Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 33, Number 180, Decatur, Adams County, 31 July 1935 — Page 1

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•liBItS MEET I (INFERENCE ■ AVERT WAR I Heik 1 1,1 Nations <' olin ’ . Hji ( oint'iies In I’ri-g-Hf vale Session il.. , .K- I (U.R) - The ■ >'t Nations. W SK:,. "> WL,r ■ 1 ■ 1 K c ""' M■■ ' ■ '" lk,v 311,1 . African dispute. •-! .run. ai" W(l to draft a arbitration could •’ „n ..f arbitration was »'••<> *" ked Oil w hat I. Italy wants to .. border clashes, l abial, while Ethi'|H - :,i '" l "’ un,l:,rv linPS ■ disn A'oisi of Italy ng that h, ‘ confined to K; and incidents. Gasi made a count- , d ’o meet again |ML. ~, frill.l row. when it was a will have been . which Anthony , ~ • Laval. 'he British delegates, would ■ B,( i'..mpeo Alois!. Hal- ■ and seek . .ation to avoid a . . in reaching a Klf.. r u--ion. it Is intended ■ resumption ' arbitration for frontier clashes .ninMlia'c cause of the dis- ‘' minor element 'he louni il would decide uga.n if the disputants i.c reached agreement by * adjournment and i L'. of the most importin postwould be |.r. venting Benito -ini 1 .x st\» WITESTSENT I TO GOVERNOR Kennan Protest Against Incident Proves _■ Embarrassing July :’.l. — (U.R) — officials were on of a hot spot today as MB i-rinaay's emphatic i-uic. ruing the communist 11 Cernian flag in New last night. iWM !■■■ • roe,-dure would call ilogy. or at least an regret. That ■B (lose the incident. ■ (■mp'n-ated by a numangles which any >ii, ii simple solution, of these are: KI Th., strong feeling in this «c.;- 'he Hitler govern- - o! the repressive against Jews and Cath- «■>': riu.my. American Jews - Aonld be expected to a») "toadying” by the UnitHH 111 ''' :i "' •''■‘nan governHHK as a result of the flag inciKB Agitation in and out of cont n severance of diplomatic ■B“ lls with tb-miany as a result ||B ON Pxaß THREE) —o ■IMER SENATOR ! I eillett IS DEAD W^Hh er Massachusetts Senatir Dies i|B arl Y Today After An Exft S tended Illness. l® in K |I, 'ld. Mass.. July 31. (U.R) l s. Senator Frederick 93, close friend "h 111 t’liolidge and Harding, today. of death waa mye.'ogenous |f^B Blla ' kii incurable blood disHe had been ill for more was a former speaker of K-'"’ “ U(cee<lin g Champ Clark |V'' 1,1 1925 he was elected senate. He rettred in 1931 veil at Santa Barba.ra, Calif., llness forced him to return in May. ' S survlve< l by his wife, Mrs. SW. 1 " 1 " Rice Gillett, whom he B-JB* 1 ' in November, 1915, and a ett was born in Westfield on 3W*r is, igjj

DECATUR DAILY DEMOCRAT

Automobile Stolen Here Is Recovered Sheriff Dallas Brown is b> sieged with w.>uld-be d. puti% today who are awking for a round trip, all expenses paid, to Anaconda, Montana. Chief of Police Sepiius Mekhi i received a telegram this morning from T. L. Cullen, chief of ipoliee of I Anaconda, Montana, stating that ; laurence Pratt had been apprehend. d there in a cur belonging to S. E. Brown the sheriff’s father of this city. Pratt admitted that he had stolen the car. here on or about June 6. » An affidavit was sworn aguinst Pratt by Mr. Brown this afternoon on a vehicle taking charge. The affidavit with the appointment of a spe. lai agent to return Pratt was filed by Prosecuting Attorney Edmund A. Bosse this afternoon in the Adams circuit court. PAVE DRIVEWAY AT HOMESTEADS — Blacktop Surface Will Be Laid; All Houses To Be Repainted A hla ktop surface will be laid over the drives in the subsistence hom stead* .project next month, Washington officials have informed the local office. The top coating of the rood will be comparable to that bn the new state road 527 couth?ast of Decatur. Its base will not be as h.avy because of the cnailler amount of traffic. Bids will not be taken for the r ad. However, the centra t will be given to a responsible road builder. No announcement has been made as to how th rend building will be financed. It is probable that direct relief under WPA or PWA appropriations will be used for the labor, t has also been announced that tbs houses will b? repainted during August. Thjs will give the buildings': much imre attractive appearance and will make the paint jobs last longer. During the last few months governm nt officials have been checkdug <omplamu-uf h mestraders aatd , making the neceseury adjustments. Considerable trouble was caused by r of leaks u a f w of the houses. Inspectors beli.ve that all of these leaks have ibe n located and rdi air-. d. It is th ? plan of the government ; to have all the houses in perfect e. ndition before final sales contracts are signed with the purchasers. The costs of the individual houses have not yet been determined. The final contracts will not be signed before the books are audited.

No Communicable Diseases Reported No cas s of communicable dfe■eases were reported in the Indiana Division of Public Health morbidity report for the week ending Saturday. July 27. —o Joan O’Brien Is Injured Today Joan O’Brieri, small daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Ferd O'Brien of this city, was painfully injured when she stepped on a piece of g’jiso near her home here this afternoon. Several atitchee were required to cl-cse the laceration. The injury is not believed to be serous. LOCAL BUILDING BOUGHT BY RICE Local Hotel Proprietor Purchases Former Egg Case Factory Site Jess Rice, hotel proprietor, has bought the old egg case factory, corner Jefferson and South E'.glith streets. A quit claim deed to the property was received by Mr. Rice from the Centra.l Fibre Products Co., Urbana. The building is a metal covered structure and con'ains 25,565; square feet of factory floor space, in addition to large office quarters. Mr. Rice wil Ihold the property as an investment and hopes to locate a factory in it in the near future. The building was occupied for a number of years by the Indiana Board and Filler Company, which later was consolidated with the Central Fibre Products Company and moved to Urbana. Mr. Rice is president of the Chamber of Commerce and has had several Inquiries relative to factory sites in Decatur.

E.D.R. POINTS TO TAX EVADERS President Answers Questions Regarding His Tax Program Washington, July 31 — (U.R> — President Roosevelt, answering questions regarding his tax program, called attention today to the fact that ”58 of the thriftiest’’ people in the United States "beat the gun” in 1933 on taxation of 37 per cent of their net income above a million dollars. The president said this was accomplished through ownership of tax-exempt securities and creation of family trusts to reduce tax burdens. The president’s remarks were directed to a field untouched in his tax-the-rich program now under consideration by congress. In one instance. Mr. Roosevelt said, a wealthy American family had established 197 family trusts to reduce net incomes so that they would not be affected by the heavy surtaxes on excessively high incomes. This tvpe of action, the president said, costs the government a lot of money. Mr Roosevelt explained that he was not ready to add anything to his earlier statements concerning graduated corporation taxes and taxes on inter-corporate dividends. He said, however, that he had discussed the situation generally with treasury officials and had obtained a good deal of information. He indicated that this information probably would be forthcom Ing later. Turning to the question of gift taxation. Mr. Roosevelt recalled that back in 1932 while the gift tax feature was being debated one thriftv taxpayer transferrel SIOO,OOO 000 by tax free gifts. Another transferred $50,000,000. The president said that was what he called beating the gun. One reporter broke in to ask for the name* of some of the families involved. Mr. Roosevelt asked the correspondent whether he Wanted him to violate the law. Reading from a sheet of copy-,-rnwTTNt'En n\’ pvan FOPTt)

PLAN PARADE . ON DAIRY DAY Many Bands Will March In Parade Here Thursday, August 8 A very interesting parade will | be held on Cloverleaf Dairy Day I which is Thursday, August 8. The I parade will form on Fourth street,’ I between Adams and Jefferson at 12:15 p. m. It will then move north lon Fourth s'reet, gathering addiI tional marchers at Madison, MonI roe, and Jackson. It will then go east on Jackson to Second street and then south on Second street. At the five point intersection, it will go south on Winchester -street to the Cloverleaf p'ant, where it will terminate. The Decatur high school band, the Erie Band of Huntington, the News-Si ntinel band of Fort Wayne, Huntington high school band, Van Wert high school band, Decatur American Legion band. Bourbon , Junior drum corps, ajid numerous' other bands will participate in the i parade. Several cars carrying prom-1 inent visitors of the day will lead J the parade. Numerous floats will follow these cars, and there will be riders on horse back, clowns and numerous other features to constitute an interesting parade. A large butter tub will be on a flcnt, and merchandise of Cloverleaf such as butter, cheese, Sealtest ice cream, etc., will also be displayed on appropriate floats. Several surprise features will be part of the parade which will add to its attractiveness. Immediately following the parade, the program will open at Memorial Park. o File Poor Relief Bills By Friday Several of the township officials have warned merchants and others having July poor relief bills to present the claims on August 1 or 2. Claims filed later than the first or the second of the next calendar month will not be allowed by the state board of accounts. The bills this month must be filed with the trustees in place of the auditor, as was the former procedure.

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Decatur, Indiana, Wednesday, .July 31, 1935.

Borah on Spot 'i fl ■k B [Senator Borah HMhS ft J™ 1 i (Im An invasion of Idaho by backers of the New Deal to unseat Senator William E. Borah (R.), top. in 1936, is rumored in Washington j circles. Borah, frequent critic of the adminkitration, is reported to be on the “black list" of Jim Farley, Roosevelt political lieutenant. I Gov. Ben Ross (D.l, three-times i governor of the state, may be the I New- Deal choice as an opponent to Borah. GREAT BRITAIN IS CHIEF HOPE Ethiopians Look To England As Chief Hope To Avert War (Editor’s note: This is the first ' dispatch from the first American Press Association correspondent to reach Addis Ababa to cover the threatened Italian-Ethiopian war). By Edward W. Beattie, UP. Staff Correspondent (Copyright 1935 by UP.) Addis Ababa. July 31. —(U.R) — 1 Ethiopians, prepared to defend ; their ancient empire to the death j if need be, looked to Great Britain ; today as the chief hope of avert- | ‘.ng a war with Italy. They believe that unless Britain acts war is certain, and they say 1 they will accept none but an hon-! orahle peace. To rumors that Ethiopia would, I accept a form of international man-1 date —perhaps under the League of 1 i Nations —officials said stoutly that it was out of the question. They will accept no overlordship, they will agree to no political concessions to Italy, they said. But they are willing to give economic concessions. as Emperor Haile Selassia I said in a statement yesterday. The main anxiety here, as the league council met to consider the dispute with Italy, was leet the council postpone reaj decisions "Until August 25—its previously set deadline for solution of the prob (OONTINURI) ON PAGE TWO) HORSE PULLING CONTEST PLANS Contest Will Be Held In F'ield East Os Legion Park The horse pulling contest on Friday and Saturday mornings August 9 and 10 of the Decatur Free Street Far and agricultural exhibit will be held in the 18 acre field east of the j Amerean Legon memorial park on Winchester street. The driveway to the contest field is froim Oak street. The contest committee announced today that there will be plenty of iparking ■ space tn the field for every one. Fifty dollars in iprizes will be given eaeib day to the four winners of the contests. The prizes in tuch of the cases will be as follows: first, S2O; second, sls; third, sl9, and fourth $5. Friday morning August 9, the lightw.lght team pulling contest will be eligible or this event. On Saturday morning, August 10, the heavyweight team pulling contest will bein tor terms weighing over 3,000 pounds. The teams will be weighed at the Burk Elevator.

32 PROJECTS ARE FINISHED Above Number Completed, 13 Discontinued Under FERA Program Thirty-two projects were completed and 13 discontinued under the FERA program in Adams County, according to W. J. Scott who will complete the closing of the books of the works division of the FERA program, which ends today. Mr. Scott is the district auditor. The (projects completed are: diggi ing the drain at the Adams county memorial hospital, cataloguing the highschool library; cataloguing the public library; redecorating the iuI terior of the Adame codnty memo; rial hospital; the administrative project; repairing the municipal Ight and power linee. Construction of city tennis courts, installation of city water lines; improving the South Ward athletic field; grubbing and leveling city parks; grubbing the St. Mary’s river; cleaning the city light.globes, [oewing for the needy; repair of I sidewalks; oiling and cleaning city | schools; Erection of show caeee for Adams county museum; painting office | rooms, painting of city water plant, cleaning the Adams county memorj ial hospital; repairing of cemeteries in Adams county; construction of I electric light system in rural actions; delivering mattresses; j slaughtering of pigs; removing enow in Decatur; remodeling buildI ing to house ERA cffice. Projects which were discontinued j although not completed at the exi piration of the ERA appropriations ' this month are: Decatur homesteads; plowing of .the relief gardens; sewing at the ■ Adams county memorliil hospital; repairing county roads; cultivation of relief gardens; repairing city water lines; community sanitation; ft pair of drainage end ditches in the county. Repair of city sidewalks; Berne j construction and repair of side- ■ walks; repair and ipainting of Ad- ' ams county infiraury; Geneva con- , struction and repair of sidewalks; 1 painting and re pair of the third j floor of the Adame county memorial , hospital. NAME TWO IN TORSO MURDER Report True Bills Are Returned By Grand Jury Against Women Chicago, July 31—<U.PJ-A coun- | ty grand jury today returned true . bills charging Mrs. Evelyn Smith | and Mrs. Blanche Dunkel with ' the torso murder of 28-year-old Ervin J. Lang, it was reported. The indictments on which the state hopes to give the electric chair its first women victims in Cook county, probably will be returned before chief justice Cornelius J. Harrington in criminal court tomorrow. Each true bill reportedly contained one count charging murder. Harry Jung, Chinese laundryman and sweetheart of Mr-. Smith, was not indicted although his paramour described in her \ confession how he helped her dispose of Lang's butchered body. Assistant state's attorney Char-! les S. Dougherty explained that Jung was not indicted because he . is a fugitive. Police believe he is , (CONTINUED ON PAGE FIVE) o Trustee Asks Relief Workers Report Friday John M. Doan, Washington township trustee has requested all the able bodied men on direct relief to I report to hie office on Friday morning at 7 o’clock. This meeting is very important, Mr. Doan said.

Days Till The FREE STREET FAIR and Agricultural Exhibit

UTILITY HEAD IS SOUGHT TO GIVE EVIDENCE U. S. Marshal At New York Ordered To Hunt For H. C. Hopson Washington, July 31 — (UP) — Senat lobby investigators boosted their estimate of the cost of the 1 associated Gas and Electrc Co.'s ’ fight against the utilities bill to i $805,194 today as orders were issued to the U. S. Marshal at New York to hunt H. C. Hopson, elusive “master mind" of the huge system. As investigators concentrated on the A. G. E. Campaign, the treasury issu. d orders throwing open income tax, excess profits and capital stock returns to the inquiry. Investigators hoped these figures to throw additional light on obscure ; i. bases of the campaign by A. G. E. and other utilities groups against the bill, so far reckoned at over sl,- ■ 399,900. Meantime, the house rules comj mittee resumed its lobby inquiry by ■ .(taring Rep. Patton, D. Tex., tell ; again of the mysterious "cigar (box" episode which intrigued senatorial inquisitors last week. Patton repeated his story and told how he had lived here on SSOO a i month. Senate investigators estimate of I A.G.E. expenditures was more than SIOO,OOO above the figure which had bee n admitted by the utility at the outset of the investigation. Futile efforts to obtain some indication of the whereabout* of Hopson continued. Chairman Hugo L. Black of the committee informed former Rep. Tom M Keown, D., Okla., and Fred Burgouges, A. G. E. vice president (CONTINf’En ON PAGE FIVE) o HOPES RISE FOR ' SPECIAL SESSION Power Os State Finance Committee To Transfer Funds Doubted; May Mean Session Indianapolis, July 31 — (U.R) — ; Hopes of proponents of a special i session of the legislature rose i again today with the announcement by Gov. Paul V. McNutt that I there was a doubt as to the powI ers of the state finance committee to transfer funds without specific | legislation. The governor referred to the i f 8,000.000 surplus which state treasurer Peter F. Hein reported wae on hand at the close of the fiscal year June 30. Use of the surplus to increase the amount returned to local units for payment of teacher sal-1 arles or to finance the federal social security program — if the I latter is enacted —have been proposed to the governor. McNutt indicated that he will ask for an opinion from Atty. Gen. Phillip Lutz. Jr., as to the legality of transfer of funds from the general fund for other purposes. He said "it was possible” that his contingency fund of approximately $190,000 could be utilized i for matching federal funds in ’ any social security program, but j that he would not act in that , direction until satisfied as to its I legality. o BRIDEGROOM IS BRUTAL VICTIM Married Three Weeks. Man Is Mutilated. Dy- • ing In Short Time Chicago, July 31—(U.R) —Walter J. Bauer, bridegroom of three weeks, was bound and gagged today and subjected to a mutilating operation that was performed in a parked car with a pen knife without benefit of anaesthetic. ■ He died shortly thereafter in a ■ hospital. Police suspected a former suitor | of Bauer’s bride. They said the ; operation was such as would only ( be incited by the bitterest jealousy or hatred. Bauer lived long enough after the tortuous ordeal to tell hospital attendants of hie suspicion that a disappointed lover chose this merciless revenge when he found another had been successful in wooing the hand of the pretty Kirksville, Mo., hospital nurse who became Mrs. Bauer three weeks ago. Bauer was a professor of chemistry and said he had been in Ann (CONTINUED ON PAGE FOUR)

Attorney Demands Death Penalty For Young Sex Slayer

CONSERVATION EXHIBIT HERE 'I •111 State Department Will Have Exhibit Here Entire Week Os Fair — Roy Johnson, chairman of the | committee in charge of Conservation day, Friday, August 9, during i the Decatur Free Street Fair and agricultural exhibit, received definite assurance today that the state department of conservation will have an elaborate exhibit here during practicajly the entire week. C. R. Gutermuth, director of the educational division of the state department, stated that the department is preparing an entirety new exhibit, located on a huge truck I and trailer. He further stated that he believ--1 ed the exhibit would be ready for ' display in Decatur by August 6. However, If completion of the new exhibit is delayed, the exhibit used last year will be brought to this city by August 5. Mr. Johnson also announced that a small booth will be erected be- ' side the exhibit, with a man on duty at all times to explain var--1 ious details concerning work of conservation clubs throughout the state amd also to take new memberships. Members of the Adams county fish and game conservation league, who are actively assisting in plans I for the special day, will join in the huge parade Friday afternoon. The members are asked to meet at .the Central school building, ready to parade at l x o’clock on Friday, l August 9. Several banners will be . carried by league members. COUNCIL WILL MEETTHURSDAY

Special Meeting Os Adams County Council Here Tomorrow A special meeting of the Adams county council has been called by County Auditor John W. Tyndall for Thursday morning at 19 o’clock. At this meeting the council will appoint one of its (members to sit on the tax adjustment board and will appoint a successor to Mathias Kirsch, president of the board, who died several weeks ago. The law .provides that u member of the tax adjustment board must be appointed by the council in session on or before August 1. The law also (provides that the council fill any vacancies in its membership. As the meeting of the council was not advertised no appropriations ' oin be made at the meeting. It is i..robable that another session of j the council will (be held later to make up deficiencies in county ap--1 pripriatione. The council will hold a meeting early in September to examine all county budgets for the year of 1936. The council may make any cuts in , the estimates it thinks best. The county tax adjustment board will meet on September 16 to trim . county, city, town, township, school I city and other budgets.

License Prices To Be Lowered Tomorrow Dee Fryback, manager of the Adams county automobile license bureau, today announced that the price of license plates will drop to one-half price, effective tomorrow, August 1. The price is | dropped annually on August 1 to I this price. Report Army Flier Crashes In Ocean Long Beach Oiy., July 31 —(UP) j A coast guard cutter today was dieI patched to a spot nearly a mile south of point Vincente where an army observation plane reported sighting two spotches lot “fffesh green oil" that may mark the spot where lieutenant Arthur Skaer crashed. o WEATHER Generally fair south; possibly local showers north tonight or Thursday; little change In temperature.

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Prosecuting Attorney Demands Thompson Be Given Electric Chair | For Murder. INSANITY HOPE Peoria, 111., July 31 — (U.R) State’s Attorney Edwin V. Champion, talking in a calm, confiden- ■ tial voice to a jury of farmers and tradesmen, demanded today that Gerald Thompson die in the electric chair for the murder of Mildred Hallmark. Champion, avoiding all dramat- > ics, ridiculed the insanity plea by which the curly-headed "grandma’s boy" hopes to escape the death • penalty. Thompson’s lurid confession to the slaying of the 19 year-old case hostess, as well as attacks on 83 other girls, is sufficient to war- • rant the death sentence, he said. The 25-year-old defendant, pictured as a sexual monomaniac who inherited degenerate brutality from his father, is expected to 1 know his fate by nightfall. The e’ate’s attorney described the auburn-haired victim as the ' daughter of a respectable, God--1 fearing family. ■ "You may judge.” he said, "the character of the Hallmark family ! and of Mildred from the appearance and testimony of Ruby Hallmark. her sister. "Ruby identified the clothing of ’ Mildred, found near her nude ’ body in that cemetery ditch.” Thompson's pasty face wore its _ unchanging expressionless mask as Champion talked, but one hand ’ gripped the defense counsel table and the knuckles were white. During the 19 days of the trial angry crowds of townsfolk have (CONTINUED ON PAGE FIVE) : —o Out-Of-Town Friends Attend Dugan Funeral Among the out-of-town friends

who attended the funeral services for Charles A. Dugan, president of the First State Bank, Tuesday afternoon were: B. D. Mitchell of Kokomo president and Don E. Warrick secretary of the Indiana Banker’s Association: Fred Hunting, president of the Fort Wayne National Bank; Charles Buesching, president and George Waldschmidt, vice-pres-ident of the Lincoln National Bank; Frank Leslie. Clarence Kohn, Charles Ireland of the Peoples Savings Bank, Van Wert; E. J. Ilierholzer, cashier of Commercial Bank, Celina L. A. Sprunger, president of the First Bank of Berne; J. V. Ashcraft, J. N. Headington. G. E. Schwartz of the First National Bank, Portland; Postmaster L. G. Ellingham, Fort Wayne; Frank Cutschall, Fort Wayne. Abram Simmons and David 11. Swaim, of (Bluffton, classmates of Mr. Dugan at the old Methodist college in 1881. David Erwin and Judge David E. Smith, Fort Wayne. NAME NEW BANK HEAD NEXT WEEK — Successor To Late Charles A. Duifan May Be

Named Tuesday The selection of a president of the First iState Bank of this city to succeed the late Charles A. Dugan, will probably be made next Tuesday at the regular meeting of the board of directors. Daniel Sprang, chairman of the board, stated that the matter of filling the vacancy would be taken up at the Tuesday meeting and in all probability a successor to Mr. Dugan would be made. Tt will be the duty of the board of directors also to elect a director of the bank. This office may not be filled until the September meeting, Mr. Sprang stated. The office of president, in all probability, will be filled by the selection of one of the directors. Members of the board did not wish to comment in advance of the meeting as to who would be selected to take Mr. Dugan's place. The directors besides Mr. Sprang are, Dynois Schmitt, John P. Braun, Theodore Hobrock, E. W. Busche and Theodore Graliker. Mr. Graliker is cashier of the bank.