Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 31, Number 284, Decatur, Adams County, 2 December 1933 — Page 1

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Jnlployedto ibeliven more HI6H WA Y WORK M en " ■dde®° Highway Work This State ‘< |n\O MILLION ■ additional wages llndia)I India) iiixilis. 1 )<*c. 2 W.R) B-Theßi' l '' lii.L'hwtiv ileptti'lKent will pro' i<li’ iin media ie ? r, ®niilos'i lent lor 1 IJiOO men. C 'Sbevi<' Irom federal and Wile fufcds. Tinies I). Adams. EairiWlt’ "I the state ldi>limission. aimoiineed ciflO'duv.W I Fedeial authordies appro' - -s stale department’s ■jroUghßv aleiiiiiß of shoulders ’roads and promised to KridS'S''" """ f ” r "'apes, Adams : Mid he Ba- advised 10. (I n P<nl ■ The st. ''.ill provide st.si»o,i"i" I rolls. of handling the federal employment of the Ere stwn »P at a meeting of ■strict jpngiu ers amt mainten ■re snwrititendents recen'lv and the new program _^X Bl j fr <i- throughout the sia e w. re being e.'inpleled K(M t would finance ""i k highway denarttnem '’Ktloyes will be drawn from widening of highway

EjgaMWt 'll proner'v owner-. to on emergwas asked bv the highway department announcing the yKniddltion to the new highway V B^ artm r ll program, the stat ■ ■ll w<|rks board Ims approved s of 'lie same estimated to provide Brk fc> more than 500 men in and Hamil'on approved by I’jtWwivn’n nv o\GE c 'Xi ■ENTS MAY |j RECEIVE FUNDS E Townships <' ,|w Be Klig’ible For School Aid I C. B Striker, countv snporiii of schools, stated ithtt'Bere was a possibility that three more townships might be eligible sta'e aid th«“e already deolared RSKB to the aid. Monday when George C. superintendent of pubvisited De<wtnr ami the township trus'ees. | W »tat'd that in all nrobabili y. I Wbasb French and Blue Creek I townslips and the Decatur school be eligible to is making a cli.m-1.-school units and if more 1 are entitled to state aid | WWill make annlica’ion for Um 91 Until the, facts were obStriker said he thought t bes| not to list the townships mi'-ht qualify. 1 unit must have 50 cent tax lew on the lack sufficient funds to I *■ an e iKht month’s school Rased on the minimum I as fixed by the state suI nc^en *'’ s °*Uce, 'f ” le f’f* ;9B evy does meet the expenses with the operation of ! Bools, application can be I state - Which money is I of the 7 cent stale tax 10 J-, m | «X •• GIFTS \ ■I fe? ift Christmas BLVE

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I City Dad fIR r.’rV ■ ■ 9IIMI Emerson Beavers, a resident of the First Ward and a former city I councilman was elected a member i of the council to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of H. I Fred Linn who was appointed street commissioner a week ago. Mr. Beavers was elected at a meet <ng of the council last night. NAME BEAVERS AS COUNCILMAN Emerson A. Beavers. Retired Business Ma n, Succeeds Fred Linn Emerson iA. Beavers, retired furniture dealer, was elected a member of the city council to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of H Fred Linn, who was appointed , city street commissioner by Mayor George Krick a week ago. tit. D.noorc ics •» ffirmPt 11l P TH-

, Mr. Beavers is a former mem- > . ' ber of the council, serving one term from 1921 to 1925. He is a resident of the First ward and will represent that district on the council. - The council met in special session last night and one ballot was taken. Mr. Beavers received three , votes ami Roy Runyon, local garage proprietor received one vote. No; other candidates were voted on. The four counvilmen, O. L. Vance . Herman Gillig. George Appelman and Joe Hunter met in caucus before the open session started and . agreement was reached on their choice of candidate before the voting started. Two important meetings Two important meetings of the city council will be held this month. At one meeting the ordinance j adopting a lower schedule of rates 1 for the city light and power plant I will be adopted. The councilmeu and M J. Mylott, plant superintendent are now working on the reduci ed rates and hope to have a tepta-i tive outline for the meeting next Tuesday. It is proposed to put the lower rates into effect by January 1. 1934. ' . . I Another important matter to be | disposed of before the end ot I the, year is tiie redistricting of Decatui into four wards, complying with i the new state law. Decatur now has | three wards. o — — OPPOSE LONG’S ELECTION RULE ..I I " 1 ""** Louisiana Citizens Oppose Huey P. Long s Dictatorship » I St. Francisville, La., Dec. 2. (U.R) —Local authorities announced openly today that they sympathized with a citizens’ revolt against Sen- j | ator Huey P. Long’s political rule. | This ordinarily peaceful rural community tensely awaited the arrival of trucks from Baton Ronge with a fresh supply of ballots for ruesday’s election which many citizens believe will be merely a means ot railroading Long's hand-picked candidate into congress. 1 Two violent demonstrations yes- ' terday met with no official resis- ' tance. A band of citizens stormed the courthouse, carried the ballots sent here from Baton Rouge, the capital, out on the lawn and i burned them. Later another baud stopped two state highway department trucks and burned their contents of circulars booming the can- , didacy of Mrs. Bolivar E Kemp Long’s "hand-picked” candidate in ] the special election to choose a , successor for her late husband in , * "(CONTINUED ON PAGE SIX) 1

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FIRST PLEDGES IN SUGAR WEEK ARE RECEIVED Mrs. E. VV. Busche And Mrs. Leland A. Ripley Enroll In Sugar Club BEET SUGAR WEEK TO BE OBSERVED The women are answerrng the appeal to enroll in the “Use Crystal White Sugar Club” in this county and this morning J. Ward Calland, field manager for the Central Sugar Company of this city, received the first two pledges. Mrs. E. W. Busche, president of the County Home Economics clubs was the first woman to sign one of tiie enrollment cards. Mrs. Busche is volunteering her services and that of 11 township Home Economics clubs in making a canvas of the county to secure the pledges. The second enrollment was obtained from Mrs. Leland A. Ripley of Blue Creek township and an active Home Economics worker. The Blanks were delivered to Mr. Calland at noon today and the women informed him that they believed every housewife would be glad to sign one of the blanks and cooperate in the movement to use beet , sugar in their homes. All plans have been made for Beet Sugar Week, which opens ; Monday and continues up until Saturday night. On Tuesday, in connection with a mass meeting of farmers who will hear William H. Settle, president of the I'bjdiana farmers who will hear Wiliam H. Settle, president of tiie Indiana Farm Bureau, explain tiie corn-hog j **icONTINUED ON PAGE SIX)

STATE TO GIVE TEACHERS JOBS Unemployed Teachers, Office Workers Will Be Given .lobs Indianapolis, Dec. 2. —(U.R) Back- ' ed by a 122,000 federal appropriation for December alone, the state today moved to give jobs to unemployed school teachers and other idle “white collar” workers. Night school classes will be established in seTerSl cities, unemployed teachers to be hired to superintend them. They will be ! aid from federal funds. George C. Cole, state superintendent of public instruction, outlined j the plan today in letters to city ' and county school superintendents. - Besides the December appropriation other federal revenues are | expected monthly, he said Allotments and projects from the December appropriations are: gen-1 J eral adult education, $13,000; literacy, $4,000; vocational education, ' $2,400, and vocational rehabilita- j I tion, $2,600. Except for the last I | named project, all funds may be | used only for wages of teachers, j In approving the plan, the state; board of education stipulated that ' all persons to be employed must I be certified as needy by local rep-; i resentatives of the governor’s commission on unemployment relief, j Their qualifications to handle the 1 general and vocational classes then must be passed on by the state education department. Teachers chosen need not be licensed, thereby permitting others to be used In vocational education. The following wage scale has been set up for teachers in the ! program: Districts with population over 250.000. $62.50 a month; 2,500 . to 250,000. S6O monthly, and less i than 2.500, $52. Organizations of the program in local communities will be by city and county school superintendents. o ‘ 117 Pension Blanks Have Been Made Out Fred V. Mills, special clerk employed by the county commissioners to fill out applications for the applicants for old age pensions, reported today that he had made out 117 blanks. More than 200 names were listed at the County Auditor's office by applicants who seek a pension. Mr. MUlp fills out the blanks and makes investigation of the cases. The county commissioners will probably act on the petitions about the first of ths year.

Decatur, Indiana, Saturday, December 2, 1933.

Advertising Man Wants Work And Is Given Job Desiring at all times to give the | best of service to advertisers and 11 to assist in any community proI ject, th“ Dally Democrat has employed Walter Johnson, adventsI ing salesman, of Plymouth. N. H., to assist Richard Ehinger. local advertising manager, during beet sugar week and the Christmas period. Mr. Johnson has had 14 years experience In the advertising business and when he applied for a II job. said, “I want to work and believe I can assist your merchants. ■ 1 haven’t been in a town where there has been so much activity i and optimistic talk as there is in Decatur.” He was hired and star’ ed to work this morning. Mr. Ehinger reports that local merchants are planning an aggressive advertising campaign during the next four weeks and that everyone expects Christmas ■ business to be heavier this year than since 1929. If our advertising department ■ can serve you, call Phone ONE] I THOUSAND. O BANKING CODE NOW IN EFFECT ■ Indiana Banks Putting Into Effect Code of ! Fair Practices Indiana banks are putting into I i effect a code of fair business prac- ] tices adopted by the Indiana Banki ers Association, with the approval iof NRA, which regulate service' charges made by the different j banks. These services were formerly given gratis by the hanks but j In’ the revamping of the banking

system of the- country many such services are now charged to the ! customer or the firm benefited. C. A. Dugan, president of the First State Bank of this city staled that the code probably would he applied here this month or about the first of the year. Among the service charges which . effect customers of the banks are [ the charges on out of-town checks drafts, notes and other transactions. The code calls for the foilawing (WXTTNIIRn OX PAGE «TX> 0 Herman Mvers M ins Radio In Contest Herman Myers, well known attorney of this city won a valuable radio for writing a two line jingle for the Prophylatic Brush Go., of Florence, Mass. Notice of the award was received by the Holthouse Drug Co., where Mr. Myers obtained hie entry blank for the national rhyme contest. The jingle was written on “Perma Grip”, a product put ] out by the company and the radio won by him carries a list price of $335.

Appeal Made To Remember Children At Christmas Time Made Todau As Good Fellows Launch Drive For Funds

Millions of dollars for civil work workers, more millions for public , works and almost an equal number of millions distributed by government in the attempt to bolster hog, corn and wheat prices. But what about the poor and ragged-clothed boy and girl, whose daddy can't work or who has his first job in several years and is kept busy paying old debts and providing a little food for tiny tots? That’s where the Good Fellow's come in and no government, public or civil works administrator, Red Cross, allotment committee or any federal or state agency can be substituted or called on to do the job. What’s that job, you ask? Simple as time itself, as old as the first Christmas when gifts were placed at the feet of the poor Christ Child in the little manger in Bethlehem. All you need is a heart, filled with the desire to give, to help those not as fortunate as yourself. Today marks the opening of the annual campaign to raise a few hundred dollars to be spent at Christmas time in buying cloth- < ing, shoes and in some cases toys, a little candy tor the poor and needy children of Decatur who know only one Santa Claus —the, Good Fellows Santa. Sponsored the past several years by the Delta Theta Tau Sorority

APPROVE PLAN ' FOR IMPORTING J FOREIGN LIQUOR I ■ - Marketing Agreement For Importers Is Approved Bv Wallace J ’ CODE SUBMITTED TO THE PRESIDENT l Washington, Dec. 2 <U.RT —Tiie i government today provided for j the immediate importation of foreign liquor as plans neared j completion for meeting the sitna- ' tion after repeal of prohibition next Tuesday. A marketing agreement for liquor and wine importers stood approved by Secretary of Agriculture Henry A. Wallace. It regulated the volume, origin, and types of imports, permitting, i roughly, the importation of from i 4.000,0f10 to 5,000,000 gallons of 1 liquor in the immediate future. Maximum amounts that purchas- ] ers here will be allowed to buy | abroad was left to the permit i authorities. Until Feb. 1. the permit authority will rest with reprei sentatives of the agriculure and i treasury departments. Thereafter the newly created federal alcohol . I control administration will pass I on permits. ‘ A recommendation was before I the permit authorities from the | national commercial policy coml mittee, representing the state, f | treasury, commerce, justice and I agriculture departments, that im- , ' ports be allowed before Christmas . I (CQNTINUWD ON PAGE SIX) 1 STATE LIQUOR RULES MONDAY J

' Temporary Regulations Will Be Presented To i Governor McNutt » i Indianapolis, Dec. 2.— (U.R) — . Temporary regulations for the sale ; of liquor in Indiana after repeal ot prohibition will be presented to Gov. Paul V. McNutt and his state liquor advisory commission at 1:30 p.m. Monday. Herbert W. i Patrick, deputy attorney general, announced today. . 1 Possibility that whisky might , j be sold over the bar was elimin- , ’ ated definitely with a statement > I by the Rev. John W. Cavanaugh, j I South Bend, chairman of the com . mission. "The commission can not authI orize sales by the drink.” lie said. “That can be accomplished only by the legislature." ] “We ran into Hie law- in every • direction we turned and there is (CONTINUED ON PAGE SIX)

: of this city, the fund was given : impetus with a $25 donation to ■ the Good Fellows Fund. That’s ■ what is meant by a Good Fellow'. ■ The giving of a few dollars to this fund and the Good Fellows will do I the rest —make it possible for you ■ to bring cheer and happiness to i some mother and her flock of i little to’s on Christmas Eve. I Miss Mildred Niblick, president ■ of the sorority announced today that gif' boxes would be placed in the Daily Democrat office, the First State Bank, the Rice Hotel , and in the up-town restaurants where persons anxious to help in the worthy cause can drop a dollar or tw'o, adding to the fund which will be spent in making purchases to be distributed by the Good Fellows Santa Claus Christmas Eve. Everyone knows the need this, 'year. Surely they have noticed i conditions the past few years, know of the unemployment and what a job it’s been for hundreds to survive, muchi less enjoy the luxuries of life The appeal is broadcast. In this community' that’s all that has to be done. We have a great and kind people, sympathetic to the bone and happiest when giving a helping hand. There are many Good Fellows living here and the children will not be forgotten—is the answer j to the appeal.

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Settle To Speak Here / ’fill rail William H. Settle, president of the Indiana Farm Bureau, who will speak here Tuesday night at tiie Catholic higli school auditorium. He will explain the AAA’s corn-hog allotment plan. Dale W. McMillon, president of the Central Sugar and Dr. J. A. Brock, representing the beet growers and manufacturers of Indiana. Ohio and Michigan will also appear on the program, as part of the local beet sugar week program.

First Shipment Os Meat Is Received T. R. Noll, Washington township trustee, Friday received the first shipment of meat from the federal government tor relief purposes. Twelve hundred pounds of ham and bacon were received in tie first shipment. The meat was trucked from Fort Wayne by the Schmitt Meat Market and stored in Mutschler’s refrigerator. The meat will he distributed today and Tuesday. Those on relief rolls and those formerly on the relief rolls who are now working on tiie highways are eligible to receive tiie meat. v o

HIGHWAY HEAD INSPECTS ROAD James 1). Adams of The Highway Commission Visits Decatur James D. lAdams, chairman of the Indiana state highway commission and Cliff Siniff, engineer for the eastern half of the state, vieited here last evening for an hour, on 1 a tour of inspection. , Mr. Adams is interested in giving 1 Adams county every service possible and is pleased with the progress being made on the widening of No. 27 between Decatur and Fort Wayne. Mr. Siniff expressed the hope that within another year we would have a three lane road over that stretch and similar work started from here south. J The highway' between here and j Willshire, No. 527, according to Mr. Adams, will be one of the finest in the state and will include a new feature, the broad shoulder, now being urged by the federal engineers and which will attract much atten-1 tion from the Indiana department. ] The state highway’ job is a much Harger and more responsible one 'CONTINUED ON PAGE SIX) Q Rural Students Usfe Circulating LibraryMany pupils in the rural schools ! are taking advantage of the circulating library established In the ■ I court house in connection with the I county school superintendent’s of-’ fice C. E. Striker, county superin-' tendent stated that more than 700 volumes had already been placed in the library by the township trustees and that at least 500 hooks were in circulation. The system provides away for the schools to , enjoy new books without paying for each series they desire to study. I The 12 townships are cooperating ' in the plan

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: FORMEMORIAL 1 Decatur Elks Will Hold i Annual Memorial Services ■i I The program for the annual ' Elk's memorial service to be held Sunday afternoon at 2:30 o’clock 1 at the Elk's home on North Sec--1 ond street was announced today I by the general committee. | The service is held in memory, I of (lie deceased brothers of Deca- ; tur lodge No. 993 and throughout ■'he country lodges pay respect to] deceased members on the first ; I Sunday in December. Hon Samuel Jackson, promini ent attorney of Fort Wayne, will : deliver the memorial address and I Hon. C. J. Lutz of this city will ■ 1 deliver the eulogy. The ritualistic work will be in charge of Earl B. Adams, exalted i ruler and staff of officers. Follow- . \ ing is the program as arranged ) by Mrs. L. A. Holthouse, chairman of the music committee: ’ Processional Mrs. L. A. Holthouse Opening by Exalted Ruler I “Guide Book Divine" Mallory i I Mrs. L. A. Holthouse. Mrs. Wm. B. Gass, Miss Rosemary Holthouse,; Mary Madeline Coverdale. Ritualistic Work by Officers of t ] Lodge. "In Days Long Ago” Tuller 'j Mrs. L. A. Holthouse, Mrs. Gass I ’ Eulogy Hon. C J. Lutz . ' "O Dry Those Tears" Del Riego; Mrs. Holthouse “Ivory Palaces” Barraclough Mrs. Holthouse, Miss Coverdale ] Memorial Address Hon. Samuel I Jackson, 8.P.0.E., Fort Wayne. | No. 155. "Going Home" Dvorak Trio ] Closing, “Auld Lang Syne." o Harry Coneland To Stay In Prison Indianapolis, Dec. 2 — (U.R) — Harry Copeland, 37. identified in connection with two Indiana bank robberies and alleged member of tiie John Dillinger gang of convicts, must remain in the state prison at Michigan City indefinitely as a parole violator, it was ] announced at state police head- ] quarters today. Captain Matt Leach said he had been advised the prison board of trustees made the decision after hearing charges that Copeland violated parole. I The board also ruled that Sam I Goldstein, Fort Wayne, another ] alleged association of Dillinger. ] must remain in prison onq year j for parole violations.

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CANADA COURT JUDGE GRANTS EXTRADITION Former Chicago Utilities Head Loses Long Fight In Court TO FACE CHARGES OF GRAND LARCENY Toronto, Dec. 2. — — Martin J. Insull, who with his brother Samuel Insull built one of the largest utility empires in the world only to have it collapse with the loss ot millions of dollars to stockholders today lost his long fight against extradition to the United States. Justice A. C. Kingstone ot the Ontario supreme court granted the extradition request of Chicago authorities who want the self ex iled American utility magnate to face charges of grand larceny, embezzlement and theft by bailee In connection with the failure ot the Insults’ two-billion dollar network of mid-western concerns. Attorneys for Insull immediately withdrew when Kingstone announced his decision to draw up an application for a writ of habeas corpus pending appeal to the appellate division of the Ontario supreme i court. i ' Under Canadian law Insull has 15 days in which to tile an appeal. His brother, Samuel, previously had prevented extradition and now I ] resides at Athens, Greece. ; The decision climaxed more than 'a year of court battles, during ' which time Martin Insull was at Liberty under $5,000 bail. He was arrested a year ago last ' October in a S2O a week rooming I house at Orillia. Ont., on a warrant

[charging him with being a fugitive from justice. He immediately sum--1 moned one of the most brilliant ' legal staffs available to aid him in , his fight to escape return to tiie ' United States. A Cook county grand jury returnled indictments against the Instills shortly after the collapse of their companies. Samuel was in Athens at the time but the Greek court refused to extradoe him. New indictments were returned against him later, but again the Greek court refused to grant his extradition. Tiie refusal resulted in the United i States sending a note to the Orees government to tiie effect that it no longer recognized tiie extradition treaty between the two coun- ■ tries. Only one set of indictments was returned against Martin. He was j charged specifically with using more than $500,000 of the companies’ funds for his own personal brokerage accounts. The state ot Illinois contended that these loans, which were backed by collateral which later proved worthless, and mis-management brought about the ] collapse of the utility empire.. The Instills contended the collapse was brought about by t lie general depression. JURY RETURNS GUILT VERDICT Alabama Negro Under Sentence of Death For The Third Time — Decatur, Ala., Dec. 2.— (U.R) —A new jury ot rural Alabamans today took up the fate of the second j of the Scottsboro defendants while the imported defense counsel prepared a lengthy appeal from the I jury verdict which found the first ! guilty with an accompanying pern [ alty of death. The appeal will be based upon many rulings of Judge William W. ] Callahan and his general charge Ito the jury which did not include . the method whereby the jury could have acquitted the defendant had it wished to do so, until tile omission was called to his attention. I Samuel S. Leidowitz. chief of defense counsel, said he would do his ] "talking in the United States su- ] prerne court." While Clarence Norris went on trial today, his co-defendant, Haywood Peterson, slept peacefully in his jail cell, so thoroughly accustomed to being under a death sen- . I tence that it did not Interfere with i his peace of mind. The penalty prescribed by the * "(CONTINUED ON PAGE SIX)