Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 33, Number 77, Decatur, Adams County, 30 March 1935 — Page 1

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jiffSCHOOL fait LIST |»NNOUNGED lintendent Striker Its Graduates Os len Rural Schools ■H *“—*“■ <>t th" graduates and K o( th" ■ oinnicni ements | t,.,,, rural high schools in K„ tv were announced today Kin K Striker county superKt of schools. Kconiuiencenifiil dates will Kollovs: Geneva. April 22: K April Horlford townKpnl 24: Kirkland townK rli 25: Jefferson township, K: Monmouth. April 27. and K Mills. April 39. f commencement speakers Kt yet Wn chosen. total 113 and are. I I Monmouth • Kd Fred Hoile, Franklin Kim. William Elroy Elston., Kis Fred Schuller. Evelyn ■ Kfrancille Edyth Bucher, Km. Eliza.both Beihold. Pleasant Mills ■r a. Workinger. Paul L.' ■ Homer DeArmond. Luther Kae. Dorothy O. Habegger. ■ Myers. Edith Mae WU- ■ UOuyt Miller. Ixtwell B. Kinaid Ritter. Charles TumbKrrtrede Titmbl*«on. Morton Kple. Robert McCullough. K McMillen. Robert D. ColKert D Tope. Richard Rayl. ■ Kirkland ■er R. Zimmerman. Carl A., I, Anna E. Wullimann, Dale g, Lucille 1.. Ixmgenberger, | M. Stoneburner. Alice E. ri Charles E. Wullimann. ■W. Adler. Harold E.! bn. Harry W. Wullimann, |i lAYaker. Robert M. Kolt- I Ba E. Spade. Lloyd C. Roth, I It. Roth, Dale 1.. AugsburgI L Yake. Monroe is M. Stucky. Chloe Essex. '. L N'euensi hwander. Donald I f. Opal L. Sprunger, Edgar Mger. Howard Fox. Harry. , Loris A. Habegger. Dale | Other 1. Schnepp. Lydiann V. , Bui. Paul R. Rich. Harold L. I n. Marie E. Soldner. Alda | thty, Novitas R. Moser. Paul , titty, Vivian Schwartz, DruL Burkhead. Evelyn Ludy. Hartford I E. Reynolds. Bernlece E. t Anna C. Romey. Fern E. Sylvia Zimmerman, Ivetta Duff. Evelyn Biberstein, E. Sprunger. Leone Stauffer, C. Bentz. Naomi D. Miller, P. Arnold, Hubert V. Glen-1 . Maynard Stuckey. Russell , ■p. George A. Zimmerman, I1 S- Pyle. Hugh W. Stauffer, I K Moeschberger, Ralph »•■*. Dale M. Moyer, Vaughn | rtlat. Geneva f M. Rupel, Clara B. Hough. I, A. Wheeler. Leah E. Stanley. I w M. Mathys, Kathryn Chew, I 'kßoy Grille. Roland K. FarE. Buckingham, Dale George Charleston, Merle J. Jack Fenstermaker, Robert ; iffman. Hubert A. Ralston, I th P.. Teeple. Jefferson ' ’ I-"-: Chalmer Bollen- . WriXUED ON page SIX) *s Sentence Os Convicted Kidnaper ‘ f " nson City, Mo.. March 30— 1 1 J“e state supreme court to- ■ med the death sentence ' ‘“er H. McGee convkted 1 ol the gang that kidnaped ' cElr oy. daughter <f ' l "ys city manager. His on *as sc t f or May J 0 ■ ess a rehearing by the court by Gov . Parks de . h hanging. McGee will l e for r'’" 8011 t 0 d ' P for fci'lnap- ’ s Mom >n the United ] " ’ 111 Masons At 'an Wert Meeting . ~ 1 leetlng Decatur attended 1 » r? ? ' the Royal and Scle-t 1 W e « dm M^° nlc lodge ' at ' ns; wa? h ' Frida F night. A 1 Hg at 6:?, ° o’clock Initiation t. by atl inspection ’ fmrn a’ 6 mMbera wh « 1 «on‘c£? ecatur "we: Cal, 1 t-Drls ? Rur<] Ke, Floyd t,ic k aw a »d Earl Adams. I

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Housing Director | Percy Wilson, regional director 1 of the federal housing administra-; 1 tlon at Chicago, will be guest <>f i honor at the opening of the four- i teenth annual home complete 'exi.posltion at the fairgrounds in i j Indianapolis Friday, April S. regTomTheaiT I WILL BE GUEST Federal Housing Head Will Be At Indianapolis April 5 George Krick, local FHA Chair-: man. announced today that Percy j i Wilson, Regional Director of the Federal Housing Administration at. Chicago will be the guest of honor at the opening of the Fourteenth Annual Home Complete Fixposition Friday evening. April sth, in the Manufacturers Building at the State Fair grounds at Indianapolis 1 Othets who will take part in the ; cejympny are LL Earl Patera. State , Director of the FH A and R. S. Foster, Chairman of the Marion County Federal Housing Administration program: Lieutenant Governor M. Clifford Townsend; Mayor John W. Kern of Indianapolis; I Ted C. Brown. Home Show Presi- , dent; and J. F. Cantwell, Manag- ■ ing Director. Local and State F'ederal Hous- i ing Administration officers have cooperated to the fullest extent to make the Indianapolis Show the opening spring event to launch a; renewed drive for the FHA program of modernization, repair and new building throughout Indianapolis and all of Indiana. In addition to the circulation of information about the Show to the public, the State FHA organization is placing two booths of very striking appearance at the entrance to the Show to distribute FHA literature and answer questions on the Fed era! Hkmsiug plan. The Marion i (OONTINURD ON PAGE TWO) LOVE BALM SUIT 1$ NEAR FINISH Divorced Wife Seeking $200,000 From Her : > Successor I Chicago, Mar. 30.— LU.PJ — Henry Bedford-Jones, who sells something 1 like 1,000,000 words a year to pulp paper magazines, approached a climax today in a real life love 1 story that may cost him $200,000. Attorneys said Monday may bring 1 an end to a suit in which Mrs. 1 Helen Bedford-Jones, the author's 54-year-old divorced first wife, is demanding monetary satisfaction from Mrs. Mary Bernardin BedfordJones, to whom she refers us ' that woman.” , The only remaining witness of , importance is the writer’s present wife. She will have an opportunity Monday to give her version of ' how she won Bedford-Jones' love j and reached a decision to elope , with him to Kansas City and Cali- j fornia. Bedford-Jones himself, dropping his gray head onto well-cushioned knees, sobbed openly on tl.e wit- I ness stand in federal court yesterday and called his former wife a drunken woman." In dramatics he was poor second to his blonde and plumpish 20-year- ( old daughter, Helen (Wally) Bed-ford-Jones. “Wally” exchanged glare for glare with her regal I mother while she testified that the ■ (CONTINUED ON PAGE SIX)

COUNCIL MAKES APPROPRIATION More Than $19,000 Is Slashed From Appropriations Asked The Adams county council concluded its session today and appropriated $88,880.07 of the $97.296.07 requested. The board appropriated $3,500 I for a boiler and repairs of the | heating plant at the Adams county infirmary. A total of $4,125 had been asked. A number of reductions were made in the budget submitted for roads by Walter Gllliom, country road supervisor, and the county commissioners. The special session of the council was made necessary by recent legislation which requires that the council approve all budgets which receive money for road repair from the state gasoline fund. The items approved in the budgets and the amounts asked for i are: public health nurses, supplies and expenses, asked, S6O, received none; court house matron, salary, asked $l2O. received, none; county agent, adding machine, asked $155. received $155; Irene Byron sanitarium, asked SI,OOO, received none; county infirmary boiler, asked $4,125, received $3,500. County assessor, books and stationery, asked S2OO. received $200; clerk, deputy hire, a«k°d $450. received none; clerk fees and costs payable out of the county treasury, asked S2OO. received $200: health commissioner, deputy asked $55, received none; health commissioner's operating expenses asked $167. received $100; deputy | clerk. 1933 salary, aaked S4OO. re- ■ rriiNTTX’rrtn on thrmuJOHN HARSHMAN UNDER ARREST Ohio Man Is Arrested Friday Night After Collision North Os City — John Harshman, of near Willshire. Ohio, was lodged in the Adams county jail Friday night following an automobile accident on U. S. highway 27. six miles north of Decatur. Harshman was driving south about 7:30 n. m. and allegedly swerved across to the left side of the road, striking another catdriven by R. F. Oleger of Auburn. The Oleger auto was turned over several times and badly wrecked, j as was Harshman’s car. Harshman suffered minor ct>ts about the head and a badly bruised nose. Oleger and hie compan-; ■ions. G. H. Kublin. also of Auburn and L. R. Lilley of Detroit, ■ Michigan, suffered only minor' bruises. Night policeman Floyd Hunter was called to the scene of the ac-1 cident and took Harshman into J custody. The Ohio man was: allegedly intoxicated at the time | of the collision. Statements were ' given by Mr. and Mrs. J. H. Horn : of Fort Wayne, who had followed j Harshman for several miles. Charges had not been filed I against Harshman at noon today > but he likely will face trial on a charge of operating a motor ve-1 hide while intoxicated. Will Hold Cabaret Dance At Sun Set Because cf the large number of; ticekts sold it ihas.ibeen necessary to transfer the Decatur high, school cabaret dance from the D. H.; S. gym to SnnSet park. The tickets; are selling for 75 cents and rceerva- > tions should be made at the Decatur high school office, any local confectionery or Dick Sheets. The danco will 'be (held Friday. April 12. Conservation League Will Meet Monday Roy Johnson asked totkay that all, membens of the Adame county fish; and game conservation league attend the meeting to be held at the American Legion hall Monday, April 1. Plans for the banquet >a.nd j the new program for 1935 will be, made up at that time. 1

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Decatur, Indiana, Saturday, March 3ft, 1935.

Mother And Daughter Rejoice jKyiKjwllA MR ky Wk IV sml J ■ — Pretty June Grablner. left, and her youthful looking mother, Mrs. H. A. Grabiner. right, of lajs Angeles, were made happy by the new movie contract which the daughter was given by a Hollywood studio.

WELLS COUNTY MAN IS NAMED I Frank E. Day Is Named To Succeed Late M. F. W orthman i (; Frank E. Day. of Bluifton. Wells ' county superintendent of schools, ' Friday was named by the executive .committee of the Northeastern Indiana Teach, rs' Association to fill: I out the term of the late M. F. Worthman. as secretary-treasuer of the association, which expires » next October. As secretary-treasurer for the rest of the year. Mr. Day will take , a prominent part in arranging the program for the annual convention “ of the teachers’ association, to be held in Fort Wayne, October 17 and 18. Three more nationally-known educators were chosen today by ’ ’ the executive committee to speak ’ on the two-day convention pro-1 ' gram. They are: Dr. Ernest War-' 1 ren Butterfield, of Hartford. Conn.. 1 former Commissioner of Educati >n in New Hampshire and Connecti--1 cut; Dr. Harold Rugg, professor ’ j of education, Columbia University, ‘! and author of numerous educational W’orke. and Dr. William C. Bagley, also of Teachers’ College. (CONTINUED ON PAGE TWO) 0 WARD CALLAND TOWASHINGTON Central Sugar Company Official Seeks Additional Acreage J. Ward Calland. field manager for the Central Sugar company, left I today for Washington where he will appear before officials of the sugar section of the AAA and en- ' ! deavor to obtain additional acreage < for the Central beet sugar growers. 1 The quota allotted to the Decatur territory is 15,557 acres. The company has applications for more 1 that 13,000 acres. Reports have been made to Washington that in some states and beet growing districts, farmers 1 have been unable to sow the seed this year. It is expected that some acreage will not be planted and in the interest of local growers, Mr. ; Calland hopes to "pick up” a few; 1 hundred acres for the Decatur ter- 1 ritory. Weather conditions have not i been the best in the west and in other sections of the country where ' sugar beets are grown and if growers are prevented from getting out the crop the unused acreage allotment reverts back to the AAA. The sugar section of the department can redistribute this acreage. Mrs. Calland accompanied her husband to Washington. They are motoring to the Capital City and ; will enjoy the thrill of seeing the ! Japanese cherry trees In bloom I this spring.

Russell Jaberg On I. U. Honor Roll Bio mington, March 30- Russell I-owell Jaberg, graduate of Dewatur I'.tlgh school, is one of 79 students in I Indiana university whoae grades for the past semester entitled them to be included on the honor roll, John W. Cravens, registrar, announced here today. Fifty-seven of the students wh .se namee appeared on the honor list are undergradcatee and 22 are graduate students. The freshman class was represent d with 17 students, the sophmore class with 14, ti'ie Junior class with 14. aod the senior class with 12. BILL AIMED AT BOOTLEGGING 1935 Indiana Liquor Law For Control Rather Than Revenue (Editor’s note: This is the third of a series of articles on the provisions of the 1935 Indiana liquor ' law.) (Special to the Democrat) Indianapolis. Mar. 30.—The 1935 liquor control law is based or predicated upon the broad police pow- ; ers of the state to regulate all phases of the alcoholic beverages industry. The law is for control, rather than for revenue. As Governor Paul V. McNutt pointed out in his message to the General Assembly, “fees imposed should be for the purpose of social control rather titan revenue." The governor further said: “The policy adopted must promote respect for the law, protect persons and property, prevent return of the open saloon and foster true temperance among the people of the State of Indiana." The enforcement of the law depends not only upon the state commission and the police officers and special deputies of the department who have full police power, but upon the state police, sheriffs, city and town police, taxpayers and even on the liquor dealers themselves. The great power vested in the commission is the revocation of licenses, but the excise administrator and all deputies are vested with full police powers to enforce the provisions of the law and the regulations of the commission. Determinations of findings of facts by the commission are final and no appeal is provided for to the courts. If a person disobeys sub- ■ poena or any order requiring the production of books and records, the commission may go into court to com'pel obedience and then if tlhe person refuses to comply with the court order he shall be punished (CONTINUED ON PAGE SIX) Regular K. Os C. Meeting Monday The regular meeting of the K. of C. Lodge will be held Monday night at eight o'clock.

JESS RICE TO HEAD C. OF C. FOR NEXT YEAR Hotel Proprietor Elected Chamber Os Commerce President Jess Rice, hotel proprietor, was elected president of the Decatur Chamber of Commerce at a meeting’of the board of directors held in the mayor's court room in the city liall last evening. Mr. Rice succeeds Dan Tyndall, who served as president of the organization last year. Roscoe Glendenning, assistant cashier of the First State bank was elected secretary-treasurer. No vice-president was elected. Mr. Rice served as secretary-treasurer during the past year. Besides Mr. Rice, Mr. Tyndall and Mr. Glendenning. the board is composed of J. Ward Calland, Oscar Lankenau, James Elberson. Clifford Saylors, Hubert Schmitt, C. E. Bell, the latter two. with Mr. Glendenning being elected at the annual meeting of the members last Monday. Mr. Rice stated today that the ' annual membership drive would i be held sometime in April, probably beginning April 8. It is I hoped that at least 200 members . will join. The membership fee will remain at the half-price rate, . I $2.50 a year. "We have every reason to be- ' iieve that 1935 will be an active j one in Decatur,” Mr. Rice stated. One of the projects which the Chamber of Commerce is sponsor- , Ing this year i<s the 4-H and Home Economics, Gold Colt and Region- ■ al Guernsey and Jersey shows . ; next August. A dairy day, sponsored by the t fT'l6verleaf Creameries will be given in connection with the agriculture show. A meeting with E. T. Wallace, of the extension department. Purdue university, will be held I here Thursday with the board of | directors and plane will be advanced for the big show. Mr. Rice expressed confidence ■ in Decatur and declared "every(CONTINUED ON PAGE SIX) o More Farms Operated Now in Adams County There were 2,161 farms in operation on January 1 of this year in Adams county in comparison with | 2,140 on April 1, 1930, according to a preliminary announcement by Krit Boswell, supervisor of the 1935 agriculture census. Three of ' the 17 counties in this district 1 have completed their reports. i — o MRS. MANN TO ASSIST AGENT Mrs. Robert Mann Is Appointed Assistant County Agent Mrs. Robert Mann, of Kirkland township, and county leader of 4-H clubs last year has been appointed assistant Adams county agent. Her appointment was announced at a two-day conference held Thursday and Friday at Purdue University. Mrs. Mann will be paid SIOO a month during the five months in ■ the summer when the 4-H clubs are active. This will be paid by Purdue University. Similar appointments have been ■ made in every county in the state which has a county agent. Mrs. Mann will have under her ■ direct charge the leadership of the 4-H clubs.' She will be expected ’ to assist in the organization, training of leaders, making of programs. ‘ general supervision and the form- ' ing of new’ 4-H clubs. ‘ Her work will take her into every townslflp in the county. She will make her headquarters in the county agent's office. This year she expects to push the organization of boys club w'ork. specially the boys one acre corn club sponsored by the five acre corn club. Mrs. Mann will begin her duties ’ immediately. Enrollments for the 4-H clubs will be accepted next ’ week. The clubs will begin their programs as soon as school is dismissed.

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C. of C. President J i feWXfe. - Jesse Rice, proprietor of the Rice hotel in this city, was elected president of the Decatur Chamber of Commerce by the board of ' directors Friday night. Mr. Rice, ; who has been secretary-treasurer for the past year, succeeds Dan Tyndall as head of the business ‘ men's organization. LOCAL BOARDS TO BE NAMED Ten Local Board Districts Set Up Under Liquor Control Law ■ | Indianapolis, March 3b—(UP) — Local board districts, ten in num- , ber, were established today by Paul | P. Fry, excise administrator to! , which will be assigned ten repre-' . oentatives of the alcoholic beverage ! , i ocmmisslon to serve on the local al-; . coholic beverage boards. ; Hearings on applications for per ' mits will be arranged in the dis- > tricts so that the commission repre- . sentative in that district will as . member of ail t'ae local boartLs in ' the district. Th? districts as temporarily astablLshed are as follows: I No. 1 — county. ;i No- 2 —Pcrter. Newton, Jasper, Starke. Pulaski. Benton, White, Ca>ss, Warren. Tippecanoe, Carroll and Clinton. No. 3 —St. Joseph. Elkhart, La-j Grange, Steuben. Marshall, Kosciusko. Noble, Dekalb, Fulton and Whit-; ley. No. 4—Allen, Miami, Wabash, Huntington, Wells, Adams, Grant, Bla 'kford and Jay. No. s—Delaware,5 —Delaware, Handclph, Hen- - 1; ry, Wayne Shelby, Rush, Fayette, II Union. Decatur, and FranKlin.. 11 No- 6—Howard, Tipton, Hamilton, j Madison. Marion, Hancock, Morgan 1 and Johnson. ’ No. 7- Boone. Hendricks, Montgomery, Putnam, Fountain, l J arke, I Vermillion. Vigo azid Clay. No. B—Sullivan, Owen, Greene, Monroe. Brewn. Martin, I Daviess and Knox. No. 9 — Bartholomew, Jackson, 1 Jennings. Ripley, Dearborn, Ohio, Switzerland. Jefferson, Scott, dark, Washington, Orange, Floyd and Harrison. No. io—Crawford, Perry, Dubois. ‘ Spencer, Pike, Warrk'k, Gibson, Vandebburg and Posey. It is likely that two representatives will be assigned to the sixth district, one to serve in Marion 1 county and the other to serve in the [ other counties of the district. , Commission menbers -cf the local boards are named by the comtnis--1 sion to serve with one member named by the mayor and the other t bv the board of county commission--1 (CONTINUED ON PAGE THREE) Bitter Scrap Over Relief Amendment b Washington, Marcih, 30 —(UP) — • The chances of 3,500,000 men to &et > work relief jobs this mpriiig was 1 snarled today in a congress-new . deal scrap over what part of a dollar spent for public works should go . for wages. Administration refusal to accept - an amendment restricting public 1 works i>roj«te under a $900,000,000 i loan and grant allocation to those where $1 out of every $3 would go i directly for labor was voiced by . public works administrator Harold i M. Ickes. ? Ickes and other cabinet members asserted the amendunient made the s $4,880. 000.000 work relief measure ; “unworkable." Tempers, already t strained near the breaking point r in the two months fight over the bill • In congress, threatened and overt clasili.

AGREEMENT IS MADE TODAY TO AVOID STRIKE New NRA Bill Draws Withering Fire From Its Critics Washington, Mar. 30.—(U.R) —NRA today announced that agreement had been reached with the bitum- ■ inous coal industry for extension of the code with all pending provisions until June 16. The agreement came on the final day of existing wage contracts. It will avert a suspension of work Monday in the Appalachian coal field which would have affected approximately 350,000 miners. It had been feared suspension would case a complete disruption of the coal industry and possibly spread to other basic industrial groups. i Attack Bill Washington. Mar. 30. —(U.R) —The new NRA bill, brought Into the open for the first time, drew a withering fire from its critics today. They intend forcing major revisions. The initial attack was led by Sen. William E. Borah, R„ Idaho, and William Green, president of the American Federation of l-abor. Supportpig them were half a dozen or more other influential senators. Sen. Pat Harrison, D., Miss., chairman of the senate finance committee which drafted the extension measure, introduced it for I the avowed purpose of bringing the entire NRA question down to brass tacks and removing uncertainty which the administration felt was hindering recovery. Donald R. Richberg, new’ deal coordinator and temporary chairman of the NRA board, whose week of testimony before the committee influenced drafting of the bill, said it was introduced at this time so that all could “tell what they were for or against.” The bill to extend the recovery act two years beyond expiration of the present act on June 16 abandons federal attempts to regulate purely intrastate business, but is designed to strengthen several (CONTINUED ON PAGE SIX) 0 Asks Police Aid In Search For Daughter Mrs. Leafa Thatcher of Van Wert, Ohio, has enlisted the aid of police and radio stations in a search for her daughter, Ruby, who has been missing since early this month. When last seen, the girl was wearing a light print dress, black coat, white shoes and was hatless. She has black hair and weighs about 115 pounds. Anyone having any information as to her whereabouts, is asked to notify Mrs. Thatcher at 327 South Vine street, Van Wert, Ohio. <3 CHRISTIAN BUCHER DIES LAST NIGHT Carpenter Dies at Home in Root Township Laite Friday Night After Suffering Stroke. Christian Bucher, 80 year old carpenter. residing in Root township, died at his home at 11 o’clock Friday night, following a stroke of paralysis which he suffered last Saturday. Mr. Bucher had been ill for the piet eight weeks. He had resided in Root township all his life. He was born there on September 1, 1854 and his marriage to Louise Knaipp took place in 1877. He was a member of the St. Peters’ ■ Lutheran churchSurviving besides the widow are the following children: William. Bucher of Arcadia, California; Mrs. iO. E. Shaffer and Henry Bucher o£ Fort Wayne; Christ Bucher of New ■ Haven; Mrs. O. E. Nytfeler, route 4, Fort Wayne: Mrs. Jacob Wagner, Union towmship; Mrs. Herman Franke, Allen county; Harve Buch- : er, Preble. One son and a dauhgter are de--1 ceased. Seventeen grandchildren 1 and one great-grandchild survive. Funeral services will be held Monday afternoon at 1:15 o’clock standard time at the home in Root township and at 1:30 o’clock at tiba 1 St. Peters Lutheran church. Rev. L. J. DHTnseif will officiate and bur- ’ lai will be made in the church ceme- : tery. The body frill be removed to the Bucher home from Zwic'k’s funeral home at 5 o’clock this evening.