Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 31, Number 296, Decatur, Adams County, 16 December 1933 — Page 1

LEATHER increasing cloudland warmer, ' probable south prtion tonight .nd Lay and north artion Sunday.

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Indbergh and JIFECOMPLFTE TRIP TO MIAMI Couple Landed Lnoplane In Florida ■City This Afternoon lishes’flight I OF 25,000 MILES Lami. FlZTxc. 16.- <UR) E)| and Mrs. Charles A. Ebon’ll, the living couple Kt famous in aviation hisE landed their speech Knnhne here today at ■ n.ni. E.S.T.. returning to ■ United States after an Eve,d. nted flight around ■ Atkin tie. E Lindberghs arrived here K San. Pedro de Macoris, DoniKn republic, which they left at ■am E S -T - today as they E home to spend Christmas Etheir son Jon. Eusands were near the land- ■ barge as the Lindberghs set ■ plane down here after a E of 25.000 miles during which ■ had visited 19 countries. E 20 minutes Lindbergh and E«'s reel plane thrilled '-he E iors ,iere with an aerial ■ Lindbergh apparently resentElie effort to photograph him ■tight As the news plane Ed. Lindbergh banked sharpEve and headed for the open Edbergh then taxied around ■i : « p m after his 20 i » inn,p ■ with the news plane. ■ a signal from the Lindbergh Ea Pan-American Airway emE dove from a boat and swam Ee pontoon of the monopla ie ■ a guide rope. He fixed it E the pontoon with Mrs. LindE giving him directions. ■e return of Col. and Mrs. ■les A- Lindbergh to the L'nit■tate.- after the first aerial cirE»vigation as the North and ■h Atlantic oceans marks the ■of another cycle in a cont in- ■ saga. Kh School Band I To Give Concert ■e Decatur high school band ■ present a concert in the school ■oriam. Tuesday evening. The Earn will be sponsored by the ■ Champs of the school and ticklire on sale for 10 cents for Ebody. ■is is the first appearance of ■ band in a concert. A group of ■zlities will also be features of ■fogram. The proceeds will be ■ to furnish music by the rnusi■rgantzation during the basket ■ games this winter. ■OMEN DIE IN I SCHOONER FIRE ■teen Men Saved, Nine ■eported Missing After I Boat Fire Eton, Dec 16.— (U.R) — Boston E 8 " 1P United Fisheries As■tion said today that 15 men ■ been saved, two were drownE c d nine still were missing at Gloucester fishing schooner E T- Marshall caught fire oc • Scotia. Ettu. N. S„ Dec. 16.— (U.R) — ■ members of the crew of the E 8 Ellen T. Marshall ■ drowned today and seven E 8 8 "" were missing at noon ■/ *tre aboard the vessel had E* the entire crew of 26 to ■ to dories in a cold and hoistE sea off Cape Sable. f BB ' guard craft from the Unit■tates jjoined with Nova Scotian E~ ltlen in searching the scene tragedy for those still miss■’fter battling the rough winter ■ 811 night. ■*° °f the crew were drowned ■'hoy attempted to land their ■*' Seal island. The dory over E 1 in the surf. The third man ■" vir dory was saved. News of ■disaster was radioed from the ■ immediately, summoning asK° Ce froin nearby ports and I s ' n the vicinity. ■ checkup at noon showed that E., ot nine ha d landed from I* 8 - mostly near Tusket, a fish- ■ n ' ne ni *' es from Yarm- ■ 'Kht others had been rescu- ■ ) a Danish steamer, leaving ■ Beven unaccounted for.

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Two Persons Killed As Train Hits Auto Fort Wayne, Ind., Dec. 16.—(U.P) -Two persons were dead here to- i day of injuries they received when their stalled automobile was struck by a westbound Pennsylvania passi enger train near here. Noah B. Garinger. 37. was killed instantly. His 18-year-oid step-son, Virgil Stagtier, died last night in j St. Joseph hospital. JAP SHOOTS > FELLOW PUPIL Young Japanese Student Wounds Mate At South Dakota University Vermillion. IS. D„ Dec. 16—(U.R) 1 —Charged with shooti.ig a fellowstudent at South Dakota University in a class room struggle, Yukithi Yoshida, self-styled Japanese prince, was held today for possible federal action. Yoshida was charged with shooting Vernon McCann through the hand in a crowded class room when McCann struggled with him for possession of a .22 caliber pistol. The Japanese had protested a practical joke played on him by other students. Japanese consuls in Chicago and New York were notified of the incident. University authorities and McCann indicated they would not prosecute, and Yoshida expressed confidence the American consul would "take care of me." Yoshida became infuriated when I (CONTTNf'FtD GN PAGE TWOI o SEEK FUNDS TO EMPLOY WOMEN Will Petition CWA For Funds To Employ VV omen In Decatur The CWA will be petitioned to allot funds for employing women in this citv. a meeting being held in the Chamber of Commerce rooms last evening and three plans adopted. The Parent-Teachers Association of the South Ward and Central building agreed to ask for a public health nurse in the county, to be employed as long as the CWA operated. Members of the Decatur Library Board petitioned that women he emn'oyed to catalogue all the books in the library. The library has the equipment necessary to install the system, but the work of labeling the books and classifying them according to standard meth-i ods has not been done. It is estimated that at least five women could be given employment. Couni'y Agent' Lt E. Archbold asked that two girls be employed i in. his office to assist in the registration of farmers for the differ- ' ent farm projects in connection with the AAA. Miss Vivian Burk presided at 'the meeting and Miss Beatrice Owens, chairman of the woman s division of the Governor’s Unemployment Commission fold of plans being made bv ’he CWA at Indianapolis to furnish employment to women. , , Harry Thompson, assistan.administrator of the local CWA office. stated that every cooperation would be extended in the I pffort to Obtain CWA funds for the employment of women in tnis |Jty and county. The petitions for the three projects outlined a last night’s meeting were sent state headquarters today. o— —■ Young Gif! Dies * In Fall From Auto Huntington, Ind.. Dec. Speeding westward on trl p to Los Angeles Mr. and J. D. Ambrose, Detroit. |ed here today with ’ ‘ | death of 'heir six-year-old daug ! ter The n cTiid fen f 77 e '; er ,X re XT bi, Ve a9 had Sexed and opened a driving i£ P car P' S d mas.

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EXPECT LITTLE TROUBLE OVER CHANGE IN TAX Differences of Opinion Over Proposed Changes Are Minimized MORGENTHAU GIVES FOUR SUGGESTIONS Washington, Dec. 16—(U.R)—Differences in opinion between the treasury department and a house ways and means sub-committee over proposed tax changes were i minimized today as committee members promised a ‘satisfactory’ bill would be ready for congress early next month. Chairman Doughton said treasury revenue experts would wind up their testimony today, and that Monday a number of other wit- : nesses would be heard. ‘‘We didn't expect the treasury to be in complete accord with our suggestions,’’ Doughton said, but the differences certainly are no' serious.” Acting Treasury Secretary Morgenthau appeared before the committee yesterday with a lengthy statemen' advocating drastic . revision of existing internal revenue laws. He took exception to many proposals put forward by the sub-committee after months of investigation. Doughton said he was certain that when his committee concluded its work, a bill would be presented to the house which would make it impossible for large corporations and business men to avoid income tax payments be- ' cause of present ‘'loon-holes." To the senate banking and currency committee, whose recent investigations have disclosed the methods by which many hankers escaped paying millions into the U. S. treasury, Dough lon attributed “an awakening” on the part of congressmen to stop such practices Chief among suggestions by Morgenthau were: 1. A lower federal tax on earned incomes than on incomes from investment. 2. Abandonment of the present system permitting husbands and wives to file separate income tax returns. 3. Retention of taxes on capital gains. 4. Consistent trea'ment of partnership income and deductions. — o TENNESSEE MOB LYNCHES NEGRO Negro Freed of Attack Charge Os Grand Jury, Is Lynched By Mob Columbia, Tenn., Dec. 16.—(U.R) —County officials today professed to be completely mystified as to . the size or identity of a mob which lynched a negro who had been exonerated by a grand jury on a charge of attacking a white girl. The body of Cord Cheek, negro, newest victim in a series of mob outbreaks in various sections of the country, was found hanging from a cedar tree near Columbia last night. The body was riddled with bullets. Coroner Bert Erwin, cut it down and delivered a verdict l of “murder by parties unknown.” I No investigation was undertaken immediately. Cheek was arrested Nov. 16 on a charge preferred by an 11-year-old white girl A mob immediately formed in front of the Maurie county jail here. Officers spirited Cheek out the back and to the safety of the Nashville jail. The grand jury convened this week. Neither the girl nor any member of her family appeared to press the charge. The jury returni ed a no true bill and Cheek was released. He returned to his home here AVednesday. Q Doctors To Meet Monday Evening Dr. G. J. Kohne, secretary of the Adams County Medical society, announced today that a meeting of the doctors will be held at the A<l- - County Memorial hospital Moni day evening. The immunization question will be taken up and action taken on i the local situation.

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Married Four in Month gy gw ■ illl r My®® / ki - Bror H. Peterson is shown in front of his police station cell in Chicago, where he is held on a charge of bigamy. He married tour women in a month, seeking a perfect wife, he said. Tn wooing his four wives Peterson always mentioned an SB,OOO estate he hoped to inherit and promised a SSOO wedding present.

DIVORCE MILL POWER LIMITED I i I ■ ■ ■■ u Powers of Mexico’s Divorce Mill States Limited By Decision (Copyright. 1933, by UP) Mexico City, Dec 16. —<IJ.R) —The , powers of Mexico's "divorce mill ' states were limited strictly today under a new and clear cut supreme court decision which endangered ' thousands of decrees obtained by Americans. The effect of the new decree is: 1. There will he no interference by federal courts with decrees in cases where both parties consent to divorce.. 2. A decree obtained after a ’ summons made only through publication in an official newspaper, as permitted by some state laws, is invalid unless both parties are resident in the state, and will be annulled on the application of the defendant. 3. In cases where there is not common consent, the complainant must serve the defendant directly with a summons, no matter in what state or country the defendant is resident, or the defendant may at any future time obtain an annulment. Thus the net effect of the ruling is to end the practice by which several Mexican states permitted a person seeking a divorce to give notice to the defendant only through notice of suit in an obscure state publication. A complainant may still bring , suit in the absence of the defendant provided he or she directly summons the defendant, giving the opportunity to defend the suit. The ruling was handed down j yesterday just as the court ad- ' journed for three weeks at the | close of its 1933 session. The ruling was not generally known and has not been published here. Thousands of Americans have taken advantage of the divorce laws, but unless they obtain consent of the other party, or serve the defendant directly, the decree they obtain may be annulled at any time. The only proof needed will be that the defendant did not reside in the state at the time of suit. Mrs. Charles Friend Sutters Broken Leg Mrs. Charles Friend, residing on route 2, Decatur, suffered a fractured right leg Friday night about 9 o’clock when she slipped and fell, while working in the kitchen at her home. She was removed to the Adams County Memorial Hospital in this city where it was found that the right lek was broken just below the hip.

R. A. Stuckey Buys Reed Elevator Lot 11 R. A. Stuckey, proprietor of the I Cash Coal and Supply, purchasI ed the building and ground olcu- ' pied by the Reed Elevator Co., cor- . | ner Monroe an Eighth streets, a! the commissioners sale this morn- ' ingMr. Stuckey announced today I that he will move his entire stock | of fence, lumber, posts, roofing and coal from his present location as ■ soon as proper remodeling on his new building edn be done. Mr. Stuckey has conducted the Cash Coal and Supply, located on Washington Street for the past sev- ■ eral years where he operates a wholesale and retail business. NOTEORUIHOR HIES IN FIRE Louis Joseph Vance Burns To Death; Fell Asleep While Smoking New York. Dec. 16-(UP)—Louis Joseph Vance, 54. author of the “Lone Wolf” and a number of other j ■ novels, was burned to death today when he tell asleep with a lighted cigarette in his mouth. Vance was found by attaches of the town house in which be lived ■ after neighbors had smelled smoke. His clothes were badly burned. Ihe ■. apartment was undamaged. The novelist was found on the : floor, naked from "te waist up. I Pending further investigation it : was believed that he awoke to find ( his clothes burning and managed to | tear some of them from his body before succumbing. : Vance wrote more than 30 novels I as well as innumerable short stor- ■ ies and serials contributed to magazines over a period of 32 years, but none of his works achieved the ' ■ instant popularity of his criminal 1 hero, the "Lone Wolf." Among his other books were the “The Dead Ride Hard," the “Woman in the shadow" and “Red Mas querade.”

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ONE LAW RULED VOID BY STATE SUPREMECOURT Act Abolishing Citv Treasurer Offices In Lake County Invalid JUDGES UPHOLD TWO OTHER LAWS Indianapolis, Dec. 16—(U.R) —The first law of the 1933 legislature to be declared unconstitutional by thb state supreme court was held void hi an opinion late yesterday. The act abolished city treasurer offices in Whiting. East Chicago. Hammond and Gary and consolidated the work under the Lake ' county treasurer. Two other important opinions, affffecting the $1.50 tax limitation law and the chain store tax law, also were handed* down by the court. Without passing on ronstitution- ! ality of the $1.50 tax law, the i court held that full authority to | determine whether an emergency ; exists, necessitating an excess of the rate limit, lies with county tax adjustment boards and the state tax board. Constitutionality of the chain | store tax law, upheld previously Iby the United States supreme I court, was defended vigorously by the state court's action which ruled that *soline filling stations are subject to the store tax. In the city treasurers’ case Henry Heckler. Hammond city treas(fDVTlVT’Fn ONT T»AGF THREE) o STATE SCHOOLS RATE FAVORABLY Efb'catinnal Standards, Financial Conditions Compare Favorably Indianapolis, Dec. 16 —(U.R) —The educational standards and financial condition of public schools in Indiana compare raVorabiy with other states In a report of the Federal Office of Education, G. C. Cole, state superintendent of pub- ; lie instruction, announced todav. The minimum program of edu- ' cation in public schools of India ia ■ provides an eight months term ' under the tutorship of instructors who receive not less than SSOO a year in elementary grades and SI,OOO in high schools. One out of every four teachers i in the country will receive less than $750 for the present school ! year and 40,000 rural instructors will receive less than $450 for the I term, Cole said. In Indiana, state aid through excise and intangibles tax collections will make it possible for all 1 teachers to receive at least SBOO for the year. More than 2.000 schools in the country failed to open this fall, i private and parochial schools have (CONTINUED ON PAGE TWO) n Auction Sale Os Horses Next Tuesday j IA bunch of fine horses are now located at the sale barns on east Monroe street, to be offered for j sale at auction next Tuesday at 12:30 p. ni. These horses were collected by Bert Daite and George Mellott in Illinois and include individual workers, matched teams, brood mares and work horses, 42 in all. Col. Roy Johnson will be in i charge of the sale and since there | is a demand for horses in this loj cality now, the sale should be a good one. — o Present Program At School Chapel An interesting chapel program I was presented at the Decatur high school Friday afternoon when the | Worthman quartet sang a group of selections. Col. Fred Reppert acted a« master of ceremonies a■! introduced 1 the quartet in a very clever tnan- , ner. The group included Lewis Worthman, Rev. Matt Worthman of Bluffton; Ernest Worthman of Preble township, and Supt. M. F. Worthman of this city. Following the program Rev. Worthman gave a ten minute talk on music.

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| Gold Buying Price Is Still Unchanged Washington, Dec. 16. —(U.R) The government today set the price fori newly mined domestic gold at | ■ $34.01 an ounce, continuing the , price in effect since Dec. 1. Today's Washington price was $1.72 above the world price set in ' 1 London. . The London price today was 126 shillings, 4 pence, off 3 pence from yesterday. On the basis of the ■ opening exchange rate for the I I pound sterling ($5.11'4), this was | equivalent to $32 29 an ounce. The dollar remained at 60.781 ’ 1 cents. NOVELIST DIES AFTER ILLNESS I, Robert VV. Chambers Dies In New York Hospital After Operation New York, Dec. 16. —(U.R) —Robert W. Chambers, famous American novelist, died in Doctors hospital 8 today after an operation. He had 3 been ill about three months. Chambbers, who was 68, was the ' author of numerous historical and * romantic novels. 3 He is survived by Mrs. Elsa Molj ler Chambers, his wife, a son. Rob- . ert W. Chambers, Jr., and a brother. Walter B. Chambers, all of New ’, York. ] The funeral will be held at his home at Broad Albin, N. Y.. Monday. The Rev. Dr. Carroll, rector of St. Ann's Episcopal church, Ant- , sterdain. will officiate. ’ Chambers, 68, was born in Brooklyn and began his career as an I Illustrator for Life. Vogue, and other magazines. While engaged in this work he began writing short stories. In 1893 he published his I first book, “The King in Yellow,” a series of short stories. This was followed in rapid succession by ■ about 50 others, including novels, nature books, and poems in addition to collections of short stories. ’ He married Elsa Vaughn Moller in 1898. He was an active member of the National Institute of Arts and Literature, and held mem(CONTINUED ON PAGE SIX) I- o — 1 t! Brothers Die As *■ Train Hits Truck i- Plymouth. Ind., Dec. 16 —(UP) — Two brothers. Stanley Dominski. i- 21, and Joseph, 5, were killed int stantly last night when the truck i in which they were riding was s struck by a passenger train at Dona ' aldson, near here. it o : MAY HOLD UP ■ FINAL AWARD h | Import Quota On Wines, o Liquors From France May Be Withheld e I 1.1 Washington, Dec. 16—(U.R) —Inti-j 8 j mations that the final award of ’ the import quota on wiles ami liquors to France may be held up ■ until it is ascertained that the French government will carry out r \ the full spirit of the reciprocal | negotiations on which this quota v I is based were revealed at the ' state department today. r Acting (Secretary of State Phil-: ' lips said the state department I had cabled the American embassy 0 | in Paris for details of a purported i-'tax “joker" as applied to Ameris. can fruit products. a \ Newspaper dispatces from Paris a quoted fruit importers as claim-' a ing that a proposed increase in |- import taxes on fruits would praca tically nullity the increased quota for American fruits which the United States expected to obtain in return for the increased wine > and liquor quota to France. * Phillips said the wine and liquor quota to France had not yet been 8 definitely awarded and probably II would be held up until the status 6 of the tax proposals was ascerlf tained. ■ o Start River Work Monday Morning S t Starting of work on the CWA ■f project to clean the St. Marys river ’. was delayed until Monday morning at 7:30 o'clock at the Erie bridge. '. All men assigned to this work are k asked to report at the bridge at 7:30.

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THREE OTHERS I REPORTED HURT IN HOTEL FIRE ■ ■ - Morganfield, Ky., Hotel Is Destroyed Early This Morning — ONE OF VICTIMS • WAKENS GUESTS Morganfield, Ky., Dec. 16. (U.R) — Two persons were killed and three others were injured early todav when fire destroyed the Capital Hotel i here. , Two guests were rescued I after clinging precariously to the outside of the building ; for half an hour. One of the victims. Mrs. Jean Rose, 50, died a hero. One of tho first to discover the flames she awakened other guests and returned to her third floor room. A spring lock o.i the door caught and ehe was trapped within. Firemen found her body on the floor where she had died from suffocation. William Waller, 76, a retired farmer, was found burned to death on a stairway between the second and third floors. T. W. Nutti.igs. Nashville, Tenn., a guest, hung from a third floor window thirty minutes before firemen could reach him with a ladder. Miss Sadie Wilus. Union countyhome demonstration agent, escaped death by hanging to a rain spout for half an hour. The flames were so close to her that firemen played water over her clothing until they could effect a rescue. F. J. McCormick. Louisville, another guest, broke a foot when he jumped from a second story window. Dr. R. W. Stevens. Bowling Green, was slightly burned and Mrs. Sherman Locke. Chicago, was removed to an. Evansville, Ind., hospital with severe burns. The fire started in the lobby. Loss was estimated at $45,000. o Eight Diphtheria Cases In County The state's morbidity report for the week ending December 9, shows that eight cases of diphtheria were reported in Adams County during the week Allen county had 10 cases for the same week. As far as could be learned, one family was quarantined here this week. Members of the lAdatns County Medical Society will meet I Monday night to determine if the i spread of the disease has been enough to warrant city wide immunization among the school children. o Plaintiff Awarded SI,OOO By Jurors A jury in theiAdams circuit court returned a verdict for SI,OOO for the plaintiff in the claim case of Lawrence S. Fulkerson against the esi tate of Regina A. Loyd, deceased. The vase was venued here from Fort Wayne. The ease went to the jury at 5:40 p. m. Friday, the jury returning its verdict at 9:30 p. m. Fred Blum was foreman of the jury. Other jurors were Charlee i Morrison, Walther Thieme. Louis : Worthman, William Goetz, Henry Selking Howard Mauller, George Bultemeier. Herman Franz, Otto Peck, William Ray and Calvin Hamrick. Decatur Insurance Agent Places High J. L. Ehler, local agent for the i New York Life Insurance Company ■ received notice today that he ’ stood 27th among 11,000 agents in the United States for amount of business written during the month of November. Each month the company publishes a list of the 200 who have made the best record for the previous month and this is the second time during the year that Mr. Ehler has made the grade. —o Legion Meeting Monday Evening Adams post number 43 of the Am- : erlcan Legion will meet at the De- '' catur Country Club at 8 p. m. Mon- , day. The meeting was moved up : one week to avoid meeting on 1 Christmas day.