Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 32, Number 210, Decatur, Adams County, 4 September 1934 — Page 1

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Ipublic, Parochial Schools Opened Today

Ijffll® CITY ■HIMTHOLIC 9 SCHUHS OPEN i BiH Pav Enrollment In '■local School” Shows *B A Decrease ’Bi THERAN SCHOOL ■ \ ()T io OPERATE The eiirnlliiK'iil "I school ■hihlren in the citv todav m ‘■public and ( at.hoHe ■h.Us Waled 111 eoi’l- ■ e’lM.n to l.dtid last year. Lutheran ,;. 1 ’" J • mu d hv the Zion 1-lltll-■rin dnireli ol this city has (■mi divoidinlied. Ihr |)tl■k re ;ilt H'IUU Hie public Im on th- county enroll-, so', not h- known for sever-1 i «mperinten<ient K Clift.- E Striker re- . „,iro ’ --hers t- bring ' !h ..ir enrollni" soon as K tahulaterl. M y Gnv Brown principal of the >, bool. revealed t.>.l.n <!i..wing that the school has •- i" last year to an !lo- A good n -f th- drop "as caused |K„ vnior -lass of last y. ar Hp.; liun'b.ic.l 'U and was the vradu itinir class in the ■- • th. ~. hoob Incoming i !i "' 11 * f’ost number seven. ■9 The rnr...!:: ■ of the high F ■ tteiii"'• - juniors. 59. .’.d postgraduates. M The oirollm. nt in the city s --Is this year is 667 as to t'.l" last year. The grades this year include List year 16 were in Lutheran school the first to the seventh ■ Enrollment by grades in the Mrity i»: B North Ward M First grade. 27; second grade. B?' third grade. 3U; fourth grade, Bi; total, 119. ■ South Ward ■ First grade. 30; second grade. ; ■33; third grade, 27; fourth grade, ■34: total 114. ■ Riley ■ First grade, 31; second grade,, ■44: third grade, 29; fourth grade, 1 ■32; total. 126. Central Fifth grade, 69; sixth grade, 85; seventh grade. 78; eighth grade, "6: total. 308. The total enrollment in the city high school and grade schools thia year is 927 j n comparison with I (COXTIXUED ON PAGE FOUR) TRUSTEES GIVE TEACHER LIST Teachers .Are Announced f or Three Additional Townships Teachers in three additional were announced today > couifty superintendent of sthoo's Clifton E. Striker. Teachers appointed by Orlen Fortney, trustee of St. Mary’s town«‘bp. are as follows: Pleasant Milla High School Henry Snyder, principal; Gerald itsrd, David Cramer, Agnes Yager at ><l Velma Fortney. Pleasant Mills Grades • S. Christen, Paul Spuller ani -Mattie Stevens. William Noll and Francille Oliver Teachers appointed by T. R. Noll of Washington township Marguerite Lewellen, Debolt ■''■li-ol; Martha Reppert, Reiniker school; Arline Becker, Brandyerry school, Clyde Troutner, a shlngton school; Georgia eighty, Raudenbush school. Teachers appointed by Arthur ee ke, Union township trustee are ■' ary C>em, Pearl Ray, and Dorothy Spaller.

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ADAMS CIRCUIT COURT OPENED September Term of Court Opens; .Much Business Is Transacted Appearances were made in the Adams circuit court today for all cases filed during the vacation. A few cases were defaulted when 1 attorneys did not appear Tile circuit court legally opened | the September term Monday. As I it was Ikibor Day little business was transacted. Today was the return date fir several cares filed during the April term and all cases filed during the vacation. The court approved 18 estate and four guardianship entries made by the clerk during vacation and filed in his report today, in addition the court made 44 entries I by two o'clock this afternoon. Routine business will occupy ■ the attention of the circuit court ; Wednesday. pn Thursday Judge ■ Huber M. DeVoss will call the docket and set the cases. It Is not ; exnected that any trials will be held for a week or so. Judge DeVoss announced today that he does not exnect to' call a grand jury this term of court. Official Board To Meet Tonight The official biard of the First ■Evangelical church will meet at 7:30 o'clock this evening. The entire program of activity for the , coming months will be outlined at , this meeting. The pastor, Rev. W. M. Sondermann, will preside. ASK RETURN OF REVJiOBERTS Congregation Asks Return Os Local United Brethren Pastor Rev. 4'harles J. Roberts, pastor ■of the Decatur First United Brethren church, accompanied by Mrs. Roberts and N. W. Abbott, left ; I this morning for Winona Lake, where they will attend the annual [ United Brethren conference. The congregation of the local , church has asked for the return of Rev. Roberts to the Decatur | charge. He has been here for two > years and he and his wife have I made many friends during their stay. Rev. Roberts is a member of the | Lions club, president of the minis- 1 terial association and dean of the Daily Vacation Bible school. For two years he has been chairman of ' the nominating committee of the conference, which committe names officers and boards of the conference. The local church will pay more than SI,OOO of the principal of the debt on the church this year, the first reduction in five years. Mrs. Roberts has also been very active in church work, acting as superintendent of the intermediate I department, and president of the women’s missionary society. Mr. Abbott is the delegate from . the Decatur congregation. Russel Vanette Fined By Mayor Russel Vanette was fined $5 and j costs, totaling sls in Mayor George Krick’s court last evening on a | charge of vagrancy. He was arrested Monday by Sheriff Johnson after several complaints against him by residents in Blue Creek t wnship. Vanette was unable to pay the fine and is serving it out in the Adams county jail. Art Exhibit To Be Given By Schools At a meeting of teachers and principals of the Decatur public: schools Monday evening it was agreed to hold an art exhibit this year similar to the one held last, spring. The exhibit will be open for several days and probably will ■ be held in the Decatur high. school gymnasium Art classes in > every grade will take part.

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Plead Guilty to Plot to Aid Dillinger ... .j. - —IL-* l -’ f fl r wl ‘ ' bkW BBa Left to right, Dr. Wilhelm Loeser, Dr. Harold Bernard Cassidy and Arthur W. O’Leary, who pleaded guilty to charges of conspiracy to harbor and conceal John Dillinger and Homer Van Meter, recently slain gangsters, when arraigned before United States commissioner in Chicago. The two doctors are said to have performed the fail' lifting and fingerprint-obliterating operations upon Hilllnger. |

PREBLE WOMAN BURIED TODAY Mrs. Henry Ehlerding Died Saturday Afternoon At Preble Funeral services tor Mrs. Mary Schaekal Ehlerding, 70. wife of Henry Ehlerding. well known retir- ' ed farmer of Preble, who died at her home Saturday evening, were held this afternoon at 1:30 o’clock at the hame, and at 1:45 o'clock at the Prelble Lutheran church. Burial was made in the church cemetery. Rev. Robert Gaiser offi* iated. The body t wa.s returned to the home from the Zwiek funeral home Sunday afterI noon. Mrs. Ehlerding died at her home in Preble Saturday evening at 6:15 u’cLck of complications. She had been ailing for the past year but her condition was not regarded serie us until last Friday. She was 'born in Preble township on March 24. 1864. a daughter of Mr. and Mrs. William Schaekal.; She spent her entire life in Preble I township, having resided in Preble | for the past 15 yeans. She was a member of the Preble Lutheran i i church. Surviving besides the husband are two sons. Gustave and Ernst ’Ehlerding of Preble township; two daughters. Mrs. Oswald Hoffman j of Preble township and Mrs. Elmer ’ Bolide of Fort Wayne. One son died i in infancy. Two brothers, William I I and Christian Schaekal of Preble j township, and a sister. Mrs. Her- | man Hoppe of Fort Wayne also sur- 1 I vive. 0 MAKE PLANS FOR DISTRICT RALLY Sherman Minton And .J. 1. Farley To Speak At Auburn Sept. 12 Sherman Minton of New’ Albany, candidate for United States senator, and Congressman J. 1. Farley of Auburn, candidate for re-election will be the speakers at the fourth ' district Democratic rally to be ’ held in Auburn, Wednesday, Sept. 12, with Mayor Warren Lige of Auburn. a.i permanent chairman. This announcement was made Thursday by Herman L. Brown of! Auburn, general chairman of ar-1 rangements. Several thousand' people from all parts of the dis- j trict are expected to be present.' They will meet not only Mr. .Minton and Mr. Farley, but also state candidates and the district chairman. Virgil Simmons of Bluffton, who heads the state conservation department. Omer Jackson of Grenfield, the state chairman, also is expected. The music will be furnished by the DeKalb cohnty American Legion hand and it will start the day's activities with a concert on the court house square at 4 o'clock,, daylight saving time. A barbecue ' supper will be served in the Jen-’ ners building at Ninth and Jackson streets beginning at 5 o’clock, j The band will play again at 7:30 and the speaking program in the > assembly room of the court house will get under way at 8 o’clock. I

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Decatur, Indiana, Tuesday, September 4, 1934.

Two Bandits Rob Westfield Bank w Westfiel# Ind., Sept. 4 — (UP) — Two bandits held up the Union State Bank here today, obtained slightly more than $1,060 and escaped under the gunfire of citizens. The shots were fired after the bandits .pulled away from the bank and started south on highway 31. Several bullets sped past their automobile and they fired at least once in return. None of the shots was believed to have taken effect. Victime of the holdup safl that two men entered the bank and it is believed that two others were waiting outside in the car. —o COMPLETE NRA i BOARD RESIGNS Fuel Code Authority Members Quit In Protest Against Policy Washington, Sept. 4.—(U.R) —The l ; retail solid fuel code authority in I charge of coal and coke today add-j 'ed to the many troubles of the I , NRA by resigning in protest j i against “emasculation'' of its code. The code authority complained j that the NRA had ended any hopej of effective results from the code i by ruling that it might be modified ' without notice or consent of the | industry. “As now emasculated by the I NRA," said the letter of resignaj tion, “the cotie is a futile and un. | workable thing. Vacillating pol- ■ I icies, constant delays in securing ' decisions vital to administration and disregard of clear understandings originally entered into with. this industry at the time the code was approved, make it evident, ' that there is not hope for effective : i administration or enforcement.” j Members of the authority who I resigned were Roderick Stephens. ’ New York, chairman. Milton E.. I Robinson, Jr., Chicago, Clarence V. 1 ! Beck, St. Louis, William A. Clark, I Boston, Charles M. Farrar. Releigh, : S. C„ Edward B. Jacobs. Reading, Pa., and John McLachlin, Pullman, 111. The members placed full blame for the development upon the NRA, claiming that they and divisional I code authorities had done everyI thing possible to make the agree--1 ment work. The NRA was blamed < ' for compliance trouble. “Chrislers have wilfully violated j i this code and efforts to obtain re- ' ; dress at law have, with few excep !i | tions," they said, “have not receiv(CONTINUED ON PAGE SIX) , | _ 0 — Assistant Named For FERA Office Mies Catherine Atkinscn of-' Greencastle has been named assist-! ant to Miss Ruth Coward, Adams 1 county case supervisor for the local 1 FERA office. Mise Atkinson will,' begin her duties immediately. '. Regular Trustee Meeting Wednesday . I' The regular meeting of the town- I ship trustees with county superin- p jtendent cf schools Clifton E. Striker ( has been postponed from Monday | until Wednesday. Business in con-'I Inaction with the opening of school j t I will be conducted ou that day. il

COUNTY BOARD HOLDS SESSION Contracts Are Awarded Today Bv Adams County Commissioners The county commissioners in session today awarded ci ntracts for repairing the'boiler at the court house and furnishing fertilizer and coal at the county infirmary. Pat Hyland of the. Hyland Plumbing Co., was awarded the contract I for installing new flues and repairing the court h- use boiler. His bid was $306.60, only 60 cents higher than the lowest bid, submitted by a Wells county firm. The eommiseioai ers awarded the ji bto the local I contractor. Bids submitted follow: Bass Foundry and Machine Co., Fort Wayne, $356. Fulton Machine Co., i 347.180; Br s., Bluffton, I 305.40 and an alternate bid $322.68 I The commissioners stated 48 new ; flues were to be installed in the ' boiler. Work will begin as soon as the material can be cbtained. i The Cash Ccal and Supply Co., ■ was the low bidder on coal and fertilizer. The commissioners requested bids on four tons of fertilizer ami . 15 tons of kitchen stove coal. The i bids foil w: fertilizer per ton: Cash ICoal and Supply, $27.50; <Henry j Dehner and Burk Elevatqr Co., S3O j ton. Kitchen stove coal, per ton; Cash Coal and Supply, $5.50; Burk ■ Elevator Co., $5.75. The commissioners did not meet ■ j’esterday on account of Labor Day. I The board met this morning and !checked bills and allowed claims. The board will meet later in the day with the county council, which began its annual session this mornI ing. i . DENY CHANGES ' IN ALL BOOKS ; 1 School Officials Deny Ru- < mor of Complete Change In Book Lists To halt rumors that the state 1 board of education had changed all 1 the books in the schools, and that < .parents will be compelled to buy 1 | new books for each pupil, superiin- 1 I tendent of city schools. M. F. Worth 1 ' man. county superintendent of 1 schools (Clifton E. Striker, Ira Fuhr- < man of the city school board, and 1 Catholic school officials issued a f statement today p inting out the < relatively few changes made in I books this year. In the public grade schools pupils 1 iin the third, seventh and eighth 1 grades are comlpelled to buy new I I readers and pupils in the third, I ! fifth and seventh grades will need 7 new arithmetics. The copy books I will be changed as usual. I One geography will be changed in the Catholic grades and a biology v book will be necessary for pupils taking this course in the high schorl. Biology is a new course. The school officials said that n these changes are fewer than us- p ual when compared to the hundreds t of books on the lists. a All school books, which are be- c Ing replaced, must .be exchanged by p the dealers at quoted prices, regard- a less of the condition of the books, s

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SENATE PROBE SHOWS PROFITS WERE DIVIDED American And British Submarine Companies Divided Profits DISCLOSURE MADE IN INVESTIGATION Washington, Sept. 4.—(U.R> —The Electric Boat Company of Groton. ■ Conn., and the huge British Vick-ers-Armstrong Company, split profits and divided territories through ' out the world for their vast submarine building activities, it was revealed today by senate investl- ‘ | gators. Henry R. Carse, electric boat president, told the special senate munitions committee that his firm was paid a percentage on all business done by Vickers in England, and continental Europe. Contracts consumated between the boat company and Vickers, munitions makers' of London, provided for a split of all profits made on boats built by the latter concern. In cases where a contract for construction of boats on the European continent was held by Vickers, the Electric Boat- Company reI ceived 40 per cent of the net profit. I If boats were built by Vickers ini yards on the continent, the profit was split 50-50. Under written agreements, Vickers reserved tlie right to -seek bus-: iness in Great Britain. Canada. Ireland and India. The Electric Boat Company, re. * (CONTINUED*ON PAGE SIX) PLAN SERIES OF MEETINGS First of 100% Meetings At Methodist Church Wednesday Night The first of a series of 100': meetings will be held In the local Methodist Episcopal church on Wednesday evening of this week at 7 o’clock, according to the an-1 npuncement of the pastor, Rev. I H R. Carson. The officiary of the ' church are called upon to be 100% in attendance at the mid week service, which is resumed for the fall and winter, and at the monthly official board meeting which follows at 7:45 p.m. One week later the church school board will have its 100% j meeting and this will be followed with similar meetings for other organizations. During the month of Sept'-mber the pastor plans to meet with every organization and to assist in setting up goals for the year’s program. The officials whose names will i be called on Wednesday evening of this week are: C. L. Walters.;' A. J. Smith. Daniel Sprang, Virgil Krick, Avon Burk. Mrs. E. N. Wicks, C. D. Lewton. Paul Edwards, J. T. Merryman, M. E. Hower, F. W. Downs, Leigh Bowen, Mrs. Leigh Bowen. Mrs. J. T. Myers, Mrs. C. D. Lewton. Mrs. R. D. Myers, Mrs. W. F. Callow,; , L. A. Graham, H. E. Butler. Lee Vance. E. N. Wicks. Fred Handier, Don Farr. A. D. Suttles. J. R. Parrish, B. J. Rice, E. W. JohnI I son, Homer Lower, J. M. Doan, C. ■ O. Porter, C. A. Burdg, Francis ( Howell. Samuel Peoples. D. F Fry- ( back. B. R. Farr, Dan Tyndall. A. ( W. Lawson. E. B. Lenhart.. Clyde Butler, Will Bowers, W. Guy > Brown. E. D. Colter. W. F. Beery, , H. B. Heller, F. V. Mills. Bryce ( Thomas, W. O. Little, Mrs. Hattie j Beery. Bernie e Nelson. Mrs R. (A Stuckey; Mrs. A. D. Suttles. School Pupils To~ Fill Extinguishers i R. A. Adams, chemistry instructor in the Decatur high school, and ■ his class will refill the 22 fire ex_ , tinguishers in the city schools as a class project next week. The class filled the fire extinguishers , last year. They were approved . and pronounced well done by the j. state tire examiners.

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Droegemyer Rites Held Here Monday Funeral services for Mrs. John Droegemyer, 26, of Fort Wayno, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Zerkel of this city, who died Saturday morning at Fort Wayne, were held Monday afternoon at 1:30 o'clock at her parental home in this city and at 2 o’clock at the Methodist Episco-' pal Church. Rev. H. R. Carson offl- j dated at the ceremony and burial was made in the Decatur cemetery. | The body was returned to the Ja-, cub Zerkel home from the W. H. Zwii k and Son funeral home Sat-1 urduy evening. COUNTY BUDGET IS CONSIDERED BY COUNCILMEN Adams County Council Meeting In Annual Session Here Today FREI) EICHENBERGER UNABLE TO ATTEND The Adams county council convened at 9 o'clock this morning I for the annual session and tool: up the budget. Preliminary compilation will not be completed I I until late this afternoon and final adoption of the budget will ' not be made until Wednesday. The councilmen began early and by nine o’clock their session was underway. Each item requested , in tlie $126,503.90. operating ex- ] , pense bill was scrutinized by the ; I councilmen and penciled markings on the copies held by the niem- ; hers showed that changes were! being made in the estimates asked j by the various officials. Requests for appropriations of SISOO for deputies were filed by the officials and although final action had not been taken this as- ; ternoon, it was believed that tlie I salary of deputies would be fixed at S9OO, the same as that paid this I . year. The state law fixes deputy 1 salaries from S9OO to SISOO a year, the minimum being paid here. Under the heading of telephone expanse in the different offices, tentative appropriation listed by, the councilmen was SSO a year. In some cases the amounts request-; ed were S6O and $75. i Other changes were being made' in the budget, but it was not in- ■ i dicated what effort the cuts and I primings would have on the conn- i 'ty tax levy. Based on the $156.-; i 503.00, a levy of 57 cents on the hundred dollars would be requir- i ed, of which five cents would go t I to the bond fund. To make a one 1 • • i (CONTINUT3D ON PAGE FIVE) ( ,_ o RFC CHAIRMAN < IS OPTIMISTIC 'l 11 Jesse Jones States Nation • Gradually Returning To Normal ' Washington, Sept. 4 — (U.R) — Chairman Jesse H. Jones of the Reconstruction Finance Corporation. tlie nations biggest money 1 lender, today expressed confidence 1 that the nation is slowly beating 1 its way back to normal. The jovial, ruddy-faced chair- ’ man, whose organization has 1 $7.000.(WO,0(» to pump into the 1 country's banking, railroad and; 1 industrial channels, told the Unit-, 1 ed Press that the future is “good”. 1 Strengthening of the nation's ■ banking system, through federal 1 aid. Jones believes has been tlie ' most important factor in determining recovery. “The banking'situation is good.' ; In that lies the pillar of all economic security. Banks, every-1 1 where, can and wish to loan | 1 money to stimulate business," he 1 said. “We are all so much better off |' than wo were eighteen mon'hs ago that we are apt to forget just how bad the situation was." At the same time, Jones was cautious in the use of the word “prosperity” preferring ’normalcy’ *(CONTiNUED%)br

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UNION LEADERS CLAIM STRIKE HUGE SUCCESS Survey Shows Huge Strike Is Now 50 Per Cent Effective REPORT VIOLENCE IN SOME CENTERS ' (Copyright 1934 by United Press) Wnslii.ngton, Sept. I <U.R> Textile strike leaders suit! | that more than 50 per cent jof union workers had reI sitoiided to the nationwide strike order and that by tomorrow 300,000 will have left their jobs. The strike is a “tremendous success” already, the strike leaders claimed. Francis J. Gorman, strike chief, predicted that 300.004) non-union workers would join the walkout by the end of the week, bringing the entire industry to a shutdown. While Gorman indicated optimism as to the results of strike orders, George A. Sloan, president of the Cotton Textile Institute, said that incomplete reports to him a'so showed the walkout : about 50 per cent effective. A United Press survey showed that in representative mill towns from Alabama to Maine, more than 200.000 workers were out, making the strike 50 per cent effective in surveyed areas. Various factories were operating ' with full force, others on skeleton ; shifts. The tabulation shortly before noon stood: Non-strikers — 201.980 (incom- ’ plete.) Strikers —204,275 (complete.) Out of the south came reports i of violence in Georgia and picket- ' ing disturbances in the Carolinas. 1 (CONTINUED ON PAGE THREE) o VETERAN PILOT DIESIN CRASH Doug Davis, Air Ace, Crashes During Race At Cleveland Cleveland. Sept. 4. — (U.R) — The death of Doug Davis, veteran pilot, whose life ended in the wreckage of a plane that an instant before bulleted through the air at 245 miles an hour, was put down today to the hazards of air racing. Unless the department of commerce wants an investigation into the tragic accident that marred the final day of the 1934 national air races yesterday, there will be none, officials said. Davis, leading competitors in the SIO,OOO Thompson trophy race, crashed while rounding a pylon. Col. Roscoe Turner, following close behind, went on and finished tirst. More than 125,000 spectators saw the plane fall but thought the pilot had hailed out safely until two hours later his de'ath was announcTcONTINUED ON PAGE FIVE) Two Injured When Hit By Local Auto Two women were injured when struck by an automobile while waiting for the circus parade at West Brook drive and Clinton street Monday morning about 11 o’clock in Fort Wayne. Those injured were Mary Lynn, 32. of 190, Brown street, who suffered lacerations on her legs and arms, and Opal Griffith, 30, of 2026 Brooklyn avenue, who suffered lacerations and abrasions. They were taken to the Methodist hospital in the Schone ambulance. They were hurt when Harvey L. James of 1017 North Seventh street. Decatur, attempted to move his car off the curb. Not realizing that the car wns in gear, he stepped on the starter and his car pinned the two women between his machine and another parked automobile. In the car with Mr. James were John Hesher and son Robert and Eli Girod. Mr. James was not held to blame for the accident.. He suggested that the injured people be sent to the hospital and paid all expenses connected with the medical examination.