Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 33, Number 284, Decatur, Adams County, 2 December 1935 — Page 1

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taE MOTHER iKhOOTING 1 OWN SON jgJySBB Sounf Li'‘" n ” re Shows ■sS ( * ain; Terms I Hair Accident ' I Cal.. Pec 2 — IttroE* ••'•"' lkl,vinK ' l: - J K‘’ ’ , a. i'll a '.lUlllil » a ''" " ll ' ' r 1,; 1 1 & -■ 11 ■ S ’ ~. aI he was draw- | «.W>' " ai " " ,y Young J-sse. ■ jin bin mother in an ■ ' l)W «agf|i ■ ■ .1: ink,ng. ;.r.>iiipt...l I said. I ”j.j. s K l ii.'iiil.m'. th- -hooting E-'acHi>' ■"" I’" 1 111 ? K iMMihI boy. to support th-11 ' i; L.| M ;il '' ap:-ared at thearly today to | sttoißm boy. I They we d-n -d permission by Ksielai ; ‘ t attorney Percy Eviendot. an.l undersheriff Jack ’-■Pliyaitfe: placed young LivcrKeMMiran oxygen tent .period!Ey to dfee the «train on bis punc--Efs! U® Although apparently uKoing.Kengtli earlier, he grew ■verishfc the night wore on and I, letnKature mounted. in-re's ■wnßyot. indicate dthe twice diBreed SO ’h-r would plead that thaccidental. ■ 0 ■ion Reformed Sunday ■ Schid Names Officers ■ Officers for the Sunday School hi the Zio Reformed church were 'Kkik! at the church parlor SunEy afltjboon. Those chosen are: KgSKodbeck. superintendent; Eland frank, assistant superin Kt; sßries Beineke. treasurer. Evid Amis, secretary; A. It. Khbawefcr and Mrs. Fred Heuer. Ken; Ers. Dallas Goidner. pi i Kry ■urtment superintendent. Bella Seitmeyer. assistant in priBury dK rtment ' - o ■■Kilter Dies I I Suddenly Sunday I John Buster. 54, former Adams . Eiinty A-iilent and brother of “Ers. W. I Beery of this city. ■ed early Sunday morning at his Boise ini Lakeland, Florida, proBttntabflfrmn a heart attack. i live(i ,iers 1111111 SPV ' ago when 'south. He th- Elk's hotel in that sister in this is 1' Fortney three a IE MtU 3 and 11 sister. McMillen Pleasant rewires he Lak. land buii.il ||S CHRISTMAS Im I fl/ X I 15 th Cent. Aus- | trian couriers | carried letters I I inQ f° rk;ect I EuXJmvwl ici< '- Bopping days ). CHRISTMAS i and Austrian mes-l 15th Century carried 111 a cleft stick, perhaps not contaminate it by I /■B 11 of his hands. He also I l ’ r wooden iron pointed ■gMßFhich served both it r deI for vaulting over obstreams and ditches llt“rHm ° r fußtiau clothing of the I . "''■’•''as worn and he bore as on his breast, shoulder Idty ’a*' t '' e C ° a * °* arm;i °f h' 6 lotht Bl ger was frequently part I “» »Wipment.

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' County Clerk-Elect To Move To Decatur G. Remy Bierly county clerk-elect has rented the Terveer home, corner of Madison and Fifth streets Hand will move into the residence about January 1. Mr. Bierly takes office January 1, 1936. He was elected to the four J year term in 1934 and at present is principal of the Poling school in Jay county. The Tervwr homo m being remodeled, a garage constructed and improvements made inside. LIQUOR EVILS ARE DISCUSSER Rev. Clarence Baker Speaks At Local Church Sunday The Rev. Clarence G. Baker, speaking under the auspices of the I Indiana Anti-Saloon league addreesi ed the congregation of the Evangelical church at the regular morning worship service Sunday. Rev. Raker is the pastor of a church in the industrial section of Indianapolis, He also publishes a community newspaper which keeps him in contact with a population of 20 000 persons. Excerpts from his talk are: “From 1915 to 1920 I watched my families as they suffered under the ravages of the saloon. I have known their need of food and clothing and in some cases have known mothers to look forward with dread to the looming of pay day. because it meant a drunken husband and father. "After 1920 for seven years, while law enforcement was being reasoni ably well carried out, I witnessed men who had been drunkards becoming soberminded citizens, buying their homes, cariug for their families and encouraging their | children, not only to finish high school, but in some cases to go on to college. “During the next five years from 1927 to 1932 I witnessed in my community, as you witnessed in yours, the power of money in the campaign of the liquor interests as it gradually wore down and broke throgh law enforcement During those same years our nation's greatest economic breakdown occurred as an aftermath of the World War and of gambling on Wall street and I all of us witnessed sober-minded peocle reaching out for any possible relief. The liquor interests promised to take over the tax burden, they premised to restore prosp°rity and through skillful advertising and highly financed propaganda they carried through the campaigning which brought back the liqquor traffic with all of its evils. “In the last three yeears since repeal, we have seen something worse than the old time saloon, which was patronized by men and behind • losed doers. I “With the same skill which has I characterized the highly capitalized I ompanieu in their desire to place II cigarette in the mouth of every man, woman and child of America,

(CONTINUED ON PAGE FOUR) — o— Rev. Rupnow To Speak At Masonic Supper The Rev. Frank H. Rupnow of the St. John's Raformed church. Fort Wayne, will be the speaker at the oyster supper to be given by the Masonic Lodge Tuesday evening. December 10 at 6:15 o'clock. No tickets will be sold as members will be the guests of the lodge. TRUSTEES VOTE RELIEF POLICY Trustees To Refuse Relief To Persons Driving Automobiles In their regular meeting this morning in county superintendent of schools Clifton E. Striker s office, the trustees of Adame county unanimously voted to refuse relief or school books to the indigent who are driving automobiles. Before a person owning an automobile can apply for relief In any form it will ibe necessary for him to turn in his license plates. The trustees all agreed to attend the state trustees’ accosication meeting to be held in Indianapolis on December 11. 12 and 13. A legislative committee was appointed to function in case a special. session of the state assembly is called by Governor McNutt. Members of the committee are; Edwin GilHom, Monroe township trustee; Eli Dubach, Hartford township true and Mr. Striker.

SURVEY SHOWS EXTENSION OF AID NECESSARY Nation-Wide Survey Reveals Program Must Be Extended In 1936 (Copyright 1935 by United Press) Washington, Dec. 2 — (U.R) —A nation-wide survey today emphasized the probability of a second large federal work-relief program in the 1936-37 fiscal year. With the new deal's current $4.00(),000,000 anti-depression drive at its peak, estimates were for expenditure of between $1,000.000,000 and $2,000,000,000 to meet the needs of the nation’s jobless tor 12 months after next July 1. As the government cut off direct relief funds to states this week end. a United Press survey I throughout the country also showed that: 1. Many political subdivisions contend they are without funds to provide for unemployables. 2. Some 4,000,000 needy, classed as “unemployables,” ha,ve been forced on to state, county, and local care. 3. The $4,000,000,000 work relief program promises to change the “face" of the country with projects ranging from draining malarial ewamps in Alabama to connecting the Gulf of Mexico with the Atlantic ocean by planning a canal across Florida. But perhaps most important in the future work relief outlook was the agreement of relief experts that most of the 3,500.000 now listed on government payrolls would not be returned to private industry by next July, when the present program expires. The climax of the relief proi (CONTINUED ON PAGE THREE)

LAST OF BEETS ARE DELIVERED Central Sugar Company To Complete Run Within Next Week The last of the sugar beete are expected to be delivered at the vards of the Central Sugar company here late this afternoon. About 35 loads ware yet to be delivered Satj urday night. I J. Ward Calland. field superinI tendent of the plant, etated that : there is a possibility of a f»sw loads I being brought in early Tuesday i morning. The slicing of the beets will be completed shortly after the middle I of the week. The last of the iproi cessing of the sugar will be finished about Sunday or Monday. There is now a force of about 300 men at work in the local iplant. After Wednesday or Thursday the fore will be gradually tapered off as each of the processes in the manufacture of the sugar Ih completed. It is not known exactly how many men will be retained in the factoryafter the campaign is completed. A skeleton force will work the year round at repairing and clean.ng up the plant. Some improvements will be made in the equipment. The tonnage handled this year will not ba known for several days. The campaign, which began on September 26, started 14 days earlier than the one last year. The first of the beets were brought into the local plant on September 24 and the slicing began two days later. Should the slicing be completed Thursday the campaign will have run exactly 10 weeks or 70 days. Conservation League Meeting Is Postponed Officials of the Adams county fish and game conservation league today announced that the regular meeting of the league, scheduled for Tuesday evening, has been postponed. Announcement as to the date and location of the meeting will be made within a few days. — o — Lions Club To Hold Annual Turkey Dinner The Decatur Lions club will hold the annual turkey dinner for the members and their wives at the Knights of pytniae dining room Tuesday evening at 6:15 o’clock. The deputy governor, Boyd Crouse, I Fort Wayne, will be the speaker.

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Decatur, Indiana, Monday, December 2, 1935.

Mrs. Livermore and Son liL WvTW Hl Mrs. Dorothea Livermore, divorced wife of Jesse Livermore, onetime "Boy Plunger" of Wall street, is shown with her son. Jesse, Jr., 16, in happy pose before shooting tragedy at Santa Barbara. Cal. Police are holding her awadting result of the serious wounds she Inflicted on her son in their exclusive home there.

PORTLAND MAN KILLS HIMSELF Clarence Rhodes Is Found Dead In Grocery Store This Morning (Special to The Democrat) Portland. Ind.. Dec. 2—Clarence Rhodes 52, prominent local grocery owner, was found dead in the office at the rear of li.'s store on West Main street at 7:30 thia morning. Rhodes was found lying on a cot in the office, with the entire right side of his head badly torn from the effects of a bullet wound, apparently self-inflicted. The tragedy is believed to have occurred shortly after midnight. -j Friends said that Rhodes had been drinking heavily since separation from hie wife several months ago. He had been staying in the office at the etore since that time. He was last seen alive about 10 o'clock Sunday night. Surviving besides the widow are two daughters, June and Joy, both at house; and three sone. Orville of Lewistown, Montana; and Pete and Estil, both living in Montana. Mrs. Orville Rhodee, daughter-in-law of the dead man, is a daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Bert Haley of this citv. and former society editor of he Decatur Daily Democrat. _____ . 0 _ PTA Meeting Is Postponed Week The Central Pa rent-Teachers Association has postponed ite meeting from tomorrow until Tuesday, December 10. at 7 o'clock in the Central school building. A special Christmas program will be held at this time. _Q SIX ARE HURT ATFORTWAYNE Injured Seriously In Crash; Fifteen Autos Piled Up Fort Wayne, Ind., Dec. 2—4 UP) —Six persons were injured seriously last night in a crash six miles west of here which caused 15 auto-1 mobiles to pile up on an icy curve. I Most serious injuries were sustained by Mis. Lila Peers, 76. and her three daughters, Mrs. Edward Bertram, 50, Carrie Peers 63, and Mrs. Eunice Hogan, 54, all of Collinsville, 111. Mrs. Hogan, who suffered a serve scalp laceration, was in a critical condition. Mrs. Bertram suffered an elbow fracture and severe cuts, 'both of Miss Peers legs wore broken and four teeth were knocked out, and Mrs. Peers had a broken j leg. They were on their way home after a Thanksgiving visit with re-1 latives when they crashe into a car driven iby Lloyd Walters of Detroit, i Walters was cut and bruised and his wife suffered a chest injury. Their condition was reported as “fair." U. S. highway 24 was blocked for several hours after the accident while workmen cleared te road of the 15 care which slithered into the curve 'cn the ice and crashed.

Music Department Will Give Program The mr.sic department of the Woman’s Club will have charge of the cregram to be presenttd at the Zion Reformed church this evening at 7:45. Rev. C. M. Prttgh will give I a ten minute talk in commemora- | tion of the four hundredth anniversary of the printing of the English i Bible. The music department will then present a colorful costume pageant entitled “Women of the Bible”. Miss Delia Sellemeyer is. chairman of the following committee. Mrs. L. A. Holthouse, Mrs. H. W. Thompson. Mrs. Ralph E. Roop. 1 Miss Arline Becker and Miss Lulu Gerber Members of the club are urged to use their guest tickets. O ; ANNUAL SEAL SALE STARTS Christmas Seals, Health Bond Sales Are Opened Today The annual sale of Christmas seals and heath bonds for the relief of tuberculosis patients and undernourished children began today in Adams county. The county officers are: W. Guy Brown. Decatur, president; Mrs. E. M. Webb. Borne. vlce-nr“*«hlent. an r | Dr. Roy Archbold, Decatur, sec- ■ retnrv-trea.’urtr. The sale is conducted each year to provide treatment and care for ttiberculos's patients. As a preventative to the disease, milk is furnished undernourished children. The majority of the money raised locallv is kent in the county. A trail sale is being conducted in Decatur. Seals were mailed today to all the school houses in Adams county and will be distributed among the school children. ! Charity organisations will again :be asked to purchase health bonds. I These bonds are in $5, $lO, $25 and ; higher denominations. Mr. Brown, in announcing the annual sale today, pointed out the. vast amount of good done by the i campaign in previous years. The number of deaeths caused by the “white scourge” has been reduced [ enormously. A plea was issued that every I letter and inackage mailed from now until Christmas have one of the stamps on the back. All Christmas packages and gifts should have at least one of the stamps. I o County Board In Regular Meeting The county commissioners held i the first session of their December meeting this morning. Claims and bills were allowed. Tuesday, bids will be received for the county printing. A date will ajso he net for the receiving of bids for the county highway materials. o Large Deer Seen In Adams County According to reports from the southern part of tlie county today, a large deer is making its way slowly through the county. At noon, the i deer was about two miles west of Berne. Members of the conservation league were seeking to protect the deer, which is believed to have escaped from a state park in the I sothern part of the state.

NEW CORN-HOG CONTROL PLAN IS ANNOUNCED 1936 Corn Payment 35 Cents Per Bushel; Hogs $1.25 Per Head Washington. Dec. 2 — (U.R) —A 1936-37 corn-hog adjustment program, designed to maintain a balance between producer and con«umer interests, was announced today by agriculture secretary Henry A. Wa.Uace. The new plan pronoses to permit a 30 per cent increase in hog production next year over 1935. tints prenaring the way for posI sible reductions in pork prices to I the housewife, and to restrict ■ corn acreage to about 95.000,000 acres, an increase of about 1,I 400,000 acres over the amount ' harvested this year. Deta.Hs were revealed as Hie bureau of agricultural economies, the government's chief agricultural research agency, reported results of a survey showing that AAA processing taxes either had been nassed on to the consumer ! or had been paid indirectly by the I fanner who received lower prices ' for his products. Simultaneously, the American ! T.ibcrtv League a.ttacked the new ' deal farm program as regimentI inc farmers and creating a “defl- ■ nite challenge to the American form of government." Under the new adjustment proeram, a corn acreage base and r. market hog base will be fixed after appraisal by community committees and review by county allotment committees. Co-operating producers must | agree to nlant corn next year on i a.t least 25 per cent of their base acreages. They will be permitted to retire from 10 to 30 per cent of their base acreage for soil-im-proving or erosion-preventing purposes. Hog growers must agree to produce between 50 and 100 tier cent of the base market production. The 1936 corn adjustment payment will be 35 cent ? per bushel on the annrai. ed yield times the adjusted acreage, less the pro rata share of local administrative expenses. Corn adiustmont payments will (CONTIKITKn ON PAGE FIVE) o Festival Nets Ov<*r Thousand Dollars | The St. Jcse , 'h’s school children's festival given November 25 and 26, netted $1,122.13. the Rev Fatbei ins nil Seimetz pastor of St. Mary's . Catholic cliur 11 announced. The festival was the third to be given by the school children and was the most successful of any held. The nroceeds wil Ibe used in paying for the new Wicks organ installed recently in St, Mary's ichurch. Proceeds from the other two festivals were used in decorating the class rooms and hallways in the Catholic school building. ARMY OFFICER AND SON SLAIN Mysterious Shooting Is Probed; Daughter Seriously Hurt .Langley Field. Va.. Dec. 2—(U.R) | —Military and civil officers sought department of justice aid tode.v In investigation of a mysterious shooting last night that caused death of technical sergeant Clem H. Kellv. 38. and his two year old son. Clem. Jr. A daughter. Irene. S, lav seriously wounded in Fort Monroe hospital with a bullet wound in her abdomen as a. result of Ul9 burst of gunfire in Kelly's quarters. Buster Russell. 17 year old nephew of Mrs. Kelly, was confined to the post guard house after a preliminary investigation. Mrs. Kelly and another daughter, Gertrude, 6. were not wounded. Army officers notified the justice department of the shooting and renuested help. Neighbors heard shots in Kelly’s quarters about 6:30 p. m. la,st niirht. They notified military officers who immediately summoned state and county officers. Kellv and his son were killed instantly. The sergeant was shot through the right forearm, the 1 (CONTINUED ON PAGE FIVE)

North Ward School Purchases Piano The North Ward school haa purchased a now Baldwin Studio piano for the lower floor and is now well I equ9piped with a piano for each of the first and second floons. The j money for this purchase wae earn- | ed by the school, ateo several hundred dollars worth of playground 1 equipment. The Civic Section of the Woman's club furnished gravel for tire playground. AUTO HIT BY TRAIN SUNDAY William Hoffman Escapes Serious Injury Sunday Afternoon 1 Barring complications, physicians expect William Hoffman, 22. to re- * cover from injuries sustained when ’ a traiu struck his automobile about 4:15 o'clock Sunday afternoon at the Monroe street intersection of ■ the Pennsylvania tracks. Mr. Huffman drove on the tracks ■ from the east and failed to see the 1 approaching south bound train which had been flagged to stop at 1 the Pennsylvania depot a few hun- ' dred feet south. The train was 1 travelling at about 25 miles an ' hour. It ordinarily does not stop at the local station. The train picked up the Hoffman automobile and carried it to the ■ hedge on the south side of Monroe ■ street east of the tracks. 1 Mr. Hoffman was rushed to the Adams county memorial hospital where it was found that he was . suffering from lacerations about the forehead, abrasions on the right leg and thigh and minor ; bruises of the back muscles. His condition this morning was reported as being "quite improvied.” His automobile was almost comi pletely demolished by the wreck land it is not believed it can be (CONTINUED ON PAGE FIVE) O SIO,OOO SUIT IS ON TRIAL Four Women On Jury To Try Suit Venued From Jay County Four women were accepted this morning on the jury which is try- , ing the SIO,OOO damage suit being | tried in the Adams circuit court and which was venued bore from Jay ! county. The suit is the outcome of an automobile accident on September 15, 1933 on state road 26 three and a fourth miles north west of Portland on lite road leading to Hartford City. The members of the jury are: ’’’heodore Becker, Calvin Dubach, Reed Caston, Calvin Hamerldk, Ja- | cob Alt, Henrietta Gerke, Carrie Moser, Bessie Gates, Martha Dett'nger, Sam Shamn Clinton Hart and Charles Hawbaker. The suit was filed by Fred H. 1 Rowls, Arlet Walters and Leonard 1 1 Peuse are named as defendants. According to the complaint Ar-' [ let Walters was driving a truck at the time of the accident. It ran out As gas and he stopped on the road, falling to turn on his tail lights. Mr. Walters walked to the Fred Rowls farm residence and obtained some ’ I motor fuel. Mr. Rowls returned with Mr. Wal- ' tens and w as standing in front of I the truck when the Leonard Penso I automobile approached from the read. Another car came from the front and the two passed shortly before coming to the Walters’ truck. Mr. Pense did not see the truck, which it is alleged was being pushed in an efefort to start it. He struck the truck pushing it over the body of Mr. Rowls. Mr. Rowls alleges that as the result of the accident he sustained a “severe concussion of the forehead lacerations to the scalp, a forehead contusion, abrasions to the nose and face, a severely sprained back, (CONTINUED ON PAGE FOUR) o Annual Rabhit Sunper For K. Os C. Tonight A large crowd is expected at the annual rabbit dinner to be given at the K. of C. hall at 6:15 o’clock this evening. The Rev. Paul Deery of Bloomington, state chaplain of the Knights of Columbus will be the principal speaker at the program to be given following the dinner. The members have obtained sufficient rabbits for the dinner, which will be served by the entertainment committee.

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. FRENCH LEADER STILL HOPEFUL : OF PEACE MOVE Leaders Mean--1 while Urge Imposition Os Oil Embargo (Copyright 1935 by United Press) Paris. Dec. 2— (U.R) —Govern1 meat quarters refused today to abandon hope that a basis for negotiation of the Italian-Ethio-pian crisis may be found before ■ the league imposes an oil embargo on Italy. Premier Pierre Laval's most recent talks to Vlttorta Oermtl are said by French spokesmen to have done much to dissipate whatever misunderstanding may have prevailed of the French position. As has been published in the newspapers for some weeks, no approach to a basis for negotiation with Italy has been found. Yet Laval still hopes to find one, and he will embark on his next effort this week end when he sees Sir Samuel Hoare, British foreign secretary here. It is the French hope that both Great Britain and Italy will bo more ready to negotiate because of their frank recognition that tension is growing. I .aval ha« repeated to Cerruti his determination to do everything to aid a diplomatic settlement, though if an oil embargo is voted by the league. France will participate. Urge Embargo London, Dec. 2 —(U.R) —Tlio advisability of imposing an oil embargo against Italy was understood to have been urged at a special cabinet meeting today by Sir Samuel Hoare, foreign secretary, and Capt. Anthony Eden, secretary for league affairs. Prime Ministei Stanley Baldwin presided. The ostensible purpose of the meeting wa» to hear Baldwin outline the speech which King George will make in opening parliament tomorrow. Hoare and Eden were understood to have argued that impo--1 sition of the oil embargo would hasten Premier Benito Mussolini's submission to more acceptable peace terms than he has offered so far. The cabinet was believed to have discussed Hoare’s prospective visit to Premier Pierre Lava.l in Paris to co-ordinate the British and French views, and also Capt. ‘ Eden’s attendance at the meeting of the penalties committee of 18 ON PAGE THREE) —o Lois Lucile Buechner Dies Saturday Night Lois Lucile Buechner, 7, daugh1 ter of Mr. and Mrs. Cletus Buechner of Harrison township, Van Wert county, died Saturday at 10:45 p. m. after a four week's 111ne>ss of rheumatic fever. She was born October 8, 1328 and is sur- ( vived by the parents and grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. John Railing and Mrs. J. J. Buechner. Funeral services will be held Tuesday afternoon at 2 o'clock (CST) at the home and at 2:30 at the St. John's Lutheran church with burial in the church cemetery. Rev. Otto Marschke will officiate. The body was removed from the Zwick Funeral home Sunday after- , noon. 0 WEATHER Generally fair tonight and Tuesday; warmer Tuesday, somewhat warmer west and north portions tonight.

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