Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 32, Number 233, Decatur, Adams County, 1 October 1934 — Page 1

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lEET HARVEST WILL BEGIN TUESDAY

tontractor To Start Work On 48 Houses

IffSTiNGFOR ■[KENTS WILL ■1(1 AT ONCE Sjtructor Wires to Have Separations Complet■pd By Wednesday ’■open office f |\ THIS CITY ■ lr |,-r ■(■(vised loday Brothers. Nev? contrv tors who will || l( . |S houses on the |K-.,1 subsistence honieKsi. south of Decatur.! thev will be«in acconstruction of the EL, b\ the middle of this t. l'V'cen asked Austin A. 1 project manager. to I preparations for the tieof ’he excavations l»y | Mr Watrous wired that he would a ii arrangements made on Hduthe telegram it was j that the contractors hnvo the job of excavating. Who Km, l tins «<>rk was not learned I K contractors will open an i office in this city I a few days. All applies- I for work shall be made to ' as the local officials no authority in the hiring I lof a. ' .)•■•!:• w*. who Ins acted , agent for the prothe last several months. | word today that with ' of the contracts th" for his services has ended. ■ with IS other disbursing j in tlie country have been , with good recommen- i the few accounts in the administration I JWTINTEo’ON* page' FIVE)

■IIR OEM IN I TAVERN FIGHT ■th Man Believed Dying ■After Bloody (Jun Battle Saturday ■st St. Louis. 111., Oct. f—(U.R) are dead and one more is dying as a result of a sav- ■ roadside tavern holdup at St. : in , 20 miles northeast of I ■> at midnight Saturday. dead, shot in a spectacular duel between Elmer Jack- ■ proprietor ot the tavern, and ■ bandits who did the "job" i ■ugene Goodman, self-styled of the Ozarks’* and lead- , the bandit gang. ■nett Webb Perkins, his ban. I ■Pal. He, Holden, 58-year-old cook at ! tavern. lord Hartman, East St. Ixiuls I >NTIX’UED on PAGE FOUR) ne Injured In Auto Accident 0 on " wa s injured when a car ren by Doyle Miller and owned Jesse Rh e struck a telephone s on north Third street Saturafternoon. After passing one Miller turned into the po-le to ■d striking a second. The slight ' nage to the car was covered by hrance. d—— >fnmissioners In Monthly Session l>he morning session of the regumeeting of the Adams county MtUaioners was spent this morn-: allowing the routine county Ibis afternoon the commissioners K»n Interviewing an d examining records of new applicants for age pensions. Tuesday the commissioners will eive bids for supplies to be used ! ® eou nty infirmary for the next I ■ re e months.

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Smile From Charley jog <4 I This healthy smile is presented hy Charley Gehringer, star second baseman of the Detroit Tigers who is expected to be an important cog in the Bengal*' campaign for the baseball championship in the 1934 world series. Charley is shown at the wheel of his automobile. SUNDAY SCHOO? HOLDS MEETING Convention Held Sunday At Washington Church; Jonas Tritch Spoke -.( I The Washington township Sun day school convention was he'd Sunday afternoon at the Washington church. Special music was furnished by the Imperial quartet and Professor J. C. Tritch of Fort Wayne delivered the principal address. His subject was “This is My Task." Remarks were given by conntv.

officials. Miss Frieda Lehman and Miss Frances Burkhalter of Berne. Announcement was made of the coming county Sunday school convention to be held in Berne October 6 and 7. The young pennies banquet will | be served in the Berne auditorium Saturday evening at seven o’clock. Tickets may l>e procured from Miss Burkhalter. The nominating committee made the following report for the election of officers for the year: Rav Smith, president; Amos Ketchum, vice-president; Everett R. Johnson, secretary and treasurer: C. D. Teeple. administrative division; Ralph Kenworthy, adult division; Tovell Smith, young neoples division: Miss Helen Shroll. children’s division, and W Guy Brown, educational department. FORMER BERNE MAN (SKILLED Walter Hirschv Killed Friday In Michigan Auto Accident Relatives at Berne received word late Saturday of the tragic death of Walter Hirschy. 40. of Kalmazoo. Mi-hlgan. a former Berne resident. Mr. Hinschy was killed Friday night in an automobile collision two miles north of Nashville, Michigan. The car Mr. Hirschy was driving collided headon with another car in which two persons were killed. They were Robert Shelding. lb. a f; otball player and Sheldon Peacock. 28 automobile salesman. Mr. Hirschy was born in Berne January 10. 1894 a son of Mr. and Mrs. Joel Hirschy. He was graduated from the Berne high school in . 1913 and from many years was engaged as a school teacher. At the ; time of his death he was employed 1 ■as a U. S. government internal rev-j enue inspect r. Surviving are the widow, a son. and the father, Joel. Hirschy of Plainwell, Michigan, one sister and three brothers. ■Funeral services will be held Tuesday morning at nine o’clock at j Kalamazoo, Michigan.

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DflQlMCnkl ADCkIQ Hospital Observes nUuINuUN UrtNu 30th Anniversary P AMD A IP KI IA/ITU th,rtletl> anniversary celeUnllll rtlull If II n bratlon of tl) e founding of the Luth-1 I eran hospital in Fort Wayne was J D ITT CD 0 DEC nil obs, ‘ rv ‘‘' l Sunday afternoon on the ull Is 11 ul I I 11H hospital grounds with about 15<i0 Wl I I Ull VI LLVII persona attending. Dr. F. J. Lankenau of Napoleon, ... . xr a* I * j Ohio, vice president of the Missouri LntICISCS National And Symd, delivered the sermon and State Administrations | special musical numbers were l ~ showing the progress of surgery, I, hiVlll UAf’C Al CH medicine and hospitalization in the AV 111 rlvMxli AIjoIJ past 3o years, was an interesting ON THE PROCxRAM event. A number of Decatur people . attended the celebration. Senator Arthur Robinson, candi- o—date for reelection, launched the II 1 1I HTlfl A k| k| TA Kepubln an campaign in this conn Mu IJ F I lyl Ull [M ty, with a speech Saturday night 11,1 v * IHinilll’lV at th ■ De< atur Catholic high school. . flf* PVTOBniTTn in which he criticised both file Rp tYl|gfl|l|lr|l national and state administrations Ula I 1101*1 I fclr ! and offered one suggestion, which ' \he claimed would aid national re-I covery. Lindbergh S u s p e c t To David Hogg, Republican candi pace Murder Charge

date for United States represent-! ative from the Fourth district, and Fred Rohrer, Berne newspaper edi-■ tor. were the other speakers on the program. Avon Burk of Decatur was chairman of the meeting.. “The present state administration is neither Democratic nor Re. publican," said Senator Robinson. "It represents only the man who has been described by a Demo- , cratic editor as "Emperor" McNutt and his clique of friends. The. philosophy of the orthodox Demo-1 cratic party has been thrown out' the window. “For more than a century Indi-, ana has been known as the state having the best institutions in the nation. Now with the dismissal of Warden Daley of the Michigan City penal institution it is known ,as the state having the most lax penal institution.” The senator then attacked the, administrators of the state secur-! ities act accusing them of gross negligence. He said that "Gov. McNutt has established the most notorious club in the world, the 'two per cent club.” He denounc-1 ed the school book administration as a “racket" which will cost the (CONTINUED ON PAGE FIVE) TAXPAYING PERIOD STARTS Gross Income Payments Due October 15; Farm Payments Taxable Indianapolis, Oct. 1 — (UF) — I Cress income tax payers in all parts of Indiana today began filing re-1 , turns for the third quarter of 1934. ■ At the State House, plans were being made to assist some five or six thousand persons expected to come to the tax division's offices and file returns in person bet re the taxpaying period ends October 15. Auto license branches throughout the state were prepared to furnish ! return forms, information and assistance in filing to thousands more. Clarence A. Jackson, director ' f the Gr ss Income Tax division, estimated that at least 80,000 returns w-ould be filed. The estimate was based on the fact that 80,100 reutrns were filed in the ; July quarterly paying period. I Persons or corporations owing I more than $lO on income received during the months < f July, August and September are required by law t‘o file an October quarterly return. Those whose tax amounts to less than $lO are permitted under the law to defer filing until January, when an anuual return must be filed. Jackson said many persons owing less than $lO were expected to ! file in October in order to avoid the necessity < f paying a full year's tax in January. Partnerships are required by law to file information "(CONTINUED ON PAGE FIVE) o— Creamery Head Dies Saturday (Word has been received here of the death of Clifford Huencke, predairy company, New Bremen, Ohio.. Mr. Huencke was 50 years old. IHis -death occurred Saturday and funeral services will be held Tuesday afternoon from New Bremen. He was well known in this city.

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Decatur, Indiana, Monday, October 1, 1934.

Before Extortion New York. Oct. I—(U.R)1 —(U.R) -Bruno Richard Hauptmann will be extra dited to New Jersey to face murder charges before lie goes on trial for extortion from Col. > Cnarles A. Lindbergh in Bronx i county, it was announced today | coincident with a series of new 1 developments in the case. The announiemtnt of extradition plans was made hy Gov. A. Harry Moore after an earlier statement in which he said New Jer- ; sey's case was not sufficiently strong to warrant such action, i Meanwhile District Attorney ■Samuel Foley cited technical i reasons why the extortion trial (CONTINUED ON PAGE SIX) f- — o— Highland Youth Fractures Ankle, James Highland. 13 year old son of Ed Highland of south First street and a student at the Central school received a fractured ankle shortly before 1 o’clock today while playing on the scho. l grounds. A group of boys were playing baseball using trees on the school grounds for bases. The Highland lad injured his right ankle when he I jumped on a root. He was removed to the Adams (J un-ty Memorial i Hospital where the injury was xrayed and set. He will remain at the ! hospital for a few days, the attendI ing physician stated. Thieves Damage Chevrolet Office Thieves got little money but did considerable damage when they rifled the cash register and files in the office of Th mpson's Chevrolet gar age on north Third street Satur-j day evening. Several locks were ’ broken in the attempt to find I money. Entrance was gained by] breaking a window in the shop at the rear of the office. LABOR LEADER GIVES COMMENT Roosevelt Proposal Does Not Remove Possibility Os Strikes San Francisco, Oct. I.— (U.PJ — I President Roosevelt's proposal for a truce between labor and industry to spur recovery does not remove the possibility of strikes from the American labor scene, a spokes-! man for organized labor indicated today. Edward Vandeleur, who as chairman of the San Francisco labor council, directed the four-day gen eral strike here last July, offered the only direct comment among the labor leaders assembled for the opening today of the 54th annual! convention of the American Feder-! ation of Labor. "The President's suggestion does not obviate the possibility of strikes." said Vandeleur. now president of the California Federation of Labor.. William Green, president of the A. F. of L„ paused in the midst of an important session of the execu- ' tive council to say that Mr. Roose-1 (CONTINUED ON PAGE FOUR)

TRUSTEES HOLD REGULAR MEET — Township Trustees Vote To Dismiss Schools October 18-19 The 12 townshtp trustees in their regular monthly meeting today vot- ■ ed to dismiss all the county schools on Thursday and Friday, Oct her i 18 and 19. in order to permit the, teachers to attend institutes. The board also discussed the matter of financing the rent tot the new distribution bane established in the Hensley building on south Second street. The rent will be paid jointly by the trustees but the apportionment of the rent to each township was not decided at noon today. The trustees announced that they prefer that the tel- hers attend the institute 'of the Northeastern Indiana Teachers' Association at Fort Wayne but they may if they desire, attend the Institute at Indianapolis. M. F. Worthman, superintendent of the Decatur schools is secretarytreasurer <,f the Northeastern In-l-iana teachers' association and Clifton E. Striker, superintendent of the Adams county schools is a member of the executive committee. The chief addresses of the general sessions of the Fort Wayne institute will be given in the Shrine Temple on Thursday and Friday. Dr. Ralph W. Sockman. national interpreter <f present day problems and lecturer of Boston. Massachusettes, will speak Thursday morning on “Mastering the Machine Age” He will be followed by Dr. I Thomas Henry Briggs of the depart- ; ment of education of Columbia university who will give an address en- ; | titled. “PsiTßonal On Thursday evening Will Irwin, author, internal! nally known correspondent, n’ovelist and writer of verse, will talk on "Tainte- Truth. The last address will be given by Bisho'p Francis John McConnell of New York City who will speak on "Our New Era.” Special music and other features ’cONTINUEd’oN PAGE FIVE) CRAZY POLITICS TITLE OF PLAY Psi Ote Sorority Sponsors Home Talent Play To Be Given Oct. 11-12 On Thursday and Friday, Oct. 11 and 12, at the Catholic auditorium, the Psio lota Xi sorority of this city will stage tlie side-splitting j comedy “Crazy Politics. This master stage show is a screamingly funny comedy of a political campaign in a small town. At the meting yesterday. Miss Theola Guiles, representative of the Universal Producing Co. met with the organization and they outlined plans for handling the work. The Psi lotas aie very enthusiastic; about the whole production and promises the public a real treat and something entirely different in the way of amateur theatricals. "Crazy Politics" has been staged by worthy organizations all over the U. S. with the most unusual success. It is not the usual home ! talent entertainment but a master stage show written particularly for community pr duction. Mexican Arrested For Intoxication Peter Conteur. Mexican of near Bobo, is being held in the Adams county jail on a charge of public Inti xication. He was arrested Saturday afternoon by chief of police S?phue Melchl. Anna Fetters Dies At Home Saturday — Mies Anna Fetters, 30, a lifelong resident of Jefferson township. Ad- ■ ams County -died at her hotne Saturday of tuberculosis. The deceased was a daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Charles Fetters. Surviving are the parents and two brothers an,d two sisters. Funeral services were held this morning at 9 o’clock at the St. Mary’s Cathcllc I church near New Corydon. Burial was made in the church cemetery.

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PRESIDENT AIMS TO END STRIFE IN INDUSTRY Roosevelt Assures Nation Battle For Greater Security To Continue TO EXTEND NEW DEAL POLICIES Washington. Oct. I—<U.R1 —<U.R> —President Roosevelt today reassured the nation concerning the permanency of the new deal, pledged a | fair profit system for business, i and proposed a truce to end the bickering of capital and labor. In the most important of his famous messages to the people, since the banking collapse of last , year, he foresaw a future proper- ! ity solidly built upon a sound foundation. Admitting frankly that there ■ may have been some imperfections in his battle against the | depression, he pledged himself to lead the country under a banner of liberty to greater freedom and greater security for the average man. He accused hs critics of coming out of their storm cellars and forgetting that there ever had been a storm, gave his word that the administration would redouble its efforts to find jobs for the jobless and compared this country’s re- ( covery program to that of Great . Britain. The President ignored demands that he promise to make no more government experiments. He It»- ■ itiated instead what may become one of the most far reaching experiments of all —the end of strife, strikes and lockouts through a three-way contract between himself, industry and labor. In making this unprecedented proposal from the White House last night, the President said he would confer this month with labor leaders and industrialists, i seeking their cooperation in establishing a specific trial period for industrial peace. His announcement, coinciding significantly with the American Federation of Labor convention in San Francisco, said that Mr. Roosevelt would seek: "Assurances of the making and maintenance of agreements, which can be mutually relied upon, under which wages, hours and working I conditions may be determined and any later adjustments shall be 1 made either hy agreement, or in ■ case of disagreement, through the mediation of state or federal agencies." The President said he would not ask either side to lay aside permanently the weapons common to 1 industrial warfare, but that: "I shall ask both groups to eive 1 a fair trial to peaceful method* ' of adjusting their conflicts of (CONTINUED ON PAGE FIVE) DEMOCRATS TO FORM NEW CLUB You n £ Democrats Meet Tonight To Organize Political Club Several county officers and Democratic candidates will be present at the 'organization meeting of young Democrats to be held tonight , at 7:30 o’clock in the Democratic . headquarters on south Second street. The club is being formed to provide a me>ins cf interesting the young people In the county in local state and national governments. As planned now, talks will be given on government and political problems confronting the citizens of today. The young Dem crats will! assist in everj’ way possible to aid the city and county Demtocratic committees in the fall election. 'lf possible parades, banquets andj' dances will be held by the new club in order to get the members acquainted with each other. All young Democrats who are in- j ■ terested in the movement are urg-, ' ed to attend the meeting tonight.

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Cleared of Slaying JFk 4 I / * I Frank Martin, trusty convict at ! the Arkansas state prison farm. | is photographed in the courtroom j at Little Rock, Ark., shortly lie-1 > fore he was found not guilty of i ■ charges of murdering Helen I Spence Eaton. Arkansas "Lad girl,” whom he shot while trying I to recapture her after her escape I from the prison. SECURITY ACT IS EFFECTIVE Government Supervision Os Security Business Is In Effect Washington, Oct. I—(U.R1 —(U.R) —Supervision of America's vast security ! business passed quietly into the hands of the federal government : today as the securities exchange act of 1934. designed to give new I protection to investors, became] fully effective. The transition to federal control I scarcely affected the orderly bust-1 ness between the nation’s stock . brokers and millions of investors ■ and traders because of steps taken , by the government's control body, ! the securities and exchange cent-1 mission, to make the change as' “painless” as possible. The country's 37 securities exchanges opened as usual today with all except a handful of their . securities still available for trading. "Over-the-counter" trading among brokers in unlisted securi- ‘ ties also continued. Os the 37 exchanges. 24, includ- ] A Berne Democratic Meeting Postponed The Democratic meeting, scheduled to be held at Berne, Octcbpr 5 or 6. han been cancelled, Nathan Nel-! son, county chairman announced to- i dav. Plans for holding the meeting I will be discussed at a meeting to be held here this evening. (> Checks For Gas Tax Received Here Checks for the third quarter dis-, tribution of the state gasoline tax were received today by County Treasurer John Wechter and City treasurer Ada Martin. Adams County received $20,254.3(1 and the city of Decatur. $1,218.81. The payments included the months of July, August and September and were larger than the second quarter payments. The county highway department ] operates entirely on funds received from the gas tax. The city street department maintains and improves streets with the gas tax receipts. o> — Dairymen Will Meet At Monroe Thursday The committee appointed by the dairy interests in the county will be in charge of a meeting at the M‘nroe Jiigh schdal building on Thursday, Octoiber, 4. <at 7:30 o’clock when the control of Bangs disease will be discussed. Noah Rich. Otto D. Bieherich, Clint Soldner, Peter D. Schwartz, and Sol Mosser are the committee in charge of the control of the disease. These unable to attend the meeting may get in touch with any j members of the committee and receive blanks.

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FARMERS WILL START LIFTING OF EARLY BEETS Central Sugar Company Will Receive First Beets Wednesday Noon MILL OPERATIONS BEGIN NEXT WEEK The 1934 sugar beet harvest will begin Tuestluy and ] delivery of beets to the Central Sugar company will stall Wednesday noon, .1. Want 1 Calland. field manager for the company announced today. Onlv the early beets, vyhich ! comprises about half of the acreage, will be harvested ! during the next three weeks. Mr. I Calland said. Farmers will begin ‘ lifting the beets Tuesday. Weighing in of the beets will start at noon Wednesday and for | the next week beets will be ro- ! ceived and stored in the yards, ] preparatory to opening the mill next week. Although the exact date has not been set. Mr. Calland stated plans were going ahead for starting operation of Indiana’s only beet sugar mill Ostober 9 or 10. Ed A. Ashliaucher will be in I charge of the scale house this I year. Mr. Ashbaucher was em- ! ployed at the sugar factory last year. The scales are automatic i ] and trucks or wagons are weiglu d ] as th iy drive on the platform. The beets are th°n hauled to the ■ dumping pit. where the dirt is | sifted from them, the refuse fall- ! ing in the truck or wagon bed. Delivery tickets were being disI tributed today hy fieldmen to ' j growers who have early beets. I The late beets will not he harvest- ' ed until about October 21. o Oliver’s Auto Stolen Here Saturday Night A 1932 model Chevrolet .sedan be- ; longing to Grover H. Oliver, local ' insurance agent, was stolen in this ! city Saturday night. The car was parked on North Fourth street, opposite the Catholic high school ■ building. Mr. Oliver was attending ] the Robinstcn meeting and the auto ! was stolen sometime during the 'evening. The ignition key had been taken out, but the car doors were not locked. a Legion Commander To Speak Thursday Edward A. Hayes, national comj mander of the American Legion, will broadcast a speech in reply to a magazine editor, on Thursday. October 4. The speech will be broad i cast over blue network of the NBC at 8:45 p. m. Decatur time. a JOHNSON BIDS NRA FAREWELL Gen. Johnson Makes Farewell Address To 2,000 Employes Washington, Oct. I—(UP1 —(UP) —With tears in his eyes. General Hugh S. Johnson said farewell 11 the NRA. The ordinarily hardboiled general in a speech urged his employes to stay with NRA and said his resignation had been a foregone conclusion and seriously urged by him I since May. Standing alone on the vast commerce department auditorium platI form, the former cavalry leader told j 2,00 workers he had reached "the saddest and happiest moment" of his I life. He said he was sad because of the end of his NRA job, but happy because it was "a job well done” and he was free for the first time in 16 months from his trials and tribulations. ] Quoting freely from the classics ’(CONTINUED*ON PAGE FOUR) Hospital Board To Meet Tonight i i The Adams County memorial hos- ■ pitai board will meet tonight to rei' ceive bids on a new stoker to be ' installed in the institution's heat- ■ | ing plant. A number 'of bids have been received.