent. The project underway is one of the largest undertaken in Decatur for several years. With those employed in the mill the entire worki ing force today was nearly 100. Men were operating steam shovels and cranes, wielding shovels and axes and driving trucks over the yards. Everything was being done ’ systematically and quickly. What Program Includes The rebuilding of the yards, done to increase the efficiency of the plant and to facilitate the quick and easy unloading of beets next fall, begins with the tearing out of the old yards, including the old railroad dumps, trestle work, roadway and flumes. An entire new yard arrangement will be constructed. Two large | dumps for the unloading of beets , from trucks, with weigh-in and weigh-out scales at either end, will be built, new roadways constructed and an extensive Hume system ! and conveyor system for the distributing of the beets will be erected. It is contemplated that the new dumps will so increase the unloading facilities in the yards that a ■truck load of beets can be unloaded every minute. Under the old arrangement capacity was about 20 trucks an hour. Truck drivers will drive in on new platforms and dump their beets in pits to be built west of the unloading platform. The beets (can be unloaded rapidly. From the pits the beets will be carried over a conveyor system to the different flumes, from which place they will be washed down to the plant. Slicing of beets in the mill will be keyed up to more than 1.200 tons a day. The enclosure for the flumes will be 104 feet wide and 600 feet long. It will be constructed of concrete ami steel and will extend from the west side of the plant beyond the old driveway. The railroad dumps and trestle work which i were located west of the old driveways are being removed. New railroad tracks, tor the small gondola cars will be constructed. As most of the beets will be loaded by ham! on the gondola type car this year, dumps for the hopper type cars will not be Installed. The tilings alone will give storage to more than 10,000 tons of beets. J. Ward Calland, field manager of the company stated. Formerly only qbout 3.000 tons of beets could be stored in the Humes, the rest being piled high on the yards Beets Are Good Mr. Calland stated 'that In ex--1 cess of 11.000 acres had been seeded in beets and that the condition of the crop was not any worse than I *7cONT3Nt'Er> ON PAGE FOUR)