Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 33, Number 41, Decatur, Adams County, 16 February 1935 — Page 1

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hoy — »TAX TO | ■introduced ‘ WkSLAT’M •eh. — —— ■ Leaders Plan Con■ersTax To Aid In Revenue SOCIAL Kb'in i-ipn.mM in ' u R> , * i;! e "‘” :■ . b s.H ial security Pio-1 ■■■^K^,. r tho: .. per ru ,<, SI,OOO. altax '" -'■’'■ " r,un l‘ : ~l '( ' r f> '- *' i >ti .>»] levy would be called I i tiers 3 'tool tax and wold I Kilt $13,500,000, it b under-' HTie money would be used ; [pay the salaries of public Lachers, These payments I Ln made frt ■ the [tax receipts during the i [years, and have averaged iually for each teacher. |M in the grow kid drop the revenue from | L L ii<i lie ■ the general fund to fin- ■ ■ social security program,’ ■ old age pensions, under ■he proposals being con-1 ronosed new tax would be ] inner of a net income tax. > probably will be enacted at l | session of the legislature i ire the existing tax on 1 icomes. an administration j tan said. Ilan also will embrace relion of liquor tax revenue ng the state to receive a | I' l The state’s ’ ■" < r-i il for -n’lport j titat police departmt •men declared that the ! taxing system nroduces l t revenue for budget pur-1 nt that additional funds btlal if pensioning and 'INUED ON PAGE SIX) IE DEPUTIES IB ASSESSORS Assessors Are Anted Today By est Worth man ‘ '"'ssom were announcf County Assessor Ernest; The assessing will confl days after March 1 and only of personal pro-1 ation. ‘1 dat* for the filing of ‘ Monday.. Only one tnw-i >tion to those for whom ions have been made, has i his desire to hire a deplar. Heller has been selected niBO. nalbc| b '«wtee of Hartford i t 0 assi -'t him. He will be e tr u»tee. personally. ■k^B^" 1 -'' council made appro-1 ta ‘s year dor six deputy in the county. »^K„, havA bcp n granted the - '"’ WMhl l’ assessor. J. .‘■K" r " A ’ Bf ‘ aver -’ will assess, ’'■L W? n ° rth of Madison th h V lty - Mr ' f,ine W HI 3 Washington township ' nf Decatur while; keeps the books. '^■ h R . a ‘ n ass ist Jess Mann, w S i h ’ P aa,,efi sor. in the W bash -township andK I!p win be paid by the! Br? 111 b ’ ’wo deputy assess- | *P' on l°h tWOnehip for whf'.h B» Mr' °? ha '’ hW>n ma(ie ' • «PunJr Th UCi ’ e Giiliom and i f

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Decatur Works Leads Factories I The Decatur works of the General i Electric led all factories and do I partmental in the Good Housekeepling records for the month of Jun- ; uary. 11 The score at the local plant was I 97.79 per cent. The G. E. Club dei partment was second with a score ' of 97.60 per cent. The local works made an increase of more tihan eight i per cent compared with the 1934 | standing- Last year the score was 89.65 per cent. _ o WIDOW HELD IN CHICAGO DEATH Man Friendly With Widow Os Slain Man Also Under Arrest Chicago. Feb. 16 — (U P) —A gun lof the type used in murder of Louis K. Straub in the exclusive Saddle and Cycle club two weeTks ago was traced today to his widow and a married man which whom ; she admitted intimate relations. The man is Peter Bricke. an i electrician and father of two children. He was arrested a fewhours after Mrs. Straub, blonde and attractive former chorus girl, was taken into custody last night with her father, mother and sister. State’* attorney’s police also I held three other women and three more men whom they believe had knowledge that would explain why Straub, 46-year-old clerk and bartender of the fashionable Saddle and Cycle club, was riddled by seven .38 calibre bullets in the club’s basement at 2 o’clock of a Sunday morning. Assistant State’s Attorney Morris Meyers said Mrs. Straub admitted that she bought a .38 calibre automatic pistol front her, 'TatlTfr Oct. 31 and sold it the next day to Bricke. She admitted too. Meyers said that Bricke had importuned her for nine years the entire period of her married life—to divorce Straub and, marry him. "I asked Pete it that gun had anything to do with Ixiuis' death" Meyers quoted Mrs. Straub, “but he said it didn’t. He warned m». though, not to tell police anything about it because they would misunderstand." Bricke is aliout 53 years old. He expressed bewilderment at I being connected with the murder land said he had only casual rela- | tions with either Straub or his widow. “The woman's nuts,” he told Meyers. The cells in detective headquarters swarming with “material witnesses" after a week in which police seemingly had made no progress in their quest for the elayer. It was almost impossible to determine at whom the finger of suspicion finally would point. : While Meyers attached great sig- ! nificance to discovery of transfers ■ of Mrs. Straub’s gun, he al«o ordered reassert ot three of her woi men friends, for whom she coni fessed unusual affections. During the night nolice also I brought in Kenneth Colling, taxi driver who drove a b'onde woman Ito the Saddle and Cycle club’s i dark grounds at almost exactly tae hour Straub was slain, a I . negro maid in the Straub apart-! ! ment. and two other women whom they refused to identify’. Fred Hockemever Fined By Mayor Fred H-ckemeyer plead guilty to chtrge of public intoxi-ation and was fined one dollar and costs, - , mounting to sll, by Mayor Holthouse in mayor’s court this morn--1 ing. The defendant was arrested February 3 by night policeman Gro- | ver Cottrell. May Extend Relief Work An Extra Year j (Conyright 1935 by United Press) Washington. Feb. 16 — (UP) —' Fear anrong certoln een’to-rs that government credit i.s being endangered may influence the administration to spread Its contemplated $4. '”00,000.000 work relief expenditure over two years instead of one, it was le-rned today. Several sen.tors expressed nlarm at any precedent which-would make I it appear annual appropriations of; , $4,000,000,000 would bo neceseary for an indefinite period-

DEMO PROGRAM THREATENED BY G. 0. FRACTION Republican Members Os State Lower House Walk Out of Session PROTEST AC TION ON BUDGET BILL Indianapolis, Feb. 16.—<U.R>- -Dis-! I ruption of the administration’s legislative program was threatened | by the Republican minority in the ; house of representatives today as a result of Democratic action on , the biennial state budget bill. Until the budget measure came I up. the Republicans had not figured seriously in the legislature, because of the overwhelming Democratic majority in both houses. ’ But while the house was meet- ' ing as a committee of the whole yesterday to consider the $50,000.000 appropriation for the next biennium. 31 of the 35 Republicans and three Democrats walked out of the chamber. They protested that the budget bill should be considered slowly, especially since it provides for an increase of $5,000,000 over the last biennium The revolt was led by Rep. 11. H. Evans. Republican caucus chairman. after 19 G. O. P. amendments to reduce the appropriations had been voted down in rapid succession. Apparently unconcerned over the G. O. P. protests, the Democrats approved the budget bill almost in its entirety after adding approximately $99,000 to bring the proposed appropriation up to $50,429,042. The purpose of the Republicans in walking out was to prevent a quorum from being present and thereby delay action on the budget ,bilL Parliamentary leaders con Tended. however, that a quorum was not necessary when the house was meeting as a committee of the whole They claimed it applies only when the house is in regular i session. But even if the parliamentary authorities are correct, the Republicans realize that by remaining out of the house during a regular i 'CONTINUED ON PAGE SIX) CONSTRUCTION ON SCHEDULE Work At Subsistence Homesteads Being Completed On Schedule The 48 houses being built here ' by Hoggson Brothers for the department of subsistence home- • steads are being completed on schedule. Thirty-six furnaces have,already i been set up and slow fires built in them to dry out the morter and cement used in the bases. The other 12 furnaces have been installed but the pipes have not all been connected or insulated. Painters are finishing the interiors of the houses in the colors selected by the homesteaders Sun- ; day afternoon. All but seven of the houses now | have the hardwood floors laid l Crews of men are now sanding and j finishing these floors as the first ' group of men finish the installation. Linoleum has been placed in the ; bath rooms ot 12 of the houses. The next stage in the construe-1 tion of the houses will be the installation of the trim. The work has been delayed somewhat by the thawing weather which has made the project a sea , of mud. Freezing temperature ‘ would facilitate the transportation of supplies from the road to the houses. The road in the project will not be completed until warmer weather. Only the base foundation is ; now down. O— Theater Installs New Sound Screen The mantigers of the Cort theater today announced that a new silver •ihe.’t screen has he- n installed at j the theater, and will be msed for the ; first time 'today. The ecreen is one of the latent developments in sound equipment .and is constructed to lease eye strain.

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Decatur, Indiana, Saturday, February 16, 1935.

Wrecked Aircraft Sank in 20 Minutes VnMwvMßrHL'l •'. -’•l—- , w„—,, I ■ ■ *"W ■* - | KW Y K*’’' JBk -a Telling a dramatic story of the dirigible Macon's plunge inlo the Pacific at 300 feet a minute. Lieutenant Commander 11. V. Wiley gave vivid details of the crash in a public radio address on Pier 14. at the foot of Mission street. San Francisco, a few moments aiter he set foot ’ on land following his third thrilling aerial escapade. Heroic veteran , of three major air disasters. Lieutenant Commander XT iley. who sur- ' vived the Shenandoah, the Akron and the Macon disasters, is pictured as he related in terse phrases the gripping story of the catastrophe oft Point Sur. near Carmel, Cal. Eighty-one men. he said, leaped off the Macon as its stern struck the sea’s surface and swam, or drifted about . , in rubber lifeboats, for an hour. Two men remain unaccounted for.

CITY WORKERS CLEAN STREETS » I Streets In Business District Are Cleaned Early This Morning The city street department force swept Second street and all intersecting streets between First and Third streets early this morning, hauling the dirt and slush to the. 1 city dump. Ralph Roop, engineer and civil works commissioner directed the i work. He and George Hill start■ed work about five o'clock. The dirt and slush were swept to the : curb and other employes shoveled it on the truck and hauled it away. Second street and other up-town i streets became very slushy and ' dirty during the past month. Sand and cinders have been scattered lat principal crossings during icy periods and this accumulation of dirt made th<» streets slushy. The clean-up campaign Included all the territory between Monroe and Jefferson streets on the north and south and First and Third streets on the east and west. Mr. Roop will continue to keep the streets as clean as possible and today was wishing that a good rain would help in his efforts to I rid the streets of all remaining | slush and dirt. TWO MEN GIVEN DEATH SENTENCE Two Sentenced For Killing Man By Giving Plague Germs Calcutta. Feb. 16—(UP)— Two men, one a leading physician, were sentenced to death today on a charge that taey conspired to murder a wealthy Indian by administering plague germs. The Biznrre ease arose from the death of Am irendra Pande. The prosecution alleged that an attempt first was made to kill Pande by rubbing deadly germs on the bridge of his spectacles. That died and geraiH were inject; d into his arm-through his co;t —by means ot a pin, it was alleged. Dr. Taranath Bhattaule.rya and Benoyendra Pande, step brother of the murdered nun, were sentenced to death. Dr- Sivaprasad Bhatttach(GONTLNUED ON PAGE SIX)

Sell Guernsey Calves At Huntington Monday ■ 1 ' Two bull Guernsey calves out of | the Kelsey and Lesh herd of Huntington county will be sold at the Guernsey breeders meeting, at ” Huntington county court house Monday night. February 18. the proceeds to go to the 4-H <’lub fair of Huntington county. These bulls are out of high producing cows and the Guernsey folks of this vicinity ■ are invited to attend. t n JUNIOR GLASS PLAY FEB. 26 J _ ! High School Juniors-Will Present Play On February 26 I Th“ junior class play, a new farce 1 entitled "Phillip for Short” and written by Kay Z-eigfield, will be f presented February 26 in the high, school auditorium. • 1 “Oh, wb’.'t a dust we raise when I ! first we start ■out to reform!" Hen-■ 1 ry L. Dodge, leading citizen ot May--1 fi id. There is to be a co:k fight in a barn. Mayfield must bs saved. ’ And then the police raided 'the cook - fight. Henry sftinned over the fence 1 with the fastest of them, but his ’ guilt pursued him. for a dashing I young stranger has followed on hie heels, and insists upon Henry’s protection as a price for his silence. “What can the leading citizen of Mayfield do but harbor the man? But how can he explain the young i m. n? Henry Is racking his brain 1 for the first white lie in his epot- ■ less life, when his wife and moth r- ; in-law enter end calmly greet the stranger. "The only thing funnier than ■ Henry’s fibs is the tangle he gets ' in when he tries to tell the truth. "A situation is funny enough when a gay young chap is trying ’ to extricate himself from a tingle, ’ but when Henry L. Dodge tried to 1 dodge his unjust deserts, the audience simply rock in their s ats. Tickets may be procured from 'any member of the juni; r class or at the door. Admission prices are fifteen and 25 cents. i . . Knights Os Columbus Meet Monday Night The regular meeting of the 1 Knights of Columbus will he held ; Monday night at 7 o’clock at the I hall. A report of the fun festival and ot other committees will be . i given at this meeting and all mcmj oers are urged to be ip-resent.

GERMAN WOMEN SENTENCED TO BE BEHEADED Two Are Sentenced To Die Monday On Espionage Charges TWO OTHER GIRLS (JET LIFE TERMS Berlin. Feb. 16 -(U.R)~ Two women—a Berlin society beauty and an unnamed girl secretary in the army—were sentenced today to be beheaded at dawn Monday for espionage. . Two other girls, secretaries in I the reichswehr. were sentenced to I life imprisonment. The sentences were announced in the “people’s" court, a dreaded [tribunal whose judges are mostily Nazi officers, as the mothers Tiid ■families of the three girl secretar- ! ies wept hysterically. The society woman is Baroness Benita von Berg, a tall blonde and one of the most beautiful women in Berlin society. She is the wife i of Joseph von Berg, a well known ! aviation engineer and divorced wife 1 of Richard von Falkenhayn, son of the late general of World War fame. The sole hope of the condemned women is Adolf Hitler. He alone, under his recent consolidation of major pardoning powers in his hands, oan reprieve them. The sentences are the outgrowth of the Sosnowsky espionage case—- . one of those which would not be believed in fiction, but so often flare out in fact among the in- | triguing intelligence agencies of Eurogean countries. It is alleged that Captain Baron I George von Sosnowsky. a dashing - Polish cavalry officer, and the baroness were Polish spies. Their method, it was charged in fthe case, was to operate a dressI making shop and make the acquaintance of girls who might know military secrets.. It was in this manner, the state alleged, that Sosnowski and the baroness met the girl secretaries. From casual conversations in the dressmaking ehop, the state chargej ed, the girls became "friends" of the society woman and the cavalry officer.Next came an invitation to a party. According to the prosecution the party, and subsequent ones, became wild orgies following lavish dinners, at which Sosnowski extracted military information from the girls both by casual conversation and, later, by direct blackmail. The mother of one of the girls sentenced today worried at her daughter’s late hours. She was given to believe that night work at the office was responsible The mother protested to the reichswehr chief of her office. He was astonished; the girl had not worked at night. Suspicions, the reichswehr man I informed the intelligence depart--1 ment. Sosnowski and the baroness were arrested. It was announced February 8 that the case, which had been long in hearing, was ended and that the cases had been submitted to Hitler. AVIATORS ON LONGJLIGHT Two French Fliers Seek To Break World Distance Flight Record Marseilles. France, Feb. 16.—(U.R) —Poul Codos and Maurice Rossi embarked today on a flight which they hope will take them across the South Atlantic and beyond Rio De Janeiro, to break their own world airplane distance flight record of 5,654 miles (9,104.7 kilometers). Taking turns at the controls, they are piloting their old, famous high wing monoplane Joseph Lebrix, with a pay load of 10,000 post cards. Their probable course lay south southwestward across the Mediterranean and Africa and the appromiately 1,715 nautical miles of the Atlantic between a point around Dakar. Senegal, to the eastern tip of Brazil; thence down the coast as far as possible. Determined to await the best (CONTINUED ON PAGE SIX)

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Civic Section To Hold Benefit Show The civic section of the woman’s club will eponeor a benefit movie Wednesday and Thursday, FebruI ary 20 and 21 at the Adams theaI ter. The show will be “One Hour late’’ with Helen Twelvetrees, Joe Morrlaon and Conrad Nagel. A news ( reel of the Dionne ( |uintiipletn will ■ ilso be sihown. The civic members will appreciate it if the public will purchase .tickets from them, the price being 10 and 15 cents. The money dei rived from thin benefit will l>e used '; for various civic improvements. 0 GROWERS SIGN FOR CONTRACTS 1 i Benefit Sugar Beet Contracts Are Being Signt ed Nearly 100% Indications from local committeemen are that the 193.5 benefit migar ' beet contracts are being accepted nearly 100 per cent. J Applications for contracts must ' all be in by this evening. An ex--1 tension of one week for the clos- ’ ing date was recently granted by the sugar section of the AAA, who had first ruled that the tions be in by Saturday, February ( ‘ 9. The alloting of acreage to individual growers will be done after ' the applications are in the hands of the government. The district 1 served by the Central Sugar factory has been granted 9.909 acres - this year. In 1934. 13.500 acres 1 were planted and approximately ’ 10,000 acres harvested. E All the local sugar beet growers are requesting an increase in acre1 age. Petitions have been sent by : the Central Beet Growers assoei- i ’ | ation to the sugar section of the ; AAA in Washington for an increap- ’ ed allotment but as yet no official ruling has been made oh The proposal. 1 j The first acres available will be only to farms having former base acreage. If this does not complete ' the allotment, the government has not yet announced the manner in which the remaining acres will be ‘ allotted. 1 This may be left in the hands of the control association. It is probable that the first extra acres 1 would be given to the old growers ’j to even up lelds; the second to r tenants who have all the equipment ’ and tools necessary and who raised sugar beets in 1934 but have mov1 ed to farms which did not raise ’ beets last year, and if there would 1 ; be any left it would be given to s (CONTINUED ON PAGE SIX) • j Fort Wayne Auto Show Opens Tonight < Fort Wayne. Ind.. Feb. 16—(UP) - I—The first outemobile chow to be I held in Fort Wayne since 1928 will i open officially tonight at 7:30 o’- •' dock at the Maderia garage when Mayor Harry W. Baals delivers the j speech that starte the exhibit. Seventy-five new oirs of various I makes have been placed in the show ; place for display and numerous a chassis and accessory displays will - alsi.' be included in the show. Entertainment will be furnished every evening. Twenty thousand rolls of crepe paper were used in decorating ti’.ie garage for the exhibition. ’ The show will be concluded next Wedneisday evening. Fort M ayne Fire ( Damage Is .$6,000 Fort Wayne, Ind., Feb. 16—(UP) ! —An explosion and ensuing fire, be- ; lieved to have been caused by sponi taneous combustion, canned damage j i estimated at $6,000 to the Mowry . Motors, line., Studebaker dietribu- , tors of Fort Wayne area, here yes- , terday afternoon. The expkeion in tire rear of the . building tore off part of the roof | and shattered a plate glass windowin the front. Approximately $3,000 , of the damage was done to the con- I . tents, including a number of used I oars, and Ha* remainder to the building. j 0 ■ Monroe Town Council t Appoints A. D. Crist The town board of Monr e met, s this morning and nominated A. D. Crist to serve as councilman from ■ t the first ward. Mr. Crist will re- . place John E. Johnson, wiho resigned recently.

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STATE PRISON " DOORS LOCKED ON HAUPTMANN Doomed Man Reiterates Innocence When Taken To State Prison BRUNO RADIATES SELF CONFIDENCE Trenton, N. J.. Feb. 16 —<U.R) —■ Bruno Richard Hauptmann was brought today to “death row" in the state penitentiary to wait with mingled hopes and fears while the higher courts decided finally whether he shall die in the electric chair for the murder ot Charles A. Lindbergh, Jr. “I have nothing to confess. I am innocent,” were the doomed man’s words before he was led into the routine of the prison death house. Manacled to guards and escorted by etate trQopers, Hauptmann was brought here by automobile from Flemington, where he was convicted of murder and sentenced to die in the week ot March 18. He was poised, carefully dressed ; and smiled frequently as he came from the bright sunlight of New Jersey countryside to the stern walls of the prison. The trip from Flemington required an hour and, at 10:32 a.m.. Sheriff John H. Curtise of Hunterdon county delivered Hauptmann and a death warrant to the keeper of the state prison. About 500 j persons saw- them arrive at the big brownstone and brick structure. The prisoner was led through ;an iron barred door to a room where the prison clerk checked ! him in. The proceedings wero .! conducted in a friendly but effij cient manner. Asks Funds Flemington, N. J.. Feb. 16. —• (U.R)—Sublime self confidence rei turned today to Bruno Richard Hauptmann, who was transferred to a cell 100 feet from the whitewalled execution chamber of NewJersey state prison at Trenton, where, unless high courts intervene. he will expiate the murder of Charles A. Lindbergh. Jr. Hauptmann was cheered by cabled encouragement from “mutI ter” and convinced the American public would help him escape the electric chair. Radiating his characteristic assurance, broken momentarily when the jury of eight men and four women found him i guilty, he elaborated a major premise of his defense which the Jury refused to believe- —that Isidor Fisch, once his closest friend and now dead, kidnaped and killed the Lindbergh baby. Meanwhile, Charles Walton, j foreman of the jury that condemned Hauptmann, revealed that he and his associates wert* on the verge of signing a contract calling for a number of theatrical (CONTINLEJD ON PAGE SIX) o NEWCASTLE MAN FOR GOVERNOR Republican Representative Angered Over Democratic Action Tndiinapolis, Ind., Feb. 16—(UP) Rep. H. H. Evans. Newcastle, republican caucus chairman, was so anger?d over inability of his collogues to trim the proposed $50,000,000 biennial state budget in the house yesterday that he said he would be a candidate for governor I in 1936. Evans led the Republican bolt which resulted in minority members walking out of the house during disI cussicn of the budget bill, repeatedly he protested to the chair because the bill was being "railroaded j tihrough.” He was even rebuked publicly by speaker Edward H. Stein, Bloomi field, who said: "Indiana didn’t send you (Republicans) here in sufficent numbers i to stop us.” A few’ minutes later, Evans told a group of friends: “On the strength of what happened here, 'l’m going to announce my candidacy for Governor in 1836.”