Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 33, Number 172, Decatur, Adams County, 22 July 1935 — Page 1

,1 XXXIII. No. 172.

final Decision On declaration OtyWar I Is Expected Soon

Lier Mussolini Is Related !n ridding Mood ‘■v Climax To Crisis iß.ooms. full, TH PROTEST H (By United Press 3 vs developments ln thp ,^K,.Elhk'P | an dispute: ■ Mussolini to Rive final «ar oi i-.ioe Illis week as Wj7.TOH-.3i approach ellKL Ababa Emperor Haile K, leoM Io nu’i) Italian pro™s;oi.-' ' ••' ns'ioiial mor-■mw'-i*" -xp.'Cted wlo-’lo ' I" P-niiii arms to Ethiopia. • (u -I’.ily 'ious ..ver lios--311(,. seeks denials; tor -l-mlxr art ion ret > .or capitals. War Is Feared ; 1935 by 1 P 1 July 'UP.' Benito defiant and in fighting js dllP this week to give Britain and Frame the final '^■ on pea.-■ or war with Ethi-ws-k J..H-.S without an ■,. negotiation, it today, war will be W,- inevitable. and Fiiin. '- it was learnworking on what they ;^H ed j.j h.-v. d offered hope for peaa-e. Eric Pruaitn Hid and Count > tlie Bri'ish Frrili !1 Ainl'U-sadors. have in for foreign affairs. r. rcdiablo authority, have a stat.- where Mussolini r must be -d and sav ■in words that , wi.en th.- Ethiopian seasons ends tn September. ■ h have li’tle faith in any of peace. Emperor «■» Was-..-> »-rinu speec h Thursday, in which he acMussolini <>f deliberately war for his personal 'lie lit- , , mad.- Count Vinciindicated as having been Flout Protest ( Ababa. Ethiopia. July 22. Haiti- Selassie I , .Bm •vtii.-tie,* t.-day that he tn accept only an lionto a war in which he "personally to lead his into the field. in his d. st.ny and hemany of his countrymen nv T>vc,R six) o r>® Zwick And « Wife Are Injured it! Mrs. Harold Zwick of formerly of Decatur, injur. j in an autoi Rodent which took place ' of roads 118 and s tiirduy evening at z «i'’k sbited that he failed stop light at the road an d ' ra-sh-d into a ear hitler. Mr. Beitler ’a-st on road H 8 and Dr. ■L*' r:villg ni,rt ’ :i Both care imaged. ir 41,(1 " M ' z 'Vi ( 'k received M. ' 3 ’ we r their right eyes. I ■lum> V '"’ U** * IRj. ■ D ays Till The ■ BEE street fair ■ and jy^ lur al Exhibit

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HORSE PULLING CONTEST RULES Contests Will Be Held Friday And Saturday Os Decatur Fair Rules for the horse pulling contest to be held Saturday, August 10, the last day of the Decatur Free Street Fair were announced today by the committee. The ru'es are: This contest is to consist of two clases. Class 1. Light teams. Pair of horses or mules weight 3,000 lbs., or less. Class 2. Heavy class. Pair of horses or mules weighing over 3,000 pounds. Contestant must have, his team weighed on the day of the contest before he can enter contest. Contestant will be assigned numbers and will appear with team when his number is called. Teams entering contest may either be owned by one man, or two or more men may combine their horses to make up a team. Each team shall be given a total of three tria's to move the load the full distance. If, after second pull a team should fail to move the load the required distance, the contestant may unhitch and make the final trial upon the call of the judges, and the longest distance pulled in the three trials shall be accredited to the contestant. Pulling down stake sha’l be considered as one trial, but no credit given for distance. Contestant shall have the privilege to pull from either end of the load and may use a double-tree of his own choice. Helpers are permitted while the team is being hitched, but only one driver is allowed when the teem is pulling. Whipping is forbidden any p'ace, either on pulling ground or on resting round. Drivers and helpers will not be permitted t< carry whips while their teams art pulling. Horses and drivers shall be subject to the rulings of the judges throughout the contest, and failure to comply with these rulings promptly shall result in immediate disqualification of a contestant. o— Securities Valued At $280,000 Stolen Chicago, July $2—(UP)— Burglars bloated into the safe of Andrew McAnsh, investment broker, cn the 16th floor vof a loop building over the weekend and escaped with securities valued at $280,000. Many of them were negotiable. When McAnfah arrived at his office this morning he found that his desk drawers laid been ransacked, the vault dynamited open and everything of value in the office taken. Another office on the 21 floor of the same building had been entered and an undetermined amount of cash stolen. o YOUTH ADMITS SLAYINC GIRL Young Tin-Worker Confesses To Crime Committed In December Chicago. Ju.’y 22.—(U.R>—A youthful tin-worker who confessed to police he attempted to attack a pretty 17-year-old girl and then threw her into a sewer when she swooned into his arms, sat sobbing behind the bars of a jail cell today and begged for death in the electric chair. “Send me to the chair right away —without trial,” he pleaded. The man was Mills (Micky) Redmond, once married and the father of a chlid living in Niles, Mich. He told how on his first date with Marion Cozzo, he forced his affections upon her. When she pushed him away, he confessed with a lie detector strapped to his arm, he put his fingers around her throat. When she became rigid, then limp, he stuffed her body into a sewer. "I didn't know ehe was dead, ’ he said. The Me detector broke the stolid, slender prisoner's stoic denial that he was implicated. His date with Marlon was last December 1. Her decomposed body was found last week.

SEX SLAYER ON TRIAL FOR LIFE IN COURT TODAY Gerald Thompson Goes On Trial For Murder Os Young Woman Peoria, 111., July 22—(UP)—PhoI tographs of nude women and a lurid | sexy diary in which were described 16 attacks on girls and 67 failures were withheld from defense counsel .today in the trial of Gerald Thompson, 25, for the attack and murder ofipretty Mildred Hallmark, I 19 year old case hostess. Judge Joseph E. Daily also denied a defense motion to delay the trial because of the illmas of Thompson’s mother, who was to ttwtify ■ that her son hod a "psychopathic ' personality." Thompson, who confessed tbe slaying, revealed to police that he I forced the victims of his attacks to pose nude in the glare of his automobile headlights for pictures he took "to keep them from telling. ’ Thompson's diary, in which the sex-mad youth described in debail the stories of stalking women to disgrace, is held by the state to reI fute any character witrieasee introduced by the defense. Ben Thurman defense attorney, sought delay becuuse Mrs. Florence Whiteside, Thompson's mother, is confined in a hospital with a nervous breakdown. Mrs. Whiteside, Thurman said would tell the court that her hon had had a "psychopathic i ersonality" from idolensce. Thurnuin . Iso cited th-s fact that Thompson's younger brother Victor, now is in jail for taking indecent . liberties with a young boy. Judge Daily ruled that Mrs. Whiteside was not a competent witness and did not possess sufficient I technical knowlede to tistimy in a . court of law on her son's condition. During his argument Thurman attacked state's attorney E. V. Champion as “unfair” in the preliminaries to the trial. He charged that Thompson had been kept in solitary confinement, and had been almost , inaccessible to his friends, relatives I and lawyer. Champion responded that Thompsons family and attorney l»ad lived with his grandmother since he was two ,y t ars old and if any personal (CONTTNURD ON PAGE FIVE) BAKER FUNERAL IS HELD TODAY Mrs. Sarah Ellen Baker Died At Home Os Sister Saturday — Funeral services were held this afternoon for Mrs. Sarah Ellen Baker, 85, widow of the late Charles Baker, who died at the home of her sister, Mrs. John D. Stults at 330 North Fourth street Saturday noon, shortly before 12 o’clock. Death was due to old age and complications. Services were he'd at 1 o’clock at the Stults nome and at 1:30 o’clock from the Methodiet Epis-1 copal church with Rev. H. R. Car- ‘ son officiating. Burial was made i in the Decatur cemetery. Mrs. Baker had been ailing for I several months and was bedfast l for one week. She resided at 216 , South Eighth street but made her : home during the winter with her ' sister. Her husband preceded her in death five years ago. Mrs. Baker was born in Root township on February 3, 1850, a daughter of Nathan and Jane Nidlinger. She was united in marriage to Charles Baker. She was a member of the Methodist Episcopal church. The husband and a daughter are deceased. Surviving are the sister, Mrs. John D. Sults of this city and a brother, Eliza E. Nidlinger iof Warsaw. Four brothers and j i sisters are deceased. -30 30 Decatur People At Lake Webster About thirty people are at the Deoitur Cottage this week at Lake Webster in attendance on the second section of the Epworth Forest ■ Institute, of which the Rev. H. R. Carson is the dean. The first secI tion of the institute last week showed a total registration of 1150 and it is expected that even a larg-, er number will be In attendance tihte week. The girls cimp had 102 in at-1 tendance and the boys camp had 160 registered last week. The third and final section of the institute will be held next week. The Decatur leaguers expect to return home next Sunday evening.

ONLY DAILY NEWSPAPER IN ADAMS COUNTY

Decatur, Indiana, Monday, July 22, 1935.

Destroyed Wires Mt'v • i ■

R. P. Herron, bond salesman for the Associated Gas & Electric Co. of Warren. Pa., above, is pictured testifying before the senate lobby investigating committee that a higher up instructed him to destroy the telegrams which he dictated. Herron admitted paying Western Union messengers to obtain signatures to an'i-power telegrams, and also to copying names from a city directory, which were signed to telegrams.

SCHOOL CHECKS WRITTEN TODAY Checks For Common School Fund And Congressional Fund Made Checks for the common school fund interest and the congressional school revenue were written today for the townships and school cities in Adams county in Auditor John W. Tyndall’s office. The common school fund interest for distribution amounted to $2,424.02. The average daily attendance in the county was 4.487.32. Using this for a basis the auditor found that the amount of money due each unit per pupil was .5401932. The money was divided among the units according to the average daily attendance. Common school revenue is the interest from a fund being built up by fines, forfeitures and local funds such as dog( taxes in which there is an unused surplus. The distribution of the common school revenue was: Blue Creek, $94.22; French, $107.89; Preble. $112.32: Hartford. $116.77; Jefferson, $89.19: Kirkland, $114.54; Monroe, $240,23; Root, $117.84; St. Mary's, $127.58; Union. $92.15; Wabash, $261.28; Washington. $177.69; Berne schools, $209.15; Decatur schools. $563.17. The congressional school revenue for distribution at this time (CONTINUED ON PAGE FIVE) O Legion To Elect Officers Tonight Adams post number 43 of the American Legion will elect officers for the ensuing year at the regular meeting tonight at 8 o'clock. All members are urged to attend. Free refreshments will be served following the election.

Frogs Clutter Up Streets Os Decatur On Sunday Morning

Floyd Hunter, city night (policemen, is willing to swear to the fact that there were between “five and nine million young frogs” in the south part of Decatur and south of the corporation limits Sunday morning. The “herd” of frogs began south of the railroad trucks on Winchester street and extended along U. S. highway 27 to the Schnepp’s Filling Station at the intersection of the highway and the extension of Thirteenth street. The frogs were from one to two inches long, two small, Mr. Hunter stated, to catch for frog legs. Several persons were scooping them up in (bugs. The frogs first appeared about the time cf the rain shortly after mid night. It is doubtfull that they were rained, however as one story goes. Frog experts stated that the frogs

BITTER FIGHT ! FORESEEN TO TAX PROGRAM President Refuses To Drop Taxes On Huge Corporations (Copyright 1935, by United Press) I Washington, July 22 — <U.R> — President Roosevelt has vetoed a plan to avoid a bitter fight with big business organizations over his tax the-rlch program. The house ways and means committee informed that the President wants increased taxes on big corporations, today began a final draft of the measure. The President had received congressional suggestions that the increased corporation tax feature be eliminated from the program. Chargee by organized business that a graduated corporation Income tax would be a levy against | efficiency in industry had result ed in a tacit agreement by committee Democrats to abandon such a tax in favor of an excess . : profits levy. As a result of Mr. RooseveL'.i i request, it appeared that both a graduated corporation tax and an ' excess profits levy would be ini eluded in the bill which the com 1 mittee hopes to have ready for I house action next week. It was understood the adtninis- ■ tration was agreeable to lessen- | ing the spread of the corporation I levy. Instead of running the tax from 11 per cent on corporations of net income of only $2,000 to 17)4 on corporations with net income over $20,000,000. the proba-; bility is that the principle will be retained but the spread held down I to two or three per cent. For 1 example, small corporations might ; pay 12 per cent instead of the flat I 1394 as at present, while large | corporations might pay 15 per cent. Indications pointed today to a tax the rich bill which would: 1. Tax inheritances on a grad- ' uated scale starting at $75,000. 2. Increase income taxes on • individuals with net income of ! $150,000 or more. 3. Graduate corporation levies, and place an excess profits tax | affecting all profits over 10 per OCONTTNUED ON PAGE THREE) STATE SET FOR WORK PROGRAM Gov. McNutt Says Indiana Will Receive More Than Hundred Million Gary, Ind., July 22 —<U.R> —Belief that Indiana will receive more than its $100,000,000 share of the I federal works projects allotment was expressed here last night by Gov. Paul V. McNutt in his weekly radio address. “The commendable manner in which relief has been dispensed in Indiana and the fact that we' are the first to complete the, state WPA eetup leads me to believe we will be given special dispensation." the governor said. Citing the fact that Indiana is equipped to receive federal funds under the rural electrification and stream pollution programs, : the governor said: "If local units are on their toes. , the state may Increase ite federal allotments several fold.” Reiterating the demand of • (CONTINUED ON PAGE TWO)

were imigrating from the ponds near Krick and Tyndall’s Tile Mill to the St. Mary’s river. Suhday the only vestiges of the xodus were a number of frogs kill ?d by automobiles driving over the street. Officer Hunter stated that near street lights ,the frogs covered the pavement from curb to curb. Although it was difficult to determine the direction the frogs were going Officer Hunter believed the trend of the hops was east. The frogs and o’ier wild lite have thrived this year in Adams county because of the damp weather and heavy vegetation. A great increase in sn-kes has been reported although few of the poisonous varieties were seen. Game birds and fish have similarly increased in number. Hunters, frog sipeareru and anglers are anticipating the best season in years.

General Strike Paralyzes All Terre Haute Industry; Serious Shortage Os Food Is Feared

NAZIS RENEW ANTI-JEWISH, CHURCH DRIVE Electrical Shop Stoned; Action Awaited Against Priests Berlin, July 22— (UP)—Renewed antl-jewleh activity coincided today with the Nazi drive against Catholic crtics of the Hitler regime. Rowdies stoned and smashed the i windows of a jewish electrical shop in the weet end of Berlin, signifying that the disturbances of the past , week are not over. Government action meanwhile was awaited against the parish priests of Freiburg, Baden, who alone of all the Roman Catholic I clergy of Germany defied the government's edict aguinst anti-Nazi reference from the pulpit yeeter- ! day. Two priests, the Rev. Martin I Usch and the Rev. Rudolf Yilmsen, were scheduled to go on trial today on charges of violating the foreign exchange regulations. Various priesta and nuns alreidy have been aent to jail and fined on similar I charges. In defiance of government orders to prosecute thoee who did not fall 1 into step with the Nazi state, pastors in all churches in the dioceee of Freiburg, Baden, read to congre- ' gallons yesterday an etpiucopul letter by Bishop Conrad Groeber ae- . sorting that recent actions of German secular authorities were a viol- ! ation of the treaty between Germany and the Vatican. This was the first known utterj ance in open resistance to orders by j Gen. Herman Goering, chief of the I secret police, that Catholic clergymen who mixed in politics would be prosecuted. Under supplementary orders, secret police and states attorneys were to cooperate and it was ordered also that the attorneys, as prose- : tutors must punish with energy I violators of the Goering order.. It was understood that secret police agents attended churches yesi terday. Mass arrests were believed j inevitable, and it was indicated that ; first reports to state’s attorneys , were made this morning—Particularly as regards the Freiburg letter which was in its effect a direct challenge to Nazism to i)Ct. Frenze Seldte, minister of laibor . and loader of the steel helmet oranization of war veterans, was believ--led to be in conference with Adclf Hitler at Berchtesgaden in Bavaria . seeking to learn his organization's ■ fate. Steel helmet units in four ar--1 eas have been disbanded by Nazis ' on charges of disloyalty. o CONFESSES TO DROWNING WIFE Young Choir Singer Admits Capsizing Canoe To Slay Wife Worcester, Mass., July 22 —<U.R) I —Newell P. Sherman, 26-year-old I Sutton choir singer and scout- | master, sobbingly recounted today I how he sang a hymn to his young i wife before allegedly drowning her in a New England lake, parallel to the‘American tragedy.’ Shortly before Saturday midnight, authorities charged, Sherman took his 23-year-old wife, Alice, for a canoe ride on fogshrouded Lake Singletary, capsized it, and disregarding her frantic pleas for help, left her struggling in the water while he swam 200 yards to shore. Motive for the slaying, police i said, was iSberman’s infatuation I for 17-year-old Esther Magill, a co-worker at the Whitin Machine company, where the tall, husky tool maker also was employed. Morose, hie eyes downcast, and wringing his hands, Sherman pleaded not guilty when arraigned on a murder charge before district judge Frank E. Riley. He was ordered held without bail for the grand jury. Back in his cell in Worcester county jail, he sobbed out his story. His clothing was in dis(CONTINUED ON PAGE SIX)

SET PREMIUMS OF HORSE SHOW Prize Awards Are Fixed For Horse Show During Street Fair The horse committee met in the county agent's office recently and set up the following Gold Medal classifications and premiums for the horse show io be held in connection with the Free Street Fair to be held in Decatur August 5 to 10. Gold Medal Colt Club Classes Pure bred colts, $3, $2 and sl. Grade mare, $3, $2 and sl. Grade etud, $3. $2 and sl. Open Classes Pure bred mares (4 years and under) $6. $4 and $2. Pure bred mares (over 4 years) $6, $4 and $2. Grade mares' (4 years and under, $7. $5 and $3. Grade mares (over 4 years) $7. $5 and $3. Pure bred Belgian stud suckling colts, $6, $4. and $2. Pure bred Belgian mare suckling colts, $6. $4 and $2. Grade stud suckling colts, $6. $4 and $2. Grade mare suckling colts, $6, $4 and $2. Percheron suckling colts, $6, $4 and $2. Geldings, any age, $7. $5 and $3. Best pair of Geldings, $5.00. A beautiful trophy will be donated by Ed Neuhauser for the best registered Belgian mare exhibited. Exhibitor winning the cup twice becomes its permanent owner, provided it is won by a different animal the second time. o — MOST OF FUND SPENT BY AAA Total Os Over 26 Millions Disbursed To Indiana Farmers Washington, July 22 — (UP) — During tlie first 11 months of the fiscal year the agricultural adjustment administration expended $767, 195.306 of $918,045,135 available funds, it recorded today. Expenditures were: rental and benefit payments to farmers $535,547.698; removal and conservation of surplus agriculture commodities. $10,1143,550; drought relief, food conservation and disease eradication, $145,595,674; trust fund cipemtions, $11.74-6,526; administrative expenses, $34,401,054; disbursement expenses, $737,005; tax refunds, $29,123,107. Distribution funds analyzed by states, character and commodity included: (Indiana —total $26,324,195. Expenses, $224,019 and benefits, $26,100,175 as follows; Wheat, $1,888,283; tobacco, sllß,455; corn-hogs $24,019,639; sugar, $73,797. 0 Would Establish Import Quotas Washington, July 22 —(UP) —The senate today approved a proposal for establishment of agricultural import quotas in connection with AAA legislation. The proposal was in an amendment offered by Sen. Robert M. LaFollette, P„ Wis.. and would permit the president to fix import quptis as a means of safeguarding price gains achieved throughout American (processing taxes. Niece Os Decatur Woman Dies Sunday Mrs. Charles Helm received word Sunday night of the death of her niece, Mrs. Guy Koons of Cincinnati, Ohio, who died Saturday. Mrs. Koons was a daughter of Nathan and Nancy Ramsey, and a number of relatives reside ihere. Police chief Sephus Melchi, is a cousin of the deceased. The body will be taken to Van Wert, Ohio, for funeral services. o WEATHER Showers or thunderstorms probable tonight and Tuesday; little change in temperature.

Price Two Cento

National Guardsmen Are Asked By Officials As Violence Is Feared In General Strike. THOUSANDS OUT BULLETIN Indianapolis, July 22. —«JR> —Martial law in strike-paraly-zed Vigo county was ordered today by Gov. Paul V- McNutt. . . ... The proclamation ot military rule was made through Adjutant General Elmer hStraub who immediately ordered 600 state troopers into the area. , , Straub said the governors proclamation would be timed for 5 p. m. and he expected to have the troops on duty by that time. . Terre Haute, July 22— (U.R) — National guardsmen were requested by city officials today to prevent violence in a general strike which paralyzed all Industry and threatened to cut off the food supply of Terre Haute. The request was telegraphed to Gov. Paul V. McNutt at Indianapolis by Mayor Samuel O. Beecher and Sheriff William Baker. The mayor explained that city policemen have been working on 24 hour shifts since more than a score of special guards were placed in the Columbian Enameling and Stamping company, focal point of the strike, three days ago. Additional business and industries were closed hourly as the strike leaders reached employee with appeals to walk out and make the strike 100 per ' cent effective and “insure an immediate conciliation.” L. G. Brown, president of the Enamel Workers Local Union | which precipitated the walkout. | estimated there were 60,000 persons cooperating in the strike. Although Terre Haute has a population of only 63,000, he explained that coal miners employed in shafts throughout Vigo county have joined the walkout. Union and operators officials refused to comment on Brown’s statement. Brown issued a statement to the United Press outlining the objects of the strike. He said: “The labor holiday will not be called off until the armed guards are removed from the Columbian plant. After that time we will be willing to confer with company officials in an effort to reach an agreement on our own demands for a closed shop.” Central labor union officials and T. N. Tlhylor. pipsident of; the state federation of labor refused to discuss the walkout. The labor union refused yesterday to sanction the strike. Walkout of teamsters and truckers had the most serious affect on the general population. It halted deliveries of bread, ice, fresh meats, milk and other commodities. The city’s three (CONHNITED ON PAGE FIVE) O LIST APPROVAL FOR PROJECTS Approval Os Roosevelt Given For Projects In This State Washington, D. C., July 22. —(U.R) —Approval of President Roosvelt on allotment of $1,921,296 In federal funds for use of the works progress administration in Indiana on non-federal projects was announced today. The amount is the first part of $2,901,753 recommended ito the President by the works relief advisory committee July 16. Local units sponsoring the projects will add $599,216 to the federal funds. Allen county: Remodeling state armory. Federal grant, $38,499; remodeling fire stations, federal funds, $8,440; park building construction, $5,033. New Haven: Repairing swimming pool, $2,393; Woodburn: Improvement public rest room, $786; school building addition, $4,341. Blackford county; Drainage Improvement, $465. DeKalb county; Ashley, comrnun(CONTINUED ON PAGE FIVE)