Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 33, Number 68, Decatur, Adams County, 20 March 1935 — Page 1

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■UTEDBWNS iffIOMEHTTI) ■■ MEASURE Jocratic Leaders ConItOf I’assiim Work J Relief Bill Kington. March 20- <U.R> — K w „. today overwhelmingly Kj sj to 10. » work relief i Eendni-nt which would tuired the liquidation of En< y government corpora- ■ unondment was offered hy fcotna’ P S fhall ' R - Mlnn - K* rhareo that th.. RooseEinistrition was trying ‘to E, government to Betawaro ■ it would he free of the ton■n and congrewi." Kgs speech, a violent attack I ■ new deal, slowed down the ■ which this week has pro-1 K toward passage of the; works lull in a busiBe (tanner. and fifty 'ears ago • Em crossed the Debt-1 ■ SchaU said. ‘ A year and Laths ago Roosevelt and Kreiucraey colonels crossed i ■elaware and organized six Ktions that are intended to ■ver private industry in the | ■ States. Kkine hack on it. the admin-; Kt has not wanted recovery I K, deliberately set out to j Klish chaos. And in that K be*n successful." I Wants Inflation Kington, March 20 — (U.R) — ■ Ktra’ion leaders, encourag- ■ three victories on as many . Kile, nushed ahead with the | Ko.ihiO work-relief hill to- i Konfident that all further | | W alter it would he j k Kgpta to broaden the m“»- I Ku, a $10,000,000,000 public , ■ program and to give it an | ■cr twist remained to be ■ upon before final senate K the bill. B. Robert M. P.. lis sponsoring the nublie 1 ■ drive while sen. Elmer ’ Im. D, Okla., seeks to add ■ilion amendment. ■ proposal would exnand the ■ci so that it would become ■ for American taxnayers to Be taxes which will be n<o*es■BIXIEDON PAGE FIVE) r. 0 ■JTY CONTINUES p’TINGTON FIGHT Bern Indiana Power Company ■stmuee Battle Against I Mayor Clare Bangs. flitigton. Ind.. Mar. 20.—4M8 ■continuance* of the municipal I Plants service in the combi field was asked today in ■Mental paragraph added to ■nrthern Indiana Power Comb unit against the city in ■fiton circuit court. f Additional complaint asks pe municipal light plant be pd lo its status of Dec. 31. I before Mayor Clare W. H. P took office. r Clty plant’s service was exU to more than three score p and business houses under IJWvision of Mayor Bang!( . P >he first 11 days of his adrrstion. hr ngs ,lwn received -serL rt-'? CUit Court f wh requires that status P "untcipai utility remained t0...' pen( ‘ in K settlement of L. 'Watty's suit to proL lm ? y , ? lant fr °m entering pmercial field. F Storm Coate Automobiles Here RX WMhing in! >' f ollowine in th a »° o<l blwine6S P <>n t£ mud ” fltorm hocnat L** Clty Tu ‘Sday kfdron^ Uts:2ft<> ’ e,ock- [» minute/ rain Which feU for kof ?. T ied with “ a n t Cana PM wph m f that time "’ere L * 1 ‘ 11 mud after the water "“■’"! r' 0 ® the by the du ‘ ,t car ’ [»est. Th? 06 ? Wind etornie in ‘be du?? ? 01 * falllnß

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Smiles After Worries r i / I tiTf ' ’ I’ /'j f ‘ Jr *7 ? $ ——’ —z—z_ Mrs. Louella McHenry, of Onia ; ha. Neb., mother of 10-year-old AJyce Jane McHenry, "upside-, down girl," smiled happily when she read the nu ssages of congratulation on her daughter's re- ' covery from an operation at Fall I River. Mass., to correct an in- ; verted stomain. MISS PERKINS LOSES TEMPER Labor Secretary Riled When Heckled About Strachey Arrest 1 L . Tmcago. March 20-(U.Pb-T-abor i secretary Frances Perkins lost I her temper beforf* I.2ta) persons 1 | last night over heckling during a I banquet adress about the recent i arrest of Evelyn John Strachey. . British radical and former parliament member. Before wlie had done with the | subject she delivered a sarcastic | verbal spanking to 4t>B students. I professors and alumni of North- 1 1 western University and turned a chill shoulder to queries from the I floor signed by Clarence Darrow. Rabbi Felix Levy and four university of Chicago faculty members. Strachey. an author and lecturer of admittedly communistic he- ‘ liefs, was arrested on a deportation warrent last week in subur((’ONHNI’ED ON PAGE FIVE) NOTED NEWSPAPER MANAGER IS DEAD Louis Wiley, business manager of the New York Times, well known throughout country New York, March 20 — (U.R> —I Louis Wilev, business manager of the New York Times ami one of the country's most widely known | newspaper men. died today at Medical Center. He had been ill two weeks. Wiley was 65 years old and for 39 years had been associated with the New York Times, with which he rose to become one of the most I noted business managers in the nation. He began his newspaper career i in Mount Sterling, Ky., and con- | tinued it in Rochester. N- Y-. , where, "having reached the maximum reporters’ salary of $lB a week," he became business manager of the Post-Exprese. Coming to New York. Wiley first worked for Charles A. Dana and William M. Laffan. on the old New York Sun. When Adolph S. ■ Ochs took control of the New York Times. Wiley accepted a ' minor position with him and went I upward with the prosperity of that I newspaper. He became known throughout the country as an after-dinner speaker. Many foreign governments decorated him in recognition of his war services. Wiley was born at Hornell. N. Y.. on May 31. 1869. He was never married. He was a Democrat and held membership in many socie- ' ties, including the Genesee, the j Alliance Francatse, the Rochester Historical Society, the English Speaking Union, the Pilgrims, and several foreign societies. 'Funeral arrangements have not: I been announced.

DARROW SAYS NRA POLICIES AREALLWRONG F a in ous Attorney Denounces Administration’s Economic Theories Washington. March 20— (U.R) Clarence Darrow, unyielding foe; of NRA. weighed the administration’s economic theories, including the Industrial recovery act, before the senate finance committee to-1 day and found nothing good in them. The famous 77-year old lawyer whose sharp speech and fiery courtroom tactics have made him one of the nation's outstanding figures, denounced the economic theory of scarcity in smartlyturned phrases. He denounced NRA as playing into the hands of big business to i the destruction of the “little fellow.” The author of the famous report ; which denounced the NRA more than a year ago, argued that the '. NRA attacked the problem from | the wrong angle ahd that the real ; trouble lay in the failure of distribution machinery. Some sort of socialism alone. I he said, would remedy it —and he . wasn’t absolutely sure about that. "These theories.” he naid, "look good on paper.” 'Slumped in the witness chair. I with only a straggling miskept lock of hair visible to Darrow threw the room into frequent gales of laughter. The few senators who tried to defend NRA met immediate and sharp repulses from the lawyer. Claims that it helped organized labor, reduced unemployment anil abolished child labor he swept aside witTi the generaP“!fWßerttnn it would have happened anyhow. The unions, he said, had fought I their battles effectively before and | were winning on all fronts. Less (CONTINUED ON PAOE FIVE) MUSIC LEADERS IN CONFERENCE North Central Music Educators Holding Annual Conference Indianapolis, Mar. 20. — (U.R) — Delegates to the fifth biennial meeting of the north central music eductaors' conference devoted today’s session to a study of Catholicism and paying tribute to parochial music writers. With high officials of the Catholic church participating, delegates attended solemn high mass at the SS. Peter and Paul cathed- j ral where a massed choir of 5001 high school students sang appropriate parochial songs. The Rev. Edwin V Hoover, director of Cardinal's cathedral choirsters of Chicago, wae the speaker. Bishop Josepn E. Ritter, of the Indianapolis diocese, presided. Sectional meetings at which delegates studied various forms of (CONTINUED ON PAGE FIVE) 0 Riley Grade School Selects Operetta “What's the Matter with Sally” Is the rnme of the operetta which has b f en chosen to be presented by the piifrile of the Riley school on I May 3. Every child of tfte Riley ■ building will appear in the operetta, it wae announced, and pteparations ' are being made for the pr sentation. —o Officer Recovers Stolen Automobile A Chevrolet ouch, owned by Ed Colter of route 2, Decatur, was recovered early thus morning by Grover Cottrell, night policeman. The car was stolen from its parking plaice at the corner of Monroe and Second streets at 9:30 o clock Tuesday night. It was found ot 2.30 I o’clock this morning on west Monroe street. The owner wae called , ( and an examination revealed that j the onlv damage wae n flat tire. It is believed that the car was,, taken by a joy rider and abandoned i when toe tire wae -punctured. I

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Decatur, Indiana, Wednesday, March 20' 1935.

Ask Cooperation To Keep Streets Clean Bensons who 'park Dhelr automobiles nil night on Second street will be aaked to move them to aide i street* on the night* the street* are ewept, It was decided at a meeting | of the city council Tuesday evening. I Ralph Roop, civil works comm is- ■ { sioner, told the council that hla deiparUnent has been caused consider- | able difficulty and expense by the 1 Dirked automobiles. As a conven- i ienn-e to the public the streets are swept about 3 o’clock in the morning with a m?cL>anlcal sweeper. It is difficult to sweep around an autommile. Crews must follow up the sweeper the next day and sweep the places where care have been Dirked . The city has no ordinance pr hibiling all night parking. The council b-lievee that if the city-police notify the persons whose cars are parked on Second street on the nights tilie •pavement is to be swept, the owners will remove th-eir automobiles. CITY COUNCIL MEETS TUESDAY Decatur Council Holds Regular Semi-Month-ly Meeting Mrs. Ed Deitsch appeared b fore; i the city council Tuesday night on behalf of the property owners on South Fifth street from Elm street I to the South Word athletic field, find ask-d that it be surfaced in a manner to lay the dust. The request wae referred to the street and sewer committee f r vestigationThe reports that the crossings at the intersections of the Pennsylva-1 - nin, Erie and Nickle Plate railroads | with the exception of that at Win- , oh+ster street were in a bad condi-' tion were diecuHsed. City Attorney Herman Myerw was rder-d to | notify the railroads toat the cross--1 inge should be repaired. A petition to lay underground 1 armored cablas along Mercer avenue and High str ete in Decatur i was presented by the Citizens Tele- | phone company The petition asked that the city I j permit them to run the cablas between the curls and the side walks crossing the street only at the intersections. The excavations are to be 36 inches wide and 16 inches I deep. ’Dhe matter was referred to the street and sewer committee. A petition by W. A. Whittenbarger forth? extension of the city’s lines to hie farm in Union township was referred to the light and 'power | committee. Tbe city council was requested to provide parking places for the sheriff and city ipolice neir the! court house. It was also requested that spate be kept open in front of the city hall for loading city trucks. The matur was referred to toe street and sewer committee. o WOMAN CARRIED HUGE CASH SUM ■ Woman Taken Fr o m Train With $173,000 Resided At Hammond Battle Creek, Michigan March 20 —(UP> —Police discovered possible clue to the identity of a woman past I middle age who early today was, taken from a train in a semi-hyster- ‘ ical condition, nnd traveling with ' an envelope containing $173,000 in cash. While the woman was kept under ' observation at a local 'hospital, po- ■ I lice checked through her effects ! and discovered -envelopee and pv | 1 pers which had been addressed to her at the Mee hotel, Hammond, j Indiana. Tbei-e also wae correspondence from the Fifth avenue bank, New York City, concerning recent heavy soles of bonds and securitiesOther'papers in h- riroeseseion indicated she was involved in some sort of litigation wito a man named Sigmon McHie, who police believe to be her husband or other relative. Shortly after midnight the officers boarded a Chicago to Montreal ( train when summoned by the train - crew. They said a woman on board seemed careless with money and was in appirent mental distress. As the woman was removed to an ’ ambulance she dropped an envelope (CONTINUED ON PAGE FOUR) '

MAY ESTABLISH CITY DOG POUND City Council Will Pass Ordinance Requiring Dog License Decatur may have a dog pound if it can be determined which city fflcial will be the dog catcher. At a meeting of the council Tuesday night every person present from Mayor Arthur R. Holthouse to Chief of Police Sephus Melchi was offered the job. A reporter from the Decatur Democrat escaped the buck-passing by eliding down in his seat and busying himself, taking notes. The subject of passing an ordinance to license dogs and elimin- , ate strays in the city wae brought up by George Stults, a member of i the council's ordinance committee. Mayor Holthouse asked for sugptstions. City Attorney Herman Myers stated that at a meeting of | the ordinance committee it had been recommended that a dog pound be established. He suggest- ! civil works department, siiggest--1 <d to give the job to Ralph Roon'e ing that they use the city's trucks in gathering the dogs. Herman Gillig made a motion that the matter be referred to the I ordinance committee and the city attorney. The committee will report at the next meeting with an ordinance requiring the licensing of <logs. establishment of a dog pound for the city and designating that 1 one of the citv departments in | carrying out the provisions. An ordinance to licence dogs in the city has been requested by a | number of citiz- is who state that | stray dogs are destroying properI ty. A plan to license the dogs and require owners to place tags on i th- m Is being worked vntf in a manner similar to that in a numi her of Indiana cities. This will ' enable persons who have dogs :o (CONTINUED ON PAGE FIVE) O — TERRIFIC DUST STORM IS FELT Midwest Suffering From One Os W orst Dust Storms In History Ry United Prese One of the worst dust storms in ! midwest history rolled across • ting out the sun. halting traffic I Kansas and Neraska today, blotI ai.d forcing people to stay within their homes. Thousands of tons of dirt, in the form of fine particles, swept through the air. When the wind slackened it settled to a depth of half an inch or less. It sifted inito houses, office buildings and i shops. It crunched underfoot and I settled gently upon those on the ! street®. In the homes it was alI most as bad. Wet sheets packed I about door lams and window casj ings did little to keep it out. Kansas, to whom the dust storms have become commonpl-we in the last two weeks, go to bed with the dirt, shake it off the covers in the morning and find it at the breakfast table. It is impossible tn clean houses. Wet cloths leave a muddy trail. The mere washing of the hands is followed by that earthy odor that comes with a spring shower on a dusty road. In many Kansas and Nebraska towns street lights burned through(CONTINUED ON PAGE FIVE) o Rotary Scout Troop Will Meet Tonight Sylvester Everhart, soout-rr.ister of Rotary troop number 61. announced today that a mestlngof the troop will be h Id tonight at 7 o’clock in the Centra! school house to discuss plane for repairing the scout cabin located on the Central Sugar company’s ground along the St. Mary's river. The cai'iln was given to the boyo several months ago by Dale W. McMillen. He also moved it to the site along the St. Mary’s river. The boys are now -planning to iptit a foundation under it and prepare it for use. The troop will hold its meetings there as soon as possible.

YOUTH ADMITS FAKING STORY OF KIDNAPING Alvin Bollenbacher Got “Cold Feet” On Eve of Wedding Ceremony "I got cold fest," said Alvin 80l- , lenbacher, 18, aon of William G- 801-1 lenbacher of Jefferson township, as he confessed to Ed. Rose, st<ito -po-' licenian. and Leo Oilrig, Adams county d -puty sheriff this morning. The youth was to have married Pauline Rupert, 16, of Bryant Sat-' urday. Friday night he dieapipeared . and returned Saturday with a fantastic story of how three men had kidnaped ihim and held him captive for 28 hours. He t- Id officials this morning that be lost his nerve on the eve of 1 his wedding and planned and e»e-' . uted the hoax himself. According 1 to his story he spent most of the ’ day driving, ipu-tly in Ohio. ' i He announced to the officials that he lhad married Miss Rupert. Mon1 day. The lioenee had been obtained 1 Friday afternoon a few hours befiore his fake -kidnaping. 1 i The boy broke down under the ! grilling ot th? authorities this morning when the faults in his wierd ' ctory were pointed out. The lack of possible motive and the fact that altoough he stated he had been driven continuously for 28 hours his ‘ speedometer register d only 186 miles were among the flaws in his j l istoryAccording to his story he had ' ' fought off the men with a muzzle loading ,cap firing pistol until one of the men slipped up behind him , in his own home and cov- red him. He was toen loaded into his own par and driven for 28 hours with , 1 only one stop for food and water, : (and that was a few hours after the ’'kidnaping. This was one of the i points on which the authorities H [proved his story false, in that, he ' showed no desire to at or drink 1 after his return. Bollenbaci'.ier admitted that he | faked the cross and scratches on I his hand which he stated were pro- ■ du< -d by some pointed instrument. After cDtaining the confession the ■ athoritie.s did not investigate the other points in his story. As he did not writ • ransom notes ..r att mpt ‘ to extort money for his return, it j is probable that no action will be taken against him. o Church Brotherhood Will Meet Tonight 'I ‘ | The men’s brotherhood of the ■ I Christian church will meet at the i home of Joe Cloud on Mercer ave- | nue tonight at S -o’clock. All m?m---i ! bers are urg d to be present as u good speaker has been obtained. OHIO LEADERS DENY CHARGES — Democratic Leaders Deny Looting Federal Relief Funds Columbus. 0., March 20—<U.R)~ Three sensational affidavits charging a systematic “shakedown” at the direction of men in the inner circles of the Democratic party in Ohio, today brought denials of any wrong-doing from the principals. Francis W. Poulson, chairman of the Democratic state executive committee, disclosed that about $20,000 has been raised by the , committee since the November ! election but he declared that he ■ had never made any promises or . representations of business favors ,! in connection \vith the solicitation of contributions. Poulson and two assistants, John McCombe, Ravenna, and I Jack North, were summoned to I appear before the Franklin county grand jury tomorrow in connection with the affidavits. Those who made the affidavits, William McNamara, Tom Jones, relief commission employes, and Kenneth Aller, a trucking con-' tractor, were summoned, as was probate judge George Nye. Pike county, member of the executive committee. K. C. Stillman, FERA regional (CONTINUED ON PAGE FOUR)

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Solicitor General z ;/Z r A Stanley Reed, above, general counsel of the RFC. was appointed by President Roosevelt to be solicitor genual of United States, succeeding J. Crawford Biggs, of North Carolina. FEW MEASURES ~ AFFECT COUNTY Major Bill Makes County Council Approve All Appropriations i Indianapolis. Mar. 20. —<U.P)~AI- ' though the 1935 legislature enacted few laws to regulate county business, one of them had a farI reaching effect. It amended an 1889 law to provide that all money received by the county must be appropriated by the county council before it 1 may be spent by the commission ers. unless the statutes expressly! authorize the spending without an appropriation. The new act temporarily halted ; ; county highway maintenance and improvement work because commissioners will not be permitted to go ahead with the projects tin ; til the money is specifically appro priated by the county council. The general practice in the past.' had been for the commissioners to order the work done in anticipa-, tion of the county's share of gasoline tax receipts. After the tax - ' money was received, it was appropriated to pay for work which already had been completed in most i instances. Under the new law.' however, the appropriation must | be made before the work is start-1 ed. Some of the counties have found | it a hardship because it threw sev- 1 eral families back on relief rolls,, pending re-arrangement of the - system. Another important bill affecting county’ business provides for a hange in the system of paying for ' the feeding of prisoners in county ' jails. Hereafter, sheriffs will not be allowed more than cents per meal for each prisoner in Marion j and Lake counties nor more than! 20 cents a meal in other counties.:, The state board of accounts will determine the exact amount to be j allotted the sheriffs and will check! up on the sheriff's books. The bill i (CONTINUED ON PAGE FIVE) 1 o I MANY CANDIDATES SIGN WITH K. OF C. Decatur Lodge of Knights of Columbus Plan Initiation for Sunday. May 19 I More than n dozen candidates anj several reinstate.mien.ts have already been signed in the Knights of Columbus mobilization of Catholic Ac- 1 tion campaign, now underway. It is planned to hold an initiation in this city on Sunday, May 19, providing 20 or more candidates can be obtained. The quota of new members has been fixed at 55 by the state committee, and although this number may net be obtained, the local committee is hopeful of securing a good number. Th? membership committe is composed .of Clarence Heiman, - i’airman; Luzern Uhrick, Frances WertrDerger. Florian Getmer, Henry Brown Arthur Lengerich, Hubert Schmitt, Clayson Carroll, Herman Miller. Cornelius Geimer, William 1 Parent, Joe Lose, Joe Laurent.

FRANCE SENDS SHARP PROTEST AGAINST MOVE Britain, France And Italy Will Hold Conference Saturday Latest developments in the European arms crisis: London — Britain, France and Italy act together to counteract Germany’s rearmament. A joint ' conference will be held in Paris Saturday. Another will be held as- ! ter British statesmen have visited Berlin, Warsaw and Moscow. Paris —France sends note of protest to Berlin and decides to notify league of Germany's action. Rome — Mussolini confers with officials on situation after taking initiative in inviting Britain and France to confer. Geneva — League circles see French course as move to block further violations of the Versailles treaty. If France's action takes the form of an appeal, a special session of the council would bo called. Berlin —Elaborate bomb and gas defense maneuvers are held in wake of military air display. Moscow — Concern over German ■ re-armament shown as official press attacks Britain for weakness of note to Germany. Strengthen Army Paris, Mar. 20.-(U.R>—The French army must be strengthened without delay. Premier Pierre Etienne Flandin told the senate today as a result ot the European arms ! crisis. His speech came shortly after the cabinet had drafted a strong note of protest to Germany, had decided to make representations to ' the League of Nations about ft. and had accepted an invitation to confer with Great Britain and Italy in Paris on Saturday. Speaking in the senate on the pending extension of French military service, Flandin energetically (CONTINUED ON PAGE FIVE) Andy Foos Condition Reported Improved The condition of Andy Foos, city | plant engin er. was reported os I "much improved" this morning. Ati tending physicialiw expressed the belief that he had a fifty-fifty ! . liance of recovery. o INDIANA SOYBEAN DEFINITELY NAMED “Early Indiana Laredo" To Be Used As Label For Indiana Grown Soybean Seed Washington. Mar. 20.—(Special) —"Early Indiana Laredo" will be acceptable for use this season as a label for Indiana grown soybean seed of a variety that resembles Laredo but matures earlier than the true long-season Laredo soybean which is popular as a hay crop in the south. "Some confusion exists" the U. S. department of agriculture says, "because there is no accurate and commonly used name for a variety of soybeans grown in southern Indiana which is similar in some respects to Laredo, but among other differences matures from two to three weeks earlier. "This department has called attention to the marked difference in value between thte variety and the true Laredo for use in the south where the true Laredo is particularly valuable as a hay-preducing crop. This has no reference to the value of the variety in the are* where it is adapted for use as a hay variety, as in the southern part of the corn belt. “To prevent misunderstandings between the selling interests in the producing area and the buying interests in the south, tbe department advises that it will recognize, for the present season at least, the use of the term, ’Early Indiana Laredo”, to designate this early maturing variety. This term should indicate to the southern buyer that the seed is a variety that matures earlier than true Laredo. Seed of this variety so designated will not be considered misbranded under the interstate clause of the federal seed act. If. however,, this early variety is designated simply as 'lndiana Laredo’ or as ‘Laredo’, it will be considered misbranded.”