Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 29, Number 306, Decatur, Adams County, 29 December 1931 — Page 1

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|ol c U oca l Sugar Beet Factoru To Be Determined Soon

■0 ACRES OF :fciS NEEDED B OPEN MILL - 'K)aiui For Acreage In K. Territory To January 5 ftflllEßS to g BE SOLICITED lor 1.00(1 ticres beets are needed in b\ next In-', a big job and it's "■Hull'. T G. Gallagher and Schmitt, pl' Toledo. otl'ieials of the llo,Wsi Louis Sugar 1.0-ii-JWw, here this morning > v. uh representatives Farm Bureau. th' of Commerce an 1 urging that every imide to secure plede-s J- t.-tal of 12,0<m acres tl ,l: '' lis antount more than have been pledged by Ji the Indiana Farm insisted by a number Mo- nduding 11. E OverWilliam Shepelman. Fr -<l Daniel, E. 1.. Karli -iiE Harlicher. A. N. Ack-r. S:on, burner ami II il. Mac ' men are still working to secure the Q rnher will leave for v —Hr.: next Tuesday and ,1.1.1

pledges by thin 'in.' ■ntpf the men whom ho In O’ finance the proposition ts can be secut' d 1.i.w00 acres it is belie vi n , be safe to guarantee 12."' ■ li would allow a sbrini 1,000 acres, business man in Decatur . citizen ot the county , to assist by encouraging boosting this propositi i - r ms much for evei > Gallagher said this mornoperation of the laitor.i n a turnover of a million d< 1L year. for organizing the Ho.« a Growers under the li :li : Bureau were made ticand a committi e E. W. Ensch''. Monroe: Clark of Liberty KI) on |>!.r; K THREE) ° ■officers Are Elected V< officers were elected at a of the Rutaced Club last Installation will take place Monday evening. The et'mers 'lent, Harold Mm pin . vi< o Gerald SmlGey, seer. n were also made to celethe second anniversary - January 22 after the ('• n game at the Masonic ■ Carl Brenner's orchestra will o ICE CHANGES I IN EDUCATION E> Much “Junk” Con--■lined In System At *8 Present, Report Says Orleans, Dec. 29 —<11. R) ■ much “junk” exists in th ■ educational system, a- - the findings in a seven survey placed before the s< <• of the American Association Advancement of Seiem.' jM’of. A. O. Bowden, president Blhe New Mexico Stale Tea'll college, who made the charm . “we have too much arith- '■*<' and too little study of social ■" The educator offered an to questionnaires to s " ! ’ - his arguments. These he said, were sent to per In every line of endeavor ■> an average education and to ■xiINUED ON PAGE THREE)

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Auto Strikes Pumps | A Fort W ayne woman driving home from Winchester last night failed to make the turn at the Schnepp corner, south of Decatur where the turn is made on state road No. 27 and ran her automo- , bile into the gasoline pumps at the Schnepp Filling station/ Both pumps were knocked over. The automobile was damaged, but the ' occupants of the car were not in- ' jured. Other Fort Wayne people! driving from the Wilson Day, meeting at Winchester took the occupants of the automobile to ( Fort Wayne. AUCTIONEERS ! GATHER HERE Twenty-Two Enrolled In Mid-Winter Class of Local School Twenty-two students answered roll call this morning as the mid-' winter term of Reppert’s Auction: School opened. Col. Fred Reppert, ! president and founder of the local school, which has become internal- 1 ionally known, presided at the! opening session. ‘ Following a brief talk outlining 1 the school system the instructors! ’ I were introduced. They include ! ‘ Col. Roy Johnson, Decatur; Col. j '■Earl Gartin, Greensburg; Col. Guy '.Pettit, Bloomfield. Iowa; Col. Jack 'Brunton, Decatur, and Col. Roy : 1 Hiatt, Portland. 1 Col. Reppert also announced that I the following assistant instructors I would be here part of the term: Col. Phil Glick. Paris. Ill.: Col. Guv

Johnson, Columbus, Ohio; Col. H. W. Scgrfst, F6rt Wayne; Col. C. B. Drake. Mazon, 11l Following is a list of students 1 enrolled: Robert H. Mitteer, Stockbridge. 1 Michigan. Jerome Mihm. Hendricks. Minn Thomas Feenstra, Bigelo. Minn. i J. Paul Herman. Ravenna. Mich, i John 1). Comins. Wooster. Mass. ■ John A. Tigges, Dedham, lowa. George A. Cravens. Monmouth, i Illinois. Myron I). Haughn. Leipsic, Ohio. Gilbert Sellers. Indianapolis, Ind. Henry J. Bockehnan. Spencer, la. George Vislisel. Cedar Rapids. la. Elvin F. Duerr. Seward. Nebr. R. E. Beck. Winston Salem. N. C. Sherman E. Argo. Wapella, 111. Robert Cleckner. Angola. Ind. R. W. Harter, Redwood Falls, I Minn. Phil Glick. Paris, Illinois. . Howard Durham. Cisne, Illinois. (CONTINUED ON PAGE THREE) | n— Weber Is Sentenced Fort Wayne, Ind. Dec 29. —<U.R> —J. Stephen Wei" r. 37, former j secretary of the Home Loan and . Savings Association today started service of a sentence of 5-50 years at the Michigan (’it) penitentiary after pleading guilty to 43 counts charging embezzlement oi $210,000. The sentence was given by Judge Clarence R. McNalie. Weber said the embezzlements occurred over a period ot 10 years and the funds had been used to make up losses from bad investments in local business firms. In addition to the prison sentence Weber was fined SI,OOO and disenfranchised for 10 years. o Mandate Suit t iled Greencastle, Ind., Dec. 29. (U.R) —A suit by the Putnam county farm bureau to mandate Putnam county council to appropriate funds for the salary of a county agricultural agent was on file tn circuit court here today. summer the council lost a suit in a similar action, but still refused to appropriate the funds on the grounds that there is no necessity for a county agent. ~ — —o — Youth’s Body Found Indianapolis, Dec. 29.—(U.R)-~ Tl J® body of James Milnes, 17-year-o d high school boy. was found today nn the banks of White river, where he had been slain with the shotgun he was using to hunt rabbits yes- ' The boy's head was riddled with shot. He apparently had » li PP ed from, a levy, which caused accidental discharge ot the gun.

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WILSON FAITH IS NEEDED NOW, BAKER STATES Newton I). Baker Draws! Big Crowd At Annual VI ilson Day Banquet GETS ( HEERS FROM CROWD Winchester. Ind., Dec. 2!).! - (U.R)Only a return to the I faith in humanity of Wood- 1 row Wilson will save the] world from the worst situation in its history, Newton D. Baker believes. Speaking before 3.000 at a| \\ ilson memorial din ne r here last night, the secretary of war under President Wilson urged the closest sympathy and cooperation of the United States with an eventful entry into the league of nations and the world court. The crowd which filled the high school auditorium listened attentively for more than an hour to Baker’s quiet eloquence. It cheered frequently at his high praise of the war president’s “supreme faith in the common people which enabled him so ably to represent America in times of stress.” “What the world needs," Baker said, “is that which Woodrow Wilson had in a supreme degree — faith in the moral order of civilization, faith in the common people.

"If we had faith we would join the league of rations amk Ui* I world court. We would demand I I of Japan that it preserve the in- , tegrity of China by observing the i nine and four power pacts. We would demand that Japan cease I its advance upon Chinchow as | reported by the press to be im- | minent.” 1 The United States eventually : will join the league of nations, I Baker declared. “Perhaps the present is not the moment when it is politically possible for us to join either the league or the world court,” he said, “but in the mean time we should certainly sympathize and cooperate with It to preserve the peace in the world crisis. “The world today is covered (CONT'NTTED ON PAGE THREE) — o INJURIES ARE FATAL TO MAN Carl Hanselman, Formerly of Decatur Dies at Kendallville Word has been received here' of the death of Carl Hanselman, 21, former resident of this city, who died this morning at 6:10 o’clock at a Kendallville Hospital of injuries he received in an automobile accident Sunday night, near Wolf Lake. Mr. Hanselman was en route to Kalamazoo, Mich., where he has been employed for the last four weeks, when the automobile he was driving crashed into a tree. Death was due to a fractured skull. The deceased was born in Germany and came to this country about three years ago, making his ' home in this city. He was employed at the Mutschler Packing Company ! here, until about a month ago when ’ he accepted a similar position in Kalamazoo. • ' He is survived by two sisters in New York City, and his father and 1 several brothers and sisters in Germany. 1 Funeral arrangements have not been completed. Pardon Board Meets Michigan City, Ind.,/Dec. 29 — , (UP) — Twenty-five pardon petit--1 ions and 67 parole petitions from , convicts in the Indiana state prison } were before the prison board of t trustees as it met here this after- . noon. The case df Nick Sudovich, conj victed in Lake county on a manI slaughter charge, was expected to be heard. Sudovich is sought by immigration autorities for deportation.

Decatur, Indiana, Tuesday, December 29, 1931.

Held in Case Killing • 'lzx. ' w - •• « **** ' ■ ' H 1 I m i fl V * II li oMI R fl ; ! JHh iith / r rHU ‘ 1R Mill ( , S i I I 11 1 fU I ■h HMMF Marcella Royce, 17 deft), and Sally Evans, 16, two (’hicago girls ’ who, police say, aided their youthful male companions in the attempted 1 holdup of the Beach View Gardens, in which a policeman was killed. The girls were held at the detective bureau.

IMPROVEMENT I 1 IS UNDER WAY Electric Circuit Leads Being Placed In Underground Conduits Work is progressing on the I underground electrical circuits; from the City Light and Power Plant on Third street and J. C. | Titgemeyer, engineer of the firm of Froehlich and Emery, Toledo, estimated today that the units would be completed by the first of the year. About 600 feet of underground circuit is being constructed in the I leads from the power plant. The , cable is placed in concrete and the leads will supply the six different circuits in the electric distribution,' system from the power plant. The leads from the power plant go underground under Park street, south to Gloss street, where laterals and poles take the wires. A number of men are employed on the job and fine progress has been made. The Deel Electrical Engineering and Construction company of Fort Wayne lias the contract for rebuilding the distribution system and the work of removing the large poles on Second street will begin as soon as the ney system is erected. o JACOBY QUITS BRIDGE MATCH Lenz Partner Refuses To Continue After Severe Rebuke New York, Dec. 29.— (U.R) — Oswald Jacoby, six-foot bridge star, proved that all other contract players are brothers under the skin when he slapped on his stovepipe hat last night, swept up his walking stick and stamped out of the Waldorf-Astoria with the declaration that Sidney Lenz will have to get a new partner in the Culbert-son-Lenz epic bridge battle. Jacoby was mad. Just plain, downright mad. “Mr. Lenz,’’ he said, rising from the table at the close of last night’s session, "In hand 61)2, after making an absolutely stupid defensive play, you had the nerve to publicly criticize me for my bidding. 1 resign (CONTINUED ON PAGE THREE)

DENIES COMPLICITY

— — | Stunt Program Will Be Presented Tonight Stunt Night, the program' to be | presented by the Home Economics Clubs of Adams county, will take place in the Catholic High school | auditorium, tonight al 7:30 o'clock, ii The program will include stunts presented by each township club of Adams county, and the public is invited to witness this clever I production. The proceeds from the enterj tainment will be used to send the | leaders of the clubs to Purdue University in January, and also to sponsor a boys anil girls 4-H club btind and orchestra. Admission to the presentation tonight will be 25 cents. SECOND “WORK" TERM IS GIVEN Carl McWhirter Sentenced to Work On Roads At SI.OO A Day Carl McWhirter of the southern part of Adams county was sentenced to road work under the county highway superintendent by Judge D. B. Erwin because he failed to pay support money to a divorced wife. McWhirter, who is almost S4OO back in his support money was called before Judge Erwin Monday and was sentenced to work for an i indefinite period on the county roads at SI.OO a day. He is the sec- | ond Adams county divorced man to receive a “work” sentence. I The SI.OO a day earned by the worker is turned over as support money. McWhirter will spend evenings and Sundays in the Adams county jail and will work during the week days for Chris Eicher, at whatever work he is assigned. Shooting Is Probed Greencastle. Ind., Doc. 29. — (U.R) —lnvestigation of the shooting of ' Carl Bradstreet, 17, at his farm home near here, convinced author- ’ ities today that the affair was not ’ connected with threatening letters ' received by the youth last summer. While keeping company with a . Fillmore girl, the youth received ’ several anonymous notes ordering him to cease his attentions, and 1 several times shots were fired at J him. Once he was attacked and stabbed. ’ Sheriff Alva Bryan said Bradstreet probably was shot by chick1 en thieves whom the youth surprisI ed.

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NEW SCHEDULE IS ANNOUNCED Post Office Hours To Change January 1, In City, Report Says Postmaster L. A. Graham today announced a new schedule effective at the Decatur Postoffice on January 1, 1932, the change being made on orders from the postoffice department to reduce auxiliary help ‘at the local office. Beginning the first of the year the windows will not be opened until 8 o'clock in the morning. At present the windows are opened at 7:15 o’clock. On Saturdays, the windows will close at 12 o’clock noon. On other days during the week the windows will remain open until 6 o’clock in the evening and the doors of the postoffice building will be open until 7 o'clock. The lobby will be open at 1 o’clock in the morning and persons who have lock boxes can obtain their mail any time after 4 o’clock and up to 7 o'clock in the evening. The change in schedule means that the auxiliary clerk will not go on duty at 4 o’clock in the morning and will not be on duty Saturday afternoon. The postoffice department ordered the allowance for auxiliary help reduced from sl9l to $32 per month and the reduction in hours was made necessary accordingly. The regular clerks will go on duty at 6 o’clock in the morning (CONTINUED 6?.’ PAGE THREE) n

BANDITS LOOT ; t ENTIRE TOWN Six Machine Gunmen Capture Minnesota Town Early Today Pine River, Minn., Dec. 29 —(U.R) —-Posing as deputy sheriffs, six machine gun bandits terrorized Pine River today and robbed stores and homes for two hours. During their stay the bandits slugged Constable Ole Hough- ’ ward and herded half a dozen victims around the town as theyentered and robbed a drug store, a hardware store and several homes. The unmasked bandits swept into town at 3 a. m. and “tan- | tureci" it until 5 a. m. when they drove out toward Branerd. They left three men locked in the basement of the Ben Horrigan home and three women locked in the bedroom of the same house. The bandits appeared first at the home of Frank Marsh where they saw a light burning. Marsh was forced to leave his home by three of the bandits who pointed a machine gun and two sawed off shotguns at him. “Take us to the constable’s place,’’ one of the bandits order(CONTINUED ON PAGE TWO) MORE FIGHTING IS REPORTED China Claims To Have Halted Japan Drive In Fierce Battle Peiping. China. Dec. 29 —(U.R) — The Japanese advance north of I Yingehow towards Chinchow has I been held up by the Chinese after i the fiercest battle of the Manchttr- - ian crisis, Chinese headquarters claimed today. 1 The fighting occurred west of ■ Tienchwangtai. near the Liao 1 river lust north of Chinchow. The 1 Japanese used airplanes and cav- ■ airy, the announcement said, tore--1 lug a Chinese armored train to 1 retreat to Kowbangtze, to the 1 north. Chinese regulars and volunteers meanwhile held 3 ienchwangtai, after cutting behind the ' Japanese advance, headquarter’s, (CONTINUED ON PAGE TWO)

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!. Women To Be Ousted Indianapolis, Dec. 29. —(U.R) —City i ] officials today sought grounds on which 18 Indianapolis policewomen] may be discharged. If they succeed. the positions will be abolished, it was said. I • Mayor Reginald Sullivan said that definite plans for terminating the positions, which have been branded as "useless,” have not been , completed. It was intimated, how-1J ever, that technical charges may be filed with the safety board in an effort to replace the women with * men. Several of the policewomen said j they would take court action to re- . tain their positions. jj 1j 0 i COURT CITES : ! GEORGE REBER; < f 11 , Farmer And Wife Called t To Task For Stopping ' ’ Sale of Land J 1 Mr. and Mrs. George Reber, of * i < west of Decatur were called into| ( Adams circuit court this morning 5 on charges of contempt of court be- s t cause of their alleged effort to stop 1 a the sale of the farm on which they i y reside. ! Reber was found guilty on the I- charge and was fined $lO and costs y and sentenced to 10 days in jail, r The case against Mrs. Reber was s continued, and Judge Erwin warn- '■ ed Mrs. Rebel that she should not n attempt to stop the sale of the prog perty. j Reber has been called into court several times. He resides on a farm

belonging to the estate of his fat 1»- | er, which was ordered sold by the | Court some time ago. He admitted ' that he refused to permit people the house prior to the sale and because of the difficulty the sale was not held. A year ago Reber was enjoined by a restraining order from interfering with the sale, which according to the petition of the execuitor Marion Reber was “to pay just debts of the father”. Reber acted as his own attorney this morning and following the sentence lie stated: “I’ll investigate further concerning the matter." Case Will Be Tried Marion. Ind., Dec. 29 — (U.R) —A motion to quash a liquor indictment against Harry Miller was overruled in circuit court here by Judge O. D. Clawson. A ruling on a plea for abatement, also filed by Miller, is pending. The court’s decision not to quash the indictment was regarded as a minor victory for Attorney General James M. Ogden, who recently conducted a campaign against alleged vice and corruption in Marion. Miller was arrested during Ogden’s investigation, conducted by George Hufsmith, deputy attorney general. In questioning of Elmer Gowing, foreman of the grand jury which indicted Miller, counsel tor Miller attempted to show that Hufsmith influenced the jury to indict him. Evidence was introduced to show that the indictment was approved before witnesses whose names appeared on it had been questioned. It was believed generally here that the court also would reject the abatement plea. ——o Gunmen Are Sought Springfield, 111., Dec. 29.—(U.R) — Three gunmen who shot and killed Charles Dawson, 49. racing bookie, last night were sought by police today. The bookie was attacked as he ' walked toward his home. The men > shot him 10 or 12 times in the head ■ as he walked along a street near ■ the business section and escaped in i a small sedan. Police believed he was shot be- ’ cause he failed to join a bonk-mak-i ing syndicate. It was the third ‘ gang slaying here in three weeks. . — o Trench Mouth Fatal Warsaw, Ind., Dec. 29. — (U.R) — Trenchmouth caused the death of ' William Robinson, 25, here today. ' Physicians said it was the first 1 death from that cause in this vicinity in many years.

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BANK BANDITS NAME SHERIFF AS THEFT AIDE Blackford County Sheriff Accused; Taken to Jay County Jail REFUSES TO GIVE COMMENT Portland. Ind., Dec. 29. —W.R) —lra Barton, Blackford county sheriff, who is suspected of complicity in recent Indiana bank holdups, maintained his innocence throughout several hours of interrogation this morning. Charles Bolte, of the state criminal bureau, predicted that he would obtain a confession in the case late today. Bolte questioned Barton and three bandits captured after robbery ot the First State Bank at Dunkirk last Thursday, during the entire morning. He .said he believed the bandits, two of whom have pleaded guilty, were part of a large bandit gang that terrorized victims throughout Indiana and Illinois. Barton, according to Bolte, asserted that he was the victim of a frame-up. He is charged with conspiracy and with being an accessory before the fact in connection with bank robberies at Dunkirk. Montpelier and Hartford City. Ho was arrested in Hartford City on information furnished authorities by the captured bandits. Prosecutor James Emswiler, of Blackford county, and William Bpeidel, Hartford City chief of police, were to confer with local authorities this afternoon as to whether Barton will be retained here or removed to the Blackford county pail. Emswiler and Speidel believed more serious charges could be preferred against Barton in Blackford county. Mrs. Hazel Green, who is expected to surrender to authorities in Muncie this afternoon, will be brought here immediately, Bolte said. Meanwhile, he announced, one and possibly two other women will be arrested in connection with the affair. Bolte termed Mrs. Green the "brains” of the bandit gang and charged that she directed their operation both in Indiana and Illinois. Albert Frahetta and Frank Stalentino, who pleaded guilty to robbery of the Dunkirk bank and were sentenced to 20 years imprisonment, will be retained here for further questioning in regard to Barton, Bolte said. Lorenz Capelli, the third captured bandit, was said to have agreed this morning to plead guilty to bank robbery charges. Later, however, (CONTINUED ON PAGE TWOt o Council Holds Meeting The city council met late Monday afternoon and allowed bills, disposing of all claims for material. labor and services obtained in 1931. No other business was transacted by the council. The regular meeting of the council will be held Tuesday, January 5. GIRLS CHARGED WITH KILLING . Two Chicago Girls In Their Teens May Be Indicted For Death Chicago, Dec. 29.— <U.R> — Indict--1 meats charging complicity in the ' murder of a policeman during a case holdup were sought today against two girls in their 'teens ’ and four of the five youths who 1 were with them. I The girls are Dorothy Evans. Id, ’ one of seven children, who couldn’t 1 , have the pretty clothes she wanted because her parents are poor, and - Marcella Royce, 17, whose well-to- - do parents gave her everything she I wanted, but who craved excitement in addition. The girls and the four boys under arrest have admitted various parts in the holdup, but have accused Tony Piaza of firing the shot that killed Patrolman James J. Caps lis. Piaza has not been caught. Marcella, a dark-haired beauty, 1 told how Dorothy, a pretty blonde. (CONTINUED ON PAGE TWO)