Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 31, Number 251, Decatur, Adams County, 24 October 1933 — Page 1

81ather ■cloudy north. |y fair south ■ tonight »nd Lsy: co'der Eth portion toLith temperl,,r (reeling.

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|te IRSQPPORT SOUGHT BY RM LEADERS il Farm Strike Re(l Slowly Gaing Momentum JVELT PLAN IS CRITICIZED |O. (kt. 21 <U.R> jioiiul farm strike r (Ik Fanu Holiday on gained mornen-; wh today as Milo rnident, enlisted sii|>itlier farm and labor (ions. and other officials of L'ialion which claims M>rshi|) of 2.000,000 n 27 states, engaged In ■ campaign to arouse j n farmers to Join in. Ie of all farm produce ■colt of merchants. iois State Farmers Uoli-j •iation. at a meeting' hy 3,000 members in adopted a resolution I ts Id.oOO members to us sale of all produce, ice equal to the cost of . is obtained." ddressed the meeting, ipport of the strike declared President < pledge of controlled j held no assurance of more than ‘‘another raise.'' and criticised the hter program of Secret tricsilture Wallace, sident's promise of high “one way or another" no effect on the farm i to said. "The PreaiI even to mention cost ion. the main object of he said. not going to stop this I we get what we want' production.” Reno said, ke has only one object access will cause us to i encouraged by the re- ■ farmers and organised •(inference with labor re Reno obtained prom- j 1'171) ON PAGE SIX) I o,_. 0 ,_. . It Suffers From Slight Cold ton, Oct. 24— (U.K) — Roosevelt is suffering a i 1 and is conducting s today from his study ite House. > (plained that the Preßiss was slight and that e back in the executive orrow. isevelt developed the overnight. He plans J abers of his cabinet day. >sence from the offices Ive council meeting ,>i >on will be presided j cretary of State Hdll. o FYFARM ; MATE DIES Kohler Death Ated To Suicide Attempts ■ ohler, 77, an inmate of County Infirmary died ’clock this morning. Dr. r. county physician as- < ause of death as concusbrafn, resulting from mtpts to try to commit 1 an inquest held Satur-' t was filed yesterday by I Dr. L. E. Somers and ohne, adjudging Kohler ' ring had not been held 1 final committment to! ■ hospital, Richmond had made. made several attempts to Eg, ls liie - tlis I‘atest acts being an to hang himself with a • gs Meet and servering an artery e arm. He also battered his 31111 the to,lnty Phaltan stats brought on the concussion I brain. ‘ of Kohler’s family history Ih Ji 6 learil€d - He formerly lived The inquest papers show born in Germany, DecemLl. 4 ‘ 1885 . coming to the United | ' ■t 68 ,’ D 1882. He had been a resi-1 ■ « Adams Count since 1893.

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Elmer Weaver Held OA Bad (’heck Charge Elmer Weaver entered a plea of 1 not guilty to a charge of issuing a i fraudulent cheek when arraigned ' in the Adams circuit court today. The affidavit, tiled by the Schafer l Hardware Company, alleges that W eaver passed a fraudulent cheek i for $5 at the local store, the cheek being written on the Bank of Gej lieva. ASK OUTRIGHT : FEDERAL GIFT State Highway Department Asks $300,000 For Road Building Indianapolis, Ind.. Oct 24 —IUP) Application for an outright gift of $300,000 from the federal government will he forwarded to Washington today hy the state highway department. If the money is forthcoming the state will add S7OO.O<M) and start immediate improvement of 56.7 ■ miles of highways. Plans and specifications have been drawn' and blds could be rei reived within two weeks, James D. Adams, chairman, pointed out. it is estimated that the work will | cost $1,170,000 for 46 miles of paving. 10 miles of grading and building of small structures. .In making public works loans. 1 the government requires that only 70 per cent be prepaid. Under the proposed plan, the highway commission would receive the 30 per 1 cent which the government does not expect to be repaid and the remaining 70 per cent would be taken from present funds instead of being borrowed under the public works plan. Should the highway department s plan be accepted, several hundred i m» nveuld be given work during the early spring and summer next year and the commission could extend its construction program 30 per cent. The proposed projects include: 4.7 miles of paving on road 50 in Lawrence and Jackson countie) paving of 4.6 miles on road 5o in I Jackson county, paving of 4.8 miles *'<eoVr*N’rEP*nv page etve' oJOHN R. HOOK DIES TODAY Aged Man Dies At Home Os Son In Monroe This Morning John Robert Hook. 73. died at the home of tils son. Roy Hook at Monroe at 7:30 o’clock this morning following a two years illness. Mr. Hook suffered paralytic stroke about a year ago and since that time has been in failing health. He suffered a hemorrhage this morning which caused his death. He'was born on .August 28. 1860 in St. Mary's. Ohio, a son of Jonathan and Eliza Hook. His wife, one daughter and two ssiters preceded him in death. Surviving are the son Roy, of Monroe, and a daughter. Mrs. Rosa Sprunger of Fort Wayne, and two grandchildren, Clarence and Catherine Hook. He was a member of the Pleasant Valley Friends Church for a number of years. He had made his home with the son in Monroe since last July. Funeral services will be held Thursday morning at 10 o'clock at Roy Hook home and at 10:30 o’clock at the Monroe Friends Church with the Rev. Vernon Riley officiating. Burial will be made at St. Mary's. Ohio. The body will be returned to the home from the Lobenstein funeral parlors tonight. Mac Murray Given Divorce Decree Los Angeles Oct. 24 — (UP) Mae Murray, blonde stage and screen star, today obtained a divorce from David Mdivani, Georgian prince, on charges of mental cruelty. Mdivani did not appear to contest the case and superior judge Robert W. Kenny entered a default decree.

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Open Racket Quiz Senator Louis .1. Murphy (left), United States District Attorney Dwight H. Green and Senator Cop id (right) at the probe being conducted in Chicago. District Attorney Green termed racketeering th lost diabolical form of blackmail.” and told of ten industries in that city which had been dominated.

MANY FAIL TO OBTAIN CHECKS ■ C. .1. Lutz Reports Many Checks For Depositors Unclaimed Despite talk of hard times, money is going begging, figuratively! speaking in Decatur. Attorney C. J. Lutz, liquidating agent for the old Peoples Loan and Trust Company. commented today in mentioning the fact that he advertised ij list of more than 500 names of persons nvho had money coming from previous distributions. In yesterday s issue of the Daily Democrat a notice was jmiaislied by Attorney Lutz to the effect that several hundred persons and firms, former depositors in the Trust Company, had not called for the money due them. Mr Lutz stated that more than 82.006 was waiting for those who had not called for some of the checks in the previous five depositor's distributions, several having as many as five checks coming to them. The amounts due depositors range from two cents to S2OO, Mr. Lutz stated. Several clubs and societies and civic organizations have money due them, the notice shows. Distributions amounting to 58 per cent of the total deposits in the Peoples Loan and Trust Company w£re made by M. Kirsch, former liquidating agent for the institu-i tion. In a good many cases the depositor has not received any of the money due him. although the list contains the names of scores that have not called for the last distribution of four per cent. Mr. Lutz pointed out that the checks would not be mailed and those having money due them should call at his office in the Erwin building on South Second street and receive their distributive . share. o SEEK SPEEDING OF FARM LOANS Lieutenant - Gov. Townsend Seeks Action On Farm Loans Indianapolis. Oct. 24 — (UP) —, Lieut. Gov. M. Clifford Townsend, and Frank Evans. Crawfordsville, farm loan representative for Indiana insurance companies, will go to Washington tomorrow in an at-. tempt to speed farm loans for the ' etate. They will confer with farm credit heads and secretary of agriculture I Wallace. They announced their trip after a : meeting last night of the Indiana j agricultural advisory committee ap-' pointed recently by Gov. Paul V.; McNutt at the request of secretary . Wallace. Rapid action must be taken to re-1 lieve the farm credit .situation in Indiana to prevent further farm mortgage foreelousures and to liquidate banks holding farm paper, the council members agreed. Many Indiana farmers may lose their homes by Jan. 1 unless speedy action ie effected, the 13 council *(CONtTnUBP ON PAGE FOUR)

Decatur, Indiana, Tuesday, October 24, 1933.

Second Accident Victim Is Dead Seymour. Ind.. Oct. 24—(U.R) — Miss Marcella Hunt, Franklin, I died in a hospital here late yes- : terday, the second victim of a i truck-auto collision Sunday. yarold Stouder, .Indianapolis, driver of the automobile in widen Miss Hunt was riding, remained in a critical condition today. John Findley. Seymour, driver: of the truck, was killed instantly 1 in the crash. o Defense Rests Case In Nudism Trial Allegan, Mich.. Oct. 24—(U.R)— Defense arguments iniended to • show that nudism benefits the | health were banned by Judge. ‘ FTed T. Miles today in the trial I of Fred C. Ring, leader of a nudist | colony here, charged with indecent exposure. Thwarted in their attempt to, spread upon the court record a detailed argument for the heajth features of the nudist cult, defense immedia'ely rested their case. PLAN BOARD TO DICTATE VALUE To Establish Board to Dictate Value of American Money M’ashington. Oct. 24 — (U.R) —! Plans for the establishment of a board to dictate the value of American money and fix the price of gold and commodities in world | markets rapidly took form today Under President Roosevelts plan, the government not only! will continue to impound some $3,750,000,000 tn gold now in its hands, but through paying higher prices to domestic miners, will seek to acquire all American gold hereafter mined. Previously. American miners have been per-, mitted to sell their newly mined j metal at the world price. In the future it is proposed that the government through the Reconstruction Finance Corpora- | tion will buy, at prices slightly above the world price level, all the gold offered. The effect would be to raise gold prices and Indi- ‘ I rectly raise commodity prices! I through a cheapening of the dol-l j lar. , Through sal»s and purchases of gold the government could raige : or lower the purchasing power of the dollar almost at will, independent of foreign influences such :as might develop through the manipulating for instance, of speculators or of the billion-dollar I (CONTINUED ON PAGE FIVE) | ° Delta Theta Taus Will Sponsor Movie The Delta Theta Tau sorority 1 i will sponsor a benefit movie at the j Adams Theatre, November 1 and 2, ■and the proceeds will open the Good Fellows Club fund. The club is conducted each year by the, sorority for the purpose of making the poor children happy at Christmas. The movie, "Bed of Rose-s" will! feature Constance Bennett. The! puUlic is urged to purchase tickets] for the movie.

BUSCHE HEADS WHEAT GROWERS Monroe Man Is Elected President of County Association The Community Chairmen of the Adams County wheat growers association met Monday at the County Agent's office in the Postoffice building and elected officers for the county organization. E. W. Busche of Monroe was elected president of the organization. Other officers are. James D. i Blown, of Kirkland township, vice- ; 'president; Ralph Myers, Hartford: i township, secretary; John W. Blak-i , ey, Union township, treasurer. The allottmeut committee is composed of the following: Mr. Busche, chairman; Mr. Myers. Mr. Blakey. Frank H. Demaree, Agriculture adjustment Supervisor for Indiana attended the meeting and discussed plans and explained details witli the community committees and officers of the county organization. The community chairmen and the townships represented by them who attended the meeting yesterday are: Ralph Myers, Hartford. Wabash and Jefferson townships; Ed Neuhauser, French, Monroe and Blue Creek townships; John W Blakley, Union and St. Marys townships; E. W. Buscher, Root and Washington township; James D. Brown. Kirkland and Preble townships. It is estimated that about 250 farmers have signed the wheat growing contracts, agreeing to reduce wheat acreage on a three year plan beginning with 1934. The list for publication, showing the amount of acres cultivated in the previous three years and the amount asked for next year is being compiled and will be published in all the papers in the county. Representatives of the Daily *T*i)XTIXUEK OS PAGE FIVE) FORMER OPERA SINGER IS DEAD Orville Harrold Dies Late Monday At Home In Connecticutt Muncie. Ind.. Oct. 24— (U.R) I Arrival of the body of Orville 1 Harrold, former tenor of the Met-; ropolitan Opera company, was awaited here today as funeral; arrangements were being made by his son. Paul. Harrold, former glass factory I worker and truck driver here, died at his summer home at Darien. -Conn., late yesterday. He is survived by the widow, a ! daughter, Patti Harrold, Los Angeles, Calif, singer; and a so,). Paul, resident of Muncie. While singing as an amateur with a club here Harrold was ‘‘discovered” by Mme. iSchumannHeink visiting Muncie on a concert tour. From an inauspicious start as a New York vaudeville singer he rose rapidly. After singing in light opera for a short time he joined the Metropolitan Opera company and remained as a featured singer for seven years. ON PAGE TWO)

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PRICE CONTROL IN RETAIL CODE DUE FOR BATTLE Provisions of Master Code Likely To Draw Many Objections FORBIDS SALES AT LESS THAN COST Washington. Oct. 24. (U.R)—Bat 1 ' tie lines tor a new tight over retail, ! I rice control were being drawn to-' day in trade circles and the NRA. I Far from disposing of the issue, 1 a master retail code promulgated yesterday by the President to take ' effect next Monday seemed merely Ito have defined the limits within which the controversy now will he ; fought to a finish. Knocking out an original provision to ban scales of goods at less 1 than wholesale cost plus 10 per, cent, the code forbids sales at less i than cost with the added declar- ! ation that “the selling price of ar- ■ tides to the consumer should inI elude an allowance for actual wages of store labor, to be fixed and published from time to time by the trade authority.” Stores with five or fewer employes in towns of less than 2.500 are exempt not only from this but from all other code provisions. The issue affecting all other stores now is how much of the labor costs the trade authority will decide should be included in the prices below which goods cannot lie sold. Those within the NRA who fought , to the last for the cost plus 10 per cent plan express confidence that the mark-up to be recommended by the trade authority would be close jto that figure. They believed it , would prove more acceptable when I presented, as it now will he, as a . mark-up to cover part of actual la- : bor costs. Tfie trade authority of three members is expected to be appointed quickly. It will have the assistance of a national retail trade council composed of members of each division of retail trade. NRA of-, ’ ’continued" on'pa'ge five) COMPROMISE ON DEMOCRAT CLUB Funds Collected By 2% Club To Be Handled By Committee Indianapolis. Ind., Oct. 24— Reports that R. Earl Peters will resign as Democratic State chairman before his term expires next May were heard in political circles today. Three reasons why he may resign have been advanced. First, he will have to relinquish his chairmanship if he becomes a candidate for United States senator. Second, his feud with Gov. Paul V. McNutt may ; be culminated by his resignation; third, he may receive a federal appointment. Indianapolis. Oct. 24. — (U.R) —; Funds collected by the Hoosier Democratic Club will be disbursed by Amos Woods, treasurer of the Democratic state committee, but ! the assessment will remain at two per cent. And thus another round in the controversy between Gov. Paul V. McNutt and R. Earl Peters, Democratic state chairman, apparently has ended in a draw Peters wanted the money dis- ♦♦♦ • ♦ (CONTINUED ON PAGE TWO) 0 Lunz Divorce Case On Trial Wednesday The divorce ease of Mrs. Fred Lunz against her husband, Allen ! county sheriff, is scheduled to go on trial in Adams circuit court Wednesday. The case was venued here from Fort W'ayne. o Geneva Men Given Jail Sentences George Dawson and Julius Hend-! ricks, both of near Geneva, were each fined SSO and costs and sentenced to serve 30 days in jail for the theft of turkeys from James Figley of near Rockford. Ohio. The two men pleaded guilty when arraigned in a Celina, Ohio, court.

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Legal Notice For Paving Prepared The state highway commission has prepared the legal notice to the effect that sealed bids will be re- ! ceiveri by the Highway Director. Indianapolis. Tuesday. November 7. for constructing state road 227 east of Decatur to the Ohio line. Proposals will be received on concrete, bituminous concrete, brick, asphalt macadam and rock asphalt. The notice states that the stretch of road to be improved is 17.321 miles long. The right-of-ways were obtained last week. QUESTION MAN IN KIDNAPING Police Question Wrestler In Connection With Lindbergh Kidnaping Boston, Oct. 24 —(UP) — John Groch. questioned today as a suspect in the Lindbergh baby kidnaping once lived in east 149th. Street. New York in the same neighborhood where one of the Lindbergh ransonie bills turned up police revealed. Boston, Oct. 24 —(U.R) Now York and New Jersey police arrived today to question John Gorch. 37-year-old wrestler and former resident of Hopewell. N. J., in connection with the Baby Lindbergh kidnaping. Before going to Charles Street ; jail, where Gorch was held under SIO,OOO hail on Boston and Philadelphia robbery charges. Lieutenant James Finn, of the New York police and Corporal William F. Horn of the New Jersey state police conferred with Deputy Superintendent James McDevitt of the Boston police. In the conference at police headquarters. were Federal Investigator Frank W. Allen, who has been checking the serial numbers of bills found on Gorch yesterday; Captain Stephan J. Flaherty, head of the detective bureau here, and Police Inspector Timothy Donovan. The New York and New Jersey i officers wanted to go at once to the jail and question Gorch but the suspect's lawyer, Herbert F. Callahan, was occupied with another , case and refused to permit them to question Gorch until he (Callaihan) could be present. The New York, find New Jersey officers later went to the jail, accompanied by the Federal investi- < CONTINUED ON PAGE TW O > Asks Display Os Flag On Navy Day Indianapolis. Oct. 24*- (U.R) I Display of the American flag throughout the slate on Navy Day Oct. 27, was asked today by Govetnor Paul V. McNutt. Governor McNutt, in a proclamation designating next Friday as Navy Day. pointed out that the navy is tlie country's firs' line of defense in times of national j emergency. LEGION PLANS MEMBER DRIVE Annual Membership Drive By Adams Post Will Start Next Week The annual membership drive of Adams post number 43 of the American Legion will be launched i next week. This decision was made at the regular meeting held Monday night at the Decatur Country ! Club. Members of the drive committee will be announced later. Announcement was also made that on Sunday. October 29, Arthur R. Robinson, .Indiana's Republican senator, will deliver an address on i "Veterans' Legislation’’ at Fort Wayne. The time and place for the address will be announced later. The local post has also received notice that on Wednesday, November 8. the membership committee of the Fort Wayne legion post uumi her 47, will give a banquet for veterans of the German army during the world war. now living in Fort : Wayne and vicinity. This banquet will be held at the Moose home in Fort Wayne, at 6:30 p. ni.. November 8. Ten tickets for this banquet have been received here and anyone wishing to attend may obtain tickets from Walter Gladfelter.

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BELIEVED PART OF DESPERATE OUTLAW GROUP Thought Gang The Same That Robbed Greencastle Bank Monday LOOT OBTAINED IS LESS THAN $5,000 South Bend, hid., Oct. 21. ' — (U.R) Four men believed members of a desperate baud of outlaws roaming through Indiana held tm the Western ; State Bank at South Bend and esea|>e<l with less than $5,000. A similar number of men held up the Central National Bank at Greencastle late yesterday, escaping with approxi- ! mately $75,000 in cash and bonds. The gang is believed to include John Dillinger, who was freed from the Lima. Ohio, jail last wee: Harry Copeland, a paroled Indiana prison convict: and Walter Deitrich and Harry Pierpont. ' two of 1/ men who escaped from the state prison at Michigan City September 26. The car used in the South Bend robbery bore Illinois license plates, and escaped west on highway 2. Two of the four bandits entered the bank while one stood guard at the door and another remained outside in the automobile. One man covered Cashier Harry Neimlc while another vaulted over a glass partition and scooped up money in the cash drawers and on the counter. They did not ! enter the vault. Neimlc said. Frank Wisnieski. superintendent of the South Bend water works, and his wife were just goi ing up to a physician's office above the bank when they were ordered into the institution by I the bandit on guard at the door. I They wore made to lie on the floor with two other customers. Witnesses said (he bandits appeared to lie armed only with revolvers. The gang which invaded the Greencastle bank yesterday had sub-machine guns as well as small arms. Only SIB,OOO Cash Greencastle. Ind.. Oct. 24 —4U.R) —Actual loot in the robbery of the Central National Bank hero yesterday was $18,482 in cash and $56,300 in bonds, Fred L. O'Hair, president, announced today. Part of the bonds are non-negotiable, he said, and the loss is fully covi ered by insurance. Bank employes and customers selected pictures of four members of the gang as closely resembling the robbers. Pictures selected by the victims were those of John Dillinger, hank robbery suspect rescued from a : Lima. 0., jail recently; Harry Copeland, paroled Indiana convict identified as one of Dillinger’s rescuers, and Harry Pierpont and Walter Deitrich. two of 10 eonvic's who escaped from the Indi- | ana state prison Sept. 26. j The bank robbers were armed with sub-machine guns and escaped in an automobile bearing license plates stolen at Hamilton. Ohio. After investigating circumstances of the robbery, Capt. Matt Leach of the state police said he was virtually certain the robbers l were members of the convict gang. Kidnap Three Nebraska City. Nebr.. Oct. 24.— I (U.R) —Four men armed with mai chine guns robbed the Merchants National Bank of $5,000 and kidnaped two employes and a customer here this afternoon. o Pleads Guiltv To Assault And Battery Rurdsall King, charged with as- : sault and battery, entered a plea I of guilty when arraigned in circuit court today. Judge DeVoss took the matter of punishment under consideration and will fix the penalty Saturday morning. The affidavit was filed by Michael Biberstein. 0 Former Stage Star’s Son Takes Own Life Hollywootl. Cab. Oct. 24 —(U.R>— : Robert B. Mantell. Jr.. 21. son of the late stage actor of Shakespearean fame, shot and killed himself today at the apartment where he resided with his mother, Genevieve Hamper, stage actress, according to police.