Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 31, Number 198, Decatur, Adams County, 22 August 1933 — Page 1

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RUCK-TRAIN CRASH FATAL TO SEVEN

,:|l JOHNSON .Bomisesto IiHETIILERS ” ■\RkWil! Back Store Krs Against Undue >• ■ Price Raises ■TIM E WORK ■ 0\ COAL CODE Aim. y PJ Administrator Juluisoii prmnised the L nt.nl store owners t { j |l . v would be backed gH \]{\ 111 resisting imiK -'.' mi- .idxmieo IHniiluti'’ nr mi! in I not needed, lie said ' "I inn represenp! l!>- l.nl trade on fair compelition. prii mg i* J ,hil a old h.a.its which will y plan for recovery.” he It will nearly kill the ■,y- file uolden eggs. : 1 ititl'd ign»*rs as a ikrs know what price should be Yon should ami «■ w i l! bark yOll Here again, ■pe .l itV to the people a r " awav market.’' Near Completion UP The .. natb nal reeovio |Kr. t.-rest. of millions oil codes am! retail trade. A bv -he government oi e an I I ,ib.■> troubles of ■ts industry neared ■ strut r lluuh S. Johnson tu finish work on his bv toi..vht He conferr I nearly last midnight with faction* i!i<i ussing var..f ~( )I| P separ ■ with Job: I. I.ewis. presithe I'’;ited Mine Workers. !' M " .w. Pennsylvania ih orgi A (CNeill, repre ~x |. IGE |.-|VK> ■AGO TRUCK ■driver is held Bruit! >rh i:ih Confesses ■o Driving Truck That B Killed Six Rend, in 1 . Aug 22—(UP) 8. hash of Chicago, w is M'lay : oiifes<ii>ii that r of a tru k that col-ano::-..-r near here early killing six persons ento th“ir homes near Wasa Ind a'-.-r a holiday at the Pair. : i ~rtage company. iie|p.«i p U i] several bodies highway After trying to get t ; 1 phone for ambulhe said, ‘e got seared at ■ a'l the bodies and went on Chicago.” Indiana state police officer Schaab's truck from a pi ce tipped off during the crash. was to be questioned to- ■ « n J was expected to be held to H Stand jury on manslaughter His stepson, George, 19, ■ ’as riding in the truck cals H* Schaab, also was held. ■ eat Primers Sent ■ Out By County Agent ■” ea| primers were distributed ■ the county agent's office MonB' “ e Mailing list had to be cut B“. but an effort was made to get B"' 1 " 1 *' 1 ’ or these primers into I. Wheat growB . 1 ng t 0 receive a ropy are K '° obta 4n one from a neighfr ams County Quota I Nearly Subscribed ■ a llas been raised ■ enff Burl j o ] lngou an( j j B, m ? ln on tbe S6OO quota tor K: eou nty for the state radio byntem. ■ Eking town council Monday F“ Ppropriated $54) for the fund. Eli o a ' Bed U ' dat » are; Decatur I ' "*&eva, |126; Berne. »S9O.

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Brooklyn Youth’s Condition Is Fair Edward Waskle, 26, of Brooklyn, . New York, who was injured in an automobile accident which took place Monday morning near Mon- I I roeville, was reported to be getting along as well as could be expected ■ this morning The young men suffered an in- ' jured back and several fractured ribs. He suffered from shock Mon-1 day and it was necessary to take X-ray pictures to determine the extent of his injuries. Haymond Zlelemeski. also of Brooklyn, who was riding with i Waskie. had his left ear practically torn off Theodore Stypenski, own- 1 er of the automobile, was riding in the rumble seat and escaped injury. Zielemeskl and Stypenski left at noon today tor their homes in Brooklyn, and WasHe will remain here at the local hospital for medical treatment. o HIGHER LEVIES ARE EXPECTED Levies For Township Road Bonds and Interest Funds To Increase Levies for township road lx>nds and interest funds will be increased in a number of the townships in the county next year because of the lower taxable valuations and the fact that the levies were too drastically reduced this year. in Washington township the proposed levy is 61 cents on the SIOO, an increase of 24 cents over the rate this year, in Wabash township the proposed rate is 60 cents compared to 25 cents on the SIOO this year. In Blue Creek township the rate for next year is estimated at 52 cents, a boost of 42 cents. over-'tne levy this year. 1 Following is a table showing five proposed rate for 1934, the 1933 rate and the amount of money to be raised by the new levy: Amount Unit 1933 1934 Needed Union 25 18 $1,730.65 Root 35 46 8.522.74 Preble 41 20 3,291.06 Kirkland 12 12 1,840.45 Washington 27 61 38.617.97 St. Marys 10 10 1.380 32 Blue Creek 10 52 4.548.32 j Monroe 12 41 13,698.1 < French ... 10 14 1,135.77] r ’milMikli nN f’Ai'.l' ri-i't Gerald Braun Hurt ' In Fall From Wagon i Gerald Braun. 11 year old son of Mr. and Mrs. Pete Braun of route 5, Decatur, was removed to his home from the Adams County Me- ! mortal Hospital aft r injuries he had reeelv-d Monday, had been . i dressed. , The lad was injured Monday afternoon at 12:30 o'clock when he I fell off a farm wagon. He suff-red , a double fracture of his left arm. COURT RULING FAVORS CODES t . I • • Judge Lindley’s Decision Permits Free Negotiation of Codes ’ j Chicago, Aug. 22—(UP)-Federal ’ anti-trust injunction restrictions which had hinder, d 113 industries ’ in the nation from free negotiation ’ of NRIV codes were removed today I In a test ruling by Federal Judge Walter C. Lindley. The decision was made in the, , case of the Tanner products coml pany which contended anti-trust injunctions issued by Federal courts 1 in recent years on trade codes and ’ price fixing hindered negotiation of L codes under the NRA. 1 ! Anti-trust Injunctions affecting ’ the furniture, candy, kitchen <ab- ‘ inet manufactuers, Tanners and * scores of other industries are sf- ’ fected by the Lindley ruling. Provisions of the Sherman antitrust law and several consent de- ! crees entered in federal court, resI trictlng trade code and price fixing ' agreements, will be set aside and .j industry will be permitted to negotiate under the national recovery administration code provisions, following today’s ruling. ’ The decision paves the way for modification of all anti-trust injunc- .] ' tfons now pending, it was said. r Representing the Tanners at to>7eONTINUETD ON PAOB FIVE)

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HUGE MEETING I SPURS FORWARD RECOVERY PLAN Over 200,000 Attend Recovery Day Program At Indianapolis SUCCESS LIES WITH PUBLIC Indianapolis, Aug. 22. — (U.R) — Spurred by a dauble-barreled charge fired by two national administration leaders, Indiana's industry recovery program surged forward today from a state of organization to one of actual operation. A. L. Raffa, field co-ordinator of the National Recovery Administration. and Secretary of Interior Harold L. Ickes, principal speakers at a state-wide recovery day celebration at Butler university stadium last night, injected the new spirit and attitude. The responsibility for success or failure of the National Recovery Administration rests with the pub-1 lie, they told the mass meeting at the football field and radio listeners. Secretary Ickes addressed the gathering at the football field via | telephone from his office in Washington. Raffa appeared in person and participated in a gigantic parade through the city, witnessed by more than 200.000 persons. More than 200 decorated floats, from all sections of the state, participated in the parade. One accident marred the jubilee. A stunting motorcycle rider participating in the line of march, lost control of his vehicle and it hurtled into a group of spectators, injuring several persons slightly. The motorcyclist. William H. Kolthoff, 26. was arrested on charges of reckless driving and assault and battery. "The public, through the NRA's bloodless, revolution, can lift civilization to greater heights than it ever has known before. Or. by non-co-operation. it can plunge this nation back into a chaos that never (POVriNtTED ON PAGE FIVEI O EXPECT LARGE PRICE BOOST Emergency Program To Raise Hog Prices Begins Tomorrow Washington, Aug. 22. — (U.R) —An emergency program to raise hog prices will begin tomorrow in America's live stock centers. The agricultural adjustment administration estimated today it would cost about $55,000,060 (Ml. Plans called tor the slaughter of 4,000,006 light pigs and 1.000.000 sows which soon are to farrow. The meat will be purchased by the federal emergency relief administration for distribution to the poor. George N. Peek, administrator of the AAA, estimated that the wholesale killing of hogs would reduce the pork supply by 16 per cent, increase hog prices from 25 to 30 per cent and result finally in the farmer receiving from $125,000,000 to $150,000,000 more for his porkers. About $55,000.00 of these benefits will go to farmers for slaughtering their light pigs and their brood sows. The money will come from processing taxes yet to be announced. It was estimated that a half cent a pound tax on live pork would be sufficient. Government buying will begin at St. Paul, Minn.; Sioux City, Iowa; St. Joseph and Kansas City, Mo.; Omaha, Neb., and Chicago. Buying a'so will be started in other markets before Aug. 28. The (CONTINUED ON PAGE E r VE) o Lime Is Available For Beet Growers Beet growers who wish to obtain lime from the Central Sugar com-, pany's lime pit, east of the factory I are asked to get in touch with company officials or with Yost Bros., j at once. While the steam shovel is located at the pit the lime will be j loaded on trucks or wagons for 16 cents a load. Yost Bros., will complete their excavation Wednesday ■and before they move the drag line, beet growers who wish to obtain i the lime are asked to get in touch i with them.

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A Picture of Health ■ -J JI, W . * Kgw B k .-4« -1 t' IS, a (CT* i B p B ; •>: L. J i W v: w ■ w r s '-T' -asswrw- # Gerald Stier. 16. of Petersburg. 111., and Joy Leonard. 13. of Harristown. 111., who won the titles of the healthiest boy and girl in the 4-H Club competition at the Illinois State Fair held at Springfield. 111. Miss Leonard is the youngest winner in the history of the contest.

ASK HOOVER TO GIVE TESTIMONY Will Ask Ex-President To Testify Before Detroit Grand Jury Detroit, M>ch., Aug. 22.—(U.R) —Enforcement of the banking laws by the comptroller of currency in 1930 would have prevented the debacle of collapsed banks in the nation, Senator James Couzens testified before the grand jury inquiry into banks here today. Meanwhile Prosecutor Harry S. Toy dispatched a letter to former President, Herbert Hoover, renewing his earlier request that Mr. Hoover cime here to testify. Couzens testified that Sen ator Glass told him Comptroller Poole and his successor, Ault, had “not enforced the banking laws because they feared a national bank collapse.” Detroit, Aug. 22.—(U.R)- Former President Herbert Hoover will be requested to accept a subpoena to testify before the grand jury investigating bank failures here. Circuit Judge Harry B. Keidan and Prosecutor Harry S. Toy de(CONTTNUED ON PAGE FIVE) ADOLPH HART HURT IN FALL Aged Local Resident Suffers Fractured Shoulder This Morning Adolph Hart, aged resident of this city suffered a fractured right shoulder this morning when he fell a short distance off a step ladder, while painting. Mr. Hart was painting the front of the Pingyy and Carroll Berber shop on Monroe street shortly before eight o'clock this morning. He had climbed about 10 feet on a ladde wh n he became dizzy and fell to the cement sidewalk. He fell on his head and shoulders. He was taken to the city hall, next door, and a physician was called. He was removed to the (Adams County Memorial Hospital where it was learned, he suffered a fractured right cervical. He was badly stunned when taken to the - hoapital. Red Cross Committee Wil! Meet Wednesday, The executive committee of the Red Cross will meet at the Cham- ' ber of Commerce rooms Wednesday night at 7:30 o'clock. Important I business will be discussed and i every member is urged to be preI seat.

Decatur, Indiana, Tuesday, August 22, 1933.

Appropriations Will Be Sought i Request for several additional appropriations will be made to the county council at the regu'ar sess- ; ion of the board. Tuesday, Septem- , ber 5. The appropriations asked i for are: Clerk's office supplies. , $400; clerk of court, clothing and committing patients to state instiI tutions, $150; auditor's office supplies, $200; auditor's office, operating expense. SSO; court house, janitor supplies. SIOO. The county budget will be considered by the county council at the September meeting The tax lexy for next year will also be fixed by the county, based on the total amount needed in the budget. GENEVA WOMAN MAY BE NAMED Mrs. Will Widdows. Apparently Favored For Geneva Postoffice With the appointment of Mrs. , Arthur Zehr as postmaster at Berne. Interest now centers in the naming of a postmaster at Geneva. succeeding the late Earl Shepherd. incumbent who died last Wednesday. Several names have heen mentioned for the place, but it was understood today that Mrs. Will Widdows. well known woman of Geneva and vice-chairwoman of tlie Democratic Central committee of Adams county, had the inside i track in the race. Political gossln was to the effect that Mrs Widdows had already , secured the endersemeuts of precinct committeemen in Geneva and in addition had the approval of members of the central committee. Mrs. Widdows, who has taken an active part in Democratic politics in this county for a number of years, is also a committeewoman I’ron' Geneva. Since a vacancy exists in the , Geneva office, it is likely that a postmaster will be named in the very near future. Several leaders ' In the Democratic parly called on Congressman James I. Farlev today nrg'ng him that Mrs. Widdows be named to the post, oOhio Newspaoer Man Missing Since Sunday Coshocton. O . Aug. 22 —(UP) — : Disappearance of F. S. Wallace, edi- , tor and publisher of the Coshocton : Tribune was revealed today by members of his family after a two day search had failed to reveal his 1 whereabouts. < Wallace was last seen at about 1:00 A. M. Sunday when he left the »■ Tribune office following printing ■ of the Sunday editions. Employes believed he was going to his home, : | but he never appeared there. I ! Robert B. Wallace, a son, was ■ directed the search for the missing I publisher.

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CARAVAN WILL I BEESCORTED BY STATE COPS State Police Will Escort Large Caravan To Cloverleaf Dairy Day LEAVE DECATUR EARLY THURSDAY Escorted by state police the Adi ams County and Western Ohio caravin to the Cloverleaf Dairy Day ; program at Huntington will leave Decatur at about 8:30 o'clock Thursday morning. The Decatur Junior Band. Chamber of Commerce and city officials will also accompany the delegation to Huntington. j ‘ The parade will get under way j as soon as the Ohio people arrive in Decatur. Large delegations are coming from Rockford. Spencerville. Delphos. Van Wert, Willshire. Wren and other points. William . Counterman. Cloverleaf fieldman will head the Ohio delegations to this city. Adams County and Decatur people who will join the caravan are asked to assemble on the east side of Winchester and Second streets, beginning at the Cloverleaf Cream ery plant on Winchester street and extending north on Second street. The caravan will proceed over state route number 16 to Huntington and the state police will guard all railroad crossings on the route. Between three and four thousand people are expected to form the delegation from this section of the state and western Ohio. Farmers and dairymen west of Decatur are invited to join the line of march as it proceeds to Huntington. More than a hundred local business men are planning to attend the dairy day program. Features of the program will be' a cooking school for the women, talks by nationally prominent dairymen. Governor McNutt, former Governor Harry G. Leslie and J. L Kraft of the Kraft Phenix cheese corporation. Chicago. Huntington is planning to entertain 25,000 to 30,000 people. Conference meetings will be held at the lodge rooms in Huntington and the afternoon program will be staged at Heir's park. Chicago Hotel Is Raided By Bandits Chicago, Aug. 22 —(UP) — Five bandits raided the North Park hotel here today, took SI,OOO from a safe and jewelry from 24 safety boxes which thye pried open, and then escaped. Robert D. Hagen, clerk, and four other employes were for cd to lie on the floor. The bandits were in the building nearly an hour and a half, methodically breaking into the safety boxes and carrying away guests' valuables. FIFTEEN DEATHS IN SAINT LOUIS Sleeping Sickness Described As Worst Epidemic In Country St. Louis, Aug. 22.— (U.R) —The 1 outbreak of sleeping sickness in St. Louis was described here today as the worst epidemic of the disease this country had ever known by Dr. J. P. Leake, of the United i States public health service. Three new deaths and 23 new I cases reported yesterday brought the total dead to 15 and the cases now in confinement to 149. since the malady was first observed here in July. "While there is little fear the epidemic will assume the proportions of a plague, the situation i must be regarded as serious, as i science knows little about the dis-! ease,” Dr. Leade said. “It is not related to African sleeping sick--1 ness. but it is by far the worst | epidemic of encephalitis this coun- . try has ever known.” Dr. Leade said the worst former outbreak was at Spokane, Wash., during 1919. 1920 and 1921 when 19 persons died over the three-year period. But the total number of patients did not compare to those already ill here, he said. Dr. Charles Armstrong also of the U. S. health service, joined Dr. *ON PAGiTfiVe). ’

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' French Township Teachers Named The names of the teachers in ; French township who will teach this year have been announced by Edwin Beer, trustee. The French township schools will operate the 1 full length of the term, it was stat j ed. The teachers of the various dis- > trict schools are as follows: No.111, 1 Elmer Ehrsam; No. 2. Naomi Yag er; No. 3. Myron Lehman; No. 4, Marcella Robin; No. 5. Dorothea . Bentz, and No. 6. Albert Stahly. , PROPOSE POOR RELIEF LEVY Thirty-five Cent Levy Is Proposed For Washington Township To repay lhe counly for funds advanced for poor relief and to provide a working balance for 1934 expenditures, a levy of 35 cents on the SIOO is proposed in Washington township for poor relief. The 35 cent levy on the SIOO would raise $22,038. based on the township's assessed valuation of $6,297,091. The levy this year is 12 cents on the SIOO. producing about SB,OOO for the poor fund. | The townshin had a deficit at the beginning of the year and today , is more than $7,000 overdrawn. Poor relief for the next four months must be provided and , it is estimated that the 35 cent levy will wipe out the deficit and provide Trustee T. R. Noll with a small balance next year. The total levy proposed for the township is 95 cents on the hundred dollars. The levy would produce $36,869. including the $22,038 fund for poor relief • The levies proposed on each SIOO are: towni ship general, four cents: tuition. I 25 cents; special school. 30 cents; library, one cent: poor. 35 cents. The Decatur Library board asked that a two cent levy be made in , the township. The tuition fund 'evy this year is 23 cents and the snecial school fund levy is 25 cents on the SIOO. o — SOUND BANKING IS NECESSARY Bank Post Insurance Will Be Put Into Effect January 1 Washington. Aug. 22- - 'U.R) - Concentration of the nation's banking resources into fewer and larger units was seen today as the administration worked out plans to put bank deposit insur ance into effect on Jan. 1. President Roosevelt's advisers realize at a sound banking structure must be preserved if the country’s recovery program is to be a success and have sought to stamp out the paralyzing stream of banking failures. Treasury and banking statistics showed today a steady shift in bank deposits since the war to larger and fewer institutions, with a drastic reduction in the number of institutions doing business. The United States has lost more than half of its banking institu | tions since the all-time peak of ! 30,812 in 1921 but actually has increased its bank deposits from $38,664,987,000 in 1921 to approximately $41,380,047,000 at present. Mergers and liquidations as well ; as the closing during the March holiday of institutions not yet reopened caused the decrease in number of banking institutions. Rut the net result was believed in administration circles to have put the entire banking structure on a sounder basis ami to have made a contribution toward the prospects of success for the bank I deposit insurance plan. Under the 1933 banking act the administration will create the Federal Deposit Insurance corporation to insure deposits of all fed(CrWTTN’TTI’Tn e\: PAGE TWO) —o Berne Pastor Named Committee Member Fort Wayne. Ind.. Aug. 22 —(UP) The Missionary Church association in general conference here last night re-elected the entire body of officers. Rev. H. E. Tropf of Berne was named on the gt neral com-1 miltee.

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SEVEN KILLED AS TRAIN AND TRUCK COLLIDE Four Others Critically Injured In Crash At Railroad Crossing TWO ARE KILLED IN EXPLOSION BULLETIN Michigan City, Ind., Aug. 22. —'(j.p)—Five persons were killed instantly ten rrjiles west of here this afternoon when the i auto in which they were riding was demoniished bv a New York Central mail train. The victims, three women, a boy and a girl, all were believed to be residents of Alberta, Canada. Bodies were strewn along the railroad and badly mangled. Identification could not be learned immediately. All five bodies were taken to a Chesterton mortuary. Lumberton, N. C„ Aug. 22 - (U.R) Seven persons were killed and live others injured, four criticallv, when a tobacco truck from Deen Run crashed into the side of a seaboard airline passenger train at Fairmont Road crossing near here today. All of tlie dead and injured were riding on the tobacco truck. Reports here said the brakes on the heavily-laden transport tailed to hold going down the hill leading to the crossing. Bodies of the victims and wreckage of the truck were strewn along the railroad right-of-way for 300 yards. The train. No. 14 of the seaboard airline, was not derailed. Three occiipaij s of the truck ’ were dead when physicians reached the scene. Two others died en route to a hospital here and the other two died shortly after reach- * CONTINITEP GN PAGE TWO) oToday’s Scores NATIONAL LEAGUE Pittsburgh 001 120 000 000 Boston 202 000 000 000 Smith and Finney; Frankhouse and Spohrer. Other games postponed—Rain. AMERICAN LEAGUE First Game Boston 100 000 000—1 71 Chicago 010 402 01x—8 15 0 Rhodes and Ferrell; Lyons and Grube. Second Game Boston ... 000 Chicago 101 Brown and Gooch; Heving and Grube. New York 000 200 Cleveland 000 020 Gomez and Dickey; Harder and Spencer. Washington 000 01 Detroit 010 10 Weaver and Sewell; Sorrell and Hayworth. Philadelphia 2 St. Louis 0 Mahaffey and Cochrane; Knott and Hemsley. o . THIEVES BREAK IN FREIGHT MR Cigarets An d Suckers Stolen From Freight Car Last Night Thieves broke into “afreight ear on the Erie tracks sometime after : 10 o’clock last night and stole a j case of cigarets and a earton of all-day suckers, consigned to McConnell and Son of this city. R. E. Grady, chief clerk at the station left the office at 10 o'clock and seals had been placed on the car. This morning tlie seals were broken and the door of the car opened. 1 nvestigation showed that : the cigarets and candy wer° stolen. Sheriff Burl Johnson was notified and an investigation was started at once. Sheriff Johnson expressed the i belief that local talent pulled the job.