Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 31, Number 290, Decatur, Adams County, 9 December 1933 — Page 1

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PARADE CULMINATES SUGAR WEEK

Additional Civil Works Projects Approved

■# PROJECTS ■re APPROVED by ■ THIS MORNING a *^|e n County Projects Hproved. Will Give Emnt To 48 Men •i« Kh TKIC LIGHT ■ I INKS REPAIRED I'iro cilv and cotinlv numbering seven ' inplovinent Io IX K'nith Libor costs esliwere improved lodav Willi mi 11. Book, stale work' administrator. Wj^Hpprmal of the various . .ns! <oimlv nrojeets wi< h\ William I. I .inn : >.-utity a.lministrat-e- ; ar ,, project approval .wne^^B l-ting anil repair ”f l.clit lines in the west . : beginning w• ■ ■ ,i '“ l extending limits. The protect ' d as a repair jolt, ap-li.-isi temporarily delayed classification of . made bv the (’ W \ wir e.,1 that 12 men will d on the job. <• (■< ■■ I. >nse. jail, countv ar.il Adams Conntv Me ' .1 projects wen ill the list received tod'iv : ’ ditch projects for l County Survevor Rocp were not aporoved * 'd • ists are es'imated at mat-rial necessary' to the jobs. _ the relctildine and .-s’ensi sle'tli light circuit, the Ligiit and Power Plant "'ill approximately $9,000 The labor cost is at $6,900. ’’ prni-cts approved follow: 310" Refinishing room' ■ I. - including redecorat of auditor's and recorder's 6 mon. labor. $590. coun’.y infirmary, 8 men. t^K r 5414 3105 Drains on hosy.it il 3!"'. Painting e\t, r.'ir of county jail. men. 3107 - Roofing barns at ■•‘tv infirmary, 5 men. labor. n To Buy Material poles necessary in tl"’ of the electric circuits / purchased today by M .1. superintendent of the city 7 and power plant. About 120 were purchased in differ,-':’ I 100 of 35 foot length and I foot length. The muni', inal will also purchase the wire ’ other material required circuit will be constru. t 'd same lines as the on PAGE SIX' lIW TEACHER I DENIES GUILT ' I I ■ ■Racher Accused of Tak■nK Bonds, Enters Plea I Os Not Guilty ■* n <lianapolis, Dee. 9—<U.R)—*’> <s Steele. Terre Haute grade 00 ' principal, pleaded not gttiltoday when arraigned in Marcounty criminal court on ■® r 8 p s of taking $25,000 in bonds ■R 11 by the state teachers’ retire■fat fund. ■ T rial was set for Jan. 25. A will hear the case at the redefeftse attorneys. Steele was surrounded by ■joy teacher friends but she rin the rear of the crowded She was represen'ed John t. Beasley, Terre Haute. Bert Beaslev and Steph, m 'jjhens, Indianapolis. tss Steele is a former member teachers'’ retirement fund The bonds disappeared ■Hr e ral months ago from a safety vault in an Indianapolis ■ (CON TINUHD on PAGE SIX)

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Chain Gang Fugitive 1 f 1 ■ J < 'Ki < !rd , James A. Laßue. 22-year-old Chicago youth, who is making a desperate fight in Chicago to prevent extradition to Florida, where he would have to serve the major portion of a five-year sentence on the chain gang. l.aßue’s predicament resulted from his arrest on suspicion in a Chicago robbery. Police records disclosed him to he a fugitive from a Florida chain gang. INDIANAPOLIS BISHOP DEAD Most Rev. Joseph Chartand Dies Fridav Night Os Heart Attack Indianapolis, Dec. 9— <U.R) —The Most Rev. Joseph Chartrand, 63. idshop of the Indianapolis diocese of the Catholic church, died at his residence last night from a heart attack. The last sacrament was administered by the Most Rev. Elmer J. Ritter, bishop of Hippus and auxiliary bishop of the Indianapolis diocese. Three other priests and two physicians were present when Bishop Chartrand died. He had been suffering from heart trouble for two years but had continued active in church affairs. Death came on one of the greatest feast days celebrated by Ca'holic churches —the feast of the Immaculate Conception. Bishop Chartrand was born in it. Donis. Mo., May H- I B ' o - ~IS first education was in Jesuit I schools at St. Louis. Mo. His | theological training was completed at Milwaukee and then he went i to the Jesuit college at Innsbruck in the Tyrol. I’pon his return to this country he taught for three years at St. Meinard's seminary in s ° ut, J®™ Indiana. He was ordained in 189. at the age of 22 after receiving a , special dispensation from the i pope. The age for ordmation without special grant is 24. Shortly after his ordination he was called to Indianapolis as assistant rector of St. Peter and * • *;,* * ui" v *' 1 Two Killed When Train Leaves Track Chillicothe. 0., Dec. 9 —(UP)— Two persons were killed and two injured seriously near here last midnight when the sportsman, fast passenger train of the Chesapeake and Ohio, left its track and plowed into a ditch. Harr The victims were engineer Harr Gresham. 49. of Huntington. W Va and an unidentified negro riding "blind baggage.” Plaintiff Awarded Verdict By Jury A jury in the 'Adams Circuit Friday afternoon and a verdict was reached at 10:30 P- «>• £ sealed verdict was opened this 111 The" plaintiff was granted judg--5K32 80 The complaint had X i D. Engeler was foreman of the jury.

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HIGH LIQUOR PRICES CAUSE MUCH TROUBLE Control, High Taxes Bring Excessively High Prices In Nation MUCH CONTROVERSY IS DEVELOPING (By United Press! Control and taxes for the reborn billion-dollar liquor trade embroiled the nation in a rising storm of controversy today. » High liquor prices brought widespread fears that the activities of bootleggers and gangsters would I he revived. A United Press sur- , vey showed relative high prices prevailing in almost every section , of the country. Legal bonded . whisky sold for sl2 a quart in , Philadelphia and $lO in Pittsburgh. High prices and fear of the bootlegger caused Joseph N. Chaote, . Jr., chairman of the federal alcohol control administration, to threaten reluctant but drastic government action. A burst of buying accompanied repeal in wet states, business surveys showed. First effects of repeal in stimulating re-employment also began to be felt. Shipping interests anticipated steady im- : provement. The tax dispute pointed to a bitter wet-dry fight in congress next month. Wets sought taxation that would bring the price of whisky down to $1.50 a quart. Jouett Shouse, repeal .leader, charged in an address at Phlladelnhia that the government al- ’ ready had instituted con'rol ' through codes that was ‘as unwise' i as the 18th amendment. Officials of the various states I struggled with local problems. In wet states the question was whether to levy state liquor taxes, or abolish them to qualify under a projected plan for sharing federal liouor revenues. In others, i the question of repeal of state Urr.vTTX’T’rm nv pagr ’cwm ART VOGLEWEDE IS APPOINTED Dpcat’ir Attorney Named To Position With Federal Land Bank Arthur E. A r oglewede. local attorney, has been notified to report at the Federal Land Bank, Louisville. Ky.. Monday morning to begin duties as an examiner of abstracts and titles. The appointment came through Congressman James I. Farley of Auburn. Mr. Voglewede attended Notre Dame University and concluded his education by getting a degree in law from Georgetown Univer- ' sity. Washington, D. C. While there he did considerable wbrk which prepared him for the examination of titles. He is the son of Mr. and Mrs. C. J. Voglewede | sos this city and one of the popular ' young men of the community. During the campaign last year he served as a secretary in Democratic county headquarters, extending his circle of friends and: acquaintances. For the past two months he has been attorney to R. R. Schug, liquidating agent for the Peoples State Bank of Berne, which position he has resigned to take up the new work. —o Monroeville Man Dies Friday Night Oren P. Lare. 54, of Monroeville. | well known in Decatur, died at his home Friday night at 10:25 o’clock following an extended illness. Mr. Lare bad visited in Decatur frequently and a number of relatives reside here. Surviving are the widow and a daughter. Mrs. Ralph Etzler of Convoy Ohio. Funeral services will be held at the East Liberty Church Monday afternoon at 2 o’tlodk and burial will be made in the I. O. O. F. cemetery in Monroeville.

Decatur, Indiana, Saturday, December 9, 1933.

PROCLAMATION Sincerely believing that every I movement which helps the i | farmers, likewise aids the | towns and cities, I unhesltat- I j ingly favor observation of Na- | | tional Cheese Week. December | 1 being supported 100% by the I j 11 to 16. This movement is j Kraft-Phenix Company and all | others engaged in (he manti- I l 1 facture of dairy products, all | I over the country. We are very fortunate to have in this city a branch of 1 i | the Kraft-Phenix company and i ? to have other dairy concerns ' in the city and county and we , i ! owe them our earnest support. | | It is therefore my pleasure ' ! I to proclaim next week, De- | I cernber 11 to 15 as a special I week for Decatur to observe 1 | National Ch»ese Week. It is I I my hope that this splendid | j : | community will do its full | .' I share to aid in taking the sur- | ' plus of dairy products off the ' ! ' market. I Serve cheese and serve the ■ I nation and tills communitv. | 1 See that more dairy products ' are used in your home. George M. Krick. Mayor. 1 INVESTIGATING ’ ALLEGED LEAK Treasury Probing Leak Os Government’s Daily Domestic Gold Price ——— (Copyright, 1933, by UP.) Washington, Dec. 9. — (U.R) •*- Treasury officials have started an , investigation, it was learned today, into alleged "leaks'' of the government’s daily domestic gold price which have given foreign exchange traders and speculators opportunity to gather large profits. week, one news service reported the gold price was cabled back to New York from London; eight minutes before its release in . Washington. Another service reported yester-' day that the price was available in London four minutes before it was received by cable from Washington. although the cpble transsion took less than one minute Treasury officials in continuing their investigation into the source of the alleged "leaks" said today that Washington is the only place at which the price is announced. Simultaneously with its release to the press at the treasury, the price is wired to the Federal Reserve Bank of’New York on the treasury <CONTTNTTRT> ON PAGE SIX) o North Manchester Man Speaks Tuesday Rev. Virgil C. Finnell of North Manchester will speak at the Plea- ' sant Mills Methodist Episcopal Church Tuesday evening, Decvember 12, at 7 o'clock on the subject. ‘ Why Some Girls Smdke." The address will be illustrated by 80 interesting stereopticon slides. This leclure 'has been given over 6,600 times throughout the nation during I the past 13 years. MARY PICKFORD SEEKS DIVORCE . I Highly Publicized Movie Romance Comes To An End In Divorce Suit Los Angeles. Dec. 9. —(U.R) —The most publicized romance of modern time—a love that for more than a decade held Mary Pickford and Douglas Fairbanks up to the world as "the perfect mates”—was at a definite end today. It concluded with the cold, colorI less legal terminology of a complaint in which Miss Pickford, known for years as America's sweetheart, asked for a divorce from her famed, acrobatic husband. In vague generalities the screen ' star’s complaint charged Fairbanks ] with mental cruelty and desertion. Fairbanks showed a "lack of con- , ’ sideration of Miss PlckYord's feelings and sensibilities and has conj sistently carried on a course of ON PAGE SIX)

FORMER LOCAL RESIDENT HELD Charles Hickman Arrested In Pennsylvania On Local Indictment Sheriff Burl Johnson. Mrs. Johnson and Ed Miller, night policeman, miraculously escaped injury this morning when the sheriff's car skidded and went into a ditch near Findlay, Ohio. The sheriff was forced to abandon his trip to Meadville, Pennsylvania, after Charles Hickman. The local persons returned to Decatur la-e this afternoon. The sheriff's car was badly wrecked. Sheriff Burl Johnson and night policeman Ed Miller left early Saturday morning for Meadville. Pennsylvania, where Charles Hickman, former Decatur resident, is in custody. Hlckkman was indicted by the grand jury in the Adams circuit court during the November. 1932. term on a charge of first degree rape. Hickman is alleged to have committed a criminal attack on a 14 year-old girl during April of 1932. He was arrested in Meadville Friday. Sheriff Johnson was informed of the arrest and was also told that Hickman has waived extradition. Hickman formerly was on the Decatur city police force and also worked as a garage mechanic in this city. He had been sought since the grand jury indictment was, returned last fall. —o # - i Good Fellows Club ♦ ♦( The first one dollar donations to the Good Fellows club were received today. Two one dollar donations to the club were made. j Prepiously reported $25.45 A Friend 1.00 A Good' Fellow 1.00 Total -• $27.45 oBERNE DOCTOR IS PRESIDENT Dr. Amos Reusser Named President of County Medical Association Dr. Amos Reusser of Berne was elected president of the Adams County Medical Association at the annual meeting of the society held at the Adams County Memorial hospital last night. Other officers elected were, Dr. S. D. Beavers, vice-president and Dr. G. J. Kohne. both of Decatur, sec r eta ry-t reas u rer A special meeting of the Medical Society will be held at the hospital Monday to talk over plans for immunizing all school children against diphtheria. Several cases of diphtheria have : been reported in the city and eoun-: ! ty this week, but’ there is no indli cation that the disease is spreading. ,It will be determined at the meet- | ing if it is necessary to make an [ immunization campaign in the city, i Free service would probably be 1 extended to .needy children, it was I stated. o Five Bandits Rob Denver Delicatessen Denver, Colo., Dec. 9 —(UP) —In a daylight holdup of a downtown delicatessen and beer parlor live bandits toay seized more than $lO,000 in cash and fled through a hail of gunfire which was belieced to 'have killed one of their number. The bandits, all carrying pistols, entered the Saliman and Son Delicatessen and grill us more than i 25 patrons were eating and drinking beer. 12 ’till •Ogj mas

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PART OF LOCAL ROBBERY LOOT IS RECOVERED Clothing Stolen Fr o m Teeole And Peterson Store Is Recovered THIRTY SUITS AND SCARFS ARE FOUND The 30 suits of men's clothing stolen from the Teeple and Peterson Clothing store in this city early Thursday morning were found today in a ditch under a bridge at the south edge of Payne. Ohio. Cal Peterson, a member of the clothing firm, and Deputy Sheriff D. M. Hower made a trip to Payne this morning and recovered the property. About a dozen scarfs were also found, although more than four dozen were stolen from the store. A number of the suits were i water soaked, but the top layers that did not fall in the ditch were not greatly damaged. Mr. Peterson stated Tlie clothing was value at about SBOO The robbery of the store was frustrated when Nigh' Policeman Ed Miller, stepped from the Daily Democrat office, which is located . across the street from the cloth'ng s'ore and saw two men run from the store. He ran across the | street and covered one man with i his revolver. The thief was ordered to walk across the street and i in'o the Democrat office, where he was searched by David Heller, | night linotype operator. The man first gave his name as Tom Meyer, then changed it to Joe Braun. A further search of his clothing at the jail produced a Michigan certificate of title for an automobile under the name of Joe Donovan. The apprehended thief is charg>ed with burglary, auto ' banditry and grand larcency. lie lias not I yet been arraigned in court. Given Grilling Joe Braun, alias Tom Meyer, alias Joe Donovan, arrested during the robbery by Night Policeman Fd Miller, admitted under questioning by Sheriff Burl Johnson Fridav. Hiat he had served a year i and a day in the federal prison at Leavenworth. Kansas, during 1926 and 1927. Braun stated that he was senti enced to the federal prison for rrnNTT\ T TTT?r> nv t> agf «tx) 0 Additio"«l Whpat Checks In Indiana Lafayette, Ind., Dec. 9 —(UP) — Farmers in 17 additional Indiana counties have received benefit pay- j ment checks on wheat totaling i $215,473, J. H. Skinner, dean of the ’ Purdue university agricultural | school, announced today. The payments, he said, boosted Hie grand total to $464,875. The allotment checks so far have come to 11.125 farmers in 39 counties. Total payments are expetted j to be anproximately $2,000,000. CORN-HOG PLAN IS EXPLAINED Pigs Sold Under Emergency Plan To Be Counted Under Plan Lafayette. Ind., Dec. 9 — (U.R) rPigs sold by farmers under the emergency marketing plan of the Agricultural Adjustment Administration in August and September, may be counted in the two-year base to be considered by all co-op-erators in the corn-hog plan, director J. H. Skinner of the Purdue ' University Agricultural Extension department announced today. He is chairman of the state committee to handle the corn-hog program in Indiana. “Any producer who raises pigs and sold them under the emergency plan may count them as part i of his production in the base year, j 1933," he said. "This means that the thousands. ON PAGE SIX)

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Sugar Queen Miss Martha Elizabeth Calland, a junior in the Decatur high school, who was crowned Sugar Beet Queen in coronation ceremonies lield this afternoon on the steps of the Decatur Public Library. NEXT WEEK IS 1 CHEESE WEEK National Cheese Week Will Be Observed December 11 to 16 Next week. December 11 to 16, ' will be National Cheese Week, ob-, served all over the country and in varied ways. The manufacture of cheese and other dairy products Is one of the important ones in tjie nation. At the present time, there is a cheese surplus of 30,000,0001 pounds. A drive to move this surplus through tlie city markets is now on and it is tlie hope that Decatur and Adams county will do her full share. Governor McNutt and chief ' executives in many other states have endorsed the movement, j Mayor George Krick today issued I a proclamation asking observance of the important occasion here. At 3 o'clock Monday afternoon at the city hall. Mayor Krick will i slice a fifty pound cheese and tlie public is cordially invited to witness tlie ceremony. The cheese will be given to the needy of the t city, following the public demon-( stration. Attention ih also called to the i radio program to be given over thirty-five stations next Thursday evening, beginning at nine o’clock and continuing a full hour. Special attention is also called to the farmers that they can help in this important campaign by buying cheese. If 2,300.009 dairy farm families would use an extra pound of cheese a week for a month, the surplus would bo used ! up and immediately the improvement would be noticeable in the! ! price of butterfat and milk. That is tlie purpose of tlie movement. The Cloverlea( Creameries here 1 (CGNTtNItRn nv PAGE SIX) o — Bedford School Head Is Sued For $50,000 Bedford. Ind., Dec. 9 — (UP) — I Warren J. Yount, superintendent of Bedford Public schools, was named defendant in a $50,900 suit j on file today in Lawrence circuit: I court. The suit, filed by Florus W. Shad-! day, grew out of alleged revocation of Shadday’s teaching license by Yount while the latter was superintendent of Johnson County schools in 1929. o Many Killed During Spanish Revolution Madrid, Spain, Dec. 9 —(UP) — The long planned anarchist revolution that swept briefly over the northern provinces accompanied by streets fights, bombings and tragic railway wreck took an estimated 29 to 40 lives with several hundred other injured, unofficial reports indicated today. Although the ministry of the interior announce at 5:40 p. m. that the revolt virtually had been suppressed it still was impossible to communicate with the revolt area I and in the absence, of official figures it was believed casualties i might mount even higher.

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CORONATION OF QUEEN.PARADE FINAL FEATURE Decatur, Adams County’s First Sugar Week Comes To An End LARGE GATHERING WITNESSES PARADE Attracting state wide attention and one ol the largest crowds of the year, the final program in Decatur's first observance of beet sugar week, got underway at two o'clock this afternoon. Climaxing events to one of the most successful and heartily supported commun-* itv events in the citv's history, were the parade, depicting the universal use and favor of Crystal White Sugar locally, the burying of old man Sugar Cane and the crowning of the beet sugar queen. The coronation ceremonies were scheduled to take place on the irteps of the Public Library building, on Third street. Miss Martha Calland, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. .1. Ward Callahan was to be . crowned queen, amidst all the ■ conventional and accepted ceremonies attendant at formal court functions and befitting a queen. Forming the court of honor were the Misses Evelyn Kohls, Helena ' Rayl. Kathleen Odle. Pauline Affolder, Mary Kathryn Tyndall and Allien Porter, pretty maidens who graced the court of Queen Martha Elizabeth and courtsied with all the dignity and charm of I the ladies in waiting. Augmenting the parade were about 20 loads of sugar beets which eventually found their way 1 to the factory of the Central Sugar Company and within the next 36 hours will emerge as sparkling | crystals of the finest granulated sugar made in the United States. Displays and features in the parade were: City Fire Truck City Boy Scout Troops Decatur Junior Band Girl Scoup Troops Twelve Ponies Queen's Coach Sugarettes in costume j Auto display' The Crystal White Birthday Cake, St. Joseph school Truck load of Crystal White Sugar Wren High School Band Auto Display Float, Peck and His Bad Boy Floats by Decatur Merchants Trucks of Sugar Beets Funeral of Mr Sugar Cane. Program Started Monday Tlie beet sugar observance started in this city last Monday. Activities included tlie enrolling of every housewife in the county in the movement to haye everyone use Crystal Whit Sugar; the writing of essays by school children ■ on "Why I should use beet sugar”; a mass meeting of farmers last (CGNTINTIF?r> ON PAGE SIX) ADAMS COUNTY ! RESIDENT DIES Mrs. Albert Burke Dies This Morning At Home Near Berne i Mrs .Verna Burke, 44, wife of Albert Burke, residing eight miles : northeast of Berne, died at her home at 11:30 o'clock this morning following a three months illness of dropsy. Mrs. Burke was born January 9, 1889 in Adams County, a daughter of Reuben and Belle Clark. The mother preceded her in death. She was married to Albert Burke in 1999 and five children were born to the union: Roland of Bryan, Ohio Chester, Robert, Marcella and Mar- . garet at home. Surviving besides the father, husband and children is a sister, Mrs. John Farlow, Bryan, Ohio; and . three brothers. Will Clark of Geneva; Lewis Clark, Berne, and Reuben Clark of Muskegan. Michigan. . One sister is deceased. Funeral services will be held ! Monday afternoon at 1 o'clock from , the home and at 1:39 o'clock at the Springhill Church with the Rev. . L. M. Pierce officiating. Burial will : be made in the Springhill cemetery.