Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 33, Number 130, Decatur, Adams County, 1 June 1935 — Page 1

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Senator VanNuys To ' Visit In Indianapolis Washington, June I.—Sen, Frederick VanNuys will go to Indian apolis next week for a series of political conferences. Plans for the 19116 primary and pre-conventlon campaigns will be discussed. The early activities are due to the importance of next t year's elections when presidential, state, congress and county officials will be chosen. The senator expects to be at the Marott hotel during the last three days of the coming week and to confer with numerous Democrats on party reorganization and campaign preliminaries. , , o——— ; REVIEWBOARD MEETS JUNE 3 Adams County Board Os Review Will Convene i Here Monday The five members of the Adams county board of review will meet , Monday. June 3. to examine the ( work of t.'ie i.eeessorß and to make i changes they de m desirable. According to law the judge of the i circuit court is required to select I two men. one fr. in o ch of the leading parties. Those chosen by Judge 1 Huber M. DeV ss are Dan Sprang of Decatur, a Repubican, and Noah Rich of Monroe township, a Demo- ' crat. Three other men serve on the < botrd liy virtue of tli ir offices. They are: ('- unty Assessor Ernest Worthman, County Auditor J- hn W. Tyndall and County Tre surer Jo. h n Wechter. Th: .board will probably be in session all of the month of June. pne iirst. tiling to be taken up bv the board will be examining township assessors’ bocks 1 r (feasible .clerical errors. The board wil ithen hear co>m.plaints of nny owner of personal property, except such property as is : se.ssed by the state, and to hear complaints concerning the assessments of real estate especially those in 1935 and the assessment of . ny additional improvements. Reul estate as a whole was not assessed this ye r. T.he next duty of the board will be to eqqualiz? the valuations and assessment of property by i.ddlng or deducting from the reports of the assessors in the various townships and other divisions in the ounty. They are empowered to add omitted property to the lists. Another duty of the board will be to assess the oupiti;! stock and fian(CONTTNUFtD ON PAGE SIX) -o — Long Missing Check Is Received Here A year ago Mis-s Margaret Kiting, now a county health nurse, was working in Indianapolis. She sent a large check by mail to her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Den Kiting, here. The letter was never received bv Mr. and Mrs. Eiting. As the ' check was not endorsed another was written and mailed after a | tracer failed to reveal the whereabouts of the first one. ; Last week a girl stopped in Decatur, inquired for Eitings, and left a letter with Robert Eiting, who is employed in a business house on Second street. Tlie girl explained that she liad received the letter about a year ago and had mislaid it. She did not give her name nor her address. _ o One Scarlet I’ever Case Is Reported One case of smrlet fewr wiis reported in Adams .county in the morbidity report iby the state for the week-ending Saturday. May 2a. Scarlet f ver cases in the state deceased from 96 for the preceding week t.) 79. 2nd Annual Church Picnic On June 9 The second annual St. Mary s parisli picnic will be held Sunday. June 9 at Sun Set park, east of Decatur. . A chicken dinner will be served at noon and a program of games and athletic contests will be given in the afternoon. The public is invited to attend.

THREE PERSONS ARE KILLED IN AUTO ACCIDENT Three Others Injured In Truck-Auto Headon Collision Logansport, Ind., June I—(U.R) —Three Indianapolis persons were killed and three others were injured, one critically, in a head-on collision between an automobile and a truck on state road 24, eight miles west of here, early today. The dead: JEFF TATE, 34. MABEL THEDOSIS, 18. JULIA KNOX, 28. Richard Talley, 21, Indianapolis, suffered a broken pelvis and is in a critical condition in a hospital here. Forrest Owens, 19, and Elton Stover, 27, both of Monticello, Ind., suffered minor burns. The Indianapolis party was enroute to Schafer lake when their automobile, driven by Tate, collided with a truck driven by Owens. Witnesses said the Tate car was in the wrong lane at the .time of Ute accident. Both machines caught fire after the accident. Talley’s life was saved when he was thrown clear of the careening car. The victims were identified by other members of the outing party who were riding in an automobile trailing Tate’s car. o Kirsch Funeral Services Sunday Private funeral services for Mathias Kirsch. 78, will be held at the home on North Second street a' 1:30 o’clock Sunday afternoon. Pl’f'ilic serviced will be held at 2:30 o'clock in the Zion Reformed church, of which he was a member. Mr. Kirsch died Thursday afternoon following an extended illness caused by pneumonia and infirmities. During his career Mr. Kirsch was a prominent citizen, banker, lumber dealer, charity and civic worker. o— Father Os Adams County Lady Dies Mrs. Arthur Meyer of west of the city was call, d to Chicago on account of the deiith of her father. Theodore Choynickl, who died at his home in C.hiolgo Friday night. He had been ailing for several years. Funeral services will be held Monday. Mrs. Meyer was accompanied to Chi ago by Wilma Raudebush, niece of Mr. Choynicki. TWO TEACHERS RESIGN HERE Public School Teaching Staff Will Be Reduced By Two Next Year The teaching staff of the Decatur schools will be reduced by two next fall. Walter J. Krick, superintendent, announced today. Superintendent Krick stated that vacancies caused by resignations of two ward teachers will not be filled. Teachers who have tendered their resignations are Mrs. Charles Breiner. formerly Miss Florence Magley, teacher of the third grade H t the North Ward and Miss Helen Shroll, teacher of the second grade at the South Ward. As a matter of economy the teaching staff will be reduced. Superintendent Krick stated. The duties of the two teachers will be assigned to other teachers at the buildings and if it does not cause a hardship, the system will be followed throughout the 1935-36 school year. Mr. Krick stated. As far as known there will not be any changes in the high school or grade teaching staffs for the coming year. All the present teachers will be reemployed. Superintendent Krick stated. The complete list of teachers will be compiled Monday and released for publication.

Decatur, Indiana, Saturday, June 1, 1935.

Returns Home v’*;S" ' /v ■ v P’ i 1 H 1 I I U" 4 I I 1 K George Weyerhaeuser, 9. was released early this morning near his home at Tacoma, Washington, after being held captive by kidnapers for more than a week. Ransom payment of $200,000 by hia wealthy parents was reportedly paid for his freedom. VANWERTPLANS PEONY FESTIVAL Leona Mae Moser Os Wren Named Queen For Festival June 5 Van Wert, 0.. June 1-Leons Mae Moser, Wren, Ohio, will be crowned Queen Juibilee IV at the Annuul Peony Festival to be held h re Wednesday. June 5. Miss Mouser was s lected to be Queen by out of town judges from a group of eleven girls picked by the High Schools of Van Wert County. The Peony Festival is held an"nually in celebration of the blooming of the Peony Gardens for which Van Wert is noted. Acres upon acres <cf beautiful blooms, some six to eight inched across, can be viewed in and around the town. The cel bn tion hike*! the form of a parade several miles long i.rade up of beautiful decorative floats and band. Th is .parade carries the Queen elect to the Court cf Honor where she will be .crowned Queen Jubilee IV amid thousands of flowers and with elaborate ceremony and entertainment. in the evening an historical pageant in honor of Van Wert's 110th (CONTINUED ON PAGE SIX) Adjourn Jury Trial Case Until Monday The trial in which the American Casket comrany of Cambridge City is suing Willi m Wells of Geneva, has been adjoprned until Monday. The suit wtis begun before a jury in the Adams circuit court Friday afternoon. o— FERA Class Not To Meet Monday The FERA class taught by Mrs. Violet Myers will not meet Monday, as scheduled, it was announced toduy. o Legion Committee Will Meet Sunday There will .be a meeting Sunday afternoon of the .chairmen of the American Legion committees who are sponsoring the Fourth of July program in this city. The meeting will be held in the license bureau office on Madison street at 2 o'clock.

LIQUOR BOARD MEETS MONDAY Adams County Control Board To Consider Three Applications The Adams county alcoholic beverage board will hold its first meeting in the county court house, Monday, June 3. Leo Kirsch is the member selected by Mayor Arthur R. Holthouse and Dallas Hower, the member chosen by the Adams county commissioners’ court. The third member of the board is Bun Kelly. Huntington, appointed by the state. The board will consider the applications for the renewal of three liquor licenses in Adams county. The licenses are for: B. J. Smitli Drug Company, liquor dealer; Robert J. Rumschlag, beer retailer, and Raymond B. Kohne, liquor dealer. The county board will nos grant licenses but merely make recommendations to the state commission as to the desirability of granting the licenses. One of the purposes of the board is to assist proprietors in arranging establishments so they may be in a position to obtain licenses. Road houses and establishments in the county will begin the observance of the new law Sunday. The road houses plan to close for the last time midnight Saturday. The new law, while interdicting the sale of beer in a place even a few feet outside the city or incorporated towns, authorizes the sale of beer in the places in or in the immediate vicinity of unicorporated towns. However, such applicants for beer in or near an unincorporated town must be either the proprietor of a drug store, grocery store, confectionery or the proprietor of a store in good repute which, in the judgment of the commission. I deals in such other merchandise that sale of alcoholic beverages is I not incompatible therewith or likeWayne to Main street, west on Main to Sliip street, where it will disband. It will not go any further west due to the Pennsylvania railI road. Immediately following .the parade the truck races will be held. The First race will be on East Walnut street from Hayes to Harrison street. Ndvelty truck races will be held on Meridian street to Ship street over Main street. The firemen have made arrangements to rope off streets during contests and special efforts will be made to protect the public at all times. In connection with contests there will be a number of free acts staged on downtown streets. Word from other cites in the district indicate that the attendance will be large and that prob(CONTINUED ON PAGE THREE) LODGE LEADER MAIN SPEAKER Odd Fellows, Rebekahs To Hold Memorial Services Here Sunday O. G. Fields, grand patriarch of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, will deliver the memorial address at the annual services Sunday afternoon at the First Christian church. The memorial is sponsored by the subordinate lodge, Rebekah lodge and Encampment of Decatur. Odd Fellows and Rebekahs through out this section of the state will participate in the services. All participating members of the order are asked to meet at the 1. O. O. F. hall at 1:30 p. m. Sunday. from where they will march to the church. The line of march will be headed by the grand lodge officers, followed by the Decatur girls’ band under the direction of Albert Sellemeyer. The complete program for the service at the church follows: Invocation — Rev. W. H. Day, Chaplain 14th district, Odd Fellows Association. Welcome Address — Rev. J. M. Dawson, pastor First Christian , church. Response — Elmer A. Weeks, grand warden. Vocal selection — J. E. M. trio. (CONTINUED ON PAGE THREE)

FIRE ADDS TO DEATH TOLL OF FRIDAY QUAKE India Earthquake One Os Greatest Tragedies In History ( 'opyright 1935 by United Press) Karachi, India, June 1 —(UP) — Flames fanned by winds of storm force, swept the ruins of the main bagaarurea of Tuetta today, according to unconfirmed reports. Bruce Road, in which i.s the .main bazaar, was said to be afire. The storm which spread the fire was said to be »i severe one. Estimates of deaths in the earthqu.ke which devastated Quetta and a large region in the high valleys of Baluchistan still ranged from 20.000 upward. Reports, arriving in fragmentary form over the official wireless and throng') travellers from Quetta, left no doubt that the earth quake wus one of the greatest of modern disasters. It racked and ripped ajrart the fertile valley. 5.000 feet above sea level, iind the mountain peaks along the .Afghan frontier. Villages «nd smi.ll towns over a 100-mile area round Quetta were reported in ruins, as were such cities as Nastung and Kolat, capital of Pnluchistan and seat of the Kahn of Kalat. With th? death list already of tragic proportions, considerable anxiety was felt for survivors in the arid outlying mountain districts where the quake interfered with the water supply end temperature wiis in the eighties. ; Government of India reports here (CONTINUED ON PAGE SIX) EXTENDS TIME TO GET LOANS Time Is Extended For Applications For Home Loans Nathan Nelson, attorney for the Home Owners’ Loan Corporalion. . in Adams County calls attention to . the fact that the time for accepti ing new applications for home . loans has been extended .to June ■ 27. The following instructions were i received by Attorney Nelson relative to making applications for > loans. “Applications will be accepted . only from home owners who are clearly in distress and are threatened with .the loss of their homes through foreclosure. “The same tests of eligibility of Home Owners’ Loan Corporation applicants which have applied in the past will in general continue | in full force under this new legisi latfon. The corporation intends .to make every effort to resist homo owners who are in genuine tinan--5 cial difficulty, but it wjll be forced to reject every application which is not clearly eligible. “No home owner should apply for a loan until he has first made F certain that his application will be eligible under the corporation’s restrictions. He should realize that the rejection of an ineligible application, on grounds of deliberate default on existing debts, is like- , ly to cause the home owner the t loss of his property, because of the unwillingness of his present mort- . gagee to carry the loan following I such default. Largely as a result of more than two and one-half bil- } Hon dollars in bonds already dis- , bursed to them by the HOLC, lending institutions are in a far strongt er position today than they were 1 (CONTINUED ON PAGE SIX) J o r i Decatur Men Will Attend Initiation J Several Decatur men are plan- ’ ning .to attend the Knights of Co- ’ lumbus initiation in Huntington Sunday. A large class will be in- ■ itiated. 1 Byron Hayes of Fort Wayne, past district deputy of the Knights ’ of Columbus will be the speaker at the banquet to be held Sunday evening. The Fort Wayne degree team will confer the work.

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Lad Freed After Held As Captive More Than Week George Weyerhaeuser, 9-Year-Old Son of Wealthy Tacoma, Washington Family; is Freed This Morning in Cascade Foothills a Few Miles From His Home; Ransom of $200,000 Is Reported Found; Boys Says He Was Chained in Hole in Ground. Tacoma, Wash., June I<U.R)—George Weyerhaeuser, nine, released by kidnapers reportedly after payment of $200,000 ransom, returned to his home in a taxi cab this morning unharmed but shaken by his experiences. The boy’s face was streaked with tears as he ran from the taxi cab to the front door of his home and was clasped in the arms of his joyous family-

LOCAL FIREMEN TO CONVENTION Decatur Firemen Will Attend Convention At Portland June 12-13 The program has been arranged for Thursday of the two-day convention of .the volunteer firemen’s association of this district, which will be held in Portland June 12 and 13. This will be the big day. Tlie day’s program will start at 9 o’clock with water battles to be held on West Main street be-’ tween Commerce and Ship streets.. At 11:30 o’clock a first aid demonstration will be held on a plat-; form in front of the Eagles home, on North Meridian street. The parade, one of the big events of the day, will form on Commerce! street at 1 p. m. The line of march will be: North on Com-' merce to Arch street, east on Arch to Meridian street, south on Mer-| idian to Third street, east on; Third to Wayne street, north on ly to contravene, in the judgment, I of this commission. I An incorporated town, under the. ! law, “is one which has been a; I settlement or a group of residences ; for more than 1 0 years and .to i which the inhabitants of tlie surrounding countryside resort for, purchases or public meetings, or; . as a community or neighborhood center which has borne a name, I and has been known by said name’ ‘ for more than 10 years. The application must be endors-. , ed by 30 tax payers in the community. . One ruling of the state board is , that the heads or backs of booths , in restaurants Snd other places . where alcoholic beverages are sold i ' must be no higher than 37 inches , from the floor. The idea of this , ruling is to permit persons enter(rnNTTNl T EI> PAGE SIX) I o I GrandstafT Rites Monday Evening Funeral services for Curtis ’ Grandstaff. 38, of Mishawaka, son of Dr. and Mrs. John C. Grandstuff of Preble, who died at a Niles. California hospital Monday, will . be held at the Decatur cemetery , Monday evening at 6 o’clock. Rev. Ashley, pastor ci the Elk- , hart Christian chu?c.h of which ’ Mr. Grandstaff was a member, will officiate at the service, assist.ed by Rev. J. L. Brunner. The . Masonic lodge will have charge . of the service. Masons are a.sked to , meet at the Masonic hall at 5 o’clock. The body will arrive In this city from California over the Pennsylvania railroad at 4:llTo’clock this afternoon. S. E. Black will have I charge of the burial. —o Regular K. of C. i Meeting Monday •Eection of officers will be held , at the regular meeting of the i Knights of Columbus Monday even- ■ ing at 8 o’clock. >A report will also ’ be given for the state convention > and all members are urged to attend.

He wore a blue sweater and his hair was tousled. An elderly man accompanied the youngster. Apparently he was farmer Bonzia into whose farmyard the boy wandered shortly before 4 a. m., four miles away in Issaquah in the Cascade foothills. When the man reached the door at George’s heels, a guard shoved him away. No official announcement of the return was made immediately, but Paul Mottau. former county deputy sheriff, definitely identified the youngster. “We'll have an announcement for you shortly," said S. M. Biocom. spokesman for the family. George was taken upstairs by members of his family for a bath, breakfast and bed. The curly haired member of a wealthy lumber family was released shortly after his father and two friends drove from Tacoma on a mission believed to have been payment of the ransom, held in readiness for days. The boy's return released the department of justice kidnap investigators. bound previously by fear the boy would be killed, for an intensive search for the “egoist" who signed the ransom demand last Friday. Like little June Robles, George told Ernie Backland, attendant at a service station near Renton, he was "kept in a hole in the ground and chained." He believed his kidnapers held 1 him most of the time near Aber--1 deen on the Washington sea coast. , The gang used two automobiles, a ' gray Hudson sedan and another I car lie thought was a tan Buick. o David Hogg To Speak At Berne D vid Hogg of Fort Wayne will j speak at a meeting of the Christian I Temperance Union at the Berne I Mennonite churoh Sunday evening ; at 7:30 o'et ek. BIBLE SCHOOL EXERCISES HELD — Kirkland Township Bible j School Commencement Exercises Held The commencement exercises : for the Kirkland Township Bible : School were held Friday evening ; before a packed house at the I Kirkland township community II ullding. All but one of the 19 graduates were present. The Rev. C. R. Bowman of I Myersville. Maryland, delivered I the commencement address. Speaking on the advice to "Launch out, into the Deep’’ he said, "The realm of science has been delved into deeply, but little is known of ike spiritual life.” Following the address an impressive candle light program concluded the exercises. Mrs. S. L, Cover of Marion, Ohio, who organized the school 10 years ago handed a lighted candle to her successor as principal. Mrs. Irvin Lochner, of Kirkland township. The teachers all lit candies from Mrs. Lochner’s candle and marched out of the room.