Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 33, Number 50, Decatur, Adams County, 27 February 1935 — Page 1

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■MEASURES ItEK FINAL MULT 0. K. Li Bill. Free Text Ek Measure Passed ■By Both Houses -< 'UR> Two ■d final approval ... the ■ budeot bdl approfor .•pi-ration Hl"state gorernni'T.' lor the ■two I* rs - u i other provides f°r school to issue tree text- ■« elementary pupils in 7>ubon petition ■ ■'■' • l'< <>f ■tadget bill was sent to the both liotitfo and senKgturred in an amendment - The amount rep■tedappror b "ore K unconstitutional and in--11.500. which was to have ■paid to Mrs. Jane Crowder, sun was k.lled by ■e highway truck. free textb . k ’ ..1 was sent governor after the h< use in a amendment ■iug mat p, ms must by il’i of the v ner.s in■of 51% of the freeholders, ■n the measure is signed it ■ed s pr.tnem whii h has > on■toreri lagislatur- .■ recent ■b lor the d sens. early this summer so ■i stale- may -r.a. t a social program w.:l be outlined Pari V M N before a of t':- house and son■rj. ’’t was I- ;.: :' .1 today, ir als i is expected ■kt the legislators use all speed to complete- the adStation program pending in Mgalar session. Night sess Hire expected to be held to Hip the . before adHkint March 11. Hi more adminio’i bills ■introduced in the senate toHdue would set up separate' Hu's compensation provisHbr persons employed on re■wjscts. It sets at $3,500 the ; •nt compensation which can Bowed for relief ’. orkers. Bother bill would place on the Btl7ca-.es a’l profit producing of re~sious. charitable, I B®*l. and educational instituBhis of dollars worth of Bk> tai exempt property will ■W under the bill. Bk bills were passed in the P®® ON PAGE FIVE) IntADf KTKSMY ■ — • f Grace Hurst Dies Nijrht .After An I Extended Illness ■"Grace Perverta Hurst. 41. i ■ Way night at 11 o'clock.! of her parents. Mr. ■ rs - James Hurst. 1305 W. ! K* ’’fast. Be a f h was < uugei j ■»Ping paralysis. ■* Hurst fell ic weeks ago ■ » «:roke of paralysis, and | ■U- t*’ Sbe was bedfast I ■ “At time. J," 1 e “ ed had been hlind f °r J°slag her sight when she 2 ? rs or age - sh ® lire, nk ember of th e United ! « 'hurch of this city I L r born h> Decatur, j 11 her »»■ 18931 "here she I ,Jle Piren a re T ’ ite ' Surv,v ing 't and th •, Jam6a and Mary >hter ß - Wlii 1 '° Wi 7 br ° ,her9 1,11!.. ""“am of Rock Is"’riFranV ' “ home: J «»e. • Entices Kshh"? ° f Decat uri a. Tw ‘ K ‘ttheimrich, Mishaff. r X ? t era ' and be^'S h rin dealh ' ’ ““• evening . Urned t 0 1110 i P t r ° m S - E ‘ WiU >* heldi and m , at 10 o ''K>Ck. a: Bn,.. 10:30 o’clock at bre ” church. Rev. ’ B J winT° r WIU off| - “ Eatery be in the D e-|

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Victim’s Widow Seeks $317,0(10 | Attorney Moynihan 7ti | Jp ' IB as’ > L ■ ?■*■ Irving WeitzmanF With the conviction of Irving Weitzman. inset, wealthy Chicago | Industrialist, of the murder of Eli Duiches. his widow, Mrs. Belle Daiches, right, started civil action to collect the $311,000 insurance j paid after Daiches - death to the advertising company of which Louis Weitzman. brother of Irving, is principal stockholder. Irving Weitzman was sentenced to life imprisonment after Prosecutor Moynihan, 1 left, had presented witnesses to prove Weitzman hired the murder ! done that the advertising agency might collect Daiches’ insurance. - ■ , . . i - ■ ji ■! iiMi-irr ■ — '

Bishop John Noll To Speak At Conference Fort Wayne. Feb. 27 —The Mont Rev. John Francis Noll, bishop ot Fort Wayne Catholic Disceee. will give one cf the principal addressee during the annual session of the North Indr'na Conference, Methodist Episcopal Church, In this city April 30 to May 5. Bishop Noll will speak on the subject, "The Present World Wide War Between Religion and Unbelief.” at i a public meeting Tuesday nigh’, . * Q£il 30, at L« fkdt M. E. Church. Dr. Charles 11. Smith, pastor of t’’e host church, announced today. Dr. Edgar Bi ke, of Detroit. bishop of Detroit Area of the M. E. Churca end presiding bishop forth: convention, will preside. FRIDAY FINAL SIGN UP DATE Corn-Ho? Committees To Receive Growers’ Applications Friday all of the township corn- | hog committees will be at their headquarters to sign up any growers who have not had an opportunity to fill out the applications for- contracts. The next part of the program will be the typing of the contracts j from the Information given in the applications. The growers and ownetw will then be called in again to sign the contracts. The allotments will also be made soon by the county commiti tee. Tuesday was the last day on the schedule to receive applica- ■ ’ions. Some farmers were unable I to meet at the time given them, j For this reason the committees I wi'l meet all day Friday in the | townships. The stations will be located ns ; follows: Preble, Preble school; I Root. Monmouth school; Union.. Emanuel Lutheran school: KirkHand. Kirkland high school: Wash-, ’’ngton. Central school: St. Mary’s. 1 Pleasant Mills school; French. I Flection school: Monroe. Monroe high school: Blue Creek. Jacob I school; Hartford. Hartford town'hln high school: Wabash. Geneva ' i hleh school; Jefferson. Jefferson, , high school. o Finance Committee Will Meet Tonight — The finance committee will meet at the Methodist church tonight at 7:45 o’clock following the regular mid-week service. All members are requested to be present. The regular meeting of the choir will be held ot 8 o'clock. o Dress Rehearsal For Pageant To Be Held — A rehearsal for the Wedding Down Pageant to he given i t the I Presbyterian church, Thursday evening, will be held toright at aeven I o'clock at the church. All members I of the cast are urged to be present.}

BEN M AZELIN IS CHAIRMAN Chairman Os Organization To Sponsor FiveAcre Corn Club Ben Mazelin. in a meeting Tuesday night in the county agent’s office, was nam d chairman of an organisation -to be formed uu .sponsor the five-acre corn club and to work out problems relating to soils and cropc. Contributions for prizes andpremia rs for the five a ire corn club in Adams county in 1935 were obtained by Mr. Maz lin The donations are as follows: the Equity Exi change at Berne. $5; Gene: a Equity exchange, $5; Monroe Grain. $5: Burk Elev tor company, Decatur. $5; Turk Elevator company, Monroe. $5. and the Krick-Tyndall company. $25. leaders who m t in the county agent’s office Tuesday were Otto Hoile, Victor Bleeke. Otto D. Biebertch, John E. Heimann. Frank-: lin Mazelin, Ralph S. Myers, Harvey In.ichen and George Krick. Other; officers elected were Otto I Hoile, vlce-d r irrnan and John E. Heiman, secretary-treasurer. The c mxittee on rules will be Otto Hoile. Otto Beiberich, Franklin Mazelin and Rai h Myers. They will make the regulations tor the; 1935 five-acre corn work in 1935. The committee was also instruct-! d to make arn ngements for four , variety teats to be run in Adame county, for a corn school, a county |c rn show, cooperation with farmers’ institutes and if possible to (CONTINUED ON PAGE FIVE) — JURORS AWARD $1,900 DAMAGE — Mrs. Margaret Wells Is Awarded Judgment For Injuries A jury in the Ad ms circuit court awarded Mrs- Margaret Wells. sl,qoo of the $5,000 da.T.agee she asked from Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Myers of 1 this city for injuries sustained in jan automobile accident at Van. I Wert In 1932. The case was begun Monday : morning in the circuit court and I given to the jury Tuesday after-; noon. The jury returned a verdict, at 8:30 o’clock Tuesday night. A second damage suit filed by j , Russel Wells of Van Wert against | I Mr. and Mrs. Artibur Myers has l been continued. It was also set for . I trial on Monday. Mr. Wells is askI Ingsß,oßl dollars for medkal bills , and because Mrs. Wells is unable to perform her duties as a house-| i wifeThere is a possibility that the second case mi y be settled cut of i court if the defendants do not ask , for a new trial or an appeal. The ; defendants are protected by insurj ance. ’

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STATE NRA BILL SCHEDULED FOR HEARINGTODAY Long Debate Expected In Senate Before Any Vote Is Taken PARI-MUTUEL BILL KILLED IN HOUSE Indianapolis. Feb. 27 — <U.P) — The state NRA bill, drastically amended from its original form, was scheduled to come up for ! second reading in the senate to- | day. A long debate is expected to ; precede the vote on whether the bill shall be advanced to engross- ' me nt. •’Loss leader” and price fixing j clauses of the original measure were eliminated In the judiciary B committee of the senate before I the measure was reported out for passage. It was given a big majority in the house three weeks ago but business and industrial interests raised so many objections that the measure was almost completejly re-written. If it is passed by the senate the NRA bill will go back to the house for concurrence in the amendments. The house solved one of its most i important problems late yesterday by defeating the pari-mutuel horse racing bill and adding a “clincher” which will prevent the question from coming up again in the curi rent session of the legislature. Vote against passage of the measure, legalizing .horse races only was 50 to 4fi. Defeat was attributed largely to a statement iof Rep. Joseph A. Andrew. R., Lafayette, that the senate planned to add a last minute amendment permitting dog racing. Early laet week the house killed a pari-mutuel bill which would have legalized both dog and horse racing. ' Eighteen Democrats and 32 Ro(CONTINUED ON PAGE THREE) HOLD VIZARD RITES FRIDAY Dr. John W. Vizard Will Be Buried Here Friday Afternoon Funeral services for Dr. J. W. , Vizard, Pleasant Mills physician, county health commissioner for the past 15 years and prominent business man of Adams county, will be held Friday afternoon at 2:30 o’clock at the Vizard home in Pleasant Mills. The services will be for relatives, intimate friends and associates of the deceased. Burial will be in the Decatur cemetery. The body will be removed to the home this evening from the S. E. Black Funeral Home, and may be viewed until time of the funeral. Dr. Vizard died Tuesday morning at his home in Pleasant Mills of anelna pectoris. A son. Gordon Vizard, who is located in Los Angeles, is flying here by airplane and is expected to arrive at Fort Wayne at 6 o’clock tonight. Other survivors include the widow, a daughter. Miss Ruth, at home, two sons, Paris of Galesburg. 111., i and Gerald, at home; one brother. Harry Vizard of Monroeville, and three sisters. Mrs. Thomas Maloy of Monroeville, who is seriously ill at the St. Joseph hospital. Mrs. Frank Cagneat. of Monroeville, and Miss Mary Vizard, Los Angeles. Q Rev. Monahan Will Be Installed Friday The Rev. D. Lawrence Mon"han will be installed as pastor of St. Patrick's Catholic church, Fort Wayne, at services to be held at the church. Friday, March 1, at 7:30 o'clock. Father Monahun was pastor of St. Mary’s churob, Lafayette, for nine years. Q_ Clarence Stanleton To Undergo Operation Clarence Stapleton. manager of the Northern Indiana Public Service company, will be operated on at St. Joseph’s hospital. Fort Wayne, Thursday. Mr. Stapelton injured himself |a week ago.

Ten-Jurors Verdict Is Unconstitutional - Indianapolis, Ind., Feb. Z7IUP) — The Indiana supreme court late yesterday held unconstitutional the I 1928 law permitting 10 jurors to i render a verdict in a civil suit. The decision was made on un ap- , peal from, a Floyd circuit court case 1 in which T. C. Wharton. New Al--1 bany salesman, was directed to pay j S7OO to the W. T. Riiwltlgh Co. When it appeared the jury could not iigree the trial judge recalled the Jury and instructed them that , under Indiana law 10 members ‘ could return a binding verdict. The supreme court held tbit the act violates the common law re- ’ jquiring agreement of 12 -members of ■ >i jury. r -a—— VAN WERT MEN ' STILL MISSING * Two Men, Missinir Since , Friday, May Have Been Drowned i : —— t Van Wert. O„ Feb, 27—<|Special —Van Wert county and Michigan t officials today advanced a theory • that Ralph C. Raabe, local auto f dealer, and Orval I! Place, sales--3 man employed by Raabe, may 3 have gone to their death in Devil's Lake, near Addison. Mich, t The two men have been missing >’ i since las* Friday, when they went 3 i to Parma, Mich., after a truck. They started home but abandoned 1 the truck at Addison because of • a blinding snow storm and continued in Raabe’s passenger car. ? Michigan authorities today dis-: 3 closed that they had discovered s tracks of an automobile leading t from a cottage at Devil's Lake to . »he lake shore. I . The front door of the cottage, t owned by Raabe, was found un- > locked. 1 An aviator was emn'ove*-do<lay J to Gy over the lake but reported B that because of the thin, cloudy ice. he was unable to see into the - water. - Two motorboats were started 1 out ’his afternoon to break the ice in an attempt to locate the automobile. o Bluffton Man F Takes Own Life (Bluffton, nd.. Fe>. 27—(UP) — Morris Rolli?. 46. Illinois Pipe Line I emnloy?. committed eiucide by inhaling Monoxide gas fumes from tb> exhaust of hLs ‘ utomobile in a| garage at his home «re la-st night, j i He had lived here his entire life. ■ 1 No motive was given for his oct. - r Rolli was well known to many t Decatur and Adams ccunty resid- '•' ents, having visited friends in this t city nr ny times in tlie past several I I years. 1 n 3 Third Disastrous Bloomington Fire Bloomington. Ind., Feb. 27 —(UP) The third disastrous fire here with-1 ” in the r-’st five weeks destroyed the BlooTington Baking company and an adj ining -store todiy. The 10-“>s was estimated at $50,009 s : BABY BONDS ON i-SALE MARCH 1 Government Bonds To Go On Salp At Postoffice i Friday ■ i Acting Poatmaster Phil L. Mack--1 lin today announced that the “Bnhy ' Bonds”, issued by the federal government would go on sole at the Decatur poetoffice, Friday, March . r ’• An allotment of the bonds hae ' ] | been received at the local office. ! The bonds pay three per cent int'. terest if held 10 yenrs. The selling price of the bonds is , ■ $18.75 $37.50, $75, $375 and $750. respectively for the five denominations. The picture of George Washington Ls engraved on the $25 bonds, Thomas Jefferson on the SSO bond-4, I Grtver Cleve'' nd on the SIOO bonds. : Woodrow Wilson on the SSOO -bonds. 1: and Abraham Lincoln on the SI,OOO i bonds. The bonds will mature in f 10 years. ■ i At tl'.ie end of the 10 years the i!bonds will be redeemed at the t above Dice value*, which includss • ! accumulated interest over the 10 - I year period. 1

FOUR TO GET EAGLEAWARD Four Geneva Scouts Will Be Given High Honor Next Monday At a meeting of the Llmberlost district committee and loial committees of the Boy Scouts held, Tuesday evening in the Rice hotel, Leroy Lane, assistant executive of the Anthony Wayne area council, announced that four boys from Adams county are now eligible for: the Eagle Scout award, one of the highest honors in scouting. The boys are all members of i Geneva troop number 68. They are John Lynn Grile, 15; John : fleeter, 16; Glen Beerbower, 16, and Robert Lehman. 14. The awards will be made at the annual meeting and. election of officers of the Anthony Wayne area council in the Fort Wayne Catholic community center on Monday, March 4. At the meeting here Tuesday : evening plans were discussed for the area banquet. Each troop will be represented by members of the troop committees. L. H. Moore, j president for the past four years and Otto Marahrens, treasurer of the council, are slated to be reelected as officers. Earle W. Beckman, of the St. Louis council and formerly of this council, will be j the principal speaker. The four Decatur scoutmasters Tuesday explained a number of the programs being followed bylocal troops. Lowel Smith explained the President's award. This is the result of a challenge offered byformer President Hoover to the scouts. He asked that the scouts make an effort to produce better . J citizens and young voters. The scouts have set up a 10-year program to increase the number of bpys in the scout program and to ] teach the boys the elements of -?ood citizenship. Sylvester Everhart talked on the achievement round-up. The round up is a four months program which ends today. During this period, the (CONTINUED ON PAGE FIVE) 1 ASSESSORS TO MEET FRIDAY Assessing Os Personal Prooerty In County To Start Friday Ernest Worthman, county assess- : or. today asked all deputy assessors and trustees to meet in his office Friday morning, March 1, at 9 o'clock, to get their supplies and ; final instructions. The period for assessing of per-: sonal property will begin Friday. The assessors and deputies will have 60 working days and are expected to complete their work byMay 15. Mr. Worthman also urged the - public to cooperate with the assess-! ors in order to eliminate errors in the county offices. One of the most frequent causes I iof errors in the books are the failure of the properly owners to ' give their right and full names.' In many cases nicknames have been given. This often causes duplications on the lists and ocj cassionally causes property own- ' ers to overlook a portion of their ! taxes with the consequently necessity of paying delinquent fees. Mr. Worthman also asked that the full and correct addresses be given the assessors. Tuesday the assessors, trustees and deputies met with Paul Weber, field representative of the state tax commission at the city hall. Mr. Weber and Mr. Worthman explained the requirements necessary in writing the new schedules. The other duties of the assessors were illustrated and all the questions were answered. o Heiress Is Found Dead In Garage Pinehurst, N. C„ Feb. 27 —(UP) —Mrs. H. Bradley Davidson, Jr.. 22, the former Elva Strtier, and heiress to the Statler Hotel millions, wan I found dead in her gat-ige at Edgewood, her resort home here today. Death was attributed to carbon monoxide polooning. Mrs. Davidson a bride of only 58 days, w s found lying half in and half out of her' I automobile. The body was discover-1 i ed by a servant. 1

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Mellon’s Secretary ' i Confidential information about high finance and the holdings of the Mellon family has been reluctantly disclosed by Howard M. Johnson, above, secretary to Andrew W. Mellon, multi-millionaire, during the hearing at Pittsburgh J on his employer's appeal from a $3,006,000 income tax levy. FOUNDERS'GAY TO BE OBSERVED South Ward Parent-Teach-ers Program Thursday Afternoon The Smith Ward Parent-teachers AMOcoiation will celebrate Founders’ Day with it program Thursday afternoon at 2:30 o’clock. The purpose of Founders' Day Is to honor the memory of Alice Birney and Pheobe Heaixst, co-fcund- | ers, and their helping officers who ■ created and organized the National Congress of Parents and Teachers, having for its sole purpose, “Service for children.” Following is the program which will be given Thursday: Opening chorus. National P. T. A. song. A.r .rica the Beautiful. — Mrs. Cryde Butler, leader, Mrs. Melvina Eady, pianist. Report of Secretary—Miss Helen Shroll. The Foundation of the P. T. A.— Miss Effie Patton. The Meaning of Founder’s DayMrs. Ruth Williams. The First South Ward P- T. A.— ! : Mrs. J. E. And rson (president at that time). The Growth of the South Ward p. T. A.—Miss Eva Acker, Mrs. i Ralpli Yager. Mrs. Chalmer Porter ; (past presidents). P. T A. of today—Mrs. Ruth Lutes. C ndle Service—Mrs. Ra’j;h Yager. Vocal solo — Miss Sara Jane Kauffman, aecompani d by Miss L uiae Haubold. Whistling solo—Miss M. rtha Cal- : land. Piano solor—Mies Louise Haubold. (CONTINUED ON PAGE SIX) Mathias Kirsch Has Operation Performed Matthias Kirsch, pioneer resident of this city end president -cf the Adams County Council, was operated on at the Lutheran hospital, Fort Wayne, yesterday. His condition wns reported as favorable today and members of the flimily are hopeful of his recovery. 0 Churches Plan For World Day Os Prayer Protestrnt olturches of Decatur will join in observance of the World Day of Prayer Friday. March 8. A union service will be held at the Church of God at 2 o'clock on the above date. Mrs. C. E. Bell is general chairman in charge of the program. o Regular Meeting Os Elks Tonight The regular seri monthly nieet- ■ iug of the B. P. O. Elks will be lheld at the club home on North Second str et tonight at 8 o'clock. All mem- ' bers are urged to attend, as busi- : ness of importance will be dis- • cussed.

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FEDERAL JUDGE BULES AGAINST BABGAININGACT Controversial NRA Section Is Held Unconstitutional Today JUDGE REFUSES TO GRANT INJUNCTION Wilmington, Del., Feb. 27 <U.R) — The controversial collective bargaining section of the National Recovery Act was ruled “unconstitutional” in intra-state com- , merce by Federal Judge John P. Nlelds today. The important decision, however, did not mention whether section 7-A of the NRA was constitutional in inter-state business. Judge Nields refused to grant an injunction against the Weirton Steel company to restrain it from Interfering with its employes in the selection of representatives for collective bargaining. The ruling was a defeat for the government and organized labor as it has been charged that the "company union” at the Weirton plants had been forced on workers instead of allowing them to join j the Amalgamated Association of Iron, Steel and Tin Workers. The government contended that the emnloyes representation plan at the Weirton mills was in violation of section 7-A of the NRA in I that it required workers to join i the company union or lose their I fobs and that they could not voice i their bargaining oninions through a union group of their cwn choos- ! ing. Judco Nie’ds, however, held that no evidence had been presented showing that payment of $25 a month to each of the members of the executive committee of the company union by the management had influenced decisions of : the body when ruling on differ- , ences between workers and manj agement. “The plans of the emnloye representation of the defendant's nlan proved effective and satisfactory." Judg° Nields said. “The nlans were effective in negotiating general demand* affecting all enmloyes as well as demands affecting groups or individual employes. “In all controversies between (CONTINtTBD ON PAGE FIVE) o Coroner Onens Sauer Inquest An inquest into the death of Roland Sauer. Allen county youth, nenhew of Phil and Henry Snuer of Adame county, was orvned Tuesday by Dr. Raymond J. Berghoff. Allen county coroner. Sauer died February 19 as the result of injuries susiained in "n automobile accident five days previous. The coroner's findings probably will not be returni ed before Ttursdny. MUSIC PROGRAM AT HONS CLUB Allert William Schafpr Entertain Lions Albert Sellemeyer. band director, presented a musical program before members of the Lions club at the regular meeting in the Rice Hotel. Tuesday evening. Walter J. Krick wn« in charge of the meeting. Mr. Sellenseyer presented William Schafer who furnished music during the luncheon. Immediately after the dinner, Clifford R. Saylors, dismissed the meeting so that members of the Lions boy scout committe could attend n district scout meeting. Several members of the local club are expected to attend the charter night program nt the Van Bur n clw'j Tuesday night. The Van Buren club will entertain at least 250 Lions and Lionesses from many sections of the state at that time. The program committee cenoiposed of Deputy District Governor P. EGreenwalt of Marion has completed the program. Rev. H. L. Lanuham, president of the Anderson Lions club will act as toastmaster- W. W. French, of Mishawaka, district ■ governor, will be one of the speakers.