Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 32, Number 274, Decatur, Adams County, 17 November 1934 — Page 1

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KEY LONG REGIME SUFFERS SETBACK

lON'SHEAD |l IS MUSCLE HOALSPLANT lent Roosevelt Con|s Tennessee VaiI s Inspection fcVELT SHOWS pT ENTHUSIASM {rd Roosevelt Special. (U.R) — President K|t today swung into fund stage of his TenKallev inspection with Bo the gigantic Muscle 1| development after L at Nashville for lours. K, I executive headed into |i- reaches of the valley Ktisfied with the work on mO.OOd Norris Dam near 1, Tenn. He termed it ■off" and added that the Lament. of which Norris ■in integral part, wks “a L of war —a war to im|i- condition of millions II ons of American clti■ers looked on Mr. Roose- ■ ilmsiasm for the project L and Sen. George Norris, I conceived as a reaffirmI administration faith in lacy of long range plan■jects which have been ■tided for other sections ntion. t". \ is regarded as the ■ent's laboratory for the Lt of the promise of “a ■nndant life.” Proponents ■ range planning gathered It rage from the President's |: Feeling that what he I discussed would tend to b a national interest in! L J [Norris Dam the presidenwent to Knoxville and i H for Nashville, via t'hatBosevelt’s Nashville profcluded breakfast at the I lINUED ON" PAGE SIX) I o k Funeral Rites Are Held ■port, Ind., Nov. 17 —(UP) rites for Frederick Landis,, kmthor find congress man|n. the second Indiana disir- held at his home here [was in Mt. Hope cemetery, p and county business was ir a brief period at the hour liinenil. Landis died here s’, nine days after the elewhich was the only victorbublican congressianal canjn Indiana. k-— o i’ear-Old Boy Reported Missing rton, Ky.. Nov. 17—(U.R) — S. agents from Cincinnati fling the hunt today for [Gibbons, four, reported | [from his home since late r that the child may have In aped has been exprees!gh members of his famthey believe he only off. Id is the son of John fit PWA foreman. ■forts on the missing boy ■ he was seen late yes-' I the highway just out®>xington with a woman B ; * years of age. A sus- j ■arrested, but released ■tioning. ■ o ■krlet Fever ■ Case Is Reported ■ of scarlet fever was re- ■ Adams county in the Beport for the week end-' By. November 10 A to-' B cases of scarlet fever, Bed in the entire state,; Bk. a decrease of 40 over ! Bng week. S o—■er Is Given ■ne And Sentence |Br, arrested early this ■ complaint filed by his Biblic intoxication, plead { ■Mayor George Krick’s ■y evening. Gaffer was 1 costs and sentenced B days at the state penal ,

DECATUR DA ILY DEMOCRAT

Vol. XXXII. No. 271.

MUST REGISTER IF NOTING Failure To Vote This Year Means Loss Os X oters* Registration With the election now a matter of history, leaders in both leading parties wish to make it known that if eligible registered voters did . j not cast a ballot Nov. 6 their regisi. trations are automatically cancellI ed. ’ i Plainly put. if one that yas reg■i islerdd and for any reason, whethI jer illness, accident, indifference or ' I deliberate neglect, failed to vote, I I he will not be able to participate in elections in the future, unless he I has his registration reinstated. Tlie registration that was com piled this year is supposed to be 1 permanent for any elector who does not change his place of residence. It develops, however, that it ' j is to be permanent only in the event the voter participates regular. ■[ ly in elections, if he skips an elec- ' i tion. oft the registration records . goes his name. The law 1 Section 20 of the registration | law enacted by the 1933 General Assembly, contains the following ■ language relating to loss of registration through failing to vote: •'During the month of January, following each general election, the ; i clerk of the circuit court shall examine the registration books of . each precinct and shall not the: 1 names of all voters who have not voted within a period of two years. 1 The clerk of the court shall send a ■ notice to each such voter, through .: the mails, to his last known add- : ress. which shall be substantially ■ i as follows: j "Yon are hereby notified that , your will be cancelled i according to law, for failure to! . vote within a period of tw« yenrs. [ unless you apply for reinstatement ’ 7 ’()NT*NrF.I) ON PAM SIX) CONVICTED IN FRAUDSCHEME Colorado Man Convicted In Fraudulent Oil Promotion Scheme Indianapolis, Nov. 17. — (U.R) John E. LaShar of Denver, Col., was convicted in Federal Court late yesterday of using the mails to defraud in an oil well promotion scheme. The jury, which had heard evidence two days, reached its verdit in one hour and twenty minutes. A maximum prison sentence of | five years on each of eight counts i is possible. | Testimony brought out that ten Indianapolis residents, including ■ two Catholic priests and members } of their parish, were defrauded of approximately SIB,OOO with which they bought stock in the Dixie Oil Syndicate, which had been represented as owner of the Longview toil well in Texas. The government contended IseI Shar knowingly defrauded the investors in that he did not own the i well while the defense contended i that ’one of LaShar's firms had a I large interest in the syndicate which owned the well and that La■Shar had been ‘‘squeezed out. ’ i Vai Nolan, United States attor. ' ney, characterized LaShar's actions las “one of the most sordid and disgrace/.I tales of fraud in history. LaShar’, "he charged, has 'devoted his life to the use of other people s money” and used the good offices of the two priests, the Rev. I Joseph Weber, pastor of the ( hurch lot the Assumption, and his assis - ant, the Rev. John Riedinger, in obtaining victims, to whom he promised fabulous returns in short time. Young Religious Groups To Meet —— Bedford, Ind., Nov. 17 - Two conferences of young religious groups are scheduled to be held here the last of this month. The second annual state All e< Youth convention, interdenominational in scope, will meet in th, First Christian church Nov. 30 and ; Dec. 1. i The state convention of the | | young peoples’ organization of the i [Church of God will be held Nov. 29 ; to Dec- 1. (

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President At (’lark Memorial President Roosevelt. Gov. Ruby laeftoon and Senator Alben W. Barkley of Kentucky enroute from the Presideni's train at Harrodsburg to the George Rogers Clark Memorial for the dedication of the monument Friday. ___ ———

LICENSE PLATE CHANGES TOLD Frank Finney Explains New Method Os Distributing Plates Instructions relative to changed methods of handling 1935 motor vehicle license plates, which will be I effective in the sale of the new plates beginning December lU, were given to managers of auto. ■ license bureaus in 13 cities and I towns of the Fort Waynef area by Frank J. Finney, chief commission--ler license division, Indiana state bureau of motor vehicles, Indlana- ' point. during a tueeliug at._Kpit, Wayne. Mr. Finney was accompanied by i [Martin Rodenbeck. assistant com-1 inissloner. John Mosier, chief audi- 1 tor, and Benjamin Friedman, chief 'title clerk of the division. Mauag[ers of license bureaus in Albion, I Angola, Auburn, Butler, Columbia! [ City, Kendallville. Lagrange. Warsaw, Ligonier. Berne, Bluffton, De-[ eatur and Fort Wayne were present. likewise several traveling auditors connected with the department. Mr. Finney stated that 1935 mot. I or vehicle license plates will be placed on sale December 10 at li-i cense bureaus Jtroughout Indiana. He emphasized the tact that December 31, 193 T will be the last day; on which 1934 license plates can be legally displayed on motor ve-j [ hides, and thaf no time extension , for procuring 1935 plates is con-1 templated. This same time limit was followed for the first time at < the close’of 1933, when the statuory date for obtaining 1934 license I plates was rizdly enforced and no' extension allowed. Enforcement of the statutory ;date for purchasing new license, plates led to an unparalled situation at the close of 1933 at many | lof the license bureaus, which were crowded beyond capacity for days. Mr. Finney expressed hope however, that the new system of issu. ing license plates will eliminate a ’(CONTINUED ON PAGE FIVE) HEALTH NURSES FILE REPORTS — Two County Nurses File Report On Examinations Os Pupils The two public school health nurses in Adams county have completed a report of the examination of the pupils in the 59 schools in, the county from April 1 until Nov-1 ember 1. The nurses are Florence Ander-j son and Margaret Kiting. They | work in conjunction with the county, city an state health depart, ments The defects found among the pupils are: eyes, 435; ears, 91; nose, 48; tonsils, 1.727; orthopedic, 9; speech, 12; nervousness. 39 and miscellaneous, 67. The defects corrected are: eyes, 231; ears, 23; tonsils removed. 112; ; Children visiting dentists, 782; tooth cavities filletT, 253; tooth ex-| tractions, 253; tedlh cleaned, 139,1 and pupils examined by physicians, | 60S.

ONLY DAILY NEWSPAPER IN A DAMS COUNTY

Decatur, Indiana, Saturday, November 17, 1931.

Association Will Meet November 25 The Adams county Holiness Association will meet for the regular monthly meeting Sunday, November 25. There will be two sessions. one at 2 o'clock in tlie afternoon at the .Monroe Methodist Episcopal church and at 7 o'clock in the evening at the West Missionary church, two miles west of Berne. Rev. George R. Warner of Chi- ' cago, will be the speaker at both services. Rev. Warner spent seven years in Chicago, 1926-1933, in mis. sionary work. At present he is general secretary of the missionary department of the National Holiness Association and editor of tlie Call to Fi'ayer, official organ of the N H. A. Tne Rev. D. B. Jennings of Hoagland will furnish mus,|c with piano accordian. The Young ■Women’s Chorus of the Berne ‘Missionary church will sing. SCHOOL CLASS TO GIVE PLAY Kirkland Junior Class Will Give Plav Two Nights Next Week Tlie junior class of the Kirkland ■ high school will present, “He Was I a Gay Senorita” in the Kirkland ! auditorium Tuesday and Thursday nights, November 20 and 22. The ! play will start each night at 8 o'. ■ clock. Admission to the play will be 15 and 25c. The story of the plot [is as follows: Arnold's father has 1 promised to settle a quarter of a ■ million dollars on him when he marries a Spanish girl from Brazil. | The Senorita is due to arrive in another day. Artiold is in love with i Vera Stewart and must find away I to avert the marriage to the senor- [ ita in such away that he will not forfeit the money. His friend, Larry, agrees to impersonate the senorita and disgust Arnold's father with everything Spanish. So when the Senorita has sent word to postpone her visit. Larry dons his Spanish splendor and proceeds to scandalize and disrupt the entire household. Everyone is stunned when a lovely sen orita appears. Larry does not know what to do and the remainder of 1 the story is one continous laugh. | The cast of character Is as follows: 1 Daniel Benjamin, a wealthy widower Otto Smith Arnold Benjamin, his son Oscar Brown Larry Moore, Arnold's pal Carl Augsburger Lena Lutzenheim. housekeeper Maryann Wulliman Fritz Lutzenheim, Arnold's ! sweetheart Irene Girod ’June Gale. Larry's sweetheart j Mildred Beer ! ’7c6nUnuei7"on PAG«? SIX) Beauty Operators Seek Regulations Indianapolis, Ind., Nov. 17 —(U.R) —Charging that Indiana has be. come a "dumping ground" for beauty shop operators unable to meet requirements of cosmetology laws in surrounding states, Mrs. Jewel Edwards, president of tho j Indiana Association of Cosmetolo[gists, today outlined plans for regulation of the profession in Indiana.

SOLICITORS IN ANNUAL DRIVE [ Solicitors For Annual Red Cross Roll Call Are Announced t. The solicitors for the 1935 roll call of the American Red Cross in t Decatur were named today by the city committee. Tlie canvassers will begin Sun. • day afternoon and continue until . Thanksgiving evening in an effort . \to meet the quota of SI,OOO set for f the county. Last year, by meeting -[the quota, the Adams county Red .'cross organization was awarded a ; I certificate. >; The committee pointed out ?o|day that half of the money collect--led in the annual drive is used for 'local relief. The committee in charge of tin* ’drive for the district of Decatur I south of the center of Adams street to the southern city limits is comI posed of I. Bernstein, Mrs Harve [Shroll and Mrs. Faye Smith Knapp. The solicitors for this district 'are: Cecil Melchi, Don Lutes, Leo ’ ( Saylors, George Krick, Charles ! Lose, Guy Brown. Earl Colter, Dee iFrvback. Bob Strickler, Warren ! Kleinknlght. Dse Dlerkes, Clyde t Butler, Fred Mills, Fred Engle. , Sam Hite, Bryce Butler. S. E. I Black. r Elmer Anspaugh, (Dwight Sheets J— Cloverleaf Creameries!, (Frank ; Carroll — Mntschlers' packing ’[house), Amos Ketchum, Frank j Butler, Lloyd Cowens, Gerald Cole. ' Earl Adams, William Linn. Everett ; i Sheets, Robert Krick, Alva Nich- [ ols, Arnold Gerberding. Chalmer ,! Uorter, Vernon Aurand, (Adams , i County Memorial Hospital, Miss i 1 Em Hie Crist.) E W. Lankenau is chairman of the committee for the district be- • i tween the center of Monroe and of Adams streets. The canvassers are: James El- . berson, Dan Tyndall, Harry Staley, Herman Myers, Paul Edwards, Sim : ’(CONTINUED ON PAGE SIX) > _ o NEW BUILDING j IS DEDICATED Postoffice On Notre Dame University Campus Is Dedicated Notre Dame, Ind., Nov. 17 —KU.R) i—Formal dedication of the new i $32,000 postoffice on the campus of the University of Notre Dame [was held here today. State and national officers, memI I bers of the university board of lay ! trustees and officers of the univer. ■ sities attended the ceremonies. Ambrose O’ConneM, assistant postmaster general, represented the ! federal government. | Actual use of the new building, a 11 Tudor Gothic struoture built to harmonize with general architec- ■ ture of the school building which . i has been used for 20 years. The post office has a second i class rating. Brother Theogene, U S C„ postmaster of the university, became a clerk in 1916 and has > held his present position since 1921. •I Mail at the office, averaging a- [ bout 500,000 pounds annually, is handled by four clerks.

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FLOOD WATERS AND TYPHOON CLAIM LIVES At Least 100 Persons Swept To Death In Phillipine Storm MANY OTHERS ARE REPORTED MISSING Manila, P. 1. Nov. 17 — (UP) — Flood waters following in the wake ' of a typhoon swept at leas.t 100 per- | sons to their dtsiths in Maupcin, Tyabas province, the postmaster of tlie stricken village reported to j government agencies today. [ Many other persons were reportI eJ missing after a night of horror 1 and disaster. From 3 I’. M. Wednesday until ■ daylight the next morning, moun- ! tain streams and the Maupan River | poured swift currents, swollen by the heavy rains accompanying the typhoon, into the town. i The flood curried everything be--1 fore it small homes and large bnild--1 ings, electric light poles and pipe k lines. Streets were torn up and the ' water mains were riptped apart. ■ [ When the flood subsided, mest of ‘ Maupan was inundated to a depth I of from three to four feet. Cocoa- ’ nut groves and rice fields were demolished and other agricultural I lands were covered with silt. The message sent by postmaster 1 ’ Nlcor to the bureau of p'<sts here ’(CONTINUED ON PAGE SIX) i o i Over Two Hundred Licenses Sold Here [• I ’ j County Clerk David D. Depp to- ' day announced that a total of 208 1 i hunting •md fishing licenses have I l>een rurchased in the county. This

numb, r includes one non-resident ’> license at $15.5i). A large nutube- of i licenses have been sold einc 1 the 'rabbit season opened last Monday. M. KIRSCH W HEAD COUNCIL Mathias Kirsch Re-elected Chairman Os County Council Mathias Kirsch today was re- ’ elected chairman of the Adams ' county council, an office he has : held since 1918. Henry Dehner ' was elected vice-chairman of the 1 , board. John W. Tyndall will serve as secretary of the board by ' virtue of his office as county auditor. 1 The board met at 10 o'clock this morning for reorganization. The first matter taken up before the board was the election of officers. Mr. Kirsch lias been a member lof the board since 1913. in 1918 he was elected chairman and has held the post continuously since ’ then. The board had bills totaling $1,200.18 brought before it for consideration. Margaret Bowman Dies At Bluffton Funeral services will be held Sunday afternoon for Mrs Margaret Bowman, 73, widow of Byron W. Bowman and mother of ex-sher- ' iff Luster Bowman of Bluffton, who J died Thursday night at the Wells I county hospital. Services will be held at 2 o’clock with Rev. M. F. Worthman in charge. Burial will be made at Fairview. , Surviving are a son, Luster Bowman and a daughter, Mrs Lewis Smith, both of Bluffton. o Indianapolis Bank To Pay Depositors Indianapolis, Nov. 17 —<U.R> — A 5 pter cent dividend for the 3,900 depositors of the defunct City Trust Company was announced yesterday by Oren S. Hack, receiver. The dividend checks totaling SBI,OOO, will be sent by mail Monday, Mr. Hack said. Judge Earl R Cox of Circuit Court approved the divident. Mr. Hack also announced that 300 pre- ' ferred creditors have been paid $17,000. The dividend will be the first to Ibe paid depositors of the defunct bank.

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Banquet Speaker ■ Ji 1 1 J_ ) M Clifford Townsend. Indiana's ' I lieutenant-governor, will be the principal speaker at the Chamber ; of Commerce banquet in this city * Monday evening. The banquet • I will be held at the Knights of ■ \ Pythias home on Third street. , ■ M. 0. TOWNSEND : CHIEF SPEAKER — Lieutenant-novernor Will Sneak At Banquet Here Monday Night ’ j M. Clifford Townsend, lieuten-ant-governor of Indiana, will be I the principal speaker at a banquet ]to be held at the Knights of Pythias home on Third street Monday evening at 6:15 o'clock. 1 The banquet and attendant | meeting is sponsored by the Decn- - tur Chamber of Commerce and i : local merchants. Dan Tyndall, • president of the organization, will * preside. — —

1 The purpose of the meeting is I to make arrangements to hold a huge agricultural and livestock ■ show in this city next summer. It is proposed to combine the county 4-II club exhibits, the home economics club display with I the regional Jersey and Guernsey | cattle shows. In addition to Mr. Townsend’s ’ principal address, which will deal I with state 4-H club work and agII riculture extension shows, short ( ! talks will be made by the follow- | ing persons: Mrs. Helen E. Mann, county 4-11 i club exhibits; Mrs. E. W. Busche, . home economics club exhibits; .'• Henry Dehner, gold medal colt . clubs; Peter B. Lehman, county . 4-H calf clubs; C. E. Striker, . county school exhibits; Everett I Beattv, Guernsey regional show; . Sol Mosser, Jersey parish show; . Roy Johnson, county conservation league; W. A. Kkpper, Cloverleaf .' dairy day. The speakers will give! , a short outline of the plans for , holding these shows. Former Wells County Sheriff Dies Friday ' William A. Lipkey. 81. Wells ' counyt sheriff from 1906 to 1910, i died Friday afternoon at the home of a son. Clifford Lipkey. near Uniondale. He Is also survived by j a daughter and brother. Funeral | services will be held Sunday as- ! ternoon. 0 L0.0.F. HOLDS DISTRICT MEET I). L. Drum Is Named President Os District Association D. L. Drum of Decatur was elect,ed president of the district association of the Independent Order ; of Odd Fellows at a meeting held |in this city Friday evening. Sam Ir. Martin of Dunkirk was named vice-president and Charles Haines l of Bluffton secretary. Reiter encampment number 214 was host to the encampments of Adams, Jay, Wells and Blackford ; counties. Otto G. Fields, Fort Wayne, grand patriarch of Indiana attend- .: ed the district meeting and delivered the principal address. I An oyster stew was served at the close of the business session. i Members of encampments from outside the district attending were from Fort Wayne and Huntington.

FEDERAL LOAN IS WITHHELD INDEFINITELY Dictatorship of Sen. Huey P. Long Bitterly Criticised NEW ORLEANS LOAN HELD UP BY U. S. I New Orleans, La., Nov- 17. (U.R) — First repercussions of Sen. Huey I’. Long’s dictator- ■ ship struck New Orleans toi day. I The federal government ' stated it was temporarily »j withholding funds for a mui' ’ nicipal project and a chain f; store company announced its i all but complete withdrawal f ;from the local field. This city, whose municipal gov--iernment was stripped of practlc- ' ally all power by the Long controlled legislature, was quiet—"saying i little, thinking much," as one prom- [ inent citizen told the United Press. | The newspapers, all bitterly oi>- | ' posed to the Long regime, had I little comment. “Why comment — . Why shout into a cistern?” was the I' privy comment of one sub_edttor • The attitude of the old regular I Democratic machine, in control of the machinery of local government which now has littlz to govern, was one of discouragement. Apparently, the kingfish had this op- ' position stifled. The Schulte cigar store corporation announced that because of high chain store taxes passed by the Long legislature, it was closing three of its four local stores ' immediately, and was keeping the 1 fourth open only ‘ temporarily.” A •[store in Baton Rouge also will re. 1 main open for the present. | The New Orleans sewerage and ' water hoard, whose control was i'taken over by the state govern- : ment under another legislative act, was informed by the federal “ public works administration that a ' $1,800,000 loan and a $700,000 grant 1 for remodeling work had been held ■ up '“indefinitely.” The adminlstra1 tion's telegram .said officials would i study the change in control before [ acting. i The federal government has displayed marked antipathy for the ' Long political machine. Federal appointive officers in the state have been filled with anti-Long i Democrats. The laws Anally approved by ’ Long's legislature yesterday do not become effective for 20 days. Meanwhile some of the states leading attorney's will scrutinize them on constitutional grounds and it was believed probable that some, or all, would be challenged • [ in the courts. Mayor T. Semmes Walmsley and other city officials, all members of i the old regulars machine, refused to,say if they would turn control i of the municipal police and tire departments over to a state civil service commission headed by Long [appointees, it generally was believed that they would refuse to comply, contending the law violated the constitution, thereby inltiat- | ing a teat. Long politicians circulated word [among "the faithful” that another special session of the legislature would be held in January to take up “tax matters.” Financing of the state's huge bonded indebtedness may become a major problem. Paraguay Captures Bolivian Fortress Asumcion, Faraguay, Nov. 17.— (U.R)—Fort Ballivian. key point of the Bolivian army defense, fell today, the Paraguan government announced in reporting success of a battering Paraguayan counter offensive in the Grau Chaco war. Coincident with new maneuvers at Geneva to bring about peace in I the South American conflict, an ■ official communique reported tlie i climax of the latest drive by Para- ' guan troops, who already had j claimed 7.000 prisoners in the 1 Canada el Carmen sector near , I the fort. Mrs. Joseph Huhn Dies At Celina . «— ... ll* Mrs. Julia Colchin received word this morning that her sieter-in-law, : Mrs. Joseph Huhn of Celina, Ohio, died Friday night following a two i years' illness. Funeral services will > be held Monday morning at 9:30 . o'clock.