Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 33, Number 221, Decatur, Adams County, 18 September 1935 — Page 1

xxxni. No- 221.

I djustment Board ■ConeWes Annual I Session Tuesday

Ig \|)pr<»piiati'»ns Are Allowed With Ktduc ’ Kons Made As Result 1)1 Errors In Figures. I NO OBJECTIONS school levies in three ■ hiiw ami tuition levies in six El »ur" > >■' |,y the <ounty Eluent board. which conK its annual session yestel- ■ appropriations in the various E P and all other tax levies ■allowed, the reduction in the and tuition levies resulting ■ jetted compilation of the ■ was made. ■ppnnon mistake made in the ■h-,) budgets was to estimate ■mount of an upended atp-pro-or take half of the total ■Led for next year The board ■da poii-' of .orrecting these ■ allowing half of the 1935 ■\ s the unexpended approprl- ■ In a few instances the ■nt asked as an operating balalso reduced. ■ae corrections resulted in L in six of the townships, made follow . Special ■l fund- Blue Creek township ■o to 57 cents; Hartford town- ■ from 73 to 71 cents; Wabash ■hip. 56 to 52 cents. Tuition ■wabashington township, from ■25 cents: St Marys township. ■ 2' cents. Blue Creek town ■59 to 57 cents; Monroe town ■JOto 27 cents Hartford town- ■ 51 to 43 cents. Wabash town■SO to 48 cents. ■ No Objections Filed ■ objectors to any of the pro ■ budgets and tax levies apKd before the board. No re■trances were filed. The board 1 ■mned the officials of the var-| ■ taxing units and heard each . ■xplain the appropriations ask-1 Eh budget was refigured and I ■e mistakes were noticed, cor■ons were made. Emergencies Declared Bee every tax rate in-the 12 ■ships is above the fl rate and Excess of the $1.50 maximum by law. it was necessary to ■red that an emergency exist- ■ every taxing unit. be reasons given for the empty follow: L The decrease of the value Htblie utilities as assessed by estate tax board. . The in< reased frost and exit incident to old age pensions Wed by laws of 1933. . The large amount required e paid for poor relief. - The extra cost of transportaof school children, including cost of new school buses and pment required by law. ■ The increased salaries of ol teachers as required by law. . The cost and expense of holdgeneral elections during the 1936. ■ That an economic and effit management and conduct of j business affairs of said townand the several municipalities b'd by said levies will require amount of money to be raised aid levies.” Voted As Body 1 every motion to correct or •t a tax levy the seven mem°f the board voted as a body. PON’TINTED ON PAGE FIVE) M JERSEY VOTES SALES TAX f Tam many Hall Chieftains r e,e ating In Balloting; Quezon Wins Phillipines I <By United Press) L* Jersey voters disapproved ptically a 2 per cent state L lax yesterday in bhe only Issue port than local importance in p ar >es of three states. r° Os Tammany Hall’s oldest I lct 'Bains in .point of serpoemingiy lost their Jobe in the f* ng ’ indicating that the Hall’s gat at the hands of fuslonists in I ast city election still ie reverRttng underground. pees ci.posed to calling a con'on m January to revise the Lt j 4nia state constitution L on the basis of returns ’ - 4 ' l " of the commonwealth's * Section districts. t ' le Philippine Islands " d Manuel Quezon, gray haired °t the Archipelago’s fight for cn -nee, head the new fef commonwealth.

DECATUR DAILY DEMOCRAT

WILL INSTALL MORE LIGHTS More Lights To Be Install* ed On First And Tenth Streets The report of the electric light committee recommending the installation of ornamental lights on First street from Rugg street to Monroe street and on Tenth street from Nuttman Avenue to Monroe street was approved by the city council last night. Original petitions for these improvements were filed in 1927. If no objections are tiled the posts will be installed this year with WPA labor, the city having included the projects in its list submitted the government. The committee recommended the use of the old posts removed from Second street for First street, the property owners paying for them. New residential type standards would be installed on Tenth street the cost being paid by the property owners. The state board of tax commissioners approved the special appropriations asked for by the city council. The letter of approval was placed on the record. Samuel Acker appeared before the council and requested the replacing of a traffic light a.t the point whore U. S. highway 27 goes north from Second street to cross the St. Mary’s river north of Decatur. Mr. Acker stated that this is one of the most dangerous crossings in the city and cars both on Second street and the highway have the right-of-way. Ho also said Chat he hr.s business offices on both sides of the highway and that often he is unable to cross the road without danger The proposal was given to th? board of public works and safety with power to act. A contract was signed by the electric light committee and the b<A'il of public works a.nd safety with the Central Sugar company and Central Soya company. The contract provides that electric current be supplied by the city to the industries. The industries will pay S4O per (CONTINUED ON PAGE FIVE) Park Grounds And Roads Are Improved Forrest Elzey reported at the city council Tuesday night that 55 men have been working on the roads and grounds at the HannaNuttman park, west of Decatur. They now have the road in first class condition, having constructed a ditch along the side to drain off the water, and made other improvements. o STATE REVOKES LIQUOR PERMITS Three Other Permit Holders Ordered To Appear Before Board Indianapoli.?., Ind.. Sept. 18 (UP) —A series of raids conducted by state excise officers during the past few days today resulted in the revocation of five permits and issuance of orders to three other permit holders to appear before the alcoholic beverage commission. Th? beer licensee of Mrs. Ella Wright. Terre Haute, and John Gilmore. Cayuga, were among those revoked. Three Indianapolis establishments were charged with running nuisances and selling without proper permits and their licenses were revoked. Mrs. Wright was charged with op■crating a public nuisance and Gilmore with selling unstamped liquor. The Steuben County Wholesale Beverage Co., Angola, and the Marion County Beverage Co., Indianapolis. were ordered to appear before the comtfiission to show cause why their wholesalers’ permits should not be revoked. They were charged with selling to retailers who do not have state licenses. Antoinette and Susan Matis, Hammond, also were ordered to appear before the Commission Sept. 25 for hearing on revocation of their beer permit.

ROPER DEFENDS CONSTITUTION Indications Point To Constitution As Chief Campaign Issue Washington, Sept. 18. - (U.R) — J Republican opposition to the new deal was Intensified today as constitution day ended in a burst of political oratory from coast to I coast. Led by former President Herbert Hoover, Republicans directed a furious assault upon President Roosevelt's administration, and sounded a battle cry for future campaigns. The new deal replied quickly through Secretary of Commerce Daniel (’. Roper, who declared in a speech at Alexandria. Va., last night that Mr. Roosevelt’s opponjents had distorted what had been done to save the nation ‘‘from i chaos." Hoover speaking at the Pacific | International Exposition at Sani Diego. Calif., was one of a score of Republicans and anti-new dealers who blasted away at what they described as Democratic attempts to wreck the 148-year-old constitution. Frank Knox. Chicago publisher and aspirant for the Republican presidential nomination in 1936. !appeared with former Sen. James I A. Reed of Missouri, antimew deal Democrat, at a constitution day 1 dinner in Chicago. Both criticized policies of the present adininistra-| lion. Hoover, as ranking head of his party, offered a future battle cry | to 25.000 persons who heard him declare that new deal recovery and reform policies were “sapping the safeguards of human liberty." Roper replied that the American people must decide within the next decade whether the constitution should be amended to £ive the government power to act boldly in times of distress. The question is j 3 (CONTINUED ON PAGE FIVE) MRS. RATLIFF IN TESTIMONY Wife Os Man Suing For .$75,000 Gives Evidence Here Today Mrs. Cloid B. Ratliff, on the witness stand this morning and after- , noon, corroborated the testimony given by her husband Tuesday in the $75,000 damage suit he is bring- ! ing against Dr. and Mrs. Charles ‘ : Caylor and Dr. Truman Caylor of Bluffton. Judge Huber M. DeVoss is presiding over the case and the jury 1 has the first woman in the history of the Adams circuit court, Mrs. Cora Neuenschwander, of Berne. The case was venued here from Wells county. Cloid Ratliff concluded his testimony on direct examination just ■as the court adjourned for the day Tuesday afternoon. In his testi-i mony he placed the blame for the amputation of both of his hands against the Bluffton clinic. He testified that in his opinion the X-ray treatment given him for the cure of exzema resulted in third degree X-ray burns, which were followed by X-ray cancer. He also stated that he was not told the true nature of his ailmertt until he made application for entrance to a government hospital in Dayton in 1931, where his right hand was amputated. While at the Great Lakes Naval Training School Hospital his condition was described as ulcers of the hands, he testified. Mr. Ratiiff was placed on the stand this morning for cross-exam-ination. This required only half an hour. He told substantially the same story in answer to the queries

(CONTINUED ON PAGE SIX) 0 High School Students Elect Class Officers The senior and junior classes of the Decatur high school elected officers for the year at meetings held Tu sday afternoon. The sophomore and freshmen classes were to elect officers at meetings late this afternoon. Miss Blanche McCrory was named clalss sponsor for the senior lass. Harry Moyer was elected president; Russel Butler, viee-ipresi-dent; Rut'.)' Porter, secretary and Agnes Nelson, treasurer. Mist) Verneal Whalen was chosen junior class sponsor; Eugene Friedt president; Catherine Jackson, vicepresident; Bud Hurst, secretary and Virginia Breiner treasurer.

ONLY DAILY NEWSPAPER IN ADAMS COUNTY

Decatur, Indiana, Wednesday, September 18, 1935.

To Get New Post? - -- - ■ » K ■ > ■ • ■ ip jrj| if Si |W ■' I T'pon retirement as chief of staff of the United States army, Geni eral Douglas MacArthur, above, is expected to go to the Philippine I islands to take over the job of training an army for the new , Filipino commonwealth. 1 WILL RELEASE TWO AVIATORS Charges In Connection With Ball Player’s Death To Be Dropped Toronto. Ont.. Sept 18 —(UP) —J The attorney generdl’s office announced todgy that criminal chargee against William Joseph Mulqueeney and Irwin Davis, American aviators, held in connection with the airplane death of Len Koenecke. major league baseball player, would not be pressed and that they will be released on bail. The fliers will be asked to tell j t,i»eir story of Koenecke’a death at an inquest tomorrow night. They will be arraigned formally Friday ■ merning and then discharged. The attorney general, it was explained, is satisfied that the men w-ere forced to kill Koenecke, who was crazed by liquor, in order to save their own lives. Mulqueeney and Davis are held in jail on manslaughter charges. , The amount of bail to be asked was , not revealed. It was indicated the . men would be released sometime • ; this afternoon. i Koenecke’s father was expected ' to come to Toronto today from his home at Adams. Wisconsin, to claim ~ i (CONTINUED ON PAGE SIX) O Men’s Brotherhood Will Meet Tonight The men’s brotherhood of the ■ Zion Reformed church will meet at the church tonight at 7:30 o'clock. All men of the church are urged to attend.

Tax Levies As Fixed By The County Adjustment Board

The following table shows the levies as they apply to the various taxing units, together with total rates payable next year and in 1936. To the table of rates, must be added the state’s levy of 15 cents; the county’s general fund rate of 43 cents and the county’s bond rate of 5 cents. These three , rates apply to all taxing units listed and are included in the totals. The county tax adjustment board a.pproved the following ' rates. A comparison of the rates asked and the amount fixed by the county board will be found in

HBHWWaWH’O C 2 'J ; S o=o ■= Z 2.2 c 2 c? < 2. « 2- » -40-B 2. S 2 ° ? ” » : — : ; Township m : »2. : § q ■O : 5’ ■ Roo t 25 .09 .35 .15 .08 . 1.42 1.55 I Preble 22 .07 .10 .05 .02 1.13 1.09 , Kirkland ■ .10 .11 52 .03 .51 .08 1.42 1.98 Washington .26 .02 .20 25 .30 .02 1.62 1.68 . St. Marys 10 .16 .60 27 .30 1.64 2.06 I Blue Creek ■ 40 .12 .57 o7 .09 1.92 2.38 . Monroe2s .06 .75 ... .27 .18 1.81 2.14 ■ French 20 .06 .28 25 .06 . 1.41 1.48 Hartford 22 .17 .71 .34 .43 .08 1.90 2.58 . Wabash 25 .11 .52 48 .25 1.92 2.24 1 Jefferson 30 .12 .40 50 .08 1.37 2.03 Berne -25 .06 .30 75 .18 .07 .70 2.46 2.94 i Decatur- Washington 26 .02 .60 .07 .48 .30 .05 .40 2.71 2.81 Decatur-Root 25 .09 .60 .07 .48 .08 .05 .40 2.48 2.65 ■ Geneva 25 .11 .52 48 .25 .... 1.63 3.46 3.87 I Monroe-Monroe 25 .06 .75 27 .18 .... .36 2.17 2.50 Monroe Washington .. .26 .02 .20 25 .30 .02 .36 1.96 2.04

BAPTIST GROUP HOLDS ANNUAL SESSION HERE Salamonie Baptist Association Meets Today At Decatur Church "Within 25 yeans we will either have a regenerated people or the I <urse of Communism." said the Rev. i J. W. Kinnett of New Castle in the ‘ annual eermon at the morning see-1 sion of the 96th annual meeting of ! the Salamonie Baptist Association held in the local Baptist thui'ch today. Churches represented In the association are New Castle, Muncie First, Muncie Walnut Street, Montpelier, Warren. Liberty Center, Pon-! eto, Bluffton, Pleasant Mills and Decatur. Between 100 and 150 delegatee attended. A nominating committee was ap- | pointed thie morning. Tlte memhers are: C. E. Bell of Decatur, i Rev. Day of Bluffton and Mrs. Flick of Muncie. The place and preachers committee consists of Rev. LeMasters of Liberty Center; R v. Crowder of Montpelier and Mrs. J. W. Kinnett of New Castle. Two new pastors were welcomed into the association. They are the ! Rev. Morris 11. Coers of Bluffton and the Rev. D. Il Lehman of | Dunkirk. Dr. S. G. Huntington, treasurer of ■ the association made his report in an address on ‘financing the King- ‘ dom." Dr. Huntington stated that the j unified missions received from Indiana 77 cents per capita of the Baptist church members. The current : expenses of the association for the [ year ending April 30, 1933, were $28,125J14. The association spent $2,715.07 on missions. Dr. Huntington remarked that the church members are under no law : except stewardship to contribute to the church. He said that the ; old system of titles has been aband- ' oned. The contributions of the church are decreasing although the (CONTINUED ON PAGE FIVE) County Auditor Presents Token To Board Members ♦— —♦ The law does not provide that members of the County Tax Adjustment board shall be paid for their services, but County Auditor John Tyndall took compassion on the members when they adjourned yesterday after a two-day session and proffered them a token. Each member was presented with a red lead pencil. The board put in about 16 hours time, hearing the representatives of the different taxing units and wrestling with the budgets and levies. The members accepted the pencils, convinced that after seeing so many of the taxing units in "the red,” it would be a good thing to have a pencil that wrote accordingly.

another column of this paper. (Explanation of captions above columns: I—Township road, levied by townships to pay road bonds and interest; 2—Township general funds; 3 —Special school fund in townships and incorporated townu; 4—School house bonds; s—Tuition fund, pay of teachers; 6—Poor, township poor funds; 7—Library, maintenance of public libraries; B—Civil, levies uzade by incorporated towns and cities; 9—Total rate payable this year; 10— Total rate payable in ‘ 1936.)

Extraordinary Measures Taken By Italian Cabinet In Preparation For Battle

MAKE PROGRESS TO AGREEMENT Negotiations Speeded Up To Avert Coal Miners’ Walkout Washington. Sept. 18. — (U.R) — Threat of a bituminous coal strike next Monday today speeded up negotiations as the joint wage conference reported "reasonable progress” to ward completing new . wage contracts for 400.000 union ( , miners. i Five days remained of the oneweek extension granted by the , United Mine Workers to break a , deadlock last Saturday night. It j I was the fifth extension since the , union contracts originally were scheduled to expire April 1. All were granted in response to pleas ■ of administration officials to avoid i industrial warfare. Assistant Labor Secretary Ed- 1 j ward F. McGrady, asked by Presi- ; dent Roosevelt last week-end to , urge the conference to keep mines I open, had a leading part in the ■ negotiations. As the government's , most experienced and successful ■ conciliator, he is looked to by both , | operators and miners to avert a , ' walkout of union men next week. ; ■ The conference has an easier . problem to solve today than when . its work began last February. The difficult question of wage differ- ■ entials between northern and south- ; ' ern producting fields was disposed of last week by creation of arbi- ’ tration machinery. The mine union's demand for a I (CONTINUED ON PAGE SIX) 0 ♦ COMMITTEE 10 MEET TONIGHT Committee To Plan For Decatur Centennial Observance In 1936 An organization meeting of the committee named by the Chamber ' of Commerce to organize .all the 1 social, civic, educational, benevo- ’ lent, frajernal. service and church bodies in one big community J group for the planning ar.d celebration of Decatur's Centennial I ' in 1936. will be held at the Rice hotel this evening. j I The committee of five men comprises, Dan Tyndall. E. W. Lankeuau, Arthur Voglewede, Dan M. Niblick and C. C. Pumphrey. < Jesse Rice, president of the Cham- ] her of Commerce, is a member by 1 virtue of his office. j Steps will be taken in the near i future totvards a permanent org- t anization and the establishing of < a Centennial commisi ion. As plans proceed, the time of 1 holding the celebration next year ! will be decided, the matter of ' financing the celebration and an 1 outline of the program will be . formulated. Decr.'ur will be 100 years old I next May and an effort will be made by the Chamber of Commerce, civic leaders and organizations to enlist the services of i every individual and organization 1 , in the proper celebration of the . event. Condition Os Earl Rabbit Improved t ■ I ( Earl Rabbit of Fort Wayne was t reported as improved today. He < has best) in a serious condition at 1( the Adams county memorial hospi-j s tai since an automobile accident ( Sunday afternoon northeast of De- ( catur. o 1 Judge DeVoss Hearing )( .$75,000 Damage Suit It w-as erroneously stated in c Tuesday’s edition of the Democrat e that Judge Hanson Mills is trying t the $75,000 damage suit against the Blufftdn physicians. Judge e Huber M. DeVoss of the Adams t circuit court is hearing the case. Judge Mills of Portland has been t appointed to hear the Joe Everett s case. Judge DeVoW'declined jur- t isdiction in this case because he t had previously served as defense « counsel for Everett. <

DECATUR TOTAL 1936 TAX RATE WILL BE $2.81 Next Year’s Levy Is Increase Os 10 Cents Over The 1935 Rate The tax rate payable in Decatur tn 1936 will be $2.81 on the $l9O of taxable property, final approval of the levies which go to make up the total being given by the county tax adjustment board yesterday. The levy is an increase of 10 cents over the late payable this vear. The increase i« accounted for in the Decatur school levy and the Washington township poor fund ra.te. The civil city’s rate, as made by the council is the same for 1936 as that paid this year, 40 cents on the SIOO. The levies which make up Decatur’s total rate, together with a comparison for this year follow: Unit 1935 rate 1936 rate County .45 .43 County bonds*. .OF- .05 Township road .43 .26 Tow-nship Gen. .02 .02 Township poor .25 .30 Librc.-y .05 .05 School city .91 1.15 State ... .15 .15 Civil city .40 .40 Total $2.71 $2.81 The increase in the total tax bill paid by Decatur taxpayers and distributed among the above funds for next year will approximate $4,400, based on the city's net valuation of $4,418,000. Had it ; i not been for the increases in the j ! township poor fund and in the: school city levy, the 1936 rate ■ would have been reduced to $2.42. i a decreisc of 29 cents under the; 1935 rate. The school city- has a budget of approximately $72,000 for next year. The civil city's budget to-, tals $32,000, of which leos than SIB,OOO is raised by a ta.x levy. The county tax rate was cut I two cents by the county council. . reduced from 45 to 43 cents. The | township road bond levy in Washington township was reduced from 43 cents to 26 cents. The slate rate w-ill remain at 15 cents. — - —-o ■ — Credits Democrat Success To Youth Marion, Ind.. Sept. 18 —(UP) —| Success of the Democratic party in ■ Indiana is credited to young voters. Lieut. Gov. M. Clifford Townsend and Pleas E. Greenlee, state administration i; atronage secretary, told a group of fifty district workers here last night. Neither Townsend nor Greenlee, both reported to be in the race for gubernatorial nomination next year referred to his respective ambition for that office. POE FIRE LOSS LATE TUESDAY Poultry House, Creamery Are Destroyed By Fire, House Saved Damage of nearly $4,000 was caused by a fire of undetermined origin late Tuesday afternoon at the town of Poe, northeast of Decatur. The flames, which destroyed a live poultry storage house and a creamery ow-ned by H. R. Shearer, for a time threatened to wipe out the entire town. Work of firemen from Fort Wayne, Ossian and Hoagland and a bucket brigade of 100 Poe residents saved the town from destruction. Between 75 and 100 chickens, 20 cases of eggs, several tons of feed and four barrels of oil, stored in the two buildings, were consumed. ; Approximately 2,000 . chickens ■ and 800 ducks were removed from the poultry house. The flames, which started to eat their way into Shearer's home and another nearby residence, were extinguished before serious damage was done. A brick store, also owned by Shearer, was only slightly damaged.

Price Two Cents

I Rejection Os Peace Plan Believed Certain By League; Plans Rushed For Naval Warfare. TROOPS MASSED (By United Press) Developments in Italian-Ethio-pian crisis: Rome: Cabinet votes extraordinary war measures, including internal loan and new taxes. Italian troops mass in Libya, bordering on Egypt. Geneva: Baron Aloisi, Italian delegate, to take league's pea.ee plan to Mussolini in person, but its rejection is believed certain. Basis laid in Mediterranean for most terrible naval warfare in history, preparations being rushed on land and sea. Paris: France visualizing possibility of putting fleet on British side in event of clash. Rome: Fascists receive orders to be ready today, tomorrow or Friday for mass “test" mobilization of between 10,000,000 and 15,000,000 people. Addis Ababa: Officials indicate Ethiopia may accept league peace plan. Prepare For War Rome. Sept. 18— «j.R>— Premier Benito Mussolini's cabinet, with 15 heavy bombing planes roaring over the war ministry where it met, decided today on a new internal bond issue and increased taxation to finajice the impending war with Ethiopia. The cabinet also appropriated 337.000,000 lire ($27,457,000) for the construction of a new oil depot for the navy. The money will be spread out over the yearly budgets until 1942. The new bond issue will pay the high rate of five per cent. The J bonds will be exempt from all taxation and will be issued at 95. ■ Holders of the present 3% per cent state bonds may convert their securities into the new five ; per cent bonds at 80. The cabinet w-as in session two hours and 45 minutes. During th» meeting, bomber* of the latest ' lype maneuvered overhead and a I heavy force of carabinieri and J plain clothes metropolitan police- ■ men was on duty. Today's cabinet decisions went several steps farther toward putting the country on a complete war basis, which will be emphasized within a few days when approximately 10,000,000 men. women and children of fascist organizations will be called out in a (CONTINUED ON PAGE SIX) 0 Silas Hale Observes 92nd Birthday Today Silas Hale of Geneva, one of Adams county’s four surviving Civil War veterans, was in Decatur today and informed his many friends that this was his 92nd birthday. ■As usual Mr. Hale was in the best spirits. He proved that lie was one of the “youngest” men in Decatur today—in mind if not years. Mr. Hale was much encouraged ever the condition of his grandson, Joseph Hale, who has been a patj lent at the Adams county memorial hospital for the last 10 days. o POLICE LEADER TALKS TO LIONS Capt. Matt Leach Os The Indiana State Police Speaks To Local Club Tuesday Capt. Matt Leach of the state ipolice department, Indianapolis, was the epeaker at the Lions club meeting at the Rice Hotel Tuesday night. Harry Knapp had charge of the program. Capt. Leach gave interesting high ligihts on the manner in which the police department is conducted and stated that more highly educated men were being placed in the department to outsmart criminals by brains instead of guns. He told a number of interesting facte about the capture of Dillinger and pointed out that (political handicaps were not prevalent In the police department. V. J. Bormann and Walter Bockman were guests at the meeting. o WEATHER Generally fair and continued warm tonight and Thursday.