Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 32, Number 185, Decatur, Adams County, 4 August 1934 — Page 1

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■JECT HEAD ft ISSUE BIDS HOMESTEAD \h> Keeched At ll'»'iie<tead Ot- ■ ficeThis Morning FORMS ■ A I.S(> RIX LIVED PH \ W HrnllS proO'Ct ' I, 3IIII<HIII<V<I l<>■“1h.,1 Hk' iH'itntions I''! ! KirnH<'<’ I' Wl ! ■j,,! ih,' lit h I part <>l next »r nhiis roccivril VWlh<■M <■"•■■•• """ mornJ ■.hit wi I i>"l I"' :iv:nl:d>i<‘ * H"’ ■,. J W ™- «<ll for Chi- ■ s'md.l' .'•■nine to e-t the; «lii'li -a ill be <om■g,< :v on tlin' <b>y- Mr ' Vat h «i'i a>so ii'tilt with the I ■»:'*!> »<i<! ' Mi<i,|; e’oti. f |9ic- us '!.■■ ’ ■‘'•toads in the I west. I’ll additions to the | forms » h !<:»'»• already approved. sundurd bid forms were I-' ih<‘ 1"< »• office [■ 3r Thev tie typed anil ; <■ ■ : 'it out with invitation to Idd. ir forms "''H ini Itt'ie 81’1 the ■ t.-quiied hv accepting tlie Q.i.lans have hemi —^■n; same number ■ . being mad* I" contrartors that thev will . ■ nil houses. Tile must I.i<l in lots of 6. ■ ;>< ~r <s \ large numbet of “"■ - planning to Willi the Siieeessful to tnish supplies. ■Mr. ‘ ill b“ required M : d gov ernment - and details. ■T- -mn another con'n wl i> ''i. \ will agree to: irmly M'eah mined or proI ■>■" a: Hi- •.1 Sial. to pay I tax. - -ales taxes on tiP with tlm provision if I after led- accepted the IBk-.p illumed, the bids in ay altrrw] til ■ ■ !■•' <n. ■>.,(] to s j un ortif'cate t.f . lunpliance with XR.A com comp ‘itioti. must .H-o sign a five per bid hi’nd which will he re■FONT MT!, ON PAGE SIX)’ .%sj o■Won Thieves 9 Murder Farmer ■ Mwtmtne- n 1-,.| . \ug t qj pi township, Owen county. in a Bloomington hospital tofrom boll.-t wounds inflicted ■ """ llf f "v' men he hail warned |9" of his melon patch. Hartfield. 23. has confess- ’ -bots. police said. He tic charged wi’h murder. Hartfield was accompanied by Lonnie. Sr.. Erank Hill. ■T 0 ’ and Franklin Deming. 'Ung Hart field tired three times H|l Bangwell told him to keep of the m. lon patch, police said. ■IB VICTIM I OF CRASH DIES ■Miss.Mary Miles, ( ompan--9 >on 01 Fletcher’s Dies 9 Os Injuries 9Jj’ r l"'“ vnf ' Aur - 4 — < wp > — i i ar ' PS ' 33, Fort Wayne ■ p,. r 3 I ’'*l )in l >H*re last night. |Htr .i r ' <kf an automobile ■ d "-early v,. J . l . ray w . hit . h killtxl fWwons outright. ■ Heli? T : ” Bar,lelt y lnen '’' er °f a prominBvio ° rt ' V4 - v, 'e family. a>d -Mins 9 CIO 0 Gl . rris "' 1 ’ 3d. Fort Wayne, n< 'h. 45, Carlisle, the 9 ntio" 1 ,' 11 "'' 1 " us <lu ‘ ‘ ■ ,r - which side--9 ini ' 8 ,ru ''h. .strip k another auto 9 M °' eUllrtlf ‘ •- WILS critically hurt 9 , may »ot w over. 9 thf 8 -* I '' H ttr ter, Bristol, driver of 9it y.' U< waa absolved of blame. 9 >»d Hi ßart, * rri lriw ' < which struck B oniv i' eJ a hitchhiker near here ■ W three days B , Su .

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Vol. XXXII. No. 185.

Plan Meeting At Monmouth Monday ; Tax and legistlation will be the i principal topic to be dkrcussed at | | a meeting to be held at Monmouth j Tuesday evening. August 7. The meeting will be sponsored by the i Social and Edueational department I of tthe Ada ma County Fann Bureau. 1 The pullillf- la invited. BOARD RULING I RECEIVED HERE 1 a i Adams County To Save $2,860 In Assessors’ Salaries (Adams county will save $2,860, as-cording to a ruling received from the -state board of tax eommiseion--1 era and announced by county auditor John W. Tyndall today. The ruling applies to the law I>aj<sed in the 1*33 evasion of the ! abate legislature which abolished ! the office otf township assessor in [ townships having a population of 5,000 or les,s. The new law, which will go into effect for the first time next -spring when the now asees-sments are made, transfens the duties of the assessor to the township trustee. The act says in part, "The tnus- 1 ' tees of the several townships of thie state having a imputation of S.O(M< or lese, shall perform all the 1 duties of the towns<hi'j> assessor of : such towudikps without additional . eou»peiisatlon. but such trustees, in i performing their duties ae township assessors are hereby authorj ized to employ suc h aseiatant-s as < may be necessary to perform their I respective duties, in the same man- : tier and subject to the same rescric- : ; tions as are provided by law for other towutship asßessore." latter part of this act has j caused considerable confusion in 1 its mterpretalion. Ono theory ia ' that the township trustee should be permitted to hire one more deputy than his predecessor to do his own , wonk. The other theory is that the same number of deputies should be I rehired next year with the trustee tactually doing thaw ork formeny . done by the toartiship assessor. As a deputy assessor is paid $3.00 a day in comparison with the $4.00 a day paid township assessors the : addition of a deputy to the present ‘ numlber would have the tffect of-vir- ■ I tuafly nullifying the law. On the other hand the trustee is required by law to be present at his office I each day to transact any of the I township's business which might i oc. ur. As the spring is one of the j busieet times of the year for the I trustees many of them have held . that they will be unable to properI ly serve in both the capacity of trustee and assessor. | In an attempt to setle the argu--1 ment the state board of tax cotn- ’ i miswioners has sent a form letter | to each county auditor giving and explaining its position on the question. ■ The letter received ty Mr. Tyn- ■ • dall is as follows: 1 'To lhe County Auditor: "i.n reply to the question as to ! the necessary help for the assessing work in townships where the office of township assessor has been »boli ished and the work transferred to the townuhip trustee, it is our opinion that the trustee in the assessing work will be entitled to the 1 same help that was allowed the assessor but not any mo-e. The trustee takes the place of the assessor and must do the as. c.e sor'e work without any additional compensation. Where the assessor was provided help, the trustee may i be granted the same. If this rule is I not followed there would 'b no saving in the expense and that was the intention of rhe legislature where it , albolielied the office of township assessor in all townships having a population of 5,000 or lees. “The county council must make the appropriation. S<v tion 135 oif the tax law. being Section 14,175 ' ■ Burns R. S. 1026, contains this: "Provided, however, that the to- > tai numlber of deputies hall not ex- [ ceed the number for whi h appropriation was made for that year by the county council at its annual or . • special meeting.” i \ “The salary of the township true- . tee is pa<id out of townsh p funds, I j I the other help for the asreiwing of -.property is paid out of county i funds. Very truly yours. State Board of Tax Commissioners t Philip Zoercher,’Chairman Eleven of the 12 townships in the : county will be affected by this <le- > cieion. Only Washington lias over 5.0 W in population.

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As Hitler Bade Hindenburg Farewell xOW I — b □!' Ell y 5 < Mihm fin ” SMI I -SR a-iKA-l ABBflWr B / IW' tit ' I " MJafe S w x Bi B Radioed from Germany, this photo shows Chance'lor Adolf Hitler, center, escorted by a black uniformed S. 8- guard, leaving the Neudeck, East Prussian estate of relch’s president. Paul Von Hindenburg, in company with the latter's son. Col. Oskar, after the Nazi dictator had bade a last farewell to the 86-year-old field marshal hero. With the passing of Hindenburg. Hitler quickly wiped out constitutional succes-j sion provisions, and assumed full poweis by combining the duties and offices of chancellor and president.

NEW RULINGS ON HOG CONTRACTS Two New Administrative Rulings Apply To 1934 Hog Contracts Washington, Aug. 4—Two new administrative rulings applj’ing to the 1934 corn hog contract ami of t particular interest to cooperating pr< ducers living in the drought areas have been prepared by tho agricultural adjustment administration. Previous restrictions on feeder : pigs have been modified to permit corn hog contract signers to i make unlimited purchases of sucn ; pigs during die period. August 1, I 1934 and November 30, 1934. , Originally, under the terms of ( paragraph 3 of the contract, a producer could not increase the number of feeder pigs bought in 1931 | above the adjusted average num- ■ I l>er Imught in 1932-33. In exercising the new privilege iof unlimited purchase of feeder animals, however, the contract signer must either keep such ptir- . chased pigs separate from hogs i produced on the farm or make them subject to ready identification by ear marks or other reliable ■ means of identification. Within | one weak following the date of I tiny purchase, the producer also i must file with the county allot-1 i ment committee, a statement. showing (1) the date the state i ment was submitted to the county allotment committee, (2) the date | i of purchase. (3) tlie name and ad ' dress of selle;-, (4) number and ’(CONTINUED On’pAGE SIX) CLAIM CRUGERS WFRE SOLICITED Federal Government To Investigate Soliciting Os Relief Funds Indianapolis, Aug. 4.— (U.R) — Investigation of reports that grocers I in North Township. Lake county, | who are selling poor relief sup-1 plies, were solicited for funds to help finance the primary campaign for township trustee was ordered today by the federal emergency re- ’ lief administration. Notice of the investigation was received at headquarters of the governor's unemployment relief' commission from Howard O. Tunt-1 er. field representative for the FERA. A preliminary report of the al-. leged irregularities said the groc-; ers were soliyted lit relief workers. If the grocers refused to con-' tribute a percentage of their sales, they were threatened with removal j from the list of stores approved to j sell poor relief supplies. The federal government entered the case because of the money it contributes to relief.

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Decatur, Indiana, Saturday, August 4, 1934.

Rev. Prugh Is Enroute Home Rev. Charles A. Prugh, pastor of | the" Zion Reformed church in this city, will arrive in New York next Thursday, having sailed from Ham , burg. Germany, August 1. Rev. Prugh has been gone ten w<>eks. He studied at Heidelberg University and obtained his Doctor of 77<eology degree. Rev. Prugh was a student at the German unii versity before being ordained to the ministry and took special work . this summer. Mrs Prugh will leave Sunday for New York and will meet her husband when he lands. STATE HEALTH BEST IN YEARS ’j I Mortality Rate In Indiana Is Lower Than Ever In History Indianapolis, Aug. 4 — (U.R) — Hoosier health is the best in history. Dr. Thomas B. Rice, assistant director of the state board of health reported today. Drastic reduction in the numbers of deaths during 1923 was reinorted ami the mortality rate never was lower, he said. Tuberculosis. diphtheria an-1 smallpox, diseases with the highest fatality rate, showed a decided decrease while typhoid fever registered a slight gain over 1932. ■ Use of unsatisfactory sanitary i equipment by poor communities during the depression was cited by Dr Rice as (lie cause of the i typhoid fever in< rease. Infant mortality reached its low- ! est point in history. Th? maternal ! death rate increased slightly in | 1933 as compared with 1932, but I the number of I abies saved showed a corresponding increase. Only 13 more mothers were lost i ’ in the state in 1933, but 225 more' I babies were saved. Dr. Rice predicted that the scari let fever and measles mortality rate for the current year will be, i higher than in 1933. Only 13 • deaths were reported from the diseases in 1933, but the mortality ra»e is expected to reach the 192 G figure when 374 deaths occurred. Organic heart diseases led tlie mortality list with 6,077 deaths in , 1933. Deaths from all cause, totalled 38.032 —with a rate of 11.6 i deaths per 1.000 population. A tot <1 of 50.500 births were reI corded during the year. The rate (OONT.INUKD ON PAGE SIX) —o Rules Nurses Can’t Give Anaesthetics i I Indianapolis, Ind., Aug. 4 —(UP) ' —lt is illegal for a registered nurse ■to administer an anaesthetic, Atty. I Gen. Philip Lutz, Jr . ruled today in ,an opinion to the state board &f I medical registration and examination. Lutz held, that only licensed physicians could art as aneasthetisits.

60 SCOUTS TO ATTEND CAMP Decatur And Geneva Leave Sundav For Week’s Outing I I,ogan Island on Sylvan Lake at 1 Rome City where the five troops of Adams county Boy Scouts wifi spend the next week, was piin hased several years ago in connection with the Gene Stratton Porter estate on tlie mainland. The island includes 80 acres of ■ wooded land untouched by cult!-’ vation. The small clearing on the ' water front is used for the camp I site. ( As the scouts will lose th«| Gene Stratton-Porter estate this 1 year for financial reasons all the ' equipment, is being moved from , there to Logan Island. Enough tents with wooden' floors have been erected to accomodate 150 boys. A large mess tent is also included in the camp. The water front equipment has been moved there providing ample opportunities for swimming ami diving. The boys, who will leave here Sunday for a week's camp, will pay only 50 cents each for the use of the camp. The rest of the expense of maintaining the camp is taken care of by the Anthony! i Wayne Area Council. Cooking for the boys will be' , done by tlie scoutmasters under; (CONTINUED ON PAGE SIX)’ NAZIS SEEK TO POLL HUGE VOTE ' I 1 Minister of Propaganda 1 Works For Hitler Landslide h Berlin, Aug. 4 —(UP)— Joseph Goebbels, minister propaganda. 1 today worked on a high pressure j drive to bring Germans in mass to l I tlie polls August 19 to vote Adolf, Hitler into office as President-chan-cellor under his -self selected title <if Feuhrer and Reich Chancellor. Hitler was installed already—'and lega'ly under the broad powers of the Nazi cabinet and is the ' moot ai.is'olu'le auto rat in civilized ‘ world. 1 But the Nazis, realizing doubts j ’ at home and abroad as to the 1 strengl h of the sulbmerged but not j 1 dead opposition elements, were, 1 j eager to get out a landslide vote to i 1 chow plainly that Hitler was want-j ed by the nation on his own terms. |' I Ooel.bels, acting technically as propaganda chief of the Nazi party i 1 instead us t'he government, was ex- 1 ported to get speakers out into the : country next week to stir up paitrio- 1 ■ tic sentiment, and to keep party ' i workers active getting out the vote. Government commissioners were ' *7cONTINUW*ON PAGE SIX) <

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PRESIDENT ON INSPECTION OF POWER PROJECT Roosevelt Delivers Short Address At Scene Os Project GREAT RECEPTION GIVEN PRESIDENT i Aboard President Roosevelt’s | Special Train, en route to Ephraia. Wash., Aug. 4— (U.K) —President Roosevelt struck out into the bea' t of rugged Washington state ! today to see for himself the gov-' < riimt nt's $60,000,000 power, navl■•ation and irrigation project at. Grand Coulee. On the last lap of his 15,000 mile trip inspection the workings of the new deal, the chief executive planned to motor to the Gr nd Coulee workings from Ephrata, a ‘iny dot on the map' in this mountainous and wooded country. He entered the state of Washington last night from Oregon, where he visited the Bonneville Dam site near Portland, one of the yardsticks of his “power for the people” policy. Enthusiastic over the reception given him in Oregon and impress- , ed with the swift progress of the !i< nneville undertaking. the i President looked forward to his Grand Coulee visit with a feeling that the administration's long ' range social and economic proi gram was justified fully. In a brief address during his inspection of the $30,000,000 ; workings, Mr. Roosevelt said that the development of the Columbia < river there should be just a starti er for a much gt eater expansion In the future. , "While we are improving naviga’ion we are creating power, more power, and I always believe in the old saving of more power to you." he said. “I don't believe vou can have enough power for a long time <o come and the power we will deve'op here is going to be power which for all time is going to be controlled by the government." He spoke from a platform roughly made from fir logs. Back of him were the green walls of the towering cascades and the swiftly flawing Columbia, “river of the west." About him were steam shovels, silent for the moment, and workers in soiled clothing. "When in Portland two years ago 1 laid down the principle of the need of government yardsticks so that the people of this country will know whether they < are paying the proper price for electricity of all kinds," he said. "The government can create yardsticks. At that time one already hid been started on the Colorado river. Since then two other yardsticks have been undertaken. one in the Tenncsses valley <and the other on the Columbia, The fourth, the St. Lrfwrence, is going to be started.” Worthman Is III; Meeting Delayed The Decatur school board will f meet Monday evening for the purpose of electing officers. Tlie meeting scheduled for last night was postponed on account of the illness of W. F. Worthman. city j superintendent of s.hoolu. Mr. Worthinian returned from Chicago Thursday and is ill at his home. Dr. Burt Mangold is president of the board. — o — Hurls Charges At State Department Indianapolis, Aug. 4. — (II.R) — Charges that the state securities department could have saved investors thousands of dollars by re-' voking the license of Mann and Co., Indianapolis securities firm,' featured investigation of the company’s alleged “bucket shop” ac-: tivities today.” Pleas for a state investigation of the firm that went unheeded by William O'Neill, securities commissioner, would have been acted upon vigorously by other commis-; sioners, T. N. Overly, head of the Indianapolis Better Business Bureau. declared. The firm maintained luxurious, offices here until recently when all officers and employes disappear-1 ed.

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[Newspaper Man Dies In Crash Veedersburg, Ind., Aug. 4— (U.R)! i Percy Lea, 28,. son of Luke Lea, ' ' Nashville, Tenn., newspaper publisher, was killed and five companions were injured late yesterday In an automobile accident j near here. Their automobile struck a (ruck and overturned. Lea and his companions, all clrI < illation representatives of the ■ I Lea newspaper, were returning , from the world’s fair. EXERCISES HELD THIS MORNING Col. C. M. Carter Gives Commencement Address To Auctioneers i “You must become a leader in your community — profession—and .of men in this great battle of life," exhorted Col. C. M. Carter of’ Scottisville, Kentucky, in a commencement address before the 29 graduates of the Reppert School of Auctioneering held in Bellmont Park this morning. The commencement exercises began at 10 o’clock this morning. I Class songs and yells composed part of the program. The exercises concluded the three-week school term. Each student made a farewell address to the class and each of the instructors gave a short talk. Col. Carter is an instructor in and a graduate of the school. His address was entitled “The Beginning of a Professional Career.” His address is in part: “You have attended the kindergarten, the grades and high school. Some have had the privilege of a college career, the object of which was to better prepare you for your 1 life’s vocation. Having decided to become an auctioneer, which means a super-salesman, you came to the Reppert Auction School, at Decatur. Indiana, to study at the feet of these masters of their professions. Each instructor with a national reputation in his line, the president and owner of the school, Col. Fred Reppert, internationally known as the greatest auctioneer of all time. The college building not a brown stone mansion with marble doors, but a large comfortable building with a background of beautiful maple trees, the splendid lake, bringing you close to nature, the greatest inspiration of all — God’s handiwork. "First of all you were impressed with the high moral standard of i the school, which has done so much in placing the auction profession on a higher plane. It convinces i you that auctioneering is not only an art, but an honorable, pleasant, i profitable occupation. 1 am indeed 1 grateful to have had the privilege of graduating from this great in-1 stitution, and t'eel highly honored in being a member of the staff of . instructors. 1 only wish that 1 had ! words at my command to paint a picture of what the future holds in store for you if you will put into i effect the teachings of this great institution. “You are at the beginning of a professional career, a profession of responsibility for in your hands will: be intrusted the personal property, l real estate, in fact the entire world and its contents are for sale. You . are one of the many salesmen that will convert it into cash. You ‘ stand between the buyer and the j seller and it is your duty to dispose ‘ of the goods intrusted in your care jat a fair price. To do this you must have the confidence of the buyer. To secure the sales you must have the confidence of the . owner. It is indeed the beginning of a great and noble professional career. “Gentlemen, today you are look’TcONTANUED ON PAGE SIX) Escaped Prisoner Recaptured Today Inditfnapolis, Aug. 4.—-(U.R)-—Roy | Weaver, 31, Paragon, one of two ' prisoners who slugged their way out of the Monroe county jail July ; 30, was behind the bars again today. He was captured by Indianapolis detectives after completing the sale of a stolen automobile. Weaver's companion in the escape, Marvin Roache, 27, has not ■ been found. They were being held at the Bloomington jail on charges of robbery, having been identified as i participants in the holdup of a I general store at EUetsvllle.

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TWO PICKETERS SEVERELY HURT THIS MORNING Non-Union Driver Fires Shotgun Into (Jang Os Strikers REPORT NEITHER MAN IS SERIOUS Minneapolis, Aug. 4.—(U.R)— Two picketing truck drivers were shot and severely wounded by a non-union driver today in a new wave of the violence which has tilled 19 days of a paralyzing transportation ! strike. George Schirts, 28, was ' shot in the head, and Earl Collins, 36, was shot in a leg. Physicians said neither was in dangerous condition. Patrol cars of national guards- ' men converged at the scene of the fighting within a few minutes. Leo Holsher, the shooting driver of a truck which Schirts and Collins i had halted, was taken into cus--1 tody. i Guardsmen found the wounded pickets on the ground, Holsher Mood over them with a shotgun. The remainder of a band of guerilla pickets, one of those which lias spread a reign of terror through Minneapolis streets, had fled. | Holsher said that about 15 pickets attacked him and his helper, Alfred Nelson, while they were making deliveries in an ice cream truck, operating under a military I permit. “They hit me in the back with I a rock, smashed the windshield and began to throw ice cream around the street,” Holsher said. “I grabbed a shotgun I carried ! on the roof of the cab and fired. I , aimed lo<w. and I think most of the , shots his the ground.” To Close Municipal Pool For Cleaning W. Guy Brown, supervisor of the Decatur munioipal swimming pool, I announced today that the pool will be closed Sunday evening for cleaning. The regular Schedule will be observed Sunday afternoon and everyone will be permitted to swim I from 2 to 5 o'clock. ■ 1 ■ o Summons Received By Local Officer I Deputy Sheriff Dallas Hower received today 29 summons from AF len county in connection with the Indiana Liberty Mutual Insurance Company which is now in the hands of the receiver. The summons were semt out to Adams county stockI holders in the company. Assessments are (being made against the stockholders. The i amounts vary from $805.74 to $6.50. HOLD EXHIBIT HERE MONDAY Clothing Exhibit, Dress Revue At High School Building The Decatur improvement 4-H club will hold a clothing exhibit and dress revue in the domestic science rooms of the Decatur high school Monday evening at 7:30 o’clock. A special invitation has been issued to mothers of club members. members of the Decatur Woman's club and home economies clubs, sponsors of the improvement. club. IPifty girls will exhibit clothing made during the summer school vacation. Fourteen of these exhibitors will be selected by judges to take part in the county show at Berne next week. The dub has been meeting each Wednesday afternoon during the summer in the domestic science I rooms. Officers of the club are: president, Wilma Miller; vice-president Esther Baumgartner; secretary, Betty Cook; news reporter, Marjorie Massonee. The volunteer leaders of the club are the Mesdames William Huffman, J. M. Briener, T. ,1. Metzler, Arthur Miller, Charles Teeple, L. E. Archbold, Dehna Elzey. Charles Knapp, and the Misses Grace Coffee and Alice Jane Archbold.