Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 32, Number 275, Decatur, Adams County, 19 November 1934 — Page 1

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ED.R. SPEAKS FOR LOW UTILITY RATES

IHDEITSCH MpH LEO IN !w ACCIDENT Veteran Kill- | intis Earls Suns " Morning ESSES If |S\\\ \( ( IDEN I ■tur »n["i I ’ IX 1,1 |), li ' •' l a XVorl'l XX’.ir wtei an, was lldlled®’- ll,llx Suil( l :iv lii'iin I O’clock . MMMjMfetcc one ami one half EiiWl®'' 1,1 l i c'iioni. who iKI <l been < s a farm hand on was riding with Brock ■ SrN'augld""' 28. of Fremont, I'vhen th' i. nt <>« < 111 TI 4 '1 1: ■ : ■ ■»vre no' witnesses to the acciident. U « recked car was disb,overt?® !>.' Joseph Riede of Fromishap. Btnine tic coroner and shera ceiinty and eaiied - kill- d instantly an I Klink tat,'l tli.it ’fcft W* dim to a fractured pryvwFWl crushed chest. I McNog’uon w .is taken to : lie fl ,»Angolß Bospi'al where he is in a n d l'r derick Jacob Belts. ,1 ■M3 bom in Mercer county. Ohio. ~ *WT«»t|M<'liat.tano<>KX a son of ‘ Barbara Shutt ■His |Hh< r died when iie was 1.-l'attlSr > years of age. K toad ' his home with Ins ,(T1 ■ father on Kim street in tins ci'y years ago wiien his stepd lie then I rith Sbs brother. Edward .. KflMlbs a member of the Union ,] ■■ d Brethren church, I and vain World War veteran. ■ besides the father. sr *Sß* L "’I" '■ Edward Heit,-. Edwina licit ch. two ls Mrs. Arbie Owens Ed —IiOQWr.TEI) OX PAGE*TTTREEi Term Os .’Hi! Onens 'l oti;!;. -Ts ’ t her of as wed ■ ' l,iy ' ,!1 " K'lVember fern; ■ ,lm ' s ( ’ irril,t court. I I r wim also (lie day .scli.slnled w *KlHgratid b |r - v f() meet and in- » i.’ : T vr. ordered to return Tues- " |bf!ft"'i Oscar E. Brice, one of the ■ MAM'S, failed to appear. Wes ■ iteMtm ami Sheriff Burl Johnson ■ I'l'dAuty sheriff Dal Hower were by th', court to eene it. No Bsflvas offered in tr.'. manner to the court as t why lie _ appear. W COUNCIL IfETSTUESOAf -«|Cw|cil Mav Amend I’etixji tie’ For Improvement I Os Alleys petition for the improv the alley hack on the east side of Se< ■ 3® r '‘ 1 ' bp!ween Jefferson and JuKn streets, and the intersectand west alleys, will ■ Wfeply be amended to include I W 1 " ani * soul ' l alley only. stated today. I council meets Tuesday and action on the petition ■ Part of the labor I *W1(( |>e furnished under FERA. I I fe lllanned. The cost to the proowners would be small of the council stated. I Tin alley improvement was ■ Petitioned for by F. McConnell. the petition the east ■ 3|fe''es| alley between the Staley products and the McConnell j might be included with I o f (he norih ami 1 alley. of the report of the audit |M by the state examiners of plant for 1933 will |B>e<i with the council tomor■tSL Tbs easements for the exE HB°n of North Thirteenth str' ol ■oM l ' so l,p f ity clerk Alice EBfieu stated.

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SUIT IS FILED AGAINST BANK Former County Clerk Files Suit Against Old Adams County Bank | Milton Werling, former Adams county clerk, has filed suit in the Adams circuit court against the Old Adams County Bank. George T. Burk, Ranis W. Dailey, i Edgar Mutsr hler, Harry R. Moltz, I Leo Yager. John Everett. John W. ■ Tyndall and Jesse G. Niblick de- : mantling judgment of $7,000. The | bond was not signed by all of the directors. .— The complaint alleges that the i defendants signed a “bond in the , penal of sum of $4,500 conditioned I for the safe-keeping and the proi per accounting” for funds deposi ited by him in his capacity as I circuit court clerk. Werling alleges that money agj gregating the sum of $12,904.95 | was deposited by him as trust I funds consisting of “witness fees, i judgments, the distributive shares . of heirs in estates, fees paid into : the clerk's office for the county j assessor in estates, county mis- ' cellanecus funds, fees paid into I the clerk's office for the county i recorder, sums paid in satisfaction ! of claims allowed against estates, foreign sheriff's fees, local sheriff’s fees, fees for publication of legal notices, funds belonging to I the state conservation depart- [ ment. appraiser's fees, fees for posting o’ legal notices, funds belonging to guardianships of minors, funds from receiversliips, cash 1 bonds deposited in criminal cases nnd other miscellaneous moneys j belonging to the county and state and to individuals. The complaint alleges an ■ amount approximating $5,800 was i paid to persons entitled to receive i the money hv order of the clerk j to the bank. On May 17. 1932 there i remained on deposit In the said Old 1 Adams County Bank the sum of I approximately SG.IOO. The plaintiff further alleges I that on May 17 the defendant. i (CONTINUED ON PAGE FOUR) OBSERVE 50TH WEDDING DATE Mr. And Mrs. George Weiniann Os Schumm, 0., Observe Date Mr. and Mrs. George Weimann of Schumm, Ohio, parents of Mrs. Phil j Sauer of Union township, celebratI rd their fiftieth wedding anniversary whirh is an event of Tuesday, at the Schumm Lutheran church j basement Sunday. The observance was in the form of a pot-luck dinner at the noon I hotir for members of the family and ' friends. Open house will be conj ducted at the home at Schumm, I Tuesday. Bolh Mr. and Mrs. Weimann are> ' quite active and operate a filling i station and postoffice at Schumm. About thirty years ago Mr. and Mrs. Weimann resided in Decatur I for several years while Mr. Weimann was employed at the Krick (CONTINUED ON PAGE THREE) William Rupert Injured By Fall William Rupert of near Monroe is recovering from an injury he received Friday morning while he was I husking corn on his farm. He reI celled an injury to his head when he stumbled and one of the stubbles of corn whs run into his head. He was knocked unconscious and lost considerable blood. He was found by members of his family when they became worried when he did not return home. Weather Hamners Red Cross Drive Little work was done Sunday afternoon by the solicitors for the 1935 roll call of the American Red Cross in this city because of the rain The canvassers will work this week and next until Thanksgiving evening. The workers have reported to 1 their captains who have not yet ' reported to the general committee, j 1 An effort is being made to meet a goal of sl.oo® set for the county.

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Capture Asserted Kidnap Gang B* a®® i W ; >£■ A i - 4 BSBflk; M ..g 7 — *— An asserted abduction plot was quickly and completely demolished when a gang of four men lured i by telephone to the home of Mr. and Mrs. Gustave Westheim in I arien. Conn., whose son tliey had threat- . ened to “snatch" unless ransom was paid over, encountered waiting police and state troopers Three of . the alleged kidnapers are pictured lying handcuffed on the living room floor under guard after they had i been battered into submission. Two police officers were wounded during the encounter.

TWO PETITIONS y ARE REJECTED ' Adams County Council Makes Special Appropriations Saturday The Adams county council in 1 1 session Saturday approved in full .all but two of the petitions asked jof them. The total appropriations , amounted to $1,099.18. The total petitioned for was $1,260.18. The three members of the election canvassing board had asked for $225 or $125 apiece when the ! balance carried over of $l5O was r included. The council cut the apI propriation to SIOO. This will give ' Clark J. Lutz, Democratic memI ber. and Walter Johnson, Repub- . lican member, SIOO each. David I D. Depp, .the county clerk, will rei ceive SSO. There was a balance of $27 in ’ j the fund for the payment of the I six election commissioners for their night's work in counting tite ballots and tabulating the precinct reports. Ihe commissioners • • petitioned for an additional $Bl which would have given them $lB I each for their work. The board cut this appropriation to $45 1 which gives them sl2 each. The other appropriations made are: clerk’s books and stationary, SSO; auditor, telephone, sls; iecorder, books and stationery, $4; ' superintendent of schools, books l and stationery, sl4; assessor, teleI ON PAGE SIX) BUSINESS BOOM IS PREDICTED National Chamber Os Commerce To Cooperate With Government Washington, Nov. 19— (U.R) — Promise of the U. IS. chamber of commerce to cooperate with the administration practically assures , ‘ a moderate business boom in the next five or six weeks. Better business will center around the best Christmas trade since 1929. The forecast after that is for gradual employment and business improvement provided strikes can 1 be avoided. Official opinion is optimistic. But there is no assurance tliat the economic armistice ! moved in October by the bankers 1 and seconded last week by the ' chamber will obtain the hoped-for I permanent national recovery co- : operation. j The chamber and the bankers 1 ' will be compelled to surrender on ■ some big issues before the arrnis- . tice becomes a formal peace. And (CONTINUED ON PAGE THREE)

ONLY DAILY NEWSPAPER IN A DAMS COUNTY

Decatur, Indiana, Monday, November 19, 1931.

Cal Yost To Submit Bid On Bridge Repair | Cal Yost went to Ind’nna.poPa t > I day to submit a bi 1 to the stat? | highway department for th' tern | porary repair of the bridge on U. S. | road 27 north of Winchester. The .bridge cave 1 in and temporary re pairs will be made before a n w j bridge is constructed. JURY TO PROBE : ALLEGED GRAFT ! South Bend Municipal Affairs Will Undergo Investigation South Bend, Ind., Nov. 19—(U.R) I ’ Rumors of alleged graft and co: - i ruption in the administration of • j South Bend municipal affairs will ! i be investigated by the S. Joseph , ■ county grand jury Nov. 23. .! Centered around a charge that Valentine J. Gadacz was offered ’ I SSOO to resign from the board of ’ I public safety, the investigation is ’ ! expected to touch on other allog- . ed irregularities in city governI ■ ment. . ; 'Virtually every city official, in- ’ | eluding Mayor W. R. Hinkle, is j J expected to figure in the investiI gation. Prosecutor Harry A. Rich ! i wine of St. Joseph county said. In addition to Mayor Hinkle, City Engineer William S. Moore, and City Controller E. M. McEer- f (CONTINUED ON PAGE SIX)

Dick And Henry Haggard To Observe Their Golden Wedding Anniversaries

Perhaps for the first time in the history of the county, two brothers will celebrate their golden wedding • anniversaries on th‘e same day. The brothers are Dick and Henry Haggard, both of Monroe, who will observe their fiftieth wedding anniversaries together at the Henry Haggard home Wednesday- > Both couples are enjoying the , best of health. They are taking , | exceptional interest in the ohser- , i vance of the dates which mark the .' halt century period in their mar- , ried lives. The celebration Wednesday will . be in the form of a family dinner , at the nopn hour at the Henry ( Haggard home for the members of ! the immediate families. Open house will be held in the afternoon. , Mr. and Mrs. Henry Haggard were married in Paulding. Ohio, on , I November 21, 1884, and Mr and . I Mrs. Dick Haggard were married there one day later On November ’i22, 1884. , The two couples are very well 1 1 known in this vicinity, having spent ! the greater part of their married , lives in Adams county. [ Mrs. William Henry Haggard’s | name before she was married was

BERT REASONER STILL MISSING Geneva Town Marshall Has Now Been Missing Over A Week Efforts to locate'the books of, the Geneva water department ! since the mysterious disappear : 1 ance of Bert E. Reasoner. Geneva , town marshal and superintendent : ' of the water department, have not been successful. T. L. Neal and I L E. Glendening. members ol the town board li ive announced Reasoner has been missing for! over a week. The town council has not expressed any fear that Reasoner is 1 ■ short in his accounts as the books 1 were audited last July and found jin good shape. He also turned in [ i the average amount of money for ; ; ills collections of water bills for, this quarter. Mrs. Reasoner, who I has often collected water bills for her husband, denied knowledge of the books' whereabouts. Members of the Geneva town *(CONTINI'Ed’oN*PAGE SIX) Primary Teachers Meet In This City The primary t achers of the rural . Jchcols of Adams county met with Clifton E. Striker, county superin- 1 i ten lent, at the court house fiatur-; ■ day. A social study program was diecussed by the t a hers.

> i Effie L. Mix. The couple farmed i j seven years in Paulding county. : ; Ohio, before moving to this county . where they have lived since. r i They rented the Dave StudabakI er farm, located on the geographical center of the county. On the ■ : day the World War was declared they purchased the farm. Twelve I 1 years ago they moved to Monroe i ; { where they now make their home. 1 Mr. and Mrs. Haggard have five < i living children: Mrs. E T. Jones. •!of Pleasant Mills;'Arthur, of Fort | I Wayne; Jacob, of Monroe; Enos, I! of Hagerstown, and Harvey oil ! Petroleum. ■ ' Mrs. Dick Haggard before her j marriage was Miss Anna M. Ludy. ■ After their wedding, tliey lived! ] three years in Paulding county be-. I fore coining to Adams county where i they have resided since. |! They are the parents of two I ■ sons. Wesley Haggard of Monroe | ■ and Frank Haggard of Fort Wayne. | | in announcing their golden wedding annversaries to this paper the . Haggards stated that at the time 1 of their wedding, 50 years ago, the towns of Paulding and Monroe :j were known as Paulding Center i (and Monroe Center.

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NOTED CHURCH LEADER DIES LATE SUNDAY Roman Church Loses Leader in Death Os Cardinal Gasparri TO HOLD FUNERAL RITES THURSDAY Vatican City. Nov. 19.-(U,R) The ' Roman church, the Italian govern- j ment. and Italian people today ■ mourned Pietro Cardinal Gasparri,! retired papal secretary of atatej who died last night of pneumonia, i Cardinal Gasparri’* funeral will j be the most imposing accorded any cardinal In modern time, with the i I highest ecclesiastical and civil lion- i i ors. The funeral will be held at 10:30 1 ,a. m Thursday in the Church of : St. Ignatius. Burial will be at the I 1 cardinal's birthplace at Ussita, in! , a ragged marble tomb already com- i ; pieted to his order, and needing , I only the date "1934” to complete' i tUe simple inscription, “Cardinal | I Gasparri, 1852 ■" The Italian government, for decades estranged from the Vatican ! until the negotiation under Cardinal Gasparri of the 1929 treaty, will be represented officially, and Premier Benito Mussolini probably will be at the head of hi* attending ■ ministers. King Victor Emmanuel, i. just completing a visit to Somali-1 I land, will be represented by a royal j prince. Cardinal Pacelli, Cardinal Gaa_ i ON PAGE SIX) Men’s Brotherhood To Meet Wednesday — I C. L. Walters will be tie' speaker I .it; the meeting of the men’s Broth- | erho. d of the Reformed church to i , lie held in t'he social ro.ms of the; chun' h Wednesday night >lt 7:30. i ; o'clock. The program will he in the charge : (of Leland Franks and Ben Schruyer. > Refreshments will be served. AUTOS COLLIDE ' NORTH OF CITY i TwoWomen Slightlv Hurt As Car And Truck In Collision Mrs. Roy Mumma of Decatur and ! Mrs. Andrew Roop of Toledo, Ohio, were not believed to have been ser-; ! iously injured in an automobile ac-! cfdent which occurred a", the bend i in U. S. highway 27 one mile north | of Decatur at two o’clock this afteri noon. Mrs. Mumma and Mr*. Roop were ' riding in the rear seat of an auto--1 mobile owned by Roy Mumma of this city. Mr. Mumma lost »■ ntrol ' of the car while driving south on , I slippery pavement when a truck j driven by Earl Colter and loaded with lumber came up from behind them. Colter was unable to avoid ' the car which suddenly swerved in front of him. The two women were immediate- ! Iy taken to the Adams county Me- j ! morial hospital where they remain-1 led for observation several hours this afternoon. Their physician stat(CONTINUED ON PAGE THRRE) O' Harry Meshberger Is Named Director “The Indiana motor traffic asso-: : elation is going places this year." I says H. M. Meshberger of Linn ■ Grove, newly elected director of the organization who has just re- ! turned from the first organization | meeting of the board of directors, I at which seventeen of the twenty-1 one new directors were in session 1 ' all day Friday. November llitli at i the Indianapolis headquarters inap- : ping out new policies and activii ties of ihe organization. "We have appointed two state ! committees which will have groat activity and influence on Indiana trucking affairs from now on.: The first, a legislative committee,! is beaded by Sam Ziffrin of Indianapolis. On its membership are. Howard (Cap.) Edwards, South Bend; C. L. Riddle, Indianapolis; Jack Morgan. Austin; E. J. Buhner, Seymour: and F. S. Yenowine, I Terre Haute."

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Former Resident Dies In Michigan Mrs. H. M. Mathewson of Midland Michigan a former resident of Adam* County, dl'd Thursday morning. Novemb r 15, of apoplexy, it was learned here. Mrs. Mathewson had been ill for several months. She was the daughter of (lerom • Ciirter of Pleasant Mill*. One son survives, Charles Mathewson, of Midland and a foster daughter. Ethel Evans, formerly of Decatur. GROWERS ASKED FOR REDUCTION FOR CORN-HOGS AAA Would Limit Production To 90 Per Cent Os 1933-34 NEW CONTRACTS ARE SUBMITTED Washington. Nov. 19— (U.R) — Corn-hog raisers were asked today to limit production of both commodities next year to 9(1 per cent of the 1932-33 average. Announcing a plan calling for n minimum corn and hog reduction of 10 per cent below “base," the AAA offered contracts allowI ing an increase of one-eighth in ! corn plantings and one-fifth in ' hog production. ' Total benefit payments under the proposed program will approxij mate $150,000,000 or about half those under the 1934 plan. They I will be derivsd from continuance ! through the marketing year beginning next Nov. 5 of processing ! taxes of $2,25 per hundred pound* ! on hogs and five cents a bushel i on corn. All producers will be eligible to ; sign the 1935 contract. Assuming the program Is accepted, as indicated by a recent refer- ! endum of producers, total corn : acreage next year should approxi- ; mate 95,000,000 —about 10 per cent j less than the 105.500.0v0-acre base. ; An average yit Id of 25 bushels j per acre on this area would proi duce a crop of some 2,400,000,000 (continued’on’page ’six) —_— o Former Monroe Girl Is Dead Relatives here have received ■ word of the death of Miss Claudia Ann Hendricks, daughter of Mr. and i Mrs. C. L. Hendricks of Colon, Mich- ! igan, who died at the Sturgis Memo- | rial Hospital on Thursday, November 1. Death was due to nephritis. Miss Hendricks was a senior in the Colon, Michigan high school. I She had been ill five months. She was born in Monroe on August 1. 1917. Surviving besides the parents are the grandparents. Mr. and Mrs. F. P. Halberstadt of Colon Mrs. Albert Duer of Monroe. Funeral services were held Saturday. November 3, at 3 o’clock at the home of her grandparents in Colon. Burial was made in the Lakeside cemetery there. WOMAN SUFFERS LOSS OF MEMORY — Mrs. Perry McGill Os Monroe W anders Eight Miles From Home Mrs. Perry McGill, 52, of northeast of Monroe, has been returned I to her home after suffering from I shock and temporary loss of memory. She wandered about eight , miles from her home early Sunday morning. Mrs. MJ.Gill %as found on the Stengel and Craig farm east of Berne about 4 o'clock Sunday morning by (Donald Burkhart, who resides on the farm. Mrs. McGill was ela.d only In her night clothing. Mr. Burkhart immediately notified Dave Dubach, marshal at Berne who drove to the Stengel and Ctuig ! farm and took the woman to Berne. About 2 o’clock Sunday afternoon ■ she was identified. 'Her husband and family notified Sheriff Burl I Johnson when they found that Mrs. McGill was missing from her home, and a search was instituted. A Berne physician stated that Mrs. McGill had temporarily lout her memory and suffered from shock. She had left her home about midnight Saturday.

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STATEMENT IS CHALLENGETO UTILITYHEADS Pronouncement Comes As Climax To ThreeDay Inspection Tour TAKING VACATION AT WARM SPRINGS Warm Springs, (ia.. Nov. 19 (U.R) President Boosei veil settled back in his little I Georgia white house today awaiting reaction to a new creed of the new deal wide community operation ol ‘ power utilities. His definite declaration of policy in a speech at 'I unelo, Miss., was regarded by cluse administration friends as carrying a challenge to private industry * rather than any early, direct action. “It means,’’ one of them said, ! “that the private companies either play ball in providing cheap power or else The inference was that the gov- ’ ernment would see to it that low rates were made available. ’ Mr. Roosevelt's pronouncement ■ came as a climax to a three-day ' inspection of the Tennessee Valiev development—a tour that conI vinced him of its future value ' alone as a rate bargaining instru- ■; ment between the police and priv- ’ i ate utilities. ■ The chief executive in setting ■ j forth bis views took his cue from • the little city of Tupelo, the first : i in the nation to contract for TVA II power. Holding it up as an exI ' ample to other communities, he i observed: > "1 can use you as a text—a text that may be useful to many other -' parts of the nation, because peo- - pie's eyes are upon you and lie i cause of what you are doing here - is going to be copied in every ; : state of the Union before we get . i through. We recognize that there i ; will be a certain amount of what , (CONTINUED ON PAGE SIX) CHICAGO WOMAN LEAPS TO DEATH , I Former Show Girl .lumps To Death From Chiago Hotel Chicago, Nov. 19— (U.R) — Theresa Naughton Ryan jumped from the 18th floor of the Stevens hotel to her death on J crowded Michigan Avenue today. It was the third time within a week that a woman has so met death in Chicago. Today’s victim was 65 years old and was alone in her room whereas the other victims of the suicide epidemic had been young and their plunges followed drinking parties. Chicago, Nov. 19.—(U.R) —An un- ] explained leap of Mrs. Nellie Ablin, ! 26-year-old former show girl from ; the eighth floor of the Commonwealth hotel ended last night a , gay party at which she and three other women, with a 5-year_old girl I were celebrating a victory of the Chicago Bears, professional football team, over the New York Giants, Her suicide was the second of its sftrt in Chicago in less than a (CONTINUED ON PAGE THREE) o More Candidates File Expenses Several additional candidates in the general election have filed their expense accounts. They are: Charles J. Jones, trustee of Blue Creek township, $4.50. i John M. Doan, trustee of Wa.sh- ;; ington township. $19.35. ; W. H. Gill’lom. Surveyor. SBO. ; Leslie E. Omerad, trustee of Unl , ion township, $6.24. I Dallas Brown, sheriff, $102.98. G. Demy Bierly, clerk of circuit , court, $146. David D. lHabegger, trustee, t $14.50. t John M. Lenhart, assessor, none, i (Howard Mauller, trustee, $34,20. t Ernest J. Worthman, county assessor, $75.