Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 32, Number 83, Decatur, Adams County, 5 April 1934 — Page 1

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fe PASSES ■rantybill I LOAN BONDS ■ Amendment ReKiu! Xppointmcnts Q) |) "Efficiency” Ute defeats ■TAX INCREASES Hi -..u.R — n ls <- p.i- <■<! the two bit-] ■olh home loan bond Hy bill today at the ■ a partisan debate in ■)etn,.. rats were taunt-1 ■ deserting the I’resi-, ■ his attempt to keep ■oils" stem out of re-■set-up appointments, ■nil did not carry the amendment reqilir , ; . itioii appointments Li ims of efficiency" rather ■jiticil affiliation! The approved the amendment will be made to re-‘ iii conference, guaranteeing the prtnci as interest of home loan I im re provides aid tor goods industry through h .ii tied million dollars' modernization and ■it■ill w.i< parsed under rules' ■on. requiring two- thirds ■Defeat Amendment ■iL-te.'i. Apr. 5.—;U.R> The defeated un effort to ' ■ shar; ly increased income ■mi tL American tax payer. ■io the senate rejected ■nlnient to the $390,000,960 ■ spin, nod by Senator Rol> ■.li’i.ii. tie Republican, Wis 1 ■whnh would have increaa■iidiii.ii tax rale from tour cent and imposed a scale ■axes considerably higher' ■ Favors Lottery ■ngton. Apr.. 5. -sUJD-Rep ■ive Thomas H. Cullen. if a ; lorful Tammany dele ‘ IXt Ei. ON PAGE THREE) Market Bill Will Be Acted On lington. April 5. — «JJ£r —' latke regulation legislation Iteh on the legislalve prods session. Speaker of the Henry l. Rainey said toedict, d the house might be > adjourn May 15. txk market bill is sure to * aid Rainey adding: ours« it may be modified I present form.” y said the legislative slate was clearing up. Aside e stock market measure, he e oni,. vital bills which it d necessary to pass were Ply bill-, and "probably" the Lewis unemployment inbill. DY OUT FOR «A YOR OFFICE • Macy, Retired Postlerk. Is Republican Candidate ! Macy, retired post office' ®<i a SpantshiAmerlcan war I will be the republican cantor mayor of Decatur. Wacy filed his declaration of icy to'iyy. it was understood ! will be unopposed for the jtJon. November, Mr. Macy com--30 years in the government's • service and was retired. He p " a resident of this city for han a quarter of a century. t*s <at 711 Winchester street a well known resident of Der candidates on the republiy ticket who have announced audWaclee are Mrs. Horace > for clerk-treasurer; Forrest | Ftoyd Acker and Sim Burk | 'uncilman. The republicans a complete ticket and the candidate for council is exto announce by Sautrday. J not likely than any of the. pn candidates will be op<’r t ie nomination and by 01 1 jat fact they will become •rty’s nominees in the fall I tn. 1

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MAKE WHEN! FOB HOME SITE Alvira Cade Farm Will Be Site of Decatur Homestead Project A United States Treasury war i rant for 37.982.00, in imyment for ( Hie Alvira Cade farm, at the south outskirts to the city of Decatur, I site of the Sulisistence Home-, I stead division, was received here i today. The check was. received by ( F> rd L. bit terer, secretary of De- ' cutur Homesteads. Inc., and who also represents Mrs. Cade in the closing of the contract with the government. The deed for the farm, comprising 79.82 acres was filed and recorded today in the name of Decatur Homesteads, Inc. Mrs. Alvira Cade, owner of the • farm lives at Seymour, Illinois, and the government warrant wiH lie forwarded to her by Mr. bitterer. Legal proceedings necessary In clearing the title to the farm had to be disposed of before the payment was made. A good warranty title has been furnished the government. Architcets McNally and Quinn of Chicago, employed by the government to prepare the plans and specifications for the building of the 48 houses on the homestead , site, have completed a detailed set of plans. The plans show the location of the houses, the size of the lots or acre tracts, the location of the streets and water lines. / Work on the homestead site will be resumed next week, ft was i stated. The water mains and electric lines are being extended (CONTTNURD ON PAGE FIVE) 1.000 CASES ARE REPORTED Enidem’'* Djsrunts School Attendance Over County The epidemic of measles which “•arted In the south part of the county is beginning to subside in Hartford and French townships. It is now working its way northward an. I school autoritiee fear ft will sweep the entire county. It is believed that the epidemic was started by a family which moved from Texas to Hartford township with several children exposed j to the disease. The first case w:is reported five weeks aso. Yesterday it was estimated that there were 1,000 cases in Hartford. Wabash and French townships. A telephone call to principal R. 0., Hunt disclosed that the enrollment in Geneva schools was increased today as children came back to 1 ' school and few new cases were re- ( ported. ; Half of the schoohchildren of the , ' town of Monroe are out of school, because of the disease. The epidemic is nearly as bad in Monroe township School enrollment has been poor in Kirkland township as the epidemic swept the B<*iools. Few cases have been reported in northern townships. M. F. Worthman, superintendent of the Decatur schools said today that no cases were reported among school children in this city. A few cases were reported among children of a preschool age. No cases are reported in Root, Preble, Union and St. Marys township. Q — Wertzberger Rites Are Held At Tulsa • Tulsa. Okla., Apr. 5— (U.R) —; Funeral services were held here today for Dallas D. Wertzberger. oil derrick manufacturer who was killed near Edmond. Okla.. Mon day in a car wreck. Wertzberger had been prominent in Oklahoma oil circles for 25 years, and was president of th" Wertzberger Derrick company. i Nearly a hundred honorary L j pallbearers attended the services. I First Heat Victim Os Year Reported . I Petersburg. Ind.. April S—(UP!5 —(UP! ■With the temperature at 90 de- : grees above zero, Jerd Showalter. 50. became the first heat victim of | the year in Indiana when he dropp-i ed dead yesterday.

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Wreck Caused by Wisconsin Floods Les* m- - . -Iffr—‘■filf- ■ 1 .rwi, — *- - - XL aw ewauws s twwrwnHnaMMiiMkk'w " Wreck of a freight train of the Chicago. Minneapolis & Omaha Railroad at Hudson. Wis.. caused by washout. Three of the crew were killed, bringing to nine the dentils attributable to floods that are weeping western Wisconsin and eastern Minnesota after two days of heavy rains.:

CANDIDATES TO FILE WITH CITY 4 Candidates For Citv Offices To File With City, County Clerks i In answer to the question. ’“Should candidates for city office ' for nomination at the next primary ( : ele- tlon file their declarations with 'he city clerk or the clerk of the circuit court, the election commissioners give the opinion that filing shall be don at both place. To sections of the law are quoted as follows: 'Chapter 144, Acts 1933, page 788. approved March 8, 1933. provides, ; among other things, as follows: "T o name of no candidate shall be prfntml upon an offiiffal "ballot ; used at any primary election unless I at least thirty days and not more I than sixty days prior to such primary ele- tlon a declaration shall have been filed with the City Clerk in case of City office including Judge of "City Court or member of City Committee by the candidate. "The form of declaration is then set out in the act. II "Section Bof Chapter 173. Acte' . 1933, approve ! March 8, 1933. provides in substance: Whenever the Clerk of such city is required by law to perform any duties in reference to such primary Election such duty shall be performed by sir It clerk bf the circuit ICONTINI’I?!' bV PAGE SIX) i MARCH RELIEF t I EXPENSE LESS Washington Township < Relief Expense S6OO ' Less Than February I ( The March report of T. R. Noll, trustee of Washington townsihip, I shows a decrease of a little more , than SBOO in poor relief expenses. f compared with the February report. j f The March expenditures were $1,406.97, compared with $2,034.49 t in February. The cost of food, fuel ( and medical care declined during ] j the last month. I j Tlte number of families on the re- j lief roll was 132. representing 469. persons. Un February the families - numliered 138, representing 543 per- , sons. Direct relief aid was extended | ‘ ito 20 single persons in March and . \ to one transient. I . I The Mardh report shows the following: Food, $366.50; clothing. sll. 52; fuel $5175; medical and dental i I care. $343.80; hospitalization. $86.15 I transients, $4: care of sick. S2O. A further decrease is expected in ' the April expenditures as several persons on the relief roll were giv- I en employment on CWA work this month. o Goshen Pastor Will Preach Here Sunday Rev. Robert S. Mathes, paetor of! ; the First Reformed church of Gosh-! en, Ind., will preacth at the Zion Reformed church Sunday evening, i Rev. Mathes is considered one of the finest young ministers in the' denomination. The subject of Rev. Mathes’ ser-1 mon will be ‘lls Nationalism man’s (other religion”? The service will \ open at 7 o'clock.

Decatur, Indiana, Thursday, April 5, 1934.

More Candidates File For Offices Several additional camlilates have filed their declarations of candidacy with county clerk Milton C. Werling. They are; Atwixxl Buckmaster. repuililican, joint senator of Adams. Wells and Blackford counties. James F. Parrish, demix-rat. committeeman of north Blue Creek. Charles A. Heare, democrat, councilman of first district, Decatur. William T. Rupert, democrat, committeeman, north Monroe. Dallas Brown, democrat, sheriff. Adam Reef, democrat, committeeman, east Jefferson. Dee Fryback. democrat, commit-tee-man, De atur 1-B. Edward B. Macy, republican, mayor of Decatur. Oliver A. Potter, republican, trustee iff Wabash township. ALLEN COUNTY WOMAN IS DEAD Mrs. Elizabeth Wiehle Died Wednesday Afternoon; Funeral Saturday Mrs. Elizabeth Wiehe. 86.- a pioneer resident of Marion township. Alien county, died at her home in Allen county Wednesday afternoon at 2 o’clock following a two weeks illness. Death was due to bronchial pneumonia. Mrs. Wiehe was a daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Henry Brakhag, deceased. She was born in Germany on August 9. 1847 and came to this country when one year old. She was united in marriage to Diedrich Wiehe. who preceded her in death 33 years ago. Surviving are the children, Mrs. Fred Henschen of Arcola; Henry of Fort Wayne: Charles of Marion township; Mrs. Fred Draeger of Indianapolis and Fred at home. Four children preceded her In death. Site was a member of the Emmanuel Lutheran church at Soest. Twenty-one grandchildren and twelve great grandchildren also survive. Funeral services will be held Saturday afternoon at 2 o'clock, standard time, at the Charles Wiehe liome. and at 2:30 o’clock at the Lutheran church with Rev. C. W. Rodenbeck officiating. The body was removed to the Wiehe home in Marion township. Allen county, from the Zwick funeral home today.

Have You Registered? • Persons who were not registered by the registration clerks or countv assessors, should call at the County Clerk’s office in the Court House or the City Clerk’s office in the Citv Hall and register, not later than 5 o'clock Monday evening. v If you are not registered you cannot vote in the primary election, Tuesday, May 8. Monday, April 9 is the last day to qualify.

SUGAR MEASURE LIMITS ACREAGE Effect of Sugar Rill On Local Industry Uncertain At This Time Officials of the Central Sugar Company of this city do not know what changes or amendments were made to the Jones-Costigan beet sugar control bill which was approved by the house -es representatives yesterday. Until copies of the bill are received, officials of the sugar company stated it was impossible to tell what effect the measure would have on the local industry. The hill as passed by the house limits beet sugar production to 1.566.060 tons. This is an increase of 100.0 o tons over the amount specified when the hill was sent to congress, but 200,000 tons under the amount asked by the beet sugar growers association. Loqal company officials do not know what effect the measure will have on beet acreage in this territory. The bill has to be approved by the senate and amendments or changes may lie made before it is ready for the President's signature, J. Ward Cilland. fiel 1 manager for the io- al sugar company, stated that everything was ready to go a!:ead with the crop this year. Seven ear loads of beet sugar seed are (CONTINUED ON PAGE ETVE) ICKES OPPOSES OFFICE HOLDER Secretary of Interior Opposes Reelection Os Illinois Man Clricago, Apr. 5 <U.R) The unquestioned influence of Harold L. Ickes, secretary of interior in a Democratic administration, today was injected into a heretofore lukewarm Republican congressional primary campaign involving •‘polo playing’’ Congressman James Simpson. Jr., of Illinois. Ickes, in a letter to Walter F. Dodd of Winnetka expressed his opposition “as a private citizen" • to Simpson’s nomination. Before the interior secretary finished with his letter the name of Samuel Instill, Sr., the price of seats | (CONTINUED ON PAGE FIVE)

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ALLOT 52,100 FOR PAYROLLS DURING APRIL One Hundred Persons Will Be Put To Work Next Monday, Apr. 9 REDUCE TIME TO 18 HOURS WEEKLY The governor's commission on unemployment relief, which is operating the federal re-employment relief administration in Indiana I will allot $2,100 to urban Wasli lington and Root townships fori three payrolls during the month of April, according to word received by William Linn, Adams county chairman. The work will officially begin 1 April 9. The money alloted will permit 100 persons to work. Tito time lias been reduced to 18 hours a week. The new wage scales are: un-1 skilled labor, 35c per hour; semiskilled. 50c per hour, and skilled. 60c per hour. Officials of the local re-employment office said today that very little skilled labor will be Used as it will reduce the j number of men employed. The workers will be drawn from ; the township poor relief rolls. An effort is being made to get the l most needy cases as shown on the blanks at the local unemployment office. Only one worker will j be employed from each family. Official notifications of selections of workers will be mailed to applicants this week. The pav ‘ roll list may be altered when the case investigator for Adams county arrives. Two projects will use the entire ) (CONTINUED ON PAGE FIVE) FILIBUSTER IN HOUSE THREAT Michigan Representative Wants Thorough Wirt Charge Probe _—>—» Washington, Apr. s—(U.R) —The house was threatened witli a filibuster today as a result of the Wirt “Red plot” case. Rep. George Foulkes, D., Mich.. who wants to discuss the “radi ealism of the brain trust." served notice that he was prepared to object to all private bills on the calendar unless granted time to i speak. “My speech will be delivered or there will be no private calendar" was Foulkes’ threat against the I Numerous “pet" bills of representatives, which mostly are for claims of people back home. Meanwhile the "Red plot” investigating committee organized | with Republican members pulling i for a wide open study of the trend ■ of the “new deal.” Democratic thembers were determined to wind up the investigation quickly. ; They think they will be through | in a few hours, if Dr. William A. Wirt, the Indiana schoolmaster l fails to name “brain trusters.” he I claims informed him that they ! wanted a revolution. Wirt will ap- | pear before the committee next week. While Speaker of the House I Henry T. Rainey considers the whole Wirt ease “foolishness” he I said it was too late to keep the i investigation from going ahead, but refused to sanction study of the economic theories behind the | ' recovery set-up. Rep. Harold McGugin, R., Kan., ' and Frederick R. Lehlback. R., N. J.. Republican committee memi bers, asserted the “probe should ( be thorough." Support Offered Cliii-ago. Apr 5 .(U.R) Dr. Wil (CONTINUED ON PAGE RTX) Werling Funeral Rites Saturday Funeral services for Ora Werling who died Wednesday morning at Newcastle, will be held at the home of the deceased's parents. Mr. and Mrs. Albert Werling at Preble, at i 1:30 o’clock Saint lay afternoon and at 2 o’clock at the Zion Reformed church in this city. Burial will be ma le at Maplewood cemetery. Rev. C. M. Prugh will officiate. The body was removed from the Zwick funeral home to the Werling home this afternoon.

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Murdered Man Over Twenty-Five Cents Indianapolis, Apr. 5.— (U.R? Ac- ' eused of shooting Frederick F. I lleier, 68, tru king company operator, during an argument over 25 cents, William Hitchcock, 58, was held here today on a charge of ' murder. lleier died in City Hospital last night, a few hours after lie had | been shot four times in ills downtown office. Hitchcock, arrested in his hotel rtxim a few minutes after the shooting, was said to have confess jed. He had been drinking but was I , not intoxicated, police said. SAMUEL INSULL GETS FUNDS TO FIGHT RETURN Former Utility Head Receives SIO,OOO From London Today PROTEST INSULL ARREST ILLEGAL Istanbul, Turkey. Apr. S—(U.R) - I I Samuel Instill puffed at Turkish ; cigarettes and read the London newspapers today while his lawi yers, armed with SIO,OOO from Ixindon, fought on for his freedom. ■ Despite statements of authorities that they mean to extradite ‘ Instill to the United States for trial no matter what his lawyers do. the attorneys found new grounds for appeal. They protested today to the i supreme appeals court at Eskicher ‘that Insull's arrest itself was il-1 legal, and the order on which it | was made. They demand his re- ( ' lease on bail, also —a demand ' which the authorities so far I showed no disposition to grant. London. Apr. 5 4U.RL -The Daily Telegraph reported today that i Samuel Insull's funds were coming from almost inexhaustible | : sources —friends in Great Britain who had raised many thousands j of pounds for him and persons in ( the United States, likely to be ' involved if he were tried in the ! United States, and hence willing to send any reasonable sum to keep him away. The newspaper milled th.it if he were returned there would be plenty of money for his defense. Chicago. Apr. 5- (U.R) —State's Attorney Thomas J. Courtney today prepared requests for extradition of Samuel Insull. Sr., from i Turkey to add the possiliility of trying the fugitive utility magnate on state charges to the federal campaign. Courtney’s work was in response (CONTINUED ON PAGE FIX’S) JUNIOR CLASS i PLAY FRIDAY “Too Many Bosses" Will Be Presented Bv Decatur Hijfh School Class Final rehearsals are being held for the Junior class play. “Too | Many Rosses" to he. presented Frij day evening at 8 15 o’clock at the Decatur high school auditorium. The plot of the play is amusing and the entertaining comedy i« in three acts. The Lakin household is upset because Fern Lakin, en--1 gaged to Eric Waterman, has decided to have three bathrooms in I the house Erie is building for her. Eric rebels because of the added expense Fern insists. The relatives lake sides and there is plenty of excitement. Vida, the love sick sixteen year ( old: Grandpa, the wise old man: Era, the smart colored maid: Mr. I the absent minded father: Monica, the dictatorial mother; Mrs. Waterman, the too-loving mother: Uncle Ramsey, the mainspring of the rebellion, and Garret and Josephine, friends to ! Fern and Eric, al) combine to give I a most humorous nlay. There are plenty of langhs with just enough sentiment to make the nlav interesting. Admission prices are 15 and 25 cents. Tickets mav be purchased from members of the junior class or at the door of the auditorium the night of the piay.

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FLOODWATERS IN TWO STATES TAKE HUGETOLL Nineteen Known Dead And Flood Toll May Double Number PROPERTY DAMAGE NEAR TWO MILLION By United Press A tleitlh toll which already ' has reached 19 and may be j nearly double that number when relief workers account for a score of missing per- ' sons wtts claimed today by Hood waters in Wisconsin ‘ and Oklahoma. Property damage mounted to ' near $2,600,000 and there were I threats of more damage from the , swollen, raging rivers, especially ! m the Elk City district of Oklai At least 10 were dead and 17 ! unaccounted for in Oklahoma as ! the Washita river surged unabated over surrounding farm lands. I'Nine bodies iiave been recovered. In Wisconsin nine lives were reported lost. The waters, which spread over eight counties, had receded but many low areas were inundated with several feet of water. Schools were closed and i appeals for federal aid were sent to Washington by the Red Cross. Find Nine Bodies Elk City, Okla., Apr. 5—(U.R)— I Bodies of nine Washita river flood victims were recovered today anil , eight more persons were missing, i as waters of the stream dropped after a 36-hour rampage along a 25-mile path. Authorities believed the death toll would reach at least 16 and that property damage would total (CONTINUED ON PAGE SIX) SEARCH HAUNTS OF GANGSTERS Fifty Federal Agents Round Un Hoodlums In St. Paul St. Paul Apr. 5 (U.R) —The machine gun escape of John Dil- ! linger, outlaw killer, and his St. Paul associate, Eugene Green, now a seriously wounded captive, today threw the city's underworld into a turmoil as nearly 50 federal agents rounded up Green's gangster pals. The federal drive centered on ' frequenters of the saloon formerly run by Dan “Dapper Danny’j Hogan. who died in a bomb explosion after an alleged “double cross" wliett payroll robbers were forced to return their loot. , Grim strangers have tapped I meanly on the shoulders of more than 20 unsuspecting hoodlums since the fingerprints of Dillinger ami his lieutenant, John Hamilton were identified in Washington Monday. Green’s former friends are I whisked silently to jail. There they face relays of federal operatives who want to know more ' about Green, about “Mrs. Green." captured with Green but untalkative so far. ami about the machine | gunner who, with the Greens, blasted his way past federal op- ' eratives to freedom Saturday. The machine gunner left a trail of blood in his flight and federal agents still looked for him in St. Paul today. Green was “slightly j improved” in a hospital where he was taken after being shot down by federal men Tuesday. Knights Os Pythias Will Initiate Class The Knights of Pythias will have | initiatory services tonight in the lodge rooms at 7:30 o’clock for a I class of 45. First and second rank 1 will be given. The lodge has been exceptionally active since the first of the year. I At that time the lodge had a memfiership of over 200. Elmer Chase, chancellor-commander, and Joe El- | .:ey. keeper of records and seals, have been leading a drive for membership. The lodge will be divided into two groups next week in another membership drive. The side which loses will give a banquet to the winner.