Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 33, Number 306, Decatur, Adams County, 27 December 1935 — Page 1

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iSEVELTMAY ||VE MESSAGE 1 10 CONGRESS I 1()cnl Thought Likely • 0 Deliver His Message hi Person U&fngton. Dec. 27. (U.R) — ’ { pmbabiy will „ his message to the seeonu wO f the 71th congress in perSpeaker Joseph W. Byrns saiu Jus said that either on Friday iturday. .lan °r 4. he expectk president to appear in the ( chanihei and suggest detirthe legislative program for session of the present conW s indicated that the presiwould discuss his budget but whether he would tala 'the soldier’s bonus issue di[gas problematical. ras dismissing the forthcomaierican l.ioerty League me. i It which former New York Gov. Alfred E. Smith is to t said that "it would lie inUng to know who pays the big salary that Jouett Shouse ■ Shouse Is president of the I speaker of the house, like Pat Harrison. D.. Miss., indibe did not expect any new ■gislation during the session, would hate to eee any new 111 started." Byrns sam. "My Blinding from high authority it there would be no necesfor it ” tier. Mr. P.oosevelt bad said j not yet certain as to the ii message to congress wool i Uvered. er his press conference, the tent returned to the White I for more concentrate* worn; i massage. His only engage s were luncheon with Aubrey ms. assistant relief director, cabinet meeting at 2pm mer Decatur Resident Die ». Victoria Seitz, 92. died at Ek last evening at the Saer d t Home. Avila. The deceased l former resident o’ Decatur the widow of Peter Stitz, who ded her in death thirteen ago. One son Charles, residtear Fort Wayne, is the only tors. e deceased was a member of It. Mary's Catholic church and It. Mary's Sodality. » body may be viewed aftlack this evening at the Gill . poan funeral home. Funeral res will be held at the home hy morning at 9 o'clock and St Mary’s church with burial HSiaint Joseph cemetery. ■ o — H»rt Roger Gipe Is Seriously IE fording to word received :>■ ves here Roger Glee i:f Al xh is seriously ill with bio: <1 fling. Mr. Gipe became ill last mid on Sautrday wa*s taken to lull hospital at Muncie. ■ CHANCES CROWING SLIM Pes Os Escaping Chair lim As Hoffman Denies Reprieve Move Kt °n, N. J., Dec. 27.— (U.R) - (es for Bruno Richard Haupt--1 to live through the week of 13 seemed increasingly today after Gov. Harold G. flan asserted he did not in to grant any reprieve to the itted murderer of Charles | 1,,11s Lindbergh, Jr. * German carpenter's only t " tog hopes are the state court lr dons and attempts of his at!>'3 to obtain a new trial, •court of pardons, compos I •governor, the chancellor and ' M «es of the court of errors •bheals, must vote by a major ® show him any clemency and governor’s vote must bo with ton.iorlty. e court meets Monday and it consider Hauptmann's plea o then or it may set a date toisldering it Hauptmann sat in the state to death house awaiting actum appeal, Colonel Lindbergh, •a and their second son, Jon, ' "earing England on the Am- ~ importer. Threats against eh them to desert the United es and seek safety abroad

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Star Ont Again ■ i ? j - <’ . ; For the first time since her recent illness, Ixiretta Young, screen star, joined the Hollywood social whirl, making her appearance at a night club in the film colony, above. checklorger IS CAPTURED Mark Orr. Wanted Here, Like’v To Be Tried In Michigan Local authorities will not make an effort to return Mark Orr, 27, of Huntington..Jo Adams county for trial on a bad cheek charge unless he is acquitted at Grand Rapids, Michigan on an embezzlement charge. A warrant has been on file in the Adams circuit court f r Orr’.s arrest since ne cashed a check at a local garage several weeks ago. Orr obtained the endorsement, of a local insurance a an, who had known him in Huntington. The check, written for about $25, was worthless. Orr had worked the sama "racket’’ in Ktkomo, Peru. Logansport, Hartford City, Fort Wayne, Elkhart. South Bend. Goshen, Kendallville and other Indiana citi ■? as well as at Grand Rapids and Detroit, Michigan. He disap.ear'd from Huntington where he was employed by a trucking firm two months ago and left a string of bad checks all otei northeastern Indiana. He was trailed by state police. There are 14 or 15 warrants for his arrest in Indiana alone. in recent week.-, ho wont to Michigan where he contacted former Huntington residents at Grand Rapids and at Detroit. A .heck cashed by a Detroit man led to his capture there last Tuesday He returned a second time to one man’s office. The victim had been notifed that a check he had cashed for Orr was worthless so he notified the policeIndiana sheriffs who ar-' bidding for his return and trial in their ountiee, were notified th:the embezzlement charge at Grand Rapids carries a larger sentence than any i„ this state. If a conviction la not stained them be will be - turn'd for trial in one of 14 Indian, counties. Celina School Is Leading Contest The Sunday School of the First _ ii. , hurch has been in a Evangelical inuicn t with t’m Evang-lical sun Sunday School the Decatur church wiU g P ' Tim s Jt-oLs are still quit® mon. Tlie s ■» ,- o iina sightL’'T, S w Sunday final results antelephone and the ttnai notinccd.

MANY FIREMEN ARE OVERCOME AT SOUTH BEND Damage Os $200,000 Is C aused In City’s Business District South Bend, Ind., Dec. 27 —(UP) More than 40 city firemen were under treatment for exposure and injuries today after their 13-hour tight with a fire in the downtown i distri t which caused damage eati-! mated at S2OO 000. American Legion volunteers were called last night to take over duties f firem n incapacitated in the long I fight in near zero temperatures. The fire today was limited to the front i. art of the store basement, wher a supply of coal smoldered. Firemen and Legion volunteers. watched closely fearing a new outbreak in the conflagration. Nine ambulances were used to ake the firemen to St. Joseph's and Epworth hospitals. A first aid station was established in the Y. M. ('. A. , ' Six physicians worked over the victims, ordering the more serious , cases to hospitals. All the firemen sent to hospitals were reported rec vering today. Others confined to their homes ( were not in serious condition, physicians said. Alex Andrzekewskl, of hose company No. 3. was knocked unconscious by the Noggle of a high presume water line which slipped from frozen hands of other firemen. The blaze destroyed the building in which the H. L. Green company I was Heated. Da rage to the building was estimated at $75,000 and the entire -stock of the store, valued at $50,000, was destroyed. With water lines hampered by » low temperature and fir men alnr -t freezing t : their ladders, the blaze spread rapidly. It v as btlieved -started In a waste . (CONTINUED ON PAGE FOUR) EMMA NUSSBAUM OSES THURSDAY Monroe Township Woman Dies Thursday After Long Illness Miss Emma Nussbaum, 35, life--1 ng resident of Adams co.inty, died at 4:45 p. m Thursday at her home in Monroe township, four and one- ’ halt' miles northwest of Herne. She had been ill several months of comI plications. The deceased was born in Wqbash township September 23, 1900, a daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Scionion Nussbaum, both of whom preceded ’ her in death The family moved to ' Monroe township several yeans ago. Surviving are four sisters: MrsNoah D. Schwartz and Mrs. Joel M. S hwartz, both of M nroe township; Misses Lydia and Rosfna Nussbaum, both at home. Also surviving are a fester-sister, Mrs. John Mazelin, Monroe township; and a foster-brother, Edwin Amstutz, at home. Funeral services will be held at ’ the home Saturday aftern.on at I 1:30 o'clock. Remodeling Club Room At Moose Home An extensive remodeling program - ! t underway in the c lub r’.om of the • Loyal Order of Moose on North Se< tid street. Tne room us being decorated in • a n . ,i and white paint and an . attratcive fireproof composition fl. or covering is being laid. The blocks are in black, grey and white and form a very unique design. \ new toilet roam was also cont . it ru td in the east end of the buildC in g Other changes are being made in the arrangement of fixtures and ' ables and when completed the club . room will be one of the most at- , tractive in the city. Gov. Olson To Call National Guardsmen i St Paul, DeT27- (U.PJ-Gover-i , Fiovd B. Olson today ann -The will call out the nUU . 1 guard to prevent further national K ll ; 1 ™ to^ rutwea r Knltt- : plant." Mninaapohs, scene of , recent outbreaks. ' ''“l'tis announcement followed an , .... Mayor Thomas Latimei ;K., “uM « K* - " tiaJ law.

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Judge Gives Finding On Insanity Hearing —- Judge Huber M. De Vow in the Adams circuit court Thursday afternoon rendered his decialon in the i I R- B. Johnson insanity proceedings. I | He found that Mr. Johnsum was of “sound mind.” The hearing was held in the local i: court on Friday, December 13. Judge DeVoes took the case under [ advisement. The report of the examining phy- ! sicians in the insanity proceedings : Hied for Amos Daniel Meyer of west :f Monroe was filed. Judge DeVoss . set the hearing for Saturday. Mr. Myers is now being held in the Adams county jail. o , NATIONS GIVE ASSURANCE OF FULL SUPPORT I France Will Fight With England If Latter Is I Attacked London, Dec. 27—(U.R)—France, Tugoslavia, Turkey, a.nd Greece have given assurances which convince the government that they ’ will lovsllv carry out the provisions of tlie league covenant in “vent Ita’v attacks British armed forces or British Interests, it was disclosed officially today. It wan und“rntood that the four nowers nromised assistance which •neli'tlßsl aerial as well as naval "ooneration. Sutmort of the nowers concerni -d. all Mediterranean nations, ’ would be under article XVI of the covenant British as well a.s French lead- : “vs have said th“t they do not i "nntemolate milt'tnrv action ’ i mrotnst Italv. Military action would leave Italy no recourse at all but to war. It Italv attacked r’-e-t Rri-ntn i”st because it carried out pledges to the league, of which Italv is a fel’ow member, Ii italv wou'd not under the covenaijj have the legal or moral right to attack, in the view of league - members. On the contrary, the 'pgal case aeainst Italv from the league viewpoint, would be even tighter. Ride Ride Paris, Dec. 27— (U.R) —France ; will fight by the side of Great ) Britain if the latter is attacked ;by Italy, Premier Pierre Laval : assured the chamber of deputies ■ - tode.v. Fighting for the life of his gov- , “rnment and defending his policy . ! >'n the Ethiopian crisis, Laval told . the crowded and partly hostile chamber that Fiance has fulfilled in every respect her obligations under the league of nations covenant. "1 understand that France I would help Britain if she is attacked by Italy," he declared solemnly. “I want to repeat that pub- | licly”. Laval replied spiritedly to the J opposition attack, the preliminary hlow of which was delivered by ’ Leon Blum, socialist leader. He denounced Laval's "personal foreign policy," which he said bad ' been seriously discredited byjJther (CONTTNT’Rn pam? SEVEN) oTOWNSEND MAI RUN CANOIOAIE Old Age Pension Advocate Threatens To Enter Candidate El Centro, Cal., Dec. 27.—<U.R>— Unless one of the major political parties endorses the Townsend old age pension plan, a third party candidate for president will be in- , jected into the 1936 race, Dr. F. E. Townsend founder of the old age movement, said last night. Dr. Townsend made bls announcement at an old age rally meeting attended by several thousand followers. "The third party is organized and ready to move into the field with a candidate if we know Republicans and Democrats do not intend to endorse our plan," he said. Dr. Townsend said he would not be the old age movement's candidate for president because "I do not want to commit suicide" i "There are younger and abler men ready to take the leadership,” he said. “We are organizing in every state and have all the legal data necessary to put a new party into operation. We will go on every state primary ticket if necesi (CONTINUED ON PAGE SEVEN)

MAIL BUSINESS BACK TO NORMAL Heavy Christmas Mail Handled Expeditiously In Decatur Business at the Decatur poetoffice returned to normalcy today as tlie heavy Christmas rush ended. Postmaster Phil O. Macklin ' elated that the service here had 1 been able to handle all mail as i fast as it reached tho local office. The detailed report and coin- | parleons of the amount of bush j ness done during tho Christmas season can not bo determined , I until the books are balanced at ' the end of the year. , , I All letters and cards received lat the Decatur office by noon i I Tuesday were delivered befor<>. i Christmas. Those received after j noon Tuesday and on Christmas j l dav were delivered Thursday. D“llvery of parcels was made ! Wednesday and nope was left in , the office over Christmas da.v. To meet the heavy Christmas ( i business the Decatur office was , a'lnwed S7O for extra clerke and SBS for extra carrier hire. Three , nersons were emploved during the , last week as extras, Clarence . Smith. Ambrose Spangler and ; John Boch. All the clerks worked overtime, often as late as 10 o'clock. They received no additions! nav for this , work but the extra time will he nd<t“d to their vacations. The citv mail carriers all hired , I Itovs to heln them carrv the mail during the ’ast week. Theee bovs , wore na'd bv the carriers them- ; selves. It was necessa.'-v to make several trins to carry all of the ; letters and cards intended for one , deHvery by the carriers. The New Year’s greeting card business is not expected to be nonrlv as heavy as that for Christmas. CONTRACTS NOT YET APPROVED Nine Contracts For Geneva Project Sent To Indianapolis The nine contracts required by j the WPA for its projects were mailed to Indianapolis today by Jess Mann, trustee of Wabash township, for the construction of the new Geneva school house. The contracts were first sent to IndiatTSpolis Sunday after a meeting of the officials concerned in I the construction. They were returned today with the recommen- : dation of a minor revision, which : was made. After the contracts are approved ' in Washington and Indianapolis they will be returned. The township will lhen raise its share of the j cost of the new structure. The I bonds for this purpose have not yet, been printed. ■ ■ The successful general contrac- [ 1 tors, Curry and Son of South Whitley, will not begin work until the money is deposited in the bank I under a separate fund. As soon as the township deposits its money the WPA will place its i 45 per cent at the disposal of the , township. The township money , must be spent first. , Work will be begun on the project as soon as these details can he arranged. > At the present time the Wabash township pupils who were enrolled in the old Geneva school are attending classes in rooms rented in Geneva. A few have been trans- . ferred to Berne schools. It is probable that the new school will be ready for use next 1 fall when the first semester of the ' t next term begins. • | — , . -Q— < Receive Word Os Death Os Joe Uhl Word was received here today [by relatives of the sudden death ! of Joe Uhl, of Toledo, Ohio, presi- ' dent of the Toledo Metal Furniture ' Company, which occurred last [ night. ’( Mr. Uhl suffered from a stroke ■ of apoplexy while attending a midnight mass on Christmas morning in Toledo. He was taken to a ' hospital and died yesterday. Mr. Uhl was well known in Decatur, having visited here on several occasions with the Voglewede 1 and Terveer families. He was a brother of C. R. Uhl. Funeral arrangements had not 1 been completed late today. Char- ' He Voglewede and other relatives | I were planning to attend.

RELATIONS OF | URUGUAY WITH RUSSIA BROKEN Uruguay Severs Diplomatic Relations With Soviet Union Montlvideo, Uruguay, Dec. 27. (U.R) —Uruguay today severed diplomatic relations with the soviet union, whose representaTTves here were charged with assisting revolutionary activities. The soviet minister, Alejandro Minkin, and his entire staff were ordered expelled from the country, Uruguay also will withdraw its representatives from Moscow. Decision to break relations and hand the minister his passports was reached at a midday meeting of the Uruguayan council of ministers was announced official By Foreign Minister Jose Espalter. Montevideo long has been regarded as the center of communistic activity In South America, and the breaking of relations followed development of evidence which the government asserted directly connected the soviet embassy here with the recent bloody revolutionary outbreak in Rio De Janeiro and other parts of Brazil. For some time, newspapers here had been making indirect accusations that the soviet legation here was actively assisting communistic activities in South America. particularly in Brazil and Chile. The radical leader, Luis Prestes, allegedly was being financed by the communist international. it was charged. Following the abortive outbreak in Brazil, in which many were killed. the charges were brought into the open by the press and by deputy Angel Cusano in a speech in parliament. The government thereupon insti tilted a secret investigation which culminated in today's drastic action. Joint Meeting Os Masons Wednesday A joint installation service of Royal Arch Masons, Blue Ixxign Masons and Eastern Stars will be hed at the Masonic Hall Wednesday at 7:30 p. m. o Alcohol Control Act Is Held Valid Peoria. 111., Dee. 27—(UP)—The congresional act creating the alcohol control administration was found to be constitutional here yest rday by U. S. Judge Charles G. Briggle. The case was brought by the Fort Clark Distilleries corp., of Peoria, which contended that the alcohol control law invaded states’ rights in regard to intrastate business and that some provisions of the law were duplicates of the NRA Code statute invalidated by a U. S. Supreme court dicisionJudge Briggle upheld the government, which closed the Fort Clark company on the grounds that it did not have a basic permit at the time the former NRA code was outlawed by the Supreme c;urt. o GIVE CANTATA SUNDAY NIGHT Monroe M. E. Chorus Will Present Cantata At Local Church A cantata, entitled "The Christmas King,” will be presented at the Decatur Methodist Episcopal church on Sunday evening at 7:30 o'clock by a chorus of 27 voices from the Monroe M. E. church. The personnel of the chorus is as follows: sopranos, Mrs. J. C. Rich. Mrs. Paul M. Bader. Mrs. G. O. Smith. Mrs. Fred Foster, Mrs. Howard Ha.hnert, Mrs. Otto Longenberger, Mrs. Lawrence Von Gunten, Mrs. John Crist, Mrs. John Floyd, Miss Pauline Buckmaster, Mrs. Manas Lehman; altos—Mrs. Raymond Crist, Mrs. E. W. Busche, Mrs. Russell Mitchell, Miss Ruth Bahner, Miss Anoli Walters, and Mrs. £. S. Morford; tenors — Lawrence Von Gunten, Everett Rice, Freeman Walters and the Rev. E. S. Morford; bass —Mans.s Lehman, E. W. Busche, Rolland Sprunger, G. S. Silliman, Russell Mitchell. Max Bihner and Glen Stuckey. The program is as follows: "Prepare Ye The Way," chorus. (CONTI7TUED ON PAGE FOUR)

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New Army Air Chief H * '4! ■MW — Ono of eight promotions given high ranking army officers by President Roosevelt went to Maj. ■ Gen. Oscar Westover, acting chief 1 of tho army air corps, who was ' given full command of that ' branch, succeeding Maj. Gen. Ben--1 jamin Foulois. whose resignation was demanded by a congressional ' committee in connection with his method of aircraft purchases. OPEN AUCTION 1 SCHOOL MONDAY i ' . Ruppert Auction School Mid-Winter Term Opens Monday r Students are arriving for tlie . i mid-winter term of the Repport Auction school which will open Monday. December 30. in the Hens- ' ley building on South Second ’ | street. The January term marks the fifteenth year of the founding of the school by Col. Fred Reppert, nationally known auctioneer of this 1 city. The school holds a January and August term each year. • Fifty students from 17 different - states and Canada have already i enrolled for the January term. The , . first to arrive in the city is John < . R. Dawkins of Parkersburg, W. Va. | Nearly 1,500 students, representing every state in the Union and nearly every province in Canada have | I been graduated from the Reppert . i Auction school. Col. Reppert stat- [ I ed that fifty per cent of the stu-j ■ dents come here through the rec- . ommendation of former students . and graduates. It is one of tho > outstanding schools of its kind in the country and men graduated from It have become nationally | [ prominent in their profession. Col. ( Roy Johnson, of this city, one of I the best known auctioneers in the middlewest is a product of the school. The first sale to be held by the | ! embryo auctioneers will be held: Saturday, January 4 and every eve-1 ning thereafter during the four 1 ■ week’s course. In behalf of the city, Mayor A. i R. Holthouse stated "DeCSlur welI comes the students and trusts each | and every one will return to his i home impressed like former students who named the town the Friendly City.” o Third Mysterious Murder In Chicago ' i Chicago, Dec. 27. — (U.R) — The ■ body of Samuel Latelle, 38-year-old ex-convict, hatless and coatless, 1 was found in a vacant lot today. ■ A bullet had nlerced the head. It was the third mysterious •' murder here in the snare of little ' more than a week. Police consid- - 1: ered the possibill'f of a frosh out • [ break of eane warfare. ' | Identified through his finger-n’-ints. the murdered man nnnarent- • Iv bad been slain elsewhere and ‘ the bndv carried to the vacant int. 1 Sent to Leavenworth nonltentlarv wo years sen on a counterfeiting 1 charge. I.nfclle latelv had been coni nected with no such activities as might furnish a clue to his murd- ' er, police reported. WEATHER Cloudv tnnlnht and Satur- ! dav; snow beninninn late toninht or early Saturday; I rising temperature.

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'Only Five States Escape Freezing Weather; Fruit Crop In Florida May Be Destroyed. HIGH DEATH TOLL (By United Press 1 Gales from Canada and tho blizzard stricken west brought the ' lowest temperatures of the year to i virtually all the United States toI day. Tlie death and property toll | was almost inestimable. Only five states escaped freez- . ing temperatures. The thermometer fell below or close to zero in i nearly two-thirds of the country. The multi million dollar citrus crop of central Florida was threatened and all through the south temperature records of 40 years standing were shattered. I Government weather forecasters expected temperatures to rise slightly today on tne great plains, where they fell yesterday to as low as 22 degrees below zero, but east of tho Mississippi the mercury still was falling. Snow Hurries were predicted in almost every midwestern and eastern state, and as tar south as Tennessee, to augment traffic hazards and human hardships that have taken approximately 150 lives sfnee Christmas eve. The rare extent and severity of the cold was dritm- ; atized by deaths of two persons in North Carolina, one in Tennessee and one in New Orleans by freezing. The temperature in Raleigh, N. C., was 13. Thousands of men worked despairingly through the night in cenI tral Florida orchards to save rich 1 crops from frost. Freezing temperatures extended even into the Everglades. Smudge pots In hun- ■ dreds kept palls of smoke drifting | through orchards but horticultnr--1 ists feared material damage was inevitable. New Low Marks Indianapolis, Dec. 27. — (U.R) — Lowest temperatures in the United States were registered in western and centr 1 Indiana as previous low marks for the year were shattered early today. Indianapolis and Terre Haute each recorded six degrees below zero. The previous low was 3.5 i degrees below zero. Fort Wayne and Evansville each recorded two below zero at seven o’clock. Relief from the sub-zero tetnpI (CONTINUED ON PAGE SEVEN) District Supervisor Will Be Here Monday Edgar N. Ludwig, district supervisor. lias announced that he will be at the local relief office at 10 o'clock, Monday. January 6. to register persons under the Indiana, state employment service. o CHURCH HEADS HIT STATEMENT Protestant Leaders Condemn Unity Octave Council Proposal New York. Dec. 27 —(UP) —Leaders of protestant churches of all denominations condemned w Uh f ew exceptions today a plea of 29 protestant Episcopal churchmen that their church reunite with the Roman Catholic church. Catholic clergymen generally refused to comment, but the Rev. Charles Coughlin of Detroit and the Rev. Paul James Francis of the Friars of the Atonement at Peekskill, X. Y-, called the proposal indicative I of anlnevitable trend. The appeal came from a group of Episcopal “high” churchmen, organized as the church unity octavo . council in America. Its membership 1 Includes both ministers and laymen. Other epsicopal church membent attacked the group’s right to claim representation of any considerable number of church members. The Rev. Dr. Alexander G- Cummins, rector of Christ Church, Poughkeepsie. and editor of the Chronicle, church newspaper, accused the proI testant apostates of “bad manners i and ignorance." “I feel that all Episcopalians must consider that there is an apology due to the members of other proI (CONTINUED ON PAGE 81X)