Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 31, Number 209, Decatur, Adams County, 5 September 1933 — Page 1

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sIIIMENT II! HIGHER ■NLASnEAR in Organized : Kmul Enrollments Export'd ■| QE 1.366 ><.K n I’H" i x —— <''•!' "1 M’hool ■ L pupils en- - the pul'll*. *at nolle ' sch'>'H- in this Th:- i' 1- more ■' y«-ur ago. ’-'■■enn'limer: .;; the dis''Kthools foUow: jneies gr-<b‘< 311* high school 87 ■ graU. - 16 ■ K,.- ■ |JHL JI V.-.l r ., : t.rst <l,iy. At 'h*‘ -\'. and seventh ■tt laugh: R*‘'. Paul ;1 ,- is the teacher. " public ~M r < - X..rtb ward, nt: Hil'-.v build<a':.- - 31' were 5 m - aini '7 . < •» ;•■•„■ in ■■ I high school, -a .1 olineeil Ilia' ~ received u'aduates of tile -jke graduate this •►•;■ ~\ ■ ■ v.f. THUEE) — ( , — ■Decatur Women I Hurt In Accident ■ iljr.r 1 J r ■■!■ i.t w hull near kford, Ohio. Mr- Fr-d 'A of route Adam- . Memo: | C Wii'a-h who was rid Mr. and Mrs. Worst, rebroket: .in th- acida deep over the left W:'.:.i*h was removed S'en -he accident to home. :, i"n' d m ar Ho. kMonday, when Mr. ■*' *a- v or. applied the suddenly, swinging the car side ausing the automoupset in the ditch. o Way’s Scores fcIONAL LEAGUE 000 100 K' h 003 no K and Mancuso; French Wrice. Mmes scheduled. fcwCAN LEAGUE M First Game B'° rl< 000 000 001—1 3 2 ■* ohl ’ 000 013 02x—6 8 0 Dickey; Mahaffey and I Second Game B? rk ■ 100 31 ■“'Phia 202 00 ’nd Dickey; Cain and K> First Gamg B 1 on 002 000 000 21—5 10 2 K" 000 100 010 20—4 11 2 ■Y ' ’nd Sewell; Rhodes and ML x Second Game ■**"- 10 R. ■ ehl| l’nd Sewell; Welch and ■*’ O’mes scheduled. f eB X City Confectionery

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Convicted as Spy Lp* 1/ *•**• WI | I ? 'T > • F I J Corporal Ralph Osman. IT. S. Arnty. a native of Broklyn. N. Y.. who was convicted by court martial at Cristobal. C. Z„ with espionage in connection with the secret military defenses of the Panama Canal. He was seuetneed to two yeais at hard labor and fined >IO,OOO. WREN YOUTH IS CRASH VICTIM Loy Eddy, Son of Rev. G. A. Eddy, Fatally Hurt Saturday Evening A merry excursion of eight Wren boys to the old swimming hole at Wi’lshire. Ohio, was turned into a tragedy Saturday evening about four o'clock, when the car. in which the hoys were riding col'ided with a semitrailer truck, driven by Charles Foltz of Fort Wayne. One of the boys, toy Eddy, age 14. was so badly injured that he died at 11 o'clock Saturday evening in the Van Wert hospital. The accident occurred on state highway 49, a mile and a half south of Wren. The boys, including Garland, Cliffton and Eddy. Jason Moser, Dan Erwin, Carl Fetheroff. Theron Du'l. Dorel Clifton and Vincent Sweet were riding in tile roadster, headed for the Willshire stone quarry for a swim Eddy was seated on Moser's lap with his legs extending through the door. Both legs were broken and he received internal injuries. Moser was rendered unconscious and Erwin was quite badly shaken up while the others all received bruises and slight cuts. Foutz. driver of the truck was not injured The roadster was badly wrecked. The lad who was fatally injured was the son of Rev. and Mrs. G. A. Eddy, of the Radical United Brethren church at Wren. He was but **(CONTINGSm ON PAGE SIX) HURRICANES CAUSE DAMAGE T r o n i c a l Hurricanes Cause Heavy Damage In Texas And Florida (By United Press) Tropical hurricanes, each of terrific intensity, menaced two sections of the United States today. One was lashing the southern Texas coast near the Mexican ■ border. The other was moving across a corner of the Gulf of Mexico toward the northwest part of Florida after it cut a path across the Florida peninsula. The Texas hurricane was the ' same one that caused a death toll of approximatley IM in Cuba Saturday. It isolated the towns of Brownsville. Port Isabel. and many small communities. Corpus Christi was partly inundated by heavy rains. Property damage will reach at least $1,000,000. The Florida hurricane blew in on the Florida East coast from the > Bahamas Sunday night. Last night it passed onto the gulf above Tampa, traveling northwesterly. The * 7 *tCONTINIPBD ON PAGE SIX)

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AUTOMOBILES KILL SIXTEEN OVER WEEKEND Highways Crowded With Motorists During ThreeDay Holiday OTHER PERSONS BADLY INJURED Indianapolis, Sept. 5. — (U.R) — Automobile accidents resulted in 16 deaths in Indiana over the week-end as Labor Day excursions crowded highways with thousands of motorists. Many persons were injured, some so seriously that they may die. The list of dead follows: Mrs. Mary Sweeney, 45, Evansville. Mrs. Samuel Rothschild, 52, Chicago. John Kolberg, 67, Chicago. Edward Oszust, 9. Michigan City. William Emmons. 56. South Bend. Mrs. Emmons, his wife. Orville Morris Bolin, 20, Cannelton. Edward Ball. 19, Cannelton. Henry Rumpel, Sr., 73, Jeffersonville. Charles Noble, 12. Lafayette. Brodie Ryan. 40, Elwood. Harry O. Elston. 42. Brookston. William H. Welker. 63. Portland, Ore. Mrs. Della Hackell, New Buffalo. Richard Weir, 4. West Lafayette. Mrs. Frances Johnson. 22. Fort Wayne. The Weir boy died from injuries received when he was thrown from an automobile driven by his grandt'ater. Charles Weir. Remington. Mrs Johnson, wife of Ray Johnson, was killed instantly in an automobile accident at Tri-Lakes. Harold Goldsmith. Fort Wayne, driver of the car. was seriously injured. Mrs. Sweeney was killed when the automobile in which she was riding with her husband. Earl, collided with another automobile at the intersection 0 froads 4! and 61. Sweeney and two otiters were injured. • Mr. and Mrs. Emmons met death when their automobile crashed into a utility pole on sate road 39, six miles south of Frankfort, yester(CONTINURD ON PAG® BIX) WARREN PEOPLE HURT IN WRECK Mrs. I rpc e 1 Hall And Daughter Injured In Crash Near Geneva Mrs. Upeel Hall, 34. and daughter Mary Lucille Hall, 11. of Warren, are patients at the Adams County Memorial Hospital suffering from inpuries received in an automobile accident one and onMtalf miles west of Beneva. Monday noon. Mrs. Hall suffered a severe scalp wound, a fractured collar bone on the right side, ami a number of glass cuts. The daughter also received a scalp wound and two deep cuts in the back. Mrs. Hall is a daughter of Dan Conner of Geneva, and was enroute with her daughter to that place to visit with him. Mr. Hall is a teacher in the Warren schools. Mrs. Hall was driving east toward Geneva and collided with the automobile driven by Lewis Sprunger stock buyer of Berne, who was going south on a side road. The Hall was turned completely around by . the collision, and thrown against the fence, breaking down the corner post. Mr. Sprunger received only minor scratches. The mother ami daughter will remain at the local hospital for medical care. o Premature Baby Is Buried Today The premature baby born to Mr. and Mrs. Eugene Foreman. 112 W. Monroe street, was buried today in Mt. Hope cemetery, east of Decatur. The birth occurred Sunday and ths corpse was first buried in the Treple field, east of the Monroe street river bridge and later removed by boys. It was taken to a local undertaker and burial in Mt. Hope 1 took place this afternoon.

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Decatur, Indiana, Tuesday, September 5, 1933.

Phillip Terry Has Leg Broken Phillip Terry 16. of 2185 McKinley avenue. Lakewood. Ohio, who has been in this city for the past week visiting at the W. A. Klepper home on Merc- r Anevue. suffered a fractured leg Saturday night, when he slipped and fell on the wet sidewalk. The lad was running to the automobile parked In front of the Klepp r home at about 6:30 o’clock Saturday evening, when he slipped and fell, twisting his leg. Both bones in the left leg were fractured. He was removed to the Adams County Memorial Hospital where the injury wag dressed and was later taken to the Klepper home. He was taken to his home in Lakewood, Ohio, Monday, accomi>anied by his mother, Mrs. Daisy Terry and sister and brother, Doris and Walter, who have also visited with the Klepper family for the last week. o— LOCAL COMPANY REDUCES STOCK Capital Stock of Telephone Company Reduced; Officers Chosen At the 39th annual meeting of the stockholders of the Citizens Telephone Company held at the company’s office in this city last evening ft was voted to reduce the capital stock from 37.500 shares no par value to 30,000 shares no par value The reduction in capital stock 1 will become effective after September 15th. Leo Yager, president ot the company announced The election of directors and selection of officers also took place at tile meet- ’ ing. No change was made in the personnel of the hoard of directors or in the officers. 1 The following directors were ' elected. Mr. Yager, H. F. Ehinger. C. J. Voglewede, S. E. Hite. C. E. Bell. The officers are, Mr. Yager, president; Mr Hite, vice-president; Mr. Voglewede, treasurer; Mr. Ehinger, secretary and general man--1 ager. ’ About 31.000 shares of stock were • represented at the meeting last night. The reduction in capital stock is equal to 20 per cent of the former capitalization Reports of the year's business were read by Mr. Ehinger. The announcement was made that during the month of August the first gain in more than two years had been made. Several new telephones were installed iast month and the management is hopeful that proI gress. in keeping with better business conditions will continue. The telephone company will operate on the Independent Telephone company code, beginning September 18. The code provides a maximum hour week of 48 hours and a minimum wage of $11.40 per week. The directors voted last night to , comply with every provision of the (CONTINUB7D ON PAGE SIX) HARVEY BAILEY IS RECAPTURED Notorious Killer Recaptured Few Hours After Escaping Jail — Oklahoma City, Sept. 5.— (U.R) — Twenty guards were placed around the cell of Harvey Bailey, notorious killer, kidnaper, and bandit, today as authorities anticipated the chance of a desperate underworld attempt to liberate the man who accomplished the seeming impossible and escaped from the Dallas county Jail yesterday. Bailey had only a few hours of liberty, but authorities were given , a clear intimation of the cleverness and resources of their prisonI er. While he was being captured I at Ardmore, police fought a carload of underworld machine gunners at Enid. 150 miles north. The • gunmen escaped. They were believed friends of Bailey, heading south to meet him. Authorities opened a vigorous investigation of how he obtained the pistol with which he forced his way out of the supposedly escape proof Dallas jail where he was (CONTINUED ON PAGE SIX) ‘

NRA CANVASS SCHEDULED TO OPEN TOMORROW Drive To Enroll Citizens Under NRA Will Be Started Wednesday HOUSEHOLDERS TO SUPPORT SIGNERS The city-wide canvass to enroll every employer and householder und r the NRA. will begin Wednesday. Mayor G orge Krick, < hairman of the local committee announced today. The canvass was delayed because the cards were not received by tho local committee. Last Saturday a supply of cards for the householder was re eived and instri'ctions given the Chamber of Commerce that the unemploymemnt and employer cards should b printed locally ,as the state committee could not furnish them at this time. The cards were printed today. The ward captains are W. A. Lower. J. L. Kocher ami Leo Kirsch They will name assistants in each ward and begin the canvass Wednesday. The general committee of the NRA in this city is composed of Mayor Krick. I. Bernstein, E. W. LBnikanau, D. M. Niblick. C. C. Pumphrey, H. C. Oksen, Dr. G-raid Kohne. Roy Runyon. Frank Carrol! James Elberson. It is the purpose of th'- campaign to enlist every household in the city under the NRA and to secure information from employers as to how many men have been added to the force and how much wages have been increased since they secured the Blue Eagle. Cards for listing all unemployed in the city are to be filled out. Housewives and householders will be asked to patronize those place of business which display the Blue Eagle and abide by the pro- ’ visions of the President's reemployment agreement. The intent of this code is to create employment and increase wages, it is expected that the drive will be completed in a fewdays and every effort will be mad to secure the signature of every individual in the city. TRUSTEE NOLL GIVES REPORT Washington Township Trustee Gives August Poor Relief Report Expenditures for poor relief in Washington township during August totaled $1204.31, Trustee T. A. Noll announced today.. The August bill was $418.54 more than the Puly allowances. The largest items in the August report are for medical and dental care and hospitalization. Trustee Noll extended aid to 79 families, affecting 311 people. He i also extended aid to 10 single persons and one transient. The report of expenditures follows: Food. $216.25; clothing. $9.61, fuel. $8.75 medical and dental care $503; hospitalization. $357.70; ambulance and burial. $75; transients. ! $34. In July the hospitalization bill amounted only to $160.25. Trustee Noll stated clothing and shoes were distributed to school children last month. The Red Cross has also distributed clothing to school children. Persons wishing to help the needy are asked to send their donations to relief headquarters maintained in the old Moose • home on North Third street. o Soy Beans Raised By Use Os Sludge Lawren e Smith, farming th- Ray Smith farm adjacent to the county i farm, has raised a crop of soy beans ! j reaching six feet in height, on a I thin clay knob. The farm was limed | with sludge from the Central Sugar company's mill pond. This is the first crop ever produce on rhe knob, 1 and was made possible by the use , I of the sludge. i

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COUNCIL OPENS STUDY OF 1934 COUNTY BUDGET County Council Begins Study of Officials’ Estimates WILL FIX TAX LEVY FOR 1934 The Adams County Council began a study of the estimates in the county budget for next year, devoting most of the day to hearings with county officials, the commissioners and delegations interested in the annual tax making program. • The councilmen met back of closed doors and admittance to the chamber was guarded by County Auditor Glen Cowan, clerk of the board. The council will be in session Wednesday or adjourn this evening until a later date when final draft of the appropriations will be made and a tax levy tor 1934 will be determined A committee representing the Adams County Taxpayers Association appeared before tlie council. The delegation was composed of Ralph Myers, president of the association and spokesman for the comi mittee: Harlo Mann, Frank Heller, - John Mosure. a former county auditor and Alfred Romey. Their plea was lower taxes, regardless of how it was done. Mr. Myers read an article written by a former federal official in which it was claimed that 70 per cent ot ; all taxes raised were wasted. County Auditor Cowan informed the delegation that the county's records and disbursement books were open to the public at all times and that if anyone wanted to check them they were welcome to do so. The answer was made that the statement did rot apply to Adams county. No plan or suggestion as to where taxes should be cut was given by the taxpayers' representatives. They stated that their organization had sufficient members ’ to see that taxes were lowered and requested that cuts be made. Budget Totals $147,000 The county budget totals $147,-< 000. which based on the lower vain- 1 ation figures this year, wou’d require a 72-cent levy on each SIOO I of taxables. This proposed rate is • • •*•*«♦***« (CONTINUED ON PAGE THREE) 0 NRA Postage Stamps Are Received Here The Decatur postoffice has re-: ceived a supply of the new NRA postage stamps. They are the same size as the special stamps issued in observance of the world's fair and bear the pictures of four peo-1 pie. They are three cent stamps and the local office received a 30 days supplyRECORD CROWD AT STATE FAIR 70,000 Persons Visit Indiana Fair At Indianapolis Monday ■ Indianapolis. Sept. 5. —(U.R) —En- j thused by the record Labor Day at-; : tendance, officials of the Indiana { State Fair predicted today that j this year's exposition would he the most successful since 1929. It was estimated that 70,000 persons visited the fair grounds yesterdya. Paid admissions at the gate were 45.486. In addition many tickets had been sold in advance. Today was set aside for United i States soldiers. All persons weari ing uniforms were admitted free | ' along with children under 12. Farmers and former members of the State Board of Agriculture will be honored tomorrow. Judging of livestock featured yesterday's program. J. W. Van Atta, Lafayette, for the second conj secutive year won the grand chamnionship in the steer class with Lawrence, a Hereford. William Dickinson. Delphi 4-H clnh memi ber, won second prize with an 1 Aberdeen-Angus steer.

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Finds Sleep Virus 1 ■ w IBw,, 1 Y ’ I N., — ■ — •" Discovery by Dr. Margaret G. . Smith of Washington University ( medical school, St. Louis. Mo., of < the virus of lite slepeing sickness germ is hailed as an important step in the struggle to combat the , strange illness which has claimed more than 50 lives. More than 400 persons have been stricken by 1 slepeing sickness in St. Louis and vicinity since August 1. LOCAL PASTOR IS RETURNED Dr. Charles J. Roberts ReAssigned to Local U. B. Church Dr. Charles J. Roberts, for the past year pastor of the United Brethren church of this city, lias been re-assigned to the local church. The assignments of ministers were read at the closing session of the St Joseph conference 1 of the church, held at Winona Lake ' I ' Sunday. The Rev. A. F. Knepp of Warsaw. was re-elected conference sup- | erlntendent. Several changes in ministers were made in the conferI ence. j The 89th annual St. Joseph con- < I ference of the United Brethren t ! church opened at Winona Lake : last Wednesday an d continued ; throughout Sunday, closing witli < ; tlie reading of the Ministerial appointments by Bishop H. H. Fout ; of Indianapolis. Approximately five thousand members of the United Brethren church, representing the entire dis- f | trict, heard the closing day ser-1 mon delivered by Bishop Font. ■ Rev. Roberts has conducted a I successful pastorate in this city for | the past year and tlie members of the congregation ate pleased with! : his reappointment to the local ! church. i The ministerial assignments in j this territory are as follows: Butler, C. W. Price; But’er eir-i (CONTIN't'RO ON PAGE SIX> | oMinisters Meet Wednesday Morning , ' i The Decatur Ministerial Associa- ( tion will meet at the Evangelical ; Churh parsonage on Winchester ( street Wednesday morning at 10' . ' o'clock. o— K. of C. Meeting Wednesday Night The K. of C. meeting schedub d | for tonight, has been postponed to Wednesday night. Tlie meeting will open promptly at 8 o'clock. o Luther Yager Is Reported Missing Luther Yager. 21. son of Mr. and i Mrs. Lawrence Yager of Berne, has disappeared from the University of Michigan Biological School at Sheboygan. Michigan, where he had been taking a summer course, it was stated today. The young man is reported to have left the school ten days ago to return to I his home in Berne, but nothing has been heard from him. Police investigating the case have found | no trace of him, it was learned.

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FOUR WARSHIPS ARE ORDERED TO SAIL FOR CUBA Cuban Cabinet And Pres. Des Cespedes Resign Posts Today ENLISTED MEN LEAD REVOLT Iltivanti, ('.iilm, St'i)l. (U.R; Tilt 1 three weeks’ old government of President Carlos Manuel DeCesnedes was overthrown today by a revolution. First, the entire cabinet resigned and then the president submitted to the revolutionary movement, the backbone of which is the enlisted men of the army. It was equivalent to a resignation but De Cespedes did not submit a formal one merely submitting to the movement's force and stepping out of the presidency in that manner. He left for his home and the revolutionary executive commission took possession of the presidential palace, taking over the government until a new one is formed. The commission appeared on a balcony while supporters of the movement crowded in front, cheering the change. A platoon of infantry, accompanied by a color guard, paid honors to the new rulers. The revolutionary elements demanded the government resign as unrepresentative of the people and make way for a new provisional government which would call a constituent assembly to enact constitutional reforms before any attempt was made to hold an election. Returning political exiles declared in their first statements. <I'ONTINT'Ht> on CAGE SIX) Brother Os Local Woman Is Dead C. A. Thompson. 62. of Lincoln. Nebraska, brother of Mrs. Maude Dorwin of this city, died at his home Friday morning following a two weeks illness of heart disease. Mr. Thompson, a former resident of Adams County had employed with the railroad at Lincoln, for a number of years. Mr. Thompson was a son of Mr. and Mrs. Howard Thompson, deceased. and resided in Adams county for a number of years. Surviving are the widow and one son. Donald. and the following brothers and sisters: Mrs. Jim A. H ndricks and Mrs. I. R. Haines of Monroe; Mrs. Maude Dorwin of Deratur; E. K. Thompson of Van Wert, Ohio. Mr. and Mrs. E. K. Thompson went to Lincoln. Nebraska to attend the funeral services. o FORMER LOCAL MAN IS KILLED Harry Kookens Killed In Automobile Accident Monday Night Word was received her? today of the death of Harry Kook ns, 60. of Hammond, a resident of Decatur for many years, who was killed Monday night in an automobile accident. Complete particulars of the accident were not learned. The deceased resided in Decatur for many years moving to Hammond about 16 y ars ago. He was united in marriage h >re to Elizabeth Fuhrman, who survives. For many years be was employed with the Krick and Tyndall Tile factory and since moving to Hammond had been employed as janitor of the public schools. Surviving besides the widow are a d.rugliter. Miss Alma Kookens. a former teacher in tlie Decatur bools, and Fred Kook ns. both of Hammond. Funeral services will be held from the First Evangelical Church in this ity Friday afternoon at 2 o'< lock with tlie Rev. M. W. Sundermann officiating. S. E. Black will leave early Thursday morning for Hammond to return the body to this city and friends may view the remains at the Black Funeral Home Thursday afternoon at 2:30 o'clock until time for the funeral.