Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 33, Number 127, Decatur, Adams County, 28 May 1935 — Page 1

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ortrulings IHAVE VAST JNSEQOENCES K Unanimous DecisnsAßlow To Democrat Leaders iingt» n - May 28 (U.R) unanimous supreme I decisions which jarred the I leal and repudiated a left 1 ove toward redistribution ,Ith are loaded with big ,i and economic consent dealt with blazing It wrecked NRA, sharply powers President Rooveuiilit to exercise over indeK federal agencies and deI private property against Mier-Lemke bill, plue eagle was shot twice. #urt held congress exceeded Htitutional powers in dele-■ I w President Roosevelt un-' 1 d and unstandardized an- | rto promulgate codes of tompetition with the .» That decision had the of bolstering the constitu- I decks and balances by | one branch of government seated from encroaching on tr. even with the consent of (ter. I second barrel ruled that as had no authority to in Intrastate commerce for Bion of hourw and wages — st to the extent practiced the national industrial relict. To admit that right. , Mr 1 held, would be to •ledge a centralized system | ( eetiment under which fedKthority could be extended intrastate matters almost )t limit. The portion of the ( t emphasized the issue of I rights which has been a ( iof recurrent dispute and nr within the republic. i ruling in the Humphrey W« aimed directly at Mr. ; fa. i court repudiated his sueII effor’ to oust from the bi in. independent federal commission a commissioner •as believed to be unerym- i Hr with new deal policies — te William E. Humphrey of J t Wash. charge of incompetence was ! h against Commissioner kt’, a Republican appolntlPresident Coolidge and re-. Iby President Hoover. But ' tosevelt demanded his resig- j I explaining he thought the I Rinner'* responsibilities ' be discharged by a i k' his own choosing. 1 bill estab- ; I Procedure whereby the I !ot > mortgaged farm to | ■htsclusnre could anneal to Res and remain on his farm at a rtn,al - At the rTTVPRn on rir.p «tx> IENDMENTS TO II POSTPONED feme Court’s NRA Vision Causes Concessional Delay foWon, May 28— <U.P.) ’ B «>nal leaders decided to- ’■ «track the pending AAA ’“ts because of the un-‘ i Vt> Crea,P< ’ by the supreme ( ■'RA decision. and aplite leaders, con- , °n the situation, decided , 1 '' hill now before the >r su 11 * 0 com mittee for Jllv and any changes! because of the diurt was attended by ’ " agriculture Henry A. administrator Chester I ftloj, ° AAA, and Attorney »te 2 S ,° f t * lp farrn aid unit bbinsn ajOr ’*y leader Joseph bit » n Sa .' (l aftpr t,le meetIbe revisp<l hill probablv M/ ady for action within Unbind ,he conference reta ln ’°n said: !«’ trorn' > t en '' f ' ln which the hr, an r * ykansß! ’ 'Robinsoni * the ’ an<l ot her memon ‘ tED ON PAGE five.

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Heads Presbyterians f „ 1 'i ' 4 J / r > 41 Dr. Joseph A. Vance. 70, of Detroit. was elected moderator of the Presbyterian church in the United States, highest office the church can bestow, at the general assembly at Cincinnati. 1.0.0. F PLAN ~ FOR MEMORIAL Odd Fellows Will Hold Memorial Service Here Sunday. lune 2 Arrangements have been completed for the I. 0. O. F. memorial service which will be held in Decatur on Sunday, June 2. it was announced t. day by Feed Major, gener.il chairman of the event. The memorial is sponsored Tty the subordinate lodge Rebekah lodge and Encampment of Decatur, and Odd F- Hows and Rebekahs throughout this - o-tion of the state will participle in the services. All participating members of the Order will meet at the I. O. O. F. hill at 2 o’clock in the afternoon and parade t. > the First '( hristian hurch. Th? line of march will be beaded by grand lodge officers and the Decatur girls band, under the direction of Albert Sellemeyt-r. Following them will be the Patriarchs Militant and Ladies Auxiliary in full uniform. They in turn will be followed by the Rebekah. Encampment and Subordinate lodge tn- inhere. ■At 2:15 o’clock a program will he presented at the First Christian church. A cordial invitation is extended to the general public to attend the servic s. Following is the complete .program: Invocation—Rev. W. 11. Day. Cihaplain 14th. district, Odd Fellows Association. Welcome Address — Rev. IM. I Dawson, ,pastor First Christian church. Response — Ulmer A. Weeks, grand warden. Vcc.il selection J. E- M. ,ri '■ Ritualistic •nemorial ceremony. Vocal selection—J. E M trio. Memorial address - O. <1- Ft- Ide, grand patriar. h. Announcements. Benediction— Rev. W. H Day. Citv Coal Costs May Be Reduced If coal prices are reduced as a result of the abolishment of NRA i codes, -the reductions will a PP Iy ( “ the contract the city has Boone-Chilton Coal to., May" _■ ’R. Holthouse pointed out . • The contract made last I vided against increase, except for labor and wage sca ' es the government and pro i • I any reduction in I lowing abandonment o N be given to the city. . iven ' cancel the contract Is also M I the city in the event the same Quality of coal can be obtained a. a lower price. General Electric Works Extra Hours The General Electric running eight hours a daj I to make up for the loss of time Thursday a -\ Frk ay t 'iX Policy tory will be cLsed . U ora . of the compiny to clue tioll day and factory not be resumed until nex ay , The factory operated las • - making up part of the tune for this week.

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BUSINESS AND r LABOR DIFFER OVER RULINGS — Indiana Labor Heads And t Business Men Differ 1 1 1 Over NRA Reaction — Indianapolis, May 28.—(U.R>—The < Indiana NRA law was submerged • ■today in the back-wash from the I t inted States supreme court nil-' 1 ing which nullified the national in- 1 dust rial recovery act. Meanwhile, renewed strife be- L 1 tween organized labor and business interests threatened. Labor leaders called the nullification “ a step backward." Their opposition jubilantly hailed the high court’s action as the stabilization of business. Fram is Wells, acting state com- j pliance director of the NRA, estl-1 mated .that 50,000 persons in Indi-: ana may be thrown out of employment as result of the court’s decision. ' 1 am satisfied that the NRA was popular with the mass of the people,” Adolph FrVz, secretary of the) Indiana state federal of labor said, j "Business increased under the NRA and laborers who made only 10 and 12 cents an hour were auto-! 1 maticaly raised to a living wage,” . he continued. ' The supreme court' has made a terrible mistake.” i Organized labor was reported, ready to continue i.'s support of Hie NRA by John Smith, president : of the central labor union. “Labor has stood in back of NRA and labor now must waten for •chiselers’ until the ruling has been made clear or congress passes new } legislation to .take the place of' I NRA." he said. A warning that labor and Indus- ■ , try "are headed for trouble” was I , voiced by Arthur W. Lyda-y, secie-, I tary of the central labor union. | "Strikes on all labor fronts orej, a distince possibility, if wages are cu.t back to pre-NRA scales,” be | said. "All avenues of mediation are cut off. and there is no com-: mon ground of arbitration on dis(CONTINUED ON PAGE FOITR) KIDNAPED GIRL FOUND IN GARY Ten-Year-Old St. Louis Girl Abandoned In Hotel By Kidnaper ' Gary. Ind.. May 28-(UP)-Ten-I year-old Juanita Dudley, kidnaped i from her home in St. Louis, Mo., May 14. w s abandoned in a Gary ■ hotel by her abductor, police report--1 ed today. p,,lice said they were searching . for James Cranston, 45, an ex-con-viet, as the kidnaper. The girl, frightened by her ex-p-n-nce. was token to the juvenile I {detention h me .pending plans to i • return her to li< r .parents. She was identified through ia police ircular which arrived here I shortly after hotel attaches had .become suspicious of the guests and I notified local authorities. Hotel employes identified photo- | graphs f Cranston as the man who had registered with the girl as i father and daughter May 24. I . Cranston left the hotel the followi ing day with instructions to give the ■! girl her food and permit her to sign . the .checks. Th ■ child said she accompanied ■ Cranston tram St. Louis on his pro- • , ni se that he would take her to Hollywood, Cal., and buy her pretty ' clothes. , .! Police said Cranston had served ( 1 t ..,- nl6 in Michigan State prison, for > forgery, and the federal peniten- > Sry at Atlanta, (la., on a Mann ’ act charge imposed G E. Club Annual picnic On lune 22 The third annual picnic of the G. . ! E chib will be held at Sunset park, east of Decatur, Saturday June i Frank Gillig wil 1 be gener.il chair- . man in charge of the arrangements ’ - ond he will be assisted b> Carl S puns are now underway to make the picnic this year an outstanding ' U .v the year. The chairmen of < { ihc various committees will be announced later.

Decatur, Indiana, Tuesday, May 28, 1935.

Adams County Roads i Will Be Included The state highway commission will receive sealed bids up until 2:00 p. m., June n, for surface treatment of 59.15 miles of state road in the Fort Wayne district. Roads in . Adams County are Included. Proposals will be received tin the following: 184,100 gallons of EmulBifiesl asphalt .AES; Tar TM or liquid asphalt RC-3 furnished and applis d and 11,375 tons of aggregate furnished and spread, or furnished ' and stocked on state road in Allen. . Grant, Miami, Huntington, Weils 1 and Adams counties. Tlie legal notice to bidders was i ordered published in the Daily Dem- ' ocrat on May 31. 1 o i MEMORIAL DAY SERVICE PLAN I C. E. Striker Will Deliver Address During Memorial Day Program Clifton E. Striker, county super-' 1 intendent of schools, will deliver ' I the Memorial Day address at the dedication of the flag pole at the 1 Maplew ;od cemetery Thursday 1 morning May 30. The dedication ceremonies will he held at the Maplewood cemetery where one of the flag poles is 10. . cated. To shorten the program only ' > a brief service will be held at the St. Joseph cemetery where the other flag pole bus been erected. Adams post number 43 cf the American Legion assisted by the Decatur Junior Chamber of Commerce: will .be in charge of the program. ! In conformance with annual custom most of the business houses and the industries will be closed on Memorial Day to give employes an opportunity to attend Memorial Day ■ services and visit friends. I Th-e program here will be conI eluded at noon when t.he flags are ( raised. A number of tlie mei.nbers of the American Legion in the county [ plan to attend Legion services in Fort Wayne and other cities. | The American Legion and the De- , | catur Junior Chamber of Commerce | lave extended invitations to residents. veterans of all wars and their families and others interested in Adams county and elsewhere to attend. The program Manorial Day will begin promptly at 9 o'clock. A parade will begin near the peace monument and continue to the Monroe . street bridge. .At the bridge there will be the annual custom of throwing f were into the waters of the St. (CONTINUED ON PAGE THREE) O— High School Annual Shows Small Profit The Decatur high school .annual "Ravelings” made a net profit of three cents this year. Miss Blanch McCrory, faculty business manager announced today. Advertising and subscriptions are sold only in sufficient . mounts to produce the ' book at cost. No effort is made to | raise . i.oney through the venture. HOMER ELZEY DIES MONDAY I Former Monroe Barber Dies Monday Afternoon At Home of Niece Homer M. Elzey, 52, well known barber of Monroe, died Monday afternoon at 3:15 o’clock at the home of his niece, Miss Ollie Leßrun in Terre Haute. Death was due to euretnic poisoning. Mr. Elzey had engaged in barbering at Monroe -since 1912 until six weeks ago when faiing health forced him to quit. He made his home with his niece since that time. He was iborn in Monroe township on September 8, 1882, a son of John and Lucinda Elzey. He was never ; married. Surviving are two brothers Alpha C. Elzey of near Monroe, and ( Ira Elzey of Decatur. One sister and and the parents are deceased. Funrral services will be held Thursday afternoon at 2 o’clock at the Friend’s church at Monroe ond burial will be made in the Spring Hill cemetery, southeast of Monroe. The body was brought to the Lobenstein funeral parlors in Monroe where it may be viewed until time for the funeral.

GROWERS FAVOR CONTROL PLANS Adams County Wheat Growers Vote 8 To 1 To Continue Program Adams county wheat growers voted nearly eight to one in favor of the continuation of the wheat control program of the AAA in tlie referendum held during the past two weeks, a canvass of the vote by members of the board of directors of the wheat control association revealed Monday evening. A vote of 284 was recorded. Os this number 244 had signed the 1933-35 wheat control contracts. This is 79 per cent of the previous signers. The vote represents .the majority of the cash crop wheat growers in Adams county. Other wheat is grown for rotation or feeding purposes. The vote of tlie 1933-35 signers was yes, 171: no, 22. and total 193. The vo’e of the non-signers was yes, 80; no, 11, and total 91. Tlie total vote was yes, 251; no, 33, total 284. Members of the board of directors of the wheat control association are E. W. Busche, John W. Blakey and Ralph Myers. Wheat grown in Indiana repre•vente a very small fraction of the total wheat grown in the United States. Os the wheat grown here only a portion of it is put on the market. For .this reason, other than help to congressmen from the state, the' Indiana vote will have littfe bearing upon the national vote. Members of the wheat control board and other officials were very well ipleased with both the turn-out and the results of the vote. Signers who did not attend .the meeting were mailed ballots, which tlie majority voted. The referendum was taken ter provide a means of knowing tlie desire of the farmers in relation to future wheat legislative programs in Congress.. It will not necessarily mean that legislation will be enacted in exact conformance with the vote. o ~ TO HEAR POWER SUIT JUNE 19 Suit For Permanent Injunction At Huntington Will Be Heard Then Huntington, Ind., May 28. (U.R) —Suit of the Northern Indiana Power company for a permanent injunction restraining commercial sales by the Huntington municipal electric plant will be heard June 19, special Judge David E. Smith, Font Wayne, announced today. The power company now has a temporary restraining order from the court and Mayor Clare W. H. Bangs is in jail on a contempt conviction for violating the order. ikssues of the case definitely were prepared for trial today when the power company replies .‘o answers of the defendants were filed before Judge Smith. The court took under advisement a petition by Claude Cline, city attorney, that a jury decide whether a companion suit for $lO.000 damages for the power company be allowed. The power company was award(CONTINUED ON PAGE THREE' ——— o— Distribute Conies Os 1935 Acts Here The 1935 acts of the 79th session of the Indiana General Assembly were received in book form today by County Clerk David D. Depp. The great avnount of legislation passed in the lust session required a book of 1.764 .pages, one of the largest in the history of the state government. .As the appropriation for the pubication of the books remains the same each year fewer copies were printed. Only 70 -books were received f?r distribution in Adams county. NO PAPER THURSDAY In conformance with annual custom, the Decatur Daily Democrat will not publish Thursday, May 30. which is Memorial Day. Advertisers are requested to have material for Friday ads in this office Wednesday afternoon If possible.

EARLY RETURN OF KIDNAPED LAD FORESEEN Safe Return of Tacoma, Washington, Boy Is Forecast Today — ’ Tacoma. May 28.— U.R) Safe return of George Weyerhaeuser, nine-year-old Tacoma school boy, was forecast today. His family 1 was believed making contact wi.‘h J the kidnaper who seized the child in front of Annie Wright seminary last Friday noon. Shortly after the boy’s father 1 requested that f.tderal agents and police cease to interfere and after a night of unusual activity at the ’ Weyerhaeuser home, a third classi- ' fi:d advertisement appeared in a Seattle paper today: “We are ready. Percy Minnie,” ' was the ad's terse notice to tlie abductors. 1 Tlie ad was believed to indicate that further word had been receiv- ’ ed at the big white house on the hill. A report that a woman in Van- '' couver, B. C„ had seen a boy resembling the kidnaped child in an automobile with two men caused a stir among investigators. The woman, whose name was 1 withheld, saw the child in tlie tonneau of a dust covered sedan. He was sitting between two men i British Columbia, directly north of here, is wild and wooded and offers many hiding places for criminals. 1 ( John P. Weyerhaeuser had $200,OUO in small bills in the Weyerhaeuser mansion overlooking Puget Sound, awaiting word from the kid- " ■ napers on where the money could be exchanged for his curly-haired ’ boy. George. Although surrep’ltious efforts of , federal agents and police to ob- ’ serve every phase of the ransom negotiations caused the family, and ’ possibly the kidnaper, to fear in- ’, terference that might prove fatal ‘ a.t tlie last moment, there we're many indications that the family 1 had received new and more complete instructions than those in- ■ closed in the first ransom note. J. 11. Titcomb, uncle of the ab(,CONTINUED ON PAGE THREE) I Junior C. Os C. To Sponsor Dance ■ Th? Decatur Junior Chamber of Commerce will epone r a "Bowery Dance” on Thursday, l June 13. it was decided at the meeting iheld in the Central School building Mond y I! evening. 1 j The members of tli? club M inday 1 i were entertained by the unarion- *: ettea (produced by the Little Thea--1 ter of the Central school. ! Th’ club accepted an invitation • from W. A. Klepper to hold the next regular meeting at the plant of the 1 Cloverleaf Creameries, Inc., which 1 will be completely remodelled iby • that time. The members will be ’ shown through the pl ait which will be capable of .producing 8.000,o’o pounds of butter a year. GOLD FLOWING OUT OF FRANCE French Leaders Fight Desperately In Financial Crisis Paris, May 28 — (U.R) —Violent ! opposition to granting the cabinet full power to deal with tlie finan- , cial situation developed among . deputies today as the chamber convened to hear 1 finance minister Louis Germain Martin outline the government’s program. Tlie life of the cabinet appeared to be in danger. Just before parliament met, the B'ank of Frame, fighting desperately to stop the drain of gold which threatens the franc, raised the discount rate for the third time since last Thursday, this time from four por cent to six. The high discount rate was expected to curb the gold exodus, which was dangerously close to reaching 4,060,000,000 franco ($263.300,00<>' this week. Despite tlie government’s insistence on the urgency of the situation, the deputies continued to play politics and the fate of tho (CONTINUED ON PAGE THREE)

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Confessed Slayer j - is ’ z • — ■■■■ ■■ ■ I Telling a story of inflamed passions and repulsed advances, Ray ■ Jutila. 20, alwive, confessed to Hie • murder of Mrs. Marie Tobin of I 1 Warren. Ohio, whose nude body was found burned beyond recog- I • nition by flames kindled by Jutila • to conceal the crime, according! i to police. I RULING AFFECTS ADAMS FARMERS II Adverse Ruling on Fra-zier-Lemke Act Affects Adams County ' Eight cases will be affected in t Adams coun y by the declaring wf . I the Frazier-Lemke act unconsti- ! tutional, by the United States SilI preme court Monday. Henry B. Heller, conciliation I commissioner for Adams county, . announced today that no turther ■ action will be taken by officials . until they have had an opportunity . to read the supreme court's decis- ! ion. The full extent of the aotion .! will not be known until that time. The progress made in tlie eight j i cases filed in Adams county to j date is: David J. Schwartz. Monroe .town j ship. Composition agreed upon by I I the creditors and approved by j Judge Slick in Federal court at ’ Fort Wayne. Cause continued, awaiting granting of a loan by tlie i Federal Land Bank to refinance ! first mortgage lien. Rufus Meshberger, Hartford township. Offer of composition refused by creditors. Petition amend- . ed by asking to be adjudged bankrupt under provisions of FrazierLemke act. At meeting of creditors lief re referee, debtor was granted right .to occupy land for . five years. H. B. Heller was ap- , pointed trustee to collect rent. Shelby L. Vance, Blue Creek , township. Composition agreed upon and cause closed. Edwin L. Luginbill, Blue Creek township. Offer of composition rejected by creditors. Cause referred .to district court and is still. pending. Jacob Neuenschwander, Monroe ' township. Offer of composition re-1 Ejected by creditors. Petition amendI ed asking to be adjudged bankrupt (CONTINUED ON PAGE FIVE) o FEE Classes Will Not Meet Thursday There will lie no meeting of the FEE classes Thursday evening. May 30. -— -o 50 More Enrolled In Church School — An increase of 50 pupils was not-1 ed In the enrollment of the Decatur I vacation church school this morning over that of yeaterday. T.he school opened Monday morning at the Central school for a four weeke ’ period. One hundred ninety pupils enrolled in the school for the first day. | The increase of fifty today boosted the enrollment to 240. Additional pupils are expected to enroll during the remainder of the week. ' The school will not hold sessions 1 on Memorial Day, it was stated today. Wednesday morning, tho weekly chapel program will be held at ' the First IBaptist. church at 10:30 o'iclocik. Rev. M. W. Sundertnann, ’ pastor of the first Evangelical church will be in charge,

RICH6ERG ASKS CONTINUATION OF NRA PLANS Recovery Leader Pleads For Voluntary Compliance With Codes Washington. May 28 — (U.R> — Dazed new dealers, under direct orders of President Roosevelt, sought feverishly today to salvage something from tlie wreckage of NRA. Tim President directed administration lawyers, experts, and others to study from every angle the emergency created by the supreme court’s decision outlawing his foremost recovery agency, and consider ways of meeting it. Half a dozen conferences were called hastily in various parts of the capital as the administration analyzed every angle of tlie crisis. Mr. Roosevelt put aside other ; work to devote himself to the NRA situation. , He scheduled conferences with ! Chairman Pat Harrison of the senate finance committee and 1 Chairman Robert L. Doughton r-f . the house ways and means committee. who bandied iNRA legisia--1 tion; and with President William Green of the American Federation iof Labor and President John L. Lewis of the United Mine WorkI ers. Washington. May 28 — (U.R) ~ 1 The new deal stood today amid the supreme court wreckage of NRA and sought means to rebuild the coded structure of fair competition in industry. NRA was i Roosevelt’s recovery experiment f No. 1 to raise prices and create . I jobs. j Donald R. Kichberg. chairman of the national industrial recov- , ery board, appealed for voluntary l cooperation of capital and labor to ■ • maintain code standards until the i' administration, congress and the | people decide—and quickly—what ■ shall be done. One remedy, slow but effective if obtainable, would be an amendment to the constitution to validate what now is forbidden. Opin- | ion is divided, but it might be possible for congress to perfect I NRA legislation and witli a sysI tern of 48 supplementary state lawc, send tlie lilue eagle into the air again. Tlie court in an opinion concurred in by all nine judges yesterday outlined NRA codes and denied the federal government’s right to regulate hours and wages ■ on a scale believed to be necessary to make codes practicable. Ricbberg announced that all methods of compulsory code enforcement would be immediately suspended. The court’s decision scrapped 557 codes and 201 supplemental codes. Plans to extend NRA for two years, or even a few (CONTTNUED ON PAGE FIVE) 0 Third Degree Work At Lodge Thursday Third degree work will be put on by the initiatory team of the | Knights of Pythias Thursday night. Dr. Harold V. DeVor, chancellor commander announced today. Friday night the lodge will spons r a fish supper to which the public Is invited to attend. The cost of each .plate will be 50 cents. o— Ira Baker Funeral Rites Wednesday Funeral services for Ira W. Baker 62, Fort Wayne, former well known | local resident, who died at his home | early Monday morning, will be held Wednesday afternoon at 3 o’clock, I daylight saving time, at the home, 2011 Phenie street, Fort Wayne, with Rev. Harry W. Thompson of this eity officiating. Burial will be made in the Decatur icemetery. o Install Additional Light Line In Store An additional electric light line was being installed in the Morris Five and Ten Cent store today. The two circuits were not sufficient to carry the load wnd Saturday night i the circuit burned out. The store is lighted with 300 watt bulbs and an additional line was necessary to carry the current.