Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 33, Number 59, Decatur, Adams County, 9 March 1935 — Page 1

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Vol. XXXIII. No. 59.

W.C.T.U.MEET HERE TUESDAY I Decatur Organization Will Hold Annual Institute Tuesday The Decatur W. C. T. U. will hold institute Tuesday in the United Brethren church, corner Ninth and Madison street. The following program will be given begin- . ning at 10:30 a. nt.: Prelude Mrs: F. A. Towers. Greetings The president. Mrs. Thus. J. Dague. i Devotions —Mrs. S. D. Beavers. "The Why of a Institute" —Mrs. : C. K. Hocker. Holl call. . I “My Task; Why and How" • Ixical director. Solo — Guitar accompaniment Rev. Chappel, Mt. Sterling. Ky. "Our Responsibilities and How to Meet Them - —Rev. Franklin. Noontide prayer — Mrs. Jane Houk. Fort Wayne. 1:15 —Pot luck dinner. Afternoon Piano duet — Mrs. Akey, Betty Zintsmaster. Song service—Mrs. Eugene Runi yon. Devotions. Address —"Coing Forward" Rev, 1 A. B. Brown. Round table discussion — Inspiration Needed Today in the S. T. I. I —Mrs. S. D. Beavers. Solo —Rev. F. A Towers. Fort Wayne. "How are the Young People Facing the Liquor Problems" — Mrs. Margaret Bowser, president Allen county Y. P. It. "The Christian's Responsibility for the Well Being of our Nation" —Rev. Glen A. Marshall. Duet, “Our Land Baloved”—Mrs. Dague and Marshal). Offering. Report of committees. ; A cordial welcome is extended to the public to attend this meetI mgr- ‘ .— o Legion Meeting At 7 o’clock Monday i The American Legion will m-’et Monday evening at 7 o'clock at toe ! Legi.n Hall for the regular in eting. 1 At eight o'clock a card forty will be held. o ST. JOE TROOP TO BUILD CAMP Camp For Boy Scout Troop Will Be Made Along River A camp for Boy Scouts of St. Joe troop No- 64. will be established at i the old Kekionga camping grounds I along the banks of St. Mary's river, back of toe H. P. Schmitt farm. Mr. Schmitt ha-s donated the use ■ of the land and will a®-si®t in other wave in erecting a suitable shelter • house forth ' scouts. An effort will I be made to obtain a building and j have it moved to the river bank. Sevetul interesting meeting® of 1 the St. Joe troop committee and j members of the organisation have . been held this week. Plane have I been made to revive Hie activities I of the troop and to increase the j membership of the organization. A program for the next month haw 1 been prepared ihy Father Joeeph i Hennes, chairman of the court of hon r; Marcellus Miller, scoutmaster; James Munphy, aseistant scout- ( maotter; Leo Miller, junior assistant scoutmaster and Harold Daniels troop committeeman. Last evening a meeting of the troop was held at the t atfholic school building. Dan Holthouse. I senior patr J leader, assisted in carrying out the program. Sunday the members of the troop will be taken on a hike uni outing to Second Creek by Scoutmaster Miller. Monday evening L. L. Hotchkiss, scout executive of Fort Wayne will speak at the Holy Name meeting to be held at the K. ct C. hall. Gov. LaFollette Proposes Plan Madison, Win.. March 9 —(UP) A ba k-to-work movement to r place the present system of meeting the ssion wae advocated by Gov. Philip F. LaFollette Tiere last night. "The time has come f r a fundamental change," he sold, adding that from now on "our objective must be the production of wealth and not its reduction."

Farmers March on Uapital to Demand Relief • ARCH I wit ■ L. ■ I? ■ 141 ' ' An "economic revolution" was utged by Governor Floyd B. Olson, of Minnesota, when he addressed several humin d fanners who marched on the capitol to spur legislative action to aid agi iculture. Farm delegations converged from all parts of the state, traveling in trucks and even wagons, to parade before the capitol bearing banners stating their demands. In the picture below is shown Governor Olson, as ho greeted Milo Reno, right, national president of the Farmers’ Holiday association, and John Bosch, left, piesident of the Minnesota chapter, on their arrival at St. Pai:' _

REDUCED RATES ARE PROPOSED Adams County Communities Would Benefit By Lowered Rates Fort Wayne. Mar. 9 A petition for permission to make voluntary electric light rale reductions and adjustments in towns and rural territory in 13 northern Indiana counties has been tiled by the Indiana Service corporation with the public service commission at In dianapolis, it was learned here last ; night. The new schedule of rates in the territory outside of Fort Wayne, will mean a total reduction of about $32,000 per year to users of electric power. A similar reduction was made last April 2, for the 13 counties: Allen. Adams, DeKalb. Grant. Huntington, Noble. Jay. Wells, Whitley, Gataqll. Cass, Tippecanoe and Wabash Reduction in electric rates in Fort Wayne by both the Indiana Service corporation and tile City Light and Power Works were made effective last January 1. The public service commission has set March' 19. at Indianapolis, as the date for the hearing on the petition. Tile petition was signed by Samuel Mulholland, this city, vice-president of the company. The company is willing to put into effect lower electric rates in (CONTINUf-nt fix F-XGE ''’"J')

Table Os Tax Valuations In County

The net value of real estate, improvements and personal property assessed in Adams county increased $292,297 in 1935. according to the abstract just prepared in Coun--1 ty Auditor John W- Tyndall s of- ; flee. The valuation for 1935 is $22,180.595 while that of last year was $21,888,298. Real estate and improvements j were not assessed last year. Because of several changes in assess-, ments the values decreased from

Mortgage Rea i an d State and Soldiers Valuations Valuations | im p. Personal Assessment Exemptions 1934 1935 v $ 785,215 102.110 58.421 81,195 860,671 864.551 Blue CreeK S6B 063 125,760 61,975 59,310 996.488 996,488 Fren , 932 320 130,300 27,051 61,970 1.027,701 1.027.701 Hartford 862,050 117,870 8,110 84,820 903.211 903,210 Jetf ®F a °a 901 025 119.170 180,930 63.630 1,137,415 1,137,495 Kirkland 1 404 960 203.840 256,509 148.300 1.718,009 1,717,009 i M°nr°e 931 390 201,330 441,552 62,850 1.511.422 1.511.122 (Preble 1 285’813 170 530 287,568 88,760 1,655,153 1,655,151 Root 755’231 80,140 536,615 68,660 1,333.306 1,333,326 |St. Marys 876,780 108,410 9,453 78,890 915,753 915,753 lnl ° n . 1 068.996 156.010 156,179 86,700 1,294.485 1,294,485 Washington i’o’B 430 433.450 120,277 103.670 1.451.387 1,478,487 Berne 141 300 167.250 6,226 1,250 313,526 313.526 Decatui-Root 3,206.000 683.400 647,457 233,700 4,049,697 4,303.157 Decatur-W asli. 281 4.90 126.590 64,059 33,760 429,619 4,38,379 Geneva ... 109310 39.130 15,725 7,700 156,565 156,565 Monroe OU.) $ 1(7831,286 3,145,760 3,567,084 H 1,363,535 21,888,298 22,180,595

Decatur, Indiana, Saturday, March 9, 1935.

Corn-Hog Committees To Meet Here Monday A meeting of township corn hog committe a ha® been .set for Monday morning and afternoon. Th- 1 townehip elections were held Thursday, but the new committees have not reported to the county I Jgent’s office. The new township chairmen will 'be asked to met in the county agent's offic-e Monday morning at 10 o'clock. T :e entire commi:tecs ; will me I there t 1 o'clock. COMMITTEES TO AID PROCESSORS Differences In Beet Sugar Acreage Will Be Settled By Committee Washington, D. C.. March 9 (Special)— Production control committees and representatives of the sugar section of the AAA will cooperate with representative of sugar beet processors in adjusting any difference regarding acreage which may arise during the signup campaign for beet acreage for the 1935 crop. if a producer does not receive a beet purchase contract for acreage at least equal to his allotment, he may bring his ease to the attention of the production control committee of his factory district, and CCONTII<UEr> ON PAGE iTHIEEt

$16.-839.548 in 1931 to $16,831,288 in 1935. Personal property showed a decrease of $3,721. The figure for 1934 was $3,149,191 as compared to $3,145,760 in 1935. The exemptions claimed for mortgage indebtednesses and soldiers exemptions showed a decrease of j SI,OBO in the same period. In 1935 | the exemptions totaled $1,363,535 i and in 1934. 61.362,455. State assessments last year in- : creased $305,370. This increase is ;

SUSPEND WORK ON ROADS HERE County Council Must Approve Budget For Highway Funds County Auditor John W. Tyndall announced today that county highway men will work for the next several weeks at their own risk of being paid because of a recently enacted law in the state lyWalter Gilliom. county highway superintendent and engineer, announced today that all highway work was suspended Friday evening. '■ The new law requires that the county council approve the budget for highway funds. John Tyndall has set a called meeting for the county commissioners to meet Monday. They then may call the county council. County Auditor John Tyndall receved a telegram Friday from James Slane, president of the Indiana county commissioners association, which explains the opinion on the highway budget. It rends as follows: “An opinion rendered by the attorney general's office on House bill number 41 is that gasoline money cannot be paid out until the county highway budget has been approved by the county council. All county work should cease at I aOONTINUED ON PAGE THREE)

a matter of bookkeeping as the assessments of the municipal utilities were not shown on the abstract last year. The following table gives most of the important parts of the abstract. The first column represents real estate and improvements; the second column, personal property, the third column, state assessi ments of municipal and private utilities; the fourth, mortgage and soldiers exemptions; the fifth, valuations for 1934; and the last, valuations for 1935.

OFFICERS SEEK MAD SLAYER OF MICHIGAN LAD Seven-Year-Old Boy Is Brutally Slain By Apparent Madman YOUTH SUFFERED FEARFUL TORTURE Ypsilanti. Mich., Mar. 9 (U.R) The mad slayer of 7-year-old Richard Streicher, Jr., son of wealthy and prominent parents, was sought by combined police forces of southern Michigan towns and villages today. While authorities had no clues to his identity, they believed the brutal crime, resembling in some of its details the murder of Bobby Franks by Nathan F. Leopold and Richard Loeb, was near solution. The boy's body was found beneath a footbridge leading to a secluded island in the Huron river. Richard had been stabbed eight times in the chest. Three stab iwounde to the'heart were the center of a figure resembling either a cross or a "y" made by lacerations. His head also had been slashed. Either a knife or an ice-pick was the weapon used. Search for the killer, who authorities believed was mad, was made difficult by the probability i ! that he is clever, fast thinking, and well aide to pass as a normal person. The cross-like cut on the ■ child's chest caused them to susp ct tint religious mania might have dominated the Killer. The child’s parents are well 1 knows in thio section. Tbe father 1 is part owner and an executive of ' the Streicher tool and die works. His grandfather is a prominent automobile designer. Police did not divulge all dei tails of their search for the killer, ' indicating, perhaps, they had leads I that might result in an arrest. It I was understood that they were giving close attention to a theory that an older boy committed the crime. Post-morten examination indicat- : ed the child had been mercilessly tortured before death. Only three of the eight chest wounds reached the heart, which physicians thought indicated that live were ' inflicted only to cause pain. In (Ct >X I 1Xt■ I; I • <>N PAGE SI X ) SCHOOL HONOR ROLL IS LISTED Decatur High School Honor Roll For First Six Weeks Announced i ' The honor r<JU for the first six weeks of the second semester was announced today by W. Guy Brown principal of Decatur high school. ! l Miss Alice Jane Archbold, senior, was first on the list with 5 A’s, ' and Mary Francos Dodd and Donabelle Fenimore. freshmen: were second with 4 A’s nnd 1 B. Thirty-nine pupils are on the honor roll, which is as follows: a n Alice Jane Archbold 5 Mary Frances Dodd 4 1 , Donabelle Fenimore 4 1 Thomas Andrews 4 Barbara Burk 4 Laura Fleming 4 Katherine Knapp 1 Faye Martin 1 , Marjorie Massonnee 4 , Marguerite Staley 4 Mary Steele 4 ' Corolene Townsend 4 . Mary K. Tyndall 4 Winona Fleming 3 2 . Albert Keller 3 1 Ruth Margolies 3 1 Rosie Moyer 3 1 Agues Nelson 3 1 Zula Porter 3 1 i Irene Sell 3 1 Pauline Affolder . 2 3 Martha Calland 2 3 Ruth Smith 2 8 Virginia Breiner 2 2 Martha E. Butler 2 2 Jeanette Christen 2 2 James Christen ......... 2 2 Meredith Cline 2 2 Betty Cook 2 2 Jack Grether .... 2 2 Helen Kohls 2 2 Kathryn Kohls .22 Dwight Kimble 2 2 .Catherine Murphy . 2 2 ; Eula Myers 2 2 William Schafer 2 2 . Gertrude Schultz 2 2 i Betty Tricker . 2 2 i Bill Tuteweiler 2 2

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Farr Manufactures All-Purpose Cleaner B. R. Farr of thto city ie ;manufacturing a new ekvtner, called "Farr-iHetter" cleaner, which he in- | vented after 18 months of experimenting. Mr. Farr elates this cleaner is an all purpose cleaner, and will not harm anything that is safe . In water. ’ It contains n > alkali or soap, and when used wllu mild soap and water becomes a perfect cleaner. Some of the (practical uses are for washing clothes, cleaning wood-1 , work, painted walls, furniture, rugs . 1 automobiles, inside and out. This cleaner comes in pint sizes j and may be procured from the Farr | , laiundry or Kohne Drugstore. IMPROVEMENTS ARE PROPOSED 1 ; Citizens Telephone Company To Construct Underground Cables Thn Citizens Telephone (’omi pany proposes to construct under- ( ground cable circuits on Mercer, i avenue, south of the Erie railroad . to the city limits and from the I intersection of Mercer avenue and , i High street, along the latter' street, to the homestead division. Rebuilding of the circuit from i the M. nroe stre t river bridge in this city to the Niblick farm corner. east of Decatur, is also in-1 eluded in the extension and improvement plans, H. F. l-.hinger, general manager of the company announced. Petition will be made to the I council for a permit to lay the taped armored cable along Mercer ' avenue and High street, between the sidewalk and curb. A trench 16 inches wide and 36 inches , deep is necessary to bury the ■ | cable. The telephone company ! , ’ will remove the old poles along i these two streets ns soon ns the I underground circuit is installed. More than 7800 feet of armored I : cable will be laid for the two new circuits. At the homestead site • the telephone company will string ’ its wires on the city light and • power poles, an agreement as to • sharing of cost of constructing! i the tine being reached by city ' officials and Mr. Ehinger. i Permission has also been given ■ by the homestead division for the [ extension of the lines on the site. With the underground circuit to he laid in Berne, the telephone. | company will spend between $15,000 and $20,000 for the line eX- | tension and improvements. Mr. I Ehinger stated. More than 10,000 ! cable will bo laid in Berne for | i the new underground circuit., • Work on this project was delayed last year and construction of it I will begin as soon as the Decatur ! circuits are completed. Charles ! Heare, superintendent of the com-1 : pany. will supervise the construe-1 ' tion work. 1 Practically all of the telephone wires are now underground, the ' Mercer avenue and High street ' extensions linking up with the circuits installed several years ! ago. The Telephone company agrees | ' to fill in all trenches, tamp the I' /soil, put back the sod and take;' ! care Bf later fill-ins and street ' repairs necessary in making t»ie ■ improvement:-. LOVE BALM BILL UP TO GOVERNOR Mrs. Nicholson’s Bill To End “Love Rackets” Passes Senate Indianapolis, Mar. 9.— <U.P.) . Mrs. Roberta West Nicholson's bill . ! to end "love rackets” in Indiana '' has been sent to Gov. Paul V. Me- ! Nutt for signature. ! The measure outlaws suits for ! breach of promise and allienation ( ; of affections. It prohibits women ’ over 21 from suing for seduction ' and provider that co-respondents ' in divorce suits cannot be named , ! except at discretion of the trial ! judge. ; A fine of SIOO to SI,OOO is pro- ! vided for persons who file or , ! threaten to file pleadings in court ! which would identify any partici- , ! pant in misconduct actions. Persons who threaten to file or file , ! action to recover damages for j “heart balm" cause® also would ( '' (CONTINUED ON PAGE SIX)

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DEMO LEADERS BEAT EFFORTS TO DELAY BILL Scores Os Amendments Beaten Down In Hectic Session Last Night WOULD ELIMINATE SALES ON SUNDAY I Indianapolis, Mar. 9. —(U.R) Passj age in the senate of the administration's liquor control bill occupied the spotlight of the Indiana legislature today. Racing against time and under emphatic orders from Gov. Paul V. McNutt, administartion leaders today were prepared to rush the bill I through passage under suspension I of the rules and send it back to the house for concurrence in several i amendments. Administration forces last night j successfully defeated a move to delay passage of the measure until the special session of the gen- ! eral assembly. In a session resembling the hesI tic, adjournment-night sessions of the past, scores of amendments were offered to the bill last night. The entire Republican bloc and a half-dozen Democratic senators joined in the move to delay passage of the bill by staging an amendment filibuster. Shortly before midnight at which lime a new legislative day would have started, opponents to the bill Hooded the chair with amendments | in an effort to delaf a motion to send it to engrossment. Had they been successful, the measure necessarily would have been held over until Monday. Administration forces sensed the move and under the guidance of Sen. Jacob Weiss, Democratic floor I leader, “choked off” the fiilibuster and moved to send the bill to engrossment. 1 The motion carried 26 to 18, a bare constitutional margin. Only one important amendment was adopted out of the scores offered. It provides that no alcoiholic beverages can be sold on Sundays. Closing hours were set at 2 a. m. Sundays and sale cannot be resumed until 6 a. m. Monday. The closing hour amendment was (CONTINUED ON PAGE SIX) o MRS. GOULD IS GIVEN DAMAGES .Jury A wards $25.00(1 Damages To Mrs. Wilma E. Gould New York, Mar. 9 (U.R) —The good name of pretty, henna haired Mrs. Wilma E. Gould today was vindicated to the tune of $25,000 by a jury that believed her story of being doped and duped in a rendezvous with bogus Prince Mike Romanoff. Rut the phoney Russian nobleman born Harry Ferguson n the east side—doesn't have to kick in with the damages. They were assessed against Mrs. Gould'® brother-in-law, former Cong. Norman J. Gould, and two others- —a lawyer and a private detective —from whom she tried to collect $500,000 for conspiracy to “frame" her for divorce evidence. The trio hired the suave but illegitimate Romanoff to do the job, she charged. The jury accepted that viewafter three hours of deliberation—but it slashed the sought tariff to (CONTINUED ON PAGE THREE) 0 Maloy Funeral Services Today Funeral services for Mrs. Thomas Mai y, 63. Dixon, well known in Decatur. were held this morning at the St. Rose Catholic church in Monroeville. Rev. Theodore Fettig officiated nnd burial was in the Catholic cemetery a tMonroeville. Mrs. Maloy was a sister of the late Dr. J. W. Vizard of Pleasant Mills. She died Thursday morning at 7:36 o’clock, following an operation she underwent recently for appendicitis. Her condition was critical at the time of Dr. Vizard’s death. Surviving are the husband, three sons and three daughters, one brother, and two sisters.