Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 33, Number 134, Decatur, Adams County, 6 June 1935 — Page 1

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IRA RESOLUTION DRAFTED BY LEADERS

■[REFUSES ■STATEMENT h EX-FIREMAN ■ Bentz Loses Suit Bor!Back Wages And ■ ■einstatenient Kdeei >-., ~-<1 11,1 s l ll ' l ' lal bn.lPortland in the ■ i ■j Q ( I It.lll’ll W. Hi nt/ tiriman atul back ll’ outgrowth ib’il to Mr. Bentz, last Eg, 11. 1934. by Arthur R K, 01 . , ii the mayor-elect Mr. Bentz that ■ as a member of the K tar .|.-partment would not .January 1. 193.3. Mills in his conclusions. KJth’ "the law is with the of Decatur” and ■ I:!.. Il iff. Ralph Bentz, is ■ gA> ...| damages. Costs Be chars', d against the plaintiff the reading of the BsUit I- . a Frank H Vernb'a.ii’- attorney for Mr. Bb. B|<'Vial 'ha' the case be dis- ;•! ■Baa »as accepted. Ktt av • Herman 11. Myers. ■resell’eil be City of DeKr. ty-iiin-l ’ mH in testimony H, i not '!" morning of January tha’ he vacated Ins Ke ill i ie fir.- department as a his failure to report at house. Bw'>" th’st case of its kind Ke trial Attorney Myers s l'"' tai findings of facts Keefl- of law, which were side: mt iated by Judge K A" :•).•>’ Myo, ; also look the course B and testified that Mr. Bfe tiEver demanded a hearing ■■t th- II .nd of Public Works KuigeiMills set out 14 parathe special finding of ’-■ to the Kte i ami testimony pi' mi Til l’ the said Arthur mayor-elect, together K*r ’y offic.-rs for the <i'y K. Indiana, elected election 1934, did .- ; iv virture of the laws S’ of Imiiana, until twelve > ii ”ii January 1. 1933 T relator, was employment of Decatur. Kl a ’. o.ilar fireman, up tin' m - on January 1. time said relator ■h'lilr.-’i ami turned over to the ' tire department ■ 4 Decatur, Indiana, all ill 'ii- ’possession of tile l’’d K*d ’ 1. lifer did not resume regular fireman GN PAGE It SCHEDULE ■UK HOURS ■•le of Hours At Old County Bank g I Announced I.Utz. special represent |RR I! “ imiiana Department ot |Kw in- nations, announced of hours forth” County Bank today. tk will be open every day deposit business. The. ■KU be from 8:30 to 11 ■)K Um mornings and from - tn the afternoons. B^B ev ''' vp Kitson will be at every |^K s - Kramer, who will have |^^B r ge of the liquidation will BfK blink on Tuesdays. ThursSaturdays, and evenings WwWamer, who is also special tative in charge of the of the Peoples State Bo . Ber ne announced his that bank.. . will be open from 8 B| 5° 1 l,i< every morning and until 4 o’clock every asKj* ; Albert Reusser will B?■ every day. Mr. Kramer the bank on Mondays, and Fridays.

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To Buy Adventure ol W® ' I •, WWW Tiring of society. Miss Leona Jay of New York advertised that she would finance any sort of expedition that offered some excitement. Os the 300 offers she received. Miss Jay accepted the proposal of Charles Miller, Hollywood cameraman, who proposed to go to Dutch New Guinea ami photograph insects said to be the largest and fiercest in the world. ELKS INSTALL NEW OFFICERS J. L. Ehler And Other Officers Are Installed Wednesday Newly-elected offi ers of the Decatur lodge of the B. P. O. Elks were instnllsd at the regular meeting at the home- on North Second streef Wedn-today evening. Fred Schurger. p st exaulted ruler, conducted the installation ceremonies. J. L. Ehler, local insurance agent, was Installed as exalted ruler. Other new officers inducted into office were Hugh Holthouse, leading knight. Pete Reynolds loyal knight; Otto C> se, lecturing knight; Harold Daniels, secretary; E.trl B. Adams. treasurer; Herman Ehinger, trustee; Charles Lang, tyler. Following the installation ceremonies. exhalted ruler Ehler announced the following appointments: August Heiman, esquire; Donald Stum-m chaplain; Williun Johns, inner guard. The new staff of officers plans increased activities at the lodge home

during the coming year, both of a business ami eocial nature. Following the miseting, the new ernlted ruler presented a free lunch f.?r the members, more than 50 of whom attended the meeting. ’~ Named Delegates 1 o “Grass Roots” Meet Ralph Yager, Je.sse Sutton and Ernest Reicheldeffer of Adams county hive been named delegates from tha fourth district to the “«rac.4 roots” Republican convention to be held at Springfield, HUnoie, Monday and Tuesday. Alternates fmm Adams county are: Mrs. Menno ißurkbater of Berne and Miss Dorothy Young of Decatur. » —o Conservation League Will Meet Tuesday The Adams .county fish and game conservation league wiil h’_ ld ' 't» regular monthly meeting at the At erican Legion hall in this city next Tuesday at 7:30 o’clo-ik. The meeting whlcfn was to have been held the finst Monday of this month was postponed because the district meeting held at For Wayne on that night — Picture Show For Church School I upils A motion given for the pupils of the D.catu chun.h school at the Central .‘d»ol building Friday night ‘'Three' Him/ will be shown. They P .entitled "A Quiet Street. The .parents will be invited to attend the show. No admission w> 1 be charged but a collection will be taken.

TOLEDO STRIKE ENDS 24 HOURS L AFTER STARTING 1 Strike Os Electric Workers Is Ended Temporarily Today ■ 1 Toledo, ()., June G —(U.R)--To- , ledo’s electric strike, threatening to disrupt a tri-state industrial dis- ! trlct of which this city is center,’ ended today, just 24 hours after it began. Workers returned to power plants and offices of the Toledo Edison company under terms of a , temporary settlement approved by the Toledo local of the International Brotherhood of Electric Work-1 ers early today. Office workers previously had agreed to tie their fortunes with those of the operat-1 ing employes. A committee ot five union men ! will go to New York Monday with I Charles Proctor, company vice- j president, to confer with company ! officials there. The operating em-J ployes demand a 20 per cent pay ■ increase and the office workers | want restoration of two 10 per cent I pay cuts. It was reported that international officials of the brotherhood ordered Olive Myers, business agent of the local, to terminate the strike and submit the issue to negotiation. Two hundred of the strikers returned to the power houses last night, even in advance of approval ot the strike’s termination at a workers’ mass meeting. At 7a. m. I 250 more of the 530 operating work-1 ers returned. Office workers will report at their usual time. Because the strikers were cool- ’ ing the boilers of power plants gradually to avoid damage, Toledo and the 22 towns of Michigan, Ohio and Indiana served by the company were not actually deprived of electricity. The threat was suffi-1 ciently real, however, so that several great indusTTial plants, dependent on electricity, suspended operations temporarily. Had the strike continued into today power in factories and lights in homes would have been cut off. forcing unemployment upon thousands and depriving 51)0,000 residents of the Toledo district of the conveniences and ne/eesitat. s provided by eectric (CONTINUED ON PAGE SIX) — — o ffl APPOINTS EXCISE FORCE

Appointments Os 18 Enforcement Officers Announced Today Indianapolis, Ind.. June 6—(UP) —Appointment of 18 excise enforcement officers was announced today by Paul P. Fry, state excise administrator. Tlie appointments complete the first squad of 22 officers who will direct statte-wide enforcement of the new liquor control act. Four others, including Ray Hinkle Bloomington, .previously hqd been appointed to the force. Bruce Maxw 11, Indianapolis, former inspector of the state bus and truck division, was apprdnbed lieutenant and third in charge under Hinkle. Donald M. Fninklin. Spencer, recently was named captain and second in command. Other appointments announced today were: Lester R. Brown. Evansville; William Matheson, Muncie; V. E. Mitchell, Bloomfield; Edward H. Britton, Logansport; James R. Trumbull, Fort Wayne; Jahn P. Auburn, and Colman Harvey. Princeton; Herschel R. Spencer, Veedersburg; Walter W. Gardner, Indianapolis; Frank H. Stottlemeyer, Greenfield; Patrick H. Healy. Jeffersonville; Irvin J. McKinsey, Indianapolis; O. P. Polson, Paoli; Emanuel B. Wetter, Indiaiav (GONTTNUED on page stx> o Mr, And Mrs. Rice Purchase Grocery Mr. and Mrs. David Rice have purchased the building in whit* the Lam.mim'jn Grocery is located on Mercer avenue near the AdLms county memorial hospital. Mr. and Mrs. Rice have also purchased the grocery business from Harve Lammiman and expect to operate it as soon as the store can be rearranged.

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Decatur, Indiana, Thursday, .lune 6, 1935.

Mildred Fogle First Adams County Student To Graduate At Mooseheart

Miss Mildred Fogle of Geneva, will be graduated from Mooee'beart, at the 17th annual commencement exercises to be held at Mooseheart, Illinois. Thursday, June 27. Mies Fogle ie the first Adame I county .person to be graduated from I t.hie great fraternal inetitution of learning. Her admittance and that I ot her five brothers and sisters was eponsored by Ad wne Lodge No. 1311 of the Loyal Order of Moose of this city. She has been a pupil at Mooeeheart eince February 20, 1930. The graduating class is composted of 116 studente, 56 boys and 60 girle. They repreeent nearly | every shite in t'be union. ■in celebration of Miss Fogle's graduation and the pleasure which comes to every member on the successful completion ot he rstudiee, Adams lodge will hold an initiation at the local Mcoee home, Tuesday, I June 25, in honor of the event. Miss Fogle ie a daughter ot the late Fred Fogle of Geneva. She and ! her brothers und sisters went to ! Mooeeheart following her father’s j death. Adams lodge being instru- | mental in obtaining admittance ft r i the children. A letter to Charles Heare. secretary of the local Moose lodge from W. J. Leinweber, general supervisor ■of Mo seheart, gives the following fa te about Mme Fogle. "In the earlier part of her high school work Mildred .manifested an intereet in sewing, cooking and art. and in later years became very niu.h interested in cafeteria work. 9iie has h id special training along these lines and will be awarded a diploma in this vocational depart-

TELLS OFFICERS NOT TO ‘SNOOP’ Paul Fry Warns Against Entrapment Practices I Under Liquor Law ’'' ' I (Special to the Democrat) Indianapolis, June 6. — In al straight-from-the shoulder talk toi a group ot newly appointed state I excise enforcement police officers'

here today, Paul P. Fry, state excise administrator, warned against "snooping" and “entrapment” practices In the enforcement of the new Indiana liquor control law. "This department does not want' any of its officers to induce by. trick or trap, the violation of this liquor law in order to obtain a revocation of a permit or to secure a conviction. Such a snooping practice turns people against the law itself and it is far more important that this particular law have and hold the public respect than it is to revoke permits and to convict violators in an underhanded manner,’’ Fry said. The excise administrator also urged the public to cooperate with the excise enforcement police. j "I want to call on the public to aid in enforcement of this law. And further, we ask the aid as the public and their cooperation on misconduct on the part of any police officer working out of this department. You men are paid by the public. You are their servants (PONTINUED ON PAGE SIX) o DISCUSS MORTGAGE ON RADIO TONIGHT Chairman of Federal Home Loan Bank Board to Broadcast Tonight Nathan Neteon, attorney for the Home Owners’ Loin corporation in this efty received the following telegram today. “The steps which the Federal Home Loan Bank board is taking to relieve ho>me mortgage dletreM, to encourage more liberal mortgage terms to home owners not in distress and to insure the savings of investors held in private thrift and home financing institutions will be discussed in u radio broadcast from I Washington tonigliit over the red' network of the national broadcast ; ing system at 9:30 C.S.T. "The address will be given by John H. Flihey. chairman of that board under the auspices of the national radio forum and the Washington Evening Star. "Fahey will deal particularly with the new federal home legislation enacted last week which authorized an additional $1.7150.000,000 for completion of the mortgage- relief work of the HOLC.”

liWt J* ment. In addition to her school acti- > vities she has been a member of I the Protestant choir and held the > office of sentinel in the training i i chapter. ■ '“Mildred expets, upon leaving • i Mooseheart, to live with an aunt and uncF?, Mr. and Mrs. Frank - Fogl?, and lists their addresses as II Geneva. Indiana, r mte 2. "Mildred deeply appreciates wh.it ; hns .been done for her by Decatur lodge and the great Moose frateri nity. and is anxious to give of her 1 time and ervi e to carry on this . work no that others yet to come ; I may to> be b nefied by it.” .! Besides the Fogle children, four ; children of the late Walter Wili' kinson of this city, are pupils at -. Mooseheart.

Firemen To Meet At Portland Next Week Several local citizens are expected to accompany Decatur firemen to the volunteer firemen's convention at Portland June 12 adn 13. Entertainment will be pfiTlded for every one, including a street fair, band concerts, dancing, parades and contests. Twq special feaures have been engaged. Bison, the original human cannon ball will be shot from a cannon once each day. Each afternoon there will be a balloon ascension with a triple

) parachute drop. Miniature automobile races wil also be a feature. The city of Portland has extended an invitation to the public to attend. o SWIMMING POOL OPENS SUNDAY Municipal Swimming Pool Opens At 2 o’Clock Sunday Afternoon If the weather permits, the municipal swimming pool will be opened for the fiiv.t ti.ne this summer, Sunday afternoon at 2 o’clock, W. Bncwn, supervisor of the pool announced today. Miss Jeanette Clark, who will assist Mr. Brown in the supervision of the pool, will be in charge ot the girls. A free registration and health examination will be given boys and girls under 14 years of age at the l?ool Saturdl y iifterni on from 1 i to 4 o’cloi. k. Mr. Drown and Miss I Clark will have charge ot the examinations. Persons over 14 years of age must receive health’ certificates from physicians before they will be permitted to enter the ippol. A small fee will be charged tdr this service. Hours for boys, girls and adults in the pool, will be announced later, Mr. Brown stated today. Water will be run into the ipool Friday. The pool has been thoroughly cleaned and scrubbed. Examination as the water for ba/teria and disease will be conducted at regular -periods, Mr. Brown stated. The purification system will again ibe in operation this (year. City water will again be used. I Sheriff’s Father Loses Automobile A car belonging to S. E. Brown father ot sheriff Dalas Brown was stolen at 1:20 o'clock this afternoon from ite narking pace on the north side of the Old Adams County Bank. The car was a 1934 model V-8 Fold icoach and the license number was 426,505.

HEAVY RANSOM DEMANDED FOR WEALTHY CUBAN $286,000 Cash Is Sent To Kidnapers of Antonio Miguel Havana, Cuba, June 6— <U.R) Ransom of $286,000 cash has been ■ sent to the kidnapers of Antonio San Miguel, reputed to be Cuba's second wealthiest man, iSan Miguel’s associates announced today. San Miguel wao seized with his chauffeur, valet, and guard while motoring late yesterday. The note demanding the $286,000 was delivered today by the valet, Simon Martija. who was driven blindfolded into the suburbs and released. Frank J. Steinhart, Jr., fellowvice president with San Miguel of the Havana Electric Co., told the United Press that in obedience to the ransom note, the money had | been given to Martija to deliver. It was in 50 SI,OOO bills. 1,180 SIOO bills and 2,360 SSO bills. Police said the kidnapers were holding San Miguel; his chauffeur, Constantino Prieto, and his guard, ex-detective Modesto Iglesias. Ransom Bill Passed Tacoma. Wash.. June 6 ~<U.Rk~ Discovery of a second S2O bill, identified as part of the $200,000 ransom paid for the return of George Weyerhaeuser, tended to confirm the growing belief of authorities that the kidnapers quietly had slipped out of the Puget Sound country. The second ransom bill was | passed in the money order division of the Spokane post office i Tuesday, Bert J. Canavanugh, 1 cashier, revealed. Miss Vernor Beavers, the clerk who accepted ’ the byi. wa»s unable to give federi al agents a description of the person who passed it. Between 9 a. in. and 1 p. m. Tuesday she accepted 15 such bills. Detectives checked the 112 I money orders made out during that time in an effort to find a clue. The first ransom bill was passi ed by a man who bought a ticket i for Salt Lake City at Huntington,

Ore., late Sunday night. Presence of these two bills led i authorities to the belief that per- I haps the gang that collected the j (mNTTNTTFTD OH PAGE TWO) American Legion Sponsors Circus Lewi., Bros, circus, the first of the' ] season to visit Decatur, will show I j here Thursday, June 13, under the ; auspices of Adams i;ost number 43 I of the American Legion. IPotli matinee and evening perfor-1 mances will be presented by the i three-ring circus. The reguar 1 gion meeting will be held at the h‘ll Monday evening at 8 o'clock. LOCAL SOY BEAN MEAL TESTS HIGH Expellee Extracting Process Used At Lc-cal Plant Gives Best Product 1 With the increasing interest lo- 1 rally in the growth of soy beans 1 and In the use of soy bean meal as | as a feeding supplement, it is inter-1 esting to note that there are three methods of .extracting the oil from I the- soyi'iean to make soy bean oil I . meal. The expeller -process extracts the oil by the application of a high degree ot lli-eat and pressure. This produces the highest type meal and ■ is very palatable because it is thoroughly looked. Another method uses hydraulic pressure while the third process employs naptha to dissolve the oil. The Ohio experiment station says “-In three feeding tests both t'be' > raw-tasting hydraulic nr al and the i solvent meal were unsatisfactory - supplements, while Uie expeller-type .meal brought good results and in two comparisons produced more gain in live weight from a given quantity of feed than did tankage.. i Master Soy, the new .protein supplement recently put on the market;' by McMillen Feed Mills of Deaatur, ; is expeller-type soybean meal which j. has been scientifically mineralized and is icomparable to the expeller meal used in the Ohio teat and .also llias the need-M minerals added.

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College Delegate w < x .xT v—fro -'4 I i I \ V<■ / /’• ! Riwponsibility* 7>f representing more than 1,000,000 American college and university students rests on Miss Margaret R. Taylor, above, of University of Arizona, Tucson, who is a delegate of the National Student Federation to the international student conference at Prague, Czechoslovakia, July 27. HONOR ROLL OF SCHOOL LISTED Decatur High School Honor Roll Is Announced This Morning The honor roll of the Decatur high school for the third six weeks of the second semester, was announced today. Alice Jane Archbold and Mary Frances Dodd led the list with 5-A grades each. The names of she high school j students who received honor Ds! were also announced. Fifteen names were included: Alice Jane I Archbold. Agnes Nelson. Mary K.. Tyndall, Corolene Townsend, Al- J bert Keller, Bill Tutewiler. Kathryn Kohls. Thomas Andrews. Laura ■ Fleming. Dwight Kimble, Margtter-' ite Staley, Betty Tricker. Jeanette) Christen, Faye Martin and Irene Sell. Following is the honor roll: A B Alice Jane Archbold .. 5 Mary Frances Dodd 5

Donabelle Fenimore 4 1 Thomas Andrews 4 Barbara Burk 4 Martha Butler 4 Marjorie Johnson 4 Albert Keller 4 Katherine Knapp 4 Faye Martin 4 Marjorie Massonee 4 Irene Sell . .... 4 Marguerite Staley 4 Mary Steele 4 Corolene Townsend 4 Mary K. Tyndall 4 Pauline Affolder 3 2 Ruth Smith 3 2 Virginia Breiner 3 1 (CONTINUED ON PAGE SIX) a Third Degree Work At K. of P. Tonight The initiatory team of the Knights of Pythias lodge will give ) third degree work to a class of can- ■ didates at the lodge room this even-1 ing. The fish supper scheduled for j Friday lias been'-postponed until j Friday, June 14. o Rev. Walter Preuss Refuses Pastorate Rev. Walter F. Preuss, pastor of Trinity Lutheran church, Jasper, Minn., has declined the call to become pastor of Zion Lutheran church, Friedhelm, near here, it was announced last night. The Minnesota minister is a son of Rev. C. B. Prdltss, who resigned the Friedhelm charge several weeks ago to retire after serving as pastor of the congregation for nearly 42 years. The Jasper church earnestly requested its pastor to remain in his present charge because ot its Increasing activities there. Rev. Karl Wyneken, pastor ot Trinity Suburban Lutheran church and visiting circuit pastor, will conduct a meeting of the Zion church Wednesday night, June 12, at which time it Is expected that a call will be extended to another minister of the Missouri synod church,

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EARLY ACTION IS PREDICTED ON NRA PLANS President May Send Special Message To Congress On Policy Washington, June 6 — (U.R) —• A resolution extending the constitutional phases of the NRA until April 1, 1936, was drafted today for quick action by the house ways and means committee. The brief resolution was drawn up as administration leaders revealed the possibility that President Roosevelt, impelled by the NRA crisis, may send a special message to congress proposing a taxation program to effect wealth redistribution. The NRA resolution which awaited action by the ways and means committee repealed the delegation of powers section of the original recovery act in so far as the president’s powers to prescribe and enforce codes was concerned. The spread of wealth, indirect purpose of NRA, would be carried out directly through hiked inheritance and gift taxes. Ways and means committee Democrats in the house eaid such a tax program has been considered by the administration. It may be provided for in a new tax bill distinct from the nuisance tax extension measure. The go-ahead word on it has yet to come, however. Meanwhile, leaders found widespread pressure for utilizing the federal tax powers in another direction- namely to force industry to accept original NRA code minimums or be taxed. Chairman Robert L. Doughton of the ways and means committee said this proposal will Im considered in drafting the permanent NRA substitute legislation later this session. The president’s stop-gap program. meanwhile, was moving ahead fast. The house labor committee accepted amendments to (GGNTINtTEn ON PAGE SIX) 0 Condition Os Mrs. Owens Is Better Mrs. Della Owens. 64, of Convoy. Ohio, was reported improved today at Ihe Adams County Memorial hospital where she is a patient. She was taken to the hospital about noon Wednesday after an

unsuccessful attempt at suicide.

She used a hammer to drive a butcher knife into Cier throat. A blood transfusion was considered Wednesday afternoon When brought to the hospital she was almnust pulsele.sv, She responded "nicely" to treatment and today it was believed that the transfusion will not be necessary. She is in a very weakened condition because of the loss of blood. ARRANGING FOR ANNUAL PICNIC Plan To Serve Over 1,500 At St. Mary’s Picnic Sunday Arrangements are being completed to serve dinner to more than 1,500 persons at the second annual St. Mary’s Catholic church picnic, to be held at Sun Set park southeast of Decatur Sunday. A clMcken dinner will be served, starting nt 11 a. tn. and continuing until. all have been served. More thin 1,300 persons were fed at the first picnic last summer and a larger crowd is expected Sunday. Those in charge of arrangements expect to handle the crowd much faster and easier this year as the dinners will be served in the pavilion at the park instead of out-of-doors. Price for the dinner will be 35 cents for adults and 25 cents for children. Supper will be served cafeteria style starting at 4:15 o’clock. Refreshment stands and amusement booths are being constructed in the park and various forms of atlbletiic contests wil be staged. Prize drawings will be held at 4:30 and 8 p. m.