Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 34, Number 94, Decatur, Adams County, 18 April 1936 — Page 1

No. 91

fcOLINI IS ■ilaniover ■war victory Dictator Jubilant er smashing Tri'■Lph In Ethiopia .. . v I'nlt-d Press) 4 ,vk v ■ .. -."1.' what he expects (Humph Os his career-l:z-l 'he collapse of ■.. Selass.e, virtual anI ■. big h “ m,, ' a - Britain olid 'he <»'*' ll.'faat of •' league ot nahas always hated aS that he had ■„ Marshall Pietro Hadoglio, .1,.< 1.•• t !H Hast Africa. , ,i,»iriu ti""s "" llis ,erms i emperor. hr.! tenable sources hu - he li.id received assur t!u < ih- Ethiopian Crown Asia Woseii. was ready to uni onditionally ■K ; ..-ne the nominal severas a puppet I ■ I'.Tan domination. | . 'he ent h.mselt was ready to abdiW". ii s favor, and had regardless of immediate de Mass.dm: saw himself ai th- final stages of win-1 v, greater than dreamed, cost $553,000,000. r_ aM* l ' allan ■ l ' ,s ' saw I,aly :.-'' a major < "I" 1 to lay his plans for 1 -., position | ■■< ami to ■ hieftan in 4 onsolidation. a vital section of the . i ami Anstraim. JK*. -maps- of the league ot ■ ■ its own t.-rnih coincided with the of the fifth M >•( 1-ag't- ]- ualties agains' with til- 1.1 ginning ot the M of fiovsought to impress tne' » W!l| ‘ I'Ommili'anly and diplo Admits Failure April is ,u.R)- The ; pea.-- efforts ot tile of nations have failed. Sal de Madariaga 1-ailing med-, reported t .day to the comil '''"limit' ,f i;t tn a confesh'- 1 ' Italy had succeeded in war on Ethiopia. i-mini’ o f 13. tiie league " ’ll l - 1 :’ Italy met secret the drait o: the report -'ladariaga, its chairman. It IM a formality that had to be before another formon Monday when the "'ll present the report league and council. ■ Council Moves Balk Mayor Bangs ■ t '"‘l - Apr. 18—(U.R)— MT* ' lare W. H. Bangs today 'Wpected to "pocket veto” a Passed by the city counnight which prohibits him appointing and discharging ™ «n P ioy«. Passed the measure ‘ve to two vote which indlK ‘ fould •*> passed over the veto. council’s action was taken "'Uigs had discharged Janies ■L, lnß ', * Bter *«rks superin■p... ..'... Adklns was succeeded by |B ■ ■ Hull of Lawrenceville, ■ectors Os Closed S 1 ortland Bank Sued sß'jav'c April IK directors of ■pa,'... U ? y Savl "K 8 and Trust i®930 y w^ hCh cloa( ' d its doors |BoOjJ made dt ‘ (e “dants in ■K neglect l U Whlch tharßPS them MEL . and careless manage■r?'o have Z"’ a!ly a ’ ld With ■del, g (. ° thp secretary. Clyde ■stendan a °“ d each year■eat civ i d ' rectorß are Roscoe IS He£ c y Davn ß^ hdolt ' F - LeIM B Mag i mu Abromsou. Will■M H. sjah? W Sh ' mP

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Women Clash During Mill Strike eV " . k : *ll » < . Bl w ? IBS? k 2 Scratching, biting and hair pulling ntaj-ked hostilities which broke out between a woman picket and strikebreaker at the Rockwood ■ hosiery mills at Rockwood, Tenn., where deputy sheriffs were forced to separate the combatants, above.

WILL OPEN BIDS ON HOMESTEAD Bids For $15,000 Improvement To Be Opened Next Week Miss Marion Neprud, community manager of the Decatur Home steads project, received word today that bids on the 115.000 improvement at the local develop-! inent wili be opened in M ashington. D. C. on April 23 and 24. The most important part of the improvement will be the construeItton of garages. Other work to be done will be the installation of | laundry tubs. and rout bins. The landscaping will be done by a different department, it is expected. ' Invitations to bid have already ' been sent local dealers. The majority of the bids have been receiv 'ed in Washington. | ' Aft engineer from the construetion department of the resettle ' ment bureau will be in Decatur ! after April 28. He will supervise ! the work. Four men are now employed painting the interior of the houses. Six men are doing carpenter work for the repair and maintenance department. Thursday evening at 7:30 o'clock ' Dr. C. T. Gregory, plant patholog ist from Purdue University, will speak at the South Ward school building in a meeting sponsored jointly by the homesteaders and the South Ward I’. T. A. Dr. Gregory will speak on plant diseases and their control in the I vegetable and flower gardens. The meeting wilil be. open to the pub-, lie. o Safetv Feature Is Started In Democrat — A new feature begins today in the Daily Democrat as part of the national campaign to reduce the number of automboile accidents in the United StaJ.es. Statistics as to the number of fatalities and the causes of the accidents are illustrated graphical ly by cartoons. The first story and picture appear on page three of today’s issue. --o I Pleasant Mills Play Will Be Repeated The senior class of the Pleasant Mills high school will again present the play “For Pete's Sake on Monday, April 20 at the high school auditorium in Pleasant Mills. Tickets may be secured from any member of the cast. The play was presented last Thursday before a packed house. The presentation was so thoroughly enjoyed that it was decided to give the second performance. —o — - Crop Meeting Held Friday Night A large crowd attended the muck crop meeting at Berne Friday evening. Roscoe Fraser, exteneion muck specialist from Purdue University, apoke at the meeting on general subjects of interest to muck crop : farmers Tentative plane were lay-; ed for a muok crap show to be held in the county next fall or winter.

Stolen Auto Is Recovered Here’ Policeman Ed Miller this morning recovered an -automobile on South Fifth street. The car, a 1831 model A Ford coach, bore license; platen issued to Howard Grimm of j 108 Manchester street. Wabash. The i < ar. when t «und. was left with the motor running and one tire flat. The auto was otherwise undamaged. o Regular K. Os C. Meeting Postponed The regular meeting of the Knights of Columbus, scheduled for Monday night, has been postponed to a later date because of the annual play to be presented by the senior class of the Decatur Chtholfe high school ar rhe-school auditorium on the same night. ATTENDS MEET AT FORT WAYNE Mrs. Harold Smith Attends Deanery Meeting Friday Mrs 'Harold Smith, chairman of i the national council of Catholic ’ women of St. Mary’s parish attended the deanery meeting .held Friday at the home of MrsRobert O'Connor at Fort Wayne- ■ Officers were elected and Mrs. J i H. Brooks of the Immaculate Con- ' ception ipariah, Fort Wayne was elected .president: Mrs. John Car- ! medy of St. John the Baptist parish, j secretary; Mrs. Ben Tirnrne of the i'mmaculate Conception, treasurer ; and Mrs Ben Scheiber of St. Mary’s Huntington, auditor. A report was given by all the various parish chairmen and piano were diecussed for the diocesan coni vention to be held at South Bend. May 3 and 4 Th» convention will open with Pontifical high mass at 10 a m. with the most Rev. Edwin Wa'.oh. D. D.. | bishoip of Charleston. South CaroI lina preaching. The afternoon session will be held at St. Mary e college. In the evening there will be a mass meeting in the Central high school auditorium with the iprin- ; eipal address made by the national ; president of the council. Monday morning and afternoon session will be held at the 'Hotel Oliver. The convention will Ibe closing with a banquet at the hotel. — o Dynamite Blast Fails To Rescue Three Men Moose River, Nova Scotia, Apr. 18 —A dynamite blast, which it was hoped would tear through the debrie of the Moose River gold mine where three Toronto men have been entombed for six days, failed to penetrate the workings when it was set off today. The blast was set off in the vertical shaft where the slide occur- ■ ed. A giant steam ehovel was moved into position as soon as the dynamite went off. As the great iron claws tore at the loosened rock it was disclosed that the hoped for entrance had not been made. There was no let up, however, jin the rescue work that has continued hour after hour since the slide trapped the three men in the mine bottom last Sunday night.

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NEW TAX BILL IS READY FOR HOUSE ACTION Tax Measure Is Revised Considerably From Suggestions (Copyright. 192fi by United Press) Washington, April 18 ■— (UP) — The new $1,127,000,001) (iB) tax bill, revised materially from president Roosevelt's suggestions, was ready today for the house action next week. Democratic members of the house ways and means committee voted at a secret meeting last night to mponaor It as drafted by a subcommittee. Inasmuch as there are 18 Democrats and only 7 nepu-nticano on the committee, Democratic approval was tantamount to final full committee endorsement, expected formally Monday. Democratic members admitted the bill may fall short of the President's request for $792,000,000 annually for three years and $620,000,000 a year thereafter to finance farm relief and bcous costa. The bill will not Include new processing taxes spread over about 30 commodities, as recommended Iby Mr. Roosevelt, but otherwise I cleaves to his main .proposals for balancing the ordinary budget. It calls S ,r tax reform in levying j a tax on undistributed corporate pr.Xits, provides for a ''windfall” I levy to collect unpaid processing I taxes, and temporarily continues I present corporate excess profits and ; apital stock levies. Chairman Samuel B. Hill, D, Hill D.C. Washington of the tax subcommittee, said, "We are not working to the definite end of balancing the budget but we are hopeful that the revenue will approximately bal-' ance the ordinary -budget ” The fact the treasury, in reply to j questions submitted by full committee chairman Robert L Doughton, was unable to clarify the dispute over yietl. left unanswered the question of h. ,w close the measure in its present form meets Whit“ House revenue demands. The president asked that revenue wt-e out the $517,000,000 deficit resulting from supreme court invaliI datlon of the AAA, permanent new j revenues of $120,000,000 annually : to cover bonus costs, and $500,000.OCO to finance the permanent farm program. ('■.mmittee Democrats admitted that, on paper at least, the measure would fall at least $345,000,000 short of the revenue over a three year period sought by the Presidento Monmouth Seniors To Present Play The senior class of the Monmouth high school will present a three act play, entitled “Saintly Hyprocites and Honest Sinners," at the high school auditorium on Tuesday night, April 28. The presentation is a royalty play and has been described as entertaining, with a real moral for everyone. The complete cast of characters will be anounced in a short time. DEATH CLAIMS ALICE MILLER Mrs. Alice Miller Dies At Home of Daughter In This City Mrs Alice Mary Miller 85 died this morning at 8:30 at the home of her daughter. Mrs. Cal Wait, Madison street. Death was due to infirmities. She had been in ill health for the past two weeks . The deceased was born in Pleasant township, Allen -county on June 23, 1850, the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. -Henry Muldoon. She spent meet of her childhood in that community, moving to a farm in Wells county about 1921 She was married to Louis Miller shortly after moving to that county. 'Her hsband preceded her in death in 1908. She moved here about three years ago to make her home with her daughter and son-in-law after living in R".rt Wayne for a short time- She was a member of the St. Mary’s Catholic church here. Survivors other than Mrs. Wait are the following children: Charlee of Ossian; L. E- Miller, of Fort Wayne; Henry, of Toledo; and Edgar of Los Angelee. Two children Clara and Ernest are deceased. A brother, Albert lives in Fort Wayne The body was taken to the Zwick funeral home. Funeral arrangements are to be made later.

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Assessors, Deputies Will Meet April 26 County Assessor Ernest Worthman stated today that u meeting of all ussewMirs and their deputies will be held In bls office Sisttirday, April 26. at 9 a. m. He urged that all assessors bo present as this would !><■ the final meeting before the close ot the work on May 5. As a whole the work is progressing rapidly, according to the county assessor, but one or two of the men are behind in their work. CALLAND TALKS ON CROP PLANS Sugar Company Official Speaks At New Haven Meeting Detailed explanation of the payments to be made under the Soil Conservation Act, the Governments new crop control program, was made by J. Ward Calland, field man for the Central Sugar Company. Decatur, at a meeting of sugar beet farmers in the New Haven High School, Thursday night. An address stressing the importance of the sugar beet crop in this area was made by E. W. Bushe of Decatur, president of the Central Beet Growers Association. Mr. Calland pointed out that the average payment for reducing soilI depleting crops is around $lO an acre, but that the payments in this section for reducing sugar beet crops may amount to sl2 an acre. "Sugar beet payments,” Mr. Calland said, “will be based on the normal amount of sugar produced per acre. This payment is estimated to be about $3.50 per acre. There is no limit to the amount of sugar beet acreage which may be ' planted, provided that such acre- • ! age must not exceed the total soil i depleting base acreage allowed for | the farm.” The meeting was planned by 'County Agent C. V. Kimmell, to i acquaint sugar beet farmers more thoroughly with the Government j requirements under the new proINJURED GIRL | LITTLE BETTER Irene Sells Shows Slight Improvement: Brown Rites Today The condition of Irene Sells, local i high school girl, who was severely ' injured in the auto -crash near Wren I Ohio Wednesday night which snuff|ed out one life and injured two ‘ i ctheru. was reported to ba slightly , improved today. ’ I According to the attending (physician the girl is still in a semi-con--1 scions condition. She regains -consciousness for a few minutes, able to carrv a rational conversation, '.-ii- ' ly to laipse into a state of coma. . I Seriousness of her injuries -prevent a thorough examination to determine their extent, according to the d . tor. Fear of a brain injury and skull fracture has been expressed. Clarence Smith, driver of the auto in the fatal crash is also confined I to his home with serious injuries. | though of a lesser nature than his girl companion. He is suffering from a cut running from the fore- ; head nearly to the back and a smaller gash across the top. John Brown brother of the dead girl, escaped injury, but remains at his home near Wren suffeiing from 1 shock. Funeral services for Alice Brown ' who died almost instantly will be ’ held this afternoon at 1 o'clock 1 (CST) at -the ißre.wn home and at 2 o’clock at the First Baptist ' church here. o I Five Arrested For J Murdering Infant Aurora, Ind., Apr. 18 — (U.R) — Five persons were held to the grand jury on murder charges to--1 day for participation in a plot in ’ which the infant of an unwed ‘ mother was drowned in the raging waters of flooded South Hogan L creek. Four of those held, including the child's mother, have confessed L participation in the crime, City 1 Attorney Ha.rtell Denmore said. 1 Miss Pearl Sherman, 29, the • child's mother, told authorities 1 the baby was alive when it was t drsesed in doll clothes, wrapped » in a blanket, placed in a box with t a rock and thrown into the creek • at 8 p. m. on March 25, five hours after its birth.

G-MEN ARREST THREE MEN IN HAM KIDNAPING Federal Agent Head Announces Development In Old Kidnaping Washington, Apr. 18 — (U.R) — Federal agents today lifted the curtain of mystery from the kid-i naplng three years ago of Wm. A. Ham, Jr., with announcement that three alleged abductors had been arrested, three are in prison, two are dead and one —the notorious Alvin Karpis—is still at largo. The SIOO,OOO kidnaping of Ham, wealthy St. Paul brewer, was one of the few “unsolved" cases on 1 the books of the federal bureau of | investigation, which had long; waged a search for Karpis as pule lie enemy No. 1. J. Edgar Hoover, chief of federal bureau, announced that federal 1 agenta, striking simultaneously at three widely separated points arrested : J. Fitzgertild, in Los Angeles. Jack Pfeiffer, in St. Paul. Edward C. Bartholomew, postmaster at Bensonville. Illinois. Hoover, calling newspaper men unexpectedly to his office for an early morning announcement of solution of the case said that in addition to the. men arrested yesterday, the following were involved in the abduction: Arthur ll)oc) Barker, now in (CONTINUED ON PAGE THREE) I —o Mrs. Vallee Plea Denied By Court New York. Apr. 18 —(U.R) —The appellate division of supreme court I ruled that Mrs. Fay Webb Vallee. I Santa Monica, Cal., estranged wife of the crooner, would have to live i on SIOO a week for a while. Mrs. Vallee had appealed, hop-1 ing to get a larger share of her i 1 husband’s income which she be- | i lievee to be $125,000 a year. The court divided htree to two against liter, but it was a sedate heaiiug, compared to argument of the sep- ! aration agreement before Justice | Cotillo a year ago last February, i — o Des Moines, lowa Damaged By Fire — Des Moines, la., Apr. 18 —(U.R) — Fire swept through a block of the Des Moines industrial district today. burning out three manufacturing establishments and damaging others at aji estimated loss of SIOO,OOO. Two huge gasoline and fuel oil storage tanks of the Cities Service i Oil company were miraculously ’ saved from the blaze. The tanks were within two inches of one I building that was destroyed. Paint was burned from the tanks when I the building wall collapsed. Tanks of the Phillips Petroleum company across the street also were endangered. Firms whose buildings were destroyed were the New Monarch Machine and Stamping company. The Western Silo company, and The Bolzer company, manufacturing chemists. LARGE CROWDS WITNESS PLAYS Rrual High Schools Os County Give Plays Friday Night Two large crowds witnessed the . second annual presentation of oneact plays, given by the public speaking classes of the seven rural high ; schools last night. The plays were given ‘by Momvie and 'Hartford high school auditoriums. The plays were -thoroughly enjoyed by those present. On Friday. r April 24, the plays will again be given with the schools of the north half ot the county going to Hartford and those from the south half com- ' ing to Monroe to give their presen- ' tations. The performances given j last night were in their respective . sections of the county. The .method of rotating these plays was inaugurated last year by , county school authorities and has i proven very successful, according to - reports made by them. The teachers of the public speaking classes > of the various schools are directors i of their respective plays. , o 1 WEATHER l t Fair tonight and Sunday; i light to heavy frost tonight, not so cool Sunday afternoon.

Field Mass Will Open Centennial Observance Here

Bishop To Attend Most Rev. Bishop F. Noll of i (Fort Wayne will attend the field mass opening the CentenniaJ celebration in this city Sunday, August 2. The mass will he held at 8:30 a. m. Union Protestant services will be held in the evening of the same day. START WORK ON NEW WALK SOON Work On New Walk At Court House May Start Next Week The proposal to build a new and i I smaller sidewalk on the north side i ■ of the court house is rapidly pro-; i gressing and work is expected to be started next week, it was -made known today. The. plan was approved by the county commissionere and county council in a joint session recently. , I provide for tearing out the old walk | and laying the new cement walk, i The new walk is to be five feet in width, with an extra foot allowed on the inside for the additional : planting of shrubbery. This improvement, in addition to furnishnig a much needed walk, would allow for diagonal parking I of autos ~n Madison street, thus I giving more s,; ace. The matter must -be presented ] to the city council for approval on the widening of the street. The proposal had been presented to the 1 county board early in the year but - had been rejected. Having recon-1 I sidered. the 1.-.ards in their joint meeting approved the work. The materials are to be furnished at the cost of the county. The labor would be furnishede under the WPA. It was estimated that the project would cover nearly a month with a force of about 10 men empl,.',yed. Q Another World War Treaty Violated Ankara (Angora) Turkey, April IS — (U.R) —Turkish soldiers stood watch along the Dardanelles today. in token that another world war treaty was dead. President Mustapha KemaJ Ataturk decided upon the occupation of the zone, it was learned, because of the dangerous international situation. The cabinet approved the move Thursday night at a meeting which Marshal Fevzi attended. Trops moved into position along the 47-mile long zone, the ancient Hellespont which Leander swam, yesterday morning. By the -occupation, and the expected fortification, Turkey again takes control of the strait — only three to four miles wide—between the Mediterranean and the Black Seas, in defiance of the straits convention of the Lausanne treaty which provided for the internationalization of the zone and of the Bosporus strait to the east. Margaret Poling Dies Os Paralysis i Mrs. Margaret A. Poling, 66, died , Thursday afternoon at the home of her daughter. Mrs. Thomas Sullivan i five miles northwest of Bryant. She i suffered a stroke of paralysis three years ago. Also surviving are a son, James Wheeler Fort Wayne; two brothers and two sisters. Funeral services will be held at the Geneva United Brethren church at 1:30 p. tn. Sunday. Burial in the Westlawn cemetery

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Religious Services Will Open City’s Centennial Celebration Here First Week In August BISHOP TO ATTEND I’lans are Iteing completed to make the opening day of (he Centennial celebration, Sunday, August 2. a, religious demonstration by all church bodies in the city. The historical pageant will be presented Sunday evening. A cast of more than t>oo local people will participate. According to plans being made by C. C. Pumphrey, president ot the Decatur Centennial Association and Dr. Fred Pa,tterson. chairman of the pageant commiti tee. and supported by the general land other committees of the Centennial, the day of pageantry will open with a solemn high mass on the pageant grounds Sunday morning. In the evening at the twilight hour, a union service of all Protestant churches will bo held, the pageant following. Rev. Joseph Seimetz. pastor of St. Mary’s Catholic church, has been assured that the Most Rev. Bishop John F. Noll of Fort Wayne will attend the field mans, scheduled for 8:30 o'clock Sunday morning. A solemn high mass will be celebrated with Father Seimetz acting as celebrant, assisted by Father Joseph Hennes, assistant pastor of St. Mary’s church, and five i Decatur men ordained to the I Catholic priesthood. ■ The vested Seminarian choir of ' Notre Dame will sing the mass. A large number of servers and altar boys will assist at the mass. The mass will be said on an altla.r in front of the stage and back- ' ground settings to be erected for the pageant. It will be pageantry in itself, impressive and marked by the pomp and solemnity of a solemn high mass said in the presence of Bishop Noll. The Decatur Ministerial Association is already working on plans for the great union service to be held Sunday evening. Murders Officer, Commits Suicide Denver, Co., April 18—(U.R) —P°" "lice search for Amos Hayhurst for - the slaying of Joseph Dicker was ended today after he had killed a | city detective and then committed suicide. Hayhurst’s body, with a bullet in the head was found in his room last night, shortly after he had 'shot and killed detective Pesquale Marinaro. who sought to arrest him for Dicker’s murder. The killing of Dicker, 24. occurred Thursday night when he entered the apartment of Hayhurst's divorced wife, Mrs. Edna Marie Hayhurst, 24. Hayhurst fled after shooting Dicker and beating Mrs. Hayhurst with the butt of his pistol. TRUCK DRIVERS ESCAPE INJURY Two Men Unhurt When Truck Is Hit By Freight Train Here Cliff Brown, and his son, Keith, local milk truck drivers, narrowly ' escaped serious injuries and posst ible death last night shortly after 8 o'clock when they were struck J by a train at the Monroe street , crossing. The men were driving a largo , milk truck with an improvised wooden body on the rear. The train struck near the rear end ot the wooden body, tearing the entire bed from the truck and hurling it several yards to a position in front ’ of a nearby store. It was explained that the freight ' ordinarily would have been travelE ing at a much greater rate of 1 speed, but had slowed considerab--5 ly before entering the city at the * south point, when signals had boon • set against the freight. The freight 5 pulled to a point nearly a block north before stopping. t The cab and cbasses of the truck t were practically without any dam- » age and the men were aide to drive it from the scone.