Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 34, Number 22, Decatur, Adams County, 25 January 1936 — Page 1

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Htennial HIS TO BE I pE MONDAY B - Ljcnlatives Os XarLgLup* " iH Mcd K Monday =■ •■ “** Ewer >■ " u : '' :ond a ■** 1,1 i!ip c,ty han b ■ 5L aI1 :zatlon for Decatur’s [celebration. Blendennlng. president of L of Commerce will prek meeting. ~ Ui ibe made by C. C Purn- > French Quinn. A. L and others interested L g th? Centennial organlbe oganised groups in L haw notified Arthur [ temporary chairman of Lial executive committee bill be represented at the htttng are: fhamber Commerce—i Holthouse, Frank WallCo. Historical Club —Dr. [French Quinn. Lodge NO. 86—Minnie Lry V. Blossom, so. Stock Farm Asso. | nltt. Mrs. E. W. Busche. [court Mary A. Artman, ■er. L church- Miss Frances Burt Mangold. Fryback. AuxiHary-Gladys £. Xa Friedt. ( legl Burk. . . Kj* \V. E. Smith. "I Moos. —Mrs. 1 Kfve ■ <’l. :a Kj U SMrs. Avon Ks, ji- c.ai'.ys Chamberlain. Km Ft H-rb Kern State. Sorority—Mrs. Mrs. Richard Arnold. Bo.At.is Lodge—Mrs. "ena Jlrs ' I)il 'k Burrell. FlorBeset Beavers. PFrM Engle. s , M rs Harold E A.n Tyndall. > I' K Ch.iuh Roy Earl Crider, Mrs. John GV page SIX) |K ’ • ■Balency Exam « ■Here Thi> Morning high school equlvalrutnation Is being held in superintendent of in the court house GHB''-"'', ' o.mty superinstated that four appllbusy at the tests early and a number mure ’■> , nupiete the exbefore the close of the ‘ 7 me who does u high school diploma to secure its ■M 1 " by a passing grade tn KKnrf Plans g| Amateur Contest high school will B?* 4 '; ' ,l!7 '«t in cotijum ■ rs Institute to be IM*''' i at 7:30 o'clock in th • HBool auditorium. H®*' 1 " ' 1 ”'“ any me. Appli SK'""' be seat to the' KirkHB“ SI ‘ool >n or b?fore Feb. ■B 6 . f “ r the contest will be ■E ' business mcn of t | lr , |V' : " « Roy Jo!,:. 88-* a> •''’‘clmncr. will have "" program. Cash prices to the contests IB a ' lH pn> lo , chlldren . ]Oc . ■ Hude::. .. 15e; adulls tlo A et may be seenr- ' lar, ‘Uts and teachers of K." a'C’tonsuring the event jpgg -o— Mb Father B ' r a "d colder tonight ,n d Sunday,

DECATUR DAILY DEMOCRAT ONLY DAILY NEWSPAPER IN ADAMS COUNTY

INSTITUTE AT ROOT TOWNSHIP First Os Annual Institutes Will Be Held Next Tuesday Night • I The first of the Adams county fanners institute will be held at the Monmouth community build Ing for Root township farmers on Tuesday. January 28. Philip Struhm la the chairman and Mrs. 11. I). Owens is the secretary of this institute. The program for day: invocation by the Rev. 1,. J. Dornself; address by Maurice P. Sherllng on "Soy beans. The Legume of Many Uses"; "Mines of Gold at Our Feet" 1 by Mrs. W. C. Roberts. The afternoon session will begin at 1:15 o’clock after a basket i dinner. The program includes speaches by Mr. Sherllng and Mrs. Roberts; song by the school and the report of the committees The evening session will begin at 7:30 with tne entire evening taken up by an amateur contest, open to anyone in the township. Prizes amounting to 68.50 will be award-1 ed to the first seven winners. Prizes, furnished by the merch-1 ants of Decatur, will be awarded to the producers of many home I grown products, including yellow ! corn, white com. wheat, oats, potatoes. rye, barley, clover seed, apples, honey and many foodstuffs. Awards will also be made to girls in the intermediate grades, for the best dressed doll, and a similar prize to girls of the primary grades. The next meeting in the series : will be held at Pleasant Mills on Wednesday. January 29 with Wilson Gulick as the chairman. Then I on Thursday, January 30. the Union towmship farmers will meet at. the Emmanuel Lutheran church,' with Dallas C. Spuller as the chairman. o .. National Youth Aid To Continue Bloomington, Ind., Jan. 25. —(U.R) —Assurance that the national youth administration program, aiding 652 students at Indiana univer•s+ryrwtn continue through the "next sentester was given today by John W. Cravens, university secretary. o TAX PAYMENTS SHOW INCREASE Average Payments On Gross Income Tax Show An Increase Indiana-oiks. Jan. 25 — (UP) — , Average payments on gross income tax returns tabulated so far in the ‘annual taxpaying period ahow an , 1 increase of 30 per cent over the ‘average a year ago. Clarenve A. Jackson, director of th? gross in- . I come tax division, announced today The first 34.336 returns run through the division's bookkeeping machines showed tax payments totalling >747.515.72, or an average of , 621.77 a return. Last year on the 'isame date the payxonts averaged ' ’16.20. The annual paying period closrs January 30. , “These preliminary figures indicate that the degree of improvement In business conditions shown by the first three quarterly return periods in 1935, each of which represented an increase of approximately 16 per cent over ths same quarter of the previous year, will be maintain.-d or bettered when tabulation of the annual returns is completed," Mr. Jackson said. The number of returns, as well as th? amount of payments is showing a larg? increase over last year, he said, with indications that by the end of the i eriod it will be well a’.ove the 302,000 annual reports received a year ago. With slightly more than two-thirds of the tax- ' aying period gone, the increase in volume of returns was nearly 25 p®r cent as compared with the same time last year. Mr. Jackson declared part of the increas? was due to earlier filing (CONTINUED ON PAGE THREE’ O Farley Inquires Os Storm Condition . Mrs. Hazel Widdows, postmistress of Geneva ssnt to this office today a copy of a telegram rec?ived from James I. Farley, congressman, from this district. The telegram read: “Mrs. Hazel Widdows, ' Geneva, Indiana. •Have read of your severe cold and storm, ta th?re any assistance 1 can render from here: Signed James I Farley”

Ohio Democrats Pledge Roosevelt Their Supporl wJt- /I -J IB HL v Mill iMSr IWIBSI Al n _ IB I e OB ' * I***:' Senator Donahey, Governor Da»ey and brands Poulson

Bringing a “united Ohio" pledge to President I Roosevelt, Democratic Governor Martin L. Davey, I of Ohio, erstwhile anti-administration foe. is pie- I

EIGHT PUPILS ’ AT EXTENSION Decatur Has Eight Students At Indiana Extension School Ft. Wayne, Ind., Jan. 25 — Deca- ' tur is one ot the 47 different cities and towns represented in the rec-ord-breaking enrollment of the Indiana Cplveraity Extension center* at Ft. Wayne during the semester* now closing, according to the repoA * ere today of Prof. F. R. Neff, i officer in charge. Decatfir has eight students commuting to and from the Ft. Wayne division of the state university. i Second semester courses opening Jan. 27 offer 72 subjects in 20 i different departments, Prof. Neff said. Most of this work is being ' conducted in late afternoon and I; evening classes in order to give out-of-town students, tea'chers and other employed persons an opportunity to attend. Both graduate 1 and undergraduate courses are offered. with full credit for work done. With 656 different students enrolled for the first semester, the Ft. Wayne center showed a 23.7 percent increase over last, year and was the third largest among the university’s state-wide exten-| sion centers. Total enrollment for all centers this semester was 3752. With 5452 different students for both semesters of last year, the I. U. extension division had the third largest extension enrollment among American universities, aeI cording to a recently published nationwide survey. o STATE REJECTS PLEA RT BANGS Public Service Commission Rejects Latest HuntingVn Plan Indlnnanolfs, Jan. 25. — (U.R) — The Indiana public service com mission Friday rejected a proposal of Mayor Clare W. H. Bangs, Huntington. that a private utility he is fighting with every resource be forced to aid him in times of stress. Bangs has been trying for two years to run the Northern Indiana Power company out of Huntington, supplanting it with service from a “toy" municipal electric plant. He built new lines and sold service to 600 customers in violation of a court order and spent 101 days in jail last summer for con-p tempt of court. Just to insure those 600 custo-,, mers service in case the overworked municipal plant breaks down ■ he petitioned the public service , commission for an order requiring , the N. I. P- to furnish "stand-by” ~ service in such an event. And. to permit further economic , extensions he petitioned for the , (CONTINUED ON PAGE THREE) j

Decatur, Indiana, Saturday, January 25, 1936.

Itured in Washington in company with two aids, Senator Vic Donahey, left, and State Chairman Francis Poulson, right.

Knights Os Pythias Play Is Postponed The Knights of Pythias’ production, "Minstrel Flashes," scheduled to be presented Monday and Tuesday of next week has been definitely postponed to one week from that date, on Februai*' 3 and . Due to the extreme cold prevailing. J the last few rehearsals have been ! considerably hampered. Jay Gamster, director of the play, stated that he was certain another week of rehearsing would enable the cast to learn their respective lines and songs, and that "It would be one of the most entertaining playw of the season. ASSERTS CITY WATER IS PURE Secretary Os Health Board Answers Numerous Inquiries Dr. R. E. Daniels, secretary of the city board of health, stated today that the board had received several inquiries about the city water supply in the last few days. Dr. Daniels hastened to assure the people that the water Is in no way impure. The health board, having been informed of these Inquiries made a representative survey of fifty families in various seetions of the city. They found that about six homes had murky and cloudy water for drinking purposes. In seeking an explanation to this - condition, the board interviewed I Charles Brodbeck, manager of the j city water department. Mr. Brodbeck state that during the cold weather the department was constantly flushing out the fire hydrants to keep them from freezing. This measure has caused a disturbance of the iron oxide in the water and will disappear after flushing has been discontinued. Some people will experience more of this condition than others, because of rust, lined in old pipes in the house. Dr. Daniils stated that sampler of the water are sent to the laboratories of the state division every month, and that each test has disclosed no Impurities and that iron oxiue is not injurious to Tae health. Q To Mark Sites Os Important Events Indianapolis, Jan. 25. — (U.R) — Sites of important events In Indiana history will be marked through cooperation of the Indiana histor-1 ical bureau and the works progress ; administration. Research w’ork to determine historical authenticity and exact location will be conducted by WPA “white collar” workers and white metal markers bearing black lettering will be manufactured by other WPA employes. The markers will be erected by the state highway commission. An allotment of >14,487 has been made! for the program

I ANNOUNCE PLAN FOR GREETINGS Birthday Greetings Will Be Mailed President On January 30 Miss Dorothy Young and David Heller, general co-chairmen of the President’s Birthday Ball to be ■ held at the Decatur Country Club • on Thursday, January 30, ajuioun- ’, ced that they had received from I the national committee, the birthday greeting blanks, to be mailed to the president. A copy of the greetings; "The President, White House. Washington. D. C. Happy birthday. Mr. President. I i am proud to participate in the i sending of this personal greeting to you. and thereby help in the 1 fight against infantile paralysis to which you have given such notable leadership. Signed,” This letter will be signed by all persons, who wish to help in this program against Infantile paralys--1 is by paying 25c before signing the ’ greetings. Seventy per cent of the proceeds derived by this means will remain in the county to aid victims, already affected by the dreaded disease and the remaining thirty per cent sent to the Georgia ' Warm Springs Foundation for the ’ use in research work. The town will be entirely solicited for signers and everyone is asked to cooperate in this worthy cause. Miss Charlotte Elzey has been named in charge of selecting flower girls, who will sell flowers at (CONTINUED ON PAGE TWO) O SCHOOL BUSSES WILL BE STEEL State To Require All-Steel Construction Os School Busses Indianapolis, Jan. 25. —The state school bus committee has adopted , plans for requiring the use of allsteel body construction for new j busses purchased by Indiana school j units, Floyd I. McMurray, state superintendent of public instrucI tion and member ot the commit- ; tee, said yesterday. "Members of the committee decided that the time has come to follow the commercial practice of all metal body construction." Mr. j McMurray said. The new requirements will not | invalidate any busses built or purchased under * previous specifiertions which permitted a combination of metal and wood, according to Mr. McMurray. “Busses adopted last year met with general approval and it is the belief of the committee that th6 state is ready to tatce an additional advance step,” he said. "Records j on file with the committee disclose I (CONTINUED ON PAGE FIVE)

TWO AIRPLANES CRASH FRIDAY. SIX ARE KILLED Army Bombers (’rash In Mid-Air, Two Others Are Injured Honolulu. Jan. 25. — (UP) Two army bombers collided in mid-air last night, killing six men and injuring two Both planes crashed tn flames. Both planes were flying at high speed and they met with terrinc force 500 feet over Ford island Their gasoline tanks apparently exploded while both still were in the air. spraying liquid fire over the crew members of each plane The accident occurred at 7:15 p. m. (12:45 a. m. today, F.ST). The dead: Lieut. W. G. Beard. San Francisco. survived by a wife and baby daughter in Honolulu. Staff Sergeant B. F. Jablonsky, survived by a wife and daughter in Honolulu. Private B. E. Taylor. Private Truman J. Gardner. Private John Hartman. Private Parkburst, first name unlisted. The Injured; Lieut. Charles Fischer, of March 1 Fleia, broken leg. Sergeant Thomas lamagan, lacerat lona and bruises. The planes wore Keystone bombers, recently reconditioned. They were the two rear ships of a squaddron of eight. Piano No. 200 was commanded 1 by Lieut. Fischer: plane 220, by 1 Lieut. Beard. They plunged headlong. a mass of flames. The flames were so intense tiiat I rescuers could not approach tho twisted ami molten wreckage to re- ' move the charred bodies. The two planes apparently crashed as they prepared to land at Luke Field, army airport. They were the last planes in squadron 23 to attempt a landing. The i squadron had gone through routine evening maneuvers. Pilots of the , planes apparently misjudged dis(CONTIWED ON PAGE SIX) STUDENT SALE HERE FEB, 8 • • - -- Merchants To Cooperate With Senior Class On Sale ‘ At a meeting of the Decatur mer- ■ chants and high school students. ■: held at the city hall last evening. • | the merchants unanimously agreed > to give their whole hearted supI port to the Student Day Sale, to < be held Saturday, February 8. Each merchant conducting Ibis . sale will employ at least one memi ber of the senior class to work in his store on that day. He will pay ■ the student one day's wages. In ■ return, the senior class of the ' school will manage the publicity of the sale. i Merchants that did hot attend the meeting last night, will be interviewed Monday and given full particulars of the sale. It Is hoped that each merchant in the city will cooperate with the students. The wages earned by the student salesmen,in the various stores will be used in the publishing of the Ravelings, the annual Decatur , high school year book. Walter J. Krick, school superintendent, and Miss Blanche Me--1 Crory, Ravelings advisor, will have charge of selecting the students to be placed in tho stores. Each of these students will wear a purple and gold ribbon. The student sale Is being sponsored by the Junior and Senior ’ Chambers of Commerce of Decatur. Three thousand circulars, advertising the sale, will be dlstrib--1 uted in Adams county and surrounding territories. Roscoe Glertdenning, president iCONTTNUF.n ON PAGE SIX) 0 Annual Farm Banquet Here February 10 County Agent L. E. Archbold stated today that plans are nowin the emaklng for the twelfth annual Adams county farmers banquet to be held Monday, February 10, in tnis city. Completed earrangementa will be announced the first of next week. The various committees are busy conferring with the county agent, in an effort to make this banquet the largest and most eucceseful > ever held in the county.

Entire Family Is Wiped Out Friday Near Fort Wayne I

MIDDLEWEST IS THREATENED DT NEWCDLDWAVE Snow And High Winds Are Feared Likely To Strike Again (By United Press) Snow-blocked highways and subzero cold threatened New York City. Buffalo and dozens of smaller communities with a critical shortage of milk today. Health author- ■ Hies made emergency preparations ' to insure a supply for hospitals but expected many homer: to bo unsupplied. i A new cold wave and snowstorm threatened tho middlewest today ' and was expected to arrive on the Atlantic seaboard during the week-end. i In Buffalo, only one of 60 normal truckloads of milk reached • tho city yesterday. Dairy delivery men were instructed to deliver . first to families with children. Snow, driven before high winds, . was expected to sharpen tho new cold wave. In the northwest tho wind may reach gale force, while snow in some sections may reach blizzard intensity. It will follow the recent cold wave, after only a few days respite from sub-zero . weather. The Dakotas and Minnesota extpected .the new wave tonight. It I was sweeping down from Canada’s i Mackenzie river basin. Forecasters predicted that this second i wave of sub-zero weather would bo ‘ only slightly less severe than the three days of biting blasts just 1 past. It was expected to reach Chicago and other mid-west areas early Sunday. Meanwhile in New York City temperatures of from 10 to 16 do-. grees above zero were received as I u welcome relief. A temporary breathing spell was i i provided yesterday throughout the . middle west with the mercury 11 moving above zero in Chicago for tlie firut time in 54 hours. Farther > south and west of Chicago how-1 J ever, rising temperatures still j ‘ meant that thermometers still i were registering below zero. Death Toll Five Indianapolis, Jan. 25 (U.K) —The, | death toll of Indiana’s most se(CONTINUED ON PAGE SIX) o McGriff Funeral Services Sunday — Funeral eervlcee will be held at ' Portland Sunday for Emerson E. McGriff, former judge of the Jay I circuit court, who died Wednesday al an Indianapolis hospital. Services will be held at the Presbyterian church at 2 p. m. Sunday. Several members of the local bar assoclatI tion are expected to attend tho . I services. o GAISER FUNERAL RITES MONDAY ' - Last Rites Will Be Held Monday For Preble Township Pastor 1 Funeral services for Rev. Robert > G. Gaiser. for 15 years pastor of St. Paul's Lutheran church. Preble ■ township, will be held Monday as- i ’ ternoon. A short service will be held at | • the parsonage at 1:15 o’clock, with ■ the Rev. A. R. Treulzsch, pastor ■ of St. John’s Lutheran church. Bingen, officiating. At 1:30 o’clock English and German services will be held in the church, Rev. Karl Wyneken, Fort Wayne and Rev. Karl Strass burg. Ossian, officiating. Rev. C. W. Rodenbeck of | Fort Wayne will read the obituary. All services are scheduled on cen- j tral standard time. The body of the former pastor will lie in state in the church from 2 to 4 o'clock Sunday afternoon and will then be moved to the parsonage. Lutheran pastors in the immediate vicinity of Decatur will act as pall bearers and members of the official board of St. Paul's church will be honorary pall bearers. The . pall bearers will be Rev. Pan! I (CONTINUED UN PAGE SIX) I

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Twelfth Member Os Family Dies This Morning; Mass Suicide Theory Advanced By Authorities. BODIES MANGLED Fort Wayne. Jan. 25. ■ (U.R) - Phyllis Mcßride, 5. last of a family of 12 wiped out when a speeding passenger train crashed into their ancient auto died of her injuries in a hospital today. Her death removed the last hope of authorities who sought from her some explanation of the strange behavior wnlch led her father, Marion Mcßride, 43, a PWA worker, to drive his car onto tho tracks of the approaching train. A mad suicide theory was investigated. The father. Marion Mcßride, 43, a WPA worker, his wife, Susan, 40, five of their children and an infant born at the time of the crash late yesterday were killed outright. Two children died on route to a hospital and another died last night without regaining consciousness. The body of the newly l)orn infant was found 150 feet from the ■ mangled form of the mother. The baby was expected to have boon i l)orn normally within a few days. Tho Mcßride family, packed closely in a 10-year-old car, wan returning from the funeral of William Connor, brother of Mrs. McBride. at the time of the crash. The poverty-stricken family had been living in a chicken coop on a farmer s property near Leo and had suffered in the intense cold of the past few days. Mcßride stopped at a store at Grabill, 200 feet from the tracks, to buy candy for his children. Then he started up the old car, stopped once and had just reached (CONTINUED ON PAGE SIX) — o BOY SCOUTS TO MARR IUDILEE Ceremonies On February 7 To Mark End Os Silver Jubilee The ceremonies held by Scout. Troops in ail section of the United States will bring to a close on Fob. ruary 7 tho celebration of the 25th Anniversary of the establishment, of the Boy Scout Movement in America. The year has been marked by great progress in the Scout Movement with a new high figure in membership with well over a million Scouts and leaders actively at the end of 1935. One of the most Important events scheduled as part of the Anniversary celebrations is the National Jamboree which was to be held in Washington, D. C„ August 21 to 80 last, bin was cancelled by direction of President Roosevelt because of the prevalence of infantile paralysis around Washington, D. C. Tho Jamboree, however will be held in ! 1937 and will carry on the Silver | Jubilee celebration. Friday. February 7th, with bo Troop Celebration Day when Scout , Troops throughout the nation will ' review the 25th birthday year. Saturday, February Bth, will bo spent by Scouts in outdoor and indoor celebrations with particular reference to the annual anniversary celebration for Which this is , the historic date. It was on Feb- ‘ ruary Bth, 1910, that the Boy Scouta I of America was fifst incorporated ■ in Washington. D. C. On the evening of February Sth, at S:ls p. m. all Scouts and Scout leaders will re-afflrm their Scout Oath. Scouts everywhere will recite together their Scout Oath and the 12 Scout (CONTINUED ON PAGE THREE* Fire At G. E. Plant Quickly Extinguished The local General Electric factory employee received a real scare Friday afternoon when one of the I flange ovens caught on fire. ■lt was feared at the time, that an explosion might result but quick action on the part of the factory firemen averted what might have been a serious explosion. The firemen quickly extinguished the fire and the factory wae restored to its luoual routine.