Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 33, Number 1, Decatur, Adams County, 1 January 1935 — Page 1

WEATHER « partly cloudy and Hnueh colder today; ■MVednesday fair, Mswarmer.

FOUR BILLION DOLLARS TO AID NEEDY

County, City Officials Take Offices Today

EW OFFICIALS ASSUME DUTIES THISMORNINC Idams County And De- | catur City Officials Sworn Into Offices I R. HOLTHOUSE HEADS DECATUR — I New county anti city offiL|s took office today, hetnning two and four year lints. I At the citv hn’l the new Ificials took office at noon ne county officers assumed ieir duties this morning. I iiutdv un<i city offices were o«ed in observance of New 1 car’s day. Arthur R. Holthouse, newspaper anaeer. became mayor of Deca-. r with the accepting of the keys the city hall from Mayor George rck. A new city council also ok office at noon and the first ■pular meetine of the body will » held at eeven o’clock this reninff. Mrs. Ada Martin was advanced i the combined post of clerk- 1 easurer today. Mrs. Martin Li ved five years as treasurer of, L<> city and with the consolidation If the two offices became the head If the two departments. I The city councilmen who took ffice today are: Herman M. GiHig, L-clected; Albert Miller, Andrew Ippelniau. George Stults and forest Bliey. The last named" is the Republican member of th-* jeuncit. I Department heads also assumed pieir official duties today, although their offices were closed In account of the holiday. I At the court house. John W. tyndall began his term ss county luditor. Mr. Tyndall has been tiling the vacancy in the auditor's Iffiee caused by the death of Bion Cowan. Walter Gilliom of Berne, artsttmId the duties of county surveyor, kvccedine Ralnh Roon Ernest Worthman became conny assessor, ucceedine John Feltv. Dallas Brown assumed his dunes as county sheriff, succeeding Burl Johnson. Moses Augsburger is the new rounty commissioner, succeeding Dennis Striker. The commissionmi will meet Wednesday to com(OONTINUT3D ON PAG? SIX) o Decatur, County Schools To Reopen The Decatur and county schools sill open Wednesday, January 2. tfter observing the customary 10lay vacation for the Christmas and lew Year's holiday. ;The rural schools will begin the rcond semester Wednesday. The fity schools, because of their longer terms, will not conclude the irst semester for several weeks.

Review Os Events In Adams County As Recorded. In Democrat For 1934

1. Rev. Harry W. Thompson >anied pastor of Central Christian ihurch, Fort Wayne. Herman Runfon, Linn Grove, found dead along road. County treaturer John W. A'echter names son deputy. 2. —First Bank of Berne and First State Bank of Decatur hold annual stockholders meeting. Dennis Striker named president of county commissioners. 3. —City estimates cost between : >15.000 to $20,000 to extend city "ater lines to homestead site. ' 4. —Adams County schools to revive $26,975 as first payment ot foss income tax receipts. County •eceives $18,006.88 as fourth quarter distribution of gasoline tax. Mrs. Harry Knapp named deputy recorder. Property of Holland St. Louis Sugar company to be sold February 5. 5. —Dr. Fred Patterson elected tresident of Decatur Rotary club. Horace Callow, local druggist, dies luddenly. , 6.—Local CWA payroll reaches few high of $7,111.60. Holdups staged at Honduras and Peterson. “•—County commissioners study «« age pensions. 1933 fire loss est- |

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WILLIS FONNER IS ACQUITTED Jury Frees Decatur Man Charged With State Barber Law Violation Willis Fonner was a’quitted at ' 8 o'clock Monday evening by a Jury in the Adams circuit court. Fonner I was charge! with violation of the I state barber's kw in operating a shop without a license. On the stand, the members of I the state barber’s board alleged that Fenner had obtained a permit to | ' clip hair when the barber's law first i came into efftj t Kist year. The per- ' 1 mit was to have been used only tor ' i hair clipper in beauty shops. For ; this reason the license was rescinded. i Fonner alleged that the state bari bers promised to send him a regu- ; lar barber's license ord to "stand ' between him and the law until the new license was granted". Fonner also alleged th it he mallei a check for the new license three times but each time it was returned. The members of tee state board 1 testified that the license w> s refused Fonner because he failed to .comply with the sanitary regulations. Fonner does not have city water piped into his shop. Fonner stated that his soft w ter system was as goed ?s city water.' lie alleged that soft water is better for the fa e tC-an bird water. . The case was concluded about 3 i I o’clock Fridy afternoon. The attor-1 neys were granted an hour each to : make their arguments. Tie case was given to the jury about 5 . o'clock. | Before leaving the city tha nipua I , bera or the staleTrarsefT>6arTTn<n r cated that further legal action will ; be brought against Fonner. o— PLAN KIRKLAND MEET THURSDAY I Educational Meeting Will Be Held At Kirkland Thursday The Kirkland social and educational meeting will be held Thurs- j day evening, January 3 at 7:30 o'clock in the Kirkl nd community buirding. Community singing led by Lewie Worthman, invo atlon by Rev. Hine and special music will 1 be features of the program. The principal ad ’r?ss will be ’ given by I. H. Hull of Indianapolis. Mr. Hull is national leader of the f rmers and consumers oopartive movement. He iias just returned from an extensive trip to Europe where he made a study of the European cooperatives. i die is opposed to any restrictions cn sugar beet acrojge. and is vitally ■ interested in the expansion and promotion so sugar beet industry in Indiana. The public is invited to hear this farat leader. Sc lability song boots will be used.

imated at $3,700 in Decatur. St. Mary’s of Huntington wins H-A-R-D basketball tourney. 9 —Ten Adams county men win achievement awards at Purdue. , io.—Civic organizations agree to , cooperate for President’s ball. 11. Quota of 583 CWA workers i allotted for homesteads project. | Beet growers received $40,000 Jani uary payment. 12. Five women begin cataloguing books in public library. 24, ' eighth grade pupils graduated from Central. I. A. Kalver buys old Waring building for new theater. 13. John H. Heller named receivi er of First National Bank at Montpelier. Commencement exercises for Reppert Auction students. Good Fellows Club reports contribution $208.52. 15.—Paul Seesenguth. Ada ms j county farmer, killed in auto wreck near Bluffton. 815 homes surveyed by federal farm home survey. Clark J. Lutz is appointed Democratic el-j ection commissioner. Registering of voters in county begins. City police begin 8 hour shifts, Erman John ■ j (CONTINUED ON PAGE TWO).

Three Principals in Congress Opening Scene * J . >1 .lll'm.Wßlijjglirr an iv ?£ ■ « Wte- Jmi. TRT Ik. 1 K"' w eußHu .Salted / i W z s Rep. William Bankhead President Roosevelt Re P- Joseph Byrns The scene is set for the opening of the 74th Congress next Thursday and these three men will figure prominently in its deliberations. President Roosevelt is expected to personally deliver his message. Rep Kyrns of Tenn, is slated for the speakership and Rep. Bankhead of Ala. will probably be Democratic floor leader.

Inmate Leaves County Infirmary John Cheneworth, an inmate of ! the county infirmary, wandered away from the institution shortly' after 6 o'clock Monday night. He was later found at Pleasant Mills. Cheneworth was recently returned here from a state renal insti- | tution. where he had suffered a 1 stroke of paralysis. He walked a distance of three miles down the railroad track to Pleasant Mills. There he attempt-, led to walk Into a house. He was later found in a ditch, sheriff Dallast Brown and night policeman lEd Miller were notified at mid- 1 night and returned him to the infirmary. Cheneworth gave no reason for leaving the institution. o YOUTHS ADMIT LOCAL THEFTS Four Young Decatur Boys Confess To Several Thefts In City The city police have obtained confessions from a gang of four young I Decatur boys, clearing up five rob- ■ beries committed In the last several i weeks. The btys, whose ages range I from 15 to 17 years, were questionI ed by Mayor George Krick Monday evening. Two of the boys were caught, when they attempted to brek into, the Democrat office. They implicated two other boys. The gang members admitted breaking into the (Blue Crtek Dairy j office on Setond street, the Central ' s,.hcol house and the Democrat of- 1 flee Sunday night. The gang also confessed to two robberies at the , North Ward school house several weeks ago. The boys only obtained about $3.25 from the four robberies. From ■the school i. ouses they obtained a larga number of mechanical pencils. fountain pens and other valuable articles stolen from the pupils ; desks. These they sold to other . boys and copies of their confes-. gions were turned over to Mrs. Faye Smith Knapp, county probation cfficer.

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Decatur, Indiana, Tuesday, January 1, 1935.

STATE INCOME TAXES NOW DUE Preparations Are Made To Handle Indiana Income Tax Receipts Indianapolis, Jan. 1. — Clarancc 1 A. Jackson, gross income tax ad ; ministrator, yesterday completed preparations for handling more than three hundred thousand annual income tax returns expected j to be filed by Hoosier citizens and corporations during the annual I tax paying period which opens toI morrow. The tax paying period will close Jan. 30. Mr. Jackson estimated that bei tween forty thousand and fifty thousand returns will be filed by taxpayers in person at the gross income tax office, while the remainder will be filed at automo- ■ bile license branches throughout ' the state or be mailed by faxpayi ei« direct to the division office in the Statehouse. Mr. Jackson pointed out that annual returns must cover all income received during 1934. regardless of previous quarterly returns I filed. Tax is computed on income [ for the entire year, he said, and ' if quarterly payments have been made, these are deducted to learn the balance of tax due. Annual returns are required of all persons whoee gross receipts wore more than SI,OOO during 1 1934. • —-—o • Hitler Sav<? Peace Is Will Os Germany Berlin. Jan. I—(UP)1 —(UP) —Peace i-s the will of the whole German nation. Reichefuehrer Adolf Hitler sai 1 today at the >nnnal New Year’s j j day diplomatic reception in Hindenburgh palace. The German leader, replying to I the remarks of Papal Nuncl; Orsenigos. one of dozens of diplomats who attended the recentin. /vid: "We agree to your c 11 for pea e. i No country can feel deeper the desire.for ipeace than Germany, whUh aiftet hard years full of disaster unltfcd all iber powers for her inter- ■ mil reconstruction.

Survivor Tells Os Plane Crash 'New York, Jan I—(UP1 —(UP) —One , of the pilots of Ute 111 fated American air lines plane which crashed j in the Adirondacks Friday would 1 have taken his life if he had not | been disarmed. R. W. Hambrook, ' a survivor of the near tragedy. ; said today. Earnest and Dale Dryer were respectively pilot aud co-pilot of the ship. Hambrook, attache of the federal office of education, did not say which had attempted to take his life. Hambrook arrived here last night after a flight from Uttica where the survivors were taken. He related the experience of the four survivors, lost in the midst of an Adirondacks storm. W. 0. LITTLE IS SUPERVISOR Decatur Man Is Anpointed County Head Os Educational Program Winston Riley, Jr., state director of the federal emergency education program, has appointed W. !O. Little of Decatur as county supervisor of the program. Five Adams county residents, headed by Emerson Wheeler. GeI neva. have been named to conduct a survey in the county to determine the various courses to be offered. Assisting Mr. Wheeler in this i survey will be Mina Collier, Decatur; Fannie Mae Reynolds. Linn Grove; Edytlie Chew, Geneva; Beniamin W. Teeple, Decatur. Those named to conduct the purvey are asked to meet with Mr. Little at the office of Clifton E. Striker, county school superintendent. Thursday afternoon They’ will discuss the plans for conducting the survey. Anvone interested in the educational program is asked to get in touch with any of the above mentioned persons. The survey is Ito be concluded by Saturday, i January 12.

INDIANA WELL EQUIPPED FOR CRIMEBATTLE : State Better Equipped To Fight Crime Than Any Time In History RADIO NETWORK TO AID BATTLE Indianapolis, Jan. I.—<U.PJ —Indi- 1 I ana will start the new year better | equipped ’to fight crime than at I any time in the history of the ; state. Several factors substantiate the ! assurance. The two most effective weapons \ \ to be used in the campaign will be I , I the new SIOO,OOO state police radio network and the recejitly-establish-' : ed state police barracks system. Supplementing these powerful i agencies are improvements in mu- I nicipal police departments; greater cooperation between county, city and state officers, and increas:ed public interest in crime-pre-. i vention.. With these favorable factors. Al IG. Feeney, state safety director. I and hundreds of county sheriffs . j and city police are looking forward eagerly to the new era of law I enforcement. Following his appointment two | years ago by Gov. Paul V. McNutt, 1 I Feeney pledged himself to make the state as near "bandit proof" | ias possible. The past IS months presented a I difficult problem for Feeney's de!partment and loc-ai police officials. ! In addition to the pressure which t developed because of the escape | of 10 convic's from the state pris- i ;on in 1933’ and the subsequent' trail of crime left by the Dillinger I gang, peace officers were confronted with an unusual number of bank ' (CONTINUED ON PAGE THREE) 'I 0 . CARDINAL UF ENGLAND DIES I i t Francis Cardinal Bourne Died Last Night After Long Illness — ’ London, Jan. 1— <UR> —Franck, P Cardinal Bourne, the Catholic archB bishop of Westminster, died Mon- * dav night. He was 73 years old. , The churchman was gravely ill with bronchitis just two years ago. i remained in a serious condition P for many months, and never rer; gained his full strength. Pronounced indications of heart i failure were announced in a phvisi- ’ clans' bulletin last night and dur- , ing the day the doors of the 1 cathedral wre opened and maty | ; prayed for the cardinal. He was the first archbishop of ! Westminster to dine at Buckingham palace, and it has beer, gen-! ; erally agreed that the notable advance made by the Catholic church in England since the beginning of the century has been due largely < to the leadership of the cardinal. I When he became archbishop of J Westminster Cardinal Bourne put Into effect hie plan for steady nrogress by multiplying small churches so that Catholics | • throughout London might be able f to attend mass within half a mile. at the same time dividing tin- \ wieldly dioceses. Although always zea’ous for the ■ t progress of hie church, it was said .. that none of his predecessors ex--8 hibited the power of sincere | patriotism which so colored the! s pastorals of Cardinal Bourne. He . declined to support the idea of a | , Catholic university or party in I . England, preferring that Catholics j attend national universities and , e affiliate with the existing parties. | . o ;; Bluffton Office I. Is Robbed Monday r | Tw> armed men entered the up-j i-, stairs office of the FranHln Securn ity company at Bluffton Monday e! night between 4:30 and 5 o'clcrk I s : and es n aped with $l5O. H. E. McI Michael is manager of the Bluffton i office. ‘

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Mayor Os Decatur iipir n Arthur R. Holthouse, who took office as mayor of Decatur today. The new mayor and other city officials will hold their first regular meeting as official rulers of the city tonight. DEATH CLAIMS ’ PROMINENT MAN — August Selking, Retired Farmer, Dies After Long Illness August Selking, 76, prominent retired farmer, died at his homo, 122 South Eighth street tn this 1 j city at 4 o'cltck thia morning l ; Death was due to a complication: of diseases. Mr. Selking had been ' ill for the past two years. j Mr. Selking resided in Preble; township for 58 years whom he I engaged in farming, life was a member of the Preble Lutheran church. He was horn in Root township on December 3, 1858, a son of | Christ and Charlotte Haderhorst ! , Selking. On November 25, 18S6 he; ! was united in marriage to Sophia I Bulmabn. who survives. The children. Louis Selking, Mrs.' Mart Bebrich of Preble township, and Mrs. Henry Bebrich of Root 1 township; the brothers and sisters, j J Conrad and John Selking of Al-1 len county; William Selking of New Haven. Henry Selking of Fort ! Wayne, and Louis and Christ Selk-1 ing of Root township, and nine i ———— (CONTINUED ON PAGE SIX) o Bitter Cold Greets Central States Today Chicago Jan. 1 —(UP) — Bitter coll sweeping in from the Canadian Rockies in frosty New Year's greeting spread over the central states today and on t ward the eastern seaboard. Holiday revelers, making their way home nt dawn, turned un coat collars against a riw wind that drove temperatures down as low as 20 degrees below zero in the northwest. The tag-end of the cold wave was expected to strike tonight in east-1 ern states, wOere rain was falling | in dismal greeting to the year, 1935. | Mild temperatures prevailed there.'

Moses Augsburger, New County Commissioner, Native Os The County

Moses Augsburg er, who will meet >:s a member of the board I of Adams county commissioners for the first time on January 2, was born in French township in 1865, a son of Christian and Barbara Augsburger. He was married in 1890 to Miss Anna Steiner. They have two sons, Menno and Willis, both of near Berne and both married. Moses Augsburger moved to Hartford township after his marrijage. In 1919 he moved to his present location in French township, ■ five and one-half miles northwest ■of Borne. With the exception of two years, he has spent his adult life farmj ing. During 1918 to 1920 he worker j for the Nelson J. Cole dredging company near Union City. With the exception of two years he has spent his whole life in the district from which he will serve as county I commissioner. 1 Mr. Augsburger was educated in

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PRESIDENT IS EXPECTED TO ASK HUGE SUM Veterans’ Bonus Issue Is Scheduled To Be Decided Early EXACT POLICY OF F. D. R. UNCERTAIN Washington, Jan. I—-1 —- Intimations President Roosevelt will ask congress for at least $4.000,000.000 for relief and public works coincided today with assurance that the new deal will oppose immediate payment of war veterans compensation certificates. The bonus Issue is scheduled for an early decisive vote in the 74th congress which convenes at noon Jan. 3. If Mr. Roosevelt defeats congress on the bonus issue he will have achieved a victory which was beyond the powers of three president who preceded him. All were defeated outright or were compelled to compromise with the bonus bloc. Mr. Roosevelt's letter to a Texas legionnaire removed all doubt that he would oppose the bontu this winter. Chairman Pat Harrison of the senate finance committee and others have been counselling ( compromise. They have been I overruled. The $4,000,060,000 forecast of public works and relief appropriations by this congress is made by congressional leaders who confess they are uncertain as to Mr. Roosevelt's exact plans. There are indications that congress will not be taken into Mr. Rcosei velt's confidence just now on his i entire legislative program. From the White House word i has reached the senate that the i "(CONTINUED ON PAGE SIX) PARTIES USHER i IN YEAR 1935 Majority of Business Houses In Decatur Are Closed Today — As the whistles and bells were heard at midnight Monday, ushering in the New Year, two dances, a theater party, several watch par- . ties, all the road houses and in- ' numerable family parties were in full swing in Decatur. A large number of Decatur people contented themselves with listening to the radio, relaying New Year’s celebnitiona from the Atlantic ocean to the Pacific. The owners of short wave sets were able to hear the celebrations around the world. Icy pavements prevented many persons from attending celebrations in Fort Wayne as they had originally planned. At one time 17 cars were reported in the ditch on the Fori Wayne road. No serious accidents were reported. New Year’s will lie observed quietly, it is expected. The majority of the business houses In ! Decatur are closed today. A number of church services (CONTINUED ON PAGE SIX)~

the rural schools of French township and spent his boyhood on his father's farm there. For many years Mr. Augsburger has been active in Democratic politics in the southern half of the county. During the years 1905 to 1909 he served as trustee ot Hartford township. The other two members of the new board of commissioners will be Phil Sauer, representing the northern halt of the county, and F. O. Martin, representing the cen- ' tral. Phil Sauer was reelected this , | year and will begin his second ' | term. F. O. Martin’s term did not . expire this year. ; The commissioners will organi tze on Wednesday, January 3. At s that ’.'me the president of the t board will be elected. The com- - missionere will also make their >annual inventory of the county inilfirmary on that day.