Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 31, Number 120, Decatur, Adams County, 20 May 1933 — Page 1

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lOSEPH W. HARRIMAN IS FOUND ALIVE

111 MONTHS (TRACTS ARE FFEREO HERE School Teachers Offered Contracts or School Year DEPARTMENT IS ELIMINATED fliers in the Decatur : schools liiivo been I ,m eight months confor the 193&-34 school jvilli the assurance that mi will be extended to glial nine months if nr' funds are available Worlhman, sunerin,t of schools, announcav. domestic- science departtaught by Miss Dortha will be abolished next jack of funds prohibits the ; nti of this department, rtliman stated, r-nine teachers will be emfor the next school term h about 14 will be on half y, or reducing the number time basis to about 114. ( teachers will teach part one or two subjects. SVorthman estimated the, funds available for tearb- ■ next year at $40,500. This Inc that all local taxes will . from which source the fund will receive approxis3o,ooo. The transfers are pil at about $4,500 and if tion of the state’s gross funds for the balance of tmies up to e.ipci iations, 00l city will receive about y reductions for the new year roni-e from 6 to 36 it, Mr. Worthm.vi stated iral cases where the teached $1,350 this year the ivtv ■nr will he only SOSO the superintendent explained, erase wage will be slightly e minimum. In grades 'he m is SBOO and in high , $1,020 a year, date will pav to the srhools r every teacher, figured on rase attendance of 35 pupils 7 grade teacher and 25 to high school teacher. On Ris providing the state colts income and cross sales t. TR>oatur will receive unholy sl3 000 in a vear. half <!i would be available for $3-34 school term, teachers to he placed on Hnufti nv paof two) LINSTALL IXIIIARY HERE an’s Auxiliary Os Legion M ill lie Installed •man’s auxiliary of the Amhegion will be organized in r ext Tuesday when a i will be held at the Decatur y club ami installation of •Pter take place, heiilah BroOks of Angola, • President will preside at •cling, institute the chapter ••all the officers. The meet- • be held at 7:30 o’clock. Qualifications for memlier•he Auxiliary are: The wife, daughter or mother es any • of the American Legion. Ife. sister, daughter or motli•ny world-war soldier who •lor to November 11, 1918. 11 fflcke-nt number of women •beady signed up for mem R in the organization At the A officers will l»e chosen and Planned to provide regular **rters for the Auxiliary at wintry club, which place is P' I rated by Adams Post No. ! tl|p American Legion, wen eligible to membership ' l;p( i to attend the meeting Tuesday. *°psis given—“ou did not begin reading ‘‘STOLEN LOVE” by Hazel Livingston ( paper, turn to | [ i two, where a short syn- i | 1 of the first chapter is | n today's Installment. L Pew story that you'll I j enjoy. ' ’ — ♦ i

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Vol. XXXI. No. 120.

Death Nears ** » '.**•••■ i a— Jin 11 I I . . ........,. ViV Agnes Ilenislk. 22-year-old Clilcugo girl, who is waging a losing battle In Detroit Receiving HospitaL There is no antidote known to medical science for the slowacting, hut almost always deadly, poison she swallowed by error. ADAMS COUNTY j MEN TO CAMP Five Young Men Leave Friday To Join Reforestation Force Five Adams county men left yesterday for the conditioning camp at Fort Hays, Columbus, Ohio, preparatory to joining one of the federal forest camps. The men are: Gerald Smitlev, Calvin Fall). Lewis t ook. Frank Marbaugb. all of Washington township and Lawrence Deems of Root "fowmdlTp. The men passed the physical examination given them at Fort Wayne yesterday and this morning loft for the Columbus camp. Williqm Linn, chairman of the Forest Camp committee in this county and T. R. Noll, trustee of Washington township, accompanied the men to Font Wayne. Seven men took the examination and two were rejected. Mr. Linn stated that 13 men had signed up to go to camp and that onlv seven appeared for the examination. One of the applicants was married which eliminated him from the group. Only single men are acceptable at the campus. The men must he between IS and 25 years of age. single and out of 'their S3O a month pay, musLsend i s2n per month back home timheir parents. The men will probably lie S p n t to Camp Knox, following their two week's experience at Fort Hays. Mr. Linn stated that he would i take up the matter of tilling the county's quota. Tiiis cduntv is entitled to 10 men and an effort will be made to permit the signing up jof the five additional men. Conservation Meeting Here Monday Night Dr. M. T. Jay of Portland, representative of the fish and g me department of the state conservation, invites sportsmen a.' d all ’hose interested in game life and hunting to attend a meeting here Monday might at the Chamber of Commerce i rooms. The meeting will he held at 7:30 o’clock ami sever.l films of pic- ■ turps of state parks and reserves will he shown. Fishing and hunting clubs will also he organized. M 7 age Increases Are Announced Lawrence, Mass, May 20 —(UP) —Wag-! increases averaging 12% per rent and affecti' g approximately 13,000 Lawrence woolen workers were announced today. They are ] effective Monday. The Amwicaln Woolen company with 6.300 employes, the (Arlington i Mills with 5,000 and the Woolen department of the Pacific Mills with 1,700, announced the upward revisions. ' May Lose Sight 1 Sullivan, Ind.. May 20. — (U.R) — Ben McC.arr, 51, Hymera. was expected to lose the sight of both eyes as the result of an accident at the Mohawk mine near here. I He was injured by a premature ex-j • plnnion.

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DIPLOMAS ARE PRESENTED TO 47 GRADUATES j Annual Commencement I Exercises Held At 1). H. S. Friday DR. E. T. FRANKLIN DELIVERS ADDRESS s “Character is achieved, not inherited. Character is the will of i man to want to do and then to do,’’ Dr. E. T. Franklin, president ! of the Methodist Episcopal HosI pital in Fort Wayne said in his - address to the graduating class of tlie Decatur high school, Friday . night. . Dr. Franklin’s subject was . “Selecting Material for Charac- , ter.” The school auditorium . where the exercises were held was filled to capacity with relatives and friends of the graduating class members. The 47 members of the senior class, together with superintendent of schools, M. F. Worthman, Principal W. Guy Brown, Dr. | Franklin, Miss Blanche McCrory, class guardian, and Burt Mangold, president of the school, board, occupied the stage which was decorated with a profusion of ‘ spring flowers. “We are born a composite of original urges, instincts and re- | sponses and these urgings become w’ills. God never! made us with a single original urge that was 1 bad,’’ Dr. Franklin stated. “Everyone has to have an en\oI lional life to make him human. One can select what he wants in • his character. Choose something ; in life, do it well, enjoy doing it. ■ and be hure it is something useful I I to your fcllojvman. “Character is the only thfitg 1 about man which is truly, genulne--1 ]y beautiful. One of the basic ; i conditions of character is health. The basis of achievement is to he ' usefully, gainfully employed.” ! Addressing the class, Dr. Franklin said, “Boys and girls, it is very I important to find something which i will he serviceable to mankind. > You will be happy if you choose 'hings which yon know are filled I with character. Achieve the common virtues of life which give . satisfaction and joy. Everybody ■ loves a good character. May joy i follow you ail your days.” ) Preceding the address of the (CONTINUED OX PAfIU TWO) I , o Catholic High School Annual Is Completed , Printing of The Tattler. 1933 ’ yearbook of the Decatur Catholic high school, has been completed ! and the books are now being distributed. This edition, the eleventh printed | is dedicated to the late Rev. Father Julius A. Seimetz, for many years ’ pastor of the St. Mary’s church. The annual contains many inter- ! eating features, tlm principal one ; being the memorial section devoted • to the late Rev. Seimetz. It also contains individual pictures of members of each of he high school classes a d the eighth grade. PORTLAND MAN PLEADS GUILTY i ■ Clyde Bechdolt Pleads Guilty To Embezzlement, Given Sentence I Portland. Ind.. May 20—<U.R)— I I Clyde D. Bechdolt, former secrej tary of the defunct Jay County Savings and Trust Company, pleaded guilty In circuit court today on three charges of embezzle--1 ment, three of forgery and one of grand larceny, all Involving the bank's funds. He was sentenced to state prison for two to 14 years on the embezzlement and forgery, charges and one to 10 years on the grand larceny charge. He was fined SIOO on each of the forgery charges and disfranchised for two years. The sentences will run concurrently. | Bechdolt recently was paroled 1 from prison after serving three \ years of a two to 14 year term on charges of embezzlement. He was ire-arrested when he left the ' prison gates.

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Decatur, Indiana, Saturday, May 20, 1933.

Represent United States ' lipL j i ' j** tmwi a, M. Here are the three delegates selected by President Roosevelt to represent the United iStates at the World Economic Conference to he , held in London next month, when the nations of the earth will endeavor to formulate plans for pulling the world out of the morass of depression. At left is Secretary of State Cordell Hull, authority on international tariffs; right is James M. Cox, of Ohio, who was Demoj cratie nominee for the Presidency in 1920, and in center is Senator Key Pittman of Nevada.

: » ——-— —<- « ■ I SIX YEARS AGO I New York, May 20—(11.R) — ; Six years ago today Col. | Charles A. Lindbergh took off from Roosevelt field on the j most famous flight in the an- | nals of aviation—ills 3,600 mile I solo trans-Atlantic trip to Le i B’uurget Field, Paris. He landed 33 hours and 30 ; muiutes later. He planned no special ob- | ’ j servauce- of the anniversary. ■ ♦ - - — — ■ ♦ DENY LENIENCY TO 10 CONVICTS Only Two Paroles Granted By Commission In Final Session Indianapolis, May 20. —(U.R) —Ten . prisoners were denied leniency and only two were paroled today as the new state clemency commission completed its first quarterly meeting. I The next session will begin July 25. Hearings are conducted in the ; statehouse. The commission considered peti--1 tions of 385 prisoners during the ■ present session, granted 11 paroles, commuted 50 sentences and denied leniency to 2()3 others. Applicants ' were Inmates of the reformatory, ; prison, women’s prison and state farm. One of the persons paroled today ‘ was Malcolm Berger, rector student at DePauw university before 1 he was sentenced to one year at the state farm on charges of rob--1 bery. He held up a tilling station jin Indianapolis, using a toy pistol. The commission continued the case of Clint Brooks at Mdnte Crist, convicted in 1930 on charges of robbing the Gorman-Antericau ' Bank at Jasper. Both prisoners pleaded innocence a d produced alibi witnesses in an effort to hliow j they could not have been involved. The only other parole was granti ed to Jaca Baca, convicted in Lake , circuit court on charges ot' robbery. o Weather Outlook Washington, May 20. — (U.R) —The U. S. weather bureau issued the ■ | following weekly weather outlook for the period May 22nd to May 27th’ inclusive: Ohio valley and Tennessee: Gen- ! j erally fair except showers Tuesday or Wednesday and again about Saturday. Warmer in Ohio valley I Tuesday, cooler Thursday an d i warmer Saturday. - ■ o Brazil Man Given Five-Year Sentence Xenia, 0., May 20.— (U.R) —McClain Catterllng, 56, of Brazil, Ind., ’accused of collecting SIOO,OOO from II persons subscribing to an “ancient estates’’ scheme and convicted May i 4 of violating the Ohio securities 11 act, todqy was sentenced to live lyeai-B in prison and lined $2,000,

AGED DECATUR LADY IS DEAD Mrs, Washington Bvle, 84, Dies Today Alter Long Illness Mrs. Sarah Jane Pyle. 81. wife | of Washington Pyle, 616 Indiana j [ . street, died at her homo Friday ’ ’ night at 10:40 o’clock, following a seven week’s illness from roniplications. Mrs. Pyle was’ a charter member of the Decatur United HrethI ren Church, and resided in this I city for the last 67 years. Her husband. Washington Pyle is one of the last surviving Civil War Veterans in this city. ■ Mrs. Pyle was born in Adams county, October 19. 1848. a daughter of Joseph and Mary Grimm. She moved with her parents to Glenehester, Ohio, where she livI ed for several years. Following her marriage to Mr. Pyle on February 3. 1866, she resided in Decatur. Surviving besides the husband . are three children. Edward Pyle , of Marion, Ohio: Irvin Pyle of Lafayette; and Mrs. W. F. Burns of Decatur; one brother. Uriah Grimm of Monmouth, and three grandchildren. I Funeral services will be held , Monday afternoon at 1:30 o’clock at the home, 616 Indiana street. , and at 2 o'clock at the United Brethren church with the Rev. C. . J. Roberts officiating. Burial will be made in the Decatur cemetery. > The body will he removed from the S E. Black Funeral Parlors to the Pyle home late this after- ! i noon and the remains may he viewed aft or 6 o'clock tonight , until time for the funeral. S4O JUDGMENT IS AWARDED Circuit Court lurv Returns Verdict For Plaintiffs Friday ■ After deliberating only two hours ■ a jury i.n the Adams circuit court : returned a finding for the plain • tiffs at 5 o'clock Thursday evening in the suit on account titled Clir- ■ lence and Kathryn Miller against ■ Christian and Susan Schwartz. 1 Th jury found the amount of the plaintiff’s recovery should be S4O Frank Heller acted as foreman of the jury. The complaint alleged that the defendants owed approximately ( $l5O for board and lodging furnish- 1 1 ed by the plaintiffs while the defendant couple was visiting the Millers in New York. The defendants testified they were ou a visit and were invited to stay at the Miller homttt The j I case opened Friday mornin, with | all evidence completed in the itiumi ing session. The case was given to j tho jury about 3 p. m.

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AMERICA WILL DEFINE STAND U. S. Will Outline Type Os Treatv It Will Sign Monday Geneva, May 20 —'(U.R) —The long awaited definition of how far America will go in a consultative pact to guarantee the peace of Europe will he delivered to the general commission of the disarmament conference Monday, the United Press learned authoritatively today. United States Ambassador Norman H. Davis received an eight page cable from the state department in Washington setting forth in detail the type of treaty the Unied States would be willing to sign. American willingness to enter such a pact, however, is predicated entirely upon thorough disarmament by the European powers. Davis, it was understood, will urge the Europeans Monday to reduce their military establishments, stressing the necessity for rigid international control of armaments after a non-aggres-sion, consultative treaty is signed, Tlie statement of definition will he issued simultaneously in Washington and Geneva when Davis begins speaking, the United Press learned. ■When the general commission of the disarmament conference met today, Giuseppe Mol a. head of the Swjss delegation, demanded that the United States define its position on security in order to save the conference. Looking directly at United States Delegate Hugh Wilson, he exclaimed: “Let the United States pronounce the liberating words!’’ He said it would he most difficult to reach an agreement on | either the reduction of armies or ' (CONTINUED ON PACE TWO) CHRIS FRANTZ DIES AT NOON Father of Hugo Frantz Dios At Home Fast of Decatur Today Chris Frantz. 83, residing east of Decatur across the Allen county line, father of Hugo Frantz of Decatur. died ’t his home at 12 o'clock noon today. Death was due to complications. The deceased was born in Root township, August 15. 1849. He was married twice. The first nr image was to Mary Rueher on February 24. 1891 and four chidrvi were born to that union: William, at ‘home; Hugo of Decitur; (Albert, Allen County and Mrs. Charles Bohnke of Root township. Mrs. Frantz died April 14. 1891. Mr. Frantz marriol Lizetta Boerger oil July 9. 1893. One daughter w s horn to this union; Mrs. Fred Fuelling on Root township. The second wife preceded Mr. Crist Frantz in death on December 30, 1923, Surviving besides the children are 19 grandchildren and four great grandchildren. Funeral services will be held Tuesday afternoon at 1:30 o’clock, standard time, at the home and at 1:45 o'clock at the St. Peters Lttthera.n Church with tlie Rev. L. J. Dornseif officiating. Burial will lie in the church cemetery. Rollo Walter Faces Embezzlement Charge Lagrange, Ind., May 20—MJ.R) — Rollo Walter, secretary and treasurer of the defunct Lagrange Trust Company, was under $3,000 bond today on charges of embezzlement. He was accused specifically of failing to turn over $1,500 to the guardian of Wendel Kline and others. Waller’s brother and father were arrested yesterday on charges of using one set of license plates for (wo automobiles. Each posted SIOO bond. Solicitors Obtain Half of Fund Needed C. C. Pumphrey, Adams county hoy scent executive, announced today that about one half tlie solicitors Imvp reported and hive collected half the goal set for Hits yeur. They expect to get SSOO. Every indication is that'this will be met. I

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Candidate ..dsk‘ nnm j Dan M. Niblick, president of the ' Niblick and Company store and well known in Indiana Knights of ■ Columbus circles, is a candidate ■ for state delegate to the national • convention at Chicago. The elec- ' j tion of delegates will take place at the state convention at Bloom- ’ ington next week. LOCAL KNIGHTS AT CONVENTION C. J. Carroll and Dan Niblick Will Attend K. Os C. Meeting C. J. Carroll, grand knight and ' ; Dan M. - Niblick of this city will leave Sunday for Bloomington where they will attend the state convention of the Knighs of Columbus. The men are delegates 1 from Decatur Council of the Knights of Columbus. Mr. Niblick, a past grand knrght of the local council end one of the well known Knights of Columbus in the state, is a candidate for state delegate to the national convention I at Chicago. Mr. Niblick’s candidacy lias the support of several councils in the stite. Six delegate.- will he eleoted and friends over the state predict Mr. Niblick’s election. ' A a interesting program will lie given during the state convention. Several nationally known speakers will address the assembly and a l motor trip to scenic Brown county t will be made. The convention pro- . per will be held at the Graham ho- . tel, Bloomington and a banquet will , 9 0. given at Indi nea university. Mr. Niblick is one of the pioneer . merchants of this city and is pre- , sident of the Niblick and Company ’ store, lie served » veral terms as grand knight of the local council. Joe Lose and Dvnois Schmitt, members of the Decatur chapter of tlie Knights of Columbus, will ac- , company the two local delegates to I the convention. r> - - Vacation Bible School Opens June fi * The Daily Vacation Bible School “ will open June 6 and close June 30. The sessions will bo held at the ' Central school building. All boys ' and girls are urged to register at ’j the various Sunday schools Sunday morning. CONDITIONS IN STATE BETTER > I. I!. Bureau’s Monthly Review Sounds Optimistic Business Note 1 1 Bloomington, Ind., May 20. —(U.R) i .j— An optimistic note was sounded today In the monthly business re- ■ view of the Indiana University, . Bureau of Business Research. General conditions in Indiana were better in April than at any ■ time since 1932, the rerport said i i Steel mill operations doubled dur-! . ing the last half of April and the i first two weeks in two weeks in May. ' Price turned upward during April, with farm prices leading the ad- | vance. “Ingot output from the Indla.raUlinois distriet during the second week of May was higher than at any time sinee the third week of June 1931,” the report continued. “Much of the improvement was, the result of a sharp uptourn in automobile demand, but manufac- j j | 1 ICONTINUKU ON PAGE TWO)

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BANKER FOUND SHORTLY AFTER DISAPPEARANCE Indicted Head Os Closed New York Bank Discovered At Inn SUICIDE FEARED BY RELATIVES Roslyn, Long Island, May I 20 <u;R> Joseph \Y. Harrinian, indicted head of the closed Harrinian National Rank, was found at tlie Old Orchard Inn today, less than . 21 hours after he walked out of a New York City nursing ' home apparently determined ; to commit suicide. Harriman was taken into tech- ’ nical custody by Inspector Harold R. King and a group of detectives, and subjected to close questioning ' in the Hotel dining room, although there was no charge on which he 1 could he arrested. His presence at tlie inn was revealed by a taxi driver. At first, when it was learned five notes intimating suicide had been left behind by Harriman, It was taken for granted that he had gone to die. But last night federal authorities learned that when he disappeared, walking , j with halting step, from the nursing home where tie was being j cared for, Harriman went to the barber shop of Alfred Rammaccn a few doors away and had his gray hair clipped, as actors someI times do when their roles require i wigs. > Armed with that information. ■ 20 federal agents joined the hunt. • Harriman. former president of ’the closed Harriman National Bank, is scheduled to go on trtal 1 Monday on federal charges of “ making fraudulent entries in the 1 bank’s books to conceal opera- ' , tions in the institution’s seeuri- ! ties. Harriman’s intimates, and adi visors pictured hint as the victim ’ of a heart ailment which made ' it certain that he could not live more than a year. His mind had ■ been affected, one of his physicians said, by illness and worry. i He walked witli difficulty: when (CONTINUED ON PAGE FOUR) SPEED RECORD SET AT TRACK Bill Cummings Makes New Record; 7 Drivers Qualify Today i _____ Indianapolis, May 20. —,(U.R> —An all time record was set at the Indianapolis speedway today when i “Wild Bill” Cummings. Indianapolis, averaged 120.919 miles an hour i for one lap during qualifying trials for the 500 mile Memorial Day 1 race. He was forced to stop at the end of eight laps when the terrific speed ripped the tread from a tire. He will he given another i chance to qualify. Cummings set a new record for ears without super chargers and for cars carrying two men. He averaged more than 120 miles an hour for four laps. His speed on the back stretch was estimated at 160 miles an hour The Indianapolis speed king was not tlie only one to estnblish new marks. Both Ernie Triplett, Pacific j coast champion, and Frank Brisko, Milwaukee garageman, qualified at speeds which exceeded the best qualifying mark of last year. Triplett, was the first to qualify. He averaged 117.363 miles an hour for the 10 laps. firisko, driving a four wheel I drive powered tiy a Miller m'otor j ' (CONTINUED ON PAGE FOUR) , 1 1 * RIG CIRCUS 1 M DAY. MAY 31— | Distribution of 10,000 guest | [ tickets for tlie Russell Bros. | ! 3-ring circus was completed I I yesterday by the Daily Demo- ! crat. The tickels have been | ! placed in all Decatur stores | 1 and are free for the asking. j Plan to see the circus in j j Decatur, May 31, as the guests j | of tlie local liewsnaper and | I | local merchants. '♦ ♦