Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 33, Number 259, Decatur, Adams County, 1 November 1935 — Page 1

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Italian Students ■n Anti-English I Disorders Today

_— —— ~~ I Lgj, France Agree [private Settlement Os ■pule; King Emanuel ■Racks Mussolini. ;guard embassy eH'Bv United Press) war developments: hundred guards staC i„.>und British embassy asr an! [.English disorders. Cathull ( .| OS e to Pope urges given mandate over Ethi'a, Italian capture of MakK ■ Addis Ababa, believed lt . Exchange telegraph re rts i has already fallen. _ Britain and France He Italy must accept league ms , dosing door to private setAbaba- Ethiopians claim Eh made two attacks on Italis la Danakil region, killing 15 «. ■ to». Not 1— (U.R> — Anti-Eng-ih ■monstrations by students it in various parts of Rome lay ith attacks on stores, hotea rooms regarded as ire British than Italian. cases, windows were ake| and signs damaged. For K st part, students merely rna the owners against using or foreign names of Eng- ( of Italian menues. embassy was heavby 100 detectives and rati sera I Upholds Mussolini ■npyright. 1935. by UP.) He Nov. 1. (U.R> King Vic- ■ Emmanuel broke a long silence laylto assert the justice and -si .■ of Italy's war on Ethi- ■ Thus he refused reports d agreed with Premier »it«| Mussolini on war policy. H speech at the new UniverM Rome. where he received doctorate in literire.lthe king said: It [is not without significance ttb fortress of thought opens hall for noble and severe studwiile my country is engaged an ction which the supreme Mr ies of its life, its security, 1 its future impose upon it. Mach hour of its glorious his■tome has carried out the M of civilization. Today Italy ■b>a on the same road, more Bl than ever in the super force ■faith and will. Italy asks only to live its life ■to work and to devote its' ■fs to those ideals which con- ■- - . —.~- |C<>MTIXI En ON PAGE SIX) BNECOMPANY SIVEN VERDICT _ Ihberger Bros. Win In Ramage Suit By Insurance Company •r deliberating 55 minutes, a a verdict far the dent in the $3,000 damage suit i American Employers' Insurcompany against Lloyd Run»d the Meshberger Brothers’ company, in Allen superior No. 2 at Fort Wayne. action was based on insurcaynients totaling $2,215.50, 1511 ,7 for medical attention, hy the plantiff firm under the hen s compensation act, to [Rdberts, an employe of the r Stone company, as a result luries suffered by Roberts in evident at the Heller stone > at Rookford, northwest of l<,n - September 29, 1931. Jd Runyon, a trucker employthe Meshberger company, had *ent with a truck to procure a »f stone at the Heller quarry, on parked the truck with the end of the vehicle facing the of a stone loader which was ’ operated by Roberts. The I was 'parked on a slight incline. aa alleged that Runyon had I careless in that the truck Bs were not adequately set, that the brakes were ineuffiheits had occasion to move lie- , the truck and the stone loadthe truck suddenly rolled *aid, it was claimed, crushing ead, fracturing his lower jaw causing him to suffer an ini’ 0 his left eye and impairment »e -sight thereof.

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I ■ Accused Attacker I1 - ok jc* M|| 11 Two of several women who have 1 ' been recent victims of maniacal attacks in Chicago by an assailant who carrjed a whip identified I Jerome De Jonckheere, above, as the man sought by police for ) some weeks. He denied the accusation. BOMB SUSPECT UNDER ARREST Two Milwaukee Police Stations Are Damaged By Bombings Milwaukee. Nov. 1 — (UP)- Dynamite bombers last night turned . their attack on the police, blasting . two precinct stations. 'Both stations were damaged and h„mcs are building »in the surround-; ing neighborhood were rocked, win-| dows broken and walls crashed in. Adding to the general confusion the bombers turned in thiee false fire alarms in the vicinity of the police stations, sending fire apparatus squad cars, ami motorcycle officers on a series of wild runs that kept Milwaukee's near north I north sid in a furore for half an I hour. Police arrested a 23-year-old suspect, seen by detectives in 'he vicinity of the bombings before and after the blasts. Damage to the stations and surrounding buildings roughly was estimated at $20,000. with approximately $15,000 of this done to (police buildings and radio equipment. Police were of the opinion the I bombings were iby the same gang that last week-end set off charges in two hanks and the shorewood city hall. The officers believed th? false alarms were turned in to divert their attention. Local Retailers Granted Licenses Indianapolis, Ind.. Nov. I—(UP)1 —(UP) —Licenses issued by the state alcoholic beverages commission today included: Decatur—Herman Moyers, beer; • Lose Brothers, Deer; Harry O. Staley, beer. 0 Taxpayers Crowd Treasurer Office A taxpayers’ rush was on at the county treasurer’s office today. Early this morning the office was crowded with persons calling to pay the fall Installment of property taxes. Monday is the last day for paying the November installment without penalty being added. County 1 rt xasurer John Wachter, Deputy D6l- - Wechter, Miss .Alics Lenhart and other assistants in the office dispatched the duties quickly and it is epected that today's receipts will be one of the heaviest of the tax paying period. The total tax bill due this year is $423,717. About half of this amount wan paid last Monday in the spring installment.

LATEST QUAKE KILLS TWO IN HELENA, MONT. Snow And Zero Weather Add To Discomforts Os Many Homeless Helena, Mont., Nov. 1 (U.R) — Earthquakes, snow and zero weather today continued the pro-1 i longed scourge of western Moni tana. Two persons were dead. Several suffered from serious injur-. les. Scores were homeless. A new trembr of major force .rocked Helena and the adjacent area yesterday. It climaxed the I hundreds of inconsequental ' shocks, so regular as to constitute an almost unbroken sequence, since parts of this city were de-1 vastated two weeks ago. Helena was nearly a third , evacuated today. Its normal popn- ! lation approximates 12.000. High-, ways were crowded with automobiles leaving the city. Bus lines put into service special coaches to handle the exodus. The Red Cross and state and federal agencies cooperated in relief work. Their task was ac- ( centuated by the severe weaiher. i None went uncared for during (he freezing night. Recurrent shocks, comparable to the long series of the past forti night, kept the populace in a state of unrest. Meteorologists said at midnight that their instruments ' had recorded 632 distinct movements since Oct. 12. The relief agencies provided food and shelter for all who ap- j , plied. E. S. Tra.nsue, disaster re- ! lief director for the Red Cross, ; said no accurate estimate of the number given succor could he made at present. Main street, threading the narI row business district, felt the | heaviest effects of the major shock yesterday. In the original , I quake this section, lying in a I gulch, escaped with comparatively little damage, the force centering at that time in an outlying area. Among the buildings most badly damaged were the city hall, new . high school, federal building, | (CONTINUED ON PAGE SIX) O EX-CONVICT IS • KIDNAPSUSPECT Clarence Silva Held As Suspect In Weyerhaeuser Kidnaping Martinez, Cal.. Nov. I—(UP) —An exconvict suspected of implication I in the kidnaping of George Weyer-1 hauser, 9. heir to a vast Pacific Northwest Lumber fortune was held in solitary confinement i tithe Contra Costa county jail today. The man, arrested as a parole violator aboard a standard oil tanker in San Francisco Bay shortly before midnight, was Clarence Silva. 29, former San Quentin convict. Police said Silva admitted his re-1 lease had been obtained on July I 1, 1934, through a letter written to the (parole hoard Iby William Malian. fugitive kidnap suspect who , has eluded police and government agents since the young lumber heir was returned to his parents in Tacoma last June 1 on payment of $200,000 ransom. Mahan, said, wrste to the parole board under the name of A. G. Dawn, promising Silva a job if he were released from prison. They said Silva also admitted he had been in Tacoma at the time of the Weyerhauser kidnaping and had seen and talked with Mahan there. Fort Wayne Masons To Sponsor Dance Fort Wayne, Nov. I—Masons of Decatur, their families and friends are invited to the (Annual Fall FroHe—a dance and entertainment sponsored by the five Fort Wayne Blue Lodges, to be held in the Masonic Temple ballroom, Friday. November 8. There will be dancing | from 9 to 12:30. and the admission charge will be 40c per person. ’ As this is the only affair of this 1 kind to be held in the Temple this fall, an unusually large attendance is expected. Visitors from neighboring cities will be cordially welcome. WEATHER Generally fair tonight and Saturday preceded by unsettled tonight extreme south; colder tonight, freezing temperatures central and north.

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Decatur, Indiana, Friday, November 1, 1935.

Rotarians Answer History Questions Ten historical queationa were propounded to members of the Decatur Rotary club at the weekly meeting Thursday evening at the hotel. The questions were selected by M. J. Mylott, chairman of tile i;<ogram. Euch member and guest was asked.to answer the questions. The prize for the highest fccore was awarded to W. H. Barr, Bluffton, former district Rotary governor, who asnwered eight of.the 10 questions correctly. Next Thursday, November 7, the local club wil lobaerve Armistice I Day. C. C. Langston, chairman, has j obtained Henry Frey, a member ‘of the German-American Legion poet of Fort Wayne as th? speaker. CITY EMPLOYE IS OVERCOME BY SEWER GAS George Hill Is Overcome By Gas Late This Afternoon George Hill, city street and I sewer department employe for the, last 12 years, was pulled from a 20 foot man-hole west of the intersection of First and Monroe streets shortly after 2 o’clock this afternoon, when lie was overcome by sewer gas. At 3 o’clock his condition could not be determined by physicians ■who were using oxygen supplied by tlie city fire department. He ■was reported to be breathing normally but the. pulmotor was continued. Mr. Hill was overhauling the 20 foot deep sanitary sewer when he was overcome by the sewer gas. His condition was noted by Roy I Elzey and Charles Chronister who were working above him on the street. Mr. Elzey and two other men made attempts to climb down the sewer and fasten a. rope around Mr. Hili. The three of them barely escaped asphyxiation themselves. Finally Harry Stnlts, city volunteer fireman, was aide to fasten a rope around him and climb up the sewer before he was overcome. Mr. Hill was rtuhed to the office | of Dr. S. D. Beavers where first aid and pulmotor treatment were given him. —_o Government Officer Visits In Decatur Laurence H. Reece, an executive of the resettlement administration.; Washington, D. C.. visited in Deca-! tur yestsrday. He conferred with , Miles Roop, local manager Os the Decatr homesteds and also with Mayor A. R. Holthouse, r-lative to. ■ recreational activities in the community. Th? resettlement division is cooperating in a number of ways in furthering local recreational programs. The suggestion was made that the activities >be carried through the schools and ParentTeachers clubs in Decatur. NAME LEADERS FOR ROLL CALL Annual Red Cross Roll Call From November 11 To 28 The executive board of the Adams county Red Cross has appointed captains for the three wards in Decatur to have charge of the annual roll call from Armistice Day, November 11 to Thanksgiving Day, November 28. The captains are as follows: first ward. Mrs. John Heller, I. Bernstein, Mrs. H. N. Shroll and Dr. Burt Mangold; second ward, Mrs. Olive Peterson, E. W. LanJcenau, Mrs. P. B. Thomas and James Elberson; third ward, Avon Burk, Mrs. Wai Weinhoff, Walter J. Krick and Oscar Lankenau. The captains will select lieutenants in each ward. The factories |in Decatur will be visited by the committee from November 11 to j November 17, and the house to house canvas will sta.rt on November 17. The committees will organize the work in Monroe, Berne, Geneva, and the home economies clubs will have charge of the rural areas under the leadership of Mrs. E. W. Busche. It is hoped that every home in the county will be visited and that members of families be invited to enroll in the Red Cross.

POLLUTION OF RIVER ALLEGED Fort Wayne Papers Allege This City Polluting St. Mary’s Within the last few days Fort | Wayne papers have published ; items relative to fish (lying in St. | Mary’s river. One item stated the • waste from the Central Sugar company was killing the fish. The , following item from the Journal Gazette claims the trouble comes from sewage dumped Into the river: — “Steps which it Is hoped will lead to the correction of the polln tion of the St. Marys river between Decatur and Fort Wayne I are being'taken by the Country Conservation club with a total membership of 400 conservationists from Allen and Adams county, it was announced yesterday. “Charges that the dumping of 1 raw’ sewage by the city of Deca tur into the river is responsible for the pollution were made by L. R. Meyer, of Preble township in j Adams county, president of the I Country Conservation club. “The matter has already been referred to members of the state conservation department, the state board of health and the state pollution committee. Mr. Meyer said "ATI members of the club as I well as fanners and land owners i affected by the alloffhd pollution ; have been urged to write individual letters to state conservation, health and pollution committee officials asking them to investigate the situation. "Mr. Meyer declared that the pollution of the stream has not only been responsible for the death of thousands of fish but that the [ obnoxious odor and the contamin- [ ated water is undermining to the (health of residents in the vicinity ; and is a breeding ground for i typhoid germs. “A mass meeting of Country | Conservation duh members and all, ! interested parties and landowners ' has been called for next Monday ■ night at the St. John's Lutheran j •school on stale road 27, 13 miles’ ■ south of Fort Wayne. “Dr. J. C. Grandstaff. Preble physician, will be the principal speaker. State conservation and , (CONTINUED ON PAGE SEVEN) YAGER BROS. TO QUIT BUSINESS Decatur’s Oldest Mercantile Firm Will Quit Business With the announcement that l Yager Brother.,, furniture et.ue j I proprietors were conducting a clos- i ing out sale, Decatur’s oldest mercantile establishment will soon quit. business. The Yager Brothers' store was established here in 1865 by the; late Leopold Yager, pioneer cabinet maker and furniture dealer cf this city and father of John and Herman Yager, present proprietors of [ the store. The furniture has been located in the same location forth? past , 70 years. A survey showed that it' was the oldest retail establishment in the -city and another feature has been that the store remained in the same family ownership for this long period. Since 1904 the store has operated under the name of Yager I Bros. The Yager Brothers will retire) from the retail business as soon i as their stock of furniture is disposed of. o Error In Report Os Beet Acreage The reference to beet acreage in the article telling of Ward Calland’s talk before the Lions club in this city, should have been soy bean acreage. The sugar beet acreage is less than one million acres in the | United States. The soy bean acreage is 5,500.000 acres or an increase of about 11 times in the last 15 years. o Accident Victims Reported Improved Merill Peterson is recoveung at his home here from injuries sustained in an automobile accident at Sturgis, Michigan, Sunday morning. Mr. and Mrs. Glen Cook who were ■passengers in Mr. Peterson's car are still in the hospital at Sturgis but are reported better.

CALLITHUMPIAN PARADE VIEWED BY THOUSANDS Halloween Night Crowd Thursday Largest In City’s History — The largest crowd that ever attended a Callithumplan parade in i Decatur, estimated at several thousands, lined the business district of the city to see the huge Halloween parade which was over j a mile in length by actual measure- ! ment. Thursday night. This was the most orderly crowd in the history of Halloween night celebrations in Decatur. Mayor Arthur R. Holthouse, ■ Chief of Police Sephus Melchi and the city police department joined in thanking the citizens of Decatur and its visitors for their exceptional conduct Thursday evej ning. Only a few minor calls were reported l>y the police department and property damage which used to be nearly SI,OOO annually was reported at less than $5. City officials also thanked the Boy Scouts who assisted in handling the traffic. Thanks were given especially to the Chamber of Commerce which furnished the prizes and equipment at a cost of over $l5O and to the Decatur Junior Chamber of Commerce, which assisted in the arrangements. The Chamber of Commerce today issued a statement thanking the paraders and the crowd for its cooperation. The organization also announced that in view of the suci cess of the parade this year a i “bigger and better" Callithumpian ; parade is planned for next year. The winners of the prizes were: Bands: first. Decatur American I Legion drum corps; second. Van Wert American Legion (I ru m (corps; third. Wren high school band, and fourth. Decatur girls’ band. Best impersonation of a comic strip character. $5. Charles Day. South Whitley, robot man; most I comical group of three or more, j Jerome Geiiner, Raymond Geimer (and Charles Faurote. sl2. Decatur; ) oldest old time buggy. Harold Johnson. Decatur, $5. The best decorated automobile ) was the Cinderella pumpkin enter)ed hy the Decatur Catholic high I school far the "Tattler" fund. Best man's costume. $5, Charles Zimmerman; best ladies' costume, Mrs. Russell Bowman. $5. Decatur; mo s t comical couple. Herman Hurkhead and Otto Helmerich, $lO. I Decatur. The tallest man was Chester Adams of Elida. Ohio, who receivi (CONTINUED ON PAGE THREE) o Hammond Pastor To Preach Here Rev. Homer Aspy. Hammond, will preach at both morning and even- . ing service? at the First Baptist | church Sunday. Rev. A-spy is well • recommended and is a candidate for the local ipu'.rjt. All members . (! f the church are urged to attend both services Sunday. DONOR OF LOCAL PARJUSOEAD Oliver S. Hanna Died Wednesday At His Home In Ft. Wayne — Oliver S. Hanna, 88, prominent Fort Wayne business man. donor ■ of the Hanna-Nuttman park in this ' city, died at his home Wednesday i night. Mr. Hanna presented the land | for the park in 1932, and the park ) was named in honor of Mr. Hanna and his wife, formerly Mary Ella Nuttman, who died several years ago. A member of one of the most prominent families in Fort Wayne, Mr. Hanna was active in hanking and other financial circles and was in the private banking business when he retired several years ago. Two daughters surviving are Mrs. Asa W. Grosvernor and Mrs. Julia Williams, both of Fort Wayne. Mr. Hanna was a member of the First Presbyterian church, the Mizpah Shrine temple and was I also a member of the old Commercial club of Fort Wayne. Funeral services will be held at. 11 a. m. Saturday at the residence, with Rev. George W. Allison officiating. French Quinn of this city, for many years an intimate friend ot the deceased, will he one of the honorary pall bearers.

Eastern Part Os United States Is Shaken By Quake

Convention Speaker Dr. H. C. Mason, president of • Huntington college, will be the principal speaker at the closing session of the annual Adams county Sunday School convention, at the Zion Reformed church in ) this city Sunday evening. WEEWiLL - REGEIVE BIDS Wabash Township To Issue Bonds For New School Building Jess C. Mann, trustee of Wabash township will receive bids for bonds totaling $42,500 to be used 1 to finance the township's share of • the cost of the new Wabash town ) ship school building. The rest of ) the cost will be given the town-! ship by the PWA. The total cost lis estimated at $95,600. Some ■ money will be raised from the salvage of old township schoul build I ings. The bonds will be divided into I two groups. $35,000 to be issued I hy the Wabash school township I and $7,500 by the Wabash civil ' I township. The group to be issued by the I Wabash school township will be I divided into 70 bonds ami the de- ■ nominations of SSOO, will be numbered from one to 70 and will bear . j interest at the rate of 4t£ per cent j a year. The first interest will be I due on January 15, 1937 and every six months thereafter. Three of) | the bonds will become due on | I January 15, 1937 and three every six months thereafter. I The Wabash civil township bonds . will be divided into 10 bonds of) i the denomination of $750. With ' the exception that the bonds will be paid off at the rate of one bond every six months beginning on ( January 15, 1937, the terms of the bonds will be the same. The bids will he received at the office of the trustee in Geneva | until 10 o’clock Friday morning. November 22. 1935. in sealed envelopes. Separate proposals must be filed for the school township bonds and for the civil township bonds. ■ |)no bids will be accepted for less I than the par value of the bonds plus accrued interest to the date of delivery at the interest rate named in bid accepted. The right is reserved by Mr. Mann to reject any or all bids in the event no satisfactory bid is received. In that case the sale would continue until the bonds are sold. Each bid must be accompanied by a certified check calling for one per cent of the par value of the bonds bid on and made payable to Mr. Mann as trustee ot the township. The issuance of the bonds was approved at a hearing conducted by the state tax commissioners here. o McNutt To Welcome State Beauticians Governor Paul V. McNutt -will make the welcoming address at the opening of the second annual convention and trade show of the Indiana association of beauticians to be held at the Severin Hotel in Indianapolis November 4. 5 and 6. Several of the 40 -or 45 beauticians from Adams county are expected to attend. Chapter secretaries of the association will be the delegates who will elect a new (president and vice president Sunday afternoon. The governor’s address will be at the Monday morning ses-1 sion at 9:30 o’clock. The convention 1 will close with a banquet, dance and I floor show, W'dnesday night.

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Four Shocks Felt From Chicago To New York; Only Minor Damage Is Reported Today. ALSO IN CANADA Washington, Nov. 1— (U.R) — The possibility of a secondary aftershock at the center of the eastern seaboard earthquake, was foreseen today by Capt. N. H. Heck, chief of the U. S. coast guard and geodetic survey's division of terrestrial magnetism and seismology. The earthquake Expert did not expect the aftershock to be felt except in the immediate locality of the epicenter, or quake focal point, north of Lake Huron. (Copyright, 1935, by UP.) New York. Nov. 1. — (U.R) —The earth shook beneath 17 states and ) all of eastern Canada early today, I routing thousands from their beds in panic but causing little damage. All cities of eastern America, where upwards of 20,000,000 humans live in dose proximity—New York. Chicago, Boston, Toronto, . Philadelphia, Pittsburgh, Washing- [ ton, Montreal—felt three to four ! distinct shocks that caused their | great buildings to sway and windows to rattle. ) Hundreds of newspaper offices )a n d police headquarters were I Hooded with frenzied inquiries and for a few minutes a major disaster seemed in the making. But complete reports showed that in I all the vast area extending south from the Canadian provinces of Quebec, Ontario, and New’ Brunswick to Washington, and westward from the Atlantic seaboard to ChiI cago and Detroit, and area with a . population of approximately 40.- .! 000.000, not a life had been lost . j nor had there been more than tlio j most minor damage. Seismographs recorded four distinct temblors, the first at 1:05:5 a. tn. (EST) the second at 1:06:4, the third at 1:07, and the fourth a fraction ot a second later. But some communities felt only one, some two. In eastern Canada the ’ quakes were accompanied by an ' ominous roar, but elsewhere this phenomenon was not reported. The quakes were felt through all the Canadian maritime provinces and New York. Massachusetts, Connecticut, Rhode Island, New Jersey, Pennsylvania. Delaware, Maryland, ami West Virginia. and in parts of Illinois, Ohio, Indiana. Michigan. Wisconsin, Maine, Vermont, and New Hampshire. In scores of cities and towns, ranging downward from New York City with its 6,000,000 population to isolated cross road villages, householders ran into the streets (CONTINUED ON PAGE SIX) COLORED CHOIR TO SING HERE Public Concert Will Be Given At Catholic School Dec. 8 Arrangements were being made today for a public concert at the Decatur Catholic high school auditorium. Sunday afternoon. December 8, by St. Benedict’s Colored Choir of Toledo. The choir, composed of 49 voices, jtnder the direction of Marvin Sauppe, noted musician and musical director, is brought here as a feature in connection with the installation ot the new electrical operated organ in St. Mary’s Catholic church. The organ will be placed in ser- ; vice. Sunday morning during the masses and there is a possibility that the choir may sing during one of the services. St. Benedict’s colored choir haa traveled over the country and is considered one of the outstanding organizations in the middle west. Dean Hall, advance agent for the choir was in the city today placing tickets on sale. A quantity of tickets were left at the Daily Democrat office and can be purchased at 50 cents for adults, 20 cents for children. The Rev. Father Joseph Seimeta | rector of St. Mary's church, stated ! further details relative to the dedi- | cation of the organ and concert I would Ibe announced later.