Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 34, Number 17, Decatur, Adams County, 20 January 1936 — Page 1

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Passes ComprotKjg Bonus Bill By Koi 7ti To 16;PresiIde’d Is 1 ikely To Vcto- - SE TO CONCUR passed $2.23<,K, o t K,:/* ill IS EIM The vote wns 74 »o Ifi expected ■Les Wre confident they had EicM votes in t,oth ' ,ou ’ e *’ 10 dSapprovreduce the $2 237 000.K . -1 immedlat'-’y ■ !*•> cre,li| - ] t refused to Elon- :"•• >(■?.'■.- ■ to hi -l" a. • ••ct thThov planned to and send the Ens HI ’e the White House— Ere then ten years after the 'settled" by the voterE oE"«sa'atn act of 1924. ■There ate apntroximately 3,- ■■■■... ■ Euaflig; the senate bill would boncU for exchange with could ewrtrl HSe paper at any postoffice. ■ iSXfc. bonus bill of the dis■wion of war vets. be cashc-d on u»d ■ter ®e 15 on return of the hill the senate today. Ac■M cane after less than three much of it devoted the sena'e investigation. provides for P<GF! TWO) IlSi BUTE OF I »IU TESTS ■ ’— ■sh School Equivalency BEtfrnmtion To Be I Saturday ■MBS : -itnt of Schools tomy announced high ?.’■)() >1 equlvalii as Saturday. Janhi» office court K-nii nation is open to any* st’d in securing a high hvaiency diploma. The are furnished by the of education and examination is graddepartment. grads in ca li subject | applicant I.) one credit. regular hign school svsR”! tr ' : ; s entit!e the a PP ;i ' ■? J school equivalency i« acceded by the' on the same basis ■■f- 1 -- high school diploma. gives anyone ■ ™ P o; ''onipleted high school Jnity t 0 secure a diploy n *t him to further hie odustated that h- already ' of applicants, and in-i'-rscM. Anyone desiring BJJTt' ■’)' this examination must Er..,° hf “ Cll unty superintendon Saturday. PwLmstutz I Dies Saturday KL '7 ne Amstutz. 7, died | afternoon at 2:30 o'clock EJ jJ,I® e of lle ’ r P are hts. Mr. Eth i K " flls Amstl 't-x of Berne. ' ue t 0 Pneumonia. The E' v ,, Waß 111 only five days. £1? ’’' ne WBS born Dec "3 EL. ™ gh ‘ er °f Rufus and Rue 4. 1 aUffer An ‘«tutz. Surin >Jr ld6s ,h e parents Is a Roger Lee. was held this afterI cItLV. ClOCk at lhe Mission~B wne - Burial was M.R.e, cemetery.

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T. R. MEMORIAL I DEDICATED AT I O YORK CITY - President Among Those Praising The Late Theodore Roosevelt New York. Jan. 30—(U.R)—Dedication of a New York state memorial to Theodore Roosevelt dramatized forcefully yesterday the divergences that have made the former president's relatives political enemies. Speaking to 1,500 persons In the auditorium of $3,500,000 memorial. President Franklin D. Roosevelt spoke of his fifth cousin’s "creed for social justice" and "that strong sense of justice which found expresbTSn in the ‘square deal’.” After Gov. Herbert H. Lehman and Mayor Morello H. Laguardia had lauded the same characteristics in even stronger terms. Vheo dore Roosevelt, Jr., retorted feelingly that most persons now ex-1 pressing admiration for his father were “not on the same side of the fence with him when he was alive." He smiled at the comment, and ’ passed on immediately to remin-1 iscences of the former president’s' life, but the audience noticeably gave a different ear to the proceedings from that point. President Roosevelt, who came to New York expressly for the dedication, quoted literally from l Theodore Roosevelt's writings. As he used them, they seemed to many persons to apply to current state questions. “ ‘A man waff is good enough to' shed his blood for his country’ ” the president oaid, “is good enough to be a square deal afterward. More than that no man is entitled to, and less than that no man shall have’." A conclusion that he was thinking of the veterans’ bonus bill, j which almost certainly will go to him soon for approval or veto, was inescapable. “‘A great democmracy must be progressive or it will soon cease to be a great democracy’ ” he quoted again, and then lie recalled, in connection with his predecessor’s social creed, such phrases as "malefactors of great wealth,” “the wealthy criminal class,” and "the lunatic fringe.” More directly connecting his address with dedication of the memorial, a classic stone building of classrooms, exhibition rooms and auditoriums facing Central Park i near the American meuseum of nat-"-r»v nt/’TT’ nvKl DEATH CLAIMS | JACOB WRIGHT Retired Farmer Dies At Home Os Son In Wren, I Ohio, Sunday — Jacob Wright, 71. retired farmer, died Sunday at 5:30 p. m. at the home of his son Leeter in Wren, Ohio. Death was due to Bright’s diseass. Mr. Wright had been in ill health far the past four years and had been bedfast for two weeks. The deceased wae born December 110, 1965 at Winchester, Ind. He married Marriet Elzey Jan. 2, 1904. He is survived by the widow. Two sisters and five brothers preceded him in death. A son, Lester Wright also survives. Funeral services will be held Tuesday afternoon at 2:15 at the home and at 2:30 E. S. T.) at the Radical United Brethren churchRev. Lloyd M. Magner will officiate and burial will bo in the Wren cemetery. The body was removed from Zwlck’s funeral home at four o'clock this afternoon.

SEVERE STORM TAKES OVER 60 LIVES IN U.S. Most Widespread Storm Os Winter Strikes Over Weekend tßy I’nited Press I The most severe and widespread storm of the winter blew out to sea off the New England coast today, leaving more than GO dead and traffic of more than half lhe country snarled in snow Temperatures dropped rapidly in the thickly populated cast as the skies cleared, creating intense suffering among thousands of the l>oor in metropolitan ceiiters and hampering the work of highway crews fighting to open smothered highways. There was no such temperature in the country today as the 44 below zero that northern .Minnesota experienced Saturday, but only the most extreme south and west escaped freezing. All the north Atlantic coast was embedded in snow that slowed trains and almost halted motor traffic. The midwest and north, to Lie western slope of the Rockies, were digging out of snow that fell Friday and Saturday. Typical morning temperatures today were 26 below at Bismarck. N. D., 12 below at Minneapolis and St. Paul, 6 at Chicago and Detroit. 13 at New York and 23 at Atlanta. Aside from temperature. New York City was the hardest hit community. Eight inches of snow— I. inches of precipitation—fell on Manhattan yesterday. In some suburbs the fall was 15 inches. Fifty thousand men and 800 snow plows worked all Saturday night, all day yesterday, all last night and today. Still they had cleared only (CONTINUED ON PAGE FOUR) O NEW OFFICERS TO BE ELECTED Senior, Junior C. of C. To Name Officers Tonight The Senior Chamber of Commere' will elect officers for the coming year at the Rice Hotel at 7 o'clock this evening. The offkers will bo elected by th? board of directors composed of J. Ward Callauid, Roecoe Glendenir.g, Huibert Schmitt, Clifford Saylors, C. E. Bell, Jesse E. Rice, the retiring president, and the thrse uew members of the board, who were elected at the meeting last Thursday night- These mom here are Eno Lankenau, Dee Fryback and Merle Ellenberger. The president and 6e:retary-trea-surer will be elected by the members of thie board. Mr. Rice, in a statement today, eaid that he wished to thank the people of the community for cooperation and spirit shown during the past year and that it Is his earnest hope that the citizens and business men of Decautr will give the incoming officer the same cooperation, that he has been given. The Junior Chamber of Commerce will also elect Its officers at the Rice Hotel at 7 o’clock this evening. These officers will be elected from the board of directeors composed of th? following members; Bud Townsend, Kathryn Hyland, Dorothy Young, Bernice DeVoss, Frank Wallace, Robert Heller, Dean Dorwin, J-sse Sutton and Rosemary Holthouee. Robert Heller, the retiring president, will ibe unable to attend as he is attending Purdue University. Rosemary Holthouse will ~ reside over the meeting in his absence. It is requested that all members of both the Senior and Junior organization's boards of directors be present at this meeting. _— —-’ WEATHER Fair, rlalns temperature we»t portion late tonight; Tuesday increasing cloudiness; snow west portion by afternoon or night; rising temperature.

ONLY DAI L Y NEWSPAPER IN ADAMS COUNTY

Decatur, Indiana, Monday, January 20, 1926.

Wilson Storm Center at Probe Co || ’ k jt' Thoma. W. Lamont Charges that members of the senate munitions committee investigating Amt rica’s foreign policy before entering the war were Ing to iesmirch the reputation of President Wilson resultedl from . statement of Senator Gerald P. Nye that Wilson had Tais tied the record. Senator Connally of Texas made the charge on Hie wanaite floor and was challenged afterward by Senator I lark- ‘ s n sl ?,? left, conferring with Thomas lannont. center, and J. P. Motgan. tight at >a session of the senate committee.

GIVES DATE OF APPRAISEMENT County Assessor Gives Rulings On Intangible Stamps County Assessor Ernest Worthman today stated that stocks and bond will not be appraised for intangible tax stamps until after March 1,. Notes made prior to the intanbigle tax act effective February 8,1933 are also to be listed after March 1. Mr- Worthman said that it was needlrss to bring in any instrument for appraisal until that time, as he would be unable to appraise it. The state board of tax commmissloners instructed Mr. Worthman, that all judgments must be stamped at least ten days after tho date recorded. Mr. Worthman also requests that all instruments be brought along to his office, when seeking re-valua-tion appraisement ou the instrument. Intangible tax stamps must be placed on all instruments on each anniversary date of the recording of the instrument, 1. e., stamps placed on a note July 10, 1935 for the ytar 1935 must be stamptd on or before July 10, 1936, for the year 1936. Notes that are not worth face value must be appraised at the assessors office for re-valuation before (purchasing stamps and placing (CONTINUED ON PAGE FOUR)

ICY PAVEMENTS SLOW TRAFFIC Only Minor Accidents Reported Here; Deaths Over State Old time residents had to go back many years in the recalling a winter when they saw more ice than that which has covered the streets and highways the -past two days. Traffic Sunday was slowed down and only a small percentage of the usual number of automobiles on the road was seen. No serious accidents were reported. A few minor accidents were reported. A Couphe cars double parked on Second street were rammed i and small damage done, it being impossible for the drivers of the oncoming -cars to turn out of the way on account of the iceNo fires were reported over the week-end and firemen were grateful that it wae not necessary to take the heavy trucks out on the icy pavements. State highway trucks were called off the road Saturday. Killed In Wreck* Indianapolis, Ind., Jan. 20—(UP) (CONTINUED ON TAGE FIVE)

Democrat Reporter Attending Purdue Robert H. II Iler, Daily Democrat reporter and editor of tho farm page left Sunday night for Purdue university at Lafayette, where he will attend the short course In agriculture at the school. Mr. Heller was the winner of a scholarship sponsor:ed by the university in Adame county. Robert Shraluka. Decatur young man, will take Mr. 'Heller’s place during his absence. MRS. ELRERSON DIES SUDDENLY ■ Mrs. .hmes Dies Suddenly Earlv Sunday Morning Death came unexpectedly to Mrs. James Elberson. age 55, . civic, lodge and church leader of this city, at the Adame County Memorial hosnital at 12:20 o’clock Sunday morning, of embolism. The announcement came s.s a shock to her many friends and relatives, for it was believed she was recovering nicely from a major ©Deration performed December 30 and plans were being made tn remove her to her home today. Her husband, James Elberton, well known filling station proprietor of this city, and severa.l friends visited with her Saturday evening. She ap'neared In excellent spirits and was antlcinating her riNurn home. Near midnight her condition took a turn for the worse and her husband and family physician were summoned. She sank rapidly and death camo about a half hour later. Kathryn Elberson was the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Frank Williams, both deceased, and was born at Fountain City. Indiana March 27, 1880. She came here with her husband 17 years ago and was active in numerous organizations for the good of the community. She was a past Worthy Matron of the Eastern Star lodge, a memter of the dramatic section of the Woman's Club since its organization, a member of the Presbyterian church and took part in the activities of all the branch societies. Surviving besides the husband, are two sisters, Mrs. Frank Klein of Fort Wayne and Miss Adda Williams of Cleveland, and one (CONTINUED ON T'GE TWO) o County Officials At Road School The members of the Ada:re county board of commlasloners, Phil Sauer, Frank Martin and Mosse Augehurger, and Walter Qllllom, county highway supervisor, left this morning for Lafayette, where they are attending the annual road school at Purdue university.

King George Losing Strength In Battle For Life; Doctors Hold Grave Fears For Ruler

TWO COUNTIES PLACED UNDER MARTIAL RULE McNutt Proclaims Martial Law In Clark, Floyd Counties Ind-anandis, Jan. 20— (U.R) — Martial law throughout Clark and Floyd counties was proclaimed by Gov. Paul V. McNutt todav to i uuell labor disturbances at strlkeI torn shirt factories in New Albany and Jeffen®onville. The order becomes effective at 3 p. m. today. Troons were reo nested by Edward H. Meier, New Albany police I chief after a clash between strikers and non-union workers at the : two New Albany plants of M. Fino land Sous, shirt manufacturers. Several persons were injured, one seriously enough to require hospital treatment. Meier also said several New Albany policemen were stoned and clubbed in the rioting. "It was a vicious, unruly mob over which the regular authorities had no control so we called upon the governor for national guard troops,” Meier said. Six arrests were made during the rioting and at least one more is exnected, the police chief said. Both men and women were arrested but no attempt to identify I them immediately was mrde. according to the chief. He believed the nfekets included strikers from both the New Albany and Jeffersonville factories a« well us "outside agitators.” Decision to declare martial law' in both counties was reached sft»r Adj. Gen. Elmer F. Straub received a report from Col. Paul Fechtman, national guard “observer” at the scene, on seriousness of the situation. Straub issued orders immed- i lately to move 600 troups from southern Indiana units into the area, Feehtman will l>e in charge of the troops. Those ordered mobilized included units at Martinsville, Darlington, Terre Haute, Shelbyville, Indianapolis and Princeton. The disturbance was precipitated when non-union workers attempted to resume operations at the three shirt factories, closed 14 weeks ago. Employes walked out in refusal to accept a 40 per cent reduction in wages. Meier believed the pickets con- ———— (CONTINUED ON PAGE TWO) CARS COLLIDE HERE SATURDAY Occu n ants Os Two Autos Collide Hore Saturday Night Icy pavements and faulty vision w’re blamed for a collision Saturday evening at 7 o’clock between a car driven by Jesee Schlickman, local delivery agent and an automobile driven by William Pannington. Mr. Pennington was driving eaat on Madison street, and Mr. Schlickman south on Monroe. Due to the condition of the pavement, neither driver was able to efficiently nae the brakes. The Pennington car was thrown on the sidewalk. Mrs. Pennington, who was riding with her husband at the time of the accident, wae taken to the Adams -county memorial hospital where her injuries were determined not eeriows. and she was removed to her home. Ivan Haere. who was with Mr. Schlickman, wae not injured. Both care were damaged. The Pennington car had one side demolished, while the other car had the front bumper torn off.

SUPREME COURT! REJECTS PLEAS BY GOVERNMENT Refuses Rehearing Os AAA, Process Decision; Delays TV A Ruling — Washington, Jan. 20 —(U.R) —The Btinreme court broke all precedent today to administer a sharp rebuff to the new deal through denial of two petitions made to the court in connection with the AAA and processing tax decision. The court summarily relected a government petition in which was asked a rehearing of tho processing tax case which cost the government some two hundred mil-1 lion dollars in contested taxes. The court at tlie sumo time granted a mandate making effective at once its decision in the AAA ease, the result of which is to release eighty thousands dollars In the receivership proceedings in the Hoosac Mills corporation of New Bedford, Mass., which were involved in the AAA case. The court's quick action came just two and one half hours after it had postponed for two week;its decision of constitutionality of TVA. Tho TVA decision had been expected today. Refuse Petitons Chicago, Jan. 29 — (U.R) —Three federal judges today refusixl to (CONTINUED DN PAGE FIVE) O DECATUR LADY DIES SUNDAY Mrs. Charles Cook Dies Sunday Afternoon Os Complications Mrs. Charles Cook. 51, died at her home in this city Sunday afternoon at 3 o’lock from complications. She was born June 16. 1885 a, daughter of Doras and Mary Fauet of Stark? County, June 30, 1901 she was married to Charlee Cook of Docatur. Surviving besides the husband are: one daughter, Mrs. Walter Olett, Fort Wayne, one son, Donald at home: a granddaughter; the mother, Mrs. Mary Faust of Griffith, two brothers. Benjamin and Louis, Griffith, three sisters, Mrs. Clayton Hewlett. Knox, Mrs. Henry Arndt, Lacrosse, Mrs. Tom McDonald, LaPorte, Two sisters and one brother are deceased. Funeral services will be held at the home at 1 o'clock and at the Methodist Episcopal church at 2 ' o’ejoek. Rev. Luvester Young, as- | sisted by Rev. Brunner will officiate i and burial will be in the Decatur I cemetery. The body will be removed from ’ Black’s funeral home at 5 o’clock this afternoon and may be viewed by friends and relatives afte r7 a. m. o Rotarian Ladies Night Postponed Directors of the Decatur Rotary • club announced this morning that ladies night, which had been'set ; for Thursday night of this week. ■ has been postponed Indefinitely. i The regular meeting wall be held • at 6:30 p.m. The postponement ! 1 was caused by the death of Mrs. i i James Elberson, wife of the presiI dent of the Rotary club. . o , Local Teacher Has Operation ; > I Miss Electa Oliver, teacher in . the fourth grade at the Riley . I building, is a patient at a Fort Wayne clinic. She underwent an »{ emergency operation at the clinic • | this morning at 2 o’clock. Her s I condition today was reported satisfactorily.

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Attending Physicians Fear King Os England May Not Survive 24 Hours As Heart Is Weakening COUNCIL RULES J (Copyright 1936 by UP.) Sandringham. England, Jan. 20. ! —(U.R)—King George, on the bordi er line between life and death, began to lose strength late today and ! grave fear was felt that he mignt not survive another 24 hours. His doctors, who have been cautious but • frank in their announcements as they battled, to save the king from an acute attack of bronchial catarrh, complicated by weakness oi the heart induced by fits of coughing, issued a rather pessimistic bulletin at 5:30 p. tn. (12:30 p. m. EST.) "The condition of his majesty the king shows diminishing strength,” the bulletin said. It was signed by Lord Dawson of Penn. Sir rrederick J. Willans, and Sir Stanley Hewett, who are in constant attendance. As physicians and nurses watched his labored breathing anxiously, an emergency meeting of the privy council was held to name a council of state to act for him. This council will conduct affaire of state for the stricken king, and make his signature to state docutnenti, unnecessary. The council of state comprises Queen Mary and the four royal sons — Prince of Wales, Duke of York, Duke of Gloucester, and Duke of Kent. The council of state thus is limited to the royal family, comprising all the children except the Princess Royal (Princess Mary). Its composition was regarded as a , gesture to the dominions, who in recent years have been directly under the king-emperor and not. the government. FuTir members of the privy counI ell came to Sandringham by train from London today—Sir John Simon. home secretary, whose duty it is to be in the sick room when a king dies; Ramsay Macdonald, lord president of the council; Lord Hallsham, the lord high chancellor, and Sir Maurice Hankey, clerk or the council. They joined tthree councillors already here —the archbishop of 1 Canterbury, the head of the church of England and the king's old, dear friend. Lord Wigram, the king's private secretary and Lord Dawson of Penn, the king's physician in ordinary since 1907. Then came the first grim reminder that a king is more than a man, that he is a symbol of the unity that unites a kingdom or an empire. An order in council Khd been ! (OONTYNUEn ON PAGE FIVE) CHURCH NAMES TWO TRUSTEES H. P. Schmitt Casner Miller Named By CathI olic Church H. P. Schmitt and Casper Miller were elected trustees of St. Mary’s • Catholic church at the annual meeting of the congregation held Sun- . day morning following the 9:45 o'- . clock high mass. I The other three members are, Frank Heiman, Bert Gage and Wil- . Ham Lose. The new members were • elected for three year terms. Mr. ‘ Schmitt was re-electd to the board. The financial report showed total receipts of $29,383.64 for the year. Payments on school bonds and inl terest amounted to $13,022.50, of i which $9,000 was for bonds. ! The statistical report showed 45, < ' 850 Holy Communions distributed; t 38 baptisms, 23 deaths, five Cathoi lie marriages and two mixed mar- : riages in the congregation during •: 1935. -: The school bond debt has been J reduced to $48,000.