Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 32, Number 184, Decatur, Adams County, 3 August 1934 — Page 1
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'■ISON BREAK lIEfORT GIVEN 1 11 KAYNE COY ■iftrden Kunkel Exoner- -■ r( |Oi Blame In Latest K Outbreak Los convicts ■\ \|-n HE!) TODAY "■jlJ.iujn City. In'!.. Aug Improper luill<lling that a break Io occur am negthe part ol at least <»n;ir<ls and oniciais . ■ |,|jm<<l lodav for the ~| li\< con' uls from -l.de prison last in • !•■’! submitted to EKer.nl Paul V. McNutt by , under secretary In ot pel' <1 affairs. 11 recomi' 1 ' -ini. turtU and ad 'Ha'i.'is tn the prisoffered. . V nerated Warden * E Kinikei from blame but Hut administration of the . ...uid i,. inori effective.” escape ot five men last n^H k elm.axed a series of walky. which stared September in desperate long term . • way out of the j joined forces with |i,.uiif•: to form one of the .i.speiut. I .mls of criminals to prey on society. it s.i- learned that Dilin weapons tha’ used in the break. ■■ ' p. contained a 136 traiwrim of testimony he ...| fc guards. prisoners liin' last week's .. - ■ - l< mk>-l was given a the report indiiatM’ ■ f.air more guards dismissed and after the five escaped. r. p.'i! Is., revealed that ,.c, that the break it nod. He failed to to superior officers, said. ..mm, ndations for and administractive ■- designed to pre farther ....; | , s, Coy said. Two Recaptured ■k'lAins-ill.-. Ky.. Aug. 3—(U.Ri nn-i. vho walked into the | BoxTixnin ox* page* five) <■ " — ■d Contagious K Diseases Shown |Mo cases of communicable diswere reported in Adams f..r •(., A,.ek ending SaturJuly f’s The report is issued |Htli" Indiana Division of Public Muth. mL ~ 0 ■0 ARE KILLED 111 FORT WAYNE K ol^t ‘ | Cnidentified Girl H Killed In Auto ColE lision Fort W.rync, Aug. 3—UP' — of a 30 year old woman i| led in an automobile acclhere today which, took life Os H. Bartlett FletchK has been identified as that K° f Miss Vivian Garrison, Fort was made by s ’ Catherine Morning, who Miss Garrison for 14 H >ears ' Bl'.'"' 1 Wuvn "' 3—(U.R)—Two were killed and two were 1 critically ip an automobile ' n t on I’.s highway 30 three west of here early today. Bartlett Fletcher, 23. Fori and an unidentified gii' hurt fatally when the cr.i ~IP' wer *‘ riding sitlea truck and overturned. 18. rl0ll!! ly injured were Miss Miles 23, port Wavne, Ot: L r ' n<1 b <5, Carlisle, - to recover. ■Haiold Harker. 26. driver of ■ .J’ I ')' Was ,reate< ) for minor Er) ON PAOE * THREE)
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Eagle Man and Mother i' ■ r 1 " I ' I tJ A ‘ M a SIMII 1 N » » V »W4ra» ®SSK« Gen. Hugh Johnson. NRA boss, photographed witli his mother at | Oklahoma City during his journeying in the West. j — ——
Legion To Observe Constitution Week Indianapolis, Aug. 3.—ln a statement being sent to tile 11,000 posts ' of the American Legion. Edward A. Hayes, national commander, is announcing a nation-wide plan to awaken support for the constitu- ' tion of the United States through I the observance of Constitution ; Week, beginning September 17, he ! said today. The program for the observance is being outlined by the Americanism Commission of the Legion, of , which Russell Cook is director at 4 uatiaaal hnsWiarrer* Were "W effWbracee a mass meeting and public ■ speaking on September 17, ConstiI tution Day, by Legion officials in 1 every community large enough to have a Legion post, director Cook said. This will be followed by addresses throughout the week in ; grade and high schools and before civic organizations. o COUNCIL HOLDS I SESSION TODAY County Council Allows All But One Appropriation Asked The county council in special ees--1 slon this morning allowed all except one appropriation as,ked for ■ and “recommended that next year I no appropriation be made for traveling expenses of a county nurse ’. The appropriations totaled $5,- ( 261.60. The amount requested was ! $5,286.60. The request for $25 for I | operating expenses at the jail was i rejected. | Several of the appropriations were for money expended in doing OWiA work in the court house, jail and. county infirmary. The county authorized the purchase of materi iale to do the repair work, labor be- | ing furnished through the CWA. 'in addition to the repair funds, money was appropriated for elec-, tion expenses, the amount levied not being sufficient to pay the cost of the primary and general elec- • tions. Uta a number of cases the approI priatlons meant the transfer of bali ances. A petition asking that the appropriation for the expenses of the two county health nurses was filed with the county council. The petition : was signed by representatives of clubs, lodges, civic organization and church pastors. Special Program ■ At Union Chapel Victory Sunday wiH be observed ; at the Union Chapel churtth at the ’ Sunday morning services. The annual election of Sunday school offibers will be held and a program will be presented. The program will consist of reading of records of the school 50 1 years ago by Elizabeth Cramer, a musical duet by Mr. and Mrs. Earl Chase and music by a mixed quartet. A play, "Whith way Shall I ■ choose." will be presented by the I young people.
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29 CANDIDATES WILL GRADUATE I I 1 Auction School Commencement Will Be Held i! Saturday Morning Col. Fred Reppert announced to- ' day that there will be 29 candidates for graduation at the commencement exercises to be held by the Reppert S<AuQl_.pf Auctioneering “‘ Saturday morning* at Io "OTfork tft Bellmont Park. The commencement address will be delivered by Col. C. M. Carter of Scottsville, Kentucky, an instructor in the school. The 29 graduates are from 11 states. They will join the fast growing number of graduates now totaling over 1.600 and representing every state in the Union and every province in Canada. The hoys have been working very hard this last week to conclude [ their work in the scheduled three weeks. Classes are being held at 5 and 5:30 o'clock each morning. The candidates for graduation ' are: Elmer Gindlesberger, Bowdil, O. ' W. R. Grebe, Galion, Ohio. Dave Johnson. Columbus, Ohio. Ruben A. Strate, Winside, Neb. Verne C. Troutman, Winside, Neb. Irvin Patrick. Circleville, Ohio. : David Casner, Norborne, Mo. Franklin H. Matthews, Peebles, Ohio. G. R. Austin, Rushville, Indiana. Kenneth E. Woods, Henderson, I Tennessee. Morton Stanford, Boston, Ohio. ’(CONTINUED* ON* PAGE FIVE) PROJECT HEAD PADDED PAYROLL Fort Wayne FERA Head Padded Payroll; Money Is Returned i Indianapolis, Aug. 3. — (U.R) —Discrepancies, involving alleged payi roll padding, have been found in ; the accounts of A. J. Holtman, ' FERA project supervisor at Fort Wayne, William H. Book, director of Indiana relief announced today. An investigation, conducted by ■ relief examiners this week, showl ed that Holtman continued the names of two women employes on I his payroll account after they had I obtained other positions, Book said. Holtman is alleged to have en- ' dorsed and cashed the payroll . checks, totalling SIBB.BO. The mon'ey since has been repaid to the governor’s commission on unemI ployment relief. Book said. The evidence, obtained by held (examiners, was turned over to j Prosecutor Otto Koenig today. ' Book made no recommendations, leaving the matter of prosecution i up to Allen county officials. In a telephone conversation with Koenig yesterday afternoon. Book i said the prosecutor did not indicate , whether criminal charges will be I *(CONTINURD*ON PAGE TWO)
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ADOLF HITLER FACES TASK OF RULING NATION Germany Is Facing Economic Crisis Os Major Importance TRIBUTE IS PAID VON HINDENBURG Berlin, Aug. 3 —(U.R) Adolf Hitler, a commoner-kaiser, with the army and nation behind him, led Germany in mourning for President Paul Von Hindenburg today i and prepared for a grim economic fight that may decide his political' fate. On the pages of Germany's long | history there was written in a series of brief decrees and declar-1 ations the story of death and Hitler's coincident rise to absolute dominance under the self selected title of "fuehrer and refch chancellor”—king, president, prime minister and dictator in one. (Hitler, showing signs of genuine; grief, busied himself with preparation of two funeral orations, one to be delivered at Reichstag services here Monday for the "old | one,” the other to be delivered at i Tannenberg Tuesdoy when Hindenburg's body will be laid at rest under the generals’ tower of the great Tannenberg memorial, a . monument to the field marshal's greatest military triumph. Behind all the tuneral pageantry,' the drama of the rise of the paperI hanger-lance corporal to a national i dominance undreamed ot in mod ' 'em times, there lay awaiting Hit ler a task in which oratory will not avail him. Germany faces an economic crisis of major importance. Hitler is supreme. It is Hitler or chaos. • Bnt in the gray fall and winter j months he and his Nazis must ' guide the country through suffer ing and privation. On his success depends his fuj ture. To aid him. Hitler named Hjal mar Schacht, president of the I Reichsbank. one of the world s rCONTI*NUED ON PAGE THREE) GEN.JOHNSON IffllCKS PRESS Recovery’ Head Attacks “Malicious” Element Os Some Newspapers Chicago, Aug. 3 —<U.R>—Swinging right and left in the scorching rhetoric he has made famous, Gen.: Hugh Johnson last night attacked ! a "malicious" element of the press defended the policies of President | Roosevelt and assailed “arm chair economists” who deny that recovery has come. Speaking in the huge lagoon thea’er of A Century of Progress exposition, the NRA administrator cited the fair itself as proof that economic progress has been made. "iDoes it argue nothing for the president’s progtam,” he asked, “that business was able to put millions more into this venture this year, and that our people can return here in so much greater number? “There are those who say that the president’s program has had no influence on these things. To my mind it is like the blind man at the pool of Siloam, who had only to say of the restorer of his sight when doubting Pharisees questioned him: 'Whether He be a sinner, I know not. One thing 1 know, whereas 1 was blind. I now sea'.” Johnson denied that recovery in other countries, as often has been armed, has been more rapid than ir. America. A study of real wages — the power of the worker's wage to * (CONTINUED*ON *PAGE *SIX) ’ Fire Department Called To Store The local fire department was called to the Fisher and Harris grocery on North Second street at I 2 o'clock this morning. An efectric refrigerator in the store was smoking consideraibly and fear was held that the motor might catch fire. No damage was reported to the building.
Decatur, Indiana, Friday, August 3, 1934.
I Code Authority Will Be Chosen Election oTlhe stSlb" gt'ain code I authority for Indiana will be held in the Lincoln Hotel, Indianapolis, at 1:30 o'clock Wednesday afternoon, August 8. The code authority will consist !of seven members, five of which ' will be elected by the members of the grain industry in Indiana and these in turn will elect two addi- ! tlonal members-at-large. Each eleIvator unit in the state is entitled | to one vote, either in person or by proxy. WATROUS TALKS TO ROTARIANS — | Subsistence Homestead Manager Speaks To Decatur Club — lAi A. Watrous, manager of the subsistence homestead project in this city, in a talk before the Ro- \ tary club last evening, declared that the boardt of directors was res- ■ ponsOble for the building of the homesteads at Readsville, W. V., and that the Federal government only loaned the money to the local board. | “You have read in the Saturday Evening Post ot" the ReadeviUe project. Let me say the government in not responsible for the building of ■ the houses. The government furnished the money to local board; and : supervision and direction was up to 1 the citizens in charge. If mistakes were made, the errors are charged against the board and not the government", de.lared Mr. Watrous. “it goes to show that haste makes waste. That is one reason why we I have not tried to go ahead here until everything ie satisfactorily disposed of. With the interest shown here no serious 'blunders should be i made in building the 48 htmse* on ! the Decatur homestead cite”, the government representative stated. ;Mr. Watrous praised the local ; board of directors and the spirit ot cooperation shown by citizens, city and county governments in working for the success of the local project. He mentioned that every effort was being made to make the local project a model for the rest I of the country and that the board I of diredtoru was cooperating alecord- ! ingly. ■Specifications for contrai otrs are 'now being printed and proposals for building the houses will be received j in the next few weeks, Mr. Watrous 1 declared. Final approval has been given plans. Four to six room I houses, modern in every respect I will be built. Mr. Watrous will remain in I charge while the building of the houses is underway. He stated that j contracts would provide that the I houses were to be completed 90 days after the contract was awarded. Bids will be received' on the entire lot or groups of six houses from the contra'ctors. A. R. Aahbaucher was in charge of the program. ASK PROBE OF CLOSED FIRM Small Investors In Middle West Swindled Os Thousands Indianapolis, Aug. 3. —(U.R) —The federal government today was asked to investigate operations of the closed Mann and Co., securities company after reports were received that small investors in Indiana, I Kentucky and Ohio had been swindled of thousands of dollars. The investigation was sought by Louis R. Markum, administrator ot tlie estate of Milton D. Ullman, head of the firm. Four employes of the company were sought for questioning. Ullman died July 17 and was buried in Chicago. Arkum said incomplete records showed the company should have at least $86,000 of investors’ money but that he was able to find assets ot only $250. consisting of furnishings in the company’s former office here. Markum revealed that in 1933 and 1934 the company did a stock , business of $617,000 with 141 cusi tomers from three states. The firm operated a branch office in Terre Haute but when of*(*cUNTLNU*Ejb*ON* PAGE TWO)
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1 SEVEN MEMBERS OF ADJUSTMENT BOARD CHOSEN I i County Tax Adjustment Board Is Named By i Judge, Council BOARD WILL MEET MONDAY, SEPT. 17 Judge Hulber M. DeVoss today announced the re-appointment of I i the six members of last year’s Adams fount ytax adjustment board ' to serve again this year. The county count il in stpecial session this morning appointed the seventh I member of the board, Henry Deh-1 ner. Mr. Dehner will succeed James Kenney. According to law the board is ,' appointed for one year beginning August 15. The members serve ' i without pay. The regular meeting is tlie third Monday in September 1 of each year and continues until ' I all tihe business is transacted. The ' , meeting this year will be Septem- ' ber 17. It is the dmty of the board to examine and. if it deems necessary, 1 revise, change or reduce, but not increase, any tax levy and any cor--1 responding items of the budgets on ! which such tax levies are based an<j apportion the total of all of ’' the levies so that the total levy on property within any municipal cor- ' ; poratioa for all municipal corpora- ’ tions for which the property therein is taxable, including that state ’ j levy. The board does not have author- ’ ity to reduce specific tax levies ’ made by the local officers for the purpose of providing funds for the payment of Obligations of the sev--1 eral municipal corporations itfeurrprior to August 8, 1932. lA<ny ten taxpayers, ot any municipal corporation who own property which will be s«l';xj<ct to the rates 1 finally fixed by the county board of r tax adjustment may appeal there- ' from to Hie state board of tax com- ’ missioners by filing within ten days ‘ thereafter a petition with the coun- > * (CONTINUED ON PAGE SIX) ; I - o — DEATH CLAIMS :i ALBERT BAILEY i ' I I Root Township Resident Dies This Morning Os ! i Complications > 1 Albert Jasper Bailey, 80 year old , resident of Adams county, died at i his home in Root township at 10:45 .' o'clock this morning of complica- > tions. Mr. Baiiey clipped and fell on l the ice last winter and broke his hip. He never recovered f’-om the > injury and had been ill for the last j four months. He was born in Union township land spent his entire life in Adams County. He was a well known plasi terer. He was a son of Nathanial I and Catherine Horvuot Bailey, and was born March 31, 1854. His marriage to Mary M. Brock i took plar e on October 30, 1879. SurI viving besides the widow, is a son, k I Charles Bailey. A daughter is deI ceased. l IMr. Bailey was the last surviving member of a family of eleven chi'ld- | ren. : I 'Funeral services will be held • \ Sunday afternoon at 2 o’clock at JI the home in Root township and at ’'2:3o o’clock at the Union Chapel - United Brethren church ot which .‘ he was a member. Rev. Frank ' Engle will officiate and burial will take place in the Decatur cemetery. ' The body will 'be removed to the [ Bailey residence from the S. E. • Black funeral home Saturday morning. —o — l —' — To Hire Additional FERA Workers Soon I The county FERA allotment for ( August of $2,825 will enable the employment of 10 additional men to , the payroll, according to an announcement made by the local of- . flee today. The new men will be . selected from those having four of more dependents. The pay roll this week was $390.44 for relief. Owners of teams will be paid $9.00. Non-rellief workers on the homesteads project will receive , $14.40. 1
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Intended Vit’tim I I» . /j \, j — Five men are being held in ToI ronto, Canada, in an alleged conspiracy to kidnap J. S. McLean, altove, 58-year-old president of the Canada Packers, Ltd., one of Canada’s leading businessmen I and hold him for SIOO,OOO ransom. 1 The case 13 believed the first of | i its kind in the dominion. VIOLENCE MARS TENNESSEE VOTE Governor And Two Senators Win Renominations In Election Nashville, Tenn.. Aug. 3.—(U.R) — In a state-wide primary marked , by violence and accidents leading . to at least four deaths and several ‘ . injured. Gov. Hill .McAlister and! j Tennessee's two United States sen- . ators, Nathan L. Bachman and Kenneth D. McKellar. won renomin- ‘ ation on basis of late compilation ! ot votes today. Returns from 1,974 of the state’s 2,277 election precincts showed: For governor: Hill McAlister, 176,303. Lewis S. Pope, 127,421. For U. S. Senator: Bachman, 122,718. Rep. Gordon Browning, 91.244. Senator McKellar, who did not I even bother to campaign because ( he felt so sure of renomination, ■ piled up a tremendous majority; over his opponent. Dr. John R. Neal, of Knoxville, who figured in ! the famous Scopes evolution trial | years ago. | The McAlister majority of some 50,000, and Bachman's 25,000 mar- ' gin. came when the Memphis machine of Congressman Ed Crump counted its votes. Prior to that time, McAlister led by 8,000 and Haehman by less than 3,000. Three persons were killed in disturbances attributed to the elec- | tion. John Tarrant, 40, was fatally . injured in a dispute at Madisonville; John Walker was shot to death in an argument at Parsons; j Guy Sutherland was shot to death I (CONTINUED ON PAGE THREE) SCOUTS WILL ATTEND CAMP Sixty Boys And Scoutmasters Will Leave For Camp Sunday Bryce Thomas, Adame county boy commissioner, announc- ; ed today that about 60 scouts and scoutmasters will attend the annual camp to be held this year at Logan . Island at Rome City. The boys wil'l leave Sunday | mornin and will stary for a week. Transportation has been arranged by the sponsoring organizations of the five troops to be represented. I Saylors Motor Co., of this city do-; nated the use of a truck to carry I the food and supplies. A fee Os 50 cents will be charged ! for registration in the camii. Food i for the week’s trip will coet th? boys $2.00. $5.76 made on the auc- : tion sale this year will be applied to the expenses of the trip. Bryr.'e Thoma® and the following scoutmasters will be In charge of the camp: Sylvester Everhart, Rotary troop, 61; Lowell Smith, Lions troop, 62; Edward Jaberg, American Legion troop, 63, Marcel- ; lue Miller, St. Joe troop, 64, and ' Dan Grlle, Geneva troop 66.
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TRUCK DRIVER STRIKE END IS BELIEVED NEAR Federal Mediators Hopeful Os Early Solution Os Troubles RESUMF: TRADE AT CHICAGO MARKET Minneapolis, Aug. 3—<U.PJ Settlement of an 18-day-old strike of (i.OOO truck ilrivers appeared imminent today, tiespite new defiance of martial law by marauding pickets. End of the strike and martial law was presaged by the hopeful mien of federal mediators, conferring alternately wi’h strike leaders and employers. The conciliators held proposals submitted by both sides, with only a few points left in dispute. The cloud in tlie clearing skies ' was a dogged continuance by ! roaming union pickets of guerilla I warfare against truck movements. (Strikers defied natlnoal guard patrols to stop them, even in th® face of wholesale arrests. | Union leaders demanded withdrawal of the soldiers from the . city and cessation of truck operations as a condition to end picketing. Several non-union drivers oper- ' ating with military permits were hauled from their cabs and beaten. National guard trucks with loads of bayonet armed soldiers screamed through the streets repeatedly in answer to reports of new outbursts. Twenty arrests were made yee- < terday, bringing the number of j military arreste to 90 in two 1 days. Despite the union defiance, ! Adjt. Gen. Ellard A. Walsh an- ; nounced that the national guard ■ was “clicking” and that violence ■ would be suppressed. Resume Trading Chicago. Aug. 3—(U.R)—Trading was resumed at the union stockI yards today in oren defiance of *f<X)iJriNlsßD ON PAGE TWO)* OPEN FIGHT ON ILLEGAL SALES State Attorneys Find Old Law In Effort To Halt Liquor Sales Indianaiiolis, Aug. 3. — (U.R) —The state of Indiana struck at illicit liquor dealers today with an old but powerful weapon. A federal liquor law enacted in 1926 governing occupational taxes was unearthed from the statute books in a new drive to halt illegal sales which have become a constant source of worry to state officials. The law. part of the Barnes fed- , eral code, was passed to halt illicit liquor traffic during the days ot ■ prohibition. A copy of the law is in the hands of Fred A. Weicking, deputy attorney general, who wrote the recent (opinion banning liquor sales by Ithe drink. The attorney general’s office, the I state excise department and the forces of the U. S. district court are expected to work hand tn hand in applying the old statute to Indi- ■ ana. Under terms ot the statute, brew- ■ ers, retail dealers in liquor and malt and other types of dealers . in spiritous beverages and eqdi'p- ' ment were subject to payment of *(CONTTNU.ED ON PAGE FIVE) o City School Board Will Meet Tonight ! The city school board will meet this evening to reorganize. The ! meeting was- postponed from Wednesday until today because of the absence of M. iF. Worthman, superintendent of the city schools, who is attending Chicago University. At the meeting tonight the financial report submitted this week by Ira Fuhrman, treasurer of the school board will be discussed. The new budget will be woiked put. There is $21,654.71 in the treasury to operate the schools until the first of the year. Election of officers will also be held.