Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 31, Number 287, Decatur, Adams County, 6 December 1933 — Page 1

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■ SPRUNGER ■BADLY HURT Ihis MORNING ■ Rural Mail Carrier ■iously Injured In ■ Auto Crash Kid INJURIES [jU PROVE FATAL ■ r | .1. Spruntfer, rural [■ currier on route I, ■ was seriously and posBatallv injured al 8:15 ■ this morning in an Habile collision lour ■southwest of Berne. ■Sprunger was broimht ■> Adams County Me- ■| hospital where it was 'i ■ suffered a fractured was reported to be in a ■ condition by hospital was delivering was driving west. A ■Bureau oil and gasoline ■driven by Chris Mertz was ■outh and the two cars colthe crossroads. There obstruction of view at the it was stated. ■ cars turned completely r aid were demolished. Mertz ■l injury. was unconscious ■etnoved from the wreckage ■as immediately brought to ■'al hospital. The mail In was blood soaked. ■ officials stated. Igeon dies I IN FT, WAYNE Biles F.Porter, Adams ■unty Native, Dies I Early Today ■ Wayne Dec. 6 —(UP) —Dr. ■*. Porter, 77. noted northern ■ surgeon, died at the home ■slighter here eatly today, ■ad been in failing health for B months. ■orter had been continuously ■cd with surgery since 1896. ■ few months before his death. Bned a national reputation for ■rk in surgery and as a foun- ■ the American College of Stir- ■ He was born in Adams ■ Porter was well known in ■ty. He was a first cousin of A. Dugan and visited here ■n his younger years. In appelma n IIESJUESDAY hington Township •mer Dies Last Night After Long Illness n Appelman, 58. well known r and a resident of Adams S' practically all his life, at his home in Washington hip. Tuesday night at 10:30 k of complications. Mr. man had been ailing for d months and his condition le serious about two weeks Appelman was horn in DelOhio. on July 17. 1875. a son hdrew and Anna Appelman. ame to Adams county when years of age and spent the inder of his life here. He ' married. s deceased was a member of I Bt. Maryy. Catholic church, lights of Columbus, the Holy ' Society and the Third OrdSt. Francis. 'vlving are two brothers. >h and George Appelman of fur; and six sisters. Lena Rosa, at home: Mrs. William e. Coldwater, Ohio; Mrs. John fer, Fort Wayne; Mrs. GodNesswald and Mrs. William 0, “ of Decatur. feral services will be held 'day morning at 9 o’clock at St. Mary’s Catholic church Rev. Father J. J. Seimetz ating. Burial will be made p St. Joseph’s cemetery. 6 body may be viewed at the ! on route 4, west of Decatur 3 o’clock this afternoon.

DECATUR DAILY DEMOCRAT ONLY DAILY NEWSPAPER IN ADAMS COUNTY

Vol. XXXI. No. 287.

Final Blow v f Jr M.f 1 v’ 1 ■Bra I' ... Here is tile gavel that drove the last nail in the coffin of Old Man Prohibition and the man who wielded it. He is Secretary of State Milton H. Welling, of Utah, 36th State to ratify the repeal amendment, who called the State i ratification convention to order with the gavel which became historic as a result.

COUNTY BOARD PLANS MEETING Commissioners Will Meet In Special Session Thursday, Dec. 21 The county commissioners .will meet in special session, Thursday. December 21, for the purpose of receiving bids for furnishing stone. ; screenings, gravel and other supplies to the highway department and Janitor supplies for all county offices and buildings, Tlie last legislature passed a law requiring the county commissioners to contract for supplies before the end of each year. Heretofore bids were received in February and the contract beanie effective in March. The commissioners will not <•'. ange the system of receiving bids for supplies at the county infirmary each three months. This requisition includes groceries, bread and dry ‘ goods and contracts will be awarded each quarter. At the December 21 meeting the commissioners will receive bids on crushed stone, si reenlngs, gravel, tile, bridge plank and machinery , necessary for the repair of the i gravel roads in the county. Bids will also be received for auto and I truck supplies and janitor’s sup-, plies for the county buildings. | The largest item in the material for highways is stone. The county : will use about Jons a year j on the 750 miles of macadam road in the county. Directors Meet Thursday Night Directors of the Chamber of Commerce will meet Thursday j night at J:45 o'clock in the ChamI ber of Commerce room. - SELL ASSETS OF home builders Remaining Assets ot Corporation Wil! Be Offered For Public Sale Notice is given by Leo Ehinger (that the remaining assets of the ! corporation, consisting of deposits I in closed banks will be offered for i sale on December 14. 1933 at K I o'clock A. M. and front day to day I thereafter until sold. | The items listed follow: "J deposit. Peoples Loan and Tt. st Co.. $135.98; balance depo I. OM Adams County Bank. SIBB.OI. bal I " deposit, Old Adams County •"•T-sr SIM • , s S-." - * remaining assets the corporation will be diesolved.

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PRESIDENT IN URGENT APPEAL AGAINST CRIME Roosevelt’s Repeal Proclamation Urges Law Observance, Temperance HERALDS DRIVE ON BOOTLEGGERS (By the United Press) For the first time in 14 years Americans today were regulated only by (heir own consciences and local rules in their approach to the drink question—that is if they happened to live in the 20 states where prohT.ition officially died yesterday. Heralding a nation wide drive against Hie bootlegger, the gangster. and other criminals bred of the dry era. President Roosevelt called for temperance and law observance. His proclamation, issued soon after a proclamation from tlie state department officially declared tlie 21st (repeal) amendment in effect, rescinded more than $200,000,000 in federal taxes which will be replaced by liquor taxes. The moment Utah, the 36th state to ratify, took official action prohibition ended. But in many wet cities and states stringent regulations kept the supply of legitimate liquor from being made quickly available. Tlie wet cities and the wet states celebrated, but in all cases the celebrations were orderly and comparatively few incidents of drunkenness or disorderliness were reported. In Washington federal officials took arbitrary charge of the drink industry under the sweeping powers of regulations which will remain in effect until congress frames permanent legislation. Quotas were assigned to importers under which foreign countries may send in liquors based on the totals of their shipments before prohibition. Enforcement officials organized to fulfill the provision of the 21st i amendment which pledges the fed- * *CONTINUED *ON PAGE FOUR) JUDGES ATTACK LIQUOR RULES Two Indiana Judges Attack Regulations Controlling Whisky Sale Indianapolis, Dec. 6.—KU.R) —Two Indiana judges today verbally attacked the state liquor law and new regulations to control the sale of whisky. City Judge Frank Mann of Muncie declared that regardless of regulations to the contrary, prescriptions are necessary to obtain hard liquor as far as his court is concerned. Judge Frank P. Baker, of Marion county criminal court here said he had discovered apparent discrimination in tlie Indiana liquor law. He pointed to the section author- ( izing the excise director at his discretion to waive requirements that drug stores be established three ( years before they may sell liquor. "continued on page six) o Society Members Are Asked To Meet Members of the Knights of Columbus and of the Holy Name Society are requester! to meet at the ; K. of C. hall Friday evening at 7:30 i o’clock and then go to the John Ap- • pelman residence to recite the ! rosary. Parent-Teachers Plan Annual Dinner The South Ward Parent-Teachers ■ Association have made plans for the annual Christmas dinner to lie 1 served at the school on Friday, De- ( cember 22. The teachers of the building in--1 eluding, th.e Misses Eva Acker, Helen Shroll, Effie Patton and Mary Suttles, will be assisted by the Committee comprising Mrs. William Linn, chairman, and the Meedames Dick Burdg, Francis Eady and William Affolder. The organization decided to investigate the possibilities of the new city park near the school. Reports of the convention at Indianapolis were also given.

Decatur, Indiana, Wednesday, December 6, 1933.

NR A Survey Os Construction Field j Shows Need Os New Home Building

\ (Copyright 1933 by United Press) | Washington, Dec. 6. — (U.R) •Construction of some 800,000 real-; , dences is requined annually for; 1 1 the next several years in the | I United States according to an ] ■ NRA survey of the possibilities of ’I reemployment In the construction! field. A report on the survey outlines ( | construction possibilities totaling (nearly $14,000,000,000 over a twoyear period. It was estimated that | i 4.250,000 could be given work in ( this manner. Two million, it was said, could , be given work on residential units,' 1,000,000 on grade crossings, 1 500,000 on educational facilities, i . 500,000 on recreation and sanita-: . ( tion construction, and 250,000 on ■ subsistence homesteads. ‘‘The large total of unemployed building workers and the heavy , drains for their maintenance upon public and private piiilanthrophy justify careful considera- i tion of all possible means of re- ( . viving construction,” the report I . states. , Estimates of the amount which . may reasonably he spent for hous- .( ing were made in two ways: ( • 1. —The ratio of new residential , dwelling units to the number of j families during the highest con-' I

DECIDED DROP I' IN RELIEF AID J Poor Relief Costs In Washington Township Show Decided Drop — Poor relief costs in Washington township took a decided drop dur-! . ii< November and direct aid was extended to only 26 families, T. R. I Noll, trustee, reported today. . A year ago. Trustee Noll stated. , 208 families were receiving direct ' . aid from the township. The poor ' relief expense in the township tor I November was only $312.59. In t i addition to this amount, the work relief extended by federal aid was • $3,583.‘92, paid to workers on state • ( road 27. In October the number of families receiving direct aid from the j township was 30. The number on federal aid relief was 52 In No-1 I vember the number on federal re- j i lief rolls was 68. which includes ( ’ only those on the road projects and does not take into consideration the number of men employed on j ■ civil works projects. The report for November follows: | Resident families: direct relief. ! 26; persons represented, 81; work , relief, number of families, 68. 1 Amount received, $3,583.92. Resi- ( ,! dent single persons, direct relief, j j 5; work relief. 34. Township ex-j penditures: Food, $67.34; clothing. I . $9; fuel. $176; medical and dental Jcare, $54.75; hospitalization, $5,501 total, $312.59. , I The November expenditures were , about normal and a great deal less ■than estimates made for the , J month, the civil works and federal , aid projects taking up much of Hie ’ ( slack in unemployment. REQUESTRIVER BANKCLEANING • Chamber of Commerce, Lions Club File Resolution With Council , Resolutions from the Chamber • of Commerce and the Decatur Lions . club, requesting the cleaning of the I , St. Marys river from the Smith | bridge south to Rugg street were' filed with the city council last evening and referred to the street and | sewer committee. Petition will be made to the civil works administration at Indianap--1 oils for funds to carry on the clean- ' up program. Practically all the ' work can be done by hand labor, those interested in the project( claim. It is proposed to have the river j ■ banks cleaned of debris, maintaining the wild lite and trees along > the stream, and through a system--1 atic program to enhance the natur-l •; al beauty of the scenic stream. | Other service clubs have indicated their willingness to adopt reso- j lutions in favor of the proposed i project and it is believed that the | ■ civil works administrator will look with favor on tlie work, since much ; labor can be employed on the Job. |

| secutlve five years of building in i (he 20’s was found, and it was . assumed that Ihis ratio of resi- 1 dential construction to families could reasonably be initiated and i maltfained at the pijeseni’ time ! as a result of the current short- ( age. 2. —The need for new residential dwellings was calculated on the basis of the Increase in urban f families, tlie estimated return of | families to tlie city upon recovery.) ‘ replacement of abandoned homes, homes burned and not replaced, : obsolescence, and estimates on the number of sub-standard hom?s lin 1929 to be replaced’ by new construction. "It is interesting to note,” the I report continues, "that on tlie ' basis of these two entirely different estimates results were relatively close. On the basis of tlie first calculation the estimated i need was found to lie 765,000 fam- . ily units per year. On the basis I I of the second calculation, an es'i- j ( mate of 810.000 family units, withi out replacement of substandard ! shelter, was arrived at, witli replacement of substandard shelter it was estimated that the total of ( slightly more than 2.000,000 fam- ' ily units was needed."

City Light Employes String Light Wires Along Second Street Employes of the light department of the City Plant were stringing electric light wires from the ornamental light posts on Second street today. Several hundred lights will be strung the entire length of Second street, both on the east and west sides. The lights will be turned on Saturday night in connection with the city-wide Christmas shopp- • ing opening. Since the old light poles were re- ■ moved from Second street, the wiring must be strung parallel with the street. Formerly the street was decorated with lights strung across the street. TRUSTEES WILL AID CWA WORK Twelve Township Trustees Will Aid Thompson In Assigning Jobs Harry Thompson, assistant rej employment manager and certify--1 ing officer for Adams county, toi day announced the appointment ! of the twelve trustees of Adams i county as members of an advisory council or cabinet, to cooperate with him in seeing that those men who need work are first taken care of and that the assignments are made in a fair and impartial manner. Hereafter when application for work is made to Mr. Thompson, the name of the applicant will be referred to the trustee of the township in which he resides, who will investigate and recommend. Mr. Thompson has visited the various towns and townships over the county and reports excellent cooperation. A few changes in the list of employes have been necessary in order to comply with the orders from the government. At present the number of men on the various projects, exclusive of highways, is limited to 367 and Mr. Thompson will urge the trustees to petition for sufficient new (CONTINUED ON PAGE SIXT 0 Rev. Roberts Heads Ministerial Group Rev. C. J. Roberts, pastor of the United Brethren Church was elected president of the Decatur Ministerial Association at a meeting held this morning. Rev. C. M. Prugh of the Zion Reformed Church was named secretary. Rev. Roberts will succeed Rev. M. W. Sundermann who served as president of the organization laat year.

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COOPERATION MAIN THEME OF' MASS MEETING Catholic School Auditorium Filled To Capacity Tuesday Night FARM BUREAU HEAD IS MAIN SPEAKER Cooperation was the theme of ’ the talks given by the speakers at the meeting of farmers, beet growers and merchants held last evening at the Catholic high school auditorium. The auditorium was filled to; capacity and extra chairs were | provided to accommodate the large crowd. The principal speakers were I William H. Settle, president of the Indiana Farm Bureau and a . member of the federal allotment committee of the A. A. A.: Dale W. McMillen, president of the Central Sugar company of this i city and Dr. J. A. Brock, secretary of the Farmers and Manufacturers beet sugar association of I Saginaw. Mich. Music was furnished by a Jay county band. W. i • A. Klepper of this city presided as chairman. Short talks were made by Mayor George Krick, L. E. Arch- , i bold, county agricultural agent and E. J. Fricke, state manager of the Indiana Farm Bureau. The meeting was a gathering of men and women interested in agriculture, dairying, and beet raising and a community spirit of cooperation with manufacturers and processors of agriculture products was expounded by the speakers. . ( Mr. Settle, in his talk, pointed , ont the advantages gained by co- . operative endeavor, citing some of tlie special legislation obtained in i Indiana and at Washington i through the efforts of the Farm . Bureau. He also made a plea for members in the farm bureau and said, “It will be your own fault i if you don’t receive the benefits tlie government is now extending to farmers through the Agriculture Adjustment Act. You cannot expect to receive parity prices unless you coonerate with the gov- • ernment in its plan to increase the price to farmers for his products.’’. Mr. McMillen gave a short talk, • stating that all he and his company asked for when they decided 'to open the local sugar factory was cooperation. "We are not asking a dollar in money and do not intend to. We want the kind ■ of cooperation you have been ex- . tending and with everyone show- ; ing this spirit of willingness, we ; are bound to progress. Our con- ■ tract with growers is a 50-50 pro- » nosition and if we benefit the i farmer does too.” i Dr. Brock said that the beet i grower’s contract was one of the I most liberal and fair ever written. He stated, that in a talk he made ’ recently he vouched that it would 'CONTINUED ON PAGE SIX) o MRS. FIFER IS DEATH'S VICTIM 1 • — ■ .... Mother of Linn Grove Resident Dies At Akron, Ohio, Tuesday Mrs. Samantha Fifer, 84, a former Portland resident, and the mother of Mrs. Esther Eckrote of Linn Grove, died at the home of her son, J. A. Fifer at Akron, Ohio, Tuesday morning. Mrs. Fifer had gone to 1 Akron to spend tlie winter months j with her son. ' She was born on June 6, 1849 in Jay county, a daughter of Samuel | and Anna Butcher. She was mar- i ! ried to Benjamin Fifer, who pre-, ! cedei? her in death in 1901. ■j Surviving are six children: S. B. ■ I Fifer of near Bryant; Mrs. Esther ( Eckrote of Linn Grove; Dewitt Fit-j er of Kalamazoo, Michigan; James, A. and Howard D. of Akron, Ohio; • Mrs. William Shepherd of Portland. '(One brother and two sisters survive. The body was met at Decatur j Tuesday evening and taken to Bryant where it was prepared for burial. Funeral service will be held Friday morning at 10 o'clock at the Limberlost Church and j burial will be made in the church, cemetery.

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Protests Lynching ’ % ■ F - " -1 Chaplain Ix*slie C. Kelley, rector of St. Paul's Episcopal Church. San Francisco and a member of the Slate Athletic Board of California. who tendered his resigna- , tion to Governor James Rolph as a protest against the latter’s attitude regarding the San Jos? lynching of the Brooke Hart kidnapers.

VOTING WARDS ARE ODTLINED Tentative Boundary Lines Are Proposed For Four Decatur Wards Tlie city council in session last night proposed tentative Houndary I lines for the four wards to be • established under the law passed by the last legislature. Following a discussion of the boundaries, the matter was deferred until the next meeting for definite action. Tlie lines proposed were as follows: Beginning at the north cor-: porate limits of Decatur on State road 27 and extending south to Fifth street and then south to S’udabaker street, east to Winchester and south to the corporate limits. This line would form the center division line, north and sou'll. Madison street west from First street to the west corporate limits would form the other dividing line. Under this plan, first ward wou'd include the territory north of Madison street, west to Fiftli street and north to the corporate limits. Second ward would run south of Madison street to the south corporate limits, including all the territory between Fiftli s'reet and Winchester street. Third ward would be west of Fifth street and south of Madison street. Tlie fourth ward would include the territory west of Fifth street t and north of Madison street to ’ the corporate limits, west and north. The question of first ascertainI ing how many voters would be in a ward was brought tin and a discussion followed. The council ! thought that each ward should contain about the same number of voters. The matter will be taken up with City Attorney J. Fred ! , Fruchte and an ordinance will be adopted at the next regular meeting. The state law also requires that: the five city councilmen be elect-! ed at large. Attorney Fruchte expressed the opinion that lie understood the law required only | one voting precinct in each ward. Beavers Takes Office Emerson A. Beavers, elected to the council last Friday to fill the ((YIVTINITn on page FOUR) Dealers Promise More Potent Beer Beer dealers said today that they had promises of receiving the more potent beer tonight or sometime this week. Several breweries indi- ! cated that the alcoholic content ( would range from 3.2 to 5 per cent. Dealers did not know if they would serve the stronger beer or continue with 3.2 the matter being largely , up to customers. The formal repeal of the 18th amendment last evening did not cause much of a ripple in Decatur. Most everyone took it as a matter of fact and no outward celebrations j I were noticed or heard of in observance of the event. •

FLYING COUPLE REAGH BRAZIL AT NOON TODAY Long trans-Atlantic Flight Os 1,870 Miles Made In 16 Hours BRAZILIAN CITY WELCOMES FLIERS Natal, Brazil, Dec. 6. —Col. and Mrs. Charles A. Lindbergh, flying a true course for 1870 miles, arrived in their big seaplane over the Natal harbor at 12:55 p.m. EST. lodav after a spectacular flight from Bathurst, British West Africa. The Lindberghs had traversed the South Atlantic ocean, in a straight airline, landing at 1 p.m., 16 hours out of Bathurst. The flight completed 19,000 miles of aerial touring since their departure from New York on July 9. The Lindberghs came down to a city that had declared an unoffi- | cial holiday in their honor. They were greeted by cheering thou- | sands, swarming on every vantage point along the rocky shores. Row boats, motorboats and launches Jammed the-river Potengy where it sweeps into the ocean near the splendid new Pan-Amer-ican naval airport. All business had been suspended j since noon, and the entire population joined to make the recen- | tion the most notable ever given j a visiting celebrity. They started from Bathurst at I 2 a. m. Greenwich mean time (9 , a.m. Tuesday EST.) Their plane was strinped of everything dispensable. Baggage, fuel, food, even water was reduced to what those at Bathurst I thought to he a dangerous minimum. Lindbergh, tall and coldly efficient as he gave the plane a final look over before he got into the pilot’s cockpit. Mrs. Lindbergh, small and in the jumpers that have become a uniform for her, looked fit and was supremely confident. They set 14 hours as the possible time. No sooner had the plane, after a long run down the mouth of the Gambia river, been in the air sufficiently long for Mrs. Lindbergh to raise the wireless aerial than she began flashing her mescages to the Pan-American Airway stations along tlie jutting eastern coast of south America. KEITH L JOHNS NEWSECRETARY Marion Man Is Appointed Secretary of Democrat State Committee Indianapolis, Dec. 6.—(U.R) —Keith L Johns, Marion, publicity director of tlie state gross income tax department, today became secretary of tlie Democratic state committee. He was appointed by Dr. Carleton B. McCulloch, Indianapolis, who recently succeeded R. Earl Peters, ' Fort Wayne, as chairman of the committee. Johns succeeds Marshall Williams, Indianapolis attorney, who resigned with Peters. Selection of Johns, a former j newspaper man. was seen today as further indication that Pleas Greenlee, executive secretary to Gov. Paul V. McNutt and patronage dispenser for the state administration, is being deprived of his power. Greenlee had selected James Penman, Brazil, for secretary of the state committee. Johns was Mei Nutt’s choice so lie received the job. Several duties of the state com- ( mittee will be combined and assumed by Johns, McCulloch said in announcing the appointment. , One of them will be handling of : publicity of the state committee. Johns is a native of Jonesboro. (CONTINUED ON ”AGE FOUP) 0 Good Fellows Club Previous Total $25.00 A Good Fellow .15 lA. friend 20 I Total $25.35