Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 32, Number 207, Decatur, Adams County, 30 August 1934 — Page 1

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IB JOHNSON ■determined to 1 fight to end Mcoverv Head Grants ■Vulu>i'e Interview ■ jo United Press ■ \Klxn ' A( ATION ■ Vi BKU H RESORT H (Copyright 1934 by 1 ■ Rpthati' Bt tu'li. Del., Auk. ► Administrator S Johnson said today, K '‘i le H dotoi niined to tight B he finish tor the policies’ Khich he believes should’ Bud'’ ’he NBA in its efforts B) restore prosperity. am not going to allow | Be progress that has been] B»de this far to be nullified B interests shicli are opposing Be “ n su, h silly pr( ‘ t, ‘ xt ,llat | By «Jtninist'.< ion has been irase-. and intei perate." Johnson | K. ~ a n .v . .-.se interview witn I United Press. |V-If the a.■ .•:«» lishiiient of codi[tie uhole of America s indust. millions >1 -eparate units—is B be offset by somebody's up- ' Braismirtit of my personal char-, Bteristiis we are certainly conByiUe p-rsonaiity to an extreme." ■iV a-liuim'i: a "i' vacationing at ■bis quiet southern Delaware Beaih. consented to the interview ■b?. with tin- express understandBi that he would not be quoted ' ■b controversial subjects. said also that be wanted it ' Bderstoed that he would grant no Briber interviews while on his' B'a "n. ai!<i that he was consenlB$ ■' the po -ei,: one only because ■ r te.t he liad been misrepresented B ’ome recent Washington dis- ■ ■itches. |"I am not engaging in a rowpth anyone," he said. "1 have a (b to do and 1 intend to do it. 1 I rill not let that work be under-' lined by any shouting about irase. ble administration or other petty Packs. “I, for one. have no political as(rations 1 am going to carry out ty administration as I think it! hould Ire done. I am not given | o suspicion of other people’s mo. ’ res. ’’Suspicion. you know, is tho j CONTIXUW ON PAGE FIVE)* i Charles 1). Teeple To ( lose Out Stock Charles D. Teeple announced to iy that he had purchased the repaining stock of the Teeple and hterson clothing store and would ' nove it to the Bernstein building. South second street to close it out.; The clothing firm has been contacting a "quitting business sale" | or several weeks. All of the reaaining stock was purchased by fr Teeple and announcement of ils close out sale in the Bernstein wilding will -be made in a few days. , lr Teeple wil retire from the merantile business following the sale if the merchandise. c—— One Youth Fined, Other Is Freed Joe dent at the Univesity of Detroit. I *ae freed from the A Janis county I l*il last night when the affidavit ( barging him with petit larceny •as withdrawn by Prosecuting At-1 torney Ed A. Bosse. His partner Edward Nelson. 18 of, Pairoif, arrested at the same timel the same charge was arrigned before Mayor George K r iok and tf'et’ a 15 day jail sentence and ■tied one dollar and coats totaling *ll. He was unable to pay his fine is being held In the Adams county jail. T he two boys were caught Menevening shortly after they diained the gas tank of Jack Els•orth’s automobile. Bill Hadley Will Speak At Church Bill Hadley •of Hinky Dink BarH° us e fame of Chicago will be ™e speaker at the First Baptist church Sunday. At the Sunday ®°rnlng service at 10:15 o'clock tts subject will be "Pearl of the r ®at Price." The speaker will talk “n My Personal Testimony" at the Gening service. 7:30 o’clock. “ r HaJle y characteristic of e city rescue mission. A cordial e come is extended to the public.

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i Wins in California MW ! * Sta .m - B A ' t; I A W k \y £ Running on a platform to “end I poverty" by state seizure of idle i farm lands and factories, Upton : 1 Sinclair, above, widely known | Socialist author, has won the I Democratic nomination for gover-; | nor of California. Sinclair, who I defeated George Creel, also a i well-known writer, will oppose i acting Gov. Frank F. Merriam, j 1 Republican candidate. in the i election PROH! LEADER URGES CONTROL Drastic Legislation Is Urged By Attorney For Anti-Saloon League Warsaw, Ind., Aug. 30—(UP) - 1 Drantic legislation to control the i lutuor traffic waa urged by Edward B. Dunford, Washington, National ‘ | Attorney for the anti-saloon league at conclusion of a three-day conference of the Nation's dry leaders , here last night. “Only a constitutional amend ment. like that proposed by Senator | Sheppard, to enable congress to i restrict or prohibit the liquor traf- : flc. can bring order out of the pre-, iseut conflicting legislation on the’ 1 subject." he said. “The amendment would reserve ■ io the states the right tq retain : or enact prohibition and would also i guarantee protection from imports-1 tion of liquor in violation of local laws, now contained in the 21st amendment. Ii “C< ngress would not be required . ■ to enact any legislation but would simply be given power to act as experience and public sentiment demanded. “With youth being debauched, in-. toxication increasing, the saloon re- | turning, traffic accidents mounting, bootlegging flourishing, the death , rate climbing and revenue* far short of expectations, liquor is troth a nati nal and stateiproblem." Bishop James Cannon. Jr., tern- ( peranee leader of the Methodist I church, south, was unable to speak i last night because of illness. 1 JACKSON DENIES G, 0. P. CHARGE — Democratic Chairman Charges Republicans Misrepresent Facts Indianapolis. Aug. 30. — (U.R) — Charging the Republican state committee with deliberate misrepresentation of facts concerning ' state government expenses, Omer S. Jackson, Democratic state chair- < man, today issued a statement claiming savings of nearly >6,000.- : 000 annually under Gov. Pail V. McNutt. 1 Quoting from a table prepared by the state board of accounts. Jack- ' son said that in addition to the i reduction in expenditures, the present administration has increased i distributions to relieve local property taxes by more than >12,000,000. ; In refutation of the charge that state expenditures for the year 1933-34 exceeded >60,000,000, Jack- , son said the actual expenditures were >38.640,194.88. He compared 1 that figure with expenditures total, ing >43,166.8.88.69 in the 1931-32 fiscal year; >44,340,446.07 in the. *(CONTINUEX>*ON PAGE FIVE)

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FOURTEEN HURT IN COLLISION AT FORT WAYNE None Hurt Seriously When Auto Crashes Into Large Bus DRIV ER FAILED TO HEED TRAFFIC SIGN |. Fort Wayne, Ind., Aug. 30.—(U.R) —Fourteen persons were injured, j none believed seriously, when a Chicago-New York bus overturned in a collision here early today with an automobile driven by George Ayres, Fort Wayne. The bus, entering the city on U. S. highway 30. was overturned when the car driven by Ayres failed to heed to a stop sign and crashed into the center of the bus. The injured victims were taken to St. Joseph hospital where it was reported none was believed to he seriously injured. Many were expected to be released from the! hospital today. Those injured are: Miss Gerry Allen. 22, Chicago. , Mrs. Ethel Gilmore. 35, Concord. N. H. A. L. Farber, 24. San Diego, Calif. Joseph Carr. 28. Chicago. l>-o Breen. 39. Chicago, driver of the bus. Ben Swialawisky. 17, Chicago. Miss Rae Abbott, 27, Pittsburgh, Pa. James J. Runiaker. 23, Quantico, Va. Walter Coskely, 21. West Wor-i Chester, Mass. Mrs. Charles Brann. 64, Holly, Colorado. Miss Janice Brann, 11. Holly. Colorado. Miss Inez Eichelkraut. Ottawa. 111. Ayres and his companion, Ralph Zeppering. 17. of Fort Wayne, was injured slightly. NEWGIOTHING STORE TO OPEN I Cal Peterson And Sylvester Everhart Will Open Store Here A new clothing firm under the: name of the Peterson and Everhart ■ Co., will open for business in this i city in the K. of C. building, about September 15. Cal E. Peterson and | Sylvester Everhart, members of the firm announced today. Mr. Peterson, the senior mem-, her of the firm, hae been in the clothing business in this city for 28 , years. Hie was a member c.f the; Teeple and Peterson firm and by, agreement, C. D. Teeple, today took over the remaining stock of the old firm and will move it to the Bernstein building for closing out purposes. Mr. Everhart is a former teacher in the Decatur public echools. He taught reading and hygiene in the seventh and eighth grades. Mr. Everhart has also been active in Boy So ut work and ie scoutmaster of the Rotary troop. The firm will occupy the same room as that occupied by the Teeple and Peterson clothing firm. It will be redecorated and as soon as the new stock of clothing is received the place will be opened for business. <o> Find Automobile Abandoned Here An automobile was found abandoned in one of the dry clay pits near the Krick and Tyndall tile mill this morning. The car was disoc-vered this morning with the lights still (burning. No automobile of this type has been reported stolen recently, according to local officials. Officials believe the car was being used for a “party" and abandoned when the wheels sank in the loose clay. o Straw Stack Burns At Wm. Aumann Farm The Decatur Are departmnet was called to the William Aumann 1 farm home, three and one half miles north of Decatur on state road 27. at 2:30 o’clock this after noon. The only damage was to a large straw stack.

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Decatur, Indiana, Thursday, August 30, 1934.

Prominent Local Couple Observes 56th Anniversary Judge and Mrs. James T. Merryman of North Second street, were married 56 years ag> yesterday. Mr. and Mrs. Merryman have llved in thia city their entire married life. Their wedding anniversary yesterday was not celetyated In any unusual manner, Judge Merryman upending most of the day at his office. Mr. and Mrs. Merryman are enjoying good health. Judge Merryman who is dean of the Adams 'OuUnty bar will be 80 years old on , his next birthday. | ‘Friends of the beloved couple Join in extending congratulations to them and wishes for their co-n---tinned good health and happiness. BANK DEPOSITS HERE INSURED Deposits Up To $5,000 In First State Bank Here Are Insured Signs signifying that all dep sits lUp to >5,000 are protected by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, were posted today in the First State Bank of this city. The First State Bank is one of • more than 14,000 licensed banks in the country to receive the new signs. Insured banks are able to of- ■ fer protection to their depisitors up ' to >5,000. Heretofore the insurance 1 protected deposits to >2.500 only. C. A. (Dugan, president of the ! bank, in announcing membership in ! the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, stated “we are happy to ! extend this additional protection 'to our depositors. Everyone under-: stands that the Federal insurance; ; corporation guarantees the safety of deposits in banks which offer this protection. Practically all of j our deposits come under these l pr visions. The First State Bank, which was ' one of the few in the country to live i through the bank closing period is in splendid financial tondition. It ' has deposits of mqfe than one mil i lion dollars and cash and bond rei serves if more than a halt million I dollars. Magley Residence Damaged By Fire The John Magley resJdence. 827 i North Fifth street was damaged to : ‘ the extent of >25 this morning, it 1 was reported by Jack Friedt, fire chief. The fire started at 8 o'clock ■ this morning from a spark from the i chimney. A large hole was burned I in the roof of the house. Baptist Children Picnic Postponed The Baptist children's picnic scheduled for Friday evening at Le-' : glon Memorial park, has been .postponed on account of the cool weather. Cal E. Peterson announced today. Mr. Peterson stated that the date for holding the picnic was postponed indefinitely. TEACHERS MEET WITHSTRIKER Rural School Teachers Are Given Final Instructions Today The elementary and high school teachers of the county schools met t day at the Decatur high sthool ■building with Clifton E. Striker, county superintendent, to receive final instructions for'the opening of the 1934-35 school year. The elementary teachers held their session this morning and the high school teachers and principals met this afternoon. Friday all the high school teachers will meet their classes to reorganize. At that time b ok lists and instructions wil be given to the pupils. Classes will begin in the rural : schools, Tuesday, September 4. At the annual teachers institute held In the Decatur high school j building Wednesday special music was furnished by Robert Jones of Berne. He played a cornet solo “Yej Who (Have Been Yearning” by Tschaikowsky and sang a vocal solo “Sea Fever”.

SAYS ALL WILL ABANDON GOLD Professor Warren Predicts All Nations To Leave Gold Standard Bad Eilson, Germany, Aug. 30 [ —(UP)—‘Prof. Gecrge F. Warren of j C rnell. President Roosevelt's ad- , vlser on gold polh y today predicted in an address delivered at the international conference on agricultural science that all nations would ’ soon abandon the gold standard. Gold values are due to undergo violent fluctatlons in the coming years, lie said. Warren is credited with having commanded the dollar maneuvers of the United States government during the early hours of the Roosevelt administration, and to have | advised America’s abandonment of ' the gold standard with subsequent reduction in the gold content of the I dollar. 1 Every country eventually will be forced to leave the pre-depressi n i gold standard because of the fluej (nations in gold values that may be expected during the coming ‘.years," Warren sjid. I “Resumption of the gold standard" he added. "May be possible in the distant future, but it will be dependent upon the return of appro- ; ximate stability to the gold price.” ■ " — ■■■“■ I 2■ I —— Asks Cooperation During Registration I County Clerk David D. Depp asked today that voters who come into ' his office to make corrections on ) their registration car ls, make the fact that they already have cards. Otherwise it will be possible that ne voter might have tw’o or more ' registration cards. The present cards now on file in ■ the county clerk’s office are permanent. There is ample room on the card to make all changes of name or address. ADAMS COUNTY NATIVE DIES Mrs. Ida Rosina Hey. Native Os Preble, Dies At Fort Wayne Funeral services for Mrs. Ida Rosina Hey, 67, a native of Preble ■Adams County, who died Tuesday at her home, 1101 Home avenue, ; Fort W’» v ne, will be held Friday afternoon at 2 o’clock at the home and at 2:15 o’clock at the Emmaus . Lutheran Church with Rev. Fred | Wam'bsganss officiating. Burial will be in the Lindenwood cemetery. Mrs. IHey died Tuesday after a I two days’ illnes. She suffered a stroke of apoplexy last June from which she never recovered. Mrs. Hey was born at Preble and had lived in Fort Wayne since 1916. She was a member of the Emmaus . Lutheran church. Surviving are a daughter. Mrs. ; Hustcn Carver. Fort Wayne; three sons, Fred, Truman and George Hey, Fort Wayne; three grandchildren, three brothers. Martin, John and Henry Kirchner, Preble; and three sisters, Mrs. Mary Bieberich. Mrs. Lizzie Setter and Mrs. Rosella Fuhrman, Fort Wayne. The husband John G. Hey, preceded his wife in death two years ago. -- o ■ Williamson Is Taken To Prison Charles Williams n of Tustin. Michigan, was taken to Michigan City today by Sheriff Burl John son and night policeman Grover Cotrell. Williamson was sentenced to one to 10 years in the state prison by Judge Huber M. De Voss after he confessed to siealing an automobile belonging to Tony Myers of this city. Ground Breaking Ceremony Saturday Ground breaking ceremonies for the Decatur Gospel Tabernacle will be held Saturday evening. The Fort Wayne Gospel Temple band will give a half-hour concert on 1 Liberty Way. starting at 7 o’clock. 1 Following the concert, the program will be continued at the tabernacle lot on North Seventh and I Marshall streets. There will be special music and Rev. Bert VVII- - Hams will preach. The public is invited to this program.

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NEW EFFORT TO OPEN CREDITS FOR BUSINESS — Credit Facilities In Chicago Vicinity Will Be Investigated ECONOMIST WILL CONDUCT SURVEY Washing! it, Aug. 30—(UP) —iA j new effort to open up credits to small business men was undertaken by the federal government today . when the treasury department or-1 ■dered an investigation into credit facilities in the seventh federal ’ reserve district which includes the city of Chicago. A study of about 4.000 < aaea, in-' i eluding 2,000 banks and 2.000 busi- 1 ness men or farmers will be made ; in an effort to determine the cause |of recent lagging in industry obtaining necessary credit to expand j ■busines operations. Dr. Jacdb Viner, treasury economist. will have charge of the «ttudy j and facts are expected to be obI tained which will show whether new banking legislation will be needed in the next congress to Apeed up credit to business. The Chicagr federal reserve district, comprising the states of Ind-1 ians, Illinois. Michigan. Wisconsin.! : and lowa wan selected by Clner as a representative section of the . c untry. Viner said that all hanking ■ groups and trade groups, including the federal reserve banks, the federal deposit insurance corporation, ! the reconstruction finance corporation, local boards of trale and Chambers of Commerce would to- ' operate in the study. Cases where I ans recently have beefi refused business men and farmers are to be studied to determine the reason for their failure to j ..btain mw capital. The survey will he conducted by a group of 40 to 50 college profesj sors and students, who will be paid ; 811.40 per day. The work Is expect-<-d to take about i',.ree weeks. The administrati n of the fact: finding survey will be conducted from Chicago by Dr. C. O Hardy,, i of Brokings institution, whom Vin- i er t day called a banking exper' Personnel of the survey will be drawn from the universities of Chi- ' ca-o. Wiscons.il. Michigan and Min- ’ nes ta and fem Northwestern. c Robert Heller Is Named Correspondent Nathan Nelson. Adams County democratic chairman, anncunced today that Robert iHeller has been app inted correspondent for the Hoosier Sentinel, Indiana democratic official newspaper. The Sentinel will publish Adams county news weekly. Mr. Nelson requested that all political news of interest be given to Mr. Heller at the Democrat of fice by Saturday of the week preceding publication. HITLER ORDER AGAINST JEWS — Order Prepared to Further Restrict Jewish Activity In Germany I Copyright 1934 by the UP. Berlin, Aug. 30.—(U.R>—An order) virtually prohibiting any relationship between members of the Nazi ; party and Jews has been prepared by Rudolf Hess. Reichsfuehrer Adolf Hitler's deputy leader of the ■ party, and awaits distribution, it was learned today. Three million cotpies of the order. it was learned, have been print-1 ed. and await distribution to Nazi party members. It was believed the order was the result of resolutions passed by ) the World Jewish conference at) Geneva and was intended as a warning against an intensification of the boycott of German goods abroad. Today's order. It was learned. ■ contains five strict prohibitions. A preface by Hess says: "I forbid." and following are the restrictions as follows: 1. No Nazi party member shall he represented in court by a JewPAGE FIVE)

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Arrested y v I nW m! I / $ w® a ■ * J. D. Willis, who was arrested in Palestine, Tex., and charged 1 with holding up Mr. and Mrs. i Maxwell Herring, tying the man i and attacking tlie woman, a bride lof two weeks. He was taken to another prison to avoid mob violence. DEMOCRATS TO BACK SINCLAIR Party Realignment Movement Given Boost By His Nomination Washington. Aug. 30 — <U.R) California's democratic nomination of Upton Sinclair, lifelong . j opponent of the capitalist system, . I for governor has given the party , realignment movement its second big boost in a fortnight. The first was organization of the American Liberty league of anti-new dealers of whom former Governor Alfred E. Smith was the most prominent. Emphasizing party shifts is tlie democratic nomination of Senator Hiram W. Johnson, veteran progressive reI pub’ican, for senator in Califor- ' nia. Johnson also won the republican and two minor nominations in yesterday’s primary. Whatever othir new dealers may think of Sinclair’s victory, ■ Harry L. Hopkins, federal relief administrator, is for it. "I think his nomination was a ; great tiling." said Hopkins. “He is on our side.” The republican oid guard also welcomed Sinclair's victory in i well-founded belief it will embarrass the administration. Senator) Daniel Hastings, coichairman of tiie republican senatorial-congres-sional committee, predicted today that conservative democrats would bolt any party which slielt(CONTINCED ON PAGE FIVE) One Diphtheria Case Reported One case of diphtheria was re-) ported in Adams county for the : week ending Saturday, August 25, according to the morbidity report 1 published by the Indiana Division j of Public Health. o Elizabeth Habegger To Teach At Berne Miss Elizabeth Habegger. daughter of Mr. and Mrs. David Habegger of Berne, has been chosen sup-1 | ervisor of music in the Berne school. it has been learned. Miss I Slone, the former music supervisor j resigned recently to accept a teaching position in the Tipton schools. Miss Haibegger was graduated I from the Berne high school with the class of 1926 and received her degree from Bluffton C;liege, Bluffton. Ohio in 1930. She was superI visor of music in the Alger, Ohio, schools. Rcgistcrer High School Students W. Guy Brown, principal of the Decatur high school, announced today that registering would continue in the high school this week. Juni rs are registering today. Sophomores will register Friday. Freshmen will register Saturday. There is a possibility that the office will be kept open Saturday night to accomodate the pupils.

OVER 400,000 WORKERS WILL GOON STRIKE Violence And Bloodshed Feared As Result Os Huge Walkout TO AFFECT MANY LN THIS STATE Washington, Aug. 30. (U.R) Inion labor today snin in o netl upwards oi 420.000 workers to strike Saturday night in the great cotton textile industry. Wool, silk, rayon anti synthetic yarn members of the textile union arc standing Ov for further orders which inav bring them into the new deal's greatest conflict between capital and labor. “Strike of all cotton textile workers will begin at 11:30 o clock your time Satunlay night" said the walkout order flashed todav i by telegraph to 500 local unions. At the moment the strike was called George A. Sloan, head of i the cotton textile institute, sought a conference with Chairman Lloyd ■ Garrison of the national labor I board. They will meet at 4:30 p. ni to discuss the Impending strike. 1 Sloan is coming to Washington as lan "individual" rather than as a spokesman of the industry. ! The labor day holiday will delay the entire strike showdown until Tuesday. September 4. There are fears of violence and bloodshed as the summons to walk out spreads among the work- '! ers in southern mill towns and : the smoky cities of New England. The strike was called when • mill owners rejected demands I (or: 1. A 30-hour week. The pres- ’ ent week is 40 hours. (j 2. Maintenance of pay at the ' 40-honr week level. ‘; 3. Union recognition. Francis J. Gorman, chairman of the special strike committee, dramatically utilized a telegragh wire in his office to begin sending out promptly et noon tho strike proclamation to 500 local unions, affecting from 1.150 to ! 3,300 mills throughout the country. The strike call figuratively sounded an unparalleled labor I challenge to the administration, i Government efforts to bring about a settlement collapsed yesterday, leaving only the dim possibility of last-minute intervention by President Roosevelt. To Affect Indiana Indianapolis, Aug. 30— (U.R) — i Between 10.000 and 12,000 workers in garment and dress goods sac(CONTINUED ON PAGE FIVE) TAVERN OWNER WOUNDS BANDIT Kentuckian Is Critically Wounded In Holdup At Indianapolis Indianapolis, Aug. 30. — (U.R) — Fred Matson, formerly of Somerset, Ky„ was brought to City hospital here today suffering critical bullet wounds, the second victim iof an attempt to holdup Robert Blythe, Whiteland tavern propri- ; etor. Matson was wounded and three companions escaped when Blythe Opened fire in answer to a command “stick ’em up." About three months ago, Blythe shot and killed Thomas Moore, Indianapolis, in an attempt to holdup the tavern. Four men who had been hiding behind the tavern approached Blythe after he had closed the establishment. He was ordered to “stick 'em up." but instead ran to his home a short distance away. ; He obtained a shot gun and a pis. tol and fired at the robbers. One of the robbers grabbed the shotgun, and Blythe drew the pistol from ills pocket and shot Mnt. son. The three fled toward, Indianapolis. Matson was brought to Indlan- . apolis after the shooting by Sheriff A. R. Mulkins of Johnson county who was called by Blythe after the shooting.