Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 33, Number 109, Decatur, Adams County, 7 May 1935 — Page 1

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Vol. XXXIII. No. 109.

Local Postmaster Receives Notice Postmaster Phil L. Macklin lias received a notice from the chief clerk of the Railway Mail Service, asking local (people not to deposit mall in the northbound letter box at the Pennsylvania dci;ot, except on Sundays. The chief mall clerk stated that train clerks did not have time to,' pick, up the mail from the north- j bound boxes. Nothing was said ■ abcut placing the mall in the southibound boxes. o DISTRIBUTION IS ANNOUNCED Excise And Intangibles Tax Distributions Are Announced The excise and intangibles tax distribution were announced for the 14 taxing units in Adams county by County Auditor John W. Tyndall. The intangibles distribution to tihe tuition and county revenue funds amounted to 11,900.38. Os this amount, >1.425.28 was divided among the local taxing units, and I >475.10 was turned into the county revenue fund. A total of >:i,<24.2S from the excise distribution was available for the tuition funds of the 14 school units. This made a total of >5.624.66 available from state funds for distributions. ' The excise distributions were as follows: Blue Creek, >144.75; French, $165.76; Hartford. $179.41; Jefferson, $137.08; Kirkland, $175.98; Monroe. $369.10; Preble, $172.57; Root. $181.05; St. Mary's, $196.01; Union. >141.58; Wabash, slOl.43; Washington, >273; Berne, 132L35; Decatur, $865.26; total, >3,724.28. The Adams comity allotment from the state excise fund was distributed among the various units on an average daily attendance of 4,487.32. This gave each unit .829954 cents per pupil. The state collected >542.077.97 for this fund. It was distributed on a state average attendance of 653,185 pupils. The average amount given to each county peri pupil was .8293164 cents. The state sent a warrant for | $1,900.38 for the county's share of j (CONTINUED ON PAGE SIX) Alleged Extorter Is Under Arrest Kansas City, Mo.. May 7—(U.R) ►—An attempt to extort $250,000 from Janies M. Kemper, president of the Commerce Trust company and son of W’illiam T. Kemper, Democratic national committeeman of Missouri, was revealed today. Peter Warren. 20. charged wi'h writing the extol Von note ' was arrested May 4, federal agents revealed through Maurice M. Milligan, United States district attorney, who filed the charge to extort today. Warren wan arrested May 4. it was revealed, at a small sheltfl house in the south residential district, a spot where Kemper had been instructed to deposit the money. o PLAN FOR PUBLIC MEMORIAL SERVICE Odd Fellows, Reiter Encampment And Rebekahs Plan Public Service June 2 St. Miry's lodge No- 167 of the I. O. O. F„ Reiter Encampment No. 214 and Olive Rebekah Ledge No. 86 will unite in a public memorial service to be held in this city Sunday. June 2. A number of lodges in this section of the state have been Invited to participate. and it is expected teat a large crowd of Odd Fellows and Rebekahs will be in Decatur on that day. Weather ipermltting. a street ipaiade will be held- The memorial services will be held at the First Chris- 1 tian church starting at 2 o’clock in the afternoon. Officers of the grand lodge, grand encampment and Rebekah assem y i have signified ti’aeir intentions of attending and taking part in the | program. The memorial address will L delivered by Paul A. Pfister, dep- 1 uty U. S. attorney of .Indianapolis. < Mr. Pfister is the present grant master of the grand lodge of .Indkina.

DON RICHBERG SEEKS ACTION FDR NRA BILL Acting NRA Chairman Seeks To Force Early House Action Washington. May 7 — <U.R) — Donald Richberg. acting chairman of the NRA, conferred with Deni-, ocra'ic members of the house I ways and means committee today in an apparent effort to force house action on NRA legislation in event a senate filibuster ties up extension legislation. The conference was secret. Richberg was understood to have told house Democrats continue'lon of NRA for two years was essential rather than the nine months proposed in the bill now before the senate. It was believed that Richberg was agreeable to extension of the NRA under the same general principles as laid down in the senate resolution, however. NRA conpro! only over interstate business probably would be acceptable to the administration, chairman | Robert L. Doughton said later. Charles West. White House i liaison officer, also attended the' conference. Doughton said it was believed | that if any appreciable delay oc- j (urs in senate action on NRA the house committee could be ready to go ahead with extension legislation in short time. The NRA will expire June 16 unless continued. Doughton said that copies of senate committee hearings on NRA were turned over to the committee. This would obviate. Doughton said, long hearings by tl>e committee-. He l>eli«vrd- that if necessary the committee could have the bill ready after two or three days of abbreviated hearings. The house leaders, however, still wanted- the senate to act first on the NRA legislation. ADAMS COUNTY FARMERS PAID AAA Payments In This County Have Totaled $282,339.32 Adams county farmers have received a total of $282,339.32 in payment from the federal government under the agricultural adjustment administration program, according to figures released at Washington Monday. The Adams county receipts are divided as follows: $263,602.68 in corn-hog payments and $18,736.64 for wheat payments. Payments on other counties in this district are as follows: Allen counity, total. $418,409.67; wheat, >22,503.27; corn-liog, $395,906.40. DeKalb county, total $228,839.31; wheat, $44,162.60; and corn-hogs, $184,676.71. Wells county, total, $391,582.96; wheat, $10,508.68; corn-hogs, >381,074.27. Noble county, total. $318,907.04; wheat, >31,941.31; corn-hogs, $286.965.73. Huntington county, total, $3.9,567.98; wheat. $24,086.92, and cornhogs, >355,481.06. < Lagrange county, total, $260,715.83; wheat. >50,184.44. and cornhogs, >210,531.39. Steuben county, total, $163,570.55; wheat, $23,051.48, and corn-hogs, $140,519.07. o— Dillinger Lawyer’s Trial Is Continued Chicago, May 7 —(UP) —Trial of Louis Pikuett, attorney for Jota Dilling**, on charges of harboring j Homer Van M. ter, Dillinger cohort, was continued by Federal Judge William H. Holly today. Piquett, who was recently acquitted in federal .court on charges of harboring Dillinger, faced the court for ip-l-ee and .arraignmentThe poetponment was granted defense attorneys when they contended they had not had sufficient time to prepare their case. They were granted ten days in which to file motions.

May 7

Decatur, Indiana, Tuesday, May 7, 1935.

Girl, 12, Marries Youth, 22 *1 iiL *; 5 lifl [ -'jß . SI m 'in ■■'■'Ka ' jßy? -. Three weeks' courtship resulted in the marriage of 12-year-old Perlie Mae Arwood of Knoxville, Tenn., and Willie Broyles. 22. who are shown above Just after their marriage. Recent repeal of Tennessee’s ancien marriage laws made possible the union wh.-ih took place despite objections of the girl’s parents.

M. E. OFFICERS ARE RE-ELECTED Committee Is Named To Decide Stand To Take In Event of War Fort Wayne, Ind.. May 7.—(U.R>— A committee appointed in the closing session of the North Indiana Methodist Episcopal conference today assumed the task of determining the stand the conference should take in event of war. Members of the committee ini elude Dr. E. Burns Martin. Fort Wayne; the Rev. Edwin !«. Garrison, Logansport; the Rev. E. D. Imler. Lapel; the Rev. S. L. Yoder, Elwood; the Rev’. E. S. Carruth, Farmland, and the Rev. Claud Garrison. Warsaw. Transfer of the following churches to new districts was approved: I Montpelier and Rauh from Fort I Wayne to Muncie; Butler and Waterloo from Warsaw to Fort Wayne; Claypool, Mentone and Burkett from Wabash to Warsaw; Joliettville, Westfield and Carmel from Muncie to Kokomo; Frankton from Kokomo to Muncie; Somerset from Kokomo to Wabash. Conference officials reelected included: the Rev. A. W. Pugh. Noblesville, treasurer; the Rev. Clyde (CONTINUED ON PAGE SIX) o Impeachment Charges Against Federal Judge 'Washington. M iy 7 —(UP) —Amid stormy debate Rep. Everett Dirksen. Illinois, today Drought impeachment charges against federal circuit court judge Samuel Alschuler of Illinois. The charges were referred to bite house judiciary committee for investigation in a dramatic scene in which Rep. Michael 'lgoe, 'lllinois, charged Dirksen witli raising the issue in furtherance of an ambition to become governor of Illinois. Dirksen charged directly that Alschuler had been “knowingly and corruptly guilty of favoritism” in a case involving the Pullman company of Chicago. Flovd Butler Rites Wednesday Afternoon Funeral services for Floyd Butler, 40. who died suddenly at ibis home in Chicigo Sunday morning, will be held Wednesday afternoon at 2 o’clock at the home of his father and step-math ?r. Mr. and Mrs. Samuel Butler. 114 South Eighth street, and at 2:30 o’clock at Mie Methodist Episcopal church here. Rev. H. R. Carson will officiate and burial will be in the Decatur cemetery. The body arrived in Decatur on the Erie railroad at 1:52 o’clock this morning and was taken to the S. E. Black Funeral home, being removed to the Sam Butler residence at 11 o’clocik this imiorning. The body may be viewed after 7 o'clock tonight.

Physician Awarded Judgment By Court A case in which Dr. D. L. Rossiter is suing Washington township of Allen county for physician's services was heard before Judge Huber M. DeVoss in the Adams circuit court Monday afterno. .n. Dr. Rossiter asked for fees which he claims .are due him for attending to a per- | son on relief in the township in an emergency case. Judge DeVoss found for the plainitiff on th > first paragraph of the i complaint and awarded him the I sum of $l6O with costs- Judge DeVoss teund for the defendant on the second pamgraph. A judgment wis awarded on the finding. Exceptions were taken by the plaintiff and the I defendants. o— LARGE RELIEF SUM EXPECTED — Indiana Expects To Receive Eight And OneHalf Million Monthly Indianapolis, May 7 — (U.R) — Indiana expects to receive >B,500.000 monthly from the federal government’s new relief appropriation. Gov. Paul IV. McNutt said last night. The money wilj[ provide employment for 86,000 heads of families on the relief rolls, leaving 40,000 families on direct relief or to be absorbed by private industry, he said. Expenditures from Hie SS,500,000 were estimated by the governor to run as follows: $1,000,000 monthly for the civilian conservation carps, membership of which will be (irtTeased from 6.000 to 12,000. $1,000,000 for highway construction and grade crossing elimination, employing 4.000 men. $500,000 for rural resettlement and relief to stricken agricultural communities. $500,000 for direct relief. The remaining $5,500,500 a month would be used on a public works and relief work program designed to provide employment for 68,000 persons, the governor (CONTINUED ON PAGE SIX) o Government Plans To Battle Court Ruling Washington, May 7 —(UP) —Administration advisers predicted today early action to meet the challeng’ to New Deal policies resulting from the supreme court action in declaring the railroad pension act unconstitutional. No indication of just what the administration proposed to do was given, President Roosevelt was represented a.s supri»cd by the strong language employed Dy the court's majority in its sweeping ruling. The President was said, however, •to have anticipated an adverse decision in the railroad case.

SENATE FAVORS VINSON BILL TO PAY VETERANS [Administration Compromise Measure Is Scrapped By Senators Washington, May 7.—(U.R) —The J senate today scrapped the administration bonus compromise plan j and expressed a preference for the ' Vinson-American Legion bill for full cash payment. On a motion to substitute the Vinson bill for the compromise plan, the Vinson measure won by 54 to 30. Rejection of the compromise offered by Sen. Pat Harrison, D., Miss., made inevitable a clash between the White House and congress on the bonus issue. During debate Harrison said that his bill was the only bonus measure which would escape a presidential veto. A decision still remained to be made between the Vinson bill and the Patman ‘‘greenback’’ bill. Thousands of telegrams in support of the latter measure have been received since Sunday. Such usual administration stalwarts as Sen. James F. Byrnes, D„ S. C„ and Sen. J. Hamilton Lewis. D„ 111., deserted White House leadership on the vote. Sen. James Couzens, R.. Mich., announced before the vote that he was opposed to all three bonus proposals -Harrison. Vinson, and Patman. o Junior C. C. And Legion Meet Friday There will be a joint meeting of the American Legion and the Junior Chamber of Commerce committees at the American Legion hall Friday evening at 7:30 o’clock. A Memorial Day program will be planned. o No Proclamation On Mother’s Day Washington. May 7 — (U.R) — President Roosevelt established another precedent today when he expressed the belief that a special proclamation for Mother’s day on the part of the chief execui tive was unnecessary. *‘l prefer to think that the , tributes which wi J lie paid to mothers will come simply and ! spontaneously from our hearts,’ | Mr. Roosevelt said. o—. Investigate Vice Conditions At lowa lowa City, la., May 7 —<U.R> —A county grand jury began an investigation of vice conditions today as an outgrowth of a fraternity house scandal at the University of lowa. The University’s chap‘er of Phi Beta Delta, national Jewish fraternity, was closed and 23 members suspended by school authorities after two girls. 17 and 19, told of wild parties there. The fraternity’s members retaliated with a charge that vice existed on a large scale in lowa City hotels. o SIO,OOO DAMAGE SUITS ARE FILED Two Damage Suits of SIO,OOO Each Filed in Deaths of George Pauline Dierdorf Fort Wayne, Ind., May 7 —(UP) — Two suits each seeking $10,009 judgment from tihie Pennsylvania railroad company as an aftermath of a fat.il railroad automobile accident in which George W. and Pauline Dierdorf were killed on August 7, 1934, were filed in U. S. District I court here yesterday. One of the suits was filed by Wesley H. Dierdorf and Margaret E. El'mone, Both of Decatur, administrators of the* estate of George Dierdorf. The other was filed by Wesley IL Dierdorf, seeking judgment for the death of Pauline Dierdorf. The suits charge the’accident, which occurred at a crossing on the Putnam-Clay county line, resulted from the failure to blow the whistle .cn the train, high weeds on the railroad property which obscured the view and the excessive nite of speed at which the train was traveling.

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Terre Haute Firm Robbed Os $1,009 Terre Haute, Ind., May 7.- (U.R) I —Three bandits held up the Central Union Building and Loan Association here today and escaped with >I,OOO in cash. Two of the bandits entered the bank and ak the point of guns foreed Forrest Kinsinger, secretary, to give them the money. A third bandit remained outsßte in an automobile in which the bandits made their escape. APRIL RELIEF COSTS HIGHER Washington Township Poor Relief Costs Show Slight Increase The township relief bill increas- ' ed >14.54 in April over March, according to a report just completed by John M. Doan, Washington town- ' | ship trustee. All items increased but fuel and clothing. The largest gain was in 'I medical care which increased from 1 $252.37 in March to >431.01 in April, a gain of >178.64. Food decreased from $626.80 in 1 March to $465.15 in April, a savings of $161.65. A decrease of ' $152.54 was noted in fuel which ■ dropped from >438.03 in March to $285.49 in April. The complete report was; food, March, $626.80, April $465.15, de- ’ crease, $161.65; fuel, March, $438.03, ' April, $285.49, decrease $152.54; clothing, March >66.08, April $82.55, increase $16.47; medical, March $252.37, April $431.01, increase, $178.64. Hospital, March >57.05, April. $116.28, increase $59.23; transients, March 50 cents, April $3.95, increase, $3.45; nursing. March, none, : April S2B, increase >2B; ambulance, ■ March, none, April $4, increase. > $4; school books. March, none. • April. $1.44. increase, $144: bartal. i March, none, April. >35. increase, $35, and shoe repair, March, none, April. $2.50, increase $2.50. The total reports for both months are: March, $1,440.83, April >l,455.37. increase, $14.54. In March there were 169 families : representing 711 persons on both FERA and township relief. in i April there were 168 families representing 708 persons. JOHNSON TALK IS SENSATION H. Johnson Says Business Men Wanted Roosevelt 1 As Dictator Mayfiejd, Ky., May 7 —((UPO — Gen. Hugh S. Johnson, former NRA administrator, would not enlarge today on his charge that ' during the 1933 Roosevelt crisis, certain business leaders urged President Roosevelt to declare himself dictator of the United States. Johnson made the sensational charge in an address before young Kentucky Democrats in a tobacco warehouse last night. His speech was devoted in the main to renewed denunciations of the Rev. Charles E. Coughlin, radio priest, and Sen. Huey P. Long. “We are forgetting, if we have I not discarded, many old counsels of safety and convenience.” he t .mid. “The only reason we haven’t a dictator right now is that the very idea was hateful to the President. In March of 1933, there were many who urged that step, and, strange as it now I seems, the principal urgers were i some of the very barons of big i business who recently came to Washington and passed resohi- ■ tions telling the new deal to fold (CONTINUED ON PAGE FIVE) Huntington Ruling To Be Given Wednesday ' Huntington, Ind., May 7—(U.R>— l ’'[Special Judge David Smith of ■ Fort Wayne will rule at 10 a. m. ■ tomorrow on contempt of court charges against Mayor Clare W. . H. Bangs and 10 other defendi ants. I Plaintiff in the action is the ■ Northern Indiana Power company > which obtained an injunction last I January to prevent Bangs from I extending facilities of the city Igiht plant; to the commercUal field.

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JOBLESS STAGE HUNGER MARCH AT SPRINGFIELD Illinois Unemployed Parade Before State Capitol Today Springfield, 111., May 7—(U.R) — Illinois unemployed staged a ■ hunger march on the state cap! 1 tol today. They carried with them a plan of their own for settling the state's unprecedented relief crisisi I ! brought about by a stalemate between the Illinois legislature and the federal relief administration. State and city police mobilized reenforcements to keep order . during the demonstration and th'* galleries of the state house of representatives were barred to . spectators because of the possibility of rioting. The delegates said they were members of the Illinois Workers Alliance, and included many women. Many were in tatters. Banners carried by the more robust bore such inscriptions as: “We want our milk and bread: open relief stations." “Turn on relief." ! "We want our daily bread.'" Jerry Allard headed a committee of 15 which Governor Horner agreed to confer with to discuss . the unemployed’s own plan for solving the dilemma that has baffled the most experienced relief workers and statesmen. The unemployed program would require of the legislature an ap- ■ propriation of >7.500,000 from the • state general fund to carry on relief until July whereafter estab- ■ lishment of an income tax on in- • conies over $5,000 to pay the re- ■ lief bill instead of the proposed • increased sales tax. In addition to the program for • raising relief money the unem- ■ ployed asked: Immediate aid from Washington pending state action' 1 liquidation of the national guard and use of national guard appropriation for relief; better shelter, medical and dental care and clothing by relief administrators. o Federal Expenditures Over Six Billion Mark Washington. May 7.—(U.R)—Federal government expenditures crossed the $6,000,000,000 mark in the first 10 months and four days of ; the current fiscal year, the treas- [ ury reported today. This was the largest peace-time ' spending period on record. It exceeded by a small amount the $5.939,500,748 expenditures in the corresponding period of the previous fiscal year. The government’s income also increased in this period, amounting to $3,145,494,111, compared with $2,559,528,4'18 in the corresponding period of the previous fiscal year. This left the government “in the red” to the extent of $2,867,464,134 on May 4. 1935, compared with $3,379.972,340 on May 4, 1934. 0 MORE THAN FOUR INCHES OF RAIN St. Mary’s River Slightly Less Than Inch Under Flood Stage i ! iA.n anonymous informant phoned ■ the Decatur Democrat at 11:30 this I morning stating that a patch of , j Blue sky could be seen above the . court house. , Subsequently the citizens of Decatur had the opportunity of seeing the sun shine for brief moments. The precipitation guage maintained by W. E. Gladfelter has measured 4.04 inches of rain since May 2. The average rainfall for the last r I three years for the month of May has been .87 inches. Over a longer . period the rainfall has been about f three inches during the month. The St. Mary’s river is now .9 of t a foot, below flood stage, according to Mr. Gladfelter’s measurements. . Flood stage is at 17 feet and river is now 16.1 feet deep. ■ dn the last two weeks the river r has risen from about two feet to the t present level. laist Friday it was i 15 feet deep. It dropped slightly ’ over the week-end- Later rains I brought it up to 14.6 feet Mon Say, I afternoon. /