Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 32, Number 187, Decatur, Adams County, 7 August 1934 — Page 1

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■EMI HITES Ibjtomy for 111 HINDENBURG 1,1 Unices Are Held Er Belo' ed President ■ Os Germany ■itiEK DELIVERS |AEK\i . ORATION vri ..|,i !'■ II" United Press) Eutenlnru. Eusl Prussia. ■ - UP I iis'/lt iit Paul I E'linuh libi I ~ "i ,s 'etm nKhluv lo l'.'7‘ver in j ■ ...I Ik- iii 010 historic bv ■ .;.i,,rv "I l aimenberg i Krlhe vroi't ,V„", S s ‘ a “ ' ■(her hi'l""l' Hitler. I ■>„ liectiine supreme ruler ration «h'-ti Hindenburg ■d rilled him ”>•’ guardian of rebirth. K »as a rum :il oration, devot-1 ■to eulogy of the deal soldier-1 ■Mtnan. bn' in '• was ”' e I K r hi that Hili' r the war tint.?. ■neral ami the Nazi fuehrer. K|j continti-' without pause the I ■epr.'iu.'Ui wotk of remaking H: ' ■pri.p in <1 -urn nv’s arms was In L sppo h • \. i • '-''l by mingling ( iadenburg's name with his mar- ■ victories. Hinduniiurc. Hitler said, was )M too late to the supreme I amand. But '-ven then, he con- } nod. he w m victory after vicry. inspiring th.- Herman army attack instead of defend. Then bark a- president after its of retirenu nt: «li j. of Hi most wonderful I jtlinos of providence that tier the pr> idency of this j tales! of -rs and servant*} the ideals of our nation, pre-, ration could be made and thef rtals finally opened for the nrrMion of the nation. “As president of tie reich ami lid marshal he became the | aniian el national socialist} rotation, and tl.us of the rebirth the nation." In the rinsing voice of the Itnr who has the power to kgnetize to rniuiis. Hitter conIdeil: "Dead war lord, enter now into tola." A few minutes later for the ’ st time since Hindenburg's ■ nil the Nazi fife and drum | rw. in ai i urdam-e with military i dition, play. d in the streets. Hindenburg'; body remained ing in state today while mil-1 ■' of people iwtssed before it [ I th* great memorial that marks I victory. [His body will lie in the field 1 Minis' tower of the great me- I pdai- a symbol of German’s ! Mai valor. iThere the great man will Join : iel."3,7fM (e'rn.anscnd l,2(h),o<ii) IKWiNUED ON PAGE TWO) k o “t New Asphalt Roof On Library Anew asphalt roof is being plae-1 lon the city iib rar y 'building on | "Hi Third street. The library I * r <l awarded the contract to A. Ashbatich-r tin shop. The new which is 63 by 49.7 feet square 111 completed this week. o ■OCAL MEN AT PARTY MEETING Nelson, Judge De’oss Attend District Meeting I'Vhan Nelson, Democratic coun- ■ '“airman and Judge H. M. De attended the Fourth district} iiwtton meeting at Wawame *sterja y . 2J?' 1 Simmons, state director of 1 " "orlts and fourth district rtnan presided at the meeting. } "" ,or opening the district ! ►mi" ?n WPre ‘1 Phased and Se>p*r 5 or September 12, fixed as b W i * (la "‘ s for the holding the hyne*' e ' t * ler ' n Atfburn or Fort James I. Farley irs OnP of , *’ e -Principal speak:h. j- erman Menton, candidate for «Kla' 1 ' tW ' Statea senate, will atMe. 1,10 llate was und ecided in sbmi,/ 0 Colrform to Mr. Minton’s Wiakl »6 itinerary.

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NEW OFFICERS ARE INSTALLED Knights Os Columbus Officers Are Installed Monday Night Officers of the Knights of Cotambus were Installed at ceremonies held at the K. of C. hall last evening. Henry Hasley, Fort Wayne, district deputy and staff ot officers were in charge of the ceremonies. Francis ‘'Pat" Costello, clerk in the Decatur pout office was install- | ed as grand knight. Oth r officers ' are: lElmo Smith, deiputy grand I knight; .Leo Ullman, chan, ellor; 1 Edward Voglewede, warden; Ray 1 Wertzberger, recording s< < retary; 1 Joe treasurer; Pete Doshe inner guard; Carl Kohne. ou'< r guard; Frank Gillig, advocate; Clayeon J. Carroll, trustee. Grand knight Coetello announced 1 the appointment of Pat Miller as 1 financial secretary and Rev. Father I Joseph Hennes, chaplain of the | council. Talks were made <by Mr. Hasley and Father Hennes. Mr. Hasley told 1 of plans for a district K. of C. pic--ni to be held at the Elk’s country ( clulh. September 9. Albout 100 members attended the } nueting. (Several of the memiiers returnI ed from the layman’s retreat held at Notre Dame university, condud- ' ing Sunday. Between 25 and 30 De--1 catur men attended the retreat. | nearly one thousand being in attendance from Indiana and adjoining states. 0 Sunday School Board Will Meet Wednesday The Sunday ft hool board of the i De. ajur M.-thodist church will t' meet in the church at 7:30 ol lock Weftnwday b'vdlTinst' Su-peWbtend ent W. Guy Brown is requesting a | large attendance. CLUB SHOW TO OPENTHURSDAY County 4-H Club Show Will Be Held At Berne This Week Final plans are being made for 'the opening ot the county 4 H club; i show at Berne Thursday. Tents are being erected at dis- j ferent places for the housing of | live stock. . The calf club show will be held ! in a tent on the Pennsylvania railroad grounds. Colts will be housed in a tent at 1 the A. J. Moser and company lot ; I east of the auditorium. Home economics club and 4-H j duh exhibits will be shown at the 1 auditorium. Friday morning at 9 o’clock the 1 1 judging ot tile 4-H club calves will . take place at the railroad lot and at 2 o’clock the judging of the 4-H club colts will take place on the} lot east of the auditorium. The 4-H club dress revue will } take place at the auditorium Thurs-} 1 day evening from 7:15 to 8:301 o'clock and the band concert on the main square will be from 8:30} to 9:30 p. m. The home economics i dress revue will take place at the auditorium on Friday at 8 p. m., and a free street program in charge ' of W. O. Neuenschwander. Jeff Liechty and Fred Blum an nounce that they are still taking [applications for the horse pulling} I contest which will be held on Sat urday. Two contests will be held, one for heavy teams and one for the lighter teams. The contests will be held south of the Brady ■ Brothers stockyard starting at 9 I (CONTINUED ON FAGE SIX) . o- - Add 1,885 Employes To Postal Service Washington, Aug. 7. —(U.R)~P°stI master General Janies A. Farley 1 moved today to improve the postal 1 service. Fresh from his swing around the nation, Farley’s first official act was to announce that 1,885 employes would be hired in various postoffices throughout the country. The appointments become effective Aug. 16. The new jobs will go to senior substitute employes. Need for the additional help was developed by a survey made by the department.

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Jones Ready For $26,000,000 Teachers’ Relief ■ I > x V2L • \ ■ " i A* 'l' i Jesse Jones, chairman of the Reconstruction Finance Corpor.ition; Mrs. Jones and Mrs. Woodrow Wilson (right), widow of the war-time President, as they arrived in Chicago. Mr. Jones announced himself ready to begin work at once on the job of approving security for the $26,000,000 loan which the RFC ' has agreed to make to pay teachers’ back salaries.

ESCAPED MEN MAY BE TRIED Two Convicts Facing Possible Life Terms For Robbery Indianapolis. Auk. 7-<U.R>— Tin possibility of returning two escap|ed convicts from the state prison ito Evansville for trial and probable Iffe sentences was considered today by Gov. Paul V. McNutt. The governor conferred with W. ■K. Denton. Vanderburgh county 1 prosecutor, late yesterday on tbe proposal. 4. Tina uxuvicte are Louis.CXaiJ and Kenneth Rogers, who were cap- > tured at Hopkinsville, Ky. Aug. i 13, one week after they escaped I with three others from the prison I hospital. | Denton wishes to have them re-, ' tfirned to Evansville for trial in i ' connection with a filling station ' robbery in which the attendant was wounded. Slate law will perI tn it a life sentence for robbery wtih a firearm. Indicating he favored the trial 'if the men could be given life i terms, the governor told Denton , , the convicts would be returned to I 1 the prison and kept in solitary i confinement about 30 days while i he considered the proposal. Lack of funds precludes any | possibility of constructing a fence i I around the prison honor farms! 1 from which numerous escapes I [ have been made, the governor ! said. Discussing the escape of Alonzo Striker, whose disappearance from the Warren farm Aug. 3 was not ’ announced until yesterday, the governor reiterated that it was ! not an escape but was a "walkaway.” "There is nothing to escape from,” he explained. "Those men ' are trusties and live on the farm. (CONTINUEd’oN* PAGE FIVE) APPROVE LOAN FOR TEACHERS Huge Loan Will Be Used . To Pay Chicago School Teachers Chicago. Aug. 7—<U.F>)— Chicago school teachers are going back on the currency standard — they’re going to get paid. Within two weeks the 14,000 | men and women who have worked through the depression with lower incomes than unskilled laborers are going to receive more than 125.000,000. For the first time iti four years their pay checks will be up to date. The huge payday — an almost miraculous windfall to teachers who even had considered writing off the entire sum as dead loss--was assured when Jesse H. Jones, chairman of the Reconstruction Finance Corporation, approved a loan of $22,500,000 to the city school board. First mortgage bonds on school board real estate not being used for educational purposes was posted as collateral. Each of the city’s teachers will (CONTINUED ON PAGE FIVE)

ONLY DAILY NEWSPAPER IN ADAMS COUNTY

Decatur, Indiana, Tuesday, August 7, 1931.

Local Firemen To Meet Tonight Fire chief Jack Friedt announced today that a meeting of the regular and volunteer firrtnen of the city will be held this evening to determine who will go to the annual convention of state firemen to be held this year at Fort Wayne, today Wednesday and Thursday. Fred Engle, Mrs. Fred Engle. Mrs. Erwin Elz< y and Mrs. Herman Dierkes are attending the first session today. 1 IAI G. Feeney. Indianapolis, state director of public safety will be one of the speaker*! at the convention Other state officials who will attend will be: Clem Smith, state fire marshall; Archie M 4’abe, deputy state fire marshal, and Carl Steup, of the Indiana insp intion Ujireau. o — CAMP MEETING OPENS SUNDAY Annual C amp Meeting Will Be Held At Monroe August 12-26 The annual camp meeting of the I Adams County Holiness Associa-1 tion will open at Monroe Sunday,; August 12, and will continue, through Sunday, August 26. Th ■ workers will include Rev. I Jese Whiteh otton of Marion, evan- j ' I gelist; Burl Sparks, Seymour, song ' leader; Mrs. Cora Hathaway of New Madison. Ohio, pianist and children’s worker. Three services will be held on Sundays, beginning at l(>;30 a. m.: 2 and 7:30 p. m. Services will bet held each day of the week except I Mondays and Saturdays. Afternoon : services will be at 2 o’clock and I evening sessions at 7:45 o'clock. On August 23, Missionary day ' wil be observed with an all-day ' program. Sessions will open at 10 a. m., 2 and 7:45 p. m. Recover Bodies I Os Dead Miners Big Stone Gap. Va., Aug. 7 — j (UP) —‘Rescue workers recovered . at 6:20 a. m. today the last of the j bodies of 17 coal miners killed yes- 1 terday when a dust explosion rocked the No. 3 Deitby mine of the Stonega coal and coke company. Eight bodies were recovered short-, ly after the detonation. The other | nine victims were removed in rescue operations during the night. An investigation of the trag dy was underway today, conducted by ■ the U. S. bureau of mines. Origin | of the blast had not been determin 1 ed. o 200 Coal Miners Defy Authorities Lens, France, Aug. 7 — (U.R) i , Two hundred Polish coal miners. I holding a group of French miners > as prisoners, were barricaded 1,600 feet underground today, de-1 tying authorities to oust them. ( The miners have been underground since yesterday morning. It was believed they might have rations sufficient for several days, j The Poles acted in protest i against the discharge of fellow workers during communist demonstrations here May 26.

THREE STATES CASTING VOTE Missouri, West Virginia And Kansas Hold Primary Elections By United Press The new deal, receiving its bap-1 tism of fire in primaries for the fall elections, went to the test before voters of three states today. ; In Missouri, West A’irginia and Kansas citizens made their primary selections today. Although local issues predominated in most cases, the fate of candidates running on platforms of support of Roosev'dt policies attractelT wide ! interest. A complicated Missouri democratic senatorial nomination was being decided. Senator Bennett Clark is supporting Rep. Jacob L. Milligan, a friend of world war days. The powerful Kansas City , organization of Ross Tom Pendergast has put forward Harry S.} Truman, a Jackson county judge } The St. Louis democratic organization has its own candidate in | Rep. John J. Cochran. Longstreet Cleveland of Columbia is a fourth entry. The race is expected to be close. The prestige of the Pendergast organization is at stake. } Sen. Roscoe Patterson, outspoken critic of tlie new deal, is without ; opposition for the republican ( nomination. Tn West Virginia the chief fight 1 again is for the democratic senatorial nomination. Clem Shaver. ■ former democratic national com-} mittee chairman is supnorted bv ' Postmaster General James A. Farley. His strongest opponent has been United States Senator W. E. Chilton. Charleston publisher. Four candidates are contesting the republican nomination with (CONTINUED ON PAGE FOUR) FORMERUFFICE HOLDERS LOSE Two ex-Govcrnors Are Defeated In Kentucky Primary Vote Frankfort. Ky„ Aug. 7 — (U.R) — Two former governors who sought to return to public life and the} widow of a congressman who; sought to follow in her husband's footsteps were defeated in tlie congressional primaries Saturday. [ the count showed today. The governors were William i Fields, democrat, and Edwin P. Morrow, republican, who were beaten in their party races by Congressman Fred M. Vinson, Ashland, and by former U. S. Senator John M. Robison, respectiveI'y. Mrs. Katherine Lingley. widow of Congressman John Langley, lost to Harry H. Ramey in the G. O. P. contest in the seventh dis-1 trict. All but two of the nine incumbent democratic congressmen apparently were renominated. Finley Hamilton withdrew from the contest in the ninth district —a (CONTINUED ON PAGE FOUR)

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WILLIAM VARE DIES TODAY AT ATLANTIC CITY Former Philadelphia Republican “Boss’ Dies This Morning HELD CONTROL FOR NEAR GENERATION Atlantic City, N. J., Aug. 7—l I (U.R' -William 8. Vare, who for } nearly a generation held political j control of Philadelphia, died today } at Ids Atlantic City home. He was one of the last of the [old-time political "bosses" who,' 30 years ago, controlled various i key cities of the nation. He was | I 66 years old. His death, which occurred at i 11:30 am. brought to an end the I Republican dynasty that dated } back more than 50 years, to the | : vigorous days of Matt Quay. Boies ' . Penrose and Jim McNichol. Actually, the "organization” I I which Vare inherited had its orig-} i ination in lite days of Thaddeus Stevens, irreconcilable foe of Abraham Lincoln. It was built and I cemented together by Stevens, } and handed down practically In-1 [ tact, to the various successors. Vare was one of three brothers. I } George and Ed Vare, older than ;he was, threw him into politics }in 1898, when lie bec-ime a city . I councilman and shortly thereafter ! its president. His greatest political triumph— ' ! and defeat —came when he resign- | [ ed from congress to run for the i senate. In a bitter campaign, he ' i defeated George Wharton Pepper j and Gifford Pinchot, and then as easily beat William B. Wilson, bis (CONTiNUED*ON PAGE? FIVE) . TENSION GROWS IN LOUISIANA Two Shootings In New Orleans Increase Tension Throughout City New Orleans. Aug. 7—(UP) Two shootings at National guard billets i increased tension today as city offt'ials went to court, bent on disi persing the state militia and jailing i Senator Huey P. Long and adjutant | general Ray Fleming for contempt. } A shot rang out this morning | from the registrar of voter:’ office i in the Soule building, where troops are holding Fort. ‘City police, moibilize’d to fight I ' Senator Long’s militia and his state I i political machine, ran to the win- i I dows of City hall., across a narrow side street from the Soule building I thinking the soldiers had oipened fire on them. The troop commander said the shot was fired accidentally by a sergeant unloading a 12-gauge riot . gun. The •'harge crashed into the ceil- | ing of the Soule building and broke ; I a window, directly across the way | from the office of Mayor 8. S. I ! Walmsley, in the second floor of} ! City Hall. During the night, sots were fire' 1 i at a prowler by a sentry at J-aj -k- j j son Barracks, billet for troop reini forcements. Native Os Adams County Is Dead iMrs. Ellen Phillips, 71, died at a hospital at Fort Wayne at 7. a.m I this morning after an illness of two j I years of cancer. :She was born in Kirkland town- | ship, Adams County on April 7, : i 1863 a daughter ot Peter and Julia IM. Schaffter Parrott. She was a | ! school teacher for 30 years in Ad-1 - ams County and North Dakota. Her first husband, Thomas T. j i Walker died In 1892 and she later married Jesse O. Phillips, also de- j ceased. .Surviving are three sisters. Funeral services will be held Thursday afternoon at 2 o’clock at } the Linn Grove Evangelical church. ‘ Burial in Greenwood cemetery at Linn Grove. Release Woodward Youth From Hospital (Ervin Woodward son of Ganth Woodward, Tocsin who was as eidentally shot Sunday afternoon.' was discharged from the Adams county memorial hospital today. I

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Presidential Train To Stop At Garrett (By United Press President Franklin D. Roosevelt will make only one atop in Indiana, 'at Garrett, Thursday when he } passes through the state over the I B. and O, on his return trip to Washington. | The presidential train will atop [ for five minutes at Garrett, arriv- [ ! Ing at 8:01 p. m. CST. and leaving I at 8:06 p. m„ (IST. according to a I tentative schedule announced toI day. _— o 75 ADDED TO GAMELEAGUE; More Than 100 Conser- ; vation League Members [ Attend Meeting i The admission of 75 new mem- ; iters at a meeting of the Adams' j county fish and game conservation ' league Monday evening at Bellmont , i Park now makes the league the | largest in the state. j Over 400 members attende'd the , .meeting Monday. Th- important ( business of the .meeting was the dis-} } position of the 200 pheasants now ! ( [owned by the cluib and penned at}, ; the Dallas Brown farm. } ( The league vote'J to give 25 } I pheasants each to the Berne and 1 Geneva leagues. These bird . are of I i the 150 half grown pheasants allott- i | ed to the county last week by the } state department of conservation, i ' The other 100 pliseasants will bo } i kept on the Dallas Brown farm un-j i til after thet lose ofl the hunting'fccason next spring, when they will be ‘ released at various points over the I county. The league now has 50 matured [ pheasants on the Dallas Brown ‘ fanm. it was voteki at the meeting | to give the birds to six members at , I the league, who have agreed to SUP- ‘ j etwise the hatching oif the eggs next ■' spring. It is estimated that eadh I pheasant hen will lay about 50}' eggs in one season. This will mean , that the league will have albout } 1,000 young pheasants next year. The old pheasants will be placed ' on the fanms of the following lea- [} gue members: Hardin, Wil-1; } liam RicodJ. Fred Geimer, Harold . j Harvey, William Patterson and Wil-j [ } liam Rich. } The board o.f directors of the league was ordered to inspect the 16 ' young coons on the william Ricord farm near Berne with t'he purpose}' of purchasing them. If the league i voted to buy the coons, the females ' 1 will be bred and released over the | [ county after the hunting season < next spring. The matter of the pollution oif i the rivers and streams in the couni ty was also did.ussed. ( Game Warden Willis Hanlin ; j made a short talk to the league ‘ memtnibers. He asked that elftorts I be made to halt the violation of . game laws and especially the kill- f ing of pheasants and other game ( I brought into the county by the league- s o c ANNUAL MOOSE • PICNIC SUNDAY ■ Stag Picnic Will Be Held t In Frank Linniger s Grove Sunday 1 e The annual Moose stag picnic i: will be held Sunday in Frank Lin-1 ’ niger’s grbve, tour miles west of | * ' Decatur on state road 224. The loca-} , tion was changed from the Magley } ■ } woods to the Linniger grove, be- J ' cause eld 1 trie wires could be strung I to the picnic grounds. A large crow'J is expected at the ! pj. nic. (Invitations have been ex- j i tended to lodges at Portland, Mun- < cie, Bluffton, Huntington, Fort < Wayne and Van Wert. t Momibers of .Adams Post No. 43 of f I the American Legion and of the i [ B. P. O. Elks are also invited to < I the reunion. i A free lunch will be served dur- } ing the day and a program of enter- i I tainment held. In the morning the t . Van Wert and Moose teams will 1 play a soft ball game. t A large tent will be erected on < the grounds and the committee in t charge announces that the event i ! will be held rain or shine. The com- ’ ■ mittee is composed ot Sol Lord, i [ dictator oif the lodge; Ralph Bur t nett, Adam St.hafer and Jesse B. i I Roop. <

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PRESIDENT ON AUTO TOUR OF STRICKEN AREA Senator Nye Will Urge Huge Water Conservation Program DENIES INTENTION TO MOVE FAMILIES Devils Lake t N. D., Aug. 7. — (U.R) — President Roosevelt today began a 150-mile automobile tour over dust-laden roads to inspect a region that Senator Nye of North Dakota and others want set aside for a $75,(100,000 water storage progrtuti. The President arrived here at 9 a. m. (CST) and after a brief wait entered an automobile for the tour. In contrast to yesterday the day was fairly cool as the party set out. The first and most important item on Mr. Roosevelt's inspection agenda, however, was that of the drought. Anxious that every agency of the government do its share toward alleviating distress, he also was eager to obtain the data necessary for completion of a permanent rehabilitation program affecting particularly those persons on sub-mar-ginal or poor lands. Mr. Roosevelt entered the area of desolation with the word preceding him that the government svas not contemplating moving any family from a farm on which it desired to remain. In remarks at the Fort Peck. Mont., dam site he made | his position clearly by stating: "I understand that some people, } seeking to misrepresent facts, } have suggested that we are going out through the northwest and say- ! ing to families on marginal lands — ■ families having a great deal of I trouble making both ends meet — ' ‘you have got to leave your homes : tomorrow morning and get out.’ “Os course, no person who thinks twice will believe silly tales ot that kind. It is a fact, however, and you and I know it, that there are many families in many states who are trying to make both ends meet without much success. It has been shown over a period of years that the land these families are using for agriculture ought not, for the best economic purposes, be used for agriculture.” At this juncture Mr. Roosevelt observed that “now, if those t'ani-, ilies want to go on farming that land and go deeper in the red every year, 1 take it it is their own acair.” He pointed out that the government believed in giving them an opportunity to go to better places and as he phrased it “a voluntary chance.” “That is why,” he explained, “this very broad national plan is seeking to provide farms where they won't have crop failures, where they won't be faced with starvation and where they may be able, I hope, to make not only both ends meet from the point of view of living, but, also, that they may come to own their farms free and clear of any debt.” Tlie President spoke to at least 10,000 persons who rode and trudged for miles over the dusty countryside to hear him. During liis inspection tour the thermometer registered 112 in the shade. It was the hottest day he had experienced since leaving Washington, in spite of the fact that three-fourth of his glx-week trip *7oONTiNUED*ON*PAG E *Slx7* o Kirkland Township Farmers Signing Farmers in Kirkland township began signing the first corn-hog control contracts prepared in the county. Amon K. Stoneburner, county secretary, reported that all the farmers who had been called in by noon today had signed up 100 per cent. There are about 90 contracts in the township. A total of 1,144 contracts were approved by Purdue University laet week in the county Each of these has to be typed and prepared for the final signing A staff of five stenographers has been added to the regular staff in the county agent's office to assist in the work. The committeemen from the various townships are also coming in tn the county agent's office to help in the necessary compilation and ■calculating.