Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 31, Number 174, Decatur, Adams County, 25 July 1933 — Page 1

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San fleet I ?9rTS RETURN i h|p HOMEWARD Balho And Elect b.r’fw24 S. aolanes Leave \c« York 1jB)E planes MB|K|()RCED DOWN „k. .Inly 25.—<U.R>— seaplane of the BalLnJKAit;.’’. v.as forced down . New Brunswick —of fuel shortdispatch to radio disclosed. another plane had ' down at Rockh v !"ss ot oil. C’Www'.Aram' of the seventh ' 1! S' John for gasoGeneral ,>B as soon as poss- ' squadron, en o'* i^^Hsb..<lia<. N<-w Brunswick wa s still at Rockland,| 10 A M. hewßork. July 25—<U.R>—O«n-, lialbo, Italy's dynamic | '' today led his fleet of ■ s New York. bound after the most 1 S; &R&e«or mass flight in history. | ’ft/B-' U'ud of air galleons the waters of Jamaica a followed in tad » cession by the remainder g doMiortli for Shediac. N. 8., ,_X first port of call on the return Orbetello. Italy. — From ‘ hedi.o . the fliers hope to for Shoa! Harrie’igSjfcoundiaiid. their point of for the long and dangerdirect to Valencia, Ire and. • Leww New York, the squadron , rid 9oX more than 7.U00 miles, in front their home port, world a demonstration I efficiency unequalled in notiernßir maneuvers. Balbo reversed the usual al ' fftgojtak" if. sending his eighth ~ kad K the air, followed by the event And sixth, at 90-second in ! it TlieWst nine planes in the air uouivAd into flying formation 1 ltd ll to® off easily towards the Genera! Balho's flag hip the second to last to lift ’’ ED ON PAGE THREE) Advance On Local Market went up on the k>,al mar et today. Number one. quoted at 75 cent and 1 wheat at 74 cents a St or mixed corn was 58 cents and good yellow —Slx|B3 cents per 100 pounds. ' ta^ — 11 '‘.“■Br Men Plan To Attend Retreat S-vß"re Decatur men are plann|ptoAen,i the annual Layman's Notre Dame university, i to 5. Men wishing to go t<> register with Jared J. 10 ****!■ Wairtnan of the local layMB's mtreat. Last year Decatur , the largest delegations | A C. HILTY *ES MONDAY "*I9 ■9hristian Hilty Dies ||yay Night at Home Near Berne Ind. July 25—(Special)—I ,K M. CWifistian Hilty, 46, died at. her I a ®*Woutheast of Berne at 11 night, following a ; "••ww's illness of complicaons an . heart trouble. J®jwblty was formerly Stella' and was born in Ad- ®» COdnty. May IS. 1887. Surviv- j husband and four child- ; Ruth, Gordon, and ! a t home. Two brothers, of Kansas and 1 Klopfenstein of Howe, and ! Mrs. Ed. Brewster of Linn WSf Olso survive. hi Jt’ services wi " he held afternoon at 1:30 o’clock and at 2 o’clock at the I urw , ChuTch in Berne, be made in the M. R. E.,

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Here’s A New One! Postmaster Tells Company of Loss — . ——■ ♦ The Decatur Insurance Agency paid for a loss that wasn’t reported. It was their o*ll Yesterday Postmaster L. A. Graham received a letter from Earl K. Jones, postoffice inspector, inform Ing hint that a man by the name of Thomas A. Collins, of Chicago, was being held at the county jail -in Peoria, Illinois, after confessing the theft of four letters from a mail box of an insurance company near the court house in Decatur. Mr. Graham made inquiry of several Insurance agents and was unable to obtain any information. Last night after reading the Decatur Dally Democrat, Ira Fuhrman. manager of the Decatur Insurance. Company discovered that he was the vfctlm. One check issued to Peter Bailey by Mr. Fuhrman for wind damage to his farm property southeast of Monroe for the amount of $8.98 was cashed at ißerne. Mr. Fuhrman paid the carpenters himself, intending to collect from the company later. He also missed a premium policy for S9O issued to a man in Paulding. He assumed this had been lost in the rniyl. When he read of the theft he reported to Postmaster Graham who telegraphed federal authorities in Peoria. Illinois, to hold Collins. — —o — Ernest Anspaugh Arrested Monday (Ernest Anspaugh was arrested Monday afternoon in Jefferson township by Sheriff Burl Johnson on a charge of child neglect. He was released on bond Monday night. o Department Called To Extinguish Fire The city fire department made a run shortly after midnight last ■ nigh)— '<► tffe' TBHer Hooii XHTTs where a pile of rags and strings had i ignited. The blaze was extinguished without damage. WHEATCONTROL MEETING HELD First Wheat Control Meeting Held In Decatur Monday Night Adams county's first wheat control meeting was held in the basement of the Decatur Christian Church Monday evening. County agent L. E. Archhold, who has gen- ! eral control ot the production curtailment plan in this county, had charge of the meeting. All of those present agreed that the government plan is feasible and should be given serious consiflera- . tion by every wheat producer. I Mayor George Krick gave a brief talk on the control plans as they ' affect industry and also told briefly of the meeting he attended recently in Chicago when clay products industries drew up their code. Meetings as arranged for wh'eat growers in the various townships of the county are as follows: Hartford township, high school building Thursday evening at 7:30 o’clock: Root township at the Monmouth ! Gymnasium, Monday at 7:30 p. m„ ' Blue Creek township Tu sday, August 1 at the Jacob School at 7:30 p. m., Kirkland township at the gymnasium Wednesday, August 2 at 7:30 p. m. ilt is'highly important that every wheat grower attend these ineeti ings and acquaint himself with the proposed plans. Those present at last night's meeting were: Clifton E. Striker, Elmer Baumgartner, Joe D. Winteregg, Jerry Liechty, Ralph Myers, L. A. Ripley, lEverett Banter. Fred Eiehenbarger, Ben Eiting. Henry Dehner. Dennis Striker. Frank Martin, George Krick, M. A. Ripley, Philip Schfeferstein, Ernest Worthman, Dan Scherry. Tom Noll. David Habegger, Noah Rich and Ed Staley. Farm Buildings, Silos Damaged The wind storm Sunday afternoon daii/aged sever.il farm buildings and silos in Kirkland and French townships. Among those who reported losses were Jacob, Kaehr, Lew Gerber. William Aschliman, Carl Dick, Albert Dick. Henry Drayer. ;The wind, which swept through-the north part of Decatur, cut quite a swath in the country.

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Crash Ends Mollisons’ Flight Fu! “j W ,T «**'V eT T * H W?' F j t » •ill'll'; ' A. - I K irj-, * s a, f x 71—kArtii 1m 11 I—n hi The wrecked plane Seafarer, in which James M ollison and his wife. Amy Johnson, crashed in the marshes outside Bridgeport. Conn., sixty miles short of their New York City goal. The 400 gallons of sue they took aboard at the start of their flight had run out. Mollison was slightly injured, while his wife was onlv shaken un

ALBERT MILLER HEADS LEGION I' I ; Decatur Baker Elected Commander of Adams Post of Legion Albert Miller. Decatur baker, was elected commander of Adams post i ! number 43 of the American Legion I at the annual election of officers, i held at the Decatur Country Chib , Monday evening. i other office rw eierte4 were: I James Staley, first vice-command- [ er; Edgar Yoder, second vice-com mander; Walter Gladfelter, adi jutant; Miles Roop, finance officer. Members chosen for the xecutive committee are David Adams, retiring commander. H. P. Schmitt and H. V. Aurand. i Delegates to the state convenI tion at Evansvill August 26, 27. 28 and 29, will be David Adams. Albert Miller and Herbert Kern. Alternate delegates are James Staley, Charles Weber and Otto Gause. Officers chosen last night were nominated at the two previous meetings of the local post, with no other slate of candidates being nominated. ' The election was held earlier than usual this year because the officers must be certified to the state department at least ten days 1 before the state convention. The newly-elected officials will be installed in October, probably at the regular meeting on Monday. October 9. Officers must be installed within two weeks after the close of the national convention, which will be held at Chicago. October 2. 3, 4 and 5. ♦ Refreshments were served to a large number of members follow- 1 ing the election last night. o MOLLISONSMAY BORROW PLANE Flying Couple Talk of Borrowing Plane To Continue Flight New York. July 25. — (U.R) , ; James and Amy Mollison, not yet; recovered from injuries received in a crash at Bridgeport, Conn., ar '. the end of their transAtla.itic ( flight, talked today of attempting ( to break the long distance record with a flight to Baghdad, Iraq,. ] 6,000 miles away In a borrowed ' plane. Their plan when they took off , from Pending Sands. Wales, Sat- I urday in the iSealarer, was to fly to New York, thence to Baghdad, and then return to London. The crash seemed to have ended that plan. But they could not dismiss the ambitious project from their minds, and American friends urged them to borrow a plane. •'Wiley Post offered us the Win- . nie Mae.” Mollison said. "He said j that we might take his ship any- ■ where we wanted." His smile indicated that while he appreciated the offer he would not care to risk the famous round(CONTINUED ON PAGE SIX)

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William Corson Robbed By Gypsies Williim Corson, living two miles' west of Monroe, was robbed of $7 Monday afternoon by a band of gypsies. The gypsies took the | money from Corson while allegedly 1 telling his fortune. Sheriff Johnson was called but no trace was found of the guilty band. o Bud Morrison Is Released On Bond - 1 — Bud Morrison, one of three persons arrested Friday evening on charges of enticing females to enter disorderly house, was fre»d on bond Mondiy evening. Sam Bailer is still ■ confined in the connty jail on the same charge .Mrs. Bailer was released Saturday morning. SEE CHANCE OF DRAUGHT BEER Fry’s Recent Ruling Seen As Paving Way For Draught Beer Indianapolis. July 25. — (U.R) — A recent ruling of Paul Fry. state excise director, that beer may be sold in restaurants outside of city lim- ' its was believed today to have paved the way for sale of draught beer in Indiana if Gov. Paul V. McNutt gives the word. The beer control law defines a restaurant as "an eating place, equipped to serve 25 or more persons and located within the corporate limits of a city or town. Fry ruled that the clause is “merely a descriptive phrase and hot a limiting clause." By the same token, it was point ed, parts of the law describing thtrt beer be sold in bottles only might be interpreted as merely descriptive phrases regarding sa'e of hot tied beers and not a limiting clause forbidding sale n f keg beer Local Residents’ Grandson Killed Mr. and Mrs. H. N. Blair of this city were called to Win mac Sunday on account of the death of their grandson, Blair Galbreath, 12, son of Mr. and Mrs. Merl Galbreath. The lad was killed when struck by an .automobile as he was riding a pony along the state road. The car was driven by Robert Lybroek, of I'ndian.apolis. Mr. Blair is agent for the Erie Railroad in this city. Attention Scouts Boy Scouts who are planning to attend camp at Camp Limberlost. Rome City. August 6 to 12, are asked to register immediately with C. C. Pumphrey, Dr.'Fred Patterson or laiwell Smith. Reservations must be sent in by Thursday. Through special arrangements made by the local Scout committee, the cost for the week’s outing will rot exceed $2.50. The regular price is $7 a week. About 20 | boys are expected to attend the camp. |

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BARBERS MEET HERE MONDAY ■ More Than 70 Barbers Attend District Meeting Here Monday Night More than 70 barbers attended the district meeting of barbers in j thhTcity Monday night. Dsn Murphy, Indianapolis, national organizer for journeymen barber’s union of America, addressing the assembly. ; A meeting of the local union will be held n- xt Monday evening at the Chamber of Commerce rooms for the purpose of adopting a uniform ! price schedule and agreeing on provisions outlined in the barber's code. I It is likely that the price of hair cuts will be boosted from 25 cents to 35 cents and that the price of shaves will remain the same, barbers stated today. At the meeting last evening. Roy 'Andress, president of the local un- ' ion. presided and introduced the speaker. Mr. Murphy explained the code dopted by the national barber's union and urged all barbers to join local unions. Mr. Murphy, accompanied by local m n called on b.rber.-, todaj and it appeared that every barber , in Decatur would iffiliate with the local union. The goal is a 100 per cent memb rship of all shops in the Decatur territory. Barbers were present at last' night’s meeting from Monroe, Berne Bluffton, Ossian, Craigville. Hoagland. Monroeville, Tocsin. Pleasant Mills and Willshire. Ohio. The local union will assist in organizing the i Bluffton barbers next week, a meet- 1 ing being set for I*uesdav, August 1. TO FILE APPEAL FROM DECISION Supreme Court Appeal on George Dale Case Will Be Filed Muncie, Ind., July 25—(UP)—Appeal to the state supreme court from a decision of Special Judge Charles Smith. Anderson, quashing conspiracy indictments against Mayor George R. Da'e and three other city officials, was to be sought today. Judge Smith quashed the indictments against Dale, C. A. Taughingbaugh, city attorney; Lester E. i Holloway, city controller, and Glenn Butts, secretary of the city tiro department, on a legal techni cality. The defendants were charged with conspiring to collect 10 per cent of the salaries of city firemen to defray expenses of Mayor Dale's appeal from a federal court conviction on a liquor conspiracy charge. The statute on which the conspiracy indictment was based >is applicable only to conspiracies beI tween officials and clerks, deputies and employes and does not pertain * to firemen, who are themselves of- | CONTINUED ON 1

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FEDERAL MEN OUT TO SMASH KIDNAP GANGS Department of Justice Agents Holding Suspects In Three Cases PROMISE (LANGS WILL BE SMASHED Chicago, July 25. —(U.Rl—The fed-1 1 eral government's department of justice is keeping its promise to smash kidnaping gangs. On three i widely separated fronts today de- ; partment of justice agents struck effectively at the roots of three mil- ’ lionaire abductions, in two they had captured suspects, in one they had obtained confessions. They held Chicago’s reigning gang power Roger Touliy, leader of the ! "Terrible Touliy" northwest side gang, and three of his henchmen. A few hours after John (Jake ' the Barber) Factor was freed following 12 days captivity and purported payment of $50,000 ransom, I Melvin Purvis, chief of the government's investigation bureau in Chicago, announced his department was launching the most wide- > sweeping drive against kidnajiers in its history. In Washington federal operatives issued instructions for families of kidnap victims. They told them to notify immediately the department of justice, and be assured that nothing would ’! be done to interfere with safe return of their relatives. Immediately the local agents en-, , tered the Factor case. On inforI mation furnished by police they suspected the Touhy mob. ' A few days later Touhy unwitt- - ingly was captured in Elkhorn, - Wis., by an unarmed, rookie police-1 i than. Federal agents returned - Touhy and his men- to Chicago. Totthy thought he would gain his 1 freedom on a habeas corpus writ. > He discovered the federal agents -' meant business. i Touhy and his men then were . identified positively as kidnapers ’ (CONTINUED ON PAGE SIX) INJURIES # RE FATAL TO YOUTH Clarence Sievers Dies Today Os Injuries Suffered Friday Clarence Sievers, 25. of Fort '.Wayne, son of Mrs. Anna Sievers • of Preble township, died in t)ie St. Joseph’s hospital at 8 o'clock Tuesday morning of injuries received in an automobile-truck ! crash 11 miles southwest of Fort Wayne Friday night. Lawrence Schrader, 30. of Columbia City, died two hours after his automobile overturned followi ing .the accident, and Albert Pe*rucelle of Huntington succumbed Monday. Owen Joy. 29. Columbia City, the third person injured in the accident. escaped with minor injuries. According to Deputy Sheriff Charles Coulardot of Fort Wayne, the automobile driven by Schroeder attempted to pass another machine and collided head-on with a truck driven by Lloyd Deckard of Detroit. The automobile turned over and was completely demolished. It was reported that Petrucelle had been hitchhiking to Huntington ; and had been picked up by the three other men shortly before the 1 accident. According to relatives of young i Sievers, he had returned to his home at 1217 Spy Run. Fort Wayne, from the Stears Roebuck ' Store where he is employed, at * ’irONTTN’I'ITD ON PAGE SIX) n —- Robert L. Mills Wins Promotion Robert L. Mills, formerly of Deca- i I tur, who for the past year has represented the Commonwealth Insurance Commpany of Ixiuisville, Ken- ■ tucky. in Fort Wayne, has been advanced to assistant manager and will be located in Knoxville, Tennessee, starting next Monday, July 31. Mr. Mills was one of eleven salesmen of the Fort Wayne branch eligible for the promotion. His excellent work in the past year won him the advancement. He will move his , family to Knoxville, next Saturday. I <

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City School Board Will Meet Tonight The Decatu-r achool board will meet tonight at eight o’clock at the l high school building, the stated meeting being |M«stponed Monday night. The signing of contracts with ' teachers, the assigning of subjects and the discussion of the budget | for the 1933-34 sx'hool year will i ome up at the meeting, M. F. Wort liman, superintendent of schools, stated today. Th- reorganization meeting of i school board will take place, Tuesday. August 1. Ira Fuhrman newly eleiled member of the board will take office at this time and officers i of the hoard will be elected. INDIANA READY TO FOLLOW PLAN FOR RECOVERY Business An d Industry Are Being Molded Into National Program EXPECT TOBIN TO BE NAMED — Indianapolis, July 25 —<U.R) —Indiana business and industry today was being molded into the national recovery program. Meetings were being held locally for explanation of the 35 and 40 hour week limits and statewidorganizations gathered here to prepare uniform codes of fair practices. Business men and industrialists Thursday will be mailed blanks which if signed will pledge supi port of the recovery program. Frencls H. Wells, head of the district department of commerce office here directing the organization, today estimates that 50,000 of the blanks will reach Indiana business men. While chambers of commerce and mayors were behind local organization, appointment of a state recovery board, a state recovery council and a district re- ; covery board was awaited. R. Earl Peters, state Democratic ; chairman, stayed close to his office today, awaiting a telephone call from Washington announcing membership of the boards. Sen. Frederick VanNuys several days ago recommended members. Statewide recovery organization meetings include those of the Indiana state federation of labor whose officers met yesterday, civil and mechanical engineers ’ who gather here tonight, representatives of the printing industry who will sit here July 31, and the Indiana Retail Grocers’ association here Aug. 6 and 7. Tobin Favored Indianapolis, July 25 —<U.R)—Appointment of Daniel J. Tobin, In- 1 dianapolis, international president of the teamsters’ and chauffeurs’ union, as regional director of the federal public works program (CONTINUED ON PAGE SIX) WORLD LEADERS , PROPOSE GROUP Executive Committee Proposed To Keep Conference Going London. July 25.—(U.R) —Leaders of the world economic conference decided today to propose to a plenary session that a committee of 12 ! be set up as i permanent executive committee to keep life in the ! conference during its recess. Though the final decision must' be made by the plenary session Thursday, when the conference re- [ cesses, automatic approval is expected. as the leaders who proposed it are members of the “little j steering committee’’ which guides the conference destinies. They themselves, with the «d,lition of representatives of Brazil 1 and Japan, would become the execu-, tive committee. They comprise the president and vice president of the conference and the chairmen, vice chairmen and secretaries of the two chief conference committees — monetary and economic.. Members are: Conference President Ramsay MacDonald, Great Britain: vicej President Paul Hymans, Belgium. • 1 * *(CONTINUED ON PAGE SIX)

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THOUSANDS OF MESSAGES ARE PLEDGING AID Sent In Answer To President's Appeal For Drive On Depression ASKS EMPLOYERS TO AID IN PLAN Washington, July 25.—(U.R) —Pledges of allegiance approaching war time fervor poured in on the government today as Americans answered President Roosevelt's call for a united and immediate offensive to conquer the enemy of depression. “It will be done,” was the slogan of thousands of messages which streamed to the White House iu response to President Roosevelt’s appeal to all employers. large and small, to sign an agreement fixing fair and uniform wages for all and spreading employment by shortening working hours. "A common covenant,” the President called it—a covenant "in the name of patriotism and humanity." The way to better times for all has been carefully charted. Mr. Roosevelt said in his nationwide appeal last night, and “it is time for corageous action.’’ The President barely had finished speaking from his White House study before the telegraph wires ; into Washington were jammed with messages pledging support of big corporations, small businessmen and consumers. An official of one telegraph company estimated the number of messages for Mr. Roosevelt would reach 10,000 before the morning was far advanced. His company held three times the usual number of emloyes that came in during the night. He said he could recall no such response to a presidential appeal since Woodrow Wilson in 1917 summoned the nation to a different kind of war. Calling for the cooperation of the entire public as well as employers. Mr. Roosevelt explained the re-em-ployment campaign in phrases for , the complete understanding of the "forgotten man." "The proposition is simply this: “If all employers will act together to shorten hours and raise wages, we can put people baelj to work. No employers will suffer, -becaus3 the relative level ot competitive cost will advance by the same amount for all. But if any considerable numbbr should lag or shirk, tin's great opportunity will pas tn- by and we will go into another desperate winter. This must not happen.” That is the gospel that will be hammered home in every city and hamlet of the land. The President’s address set the keynote for thousands of speakers and campaign workers under direction of the recovery administrator who will carry on the drive to obtain every employer's signature to agreements setting a minimum wage of sl4 a week tor industrial labor and (CONTINUED ON PAGE SIX) o Today’s Scores NATIONAL LEAGUE First Game Chicago 000 000 120—3 10 0 Pittsburgh • 001 001 11x—4 14 0 Warneke and Hartnett: Swetonic and Graca. Second Game Chicago 001 000 Pittsburgh 020 000 Tinning and Hartnett; Smith and Finney. Cincinnati 0 St. Louis 1 Benton and Hemsley: Haines and Wilson. Only games scheduled. AMERICAN LEAGUE Washington 400 10— 57 0 Philadelphia 000 01— 1 5 0 Called —Rain Whitehill and Sewell; Mahaffey and Cochrane. St. Louis 001 000 Detroit 403 200 Hadley and Shea; Fischer and Hayworth. Cleveland 000 100 0 Chicago 100 000 0 Harder and Pytlak; Jones and Grube. New York at Boston —Rain. i Courtesy City Confectionery.