Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 31, Number 223, Decatur, Adams County, 21 September 1933 — Page 1

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fcs BREAK >ER INFLATION ■sthreateneo ■ft Break BetweenCon\nd \dininistraKiun Threatened inflation ft p) DESTROY nka I IM,Ry th'' l ' r '” s ' ovd . H'cah 'Ac, n Con- '. f l | the lU-.-ewlt ad- ’ ■traUT "i; quest mil threatened tOuHA . K arge a' ■ )’’)’ growing HE ts>i"iial .r.llation bloc force the mto an imiMitrran: monetary ■ ...r to ini- ' uri-itrarm. when twi- - not accepty, ■■ Oklahoma, antiof with a (!•- |^K, r a dollar. Wa 1 - K o'gardeil |K « ■■ ■ -nation at'ithat inAe'p 'he farmer. |K. .. "■ mark, iaft,.l W.iJ.i<>-s speech. |K. ! ' v<-rs said it th" in " in fori Destroy NR A . UR) ::.Sa'ic destroy the Il' tll . ll’., de- ■ White House. did President H> - he baaed his made dur ■ and south/..l th.- inflation Diomas of ar..I Senator Smith of Carolina. tv-: ■ a program." a money Standard of business and who • would destroy Mh t ■ ». :k .1 me under the' and undertakings 1 et of business.” s. ■n Farmers Demand 9 Wallace Resignation V ' Sept. 21 - ifPl fa . •■„ union today d - as-: . Henry A. Walto • feet and cheering -a I .-so **»• '!:■ 'he r-signation ■ mmittee. chairtrait l/eii the farm comreduction program. V ‘id'" unanimously - ip:> I .rt immediate cur'b :: rough passage of bill, and asked that ■Mtra. t . -. stem be abedI WHIP | ! S LOWER LEW ftrson Township Levy ftly One In Countv I Below 1933 Rate * ■ —— Bftriew of the tax rates fixed. ■ / County Tax Adjustment for next year, shows that' township is the only tax-1 ■ •nit in the county with a rate W* than the levy paid this year. B” total rate in Jefferson next B'* in be $1.61 on the sioo, I BWtrd to a SI.BB rate this year wnship rate is 61 cents and ; which go to make total are. county 65 cents; 15 cents; township road | *• 29 cents. ™ le township will enjoy the j rate ° f any unit in the .? 1934 rate is the same ' “’ current levy. $1.26 on the! Cnion township is the sec-1 in the list with a rate of $1.39.1 'Pared with $1.35 this year. j a,^ 0118 to rates °r petitions ’ State Board of Tax Com tj, ll^ 9 for a review of the lev- ’« by the county adjustment ~J? ÜBl be filed not later than t er so. the law specifying thia in petltiona "hall be filed KL 9 days after the rates are r

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Vol. XXXI. No. 223.

Shepherd Dog Saves Girl From Death Auburn. Ind, Sept. 21—(UP) A shepherd dog which fought off I two vicious sows which had attack!ed three-year-old Jacqueline De- ! braun was credited today with hav- , fng saved her life. The little girl and her twin bor- | ther, Raymond, had climbed into ■ the pig pen at their farm home! j near Garrett. When the sows charg i I ed. the l*oy managed to escape fmni I the pen. '!t was then that the dog leaped 1 over the fence and attacked the sows, holding them at bay until the , Lgirls father, R. W. Deliraun ar- 1 | rived. Jacqueline was severely | bruised and bitten about the head I 80 MESSAGES TO PRESIDENT Decatur Residents Send Telegrams Urging Flood Control Project Milton C. Werling. county clerk < chairman of the committee to col-: I left the messages sent to President ; Roosevelt urging government ac- j tion on the Wabash river flood conI trol project and offering support , to assist in securing right of ways ' stated that 80 messages were filed ■ by local residents last night. Mr. W rling personally called on : local people and urged them to send a message to the President, as outlined by Congresswoman Virginia Jenckes of Terre Haute, who is leading the fight in this state to ! get the government allott SIB.OOO,- 1 000 flood control work on the Wa- i I bash and White rivers. Messages from residents in the I south part of the county were also 1 sent last evening. Many were filed . , at Geneva and Berne by those in-1 , terestsd in the plan to have the, government begin work on the pro- i ject this year. C. ERMA N SMITH DIES SUDDENLY Director of Local Bank Suffers Fatal Heart Attack On Train C. Erman Smith, age 47. a mem ber of the board of directors of the First State Bank of this city, died suddenly Wednesday morning on a ' train enroute from Indianapolis to Rochester, Minn. Mr. Smith had suffered a heart] attack several weeks ago while on I a vacation trip in Michigan and left Indianapolis yesterday for the Mayo Brothers institution at Rochester ■ to undergo a physicial examination. Mr. Smith was a son of P. W. Smith of Richmond, former president of the local bank. He was i elected a member of the board about two years ago and visited 1 here often. He attended a recent I meeting of the bank directors in j this city. Besides his father he is survived , by his mother, his wife, Mrs. 'lva Smith and one sister, Mrs. Rudolph G. Leeds, all of Richmond. The deeased was secretary-trea-1 surer of the Equipment Service, Company, 737 North Illinois street, Indianapolis. C. A. Dugan, president of the ! First State Bank and the directors ! I of the bank will attend the funeral 1 services Saturday afternoon at two i o’clock at Richmond. Those going , from here will be Dr. J. W. Vizard I Theo. Hobrock. John P. Braun, Dy- ‘ nois Schmitt, Daniel Sprang. oSchool Units To Get $17,500,000 Newcastle, Ind , Sept. 21 —(UP) | —Local school units in Indiana will i receive more than $17,500,000 in gross income, excise and intangibles tax monies before the end of ' the 1934-35 school year. Gov. Paul I V. McNutt predicted here last I night. If the new taxes account for that ] much of the school costs, property i taxes must be redu< ed by the same figure he said. Speaking before a crowd gathered to celebrate a recovery day program here, the governor described ] the National Recovery act as ”A measure to eliminate the anarchy of the competitive system and to ameliorate the occurrance of our spirals of inflation and deflation.” I

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THREE BANDITS IN HOLDUP AT HOTEL ANTLERS Armed Men Escape With Approximately $3,000 Early Today ROOSEVELT HOTEL IS ALSO ROBBED Indianapolis, Sept. 21 — (U.R) — Armed with a machine gun and revolvers, three bandits today ' held up a dozen employes and 1 guests of the Hotel Antlers here i and escaped with approximately I $3,000. The men had registered at the hotel a few hours previously under ' the names of James Edwards, M. | 11. Edwards and L. A. Robinson, . all of la-xington, Ky. All three ' talked with a southern drawl, vicI tims said. While police were Investigating I the Antlers holdup, they were notified that two men had robbed a bellboy and night clerk in the Roosevelt hotel of SIOO and a $350 diamond pin. Police said the men apparently were not connected I with the Antlers bandits. When the three men registered i at the Antlers last night they left an envelope with the clerk, Ken Lewis, telling him it contained valuables and asking him to place it in the safe. Early this morning a negro I bellhop was called to the bandits’ ! room. He was told to take their ! luggage down to their car which had been left in the hotel park- ' ing lot. A few minutes later all three 'of the robbers appeared in the i lobby. One went to the desk and j asked Lewis for the envelope. I While the clerk was reaching into the safe, he was confronted with a revolver and informed, “This is a stickup.” At the same time, a blond companion. apparently leader of the trio, produced a machine gun and I covered guests and employes in i the lobby. The third man stood 1 nearby waving a revolver. I One of the bandits went through , the cash drawer, obtaining about SSO and overlooking an envelope containing $1,500. He demanded ' keys for the inner doors of the | safe. Lewis did not have the ; keys so another member of the gang went to the basement, forced Emory Hastings, engineer. ' to take a pick and a large wrench upstairs. Using the pick the bandit broke open the door and rifled several (CONTINUED ON PAGE FIVE) FEDERAL FUND USE IS URGED Indiana Public Works Board Urges Serious Consideration Indianapolis. Sept. 21. — (U.R) State officials joined with the Indiana federal public works advis--1 ory board today in an appeal for j serious consideration locally of public building opportunities with ' federal funds. | Os an unlimited amount available to Indiana, 28 projects sub- : miffed to the advisory board total ! only $7,500,000, board members ! said. Projects approved by the state board number 15. total $5,000,000 and would employ 3,733 for an average of a year. Those projects have been sent to Washington for final approval. “The purpose of the public works program is to provide means for needed public improvements, put people to work and to increase purchasing power,’’ Otto P. Deluse, Indianapolis, chairman of the advisory board, declared. “Municipalities not f taking ad- * ’(CONTINUED ON PAGE FIVE) Tov Balloon Goes More Than 300 Miles One of the toy balloons released by the Schafer Store Tuesday sailed as far as E. Rochester, Ohio, a distance of over 300 miles, according to a letter received by the local store from Tom Horeno, who found The balloon in the yard at his home. He wrote to the Schafer store informing them that he found the balloon and also enclosed the trade ticket which was tied to the baloon.

Decatur, Indiana, Thursday, September 21, 1933.

Fair Visitors tun * J F I ' KB 'Ji 'r i fts L • BL B aL 4 r . *Ar '' I ■ w>l - | 1. ft BL 1'• -*•. I ftf 1| k w Iw’ ft i I*. L* o I Former President and Mrs. Herbert Hoover as they arrived in Chicago Tuesday from Palo Alto. Cal., to visit the World’s Fair. The . train bearing the Hoovers was delayed nine hours by’ a freight train I near Grand Island, Nebraska.

STATE RATE IS SET 15 CENTS I Indiana State Tax Rate of 15 Cents Approved By Governor ■ Indianapolis, Sept- 21. —(U.R) —In- , (liana’s state tax rate was set at ■ 15 cents on each 5100 of property 1 valuation by the state tax board today. ‘ The rate, automatically estab--1 lished at 15 cents by the $1.50 tax limitation law, was announced with approval of Gov. Paul V. Mci Nutt and Floyd E. Williamson, state auditor. Only one change from last year’s allotment of the funds accruing I from the 15-cent rate was made I this year. The 1.5 mills assessment for the ■ George Rogers Clark memorial fund has expired, thus transferring that allotment and its estimated $60,000 revenue to the general fund. The state school fund receives the largest portion of the property tax revenue, with a rate of seven . cents Other allotments are: Teachers --*• • ♦ • (CONTINI'ED ON PAGE FIVE* I I -—-G — Report Roosevelt Recovered From Cold Washington, Sept. 21 — (U.R) — . President Roosevelt has fully re•l covered from the cold which kept him from his desk for several : i days. Dr. Ross Mclntyre said today, and plans to receive a delegation of cotton growers who have ■ been urging currency inflation. i i The President planned a full .' day’s work. He was scheduled ■'to discuss the general economic . situation with Prof. Raymond j Moley. former assistant secretary of state, and to confer with trade • union representatives. James M. Warburg, an adviser to the American delegation to the economic conference, also was on the list of callers. o RFC To Purchase $500,000 Stock ■ Washington, Sept. 21 —(UP)-— The reconstruction finance corporj ation today authorized purchase of ' $500,000 of preferred stock in the National bank of Fort Wayne, Ind. The purchase is contingent on public subscription of an uudesignated amount of common- stock.

Today’s Scores NATIONAL LEAGUE Brooklyn at New York — Wet grounds. > Only game scheduled. AMERICAN LEAGUE Detroit 006 301 000 —10 15 0 Philadelphia 200 000 001— 3 6 1 Auker and Pasek; Marcum and Cochrane. I St. Louis 000 00 Washington 010 00 Hadley and Shea; Stewart and . Sewell. Only games scheduled. Courtesy City Confectionery JURY RETURNS ■ INDICTMENTS [ Northern Indiana Federal Grand Jurv Names 48 Persons 1 South Bend. Ind., Sept. 21.—(U.R) —Completing its work in three days, the northern Indiana district federal grand jury returned 30 indictments against 48 persons last night. [ The names of 29 persons against whom true bills were returned i were withheld pending arrest. In keeping with the decision of James R. Fleming, district attorI ney, to refer minor liquor law violations to city and county courts, 64 "no bills” were returned. The principal liquor indictment announced named Jule Latulip, I South Bend, as a member of a . large alcohol ring in northern Indiana of which Joe Rollo, alleged . Capone henchman, was the head. Among the 17 indictments returned for the Hammond division of ’ the district was one charging Walter Jones, former federal prohibi-j tion agent, and Joseph Adich, Robert Harden and his son Wayne, i 1 with theft of government property from the Hammond district office. They are charged with theft of a' quantity of alcohol. Other Hammond district indict- 1 ments announced were against Josph Ingarigo'a. prohibition law, and Charles Sirhan, counterfeiting. I Only two of the six indictments in the Fort Wayne division were ' announced. They were against ’ Edna Lane, on a narcotics charge, ' and Earl T. Owen, postal law vio- * TcONTINUED ON PAGE FIVE)

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MORE REVOLTS ARE REPORTED 1 IN EAST CUBA Cavalrymen Patrol Streets Os Havana As Revolts Spread MARTIN REFUSES TO RESIGN POST Havana, Sept. 21 —(UP) —Caval- ’ rymen patrolled the streets today and soldiers sat behind machine | guns at the presidential palace in anticipation of a major revolt i against the Grau San Martin government. President San Martin, in a dramatic gesture eloquent of the cold nerve that has enabled him to retain his office despite united political opposition, waited at the pal-1 ■ ace until 2:25 a. m. to receive any ! revolutionists in person. He went there at 10:30 o’clock last night when he heard a revolt was imminent. As he left for home his secretary said to the United Press. "You see, we await cl the an-1 1 nounced plot. Nothing has happened. so we are going home." The president enter'd his closed [ motor car and drove off, with cars filled with soldiers preceding and ■ following him. The siutation at Havana was! matched by that in the eaatern pro- 1 vin<es o fthe narrow island. New revolts and new strikes were report, d. A condition approaching anarchy was apparent at many places. Danger to cAmerican i lives was feared at some points. | There w-re arrests at various places of communists and of offi-, cers accused of plotting against the I government. Four revolts of minor proportions j ■ | (CONTINUED ON PAGE FOUR) i 0 MRS, IRELAN IS DEATH'S VICTIM Mrs. John Irelan Dies At Home of Brother VVednesdav Night Mrs. Mary Melvina Irelan. 39. wife of John Irelan of Toledo. Ohio, and a sister of Alva Lawson of this city, died at the Lawson home in Decatur Wednesday evening at 6:18 o’clock. Mrs. Irelan came to this ci’y ] four weeks ago to visit with her brother and family. She became 1 ill three weeks ago. She had been in failing health for the last two years. The deceased was born in Jefferson township. Adams county, July 11, 1894. a daughter of Wesley and Melvina Lawson. She re-1 , sided in Decatur until about six years ago when she moved to , Toledo. She was a member of the; Church of the Brethren in Toledo. | Surviving besides the husband are three children. Thurman. Thelma, and ArleUa. and five brothers and four sisters: James and Alonzo Lawson and Mrs. Anna Dahlkamp of Oklahoma; Mrs Susie Slusser. Newark. Ohio; Mrs. Pearl Anderson. Celina, Ohio: Harve. Blue Creek township; : William, Willshire, Ohio; Alva, Decatur and Cora. Fort Wayne. One half-brother. Charles Baker i of Winchester, also survives. Funeral services will be held l Saturday afternoon at 1:30 o’clock j at the Alva Lawson home oh West Monroe street, and at 2:30 o'clock at the Springhill Church, northeast of Berne. Burial will be made in the church eemeterv. Rev. Haynes, pastor of the Church of God in Toledo. Ohio, will officiate. The body will be removed to the Lawson home from the S. E. Black Funeral home this evening, and .: the remains may be viewed after j 7 o’clock this evening. More Put To Work At G. E. Plant J Between 10 to 15 additional persons have been employed at the Decatur plant of the General Elec-; trie company this we?k. A major- j 1 j ity of those given jobs are new ’ employes, practically everyone of the former employes having been '! called to work. The force now to- ’ j tals about 350, E. W. Lankenau, 1 plant manager stated.

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Father Ryder Will Speak Here Monday Rev. Fathere Joacim Ryder, Fort i Wayn". will be the principal speak- | | er at the m eting following Instal- ■ latfon of officers of Adams post ■ i number 43 of the American Legion , Monday night. Father Ryder has spoken In De- , catur on numerous occasions and is ’ , known as a forceful and inspiring , 1 speaker. E. M. Ixirber of Columbia ! City, Fourth district commander, i will act as Installing officer Mon- ■ day. All ex-service men are invited : | to attend this meeting. o CHARLES CARON FOUND GUILTY Aged Umbrella Mender Found Guilty of Rape In Second Degree Charles Caron. 74, umbrella men- ’ dpr. was found guilty of rape in the second degre? by a Jury in the ■ Adams circuit court Wednesday night. The case went to the jury shortly before 5 o'clock Wednea- j day, the jurors deliberating four ■ hours before returning a verdict. The second degree verdict carries an indeterminate sentence of lone to 10 years. The Jury’s verdicj I was a surprise to many as a verdict of first degree was expected in ■ case the guilt of the defendant was i established by the jury. A first degree verdict carries a penalty of : five to 21 years. The trial op ned Monday morning with practically the entire first day devoted to obtaining a jury. A . crowded courtroom greeted every > session during the three days and much testimony of a sordid nature was presented by various witi nesses. Caron was arrested June 24, 1933 | charged with criminally attacking | a 12-year old girl. Most of the trial was devoted to examination of the ■ alleged victim and the defendant. I The jury’s verdict was read in ' court shortly after 9 p. m. Wednesday. Sentence will be imposed by Judge DeVoss in the next tow days. Winfred Gerke was for man of the jury. Other jurors we;e John Tonner. Alphonse Kohne. Simeon Bieneke, John Marshall. Oscar Ehrsam. Charles H. Windmiller, Ed. Arnold. Tony Tumbleson. Leonard ! Merryman, John Bucher and Lawrence Conrad. o Hog Prices Rise To $5.40 In Chicago Chicago. Sept. 21 —(UP) The ; price of hogs increased to $5.40 per hundredweight on the Chicago market today. This was the highest price paid for hogs since 1932. Increase in the price of grains was one contributing factor. o — OPPOSITION TO PRICE FIXING — Opponents of Plan Charge It Tends Toward State Socialism Washington, Sept. 21. — (U.R) — Price fixing in the national recov-; ■ ery program tends toward state , socialism, it was charged today as | price regulation features of the proposed NRA code for the retail ■ trades became the center of debate ■ over price control measures. Opponents of price fixing declar- ■ ed that it could not be operated ' successfully except where state; socialism was an avowed objective. NRA officials who prepared the 1 : revised retail code maintained it; was intended to regulate or control prices, but not to fix them to any rigid formula. Present discussions of prices tend to include any form of price regulation under the broad term of "price fixing." In reality there are significant differences. Under strict price fixing the price of each article in the retail trade would be set by fiat. In the retail code as it is now constituted there are no such provisions. The code does not guarantee a If) per cent profit to the retailer nor does it prevent him from charging more than the wholesale price ■ phis ten per cent. The ultimate price will be determined by the i same factors as at present, except ■ that ruthless price cutting for comj petitive purposes will not be al- * (CONTINUED ON PAGE FIVE)

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SAYS FUGITIVE THREATENED TO MURDER FAMILY “Machine Gun” Kelly, Fugitive Kidnaper, Made Death Threat OTHER THREATS SENT BY MAIL Oklahoma Citv. Sept. 21.— (U.R) The terrified uncle ot Katherine Kellv, I ugihve <leI’endant in the I rschel ki< - nai>in“ case tol‘‘„ n States".!udge Edgar S. \ todav that George (Math e Gun) Kellv threalened the lives of his entire family on their farm near Stratford, Oklahoma, last night. This revelation came as me climax of a dramatic scene in the heavilv guarded courtroom where Harvey Bailey and 11 others are on trial] of conspiracy in the $200,990 kidnaping of ' Charles F. Urscliel, Oklahoma City oil millionaire. Fred Coleman, 40, confided the death threat to Judge Vaught a f t er he was arrested following ms appearance in the courtroom with his 72 year old father, to demand five minutes speaking time. The elder Coleman, of Stratford. Okla.' had been a witness, testify- : ing two days ago that Albert Bates and George (Machine Gun Kellv. the latter a relative by marriage, discussed a kidnaping project at his farm home a fewdays before Urschel was abducted July 22. , , „ The son was hustled from th chamber by order of Judge Vaught, placed under arrest and taken to the office of Marshal W. • c Geers, for questioning A federal agent was waiting to testify as to how the notorious Harvey Bailey, accused of plotting the crime, was captured in an early-morning raid Aug. 12 a th ? Paradise. Texas, farm of K. ' G. Shannon, another defendant. When the younger Coleman i entered as court convened, with his feeble father a few paces behind. and asked to be allowed to speak. District Attorney Herbert K. Hyde leaped to his feet with objections. "What do you want to say. Judge Vaught demanded of Cole“I just want to talk for five minutes, and more depends on that five minutes than ever was ' said in five minutes in this world.” ~ The judge ruled the man could not speak and ordered him from the courtroom. A few steps from the door. Coleman turned again as if to speak and federal agents seized him and escorted him out. While an amazed courtroom full of spectators, and the still more puzzled jury, looked on. the agents and a group of policemen took I Coleman downstairs. "I just want five minutes with that judge.” Coleman pleaded as ihe entered the marshal’s office. ON PAGE FIVE) Infant Fatally Hurt In Wreck Rochester, Ind., Sept. 21 —(U.R) John Grauel. 20-months-old son of Mr. and Mrs. Frederick Grauel. was fatally injured yesterday when the auto driven by his mother overturned after striking i fresh gravel near here. Four other members ot the fam- ] ily riding in the machine were injured. The accident occurred while the Grauels, residing near here, were en route to attend the funeral of Clifford Samsel at Lucerne. Austria May Have Fascist Government - — II Vienna, Sept. 21—(UP)—Chan- ■ cellor Engelbert Dollfuss, invested by President Wilhelm Mlklae with dictorial powers, guided Austria to- ] ward a fascist state today. Empowered if he likes to assume 1 the entire state executive with any sort of cabinet he chose, the little ’ chancellor gave himself supreme ’ control over all military and police ' forces and formed a new cabinet af- ‘ ter obtaining the resignation of his old one. The new cabinet took the oath ’| of office before the President at noon.