Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 33, Number 80, Decatur, Adams County, 3 April 1935 — Page 1

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lEADLOCK REMAINS ON RELIEF BILL

New Fertilizer Industry Begins Operations

Lit ts built BIN KIOTO fa GROWERS K er y Os Products ■ill Be Started By ■ Plant Thursday ■cri<-- of its products will ■nn Thursday by the new , ■, plant, completed March ■the Central Sugar company. ■ (wilding is located south- ■> the Suga- i ■■mpany’s office K,, city. It is now mixing ■n M and 100 tons of com-., ■1 fertilizer a day. operat|l a 16 hour day and a seven ■ the present season the I ■ eipects to mix between I 2.000 tons of fertilizer! ■ growers of sugar beets fori ■ntral Sugar factory. ■id McMillen is in charge of ; newest industry. It* , ■lor. will come under the field ■nent of the Central Sugar , , ■nr as an additional service | ■*rrs of beets. Its purpose ’ ( ■increase the productivity of ■on the land contracted for j ■ local sugar company. ■kir.it plant. -These men bag , ■n pound sacks of fertilizer Kte. ■ ingredients of the fertilizer’ ■1 purchased ind shipped in- . ■ local plan' T e ingr dints. from -ii.-i-t-al sources t tnurla: of of ammonia. ■ r.x ■ icale done in formulas recom■d by Purdue University and St U- ~ department of ■ituie after soil analysis I ■in this territory. ■ idea of the plant was sug■by the Isabella Sugar com■of Mount Pleasant, Michi-1 has operated a similar I ■ tor their growers for about ■years. The plant there has I in substantial savings and • ■sod productivity of crops to | ■otters. ■itrucion on the plant here j ■urted February It and com- I ■ or. March 20. A quantity of ■ertilizi-r has 1-een prepared i ■bred in the building as a ■ 1' « expected in the fu- ■> mix the f- rtilizer and sent ■* s fast as the chenieals are ox page six) MIDNATION If SWINDLERS ■onwide Drive Is Plan■d To Rid Country ■f Stock Swindlers ■•hington. April 3.-(UP)— A ■•ide drive t 0 r j(] (| lp <olln t r y I ■k swindlers who reap an an-| ■*r'-st of billionu from inves-' ■“cketbooks wae prepared to- ■ l “ e Purities and exchange ■felon. J*rtnient of justice tactics have driven gangsters and ts to cover are being adoptI ’as revealed. • drive ie expected to be the “tensive ever made against ’V promoters wi have conlawlese activities to rob the 5 despite the new etrkng“curities laws. Burns, commission chief tn \ prepara■°r the campaign. Regional re being established rapid"irect activities jn the field. l ß em m^ l ? n U B6tting up a ~.... '“formation section , e ann °»m*d policy of ' Wart P r. R KMned y o f for wildcat promoters. *re ", 1 ‘ <, ™ at . ion " ««wtlon will of j identification bur- „ <yf bwfin-a tao Z ecords ’ Ixhoto « ra P’ hs »n<l hueke7Z 10n ab ° Ut “ b ' Ue Msltioa . h p °P erat ors will ready use.. ily with . WtU * 'We in 47 BtateG Hd inform 'i aWa ' A Prelim inMy kZ* 1 6tart 0R thi * work ' lB under way.

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New Plant In Operation | The above photo is a view of the latest addition to the Central Sugar company, the new fertilizer plant Company officials state that products of the plant will be used only for beet growers who supply • tlte sugar lactoiy with beets. The plant ie now mixing between 96 and 100 tons of fertilizer daily.

Goodland Club To Present Play Here “Larry Makee Good." a three act cornu dy will bo presented at the Decatur Catholic higi'i school auditorium Sunday night. April 7. The Do. antic Club of Goodland will present the play. The >■ layers have been coached by Rev. Father Ambrose K hn°, f >rmerly of Decatur. The work of his dramatic club has been highly praised at Goodland ami the presentation here promises to t>? worti'i while. The adtn’ssion price is 25 cents. Th ? play will o'art promptly at 7:30 o’clock. Tickets may be procured from any student of the high echo- 1 PROFIT OF WAR TO BE SLASHED War Profits Elimination Program Added To Congress Calendar Washington, April 3— (U.R> —I Congress added a war profits elimination program to its crowded legislative calendar today. House Democratic leaders, striving to complete the administration's national defense program, planned to start consideration of, the McSwain bill empowering the President to fix prices, license all industry and control raw materials in wartime. The senate munitions committee. after bearing 120 witnesses I in its seven-month<s' inquiry into activities of arms manufacturers. | decided to seek approval of a drastic tax program that would slash private and commercial profits and provide conscription of industry in the event of another conflict. The senate group, opposed to the McSwain plan because it included no taxing features, proposed that no individual in wartime should earn more than the salary j of a major-general in the army and no corporation should retain ’ more than three ner cent of profit on its capital after payment of interest on its bonds. House leaders accepted suggestions by army and navy officials (CdNTINt'ED ON PAGE SIX) Albert Mutschler’s Condition Critical The condition of Albert Miltachler, prominent meat packer of this city, was reported >ia critical today. Mr. MutscTder has developed pneu- 1 monia. He was operated on about j two w»eks ago and was progressing | nicely until yesterday when his condition took a turn tor the worse. :zi!. DEG PARDON | | At the request of Interested I | parties, the police report of an i accident in ibis city Saturday I night is published: “About 8:30 | p. m. Saturday, truck owned by I I Appelman’s grocery, driven by I Ted Appelman. going south on Ij 1 I Second street. wn« struck by I car driven by Doyle Lytle. | forcing the truck into a parked | car, owned by Gerald Cole." I * — ♦

DR, RAYL TO BUILD CLINIC Decatur Surgeon Will Construct Building On South Second Street Dr. C. C. Rayl, prominent surgeon of this city, has employed Pohlmeyer and Pohlnieyer, Fort | Wayne architects, to draw plans for'the construction of a clinic and physician’s office building, to be erected on the east side of South Second street, next to the Christian church. Dr. Rayl purchased the lot a few VefrS ago and' had the old-frame dwelling moved from the site. A modern two story brick building will be constructed. Plans call for a building 36 by 66 feet. The lot is 66 by 132 feet and the npw building, which will be occupied by Dr. Rayl and several other Decatur physicians as a clinic and office. will he located in the center of the grounds. The Fort Wayne architects will begin at once to prepare plans for the new building and medical center. Many features are proposed. Dr. Rayl, who will head the clinic, I stated from two to four Decatur physicians would join him in conducting the medical center and in having their offices in the building. Pohlmeyer and Pohlmeyer drew the plans for the fire engine house on North Seventh street, erected by the city several years ago. They are well known architects. Work on the construction of the building will begin early next sumj mer and it is hoped that it can be 1 occupied by early fall. The grounds around the building will be beautified. o Regular Meeting Os Elks Tonight The regular semi-monthly meet-’ Ing of the B. P. O- Elks will be held at the horn? on North Second street tonight at 8 o'cl ck. All member* are urged to be present as officers for the ensuing year will be nominated. o MONMOUTH SCHOOL LEADER RESIGNS Ervin Doty, Principal at Monmouth Resigns to Become Superintendent At Monroeville — Ervin A. Doty, for the :pa.st year p principal icf the Monmouth .high, school, north of Decatur, has re-, signed to accept a position as superintendent of the schools at Moni roeville in Allen county. . Mr. Doty’s new position will take j I him into a much larger school ay«tem. with a substantial increase in ray. I During tf’.e past year. Mr. Doty: also acted as athletic coach at Mon-, 'mouth. He was principal at Mon-r mouth in 1922-23 and previous to that time taught at the Jefferson township school. . , _ L Mr. Doty is a graduate of Ind-1 iana Central college at Indianapolis .. Sand also took post graduate work: ,it .’ndiana university. H’ will leave Monmouth at the. •close of the school year May 1. and will assume his new duties at Monroeville next fall. Mr. Doty was sei- . ected from more than 60 applicants.

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Wecatur. Indiana, Wednesday, April 3, 1935.

MODIFICATION OF PEACE PACT IS DISCUSSED New Crisis Os Grave 4 Danger In Austria; < Conferences Held Ry United Press The European situation today: ( Modification of the proposed 1 eastern European security pact so Germany will be willing to join it i was discussed as Captain Anthony Eden concluded his conference, with Polish officials. The suggestion was received I sympathetically in Berlin. France I also favored it. but was eager to 1 get Poland in, even if Germany ■ doeo not join. London held that Germany may . be invited to the naval limitation I conference scheduled this year. Indications were than an inter-1 nal crisis was developing in Aus-' tria because of rivalry between' the Heimwehr and the Catholic storm troops. Grave Crisis (Copyright 1935 by United Press) , Vienna. April 3—(U.R1 —Austria seemed headed toward a new Crisis of great potential) danger today. There was growing tension between the government's two private armies, the Catholic storm troopers headed by Chancellor Kurt Von Schuschnigg. and the Heimwehr of Pt Ince Ernst Rudi-1 ger Van Starhemberg. vice chan-' I cel lor. In addition nazis and common-1 ists were intensely’ active under: the surface, trying to stir up trou-l ble and preparing to take advant-1 age of any opportunity for a coup. With Austria the nerve center j of central Europe, the danger of serious complications to the al-; ready explosive European situa- ; (CONTINUWn OX PAGE TWO) OMrs. Justina E. Meyer Applicant For Office Mrs. Justina E. Myers, former Decatur resident, is one of three persons filing applications for the postmasterwhip at Monroeville. Mrs. | Meyer, who ie now acting postmas-i ter, is the wife of a prominent Mon-1 roeville veterinarian.

City Council Passes Ordinances On Peddling And Dog Licenses

Peddlers’ Ordinance Passed By Council Provides For License Fee of $5 Daily The city council in regular session last night approved and adoptled a peddler's ordinance, which will become effective April 12. It proposes to stop all forms of peddling and house to house canvassing. The ordinance was written, at the orders of the council, by Herman Myers, city attorney. The major point in the new ordinance is a clause which Requires a license fee of $5 a day for peddlers. This, it is believed, will keep peddlers from the city. The first section of the new ordinance reads in part: “It shall be unlawful for any person, persons. ’ firms or corporation to peddle, sell. ■ expose or offer for sale, bargain, demonstrate or give away from any wagon, truck, automobile or any pother vehicle, or from any stand, stall or booth or from any place of transient merchandising or to :go from place to place or from house to house afoot peddling, selling, offering for sale or services for sale for consideration or solicitj ing orders for any bread, pastry, fruits, vegetables, meats, literature, medicines, jewelry, books, maga- ■ zines, cosmetics, wearing apparel, haberdashery, hosiery, clothing, dry (cleaning, accessories, roofing, fur- ' niture, furnaces or any other arI tide or things now sold or offered for sale in any store or place of | business duly licensed under the' laws of the state of Indiana to do business in the city, without first! having obtained a license.” The ordinance provides that li-1 censes may be obtained from the ■ (CONTINUED ON PAGE FOUR)

Virginia Millisor Is Seeking Divorce Virginia Millieor today filed a suit for divorce agalnet her husband. Harry Millisor. charging him with cruel and inhuman treatment toward her. The complaint alleges that Mr. Millisor called her vile mme.s, cursed her and cruelly beat and struck her. It also claims that the defendant fateely accused her of associating with other m n and that he called her parents “vile and opprobrious names." Judge Hulber M. DeVoss issued an order restraining the defendant from interfering with or molesting this wife during the pendency of the divorce proceedings. RECEIVE BIDS ON CITY SILOS Two Bids Are Submitted To Council To Replace Fire Damage ifealed bids were received at , the regular meeting of the city I council Tuesday night for the re-1 placement of the damage to the city's silos by fire several weeks; ago. Yost Brothers submitted a bid of $1,680. W. E. Moon offered a bid of SI,BOO. These proposals were referred to the board of public works and safety. The estimates were received to establish the fire insurance claims. The council also accepted a bid offered by the Boone County Sales corporation for coal at $1.70 a ton until June 16 and $1.35 a ton after ■ June 16 until April of 1936. The | reduction next month will be cans-, |ed by the dropping of Tne coal' ‘ code. The coal company offered to I furnish 9,000 tons at thio rate, ' which is more than the city will | use in a year. The contract is ' only a protection to the city ' against increases in price. The ' city may drop the contract at any j time or may purchase any amount ■ I under 9,000 tons. | The council voted to accept the j ■ contract with the General Electric - company for meters and transj formers. A petition by Arby Owenu and ' others for the construction of a i sewer in the Mcßarnea addition , to the city was referred to the street and sewer committee. The petition requested that FERA la- ’ i (CONTINUED ON PAGE SIX)

Dog Licensing Ordinance Passed Tuesday Night Also Provides For Dog Pound A dog licensing ordinance was approved and adopted by the city council Tuesday evening. The ordinance becomes effective on April 11. However, the council. after passing the ordinance, ' voted to extend the time for purchasing the license tags until May 1. The ordinance requires that dog owners visit the city clerk to obtain their license tags. The appli- . cation shall contain a description of the dog. Each tag will be numbered and must be fastened around the dog’s neck or to its body. The fee for the tags will be 50 cents. A special amendment was passed after the ordinance was adopted which will make it possible for dog owners who have lost : their tags to obtain new ones from the city clerk treasurer at 25 cents each. The licenses purchased this year will be good until January 1, 1935. Thereafter the tag will be good for one year. Regulation of the ordinance was placed in the hands of the board of safety. This board will determine who shall catch the unlicensed dogs and who will maintain the dog pound. The ordinance authorizes the establishment of a dog pound to be located on any real estate owned by Decatur and located in the city limits. It is expected that the revenue derived from the sale of license tags and from other revenues in connection with the ordinance will (CONTINUED ON PAGE FOUR)

COUNTY LIQUOR BOARD MEMBERS ARE APPOINTED Dallas M. Hower And Leo Kirsch Appointed To Liquor Board Appointment of the Iwo mem-j hers of the local alcoholic bever-1 age board was announced today by the county commissioners and Mayor A. R. Holthouse, each of whom names one member. The county commissioners named Dallas M. Hower, former deputy sheriff. Mayor Holthouse named Leo ! Kirsch, well known auto dealer of this city. The appointments were made in : compliance with "an act concerning alcohol and alcoholic bever--1 ages, liquors, and substances, and to promote temperance.” passed; by the recent session of the general assembly. The third member of the hoard will be appointed by the state alI coholic beverage commission. In all probability the third member will be an excise collector for the district in which Adams county is located. The local board receives all applications from those who wish to sell alcoholic beverages or spir- ! ituous liquor. The board funcl tions as a recommending board. It does not grant permits, this power being vested in the state ! excise director and the state alcoholic beverage commission. Mr. Hower, who served 12 years *ns a deputy sheriff, operated a meat market in this city before taking the deputy office. He is a member of the Methodist church and has been a Decatur resident all his life. Mr. Kirsch is prominent in business and civic affairs in this I city. He is a member of the Rotary club, the Zion Reformed i o (CONTINUED ON PAGE SIX) O Bell Divorce Case Under Advisement The evidence in the case in which Mrs. Muriel Bell is suing her husband. Clinton Bell, was concluded Tuesday afternoon. Judge Huber M. DeVoss has taken the caese under advisement. Gasoline Checks Are Received Here Gasoline checks f r road and street work have been received by j the county auditor and the city i clerk-treasurer. The county’s check amounts to $25,784.71 and the city’s share to $1,551.10. The checks cov r the gnu line receipts for the first three months of this year. o HOLD GALLMEYER RITES THURSDAY Frederick Gallmeyer Dies Tuesday At Fort Wayne Following an Extended Illness Funeral services for Frederick Gallmeyer. 70. who died at his home at 2431 John street. Fort Wayne. Tuesday morning, will be held Thursday afternoon at 1:30 o’clock at the residence and 2 o'clock at Zion’s Lutheran church. Rev. P. L. Dannenfeldt will officiate and burial will be in Gonocrdia Luth run cemetery. Mr. Gallmeyer was a brother of Mrs. William Fuelling of Adams county. He died at 4:30 o’clock yesterday imorning following a several years’ illness. He w>ts employed in b’.te Walbash railroad boiler shop before he retired 25 years ago. He had resided in Fort Wayne for 40 years. Surviving are a daughter, Mrs. Walter Gerdlng, Fort Wayne; two brothers, William, Fort Wayne Henry of Gar Creek, and seven sisIqre; Mrs. Louise Wiefeldt, Mrs Minnie Hockemeyer, Mrs. August Hartman and Mrs. Louis Wietfeldt. Fort Wayne; Mrs. William Fuelling of Adams county. Mrs. Christ Goeglien and Mrs. Murtin Vonenau of Gtoeglein. One granddaughter. Ruth Gerding of Fort Wayne, also survives.

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Held for Murder I T ; f f Z ; M I I-ml JHJ I Wib j* Eighteen months after Dr. Fred Hamilton, physician and coroner , at Jena. La., wae burned to death ! | lin a fire which destroyed his ! ( home. Ixmis Hamilton, above, his , i son and a student at Tulane Uni- i. versify Medical school. New Orleans, was taken in custody for the I alleged patricide. Hamilton denied the charge. , RURAL SECTION FHA CHAIRMEN Men And Women Named For County To Assist In FHA Program ’ * _________ Tom McConnell, associate direct- 1 |or of the Federal Housing Administration. today announced the ap-| ! pointments of the men and women . to represent the farm section of | the FHA program in Adams coun--1 tyGeorge M. Krick of Decatur is , : county chairman. Jerry Liechty of I, Berne is the county representative. , ’ Mrs. L. A. Ripley is county repre- j sentative of the women's section. , • A campaign similar to the one ; now being made in Decatur will be ;, made soon in the rural districts of j ' the county. The complete program h will be announced soon. FHA loans may be obtained for the modernization of any permanI ent property on the farm. One provision of the loans, however, requires that the benefits of the loan be obtained immediately. For instance a loan can not be obtained for the establishment of an orchard i because the returns of the orchard ; would not be received for several years after the planting of the ' young trees. The representatives of the men’s | committee are: Ernest Busche, ■Washington township: Thomas’Raleigh, Wabash; C. D. Spuller. | Union; 11. M. Crownover, St. Mary's; Harlow Mann. Root: Ed Zwick, Preble; Ed H. Gilliom, I Monroe; D. A. Rumple, Jefferson; Ralph Meyers, Hartford; Otto Klickman, French, and M. A. Rip(CONTINUED ON PAGE FOUR) O ENTERTAIN LIONS MEMBERS TUESDAY Decatur Lions Club Entertained Last Night by Students From Many Nations Tie “Students From- Many Nations" entertained the members of i the Decatur Lions club >it the regui ’ lar meeting Tuesday night in -the j Rice hotel. R v. H. W. Franklin, ipastor of the United Brethren church, was in charge of the program. One of the students. D. Cimino. >in Italian, played classical pieces on the guitar and violin. He alsoj sang. i John Klinepeter. of Harrisburg - Pennsylvania, played >i number of • 'selections on the piano, among ! whid’) was “When You Ring Those .■Golden Bells.” Mr. Klinepeter also , discussed the Practical Bible Training school located near Binghamp- ■ [ ton, New York. The local Lionc -club is sponsori' ing a scout training camp, which I will ibe iput into operation next summer.

DEADLOCK OVER BILL MAY COME TO END TODAY Administration Leakers Take Drastic Steps To Quell Opposition Washington, Apr. 3.— (U.K) —Administration leaders sought today through a series of high pressure conferences to quell the senate Insurgency blocking the new deal's $1,880,000,000 work-relief bill. Majority leader Joseph T. Robinson said as the senate convened that he thought a solution of the deadlock might be worked out during the day. Chairman Carter Glass of the senate appropriations committee, however, said he knew of no change in the situation. While officials of the FERA reported a decrease in the federal relief rolls, leaders at the capitol insisted that it was imperative to push the work-relief bill into law. Robinson, who engaged last night and this morning in discussions with insurgent members of his own party, said he thought the house and senate conferees on the bill would meet this afternoon and that he believed they could reach a satisfactory agreement. Yesterday’s conference ended after a quarrel among Democrats and made further progress impossible for the time being. Glass, who refused to yield to the administration demand for lelimination of the section of the bill requiring one-third of the $900,000,000 loaning fund be spent for “direct work”, would give no information regarding any plans for further conferences. It was generally agreed the bill eventually will become law. It has passed both houses and now is in I conference for the second time. The first conference report was unsatisfactory to the administration because it contained an amendment requiring that one-third of loans or grants to municipalities or states be used for direct labor. Glass and others believe that without that restriction some $960,060,000 could be spent in the purchase of power and light plants without creating any employment. The administration contends that with the limitation any comprehensive public works program would be bogged down with legal technicalities, tremendous bookkeeping requirements and endless (CONTINUED ON PAGE SIX) DECATUR LOSES COURT RULING Judge DeVoss Overrules City’s Demurrer To Ralph Bentz Suit Judge Huber M. DeVoes in the Adams circuit court today overruled a demurrer filed by City Attorney Herman Myers for the city of Decatur in the mandamus suit filed by Rai h Bentz asking that he he r-’inetated as a member of t.he city fire department. demurrer lhad been filed against the complaint by the city of Decatur stating that the Adams circuit court haw no jurisdiction over ■the party or the subject matter-that the plaintiff had not proceeded under the proper statutes and -that mandamus proceedings are not proper prooeedingß in view of the municipal law governing firemen and policemen as found in chapter 86 of the 1933 acts of the General Assembly. Frank H. Vernor, F rt Wayne attorney. appeared for Mr. Bentz and contended ti'iat the mandamus procesdings are proper. The court ruled that in view of the fact that proper notice wae not served iby the board of public works and safety on the iplaintiff, stating the time and place for him to state his reasions why he should not Ibe discharged, that the demurrer would not hold. Tihe court ruling that the proper notice was not given takes the mutter enirely out from under the statute governing policemen and firemen in municipal corporations and therefore a mandamus suit is proper. The case will be set for trial at a later date.