Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 31, Number 152, Decatur, Adams County, 28 June 1933 — Page 1

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if RECORDS |e likely to ■[ SHATTERED —— ■ " K'mie lune Heat RecKThi’flitened As Hot jKgpeil Continues K\t SUFFERING W( Al SI H in HEAT 'BL e ,. rpr.nkles of rain and breeze brought at relief to Deca a ,tf T de-niome-<K shewed a several d'-get. IK at 3 -r. At noon, street reglrtereu as K a. 102 degrees. .lune 2S <U.P> iKllinh lime lie.it !■»•<•<.r<ls iK in (lunger of being lHen again todav as u |Hiiid '-in' I ' t <!<>". :» ’ l l >■ iKeriug citizens of liidioppressive heal :liu’ IKn tlr.'iiitlit .■■iiised n .1 iKrin? throughout the MK* froth to ImoKin beings animals, officials Hl 111' mmedlate relief unless :!'.un<lershoweis in scut’ering localities. <! was attriliuto.i HBpat y. ■■ rilav. bringing 'i'll to nearly 30. Mt all r: induced by of persons were ov< • HI «ad taken to hospitals 1).." for treat to. ■ reported heavy lo<- • (~-•<- ! iv--stoek. e-pe. B. 'he water siue. • of the I diana farm said ilia drought wa ■ to curl in several ■of the state. Oats likewise and are only tib”' fiielt as normal. 80-h i..r ■ yields it the state will less titan la-’t it was reported, because sprinz tains and the .InnON PAGE BING MARKET ■EEMED THREAT KerCommoditv Prices w eaten Farm Relief k Program Hkhington, June 28. - (U.R) ■tketing commodity m.u'lo . ■ ■’beld a mounting threat Stall Roosevelt’s ambiti m M relief program. Officials ■Mess moved ahead wit’ ■nents to put it into eff. ■! Brent tax was ordered impos all wheat used aftei July ■ agricultural rehabiliitat Blsvoiving hundreds of mil ■fecash benefits for the farm ■ dependent upon acreage r Ba It seeks to take enough Bted out of production of bash Bto hold prices at pre war Ml Jtat 1 *; confronted with th. ■dor dollar wheat and elevenBotton may spurn the govern- ■> offer to compensate tin m Bpsndoning a portion of their They may argue that Bkould make more money by tag as much land aa possible ■ the agriculture department that permanently higher I must rest on reduced pro ■>- Officials assert that tin “ is week’s campaign for Hon of one-fourth of the grow otton crop is successful, the is likely to suffer three more of ruinous prices. * same thing, they believe, i”* true of wheat. They point TTNI’ED ON PAGE THREE’ ■ Pical Storm Is Reported * Orleans. June 28--(UP)-•Picrt disturbance of “great •tty” was reported moving f»estward in the Caribean sea r in a bulletin Issu d by the W States weather bureau here, fropieal disturbances of great Pity and small diameter apparr moving northwestward about I miles wes : of port of SpH l -' pad," the bulletin said.

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Lions ( lub .Members Entertained Tuesday Th© Decatur Lions club was en . ! tertaired by a German Orchestra | "Tiie Flying Dutchmen", of Will' | shire. Ohio, at their regular im<I ins at the Rico h..M Timor.- . ing. Hia musical program was i»i---i terspersed with dialogue. The pro- , ! Kram was in the charge of W. F " Beery. j if lifford Saylors pre-ented tihe i club with a mintitun Hon, symbol jot the (.lub’s ideals. A membership | campaign was announced by presii dent Hurt Mangold. No meeting will P held Tu. day. July 4, MAY TAXES ARE DISTRIBUTED C o u n t y Auditor Com- •' pletes Distribution of .May Collections County Auditor Glen Cowen has completed the distribution of the May tax collections, a total of $188,631, being distributed to the • state and to the taxing units in the I county. ’ i Schools received the largest s amount of the distribution. A total of $77.825.39. was distributed under ’* school tax. including tuition t >x, II special school and school building bond tax. For the payment of road bonds s and interest thereon, $30,027.14 was e received. '• The state received a total of 1 $22,719.86. which included. s3.orto i- of common school fund interest. $172.09 of permanent endowment ■ fund interest and $134 for docket r fees. Only $10,007.14 of the May in’s stallment of taxes went delinquent, f This is probably the smallest de- '. liDUUfUii tax carried over in this county for many years. The Muy t installment amounted to $lB7,- - 710.74 and the payments totaled - $177,703.60. Besides the current' “ installment paid. $8,927.40 of last 1 fall’s delinquent tax was paid. 1 The county treasurer r ceived I $267.82 in fees on delinquent pay--1 menls. this being less than half of f the amount originally paid under ‘ the old six per cent law. This ' year the treasurer receives only a three per cent fee. The state tax is distributed as follows: State revenue. $6,324 73; state school revenue. $8,942.12; teacher's retirement fund. $2.- ' 757.42; World War memorial, $167.40; board of agricultural, $402.13; state forestry fund. $299.75; educational improvement fund. $78.54: Clark Memorial fund. $172.- • 38: library building fund. $39.30. Local taxes were distributed as follows: County tax. $26,316.23; gravel road repair fund. $357.93; - road bonds and interest. $30.02i.14. t township tax $8,839: tuition tax. • $45,563.87; special school tax. ; 001.91; school building bonds. $3,i 259.61: township poor tax. si,B6i>.- . 59; general fund corporation tax. $13,570.84: library tax. $1,016.16. Checks to the individual taxing units, including the 12 townships, school boards, towns and cities In . the county have been written by . Auditor Cowen and those who have not received them can obtain them by calling at the office. MISER LEAVES SMALL FORTUNE Recluse, Object of Charity For Years; Leaves $5,000 Estate Boonville* Ind.. Ju e -8 (11) An object of charity for several ye,rs James O Wright. Tennyson. aged r. cluse, left an proximately $7>.0«0 it was d..-dos "Tgluttonous appetite appeased wliell < large qusntity of t-ee ood was placed before him resulted > th liiiser’s death. Wright, an object of pity taroug: tiout Warrick county because of hi. ragg ed clothing and meagre tence, obtained wotk it a T . son Sawmill last week. Faltow workmen took pity or. him b ause he carried no lunch and shned the contents of their lunchboxes with him- , . He overate and died. Preparations were mad’ to give hi n. a pauper’s funeral. He was dressed his ragged clothing, in-, i eluding I 1 *7cONTINUED ON PAGE TWO)

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CALIFORNIA AND WEST VIRGINIA FAVOR REPEAL Sixteen States Have Now Voted To Repeal 18th Amendment! i NEW YORK HOLDS ITS CONVENTION (By the United Press) Sixteen states of the $6 necessary had approved repeal of the 118th amendment today. California and West Virginia added their voices to those of 14 sister states i.t elections yesterday. ■ Th.* California vote gave wets a majority expected to exceed three to one. Traditionally dry Los J Angeles gave wets a 100.000 lead. San rancisco was wet 16 to 1. In West Virginia, considered a ‘ “doubtful slate" u ’til the polls opened, the wet majority was bxpected to approximate two to one. , While California and West Virginia were hastening repeal. New York wets turned the state con--1 ventioa that ratified the 21st amendment. into a jubilation feast. Speakers, including Alfred ’ E. Smith, long a staunch anti-pro- i hihitio.’ist. predicted the quick demise of the 18th amendment. So far each state where elections have been held, has approved repeal. The count to date: New York New Jeisey, Rhode Island. Illinois. Michigan, Nevada. ' Delaware. Wyoming. Indiana, Wisconsin. Massachusetts, Connecticut, New Hampshire, lowa, West Virginia and California. Three To One San Francisco. June 28—<L).R) — The chain of states ratifying, re- j peal of the eighteenth amendment • remained it broken today as returns from California's special election placed the state in the; repeal column by more than a 500.000 majority. United Press returns from 6,792 of 9.347 precincts gave: For repeal 753,544 Against rental 234.428 Repealist lead . 519.116 The voters also approved pari!PONTINUED on PAGE THREE) ‘ —o— — LIST PROGRAM FOR EXERCISES Bible Schoo' Graduation Exci’ci' OCi To Be Held Thursday The graduation exercises of the Decatur Daily Vacation Bible ' School will be held in the high school gymnasium. Thursday eve-j ning at 7:30 o’clock. Mrs. Frank W. Downs will pre-j. sent the graduating class and the . presentation of diplomas will he' made by Rev. M. W.’Sundermann, dean of the school. Following is the complete program for the evening: Processional + Salute to the Flags Hymn. “Come. Thou Almighty King” Pravpr Rev. A. B Brown Exercise Mrs. Carrel Cole’s Kindergarten class | Song. “The Baby Moses”-Prim-ary department Exercise Mrs. Herman Myer's | Kindergarten class Bible dramatization Primary department Junior Worship Service Junior j department A Day in Bible School Inter- j mediate depart in out Offering , t Hvmn. “Fairest Lord Jesus. Presentation of Graduating class Mrs. Frank W. Downs Presentation of Diplomas Rev, 51 W. Sundermann. dean ot school. Hvmn. “Faith of Our Fathers Benediction Rev. C- »■ Discuss Situation Berlin. Jul” 28 -HPI President Paul Von Hindenburg today ; summoned Chancellor Adolf Hitler) to his siimm»r home at Neudeck to) , dial uss the political Mutation which , I follow'ed dissolution of the once| powerful Nationalist paity.

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Decatur, Indiana, Wednesday, .lune 28, 1933.

Professor Arraigned J AMA MB ' — i * + 11 i i Professor Robert Morss Lovett (left), of the University of Chicago, and Thomas McKen.ia (right), secretary of the Chicago Civil Liberties Union, arrested when they refused to “move on ' while police were routing pickets in front ot a Chicago apron factory, are show i at their arraignment Tuesday in a Chicago court. They demanded and obtained a jury trial.

PUBLIC WORKS TO START SOON •Start In Indiana After Appointment of Works Administrator Indianapolis, June 28. — (U.R) —l< Appointment of a federal public, works administrator for Indiana was awaited today. Hinging upon the appointment ' was the start of public improve-! ments totalling approximately $50.0011.000- Indiana’s share of the national industrial recovery act appropriation. Public totalling $20,000.- | 000 already are under consideratioti throughout the state, Gov. Paul V. McNutt said, with some projects nearly ready to start. He and Sen. Frederick Van Nuys have agreed on a reconi-I, mendation of the appointee. The ' administrator must be named be-1 fore projects receive federal tip-, proval. Federal administrators for states will be provided with a ( staff of technical experts out of j I Washington. McNutt explained I i Ixical advisory boards also will 1 be appointed. The centra! administration in' Washington will pass upon pro-, jects submitted by the administrators. A board j>f investigation I and review will iron out conflicts arising then. Preferred projects are those ■ cCnNTIN’VWPt ON PAGE TWO) COURT DENIES [ SALARY CLAIM State Sunreme Court Denies Salary Claim of LaPorte Mayor Indianapolis, June 28. —, (U.R) The Indiana supreme court late ves'erday denied Herman W. Sallwasser. $1,577.12 which he said was due him as back salary for his eight years of service as LaPorte mayor. The court's decision upheld a ruling of Por.ter circuit court which contended that Sallwasser , was not entitled to the money. He claimed the amount was due ! him ‘ Itecause the city and towns, law of 1905. which provides that • mayors of cities of the fourth class shall be paid an amount ; fixed by ordinance and not to ex-1 ; ceed $1,500. was repealed by the towns act of 1913.” A LaPorte ordinance set his salary at $1,000.; Judge Michael Fansler of the i supreme court held that the 1913 section is only an amendment to! I the act of 1909 and shows no in-; tention of repealing the 1905 act. 1

Two-Year Search Ends With Arrest Indianapolis. June 28 —(U.R) — A two year search was ended today with the return to Indianapolis of Herman Drake. 30. negro who "turned tn a false alarm which resulted in the death of ‘ Lieut. Lewis Stanley of the Indianapolis fire department. Stanley was killed and five other firemen and three motorists were injured when the speeding fire truck crashed into an automobile. Drake was arrested at Evansville. Police said another negro furnished the clue which led to his capture. GRAIN PRICES BREAK SHARPLY Prices Rally Somewhat After Opening Shows Sharp Break Chicago. June 28. — (U.R) Grain prices broke sharply at the opening today in heavy profit taking. Opening wheat prices ranged to losses of almost 5 cents per bushel. Opening prices included: July wheat 94 and 92% cents per bushel, off 1% and 2% cents per bushel. December wheat 98% and 95% cents per bushel, off 2'4 and 4% cents per buahel. July wheat later ranged as low as 89 cents per bushel, off o’4 cents. Corn was off almost 4 cents per i bushel. Opening quotations in Winnipeg were fractions to 1 cent per bushel under the close yesterday. May delivery was the only wheat [to remain above $1 per bushel hero, I opening at sl.Ol off 4 cents, i After the early realizing, howI ever, the market started coming j back, all wheat deliveries gaining i more than 4 cents per bushel to ; show losses of only fractions to [slightly more than one cent per bushel. — o Bank Depository Law Is Upheld Indi i-napolis. June 28 — (VP) ■Constitutionality of the state bank I depository act. establishing a $3 ■ ioOO.OOO sinking fund for the protection of public deposits, was upheld In an informal ruli’g -by Judge < laience E. Weir I■. M-trion superior. ;'court late yesterday. i A formal ruling will be given af- ' ter attorneys have filed special en I tries to the preliminary findings. Judge Weir said. i The law, pissed by the 1932 special legislative session, provides the Isinkii'ig fund shall be established! j from interest of public funds al-1 ready deposited.

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SENATE PROBE SHOWS REPORT OF APPROVAL Commerce Department Approved Operations Os Chilean Bank MANY AMERICANS SUFFERED LOSSES Washington, June 28 (U.R) Senate investigation of Kuh.i. Loeb and company, revealed today that ’he Coolidge administration commerce department in 1925 described as “safe a.id successful” the operation of the Chilean Mortgage bank which since that lime litis defaulted $90,0(10.000 of securities held by American investors. Benjamin But ten weiser. nart "er in Kuhn. la>eb and Co., underwriters of the mortgage bank loan, revealed the commerce department report prepared by a special agent of (be department bureau of foreign and domestic commerce The witness indicated that the report was a sfactor in Kuhn, laveb's decision to underwrite the issue. He said the favorable report was included in the prospectus issued by the bankers in inviting .subscription to the loan hut that (he information was not •iftrlbn'ed to the department. Buttenweiser said the department's special agent reported that the mortgage bank “conducted its affairs with uniform safety and success. ” A niora'orium proclaimed by a revolutionary Chilean government in July, 1931, led to default of the loan two months later at a cost . 'a American investors of $74.1)0(1.noo (Ml in shrinkage of the capital value of the securities which ■ire now ousted at 13 to 14 ner sU>o of par value. It was for assistance rendered in negotiating this loan that Norman H. Davis. President Roosevelt's European ambassador at large, was paid a $35,000 commission. Otto H Kuhn, head of Kuhn, Loeb and comnanv. (old the committee vesterdav that the commerce denartmeit had “vouched" for the loan. Pecoro tried vainly to gel Bnttenweiser’s admission that Kuhn. Loeb and comnanv had not carefully investigated husi’ess and government conditions in Chile. Buttenweiser insised that his firm had inquired fully I’to Chile's internal affairs before floating the bonds. — o Attended Funeral Os Granddaughter Mrs. Minnie Teeple of Gloss stret has Tfturned from Lima. Ohio, where she attended the funeral of her granddaughter, Miss Martha Rutledge, age 25. Dorth was caused by typhoid f( w r. Miss Rutledge was a trained nurse and took ill with the f ver only a few days before she died. She w is a daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Jam’s Rutledge. Burial was made in Lima. TWO ARE HURT IN COLLISION Mary Kinfcr And James Haggard Hurt In Wreck East of Bluffton Eluffton. June 28 --<U.R)~ Mary Kipfer, east ‘of Bluffton, received I.Huries to her nose and face Tuesday evening when the antoi mobile in which she was riding with her sister. Miss Diana Kipfer collided with an automobile driven by Everett Rice. Monroe. Rice’s neighbor. James Haggard, who had accompanied him to I’te Wells county hospital to visit Mrs. Rice, was taken to the hospital after the collision, suffering with severe lacerations about (he face and ’ head. Rice was driving east enroute to his home and the Kinfer girls were going west toward Bluffton. I The accident occurred on state road 124 near an old Ice pond n I short distance from the Main street bridge. The cars collided | headon when Miss Kipfer attempted to pass a parked car.

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Shed Destroyed By Fire Last Night A ahed on tlse Julian Minnick property <>■ North Ninth street. 1 was complet ly destroyed by fire Tuesday'night, about 11:30 o’clock! The fire was caused by spontan- ' <h>us combustion, thought to have started from old rags in the build | ing. '■ A large tank of oil which wis al--1 so In the shed, exploded, causing • damage ksdlmated between $25 B’d S3O. A building near by caught fire but w is quickly extinguished. ! The shed was used by both the ! i A. N. Hilton and the E. E, Hower families for storing articles. The i property is owed by Julian Min-; i: ilck of Hoagland. SWEEPING GAIN MADE IN TRADE Governmental Statistics Show Gains In Domestic. Foreign Trade (Copyright. 1933 by the United Press) Washington. June 28. — (U.R) — Sweeping gains in domestic business and a pronounced improvement in foreign trade were reveal-1 ed today by government statistics. Despite exchange restrictions, high tariffs and other harriers foreign trade of the United States has recovered rapidly from the low points earlier this year and foreign markets have brightened materially. The gain was ascribed principally to increased business activity in the United States, which caused American firms to buy more goods abroad and thus enabled foreign- . ers to buy more from the United States. Another important factor is 30 . per cent depreciation in the gold i value of the American dollar This • enabled foreigners whose currency ■ has not depreciated to buy pro- - ducts in the United States at a corresponding ‘discount from previous i levels. i Combined United States imports and exports in May were valued at $221,000,000 department of commerce figures showed. This was the highest since December when ICOXT1N('I'?I» ON PAGE TWO) FLEMING NAMES HIS ASSISTANTS ) k U. S. District Attorney Appoints Warsaw Attorney First Deputy Fort Wavne Ind.. June 28—(UP) 1 J. R. Fleming of Portia d. new ■ United States district attorney for ’ northern Indiana, today announced ’ the appoi' iment of Francis K. Bow ' ser. Warsaw attorney, as his first assistant. 1 Bowser will replace George L r Rulison on the staff of the district ■ attorney and will make his head- ■ quarters at South B ‘nd. ‘ Miss Kathryn Maddox, of Hartford City, former deputy prosecutor of Blackford county, was named as Fleming’s secretary. Flemii'g said that William B. Duff, assistant under Oliver Loomis retiring district, ’attorney, would I be retain’d for the time being, probably until January 1934 Fleming also announced that he I would use the internal revenue act for prosecuting liquor law violators ’ instead of th? national prohibition ! law. This was taken to indicate tint those dokrig an illicit business on a large scale would be made the main target of his attacks.’ .■ 1 Bank Bandit Pleads Guilty At Warsaw r i Warsaw Ind.. Jun 28 — (UP) — , Charles Hoeflinger. 49, of Mish iI waka pleaded guilty in Kosiusko , circuit court today to a charge of robbing the Syracuse state bank of $8,400 April 19. H” was sentenced to 20 years I each on two counts, charging bank robbery and roblfrry while armed. , The sentences will run concurre t- ; ly. A lone bandit committed the ) robbery. , Hoeflinger’s nephew. Harold Hoe- , flinger, 24. of Mishawaka, was ar- , rested in commection with the robI bery today and police said lie confessed driving the car in which his uncle escaped.

WILL APPEAL TO UNITED STATES SUPREME COURT ■ ■ ■ ■■ Former Indiana Klan Leader To Carry Fijjht To Hijfher Court PETITION FOR NEW TRIAL IS DENIED Intlitintioolis. June 2X <U.R> rhe I nited Stiites supreme court will be iisked to tree I). (.. Stephenson from state prison where he is serving a life term on charges of murder. if was announced todav bv B. (.. Jenkins, (larv. counsi I for the former Indiana ■’rand dragon of the Ku Klux Klan. Jenkins said he would base his appeal on the ground that Stephenson was convicted without due process of law. His decision was reached after the Indiana supreme court late yesterday dismissed Stephenson’s petition for new trial, denied a petition for rehearing of an ap- , peal and dismissed a mandatory injunction preventing certain persons from interfering with the prisoner's liberty. The court left o.tlv two remote , opportunities for Stephenson to obtain release. Ho may petition for executive clemency or petition | the trial court. Hamilion circuit, for a writ of error coram nobis. Gra ding of the writ would permit Stephenson to present testimony which he said he was afraid to give during the trial for fear ,he would be killed by political enemies. Elements of political power, crime and mistreatment of a girl made the Stepnensoa case sensational. He was arrested in 1925. charged with the murder of Madge Oberholtzer. young Indiana Col lege graduate. She commitied suicide following a trip with him to Gary, where she was abducted and assaulted. Stephenson then, as Grand Dragon of the Indiana Ku Klux Klan, was a ruler of politics and guvernme.it. Judge Walter E. Treanor. Bloomington, yesterday dissented from the court’s action tn denying a rehearing of the appeal case. He dissented when the court affirmed the conviction last year. Although pointing out that Stephenson could take bis coram nobis petition to Hamilton circuit court, the supreme court hinted a course of action for the lower court in holding that the allegations serving as new evidence lacked sufficie t proof to warrant such a proceeding. Stephenson already has tried the coram nobis avenue in the trial court but it was halted by the supreme court. — o - Andy Volstead Is Placed On Furlough St Pull. Mln- . June 28—(UP) Andt w Volstead, father of the prohibition enforcement act. was ordered todav on an “indefinite furlough’’ starting Friday, from his positfc as legal advisor to the northwest prohibition administrator. FRANK SULLIVAN DEATH'S VICTIM Former Berne Resident Dies Suddenly’ In Los Angeles Charles Sullivan, living east of Decatur, received word this morning of the sudden d”iith of his brother. Fiank M. Sullivan of Los 'Am- • geles. Death resulted from a stroke 1 ! of apoplexy. According to the message Mr. ■ Sullivan was stricken at about 11 o'clock Tuesd iy morning, death ns- - suiting a fe.w hours later. : Mr Sullivan was in the hotel . busi'ess. moving to California -about 15 years ago. He was a native ’ of Benne, Adams County end was well known throughout the county. - At one time hn» was the owner of - several win"ing race horses. Besides the brother in this coun- ■ tv. one brother. Willi «n Sullivan of i j Vincennes, also survives. Burial will be mad® in Los Angeles.