Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 33, Number 139, Decatur, Adams County, 12 June 1935 — Page 1

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Hftsh TlmatensTo DeI Measure Until Too tj.tr I or Passage Bc"■for Kvpiration. «l! \ | KIN SUNDAY 1 I- (U.R) I' I .nny. I>. I At- raised t. r tin.-nt ~ anil ii an delights „ „|. threat by ,] ! .| iamil benight.” . i \ week-end. look tlir floor after the refused. "C to 44. to . A aiiieiidmellt to make employee earning ,! subjeet Ht [ t lie way for rei lie amendment. iHptL" ■ 101 l leaders to evidence to talk at length. He rlian usual pains to to a guest ion kh- lied remarks it: i> ■ lib---! at tile opposition HKr ot Sliriners tool. ■■ - . All standing space n .c Pat Harrison of i finance committee had li. senate colls idol ft 'k social security pro Nil a ll" Mtig Nit A situation kiio . that Hum; a etnliarrassing tin* adready to may decide to solid \ atioti to : must return B* 1'!' "0 for senate attproval M| or later. Whichever ' appears destined trouble. |H 'la'.: ■ of NRA has hecome After the supreme n| i' the NltA’s code tnakadministration to uork for a nine and extension of NRA. h as a fact finding and agency with a frameON PAGE FIVKI Ministers s Will Meet Friday ministerial asso.ua tni'i't at 10 o'clock Friday t he Central school lnoldtnini.sters are reqtteided |B S for tile summer will he ihs |H "Iso tms in res relative.; to V ation < huii It school, d. Parson will have kraals. ■THER of local If RESIDENTS dies ■’’"'H Henry Burrell of Near Dies This Morning Sj At Hospital Henry Burrell, 78, of Monroeville, brother a,| d Chari, s Burrell of lk-ca-<j at tlie Adams county meH hospital at 1 o’clock this Death wad due to sugar Mr. Burrell had been uilthe poet severa years, and a patient ot the local lios,r theree weeks. ■K h rrt in Adams county on ' 9 ' 1807. a son of Henry ..nil Burrell, deceased. He was i d. He had si>ent hid ettSB *' in Adams and Alien conn was employed as a laborer. are four brothers and a u, in Burrell of Monroeville; Burrell of Decatur; Charlie |V|' Ij e amp; Richard Burrell, Kr ster ' and Miss Allie Burrell, ayne. services wil he held Friat 2 o’clock, standard at 'he Black funeral home. ■P' Pmnk Engle, paster of n ‘ on Chapel United Brethren officlting. Burial will be the Union Chapel ceme°f Decatur.

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PASTOR TALKS TO LIONS CLUB Rev. M. J. Frosch Relates Experiences In South America Rev. M. J. Frosch, .pastor of the Blet ke Lutheran church, addressed the Lions club Tuesday evening at! the Rice hotel. Rev. Frosch told of ills experiences In Brazil, South Am-; erica, while there 30 years ago as a teacher and .missionary. He told of the had church condi- j tions and now the first German protestants were permitted to settle there in 1824 in scattered settle-! •ments; of how the settlement* had grown front thirty to one hundred million; of how the primitive col-1 onial jungles of Brazzil had progressed into civilization slarting from u ninety-two per cent illiteracy to a school to 500 people and to j a school of 2,000 people. Rev. Frosch said that in comparison Brazil is larger than the whole ! United Slates with 70,000,000 persons and Argentina with 10,000.000' population. Tlie speaker explained his going to South America in response to .i 1 direct appeal fr m the Lutheran Synod. He stay, d there from 19001 to 10 4. He stated that the papula- j lion there consisted mainly of Portuguese and Indians, lie told of many instances of the difficulties j and hardships he h id to experience j while theye, .moving from Hie United States with ail its c* niforts and fine civilization to Brazil with its j primitive ways, of fear and distrust, | where teachers and missionaries j were for so long branded as spes. Alva Nichols was in charge of the program Tuesday night. Claims New Evidence In Hauptmann Case Los Angees, Calif., June 12 —(UP) J —Armed with new evidence which | be said “will save Bruno Richard Hauptmann from the electric chair attorney Vincent A. Marco today was preparing to leave for New York to renew the legal battle to save the convicted slayer of the Lindbergh baby. Mar o, retained by Mrs. Anna Hauptmann, the convicted kidnaper’s wife, said the new information had been uncovered during the intensive two months’ investigation of the case. He said he would seek to have it considered by the appellate court of New Jersey and that if he fails tbs will resort to the next body that can hear the case. PRICE FIXING IS APPROVED Pittsburgh Coal Company Head Approves Some Regulations Pittsburgh, June 12— (U.R>— The Pittsburgh Coal company, which has withdrawn its support from j the Guffey coal bill, is eager nev-1 ertheless to see adoption of sel - reglated price fixing in the coal j industry, J. D. A. Morrow said to-1 11,1 Morrow is present of Pittsburgh Coal, the largest bituminous coal corporation in the world. He withdrew front a Washington conference of coal operators discussing the Guffey bill after• hds corporation counsel had advise 1 j that the bill with proposed amendments would be unconstitutional. Morrow proposed that, histca. of government regulation, the coal, operators form agreement amon,,. themselves and between of I operators governing ptice-- ' price schedules would be filed with some commission m Washjngton, and it would have the , power to challenge any price. That would give protection to the consumer as well a* ‘he operator. Morrow believes, and stilll Avoid the danger of unconstitutiona l„d vulnerable to injunctions Morrow explained when he re- , turned to Pittsburgh todaj. We , certainly want stabilization, but , we feel the method will have to , (CONTINUED ON PAGB SIX). 1

G. 0. P. HEADS INVITE DEMOS TO BOLT PARTY (Jrass Roots Convention At Springfield Closes Tuesday Springfield, 111., June’ 12. —(U.R) — The move for national political party realignment along so-called radical and conservative lines gained impetus today from the grass roots conference of prairie Republicans which charged President Roosevelt sought to annul the constitution. A political shakeup has been in the making since progressive Re-j publicans began to defy the Hard-ing-Coolidge-Hoover administrations. That movement climaxed in the bolt of powerful farm belt | Republicans front the 1932 candidacy. They stumped the farm lands for Franklin Delano Roosevelt. Since March 4, 1933, when President Roosevelt announced and denned tlie new deal, a group of Democrats has been moving stead- 1 ! ily away from the administration.! The first to go was Senator Carter Class, I)., Virginia, who refused the ' 'secretaryship of treasury because Mr. Roosevelt would not promise j to maintain the gold standard. in two days of midwest oratory here nationally prominent Republicans openly invited "constitutional Democrats” to abandon the new, deal for the Republican nominee in the 1930 presidential election. Former Secretary of War Patrick J. j Hurley drew cheers from the Agrar- 1 ians when he called tlie roll of some ; of the Democrats who would be welcome in Republican "defend-the-consti'ution” ranks next year. ; He named Glass, former Gov. Ely j of Massachusetts, former Gov. Alfred E. Smith of New York and former Gov. William (Alfalfa Bill) Murray of Oklahoma. The bipartij satt enthusiasm became so strong! that Republicans found they could j applaude the Smith enmpaign song J (CONTINUED ON PAGE FIVE) I ANNUAL MEETING OPENS THURSDAY — Annual Convention Os Epworth League To Be Held At Bluffton The annual convention of the Epworth League of the Fort Wayne district will be held next Thursday and Friday at the First M E. church at Bluffton. It fc expected that several hundred young people will be in attendance. , Tlie convention wilt be opened Thursday afternoon, and the concluding session will be held Friday evening. Ted Mumby. of the Lucknow Christian College in India, who ser ved as manager and coach of the Indian Olympic team at tlie World Olympic games at Los Angeles in 1932, will give the address at the Thursday night se«i sion. Tlie Rev. J. I. Meyer, pastor of thp St. Paul M. E. church of Fort | Wayne will speak at 9:30 a. m. i Friday. Dr. W. H. Bransford. pastor of the First M. E. church at Anderson, will give the address !at the annual" banquet Friday j evening. The nominating committee comprises tlie Rev. B. H. Franklin, Dr. E E Fribley and one Leaguer from each sub-district. The pennant committee comprises the S Rev. Edwin Jaycox. Doris Nelson and Gerald Carrington. Mrs. L. A Dilling. Polly Hatfield and Kenneth Richards comprise the reso- ! lntions committee, and the Rev. | H R. Carson and Marshall hunk, ht'e auditing committee. oReport Prowler Near Coal Yard A .prowler was reported near the Kocher Lumber and Coal yard Tuesday night at 9 o’clock. Police investigated the report immediately hut found no one near Bite place. Oil Stove Explodes, Causing Slight Fire Fire caused small danwge at the home of Woodson Ogg at 948 Winchester street Tuesday afternoon at 5-30 o’clock. The blaze was .caused by an oil stove explosion. The city fire department answered tlhe call and had little difficulty in extinguishing the blaze.

Decatur, Indiana, Wednesday, June 12, 1935.

Spread Net for Kidnapers H» . Ml* ■ ■ ■■ '—»■ - Search for William Malian. 35, an ex-convict, right, and two other accomplices extended throughout the northwest following his implication in the Weyerhaeuser kidnaping for which Harmon M. Waley, left, and his wife were arrested in Salt Lake City. Fifteen thousand dollars of the $200,000 ransom paid by parents of 9-year-old George Weyerhaeuser was recovered front an automobile abandoned by Malian in Butte, Mont., where lie was believed to have been hiding.

RELIC GIVEN TO LOCAL SOCIETY Civil War Shell Presented To County Historical Society Frank McConnell today loane.l to the Adams County Historical Society one of the first shells exploded in the Civil War. The shell was found by Major S. S. Mickle. The relic is of great historical interest in that it was fired at Fort iSlumpter. On April 12. 1861. tlie Confederate forces began the bombardment of llte fort in Charleston harbor. On April 15, President Lincoln. recognizing , that war was imminent, issued i his call for 75,000 men. This action of calling recruit.? j crystallized sentiment in the I North as well as the South. Major Mickle was well known to the older residents of Decatur. He was an uncle of Frank McConnell of this city and of Mrs. Jennie Fuhrman of Marion, Ohio. He was postmaster of Decatur for a number of years and also repi'esHnted this! in the state assembly. He died in 1872 Tlie shell was given to Mr. McConnell shortly before the death of Major Mickle. It has been in his possession since. It is torpedo-shaped. The powder was poured into tlie point. A timing cap was placed over it and fired the shell at any desired point after leaving the cannon. The relic will be displayed in the show cases belonging to the Adams County Historical society in the county court house. HOT ON TRAIL OF KIDNAPER Federal Agents Coneen-I trate Search For William Mahan Butte, Mont., June 12—(UP) — William Mahan. 35-year-old former convict sought a.? the third principal in the kidnaping of George Weyerhaeuser, apparently was hut a few jumps aliotd of federal officers today. Department of justice agents were concentrated at Anaconda, Butte, 'ind Dlllion, where the fugitive’s trail was hottest. The hunt shifted lost night to Dillon where a man. apparently frightened and hungry, begged for food at a hotel. H. E. Andrus, proprietor, and his daughter, Mrs. Farnam Brown, said the man resembled photographs of Mahnn. K. A. Deaderlek, head of department of justice agents .here, and chief of police Jere Murphy both denied rumors that Mahan already was In custody. The senior ag nt of federal officers nt Tacoma, Wash., home of the Millionaire Weyshaeusers, (confirmed their denials. Andrus said the man resembling M ihan visited the hotel Monday night. He appeared nervous. The proprietor and his daughter at first feared he intended to hold them uip but he neked merely for food and money. He fled wihen several other persons approached. Mahan is in the third day of flight since he abandoned an auto(CONTINUED ON PAGE FIVE)

-— King George Suffers Bronchial Catarrh Sandringham, England, June 12 —<U.R> —King George is suffering from bronchial catarrh and will ; require at least two weeks to regain normal health, an official bulletin by his physicians said | today. The king is at his country estate here, resting after the strain of the rerent jubilee celebrations in honor of the 25th anniversary of his ascent to the i throne. Concern is always felt for him j when he is suffering fr.oni a cold, as lie is susceptible to bronchial troubles. He recovered from a recent cold only in time to attend the anrual trooping of tlie colors on hi= 70th birthday. June 3. i Today’s bulletin was a surprise, j as it was thought he had entirely thrown off the effects of the j , cold. COURT RULING FOR INCUMBENT Supreme Court Ends Fight Over Judgeship In Warrick County Indianapoie, Ind., June 12 —(UP) A prolonged fight over the judgeship of the Warrick circuit court was settled last night in favor of the incumbent, Union W. Youngblood, in a decision handed down by the state supreme court. The supreme icourt, in ruling youngblood had Bite legal claim to tbs office, held that a 1935 act passed specifically for the Warrick election contest was unenforceable. The case established the right of Robert D. Market, Evansville attorney, to sit in the election suit as special judge, instead of Carl M. Gray, Petersburg, named by Gov. Paul V. MicNutt. The suit was filed by Warren W. Martin, B.onville Democrat, who contested the'election of Youngi blood, a Republican. Youngblood disqualified himself as judge in the suit and Market was named special judge. He ruled in favor of Youngblood. The 1935 legislature, in session at the time, passed a bill giving- the governor power to name special judges in election suits. The Governor Bhen named Eldo W. Wood as special judge. The supreme court held that Wood was without authority and that the legislature bad no right to attempt to disqualify a judge, either special or regular, after lie had assumed jurisdiction in the case. Take Pictures Os Pupils Thursday Pictures of the pupils in the Daily Vacation church school will be taken Thursday imorning at 8:30 o’clock. All (children who have been enrolled in the school at any time are urged to he present. — o Theater Completes Re-Decorating Work Work has been completed on painting and re-decorating of tlie j front and lobby of the Cort theater |on North Second sdreet. Additional lights have been placed in the marquee of tlie theater, giving a brilliantly lighted effects when the theater is operating.

Bolivia}A ndlParaguay Sign Protocol To End Gran Chaco Bloody War Os Three Years

COMMITTEE IN DEADLOCK ON UTILITY BILL Speaker Byrns Moves To Break House Committee Deadlock Washington, June 12 — (U.R> — Speaker Joseph W. Byrns today personally led a drive by administration leaders to break a house committee deadlock on the public utilities holding company bill. With the measure victorious in the senate Byrns pleaded for action by the interstate commerce | committee. It has been divided ; for three months on (lie question of whether the bill should eliminate holding companies, as the senate provided, or only regulate them. "I have talked to several members of the committee,” the speaker said. “I have not discussed the merits of regulation or abolition. I simply made it a point to ! stress tlie necessity of the committee doing something ami re- | porting a hill to the house.” Defeated in the senate, where the hill that would abolish all ! tin necessary utility holding oom- : nanies by 1942 was passed 56 to I 22, the utilities industry mustered i its forces for a last ditch fight. Tlie committee of public utility ! executives issued a bitter statement promising a fight against i the bill in the courts, if it beI comes law. on the ground that it ! is unconstitutional. House Democratic leaders, spur- | red by the senate vote, moved to hurry tlie bill from tlie interstate commerce committee where it lias been held four months by deadlock. Committee Chairman Sam Ravburn, 0„ Tex., who also heads a special subcommittee studying the bill’s "title one”, dealing with abolition of unner(CONTINUED ON PACK FTVE) Church Brotherhood Plans Picnic June 14 The Evangelical Brotherhood will (hold a picnic for the numbers ami families at I Butler’s Grove Fridny evening, Jttn? 14. Stt.pper will be served at 6 o'clock. Members and guests are asked to bring well filled baskets and marshmallows. Persons not having away to get to the grove are asked to tie at the church ut 5:30 o'clock or to notify Rev. M. W. Sundermann. MISSING WOMAN IS FOUND DEAD Indianapolis Woman’s Body Is Found After Three Weeks Indianapolis, June 12. — (U.R) — Theories of murder and suicide were investigated today in connection with the death of Mrs. Minnie Burns, 5, whose decomposed body was found late yesterday, three weeks after her husband, Jerome, 60, was found fatally wounded. Mrs. Burns’ body was found in tall weeds about a mile from her home. Sheriff Otto Ray believed she had shot her husband, ran into the field and killed herself white insane. Coroner William E. Arhuckle believed the woman was murdered. He said she was shot twice, in the abdomen and in the heart, and there were no powder burns. A .32 calibre revolver of the type with which Burns was shot was found benea,th her body. It contained four cartridges, two of which had been discharged, and two chambers of the cylinder were empty. Burns was fotlnd in critical condition in his rural home, west ot Indianapolis, May 21. He had been shot through the head and was badly beaten. The home had been ransacked. Two notes, apparently written by Mrs. Burns, hinted at plans to commit suicide. Mrs. Burns, a seiniduvalld, was missing. Burns said she was ’’dead, where she belongs.’’ He died six days after the attack.

Price Two Cents

Lower Interest Rate On Federal Farm Loans According to word received here from the Federal Bunk of Doitievllle all interest payable between July 1, 1935 and July 1, 1936 on Federal Lund Bank loans will be 1 3*6 .per cent. Interest for the twoyear period following July 1, 1936 , will lie four iper cent. The reduction lias been made pos- j uible by the Farm credit act of 1935 ’ which was eigned by President ( Roosevelt on June 3. Borrowers who mode advance payments at the rate of 4V4 Per ( cent will he refunded the amount , paid in excess of 3V& per icent. ( WEST POINTERS i HEAR PRESIDENT j s Roosevelt Addresses Graduating Class Os , West Point Academy IT. S. Military Academp, West 1 Point, N. Y„ June 12 — (U.R) President Roosevelt today pointed ; \ to tlie United States’ modest army j ' as proof that the country intends j J no threat or menace to the rights j of others. | Addressing the West Point graduating class and several thou- ) sand visitors, tlie chief executive declared America watt so peace- j loving that on some occasional the ( army had been reduced to “a level unjustified by a due regard to ( our own safety." , Such a time is the present, he , said, and this caused him to ap- , prove recent congressional anthin to accomplish "a partial resi toratlon of the army.” His address was, in effect, a , - reiteration of his good neighbor policy. s Mr. Roosevelt motored here . from his home at Hyde Park, ac- ’ companled by his youngest son, (John. A cavaliy s\)op greeted ( him at the gates and escorted hint , to the speaker's stand where the cadets were drawn up in smart j formation. j He entiled a greeting to the | cadets, waved them to their seats, r and began his address. , "It is in full appreciation of our i advantageous position and of our ( * own devotion to the cause of peace that our nation’s defensive t * system has always reflected the t ! single purpose th.it the name t implies,” he said. "We maintain an army to pro- l I mote tranquility and to secure ns from aggression but it is so created and so modoSt in proportion as to furnish proof that no threat i | or menace to the rights of others is even remotely intended. “On some occasions in our history we have reduced our army to I I I a level unjustified by a due regard j to our own safety. It was in the convictioti that we had again drifted too far in that direction > (CONTINUED ON PAGE FIVE) Farmers May Obtain Free Lime At Plant t 'Several hundred tons of lime will be given free to farmers at Bine Cen- 1 ’ tral Sugnr cotapany yard's, north ' 'of the city. Friday and Saturday. I , A drag line will be in operation on these days and trucks and wagons wil be loaded free. Tlie lime is t being imoved to make roam for the . new two-story warehouse and storage room being erected by the , Me Milieu Feed Mills. > 0 Escaped Kentucky Convicts Captured Ashland Ky., June 12.—(UP)—A ! brief reign of terror for Kentuckians ended today with the return of three convicts to the state reformatory at Frankfort, from which they escaped on May 12. j The three, James Morris, 27, conI victed of bank robbery, James Boyd , Brown, 32, and Elmer Robinson, 28, convicted of murder, were captured in a restaurant hero last night by f four Ashland Patrolmen. , (Identification of a stolen automo- , bile used by the fugitives led to , their arrest. They were armed but , offered little resistance to the oft ficers. (Since their escape from the refori niatory along with two other men, ( the three convicts had been accused ) of a series of minor robberies and automobile thefts.

Warfare Will EndAtNoon Friday; 12-I)ays Truce Will Be Followed With Final Peace Armistice. HEAVY CASUALTIES Buenos Aires, June 12. —<U.R>—A protocol under which three years of warfare in the Gran Chaco will cease at noon on Friday was signed today by the representatives of Bolivia and Paraguay. Under it, there will be a 12-day truce, pending negotiations which will he followed by an armistice and final peace. Final acceptance of the agreement by the Bolivian and Paraguyun ministers was made in a meeting early today. A neutral military commission is on its way to the front, on the Bolivian border of the Chaco territory, to take charge as the last shot is fired. During the succeeding 12 days •there Is to be a truce during which the commission will fix the fighting lines for both armies. This will be followed by an armistice and peace negotiations. On tlie lines established the armies are to be maintained during the early stages of formal peace negotiations. The armies are to he demobilized within 90 days, while the negotiations are being conducted, and the military effectives of each nation are 40 be reduced to a total of 5,000 men. An immediate peace conference is to he convoked to (A) ratify the agreement; (b) decide problems regarding the security of armistice conditions; (c) promote direct negotiation of differences by Bolivia and Paraguay, it being understood that the Hague court of international justice shall be arbiter if direct negotiations fall; (d) name an International commission to fix responsibilities in the war. Bolivia and Paraguay hind themselves to obtain ratification of the agreement by their congresses within 20 days. Cessation of hostilities to be based on the positions of the armies at the time fire ceases. Thus will end a war for possession of the rich, wild Gran Chaco jungle in which 125,000 men have been killed or wounded. Paraguay claims to hold 112,000 square miles of the territory, of which 71,500 have been won by conquest. Bloody as the war has been between two countries with proud military traditions, it is but an incident compared to the war of 1865-1870 in which Paraguay lost five-sixths of its population In (CONTINUED ON PAGE FIVE) VALUATIONS OF UNITS CHECKED Board of Review To Release Corrected Figures In Few Days Valuations of taxing units in (Adame ounty are being checked litis week by the board ot review. The corrected figures will be released at the end of the week or the first of next week. The board this week Ls still checking the deputy assessors’ re-ports for clerical errors. The hoard is following the usual procedure this year of changing all totals ending in uneven numbers to figures eliding in zero. Totals which end in five or more will be raised to the next zero. Figures ending in less than five will be low* ered to the next zero. Complaints will be beard next week. Tlie board wil then fall in a number of property holders who, the hoard believes, have 'been assessed too low. They will be notified to appear before the board and show reason why their assessments should not be raised. Light Post Knocked Down By Automobile iA Dixie Queen fruit market truck driven by Walter Hendricks struck a light post at the corner of Third and Monroe streets early this morning. The pole was knocked from its base into the street. Neither Mr. Hendricks nor Ernest Polllc of Union City, who was with him w«s hurt. Mr. Hendricks stated that he fell asleep.