Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 31, Number 210, Decatur, Adams County, 6 September 1933 — Page 1

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MOS FISHER DROWNS IN CITY POOL

I)untv’s Tax Levy Fixed At 68 Cents; Estimates Pruned

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Vol. XXXI. No. 210.

Rev. Gibbs Speaks At Li'ons Meeting Rev. C. P- Gibbs, pastor of the .Methodist Episcopal church, addressed the meeting of the Lions Club held at the Rice Hotel, Tues day night. He spoke on the sub ject, "The Need Today of the Spirit of '76 ” Rdy Mumma had charge of the program. NO OBJECTIONS TO CITY LEVY Council Will Adopt Budget Sept. 15; Salaries Fixed For Next Year Final adoption of the civil city’s budget and tax levy for next y- ar will take place at a special meeting of the council on Friday. September 15, it was announced at the council meeting last evening At the formal hearing on the budget last evening not a single person appeared to offer objection to the estimates and proposed levy for next year. The levy proposed by the council is 45 cents on the hundred dollars, an increase of five cents over .the rate this year. The city budget totals 129.030.00, of which 19.900.00 will be obtained from revenue other than direct taxes. The amount to be raised through taxation is |18,130.0>A A 45 cent levy, figur-d on the city’s valuation of $4,295,443.00. will produce approximately $19,130 00. Salaries of city officials for 1934 were fixed by ordinance and in keeping with the schedule specified by the state legislature. The salaries follow: Mayor, $900; elenk. SISOOO, lieu surer. 842*k >w«nev4men, sliW each; street commissioner, $1500; city attorney $500; chief of police. $1200; members of health •board. $300; fire chief, $1365; county auditor for collecting city’s tax, $75. Bills were allowed at tne meeting last night and adjournment followed. INJURIES FATAL TO DECATUR MAN Keith Davis, G. E. Employe, Dies From Injuries Received .July 30 ; Keith Davis. 31. an employe of the DeiMtur works of the Gepera’ Electric company, died at Robert Long hospital, Indianapolis. Tuesday afternoon at 1:30 o'clock of injuries received in an automobi'e accident on July 30. The injured man had been in a serious condition for several weeks. He received an injury to the abdomen and his condition was pronounced critical He was riding with John Dierkes, of this city, on U. S.- road 27. about five miles north of Decatur, when Dierkes lost control of the car and ran into a ditch. Mr. Davis was removed from the Adams County Memorial hospital to Indianapolis on August 22. Richard Keith Davis was born in Monroe, November 27, 1901, a son 1 of Frank and Elizabeth Davis, both deceased. He attended school at the Debolt school west of Monroe, i and for the last 10 years had made his home with his sister. Mrs. Milt ■ Brown, 1109 West Monroe street, < Decatur and had been employed at 1 the local General Electric plant. ' Surviving are the following ' brothers and sisters: Clarence 1 Davis, Fort Wayne; Leona Davis, ' Monroe; Mrs. Dessie Brown. De- • catur, and Mrs. Nellie Dellinger. »' Willshire, Ohio. t I Funeral services will be held > from the Brown home. Monroe ’ street, Friday morning at. 10 I o’clock, standard time, and burial ; will be made in the Ray cemetery ■ at Monroe. ■ The body was removed from the - hospital in Indianapolis to the S. E Black Funeral Home in this t city, Tuesday night. I o- ; 0. P. McFarren Dies At Bluffton O. P. McFarren. 64, prominent Hartford City grocer, died at 7:00 * o'clock Wednesday at the Wells couftty hospital at Bluffton following .several weeks Illness from cancer.

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WOMEN ASSIST IN NRA DRIVE City Wide Canvass to Enroll Housewives Gets Underway Today The NRA canvass got underway In t*e«ahvr today and solicitors were calling at the honi s obtaining signatures to consumer cards. A meeting of the general committee, called by Mayor George Krick was helttat the city hall last evening and cards distributed to the ward captains. Lieutenants in the different precincts were named by several of the captains. The women were called to assist in making the canvass in First ward ‘'A” precin t. Fred Mills, captain, announced the following committee of women who will assist him in making the canvass in his precinct. Th y are: Mrs John Heller Mrs. Frank Crist. Mrs. Bert Mangold, Mrs. E. A. Beavers. Mrs. W. O. Little, Mrs. Cecil Mel hi, Mrs. Will Lose. Mrs. Dick Burdge, Mrs. Amos Ketchum. Mrs. Fred Engle, Mrs. Earl Adams. Miss Madge Hite, Mrs. Virgil Krick. The consumer cards bear the inscription that m tubers of the household will patronize those places of business operating under the provisions of the President's reemployment agreement. The other ward organizations will he perfected today or Thursday and the city-wide canvass, including the manufacturing and business district, will be underway in full blast by the end of the week. The general committee hopes that the (CONTINPED ON PAGE THREE) MADMEN TRY PRISON BREAK Four Criminal Attehipt to Break From Matteawan; One Man Killed Matteawan. N. Y., Sept. 6. —<U.R) : Four criminal madmen who “want , ed to go home." attempted to shoot their way out of the Matteawan . Insane Hospital today with a .22 caliber pistol loaded with blank I cartridges. One was kill <l. another ' was wounded, and the others were 1 subdued after a tear gas bombardI ment that lasted four hours. The entire institution was in 1 shreking uproar during the dark ‘ hours of early morning while the four maniacs, barricaded in a ' small room, stood off a heavy force of police and state troopers. At day break in reply to a final demand for surrender. Ray Fisher, committed from Bnflalo in 1932, opened the door and advanced t with what appeared to be a re- ( volver in ills hand. <A guard shot ' him, killing him Instantly. The bullet, passing through Fisher, lodged in the leg of Sdielly Mar*’continued ON PAGE FOUR* *

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Decatur, Indiana, Wednesday, September 6, 1933.

Nimble Deer Makes A Quick Get-away Watkins Glen. N. Y.. Sept. 6, — ' (U.R>—The deer which a small army of men have tried vainly to rescue from a natural prison on a ‘ rocky ledge, today essayed its own escape and scampered off into the forest. At dawn park guards were low- , ered to the ’.edge from the cliff ( above. It w\u) their purpose to ’ frighten the deer over a narrow bridge which had been constructed to give it a path to freedom. Carefully they maneuvered the deer into position at the bridge, fearing that a false move would cause it to leap into the chasm and death. Instead the deer raced along the edge of the ledge, picked out the place where the drop to the streambed was the least, and slid ' safely down. It was a 35-foot slide and the deer landed on its feet, unharmed. KOOKEN RITES HERE FRIDAY Services To Be Held For Harry Kooken At First Evangelical Church Funeral services for Harry i Kooken. 63, of Hammond, a former resident of Decatur, who was kill- ■ l ed in an accident at Hammond Monday night, will be held from I 1 the First Evangelical Church in : ’ this city Friday afternoon at 2 ■ o'clock. Rev. M. W. Sundermann will officitae. The newspaper account of the accident in which Mr. Kooken lost •his life follows: , “Struck by a machine last night i as he crossed the thorouhgfare at the Conkey street grade crossing t of the Monon railroad. Harry Kooken. 63. 416 Highland street. Hammond, was killed almost inI stantly. Blood stains on the pave- , 1 ment indicated Kooken's body was ' dragged more than 100 feet. “Kooken had just descended from the tower at the crossing to 1 place a lighted signal lamp »n a lowered gate when he was struck by a machine driven by Arnold ' Millss, 22. 510 165th street. Ham- ' mond. an electrician, who was ' driving west on Conkey street. “Mills removed the fatally f n(CONTtNVEn nV ’•AGE FGTTP) Mary Maxine Brown To Enter Wittenberg ' Miss Mary Maxine Brown. 320 i Line treet. has formally applied for i admittance to Wittenberg College, ; Springfield. 0., and is expected to ' be present at the beginning of the ' , new ear. Saturda. September 9. : Freshmen will meet for their first convocation at 10:30 a. tn., 1 Saturday at the old Recitation hall. Three days for acclimatization are ' provided again this year, before the return of sophomores, Juniors and seniors.

ENGINEER DID NOT SEE SIGNAL I I . Wreck of Crack Erie Train Blamed on Engineer; 14 Persons Killed Binghampton, N. Y.. Sept. 6 — ' 0 1 Rj .Failure of an engineer to jj.ee danger signals was blamed by railroad officials today for the wreck of the crack Atlantic Express, the Erie rai'road's fast Chicago-New York train, which killed 14 passengers and injured 25. An eight-car tpilk train plowed into the rear end ot the passenger train, which had stopped on the main Erie track within the Binghamton city limits at 8:3o o’clock last night in response to an automatic block signal. The heavy locomotive plunged eight feet into the steel observation coach. The next coach, a steel Pullman, was telescoped into a wooden day coach directly ahead ot it Almost all of the dead and the injured were in 1 the wooden coach. The signal that stopped the passenger train automatically set a caution signal at the h ock behind where the passenger train had ’ stopped, and this should have halted the oncoming milk train. F'agman A. C. Morris of the passenger train set dynamite caps on the rails after his train halted and tried to signal with a ianterrt M. H. King, engineer of the milk train, immediately reported to railroad officials. He was not hurt, nor was any member of his crew. D. H Shea, his conductor, said he did not see the signa's until it was (COX’TINIJF.D ON PAGE THREE) ROOSEVELT AND JOHNSON CONFER President To Take I p Henry Ford's Failure to Come Under NRA Code , Washington. Sept. 6 — tl'P) President Roosevelt will take -up Henry Ford's failure to come in under the NRA at a conference tonight at the White House with Gen- ' eral Hugh S. Johnson. Recovery i (Administrator. it was learned to- . i day. What steps, if any. the idminis--1 tration was contemplating, the I White House would not say. | In his first meeting with Johnson ■ in several weeks the President was scheduled to have placed before i him complete details of the aitna- . I tion which has developed by failure of the automobile manufacturer , to accept the code for the automo- , tive industry. Earlier Mr. Roosevelt talked with , Johnson over the telephone, the latter describing the status of ne- : gotiations in connection with the ’ bituminous coal code. Johnson In- , i formed the chief executive that thy discussions on the code uad now I ’(CONTINUED ON PAGE THREE*

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STATE TROOPS PATROL ZONES OF HURRICANE Storm Does Great Damage In Rio Grande Valiev; More than 100 Dead DAMAGE ESTIMATED AT MANY MILLIONS Edinburg. Tex.. Sept 6— (U.R>— Troops were rushed into the devastated lower Rio Grande Valley today, flooded in the wake of a hurricane which killed 100 persons ami caused damage of more than $10,000,000 in Texas and Mexico. With communications still impaired to many points, reports of death and destruction came here from scores of towns in the path of the hurricane which had disappeared inland today. Thirty persons were reported dead in Matamoros, Mexico, across the Rio Grande from Brownsville. A Matamoros cathedral collapsed. Twenty others were reported dead in other sections qf the Mexican border city where many adobe houses were melted by the rain and rising water. Ten were reported dead without confirmation on the Brownsvillb ’ side of the river. Three were reported dead at San Senito, famous as a citrus ■ shipping center. Two hundred were reported inI jured at Mercedes. Forty were hurt at Weslaco and twenty at San Juan. Many of the injured were so seriously hurt by collapsing houses that they were expected to die. In Harlingen, two were killed and 53 were injured. The causeway connecting Corpus Christi with lowlands across the . bay was washed out. McAllen was without water or lights last night. Water also was cut oft in Harlingen. San Benito . and Brownsville. Highways, railroad and airports wore flooded in a wide area Pat Nolan. Pan American Air/rONTINCED ON. PAGE THREE) GRAND JURY TO MEET THURSDAY I 1 Court Issues Order For Convening of Grand Jurv Here Thursday ) The Adams county grand jury '• will meet in the Circuit court room Thursday morning at nine o’clock a call being issued by Judge H. M. De Voss late Tuesday afternoon. 1 ‘ Prosecutor Ed A. Bosse, recom--1 mend d the calling of the grand jury at this time so investigations could lie made before trying criminal cases and to prolie other matters. The session is expected to conI tinue for 10 days or two weeks and [ will serve as the regular meeting I of the jury. According to law one : session of the grand jury must be ' held every year. Frequently the ) meeting is not held until the November term of court. ’’ J Cases now pending in court and ' matters which require legal investigation will be presented to the jurors, Prosecutor Bosse silted to--1 day. There are several criminlal 1 ! eases to be tried during this session*? i of court, Mr. Bosse stated, and be- j I fore they are set further investigation is desired by the Prosecutor. The members of the grand jury are: Charles O. Hobrock, Preble township; Albert Erhart, French * township; James Foreman, Blue i Creek township; Samuel Tester, 1 Wabash township; William O. Saut- ■ ♦♦ . ■ (PONTINCED ON PAGE FOI’ll) . r-O Boy’s Head Cut Off In Auto Sideswipe Jeffersonville, Ind . Sept. 6—CU R) 1 Charles Randall. 17, was decapitated last night when a truck knocked him from the running ’ board of his sister’s automobile on state road No. 62. George Lewis, 1 driver of the truck, was arrested ' on charges of operating the ve- , hide without a license.

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Lunz Divorce Case To Be Heard Here Fort Wayne, Sept. 6.—<U.R> —The contested divorce action of Mrs. Fred Lunz against the Allen county sheriff will be heard In Adams county. Ten days in which to perfect the change of venue were granted yesterday by Judge pro tern Harold I. Coovel in superior cfourt > No. 1. Mrs. Lunz seeks a divorce. $50,000 alimony and custody oLa son, Raymond L.. 12. Sheriff Lunz filed a cross complaint, asking that he . be given the divorce and custody of Raymond. Mrs. Lunz asked the change of venue averring that her husband "exercised an undue influence in Allen county.’ U. S. SHIPS SAIL TO CUBAN PORTS THIS AFTERNOON President Roosevelt Orders Concentration of Ships In Trouble Zone SEC’Y. SWANSON GOES TO HAVANA Washington. Sept. 6. — (U.R) — President Roosevelt today ordewd a warship concentration in Cuban waters, concentration of U. S. marines in the Quantico. Virginia base .and instructed Secretary of Naby Swanson to proceed at once to Havana. Swanson announced at the White House that he would sail tor Havana at 4 p m„ aboard the 10 000 ton. eight-inch gun cruiser Indianapolis. now at Annapolis. Admiral William H. Standley, chief of naval operations, said spe to eight warships including the four ordered to Cuba yesterday would be in Cuban waters by tomorrow noon. No Intervention Washington. Sept. 6. — (U.R) — President Roosevelt today ordered marine concentrations and warship movements looking toward possible armed landing in Cuba hut simultaneously revealed to questioners at the White House that intervention was the last thing in his mind. Mr. Roosevelt announced that four more destroyers had Deen ordered to proceed within steam- ' ing distance of Cuba to augment the light cruiser and three destroy ers ordered there yesterday. Navy Department officials revealed the battleship Mississippi at sea had been diverted toward Havana. They said the 10,090-ton cruiser Indianapolis was expected *7coNTINFED ON PAGE FOUR) ; o Today’s Scores — i NATIONAL LEAGUE Brooklyn 100 200 400—7 14 1 Cincinnati 001 002 000 —3 0 3 Mungo and Lopez; Kolp and Lombardi. Philadelphia 100 000 0 St. Louis 200 010 0 Holly and Davis; Hallahan and Wilson. New York 100 004 000 o—s 15 2 Pittsburgh 101 000 120 I—6 16 1 Bell and Mancuso Chagnon and Grace. Boston 000 000 Chicago 120 000 Smith and Rogan; Tinning and ' Hartnett. Second Game New York 50 Pittsburgh 00 AMERICAN LEAGUE Cleveland 001 300 Philadelphia 010 210 Harder and Pytlak; Grove and Cochran St. Louis 100 000 010—2 71 New York 000 100 101—3 7 0 Hadley and Shea; Ruffing and Dickey. Chicago 000 0 Washington 030 0 Miller and Berry, McCawl and Sewell. , Detroit 120 420 Boston 120 002 Lawson and Hayworth; Brown and Gooch. i Courtesy City Confectionery

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SLIPPED FROM WALL AND DIES IN SPRAY POOL City Street Commissioner Had Gone to Look Alter Gold Fish In Pond EFFORTS TO RESCUE FUTILE Amos Fisher, ;i«e sf», city street commissioner and park builder, drowned ai (> o’clock this morning when he fell in (lie sprav pond at the (,ity Light and Power Plant. Efforts to rescue Nir. l isher were futile, (.harles P 0 ** Fisher, an enmlove ol the street department, was coming I" work and heard cries of heh) from the pond. As he ran past the city garage, which faces Park street, he called. "Come on. Fish, someone is drowning in the pool." He did not know the drowning man was Commissioner Fisher until be reached the south wall of the pond, from which point Mr. Fisher evidently fell in the pool. He threw a plank to him and it failed to reach him. He threw out another board and it also did not come within reaching distance of the drowning man. Tim Schafer, also an employe of the street department, appeared on the scene about that time and every effort was made to rescue Mr. Fisher. Frantic cries were made by the men and soon Melvin Collier, life guard at Green Water Bathing Beach, who lives near the city plant, appeared and dived into the water. He brought Mr. Fisher to the side of the wall where the men assisted in pulling him out and placed him on the ground. Efforts to resuscitate wore also futile. The fire truck brought the pulmotor and it was used. Local physicians were called and they also worked with Mr. Fisher. Men around the plant and those who tried to rescue Mr. Fisher, stated he was in the pool about eighteen minutes. The watch he carried stopped at exactly one minute before. 6 o'clock. Accidental Drowning Coroner Robert Zwic'k returned a verdict this morning of accidental drowning. Mr. Fisher's lungs were filled with water and from the cries for help made by him it was evident he was conscious until ho drowned. Mr. Fisher was a swimmer in his younger days, those who knew him stated. His heavy clothes ami shoes probably prevented him from swimming. Was in Warm Water It is presumed that Mr Fisher went to the pool to look after the gold fish he kept in a small pond adiacent to the larger pond which is used to cool the water for the turbines in the power plant. The (CONTINI’ED ON PAGE FOt’R) WABASH RIVER FUNDS BEADf Government Allocates $18,000,000 For River Improvement in State The government has allocated $18,(>iY).OOO for the improvement of the Wabash and White rivers I through Indiana, according to infor- | mation received today from Terre Haute, the home of Congresswoman , Virginia J nckes who has been I making the fight. This money however, cannot be 1 used until further reports have been j made bv the engineers and until the l proposed improvement has reached I a stage of acceptance. U. S. engineers and drainage ex- : perts. -assisted by local engineers will hurry the work along and it is expected that within a short time 1 the preliminaries will be completed j so the improvement can be given the government O K. The money lias been set aside, pending the making good of those who have : been promoting the dredging of the Wabasli ami control of the water to prevent annual recurrance of the heavy flood damages. This community is greatly interested because of the probability of establishing Limberlost lake near Geneva, to be used as a control reservoir, which engineers declare is necessary.