Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 31, Number 196, Decatur, Adams County, 19 August 1933 — Page 1

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TRAFFIC ACCIDENTS TAKE TEN LIVES

larade Brings Eighth Annual Club Show To Conclusion

In 2.000 lIEND revue Jfrioay night ■ |x Pronounced One H|ost Successful Ever ■ Held In County ■IBIT W INNERS ■\RE \WOI \( EH H). ir|l |e <•! colt* :in«l K" exhibit. .1 in II"' t-oi'l ■ cull IIH'I I 11 , ' l>l cl " ! ’ ~| |(i 3H o'clock this ;it Brllmoiit Park ji jii.l I male <>t the K annual l-H show, tl , , sue. essl 111 collloduv. mJ .->X ealves. the ..'aihts, lorme.l |K,,,'.e 111.- mid way. ; •akeu KVu A> .iniiity agent th.|K) M | will; lh»- Home E< •<>• show. . .it.-n.h-d tlie at the park r - \ U ■ grand stand wli.-re the display of made h. the 4 II girls . 'AOtnel! was iH T>|. ' e.sisted of the nt dresses made by the women. .ruw.l attended the The judges nig* in all *•♦*- and from the interest ■ showui. Mr Arch'he show one of and most successful in the county. H Announce Placings in the Hold Medal Colt ■-H . shows were anMed today by the judges. Mp M.i .ii i. -4 the Extension Mtn. :.: : \ -i I Husbandry- ■ 0 rni-ersity. judged the Mtn.l T. M he of the Agricul- ■(' ■ ■judged the calves. Mr. Ice Mtssisted by Merwin Miller, ■y cow tester and Reinhold ■way pas: president of the HIJ, B exhibits of livestock includMu* tines- specimens in the y and hundreds of people d the barns during the twohow. Celt Club Awards I colts owned by the followlen in a class of nine grade sure placed as follows: Amos an. J. T Merriman, Jacob ■ I*'-:. '<> ueiischwander. John r. Burkhart Lehman, John ck.Osia Von Gunten and O. T. ’ ■ 1 class of seven pure bred owned by the following men placed as follows: Ed Neuhau!li Habegger. Noah Neiiriischer Eli Hab.-gg.-r, John S< henck ••••••••• ■TINUHD ON PAGE TWO) CISIONWILL EKNOWNSOON bash River Flood Conrol Will Be Decided On In Few Days ‘siifngton, Aug. 19.— Whether Public works program will tn- ! Hood prevention work, with oyment of hundreds, along the Mh river will be determined io a few days. ®- Brown, chief of army engis today conferred with Col. deputy public works admin*°r. in relation to the flood Nation work that may be un--1 along several streams. ’ later to present a list of proapon which engineering work y has been done that would J 1 ’ 1 immediate employment on ■ improvements undertaken, abash river is considered as og under this category. 6 P)esentative Virginia Jenckes Deena champion of the Wariver project and, through aganoa efforts, has succeeded using much public interest J® “Meeting attention of pub°rks officials to the plan that . J* er . ve a wor thy purpose and i k u .t In employment of sevhundred persons.

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Would-Be Thief Badly Wounded Indianapolis, Aug. 19. — <U.R) — Raymond Smith. 33, Louisvi.le. Ky., was in a serious condition In City , hospital here today from shotgun wounds received when he broke into a store last night. Proprietors of the store. Ora jnd Orville Pugh, said they were "tip- , ped off" by an electric alarm they had arranged. They shot Smith, but a second man escaped. Smith's condition was reported as "fair" today. He was shot in the back and arms. CONTINUE WORK AT SUGAR PLANT Steel For New Conveyor System Arrives At Local Plant Today Yard construction work, renovating and repairing of machinery at the Central Sugar factory continues full blast. H. C. Oksen, plant super- ’ intendent announced today. Steel to be used in the construe- ■ tion of the conveyor system for distributing the beets over the flumes arrived on the yard this morning and work will start on this project next week. The city mains are being extended throughout the yards and poles for the transformers were l>eing placed this week. Mr. Oksen stated. "We will be busy every day and will try to get everything completed by the opening of the sugar making season", Mr. Oksen stated The campaign will start between October 10. There is much work to do and several score men will be employed on the job. Move than se uhmi were employed this week on the yard construction > work and in the mill. The Indiana Engineering company of Fort Wayne has the general contract for the yard work. The new roadway is partially constructed and work will start .soon on the pit for the unloading scales. o LIST AWARDS IN 4-H DIVISION Club Show Award Winners Are Announced; Other Winners Monday The awards in the girls 4H club ' division of the club show held at 1 Bellmont Park were completed today by Miss Gladys Klopfens'ein. vocational teacher in the Monroe- | ville high school, judge of the articles in the home economics club and girls club department. The Decatur 4-H Club won first place in the demonstration team contest. Other placings according to their rating are Hartford HapIpy Hustlers; Kirkland Golden Rule, Jefferson Blazers. Monroe Busy Bees. Blue Creek Willing Workers, French Pollyannas. Root Happy Home Makers, St. Marys Kekionga and Wabash Limberlos*. I The names of the winners in the home economics club division were not available today and will , be published Monday. Following is the complete list of placings in the 4-H chib work: First Year Clothing Blue Ribbon placings: Vera • Bauer. Washington 4-H; Mary E. ■ Steiner. French Pollyannas, and i Mary C. Tope. St. Mary’s Willing ■ Workers. I Red Ribbon: Juanita ‘Cable. Kirkland. Golden Rule; Mary E. ■ Arnold. Kirkland; Melba Kraft. ■ Washington 4-H: Mary L. Rab- • bitt. Root, Busy Bees. I Yellow Ribbon; lona Schnepp. - Root. Busy Bees; Violet Brown. ■ Root Busy Bees; Justine Liechty, • French, Pollyannas; Ruby Miller, | (CONTINUED ON PAGE SIX) ' Mission Festival J At Bleek Church i A mission festival will be held • j Sunday. August 20 at the Bleeke i Church. IA German service will be I i held Sunday morning at 9:30 II o’clock, suntime, with Rev. H. Voltz - in charge. Rev. Roden-beck will con--1 duct the afternoon German service I at 2 o’clock and a lecture on mis- ■ sions in China will be given by Rev. I Buuck.

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Secretary Wallace at Fair 3/ ’ SMB -;’**“*■* «■„. ..... V M IW r // YZ i: ■LJJ f Jtf 1 • ' iirJ nBH| 'WM wnr I v Wa MHMMBI- < .OMMMfIMi % W « MMB • Z Secretary’ of Agriculture Henrv Wallace arriving at Chicago’s Fair, where he told lowa dirt farmers how the government expects to carry out its emergency hog program by buying 5.000,000 swine. Secretary Wallace was greeted bv Clifford Gregory (left), editor of a farm paper; Harry S. New. United States CommiMk to the tail- (tMrd from left), aiyl Harvey Srom --. dn.-.-tor ot agriculture at the fair.

PROHILEADERS CONCEDE STATE Dry Leaders Admit Missouri Will Vote For Repeal Today Kansas City. Mo.. Aug. 19.—(U.R) —Dry leaders conceded a wet victory today as .Missouri voted on the 21st (repeal, amendment. Political observers generally agreed the state would be the 22nd to repudi- , ate national prohibition. Despite last minute exhortios by both sides, only a light vote was in prospect with the total expected to be only 500,000, a third of the ballots cast in the November election. The Kansas City JournalPost predicted all 11-1 Missouri counties would vote wet. After futile efforts to halt the election by court action, dry leaders urged adherents to amass as large a vote as possible to insure dry representation in after repeal. * Postmaster General James A. Earley. Governor Guy Park and Kubey Hulen. state Democratic I chairman, urged a large wet vote. St. Louis, Kansas City, St. Joseph. Springfield and Joplin were expected to cast the bulk of the vote. Wet leaders expected to win by at least 3 to 1. Mayor Bernard F. Dickman said 1 St. Louis, a brewery center, would vote wet by approximately “14 to 1.” —o CHANGE RULING ON BEER SALES Announce Draught Beer Can Not Be Sold For Delivery to Homes Indianapolis Aug. 19 — (UP) Refuting a previous informal ruling Atty. Gen. Philip Lutz Jr., announced today that draught beer can not be sold for delivery to homes. That pronouncement left the keg brew available only in eating places and for consumption on the premises. Brewers, importers and wholesalers who sell direct to homes are in danger of losing their permits, Lutz said. The ruling followed issuance of a regulation by Paul P. Fry, state excise director, which prohibits filling of beer buckets by dispensers of the draught 'brew. Fry's regulation i reversed a previous announcement that restaurants, with the additionial SIOO retail permit, could sell draught beer to take out. While the two rulings restrict ■ draught beer sales, they do not interfere with bottled beer purchases from retailers and wholesalers for consumption anywhere.

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Decatur, Indiana, Saturday, August 19, 1933.

Attend Rural Mail Carriers Meeting ' j Mr. and Mrs. W. F. Beery and grandson Billy Buck left at noon 1 i today for Des Moines, lowa, to at- ; tend the national convention of i the rural mail carriers to be held "i August 22 to 25. At the state convention held July 17, 18 and 19, at Madison, Mr. Beery was chosen delegate-at- > large to the national convention. ■Enroute to their home Mr. and ■ I Mrs. Beery will attend the world’s I j fair in Chicago. ‘ Mr. and Mrs. Bert Black of 'Uniondale. Mr. and Mrs. William ■ Clark of Portland and Mr. and ! Mrs. William Bach of Dunkirk will 1 ! also attend the convention. II o— PYTHIAN BAND HEBE AUGUST 25 Pythian Home Band M ill Give Concert Here On That Date i Forty-two cities and towns in northern Indiana will be visited by . the Indiana Pythian Home Band on ■ a six hundred mile booster trip, August 28 to September 2 inclusive. The band is composed of thirty- I two boys and girls from the children’s home maintained at LaFay--1 ette by the Knights of Pythias of Indiana and will be in charge of Mr. and Mrs. W. W. Crooker. Superintendent and Matron of the Pythian Home. Decatur will be visited by the hand on Tuesday. August 29. An evening concert, commencing at J 8:00 will be given under the auspices of Kekionga Lodge No. 65, Knights of Pythias of Decatur, to which the public is invited. The members of the band will be entertained during their stay in Decatur by members of the local lodge. The trip will be made in a special bus owned by the Pythian Home and used during the school year to transport the Pythian Home children to the LaFayette public schools which they attend. A compartment has been provided on top of the bus for the band instruments. The Pythian Home at LaFayette was established by the Knights of Pythias on December 1, 1927. it has the distinction of having been built without incuring one dollar of indebtedness and from the fact that *(CONTINUED ON PAGE THREE) ■ - - --o Junior Band Wil! Rehearse Monday The Junior Band is to meet Monday night at 7:30 o’clock in the Decatur high school auditorium for rehearsal. Every members of the band is requested to be present as Cloverleaf Creamery officials wish to know the number of meal reservations and transportation to ■ be provided for the dairy day at Huntington Thursday.

'DEADLOCK ON CODE BROKEN ’ I Agreement Reached On Code; Others Are Expected to Follow Suit Washington, Aug. 19— (U.R) —A 1 deadlock keeping the great oil. 1 coal and steel industries out of the , ' national recovery ranks was broken by administration pressure to l day when agreement was reached 'on a steel code. Officials were confident smash- ■ ing of the steel blockade, foreI shadowed early action to put the ■ other industries under recovery | codes. General Hugh S. Johnson, hard hitting NRA administrator, drove | the bargain on steel at protracted conferences with magnates that lasted much of the night. Johnson hoped to place the formal code before President Roosevelt before he leaves for his home at Hyde Park. N. Y., tonight. i Quick action by the president was forecast by Johnsons announcement that the president alI ready had approved the agreement made with the steel men. The i agreement was tor a 90-day trial jof a code regulating hours and 1 wages of 406,900 workers with the NftA having a voice in adminisJ tration of the trial code. I Success in forcing the steel in- ’ dustry into an agreement was reI (CONTINUED ON PAGE FIVE) O FIND BODIES IN SECRET GROVES Finding of Bodies Rouses Havana, Cuba, To Revengeful Anger Havana. Aug. 19—(UP)—Havana ; was aroused to vengetul ans-r to- ' day by the discovery of bodies of ! four Cuban patriots in a secret graveyard of the Machado polite under the stables of historic Atares fortress. ' The skulls of some of the vici tims were cracked, said to indicate i they died under torture. | Soldiers, students and members !of the ABC secret revolutionary 1 society dug about the castle today ! for more bodies confident ol finding j additional evidence of the methods | i of the Machadis ta police and seer-1 •, ret service. One of the bodies was that of a .'student, Relix Ernesto Alpizar. It i was taken at once to the National . University and placed in state. ( As news of the find spread, crowds, vowing vengeance on tornier president Gerardo Machado, i moved to the university and filed ( past the body. A commission of students asked ON PAGE TWO)

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YAGER, KIRSCH NAMED AGENTS OF LOCAL BANKS Appointment By State Director As Liquidating Agents Here BANK ATTORNEYS ALSO APPOINTED Appointment of Leo Yager as liquidating agent for the Old Adams County Bank and Mathias Kirsch as liquidating agent tor the Peoples Ixran and Trust Company, both of this city, was made today by R A. McKinley, director of the D part- ' ment of Financial Institutions for the state of (Indiana. Henry B. Heller was named attorney for the Old Adams County Bank and H. H. Myers was appointed attorney for the Peoples Loan and Trust Company. Both the liquidating agents have been in charge of the local financial institutions since they closed. The Peoples latan and Trust closed June 14. 1930 and the Old Adams County Bank closed May 17. 1932. Under the new banking law the state banking department takes over all closed banks and super-, vises liquidation, jurisdiction rest- - ing with the local court. The notices sent to the liquidating agents by S. P. flood, examiner in charge of bank liquidations, stated. "The handling of this liquidation will be in a manner somewhat similar to that of a receivership. The local court has jurisdiction. However. the department of financial institutions will determine the mat- ' ters of policy and should be consulted on transactions of major importance’’. Bond of Mr. Yager was fixed at s2o.t)iio and that of Mr. Kirsch at $5,000. Thq salary of each liquidating agent was fixed at SIOO per month. The appointments were dat(CONTINt'WD ON PAGE SIX) o — - EIGHT LIFERS DENIED PLEAS State Prison Inmates Denied Freedom By State Commission Indianapolis, Aug. 19 —(UP) — Eight life inmates of the state prison were denied freedom today by : the state clemency commission. Lon Henderson. 67-year-o-ld shoemaker, who has spent 40 years of his life at the .state prison, was one of them Sentenced on a charge of burglarizing a Noblesville store in 1913. he fell subject to the habitual : criminal statute providing life imprisonment. Previously he had servI ed 19 years in four terms, one of | them for manslaughter, beginning in IS9O. Another oldtime shoemaker, Eugene Holly, 63, Terre Taute, who began a life term in 1911 after conviction on charges of murdering his wife, also was denied clemency. Although lie admitted association with a Mary E. Owens, whom he married three weeks after his wife i died, he still denies gnilt. Paul J. Herrsal, who in 1924 ! killed a roomer in his home who was intimate with his wife, was denied freedom from his Miami county life sentence. A fourth lifer’s plea lost was that of William Hart, charged with killing his wife in 1917 on a Terre Haute street. George Kessler, 43-ytars-old iron worker and painter, convicted tor (CONTINUED ON PAGE FIVE** 0 Stapleton Funeral Services Monday Funeral services for Ed Stapleton I 72, of 719 Patterson street, who died at the Adams County Memorial I Hospital early Friday morning, will ’ : be held Monday afternoon at 2 | o’clock from the S. E. Black Funeral Home; Rev. Harry Thompson will official at the funeral services and burial will be made in the Decatur cemetery. Friends may view the remains at the Black Funeral Home until time for the funeral. 1

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concert tonight A band concert will be given | at 7 o'clock this evening at the Madison-Second street corner by the Decatur Junior Band, under the direction of David Rice. A concert was also given by the band at the street corner at three o'clock this after- i noon. The concerts were pro- | vided in connection with the | big 4-H club and Home Econ- | omics shows held at Bellmont j Park, Thursday and Friday and Saturday. The Treasure Hunt in progress tin's afternoon and i again tonight were also feat- j tires of the program and the | concerts are given to entertain j , the many visitors here for the | event. | i WOMAN NAMED AS POSTMASTER AT BERNE TODAY Mrs. Arthur Zehr Is Named Acting Postmaster By .1. A. Farley SUCCEEDS FRED ROHRER IN OFFICE Mrs. Arthur Zehr of Berne, today was named acting postmaster of Berne, succeeding Fred Rolirer, incumbent since February 8. 1929. The appointment was announced from Washington by Postmaster General James A. Farley. It was understood that Mrs. Zehr would as-' summe the office Monday. Mr. Rohrer will resume his posi-' ‘ tion as general manager of the i Berne Witness publishing company j a place he vacated when he became ; postmaster. Mrs. Zehr is a sister of Phil L. Macklin of this city. Since her marriage she jas lived in Berne, her husband being a well 'known road contractor. Graduating from the Geneva high school in 1916. Mrs. Zehr attended the Ball state teachers college at Muncie and taught school in Wabash township for two years. She served ID years as Democratic committeewoman and has been active | in party circles all her life. She is the mother of four ( hildren j Mrs. Zehr was one of several applicants for the appointment, recommendation for whicli came from Congressman James I. Farley of Auburn. The office is on u of the important small town postoffices in the district, the salary paid being almost equal to that received by postmasters in towns of s,'iDO population. The Berne postoffice is located in the Witness building. Recently free ■ city delivery was established there, j Proposals are underway for the | building of a new postoffice in Berne, but final action has not yet | been taken by the department. THREE DRIVERS HURT AT RACES Injured Seriously, One Horse Killed In Kendallville Race Kendallville. Ind.. Aug. 19. —(U.R) —Three drivers were injured ser-1 iously and a horse was killed in an accident during a race at the fair here yesterday. The injured are Davey E. Jones.! Van Wert. O„ broken collar bone I and body bruises; Bert Ogier, Laporte, Ind., broken right leg, and ' Walter Wilson, Hicksville. Ohio. I ■ body bruises and possible internal j I injuries. All were taken to Lake- [ side hospital here. Schemer, the horse owned by' Wilson, died a few minutes after I 1 the accident. Seven horses and their drivers were thrown down on the track, when sulkies ran together ami the wheels locked as they rounded a curve. Dies of Excitement Kendallville. Ind.. Aug. 19.—(U.R) — A heart attack induced from ex-, citenient of attending the fair here Thursday caused the death of Marion Eddy. 66, who died at the, wheel of his auto as he drove out I ' through the gate.

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FOUR KILLED AT FT. WAYNE, SIX AT SOUTH BEND Wabash Train Hits Auto At Fort Wayne; Two Trucks Collide NINE INJURED IN ACCIDENTS (By United Press) Two traffic accidents took 10 lives in Indiana today and nine persons were injured, most of them seriously. Six persons were _ killed and seven iniured critically when a truck carrying 30 pers on s home from the world's fair was strudk bv another truck near South Rend. , The dead were Kenneth Lechlitner, 16. Wakarusa: Mr and Mrs. j Walter Berkey, Wakarusa: Mrs. Mary Wisley. 27: Wayne Pippenger. 15. and Gerald Messmore, 16. Leesburg. They were members of a party of 30 farm folk living near Wakaj rusa who had pooled their assets for the one-day holiday at the fair. , They had left Chicago shortly before midnight and most of the vicj tims were sleeping on makeshift i seats in the rear of the ’ruck. , The impact ripped the truck apart, screwing the highway with dead and injured. The second truck, west-bound toward Chicago, did not stop. Hit By Train Fort Wayne. Aug. 19 —RJ.P) — , Four persons were killed and two were injured, one probably fatally, when a Wabash passenger train I struck their automobile here toI day. The dead: I Mr. and Mrs. James Gray. Toledo. O. Nettie Blanche Gray. 7. .their daughter Mrs. Ella Thomas. 35. Toledo. The injured: Mabel Marie Gray, 10, another daughter of the Grays. She is not expected to recover. Izette Gray, 12. a third daughter. Hospital attendants said she (CONTINUED ON PAGE PIX 4 o Josephine Archbold Accepts Position Miss Josephin? Archbold, daugh- ■ ter of Dr. and Mrs. Roy Archbold of this city, was notified this morning to report at the offices of George C. Cole, state superintendent of public instructions, Indianapolis. Monday morning to begin her duties as a clerk in that office. Miss Archbold is a graduate of the Decatur high schools land received her diploma from Indiana University j last June. 0 . ~ Today’s Scores NATIONAL LEAGUE First Game Cincinnati 100 000 001— 2 7 2 Philadelphia 015 240 OOx—l2 17 0 Johnson and Manion; Hansen and Davis. Second Game • Cincinnati 000 000 00 Philadelphia 102 000 00 Benton and Lombardi; Moore and Todd. St. Louis 020 000 0 Brooklyn 000 111 2 Hallahan and O’Farrelf; Benge and Outen. Pittsburgh 000 001 10 Boston 100 111 01 Meine and Grace; Brandt and Spohrer. Chicago 000 000 1 New York 010 220 3 Warneke and Hartnett; Hubbell and Mancuso. AMERICAN LEAGUE — New York 201 1 I Chicago 000 0 Ruffing and Dickey; Durham and Grube. Boston 010 0 Cleveland 100 0 Andrews and Ferrell; Brown and Spencer. Philadelphia 000 00 Detroit 000 04 Walberg and Cochrane; Marberry and Hayworth. Washington St. Louis ' Crowder and Berg; Hadley and Hemsley. Courtesy City Confectionery.