Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 33, Number 52, Decatur, Adams County, 1 March 1935 — Page 1

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Lions are t|sY VICTIMS : h FIRST GAME: I— — 1 Lster Upsets Ossian K Bluff ton: Mon- t ■mouth Eliminated i l\E KIRKLAND fcBOTH WINNERS ; ■L*„r defeated Leo in the ( Ks rwnd thia afternoon. 32 to I 1 ■ ,fter trailing by one point • ■ the fi«* half ’ 13 t 0 121 I Fort Wayne Scores i 25. Woodburn 19 ] E te central 36. Monmouth 25 Enen 24. Harlan 23 Kri 3S, Huntertown 19 E«. Arcola 14. ■ llufftcn Sco-es K*tk 34, Chester 12 He* 35. Ossian 22 ' Em. I’nion Center 23 E»1 26. Monroe 15 Kg £ Jefferson 11 Erites came through without Kg m the first five games i E owning round of the Fort i E lectional tourney today. I, Exrw Haven Bull Dogs nar-, ■ escaped being upset by, Ein the final morning game. ; Karen rallying in the closing ’ Ki to edge out a 24 to 23 K r Ether morning games, Elm- > ’ ■tideat-l Woodburn after]' Lit the half. 13 to 10. f» llonmouth Eagle* wilted ' : Est the second half to lose ] Kutayette Central Pirates, |' E Allen county's strongest i < Ki. 36 to 25. Monmouth held | Kl 3 margin at the end of the , 1 ■half but could not cope with ■ ' ■tar offense of the Pirates in ■ ] ■last two periods. ■ the opening game this after-11 ■ Hoagland had little diffi- ] ■ disposing of Huntertown. 23 ■ and Central of Fort Wayne, ! ■rite to win the sectional, play- i ■ad»r wraps to score an easy ■ triumph over Arcola. 1 I Ossian Upset ■st round play at the Bluffton ■ foul was featured by Laneas- ' ■ startling upset of the Ossian ' ■in the second game of the i kev. 35 to 22. 1 ■rne had little difficulty with ■ Union Center Kidgers. win■by a 34 to 23 score in the . ■ gtne of the morning session. | other first-round games, ■and shaded Monroe. 20 to 15, ■reek defeated Chester On- ”* to 12. and Bluffton trounced ’, ktferson Warriors, 43 to 11. Ickcreek and Geneva will meet |, the first game tonight, with i ,e and Lancaster clashing in ' kfINUED ON PAGE EIGHT ! ' Huntington Children Killed jMmston, 'nd., Mur ch I—(UP) I 0 s »»'d children perished and i . *' M bur »«i ssriously ftere I ■ rdv when tire destroyed , ■ home of their f tber, Wai-; and fera worker. ! "“’‘ d Wer? Williatn Franklin,! ■Whs, and Bertljj. 2. i P 7t ear '°' tl Mary . hlnf n th6 mother ’ was burn-1 w “Uy but u expected to re-i b’J^'Y 8 started •from i the < ’ h!Mren dragged K “«ifor . and boiting eshberger Bros. Awarded Contract Ind " March (UP) ! S h s er Brothers stone l tract wae awarded al tent''to?.’ S X e hi K hw ay de-1 »on stau ’ gTU<le 86Ven I Mur fn ,,X d Jennin Ku 4w M72 831 t CB ' Th ®' c< * ntr “ ct ® arch Class To Attend Funeral DY - n - Claa ’i k 164 “ moet'aXh tn J lrCh are ' 15 O’clock at the c! -’ urc h at r 'i) in a , )( £ tur day morning to "'M the fun?ral of i

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Band Instructor Conducts Program •A. M. Sellemeyer, band instructor for the Decatur schools, was in charge of the chapel program held >it the Decatur high school this morning. The p-ogram consisted of < a concert of brass instruments, 1 given by gride and high school stu- ] dents. First on the program was a brass j trumpet quartet composed of Arthur Brown. Fred Carson, Lawrence - Rash and Ralph Hawkins. , A cornet solo was given by An- , nis May Merryman. A trombone . solo w s played by Helen Jean i Kohls. A cornet duet was given by Zulu Porter and Eileen Jackson A , French horn solo was given by 1 Mary Maxine Hilton ond a trumpet i solo by Robert A«;hbaucher. — o I VANWERTMEN FOUND IN LAKE Two Men. Missine For A Week, Found In Wrecked Automobile Adrian. Mich., Mnrch I—(UP)—' R-dles of Ralph C. Raabe and Or- ; ville Place both of Van Wert. 0., were removed today from their sun- 1 ken -automobile in Devil's Lake, 20 milw north of here. Divers from Toledo, who arrived vesterday. were unable to extricate ] the bodies from tho overturned mi"hlne in 29 f?et of water. Today a long chain wan attach- d and the Sedsn dragged to a four foot depth. Foup thousand spectators lined the hanks cf the like to watch the operations. The sunken motor car was located yesterday by men rowing across I ■h open water. 1,500 feet from Wildwater beach. A dr gline towed by tibe seaerchers enagged ae of the upturned wheels. Rrnbe’s father. Charl-ets C. Raab?, D?lnhoe, O.; two brothers, Dr. E. C. Raabe and Kenneth Ra be, Ottawa. Ohio, were present when the two bodies wer? brought to shor>» by officers. Raabe and '.’lace disappeared >1 week ago and were la«t seen driving on the ice covered D- vil's L k’. It was believed the men were blinded by falling mow from the near blizzard here lust Friday. _ o Missionary Will Be Here Sunday The Rev. B. R. Opper. a missionary from Ceylon and India will give an address illustrated by lantern slides at the evening services in the First Baptist church at 7 o'clo.k j Sunday evening. Rev. Opper will r late his many dangerous experiences in As.il and will also tell cf his escapade with bandita at Amarillo, Tex s, for. which he received mucn national publicity. Tae missionary will a>so exhibit curios obtained from the Orient. UNIFICATION OF BANKS SEEN — Virtually Entire Banking System To Come I nder Federal Reserve (Copyright 1935, by UP.) Washington, Mar. I.— ( U.P.>- ' tualiy complete unifiction of the nation’s $50,000,000,000 banking system under the Federal reserve system was regarded Today by ad ministration officials as a distinct possibility within the next few years. The next step in the growing ■ domination of the reserve system over banking is the administraI tion’s new 1935 banking bill now before congress. Among tho pro- ] visions in the bill are strong ini ducements tor state banks to Join i the Federal reserve system. The objective of the program, according to administration officials,] 1 is to bring all commercial banks | Into the Federal reserve system so as to create a banking system whose national policies can be di- ■ rected by the Federal reserve j CONTINUED ON FAGS BIGHT

FIRST LENTEN SERMON MAR. 6 Series of Lenten Sermons Will Be Given At Catholic Church The series of Lenten sermons will begin at St. Mary's Catholic church in this city, Ash Wednesday. March 6. the Rev. Father Joseph Seimetz. -pustor. announced today. For the five weeks thereafter the sermons and Lenten services will be held on Tuesday evenings. The services will begin at 7:30 o'clock. On Friday nights the Way of the Cross and Benediction of Blessed Sacrament ■will be held. Following the plan of last year, a new speaker will deliver the Lenten sermons each week. Father Seimetz will change pulpits with pastors and assistants of Fort Wayne churches. Tlie general topic of discotfrse for the six sermons will be “The Parish Church." Following is the schedule and the priests who will deliver the sermons: March 6—Father Seimetz. March 12—Father Reinig. assistant St. Marys, Fort Wayne. March 19—Father Green, assistant Precious Blood. Fort Wayne. March 26 — Father L. Hoffman, assistant St. Andrews. Fort Wayne. April 2—Father Ditlmger. assist ant Cathedral of Immaculate Conception. April 9—Father John Dapp. pas-1 tor St. Jude's, Fort Wayne. Holy Week is the wT-ek of April 14. Easter Sunday is April 21. o Sasr Territory Back To Germany Saarbruecken, G?rm ny, March 1- (UP) —Th German Saar came back to Germany today., F ur hours after its formal return. Adolf Hitler, living Symbol of a revitalized Germany, rrived in Saarbruecken to lead his fallow countrymen Germans again after 115 years ts cxil?, in a joyous cele- | bnition. WOMEN TO HEAR GUEST SPEAKER Mrs. Blackmore Will Tell Os Life In Arctic Circle Monday Mrs. Elizabeth Blackmore of Baffin Land, the northernmost part of Canada which extends into the Arctic circle, will be the speaker at the meeting of the Womans iclub, Monday evening. March 4. Mrs. Blackmore is of British parentage, her father being a trader of the Hudson Bay company. Through an accident her parents lost their lives when the daughter was but three months old. She was cared for by an Eskimo family until twenty years old when through the assistance of the Hudson Company she was brought out. of the Arctic region. It was not | until this time that Mrs. Blackmore had seen the ground, a tree, house, ; or any means of transportation except that of a dog sled. The epeaker will confine her address to her life in the Baffin land. The program is in charge of a committee of the literature section with Mrs. John Parish, chairman. ’ On Tuesday morning the Woman’s club will sponsor a talk by Mrs. Blackmore to all high school students of the city in the public high school auditorium at 8:15 o’clock. — —o Local Auctioneer Holds Sale Thursday Roy Johnson, local auction e> - , conducted a stile Thursday afternoon for the Monroeville Chester breeders awociati-on. The sale was held at the Bert Marquart farm f ur miles north of MonroevilleThirty gilts and 10 sows wer? sold at the high avemge price o. *4ll ?n ner head. A large number of buyers' from this section Mended ] the sale. TOta high prie'e brought j yesterday shows the value of good | breeding.

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“Jafsie” in Seclusion K I I K| e — jn 4 * i fl 4 r Dr. John “Jafsie” Condon, of Lindbergh ransom fame, was found living in seclusion in a hotel at Balboa, in the Canal Zone, where he maintained a “bodyguard” and vacationed incognito. "I’m muzzled." he askerted, and refused to discuss events of the > I Hauptmann trial. TOURNEY BILL PASSESHOUSE Measure Would Prevent Playing Three Basketball Games In One Day Indianapolis, Mar. I.—(U.R)—The- ■ Woodward bill to prevent high school basketball teams from play- ■ ing more than two games in one ■ day was passed by the house today, . 70 to 17. The bill now goes to Jhe senate. The bill would necessitate a change in conducting future tournaments of the Indiana High School Athletic Association but would have no effect on this year's I meet. Under the present system the I winner and runner up in the finals of the state tournament are required to play three games on the 1 final day. Three games in one day also are necessary in a few of the sectionals. Rep. Carl E. Woodard, D.. Michigan City, youngest member of the house, introduced the bill and made - his first major speech on the floor ’ of the lower chamber in urging its passage. 1 He was supported by Rep. Richard Janies, R.. Portland, second 1 youngest member of the house. • Woodward said the only change ■ which the bill would necessitate i j —_ — —— | rONTTNUED ON PAGE EIGHT MACON PLUNGE IS DESCRIBED Officer Os Navy Dirigible Describes Moments Before Disaster 1 Attica, Ind.. Mar. I.— (U.R) The dramatic moments which preceded ’ the plunge of the navy dirigible ' Macon into the Pacific ocean Feb. 12 were described today in a let- ' ter from petty officer Wilmer M. ' Conover to his sister. Miss Helen Conover. Attica. Conover, handling the elevator controls of the craft when it crash- ■ ed. said his chief concern was loss of the ship. “When the crack-up came, the ship dove and rolled and then started to climb.” Conover wrote. “I gave it all I had but the wheel was jerked out of my hands and I was thrown to the left. Then , the fin was carried away. “We went up to 5,000 feet before : it was decided we could never stay I in tho air and our best bet was to go down to the water. “At 900 feet the captain told me CONTINUED ON PAGE EIGHT

Decatur, Indiana, Friday- March I, 1935.

SELL BONDS TO THE PRESIDENT Roosevelt Buys “Baby Bonds” For Himself And Grandchildren Washington, March 1. — (U.R) President Roosevelt launched the government’s “baby nond” sales campaign today by buying one of the new securities for each of his five grandchildren and one for himself. Two cabinet officers, turned bond salesmen for the occasion, made the sales to the President with a fanfare of photographing and ceremony designed to attract popular attention to the administration’s effort to have small investors buy its securities and become “partners in the government." Simultaneously the new smalldenomination bonds were offered to everyone at 14.000 postoffices throughout the country. Mr. Roosevelt bought a $25 bond for each of his grandchildren. He paid $18.75 for each, in 10 years, the grandchildren will receive the full $25 for each bond, tile differ--1 ence representing interest on the money lent to the government. The bonds also come in units of SSO. SIOO, SSOO, and SI,OOO. While movie cameras ground in the oval study of the White House. Secretary of Treasury Henry Morgenthau, Jr., made a “sales talk" to the President. The Postmaster General James A. Farley, whose department has charge of distribution of the bonds, stepped up and made the actual sale. “That sounds like a pretty good proposition to me,” Mr. Roosevelt | said after Morgenthau explained l the bonds to him. *| The President counted out sll3 CONTINUED ON PAGE EIGHT —.—. . o Annual Meeting Os Stockholders The annual meeting of stockholders of the Northern Indiana Public ervice Company will be held March 21 at the company's office, 5265 Hohman avenue, Hammond. o TO BROADCAST SCOOT MEETING Ft. Wayne Meeting Monday Night Will Be Broadcast By WO WO — The court of honor at which four Geneva boys will be giv n Eagle Scout badges at toe annual Anthcny Wayne area council meeting Monday in the Fort W yne Community : Center will be broadtnst by radio 'station WOWO, ft was announced I today. About 30 De tur and Adams county ecout officials and their i wives will attend the annual meet- ] ing. Earle W. Beckir.un, St. Louis area executive, will give the main addI ress. Mr. Beckman is well known in Decatur 'because of his scout i activities here when ho was exe-l cutive of the Anthony Wayne Area ■council. Mr. Becknr n's address will also be broadcast. The Geneva boys who ] will be among those from other counties to receive the coveted Eagel Scout award will be John Lynn Grile, 15; John Heeter. 16; Glen Beerbower, 16; and Robert] ) Leftman. 14. A number of the Decatur delegation plan to attend the executive I session of ths meeting at 6 o’clock. The banquet will begin at 6:30] o'clock. Stunts will be given otter the banquet. Music will be furnished by; the Geneva scout troop 66. It is expected that the address will be given at about 8 o’clock. The court of honor will follow. Church Society To Give Play Tonight “Happy Valley” will be given at the high school auditorium, tonight at 8 o’clock by members of the Union Chapel C. P. V- society. Tickets may be purchased from members of the society or at the door for 10 and 20 cents.

AGREEMENT IS SOUGHT TODAY ON WORK BILL White House And Organized Labor In Struggle Over Relief Bill WAGE GUARANTEE MAY BE CONCEDED Washington. Mar. I.—<U.R>—The j White House and organized labor settled down to a grim struggle over the work-re-lief bill today. An early conclusion was sought but neither side; showed any disposition to surrender. President Roosevelt, whose senate leaders sent the bill back to committee after it had been re-1 written on the floor, was understood to be seeking an agreement ] which would enable him to go ahead with his program without appearing to recede from the firm opposition he has shown to the prevailing wage clause. With labor belligerently carrying its cause to the people and insurgent senators standing firm, it appeared likely the White House would have to accept some form of wage guarantee if it is to free the measure from the senate tangle which h e enveloped it. An ultimate settlement through a revision of the controversial amendment requiring ‘ prevailing wages” on work relief projects, was anticipated. But the nature of the eventual compromise was uncertain. Negotiations that began unsucfcessfully yesterday, will be continued over the week-end. or until some satisfactory basis for proceeding with the suddenly halted relief program has been reach- | ed. Labor forces, confident of their strength in the senate, said t.:fy would not yield. Mr. Roosevelt took charge of the situation after his return from Hyde Park. N. Y.. and was using all of his persuasive powers to effect a settlement. William Green, president of the I ' American Federation of Labor, last night broadcast a declaration that the prevailing wage amendment is "more vital to the economic welfare of the nation titan any issue 1 ] that has faced us since the incepi tion of the recovery program.” All of the negotiations were secret but it was learned they] hinged on efforts to revise the ■ McCarran prevailing wage amendj nient to a form which both the ; White House and labor representatives would accept. Tentative drafts of such a re- ] vision were presented to President Roosevelt by senate majority ] leader Joseph T. Robinson, but were not accepted there. During the conference between the President and Robinson, the CONTINUED ON PAGE EIGHT FORMER LOCAL RESIDENT DIES Miss Rosa Fuhrman Dies This Morning In Montana; Burial Here Word was received here today of ] tfte death cf Miss Rosa Fuhrman. ; 72. former Decatur resident, who died at her home in Livingston, Montan i early this morning. According to the message the body will be brought to Decatur for buri ial tand will arrive here at 4:08 Sunday afternoon. The funeral will be held Monday ] afternoon at two o’clock, the place , to be announcesl later. Miss Fuhrman was a daughter of Mr. t?.nd Min. Henry C. Fuhrman, both deceased, and lived in and n ar Decatur until 7 years ago when | sh? went to Montana. Surviving are toe following brothers and sisters: David Fuhrman. Florida; Mrs. Sudie Schnitz and Mrs. Louisa Schnitz. Decatur; Henry A. Fuhrman, Route 1. Decatur; Mrs. Emma Winans. Livingston. Mont., Mrs. Ida Asbury, Bcseman, Mont:, and Mrs. Laura Sprunger, Livingston, Mont.

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Edward Lose Talks To Local Rotarians Edward Lose, member of the the Decatur Rotury club, gave an Interesting talk on "harboring” at the regular meeting of toe club Thursday evening at the Rice hotel. Mr. Ixise told of the find mention of the barber profession in tho (Bible. The speaker then traced the developments of the profusion until the present time, telling of the great advancements being made fcr barbers to bettor care for their clients. He stressed the value of the laws passed toy the various legislatures of the country. Carl Pumphrey was in c.'.arge of the program. FEENEY OFFERS TO QUIT POST Governor Tells State Police Head Action Is Not Necessary Indianapolis March I—(UP)1 —(UP) —AI G. Feeney offered to resign as state I safety director today but was told by Gov. Paul V. McNutt that “it is not necessary,” the United Press learn d fr :n an authoritative source. The offer was made during a bitter argument in the governor’s office regarding differences over state ] police legislation. The conference was attended by Feeney. Sen. Jacob Weiss, D., Indianapolis. president pro tern of the I senate, -and Senator Henry F. Sehrieker, D . Knox, author of the state police bill to which Feeney objects. > The governor called the confer-; ence in on attempt to persuade Fee-! ney to withdraw his objections to have the state police department placed under a bi partisan board. ; Feeney insists that th? department should be left under control of a state superintendent, appointed by the governor and removable only for cause. He won a major victory for his point in the senate yesterday when the upper house voted to send the administration bill back to committee with specific instiuttions to remove all references to a board. EMMA ROBINSON DIES THURSDAY Mrs. Harry Robinson Dies Last Night At County Hospital Mrs. Emma Merle Robinson, 35, wife of H irry S. Robinson of Deca- | tur, route 3, died at the Adams County Memorial Hospital Thursday night at 9:45 o’clock. Death was caused by cancer, and followed an operation the deceased underwent • i week ago W-dnesdny. Mrs. Robinson's condition had boon critical the past several days. The deceased was born January i 28, ISCO at Seymour, Indiana, a.] daughter of W.loitney nd Emma Lee ] both decsased. She was married to ] Harry S. Robinson in October, 1923. Surviving are the husband and ] five children, Richard, Betty, Mary Lou. William and James all ut home; three sisters. Mrs. Stella Myers. Decatur; Mrs. Nellie Gilbert ■ of Medora, and Mre. Effie Davis of j West Urban, Ky„ and two brothers, Roy Lee of Ctnverae, and Curtis BI Lee of South Bend. Mrs. Robinson, resided in ,nnd n'tar Decatur for the past nine years. The body will bo taken to the ! home, one mile north of Bobo, tonight from toe S. E. Black funeral home. Funeral services will be held Monday morning at 9 o’clock at the Calvary Evangelical church with Rev. M. W. Sundermann of | Decatur officiating. Burial will be at Seymour, Indiana. 0 — Assessor Supplies Given Out Today The Adams county assessors, deputy ass-ssors and trustees met today in the county nseeesor’s office i to establish uniform rates and to i get their supplies. The actu 1 assessing will not bei gin until Saturday morning. A 60 1 day period is allowed by law tor the assessments.

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DULL SESSION IS ENLIVENED BY ACCUSATION Enlargement Os Supreme Court Proposed In New Measure Today MOULD ABOLISH APPELLATE COURT Indianapolis, Mar. I—(U.R1 —(U.R) —An accusation that Democratic members of the legislature are participating in a “scandal” enlivened un otherwise dull session of the general assembly today. The charge was made by Rep. H. H. Evans, R„ Newcastle, and was based on the fact that Robert Batton, Marion, chairman of the state commission on financial in--1 stitutions, is one of the incorporators of a new organization known •as the Credit Extension Company, . Marion. The company was incorporated, Evans said, the day before the administration introduced a series i of consumer credit bills designed |to regulate industrial loan companies and other small lending agencies. The bills would carry out recommendations of the state department of financial Institutions. "This is a scandal and I want ] to wake you up,” Evans shouted. “Whoever voted for theae consumer credit bills on the strength I of this new information should be : ashamed to go home.” After the Republican caucus chairman concluded his tirade, Rep. Frank G. Thompson. D., door leader said that Batton's only connection with the new organization was as its counsel. The house parsed and sent ta the senate by a vote of 70 to 17, the Woodward bill which would ' prohibit basketball players from I participating in more than 2 games in one day. If the bill receives favorable ac, tion in the upper house it will necessitate a change in the sys- ■ tern of conducting finals and a few sectionals of the state tournament. A bill prohibiting capital punishment in Indiana was advanced to engrossment in the house, and I a bill giving the supreme court authority to disbar or censor nti torneys was killed in the lower i chamber. The abolishment of the Indiana Appellate court and enlargement ]of the state supreme court was proposed in a bill prepared for .n---i troduction in the senate by Sen. William D. Hardy. D., Evansville. The supreme court would contain nine members instead of five, under the proposal. Five house bills were passed by tho senate and sent to the governor. One of them was tho administration measure which would givo the state insurance department wide regulatory powers over insurance companies and agencies. LOW ELECTRIC RATES LIKELY Bill In State Legislature Aimed To Aid Rural Electric Users Indianapolis, Mar. 1. —- (U.R) ‘ Electricity at low cost to farm and suburban consumers in Indiana appeared likely today as the legislai ture's rural electrification program , neared final passage. By a unanimous vote, the house . passed and sent to the senate a . bill by Rep. Jesse O. Flock, D.. I Ramsey, authorizing formation of corporations to develop use of I electricity in rural areas. The program was drafted to con- , form with President Roosevelt’s f national rural electrification move- , ment. and is expected to receive support of the upper chamber of the assembly. It would enable the extension of r utility service into farm and sparsely settled areas at “costs consistent with prudent economy.” Sponsors assert that nunareds of , farm homes now deprived of elec- , tricity because of excessive costs will benefit by reduced charges for . 1 installing lines, lower rates and j I speedier action on applications. , j The measure would enable resiCONTINUBD ON PAGH FIGHT