Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 33, Number 202, Decatur, Adams County, 26 August 1935 — Page 1

11 xXXHI. No. 202

WT BRITAIN fcfURING FOR J POSSIBLE WAR K^Spev'l ß |,|iins ] f, r Defense In fl Mediterranean ( By Vntted Press) ita«-Bbiapl»"* ituatlon : JL. Britain speeded its plans n-e, .v.lerillK ships to svagegic point-. . Malta .i:iil Aden. Malta W?..'nff Daly A<l n Is at the jMl''. grra: st of secrecy. ‘fl >t, "."1. ■■ arriving JwT llr . a luy tnaneu-av,r:h-rn July. called an exfl’r’' w ith V'-nsive interest M dJerra:. an to think of, |{ of secrecy h,.i .-\t. nsiv<s ar.uy ’M p|«n Defense in United Pr-easi SM*:.'. r ' Jt .l’P>— Great dip: :na'. and military ... Italian-Ethiopian ;l , a- forcing a sppHBL’...: guaranteeing ’ was indicated K, -xs-du- diplomatic actlv-s^.ii-0 find out whet - Prance will stand a; between Great' and Italy to seek in the , |Kp. ; d support for! '• ■ ’itorial treaties. I ■ ' ! •"** ,a-ik *** jK& Ai.c-alia and New Zeavia Gibraltar the Medit rran-a-'r z t'a a.. and the Red .-'Bb ths end. after ordering a ; winch will put the ;r . . - M diterranean 4 ; p,ulat-d to be of artanve. th ■ - . c 1.201) soldiers R a: ■ a garrison and ■ j-.« n at Aden. ■ the Southern of the Red S;a across ,u...r corr-slKHld |Hkl'x--d f’r.-ss is able to give ON PAGE TWO) KION DEMANDS hUS PAYMENT ■J • •mediate Payment A- ■ nin Demanded By ■ Indiana Department 6 —(U.R) famar.d :■■•• immediate cash Mper.: cf t>,,nus was reiterat- ■ the 17th annual statei uf American Legion, mi approved in a commeeting yesterday endorsthat the bonus be paid deduction of proposed awas presented to a genbusiness s-'-jon of the veterof world war vetthe 1936 child welfare | were the principal other! before rhe meeting. ly tas *he only business session ' for the day. The annual most colorful event of the was scheduled during 4f‘ernoon. The commander's and the annual ball are on ■j* I ' s program. of the cash bonus next predicted before a Legton stssion yesterday by John 8 Taylor, executive vice ■“®*n of .the Legion's national ■•“ in committee. K*^' e bonus will be paid by the Congress, either in January Webruary. M 3 6, Taylor said assailing the Patman ton measure defeated ON PAGE FIVE) I rage Mill Is ■ Closed For Winter H ar “d Mrs. C. O. Porter, sons an<l Ja ck are moving to ’here they will make their I Porter will be employed in KL * ,tore °P era -t o d by his K~ “ Thurman Porter. The DeK. . oone, ' a 8 0 m * ll, o Pfrated in KL ) by Mr. Porter will be Kj or the winter. Mr. Porter! KT... L Was impossible to run K tine to the scarcity of timK1L lioo , sier Ho °P Mill at South Kr »n,' a ’ !so o Porated 0 rated by Mr. Porf continue to run.

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In the event that England should carry out her threat of using arms to prevent Mussolini from invading Ethiopia, the burden of mapping her campaign and marshalling her armies would fall on the soldierly shoulders of Gen. sir Archibald Montgomery ■ Massingbird (above). Chief of the Imperia! General Staff.

LIST BENEFIT PAYMENTS HERE Indiana Farmers Have Received Over 26 Million Dollars Indianapolis, Aug. 26— (U.R) — Indiana farmers received $26,798.970.62 of the $563,438,812.77 expended during the fiscal year of , 1935 by the agricultural adjustmyut aduiiui-urauuu tor re«M>i and benefit payments in five commodity adjustment programs. Holders of corn hog contracts received $24,632,988.84. the largest portion of the total amount. Wheat farmers participating in the program received $1,905,732.55. Tobacco growers received payments amounting to $184,017.33, while sugar producers received $76,221.90. The payments by counties fol- j low: Adams — Wheat, $11,125.36; corn-hog. $273,458.68; and sugar. $22,213.36. Allen —Wheat, $13,763.15; cornhog. $443,502; sugar. $37,966.77. Blackford — Wheat. $1,015.58; corn-hog. $140,261.26. Huntington — Wheat, $14,461.64; corn-hog, $363,086.51; sugar, I $771.90. Jay Wheat, $8,451.57; corn-hog, $309,559.55; sugar $331.80. Noble—Wheat, $18,790.71; corn(CONTTNItEn GN PAGE FIVE) SUNDAYSCHOOL OFFICERS NAMED United Brethren Sunday School Names Officers For Year Members of the United Brethren Sunday School elec:ed officers at the regular service Sunday morning. Officers chosen for the foil-, owing year are as follows: Superintendent, Roy Mumma; assfatant superintendent, E. A. j Cride; secretary, Mrs. Carl Hurst; assistant secretary, Sephus Jackson; treasurer, Mrs, George Hill; pianist, Clara Ellen Mumma; assistant pianist. Ruth Foughty; chorister, Bernie Frank'in; assistant chorister. A. N. Hilton. Superintendent of junior department. Mrs. Ruth Williams; assistant, Mrs. Carl Fisher; superintendent of primary department, Mrs. Anna Meyers; assistant, Mrs. G. A Light; superintendent of beginners department, Mrs. Frank Hurst; assistant, Mrs. Hubert Oilpen, Superintendent of cradle roll, Mrs. Bertha Hakey; assistan, Mrs. Mattle Fisher; superintendent of home departmen', M. S. Drummond; assistant, Clarenct Baughman; librarian, Hubert Cochran; assistant, Alvin Andrews; class leader, Dick Shaffer; assistant,: Jess Hurst.

APPLIES LASH TO SPEED UP WORK PHOSHAM President Roosevelt Sets Sept. 12 Deadline For Application Washington, Aug. 26 — (U.R) — ! President Roosevelt applied the lash today to his lagging workrelief program in a determined drive to end the .dole and return 3,500.000 to work before winter. He uet Sept. 12 as the deadline ’ for applications to share in the ’ government’s $4,300,000,000 workrelief program and in available PWA funds. Contracts must be awarded and signed by December 15, he said. Bis announcement, made in 1 letters to Iris chief recovery lieutenants. followed approval in wholtoale batches last night of employment projects. He author- ! ized expenditure of approximately $50,1)00.000 in four states and New | York City. New York City received $46.1 50R.1SR. of which Gen. Hugh S. Johnson was authorized to spend $35,000,000. State works progress projects announced were $597,219 for Alabama. $258,097 for California, $180,948 for Florida, and $176,027 for Oklohoma. In setting the deadline for putting the full force of the $4,800.000,000, to work this fall the president emphasized his determination to return 3,500,000 employables to work before the snow 1 flies. He approved the emergency 1 relief appropriation passed this session by congress on April 8, nearly four and a half months ! ago. Applications must be in the hands of the division of applications and information “not later than Thursday, Sept. 12, 1935, in such form that they .can be presented to the advisory committee on allotments for final action at L (CONTIXIUn ON PAGE FIVE) o ALEX WILHELM IS BADLY HURT Decatur Man Seriously Injured In Auto Crash This Morning — A! x Wilhelm of Decatur its in a serious condition in a Fort Wayne hccpital where he is suffering from mjuri.o sustained early this morn--1 ing when hia automobile crashed head-on with one driven by Henry ! Hart. St. Joe, five miles north of Fort Wayne on state road 1. Seven persons were injured in the crash. Mr. Wilhelm sustained a fracturI ed palvis and internal injuries. His skull was not fractured ao first 1 feared. Hart suffer'd a proble concussion and a fractured arm. Mr. Wilhelm had driven Mre. Albert Muts.hler to Oden. Michigan. Mis. Mutschler’e son. Robert, was 1 left with friends at Angola and Mr. I Wilh-: Im was returning home alone. According to the police. Hart was I returning to hi-3 home from Fort Wayne when Wilhei.n’s car headed | south, 1 rashed head-on into his machin . The Hart car swerved off th-o . road, plunged into a ditch and overturn d. The car was demolished. (CONTINUED ON PAGE SIX) o ADAMS COUNTY MAN IN VAN WERT JAIL Dale Knittie Os Near Decatur Is Arrested On Charge Os Forging Check Van Wert, Ohio, Aug. 26 —(UP) — ! I.Sp.cial)—Dale Knittie, 24. of near Decatur Indiana is .being held in the Van Wert county jail in lieu of a I SSOO bond asessed against him by , Mayor John H. Morrison, Saturday, when he pleaded not guilty to a forgery charge. Knittie was bound over to the Van Wert county grand jury which meets in October. The charge was filed by Trevelyn Di. kinson of Van Wert. Knittie is alleged to have written a check tor $12.50 on a form of the First Nat- ! ional Banjt of Van Wert, making it payable to A. L. Hoover. The check was cashed by Dickinson and was was returned by the bank marked “no account” Jackson said. Dickinson took the number of the license plates on the car used by Knittie. Van Wert police traced the ■ car and found that It belonged $D Knittie.

ONLY DAILY NEWSPAPER IN ADAMS COUNTY

Decatur, Indiana, Monday, August 26, 1935.

IMPORTANT BILLS Washington, Aug. 26— —(U.R>— Status of important bills con- j Isidered by the first session of 1 the 74th congress: Before the house and senate 1 —Third deficiency. j Awaiting presidential signaS ture—Guffey coal bill, WA amendments, railroad pensions, ' utility holding company regulaI tion, omnibus rivers and harbors, Fraxier-Lemke farm morti gage act, railroad reorganization, railroad payroll tax, high- 1 e i | er taxes on wealth, neutrality 1 1 legislation, alcohol control and { J gold clause amendments. 11 Signed by the President— I Social security, banking reform 1 0 I AAA amendments, Spanish | 0 | | war veterans' pensions. e I —... ' APPEALS MADE IJ 1 DIRECTLY TO I ' ; YOUNG VOTERS ■■ Roosevelt Talks T o 1 Young Democrats; Snell s 9 To Republicans il Washington, Aug. 26 —(U.R) — The Republican and Democratic ’ parties—looking toward the 1936 o presidential election —made strong bids today for recruits in appeals H to young voters. v President Roosevelt's Saturday night radio address to the Mily waukee convention of young Dems ocra.tic clubs was answered -in a t similar broadcast speech last nigh'. l s by Rep. Bertand Snell, New York, j Republican floor leader of the e house. ' Mr. Roosevelt pleaded with youth r to “unite and challenge,” remem- „ bering that “rules are not neces- ,.: sarily sacred —principles are.” e Snell, speaking under the auspices t of the Republican national commit- - I tee, asked young voters to unite in I opposition .to any revision of the i constitution. "Ou; economical system is now challenged as outworn,” Snell said. ; "We are to'd it has become an obr atacle in the pa'h of national progress, a menace to the welfare of our rising generations. We are ask-! ed to cast it aside and substitute J something new —a 'planned econ- ; i omy'—devised and offered by the I new deal. “The youth of America —the j young men and the young women t t\ion whose shoulders will th? burden of carrying on our civ- — 1 (CONTINUED ON PAnE THREE) . -o 1 Board Os Guardians Will Meet Tuesday 1 A meeting of the Adams countyboard of children's guardians has been set for Tuesday evening at 7 3 o’clock at the home of Mrs. D. D. t ! Heller. LAWRENCE ORR DIES SATURDAY , State Board Os Accounts’ 1 Examiner Dies At Indianapolis Indianapo'is, Aug. 26 —<U.R> — ' : Lawrence F. Orr, a chief deputy ; examiner of the state board of accounty, d-ied Saturday at his home , here after an illness of several j weeks. He was 54. , J Mr. Orr’s death resulted from a complication of digestive orders, i ’ He was a native of Columbus, Ind., where he served a term as city clerk. In“ 1912 he was appointed to the state board of accounts, serving ' as an examiner. In 1917 he became 5 ' chief deputy examiner and -In 1923 1 was appointed by Gov. Warren T. r McCray as chief examiner, a post ’ he held for 10 years 1 Mr. Orr, a Republican, was again made a chief deputy examiner aft ter the Inauguration of Gov. McNutt. ( ! In 1932 Mr. Orr made an unsuc- - 3' cessful campaign for the Republlr can gubernatorial nomination. Two . years later he was nominated by - the Republicans for state auditor. c but was defeated in the election, j He was a member of the FairI view Presbyterian church here, the Masonic lodge, the Sigma Chi fras ternity and the Indiana Associar tion of Certified Bublic Accoutants. 5! He attended Butler university. His > | widow, a son and two daughters ! survive.

f JURY PANELS DRAWN TODAY Women Named For Jury Duty First Time In County’s History Members of the Adams county grand and petit juries for the September term were chosen this morning by jury commissioners Otto Hoile of Union township and W. A. Lower of Decatur. For the first time -in the history of the Adams circuit court the names of women were drawn from the jury box to serve on the regular panels of the grand and petit juries. > Mrs. Charles Ray of Jefferson ■ township was drawn as a member of the grand jury which will hear the charges ito be brought against Joe Everett, granted a new trial severaj months ago for the murder of Dorcas W’erl-'.ng of Pleasant Mills. The two women Wfre drawn for I the petit jury. They are Mrs. E. j ) N. Wicks of Decatur and Mrs. Wesley Neuenschwander of Berne. The most important matter to be , brought before the grand jury will be the Joe Everett Case. Prosecuting Attorney Edmund A. Bosse has not indicated whether he will ask a second indictment for first degree murder or one on a charge J carrying a lesser penalty. Members of the regular panel of . the grand jury will be: Mrs. Charles Ray. Jefferson township; Victor ' Kneuss, Hartford township; Glen M. Myers, Blue Creek township; Charles J. Shoaff, St. Marys township; L. B. Koenig, Root township; Edwin Schamerloh, Union township. i Members of .the regular panel of the petit jury are: Joseph K. Yod- ! er. Hartford township; Adolph Bultemeier, Preble township; Mrs. JE. N. Wioks. Decatur; Edward Jj /Rumsh.’ag, Washington township; I Charles G. Kirchner, Kirkland ownship; Mrs. Wesley Neuen- , schwander of Berne;; Merle Essex, . Monroe township; Leon Neuen- ' (CONTINUED GN PAGE FTVE) > o SEEK LEADERS j OF COG RIOTS Fight Between Camp Members Leads To Huge Demonstration — ■ j Indianapolis. Ind., Aug. 26 —(UP) ' —Two federal investigations were' I ordered today into the week-end disorders which Ithrieattened race i rioting between residents of Mitchell ; and negro members of a civilian | conservation corps camp nearby. Maj. John W. t Hjenson of tihe United States army was sent to l Mitchell to investigate the disturbances by officials of Fort Benjamin HarrfcTon. He will report to Col. R. C. Blurnell, chief of the army CCC activities in Indiana. The district office of the depart- j ment of Interion state and national i parks supervision sent Leland Ben- ; ton. The disorders began as a fight between camp members and developed into a huge mob demontration at the Mitchell police tation. Officers from Seymour, Browns- i town and (Bedford succeeded in restoring quiet. Eight negroes from the CCC camp | at Spring Mill state park started the | I disorders when they fought with ' John Hancock and Louie Scthawb, (CONTTNTTEn ON PAGE STX) o CHURCH PLANS FOR ALL-DAY MEETING United Brethren Church Will Hold All-Day Meeting At Monroe September 1 The United Brethren church of this city will hold an all-day camp meeting service at the Monroe Holiness tabernacle next Sunday. September 1. All are to take full baskets and eat in the grove near the tabernacle. Members attending are requested to meet at the church at 9 ' o’clock Sunday morning. Those ' having automobiles are asked to notify the transportation commit- ' tee. Sunday school will be held at the tabernacle at 9:30. with Earl Crider, superintendent, in charge. Rev. E. Henderson Lane, noted evangelist of Rome City, will deliver the morning sermon. Bernie Franklin will lead the singing. Rev. J. A. Huffman, D. D„ of; Marion college, will speak at the afternoon service.

BREAK BETWEEN RUSSIA, U. S. THOUGHT NEAR Government Warns Russia Os Communistic Activities Washington, Aug. 26— (U.R) — ! The United States and Soviet ! Russia today stood at the parting of the ways in their official relations. A series of dead stumps of broken promises serve as milestones marking 22 months of troublesome relations. In what was considered one of > the most sharply worded diplomatic notes sent from Washington since the United States broke off relations with the central powers in 1917, this government warned ' Russia that the “most serious ; consequences" must result unless Moscow smothers activities of the j communist international organizaJ tion insofar as it affects the , United States. The warning and the demand were contained in a vigorous protest delivered to the soviet foreign office by American Ambassador William C. Bullitt. It called attention to activities of the Comintern, and to the promises made to President Roosevelt on Nov. 16. 1933, by soviet commissar for foreign affairs Maxim Litvinov as the basis upon which diplomatic recognition was accorded the soviets. The action of the Roosevelt administration in according recognition to Soviet Russia, after three successive Republican administrations had consistently refused it, was hailed at the time as a master stroke of new deal diplomacy and economic astuteness. Great hopes were publicly expressed that recognition of the soviets would: 1. “Regularize" trade and political relations between the two countries. 2. Result in a stream of fat I orders from Soviet Russia for i American products, particularly I for steel, pipe, machinery, run--1 (CHNTTNUEr 9N PAGE FIVE) o Washington Township Teachers Announced John M. Doan, Washington town- ' shf a truobte, today announced the ■school teachers for the next term , They are: District number three; Washingj ton school, Esta Fleming; district I number five, Raudenbush school, 1 Arline Becker; district number six. Brandyb.erry school, Clyde Troutner; number seven. Reniker school. Martha Reppert; number eight, Debolt school. Marguerite Lewellen. The janitors will be: district number three, Roily Poling; district (number five, Homer Raudenbush; district number six, John Chllcote; | district number seven, Herman FauI rote; district number eight, Joan ! Yost. MILLER RITES HELD SUNDRY Berne Boy Dies Saturday Following Fall From Tree Funeral services for Howard i Mil'er, 7, son of the Rev. and Mrs. R. Paul Miller of Berne, were held at his home Sunday afternoon. Howard died Saturday as the result of a fall from a tree at his home one half mile eas.t and a mile south of Berne Thursday. The boy had been warned on several occasions to refrain from climbing the tree but he disregarded the orders. Thursday he climbed the tree to a height of about 15 feet before he lost his grip. The boy fell on his head. Al- - no bones were broken he suffered a fatal condussion of the 1 brain. He remained unconscious un til his death Saturday. The boy's father is secretary of the home mission board of the Brethren church. He conducts evangelistic services and does not have a regular charge. He was at Winona Lake at the time of the fatal accident. Surviving are the parents, six brothers, Robert, Arthur, Ward, Paul Jr., William and Wesley and two sisters, Mary and Laura. The Rev. William Clough of Uniontown, Pennsylvania, officiated at the funeral services Sunday. He was assisted by the Rev. John 1 Carr of Berne and the Rev. Stanley Hauser of Fort Wayne.

Agrarian Revolt , In Senate Delay To Adjournment

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An indignant denial of charges made by Bernard B. Robinson, utility lobbyist, that he had “partied” with Senator Tydinga of Maryland was made by the senator when Robinson testified at the senate investigation of lobbying activities. I

— HEARING OPENS THIS AFTERNOON >; . Hearing Is Held On Proposed New School Building At Geneva A large number of Wniasii township citizens attended the ! hearing held this afternoon in the I county court house for the re- i monstrators against the petition ■ for the construction of a new i ‘ school house a Geneva. The hearing was presided over I by Albert Wotehian of the state ! tax board who will take a record ' of the proceedings to Indianapolis I where the final decision will be ■ rendered. Over 500 names were signed to the petition for the construction | ■ of the new building and over 80 names to the remonstrance:): against it. i The hearing began at 2 o'clock. Two remonstrances were filed and : both were heard. One remon- ' strance was against the civil township and the other against I the school township. The chief objections raised , ■ against the construction of the , building were: “The construction was unneces- ' I sary as the old building could be | repaired for less than SB,OOO. “The township is so deeply in debt now that an increase in the bonded indebtedness would not be legal for a corporation of its valu- : ation. “The school officials acted illegally in not calling a hearing before the county auditor before rPGNTTNTTED GN PAGE STX) o Building Sidewalks Under WPA Program A : r?w of eight men this morning began laying a new sidewalk in i front of the Catholic church. This project was approved under the FERA .program but was not started before the appropriations expired.! The work is now .being done as a WPA project. 0 Catholic School Is Re-Decorated The corridors and stairs at the i i Decatur Catholic school building have been refinished and made > ready for the beginning of school, i The class roams were redecorated . last summer. School will open Tuesday morn-: < ing September 3, on the same day < the city schools will begin classes. 1 o WEATHER 1 1 Unsettled northwest, local thun- | derehowers east and south to- < night or Tuesday; warmer extreme northeast and cooler ex- 1 treme northwest tonight; somewhat cooler Tuesday. |’

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Roosevelt And Leaders Seek To End Revolt And Adjourn Congress By Midnight LOANS DEMANDED Washington, Aug. 26 — (U.R) — ; President Roosevelt and senate leaders toiled at the White House ■ today over plans to end an Agrarian revolt and send congress homeward tonight. I With adjournment blocked by the senate’s cry for government loans on cotton and wheat, the president backed up the house opposition and conferred with senate majority leader Joseph T. Robinson and others, including those wanting the loans. The senate stood in recess until 5 p. m. to prevent raising of other Issues which might delay adjournment. The house, determined to block ; the loan demands, laid its strategy to force the senate to act. It ap- | peared likely that a compromise, j putting the loan issue over until I January, would result. A new adjournment resolution, to end congress by midnight tonight, was passed in the house after Rep. Carl Vinson, D„ Ga„ moved to table the resolution and a vote was ordered. i Senators, meantime, were told I informally that there was an exi eellent chance of adjournment tonight. The adjournment resolution, however, must be approved by the senate, and it was there that the key to the situation rested. The resolution passed the house, 172 to 47. The house also strengthened its hand in its determination to force the senate to back down on the j cotton and wheat loan. The third deficiency appropria- ' tion bilL carrying the senate loan amendments, was summarily sent back to the house appropriations committee by Speaker Joseph W. ! Byrns. That put the bill under direct i control of Chairman James P. ' Buchanan, D„ Tex., who was de- | (CONTTNUEn GN PAGE FTVE) O— Former Berne Man Dies In Illinois Mosc-s Schindler, 70, a former resident of the Berne community, died Saturday at Rankin. Illinois. Mr. Schindler was employed in the railroad sdiops where he fell recently and complications developed. The widow survives. The body will t f brought to Geneva and funeral services will be held Tuesday morning at 10 o’clock at the United Brethren church there. Burial will be in the West Lawn cemetery. o AIDED CLUB TO GAIN CHARTER Institute Speaker Helped Organize Decatur Rotary Club Allen D. Albert, who will speak at the annual county teachers’ institute Tuesday is known in Decatur as "the father of the local Rotary club.” . Mr. Albert spoke on a Chautauqua program in Decatur in 1916. At that time there was a local service club in the city, patterned after Rotary International. Mr. Albert spoke at a meeting of the club. Later he gave approval to an application of the local club for membership in Rotary International. He was instrumental in obtaining the charter for Decatur which, became the first city of a population of 5,000 or under to be so recognized. This was granted on June 1, 1917. Several of the oldei' members of the Decatur Rotary club will entertain Mr. Albert as their luncheon guest Tuesday. He is a former president of Rotary International, was vice president of the Century of Progress at Chicago, is a world traveler, and a well known lecturer. Although his home is In Paris, Illinois, he is connected with the state teachers' colleges in New York and Pennsylvania.