Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 32, Number 272, Decatur, Adams County, 15 November 1934 — Page 1

I Leather btrrally fair [and Friday! | temparaturt.

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■ILL'S SON ISTIFIES IN |OERAL COURT I JHLI Insull, Jr., Says' I Gif‘ Larger Than * Bather's Salaries I ( gILITIES PUT Bather in -red" Nov. 15.—(U.R)—' I DuriS the days when the charges he was ISwting a gigantic swindleI .; aW | Insult's gifts to chargreater than his salI arioi ls son testified before the Instill mail fraud I Samuel Instill, Jr., fidgety I in thei witness chair because I iw hB on n,y fppt w,len I r»’^B il| S' ' Pictured his father I and uihe' , li' as magnanimous in I I Tfc» lather and son, king and two-billion I lar dj®si. v of gas. light, and pow I ,r| al wi, h 15 others on defrauding investors of I iifMOB "''till j n jyn. a ..ear before the Insull I cr father received $495,767 I in salaries from his pyramided comI gave $494,396 to < har-! was told. I “tie.;lliaid $267,631 in inconiI *x,ler»mg him more than $275.-' I ‘he red." young Instill test iI i I called ‘Junior" by his I itillty i" elates, said his father S aW .wit "in the red" in 1930 be-] I heavy charities. | year, it was teslitied. In I $474,113 in salaries,' I saves 2 .436 to charity and show- : I >-d a Veil of $137,044 in his perI after payment of I | when the gross business ■of I i». ills various investment - was $90,000,000 the two ' | combined salaries of | "»*'<e those salaries justified'.'” was asked. I "f flli answer that best by ex-] I plaqHp hat in 1929 the Bethle-p I hew wee 1 Company did a business I (®t:nued ON PAGE SIX) UK b — Ift OFFICIALS ■IEET DEC. 3-4 I Regfc sontatives Fro in ] »ny States To Meet i »At French Lick I Indianapolis, Nov. 15. — (U.R) — j created l.y the two newI eat;dOurci-s of state revenue, sales, flaxes and liquor taxes, will be dis-1 I state tax officials at the ] I ’’‘eond conference of the national ' I' ion of state tax adminisI tratorf at French Lick, Dec- 3-4, every state legislature | lll ‘ x "'inter in the United be called upon to I s| w either sales tax or liquor I according to a survey h.v Clarence A. Jackson, of the Indiana gross indepartment and secreof the association. I W purpose of the conference] tax officials to ex. information concerning the t |Hof operation of the different VPW bf. laws in the various states. 'he officials may assist then in adopting new laws old ones,” Jackson 1 association was organized last February at a called especially to contax legislation. At. that B resolution was adopted ask- | ,l O|ngress to Pass a law enabl- 1 f ♦ • * *. I 'BF'NUED ON PAGE THREE) I I njjq ~ 0 Condition j Is Satisfactory , wndition of Mr - an<i 1 Burk, who were injured in un . j accident near Wads-', | ' Ohio, Monday was believed I > 'W al!vea herG t 0 be satisfactory I ■< ■word to the contrary was re- ! , I Miss Vivian Burk, who was . j the accident was scheduled , Lr 11 ifil bar g g d from the hospital, j [St” ” M rs - Sim Burk of this city ( - been at Wadsworth since ; I ' ffcy'dcnt are ex pit-ted to return I ' Mw ate this afternoon.

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Vol. XXXII. No. 272.

SI,OOO GOHL OF RED CROSS — Annual Red Cross Drive Will Start In County Next Sunday — Members of the Adams county | Red Cross committee today were confklent that eftizens would meet i the county quota of SI,OOO when' the 1935 roll call in completed I Thanksgiving night. The annual drive will begin next | Sunday when about 100 canvassers i will begin their visits to every home , in the county. i The Red Cross has in the past i been one of mankind’s greatest ser- | vants. A friend of the organization i has said, "The American Red Cross I may truly be called America's greatest guardian, which has made AmI erica’s dollar the biggest dollar in . the-xvorld. The American Red Cross j is an agency whose watchword is alertnessfl ever responsive to disi astrous call. It knows no creed save I to readily respond to misfortune, and no greater service can be renI dered suffering humanity than to [ subscribe for n membership thereI in." i As great as the Red Cross has I been in national and international disasters, its greatest good Is proI bably in the local organizations which assist in the small tragedies | of life which loom greater in the i min is of individuals than national . disasters. Half of the money which each i county committee collects remains I in the county. Because of the secretness with which most charity is ! conducted few people realize what i has been done. Last year a baby was born In Adams c unty of parents who had no funds to provide the necessities of its Jife. The Rest Cross brought bat# elothes and blankets for it. TXsT'year a hoffle was burned th ' the ground in Adams county leaving the family penniless and without any clothes except those which the m mbers were wearing when they escaped from the house. The Red Cross bought the family bed clothing. The la al Red Cross maintains a "home service" for war veterans. Through this service, donated by Earl A lams and the Red Cross tho "(CONTINEED* ON PAGE FIVE) o — Paul Graham Is Taken To Hospital Paul Graham, well known insurance agent and manager of the Decatur Loe.n Company, is a patient at Lutheran hospital. Fort Wayne. Mr. Graham is suffering from a dropsical condition. He w-as removed to the hospital Tuesday and will remain there for several days. o Present Play At Kirkland Nov. 18 The play, "What Shall It Profit Thee?" to be presented at the Kirkland Community building oy the young people of the First Church of the Brethren of Fort Wayne, will be Sunday evening. November 18. Instead cf November 25. as was annouiv ed. The play will start at 7:30 o dock and no admission will be charged. An offering will be taken. MENTION FOUR FORCONGRESS Special Election Will Name Successor To Frederick Landis Indianapolis, Nov. 15. —<U.R) Indiana may yet send a solid Democratic delegation to the 75th congress. it appeared today following the untimely death of Frederick Landis, congressman election from the second district. Landis was the only Indiana Republican to win a seat in congress in the election last week. The Democ.T.,4 elected 11 of 12 representatives and captured the Republican*!* last seat in the senate. After Landis' funeral , Gov. Paul V 'TeNutt will call a special election to All the second district vacancy- District committees of the Republican and Democratic parties will nominate their respective candidates. Unless he refuses, George R. DurTcONTINUIRD ON PAGE FIVE)

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FOUR PERSONS REPORTED DEAD AFTERTYPHOON Island In Phillipines Is Struck By Typhoon; Seven Missing —- HEAVY PROPERTY DAMAGE IS DONE I I Manila, P. 1., Nov. 15 (U.R) — | , Four persons were drowned and ' i seven others were reported miss- j ' Ing today in Catba j ghn. Sama Province, in the wake of a typhoon which roared through the soutlii ern area of the island of Luzon. Estimates of damage mounted rapidly as the provinces in the I path of the storm reported to teriltorial officials here. In ('amarines tSur province, 20,000 persons lost their homes. In Albay prov- . Ince at least 3,000 families were | homeless. - With scores of fishing craft ■ , missing and hundreds of homes inundated, a larger death toll I than already reported I s anticiI pated. Authorities said the storm : was as severe as the two which swept almost the same area in I October. Manila escaped with only slight , damage in today’s cyclonic disturbance. The center of the | storm passed northward without ' touching the cpaital city, whose I I residents had waited all day for 1 the fury of the winds to strike. The principal damage appeared 1 : to be centered in the provinces of i (’amarines Sur. (’amarines Norte. I Albay. Sama. Tayabas and Leyt®. ' | Shipping suffered from giant 1 waves and heavy rains. The liner President Lincoln was forced to take shelter in the lee of Marii veles island until the ajiorm pass- ’* ed over. Later the ilnenodlßS" ’ here. The French warship Priinaguet, flagship of the Asiatic souadron, also anchored near the [ island where the President Lin- ‘ coin found refuge. The Danish freighter, the Nora Maersk, was not heard from and 1 some concern was felt for her ■ safety, as she was in the center of . *7C’ONTINUED*6n PAGE SIX) O — GANG ISOLATES OHIOJ/ILLAGE Robber Band Cuts Telephone Wire And Blows 1 Bank Safe fowling Green. O„ Nov. 15. — j (U.R)—A band of robbers today j isolated the village of Cygnet, ■ i near here, by cutting telephone ' wires, then wrecked the interior of the Cygnet Savings bank with seven shots of nitroglycerine and fled before a pui suing posse. i The bandits apparently did not obtain any cash. They were frus- ‘ trated by Carl Schwyn. cashier of the bank, who lived across the street. The robber band severed telephone wires, gained entrance to the bank and set off one blast. Schwyn, awakened by the explosion. found his telephone out of order. He swung to the roof of his home and crawled cautiously toward the telephone exchange I nearby. Schwyn had just reached the roof of the exchange when he was discovered by one of the robber look-outs, who opened fire. He dropped off the roof of the ex’Tcontinued ON PAGE SIX) o CLEVELAND AND NEW YORK PRODUCE MARKET QUOTATIONS Beginning today the Daily Democrat publishes the New York and Cleveland produce market quotations. These two narkets largely control prices paid locally for poultry eggs and dairy products. They are a gage for local dealers. In the absence of local quotations,, which the Diily Democrat would like to publish if they were avail-1 able, the New York and Cleve-' land quotations can be used as a basis and will serve the iperson who has poultry, eggs or dairy I products to sell. The markets are listed on page two.

ONLY DAILY NEWSPAPER IN A DAMS COUNTY

Decatur, Indiana, Thursday, November 15, 1934.

Congressman-Elect Dies jHt ■ Frederick Landis, author, editor, ami congressman-elect from the ' second Indiana district, died early this morning in a Iztgansport hospital after a month's illness of pneumonia. Landis, long prominent ‘ in Hoosier and national politics, was the only Republican elected to ■ Congress from Indiana in the November fi election. A special election will be held to name his successor.

— MARY REYNOLDS DIESSUDDENLY 1 Mrs, John Reynolds Dies Suddenly Here Wednesday Night Mrs. Mary Elizabeth Reynolds. i 56, wife of John Al. Reynolds of I Three Rivers. Michigan, and daugh- • ter of John D. Wisehaupt of this ! city, died suddenly at the home of her father. 616 Nutt man avenue, at 9 o'clock Wednesday night. Death was due to a heart attack. Mrs. Reynolds had been visiting in this city and caring for her father who has been quite ill. She hail '[been in good health. About 5:00 I o’clock Wednesday evening she ’ 1 i complUined of pains in her jaw ami neck. Shortly before 9 o'clock she' I suddenly fell over dead. ' 1 Mrs. Reynolds was born in Bluff ■ ton on March 8, IS7B and was a daughter of John I), and Lucy | Hunter-Wisehaupt. Her mother I preceded her in death seven years j ago. I j She had resided in Decatur for a number of years and attended | the local schools. She was a mem. i her of the Methodist Episcopal, church here. On June 13, 1895, ! sh? was united in marriage to John , M. Reynolds, who survives. They j resided in Decatur until 17 years: ago when they moved to Michigan Surviving are the father and sev-1 en children: Kenneth W. of Fort Wayne; Mrs. Mart Fuelling. Glen. (CONTINUED ON PAGE FIVE) HOUSE BURNS, FOUR ARE DEAD Four Members Household Burned To Death In New York City New Ybrk, Nov. 15. —Four mem-, ber« of the household of Henry Rus- [ sell Drowne, 74-y lir old retired Woolen merchant, died today in al fire that swept the five story mansion from basement to roof. The charred bodies of Mr. and ! Mrs. Drowne, Miss May Borum, an Atlanta se>im«trtss, and Sina Henderson, negro maid, were found on : the upper floors of the Drowne | home. All excetpt Drowne were so badly burned that identification was impossible until Arthur Thompson. chauffeur-butler arrived. Almost all of Drowne's valuable ! collection of airly American books,, engravings, coins and relics dating to revolutionary days—was destroyed. | The fire was <jLsi"overe<i at SA. M.! rcONTIN*UEDON PAGE THREE) j

Miller Funeral Rites Saturday Funeral s. rvi es for Roy V. Miller, 48. of St. Mary's township who died at his home Wednesday morning will be held Saturday afternoon . at 1:39 o'clo ik at the at * 2 o'clock at the loro I Christian 'Church. Rev. J. M. Daws n, pastor I of the church, will officiate and the Moose Lodge will have charge of (lie burial service. Th body will tie returned to the home today from the S. E. Black funeral heme, and may be viewed after 7 o'clock tonight until time [ for the funeral. ) 1 0 PLAN BANQUET MONDAY NIGHT Question Os Sponsoring Agricultural Show Will Be Answered I "Will Decatur sponsor an agriculture and live stick fair next summer?” That's the question to be answerI ed at a meeting of Chamber of Com- ' merce members and local merchI ants to lie h bi Monday evening at i the K. of P. home cn Third slreet. A tentative outline of plans will ihe given and Lieutenant-governor IM. Clifford Townsend will give a I talk on state* 4 H club work and 1 agriculture extension shows. Dan Tyndall, president of the Chamber of Commerce will preside at the meeting and introduce the speaker. It is prci, osed to combine the county 4-H club exhibits, the Home Economics club display with the regional Jersey and Guernsey cattle shows. The show would probably be held in August. Short talks will be given by the following: Mrs. Helen E. Mann, county 461 club exhibits. Mrs. E. W. ! Busche. Home EJccnomics club exhibits. Henry Dehner, Gold Medal ! colt clubs, Peter B. Lehman, county i 4-H calf clubs. C. E. Striker, county I school exhibits. Everett Beatty. I Guernsey regional show. Sol Mosi ser, Jersey parish show. Roy JohnIson. County Cornservation league. I "(CONTINUED ON PAGE FIVE) I o Large Crowd Sees Home Talent Play A larg' crowd enjoyed the home [ talent play, ‘ The Million Dollar But- ' let"', a three act farce, given at the ' Decatur high school auditorium last ' evening. i The play was presented by the ' Zion senior Wal;her league of DeI catur and the cast was composed j of a dozen local .people. The play will be presented again i tonight at eight o'clock. The public I is invited.

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INSURANCE FOR UNEMPLOYED TO FEATUREPLANS I President Declares Recovery To Be Placed Ahead of Reform OPPOSES GENERAL TAX TO PAY COST Washington, Nov. 115 —(UP) — ; President Roosevelt still has an open mind on the question of in- 1 eluding old age pensions and health: t insurance in his economic security program, it was learned today in high administration circles. This attitude became known aft- ■ er the president's speech late yesterday to the National economic' security conference had been inter-[ [ preted as indicating his desire to delay action on federal old age pen-. sion an health insurance legislation. I Washington. Nov. 15. — (U.R) j President Roosevelt's declaration I placing recovery ahead of reform 1 cleared Hie way today for formuilation of an economic security pro-1 'gram which will not saddle the Am-i erican people with increased taxes., His stand was taken in a speech I [before 200 representatives of alii | branches of American economic] ' life. It was interpreted liy many j las a distinct move to the right in [ the face of a new congress loom']ing up with dynamic left wing] I strength. . j At the same time another smash-j ling assault on unemployment from 'the public works angle was fore-; f cast by Secretary of the Interior I Harold L. Ickes. As possibilities .'suggested huge rural electrification] > and grade-crossing elimination pro-j .'jeets. a transcontinental super- 1 , i highway, drought, soil and flood I t+eoutrol. t The economic security advisory] ' council of 20 industrial, labor and] » social leaders met with a special f cabinet committee today to whip' the social program into tentative] , I shape- The group however, was I : under an apparent mandate front I ! the’president to limit its scope. 1 He was on record as opposed to new general taxes to cover the. .cost of unemployment insurance.] lie was disinclined to include old I age pension and health insurances' | in the initial program. Both would ] ■ mean sharply increased govern ; inent expenditures even on a share-1 with-states cost basis. Tlie estimated annual expenditures under a federal old age pen- • sion act range from $100,000,000 to ' I $7)0,000.000. The significance of Mr. Roosevelt's apparent limitations on the] | prospective social program was, . i (CONTINUED ON PAGE FIVE) ‘ _ Q . Ask Return Os Missing Radio County Democratic chairman Nathan Nelson today asked that the person who took the radio from ] Demt i ratic h adquarters the morning f 'Rowing election return it at ■ once. A reward will be ,paid and j ] no questions asked. Otherwise the J party will be prosecuted. WELLS COUNTY FARMER DIES John H. Meyer Dies This , This Morning At Lancaster Twp. Home John H. Myer, 70. farmer, died at ' 4:30 o’clock this morning at his home in Lancaster township, Welle county. He had been suffering from heart disease for theipast year. ‘Born on March 1. 1864 in Adams county, he was a son of Mr. and Mrs. John Meyer. His mariage to ■ Laura M. Miller took place at Decatur on December 10. 18'91. Surviving are the wife, five sons, Orel of Bluffton; John W. of Washington. Illinois; Orlando L. of Muncie; Alton B. of Petroleum; Oliver O. at home; three daughters. Mrs. Lil-: Han M. Daugherty of Warren, Ohio. I Corrine Myers of Chicago, Illinois; H Laura E. Myers at home; a brother Japhet of Burlington. Oklahoma; ] and a sister, Mrs. Damaris Plattner of Sebelh, Kansas. Funeral services will be held Sat- 1 urday afternoon at 2 o’clock at the Jahn funeral home at Bluffton.

Price Two Cento

WOOD FRAMINGS BEING RAISED Framings At Homestead Site Being Raised To Second Floor The wood from Ings for the 48 houses being constructed here by lloggson Brothers for the federal subsistence homesteads are being raised to the second floor. About six of these framings were cc.mi.ileted today as 80 men labored to take advantage of the good weather. i Ralph McNally and J. Edwin Quinn, architects for the project met A. M. Cluse, general supervisor fcr lloggson Brothers, in this city ] Thursday and examined the work • ompleted to date. Thu architects expressed complete satisfaction with the manner | the houses are being completed. Mr. Close announced that he was ; on his way to Mississippi where his company had been awarded a contract for a project similar to thia. I The Mississippi project however, is located six miles from the nearest town and consists of 24 houses. Phil Sauer, who has charge of the I cement work on the loi al project announced today that all the basement floors and cement block baseI ment walls and foundation would be ] i completed by Saturay night if the I ] weather does not change. The cement laying is the only por-l ' tion of the work which can not not ] be done successfully on a large 'scale in cold damp weather. After J the work on the basements is com- ' pleted the only •.ement neewsary will be for the tporch footings of a ! few of the houses. This must wait [until the houses are completed. However, there are prerarations which will cause the cement to | harden in cold weather which will 'not be too expensive for the small | amount required. I Mr. Close saM that the vrork-was ] I progressing as fast as could be ex- , ! pected and the work is slightly a- ] head of schedule becMtise of the I fine weather experienf'-ed so far., The company has been working 1 only five wr !»:■ Some time lost by the delay I j in the lumber to arrive in this city. [ ] It required three weeks to examine the bids for the wood and for the ] order to be made up and shipped. DELAY HEARING FOR PRISONER Lifer's Clemency Hearing Continued To January Session Indianapolis. Nov. 15. —(U.R)* -Efforts of Charles (one armed) Wolfe, | Muncie, to gain his freedom from j [the state prison where he is serving a life sentence on a murder | charge, were halted temporarily today. The hearing on Wolfe’s petition for a parole was continued to the January session by the state clemency commission yesterday in order to give Wolfe's attorneys time i to obtain additional evidence. Wolfe was convicted in the Delaware circuit court Nov. 19, 19'25, and sentenced to life imprisonment by Judge Clarence W. Dearth. He was charged with participating in the slaying of Mr. and Mrs. Beu Hance. Middletown, farm couple. August 25, 1925. ] Wolfe, a lieutenant of Gerald Chapman, arch criminal who later was hanged in Connecticut for the slaying of a policeman Chapman and George (Dutch) Anderson, I Muncie were charged jointly in the ■ double killing. Anderson later was ] 1 killed in a battle with police at j Muskegon, Mich. Chapman, long sought as a master criminal, murdered and holdup » « • » « • ••• (CONTINUED ON PAGE SIX) o Uncle Os Decatur Man Died Tuesday Funeral services for George Steele, 96, of Tocsin, uncle of Roy ] Steele of Decatur, who died at his ■ home Tuesday night at 8 o’clock, will be held Friday aiternoon at 2 o’clock at the Tocsin church. Mr. Steele was one of the oldest Civil War Veterans in Indiana. He] had spent practically his entire life in this vicinity. The wife is deceos-: ed. There were no children. One brother, Robert Steele of Convoy,] Ohio, survives.

DEATH CLAIMS NOTED INDIANA AUTHOR, EDITOR — Landis Was Republican Congressman-elect From Sixth District SPECIAL ELECTION WILL BE HELD SOON Indianapolis, Nov. 15—(U.R) — Kenesaw Mountain Landis, 11, son of Frederick Landis, con-gressman-elect from the second Indiana district, probably will be the Republican nominee to succeed his father, it was learned today. Death of representativeelect Landis this morning will necessitate calling a special election to name his successor. It was learned from reliable sources that young Landis will be the choice of the second district Republican committee. Logansport, Ind.. Nov. 15. _ (U.R) Frederick Landis, 62, author, editor and congress-man-elect from the second Indiana district, died in C.ass 'county hospital today from • pneumonia. He had been ill for nearly | a month. Landis was the only Indiana Republican to win a neat in Congress in the election Nov. 6. His death will necessitate a special election to name a successor from the second district. Landis' wife, five of his six (children, and his brother. Kenesaw • ! Mountain Landis, high commisi sinner of baseball, were at the hed- ! side when death came. The sixth ] < hijji, Ixenejsaw Mountain 11, was I enroute from Denver, Colo., where j he has been undergoing bilateral ] pneumothorax treatments. Young I,an<iis arrived in Chicago by airplane at 4 a. ni. and hurried | to Logansport by automobile. Landis died at 3:22 a. m. He 1 was stricken a fortnight before the election, was seriously ill for a j time but showed improvement so ] great that he was able to sit up ' election day. Heart Weakens His heart was so weakened by i the long strain, however, that he | suffered a relapse yesterday ] morning. His family was sum- | moned to the hospital but Ijtndis ] showed improvement last night. I Another heart attack caused his [ death. Landis' victory in the election was due largely to his personal **CONT*N*UED*ON*PAGE*SIX) * o Gaffer Arrested W ednesday Night Ed Gaffer' was arrested Wednesday night and lodged in the Adams county jail on a charge of assault and battery signed by his wife. He was unable to meet >i SIOO bond set by Mayor George Krick. He will b" arraigned at 8 o'clock in mayor’s court. , o Over 200 Served At Church Dinner Over 200 persons were served at the Methodist church this noon. Chicken and tunkey were featured on the menu. The church basements were decorated with gilded soy bean plants and fall flowers. Employes of the Central Sugar company and of the Central Soya Company reserved a special table at the dinner and entertained the crowd with songs. o —— Candidates File Expense Accounts Expense accounts for the general election have been filed by the following candidates. Eli Dubach, trustee, $22.80. Thurman Gottschalk, $81.85. Edmund A. Bosse, prosecuting attorney, S9O. Arthur Unversaw, prosecuting at- ; torney, $23.40. Charles Champlin, surveyor, none. Charles C. Abnet. trustee, none. Ralph W. Price, trustee. $6.10. Forest Elzey, city council, $3.60. Ed Zwick, trustee. $5.00. John W. Tyndall, county auditor, ] $113.50. IBen McCullough, trustee, SIO.OO, Jess Mann, trustee, $18.50 A. F. Baker, trustee, $11.70