Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 31, Number 158, Decatur, Adams County, 6 July 1933 — Page 1

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PECTFACTOR iBE RELEASED -N SHORT TIME arts Indicate Negotiaions For Release Nearly Complete HSOM DEMAND 'AS BEEN SLASHED li&iflo, Julv 6. — >tiations for the ret urn ohn (Jake the Barber) or virtually are cornel and the kidnaped er inav be home within lours, the United Press ie<l hxlay from a reliable ce. > last details for release of ormer Halsted street barber intended the peaks of British —-ce and now is wanted in md on charges of perpetrati $7,000,000 swindle are exd to be arranged by this afon. Factor, abducted early Saturday at a .Northshore louse, is expected to go to of his four luxurious homes r cover of darkness tonight. “~gotiat|ons have been conductv Jack Arvey and Moe Rosenthe latter an indicted -Democ politician. Despr e insist- • lenials by Jerome Factor, in. of the elder Factor, who witid the kidnaping, a communal from the gang was receivy A. L. Epstein, an attorney, ein was with the Factors ' i the broker was soiled and elf was held by the gang for ort while. Before his re- », it was learned, he was 3 instructions for negotiate original ransom demand of .000 was understood to have reduced. The money will >btained from one of Factor s erous accounts in banks, a ce close to the family said "lends of Factor believed — the Roger Touhy gang of the hwest side, which has gained ower since collapse of the >ne faction was closely linked the abduction. Touhy. interred by the United Press yes__»y, denied that he ever was r ived in a kidnaping. ictor was kidnaped on his trip from the loop area since nte was abducted and held for -.000 less than three months W In his aversion for bright s of the city’s night life "or often frequented the northt section of the metropolitan O ■■ ft-. ■ ■ ■* (h Winds Sweep Gulf Coast Os Texas ■ownsville, Tex. July 6—(UP)— i mile am hour wind Ushed the coast of Texas today, north of vnsville to Rockport. le United States weather burJ warned the storm was moving •eward from the Gulf of Mxi-—-yith “shifting gales over a con- • rable area and winds of hurrit force near the ice ter." le bureau said the center of the m would strike about 75 miler. of ti’ie Rio Grande’s mouth, k —o livers Hijacked Own Load Os Beer F idianapolls. July 6-—(U.R) Four dred cases of Milwaukee beer. k»rted hijacked near Auburn e 20, were stolen and sold by * truck drivers. Captain Matt xch of the state police departit announced today.he drivers were Rudolph ske, 32, and A. H. Thornton, _both of Milwaukee. ''eech said they sold the beer ch they were taking to a Fort - yne wholesaler to William >an, Muncie linotype operator jl restaurant owner, for S6OO. bjr the sale they drove to a «t near Auburn artd reported hijacking. ne hundred cases of the truckI mentioned above were conied to the Mlltschler Distributee., Decatur. o 11-Star Game I iona! 000 002 000—2 8 0 •rican 012 001 OOx—4 9 1 allahan, Warneke, Hubbell and son, Hartnett. omez, Crowder, Grove and F«r-j

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Eight-Year-Old Boy Victim Os Accident Auburn, Ind.. July 6 (UP) Harry Baron, eight, non of Mr. end Mrs. Clarem Baron, of Newville, died i here today of Injuries suffer- d I when struck by an automobile drlviei by Phillip G. Kemp of Chicago, official of the aviation division of the Cord motor torpor'tion. Kemp was not h Id by local authorities. H ■ was enroute to Dayton. Ohio from Auburn where luhad attended the funeral of Emory i Penry, iatl? official of tue Aubur . I automobile company and a director of Cord Corporation. SEVERAL BIDS ARE AWARDED County Commissioners Award Contracts In Morning Session S veral contracts were swarded by the county commissioiers this morning, including the purchase of supplies at the county farm, coil. for the cook stove at th- county infirmary, and a ditch job in Ui.i-ion township. The Fisher and Harris grocery was awarded the contract tor furnishing groceries ami tobacco at the iounty i fimiary. T' eir bid was. ■groceries. $190.92; tobacco. 9106.70 One bid was filed but no name was signed to it. The Home Grocery also submitted a bid. The contract for furnishing bread at the infirmary was aw ni-d to Miller s Bakery of this city their price being six co Is for a one and one-half pound loaf. The Carroll Coil and Coke company was awarded the contract to furnish 20 tons of Kentucky coal !at th infirmary, price $4.10 a tan, delivered. Yost Bros.. ot this city were tbi only bidders for .constructing u concrete floor in the new comfort station room in the basement of thcourt house. Their bid was sllß. C. E. Clem was award d the job of charging the channel of a ditch in Union township, his bid being $450. Other bids filed on the job ; w re, John A. Hendricks, $625, Yost Bros., $6lO. C. Ivan Kizer of Geneva, R. R. 3, was named first alternate to the scholarship at Purdue for the academic year, beginning Septemb. r 1933. Q, Dies Os Injuries Kokomo. Ind.. July 6 —(UP) — Roy Thompson, Kokomo, died i Good Samaritan Hospital last night of injuries received when his autoi mobile overturned at Nora, Ind. - o Wholesale Arrests Are Threatened East Chicago Ind.. July 6—(UP) Wholesale arrest of urli eiised b. -r dealers in East Chicago was threatened today iby police chief Nicholas J. Makar. He said thine were more than 400 licensed retailers in the city, m -ny of wihom had j •imported beer from Illinois without! paying the state tax. STATE AUDITOR MAKES PAYMENT Gasoline Taxes, Auto License Fees Are Distributed Today ,1 Indianapolis, July 6—(UP) —Gasoline taxes and automobile license fees collected during the past three months were distributed among cities and counties today by Floyd E. Williamson, state auditor. Total receipts for the period were $4,863,780. Counties will be given $1,740,257. cities $435,064 nd the remaining $2,688.4-54 goes to .the state highway department. WilliamscMh said that 14 counties which have not paid their spring I property taxes will not receive tlijeir 1 shares of gasoline tax receipts un-l til the property taxes h-ve bee:;, i paid. He did not make tiiie list pujb- ■ lie. City shares of the gasolinie tax | 1 and auto license receipts i elude: Auburn $1,054: Bluffton, $1,051; Columbia City, $768: Decatur $1,068 :Evansville, $21,196; Fort Wayne $23,829; Gary $20,819. Hartford City $1,370; Huntington $2,782; India, -aI polls. $75,493; Muncie $9,649; PortI * IcoiJitn ueiTon page FIVE)

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AMERICA WILL DEPEND UPON OWN EFFORTS President Roosevelt Believes Recovery Must Begin At Home WORLD CONFERENCE IS ONLY MINOR Washington, July 6 (IJ.R'i The fate of the world economic conference is of minor importance in the Roosevelt program because the president is striking out to win recovery by efforts at home. He is unmoved by European tactics. Foreign criticism only' tends to make him more confident of tlie support of the people of the United States. The key to his policy is simple. He believes that the United States can get quicker results bv action at home than by waiting for 50 nations to reconcile conflicting views. At home America is in com-, plete control of its own situation. To depend upon international agreements for results would be depending upon a situation over w?lich the United States has little control, the administration believes. This policy, recently forecast by the United States, lias been made emphatically clear in President Roosevelt's latest message to the American delegation at London, ft is a complete reversal of the Hoover policy The previous administration held that the I nited States was dependent upon world recovery for its own prosperity. Mainly it attempted to keep banks, railroads and oher insti- • tutions afloat by loans until world conditions righted themselves. President Roosevelt is thinking in terms of Kansas wheat fields, southern cotton fields. New England textile mills. Pennsylvania coal mines, the Tennessee river valley. He believes that if farmers can get good prices, if labor *7cONTIXT’ED ON PAGE FIVE) o WILL IMPROVE COUNTYROAnS Several Stretches Os Macadam Roads M ill Be Built Here (Th county highway department, under the supervision of Ralph Roop, e gineer and road supervisor has started a program to build several stretches of macadam roads, making connecting links with improved roads. Th highway department will furnish the stone and do all the work, no co: .tracts being let for the I job. Under Indiana law no bonds can be issued for road improvem nts this year. Where possible the county commissioners have I ordered the highway department to build connecting links with improved rdads and to “g t as many ! farmers out of the mud" as fir.anoes ' will warrant. In Union and St. Marys townships the Diver road will be improvi ed. Two connecting links with Ohio I roads alo 1 g the state line will he built in Union township. A small stretch will be improved along: title! Thieme ro (I. giving an outlet to an improved road In St. Marys and Union townships connecting links to state road No. 16 will be made on the south and in Blue Creek township, stretches of th? Hamrick j.rd Dugeon roads will be improved. In Jefferson township four stretches will be improved including the Wear r, Smith and Morgan roads. A total of about five miles of mud roads will be m)(cadamiz>ed, t(he ’ '.commissioners stated, in some, eases the stretch of road to be im- ! proved is less than a quarter of a (•CONTINUED ON PAGE HVR** o Appelman Rites Friday Morning Fur.eral services for Mrs. Anna Appelman. 91. of w.-st of Deoatur. who di-d at her home Tuesday morning, will he held Friday tkorning at 9 o’clock at the St. Mary's Catholic Church of which she was a member. Burial will be made in the Catholic cemetery.

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Decatur, Indiana, Thursday, July 6, 1933.

Factor’s Wife Collapses . Mrs. Rella Cohen Factor (left), wife of John ("Jake the Barber") Factor (right), who collapsed Wednesday as the fifth day passed since kidnapers abducted her husband in Chicago as she looked on. Her collapse convinced police that Factor is a genuine kidnap victim and not in hiding for reas< ns of his own.

CENTRALBANKS CALL MEETING — Six Gold Standard Countries To Plan For Currency War Paris. July G. (U.R) Representatives of the central banks of six gold standard nations today called a meeting for Saturday ts plan I their strategy in a currency war > they expected to follow the breakup of the world economic confer-' ence. An early result of the meeting may be imposition of a compensating surtax on American goods by some nations to offset the depreciated value of the dollar in terms of gold standard currency. A similar tax was imposed on British goods when Great Britain left the standard. j The nations to meet Saturday at the Bank of France are France. Italy, Holland. Switzerland. Belgium and Poland. As a preface they plan to issue a manifesto reiterating determination to mam-1 tain the gold standard and to act in cooperation to defend it. They plan also to establish a fund to be used in operations to protect their currencies. Clement Moret, governor of the Bank of France, was understood to be the : author of a plan of action whose first concern will be to halt the flight of gold from Holland. Plans for the meeting call for at- | tendance of finance experts of the I six governments now at the world economic conference — additional evidence, if evidence were needed, that the gold standard nations ex*?*(**TlNl'Et) ON PAGE FIVE) BAD WEATHER HALTS FLIGHT Unfavorable Conditions Likely To Delay Italian Flight Reykjavik, Iceland, July 6—(UP) —-Bad weather conditions seemed likely to delay for sevsr.il days the departure of 24 Italian Royal Air force seaplair s for Cartwtight, Labrador on the way to the Chi ago exposition'', Gen. ‘Halo Balbo, commanding the flight, announced today. Th squadron arrived here late yesterday‘after an uneventful fligilit of 930 miles from Landoi'.iiberry, Ireland. The last part of the flight was ; through bad weather off the coast of Iceland, with strong winds, rain ‘and poor visibility. Title fliers landed in good spirits and wen? givein. an enthusiastic reception by the populace. The next stage of the journey, j from her- to Cartwright. Labrador, is by far the longest of the flight, ! totitiling 1,500 miles. If difficulties are encountered en route, a stop. midway in Greenland is possible, although not likely. From Cartwright, the route lies by Shediac, N. 8., Montreal and Chicago.

Officials Invited To Attend Meeting i Rithmond. lid._July 6 —(Special) — Mayor George M. Krick, of Decatur, members of council and j other city officials. Martin Mylott. I superintendent of the City Light Plant, and Charles Brodbeck. superj intendent of the water works, have been invited to a meeting in Richmond, July 12 and 13 at which time a municipal ownership section of I the Indiana Municipal Le gue will i be organized. More thaan 300 officials of IndiI ana towns ami cities are expected j to attghd. » This meeting, which is being arranged by D. C. Hess, manager of the Richmond Municipal Light and Power Co., and vice-president of the Municipal League, is the outgrowth of a growing sentiment that towns and cities of the state owning utilities should join in an organization of mutual interest. GOVERNMENT TO CONTROL PRICE Administration Will Wage War Against Concerns Profiteering Washington. July 6 —(UP) —The Administration today began deter- > mined warfare against business concerns which take advantoge of rising prices to profiteer. The justice department will cooperate fully with secretary of agriculture Wallace to protect the public aguinst gouging on food prices. Prosecution was threatened in leases where incr ases are shown •to be unjustified and concerns refuse to reduce prices. imposition of processing taxes, together with the general increase in the price level which is desired by the idministration. will Inevitably mean higher costs of living for th? ger oral consuming public, but! the government is determined that the increases shall not be pyramided by profiteering. Wallace is i specially irate over increases in the retail price ofl | bread ann ounced by bakers in many ; parts of tihe country. Bakers claiml ed they wen’ necessary because of , the recent boom in wheat and flour prices and the 30-cec t per bushel processing tax which goes i. to lef- ’ feet July 9 to provide farm reties funds. However, Wall ice and farm relief administrator Peek joined in stating that th 1 y do not believe that there has been any justification for I some' of the bread prices increases. ! They calculate the whe.it tax has equal d to onehalf cent on a onepound loaf of bread. — o Resurfacing Work May Start Monday Ora Baker, district maintenance ■ officer of th- state highway department .announced today that resur- . facing on state road 27 probably I will be started Monday. Work was originally scheduled to start yesterday but was delayed because of j trouble experienced in resurfacing i work north of Bluffton.

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INDIANA CROP PSICES BEST IN 10 YEARS Rising Commodity Prices Forecast Favorable Condition In State WHEAT PRICES ARE LEADING WAY Indianapolis. July 6 - (U.R) —After years of battling against almost insurmountable odds, Indiana farm ers were faced today with the i most favorable crop prices in more than a decade. Rising wheat prices are a forerunner of what may be expected when the state's corn and oat crops are ready for marketing, farm leaders said. Dairy farmers, permitted to bargain collectively with distrubutors for establishment of milk prices at levels that will provide a fair return on their costs of production, are anticipating improved conditions almost immediately. Produce prices quoted by one Indianapolis concern today showed a two-cent rise in butter and a onecent rise in the price of eggs. Fowl prices remained unchanged at present but are expected to follow the upward trend within a short time. Hogs at the Indianapolis stockyards today showed a 10 cent rise over a week ago and similar improvements were noted in cattle and sheep sales. The effect of these increases upon retail commodity prices to consumers already has become noticeable. But farm leaders believe that the situation at present merely is tiie working out of the "new deal” through which it is hoped to place agriculture on a level keel with industry. Continued rise in farm crop I prices with costs of industrial products increasing fractionally is the only manner in v hich a balance of i the two divisions may be reached, farm leaders believe. Commodity prices have not and will not be allowed to exceed the amount of benefit being reaped by (CONTINUED ON PAGE FIVE) o Small Roof Fire On North First St. Spjrks from a chimney caused a small roof fire at the property own d by J. G. Niblick on North First str et. this morning shortly after 10 o’clock. Damage was estimated at two dollars. o— To Serve Fish Fry At Legion Meeting A free fish fry will be served to the members of Adams post number 43 of the American Legion, immediately following the regular business meeting at the Decatur Country Club Monday evening. Nominations for post officers will he closed at this meetiing. STATE TO GIVE WORK SERVICE Federal-State Free Employment Offices To Be Opened Soon Indianapolis, July 6.—(U.R)—Fed-eral-state free employment offices! : will be established throughout In-! diana. with the irext few weeks' : Gov’ Paul V. McNutt announced toi day. , Simultaneously he appointed George E. Gill. Indianapolis social worker, to head the state system. Headquarters and an employment office will be established here immediately. A federal appropriation of $29,000 to Indiana for the fiscal year beginning July 1 plus a matched sum from the state treasury will | defray costs of the employment ] system. Gill, who has been unemployed director of Che Indianapolis foundation, will be paid Jiy the i ! foundation until January 1. Offices in the state system will be established in many cities and will place men in all kinds of work. Also, bliey will provide men for any of the federally financed public works projects constructed. Assistant directors to Gill, to be named by him t.ith the approval (CONTINUED ON ’p*AG*E FIVE). ‘

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Sharp Earthquake Shock Experienced long Beach, Calif.. July 6. —(U.R) I—A sharp earthquake shock was felt here last night. Mrs. Mabel Ahrendt. 46, died of fright and heart disease. I The shock was felt at 10:25 p.m. (2:25 a. m. EDT). Long Beach was the center of a major earthquake last March, when a series of shocks caused more than 100 deaths in the area and resulted in property damage i running into the tens of millions. BEAK EVIDENCE IN WRECK CASE Allen County Coroner Holds Preliminary Hearing Wednesday Evidence was taken at a hearing held last >eveu’.ing in Fort Wayne by ; Dr. Wolter Kruse. Allen county coroner, relative to the automobile , collision on state road No. 27, last Monday when David Homer M "ollum of Greensboro, N. C., was killid. Former judge C. L. Walters of this city represented Mrs. McCollum and the decedent's estate. Former Judge George Whitaker of Dunkirk repr-sented Gene Fox. the truck driver, at th? hearing. It is not likely that a criminal action will be brought against Fox. No charge has been fik-d agai st ’iim. McCollum's body was return d to the home at Greensborp late Wednesday afternoon. The body wus accompanied (by Mrs. McCollum and Miss Cammie Gray, who were releas d front the Adams County Memorial Hospital Wednesday. They were o: ly slightly injured in the wreck. Richard Wells Causey, another . occupant of the wrec k d car, was : expected to leave for his home this evening, following the signing of depositions setting forth his testimony con cerning the accident. Miss Jess’- Shields, fifth accup nt of the car, will be confined to the local hospital tor several weeks. Miss Shields suffered a fractured pelvis. POSTMASTERS ARE APPOINTED Congressman Far 1e y Names Three At Ossian, Larwill And Ray Fort Wayne, Ind.. July 6—(UR) —lAppointment of thr e new postmasters for the fourth o ’gression-' al district of Indiana were announced today by congressman James I. Farley. Simon C. Hilsmier was selected for the postmastership at Ossian to succeed Harry W. Beatty; Alva C. Beard was given the post at Larwill ,a:nd Mrs. Millie Smith will become postmaster at Ray. Farley 'said. Simultaneously Farley announced that th,- postoffices at L>rwill and Ray had been reduced from third to fourth class because of decreased postal receipts. Farley sajd tiiie appointments 5 were requested by Joseph C. McAhoney, first assistant postmaster , general at Washington. Accept Allen County Scrip As Legal Tender Fort Wayne. Ind.. July 6.—(U.R) Allen county scrip is being accept- j ! ed as legal tender in widely scat-: tered points outside the county, according to reports to L. R. Pease, ! executive of the scrip department here. The outside points at which the county money has been spent in- ! elude Columbia City, Ind., Van, Wert and Lima, 0., and Chicago., Firms at these places respend the > money through Fort Wayne branch-! es. Most local dealers are accept- ! ing the scrip and report a substantial gain in business as a result. o Max Schmoling Weds 'Berlin, July 6 —(UPl —Max Schmeling, former world champion heavyweight Ixrxer, was married today to Miss Amy Andr i, film star, in the Charlottieburg registry office. They left for a honeymoon on tiiie Baltic coast. The religious ceremony will be held later.

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RESOLUTION TO CONTINUE MEET ADOPTED TODAY Steering Committee Decides Economic Conference To Continue BRITISH LEADER PRESENTED PLAN London. Julv <> <U.R) The steering committee of the world economic conference (lecitled this evening lh.it the conference should be continued. The committee approved a resolution of Neville Chamberlain, British chancellor of the exchequer providing for carrying on the conference’s work. The resolution provided: 1. That all committees and sub committees continue to meet and deride what they might accomplish, then report to the main economic and monetary commissions. 2. That a plenary session of all delegates be held before the end of July. 3. That the steering committee meet once a week. As the steering committee ended its meeting Paul Hymans of Belgium, told the United Press: ‘The full conference will continue. The gold standard nations have agreed to. participate in discussion of silver questions." The steering committee will meet again Monday when all committees and sub committee's will submit a list of the problems they , are .prepared to discuss. Proceedings of the committeemen at their vitally important meeting were like those of a deadlocked jury. They called for sandwiches and drinks and then adjourned at 1 r3O p. m. until 4:09 I (11:00 a. m. EDT.) Faced with the responsibility of recommending abandonment of the conference as hopelessly deadlocked or trying to continue it on a limited basis despite the forced exclusion of monetary problems because of American inflation, the steering committee los* some of the ebullience with which individual members had said adjournment was the only i course. Influential members of the committee, at a long session today, were understood to have suggested that the monetary and economic committees of the conference themselves decided ftfftfre procedure independent of each other. | This would permit a recess, perhaps limited, of tlie monetary side of the conference and continuance of that part of the economic side, which was not affected by the monetary problem. o_ , Two Small Boys Reported Kidnaped Langhorne, Pa., Jul 6 —(UP) — Two sm.ill boys. Buster Do us, eight, and his brother. Jack, six. state police reported, were kidnaped from tine front porch of their home at Parkland. tKar here, this afternoon. Children who had been playing with the two hoys told police several me:’ drove? up to the (bouse, j located along tire Lincoln highway, ! pulled the boys into their automoj bile and sped away. The ear heided toward Philadelphia. Police endeivoi’ed to learn whether the boys might have been i driven away by some member of ! their family. — o Non-Stop Fliers Are Forced Down Washington July 6—(UP)—Cap- ' tain J. Errol Boyd, Canadian aviator attempting a non stop flight ■from Port Au Prince. Haiti to Wasli--1 ington, D. ('.. was forced down at 12:25 p. m. today at Savannah, Ga„ his representatives here announced. ■ Airplane Pilot Crashes To Death South Bend, 'lnd., July 6 (UP) — Marvin Reihter. Kalamazoo, Mich., trashed to his death in a field five miles west of heie today when a wing on the small plane Ire was i piloting, collapsed. Witnesses said the flyer appeared | to be stunting prior to tiiie crash. The plane was a single sieater.