Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 31, Number 221, Decatur, Adams County, 19 September 1933 — Page 1

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lECATUR 1934 TAX LEVY SET AT $3.15 4 I ' ' ' - ■ !"■

Jjl CORPS TO ™ IN HUGE JciON PARADE ieiH ur Priim Corps Will |\Bch I" At Konal < , HIAL TRAIN TO | h m ph vn R Hr ' ; " ill ■of Adam- !’"St No. 43 X,MAtn.ri.a:. Legion ot e Htv will 11 , the Karade t" '>'• h ‘‘ kl . •htober 2 —K ■ American ""K. cc- ..mpleted IIK the '”'P S a ”‘l nl^H iiu< pro\f. r.oulevard to of the K. ~ul. ■ :!i<- leadership K-.-. ;.(< Rets They drum . a.. "f the counparade. nimittee" , - composed of M. \\ ■ Bockman. J ■ Staley. The # charge of all for the trip parade. |H a . . ■ ' e.n IO every- » Special Train » iiWxhi,: a carry local families ’ The Kc 1 ceding to of Fort A ,-p late of $3.50 c. mml trip haoad and in ' ■ gionnaires a t<> attend expected to' special ■ cost ■ .asporting the |Mti-t:- ..yo has been by itizens anti |Ml!i ■> - nave Decatur . s. in ate.st demonput ■ the American Armistice. The ies long and it ’li:,- • will take fr mi built - -a given point i-.irade is soiled- ?►•' at eight Tuesday morning. Hi'- time In the hisI ' ' lie drum corps at:.- national conMam .. legionnaires i mnal . unveii- - ago i> so near \ i-a.;i-: three) — ■Turner Fails S To Break Record S,-pt. 19 — ({'Plveteran fl: r. i- today to . qual d record from to 1 I .ill tpolis. H - landMuni, ipai A j r p ort al i 39 ■ c st . al'n-r being in the air |M l "” lrs and ]6 minutes. His 'in... three hours, 1514 * ti. fastest ever made the two cities. — ■ n Negroes Loot 9 Home Os American ■“ S-pt 19 ,!'!>)_ A gang ■Weo-s today broke into the '" r " a o Stadlinger, Am|B»mploye of t | lp c u | ian elp( .. in rim Vedado district employe of the Cuban ■'Wt'Pany in the Cedado dis,h" Place and depart”'it interference either by or police. fthv;|| e Woman Is ■ Encephalitis Victim sv| lle, Ind., Sept. 19—(UP) ' K^? as death from sl-eep-B ”rss since Sept. 2 was reore today after the disease ■ v life of Mrs. Eugene l■^ g h ' NO ° tller eas ' B of t* ol '®- B ave be ®u reported here.

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Just Like a Novel H I 4 &w|ilt i j ir Bernard Dnkowski, sentenced to Ohio State Penintentlary for a crime he did not commit, embraces his fiancee. Josephine Novak, just before he was released. Her faith in Dukowski unshaken. Miss Novak gave up her job and turned sleuth after her lover was jailed. She found the guilty party and the story ends as in a novel — happy ever after. DOCTORS MEET” AT FRENCH LICK 84th Annual Indiana Medical Association Meeting Sept. 25-27 French I.ick. Ind.. Sept. 19 —(U R) - Medicine and economics will mix during at least one session of the 84th annual Indiana State Medical Association session to be held here Sept. 25 to 27. Relation of the one to the other in view of current economic con- • ditions will be the subject of a round table discussion at noon Sept. 26. Medical treatment of the poor w’ill be a chief topic. Gov. Paul V. McNutt and William H.« Book, director of the state public welfare department will be among the speakers. Others will include Dr Walter F. Kelly and Dr. W. D. Gatch. Indianapolis; Dr. Paul Johnson. Richmond. and Dr. A. W. Cavins and Dr. A. M. Mitchell. Terre Haute. General discussion will be led by Dr. O. O. Alexander. Terre Haute, with Dr. E. E. Padgett, Indianapolis. president elect of the association, presiding. Attendance at the sessions is expected to number I.O’H) physicians and their families. A full program of entertainment, including golf, a trap shoot, field day. i and women's dinner, has been arranged. After registration and enterI tainment the first day. the con--1 vention business sessions will i start Sept. 26 with their s tidies and discussions of medical science. (CONTINT’WT) ON' PAGE SIX) TWO TEACHERS ASSUME DUTIES Zanesville And Preble Men Hired To Teach At Monroe Jacob G. Smuts of Zanesville and Gerhard Gaiser of Preble have been hired to teach subjects in the Monroe high school formerly taught by ! Virgil Wagner, who resigned his | position as principal of the school to accept the position of principal i of the Montpelier high school. The two new teachers will be hired for part time- only. Mr. Smuts will teach physical education and commerce, and Mr. Gaiser will j teach social sciences and English Mr. Wagner left Monday mornI ing for Montpelier where he assum- ' e<] Mis new duties. He stated that his family would move to that place early in October. Roland Sprunger, a teacher in the Monroe schools, has succeeded Mr. Wagner as principal of the Monroe high school.

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CODE TO CAUSE j INCREASES IN PRICE OF COAL • NRA Coal Code Will Cause Householder To Pay More For Fuel CODE CONTAINS PRICE SAFEGUARD Washington, Sept. 19. — (U.R) — ; Coal will cost the householder more 1 this winter as a result of the NRA U-oal co'de. the recovery administra j tion admitted today. Soft coal to the small purchaser I may go up as much as $2 a ton, but the code as finally approved < iby President Roosevelt contains safeguards against profiteering and provision has been made for adequate representation for the con-' sumer on the code authority set up . to govern the Industry. Any increases in the price of coal will have to be justified by statistical information showing they are necessary to finance the raising of wages and spreading of ! jobs. Some experts have estimated the increased costs at 30 to 40 per . cent. The requirement for the statis-1 tical data and the provision for consumer representation on the code authority represented a triumph for the consumers' advisory board. When administrative pro-1 | visions of the coal code were writ- 1 ten, the board staked its prestige for the first time in a victorious i fight for consumer protection. Recovery Administrator Hugh S. Johnson conceded retail coal prices would have to be increased. "But any runaway prices will be | dealt with by the code authority,"; ' Johnson said He said the price of coal on hand, mined at low labor I costs, should not be increasotfc Before signing the code President Roosevelt struck out an interpretation of the labor protective! < lause of the recovery act written by Johnson and Donald M. Rich-j herg. NRA general counsel. Labor j , (CO?n'TNUED ON PAGE FIVE) 0 LEADERS MEET j HERE TOMORROW Final Economics Club Training Meeting Will Be Held Here The final leaders’ training meeting of the year for the home economics clubs of Adams county will i be held at 9:30 Wednesday morning at the Masonic hall in this city, j A potluck lunch will be served at I the noon hour. Mrs. E. W. Busche, , county chairman of the clubs, will conduct the sessions. Miss Meta Martin extension clothing specialist, will give the lesson on hosiery. Plans will also : be made for the leaders’ visit to j I the January agricultural conference , at Purdue University. Mrs. Busche will present a prize to the club having made the largest gain in membership during the year, and an award will be given the club having the largest attendance at this meeting. Che Jefferson township club will be awarded a ribbon for showing the beet scrapbook. The Monroe-Wattash-French club placed second and Root township third. Misses! Eloise Lewton and Verneal Whalen , English teachers in the Decatur i high school, were judges in this i contest. o Youth Dies After Fall Under Train Peru, Ind., Sept. 19 —(U.R) — In- j juries received when he fell from a train here were fatal yesterday to Francis Hill, 20, Olive Hill, Ky. I Both legs were severed from his ■ body. o . .. — Trunk, Suitcase Taken From Auto - Indianapolis, Sept. 19—(U.R) —A 1 steamer trunk and suitcase containing clothing and jewelry valued at SI,OOO was stolen today I from an automobile owned by | ■ Mrs. Agnes Bash Van Law of Riverside, Cal. The automobile, r was parked in the rear of a home | where Mrs. Van Law was visiting.

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Decatur, Indiana, Tuesday, September 19, 1933.

Meredith Nicholson Will Wed Wednesday Washington, Sept. 19 — (U.R) —' Meredith Nicholson, the Indiana writer and U. S minister to Para guay, will be married tomorrow to ! Dorothy Lannon of Marion, Ind. A brief marriage ceremony will be held In the apartment of Sen. Frederick Van Nuys. Dem., Ind , who obtained the license for the | pair late yesterday. Miss Lannon, a literary associate of Nicholson’s, is writing a i novel, which she plans to finish; after their honeymoon trip to Paraguay, starting Sept 30. Nicholson has been here 10 days | working at the state department < preparatory to assuming his new duties. ASSAULTCASE IS CONTINUED Trial of Charles Caron Expected To Be Completed Wednesday Evidence in the case of the State vs. Charles Caron was being heard in the Adams circuit court today. The case is expected to go to the jury sometime Wednes- ! day. The trial opened Monday morning. with practically the entire day being devoted to obtaining a jury A Jury of twelve men was finally approved by both the prosecution and defense at 4:15 p. m. Monday. Caron, aged umbrella mender, is charged with committing crimi inal assault on a 12-year old girl The victim of the alleged attack gave testimony Monday afternoon ■ and was again on the witness stand most of this morning's session. As the opening of this afternoon’s session. Drs. J. M. Miller and P. B. Thomas, who conducted an examination of the alleged vici tint at the Adams county jail, were 1 called to testify. Members of the jury are: John Tonner. Alphonse Kohne, Simeon i Beineke. John Marshall. Oscar | Ehrsam. Charles H. Windmiller, j ! Ed Arnold. Winfred Gerke. Tony i Tumbleson. Leonard Merryman. I John Bucher and Lawrence Con- | rad o_ Teacher Is Added In Wabash Township Miss Ruth Armstrong has been add-d to the t’aching staff of the i Hirschy School in Wabash township. southeast of Berne. A large nnmher of pupils were enrolled in the school this year, necessitating the addition of another teacher. The regular teacher is Gladvs Long. ; 0 Elks To Initiate Three Wednesday An initiation will be held at the Elk’s home Wednesday evening Three candidates will be taken into Decatur lodge No. 993 of B. P. O. E. I The lodge officers are requested to be at the home by 7:30. Earl B. Adams, exalted ruler and staff of officers will be in charge of the , ritualistic work. WONT MOLEST NUDIST COLONY Indiana Nudists Promised Immunity By County Sheriff ______. I Lake Village, Ind., Sept. 19. — ■ (U.R) —Members of a nudist cult 1 flourishing in the dense woodland I tO miles south of here were promi ised immunity from arrest today by the sheriff of Newton county. "As long as the nudists remain I within the confines of their colony, they will not be molested," he said. Existence of the camp was not 1 known to local residents or to the sheriff until it was discovered by ; newspaper reporters. Sponsors of the cult are -Victor , Knapp, Chicago attorney, and his j wife. (Alois, he nudists frolic in | the sunlight of an old farm which I has been in the Knapp family for, . several generations. There are about 50 members of! I the colony, including a young | man studying for the ministry. ’ (CONTINUED* ON’PAGE F* VE) * '

COURTROOM IS WELL GUARDED Guard Against Escape Os Harvey Bailey And Other Defendants — Oklahoma City, Okla., Sept. 19.—<U.R) —A black haired, 18-year-old boy sat In the witness 4 chair in federal court today and pointed out Albert L. Bates ar the man he heard plotting the kidnaping of Charles S. Urschet. Young Gay Coleman stepped down Irom the chair, walked over to where the 40-year-old j desperado was seated and said calmly: “That's the fellow there.” Those who plotted with Bates were George (Machine Gun) Kelly and his wife. Katherine, both still fugitives, the youth said. Oklahoma City, Sept. 19 —(U.R) — I A jury of small town business men sat in a fortified courtroom surrounded by machine guns and shotguns today, trying Harvey Bailey, killer, bandit, ace kidnaper, and 11 co-defendants for the kidnaping of Charles F. Urschel, oil millionaire. Federal prosecution invoked the Lindbergh kidnaping law. providing maximum penalty of life imprisonment. The courtroom, the corridors i leading to it and the floor below bristles with armament. Govern- | ment agents, reinforced by sheriff's deputies, displayed machine guns, stub-nosed automatic shotguns and pistols. Prosecutors outlined Urschel’s kidnaping July 22 when Judge Edgar S. Vaught opened court. They told how two men armed | I with machine guns dragged him , from the sunporch of his mansion | and of his captivity until released I ■ nine days later. His family paid S2OO,POD. the largest kidnaping ransom in history with marked , | money. They recounted the arrest of Bailey at the home of R. G. (Boss) i , (CONTINUED ON PAGE THREE) FORECAST TWO WET VICTORIES Predict Idaho And New Mexico Will Be 30th And 31st Wet States (By the United Press I Idaho and New Mexico, the 30th and 31st state, balloted today on , repeal of the 18th amendment. Im- | partial. conservative observers ; predicted they would enter the I unanimous we t parade, which would make it necessary for repealists to obtain the approval of only five additional states to end national prohibition. Congressional tax experts in Washington drafted new liquor levies designed to drive the bootlegger out of business when repeal becomes an actuality. The proposed taxes would be so low as to allow good whiskey to retail at $1.50 to $1.75 a quart. New Mexico, where drys staged only a passive campaign, was expected to be wet by three or two to one. Idaho was expecte dto return a 1 lesser wet majority although repealists claimed a 4 to 1 victory. Virginia votes Oct. 3; Florida. Oct. 10, and Ohio. Pennsylvania, North and South Carolina, Utah, and Kentucky, Nov. 7. Repeal will not become effective until the last of the first 36 states ratifying the 21st (repeal) amendment, holds its ratification convenI tion, which will be Dec. 5. . Idaho Long Dry Boise. Idaho, Sept. 19.— (U.R) — ♦♦♦ ♦ ♦♦ « (CONTINUED ON PAGE FIVE) , - ...<> —— Plan Meeting At Geneva Tonight I A meeting of the committees interested in the Wabash river flood control project and the Limberlost lake proposal, will be held at Ge- ' neva this evening. French Quinn of this city, general county chairman for the LimI berlost lake and park project will ' attend the meeting. It is likely that i some action will be taken in res- ! ponee to Mrs. Virginia Jenckes’ 1 letter to secure pledges and rightlof ways for the Wabash river iiui provement.

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RESIGNATION OF PRESIDENT MARTIN ASKED Cuban Leader’s Political Opponents Demand Martin Resignation REVOLUTIONISTS THREATEN WAR Havana. Sept- 19—(U.R)—Opposi tion political elements threatened. ! <'ivil war today unless President i Ramon Grau San Martin accepted; a set of secret proposals presented to him in writing at the presidential palace. The coalition of opposition parties demanded his resignation. "Unless Grau San Martin resigns. civil war is inevitable," | said a leading member of the Occr Revolutionary society which Joined the ARC, the Nationalists, the Conservatives and the Marianistas in presenting the demands. “I can not even consider re- j signing." said Grau San Martin. I "The question whether I remain lin office depends solely on the elements which placed me there." Loaders of the student director- , ate. which with enlisted men of the army and navy and the radical I faction of the ABC put him in office, said that in no circumstances would they permit his resignation. The opposition demands, said to be of an ultimatum like character, were drafted by representatives of the political elements opposing the president and the officers enI camped at tlie National hotel. They were presented at the I presidential palace last night by 1 emissaries of the Havana Rotary . chib which arranged a series of j conferences between Grau San Martin and political leaders. The ' failure of these conferences led : to the written demands. Grau San Martin said he hetievi ed a satisfactory agreement would 'be reached—one that would conj firm him in office. He announced that elections ' would he held next April 1 for a | ‘ constitutional assembly. which ! would meet May 20. He was pre-1 paring to move formally into the . presidential palace. He proposed to make his 16 year old niece, Leopoldina Grau. (CONTINUED ON PAGE STX>o Pleads Guilty To Illegal Beer Sale Indianapolis. Ind.. Sept. 19—(UP) Pleading guilty to charges of selling beer in Indiana without payment of the state tax. H M Fox, Pittsburgh b-er distributor, was fined SSO by Paul R. Rhoadarmer, Judge pro tern, in municipal court here late yesterday. Fox went on trial yesterday but changed his pica after agreement with state prosecutors to ship th" untaxed beer from the state. Affidavits against Giles Cole and 1 Harry Epstein, both of Pittsburgh, and Fnap'k Venexia and Gus Bisesi, Indianapois beer importers, arrested with Fox, will be dismissed, deputy prosecutor G. M. Bates said. —o STRIKE ENDED I AT FT. WAYNE Normal Operations Resumed At Fort Wayne Tailoring Company Fort Wayne, Ind., Sept. 19 — (UP) —Normal operations were re-1 sumed at the Fort Wayne tailoring company today after an agreement between plant officials and the amalgamated clothing workers of America had been ratified by the striking workers. Under terms of the agreement every employe of the tailoring firm I will join the amalgamated union although membership is not compulsory. The workers returned to the! plant today in a parade headed by a Union banner. Only a solitary I policeman utood at the plant entrance instead of the squad which had maintained order since the, walkout Sept. 6. The Union agreement dealt with wages and working conditions and provided that members of the amalgamated union receive pr ference i during layoffs. '

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Fairest of the Air I Hi I I j i A ■ Jr 9k 1 \ / / From the chorus to stardom in Broadway operettas rose Diana i Chase (above), beautiful Boston | I society girl. Later she attained ' success as a radio performer, and now she is in line for fresh laurels as the candidate of Station WINS in the contest to select a Radio j ; Queen at the Electric and Radio I Show at Madison Square Garden. New York. LINDBERGHS TO START FLIGHT Flying Couple Expected to Visit Many European Countries Stockholm. Sweden. Sept. 19. — , ! (U.R) f'ol. and Mrs. Charles A. I Lindbergh prepared today for an I immediate take-off from Karlskrona naval base on a flight to Leningrad. Soviet Russia. The i distance is 6tHi miles, largely over the Baltic sea. Tliev were expected to skirt Esthonia and follow the Gulf of Finland into the old czarist cap!j tai. After visiting the home of Lind- . • bergh’s grandfather >and calling ! on a cousin of Lindbergh in South Sweden, the colonel and his wife ■ spent last night at Karlskrona. on the south coast. Though Lindbergh did not announce his plans, it was expected he would go front Leningrad to Moscow, and the nee perhaps byway of Berlin, Amsterdam and Scotland to England, shipping his seaplane to New York. During his Russian visit, Lindbergh planned to study aviation conditions. o Today’s Scores NATIONAL LEAGUE First Game Philadelphia 010 000 000 —1 8 0 Pittsburgh 000 000 101—2 7 3 Grabowski and Davis; French and Grace Second Game Philadelphia 003 10 Pittsburgh 000 00 Collins and Davis; Smith and Padden. Brooklyn 300 Chicago 001 Benge and Lopez; Warneke and Hartnett Boston . 000 00 Cincinnati 000 00 Brandt and Hogan; Frey and Lombardi New York at St. Louis — Starts late. AMERICAN LEAGUE First Game Chicago 100 000 000— 1 4 0 New Yoik 050 010 04x—10 17 0 Jones and Berry; Uhle and Dickey. Second Game Chicago 010 0 New York 134 0 Lyons and Sullivan; Devens and Rensa. Detroit 100 01 Philadelphia 012 10 Sorrell and Hayworth; Cain and Cochrane. St. Louis 00 Washington 00 i Coffman and Shea; Whitehill and Sewell. (Cleveland 100 000 002—3 8 1 Boston 000 020 20x—4 9 1 ! Brown and Pytlak; Weiland and; ! Ferrell. Courtesy City Confectionery

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TAX ADJUSTERS I FIX RATES FOR COUNTY UNITS Decatur Rate Will Be An Increase of $1.20 Over 1933 Rate COUNTY BUDGET CUT TO 65 CENTS *“ 1 The total tax rates applying l ' to the townships. Berne, Ge- | neva and Monroe were not to- | taled at time of going to press, i A complete table will he pub- j j I lished in Wednesday’s paper. The tax rate payable in Decatur next year will he $3.15 on the hundred dollars, an increase of $1.20 over the $1.95 rate applying this year. The levies in the different taxing units which go to make up Decatur's total rate were fixed hv the Adams Conn tv Tax Adjustment Board this afternoon. The levies which Decatur taxpayers pay. together with the rates effective this vear on the SIOO. follow: 1933 1934 1 Unit • • rate rate I Civil city -40 .45 ! School city -60 .91 Library board 04 .05 Township poor .12 .35 ; Township road bowtls and int 37 .55 Township fund 04 .04 County tax -23 .65 State tax 15 15 Total 9195 $3.15 ■ Adams county’s tax rate was cut I from 68 cents to 65 cents on the 1 SIOO and approximately $6,600 was pinned from the budget as adopted by the County Council. The Tax Adjustment board cut $2,000 from the $9,000 estimate for paying old age pensions and made other reductions, enabling a reduction in the county rate of three cents. The county rate is divided into 60 cents for the general fund and five cents for the bond fund. The Decatur rate is a reduction of 15 cents under the tentative I rates proposed, which included the county's levy of 68 cents as fixed by the County Council. The board did not change the i civil city’s levy of 45 cents and 1 also approved the library board's rate of five cents on the SIOO. The former rate is an increase of five cents and tlie la ter levy is a boost of one cent over the levies this i year. The Decatur school board's rate was reduced from 97 to 96 cents on the hundred dollars, the levy being divided in three funds. 58 ! cents in the tuition. 25 cents in the special and five cents in the bond fund. The school board s rate will pro- ! duce approximately $39,000 next year, compared with this 1 year. Berne’s Rate Berne's rate will lx $2.71 on the SIOO compared to the $1.50 rate this year. Emergencies declared Tit? Board declared emergencies i existed in every one of the 12 townships and in the other corporate ; taxing units of the county, neces- ! sitating the fixing of the levies | above the SI.OO and $1.50 maxl--1 mums specifii d by law. None of the taxing units will have a levy under or near the maximum rates when the levies for all purposes applying to that unit are totaled. This year nine of the 12 townships have rates under $1.50 and the ether throe are under $1.90 on the SIOO. Aside from additional expenses estimated for n xt year and the necessity of restoring some of the ; county's former working balance, ! through repayment of the poor and • road bond funds advanced to several of the townships, the b'g drop in assessed valuations accounts for (CONTINUBD ON PAGE SIX) Christian Revival To Start Tonight The evangelistic services at the First Christian Church will start i tonight at 7:30 o’clock. Dr. C. W, Cauble of Indianapolis will be the evangelist and will bring the mes- ; sage each evening. The revival will ! continue for two weeks. Tlie services were to have startI ‘d last Sunday but were delayed on account of the death of a friend of Dr. Cauble.