Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 32, Number 141, Decatur, Adams County, 13 June 1934 — Page 1

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.WT POWER Imm is ■mil Tuesday 111 ®nor’s Candidates qKoHice All Named Convention •earl peters Ki shim; defeat Einapolis. June 13.—<U.R> . Paul V. McNutt was today as the undislleader of the Denio-' ■party in Indiana. • rl. j was demonstratat the party’s state ,^K’ ;, ' ,n yesterday when were nomi■•i ottices to lie filled in r uni*i jKveniber election. Minton. New Albany. ■ a flir United States sent. .■ h ballot, will head it the nomination for Stat s senator. Minton ■ the threats of R Earl anti administration candiMavm Reginald Sullivan, the choice of Senator candidates 1. ion. Notre I'dt. 11-'-.l in celled by b s <■ ■' lullow, ‘ rs 11,1 I 1 "' -A hW||B" ami started :!i which resulted in the lat 3» their po*er definitely es sUIK' bj the senatorial vote. ■<l y ration leaders quickly % iheir candidates tor ■ offices. example of the strength was shown in ■w for clerk of the court. Fred Pickett, the who maintained loyalty ever since the latter s K ON PAGE SIX) h Bee Station || To Open Thursday i ■ Patterson, of Delphos. O. i ■" a new service station a: jof Seventh and Adams | I Thursday. concrete block station ■Jen erected, and five Wayne , ■J' f pumps have been install■e station is named the ComOil and Gas Co., and will from tank cars. ■ Chrisman will be the at- \ at the station. □ Kiird Oil Parade * Bisits Decatur Today B*| Standard Oil Company's ■ lower” parade visited Decao'clock this morning. menagerie of jungle made up in animated cariaccompanied by a calover several of the S*l streets, Local auto dealers Blew car models in the parade of the company also procession. IN DILLINGER BEPORTED SEEN K’nities Doubt Story Bld By Transient In Minnesota Town Bhfield, Minn., June 13 —(U.R) n Dillinger was reported seen * < rly today by a transient Btid the Indiana outlaw gave 1 1 cigaret. Bf Di Murray, 32, jobless taxi1 B'lver. said he swung off a Jrtt tr n at 3 a. m. '*s* ,; al agents, informed of !Pt *Cs story, were skeptical of authenticity but began an in•tion. Another tip evaporat*l Baraboo, Wisconsin when it ’jfcund to have had its origin B-hicagoan’s prank. B r a police alarm had been Mfast throughout the middle ■Hal H. Norland, Chicago ®er, said he was just kidding I en he told a friend in the pres--11 a stranger that he was ■hr. I’b' e was an automobile parkthe tracks,” Murray said, Bffer was in the front seat K JU LUI lACWWXr*

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FRIDAY FIRST HEARING DATE Board of Tax Review Sets Dates For Tax Assessment Hearings The Adams County Board of Tax I Review has set Friday as the first <lay on which to hear objections ■ and complaints upon personal property valuations. Almost two weeks will be consumed by this work. I After hearing the objections to j the valuations the board of reviiew will call in men. women ami off!- | dais of companies and corpora- . tlons over the county whose assessi ments the board believes to be wrong. The board will also have the power to level or make horizontal changes in assessments of town-1 iships or property which has similar characteristics. This means that if assessments for a certain type of , property in one township is out of proportion with the same sort of 1 property in other townships the board may make a flat increase or ! decrease in all the assessments in I the township necessary to make it . conform. Or if property in one sort l of business is out of proportion with the property of the same sort I of business in other parts of the county the board can make the assessments conform. About one month is usually consumed by the board in reviewing property valuations in the county. The report of the board is then sent j to the state tax board where it is ■compared to reports in other counI ties. If the state board feels that ‘ one county's assessments are out of proportion with that of other coun- . ties the board may recommend a I flat in*, reuse or decrease in all asi cessments in the county. The members of the board this 1 year are: John Felty, president, John Wechter, treasurer, Deane j Dorwin. secretary, L. A. Sprunger j and Glen Cowan. The dates for bearing the objec- ' lions on valuations in the county jare- Union and Root townships June 15; Preble and Kirkland \‘’>xt’x‘*:p‘a'Vv.i; four) CHINCH BUGS PLAGIJEJARMS Thousands Os Acres Os Farm Lands Devastated By Insects Springfield. 111.. June 13—(U.R) , Science and 5.000.000 farmers ate going to war over a 1.500 mile front with a “cross between a bed bug and a fly ” The enemy is Hie chinch bug, omnivorous terror of the corn field and the oats, despoiler t wheat and barley. its invading armies already have cost an estim™ed billion dollars this yearmore than the Mississippi flood, of 1928 or the Chicago fire Thousands of acres of devastated farm lands in Indiana, Illinois Wisconsin. lowa, Minnesota, the Dakotas and far to the west wer being criss-crossed today wi chemical barriers against the marching legions of bugs. m s r cientU of cob leges, generalissimos in the battl by common consent, organized overalled tillers of the ravaged □1 in a mammoth defense movecarloads of odorous creosote — ammunition — role nTthe area as the contribution of the federal government. it *^CONT LnUCT* nN PAGE SlX)_ HOvYIMINTON WON ! The Democratic J j senatorial contests on the first three ballots is shown on he following table. The vote on the fourth ballot was not announced because of the adoption o a motion to make the nomination ■ of Sherman Minton by accla 1 ma . tiOn: 6 9 0 U 639% 586 I P eterS ®aß « 8 2% 827 | I Mlnt , on 282% 265 262% | I Man . iOn “ % 25% 15% I I ® Ul , llVan U 5% S | Cole r7u, 39% 34% | | Albertson 57% 3<% ( I Rauch 3 | | Townsend 4 j Not voting ♦

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WOULD CREATE BARGAIN BOARD Roosevelt Proposes Industrial Conciliation Measures To Congress Washington, June 13 — (U.R) President Roosevelt's proposals for conciliation machinery to ' cope with wide-spread industrial ' disputes, were sent to congressional leaders today for quick legislative enactment. The proposals are intended to clarify collective bargaining features of tlie industrial recovery act and to give management ano .mploves equal representation on [conciliation boards for industries; I threatened with industrial strike.. The proposals were subject to ■ further changes as different view-1 points were sought. One copy was i I submitted to Republican leaders. | They discussed it at a secret con-, /'erende It was indicated, they: would offer less opposition than, ■ would have been forthcoming [against the scrapped Wagner-, I labor disputes bill. I One feature of the new legisla-. tion. the subject of intensive ad-, ministration study as the steel strike situation headed toward a i irisis, would be to clarify the; right of recognition to workers , [organizations representing a ma-! I joritv of their industry. I Elections to determine the ma- j ' jority representatives would be ; supervised by the conciliation boards. In an industry where a company union embraced the ma- [ jority of workers, that union would be authorized to bargain I collectively for the employes i Similarly, if the trade union held I the majority, that organization would be designated as Hie bar’’cONTix* ON PAGE_STX> RESTRICTIONS ARE REMOVED Adjustment Administration Removes Some Planting Restrictions L E Archbald. Adams county agricultural agent, has received the following telegram from Washing“All restrictions as to date for planting fodder, corn and grain sorghum and forage on none-con-tracted acreage on farms under wheat, corn-hog or tobacco contracts removed today by adjustment administration for all states. Signed, C. W. Warburton. ” 'it is understood that this means farmers can plant corn or grain sorghum on any non-contract acreage to be used for fodder, silage, oi hogging down, but the crops are not to .be harvested for grain. This ruling does not apply to contracted acreage. i The statement from Mr. Warburton further announced that: there should be no harvesting of telover seed and other legume seed oh contracted acreage. [ ;

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' a-♦ STATE TICKET United States Senator Sherman Minton, New Albany, j Secretary of State August G. Mueller, Indianapolis. ; • Auditor of State Lawrence Sullivan, Princton. . State Treasurer Peter Hein, Crown Point. State Superintendent of Public Instruction Floyd I. McMurray, Lebanon. Judge of the Supreme Court George L. Tremain. Greensburg. Judges of the Appellate Court | (Northern Division) Harvey J. Curtis of Gary. Alfonso C. Wood of Angola. | (Southern Division) Posep T. Kime of Evansville. 11 William H. Bridwell of Sullivan. | ; Clerk 'of the Supreme and Appellate Courts Paul Stump of Crawfordsville. | ; ♦ DARROW BOARD MEMBER QUITS W. 0. Thompson, Dissenting Member. Resigns Position Today — Washington. June 13— (U.R) — ! W. O. Thompson, vigorous dis- ! senting member of the Darrow rei view board, resigned today and j charged that NRA daily reveals ■ more clearly a marked trend to- | ward fascism in America. In a long letter to President Roosevelt, Thompson set forth anew his opposition to the NRA. He assumed full responsibility tor writing the supplementary report filed with the first board study which held there was no hope for the small business man under present code setups. He said in it that the nation faced the choice of government st stained monopoly or a socialized system of control. He attacked Recovery Administrator Hugh S. Johnson's executive order on a new price fixing [ policy and said that the Darrow ! **fCONrTD?nWD ON PAGE RIX)

Career Os Sherman Minton Typical Os Many Other Hoosier Statesmen

Indianapolis, June 13.— (U.R) — A career typical of countless Hoosier statesmen carried Sherman Minton, New Albany, to the Democratic nomination for United States sen- ■ ator. Born on a farm near Georgetown, Floyd county, Minton grew up in ■ the same country where his three • children have been reared. To his friends he is known as . “Shay". To his eight-year-old son, Johnny, he is “big shot.’ i Tlie other children are Sherman . Jr., 14, and Mary Anne, 10. The ■ three children and their mother ■ [ are Minton’s greatest boosters. • I The new nominee is a World War veteran and former college athlete I and honor student. He enlisted in I the first officers' training camp at 1 Fort Benjamin Harrison, rose to .[the rank of captain and was com- • [ manding troops at Verdun when i the armistice was signed. As a boy be was greately inter-

GIVE FIGURES ON LOANS HERE — Adams County Farmers Receive Total Os $297,900 In Loans A'dama county has received a to tai of $297,900 in Federal land bank ami land hank commissioner’s farm [ mortgages from June 1. 1933 to May ; , 1934. Os this total, farmers in tlie county used approximately $27'5.300 or 92.4 per rent to refinance their indebtedness. Os the loan money used by farmers in the county for refinancing their ddbts, about $161.20. . it is estimated. repaid debts to banks: $70,600 debts to Insurance companies, S3OO, taxes; $3,300, debts | to merchants, and $39,900, unclassi- | fied. i A total of about $22,60) in the county was used for purposes other I than refinancing of borrowers’ ; debts. Os this sum $7,400 was use.l for the purchase of land and equip-! inent, the construction or improve- | ment of buildings, an I for general agricultural uses, including the pro- ; vision of capital; while $15,200 the [ [ balance, was used for the purpose [ [ of stock in national farm loan associations, for loan fees, etc. Throughout the United States apI proximately $075,000,000 of land liank and commissioner’s loans were made to refinance debts re- ! suiting from the long period of low farm income. Attended Tri Kappa Convention Tuesday Mrs. .Avon Burk. Miss Vivian Burk, and Miss Helen Haubol'd of this city and Mrs. Robert Merry- ' man of Des Arc, Arkansas, attended ' the Tri Kappa province convention 1 at Huntington Tuesday. ‘ The sessions were held in the La- ' Fontaine hotel where a luncheon ■ was served at the noon hour and ’ bridge and swimming was enjoyed ’ during the morning. A bueiness ■ ; meeting was held during the after- ' ' noon. Miss lljubol-d was a delegate [ from the local organization.

ested in athletics and education. ’ His parents encouraged his ambitions but were unable to be of : much assistance financially. Minton helped support himself [ while attending New Albany high school. He starred in football, baseball and track and graduated '[with scholastic honors in 1910. His next goal was Indiana university. The fall after his graduation from high school he arrived in Bloomington with only a few dollars. He obtained odd jobs to j pay his expenses. Possessed with a willing spirit and pleasing personality, he quick- ■ ly became an important figure on the campus. He played football and baseball, engaged in debating and maintained a high scholastic average. | He was end and fullback on the football team and was known asjt (CONTINUED. ON PAGE FOUR)

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NAME MANAGER OF HOMESTEAD SITE PROJECT A. A. Watrous of Washington Manager Os Decatur Project WORK COMPLETED TO DATE APPROVED A. A. Watrous, of Washington. ■ D. ('.. has been appointed project j manager of the Decatur Subsist-1 ence Homesteads project, E. L. Middleton, supervisor of horn?- ; steads in this territory, an-1 nounced today. Both Mr. Middleton and Mr. Watrous were in town today examining the progress made on the I local project. They both approv-j ed the work completed. Mr. Middleton announced that plans for the project had been ap-J proved by the federal architects ’ and engineers who have been examining them The plans and specifications will be in this city * on view at Ferd Litterer’s office in the next several days. The local board of directors have received tlie preliminary plans. As soon as Quinn and Me-1 Nally, architects of Chicago, ! | complete the detailed plans they | will be advertised and bids so- i I licited. A meeting of the board of di rec-1 ■ tors probably will be held this ■ ■ lifternoon or evening at which , ptime final details in connection-! i with advertising of bids will be i I worked out. At this meeting the i i time allowed for the advertising | I of bids will be determined. Mr. Middleton reiterated the ' | statement made by several of ■ i those in charge that the 48 houses. I would be ready for occupancy by next winter. It is not believed. that over three or four months will be necessary for the coniple-1 tion of the construction after the ' contractors are once started. Mr. Watrous, the new project | manager, will have complete control of the building of tjie houses during the construction period. CCONTTNTIRI' ON PAGE SIX) FEDERAL AID IS PROMISED Government To Aid In Combating Chinch Bug Infestion Federal aid in combating chinch ’ bug Infestion has been offered ■ through a bill recently passed by I Congress and signed by the presi- ; dent, according to a letter received : today by L. E. Archbold, county; agent. Although 'Adams county has not yet been heavily infested by the: bugs, the aid is timely as immediate action will prevent the spread . lof the pests. The hill provides for the delivery lof creosote on authorization of a (state chinch bug control committee at designated points. The cost of the creosote anil the delivery to a certain point is to be paid by the federal government. Tile county organization will be responsible for the unloading and distribution and ' the costs of handling. These costs may be charged to the individual, but It assumed that in most cases the farmers will call for their allotments. It is suggested that the allot- ' ments be in charge of the county agent and a responsible committee. In making allotments of creosote. , the county committee shall allow a barrel for every half-mile to quartermile of furrow to be maintained. Farmers in any area where the chinch bugs are working or where ' I there is danger of infestion are asked o get in touch with (CONTINUWn GN PAGE RTX) o Catholic Sisters Visit World’s I* air I Sixteen sisters of the local Catholic school left by charted bus today • to spend two days at A Century of 1 Progress at Chicago. The bus and ‘ expenses were donated by societies I and individuals of the local parrish. While in Chicago the staters will stay at the Convent's houses of 1 their order, the order of St. Agnes. 1 The sisters will return to this city" early Thursday evening.

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Heads Lions Club .wo.. . r Clifford Saylors of the Saylors Motor company, will serve as president of the Decatur Lions dub during the coming year. Mr. Saylors was elected at the regular i meeting of the club Tuesday eve-1 King, succeeding Dr. Burt Mangold, i LOCAL LEGION LISTS PROGRAM OF CONFERENCE — Adams Post, Auxiliary Unit Sponsor Conference Here June 24 ■ STATE OFFICERS TO BE SPEAKERS The program for the northern . Indiana and Ohio American Legion 1 conference, which will be held at j ■the Decatur country club Sunday.! June 24, was announced this inorni ing by E. F. O'Brien, general chair-1 I man. The conference is being sponsor- j led jointly by the Adams post numI her 43 and the local auxiliary unit.! V. M. “Army - ’ Armstrong, com-1 mander of the Indiana department, ■ will be the principal speaker. Other speeches will be delivered by George Krick, mayor of Decatur; Rev. Father J. S. Ryder, Fort Wayne, state legion chaplain; Mrs.

Beulah Brooks, Angola, district; president of the auxiliary and Mrs. i Blanche Robinson. East Chicago, ; [ state president of the auxiliary. Tlie day’s festivities will open ; ! with registration at 10 a. m. The | Fort Wayne Legion band will pre-; [ sent a concert at 1 o'clock, follow- j [ ed by the program of speeches. Diu- | ner will he served from 5 to 7 p.m. I The program will close with a [dance and floor show from 8:30 to, [ 12. The complete program: 10 a. m.—Registration, golf tour- [ ney. 1-2 p. m. —Concert, post 47 band. 2 p. m. —Address of Welcome, Mayor George Krick. Addresses by: Mrs. Beulah Brooks. Angola, dis-1 ' trict auxiliary president. Mrs. Blanche Robinson, East (CONTINUED ON PAGE SIX) SAYLORS HEADS DECATUR LIONS I I Clifford Saylors Is Elected President Os Local Club ■ [ Officers of the Decatur Lions . club for the coming year were elect- ■ , ! ed last night at the weekly lunch-! ’' eon meeting of the club at the Rice -' hotel. Clifford Saylors, the Decatur ■ club’s master key Lion, was elected '' president. Saylors is the oldest • | Lion in Decatur in point of mem- ■ benship. He was a Lion when he I came to this city, and was respon- [ sible for the founding of the club, i He succeeds Dr. Burt Mangold, who ! presided at the meeting last night. [ ‘ Other officers elected at the[ [meeting were W. F. Beery, sec re-1 - tary; Lloyd Cowens, first vice-pre-1 ' sident; Alva Nishols. second vice-; ( president; Robert Robenold. third I vlce-presi lent; Robert Roth, tall ( twister; El Bo'itnecht, lion tamer; . ,N. A. Bixler, treasurer; and Glen I Cowan and Clyde Butler, members f [ of the board of directors. Lowell Smith gave a talk on the -[Decatur Bible school during the meeting.

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NOTE SENT TO GREAT BRITAIN IS CLARIFIED Total of War Debts Can Not Be Paid In Goods Or Services PRESIDENT SIGNS NEW TARIFF BILL Washiaiglon, June 13 <U.R) A warning that the way has not been opened to debtor countries to pav the total of their war debts to the I nited States in goods and services was sounded hv the While House today. Apparently tearing that the note dispatched to Great Dritain by Secretary of State Cordell Hull, suggesting that Britain ! make some proposal for at least ‘ partial payment of her debt in I goods or services, might be mtaI interpreted, the White House I said this country was in no posii tion no r did It propose to accept full payment of the debts tn ■ goods or services. Such procedure, it was stated. ! would be economically impossible, just as it was felt it was imposi sible to transfer in cash the total I sums owed on the debts. There |is no inclination, it was stated j here, to open the American mar- | kets without discrimination to | foreign products as a means of | assisting the debtor governments l to make payment. What was intended, it was ' stated, was to suggest to Great l Britain that administration offi- | cials here would listen to any proposals Britain might have for 1 making part of her payment in | (CONTINttED (»X PAGE THREE) State Policemen Inspect Autos State police officers Ed Rose of Bluffton and Al Teusch of HuntingI ton were in Decatur Tuesday affter- ■ noon and evening, checking drivers licenses and headlights and tall lights. No arrests were made but | warnings were issued. Similar inspections will be made In the fuI ture.

PAT COSTELLO HEADS K. OF C. Postal Employe Elected Grand Knight of Knights Os Columbus Pat Costello was elected grand knight of the local council of the Knights of Columbus lodge to succeed Clayson Carrol, who has served in that office for two terms. at a meeting of the lodge Tuesday night in the dub rooms. ! IClayson Carroll was elected to the board of trustees for a three I year term to succeed Joe Lose. I Other officers elected at the meeting are: deputy grand knight, Elmo | Smith; warden. Edward Voglewede, treasurer. Joe Laurent, recording secretary, nay Wertzberger; Inner guard. Pete Loshe; outer guard. Carl Kohne, and advocate, Frank Gillig. The new officers will take office at the first meeting in July. They probably will be installed by the district deputy. The lodge appropriated SSO at the meeting towards chartering a bus and paying the expenses of sending ■ the sisters of the local Catholic school to the World’s Fair at Chicago. The lodge also appropriated $5.00 to the soft ball league in the * _ *rCONTrNtrWP ON ftOK SIX) —O-- ——— Church Brotherhood To Sponsor Musicale The Brotherhood of the Evangelical church will sponsor a musical I program at the church Sunday jnight at 7:30 o’clock. The Willshire band under the direction of I Joe Danner will present a program : of sacred music. One of the features of the program will be Miss Mildred Wolfe |of Willshire who will play the vlbraharp. xylophone and the anvils. The public Is invited to hear the music concert. No admission will be charged but a free will offering will be taken.