Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 33, Number 187, Decatur, Adams County, 8 August 1935 — Page 1

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Os Livestock At ■ lOClock: Shrine Band O An d Patrol Teanl Her ° Xjln The Evening. Immense CROWDS starting at Off! 1 k Kill be the outstanding W' 11 r, ,I,V .1- th.. Decatur nd agricultural in the line of march , hi , prize winning stock. grhof .| children of the city cam.' wardens ,ll “ A,la!ng COUn < observation ■s| ' Ttlt , <i conservation ■EL?" .Asd'd which arriv.it' " 1H morning, also 'i 1,1 ,he ,in ** school children and coni p 'slict s will form ■IL-■ grounds an I Kr di 10 Jackson. ... s-oiid dreet. The live . par id- from the cattle n „ r h on I'l-'-t to Jackson, to Second, livestock will lead the »rh t'" e'hool children c . e . tnbors follow-IBL-V' pamd'.' » feature the .■Zt evening program. The band and patrol team of IK. fayre Will arrive about G rtained by ■ o>m:ic’t until time for (trade. .«n<i i'.itrol team will par.i'i" .it 8 o’clock. of man h will form at ®W:ird and Mad.- march north < ' to Second amt t( Mad:- The patrol <-..-■ u- regular drill ’ Second ami itreets added attraction of the Deca- ... 1.. .: with \ ;-;it ■ ■HE COUNTY IW IS WINNER Bwr-Year()ld Jersey 9Wd Grand ChampS 1 ion At Jersey Show . nW iwn.nl St.ct.. Wayn ■ county ■ *'■- »-• tampion female ■B' . .w t.-'.d her • -w '.i: -ton with the Fr e S’:- t Eair and agriexhibit. at the show wire: five y.. ar old and over: - : Messer. Adame; third. RonWayn. ; f urth, John JB 1 ' DeKai!,; fifth. Telfer Pax ’I- - Steury Brothers, four yr.. rs o ](] and tln d»r f ' r<t . Or'.o Stanley, Wayne; H F S’ Dekalb; third. Griffiths, Adams. ’ tree years old and under |K\ !ir,t ' Johl > Yarde, DeKalb; ■P". Sul Mo.sser. Adams; third. Brothers. Adams; fourth, ■HE'*"' 11 ' <,anl ' , i -sixth. Mn W. Huntington. two years old and under first. Telfer Paxson, Wells John Yarde, DeKalb; third M'.ller, Huntington; fourth, ■? aUnl ey, Warn- ; fifth M. A. Huntington; sixthi william Adams. K a Si ' ■ first, Orlo Stanley. le-eoTid. Si.l M s <p ?r . Adam.s Steel . DeKalb; fourth ■ u , n ’ Wel, -K fifth. Merwin Huntington. W^ llr, *of dam; first.•Orlo Stan3eeon< f. John Yarde, K T t: ' lrd . So! Mosaer, Adams Km-’ “; r I’ax-- 1 ’ ax -- i °n. Welks; fifth. Bk T; '.', n Miller, Huntington; MR ai» n Sr r ’ aXeio ”. Wells, seventh g " a » Griffiths. Adams. —°~~ Pocket »® Picked Os sl2l 11 1 Jauri Sui, a Mexican beet ep ° rte(i to officers today jßfctt^ rket w, ' s pick ' d of < l2l a> ’ ’i’he theft occurred in WKZr L <r ° Wd gathered at the ®|bj nZ plant for the J ce lebration.

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SENATE VOTES *| OUTLAW SUITS ON GOVERNMENT Resolution Would OutlawSuits On “Gold Clause" Obligations Washington, Aug B—<U.R>—The senate overrode vigorous opposition by conservative Democrats and Republicans today and approved a resolution outlawing suits against the government by holders of federal "gold clauseobligations. The vote was 53 to 24. The measure now goes back to the house where an effort probably will be made to restore it to the form in which it passed originally on July 18. As adopted by the senate, the resolution would permit suits for six months after its final enactment. Then the courts would be closed to anyone who feels he has lost money on his government obligations because of the dollar devaluation program. Cries of "repudiation" and warnings that the country's credit would be "impaired'' were heard as the senate sped action under a strict limit on debate. President Roosevelt sent the measure to congress as part of his ‘.muat" program after the supreme court’s decisions upholding the government in the recent "gold cases.” The court left the ■way open, however, for future suits. Permission for the six months’ grace period in which claimant could sue was inserted by the senate banking and currecy committee on motion by Sen. William G. McAdoo, D., Calif., and over objections of the administration. Chairman Pat Harrison. D.. Miss., announced the committee would begin executive sessions on the bill tomorrow. The bill, already passed by Hie house, should be ready for senate t debate early next week, clearing 1 1 the way for adjournment of con(OONTINUFfD ON PAGE TWO) Korean Missionary And Family Here Mr. and Mrs. Charles Sauer and eons Charles, Jr., Robert and Divid, of Kongju, Korea, are visiting in Decatur with Mr. and Mrs. A. D. Duttleu and other relatives, Mr. ‘ Sauer has been a Methodiet missionary nnd educator in Korea for the past 15 years and this is their first trip back to Decatur since 1928. Mr. Sauer is on a year’s furlough and intends to lecture through-out the United States. 0 PLAN TO END DOLE NOV. 1 Officials State Works Program To Be In Full Swing At That Time (Copyright, 1935, by UP.) Washington, Aug. 8. —<U.R> —The administration, it was learned today, plans to s f art shutting off direct relief to whole states on September 1 and end the dole all over the country two months later by putting 3,500.000 mon to work. Work-relief oiTlc-:als predicted their $4,000,000,000 emp'oyment drive will become so effective within three weeks that three states will need no more federal emergney relief administration money. ' Needy in seven or eight other ' sta’es are definitely slated for transfer from relief rolls to payrolls by September 15. The number will .be increased to 30 by October 1 and 48 on November 1. The move, program officials said, will definitely solve the problem of caring for “unemployables.” There will be no more federal relief money. States, counties and municipalities must feed them. Although employment directors , refused to name the first states to , .be cut oft the dole list, they (,CONTINUED ON PAGE THREE)

ROOSEVELT TO STAND PAT ON THE NEW DEAL Despite Rhode Island Defeat, President Stands Firm On Issues I (Copyright 1935 by United Press) Washington. Aug. 8 — (U.R) — President Roosevelt will stand ' pat on the new deal and go into ! the 193 G presidential campaign I with issues repudiated Tuesday I by Rhode Island voters in a byI election which revealed the administration to be slipping in a typical. New England industrial constituency. Conservative Democrats have been grumbling for months againet some phases of the new deal program. They would like to put the brakes on Roosevelt. The president Is more or less opposed by a "conservative insurgent” group of Democratic senators and representatives just as the famous Progressive Republican bloc heckled former Presidents Coolidge and Hoover. Postmaster General James A. Farley predicted early last spring that the big fellows would buck the new deal next year and that the little man and his wife and voting age children would ride once more with Roosevelt. Farley pointed out that there are more little fellows than big ones in the United States —measured in terms of bankrolls. His mathematics are excellent but some political observers of the Democratic wreckage in Rhode Island’s first congressional dis- ' trict after Tuesday’s election beI lleve Farley may have over estimated the 1936 vote betting powers of reform and recovery. Whether the Rhode Island result means nothing or much in relation to next year’s presiden- : ‘ial polling, Mr. Roosevelt intends to fight the campaign on battle lines already established. In one resnect the administra- : tion ks beaten and apparently knows it. The Roosevelt plan for "7cONTTNI’ET> C'N PAGE TWO) 0 DEATH CLAIMS DANIEL SCHERR Y Former Kirkland Township Trustee Dies Wednesday Night Daniel J. C. Scherry. 60. prominent Democrat of Adams county and a former trustee of Kirkland township, died at his home in Krrkland township Wednesday night at 8:30 o’clock. Death was due to heart trouble. Mr. Scherry had been ailing for several yeajs, but his condition did not become serious until July 4 of this year. Mr. Scherry took a prominent part in politics, and served as trustee of Kirkland township for four years. He was also prominent in church activities and was superintendent of the Magley Reformed Sunday School for a number of years. He spent his entire life in Kirk- ■ land township with the exception of four years he resided at Kings-1 'and. He lived on the Scherry | home place at the time of his. death. He was born in Kirkland township on March 8, 1875, a son of | ' Christian . and Susanna Breiner-1 Scherry. His marriage to Lydia Reppert took place ou September, | 1900, and she preceded him in i death on September 22, 1928. Surviving are a son and three daughters: Milton Scherry of HuntJngton; Mrs. Losier Eckrote, Linn ; Grove; Mrs. Lester Cowan and Marcella Scherry, at home. Five brothers and a sister also survive: Henry T. fecherry, Preble township; Edward Scherry, Kirkland township; John Scherry, near Bluffton; Rev. Otto Scherry, New Bavaria, Ohio, and Charles Scherry of Kirkland township, and Mrs. Louis Krutxman. Union township. Three grandchildren survive. Funeral services will be held (CONTINUED ON PAGE THREE) i State Police Aid In Handling Crowd A number of state police offioere were sent to Decatur today to assist in handling the immense crowds attracted to the city by Cloverleaf Dairy Day. in addition to Ed Rose end Al Teusch, who have been on duty here all week, others sent here today are R. C. Foret, lieutenant; j and patrolmen R. K. Paul and James Sorenson.

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Decatur, Indiana, Thursday, August 8, 1935.

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W. A. Klepper, general manager of Cloverleaf Creameries, Inc., genial host to the thousands of visitors here today for Cloverleaf Dairy Day. Mr. Klepper staged the first dairy day in this city in 1926. Today’s crowd broke all records.

CONSERVATION EXHIBIT OPEN State Department Exhibition Arrives In Decatur Today The exhibit furnished by the Indiana department of conservation and displayed here through the cooperation of the Adams county fish and game conservation league arrived in Decatur today and was located on North Second, street, half a block north of the Monroe street intersection. The display is contained in a I large semi-trailer truck completed and released from the paint shop in Indianapolis at 6:3d o’clock Wednesday evening. The men in charge of it from the Indiana department of conservation drove the truck from Indianapolis and loaded it up at the Brown county conservation farm. They drove all night and. arrived in Decatur this morning where it will be exhibited for the > first time. In the bottom row of exhibits are: prairie dogs, fox squirrels.; raccoons, grey foxes, coyotes, a black bear, ferrets, ground hogs, a lynx cat, red fox, possums, and skunks. In the top row are: wild tur-, keys, mallard ducks, ringneck pheasants, mulen pheasants, a golden eagle, two owls, including a snow owl, a red tail hawk, a silver pheasant, a reeves pheasant, and a lady Amherst pheasant. Two boxes of snakes are also j included. One box has rattle j snakes and the other black snakes. — 0 HORSE PULLING CONTESTS HERE Adams County Teams To Compete Friday And Saturday Mornings Several hundred persons are expected to be in Decatur early Fri-! day and Saturday mornings for the horse puliing contests. The contests will be in two ‘ divisions, the lightweight, from 3,000 pounds down; and the heavyweight, 3,000 pounds "or over. The events will be held on the 18-acre fie’d, directly east of Legion MemoriaJ park on Winchester street. Entrance to the contest field can >be gained from Oak street.] Only Adams county teams are eligible to compete in the contests.. The lightweight contest will be held Friday morning and the heavyweight Saturday morning. All entrants are to be at the field reaziy, to pull at 9 o’clock each morning. I Fifty dollars in prizes wi.U be presented to the winners in each weight division. These prizes will be divided as follows: first. S2O; | second, sls; third, $10; fourth. $5. The committee in charge of the i contests, who will also act as 1 judges, -is as follows: Henry Dehner, chairman; Ed Neuhaaiser, Roy Johnson, Winfred Gerke, Leon]' Neuenschwander and H. P. Schmitt j

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Announce Canning Contest Winners Miss Pauline Yosa placed first and Misa Mary ElizaL-ath Arnold, second, in tlie Ball canning contest h Id each year by the Ball Brothers of Muir ie, manufacture ru of glass cans. The first county prize is one dozen jars and both first and second winners are entered in the state wide contest at ths state fair. Other entrants in this contest were Eleanor Johnson. Kathryn Schafer. Mildred Thieme, Frances Barkl?y, Idabell? Worthinan, Avonelle ißiehold, Marj rie Dilling. Doris Fricke, Bernice Mathys. Linda Marbaugh, Elma J-an Wynn, Helen Hyman, Vera E. Schwartz, Virginia Schwartz and Agnes S hultz. FIVE CLASSES JUDGED TODAY Five Classifications Os | Horse Show Judged At 1 O’Clock Five classifications of the horse ! show of the Decatur Fres Street fair and agricultural xhibit-had been judged at 1 o'clock this afternoon. All judging, conducted by Char- ' les Wentz, nationally known horse- j ' man cf Kin'jy, Ohio, was held in the show ring on South First street. The show was limited to Adams ■county entries. Winners in the classifications I judged so far are as follows: Gold medal class, pure bred I studs: Hubert Schmitt, first, Archie Smitley, second; Frank Habegger, third, fourth and fifth. Gold medal class, pure bred mares: Frank Habegger, first; Henry Aschliman, second; Peter B. Lehman, third; Mrs. 11. H. Baumgarter fourth. Gold m?dal class, grade studs: E.! I W. Busch:, first; Noah Augsburger. 'second; Menna Wullitnan, third; J. J. Yoder, fourth. I Gold Medal class, grade mares: ; jFloyd Shoaf, first; William Neadstine, second; Ed Bollenbach, third; | Otto Hoile, fourth; Frank Merri- ' nan fifth; Wilbur Lehman, sixth; j Walter Lehman, seventh; Mennas Wulliman, eighth; Milliam Rupert, ininth. Per.heron suckers. Otto Hoile, first; Chari s Kukelhan, second; Winfred Gerke, third; Kunkelban , brothers, fourth and fifth. o Effort To Sidetrack Wage Measure Downed Washington. Aug. B—(UP8 —(UP) —The senate today defeated an effort to •sidetiack the adminstration's bill fixing minimum wage and hour requir ments for government coni tract work. Administration forces beat down, 45 to 25. a move of Senator Bennett Clark, D., Mo., to have the bill sent back to the labor committee. I Clark said the bill was "merely an effort to resuscitate the NRA," He said “it seeks to freeze into law ( every code provision held unlawful by the supreme court in the SchechIter case and would make permanent ] every inequality and unfairness contained in the codes.”

Cloverleaf Dairy Day Brings Largest Crowd Os Week Into Decatur For All-Day Program

TORSO KILLERS SENTENCED TO PRISON TERMS Two Women Escape Electric Chair; Given 180 Year-Terms Chicago. Aug. 8— (U.R) — MrsBlanche Dunkel and Mre. Evelyn Smith, convicted perpetrators of the torso murder of Ervin Lang, i were both sentenced to 180 years I in prison today by Judge Cornelius J. Harrington. The pair was found guilty by Judge Harrington yesterday, after a juryless trial. In confessions read into the court record Mrs. Dunkel admitted she plotted the murder because I-ang, her son-in-law. with whom she had been living as man and wife, was unfaithful. Mrs. Smith eaid she : committed the murder for hire and dismembered the body to make it easier to hide. ’ Judge Harrington, in finding the women guilty in a trial that lasted only two days and provided no ■, other witnesses in the women's ; defense, termed the murder “the ’ most callous in Cook county’e his--1 tory.” ' The Smith woman, wife of a 1 Chinese laundryman sought in ‘ connection with the murder, throw back her head and laughed when ' asked whether she preferred • death to life in prison. ■' “Oh, you fellows know I’ve ’ never been, fussy.” she said. •, ' The frail, faded blonde who cut • off Lang's legs with a hack saw • and stuffed the torso into a trunk before dumping it in a gangland "cemetery’’ near Hammond. Ind., I a month ago said she felt not the I least bit remorseful. “I should have known better. (CONTINUED ON PAGE FOUR) I ■ 0 Niece Os Decatur Woman Is Winner Little Miss Rose Ann Blauvelt, two and one half year old daughter | of Mr. and Mrs. Carl Blauvelt of Fort Wayn?, niece of Mrs. Will' l in ; Schumacker of this city, has been awarded the final sweepstake cup ■ in the kiddla beauty contest held in i e?nn tion with the recent American Legion circus in Fort Wayne. Mr. Blauvelt is a brother of Mrs. : Schumacher. The child was awarded double honors, receiving the cup in the third division for girls, her health rating averaging more than 98 per cent. In the sweepstake contest, winners in all three divisional icontests were entered. The third division included children ranging in ages from two to three years. — o TAXADJUSTMENT MEMBERS NAMED Judge De Voss Names Six Members Os County Adjustment Board Judgs Huber M. DeVoss today appointed six members of the Adams county tax adjustment board to serve in September. This board examines all the budgets set up by local taxing units and makes any reductions it sees fit. Judge DeVose appointed Mayor Arthur R. Holthouse of Decatur to serve as a m mber of the board representing civil cities in the 'county. He r-e appointed Christ Stengel, a member of the Berne school board to represent th.? school beards of the county. He appointed Howard Mauller, trustee of Union township, to serve as a representative of the township trustees. Three republicans were named to represent property owners. Three men on the board must be of an opposit? political faith than the majority according to law. These men are: Ernest Reicheldeffer, Geneva; Frank Johnson. Berne rout. ; Theodore Uhle, Preble township. At the last meeting of the county council, the members appointed James Hendricks, as its representative on the tax adjustment board.

* FREE ACTS Thursday 7:00— Four La Vernes, South Second. 7:3o—The Stratosphere Man Fourth and Monroe, ' B:oo—Damon & Pythias, Central School. 9:30 —Oeaki and Taki, South Secund. 10:00—Dashington's Animals I N'-rth Second. P. M. Friday 4:30 —Four LaVernes, South j Second. | 5:00 —The Stratosphere Man, | Fourth and Monroe. 7:00 —Oeaki and Taki, South | Second. | 7:30 —Dishington’s Animals, | North Second. | 9:3o—The Stratosphere Man, | Fourth and Monroe. 10:00—Four LaVernes, South | Second. STATE IS LOWER State Assessments For County Are $144,997 Lower State assessments compiled by County Auditor John W. Tyndall from figures determined by state assessors were 1144,997 lower this years than last. The state each yeaj- assesses all public utilities and railroads. These are added to make local ass-eee- ■ ments. The decrease in the state assessments means that the .locaj tax rate will have to be raised to bring in the same amount of money ; in 1936. I Local assessments were raised , about a million dollars because of i the Tecommendtions of the state and because of the increased value of personal property including live stock. Municipally owned utilities decreased this year from $305,370 to $302,390. The assessments of the four p'ants are: Berne Water Works, 1934. $27,100, 1935. $24,390; Decatur Electric Plant, 1934, $190,000, 1935, same; Decatur Water Works, 1934, $79,000, 1935. same; Geneva Water Works, 1934, $9,000, 1935, same; totals, 1934, $305,370; 1935, $305,370. Pending a court decision on the new law which compels municipal plants to pay county and state taxes, Decatur and Geneva in common with many other cities in the state have refused to pay their 1935 taxes due on the 1934 assessments. The assessments made by the state in the various township for 1935 for taxes to be paid in 1936 are: Blue Creek: railroads, none, utilities, 49,081, total assessments, 49,081. French: railroads, none; utilities 52,702; to!al assessments, 52,702. Hartford: railroads," none; utilities, 26,394; total assessments, 26,394. Jefferson: railroads, none; utilities, 8,185; total assessments, 8.185. Kirkla.nd: railroads, 146,065; utilities, 31,920; total assessments. 177,985. Monroe: railroads, 119,394; utilities, 121,24/); tonal assessments, 240,634. Pr = ble: railroads, 272,283; utilities, 145,422; total assessments, 417.705. Root: railroads, 191,050; utilities (CONTINUED ON PAGE SIX) WEATHER Generally fair tonight and Friday Somewhat warmer Friday and extreme southwest tonight. ] WILL PAVE 224 James D. Adams, director of | i the Indiana state highway com- | | mission, while speaking briefly | | at the luncheon at the Rice | hotel this noon, stated that | | highway 224. extending west | | from Decatur, will be paved | | next summer. The highway head said that | | he traveled over the highway | | enroute to the Dairy Day ob- j I servance today, and found the | | road in very poor condition. | | Local citizens have been try- j | ing for several years to have | I the highway improved. | <

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Crowd Os More Than 20,000 Attracted To Decatur By Dairy Day; Throng Streets At Early Hour. PARADE AT NOON I I Twenty thousand people, guests | of the Cloverleaf Creameries, to- | day filled the Legion Memorial | Park and the Cloverleaf Creamer- | les plant here today as the bienI nial Dairy Day celebration drew | the biggest crowd of the Decatur | Free Street Fair and agricultural | exhibit. The program officially opened I at 8:30 o'clock this morning with I the crowd being invited to attend I the free exhibits and the displays. Tours through the plant were ► conducted by officials and repre- • sentatlves of the cloverleaf Creameries. Between 9:30 and 10:15 o’clock band concerts were enjoyed by the crowd. The music was spread I out over the crowd through the I use of an elaborate public address system. At 10:15 o’clock a quality cattle • demonstration was given. Good and bad points in the cattle were illustrated by comparisons. Cattle were displayed and proper methods of handling dairy herds r were explained. 1 A clever program, sponsored by > the home economics clubs in the s county, was known as the surprise hour. 1 Free ice cream and lemonade i were served the mammoth crowd -by the Cloverleaf Creameries, s Lunch at noon was served by ,1 numerous stands erected by a church organizations. V i One of the features of the day i was the air conditioned cars now 1' in operation on the Erie railroad, f Two air conditioned coaches were e' shown with cooling systems ope [ erated by live steam at a cost of ? i $6,000 a day. The steam furnishes a vacuum ■ permitting water to boil at 40 de--31 grees. This sucks the heat out of the air. The air is washed conr tinuously. Another exhibit was on display r on these tracks sponsored by the • Union Refrigerator Transit oom- • pany. This consisted of two refrigerator cars, one loaded with ’ Cloverleaf Creameries products. ’ i Klondike Iceberg, Guernsey bull I born in the Anarctic on Byrd’s ’ last expedition to the south pole. ‘ This bull was in a special tent with his mother, a purebred Guernsey cow from the Klondike farm. The winning animals at the (CONTINUED ON PAGE FIVE) , 0 A. OF P. PLAY HERE TONIGHT I Local Lodge Observes 60th Anniversary Os Founding Today Plans are complete for the obser- - vance of tie 60th anniversary of the , founding of the local chapter of the Knights of Pythias lodge tonight. Chief on the program will be the . public i; resentation of the dramatization cf the story of Damon and ■ Pythias, to be given on an open air , stage at the west side of the Central school building, at 8 o'clock toi night. Guests from a radius of 150 miles were arriving in Decatur today to attend Dairy Day and the program at the lodge. ’ The play will be open to the pubI lie. It will last only about 40 minutes. Comfortable seats have been set up. ; The east of the play held a dress rehearsal on the stage Wednesday evening. No speeches or other program will be held at the play. A short program will be held at the lodge at 7:15 o’clock for members only. The Pythian Sisters served a public dinner at noon today in the lodge room. At 5:30 o’clock tonight a second 35 cent public dinner w'll be served. Among the prominent out of town guests will be Raymond R. Tash of Salem, grand chancellor for the state of Indiana of the Knights of Pythias and Carl R. Mitchell of Montpelier, grand keeper of the • lodge in Indiana.