Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 33, Number 282, Decatur, Adams County, 29 November 1935 — Page 1

XIII. No. 282.

[lake Decision On Jmposing Os Oil i I Embargo Dec. 12 ( wl I

Committee \\ ill Meet Next Month To Conlider Infliction Os Oil Jmbargo. 1)E( ISION NEAR [jenen. Nov. 29-tU.RH-Augusto f VMt -ellos Ot Portugal, tfrman of the league's sanem *r 1 "nvoked the ringT inmUtee of IS today to j ( t on I' decide 1,11 ini ' gK tt) 11 1 "mbargo against ; Si adflt i'ii to extension of the (l ji, uiderfe'the' - extensions of the] E] aa( j i> -ii'ii' E, are : EattiSde of the United States E othei neutrals first must bo, ■srtaige Else, W committee will con-] Er »i of S’a'e ' oid-ll E's 11*1 idliioiial 1" - ' - I " < Eniial rar materials, such as Eor trick? and copper. ■ I Crisis Near Blondo Nov. 29— (U.R) —Some Lipetet diplomatic observers Keved kat tile qilvs'ion ■ war < peace in Europe would ■ deci id within the next tin Khe p (sent situation between ■tv a* Great Britain and other Eue < Bntiies is moot serious. K ma* believe there is a good ■luce r peace. Khe ' 'al- II 11'." I’reniH i Kitn Spssolinl would not bo Ke long to combat such penalKa* 11 embargo on oil, co al, K and iron and that despite Kats. |e S lik"l> to think long] KlA|'-ins warlike measures Enliw bin not only with Brit■t but w all league nations. | Fdicy Declaration ■Uyrigii 1935 by United Press) Kunie, > R) di i Ini.. Kotydry on the threatened ■tais »f nations oil embargo to ■ "liwti ' di-i laration w i~ Ktoier 1 Mussolini’s vi.-w - Bit. ■de known to France. E 8 ’ ■tain, and the United ; Kies, th Italy would consider ■'oil Hi rao. ii,nd an an on. Eyingßmbargo on coal, iron, | - BreelContagious I | bi-. a-c- Reported E’ u ca * 'ifi ia and two ■rkt ■. reported in AdB <Kb iiif ending No» Ker 23, according to the Indiana Bhionkt public health. ter.ll. A- ii is: tuberculosis. W1 . ough, 21; diph i ■ Bttui tttnips, 19. E> CHRISTMAS SEALS Et | gl±N4 V» Letters carried 111 by Inca run- ■ 8 n e r 5 were vault » colored, knot«8 te d cords DAYS--I*B TO CHRISTMAS ■ a ’he K '"’"'"imiini'ion. of which the Quiptt Kd Vt* - S ‘''' as ’ Ma - Vas EL. zC< .’ll.'S" races hail a p:cK»j ''"J®' ai form of i i. i >r"il K.? 8 . . ln ' tp<l 111 various compliThere was ■itteaX. " llil 11 *k‘»gled smaller •dcnlJi'’" 1 ' 111 ,lin ''‘ rf, lit leneth E re JS Biniila >’ lo a strin S- These B(l ,ly Bw lft runners callI

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I Maine Harvest Queen ... ■V Jr a ' ■ a 1 r ■ |L y A harvest moon and this harvest I queen. Miss Ann Holmes of Aui gusta, who was crowned Maine I Harvest Queen of 1935 by Gov. I Louis J. Brann, should he all that i any young man could desire. BIRTHDAY BALL LEADERS NAMED Dorothy You n g And David Heller To Conduct Party I David B. Heller, employe of the Decatur Democrat, and Dorothy Young, secretary at the Central Soya company, today wired their ac-1 ceptanceu of the co-chairmanehip of the annual Birthday Ball for the \ j President which will be held in I every city in the United States on | ihuroday, January 30. The appointments were made by T 1 nrv 1.. Doherty, who is serving his third year as national chairman i _f the afiair which has netted millions of dollars for the benefit of irhild victims of infantile paralysis in the United States. In announcing the appointments Mr. Doherty stat.d that the same arrangements would lie used th s . .n.iiy per cent ot the proceeds will he used to i rovide funds . fcr r.search work in an effort to .ind better means of combatting the disease. Seventy per . ent of the proceeds will be left in the cities in which it is raised to build up a re(CONTSNUED ON PAGE FOCI;) MRS. G ARBODEN DIES THURSDAY Mrs. Harvey Garboden Dies At Home Near Linn Grove Mrs. Bessie Alice Garboden. 47. died at her home one mile south and three fourths of a mile w st of Linn Grove. Thursday morning at four o’clock of erysipelas and complications. She had been seriously ill for two weeks. She is survived by her husband. Harvey Louis Garboden to whom she was married on February 24, 1912. She was born in Indiana on March 29. 1888, the daughter of Henry and Catherine Winkler. She had lived in Adams county for the last 10 years. Mrs. Wink ler also survives and Ilves with her daughter near Domestic, surviving are six children, Jonw. Edwin. Doris, Maxine, Phyllis am Jean. A brother and a sister also survive: Mrs. Reuben Dora Millet of near Domestic and Charles Granlinard of Berne route three. Funeral services will be held a the home Sunday afternoon at i:3" o’clock and at the Missionary church near Linn Grove at - ! o’clock. The Rev. Chris Gehrig, pastor of the church, will officiate at the services. Burial will ie made in the Salem cemetery.

CHINA CUPPER I COMPLETES HOP ACROSS OCEAN Giant Air Liner Completes Trans-Pacific Mail Flight Manila, P. 1., Nov. 29.—(U.R)— Pan American Airways’ giant China Clipper, sweeping out of a cloudbanked sky. landed on Manila Bay today,* completing history's first trans pacific airmail flight and the first air crossing from California to the Philippines. Cheered by thousands who had lined the shores of 'danila Bay for, hours, the Clipper appeared over I tlie city at 2:44 p. m. (.10:44 p. tn. ’ Thursday PST.) After circling the city and dropp-1 ing low over Manila harbor, she slipped to a smooth landing at 3:31 I p. m. Thus was forced the last' link in an aerial chain which clipp- [ ed Hl days from the time required to transport passengers and mail across the Pacific. In approximately GO hours’ flying time after the four-motored airplane soared from Alameda airport on San Francisco Bay, Capt. Edwin C. Musick and his crew of six aviators were hopping from the great ship’s silver cabin to a float off the Admiral's landing dock on the Luneta. waterfront 1 i boulevard. Carrying approximately 110,000; pieces of airmail, the Clipper left its California terminal last Friday at 3:46 p. tn. PST. In four almost leisurely hops, the ; airship completed the crossing to Manila, 20 days from the United States mainland by steamer. The first halt was made at Honi olulu, the second at Midway Is-' lands, the third at Wake Islands] ' and the fourth at Guam, from I where the Clipper took off this i morning at 6:06 a. tn. Guam time. Between Midway and Wake, the sky liner crossed the international date line, thus adding a day’s time to its Hying schedule. The Clipper arrived here approximately an hour nhejtrt ois I schedule. Expected to arrive about 1 4 p. in., the ship raced across the 1.560 miles from Guam with a brisk tail wind pushing it along its [ ; course, at time reaching speeds fei-l | (CONTINUED ON PAGE SEVEN) COMMITTEE TO DECIDE WAGES Three Men Named To Fix Scale For Labor At City Plant A committee of three who whose | purpose i-.i to determine the wage ] -c:ile for skilled, semi-skilled and , unskilled labor required on the in- i ' tallation of the turbine and plant I extension at the City light and power plant was appointed today. The appointments are made under the authority of an act passed by the 1935 legislature, chapter 319. One :ran was named by Governor Paul V. McNutt, one by T. N. Taylor, president of the State Federation of Labor and the third by Mayor A. H. Holthouse. The committee in Charles Robenold Decatur C. 0. Van Horn. 209 W. Ferry Street, Fort Wayne and \rthur "Pat" Hyland of this city. The men will meet this evening end adopt the wage scale for the Decatur proje t and forward copies to Bevington and Williams, consultant engineers employed by the city and also file a schedule at the city ! hall for inspection by 'prospective' bidders. Bids for the 2900 KWH turbine ; ondenser, switchboard panel, othei , - quipment and building of an addition to the main plant to bouse the ; new turbine will be received by the i council on Friday. December 13. The. formal offer for the turbine . ■ ind other equqipment, amounting to 49.500 has not yet been received, 1 but city officials have been assured 1 that the grant will be made. In order to have the contract awarded : by December 15, as required by the ] i PW A, it was necessary to advertise I for the bids ahead of the receipt of i the formal offer from the govern- t nient. — o i Grandson Os Local Residents Is 111 Max Magnet , age about 14. son of Mr and Mrs. Harry Magner of Fort ] Wayne and grandson of Mr. and ( Mrs. Willis Magner of this city, is ill with pneumonia. His condition, i was pronounced serious. •

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Decatur, Indiana, Friday, November 29, 1935.

First Snowfall Is Os Short Duration Indianapolis, Ind.. Nov. 29 —(UP) I —lndiana’s first statewide snowfall of the year will bo short-lived, J, 'll. Armington, meteorologist at the U. S. weather bureau here, said today. Although enow still was falling throghout most ot tho state thli morning, skies were to clear thia afternoon, Armington said. Temperatures will remain the same, he 'predicted. Fort Wayne reported a low temperature of 20 degrees early today, while readings in Terre Haute and Indianapolis were 20 and 19 degrees, respectively. o HIGHWAY GRANT IS EXPLAINED - H i g h w a y Commission Member Explains Grants On Right*Of*Way Evan B. Stoutsenberg, member lof the State Highway commission of Indiana, in a letter to J. H. Heller, who wiiii about 25 Decatur men attended a hearing before the commission relative to the construction of U. S. road 224 west of Decatur, stated Indiana has 3,725.52 miles of cement road and that only 967.31 miles are in southern Indiana counties. Mr. Stotsenburg's letter, explaini ing the matter of gi'ants on the right-of-way, follows: “At the meeting the other day it was slated that there are many more concrete roads in the south- ; ern part of the State than in the northern part. At the time I knew this statement was not correct, but i did not have the figures before I me to substantiate it. “We have in the State Highway system 3,725.52 miles of cement concrete roads. In the southern 1 33 counties of the State there are 967.31 miles of concrete pavement; in the northern 31 counties of the State there are 1,587.60 miles of concrete pavement; and in the central pitrt of the State, comprising the other 28 counties, there are 1,170.61 miles of concrete I pavement. From these figures you can see that the statement made ' was incorrect, “I examined the right of way i file on this road and find that some of the landowners did write into the grants that the road was to be 1 a concrete road. The old commission, however, refused to accept ] the grants with this condition in them, as it would have been an ' absolute violation of the law, and the condition was removed from ] all of the grants in which it was inserted. This appears to have been done by tlie local Good Roads ] Committee after it was notified the grants could not be accepted, and (CONTINUED ON PAGE FOUR) Red Men, Pocahontas Lodges Enjoy Dinner Ar. roximately 100 persons attended a rabbit and chicken dinner at the Red Men’s hall Wednesday evening. Those present were members of the Red Men lodge and their families and members ot the Pocahestas lodge and their families. o QUESTION GIRL IN COP’S DEATH Gang’s Sweetheart Held By State Police In Anderson Killing Indianapolis, Nov. 29.—(U.R) —A woman, giving her name as Janet Henderson, 21, sweetheart of a Chicago bandit gang, was held here today as state police made an extended search for the slayer of Frank M. Levy. Anderson police-] man. Tlie slate-eyed, tattooed blonde, ] with a typical gangster vernacular, was brought here last night from Vincennes where she said she had been thrown out of a car driven j by her gangster companions. The woman was the central figure in the investigation of the slaying of Levy, shot down Nov. 24 when he attempted so made a routine investigation of two per-] sons sitting in a parked automo ! bile. Her flippancy and the fact that state police found that she had acquired the name of Henderson threw an unexpected barrier in their instigation of the slaying. State police found that the real Janet Henderson. 16-year-old Chicago girl, was in tlie Cook county hospital. "I’m still Janet Henderson to 07ONTINVED ON PAGE THREE) 1

BANK BANDITS GIVEN PAROLES BY COMMISSION Two Linn Grove Bank 1 Robbers Are Shown Leniency By Board • Indianapolis. Nov. 29. — (U.R) - 1 Leniency was granted two bank ■ I robbers and a man serving life on a murder charge by the state clemecy commission today in rub i ing on 57 cases heard during the first three days ot this week. The commission denied 40 ap I plications, granted 10 paroles, com-' muted the sentences of six prisoners and continued one case. Th? "lifer,” Thomas Burke, sentenced from Allen circuit court I April 8, 1924. won commutation of his life term to 15 years to life. Evidence was presented to tne commission tending to show he . killed a man in self defense. Paroles were granted J. Phil Chamberlain and Elmer Wood, ’ serving 20-year terms in the state , prison on charges of robbing the Linn !?.ove State Bank in 1929. t They were convicted in Adams ( circuit court March 30. 1929. They I must make reports to parole officers for two years after their release. , After pleading guilty before Judge Jesse C. Sutton in the Ad • ams circuit court, Chamberlain and • Wood were sentenced to serve 20 . years in tlie state penitentiary for . robbing the Linn Grove bank. They were sentenced on March : 30. 1929, four days after the bank • was robbed of $2,100. Two other ] men, Raleigh W. Siniff and Everett . D. Gaithe'r assisted in the hold-up. Siniff was apprehtSlUeu two days i after the robbery and gave Infor . motion which led to the arrest of the others. The late Sheriff Harl . Hollingsworth obtained confessions from the four men before he . brought them into court. WEATHER Generally fair tonight and Saturday; except unsettled east and north portions tonight; not so cold Saturday afternoon. PREBLE LEAGUE TO GIVE PLAY St. Paul Walther League Presents Play Saturday And Sunday The St. PaulM Walther League of Preble will present the play "Done ] ■ 'ln Oil", Nov, 30 and Dec. 1. Following is the cast of characters. Robert Braun, his father’s biggest I worry Melvin Scheumann Emil Braun. Robert’s father a re- , tired oil man Herman Linnemeire [ Vera Nyce, a persistent book agent Esther Koenemann Frieda Bran, Braun’s wife, with social aspirations . Nora Linnemeier Lena Rofberg, Braun’s cousin from Ducseldorf Adele Bieberich Elsie, The maid at Braun’s .... ..Lora Ewci Karl Pumpernickle, Braun’s former j partner Arthur H. Bieberich Marmaduke Forsythe, Valet and tea.her par excellence , Arthur W. Beiberich 1 anita Braun, Braun’s daughter| Gregory Reynolds, a successful ] young writer Oscar Koenemann Orville (Spike) Reynolds, a soldier ot fortune Alvin Macke Manuel Florado, a revolutionist ' from Honduras .. Herman Hinck ' Time—The Pressnt Place—The Braun summer home ' (CONTINUED ON PAGE EIGHT) 0 1 4 Neighbors Husk Corn For Ailing Farmer Ed Krue-keberg, prominent Union township farmer, was given a . real Thanksgiving surprise by 49 residents in the Blee'ke settlement,' ' who husked four acres of stock ; | corn and between five and six acres j ' ! of ehocked corn for him. Mr. Krueckeberg has been ill for over two months and was operated ( • on three weeks ago. His condition is much improved but he will be unable to work on the farm tor, ] some time. Thanksgiving morning a call was 1 issued to his friends. Over 40 men , with five teams turned out and : ] worked three and a half hours in 1 the afternoon. All were members of i the Bleeke church.

Roosevelt Ansivers Critics Os New Deal In Speech In Atlanta This Afternoon

THANKSGIVING OBSERVED HERE Holiday Is Observed Quietly In Decatur, Adams County The weather man cooperated with the residents of Adams conn--Ity in staging an “old fashioned’’ Thanksgiving. Snow fell from lime to time through the day as the temperature fell sharply. Sales by local merchants indicated that the majority of the citizens have 'more to be thankful for than they had in the past. Many family dinners were held Thanksgiving noon and evening. One of the features of the day was tlie annual Turkey Trot held at tlie Decatur Country Club in the evening hy the Psi lola Xi sorority. Merchants today bega.n arranging their stores and windows for lhe Christmas trade which id expected to lie unusually heavy this year. The first of the Christmas sales will begin Saturday. Three marriage licenses were purchased from County Clerk | David D. Depp as young couples ' endeavored to a.dd further solem- j nities to Thanksgiving day. Many people with the coming of cold weather have begun hunting in earnest. A large number of hunting licenses have been sold. Many young men and women : who are attending colleges and universities uro spending the Thanksgiving va<ation with their triends t'.id relatives in Decatur. Early mailing of Christmas packages i 3 just beginning. Post- ’ (CONTINUED ON ”AGE THREE) 0 Henry Myers Dies Suddenly Today Word was re eived here this noon 'that Henry Myers of F rt Wayne. <on of Mrs. John S. Meyers of Decatur, route 4. died suddenly this ' morning from h art failure. Mr. Myers was to have had hie teeth ■xt’acted and it is thought that his I heart was unable to stand tlie shock I of the anesthetic. Funeral arrange-' ni nt ( have not been made. Elks Plan Annual Memorial Services Th? eeeatur chapter of the B. I*. I '). Elks will hold the annual Memor- ] ial -services Sunday afternoon at 2:30 o’clock. Judge Hub r M. DeVo? t will be the principal epeaker. | Tlie services will he ritualistic ; with the regular officers in charge, i There will be a spotial program.] The service is held each year on the first Sunday in December. Families of deceased members will be honored guests. The services | will be open to the public. YOUTH WOUNDED BY OWN MOTHER Son Os New York Speculator Critically Wounded Today Santa Barrara, Cal., Nov. 29 (UP) Jesse Livermore. Jr., 16, son of the New York speculators once known as “the boy wonder of Wall ] Street,” was shot down by his mother today as he tilted o quart of whikey to his lips. "I’d rather see you dead that drinking,” police quoted the mother as saying before she shot the boy. Young Live .Tore, weakly protesting. "That’s all right—it’s nothing" was removed to the cottage hospital, where some hours later he was in “poor condition,’’ A .22 calibre rifle bullet pierced his chest and ranged downwards through his liver. His mother, Mrs. Dorothea Livermore, divorced wife of the stock trader, found hy her son’s on Hie floor of their Montecito home, screaming “I've shot my boy, I've sh, t my boy." was held fin suspicion of assault with intent to commit murder. She was under opiates in a room several doors away from her son’s room in the hospital with a deputy sheriff standing guard at her bed. (CONTINUED ON PAGE FOUR) i

Seeks New Trial 1 ar ' ' /'• / h/p-Y Y 4' ■ P <1 Women’s organizations throughout the nation have launched a. movement to obtain an appeal for Edith Maxwell, above, who waits in jail at Wise. Va.. to be transferred to the state prison to serve 125 years for slaying her father 1 with a shoe when the two quarreled because she had stayed out after 9 o'clock. FORTY LISTED ON HONOR ROLL Decatur High School Honor For Second Six Weeks Listed Forty stdents of the Decatur pub-' lie high school listed on the school honor roll of the second six weeks >f the first semester. Tho complete list is as follows: ] A B ; Faye Martin 4 1 ] Richard Andrews 4 " Thomas Andrews 4 ii ' Aid's Brintzenhofe 4 0 . Barbara Burk 4 0 !It hert Franz 4 0 ! '?"th Grether 4 I' Albert Keller 4 0 Katherine Knapp 4 0 Helen Jean Kohls 4 0, Massonne 4 0] : Florence M Connell 4 u Gladys Miller 4 0 ] tune O’Donnell 4 0, i Mary Steele 4 0 ]' eona Bauer 3 1 ' James Christen 3 1 j I Donabelle Fenimore 3 1 ' Marie Grether 3 1 1 : Margaret Hoffman 3 1 ! I Walter Hoile ... 3 1 I Dwight Kimble 3 1 Flora Marie Lankenau ... 3 1 | Emma Marquart 3 1 j Rachel Mickley ...3 1 ! Peggy Staley 3 1 i William Tutewiler :: 1 | Robert Engeler 2 2 | Lewis Fennig .. .2 2 I Harriet Gilson 2 2 Frank Grether 2 2 j R semond Hart 2 21 B tty Hunter .2 2 Ruth Kimble 2 2 Harry Moyer . 2 2 (CONTINUED ON PAGE FOUR)

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President’s Speech Is Regarded As Outline Os Policies In Next Campaign. LOWER DEFICIT Atlajita. Ga., Nov. 29 — (U.R) — ' President Roosevelt, in an indirect but forceful reply to new deal critics, told 90,000 persons today that lavish government spending ] was over ami that tho nation could “look forward with asstir- ' ante to a decreasing deficit." Political observers took his speech as an outline of his party's ctunpuign ammunition in next year's national election, and therefore. as his most important public utterance of recent months. II ‘ sipoke before a throng that jammed Grant Field, tlie etadium of the Georgia School of Technology, part of a “home-coming day" celebration arranged by lhe Georgia congressional delegation in his honor in which approximately 250,000 persons took part. Because he spoke in tho capital of Gov. Eugene Talmadge, one of the bitterest ot his critics and a possible rival for the Democratic nomination, his stieech took additional political significance. While he mentioned no individual in his opposition hy name. Ills references to conditions when he took office three years ago were freouent and often pointed and their pointedness in reference to the recent criticisms of his imi mediate white house predecessor, Herbert Hoover, was inescapable. He devoted some time to pointing out the improved condition of farmers under the new deal. Tal- , madge hr.? been a leading critic , of his agricultural program. “As things stand today," ho ■ said, “and in the light of a definite and continuing economic im- ' provement. we have passed the peak of appropriations. Revenues, without the impos ition of new taxes, are increasing a.nd we can look forward with assurance to a decreasing deficit. “The credit of the government is today higher than that of any : other great nation in tlie world, in spite of attacks on that credit made by those few individuals and organizations which seek to dictate to the administration and to the congress how to run the national treasury and how to let the needy starve." His speech, in relation to his administration, was all embracing. being in effect, an acccount- ; ing of a stewardship since March, i 1933. He pointed to economic, ] social, ami agricultural gains. He announced that on Wednes(,CONTINUED ON PAGE EIGHT) ——— ——O— — Annette Stauffer Is Bitten By Dojf Annette Stauffer, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Gottlieb Stauffer of North Fifth street, was .severely bitten by a dog at noon today. The incident was reported to policeman Ed Miller. who took the girl to a physician's office, where the wound was cauterized. PLAN PAGEANT SUNDAY NIGHT Missionary Pageant Will Be Given At Pleasant Dale Church A missionary pageant entitled “In Perfect Peace" will be given at Pleasant Dale church Sunday evening at 6:45 o’clock. No' admission will be charged but an offering will be taken. The public is cordially invited. Following is a list of the characters. Robert Anderson, a young minister Oscar Geisel James Roberts, A Seminars' pal ot Roberts . Lester Adler Gordon Anderson. Robert's young brother Harold Henschen Phyllis Anderson. Robert's small sister Mildred Henschen Jo Ann Merwin, a friend who becomes Robert's wife Elizabeth Leyse Mrs. Mary Anderson, the mother Helen Beery Mr John Anderson, the father.... Roy Alwine Rev. John Gray, the pastor, Russel Baumgartner