Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 33, Number 69, Decatur, Adams County, 21 March 1935 — Page 1

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■[J 1T41.Y ||lEsT MOVE ■|sE BY HITLER R e Calls On League Nations To Act In ■ Arms H l'» 1,1 „ i. v. crisis: t,. Ib-ilin asainst Iter ■„ r b"' 'b-n.any. MW ' "" l M. ■ '■■■nil.' ■?... . ■ A "Un<al iW. <.i be .al ’• was heM is th? Q'"" ! ’b i! a |Whf MOT u bo deaga.n< |^L ( ..... ."al S'" »a- ' ::.<->i O |Kai,a ■ ' Paris. of deveinimiente Move To Cbmax ■_ .. - n a-..| .*.'".y today a n historic climax UH l * ■ ' oistf"' ll . be h.-l.i .raiitu the in April ■ to Ger- : '.eponsible . ■c ..:. her air .i.. negotiation n . >’. • to d r ■ ■ms County Man W I' Named As Heir .; K pfer of ■ an Switz.TM l .ns al" ’ J 1"..- latter -.. • and Joe da. rec tv.-d SB - — -o - — - B KS AM) MUSIC ■pen (OMEXTION Music Teaches And Leaders Annual Convention At IngM dutApolls This Week. Ake qj.p) „f . b'.ulerat •.« 1 ' and th ' business n of the ■> 1 Musi; Educators’ ■"" mini. t..,e Ilers and leadtoday. federated Music chib or- ■"' iipetind . con- ■° r ‘ with ar. w!ff |.i \v. Otto us the M-e ~ Institute Chicago. ® ons of officers in the var SB districts of the federation MB/’’" 11 ' m t ) 1( . opening session. SBJ e d among the officers who |W ed were Miss Florence |B’ Michigan City; Mrs. Mabel Kokomo, and Mrs. Ingle, Jr., Evansville. address by Dr. G Bromley President of DePauw uniand a concert by the Deuniversity choir, featured the s “ssion of the educators' ■arence. ■ '""'am spoke on the subject ■J*' the necessary eon1 a ’inging world." ■r’ S SPSsion "iH '»■ featur.a ",' U 9" Estival ■■'’neert. ■ f n 'v'“"i re(l Persons will take J and ln,;riini, 'i'tal prtn V □ SMalon - devoted ■r typJ U , d> ’ of Parochial and wi ,p C '" | rch music, was ■ Edwin 1 „ a(W ''eM by the ■Cardinal ~h H ' .’°V er' dire ctor of ■ ‘■horisters of Chicago.

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!♦— --♦! RUSH SEASON I | | Sheriff Dalian Brown today ! | disagreed with government I meterologists who state that | I spring began al 7:18 o'clock |l I ; this morning. I Last week Sheriff Brown saw a number of boys swimming "au nature!" in Second Creek. This, the sheriff says, j is a better eign of spring than marble shooting and the return i of the robin. However, today is the day i that days and nights are equal in length the world over. At | 7:18 o’clock this morning the sun crossed the equator at al [ i point in the Atlantic ocean about 200 miles east of the I I I mouth of the Amazon river. INSPECT WORK AT HOMESTEAD Architects Who Designed Local Project Awarded Chicago Contract Quinn and McNally, the firm of archkecte who designed live ' <ll subsistence homesteads project here, have been awarded a contract to design a $6,000,000 cheap housing pro} ct for Chicago. J Edwin Quinn and Frank M Nally, members of the firm, witi'i John H. LaDwke aeatetant to the : chief of constnictii n of the homesteads division, and H. W. MacGregor, purchasing agent for the department. looked over the houses here today. The actual construction work on the h useo be?n tilmost completed by ti>e contractors. Most of ; j the laborers and office help have : been laid offOccupancy of the houses will be . by-Hwie neeessarv W> corn- ■ Lplet* the sewers and cisterns. The wonk is being done by FERA laborere. Th-e houses have all been ten <ilively allotted to the (purchasers. The contracts for the actual pur- | chase cf th? homesteads will not be done for several monti’s- This will await the filial compstotions of the cotte of the houses. Every effort is being mad' to ke?p all the houses b low s3,tK<) each. The cost f each house will vary with the size of th-" house an?! the kst and the amount of work done in the construction. It will not include garag s or ' poultry Gou-ses •-s first planned. With the increase in cost of materials since the first plane were made it was determined to eliminate th? out buildings rather than increase the nvfit to the individual purchasers. Elks Will Sponsor Bridge And Dance The Decatur lodge of the B. PIO. Elks will sponsor a benefit bridge and dance Wednesday evening. May 1. at the lodge home on North Second street. The general public is invited to attend the . May Day affair, tickets for which , will sell at 35 cents per person, and will include both cards and dancing. Prize*; in bridge will be awarded to both men and women. REPORT GROSS INCOME HIGHER 1 f 1 Indiana Taxpayers Income Indicates $200,000,000 Increase Indianapolis, Mar. 21. With tab- ■ ulation of tajc payments on 1934 • annual gross income tax returns - nearing completion, an increase of ■ approximately $200,000,000 in the ' income of Indiana taxpayers lasi year in comparison with 1933 is > Indicated, according to Clarehce A. . Jackson, director of file gross in come tax division. Total income reported on tax returns for the period from Muy 1. i 1933, when the law began oper- . ation, to December 31. 1933. amounted to $1,287,000,000, or an I estimated $1,900,000,000 for the full I year 1933. Estimates of income for , 1934, based on tax payments, place , 1934 income at approximately $2. f 1100,000,000. The average rate of •I (CONTINUED ON PAGE SEVEN)

STORM OF DUST BRINGS UNTOLD CROP DAMAGE Middle West Suffering Severe Damage From Continued Dust Storm Kansas City, Mo.. Mar. 21. —(U.R) -Middle America today turned j dust inflamed eyes toward a sickly > sun and saw in spring's first day . ' not a promise of fruitfulness but a portent of repealed disaster. Dust from the fields and barren.; jof half a dozen states shrouded ! crop hopes of farmers and brought : acute discomfort to every living creature, from humans to barnyard fowl. Drought, which left the soil I wifGout an anchor against Morch gales, persisted in the middle, south and northwest. It appeared the $1,000,000,006 damage to crops wrought by I drought last year might be repeat- | ! cd. Today the storm area extended from Texas to the Dakotas, from ’ i Oklahoma to Illinois. Hundreds of I thousands of acres were covered with a plant-stifling layer of dust! that settled to earth as the wind subsided. Only rain or snow can clear the air, but no precipitation of any sort was indicated over the plains region until Friday. Then showers of muddy water may fall over Missouri and lowa. Snow is fore cast for the Dakotas. Nebraska may get scattered thunder showers. In Kansas and Missouri house wives and municipalities could i only await the settling of the dust i before starting the seemingly hope I less task of cleaning homes and I 'streets ShoreTs displaced ♦trnowrri in some communities. Kansas, the greatest wheat grow-1 ing state in the world, now has the • worst crop prospects since 1866 according to R. 1. Throcknorton. head of the agronomy department I of Kansas State college. Vnited States Secretary of Agri culture Henry A. Wallace removed i (UONTINFED ON PAGE SEVEN) O FREE TEXT BOOK BILL IMPORTANT Several Educational Measures Passed By Last Legislature Indianapolis, Ind., March 21 — (UP) — Rille providing free text! b oks for elementary .pupils and minimum salary increas s for pub-' lie school tecchera were considered the most important of several edu- ! cation measures enacted by the, 1935 legislature. In passing the free text b.ok law. I t'be 1 gielature settled a problem which has confronted every session - of t ie Indiana gen r.il assembly for more than 10 years. Introduced by Rep. William J. Black, D.. Anderv-a n, and signed by 30 colleagues, it provides that local" school boards may furnish free. texts to pupils in elementary gmd s upon petition of -51 per cent of the registered voter*?. The local corporations may levy either a special tax or may pay ' th? coet fn m their special school I funds. During the first year of the law’s I operation, free texts probubly will ! i be provided only for the first few i grades. After that the number of I grades will Hie increased until all eight are provided for. Although the teachers were voted j a salary increase, it will not go into effect untl Ithe beginning of the 1936 term. 1 The present minimum sakirhe of, SBO6 a year for grades and ?D6OO a (CONTINUED ON PAGE SEVEN) I “ Albert Mutschler Condition Better The condition of Albert Mutsch-1 ler. who is a patient nt the Adams County Memorial Hospital. Is reported to be improving by hospital ; attaches. It was stated that Mr. Mutechler had been placed on a more lib nil diet and tihat he was permitted to have visitors for a short time.

Decatur, Indiana, Thursday, March 21, 1935.

Europe Awaits Their Parley * \ T ; ' # a Diploomatic conversations to be held hetweeu nir John Simon, left. British foreign secretary, and Adolf Hitler, reichsfuehrer of Germany, on the Franco-British peach proposals are awaited with keen ; interest by other European nations. Hitler replied to the Britisli protest on rearmament by assuring Sir Simon that Germany was still willing to consider collective European security pacts.

TAX COMMITTEE PREPARES BILL State Legislative Committee Bill Would Revise County Government Indianapolis*. Ind., March 21 — (UP) — The state legirilative tax study committ e has prepared a bill completely revising county govijrnnient in an effort t> reduce local I governmental costs to a minimum, -(.it «• s ammuHced today. . The committee was named by the ' two hous- s of th* 1935 legislature . to study tax needs and report at I either the special session next summer or at the 1937 regular assembly Abolition of boards of county commissioners and reduction in the nu.T.b rof towns’ips in many of the Inrger counties, recotnmended by the govern r’s committee on gov-' ' ernmental economy, are most im-> portant changes proposed in the. bill.. The county auditor would he [ made the most important official under the reorganization act. Th ’ m-.'isure will be studied by the full legislative committee at its i next meeting May 3. In the mean-i time, the committee will make vis-1 its to other atat.s to study tax laws. I Part of the committee has gone , to Ohio to study toe consumers’ sales tax law in effect there. West Virgin*!, Kentucky and Michigan also will be visited. Enactment of the sales tax in Indi iana will depend upon whether con I gress ad pts a social security pro-, i gram which must be supplemented with state revenue-producing legis-l | iaiio.T. In drafting county reorganization I legislation, the committee hopes to | bring general reduction in town-, I ship tax levies throughout the state - it was announced. Members of the committ *e in-, (CONTINUED ON PAGE SEVEN) ' o KENTUCKY BOY SCOUT KILLED — State Police Ordered Out By Governor To Prosecute Murderer Whitesburg. Ky„ March 21 — I <U.R> —State police under Gen. El-j lerbe W. Carter invaded the east- j ern Kentucky mountains today for ■ I the second time this year, invest!- ■ ' gating the slaying of an 18-year- j old Boy Scout and wounding of a scoutmaster. Gov. Ruby Laffoon dispatched i the police to Letcher county to. assist local officers in prosecution of Denver Tolliver, mountaineer I who police say admitted killing Clyde Quillen, the scout. Sheriff W. H. Caudill said Cos-1 sle Quillen. 21. cuosin of Clyde, and his scoutmaster, was shot | from ambush as he talked with a group of boys around a camptire I near Jenkins, Ky. Tolliver denied shooting him, i (.CONTINUED ON PAGE THREE) |

ELEVEN-MONTH OLD BABY DIES TODAY James Delano Micheli dies Shortly After Noon Today After Short Illness of Pneumonia Jam b Delan Micheli. 11 month old baby of Mr. and Mrs. Anglo Micheli of St. Mary’s township, died at 12:30 o'clock this astern on at hie home of pneumonia. The l»aby had been ill since Monday. The ichild «>ts born in St. Mary’s township on May 12. 1934. a son of Mr. and Mrs. Anglo Micheli. Il * waa , the only child in the family. Surviv-f ing besid b the parents are the. 1 grandparents. Mr. and Mrs. Burl, Williamson of St. Mary’s townwhip. Private funeml services will be h id at the bore, probably Saturday. Definite arrangements have not b.en comp! ted. Burial will be in toe Catholic cemetery. | The body will be returned to the . Micheli home Friday morning from , Zwick'i funeral homo. ORGANIZE TO BATTLE CRIME National Police Army Being Organized To Fight Gangsters Chicago, Mar. 21.— (U.R) — Five [ years from now any gangster who I tries to emulate John Dillinger or l"Pretty Boy" Floyd will be bump,ed into oblivion before he gets started. A national police army I being organized now behind the : scenes will do the trick. Authority for the statement is I Donald ('. Stone, director of the consulting division of public adI ministration service, editor of the monthly news letter of the International Association of Police I Chiefs and expert on criminal law I and detection. I Department of justice man huntI ers back him up. i Fourteen states and more than I 150 cities probably will act this year to align themselves with a 'nationally organized network of I police agencies which is expected I eventually to make the interstate gangster as extinct as the dodo. The plan for a country-wide force i (CONTINUED ON PAGE FIVE) O Legion, Auxiliary Will Meet Friday — Adams pc-fit number 43 of the [ Acnerkun Legion and the legion I auxiliary will hold a joint meeting at the hall Friday evening at 7:30 I o’clock. Edgar "Slim” Lorbrr, Columbia City, will be the (principal speaker. All members are urged to be preesnt for this .social meeting. Man Wanted In Fort Wayne Is Captured I Los Angeles, Mar. 21.— (U.R) — .Denys Fisher Jones, sought for two years on charges of imperson- | ating an army officer in Ft. Wayne. [lndiana, was in custody of federal here today.

ANNUAL CHURCH CONFERENCE TO BE HEED HERE Evangelical Church Conference Will Be Held Here May 1 To 5 Preparations are underway for the holding of the eighty-third annual session of the Indiana conference of the Evangelical church tn this city next May. The conference will open May 1 and will be in session until Sunday evening. May 5. The meetings ' will be held at the First Evangeli ical church on Winchester street 1 and arrangements pertaining to entertaining the conference are being made by Rev. M. W. Sundermann, local pastor and a committee of laymen. Bishop George E. Epp, DD. of the Central area, will preside at all the conference sessions. The conference proper will open on the afternoon of the first day with the celebration of the Holy . Communion, in which all members and their friends will participate. The conference will see the as--1 sembling of 218 delegates, several hundred lay visitors from throughout Indiana and parts of Ohio and Illinois and clergy of the area. Eighty-seven churches will be represented. During the conference ordination ceremonies will be held and the appointments of Evangelical min- ■ isters will take place. Candidates for the ministry will he examined on Tuesday night, preceding the opening of the conference. The ceremonies, conduct).<.‘d by Bishop Epp, and the service at which appointments are anI nounced. will be held Sunday afternoon and evening at the Reformed church in this city, due to larger seating capacity at the latter church. Featuring the many outstanding addresses scheduled for the fiveday conference, will be those of Bishop Epp. Reymond M. Veh, of Cleveland, editor of the Crusader, ■ official paper of the Young Peoples I society and Bishop A. R. Clipping- ; er. DD . Dayton. Ohio, of the Unit- ' ed Brethren church, who will speak i on the proposed union of the Evangelical and United Brethren churches. District superintendent Rev. I). A. Kaley of Indianapolis will also attend. There will he three sessions daily, namely at 9 a. m., 2 p. m., (CONTINUED ON PAGE FIVE) O t Burk’s Condition Is Reported Worse The condition of G. T. Burk, well known local coal and grain dealer, who is confined to his home recuperating from injuries received in an automobile accident last November was reported not so good today. Mr. Burk is auffertng a browhial ailment and he is reported to be weaker. Mrs. Burk, who was also injured in the accident, is reported to he ab..ut the same. NEW BONUS BILL OFFERED TODAY Compromise Measure Would Cut Immediate Payment Cost in Half Washington. March 21 —(UP) — In a desperate, last minute maneuver to halt the surging bonus drive in the house, Rep. Sim D. Mcßeynolds, D„ Tenn., today offered a compromise bill which would cut the cost of immediate payment to $1,000,000',000. Mcßeynolds’ plan was offered in a final effort to head off b’.’.e apparently irresistible sweep of house members toward passage of a bonus measureHe said his plan had not been discussed with the administration, however, Mcßeynolds is a recognized administration spokesman. In offering his proposal to reduce the cost of the bonus from $2,000,000,000 to $1.000.000",000. He warned that neither the Vinson nor the Patman plans of paying the veterans’ (JCONTINUED ON PAGE THREE)

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Mathias Kirsch Thanks Friends For Flowers Mathias Kirsch, retired banker and prominent resident of bhls city who has been a patient at Lutheran hospital. Fort Wayne, sent word with relatives that he wished to express appreciation to his many friends who have remembered him with cards, flowers and greetings. Mr. Kirsch asked that all be thank- 1 ed for the kind remembrances. Mr. I Kirsdli’s condition remains about the same. HIGHER TAXES THREAT HURLED Sen. LaFollette Wages Fight To Double Relief Appropriation Washington, March 21 —(UP) Administration supporters beat down Senator Robert M. LaFollette’c left wing proposal to double the work relief appropriation to the huge sum of $9,880,000,000 today. The vote was 78 to 8. — Washington, March 21.— (U.R) — The threat of sharply higher taxes was hurled into the senate work . relief bill debate today by Senato.- i Robert M. LaFollette. P., Wis., as | he waged a vigorous fight to double the relief appropriation to $9,880, I 000,000. LaFollette injected his threat as senate administration leaders toiled to speed the relief 7)111 to a final ■ vote before Sen. Huey P. Long. D., La., returned from Louisiana. I Long's appearance before a vote is taken would, it was feared, result in fresh and acrimonious delays. I Leaders hoped to pass the bill I before the week-end. laiFollette demanded that a taxation schedule be worked ont on a basis of “ability to pay.” "In this economic crisis," he de-i dared, "Great Britain has been the only nation with the courage to tax on ability to pay. In comparison ’ with Great Britain we have onethird of their per capita indebtedness." LaFollette argued strongly for ' ON PAGE THREE) j REMOVE RAN ON WHEAT GROWING Secretary Mallace Removes Restrictions On 1935 Spring Wheat . Washington, March 21 —(UP) — Housewives had cause to hope today that br <id prhes will tbe held ,! to reasonable levels and that soar- , ing meat costs will be checked. Menace of drought and a grain shortage, presoged by a gigantic dust storm gripping ti'.ie middle west, comp lied secretary of agriculture Henry A. Wallace to remove all restrictions on the 1935 produc- l | tion of spring wheat. His announcement came amid I I natioral anxiety over rising food I i prices. Th.? government, he said, owed a duty to consumers and could | not take a chance on weather. , Virtually all important crop adjustment programs now provide for expansion of production this year. Th'? AAA has increased the allowance for hogs by one-fifth above ' last year and the corn allowance is one-eighth larger. Crop acroige for this year, anotiher report of the department indicated, generally will'be greater than . in 1933 and 1934 The acreage, ex-! • elusive of cotton, was estimated at . ■ 285,775.000 as compared with 224,- i (CONTINUED ON PAGE THREE) , Mrs. J. T. Gilliom Dies At Portland L Mrs. J. T. Gilli m, 66. former ' Monroe resident, died Tuesday 1 night at her home in Portland. Mr. Gilliom was formerly section fore--1 man. on the Pennsylvania railroad. ■ The deceased is survived by the ' husbind. a son. Carl of Portland and a half-sister, Mrs, Daniel Vogel ’ of Columbus, Ohio- ' Funeral services will be held at 1 the Portland M. E. church Friday ; at 2:30 p. m„ in charge of Rev. E. E. Wickersham of Portland and Rev. H. R. Otrson of Decatur.

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ALLEGE EFFORT TOOEFRAODON PWA PROJECTS Engineers And Contractors Indicted In Federal Public Works Scandal Washington, March 21.— (U.R) — 'Seven prominent engineers and i contractors were indicted today on i charges of plotting to defraud the government on a $4,853,000 Texas 1 irrigation project, the major scandal in the federal public works proj gram. The indictment, returned by the I first special federal grand jury called here since the Teapot Dome oil scandals of 10 years ago. named a former high PWA official, three wealthy California lumbermen and three Texans. They were accused of conspiring to provide for use of 250 miles of California redwood pipe in the Willacy county, Texas, irrigation project which under plans originally approved by PWA called for i use of no pipe at all. Those indicted: Col. Charles R. Olberg. discharged engineer examiner formerly in charge of PWA irrigation work and an internationally known en- ! gineer. Harry W. Cole, San Francisco, president of the California Redwood Association and vice-presi-dent of the Hammond and Littlo River Redwood company. Leonard C. Hammond, San Francisco. vice president of the Hammond Lumber company. James P. Barry, San Francisco, ' engineer for the Hammond com- | panies. William A. Harding, Raymondville. Tex., director of the Willacy I county water control and improve- ! ment district No. 1. Frank P. McElwrath. Corsicana, Tex., contractor and banker. Harry A. Welty, Fort Worth, Tex., former engineer examiner for the Texas PWA. Cole, Harding and Hammond reputedly are millionaires. Barry also is said to be wealthy. The blanket 18-page indictment, [citing 28 alleged overt acts, charg(CONTINUED ON PAGE FIVE) Jury Selected To Hear Damage Suit A jury was selected this morning in the $3,000 damage suit filed by Nora C. Hall of Geneui against Lewis Sprunger of Berne. The damages are asked for alleged injuries sustained in an automobie accident which occurred west of Geneva in ' 1933. The jury is the regular pinel and is composed of Virgil Krick, Harry Sipe. B. A. Seesenguth, Lewis 1 Stump, I-awrenee Beiberich, Daniel Kauffman. Theodore Drcege, Edwin Manlier, Lester W. Stuckey, Ralpth Gilliom, Fred M. Bleeke and Ralph Teeter. BLUFFTON PLANS DOG LICENSE FEE — Bluffton City Council Plans Dog Ordinance Similar To One Proposed For This City. Bluffton, Mar. 21. — (Special)— Following a report by Chief of Police Glenn A. Fox in which he informed the city council that since Jan. 1 his department had killed a total of 32 dogs, the council voted authority to City Attorney W. H. [ Eichhorn to draft an ordinance requiring all dogs in the city to have I a special license tags. Present plans of the council, which will possibly be included in the new ordinance, will require purchase of such license tags for j the sum of 50 cents. The license I tags will be good for a year. After the ordinance goes into es feet, police will impound all dog<j not wearing the tags. Money de rived from sale of tags will be used to construct and maintain a city pound. After dogs are caught without tags, they will be placed in the pound and kept one week. The owners of such dogs may claim them again by paying for a license tag and an additional fee of 50 cents. All dogs not claimed within the week will be destroyed.