Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 33, Number 48, Decatur, Adams County, 25 February 1935 — Page 1

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Parent-Teachers Form Local Council 1 1 ■Constitution and by-laws or the 1 Decatur Council of Paremt-T"a< hers '' Association have been adopted and ' forwarded to the state association 'jut Indianapolis. '! Officers of the local council. I which includes the parent teachers ■ I clu-b of t>h-<> Central, Weat and South • ward achoole. are: Mrs. Fay Knapp Smith, president; Miss Jessie W,in- ' iiees. vice-pr.-Bldent; Mrs. C O. PerI ter, treasurer; Mrs. Don Lutw, .secretary. | The district meeting of the aswol elation will be held at Anderson. March 21 and the looil council will be entitled to one delegate. « Q LATIN WINNERS ARE ANNOUNCED .

o Thomas Andrews And J Dwight Kimbell Win , Beginner’s Contest i J ‘ t j Thomas Andrews and Dwight e | Kimbell of the Decatur high school n are the winners in division one > i of the annual county Latin contest s i held here Saturday, Miss Clara a lßeppert, Latin instructor in the P i local high school and county cond test supervisor, announced today, d | The division two winners are Eloise Christe of the Monroe high *• school and Cora Gable of the Jes-1 n ferson township high school. ' r | Division one was for beginning *’ I-atin pupils and Decatur high 1 school pupils were the only par3, ticipants. Jlefferson township, r Monroe and Decatur all furnished >■ entrants for divicion two which i include J second year Igttin pupils. ’* The winuers of the contest here p , Saturday will go to iFort Wayne ito take part in the district meet i,, there March 23. JThe winners of | h ■ tWH’slriet will compete for state n honors in a later contest. e I r> 3 Watrous Will Aid Dayton, 0., Project (1 Austin A- W irons, project manager ot the Decatur horesteads, has b en ordered to rerort st once ■ Dayton, Ohio, where th? will add 11 the supervision of a homesteads I project there to-hie work here. F The federal director of horneP steads in his letter to Mr. Watrous ! stated that the project .manager at Dtyton had tended his resignation effective, March 1. Mr. Watrous will be expected to check oat the old project man-iger and leave some cne in charge bnere until a new j manager is appointed. Mr. Watrous will continue to .. serve as project manager of the! s local honi steads development, o The Dayton project his an ap;ropriation of $400,(F0 and is being n built ip four tracts. I, >. o MRS. EMMA ZEHR DIES SATURDAY J I Three Months Illness Is ' Fatal To Berne W oman; Funeral Tuesday '• Berne. Feb. 25.—Mrs. Emma Am1' stutz Zehr, 60. died at her home, ’, six miles southeast of Berne in ’ I Jefferson township, Saturday, following an illness of many years. She had been bedfast for three ’ months and was unable to take lajiy nourishment since January 11. ’! exactly 42 days. fl Mrs. Zehr was a native of Allen county, being born near Leo on I June 10, 1874, a daughter of Mr. and Mrs. John Amstutz. Her mar--7 riage to Christian Zehr was an event of September 21, 1897. -I Surviving are her husband, two Jsons, Albert and Ernest and one c ■ daughter, Isabel, all at home. One -1 brother. John Amstutz of Grabill I and two sisters. Mrs. Mary Kruse, i Huntertown, and Mrs. Hanna ! Wharton, of Farnane, Neb., also! I survive. I! Precedeing her in death were • her parents, four sisters and one brother. 1 Funeral services will be held at I the residence at 9 a. m. Tuesday f and at 10 a. m. at the Defcn-e-lesa , Monnonite church west ot Berne • of which she was a faithful triem- • her. Burial will be made in the i church cemetery.

I CONGRESSCOMES TO STANDSTILL OVER WORKS RILL I — Entire Recovery Program Threatened By Revolt Os Senators COMMITTEE HAS WORK RELIEF BILL i Washington. Feb. 25 — <U.R) — Speaker Joseph W. Byrns today expressed belief the house would stand by President Roosevelt on the $4,880,000,000 relief bill. The speaker said he thought i that if the controversial proposal came before the house again, a majority would “stick to their guns’’ and refuse to join the senate revolt against the administraI tion bill. “I believe that it is the desire of a majority of the memberu to , see a bill pass which will provide ! adequate relief and get the unemployed back into private industry i as soon as possible,” Byrns said. (Copyright 1935 by I’nited Press! i Waehington, Feb. 25—<U.PJ—Con-1 gross came to a virtual standstill today as the administration, facing i its greatest legislative crisis, ap- i plied the brakes hi an effort to I prevent unruly legislators from getting cntirelv out of band. A policy of deliberate delay was decided upon as new deal leaders ; isought to reassure the country against fears that senate and house revolts might lead to uncontrolled. radical legislation. With its entire recovery pro- ; gram threatened as a result of the senate uprising on the work-re-lief bill, the administration counted upon a few daye delay to help President Roosevelt re-assert his influence. ■ AXle-r a woek-eud. of excited I ‘speculation, it was revealed’that I (CONTINUED ON PAGE THREE) FORMER COUNTY WOMAN DIES Mr«t. SHidakaber, 80. Dip« At Home In Bluffton Today Bluffton. Feb. 25 — (Special) — ■ Mrs. Charlott-o Elizabeth MillerStudabaker, 80, widow of George Stvdabaker. died at 5:45 this morning t her home in Bluffton. She , h s be n seriously ill the past three weeks. ”r«. Studebaker was born in Linn Grov-e. August 2, 1954. a daughter of William and Sarah J hn French. Her first marriage wae to Wil’tarn Miller, who died A-pril 1. 1922. Her sec"nd marriage ws to Georg 3 ! Studabaker whose douth occurred ■ September 30. 1934 Four daughters and a eon snr-! riving are Mrs. Sarah Rowe, Mrs. William Lynch. Bluffton, Mrs. Flora Carver, Portland. Ore., Mrs. Frink, Brown Muncie, and Jos eh D. Miller, Huntington, W. Va., Mr>s. Mery , Dci’.ev. Bluff:on. >’ a step dau<ter. I ’ A s’rtter and 2 brothers surviving are Miss Melissa French, Linn | Grave, and J. D. French, Wells , County. A brother, Joseph French is deceased. Mrs- Studabaker wjs a member ■ of the Baptist church and Lis lived . : Ln W'ells county 13 years. Funeral services will lie held at | 2 c’clock Wednesday afternoon at, the First Baptist church in Bluffton. Burial will bs in the Linn Grove Cemetery. ——o- —- Roosevelt Completes ( Mesage To Congress Hyde Park. N. Y., Feb. 25 <U.P) I i j n the seclusion Os his Hudson Valley home. President Roosevelt today put the finishing touches to • two important messages to con-gress-one dealing with American shinping, the other with transpot- I i tat lon. Mr. Roosevelt hoped to com- I ■ plete the shipping message within . t ■ the next 24 hours. If no interrup-1 1 itions occur, he would have It ■ i ; ready’ for presentation to congress > < by tomorrow, or Wednesday at I i the latest. 1 IVhile he has given no inkling i iof his recommendations, it was \ , assumed he would urge a direct t subsidy for American shipping to I replace the present mail subI sidles.

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Decatur, Indiana, Monday, February 25, 1935.

American Sisters Tell Os Broken Heart Before Jumping From Airplane x WHa Or / I Ik : BL i ■MU y

Elizabeth Du Bois Du Bois Sisters Intended To Follow Aviator Sweethearts To Death, Letter Reveals Romford, England. Feb. 25. (U.R) —Farewell letters written by two heart broken American girls revealed today the story of their decision to follow their British aviator sweethearts in death by a plunge, hand in hand, from an air liner soaring over the English countryside. “We would have Item tnai ried this summer probably." said one letter. "There will never bo anyone else for me." The letters were read at the inuuest on the broken bodies of Jane and Elizabeth du Bois, 20 and ’3 years o'd, only daughters of Coert du Bois. American consul general at Naples. After their reading, over the formal protest of Franklin Gowen, of the American consulate «t London, the jury of eight mon under Coroner C. E. Lewis returned a verdict of suicide while of unsound mind. Du Bois, controlling himself with difficulty, testified how the girls left Naples for London the day after their sweethearts were killed in a flaming crash of royal air force seaplane over Sicily. Others told of their arrival a! Stanleford airdrome and of their leap from the air liner, in which they had reserved all seats from London to Paris at cost of $135. But it was left for the letters ‘ I<o toll the storv. They were read at the end of the inquest. Consul Gowen ask’d Coroner

MUCH INTEREST IN DAIRY SHOW Jersey Parish Breeders Discuss Decatur ShowNext August Portland. Feb. 25 — (Special) — Eastern Indiana Jersey Parish members are looking forward to the Agriculture show ond Dairy day to be held at Decatur during the week of August 5With this event in mind and to n» k? preparations for a j?int meeting of delegates with a group from the northern part of the state. 31 Jersey breeders met at the Hotel Adair. Portland, Thursd’iy and enjoyed a banquet while they discussed the Decatur affair. Representatives were pres nt from Jay, Randolph. Wayne, Delaware, Adams >ind Welle county. At the conclusion of the meeting the following del.gates were elected to meet with a delegation from Huntington, Noble. Allen and Whitley counties to make rules tor the Parish show: Randolph. Herbert E. Hinshow; Jay, Oliver Steed; Delaware, Ollie Jones; Adams, Sol Moser; Wells, Cf nrlea Grandllenard, and Wayne, F. H. Sexton. Herbert Hinshaw presided. Speak(CONTINUED ON PAGE FOUR)

Jane Du Bois I Lewis not to read them. , “It is my bounden duty to read them.” replied T-ewis. There were two letters, one to Du Bois, the other to the girls’ mother, who was unable to attend the inquest. Each girl wrote part of each letter, it was understood. They were written in the last 1 hours in a room at tho Ritz hotel • in Piccadilly, between sobs that , could bo heard in the corridor. The letter to the father read: "We have never explained things to you as there has been 1 so much doubt. , “You have Iwen kind Lu y-1 ing us ;mueh. Kindly forgive us ‘ this, as you must have felt a little ■ of what we did when y>u heard of the flying boat cracking up." “ There the handwriting changed ' as the other sister began: ! "Do yon remember Charles ' (Flving Oflicer J. A. C. Forbes, 'o I whom Jane became betrothed durI inc a three weeks s‘ay of four ■ British seap'ane giants at Naples) . telling about the corridor? ■ ! "The one before ns seems pret- ! ty straight. "Charles was engaged to another girl but he was going to break it off. Wa would have been mar- ’ ried th’s summer probably. There ■ will never be anvone else for me.” ■ ('Forbes was engaged to Miss ■ Kathleen Blakely, a dancing instructress from Bedford). “We heard of his death in Paris Monday. We came to London next mArning and wont to the Ritz. We did not want to see anvone. "Comfort mother with all yonr strength. I think she will feel it is right as we do. All our levo. God bless you. “Betty “Jane.”

New Deal Gold Case D°ci«ion Comnared to I I Indiana Ruling, 1866* Logansport, Ind., Feb. 23. —(U.R) i —The United States supreme court g decision in the "new deal’ gold cases concurs with a decision handed down in 1866 by the Indiana supreme court in a similar case originating in Logansport. The G9-year-old finding was dis--1 covered by Walter B. Jenkines, B local attorney, in Harrison's report v of Indiana supreme court cases. It was written by Judge James j Frazer, Warsaw, on an appeal ’■[from the Cass common pleas court. ’ Hezekiah Brown had sued Edward 1 Welch for payment of a contract 1 in gold. The lower court awarded I Brown judgment for the amount ‘ I specified in the contract but denied ’ him anything additional because payment was not made in gold II coin. ’; The state supreme court affirm--1 ed the decision. s ■ The state court decision was ’ based on an act of congress which made treasury notes legal tender ’ in the payment of debts. ‘; Attorneys for Brown argued that • since the congressional action did not expressly prohibit dealing in coin, a contract which fixes the • measure of damages at the value of a given amount of coin is valid - and should be enforced according - ! I (CONTINUED ON PAGE FIVE)

HUEY LONG IS ' LAVING PLANS FOR NEW PARTY Faint Outlines Appear As Revolt Against WorkRelief Goes On KINGFISH IS GETTING REVENGE Washington, Feb. 25 — (U.R) — Faint outlines ot a national third party movement are developing in congress where President Roosevelt is on the defensive today after 24 months of uniformly successful political aggression. Obstacles to third party success are almost insurmountable regardless of the leader but they are important when they draw important support from! either major party. It is becoming increasingly evident that Republican strategy is Senator Huey P. Long’s undisguised attempt to swing Demoi crats. if the kingfish goes through with it, he will bolt the 1936 Democratic convention and nominate himself in rump assembly. Republican leaders might be neither surprised nor disappointed. Theodore Roosevelt played that trick I on them in 1912 with memorable l results. o Current new deal troubles arise s’ from two sources. House Demod crats resent patronage policies t and may chastise the administraI. , tion for revenge. Botli radical and t conservative senate Democrats ■1 have run out on Mr. Roosevelt. : Either group can vote with the Republicans and jeopardize if not i defeat new deal plans. d Radicals rally to lamg and Senn ator Burton K. Wheeler. D.. Mont. tt|s» Progressive party vice presi- ,-, dential nominee in 1924. Around s Senators Car’er Glass. Josiah W. e Bailey and Thomas P. Gore gather d the conservatives Second only to the sudden dimil : ming of new deal prestige in conI (CONTINUED ON PAGE SIX) o ■ UNION CHAPEL WILL GIVE PLAY I-1 k ’ . “Happy Valley” Will Be Presented At 1). H. S. Auditorium, Friday '" ■ The Union Ch.’pel Christian Ens ! deavor Society wil Iprssent “Hoppy 3 i Valley," by Lillian Mortimer, at the high school auditorium. Friday eve- " \ ning at 8 o’clock. The play will be r in four acts. t j The plot is very interesting. It concernts Mre. Polly Camp, wife of the dishonest .man. Jim Camp, who decides to-run away from her hush nd with Rose Steel. They go to Happy Valley where Aunt Ma- ; linda Sjeele decides to punish Rose ‘ and Iriv > Mr-. Camp away. Harry I Steel receives them into the home. [ i After three week.? Jim Camp finds i his wife and threatens to take her i lawoy. Meanwhile Harry has fallen * in love with Polly (inspite of Aunt Malinda’s warnings) nd this com1 plicates matters. ’ The characters of Pete. Sara, and Charlie furnish humor to the play. ' Following is th? cast of chnracters: Polly Camp, the girl who made a mistake —Treva Allison. I Pete, the east side boy—Thearl t Stuits Jim Camp, the crooked one — s Ralph Rabbltt. 1 Charlie Burt, the boy who was . sorry—Royal Friend. 1 Rose Steel, the girl who was mvt ed —DeVona Howard. 1 Harry Steele, tihe country boy—Dat vid Cramer. 1 Malinda Steele, the suspicious one 3 —Anges Miller. 1 Sara, who couldn't be driven — Ellen Schug. o Funeral For Geneva Woman Held Today 1 Funeral services for Mrs. George t Glassburn, 45, who died .it home in I Geneva, Saturday afternoon >it one ( o’clock, were held this friorning at ? the Meth-dist church in Geneva. ' Burial was made at Kokomo, Ind- [ iana. r Mrs. Glassburn die dot cancer. ’ Surviving is the huehind and eight children.

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Man Would Trade With I Hauptmann For $6,000 Trenton, N. J„ Feb. 25—<U.R> - Governor Harold G. Hoffman to- ' day received a letter from u Brooklyn war veteran offering to take Bruno Richard Hauptmann's place in the electric chair if the condemned murderer of the Lind- • bergh baby will pay $6,000. The letter purported to come from Stanley Prystup, CWA worker of Brooklyn. The letter explained that Prjstup desired the money to provide J for his 14 year old son and 12 year old daughter. i The family, the letter said, I i found great difficulty in existing ! on its sl2 a week relief allowance, “The procedure you mention Is not permissible under the laws of . | the state of New Jersey,” Governor Hoffman replied to the writer. i oJURY TO HEAR DAMAGE CASE Suits Against Arthur And Beulah Myers Opens In Local Court The regular panel of the petit . jury was accepted this morning to hear two damage suits being filed ! by Margaret and Ruseel Wells of ’ Van Wert. Onio, against Arthur |C. Myers and Beulah Myers of , Decatur. The damage suits arise from an automobile accident which occurred in Van Wert. Ohio, on August i 16, 1932. Mrs. Wells alleges that she was seriously injured when riding witli Mrs. Myens at the time of the accident. Mrs. Wells asked for $5,000 in damages. For medical bills and because Mrs. Wells claims she is not able “to perform her househo'd duties," her liusband asked I ' for SB,OBI. The canes were filed in the elr- ’ ‘ cuit court here on July 31. 1931. jOn September 26. the plaintiffs • were awarded a default judgment totaling $5,000. Mrs. Wells was given $3,000 and Mr. Wells, $2,000. On January 9, 1935, the defendants succeeded in having the judgment set aside and the case was ! set for a jury trial today. Mr. and Mrs. Myers are protect- ' ed by insurance. The regular panel of the jury which was approved liy both attorneys this morning is composed of: Virgil Krick. Harvey L. Sipe, B. A. Seesengnth. Lewis Stump, Lawrence Beiberick, Daniel Kauffman. Theodore Droege. Howard H. 1 Gllliom, Irwin Manlier, l-oster W. Stuckey, Ralph Teeter and Fred . M. Bleeke. — —o Board Os Guardians Will Meet Tuesday ■! Mrs. D. D. Heller announced today thrit th? Adams county board of Children's Guardians will meet ■ Tuesday afternoon at 2:30 o’clock at the home of Mrs. John Tyndall . j on the corner of Fourth and Monroe i streets. 0 COLD AND SNOW ARE PREDICTED Temperatures Will Drop Today; Heavy Snowfall Will Follow Indianapolis, Ind., Feb. 25 —(UP) A cold wave accompanied by heavy snowfall neared Indi.ina 'today, ending unusually mild weather over the w’eek-end. J, H. Armington, Meteorologist at the U. S. Weather bureau here, predicted that temperatures would fall to 10 or 15 above hero in Central portions of the state, zero in the extreme north and 20 above in soutih. Southerly winds which raised temperatures above 50 in nwiny cities over the week end will change to brisk northwest breezes, Armington said. He promised that temperatun s would start to drop with ths shift in wdnds. Snow was expected momentarily, increasing in intensity throughout the afternoon and night. temperatures wcr? abnormally mild throughout the state tihls morning with Indianapolis reporting 49, Evansville 50. Terre Hauto 48 an<( Evansville 50.

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' EfFORI TO GET 'UNDER DEADLINE : BRINGS OUT 67 ■I < Primary And Police Bills Are Reported Out By Committees NEW LIQUOR LAW r HAS BEEN PREPARED j Indianapolis, Feb. 25— (U.R) —■ The deadline for introducing bills < brought 67 new measures into the t - legislature today, 34 in the house and 33 in the senate. After today no bills can be introduced without signatures of a majority of the members. With introduction of the new measures the total in the senate reached 317 while 548 are before the house. Less than 100 bills have received final approval. The administration scored twice on bills reported out of committee i in the senate today. 1 The first victory come when the Albright primary bill was reported out of the election’s committee without i ecoinmendation. It would t place all elective state offices in , tile primary. 1 Failure of the committee to subs mit a divided report on the meat. sure will enable administration f leaders to let it die on first reading. Hud a divided report been i made, the senate would have been . forced to vote on acceptance of t the minority or majority report, t j Administration leaders are op- > posed to the bill since it would j ■ not enable them to dictate the Democratic nominees next year. ,! Should the bill be forced out on. 1' second reading it probably will be s i amended to include only the offi- . ces of Governor. Lieutenant-gover-I nor and U. 8. Senator. The second administration vic-•-1 tory was scored on the state police bill when it was reported out favs orably by the judiciary B committ tee with only minor changes. s The bill provides for establieh- • ment of a state police board of 4 - members, contrary to the wishes -of Al G. Feeney, state safety dis rector. Five consumer credit bills, designed to prevent small loan and finance companies from charging exhorbitant rates of interest, ’ were advanced to engrossment in ’ the house today. The house also advanced to ' engrossment the Richardson hill ' . to give equal rights to negroes. Talk of adjourning the legisla- ' ture prematurely because of the necessity of a special session was ’ halted today while both houses were engaged in receiving their flood of new bills. New Liquor Bill Indianapolis. Feb. 25 — (U.R) —• T A new liquor bill to replace the administration measure now pend- - ing in the house has been drafted 1 by Rep. Lenhardt E. Bauer, D.. t Terre Haute, it was reported tot day. 1 ' Bauer declined to discuss con3 tents of the measure but it is said to be drastically different than the one presented by the administration. Bauer is house caucus chairman and a member of the committee lon public morals. The administration's bill has | been subjected to vigorous oppo- ! sition since its introduction last week. The main objects have ; been against clauses which would set up a monopolistic liquor importing system and prevent issuance of licenses to roadhouses. The bill would legalize sale of I liquor by the drink, lower excise . (CONTINUED ON PAGE I"IVE) r ~ 0 " Police Report A Quiet W’eek-end ’ Chief of police Seph M?lchi, reported that no arrests were made 1 over the week-end. “Everything was ’ quiet" Chief Melchi. reported. No accidents or fires were reported ia or ne.ir Decatur over 4he week-end. o Births Double The Number Os Deaths t The number of births more than , doubled the number of deaths in t Adams county during the month of December, 1934, according to a r monthly bulletin published by the 5 Indiana Division of Public Health. - There were 26 births and 12 deaths. > The report also show’s that 5 of the deaths were caused by pneumonia?