Ligonier Banner., Volume 70, Number 9, Ligonier, Noble County, 26 March 1936 — Page 3
Stockholders Face Sult
The state department of financial institutions in charge of liquidation of the Old Adams County bank at Decatur hag filed suit against 13 stockholders of the band for collection of par value of their shares, plus 6 per cent interest from March 21 1935.
The complaint charges that the lia bilities of the bank exceeded cash valueg of assets by $104,404.84, at the time of insolvency in January of last year. ‘
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~ Signs of These Timeg By Dudley A. Smith The Hoosier farmer has received even greater assistance from his Fed eral Government in his time emergency. His debts have been reduced and he has received loans on crops and for cash working capital when no others would trust him. The Federal Land Bank at Louisville Ky., has negotiated $108,192,000 of land loans to 42,000 farmers who formerly were mortgage-ridden. The scaledown of mortgage debts and interest rates represents a $3,750,000 savings to Indiana farmers. . From . the Jlntermediate Credit ‘Banks, 18,300 Hoosiep farmers liave received $11,600,000 of loans. Frcm the Production Credit Corporation, 8,807 farmers in this state have received $3,811,000 in credit. Emergency Crop and Feed Loans total 1,250 for the sum of $173,000. Sixtyfour farm cooperative marketing association have borrowed $1,129,000. Thus, the New Deal brought $124,805,000 of credit to Indiana farmers who otherwise would have been: bankrupt.
Through the H. 0. L.. C. the great class of wage and . salary families of Indiana saved 47,125 homes, which for many representcd life-savings This ‘agency Jloaned $108,202,392 to Hoosier citizens of which $5,720,593 went to pay delinquent taxes and $2,652,297 into the building trades for repairg.
Through the Works Progress Administration, jobs have been found and wages paid to 80,479 of Indiana's unemployed who are at work on 1,400 productive projects which “will return much over their cost to Indiana’s public wealth and citizenship. Thiege projects include farm-to-mar-ket roads, flood control, public buildings, parks and water and sewersystem.
For the salvation of banks, indus t{ries and insurance compaunies the Reconstruction Finance Corperation loaned $61,300,000 in Indiana. All Las been repaid with the return of better times except $34,476,090.
And now that Spring is here the Governor’s Unemployment Relief Commission, working with WPA bE! urging township trustees and re lief officials all over Indiana to begin their garden planting programs Last year 127,210 gardeng were plant ed by relief families. From these 3,250,000 quarts of vegetables were canned for the winter. Free seeds will again be distributed through trustees by the QGUR for relief family gardens. :
Tourney Secores. At Muncie Newcastle, 18; Warsaw, 15. Central of Fort Wayne, 36; Kokomo, 26. Central of Fort Wayne, 24; Newcastle, 18. final. ' At Gary, ; Logansport, 30; Riley of South Bend 27. ; Frankfort, 35; Froebel of Gary, 29. Frankfort, 28; Logansport, 27, final At Indianapolig Crawfordsville, 24; Shelbyville, 17. Anderson, 27; Connersville, 15. Anderson, 27; Crawfordsville, 12, final. _ At Vincennes Wiashington, 43; Martinsville, 30. Central of Evansville, 27; New Albany, 25. Central of Bvansville, 37; Wasaington, 386, final.
Issue Booklet On Planting
An illustrated ' booklet, Planting Forest Trees in Indiana issued by the Division of Forestry contains many helpful suggestiong to the far mer and landowner interested in improving his property, Virgil M. Simmoons, commissioner of the Department of Conservation .gtated. The booklets may be gecured without cost upon application to the Division of Forestry, Department of (Conservation, State Library Building, Indianaplis, Indiana. : - The booklet: discusses planting methods, spacing care of trees and uses of the different species. Interest in the planting of trees as windbreaks and general reforestation is spreading rapidly along with the increased listed as classified forest tand.
_Home Is Destroyed
Fire burned to.the ground an eight room story and a half modern frame home owned by the Weaver Bros., five miles west of Goshen and a quar ter-mile west of the Dell school. Firemen from Elkhart, Wakarusa and Foraker responded to telephoned alarms but when they arrived the entire top oof the house wag blazing The firemen exerted all of their efforts in successfully preventing the fire from spreading to other buildings. : ‘The home was owned by Harvey C., Henry W. and Ira D. Weaver, who occupied the home with their sisters, Emma and Jenhie.
Plaintiff in the case of School City of South Bend against the Auditor of ‘St. _Jooseph County, mandamus action, has filed motion for new trial and a new jury, and a motion for additional conclusfons of law. " This {s a tax suit brought by the school city of South Bend to compel the auditor to collect: the taxes as originally -set out in ithe published budget of the sehool city because of _certain alleged irregularities in cuts ‘made by the St. Joseph county board of tax adjustmmnts. Trial was held on March 3 and Judge McNagy’s decision was in favor of the auditor.
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VAST PROGRAM IN EFFECT
Indian®’ Social SeCurity Laws Now : :Put Into Operation
Indiana’s vast social security program was in motion today after organization of the state welfare and employment stabilization boards and appointment of their directors. i
IWayne Coy state directer of ‘Workg Progress Administration was named administrator of the welfare board, and Clarence Jackson director of the gross income tax disision, director of thg unemployment hoard. The welfare board, holdinz its first apjeeting movedq limmediately to jstart organization of county boards throughout the state. It was announced the board would meet with circuit court judges to out line details of the act and explain the need for appointment of qualified persong to local boards. : - ICircuit judges are given authoriity to name local bi-partisan boards of five members. No more than three may he of ong politicak party and two must be women.
' “The success of the welfare program will be determined by the personnell of county boards,” Coy said. “We want the highest type of persons on these first boards aand will ask judges to carry out the suggestion.” )
Coy will continue as stalec WPA adinistrator, but will ask Jeave to absence from his regional post. Ha is director over WPA activities in Indiana, Ohio, Kentucky and Waest Virginia. He will serve at we'fare administrator without pay, bis sallary being paid by WPA.
The Welfare board announcad tha® county boards of children’'s guardian and authority of county commissioners to administer old age pensions will not be disturbed immediately. Countieg will be notifieq when the state board is ready to assume jursdiction of those activities. Coy said.’ He added that such work probably would not be assumed before April 1. Fifteen employes of the old state welfare board, abolished by the new law, were re~instated by the board until Aprit 1. Coy also announced that salaries of welfare board employes would be figured on the new law, were re-instated by the board until April 1. Coy alsc announced that salaries of welfare board employes would be figured on a basis of the state pay schedules recently adopted. : : The number of additional employes and location of the department had not been decided he said. The welfare board announced its regular meeting would be held on the second Friday of each month. The unemployment board established two regulations. The first is that all henefits shall be paid solely through employment offices in the state and the second is that the board will not receive applications for guaranteed employment = plans until Jan. 1, 1939. - g
Under terms of the act, employers of eight or more who are able 'to guarantee extended employment are suybject to decreased payroll taxes All employerg of -eight or more must pay 1.2 per cent taxes on payrolls starting April 1.
Kosciusko Co. Corn Crop Hlt.
Seed corn in Kosciusko county was badly damaged by the long continued cold weather during the past winter, tests made by vocational agriculture pupils of Warsaw high school revealed Friday. ,
More than 2,000 ears have been tested and more will be tested. Tests reveal that much good-look-ing corn is 75 per cent sterile. Because of the rainy fall season corn went intp the winter with 20 or more per cent of;moisture in it and as a result hag been badly damaged. The tests have brought out the fact that only individual ear tests will reveal whether or not corn ig worth planting.
Bandits Get $6OO
Mwo unmasked bandits held up and robbed the Randall Investment company Fort Wayne Thursday after noon shortly after 4 o'clock taking ‘more than $6OO in currency. _
The bandits, entering the office ordered thosg inside to step aside. While oone drew a revolver, the other scoop ed up the money and both then fled. There were three persns in: the office at the time of the raid.
Two, armed bandits held: up Francis Knecht manager of the Knecht Milling company took his purse containing about $l6O and looted his office safe an additional $260 at Harttord City. ' i
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TO GIVE FARMER $lO AN ACRE
Farmer May Claim Payments Only Upon 15 Per cent of “Base Acreage” Benefit paymentg averaging $lO an acre were offered farmers for removal of 30,000,000 acres from intensive cultivation under the new soil conservation program replacing the AAA, = ‘
Details of the program announced by Secretary of Agriculture Henry ‘Wallace, provide expenditure of $440,000,000 in conserving the npation’s soil fertility this year, the first of the two-year temporary prograni. ‘““The new program represents a sincere effort both to conserve the goil in the interests of producers and consumers and to preserve the economic gaing that farmers have made during the past three years,” Wallace said.
'Wallace said he believed from an immediate point of view that the new program may nhot be quite as effective as “the old one destroyed by the supreme court,” but that from a long time point of view it may be “even more constructive.”
Two types of payments are provided for farmers who co-operate in fed eral suggestions for conservation and building ofi soil: 1. A soi] conserving payment aver aging $lO-an acre. 2. A soil building payment up to $1 an acre. :
For each acre of soii-depleting crops which a farmer diveris to soil ‘conserving he will get an average of $lO an acre on up to 15 per cent of the base acreage <computed on 1935 planting. : “A soil conserving crop is one that holds the present fertilicy of the soil; a soil buiiding crop is one that adds to the fertility of the soil.”
A soil conserving crop, it was ex-] plained, for which the fanmer is paid $lO an acre.may be turned under to l qualify as a goil-building crop, 2dding the extra $1 an acre. For the purpose of payment farm- 1 ers who. apply for payments ' will have their crops classified as a soildepleting soil-conserving and soilbuilding. A farmer may claim payments only upon 15 per cent of his “base acreage’’—the amount he planted in soil depieting crops last year. Soil-de-pleting crops were defined as: Corn, cotton, tobacco, Irish potatoes, sweet potatoes, rice sugar cane sugar beets, cultivated sunfiowers, commercial truck and canning crops melong and strawberries, peanuts, grain-and sweet sorghums, and small grains including wheat oats, barley, rye, buckwheat, flax emmer, gpeltz and grain mixtures. Payments are to be divided Dbetweem landlord and tenant where each shares in the crop Or its proceeds. Administration will be through state committees, county, and community committees and the AAA. Hvery farmer will be eligibie to iparucipate in the new Program whereas the AAA was restricted to certain crops. AAA officials estimated 80 per cent of farmers would cooperate. A base acreage will be established tor each farm. The AAA will estabjish ratios of soil depleting crop lands to total farm lands for each county. Then the county committees will set up the individual bases. If the expectation that 80 per cent of farmers participate payments will be prorated Zor 30,000,000 acres removed from intensive cultivation. ' If the participation is less than estimated, rates wll be increased prorath. If participation is = greater, rates will be reduced. But in 1o event will rates be increased or decreased more than 10 per cent, The division of benefit payments be tween landlords and share tenants or share croppers would be 37% per cent to the person furnishing the land; 12% per cent to the person furnishing the work, stock and equip ment, and 50 per cent to be divided las the principal soil depleting crop or itg proceeds is divided.
Farmey Drops Dead. B. J. Pippenger, 66, retired farmer dropped dead from:. a heart attack whilg walking through the orchard of his brother Amos Pippenger at Wakarusa.
'Within a few minutes after notitying Frederic Blosser a Warsaw relative of his intention to kill himself Charles Smith killed himself in the Lawrence ‘Randall home where he had been living. ’
Nearby Deaths it Mrs. Zilpha Sweany, 85, Wolf Lake Mrs. W. B. Tingley, 67, near Howe.
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SELECT NEW SCHOOL BQOKS
State Board Announces List of Texts To Cost About Million
New text books to cost approximate $1,000,000 for 700,000 Indiana school children were selected by the state board of education.
Floyd McMurray state superintend ent of public imstruction, said thart the selectiong were made on the basis of low bids and that use of new books was necessary because many of the texts are now obsolete. He pointed out that present text bhooks in United States history, physiology and economics have been in us 2 for 15 years. Lieut. Gov. M. Ciifford Townsend Frank H. Allen of Sonth Bend and Dr. Willilam Lowe Bryan president of Indiana university aided in their gselecton.
Items in the bidding were 435,000 spellers 250,000 geographies, 315,000 physiologies, 110,000 United States histories, 375,000 grammar; and 60,000 books on economics.
Civil Cases Filed
Several civil cases haye been filed in the Noble circuit court the past week. They include:
Fred F. Zimmerman vs. The Penn sylvania Railroad; damages. : George T. Earnhart vs Walter Rosenwinkle and Lulu B. Rosenwinkle; quiet title. .
Ami] F. Marquardt and Grace E. Marquardt, husband and wife vs Wil liam: Pierson Senr, et al; quiet- title. The Department of Financial Institutions vs Burritt S. Walter, Lou S. Walter, Nina Aldrich, Forest Aldrich to set aside deed.
Clm‘a E. 'Resler vs Nelson F. Brown et al; partition.
‘Woman Dies On Train
Mrs. Frances Williams Brooks, aged 65 years of New York City died enroute to New York City on the Lake Shore Limited train Friday evening shortly before the train arrived in Kendallville. :
" Mrs. Brooks sufferd a severe heart attack near thig city and train officials called for a physician and ambuInce to be on hand when the train arrived there to transport the strick en woman to the hospital. When the train arrived there, the woman was dead. ;
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Fined For Public Intoxication
‘Jameg E. Watson Jr., 38, son of the former United States senator from: Indiana was fined $5 and costs in city court at South Bend Thursday on a charge of public intoxication.
The son’s home is in . Evanston, 111. :
Watson did not appear in court but was represented by an attorney. He spent four hours in the city jail after hig arrest. Police said they had difficulty in subduing him. - ‘Wiatson later was releaseq from: jail when he posted $5O bond.
Noble County Birthg
Mr. and Mrs. D. A. Targart of Elkhart township a daughter. . :
Mr. and Mrs. Claude R. Johnson of Ligonier a son Harold Dean. (Mr. and Mrs. Floyd A. Hall of Rome City a son Kenneth Edward.
Elkhart Township Home Robbed
‘State police of Ligonier and county officials are investigating the burglary at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Frank Crago on the Spurgeon farm, three miles northwest of Wawaka. Thieves entered the home and took ten bushels of potatoes storedl in the cellar. They also took a quaatity of oil.. The potatoes were strewn from the home to the road, indicating the
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thieveg loaded them into a car. The theft was committed whilg the Cargos were at Ligonier on busin:ss Wednesday afternoon.
Edward H. Simpson 74 father of Judge Aldo J. Simpson of the Eikhart circuit court and a pioneer resident of Elkhart county died Saturday evening at hig farm home four and one half miles southeast of Millersburg. He haq been ill several weekg with paralysis and cerebral hemorrhage.
Miss Mabel Cottrill was winner in the LaGrange county oratorical contest helg at LaGrange. Miss Helen Cookerly of Topeka took second place, and Miss Joyce Cole Wolcottville, was third.
The annual Old Settlers’ meeting will be held at LaGrange June IT, R. E. Willis Angola editor will be the speaker.
Arthur Engelking 19 was killed at Fort Wayne when an automobilg driv en by William Ort 21 left the street and crashed into a tree. His was the city’s first traffic death of 1936.
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