Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 31, Number 162, Decatur, Adams County, 11 July 1933 — Page 1

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KIDNAPERS HOLD THREE WEALTHY MEN

ifEB CABINET ■eateo today Fit ROOSEVELT — Hmized To Coordinate Wntry's Fight Against I Depression Kts for first ! ■time AT 2 I’. M. j'j’v 11. El slll .< r cabinet created l»\ President Boost*,K tl , eocnlinate ,i^' t Ertnsf depression met tor .■iN time at 2 p m. with hour work week amt gj4 ninimmn wage reported agenda. f adinini-tratton termed the ■■ore.ttiization a 'temporary ■gL| - it will include the presa|| cabinet members and of various emergency orgauthorized to deal with problems. VM& super cabinet will supplant fthe tegular cabinet on one meeteach week, it was anat the White House The is for the duration of the r the sake of brevity, it will as the council meeting.” House announcement 8 In order to provide orderly tation of business a.id to cote inter ■ agency problems >n various departments and ' es. > president has asked Frank Iker to act as executive secof this temporary council.' I ough the organization was .bed as a summer-time agenquestions elecited the further ment that it would continue inction “as long as necessary.” Mings will take place in Mrpvelt's office. In addition to President and the cabinet, the til will consist of: Director e Budget Douglas. Chairman i of the reconstruction fincorporation. Gov. Morgenof the federal farm credit aditration. Chairman Stevens I home ow. ers loan corporatin] Hugh S Johnson, adminis tratgr of the industrial recovery act] Administrator Peet of the BnUnra! adjustment organizaFederal Relief Administrator tins; Chairman Morgan of Ten'essee Valley authority; >ll Eastman, federal coordinof transportation: and DirecXI ED ON WAGE THRRVt ■ Fishing And .■ Hunting Licenses d I - r A Icitil of 262 fishing and hunting pit- wer issued to Adams ■ iy residents during the month ■ line at the office of county Milton C. Werling. Three nonyWfc nt livens s also were issued H lg the month. H total of 576 resident licenses ■ been issued at the clerk's ofMlinee the first of January ■ | T >day’s Scores J ATIONAL LEAGI E ?*■ iyn .ow 000 o M ‘9- 000 000 0 M "011-Lopez: Root-Hartnett. *■ 101 100 020—5 9 1 ’’Mhburgh 0 00 002 010—3 8 0 S:hary.$ P oh rer; s we tonic-Pic-York o .ouii p rmelee Manrn.so: Dean-Wilson ■ Welphia 000 001 00 ■ mnati 000 001 00 MWsen-Davis; Johnson-Lombardi. W'y flames scheduled. American league H ’ B ° 305 0 ■ 001 o M Iler-Berry; Crowder-Sewell. ■ B ' a nd 001 010 020—4 6 1 * idelphia 300 020 10x—6 10 1 - Spencer; Mahaffey-Coch- j ■ '’ ul « 003 000 00 B ork 201 110 00 Deti *® hea: MacFayden-Jorgen. ■ 000 001 000-1 6 1 * 000 200 OOx—2 5 0 I ■Paler - Hayworth; WellandMUy flames scheduled. thrtilei M \ Bcores are furnished Cn» the c °urtesy of the City ■ ectf ouery, phone 16.)

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Local Girl Brought Home From Hospital Miss Mildred Johnson, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Ed Johnson of Decatur was removed to her home from the St. Joseph Hospital in Fort Wayne, Monday evening, where she had been taken follow-j Ing an automobile Accident which occurred in Fort Wayne, Sunday night. Miss Johnson was riding with two other persons when the car was struck by a Red Top cab at the intersection of Tecumseh and ; Elmwood Avenue. Fort Wayne. The accident occurred at 7:30 o'clock. The cab was operated by Rich ard Hamman of West Main street. The girl was removed to the hos- ; pital in the cab where it was found that she had received scratches on the arm and leg and a hip bruise. MEETING HELD AT HUNTINGTON Decatur Men Attend Indiana State Fair Preview Monday Night A preview of the 1933 Indiana State Fair was given at the Massonic Temple in Huntington last night before a group of county ..gents, industrialists, vocational agriculture teachers, members of chamber of commerce, and newspaper men from Northeastern Indiana. The speakers stressed the 1 fact that th re would be a Fair this years despite legal and political difficulties. The meeting was held for the purpose of boosting the Indiana State Fair in tl>? Northe.st Section of Indiana. There have been five meetings scheduled, one was held in Indianapolis Jun? 29. one in Osgood. July 5 and Huntingburg. July 6. auuLlicr will be held in Winamac. July 11. Russell G. East, Richmond, Indiana. President of the Indiana State Fair presided at the meeting and Lteut-Gov. Clifford Townsend w s principal speaker. His sunjeet was "Enlarging the Opportunities of the State Fair for Service.” Other speakers wene: E. J. Barker, Thorntown. Indiana. Sec.-Tr ■ <«.. "Special Features of the 1933 State Fair. ” Karl Rous. Purdue Uniersity. "What the State Fair means to the Agriculture of Indi na as a . Edu. ational Institution.” Levi P. Moor , Rochester. Indiana, a director of the fair handling publicity, talked on "Bringing the Indiana State F ir to Your County." J. D. Hull. Columbus. Indiana, assistant to the seer - tary-treasurer was also present to inane contacts with the presidents or secretaries of the different Chambers of Commerce throughout this section of tine St-4e. urging (COMTINUEFD ON PAGE SIX) Special Program For Lions Chib The Lions Club will meet tonight at 6:30 o’clock in the Rice Hotel. A special progn m has b-en arranged by Dr. H. Frohnapfel. All members are asked to I>e present. RELEASE FUNDS FOR DEPOSITORS Promise Early Release Os Illinois Bank Funds To Depositors 'Washington, July 11. —(U.R) —Release of funds for depositors in i closed banks in Illinois rural districts was promised today following announcement of the farm I credit administration that the i “Morgenthau plan” of liquidating frozen farm mortgages had been 1 extended to that state. I The administration has asked the Reconstruction Finance Corporation for $25,000.00(1 to help it, carry out the plan, which was tried first in Wisconsin. Offices of the J St. Louis, Mo., Federal Land Bank j will be Spened in Springfield, HL. Monday to start the work. The $25,000,000 will be used to purchase mortgages and other | farm credit paper held by 376 banks outside Chicago. These! banks hold $11,946,000 of mortgages alone. Other frozen farm paper is believed to amount to almost $15.000,000. The administration will buy Uisj (CONTINUED ON PAGE SIX)

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INDUSTRY CODE I PROVIDES NEW BASIS OF LAW New Instrument Os Government Created By Industrial Code DECISIONS HAVE FORCE OF LAM Washington, July 11.—(U.R> —Section 6 of the new cotton textile code virtually creates a new instrument pf government- -a legislative body wit bin the industry whose de visions, when approved by the national recovery administration and President Roosevelt, have the force of law. Through similar provisions in other industrial codes to come, the administration hopes to set up a group of little economic parliaments. Under them industry will be encouraged in self-government, subject to the approval of the federal government. 1 It is a new arm of government adapted to the technical age. developed because politicaHegislative bodies are too slow, cumbersome, and unfamiliar with technical questions to function effectively. In the last session, congress confined itself largely to dealing out for a limited time full authority to President Roosevelt to work out with. , industry a set of laws adapted to the emergency. The industrial codes, when approved, are in fact statutes as much as if they had been passed by the house and senate. This is one of the most significant developments of the time and if retained is regarded by many as likely to alter materially the function of customary legislative bodies. The superiority of direct action over regular political action so far as speedy results are concerned is I seen in the matter of child labor. For years state legislatures have wrestled with child labor bills. States which passed them left their industries at the mercy of plants in states which did not adopt such prohibitions. Then congress finally passed a national child labor law. The courts threw it out. Al- 1 most ten years ago a constitutloniCONTTN'l'l'7r> ON PAGE SIX) GRAIN MARKET GOES UP AGAIN Rye Futures Stage Sensational Gain: Other Grains Higher Chicago July 11—-(UP)— A 10 cent per bushel leap in the price of rye futur-s shot the grain market forward in tremendous trading today and at the close all cereals w-re near their peaks. Rye's s nsationa.l advince. coining after a seven cent increase yesterday was aided by the government crop report showing sharply curtailed production. The public and the 'big traders shared in t'he demonstration whiih sent prices climbing. The floor of the board of trade was a maelstrom of buying. At the dos- whe.it had gains ranging from three and three quarters to four cents per bushel with all deliveries above SI.OO and May reaching a p?ak of $1.14. Corn closed with guins ranging from two and one half to two and seven eighths cents per bushel. , Oats gained more than a cent. Rye’s close was eight and one I quarter to nine cents per bushel over yesterd y's final figures with December finishing .ibove the SI.OO mark. The peak of the December d-.livery was $1.04 while the Sept. mber delivery reached the ' mark but eased slightly from that figure at the close. Girl Scouts Plan Ice Cream Social 1 The Girl Scouts of Troop 1 and . 2 will hold an ice cream social in the Legion Memorial Park on South Winchester street. Monday night at 7:30 o'clock. The Junior . .Band under the direction of Dave 1 Rice will present a concert. The public is cordially invited to attend the concert and social. The Girl Scouts are holding the affair to secure money in order to 1 attend camp this summer.

Decatur, Indiana, Tuesday, July 11, 1933.

State Administration Hopes To Wipe Out Deficit By Income Tax

(By Special Correspondent I Indianapolis. July 11. —The pocketbooks of Hoosierdom are being opened as this is written for payment of the first income tax in the history of Indiana. And upon this income tax hangs the hope of thq Democratic state administration to wipe out the huge state deficit and provide funds for state aid of school units throughout the state. Indeed the eyes of the nation are uptin Indiana in this state experiment to collect one per cent of the gross receipts of the pay envelope and the retail sales with a universal deduction of SI,OOO as the only exem pt ion. For everylwdy whose gross receipts within the year is more than SI,OOO must pay the tax. The only exemptions are income from pensions, government bonds and Thus the wage earner with receipts of $2,000 pays tax on SI,OOO and the man with receipts of SIO,OOO pays tax on $9.000. The Indiana gross receipts tax became effective May Ist and the exemption of $166.67 on the July 15 tax payment represents one sixth of that SI,OOO exemption, or the exemption for two months. May and June of this year. It was estimated at the time the income tax bill was presented to the legislature it would raise a sum varying from twelve to sixteen millions of dollars. This estimate was based on returns made to various agencies of income received and retail sales made and from manufactured goods shipped out of

BANK ROBBER ESCAPES JAIL Merritt Longbrake, Bank Robber, Escapes At Bellefontaine, O. Bellefontaine. 0.. July 11—(U.R) No trace had been round at noon today of Merritt Longbrake. 38. Claypool. Ind., confessed bank robber, who escaped from the Logan county jail here yesterday. Longbrake and two other younger men held on lesser charges are said to have overpowered the jail guard when he opened the cell door to let out the two young men to do chores. One of the three is said to have wl hied a razor. The trio then fled through the jail kitchen and over a fence where they split up and made good their escape. Longbrake was being held for $25,000 bond for action of the grand jury after he had pleaded guilty to a charge of robbing the Huntstown, 0., bank. Auto Banditry Warsaw. Ind.. July 11— (U.R) — Sheriff Harley D. Person of Kosciusko county today declared that if Merritt Longbrake is recaptured he would attempt to have an habitual criminal charge placed against him in Indiana. The fugitive is charged with (CONTINUED ON PAGE STX) BONDSMEN HELD FOB HIJACKING Three Professional Men Charged With Receiving Stolen Beer Indianapolis, July 11 —(UP) — Three professional bondsmen here were under $51)0 Ixvnd each tod> y. awaiting investigation by (he county grand jury of charges that they received part of 300 eases of beer hijacked heir Seymour two weeks ago. The Ixxudsmen, Donald Underwood, Janies Gordon and Henry Sleets, negro, pleaded not guilty before judge William IL SCiieffer in municipal court yesterday. They were implicated in a confession police said was obtained from John S. Dunkin, St. Louis, identified as one of two men who stole the i truck and its loid of Louisville A)ee: | from (Albert Freeman, Louisville | John Cheshire, Bintianapolis, has been arrested as Dunkin's accomplice. Howard Fall, truck firmer near here in whose barn the stolen beer was found, was released without \ bail upon recommendation of proaecuting attorneys. j

| Indiana in 1930, with deductions I that were considered commensurate with the decline in general business conditions. The Superior court in Marlon county lias held that good*, shipped out of Indiana are not subject to the tax and this question is now before the Supreme court of the state, if tfiis question is upheld it likely will eliminate approximately $3,000,000 of the estimated revenue from the law. To collect twelve to fifteen milI lions of dollars from a million and a half tax payers requires, ordin- : arily, a vast web of tax collecting ' machinery. It is our belief howlever, that the simplest method of I collecting this huge sum of money J has been worked out under William I Storen, executive officer of the i state department of the treasury, ■ and C. H. Jackson, of Newcastle, : administrative officer of the in- ■ come tax division. Every cent of the tux is payable ' at the statehouse in Indianapolis. ! Apparently there is to be no army jof tax collectors. The system of ; automobile license branches in I every county of the state, already set up. lias been drafted into serI vice for the purpose of providing j blanks and aiding in filling out ini come tax papers. For their ser- ' vice these automobile license I branches are entitled to a dime 1 notary fee. In addition employees i of the state board of accounts are , available at the branches to answer I technical questions regarding the I law. But Uncle Sam's mails are ' used to get the money into the ON PAGE FIVE)

(Street Improvement Projects Out Soon Indianapolis. July 11 — (UP) - State highway department street improvements projects in Indiana ' elites over 3,501) population will be .! annoU'i.ced soon, i h>.irman James ' D. lAdams of the state highway commission, said today Commissioners have visited all the 77 Indiana cities in th it class. I preparatory to spending $4.800,000 on street improvements. Although the fedenil government when it made available $10,000,000 , for road and street work in Indiana this year, sp-cified that only 25 per cent need be spent in cities, the Indian* Commission decided to use , 48 per cent In cities. DISTRICT MEET AT SHRINE LAKE Legion And Legion Auxiliary Will Meet Next Sunday, July 16 j William O. Nelson of Anderson, commander of the Indiana department of the American Legion, and Mrs. Sylvia Pittman of Boonville, state president of the Legion auxil- ( iary. will be the principal speakers at the joint district Legion conference at the 40 anff 8 club house at Shriner lake next Sunday. July 16. Robert Bushet' of Ossian. Fourth district commander, and Mrs. Beulah Brooks of Angola, district auxiliary head, will also speak. A highlight of the entertainment will be a drum corps contest. Drum corps from Warsaw, Angola, Warren, Huntington and Bluffton, Indaina. and Van Wert, Celina and i Lima, Ohio, are expected to compete. The program will start with a 1 concert by the Fort Wayne American Legion band at 1:30 p. m., followed by the drum corps contest and a parade. A picnic dinner will ! be held at 5 o'clock and the pro gram will close with a dance at 9 o'clock. Vincent Borman, Adrian Baker I and James Staley have been nain■ed as a committee to make arrangements for those wishing to at-, tend. Anyone planning to attend the meeting is asked to call a member of the committee. 0 Newton Lenhart Has Appendix Operation L. C. Lenhart, South Eleventh i stneet. has received word that his i brother, Newton Lenhart, underw nt an appendix operation at a hospital in Jackson, Michigan, last ; Friday. Reports indicate that Mr. Lenhart is recovering rapidly from i the operation.

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ORDER SANITY HEARING HELD FOB MURDERER East St. Louis Man Kills Three Neighbors Monday Night FORMERLY HELD ON ATTACK CHARGE East St. Louis. 111.. July 11 —(UP) —Attorney Lutz. 60. wio last night shot and killed three neighbors who suggested he draw his windowshades while undressing, was to be given a sanity hearing today. Victims of Lutz’s frenzied attack w-re Mrs. Grace Welch. 25; her husband. Chude I). Welch, 45, a pipe fitter, and Swope Tail nt, 29y ar-old mechanic. Mrs. Welch was mortally wounded as she bent over ' dying husband. Welch and Tallent were dead when taken to a hospital. Lutz was iaptured by a railroad watchman as he fled long a railroad track aftier the shoqiting pursued by police. Lutz's neighbors said he had been in the habit of undressing without drawing the window shades and that Tallent had complained to him. Lutz resent-d the complaint and th* two engaged in a fist fight from which neighbors separated them. Lutz Returned to his house and emerged a few minutes later witli a pistol. Tallent and 'his wife and Mr. and Mrs Welch were sta.-ioing j (CONTINUED ON PAGETHP.FE) o— —— — FLUCTUATION TO BE STOPPED —————— President Reported Seeking Way To Stabilize Value Os Dollar Washington. July 11 — (U.R) — President Roosevelt was reliably reported today to have ordered a survey of ways of managing the country's currency to prevent vioie.it fluctuations in purchasing power of the dollar. The president's'ultimate goal is to keep the purchasing power of the dollar stable after it reaches a level satisfactory to the adntinistration. Addition of two new professors to tlie “brain trust" was interpreted by well informed persons as a move in that direction. Professor James Harvey Rogers of Yale and Professor George Frederick Warren of Cornell open- . ed offices in the commerce department today, ostensibly to co-ord-inate efforts to balance the budget. Rogers is an expert on foreign markets and credits. Warren is an agricultural economist. Well informed persons indicated the professors would be put to work both on the* problem of managing the currency as well as on budget affairs. Roosevelt on July 3 ki a mes(CONTINUF7D ON PAGE SlX)** RESURFACING WORK STARTS State Road 27 North Os Decatur Is Being Resurfaced This Week Work was started Monday on the resurfacing of state road 27 north of Decatur. The road will be resurfaced from the bridge at the north limit of Decatur to the Pennsylvania railroad tracks at the north edge of Monmouth, a distance of approximately three miles. Thirty-two local men are employ'ed in the work. Nine men are ; working as watchmen and the balance of the men are working in. three shifts of five hours each. Material used in the resurfacing is Kentucky Rock asphalt, and when completed the three-mile i stretch should he one of the best pavements in Adams county. State highway department employes in charge of the work estimate that the resurfacing likely will be completed this week. Original plans indicated the job would be finished within three days but some difficulty was encountered with equipment Monday, I causing a delay of several hours.

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Wayne Knitting Co. Makes Wage Increase Fort Wayne Ind., July 11 —(UP) ' A wage increase of 10 per cent to all its employes was anno.inced to-! day by officials of the Wayne Knitting Mills here. Approxlmutely 600 workers will benefit from the ad- 1 1 vaiwe. i Simultaneously officials of the company announced they would try lite five day 40 hour week. Tile wage increase Is general and becomes effective immediately. NO ADDITIONAL NAMES LISTED Only One Slate Os Candidates Nominated For Legion Officers Nomination of officers for Adams post number 13 of the American Legion were closed at Monday night's meting. No additional candidates, other than those listed two I weeks ago, were nominated last night. Only one candidate has been nominated for each position, so the election Monday, July 24. will merely be a formality. One change in the list of candi-1 dates was made, that of delegates to the state convention at Evans-1 ville. Sunday, Monday and Tuesday, August 27, 28 and 29. Delegates will be the in-coming commander, the retiring comman- ■ der, David Adams and Herbert Kern. The slate of candidates who will I be voted on at the next regular meeting Monday, July 24, are: Albert Miller, commander. James K. Staley, first vice-com-mander. Edgar Yoder, second vice-com-mander. Walter Gladfelter. adjutant. Miles Roop, finance officer. David Adams, retiring commander, H. P Schmitt, and Vernon Aur-1 land, members of the executive committee. David Adam< Albert Miller and Herbert Kern, delegates to the state convention. Alternates are James K. Staley, Charles Weber and Otto Gase. CONFIRMATION NOT RECEIVED J. L. Ehler Has Received No Ruling On Income Tax Returns Late this afternoon. J. L. Ehler, manager of the Decatur auto license bureau, had received no confirmation of an opinion front the state legal department concerning the filing of quarterly income tax returns. Monday's Fort Wayne newspapers carried stories stating that the bureau manager in that city had received an opinion that "if an individual’s income is less than $5,000 a year and his quarterly income tax payments would be less ( than $lO each, the individual need . not -file quarterly returns under ( the new Indiana Gross Income Law and must instead file only i one annua! tax return, remitting I ! his payment for the whole year I at that time.” The ruling is an important one i and clears up much confusion in | j the minds of many Indiana per | sons. The law provides that anyone in the State making more | than SI,OOO a year must pay one percent on his income in excess of SI,OOO with no exemptions. The law also allows that where the quarterly payment is less than $lO it may be deferred until the an- ■ nual return. It was not definitely known whether in the latter case a person had to make the quarterly returns even if he didn't make payments. Now that the point has been decided, the vast majority of j * ’((•OXTINI'WI ON PAGE SIX) One Man Is Fined, One Freed On Bond Frank Hower entered a plea of guilty to public intoxication when ! arraigned before Mayor George Krick in city court this morning and was fined $1 and costs. Tony Schumacher pleaded not guilty and was released on bond. The men ■ were arrested Monday noon by chief of police Sephus Melchi.

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HEAVY HANSOM DEMANBSMABE FROM FAMILIES — Illinois Banker; Albany Man Are Latest Kidnap Victims JAKE THE BARBER STILL BEING HELI) (By the United Press) Ki(lit;i|M'fs It eld tlir e e nrominent and wealtliv men foj- liigh ransom today. The drift of gangsters ' from prohibition rackets into “snatchim?” was blamed bv Senator Roval S. Copeland and other’ government officials for the brazen series of abductions. Kidnapers of John J. O'Connell. Jr.. Albany, N. Y.. nephew of rhe bosses of the powerful O’Connell Democratic machine, demanded $250,000 and threatened to kill their captive if police were told. August Liter. 77. president of the Alton Bank and Trust company, Alton. 111., was taken from his home last night. So far no I word has been received from th« ( kidnapers. No authentic word has been received by the family of John i (Jake the Barber) Factor, supposedly held by Chicago kidnapers for more than a week. The kidnaping spurred the senate inquiry into racketeering which is directed by Senator Copeland. He estimated the nation pays a yearly tribute of from $10,000,000,000 (B) to $15,000,000, 000 (B) to racketeers. President Roosevelt and Attorney General Homer S. Cummings pledged whole-hearted co-operation Object to List j Albany. N. Y., July 11—(UP) — The kidnapers of John J. O’Connell. Jr., athletic. young member ! of the politically powerful O'Connell family indicated their willing ness “to do business" today but objected to the list of intermediaries selected by the family. In a letter, painstakingly printed with pen and ink the kidnapers expressed dissatisfaction with proferred 11 contact men and Daniel O'Connell, uncle of the .iltducted youth promptly submitted a new list. O'Connell was kidnaped Thursday night but not until last night was it generally known. A mysteriously coded message that appeared in an Albany Newspaper Sunday morning naming the intermediaries served to verify persistent rumors. "Newspapers "agreed, however, to withhold the story temporarily. Last night, when it seemed ransom negotiations had tailed, the story (CONTINUED ON PAGE THREE) — 0 — Drum Corps To Meet Wednesday Night The drum corps of Adams post number 43 of the American 1-egion will meet at the Decatur Country Club at 8 o'clock Wedn sday night. This is a:, important meeting and ev ry members is urged to be present. GIRL SLIGHTLY HURT IN WRECK Barbara Ridgeway, Fort Wayne, Injured Near Here Monday Barbara Rideway, 266 Fairfield View Place, Fort Wayne, is a patient at the Adams County Memorial Hospital where she was taken following an automobile accident north of Decatur on the detour on state road 27, Monday afternoon about 3:30 o’clock. The girl was thrown through the windshield of the car in which she was riding and the palmer surface of two fingers on the left hand was cut to the tendons. The accident occurred when the driver of the car attempted to pass a load of hay on the detour. He went into the ditch, throwing the girl through the windshield. The party was enroute to Fort Wayne from Decatur. A woman, Miss Rideway and the driver were the only occupants of the car.