Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 33, Number 269, Decatur, Adams County, 13 November 1935 — Page 1

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PEISONS are st|l missing in SHIPWRECK Known Dead, •»— Othel Are Rescued Aftlr Long Battle 1935, by UP.) <■ iuu» <1 : s,,v ' 11 „ tuUfrii Ilf the United States ® phi'll through the gloom t<> persons missing K. silver h iZp l- 1 frhe twjs'ill missing, out of 56 s Ki *B< ■' f,pr a niKhl ol K lpriii J). and death in a ('apt. H. A. LenBnl the I > 11 - IZ ' 1 " "‘‘‘stei. ■Two S’” known <ipail i ”’ (l ,r ’“ W beoa Fs. d after a mad race Io 'he Ktroft'. ■!' -ioo.i< from Email 4ik jutting from a rain Kd galHfcshed sea. Knows li< tims of the sea trag\>il Williams of . one of the freigh'E'j Bye . >’i.t Bernard -■ apprentice seaman. -''inlay alien the Hom Bom g. *,■: S.ji Bernardino 'fciiMhr .e. timi of the vessel a,l<l submerged. < 1 |K right' mi'll daybreak Mon ■ CHM -th" wreck ... .Bit broil (!.’ otlmr im i'i bant ves alongside. But the vessels were tinHKBll’ ■Mau:.': til" survivors, all of ’ - . I" d d<‘..'h the ■vgr.Hb.fi Im.k. up. on the neatiri'ldi'd in the protecil t .k. d ship s for. " 11 ■ — — -- MOR TALKS I TO LIONS CLUB fort Wayne Preacher I Spelts On Conditions | lln Japan Rt \ j| sholt '. of tlm Bth |-. h clmr li in Fit ■fne *ll'l mtssi ma: y "" regular meeting of club Tuesday evening. KMS'' rauKtm v.as chairmeeting. ludimi's Japan is "a •t little nation" Be raid that " diffi-rem e Ja|>anese mu. it U||Mus \ 1,. I..am- lie < it, aan ■J 111 i l-nt Uli .Ji on urred Hb'-'c m er.-i'y in J.i SSH 1 ' - the univ.'i 'i' .i Japanese and Im i'l'e-ident of the univerAmerican. JPycak-r stated that Japan |p HO patur.il r sources such as or Only one-fourth of be cultivated. |He all* , ;a j([ t j lat t h e coun f rv gWOwately the same size as the nia but has a populaE‘. n »' y llal t as large as that of States. great industries in JaWw the processing of soy beans, made into 14 different " food. As none are raised all are shipped in from the Manchuria, favored Japan's acSS China, saying that China nation always fighting the other hand Japan has government. He bethe Chinese would be Japanese civilization. Jataken advar,ta 8 & cf the of western civilization lias never accepted it. o Hess Group To Meet Sunday .Jjo Monthly meeting of the Adholiness association |^^J p ld at 2p. m. Sunday at the c^ ltlrc b’ west of Decatur. SB ra Hathaway of New MadiHWlefcm’ W ' !l ,)e sPe-a,fer-iySSrbe turniehe<i by the Fort ‘ '1 m'de school. The public is ' ” 0 attend this meeting.

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City Light Plant Hits New Peak Load The city light and power plant (produced the largest number of kilowat hours yesterday of any day in the history of the plant. A total of 27,100 kilowatt# was made, F run j( Hurns, chief engineer at the plant stated. M. J. Mylott, superintendent, announced it was the largest production of any one day. In October, 1»29, a total of 26,800 KWH was produced over a 24 hour period. The average consumption of coal per kilowatt was two and one half pounds. 0 1 TEN THOUSAND GO DELINQUENT Current Taxes Paid During November Nearly $200,000 A total of $10,191.04 of current taxes went delinquent this November according to figures compiled today in the offices of County Treasurer John Wechler and County Auditor John Tyndall. Current taxes due on or before November 4 amounted to $204,898.87. Current taxes paid amounted to $197,707.83. Os the $50,954.23 of delinquent taxes. $9,474.20 pere paid leaving a balance of $40,480.03 on old delinquencies to which will he added the $10,191.04 which wont delinquent this year. Os the moratorium taxes still remaining on the Imoks. amounting to $120.07 a, total of $115.26 was pajjl leaving a balance of $4.81 unpaid. largest of the delinquent tax payers were the municipal utilities of Decatur and Geneva which have joined with other municipal utilities in the state to fight the appliance of state and county taxes to the publicly owned utilities. During the litigation these utilities are withholding their taxes. The state assessments of municipal utilities were made in 1934 and the first tax levies were due this year. Both Decatur and Geneva have permitted their 193 ft taxes to go delinquent which increases the tota.l amount of delinquent taxes due in Adams county. The Decatur Electric Light and Power company had taxes totaling $617.50 due on November 4 and the Decatur water department had taxes amounting to $257.63 due. The November installment of the Geneva we.'er works department amounted to $29.25. The May installments of these three utilities were the same as the (CONTINUED ON PzXGE SIX) 0 Egyptians Riot Against England Cairo, Egyipt, Nov. 13—(UP) — Serious rioting against England broke out in Carlo and Tanta, 54 miles northwest, today, resulting in the death of two students and the wonding of 175 students and police. One student was killed at Tanta and 80 students and 45 police injured. Twenty police and 21 students were injured in Cario in street f'ghting and one student was killed and nine injured in the collapse of a staircase during a demonstration. THIRD POISON LIQUOR VICTIM Former Hartford City Man Third Victim Os Wood Alcohol — nmo Indianajiolis, Nov. 13 — (U.R) Fatalities resuming from parties at which poison wood alcohol, mistaken for grain alcohol, was served, reached three today with the death of Homer Williams, 52, who moved here recently from Hartford City. Robert Holley, 52. a steam fitter, who found the alcohol, died Sunday night, and Mrs. Lucille Stevens, 28. died in city hospital yesterday after drinking the poisoned liquor. Miss Pauline Lyell, 24, who has been stricken blind by the effects of the liquor, is in a serious condition in the city hospital. Meanwhile, authorities frantically hunted for Hevden Redd. 35, anil Ray Roth, both of whom are believed to have consumed some of the potion but who have disappeared. The wood alcohol consumed in the parties was found by Holley, (CONTINUED ON PAGE FOUR!

F.D.R. FEELS LOW INTEREST RATES NEEDED President Says Easy Rates Should Apply To Real Estate Washington, Nov. 13. — (U.R) — President Roosevelt feels that easy money rates should apply to real : estate and securities as well as commercial paper in order to promote definite recovery, he said to1, day. Mr. Roosevelt presented his views when asked to comment on advices to the American Bankers Association that recovery was becoming more and more concrete. Mr. Roosevelt gave as his belief that the proper interest rate on real estate loans should be below 6 per cent. He added that efforts were being made to obtain uniform rates all over the country. He admitted, however, that conditions in certain sections were not as well stabilized as' others. He added, however, that "pirate" rates in certain sections had been practically elimfnated. He said that in Georgia, for example, previously it had been almost impossible to borrow on farm land jat even eight and 10 per cent. There is no reason, he remarked, why low money rates should not be extended on loans on good land, poinTlng out that savings hanks invest mostly in real estate. The was reminded often banks run into criticism by bank examiners for making real estate loans. He replied that criticism came only ’ when banks hold too high a percentage of that type of loans. The President indicated belief shat the rates naturally would be based on rfsk, the better the risk the lower the rate of interest. While citing the present status of bank portfolios and deposits as indicating conditions leading to- , (CONTINUED ON PAGE THREE) . | q DEATH CLAIMS HATTIE CRAMER Former Decatur Resident Died Monday Night At Fort Wayne Mils. Hattie E. Cramer, 72, dieci . at her home in Fort Wayne at 9 p. m. Monday of complications, fol- | lowing an illness of six weeks’ dur- , ation. She In survived by three daughters, Mrs. O. W. Linn and Miss Florence Cramer of Fort . Wayne and Mrs. Walter Tucker of Marion, Ind., and two grandchildren. She was a member of the First Evangelical chrch of Fort Wayne. Mrs. Cramermoved to Fort Wayne 35 yeans ago from Decatur. Her first hsuband. John Nichols, died 37 years ago. She had two children jby this union. She then married , i Henry Cramer, having two children by this union. Mrs. Crazner was an aunt of Alva Nichols and was well known here having resided in this i city for a number of years. The body was removed to Chal-fant-Perry and Pook’s’ funeral ■ chapel, where funeral services will be held Thursday morning at 10 o’clock. Rev. Charles P. Maas officiating. burial will be in Maplewood cemetery in this city. The body may be vieweed at the funeral home (CONTINUED ON PAGE TWO) | a Local Distributor Is Issued License (Indianapolis, Nov. 13 — (UP) ' Eight port of entry, 11 brewery and 98 wholesaler licenses were issued today by the state alcoholic beverages commission. The port of entry permits will supplant importer licenses, which will expire April 15 under provisions of the 1935 state liquor law. Included among 98 wholesaler permits was: The Fred Mutschler Distributing Co. Inc.. Decatur. —o — Fort Wayne Bank Settlement Made Judge Thomas W. Slick in Federal court has approved a stockholders settlement agreement in the Old First National bank and the First and Tri-State National hank of Fort Wayne. The Old First stockholders settled fcr $8'36,090 and the First and Tri-State stockholders settled for $860,000. The settlement plan has also been approved by the comptroller of the currency. The total liability was estimated at about four million dollars and the case was settled without a law suit.

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Decatur, Indiana, Wednesday, November 13. 1935.

President Enrolled in Red Cross t _ - - ft r I L > American Red Cross officially opened its 1936 membership drive when President Franklin D. Roosevelt was enrolled at Washington by Miss Augusta Burton. Red Cross nurse, as Captain Brown, the president’s aide, stood by.

ASK RULING ON BOARD ACTION — Ask Ruling On Authority To Order Use Os City Plant Profits Indianapolis, Nov. 13.—(U.R) —Attorney General Philip Lutz was asked today to rule on the question as to whether county tax adjustment boards have auTabrity to order cities to use profits from municipally-owned utilities to reI duce tax levies. The opinion was asked by Philip Zoercher, chairman of the state tax board in an effort to settle an appeal taken by Richmond taxpayers from levies set f>y the Wayne county tax adjustment board. The county board reduced the Richmond municpal levy from 77 II to .25 cents and ordered the city | to transfer $319,000 from the municipal electric plant funds to the citv general fund. I The city council took exception to the huge decrease in rates and arranged with 10 taxpayers to appeal the decision after Mayor Joseph Waltermann refused to take I the a, peal. i Zoercher also asked an opinion . on the authority of the state board . to increase rates after they had , been fixed by county adjustment I boards. The state board recently dismiss- > ed for lack of jurisdiction the appeal of White river township, Gihison county, to increased rates' after being reduced by the county ’ board. o New Society Editor At Daily Democrat i L ' Mrs. il. W. Macy has been named 1 society and io: al editor of the Daily 1 Democrat, succeeding Mitse Mary ' Macy who left for West Palm Beach Florida. Mrs. Macy has been employed at ' the newspaper office for the past ' several months and took over the 1 society editor’s' desk today. o JOHN BITTNER DEATH'S VICTIM Adams County Man Dies This Morning Os Heart Attack John Wesley Bittner, aged 47. died of a heart attack this morning i at 4:30 at the home of his sister. Mrs. Rosetta Jackson, four miles northeast of Decatur. Mr. Bittner was an employee of , the Central Sugar company and was able to work Saturday. Sunday he became suddenly ill with a heart attack from which he wds unable to recover. He was the son of Mr. and 1 Mrs. John G. Bittner, both deceased. The following brothers and eis- ■ tens survive, William, Homer and Mrs. Tena Chronister of Decatur, J Mrs. (Irene Bentz of Akron, Ohio, Frederick and Rosetta Jackson of Decatur. Funeral services will be held at . the Jackson home Friday afternoon at 1:30 and at the Pleasant Grove . church at 2 o’lock with Rev. Eddy officiating- Burial will be in the - Pleasant Valley cemetery. The body will be returned to the i Jackson home this evening at 7 . o'clock.

Three Held For Attempted Fraud Indianapolis. Nov. 13.—<U.R)—William 11. Rowe, 57, Louisiana oil (promoter, and two companions I were held under $5,090 bonds here ■ today on charges of violating the state securities act. Howe was arrested with William Stahlhut, and Clarence R. Griffin, both of Indianapolis, yesterday. The trio attempted to sell a 50 per cent interest in a “wildcat" i oil lease 100 miles from Shreve- ( ■port, La., for $12,500, the state se’icurities commission said. ’I Rowe, who claims he formerly ‘ was associated with the late Sen. ’ Huey P. Long and Gov. O. K. Al-i I len. of Louisiana, in several oil ( ' i ventures near Shreveport, denied the charge. i i _ ANNOUNCE CAST j; OF CLASS PLAY Decatur Seniors Will Prei sent Annual Play Friday Night : The senior class play, a mystery comedy in three acts, entitled J “The Yellow Shadow,” will be ‘ I presented in the Decatur high . school auditorium Friday evening. i November 15, at 8:15 o'clock. The co,st of character..! is as I follows: Nell Travis, housekeeper at Viewcrest Agnes Nelson . i Gilbert Wright, attorney for the late Maxwell Marvin Harry Moyer Alice Perkins. Mildred’s chum Madeline Crider t Mildred Marvin, heiress to the estate of Maxwell Marvin. . I Marie Grether • Hazel Wayne, Mildred’s cousin r| June O’Donnell i' Jed Travis, who appears to believe in "gilleyloobirds” t Albert Keller t Herbert Me.rvin, who has lived > in Singapore Robert Engeler Sheriff Macklin, who has taken a ’’deteckative’’ course William Tutewiler J. Steel, the coroner Naomi Ruth Franklin I (CONTINUED ON PAGE TWO) Sister M. Bertrand Funeral Rites Friday Funeral will be held Friday for Sister M. Bertrand, daughter of Mrs. Dora Laurent of this city, who died Tuesday at a ■ Toledo. Ohio hospital. Services will be held ut 9:30 a. ;m. i ■ EST. at St. John’s Catholic church 1 at Defiance, Ohio, whete Sister i Bertrand taught school. Burial will ' be made in the Catholic cemetery i 1 in this city. Friends may view the , ‘ body at the St. Mary's Catholic ' church from 12 to 12:30. 0 ( Transport Truck Again Oil’ Road , A large transport truck slipped , off the road north of Monmouth thin ’ morning when the driver fell asleep. The driver was the same one who ran off the road 1,900 feet north of .'this point Saturday night when he , ■ likewise fell asleep while driving. A local wrecking company was ( unable to move the truck this morning. It required the services of two ' large state highway department ' trucks to pull the loaded truck back on the pavement.

FRANK J. NAVIN DIES SUDDENLY THIS MORNING — Owner Os Detroit Tigers Dies Os Heart Attack While Riding Detroit, Nov. 13- (U.R) -Frank J. | Navin, president of the world champion Detroit baseball club. | died today after he suffered a heart attack while riding witii I Mrs. Navin along the bridle path > at the Detroit liding club. Officials of the riding club said that Navin, who was 64. had suffered a hea.rt attack shortly after 10:39 a. m. He had gone for his usual morning ride with Mrs. Navin, who was riding some distance ahead of him. She turned to find her husband | lying at the side of the bridle j path, his horse standing close by. Mrs. Navin hurried to the dub headquarters and summoned aid. Tlie Na.vin chauffeur drove the unconscious man and Mrs. Navin to the hospital approximately three miles from the club. Club employes said they found Navin unconscious on the bridle path. His hand was clutched over his heart. Navin, an anient horseman, kept two saddle horses at the club a.ud had ridden almost daily for the last 12 years.. He was said to have been a good horseman and both his mounts were gentle. Navin’s death came in the midst of the white haired owner's plans to improve Na.vin field for next year’s baseliall season. His stands filled to capacity and overflowing during the 1935 season ‘ when his Tigers wrested their . first championship from the Chi-' cago Cubs, he had already planned J to increase the seating capacity. I A section of the bleachers al-[ ready had been torn down, to per-1 mit a rearrangement of certain , sections of seats. He believed that the Tigers ] would repeat the American league | pennant winning performances of I this year during the next season. Navin lived long enough to see his team win a world series after losing their first chance during 1934 under the leadership of Mickey Cochrane. Mrs. Navin, taken to her home, ! was reported near collapse and l hysterical. Friends of the club owner indicated th.’.» the strain of the 1935 world series might have hastened Navin's death. They pointed out that many of the adminis(CONTINUED ON PAGE SIX) Youth Shot By Hunter Tuesday Indianapolis, Nov. 13— (U.R) — Arthur Logsdon. IS. was shot in the face and arm near here yesterday by an unidentified hunter who fled after the shooting. Ix>g»don said lie and Earl Meyers, 18. were hunting when a covey of quail rose near them. Another hunter appeared and fired, the shot striking Logsdon. Authorities found an abandoned automobile containing a shot gun and ammunition nearby. o WOMAN REFUSES TO TELL STORY Vera Stretz Refuses Statement After Slaying German Scientist New YoYrk, Nov. 13 —(UP) — Beautiful Vera Stretz clamiped her red lips tight on secrete of her lovo life with wealthy Dr. Fritz Gebhardt today and icely informed police they must learn for themselves why she (killed him. She shot Gebhardt, German scientist and industrialist who had a wife anj t w ° daughters, in his apartment in expensive Mitchell Place yesterday. Police found him dead in an old-fashioned nightgown and captured her. with a gun and bloodstained silk nightdress in her handbag, sobbing on a stairway of the building. She admitted the slaying to a policeman, then refused to talk further. Even when arranged on a charge of suspicion of homicide she kept silent. She was held without bail for a hearing Nov. 21. A lawyer, Arthur M. Moritz, talked with her more than two hours in the women’s detention house and adopted the same attitude. “I won't have any statement, she (CONTINUED ON PAGE FOUR)

Mission Band will Give Program Sunday The Mission Hand of the Evangelical Sunday school will give a special thank offering program at the church Sunday evening ut 7 o’clock. Miss Gretchen Stuckey of Geneva I will give a number of selections on i the accordian. The public Is invited j to attend. o ■ - - DEVOSS HEARS I UTILITY CASE Local Judge Presides In Huntington’s Fight Against Utility Huntington, Ind., Nov. 13—(UP) —Legal technicalities In the utility fight between Mayor Clare W. H. Bangs and the Northern Indiana | power company were argued in drI euit court today before Judge Huber I M. De Voss of Decatur. The hearing was on the ipower I company’s demurred to a plea of abatement filed by the city in connection witii contempt charges against file mayor and 10 others. (Bangs and city employes are in contempt of court through violation of an injunction which ordered that about 700 customers of the municipal electric (plant be disconnected, according to the power company suit. The city abatement plea is based on connection that an appeal to the state supreme court automatically j stayed evecution of the circuit court! order. Banks, milptan champion of muni-’ cipal ownership of utilities, has extended Huntington’s tiny electric plant to capacity operation in comj petition with the power company since he took office less than a year : ago. o PUPILS VISIT LOCAL PLANTS Hoagland Junior High Students Inspect Decatur Industries Accompanied by Clarence Bobilya. teacher and Mrs. Bobilya, | the students of the Junior high I school of Hoagland. Madison township, visited Decatur today i and made sight-seeing trips >o several local industries. Places visited included the Central Sugar Co.. Central Soya Co., Mutschler's Packing Co., Cloverleaf Creameries, Inc., the Schafer harness factory, Miller’s Bakery and the Decatur Daily Democrat. Other places of interest visited by the group were the court house county jail, the subsistence homestead site and the Kukelhan cheese plant. Pupils in the party included: A. Delight Bobilya, De Vetta, Bolyard. Marion Crabiil, Vivian Gresley, Gerald Hisner, Raymond Marquardt, Mary Sheehan. Robert Whittern, Dorothy Wood. Edward Hockemeyer, Arthur Hoffman. Art Koenemann, Betty Leisure. Alice I Rothgib, Amanda Sheim an n , Eugene Tieman. Eddie Witte. Hester Youse, Kennith Barkley. Edgar Clem. Loretta Diver, Norbert Diver, Cora Jane Emenhiser, Ralph Fredericks, Joan Gable, Norma Gaskill, Robert Hake, Howard Van Horn, Mary De Konich, James Marquardt, Robert Sheiman, Pawl Viet, Ma.ry Louise Youse, Paul Youse and Charles Bohnke, truck driver, , Mr. Bobilya and the pupils expressed their appreciation for the courtesies shown. o Junior Leaders Elect Officers The Adams county junior leaders I met Tuesday evening at the home of Miss Helen Hirschy. This maiked the first anniversary of the or-j |and Miss Pollyanna | Lehman, president of the organiza-: tion, brought an anniversary cake in the 4-H club colors, green and white. A pot luck supper was served at 6:30, David Leichty, junior leader and turkey raiser of near Monroe, furnished a turkey. Election of officers was held. Miss Pollyanna Lehman was re-elected president; Vera Schwartz was elected vice-president; David Liechty secretary-treasurer; Paul Harden news reporter, and Helen Hirschy song and yell leader. After the business session songs and games were enjoyed. WEATHER Mostly cloudy tonight and Thursday; Slightly warmer Thursday southwest portion.

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PEACE PARLEY PLANS STRIKE ANOTHER SNAG 11 Britain, Italy Negotiations Are Feared Likely To Fail London, Nov, 13— (U.R) —Negotiations between Premier Benito Mussolini and Sir Eric Drummond, British ambassador in Rome, for relaxation of the Mediterranean tension have struck a new snag, it was revealed tonight. The British proposed that Mussolini recall another division of 15,000 troops, reducing the Italian forces in Libya to 45,000, in return for which Britain would withdraw the modern super battleships Hood and Renown from the Mediterranean. It was stated, however, that. Mussolini has been trying to broaden the negotiations into a larger Anglo-Italia, and possibly an Anglo-ltalia-French aceord in the Mediterranean, but that Britain is at present unwilling to accede to the proposal. Joint Reply London. Nov. 13 — (U.R) —Great Britain is preparing to propose that all 52 league of nations counI tries participating in penalties against Italy send a joint reply |to Premier Benito Mussolini's ! note threatening reprisals, it was I understood today. It was believed, i the reply, as Britain envisages it. would be a strong rebuff for Mussolini. Mussolini addressed the nations individually, and asked each to tell him what they proposed to do. Under the British plan, the nations as individual units would ignore Mussolini and in their reply remind him that the full presl sure of the league is behind all 1 penal action, and that they intend to deal with him as one group of peace enforcing countries. Natives Skirmish ' United Press Staff Correspondent, i (Copyright 1935 by United Press) With the northern Italian army in Ethiopia, via Asmara, Nov. 13 --(U.R) —-Askaris and bearded, bar ’- foot warriors of Ethiopia, skirmished today in the mountainous Gerhalta region, 50 miles behind the Italian frontline at Makale. The fighting was announced in an official communique which gave no details of casualties a.nil as the Italian army started a mopping up campaign following capture of the key town of Makale. The mopping up was explained as necessary to clear out infiltrations of Ethiopian bands which either had hidden in the barren hollows of the country or slipped through the main Italian forces as they advanced to Makale. Occupy Zone Rome. Nov. 13 —(U.R) —The Italian northern army has occupied the Dessa zone. 20 miles ca.st of Makale. and joined the main army (CONTINUED ON PAGE THREE) O PROMISE PROBE OF POLLUTION State To Investigate Alleged Pollution Os St. Mary's River Fort Wayne, Nov. 13. —The state conservation department has promised to make a complete investigation of the alleged pollution of the St. Marys river between Fort Wayne and Decatur, according to a letter received by W. E, Uffelman, secretary of the County Conservation club, from W. H. Frazier, I executive engineer of the state department of commerce and industry. i Mr. Frazier in his letter said ; that with the exception of the time i when the pond levee broke at the sugar beet plant at Decatur that, his department has had no complaints on conditions caused by that factory. Each member of the County Conservation club has written a letter to Mr. Frazier asking him to take immediate action in curbing the alleged pollution. The Conservation club will hold its second of a series of meetings relative to seeking a solution to the river pollution at the Woodmen’s hall at Poe Thursday night. The meeting will be called at 7:30 o'clock. L. R. Meyer, president of the club, said that the first meeting held at the St. John’s school in Adams county a week ago attracted a capacity crowd.