The Tribune from Seymour, Indiana • Page 1

voimte ix, no. t64. SEYMOUR, INDIANA, THURSDAY JULY 13, 1933. PRICE THREE CENTS. APPREHEND GIRL LAD IMPROVING CTO (ILEIIIIE TWENTY-ONE MAYORS HAVE SERVED SEYKQUB Only Two Uving Ex-Executive Art Now Residing fl-, In JfThe passing of Alle Swop at his home here this morning leaves only two living ttift nitv of Rpvmoiir.

HEADS FOR HOME Wl GROUP III cooiirf tin WILL PROFIT B'l Premium W1H be Paid on Part of Crop if Acreage Next Two Years is Reduced, COUNTY COMMITTEE TO ACT Payments VYiH be Based eft Ratio of Domestic Consumption of Nation's Yield. Although the federal plan for reducing wheat acreage has not been worked out in final detail, it indicated that the machinery for setting the agricultural-ad justment act in motion soon will be started. The act will place additional responsibilities upon the county agricultural agent and upon him will devolve the duty of effecting the first com mittee. Under the plan adopted a tern porary county committee will be selected to bepin the organisation of the adjustmeut program.Tbj committee likely will be composed of one or two represent-tives from each township; ip Jackson countv. It will prepare mailing list of all wheat growers in the county who will receive information so they wi'l be fully informed relative to the program.

The temporary committee will erv-e ouly until a permanent organization is formed. ys 'All wheat growers in Jackson county will receive blanks which virtually are contracts to reduce wheat acreage about twenty per cent, in 1934 and 1935. Farmers signing such contracts will be reimbursed by the federal government for a period of thret years, including the crop ot 1933, more, or less complicated at this time the confusing sections of the art will be cleared up by additional interpretations as soon is possible. The org yea tion will go down to the township units a (Continued on page 2, column 1) LOCAL YOUTH TO SPEAK IN NATIONAL CONTEST Arthur Lanoe Will Represent State In- Walther Oratorical Contest at Chicago Sunday. Arthur Lange, this city, winner of the Indiana -oratorical contest of the Lutheran Walther League, will leave Saturday for Chicago where he will represent the state in the national contest to be held there Sunday.

Young Lange, a member of the league of the Immanuel Lutheran Church here, won the state contest conducted at Fort Wavn several weeks ago. The subject hs speech is "We Must Go Forward." He is the son of Mr. and Mrs, H. F. Lange.

and his father is a professor in the Lnth ran school here. The national content is bein conducted in connecton with the national convention of the league which is to be held in Chicago. Approximately twenty-Ave members of the local league are planning to attend the convention. They will also visit "A Oentary of Progress" while in the Illinois cky. LINDBERGHS ANTICIPATE YISIT WITH BALBO.

OTHERS Newfoundland Welcomes Flying Colonel As an Old Friend-To Rush On. Bv ASMwIatatf rraa St. John's, Julv lying lindherghs looked forward today to a visit with other famous aviators, the member of an Italian armada now at Cart-wright) Labrador. Colonel and Mrs. Charles A Lindbergh, en mute northward on an aerial mapping expedition, rived here yesterday evening from Halifax, N.

8., and prepared today in pnsh on la time to greet General Italo Balbo and his fascist colleague at Cart. Newfoundland welcomed Colonel Lindbergh as an old fricmk for her inhabitants aaw his monoplane. Paris-bound, speed eastward one May Day aix years ago. HERS MEN IC Young Woman Taken From Trcck Here Returned to Home, r- A Louisville girl wa taken from a truck operating through this city to Chicago about o'clock: Thursday night by tocl policer'and was held for Louisville authorities. Vrho arrived bere about midnight and returned.

to her home, The Margaret Baker, kgS seventeen, had run away from borne and was in a truck drivqu by Joo Drover, of Chicago, when stopped here. Local "polio era ordered to be on the look out 0 her by authorities at SeottsbuiS-'; DOCTORS' mi iysiitEPEiis Believe That One Member of Gang Was Familiar With Practice of Medicine. J. -1 VICTIMS ARE RECOVERIES By Associated Press. St.

Paul, July 13. belief that one member of a gang, whios atUcked two St. Paul doctors waa familiar with the practice medicine today heightened my tery surrounding the case aa po lice sought a motive for, crime. yl The two victims. Dr.

E. J. Eng-berg. prominent physiciaav aiid Dr. JL Hedbvrg, president ot the Minnesota Chiropractor Aar sociation, were recovering in a ospital.

3 1 1 kUhouah it was esUblifched that Dr. Engberg waa kidnaped an attempt te force hua toma-tilate Dr. liedberg. police said Dr. Hedberg continued to insist that be did not have any idea who perpetrated the what motive inspired it.

4 llnwerer. Dr. Joel IIuUkran "and DrV.Rbwt.- treating. Dr. Engberg.

said they were of the opinion that svbypo- dermic and anesthetic given their patient were administed bya man more or lens familiar with tha practice of medicine If such were the case, it was pointed out. it would be difficult to explain why the operation could no have been performed bv this man rather than calling upon Dr. Engberg. It was Dt, Hultkrans belief that the assailants administered a hypodermic to make Dr. Ewr-Iterg submissive, but that they erred and gave him too much of th- drug, inducing a irtil paralysis that frustrated their pur-iHise.

Then. Dr. Hultkrans lie-lieves. the attackers gave Dr. Kngberg ether to make it essief to dfspowe-of him and make their getawav.

Both Dr. Endgbere and Dr. Hcdlterg told police tbev had been summoned from their homes Tuesday uight to make calls which proved to be tricks. DISTRICT I. 0.

0. F. MEETING TO BE HERE Seymour Lode Win Be Host tl Twentieth District Groio September 12. Srvmour Ijodge No. 204 will be ho-t to a ret -together meeting of the Twentieth District Odd Fellow Association of Indiana which will he held in Revmnur on September 12, it was announced! todnv by members of the local lode.

Plan for holding the group meeting here were discussed and arrangements were made at a meeting of the local lodge Tnes. lav nitrht which wa attended liv Keiil District Denut (Irand Master; Harvey Hohbv, District ecretarv and W. 0. Oren. all of Bedford.

The local I. 0. O. F. lodge is one of the most active in the district and plans will ro forward inimediatelv in preparation for the entertainwaMt of the district meeting here next September.

DuShsne en Committee. Ionald Du Shane, of Columbus, a member of the Hanover colle boarr) of tmstees, haa been elect-oil vice-chairman of the resolutions committee for the 1934 convention of the National Edu rational Association. Ilia nani' waa cbosrn for that poaition st the association's meeting in Condition of rBoy Hurt in Mower Reported 1 Robert llohnstreiter eight-year old, son of Mr, and Mrs. John Iloh nstrciter, residing near the Walnut Grove school, who was seriously injured June, 26 when he ran in front of the blafde of a mowing machine on which his brother was riding, is reported to be slightly improved at Schneck Memorial Hospital where he is receiving treatment. He suffered a.

severed tendon in his right leg and the gash, which ia large, ia healmg slowly. JOHNSON TO OPEII Lull In Activity is Over As In dustrialists Get Down to si Serious Business. WAGE-RAISE HEARINGS SET By Asaoclated Press. Washington, July 13 The re covery, administration's lull is over, and from the middle of next week on there will be an unending succession of hear ings on codes raising wages and limiting hours in industries big and little. TVo reasons virtually guaran tee this community.

Principally, industrialists are getting down to brass tacki. pn the -oluntary agreements, the terms wanted by President Roosevelt are becom ing generalfy understood, the three weeks or so that have lapsed since the law passed have seen manv hesitaat busi nessmen convinced that the thing to do is to come ahead, and 'the willing ones who had '-k ull- eraekuvg problems are-' getting around them. Johnson- realising how essentia! ia speed if the eountry! work ers are to have the desired big increase in purchasing power before cold weather, has decided to open the throttle. Every time a code comes in, he orders a hearing on the first date possible under the require ment of "reasonable notice" to all concerned, where, a wjeek will do, seven days is all the notice given. Otherwise ten days or If codes contain unacceptable terms he 'sets a heakng.

anyhow, trusting to work out something suitable at the conference table, under the poblie eye. Tha lull in the promulgation of codes occurred because only one industry cotton textiles went to work as soon as the industrial control 4a was sent to Con cress. The rest waited, and had to start organizing their self- government scheme and figuring higher returns for labor three weeks ago. Now lumber, shipbuilding, e'eetneal manufacture are in. The steel code is expected momentarily Coal codes are in prospect, Johnson says; builders general contractors and many others are about ready.

FIRST RUN FOR GRASS BLAZE IS MADE HERE Demite Dry Condition of Countryside. Minimum Fires Are Reported. The first run of the summer to extmguifh a grans fire was made bv the rVvBKMir Are department at 10 o'clock this morning to the residence of Walter Ah brand. Sooth O'Brien street, where biasing grass in the front yard was thresteniuff to set tire to the houc. Members of the'department extinguished the (ire, which had burrtcd over a large plot, without diffii-ultv and do damage was done although the blase was within a few feet of the reeideaee when it was brought under' control Ora fti and forest Are hav lfn feared by county residents for several weeks due to the fart that the countryside is ta such an arid condition because of lack of rainfall.

A number; of minor tires have been reported bat were extinguished by residents without. the at falling additional helpv IT 1 Company Transferred from Brown County to Forest Reserve, -I Near Brownstown. BARRACKS WILL BE BUILT Read Leading to Camp Site Near Slyao Hill to Be Widened and Improved Soon. One company of approximately two hundred JounjT men arrived at the Jackaon County Civilian Conservation Camp, near Brownstown. about 9 o'clock this morning.

The company was transferred from the camp in Brown county in bijr army trucks. Preliminary arrangements for the arrival of civilian troopers were made yesterday. Immediately upon arrival the young; men started work, putting up tents and ea-tablishing the camp. Colonel W. S.

Boyle is in charge of the work at the camp. Army discipline will be main tained with regular drill practice under Captain Evans. Major Donnelly, district commander, supervised the transfer of the men. It is understood that about two hundred World War veterans, now at Camp Knox, Ky will be trana ferred to the Brown county camp this week. The boys at the Jackson coun ty camp will be to make permanent improvements on the site which is a part of the Indiana state park system.

A series of roadways will be constructed and other work will be done to beau tify the grounds. Some of the trees and under brush will be cut while the ramp ia maintained. A force of about fifyy men waa transferred to the foretjreaerve rtoISin clearing of site for the vbar racks and to do other work to facilitate the establishment of the camp for the company which arrived tod a v. Tents will he used temporarily but J. C.

Baker, re gional forester, said the program includes the construction of per manent buildings as ooa aa pos ible. Trees on 'the reserve will be cut and a sawmill will be act up on the gVounds to furnish the lumber for the buildings. Because of its central location, district and regional officers and supervisors will maintain residence at the Jackaon county camp The rump is a part of th emergency relief program of the federal government. The boys will be paid 125 a month for their services. Of this amount they are permitted to retain $5 a month for incidental expenses and 20 each month is sent direct to their parents.

The camp is located about quarter of a mile east of he foot of Slvgo hill and may be reached over State Road 250. Sanitation is one of the big problems in a camp of this character and is re-reiving the careful attention of those in charge. The water supply for the camp is provided tern-pormrilv by tank trucks but in a short time a pipe line from Brownstown will be It i understood that the road leading from highway 50 to the camp entrance will be widened and improved in the near future. Colonel Rovles has appointed Husrh Fountain, of Brownstown. and Ed of Seymour, as camp iiperviore.

Sweepstakes Organizer Dies. By Asaoctaled Praaa. Dublin, July 12. Sir Jamek Craig, member of the Dail Eire-ann since 1921, promoter of Irish hospital sweepstakes, and responsible for the first bill ia the Dail which legalised these sweepstakes to raisa money for hospitals, died here today at the age of seventv-one years. Blooded Horses By Associated Proas.

Georgetown, Ky July Jire which raxed large barn on the farm of James'L. Carrnick near here tonight burned to death nine blooded horse and destroyed large quantity of hay arid wtraw and valuable farm equipment. Loss was estimated at between $20,000 and $30,000,. HI I v7 I Indiana Legislature Member of Three Terms-rTwIce Appoint- ed Postmaster FUNERAL RITES SATURDAY Sponsored Free Gravel Read Law In This State-Active in Business Circles. Allen Swope, former member of the Indiana legislature, and mayor of Seymour from 1910 to 1914, died this morning at his home, 614 North Chestnut street, following' aa Alness of, several months with complications.

His tonditkon had' "been critical for the last wreck. Mr: Swope who was 1 active in political and business circles ior many years, was the aim it Mb and Mrs. Frank Swope and waa bora Crothersyille, May 14, 1856. He attended school at CVotherayilleand later was stu dent at Hanover Collega and at Wabaah College, Craw-fiords ville. Jast after he reached his majority he became interested in Demo cratic- polities and became a lead er of the party in Indiana.

His first political office was that of trustee in, 'Vernon township to which he was fleeted soon after becametwenty-one'I'years of age. He was a resident of this eity sine 1898. la 1893 he was elected a mem bef of the Iadjaaa legislature from Jackson eounty and served ia the Irene ral assemblies of 1893. 1895 and 1897. He was one of the outstanding figure ia the three sessions of the general as sembly, but the moat important legislation which state of Indiana rfrael rbAda.

Prior the passage of that law many the. principal highways in the statvire improved by private companies and tolls were charged to all users. The law which Mr. Swope introduced made it possi-ble fur counties in Indiana to take over the toQ roads, abolish the toll gates and further develop good highways throughout tht state. In 1910 Mr.

Swope was elected mayor of Seymour and served a term of four years. Ilia administration as chief executive of the city wis marked by many improvement. It wss during that period that concrete was used here in the improvement of street. Seymour being the 6 rat city in the state to use concrete extensively for paving streets. Upon Hho completion, of his term aa mayor of the city in 1914, he was appointed postmaster here daring the administration of President Wood row Wilson and held that office for nine years, having received, reappointment in 1918.

It was while he wss postmaster that the pnesent post-office building was constructed. Mr! Swope had varied busine interest throughout the county. At one time he operated packing plants at Rockford and at Croth-ersvjlle and was the owner of a general store at Crothersyille. He also held farming interests and dealt in livestock on a lanre scale. Mr.

Swope was married June 7, 1890 to Miss Laura Bain, daughter of Dr. and Mrs. W. C. A.

Bain, of Brownstown. Bo sides the widow he -is survived by a son, Joe Swope, of Indianapolis, three sisters, Mrs. Eliza Shuler, (Continued on page 4, column- 7) Te Receive Millions. Br Aaaoelatea FTwaa. Indianapolis, May 31.

-The Indiana Farm Bureau, estimated today that thia atate will receive nearly six million dollars aa its share of the $140,000,000 Federal alloltmtnt provided for the agricultural adjustment act. It is to be paid to wheat growers. Under Advisement. By Aaaoclattd Pra Indianapolis, July 13 suit brought by Walter -The Wee ael, of South Bend, attacking the state government reorgani tation law, was taken under fed Memenf by Vthrea Federal Judges today. am I AFTER REIES MarVet Speculator, threaten With.

Death During Day I mprisonment, Home. HAS NERVOUS Tells Police Lieutenant That Captors Had Demanded $500,000 For Release. BULLETIN. John Factor disclosed today that $50,000 was paid in $3 ac $10 bills to his kidnapers as tLe price of Tiia freedom. saffere unbelievable Factor said, "which it is impossiLl fcr me to It is xeportei.

the $50,000 was a down paymei.t and that a smaller amount will le paid later. Bv Aaaoetatsa Chieago, 1 July 13 Threatened with death by kidnapers who held him prisoner for 12-days, John Factor, the market speculator, was back home with 'lit family today, but was in a. serious condition, suffering from a nervous breakdown. VT Released just 'before midnL-Lt last night in Suburban Lagrange, tbe usually debonaire Factor, who is reputed' to havematl- big money' -'in the marketa, tol-i a Story of' luistreahnent by li captorSr' but "denied, as did nie -bers of hwifamily that any la-'-som had been paid. There were reports, bowevcr, that any where from $75,000 fJOO.OOO had been paid to eS a hii Captain Dan Gilbert of state's attorney police, frank! aid he believed that a la ef I Orange said that Factor 1.

had admitted that there had a did not disc-lo the exact amount Later -Fat i denied any payment had b-" Unshaven, and ill-appearir sr i other respects, the man wlo wanted by the British gov( ment for an alleged $7,000, arwindle England." 'approach Policeman Cortesi and Polk-eiu. main business intersection ia I Grange "and announced f. "Fa John Factor. He. was taken to the a i- i uus man ia.vcr waa oruuai i his Chicago hotel, where Captain Gilbert and Police- LiM tenant William Blaul that 1 abductors had demanded 000 ransom and had threat' him vilh machina gunn 1 4 pair of acissora when he then couldn't raise the ao When they demanded 'that i get the money front rich tmn ha said he told them that 1 "wouldn't put them on t'.

spot" 1 A farm house, northwest IV IJSal (PA MWaSWIIf astW aWtfti-l roaches waa believed by fact to have been his place tf i' priaonm'eaC71ur aa" waa not en tain because during tha eat' i period of his eaptivity he blindfolded with tape? which aot removed until a few ailnut befors his release. He waa driven' lo La in an automobile with three of the ganft' we in two, other ear, one prsoed and on following the machine which Factor rode." Factor aid there were t. fifteen hoodlum in the -1 that held (Continued on page 5. eoluma (' WEATHER RECXaDG tatKU if MS Hti Kt BKStkUi Report by 1 Coble. OflMal feat weathff Hi St A WWX kerver, The aurr; ton of moor 'tkU Ttmfsfi! Max.c.;.

ef 1 ft water FROMmDIINii The two surviving jformor mayors' Dr. J. Shields and Charles' L. Keller, both prominent residents of the The Mayor W. Burkart, has served previous terms as the city'B chief executive.

Since Seymour became '-a city in May, 1865, sixty-eight years ago, it has been headed by only twenty-one A Cantaloupes Raised From Hotbed Plants Now On Sale-price Good. QUALITY IS EXCELLENT Jackson county's famous melon crop is beginning to reach market. Led by cantaloupes raised from hotbed which ha ve begun to' riPen during the past two or three days, Tip-topa and other lat er varieties are expected to begin ripening within about two weeks The quality of the hotbed mel ons is unusually good, "resident a of the western section of the county who have eaten some of the early melons state. As a rule, melon grown during a dry season are sweeter in flavor tnan tnotw grown during a season when abundant rains fall, and this is expected to hold true this year, The majority of tha melons marketed, to date have bees grown between Brownstown and Val-lonia. A number have aho rip-ened ia Helds near Beddington.

The price is good for tha earliest are receiving from fl.SQ per bushel for those eold to, date. One grower, residing weet of Brownstown, who has thirty-flve acre of the melons planted. picked fire bushels of the hotbed cantaloupes Wednesday. It is believed that the hotbed melons within a day or so will be ripftung in sufficient quantities that irrowers will begin to ship them to the larrer cities. The later melon prospects are unusuallv good, growers stats.

If rains are received in a few days. one or the best crops in recent vears is expected. The plants have hrgnn to wilt because of lark of moisture dnrins the lst few davs nnd if rains do not fall within a short time, seriotr Mam-age may result It is believed that the melon wilf be small but that they will make up in quality what tbev lack in sir.e. The countv melon acreage as large if not larger than ip former years, growers state. BORROWERS OF SCHOOL FUND MAY BENEFIT BY LAW Opportunity to Renew Loans at Lower Interest Rate to Given.

P. W. Thompwm, auditor of Jarksoh county, has received a I be (tiled out and signed bv bor rowers of school fund money in Jackson county, to comply with the act of the legislature govern-ing school fund loan. Any borrower of school funds mav make application and have the interest rate reduced from six per cent, to five per cent, from April 1. 1933, and also have the loan renewed for a period of Ave vears without cost to the borrower, other than notary fee.

Any borrower who had delinquent interest April 1 may enter into a contract, subject-to the approval of the county commis-aionera, to pay the delinquent interest over a period of five years, one-fifth of the delinquent interest on or before April 1, 1934, and one-Afth on or before each April first thereafter for a period of-five years until the delin-quency is The law governing- School fund loans passed by the legiFlatsre of 1933 makes it mandatory that these applications and contracts bw made and aurned before Octo ber 1. Any mortgagor wishing to take advantage of the new law should do so aa soon aa possible. El P. EIspjt and H. H.

Miller Are Representatives For: Pro-grm Under New Law. WILL AID HOME-OWNER House-Holder Laboring Under Mortgage Difficulties To be Relieved. Jackson county's representatives to serve under the new home loan mortgage law enacted at the recent session of congress have been appointed, it has been learned here. Edward P. Eisner, of this city, has been named attorney and H.

H. Hiller, also of this city, has been named appraiser. The men, who. will be in charge of the home loan program in the coun ty, were appointed on recom mendation of the Democratic member of the House of Repre sentatives. Under the act, borne owners who are in mortgage difficulties are offered relief with the is9u ance of the Home Loan Corporation at a fair in terest rate, with no payment on the principal for three years and with the possibility of extension on the loan if conditions warrant.

Fomeromwnera" who have lost their homes by foreclosure or by forfeited sale are offered a prospect of recovering their homes by -an exchange of Home LoSa bonds if the cooperation of the former mortgage holder or present title holder is secured. Other home owners who are in mortgage difficulties 'but wnose mortgage baa been re- -beiow are rape in proportion to value and where the mortgage hokler refuses to convert the mortgage inio bonds, the corporation may make cash advances to relieve the owner. Under the Home Owner's Loan Act ot 1933, the corporation ts authorized to issue bonds np to $2,000,000.000 make eash advances for the payment of un paid taxes and assessments for necessary maintenance and re pairs under exchanges of bonds for home mortgages, other obli gations or liens. Homes which are eligible to the benefits of the act for period of three vears are those having a value of not more than those used by ojner or held as his homestead and thoae foreclosed or voluntarily sur rendered within the past two years. Where the mortgage holder ae- Continued on page 4, column 4) ITALIAN AIR FLEET IS INSPECTED, REFUELED Balbo and Ninety-Five Aviators Rest For Remainder of Chicago Trip.

Bulletin By Aaanclalad Traas. Shediac, New Brunswick, July 13 The squadron of twenty-four Italian seaplanes arrived here this afternoon from' Cart-wright, Labrador. By associated Pre. Cartwright, Labrador. July 13.

Gen. Italo Balbo ordered refueling and ine-tion of the twenty-four roval Italian flying boats in his command today, prei. paratory to resuming their flight to Chicago. Balbo and the ninety-five other via ton he called men ot flesh with hearts of steel" arrived late yestenlav 14Mt hours after leaving Kevktavik, Iceland. 1.500 mile from here.

The next top. ia to- be Shedias, 800 miles away. Italians felicitated themselves on, their elapsed tmie since lea v. ing thr base at Orhetello, Italy. July 1.

They have covered 3,930 mile of their b.l-mile 1 cruise in thirtv hours ami twenty -in-utei of flying time, an average af 4. little leas than 1110 mile aa bour. Air minister Balbo said the squadron may Jeave rrway or Saturday for Shediac..