Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 33, Number 201, Decatur, Adams County, 24 August 1935 — Page 1

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"■lll DECATUR liWPOSEO LEVY I LITTLE HIGHER Aposed I' evies Total ■(.>< As Compared To .<V $2.71 In 1935 likely I hat the total tax V'. peratar will exceed $2.87 j ? is i ,robab,e t,iat Ke Wil' belter in 1936. The l.-vies adver,!se<l jKt - Th ; ® council and county tax adWL boards nave the right to only ■' ‘ as " ” f error ” comply and figures. arbitrary : cs. ions in budSubmitted to them. >h" last of the bonds in ■*. Nlll ssjes were pa d --c township levy free . '-ul bond fund ■ arii . :.*rton township K 43 cents to 26 cents, a de-, o t ML../, have prepared budgets' K-ee purposes in wh’ch a. levy ■l, hat of ' - 'ear has been |KL.pd Ties, ate the township fttntl. the . ivtl city and the , public library budgets. increase of five cents has Washington ■ anticipation appropriates for direct woik relief. Kj four ceI1; ini " as ” liaS l ' een by the county officials for of pm poses. There will K general an-: tnary elections year. Th-- . unity must approKite money for material to be Kdl" Wl’A " uAers on projects improvements. city s. bool board will re- & 24 ■ ■■:. .m tease to make deficit now u the treasury. - i repairs of buildjHp alam o expect(■l decreases n funds received the state. Kl« # snt.:.c Ito increase will made in the state levy this !=■» wild. -t.'s next year, j A coni pa.'.-rm of the 1935 rate Kthe proposal 1936 levy is: Hits 1938 1935 Klflcity 40 -40 general .02 .02 pom .30 .25 city 1.15 .91 Knn'v .54 .50 Kie .15 roads .26 .43 Ku- $ 2.87 8 2.71 i lIIINCIL MEETS I MONDAY NIGHT ■Sty Council To Deterni- ■ ine Action On Sewage ■ Disposal Plant H ■Th city council will meet Mon-' ■pWi’ a; i '■••ermine the future i y in regards to mak■Upplicatsm for the building of < ■*»a<- " . in nt plant and int r■tor sewer Jhe coun n has heard five conP*g engine rs explain the film-1 is wag. disposal planta ami h tttit step, if the council so de- j h»in?s. is to authorize the board t Public works and safety to etnhy»n engin -r to prepare the i; re■inary petition. 4 conference with F. M. Logan, in Indiana, W. H Fraexecutive engineer for the de- i Aftment of industries and C. A. Me. engineer for the state board ‘health, was held last Tuesday, che five engineers heard are [ ■fks H Hurd, Finch and B*b-, Russell Moore, Charles Bross- i toand Mr. Uhlman of the Activat- ■ ■ Sludge Corp.Speed wili be required in making •Pntlinimany application as Sep-. ®°er 16 has been set as the dead-: * for filing PW.A applications. J* ectimated that a sewage ~T ent , plant can be constructed, “sether with the interceptor sewer . ® • n >'tnd $106,000. A grant of 45 | ' ent of the cost can be obtain-, 'from the PWA. officials have been advised , ln all probability Decatur will . Mered to remedy th? river pol--a .ondition (here by building a ta treatment plant. jIL"? day several of the councilmen lam ° ViSit towns where treatment Im., ar - in operation and obtain [ of ts mMlon re lativ.e to the running “ the plants. sardT*" Moors. Indianapolis, was y the council last evening.

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Famous Hull Family Will (Jive Program i The famous Hull family, entertainers, featuring the “Madd, of u .Million Melotiies" Benita Hull, will I give u performance at the Clarks Chapel Church, Monday, August 26, at 8 p. nt. Among the Instruments played by the family are the xylophone, piano, violin, cornet, clarinet, sax aphone, trumpet, with singing, whistling and yodeling. The family has performed over the radio and [on chatauqua and lyceum programs. —o BOOK LIST FOR PUBLIC SCHOOLS Superintendent Kriek Announces List For School Year Walter J. Krick, superintendent of th? Decatur publl • schools, toi day announced the official book list i for the local achools for the coming I year. Th? complete list is ae follows: BOOK LIST DECATUR HIGH SCHOOL 1935-1936 Freshman English—(l) High School English, Book 1. Canby, etc. $ .90 i (2) Adventures in Literature,, Book 9 1.55 (3) Winston's Simplified Dictionary I.OS (4) Adventures Wise and Otherwise 6o Mathematics — (11 Nyberg's Algebra—First Year (Old edition! .90 Latin—First Year Latin — Magoffin 119 Science—Problems in Biology —Hunter 1-5* Manual Training—Given out by Mr. Ketchum. Commercial — (1) Bookkeeping for Immediate' Fse —Kirk. etc. Given out by Miss McCrory. (2! Gregg Shorthand Manual (An. Ed. 1929) 150 Art—Material given out by I Miss Kauffman. Foundations of Hea’th—Rathbone. Bacon & Keene 1.30 Home Economies —Greer Foods and Home Making 1.61 Double Q No. 183 Hogh School Tablet 10 Sophomore English—(l) High School English, Book 2. Canby, etc. 1.08 (2) Adventures in Prose and Poetry 173 [ (3) Winston's Simplified Dictionary los (4) Trail Fires 6 " I History— Elson's Modern Times and Living Past (Old Ed.) . 1.62 MathematicsModern Plane Geometry Clark » 1J “ I Latin — (1) Second Year Latin Berry. Lee. etc. 144 i (21 New Isatin Grammar —Bennett Science—Problems in Biology I (CONTINUED ON PAC.E THREE) Huntington Levy Raised 23 Cents Huntington. Aug. 24.— Meeting in I special session, the city council passed upon a budget caßlng for t vhe tax rate in Huntington for 19.16 'amounting to $1.17. an Increase ot I 23 cents over the levy of last year. " Much of this increase was due to a $l7O 000 reduction in -the assessed valuation. The rate will be divided according to funds: General fund, 87 cents; bonded indebtedness, 25 cents: park department, 14% cents; police and firemen's ; pension fund, % cent each. The budget for next year calls • for $271,191 of which $103,620 will ' not have to be raised by local tax- ' ation. Portland City Tax Levy Is Unchanged Portland, Aug. 24. —At a special mee'.ing of the city council the tax j levy for the city of Portland next year was set at 36 cents on each SIOO. This is one cent lower than the rate for 1935. Practically the| same amount of money will be raised, however, on account of an in- ' crease in the valuation. The amount estimated to be raised this year was $12,432.78, while the estimate for next year is $12,347. One-half of the expenses of the city for next year will be paid by the municipal light p'ant as has been the practice in recent years, j Without this sum, the rate would have been fixed at 72 cents.

YOUNG DEMOS HOLD MEETING AT MILWAOKEE Son Os President Is Cheered Noisily At Convention Hall Milwaukee, Aug. 24 —<U.R>— Two Roosevelts, the President and his ; youngest son, John, tanned Harvard student, today reecued the I young Democrats’ national convention from factional disputes which had threatened party harmony, John strode unexpectedly Into [ the convention hajl 'ast night Just as Gov. George H. Earle 111 of Pennsylvania, personal represent-1 ative of the president, was concluding his speech. Speaking extemporaneously, i young Roosevelt said he brought the regrets of his father and his two elder brothers. Janies and Franklin, Jr., who were unable toj attend. “I thought one of us should be 1 here.’’ the smiling youth apologized. Delegates, who had been g)um 1 over the failure of a Roosevelt to ' app-ar, cheered lustily. Governor Earle told the delegates that President Roosevelt has freed the United States from European war entanglements. "It is our task and opportunity! Ito keep this nation out of war,’’ Earle, the first young Democrat to be elected a governor, said. "We can do it because President Roosevelt has liberated the United States from the hallucination of dependence upon foreign trade and front the shackles of international , bankers.” Recent supreme court interpretations have been too narrow to meet the needs of the nation, the 44-year-old executive said. He urged that the constitution be amended so that p'ans of the administration can be carried out. "This narrow construction of the powers of the federal government over business will be an ever increasing obstacle to business," Earle said. h "We’ve changed the jjgqstitsttjon (■CONTINUED ON PAGE THREE) MANY DEEATUn MEN TO MEETING State Legion Convention Opens At Indianapolis Today Between 90 and 100 reservations have been made at Indianapolis hotels by members of Adanas post number 43 of the American Legion I for the state convention of the legion. This will include both legionnaire and auxiliary memhers. The American legion city band directed by Robert White will go; Ito Indianapolis Monday. The [ drum corps will march in the I parade Monday but will not enter I into the competition. The meeting opened officially this morning with the sessions devoted almost exclusively to the Forty and Eight, the fun making organization. The first official Legion meeting will be at 7 o'clock tonight when the rules and organization committee will assemble in the Claypool hotel. Two candidates have alraedy announced themeelves as in the race for state commander. They | are L. V. Hauk of Morristown, i and Dr. A. R. Killian of Lafayette. 1 Mrs. Enid Leinstra of Clinton was the first to announce for the presidency of the state auxiliary. An illuminated pa }de of the forty and eight will be held at 7:30 o’clock tonight from Senate Ave. and Washington street to the Athenaeum where the 'wreck or initiation ceremonies will be held. Official headquarters for the legion have been opened in the i Claypool hotel. Auxiliary headi quarters nre in the Hotel Severin. Special services will be held in many Indianapolis churches Sunday for the Legion. o Roy Johnson Will Conduct Fair Sale Roy Johnson, prominent Decatur auctioneer, will conduct the 4-H beef cow auc’lon sale at the Indiana state fair Friday. September 6. Mr. Johnson conducted the same sale ’ast year and msl with fine success. The sale will be conducted at the coliseum at the fair grounds and Mr. Johnson invites Adams county residents to attend the sale.

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Utilities Paid Hopson Millions

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An admission that more than three million dollars had been received by members of his family over a period of five years from utility holdings was made by Howard C. Hopson, head of Associated Gas & Electric Co., while testifying at the senate investigation of lobbying activities by utilities. Hopson, right, is shown explaining to Senator Hugo Black, left, senate committee chairman, and Senator Ixntis Schwellenbach. committeeman, center, the complicated structure of the utility empire.

DISTRICT MEET AT HUNTINGTON Farm Bureau President To Speak At Meeting August 29 An all-rfay meeting of the fourth district Indiana farm bureau will be held at Hiers Park. Huntington, on August 29. Featured on the program will be an address at 1:30 o’clock in the afternoon by Edward A. O'Neal, president of the American farm bureau federation. Farmers and other 'interested parties have been invited to attend the meeting. There will be a basket dinner at noon. President O’Neal is making a series of four talks in Indiana, one of which will be given the same day at Delphi. In urging the largest possible attendance by farmers and other, i Lewis Taylor, president of the state organization, announced that President O'Neal would discuss the nature of the crisis now being faced by American agriculture as a result of the opposition developed by special interests against the legislative program of the American farm bureau federation This program. Mr. Taylor explained. is responsible for the vast economic gains enjoyed by agriculture during the past two years, and which have been translated in acceleration of industrial and business activities throughout the country. “Such legislative measures,” said /CONTINUED ON PAGE SIX)

Will Rogers Gave Thousands Os Dollars In Philanthropy

(Editor.? Note: This is the last of a series of six articles on the life of Will Rogers, written by Robert Burkhardt, studio associate of the humorist.) By Robert Burkhardt Written for the United Press. (Copyright 1935 by United Press) Hollywood. Aug. 24 —<U.R>~P° s ' session of monsy meant just two • things to Will Rogers—-the security of his family and the power to I help those less fortunate in the i struggle for existence. Probably no one will ever know the extent of his philanthropies : ■ as he was as close-mouthed about I his gifts as he was about his family. Even a lump sum under the 1 heading of "charities" on his income tax report would not approximate the amount he gave as he always was digging into his ' pockets for tens and twentias 1 and even hundreds at a time to ' help some friend in need. When an intimate once protested at the comedian’s genet’osity with a man he regarded as a chiseler. Will grinned. "Well,” he drawled, “he probably needs it worse than I do, anyway." Rogers probably played more "benefits” than any other per- ' former identified with theatricals. Last Christmas week, he played

ma, Saturday, August 24, 1935.

♦ ♦ i BROADCASTS TONIGHT — President Franklin D. Roose-, | velt will make a special broad- | ij cast over bo h NBC chains and | the Columbia system at 8:30 j o'clock tonight, centra,! stand- [ j ard time. The President will | speak to the Young Democratic clubs of America, now in session at Milwaukee. WGL, Fort Wayne, and WLW, Cincinnati, will carry the broadcast. « —< SCHOLARSHIPS ARE AWARDED Six College Scholarships Awarded Adams County Sudents Six of the eight available scholarships for Adams county in state •schools have be n awarded, Clifton E. S riker, county superintendent of schools announced today. Two boys have been given scholarships to Indiana University. They are Robert Coffee of Decatur and Warren Munro of Hartford township. Alice Jane Archbold of Decatur has been given a scholarship to Purdue University. Gladys Doan of Decatur and Kenneth Hirschy of Washington township were given scholarships to Ball State Teachers College at I (CONTINUED ON PAGE SIX)

at least ten benefits in and around Hollywood, and it can only be 1 guessed how many thousands of I dollars his efforts brought in for worthy causes. Almcut invariably, in addition ■ to appearing in person, he'd manage to slip a check for SIOO or S2OO to the chairman before he left, with admonition to "keep it , quiet.” Members of the Assistance ' League—an organization of wives : and women relatives of producers. \ directors and executives to take care of needy cases within the ■ movie industry—were always certain of at least SIOO every time [ Rogers had luncheon in their case , near the 20th Century-Fox Western Avenue studio. I He'd conspire against his friends | too. when they lunched at the Assistance League and always 1 was sticking those who could < afford it for the check, after first i seeing tliat it was liberally pad- ] ded. < John Ford, the director, and i Irvin C. Cobb, with whom he ma le ( his last piteture, “Steamboat i Round the Bend." were frequent victims of this little gag. ] Several yean? ago when the > South was ,hard hit by floods, i Rogers organized a barnstorming ; tour of four singers, hired Frank Hawks, the famous aviator, and (CONTINUED ON PAGE SIX)

ALL EUROPEAN NATIONS ECHO WITHWARPLANS Practically All Hope Os Averting War Is Abandoned (By United Press) Developments today with war plans and peace talk is etilled. British Indian troope embark for Aden; 1 M-diterran an fleet provisions for • mystery cruise; Imperial defense I committee studies plane; Italian i and Ethiopian armies reported sac- 1 ing each other on two fronts; Netherlands and Spain hold maneuvers. Bolzano: war spirit seizes north- | ern Italy as 500,000 troops mass for maneuvers starting tomorrow; "fly- ' ing” divisions to attack "invaders” ; | in Alpine ipases. Washington, neutrality legislation ‘ neans final stage, President RooseI.elt may sign measure tonight, senators move to repudiate senator Pop? of Idaho, who, in European trip sees possibility that United Stat s may be involved in World War. Oxford, England. Senator Pope wires Senator Robinson of Arkansas, majority leader, refuting intii nations he seeks to represent senite, says Liat if there is World war he fears America will be drawn in. Istanbul, Turkish Cabinet meets . to consider crisis, will contract feli low members of the Balkan entente. London. Europe reacts to Mossohni interview with United Press; gesture of conciliation to Britain seen in Lak-? Tsaha recognition. Oddis Abara, women's work assoJation making .bandages, seek airplane for use at front. Prepare for War (Copyright 1935 by United Pr ss) London, Aug. 24 —(UP) —War-like • preparations echoed throughout • Euro;? today. News, reports, and rumors of the Gtalian-Ethiopian crisis dealt almost entirely with preparations of nations to defend their interests in event war in East Africa s;; reads to Continental Europe. There was no word at all. for the 1 mom nt, of efforts to avert an Ital-ian-Ethiopian war; the talk was ot troop and ship movements, penalties intpos-d on an aggressor and | the result of Hose penalties. The sole non-inartial note was I sounded here, where the interview which Benito Mussolini of Italy gave yesterday to Ed. L. Keen, vice president and neral European manager of the United Press, was call.d the first friendly gesture- he has mad? ta Britain during th? | crisis. This gesture was Mussolini’s assuran e that Britain had no need to fear' his encroachment on its great Nile irrigatio n,project centering in Ethiopian Lake Tsana and its neighbor Nile headwaters. Tire? British officers and 153« pick d Indiana .Army troops embarked at Bombay on the steamship Jenancir for Aden, at th? entrance to the Red Sea, to await orders there to reinforce the British legation guard at Addis Abara. The (British Mediterranean fleet was (provisioning at Malta, the base i oft Italian Sicily, for a cruise at the i and of this month which authorities ' (CONT/A'UEp ON PAOE THREE) | O Socialist Candidate Wins Canada Election Edmonton. Alberta, Aug. 24 — [ (UP)—William Aberhart, 51, bald- ' headed, bespectacled school teaeher and vangelist, became Alberta's prim? minister as final returns from Thursday’s (provincial election iput his Alberta social credit party into | power. It is the first time in tn? nlstory of the British empire that a govern- | m-ent pledged to passing socialist! ■ i legislation ever was put into ;power. j The victory, entirely unexpected, swept Premier R. G. Reid’s government out of power as Aberhart s party piled up a total of at least 54 seats of a total of 63. o— Texas Votes Today On Repeal Os Prohibition E . Austin, Tex., Aug. 24. — A close vote was predicted by observers today as Texans ballot on apropos-1 al to repeal the 16-yeas-old state prohibition law. Both wets and; drys claimed victory. Because of persistent apathy, only 400,000 to 600,000 of the 800,000 persons eligible are expected to vote. The amendment to be voted on presents three main propositions, repealing state-wide prohibition, prohibiting the open saloon and providing tor a system of local option similar to that 'in effect In 1919 when the prohibition amendment was adopted.

Congress Nearing Adjournment, All Action Is Speeded

GRADUATES WILL ATTEND COLLEGE Thirteen 1936 Graduates Plan To Further Education This Fall Thirteen members of the 1935 ; graduating class of the Decatur I high school plan to further their | education this fa'l, W. Guy Brown,' principal, announced today. The majority of these graduates ■ expect to attend colleges or uni- 1 versities. One girl will take nurse’s j training. One boy will join the 1 army. The list of these graduates are: Alice Jane Archbold will attend Purdue University at Lafayette. James Beavers will enroll in Wabash college at Crawfordsville. Richard Brodbeck will attend Heidleberg University at Tiffin. O. MJirtlia E. Butler will atten<l Steven college at Columbia. Missouri. Martha E. Calland will enter Dennison University at Granville,’ Ohio. Robert Coffee and Jacob Moyer will enter Indiana University at B'oomington. Gladys Doan will attend Ball State Teacher's college at Muncie. Winona Fleming will take nurse’s training at the St. Joseph hospital I in Fort Wayne. Jack Grether will enter the Mission House College at Plymouth. Wisconsin. Paul Hendricks wt’l enlist in the United States Army at Fort Benjamin Harrison near Indianapolis. Frederick Shroyer will enter the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor, Michigan. Clark Smith will matriculate in the University of Cincinnati, at Cincinnati, Ohio. GENED# SCHOOL HEADING MONDAY — State Tax Board Representative To Conduct Hearing Here With arrangements already made to rent rooms for the con-, I ducting of classes this term, the i fight to rebuild the Geneva school | | house will be carried before a representative of the state tax board in the county court hoiwe | Monday. The hearing was scheduled for the county auditor’s office, but because of the large number of Wabash township citizens who expect to attend, it will probably! !be heard in the circuit court I room. Two remonstrances, one against the civil township and the other against the school township, have been filed against the petition to construct a new building at an i ! estimated cost of approximately I : SIOO,OOO to replace the structure condemned by state school and fire inspectors. The petition proposes that a new building be built with PWA ! funds, in which the township would receive an outright grant. lof 45 per cent from the govern-1 ment. A project to demolish the I I old building with labor furnished by the WPA has already been approved. Officials of the township estimate that approximately SIO,OOO in materials could be salvaged from the old structure. Remonstrators claim that the old building could be repaired for an estimated $7,000 and that the construction of a new building would cost more than the township would be able to raise through a bond issue under the state law dealing with bonded indebtedness. Tn the meantime, Trustee Jesse I C. Mann is making arrangements : to rent rooms to conduct school ' this fall. The Masonic building. J two rooms over the Briggs auto p salesroom and the James Kelley, building have been leased. Additional class room space will be needed. o WEATHER Fair tonight and Sunday; rising temperature Sunday and central protions tonight. 1

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New Deal Program Enacted Almost In Entirety As Lengthy Congressional Session Nears End. LENGTHY SESSION — Washington, Aug. 24 — (U.R) — Congress approached the end of a long anti weary session today, Adj journment by tonight was promI ised. The new deal program was I assured of enactment almost in its entirety. The only corners ! shaved from the administration’s ambitious ideals for the second new deal congress were fragments not regarded as essential. For all practical purposes, the new deal aims for sweeping legislation which may have a profound effect upon the nation's future social and economic life have been accomplished. The road to adjournment was ( cleared by lengthy sessions of I both house and senate lasting until last midnight. The senate cleared a major ad--1 journment hurdle last night when it recommitted the $475,000,000 flood control bill to conference, apparently killing it for this session. The veto came after a three hour speech in opposition to the bill by Sen. Hillard Tydings, D„ Md. Three major pieces of unfinished business — neutrality, utility holding company legislation, and an amendment to the third deficiency bill providing a mandatory 12cent AAA cotton loan —remained to be disposed of. None presented a serious obstacle to ad- ' journment. Chairman Pat Harrison of the i senate finance committee and : Chairman Robert L. Doughton of | tbe house ways and means committee held out their report on President Roosevelt’s $250,000,000 tax-the-rich bill as a lash for adjournment tonight. The strategy was to keep the tax bill out until the last moment to prevent members of congress from catching trains home. Colorful crowds thronged the galleries and corridors of the I capitol last night as a dying conI gress moved rapid!}’ to an end. Conferees brought in a public utility bill carrying most of the drastic provisions, including a 1 virtual "death sentence" for util(CONTTNTTED ON PAGE FIVE) INSTITUTE TO OPEN TUESDAY Annual Teachers’ Institute Will Be Held Next Week Plans have been completed for .the annual county teachers’ institute to be held in the Decatur high : school building on Tuesday, August >27. The speakers will be Henry Arnold, president of Whittenberg college and Allen D. Albert of Paris, | l.’linois. | Mr. Albert was vice-president of the Century of Progress at Chicago. IHe is a world traveler, former I president of Rotary International, and a well known lecturer. At .the present he is connected with the i state teachers colleges in New York and Pennsylvania. Music will be furnished by the high school. County Superintendent Clifton E. Striker is setting up a program which will encourage more community singing in the high schools, and by having the schools sing at the institute he expects to demonstrate what can be done. Other music during the day will be community singing. On Wednesday Mr. Striker will meet with the rural school teach- ' ers to give them instructions for the year and to hand out supplies. The city school teachers, who will [join with the county teachers Tuesday will not meet ag;ain until SepI tember 2 when Mr, Krick will give the final instructions. Al! schools in the county will open September 3. The rural ' school children will receive their 'book lists on Friday, August 30. The city school children will be given their book lists on the first I day of school.