Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 33, Number 74, Decatur, Adams County, 27 March 1935 — Page 1

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FINANCIER URGES CONTROL OF PROFIT

■ELL WILL W PROGRAM M MID-WEST ■ord Tub'll Vnwd ■Reined' ( t'liditions ■ |n Middle U est ■nitaon. March 27.- <U.PJI — IS H " x |K. C «. b-< urity mukmg of ■,.,. | ;H ,h ' !■ h,.-.. i-i-'.-1 1, m renditions »b»h hav •• K ; , ~.. j-c.-tamg west|K ’ • - «s-nee Or. publicity |W' al! „ f„ r !;ic .ircument that |^K : w.~ '■'■ s' - overthrow |^K k( ,i At’i.’t-i. an liberties. Tus*''il was "the real planned ■on." ■ Almost inttti. iltately he . —:■.,«••• trial f->r heresy Tn.' senate agrlai'ttn-' Mr. Roose , ■! ■■' Tint well be depart- - < onHe was -•■’it into lowa. e.l. itic I oast ■ •■ the farm d.wup vi. w of a brain n.-nt was to ma’. .mphasis on ac .> •ricnluiral , admit 'i'jhi in !>•■• timers. —-I ■(» •>»• <l-a! political ad-1 ■ •:• liab I Mu elevti y. ar He was ■ 1 ok the agri- - ’ 1..'. anil In- did until the November been counted. w.c ' Tilgweil capital betmn - - ‘-arlv retlre- “ ■ il.s i|..'.arture ■a. • tl.ai. win■rw •\ ■ ■i v »•:» ■IE BOARD TO ■ OPPOSE BETTING ■ Board c‘ Ag- culture Will Any Move to Legalize Plri-Mutuel Betting lad. Mati n 27 —' a 101 l to legalr' "• speof th- Indiana logie*>ll be opm>- <1 by the -state 1 f Agriculture, it was an-.' today. tefislativ ■c-i.i'tM,. ~r the meeting In-i ■ ye-’erduy, reformer r’.inil in favor of an.| unanimously TWoae riich niov ,s at fu■*<s®nsi of :)b ,,., n . tn. members Atdo id "u ■ are merely acto the wish- . ~f the people.” of the committee are U M pi,ff r | T, )Wns en<t. ™ Heller. se,. r .. Ury to Town- ■ J Clavpool. Muncie. Moore, Rochoet>er. ■* committee also decided to O -5.1W0 tickets for t h P K » a ."k°. n . eal ' ft in Ju,y and se ' l ' '’ lf 'rice—2s cents >eacth. l> e taken to stimulate ■“‘in the fair, it was said. ■ v . r<l al *o announced the K-Ll oI Mrs caivin p "fMtn an director of ■LL Kirlß ' schooL ■ Construction I Planned In City B g ’.' r ifi building a new A’lttman avenue. The BtnL* ready for lh,> frame ■> r . ’ < J UB( “ be modern in KontraL ' Charl “ R °benold is job. Gran,i *'aff of thia ■bier - a 10t from Albert Blends t rth S '‘ r ' on ' 1 street ■ ue K* O st^ r *' ner hoaS6 on East nMt t 0 t,le sale« ■nt ,>. e ' Orn do ''’ n - Tine house g ’ o! <test in the city.

DECATUR DAILY DEMOCRAT

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On Trial As Spies 11 i K ' f ■ Secret trial of 21 suspects, including two young Americans held on espionage charges is ex- ! pected to result in the release of Mr. and Mrs. Robert Switz, above. ; of Orange, N. J., who were accused of being members of a huge I European spy ring. FREE WOMAN OF j MURDER CHARGE — Mother Os Six Children Acquitted Os Plotting Husband’s Death Chicago. .Martfly 27 —(UP) —Mrs. Anna Erii xsen, mother of six children, was acquitted last night of 1 chargee that she employed a 20-yeur-old boy to murder her husband | so she might marry another man. The criminal court jury reached i its verdict in seven hours. Mrs. Er-1 I leksen, the 40-yaar-old “Iron Wo- ’ man" who showed just oi»? flicker J of emotion in three months of im--1 prisonment and civea examination. | collapsed as the verdict was Mid.' State’s attorney John S. Boyle j had demanded the death penalty, I describing her before six neatly scrubbed and wide-mouthed child-1 ren a« “a womon without con- . acience or scruple." •In testimony. James S nese, 20. 1 said Mrs. Ericksen promised him ‘ 1500 of her husband's $6,100 ineuri ance if he would shoot Ericksen. 1 him, he said, that she wished to marry George Collard, 30-year-old airplane urecbinic. Collard committed suicide in Milwaukee a week bes r? the trial beI (CONTINUED ON PAGE FIVE) BETTER FARMING CONDITION SHOWN Personal Farm Property Valuations Ac: esvments Shew Sharp Increases In State Indiampolis. Ind., March 27 — (UP) — Improved farming conditions in Indiana were reflected today in a state tax board analysis showing shnrp increases in the average a<»ec-sed valuation of personal farm prop rty. Tho analysis was made fiy Albert F. Walsman. >1 member cf the board, to be used by the legislative tax study committee Ln drafting tax legislation for the special session of the legislature. Eight representative counties were used in the analysis. They were Vigo, Hamilton. Laporte. Perry, Vanderburgh, Clint >, Allen and Wayne. Walsman said the counties represented a fair cross section of the entire state. The sharp increases in valuations ■ were shown in trucks, form implements, hous hold goods, livestock and tractors. Walsman attributed the increased valuation to the riso in market prices during the past year, enabling farmers to 'purchase new equkrtnent. Hi said, however, the increased . would not result in material increases in revenue, becausipersonal farm propsrty provides : only a small share of the total tax 1 collected in the stat'?. 1 The increases were principally in livestock.

GOVERNMENT OF GERMANY MOVES TO TAKE ACTION Consider Urgent Action To Prevent Executions In Memel Berlin, March 27— (U.R) - The German government, spurred by popular indignation over the condemnation to death of four Germans in Memel, considered urgent action today to prevent the executions and force a thorough showdown on the rights of Germans in | Memel. Representations Io the other 1 powers may be made, asking inter- i vent ion. “Spontaneous” demonstrations, I including a huge meeting in Berlin's Lustgarten. were arranged throughout the Reich under the auspices of the league of Germans living abroad. The nature of the official steps to be taken has not yet been decided. However, reliable quarters said the powers which guaranteed the protection of Germans in Memel when the territory was given to Lithuania after the war already | are being informally urged to act ; tspeedily. If that does not produce results, it was considered probable that formal notes would be sent to France. Britain. Italy and Japan. Reliable sources did not consider it entirely improbable that some kind of German ultimatum might be sent to Lithuania, but j insisted that German occupation j of Memel is entirely out of the question unless the situation becomes considerably worse. Japan Out Os League 1 (Copyright 1935 by Vnited Press) Geneva. March 27 —(U-RP-Japsn left the League of Nations today, giving the world two problems of inestimable importance. 1. Will she consolidate a friendship with Germany? 2. What is the Japanese navy doing in the former German (CONTINUED ON PAGE FIVE) G. 0. P. HEADS TO EAT PLANS Kansas City Rally Will Be Held: Urge Liberal For President Washington. Mar. 27. —(U.R) —Republican leaders form 10 midwest- • ern states have been invited to • join a Kansas City rally this spring to discuss plans for liberalizing the ■, O. O. P. and possibly agreeing on a farm belt candidate for president. j The gathering probably will take place in May. It was proposed last January at a Kansas day dinner and is being ori.-anized by JTihn D. 11. Hamilton. Republican national ( committeeman from Kansas. The meeting may become a vehicle for a president boom for Gov. Alf M. Landon of Kansas. The governor is here discussing feder- ' al loans for his state but also has ' conferred with midwesterners on ' plans for the Republican rally. 1 Landon gained national prominence in 1932 and 1934 when he held his state for the Republican party against the two Democratic election sweeps. Hamilton was ftere a week ago but has returned to Topeka. Rep. U. S. Guyer. R.. Kan., told the United Press that the purpose of the May gathering would be to (CONTINUED ON PAGE SIX) O 1 — Close County Offices Saturday Afternoon —. . 1 The majority of the offices in the . court ihouse will be closed Saturday | afternoon r quired by law. The officiate wil Ima'ke out their quar- ' terly reports at that time. ► -o—- — Regular Meeting Os Elks Tonight The regular meeting of the B. ■ p O. Elke will be held at the 1 home on North Second street ut | : 8 o'clock tonight. All members are urgently requested to be pres--1 ent, as business of importance will be discussed.

ONLY DAILY NEWSPAPER IN ADAMS COUNTY

Decatur, Indiana, Wednesday, March 27, 1935.

Girl Slightly Hurt When Struck By Auto Alice Edna Earnest, five year old <k 1 lighter of Mr- and Mrs. Howard ; Earnest of this city, escaped aerii oum injury when she was struck by lan automobile driven by Chalmer I Steele of Van Wert, Ohio, and hurled to the pavement Tuesday night at 8 o'clock. The accident occurred on North Second street In front of the Cort theater. The girl inn ahead of her parents and failed to see the aipit reaching car. No blame is attached to the driver. The girl received nuimierous bruises and suffered somewhat from shock. This morning she was f eling much better with the exception of n headache and atlffn as. No bones were fractured. SCOUTS SPEAK TO LIONS CLUB Two Members Os Lions Scout Troop Give Talks On Scouting Two boys of the Lions boy scout troop number 62 entertained the members of the Lions club Tuesday evening at the regular meeting in the Rice hotel with talks on scouting. After the lunch was served and business taken care of, the meeting was turned over to Lowell Smith, scoutmaster of the Lions troop, who had charge of the program. The first speaker was Arthur Sundermann. a life scout and senior patrol leader of the troop. He talked about merit badges and their value to the scout. He explained what merit badges I are. their place in the scout advancement, and some of the suhI jects studied. •Arthur told the club j “merit badges deal with a great 1 variety of subjects, of various crafts and vocations — some very old, such as blacksmithing, others quite new. as radio and aviation. Many scouts become so interested ; in some one badge subject that they want to know more about it and eventually find it a guide to their life vocation or craft.” The second speaker was John M. McConnell, a star scout and patrol leader. He reviewed the two merit badges, civics and firemanship. He I pointed out that a study of these . not only helped one in school, but j made him n better trained and more valuable citizen to his comI munity. II 0 Robert Marbaugh Fined For Assault Robert Marbaugh was fined one ■ dollar and costs, amounting to sll I by Mayor Holthouse in mayor's : court yesterday, on a charge of ■ I assault and battery. The affidavit II was made out by Frank Hower. A trial was held. Prosecutor Ed i Bosse, representing the state. The fine was paid. ROOSEVELT TO ‘BOSS' RELIEF President Will Be Active Head Os Huge Work Relief Fund Washington, March 27 —(UP) — President Roosevelt himself will be the active, working head of the agency tluit will say how and wlbere the $4,850,000,000 works-relief fund will be spent in the government's 'biggist drive for re-employment-This announcement came from the highest administration authorities today as senate and house conferees met to start the huge appropriation measure on the last lap of its stormy congressional circuit. Relief administrator Harry L. | Hopkins, undersecretary of agrlculI ture Rexford G. Tugwell, and others ; will have important places in the' organization that wll icarry out the spending of the fund. But the president, it was made clear, will be the active chairman of an allotments committee that will have the say ns to how imuch money shall be spent on various types of work, and where and how the work shal Ibe done. Once the allotments have been approved, tihe work of administering them will fall to the President's assistants on the committee, including Hopkins and Tugwell.

CUT TO START REPAIRWORKS Catch Basins To Be Repaired And New Sidewalks To Be Built Repair of catch basins and building of new sidewalks in several parts of the city will be started Friday, Ralph Roop, engineer and civil works commissioner announced today. Mr. Roop stated that many of the catch basins needed repair. The pavement around the basins will be lowered or cut down as the case may be and if finances warrant, the basims will be sealed against sewer gas. Two men from the FERA will be employed on the repair of the ' basins and in making the changes | at the openings. The FERA has an appropriation ' for sidewalk repair and construction and ipm erty owners are urged to advantage of the plan. All labor is furnished free, ttie property own* r paying for the material only. EngLieer Roop will render whatever assistance he i n in furnishing plans f r the walksMr. Roop Is also working out a systematic plan f«.r the cleaning of ■ the uptown streets and will put It into effect ir j xt week, weather i permitting. o Injured Wisconsin Man Is Improving Henry Hornstein of Racine, Wisconsin, who is a patient at the Adams County Memorial hospital continued to improve today. He was . injured when the uuto in which Ire I was riding was struck by a PennI sylvania train at the crossing on ' u- S. higt.iway 27. south of Decatur ' Monday evening. He sustained num- ' erous bruises and laeenitkms. ’ i ■ -o ; Fort Wayne Preacher To Be Here Tonight I The Rev. Ralph A. Worthman of 1 Fort Wayne will preach at the mid-week Lenter service at the • Zion Reformed church tonight. '.The service will be held at 7:30 | o'clock. —o ORDERS WOMAN OUT OF COURT Mrs. Roberta Nicholson Ordered From First Trial Under Her Bill ' Indianapolis, March 27 — (U.R) —| A bailiff ordered Mrs. Roberta 1 West Nicholson from the Marion. r county superior court room late i yesterday while she was attend- ■ ing a divorce hearing which inI volved the first test of her new ‘ heart balm bill. Joseph G. Bowen, the bailiff. : branded Mrs. Nicholson as a | "publicity see Ker” while Herbert Stewart, judge pro tern, was in his chambers. ' When Judge Stewart returned i II to the bench and learned of the | . incident he ordered Bowen to; apologize. Later the judge went b ■ to Mrs. Nicholson's home and ! apologized personally for the : | "humiliation to which you were subjected." Mrs. Nicholson was in tears . when she left the court. J "I was not seeking publicity," j ,i she said. "I was asked to appear , I in court because it was the first j case under the law which I advo- | cated and sponsored." She had been invited to attend ! 1 the session by the Marion county | ! prosecutor’s office because her I bill has not been formally printed and it was felt she might be able I i 1 to offer assistance as to its pro-! visions. Mrs. Nicholson’s bill, outlawing (CONTINUED ON PAGE FIVE) Regular Service At M. E. Church The pastor's subject at the Len- : ten mid-week service tonight at the local Methodist Episcopal i church is "Lenten CooperationFollowing the devotional hour, the choir will hold its regular rehearsal. The pastor is calling the : membership committee, consisting i of W. O. Little, Mns. F. V. Mills ■ and Mrs. Alva Lawson, to meet at 7:45 o'clock.

STORM OF OUST AGAIN PLAGUES STRICKEN AREA Nine Persons Dead; Hundreds Os Head Os Livestock Perish Kansas City, March 27 —(U.R)— The dust plague returned to the middle we«t today. Nine persons were dead. Hundreds of head of ■ livestock perished on denuded plains. Train and airplane schedules were interrupted. The new storm blanketed an area not yet recovered from last week’s devastation when approximately 10 lost their lives and property damage mounted into hundreds of thousands of dollars. The afflicted region included western Nebraska. Kansas, Wyoming. Colorado. Oklahoma and northern Texas. The storm was expected to move over Missouri today. Light scattered snows fell in western Nebraska. Wyoming and Colorado. Skies were clear elsewhere. Strong northerly winds whipped the entire region. Shifting winds and falling temperatures moved in from the northwest as a low barometric area over Oklahoma and Texas crawled eastward. Denver experienced an unprecedented dust storm which struck as suddenly as a thunderclap. In five minutes the sky was blotted out and visibility was reduced to near zero. A light snow fell early today, accompanied by a temperature drop of nearly 40 degrees. In Baca County. Colo., where six deaths from "dust pneumonia" were reported last week, the atmosphere again became stifling. . New cases of the strange malady were reported. Livestock died in I pastures wore the short buffalo ■ grass was covered by dust. ' l Near Manzanola. Colo., John . Chavez. 19. and Arthur Rodriguez, 17. were killed by a train which .rushed upon them through a screen of dust. b i At Hanna. Wyo., J. H. Burnsi meier, trainmaster, was killed by a locomotive he could not see for | the dust. Bruce Thompson wired the United Press from Springfield, i Colo., that "humans and beasts 1 cannot survive if the storm continues." Thompson himself was ill with influenza induced by the dust. The storm was general over I western Kansas, where the worst i (CONTINUED ON PAGE THUEE) o Red Cross Meeting Scheduled Thursday A Red Crees meeting will be held I Thursday night at 7:30 o’clock at i the Winnee Shoe Stir?. Bueinas of ■ importance will be discussed. TAX PAYMENTS ARE MADE HERE Total Os $26,328 Has Been Paid On May Installment Os Taxes A total of $26,328 in current and delinquent taxes has already been ! paid to county treasurer John Wechter. All the tax receipts for the May i installment of the 1934 taxes have been prepared in the county treasurer’s office. Persons desiring to I avoid the last minute rush should pay their taxes at once. Os the $26,328.69 already collected. $17,210.80 are curent. The remainder, amounting to $9,117.89, is for delinquent taxes. Tlie books in County Auditor John W. Tyndall's office show that $50,107.89 were due in delinquent taxes when the abstract was made out for 1934. The $9,117.89 will be applied to this delinquency. The total of taxes due in Adams county for the 1934 assessments to be paid In 1935 total $423,062.21. Only half of this amount, or $211,531.10 is due in the May installment. The total of current and delinquent taxes due in May is $261,638.99. This leaves a balance of $235,310.99 to be paid. The last day for paying the spring installment of the taxes this year will be May 6.

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Hunt Missing Girl Ik -' ] 'w* I if' 9 I r ' £ I f 1 *• .. I I / ®|| 1 .. .nJ Posses of citizens and state police were enlisted in the statewide search for 11-year-old Elizabeth Reedy who has been miwsing for several days from the home of her grief-stricken foster parents, Mr. and Mrs. Tom Reedy, of Port Huron, Mich. LOCAL CONTROL OF HARO LIQUOR Hard Liquor-by-the-Drink Sale To Be Controlled Locally (Editor's note: This is the second of a series of articles on the ; provisions of the 1935 Indiana liquor law). (Special to the Democrat) Indianapolis, Mar. 27. —Realizing the public opinion in many of the let® populous and rural counties of 1 the state is dry or opposed to ex- . treme liberal provisions of a liquor law. the framers of Indiana's new liquor control law wisely provided for absolute local control of the sale of hard liquor by-the-drink in such communities. This provision, which requires an ordinance by a city council in cities of 5,000 population or less to permit the sale of hard liquor by-the- .' drink before such sale can become legal, will affect approximately forty counties in Indiana. The provision, known as the local option feature of the law, places control in such communities directly in the hands of the regularly elected representatives of the people in that • community. This feature of the law. however, does not apply to the sale of light beverages, beer and wine, and 1 neither does it apply to the operation of hard liquor stores, which sell only in original packages, for off the premises consumption. Until such ordinances are adopted. retail liquor permits (hard liquor) for sale by-the-drink inside the corporate limits of cities and ■ i towns can be secured only in cities of more than 5,000 population and then only if the following requirei ments are met: Restaurants, clubs and hotels. who have also a retail beer and I (CONTINUED ON PAGE FIVE) — O — Must Observe State Sunday Closing Law Indiampolis March 27 —(UP) — Violation of Sunday closing sections | ■ of the new liquor law will result in 1 revocation of permits without reI course, Paul Fry, state excise administrator. said today. The announcement came after a • meeting of the state alcoholic bev--1 erages commission, of which Fry is chairman. The coni.missian voted to ' adhere strictly to the provisions I whidh require that all alcoholic beverage establishments halt sale be--1 tween 2 a. m. Sundays and 6 a. m- ' Mondays. ' ] 5 o ' Lip-Reading Class May Be Organized Under the emergency education program there is an effort being made to organize a class In lip- - reading for the hard of hearing In r Adams county. Those persons who might be interested in such ■ training may contact W. O. Little, ! the county emergency school supI ervisor. 1 4

B. M. BARUCH HURLS LIE TO MANY CHARGES Wall Street Financier Defends War Record Against Attacks Washington, March 27 — (U.R) — Iron-clad control of prices by the government in wartime, coupled with heavy taxes, were urged today by Bernard M. Baruch to prevent war “from being a profitable industry." The Wall Street financier, who was chairman of the world war Industries board, laid his views before the senate munitions committee and offered to help it "arouse public opinion" for passage of war profits legislation this session. Baruch agreed that industrlalista’ world war profits revealed by the committee were “utterly indefensible," but said he had not known of them during the war. The financier vigorously defended his own war record against charges of Sen. Huey Long and the Rev. Charles E. Coughlin, who had pictured him as a diabolical money master. He testified that at a great loss to his personal fortune, he converted nearly all of hie holdings into Liberty bonds during, the war. I The committee will question Baruch on his war record tomor- . row. after examining 100 pages of ' i evidence which he presented to I "put an end to the insinuations and innuendos" against him. Baruch declared himself heart- ' ily in favor of the principle of “paying as-you-fight” and declared elimination of war profits would be the era’s "outstanding accomplishment of social justice.” He would accomplish that, first, by having congress authorize the President “to clamp a ceiling ' down over the whole price structure in effect on or about the date of declaration of war." Then a fair price commission would be set up at once to make needed adjustments upward or downward from the existing level. Baruch warned, however, that price control must be accompanied by heavy taxes to capture “any war profits which might strain througli tlie price stabilization sieve.” And the basis for such a taxing system, he said, should be set up now instead of waiting until war comes. He urged licensing of munitions manufactures in peacetime as well as in war and said that with the (CONTINUED ON PAGE FIVE) Yost Brothers Are Awarded Contract 'lndianapolis. Ind.. March 27 —• (UP) —Conract for construction of a bridge over Pigeon river on state road 37 northeast of Pleasant Lake Steuben county, was awarded by the state highway commission today to Yost Brothers. Decatur. The bid was $3,435. The project will be flnanc. d with state funds and must be completed by July 1. DISTRICT RALLY IS HELD TUESDAY — Sub-district Rally of Epworth League is (Held at Poe ( Tuesday Evening Fifteen (members of the Epworth ' League of the Decatur Methodist Episcopal church attended the subdistrict rally held at Poe Tuesday evening. The song service and devotions were conducted by the Monroe league, and Mrs. Louie Dilling gave an address. The Geneva circuit lew- ’ gue furbished a quartet number. One of the outstanding features of the program was a debate beJ tween the Geneva and the Decatur I leagues. The question was Resolv- , ed: “Compulsory military training ■' j in high schools and colleges should l be abolished." The Decatur team, ' which had the negative side of the 1 j question, won- The team included j Marion Baker and Paul Hancher. i The memiberß of the Geneva team ; were John Heetier and James ■! Rumple. ' A one act iplay was presented by i the Pleasant Mills League, and a i mock trial was held under the direc- ,' tion of Marion Baker. A social hour • was lenjoyed and refreshments were I served.