Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 29, Number 305, Decatur, Adams County, 28 December 1931 — Page 1

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IT RITES FOR w FERNTHEIL ‘ IE CONDUCTED ■ls Accompanied To Kcinnati By Over Hundred People Il pastors | are in charge ■(Tii services lor Rev. ■II I’erntheil, pastor oft ■is| Presbyterian church ■ citv and beloved citi-j K, died at the Adams K Memorial Hospital on ’ Kias eve, were held all Kk this morning at the! ■ ■ jheatur Ministerial Asso■ot which Rev. Ferntheil Ksident for the past three ■a>i charge of the services. ■ e. Vance, pastor of the ■ Brethren church, read Rev. ■it's favorite Psalm and ■e opening prayer. ■A. R. Fledderjohann. pas ■the Zion Reformed church, ■d the funeral message, and ■Thompson, former pastor of ■iristian church gave the ■ Fledderjohann used the ■ third Psalm, which was ■t bit of scripture uttered ■ Ferntheil before he died, ■text, particularly the fourth ■which is “Yea, though 1 ■trough the valley of the ■ of death. I will fear no ■ Thou are with me. Thy ■d Thy staff, they comfort ■so mentioned the last two ■s delivered by Rev. Fern■n Sunday, December I'l. ■were, "Whither Bound," and ■ evening. "I Will Go.” I Fledderjohann gave a ■nee-age of comfort for the ■d family, quoting, "In the lye shall have tribulation. I of good cheer. I have overItlie world;" “The divine Iril provides protection and ■tion in the darkest peril,” ■o the Christian heart there ■onvictlon that the hand I guides us into the valley ■ ide us through and again lit." repeated the words of “Psaim If." by Longfellow. and reIto the two hymns "Nearer ■d to Thee," and “Lead I Light.” fig appropriate quotations |by Rev. Fledderjohann were •ot your heart be troubled. ■ in God, believe also in Me. ■ Father’s house are manyBns. if it were not so I [UNITED ON PAGE TWO) Fork Funeral Held Iral services for Rev. GranI Work, a former pastor of featur Methodist Episcopal P who died at Columbus, 0., I night, were held this afterft 2 o’clock. The services lace at the home of a daughh. Dess Tedreck of ColuniI- with whom Rev. and Mrs. I made their home. Burial race in Columbus, also. Nil BILLS ABE ALLOWEB Claims Allowed At Last Meeting Os County Board I county commissioners met in n today and allowed bills, png of all claims filed for I commissioners appointed )’ Gallmeyer of Preble townind Frank Heiman of WashI as appraisers to take the infy at the county infirmary. Inventory will be taken on Fy 2. County Attorney Henry pier will assist at the job. I board of commissioners will ifganize until January 2. No ng will be held on New Year's Jounty Attorney Heller stated. Inis Striker will take office as lissioner from the third dison January 2. He succeeds ge Shoemaker who has served e board fbr the past six years, 'hoemaker has been president A board the past year.

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Receiver Is Named South Bend, Ind., Doc. 28 (U.f>)| R. R. Smith, was appointed re-1 ceiver for the Nor’hern Indiana I | railway today in circuit court i I The South Bend Supply company, | petitioned for the receivership The company, of which Smith is j general manager, operates elec-1 trie lines from South Rend to Goshen; Elkhart, Laporte and' Michigan City in Indiana, and j Niles, St. Joseph and Benton Har-I bor in Michigan. It also operates' the street car and bus services! in South Bend and Mishawaka. HOLB HEARING ON BOLE PLAN _ Third Winter Os Distress Is Protested By Senators Washington, Dec. 28 -(U.R)—Senate committee hearings on bills to appropriate hundreds of millions) for unemployment relief began to-■ day with a sharp protest against - alleged inadequacy of aid avail-! able in “this third winter of dis-1 tress." Senator Costigan, Dem.. Colo.,! directly challenged President Hoover’s opposition to the so-' called dole, saying that "Ameri-I cans should not starve while we quibble over words." Costigan said "immeasurable distress and the need for relief" had been obvious when he conducted an investigation in November. “Nothing short of federal relief can satisfy the conscience of America,” he continued, "and long established agencies of relief have broken down." He said existing relief provisions were gravely inadequate." “The objection to a dole, should be squarely met. Ameri-| cans should not starve while we I quibble over words" Hodson said New York City would spend $45,000,000 for emergency relief this winter Costigan ' asked if that would be enough. “The money in sight is not adequate.” Hodson said, although ■ he did "not believe any one would I starve to death in New York city" "An allowance of SOO a month i v w ~ — (CONTINUED ON PARE THREE) i Girls Admit Thefts 1 Chicago, Dec. 28 -tU.R) Two' girls, both in their teens, were 1 held today by police who said they ' were confessed members of a bandit gang which attempted a . spectacular cabaret holdup in which a police officer was slain. The girls, held as members of a gang which included seven youths, were Dorothy Evans. 16. a divorcee, and Marcella Royce, IT, whose mother gave her a spanking for staying out late the night of the holdup. - Four of the youth- also were I arrested jmd tthji'-r otl’-rs were ■ sought. o— Clerk’s Office Will Be Closed On Thursday I The offices of the Adams county clerk will be closi d all day Thursday of this week in order that all records and funds can be turned over to the i • «' clerk. The announcement follows Decatur Daily Democrat II Decatur, Indiana. I Gentlemen: I would be pleased it you would put a little item in your paper of L today, saying that this office will be closed all day on Thursday <>f this week, December 31, 1931. instead of the half day, as previously done at the end of each quar1 ter - 1 . , This is necessary in order to • have all our records completed and all funds on hands turned I over to Milton C. Werling. tte - clerk-elect of this court. It win ■ be quite Impossible for us to eit i- - er receive or pay out any money . on that day. Any persons having i any business here tn this office, • or those desiring any marriage license, please come on Wecnes ! wish in this manner to express ( mv thanks and appreciation to Tour paper and all our patrons , for the kind cooperation shown to . me during my term of , shall be glad in the rut,ir f I serve you in any way possible. Yours very truly. > Bernice Nelson, Clerk of Adams Circuit Court.

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COUNTY CLUBS WILL SPONSOR ENTERTAINMENT Economic Clubs To Present Interesting Program Tuesday Night TICKETS ARE NOW ON SALE I lie I loine Ec o n o in i cs I < kills of Adams County will; sponsor a Stunt Night in the| Decatur Catholic High school ! auditorium. Tuesday night, December 29. The program I will open at 7:30 o'clock and many interesting numbers will be presented. The proceeds from the Stunt Night will be used to send the leaders of the various township Home Economics Clubs to Purdue ■ University in January for the coni ferring of high state honors. I The stunt night will also aid in sponsoring a boys and girls 4-H j club band and orchestra. Tickets ■ for the event are being sold by j I the members of the clubs in Ad-j ams county for 25c for children) i and adults. ' The program Tuesday night will open with a thirty minute musical by Dalmer’s 4-H Club orchestra. The orchestra comprises about fifty young people from Jefferson. Pleasant Mills, Monroe and Mon-| mouth high schools, pupils of Mr. I Dahner. Following the musical. Mrs. Faye Smith Knapp will represent the Better Homes Club of Monroe! with several selected readings. | The grouj) from the Root township. (CONTINUED ON PAGE TWO) | GANDHI FACES ! RIOT, REVOLT Indian Leader Returns Home Amid Animosity Against England Bombay, India. Dec. 28—(U.R)— i Mahatma Gandhi “came home" today to an India aroused by serious rioting and fighting, with "a declaration of war” against Britain, and a boycott of British goods. Deaths in rioting in Peshawar, where troops and police given special powers by the Viceroy have rounded up for deportation leaders of the “red shirt” movement. totalled eleven. Bombay had taken on the aspect of the city during the civil disobedience campaign. There were reports of increasing violence. terrorism, and a demand for hostilities against Britain as the smiling Gandhi came ashore from the liner Pilsna greeted by cheering thousands. Tlie welcome given the hero of India's masses was even greater than the homage paid him when | lie departed for the London round I table conference. Police and officers of the steamship line had difficulty in controlling the half million wJ+4 jammed the docks and spread over a three mile route to the Mahatma’s residence. Mrs. Gandhi and members of the executive committee of the congress went aboard as soon us the Pilsna docked. Gandhi was all smiles when he walked down the gangplank. Minor clashes among the crowd had been smoothed out before his arrival. Trouble arose between members of the untouchable classes (CONTINUED ON PAGE THREE) , o Verdict Is Directed New York. Dec. 28—(U.R)— Judge 1 Joseph E. Corrigan directed a general sessions court jury trying Vincent Coll and Frank Giordano in connection with the Harlem ' “baby massacre" to bring in a ver- ' diet of "not guilty” today. Offices Will Close The offices of the Recorder, ! Treasurer, and Auditor in the Ad- ! ams County Court House will he ( closed Thursday afternoon for the quarterly report. All persons having any business An these offices are requested to take care of it before 11:30 o’clock Thursday forenoon.

Decatur, Indiana, Monday, December 28, 1931.

Sets Precedent ffear-. •* s » A ' ■F' r ‘ ; "' ■■■■■■■■■■lMl For the first time a woman opera star's voice was heard in the Holy Name Cathedral at Chicago. It was that of Serafino di Leo, the Brooklyn girl who has become one of the stars of Chicago's Civic Opera Company. She sang at thi pontifical high mass which was celebrated by George Cardinal Mundelein Christmas Day. The men's choir and b< y choristers sang with Miss Di Leo.

BISHOP NOLL'S FATHER DIES 1 Aged Man Expires At t Huntington Saturday i Os Infirmities 1 John G. Noll, 90, of Huntington, ' father of the Rt. Rev. John F. Noll bishop of Fort Wayne, died at his home Saturday night, following an extended illness. The deceased was born October 8, 1841, the son of Mr. and Mrs. ! i George Noll of Fort Wayne. He was I united in marriage to Anna Ford ‘ and following her death in 1878 | married Mary McCleary. Surviving are the widow, four- I I teen children, a brother and several grandchildren. The body was taken to the resi- i ' deuce of Bishop J. F. Noll in Fort Waytie today and funeral services will be held at the Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception Wednesday morning at 9 o’clock. The Rt. Rev. J. F. Noll will officiate at the pontifical high mass, assisted by Father Raymond Noll of Indianapolis, a nephew of the deceased, and Father Lawrence Monahan of Lafayette. Interment will lie in the Catholic cemetery at Fort Wayne. C. B. Larrimer Dies Bluffton. Ind.. Dec. 28 —(U.R)- - Clifford B. Lorrimer. 51. prominent Bluffton business man, died at his home here today of a heart attack. The widow and a daughter survive. BAKER TO SPEAK AT WINCHESTER — Many Adams County Democrats To Attend Annual Wilson Dinned Newton D. Baker, Ohio attorney probable candidate for president of the Democrat tickit in 1932 and was secretary under the Woodrow Wilson administration will be the chief speaker at the annual Wilson day meeting at Winchester tonight. More than 35 Adams county Democrats left late this afternoon for the Randolph county city where the annual dinner and meeting wiH 1 be held. All church dining rooms I and restaurants will be used to I serve the banquet at 6:30 o'clock tonight and following the dinner ! the address will be delivered at the 1 high school auditorium. The dinner is held each year by ! the Randolph county Democi at central committee. Don Ward, for- ' mer eighth district candidate for congress, will preside as toastnias- ■ ter. Besides Baker, speakers will include R. Earl Peters, democratic state chairman and a number of Indiana congressmen. ■. o—— — Board Plans Meeting The Board of Children’s Guard- j lans will meet in the Library Hall. ' Tuesday afternoon at. two-thirty o j clock, it was announced by Mrs. ] D. D. Heller, president, today.

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Inmates Now Total 49 Harvey P. La Fontaine, superintendent of the Adams County Infirmary, stated today that the number of inmates at the institution had increased to 49 during 1931. There were two deaths at the infirmary during the year. Seven new persons were admitted during the year. There are 13 women and 36 men at the infiryiary and due to the crowded conditions at the state hospital for the insane and at the feeble minded home, it is impossible to admit several of the local inmates to these institutions. Mr. La Fontaine stated. CROUP SEEKS STRINGENT LAW i State Bar Would Have All Lawyers Members Os State Group Indianapolis, Dec. 28 —{U.R) — A resolution calling upon the next legislature to provide all practicing lawyers in Indiana lie required to be members of the Indiana State Bar association, will lie placed before tlie association at its meeting here January 16. a special committee on reorganization announced. Walter Arnold. South Bend, head of the special committee, said the requirements could be made without legal difficulties. Nine states now have compulsory bar association membership and 14 others are planning similar requirements, Arnold said. Under tlie plgu. each practicing | lawyer in Indiana would lie required to belong to tlie association. but members would lie active or inactive. The board of governors, one from each congressional district and four at large, with the chief justice of the supreme court as an ex-officio member, would control admission to the association. Woman Dies Os Wound Indianapolis, Dec. 28 —(U.R) Mrs. Mary Hill. 51. who was shot by her husband while she held a five-year old son in her lap, died in a hospital 12 hours after the tragedy. Ralph Hill, her husband, ended his own life after shooting his wife during a family argument while three children i watched. Hill had been separated from his wife three months. He return'ed to his home Saturday. Two | children. Ruby, 11, and John. 8, I fled as the quarrel began. They peered through a window as Hill I drew a revolver and fired three times at his wife. Then Hill left the home and fired a bullet into his head. Health Bond Is Sold The Rotary ] (’lub today pur i 1 chased a $5.00 ' ItAWAwv ? Health Bond reySfroßy! ; from W. Guy i Brown presi- ! , dent of the i Adams County Tuberculosis Amo- ' ciation. The sale of Health Bonds I will continue until January 1, 1932, I Mr. Brown stated.

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POLL IS TAKEN BY DEMOCRATS: ■ 1 Roosevelt May Have Much Strong Opposition At Convention Washington, Dec. 28—(U.R) — A gradual and generally unsuspected ( growth of favorite son sentiment has lodged a major obstacle in the Democratic presidential path of Gov. Franklin D. Roosevelt. I Fourteen states have in pros- | pect the selection of 402 delegates pledged for favorite sons, it was! disclosed today in a poll of poll- j tical expert opinion conducted by I tlie United Press. The poll totals showed: , Roosevelt 402 Favorite sons, 402 Douljtful, 296 Necessary for nomination, 734. The figures are based upon present day prospects for selec- | tion of convention delegates. Con- ' fidential opinions of various state I representatives now in Washington were relied upon in the main. Congressmen contributed most of the private information upon which the allocations were made. While the survey is not conclusive evidence of how state delegations will be assigned in June, it does represent possibly the best available judgment at this time. Among the striking conclusions disclosed were: Roosevelt has the northwest and part of the south well lined! up, but only three states now in j I prospect east of the Mississippi! river and north of the Mason! Dixon line (New York, Connect.!-! cut and Michigan.) In favorite son states and some doubtful states he has gained secondary strengtli which will | materially increase his total after tlie first skirmishing ballots are east in the convention. For ini stance Virginia. Tennessee. Louisi iana. Texas and North Carollina j are listed in the favorite son category, but they contain latent | Roosevelt prospects. | In the doubtful column Roosevelt is agreed to have a good chance to get Colorado. lowa. Kansas, Pennsylvania. New M<>x-I ico and Indiana. Favorite sons are conceded prospects which give them 35 (CONTINUED ON PAGE THREE) Werling Rites Held ‘ Funeral services for Mrs. John Werling who died at the Adams County Memorial Hospital Thursday morning, were held Sunday as- • ternoon at 1 o’clock at the home, • 3 miles northwest of Preble, and at 1:15 o'clock at the St. Paul Luth- • eral church. Rev. R. Gaiser, pastor ’ | officiated and burial was in the 1 church cemetery. BERNE WOMAN I DIES SUNDAY Mrs. John S. Mazelin Dies I - > After Several Years’ Illness Berne, Dee. 28—Mrs. John S. Mazelin, 34. died at her home in Berne Sunday morning at 10:20 II o’clock, following an ijlness of a several years. Death was due to tuberculosis. e Mrs. Leah Amstutz-Mazelin was '■ born in Monroe township, May 4, I 1897, the daughter of John C. and 1 ‘ Elizabeth Amstutz. Site was marII ried February 6, 1921 to John S. Mazelin and spent her married 11 life in Berne, with the exception *' of two years in which she lived 0 on a farm in Wabash township. ’• She is survived by her husband. y two half brothers, Noah Am- " stutz of Fort Wayne, and Edwin Amstutz, of Monroe township, one half sister, Mrs. John K. Mazelin ° of Monroe township. She was a member of the A. C. Church of north of Berne. Private funeral services will be held Tuesday afternoon at one o’clock y at the home In Berne, and burial '■ will be made in the Hilty cemetery. Wm. Yoder Dies y Berne. Dec. 28 —William Yoder. 45. a former resident of Berne. e died at his ranch at Outlook. ’’ Wash., Sunday morning. He sufls sered a stroke of paralysis Sunday (CONTINUED ON PAGE THREE)

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Louisa Blocher Dies Mrs. Louisa Blocher, 83, died Sunday at Muncie at the home of her daughter. Mrs. Katie Thornburg. S'he suffered a paralytic stroke six years ago and has been bedfast for three years. Surviving are three sons and two daughters who include Mrs. Sophia Mattax of Geneva. Funeial will be held at Geneva > M. E. Church of which she was a member at 2 o'clock Wednesday afternoon. Burial will also he at Geneva. OFFICIALS AT ANNUAL DINNER Commissioners Guests At Annual Dinner Held Here This Noon Chris Eicher, Adams county highway superintendent held the annual highway superintendent’s dinner for county commissioners, officials and employes of the Court House at the Peoples restaurant today. Seventeen attended the affair. Following a turkey dinner. Harve LaFountaine, superintendent of the county infirmary presided and called on Henry B. Heller, county attorney. Mr. Helier outlined the progress of Adams county during the last several years. Others who were called on included Albert Harlow, county auditor; Commissioners George ShoeI maker, Frank Martin and Albert | Reppert and Dick Heller, of the ! Daily Democrat. Those attending the dinner in- | eluded: Albert Reppert, George Shoemaker and Frank Martin, commismissioner; Albert Harlow, county inissionere; Albert Marlow, county auditor; Mrs. Marcella Uhrick, deputy county clerk; Miss Bernice (CONTINUED ON PAGE THREE) o Hangs Self In Jail Monticello. Ind., Dec. 28 —(UP)—• Wayne Stilwell. 21 hanged him : self in the county fail here. a>ter being ai rested on a charge of drunkI iness. The body hanging from the cell bars was found ny a deputy sheriff. o Bandit Is Identified Dunkirk. Ind., Dec. 28 —(UP) — The bandit slain here Thursday after the robbery of the First State j bank was identified by R. C. Saunders, of tlie Illinois banking protective association, as Reinhold Fleuker 31, Racine Wis.. Fleuker who was also known as i ony Captain and Pasquel Frenco, was buried without ceremony in the I. O. O. F. cemetery here. It was believed that Fleuker and a brother Michael, 27, were implicated in robbery of a Burlington. Wis.. bank robbery last May 20. | Frank Manin, another alleged memI her of the gang, was slain in Ken- ' | osha, Wis., during a robbery. Body Unidentified Covington, Ind.. Dec. 28 —(U.R) - Failure of authorities to link the body of a man burned in an abandoned house near here with persons reported missing from this vicinity, resulted in a temporary , deadlock of the case today. They > clung to the belief however, that ' tlie victim was slain and the house j burned in an effort to destroy traces of the crime. , o Banker’s Funeral Held i Indianapolis, Dec. 28 — (UP) — • Preparations were made here toll day for the funeral of John Perrin, 1 74, long an active figure In India--1 na banking, who died of a heart attack in Washington. The body is ex- • pected here tomorrow. Perrin was organizer and presi--1 dent of the American National Bank ' here and organizer and president 1 of the. First National bank of Thorntown. The American National Bank merged in 1910 into the Fletcher ' American National Bank. J —o i Thomas Reagan Dies Indianapolis, Dec. 28 —(UP) — Funeral services will be held here . tomorrow tor Thomas Reagan, 54 former editor of tlie -Logansport PhroasTribime, Reagan who died j’ here after an illness and an operation for appendicitis, was a member . of the editorial staff of the Ind- ) dianapolls Star.

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DEAD MAN IS UNIDENTIFIED; TWO SENTENCED Fourth Os Bandits To Fight Case; Employs Chicago Attorney WILL BEGIN TERM SOON Portland, link. Dec. 2X (U.R)—Two of three bandits who robbed the First State Bank td Dunkirk last Thursday were sentenced to 20 years imprisonment here today. Albert Frabetla. 20. and Frank Stalentino, 22, both of Chicago Heights pleaded guilty to bank robbery charges and were sentenced immediately by Judge Frank Gillespie in Jay circuit court. Both sobbed as the sentences were passed. They will serve their terms in the Indiana state refrmatory at Pendleton. Lorenz Capelli, 25, East Chicago. who was captured with Fi -i---betta and Stalentino, refused to plead guilty. An attorney came from Chicago to take his case. It was said that Capblli was released six months ago after serving a two year term on a robbery charge. Racine. Wis., Dec. 28—(U.R)— Reinhold Fleuker. 31, Burlington, reported killed by an Indiana sheriff’s posse at Dunkirk, is alive and will be arraigned here Dec. 30 on charges of robbing the Reinhardt State Bank at Burlington, District Attorney Charles F. Prudent, Racine, announced today. The Indiana litindit. shot after a Dunkirk hanji robbery Dt-c. 24. was identified by R. G. Saunders, of the Illinois Bankers' Protective Association as Fleuker. He was buried without ceremony Saturday in the 1.0.0. F. cemetery at Dunkirk. Tlie error in identification was discovered positively when Fleuker appeared at tile office of hit attorney. Jack Wilbershide. Saturday. He was also seen in Burlington last night. District Attorney Prudent pointed out. Fleuker was released under $10,00<) bond after preliminary hearing on charges of robbing 'be Meinhardt bank. Date for his trial will be set when he appears either in municipal court or circuit court here Dec. 30, Prudent said. Fleuker and hfs friend. Frank Karnin. Burlington, were captured at a Pow’ers Lake cottage after the Meinhardt bank was robbed. I Karnin was seriously wounded I y officers and was in the Kenosha hospital for a long time. G-ary, Ind. Dec. 28—(UP)—Pasquail Erenzo 28. formerly of Hammond, who was killed last week while resisting capture after the robbery of a Dunkirk, Ind., bank was identified today as the leader of the gang which held up the Farmers and Merchants Bank at High- • (CONTINUED G?,’ PAGE THREE) RAIN, FLOODS ; MENACE WEST Severe Rain And SnowStorms Hit West Coast States, Report Says ! San Francisco. Dec. 28—(U.R) —■ A driving wind and rain storm swept out of the North Pacific today bringing snows to mountain regions, shattering weather re<k ords of 20 years and threatening t floods to lowlands. The storm spent its fury across k four states, lashing coast points r with heavy gales, blocking transportation and swelling rivers near to flood levels. Forecasts of lighter rainfall today and tomorrow indicated the worst of the storm was over, but. prospects of more downpours 8 caused apprehension 4 The storm descended on Wash--1 fngton. Idaho, California and Ne- '' vada. retraced its path to Victoria. 1 B. C.. and then started southward l' again whipped by a 56 mile gale. (CONTINCED ON CAGE TWO,