Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 33, Number 155, Decatur, Adams County, 1 July 1935 — Page 1

WEATHER ,«nr <»— '*(>' v*— Generally fair and continued wsrm tonight and Tuesday.

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Detroit Underworld Mar Caught At Fort Way nt Readily Confesses His Guilt. STILL MYSTERY Detroit, July I—Howard Carter Dickinson, prominent New York attorney, was slain during an attempt to rob him by William Schweitzer, one ot | three women participants >n the wild party that endeo in death confessed to prosecutor Duncan C. McCrea, it was raorted today. Police attempts to break the case after Schweitzer had given them three widely divergent i stories of the shooting, centered on a ro-cxamtnafiAn of Jean Miller, and Loretta and Florence Jackson. Jean Miller, led tearfully back I to the room where she had told | er story Sunday, broke down. (Copyright 1935 by UP.) B Detroit, July 1.- (U.R) From ®*»urs of intensive questioning ol Jf lliarn Sweitzer, procurer anil po Jp-e character, authorities todai { wight the "hidden motive" for th< border of Howard Carter Dickin Kin, prominent New York atorney S*d nephew of Chief Justice Char Ms Evans Hughes. Although Beeitzer had confessed killing Mirkinson, officials said the murder ■ : as much a mystery as ever. ■ Authorities belleved he was atMffipling to conceal the motivation Sr the murder and the partiiiBtior. of another person. They Mere positive he did not kill the Mwyer in fear of ioT own life and c Dickinson did not kill himself Mreitzer changed his story repeats Mlly. alternately insi.-tinc upon selfl ■ien.-e and suit id- through !..■iirJ ■ questioning. j Mae mat. disi " >‘Pam o s up-. are<M ■ Sweitzer’s stories and :•■■ man J ■own fin’s were unexplained thal ■Heusly the true rfioiive had mil £"■( so much as hinted, the detecl ■M said. Why Sweitzer, a petty! Btrali. rof the Detroit u: • -t-win ’..1,1 ■nr the prominent lawyer, a niem-1 ■r of one of America’s first legal! ■tallies, they were unprepared to ’ ree women arrested with « WHNTTED ON PAGE FIVE) M BROTHERS oMnERMARKS U And Fred Key Break All Endurance Flight Records Today Meridian. Miss., July 1 • v wissip-J’s Al and Fred wey e.1 ikihed a new endurance iim r.-cird at noon today when »>--y \ ■ eeied the unofficial time ■-t.. - Dtla JEcksoti and F-it-iv-t | ) ' R rte» at St Louis. B 'brothers had flown th. fk libg, 64714 hours or al t i«-t I'7 frjl- lay;. They had trace.ed 7.1.01 1 ► l,f ” sin . e toe tak-off. Dowq Tonight M ridian. Miss., July 1 -U'l’i be endurance flight of A’ am! ! Ted Key, Mtesteaippl's birdtn m. ' r iU ’OBe to an end 1 t 6:30 . k *l*l, they radioed the gr.ntttt! re * this morning. si! goys trail up to thn-t tim-‘ e fliers will have broken all eti- I ’ranee flight records. The weak | *** condition of the endurance “P "Ole Miss” decided them >» ta course.. " TMfo bulletin from the ship I • Warning said, “will land ship, I *•*3 P. M., due to the fa t th. ' 1 '°Braph record Is in bad shap 1 ai! )’thing may happen at thi- 'l of crystallization Mid 1 ■■P stabilizer trouble.” 1 IBik >1 tliiind. rei.is I <“> oil S.i' ■ 1., 1 w ;ii ' " 11 I th. Ihi' left llldll.'l I *nd obseq. -a |Bl Butler \ |l U Is Improving ■ gw |B n Butler continued t" 1111 B 1 Adans c lun’y »liospital this trorni ließ ■Batwiit. Uttere as ttu fsultß ■r' !n choke suffered Fridayßb g '

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F. D. R'S PLEA MEATS THREAT OF COAL STRIKE I hreat of Immediate Coal Miner Strike Is Averted By Plea I Washington, July 1 —(U.R>—With i threat of an immediate strike of | 400.000 soft coa) miners lifted, j the joint wage conference of min-1 era and aperatore marked time to- 1 day while congress rushed action j on the Guffey coal MH. The miners will continue at work under a 30-day "armistice" agreed to at a Saturday night confi‘ri'ni i‘ between representatives I of operators, miners and secretary of labor Frances’ Perkins. A previous extension expired at midnight last night. John L. Lewis, president of the I I nited Mine Workers, said in agreeing to the extension that he I was doing so in deference to President Roosevelt's wlthw. Onerators, though not bound by the agreement, were expected to abide by it generally. Duncan Kennedy, chairman of' the operators’ committee, said he , believed operators would adhere i to the agreement. The operators ! previously had proposed a nine j months extension of wage and hour contracts which expired last April 1. and have been thrice extended. The miners hare demanded a 10 per cent wage increase and a reduction of the work week from 3S to 30 hours. Operators refused. I contending the present unsettled status of the indusry would not permit this. Negotiations were expected to be resumed after congress acts on the Guffey bill creating a little ’’NRA" for the coal industry. The bill is supported by the United ■ Mine Workers and some operators. It is on President Roosevelt’s "must" list. Opponents of the measure, led tCONTIWBn ON PAGE FIVE) j ORDER CREOSOTE TO FIGHT BUGS Sixty Drums Are Ordered To Eradicate Chinch Bugs In County An order has been sent to Wash-' ingten by the Adams county chinch j I bug control association for 60 drums 1 of creosote to be used in the fight : to halt the spread of chinch bugs in this community. Adolph Schamerloh ie president of the Adame county chinch bug I control association. Theodore Hobrock is vi -e-preeident and Henry Meyer, secretary. The barrier oil will be unloaded; [in D.’oitur. Ralph Myers of Hartford township will Pike a truck load of drums to his farm for distribution in the south end of the county. Henry Meyer of French township will distribute the oil in the center of the county, and Adolph SchamerJuli of I'nion township in the northern part of ttie county. The remainder will be stored in Decatur. ' Farmers r questing oil will be required to fill an order blank which will gife a description of the farms, cr p ucreag s of small gruin and’ Oth-r chinch bug susceptible crops. Farm*™ must also sign an agreeBent that the oil will be used for no other purpose than in the control of chtiKh bugs. The men who attendee! the first mating ot the association were Gallmeyer, Theodore Hobro k Adolpto Schamerloh, Homer W Arnold. Flunk R. Braun, Kermit Bowen. Henry Meyer, Daniel D. Huffman. William H. Patterson Ralph S. Myers. Harve uneichen and Henry I. Rumple. | — o — Purse Recovered, Money Is Missing A purse valued at S3O. belonging to Mrs H. C. Okeen was recovered Sunday morning when it was found on a sidewalk in the west part of town An undetererained amount of mcrey was massing. Th- c urse wi e stolen by a sneak thief while Mrwere visiting at the T. C. Smith home late Saturday night. It was taken from the front room while the two couples ware in the kitchen. Th (police wore called as soon as :he loss was discovered. The email ead enabled ttMS thief to good th estnpe although a search was inducted until daylight by night jolicemen.

Decatur, Indiana, Monday, July 1, 1935.

Lights In Business Section Out Saturday The street and store lights on the weat side of Second street, between Monroe and Madison streets, and on Madison between Second ' and Third, were off for about 15 minutes Saturday night, between eight and 8.15 o’clock. A fuse In the transformer located in the alley back of the city hall, burned out or was jarred out lof position, causing the circuit to die out M. J. Mylott, superintendent of the electric department, called Arthur Baker, employe who was on duty and in their haste to restore service immediately, picked up the wrong fuses. The mistake was noticed when the men tried to put the fuses in the transformers and another eat Wae obtained, service being resumed in a few minutes. LIQUOR BOARD HEARS THREE Local Beverage Commission Hears Three Applicants Today The local alcoholic beverage 1 board met this morning in the Adams circuit court roam and heard ' petitions of three applicants. The petitions were the Holthouee Drug Co., retuil liquor package dsjler; Paul Briede, beer retailer, and i De atur Country Club liquor, beer and wine permit for retail (purposes. Idem bers of ths local board are Leo Kirsch and D. M. Hower of -ti'-ils ■city and Burr Kelly, ot Huntington, ippointed by the state. Mr. Briede, who has had a license to sell beer in bottlee and by the case, not to be consumed on the prentices, has made petition for a general beer license. He informed the board that be intends to install u lunch counter and hte new petition askc for a permit to oell beer by the glass. The original petition of the Decatur Country club was made out in error. The application filed covered a roadhouse permit An amended petition for n country club license as provided under toe law was filed. It was shown in evidence submitted that the club had a membership of 140, of which 36 were classI ed as social members. Social memI tiers do not belong to the golf club. The meeting was attended by several alcoholic beverage dealers and although the legal notice which was published relative to the hearing i ’’Said investigation will be open to Uhe public and public participation is requrstqed”, no citizen took part ■ in the hearing. The recommendations of the local board will be filed with the state beverage commieaion. o— Submit Contracts Later This Week - ■*■ Group two, three and four corn hog control contracts ure being typed in the county agent’s office and will be submitted to the growers for signing during the latter part ot this week. The listing sheets were received from Purdue University last week. The contracts for group two, three and four, are those in which toere are new contractors or in which the old contractors have in some way changed their base acreage or number of hogs. Group one contracts have been approved by Washington and the cheeks distributed.

Memory Os Lincoln Will Be Honored By Indiana Rockport, Ind., July I.—(U.R>—ln-1 Grigsby married Lincoln’s sister, diana will pay tribute to Abraham Sarah. Lincoln and revivify the formative The home of Daniel Grass, a soyears he spent in Spencer county cial center for the early settlers when the Lincoln pioneer village and distinguished visitors, has been is dedicated here July 4. reconstructed, as well as a blockEnclosed in an old-fashioned i house fort. stockade, the village includes The two-room administration scenes typical of the yearn the building j 8 of the earliest 'type of marytred President resided in this. log ca bin architecture. All the section between 1816 and 1320. houses included in the village have Judge John Pitcher’s law office, furniture typical of the pioneer where Lincoln frequently borrowed period books after waiting 17 miles, is in-| Two we „ B are 10cated jn the eluded. The pioneer church where er den 0 „ e , s equipped Thomas Lincoln and hh. wife. wlndlaß3 and the other with Nancy Hanks Lincoln, worshipped is a prominent feature. wa3 {rOm Rochpor f t a to wn of During the pageant p anned for p s , tw L|n . the dedication, Lincoln willsell I & out for New molasses and calico in the rco rle , ns !or the first .time in a flat structed store of WilHam Janesl At Orleang he gaw hig which was located in | flm s]avg marßet Lincoln Walked two and Reconstruction of the village miles to and from wort .each day accompiißhed by tbe Spencer and received 30 cant* a day so. his CoUnty llistor!ca! Society with the labor. cooperation of the governor's comAnother Gentryville • ™cture in- . „ nemßl t relief eluded in the village is the Reuben | yJUa cover 9 a foU r-acre Grigsby cooper f * here tract in the wooded sector of SpenThomas an d Abraham Linco n The structures were worked. The Grigsbys and Liu-1 coins were neighbors and Aaron i (CONTINLISL ON PAGE TWO) 1 I

START CHECK-UP HERE THIS WEEK — AAA Sugar Beet Benefit Payment Check-up To Be Held Here 1 The connMiaace check-up for the ’ AAA sugar beet benefit payments ’ will begin in the Decatur Factory 1 district some time this week, the 1 sugar beet production control assoelation line announced. Tlie Decatur factory district includes those counties in Indiana ! ond Ohio In which the growers are under contract to the Central sugar company of this city. E. W. Busche of Monroe has been elected compliance director and it will be his duty to ascertain the correctness of field measurements and direct the sign-up for compliance. Mr. Busche has stated that it will be necessary for ail sugar beet producers and landlords to sign the • compliance forms just as they had signed tlhe contract. Until this is done, the producers and landlords can not expect the balance of the 1934 crop ipayment nor the advanced ■ 1935 payment. The board in a meeting at the 1 ■ county agent’s office here recenetly set up the budget for the fiscal year ■ beginning July 1, 1935. Sugar beets in this district lapI' p<ar to be one of the best craps in ■ ’ many years. The beets have flourished in the rainy spring. Unless i there is an unexpected change in t".ie weather the growers expect a , bumpr crop. o Raymond A. Conroy Killed In Accident. i I Raymond A. Conroy, 39. of Lima, I wi s killed in an auto aceident Sat- . urday night at Findlay, Ohio., Mr. Conroy was a brother of Harold Conroy, formerly of this city . and of the Rt. Rev. Msgr. Thomas M. Conroy, both of Fort Wayne. . j Conroy’s car struck a telegraph I j pole. He wijs riding alone and was , I killed instantly. PAY HONOR TO BISHOP NOLL [ i ' Local Holy Name Members Take Part In Service At Fort Wayne Nearly 100 men from this city marched in the Holy Name parade in F-irt Wayne Sunday afternoon from the Cathedral ot the Immacubte Conception to the St. Vincent’s 1 orphan Villa, north of Fort Wayne where services were held. The parade was part of the all day program honoring the tenth anniversary of the consecration of I the Most Rev. John F. Noll, D. D„ i as bisijop of Fort Wayne. The Decatur delegation was second in line of march, St. Mary’s II Catholic parish being the second . ■ oldest congregation in the Fort ■! Wayne diocese. The local delegation was one of ( the largest In the parade. The chairmen were Lee Ulmin, president of ■ the Holy Name society and M. J. Mylott. Father Joseph Seimetz, ipae-1 i tor and Father Joseph Hennes, as-1 > i sistant pastor of St. Mary’s church ] 1 attended toe services.

House Downs “Death Sentence" Provision In Utilities Measure; Result Is Rebuff To Roosevelt

STATE POLICE SHAKEUP MADE Sweeping Reorganization I Is Announced By New Superintendent Indianapolis, July I—<1 —< <U.R) —A , sweeping reorganization ot the | state police department was an-1 nounced today as "general order I No. 1” of the new state police board. The changes were announced by Donald F. Stiver, Goshen, new superintendent of state police* and were made on his recommen- , dations. Two new lieutenants were appointed. Their Sergt. Walter | Mentzer. Fort Wayne, In charge of the second district with head- . quarters at the Lafayette barracks, and Don Franklin, Spencer, former sergeant who has been on leave of absence to work for the excise police force. Lieut. Ray Fiecher, in charge 1 of the northern district barracks 1 at Ligonier and Michigan City, was reappointed. Another lieutenant will be appointed later, Stiver said. Acting Sergeant A. C. Davidk son, Paoli, was made a full ser- ‘ geant at the Anderson barracks and Sergt. Arthur Kellar, Plymouth, was advanced to the detective rank. Lieut. Chester A. Butler. Indi- ’ anapolis. and Sergt. Ernest Pearce Indianapolis, were demoted to ' patrolmen. Stiver eaid Butler was ■ (CONTINirED ON PAGE FIVE) I o FERA Classes Take Vacation This Week — Mrs. Violet Myers will not meet ' her FERA classes at Decatur or j Bobo this week because of the July I 4 vacation. The Bobo class will 1 meet July 10 and the Decatur claes I will meet July 11. Junior C. of C. Meetings Tonight The board of directors of the Decatur Junior Chamber ot Commerce will meet this evening at the Rice Hotel. Plans and preparations for the WLS barn dance show will be made. Fred Musser and Mildred Acker, co-chairmen of the ticket committee for the Wild Oats; Ball to be sponsored by the club, have announced a meeting of their committee tote evening at 7:30 o’clock at the Rice Hotel. Members of this committee are: Pete Mylott, Dick Schug, Bernice Close, Ethel Shady and Ina Andereon. Pau! Hancher. chairman of the publicity committee, has called a meeting at the Rke Hotel at 7:30 o'clock. ORDER GARBAGE DUMPING HALTED — City Ordinance Against | Garbage Dumping Will Be Enforced Dunitping of garbage at the city dump on North Second street, is against the law and will not tie tolerated, health and city officials announced today. Citizens in the neighborhood of the dumping grounds complain of the stench from the garbage and decaying vegetable (matter dumped i t the lot. Healto and city officials threatened prosecution of those who insisted on using the grounds tor garbage disposal and vegetable or animal matter. For several years the city has been filling in the grounds, formerly 'an old stone quarry, near the river bank. Permit to dump refuse, dirt, tin cans and soil In the old quarry bed, must be obtained from Ralph Roop, civil works commtesioner, or from the man in charge at the grounds. The city wishes to eliminate the unsightly appeiinance of tlhe iplace as much as passible and officials and employes seek the cooperation l of the public in the matter. . n F The ordinance forbidding f dumping of garbage and such re ’’•’J l will be enforced, city health'” oUl> of 'itles decJaw d. Park c ?J s 3

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Story Winner | 7'* Js Miss Winona Fleming, Decatur high school graduate, won the Northern Province prize of $25. awarded by the Psi lota XI, for the best short story written in a contest sponsored by sorority chapters in northern Indiana. Miss Fleming also won first prize awarded by the local chapter of Psi lota Xi on her story, "I looks up in Heaven.” It was written in negro dialect and contained about 5,000 words. TRUSTEES HOLD MONTHLY MEET Trustees Will Allow Poor Relief Claims In The Future In conform m e with the new law . tlhe county commissioners this week are approving the last poor relief bills to be filed with them. Claims filed for orders received this month will be with the township trustees. Checks will be written by the county auditor as usual. Cziims will not be advertised. The trustees in their regular monthly meeting today stressed one feature of the new program. All bilte must be filtd with toe trustees on the first and second days of the month for the calendar month immediately preceding. If this is not done the claims can not be allowed as the new law prevents township trustees paying bills more thfan a month old. Specific orders from trustees must be obtained before goods can be purchased. New order blanks have been prepared. The blanks give the amount of goods to be purchased, the unit price, and toe total price. Food, fuel and clothing only are listed on these blanks. A new form has also been prepared so rmedical care. The law requires that orders be obtained before any money can be allowed by the trustees. These blanks are very specific, giving the amount of attention and the cause, for the first call. Physicians will be furnished with auxiliary blanks which may be attached to tloe original blank for each call made fter the first 15 days. At the expration of this time the trustee will give a new order if necessary. In case of an emergency a physician is permitted to use his own judgment. However, he must file a claim within 24 hours. The trustees also discussed the (CONTINUED ON PAGE FIVE) O Plan More Lights At City Park Lot Additional lights will be strung over the city’s free parking lot on South First street, Mayor Holthouse announced todajr. A string of lights will be placed near the soutn entrance and along the east side ot the lot. More than 109 cars were parked on the lot Saturday night. A little difficulty resulted two cars were parked in the south driveway, while John Smith, attendant was busy guiding traffic at the north endX iLtorists are asked to observe rules at the lot, leavs open to traffic The lot has t ' kle " lac * cau a'o ' A 1 ° it everaane D VWke«imi H 0

Holding Company Bill Is Bitterly Debated In Lower House To Packed Galleries. VOTE 216-146 Washington, July 1— (U.P) The house today rebuffed President Roosevelt in his demand for a mandatory "death sentence” for “unessential” utilities holding companies. The vote was 216 to 146. Before packed galleries the I house, wftnoui recording the vote lof individual members, defeated ian effort to insert the senate I "death sentence" provision in the I less drastic house utilities bill. The vote was counted by tellers who did not record the names of individual representatives as they showed their preference. Defeat of the “death sentence” cam after direct pleas by Mr. Roosevelt that it be enacted. The house was tense with excitement as debate proceeded. Galleries were jammed. The vote was not a record one. although President Roosevelt 6Dd administration leaders made clear that they regarded the issue as the most important to come before this session of congress. Representatives simply passed by tellers who counted the total for and against the "death sentence” without recording any names. The house reached the "death i sentence" issue less than an hour after assembling at the early hour of 10 a. m. An amendment to vest powers to simply holding companies in the federal power commission instead of the securities and exchange commission was withdrawn by Rep. James Wadsworth, R„ N. Y., who explained he felt it was unnecessary. Another amendment by Rep. , Harry Sauthoff, P. Wis„ to give all utilities stockholders the same voting rights was defeated over(CONTINTTED ON PAGE SIX' 0 Rural Mail Carriers Have Longer Routes The rural mail carriers today left the Decautr post office at 7:45, 15 minutes earlier tlba nusual. This was done because of the consolida- ' tion of the routes from seven to six today. The added mileage will reqquire more time to cover tlhe routes. No Truant Officer In Adams County The township trustees in their regular meeting this (morning in County Superintendent of School Clifton E. Striker’s office voted to conthiae to dispense with a -■•unty ■truant officer. The county hlis been wibhovt such an officer for the last two yeans. Mr. Striker, ns county superintendent of schools, will continue to act as truant officer. MANY DEATHS OVER WEEK-END 5 Auto Accidents, Drown1 ings And Prostrations Take Many Lives Indianapolis, July 1. — (U.P1 —The summer violent deaXh toll in Indiana spurted upward again over the t week-end as result of auto accidents. drownings and prostration' < ; Donald Morse, 18, Caraly i City, drowned while swimA -a creek north of his home. % ; Traffic accident victims A > ed Donald (Chick) Williams* Fort Wayne; Robert Patton,\ English, and Albert Reinbach, 1 j i Indianapolis. \ , Guy Asbury, 20, Sullivan countA , succumbed to the heat while work-\ , ing in a field. \ Mrs. Alice Fowler, 81, In 'W olia, died of a heart at !a;Z t// ana c .,l waiting Tn the hot sun tor P ■ car. X / * * (r eet A man tentativeW’*M l o : Robert Parson, y. e< ? i Ky., was i traTh at MuniX, ‘° Q i , Al a,., * ' 021 BHhsviperind'W' " *jj rnTshD