Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 31, Number 166, Decatur, Adams County, 15 July 1933 — Page 1

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■JAN FLEET ■JfXPECTEDIN IMCACO TODAY ■ . of 21 Seaplanes IM l > s (Ml For Last ot I light L es are ear HLIH LE Ji' I' -■ ' ‘‘ft un I^P ,llt ‘ * ! ’ 100 ' ■ lr 1 to2 IM ti:- ’■‘ kin K !llr air . fur behind ' arrival of - lake ’ - .. . .i-ioned when ~2 Hille-long path to speed, »iet at General Ild to .. , -x.id'>r boarded p . .. squadron |a«t its flight, lersbu over Lake Erie port.-.l - before the and a- result the fliers’ bs uncertain. iv 'led at niiti'.i’e that 'he squadron Foron' i'"ri Huron. pt<•■■■>■d to Chicago by ■ b:- plans hail K t ■ skit ' Lakes t mtario and . !'. itTalo al Baibo’s lead plane, flank- ;. ■ i , n first. waiting tor I planes to rise. .• ■■11:28 ant. the seventh. 1 gracetwo minutes trio. of the planes left the kigSd 12 minutes after Ba'bo started. illliS ORDERS fOR WARDENS (hiw Wardens Ordered J bi Enforcing Laws listthapolis Julv 15 — (U.R) -r- - “common ■H in eut. ieHic lows requlr- ■ -lung on Lake Kenneth M. Kunkel. B*ot of the state fish and game said today. c-: abou’ enforcement il I and unable to buy Kunkel said “It’s my job th- law but I expect <o judgment. ’ having ruled li'et.s- was needed for' on lake. opinion to Kunkel. Atty. J, pointed out must he used w ,’,-rs bv all persons .r tenants of land which the waters flow, i barged war voterpersons under IS. iri-Tiy Auditor p Belies Greenlee lim -Inly 15—(UP)—Dep- - L*y ’ aui! , ' 1 " Lawrence Sullivan the order of Please executive secretary, to pay lFW’ |l!l county its $30,000 share fiMßS' ls tax receipts. has r fused to turn over ■(' k until the state is paid y ' 1"' taxes coll-ct- ‘ "wlte county. —o- ■ Prove Fatal To ■ort Wayne Women led., July 15—(up) are dead here today ■“ of accidental falls. ( .3 Myrtlp Lunch, 60, died of LmS (1 sliull suffered when she EOh l d<,Wn a rlight of B ‘a‘rß morning, a broken hip suffered when she fell from » Mt* a BtOry P° rc h proved fatal ■ A Knes Q. Meyer#, B 5

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| John D., Jr. at Work New, posed camera study of John I). Rockefeller. Jr., taken at his offices in Radio City, New York, the development of which he is personally directing. TO RESURFACE CITY STREETS Several Macadam Streets Will Be Resurfaced, Starting Next Week Thi? work of resurfacting a number of the macadam streets in the ‘ city will begin, next week, H. F. Linn, chairman ot the street committee of the city council announc ed today. The streets have been treated with a. prjm coat of oil. The precosts stone material will be placed on top of the oil binder. Mr. Linn stated. Among the streets to be improved are Elm. North S-venth. Indiana. Short, Park. Lire and West Rug street, from Third, to Winchester J street. Mr. L,inn stated that the council would like to improve every macadam road in the city if sufficient money was .available. The city will sp nd about $2,000. Mr. Li n stated and if it will carry on the nrograftn other streets will be improved. The streets were oiled thia we>!< preparatory to resurfacing them with the precoat. Meshb rger Bros., of Linn Grove have the general contract for furbishing the material. o Pat J. Maloney Is Named Treasurer Washington. July 15. —(U.R)—P. J Maloney, Columbia City, Ind.-, today was appointed treasurer of the $2,000,000,000 Home Owners Loan Corporation, succeeding Janies G. Strong, Kansas, who will become assistant treasurer. Maloney is a telephone company (executive and was born in Columbia City. The only previous pub[lie office held by him was in 1917, .when he served as deputy treasur(erof Whitley county, Indiana. Maloney is a Democrat. o STATE PROGRAM MAY OPEN SOON Indiana Public Works Program May Be Started Next Week — Indianapolis. July 15-r (U.R) —i . Indiana's public works program, | estimated to cost nearly $50,000.000, may be started next week with opening of an office here to ' consider federal loan applications from cities and government units. Applications, estimated by Gov. Paul V. McNutt to run from $15,000,000 to $20,000,000, already have been filed. But they must lie dormant until a federal loan office is opened. Only federal officials may act on them. In addition to the applications already sent to McNutt, others are being drafted by government units slower, in formulation in their definite requests Reports that the office might be opened next week came to the statehouse today in a telephone conversation between federal and (CONTINUED* ON*PAGE TWO)

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FLYING TEAMS BEGIN FLIGHTS ACROSS OCEAN Wiley Post Off For Berlin; Two Others Head For Lithuania POST HAS ROBOT AS COMPANION Floyd Bennett Field, N, Y„ July' 15. — (U.R) Two flying teams hopped off on transatlantic flights today. one heading for Berlin on the first leg of a round-the-world race, 1 the other steering a course to Kaunas, Lithuania. • Wiley Post, with a robot pilot as his companion, set out in the famous plane Winnie Mae in an attempt to lower the record of eight days, 15 hours. 51 minutes, for an r around the world flight he set with | 1 Harold Gatty two years ago. His first planned stop was Berlin, 1 then on the Novosibirsk, Russia; Khabarovsk. Russia; Fairbanks, Alaska; Edmonton, Alberta, and New York. Post 1 hoped to complete the flight in six days. The Lithuanian team. Captain . Stephen Darius and Stanley T. Girenas, began their flight without I official permission and faced the possibility of losing their licenses as a result. Their takeoff at 6:24 j a. m. (EDT) was a complete surprise. as they indicated they were merely preparing for a test flight under full load. Darius and Girenas flew a Bel- ■ lanca monoplane, christened the > Lithuanic. It carried no radio or parachutes as it headed over the ( North Atlantic for a goal 4,900 miles distant. Post took off at 5:10 a. m. dis appearing into the early morning haze. Tile Lituanians were off one I .’CONTINUE 1 !) ON PAGE TWOI , O WALLACE MAY BE CHIEF SPEAKER 1 Secretary of Agriculture May Be Speaker At Huntington Dairy Day Huntington. July 15. — (Special) Henry A. Wallace, secretary of agriculture of the United States government or some man equally as well known will be the principal speaker at Dairy Day here Thursday. August 24. according to an announcement by W ■ A. Klepper. of Decatur, general manager of the Cloverleaf Creameries. Inc., properties in this city and Decatur. Dairy Dayman all-day affair, will be sponsored jointly by the Clover- ' leaf organization) and merchants of 1 Huntington. The last Dairy Day was held at Decatur and attracted ’ a crowd of approximately 20.000 persons to that city, Mr. Klepper said. Governor Paul V. McNutt will be one of the speakers for Dairy Day and outstanding officials of the Kraft-Phenix Company, of which the Cloverleaf organization is a subsidiary, will come here for the event. At least a score of distinguished guests will be entertained here during the day. Several Bands To Come Secretary Wallace will be the principal speaker if business affairs at Washington will permit him to be away from the capital and make the trip here. If he is unable to I (come some one ot like importance will come as the speaker, Mr. Klepper said. Addresses on the afternoon program probably will be broadcast, Mr. Klepper indicated. Several bands are expected to come here for the event. Two already have agreed to attend, this , including the Decatur band and the *7cONTINURr) ON PAGE TWO) — o— — __. • < Important Meeting Scheduled Monday An important meeting of the 1 Knights of Columbus will be held ; Monday evei ing at eight o’clock at . the K. of C. Hall. IA report will be made by the K. of €. Building Association, on i the building and an itemized state- 1 merit of all the remodeling done in the building following the damage 1 by fire last March will be made. I Other important matters will be dis- ; cussed and all members are urged to attend, C. J. Carroll, grand 1 knight of the local council stated.

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Decatur, Indiana, Saturday, July 15. 1933.

Local Drum Corps To Enter Contest | The drum corps of Adams post nuinlter 43 of th.- American Legion will compete In the drum corps con test at the joint district legion meeting at Shrlner Lalke tomorrow. The program will open will) a concert by the Fort Wayne legion band at 1:30 p. m. Members of the local corps are asked to meet at the Decatur Country Chid) at 10:30 a. m. They will leave for Shrlner at 11:30. Anyone wishing to attend the con- , ver.tlon who does not have transportation is asked to b> at the 1 country club tomorrow morning and transportation will be furnished. > MANY SENDING IN PAYMENTS Postoffice Busy Making Out Money Orders For Income Tax Payments The Decatur Pbstoffice was a busy place yesterday and today, employes making out mon-y orders for applicants who wished to pay their gross income tax. The money orders varied from a , few cents up to many dollars. Ed Macy, clerk in the postoffio? stated that the smallest amount for which he made out an order was seven ■ cents. The amounts ranged from that to sev ral dollars. Checks are also accepted by the Gross Iricome Tax division in pay- i ment of the tax. but as these are charged to the individual's account at the bank no idea as to the smallest amount could be obtained. One man stated at the pcstoffice that his tax was 18 cents and that it cost him 19 cents to mskie out and mail the return. The notary fee was 10 cents, the postal money order was 6 cents and the postage three cents. Today is the last dty for mailing the returns for the May and June tax periods. Many called at the office of the Local license bureau where 3 representativ? of the state tax department assisted taxpayers in making out retun: s. The local office will remain op?n this evening J. L. Ehler, manager, st-ted. Copies of the blanks may be obtained at the license bureau. Any person or firm who has had an income of more th in $166.67 for the two months is required to make a return. The department has ruled that in cases where the total tax is less than $lO a year, that one return may be made at the end of th? year. Shepherd Dog Saves 15 Cows From Fire LaGrange, Ind., July 15—(U.R)— A German shepherd dog today was credited with having rescued 15 milch cows from a burning barn. The cows were valued at SI,OOO. The dog belonged to Verne Fields, a tenant on a farm near here. It was sent in to drive out the cattle after neighbors had tried unsuccessfully to lead the cows from the burning structure. USED ALCOHOL FOB BADIATOBS Accused Agent Says Others Used Alky As Anti-Freeze Hammond. Ind., July 15. —(U.R) — The defense of Walter Jones, former prohibition agent charged with taking alcohol from the Hammond district prohibition office will contend that federal court attaches used the liquid in radiators ot their automobiles, it was indicated today. Joseph H. Conroy, attorney for Jones, said the defense would prove that members of the district attorney’s office, the marshall's staff and jurors used the missing . alcohol for anti-freeze last winter. “Some of the alcohol was us d 1 in the automobiles of the men who I are now investigating Jones," Con I roy said. ; Jones, arrested with three other men and charged with taking alco- I hoi and office equipment, was re- 1 leased yesterday under $2,000 bond. < He W’as one of eight prohibition I agents in Indiana discharged Julv : 1. I;

C. E. STRIKER EXPLAINS LAW County School Superintendent Explains Transportation Plan C. E. Striker, county superint-nd ; I ent of schools, returning Jrom Chicago today where he Is taking post g. .duate work at Chicago ('. ivershy, explained the provisions of the new law which governs the transIMirtating of parochial school pupils to school. In tills county, Mr. Striker stated [ several of the school bus drivers, carried parochlil school pupils, although the law did not povide that they should. Th? Lew law provides that pane chial selux)l pupils living on or n ar regular township school hick routes should be picked up and taken as near to their respective schools as the regular rout s will permit. The township is not to make any ch-.mge for hauling these I extra pupils. Townshiirs affected are Union, Root and Prelde townships, Mr. Striker stated. They are the ones where parochial schools .ire located. In Washington township no regular school bus comes to Decatur from the south. The grade ' pupils an? taken to Monroe. This route does not permit pupils who attend the St. Joseph's Catholic . school in this city to ride the school buses. The Rupright school in district four. Preble township, will be abandoned this year. Mr. Striker stated. This will necessitate the extending ot the bus route in that district, the school official stated. The school bus carries only grade pupils. High school students attending school in Decatur or at places where they liave high schools, must provide their own transportation. o THREE LOST ON BURNINGSHIP Captain And Two Seamen Lose Lives When Vessel Is Destroyed New York, July 18—(U.PJ—Captain F. L. Sears, master of the tanker Cities Service Petrol, shouted to rescuers from the bow of his blazing ship off the North Carolina coast, that he would go down with the ship. A few minutes later the Petrol plunged stern first to the ocean bottom. Two members of the crew accompanied Captain Sears to a seaman’s death. Thirty-four others were rescued by the tanker, Gulfgem. This heroism of the sea was described tersely in the messages the master of the Gulfgem handed his wireless operator while he directed the movement of life boats across a rough sea lighted by the Petrol's flaming bulk last night. When, finally, at 11:30 p. m„ the Petrol, blazing from foremast to poop, plunged to the bottom, the Gulfgem saluted her master with a series of blasts from her horn and proceeded toward Charleston. S. C„ where she will land the survivors tonight or tomorrow. One of the men who died with Captain Sears was George Binninger. The other's name was not known. The series of messages from the Gulfgem was picked up by Radiomarine’s Tuckerton. N. J., station. The Gulfgem, bound from Port Arthur, Texas, to New York with a cargo of crude oil, came upon the Petrol, her middle quarters ablaze, approximately 160 miles due east of Wilmington. Del. The tanker TriMountain arrived at * 'continued on pagf*twoT* Authorize Change At Railroad Here Indianapolis, July 15. — (U.R) — Authority to change its station at Millers, Lake county, to a nonagency station was granted the New York Central railroad by the Public Service Commission late yesterday. The commission also authorized the New York, Chicago and St. Louis railroad to change its block operation schedule at Decatur to the following: from 6:30 a. m. to 2:30 p. m. and from 7:30 p. m. to 3:30 a. m.

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ADJOURNMENT I IS FAVORED BY . UNITED STATES This Country Favors Indefinite Adjournment Os Conference t . PREVENT PRESSURE FOR STABILIZATION s Loudon. July 15 —(U.R) — The 1 United States favors indefinite | , adjournment of the world eco- ■ nomic conference, it was said t authoritatively today. Delegates wore said to feel that - to fix a specific date for rer assembling after the “recess" to c be taken July 27 would be putting - Indirect pressure on the United States to stabilize its currency by I whatever date might be named, j This, it was said, would inter- ? sere with the government's determination on a domestic recovery , program. It had been said previously that < the United States favored adjourn- . ment to a definite date. At that > time it was said also the delegation had asked President Roose- ; velt for rush instructions whether , he intended to institute a "comj modify dollar” with a sliding gold . content or go l>ack on the gold ; standard. Unless he committed himself, it was said then, there t was danger that the conference might adjourn for good. ' Today it was understood the 1 president had been noncommittal in his answer. The change in the American delegation’s policy was coincident. Four Powers Agree To Outlaw War i " i Rome, July 15. —(U.R) —Represent- ( atives of Europe's four great powers signed today a treaty binding their governments—ltaly, Great Britain. France and Germany —to I keep the peace for ten years. | The treaty was signed at noon ’ at the Palazzo Venezia by Premier Benito Mussolini. Italy; Sir Ronald Graham. British ambassador: Henri De Jouvenel, French ambassador, • and Ulrich von Hassel, German ambassador. Mussolini conceived the idea of the pact. Alleged Slayers Denied Freedom r i Terre Haute, Ind., July 15.—(U.R) > —- Emil Reedy, Louis Wells and - James Vanderpool, charged with I the farm mortgage slaying of An- . drew and Oral RRedy, were denied - petitions for bail by Judge John - Gerdink in Vigo circuit court late i yesterday. , The three, with Frank Vanderpool, were brought here on a i change of venue. Otis Turner, ali ready serving a life term at MichlI gan City in connection with the ■ case, testified at yesterday's hear- ! ing. I Judge Gerdink said he would set : an early date for the trial in the ’ . September term of court. Ten • others have been charged with the i death of the two Reedys, Hymera - farmers. I • —e GRAND JURY TO PROBE RACKET Slot Machine Racket In Allen County Appears Probable Font Wayne. Ind., Jufy 15.—(U.R) —Possibility of a graifd jury in- ( vestigation into “the slot machine ( racket in Allen county loomed today after two alleged slot machine hijackers agreed to appear before that body. The prisoners were ordered held under SI,OOO bond each. They are , Norman Manier and Robert McCune. Jack Curley, another alleged hijacker, was ordered held with , them. No definite action yet has j been decided upon, however, according to Attorney , Otto W. Koenig. , Scope of the gaming device racket in Allen county was revealed i yesterday during the trial in circuit court of Manier and McCune ( on charges of assault and battery ,| in connection with the theft of a j slot machine, during which Mrs. | , I Maud Hiser and another woman (CONTINUED ON PA«E TWO)

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Will’s Gal in Films I r Wk r - ' J ... * " y " Fresh from an exclusive finishing school in New York, pretty, 18-year-old Mary Rogers has invaded Los Angeles’ film colony to follow in the footsteps of her famous dad. Will Rogers, picture star and humorist. She secured a film role under the name of Mary Howard without revealing her true identity. ADOLF HITLER ~ ASSUMES POWER German Chancellor Takes Power To Cancel All Citizenships Berlin. July 15 (U.PJ —Chancellor Adolf Hitler, pursuing a ruthless campaign for a “Nazified” I and loyal Germany, armed himself today with power to cancel citizenships and confiscate the property of critical or hostile citizens, indudi .g Germans resident abroad. Coincidently the government promulgated a law which, in effecting the constitution of the newly Nazified Evangelic a 1 churches, defines the rights and duties of the former church union into the new “German Evangelical Church.” All the churches united in the new consolidation are ordered to hold direct elections for necessary church bodies on July 23, and indirect elections before August 23, under supervision of a representative of the government’s minister of interior. The new laws are directed chiefly against Jews in general and political fugitives abroad. The government authorizes itself to countermand all citizenships acquired between September 11, 1918 and January 30. 1933. This would affect chiefly Jewish immigrants from the east. Special decrees were promised later ( (CONTINUED ON PAGE THREE) , 0 Today’s Scores NATIONAL LEAGUE Brooklyn Pittsburgh Postponed Rain New York Cincinnati Delayed Rain Boston 000 000 Chicago 000 100 Betts and Hogan: Root and Hart nett. Philadelphia 00 St. Louis _ 00 Holley and Davis; Haines and Wilson. AMERICAN LEAGUE First Game St. Louis 000 000 000—0 9 0 Washington 100 000 OOx—l 5 0 Wells and Shea; Stewart and Sewell. Second Game St. Louis 00 Washington 00 Stiles and Ruel; Burke and Berg. Chicago 000 200 00 New York 002 042 12 Gaston and Berry; Ruffing and Dickey. Cleveland 110 000 000—2 6 2 Boston 311 010 10x—7 10 1 Harder and Spencer; Rhodes and Ferrell. Detroit 000 010 000 0 Philadelphia 010 000 000 0 Rowe and Hayworth; Grove and I Cochrane.

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ROBERTLAMBNT PRESENTS CODE F 0 B INDUSTRY Fair Competition C ode For Steel Industry Is Presented Today TERMS OF CODE NOT AVAILABLE • Washington, July 15—(U.R) — A code of fair competition for the iron and steel industries, proposing the 40-hour week, elimination of child labor and minimum pay of 25 to 40 cents an hour, was submitted today to the national industrial recovery administration. The code, presented by Robert P. Lamont, president of the Iron and Steel institute proposed a 15 per cent wage increase for all employes who on July 14 w?r receiving more than minimum wage rates. Washington. July 15 A code of fair competition for the great steel industry, hub of America's industrial life, was presented today to the national industrial recovery administration. The code, whose terms were not immediately available, was presented in person bv Robert P. Lamont, president of the Iron and Steel Institute and president of the 1 ■ S. Steel Corporation. The steel code was presented after days of delay and its formal appearance at the Nira was reI garded as giving a great impetus to the industrial recovery progran). Cooperation of the steel industry was looked upon as the backing of "big business" in President Roosevelt’s recovery : drive. Lamont, secretary of commerce in the Hoover administration, lost his way in the long corridors of the department which he once administered. Carrying a bulky brief ease, he finally was rescued and directed to the office of Administrator Hugh S. Johnson, where he presented the code. i Completion of the steel code adds another basic industry to those which have come under the national recovery program. The bituminous coal industry, after weeks of controversy, appeared ready for hearings at which a code tor the industry could he written. The oil, lumber, ship builders, electrical manut’actitrers and two divisions of the apparel industry already have had their codes set for hearings. The steel industry presented a problem concerning not only prices, fair practices, minimum wages and maximum hours, but CONTINUED on PAGE TWO) New Haven Bank Given “A” Rating i Fort Wayne. July 15— (U.R) — A class A rating has been granted the Peoples State Bank of New Haven by the state banking department. The bank had operated on a restricted basis since the national banking holiday. STATE LEADER BABLY INJURED Mrs. E. May Hahn, State War Mother President. Hurt In Crash Kansas Cit, Mo.. July 15 —(UP) Five tneniliors of the American w .r mothers, including the presidents of the Indiana and Colorado organizations, were in hospital or under Doctor’s care today, suffering from i injuries received when their motor car crashed into a tree. Mrs. E. May Hahn, of Indianapolis. president of the Indiana state organization, was $u a critical condition. Her left leg .and left ankle wei ’ broken an phsicians believed she was injured Internally. Mrs. George Pur ell, 59. Pueblo, President of the Colorado organization, was cut on the arms and legs Th>- othes who were injured were Mrs. C. J. Latham, presid nt of the Kansas' City chapter, and Mrs. A. 15. Sweiriugen and Mrs. V. V. AusI tin also of the Memorial home association.