Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 34, Number 41, Decatur, Adams County, 17 February 1936 — Page 1

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I Florence Dollhouse Sutlers Broken Wrist Mis* Florence llolthoiue. Went Madison street, clerk iu the county clerk's office, slipped anti fell on the i, y walks thi* morning, while on the way to work, suetaifiing a broken bone In her right wrist. Miss Holthouse was taken to a I physician, where her injury was dressed, and an X-ray will be taken later to determine the extent of the break, ' "O—LIST WINNERS AT INSTITUTE Home Economics Winners At Monroe Institute Are Announced The annual Monroe farmers institute, the 'ast of the series of institutes conducted in the county, held Saturday, was well attended, and considered one of the most enthusiastic ever conducted at Monroe. The institute was made especially interesting by the holding over of the exhibits of the corn showon Friday. The state speakers, Mrs. Russ Hershey and John M. Schlegel, both gave interesting and educational talks during the morning and afternoon sessions. C. W. R. Schwartz, chairman of the institute presided over the meeting and Mrs. Hershey and Mrs. E. W. Busche judged the entries in the home economics contests. The winners in the various exhibits were: Aprons First, Myrtle Schrock: second. Marybelle Snyder; third Mary Liechty. Potato Chieps First, Metta Habegger Pies—Apricot First. Mrs. Joel Schwartz; second. Mrs. Floyd Stoneburner. Cherry Flip FTrst. Mrs. Joel Schwartz; second, Mrs. Floyd Stoneburaer; third. Lena Mazelin. Cocoanut Cream First. Mrs. Jacob Liechty; second, Mrs. Joel Schwartz; third, Leona Mazelin. • Pumpkin First. Mrs. Joel Schwartz; second. Mrs. John K. Mazelin; third. Mrs. William Rich. Cookies Date Bars First, Mrs Joel Schwartz; second, Mrs. Floyd Stoneburner; third Hazel Yake. Filled Cookies First. Mrs. Joel Schwartz; second. Hazel Yake. Oat Meal Cookies First. Mrs. Jacob L. Liechty; second. Agnes Habegger; third, (CONTINUED ON PAGE FIVE) O Four Head Os Hogs Are Reported Stolen Sheriff Dallas Brown is investigating the theft of four head of hogs report ?d stolen from Mart Hoosier, of west of Herne. Hometime during the latter part of last week. Although the exact ti'me of the theft ie unknown, several clufw were found The hogs w-ere valued at nearly SIOO. and the lows was keenly felt by the owner. o $25,000 SUIT IS DISMISSED Damage Suit From Fort W ayne Is Reported Settled Out Os Court Judge Huber M. DeVoss received word this morning that the $25,000 damage suit of Janice Papcnbrook againet Bruce McPherson of injuries received in an auto accident, had been peaceibly settled out of court and that the case would be dismissed from the local court, having been venned here from the Allen wourt and set for a jury trial on Tuesday. While much interent had been arrounaed in the case, as a reeult of the human interest angle, and many would-be spectators are disappointed because of the dismissal of the case, the petit jurors are no doubt relieved to find that they will not be forced to travel the snow and iewpacked roads to assume their dutke. Many of the jurors are farmere, and their 'being forced to remain in the city, would have meant a severe bandicaip to the work on their respective farms, during the present weather conditions. As yet there are no cases recorded on the court docket that require the services of a jury.

NOTED LAWTER BRILLS BRUNO IN JAIL CEIL Samuel Leibowitz Questions Hauptmann For Four Hours Trenton, N. J„ Feb. 17—(U.P) — i One of America’* richest women. Jone of its most successful erimini al lawyers, and the governor of > New Jersey allied today to wring a confession from Bruno Richard Hauptmann. The entente became apparent only a few hours Wefore Justice Thomas W. Trenchard wae to resentence the Lindbergh ba.by killer to die in less than eight weeks. . Its members were Mrs. Evalyn J Walsh McLean, commanding a imultimillion dollar fortune. Sam- , uel Leibowitz, chief counsel for the negro defendants of the Scottsboro rape ca*e and successful defender of 112 murder suspects, and Gov. Harold G. Hoffman. Ixnbowitz cross-examined Hauptmann like a. prosecuting attorney for almost four hours in the state prison death house yesterday. Then he talked with Hoffman for three hour*. “We are making progress toward getting to the bottom of this case.” he said when he left the prison in darkness and a drizzling rain. “I was impressed with Mr. Liehowitz' activities," Hoffman euid I when the lawyer and a detective I left his home at 11:15 p. m. Both — Ix»il>owitz and Hoffman through a secretary — refused to say whether Hauptmann had confessed a part in the crime of | which he has maintained his innocence. Ix-ibow’itz entered the cane last week with the financial Ifacking of |Mr«. Mclx*an. who ha* been interjested in the Lindbergh kidnaping (CONTINUED ON FACE FIVE) 0 AUTO INDUSTRY PIONEER DEAD Roy D. Chapin, Head Os Hudson Company. Dies Sunday Detroit, Feb. 17—(UP)—The fboy who quit college 35 yeans ago to learn the infant automobile industry “from the ground up,” Roy D. Chapin, president of Hudson motor car company and former cabinet member died here last night. Chai; in. secretary of commerce under President Hoover, had been ill six days with pneumonia when death came at 5:05 P. M. He would have been 56 years old Feb. 23. Funeral have been set tentatively for Wednesday. The century was at the turn when Chapin, a student at the University of Michigan av-cidvntally met R. E. Olds, boasted of hie hobby, photography, and informed Olds that he was just the man Oldsmobile company needed —to make all the ipictures for the organization’s catalogues. Hi* title at the beginning was "demonstrator” but by the time ho was 24. Old* had made him his sales manager. Two more years found him organizing the E. R- ThomasDetroit company, an immediate success. but Chapin then saw the possibilities of the industry and persuad d Hugh Chalmers to bank the the Detroit-Chalmers company in 1908. Chapin was 'made general manager and treasurer. Still determined to head his own company, Chapin aided in organization of the Hudsonxiompany a year later. J. L. Hudson, wealthy Detroit Merchant was the first president, Out in 1910 at the age of 29-Chapin attained his ambition. W hen Hudson retired from active management Chapin was made head of the company- He was (president of the board of direitors when death came. — o Relative Os Local Residents Is Dead Funeral services for Miss Virginia Vesey, 17. daughter of Mr. and Mrs. David S. Vesey of Fort Wayne, will be held Tuesday afternoon at 2:30 o’clock from the residence, 2540 Thompson ave. Miss Vesey died Sunday morning of bronchial pneumonia She bad been ill a few day*. Miss Vesey is a grandniece of Mrs. John Niblick and Mrs. Phillip Obenauer of this city. W illiani Vesey of Fort Wayne is a grandfather of the deceased.

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Decatur, Indiana, Monday, February 17, 1936.

Senator and Secretary b. v. They’re both Rose Long—on the right U. S. Senator Ro*e McConnell Long, widow and successor of the lajte Huey P. Long of Louisiana, and on the left. Rose Lolita Long, her daughter and secretary, in their Washington office.

LAUTZENHEISER RITES SUNDAY Funeral Held Sunday For Blue Creek Township Farmer Funeral service* for Eldridge Lantzenhei*er, 71. prominent Blue Creek farmer, who died suddenly Friday morning, were held Sunday afternoon at the home of the deceased. Mr. Lautzenheiser was found dead by his wife Friday morning, sitting in a chair, where he had been reading. Death was due to coronary occlusion, a disease of the heart. He had been in good health prior to that time. He was united in marriage 30 yearq ago to Km ma Buchanan, of Willshi-e. No children were born to the union Two brothers and three sisters survive; Norman. Blue Creek township; Jesse. Dixon, Illinois. Mrs. Charle* Longenberger. |of near De atur, Mrs. Fred Stone, | Fort Wayne and Mrs. Horace EdI wards. Blue Creek township. His death was a i-hock to his many friends in this community, an he had resided at his home in Blue Blu? Creek township for the past 15 et 20 years, and was well known in farming circles. Burial was made in the Willshire cemetery. Mart Mylott Is To Be Taken Home Martin J. Mylott. superintendent of the City light and power plant, who has been a patient at the Adams County Memorial hospital since January 9, hopes to return to his home Wednesday. Mr, Mylott .was injured in an auto accident near Portland while returning home from ilndiatiapolis, wher ■ he and other city officials appeared before the State Public Service commission. Hi* right leg was broken and he received other injuries. DEMOCRATSHOLD GOOD MAJDRITY Hold Good Balance Os Power In Indiana General Assembly Indianapolis, Ind.. Feb. 17 —(UP) —Despite the loss of two votes from its 1935 general assembly strength, the Democratic party will enter the special session, expected aibout March 2, with ample majority to enact its legislative program, a survey showed today. Losses in majority strength were in urred by the deaths of one member of each house, confident of its power, administration leaders will not ask special elections in the respective counties. Gov. Paul V. McNutt has approved their decision, adding that "the benefit derived would not offset the expense involved." Both Senators George D. Miller, Logansport, and frepTCtentative Floyd 1. Roush. Lawrenceburg, the deceased 'members, were to have been candidates for renomination this springSenator Miller died several months ago from Injuries suffered In an automobile accident near Logansport. He was elected in 1932 as joint senator trom Cass and Fulton counties aud served in the 1933 and 1935 legislatures. Roush, a joint representative from Dearborn and Ohio counties, (CONTINUED ON PAGE FOUR)

Masons Are Urged To Buy Banquet Tickets Member* of the Masonic lodge, who are planning to attend the banquet at the Masonic temple Tues- , day evening are again urged to pur- ' chase their tickets as soon as possible. The tickets are selling for 35c a i. late and no tickets will be sold after Tuesday morning, nor will tickets be sold at the door on the night of the banquet. Os the 125 members expected to attend, nearly all have purchased tickets, and a capacity attendance j is expected. The program for the day also includes the conferring of the Master Mason degree in the afternoon at 2:00 o’clock upon a class ot candidates. Tickets for the affair may still be secured at the temple, from .1- Bernstein at the Green Kettle or from Cal Peterson at the Peterson and Everhart store. >, o HOELTIE FAILS TO APPEAR HERE Defendant Defaults In SIO,OOO Damage Suit Venued Here Lawrence F. Hoeltje. defendant ' in the SIO,OOO damage suit brought against him by Kathrine Hopkins. , widow of Galen Hopkins and administrator of the estate of the deceases failed to make an appearance in his defense tody and the case will be submitted at a late rdate. Hoeltje. former Wayne township assessor in Allen county is now serving a term in jail for bribery. The complaint against him, venu- ’ ed here from Allen circuit court last year states that the deceased. Galen Hopkins, was struck by the car of the defendant on January 13. 1935 on Goshen Road near St. Mary’s avenue in Fort Wayne, suffering a fractured skull and numerous other injuries, which allegedly resulted | in his death. | The complaint further alleges that the defendant was driving in a reckless and negligent manner when he struck Hopkins. The widow' has two children to support, and ' states that her husband was earning S3O a week as an optometrist, i prior to his death, but that the bur- : den of support has now fallen on I hero Set Dates For State Legion Convention Muncie, Ind.. Feb. 17. — (U.P) — The annual convention of the Indiana state department of the American Legion will be held here Aug. 22-25, the Muncie Legion convention corporation announced today. State officers of the Legior. who attended a meeting over the weekend were Dr. A. R. Killian, Lafayette, commander: William Sayer, Indianapolis, adjutant, and Charles Maston. Indianapolis, membership committee chairman. o Mrs. Will Reiter Dies In Florida News of the death of Mrs. Will D. Reiter at her home at West Palm Beach. Florida, has been received. Her husband was born and reared in Decatur and is a brother of John Reiter of Bluffton and Henry of Fort Wayne. The family resided in South Bend many years, moving to Florida about five years ago. She was known to a number of Decatur people to whom the news came as a shock.

Smashing Victory Is Won By Neu) Deal As Supreme Court H Upholds Validity Os TV A — ■ . ——

ANOTHER COLD SNAP TO ADO TU SUFFERING All Possible Means Taken To Aid Stricken Middlewest Chicago. Feb. 17 —(U.R>—Tales of heroism and suffering filtered out of the snow-bound middle western states today. Haggard m>n disregarded temperatures still far lwlow freezing as they drove forward in new attempts to relieve stricken areas. An airpla.ne fleet whose pilots flew beneath ■ 400-foot ceiling* to reach starving communities was South Dakota’s only immediate bulwark against widespread suf- | set ing. In the ‘ white country" near Deadwood, S. Dak., 10 men and a trailer were struggling across country with a load of food for i marooned towns, and at Hatfield. I Mo.. 300 CCC youths and state highway plows battled drifts in an attempt to reach the community which for a month has been i cut off from the outside world. The body of William Little, missing for more than a, week, was found in a snowlrank near ' Campliellsport. Wis., where, with|in a mile of home, he fell from exhaustion. Flood dangers faced at least three Michigan cities. Grand Rapids, Kalamazoo a,nd Pontiac. Rivers, gorged with ice, were rising and.inany families reported I I the water within inches of the floors of their homes. Another extreme cold wave was reported moving down on lowa. A bonfire beacon guided Pilot ■ Ceorge Height back to earth after) la mercy flight to Capitol, Mont.,' j where he picked up Gus Anderson. | Anderson's feet were frozen a j week ago and gangrene set in. He I ■ was taken to Belle Fourche, S. I ! Dak., where physicians said ampn-! j tation would be necessary. A score of horse teams and sled* I prepared to rush food, fuel and, I clothing through to Hatfield resi- ' dents when the army of farmers . I and CCC workers temporarily I abandoned their fight to cut a ) road through the drifts. Telephone communication to the | (CONTINUED ON PAGE FIVE) Dismiss Veteran From Local Hospital Henry Yoder of 218 Wabash street, Berne, was dismissed today from the Adams County Memorial hospital where he ha-s been a patient since January 17. Mr. Yoder, who is a World War veteran is well known fa this community. o VOTE FUND FOR BONUS PAYMENT Senate Approves Appropriation To Pay Solddiers’ Bonus Washington, Feb. 17 —(UP) —The Senate today approved an appropriation of $1,730,000,000 (B); to provide funds for immediate payment of the Soldier*’ bonus in cash and baby bonds. The bonus appropriation was attached to the independent, offices appropriation bill in the forme of an amendment by Sen. James F. Byrnes, D. S. C. It was an appropriation out of treasury fund* and made no effort to provide for chasing the money. After attaching the bonus rider, the senate aipiproved the entire Independent office bill, which provides $875,751,505 for independent offices and agencies. The senate added SB,OOO to the 'bill as it passed the house for the federal trade commission and the measure now goes hack to the house for concurrence in that as well as the bonus appropriation amendment. The bill as passed by the senate was $47,593,861 below the 1937 estimates for the agencies concerned but with the bonus appropriation included, it represents an increase of $1,682,406,139 over the budget estimates for the bill.

LIONS TROUP IS AWARDED HONOR Local Boy Scout Troop Wins High Award At Merit Badge Show Lions Troop No. 62 of the local I Boy Scouts, under the supervision i lof Lowell Smith, scoutmaster of j the troop, won the blue streamer . award for their demonstration of 1 the astronomy merit badge at the ■ annual Scout merit badge show held Saturday in the National Guard Armory in Fort Wayne. The blue streamer award was I given to troops securing a total of I from 85 to 100 points, being th* first award. Other streamer* I awarded were: rod for 75 to 84 1 points, green for 60 to 74 points, | and white for 59 points or less. The local troop, in their demonstration of the astronomy badge, decorated their booth in a blue design to represent the sky, and dotted the field of blue with etars and the moon. Included in their demonstration was the showing of slides on the various constellations projected on a screen of blue to . represent the sky. Scout troops from all over the, Anthony Wayne Scout Area took ’ part in the various demonstrations of merit badge awards, and | the local scouts feel especially l proud of their accomplishments I made at the show, among such sharp competition. The local troop | also received individual praise ‘ from such well known scout leaders as Leroy Lane, field executive ;of the area and L. L. Hotchkiss, (CONTINUED ON PAGE FIVE) READVERTISE j COUNTY BIDS j Bids For Tractor At County Infirmary Rejected By Board The county commissioners will I readvertise for bids for a tractor I j at the county infirmary, lite pro- ’ I posals received Saturday being re-1 i jected because of an error in the j ' low bid. The Lee Hardware company of j this city submitted a bid of sllsO j for a John Deere tractor, less $585 for the old tractor owned by th* county. Tlie phraseology of the bid was considered in error aud the board rejected the bid. The fii m was low. Other bids sifllmitted were: Craigville garage. Fordson tractor, $685, rubber tiros. $135 extra; Oliver tractor. S7SS. rubber tiros extra. $165. Schafer Hardware company. Ma,ssey Harris tractor, j 3-4 plow. $849 and old John Deere i plow. McCormick-Deering store, i McCormick-Deering tractor and (.plow, sl<)42, loss allowance of I $292.50 for old tractor. L. R. Moyer. Massey-Harris tractor, sl,273, less allowance of $323 for old tractor. Ed Affoidor, Allis-Chal- ’ mers tractor. $765 and lod tractor. Model two. $871.25 and old tractor. The appropriation available for purchase of the tractor is $575. The Gasoline Pump Carl Gattshall of Decatur was awarded the contract for furnish- ' ieh. and instating a gasoline pump ' at the county infirmary. His bid was slsl. Alternate bids of $l7O and $230 were also submitted by Gattshall. Other bids suttnitted for the pump were: Liechty Bros., $148.50 • .plus $4.50 for a double belt. H. Knapp, and Son, $lB5 and al- . (CONTINUED ON PAGE TWO) Announce Theater Contest Winners Prize winners in the “Ah Wilderness” content conducted by the Adi ams theater were announced today, i Miss lAgness Note on’s letter won the ’ $3 prize, Mrs. Bert Haley won $2, and Harold Blythe won sl, Pairs > of tickets to <see “Ah Wilderness” i were awarded to Miss Mildred Hesher, Miss Marie Grether, Mrs- > Fred B. Collier. Mi** Madelyn Crider, and Miss Audrey Crosbie. SevI eral hundred entered the competii tion and many clever letters on the i subject “Why Decatur is a better • town to live in today than thirty years ago,” were submitted.

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Right Os Government To Erect Power Dams And Sell Power is Upheld By High Court. SWEEPING RULING Washington, Feb. 17.—(U.R) -The supreme court today upheld constitutionality of the now deal’s vast ; Tennessee valley authority expertj inent on all points placed in issue in the present test. The opinion of the court, read by Chief Justice Charles Evans Hughes, was so sweeping that new deal power and legal experts immediately asserted it had given the right-of-way to the new deal’s ! other vast power experiments, such 1 as Grand Coulee. Bonneville, and j Fort Peck. i Justice Louis D. Brandeis, in a I concurring opinion, said that he. i together with Justices Harlan F. Sone and Owen J. Roberts and Benjamin N. Cardozo, concurred in i the opinion but believed that the Alabama Power Co., stockholders had no right to sue. “The ruling,” according to Edward J. Foley, Jr., chief PWA counsel, “upheld th* right of the gov--1 eminent to improve streams for 1 navigation by dam projects. “It declared constitutional the government's program to sell the power the projects created by wati er storage." In succinct fashion, Hughes upI held the following rights of the ■ government: 1. The right to build Wilson ' dam. key structure of the TVA, under war powers and powers of aiding navigation. 2. The right to sell power pro I duced at such dam?. 8. The rq(l7t to build trail* mission lines to transport such power to a reasonable market. The long awaited opinion, delivi ered on the 60th day since the. j case was argued before the court, I was believed by administration leaders to clear the way to wide and scattered ’’little TVA” de- .; velopments. Four supreme court justices submitted an opinion in which they expressed concurrence with the the views of the chief justice as to constitutionality of the various phases of TVA operation at issue. They declared further, however, . that they believed the preferred j stockholders of the Alabama Power Co., who brought the case had I no legal riglfT to do so. Justice Louis 1). Brandeis, veteran liberal member of the court, j read the concurring opinion in which he was Joined by Justices | Owen J. Roberts, Benjamin N. I Cardozo, and Harlan F. Stone. A dissenting opinion was prepari ed by Justice James C. Mcßeyn- , L olds. o WEATHER Snow tonight and Tuesday; cold wave tonight or Tuesday. SAFETY SCHOOL WILL BE HELD WPA Workers And Foremen Will Be Given Safety Instructions ( A. E. Quackenbush. Adams coun« I ty WPA project supervisor, an- , nounced today the opening of a. r safety and first aid school for foremen, timekeepers and first aid men of WPA projects in this coun--1 ty. The school is open to any WPA worker, and will be carried. . on as an educational course for ' the key men of the projects. Classes will be held weekly, with the first meeting scheduled for Thursday evening. February 20. ; Twelve sessions are expected to be held before the completion oil ■- the course. The key men are ex- . pected as a result of tho course to •. be better able to precelve any a danger impending to the workman !, and to administer first aid to tho s victim of the resultant accident. ” Bertrand Handwork, of Bluffton, 1 WPA supervisor, will conduct tho j. classes and will be assisted by E. I- S. Ticen of Fort Wayne. The •- classes will be held in the council I- chambers of the city hall on Mone roe street. r All WPA workmen, foremen, y timekeepers, and aides are expected to enroll in the classes.