Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 32, Number 129, Decatur, Adams County, 29 May 1934 — Page 1

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“J|fe STATES 'tecOßO TO I |TAIN PEACE Ifer I*. Made To Re- " At W,,r1(1 I Aims Conference lo’Jti) * ONTROL I E;kms TIKI I l(’ Mav 29. <U.R) Be Fl#" 1 -kites we n I P" recon I |i "' p« ice ■ the woil-l u nis coiilcri in <• mu l<> reduce ■ pavv.iui'l I" join an inter■limiiSu''ll ; n' "I lor con KI of th' Hallie in arms. b3| ;ilso declared its to Kff~'Jhniis ill event ot Kteieti 1 a climax in ”*B long ami I" me struggle fur at Geneva __ ■Noniisn H Paris, special repreButative Pi hi idem Roosevelt - ■ opening debate at the longtponedl f'dl meeting of the made to E r egf» ihi e.tiened collapse taW J'The of the United 1 aroused by the evils being revealed in the ] of and traffic in muniAmerican government ioin in measures — kppremjß this evil and is pre■•■vßred to i si.ite in connection Aq Kb diMr’ .iment a treaty dealing with this problem." President RooseKit's eKr consult with other l■■overs S war theatens, Davis B“We ani willing to go further out international --HMan effective system for Ke regutetm of the manufacture K and Kt': in arms and muni-' " ■finflS' I.ad; wed (leriiiali> - irn to the Komwhkb she walked out in dis-j E>t H, He expressed hope soon would resume. " X P ' GE FIVE) ■Baiwly Will Give I Program Friday Mfl*' I.mated their services F ita O "f siiurt play; and read ■f» to b' .'iveii at tin Pleasant ■ilh high „d Eri lav evening a’ pi Mary's Township Home ■ WOmiOB , lu.'i and the puroceeds for community work. ■Th# ftogram will include readand makeup musical numbers. price will be five tents high BfS|B’ ,s for adults. gMg- - - o ■ FISHER'S IROTHER DIES II I I’Wwi F. Fisher Dies I • t *‘ ana P < dis Early I ■'his Morning I F. Fislier, brother of . local grocer, die I' s O’clock this morning at St. hospital in Indianapolis |MBt>ng Illness. | was well known in visited here a num f r ®Bmes at the home of his FflMJohn Fisher hail been at || yWher'.s bedside for the past |vwal v are the widow. Stella; Marie Fisher, Chicago; | brothers. John O. Fisher. IffJanies Fisher. Logansport Fisher. Chicago. I''Ml services will be held morning at 10 o'clock at Cathedral. Indianapolis. ,le nia, * ( ‘ at Loogootee. | Fisher left to lay for to attend the .services. [ -K-- o pßftnient Paints j Sharking Lines Here in the uptown district I ,a Bfarked off last night by the 1! 681 Apartment, the parking lines ]j ■Binted a bright yellow. The f drawn parallel with the | b Bn<i lanes for pedestrians are | ;, K“i the alley and street inn

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WiU Not Permit , Advertising Signs i Advertising signs which block I the Hidewalk or have supports rest ing on the sidewalk will not be permitted, the city council in special session last evening decided I A request was received by May-| or George Krick from a local concern for the building of a large sign over the sidewalk, the posts resting on the walk. Due to the narrow walks and heavy traffic on Saturday nights the council i sometime ago ruled against the I erection of such signs. WILL INSPECT i CITY STREETS City Officials To Make Inspection Tour Wednesday Morning Members of the city council. Mayor George Krick and street commissioner H. Fred Linn will make a trip of inspection over certain streets and a trip through' HannaNuttinan park Wednesday I morning, following the Memorial Day parade, with the idea of deter-1 jpining what improvements are to] be made on the projects. The city officials are desirous of, obtaining an appropriation through ! the state ERA for labor and thus i put a number of men to work this i summer. Streets that will be inspected] are Dayton avenue; Grant street; ' south Russel street; Bollman street: south Sixth street and Line street. A check-up with the county commissioners relative to the board's action on the improvement and extension of south Russel and Bollman streets which connect with] the Decatur homestead site, will ; also be made. A special meeting of the council | was hrht-last everting St the city] I hall and street and park improve-] j ments were discussed informally. I The trip Wednesday will give the ■ councilmen an idea what is to be ' included in the program and a re-' ] quest will be made through the] ] Governor's commission on unem-1 I ployment for an allotment of funds . to pay the labor on the projects. | Grant street is in need of repair land the widening of the crossing at the Winchester street intersection was also discussed by the] ] council. The repair of Sixth street from Madison south to Jefferson street ] was also brought- up. It was decided that the bricks could be taken up and relaid, the city furnish- * *CON'I* Ntj’FJl >ON PAGE TWO) ] —O Mrs. Wm. Anderson Dies Suddenly Today ■Adams county coroner Robert ' Zwick was called to the William C. Anderson home on the Allen County line 11 miles northeast of Decatur to investigate the sudden death of Mrs. Anderson at 11:1(1 this morning. Mr. Zwick returned a verdict of death due to coronary thrombosis, a form of heart disease. The husband and several children survive. Funeral arrangements have not been made. o- — Mav Continue CWA Classes W. O. Little instructor in the CWA classes held in the high school building until May 25, said today that he had received word from Indianapolis which may permit the continuation of the classes which were not completed. Those interested in taking the course for credit in english composition and psychology classes are requested to meet in the school building at the usual time tonight. — I. A. Kalver Injured When Struck By Motor 11,. A. Kalver, theater proprietor, suffered a dislocation of the right knee at about three o'clock this afternoon when a motor which workmen were conveying to the projecting room of the new Adams theater broke from a rope and tutnlbled down the stairs, striking Mr. Kaiver. The motor and control was being pulled up the stairs on a dolly. The rope broke awl the 800 pound piece of machinery started down the steps. Mr. Kalver was able to move out of the direct path of the motor. He was taken to the Adams county Memorial hospital where an examination showed a dislocated Iknee and a tew scratches.

State, National And luirrUMfloual News

RUMOR JOHNSON WILL RESIGN AS LEADER OF NRA Speculations Over Successor Suggests Many Prominent Men JOHNSON DENIES HE WILL RESIGN ! (Copyright 11(34 by Unl(ed Press) Washington. May 29- (U.R) —' I Shifts in NRA personnel and poli|cy coincided today with new reports that Administrator Hugh S. Johnson will resign soon and that | the White House lias been canvassing possible successors. Johnson has denied he would quit. One usually well informed source said W. Averell Harriman, railroad magnate and recently powerful in NRA. was among those suggested for the job. ; Others have figured in speculation through the winter and spring as possible successors to Johnson. , They include: 1. Leon Henderson, drafted | from the Russell Sage foundation ] to become chief of NRA'S research i and planning division. 2. Donald R. Richberg, general ] counsel of NRA. 3. And numerous ‘ nationally I known industrialists and lawyers including Newton D. Baker. Owen D. Young and John W. Davis, etc. Inquiry provoked general denials that Johnson contemplated early retirement or that his ultimate departure was predictable with any accuracy now. Discusi sion of the subject was viewed at ; the White House as mere prophecy. It is known, however. I that President Roosevelt last winter considered several possible (CONTINI’RD ON PAGE FIVE) SOCIETIES TO MEET THURSDAY All Dav Session Will Be Held At Decatur Methodist Church Members of the Women’s Foreign ] Missionary Societies of the Decatur Bluffton group which included Mei thodist churched in Adams. Wells j and part of Blackfqrd counties will [ hold an all day session at the DecaI tor Methodist churt h Thursday. The ladies will register at 9 o’- | clock in the morning and the first I part of the program will begin at 9:45. Dr. Rebecca Parrish, for 25 years connected with the Mary Johnson hospital at Manila, Philiipine Islands will be the chief speaker for the day. The program is: Mornin Session 9:4s—Quiet Hour. 10 . 00 _ pilot Light 'Devotions. 10:15 Candela'bra — Mrs. John Floyd. Stewardship sec. 10,:40— Headlights — Mrs. T. A. Myers. Literature sec. 11:00 —Spotlight—Mrs. J. R. M arnaf, might box sec. 11:20— Flashlight — Demonstration. 11:45— Searchlights-tAux. President dist. treas. dist cor. sec. 12:(W-GroU'P councils. 12:30 —'Human battery charged 20v, luncheon. Afternoon Session 1: go — Sunlight Group singing led by Mrs. Dan Tyndall. 1:40— Candlelight Mrs. B. Q. I Adams, supt. junior work., 1:55— Damplight — Mrs. E. M. Berry supt. young peoplei 2 : io—Torch lightl-Mrs. Fred A. Whiting sec. W. S. G. 3:10— .Special music 'by Miss Helen Haubold. 2'25 —Starlight- Mrs. Otto Lon(CONTINUED ON PAGE FIVE) — o— NO PAPER WEDNESDAY Following custom the Daily Democrat will not be published Wednesday, May 30. in observance of Memorial Day. There will not be any mail deliveries either in the city or on the rural routes tomorrow. Pulblic offices will also be closed and there will not be any session of court. Banks, factories and stores will also be closed in observance of the holiday.

Decatur, Indiana, Tuesday, May 29, 1934.

Two of Six Living Civil War Veterans L 11 ’ ] As far as known only six Civil war veterans are living in Adams ' County. Pictured above are, R. A. Drummond, left, of Root township, ] and Silas Hale, Geneva, right. The other veterans living are David Baker, three miles south of ] Pleasant Mills; Washington Pyle, Decatur; Howard Parr, of near 1 Berne and Eleazar Biggs of Root township. It was impossible to ; I obtain pictures of the group. Ttfeir ages range from 87 to 95 years The veterans are reported to be enjoying good health. A special invitation has been extended to them to join the Memorial Day ser- , "ices to be held here tomorrow under auspices of Adams Post of the ] ‘■American Legion. ;

CLELAND WILL . GIVE EVIDENCE Fort Wayne Attorney To Report Findings Os Investigation Washington, May 29 —(U.R) — Brigadier general Frank T. Hines ’ of the veterans' administration, administration, admitted before the house rules committee today -(■that “bad conditions’’ in respect Ito guardianships of mentally in- ] competent veterans' estates, exist ] in Indiana, Chicago and Detroit. Hines followed Samuel Cleland, special investigator who criticized i use of funds by Marion. Indiana ■ banks. Cleland asserted that 1929 var- j ions Marion banks were acting ■ las guardians for $350,000 in esta-] , tes of mentally ill veterans at the . Marion veterans’ home. He charg ed the present value of securities 1 purchased by the guardians was I less than $250,000 and that in some instances securities were . bought at less than par value but the estates charged fall par value. : In addition, he said, the estates re--1 reived only a part of the divii dends. ' . k Fort Wayne, Ind., May 29 —(U.R) . —Atty. Samuel C. Cleland. Fort | Wayne, specially appointed investgator of veterans’ affairs at the U. , S. Veterans’ home at Marion, was scheduled to appear in Washington today before the House Rules i committee for discussion of his ; findings. , Cleland was named by Frank T. | (CONTINUED ON PAGE FIVE) TWO BLUFFTON 'J BOYS DROWNED Brothers Drown In Abandoned Gravel Pit North Os Bluffton Bluffton. May 29 — (Special) — William and Wilbur Joseph. 11 and 9, respectively, sons of Mr. and Mrs. Arley Joseph of this city, were drowned in the oi l Dougherty Gravel pit, north of Bluffton, late Monday afternoon. The two lads, accompanied by their younger brother. Woodrow, went to the pit. which is an isolated water-filled hole. The three brothers went to the pit to play. None of the boys coul 1 swim. The older boys found a large log and straddled It. paddling with their han Is. When they reached the center of the pit, the log rolled and threw them into the water. Woodrow witnessed the accident and ran to Wabash street, where he told workmen. These men called for pulmotors and ran to the pit to recover the bodies. Pulmotors used iby city firemen and coroner William Thoma failed to revive the lads. Surviving besides the parents are seven brothers and sisters; Mrs. 1 Roscoe Stout and Chester, Bernlece ■ Edna, Woodrow, Martha and Betty Jean Joseph.

McDonald Rites Are Held This Afternoon Funeral services were held at 2 o’clock this afternoon for Mrs. ‘ ■ Elias McDonald, 39. who died Sat- ! I urday at her home in French town-1 ' ship. Surviving are the parents, Mr. and Mrs. George Irvin. Shoals; the] ' hubsand and the following*children ] I Ernest, Montpelier; Harold, Berne; | George, Pearl, Cecil. Glen, Annale, Junior, Eugene. Charles an I Jelane all at home. Services were held at the Mis■l sionary church west of Berne, with j burial in the Defenseless Mennonite 1 cemetery. GIVE PROGRAM i FOR EXERCISES I Decatur Catholic High School Commencement Wednesday, June 6 — Headllnging graduation week ac- j ! tfvities of the Decatur Catholic I high school will be the commence-; ment address by the Rev. Father i i Ambrose Kohne, Goodland, former ] | Decatur resident. Exercises will be ( | held at the high school auditorium Wednesday evening, lune ti, at 8 o'clock. Twenty seniors will form the graduating class. School will close Friday. June 1. This week the final examinations and tests are being given which will be given T ETA ET ET EAT will conclude the grading for the final semester. The first formal activi'ty of the week will be junior-senior banquet and prom which will be held in the I high school Ibuilding Tuesday, | June 5. I The commencement program I will be: Processional March — Orchestral directed by Robert White Senior Class Song - Senior Chorus The Minima Graduate—Tiny Tots. Orchestra selection One lAift Play—Graduating Class Orchestra Selection — Address to graduates—The Rev. Father Ambrose Kohne. Distribution of Diplomas Rev. J. J. Seimetz. Recessional -'Coronation March Orchestra. The program for the annual alumni banquet and dance June 7 has not yet been announce I. The members of the graduating class are: Helen Barthel. John ( airoll, Robert Cook, Herbert Foos, Patricia Fullenkamp. Alma Gabel, Marceline Gage. Allbert Hain. Mary Margaret Keller. Herman Knapke. John Kohne, Dorothy Lengerich. Edward Lose, William Lose. Dorothy Miller. Rosemary Rumschlag. Joseph Schultz, Alvera Vian, Mary Wolpert and Robert Wolpert. .. _ - -o •' — Van Wert Band To Be Here June 5 The high school band of Van Wert, Ohio, will be in Decatur at 1 o’clock Tuesday afternoon June 5, and will present a short concert. The hand is making the trip in the interests of the peony festival which will be held at Van Wert June 6.

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MORE TROUBLE IS FEARED IN TOLEDO RIOTS Peace Negotiations Between Strikers And Bosses Deadlocked TALK OF APPEAL TO PRESIDENT Toledo, O„ May 29— <U.R)— New , ] war clouds gathered today over i ] Toledo, scene of one of the blood- ] iest labor riots in the era of the; I new deal. So serious was the | ] situation that one mediator talked of appealing to President Roosevelt for intervention. Peace negotiations between striking workers of the Electric Auto-Lite company and their bosses were deadlocked. Labor leaders openly threaten-, ed a general strike, tying up all ■ Toledo industry. Company officials planned to ] reopen the plant soon with strike-] ' breakers if necessary, which could ■ I well provide the spark for a re-, | newal of fighting. National guard troops still maintained a form of military law in | she vicinity of the badly damaged 1 auto-lite plant, center of last] [ week’s rioting where two men ' were killed by soldiers, and 75 ; wounded. Complete peace had ] prevailed there since Sunday. Charles P. Taft, federal mediaI tor. announced after a session i that lasted hours, that pegotia- : Hons were “dead locked." | “We must proceed cautiously I from now on." he said. Taft’s fellow mediators seemed equally gloomy. “We hope we don't have to carry that thing directly to the President at Washington," Ralph Liud. chairman of the Cleveland regional labor board, said. The mediators seemed working chieflv at the moment to prevent negotiation;, from collapsing com-; | pletely. The strikers’ demand for a 10 I the local point of disagi eement. | (CONTINUED ON PAGE FIVE) o— ,— More Candidates File Expenses | Several candidates file 1 their expense accounts for the 1934 primary I election. They are: A. R. Holthouse, mayor of Deca- ! lur, $89.05. E. B. Macy, mayor of Decatur. ] none. Albert S. Studler, sheriff, $6.00. Carl W. Heckman, trustee of Preble Township. ss.s<k Frank L. Johnston city councilman. second district, none. Luther Martin, councilman at large, none. Amos Burkhalter, state joint representative, none. George Dellinger, county assessor $11.40. Charles T. Jones, trustee of Blue Creek township, none. oLARGE LIQUOR STILLS SEIZED Two Men Arrested, 5,400 Gallons Os Working Mash Destroyed Peru, Ind.. May 29- (UP)— Two men were arrested, two liquor stills were seized an I 5.400 gallons of working mash was destroyed by Federal agents in early morning raids here today. One of the stills, an expensive 500 gallon, two-story high apparatus, was the largest federal authorities have, ever discovered in Indiana, aqd one of the largest taken since repeal of prohibition. The two stills and a small quantity of whislkey were seized under the federal Internal revenue act. Floyd Ralston, garage proprietor and John Russo each were arresteii on charges of illegal possession of a still. Federal agents indicated ! other arrests would be made later today. Operatives of the Fort Wayne and Chicago bureaus male the raids on a garage and private, unoccupied residence. At the garage they found the S(H)gallon still occupying half the floor space of the two etory building.. It was concealed behind a concrete FIVE).

Price Two Cents

Berne Residents Buy Farm Monday John L. and Martha Hindenland, Berne, purchased a 40-acre farm four miles southeast of Decatur from Clarence and Emma McKean. The farm was sold at public auction. bringing a price of $2,700. Seven persons bld on the property. The new owners will make their home on the farm Personal property, such as livestock. farm machinery, etc., also] was sold at public auction, with ] a large crowd bidding good prices. I The auction was conducted by Col. Roy Johnson. HEALTH MEET ] HELDMONDAY Public Health Nurses, Others Attend Meeting Here Yesterday Miss Alice Funk, of the state 1 I board of health and advisory ] nurse for the public health nurses | I in northern Indiana, presided over | . a meeting of public health nurses; and representatives of organiza ] I tions interested in health promo-; ! tion. Monday afternoon at 3 I o’clock. The problems of the two Adams ) : county health nurses. Miss Irene Gerke and Florence Anderson, | were diseased at the meeting. The] outstanding need in the county as propounded by those present ] appears to be the need of stres-; sing the examination of pre-. school children. An effort will be made in the i future to prevent children who are handicapped by defective I ears, eyes, tonsils, etc., from I starting to school. Miss Funk | said that this was one of the ; great tragedies in the county school system. Those present besides Miss (CONTINUED ON PAGE FIVE) QUINTUPLETS STILL LIVING Five Daughters All Alive; One Os Miracles Os History North Ray, Ont., May 29 (U.R) — The five daughters of farmer Dionne and his wife, Olivia, born in the same childbed, still were alive today, proving to doctors that the age of miracles is not passed. Dr. Dafoe, a country doctor treating a case which the world's leading physicians would want nothing better than to attend, kept the tiny mites of humanity alive and felt that perhaps they might all pull through. Mrs. Dionne, 25 years old, already was the mother of six children, when nature surprisingly enlarged her family by five. The quintuplets were born early yesterday, one of the very few cases where all babies survived for more than a few minutes, recorded in medical science. Dr Dafoe gave as much atten- ; tion to the mother as to the babies, tlie largest weighing three pounds, four ounces, the smallest,’ two pounds, four ounces! when weighed together. The combined weight of the five at birth tCONTINTTWD ON Q Former Linn Grove Pastor Buried Today Funeral services were held this afternoon for Rev. Byron G. Smith, 51. former pastor of the Linn Grove Evangelical church, for the last eight years instructor at the Fort Wayne Bible institute. Surviving are the widow and three children. Mrs. Jason Gerig, Fort Wayne and Wade and Margaret at home. Services were heli at 1:38; this afternoon at the First Missionary church In Fort Wayne, with burial at Avillj. o Library Closed Decoration Day Miss Ruth Winnes, city librarian, announced today that the library will close Wednesday in observance of Decoration Day. Miss Winnes also said that several books had been added which will make interesting reading over the holiday. One book is Charles Dicken’s “Life of Our Lord."

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DOLLAR WHEAT PREDICTED BY MANY TRADERS Third Os United States Is Suffering From Scorching Heat MANY FAMILIES ARE FACING RUIN Chicago, Mav 29 - <U.B — One-third of the Ini ted States a I m » s t 2,000,000 square miles of northwestern prairies and mountains — burned todav in scorching i heat which threatened ruination to thousands of farm I families and death to great I herds of livestock. From Washington to Nebraska, I and from north of the Canadian I line to Kansas City a molten sun i baked dust blown fields and I boiled thermometer columns to I all-time records. Grain fields—wheat, oats, corn, ! rye. barley—wilted and withered hour by hour. World markets [ nervously awaited the sequel to ] yesterday’s dizzy tiading session, ; when wheat rocketed upward the | 5-cent limit to 98 *4 cents for May options. May corn jumped 34s i cents and rye reached 61% cents, j up 3%. Veteran traders predicted $1 ] wheat —the long ago announced I goal of the agricultural adjustI ment administration — soon after j today’s market opened. Buying 1 orders outnumbered sales com- ] missions at the close of the Chii cago board of trade yesterday. • A United Press survey today of ! the 18 most affected states in the ] northwest, middlewest and southwest revealed pitiable conditions in virtually every important agricultural legion and in all cropa. Expert observers estimated, admittedly only up proximately but certainly conservatively, that today’s heat wave, the third major I scorcher of the year, would InI crease the country’s loss in failed , crops to more than one-half billion j dollars. Livestock suffered tremendous- | ly. Even in Illinois, normally | fortunate in shower-laden lake ’ breezes and watered by countless ■ streams, farmers were hauling (CONTINUED ON PAGE FIVE) o Finish Laying Os Gas, Water Lines The laying of the gas lines and the city water mains in the De- atur Homesteads projects south of the city was complete ’. Monday afternoon Service connections to the house from the water maius also were completed. Ail 'he lightpoles have now been erected. State ERA men will probably begin Monday building the streets and drives In the park. No additional men will be necessary on this project. BELIEVE GIRL WAS MURDERED Daughter Os California Treasurer Found Burned To Death Sacramento, Calif., May 29—(UP) —Mies Virginia Johnson, socially prominent 19-year-01l daughter of Charles G. Johnson, state treasurer and a gubernatorial candidate ot Charles G. Johnson, state treasurer and a gubernatorial candidate, who was found burned to death last night, was murdered, police believed today. Miss Johnson's,body was found in an apartment house garage a few blocks from her home. Smoke still rose from her burning clothes. Poli, e said they had been dashed with kerosene. in the garage they found a brick on which were a few strande ot hair. That, a bottle with fingerprints and a half-filled jug of kerosene were the meager clues. Miss Johnson's body was found by Mrs. C E. Mahoney, resident of the apartment house. She entered the garage with two companions. In the dim light they saw a srnoulding heap on the floor. Smoke was Using from what appeared to be a pile of debris. Closer examination revealed the *IcONTINUED ON PAGE FIYH)