Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 29, Number 276, Decatur, Adams County, 23 November 1931 — Page 1

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IVERETT ON TRIAL TODAY FOR MURDER

*us raid ® ROOM: FIRE ■lnto victims \nd Five Are Kmnded Following ■Bolt! Robbery BANDIT ■ ilnl (.HT TAKEN ■faliingloii- Nov. 23 (U.P) bandits invaded the '^■ l | ll| iial lea Boom ■dXliiii-e Nd., early to■iiud 20 persons up a wall, and opened R ■"[Our man was killed ' Hfen' other men and one Sl piously wounded, tactics made famous canasters, the thugs victims, thei liljl '|ndi- : initi.it »->y at ( lose and a Then. the kitchen of i:..use a shambles, with ■X groans of the wounded |KJ ui ears. the robbers kg’ i inflows and dooi - 1 man is believed to l>e of Baltimore. mounded, all in serious (Casualty hospital. Simone. 29. believed to the bandits. Kfel . Edwards. 24. WashUtA-' '-I'll Bartlett. 24. Wash I.eavitt. 24. proprietor Gerey, 25. Baltimore. to the story told county police, eight ■ (*< -. . n a mien w< re in th» ea'ing and dancing, just a m. ■r'jMl' automobile drove up to Five men carrying guns out. Ked By in., man with a sawed tli.- bandits entered -■Mu floor and ordered the and employes into the ■Hille the leader and three their guns trained on ■ twifiei! group, the fifth ban■A' tiirungh pockets obtain imated total of SISOO in jewelry. < 1 turned to l.eavsnarled: ■fifc' holding out on me.” further warning, the '■Mptli'-r bandits then opened riddled the kit.lmn "omen screamed and as 1 ,lpy lte " wounded to More than 50 shots the bandits fled. Leavitt. ■•tIX’ED o?.’ PAGE THREE) Bandits Escape ■H'rn Springs 111., Nov. 23 — ■**T'"'"" bandits battled their W ti a $5,000 robbery of the Spring state tank today five empioves in the '* "'s escaped in a fueillade 'B/T' bone was hit. although the stree. and the was the target of a Police fire. ■IM WATSON HOLDS STOCK fWna Solon Under Fire Stock Sen- | I atorial Probe I'Wiington, Nov. 23 (U.R) ' Was given today before lobby committee that S'B' James J. Davis, Republian<l Senator James F. Republican floor leader stock in sugar r ! 'B Prior to the 1928 tariff E ilk rely ,ly si K‘l' n R non-inter-Bj? e!l notes. ' ll( >lland, committee inves--818 sa id Davis, who also some stocks for cash. ■L' , J£ non * ntcros t bearing note in exchange for stock B“W Southern Sugar company. Watson gave similar *12,500 worth of South ■^■~ ugar stock and a similar of the Southern FWINUED ON PAGE FOUR)

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J. L. Kraft I ndergoes Operation At Chicago J. L. Kraft, founder and president I of the Kraft-Phenix Cheese Corp . Chicago, was opeiated on Saturday 11 at the Presbyterion hospital Chica- |: go for removal of kidney stones. Word received here today was to the effect that Mr. Kraft was gett- , ing along nicely. Mr. Kratt visited here October 14, being a guest of W. A. Klepper, general manager of the Cloverleaf Creameries. Inc., on dairy day. o— — — CHINA SEEKS MORE TROOPS I I Foreign Troops Are Asked By China In Manchuria Area I Paris, Nov. 23—(U.R) A sugges- , tion that .foreign troops in the , Orient be sent into Manchuria to ' preserve order was made by Chin- ■ es sources today while the council of the league of nations continued working in on a compromise , plan to solve the crisis. The Chinese were understood to have suggested that China is will- , Ing to defray the cost of sending the troops to guarantee security , of Japanese lives and property in I exchange for immediate beginning of Japanese evacuation, after , which a league commission could begin an investigation. Great Britain, France and the United States all maintain armed forces in the east. American circles here consider- . ed it extremely unlikely that Washington would entertain any suggestion for such use, made about a week ago. evoked no favorable impression at Washington. ' The council of 12 members, excluding China and Japan, held a hgief private session today and adjourned until tomorrow. The council 1s occupied with drafting two resolutions, one dealing with the proposal for an international investigating committee, and. the other with Japanese evacuation. The situation remained extremely difficult. The Chinese clung firmly to their demand that immediate evacuation be agreed upon before the commission plan is accepted. The Japanese demanded pacification of Manchuria and complete assurances of the safety of Japanese interests before the troops are moved. The council's draft resolution on a commission was understood (CONTINUED ON PAGE TWO) EVANGELIST DIES SUNDAY Rev. B. E. Rediger Is Victim of Peritonitis; Known Here Rev. Benjamin E. Rediger, 38. 4122 Buell drive. Fort Wayne, well kniown evangelist and pastor of the Fort Wayne Gospel Temple, died Sunday looming at the Lutheran Hospital in Fort Wayne at 8:15 o’clock. Death was due to general peritonitis which resulted from a ruptured appendix. Rev. Rediger was removed to the hospital early Saturday morning when his condition became serious, and a few hours later he submitted to an emergency operation’. He rallied tollowing the operation but Saturday night his heart weakened. The attending* physician said that genewfl- peritonitis had set in at the time of the operation, and it was probable that Rev. Rediger’s appendix had ruptured Wednesday or Thurdsay. Rev. Rediger was born in Grid(CONTINUED ON PAGE RIX» o Wright Urges Return To Old Fashionedness Indianapolis, Nov. 23 (UP) —A return to the old fashioned parties where games are played and everyone makes revelry without the aid of intoxicating stimulants, is advocated by Frank (Bone Pry) Wright, pioneer Indiana prohibitionist, to bring about enforcement of the prohibition laws. There is too much confusing of the word "party” was "booze”, Wright said. He would have parties returned to their original status.

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FOURTEEN DIE OVER WEEK-END BY VIOLENCE Twelve Fatalities Are Result of Automobile Mishaps Sunday ONE SUICIDE IS REPORTED Indianapolis, Nov. 23.— (U.R) — Fourteen lives were lost in Indi--1 ana by violence over the week-end, a United Press survey revealed today. Twelve of the fatalities were caused by auto accidents. Another was a suicide, and one died in a railroad accident. Two persons were killed in each of two accidents. Three of the victims were women. Lafayette, Ind., Nov. 23.—(U.R) Mrs. Henry C. Shoemaker, 42, was I killed instantly near here when she was struck by an auto. Mrs. Shoemaker was walking on road 43, near the home of her sister, Mrs. Harry L. Rawles. Indianapolis, Nov. 23. —(U.R) —Mr. and Mrs. David Skelton, 58 and 60, respectively, of Reelsville, died in a hospital here of injuries suffered in auto accident. Skelton was formerly a Putnam county commissioner. Fort Wayne, Ind., Nov. 23. —(U.R) —Mrs. Violet Wallace, 69, formerly of Portland, ended her life at the home of a niece here. Mrs. Wallace hanged herself and drank poison. Lafayette, Ind., Nov. 23.—(U.R)— (CONTINUED ON CAGE TWO, MURRAY SCORES INDUSTRIALISTS Oklahoma Governor Is Leading Political Revolt Against East Oklahoma City. Nov. 23—(U.R)— Governor Wiiiiam H. Murray—Alfalfa Bill as he Likes to he known —is riding a revolt in the plains states to challenge the political forces of the industrial and financial east. Yet, in some beliefs, he is about as radical as Calvin Coolidge. A movement to make Murray the Democratic presidential nominee is gathering strength. Thousands of the governor's followers among the poverty stricken farmers have faith he will perform the miracle. It's this faith, like that which gave William J. Bryan his power, that makes Murray a po- ■ tential national force. He wouldn’t, he says, be vicepresident, if he were elected. He is out for bigger game. This unkempt, gaunt, almost un- , believable figure, a champion of , the underdog, as disheveled In appearance as one of Coxey's army, was suddenly returned to leadership by hard times. He was ( elected governor by one of the largest majorities ever received in Oklahoma. ( He is Oklahoma's Gandhi. He intends to lead an agrarian fight , over the Democratic platform. He , has frightened business men in this section, because he has some , daring, ruthless streaks. Yet when Murray climbs down «-4rom his soapbox long enough to national policies, he does turn out in some respfeets to be , just about as radical as Coolidge. In an interview with the United Press, Murray outlined the kind (CONTINUED ON PAGE TWO) 1 ■ 1 — O' ' 1 Committee Will Meet County Agent L. E. Archbold is I asking the following men to meet with him Tuesday evening, November 24, at 7:45 o'clock, in the Chamber of Commerce rooms in Decatur to operate as the corn show committee for the annual county corn show: Albert Ewell. Rudolph Fuelling. Victor Bleeke, i Leland Ripley, Ed. Arnold, Henry Rumple, Henry Heimann. Franklin Mazelln, Otis Shifferly. G. R. Bierly, Henry Aschleman and Leon Neuenseh wander. The boys in the One-Acre corn club will also show at this time.

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Decatur, Indiana, Monday, November 23, 1931.

Red Cross S, ■ B. - b \ i x i- ' ’ 'wifi ■ Joan Frangenheim 6 (left), is showing her little sister, Marilyn. 3, a Red Cross button similar to the one which she (Joan) swallowed. The little girls are the daughters of Dr. R. P. Frangenheim. of Maywood, 111. X-rays have located the tjutton, with pin point up, in Joan's intestine, and doctors ate anxiously watching the downward course of the obstruction.

GEORGE BUBB I DIES SUNDAY Wells County Resident Dies At Local Hospital Sunday P. M. George Bubb, 65 year old farmer residing on the Bluiffton-Fort Wayne road, died suddenly at the Adams County Memorial Hospital 1 inl.this city Sunday night at 6:10 □'(flock. Mr. Bubb underwent an operation at the hospital here Wednesday and was apparently improving-, when he suffered a relapse, which resulted in his death. The deceased was born in Williamsport, Pa., and moved to Allen county when he was three years of age. He was a member of the St. Aloysious Catholic Church at Yoder and of the Holy Name society of that church. Surviving are the widow, Mrs. Frances Bubb; five daughters, Mrs. Irene Hiner of Fort Wayne, Mrs. Madaline Brewer of Greenville, Ohio; and the Misses Hildegard, Pauline and Frace Bubb, four sons Ralph Bubb of Foil Wayne; John Joseph, and Jerome Bubb. Five sisters, two brothers and nine grandchildren also survive. ELLINGHAMIS NOT CANDIDATE Ft. M ayne Publisher Says He Will Not Enter Democratic Race Indianapolis, Nov. 23 —(UP)— Thomas Taggart, French lick, today virtually was assured of election as Democratic National committeeman from Indiana, Lew G. Eilingham, Fort Wayne publisher, withdrew from the race, leaving the field open to Taggart. The state Democratic committee will meet here tomorrow for election. Vacancy on the committee was caused by the death of Charles Greathouse. Elllngham announcing nis withdrawal. said that while the position of National committeeman is honorary, dignified and coveted by any party enthusiast, I well know that It is decreed that another be chosen I happily acquiesce in that choice." State Fair Date Set ‘ Indianapolis, Nov. 23. —(U.R) The 1932 Indiana State Fair will be held from September 3 to September 9, it was announced today. The fair will be one day shorter than this year’s exposition. ♦ —— EVANGELIST COMING The Rev. Howard Paschael, | of the Old Time Religious program, from Fort Wayne will preach in this city Tuesday night at 7:30 o'clock at the Church of God on Cleveland street. The public is invited to hear the sermon. . ♦ ♦

| SCHNEPP IS BAILIFF * I | Freeman Schnepp today was | named by Judge D. B. Erwin | as special bailiff in the Everett | murder case. Mr. Schnepp will have charge of the jury dur- | ing the night and has arrang- | | ed rooms at the National hotel. | When court adjourns at 5 > o'clock this afternoon, Schnepp i i will have charge of the jurors | until in the morning. Jurors | will not be permitted to leave j ■ the hotel except in a bodv of i I^—- . TRAIN STALLED IN DEEP SNOW Eleven Passengers Are Aboard Colorado Train Reported “Stuck" Alamos, Colo.. Nov. 23—‘UP)— A train carrying It passengers and a crew of five was st Tied in seven feet of snow atop ('ombres Pass today. Rescue trains set out from Chama N. M., and Alatnoza in an effort to batter through to tliq Marooned travelers. The train, regular passenger train number 116, left Durango, Sunday mottling and should have arrived in Denver today. The altitude to Cumbres Pass, where the train stalled is 10,003 feet. Railroad officials felt confident that the travelers would suffer little., if at all-except possibly for want of food unless reached soon. It was pointed oat that the drain carried plenty of coal and that the coaches were stove heated. Tlte line over Cumbres Pass is narrow gauge. o Convention Is Held The St. Marys township Sunday School convention was held at Pleasant Mills, Sunday afternoon and evening, with large crowds in attendance. Rev. W. O. Johnson of the Decatur Circuit, United Brethren church, delivered this afternoon address. O. M. Craig, Superintendent of the Bluffton schools delivered the evening talk. The Pleasant Mills M. E. church received the banner for having the largest per cent of attendance of Sunday Schools in the township. o Guardian Board Meets The Board of Children’s Guardians will meet in the Library Hall Tuesday afternoon at 3:30 o'clock it was announced today by Mrs. D. D. Heller, president. o Faces Second Trial Lafayette, Ind., Nov. 23—(UP) The second trial of Luther Page, 39, Clarks Hill, who is charged with the first degree murder of William E. Wall, will begin in Tippecanoe circuit court here tomorrow. The tria was scheduled to start today but was delayed ty Judge Homer W. Hennegar.

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FIRE DESTROYS DECATUR AUTO Three Occupants Are Uninjured When Car Turns Over An unusual auto accident in which three Decatur men escaped serious injury and the auto belonging to N. R. Holthouse assistant treasurer of the Cloverleaf Creameries, Inc was destroyed by fire, occurred Saturday evening near Kimmel, while Mr. Holthouse and two companions were on their way home from the Notre Dame football game at South Bend. F. J. Schmitt was driving Mr. Holthouse's car. He had been following another auto for several miles, when the driver of the car (ahead of them turned into the stretch of road, now a dead-end, and usSd by the state as a dumping grounds for stone and gravel. Mr. Schmitt saw the drivel’s mistake and attempted to stop his car. His car struck the other car and as it ran into the sand pile, turned over ou the driver's side. Mr. Schmitt (CONTINUED ON “AGE TWO) o BIG HAUL MADE BY DRY AGENTS Oil Tanker Is Raided And Valuable Liquor Is Confiscated New York, Nov. 23.— (U.R) —The oil tanker Raritan Sun, built last year at a cost of $1,000,000, was seized today by 50 federal officers who found 6,000 cases of liquor aboard. Fifty-two seamen were arrested and an automatic conveyor and five trucks were taken. The prohibition authorities claimthe seizure was one of the major developments in history of prohibition. The liquor seized was valued at $300,000. The Raritan Sun is listed in Lloyds Registry as the property of the Sun Oil Company. The seizure followed weeks of careful detective work on land and water including the planting of a customs agent in the crew of the vessel and training the tanker on its regular route from New York to Philadelphia. The coup was effected without unusual disorder although agents said gunmen on the scene included (CONTINUED ON PAGE TWO) R ASKOB FEELS OUT SENTIMENT Questions Contributors to 1928 Democratic Campaign Fund Washington, Nov. 23 —(U.R) — Chairman John J. Raskob of the Democratic national committee renewed today his anti-prohibition fight by contacting 90,000 contributors to the 192 party funds in an effort to commit his party to a return of “states' rights and home rule” in the presidential campaign next year. This latest effort of Raskob's to force a specific democratic platform plank on the prohibition issue was in the form of a letter asking a yes or no answer to seven, questions on what the party should do. “The ' eighteenth amendment is an outstanding example of paternalism,” Raskob said. "The time has come to face this issue squarely, and to present to the people a definite plan under the policy of states "rights and local self government.” 'CONTINUED ON PAGE TWO) o Gets Beets Acreage A. N. Acker of Pleasant Mills has been getting signers to the pledges, to raise sugar beets in this territory covering the field from here east to Ohio City mid Rockford. He has secured 615 acres and expects to double that soon. He says about all there is to it is getting to the far mors with the proposition for they are all anxious to assist in this movement.

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« « Catches Large Eagle < — * Ervin Zimmerman, who resides four miles west of Monroe captured an eagle Sunday morning on his farm in Kirkland township. The large bird was captured alive and was brought, to th'is city today where it created much interest. The bird has a wing spread of 7 feet and 3' inches and is one of the largest ever seen in this part of the country. THREE BANDITS ARE CAPTURED Ten Men Enter Rich Esstate; Almost All of Loot Recovered Lake Forest, 111., Nov 23.—(U.R) —The haphazard tactics of ten bandits who seized $200,000 in jewels at a party at the estate of William H. Mitchell, Chicago financier, today had led to recovery of nearly all the loot and arrest of three of the robbers. The spectacular robbery ended in failure for the bandits. As they fled under gun fire from police, they flung aside an overcoat in which was found all but a few pieces of jewelry taken from the Michells and their eight socially prominent guests. The bandits were forced to abandon their car to evade police bullets. As they scattered in the night, several lost their caps and j their clothing muddied in the frantic flight enabled police to arrest three of the men. Officers believed the men enter-. ed the Mitchell home without any previous plan. They deduced this from the fact the bandits did not know whose estate they had entered and were unfamiliar with I (CONTINUED ON PAGE TWO) o REV. RUTLEDGE DIES OF WOUND Evangelist-Bandit Is Vic- 1 tim of Wound Inflicted By Police Rev. Orvil C. Rutledge, 39, evangelist from Van Wert. 0., who was shot in the left leg while attempting to hold up and rob a filling station at Fort Wayne, November 7, died at the Methodist Hospital in Fort. Wayne at 8:15 o’clock Saturday night. Rutledge was shot three weeks ago Saturday night, by Detective Sergeant Harry Lininger as he backed out of the filling station after having unsuccessfully attempted to hold up and rob Mr. and Mrs. George Carroll, the proprietor of the the station, and his wife. For the last three days Rutledge known as the cowboy preacher, evangelist. former Radical United Brethren minister and taxi driver, had been in a serious condition. An . emergency operation was perform- , ed Saturday morning, which dis- . closed that the big artery in the leg had been severed by th? bullet . which entered the leg about six inches above the left knee and then traversed downward, passin" out ‘ (CONTINUED ON PAGE FOUR) o Initiation Is Planned The members of the L. O. O. M. . will meet at the Moose Hom» for ! class initiation and luncheon, Tues- . day evening at 8 o’clock. All members are requested to be present. I Phi Delta Plan Dance Final preparations are being com- . pleted for the annual Turkey Trot ' to be given by the members of the • Phi Delta Kappa Fraternity of this city at the Country Club, Thursday night. November 26. The dance will be the annual Thanksgiving Dance and is subscription. Invitations have been issued to Phi Delt chapters at Huntington. Fort Wayne, Van Wert Ohio, Portland and out-of town visitors from all surrounding towns will attend the dance. Dancing will begin at 9:31) o’clock and continue until one. and music will be furnished by Neil Welch and his Ohio Stampers. Tlte social committee of the fraternity comprising Cedi Melchl, Eugene Durkin and Don Leßrun are in charge of the arrangements and decorations.

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JURY PROBED THROUGHOUT MORNING MEET Defense Passes Temporarily; Jurors To Be Kept Tonight NONE REMOVED DURING MORNING * ’ j JURY AT 3:45 The Everett murder jury at | i 3:45 o’clock this afternoon in- I | eluded: Charles Gage, Root township ; | farmer. Edwin Neadstine, Blue Creek | township farmer. Walter Bultemeier, Root | township farmer. W. A. Lower, Decatur business man. Charles Lehrman, Union j | township farmer. Albert Heckman, Union town- | j ship farmer. Herman Gillig, Decatur bus- | j iness man. Frank Hiestand, French | township farmer. Milton Girod, Kirkland town- j i ship farmer. Ben Biting, Washington ; ! township farmer. | j Mrs. Ireta Fryback, Decatur | housewife. Mrs. Jennie Edwards, Deca- j i tur housewife. I j It was intimated by the state | j that Mrs. Edwards would be , j challenged because she does j | not believe in capitol punish- - i ment and in that event Mrs. . | Leah Ehinger will next be call- | ' ed to the jury box. I ♦ ♦ Joseph Everett of Pleasant [Mills, this morning, went on trial on a charge of murder in the first degree before Judge Erwin, and a jury now being j selected. I The defendant is charged with having murdered Doras Werling on the night of last June 29, an indictment having been returned by the September grand jury. Promptly at 9 o'clock Judge Erwin announced that the case of the State vs. Joseph Everett, for murder, is next on the docket. At the prosecutor's table sat Nathan Nelson. state's attorney; C. J. Lutz, appointed to assist him; Milton Werling, brother of the slain man; Mrs. Doras Werling and her father, James Halberstadt and Delane, little three-year-old son of the victim of the tragedy. At the defense table sat H. M. DeVoss, attorney for the accused man appointed by the court. Joseph Everett sat at the middle of the table with his sister, Mrs. Steve Longenberger of near Pleasant Mills and Mrs. Grant Strickler of Willshire on either side, while back of him sat a brother, John. Another brother, Peter Everett, sat in the audience. The defendant appeared in court at 9:10 o'clock accompanied by Deputy Sheriff Dallas M. Hower and immediately Judge Erwin asked him to enter a (flea which he did (CONTINUED ON PAGE THREE) USED CLOTHING RACKETWORKED Men Gather Clothes In Indianapolis; Planned To Sell Them Indianapolis, Nov. 23. — (U.R) — Kindhearted housewives who gave ' cast-off wearing apparel to a half dozen men collecting clothing for the poor and unemployed were the ' victims of a "racket,” police re- > vealed today. The men obtained the clothing after describing the utter poverty and want which hundreds were suffering as winter approached, police said. They planned to sell the i garments. Disclosure of the plan was made > when a cleaning establishment proprietor reported that he had been I asked to clean the clothing on a i ”50-50" basis. Four men were arrested and police searched today for two other clothing collectors.