Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 32, Number 221, Decatur, Adams County, 17 September 1934 — Page 1

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MILL OWNERS MOVE TO OPEN PLANTS

: ■ MIN WORK IffIESTEAD 1111 Iffl WEEKS w — M W s<»n Brothers <>f New -Wb>rk Are \ warded Local Contract ( HANt-ES IN ■ s|-H II It WONS ■ \uprotJ <’f Subsist-! ■ : lloine>l' -"i protect has /rr.Snii ghen oid work on the ■ in instruction ol IS houses on W, s!tl . II, ( . southern e<l«e coll bed'll I VMtlll’.l -K. n,AI tv > ve, ks. l ent IratMllenT. s, ,r, t;u v o the Mr,I si.,l, ,1 to<l:iv on ~n , ol tioiu Washuio- ..:••.<■ u.,: !..■ awarded M Hi I ’ ' x,w York Jo. bid.!■ - "'I '>>•■ eiglit J'■ifernnt typ. - ■ ' Ik-hs.-s «> tie c h signins "1 ili*» contracts! jK |p done in a day or two. Mr. v " 1 bangvs were | K d „ in tlm specifications and study of the proposals, . ■ made by the J ei.'Oi.n ■n' officials. The K on the project was P hi Mr < hies department. l.itO’-r A Watrous, i• !’ -putative of the local homestead E I- Middleton. s, >■ subsistence prov..nt W.t litngton Seproh I.id- from 11 con r>. .Bed here Stp- ' were taken to .it d turned over to official' < barge of Sub-, Homesteads. New Yolk construction, was low l, dder on all types 5 | bit—- and poultrv ■ imitated from the' bid< Construction of ’anks i d , isterns will be separate contract. bids eight types. - ib.ggsoi, Bros., fol- ■ Ba ' ■ $2 ..-.0; A 6 $2.|K- A- : I! $2,550; c ■ -S2.E-$1,915. ■lb <iiffer-i.t types consist of following: story aid a half, rooms porch. ■■ A-* ■ S’..i-v and a half, 5 rooms,' porch. ■■ AS -Stun and a half. 5 rooms,' porch. mS a ' -Still V and a half. 5 rooms, ■» porch Story ami a half. 5 rooms, porch. MH' Two story Colonial type. ■COXTIXUED on page FIVE) two ESCAPE IN ■MONROE COUNTY HB B’risoners Saw Hinges ■ From Second Floor Cell ■ At Bloomington n. Ind.. Sept. 17—(UP) B^ a "ing hinges from a second cell door, two men escaped Mrwn the Monroe county jail here night. They were Rov Weaver. 31. ParaV n ' and Riley Shipley, 30, Monroe ■ The escape was discovered by .1. Lester Bender when and Shipley failed to anstlle ca 'l to breakfast. ■> t was the second break from e ota ' jail with two months, ■"’aver and Marvin Roach. 27. In ROianapolis. escaped July 30 by a turnkey. ■ Weaver was recaptured at In. ■'anapolis a short time later but timp of the i,rea * { iast ■‘S’ could not l.c determined im■nediatmy bl|t thp gber)ff sai(l thp W n both were in their cells short- ■' after mfdn'ght. aVPr was bein K held as an ' la ' cr * m ’ na l and was charged ■pi, „ r °hbing general stores at ■-, P,t "'’ llle and Gosport. Shipley n . enR held on charges of rape p ontrlbutlng to the delinquency a minor. . ■ s . fit> and fo’tnty authorities and Hrp.u P° lfce from the barracks at Hh r began an immediate search ■ lor ‘he fugitives.

DECATUR DAUS’ DEMOCRAT

Vol. XXXII. No. 221.

VANETTEJURY I IS SELECTED James Vanette Is Being Tried On Assault, Battery Charges A jury was selected at 11 o'clock this tn nine to try James Vanette, who is charged with assault and battery in connection with the alleg- > led attacks on a number of young 'girls in the west part of Decatur, during last summer. A man ha J been reported to have on many occaakna aecoeted young girls at night or late afternoon with i immoral proposals. Vanette was ar-' reefed after ipoiice, the sheriff, and a number of vitiaans in the westend caught him in the old Macy conveyo plant west of the city. Shortly before his capture a man ! had been reported, naked, on a railI road in the west part of town. Janie* Vanette is specifically ' changed with assault and battery ’against a young girl whom he Is alleged to have grabbed. The alleged ' i attack occcured at the corner of i Monroe and Ninth streets on August 17 at about 9 o’clock at night. The state called three witnesses early this afternoon. They were the alleged victim of the attack and her ' two young girl companions, with her at the time. They all testified that they were certain that Vanette was the person wh in they claimed accosted them. One of the girls alleged that he had male an immoral proposal to her some time previous to the alleged attack cn her companion. The jurors selected for the case are: William Harding. Noah Fry, Albert Bahner, W. L. Foreman, Lewis H. lie, Peter Hess, Ed Reppert. Amos Lehm an, Otto Klickman i Alva V rhees. Fred Kamholz, Steve i Longenberger. o — LARGE PROFITS ON INVESTMENT Aircraft Company Stockholders Realize Million Per Cent Washington, Sept. 17. — (U.R) Stockholders of the Pratt and Whitney Aircraft Company realiz. ed a return of more than 1,000.000 per cent on their original SI,OOO | investment In the firm, senate investigators were told today. The company was organized in July 1925. with a stock issue of ! 5,000 shares priced at 20 cents per share. Investigators for the senate munitions committee said that at the | end of the return of the orig- ! Inal investment was »11,437.250 or ; 1,142.725 per cent. i it included cash dividends of $«.- 400.000 ami stock dividends of $5,$37,250. The amazing profit was revealed as the committee started its ' third and last week of the lirst phase of the inquiry into the munitions industry. The original investors were C. 'W. Deeds, George J. Mead. Fred ' Rentschley and the Pratt and Whitney Company. Deeds told the committee the salaries and bonuses paid to him from 1926 to 1933 amounted to $293,789. Mead, he said, received $522,485 , and Rentschler from 1925, $1,553,759. The story of Pratt and Whitney's . entrance into the aircraft engini building business was told by Donald L. Brown, director of the United Export Company. 'Early business, he said, was 100 per cent with the United States (CONTINUED ON PAGE FIVE) o- — Milk Producers Meet Wednesday The Wayne cooperative milk producers will meet at the Hoagland .school Wednesday evening at 7:30 J o’clock, central standard time. An '' invitation is also extended to the housewives t-o attend the meeting, which will be of a business nature. ! oFort Wayne Man • I Takes Own Life ! Lagrange, Ind., Sept. 17-— (UP) ! George D. Eshelman, 38, committed I suicide by shooting himself with a : shotgun at the home of a. brother i here yesterday. He had been despondent over ill health.

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PLAN PROGRAM NEXT THURSDAY W. C. T. U. Will Meet At Geneva Thursday Morning And Afternoon A meeting of the Women s Chris, tian Temperance I nion of Adams I County will be held in the United ; Brethren church at Geneva Thursday, September 20. The meeting ! w ill be in two sessions? WiWning and afternoon. The morning program will open at lo o'clock with a song service led hy Mrs. Eugene Runyon. Decatur, and the afternoon session will ! open at 1:30 o’clock. At the noon hour a luncheon will be served by the Geneva women. Following is the complete program for the day: j Morning Session Song service—Mrs. Eugene Run-! | yon, Decatur, leader. Devotions — Rev. Eckerly, pastor Geneva U. H. church. Greetings—County president. Discussion, on departmental work j : by departmental superintendents. | Business session. Vocal selection—Little Miss Colvin McWhirter of Geneva. | Noontide prayer- Mrs. Ferd Met , tier, Berne. Afternoon Session Devotions — Mrs. C. E. Sharrow, , evangelistic director, Decatur. Special music—Mrs. C.T. Habegger. Memorial service — Mrs. Delton Passwater, Decatur. Short talks by the ministers. Reading—Littie Miss McWhirter Vocal solo—Mrs. Ben Schroyer. . Decatur. Closing prayer. WISCONSIN TO VOTETUESDAY Progressive Partv Vote Will Be Watched Closely By Nation Washington, Sept. 17. — (U.R) — Wisconsin's primary election oppor- ' tunity tomorrow Is to speed the realignment of parties or to check it severely. The LaFollette brothers' re-born progressive party is interpreted here as a straw in the political wind. If the IjiiFollettes pile up a big primary vote and go on to win I in November the politically unruly northwest will provide an inviting rallying point for liberal or radical forces. Comparison of the progressive primary vote with that of the Democrats and Republicans will measure the sentiment for a newdeal in party alignments, in his ! August Green Bay, Wis„ speech, President Roosevelt gave the LaFollettes a boost although he spoke j kindly, too, of Democratic Governor Albert Schmedeman who is a , candidate for renomination. But it appears fair to say that ; the LaFollette progressive have ‘ *(CONTINUED~ON*PAGE*TWO)

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Decatur, Indiana, Monday, September 17, 1931.

Salvation Army Solicitor Here Major H. L. Moore, state solicit r for the Salvation Army relief fund, is in the city calling on friends, seeking d nations for the salvation army. Approval was given by Mayor George Krick and the Chamber of Commerce. The salvation army each year solicits funds for tarrying on its work and Major Moore stated he would appreciate any amount given him. RED CROSS MEET AT FORT WAYNE Adams County Members Will Attend Meeting i Wednesday Morning — ! A meeting of the National Red 1 ' Cress for the 14 districts of Ind-1 iana will be held at the Keenan i Hotel in Fort Wayne Wednesday. ' September 19. from 10 to 12 a. m.. daylight .saving time. The meeting ' I is know’n as the ‘‘Rally the Lead- ' ess" meeting whit h is a part o" i the Whirlwind Campaign conducted j by tlie national organization. Three speakers from national ' headquarters, J. H. Heckman, assistant director of the National Roll Call; G. E. Jones of the Pub-' I licity Speaker Bureau, and David Brown, field representative, will be presented at the morning program. Aalph Feagles. district chairman, will preside. Following the meeting a lunclie. n w ill be served in the private dining room on the mezzanine ■ floor. A program of five minute 1 i talks on roll call activities will be ’ given. A large delegation from the Ad- ' anis county chapter is expected to I be present at the meeting. Wai W. Wewhoff is chairman of the Adams ■County chapter. Among those planning to attend are Mr. and Mrs. Wai Wemhoff. i ! Mrs. C. W. Knapp, Miss Anna E. VViunes of De atur, Mrs. Thurman Gottschalk and Mrs. E. M. Ray of Berne; Mrs. J. A. Long of Geneva, an I Mrs. E. W. Busche of Monroe. : o First Os Housing Meetings Tonight — South Bend, Ind., Sept. 17. —(U.R) ! —The first of a series of meetings inaugurating the federal housing program in five of the state’s lafg-. est cities will be held here tonight ! Former Gov. A. O. Eberhart of! Minnesota, special representative of the federal housing administra- f ' tion of the national emergency ! council will be the principal speaker. | Eberhart will make addresses at i each of the other meetings, sched. i tiled to be held at Muncie, Indianapolis, Terre Haute and Evansi ville on successive nights starting 1 tomorrow. R. Earl Peters, Fort Waytie, newly-appointeu associate director of the Indiana housing program, is expected to attend the meetings. George Firman, St. Joseph coun'ty chairman of the housing plan, i will be in charge of tonight's meet, ling.

STORM GAUSES LOCAL DAMAGE Man Shocked By Lightning; Electric Lines Damaged — A man was struck down hy a bolt of lightning and damage was done to electric lines in Decatur! and near the Adams Allen county line in Saturday evening's storm. ' Alva Egley, who lives about 150 I feet east of Mercer avenue was : struck down when lightning struck inear his home. He suffered from shock, but was able to be up ami (around today. He is employed at I | the G. neral Electric works. The electric light line on Mercer ■ avenue was knocked out of comi mission. Lines in Madison and Monroe ! townships, Allen county, which are ! . serviced by the City Light and ■ Power Plant were damaged. M. J. Mylott, superintendent of : the city plant and a force of men ! worked late Saturday night and | ' nearly all day Sunday repairing (the damage and restoring service) to patrons. The rain was me Heaviest of the' ' year. A heavy shower fell in De , catur late Saturday afternoon, i East of Decatur a storm occurred l earlier, followed by one during the i general rain between seven and eight o'clock. A calf was killed by lightning on the Ernest Tunibelson farm, in Root township. Eight horses and six head of cattle were huddled together in a field. The calf was in the center and tlie bolt of lightning | singled it out from the rest of the herd. TRAGEDY PROBE IS CONTINUED I Steward On Morro Castle Tells Storv Os A Second Fire New York, Sept. 17— (U.R) —A | fire in No. 3 hold on the Morro Castle about 15 minutes after the ) general alarm for fire in the) lounge was reported to a federal inquiry today by Isadore Miller, a steward. "Are you sure,” he was asked, "that would indicate two separate i i fires’” "The smoke was billowing oi’t !of the hold." he replied. "The | i heat singed my ears. I'm sure of i it." He said he knew of no inflammable polish used on the ship. Slowly but doggedly a federal | inquiry board today brought out ! important details of an unlocked, blanket-filled writing room locker | in which fire started aboard tlie i S. S. Morro Castle and in which the blaze gained such great headway that it spread rapidly through the ship immediately after its i discovery. Most important, in the question- ■ ' *(CONTINUED*ON PAGE FOUR)

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COUNTY BOARD HOLDS OPENING SESSION TODAY Tax Adjustment Board Begins Review Os Tax Levies MAYOR KRICK IS NAMED CHAIRMAN Tlie Adams county tax adjustment board, which convened at 8:30 this morning at the county' auditor's office was making splen-; did headway in the review of' budgets and tax levies of the several taxing units in Hie county. Mayor George Krick of Decatur,! representing towns and cities, was elected chairman of the board. Miss Mary Cowan, deputy auditor, representing Auditor John W. Tyndall, acted as secretary of the board. The Berne school lioard. repre-! sented by E. M. Webb, superintendent and Grover Sprunger, I treasurer, were tlie first officials before the board. At mon the board was running; ahead of schedule. Half hour conferences were allotted to the! representatives of the taxing units. Tentative approval was given to most of the budgets and levies. Final action will not be taken hy the tax adjustment board until Tuesday afternoon, or possibly not until Wednesday. The opinion was expressed that no drastic changes or cuts would he made this year, in view of the fact that budgets ami levies had been prun(CONTINUED ON PAGE SIX) o TEDDY’S SON HITS NEW DEAL Col. Theodore Roosevelt Makes Scathing Denunciation Os Policy Chicago. Sept. 17. — (U.R) — Col. Theodore Roosevelt carried a blistering denunciation of the new deal across western prairies into lowa today after inciting a wild demon, tration among young Illinois Re- , publicans. A cordon of policemen formed a "flying wedge” to clear the way ' for the son of the late President as lie stepped from a Gain at the La Salle street station. A throng had burst through the guarded station gates and overflowed onto the tracks. After an old fashioned torch-light parade through the loop the young Republicans heard Col. Roosevelt describe the new deal as “subversive to our American ideals of lib. ertv of tlie people.” “If it is permitted to run its course unchecked savings bank accounts and life insurance policies will be wiped out.” he said. “The savings of the small people throughout the countrv will be squandered on foolish schemes, un- ) necessary waste and the building of a political machine.’"’ Banners which waved about him read. Washington, Lincoln and the real Roosevelt.” and “no dictatorship." He said that the problem of un- i employment should be faced) squarely and that it would continue ) for many years "regardless of i what anyone may do.” He proposed a system of direct cash relief with stringent tests to prevent “those who can get work hut won” take it and those who have other means of support” from living off the government. He suggested that the government extend the civilian conservation corps and maintain a restrict, ed public works program. The NRA, which he said was "retarding recovery and breeding monopoly," should he abandoned as should PWA and the AAA, he I declared. Local Members To Attend Meet Mbout 50 members of the local chapter of the Knights of Pythias ) lodge are planning to attend the district meeting to be held at I Bluffton tonight. The members will i ' meet at the lodge hall here at 6:30 I o'clock tonight and go to Bluffton In a body.

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. . — I Martin Indicted By Federal Jury Bryce Martin, 28. son of Frank Martin of south of this city, was indicted by a fedeal grand Jury in indianapi lis Saturday on a charge of sending obscene literature through the mails. Three of the letters were said to have been nrailed from Bluffton, one from Decatur and one from Marlon. A total of 125 persons were Indicated by the grand jury. 0 CONSTITUTION WEEK OPENED WITH SPEECH French Quinn Speaks To Students On U. S. Constitution TO HOLD PARADE THURSDAY NIGHT | "The constitution of the United! i States must have ■ been written : under Divine guidance. No Mus-1 | solini, Hitler or DuPont can take) ; the rights embodied in the consti- ' tution from us," said French Quinn tills morning in opening tlie 147th Constitutional week observance in Decatur hy a talk at i the Decatur high school. Bryce Thomas, principal of the I Central grade school has announced that the week will be observed ' in that school hy a special chapel program. Other schools in the I city will have programs later in the week Thursday evening at eight i o'clock Adams post number 43 of ! the American Legion will sponsor a parade including all the school children and members of civic organizations in the city. No speeches will be made on that night. Officers of the Legion are ask- : ing members of civic organiza- ) lions to march or prepare floats. Amos Ketchum, instructor in mechanical training in the Decatur i high school, is supervising the building of a large picture of the ’ American Legion on a field of blue. Dallas H. Brown will act as marshal for the parade. The parade will lie organized on Adams street. M. F. Worthman today announced the lineup, which will be: city fire truck, large American flags. American Legion drum I corps, American Legion, American Legion auxiliary, high school float. Decatur boy scouts. Decatur girl scouts. Junior band, and other floats. Mr. Quinn in his talk at the high school this morning told of tlie difficulties met by the delegates to the constitutional convention 147 years ago. The 52 greatest men ever gathered tinder one roof could not agree because of divergent views on the mean*(CONTINUraD*ON PAGE FIVE) FOUR INJURED IN AUTO WRECK Adams County Residents Hurt In Crash At Kingsland Sunday Harold Thieme, son of Walter | Thieme of oute 8, Decatur, his grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. Fred Thieme and Mrs. Ed Blakey, all of route 8. Decatur, received injuries in an automobile accident which took place at Kingsland Sunday morning about 9 o’clock. Harold was the most seriously injured. He received a bad compound ) fracture cf the right elbow. IHe is j a patient at the Adams County Memorial Hospital. Other occupants i of the car were also brought to the local hospital but their injuries were minor. The accident occurred at the intersection of the highways at Kingsland. The Thieme car was going west and an automobile in which Mr. and Mrs. Joe Roback cf Fort i Wayne and Mrs. Emma Cline of Os- ) sian were riding was going south. The two collided at the interesc--1 tion. The Robavk car was considerably ; damaged and the automobile in I which the Decatur people were rid-, ing was turned over.

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GEORGIA MILL HEADS BACKED BY GUARDSMEN Strike Leaders Declare Reopening Is A Complete Failure FORTY PICKETS ARE ARRESTED Athmtii. Ga., Sept. 17 <U.R) Georgia mill owllei's, backed by the state’s national guard. I today began a concerted I move to reopen their mills in defiance of the national textile strike. , Twenty one guard companies or a total of 1,500 men, were on duty in nine j mill centers, and other com ■ parties were waiting at their arm ories for orders to proceed to the , strike zone, Gov. Eugene Talmadge said that he had signed a proclatna- ) tion Saturday night putting under martial law all areas in Georgia ! where textile disturbances existed lin order to "preserve order and I protect the lives and property of 1 all of its citizens." A “counter flying squadron’’— eight automobiles bearing 30 ' guardsmen armed with tear gas j guns and automatic rifles—waited at the Atlanta armory, ready to . rush to any point where disorder i miglit occur. The national guardsmen flying squadron got its first call to duty 1 i at Newman where 40 strike pick--1 I ets were put under military arrest following some fist fights bet ween strikers and workers. Claim Failure Washington, Sept. 17— (U.R) — 1 i Efforts of textile manufacturers 'I to open their mills today have ’ j proved a “complete failure.” ! strike leaders declared after a 1 checkup. "The strike is bigger than It ' i was on Saturday," Francis J. Gorman, leader of the walkout, said. At the same time he threatened that all allied textile trades would ' be called out if the strike was not ’ * CONTINUED* ON PAGE FIVE) $33,900 THEFT AT ROCHESTER Liberty Loan Bonds And Coupons Stolen From Mail Shipment Rochester, Ind., Sept. 17 —Theft of $33,900 in Liberty Loan Bonds and coupons from a post office mail shipment here Saturday night was being investigated today by pistil inspectors. The theft occurred within a 30minute period they were left in a ; pouch in the vestibule in the rear of the pistoffice, local postal employes said. The bonds were consigned from i the First National Bank here to the Federal Reserve bank at Chicago and have been called for Oct. > 15 retirement. Serial numbers on I them are registered. The coupons, ! valued at $2,500 are readily negotiable however. ■Loss is covered by insurance of both the ipost office and the bank. Harley Zolman. clerk in charge of the office, said he left about 7 p. m. Saturday after placing two ’ pouches of mail in the vestibule. The theft was discovered about half an hour later when James Coplen, ipostal messenger, arrived to take the consignment to the trains. He delivered the one uouch and notified postmaster Hugh McMahan ! of the disappearance of the other. The missing pouch was found be- ’ hind a hedge on the post office grounds with only the bonds and 1 coupons stolen. Other mail in the ‘; pouch included air mail, special 1 delivery and registered letters. - —Q— —— Asks Merchants j! Display Flags t t Tillman Gehrig, commander of - Adams post number 43 of the American Legion urges all merchants to - 1 place flags in front of their stores j for the rest cf the week in the obit servance of constitutional week. dThe Legion is sponsoring the ob- - servante of the 147th anniversary of writing of the constitution.