Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 30, Number 65, Decatur, Adams County, 16 March 1932 — Page 1

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■ACTION IS ■ENON WAGE ■cuts IN CITY S(il Ila- h‘<» I’ l - I ."' ,o Bti'.' Sessiun Group Held Si U.K M .■ i.KMI-I P ( |!\ "ill :Wus iii'-" 1 '>■ y; l * •’■ -i!b. I'.ng .hhl hatil(he 111 ~u’u ’ S r 'H‘, I’' 1 ' 11 "" the Ijsl \ugli'-.!, al his K c l ..I *22.30 per Aller lie took the t accept . linn ie s'‘< lire bond council K, Aii.hii.s J I'i'ed Frmhte t h,. tiling for Hie tn do to eatn-l . .. . j,>. ■■ • • al ostaie IK. m-M Ho ' iiy could 'l' l him M . <■< ids bib fin tin- next fire ~iul • A'.gust award for |Bothe r Counc" Matters mr t d.y . orb on Wnl-i I®--'-.,' ..p|.|'.lV-.i and would on April a. hand of the Old Adams |M ; tank m: the Barret law ■ «i- app' iV".| by thf coun-j BH No Wage Adjustment Vain ■. ■ la.ii man of the matt. : dm inc warp's city employes, that sa!uti.'> under $2,000 a ba reduced fire per cent ov. r s2.nno a year l.e ■KtTI.VI,'l.?il OX PACE TWO) M — a |W TRIAL IS J DENIED HYDE Bicie Court Rules In ■'or of Wells County ■ Commissioners ■j"" L A. Guthrie of Muncie Billed the motion for a new trial ouster proceedings of the ■ county commissioners a y Oharles e Hyde, county yfy' superintendent. , Blfe Guthrie last month render- ■ decision affirming the Well; ■0 board of commissioners in ■ns Hyde gulty of charges of ysanre in office. ■de; attorneys then re-submit- ■ ■otion for arrest of judgment ■» court's findings, and Judge ■'e prom,.iiy overruled this mo- ■ mid entered a record of judg- ■ »» his findings, which judg- ■ » nrnis the action of the board ymissioners which by a dividp ls two to c,jie <j>.’ared the ■ 'scant thereby discharging f on the grounds of having sm>r '"e charges against him. B using Judge Guthrie’s* action I ering judgment on his findt, tiled a mo■'■tTlNPEti ON PAGE THREE) ! " —— —— o— Bulletin Stucky, 62, retired railroad ’ popped dead at his home in oner°r Ve j-. at noon ,rMlay ' County in „ .. , Gr undstaff is invest!p ’ l6 <leat h but had not made this afternoon. r Stucky had retired from serv3 v e ° ol< for a raill- oad com- , year ago and lived by himttied 111,1 ( ' rove ' He was never ri m P 7 a ' e< ’ was born in Mi”' tu ‘ h J a " uary Hi™. Surviving nnf lot^ers’I ot^ers ’ pa ul of Berne and or Geneva. ‘J'n^ ( , arranßenit!n,s '‘eve not

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Eastman Heiress is——aw, aLfgl •J s J I i I Mrs. George H Dryden of Evanslion. 111., who may become one of. •; America's wealthiest women ' throuffli liie death of her un< l«, ..George K. ICastman. in Rochester, I' .‘N Y. She is the only known dose I relative of the kodak magnate. I' .[whose estate is estimated to be [ I worth S.’.IM».IMM>.tMHI i NEW ANGLE ON EXTRA SESSION II Presiding Officers Confer Today; Assemblymen Mav Be ( ailed 11 ! Indianapolis. Mar. 16.—(U.RJ- Pre- i Guiding o fleers of the general as'Gemldy met here tooay to decide ■ | whether members of the leglsla- i pure will lie summoned to Indian- I [apolis to consider the newly draft-1| i n-d tax relief program. li Copies of the program, drawn up, l 'hy the Citizen Tax Committee, were ■ Isent today to all members of the 1 1 legislature. Originally it was plani (tied to have the legislators express j their opinions of the program by ‘.letter. If a majority approved, a . demand was to be presented Gov-1 |ernor Harry G. Ix-slie for a special (session of the legislature. [i Edgar I). Gush, lieutenant gover-i | nor. said he favored calling the. [legislators to Indianapolis because i a more satisfactory expression' of [ > [opinion on the relief proposals could be obtained in a general discussion. If state senators are called. he said. S< liar.ll I-e. .1 Hint- I sell. Fort Wayne, president pro tern, will be asked to join ip the request. Walter Myers, speaker of the (CONTINI'ED ON PAGE THREE) Services Are Tonight The Zion Lutheran church will observe the last of a series of six lenten services at the church tonight, at a Sit) o’clock. Rev. Paul Schultz, 'pastor, announced today. NORTH DAKOTA FOR ROOSEVELT I - ■ • * ■ ’ I Governor Murray Loses Ground in Preferential Primary Contest Bismarck. N. D., Mar. 16—<U.R) —Governor Franklin D. Roosevelt I of New York was leading his Ok- i lahoma rival. Governor William H. (Alfalfa Bill) Murray, in North Dakota's presidential pre- i ference primary today on tabulation of less than half of the 2.192 precincts. The city vote was close. Roosevelt led in Fargo end Bismarck , and Murray carried Minot. The early rural returns gave Roosevelt a slight margin. R. B. Murphy, Roosevelt manager, claimed the state for the ■ New York executive and for H. H. Perry, Ellendale, as national com- . mitteeman. Perry and Roosevelt . had the endorsement of the state , party convention. i There was a slight possibility ( that Murray might overconm , tCONIINIIEP ON PAGE TWO)

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BANDITS ADMIT IOWA ROBBERY All But S.*>,ooo Recovered In Clinton Bank Robbery Tuesday BULLETIN Clinton, la.. Mar. 16—(U.R)— Sentences of life imprisonment were imposed today upon four men wno pleaded guilty to robbing the City National bank here of $106,000. The sentences were passed on Clifford Edwards. Early Jeffr.es, Lester Stanley and Ed Morris only 24 hours after ' they had* engineered the daring holdup, only to be captured a few hours later. All the loot was recovered. i linton, la.. Mar. 16. (U.R) The trifling things that the most expt rlenct'd criminal is unable to forsee were blamed today for failure of the daring $106,000 robbery ot the City Ntuional Bank. Details of tile raid were worked out almost to perfection; hut it was the unexpected that resulted in capture of the four men whom |officers say have confessed. The bandits started early yester[day hv ambushing Clyde Willits, [the janitor. Then as nearly 40 employes and officials arrived singly and in groups they, too, [wore bound and put under guard [in the luxurious directors' room. ' The robbers, wearing hoods that covered their entire heads, laugh- [<« and joked with the bankers and bank clerks and treated them firm|ly but courteously. I "Are their any vigilantes here?" inquired one of the guards as he asked lor a cigaret from a teller. "Yes there are. and they'll be ion yon siMin." was the reply. ' "Let them come. Well tie them up. too." Hie liandit said as he laughed and surveyed the roomful of prisoners. [ When the time lock on the big bank vaults released the bundles of hills the bandits escaped. On the floor of the bank they left a | )«)ol of blood where one of their I number was injured when he care- [ lessly stabbed himself with a knife. This unexpected injury made it necessary to give first aid io the injured comrade and the men stopped at the farm home of one of their relatives. This cost time and they decided tCGX IINI IM> ON I'WH TWO* WARM WEATHER IS PREDICTED Cold Wave Disappears As Mercury Moves Toward Higher Levels Symptoms of spring began arriving in northern Indiana today and the ice covered ponds and rivers were yielding to a decided rise in temperature. The zero weather of last week had completely disappeared today and weather forecasters said that seasonal weather would remain. Temperatures in Adams county last week were the lowest of the present winter and followed a month of almost spring weather Advices from Indiana weather bureaus are to the effect that the mercury will continue to rise today and tomorrow and that by Friday almost every evidence of winter will have disappeared. The short-lived cold wave brought business to garage operators, coal dealers and others who handle winter commodities. Today local merchants were busy preparing for spring trading and most of the winter sales have been completed. The temperature was above the freezing mark early today. Lenten Sermon Given Speaking on the happiness which awaited the just in heaven, the Rev. Father Carl Holsinger, assistant pastor of St. Peters Catholic church Fort Wayne used for his subject the text, "They shall be inebriated with the plenty of thy house". Psalm 35-9. It was the fourth sermon o! the series of Lenten discourses delivered by Father dlolsinger. Benediction of the Blessed Sacrament was given by the Rev. Father J J. Hennes, assistant pastor of St. Mary s Catholic/ church.

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Recovering ' F 1 ' 5 V -'mil "■ lll Ij James A. Reed, former Unit’d 11 States senator from Missouri, who' i was operated on for gall bladder ' trouble last Friday, is reported to ,I he recovering satisfactorily. Mr. I Reed is in a hospital nt Rochester. 1 Minn., and his physicians an/ that 1 , unless complications sot in he will 1 recover speedily. COUNTY MEET ' IS CONDUCTED VV. C. T. U. Holds Session At Berne; State President Attends i Twenty-four persons from Deca- , tur attended the annual Adams I County Institute of the Women's ,: Christian Temperance Union J which was held in the Berne .' Evangelical Church. Tuesday .'morning and afternoon. . Mrs Elizabeth Stanley of Liberty. slate president of the W. C. ■ T. U. was the principal speaker - at the meeting and gave an inlerf esting and instructive address. The morning session, which I opened at 10 o’clock, was in the charge of the institute leader, Mrs. Stanley, and devotionals were conducted by Rev. I. G ' Roederer. Several committees were appointed liy the Adams County president of the union. I Mrs. C. E. Hocker of Decatur. I The Girls trio of Berne sang a vocal selection and a playlet. "TheI Paper that was found in the Road" ; I was presented by four women ot Berne. Mrs. C. E. Sharrow of Decatur gave the noontide prayer, following which a delicious dinner was served by the Borne Union. The afternoon session started at 1:30 o'clock, and an organ prelude was played by Mrs. M. M. Baumgartner of Berne, followed with r devotionals by Rev. C. H. Suekau. The Union prepared a telegram ’ which was sent to Congressman Hon. David Hogg. The telegram , (CONTINUED ON PAGE TWO) GOTTSCHALK IS LIONS’ SPEAKER “State Institutions” Subi ject of Address At Local Service Club ' State Senator Thurman Go'ts- : chalk, Berne, delivered an address on state institutions, at the meet- ‘ ing of Decatur Lions, their wives and sweethearts, held last night in connection with a venison supper. Sen. Gottschalk, who has been closely connected with all state institutions, as a member of the state budget committee, which allows all appropriations for the institutions, explained the operations ot several and also told of methods of building new additions. He gave the audience an idea of cost of maintenance and many other interesting angles. Harry Knapp, president of the chib, presided at the dinner. The venison was furnished by Rev. Benjamin Franklin, a member of the club. Special music was alto included on the program.

[North Ward Pupils To Present Operetta The 'pupils of the North Ward I School will .oeseiil an operetta. "Spring Glow." al the Decatur high school auditorium. Friday evening. April 1. it was announced today. The play is in three Aids and the pans are for children. Thb teachers of the North Ward School are directiuj the 'production, and the entire school will partlciIpate. The puplic is invited anil tick eLs may ho secured from any ptrpll I of the North Wanl school. i — o I. GOOD WRITERS CLUB — Sixty-one Central Pupils Attain Membership Among Group Sixty one ; upils of the Central Grade school have attained membership in the Good Writers Chili, founded by the American Penman, it has been announced. The KB c lass of the school led the | list with 14 pupils receiving medals >1 awarded to those who became mem- • bers in the Club. The 7A grade was > sedbnd with 13 members and the 7 B class third with 12 members Membership in the club is grant--11 ed to those pupils who prepare sati isfactorily the test copy appearing in the issue ot The American Penman for tlie month in which application is made. The club is organized in three divisions, the Senior Division for ptrpils in the seventh . grades, as well as pupiks in the high school and business colleges; I the Junior Division, for pupils in I the seventh and eighth grades, as? I well a.s pupils in the high school [land business colleges; the Junior i Division for pupils of the fifth and sixth grades and the Primary Division for third and fourth grade pupils. The Good Writers Club is being ’ sponsored by Miss Grace Coffee, 1 supervisor of penmanship in the 1 Central school. Papers submitted by the followinr pupils entitle them to membership in the Good Writers Club. Grade SA. Lois Mann. Marlowe • Hoagland, Juanita Johnson, '.lazel Herrington. Robert Meyer. Dale ' Myers, Eileen Jack-son, liuth Porter. Robert Engeler. Maxine Drake i and William Schaefer. > Grade SB. Betty Jean Short, liar(CONTINUED ON PAGE TWO) LIGHT LINES MAY BE MAPPED ‘ Council Considers Proposal to Have Map of System Drawn Up L The city council is considering • the proposition of having a map of ■ Adams county and the thfree south i townships of Allen county drawn . for use of the electric liight departi ment in the extension of the rural i electric lines of the City plant. i The council wishes to have a map showing all the present connections of city service at tha different farms and also information indicating where service is not supplied to the farms along the different! routes. I Since the electric lines extend in | Allen county, near Hoagland and Monroeville, the council wishes to have the three south townships of this county included in the draft. Dick Boch, civil engineer has submitted a proposition to the council and the matter was referred to the electric light committee for inves- - tigation. Facts and estimates will ) be obtained and reported to the - council before any action is taken. ( The city light and power plant t has about 60 miles of rural lines i in the county and eacn year extended circuits are added. The pro*posi ed map would also show the roads ) in the county and the location of » farms in the county. 1 ’ o Explanation Is Made t School authorities at Ossian, . where Bluffton basketball fans reI turning from the Fort Wayne reI gional tourney last Saturday received a -shower of eggs on their > automobiles, have explained that j those who threw the eggs did not . reside in Ossian. The school offif cials also absolves! themselves of > having anything to do with the deed.

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LINDBERGHS' STILL BELIEVE BABY IS ALIVE — Stolen Babe's Parents Believe C hild Will Be Returned Safely NEW (LUES ARE FOLLOWED I lopewell, X. J.. Mar. Hi | (U.R) Col. anti Mrs. Charles j A. Lindbergh clung today to [ the belief that their kidnaped son, Chnrles A., Jr., still is alive and well, according to tin impeachable information given the I oiled Press. Reasons for this heliet were not given in detail, however. Meantime, authorities untiringly ran down scores of loads and clues without contributing positively to tiic mystery of the child's fato or its kidnapers' whereabouts! A former kidnaper. Stanley ('randall. now on parole, was detained in Rochester. N. Y.. for questioning as to his movements in recent days, .m the police theory that all known kidnapers at large ought to be checked up. Shortly after this development. New Jersey jiolii e gave out a statement of Kenneth Schaefer, an Easton. Pa., taxi driver, who drove mysterious passengers to Hopewell recently, and claimed that at their behest he took a verbal not* saying: "Baby safe; withdraw police March 9 and 10. Direct communication Lindbergh home. Call Spitale (Lindbergh's go-between front ixingacre.) . Important." (Longacre is a New York telephone exchange.) The police said an investigation of his story of his strange passengers and their stranger maneuvers had not proved “any fnrts of his story." Schaefers statement follows: “At 7:45 p. m. on Mar. 8 I picked up three fares in Easton, who told me to drive to Flemington. N. .1. When I readied Flemington they told be to stop and the two men who were in the rear seat got out and walked back to a car which was parked about 100 feet in back of where I stopped. They got in this car and then the man in tlie front scat told mo to drive ahead and the other car followed mq. The man in my car told me to drive to Hopewell and when we arrived he told me to stop. The other car pulled up and my fare got out. as did the two men in the other car. The man who hud ridden in the cab then told (CONTINCEn ON PAGE TITIIEE) — - 0 Plan Special Service A group of workers from the Fort Wayne Goslyel Temple will hold a service at the Pleasant Valley M. E. Church Friday March IS at 7:30 P. M. Plea-ant Valley Church is 1 mile East and 1 mile south of Tocsin. Mr. Parlee will nave charge of the son,- service and Rev. Forrest Weddle will preach. Ptiblic is invited to this service. KEY LEADING ATLANTA VOTE Recall Election Sends Georgia Mayor Back to His Post At Wet Atlanta, Ga., March 16.—(U.R) — Mayor James L. Key, of Atlanta, an avowed wet in a purportedly dry town, today held a decisive victory against his opponents who initiated a recall vote to oust him from office. The bitterness of the controversy, which started with the mayor's anti-prohibition statements while on a good-will tour in France, drew prohibition and. labor organizations of this city into a tight which resulted in the heaviest vote in the city's history. The vote as tabulated late last . night: Against recall 17.178 For recall 11,744 Key's majority 5,434 , "If they will just leave me alone [ now. I will try to do something for <CONTINUED ON PAGE THREE)

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Can't Retire vn Although Clarence Darrow, ■i famous Chicago lawyer, started ■ to retire almost two decades ago, I he has found that he simply can't get around to it. He planned to | retire after the McNamara dynamite trial in California, l<ut since then many world-famous trials have called him back to work. This time he is leaving ills home 11 in Chicago to go to Hawaii where i [ he w ill defend Mrs. Grace Fori tescue. her son-in-law. Lieut. Thomas H. Massie, and two naval enlisted men. charged witli murd- '' ering a native. CALIFORNIAN IS KIDNAPED LS-Year-Old Girl Is Stolen I'rom Escort And Taken Away i BULLETIN Huntington Beach. Calif.. Mar. 16—(U.R) —Orpha Deßush, 18-year old Huntinnton Beacd beauty, reported kidnaped from Clarence Double, 21, her escort, early today, has returned to her home here, Double's father informed the United Press. The elder Double said he had no details regarding the girl's condition, or how she got home. [ Ix>s Angeles. Mar. 16—(U.R)—A i kidnaper took Orpba De Bush, 18. ! of Huntington Beach, away from ' her escort and drove into the hills sonthwest of Los Angeles, with Miss De Bush bound and gagged beside him. Her t'ate was undetermined sev- ! era! hours later. Police officers [ were searching the hills for her. Clarence Double, 21, the escort, told the police that tlie kidnaper threatened to "burn the girl" if police were notified. However. the terror-stricken youth gave an alarm as soon as he could locate a telephone, then I joined police in a searcli for the ' girl. Double and Miss De Bush were at Huntington Beach, in Double's automobile, when the kidnaper appeared. Armed with a pistol,' the kidnaper entered the machine, dobbed Double of three dollars (CONTINI'ED ON PAGE TWO) o Leaking Gas Causes Deaths of 6 People New Windsor, N. Y.. Mar. 16— (U.R) —Gas leaking strangely into two homes on Blanche street today killed six persons in one house and rendered unconscious tour persons in another. The dead: John Lukaszewski. 60. Mrs Helen Lukaszewski, 52. his ’ wife. Jeannette Lukaszewski, a dangh- ' ter, 21. Mrs. Mary Sitkiewicz. 33. married daughter. Lola. 11, daughter of Mrs. Sitkiewicz. Irene, 9, another daughter of Mrs. Sitkiewicz. Those unconscious, but revived: Charles Weygant, 63. Andrew Weygant. 31. a son. Harry Weygant, 18, son. Arthur Weygant, 13, son.

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ABDUCTOR OF JAMES DEJUTE FOUND GUILTY Court Studies Evidence Over Night. Then Metes Out Life Sentence HARGRAVES DENIED RETRIAL Warrell, ()., Mar. 16.—tU.R) —Dowell Hargraves, charged with kidnaping for extortion of James DeJute, 12-year-old Niles school boy, was sentenced to life imprisonment here today. Common Pleas Judge Lynn B. Griffith announced a verdict of guilty when court opjened. The defense had waived a jury trial and thrown the case before the judge. The sentence is the maximum under the charge in Ohio. Hargraves' trial ojiened late Monday and was completed Tuesday afternoon, without defense testimony being introduced. John Demarco awaits trial on tho same charge. Demarco and HarI graves were found with James in an abandoned gambling house near Youngstown three days after tlie l.oy was dragged into a motor-ear in Niles while he was enroute to ' school. State and federal authorities iielieved an organized band of professional extortionists in tlt e ‘ Youngstown area planned the kidnaping and that Hargraves and Demarco were under direction of an organization director. Judge Griffith asked Hargraves |if he wished to name "tlie higherpips" in Illis kidnaping. li "No." replied the prisoner. II Tlie state had completed its case [quickly. Jimmy, his father, a ' wealthy contractor, and several [witnesses to the kidnaping were (called io testify. There was no testimony indieat|ing that the elder DeJute had re|reived any ransom demands. During the trial, however, ofl'i- ' <-ers brought out that when Demarco and Hargraves were arrested, Hargraves bad replied to a question as to whether they expected to collect money for tlie boy: "Why do you think we kidnaped him." James was not harmed during his imprisonment with the kidnap(CONTlNt:t;i> ox cage 1111:1:1:1 —o Burns Prove Fatal Fort Wayne. Ind March 16 (UP) Um as altered by Carl Lund strttri, 30. Waynedale, in an explosion of gasoline in a stove, caused his death. o Fire Does Damage Fire at a tennant house ,on tlie Peter Lehman farm damaged the home to the extent o a'.'out sloo and destroyed some of the furniture. Tlie house «i covered by insurance. The fire occurred about 1 o’clock this morning. TWIN MURDER IS MYSTERY Missouri Man Hunted For Murder Is Found Buried In Cistern Independence. Mo., Mar. 16.—(U.R) —A double murder mystery cou--1 fronted police today when they dis- . covered the man hunted for three i months in tlie death of a friend was slain at the same time. Discovery of the body of Thomas T. Alexander. 27, in a deep well near Lone Jack absolved him of 1 blame in the death of his friend, Howard Emmett’, last December but left authorities without clues in the double killing. Emmett and Alexander set out for a day's hunting last Dec. 9. , Two days later Emmett was found fatally beaten When Alexander ' did not appear, police hunted him in his friend’s death. Workmen found Alexander's body in tlie well together witli those of two hounds taken on the hunting trip. The friends, police said, had been attacked at the same time