Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 33, Number 192, Decatur, Adams County, 14 August 1935 — Page 1

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■I MEASURE fflffflCKED BY | republicans Vandenberg Wants SXrtion Deferred To Next Session 14— (UR> he4 ra |Xan' tonnched a ecathlng l<Of 'he reused adminisraW* bill -edav new deal ll®^ broU ght it before the senhopes of parage thia v ,, !lir H Vand.nbc.g, R. b! ~,i a ni"'- "" "’ l "’ l,< measure back to the senW 3 '. 1 . ■■■ f " r " ,pr Kacu a-ti’ " " PXt se! ” P d to make »■■■:,.K a- -<>•"> as spn - Pal !>■ M ‘ ' ' ,arge " r ' " 1,,n Iltf.fell ll "‘ in'tr'i' ! H report it a< t"f ’>«t Valid- niorg said. |H> r whole theoiy is that it is „f ti./ional resources am ■ \ bill except in with a budget bill. r we have w g,! nHaulage from taxes." ,lIP ,ax ";-^^E ar pounds it is hasty, unbaliwishtini whi'li should plus in 'he present conprogram. " il! nanipi- ■’. H-t.iv Ford, ■i he .ei.lr-- ' ■ the finr: c f ■ - alt--? •'• a((I ■- l-ii-'s w work hard- , FIVE) ■STIMATES OF I YEAR REVENUE Hat- St il( L t ouiity Audi■torEstimate l or Next ■ Two Years ... ■ ■ received A is? he atat - ii.ni I.otur |MI in - i. -r alitor John W. |ML : ■ s • . p'.ae <1 in the .-ived from ' " .i’id t ■ motor fees ■ . be put in the road fund. |Bl>- I-::-:' the stat > said. assistant •■ •: tii- preparation |Bba<iz--. ... year 1936. this ■ advisory only. ill taxing units. . based on a carestudy es detail of such rethe past. and. of course, not b»- v rifi d by further exnatch as conditions of may b- different. to ex..... la y. because of the opti.-n and oth r features of law. t ... -stiniatee can beat ■*a : i,v i; , ... familiar with local - ml th retore, no clefinare quoted herein." -stimat.s from the intantax fund are: from August 1, y to December 31, 1935, $975; ; 1 January 1, 1936 to December j ■ $1,450; and from Jan. 1, ■ito June 30, 1937. $475. '"tiniate.s for the special road Bj}J^ roni motor fuel taxes and . BtCOyTINPEn ON PAGE SIX) fork started In I Each WPA District fodianapolis. Aug. 14— <U.R) — fhatruction on works progress fainistration projects was underfl’ today in each of the 11 WPA ftricis in the state. No. 10, the last in ' work was started, today ! two road improvement ts under construction. f’-tie additional projects were f In district seven, of i fie Gary is the headquarters. I f re than 400 men were employ-1 [ 'tai of 8,346 persons now E on 65 projects under 1 ■ nslru ction in Indiana.

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City Garbage Bids To Be Opened Tuesday Blds for the collection of gar-1 huge in Decatur are to be opened 1 at the next session of the city j I council Tuesday evening and the 1 k contract for one year will be I " awarded at that time. The proposed contract Is on ! a file In the city clerk’s office and may be seen Ut any time by bld-1 ders who call at the city hall. HOLD SUSPECT i FOR MURDER OF FT. WAYNE MAN Taxi Driver Admits Driving Man To Scene Os Killing » I _________ Fort Wayne, Aug. 14 — (U.R) — I II Police today arrested Gordon I Johnson, 23, driver of a taxi cab I in which the slayer of Arlie Foster, 43, restaurant proprietor, fled after shooting and fatally wounding the victim in an attempted | robbery here last night, Johnson, according to officials. | confessed that he took a man. I 1 whose name was not revealed by, : police, to the restaurant and wait'ed for him to return after an allegedly planned robbery and aided him in escaping. Johnson said he was menaced jby the slayer and drove him I e round for several hours before i leaving him out of the taxi cab near New Haven. He is expected to be charged with murder as an accomplice of the actual killer. Fort Wayne, Ind.. Aug. 14—(UP) Arlie Foist, r, 43, a restaurant pro-1 prletor on the north side, wae ahot and fatally wounded here last night by a- tan who officiate believe was attempting to rob the establishment. Foster diej a few minutes after ! the ii-.ooting at St. Joeephte hospital from a bullet wound in his ab- . -dom-en. State police in Indiana. Ohio and Mkbigiin have b.en asked to be on ! the lookout for a man described as being 21 yeans ux aga, fiso t«ux > I en inches tall and Weighing about 14b pounds. Local officiate indicated ! that they knew the identification of the -slayer but would not reveal bls name. The shooting occurred in the ; ! F ster restaurant late last night. 1 , The slayer had entered the reetau- i rant several minut.s before tl.ie | | shooting and seated himself on a I i stool at th » counter. He ordered no | food. Suddenly he rose to his feet and, ac. .rding to several customers i who were in the eating eetablishI meat at the time, went up to Foster I and e>iid a few words. Suddenly one I ■ shot was fired and the slayer fled 1 I through the side door. | Foster walked from behind the I CCONTTNUED OX PAGE THREE) o TWO KILLED AS AUTOS COLLIDE Aged Columbia City Women Die After Automobile Crash Fort Wayne, Ind., Aug. 14 —(UP) —Two persons were killed and five others were injured wh-en two automobile collided at on intersection cf t- ;-a Cooling road and State road 2. ten miles west of here late yesterday. Mrs. Jarnee Ray. 72, Columbia City, died in St. Joseph's hospital' h?re from an obdominal he-morrh-age a few minutes after the a-cci- j dent. Mrs. Samantha Smith, 79, Col- - umbia City, died in the hospital I early last night. She suffered <1 frac-' j tured skull and crushed chest. Jam-ee Ray, 73, Mr. and Mrs. Lo-, man Ray, and Louise Hees, 6, all of j Columbia City, and Bernard B. Friedland, 27. Lansing, Michigan, ' were Injured in the collision. James : and Laman Ray were reported to be i in serious condition. Both suffered I crushed chests. According to state police the ac-' cident occurred when Loman Ruy, j driver of the Columbia City automobile, failed to stop at the intersection before crossing the highway. The occupants of the Ray auto1 mobile were returning to Columbia City after attending funeral services of a relative at Eel River cem- | etary when the accident occurred. Mrs. Samantha N. Smith, who j was fatally injured in the accident, was ti : e mother of Rev. Cecil Smith | pastor of the United Brethren i church at Columbia City, who for- ' merly resided in this city and was pastor of the local U. B. church.

UTILITY HEAD IS THREATENED WITH CONTEMPT — Howard Hopson Admits Attempt To Evade Process Servers Washington, Aug. 14. — (U.R) — Portly Howard C. Hopson today , was threatened with citation sor 1 contempt of the senate as he blandly admitted he had tried to evade process servers from the senate lobbying investigating committee. Hopson, surrounded by detectives, returned this morning to testify before tbt rival house inI vestigating group. The reputed financial genius of Associated Gas t Electric Co., sweltered in the hot commltt-te room as he smilingly denied he had tried to hide out from the house committee. But when he was asked if he had not tried to .tvade senate com- . in it tee agents, Hopson calmly replied “yes,” Almost at that very moment in I the senate office building, -two blocks away, chairman Hugo L. ■ Black of the senate committee was pounding the table shouting: "Mr. Hopson is coming before this commlttete and he’s coming like any other man in America." And as Hopson testified before the house committee. Joseph P. McCarthy, former “G” man and ace senate investigator, quietly s’lpped in the rear of the room. It was McCarthy w'ho tried to serve a subpoena yesterday. McCarthy told the United Press that he would try to serve Hopson wh“n he leaves the hearing. The sharp-tongued Bla-k, considered the ablest investigator In congress, questioned Hopson’s Boston attorney, William A. Hill, about interference with a senate agent who was pushed away when he tried to serve a subpoena on Hopson yesterday. The riva'ry between the two committees over Hopson for the (CONTK’UEn nx PSGE THREE) o APPOINTMENTS ARE ANNOUNCED Janitors For Public Schools Are Named BySchool Board Appointments made by the city school board for the next term of school were announced today by Walter J. Krick, superintendent of ithe public schools. Miss Dorothy Durkin has been employed to take charge of the high school library in the afternoons. Janitors in the grndee will be : Charles Feasel at the South Ward, Delma Elzey at the North Ward and Matt Briener ax the West, Ward. Harve Baker will be the I janitor at the Central building. Leo Hammond will be the janitor at the high school building. George Squire wil Icome at 6 o'clock and work until the school is closed following any activities such as plays, dramatics and meetings. Joel Reyn- ( olds wil lateo be a janitor at the | high school building while assisting Harve Baker at CentraJ and doing any work necessary at the Worthman athletic fie’d. The janitors are at work this week cleaning the high school and Central building. Because of the of funds no interiors will be repainted. The floor of the high school gym will be taken care of by putting on a gym floor finish which will preserve the hard wood. Janitors at the ward buildings will go to work on August 26 at , i cleaning the rooms. They wi’l have one week before school starts to do this work. A few window sashes will be replaced and the openings in the i sills, caused by drying out in the . summer heat, will be plugged. All , lockers will be repaired and other | 1 minor repairs made. Local Boys Sign I'or CCC Camp Eight Decatur boys nave been. accepted for the next term of the s CCC camp, located two milee east of Bluffton on the north side of tihe Wabash river. The boys ore Carl Evans, Raymond Evans, Floyd McDonald, Donaid Ritter, Robert Kruch, Carl Ritter. William Morgan and Merill Johnson. The boys have signed up for six months. They will probably be put to work first improving the new camp. _

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Decatur, Indiana, Wednesday, August 11, 1935.

Family Forced to Watch Killing

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Alleged to have shouted to his family "Come on and get dressed, we’re going to kill a rat," Ralph Still, 27. of Akron, 0., right, loaded his wife and five children into an automobile, drove to the home cf I his best friend, Ray Hetrick. 28, and killed him with a ehotgun. acI cording to police. Still’s wife, Mrs. Ralph Still, and his youngest child, : Helen, four months, are shown at left.

GEORGE YAKE FOUND GUILTY Vera Cruz Man Fined And Sentenced For Liquor Law Violation Bluffton, Aug. 14. —George Yake, near Vera Cruz, appeared in city court here Tuesday before Mayor Frank’fn Buckner and entered a plea of guilty to a charge of violation of the liquor law. The mayor fined him $25 aj)d costs, totaling $36.60, and sentenced him to serve thirty days at the ! Indiana penal farm. The sentence was not suspended, and as the defendant could not pay the tine, a committment was issued. He will have to serve 66 days at the state institution. Following the hearing, he was returned to the county jail and ' will remain there until county officers take him to the penal farm. Yake. of Linn Grove, who escaped from officers during a raJd on his home Saturday night, was arrested about sundown Monday in the hayloft of a barn on the Wanger farm, near Vera Cruz. Officers raided his home on a warrant alleging that they had reason to suspect that he was in illegal possession of liquor for the purpose of making sale of same. They reported conflcating a quantity of alleged beer and raisin jack. Deputy Sheriffs Jerry Lantis and Fleming French continued the search for Yake and late Monday they located him in the barn aJ the Wanger farm and brought him to the Wells county jail. ITALIAN FLOOD CLAIMS LIVES Bursting Os Great Dam Takes Toll Estimated Over 200 Genoa, Aug. 14— (U.R) —-Thick mud. dead bodies, the ruinu of homes and small farms, covered > today a path 25 miles long and two miles wide on the northern slopes of the Ligurian Apennines where yesterday the dam of Lake Orticella sent 706,000.000 cubic, yard* of water raging over the fertile countryside. Upwards of 200 lives were believed lost. Firemen, soldiers, and fascist : volunteers worked through the ruin gathering bodies and caring | for survivors. Forcing their way into ruined homes which the water had engulfed. firemen found bodies of women, children, and old men ' who were caught indoors when the water broke with a roar which people thought was that of I an earthquake. A United Press correspondent touring the area saw dozens of i bodies scattered through the dei bris l as the water subsided. Many . ■ bodies were carried great distances, some as far as 25 mile). I As they were gathered, the bodies were put into temporary morgues I until relatives roaming the area' could find and identify them. Comparatively few able bodied; men were killed. They were I working on their farms on the mountain slopes when the water (CONTINUED ON PAGE FIVE) I

Berne Manufacturer Talks To Lions Club F G. W. Sprunger. secretary and treasurer of the Dunbar Furniture I company of Berne gave a talk to the j Lions club Tuesday evening in j which he traced the origin of various designs in ovenstuffed furniI ture. Rabert Zwick was in charge of the program. Guests at the meeting , wen Byron Blue of Oklahoma, who f is attending the Rep; rt School of r Auctioneering, Jam W. Hartong, • ales r presentative of the Dunbar 1 Furniture csmrtany and Mr. Sprun’ger. Mr. Sprunger (continued in his 1 talk calling attention to the importance of right color d.signs in furs niture. He also discussed the differ--9 ences in furniture designs used in all sections of tlie United States, 1 particularly along the Eastern sea1 board. » T o ’ COMPLETE HEW BUILDING SOON -i McConnell Building On Third Street Is Near Completion i i s I The new (brick buikling being constructed on N. rth Third Street by McConnell and sons will be com- ' pleted this week. Th? lower floor of the new build- > ing has been occupied by the McCorr mick-Deering company for about ; four months while workmen fin- ! ished the second floor. The Masonie lodge uas based the second floor. The lodge has not yet announced the date on which it will move from the old rooms on the third floor of the Schafer building, but the chang'3 probably will be I done within a month. , The new lodge headquarters have ja small reception room, two club i rooms, one for women and one for men, a large lodge hall and large room whia'oi will be used both for banquets, and dances. Two small rooms off banquet hall are to be be us d >:s a iitehen and a store room. Work was started Tuesday on the new apartment (building with a < rew ' [ of eight men. The number of men i will be increased so the building can ready for occupancy before cold weather. The apartment building is just (north of the structure completed. llt will have four six-room apart- . ments all air conditioned and heatied from a plant located in the base- 1 j ment of the first M.Connell build- : ing. Two carloads of lumber have al- 1 ! ready b’sen received to finish the ; building. Ti:e old frame structure ' ; has been moved to the front of the lot and is being used for part of the I apartments. When completed the McConnell l brothers expect to have one of the most modern buildings in Decaqir I and one cf the few that are air conditioned. Mrs. David Schwartz Dies Suddenly Today Mrs. David Schwartz of Monroe township, died sudden'y at her farni home this afternoon about 1 i o’clock. Death occurred while 1 Mrs. Schwartz was picking rasp-, berries in her garden. ■ She was formerly Mrs. .Loe H. i Habegger. Her husband, several • children and several brothers and I sisters survive. <

THREE WOMEN, MAN CONVICTED AS MURDERERS Four Detroit Rounders Face Life Imprisonment For Killing Detroit, Aug. 14.—<U.R>— Procurer William Schweitzer, slayer of Howard Carter Dickinson, nephew of j Chief Justice Charles Evans Hughes, gave up .tobacco and turned to the Bible today, hoping Provi- ! dence would intervene and save him from life imprisonment In Michigan penitentiary. Schweitzer and three of his wom(>n — Florence and Loretta Jackson, sisters, and Jean Miller—were found guilty of first degree murder by a jury yesterday. Although I the jury recommended mercy for the women, Michigan law makes it mandatory for Judge John A. Boyne to sentence them all to life imprisonment. He will do so I Thursday. Michigan does not j have the death penalty. The sallow Schweitzer. 26. a mixture of the boy and the rake, received an Interviewer gladly. "They will persecute you, the Bible says,” he said, holding a worn copy of Holy Writ. "Well, they certainly persecuted me. It wasn’t prosecution; It was persecution on the state’s part. “I’m just a mi’kman who changed and started reading the Bible. I can give a better argument than any minister on 'the theory of an eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth. “I’ve given up smoking because it is not necessary and I have no desire for it. I quit drinking since this affair started. “All I can do for my family is to read .the Bible. Everything of cheer is in the Bible.” Schweitzer was asked about the women. He shrugged, pointing out that if he was not guilty, the women were not guilty. He was not interested in the women. He was interested in himself. The women appeared in semihypnotic states. They screamed ■ almost in unison and fainted, al- ‘ most in one movement, when the ' jury read its verdict. All had set out in their ’teens to earn fame and fortune as dancers and actresses. Soon the term dancer could not be applied to any of ’hem without use of question marks. . They became Schweitzer’s assistants in “rolling” out-of-town visitors seeking wine, woman, and song. Dickinson, apparent'y so bent, I (CONTINUED ON PAGE FOUR) 0 Regular Meeting Os Elks Tonight The regular meeting of the B. P. ; O. Elko will be held at the home on 1 north Second street tonight at 8 o'clock. .All members are asked to attend. o SECURITY Bill SIGNING TODAY President To Sign Social Security Bill This Afternoon ■ Washington, Aug. 14 — (UP) — President Roosevelt will sign the social security bill at 3:30 P. M.. he .said today. In connection with approval of j the .T.easur?, which he regards as one of the outstanding pieces of legislation .enacted at this session, Mr. Roosevelt revealed tuat he i would have a few kind words to say. He explained also that (Pictures of the signing would be permitted, adding that he was eager that everyone, everywhere know of the approval of the bill. The ..xcessive hot spell k ptquestions short and to the ipoint in today's press conference with the result that it was over in less than 10 minutes. Mr. Roosev It revealed that he had made no plans for trips during too late summer after congress adjourns and that he could not say at this time whether he was going to j Milwauke , Wte., Aug. 23 for a speech before the Young Democrats of America. He said also that plans were indefinite for >i Hyde Park N. Y. trip this week-end. but he hoped to go to join members of his family in | celebrating the 21st birthday of Franklin, Jr. .Asked concerning his ruling for-’ bidding private aircraft to fly over the western reaches of the Aleutian j Islands, the President said tlhat the i (CONTINUED ON PAGE TWO)

U. S. Civil Service Lists Examinations Th« Uniteci States civil service I commission has ntxnounoed open! competltivia (examinations as folI lows: junior refuge manager, $1,020 i a year, bureau of biological survey, ’ nt of agrieiiltur..; nr | tural economists, various grades, $2- , 600 to $5,600 yearly, bureau of agricultural economics, department of I agriculture. Full Information may be obtained I from Georg e G. Flanders, secretary ' of the U. S. civil board of examin- . <rs at the local post office. o WPA SETUP NOT ARRANGED HERE No Arrangements Made Yet For Administration In County No arrangements have yet been ! made for the local administration of i; the works division of the new WPA , program in Adams county. The positions of work supervisor, formerly held by Miks Roop and tlhat of payroll clerk, held by Miss 1 Mary Yost have been abolished. ' Miss Vest has been transferred to the Fort Wayn? district office. There probably will be a position ! of county foreman set up to administer the works program locally. Miss Margaret Patch of Clinton will continue to (be in charge of the eo. ial s:rvice or case work division which has been carried over from ’ the ERA. She has two counties, AdL .iins and Waite. Because of the , great r need of relief in Wells coun;ty she spends four days a week , there and is in Decatur on Tuesdays , and Thursdays. , Miss Ruth Ballinger of Rid.imond has been carried ov. r as rase work , investigator for Adams county. Mrs. f Mabel Hurst is secretary to both Miss Patch and Miss Ballinger. , About eighteen men will be put to , work Monday on the new WPA pro- > gram. They will finish installation 5 of the n w ornamental lighting sysj te.m for Second street. The new system was begun by ERA workers . and dropped at the exhaustion of I FERA funds. The second crew of men to be 9 I (CONTINUED ON PAGE FOUR) t ; o MOUNTING FOOD COSTS DISPUTE I Rapid Advance In Prices May Lead To Congressional Probe Washington, Aug. 14 — (UP) — Steadily increasing food costs, led by a 25 per cent advance in meat prices since August, 1934. embroiled the AAA, processors, farmers, and housewives today in a nation wide dispute. The qestion of responsibility for 1 i increased vasts apparently will ibe I i fought out this fall in courts, across | ; grocery store and meat market counters, and .pcssibly before congressional investigating committees. Latest entry into the fray are the housewives, led by announcement of Detroit women they would send delegations to Washington and Chicago ta Inquire into causes of sky [ rocketing meat prices. Packers who blame the AAA for higii prices have filed nearly 1,000 suits to lialt collection of processing taxes. Secretary of agriculture Henry A. Wallace says such charges are “malicious and untrue." That I the AAA has kie.pt prices from going still higher. New deal spokesmen, with apparent suppert of President Roosevelt. have suggested extensive in- ' vestigation of “food combines" and I “meat trusts." The president has given his sanction for a (proposed $150,000 congressional inquiry. Q Moderate Weather Prevails In State Indianapolis, Ind.. Aug. 14 —(UP) —Unsettled conditions continued to hold oft the anticipated return of : high temperatures in Indiana today and Hoosiers enjoyed another day of moderate weather. The United States weather bur- ! eau predicted temperatures would begin to rise again tomorrow’, ihow- , ever. Intermittent showers during the last 48 hours proved beneficial to crops, the (bureau reported. o WEATHER Generally fair tonight and Thursday, except unsettled Ohio valley tonight; rising temperature northwest por--1 tion tonight, warmer Thursday.

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ETHIOPIA ASKS REVOCATION OF ARMSEMRARGO Mussolini Calls 20,000 More Reservists Into Service (Copyright 1935 by United Press) Geneva, Aug. 14 —<U.R>— Ethiopia In an almost despairing appeal to the league of nations council, today asked of the world a fair chance to arm for its defense against (Fascist Italy. Denouncing as unjust "unofficial’' embargoes on arms shipments imposed by European nations, Emperor Haile Selassie I asked the council to recommend lifting of the embargoes. "Will the council assume the responsibility in the eyes of the world,” he asked, "for allowing preparations to continue unchecked for the massacre of a neople who are a menace to none?” i "Italy, despite resumption of arbitration. Is continuing military preparations, including manufacture of war material with the solemnly avowed intention of using it against the Ethiopian empire. "Ethiopia can neither manufacture arms nor obtain them abroad. We find it absolutely impossible to obtain the means of defense outside our own frontiers. Wherever we try to obtain them, we meet a prohibition of export. Is that real neutrality? Is it just? The appeal was believed to be directed as much toward British nubile opinion as toward the league. British liberals have protested against their government’s embargo, and it has been reported that the government might lift it. More Reserves Rome, Aug. 14— (U.R) —Twenty thousand more reservists were called to the colors today by Premier Benito Mussolini. The reserves called are from the classes of 1911, 1913 and 1914 men born in those years — who > nevicusly bad been exempted. They range in age from 21 to 24 years. Those who live abroad are Included in the call. The war ministry gave no reason for the call, but it was believed to be in line with Mussolini’s I policy of intensive military preI paration before the end of 1935, not only in Africa but at home. The class of 1912 was still held ;in readiness, awaiting a call at any time. It was not stated that the new reservists were intended (CONTINUED ON PAGE FIVE) Q Sunday School Board Will Meet Tonight An important meeting of the Methodist Episcopal Sunday School board will be held at the church at I 7:30 o’clock tonight. Every member i is asked to be present. — o NEW DRIVE ON GERMAN CHURCH New Drive Against Evangelical Church Thought Imminent (Copyright 1935 by United Press) Berlin, Aug. 14—(U.R)—A drive alined at smashing the powerful opposition element in the Evangelical church, which has defied the Nazi regime for two years, was believed imminent today. Two official decrees were believed to mean that Hans Kerri, newly appointed overlord of all church matters, was ready to start the attack which was foreshadowed when he was named July 18. In one decree, the supreme Evangelical church council moved to make sure that salaries to ministers should be restricted to men ordained by the “official” church government of Nazi Reichbishop Ludwig Mueller. In the second, minister of education Bernhard Rust ordered that theological students must study at approved faculties instead of at theological seminaries in support of the opposition. It has been Indicated that Kerri's fight to nazify the Evangelical church might prove harder than that against “political” activities of Roman Catholic churchmen. The June 16, 1933, census showed 40,865,151 protestants, 62.7 of the population. There were 21,172.087 Roman Catholics, or 32.5 (CONTINUED ON PAGE FIVE)