Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 33, Number 53, Decatur, Adams County, 2 March 1935 — Page 1

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IEGISLATURE HOLDS SESSION TODAY

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COUNCIL PLANS MANY PROGRAMS I First Os Series By Emergency School Council M as Held Monday Tire flrut of a ueries of >proßram« igponaored by the Adams county eniI ergeney echool ©cunt 11 was hold I Monday at the Star theater in GeI neva. Mrs. Edythe F. Chew super!l vised the progmm which was pre-' rented by tie Wabieh and llartf rd 1 township music and dramatic ■: ciaasefi.. > The program wan: "Avenger • March" by orchestra 1 '; introduction. ' Mrs. Edythe F- Chew; ‘ America" by audience; apeech, “Life of W«ish- * legton" Charlee Pyle; “Life of 1 Washington" continued by James Pusey; “Down «by the River” and ' "When We Get to Heaven" by quar- ’ tet; "Joy Riders" by orchestra; l “Life of Washington", continued by 1 Ruth Pusey and Charles Qlendenn--1 ing; “The Last Round-up" by quar- ' tet; “Life of Washington” contin- ' ued by Ciwce Farlow and Noli 1 Wlndmiller; music by stringed trio; 1 'Life of Washington", concluded by Marjorie Pusey, and “Cal" by orch- ’ esra. The members of the orchestra are; Jack Fenst.rmaker, Jean ’ Hinchman, Billy Briggs, Jimmy I Briggs, Keith Furlow, Walter Jean , Muth, Lester Orile, John Lynn Brile, Lester Pontius, Bob Shepherd, , Joe Shepherd und Doraey F.-nalg. The members of the quartet are Woodrow Yoder. Raymond Eckrote, Dale Grandlinard and Leonard , Grandlinard. The member* of the string trio , are Yoder. Raymond Eck,rcaU4Htd Leon: rd Ont nd 11 nard ,' o — Robinson Funeral Services Sunday The funeral of Mrs. Harry Robinson who dited at the Adame County Memorial Hospital Thursday night, will be held Sunday morning at 9 o’clock tcatead cl Monday morn-' ing as announced. The services will 'be at ths Calvary Evangelical church with Rsv. M. W. Sundirmann, officiating. Immediately following the funer 1 the body will be taken to Seymour for burial. . —o —— CCC PROVING FINE SUCCESS Plans Have Been Drawn To Double Number In Civilian Camps Washington, Mar. 2 —(U.R> —The New Deal is working quietly to make the Civilian Conservation Corps the greatest peace-time army in America's history. Detailed plans have been drawn to double the enrollment of the corps, bringing its strength up to more than 600.000 men and making it about five times the else of the regular army. The plans are those of the war department and Robert H. Fech-, ner, taciturn ex-labor leader who has allowed his fellows in the New Deal alphabet to garner pub- j | licity while he spent $473.607,65:!.-. 46, dotted the country with 1.731 j strategically located camps, and I l enlisted a total of 930,000 youths, j Present enrollment is steady at . about 370,000 men. including I 50,000 drought relief recruits who will go off the payrolls July 1. If President Roosevelt’s- work j ro'ief bill passes congress, Fechner hopes to bring up the enlistment to 640,000 this spring, at a cost of slgihtly more than SI,OOO I ner man per year, making his ’ , budget reach a grand total of 3060,000.000 annually. Mr. Roosevelt has not formally i •approved Fechner’s plans yet bu. the United Press was informed in official circles that such approval I would be forthcoming as soon as congress decided upon disposition of the administration's $4,880,000,000 work relief bill. Fechner and war department officials involved remain silent concerning their expansion plaits. pending solution of the senate re- , lief squabble. They have, howj ever, drawn cost sheets for the (ICONTINUED ON I"AGE THREE)

f Courts Give New Deal Program Setback « ■ls U' « ilh ill Bk . - JBI i 238 Il BK ’ - • i > oKfl Judge John P. j,- % i - ST" W j ... 'k. > . - - ~IT Fundamental principles of the New Deal received a severe setback in recent decisions by the judiciary branch of the government. Federal Judge Charles I. Dawson, left, rendered a decision at Louieville, Ky.. that congress lacks power to regulate wages and prices in the bituminous coal mining industry. Federal Judge John P. Nields. center, rendered a decision at Wilmington. Del., which was adverse to the 7-A section of the recovery act. Judge William 1. Grubb, of Alabama, ruled that the government i had no right to Mil surplus power developed by the Tenne Valley Authority.

RENEW DEMANDS ON D. S. BUDGET Additional Demands Being Made To Balance National Budget Washington. Mar. 2 —(UP) —Renewed demands tor a balanced budget were injected today into swift-moving negotiations seeking a compromise on the work-relief bill now lodged in a senate committee. i Amendments providing methods of financing the $1,880,000,000 program were ready for submission when debate on the bill is resumed in the senate. Just when that wi'l be still was indefinite. The movement for a financing ' schedule developed during a lull in legislative activity caused by shunting of the bill back to committee after adoption of the prevailing wage scale over administration opposition. The bill passed the house more than a month ago, wee brought to the senate floor after a bitter fight over the wage issue in committee, and after a brief but stormy debate was rushed back to 1 the committee by administration leaders. The new demands for tacking on the financing schedule gathered support from both Democrats and Republicans and was being I(OONTTNUSD ON PAGE TWO) CHICAGO WILL ROUND UP 40 Fortv Persons Are Indicted On Mail Robbery Charges Chicago, Mart*. 2—(UP)—Federal attcrneyß revealed today that they intend to round up 40 ipersons indicted yesterday on mail robbery charges for trial in two groups in Chicago. Most of the 40. who include John J. (Boss) McLaughlin, Chicago politician and gambler, and political leaders and gangsters of New York | Kansas City, St. Paul. Dallas, San | Antonio, St. Louis and Springfield, , Tl„ ’(ready are under arrest. Me Lughlin ibad been indicted' ! previously for a part in the $2-00.- j 000 kidnaping of Edward G. Brem-1 er, St. Paul Banker. The 40 were Indicted on 81 counts : emanating from the robbery of a ■ hank messenger of $237,000 in nego-1 liable securities in December, 1932., Five gun Ten ass iled him in the | leap. Murder and two suicides (have . j marked the couree of the investlga-, . tion which brought recovery of i SIOO,OOO in liberty bonds and the I (CONTINUED ON PAGE SIX) I

Decatur, Indiana, Saturday, March 2, 1935.

» Two Fort Wayne ) Workers Honored r August Kayser and Clarence F. Roembke of the Fort Wayne works of the General Electric plant have received Charlie A. Coffin foundstion awards for merit , rioua aeri Micee. The aw.rd to Mr. Kayser was nude in recognition of his sslil and ingenuity in redesigning the winding arbor of the automatic winding 1 machine for tae internal winding o of motor staton;. He io the only ? member in. the G. E. organization f who has three times be?n hon ied i- by the foundation. Mr. Roembke received recognia tion for his accomplishments in im- - 9: proving m chines used for maehin- ■ ing castings. 9 I 0 i . PROPOSE STATE : COURT CHANCES • I Indiana Appellate Court Would Be Abolished Bv Amendment .1 ’ 11 Indianapolis, Mar. 2. —(U.R) —One ( of the first pieces of legislation rei suiting from the state supreme court's momentous opinion on con- , - stitutional amendments lias been ' prepared by Sen. William D. Hardy, D., Evansville. , HLs bill would abolish the Indiana ' appellate court and enlarge the su-j | preme court from live to nine memi bers. Such a measure is possible under the high court’s decision that, I constitutional amendments may be considered ratified if they are fav-| I ored by a majority of the voters I balloting on the question. An amendment permitting in-j i crease in membership of the su- ■ preme court was one of those as-. i tected by the court’s ruling. The appellate court was organ- ' ized to help clear the crowded su- j preme court calendar when it was ' ruled that the amendment had Jost. through failure to obtain approval of the majority of the votes cast | in the election, the old interpretation. The changes proposed in Hardy's measure would be made gradually. ' No more members would be elect- ; (CONTINUED ON PAGE THREE) ! Fuhrman Funeral 2 P. M. Monday Funeral services for Miss Rosa I j Fuhrman, former Decatur woman ' who died at Livingston, Montana i Friday, will 'be held Monday afterI neon at 2 o’clock at the S. E. B’.uck funeral home In thie city. Rev. M. W. Sundertnann, pastor of the Evan-. gelical chur.h, will officiate >and ; burial will be in the Decatur ceme-. ■tery. I The body will arrive here Sunday i .afternoon and will be taken to the (funeral home. j

I SEWER CAVE-IN KILLS ONE MAN Van Wert Man Instantly Killed Another Hurt i This Morning : Eugene Palmer, 31, of Van Wed, ; Ohio, was suffocated at 9 o’elo k ’ this morning when a sewer, being i built by PWA workers in Van I Wert, caved in. hurling about 15 I yards of dirt on him and hurrying - him under four or five feet. H.'s partner, Roy Tyndall, 40, • also of Van Wert was dug out in i time to eave his life. He is now a patient in the Van Wert county hospital. He is suffering from ; bruises and a possible fractured arm. The two men were working in a i new trunk line sewer at the interI section of Jefferson and Central . streets in Van Wert. Gallagheri Burke company of Cleveland. 0.. . hold the PWA contract for the ', job. At the intersection the excava- ; tion is about 15 feet deep. The | dirt caved in without warning and buried the men. Tyndall was reached first. Hie face was uncovered in about five minutes. It was learned that he was still breathing so the rescuers began digging for Palmer. I Palmer was buried for 20 minj utes. When he was taken out ar’ifCONTINURD ON PAGE TWO) c McNUTT SIGNS TEXT BOOK DILL School Cornorations Permitted To Furnish Free Text Books —_ Indianapolis, Mar. 2 —(U.R)—The bill to permit local school corporations to furnish free textbooks to i j school children was signed last i night by Gov. Paul V. McNutt. The measure provides for the establishment of free school book libraries on petition of 51 per cent of the voters in a township. Texts would be provided for the first five ■ grades during the first year and ' for other grades in the succeeding I years. It was introduced in the house by Rep. William J. Black i (Dem.) of Anderson, and 30 others, i I The governor also signed the bill to provide for the licensing of all used car dealers and for the mak--1 Ing of renorhs on all transactions. ■ Another bill signed would estab- j lish a delinquency penalty of $2 for afiy person who fails to apply, for a certificate of title within a ! certain period after buying an auto- ’ mobile. It also requires that tho j certificate of title for any automobile that is to be junked shall j 1 (CONTINUED ON PACE SIX)

GREEK LEADERS THREATENED BI ARMED REVOLT Army And Navy Elements Revolt To Put Favorite In Power GOVERNMENT MOVES TO SMOTHER REVOLT (Copyright 1935 by VP.) Athens, Mar. 2.— (U.R) —Bombing planes and field and coast artillery were brought into action by the government today to suppress a lightning-like revolt of army and 1 navy elements aimed at putting Eleutherois Venizelos in power. Four rebel warships were trapped in the Harbor of Piraeus, the Port of Athens, and bombarded from the shore. Two merchant ships were sunk at tlie entrance to Salonica harbor 1 to the north to prevent the escape of rebel ships or an attempt by the rebels to enter. Bombing airplanes roared over the .-Egan Sea, where the Greek childred of the gods rowed their galleys to take Helen from her iover, Paris, at Troy, pursuing five warships which escaped in rebels' hands. The revolt broke without warning to the public—though the government had expected it — simulI taneously at sea and land. Soldiers of the Evzones garrison ' on the outskirts of the capital rose in rebellion. Field artillery was , put against them. The rebels reI turned the fire. Several rebels were reported killed. The government claimed in a commuique at 11:23 a. m. (4:20 a. m. EST) that the garrison was subdued. The rebel warships which were at sea were heading for Crete, to the south, birthplace of Venizelos, four times premier and for years a leading European statesman. Aerial bombs, raining concentrated death on the rebel fleet/ crippled a destroyer and were reported to have damaged the cruiser Averoff. flagship of the Greek fleet, a ship of 9,400 tons with a crew of 670 officers and men. Other ships of the rebel force (CONTINUED ON PAGE SIX) STATE TO AID 4-H CLUB WORK Indiana Legislature Expected To Sanction • $90,000 Fund Indianapolis. Mar. 2.—(U.R) —More : than $90,000 would be made available for 4-H club work throughout; Jhe state under a special financing . program expected to lie sanctioned by the legislature, it was learned today. ; Drawn to conform with the natl ional 4-H club structure, the pro-1 gram provides for matching of local funds with state funds, doubling the amount now available for premiums on agricultural and domestic projects. Rep. Jesse O. Flock, R„ Ramsey, author of the measure, said it will increase the scope of activities for farm boys and girls in 4-H clubs, and open educational opportunities previously denied them. The measure was designed to meet conditions which may result from the proposed child labor amendment to the national constitution, ratified recently by the legislature. Flock opposed the amendment o n grounds that it would prevent farm boys and girls from working for hire. It the amendment is written into the national constitution, farm youth will be barred from many activities, he contends. The new state financing program will solve this condition by providing diversified types of work and farm competition, Flock said. It will enable Indiana to come into its own as one of the leading 4-H club states, he asserted. The bill would fix a SSOO limit on the amount which county 4-H units could use for premiums in contests and educational work. This amount would be matched by I the sttae out of the general fund. ON PAGE THREE)

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Additional Prizes For Corn Club Show Additional prizee were announced today for corn club shows in I 1935. These will bring the total to s6l. The donors are: Berne Equity I company at Berne. $5; Berne Equity company at Linn Grove, J $5; Geneva .Milling and Grain I company, $5; Geneva Equity Exchange. $5; Monroe Grain company, $•">; Burk Elevator company |of Decatur. $5; Burk Elevator company at Monroe. $5; Krick and Tyndall company. $25, and Berne Grain and Hay company, sl. SET SCHEDULE OF ASSESSORS Assessing Os Personal Property Starts In County Today i Tlie Adams county trustees, assessors and deputy assessors began to assess the personal property of Adams county residents today. In their meeting Friday in the | county assessor’s office they do-: termined a schedule for assessing the property. The rate for old horses or those with blemishes was set as follows: good work horses, $l5O to $125: ; common horses. SIOO to $125; three-year colts, $165 to $150; twoyear colts. $135 to $100; -one-year icolts, SIOO to SSO; first class with records, $225 to $165; registered stallions, SSOO to $250. Mules will be assessed at about ■ the same rate as horses. Registered cows and bulls will be assessed at from $75 to $100; good Cowe and 'bulls will be assessed at from $75 to S4O: stock cattle per hundred pounds, $4; good feeders, $3 per hundred pounds; fat cattle. $5 per hundred pounds. Sheep will be assessed at sl2 for registered animals and from $S to sl2 for other kinds. Registered hogs will be assessed at from $25 to $35. Good brood | sows will be valued at S2O to $25; , stock hogs per hundred pounds, $7; fat hogs, $9 per hundred: pounds. Poultry will be divided into three classifications. Leghorns will be valued at $7 per dozen, mixed iat $8 per dozen and heavy chick-1 ens at $9 per dozen. Turkeys will be assessed at $1 each; geese at 50c each and ducks at 30c each. The rates for farm products will: be: wheat, per bushel, 85c; corn per bushel. 75c; oats, per bushel. 45c: potatoes, 30c per bushel; clover seed, sl2 to sl4 per bushel; ■ timothy seed. $8 per bushel. Clover hay will be assessed at : $lO per ton; mixed hay at sl2 to sl3; sorphum molasses at 65c: vinegar at 20c a gallon; soy beans at $1 per bushel, and bees at $1 (CONTINUED ON PAGE SIX) o Ossian M«»n Lease Willshire Bakery Brice Earl and Chalmer Snyder. I who h ve been employed in the Sanitary bakery- at Oeeian, have leased ■ a bakery at Wiltehire, Ohio., and ' will open for business there March 11. Curtis Fulton, Bluffton, and Wilbur Swartz, Dec.?tur, will fill the vacancies in tihe Ossian bakery. o Present Mission Play Sunday Night The St. John's Luthemn Walther League from Convoy, Ohio will present a mission iplav at t.be Zion ; Lutheran church hall Sunday evening at 7:30’ o'clock under the auspice* of the inter-river zone of the Walther League. The presentation is called “Ba Thnne" and is based upon condilions and missionary en-de-vors in Burna. India. The program will feature several speakers from neighboring 'Walther • Leagues. Mies Helen H-lmke, Convoy, Ohio, anti Fred Voigtmann, Willshire. Ohio will taddrese the assembly. No admLssi::n will be 'dbarged. but a fre« will offering will be taken. Tlie local zon? of the state Walther League is annually sponsoring such a mission play given by some chapter of the zone and is presented in every chapter. The public te in- i vited. '

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DISPUTES OVER MEASURES NEAR TOSETTLEMENT Liquor, NRA And State Police Measures Near Settlement FIVE AMENDMENTS TO LIQUOR MEASURE Indianapolis. Mar. 2 — (U.R) —• Legislative disputes over three important questions—liquor, NRA and state police — neared settlement today as both house and senate held Saturday morning meetings for tlie first time during the current session. All three issues have caused a split in administration ranks, disrupting the administration program and causing dramatic fights on the floor of the legislature. The state NRA bill has the smoothest path toward final enactment. It was approved by the senate late yesterday, 28 to 22, after it had been amended to remove "price fixing” and “loss leader” clauses. Tlie bill was sent back to the house where a conference committee will consider tlie amendments I and report its recommendations. Tlie original bill, containing boih tlie controversial sections, was ! passed by the house three weeks ago, 61 to 35. The house is expected to concur in the amendments. Ten Democrats voted with tho solid Republican bloc in the seniate against tlie bill y-esterday-, contending a state NRA law would I "strangle” business. Opponents further insisted that the legisluI ture should await congressional action on the national recovery act before taking matters in its own hands. Five major amendments were written into .he administration’s 1 lienor bill in the house yesterday. Two of the most important w-ould increase cities' ami towns’ shares of the license fees. Shares of cities and towns would be double that provided in the original bill to answer protest of Indiana mayors against cutting their portion of the excise revenue. The amendment will give them two-thirds of retail license revenue. The lone fight of Rep. Lenhardt E. Bauer, Terre Haute attorney : and Democratic caucus leader, to substitute portions of his own bill i for the administration measure reached an anti-climax yesterday when five of his amendments were rejected. Bauer sought to enact a single licensing system to replace the trinle license asked by Democratic leaders. He also asked defeat of a section giving the alcohol beverage commission arbitrary powers over licensing. Other major amendments approved yesterday would provide a control commission of five members instead of three; give local boards tlie right to approve licenses: prevent monopolies bv requiring more than ten ports of entry; and permit display adver(CONTINUED ON PAGE SIX) o ResiH<'ncu North Os Decatur Is Damaged The city fire deparmtent nude a run at 10 o’clock this morning to the W. E. Utfelmau residence on federal road 27. Tlie houue is the teacher's residence owned 'by the St. John’s congregation. The fire destroyed the roof and most of the second floor. No one was home nt the time of the fire, neighbors reported this morning. The damage could not be estimated at 11 o’clock. o yyernhnff Monumental Works Gets Contract The Wemhoff Monumental Works of this city has been awarded the contract for erecting the memorial on the grave of the Rt. Rev. Msgr. Joseph F. Delaney of Fort Wayne. Adrian Wemhoff of this city designed tlie memorial. It stands about 10 feet high and will be of Rock of Ages granite. The inscription will give the decease’s name, year of birth and dea*h and ordination date, Juno 29. 1887. Mserr. Delaney is buried in the Catholic cemeterv in Fort Wayne. The Wemhoff MonutfTental works has erected many of the outstand(ing memorials in Fort Wayne I cemteriesi