Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 35, Number 215, Decatur, Adams County, 11 September 1937 — Page 1

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f TAX ADJUSTMENT BOARD TO MEET fto FIX LEVIES (iunty Tax Adjustment ■jtoard To Convene Next Monday JU of th<> problems which will the Adams county tax ad- |( ;,t board when it convenes Monday, will be the lowering of I various levies in tic connconform with the new tax laws, which sets the levies in cities at $2 and at $1.25. ■,»,vr. the law excludes cer levies front the limitations, are bond and public welfare i e JL in this county. paragraph.- of the law deal■njwith the setting of the rates territory outside of the corlimits of incorporated cities towns, the total tax rate for poses, including the state referred to in section 1 (max levy 15 cents) and including township levy and rate for pX relief, shall not exceed $1.25 thaein. «j territory inside of the corlimits of incorporated cities !pj towns, the total tax rate for including the state nA referred to In section 1 of thh act (maximum levy 15 cents) at! including the township levy rate for poor relief, shall not of taxable property thereerlfrom the old tax limitation law fa hat an emergency is defined An emergency growing out ofß flood, fire, pestilence, war or major disaster." Under the an emergency was not defin. 1 and could be declared for a ■K i... r of reasons if officials beIfev the tax levy should be higher han the limit. rates applicable in Decatur rnß be used as an example of how the law will function: proposed 1939 total tax levy aHK: is $2 i 9. aßr ise of 24 cents as compared ' »S ! 37. This levy is divided as fidjlor.s: state. 15 cents; welfare. IfiKents; county bond, four cents; eAnty general, 26 cents; townshi road bonds. 13 cents; town slji fund, three cents; township school bonds, four cents; tulion. 42 cents: library, six cents: civ city. 40 cents, and total. $2.49. included in the tax limitation law in Decatur are the following- count/ bond, four cents; bonds, four cents; township void bonds, 13 cents, and county wlfare. 10 cents, total, 31 cents. Se 31 cents from the wßch must be included under the $■ In other words. 19 cents must b«l pared from the following prolevies, county general. 26 ctats; township poor, 30 cents: school, 56 cents; tuition, 42 l library, six cents, and civil state rate is included -in the but can not be redat d by the tax adjustment board. of higher civil city rates a® other factors, many communiin the state are anticipating difficulty than Adams county Inducing their levies to the new limitation law. -tubers of the Adams county tai adjustment board are: Carl C. of Decatur; Ralph W. , Byder. of Geneva; Lawrence L. ; of Berne. Republican freeholders. George Krick, of Decatur. > freeholder; Mayor A. ■(CONTINUED ON PAGE SIX) I ___ ■kecutes Self In Own Electric Chaii ■ — ; t Sept. 11 —(UP) —Bert- 1 ( R. Braucher. 27 an engineering , executed himse'f in a home , -b-i trie chair, police said to- | Iraucher was found dead cn a lr in his home, with his wrists ; sd to a transformer on which propped a eign“danger—high age.” t the ekctric light socket where transformer was connected was lher sign’’ ‘tpull out this plug betouching me.” I ■ —. —o ■temperature readings democrat thermometer B 8:00 a. m. . 62 ■30:00 a. m. 65 ■Noon 70 WEATHER I Fair tonight and Sunday; ■somewhat cooler eadt portion . continued cool Sunday 1 *

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Decatur Youth Is , Painfully Injured Ray Shoaf, about 17, who makes his home at the Russ Weldy home on 410 South Fifth street, was painfully injured late Friday afternoon when a dynamite cap, he was examining, exploded. The explosion blew off about half of,his thumb and index finger. Splinters of the broken bone and parts of the cap were driven into his forehead, about his eyebrows, like tacks. He was taken to the Adams county memorial hospital immediately for treatment. Attending physicians stated today his condition was much improved. WILLIAM HOSEY TAKEN BY DEATH Former Mayor Os Fort Wayne Dies At Hospital Late Friday Fort Wayne. Ind., Sept. 11. —William J. Hosey of 201 Kensington boulevard, who served as mayor of Fort Wayne four times over a span of 29 years, died Friday afternoon at St. Joseph's hospital. The 83-year-old former mayor of the city, who completed his last term as chief executive in 1934. died at 4:40 o'clock. A stroke of apoplexy and injuries received in a fall at his summer home at Sylvan lake caused the death of the man who was the standard-bearer of the Democratic party in six municipal campaigns. No hope had been held for his recovery since he was stricken last week. He was brought to the hospital last Monday. The former mayor rallied briefly Wednesday but his condition became worse Thursday, fie was unconscious curing the greater part of his last illness and was unconscious before his death. Mr. Hosey suffered a fractured hip in the fall and this injury con- | tributed to his death. He was first stricken last November 14 when he suffered a slight stroke. However. his recovery from that illness was rapid. ! Mr. Hosey served for 17 years as mayor of the city, having first been elected to office in 1905. Mayor Huaey was born in Naw j Orleans, La., on May 5, 1854, the son of Irish immigrant parents. His parents were born In Wexford county. Ireland, and came to this I country shortly before Mr. Hosey was born. At the age of four Mr. Hosey and his patents moved to Mt. Vernon. 0., where he resided until 1872. At that time he came to Fort Wayne. In 1891 Mr. Hosey made an extensive tour of Europe. Employed as a machinist at the Pennsylvania railroad, Mr. Hosey educated himself through study and travel. He was widely informed on all subjects. Mr. Hosey married Miss Mary McCarthy on November 9, 1894. They were the parents of five children. Surviving Mr. Hosey are the widow, Mrs. Mary Hosey; two I daughters, Miss Jean Hosey and Miss Mary Hosey, both at home; three sons, Lawrence Hosey of this city. Ralph Hosey of Chicago and Winfriti Hosey of this city, and a granddaughter, Helen Joan Hosey of Chicago. o $1,700 Shortage In City Clerk’s Funds Indianaolis, Ind., Sept. 11 —(UP) —A $1,700 shortage in the booke of missing city clerk Jrw-l M. Ford of New Albany was shown today in a report made public by the state board of accounts. The shortage was revealed after auditors examined Ford's books ovpr a five-month period. Ford has been missing since last June 23 and has been reported “somewhere in California.” The city council last night set Sept. 24 as the date for Ford's hearing. A special committee, named by the council, reportedly is preparing to draw up Impeachment p-oceed-inge against the missing clerk. o $5,000 Damage Is Caused By Storm Petersburg. Ind., Sept. 11 —<U.R) —Damage estimated at $5,000 was reported today after a heavy windstorm which struck north of the town of Oatsville in southwestern Pike county late yesterday afternoon. The storm demolished a barn and outbuildings and wrecked the house of Rufus Crecelius, Pike county farmer, and destroyed a barn on the farm of Silas Myrick, a neighbor. Witnesses said a funnel-shaped cloud dipped to earth a short distance from the Crecelius farm and cut a path 100 yards wide and onefourth mile long.

JAP OFFICIAL ASSERTS MORE I TROOPS NEEDED Chinese Forces Hurl Back Japanese Attack At Shanghai (Copyright 1937 by United Press) Shanghai. Sept. 11— <U.R> — A | Japanese army spokesman said j today that Japan must bring more | men. more artillery, and more sup-j | plies to the Shanghai front before I she could hope to win the terrible ■ | battle that entered its fifth week , | at dawn. The battle for Shanghai had , reached a, stalemate. Japan's shock troops and navy • men had been stopped short by numerically superior Chinese, united at last against a common | enemy and nerved to desperate resistance. The Japanese spokesman who admitted that Japan must bring reinforcements said that major operations must await their arrival. The real importance of this I statement must lie assessed on the basis of statements of more than on# week ago when the Japanese , started their “big push” that was | ’ I to drive the Chinese promptly out of Shanghai, and send them, rout- : ed. to the west. Up to the hour at which I write, I at the end of another bloody day of fighting in the ravished countryside north and east of Shang- ' ' hai, this Japanese big push has I failed. ’ Not the Japanese, but the Chin■l ese opened this day's fighting with a surprise attack in,which shock troops brought into the lines north- ■ i east of the city under cover of the , night smashed into the Japanese ' positions at dawn Japanese intelligence agents reI ported that the Chinese troops were led by the famous 'Plenteous’ j brigade of semi-independent troops : II now like the Communist army of ! the northwest, unreservedly under i; the central government command I and sworn to drive the Japanese i out of all China—including Man(CONTINUED ON PAGE 3IX) GOV. TOWNSEND BACKS F.D.R. — Praises Roosevelt Program In Address To Convention i Terre Haute. Ind.. Sept. 11. —(U.R) —President Roosevelts new deal program has saved America from ’ I a revolution, Gov. M. Clifford Towni send said today in an address be- | fore the annual convention of the Indiana Junior Chamber of Commerce. “The depression showed the fallacy of the theory that the more ' wealth concentrated at the top of the economic heap, the more filtered down to the lower levels.” Townsend said. “So new ideas replaced outworn ones, and a new program was launched.” “There were some mistakes, but no grievous ones. Men were given work or sustenance and revolution was averted.” Townsend said the new program —a result of the “demand from the youth of America to be heard” —, would have been “sabotaged to i death before it grew out of its infancy” had there not been a toler-j ance on the part of the people to accept it as a possible solution. “We have seen the program, as tar as it has been developed, work. We have seen higher wages for the worker shared by the farmer, th£~ merchant, and circulating through our entire economic community. Economic checks and balances have been set up to prevent any obstruction in the frep flow of wealth—to prevent it from being shunted off into the hands of the few.” The program already has achieved two of its objectives—prevention of a revolution and restoration of economic prosperity, the governor claimed. “Now the bigger task is ahead,” he said. “We must develop a plan for the future, a future in which insecurity and depressions are outlawed.” Townsend asserted that Indiana has kept pace with “this vast national program” and cited the Indidivision of labor as “one of our newest and most successful activities.” "We believe labor and industry are willing to arbitrate their differences,” he said. “We believe 1 that government cannot sit idly by and watch growing bitterness and hatred develop in the community. Prolonged labor disputes rob the worker of his wages, the em(CONTINUED ON PAGE SIX). i

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Decatur, Indiana, Saturday, September 11, 1937.

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Gathered in this peaceful setting—the little village of Nyon on (he , shores of Lake Geneva. Switzerland —are representatives of stajor ; European powers, called together to discuss a means of stopping sub- ( marine' “piracy" in the Mediterranean. Italy and Germany declined 1 to attend the parley because of presence of Soviet Russia's delegates.

WPA IMPROVES RAIL CROSSINGS State WPA Administrator Stresses Importance Os Safety Indianapolis. Sept. 11 — As a part of the works progress administration's contribution to safety on Indiana highways John K_ Jennings. state WPA administrator, has announced that during the fall i and winter sponsors of cornify i road projects are to be encouraged to stress the improvement of i “hump." or sharply inclined, rail- . road crossings in connection with their road programs. In making the announcement the administrator said he felt that the i cause of safety could be better : served by improving hazardous ■ crossings than by concentrating on ditching and grading activities. During the two years the WPA has been in operation in Indiana hundreds of such crossings have been improved through the work | relief agency’s program. Inclined railroad crossings are : regarded as one of the greatest menaces to highway travel by authorities on highway safety. Such crossings shut off the view of the motorist until he is on the tracks and tend to stall the motor of his car. Under the direction of county highway superintendents, the state administrator is expecting hundreds of WPA workers to be used [ in improving dangerous conditions at railroad crossings. The work can be done, he explained, by | making fills and grading highways back a distance of fifty to seventyI five feet on either side of the grade to make the approaches to | the tracks level. Transient Held For Public Intoxication Rudolph Rigo. a transient, is being held in the Adams county jail under a public intoxication J charge. He was arrested by State Policeman Burl Johnson and may be arraigned today before Mayor A. R. Holthouse. Rigo’s finger prints are being checked for possible complicity in crimes in a western state.

Takes Aspirin, Mercury And Tries To Commit Suicide Here

— | A Chicago resident is back at work on a local construction gang ' after an experience that would I have killed an ordinary man, Fri- ■ day evening. The man started the evening by becoming slightly intoxicated. Following this, he engaged in a card game in the city and swallowed three boxes of aspirins, containing from 24 to 30 tablets, before the eyes of his amazed opponents. Still able to get around, he walked to his room, where he later said he took a number of mercury pills. About 9:30 o'clock the night : policemen were called to his room, where he was found In an hysterical I condition. 1

.Infantile Paralysis Takes Van Wert Babe 1 Van Wert, 0., Sept. 11 — k’an ) Wert county Friday marked up its | first victim of infantile, paralysis with the death of Robert W.’Foley, • five-month-old son of Mr. and Mrs. 1 Frederick Foley, who reside near | Convoy in Tully township. Spiking rumors of a number of cases of infantile paralysis in the county, Dr. Charles R. Keyser, I t county health commisisoner, stat- 1 . | ed that this was the only case in ! , | the county, that there had been . only cne exposure to the disease. a sister, who is undvr quarantine I for observation, and Wat there is . no cause for alarm. ; —.. ; CHINESE REDS JOINING ARMY 10-Year Civil War Ended In Common Fight Against Japanese “ Shanghai, Sept. 11— (U.R) —The ‘ 10-year-war between Chinese Communists and the Nanking central ‘ government, costing 100,000 lives and laying waste interior Chinese ’ provinces, ended officially last ■ night. The government of Generalissi- ‘ mo Chiang Kai-Shek, fighting against Japanese invasion, declared in a communique that Com- ’ munists and non-Communists, 1 faced by a common enemy, now ■ I were united to drive the foe from ■ 1 j their homeland. ’ j "The Chinese government and : I the Communist army have been : ' , fighting for the last 10 years.” the | ’ communique said. "This is the | • official conclusion of the war.” . I ' Chu Teh. the "old warrior” who | 1 ’ led the Communist army since its ' formation, was officially appointed (CONTINUED ON PAGE SIX) — o—i Local Graduate To Purdue University i ’ Leo J. Miller, son of Mr. and | i | Mrs. Charles J. Miller of this city, s I left today for Lafayette, where he I ’ | will enter Purdue university . Mil- ■ ■ ler. a graduate of the Decatur ! Catholic high school with the I - class of 1936. was awarded the | i county scholarship to the university.

Two physicians were summoned and pumped his stomach. Unable to quiet him immediately with sedatives, he was taken to the jail for his own safe-keeping, no charges being filed against him. At the jail he made three attempts on his life. First he tried to hang himself by his belt. : ' Then he attempted to suffocate ' himself with his underwear and ' again tried to hang himself with ' his belt. i His clothes were removed and 1 he was locked in a cell. Early | 1 this morning he fell asleep end I awoke today with a slight head I I ache but able to go to work. |

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REVISE DRAFT OF TREATY TO PROTECT SHIPS Russia Objects To Original Plan; Roosevelt Comments Nyon. Switzerland. Sept. 11. — (U.R>-Great Britain and France agreed to a revised draft of I a Mediterranean treaty, eliminating Soviet Russia's objections to implied recognition of the*belligerent ’ right of the Spanish insurgents. Reliable sources said France and Britain were in general agreement "in principle” on providing mutual I assistance to merchant ships of any signatory treaty power, no matter where it might be attacked. The revised treaty was consider-: ed at a private session of the Medi- j terranean powers this afternoon. Delegates believed details would be worked out this evening and the , accord signed on Monday after the governments involved have been consulted and give their approval. Maxim Litvinov, Russian foreign commissar, angrily asserted that under the original plan, the “unknown" submarines need only comply with international humanization rules, could challenge merchant-: men, give crew and passengers time to take to lifeboats, and then I proceed to sink the ship. | Acceptance of these proposals, I 1 Litvinov declared, would be equiv- > > alent to recognizing the Spanish ' nationalists as belligerents under , international law, Russia's charges threatened the' Mediterranean conference. Italy, j accused of ownership of the “pir- , ate” craft, and Russia already 4.«vßre exchanging open threats ot. direct action against each other. , Because of the sudden dispute, | ' delegates worked anxiously in 'their Geneva hotel rooms today to reach a compromise before they ■ resumed the formal Mediterranean ' conference this afternoon. How wide divergence was is i shown by a complete summary of points agreed on in principle as made available to the United Press today. The conferees had agreed 1) to divide the Mediterranean into zones, to be patroled by destroyers of participants in the plan; 2) Fiance and Britain will patrol the western Mediterranean; 3) Italy will be offered the central zone, Britain and France to share it if she refuses; 4) Turkey. Jugoslavia, Greece. Russia and <Mher participants will share the eastern zone; 5) as soon as agreement is reached all merchantmen will be warned to stay inside of patroled sea lanes; 6) all “anti-piracy" powers agree to keep their own submar- ' ines out of these lanes. i It is the 77th point that tells the story: “The naval and legal experts I have still to decide what action is |to be taken against submarines which enter these lanes.” In other words, as delegates i prepared to leave their hotel room ' conferences for the meeting here, i there had been no agreement on the single point of vital import- ' ance. It was feared that unless a comi promise was found before the i conference session started, it i would be impossible to reach an ' agreement today and that the whole naval patrol problem would j have to go over until next week. Each day's delay, delegates : knew, gave additional chance for some incident in the "pirate” submarine crisis which might precipitate an explosion in the capitals of Europe. The path toward agreement seemed clear until Litvinov — regarded by British and French delegates as the infant terrible of the conference because of his undiplomatic insistence on identifying the officially mysterious submarine power as Italy—studied the Brit-ish-French proposals. Roosevelt Statement Hyde Park, N. Y., Sept. 11.—<U.R) —President Roosevelt declaerd today that Democratic governments of the world are "jittery” because of warfare in China and the threat of war in the Mediterranean. Mr. Roosevelt saidTiis statement also applied to every home in the world ( and to financial circles. The President made his com- ( mentary on the international situ- , (CONTINUED ON PAGE SIXI '

BUY SHRUBBERY FOB LOCAL PARK Park At Homesteads Addition To Be Landscaped This Fall Young shrubbery and trees, ordered for the 17 acres of park area at the Decatur homesteads project, wll l arrive early in the fall and be set out' immediately through the use of NYA labor. Carl Gardner, government land- ! scape and park planning expert, i who ipersonal'y inspected the tree-s and shrube, expects su)>ervise i their planting. Ferd Litterer. electled manager of the project, accompanied Mr. Gardner on the buying tour through Northern Indiana. The trees and shrubs were purchased through funds donated joint'ly by the Decatur Chamber of Com- | merce and the government. Young I stock was purchased to make bet- ! ter use *f the funds available. Government landscape architects ! have designed the placement of the ! nursery stock in such a manner j that there will be color in the parks throughout the year. ' Sites have also been left in the plans for proposed recreational features such ae a pageant ground, tennis courts, horse-shoe courts, a softball diamond and a shelter I house. The horseshoe courts have already been located. The park, now owned by the city, will be open for public use. o Application Is Filed Here For Passports An application for passports was : filed today by Mr. and Mrs. An- : drew J. Losier, Jr. of Berne, who | expect to take up missionary work ' in the Kenya Colony, British East Africa. They will be located in 1 the African Inland Mission. FAIR BREAKS ALL RECORDS Greatest Fair In State’s History Closed Friday Night Indianapolis, Sept. 11— (U.R) — The greatest and largest state fair viewed by Hoosiers in years was ended today after the gates swung shut on the 85th annual exposition where a total of 385,061 persons paid attendance fees. The last day of the exposition was marred by heavy rains but exceeded the 1936 record attendance by 17.583. Disappointment of the fair came yesterday to many race fans when j officials announced that Greyhound, champion American trotter. would not attempt to beat his own record against time, due to a muddy track. Experts had hoped the big grey gelding would lower the track record and make a try at the world's mile record set 15 years ago by Peter Manning. Indianapolis officials, headed by Walter C. Boetcher, new mayor of Indianapolis, were guests of the management yesterday. The capital city executive broadcast three speeches thanking Indiana for support of the state’s “biggest" fair. New records for the sale of championship cattle at all state fairs in the United States were established yesterday when yie prize-winning 4-H club steer was purchased by Kingan & Co., local packing firm, for a record price of 70 cents a pound. The sale exceeded by 19 cents a pound, the previous high price paid for a champion at the lowa state fair in Des Moines. The champion steer, an Aberdeen Angus, was owned and raised by Miss Ann Marie Van Hoy of Loogootee. Sale of the prize animal was witnessed by several thousand persons and was a final day feature attraction. A final day "flare-up" came last night when the Indiana board of (CONTINUED ON PAGE SIX) o » Berne Star To Enter Purdue University Bob Dro, fas four years star center for the Berne Bears, will enter Purdue university this fall in the forestry course. Dro had originally planned to enroll at Indiana university. but changed his plang,

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Full Length Movie To Be Feature Os Cooking School At The Adams Theater. OCTOBER 4-5-6 There is always something new under the sun. Entertaining proof of that statement will be presented by the Decatur Daily Democrat, which is bringing to the Adams Theatre a motion picture that pioneers in fresh, stimulating treatment of the oldest and most important subject in the world — Homemaking. Long ago the cooking school graduated from a curiosity to a popular necessity in many parts of the country. Now it has graduated again, leaping this time into Hollywood stardom. For this is no routine lecture, no methodical demonstration which the Democrat will give to the women of the community for three days without charge, starting Monday, October 4. The Democrat takes genuine pride in being among the first to sponsor “The Bride Wakes Up,” a full-length feature picture, directed and filmed in Hollywood, with a competent cast to interpret the appealing story. Women young and old, and men too, will appreciate the humanness of this romantic screen story, in which home problems have been approached from an entirely new instruction, humor and romance angle. Entertainment, profitable are woven deftly into a production which abounds in ingenious camera studies and remarkable closeups. The camera has modernized the cooking school, magnifying its benefits, losing none of Its hospitable. friendly charm. In fact, there are close-ups of a new chocolate layer cake and a lemon chiffon pie that are destined to send the hungry audience hustling home to duplicate the culinary triumphs. Free recipe sheets each day will provide added incentive. Experienced housekeepers will I thrill to the adventures of the I bride, whose husband begins to boil when he finds that she can't even boil water. But this bride is nation, even thougli the faithful blessed with resourceful determiservant in her girlhood home had made every effort to spoil her. What happens after the honeymoon is over? What happens when, the bride becomes aware of the critical gaze of some of her husband’s old sweethearts, who are not apt to forget heavy biscuits in a hurry? To unravel the mystery In advance would be to rob this clever tale of its novel approach. However the audience is due to share a series of neighborly food consultations. in which expert home specialists reveal the secrets which govern the perfection of flaky piecrust. fluffy cakes, molded icebox marvels, appetizing salads and correctly roasted meats. Never has the wizardy of the camera brought a subject more closely and naturally to the watchers. It will be a real cooking class, just as though the model kitchen were right on the stage, with the exception that the view actually will be more complete for each person in the audience. The guests of the Democrat in the back rows will share the same slose-ups of the busy mixing bowl which are being seen in the front of the theater. When the graduated measuring spoons drop their level portions into the bowl, when the wooden spoon is creaming the shortening, and the dry ingredients are being sifted, each step of that measuring, blending and mixing process will be pictured faithfully through a series of fascinating close ups. This will be no direct-from-the-oven sample of speed or trick photography, but a thorough, real-life camera study of scientific, methods. designed to be helpful, even while the story entertains. So realistic is the atmosphere ofl the modern kitchens, with their gleaming, convenient equipment and cheery informality, that the audience really feels part of tho scene. Soon the deft worker seems to be talking directly to each person in the theater, rather than to the puzzled bride. ’Every listener will find a harvest of practical ideas among the suggestions for more efficient homemaking, covering such daily problems as laundry, refrigeration, up-to-date entertaining, beauty se.(OGNinwaa pn jragm mxk .