Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 32, Number 198, Decatur, Adams County, 20 August 1934 — Page 1

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lItfMINEV |s»W NIGHT ■ aren tl) Convalescing VLi I’neuinoflia; Rain- ■ f , Divs Suddenly Iroi s i>i t, fs V \s ( \i sh K Mis. M< • Aug 20.—| K, p,. i Ramey, ■L".: the lutimial house -. <hed sud-K.-'.f angina to tons in S . K hospital at .:•>(> o clock K r j.. night '.Mule convalescK from a mild attack ot Hpr.nol pneumonia. He Kki 71 years old ■J,’ll.O.- th? end, f |.,.;ik-rS «1I- and a sister.. K »t 1 : throughout Mt for their home at assurance of i.o.s that Ins con s »a- ' sat istactoi y the circumstances. Ki.: ■ after two Kfflltati.ic !■ 1 ■" ll, 'f request. K[ miner ad,l I nited Cress He had Shut sic described as "a K...-,-on i.-.iving lo r hitsHnd 'l' l ' it l!11 ' 1;lsl s,,e ever see him alive. H-|told Irin iro.'.l bp'. Celine that Ktoiir tai ptaiiiu." the speakK wife sa ' A.- 1-ft the room. Ktard hin ask ’’ ir-e. 'has she ' Kg.' Immediately I took off my Htaa-i ...• . ■ -ng. 'No. dear. ■ k.c no; gone yet.' H-ffr had ani tinal talk. II» I very i..i;r and much bet■tihoi 1 did leave lof course Kid:. : of my present iKh- I. ■ I w;b sure he was near Kri. Word of Ids passing there-Krt-ij- ■■■■'■ y it therwise KhU have been." ■ j..c ' .. was to have been K<birthday. plans for its celeKr ' lie first time KwtW matriage, Mrs. Rainey ■cOSTM'UIt o\- PAGE FOUR) ■ordition Os Ferd I Tabler Unchanged ■ The condition of Ferd TalbBros Monroe who is a patient at Be Adams County Memorial llos Bbl suffering from infection, reBtined the same today. His conItion is regarded as serious. Arsing Committee To Hear Wednesday A meetin.' f 'ho Adams County arsing committee will be held Mnesday. Auguet 22 at 2 o’clock I Mrs. Charles Knappe office in »court house. All memibers are urged to ibe promt as the plans for the nurses and | * scho I musing program are to e ikcussed. The nursing project in the coun- , W| il continue for the remainder 1 this year and a definite school tfraiii -will ibe carried out in all I “•schools of the county. Maynard Brewster Taken By Police Sheriff Uuri Johnston, county L r David Depp and iAdolph •taerloh took Maynard Brewster I . ihe .state penal farm' at Put®hlle today. Brewster was sent-' Why Judge Huber M. DeVoss! ' <, ’ t| ng his .plea of guilty to a “ n larceny charge last week. Mts. Esther Smith Dies At Hospital ’•rs Esther Smith 21 wife of MerVm tr ith ot Willshir ® township. d County, Ohio, died Sun»ni rn ' nR at 4 o'clock at the Van • Ohio hospital after a several Ms fi lnese Was a “’ au R ,ltß r of Mr. »t'i At 'am Geiesler who are lr e ( ’ m in Decatur. Surviving •"“’band, the parents, an ■■’ 0 and cne brother. C" eral services will be held [ •the afternoon “I 2:30 o’clock la u St ' Paul Evan selical church *»,. ° n tow,na bip, Van Wert: 1 . with Rev. F. Graber official- j

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House Speaker Dies 4 HK IIM ■■ y St ■ Henry T. Rainey, speaker of! i the United States house of rep-1 I resentatives, died unexpectedly in i a St. Lois hospital Sunday night. Mr. Rainey was apparently recovering from an attack of bronchial pneumonia when he was suddenly seized with a heart attack, which brought death before medical attention could aid him. SONG COMPOSER IS FOUND DEAD .Jerry Jarnegin Fo u nil Shot To Death: Authorities Investigating Hollywood, Aug. 20 -<U.P.> -Wond . ering whether Jerry Jarnegin. song ' composer ana husband of Irene Franklin, musical comedy star, committed suicide or was murdered in their mansion at Lake Toluca, police today pressed an investigation of the fatal shooting. Jarnegin died in the living room of the home, directly across the dower-tilled patio from a dining room where Miss Franklin and a group of guests were seated at a ’ pre nuptial dinner last night. Police first believed Jarnegin's death to be a suicide. But because l they found the death weapon -a 38 caliber pistol — more than six feet away although they believed jhe composer must have died instantly. and because a motive was lacking for self-destruction, a careful investigation was launched. The Jarnegins were married nine i years ago ae a culmination of a long friendship which began when i he was her pianist in a vaudeville 1 act. Powder marks were not visible on the victim's body, police said. Officers also were studying fingerprints on the gunAo determine if Miss Franklin might have tossed it aiToss the room in the excitement of finding the body. Earlier in the day Jarnegin and ”TcoNT!NUED ON PAGE SIX) 1,000 PRISON INMATES RIOT One Prisoner Is Killed During Attempted Break In Illinois I Pontiac. 111., Aug. 20 -XU.R>Warden O. H. Lewis of the Pontiac state prison, scene Saturday of a riot in which 1,000 prisoners participated, said today that the I outbreak was planned earlier in I tho Week by ring-leaders of the I 1 iot. Lewis revealed that his invest! gation had disclosed six convicts who he is certain planned the break and whom he ha., already placed in solitary confinement. I I The warden also said he believes | 15 more helped plan the plot. He would continue l.is investigation, he said, to ascertain who those men are. He said most of the men implicated in the plot had been I transferred to Pontiac from the I state prison at Joliet. Lewis also revealed that the , yard captain of the guards was in’(OONTWUED ON PAGE SIX)

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TWO BELGIAN BALLOONISTS LAND SAFELY Fliers Land Safely; Much Valuable Information Is Obtained FALL FAR SHORT OF RECORD MARK Zinovlje, Jugoslavia, Aug. 20 — [ (U.RI Max Cosyns nd Neree Van ; Her Elst, Belgian htratospherv balloonists, made ready to return to their home today with information about cosmic rays which ; they believe will be of inestimable I Hid to science. The balloon in which they flew | I from Hour-Haven, Belgium, to this j I isolated village in a 13 hour drift : across Fran< e, Luxembourg. The i Saar, Germany and Austria, was waiting at the Murska-Subotu Railway station, to which it was ; transported in a horse drawn wa- : gon. Charles Smodia of Perth Amboy . N. J., medcal student at Budapest who is vacationing here, was a witness to the descent in a corn field Saturday night, while people i all over Europe were watching for : it in fear that the fliers had met ■ disaster and were unconscious or dead in their sealed aluminum gon-' , dtda. ‘‘l was talking Saturday night." | Svmodia told the United Press. , 'When I saw a silver ball in the' sky. I thoght it was a near star speeding toward earth. As it near- . ed the grow: 4 1 stnr a Jll!, ! handkerchief signals indicated that 1 was to catch hold. “I helped to land the balloon. A’an Der Elst was first to leave the gondola. He was exhausted ; fr m bad air and col l. We laid him on the ground half-conscious. He recovered only when the peasants , gave him hot tea and bathed his face and hands. Cosyns also was i ■ exhausted but recovered rapidly." I "We suffered great'y from cold," ’(CONTINUED ON PAGE FOUR) FEWER PERSONS ON POOR RELIEF State Report Indicates Business Conditions Are Improving Indianapolis, ilnd.. Aug. 20 —Steadily improving business conditions ! in Indiana were reflected today in a rep rt showing that there were ! 24,320 fewer persons received >poor 1 relief in June than in May. The total reduction of costs a-' mounted to $110,369.17 for all types of relief. While there was a decided dnop in the a.meunt of direct relief a slight increase was registered in work relief administered |by the governor’s commission cn unemployment, the report showed. I The retluctian of 46,372 (persons from direct relief rolls enabled the commission to cut cwsts $>70,493 for June. A total of 224,259 persons receivel direct relief during June, the cost of which was $654,554. Work relief costs showed an increase in June over May amounting to $6)124. A total :of 22,028, representing 5.028 families, were added to the work relief noils during, June. A total of 169.932 persons, representing 36.530 families, received aid through w rk projects. Wages totalleJ $1,223,254. an increase of $60,124 over the May work relief expenditure. Republicans Will Meet Here Tonight Republican committeemen and vice-committeemen will meet, a-t 7:30 tonight to select a candidate for county auditor. The meeting will be held at the Michaud building on south Second street. Candidates for commissioner from the first district and for county surveyor may also be named tonight.

ONLY DAILY NEWSPAPER IN A DAMS COUNTY

Decatur, Indiana, Monday, August 20, 1934.

Slain Labatt Worker tiwß tH ‘‘l.; CM * Ma; v" wfe. w This is Gordon McKenzie, employed of the Imbatt brewery in Imndon. Ont., found with his skull beaten tn on a London street, foilI owing (he release of John S. Labatt. wealthy Canadian brewer, in Canada's first kidnapping for ran som. McKenzie died without gain ing conscktusness ami p lice be- | lieve his slaying may have been an act of terrorism to distract their' efforts in rounding up the abductor or that he may have been “sii lenced" by persons who feared he might have information for the au- ! tliorities. SALE OF AUTOS IS INCREASING Indiana Business During July Shows Unusual Contrasts Indianapolis. Aug. 20.-fU.PJ —With the steel industry at low ebb and i automobile sales at a high figure, : unusual conflicting trends marked ' Indiana business during July, the ! monthly bulletin the Indiana i University Research Bureau showi ed today. The general level of business activity during the past four months has fluctuated within narrow lim- | its, although at higher points than I in recent years, the bulletin said. “The steel industry was one of the extreme conflicting trends, having typical mill reductions in oper- : ating schedules of nearly 50 per cent?’ the bulletin reported. “Auto sales, on the other extreme, were greater than any other month since May 1930, with the exception of April. 1931. The large contra-seasonal gain brought the Indiana index of new car sales up to 19.9 per cent above normal. (CONTINUED ON PAGE SIX) LLOYD AHR IS HURT BY FALL Decatur Livestock Dealer Injured In Fall From Porch Roof Lloyd Ahr, well known livestock dealer of thie city, was severely ( injured early Sunday morning when he became frightened during his sleep and fell -out of a bedroom window onto a piorch roof and then to the ground. He is a patient at the Adams County Memorial hospital suffering from severe shock, a back Injury, an injured right wrist and numerous scratches and (bruises. iMr. Ahr had returned late Saturday ni&ht with a truck lod of live stock. It is thought likely that he was dreaming and that when he heard the shrill whistle of the train at 5 o'clock Sunday morning it frightened him l , causing him to Jump out of bed. IHe climbed cut the window onto a porch roof and then fell to the ground a distance of about 20 feet. Mrs. Ahr attempted to keep her husband from climbing through the window but wa« unable to d» so.

DECATUR RATE WILL BE LOWER Tax Rate Payable In Decatur Will Likely Be Less Than $3 From estimates already made, it can positively be stated that the, 1 tax rale payable in Decatur next 1 year will be under $3 on the hundred dollars, compared to $.3 15 this year. There is a possibility of the rate being under $255. i Tax levies will not be fixed until September 4th and final determination will not be made until the week of September 17, when the Adams county tax adjustment board meets. Two of the rates which go to make up the total in Decatur, have not yet been published. They are the Decatur school board and the civil city. The school board announced the first ot the year it did | not intend Io increase its present levy of 91 cents. The civil city's rate will not be more than 45 cents on the SIOO, the same as this year, and posssibly will be cut five cents. Tax rates so fat estimated which apply to the Decatur rate and a comparison with those in effect this year follow, on the hundred dollars: 1934 Estimate Unite Rate 1935 County general .60 .52 i County bond .05 .05 Township poor .35 .25 Township general .04 .02 Township bonds .55 .43 Library board .05 .05 i City (estimate) .45 .45 School city (est.) .91 .91 State Tax .15 .15 $3 15 _ $2.83 May Drop Under $2.75 Since the estimates are only I tentative and assuming that the county tax adjustment board will make some adjustmen s, it is believed that the total rate on each ' SIOO will be under $2.75. There is a possibility that it might drop below $2.60, those acquainted with local tax affairs declared. The Decatur school board might (CONTINUED ON PAGE SIX) BEET WORKER FOUND SLAIN Unidentified Man Is Found Dead In Shack Near Paulding, O, Paulding, 0., Aug. 20 (UP) — An unidentified man. believed to have been a worker in the sugar beet fields, was found slaiu in an abandoned meat house on the farm of El Klopfenstein near here yesterday. (Police and county efficers today were searching for Paul Karoly and l George Palasikio, two Hungarians j employed in the beet fields, missing since last Tuesday. The man was killed with an ax which was found near his body. His skull had been crushed. The body was found by members of the Klopfenstein family. He was about 40 to 45 years old and had been dead for several days, officials said. Klopfenstein said he heard loud | talk and other noise at the shack , early Tuesday and gained the impression that a drinking iparty was in prepress. Karoly and Palaskio, who lived in ' the old building, left early Tuesday and did not return. — o Cort Theater To Invite Families Beginning today, the Cort Theater will publish the name of an Adams Ci unty t'ouiple in its ad in the Daily Democrat. Those whose names are (published will be the guests of the theater at its show the following night. I In to-day’s ad the name of Mr. and Mrs. E. Burt Lenhart is published. Free tickets will Ibe given the couple for Tuesday night's show if they call at the box office. Jess Le Brun, manager, stated that a name would be listed in the theater’s ad every day ard that a 1 copy of the ad should be presented at the b x office in applying for the tickets.

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MENTION MANY AS SUCCESSOR TO KEY POST Death Os Speaker Rainey Brings Major Political Problem STRONG SUPPORTER OF ADMINISTRATION — Washington, Aug. 20 - (UP) —j Tlie death of speaker of the house 1 Henry T. Rainey thrust a major political problem before the Roosevelt administration today, involving ! safeguarding of important New Deal legislation in the next Congress. Secret instructions from the White House ultimately may be necessary to avoid a dog fight for the important speakership of the 74th congress and to assure party harmony in the house. Rainey’s death, mourned by official Washin;4ton. took from the administration a faithful congression- j al servant. A “lone wolf" in hi®: earlier years in congress. Rainey | became an administrati n stalwart | as speaker, in iron handed fashion ( which belied his gentle demeanor i he saw to it that the entire “new I deal'’ layout in the 73rd congress ■ was shot through the house with ■ uncanny speed. I Among th se .prominently irnenI ti tied today as Rainey's successor 1 were house majority leader Joseph > W. Byrns, D., Ala. M Duffie was in--1 v ived in a bitter fight for the 73rd , i congress speakership. Reverbations . - from his defeat were felt through-' the session. He had been supported by Bankhead and other pow ' erful Democratic figures. Bitterness ‘ endangered in the “trading off” preI li.irinary to the party caucus which gave Rainey the hou r still lives. 1 Others who must be reckoned 1 with in the fi,:ht which will be ' staged at a closed party caucus ■ sh rtly before congress convenes ’Tcont’nued ON PAGE SIX) Sister Os Berne Residents Dead I Mrs. Anna Locher, 74. sister of Dan an I John Winteregg and Mrs. Levi Moser of Berne, died suddenly Sunday evening of a heart attack at her home in Bluffton. Ohio. , The husband, John Locher, is deceased. Four children and four bro | thers and sisters survive. o Ira Carpenter Is , Arrested Sunday 1 ' lira Carpenter of Decatur was 1 arrested by night police Sunday . evening and is being lield on a charge of public intoxication. He • will De tried in Mayor Gearge I Krick's court this evenirg at S 1 o’clock. DENIES WARDEN TO BE CHANGED I Gov. McNutt Indicates Louis E. Kunkel Will Stay At Prison ' I (Indianapolis. Aug. 20 — (UP) — 1 Despite repots to the contrary ex- ! : isting at the state house, Gov. Paul j V. McNutt indicated that Warden 1 Lewis E. Kunkel of the state prison would not be replaced. 1 Contmenting for the first time J i since the retports of the committee . of six nationally known criminolo- - gists were received last week, the 1 governor said he had received snip--1; plemental recommendations con- ! 1 renting changes at each of the five ■ penal and correctional institutions. >! The 30,000 w>ord report, made public last week, had failed to ,menI tion specifically any recommenda- . tions for changes at the state pri- ■ | son. for more than a year the topic ! '' of much critii' ism. Asked whether the report on the I' state prison reconr.'mended person- ■ j nell changes, the governor said it l di i not. 11 Replying to the question of whe- ■| ther the report met with his appro-1 val the governor said it did.

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Freed by Kidnapers * W I Iffy < Walking into the police station I at Nashville. Tenn., bearded and unkempt, the Rev. R. H. Askew, above, of Goldsboro. N. C. told of ; l:eing abducted in Raleigh, N. (’.. : ; and pushed from an automobile ' ! near Nashville. Shortly before ids , ! release, a letter to Aimee Semple | ' McPherson, demanding $25,000 for ' : the release of tlie young preacher of the "four square gospel." was 1 turned over to Los An..eles police. ! FURTHER LABOR TROUBLES LOOM Street ('ar, Elevated Strike Is Feared Near At Chicago By United Press I The threat of a street car and i elevated strike in Chicago, where ( : violence has marked a five day old : walkout of union omnibus drivers. I today was added to the widening ' I battles between forces.of capital and labor. On a half dozen fionts labor dis-. ' putes appeared to be approaching a climax. Possibility of! a transportation strike in Chicago, affecting nearly I 4,900,000 persons and directly in- ; volving 20.000 traction workers. [ appeared in Dertoit when tlie executive board of Hie Amalgamated , i association of street and electric 1 railway workers of America decid--1 ed to consider a sympathetic walk- ■ | out. Overshadowing minor violence and renewed threats of general strikes was a promised conference : in Washington which probably will j decide whether there is to be a i strike of 600.000 textile workers. Fresh Outbreaks Chicago, Aug. 20 —<U.R>— Fresh outbreaks of violence in the strike; of union bus drivers of the China-' go Motor Coach Company brought (',l representative of the federal da-1 partinent of labor to the scene of, I the five-day-old labor feud today. Hugh Friel arrived from Wash-j : ington and announced that he | would attempt to bring union and ’Tcontinued'on’page SIX) o Capacity Crowd Hears Boys’ Choir The Crusade Boys' Unipn chorus ; sang to a capacity crowd last even- j ing at the Methodist church. The event was greatly enjoyed Iby all those present. Tonight the boys will sing at the ! United Brethren church in this i city. The program will (begin | prommptly at 8 o'clock. Take Enlistments For Marine Corps (During the next five months the recruiting district of Chicago will accept an unlimited number wf ypung men .between the ages ot jl7 and 25 for enlistment in the | ' United States marine corps. Re-; cruita must ibe between 5 feet eight ; inches and six feet two inches in ' height, high sch <ol graduate and I have no .physical defects. Further information may Ibe olb-; tained (by writing the marine corps recruiting station at room 824, new , j postoffice ibuiliding at Chicagio. All enlistments are for tour years. I

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ADOLF HITLER IS CONFIRMED AS PRESIDENT Chancellor Fails To Poll As Many Votes As Received Last Fall HITLER TO RULE AS ABSOLUTE DICTATOR Berlin, Aug. 20. — W.R) — Adolf Hitler today had been i confirmed as an absolute dictator by an overwhelming vote of his countrymen —a vote that represented a definite : national rebuke to radical I nazism. It was a rebuke in that Hiti ler failed signally to surpass in the national referendum he I called for yesterday, the amazing total of votes piled up in November (that approved his withdrawal from the League of Nations, in yessterday’s poll the opposition vote doubled. Nazi orators had made it clear Hitler would be disssatisfied unless he passed the November total. Ha failed by some 2,090,900-odd votes Comparative figures of the No ; vember plebiscite and that of yes--1 terday on the basis of "provisional I Anal’’ figures follow: Yesterday November Electorate .. 45,473.635 45.146.277 Total cote 43,529,710 43.460,529 For Hitler 38,362.760 40,609,247 .Against 4,294.654 2,101,000 Invalid 372,296 750,282 The invalid vote was regarded as Ito be included, in large measure, 'in the opposition total becausse many who did not dare to vote against Hitter woula not vote for him. Newspapers were asked to minimize the invalid total. 1 Hitler got 88.1 per cent ot the ; votes cast. He got 92.5 per cent of [the vote Tn November. The great- | est opposition yesterday was in [Catholic and industrial districts. The increase in the opposition total, small as it was in comparison to the "ayes,” surprised Nazi leaders, it was the first setback in 1 the 18 months of Nazi rule and the party's continuous bid for totality. But there still was no organized opposition, and Hitler ruled supreme as the most powerful die’TcON'ri’NUED ON PAGE SIX) Racing Pigeons Released Here Over 1,700 racing pigeons were released! at the railway express agency office here at 6 o’clock Sunday morning. The birds were I from the Belmont Racing Pigeon j Club at Toledo. Ohio. Bob Krick, local agent of the Railway Express Agency, stated ! that each season many thousands [ of these birds are received at his ' office for liberation. Pigeon racing is fast becoming a popular Ameri- ! can sport, carload shipments hav--1 ing recently been forwarded by express from New York City to San i Francisco, California for lebera- > tion. o REPORT CAPONE IS TRANSFERRED Report Notorious Gangster Is Being Taken To “Devil’s Island” Washington, Aug. 20-—<U,R) —Unless good signs fail. Al Capone is cn his way to spend 5 or 6 years iin the new American “Devils's ! Island." Alcatraz Fortress in SanFrancisco Bay. The first public enemy of his i*ime was reported without official denial to be travelling under heavy guard to the new prison which the government believes is as nearly escape-proof as natural conditions and human ingenuity can make it. Capone was said to be a passenger on a special two-coach train transporting about 40 prisoners | from Atlanta and Lewisburg. Pa.. [ prisons to Alcatraz. The transfer ' was being effecjted with utmost I secrecy. The department of justice here I refused to confirm the report. At i the same time officials would not j deny Capone was being transferred. ’ I tAt New Orleane where the train I ’^CONTINUED^OfTPAGE SIX?*