Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 31, Number 169, Decatur, Adams County, 19 July 1933 — Page 1

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Jyorkcity Jeets balbo Ml) HIS FLEET K Seaplanes (liven Lndous Welcome ■Upon Arrival ■ CHICAGO I inn ■ YorkTjulv 1'» ,UJO■l [t il.. Hallx's inagni-■L-v of th< nr thundtiUhc Kui reached York ■ 3 .'W |>. in. todav. ■ the first ,qii(dron lout of the haze and K f w of New Yorks Ki! millions. it was ■ bv the roar <'t steam■istles. factory sirens and Kle horns, echoing and E along the red Jersey K the deafening din of its Bines. L July 19—<U.R> —General Eo pointed his silvery K into clear eastern skies Eding hi* liarin * s alr K on the first leg of the Kit back to Italy. Balbo’s E Off at 6:32 a m. (CST.) Kst plane of the first K ww in the air 23 minE Balbo had taken off. Kr ships idled at anchor. ■ the first squadro.i lined ■nd him. Balbo. who had Ktslj circling the city. Kit to the southeast. In a he was lost to onKm the sunlight which ■ the horizon. K Balbo said the fliers Knaln In New York probKeek. It was expected th■and his men would eo tr( Rian to visit President ■ ■the Atlantic hop. Balbo ■ to follow a more southerKe than on the westward ■ when he came by wiy ■ Iceland. New Foundlend latreal. On the return the ■a will fly directly from Bndland to Ireland. En ■nntop on page six) ■ Local School ITaxes Are Foreseen ■spoils, Ind.. July 19—(WP) Bed local school taxes were ■ today in the state board ■lion’s action which will en■rly every school taxing unit ■ate to receive state school ■rly a school unit's tax rate ■be |1 before it tould re■ate aid. But the board yes■ediced the eligibility rate ■' •chool unit with a rate of ■ now will receive state aid fr* B school minimum opera■uirements. redrawn from ■retnents, set by the board ■ Mtures hPJHARPLY P Down Nine To 12 P In Closing Minres of Trading F July 19 (U.R)— Wheat I dropped terrifically in Iminutes today on the ChiL lr of trade. At the close seref ere down nine and sevenl f «nts to twelve cents, lounge . was one of tUe I on the board of r d , cSm( ' after directors U , restrictions on fluctuaP bartey which had been I sensational gains. I, eat dropped to $1.05 a I r °m a previous close of September plunged to I ™ abo «‘ H cents. Depose at off more bi >-> S May closed at F « cents. C*'" 8 Participated in the B i B 10 .u, Whicl1 came after Id th" ' C '' en thusiastic ho "*. priees U P day after Rout recession. Cents t 0 4 % cent?' °i atß Was <iown II a n J nd rye plun S ed beM" d 12 Cents ’ Barley Motion? fiV6 C6nt 1088 by

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.Moose Members At Muncie Meeting Twenty-nine members of the Decatur Moose lodge attended a lodge meeting at Muncie Tuesday •i night Initiatory work was given ; and plans were started for the state ’ conclave. Dr. Kauffman of Muncie, president xrf the state conclave, , spoke briefly. A banquet was served I following the initiation. CITY WILL NOT RECEIVE FUNDS _______________ Decatur’s Narrow Streets Prevent Obtaining of Federal Aid The fact that our streets t re comparatively narrow and shaded by beautiful trees, will prevent De atur from participating in the aid to be given the Federal government for j road building progrum in Indiana. Os the $10,000,00(1 to be spent by the state highway commission under supervision of the national commission. 47 per cent will be used to Improve states over which U. S. Roads pass. Under this it was hoped that Monroe and Winchester streets could be improved, but according to information from the state department this cannot be done because the federal engineers will i.ot approve any recommendations except where the right-of-way is 3614 feet wide. The report for Decatur recites. that this cannot be provided without great tree and property <1 image, which the commission will not order. Improvements here hr.w-'ver will include the placing of a guard fence , at the north bridge, rebuilding of railroad crossings and a couple of •Rocks of. rebuilt road on south Winchester street. f- TherrnnnrisstoTT favors the conI strut tion of a new road from here to Willshire over 527 and announcement of receiving bids for that imI provement may be mad? shortly. A survey which abolishes the curves and shortens the route, has been approved. CITY MAY DRILL TWO MORE WELLS City Council Investigating Sites For Drilling More W ells booking to a future and ample water supply for the city, the council is investigating sites and the need for drilling two more wells. A few of the old wells or the water works grounds have run dry and the good ones are being pumped to capacity. Before the supply is curtailed the council wish-ea to have reserve wells. Since the south part of the city is on a higher elevation than the I north part, where all wells are now | located, the new wells may be, located in the section of the Erie railroad tracks. The council has under consideration sites east of Legion Memorial Park and at the southern limits to Decatur. Due to the higher elevation in the south part he mains could be fed by gravity, requiring less pumping and pressure on the lines. At the meeting of the council Tuesday evening the water works committee was authorized to con fer with the administrators of the Colchin estate, owners of a tract of ground east of Legion Memorial park and with others relative to purchasing or Dasing of ground. . The site in the extreme south part of the city belongs to the county j and this tract could puobably 'be I - leased on a long term lease. The water supply today is ample to care for all needs, but with constant pumping the wells are giving less production and before they run dry the council deems it wise to drill new ones, assuring a steady and ample supply for the future. © Endeavor Society To Present Play The young people of the Christian Endeavor Society of the St. Paul Christian U' lon Church will present a two act play entitled. ; "The New Minister Arrives," at the ■church Sunday night, July 23 at i 7:130 o’clock. The Men's Chorus will also sing at the program and the I public is cordially Invited to attend.

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Photo of Chicago Flyers* Crash i Ku -yxSBBwBK jWHK.’«.. - ’IW— " I WIJI'W :V .«■■■»»WWWF This photograph, transmitted by radio from Berlin to New York, shows the tangled wreckage of the plane in which Cap'. Stephen Darius and Lieut. Stanlay Gfrenas of Chicago crashed to death near Soldin. Germany, on their attempted nonstop flight from Nev. York to Kaunas, capital of Lithuania. The daring airmen had gone 4,009 miles when disaster came.

STUDY RECORD OF LICENSES — State Investigator Reports Many Without Driver’s License — P. J. Donahue, of Fort Wayne, | investigator for the state bureau of motor vehicles, was in Dei aI tur today, reviewing records of ■* the local anto license bureau. — ) “We are making a check i throughout the state relative to I the issuance of driver's lice >ses,” Donahue said. “It is apparent that in Decatur, as throughout the state, the number of driver s licenses issued is far below’ the actual number of drivers. Our records here reveal something over 3.000 passenger license plates issued, with but 3.500 driver's licenses so far taken out. The ’ number of driver's licenses should be from one and a half to two times the number of passenger plates issued. State officers are checking throughout the state andarresting those who do not have driver’s licenses.’’ Mr. Donahue emphasized that anyone who drives an automobile, regardless if he were the owner, had to have a driver's license. — O Decatur Firemen To Meet Thursday A special meeting of the Decttur; Firemen will be held at the fire department on Seventh street I Thursday night at 7 o'clock. It is I important that every fireman be' 1 present at the meeting. PROMINENT MEN AT DAIRY MEET Governor and Others Will Attend Dairy Day At Huntington W. A. Klepper of the Cloverleaf Creameries. Inc., spent severalhours In Indianapolis Tuesday, in- ' viting state officials and other prominent men and women to atI tend the Dairy Day to be held it Huntington, Thursday, August 24. Governor McNutt accepted the in- ' vitation and will be en the program as will Lieut-Gover or Townsend. .James Adams, state highway director and several other state officials. Unless something unforeseen ■ arises Secretary of Agriculture Henry Wallace will be at the big j meeting and notables from over the country will be on the stage whe.n the program opens. Delegations from every county within a fifty-mile radius will go to the show for the Dairy Diys con-1 ducted in Decatur in the past are evidence that these are real days, that no are interested in the business cm afford to pass up. Adams county will try to have the largest outside representation and Huntington has promised to respond when Decatur holds Dairy Day next year.

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Decatur, Indiana, Wednesday. July 19. 1933.

Leo Yager Meets With Commission Leo Yager liquidating agent for I the Old Adams County Bank, co - ' ferred with the state bank commis- | sion yesterday and it is expected ’ that plans will be announced withi: a few days concerning the con- , tv nation of liquidation here. The j state has taken over all the closed I !>anks under the' new law and will I proceed to liquidate or to complete such plans as will permit some of them to reopen. Announcement of appointments and rules j regulating the closed banks will be announced in a few days, according to Director McKinley and Robert Batton, president of the state bav.k commission, with whom Mr. Yager conferred. BANK ROBBERY SUSPECT HELD Robert Hayes, Muncie, Suspected of Daleville Bank Holdup Muncie July 19 —(UP)—Efforts to identify Robert Hayes, 27, Muncie as one of two bandits who took $3,500 from the Commercial bank of Daleville, Monday, tailed today. Hayes, arrested at Elwood early this morning, was ret?ased several hours later when Margaret Good, assistant cashier of the bank, said he was not one of the Ivandlts. Elwood, Ind., July 19—(U.R) — Robert Hayes, 27, Muncie, was arrested here today as a suspect i.i the recent $3,500 robbery of the I Conimerical Bank at Daleville. | He was taken Anderson by Sheriff Bernard Bradley. Miss Margaret Good, assistant cashiet of tfie bank, will be asked to identity the suspect this afternoon. She and three customers were in the bank when it was robbed by two men Monday. Every cent of cash in the bank was taken. Hayes, an employe of the tin plate mills here, failed to appear for work at the usual hour Monday night and officials said he was seen in Alexandria with a arge roll of bills. When he arrived at the mills last night he was arrested. Authorities said Hayes fitted the desccription of one of the baniuts. A Story Os Hollywood A new serial story “PREMIERE” by Robert Terry Shannon Begins Today on Page 2 in the Daily Democrat Exciting romance of hectic Hollywood, the story of a beautiful European actress, whose career reaches a climax when she appears for the premiere of her greatest picture. You’ll like it. Start reading it today and every day thereafter.

J LEADER DEAD 1 i Gilbert M. Haugen, Noted Farm Champion, Died Tuesday Night i i —_ • i Northwood. la.. July 19.—(U.R) — Death has come to Gilbert N. Haug- ■ en, co author of the famed McNary- ’ Haugen bill for farm relief and a ■ member of the lovter house of cont gress for 34 years. ti Defeated in the wave of Ikmo- : cratfc victories last fill, Haugen ' lost interest in life and gradually declined in health. He was 74 years old but as one of the Republican farm bloc leaders in Washington his vitality was immense. The former representative died | last night at the home of his daughter, Mrs. J C. Johnson, from heart disease and complications. His ill ness started last winter after a severe attack of influenza. > L. G. Haugen of New York, vice president of the National City Bank, was at his father's bedside. His son and daughter are the only survivors. i , Before his defeat b.. Fred Bier- . mann. Decorah, last fall. Haugen - was dean of the national house of representatives in point of years , of service. I Prior to his election to the 56th congress he served as county treas1 urer and state representative from his district. He was born April 21, 1859, in Rock county. Wis. He came to Northwood as a l young farmer, but soon launched t ,! (CONTINUED ON PAGE SIX) 0 ROOSEVELT IS STILL CONFINED I Slight Cold Keeps President Roosevelt From Going To Office Washington, July 19. —(U.R)—The slight illness President Roosevelt suffered on his week-end cruise . down the Potomac kept him in his room again today. i Although the President was reported as being much improved. j Dr. MClntyre of the navy depart- ; ment suggested that he stay in tor at least another 24 hours. The President postponed until Friday the luncheon which he was scheduled to give this noon tor Prince Ras Dentu of Ethopia. and son-in-j law of the emperor. At the White House it was said [ that the slight illness of the Presi- : dent was not expected to interfere with luncheon plans tomorrow for 'General Ita'.o Balbo, chief of Italy's air armada. Today's press conference also I was 'put off. • In the quiet of the executive ■; mansion study, Mr. Roosevelt went i over details of the industrial rei covery program and also those reI lating to veterans compensations. I He trimmed his calling list down ! to a minimum and expected to see j only a few persons.

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BAD WEATHER SLOWS FLIGHT OF WILEY POST Around the World Flier Is Only Three Hours Ahead of Record EXPECTS MORE BAD WEATHER Moscow, July 19 — tU.R) — Wiley Post, on > is round the world flight, was forced down half way between Chita and Khabarovsk toar.y at 2:32 Pm. Moscow time Dispatches said the American flier was *nrced to land .it the little town of Rukhlovo. I Irkutsk. Siberia, July 19.—<U.R)~ Wiley Post. American around the world flier, took oft today for Blagoveschensk, continuing his effor to better the world record he and Harold Gatty made two years ago. Post took off at midnight i (EDT). Post was 3 hours and 24 minutes I ahead of his former record. He ! was here 15 hours and 25 minutes due to bad weather. The Oklahoma tiler decided to make Blagoveschensk. 1.020 miles eastward, his next stop instead of I Khabarovsk. 360 miles further on. ! Post had planned to tiy from Khabarovsk, near the eastern coast direct to Fairbanks. Alaska. 3.000 | miles, and then halt only at Edmonton, Canada, on his way to Floyd Bennett airport. Arriving here feeling tine and with his plane in first class condition he. was then 16 hous 34 min- . utes ahead of the former record. He planned to halt here but a i few hours to have his pl?ne over- ■ 'hauled by Russian mechanics who awaited him and sleep for the sec- - ond time since he left New York i’at 5:10 a. m. EDT. Saturday. •i But the weather was execirahJe. I and he decided tc wait for it to get (CONTTN'CED ON PAGE FIVE) o WOMEN ATTEND COUNCIL MEET Two Delegations Make Requests of City Council Tuesday Night i Two delegations of women api peared before the city council last • evening, a: e m iking a request that the Civic section of th? women's i eltfb be permitted to install ovens - and outside furnaces near Gree'ii water bathing beach and the other I asking that the city cooperate in employing a matron for the mew i county comfort station. I Mayor George Krick appointed Councilmen O. L. Vance. George Appleman mad H. M. Gillig to confer with the county commissioners I at the August session relative to employing someone in the rest ' room now being located im the base- . ! ment of the court house. The city will offer to pay part of the expense ', It was stated. The rest room will have an entrance on Madison street d it is ■ the desire of people and organizations interested, to have the place open all day and night. The councilmen will confer with the com1 missioners and work out a plan. The placing of ovens and fur- .' naces near the Greenwater bathing t pool, north of Decatur, was referred to the park committee. Because of a hazard from the north quarry the council expressed the opinion that . I it might be advisable not to place . i the ovens at this place, but to have (CONTINUED ON PAGE SIX) - | o Neuenschwander Girl Dies At Berne Office -Catherine Neuenschwander, six . year old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. , David Neuenschwander of Wabash . township died at 9 o’clock this . morning in the office of a Berne physician, following an operation , for the removal of the child’s tonsils. Th-e girl had been an invalid since birth. (Surviving are the parents and several brothers and sisters. Funeral services will be held . Friday aftem.oon at 2 o'clock at i the home and bYirial will be made ■ in the Neuenschwander cemetery south of Berne.

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* 42 YEARS OLD Indianapolis, July 19 —(U.R) Gov. Paul V. McNutt celtsbated his 42nd birthday today. After spending several hours in his office he was to leave late in the day for Sacramento. Cal., where he will attend the annual conference of governors. He will return in two weeks. SPECIAL BOARD APPROVES PLAN FOR INDUSTRIES .Johnson’s Plan To Raise Wages. Shorten Hours Is Approved AWAIT SANCTION BY PRESIDENT Washington July 19 — (UP) 1 Presidt-nt Roosevelt's sp rial i:> 1 dustrial recovery board today gave its approval to administrator Hugh ■S. Johnson’s plan for a uniform agreement throughout industries to raise wages and shortein- working hours. The agreement still must be approved by President Roosevelt before it is offered to industry as a voluntary arrangement under which industry could ooperate to speed ' the return: of prosperity. Begin Hearings National recovery administrators today began hearings on codes to spread employment and increase wages for thousands in the shipbuilding and electrical manufacturing industries. They continued work on a proposed voluntary agreement for all industries which would extend benefits to "White Collar" empfoy* s irt stores and offices as well as to factory workers. Agriculture department lawyers hoped to complete by night an older putting the entire Chicago milk trade under federal license. The order is expected to bring the first court test of the government’s power to compel obedience- to recovery agreements. The reconstruction finance corporation was reported to be considering financing’ sale of 1,006,000 bales of cotton to Russia in an efzt'ort further to reduce the American surplus. Hopes for quick stabilization of the sugar industry faded when a conference of its representatives broke up without agreement. The problem will be tackled again next (CONTINUED ON PAGE SIX) Quartet To Give Concert Friday The Mission House College male quartet of Sheboygan, Wisconsin, will give a vocal and instrumental music program at Magley Reformed I church at 8 o’clock Friday evening. Dr. Paul Grosshuesch, president of : the Mission House, travels with the qaurtet. A free-will offering will be taken. YOUNG ROBBER IS SENTENCED Indianapolis Youth Given 10-Year Sentence For Auto Banditry Muncie, Ind.. July 19.—(U.R) —William Allen Shaw, II). Indianapolis, one of five men arrested in connection with numerous Delaware and Marion county robberies, today was under sentence to serve 10 years in the state reformatory. He pleaded guilty to charges of ’ auto banditry here late yesterday. Among holdups listed in his con- : session were several in Indianap- ! olis and an attempted robbery of the Monticello Thread Mill in which Fred Fisher, mill superintendent, was wounded seriously. Several other Monticello robber- - ies were planned by the group, Shaw told po'ice. Noble Claycomb and Paul Park er. both of Indianapolis, arrested with Shaw, are being held here. James Turner and his son, Rich- ' ard, are held at Indianapolis where authorities said the san had -coni fessed several robberies ami impllI cated Claycomb and Parker.

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REPEAL FORGES WIN SOUTHERN STATES VOTES I Alabama And Arkansas, Traditionally Drv, -Join In M et Parade TENNESSEE WILL VOTE WEDNESDAY The drive to end America s 13-vear experinient with national prohibition smashed into the hitherto hone-dry south today, when Alabama and Arkansas added their sanctions to repeal of the eighteenth amendment. Eighteen states now have voted tor repeal. Eighteen more are needed. Seventeen states have set election dates for this year. Three more, watching the sweep of the anti-prohibition wave, have signified their intentions to vote “if necessary to carry out the Democratic administration's program.” Alabama and Arkansas, on the basis of incomplete returns, abandoned their traditional support of i prohibition by a ratio of three to two. Tennessee. aiso traditionally dry, votes tomorrow. Oregon. 20th state to consider the constitutional change, goes to the polls Friday. Fifteen more states have set elections liefore November 7 I t addition to these, the Virginia , legislature will meet next month ■ to determine on a date for the public referendum, and Oklahoma has provided for an election “sometime after December 5. Montana, leaving the question I with its governor, has assured the administration of a vote in , December “if needed." > While wet crusaders were juhiI lantly considering not the possi- ; bility of eventual repeal, but of i “repeal before Christmas.” the > liquor industry an dits allies and subsidiaries — alcohol manufac- ■ turers. bottle makers, brewers and i distillers, trucking firms — were ■ making a hasty accounting of j stocks. They found Whisky stocks, held to the minimum required for the medicinal , trade, are down to approximately 10,000,M0 gallons. The nation consumed 50.000.000 gallons annually before prohibi- • tion. A whisky "famine" with the possibility of 'green" liquor and. ' temporarily at least, much “blending and cutting" with grain alcohol. was predicted. Heavy importations of spirits from Canada and England, and of wines from France, Spain and . Italy would be required to add to (CONTINUED ON PAGE SIX) o — Today’s Scores NATIONAL LEAGUE First Game New York 000 100 000—1 8 2 Pittsburgh ._ 000 002 11x—4 9 0 Fitzsimmons and Mancuso; French and Grace. Secohd Game New York 402 0 | Pittsburgh 300 0 I Clark and Mancuso: Smith and Picinich. Brooklyn 200 100 00 Cincinnati _ 012 000 12 1 Beck and Lopez; Johnson and Lombardi. Only games scheduled. AMERICAN LEAGUE First Game I i Detroit 100 200 000—3 9 0 Philadelphia 005 ICI OOx—7 12 1 Fischer and Hayworth; Mahaffey and Cochrane. Second Game Detroit 003 420 0 Philadelphia 003 000 0 Marberry and Hayworth; Cain and Cochrane. i Chicago . 000 000 71 New’York 020 000 00 Jones and Grube; Brown and Dickey. . Cleveland 003 200200 00 Boston 000 300 301 00 Ferrell and Pytlak; Johnson and I Ferrell. St. Louis 100 230 Washington 103 400 Wells and Shea; Stewart and Sewell. Courtesy City Confectionery.