Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 31, Number 178, Decatur, Adams County, 29 July 1933 — Page 1

aLliiy fair and QmJMI warm to t h? and Sunday.

IALF MILLION BACK TO WORK MONDAY

Jigi/ith Annual 4-H And Gold Medal Colt Club Shows Aug. 17

LLMONTPARK ALL BE SCENE OF ACTIVITIES " - ee Days Will Be De4edt® Annual Shows Here Next Month SESSIONS in JECATUR FIREMEN he eighth annual 4 H and medal coltrclub show* be held at Bellmont Park, mile east of Decatur, Aug 17, 18 and 19, Counts .nt L. E. Archbold annced at a meet.ng of Deir business men 1 11 of the exhibits u ill be ’’fat the park and the He , -'firemen wfci Me in charge ol amusemeat and refreshment participating in die are, gold medal colt club. Cl'.' ' ; and the 4-H calf club. eatur merchants will cooper n several ways tv make the successful and of wide inter o all. Several may install ex s in the various xiildings at >ark and a city-wide effort will tade to entertain and attract »ra here during the course of •how. unty Agent Archbold stated about 20 colts will be exhibit i the colt show. .Displays will z&fbited by 400 members of Home Economics club and by A»oo girl members of the 4 H 5 including sewing, tanning shaking.' There will be abouegilves In the calf allow J. Fred Reppert, towner of the iyNTINVBII ON PAGE ' Wot DERSGUARD IN MINE AREA fernor Pinchot Orders lational Guards To Preserve Peace Iford, Pa.. July 25».-—<U.R> r Pinchot today ordered the sylvania national guard into tte county to preserve order >e bituminous strike districts. e governor announced he was xring to declare martial law te county as soon as detach s of guardsmen arrived from training camp at Mt Gretna, train load of troopers was ordout from Mt. Gretna at 7:30 The detachment consisted of battalion of infant lymen. e governor’s decision to take Fayette county followed reon the part of Sheriff Harley iackney to withdraw his dep sheriffs and allow state police itro! the strike districts where arous disorders have been re a proclamations declaring maraw had been printed and would bated in the county immediatewas said. laving learned from press ce< that Sheriff Hackney had d tne refusing my offer to take ge tn the strike area and thus ent violence. I called him up morning and laid this definite osition before him I'm. lint the United Press. ’ he would make way for the » police by taking out Ins dep- » whose handling of the strike already led to so much vloa, 1 would send the police in nee In sufficient force to mainorder. If he would not, 1 •NTINUED ON PAGE THREE) 1 o— —— ndition Remains Critical Today he condition of Richard King. « year old son of Mr. and . Fred King, who is a patient the Adams County Memorial vital remained critical today, ough hospital attaches stated he seemed a little improved he child is suffering from Ines he received Wednesday afioon when he fell through a w case in the Christian church iment, while playing with some ■dren. The glass punctured stomach.

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Mary Zimmerman Given Scholarship Miss M'sry Grace Zimmerman, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Martin Zimmerman of Jefferson street, and a member of the 1938 graduating ; class of the Decatur high school was awird-d a s2oo scholarship (o Earlham College. Richmond. W. Guy Brown, principal, announced today. Miss Zimmerman will enter Earl ! ham in the September term and will take a liberal arts course. She hae been an outstanding student in the local school. Q. — | BIG INCREASE IN POWER HERE Increase In Manufacture And Consumption of Electric Power A big increase in the manufacture and consumption of electric energy wjs noted at the City Light and Power Plant during the month of July, .Martin. J. Mylott. superintendent of the plant announced today. A total of 2,178,200 KWH was manufactured this month compared with 1,977,450 KWH in July of 1932. The Decatur plint of the General Electric company consumed more electric current in "July this year than any month since February of 1930. A total of 106,000 KWH. were ' used from June 29 to July 27, when the meter was read. The Cloverleaf Creameries, Inc., of this city, second largest user of electric current, used 35,800 KWH in. July, this year, compared with 28,000 |WH ju Julx J 832. * Mr Mylott stated that rapid pro- ' gress is being made on the installation of the new equipment at the i City Plant. The filtration equipment. the first unit to be installed in the remodeling of the plant, is about reidy. The settling basin and foundations for the steel tanks have (CONTINUED ON PAGE THREE) —O Announce Milk Market Agreement Washington, July 29—<U.Ri—The ! Chicago milk marketing agreement. which brings all Chicago i milkshed dealers under the first license of the recovery program, was announced today by Secretary of Agriculture Wallace. The Chicago agreement was re garded as a pattern for other milk agreements in various parts ■of the nation. MERCHANTS ARE GIVEN WARNING Spurious NRA Emblems Being Sold Through Misrepresentation Indianapolis, July 29. — (U.R) —Indiana merchants cooperating with the national recovery administral tion were warned today of the ap-■ pearance of spurious emblems being sold through misrepresentation. Racketeers, taking advantage of the widespread support being given the recovery act. have visited small cities and towns in the state, selling emblems resembling those granted by the government to firms complying with the code. The official posters carry the blue eagle emblem and the letter-j ing “NRA member,” “we do our part," and are obtainable only at the postoffice after an agreement to cooperate in the recovery pro-: gram has been signed, Indiana! : Chamber of Commerce officials, ■ pointer! out. The spurious emblems are being sold by canvassers and proclaim ' the holder as a “booster for the NRA, ’ it was reported. Plans for an immediate canvass of Indianapolis to determine the extent of compliance with the recovery program were made here yesterday by the local recovery council. Francis Wells, department of commerce representative here, re-1 ported a daily increase in the number of signed agreements received : at his office. Board Named Personnel of the state recovery (CONTINUED ON PAGE THREE)

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Ten years ago today the Adams County Memorial hospital, located on Mercer avenne, south of Decatur. was opened to the public, j During the ten years 6.205 persons have been patients at the hospital. There have been 562 births and 295 deaths at the hospital. Miss Emilie E. Christ. R.N., superintendent of the institution, announced today. Miss Christ has been superintendent of the hospital since it was opened. Mr. and Mrs DSn Krkwute. , formerly of Linn Grove, have also i been employed continuously at .the place since 1923. ROOSEVELT IS ON VACATION President Will Spend Month's Vacation At Hyde Park Home Hyde Park. N. Y„ July 29.—CU.R) -President Roosevelt came back home today for a month of work and play among his old neighbors of Dutchess county. The special tra'n bearing him to the familiar scenes of boyhood I days’ pulled into the little station here at 9 a. m., after a leisurely trip from Washington that began last night. The “old neighbors” as Mr. Roosevelt affectionately terms them, were out in force to bid him welcome. Long before the train arriv-ed-they had gathered from all sections of the country side. Returning to historic Krun El-. bow. the family home overlooking I the Hudson, for the first time since j he left it to enter the White House. - Mr. Roosevelt had the added joy > of a reunion with his mother. Mrs. - Sarah Delano Roosevelt, who came j from Campobello, N. B, for the I | occasion. The President, who breakfasted' in his private car with Mrs. Roose ! velt and members of the party, was given a rousing cheer as he appeared on the rear platform to see the flag bedecked Hyde Park village and to board the automobile waiting to carry him the five miles ito Krum Elbow. I He and Mrs. Roosevelt were smiling broadly as they responded to the cheers, the Presidnt waving affctionately to the group in which were friends he has known all his I (CONTINUED ON PAHE TWO) Two Bank Officers Are Badly Wounded Taylorsville. North Carolina July 29 —(UP)—Two officers of the Mer- ' chants and Farmers Bank were ! shot and critically wounded when they resisted efforts of four bani dits to hold up the bank today. When T. C. Barnes, 45, <as>hier, nd S. -E. Little, 25, assistant cashier, refused to comply wijh commands they were shot down by the bandits. A hastily organized posse led by Sheriff W. B. Sommers of Wilks County picked up the trail of the bandits near the county line.

ONLY DAILY NEWSPAPER IN ADAMS COUNTY

Decatur, Indiana, Saturday, July 29, 1933.

The first patient admitted to the hospital was Mrs. Clarrisa Foudray of Alhambra. Tenn. The first surgical patient was Donald Klepper. son of Mr. and Mrs W. A. Kl»y>per of this city. Alma N. Braun, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Martin Braun of this city was the first child born at the hospital. Fulfilling a need in the community. the question of building a county hospital was favorably voted on at a general election. A bond | issue of $1()0.(M)0 was authorized land later an appropriation of $25,1100 was voted by the County Coun- ■ icil. It Is a three-story brick build Woman And Infant Crushed To Death ■ Gary, Ind.. July 29 —(UP)— An ‘ 18-month old girl and her aunt were ' I crushed to ,d ath by a Pennsylva ; ' nio passenger train near here last ' [ night while the baby’s mother looked on, powerless to help. Mrs. Mary Arvainitis was airing I I her baby in a -buggy. Her sister. 1 ' Mrs. Calliope Laeoreece. was walki ing with her. Mrs. Arvauitis belted on a railroad track when she saw the train 'approaching. Mrs. Lacroreece, seiz- . ed with panic when she saw the | approaching locomotive, took the ■ baby from the buggy and leaped directly into the train’s path. o—YOUNG PEOPLE ! AT ASSEMBLY Local People Will Attend At Lake Wawasee Next Week A number of young people of the ; First Evangelical Church left this 1 morning for Oakwood Park, Lake j Wawasee. where they will attend i the annual assembly which will be - held next week. i The services will open tonight with a young people’s banquet in the Hotel Oakwood Edward Martz of this city will be toastmaster. The principal address will be given by Dr. Raymond Veh. editor of the-Cru-sader, and leading young people’s paper of the Evangelical Church. Dr. Veh will also be the speaker at the young people’s conference Sunday morning, afternoon and night. The assembly, consisting of the Sunday school. Women’s Missionary Society -end Evangelical League of Christian Endeavor, and the leadership training school, will open Monday -night and continue throughout the entire week. Adams County Native Is Dead Bluffton, July 29 •— (Special) — Funeral services will be held at the heme at 3 p. m. Sunday for Allen Sheldon, former night policeman here, who died late Friday afternoon after -a year’s illness of canecr. Burial will me made at Bethel. The deceased, w>ho was 70 years old at the time of his death, was born in lAdams county in 1862.

ing, with bisement and has accommodations for more than 30 patients. A great many times in the past decade the hospital has been filled with patients. For several years the county has appropriated only $4,000 a year to maintain and operate it, the balance of the money needed coming from services rendered. The hospital has had an income of $234.573.94 from patients and services rendered, since it was opened. The board of trustees of the hospital are A. J Smith and C. J. | Voglewede of Decatur; E. M. Ray. ' Berne and James Briggs. Geneva. FRY THREATENS TO USE TROOPS State Excise Director Issues Sharp Warning To Beer Dealers Indiantipolis July 29 — (UP) — Lake and Allen county dealers to-d-.y ignor d threats of Paul Fry state excise director, to enlist ths aid of 4 state police or national guardsmen in preventing the sale I of draught beer. ; The revolt against-bottled beer in Lake county broke out into the | open today when prominent wholesalers .announced plans to start I distribution of keg beer this after- | noon. Fort Wayne retailers numbering I more than 20 disregarded the state beer control law by selling, the | brew on tap. Indianapolis, July 29—<U.R)—Use of state police or the national guard if local officials fail to enforce bottle provisions of the state beer control act was threatened today by Patil P. Fry. state excise director. His announcement accepted the challenge of Lake and Allen county dealers who bail been selling draught beer openly in direct violation of the state law. “As soon as I receive definite evidence of any dealer selling draught beer, I shall revoke his license." Fry said. • “It then will be up to local officials to enforce the law. If they fail to do this ,we will obtain the assistance of the state police or national guard." In both Lake and Allen counties dealers today were clamoring for equipment to sell the new 3.2 beer on tap. The sales were precipitated by dismissal of cases against licensed (CONTINUED ON PAGE TWO) - o Democrat Secretary Quits Active Duty Indianapolis, July 29 — (UP) — Resignation of Marshall Williams, Indianapolis attorney, from active duty as secretary of the Democratic state committee, was announced here today. Williams said he would resume the practice of low here and would continue his position as secretary in a supervisory capacity.

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NRA SIGNS ARE RECEIVED HERE AT POSTOFFICE Al Anker And Nathan Nelson Are First To File Certificates LOCAL MERCHANTS WILL COOPERATE The Blue Eagle window cards and stickers issued to those em ployers and consumers who sign the certificates and cards in com pllance with the President’s Reemployment Agreement, were received today at the Decatur postoffice. Tlie first persons to file certificates at the local postoffice were Al Anker, operator of a filling station'and Nathan Nelson, local attorney. The postoffice has orders to issue the following insigna ' to employers who sign the compliance certificates: One indoor card, one outdoor card, one hanger, 5 large stickers. 10 small stickers. 10 consumers stickers, 10 consumers statements of cooperation. . Individuals, other than employers are asked to sign “Consumer's statement of cooperation." which reads as follows: "I will cooperate in reemployment by supporting and patronizing employers and workers who are members of N. R. A.” The cards and stickers are printed in red and white, with the Eagle in blue ink. The sizes of tlie cards and stickers vary from a one inch circle sticker to a page Mil. the size of a newspaper page. The printing reads. “WE do our part.” The consumer cards have the word consumer printed on them and the word employer is on the others. Will Cooperate Local merchants and employers expressed a willingness at a meeting held Friday afternoon at tlie Chamber of Commerce, to cooperate in every way with the government. Some preferred signing the compliance cards and the President's Reemployment Agreement. until codes in their respective lines of industry or commerce were adopted. Others stated they would sign immediately. Tuesday. August 1. is the first day set for the formal filing of the blanks. Many stores, factories and other places of business are expected to employ extra people in conforming to the 8 hour day and 40 hour week for office employes, etc., cal helpers. The wage scale in agreement is (CONTINUED ON PAGE TWO) PERJURY CHARGE IS FILER TODAY Foster Father of Kidnaped Girl Is Charged With Perjury Crown Point, Ind.. July 29 —<U.R) —Perjury charges were on file in criminal court here today against Hamlin H. Smith, foster father of , j Patricia Pearl Tripp. 4. who was j kidnaped Nov. 28. 1932. and kept i prisoner for more than three months. . I The charges were filed by Miss i Gladys Perkins, Rensselaer, one of ,10 persons against whom charges of kidnaping were dismissed after i Patricia was returned to her sosI ter father. Miss Perkins alleged in her nffi- ■ davit that Smith was guilty of perjury when he implicated her in the kidnaping and said site can produce witnesses who will prove her innocence. Others dismissed on the kidnaping charges were August Johnson, grand uncle of Patricia, his wife, Gladys: Mrs. Ressie Tripp. Gary, pateriyrf grandmother; Mr. and . I Mrs, Roy Smith, Gary; Mrs. Mayme Arnold. East Gary; Air. , and Mrs. Alfred Dodd. Hebron, great-grandparent s, and Harry Rouse, Rensselaer. Patricia was taken from the , Hamlin Smith home near Rensselaer by a swarthy gunman. Her release was obtained by Johnson 7cONTINUED*ON *PA**E* THREE) ’

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Decatur Woman’s Brother Is Dead Mrs. John Schafer of this city received word this morning of the death of her brother, W. P. Wherry of Convoy, Ohio, who die-j at his home at 3 o’clock this morning following an extended illness. Mr. Wherry was well known in ! this city having resided here for several years. lAt the time of his death he was hi the moving van ' ; business. Funeral services will be held Monday morning at 9:30 o’clock at the Clark’s Chapel Church in Union township. Mrs. Hugh Hite of Detroit, Michigan and formerly of thin city, is also a sister of the deceased. ADAMS COUNTY WHEAT GROWERS REAP BENEFITS Growers May Receive Total of $41,739 Under Control Plan GIVE FIGURES FOR OTHER COUNTIES According to the estimates made by Secretary of Agriculture Wallace. wheat growers i.i Adams county will receive at least $41,739.00 additional from the sale of the crop if all farmers sign the government’s wheat control agreement. Approximately 70 percent , of the amount will be received ■ this fall, the balance being pay- ! able next spring. • This figure is arrived at by mul-1 tiplying the minimum beuefit, 28 i - cents per bushel with the number > of bushels allotted to this county i and eligible to benefits. The i number of bushels alloted for benefits is 149.068 bushels, based on 54 percent es the average . wheat production for the past five years. The benefit payment . may go as high as 30 cents a bushel. The fall payme.it is equal to 20 cents a bushel. ; In Adams county the five year ; average follows: Seeded Yield producacreage per acre tion , 15.300 18 272.000 Fifty-four percent of the average yield, based on 272.000 bushel, allots 149.068 bushel to this county, eligible to the 28 cents per bushel minimum. Other counties in this district will lie affected as follows, tlie • first figure being the seeded acreage; tlie second. average yield per acre; the third, production bushels and the fourth, allotment bushels, based on the 5 year average: Adams 15,300 18 272.000 149,000 Allen 25,300 19 481.000 263,610 (CONTINUED ON PAGE THREE) Today ’s Scores NATIONAL LEAGUE First Game Brooklyn 103 121 022—12 15 2 Philadelphia 120 141 020—11 16 5 , Beck and Lopez; Elliott and , Davis. First Gaame . Cincinnati 001 030 004 —8 17 5 Pittsburgh 201 200 202—9 16 0 Lucase and Hemsley; Meine and Grace. Boston 000 100 30 New York 300 100 10 Zachary and Hogan; Fitzsimmons and Mancuso. Chicago 0 St. Louis 0 Warneke and Hartnett; Carleton and O’Farrell. AMERICAN LEAGUE ! , New York 00 Washington 10 Allen and Dickey; Crowder and Sewell. St. Louis 000 1 Chicago 001 1 . Gray and Shea; Miller and Grube. Philadelphia 010 000 00 Boston 001 120 04 Grove and Cochrane; Pipgras and Ferrell. Detroit 000 0 Cleveland 000 0 Fischer and Hayworth; Brown and Pylak. I ' Courtesy City Confectionery.

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JOBS CREATED BY ROOSEVELT RECOVERY CODE Nation-wide Survey Reveals Half Million Will Resume Work GREAT RESPONSE TO NRA PROGRAM (Copyright 1933, by United Press) At least half a million men will t ( _o hack to work Monday to new jobs created bv President Roosevelt’s N.R.A. code, a thorough nation-Wide inquiry bv the I nited Press revealed today. A check of two score major American iiulustrial centers showed that thousands of new jobs had been opened up in the past few days with hundreds of thousands in prospect next week. Hundreds of employers, indusi trial experts, relief workers and federal representatives brought forward this figure as a conservative estimate. From the corn belt of the midwest to the steel districts of the east and throughout the textile production centers of the south came report after report of employers signing the NRA code. Tiny establishments were adding one and two men to their force. Great manufacturing plants were taking men back by the thousand. On Chicago's State street, srreat retail shopping center, thousands of jobs were opened up whe.i every major department store came under the blue eagle banner. It was estimated that 50 percent I of Chicago's employers were sign- ! ing the code to provide reduced hours of labor and higher pav. A preliminary estimate of 50.000 new jobs within three days was made. Thirty firms are hiring 4.000 men. Eight more are hiring 3.000. The United Press survey indicated 'he middlewest was respo ding to the president’s code with greater rapidity than the east and some sections of the south. Detroit expects 60.000 men to find new jobs in the motor indusi try alone. Already 30,000 have been given work in the past few weeks. Columbus. 0.. expects 5.000 new jobs a d pay raises for 10.000 more workers. Two thousand five hundred have gone to work in St. Louis already and 1,500 Missouri employers have signed the pledge. Cleveland repor’ed 8.000- to 10.000 re-employments. Toledo has had 2.992 new positions in the last week. Pittsburgh found the code was increasing workers pay rather (CONTINUED ON PAGE FOI’P.) LINDBERGHS TO VISIT BAFFIN Colonel And Mrs. Lindbergh Are Charting Atlantic Air Route Copenhagen, July 29. —(U.R)—-Col. . and Mrs, Charles A. Lindbergh, I braving a flight over territory left usually to Eskimos and Arctic explorers. took oft in their plane i from Holstensborg, Greenland, yesterday. for a visit to Baffin Land, according to word received here I today. They were expected to return at ! once. The Hight took the Lindberghs i westward across the 200 miles of Davis Strait that joins the Atlantic with Raffin Bay. just north of the Arctic circle, above Hudson Strait [ and Hudson Bay. They had been flying along the ! Greenland coast for some days, looking over the territory with a view to a northern Atlantic air i route. , On Thursday the Lindberghs flew over tlie Greenland ice area, a great cap rising to from 8.000 to 10.000 feet that covers the entire ; interior of the great island. They reported when they returned to Holstenborg that they found a good landing place on a fjord in the inl terior. Tlie Greenland government re- ! ported from Godthaab today that the steamship Jelling, depot ship tor the Lindbergh’s survey, arrived *( CON TIN LIED ON* PAGE THREE)*