Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 31, Number 165, Decatur, Adams County, 14 July 1933 — Page 1

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■MN FLEET ItES TRIP TO lanadisn city ■aiu* Squadron Given tendous Welcome ■ Montreal. Quebec I CONTINUE ■ HOI’SATURDAY Itreal. Quebec, Julv 14. ■ — General halo Balbi*, ■ squa’lroii of seaplanes Ktreal' '>'av. and at this Keduleu 'alt on the long ■v from Rome to Chi■the Italian airmen reBone of ine greatest wel|of th< flight. ■erg) Baibo landed his Bane at 1:51 p. m. EDT. ■ left Sii-.sliac, New Bruns ■ 9:52 a. m . making the fly B for tie' journey almost ex ■nr hours ■ jetty at Fairchild airport, ■ng will' streamers and bunt■relconi" 'he airmen. Crowds Ke river banks. The Fascist K Montreal had a cheering Eon of 3, *0 waging to give Ecist salute to the general ■ men. and companies of FasLis in white blouses and KlAi-k skirts joined in the B the last of 'he planes had ■ a refueling barge, manned ■e men. capsized and the harB thrown into turmoil as ■ expeditions dashed to their ■three men from the capsized ■were rescued but half the ■ gallons of gasoline on the I destined for the Italian ■ was lost. It was feared this ■delay the planes' departure. ■To Chicago Saturday Kgo. July 14 — <U.R>— Officials ■ge of welcoming to Chicago ■lian air armada issued ord■the participating groups late I Ito he ready for the recep■nwrrow morning. Be orders countermanded I instructions to be prepared ■ive tl>e Italian fleet tonight. Br Reed Landids, head of the ■ aeronautic commission said Bangements for receiving the Biad been whipped into shape ■cue boats, fire apparatus, ■biles, motorcycle escorts |e official welcoming commit■old be on hand. MISSED MEN FINANCED SUIT lerous State EmployI Financed Suit On leorganization Act Inapoiis, July 14. — <u.R> — Ims Democratic state etnI dismissed by Gov. Paul V. It helped finance the suit of I Wetsel, South Bend auto ■ branch manager, against ■•te government reorganiza- ■*. it was learned today. | include James W. CarpenI Connersville, former cornier of motor vehicles under ■ry of State Ftank Mayr, Jr., lerruan H. Peale, Vincennes, Iter s former assistant. I dozen or more dismissed j |es joined Wetsel in hoping lain their old jobs should I patronage be restored, lies Dinneen, Fort Wayne | manager, joined Wetsel I in filing a petition to interll the case. |sion in the case attacking futionality of the law was hinder advisement by a threefederal court after a hearIsterday. same three judges yesterday an order .restraining the I Service Commission from png temporarily reduced gas f n South Bend. But customIthe Northern Indiana Public r Company stand to lose jk through the order, it was pTNUED ON PAGE FOUR) f ~ -—o II Junior Band W ill Give Program Decatur Junior Band will •t a musical program at the ream social which will he > v the Girl Scouts at the > Memorial Park, Monday July 17_

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Rev. Benson Speaks Sunday At Monroe Rev. Clarence H. Benson, director of Christian Education at the [ Moody Bible institute at Chicago will give an addrese Sunday after--1 noon at the Monroe Methodist Epis copal Church. Tlve meeting is scheduled for 2 o'clock, central standard time. This meeting Is under the auspices ot | the County Sunday School Association and is directed by the edcational department. Rev. Benson is a well known Bible teacher and educational leader. He .is the author of several well known books. All Christian workers in tire church and Sunday | School are urged to attend this service. Miss Frances Burkhalter of Berne have charge of the music. An opportunity will .toe given lor questions to be presented for Rev. B-ai-son's advice. OFFICE TO BE OPEN NIGHTS License Bureau Will Remain Open For Income Tax Payers With the first taxpaying period under 'lndiana's gross income tax law closing at midnight Saturday. July 15. J. L. Ehler, manager of th? Automobile license bureau branch in Decatur said today that the branch will remain open for the convenience of the puttie Friday and Saturday nights until 9 p. m. More than 1.000 returns have b“en filed 'at the local license bureau branch and a large quantity of blanks has been distributed to be mailed direct to the gross income tax division. Mr. Ehler sai dthat reports from | Indianapolis showed that tens of I thousands of payments hate Tieen received, that many bags of mail remain unopened and that it probj ably will be two or tiiroe days after the end of the taxpaying period l>efore an accurate check of the number of returns can be made. The flood of returns being received includes thousands responding to the request of the gross income tax division for payments from every taxpayer who owes the state any money at this time. The average of all returns to date is approximately $5.75. according to information from the state house. Thousands of payments of less than sl.<K) have been received. Mr. Ehier pointed out that pay- ■ ments are being asked from all who owe tax so that the yield can be determined and accurate information passed on to taxing officials so that full advantage of the new lawcan be obtined in property tax reduction. New budgets are to be made and proper-y tax -levies fixed ni a few weeks. ■ ■ o — Special Speaker At Mt. Pleasant Riev. Clarence A. Benson of Chicago will be the special speaker at the Sunday morning services at the Mt. Pleasant Methodist Episcopal Church. The worship will open, at 10:30 o'clock. FOUR CHILDREN HURT THURSDAY I Injured At Berne Yesterday When Team of Horses Stages Runaway Four children ot Rev. and Mrs. R. Paul Miller of southeast of Berne were injured at-2 o'clock Thursday afternoon in a runaway. The children, three boys and one girl, hid accompanied Earl Li’chty to the plant of the milk company in Berne to get a load ot cinders. While the young man was in the plant, the children remained on the wagon. The team of horses became I frightened by a passing freight train and galloped madly down the street. The wagon upset and the child- ! ren were thrown out. Ward, 12, was the most seriously injured. He suffered a gash about three inches long on the back of his head. He also suffered cuts on his face and arms and severe bruises. ‘ Martha, 14, suffered scratches j and bruises and a severe bump on ' the knee while Howard, 6 and Carl 1 4, suffered slight bruises and scratches. I

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OVER HUNDRED MILLION IS SET ASIDE FOR WORK I Secretary Ickes Approves Federal And Municipal Work Projects I ' I MANY PROJECTS STILL WAITING Washington, July 14 — (UP) — Approval of federal and municipal works projects involving xp'iidfture of 1115,513,610, was announced today ,by secretary of the interior Lewes as th? first step in a campaign to put 1,000,000 men to work by Octolier 1. Th- program included 164,561.542 for Federal projects. $952,068 for municipal construction, and $50,030. 000 which had been set aside in the industrial recovery act for road building in national parks, National forests. Indian reservations and i on public lands. As administrator of the $3,300,- • 000,000 building program, p-kes issued a statement declaring that the projects approved had qualified | "within the intent of Congress and the policy of th- administration that only work of permanent and real social value shall be embarked upon." “The board now has before it a vast number of additional projects which may or may not meet with their requirements.” he said. "Al>se: ee of these projects from the first list does not of necessity dis- - qualify them." The approved federal and municipal program raised to $753,513,610 ■ the total allocated thus far from ■ public works fund. President Roose- | velt previously had allotted $4 'O,- ; 00,000 to the agri ult ure d partment for state highway construc- | (CONTINUED ON PAGE TWO) Presbyterians Will Hold Picnic Monday The Presbyterian Sunday School picnic will be held Monday evening. ' July 17. at Sunset Park. Everyone ' is asked to be at the church at four o’clock in the aft -moon. Each fa- ‘ mily is to bring its own sandwiches and one covered dish and own table service. The meal will be served cafeteria style. Everyone is urged ■ to attend. — o— MRS.BLEEKE DIES TODAY Mrs. Walter Bleeke Dies At County Hospital This Morning Mrs. Ella M. Bleeke, 35, wife of Walter M. Bleeke, residing six [ miles northeast of Decatur, died at the Adams County Memorial Hospi; tai at 10:05 o'clock this morning, following a short illness. Death wasj due to embolism. Mrs. Bleeke had been bedfast since Tuesday and had been removed to the Adams County Memorial Hospital where she submitted to a ma- , jor -emergency operation Thursday afternoon. The deceased was a lifelong residence of Adams County. She was horn in Union township August 28, 1897 a daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Fred Krueckebarg. She was united 'jin marriage to Walter M. Bleeke ! on August 16. 1921 and two children were born to the union, Norbert ( Leroy and Eveyln Ruth. Surviving besides the husband and two children are the following brothers and sisters: Mrs. Bertha Steele, Van Weft County, Ohio; Mrs. Louise Kreiselmeyer, Fort Wayne; Gus and Edwin Krueckeberg of Union township; Mrs. Matilda Springer, Yoder; Emil, Union township; Fred. Van Wert county, -Ohio; Rev. Harry Krueckeberg, Liberty Center, Ohio; and Ferd, ■ Huntington. Funeral services will be held -1 Sunday afternoon at 1:15 o’clock : standard time, at the home, six miles northeast of Decatur, and at , 1:30 o'clock at the Emanuel Lutheran Church of which Mrs. Bleeke I was a member. Rev. M. J. Frosch will officiate and burial will be i made in the church cemetery. i The body will be removed to the home from the William H. Zwick I and Son Funeral home Saturday afternoon.

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Factor After Release I Kb F wr V. 1a IX/ \- tfew ri t \ >p ■ 1 I . \• X f ■ <$ \ ‘ \ t \-k A ; L \ \. vA . fc, <•- » J«h;i ("Jake the Barber") Factor, millionaire stock promoter of Chicago, as he appeared after release by kidnapers who had held him . captive for twelve days. Whether or not the $200,009 ransom demand- , ed by the kidnapers was paid was not divulged.

I I AVIATOR DIES I OF BURNSTODAY Youthful Nebraska Pilot Suffered Burns In Crash Thursday , Lebanon. Ind.. July 14. — (U.R) — | . Robert Moore. 23. South Sioux City, j ; Neb., died in Witham hospital here > today from burns received when j 1 his Pusher model airplane crashed , I late yesterday. In addition to receiving burns on his head and arms, Moore inhaled [ fumes from the blazing gasoline.- I Lebanon. Ind.. July 14 (UP) —! , Burned when his old type pusher plane caught fire, Robert Moore, 23. | south Sioux City. Neb. pilot, was in , serious condition at Witham Memo rial Hospital today. . His hands and face were badly i bufn.d and he was cut on the fore- | head and legs. Hospital attendants said he spent ‘‘as good a night as could be expected.” ’ Moore was on his way to Ind- ■ ianapolis to compete in the American Legion air show scheduled to morrow and Sunday. His plane was '■ new but was a replica ot the one j ■ which Orville Wright first flew. Recently he had displayed the old model plane at air races and cir- j ■ cuses about the country. He for-. • ‘ (CONTINUED ON PAGE TWO) I 0 County Vigilantes Hold Shoot Thursday i i The Adams County vigilantes i held a shoot on the Schurger range j west of Decatur Thursday after-; , noon. The match consisted of 25 yard pistols, 50 yard pistols, 200 yard rifles. 300 yard rifles, and fifty ' yard bobbin. High scores were shot by Leonard Baumgartner, Fred Schurger, i Roy Dubach, Dave Dubach, Dave Resiaen, Victor Hoffman, and Walter Gladfelter.

CODES SU EMITTED Washington, JJuly 14. —(U.R>—Wage and work week provisions of industrial codes submitted thus far to the N. I. R. A., are as follows: Minimum Maximum Wage Week Oil ~40-47 c hr. 40 hrs. Bituminous Coa! $4-|5 day Disputed Lumber hr. 40-48 hrs. Shipbuilders 35-400 hr. 40 hrs. Electrical Manufacturers ...35c hr. 36 hrs. ’ Cloak'and Euit 50c hr. 40 hrs. General Contractors hr. 150 hr. > (month) The cotton textile code, with minimum wages of Jl2-513 and a 40-hour week, is to become effective next Monday.

Dealers’ Licenses Net Over Million i Indianapolis. July 14 —(UP) — I Sale of dealers' licenses since legalI ization of 3.2 p r cent beer April 17 has added $1,120,697.40 to the | stilt - treasury, an audit of the state j excise department by examiners for i the state board of accounts rev.-al- , ed today. More than half the license pay- ' ments were in cash and despite the i rush and confusion that prevailed I it. the office of Paul P. Fry. excise | director, every cent was accounted i for, the examiners reported. INTANGIBLE TAX RULED ILLEGAL Judge F. Bingham Holds State Law Is Unconstitutional South Bend, July 14 —(UP) — Judge J. Fred Bingham of St. Joseph superior i ourt today held the new state intangibles tax unconstitutional on the ground that it exempted credit and intangibles ' from the general property tax in ! violation of the state constitution. An appeal from th?- ruling is ex- - pected to be taken to the supreme | court immediately by attorney gen- | eral Philip Lutz. Jr. Although the intangibles law has [ a saving clause which holds balance of the acts valid after any one section has .been declared void, the i court pointed out that the legislature would not have passed the taw without the clause exempting intangibles from the general property 1 tax. Judge Bingham also pointed out that the state supreme court has j ilield that credits were property I und'er the state constitution and as j such were taxable under the gener- ! al tax laws. Tiie suit was brought by a group i of South Beud attorneys as a test I (CONTINUED ON PAGE SIX)

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FAMILIES OF KIDNAPED MEN RECEIVE NOTES Relatives of Two Kidnaped Men Receive Word From Kidnapers INTERMEDIARIES ARE REJECTED Albany, N. Y., July 14. — (U.R) — The family of the kidnaped John J. O'Connell. Jr., today announced receipt of another communication from the kidnapers, asking for another new list of intermediaries. Rejection of the second list of prospective contact men was made known to the O'Connels in a letter, the fourth from the kidnapers since the youth was abducted a week ago. The abductors asked I that the O’Connels insert an advertisement in either the New York World Telegram New York Sun. or the New York Journal this afternoon, naming new prospective emissaries. • The letter, received by Daniel O'Connell this morning, was signed by young John himself. It was substantially the same as the letter received on Tuesday, rejecting the first list of intermediaries. In the letter, the parents were assured again that the kidnaped young man was “all right." The new list of intermediaries was drafted immediately by Daniel O'Connell and young John's father, and sent to New York City. Not Satisfied Alton, 111.. July 14.— (U.R) —.Re(OONTIN't’BD ON PAGE FOUP) TYPHUS FEVER RAGES IN CHILE Fifty Deaths, 326 Cases Reported In Santiago, Chile Santiago, Chile, July 14. —(U.R) — Typhus fever raged in the capital today, spreading relentlessly through the poorer quarters and reaching the tenement districts from the shanty villages where unemployed men and women had huddled during a two-week cold wave. Fifty deaths and 326 cases were , reported. The city was in panic and the government proclaimed a state ot siege. Police were authorized to barricade entire sections of the city and to forbid ctowds. Posters were displayed urging the people for 4heir protection to denounce typhus suspects. Police stations were used as > emergency hospitals and 17 squads of Sanitary experts moved through the city disinfecting street cars, busses, trains, and private homes. The disease manifested itself, its nature at first unsuspected, among the many unemployed crowded in dirty unlighted shanties to escape the cold. Twenty deaths occurred before the seriousness of the outbreak was realized. Health authorities told the United Press they were determined to stamp out the plague before it got out of hand. Typhus fever has been observed all over the world but mostly in temperate or cold climates. It was prevailent in Europe up to the 18th century, and in England prisoners often communicated the dis- ' ease to their judges, jurors and court attaches. In some English ' courts aromatic herbs still are placed on the judge’s bench in survival of a custom that was started as a preventive against the dis.‘CONTTNUETD ON PAGE TWO) o — Government Units Saved Large Sum Indianapolis, July 14. — (U.R) —Indiana governmental units were saved $253,843.36 by the state board of accounts during the nine months period ending July 1. according to the report today of William P. Cosgrove, chief examiner. The board recovered that amount in instances where officials were short in their accounts, Cosgrove said. Operation ot the board cost $237,.382.31, leaving a favorable balance of $16,461.05, he pointed out.

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Local Officials Attend Meeting Mayor George Krick, city councilmen O. L. Vance and Herman Gillig, M. J. Mylott, superlnt-ndent of the city light department and Charles Brodbeck, water department, attended the meeting of Indiana municipal utilities at Richmond j Thusrday. Sherman Minton, counselor to the Indiana public service commission, was the principal speaker. 0 DEATH CLAIMS MRS. HAMMELL Well Known Decatur Lady Died At Midnight; Funeral Services Sunday Mrs. Sarah Hammell, age 77. life long resident of Adams county and well known woman of this city, died at her home at the edge of South Winchester street, at 12:15 o'clock this morning of infirmities. Mrs. Hammell had been in failing health for several months. She suffered a breakdown last ' spring, recovering sufficiently to be up and around in the house. I.ast Sunday she took ill with chills and fever and on Monday her condition was pronounced 1 critical. She rallied Wednesday morning for a short time, the sleep of death setting in a few hours later. The end came shortly past midnight. Her children, a : brother, other relatives and friends were at her bedside. Mrs. Hammell was born in Blue Creek township. June 1, 1856. She was the daughter of Isaac and Elizabeth Baker and following her marriage to Cyrus R. Hammell in 1874, moved to Decatur. Mr. Hammell. a veteran of the Civil war, was engaged in the saw mil! , and Lumber business in this city, j They built the present Hammell j home, at which place Mrs. Hammell resided more than 50 years. Mr. Hammell died 15 years ago. Eleven children were born to ’ Mrs. Hammell. two of whom are dead. Those surviving are, Mrs. C. B. Smith. Detroit; Mrs. H. L. Koontz. South Whitley; Mrs. Don ■ Lutes. Mrs. A. R. Holthouse, Miss [ Fan Hammell, Will Hammell of this city; Harry, Cal and Charles I Hammell. Los Angeles. One , brother, Tillman Baker of Climax, Mich., a sister, Mrs. Belle Knoff, I Kalamazoo, Mich., and seven I grandchildren also survive. Early in life Mrs. Hammell be- , came affiliated with the First Presbyterian church of this city. She was a lovable, Christian woman, always displaying a great interest in her home and zealous for the welfare and happiness of her loved ones, performing deeds which only a mother’s hand can execute. ' The body was taken to the (CONTINUED ON PAGE FIVE) Union Chapel Holds Annual Picnic Sunday The Union Chapel Sunday School 1 picnic will be held in the Frank ' Krick grove, one mile south of the church. Sunday. All services will be ‘ Ireld at the picnic grounds .md Sunday School will open at 9:30 o'clock. ' All Sunday School members and ■ j friends of the church are invited i to attend. GENEVA YOUTH IS SENTENCED l Bud Pease Given 1-10-Year Term on Charge Os Vehicle Taking 1 .Bud Pease, 20, Geneva, was sen- \ tenced to serve one to 10 years in the Indiana reformatory at PeuSleton this morning by Judge Huber M. DeVoss in the Adams circuit court on a charge of vehicle taking. i Pease entered a plea of guilty to the theft of stealing an automobile • owned by Paul Nelson, Genevja, ’ Sunday. July 2. He later abandoned I [the car on the Frank Tretnp farm. ' southwest of Berne. 1 The arrest was mad-e by Ed Rose ■ of Bluffton, state motorcycle policeman. last Friday, when Pease reL turned from a trip to Michigan. > Pease said that aft' j r a.bandoniiig t the auto, he walked to Berne, then returned home, later going to - Michigan. Pease also stated that ! he was intoxicated at the time lie stole the car.

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PUSHFORWARU RECUVERY PLAN UN WIDE FRONT Administration Puts Heavy Pressure On Steel Industry MILK INDUSTRY UNDER LICENSE The Roosevelt recovery program was pushed forward on many fronts today. The administration put heavy pressure on the steel industry to submit its code of wages and hours, following presentation of codes for the oil, coal, construction and suit and cloak industries. Wall street influence was reported in some quarters to be holding back the steel code. The public works administration allocated $115,513,610 for federal and municipal construction work. This makes $753,513,610 assigned so far from the $3,300,000,000 <B> fund through which it is hoped to create 1.000,000 jobs by fall. Secretary of Agriculture Wallace proceeded with arrangements to put the milk industry under license in order to enforce fair price agreements. He is exercising for the first time the dtastic provision of the recovery act which gives the government power to drive recalcitrant concerns out of business. Wallace conferred with textile manufacturers regarding the cotton processing tax. indicating the cotton acreage curtailment program will be put into effect. Copyright, 1933, by UP.) Washington, July 14. —(U.R)- The ' administration’s order putting the ■ milk industry on a license basis was taken as a general warning today that the administration is ready to use strong measures against businesses tljat balk at the ' terms of the national recovery pro- ' gram. The recovery administration hoped the avalanche of industrial codes showered down in the last 24 hours ; would speed up a number of lagging industries, particularly the ’ great basic steel industry. Continued delay in presentation ’ of the steel code brought suggestions from some aides of General Hugh S. Johnson, N. 1. R. A. administrator, that banking influence in New York may be responsible. Belief is growing in some government quarters that big business in some instances is concerned over the long-range implications of the government’s industrial experiment and is hesitant to commit itself without long deliberation. Submission of oil, coal, construction gnd wearing apparel codes within the last 24 hours was expected by N. I. R. A. officials to have an encouraging effect in bringing other industries forward. But it was pointed out that in the coal code neither the Rockefeller nor the Mellon interests were represented. Less than one-fifth of , the industry is covered. o Today’s Scores NATIONAL LEAGUE Boston 100 011 000 I—4 11 0 Pittsburgh 000 020 100 o—3 9 3 Frankhouse and Hogan; French and Hogan. | Philadelphia 210 100 101—6 10 0 I Cincinnati 000 000 000—6 5 4 Rhem and Davis; Rixey and Hemsley. • Brooklyn 001 120 01 Chicago 000 000 30 Mungo and Lopez; Tinning and Hartnett. New York 202 0 St. Louis 011 3 Fitzsimmon and Mancuson: Dean and O’Farrell. AMERICAN LEAGUE > St. Louis 030 020 001— 6 8 0 ■ New York 300 008 OOx—ll 12 2 Blaeholder and Shea; Van Atta I and Dickey. Detroit 103 102 100—8 13 0 Boston 120 000 000—3 71 Bridges and Hayworth: Pipgras and Ferrell. Cleveland 001 001 000— 8 6 0 Philadelphia 000 000 300—9 9 0 Ferrell and Pytlak; Oliver and Cochrane. ' Chicago 000 102 010—4 10 0 Washington 000 000 000—0 3 0 Miller and Berry;, Crowder and I Sewell.