Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 33, Number 35, Decatur, Adams County, 9 February 1935 — Page 1

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HATE SCORES IN HAUPTMANN TRIAL

Possible Public tForfcs Projects Are Listed

Ji OFFICERS ■estimate WwOMS COST _ 11 Projects i.ist*«K \ Cost oi S 3 I >.- 'iBLaGE PLANT pi T ON I-IST I* A .. . \ .... H and • a t was made by .'■(...u« Ralph Roop. - V I M'l.at. th.' i '■ Light and p to ■■npr.>V- urgently Kied bin! ■ ' value. Kch •*»'•• wraith or and system. addipoo! and recreation .likiliHi the Sou’ll allev and street ornamental K tn»i ;•..'■ .0,.. :•»•■■ olio in- ■- > ■ $7,495.00. ’ Kmat. $4,000.00. HS*'' ne n iits. f.’et of broken and ; ::•■ hvdrnnis. slo. lot improve-, «!;,13,220.00. ilis" =al plant and ,‘BUrbs >•:. extensions. rcrnfinc win-! Vttf' ’-' plant. $75.04)0. swimming rtool amt center, south ward., MMybank inmrovemen’-t and ■m $5.00000. of th- inventory is for funds. It wh.at noli. y will bo BMttd by the federal governthe distribution of the public works fund. iiuithousc stated that the was made with a' ■MB to the future and included Events that the city might i on to make within the I y l ' | years. "If the federal pays for most of the | yh *>'eral of the projects can : ■ CMpleted within the year," stated. information, including" a HB i: :i -’ties, transportation property valutions, tax the i ivil city's cost of i furnished by the! - — - ■ — ■|ff so n Township I | Farmer Arraigned 1 Anspaugh, Jefferson P former, was arraigned in P ns circuit court today on a 11 charge of child neglect 8(1 not guilty. He was re mder $250 bond. lu «h filed a petition to the former order of the . ’"_ hi< 'h he has been ordered 1250 weekly for the support hild. He claimed that since orce on January 11, 1934, * ma irr!ed. During a consid*°rtion of this time he statthe h as been unemployed indent upon rek. fives for Doti money. Ums that he could now care child cheaper In his own ti for this reason he is re- ' the court to grant him the °f the child.

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Decatur Man Will Act As Doorkeeper J. W. Meibers, well known resi-| : dent of Decatur, wag "all smiles” ; today, having received a telegram 1 from State Senator Thurman Gottschalk to be in Indianapolis Mon-! day morning to assume u job as doorkeeper in the senate chamber ’ at the state house. . Mr. Meibers recalled that 20 yars ago he served as a doorkeep--ser at the state house during the session of the legislature. He will i be one of the veterans on the job. o— STOCKHOLDERS ARE ASSESSED Old Adams County Bank Stockholders To Pay 100 Per Cent The Department of Financial I Institutions of the State of Indiana. has ordered a one hundred per cent assessment on the stockholders of the Old Adams County bank of this city. Notices to the 277 stockholders las shown on the records in the , county clerk's office, were being mailed today. The letters were signed by R. A M< Kinlev. direcI tor of the Department of Finan-1 cial Institutions and were attested by H. R. Wells, secretary of the department. The assessment demand ie for, SIOO,OOO, the amount of stock issued and outstanding in the 5 bank when it closed. May 17. 1932. The assessment is levied under section six of Article 11 of the Constitution of the state of Indiana, and section 240 of the Indiana Pmsrwtal Imffttnttofls Act. Ths I assessment is ordered paid within 40 da vs. Deferred payments will bear six ner cent interest, the notice states. The letter to stockholders states that the liability to depositors is not less than $411,865.16. The assessments are payable to Leo Yager, special representative of the department, who has been in charge of the bank since ite closing. Approximately 15 per ■ cent of the total of deposits in the bank when 1T closed has been paid. Rural Carriers To Start Earlier Rural moil carriers will leave the post office at 8 o’clock every morning. beginning Monday, instead of 8:30 oklock as they have done in J the pa-st. C. E. Hocker, aslsb nt postmaster announced today. Patrons are roquested to note thio change. o - Twelve Persons Die In Severe Storm ■ Dallas, Tex., Feb. 9—(UP)—At J le«6t 12 persons were dead today as the r'eult of a tornado and h uvy windstorm which swept across southeast and eost Texas last night. II Reports from isolated points early today said 10 negroes were dead 1 in Houston county <nd a white wonan and her 18-mo:ithe-old baby crushed when their heme in Polk ! county was destroyedFIVE STUDENTS AREENROLLEO Five Adams County Younff Men Taking Purdue Short Course Lafayette, Feb. 9—Five Adams county young men are among the 112 students enrolled in the eight , weeks’ winter course in agricul- ■ ture at Purdue university this 1 year, which will continue to March : 15. Students in the winter course are registered from 46 different counties in Indiana and from 7 states other than Indiana, according to the figures compiled by the school of agriculture. Those registered from Adams ’ I county are: D. C. Wynn, dairy manufactur- j iug, R. J. Koldeway, anima! husbandry; A. S. Mosser. dairy pro- ■ , duction; J. C. Schenck, general | j agriculture; W. H. Smith, dairy j < manufacturing.

OPPOSITION TO STATE NRA BILL GROWSRAPIOLY Democratic Leaders Will Hold Public Hearing On Measure MEASURE PASSED HOUSE THURSDAY 1 Indianapolis. Feb. 9. (U.R) — 1 Mounting public sentiment against the state NRA bill caused administration leaders to tighten their ■ control of the senate today to prei vent a possible bolt in Democratic ranks when the measure comes up for final passage in Hie upper house of the legislature next week. The bill easily passed the house Thursday, 61 to 35. with only one Democrat, Rep. Martin T. Krueger. Michigan City, voting with the solid Republican minority. Hut since then manufacturing j and business interests have flooded the legislature with protests against the bill. A public bearing to give opponents an opportunity to explain j their objections will be held next i week at the request of the Indiana state chamber of commerce. Leaders refer to the bill as the industrial stabilization act. They 'contend it is intended only to make national jokers of fair comi petition effective in Indiana and that it would not require the setting up of any additional machin- . ery. The bill provides for a state 1 code commission of four members iU> b» appointed by the governor. They would have authority to approve all state codes. Enforcement of the codes would be left to the courts. The original measure has been (CONTINUED ON PAGE SIX) HOMESTEADERS TO VISIT SITE All Purchasers Os Homesteads Are Requested To Visit Houses A. A. Watrous, project manager of the Decatur homesteads, has requested all purchasers of the homes to visit the grounds this afternoon or Sunday between the hours of ore to four o’clock to inspect house number 21, In which the interior walls have been painted. Every color available to the homesteaders for interior finishing of the rooms has been used in this house. The purchasers are requested to make their selections of colors for interior finishing and report to Mr. Watrous before Monday morning at 10 o'clock. The orders to the paint supply houses will be mailed Monday in order to speed up the progress. The colors which are available to the 48 homesteaders for the living rooms, kitchens and chambers jare case au lait, Norwich canary, peach blossom, lily of the valley, and Sudan ivory. The bath rooms may be painted either white or 1 ivory. The hall and stairways will be painted to match the living rooms. The closets and cases will 1 be finished in respect to The rooms. The shutters will be attached to house number 21 this morning in | order that the homesteaders may have an opportunity to see how the (completed structures will look, j The last and final coat of paint has already been laid on all 48 houses. Approximately one half of the furnaces have been installed and ' connected to the chimneys. All the trims and the casing have been installed in the houses. The laying of the last of the hard- : wood floors will begin today. Friedt Funeral Services Monday Funeral services for John Friedt father of Jack Friedt of this city, ! will be held at the L. C. Brudi and sons funeral chapel in Fort Wayne Monday afternoon at 2 . o'clock. Burial will he made in the Harlan cemetery.

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Decatur, Indiana’ Saturday, February 9, 1935.

$12,000 for Jail Term? lb i*Wi * HL sSsSifc IBs/J ■ r j * Edwin Brethauer James A. Long ' James A. I.ong. right, will receive $12.0t 0 compensation from the • state of IllinoH for the ISO days he spent in Joliet prison, if a bill ’ introduced in the legislature at Springfield. 111., passes. Long was j released after serving 120 days of a one-year to life sentence when - Edwin Brethauer. left, confessed to the robberies of which Long i had been convifted.

t' CHURCHES WILL HONOR SCOUTS 1 Snecial Services Will Be „ Held In Two Churches H t Sunday Morning r.L-,. hl Sfecial servi.-es will be held in ’ two Decatur churches Sunday to e commemorate the silver ..innivern sary of scouting in the United L State©. The members of the St. Joe troop ■ and the O.’tholic hoys in the other : troape will attend the 8:30 o'clock mass Sunday at the St. Mary's troops will attend the 8:30 o’clock mass Sunday at the St. Mary's " Catholic church. The Rev. Father “ Joseph J. Hennes, a member of the “ committee, will deliver a talk on i scout activities and character at this service. * The Protestant boys will meet in the Sunday school room of the Methodist Episcopal church here at 9:15 and will enter the auditorium r for the worship service at 9:25. s where they will sit in a delegation. Scouts of the Methodist church will act as ushers. An invitation has f been extended to all scouts to re- . main for Sunday school after the •j services in the class taught by . Scoutmaster Lowell Smith. At the church services at 9:30. P ' the pa-tor of the church, the Rev. » H. R. Carson, will deliver a special s messi’ge on the .subject, “The .American Boy and This Anniversary", f The Rev. Carson is himself a scout- .. !er land has been identified with tho . i Boy Scout movement as e-ontmas-ter and troop committeeman for 10 1 years. ! This is the Sunday nearest the (CONTINUED ON PAGE SIX) e

« Various Scout Troops Give Report At Anniversary Banquet Here Friday

r : Rotary troop number 61 l?d the, 15 next nearest competitor by 10 1 points in the city trophy contest, 1 j according to the reports of the ' troop committee chairmen at the 0 banquet in the Knights of Pythias 1 1 home Friday night. I’ The condensed r. ports of tho e committees are: Rotary Troop 61 8 This troop has 20 registered '• scouts as follows: two tenderfoot: e four second class; seven first class * three star scouts; two life scouts; two eagle scouts; one, holder of ? bronze engle palm, and one holder '■ of gold eagle palm Troop has qnalified for national certificate of good appearance. President’s award, end has met objectives for first three months ct achievement roundup, u Scorel 68 points to win city trophy, increase of 51 over last year. Troop t committee is: chairman, Avon -, Burk; Clarence Bell, James Elberli son, Sylvester Everhi rt, Harold •t McMillen and James Kocher. 2 American Legion Troop 63 n This troop has 22 registered scouts ae follows; seven tender-

Edith Starr Is Granted Divorce A divorve was granted Edith I Starr from h r husband, Clarence Starr. Hartford township farmer, in the Adams < ir. uit court this morn'iing. The plaintiff w s .prohibited from remarrying for a period of two years. The complaint alleged Lluj Starr. w>:s guilty of cruel and inhuman . treatment in that he wrongfully accuse.) Mrs. Starr cf adultery. Mr. \ Starr did not file a crass complaint nor appear in court. A FURMER LOCAL RESIDENT DIES George Zimmerman Dies Friday Afternoon At Fort Wayne George Zimmerman 65. former Adams county farmer, died at 1:50 o'clock Friday afternoon at his home at 620 .East Jefferson street. Fort Wayne, following a six-month illness. Mr. Zimmermon resided on a farm east of Decatur and was well known in this city. He moved to Fort Wayne 15 years ©go when he retired from active farm work- He was born in Decatur. The widow. Mary, is the only survivor. Th? body was removed to the Julian S hone’s tuner 1 home in Fort Wayne, and was taken to the residence Friday evening.. Funeml services will be held Monday afternoon at 2 o’clock at the home. Dr. Charles 11. Smith officiating. Burial will be in the DeI catur Cemetery.

' foot; seven second class; three star i scouts; and five life scouts. Had 1 ! n re’se of 12 points in chievement ‘ roundup. The troop has not quail- '. fied for national certificates of good ' appe rance but has improvement certificate for good appearance. The ’ troop has qualified for the President's award and has met the objectives for the first three months ' of achievement roundup. The troop committee is: chliirman. Vernon 1 Aurand, David Adams and Herbert Kern. Lions Troop 62 ' j This troop increased five points ' (in the contest for th© city trophy, ' now having 47 points. The troop has 'l9 registered scouts as follows: seven, tenderfoot; nine second class ■ one first class; one star scout, and • one life stout. The troop has not 1 qualified for national certifierte of 1 good appearance nor met the ob- ' jeetives fcr the first three months 1 of the achievement roundup. It has qualified for the President's award. I .The troop committee Is: chairman, -I (CONTINUED ON PAGE FIVE)

SOME PROPOSE INCREASE IN INCOME TAXES Left Wing New Dealers Would Supplement Central Bank Bill TO KEEP MONEY IN CIRCULATION ’ (Copyright 1935 by United Press) Washington, Feb. 9 —(U.R) —Left wing new dealers have proposed higher income and corporate | ' taxes to supplement the central bank bill now before congress. The bank bill Itself Is sponsored by Marriner S. Eccles, governor !of the federal reserve board. No official 60 far has publicly sponsored the tax plan. It would skim the cream from individual income land corporate surpluses to keep the money constantly in circulation through federal expendi- ! tures. Eastern hankers and conserva- ' five congressmen of both parties challenge the bank bill as an unwarranted extension of political control over the banking system. Eccles’ reply in the opening exchange of argument said Hie bill would: 1. Accelerate the rate of economic recovery. 2. Make the banking monetary systems responsive to present and future economic needs. 3. Prevent a recurrence of conI ditions which closed the banks in . March 1933. 1 ; The United Press was informed, however, by an official who repre- ' , aents the administration group .which wants freer federal spending that the banl: bill may become . a part of a three point program,' as outlined to the United Press, t the plan to be developed if President Roosevelt can be persuaded \ to it provides: 1. A high tax system to insure what monetary experts call veloc-1 ity of money turnover. i 2. A bank system that controls the volume of credit or money available under anv conditions. 3. Insurance of jobs for all employable persons. I Mr. Roosevelt would not lie ex-' pected to experiment in alt those directions until the $4.000.000.lV)0 recovery and relief plan has had n thorough test. Money velocity would be obtained by the process of heav.v taxation, the government in turn, spending the tax proceeds on pro(CONTINUED ON PAGE TWO) GROWERS SIGN APPLICATIONS Beet Growers In Northern Part of County Sign Contraets All but one of the 126 sugar beet growers of 1934 in the northern. ' six townships of Adams county have signed the new benefit sugar ■ beet contract applications with i! the expectations of growing beets I again in 1935. I One man stated to the comralt- ■ tee sitting today in the county ■ (agent’s office that he believed he was in too ill health to attempt ' the raising of beets. The actual number of contract ( applications is about 110. This in- ( eludes only the older sugar be°t growers. A number of boys and ■ girls signed contracts to grow ' beets last year and expect to grow them again as a club project. Most of the boys and girls who contracted raised only one, or two j acres. These will be grown again but will be included in their fath- : ers’ contracts. At 10 o’clock this morning all hut three of the contract signers of 1934 had actually signed the i applications for the 1935 benefit payment contract. The three had made appointment* with the local ' committee to see them this after- . mon and complete the sign up. Members of th» committee stati ed today that all the growers in this territory stated they were I highly pleased with the new con- ’ tracts. The majority of them I wished to increase their acreage.

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Deputy Collector Here February 21 Deputy collector Murray Holll- ! day will be In Decatur, Thursday,, February 21. for the purpose of assisting taxpayers in tilling out | their federal income tax returns. , Mr. Holliday will be located at the i postoffiee and anyone desiring his services is invited to call on him. The federal Income tax reports must be in by March 15. ANNUAL SCOUT BANQUET HELD Erse! Walley Speaks To More Than 200 Scouts And Friends "If your fathers are in the ash ' can, pull them out, dust them off, I I let them rub pan cake batter in ! each other's eyes and you will ; make real men of them, said Er-1 i sei Walley, addressing th© boy scouts and friends at the banquet I ' hSld in the Knights of Pythias home Friday night. Over 200 persons attended. The boy scouts were present in uniforms. The four sponsoring organizations, the Rotary club. Lions Fclllb, American Legion and St. Joe troop committes were well represented. All the city and county scout officials sat at the speakers table. One of the highlights of the as-, fair was the court of honor at which 38 boy scouts received awards. This was conducted by the , Rev. M. W. Sundermann. W. F. Beery opened the program by leading the community singing ■of scout songs. Miss Louise Haubold accompanied at the piano. Bryce Thomas, president of the I Limberlost district of the boy • i scouts of Adams county, acted as i toastmaster and made the intro-( ductory remarks welcomes Jlie visitors and explaining the purpose of the meeting. He introduced the chairmen of (the troop committees who made i the reports of their troops for the last year. L. L. Hotchkiss of Fort Wayne, i scout executive for the Anthony’, Wayne Area council, comprising I the nine northeastern counties in Indiana, was the next speaker. He announced the national jams boree which will be held next aum- ( mer in Washington, D. C. at the invitation of President Roosevelt. Thirty-three thousand boy scouts. I one from each troop, will be invited to attend on the basis of merit. The quota for the Anthony Wayne : i council will be 70 boys and 10 leaders. Ersel Walley, chairman of the , ; troop committee of Fort Wayne : troop 8, the principal speaker, addressed his remarks to the boyscouts only and told them how to properly rejuvenate their fathers, who are developing their girth. i losing their enthusiasm and rapid|ly falling into the asli can. , "You’ll have to slip up on them : when they are not expecting it." he i said. “Never let them know your intentions. Get them to make an overnight hike with you ■on the pre- | text that your mothers will not ! permit you to go alone —although. I I personally I don’t know who would want to take sleeping boy scouts. They are not pretty. “Make them think they are run- ; ! ning the camp. Never let them [ know you are the brains of the out- j fit. “Get them out into th© woods. I ; It will break down their reserve. ! In the foods all men are equal, j They will forget that they run ' banks, 400 acre farms or tile mills. , ■ “After you get them there you | must control them. They will play j pranks. You must bear with them until you get them to be what; you want them. If they play pranks make them buy apples for your next meeting. “You will find that it is worth j the trouble to get them to reduce ' their girth and ill humor. It takes a little skill but I know you can ' do it.” One Measles Case Is Reported Here There was one case of meaoles in Adams county during the week j ending February 2, according to ' the weekly bulletin published by I the Indiana Division of Public Health.

TESTIMONY OF EXPERT DENIES DEFENSECLAIM Wisconsin Wood Expert Refutes Contention Os Defense Witness FISCH’S SISTER GIVES TESTIMONY Flemington, N. J.. Feb. 9—(U.R) — Through the cold, scientific testimony of Arthur Koehler. Wisconsin wood expert, the state of New Jersey hammered down Bruno Richard Hauptmann's contention that part of the Lindbergh kidnap ladder did not come from his attic. Koehler flatly contradicted the testimony of Hauptmann’s star witness. Dr. Erasmus Hudson, who had sworn he saw only one nail hole in the now famous “rail 16” of the ladder, with the declaration that he saw 4 nail holes in the Section as early as March 8. 1932. The testimony was vital to the state’s case, because the four nail holes, it lias been testified, exactly matched four holes in a beam in the Hauptmann attic. The defence has insinuated that the police themselves had driven the holes to “frame” the prisoner. Photographs of the ladder taken early in March of 1932. showed the four holes plainly. The woman who loved Isidor Fisch most—his sister —came into the courtroom Friday to try to sponge from his tombstone all stains of susnicion that he committed the Lindbergh crime. Whether Hannah Fisch succeeded or failed in this supreme effort in behalf of her brother’s reputation is a secret in the minds of the eight rnen and four women who sit in judgment on Bruno Richard Hauptmann. It was a ghostly, melancholy business the wav she sat there talking in an alien tongue, her face chalk white with fright and with anxiety to strike, once and for all. the blow- that would let the dead rest in peace. Hannah's testimony came out slowly and painfully. Prof. George Madison. Priest of Princeton university had to translate her “ja” and "nein” into “yes" and “no”. He had to take the American patter of Atty.-Gen. David T. Wilentz and shape it into some kind of German that Hannah could comprehend. Earlier in the dav the defense rested, confident that in the last fortnight it had wedged into the record enough testimony to give (CONTINUED ON PAGE SIX) ENTERTAINMENT PLANCOMPLETE Ca»rt Partv A«d Dance At K. Os C. Hall Next Tuesday Night Plans have been completed for the card party and entertainment to be given at the Knights of Columbus hall, Tuesday evening, February 12. The card party will start promptly at eight o'clock. Rhum. bridge, i and five hundred will bo played I and first and second prizes will 'be awarded to high scorers. Mrs. ! Clayson Carroll, Mrs. Joe Lose and ' Mrs. H. P. Schmitt form the committee in charge. Following the card games danci ing will be enjoyed. A good orl chestra will furnish music. Other entertainment, including bingo, dart and marble games will be provided during the evening and preparations are being mad© to entertain between 300 and 400 people. Sandwiches and refreshments will be served during the evening. Mr. and Mrs. Frank Gillig being in charge of the sandwich counter. Many other features are planned for the entertainment of th© guests and the committee in charge extended invitation#! to members' of St. Mary's Catholic church parish, lodge members and their guests to join the crowd and enjoy an evening of fun. Hubert Schmitt is chairman of the general committee and every effort has been made to provide a program of interest for tho guestSi