Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 31, Number 263, Decatur, Adams County, 7 November 1933 — Page 1

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FICTIONS IN |SINTRY HOLD MUCH INTEREST Extensive Election I Silk Roosevelt’s Vic''ML repeal is I ■ FOREMOST ISSUE 1 i_»#sviiie. Nov. 7— U.P.> —The ’IB first casualty reported in out * -c-ikt attending elections ■ thrMt >* O>e nation, occurred " when unidentified snot to death at a place. ■ Twr ’ ersons were arresteo ■ for questioning in the slaying. K EijhtTo'.ners were held in conI r.ectior w *h minor disorders in ■ LoSJ'l " where unusually ■ heavy ballotting had brought ■ callaror additional boxes from I -nost Lrecincts. «■ In r "' sl 1 n t< nsivc ftiftn jl-' since Hit' ntitioiiul Iplectibn :i ven’ ago Hint nut IFranlilii’ I) Koosevelt in the Iwhib House American votit to the noils to pass ■«n Biii ’ 11 national imporlI Foilemost was prohibition InjK-al with three or more of Still' ' votin'' exper-tc'l !■•' • ■ vic-orins and abolish ■tke IHli niendment. in importance was the in-ivoraltv race ■Taman ' Hill facing ‘he possibility of first major upset in 20 ■' Sit i'-s vo'ed on projects fur municipal ownership ■oro® I ’ll of power plants. The were expected to have a ■ direct result on similar projects ■■ ® making elsewhere and Edffeet '!i- controversial issue of I apitiMir ownership of utilities. I IhWCT i'ies were San Franc'sco. | ■ Sait J <itv. Cincinnati Akron. ■O. T own. ().. and Camden. < lected a United States a governor, and a com■l SBB lick'd. Senator Harrv ! ing bv appoin’mem. ■l.ta oj dbv Major Henry A. ’ Democrat. W McW.tne. Republican. candidates foi governor. B ON' Fro'. Democrat . ;oi- ’ house seemed to be of victory. the dis'rict. Republito nominate a candiycrn gn n»ng vtvfd H| Dugan Auto On i I l ire This Morning ■M ''■ '■ar ' department was street, where Mr. Dug■B "I backfired and < audit o'clock this morning, was quickly ex'i'lyuMcd damage was reported. | COUNTY OFFICE Bclosedtod*y urer’s Office Closed Hi* Compile Tax Pay- ■ merits Made received through the i» payment of the November MBl lnill|| i of taxes were being IBB*"' on the tax duplicate at the treasurer's office today. number of checks were during the last two days. ißßtreasurer's office was i losed so that employes in the ofstrike a balance and clear from the final day's the tax paying period veswnUp. or totals as to the amount paid and the amount caras delinquent will not he for several days as the balance wili not be made tinpayments are credited. rush yesterdy was a heavy although the fall payment expected to be as good as the B Payment. County Treasurer Wechter believes that the de|SB ei| ts are root large. May payment was exceptionjßgood. less than SII,OOO going’

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TOASTMASTER IS SELECTED .James Cowan Will Preside At Armistice Day Proi gram Saturday James Cowan, manager of the Decatur Casting company, will preside as toastmaster at the ! American Legion Armistice day , progiam to be held at the Decatur ‘ Country Club. Saturday noon. November 11. Mr. Cowan, who was a captain in the quartermaster's department in the world war, informed N. R. Holthouse, general chairman on arrangements for the meeting ' that he would be in the city next Sa'urday and accepted the toastmastership. Paul H. Graham, a former commander of Adams Post No. 43 of the American legion and well known Legionnaire of this cfty. will deliver the eulogy during the 1 ritualistic service. Th® Hon. Harry McClain of Indianapolis. insurance commissioner for Indiana and well known in . ■ sta'e Legion circles will deliver 1 I the principal address at the 1 [ meeting. “ | The program will begin at 10:50 ■ I o’clock and at 11 o'clock a three l ! minutes' silence will be observed 1 ■ in memory of those who were kill- ! I ed in 'he war. i Members of the Chamber of Commerce, the Rotary and Liqns i clubs will attend the meeting and ' from the advance sale of tickets made up to noon today a large ' crowd is expected Dinner will be i served between 11:30 and 12 o'clock and reservations must be i made before Friday. The ritualistic work will be in ; charge of Albert Miller, post com- , mander and his staff of officers. . Those besides Commander Miller ! who will take par- are. V. J. Bor,- . man. -first officer: Ferff OBHon. I I second officer; Hez Cochran, third f officer. Following the address by Mr. (CfWCTNUED nx- PAGE FtVEt ISAAC BROWN DIES TODAY Aged Decatur Resident Dies At Home of Son At Noon Today Isaac Brown, 86. retired farmer, i and resident of Adams County and Decatur for many years, died at ' ; the home of his son. S. E. Brown. > 223 First street, at 12:40 o’clock this afternoon. Death was due to complications. Mr. Brown became ill suddenly ■ Friday night and his conditi >n had been regarded critical since . that time. ■ Mr. Brown served as trustee of Root township for seven years when a young man. He engaged in farming, followed the carpenter trade and managed one of the , first creameries ever located in . this county, east of town. He was a member of the local Methodist I Episcopal church. He was born in Wayne county, , Ohio, a son of John and Maria Seiger-Brown.' August 16, 1847. In ; 1869 he was united in marriage to Cassia Hawn of Union county. Ohio, and to this union one son was born. S. E. Brown of Decatur. 1 Mrs. Brown died in 1891 and two years later Mr. Brown married : Mrs. Mary E. Houck of Adams I county. One son was born, Carl ,■ A. Brown of Bartlesville. Okla- . homa. One step-son. Frank Houck . of Arcadia. California, also survives. Mrs. Brown preceded her 'COX’TINITFP' PAGE SIX) h o Decatur Sees Its First Snow Today The first skift of snow fell in Decatur early this afternoon. Temperatures dropped and with overcast skies it appeared that more' snow would fall before night. Hahegger Funeral Rites Wednesday Funeral services for Mrs. ClinJ ton Habegger. 43. of Berne, will be .held Wednesday afternoon at 1:30 ' o'clock at the Habegger home and lat 2 o’clock at the Mennonite I Church. Rev. C. H. Suckau will of- '' ficiate and burial will be made in I the M. R- E. cemetery.

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lowa Farm Strike Pickets ♦ B RMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMNMMMMHMHMfIHBMBBHBBBBBB 1 RrSHHHHHBBSHMFFI flMy Rb' • ** '■•bF IWm. t ; /f Bw. ',f jH* MBBk 9 W + n i B ■ SL it fi 1 I IXJ The angty mood of the lowa farmers who have been dumping live stock and butter trucks is shown in this picture of a picket group on one of the main highways leading into Sioux City. lowa. All the state and federal highways leading into this important Middle West live stock and agricultural products center are how effectively blockaded by farm striker pickets, who are determined that no products shall move Ito market until the farmers are assured of cost of produc'ion prices. Large railroad ties are used.

DECATUR ELKS PLAN PROGRAM Class Will Be Initiated In Accordance With Armistice Day Plans Elks lodges throughout the nation will observe Armistice Day. Saturday. November 11. by special programs in which classes of candidates will receive initiatory work. These candidates for memUershUL will he ineiuhera of wltat is called President Roosevelt's NRA classes. A. class of several candidates will be initiated by the Decatur lodge Saturday night at 8 o'clock. Elks lodges over the entire country will hold initiation ceremonies simultaneously. At 9:30 p. m. FUST), grand exalted ruler Walter F. Meier of Seattle. Washington, will address ail 1 members over a radio hookup of the Columbia broadcasting system. This program can be heard front ' station WOWO, Fort Wayne. This radio program will be concluded with the rendition of the Eleven O'clock Toast by Joseph T. Fanning, editor and executive director of the Elks magazine from its inception. Also included on the broadcast will be Postma iter General James IA. Farley, prominent Elk and formerly president of the New York State Elks association. All members of the local chapter of the Elks are urged to | attend the initiatory work after which a special feed with q.ll the trimmings will be served and listen , to the radio program at the home on North Second street Saturday night. o RESOLUTIONS • ARE ADOPTED County Bar Association Adopts Resolutions On Death Os John Snow The Adams County Bar Association met at 9 o’clock this morning in the circuit court room, with former Judge James T. Merryman pre- ! siding. Resolutions of n tpect for the late John F. Snow were spread on the minutes, the resolutions committee was appointed and honorary pall bearers were named. C. J. Lutz is chairman of the resolutions committee and other i members are Nathan Nelson and C. L. Walters. The honorary pall bear- . ers are J. W. Teeple, H. M. DeVoss, Henry B. Heller, H. H. Myers, | French Quinn and John T. Kelly. The bar association will attend the funeral services for Mr. Snow in a body. Funeral services will be held Wednesday afternoon at 1 o'clock at the Snow home on Mercer avenue with the Rev. Harry Thompson officiating. Burial will be made in the Snow cemetery near Geneva. The active pall bearers will be named from the Masonic lodge.

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128 Attend Banquet At Evangelical Church One hundred twenty-eight fathers | and sons attended the father and son banquet held at the First Evangelical church Monay evening. Rev I Arndt of Fort Wayne gave the principal address on A Son's Oltligation to hie Dad. and a Father's Obligation to tis son.'' Rev. Arndt pointed out that two things a father owes his son are leadership and • example; and two things a sou 1 owes his dad are honor and obe- - dienve. , The banquet was sponsored by the Brotherhood of the church and , t ' tias served by the members of the , ' Women's Missionary society and i the missionary circle girls. o COUNTY BOARD IS IN SESSION 1 , f Commissioners Are Expected To Adjourn Late This Afternoon > The county commissioners in sest sion today held conferences with ‘ representatives of office and sup- ‘ ply concerns relative to cabinets i and other material necessary to in-1 stall the registration system in the | i county clerks office. I Several representatives were here today and explained their systms and quoted prices. County Clerk Milton C. Werling. who by , virtue of his office must administer ■ the system, also conferred with , commissioners. Adjournment was scheduled for >' late this afternoon. It was not expected that the board would pur- | chase the supplies at this time. The outline of a policy or nam-; ing a representative to assist in ' administering the old age pension law will not be done at today's ses--1 sion. It is likely that some action i will be taken in the next few weeks, the legal machinery being ready for the first of ttlie year, when under 1 the law, pensions are payable. )

American Red Cross Os Great Aid To Needy During Depression Years

The story of National Red Cross I relief Suring the years of 1932 and 1933 is most exceptional .With millions in need of food and with [tattered rags in prospect as the regular uniform of the armies of unemployed, a beneficent Congress broke the seals on bulging wheat elevators and cotton warehouses, I directing the Red Cross to place I the farm board surpluses where they would do the most good. i Swift, orderly action followed, j This was one of the most crucial j j tests ever met by the Red Cross in 52 years of disaster emergencies. [ It constituted perhaps the most ini- i I portant of many relief assignments! imposed by the economic depress-1 ion. Out of the experience, the Red Cross emerged with a record, of unparalleled efficiency. The story of the National Red i Cross relief for 1932 and 1933 is as, follows: Eighty-five million bushels of i I wheat and 10,688,307 bushels of j i flour were distributed: 1 5,803,000 families were fed:

ADAMS COUNTY FARMER DIES John Henry Blakey Died At Fort Wayne Early Monday Evening John Henry Blakey, 78. weU known farmer of Adams county and a lifelong resident of Union township, died at the Lutheran hospital in Fort Wayne. Monday evening at 6:15 o'clock following ; a short illness. Mr. Blakey was visiting with relatives in Fort Wayne when he suddenly became ill. He was removed to the hospital Friday morning and underwent an operation Friday afternoon. His condition remained critical until death I Monday evening. Deatli was due to acute intestinal obstruction. He was a well known farmer reI siding six miles northeast of Decatur. He was a member of the Emmanuel Lutheran church. He was born in Union tow.nsliip, February 17. 1865, a son of Chris' and Marie Fahlsing Blakey. On September 29. 1878 he was united in marriage to Amelia Thieme, who preceded him in deatli three years ago November 5. Surviving are four sons. John | W.. Arthur and Don of Union township. Rev. H. E. Blakey of i Milwaukee, Wisconsin; and four 1 daughters, Mrs. 'Frank Kirbaeh, Mrs. Theodore Walda. Mrs. Herman Young, and Mrs. Herbert Meinzen of Fort Wayne. Four children preceded him in dea'li. Two sisters and five brothers tCONTINUED ON PAGE FTVEI 76 Arrested For Game Violations Indianapolis. N;v 7. (U.R) —September arrests for fish and game ' law violations throughout Indiana totalled 76. Kenneth M. Kunkel, state fish and game superintendent, reported today. Os those arrested. 64 were convicted.. Only one of 1 the arrests was for hunting on SunI day..

I 3,081 counties of nation (and Puerto Rico) were given Jjour: 184,188 owners of livestock received 223.901 tons of stockfeed: 3.667 Red Cross units participated: $285,000 administrative cost paid [out by Red Cross treasury: Clothing 844,000. bales of cotton — 55.203,612 ready made garments, 92,784,i 060 yards of cloth—were distributi ed: I 5.465,410 families were beneflc- ! ladies! | 3,075 counties were covered: i 3,746 Red Cross units participat-, i ed: I $325,000 administrative cost paid ' out of Red Cross treasury. | General Hugh Johnson, adminis- 1 | trator of the National Recovery [ | Administration, says: “One manifestation of national i recovery should be a generous out- . pouring of popular support for the i American Red Cross in its annual 1 membership Roll Call, November 11 to 30.’’

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MESHBERGERS >1 LOW BIDDERS ON ROAD 527 Meshberger Bros. Stone Co. of Linn Grove Submit Low Bids SOME WORK WILL START SHORTLY Meshberger Bros. Stone company of Linn Grove, were low bidders on Fie construction of state road 527, .1 running southeast of Decatur, proposals being received today by the , State Highway Commission at Indianapolis. Tlie Meshberger bids were low on both concrete and asphaltic macadam. They were, concrete. $169,195, asphaltic macadam $159,408. The stretch of road to be improved begins at the south edge of the 1 Decatur Country club road and runs | southeast to tide Ohio state line. It ; is 7.3 miles in length and work on it will begin at once. When completed the road will vennect with Ohio state mail 54. i near the 'Adams County line. Much of the route of tlie proposed road improvement is through new territory and many large fills are to be made. Dangerous curves and dead ends will be eliminated in the new route. W. J. Wells, project engineer of i the state higjway commission arrevived in tlie city yesterday to assume charge of plans as soon as : work is started on the road. It is tlie purpose of the highway commission to carry the work through the winter months in order to give 1 employment to a score or more of 1 men and to complete the joo some- ' I time next summer. I Mr. Wells stated that some grad- ! ing. culverts and culvert heads I I would be built at once and that as ' ’ many men as possible would be em(CONTINtII?n ON PAGE TWO, FORMER LOCAL RESIDENT DIES Mrs. Eliza J. Knoff Died Late Monday Afternoon At Bluflton Mrs. Eliza Jane Knoff, 86. a native of Decatur and a resident here for manv years, died at her home in Bluffton where she had resided for the last six years. Monday afternoon at 4:30 o'clock. Mrs. Knoff was associated with the Met lodist Episcopal Church in this city, where she spent practically her entire life until 1905 when I she moved to Chicago. Six years ago she moved to Bluffton. She was born in Decatur June 1. 1847, a dauglfter of Juestin and Rachel Mann. She was one of fourteen children, one of whom survives. Mrs. J. W. Holman of Columbus, i Ohio. Mrs. Knoff was first married to Daniel Welty on August 10. 1865 and to this union one child was born. A. J. Welty, who died in 1928. On August 13, 1868 she married Harry B. Knoff and to this union four children were born, three of whom survive: Benton W . of BraI denton, Florida; Ralph A. of PittsI burgh. Pennsylvania, and Dr. Ray- ■ mond G. of Bluffton. The husband I preceded Mrs. Knoff in death on i I April 13, 1903. Funeral services will be held Wednesday afternoon at 2 o'clock at the Raymond Knoff residence. |ls Wiley avenue, Bluffton, and I , burial will be made in the Decatur cemetery. o Sister Os Geneva Residents Is Dead Funeral services were held this ’ afternoon tor Mrs. Bessie B. Bolenhacher. 50, of 606 Prospect avenue, Fort Wayne. Mrs. Bollenbacher died at her home Sunday following illness of two years. Services were I held at 1:30 o'clock at the home ’ and at 2 o'clock at the First Chrisj tian Church of which she was a i member. Burial was made in the j Lindenwood cemetery. Surviving are the husband, Noah C. Bolenbacher; one son. Joseph A at home, and two sisters, Mrs. Velma Messer of Geneva and Mrs. Adeline Pickering of Medina. Ohio and two brothers, Daniel Burley of Ge-| neva and Cecil Burley of Muncie.

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I a EAGLE FLIES AGAIN Gary. Ind., Nov. 7. — (U.R) — Theodore Rahutis, restaurant owner, who achieved wide ( . spread publicity when he hecame the first' person in the country to lose his NRA Blue : Eagle, today won fame again by becoming tlie first person to get his Blue Eagle hack. Tlie eagle was withdrawn | from Raliutls on tlie ground [ ■ that he failed to live up to pro- ■ visions of the code. However, j I : the Gary compliance board was | invested with power to give the eagle back if Raliutis cooperat- j ed in obeying the regulations. ■ i Today the eagle was return- I ed after the restaurant owner showed ills willingness to oh- ' i serve the provisions. SOVIET ENVOY” LANDSTODAY IN UNITED STATES Maxim Litvinov Arrives For Conferences With U. S. Officials FIRST OFFICIAL RUSSIAN ENVOY Jersey City, Nov. 7. —(U.R) Maxim Litvinov, foreign commissar of the Soviet union, arrived in the United States today on one of the most significant diplomatic journeys since the World War. designed I to lead to United States recognition I of the Russian communist state. | Received with high honors by of-1 ficial government representatives as he sped from the S. S. Berengaria to a special train for Wash-! ington, tlie vigorous, smiling Lit-j vinov expressed complete contt-j , dence of an eariy 'agrebmb'nt with President Roosevelt and of happy future relations between the two nations. The first official soviet representative to visit tlie United States reviewed in a formal statement and! jin answering questions of report-■ ers the common interests of the, United States and Russia. > Litvinov referred to the tffesires! of both nations for world peace and their common interest in industry! and trade—a trade which is expect ed to lead to huge soviet purchases in the United States if recognition is achieved "All of these factors encourage me to high hopes as to the outcome of my mission and as to the future of relations between our two na tions," Litvinov said. "There aYe many symptoms of success "It seems to me that all we now ' have to do is legalize, so to say, the reciprocal gravitations of the two nations, which have had no eon ftict and in which I cannot anticipate any conflict." After Litvinov was greeted officially on the ship by James Dunn, he went to a corner of the smoking 'CONTI.X't'RP ON PAGE SIX) o — ARTHUR BROCK TO SPEAK HERE Beet Sugar Authority Will Address Rotarians Thursday Night Dr. J. Arthur Brock, educational ! secretary of the Farmers and Mann--1 facturers Beet Sugar Association, I Bay City, Michigan, will address! j the Decatur Rotary Club, at 6:30’ p. ni. Thursday, November 9, at I | the Rice Hotel. Dr. Brock is internationally known as the author of many scientific works on sugar beet culture and is considered to l>e one of tlie foremost authorities on beet sugar in 1 i the United States. During the World War. Dr. Brock j was sugar beet expert for the US. Food Administration and for many years was agricultural editor of Facts about Sugar, the inter-! national sugar trade journal. The Farmers and Manufacturers ] Beet Sugar Association represents' approximately 25,000 sugar beet ■ growers and practically all of the, j beet sugar companies operating in Michigan. Ohio and Indiana. This association is the only organization of its kind in the United States! since it includes in its membership, both the farmers who prodine the! I sugar beets and the beet sugar i factory operators. ■

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SEVEN MILLION TO BE PAID BY GREAT BRITAIN Will Pay $7,500,000 December 15 On War Debt Installment TOKEN PAYMENT NOT A DEFAULT London. Nov. 7 <U.R) Cii'<;it Britain will make a "token pavnient" <»l $7,.><10,0(10 <m December 1". on her installment of’ the war debt to the I’nited Stales. Announcement of the coming navment was made lodav bv Neville Chamberlain, chancellor ol the excheciuer, in the house of commons. The payment will be made In ' United States currency — vastly 1 depreciated in terms of the British pound since Great E'ri'ain made her last payment on account. ! Chamberlain announced that President Roosevelt has agreed not to consider the token payment, which is less than 10 per cent of the payment due. as a ! "default.” British-United States debt talks at Washington virtually collapsed : last week. Great Britain paid $10,000,000 last June, as a similar "token” of i indebtedness. Tlie total funded debt owed tlie United States by ilie British empire is more than *4,500,000,000. The annual payments due amount to more than I $15,000,000. Chamberlain referred, in his speech, to the inability of Sir Frederick Leith-Ross, the government's financial emissary to Washington, to reach any conclusion 1 with President Roosevelt on the fCONTINUWn ON PAGE TWO) ANNUAL SALE OF SEALS PLANNED W.Guy Brown Will Again Be In Charge of Christmas Seal* Sale Plans are underway to conduct the annual sale of Christmas seals in this city, the program being in charge of W. Guy Brown, principal of the Decatur high school. Through tlie sale of tlie seals tlift anti-tuberculosis camps are maintained and aid is extended to those children afflicted wit i tlie disease. Persons are asked to buy the seals and use them on letters and packages at Christmas time. For several years the sale of the stamps has been good in this city and county and Chairman Brown is hopeful that the 1933 campaign will be j equally beneficial. The stamps sell for one penny each. Explaining the emblem on the ' stamps, tlie following is quoted from an item pertaining to the stamps, "The double-barred cross on the Christmas seal is doubledbarrelled too. One barrel shoots a message of cheer for the friend who gets tlie letter or package. The other shoots definite aid toward somebody w io is in danger from tuberculosis." The camps for children in this district are maintained in Fort Wayne. —o —— Former Resident Dies In Nebraska | Mrs. William Freitag of Preble ! has gone to Seward. Nebraska, to ! attend funeral services held for her sister, Mrs. Mary Homeier Prange, 71. of Seward, who died at i her home Friday. Mrs. Prange and her husband. Eri nest Prange, had celebrated their ! golden wedding anniversary last Thursday. Mrs. Prange was born in Adams County. Surviving besides ! thC husliand are six children, and ; two sisters. Mrs. Minnie Freitag of Preble, and Mrs. Anna Hoffman | of Wolcottville. Masons To Attend Snow Funeral Rites AU Masons are requested to meet ! at the Masonic halj at 12:45 p. m. Wednesday to attend the funeral ! services for John F. Snow, which I will be held at 1 o'clock at the I Snow residence.