Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 33, Number 20, Decatur, Adams County, 23 January 1935 — Page 1

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IITY BILLS j PRESENTED IN ■■LEGISLATURE Thi® V" 'h >asur ? s *^ re Intipdlu t'd In Indiana j if Assembly HOKES adjourn l'Mil. THURSDAY I,t# mpolis. .Inn. ( V' R) ThiiH' new I.ills "ere m- ! rtxluir I in «b‘* I 1 ” 1 ' 1 "] 0 ii.X Ml both lu»use and senate \tei niDortant 01 11*** new met,sir s "as one with n* - • minSatien sunnorl wlmii J LXiim! In nroleel Indiana I i: . i.’naii ’ TW *•..»•! IV. I- ! ctli» llv bill wllkh woul<l pro ‘ .j #IW (Bfrom granting on excluftjXlLh - Ml 111" r O'lS- C:IS com pit tm legate passed a bill givinc wide! scretiopary powers to the mnslftrion department by permitttoh to establish dotted se.i sons] Id bag limits on fish and fioM HeJ tentative Edward P. Barry, M -.nolis. ofTeft d s mMt'Cre with supnort of oreapintS 111. r .. .:■ li would repeal .1 1933 If malting it illegal to interfeit with transportation of farm! inducts. The mirpose of Barry's [measure is to aid striking trad®: vers. Tla t. cite passed, til to five, a bill peilritting the federal government • purchase snhtpargiuaL. land B Indiana for reforestation. rsmhlluMises : dionrned at noon until B a. m. tomorrow. League Jan. 23— (UR) —A bill CM : the state coiHorvation departi ent fliscretionary powers to Hosed seasons and bag Hr *s on fish and game was passeßtT to i hv the state senate todeyend snrt to Gm house. So* ©red bv the Indiana Cons“rva» l»ague. tile bill was doth* to nermit the e*p*© department In tighten regnlaMons in (‘aaoff h 1 m 1 .■ Ik" iime sea'"* 0 In B 1 particular area in the tpte. aI R O r Penr»* la 9 !i*li nrohihitine: Bjj|S dances and other typofi of ff) It exc-udes all amari of.—j*>na] contests of fchonN. and similar grona . pt- - n sf'rt an emonrenev *0 make the bill effective mffisi lately and forestall a mara(OONTINTKn ON* FARE THREE) WCK TRUCK. IOOTSI2B.UUO Gun Ban- #■ I not Mail Truck ■n Massachusetts JRL R: "" r - Ti,n - 23— (UP) bandits, believed for two other spectaeu- . in the last two weeks, 'eked a U. S. mail truck, JBr‘ <1 tb '- driier and escaped ’‘Himated $129,000 in curIhe loot was consigned h P- Durfee Trust eomthe federal reserve bank f Boft:n for payroll*. in Fall River mills. men . nil m .«ked, drove an tBB* 1 ’’ 1 J >'P to tho mail tru- k. ' y ' Hert,6rt Reid. 1,4a hed on Reid, tied him up hint >ind the truck to a ear ~le Providence highway. both machines later were Tll ‘ bandits apparently fled ' bandits apparently had ndinformation as to the value m mail cargo- - is a vetPran driver for a , aß rurl< ing concern under conthe local postoffice. hill® l forced t 0 the curb on a Main street as he "W 1 the mail from the Fall station.

DECATUR DAILY DEMOCRAT ONLY DAILY NEWSPAPER IN ADAMS COUNTY

Vol. XXXIII. No. 20.

COMMITTEES TO SIGN CONTRACTS [ Sugar Beet Control Contracts To Be Signed Friday, Monday The first augir beet control tontracts will be signed In Adam.county on Kridoy and Monday. The local committee* will meet at the , Monroe Bank building on those' day* and .sign the contracts of t 10." who have been n titled. * It i.s now planned to interview ■ the grower* only by appointment- ■ Letters will be mailed to each pet- ‘ son stating when and where he. I should meet with hi* commit•*<». ' Only about 18 cun be handled a day. The committee for the north rn . six townships in Adams • minty in 1 E. L. Harlacher's territory is composed of E. \V. Busche, chairman; ■ Addph Schamerloh. vi. > chairm :i. ■ and Burl Johnson. The committee for the southern six townships and . the four northwestern township* In . Mer er county is comp s d of Albert t'oppeu.s. chairnsin; Carl Miller vice-chairman, and Rolla Raudenbush. Wednesday January 30. a second . training school for committeemen. 1 county agents and factory field men In tho 10 counties served by the • Central Sugar com; any. will be , held in this city. The error* made in the first contra* ts, if any, and the problems met in the field will [ be explained. In the school held her ■ Tnosd y L. M. Busche, of Purdue University. 1 I, A. Slipiier, of Ohio State University. and W. A. Smith, of the United States comptroller's office, , talked. They discussed the problems • which probably w ill It 3 met in sign- . ing the contracts. One of the most difficult is determining tl) ■ legal ownership of rrops raised on a share husis. farmer* signing the contract, w ill (CONTINUED ON PACE EIVE) I —— MUNCIE CROUP LEADS IN LOANS i Total Os $178,000 Loaned To 561 Farmers During Past Year \ ' , The Muncie Productive Loan Association, which include* Adams county, leads in 10 associa tion* in the state with j\ record ; of $178,010 advanced to 501 far,ll- - ers during the year. Indiana , j stood second among the four ■ 1 states in this KCA district lsith ' in number of loans and in ,oau ■ j volume. The newest development of the ERA is the emergency recreation . program. There are now 20 recreation projects in operation ! ever the state, and nine more 1 under way. They are divided into three main divisions, athletics, | cultural activities and social recreation. Garret P. Kpplev, state director I >f recreation, has stated, “the I chief problem confronting us now ' Is to find sufficient facilities over the state. The program is nieet- ; ing with such wide acclaim that * it is impossible to find equipment and community centers for the operation of the projects. Members of the state recreation 1 committee met in Indianapolis on I; January 15 to complete plans for spreading the program to every county in the state. o 1 Regular Meeting Os Elks Tonight 1 The B. P. O. Elks lodge will t ho'd the regular semi-monthly r meeting at the lodge room, North Second etreet, tonight at 8:tt0 1 o'clock. All members and officers . are urged to he present. > 1 Van Wert Foundry W ill Reopen Soon n 1 The Van Wert Foundry has been sold to Samuel DeVore of Chicago ‘ and will be put in operation within ? 60 days. The plant has been closed since 1931. 1 When In operation the foundry ■: was one of Van Wert’s most valuable Industries, employing normali ly 45 men and in periods of peak 3 i production, 90. The majority of 1 the workers were skilled and re--1 ceived good wages.

Senate Group Considers New Finance Program J \ Members of the senate finance committee are pictured in Washington discussing important matters of old age pension, economic security plans and the budget' ns presented to congress by Roosevelt —left to right, front. Senator Arthur Cupp -r. Senator Pat Harrison and Senator Hugo uproar. Senator Peter G. Perry and Senator Joceph F t alley. **

DISTRIBUTION IS ANNOUNCED Peoples Loan And Trust Company Distribution February 6 Clark J. Lutz, speck 1 representatives of the Department of Finania! Institutions, in charge of the liquidation of the Peoples I.oan atid Trust co rp ny hank ann unoed today that a distribution will b ■ made on February 6. amounting to approximately $6-00. The distribution will he for 5.2632 n „ r of the aifMtrrtf rtwabe 4©denosPors whe' th° department of financial institutions took over the the liquidation. It will he equivalent to the former tw - per cent distributions. The oriciml distributions were D -sed on the denodt* in the bank when it closes! June 14 1930. The d partment of fina-cial institutions has mad a ruling that distributions now must he based on the amount in the bank at the time the department took it over. Th* checks will he ready for distribution in the law office cf Lutz and Myens in the Erwin building on south Second street on February 6Mr. Lutz requested denositors not to call for the checks before that date. To save postag’ the checks will not be mailed. Depositors unable to call at the offic? may send representatives authorized to sign receipts. Til’* distribution will make a total of 68 per cent of the total deposits r< leased. Os this, six per • ent represents the shar ■ holders assessments. MOST OF AUTO PLATES ISSUED License Bureau Prepares To Handle Gross In--1 come Returns More than 75 per cent of the auto license plates expected to be issued in the Decatur territory alleady have been supplied to au*o i owners, and decks are cleared at the license branch in preparation for the rush of taxpayers to tit© i annual gross income tax returns, according to Dee Fryback, license branch manager. The annual gross income tax paying period end* January 39All persons who received more than $1 .COO during 1934 must fi’c returns rnd pay tax on the amount abov° si.o«o. Mr. Fryback said. Assistance in filing returns Is : available at the license branch. Anticinating congestion at tbe license branch office during the last two or three days of tinperiod. Mr. Frvback pointed out that by ©sing the services of tn© branch this week, taxpayers can avoid the inconvenience of wailing in lino during the last-minu + o rush. Earl Miller, field man for the gross income lax division, will lie at the local license bureau Mon--1 day, January 2S.

Decatur, Indiana, Wednesday, January 23, 1935.

Fort Wav no Youth Fails In Suicide I Fort \V yne. Ind.. Jan. 23-(UP) | —Ralph Lohaugh. 18. wai thw- rte.d in his attempt to take his life by inhaling gas in his home here >■ sterday afternoon when friends ( "discovered him lying unconscious n the floor of the kit*.h nLohaugh had told Mrs. Marie Landis, m tlier of a friend, that h© was going to commit suicide but . both the woman and her son . thought he was joking. However, they went to his home and found . him un onscious.’llls condition was . rep l-ted as fair .by hospital at- . tach s. NYE COMMITTEE ORDERS PROBE Munitions Committee Seeks To Have E. L. Cord Testify Washington, Jan. 23. —(U.R)—The Nve munitions committee ordered an inquiry today to determine why ' E. L. Cord, millionaire automobile, : airplane, and shipping executive, 1 has'ndt been available for questioning in the senate arms investigation. Chairman Gerald P. Nye, R., N. D., said “our committee wants very 1 much to question Cord and we are ’ very much surprised to find that - he is not available for such an important investigation.” Cord, a principal owner of the - New York Shipbuilding Corporation. now under investigation by : the Nye group, is in Europe. ■! Nye said the committee had decided to ask Cord's attorneys for a further explanation of his absence. The manufacturer sailed last spring at a time when another i senate committee — tti© Black airmail investigation group — sought I to question him. It was explained then that kidnaping threats against his children caused his de-j i parture.. "[His attorneys simply tell us ; they don't know when he will be : back,’’ Nye said. “If it is necesI sary, a subpoena will be Issued.! [ If Cord fails to answer it, the next I step is obvious." ‘ | Nye explained that Cord’s name ’ 1 would appear frequently as the ! •| committee continued its inquiry into relations between the navy department and private shipbuilding : i companies. “We will have some - questions,’’ he said, “which only . Cord can answer.” Investigators directed attention j today to the navy’s 1927 construc- : J tion program. They called Harry ; R. Humphries of Atlantic City, N. . J., former Washington represent- . ative ol the Cord concern, to explain his relations with government officials. Fraternity Holds Business Meeting . i . i The local Phi Delta Kappa fra-; ternity held a business meeting ■ Monday night at which time plans i j were made for a Valentine Sweet-1 • heart dance to be he’d at the De.jentur Country Club Thursday. evening, February 14. 1 1 The Ambassador* from Ken- 1 . da'.lville will furnish music for the j . dance for which reserved tickets j will sell for one dollar a couple. J

PLAY BRIDGE AT BIRTHDAY GALL Card Games Added to Entertainment At President's Ball lEridge ard other card games will he included in the program f r the birthday hall for the President to be held at the Decatur country club on Wednesday. January 30. The card games will be held before tee dance and will be * onclnded in time to permit the player* to participate in the grand march. The price for the card games- will b I he. I, am a as that for the dance, one dolI r a couple. The proceeds from the card gam© will lie used a* that from the dance. Seventy per cent will be retained in Adam* county fsr the aid of victims cf infantile panxlysis. Thirty p r cent will (be sent to the national committee to be used for re;search. Those 'pi yiiig cards, will he invited to remain for the dance, floor shows and to hear president Roose velt speak over the radio. Th- committee and details for the card games will be announced Thursday. The Boy Sc ents of the city have volunteered to m ke a canvass of the business distrr t of Decatur F i iday to obtain signatures for the birthday telegram which will be, wired President Roosevelt Wednesday night congratulating him on hie j : birthday. The telegram will be sent by th© western Union and Postal telegrJipli companies free of charge, Fit (CONTINUED ON PAGE FIVE' ANOTHER COLO WAVE ENROUTE Forecaster Promises lielow Zero Weather By Nightfall In State Indianapolis. Jan. 23 —(U.R)—lndiana prepared today for its coldest | weather of the season as a new cold wave swept in from the northwest. Temperatures of five beiow m ; central portions of the state and 10 to 15 below in the northern part were promised for tonight by J. H j Armington, meteorologist at the 1 S. weather bureau here. Southern portions will shiver un- ’ der temperatures of zero to 1" above, he predicted. On its way to Indiana, the cold wave dropped temperatures to 30 I below in Minnesota and 20 below ;j n Wisconsin. Northwestern Indiana cities reported two above this morning. Fort Wayne reported 14 above. Terre Haute 12 and Evansville IS A slight break in thp cold may be | expected tomorrow afternoon but the rise will be gradual. Armington said. The cold wave will have one good I effect on the state, however, by re- j i tarding drastic rises in levels of 1 the Ohio and Wabash rivers. There still is no danger of flood 1 (CONTINUED ON PAGE FIVE)

DEATH FOLLOWS BITTER STORM OVER COUNTRY - Entire U. S. Suffers Bitterest Winter Sturm In Many Years SOUTHERN STATES SUFFER INTENSELY Chicago, Jan. 23.— (U.fi) — Death and incalculable property damage ; followed gale-swept clouds over the entire United States today In the bitterest wither storm of many years. A new and much more severe cold wave poured down from west- ! ern Canada toward the Mississippi valley while Hoods, gales and fire brought tragedy to usually immune regions. Temperatures in the north central states dropped 20 degrees in five hours to as low as 40 degrees below zero. Clouds that sifted snow over 1 most of the eastern half of the country and even N'ew Orleans, where thousands of moth-eaten overcoats appeared in 26-degroe weather, scattered during the night. Temperatures, however, threatened to go lower. The cold wave across Dixie endangered citrus groves of Florida and brought intense suffering among negro populations housed and clad for a 60-degree clime. One man froze to death in New Orleans, two negroes died of exposure in Galveston and charitable organizations saved thousands of others with emergency orders of kerosene. coal ami clothing. National guardsmen aided Red Cross workers and local authorities in rescuing residents of four Hooded counties in the vicinity of (CONTINUED ON PAGE FIVE) ILLINOIS BANK HOBOED TODAY Alvin Karpis May Have Been One Os Two Men In Holdup Peoria, ill., Jan. 23—(UP)—Police -soiiad ears bottled up two Central Illinois counties today in a search for Alvin K rpie, fleeing outlaw, after two roughly-dressed men ! held up the state bank of Trivoli, 12 mil s west t f here. The bandits, who waited 15 min- 1 ! utes in the bank for a time lock to open, escaped with between $2 000 jand $3,000 in a car bearing Michi- , g -n lieense plates. Police communicated with the departrmnt of ju«tic° in Chicago when descriptions of the bandits indicated one of them might be Karpis. Karp’s and Harry Campi'iell. in ! flight after escaping from a police trao ; t Atlantic Citv, N. J . Sunday, kidnaped a Pennsylvania do- tor and j abandoned their car near Monr e, -Michigan early yest n’ay. Witnesses to the Trivoli ho'dnp said thp bindit.s escaped in a Ford 1 or Chevrolet blue sedan with a Michigan license OK 2745 Police ordered a search for a heavv-s t escaped convict by the name of Carver, who was «een at the home of a rebtive at Victoria, HI., last night. He and a companion . fitting Karpis’ description were at Kawanee, fill., yesterday, police told. Ralph Demurrs, cashier of the Trioli bank, and Fremont Opie. Jr., assistant cashier, were forced to : lie on the floor with a customer and a salesman while the bandits looted the bank. Berne Younir Woman Dies This Morning Airs. Dorothy Vesper-Wien. 27. wife of Frederick Wien of Berne, died at the Adams County Memorial Hospital this morning at 10:10 o’* lock. Mrs. Wien became ill last Thursday from intesinal flu and peritonitis developed. Mrs. Wien was born in Kansas on January 19, 1908. Her parents are deceased. She was united in marriage to Mr. Wien four years ago when they moved to Berne. Mr. . Wien is manager of the book store at Berne. Surviving are the husband and a daughter, Phyllis, 2. Funeral arrangements have net lieen completI ed.

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♦ NO MONEY FOR LOVE — Indianapolis, Jan. 23 (U.R) ! Rep. Roberta Nicholson, Indi- ! ana’s only woman legislator, I thinks broken hearts that (an be mended by money are a ! racket. Mrs. Nicholson, who is a | daughter-in-law of Meredith ; Nicholson, author and minister to Venezuela, introduced a bill | in the legislature that would 1 make it a penal offense to file or abet a civil suit for breach of promise, alienation of affections or seduction. It also would be illegal to 1 name a correspondent in a divorce action. Ihe penalty would be a fine up to SI,OOO | and imprisonnu nt of from one to five yearn. ‘ Most actions for breach of promise and seduction have extortion for their motive,” Mrs. Nicholson told her male fellow legislators. • ___ ♦ DOOBT BANDITS SEEN AT NEW HAVEN Police Doubt Story Karpis In Allen County Restaurant SEARCH EXTENDED INTO THIS STATE Fort Wayne. Ind.. Jan. 23. —<U.R) ! —Reports that Alvin Karpis. much hunted notorious midwestern outlaw, was seen near New Haven. Ind.. near here last night were found ungrounded after a polic ■ investigation here today. A man giving his name as Lester Hohman of New Haven said he saw a man resembling Karpis in a New Haven restaurant about 11:30 last night. It was also reported that Karpis was seen driving a Plymouth coup© bearing California license plate 885724. City, county aim state police officers immediately formed barracades on roads leading into Fort Wayne from the east when it was reported that Karpis was enroute here from New Haven. Police are still investigating all clues hut reported that they believed the reports were wild rumors. Turn To Indiana Chicago, Jan. 23. (U.R) — Along th same highways where barricades I were thrown up a few months ago in an effort to trap John Dillinger I patrols of armed officers today ati tempted to pick up tho trail of Alvin Karpis. newly-crowned public i enemy No. 1. The search turned to Indiana, native state of the DilKnger gang and locale of some of its bloodiest j crimes.. Armored police cars and federal agents were deployed about Indian(CONTINUED ON PAGE SIX) FIGHT AGAINST BILL COLLAPSES Insurgent Bloc's Fight On Work Relief Bill Collapses Washington. Jan. 23. —(U.R) —The administration’s $4,880,000,000 work relief hill was thrust toward house passage today in the wake of a \ collapsed insurgent Democratic revolt. The bill was safeguarded from amendment in its main features at a Democratic caucus forced by the insurgent bloc. As a compromise gesture to the recalcitrants, bent on earmarking the huge fund and amending the hill to prevent j/.blic works admin- ! istrator Harold L. Ickes from running the new program, the Democratic leadership agreed to leave minor sections of the hill open to amendment. This gesture will enable foes of Ickes to offer amendments aimed iat embarrassing him. One proposal is to provide against extension of the PWA next June 30, the date it expires tinder fit© pr?sent law. The compromise “gag rule" was the first business before the house today. It allows amendments to be offered to the last five sections of the bill. The sections giving the (CONTINUED ON PAGE SIX)

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EXPERT SWEARS LUMBER TRACED TO ATTIC FLOOR W ood Expert Gives Damaging Testimony Against Defendant STATE S CASE IS NEAR COMPLETION Flemington, N. J.. Jan. 23— (UP)—The plane that was used build the ladder used in the kidnaping came from the tool chest of Bruno Richard Hauptmann, Arthur Kceher, federal government wood expert, testified today. • I'leniinglon, N. -f- Jan. (U.R) Tho mule ladder found outside the home ol Col. Charles A. I.iiiilbergh after his soil was kidnaped was traced hack to Bruno Richard Hauptmann's house i.n ilia Bronx today by a prosecution witness. Arthur Koehler, department of agriculture wood • xrert. swore that the light hand rail of Ihe third section of the ladder was a piece of flooring which Dad been sawed out of the Hauptmann attic. As Koehler’s testimony proceeded. court room spectator* Began to understand what attorney general David T. Wilentz was talking about when lie said in his opening Matement: "Why. we will show that Bruno Richard Hauptmann has this ladder right around his neck.’’ Koehler, a Wild, soft spoken man from Madison. Wisconsin, proved to he one of the most damaging witnesses who lias testified against Hauptmann. He said the grain in the ladder piece matched exactly the grain in a board in the Hauptmann's attic. He said there were nail holes in the ladder piece that proved I evond doubt that this particular piece of wood once had been nailed down to a joist in the Hauptmann attic. Case N-ar Completion Saving -cine of its meat stv>— . tacular evidence for a lira! blow at Bruno Hichard Hauptmann, the government today traced to his handicraft, bv circumstantial evidence, the ladder by which tile Lindbergh crime was committed. The state's case against the brawny Bronx carpenter neared completion. Attorney General David T Wilentz confidently expected to rest late today -unless i long cross-examination shoul 1 frustrate his plans. It is therefore possible that within another 24 hours. Bruno Hauptmann, the first witness in his own defense, may face tho jury and tell his strange version of how he acquired the ransom money through which he was trapped. The three-section ladder, standing against the wa'l of the court room, a nude witness against tho prisoner, was found on the Lindhergh estate shortlj; after the kidnaping. Police officers today matched wooden pipces from it. in their evidence, against a board that had • been removed from the attic floor of Bruno Hauptmann's home in the Bronx — and declared the pieces fitted “perfectly.” Thus, the last piece of the jigsaw puzzle the state is trying to put together as a portrait of the I man it accuses of murdering : Charles A. Lindbergh. Jr., was set (CONTINUED ON PAGE SIX) Chocks For One Township Not In All the corn hog control check* have been received by the county •ommitt e except those front Union t wnship. The committee has no information rs to when tlfee.e j cheeks will arrive. Tiie checks for tho northern half of the poiintv. with the exception of Union township, are now available at the county agent's office. Today Kermit Bowen, treasurer | of the Adame county corn hog control committee, distributed the j checks In Geneva, for the three ! southern townships. The French 1 township cheeks were also dtstrii buted today. Saturday Mr. Bowen will distribute the checks for Monroe and I French townships at the First Bank I of Berne.