Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 33, Number 153, Decatur, Adams County, 28 June 1935 — Page 1

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ax-Rich Program Ordered Enacted At This Session

Program |{(> Passed Bes ore ftsent Session Ends;| • p K. Orders. pfflAl MEET OUT Ljnctoii. .Inn' 1 28. (U.R) a I-.:, .item'll cougress- | remit against staying in L o gti>n all slimmer, Speaker L iv Hyrns today reiterated U,. it,,.eev. lt tax-on-weaj'h L® must be passed this sessCrdless of how hot or weary i MS concession Byrns would |to rebellious legislators was I Lllm- that when other bills »««!. tile house would take e three day recesses while hr [or the tax bill to be draftn? said a special session this K proposed by some, was detir out". Some congressmen. l itr »,-a-y of Washington heat. Bw i a two weeks adjournment Ithe remainder of the ■must” lis cleared, probably about 15. (house ways and means comieis hot expected to have the filiation ready much before K 1. Extended debate may I disposition of the program Ist until September 1. (average length of time for 113* major tax bills of the I S years to get through coni has been three and twok months, exclusive of the I Lpent in committee hearings ■ formidable task facing the littee and the admir.istra ion ■titling the legislation to inkßie. gift, corporation, and It income taxes, became ap- ■ today. tp Wesley Disney, D.. Okla., kitee member, said he would t tor an amendment repealing it* cent gas ta.x. Republicans! ■peeled to propose the inheris tax field be left to states. I Allen Treadway, K . Mass . ta? minority member of the ■ittee, said he would seek Station of a sades tax for all ■nee levies, . ie suggestion that the legislalindude a tax on undistributtarnings of corporations piled u excess surpluses, was made itejrma:: John O'Connor of the n rules committee. He estiri an annual revenue of $300,was possible from this unRd source. Birman Robert L. Doughton of ways and means committee I public hearings on the bill PWHNUED ON PAGE SIXi untry Conservation Club To Meet Monday ’r Country Conserevation club I bold the regular meeting at On. Monday at th 3 St. John's fol on the Fort Wayne road. ReMs the plwaaant and fish rearIPh jecta will be given at this F— 0

BOURN CASE UNTIL JUL! 3 Wlington Power Fight To Be Resumed Ou Wednesday, July 3 'Wington, Ind., Jun- 28—(UP) for Clare W. H. Bangs remained ! » county jail cell today while court fight wit.r the Northern * na power company wan in es " until July 3. rested late yesterday in 'wit of the power company for uent injunction to prevent ‘of energy generated at the tiny Mcipal plant. had been freed from jail. 8,6 he was sent after conviction • contempt charge, to uttend ■rings on the suit. ltal arguments will bo started ?!i the case is resumed next H. Power c-umpany will attempt ’ r °' , a that the city Hiae no right *'l current from the municipal tl and never did until Bangs k office January 1. city hi s presented testimony “Power .from the city plant was U a civilian conservation corps "P throughout 1934 and that tiu*iz»tion to sell the current was ®ted by the public service com*ion nearly 20 years ago.

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Vol. XXXIII. No. 153.

MUSIC PROGRAM CIVEN AT CLUB Rotarians Are Entertaintained With Splendid Musical Program M mbens of the Decatur Rotary club were • ntertained with a splendid musical .program at the regular meeting Thursday evening at the ' Rice hot 1. Albert Selle,meyer, member of the I club, bid eh rge of the program, and present d Marjorie Miller. Patsy Kri k ami Susanna Selluney- [ er, who »ntertained the members with several selections. To illustrate the various typee of musical instruments, Miss Miller I first play, q a piano eolo. Following • j this, te le pl ved >t clarinet solo, at- ' a companied by Mr Sellemeyer at the r piano. Patsy Krick to illustrate v string instrum nts played a violin | golo, also accompanied by Mr. Selle- - meyer. | Susanna Sell m y r «ang "I.tile . Colonel” hcconlpanied by her f.ther. Miis Miller then .played a saxaiphone solo. To illustrate brass instruments. Mr. Sellemeyer played a baritone nolo, a companied by I M ■ Miller. T close the program, , | Miss Mill r played • n accordian . number, with Miss Krick and Miss ■ Sellemeyer singing. ■ On belt If of the board of directors the club members, the Rev. i Charles M. Prugh, secretary, prei I sented Bryce Ttomas retiring presi- 1 dent, with a Rotary pin. with Lie ‘ 1 inserption, “Past President." • N.w officers f the club will be 1 installed at the next meeting, Thunsi day. July 11. No meeting will be 1 iield next w eek as the date falls on i (CONTINUKti OX PAGB FOCI!) BROTHERS SET FLIGHT RECORD

Al And Fred Key Set New Mark For Endurance Flying Late Thursday Meridian, Miss.. June 29. HU.R)The living Keys. Al and Fred, look I aboard more fuel and food early , today and continued circling their “Ole Miss” endurance plane above the renamed Key field, municipal airport. They planned to fly as long as possible, after setting a new official record in the air yes- | At 5:32 a. in. today, while they were taking on 63 gallons of gasoline the Key brothers had been aloft continuously for 569 hours, more than 24 days. Everythlng was running smoothly and the 1 ots were ready for breakfast. 6:45 they had outflow clouds last, night that might have forced t e -Ole Miss” down. The haggard young brothers passed the 5-year-old official record, es-. tablished by John and Kenneth Hunter, at 2:13% P- mand established a tentat. yely off. ctal new record an hour later The Hunter brothers' time, made a Chicago in June. 1930. was 553 hours. 11 minutes. 30 sec °“ d ;. Freshly I. thed. shaven and dress , Xu S-W* ■ Their voices, audible over radto Tn n tiers to 10,000 persons around amplifiers io , renamed the municipal airpor . "Key airport’’ yesterday,

, SlX ’ Logansport Woman To Teach At Berne At n meeting of the Befne board of* education Thursday nigiUMiss R uth Ar " ,Bt j n ® ufPasßO r to Mrs. I was appointed mar-! Pale J-X Small. mL Armstrong will teach home ‘ <„ the high school ami economics in mesic in the ■■ mended and ha subjects, applicants for the job.

“* ' !»■»■■■■> | | - ■ - - ■■■ ,| n , .... II ■■■■'!!■ Senate Speeds Controversial Roosevelt Tax Plan • • a I > / 1 I» F v.Uette f **** i f j w * JOB ? / v -™ King n»Ti«on 1 One of the most controversial of New Deal issues received the lndor«ement of the committee when they agreed to proceed at full speed on enactment ot the PO ri>orations and inheritp,ngram designed to distribute the wealth. Tentative tax rate \“ n left to ances estimated to yield $340,000,000 annually, were drawn up by the ‘'■h' lll ,l ‘ w , ' i|r £ ollt ro w. right.'at the rear. Senator Walter George. Georgia; Senator Rohe-t La H lette .s. Senator William King. Utah; Senator Pat Harrison, Mississippi, and Sector Henty Hnnutshire. The issue is expected to sharply define liberals and £onsenatlves. _

nniiipMin v. i — SOYA COMPANY 1 DONATES SEED, Local Plant Furnishes < Seeds For Park Develop- , ment At Homestead Soy b ana have been planted in • the 17 acres of .park area at the De- , catur homesteads development. T> ■ seed was donated by the Central Soya company. It required 26 bushele. The General Electric company donated $1,300 tor the landscaping of the p rk areau. The money eavled bv the donation of the seed will I Ul d in further landscaping of the. project. During the last few weeks! the park areas have been complete-i ly giade and s raped down to provide a em-'oth lawn. Before the soy | beans were sowed the ground was, plowed nd harrow, d. The soy b.ans were sown to furnls? nitrogen for the soil. This fall commercial fertilizer will ba added. Grass seed will b? iplanted this t 11 with a small quantity of rye. The ry? will be cut to furnish a, cover and pr otection for the grass., It is also proposed to set out more | trees to furnish eventually u grove of native Indiana trees. Trees were planted in the spring of 1934 but wer- killed by the drought. Five fruit trees will be set cut on. ach of the 48 individual lots. These I ' trees were purchased as ifart of a CWA ppropriation of SI,OOO. Lawns will be begun by the home-I stead, M t’is full- During the summer FERA labor will be used to comp! te grading the lots. COAL MEASURE NEXT IN LINE Will Be Presented To House Before Action On New Tax Measure I Washington. June 28 ' (VP ’"J I ' P duff v-Snyder bituminous coal etab I ilization bill will be P resented the ,bouse before action is so rted on the President’s new tax Rep. Samuel B. 111111 , r tho house ways and "eubcommittec studying both “d coal measures, sdd today Hill D „ Wish., chairman of the ,wavs and morns subcommittee studying both tax and coal measaid expected hearings on the Guffey i bill late today, and report it to the fu Lvs and means committee ear- ‘ next’ week. The m asure would X Kd by mid-week, an(l 1 : "n, ,«t” list. Labor leadprAsident *3 mud • »■**“ r. mediately on threat ot • ‘ itr H k L Findlay. Clevelmd, 0., rep- ’*• • national conference of resenting testified I bituminous coal pr PAGE THREE)

Decatur, Indiana, Friday, .lune 28, 1935.

Former Resident Sends Cherries Here I Mr. and Mrs. A. J. Smith hove received a box of cherries eent by Ben T. Pillars, 21b East Fourth street. The Dalles, Oregon, >1 cousin of Mrs. Smith. 1 Mr. Pillars will be r membered here as the son of William Pillars of the f|rm of Patijt-rson-Rillars grist mill. He left here several years ago nd located in Oregon where h has a fine fruit farm. He spe, iul- n izes in cherries, and stated in a s letter to the Smith family flcat al t though the crop was not so large S as usual, the fruit wi.s good in qual- i ity and sold at a fair price. This is 3 he has a fine fruit farm. He iv eci .lo —— • FRENCH OBJECT TO NAVAL PACT 1 I ( Great Britain And France < In Disagreement Over German Pact (Copyright 1935. by United Press) London. June 28—(UP)—A fresh ( i disagreement between Great Bri-h ' tain and Fiitnce was reported today ( , over terms ot the British-German., naval agreement. France, it was understood, was t unwilling to accept a British invi-J, tation to s nd naval delegates to : | Lond n until it learned the details , ! of Gernu n naval building intentions ; | for flue next seven years. Germany, it was understood, was! unwilling to accept a British] invitation to send naval delegates ; to London until it learned the deltaite of German naval building In-. I tentions forth? next seven years. I Germany, it was understood, held 1 th.,t details of her naval program i for these yeans should be disclosed Ito France’and other powers only [after they had made known their I own programs to Britain. , I British quarters admitted that I under their agreement, the Ger.inn program must be kept secret from other powers until the viewers had tabled their own programs. . It is the British plan that France, . Italy, and Russia shall send delega-; , tions will receive details of German | I intentions as soon as they disclose i ,I their own. This method, it was pointed out., i I would make it impossible for the , !; French to submit sun.ileunentary I l construction programs to meet a , I future German fleet and likewise ’ I would avoid similar surprise announcement by Italy and Russia. 1 Court House Offices Close Saturday P. M. I! Tlhe offices ot the Adams county ■ 1 court house will close nt noon Sut- -■ urday, enabling the officers to get , out their qquarterly reports. I , s Special Legion 3 Meeting Monday 3 - A special meeting of Adams poet ■ number 43 of the American Legion 9 will be held Monday evening at 8 o'clock. AU members of the drum i-I corps, all special committees mid f i members of the legion are asked d 1 to be preeeent. Business of Importance will be discussed.

THREE SCOUTS TO WASHINGTON Three Local Scouts Are Selected To Attend National Jamboree Hubert Zerkle, Jr., Dick Hammond and Lewis Smith have been selected from Decatur Boy Scout troops to attend the National Boy Scout Jamboree to be held in ashington, D. C., from August 21 to 30- , „ The contest was judged upon a point system by which merits were awarded for attending meetings, working on cabins, passing tests and taking hikes.. The final selection was made i>> the troop committees and scouts masters. . Hubert Zerkel. Jr., is a member of Rotary troop 61. and is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Hubert Zerkel of 609 West Monroe street. He became a star scout during the fontest a.nd Had a total of 140 points in the contest. Dick Hammond is a member ot Lions troop number 62 and the son of Mr. and Mrs. Carl Hammond ot 621 Nuttman Avenue. He is a first class scout but has enough merit badges to become a star scout. His last requirement is three months service as a first class ■scout whi.ll Will be completed before going to Washington. He has a total of 149 points m the contest. , Lewis Smith of American Legion i troop number 63 is the son of Mr. ! and Mrs. Fred Smith of 318 South Third street. “eJsjOifeJfcout i (CONTINU ED ON PAGE BEVEN) TWO EXECUTED AS MURDERERS

Eva Coo Electrocuted Last Night For Murder of Her Handy Man Ossining, N. Y.. June 28.-(U.R)-Eva Coo, road house proprietress and the “diamond Lil of Otsego I county,” and Leonard Scarnici, a I particularly vicious killer, died tn 1 the electric chair last night. Until the very last moment, Mrs. | Coo prayed God to cause Gov. Her- | bert H. Lehman to grant her a re--1 pi-ieve. Scarnici, who had had five ’ reprieves and knew he would not get another, spent his last hours smoking cigarettes and cursing Lehman and other state authorities who he said double-crossed him. There was nothing between • them, beyond the accident that took them to the chair 10 minutes 'lapart. Mrs. Coo was executed for -1 the insurance murder of the handytlman of her road house, Harry I Wright. Scarnici died for murder !of a policeman in a holdup. Mrs. Coo, until an hour or so before her time came, was a sobbr' ing, hysterical figure. Then she I took a, grip on herself and was a , I poised, ever, a diffident, person on J her way to death. She was led s I past the cell of Scarnici, who was , I being prepared to die by the Rev. J i Father John McCaffery, one of the j I prison’s chaplains. ‘ “Goodbye, Scarnici," she called. , ON PAGE THREE)

URGES FEDERAL . LOTTERY PLAN Rep. Kenney Urges Lottery As “Painless” Tax Raising Method Washington, June 28 — (UP) — ('notion of a federal lottery system ! as a "painless” method of raising : $1,000,000.0(H) for federal and state governments was urged today ibe-. for-e a special Itouee ways and meatM sub-committee by Rep. Edword a Kenney, D., N. J. "I do not think u lottery of this ' nature would increase gambling,"' he said, "On the contrary, it would tend to wipe out gambling and racketeering so prevalent throughout the country." Author of three pending lottery bills, Kenney had worked three years for the opportunity to present hiu views to a house committee. Many congressmen i»av® viewed the ■ proposals us abhornent. Kenney immediately struck at them by charging that "70 per cent of the members of congress purchase lottery tickets in one form or . another, such sh those sold by j church aid societies, or play the numbers game." Kenney euid that he favored the! last of his threa. plans, which would provide for creation of a federal lottery ■commission to hold lotteries that would produce up to. SI,mH),COO annually in revenues. Und< r this iplan, the federal treasury would receive one quarter ot tlhe total while the remaining threeqqnarters would be allocated among j the individual states according to their pr<i..ortionate population. “A national lottery is not gambling in the true sense of the word. ■ gambling in a technical sense, conI sists of engaging in games of I chunce with the hope of winning” , Kenney stiid. He was sharply questioned by It p. Harold Knutson, R.. Minn., as ! to whether such a lottery would not take money from the poor and deprive them of the necessitits ot life. Chicago Lottery Chicago June 28 (UP) — Prof. Ern st W. Burgess of the Uni ver- ■ (CONTINUED ON PAGE SIX) , ■ —o POLICE SCHOOL OPENS JULY 8 Training School For Indiana State Police Will , Open July 8 J Indianapolis, June 28. — (U.R) —A , I major step toward revitalization ! of the Indiana state police will be ~' taken when 75 candidates enter s I the 30-day training school here s ! July 8. L Fifty men will be graduated from ■ the school into the state police ranks, Donald F. Stiver, state n i safety director, has announced. The training school was one ol h I the reorganization forces provide) . i for the' state police department bj ajr act of the 1935 state legislature The men will be schooled h every phase ot state police work Instructors from divisions of state municipal and federal police agdn i cies will teach at the school.

Donald Kooken, Garrett, former | department of justice agent in Chi- ’ cago and Omaha, Neb., and at present a member of the detective force of the state police, will be , in charge of instruction. The course of study includes the ' history of police systems, their orj ganization. a,nd correlation between the law enforcement agencies of the various governmental units. An extensive study will lie made of the various forms of crime, types of criminals and methods of effecting their capture. Practical knowledge of the use of firearms, bullet-proof I (CONTINUED ON PAGE I'OUR) — Conservation League Will Meet Tuesday I The Adams county fish and game conservation club will hold its next monthly meeting Tuesday evening at Lehman’s park in Berne, al 7:30 o’clock. •I All numbers of the picnic comimlttee are expected to attend this I meeting. Final arrangements will lie made forth picnic to be given at ’j Sun Set park on July 7. ’I , Church Society i To Give Program i .—- *1 The Christian Endeavor Society • of the St Paul Christian Union - i Church wil present a program SunI day night at eeven o’clock. Special mimic will be given and the public I is invited.

Price Two Cents

Sinister Mystery Is Centering Around Death Os Attorney

SECRETARY TO MCNUTT SPEAKS HERE THURSDAY l*leas Greenlee Addresses Cruwd At Sun Set Park Last Evening Praising the Democratic party as an organization of men and women who are young in mind and body regardless of their ages In years,’ Pleas Greenlee, patronage secretary to Gov. Paul V. McNutt, paid high tribute to the Democratic organization of Adams county aj Hie summer party sponsored by the Young Democratic Club of Adams county at Sun Set park Thursday evening. Approximately 600 persons attended either the program or the dance. The party was opened at 6:30 o'clock with a picnic. This was followed with a band concert furnished by the American Legion City Band at 7:30 o'clock. At 8 o'clock the program was held.

Judge Huber M. DeVoss was chairman of the program. He introduced the officers ot the Young Democratic Club: Robert. Heller, president; Mrs. Chalmer Deßolt, vice-president; Edwin Kauffman, executive secretary and chairmajt of the party, and Severin Schurger, treasurer and chairman of the ticket committee. Other Democrats introduced were: Mrs. Faye-Smith Knapp, president of the Adams County Democratic Women’s club, Nathan Nelson. Adams county Democratic chairman; Arthur R. Holthouse, mayor ot Decatur; Tliurmaji Gottschalk, state senator, and Dallas Brown, sheriff of Adams county, Clark J. Lutz gave the address of welcome and introduced Mr. Greenlee, as a member ot the greatest state administration in the United States. Approximately 300 persons attended the dance which followed the program. Music was presented by Hal Teeter's orchestra. Mr. Greenlee said in part, “It is i good to be alive in this day and ' age of America. It is a happy experience to be a citizen of this good I old State of Indiana in this period ' wTien so much history is being ! made. It is a proud distinction to be a Democrat in this progressive, ! democratic commonwealth which !sits in the center of populatibn of I the laast nation on earth where true [Democracy stands supreme and seIcure in her everlasting stronghold. I “Men of courage and sterling character carved this Democracy ! of the United States of America. It has endured beyond a century and a halt and today is strongly 'entrenched in the hearts and homes .| of 120 million Americans. But this Democracy—this form of governI ment which is representative oi •Ithe majority will of the people

possesses its strength by no mere accident of original design. We ■ are a strong Union of Democratic I states because we have had strong I men throughout our 150 years who have been willing to lay down their lives for the preservation of huir.un and political liberties. They have eternally fought for the principle of freedom and to the pur- J (CONTINUED ON PAGE THREE) .— o — WORKERS REGISTER AT LOCAL OFFICE Moot of Those On Relief In Adams County Re-Registered This Morning Most of the ipereona on work re- ! lief work registered in the United States reemployment bureau at the FERA office in this city today. IVrsons on direct relief must register Saturday as well as those on work relief wiiio did not do so i today. These who have registered before- today must re-register. The registration is (prerequisite to obtainng work on direct relief ! under the new program to be begun I in July. Every person over 16 years of age j in relief families must register or j re-register, according to me anI nouncement. The federal men will i leave Saturday afternoon, after the • office closes and local officials II stressed the necessity of regieter- • ing. Every family in Adams county I, is Included In this program and : must register at the Decatur FERA office.

Nephew Os Chief Juntiee Hughes Is Mysteri»«sly Slain; Identity Os Ono Involved Known. SUSPECT SOUGHT Detroit, June 28.—<UJ»—Detroit police are seeking Lee Ferries, also known as Joe Ferris for questioning in connection with the slaying of Howwd Carter Dickinson, chief of detective Fred Frahm announced today. Frahm's announcement was made after a conference with Police , Commissioner Pickert and was preceded by the disclosure that offl- ' dais knew the Identity of the mys- . terious woman who checked the New York attorneys brief case at his hotel hours after the body had been discovered by a roadside. “There Is a, definite connection between Dickinson and Ferris.' Frahm said. "Ferris checked out ’ of the Detroiter hotel Thursday morning and remarked that he was going out with a man named Dickinson.” Sinister mystery entered the in-

vestigalion of the murder of Dickinson, nephew of ChiST Justice Charles Evans Hughes, today. Detectives were more and mor# convinced that he was killed by a person or persons he knew well and that robbery, if the motive at all, was. not the only consideration that motivated the killer. All police efforts were directed toward discovery of ,the identity of the person or persons with whom he apparently kept an appointment Wednesday night. He was last seen hurrying from his hotel after having dined hastily like a man bent on an important engagement. Sometime after 1 a. ’ m Thursday the murderer pumped two bullets Into Dickinson’s body. At 5:45 a. m. his body was found in Rouge pa,rk where it had been dumped from an automobile. Then Thursday afternoon, hours after the body had been discovered and identified, a nervous woman appeared ad. the package room of the Book-Cadillac hotel, where Dickinson had stopped, and checked his brief case. Two hours later the case, packed with the papers concerning the civil ca.se that brought the New York attorney to Detroit, was found and sent detectives seeking the woman. How did the brief case with its valuable and confidential papers

(CONTINUED ON PAGE SIX) o*— Condition Os Roy Archbold Improved Dr Roy Archbold, prominent dentist of this city, was resting eMier today at hie home, corner Monroe and Sixth streets, following a h:art attack suffered Wednesday night. He has been confined to bed elnce th? attack. H • waa mudb. improved today and a rent cure has been pres■cribed by atteneding physicians.

Plfi CROP 20 PER CENT LESS Spring I’il I r °P 1” * cd States 20 Per Cent Less Than 1934 Washington, June 28— (U.R) ~~ The department of agriculture today estimated that this years spring pig crop was 20 per cent small! r than las’, year*. The department estimated a reduction of 10 per cent In total 1935 farrowings compared to las year and a “marked" reduction in tlie number of hogs over six months old on June 1 this year as compared to June 1, 1934. The number of pigs saved In the 1935 spring season was estimated at 30,402,000 head, a decrease of 19.6 per cent or 7.405,000 head below the total saved in the spring of 1934. The unusually small indicated pgi crop was shown by department reports that the number saved this spring would be 40 per cent, or 20,814 000 head, less than the average number saved in the spring of 1932 and 1933. The decrease in the numbers of sows that farrowed this spring was 22.4 per cent, the department reported. The reduction was somewhat larger than was anticl(CONTINUED ON PAGE SIX).