Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 33, Number 46, Decatur, Adams County, 22 February 1935 — Page 1

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■IE SENATE ■B» FOR ■I WEEK -ENO ■ House Uljourns Kevneftedly; House ■ Still In Session Bor measure ■ t<«ed ■ 1ia1 ..,.‘ >■'" -- il ' r> t!,H «. .-k-fHil today wlv ’> ;;P ' ■L,. tli.a '»■' Ail.iidK |.tt■’ll would >•' l' ! • BbUl would mate a!1 : oli. • ■r and :' " ‘""I that .1 vol' would ■ , ■, „f .. , r, • :t!< Ildar n(l ij'h 1 p, ‘ "‘ K ‘ ■ defeat tL" niemlxi ■ tin’ ■ a!I>: -d bill sin,, > lh “>' do ■re eiioug’.i strength to re■b- prinm; y ■flatfona. also pbdyl ■ f|l- TH O ’’ '• ■ ■ ■ - 1 ‘ I" ■r ' ■.. ■>f <!;• ■n wild ■r; . ■ ho;:- will auaia this ■effort t«> tl:,- way for within tl:- 61 days for the si ssion. ■t■ • ,1 s -th <)■■ ■gs ■ flood Id' la W bills l .rntiilthe house. ■ng them tv is measure ■ would :■■■’ irts • ord- - 00-so»>: ■te. ■ minded .lb' The court ■be r»’uir i t-> inno'nt a ■fiat tn ex-"..ip,, in. ane p ( . v . ■nd act on i'n ■ ’ • i-oinmenda-hoi!«e bi*l ' v nuld lr.- ■ the ray of legislators from B to 11,600 a term. ■uter administration hill •XTiNTRD ON PAGE SIX) Bi School Youth | Entertains Club ■y Sebefer. son of Mret. Carl B.r. entertained the Rotarians ■several -selections on the ■clarB the Rice hotel last evening. Bis <i pupil f Albert Sellemeyer ■ instructor ®t the Decatur ■school. IIHARVEY HIES SUNDAY ganna Harvey Dies pursdav Afternoon ■After Short Illness feral services for Roatnua JnsI'Harvey. 13 year o i d daughter F-and Mrs. Cecil Harvey, who | a ‘2:3t o'clock Thursday afterI »f pneumonia, will be held [ay afternoon at two o’clock at f«me,and„ t 2:30 o’clock at the Hrethren church. Rev. H. W. L pastt »’. will officiate and f ‘ b will be in the Decatur let Pry, U t ? arvey bec I me ill last SatL J” WM a pupil of th, stx th L Centn,! sch °ol- She was a L er , ot ,l '« United Brethren F of this city. f e leased was born in Adame L RrtrUary 9 - 1& 22. Surviving t P , ar D ents ’ Mr *n<l Mrs. Cedi L“ - ° Ute 51 I)p( 'atur, and the K-'„ g n bi '° th and eisbew: CalfckEi^ Betty - Bobby ■’»'» S g Gn afbr;thers "oei, Gladys, and Brice H irdof fh and < ather ’ U ' S - Drum - L.„ b 8 clty - a nd a step-grand-kcmmil 8 ' , J ” mes ' llarvey of F ■> ai£o survive. I- Bln? be ta ' csn from the k ol^ eral ho ' ae ’ 13 ■3Ae thki evening.

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Summoned to Munitions Probe ■ v- ** * Jv* wk Senate munitions investigators have summoned Charles M. Schwab, : right, of the Bethlehem Shipbuilding Co., and Eugene (1. Grace, left, head of Bethlehem Steel, to appear before the committee to answer questions concerning their companies’ activities in munition ami ' warship manufacture. ,

Approve Project Os Sewer Construction A .project for the construction of cisterns at the subsistence homesteads d-tvelopx; nt has be n approved. Miles Roop. FERA work director for Adams county announced today. The project (tills for a labor expenditures of 12.419.20 and will requir 10 laborers, tw > skill d plumbers and one foreman. The material will cost $1,643.39 and will be purchased by the Decatur Homesteads, inc., The work will be done under th > •supervision of A. A. W trous. project manager. It will be delay- d idijghtly heeao.se, tile jum burials ba Ve not yet arriv d. DECATUR BANK ISAPPROVED First State Bank Eligible To Execute Mortgages Under FIIA Indianapolis, Ind., Feb. 22 —(UP) —The number of Indiana binks, trust companies and savings and loan associations eligible to execut • mortgabee which may be insured by the federal housing administration reached 63 tod y with approval of 18 more during tihe past w ek. Among the latest to be approved are the First Federal savings and lean association, South Bend; the Fort Harrison savings association. Terre Haute; First Old State Bank, Elkhart; First State Bunk. D catur, Salem bank and trust co., Goshen; Central Trust company. Greencastle I Citizens state bmk, Newport; Farmers loan and truest comp my. Tip ton; Home (savings and loan asso-; cation. Fort W yre, and thy Twelve) Points savings and loan associ.ti. n. Terra Haute. “With these eighteen, we now have-sixty-three lending institution ; I in Indiana which are qualified to' make loans for u w house construe- j tion, for the pure:’use of existing) property or for refinan -ing of mert- 1 gages now held on property, under the terms of the National Housing; Act." R. Earl Peters, st.it? dir-ctor said. "These limits ar? that the loan may not exceed $116,000, nor 80 per cent of the appraised value of the porp?rty, that th y must be on gotd residential property, with proper restrictions in an ur-j ban community, and that the owner must show th ,t the loan is well | within his means.” o City School Coal Contract Awarded The contract for coal for the city schools was awarded to bite Carroll Coal Company at the regular monthly meeting of the city school board Thursday evening. Other routine business was transacted. o —— — Scarlet Fever Cases Reported There were six cases of scarlet f ver arid one ease of measl< ■ in \<Mnts county during th? we?k ending Saturday. February 16, according to a bulletin published by the '.lndiana division of public he ilbh.

1 MOOSE LEADER TALKS TO CLUB James W. Ford Tells Decatur Rotarians Story Os .Mooseheart "Moos heart will always continue 1 to care for the orphan boys and girls and endeavor to help them in life’s l(attle," James B. Ford, of Fort Wayne, former Mocseheart r - I gent,'stated in a t Ik before the Rotary club last evening. 1 M s'heart, which io muMrWM' ■ by Mouse lodges throughout the 'country, is coring for 1400 children at present. The orphanage, recognized as the largest of its kind in j the world is lo ated along the Fox I river, ne r Aurora. 111. It was foundi cd more than 25 years ago. Approximately 3000 childr n have been gunduated fr m the high ' school and manual training depart-; ' menu of t school and Mr. Ford stated, “That up to the present time we have not h ard of one of ) our graduates going wrong." Moose-) heart keeps in touch with the graduates fiv? years after they leave the ' institution. Mc.seheart is a democratic insti- , tution and the best of ear? io given , the children. All denominations are) , represented at the City of Childhood. Prot stant ministers, CaObolfc I priests and Jewish rabbis administer to the children. I Orphan children in cnidles, up to young men and women are cared : for at the institution and ea; h grad-; uate h s been taught a trade before he or she is dismissed. i Mr. Ford served ab ut 25 years 'on the Mooseheirt board of control), TcUNTINVED ON PAGE TWO) COURT RULING UPHOLDS STATE — Supreme Court I pholds ■ State Act Abolishing City Office Indianapolis, Feb. 22— (U.R) Constitutionality of the 1933 act • .abolishing the office of city tress- ' urer in second ( lass cities was upheld today by the state eilI promo court. I The law provided that the conn- ! ty treasurer should take over the I duties of city treasurer in second I class cities. The high court's opinion reversed a ruling of the LaPorte super- 1 hor court which held that 11. J. I Post, Hammond city treasurer, 1 ■ ! was entitled to retain his position i because he hud been duly elected . in November. 1932. Suit to oust Post was brought by Herman L. Conter. Lake conn- , ty treasurer, and the case was . I taken to IxiPorte on a change ot ‘; venue. The high court held that the ■ | legislature was entirely within its , i, rights in abolishing the office and. ; that judgment should be set aside. , "Nothing could be gained by a (CONTINUED ON PAGE SIX)

Decatur, Indiana, Friday, February 22, 1935.

PHiLKENNAMER I IS GUILTY OF' MANSLAUGHTER I ' Youthful Killer Is .Jubilant After Verdict Os .Jurors SENTENCE WILL BE PASSED SATURDAY Pawnee, Okla.. Feb. 22.—(U.R) — Phil Kennamer, 19, son of a federal district judge, seemed pleased to- j day with a jury verdict that found him guilty of manslaughter. Kennamer killed John F. Gorrell. Jr., | 23. in Tulsa last Thanksgiving. | Kennamer will be sentenced to-, morrow. He faces four to 99 years 1 imprisonment, at the discretion of Judge Thurman Hurst'. The state will recommend a 50-year sentence. A jury of farmers and townsmen found Kennamer guilty of manslaughter last night after nine hours deliberating. The verdict : patently was a compromise. The jury could have found him guilty of first degree murder carrying either a death penalty or life im- : prisonment. Kennamer seemed joyful in the I little sandstone county jail today as he discussed the trial with fellow prisoners, several of whom have been sentenced in the past by his father. Federal Judge Franklin E. Kennamer, whose stern treatment of law violators has made him well known. Last night when the jury returned its verdict. Kennamer clapped , his father on tlte back and received the condolences of friends with broad smiles. A. Flint Moss, chief defense attorney, will file motion for a new trial and also start appeal steps when Kennamer is sentenced. As manslaughter is a bailable offense. ON PAGE TWO) HOGE CONGRESS MAJORITY FAILS President’s Big Majorities In Congress Letting Him Down Washington. Feb. 22 — (UP)—President Roosavelt’s big majorities in ; congress ore letting him d wn. Th re is resentment against the , administration in the senate where Democrats are dividing along Irber- ; al-conaervative lines. There i« evident on Capitol Hill a disposition to haekle and haze r pres-ntntives of tike adxintetra- ■ tion who appear to explain legisla- : tion. Baek of these symptoms of ill | feeling between congress and the white h ite-3 is congressional resenttn nt against cabinet members and br in trusters and bitter patronage ■dis. ppointment. Democrats uniformy avoid criticism of Mr. Roosevelt but their resentment has its effect |on legislation in which the Pr -sident is vitally interested. The 74th congress has been in session almost two months and hiis, passed four bills of consequence, two routine appropriation mea-sur .s. extension of RFC and a crop loin authorization. One of the appropriation bills defied Mr. Roosevelt wib’.i is restoration of federal employes’ ■pay cuts ahead of the sch dule fixed by the administration. The crop loan bill unbalances Mr. Roosevelt’s budget by $60,000,000 (M). He signed the bill but said the money would have to come from (CONTINUED ON PAGE SIX)

Democrat’s Weekly Farm Page Is Attracting Favorable Attention

The fourth edition of the “Adams County Farm Wekly” appears in t day’s issue of the Decatur Daily | Democrat on page 5. Begun ns an experiment a month ago the fe tuhe has received a wid -spread and favorable response from many readers of the Democrat. It will be published every Fri-: day. Farmers with unusual experiences met in their occupttion or with new and i.T.irrov men's in agriculture are encouraged to writ-? ar bring a story to Robert Heller, who- is j editing the page. An effort is 'being made to make - bhe page an open forum where far- :

Four Fort Wayne Youths Injured ■ Fort Wayne, Ind., Feb. 22—(UP) | -Police are investigating an auto- ! mobile accident which occured last night in which four boys, nil 15 yearn of age, were injured when the car in which they were riding akiddI <-d off a park drive and crashed in- : to a tree. Phillip Bowser, driver of the car, ■ suffered a fractured jaw and lacera- ■ I tions end abr, sions. Dick Orr suffered a fractured left leg. Rodney Diehl receiv d multiple lacerations and abr.mions on his face and head, and Donald Cparkmun also suffered ! lacerations and abrafeioas. After the accident Sparkman ran severul blocks to get assistance for his companions who were in the i wrecked car. The boys were unable to give an : explanation of the reason for the 1 accident. 0 ; EXTRA SESSION APPEARS LIKELY Special Session Os Legislature To Provide Aid For Needy Indianapolis. Feb. .22. — CJ.R) — A special session of the Indiana legislature appeared inevitable to day as the regular session neared adjournment without having received proposed social security legislation. in the absence of word from congress as to what state legislation will be needed to finance old age pensions, unemployment relief and insurance, administration leaders virtually decided upon a special session during the late spring or summer. Gov. Paul V. McNutt reserved announcement but said unless congress takes definite action on the relief question immediately, the .state and local units will i»e foreled to provide funds for 500.000 ! needy next month. The governor said he has been informed by officials in Washington there are no more funds available for state relief. Indiana has received its allotment for February. I but no provisions have been made i for March, he. said. . The situation presented a per- ■ flexing problem to the governor I and legislative leaders. A two per cent consumers sales : tax designed to produce approximately 55.000.000 to carry out the federal relief program has been agreed upon by the administration. It has bene planned to introduce such a measure in the house and hold it in committee until word was received from congress. Hut the plan will be abandoned until ■ the special session. Wayne Coy, director of the state relief agency, said approximately 130,000 families are participating in federal relief funds allotted to Indiana. . Should the funds be cut off next month, he said, all work relief will be halted, and needy families placed on direct relief. In that event. : the financial burden would be placed on the state and local communities, he said. o Think Holdup At Berne Is Averted Authorities here believe that the ■ two m?n who visited the Shell Service station on Federal road 27 at Berne Tuesday were the same men who held up the Winchest r street filling station in Decatur Wednesday morning. The men stopped at the Berne station for some time. There wore several others are at the station pro- : bibly causing the would-be bandits 1 to abandon the proposed holdup.

mers can discuss their problems and exchange views. Spice will be the only limitation. During the course of the year -every phase of f rming will be discussed. This week the corn-hog cont rol program lias been chosen as the most pertinant question before : Adams county farmers. Articles and intervi ws with man prominent in the work are published. Next week the “thrifty pig" program will be discussed. Several articles now in trie office will 1>? published in later copies. Advertisers will find addition ! ‘ opportunities to put their wares bej fore the eyes of the agricultural : public in the “weekly.”

LABOR FORGES WIN TEST VOTE ON RELIEF BILL Labor’s Victory Throws Administration Heads Into Contusion VICTORY WON ON PREVAILING WAGE Washington, Feb. 22. — (U.R) — ■ Labor's victory over the adminis- ■ (ration on the prevailing wage issue opened the door today to possible drastic changes in the $4,880,-j 000.000 work-relief plan and in oth-1 er vital phases of the new deal's recovery program.. One report, lacking authentic confirmation, was that the administration's reversal in the senate ■yesterday would cause substitution ■ of the “dole" for the contemplated policy of putting the unemployed on work projects. ; The margin of victory for the j forces of organized labor was only . one vote, 44 to 43. but it threw administration leaders into confits- : ion and left them uncertain as to their next move.. It also cast a doubt upon the future of such legislation as NRA extension, wanted by the adminis- ' tration. the Wagner labor disputes bill and the 30-hour week bill, both of which have the backing of the American Federation of Labor but lack White House support. There also waß the extremely important question of getting money for relief purposes. The long drawn out senate controversy : over the $4,880,000,000 bill—it pass- ■ ed the house Jan. 24 and has been ■ tied up in the senate ever since—already has necessitated makeI shift arrangements for obtaining - relief funds. ■ With all these troublesome ques- > tions in mind, administration leadi rrUNTINUED ON PAGE TWO) ClYil SERVICE DRAM FAVOR Increased Sentiment Shown For Civil Service In Indiana i Indianapolis. Feb. 22. —(U.R) —lncreasing sentiment in favor of Sen. > Ward G. Biddle's bill to place the I state’s 10,000 employes under civil i service was noted in legislative t circles today. I : The measure has support of the ‘ Indiana League of Women Voters, ■ an organization wielding consider- i • able power throughout the state, ; i and is looked upon with favor by : > many members of the legislature. The Republican minority prob- : ably will be solidly against the bill I when it comes up for vote, how- . j ever. They will urge that nearly ; all state employes were appointed . under the "spoils system” when . the Democrats came into power. If civil service were adopted now, I the minority contends, there would be few openings on the state payroll for Republicans. I Senator Biddle, the author, is a Democrat, but so far the adminisd tration has not indicated whether! ■l it will support his bill. With administration support it would be' assured of passage. “Enactment of the legislation ■ placing the selection of state em- ■ ployes on the merit basis tends to : ‘ develop a new field of public ser- ■ vice as a profession," Biddle ex- • plained. : “It would greatly increase efficiency. State employes would be • | sure of their jobs and would give them more attention since by dili-; CONTINUED ON PAGE EIGHT o Berlin# Files Charge Against Ira Fuhrman •; Ed Berling hae filed a complaint in Justice of P ace John T. Kelly's ■ court charging Ira FttOrni it with ; assault and battery. The defendant ■ ■ wus granted until Thursday FebI I ruary 28 at 10 o’clock to make his 11 fl. a and was released under SIOO : bond. -| The alleged atta ck occured in Mr. - Fvi’.trman’s office last Saturday. Mr. -I Fuhrman sueiuined a fractured b.ne in the second finger on hi.s 1 right hand and Mr. Berling a lacer- - ation under tho right eye. Bath 1 were treated by a physician, it was I stated.

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Found Guilty i t I .■-» » j 1 -I-..' •» -X-xN’F ■» J Y * <■ ■ W J 1 Phillip Kennamer, 19, son of a United States judge, was found guilty of manslaughter by an' | Oklahoma jury after deliberating j i seven hours. He faces a 4 to 99; year sentence, which will be passed Saturday.

POLLUTION BILL again delayed Drastic Changes In AntiStream Pollution Bill Offered Indianapolis, Feb. 22— <U.R) —! Manufacturing and industrial interests forced the anti-otream pollution bill back to second reading] in the senate today. Drastic changes will be offered when the measure is brought up again, it was indicated. The Ivill. an administration. urwI sure, would give the state depart-) men* of commerce and industrv power to eliminate pollution of lakes and streams in the state. It was opposed on ground that it would seriously hamper large manufacturing and industrial interests and would cause tax increases in many large industrial I cities. The motion to return the bill to second reading for amendment was signed by .Senators Ralph H. Jernegan, R.. Mishawaka; Raymond C. Sohl, D., Dyer; Daniel D. ' Lynch. D„ Hammond, and Charles J. Koslern. D., Terre Haute. Senators C. K. Watson. D., Fort Wayne; Jesse E. Wade. D., Mt. Vernon, and Leo X. Smith. D., In- ) dianapolis, opposed the delay. Jernegan complained that thel bill had been rushed through second reading this week before he had a chance to offer his amend- ) ments. Lynch and Sohl said the bill would drive large industrial interests out of Lake county. Kolsem said it would penalize ) coal mines in southwestern Indi-j I ana. Watson. Wade and Smith cited ) "(CONTINUED ON PAGE TWO) TRUCK WEIGHT TAX LAW LEGAL - Indiana Supreme Court Ruling Aids Highway Commission Fund Indianapolis. Feb. 22. — (U.R) —A new source of revenue for The. state highway commission was as-, sured today aS a result of the , supreme court opinion upholding) I constitutionality ot the Indiana j ) truck weight tax law. The act has been the subject of; ) extensive litigation since it became I ) effective in August, 1933. Collection of the tax was halted 1 Iby an injunction action started by Hubert S. Kelly, Terre Haute truck owner, in the Marion superior) ! court. The court refused to issflie the injunction, but Kelly appealed to the supreme court which ordered collection of the tax withheld un-; ) til settlement of the suit. Approximately $40,000, held in I escrow since the suit was started, . will be turned over immediately . to the state highway department. , Additional thousands of dollars will be ordered collected in back > 1 1 CONTINUED ON PAGE SEVEN

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POST FORCED DOWN SHORTLY AFTER TAKEOFF Wiley Post’s Attempt To Set New Speed Record Is Failure HAD TRAVELED ONLY ONE HUNDRED MILES Los Angeles, Feb. 22- KU.R) -The attempt of Wiley Post, veteran Oklahoma flier, to send his famed Winnie Mae across the continent in seven hours ended on the dry bed of Muroc lake today, just a I little more than 100 miles from I Los Angeles, his take-off point. The round the world pilot teleI graphed larckheed aircraft offi- ; cials here that he was uninjured and that his plane was only : slightly damaged although he was | forced to land on belly skids, hav- ! lug dropped his regular landins? gear at his takeoff. I “Am down at Muroc lake,” his wire said. "No damage except ■ isent propeller. You can lan 1 alongside with ease.” Muroc lake apparently was an ! ideal landing spot for Post. It's dry even bed frequently has been Hie scene of automobile and moti orcycle speed trials. Planes left here immediately for the lake. Although Post’s wire listed no reason for the sudden conclusion I of his proposed flight through the | stratosphere to New York, it was believed likely that propeller trouble had forced him down. All other parts of the aged Winne Mae, twice a globe-circler, i had teen tested thoroughly before, ■ Post took off at dawn this mornI ing. The propeller was designed especially for Post’s plan of landing in New York on telly skids. The theory of its operation was that it could be stopped with its blades horizontal to the, ground. This was to prevent the propeller from scraping ast he landed. The one-eyed Oklahoma flier, helmeted and clothed like a deep sea diver, was lifted into the cock ; pit at 6a. m. At 6:07:15 the wheels of the Winnie Mae left the ground, and a second later i Post released his landing gear. Post was but 10 feet off iho ground when he dropped his landing gear to reduce wind resistCONTINUED ON PAGE EIGHT o Deputy Assessors To Meet Tuesday Ernest W rthnun. Adams county ascssor, has culled a meeting of all ■ the deputy assessors for 10 o’clock Tuesday morning. February 26. The meeting will 'be held in the circuit court room if it is available. o Bank, Postoffice Are Closed Today The First State Bank and the Decatur post office clcw-d tod :y in ! honor of George Washington’s birthi day. The Adorns cir nit c urt was in I.session today but little businees j was tr ineacted because? of the legal ; holiday. Tlie two high schools in the city i combined at 3 o’clock thie afternoon I in ’a special program, at the public high .school auditorium when they were addressed by Major Earl Moss , of F rt Wayne wibo gave a patriotic j talk sponsored by the local post of j the American Legion. The grade schools in the city also planned special iprogr DID GREENWICH VILLAGE ART COLONY HARBOR A CRIMINAL? The answer can he found in the New Serial Story “THE COLD FINGEiR CURSE” STARTING SATURDAY in the DAILY DEMOCRAT