Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 34, Number 8, Decatur, Adams County, 9 January 1936 — Page 1

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'■SEND is Ata SEEKER AmMIW Candidacy: iT W nOU [ Heller Resign, Campaign enl.ty planned B 6 m ' ‘ il '' - I WTflj ni- 1 ” - Ka, .Immx-d a KL d I^K ih t. ..(!'. w ill "i 'l'" KSKn.' i:i ’ ■r,'i ' I alar ' | ■ 1 p-..|.1.-, d*'i lap'<l ■ MgM jEy, 1'- 'Ill'll," — .1. :i,l| l is |K?| I and i, Kid. K, p I" f"Ho\% gOVEnefl ib-snnis patlvriifd by E Mclu" and 1 •■-ill' llt Koos. K'<xt ■ Hi" Ida'-''™ 111 £> by th- ■'•' governor. K» ga, mt 111 bis s: ' " Kilin - 11'-ut'-nant gov.-rnor ot -JT,taU a' l,l 1 ■'""' "' Er IB th.- st.'■ •- d. : ' 111. llt 'd Knwrc I and industries. E>i.k H .-tai;- to Tnvvnannounced B relation to direct the camKnHtl. b.-ut.-nant governor B\i!l L '■ h' adqiiall K at lildiaiiapolis Monday. ■Beside! being the presiding ofIndiana state senate. M •■flora I Townsend, is Indiana’s K. Mb'.,':,- - :..iiil goi'-rnor. Hie f the state’s new eonsoli-.-Bld I kparttnent of commerce 9 fed ill strips and is the Indiana I .« litre. His ■ presence in Lndianap olive him long hoars far ’ bch ai rking day. As <b .issi.-ner of agriculture. , nt Governor Townsend .5| r the duties which formerly f<i to the secretary of the - ndlm board f agriculture. Be-1 or? th change was made the [ndianßstcte fair was a liability upon Aosier taxpayers. In 1931. Mr. Tow -nd and his staff turned what th merlv was a deficit into a moi r : and in 1935 a profit ■ -«* S3S. U was made on the an- I hffl! »ier agricultural exposi-1, • , Al K entire head of the state dsparta nt of commerce and in- ■ , ’he lieutenant governor finds th the is responsible for is CM filiation of public services 11 by a number of divisions government. These indivision of agriculture. l “® di sion of packers and stock [ -yards, he division of public health i j illation. the public service | lion, the industrial board, of mim-s and mining. I »e veterinarian, the admin-1 building council, live it ck sanitary boajd. stream W#*® h hearing board and state intro! board of which the I Bt governor is chairman, I ~*lF o "'neond > legal residence le f i'.v of Marion. He was WB ir Blackford county. August "■ lBBl and attended the BlackM| unty schools. He has a. r of science degree from college and is a graduate Marion Business college, fcjgltt school in Blackford front 1902 until 1909 and “®|Knnte county superintendie schools, holding that office E^ I '' "hen he became a dirt He served in the Indian;'. ■ assembly of 1923 and was ISM superintendent of Grant from 1925 to 1929. In 1929 / ni ‘‘ director of organization h«MI ln<liana farm Bureau and lat ixjsition in addition to Be farming interests until 1 lieutenant goverj, J 19 ’ 2 fo ’’ a four year term. J member of the Methodist ON page. THREE) I J “4 Musser Home Entered Last Night Shml^° me ° f Jacob Museer of reet was entered between 5 o clock this morning. The ■■ >t taken was a bun ch of keys ' |2 in money, vJ?J fr<wn the Mothes of Fred ! ■ I I

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Mississippi Belle if I Wii r Sb* --VK- - ' -• A |rA ? ‘ ?' \ 1 1 ‘■-'.■' ■' IB | 'll ■ Although only a sophomore, , Miss Rosa Healy of Natchez. ( Mies., has been select' d as one of | the 25 most beautiful coeds tit University of Mississippi and is , one of-the campus honor students. INFLATION TO PAY VET BONUS TO BE FOUGHT Bonus Bill Debated Today; Continue Morgan Probe Washington. Jan. 9—(UP)—Bitter republican opposition to inflationary method*) of paying the l».ume developed as th- houtse debated the united front veterans'bill. TTtr tmited front bill w: reified no exact manner of obtaining funds with which to pay the Veterans the $1,100,000.0t0 (B) in cash which it is estimated the measure will require Inflation lead rs including Rep Wright Patman, D„ Tex., have been hopeful of tacking a currency expansion proviso on the Imnus measure. It wan considered certain that the President would veto any inflationary bonus proposal and veterans organizations devised the present “united front" bill with that in mind. The prospect of a presidential veto remains, however, as Mr. Rorsevelt has Indicated no change of attitude since vetoing the bonne bill which came before him last year. Huge Business Washington, Jan. 9—(t'P) —J. P. Morgan and Co., handled 84 per cent or $1,843,593,715 worth of war (CONTINUED ON PAGE THREE) o STATES RELIEF COSTS NICHES Practically As Many On Relief In Township As One Year Ago The number of families on work and direct relief in Washington town- hip hi'.s decreased | only two since last February, ac- i cording to the records of John M. Doan, township trustee. Last February there were 187 families on work and direct relief. Now there are 185. Os the families on relief 120 are ; on work relief in WPA projects. ; Os the remaining 65, 25 are eligi- . ble for work relief but have not 1 been certified. Forty families in ' Decatur do not have a single person able to work, and so could not be granted government funds, j In the meantime. Mr. Doan states the cost ot caring for the indigents has increased because of the higher cost of living. Their condition is worse than it was a year ago. One of the largest factors in < ccot of administering relief is medical bills. month over a third of the cost was for medi- • cal attention. About a year ago 1 this ran one-fourth of the total cost. ; The cost per case for medical (attention has decreased, but the , number of cases has increased , Mr. Doan attributes this to under1 (CONTINUED ON PAGE TWO) .

TWO NATIONS ARE REAR! TO MERGE FLEETS France, Britain To Have Huge Fleet; Ethiopia Makes Claim (Copyright 1936 By United Press) ■ fJxmdoit J|an. 9—(UP)—France I and Great Britain will have a great battle fleet, ready to cooperate in any emergency, within easy striking distance of the western Mediterian in less than two weeks. By what way iby a coincidence the fleets will bo in excellent poeltlon for quick action when the league of nations resumes ite study ot the Italian-Ethiopian crisis probably January 20. Not only wil two gigantic battleships, an aircraft carter, a cruiser anil a destroyer Flotilda of the Brltfeh h >me fleet be cruising near Gibralter, but one powerful French fleet will be conducting maneuvers ■ in the waters adjacent to Toulon . and Corsica, of the Italian coast, I and another wil bo cruising near ' Casablanca, Morocco, 160 imiles ■ from the straits of Gibraltar. The Toulon-Corcica fleet —The First French squadron—will start its maneuvers Jan. 20, when league delegatee are expected to open their meeting. Plans for the cruises and maneuvers, all enuphasized as of entirely routine, wore announced yesterday in Paris and London. The announcements cotne only a few days after the completion of general staff plans for French-Brit-i.ih coporation in event ot a mysterious "emergency"—actually an attack on the British fleet or on territory belonging to or vital to Brit(CONTINUED ON PAGE THREE) HEALTH BOARD ANNUAL REPORT City RnarH Mnkes Annual Statistical Renort The stork brought 66 boys and 52 girls to Decatur in 1935. according to the annual statistical report, compiled by Dr. 11. E. Daniels, secretary to' the Decatur health board. There were only 62 deaths, which would make an increase in the population of Decatur of 56 persons. Tbe leading cause of death in the citv was heart disease wish 15. This was closely followed by pneumonia with 11. One sienifieant point in the statistics was that there were no deaths from tuberculosis. Dr. Danliels pointed out. however, that this fact should be minimized because some of the most severe cases are taken to the Irene Bvron sanatorium. There were some deaths in the county, which indicate that greater precautions are being taken in the city. Other causes of death were: kidney disease, four: hardening of the arteries, two: ruptured annendlx. one: paralvsis. one; apoplexy, five; pernicious anemia, two. Bowel obstruction and peritonitis. four; bronchial asthma, one; sleeping sickness, one: still born, one: burns from residence fire, one: electrocution, one; and fractured skull from each of the following accidents: train, auto and industrial. Both the deaths and the births I include those at the Adams county memorial hospital where patients are brought from out of the citv and so the statistics do not include onlv Decatur residents. The large number of deaths from heart disease and its complications are the results of the physical and emotional strain of our civilization with its spirit of competition. Insufficient, exercise (env-i-TX-Tiirn n\T ninv dX) — O Wells Coun*v To Hear Petition Bluffton, Ind., Jan. 9—(UP)— Petition of the Indiana Gas Transmi.xion company for the right to construct a tratwnission line acrose Wells county will be heard Feb. 3. Wells county Kommiseioncrs haveannounced. The propos’d Hne. which will tranrrort natural gas from Texao and Oklahoma to Detroi*. Mich.. wiouUl cross the Welle-Blackford county line in Jackson ‘ownship, swing in a north-easterly direction and enter Adams county at the Kirkland township line.

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Decatur, Indiana, Thursday, .January 9, 1936.

For Governor "* v * lO* RrihSF I ” z i L.AB* - . M. Clifford Townsend. Indiana, lieutenant-governor, announced his candidacy for the Democralic nomination for governor, at the Jackson Day banquet held at Marion Wednesday night. JUNIOR CLASS PLAY JAN.2I — Annual Class Play Will Be Presented Tuesday. January 21 The annual <la*»s play of the junior class of the Decatur public high school, a three-act farce by Katharj ine Kavanaugh, entitled “You’re the Doctor, " will be presented at the school auditorium at 8:15 p. m. Tuesday, January 21. The plot of the production is centered in a sanitarium. As theijlay opens. Bob Morrison, a millionaire playboy, dashes into the sanitarium to escape a traffic cop. and stays to save Velma, the lovely owner, from the iplans of a crooked doctor who is trying to ruin th? establishment- In order to do .so, ho passes as a new doctor who 1 is expected. When the real doctor arrives, Bob has him enroll as a patient. jsoou the sanitarium is full of , playboys in search of a lark and ’ lovely ladies in search of playbojv. Bob finds "Dr. Peck’s” duties simple to manage, but when a movie star and two temperamental foreign ladifs appear claiming to be engaged to the doctor, they’re not so simple to settle. Between keeping up his bluff, fooling the traffic cop and outwitting the rascally doctor. Bab has his hands full, and the audience has an . evening of laughter. The cast is compos ?d of the following: Bob and his friends, young men of college age; Spiffy, a cockney waif; an irate cop; the crooked doctor, Moe Rosenberg, his crooked lawyer; the hardboiled trainer; the i bashful Dr. Peck; a funny, colored 1 .raid; a romantic old maid; two foreign ladies-blond, fluffy Katrina and dark, flashing Bianca; Rita, a beautiful, tempermental moviestar; and charming, worried Velma. JOHN GILBERT DIES SUDDENLY — Noted Screen Actor Dies This Morning Os Heart Attack Hollywood, Jan. 9—(UP) —John Giiberl, dapper screen lover and iplayboy of Hollywood, died today in his home on Tower Grove drive, on the outskirts of the film colony. Members of the rescue squad of the Hollywood fire department worked for an hour in an effort to rekindle a spark of life in the noted actor. The effort failed. Gilbert died apparenty from heart disease. Gilbert had been ill since Christmas, confined to his bed most of the time. He was reclining in bed this morning, a nurse beside him, when ke suffered the fatal attack. Tlie nurse called servants in the actor's home. A servant summoned the fire department rescue squad. Death beat the inhalator sqquad to the scene. Two or three previous heart attacks had weakened Gilbert, according to his attorney, P. H- Moore. Gilbert’s death followed by less than a month that of Thelma Todd, blonde comedienne, who elso loved the gay spots and who, like John, often was the “life of the party” when Hollywood folk got together for an evening. News of the actor’s death cast gloom over the studios, where workera etil discuss the mysterious elements of the death ot Miss Todd. A small crowd gathered near the Gil(CONTINUED ON PAGE FOUR)

ANNUAL REPORT Os CITY COURT 38 Cases Brought Into Mayor’s Court During 1935 Os the 38 <'iisen brought into Mayor Arthur R. Holthouse’s court in 1935, 27 were convicted, nine were continued, two were certified to other courts and one is still pending. None was acquitted. Heading the list of charges brought before Mayor Holthouse were liquor law violations Sixteen persons were charged with violation of the liquor law AU but one were convicted. The charge against the one defendant was not pressed when she pleaded ' guilty to a public indecency viola tion and was sentenced to a penal institution. Other leading violations were; assault, four; larceny, three; violating traffic and motor vehicle laws and ordinances, three; embezzlement and fraud, three; violating city ordinances, two, and driving while Intoxicated, two. Convictions were obtained In 27 cases. One sentence was suspended. Twenty persons were fined only. Three were sent to jail. Three were sent to penal institutions and one ease is still pending. Fines Collected A total of s2ll was collected from fines and fees. Os this amount j s6l was paid in fines to the county; $75 was paid in docket fees to the city; $75 was paid in prosecuting attorney fees, which is to be remitted to the state, and ?1.90 was paid in sheriff’s fees. A sum o. $129 in fines and fees was laid out in jail by defendants convicted and unable to pay. These were: fines, sl9; docket fees, $55; prosecuting attorney fees. $55. and sheriff's fees, $2.50. EXERCISE BOY IS ACQUITTED Jockey Expects Acquittal In Louisville Murder Case Louisville. Ky., Jan. 9.—(U.R) — Charges against Willie "Smoky" Saunders, winning jockey in the 1935 Kentucky derby, in connection with the death of Mrs. Evelyn Slivinski, 24, were dropped today on motion of the commonwealth attorney. Walter Schaeffer, 25, race track exercise boy. also charged with the murder, was acquitted by a jury of 12 men last night. Louisville, Ky., Jan. 9. — (U.P.) — Heartened by the acquittal of his companion on a murder charge, Jockey Willie (Smoky) Saunders today expected to be cleared of I complicity in the death of Mrs. ■ Evelyn Slivinski, pretty, party-lov-; i ing wife of a Louisville tailor. Walter Schaeffer. 28, exercise I 'I boy, was found not guilty late last [night by a jury of 12 men who de- [ liberated only on hour and 45 mln- | utes. The verdict brought a rous- , ing cheer from the crowd-jammed I court room. Sensational testimony implicating Saunders and Schaeffer was given by Mrs. Agatha Mackison, 19, who made the rounds of Louisville night spots with Mrs. Slivinski and the racetrack figures on the night of October 20. Mrs. Mackison testified that Saunders, who rode Omaha to victory in the 1935 Kentucky derby, criminally attacked the semi-con-scious young wife several times before her body was thrown from the car and run over. The witness said she and Schaeffer witnessed the assaults from the front seat of the car which the exercise boy wae driving. Schaeffer, on the stand in his (CONTINUED ON PAGE TWO) o Lindbergh Family Joined By Morrows Southampton, England, Jan. 9 — (UP) —Mra. Dwight W. Morrow and her daughter, Constance, arrived from New York on the S. S. Bremen today. They landed by special tender at a remote part of the dock where pasengens were not expected and hurried into a waiting limousine, which drove away rapidly it was understood they were going direct to Cardiff to join the Lindbergh family. Extreme precautions were taken to prevent the approach of reporters and photographers.

FOUR PERSONS ARE KILLED AS CARS COLLIDE Bus-Truck Crash Near Huntington Takes Four Victims Huntington, Ind., Jan. 9. (U.R) A five-way investigation was launched today into a bus-truck crash near here last night in which four persons were killed and seven i others injured. The dead: Henry Muelhauser, 6534 Washa- [ new Ave., Chicago. Lora Aline Bryant, 23 months old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Melvin Bryant, 411 Winchester Ave., Monroe, Michigan. William J. Harvey, 703 East 13th street, New York City. Mrs. Elizabeth Henderson, 60, I Welland, Ontario. None of those injured was believed seriously hurt. Three were released from the hospital after emergency treatment and examination. Those held were: Miss Eleanor Meir. 21, of 220 W. Washington street. Fort Wayne, class cuts about the eyes. Lucien Harris. 35, negro, Newburn, Tenn., head cuts, chest and , back injuries. Sam Weiner. 22. 629 Collins , i street. Toledo, <)., head and body. I cuts. Mrs. Thelma Bryant. 26, mother' of the dead baby, fractured left arm and mangled hand. investigations were started by state police, Sheriff Orville E.' (Johnson, of Huntington county; I Dr. R. S. Galbreath, coroner of Huntington county; Prosecutor: Burr Glenn of Huntington county, i and insurance companies who held policies on the two carriers. The bus. enroute from Fort Wayne to Indianapolis, collided with the truck at a bridge seven , and a half miles south of here on state foad nine in a dense fog and drizzling rain. Byron Hall, of Fort Waytie. driv-: :er of the bus. and Charles Mills. 1 Freemont, operator of the truck, were questioned by authorities but were released. Th« southbound bus. carrying about 20 passengers, and the northbound truck, traveling along sweep-; ing hills which approach the I bridge, met on ’ho steel and concrete structure, ripping away one | side of Ihe bus. Neither vehicle left the bridge but remained in a tangled wreck- . age on the span, blocking traffic , for several hours. Change Location Os Beauty Parlor The Gloria Helen Beauty Salon is . being mov ?d from its former location at the corner of Third and Monroe streets to the Waring building [at the southwest corner of First land Monros. The Salon will be ready for business Monday. The new room'? have been completely refinished and remodeled. HAUPTMANN TO PRESENT ALIBI Bruno’s Fight For Life To Start In Court Saturday Trenton, N. J.. Jan. 9 — (U.R) — [ Bruno Richard Hauptmann’s fight for life before the court of pardons Saturday will revolve around an alibi and attacks on credibility j of principal state witnesses, it [ was indicated today. Hauptmann himself probably will not appear before the. court, although he asked the privilege yesterday in a note to Gov. Harold G. Hoffman. His three attorneys are prepared to offer witnesses and new documents to substantiate hi<s claim of innocence. Hans Kloppenl.;e>?, friend of Hauptmann and Isador Fisch, from whom Hauptmann asserted he obtained the Lindbergh ransom money, probably will be one of the condemned man’s witnesses Saturday. Kloppenberg testified in Hauptmann's Flemnigton trial that he was with Hauptmann in Hauptmann’s Bronx home, "playing moosic,” the night Dr. John F. (Jafsle) Condon paid $50,900 ransom in the Bronx cemetery. Condon and Col. Charles A. Lindbergh identified Hauptmann as the man who collected the ransom. Gov. Hoffman, who spent all of yesterday studying exhibits of Hauptmann’s trial, revealed that (CONTINUED ON PAGE TWO)

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Pleads Guilty » ißfc- '■ 1 E;-. \ W r.; “ T ■ I l ’ ~ > iMli Lyston Webb, 18, pleaded guilty at Auburn Wednesday to killing [ his father. The DeKalb county [ farm youth will bo sentenced I Friday. NEW DRIVE FOR AMENDMENTTO REPLACE AAA Would Create New Powers; Supreme Court Bitterly Attacked Washington, Jan. 9— (U.R) —A new drive for a constitutional amendment was started in con- ' gress»today as a result of the supreme court AAA decision. Sen. M. M. Logan. D., Ky.. intro- ■ dated an amendment which would ; give congress the specific powers which the court has held it does not now possess. Logan’s action followed a hitter ; castigation of the supreme court by Sen. John H. Bankhead, D., Ala., who suggested that I’resij dent Roosevelt turn to inflation if necessary to meet the agricultural crisis threatened by outlawing of the AAA. He submitted also a three point program for passage by congress designed to circumvent the court’s decision. Logan's proposed amendment would give congress the power to regulate and control production, both agricultural and industrial, “where tlie products enter into or (affect interstate or foreign commerce.” It also would give congress authority over disputes arising S.mong those engaged in such activities. The Logan plan is not so sweeping as the one proposed by Sen. Edward P. Costigan, D., Colo., which would give congress the power to regulate wages and con-1 ditions of employment regardless ( of state lines. The Costigan amendment is now in the senate judiciary committee with little likelihood of action [ (CONTINUED ON PAGE THREE) 0 To Observe Wedding Anniversary Friday Mr. and Mrs. Frank Neadstine of 808 North Second street will celebrate their golden wedding anniversary Friday. The couple will hold open house from 2 until 8 o’clock Sunday afternoon and evening. Mr. Neadstine was born in Root township in 1861. The couple were married in 1886 by the Rev. Fredrick Bergs. They started housekeeping in Allen county, moving to Bine Creek township in Adams county in 1896. Mr. Neadstine cleared and ditched an 80 acre farm. In 1920 the couple moved to Decatur and have lived here since. The children are John Neadstine, Mrs. Clara Dolch, Ed Neadstine. William Neadstine and Laurena Hook. o WEATHER Fair tonight and Friday; colder Friday.

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Speaking At Jackson Day Dinner, President Says New Deal Policies Will Be Continued. “NO RETREAT” Washington, Jan. 9. — (U.R) —No doubt remained today that President Roosevelt plans to lead a, forceful, aggressive campaign to confirm the new deal in power at. the polls next November. For the second time in less than a week, the chief executive last night struck at enemies of his administration with unequivocal epithet ! and stinging analogy. His speech to the SSO-a-plate Jackson day dinner officially opened the Democratic side of the 1936 campaign, though it was his fourth public justification of new deal measures in recent months. His first at Atlanta, the second at Chicago. the third, before congress last Friday night. To confirm the beginning barrages of the Democratic heavy artillery, the Democratic national committee meets today to hear a fighting speech by national chairman James A. Farley and to name its convention I city. Recent presidents, with the exception ot' Herbert Hoover, have ! sought to take only a comparatively small part in their re-election campaigns, leaving the great burden to followers and political subordinates. Mr. Roosevelt, who spoke by radio to 2.000 other Jackson day dinners in all parts of the country and to the nation at large, made it plain that ho would ride at the head of his army, unsheathed sword in hand. As he did before congress, ho paid his respects to a minority of business and finance which ho said ! was ready to “gang up on the people’s liberty.” Some of his speech was in the vein of his speech before congress, a vein the American ■ Liberty League and other critics said was calculated to rouse class hatred. He had not uttered a hundred words when ho made this i statement: “I am happy to stand here tonight and declare to you that the real issue before the United States I is the right of the average man and woman to lead a finer, a better. and a happier life." The president spoke before approximately 1,500 ranking Democrats who had paid SSO each for a five dollar dinner and the priv- | ilege of hearing hint speak. The, ’ other $45 will go into the Democratic war chest. Heartening to the party was the presence of certain old-line, conservative Democrats whom Republicans had hoped would be alienated by new ueal policies. Among these were Bruce Kremer, Democratic national committeeman from Montana, Arthur Mullen, of Nebraksa, both prominent figures in Mr. Roosevelt’s 1932 campaign but eclipsed since. Practically the full war strength of the Democratic national leadership was present with the notable exception of Alfred E. Smith, who in previous years played n prominent (CONTINUED ON PAGE SIX) O ADAMS COUNTY NATIVE DIES Mrs. Oliver Warner Dies At Chicago; Funeral At Bluffton Mra. Oliver Warner, 49, a native of Adams county, died at 5 o'clock this morning at St. Luke’s hospital in Chicago. Death was 'caused by Modgkine disease. The maiden name of the deceased was Minerva French, and she wa*( born west of Berne, a daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Henry French. She [ was well known throughout the , county ae an acoompliehed musi- , cian and dramatic leader. Mra. Warner left Adame county . only a few years ago. Surviving are the husband, the parents, who now . reside in Bluffton, two slztere and . one brother. I The body will be taken to Bluffton tomorrow, and funeral services will be held at the Henry French home at 1:30 p. m. Saturday and at 2 o’clock at the Bluffton M. E. church- Burial will bo In the eix Mile cemetery.