Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 34, Number 6, Decatur, Adams County, 7 January 1936 — Page 1

■organ IN TESTIMONY TO COMMITTEE: Financier DeDuring War IJHH. ii '" s J - 1 |r|||||H, K W ' 'l' l - '<' ar -Bb-<-7gß 'n '■ ■ llk > ' ? - ’"' !t " of money." Morgan d his partner. Thom- , W.'ft" ,nt ' hioisted that the naneialjoose was most scrupu-i >u« in i® dealings with all gov-, the war. The i • -.-<ir-oB head of the House of ■ lorgaa «• ■ a long statement out- . aing his company’s podlion and ride in lie.ng the allies, but the } immitte? accused him of making ‘'stump speech" and frequently nterreSjd his reading. When |h had finished, the lestkmiL by Chairman Gerald • I >ther members swung Illicitly t< the intricate mate of at the outbreak of !:er Q»e v ■»'■ st.iit>-d Rolhwhild's . On Ang. 4. Morgan's replied to >eir Paris branch, Morgan Harjes o„ thatg they couldn"t handle he loanlnimediately, due to the xchangej ituation, but that later ■ probs® ’ would be "possible nd an e cellent plan." The Bris house replied, sendl’ed ox page five) SBe Made in Book Auditors CaatmeU F. Lautzenhelscr, c, county citizen » iiose Br- now is in Fort Wayne M beer I transferred to Adams ounty4w assist in auditing the He replaces W. A. OohdSty I who began, shortly beore ths beginning of the year, to *ork iwthis county. Mr. Doherty Mb be® transferred to Marion. F. L. ■ Drowe of Pennville has • malMd in Adams county. The wo men will examine all public uooka in Adams county in a checkup ssade ■ very two years. fIjEGISTER AT PURDUE U. Eleven From Adams ■flinty Are Students ||SState University Jan. 7. —Among the 4J4S indents who have registerH|^B > urdue University during Sist semester of the 1935-36 ac **esg< year, there are eleven BBBp o Ple from Adams county, to the final list of reggiven out by Registrar “• B. stone. The total figure infrom every county in Indiana, 42 states and r 1 of Columbia, and 13 showing a gain ye y||yhose registered from AdulEa are as follows: JR*’ w - L. Soldner, junior in science. Gensva: L. L. Glendenning, junla physical education; T. E I raaerj junior in mechanical en dneertjg Alice J. Archbold. » . 2?. n iu *’°me economics; J. graduate student, freshman in pharmM Ehinger, sophomore in ”l* rical engineering: D. J. Klepiu agriculture; A. senior in agriculture. Neva S. Friche, sophohome economics; W. H I W*>| senior In chemical engin“erlng. |

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Makes Met Debut I I 1 I VJ I V ■ x % K x Misu Josephine Antoine of Boulder, Colo., shown nt her debut nt the New York Metropolitan Opera. House, has the distinction of being the first American coloratura soprano in the Met in the past 25 years. CASH BALANCE FIGURE SHOWN — Adams County Treasury Has Cash Balance Os Over $125,000 The Adams county treasury had a net cash balance of $125,057.48 on hands January 1, 1936, as shown in th© annual report com- ’ piled by county auditor John W Tindall. I The balance this year is an increase of $16,000 over last year's cash balance. The ca.sh balance was reduced, from $140,539.51. because of overdrafts in the common school fund Interest account, amounting to $12,402.73; $1,891.79 in the congressional school fund account; l $806.19 in the permanent endowment fund and $381.32 in the Henry Krick drain bond and interest fund. The overdrafts totaled $15,482 - 03. which deducted from the book I balance, leaves a cash balance of. $125,057.48. The county must pay the s ate j the entire amount of interest on i the common school fund, regardless if borrowers of the fund keep up their interest payments. In recent years a deficit has been created In the fund and the county has paid the sta.te In full. In the I county tax levy, payable in 1936. a levy of .0049 (four and ninetenths mills) has been made to make the current year's payment. Total receipts in till funds during 1935 were $727,136.30, including the state gas tax and other sta,te taxes. This comiwres with $771,404.70 In 1934. The expenditures in all funds In 1935 totaled $602,078.82, while in 1934 the expenditures were $661,863.37. In 1934 the deficit in the common school fund interest account was $11,980.80. In 1935 it increased to $12,402.73. The borrower pay>i five per cent and the state must remit the same Interest rate on the total of the fund, making up the difference of unpaid interest by the individual borrower. During 1935 the county treasurer sold intangible tax stamps to the amount of $5,502.65. Inheritance taxes paid in 1935 totaled $666.71. Moro than $32,000 of the cash balance is tied up in closed banks in the county, records in the office of county treasurer Jeff Leichty show. — Congressman Guilty Os Drunken Charges Washington. Jan. 7 —(UP) BetP- ‘ Marion A. Zioncheck, D-, Wash., to- | day was found guilty in police court en charges of being “drunk and disorderly" on New Years morning. The congressman was released on personal bond after requesting a new trial. He was arested when a negro ; switchboard attendant in a local apartment house called police and charged that Zioncheck had disturb- t ed oocupants by taking over the .telephone switchboard and ringing 1 ' various apartments.

COMMITTEE ON TICKET SALES — List Committee To Sell Tickets For Birthday Ball Here Miss Dorothy Young and David Heller, co-chairmen of the Birthday Bull for the President, today announced members of the general committee nnd the ticket commit-1 tee. Members of the general commit- . tee are Bud Townsend. Rosemary ilolthouse, Ralph Kenworthy, Edwin Kauffman, George Morris, Virginia Dolch and Mary Cowan. The personnel of the ticket com- ; mittee follows: Rosemary Holthouse and Bud Townsend, co-1 chairmen; Arthur Voglewede, Kath 1 ryn Hyland, Arthur Schamerloh. Harold Daniels, Flothilda Harris, uoyce Riker, Jeanette Clark. Her- 1 man Krueckeberg. I. Bernstein. I Severin Schurger, Eileen Burk, Betty Macklin. Mrs. Vincent Bor mann, Florence Holthouse, Frank | Wallace. Mary K. Tyndall, Mrs cnalmer Deßolt, Robert Rum schlag. Mrs. Gerald Smith. Julius Baker, Harry Staley, Dr. E. P. Fields, Marcellus Miller, Kenneth Beard and Dick Wertzberger. Tickets for the ball are priced at $1 per couple and will be on , sale this week. The dance committee has obtained Judy Pennell's orchestra from the Woodstock | Country club of Indianapolis for the ball. Similar parties will b<> held throughout the entire United States Thursday. January 30. The purpose of the Birthday Ball for the President, launched two i years ago. is to create, through the [ direct help of the citizens of the country, funds with which to help victims of infanile partalysis and i support research efforts to wipe ope the disease itself. President Franklin D. Roosevelt, ’ on whose birthday the parties are ’ held, has approved the suggestion that 70 per cent of the proceeds i ljulJi Uxu. ball Uv retained, in. lite ,lo- ! cal couimunlty to be disbursed ib local or adjacent orthopedic Itos- . pitals, or for the treatment of local infantile paralyak cripples, ao ' each local committee decides. This allotment was first made txt i:|> ON PAGE FIVE) HIGHWAY PLAN SLASHES COST Report Os County Highwav Commissioner Approved By Board The county commissioners today approved a report submitted by Walter Gilliom, county highway I commissioner, in which he stated that the cost of labor on county roads has l>een reduced $9.80'1 under the “four man" plan of administration. The roads until 1935 were kept in shape by the plan known as the “12 man system" under which one assistant in each township both worked on the roads and supervised the work of other road men in the township. Under the plan put into effect last year the four men system provided for only tour assistant road superintendents, each of the four to be responsible for three townships. The cost of the old. system for labor and rent of equipment in 1934 was $24,920. In 1935 tinder the new four man system the cost was cut to $15,120. Mr. Gilliom recommended that the four-man system be retained. The recommendation was approved by the commissioners. For the present the commlssion(OONTINUED ON PAGE FIVE) Catholic Seniors To Sponsor Dance The senior class of the Catholic high school will sponsor a dance Wednesday immediately after the Fort Wayne Central Cathoic and Com.nodore game. In the Catholic high school auditorium. Gene Johnson's orchestra will furnish the music. At 10:36 ip. m.. a floor show will be featured, including a tap dance by Virginia Lee Kuhnle and Norma Keller several numbers by the high school quartets and two guitar solos by Joe Tricker. The dance is open to the public and the C. C. iplayera and fans are expected to attend- Tickets for single admission and per couple are on sale at Bob's confectionery and Lose’s restaurant. They may also be obtained from any member of the I senior class.

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Decatur, Indiana, Tuesday, January 7, 193(>.

Berne Bank Officers Are Reelected Monday All directors and officers of the First. Bank of Berne were the I elected at the annual meeting of the stockholders Monday evening. Directors are Levi A. Sprunger, Andrew Gottschalk, E. W. Baumgart- . ner, Levi Moser, A- J. Moser, C. H. Sprunger, Albert M. Sprunger. Levi A. Sprunger was reelected president.- Others Selected are: •Andrew Gottac.halk, vice-president; E. W. Baumgartner, cashier; Frieda Lehman, assistant cashier; Brice Bat Merman and Leslie Lehman, telilera; Helen Braun, bookkeeper. officials announced that banfc deposits during 1935 showed an Increase of $257,000 over the preceding year and total deposits are now $1,234,000. ANNUAL BANK MEETING HELD First State Bank Stockholders Hold Annual Meeting The 53rd annual meeting of the stockholders of the First State Bank of this city was in progress today. A board of seven directors will be elected and the polls closed at 3 o’clock this afternoon. No changes in the directorate are expected. The board is composed of I Daniel Sprang, chairman; Dynels ■ Schmitt. J. P. Braun, Theodore Hoblock. T. F. Grallker, E. W Busche and L. H. Haerle. Mr. Haerle lives in Indianapolis and Is a son-in-law of the late Charles A. Dugan, former president of i the bank. He was elected to fill the vacancy caused by Mr. Dugan’s • death last July. i Theodore Graliker succeeded Mr. 1 Dugan as president of the tank. Mr. . Hobrock, is vice-president, Roscoe Glendenning is cashier and Herman Krm keberg, assistant cashier. • Following the clectio-n of direci tors, the officers will be chosen and i tjp changes are expected in the offi- . eial personnel of the institution. 7t" Annual reports of business will be .(submitted to the board by President I j Graliker. The bank enjoyed substan- , tial growth during the year. Depoi sits increased to $1,546,077.13. . Total resources increased to sl.746.285.28. The bank is a member |of the Federal Insurance Deposit I corporation. Grant More Time For . Completing Building Curry and Son of South Whitley, ccntratcors for the Geneva school | building, have been granted time ’ ’ until August 15 to complete the construction of the building for which they have the general contract. The special meeting of the Wabash township advisory board for making appropriations to cover special expenses in connection with the ’ ‘ construction of the school house. 1 which was set for December 30, has been postponed until January 14. ' Trustee Jesse C. Mann stated that he can get the funds at any time for the bonds which have been sold, but he does not wish to do this until . ' he is ready to use it as it will begin drawing interest immediately. o OFFICE SUPPLY BILL REPORTED Independent Office Bill Less Than Budget Recommendation Washington, Jan, 7. — (U.P.) —An independent offices bill $47,601,861 • below budget recommendations, . but $125,530,251 above the approi priation for the present fiscal year, i was favorably reported today by the house appropriations commit- ! tee. > | The recommendation called for jan appropriation of $927,345,766. Os that total $879,743,905 was for veterans' pensions and other actlv- , ities of the veterans’ administraI tion. An increase of $125,160,000 was allowed for veterans. The bill, the first supply measure of the session, appeared to Indicate intentions of the committee ’ —in which all appropriations must originate —to carry out, and if possible surpass, the president’s j program for a gradual balancing , of the budget. The bill also provides for activ- , ities of the securities and exchaffge t commission, the federal power commission, the utility control , board, and interstate commence i commission regulation of motor , transportation. , In addition the bill appropriated (CONTINUED ON PAGE FIVE)

DAIRY HEADS ENTERTAINED ( entral Sugar Company Entertains Dairy Farmers At Banquet Approximately 75 members of •the Adams county dairy herd improvement association, the Adam - county 4-H calf club and the | Adams county Guernsey club, were gueets of Dale W. McMillen, president of the Central Sugar company and allied industries at a banquet served at the Decatur I Country club Monday night. Mr. McMillen acted as toast-1 master, leading the songs and introducing the speakers. He called first upon Ralph McMillen. one of hts associates here. Mr. McMillen discussed the feeds produced by his company and I their benefits to cattle. J. Ward I Calland, field manager of the Central sugar company gave a talk on soy beans. Dale W. McMillen then made a talk addressed primarily to the 4-H calb club boys and girls. Ex- ' cerpts from his talk are: "Poor things never paid anybody. Neither have poor cows. The kind of people who know good cows and know how to feed and take care of them are the kind of people who will bring up children who will be happy and successful in their chosen profession. •'I was born in a three room log cabin in Van Wert county ajul lived there until I am as big as 1 am now. I know that farming is hard work, but it is interesting work. Men fail and are successful in it as in any other profession. "At the United States Chamber of Commerce meeting a number of years a.go I stated that business could not progress unless the agriculture system was improved. At a press club meeting in Fort Wayne I stated that agriculture needed attention moist. Many ol those men laughed at me then. They have since agreed with me. I "No class of men can take it on the chin and ta.ke it better than the farmers. There is opimrtunity in this profession the same as there is in any other, it is marvelou . "We usually use about U> per (IXINTINVFTD ON PAGE FOt’K) — o YOUTH TO FACE SANITY TESTS Youth Charged With Killing Father May Face Sanity Tests Auburn, Ind., Jan. 7. —(U.P) Disinterment of the body of Earl Webb, for examination, and tOsts to determine the mental condition of Lyston Webb. 18-year-old son and charged with killing his father Dec. 11, are seen as next steps in the state's case against the younger Webb. Repudiating his confession lie shot his father as they both slept , in the same lied, young Webb later maintained he did not kTTT the older man in the confession, to DeKalb county officers, Webb implicated his mother as offering iiiiu SI,OOO of his father’s life insurance and the right to "boss" the farm he and his father operated. The state, contending Earl Webb's death was not suicide, will exhume the body and examine the bullet wound. The course of the bullet through Earl Webb’s head will be of utmost Importance in the state's case, as young Webb's story that his "pop shot himself" does not tie up with the state's contention it would have been hardly possible for the elder Webb to have shot himself in the manner indicated by the wound. Conflicting stories told by young Webb in connection with the death of his father have led authorities to decide on giving l ysten a test to determine his mental condition. Observers of Webb's denials, confession and. again, denials are con(CONTINUED ON PAGE THREE) O Elks Plan Regular Meeting Wednesday The Decatur chapter -of the “B. P. O. Elks will hold the first regular meeting of 1936 at the home on North Secoi»d street Wednesday night at 8 o’clock. Initiation will be held and business of importance will be discussed. (All members are urged to attend. o WEATHER Fair tonight and Wednesday; much colder tonight.

AAA ACTIVITY IN THE COUNTY IS SUSPENDED County Agent Notified To Suspend All AAA Activities At Once All work and expenses for the administration of the AAA control in Adams county and the Decatur factory sugar beet district were ordered suspended immediately today by a telegram from J. H. Skini ner, director of extension of Purdue university. The telegram received by Conni ty Agent L. E. Archbold is as follows: "Wire from federal officials states decision Supreme court holds control program unconstitutional. Notify all control associations. committees and field men , immediately to suspend action and incur no additional expense pending further information. County agent as government employee take charge all control association forms, records and property.” Mr. Archbold made the following statement today: "Everything pertaTning to the AAA work will be placed in the file and further instructions will be awaited. He further stated that ! through all this work of emergency character the regular extension program has been carried forward with the assistance of the good cooperators of Adams county. The regular program has continued to grow and he earnestly solicits the ' assistance of all cooperators in ; their efforts to continue with their part in the regular extension program." County Agent Archbold further • announced that all corn-hog educational meetings set for this week will be postponed pending further word from Washington. This will not apply to the meetings set for today. Farmers Benefit In the three years in which the AAA has been effective Adams county farmers have benefited to the extent of $380,508.35 in the form of government checks. These : payments were divided as follows: Wheat. $2N.861.42 (began in May (('O.\’TlfTl I?l» ON PAGE FOUR) Q Start Selection Os Getting Jury Fort Wayne, Ind.. Jan. 7. (U.R) —Selection of a jury to try Harold H. Getting, former chief deputy sheriff of Allen county, on an em bezzlement indictment, began here today in Allen circuit court before special Judge Sumner Kenner of Huntington. The indictment, one of 22 returned against Getting. c7iarges the former official appropriated for hts own use a $749.10 cashier’s check drawn on the Lincoln National Bank and Trust Company payable to former Sheriff Fred G. Lunz for payment of costs iu a foreclosure suit. Actual trial of the case probably will no begin until tomorrow, since 1 most of he day will l>e required to select a jury panel. SENTENCE HO FOR ROBBESY Farm Youth Given 20Year Sentence For Bank Robbery Monticello, Ind., Jan. 7 —(UP) — Clarence Seketna, 20-year-old Tippecanoe county farm youth, pleaded guilty to bank robbery charges in White Circuit court today and was jsentenced to 20 years in the state tefomiatory. He was charged with the $1,500 robbery of the farmers state bank j of Brookston. i Speedy justice was imeted out to .' Sekema, who committed the robbery at 1:20 P. M. yesterday. He was captured by State police and i sheriffs' officers of Tippecanoe and i White counties at 4:30 p. m. Nineteen hours after the robbery ; he was on hie way to the state re- - formatory at Pendleton to start serving the termThe youth was captured in a cornfield, four miles west of Brookston, in White county, after he had wrecked a stolen automobile in which he escaped the robbery scene State and local police and sheriffs officers of White and Tippecanoe counties discovered the wrecked machine and surrounded tne nearby | cornfield. Sekema surrendered (CONTINUED ON PAGE FIVE)

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)! May Be G.O.P. Choice 1 ' * I■ill ft 1 « ’■ K wph v i fib ’Vi? > ' Uh l i Justice Owen Roberts of the su1 preme court loomed as a potential | candidate for the Republican pres-1 idential nomination w hen he I 1 voiced the 6-3 decision of the court declaring the AAA unconsti- , c tutional. The sweeping decision 1 threw into disi aid one of the maI jor pillars of the New Deal, a pro- . I gram designed to do for agricul- , tine, through crop control, whai its twin measure, the NR A, also! ? killed by tlie supreme court, was’ H : designed to do for industry by, II regulation of wages and hours e! ——— ! INDIANA FARM BUREAU MOVES Adopts Resolution To Assure Continued Agriculture Benefits ' Indianapolis. Jan. 7. — (U.R) —De-' ‘! termination to assure agriculture •| benefits enjoyed by industry was! j expressed today in a resolution ’ ‘ adopted by the Indiana farm bu- " I reau after the supreme court’s in-1 s ' validation of the AAA. * "It is our determimnation that 1 we shall have a national govern j p j mental policy for agriculture that 1 ‘ is equally as beneficial as the pro--9 • tective tariff is for industry," the ■ ‘ resolution said. f i “The Indiana farm bureau ac-! 9 icepts the decision of the United ’ i States supreme court as true Am-1 j ericans We shall go forward.” Meanwhile, the income of more I ; than 254,000 Hoosier farmers was i affected by the halting of federal ! collections of $10,000,000 annually ’ in Indiana. The adverse ruling to the AAA ■ also opened the way for return to | Indiana packers, millers and to- - bacco companies $6,000,000 in pro- ■ I cessing taxes held in escrow under j 93 suits challenging constitution- ! ality of the legislation. The money held in escrow will | - be returned to the processors only | >- on court order, according to WTU i . H. Smith, federal internal revenue n g (CONTTWF.n OV PAGE FTVE) e ; o Slight Damage Is Caused Bv Fire k : Only elight damage was caused by 0 a fire thie morning at the Paul Sau- ’■ rer residence at the homesteads. A p . curtain caught fire from an elec- ® trie stove and the curtain and a window blind were destroyed Damage v,as estimated at $3. >. j o f Chris Balsiger Heads Berne Town Council t-1 '■ Christ Baleiger was re-elocted cl president of the Berne town counn cil at the annual reorganization 3 meeting Monday night. The council 8 ateo reappointed + >e following town e offcials: David Dubach, marshal; d Alfred Zubrun, night marshal; Any drew Sprunger, street commission- £ er; Leonard Baumgartner, fire ~ chief; Henry Heller, towm attorney.

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Farm Leaders Invited '!'<> Conferences; Dissenting Opinion Os Three Judges Holds Hope. HALT ACTIVITY Washington, Jan. 7—(U.R) —Th<v new deal appealed to farmers ol' America today to help plan for the future of agriculture “in the light of tlie supreme court, decision" destroying the AAA. Secretary of Agriculture Henry’ A. Wallace invited leaders of farm organizations and other agricultural spokesmen to attend conferences “to discuss plans for agriculture.” Wallace's invitation was the first positive action by the now deal toward restoring the keystone of its farm recovery pro gram, which a 6 to 3 decision of tlie supreme court in the Hoosae : Mills ease shattered yesterday. Tlie admnifetration sped conferI <-nees on the possibility of new legislation or substitute measures Io replace AAA, but meantime the ! entire farm ’program was in a state of suspended animation. Orders went out to all field I offices to cease all activities under ! tlie program. 1 Benefit payments to farmers were ceased pending further in- ! struct ions. Tlie question of processing | taxes —-collected or due — was in abeyance pending administration decisions on the future. From congress came i hallenges io the authority o. the supreme <'ourt and announcements that tlie j legislators would make every pos- ( sililo effort to find a loophole for restoration of the program. Wallace said the proposed <oni ferenevs with fwni leaders would ( be held hero Friday and Saturday I of this week. Dissenting Opinion Washington. Jan. 7. — (U.R) Three supreme court justices boat a rattling tattoo of dissent against 1 the majority opinion which cast AAA farm-aid into tlie ashcan a,top the bones and feathers of i lie new deal’s blue eagle. Their objections seemed to suggest a blessing from the bench for President Roosevelt if he 1 undertakes to carry into the 1936 ] presidential campaign a challenge to judicial interference with his efforts to cope with emergency 1 conditions. Likewise from tin bench was cast the shadow of a man the Republican party might turn to ( tor presidential nomination. He | is Justice Owen J. Roberts, a native of politically potent Pennsylvania. who read the majority opin- ; ion which junked AAA. Although classed usually as a middle-of-the-road liberal. Roberts led the conservative attack which wrecked the first railroad pension bill. H< voted against NRA but in support of the new deal in the < CONTINUED ON PAGE SIX) 135 RAILROADS CHALLENGE ACT Chafip n ee Validity Os Railroad Retirement Measure Washington, Jan. 7 —(UP) —The ■ parade of new deal foes was joined today by 135 of the nation’s railroads which filed a bill of complaint in the district euoreme court to challange the constitutionality of the 1935 railroad retirement act. I The Pulman Co., the Railway Express agency and the Southeastern . Express Co., also were represented ,; in the action. The railroad act. of 193-1 was declared unconstitutional by justice Alfred A. Wheat of the district supreme court and his opinion was upheld by the U. S. supreme court in May, 1935. Congress then pased two laws to meet the requirements of the I commerce clause of the constitution upon which the first railroad act I was based. The first act taxed the railroads , 3>4 per cent on the salaries of emI ployes making up to S3OO a month, , and also taxed ea-h employe 3% per cent of his salary. The second . act established a retirement system . for railroad employes reaching 65 , yeans of age providing for a max•l (CONTINUED ON PAGE FIVE)