Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 33, Number 128, Decatur, Adams County, 29 May 1935 — Page 1

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BUSINESS MEN ASK NRA CONTINUANCE

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(J-Men Foil Plot An extortion attempt tn collect *72.000 from Dr. Herbert I). Ivey, above. Panadenu. Cal., tiank executive, was foiled by federal agents when they set a trap for the gangsters who shot their way out, leaving Jack Williams, a suspect, seriously wounded. BIBLE SCHOOL CLOSES FRIDAY Kirkland Township Ilihle School Commencement Friday Kirkland township will close its tenth Daily Vacation Bible School next Friday. This school has grown to be the largest rural Bible school know n in she United States. Two hundred and seventeen have been enrolled in the school and th«re have been very few absentees throughout the term. There will be a commencement program Friday evening at 7:20 o'clock at the Kirkland community building. The entire community is urged to attend. There are nineteen graduates in this year’s class. The Rev. C. R. Bowman of Myersville, Maryland, will give the commencement address, and Mrs. Bowman, a graduate of the first class, will sing a vocal solo. Rev. Bowman is a graduate of Blue Ridge college, Maryland. Bridgewater college. Virgin'! i and -Bethany Biblical Seminary, Chicago. At present he is pastor of the Church of the Brethren in Myersville, Maryland. Those who will receive diplomas Fridav evening are: Dorothy Adler, Merle Frauhiger, Miriam Hoffman, Marcella Barger, Rachel Helmrleh, Bernice Cable, Hazel Yake, Annabel Henschen, Leona Fruechte, Nadine Barger, Vera Frauhiger, Carl Hildebrand, Richard Roth. Arthur C.irod, Raymond Kolter, Richard Gerber, Glendon Borne. Dean Runkle. and Chalmer Borne. The class president is Carl Hildebrand and the secretary is Hazel Yak*. The class motto is, -A noble life is she result of noble thoughts.” The teacher of the class is the Rev. H. H. Meckstroth. Mrs S L. Cover, who has directed this school for the last ten years, has found that V will he impossible for her to be here another >ear o. account of conflicting local church and camp activities, but it m hoped that the community will cooperafe In the same mannerJ 1 the new director who will take P the work next year. —o ‘ Alleye Imorovement ' To Start This Week Work on the improvement of the alley ihack of the busing bouses »n the east side of Second street win begin this week, the ,eontra. tor. etated today. , Yost IBros., of this city have U contract. By petition of a ® ' of the property owners, a contiete alley wHI built. The improvement will extend from Jeff.r*on w i*oe and Jackson streets »H1 a *° be i'.Tiproved. , 0 The improvement is > » ‘ , under the Barret law. the property owners being 'assresed forth Postpone Regular Meeting Os Lodge The regular meeting Knight of Pythias be held this week becau • Day. Initiation services Thursday. June 6. On June 7 the I lodge will hold a fish supper.

INDIANA NRA LAW IS HELD I I INOPERATIVE 1 ' Governor Announces High Court Ruling Makes ! State NRA Invalid Indianapolis, May 29 — (U.R) —I! The Indiana NRA law la render- I ed Inoperative by the United States supreme court's decision I on the national recovery act, Gov. Paul V. McNutt announced today. “We have decided the Indiana act Is inoperative as long as the national code is not in effect,” ] tile governor said. The decision automatically makes it unnecessary for firms doing business with the state to submit NRA compliance cert If l. , cates with their bids for supplies , or work. The state law, known as the ’ ! Dyer industrial stabilization act, was passed by the 1535 legislature. It set up state machinery along lines of the federal NRA and authorized the governor to approve codes of fair competition contplyI ing with national codes. Although refraining from issuing a formal request that business and industrial interests eon- ( finite to operate tinder the etaml- ' ards set up by the codes during the last two years, the governor said he hoped those conditions would prevail. He said he believed that bttsi- ' ness leaders "are convinced by 1 the experience they gained under i NRA that conditions which were • the goal of that legislation are for . the best Interests of all coni' cerned.” 1 He concluded his announce- - intent with a hope that arbitration -on Inhor differences mtiNi In*' i continued under the machinery I t set up by the NRA. YOUNG GIRL IS j DEATH'S VICTIM t —i T I Eileen Biberstine Dies Tuesday Evening At Home Near Berne II Miss Eileen BiberstirJ’, 15, of lip jiasii township, sister of Mrs. ’ Orval Ault of this city, died at her .1 home three miles southwest of I Berne at 7:30 o’clock Tuesday [I night. L CDe-ath wos due to acute dilation I I of the heart. She had been ill for ~ several weeks. I Miss Biberstine was horn in Wa- , baah township on Fehraury 12,1920, ■ a d tighter of Adam and Emma I Attgshurger-Bibi rstine. She att-end- , e d "the Wabash township schools. Surviving ore the and the > following brothers an dsisters: Mrs. > Lawrence Bollenbaciier, Lloyd, E*- .! ,mer and Evelyn Bilrerstine of Berne - Mrs. John Hendricks of Monroe; j , Claudia. Plqtta, Ohio; Mrs. Wilma ■ Sommers. Monroe; Mrs. Orval Ault, : ii tttr. and Wllmer and Alton Bib- j i i erctlne of Berne. j Fun r 1 cervices will he held Friday afternoon at 1:30 o’clock ut the II home and at 2 o’clock at the Meni nonite church. Burial will be made in the M. R. E. cemetery. 0- I File Transcript j Os Case In Court , | ] Transcript of the case, City of ( Decatur vs. Gerhard Marbach for violation of the city peddler’s ordin- , am-e Was been filed in the Adams , circuit court by Mayor A. R- Holt- , house. The case was -wealed to , the higher court by the defendant, ] who was found guilty 'by a jury. , Marbach was fined *s.o* wd cmU. Another charge h'.'s been Hled , agfiinst Marbach in mayors court , for a similar violation of the ordin- , ' ance. Trial date lias not .vet been , fixeal. | SCOUTS TO PARADE , 1 All girl and boy scouts of | ( Decatur are asked to meet at she Central school Thursday , ' morning at 8 o’clock. Ihe | „ scouts will participate in the j ( Memorial Day parade and ser- ( vices All scouts having uni- | forms are requested to wear thetn. ♦ -

Wecatur, Indiana, Wednesday, May 29, 1925.

Queen Os Festival fr * AjH M\ Wr m IHHHHB jSL *4HHHHHHHKHdttXHBH Lnona Mae Moser, Wren, Ohio, will be crowned queen of the annual \ r an Wert peony festival Wednesday, June 5. Thursday and Friday will be set aaide for Van Wert’s Centennial Celebration. BUSINESS TO BE SUSPENDED Memorial Day Services Will Be Held In Decatur Thursday Decatur will observe Memorial Day in much Che same manner as in former years. Nearly all business houses and industries will be closed. The hanks and the post office-will be. closed and there will be no mail i delivery. The court house and city hall j will be closed. The services here will be in I charge of the Adams Post, number 43 of the American Legion, assist-1 ed by the Decatur Junior Chamber. of Commerce. The program will begin at 9 o’eock. Those who are to march! * fn ifhe parade will be asked to meet. at 8 o’clock to receive Instructions. | The parade will march to the! Monroe street bridge where a pro-1 1 gram will be held. A second program will he held at the court j house square near the peace monument. The parade will he disband-; ed at this point. Cars will take the crowd to the j St. Joseph and the Maplewood I cemeteries where final services will! be held over the graves of veter- j i ins and where the dedication of the j flag poles will be done. Clifton E. Striker, county superintendent of schools, will deliver the Memorial address and dedicate the new 57-foot Hag pole at the Maplewood cemetery. Ladies of the American Legion Auxiliary will place a wreath at the Irse of ,:he flag pole. At noon Boy Scouts j will raise the flag. To save time only brief services] will be held at the St. Joseph cemetery. Flags were placed over the graves of all veterans in Adams county this afternoon. These will remain up over Memorial Day. MAIL PILOT IS CRASH VICTIM • Pilot And Brother-In-Law Are Killed In Illinois Crash Carlinville, 111., May 29.— (U.R) — State police early today removed j the ibodies of a mail pilot und this brother-in-law from the lire-twisted wreckage of a Chicago to New Orleans transport plane which fell in Hatties in a farmer's field. John B. (Red) Lynn, 33, of Oak! Park, lt„ .the pilot, and Paul Card-1 ner, of Fairfax, Okla., were killed! when the trt-motor ship of the! Chicago and Southern airlines plummeted to earth last night in a heavy fog. The bodies were brought here in a buck board farm wagon by Sheriff Alva Henry of Macoupin county while a patrol of sta/le police stood guard over the still- ; smouldering wreckage pending an inquest. The seven passenger Stinson transport with Gardner as its only passenger burst Into flames in ithe air and landed in a gulley on the farm of S. R. Welton, nine miles northwest of here, near Nilwood. The farm is five miles from a surfaced highway and the farm wagon was the only conveyance able to reach the isolated spot. The transport, which leflt Chi(CONTINUED ON PACK THREE)

FILE REPORTS WITH AUDITOR Two Boards of Viewers File Reports On Changes In Roads Two boards of viewers filed their reports today with County Auditor John W. Tyndall. One of the reports dealt with the petitioned extension of 10th street i in this city to the River Road which Ls an extension of north Second street. This street would be 40 feet wide ■and 77 rods long. It would strike the River Road at a point west of the Pennsylvania milroad tracks at the Central Sugar company’s yards. The petition for tills road has been signed by residents of Root township. The road would permit the school bus drivers to cross the j tr mke at a point where a watchman ! is employed. If the road is completed it is iprolia.bly that Root township would I raise Hie funds for the purchase of the right of way. The stone would be laid by the county. The viewers who wrere appointed by the county commissioners reported favorably. They were Jefferson Crum. William Harting and Orland S. Fortney. The other report dealt with an tingling road bisceting section 21 in Jefferson township. It is slightly ! more than n mile in length and runs i east and west. Petitioners asked that this road [ibe vacated. They stated that the road is sedom used and that th. re ! are no houses on it. I The viewer reported tbit the va- ! ration of this road would be a imat- ; ter of public utility. The viewers I were George Shoemaker, Christ j Beer and Rufus lluser. The usual legal procedure will ■be made before any action is taken i on these reports. scout CABIN j IS COMPLETED Cabin For Rotary Boy Scout Troop Is Nearly Finished Today The scout cabin local'ed north of Green Waters swimming pool along the St. Mary’s river was nearly completed today for Rotary troop number 61. The cabin is 30 feet long and about 17 feet wide and has been [ covered with bark, donated by C. E. Bell. It has i:he appearance of a log cabin. The building was donated by Dale W. McMtllen. Finishing of the interior and the moving of the! cabin to its present location was! paid for with funds raised by the scouts. There are two rooms in .the building. The larger one will be used for scout meetings, sleeping j quarters and similar purposes. The j smaller one is to be a kitchen. The cabin has been wired for electrici ity. The only work which remains |to be done is the installation of ! the base boards and a liti’le paintI ing. A good floor has already been j laid and the walls have been covered with composition boards. The cabin Is now ready for use. Thanks were given today by the scouts to members of the Adams county sanitary project who donated their labor. The.se ,men were A1 Gehrig. Fred Wagener, Homer Fisher, Raymond Ralston and Walter Cable. Members of the Rotary club also furnished labor. Several scouts worked. o District Supervisor Here Next Monday On Monday, June 3rd, Edgar Ludwig, district supervisor, from the office of Indiana State Employment Service of Fort Wayne will be at FERA Ossie, Decautr, fwm 9:00 to 11:00 A. M. to meet all those who wish to register for the first time for emifloyment. Akto, those who have not renewed their application within the pist sixty days are Invited to meet him at that time. From applications filed at the Indiana State Employment Service, workers are selected for referral to National Recovery, PWA iprojects and positions open in private industry.

DEPARTMENTS DISPUTE OVER RELIEF PLANS Controversies Arise To Hamper Re-Employment Drive Plans t (Copyright 1935 by United Press) Washington, May 29 — (U.R) j Inner-administration controversies arose today to hamper the *4.000,- ] 000.000 re-employment drive. Harold U Ickes, public works j administrator, attacked Frank C. ■ j Walker’s division of applications and information, charging the ! organization had wrecked almost half its $450,000,000 low-rent housing program. President Roosevelt stood ready • ! to step in between the two agen- 1 cies and end their bickering should ; ! the quarrel reach the stage where ! Ickes and Walker start an ■ ex-! I j change of acrimonious state- ■ ' [ ments. The Dal in making public a list of applications for funds from the | recovery money, announced *221,1 000,000 worth of slum-clearance, low-cost housing projects in 60 major cities in 31 states. PWA immediately pointed out that developments under consideration should he kept secret until federal agents had assembled options on construction sites. Otherwise, they said, real estate speculators would make it impossible for the government to build because of prohibitive land prices. Housing officials said land buyers already were working in some iof the applicant cities, but an- : ] nouncement of the projects would .'make their task almost impossible. The projects were listed, they said, without their knowledge. Dai tendered PWA an unofficial apology, but it was not accepted. PWA refused Dai’s offer to establish a liaison man in Walker's office to prevent recurrences of the housing incident. Hard feelings between the two (CONTINUED ON PAGE SIX) ; Q Fort Wayne Man Is Under Arrest Here George ißaetol. 43. of Fort Wayne was arreetid Tuesday night by of ficers Floyd Hunter and Adrian Coffee. He was reported by residents near tho Lutheran .church as a | prowler. Bastol was captured by officer 1 Hunter In front of the Lutheran church after a short chase. Hunter fired once over his head hut fjiled ! to -stop the man. At the i A dame county jail the man was unable to give li is address but stated his birth glace was in RusI sia. He had with him a bottle of I milk stolen from a house near the ' Lutheran parsonage. AUSTRIA SEEKS ARMS EQUALITY Chancellor of Austria Demands Full Arms Equality For Nation Vienna, May 29—<U.R>—'Chancellor Kurt Van Schtwnigg, addressing the central diet, today . dernanded full arms equality for Austria. He rejected the demands of Adolf Hitler for a plebiscite to 1 determine Nazi strength. His speech followed by one ' day that of Premier Julius Goemboes, of Hungary. likewise demanding equality. Germany and Turkey have armed in violation of world war treaties, and Bulgaria, last of the central powers, wante to. “Our demand for equality includes cancellation of all restrictions on the army,” said Schuss- , chnigg. “Only Austria shall de- ( cide if and when general conscription is to be introduced.” Replying to statements he credited to Hitler, SchUAschnigg said ( (hat Benilo Mussolini of Italy never tried In the least to influ- | ence Austria's internal policy. , "Nazis are seeking to poison ( our relations with Italy,” he said. “Those who demand a plebiscite , boast of having vanquished par- ( liamentary government in Ger- ( many. < "We do not want the preaent (CONTINUED ON PAGE TWO) 1

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Convention Speaker * • JIL ip J. Raymond Schutz, professor of sociology at Manchester college. I will speak during the Washington | township Sunday School convention. Mr. Schutz will speak at the I evening session Sunday, which i will be held at the United Brethren church in this city. GIVE PROCRAM OF CONVENTION Washington Township Sunday School Convention Sunday, June 2 Tin* annual Washington township Sunday school convention will be! held Sunday afternoon and evening : June 2. Ray Smith is president of j the convention and Everett Johnson is secretary-treasurer. Tlte aternoon session, opening at: 2 o’clock, will be held at the Anti-1 cch M. B. C. church. The evening; station, at 7:30 o’clock, will he hold ! lat ttie United lEr. thren church in' Doiatur. W. Guy Brown, principal of the j Deoitur high school, will deliver the j address at rtte afternoon .session, speaking on “Some Modern Trends in Religious Education.” The addftes at the evening ser- ! vice will he given by J. Raymond | ' Schutz, profess: r of sociology at j 1 Manchester college. The subject of his address will be, "The Value ofj I Interdenominational Effort in King-1 dom Building.” Decatur churches, cocceratlng j | with the Sunday School convention, ! will not hold services Sunday even- ' ing, but will intake the meeting at the United Brethren church a union service. The complete progiam follows: Afternoon Song Service —Ollie Kreps. leader Invocation—Rev. 11. W. Spencer. Antioch M. B. C. church. Devotional^ —Rev. Glen E. Marshall, Church of God. Selections—Boys’ chorus of St. 1 Paul church, Floyd Smitiev, leader. Vocal duet —Mr. and Mrs. Earl Cli se, with accordian acr mpaniment. Address W. Guy Brown. Vocal duet —Mr. and Mrs. Chase. ' j (CONTINUED ON PAGE THREE) — o Local Officers To Give Evidence Today Sheriff Balias IBrown and officer : Ed. P. Miller, accompanied by their ' i wives. left this morning for Ottawa. Ohio, where they will testify before the grand jury of Putnam county. They will give evidence against Forrest Harwick, who was arrested here Monday for the theft of an auto from C. O. Butler of Leipslc. Harwick admitted ,liis guilt here and waived extradition to Ohio. Enrollment Grows 1 For Church School More than 250 children are now enrolled in the Decatur vacation i church .school, which oipened Monday morning to continue for four weeks. Special Memorial Day services were held during the daily flag raising ceremonies this morning. Scouts attended in uniform, blowing the call to colors. The students sang “America the Beautiful.” Weekly chapel services were held this morning at the First Baptist cihurich, with the Rev. M. W. Sundermann in charge. Because of Me imorial Day, no session will be held Thursday but classes will be resumed Friday.

SPEEDY ACTION IS SOUGHT BY BUSINESS MEN Vast Majority Os Telegrams Reveal Faith In NRA Policies Washington, May 29 — (U.R) — Many business men beseeched President Roosevelt today to find standards set up under tho Insome way quickly to maintain tlte validated NRA codes. Others frankly welcomed the end of the NRA system. The White House received hundreds of telegrams from business men urging speedy action. Secretary Stephen T. Early said most of them complained that codo standards of wages, hours, and price policies already were being broken down. About 700 telegrams were received altogether. Early said they averaged 9 to 1 for continuation of NRA. Business organizations generally appealed for voluntary compllatuf with code standards utitil the situation is clarified. Assistant, secretary of labor Edward McGrady, however, said he was being besieged by telephone calls, letters, and telegrams front workers charging that employers were reducing wages and lengthening hours. All the complaints concerned small establishments. he said. He declined to reveal details. With 400.000 coal miners threatening to strike June 16, labor generally was viewing the situation with increasing anxiety. Price-cutting developed in some retail linee in New York City and elsewhere, led by stores which had opposed NRA price policies. Mr. Roosevelt was devoting all his energies to finding some way to bring order out of the chaos of NRA. Following up a series of White House conferences, he kept telephone wires hot in seeking views of administration and business advisers. 'F'acing almost (insurmountable obstacles, the President planned to forego his Memorial Day hoIi(CONTINUED ON PAGE SIX) Ask Merchants Display Flag’s The Decatur junior and senior chamber < f commerce made a. request today that merchants put out their flags on M-mortal Day. The organizations also requested that she flags be taken in before sun set. Five Civil War Vets Now Living In County As far as known there are only five Civil War veterans living in Adams county. They all are enjoying relatively good health. The veterans are: R. iA. Drummond of Ra t township; Silas Hale, of Geneva; David Baker, of three miles south of Pleasant Mills; Washington Pyle of Decatur; Howard Parr of N ar Herne. Eleazar Biggs of Root township died since the Memorial Day services last year. An etf rt will he made to,'ave at least a part of the Civil War veterans at the Memorial services here. Cora will be provided for them. INDIANA FARMERS FAVORING CONTROL Incomplete Poll Shows 82 Per Cent Os Indiana Wheat Growers Favor Plans Lafayette, Ind., May 29 —(UP) —• Eighty-two per cent of Indiana, farmers favor retention of the agricultural adjustment administration wheat control program, an incomplete tabulation of a.referendum showed today. With all but Monroe county reported, 24,270 voted to continue the program tt-nd 6,188 were opposed, AAA headquarters at Purdue University announced. Farmers who signed the current AAA wheat iproduction contracts voted 20,685 to 3,990 in favor of continuing, whie non-contracting producers, also asked to vote in the referendum, favored the contract, 3,685 to 1,189. The referendum was conducted by county wheat control associations affiliated with the Purdue agricultural experiment station.