Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 33, Number 191, Decatur, Adams County, 13 August 1935 — Page 1

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Decatur Valuation Shows An Increase The valuation of Decatur was Increased $55,664 according to tauulatlons released by County Auditor John W. Tyndall today. The 1934 total uoaessmentfl were 14,363, 223 for the city corporation and the 1935 figure was $4,418,887. Thin valuation does not Include the two municipal utilities which are assessed only for county and tate taxi a. The electric light plant was valued at $190,000 this year the same tw last year. The water department was increased from $79,000 to $79,270. TO START WPA PROGRAM HERE Ornamental Light Erection First Project To Be Started The first .project to be opened in . Adame county under the new WPA program will ba the continuation of the installation of the ornamental street lighting sj-etem on Second street. A crew of 18 men will be put to work either Monday or Tuesday, C. D. Butts, district engineer for the WPA, told Mayor Arthur R. Holt- ’ hou»» hiie afternoon. Ai> soon aa posible, additional vrewe will lie added to the local PWA office to repair city streets and sewers. The crew next week will begin where the FERA laborers quit at the expiration of the FERA appropriation several weeks ago. Banes for he new light polee have been installed along part of Second str et. The new works program has been 'started in several other counties in the state. Becaueo of the amount of d.tail necesoiry in the setting up of new offices it is .probable that it will be several w ek.s before the _• rogram ki complete. Work on th ■ ornamental light project was started some time ago in tne expectation that the system would be ro’.dy in time for the visit--1 ors to ths Decatur Free Street Fair. ■ ft was the last of ths major projects I to be discontinued under the FERA i program. FATE OF VETS TO BE DECIDED German Veterans’ Organization May Be Disbanded By Hitler ‘ (Copyright 1935 by United Press) Berlin. Aug. 13—<U.R>—A meet- | ing of leaders of the Stahlhelm was expected today to foretell i the fate of the powerful organization of war veterans and the fu- ' ture relations of hundreds of thousands of its members to the Nazi party. “Steel helmet” leaders called : from all over the country were awaiting Frank Seldte. minister of labor in the cabinet and their ’ national leader, and his report on I a conference yesterday with Adolf Hitler at Berchtesgaden, in Bavaria. Popular expectation was that, in the end. the “death knell” of ! the Stahlhelm. bated by Nazi radii cale since Hitler's rise to power, ' would again be sounded as it has ■ so many times before. What actually would happen ; was a matter for speculation in that the Stahlhelm has been merged, purged, absorbed and reconstituted at times all during the two yeare of the Nazi regime, and remains today an object of suspicion as to its loyalty to the Nazi program—and as to its real (CONTZ-VTTED OX’ PAOF. THREE) o Jury Deliberates Detroit Murder Case Detroit. Mich., Aug. 13—(UP)— A jury of six men and eix women today deliberated the fate of WilDim Schweitzer an dthree women companions, charged with the claying of Howard Carter Dickinson, prominent New York attorney and naphew of chief justice Charles Evans Hughes of the supreme court. The jury retired at 12:40 P. M. an hour after judge John A. Boyne had b; gun his charge. He explained that in the case of Schweitzer, 26 year old underworld figure of many aliases, it could return a verdict of first degree murder, with mandatory life sentence; a second deI gree verdict carrying a sentence of ! any number of years up to life; a ' manslaughter verdict, or acquittal. I The penalty for manslaughter in Michigan is 15 years.

HOWARD HOPSON IN TESTIMONY TO COMMITTEE Long-Sought Utility Head 1 Gives Testimony To House Committee Washington, Aug. 13. — (U.R) — i Howard C. Hopson, smiling, jovial mystery man of the congressional i lobby investigation earnestly told I house Investigators today that he ■ I couldn’t remember his present In- ■ come, although he recalled making k some SIOO,OOO tn 1922. The reputedly dominant figure in the giant Associated Gas and ■ Electric company, sought for weeks jin the invtstig&tion of a $1,800,000 campaign against the WheelerRayburn bill, but found only yesterday, mixed flashes of ajigry det fiance with roars of laughter when l he appeared before the committee, f And at the end of the morning 1 session, he again demonstrated the I ease with which he avoids sub-poena-bearers by scooting away in , u taxi while an investigator from the rival senate lobby committee . fume don the side-walk —ebupoena still in hand. House investigators aided HopI son in ejecting the senate commitI tee investigator from an elevator, ( contending the utility man still was under house jurisdiction. Hopeon. neatily dressed and holding a light cane on his lap as he talked into loud speakers in the ( crowded house committee room, j discussed in detail — and to the confusion of those present —the complex A. G. E. system and his part in building It up to where its ' gross earnings were estimated at, j $190,000,000 annually. But when the questioning, dl- ' rected by chairman J. O’Connor, got around to Hopson’s income, the rotund little utility man flared. “Your’ve invading my privacy— ■ guaranteed by the constitution,” ■ he souted at one time, swinging, 1 his short arm in a "wide gesture. I “1 would tell if I knew, but I don’t j know. I wouldn’t attempt to go 1 into it.” Discussing the building of the Associated Gas and Electric; Hopson said that the public—which ; O’Connor estimated had put $50,j 000,000 in the company up to 1925 • —wasn’t interested in voting on the management of the concern. “When a utility executive re- 1 ' ceiv-as large salaries," h ? continu-, ied later, ’’the investor pays for it I —not the consumer. The average (CONTINUED ON PAGE SIX) O Three Girls Win Trips To Round-Up The following Home Economics : Club girls, Misseo Beatrice Mathys of Wabauh. Harriett Kunkel of Root, and Vera Schwartz of Monroe, have • won trips to Uii-e Purdue Round-up , this November. The girls were choesn for their exceptional w-ork.

T able Os Tax Valuations In County

Assessments in 1935 for taxes payable in 1936 increased nearly j three quarters of a million dollars, j according to tabulations released today by the County Auditor John W. Tyndall showing assessments in all taxing units in Adams county. The total assessments in 1934 ; were $21,888,298 and in 1935, $22,628.406. aji increase of $704,108. Only personal property was reassessed this year. With a few changes the 1934 real estate assessments were used. The four municipal utilities were assessed at $302,390 this year and at $305,370 in 1934, a decrease of $2,980. Only the Berne water department paid taxes to the county and state on their 1934 assessments. The Decatur and Geneva p'ants have withheld the payment of taxes pending the outcome of a court decision on thte 1933 statute which compels municipal utilities to pay

State Mortgage Valuation Valuation Co Utilities Real Imp. Personal Assessment Exempt. Total 1935 Total 1934 Blue Creek 785,165 $ 141,690 $ 49,081 $ 71,900 $ 904,036 $ 860,671 Frenc h 855.783 160,780 52,702 58.990 1.010,275 996.488 Hartford 932.490 143,550 26.394 60.900 1,041,534 1,027,701 Jefferson 862,290 128,320 8,185 75,630 923,165 903,211 Kirkland 902.025 163.120 177,985 66,080 1.177,050 1,137.415 M()liroe 1,402,495 256,780 240,634 135,900 1.764.009 1,718.009 Preble - 932.440 225,480 417.705 69.700 1,505.925 1,511,422 R . 1 284,011 234,610 276,853 89,880 1,705,594 1,655,153 g. Maryg ' 786,811 115.585 511,300 67,290 1,346.406 1,333.30$ Un)on 872,270 157,360 9.484 77,650 961,464 915,753 Wabash 1 347,756 307.560 148,118 111,730 1,691,704 1,294,485 Wash'ngton 1 359,868 196,040 666,735 95,090 2,127,553 2,133,890 Berne 1 029,530 447.925 92,625 106,590 1.463.490 1.451,387 Decatur-Root 171.300 187.110 5,359 1,250 362.519 313,526 Decatur-Washington 3,197,275 734.790 364,223 239,920 3,056,368 4.049,697 Geneva Corp 281,690 117,850 53.994 32,700 420,834 429,691 Monroe—Monroe 94,030 47,610 15,340 8,290 148,690 Mon. Corp. Monroe —Washington 15,050 3,040 300 17,790 156,565 To tai ß $17,112,279 $3,769,200 $3,116,717 $1,369,790 $22,628,406 $21,888,298

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Decatur, Indiana, Tuesday, August 13, 1935.

New EPIC Leader

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Although the next gubernatorial campaign isn’t until 1938, Culbert Olson, above, chairman of the Democratic state central comj mittee and state senator from bos Angeles, Cal., Is being prominently mentioned as the likely candidate to lead the Democratic .tlckett in 1938. Olson is being mentioned as the potential successor to Upton Sinclair who won the Democratic nomination for governor last year on an EPIC platform. He was in command of Sinclair’s gubernatorial campaign in 1934.

WILL CONTINUE | PRESENT WAGES Harold L. Ickes Says Administration To Stand Firm On Scale Washington, Aug. 13 — (UP) — I Public works administrator Harold ■ L. Ickes today said the administraI tion will stand by its decision to pay ! prevailing rates for PWA projects while continuing the sl9 to $94 a month "security” wages for the i works progress administration. He made the statement at his bi- ; weekly press conference when ask- : ed for comment on the American federation of labor’s request tnat all , WPA projects be transferred to ■ PWA to provide for union pay ’ I sc ales. 1 "I don’t think any comment from me is necessary on the A. F. of L’a resolution.” Ickes 9iid, "Anyway, i 1 don’t think these strikes against I WPA will spread. “In essence, PWA and WPA pro-1 jects are two different types, PWA j ne-eds highly skilled workers while > WPA is less exacting, not requiring 1 the same high skill. “There’s one more difference. I Political subdivisions put up more money for PWA than for WPA projects. Under our regulations the state or community can determine ON PAGE FOUR)

I state and county taxes. The ass sements of the four I utilities are: Decatur light company, $190,000; 1934, $190,000; Decatur Water plant, $79,000; 1934, $79,270; Bernfe Water department, $24,390; 1934, $27,100; Geneva Water company, $9,000; 1934, $9,000, totals, 1935, $302,390; 1934, $305,370. The slate assessments for corporations were: Farmers Light & Power company, $4,830; 1934, $4,390; Indiana Service Corp., $337,■190; 1934, $336,660; Northern Indiana Public Service Co., $129,720; . 1934, $132,550; Sherman Wlliite j company, $360; 1934, $915; American Telephone & Telegraph Co., $13,908,51; 1934, *21,826. Citizens Telephone Co., of Decatur, $183,924; 1934, $194,535; Craigvllle Telephone Co., $4,023; 1934, $3,910; Hoagland Switchboard Ass’n., $360; 1934, $360; Home Telephone & Te’egraph Co.. $1,504; 1934, $1,504; Poe Farmers' Tele-

LOCAL SCHOOLS OPEN SEPT. 3 Public And Catholic Schools Will Open Day After Labor Day The Decatur public schools and the Decatur Catholic schools will open Tuesday, September 3, the day following Labor Day. as has been the custom for many years. Both schools will offer a nine months term this year, the same as last. The city school board has announced that despite reductions made in the teaching staff this year the echolastic standards of the school will remain as high as last and that the graduates of the Decatur high school will be eligible to enter college on the same basis as last year. Book Itets will be given to the pupils in the city schools Tuesday. School will be conducted the same day. Rural schools will also open on September 3. The regular terms will be taught in all rural schools, i Pupils in these schools will be given their book lists Friday, August 30. Carpenters and painters are busy this month cleaning and repairing the school buildings. No estimate has yet been given l on the approximate number of t pupils to be registered in the var--1 ious schools in the county. It is | oosslble that the city schools may I be increased some because of the ! number of new' families which have moved to the city and because of the homesteads developI ment. 0 — Former Decatur Resident Dies James E. Crane, 77, 1203 Scott avsnue, Fort Wayne, and a former resident of Decatur, ditd at the St. Joseph Hospital Monday night at 12:30 o’clo?k. Death was the result of a broken hip. Mr. Crane was a member of tlhe Masonic lodge. H? lived in Decatur 40 years ago at which time he workI ed on the Erie railroad. Surviving are the widow, a stsp- ' daughter, Mrs. Gladys Hearn, a step 'son, Roscoe Glendenning of tills city; a sister in Washington D. C. and a nephew, Lake Olendenning of Gen v>x. Funeral services WTII be held in Fort Wayne Thursday afternoon and burial will be made in the West i Lawn cemetery at G.neva. o Judging Contest Winners Named In the judging contest which was . held last Friday morning at the Central school. Miss Vera Schwartz lof the Busy Bee Club won first place. Miss Alvina Butler. Blue Criek, second and Miss Cathleen Kenney, Jefferson, third. Mrs. Chas. .Holthouse and Miss Helen Kenney assisted in the judging.

phone Co., $240; 1934, $220. • Preble Mutual Telephone Co., $2,211; 1934, $2,211; Star Telephone Co., $390; 1934, $420; Ohio Asso'ciated Telephone Co., $4,243.50; 11934, $4,627.50; Indiana Bell Telej phone Co., $3,040; 1934. $3,040; .United Telephone Co., $12,996; 1934, $16,415.04. Pullman Co., $10,906; 1934, $12,658.75; Railway Express, $835.65; 11934, $891.36; Illinois Pipe Line, $110,955; 1934, $135,750; Indiana ■Pipe Line, $132,300; 1934, $148,60; j Western Union, sls, 512.90; 1934, .$15,990.22. Chicago & Erie, $1,002,395.60; 1934, $1,068,503.20; Pennsylvania JR. R„ $602,692; 1934, $602,206; New York. Chicago & St. Louis, *542,136.20; 1934, $553,480.20; totals,’ $3,116,720.36; 1934, $3,261,713.27. With complete tabulation ot all taxes in the county, with municipal utilities excluded, as they pay I only state and county taxes, are as follows:

’LABOR LEADERS I CLAIM WORKERS TO FIGHT WAGE Labor Heads Say Protest Against Wage Will • Be Nation W r ide » - s New York, Aug. 13. —(U.R) —Am- • erican Federation of I-abor lead- ) ers warned President Roosevelt to- • day that labor’s protest against the WPA “security” wage may - spread throughout the country and wreck the $4,000,000,000 work-re- » lief program. The leaders were F attempting to tie up $50,000,000 in ; j federal projects with a strike of ■ 1 15,000 men. - J Officials of the works progress administration asserted the New York strike had collapsed, with j fewer than 1,000 men of 100,000 . oft their jobs, but Pres. William » Green of the A. F. of L. announced he was “reliably Informed" i that labor throughout the nation , will defy the government work-or-starve ultimatum. New York heads ' 1 the A. F. of L. disputed governj ment estimates of the number of ’ ' men who struck against the “se- , curlty” wage yesterday, but refus- . jed to make an estimate of thier own until 56 striking unions rej ported. ,• Green, presiding at the annual meeting of the American Federation of Labor executive council ’ in Atlantic City, recommended to Mr. Roose', elt at the council’s di3 rection that all construction work 1 assigned to the works progress administration be transferred to the public works administration. The SVPA, under executive order. pays employes from relief rolls the so-called security wage, which , in New York is $93.50 a month for • most skilled building tradesmen, or 78 cents ‘Sh hour. The PWA ' pays the prevailing wage scale in r each community. Iu New York ' that is $1.50 an hour for such 1 trades are carpentry, plumbing, and bricklaying. Unless the administration alters ’ a policy of forcing skilled labor to r work at the “security’ wage, Green ' (said, “we are reliably informed that las WPA work relief projects are ’"launched in all the different cities p. — 3 (eONTTNT'HD T’XGE TWCD 1 I ° PREFERS REATH TO COURT TRIAL Owner of Land On Which I Stills Were Found Commits Suicide J Wawaka, Ind., Aug. 13 —(UP) — The decapitated body of Frank . Knepper, 50, Wawaka farmer, was i found along the New York Central railroid tracks by a crew of section workers near here today. He is believed to have thrown himself in front of a train in an effort to end his life. Libel action by the federal government to acquire title to a 40 acre tmet of land owned by Knepper and on which two illicit stills were found during a raid by Federal and state officials last May 4. is on file in federal district court at South Bend. The federal action which caused Knepper to become despendent is still pending in court. Knepper was arrested with G. G. Houk and Mike Osman, both of Fort Wayne, on a charge of owning and op rating a still without a license ,: was at liberty under bond. It was reported boat Knepper had tried to committ suicide on several previous occasions. An investigation in the death will be made by the .: Noble county coroner. o Hog Process Tax Is Held Invalid Baltimore, Md., iAug. 13 —(UP) — The AAA hog processing tax today was held unconstitutional by Federal Judge W. Calvin Chesnut,. The court granted an injunction to John A. Gebelein. Inc., a packing house, restraining the government from collecting the tax. Judge Chesnut held that the AAA act was a wholesale regulation on agriculture In the several states for wt'.ich congress had no power to levy a special tax and that the tax imposed through an unwarranted delegation of power to the secretary or agriculture. WEATHER Generally fair tonight and Wednesday, preceeded by thunder showers south portion this afternoon or early tonight; somewhat warmer Wednesday afternoon except along Lake Michigan.

Cool Winds Bring Temporary Relief Indianapolis. Ind., Aug. 13 —(UP) | —Cool winds brought Indiana relief j from a two-week’s oppressive heat " wave today but a resumption of the ‘ higher temperatures was expected “ within the next 24 hours. Thundershowers which brought | the relief last night will continue in some portions this afternoon and tonight but bite entire state will experience fair and warmer weather tomorrow, H. Armington, Meteorologist said. Indianapolis recorded a temper- [. ature of 95.9 yesterday afternoon, i. ! the next to the highest reading in 11 the city this year. ~ o SEWAGE PEAKS ARE DISCUSSED 3 ! Sewage Disposal In Decatur Is Discussed i , With Engineer a Sewage disposal and the build- ’ ing of a treatment plant in Deca-1 s tur under the federal works ad-1 j I ministration plan, were discussed , by Edwin C. Hurd of the Charlee j ’ H. Hurd firm, Indianapolis, con-! j. suiting engineers, with members of the council and city officials | last evening. ! In company with Ralph Roop, .. i civil engineer, city attorney Her-, I man Myers and Mayor Holthouse, u Mr. Hurd visited the sewer out-! i_ lets in Decatur yesterday and It told the council that the building I. of an intercepter sewer would not 8 be such an expensive undertaking. The intercepter would start I- south of the Erie railroad bridge s j where the Knapp sewer empties a into the river and run north along r the west river bank to the locai, ticn of the treatment plant. All \ sewers would be connected with a '.he interceptor. k Mr. Hurd answered questions of h councilmen and city officials who attended the meeting. The city wishes to obtain information s about the treatment plants an 1 o their operation and other consultn ing engineers have beer, invited •t to discuss the matter with the e council. s 1 Estimates on a sewage treatment plant and an interceptor sewer run from SIOO,OOO to 1 $125,000. Under the PWA plan, a grant of 45 per cent of the entire cost would be made by the government, the balance being fincnced by the local community through a bond issue. City Dump Ground 1 Supervisor Named I Willard McConnehey has been j placed in charge of tlhe city dump j I grounds on North Second street. ’; The arrangsmsnt mads by Ralph [ 1 Roop, civil works commissioner, ! provid s that McConnehey has the 1 right to gather junk and recover 1 marketable m.tai from the dump in payment for his services. The city 1 does not pay him for his time. He 1 ia to supervise the place <and see that it is k pt in good shape. o j Church Observes I Feast Thursday , The feast of the Assumption of i : the Blessed Virgin will be celebrat- I i i ed in St. Mary’s Catholic church | • | Thursday. The masses will be at . . . five, seven and nine o’clock. It is a . ! holy day of obligation. t —o — WORK STARTED i ON PROJECTS ' Men Employed Under WPA In Indiana Now i Total Over 6,000 . j Indianapolis, Aug. 13 — (U.R) — ■ | The total number of workers em- . ployed on works progress administration projects in Indiana was i increased to 6,541 today when . 785 persons started construction . j on 20 new projects. Fifty-six projects, representing a total expenditure of $8,430,000 , now are under construction in • the state. , I Ten of the new projects includ- i ed construction in Edinburg, I Connersville, Franklin county, i Shelby county and Brookville. Six projects in the Terre Haute j district employed 130 persons, j Fifty men were employed at a j stone quarry at Wabash where sitone for road construction will be cut. City park improvement In Fort Wayne employed 168 men and construction of a municipal golf course at Peru gave work to 52 1 others. I

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STORMY FIGHT PREDICTED ON TAX RICH BILL Provision To Increase Tax On Lower Incomes Quickly Squelched Washington, Aug. 13.— (U.R) —A . tax bill revised to conform more I closely to President Roosevelt’s ' recommendations for levies on ■ wealthy was projected today into what promised to be a stormy senate debate. The sharp division of opinion I was illustrated in the last-hour elimination of newly proposed taxes on low-bracket incomes and the slapping of additional surtax rates on $1,000,000 earnings. The senate finance committee, which earlier revised the bill to include small- incomes a.nd then •reversed itself, formally laid its tax proposals before the senate. The bi.ll, as recommended without a record vote, was designed to j transfers the tax burden to thoso : with greater ability to pay. The late revision, it was believed, will expedite passage of the bill, despite Insistence of a vociferous senate group demanding it be made to provide more revenue. Sen. Pat Harrison, D., Miss., chairman of the finance committee, arranged the committtee's report so that if possible the bill could be tajten up in the senate today. He said, however, that he expected debate to start tomorrow. “I think the bill is greatly imj proved and more in keeping with the president’s recommendations," Harrison said. The committee climbed down hastily from Its proposals that the i lower income brackets be required to pay increased taxes. The committee reached that conclusion , Saturday, but a week-end of reaction from the country and from j politically-minded house leaders j caused a sudden about-face. 1 The lower exemptions approved ' Saturday were rescinded, leaving the rates in the lower brackets 1 undisturbed from their present ’ status. As a result ot this quick turn- ‘ about, it appeared likely that the committee's decision against int- ’ posing new levies on the less well-to-do classes would be supported ' by the senate, and that the tax bill I (CONTINUED ON PAGE SIX) O JUDGE TO MAKE RULING FRIDAY Decision In Huntington Power Fight Will Be Given Friday Huntington, Ind., Aug. 13—(U.R) —A decision on the petition of the Northern Indiana Power company to make permanent an injunction restraining Mayor Clare W. H. Bangs and other Huntington officials from extending the services of the municipal light plant will be given by Judge | David E. Smith Friday. The power company was granted a Huntington circuit court temporary restraining order Jan. 2, prohibiting the tiny municipal plant from entering the commerI cial field. Mayor Bangs was placed in jail : when he refused to post an appeal ■ bond after his conviction on a contempt of court charge after ' alleged violation of the temporary order. 1 “We are prepared for immediate action in any eventuality,” I Mayor Bangs said from a jail cell ’ where he has been lodged since j May 8. “Wo have met each problem as it hae arisen ” Both city officials and power company attorneys have indicated that they will appeal an unfavorable decision. 0 Prevailing Wage Scales To Be Paid Indianapolis, Ind.. Aug. 13 —(UP) —(UP) — prevailing wage scales in the community In which the work is located must be paid on all public works projects, Forrest M. Logan, acting state PWA director, announced today. “Whether financed locally or through tfae relief administration, public works must be constructed under the prevailing wage scale,” Logan said. An act of the 1935 legislature provided for a minimum soale of wages on public projects and contractors seeking to complete projects on j lower scales will ibe subject to penalties and loss of federal loans, he I concluded.