Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 33, Number 140, Decatur, Adams County, 13 June 1935 — Page 1

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Lo Kidnapers May Escape Death For •Aiding Government

\\ aleys Make Beal ■ith Federal Officers' ■> Escape ( hair; Pair T<» Washington. ®; A |) NOT GUILTY Angeles. June 13—U.R) woman whom sheriff , es said they had reason might be the sweet■PL o f William Mahan. Weyerhaueser kidnaptaken into custody woman gave the name Shaw. She was in the county jail. i by United , . (U.R) and Margaret Waley. Mai kidnapers of 9 with federal atlreported todai r .|mrts. not confirm <l. M i,, ‘ M >"i under the federal return for ~... in the kidnapim'. .. n Montana ilu . than the Wat-hirc which permits |^E h fix 'letith for the of a kidnaping. th' la tile death ulih where uses like the V.’ev.r„.lb.>y was .ifier payment of $2""oi pains not to harm In it j "he was too vain 3 hul l ." i. i Ilf tile Waleys today, al they Were confined in the ' mil at Olympia. il. They were taken |HO a'.oid any mob \\ . w. re Lake City by plane their arrival th -y t.ii . to i jSw- r ■ d an air of bra\ .i I ’ L- to tlin’ they violated the law in transport I boy into Idaho B 1 as against iisii,? Kl'c g . nni vigorously Marpli.ail. it "not guilty'' in voice. lei-Luid slot',.-lied It" KT,vr, .' n ~v page Morce Action H Is Started Here for divorce has been b ■ Opal I. Cage against Al |H l: Cage. The complaint ' sit the defendant is a wet k and b is consi'l personal property. Mrs. HMI is asking the court for $25 temporary support and alimony. ■M TH BOABD |«N INSPECTION ■ " u a I Inspection Is Today By City HI Board Os Health atmnal inspection of re.dati " '"eohment stands ami be Was being nude today b> ilm of health, eornpneed S. Daniels, secretary; Dr. and Mrs. Paul Graham, inspection tour started in the was visiting stores in the iietwcn Madison ami Mont' on the io st side of 1 " tn jority of .places th ■ l.mir.l M" ""’(litions satisfactory. M ''—unitary conditions existr<i l ’rs were given to • ■orrecl |E ■'’fhaceu to publie lieatlh removed. |E" year lhe boird of health |^B 8 an inspection of business HV S< food stores and noting HB' 1 "i*' l the idea of correcting |E“ 1| ary conditions in the Intertlle pubic health. hm, eetion today wart 111" Uro' ,)y the Present board.

Colgate Honors Ford * V 1 T ■ m". : j 1 Hk' ? M' MaWearing academic robes. Henry Ford, auto magnate, is shown as he received an honorary doctor of laws degree at commencement ceremonies of Colgate university at Hamilton, N. Y. Ford was re-1 ferred to as one “of the select' company assured of perpetual fame.” STARTS WORK ON PARK AREA HERE Clyde Harden Awarded Contract For Parks At Homestead Site Clyde Harden, northeast of Decatur, began this morning grading the park area at the Decatur homesteads site. Mr. Harden was awarded a contract by Washington officials last week, Ferd L. Litterer, secretary of the local board of sponsors, has been informed. He was low bidder at $1,204.29 for the job of completing the park area. This work has been made possible by a donation of $1,300 by the General Electric company to the Decatur Chamber of Commerce. It will be used exclusively for improving the approximately 17 acres of parks in the project. The contract has been entered into by Mr. Harden and the Decatur Chamber of Commerce upon plans and bids approved by Washington officials. The first part of the job will reouire the grading of the park area. The ground will be graded back of the drives to prevent the dirt from washing onto the road base. Next the ground will be plowed, harrowed and inoculated. Soy beans will be planted as soon as the ground is prepared. In August the soy beans will be plowed under together with 200 pounds of acid phosphate to the acre. Grass seed will be mixed in the proportion of 400 pounds of Kentucky blue grass seed, 30 pounds of red top grass seed. Four hundred pounds of 4-S-6 fertilizer will also be placed on the ground. Mr. Harden will also sow threefourth of a. peck of rye per acre. This will be cut and the slippings left on the ground as a cover. The contract also covers the plowing and seeding of the park area in the plot in front of each of the three stone gates. Mr Harden has furnished a surety hnnd for performance of the contract. — Auto Hits Truck. No One Injured A icar belcngiug to Jacob Graber living south of Decatur wis damaged this morning when it ran into truck driven by Simon Lehman ° f T he'Berne truck stopped suddenly light ut the Monroe tind Second s i brake* on the Graber car did mot tor and broke an axle on .he car. No one woa injured-

JAP SOLDIERS ’ CONTINUE MOVE. AGAINST CHINA Japan Is Expected To Add New Province To Her ’ Possessions (By United Press) I Japanese troops .moved ion three fronts in north Cblnn. today—in Chahar, at Kupeikow on tlhe great wall, and as Shanhalkwan, at the great wall and the a»i, Japtin was exipected to add Chahar province, part of Mongolia, to the vast mainland region «he now dominates, comprising Manchuriu and Jehol and Hopti provinces. The British foreign office was officially advised that Japan tha* made demands on China for a removal of the present regime in Ch-ihar and substitution of lone favorable to Japan. < The centra) Chinese government at Nanking wae confused and hesitant. One faction urged non-accept-ance of Japan’s demands und the problem wae put to Gen. Chiang Kai-Shek to decide. However, as yet there had been no defiance of Japan and no order to resist. (Copyright 1935 by United Press) Tientsin, June 13 —(UP) —A rumor that Japan was massing soldiers at Shanhaikwan, 140 mies north east of Tientsin, spread rapidly today. Several members of the Japanese army stiff here left for Shanhaikwan and Shingwangtao. iA few miles southward, at 4:40 p. m. today, the Uniter! Pr. ss learned. The rumor q. rend among intelligence '.fficers of the foreign garrison. i ; Spokesmen for the Japanese high command said they could neither i (CONTINUED ON PAGE SEVEN) O I Report Vandalism At Hanna-Nuttman Park 1 Four benches in Hanna-Nuttman 1 5 park were wrecked by boys this • week, Forest Ezey, chairman of the i;ark committee of the city council (reported today. The benches were piled uip and many of the beards were broken. i Since the first of the yetr many acts of vandalinw have been committed at the park. Doors and win- ' dows on th? comfort stations were t torn loose and other damage done. ' The city desires to keep the park open, but the expense of making re- • peira is becoming a serious matter, t Mr. Elzey und members of the park ' board appealed to the public to ast sist the city in its desire to main- ’ tain the park for the benefit of ■ those who respected the right's of others. Q CHRIS EGLY IS : DEATH'S VICTIM 1 Christian H. Egly Dies Wednesday Night At Local Hospital ' Christian H. Egly. 37, of wst of Linn Grove, died at the Adorns county memorial hospital at 11:23 tor clock Wednesday night. Death was s due to ruptured bowel, pneumonia t and complications. He had been ailr ing since January and had been a 1 patient at the hospital for several weeks. ) Mr Egly was born in Hartford - township June 30, 1897, -a eon of > Abraham and Lean Stucky-Egly. He ■ was mirried to Helen French on 1 April 28. 1917. For 11 years he operated a garage at Petroleum, and ■ since that time had resided on a ■ farm near Linn Grove. ’ Surviving are the widow and three children, Robert, Donald and ‘ Max. all at home, the parents, Mr. 1 and Mrs. Abraham Egly of Hartford f township and the following brothers and sisters: Simon Egly of Fort ■ Wavne; Jess? Egly of Forest, .1111- ’ nois; Mrs. Ben Sprunger and Harve Egly of Berne, and Valentine Egly of Monroe. Funeral services will be held Saturday morning at 9:30 o’clock at the I home and at 10 o'clock at the Salem Evangelical church, west of Linn ' Grove. Burial will be made In Green- * wuod cemetery. k r-lj—- ' Children Rehearse Saturday Afternoon ■ ■ > All .children wlho will take part in the Chidren’s Day program to be , given at the Methodist church Sunday evening ore requested to meet at the .church Saturday afternoon at 1 o’clock for dnese reheareal.

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Decatur, Indiana, Thursday, June 13, 1935.

Three Apply For . i Liquor Licenses ' Three additional applications for liquor licensee lhave been filed with the Adams county alcoholic beven.ige commission. A hearing has 'been set by the board to be held in the county auditor’s office on July 1 at 9 o'clock In the mornfng. Applications are on file as follows: Holthouse Drug company, liquor dealer: Paul H. Brlede (City Confectionery), beer retailer: Decatur Country Club, liquor, beer and wine retailer. PLAN PROGRAM FOR FLAG DAY Exercises Will Be Held ; By Elks And Legion Friday Evening Flag Day will be appropriately ] observed in Decatur Friday evening, when joint services will be conducted by the B. P. -O. Elks and Adams post number 43 of the American Le- ' glon. The services will be held on the lawn in front of the Elks home on | North Second street. The ceremony; will open at 7:30 o’clock. Members of the Legion post, accompanied by the American Legion City band and the post drum .corps, will march from the Legion hall to the Elks home. The regular Flag Day ritual t>f the Elka will be conducted by the exalted ruler, J. L. Ehler and his staff of officers. The Rev. Charles M. Prqgh pastor j of the Zion Reformed cihurch, will: deliver the address of the evening. 1 The history of the flag will be read by Harold Daniels, representing the , American Legion. The general public is cordially in-, vited to attend the Fag Day ceremony, which will also be observed by other Elks lodges throughout the country. The complete program is as fol(CONTINUED ON PAGE SEVEN) ' 0 HOLD RALLY AT i CHURCH FRIDAY Tri-Angular Rally Will Held At Local U. B. Church The Christian triangular rally of the Fort Wayne group will be held at the First United Brethren church here Friday evening at 7: 15 | o’clock. Rev. H. W. Franklin, pastor of the local church is general J director of the meeting. The program for the rally follows: Worship service—Decatur young people. Address — ' Wawasee, Youth,' Kingdom”—Rev. Charles White. Special music—Ossian U. B. Recognition of churches and placement of both a city church and country church banner. Miscellaneous business. Adjournment to conference period. Conference period —30 minutes. Children's leaders — Mrs. Mawhow, director. “My Children’s Workers Should Be at Wawasee” —Louise Buskirk. “Boys and Girls a,t Wawasee"— (CONTINUED ON PAGE SEVEN)

End Os 3-Year Chaco War Leaves Nations Exhausted

(Editor’s note: Peace in the Chaco will mean the end of the only formal war since 1918. The questions arise: What are the effects of a war? Do the combatajits gain anything? In what condition are countries left? What military and other lessons may be learned? John M. Vebber, until recently United Press correspondent at Asuncion, Paraguay, who has made an extensive study of the Chaco was since its start, provides i answers to some of the questions.) (Copyright, 1935, by the UP.) The end of the 3-year Chaco struggle between Paraguay and Bolivia, only officially declared war in the world since the peace of Versailles, finds both nations exhausted and depleted of man-power and resources. The conflict is scheduled to end Friday noon. Industry and agriculture in the two South American countries have been sacrificed, along with thousands of lives, to wage war in i the fever-ridden swamps and jungle of the Gran Chaco. The world depression had already left its mask on the economic condition of Paraguay and

CLIPPER SHIP DREAKS RECORD FOR LONG HOP Pan - American Plane Makes Flight From California To Honolulu Honolulu, T. H., June 13—(UP) — Pan .American airways' giant black and silver clitpper ship landed on Pearl Harbor at 8:57(4 A. M. (PST) today, after a triumphal flight from Alamada to Honolulu. Capt. Edwin C. Musick, skipper of the trail-blazing flying boat, and 'his crew of five men thus became the only aviators in history to fly the 2,410 mile expanse of water between the California coast and Hawaiian more than once. Defying rain squalls and forecasts of cyclonic conditions over the Pacific, the clipper soared from its east San Francisco Bay terminal at 3 p. m., P. S. T. yesterday. Time of the flight pared 42 minutes from the clipper’s previous record, established ton the east-west flight April 1C and 17. Today's journey was completed in 17 hours. 57 minutes, compared to the first flight record of 18 hours, 39 minutes. Members of the Clipper's crew were R. O. D. Sullivan, first officer, who shared Musick’s duties at the controls, Victor A. Wright, engineering officer; W. T. Jarboe, Jr., radio officer; Harry A. Canaday, junior flight officer, and Frederick J. NooI nan. navigation officer. The men delayed their California takeoff two days in order to be sure ' they would encounter adverse wea- : ther over the Pacific. Their purpose ' was scientific. Objective of the flight was to perI mit the skilled fliers to gather ini--1 portant engineering and meteorological data which will make contemplated trans-Paciflc passenger end mail service as safe as .possible for (CONTINUED ON PAGE SEVEN) o Children Will Give Program At Picnic 1 The childrens’ program to be pre-Js.-nted at the St. Johns picnic Sun- , dav will begin at 1:30 ■o'clock in the j afternoon and will last one and one half hours. I The program will consist of songs I and action songs, recreitions, sev--1 eral dialogues, clown drill, flower ' drill and a short operetta. The girls band of Decatur, under the direction of Albert Sellemeyer, will furnish music for the picnic. o Today Is Circus Day In Decatur Today is circus day for Decatur and the surrounding territory. Lewis ■ Bros, three ring Circus and trained ■ animal show — not a stranger to j these parts, as the show exhibited I here two years ago, —arrived at the East Monroe Street circus grounds in the early hours of the morning from Huntington where the circus showt-d to two goad houses yesterday. A large crowd came early this afternoon to the grounds to see the matinee, which started at 2 j o’clock. A night show will be given, I starting at 8 p. m. The circus will j be here today only, and is sponsored ; by Adame Post No. 43. American i Legion, in the interest of its local ■ welfare work.

. Bolivia when present hostilities i started in June, 1932. Collapse of > tin prices had proved disastrous to ■ Bolivian finances. Paraguay, boast- •; ing small government revenues at ■jbest, had suffered from the decline : in consumption and prices of tlni 1 ned meats, quebracho extract, and 1 yerba mate, its staple exports. ■' Bolivian foreign loans, since in > I default, paid the eazly costs of ;! equipping and maintaining an army, i Paraguay owed no foreign debt i whe n war broke out but reportedly is now heavily indebted for arms and ammunition "credits.” 1 Currencies of the two countries 1 broke under the strain of financing I the war. Paraguay used up most, [ I if not all, of its note issue backing, j while Bolivia dipped into the re- ’ ’ serves of its central bank for pay- ' i ments abroad. Gold apneals in both nations brought the national treasuries ’ j thousands of gold ornaments, rings, ' bracelets, foreign gold pieces, and . even watches to help bolster finan- * ces necessary to continue waging a modern war. Paraguayan cattle owners, repre1 (CONTINUED ON PAGE FOUR)

Senate Passes NRA Extension After Senator Huey P. Long Talks For 15 And Half Hours

YEGGS FAIL TO GET ANY LOOT Four Decatur Business Houses Broken Into Wednesday Night Two yegs, who had already broken into four Decatur concerns, were frightened away this morning from the J. and L. Bottling Works by Ben Lang. The men eluded an immediate police search. Places broken into were the Adams Theater, Elberson’s Service Station, Kocher’s Lumber yard, Ashbaucher’s Tin Shop, and the J. and L. Bottling works. Ben Dang happened to be sleeping at the bottling works. He heard a noise .previous to the time the men broke into his door. There was a truck unloading in the alley back of the Kroger store and he assumed the noise was caused by the 1 truckers. •Suddenly he saw the side dour to ' the bottling works open and two men step inside. He got up and the men ordered him to stand still or they “would blow his head off.” He ordered the men out and they fled to First street. He was unable to follow them as he was not dressed. He put in a police call and the night .policemen were on the scene in a few minutes. The short start was enough to permit the yeggs to escape. The city police then made a check-up of other business houses in the city. They found that the most serious damage was done at the Kocher Lumber yard where the (CONTINUED ON PAGE TWO) O . FERA Classes To Present Minstrel The FERA classes in the county » will sponsor a free minstrel at the > fj.bo school house Friday night at 7:30 o’clock Mrs. Editih Chew of t Geneva is the instructor of the • chorus from the southern half of • the county which will furnish the i music and talent tor the show. o Third Rank Work At K. of P. Home Third rank work will be conferred at the Knights of Pythias home tonight at 7:30 o'clock. All teams are requested to be present. r o : TO ENTERTAIN ■ AT FISH FRY 5 ’ Chambers Os Commerce - Furnish Entertainment Friday Evening } Entertainment for the fish supj .per to be given by the Knights of I Pythir.s lodge Friday evening at 6:30 o’clock at the lodge dining . room, will b? furnished by the Decatur 'Chamber of Commerce. A program has been arranged from numbers to be presented at I the WLS barn dance to be given I during the Decatur Free Street Fair On the program will 'be the Pleas sant Mills Hot Sluots, a wash board t orchestra; the Indiana Ramblers, j who will give cowboy songs accom- . janied by stringed instruments, and t a girls’ trio. s Wilson Beery and Roy Mumma i- tare on the refreshments committee: 1 Dr. H. V. DeVor is chairman of the committee ion arrangements and a A. D. Suttles is chairman of the f ticket committee. The lodge has ordered 150 pounds t of large jumbo yellow lake perch I" from Green Bay, Wisconsin. Tickets ■’ .may be (purchased from members of the lodge Tr at the d'ior for 50 cents s a person. ? o “Human Cannonball’' Killed At Portland Portland, Ind., June 13.—(U.R>— John Risko, 31, Racine, Wis., "hus man cannonball” was injured fat--8 ally here last night when he was ’■ shot from a cannon and fell 10 feet [l short of a net. h Risko had been featured in the K attraction four years. The appearance here was his first this seas- ; on. The spring in the cannon was too weak to hurl him to the net.

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To Try Kidnapers iF ~ W ,r/ Prosecution of the kidnapers of George Weyerhaeuser will be in the hands of Harry Johnston, above, of Pierce county. Washington when the Waleys and their accomplices are turned over to the state of Washington by federal agents. Since the Weyerhaeuser boy was not taken across the state line, his abductors are not subject to the jurisdiction of the Lindbergh law. COMMITTEES TO CONDUCT MEET Name Committees to Conduct Legion Conference July 4 Plans are being completed for the Fourth district American Legion and .Auxiliary annual conference to be held at the Dacatur Country club on the Fourth of July. Committees and speakers have been named. The rr eakers will be Perry Fhulkner, past state commander; Mrs. Peggy Barr of Princeton, state .president of the Women’s Auxiliary: Col. A. L. Moudy. educator, soldier | and lecturer of Waterloo, Indiana, and Mrs. Hattie Whitman, of Columbia City, Fmrtlli District president of the Auxiliary. Golf will be ipliyed all day. The registration at 10 o’clock in the morning will lie followed by a band concert. A parade through Decatur will be held at 1 o’clock in the afternoon. The flag pole will be dedicated at the Legion Memorial park in the afternoon before the conference which will be held between 2 and 3:30 o’clock. In the evening will be dancing and fireworks, beginning at 9 o'clock. The committees for t'he conference are; General .committee, Dee Fryback, chairman: Tillman Gehrig, V. J. Bormann and David Adams. Publicity committe?, Harold Daniels and David Adame. Refreshments: Charles Massonee,

H. P. Schmitt, Charles Burke, Herman Ulman, Abe Miller. Edgar Yoder, Joe Coffee, A Rumachlag. Frank Linig r, Clint Bell, Mike Broun, Chet Kortenber, Walter ‘ Gladfelter, Joe Rash, Ed. Shoaf. Arthur Myers and Harry Miller. Entertainment: Leo Eliinger, Charles Weber and Adri in Baker. ' Music: Hrb Kern and Ralph I Roop. Eats: Women’s Auxiliary of the (American Legion post number 43. Location: general committee. Finance: Eddie Adler, Vernon (CONTINUED ON PAGE EIGHT) Rev. Nau Extended ; Call To Friedheim ' The Rev. P. G. Nau, pastor of St. . Paul’s Lutheran church near Columbus, Indiana, lias been extended a call to become pastor of the Zion Lutheran church at Friedheim. I A voter’s meeting was conducted by the Rev. Karl Wyneken. circuit visitor, at Friedheim Thursday - evening. The Friedheim charge ■ became vacant several weeks ago i when the Rev. C, B. Preuss, re L signed on the 50th anniversary of his entry to the ministry. > Rev. Na,u is a graduate of both ■ Concordia college of Fort Wayne - and Concordia seminary of St. i Louis. He is 42 years of age and . was ordained 18 years ago.

White House Pressure Forces House Leaders To Accept Senate Amendments; Vote Friday DEFEAT FOR LONG Washington, June 13 — (U.R> •— White House pressure, applied a few hours after the senate broke Huey P. Long’s 1514 hour filibuster and passed the NRA extension resolution, today forced acceptance by house leaders of senate amendments to the resolution. It was expected that the revised measure would be brought up In the houee tomorrow for concurrence in the senate changes. It would then go to the White House. Unless further dlfflcult-.es developed. passage should be obtained to insto>» continuance of the skeleton NRA which otherwise expires Sunday. House leader* went to the White House today four hours after the senate finally passed the NRA extension at 6:14 a. m. Some of them were indignant at an anti-trust amendment inserted in the bill by the senate. After the conference with Mr. Roosevelt, however, it was announced that a fight to eliminate the provision would not be made. Mr. Roosevelt was in a fighting mood. In addition to asking house concurrence on the senate NRA resolution. he told the conferees to hurry action on the Wagner-Con-nery labor dibutes bill and the Guffey coal regulation measure. He made it plain he wished congress to get on with his ’must’ program. The house leadere had been indignant at acceptance of the antitrust provision by the senate after assurance had heen given, they said, that the measure would not be changed in the upper house. The controverted amendment provided that anti-trust law provisions could be suspended only for voluntary agreement* effecting two purposes — establishing wage, hours and collective bargaining standards; and the elimination of unfair competitive (CONTINUED ON PAGE SEVEN) o Public Invited To Dance Here Tonight An invitation wae issued to the general public today to attend the Bowery dantce at the Decatur Country Club this evening at 9:30' o’clock. Funds raised will be used for premiums for she horse show to be held in 'connection with the Decatur Free Street Fair next August. The Country Club has been decorated with cindles and arranged to resemble an old time Bowery dance hail. Hal Teeters orchestra will also carry out the theme of the dance in their music. Prizes will be given to the couple best dressed for the occasion. The dance will be very informal. It will be cabaret style. Tickets m'y be purchased at the door at 26 cents a person.

o DEATH CLAIMS MRS. STETLER Mrs. Catherine Stetler Dies Wednesday Night Os Pneumonia Mrs. Catherine Stetler, 78, 113 South Ninth street, a resident of this city for 13 years, died at her home at 8:30 o'clock Wednesday night of pneumonia. Mrs. Stetler had been bedfast for the past two weeks. She was bom January 26. 1857, southeast of Willshire, Ohio, a. daughter of Fred and Maria Mer-cer-Amrine. She was united in marriage to Orlando Stetler, who preceded her in death 27 years ago. Surviving are a son. Emanuel, of south of Willshire, Ohio, and a brother, Ben Amrlne of Decatur. Funeral services will be held Sunday afternoon at 2 o'clock, standard time, at the United Brethren church In this city, of which Mrs. Stetler was a member. Rev. H. W. Franklin, pastor of the church will officiate and burial will be made in the Willshire, Ohio, cemetery. The body will be returned to the Stetler home Friday morning from the S. E. Black funeral home,