Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 33, Number 166, Decatur, Adams County, 15 July 1935 — Page 1

XXXIII. No. 166.

Ingress may Ibebel against I PASSING BILLS [■entment Smoldering Continuing I in Session -'"'y - , ongressional rcsentMff . lt postponement of nd • forth today in a Jeering detnonstra|M( '. p,, .. ntative Braswell u ho demanded that and go home . to plead for llt adioiirnment shortly Joseph W. Byrns M a guarded foreeast of adK,.,; le. August 20 if Presl l; . tax program tie things up. , ~tigress , to a speedy close, fll. , loud and lustily KE ,pont.ineotH outburst by of both parties. or more nteinK&L (ongr<-- who are sick in or homes." Deen and well." . served to boar [ K u: liens made with frerecently that congress rev.ll' suddenly against any more bills if the sesEL nd soon brought to an Seek Revision ■ wAhington. July 15 — (U.R) — fcp> L a- -a o - and means com-1 gave strong indlca’ion to-, K| | ri.iv sharply revise the 1 ailtninis ration pressure Roosev.lt was said authority to desire the Kj jfoerain be pushed through : . Rwjß-- before business oppnsi- | > gathering has time Ejir. bill strength. Action on I has been delayed in MK. S.IV- and !:.•■ u; commit-, writ.- tax bill.' la’e week or early ■Htl No other branch of the I tn.'it, has sen*, a tax bill to | hill and "we don’t want ' ,H|Klituii denied that adjourn PAGE SIX) ~ lone; MAN DIES |W BERNE SUNDAY KU«| Price Dies Sunday Evening B ■At Home In Berne Os I Rare Disease P’ i,. , died Sunday H| at the home - M.ii'i.i follow d , two years 1 ' Hslakins disel v»e. No 1 "■ Ji" aee ar.- recorded .autient has been cured, was in Fessenden. February 28, 1910 a if■ end M rtlia N<-uen-r-l’ri. H . ( O Berne ago and was employed Furniture company. mother and the B 8 *?' ! r -' "nd sisters: LawHirniark, North Dakota: High Point, North CarolWilliam Price and Mrs. Schindler of Berne. The ’■pl '' ' " il "’ rs a,,( l ‘-ieti rs E**J F ' (1 him in death. ari.itig..,n(.nm have, i coniplet.d. |^ RY BUSCHE TO H AT MILFORD ... You "S Man Accepts Posi ' As Teacher At Milford I High School ESC Rusche, son of Mr. and tTI" " Husehe, 109 South ElevBgW !r "'t. has accepted a posiMilford high school as ■SWI !' f h ’ B, ‘>ry and director of

fee •, Rl , ISrhf ‘ fs a graduate of township grade and Monroe high school 'lass of 1930. He took Kit, degree at Indiana CenJassX , ep ' '"'lianapolis. with the , rna i or 'ng in mtwic |3?', 8 . h , returi > c d to the 1 Kt a uJ? 1 ,0 maJor in his - l e at the school last eeft ®e director of the 'RL , At present he is Krßt of Or fh he college as a con ? he ,nd >ana Central •BBro , r ' quartPt - andV , Populati °n of 800 VawL fa 10Cated of Ul i t inKosc| u«l<ocount V s trustee ° f the Which Mr. Busche

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Will Entertain Orphan Children The American Legion Auxiliary i has announced that other persons than members of toe organization i who wish to take children from the I Knightstown home for a week or I two vacation, may do so. The children's vacations will take place in ■ August. Each year mem be re of the auxiliary entertain children from the home and this year, persons not I toembera of the organization have signified their deeires to entertain tihe boys and girls. Anyone wishing to do eo may notify Mrs. V. J. Bormann. BANK REPORT FILED TODAY Fourth Current Report of Old Adams County Bank Is Filed The fourth current report tiled by C. J. Lutz, special representative for the Old Adams County Bank I in the Adams circuit court shows l that the inventory assets have de- [ creased from 1566,263.50 on DecentIber 31, 1934, to 1452,287.76 on June : 30, 1935, a decrease of $113,975.74, A distribution April 8. 1935 of 1 24 per eent upon the amount of deposits in the bank when it closed amounted to $113,942.97. A profit and loss sheet on the assets compromised during the I time of the current report was as follows: Mortgage loans, $8,989.97; personal loans, $35,330.93; miscel'aneous loans, $28,850; interest, $248, : total, ♦’i3.418.90. Cash received, $23,203.15; bonds, $6,575; real estate taken over. $4,1000; loss on compromise, $39,640.75, and to al $73,418.90. Twenty thousajid dollars of the miscellaneous loans compromised i were in stock of the Old Adams i County Bank left unsold after the reorganization, making the actual : amount of assets compromised, $53,418.90. The amount .’eft on I assets compromised other than the treasury atock was 19,640.75. Collections of assessments on I stockholders amounted to $37,697.182 or within $1,942.93 pt the gmouni lost on compromises, including the i $20,000 loss on the treasury stock ' unsold. Inventory asset on December 31, 1934, were as follow’s: mortgage [loans. $85,326.39; personal and collateral loans, $295,116.93; overdrafts, $1,061.46; U. S. bonds, $5,1275; other bonds and securities, [526,526.47; banking house ( $49,000; I furniture and fixtures, $9,353.53; | other real estate, $88,594.61; due [from banks. $78.57; new bank account, $3,016.91; cash on hand, $2,913.63, and total, >566,263.50. Addit-toniv 1 charges were: protit (CONTINUED ON PAGE THREE) 0 Husband Os Local Woman Dies Today Percy Hughes, 24. credit manager of the Hughee-Curry Packing company at Anderson, died at noon today at the St. John’s Hospital in Anderson. Death was due to peritonitis which developed following an operation fcr ag'ipendicitfe. Mr. Hughes was a son of Charles Hughes, i?resident of t>he HughesCurry company, life marriage to Miss Helen Dorwin of this city took place on May 26, 1934. The widow and father survive. 0 HUNTINGTON TO EXTEND PLANT Fusther Extension Likely Despite Circuit Court Order Huntington. Ind., July 15 —(U.R) —(Further extensions of the municipal electric plant in direct defiance -of court orders was shown today after the plant reported to ■ .Mayor Clare W. Bangs in his cell in the county jail that it has cleared a profit of nearly $1,500. Bangs is in jail because he would "rather rot here” than yield to the Northern Indiana Power company, .victor in a recent suit to prohibit extension of the city plant. He went to jail May 8 on a contempt charge filed by the power company after refusing to post a $2,000 appeal bond. The power company alleged that the city plant had no authority to extend its service to private and commercial customers and the court upheld the contention. Bangs received the report of i the city plant’s operations in his [ cell yesterday. He was openly (CONTINUED ON PAGE FIVE)

INDIANA WORK RELIEF SET-UP IS ANNOUNCED State Is Divided Into 11 Works Relief Districts Today Indianapolis, July 15 — (U.R) — Division of the state into 11 works relief districts and appointment of a director for each to facilitate supervision of the $40,000,000 works progress administration program was announced today by [ Wayne Coy, state director. Coy’s announcement was made i shortly after receipt of press re- [ ports from Washington that I President Roosevelt had given formal approval to allotment of $25,036,488 for 785 projects in Indiana. The state director said he had [ not been notified yet which of 1.143 approved projects were in--1 eluded in the allotment but expected the works program to get [ underway July 22. Simultaneously. Forrest M. Logan, state director of the public works administration, announced [ plans for speeding up spending of | $900,000,000 on more expensive projects under his jurisdiction. He outlined new rules and regulations for the PWA regarding ! wages and hours of work—limited to 130 a month for each employe—j promulgated by the president at [ a conference of PWA directors In I Washington last week. Workers will be obtained I through the United States employment service and prevailing wage l scales will be paid. Logan said. Double shifts will be employed wherever practical to speed con- [ struction and epread the work. Another new provision is that I local units aiding in financing : the projects may obtain 15 per [ cent of the federal allo’ment iml mediately on approval to finance architectural, engineering, plan j (CONTINUED ON PAGE FIVE) 0 FORMER MONROE TEACHER NAMED Clyde Hendricks Is Appointed Principal At Fort Wayne School Clyde W. Hendricks, former prin- ■ cipal of the Rudisill school in Fort , Wayne, has .been named (principal [of Adamo s.hool. New Haven and Ed.sall av< nues. Fort Wayne, Merle J Abbett, superintendent of the Fort Wayne public schools, has announced. H-a will assume his duties at the evening of school this fall. Mr. Hendricks was principal of . the Monroe high school in this i county from 1918 to 1924. Since that [ ti.ne he has headed the Rudisill I school. He is >1 son of Mr. and Mrs. Jim A. Hendricks of Monroe and is well known here. He will succeed Albert R. Parker wuo will tea. h social science next [ fall. Mr. Hendricks was graduated from Indian i State Normal in Terre Haute in 1920 with the A. B. degree. He completed work for the M. S. degree at Ball State Teachers College at Muncie in 1924. He has also taken work at Tri State College for a year and has attended summer school at Chicago univer- [ sity. He holds licenses us high [ school principal, elementary school priii. ipal, high school grammar, grade and rural teacher. The Adums ediiool has eight grades and is sometimes referred | to us a junior high school. Its graduates are sent to Central high ! scbcol, Mr. Hendricks’ work as prin-; cipal at the Rudisill school is com- [ niendable. and led to his new (assignment. He is also prominent in I civic ami Y. M. C. A. work. Sugar Beet Bonus Cut To 80 Cents — Washington, July 15,—The AAA ; said today the final 1934 sugar beet i adjustment payment will be made [ at the rate of 75 cents a ton and that the initial 1935 payment will be made at the rate of 80 cents. The Initial 1934 payment was $1 a ton, making a total on the 1934 crop of $1.75 a ton. The total 1935 payment will depend upon prices sugar beet producers receive for the present crop. Payment of the final 1934 benefits to sugar beet producers, the AAA said, will bring the total payments on the 1934 crop to approximately $19,250,000. Growers already have received approximately I $11,000,000 at the rate of $1 a tou.

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Decatur, Indiana, Monday, July 15, 1935.

Head Senate Lobbying Probe ' • — — ! Minton , '■ti, v*’,' yOL v sBS Ct 1 Appointment of a liberal senate committee to make an all-inclusive investigation of lobbying marked the beginning of an intensive probe which may result in sensational disclosurui. John Garner, vice president, named Senator Black of Alabama, chairman of the committee, which comprises Sena’ors Minton (D), of Indiana; Schwellenach (D.l, of Washington; Gibson (R ), Vermont, and Frazier (R.). of North Dakota.

FORMER LOCAL MAN IS NAMED Son of Former Residents Named On Columbia University Staff Os interest to people in this city is the appointment of Dr. Hale Hartman of London, England. 4o serve on the faculty of Columbia ■University in New York City, as instructor. Dr. Hartman is a son of Mrs. Henry A. Hartman of Sidney, Ohio, former residents of Decatur. His father, Dr. Hartman was once superintendent of the local schools. Dr. and Mrs. Hartman have been in Ix>ndon for the last seven years where he has been studying and doing research work. Mrs. Hartman has been active in government | service Ln the U. S. legation in London during their stay there. They plan to return to this country about the first of August, when Dr. Hartman will lecture for several weeks before taking up his work at the university. Dr. Joyce R. Hartman of Cievei land, Ohio, also a son of Mrs. Henry A. Hartman, has been appointed to the position of Health j Supervisor of the Cleveland schools [ |to replace Dr. Lyman W. Childs, i Dr. Hartman has been the leading pediatrician for the past five years in the Western Reserve Nursery. o Thirty-Three Head Selected For Show Adams county will be represented by 33 head of registered Guernsey cattle in the Guernsey regional show to be held in Decatur on August 6. The cattle have been selected by Roy Price. Wes’ey Stults and Merwin Miller. Some of the other counties are holding elimination contests for the show. Adams county herds to be represented are: Peter B. Lehman, Lloyd j Myers. Dale Moses, James Moses, Wesley Stults, Louis Koldewey, Reinhold Koldewey, Gilbert Hirschy, Intviger Bros., William Burke, Olry Swoveland and Harvey Sipe.

Golden Wedding Observed By Pleasant Mills Couple

Mr. and Mre. J. H. Steele of Pleasant Mills celebrated their golden wedding anniversary at their home Saturday. Tae celebration was in the form of a family dinner, and open house for neighbors and gueute during the afternoon and evening. Menb.-rs of the family Included Mr. and Mrs. Guy A. Steele and son Edwin of Fort Wayne; Mr. and Mrs. Richard Davis and children Patty Lou ond Dickie Jr., of Michigan City; Mr. and Mrs. Fred Hilty of Chicago, Illinois; Mrs. Maude Spangler of Walkerton; Mr. and Mrs. Harvey Koos -and sons Sherman and Guy (of Decatur; Mr. and Mrs. Murray Holloway and son

Sauders Recovering From Heat Exhaustion Harold Sauders is recovering from heat,exhaustion suffered Saturday while working in the city. He was rushed to the Adams county memorial hospital in an uncon- ; scions condition when his friends ! feared he had suffered a sunstroke. An examination by physicians revealed that he was suffering from the heat but was not in a serious condition. I LIQUOR SALE IN STATE LIMITED Only 209 Places In Indiana Selling Liquor By The Drink Indianapolis, July 15. —(U.R) —Sale of liquor by the drink was limited to 209 restaurants and clubs in Indiana today and state administration forces were prepared for a vigorous enforcement drive against all violators. Gov. Paul V. McNutt gave executive approval to the drive last night in his regular weekly radio address. "I am informed by the excise adrninf'trator that sufficient permits have been granted to satisfy the normal demand for hard liquor in those communities where the sale of hard liquor by the drink is legal,” the governor said. “Hence, the lid is on and the law will be enforced.” Deadline for unlicensed sale of liquor by the drink was midnight Saturday under a ruling of Paul P. Fry, excise admSiistrator. All forms of unlicensed sale of beer [ and liquor will be prosecuted in (CONTINUED ON PAGE FIVE) O ———■ Board Os Charities Will Meet Tuesday The Adams county board of charities will meet at the jail. Tuesday afternoon at 2 o’clock to make the i quarterly visit at the jail and the: county home. Every member is 1 [asked to be present;

Bobby of Pleasant Mills; Mrs. Lawrence Johnson of Madison; Mise Dorothy Haley ;f Decatur, Miss Geraldine, Evangeline, Joe and Roy at home. Many neighbors and guests called during the afternoon and evening and refrsehments of ice cream and cake were served. Garden flowers were throughout tihe entertaining rooms. Two large baskets f roses were presented to the honored guests by Miss Haley and Miss G-eraldine Steele. Gifts presented Mr. and Mrs. Steele included a sum of money from the children. Mr. and Mrs. Steele were murried July 11, 1885 at Waterloo. The Rev. J. E. Stoops officiated at the marl riage service.

MRS. WJ LEt IS FUUND GUILTY OF KIDNAPING Long Prison Term Likely When Woman Is Sentenced Wednesday Tacoma, Wash., July 15. —(U.P.> Margaret Thulin Waley, 19, will receive a long prison term but not life imprisonment for her part in the kidnaping of George Weyerhaeuser, attorneys believed today. The blonde Utah girl, convicted of conspiracy to violate the Lindbergh .’aw, will cdhie before Federal Judge E. E. Cushman for sentence Wednesday. Maximum punishment under lhe law is life. Cushman, however, indicated he would majte her punishment shorter, perhaps 45 years, the term to which he sentenced her husband, Harmon Metz Waley, 25. Imprisonment will put almost the width of the continent between the husband and wife, who said they were drawn into the abduction plot by William Mahan, alias Dainerd, now a. fugitive. Waley is serving a term at McNeil Island penitentiary, on Puget Sound. Mrs. Waley will be taken to the federal women’s penitentiary at Alderson, W. Va. Mrs. Waley made no protest when the jury brought in its verdict Saturday. She had testified she preferred imprisonment to freedom because the fugitive Mehan had threatened to kill her if she told anything about the crime. It was her confession, made after her arrest In Salt Lake City, that (CONTINUED ON PAGE SIX) o Hold Local Man For Highway Violation Julius Hendricks of Decatur wae arrested S.iturday night by Sheriff Dallas Brown on a charge of failure to display the i. roper lights on his truck which broke down on U. S. highway 27 south of Decatur. He [ woo ordered tx> appear before Mayor i Arthur R. Holthouse tTiis afternoon.

[ T WORK STARTED ON LIGHTING SYSTEM Cable Is Being Laid On North Second Street For Ornamental Light System. Work started this morning on laying the cable for the new ornamental lighting system on North Second street. On the east side of the street, j between Jackson and Monroe streets, a trench about 12 inches wide is being dug. Martin J. Mylott, superintendent of the electric department of the city p’ant, supervisor in charge of the project, stated the caJMe would be placed 12 [ inches underground. It -is a 3,500 [ volt cable. One block of the street will be [ completed at a time in order not to have the whole thoroughfare torn up at one time. The FERA office provided a crew of 10 men this morning. They will be employed on the job until it is completed.

CONTINUE HUNT FOR MURDERERS Intensive Search Launched For Fiendish Torso Murderers Chicago, July 15 —(U.PJ— Search for Mrs. Evelyn Smith and Harry Jung, her Chinese paramour, wanted for the torso murder of Ervin Lang, shifted back to Chicago Chinatown dens today when a Madison couple detained at Rockford. 111., established their innocence. Rockford police seized a Chinese who identified himself as Edgar Funk of Madison, Wis. His companion said she was Rose Bryne. 22, also of Madison. Chief of Detectives John Sullivan said here that he was satisfied the two were not Jung and Mrs. Smith, and that he would order their release. Meanwhile the federal govern-, ment entered the search for Mrs. Smith and Jung. Immigration authorities revealed that Jung entered the United States illegally and i» subject to deportation. Police were puzzled by a de- [ (CONTINUED ON PAGE THREE) WEATHER Generally fair tonight and Tuesday; slightly cooler tonight in extreme north.

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DETAIL PLANS FOR BIG FAIR Plans Developing Rapidly For Free Street Fair Here In August A renewed drive for funds to assist in staging the Decatur Free Street Fair aud Agricultural exhibit in this city August 5-10, was started today by members of the canvassing committee. Local merchants are urged to cooperate with the committee as the fair promises to be one of the outstanding weeks of the year in Decatur. Members of the fair executive committee are rapidly detailing plans to make every day of the week highly attractive, not only to Decatur and Adams county residents, but to the thousands from surrounding counties. Each day of the entire week has been set aside for one special feature. The opening day, Monday, August 5, has been designated 4-H club day; Tuesday, August 6. is (Guernsey Region day; Wednesday, August 7, is Jersey HTrlsh day; Thursday, August 8, is Cloverleaf Dairy Day; Friday, August 9, is : Conservation day, and Saturday, August 10, Is Decatur day. Detailed announcements of plans for each njecial day will be made from time to time. Numerous rides and shows have already been contracted and a considerable amount of concession space has already been sold. Members of the executive committee of the Chamber of Commerce, in charge of all arrangements for the fair, will hold their weekly meeting at the R>lce hotel tonight at 8 o’clock.

FOUR PERSONS JAILED HERE Officer Arrests Four Following Family Row Saturday Night Four persons were jailed by night officer Floyd Hunter Saturday night after a family row at the Claude Patschel home on 10th , street. Charges of assault and battery and public intoxication were filed |in Mayor Arthur R. Holthouse’s i court this afternoon against Hir- [ schel Boothby. He is alleged to have [beaten his mother, Mrs. Claude Pati schel. Charges of public intoxication, public indecency and (profanity were tiled against June Myers. An affidavit charging public int xication was filed against Mrs. Patschel.

Cljude Patchel, who was held as a material witness, was released from the jail Sunday. The others were still held In the county jail this i afternoon at 3 o’clock. ! -oTransient Held In Local Jail Cleve Smith, a tramp giving his [ address ns Dayton, Ohio, is being held in the Adams county jail. No , charges had been filed against him at 2:30 o'clock this afternoon. He was arrested Saturday niglht by [ officer Floyd Hunter after residents . near Schirmeyer street had made i a com plaint. BAFFLING MURDER ON PARK AVENUE Follow the thrilling mystery serial, THE SNOW LEOPARD The sensational story of New York's smart set's greatest shock. Starts Saturday in the DEMOCRAT

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Mussolini Also Orders Construction Work On 10 New Submarines Be Started At Once. TO SEEK PEACE (By United Press) Rome — Mussolini orders mobilization of two new divisions with a strength of 30,000 men, bringing the total of Italian forces in East Africa or en route to 160,000 irrespective of native troops in the colonies. The navy ordered construction to begin immediately on 10 new submarines to be completed next November. More men were called to the colors in the air and motor corps. Paris —Reports were current that Mussolini was leaning toward Pacific settlement of the border dispute and diplomatic efforts were in progress to prevent war by sacrificing Abyssinia through a partitioning agrement. Joseph Avenol, secretary general of the League of Nations, was to confer with Premier Pierre Laval on the African question. London—The British cabinet was to hold a special meeting, at which it was believed it would consider the advisability of a tri-partlte conference at Paris among Italy, France and Great Britain. Djibouti, French Somaliland. — Frtnch colonials fraternized with Italian sailors in the East African port in a demonstration of apparent sympathy with Italian aims in Abyssinia. Two Divisions Rome, July 15.—(U.R) —Italy moved to increase its fighting strength on land, air and sea today in retaliation for "Ethiopian military preparation." Premier Mussolini called 30,000 more men to the colors and began constructing 10 new submarines. The ministry of war moved in unison with the air and naval ministries to mobilize resources of Italy for the threatened struggle with Abyssinia. Two new divisions of 15,000 men each were given mobilization orders, thus bringing Italy’s total of combat troops either in East Africa or en route to Italian colonies there to approximately 160,000.. In addition to this number. Italy has large numbers of native troops in Eritrea and Italian Somaliland which border Abyssinia on two sides. In addition to the two divisions which will sail for East Africa, two reserve divisions were ordered up to take their places in the home defense force of Italy. The navy acted to support the army’s long-awaited campaign in Africa, with the naval ministry issuing orders for construction to begin immediately on 10 submarines which will be launched in November of this year. Additional pilots and aeronautical specialists were ordered to re(JCONTINUED ON PAGE THREE)

ASKS GREATER FEDERAL HELP International Walther League Convention Opens Today St. Louis, July 15 — <U.P.> —An appeal for greater federal aid to the youth of America was made today at the 43rd annual convention of the International Walther League of the Lutheran church by Walter E. Helmke, president. More than 2.000 accredited delegates from all sections of the country heard Helmke assert that “the government is answerable to the youth of today for permitting subversive principle and doctrines to be taught in many of our colleges and universities. “Developing the intellect of the youth of today,” he said, "is more important than developing the resources of our country. Except for a recent large appropriation for the benefit of the youth of this country, very little has been done by our government to safeguard the interests of the men and women of tomorrow.” Helmke referred to statistics ON PAGE THREE) O BULLETIN Washington, July 15 —• (Special)—President Roosevelt today released $60,093 for non-federal projects in Adams county, Indiana.