Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 30, Number 69, Decatur, Adams County, 21 March 1932 — Page 1

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■gram for ■rm banquet J ANNOUNCED llllli —- Mh \nnual Event To K{,.| ( { V |{, ' llU ‘ ' Sext ■hursda? Evening ■fm\n is ■ ( 1111.1 -it \KER , ■ o'liii'lH’ 7* ~‘, l :iiiiui:il Adams laniH'i'*' l ani|ii<'t to K|,l Ihur-lav nitlhl al |K. j| tiyMl o'clock, lias jiiiioiinccd. Mti ch h ' I" 1 ii shown m. ... Inn incclint! and ' allei’d.incc is alltici- , i'<i i" "’Hisinsin- Mi • • ii ;l ’ and vo. cui-dc will iw> ( K. ni" quartette , ( ,f idlowing nun. |K I|.j„ M. nn.l- Bailin' ■ K r F.lliD-: :i"'l K Stauffer. I A-z.-nt I. E. Archhold j ■nuk.' !'>’•' remarks andl, ■tnn. tin’ ni'i'ilii- over to (lie. , !'"'il Blum | t..ir.s county ( |m ■ oirv Heril Iniwill III'.".. '11l ! i.ruii'n -ire medal lo , Schwartz ■ruin Miller, present cow| ( : th. lb ni Improvement , ■is-.. I. » ' pr.'o'iit im-ilals • o , ■ "».u ■». 1»..n Habegge-. Striker. P.f.i It Behm; n ■<■ ' Hatr.s anil MorKwh Ito h. D W. ■> Kr:. i. " am! R »L , II Bi' b. i n 11. piesident 'IT ■in ?•..'. , ... ...I i.m « ill 11 Kir . ip i. 1., pi .-sent I In-1 K honor ...I:- the following,! K ban H..l>.'S_.r R.-avers ami; r. S. christen. Sol Mos-1 and S<-h warts Henrv, ■hlt’mmi. E D. Wass, D. J. ■ib. David I' Steiiry. Dennis Kr- Ibal.iiph Si.-lily. Beier I), < Kranz. Anm- Z Smith. Otto D. B-riiii p.i.-t B Lehman. Dan Kry. 11. D S.< bwartz, David F , ■‘l’n anil John .1 Schwartz. a -election by the quartet. Mayor George > ■k. Decatur. will present the : ■!c and im-i,.; - t.> the winners , ■th- , orn contest. , as follows: K»l. Carl I! Amstutz. $15.00. ■ ! * medal. Second. Rufus In- ; K fl'io'i. ■ ! >nze medal. Thir l, . ■klin c M.,zelin. $7.00. bronze ; K 1 Fourth. W T. Rupert, $7; K Leland Ripley. $4.50. Sixth. < Busilie. $4.50. Seventh, j ■h S. Myers. $2.00. Erick will then introduce t, ■ Rupert, who deposed his|* ■ r who has been Adams conn- , ■ corn king n f long standing. ■ p Schmitt, will be called to present the medals and ' won in the Ton Litter i. s * by the following men: , ■w. Ardon Mosser. $15.00, ' ■ medal; second. Ed Christen, ■*!' gold medal: third, Benj. ' ■lin. $7,00, go ],| n ,o ( | a |. fourth, ■ ■ Habegger. ,lr„ $7.00, gold 1 ■*l fifth. C. w. R. Schwartz. ■ Silver medal; sixth. Otto 1 — i ■’•TINL’En on page TWO) i ■ " —— WIEII MAKES WHEB CAIL L |fcury Drops to Near l reez 'ng Mark; Sleet overs Streets, Walks i-i’U-r made a desperate effort ' me hack to northern Indiana ' week-end and this morn- ( I “'“Hir streets were covered and lee. The tempera- ( i, A,lanu county dropped to n i j eZing Satur<la y night after “ day, and the mercury renear the freezing mark over »eek-end. late weather forecasters predlctc ! we ather for today and to- • »t indications point to mildmperatures later this week. s ? rin 8 flowers which starttlKr" ng 1 WWl< i,f?o W,len ,he Ms h* aS WBrm have heen froz•ii r«J Ut 110 Be! ‘i° us damage has apoited in the county. I «Bi^' aie Weathe ’’ men are of v» tilat t ’* le P res ent cold Wl ” be short lived.

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! Monroe Meet Announced | I IThe March meeting of the Monroe I’areut-Teai-hera <A>uociutiim will be held ill the .Monroe High School building. Tuesday night at 7:30 o’clock. Virgil Wagoner, principal oi the Monroe high school announced today. Robert laiFollolte, head of the History department at the Ball I State Teachers collets will be the | principal speaker of the meeting. Music will be furnished by the male chorus of Berne. The public is cordially invited to attend thia meeting. THIEVES GET S4O IN CASH Boknecht Filling Station Robbed; Police Are Investigating Thieves entered the Boknecht Gasoline filhng station at the corner of .Monroe und Third streets late Sunday might or early this morning ami stole $4-i in cash. The money wn bidden in a shelf in the building. Ed Boknecht owner of the service station stated that he believed Hie thieves did not take anything but cash. A few articles o: merchandise might have been stolen. The thieves gained entrance through the north window, by prying the window up. In crawling through the narrow space, black ’threads, believed to be from a sweater which the thief wore, were left on the rough ledge. This clue is being used by local |>olice ,111 investigating the robbery. The Boknecht robbery is the sixth of a series of filling station robbfdnes in Decatur in the last iSKvA or ehzht waeks. a— PALM SUNDAY IS OBSERVED Catholic Observance of Holy Week Starts Sunday With Service Holy Week opened with Ilin observance of Palm Sunday in the St. Mary’s Catholic church yestei day. The blessing and distribution of the palms look place at the 9:15 o’clock high mass. The Rev. Father J. J. Hennes, assistant pastor of the parish, announced the order of services for Holy week at the Sunday masses. Tuesday evening the last of the series of Lenten sermons by Rev. Father Carl Holsinger, assistant | pastor of St. Peter's Catholic lehurch. Fort Wayne, will be given, r ’The service will begin at 7:30 o'clock. Wednesday is a day of fast and abstinence. Good Friday is likewise a day of fast and abstinence. The season of Lent Closes at noon . Saturday. On Holy Thursday the church celebrates the institution of the Holy Eucharist by Christ at the , last supper. The mass will be at , 7:30 o’clock, followed by procession with the Blessed Sacrament to the side altar. The Host consumed by the priest on Good Friday at the mass of the pre-sanctified is consecrated at this mass. The mass on Good Friday will begin at 7:30 o’clock. The services on Holy Saturday will begin at 5:45 o’clock. The | blessing of the water and Easter Candle will take place in the myorni ing and the regular mass will begin aibout 7:30 o'clock, followed by the singing of the Gloria. From Thursday until Saturday morning the bells of the church are not sounded, and a period of mourning is observed, commemorating Christ’s passion and death on the Cross. The Three Hours will be observed Friday afternoon from twelve to three o'clock with private devotions. Confessions will also be (CONTINUED ON PAGE TWO) o Autoist Escapes Injury Otto Neuenschwander of Berne escaped injury at 8 o’clock this morning when his car slipped on the icy pavement, running into the ditch, south of Monroe. He was returnin,,; to his home Tn Berne from Fort Wayne when the accident occurred. The car was badly damaged, but Mr. Neuenschwander was uninjured.

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DENARCO GETS I ONE TO TWENTY YEAR SENTENCE I’ound Guilty of Harbor- 1 ing Kidnaped Boy in De- ! lute Kidnap Case 2nd INDICTMENT IS WITHDRAWN Wtirnn, ()., Mur. 21 (U.R)I .John I h iiaiTo. ol lown, tillered nickek’cr, 10-| (l:iv was sciHviiccd lo I’romi out’ lo 20 vears in prison on a chart»e of harboring a kidnaped boy in connection with abduction ol .lames Dejute, 12. Niles. 0., school hov. A plea of guilty was entered ' for Denarco when County Prosecutor G. H. Birrell agreed to withdraw a second indictment charging the man with kidnaping for extortion, and carrying a possible life sentence. The guilty plea to the lesser charge was offered after Dowell Hargraves, found with Denarco, standing guard over James in an abandoned house near Youngstown, was given a life term. ’ Hargraves was identified as one of the actual kidnapers. Denarco was accnsed as a participant in tlie idnaping plot and as a guard over the abducted boy. Attorneys for Denarco asked that the major indictment he nolied Birrell refused, saying ne would dismiss the charge when he leaves office at the end of the year The defense agreed. Birrell said he desired to hold the indictment in event new evidence is obtained. James had | Mvtfified Denwri o was not quu the men who seized him on a Niles I, street as he went to school. Judge Lynn B. Griffith sentenc-l ed Denarco. He also sentenced I Hareraves, reviewing “an increase |in this kind of crime’’ and me:iI Honing the widespread public anxiety created by abduction of: the infant son of Col. Charles A. , Lindbergh, which occurred just! 10 hours before James was seized. ' No Board Meeting Owing to sickness there will be no meeting this week of the Adams county board of charities, it was announced today by Mrs. I). I). Heller, Sr., president of the board. DATES ARE SET FOR S. S. MEETS Township Conventions To Be Held by County Sunday School Group Dates for the various township Sunday School conventions to be held in Adams county were set Sunday at a meeting of the county advisory board at Berne. C. E. Striker. president of the county association presided at the meeting and the dates set were unanimously accepted by the township presidents. Following is a complete list of dates arranged: April, 17: Onion and Rofll townships, combined. « • , May 29: Kirkland and Preble townships, combined. May 15: St. Marys township. May 1: Blue Creek township. May 8: Jefferson township. May 15: Wabash township. April 10: Hartford township. April 3: Washington township. May 8: Monroe township. 'The lioard decided to let each ’ township group decide .on the place in the various townships where the conventions would be hejd. The locations will be announced at the time the respective programs are published. o ' t Graf Making Flight • Friedrichshafen, Mar. 21—<U.R)— ' The Graf Zeppelin was en route 1 to Pernambuco. Brazil, today on the first commercial flight of the • spring and summer season. Commander Hugo Eckener s chose a route across southern * France and Spain toward Gibral- ‘ tar after which he intended to I lead toward either the Cape Verde 1 or the Canary Islands. The ship 1 was due at Pernambuco at 11 p in. Tuesday. 1

Decatur, Indiana, Monday, March 21, 1932.

Prepare for (L (). P. If JK--<fl • I ( . f. * i 2 J 17 P 7' / t, JK , ' i ‘ -life* • • '' ar»•» «>»«•» ■ a i ■ —nww—snwananßantwaai Republican national committeemen photographed in Chicago Stadium where arrangements were completed for the national <l.O. I’, convention to he held June 11 From left to right: Ralph E. Williams of Oregon, vice chairman of subcommittee on arrangements; Paul Ghstoigne. in charge o f radio for convention; Sydney Strotz. president ;! tlje Stadium, and C. C. Hamlin of Colorado.

TWO MEN DIE AT INFIRMARY Robert Mullen, 84, And Adolph Seigrist Expire Over Week-end Adolph Seigrist, 79. died at the Adams County Infirmary at 3:30 o'clock Sunday afternoon of hiccoughs. Mr. Seigrist suffered an attack of hiccoughs last Thursday, and he continually hiccoughed until his death Sunday. He was an inmate of the infirmary I for the past 5 years. Prior to that j time he lived around Berne for ’ many years. lie was born in Swit-1 zerland, and has no surviving relatives. Funeral arrangements have not ] l>een made. The body was taken to the Bierie and Yager Funeral Parlors at Berne, and the funeral will be held from the Reformed church at Berne. Robert Mullen, 84, died at the Adams County Infirmary at 10:30 o’clock Saturday nignt following a stroke of paralysis he suffered. The deceased was an inmate of the county infirmary for the past 4 years. .Surviving are two half sisters, Mrs. McCbimick and Mis. C. Fancett of Bellefontaine, Ohio. Funeral .services will be held Tuesday at Zanesville, Ohio, 5 miles east of Bellefontaine. FORMER LOCAL RESIDENT DIES Mother of Peter Hess Dies in New Mexico; Well Known Here Word has been received here of ! the death of Mrs. Amelia Hess, pioneer resident of Decatur and mother of Peter A. Hess, who died at the home of her daughter, Miss Rose Hess in Sante Fe, New Mex-i ico, Monday morning. Death was due to complications. Mrs. Hess went to Sante Fe to spend the winter, last August. She had been seriously ill and death resulted this morning. Two sons and two daughters survive, Peter Hess of Decatur. Joe Hess of Des Moines. lowa, Miss Amelia Hess of ixjgansport and Miss Rose Hess of Sante Fe. The body will be brought to this city for burial. '

• Juniors Plan Play The Junior class of Decatur high I school will present) a comedy dra- , ma, "Tea Toper Tavern " at the high school auditorium. April 7 and 8. it was announced today. The play is in three acts, and was | written by Lindsey. Bailee. It is a different play, with plenty of humor ' exciting situations, interest*! > char- ■ actors, and a satisfing ending. The cast of characters has been chosen and lias been rehearsing for several weeks under the direction of Miss Verneal Whalen, supervisor of English and Public speaking. LOCAL MAN'S SISTER DIES — Sarah Tremble. Sister of Sephus Melchi is Death’s Victim - Mrs. Sarah Tremble. 76, sister of ’ Sephus Melchi of this city died at the home of her sister, Mrs. Emma Heath of Convoy, Ohio, Sunday i morning at 7 o’clock. Death was l due to heart trouble and followed i an illness ot six weeks. Mrs. Tremble was well known in this city where she visited a number of time-. She was the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Jacob Melchi. Her ' husband. John Trimble, preceded her in death 4 years. Surviving are the following children; James of Florida; William of Shoals; Ralph of Paulding. O.; Don- I aid of Shoals, Minnie of Hicksville; Hazel and Eva; Oliver of Sturgis, Mich.; 2 step sons, Joe of Fort Wayne wild Rolla of Shoals; 4 brothers, Sephus Melchi of thi.s city: Burt of Convoy. O.; William of Sturgis. Mich.; Charles of Sturgis Mich.; 2 sisters. Mrs. Heath and .Mrs. Alice Hilton of Convoy. 0. . 'Funeral services will be held Tuesday afternoon at 2 o’clock (Eastern Standard time) at Convoy, Ohio. Burial will be made at Paulding. O. Crop Damage Increases Lafayette. Ind.. Mar. 21— (U.R) — Much greater damage than at first believed was suffered by the southern Indiana peach crop during the cold wave of last week. Prof. C. E. Burkholder, assistant chief horticulturist at Purdue University, said today Burkholder estimated that not more than 10 per cent of peach buds south of Vincennes and Bedford survived the cold weather and high winds. Sonic growers reported total losses. Burkholder said.

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HENRY HELLER RESIGNS POST Library Board Secretary Resigns After Serving Over 25 Years IHenry B. Heller, local attorney today submitted his resignation as a member of the Decatur public library board, on which he served for 25 years. Mr. Heller, who was appointed in lihhi by the Decatur school board .tendered his reaign.ition to ihnt hody ami It wan 1 , accepted. Resignation was made, because. 11 Mr. Heller stated in bls letter, he now resides in Root township, and (lie a; pointee from the school board must reside in the city of Decatur. It is likely the school Isiard will name a new member this week i some time. The rest of the library J board has been organized by recent appointments by the city council • and Judge I). B. Erwin. Mr. Heller's letter is in part as | follows:: Having served secretary from ■ about six months after the library was dedicated until the present time, over 25 years. I have had the privilege of watching the Library develope from a small library of about 2,500 volumes and a monthly cir< illation of lesd than 300 volumes, to a library with more than 10,000 volumes and 2.500 to 3.000 books j a month. 1 have always been proud i if our library and feel tljat we have; as complete a one as can he found , in cities several times as large as ' Decatur. In leaving the board 1 do so with the best wishes for continued success. ' Dr. Burt Mangold, president of i the Decatur school hoard said a ' successor would be named soon. I o ■- LINDBERGHS RETAIN FAITH Police Run Down New Clues; Pigeon Notes Are Investigated —— Hopewell. N. J.. Mar. 21.—(U.R) Col. and Mrs. Charles A. Lindbergh | wailed today with the greatest fortitude for some sign from the persons holding their kidnaped son 1 while police checked every avenue! available for trace of the boy. Police investigation has entered i the fantastic. Dead carrier pigeons | with curiously worded notes at-1 tached to them, have been found ‘ and the notde sent to police. Mys- , terious movements of persons in, the Hopewell area <ui the night of the kidnaping have been reported. . Police admitted little credence p could be put in many of the reports, but all were being checked carefully in the hope of finding si.nie trace of the child stolen from its crib March 1. Col. H. Norman Schwartzkopf, superintendent of New Jersey state police, issued the following statement to the press this morning: “Two notes carried by carrier pigeons have been reported to us. The first one is alleged to have been a note in code. This was supposed to have been taken off the carrier pigeon which was beaten down by a heavy storm in Connecticut and upon being decoded by (CONTINUED ON PAGE TWO) HARLEY EHRSAM IS CANDIDATE Monroe Young Man Seeks Democratic Nomination For County Surveyor Harley iA. Ehrsam, Monroe, today announced his intentions of being a candidate for the office of surveyor of Adams county, subject to the decision of the voters of the county at the Democratic primary election May 3. Ehrsam was born and raised in Monroe township, and has been active in Democratic politics since he became of age. He stated that he would start an active campaign at once tor the nomination. Ehrsam will oppose Ralph Roop, incuml.etu surveyor, who announced several weeks ago as a candidate for renomination. To date P.oop and Ehrsam are the only candidates for the post on either ticket.

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Local People at Meet Si veral from tills city attended the Child Welfare meeting al the Moose Home in Fort Wayn". Saturday ufternoon and evening. Rodney Brandon of Springfield, 111., w< Ifure dictator for tlie state of Illinois, was Hie principal speaker. The Moose Lodge cf Fort Wayne I sponsored the program, and members of chapters from surrounding towns also attended. Those from this < ity included Mrs. J. M. Rreiner. senior regent of the Women of the Moose, Mrs. Archie Long. Mrs Jake Grimm, and Mr. and Mrs. Will Hoffman. K.OFC.LODGE . 50 YEARS OLD Anniversary To Be Observed Throughout Nation By Local Lodges Tlie fiftieth anniversary of th* founding of the Knights of Columbus will be observed throughout the United States on Tuesday, March 29. 11. P. S< hmitt, grand I knight of the Decatur council stated today. Although no program will be bold lure, members of the order, their family and friends are invited to listen to the nation-wide radio hook up. which will bo broadeast over the National Broadcasting Company net-work at 10:30 o’clock pm.. Decatur time. Supremo Knight Martin 11. Carmody of Grand Rapids, head of the organization of 600.000 Catholic mon. will be the principal speaker on the program. Charles Hackett, principal tenor I of the Chicago Opera Company I and Mrs. Clarence H Mackay < f i'he Metropolitan Opera Company I will sing. The program will be ! one of great interest and enterI tainnient. | The story of the growth of the Knights of Columbus through fifty years constitutes a romantic and inspiring record. Back in 1882, Reverend Michael J. McGivney, curate at St. Mary's church, ini i New Haven, Connecticut, pereeivi ed the need for a fraternal organ!I nation that Catholic mon could join without conscientious difficuf ty. He talked over his idea with J a group of men of his parish and | at their third meeting, the name I (CONTINUED ON PAGE THREE) MEXICAN STATE HAS UPRISING Federal Aid Sought After Battle With Bandits In Queretaro Mexico City, Mar. 21 —(U.R)—An appeal for federal aid to quell an armed uprising of “fanatics" in the state of Queretaro, where soldiers fought a pitched battle with bandits who wrecked and attacked a fast passenger train with American passengers aboard, was reported today in newspaper dispatches received here. The train wrecked in Queretaro is one of the fastest operated by the National railways, it connects with the Sunshine Special of the Missouri Pacific at Igtredo. on the American border. The militaiy escort aboard the train repulsed the bandits after 30 minutes' fighting. No foreign passengers were injured. One bandit was killed and one soldier was wounded in tlie fighting. An express messenger aboard the train was killed when the locomotive, two express cars, one second class and one first class passenger coach were overturned where the bandits had torn up part of the track. Three of the Americans aljnard th etrain were from Chicago. They were W. S. Tingle; G. V. Mac Ca(CONTINUED ON PAGE TWO* — o Prayer Meet Tuesday Rev. C. R. Lanman, pastor of the Local Christian ohurch will have charge of the Tuesday morning business men's .prayer services at the Chamber of Commerce rooms at 9:3b o'clock. The services started today with Rev. A. B. Brown, in charge, and will continue until next Friday in observance of Holy Week. All Decatur men are invited to attend the morning prayer services.

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HOUSE LEADERS PRESENT PLAN TO SAVE BILL Ways and Means Committee Hears Proposal at Executive Meet MAY DEFEAT OPPOSITION Wiishinnloii, Mar. 21 A new proposal to exeiopt i all foods, wearing apparel ! and medicine from the 2' i | per cent sales lax was pot forward lodav bv the leaders in a desjierale effort l<> overcome opoosilion lo the new revenue bill. The offer was made at an executive session of the house ways and means committee. No definite action was taken. The committee was called to meet again later in the day to decide whether the latest peace of- : tering should be adopted and preI sented to the house with commitI tee approval. I Other exemptions were adopted in accordance with the recommendations of tlie Crisp-Hnwley-Rainey coalition leadership. The committee agreed to amendments which would spare lard, sausages, dried fruits, malted milk. i<o cream, malted syrups for brea I. . radio leased wires, and materials . for spraying trees. Another approved amendment would exempt grape juices lor non-alcoholic pur|x)ses from the • 40 per cent tax on materials used in home (tewing and home win” I making. That product would still be suiijiu-l to the-sales tax. . Acting Chairman Crisp of the . committee estimated these conce - sions would cost $10,000,000 in annual revenue. Canned goods exemptions already agreed upon would cost $12,000,000. making $22,000,000 already cut from the sales tax total of $595,000,000 ’ since the bill was reported to the i house. Crisp estimated the now idea of exempting foods, wearing apparel and medicines would cosl $145.000.000 in revenue Ho estimate I additional food exemptions at $80,000,000. wearing apparel at $55,000,000. and medicines. $lO.000.000. Crisp announced that if all these concession : are agreed iiii in, he will advotat 1 new taxes not (CONTINUED ON PAGE THHW.I o - ■■ Lions Meet Thursday There will be no meetin a; of tha , Lions Club. Tuesday night, it has been announced. The members of the club will attend the Farmer's Banquet at Berne. Thursday night. Automobile Is Stoned Athens. 0.. Mar. 21 (U.R) An automobile containing four Ohio national guard officers was stoned today by strikers when tha officers attempted to roach the Millfield mine No. (1 <yf the Sunday' Creek Coal company to relievo guardsmen who were on duty all ’ night. Lt. Col. L. P. Wolford. Cleveland, reported the stoning to Sheriff Wayne Wingett. here. o SCHOOL BLAST INVESTIGATED Million Dollar School Rocked bv Dynamite; Several Are Injured I ■ Springfield. 111.. Mar. 21- (U.R)— I Prompt inquiry was made today . in the mysterious explosions whit i rocked the $1,000,000 high school building and injured a dozen persons, several seriously. Investigators hunted trace of malefactors who are believed responsible for a recent series of disastrous fires in central Illinois. Six firemen, a newspaper importer, two high school students and several townspeople wore injured in the blasts which followed the outbreak of a small lire in the basement of the building. The first explosion came after the group had entered the basement to investigate the file which icon i ini i.-t ’ on I'.rni: TWO)