Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 33, Number 160, Decatur, Adams County, 8 July 1935 — Page 1

01. XXXIII. No. 160.

t/ueyXong Obtains | Off His Home State

Suisiana Legislature .05 , „ HL r . ates Autocratic Gov;*®<rn ment By Passing Bills. 3 Si ~~ |’\SS 25 BILLS le .Mt Rogue. La.. July 8 (U.RV ~ L.KH Hii.v I’. Ixing’s Louisiana K3^8 U ..,.. odav the motif K r;l n, government in Anioriins'ory. railroading 25 I/mgarts into law in 58 a of a midnight session. under protection of sixmartial law, the senabolished municipal r|inii b throughout the state >ne ■\,. l/ ,. 1 l control over the jobs w school teachers and if CiiS&sßi public job-holder in the one f,„ the dictu'or's patronage

B days, when the now laws Bnte effective. Long Wrill bo ■. almost alwolute monarch of ■state in which he was born in Hrty in a back country cabin, political machine he rules Knit check will collect and K taxe- of a ” vities< n,n :he school system, hire and Halmo.d every public jobholder state and hold in its hands election machinery. of the 25 bills rushed Keh the senate between 12:15 I| ((’ST) and 1:14 a. m.. when h.inso'd the third special Sfilla'ivo session of 1935 out of will almost kill the Orleans old regular faction, only effective opposition five years. a Ixmc-controlled s ate con’rol over 5.000 city civil employes, including clerks H? office iif Mayor T. Seinmes y and assistants of disattorney Eugene Stanley. It transfers to state control and disbursement of Orleans gasoline and liquor almost the city’s last resources of revenue. The ■ in fact. las' bill was deleted from ■ ■ secretary'.: the Kingfish noisily anAsking for the acting leaibr at the senate's las .d lo ’ 'is Sunday night 'Tell 1-iin to have bill ÜB l ’ r.-tiirii.d calendar «■ it lontes up f,,r advancentiiizi let i’ die on the cal||B The bill would have re--181 ra. firm not domiLettish;.pay SI,OOO fees on all jobs over sen:,'. as .!• mrmjglit as poeaiopened Long's d ; r. .tion on Indeday. The el. rk read bill tit*' iham pu. (p,, question. 1 "' sena’e vu.-d -35 yes, Mm hHL risplenib nt in a lavender i.\ p\GE FIVE)

Committee To Meet Tonight ! wwutlve committee of the ar Cha mber of Commerce, In r arra ngeni?nts for the De Street Fa ir and agricul■Xll'i,. will mee j j n re g.j] ar ? session at the Rjpe W£l n| ng at s o clock. All memJ to be present. ,Y COMPLAINTS )V FR COLLECTION “ r Ci,i «"» File Complaint* Relative to Collection W Garbage with the I im v , a Martin - city councilHatii >W Holthause by clth'e,tothe collection of gar-1 to F.J.Schw4 B n'I e ; h ontract for garJ *° n 4 the city. «tiS P i! inta Were reoe lved ■ Cr T N: rlh Tenth li. Th, , * TPn “® and other |iu o Was ° n - nJctor W*S called tto Pick “b* the B : TartL , ’ anrß at the c «y Kby collector can be Mr g . 313 ’ Mrs - E i d ei,t5 ® iber r nids Errand " t eXt “ onth f,)r E« WI wm 1 13 ikely that | “ the l«3s^Jntra7t Veral :

DECATUR DAILY DEMOCRAT

‘ Farmer-Lalmr Chief * itfSHMTri J s x 2K j|||aglL Jwv w t gaga Roy M. Harrop is chairman of the national Fanner-Labor party which is holding its convert'ion in Omaha, July 8-12. WHEAT PAYMENT TO BE LARGER 1935 Adjustment Payments To Be At Least 33 Cents A Bushel Washington. July B—(UP8 —(UPJ —The 1935 adjustment (payments will be at 1 ast 33 cents a bushel on allotments of cooperating farmers as compared with 1934 minimum payments of 29 cents a bushel, the agricultural adjustment administration announced today. N> change has be?n made for the present in the .processing tux rate of 30 cents a bushel. Administrator Chester C. Dtvis said “This increase of four cents a bushel for tbs 1935 allotments represents additional inome to cooperating wheat producers of ai; proximately $14,000,000. “Under the new payment schedule products wil Ireeeive adjustment payments on their 1935 wheat allotments of at least $115,000,000." The 1935 payments will be made in two installments, George E. Farrell. director of the division of grains said. The first, which Is payable os son as compliance with contracts is the ked. will be at the rate f 20 cents a bushel on allotments. Th- final payment will be made when local administrative costa for the fiscal year 1935-26 have been determined and deductions made. “The second installment may be increased above 13 cents if the difference between th avenge farm price and the wheat parity price for the current market year is more than 33 cents a bushel.” Farrell said.

STATE TAX MAN HERE SATURDAY Gross Income Tax Division Agent To Assist In Returns

Dee Fryback, manager of the Decatur state auto license branch, announced today that field agent Earl Miller of the Indiana gross income tax division will be stationed at the license branch Saturday, July 13, from S to 10 a. m„ for the purpose of assisting gross income tax payers in filing returns. The final date for paying gross income tax for the second quarter of 1935 is July 15. Persons who filed no returns covering income for the first quarter of the year will file a single return on income received for the six-nionth period from January 1 to June 30. Exemption of $250 may be deducted from income for the second quarter before computing the tax due. while an exemption of SSOO is allowed for the slx-montlr period. The state field agent will be In Decatur primari'y to assist taxpayers who have unusual problems In connection with filing their returns properly, Mr. Fryback said. Regu- . lar service is available at tho | license branch every day.

TREASURY HEAD IN TESTIMONY TO COMMITTEE Morgenthau Urges TaxRich Proceeds To Cut Public Debt Washington* July 8— (U.R) — Secretary of Treasury Henry Morgenthau. Jr., at the outset of hearings today on the president's program, declared the proposed new revenues should be earmarked directly for reduction of the mounting public debt. He said it would be "perilous” to u«e .the proceeds to meet new government expenditures. Morgenthau. first witness In hearings before the house ways and means committee, failed to recommend any specific rates for proposed higher income taxes and inheritance levies, but said the treasury hoped "substantial” revenue could be raised from these sources. He. like the president, left it up to the committee to decide whether upper middle-class brackets should be taxed heavier to produce additional revenue. He indicated the treasury had no objection to congress going ahead with a program that would hit the well-to-do in addition to millionaires.

Committee leaders have diecussed a program to yield $300,000.000 or more yearly. It was believed that would require larger levins on the well to do, as well as on the very rich. Morgenthau’s appearance definitely s’arted congress on the politically explosive job of trying to draft a .tax the rich bill which would be acceptable to both left and right wing .members and could be passed this session. Morgen’hau said that the primary interest of the treasury in the legislation, which has definite .social aspects, “rela.es to the ; revenue which it may raise." "There is a national duty,” he ' reminded, “to avoid tax laws which produce undesirable social eonsesiHenewti and a Ilka, duty. la (CONTINUED ON PAGE FIVE) HOLD HEARING ON LIQUOR LAW Arguments On Anti-Road-house Section Scheduled Today Michigan City, ■lnd., July B.—<U.R) —Arguments against the anti-road-house 'section of the 1935 liquor law. already declared uncoiuututlonal by one court in Laporte county; were Scheduled today before Judge Russell Smith, in Laporte superior court. The hearing was on petition of Theodore Herbach. representing a group of rural tavern proprietors, f r a permanent injunction prohibiting enforcement of the section. Herbach was granted a temporary restraining order by Judge Smith July 1. Arguments elted in his suit were recognized by special Judge Earl j Rowley in Laporte city court last week when he ruled tire anti-road- j house section of the law is discriminatory, providing unconstitutional police power.. Appeal of the city court decision is certain. Excise department officials have ■ announced that the supreme court! would be asked to rule on all sec-, tions of the law which are ruled against in lower courts. Raids on rural taverns continued over the week end. Three places in Marion county, two of them elaborate establishments, were raid-, ed and proprietors and guests arrested. Proprietors of the Tress, north-1 west of Indianapolis, were charg-| ed with serving set-ups and nine; guests were arrested on charges of I carrying liquor into an unlicensed establishment. Proprietors of the Chateau Lido, northeast of Indianapolis, were; charged with serving liquor and j setups. I Fine'S and imprisonment are pro-; vided in the law as penalty for the violations. —O" —— State Road 124 Will Be Oiled The state highway department announced today that state road 124 will be oiled for a stretch two mike west of the Ohio line. The rood will also be oiled from U. S. highway 27 to the Adams-Wells county line, a distance of six miles.

ONLY DAILY NEWSPAPER IN ADAMS COUNTY

Decatur, Indiana, Monday, July 8, 1935.

Judge Names Three To Berne Library Judge Huber M, DeVoss today named three members of the Berne Public Library board, which recently was offcanized. The members aue E. M. Ray, three years; Mrs. C. H. Musselman, two years, and Elizabeth Meuhauser, one year. According to law the Berne school board will name two members ajid the Berne town board will select the remaining two. The subscription list of $588.70 for which nearly halt had already been collected was approved by Judge DeVoss. MONROE WOMAN IS PAIDHOHOR Mrs. Nettie Busche Honored For Service To Fraternal Society A gold emblematic pin was recently awarded to Mrs. Nettie A. Busche, rural route No. 2, Monroe, Ind., by Royal Neighbors of America, fraternal benefit society, in recognition of her record of serving 26 years as recorder ot Camp No. 3340. Royal Neighbors of America, of Monroe. Mrs. Btrnche has served continuously as recorder of Camp No. 3340 since 1909. The award is one of merit and signifies faithful service in behalf of the socie'y, which has 600,000 members. The pin, which is slightly smaller than a quarter in eize, is attrao’ively designed. It is decorated with the emblem of the society, which is surrounded by a book and wreath, all of which is penetrated by a quill, the latter being significant of the work of the camp recorder. The inscription "Faithful Service" is above the emblem and the word "Recorder" is below the emblem. A letter of congratulation and appreciation was sent to Mrs. Busche by Miss Erna M. Barthel of Rock Island, 111., supreme recorder of Royal Neighbors of America. In the letter Miss Barthel skated: “The award means moYe than the fact that you have served a certain number of years r as camp recorder. In a larger sense it means that you have had a definite part in the progress of Royal Neighbors of America. The society has grown steadily, now ranking as one of the leading fra J iternal benefit societies, and camp recorders have been an important factor in this advancement. With this in mind, it is with a deep sense of gratitude that the society recognizes your services.” 0 Junior C. C. Dance At Country Club

The Wild Oats ball to be sponsored by the Decatur Junior Chamber of Commerce will be held at the Decatur Country Club on Thursday. July 11, it was announced today by Miss Dora Shosenberg, chairman of the committee on arrangements.. The members of the board of directors of the club will also meet at the Rice Hotel at 7 o’clock. Matters pertaining to tTie WLS show will be discussed. Members of the ticket committee will meet at the Rice Hotel Tuesday eventing at 7:30 o’clock. o BROADEN PROBE OF LOBBYING House Committee to Delve Deeper Into Utilities Lobbying Washington, July 8 —(UP) — Chairman Jahn J. O'Connor of the house rules committee today pre-. pared resolutions broadening the; house inquiry into utilities lobbying by giving the rules committee power to subpoena and $50,000 to prosecute the investigation. O’Connor said he would introduce his resolutions today or tomorrow, when the rules committee hearing j is expected to begin. The decision I to enlarge the house investigation came during a day of rapid develop-1 ments in the utilities situation. The highlights: 1. Representative John E. Rankin, D. Miss., charged that O’Connor’s inquiry would be a "white wash" and th it utilities lobbyists tapped congressional and possibly White House wires. 2. The house stated consideration of T. V. A. amendments. 3. Representative Donald McLean R., New Jersey, demanded congressional investigation of TVA before passing the legislation. 4. Senate (prepared to vote on questions of sending utilities holding company bill to conference.

TERRIFIC RAIN STORMS BRING DEATHTOSCORE New York State Suffers Most Disastrous Floods In Years By United Press Terrific mldoummer rainstorms spread the most disastrous floods of many years ithrough areas of New York state today, causing possibly a score ot deaths, driving hundreds from their lowland homes, marooning countless travelers on highways and railroads and piling up millions of dollars in property damage. The most severe floods appeared to center in the Ithaca region, where the death toll was heaviest and where weakening dams and bridges ithreatened to intensify the peril -to residents. One refugee at the nearby village of Trumansburg reported the town “practically wiped out” with one woman known drowned and other

residents taking refuge on a nearby hilltop. Eight to ten persons were reported dead in or near I haca. Four apparently were dead in an automobile washed from the highway north of Ithaca. Two were known dead and five others reported dead at or near Binghamton. Thousands of acres were inundated. Several trains and countless automobiles and buses were marooned. Airplanes surveyed the flood region after relief par ies had failed to penetrate highways into the most seriously affected region. Communication lines also were out or crippled. Two bridges and a dam in the Ithaca area were reported in danger of collapsing if the strain of flood water continued. One bridge adjoins .the Cornell University campus. Hundreds of houses and cottages were partly inundated and perhaps 150 cottages were carried away by the raging waters. Scattered reports listed the (CONTINUED ON PAGE FIVE) O ANNUAL SCHOOL REPORT GIVEN

County Superintendent Striker Makes Annual Report The school children in Adams county each year ride a total of 200.660 miles in school buses, equivalent, to approximately four trips around the world, according .to the annual financial and statistical report announced by Clifton I E. Striker, county superintendent | of schools, today. The report shows! that the total enrollment for the grade schools in Adams county during the last two terms of school was 2,074. The enrollment by .‘ownships was: Blue Creek. 147; French. I 177: Hartford. 176; Jefferson. 136 , Kirkland. 173; Monroe. 381; ; j Preble, 76; Root, 114; St. Mary’s. ! '232; Union. 97; Wabash, 405, and! Washington, 136. Rural high schools had an en . rollment of 527 pupils as follows: ' j Jefferson. 68; Kirkland. S 3; Monroe, 118; Root, 52; St. Mary's, 82, and Wabash, 124. The enrollmen,’ by grades was: first, 284; second. 250; third, 243; fourth. 276; fifth, 236; sixth, 272; seventh, 261; eighth. 252; freshmen, 34; sophomore, 27; junior, 46. and senior, 17. The nun.ber of bus routes, the number of pupils hauled by buses, and the total miles the pupils carried in buses were: Blue Creek two routes, 52 pupils, 84.5 miles: ! French, two rou.’es, 56 pupils, 98 miles; Hartford, seven routes, 205 pupils, 194 miles; Jefferson, five routes, 174 pupils, 145 miles; Kirkland, no routes; Monroe, three (CONTINUED ON PAGE TWO) O— Serve Fish Supper At Elks Wednesday Fish supper will be served by the Decatur lodge of the B. P. O. Elks at the borne on North Second street Wednesday evening at 6:30 | o’clock. All members are urged to 1 attend. Price of the supper will be 25 cents per plate. o WEATHER Somewhat unsettled tonight and Tuesday; showers Tuesday, north; slightly warmer Tuesday.

Traffic Accidents Take Many Lives In Nation; Scores Os Others Are Reported Injured

FIRST COUNTY ALLOTMENT OF FEDERAL FUNDS Adams County Allotted $52,735 Under Work Relief Program Adams county has been allotted $52,735 by the Works Progress Administration which supercedes the FERA. according to an unofficial dispatch from Washington. Local FERA officials had received no confirmation on the report this morning. FERA officials here this morning were at a loss to explain a recreation project of $12,222 approved for Adams county in the announcement. No request had been made for this money through the regular channels. According to the dispatch the funds for the recreition project are to be divided as follows: “$12,222, federal, (of which $12,066 is for labor, $156 for items not specified). Some local agency is to pay $988.” It is possible that this project may come under the new educational program planned by President Roosevelt for unemployed young men and women from the ages of 16 to 25. This program is for the local communities and will be for the mental and physical improvement of underprivileged young people. Allen county was the only other county in northeastern Indiana for which such a project was approved, j Allen county is to receive $37,510 | in federal funds and is to raise $1,644.20 locally. FERA officials here have receiv--1 ed no word as to wndh the new ! relief program is to begni. At the present they are operating under the oW FERA plan. The five other projects approved represent six requests. The countv road porject was made into two projects, one for the repainting of county bridges and the oth;er tor the repair of secondary | roads. These projects may employ 104 men. An additional allotment of S9BO was announced this afternoon for the installation of the new ornamental lighting system on Second street in Decatttr. Six other projects were requested which would employ 144 men. This would put a total of 258 men to work if all were approved. The five projects approved are: Adams county secondary road improvement, $20,364 Federal (of which $17,896 is for labor and $468 for other items not specified, $lB,130 loca’, 30 men. Berne sidewalk construction, $3,744 Federal (of which $3,354 is for I labor and $390 for items not specified), $3,399 local, 12 men. Decatur sidewalk construction, (CONTINUED ON PAGE FOUR) ' — —o —t-

UTILITIES LAW IS UNDER FIRE Law Aiding Municipal Utilities Under Attack In Peru Court Peru, ilnd., July B—(UP)—Suit to test the validity of the 1935 law permitting municipal utilities to extend their facilities beyond the city I'mits was scheduled to open in Miami Circuit court today. The suit, filed by the Traction Light and Power Co., against the Peru electric plant, asked a restraining order to prohibit the Municipal plant from serving several small towns in this vicinity. The city plant .has been serving consumers in Bunker Hill, Miami, Bennets Switch and several other small communities within Miami county. The traction company alleges the extension of service is illegal because the city hid not first obtained the permission from the Public Service Commission, and that the act is unconstitutional because it infringes on its rights as a ipublic utility serving in the same district. The city contends that under the 1935 act it has the right to extend its service to the county line with-1 (CONTINUED ON PAGE TWO) '

I Her Prince Charming _ ' ' _ t Aw z Ji ft L -x. £ “Prince charming" for Grace Bradley, screen star, is Frank Prince, radio singer, whom she is to wed at an early date. STATE POLICE SCHOOL OPENS

Indiana’s First Police Training School Opens Today Indianapolis, July 8. —(U.PJ—lndiana's first state police training school opened at the state fair--1 grounds today with 78 recruits registered for a one-month course of instruction. With a rigid training schedule ahead and army-like discipline and; routine in effect, the recruits, assemebled fr. m all p rte of the state, started a course of instruction to equip them for positions on the highway and criminal patrols. Os the 78 recruits who started the training period, 50 *lll be chosen to begin one-year probation appoints to the regular police forces early next month. Twenty-four will be placed on the highway patrol to enforce motor vehicle laws and make bus and truck inspections. The remajning 26 will be placed on the force as regular police officers. The school will, be conducted under the direction of Lieut. Donald Kooken. a former army lieutenant and department of justice investigator, and Sergt. Bine Plunkett, of the regular army. All recruits were registered this morning by Sergt. Bine Plunkett, each being given training school uniforms and other equipment. They will be housed in a dorm-

(CONTINUED ON PAGE FIVE) OPENING UNION SERVICES HELD Rev. Sundermann Delivers Sermon At First Sunday Night Union Service The first in the series of union evangelistic services was held Sunday evening with a large audience attending. A splendid message was delivered by the Rev. M. W. Suudermann on the story of the lame man at the gate beautiful. The speaker challenged the audience by calling attention to the fact that if a lame man could .praise God for restoration ot bodily vigor, then the potentialities of healthy vigorous Christians of Decatur would be unbounded if dedicated to wholesome Christian service. Splendid gospel singing characterized the opening of the service. The Franklin sisters also sang a quartet number. Services next Sunday evening will be held at the I First M. E. church, with the Rev. G. O. Walton delivering the sermon. I

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Seventy - Eight Persons Are Killed In (Many Highway Accidents Throughout Nation. FOUR IN CANADA (By United Press) Seventy eight pennons in 21 states met death on .’he highways over the week-end and scores of others were injured, many critically. Four more were killed in Canada. Two train-automobile wrecks, one in Indiana and the other in Missouri, resulted in death to five persons each. Five were killed when their automobile crashed into a St. Louis-San Francisco train at Kennett, Mo . and three men and two young women died when their machine was struck by a New York Central train at Chesterton, Ind. Four Detroit baseball fans, en route to the all-star game at Cleveland, died in a crash at. Bono, O. Ten died in accidents in Pennsylvania. A carnival truck and trailer slid off the road on a steep incline in Kittanning, killing two, and geight others lost their lives in the state.

Difference between low gear and reverse sent four women to their deaths over a 40-foot cliff along the ocean’s edge near San Diego. Calif., and resulted indirectly in the death of a fit h person, a mechanic dispatched to rescue their car. Three of the women were from Massachusetts and the fourth from San Diego. Two young women from Chicago, on the first evening of their summer vacation, burned to death (CONTINUED ON PAGE FIVE) o ' Filling- Station Robbed Saturday The H. F. King filling station, three miles south of Berne was robbed early Saturday morning when two men entered the etation end removed a box of merchandise and 'in automobile clock. Three men drove into the filling station and ordered 10 gallons of gasoline. One man remained in the car while the two others entered the station and removed the articles. • Ethel Gaffer Files New Divorce Action A suit for divorce was filed today by Ethel Gaffer against Edwin Gaffer. Grounds for the divorce were given as cruel and inhuman treatment. Two similar cases have been filed. One was dropped'several months ago. The second was dropped today when the new action was tiled. Applications for a restraining order, suit money and alimony w T ere also filed. RICHESTMAN 96 YEARS OLD John D. Rockefeller, Sr., Observes 96th Birthday Today Lakewood, N. J.. July B—<U.R8 —<U.R> — John D. Rockefeller, Sr., was 96 today and given a better chance than in years to realize his hope of living .to be 100. Celebrating not at all, he entered his 97th year with 19 of his original teeth and a new health practice in his strict regime — Binging. The oil king's venture into singing for his 100-year mark or more was an intimate glimpse of the closely guarded multi-millionaire revealed by the enthusiasm of Dr. Vanderhoef M. Disbrow. The veteran Lakewood doctor said Rockefeller was in better heaVh than for many years. He is in retirement from' the heat on his 500 acre estate, in usual cautious flight from extremity ot temperature, he arrived June 14 from his Florida estate. Soon ho will go to his huge feudal estate, at Pocantlco Hills, N. Y. His routine almost unvarying, the wizened little wealthies’ man goes tor an automobile ride on fair Idays, swathed in linen duster and cap. Otherwise he Is seldom seen. (CONTINUED ON PAGE FIVE)