Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 32, Number 179, Decatur, Adams County, 28 July 1934 — Page 1

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LAST RITES ARE HELD FOR DOLLFUSS

lODEL VILLAGE j Irdered UNDER kULE OF GUARDS Lrtial Law Is Ordered |')r Town Os Kohler, f Wisconsin Kyo men killed f is RIOTS FRIDAY Li.„, J»lv 2R - <u.R> - C \lbcrt (1. Schmedeman |Vv‘ placed the village o* li.’pr under martial law 1 lli-rina Adiutanl Gener.l; Inn'll t" '"“ v e sut 'l' i I . troons there as were | Cpssarv to preserve peace I I onk ' r Two Killed Kohler— Two troops of unmount-j ( national boards arrived here, | ( rom Milwaukee after a C, of rioting in which two | t , pre killed and 21 others , E bv deputy sheriffs. | two units contained £5Ol |„ Additional forces were exited from Camp Douglas before ■a. | Irowds of striking workmen tt\ | bathroom fixture plant of for- j E governor W alter J- Kohler, Ed and hissed along flower; Ejered streets as the troops into town in buses |l> «o>diers. tanned and well j laniztd from two weeks trainL („ their summer encamoment. | (regarded th»ir tormenters and |re mtrehed to the Kohler sacL. jene of three bloody battles I the lest 24 hours. (First fatalities of the three-Lks-eid strike were I-ee Wakelid. .'5, and Henry Kngelmann. 1 lof Sheb’ovgan. Wakefield died [few minutes after the battle of [(bast wound Kngelmann died ' l. noming with a rifle ballet tn j It abdomen. pwenty one others, taken to two 1 Lpitals in Sheboygan. were j landed less seriously. (Hundreds of persons, including 1 (omen and children, suffered j lientlv from tear gas. |The bloody climax to three Lb of peaceful picketing was Irtended yesterday morning Iben a hundred deputies smashed If strikers lines to escort a carLd of coal into the Kohler sac-. [immediate and menacing re-: realization of the pickets led to Icrniting of 300 additional o(Ti- j Irs under command of E. R. jtheulke. national guard captain ■o lives in Kohler. [The workmen were reinforced I I other employes and former | pnloyes of the plant from Shepygan, 12 miles distant. [Sotm after 8 n. m. a, striker, a brick through a plant j rindow. near the spot where] [older and Sheriff Ernst Zehms; pserved the scene from an adpcistratimi building window, pliers seized the idea. Stones, [ticks, railroad spikes and sticks 1 Pied the air. Glass crashed on licovTivrpt) nv parrnt six) PENSION LAWS ME CHANGED ftote Officials Find Present Law Is Proving Inadequate [lndianapolis. July 28— <U.R) — ptrinced that the old age penf n * aw is not proving as effecPas planned, state officials ] P considering changes which [I make payments mandatory, it P* learned at the to- ; [Tader the present law, passed L I**3 general assembly, Rbstons can be paid any person f r ,0 years of age. The law i , s a maximum of sls per month ! L. s '°n, bu t makes no provision ' minimum. ill reports that county oomR 'onerß in many instances e "atly refused to pay pen- 1 Si*,! an< * otllwrs ar ® making payBta'' as lo "’ as $2 per month, j hint l“ lclais rea »ze that teeth Us nn.!, P ut lnto law as early ] r Possible. L** tnaklng it mandatory las J’ n,y com tni3sioners to set Hon. • 68 or fbake other proviWnim,,!! payinent of pensions, a. | ? en J’i]^ n °* al least $lO j ICON 'TIN'UBD on PAGE SIX)

DECATUR DAILY DEMOCRAT ONLY DAILY NEWSPAPER IN ADAMS COUNTY

Vol. XXXII. No. 179.

SCOUT CABIN TO BE BUILT Scout Officials Will (lo Ahead With Plans For Park Cabin Although the Adams county Boy Scout drive Is about SIOO short, of the goal of $825 set, scout offi-, cials are determined to approve the building of a permanent 1 scout cabin in the Hanna-Nuttman city park west o; the city. Construction of the 20 by 30 foot building may be begun nextj week i Anthony Wayne Area scout j (amp experts are now drawing up ' the plans for the large stone fire \ place which will be one of the I features of the lodge. The fire ] place is being Installed to make j the cabin n winter resort as well as a summer camp for the boy* , apd girls. I lEnough sanitary cote have been ! received from the Area Wayne j council to sleep one troop. The ; seven or eight troops of boy and i girl scouts in the eounty will take turns using the cabins ac- | cording to a schedule to be ar j ranged by Bryce Thomas, county , camp master. Lumber used by the American ' Legion during the street fairs several years ago has been donated for the purpose. Earl Colter | also has donated lumber. The sides of the cabin will be lined 1 with unpainted bark to give a j rustic appearance. It is believed that labor and carpentry will be donated by men interested in scouting. Wooden shutters wi’l be used over the windows to ’furnish proI lection from rain and to provide 1 a means of locking the cabins lo prevent vandalism, i Ixjckers will be installed to > stenp troop equipment. Other seaI tures will be used to provide a perfect setting for camping trips and nature study. Columbia City Firm Gets No. 27 Contract Indianapolis, ind., July 2S —(UP) —Contract for structure construci tlon and extensions on 18.25 miles on state roai 37 between Decatur and Fort Wayne was awarded by | the state highway commission today. The Tri Lakes construction Co., Columbia City, was awarded the contract with a bid of $21,676.44. FIVE CONVICTS ESCAPE PRISON Long Term Convicts Escape From Michigan City Prison Michigan City, Ind., July 28 — (UP) —Five long term convicts esj caped early today from the hospital 1 dormitory of the state penitentiary. ! They had at least a two hour start when guards discovered the break at 3 A. M. ; The men, three patients and two trusties in the hospital left no clue to the method of their escape. A , painter's scaffold beside a new adi dition to the hospital section and * reports that noises were heard on i the roof of a dormitory at about the hour of the escaip? were the only indications of the route the prisoners took. The missing, men are: John Burnett, serving 10 years for burglary in Vermillion county, i Louis Crail, 15 years for burglary in | Laike County; Morris O’Flarety 20 years for rdblbery in Marion | county; William Jay, 20 years for | robbery in Allen county and Kenneth Rogers, 10 years for robbery In Vanderlbergh county. At 3 A. M„ N. E. Burns, guard in ! a dormitory, notified night captain 1 w. C. Griswold of noises coining from the roof. Griswold lnvestigati ed and declared it a false alarm. Two hours later, officer W. F. Netzel, in charge of the hospital; reported five men missing Chief deputy Warden Lorenz C. Schmuhl ! started in investigation and discovered the break. During report at 2:30 A. M. a prisoner turned on the water In the bathroom. It was thought the break got underway at that time. Prison officials thought the prisoners used a skeleton key in a I basement door of the hospital to get Into tha prison yard.

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Minneapolis Under Martial Law k.fji wsiit - ->■ — —. WA Wiv, a. . . .AWte. - —- it Mi'itarv rule stepped down on striking truck driers as Governor Floyd B. Olson placed 4,000 national guardsmen in control of the city for the preservation of law and order during the strike. It was the first t’me In history that martini rule has been declared in Minnesota. The new military chief of police of Minneapolis until troops are recalled is Co). Elmer McDevitt, who is shown here takihg over the office of civilian Chief Michael Johannes. At right, Brig. Gen. Ellard Walsh, who is now acting as mayor of Minneapolis in place of civilian Mayor A. G. BainbrUlse, while the city is under martial law. Below 1 , a detail of national guardsmen with motor trucks and mounted machine guns standing guaid at the intersection of Fifth avenue and Sixth street, Minneapolis. __

GIVES REPORT ON BEET CROP Field Superintendent States Beet Crop Nearly Normal J. Ward Calland, field superintend. nt of the Central Sugar Co., said today that there was a possibility of there being as good a beet yield as last year provided there is rain and cooler weather for the remainder of the growing season, it is estimated that 3,000 acres have been destroyed by the drought. Tb» greatest damage done by the drought is in Adams and Allen counties. Van Wert county, Ohio was fortunate in having about five Inches of rainfall a month ago. Adams and Allen counties received very little precipitation. Slight rains a month ago in tbeee two counties caused some of the seed to sprout but it was killed by succeeding hot weather. The croipH here are described as "slowed up”. The rain last Thursday night was heaviest around Monroeville. It was a great help to the beete which were in a serious condition. Field men for the sugar companyare now checking the number of seed, d acres to determine the probable length of the run next fall. About 13,000 atres were contracted for by the company but a number were not o.eded because of the dry weather.

STRATOSPHERE FLIGHT STARTS Three Balloonists Start Spectacular Flight Today (By United Press) The biggest free balloon ever constructed floated above the plains of the middlewest today on a spectacular scientific expedition into the stratosphere. As the craft floated higher and i higher above the earth the group ] of three was in frequent radio communication with ground stations. The ascension began at 5:45 a. in. mountain standard time. At 7:01 an altitude of 14,000 feet had been attained and the prevailing winds ! were carrying the big envelope 1 southeasterward. At that time is was about 32 miles from the starti ing point. The crew reported 10 minutes later that last minute adjustments were being made on the delicate instruments aboard before the gondola was to be sealed preparatory :to rising perhaps 15 miles above ground. At 8:25 a. m. mountain standard * "(CONTINUED *JN PAGE SIX)

Decatur, Indiana, Saturday, July 28, 1934.

Dillinger’s Father To Appear On Stage Indianapolis, July 28 — (U.P) — John W. Dillinger. father of the Indiana outlaw, will begin a fiveday stage appearance at the Lyric theater here tomorrow, Ten Nicho'4». manager of the vaudeville and cinema house, announced today. The eider Dillinger, his son, Hubert, stepbrother of the outlaw. and Mr. at*i Mrs. Audrey Hancock, sister and brother-in-law of the slain gangster, will be included in tile troupe, Nicholas said. The act will consist of a 15 minute interview of members of tho fami'v regarding the life of the notorious desperado with particular stress on his last visit to the family's farm home at Mooresville, April 8, according to Nicho'as. o Heat Prostration Causes Man’s Death Indianapolis, Ind., July 28— (UP) —Heat prostration suffered a week ago caused the death last night of George Matiz, 61, in a hospital her.?. Shallow Water Dive Causes Broken Neck Evansville, Ind., July 28—(UP) —A broken neck suffered by R. K. Bagley, 16, when he dived into shallow water in the Ohio river here July 17 caused his death last night.

Give Information Concerning Wage Rates On Homestead Work

Ferd L. Litterer today gave out the following information concernI ing apparent conflicts in wage rates adopted for the Decatur Homesteads project here and NR ; A code rates. "It is of particular Interest to all persons engaged in the building industry both as Journeymen craftsmen, iplumbers carpenters, etc., to know what effect the adoption of the wage rates for the Decatur Homesteads project will have upon the code rates adapted for these various crafts. "There is an apparent conflict between the wage rates adopted at this conference for the Decatur Homesteads project and the code rates, such as the wage rates of 75 cents per hour for plumbers while the code rates for plumbers is sl.20 per hour. “There is no real conflict for the reason that the wage rates adopted at the conference for the Decatur Homesteads project supercede all code rates.” The wags rates recently adopted for the Decatur Homesteads project at a conference of employers and employes have been approved by authorities in Washington. The following wage rates were adopted and will apply on the project: Masons and brick layers, 75 cents

FARM RECEIPTS SHOWIKCREASE Gross Receipts During June Show Increase Over Last Year Washington, July 28 — Gross farm receipts in June totaled $440, 000,000 compared with $439,000,000 In May, and $423,000,000 in June last year, according to the bureau of Agricultural economics. The June total, this year, included $411,000,000 from sales of farm products, $28,000,000 in rental and benefit payments by the AAA and approximately $1,000,000 from government purchases of cattle in drought areas. The receipts from sales of farm •products in June were $12,000,000 less than in May, and $12,000,000 less than in June last year, but the bureau points out that the decline in income from May to June this year was less than the usual seasonal decline. Rental and benefit payments in June totaled $12,000,000 more than in May, and offset the reduced income from sales of farm products. The bureau reports that the cash income from the sale of farm products in the first six months of this year amounted to $2,428,000,000 compared with $2,032,000,000 (CONTINUED ON PAOR SIXI

an hour; electricians, 60 cents an hour; plasterers, 75 cents an hour; painters, 60 cents an hour; unskilled laborers, 40 cents an hour; carpenters, 65 cents an hour; cement finishers, 60 cents an hour; sheet metal workers, 65 cents an hour; and plumbers, 75 cents an hour. For information of contractors and prospective bidders it is pointed out that the above wage rates adopted at that conference apply notwithstanding any cofllct with code rates for any of the various crafts. The particular section of the code of fair competition for the construction industries this matter is section 3 of article 111 which reads as follows: Where provisions concerning hours of labor or rate of pay have been established for specific projects, by competent governmental authority or agencies (whether federal, state, or political subdivisions thereof) acting in accordance with law, any employer required to comply and complying with the provisions so established shall be relieved of compliance with any conflicting provisions of this art-! icle, or of any actions taken in accordance therewith. "Any employer required to com- 1 ply and complying with the provi-

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FnmUhrd By Uillrd Preum

THREE KILLED IN COLLISION THIS MORNING Headon Collision Near Columbia City Takes Three Lives ONE OF INJURED CRITICALLY HURT Columbia City, July 28—(UP)— A headon collision of automobiles seven miles northwest of here on U. S. 30 today killed three men and Injured two others, one critically. The dead: Roscoe Pirotta, 32. Bronx, New York. Nathan Markowitz, 62. Brooklyn. Rosenthal, Brooklyn, whose first name has not been learned. The injured are Oecar Marowitz, 23, son of Nathan, who is in critical condition at Linville Hospital with possfble skull fractures, burns and internal hurts and Tom Stevens, 26, Baltimore, Maryland, brain concussions. •Cars driven by Stevens and Pirotta met at the top of a slight rise in the highway. Exact cause was not immediately determined although it is believed the New York car was thrown into the path of the other by a tire blow-out. The New York party was returning from a vacation trip to the world's fair at Chicago. Both cars crumpled in the impact. The Pirotta automobile overturned and caught fire. •Rosenthal was pinned beneath the flaming machine and perished before he could be extricated. His clothing was almost burned from his body and complete iientificaI tion was impossible. Miss Calland Back From Summer School Miss Martha Elizabeth Calland has returned from Evanston, 111., where she has completed the summer course in the school of dramatics at Northwestern University. Miss Calland, who will be a senior in the Decatur high school this fail, was awarded a scholarship tc the school. The summer course was given to 50 girls and 35 boys who were selected from junior classes in high schools over the United States. The month's course ended Saturday. Miss Calland visited with the T. E. Snyder family in Evanston for several days following the completion of the school term there. DROUGHT GUTS DAIRY OUTPUT Production Os Dairy Products Is Decreased By Drought Washington, July 28 — Production of dairy products has been sharply reduced by the drought and a continued decrease during the next few months is to be expected, says the bureau of agricultural economics. Dairy pastures are in the poorest condition on record. Milk production averaging 14.98 pounds per cow on July 1 was the smallest on record for that date. Other features of the dairy situation include butterfat prices low in relation to grain prices, increased slaughter of cows and light movement of butter into storage, says the bureau. From mid May to mid-June the farm price of j butterfat rose about 3 per cent,: but the farm price of feed grains rose 17 per cent. In mid-Jiine the farm price of a pound of butterfat was equivalent to 20.6 pounds of feed grains and this, says the bureau, was the lowest figure for ] June since 1920. Slaughter of cows and heifers under federal inspection the first five months of this year was 33 per cent larger than In the corresponding period last year, and 10 per cent larger than the 1923-32 tenyear average. Production of manufactured dairy products was 8.6 per cent less UPthe first six month of this year than in the same per- j iod last year. The bureau reports that 43,088, 000 pounds of butter moved into storage, net, in June compared with 71,200,000 pounds last June, and a five-year June average of 60,000,000 pounds.

Price Two Cento

Clerk’s Records Check To Penny Word has been received here of ' the results of the examination of j the books of Milton E. Werling, | former county clerk. Mr. Werli ing's books checked to the penny. ’ j The examination was done by i the field men for the state board lof accounts and is the customary j procedure when a county officer j leaves office. The examination! ; was made for the period extending 1 from the time Mr. Werling took of | lice, January 1, 1933, to his reslg- ! nation this spring. '! o * CORN PAYMENTS ! ARE UNDER WAY: r j First Installment Checks ! Totaling Eleven Millions [ Washington, July 28 —First in-, j , stallment checks totaling approxil mately $11,000,000 have been dls-i* I tributed to farmers participating ] in the corn-hog program, and more . than one-half of all county corn-1 hog al'otment committees ha ze ] ( , | heen authorized to prepare regu-] j iar payment contracts for thej . 1 final signatures of producers, the ' ( . i Agricultural Adjustment Admir.is- L > (ration renorted today. 1 Total disbursements through July 23, were $10,819,728.30, by I ( , States, as follows: * ( Alabama. $17,269.75: Arkansas,) - I $6,663.40; Colorado. $5,786.00: Till- ] - . j nois. sl6 985.45: Indiana,. STIB.-; ( 1.506.10: lowa, $6,024 946.65; Kan-! i sns. SB3 362.75; Maryland. $2,- i I 626.00: Michigan. S6BO 00: Minne-' i ; sota $1,766.0*9.15: Missouri, sl,- | i 679 .683.00- Montana, *862.00: Ne- ] i . hreska. $218.989 35- Nevada. $16.480.00; Ohio. *277.754 30; South I: G-iroPna. $152 50- South Dakota, *l4O 730.70: Vlnriribu $29,757 50: j ■ Washington. *123 087.50: West! * i Vir°-inia. $8,557.20; Wisconsin, j : g°80.883 00. I To date \.°A2 countv allotment ] committees. renresenting more i . then half of the counties narticij eating in the corn-hog nrograni.ji . ha’-e pent, or are preparing to 1 , send regular nayment contracts j i , *o Washington. AV’hiie. hereto-]! | fore, most of the contracts sub-; mitfed to the administration for!' , i navment. have Open of the earlv 1 ! navment tvnp. now the maloritv of 1 contracts hp|ng submitted are of ■ the reeulnr navment tvpe. 1 ; The reemlar navment contracts , 1 must be signed twice bv the nro-; 1 . duoer. once before, and again!' after, adlustments are made in bis I n-odnetion figures. The eartv 1 1 payment contracts carry a rider 1 signed bv the producer under:' i which he agrees to accent anv nocessarv adjustment in the nrn-j, « dnrtion figures on which the navmepts are based, and under which I he is entitled to receive his pav- ! meat before adiustment is made. Conseeuentlv the early pavment ■ 'contracts were the first to be sent to Washington. However, the regular navment contracts repre- i sent th° grea* hulk of the an- 1 proximatpiv 120rt.0iXI contracts storoed bv corn-hoc nrodneprs. and since over half r s the coun f v cop*- !! mittees have now heen aphorized to prepare contracts of this tvne ( for the final signatures of the j producers, these contracts will he j cem'ng into Washington in in- ( creasing nnmberp henceforth. j Thnq far. 286 counties have pub- f mit*ed a total of 109 428 regn'ar navmeut contract.* to the adminia- ] tration for pnnroval and navment. ; and 359 countfep have submitted , tr'A*'c.ts*r’r»r« am n \ r*rr cjrvs * t o 1 Officer Heads Police Chiefs i iMi-hiean City. Ind., July 28 — ] (UP)—Charles G. Oehle, Nobles- , vflle, became president of the Ind- - iana association of chiefs of pollc9 i today. | \ 'He was elected in the annual con- i vention yesterday, succeeiing Floyd i •H. Nickerson, Columihus. Julius i Harlow, Shelhvville. was elected first vice president; Wesley R. Kib- l bv. Michigan City, second vice pre- < sident: Michael Morrisey, Indiana- I noils, thirl vice president: E. G. - Evenson, Terre Haute, secretary- ! treasurer, and John M, Weaver, < Elkhart, sergeant-at-arms. i Selection of the 1935 convention i | cltv will he made hy the officers. 1 South Bend and Richmond submitted bids for the meeting. j < A1 G. Feeney, superintendent of state pdlice and director of state t safety, was the principal speaker 1 on the closing program yesterday. 1

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ROYAL FUNERAL IS HELD TODAY FOR DOLLFUSS Fighting Continues Between Government Forces, Nazis NAZI REVOLT IS NEARING FINISH (Copyright, 1934, by U.P.) Vienna, July 28. — <VR) — While government forces were busy crushing the Austrian Nazi rebellion. Chancellor Engelbert Dollfuss, victim of political hatred and assassination, was accorded a royal funeral today. In a setting as magnificent as that of Austria’s last emperor, the strong men of the little chancellor's dominant party gathered to eulogize the lost leader and to demonstrate their control over an inflammable civil crisis. Meanwhile fighting between troops and Nazis continued In the provinces. The small city hall, wherein the chancellor's body lay in state, was banked with flowers. Leaves sent from every nation in Europe and masses of bright colored flowers contributed by his friends Ailed every corner of the old structure. The government asserted the revolt was in its death throes —at a cost of perhaps 2,500 dead and wounded. It was Impossible correctly to estimate the deaths, but it seemed 300 might prove the greatest possible number, with 200 to 250 the more likely figure. As morning turned into afternoon, the body of Dollfuss, the litj tie chancellor and vest pocket Naj poleon, lay on its bier in the town hall, candles flickering at its head, nuns praying around it, steel helmeted soldiers on guard. Crowds were jammed outside and along the route to the cathedral and the cemetery. Statesmen and members of the diplomatic corps gathered in the building for ( the initial service. (Scheduled for 2:30 p. m. 9:30 a. in. EDT.) Dollfuss’s widow was here, dazed with grief. At Riccione, Italy, were their children, Eva, 5, and Rufolf, nearly 4, guests of Mrs. Benito Mussolini, demanding impatiently to know when “daddy’ would arrive. Dollfuss was to have gone to Riccione today for a family visit with Mussolini and his wife. One memorial to the little chancellor was assured, however transitory events in Austria's years long rCONTWITFjn ON PAOR SIX) U, S. BUSINESS PLANS RAPPED Indiana Chamber of Commerce Protests Government Work Indianapolis, July 28. — A flood of protests went forth from the Indiana State Chamber of Commerce yesterday against the Federal government engaging in tho manufacturing business in competition with private enterprise. Telegrams were sent by William H. Arnett, managing director of the chamber, to various government officials protesting against the government engaging in the furniture, mattress aud enamelware manufacturing business as a means of providing poor relief. The telegrams were sent to President Roosevelt, Dr. Arthur E. Morgan, chairman of the board of directors of the Tennessee Valley Authority, where one of the furniture factories is being set up; Dr. Harry L. Hopkins, Federal relief administrator, and to members of the Indiana delegation In Congress. "We believe the proposed plan for the government to lease ai.a operate manufacturing plants for furniture, mattresses, enamelware, etc., will be detrimental to Industrial recovery," Mr. Arnett said in the telegram. "Why not purchase from established plants the articles needed for poor relief, in order that regular employes may be gainfully employed.” The telegram was signed “Indiana State Chamber of Commerce, by W. H. Arnett, managing director.”