Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 31, Number 191, Decatur, Adams County, 14 August 1933 — Page 1

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-■industries ’ J[L OUTSIDE '■gDVERYPLAN I‘hone — Takes Guiding |n Oil. (<>al And ' Steel Codes <H]jn \ow drixen Aug 1 I [ UR) "■JIdH Koov sJt look a ■WThaii'l "' lIS ■ .olnnn.s- --;■ K eflorts to : aßkev industries, oil. coal .. _ ■K e |, into line under ■g, u hliiiL' coinnelition, ■ and working hours. ’■L for these uiants of business h'.x. been " '•■fW W oir..e-.i own racks and conW ith the NRA Pend whrion of its probRS Htbe oii 1 ll " s,rv has hPen to operate under a r H form t presidential . agreement. The , are ,ol < l of E** l *’- R kw:' 'I personal JMaid of the recovery drive, first acts to go dispii'os Kenneth. rn-sim at hearings ~ t,, bring agreement G - • the three tor: IK " report at | nf ;_ Prot'h .\neeted ' chi-t inistrator , Os Johnson today. er ■ js=ne of price-fixing is the cnittroversv Ma for ('ll. Bs --j insist-d at 'he governMia«T!> prices that would them a return sufficient the higher costs of inwap. - —opn — leeline reg'ila'ion of prodm’stabilize prii es. NRA Pa and depart D *' have tackled the and hope 'O have a soln (0. Tltitrsd.lv when 24 lead'”r industry toe to meet 2-3-1 Johnson. a s'tii -i arper line he policies of the Roosevelt am! those of pow-IBirni'i-'Oaii.t. in. Imling Mel ano • - f- Her in’orImportant sections of the . , vl-tnuilv have defied 1,l n -o try to force to end their traditional . labor policy. ln ■ Buy now'" Johnson exani again in a nationwide ada St, Louis mass meetthat employers can wages onlv as their '-'■» increases. ”«rything you need and long denied yourself. It to the whole situation." appealed especially to to buy only under the t e a. tll( “ 1,1,10 eagle. He pointthat they control the bulk 10 11 purchases. ■J is whole venture is in the women." he declared. liv PAGE FIVE) ■kirk Girl Fatally H Hurt Near Portland ice ■° c * e : In(l ■ Aug. 14. — (U.R) — ire ■ Ellen Downing, 10-year-old ta ■“ er of Mr. and Mrs. Lester ■"'tig- Dunkirk, died in a hos ere last night from a frac--8 ull suffered in an automo- ■ wfident near Portland. ■a ■ r . paren,s ' car collided with ■ rl ’«n by Roy Shatto, Dun- ■., ys. Downing suffered sevrj ■“token ribs. tray’s Scores ■ATIONAL league ■* York at Philadelphia, rain. ■ y scheduled. ■ Me RICANJLEAGUE ■ de| phla 341 1 12 ■“•"If — 000 021 ■ Pyha'k and Cochrane; Hudlin ■" • - 022 000 ' 200 000 ■ ’Stas and Ferrell; Auker and ■ n|y 9*mea scheduled. ' ■"’•y City Confectionery.

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Damaging to Touhy MW»e» - NHMHMI «r.J - -.1 -iOfiHBMI AMI B - 4 JHB™ 7 'Lai »VaSL.! w k M ;*r. * vr-g <«HI William Hamm (left), kidnaped St. Paul brewer, with United States District Attorney Lew Drill, as he gave testimony that Is expected to result in tlie extradition of Roger Touhy and the gang chief s three companions who are now held in Milwaukee.

Mrs. Fred Rohrer Injured Saturday| Mrs. Fred Rohrer, wife of the' Berne postmaster, was severely in-1 jured Saturday afternoon in an I automobile accident which occured | on a detour on state road No. 6 near , Lakeport. Mrs. Rohrer and Mr. and Mrs. Orten Wulliman were returninc from the world's fair. Mrs. Wulli-1 man. who was driving suddenly lost ■. ontrol of the car and it went into , a ditch and turned over. ! t Mrs. Rohrer received several j broken ribs and other injuries and i Mr. and Mrs. Wulliman escaped ; with only minor bruises. The car ; | was damaged. WORK PROGRAM TAKING EFFECT ( • 1 Secretary Ickes Explains Working of Public Works Program (Editor’s Note: Secretary of Interior Ickes in the following i dispatch written expressly for the ; United Press tells how the $3,300,000.000 (B) public works fund is being translated into actual jobs , for the unemployed with the utmost speed. As director of this j phase of the national recovery ; campaign. Ickes lias charge of the largest construction program ever < undertaken by any nation.) Washington. Aug. 14 —<U.P> ~ The i federal public works program is | moving off paper into jobs in every state in the Union. In the short space since June 16 1 when the national industrial recovery act was approved, over 1 11.000,600,000 of the $3,300,000,000 1 public works fund has been allot ' ted to specific projects. Actual construction work has already started. j Preserving nil reasonable safeguards for the public's mo ley, j delays have been avoided while , making effective the intent of j congress and the will of the administration. Approximately a third of the | finance power congress vested in the President for a period up to two years through the public works fund was exercised in six weeks, a >d the federal emergency i administration of public works is preserving under terrific pressure |, to speed its program of priming ■ industry and moving men from relief rolls to payrolls. With satisfaction the public works administration is receiving reports of men being called back , to work under the program from all over the country. But the full ( *7cONTINtTED ON PAGE FOUR) 1 Sister Gabrieleta To Take Final Vows i 1 Sister M. Gabrielita. daughter of , Mrs. Minnie Holthouse of this city . will take her life vows in the Path- ( ollc Sisterhood, order of Holy Cross at the Motherhouse. Notre Dame. , Indiana., tomorrow. Sister Gabriel-;' ita joined the Sisterhood five years ago and until last March was located in Los Angeles. Sister Gabriel-: , ita will visit here this week with ' her mother, before assuming her •teaching duties next mouth. I

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ASSESSMENT BY STATE FIGURED Assessments of Railroads, Pipe Lines And I tilities Figured The state's assessment of railroads. pipe lines, and utilities for taxation purposes in the county, 1 has been totaled by County Auditor Glen Cowan. The total shows a loss of $822,884. compared with thA assessments a ypar ago. The omission of banks, trust companies and loan companies from the state's assessment" this year is accountable for part of the decrease. Under the new law banks, trust companies and loan ■ companies are not assessed by the state, the assessments being made on the capital ttock and deposits' he d by the bank. The total state's assessment this veir is 13.562.512. compared with $4,385,696, last year. Banks, trust companies and loan companies i were assessed last year at $2X4,620, j which accounts for more than onefourth of the shrinkage in valu-; ations. The assessments as compiled by Auditor Cowan follows: Farmers Light & Power (■„ ...» 3.990.00 Indiana Service Corp 358,050.00 j Northern Indiana Public Service Co. 139,460.00 . Sherman White Co 410.00 Pullman Co. 12.970.35 Western Union Co. 16.706.20 . Railway Express Agency, Inc.’ 1.114.201 Illinois Pipe Line Co 192.790 00 Indiana Pipe Line Co. .158,220.00 A. T. & T. Co. 20.952.96 Citizens Telephone Co. 195.040.00 Craigville Telephone Co. 4.420.00 ; Farmers Mutual Telephone Co. 180.00 Hoagland Switchboard Association 360.00 i Home Telephone & Telegraph Co. 1.504.00 Poe Farmers Telephone *7cONTTNT’ED GN PAGE FIVE) —o PROSPECTS FOR CROPS DECLINE AU Grains Show Decrease In Indiana From Normal Production Lafayette. Aug. 14—(Special)— Dry weather during July caused a (p’eline of two bushels per acre in Indiana corn prospects, with an estimated production of 115.2316.000 bushels, or only two-thirds as mnoh as was harvested last year, according to the crop report as of August 1 issued today by the Department of Agricultural Statistics of the Purdue University Agricultural Experiment Station in cooperation with rhe United States Department of Agriculture. The estimate for the corn crop is slightly smaller than that of 1930 but slightly larg o r than that of 1901 one of the worst drouth years in crop reporting history. It was pointed out however that conditions vary greatly, even between adjoinON*PAGE TWO)

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Decatur, Indiana. Monday, August 14, 1933.

“NICKEL BEER” ! DOUBTFUL AS SALES START Most Dealers Predict Ten Cents Will Be Charged For Tap Beer SALE WILL START 9 A. M. TUESDAY Indianapolis, Aug. 14— (U.R) — Draught beer dealers in Indiana would lose 10 cents on a 16 gallon halt barrel if they retailed 10 ounce glasses at five cents each under present wholesale costs.! Paul Fry. state excise director, estimated today. But by charging 10 cents for a 10 ounce glass the retailers will make a profit of nearly 100 per cent on each half barrel. Fry said. Fry's figures estimated the wholesale cost per half barrel at *16.02 after state and federal taxes have been paid and cooling charges have been provided for. | Deducting a *6 deposit required on the container, the ultimate cost would be about *lO. Indianapolis. Aug. 14. — (U.R) — "Nickel beer.” the campaign cry of draught beer advocates, is improb- 1 able as the first legalized sales of keg hrew are made tomorrow, it, was indicated here today. Anticipating a rush for "tap” brew comparable to the business done when the 3.2 beer first went on sale in Indiana, local dealers in- ' dicated they would charge 10 cents a glass at first. The higher price will be necessitated by the scarcity of the keg brew and the additional expenses of installing draught equipment, they said. Cities along the state's borders, however, where in some instances tap beer already has been sold. " (CONTINUED*ON PAGE FIVE) 1 ALBERT HINKLE NEW ENGINEER Indiana Man Is Named Engineer For Public Works Improvements Indianapolis. Aug. 14. —(U.R) —Albert H. Hinkle, newly appointed-' engineer for the federal public. works administration in Indiana, today awaited orders from Washington to start his work. His appointment was announced | Saturday night by Secretary of Interior Ickes. He will serve with I the state public works advisory | committee which will act on appli-1 cations for loans to finance public | works. Hinkle’s job will be to approve, plans for improvements. Although a Democrat, he was dismissed as maintenance superin- i tendent of the state highway department by Gov. Paul V. McNutt, j Hinkle had been with the depart I ment about eight years, coming here from the Ohio department. |

First State Bank Os Decatur Will Observe 50th Anniversary Tuesday

Opening for business, August August 15. 1883, the First State Bank of this city will observe its fiftieth anniversary in the hanking business tomorrow. The local bank was organized by the late Dr. T. T. Dorwin, leading physician and one of the prominent business men of his day in this community, and a group of associates from Delphos, Ohio and Decatur. Dr. Dorwin served as first president of the bank. Other officers at the opening were. Henry Dierkes, merchant and real estate owner, vice-president; Gus A. Kalbe, Delphos, cashier; R. P. Dorwin. bookkeeper. The bank received its first charter under the name of “The Decatur National Bank." In 1903 its name was changed to First National Bank and in 1930, a new charter was obtained under the name of First State Bank. C. A. Dugan, who became cashier of the bank in 1894. has been president of the institution since 1921. The bank has been located in the same location, 132 N. Second street, for the last 50 years. Covering the span of a half century the successful operation of

— 4 KEG BEER HERE Keg beer is expected to | arrive in Decatur about midnight tonight. An order has been placed by the Fred Mutschler Distributing Company | tor the beer which will be supplied to local dealers. Deal- : ers have not yet decided on the price, but it was stated j j several were figuring on selling a six or seven ounce glass | for a nickel or a 10 or 12 ounce glass of the 3.2 fluid for a , dime. MANY EXHIBITS WILL BE SHOWN 4-H Clubs, Economics Clubs And Colt Club To Have Exhibits The fruits of this year's extension club work will be seen at the county 4-H club fair at Belmont Park east of Decatur Thursday, - Friday, anil Saturday of this week. Over 200 4-H Club girls will exhibit sewing, canning, baking, and food preparation. These exhibits will be ’housed in the Auction School Building They will be put in place Wednesday by the adult leaders. (It promises to be the larg--1 eat exhibit of its kind ever held in ' Adams County. The exhibit by the women of the Home economics Club will be something new. Their exhibits are classified as the women's best dresses, women’s utility dresses, women’s made-over garments, and childV mad’-over garment, and is work in which the have been instructed by their Purdue leaders this year. Their exhibit will be put in place on W -dnesday and will be housed under the grandstand. The Gold Medal colts will be in the horse barn, east of the grandstand. Gold Medal colts were exi hibited at the extension show last j year for the first time and well deserve a lot of attention. Th \v will be brought on the grounds by noon ; of Thursday. August 17. The 4-H Calf Club exhibit will be - housed in t.ie sheep barns and there . will be more calves showing than 1 ever before in the history of the I county. The calves will be brought to the grounds by noon Thursday August 17. Judging of all classes of livestock 1 will take place on Friday August 18. The girls' demonstration work will begin Thursday, at 2 p. m. The ; women's dress revue will be held | Friday evening at 8 o’clock. The Decatur volunteer firemen i will have c*harge of all concessions, ' and they in turn will take care of I the overhead of the show. Work ■ has started on putting the buildings I in shape for the show. | o — Decatur Boy Scouts Return Home Sundav The Decatur Boy Scouts and I Scoutmaster Steve Everhart. LowI ell Smith and Ed Jaberg returned j Sunday from Rome City where they spent a week at Camp Limb rlost. There were 20 scouts. The boys re- ' port a fine time and have already - organized to go to camp again next | y ar.

what was Decatur’s infant banking institution in 1883, might lie written in three words today, “It remained open." During the banking crisis of last four years, reaching a climax in the early part of 1933. the First State Bank was one of few institutions to remain open for business until all banks were closed by President Rooseveit during the national banking holiday last March. With the withdrawal fef the executive closing order, the local bank was one of the first banks in the state to resume normal business. The growth of the bank is also indicated in the following figures: July 23. 1897. the hank had deposits of *172.014. On June 30. 1933. deposits were *923,784. an increase of $751,774. In 1897 resources were *293,663 and on June 30. this year, thev totaled *1.039,793, a gain of $746,130. Many of the pioneer and substantial citizens of the community were the original stockholders of the bank. They were, Dr. T. T. Dorwin. Robert Patterson, Godfrey Christen. William J. Myers, (CONTINUED ON PAGE FOUP.)

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SIX ARRESTED I AS KIDNAPERS OF OKLAHOMAN Part of Urschel Ransom Money Is Found On Harvey Bailey ALSO SUSPECTED OF MASSACRE Washington, Aug. 14— (U.R) — ! The department of justice believes it has solved the kidnaping of Charles Urschel, millionaire Oklahoman and the Kansas City Union Station massacre with the arrest of Harvey Bailey and five others in Texas. Attorney General Cummings announced today. Part of the Urschel ransom money was found on Bailey. Cummings said in a statement released here. Others arrested with him. according to the announcement were R. G. Shannon: his wife. Ora; their son, Arman Shannon; his wife, Oleta, and Earl Brown, father of Oleta. Cummings revealed airplanes, many special agents and automobiles were used in the spectacular capture of the suspects in a raid on 'Shannon’s home seyen miles south of Paradise. Tex.. Saturday. Caught Asleep Dallas. Texas. Aug. 14 —(U.R) — ! Captured as he slept with an arsenal of weanons. Harvey Bailey, | 45 year old desperado, was held . here by federal agents today as a kidnaper of Charles Urschel. leader of the Memorial Day Kansas break, and a participant in the June 17 Kansas City massacre. Agents identified the house where Bailey was captured, as the building in which Urschel had | i been held. His finger prints were ( , found on chinaware. SENATE PROBE OF RACKETEERS Committee Receives Many Suggestions For Control of Crime New York. Aug. 14. — (U.R) —The 1 government’s war against racketeers began to take form today at the first hearing of the senate racket committee which received suggestions for control of firearms, formation of an American Scotland yard and a law’ reviving the whipping post for young criminals. Universal fingerprinting also was proposed by Edward P. Mulrooney,; famous for his work as New Police commissioner and now head of the state beer board, who supported whipping as punishment for young criminals. He addressed the committee, meeting in the Austere assembly hall of the Bar association, | after Sen. Royal S. Copeland had raised the question of firearms control and Joseph B. Keenan of (’hi-j cago. had outlined his idea of a Scotland yard. "Cut your prison term for major crimes to 20 years or more and substitute 20 or 30 lashes for young criminals at the time of admission to prison and repeat it every six months,” Mulrooney suggested. “The hardened young criminal is convinced the law of the land is the dollar. Ho thinks that with money he can commit any crime and evade any punishment." Mulrooney joined with Keenan, i special assistant to the attorney general, in urging the organization of a central federal agency to tight j ♦ ♦ • ♦ • ♦♦ (CONTINUED ON PAGE FIVE) 0 Celebrate Feast Os Assumption Tuesday The feast of the Assumption of • the Blessed Virgin into Heaven will be celebrated in Catholic churches Tuesday. It is a holy day of obligation and masses at St. Mary's Catholic church will be held at five, seven and nine o’clock. — o Adams County Man Is Under Arrest Frank Goodyear, Adams county, was arrested late Saturday night in Fort Wayne after'his car had struck a parked auto on Walnut street near fairfield avenue. Police said Goodyear apparently had been drinking and had no driver’s license.

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Labor Mediator Sr-fi George L. Berry, president of the Pressman's Union, who is a member of the industrial peace board established by President Roosevelt to arbitrate in labor disputes and to facilitate the smooth working of the recovery machine. DISCONTINUE PRODUCE PLANT Farm Bureau Announces Operation of Local Plant Will Be Discontinued The Farm Bureau Association. Inc., today discontinued operation of the Decatur Produce Co., action being taken at a meeting of offiI cers and directors of the association at the company's office this morning. H. R. Moltz. who founded the Decatur Produce Company 25 years ago. leased the local plant I to the Farm Bureau last January. Mr. Moltz announced that he would operate the plant under the firm's former name. Due to unsettled market conditions. which entailed financial loss for the Farm Bureau Association over the past eight months, the directors of the association decided to suspend operations. The ’ egg market has declined from ; month to month in view of large j receipts and heavy storage of eggs and those engaged in the business state they have found it impossible to cope with conditions. Announcement was also made by Joseph Winteregg of Berne, general manager of the association. that outstanding checks given to produce dealers and farmers would be redeemed at the local bank as soon as financial arrangements were comnleted in Indianapolis and transfer of funds negotiated. Miss Fann Hammell. who served as treasurer of the association, has been employed to liqui(CONTTNUED ON PAGE FIVE) o Harvp Hazard Will Teach At Petroleum Harve Haggard, well known i teacher in Adams County, has accepted a position as teacher of soj cial science and history in the Petroleum high school in Wells county. Mr. Haggard has taught school ■■ for a number of years in Adams County, having taught for 10 years at Monroe and for the last four , years has been teahcer in the Moni mouth school. He is a graduate of Manchester College. Mr. Haggard stated today that he would move with his family to Petroleum about September 1 and i would begin his duties with the 1 opening of the fall term of school. Around The Town Sales Mid-summer, children getting ready to go back to school, others preparing wardrobes for college, homes need fixing up for the fall and winter months and along comes the announcement that Decatur merchants will hold an “Around the Town Sale,” Thursday. Friday and Saturday of this week. Great stuff' for the shopper. Your attention is called to Tuesday and Wednesday issues of the Daily Democrat which will carry several pages of Around the Town sale bargains. Watch for the list Tuesday and plan to shop in Decatur the last three days of the week.

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TWO AMERICAN WARSHIPS ARE SENT TO COBA Cabinet Is Coalition Os Strongest Anti-Mach-ado Leaders UNITED STATES TO COOPERATE Havana, Aug. 14— (UR) Cuba’s new cabinet, a coablion of the stroijgest leaders of the factions that overthrew Gerardo Machado, took the oath of oil ice today in the grand salon of the I presidential palace, and Cuba’s "new dear' was officially inaugurated. With the government solidly entrenched. and two American warships in the harbor as a gesture of support for the new regime, confidence returned to the capital, workers went hack to their tasks, and the city turned from panic and apprehension to an atmosphere of joyful relief. Normal conditions were established throughout a greater part of Havana upon the arrival of the ■ United States destroyers Taylor and Claxton. ; Immediately after formation of 1 the cabinet. Lieut. Col. F.rasmo Delgado, new commander of Havana province, posted by presidential authority a proclamation warning that soldiers would fire on anyone looting, pillaging, or ' | starting incendiary fires. As the final cabinet list was drawn up. the United States destroyers Taylor and Claxton steamed past historic Morro castle ’ silhouetted hy a bright half moon. 1 and anchored along the water 1 front. They came in token of the American government's support of De Cespedes, and not as a threat of intervention. With formation of the cabinet 1 and the departure for Panama ' early today of General Alberto ' Herrera, secretary of war in the Machado government and a poten- ' tial threat to De Cespedes, the situation was regarded as mater- ' j ially improved. The cabinet represents a wide 1 : coalition of elements opposed to the Machado regime, including strong Nationalist. ABC and Mar- ! ianista representation. Solution of the problem of (CONTINUED ON PAGE FIVE) Local Restaurants Adopt National Code Decatur restaurants have adopted the National Restaurant code, which has been approved pending the formal hearing. This code provides a maximum 54 hour week for male employes and 48-liour week ; tor female employ-s The minimum wage rate for Decatur is 26 cents per hour, with the own r allowed to include meals in the salary paid. PROPOSE CODE FOR TRAFFIC Officials of Five States Meet to Regulate Interstate Traffic Indianapolis. Aug. 14. — (U.R) —• ' Prospects of a national uniform 1 code for regulation of trucks and ‘ buses in interstate traffic were ' studied here today by officials of Ohio, Illinois, Michigan, lowa and . . Indiana. They came here at the invitation of Frank Finney, Indiana auto | license commissioner. Indiana representatives were Finney, State : ■ Treasurer William SWren, High- • way Commissioner Evan Stotsenburg and Public Service Commis- ’ j sioner Samuel Trabue. t 1 Representatives of the other ■ states were from similar depart- ’' ments as well as state police.. i Problems caused by states' difl terent requirements in licensing and regulating trucks and buses were studied with a view toward the proposed founding of a nations al commission. I | States’ reciprocity agreements in 1 handling foreign vehicle traffic also i [ were studied along with a current >' plan that congress be asked to j I create a national reciprocity commission.