Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 31, Number 143, Decatur, Adams County, 17 June 1933 — Page 1

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IVE MEN MASSACRED IN KANSAS CITY

(WOUNDED (GUN BATTLE IT LAFAYETTE Ke Policemen, Two Kits Are Critically ■ Wounded Identified ■as bank bandit ■yette. Ind., June 17.—(U.R) ■ert Sanders, 33, of Nash- ■ Tenn., one of five men ■led in a gun fight be- ■ police and bandit susHlast nioht, was identified ■ver of the car in which ■men escaped after robb■e Purdue State Bank at ■Lafayette of $2,500 June ■ identification was estab,ec by Miss Dorothy Arn■sistant cashier, who was ted to accompany the banjo the city limits to proHthem from possible gun HB ■wile, Ind.. June 17.— ■ nolicemen and two iwted bandits lay criti■kitunded here today as ab rniath of a frenzied Kittle in th l ' heart of Kiwn Lafayette. ■-vear <»!<! hov suffered ■ wounds when he was ■bv a glancing buffet, rl companion of the sus■scaped injury and was re Bounded are: ■ Sanders. 33. Nashville, ■audit suspect. K Byrd. 29. Indianapolis, t inspect. ■?sley Wilson. 43, patrol- ■ McDonald. 26. patrolman ■ Klinker. 30, patrolman. il loby, 14. ■aspects’ companion said Ruth Edgar, 18, Frank■l claimed to have known ■ d Sanders for about a E went to Freeman Lake, ■llo. last night where they ■ John Richardson. 45. ■t. who had been staying ■resort with Byrd, Sanders ■ girl. ■hooting took place across f• 1 ■ from the court house, ■an a block from police ■rtera, when officers at- ■: to question the suspects ■ctor's office. I Sanders and Miss Edgar lat the Wahash Valiev ■him yesterday to obtain ■ attention for an infected ■ Byrd’s side. The physiduty said he could give ■‘aneo buj recommended a lin Lafayette. Then he ■off police. I Edgar Hill and Patrolman Boldsberry were sent to the If Dr. F. A. Ixiop in the Ite Life building where ■as being treated. v the officers appeared ■id Sanders both drew guns ■armed Captain Hill. Goldskolted and ran downstairs |n McDonald, Klinker and I who had been stationed at ■rance to the building. I behind Goldsberry were ■> suspects. As they wen' I the dour they opened fire I patrolmen, felling throe Ils then that Harry Huston. Inter, wont .into notion. He I submachine gun from one r wounded officers and I blazing away al the two bey fled down a side street I went to the second flooi I Life building and ponre '. ptream of lead which felled loth. I Edgar had been sitting in frtNi?F»r> on page two) (President Takes Vacation pington, June 17 — (TH’) — i and hunting were vise preGarner’s chief interests as I last night for his motne in k Tex. kid he expected to spend the summer and fall at home, |a little fishing and hunting keping an eye on develop throughout the world." I Garner accompanied the resident on thh trip to Texas were due In Cincinn itl at i- M. Indianapolis at 10:36 ■ Louis at 4:40 p. m.

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Ignore Pay Cut Notice I ' W; ' W " fW 'I i ■' il t JI 1 * 1 -is Wi v - A t -a ■ ■ i H # fl ■ I • • - v> ‘ ■■■’" Members of tile Railway Labor Executives' Association, meeting in Chicago, slated that lli,;> would ignore the recent annoiincenie.it of the General Managers'Association relative to a proposed 12% per cent cut in railroad labor's wages, i.i addition to an original 10 per cent slash. Seated, left to right: A. F. Whitney, president of the Brotherhood of Railway Trainmen, and Martin F. Ryan, head of the car men’s brotherhood. Standing (left): S. N. Berry, head of conductors, and A. O. Smith, head of engineers.

PLAN MEETINGS HERE TUESDAY Entomology Specialist Wilt Conduct Meetings In Countv Tuesday George E. Gould, entomology I I specialist, will assist County | i Agent L. E. Archbold in conduct- I ; ing a series of dusting meetings; for the control of insects of gard-I , en and truck crops Tuesday. June : 20. The first meeting will be hold at the Willard Steele truck farm. ; east of Decatur, at 10 a.m. This I will be held largely for the benefit of the men In charge of the relief ; gardens but anyone el’.e interest-, ed will be welcome. The second nteeti. g will be hold at the Jacob J. Schwartz truck i ; patch, three miles north of Berne. , at 1:30 p. m i The third demonstration will be given at the Ralph Meet.-. . farm four miles west of Ceylon ■ at 3 p. m , An evening meeting will be held i at the Geneva high school at S o'clock. This meeting will deal print ipally with the control of insects injurious to cucumbers and melons. Banks Collings of the Crampton Canneries and James Briggs of the Bank of Geneva will be in charge of this meeting. UNITED STATES REFUSES PLAN Currency Stabilization Plan Is Not Acceptable To Officials Washington June 17 — ■’ 1 ' Money stabilization proposals made 't‘o the United St. tes last night by representatives of he world econo mie conference are "not acceptable" to the United States, undersecretary of treasury Atcheson explained today. It was stated at. the treasury hat ! the suggestion made by the ( e e I gates in reference to money stab b I ization were to crystallized to meet with the approval ot the American government. In reply it was learned at the ' treasury P' «klent Roosevelt has instructed the American delegate to the conference on definite limits ba( we n which the American government would agree upon currency stabiHzition. Washington. June I>. (U.R) ~~ United States officials were considering proposals today for a temnor ,arv currency stabilir.ati n program which has been submitted to AmJeriean delegates to the London economic conferem e. i The American delegates bite yesterday transmitted to 'J'J’J 1 * CONTI*N*UI*I> ON PAGE THRF.E)

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Dr. N. A. Bixler To Attend Clinic Dr. N. A. Bixler, Decatur optometrist. will attend the semi an-; I nual meeting of the Indiana asso-■ eiation of optometrists and graduate clinic at the Hotel Deming in . ; Terre Haute Sunday. State Game Warden Visits This County • The District game warden visit- 1 I ed in the count clerk's office. Friday. and checked the fishing and hunting licenses. He report d ques- ■ tinning 23 persons in. Adams ConnIty who were fishing in the St. M.;ry's river, and al! possessed i licenses. ROOSEVELT ON i VACATION TRIP President Leaves Washington Friday Night For Vacation Cruise Aboard Roosevelt Special Train en route to Boston, June 17. (U.R) ! America's sailor President, Frank-' lin 11. Roosevelt, forgot the cares j. of office today as he looked for-, ward with boyish enthusiasm to a ; , cruise that will carry him to scenes of long-past happy days. I Vigorous and apparently unmarkied by the terrific strain Os the past I three months, which saw- a gigantic , i legislative program whipped into shape, til'' nation's chief executive boarded a special at union station j lin Washington last night on the. 1 first leg of a 20-day holiday that ■ (will terminate in July. Mr. Roosevelt, accompanied by his own son James, George Briggs , I and John Cutter, all of Boston, ex- ■ peels to set sail tomorrow aboard i i the trim schooner Amderjack 11 ' from Marion. Mass., for a leisurely sail along the Massachusetts and I Maine coasts to Campobello, the ■ Roosevelt summer home just across 1 the New Brunswick boundary. i It was the same old Mr. Roosevelt who entrained at Washington I for the trip, smiling, and carrying i his cares ot stale lightly. J I He boarded his private car to 1 the cheers of dozens of admirers I who huddled together in H downpour of rain to bid him goodbye, i Wearing a panama hat and a gray ; I double breasted suit, the President j waved a cheery f ;rewellj>efore pos**rnVTlN’UWl °N PAGE TWO) __ — o — Gasoline Prices Advance Hall-( ent Indianapolis, June 17 (I P) I Gasoline- prices of nearly all com--1 ' panics here advanced one half cent a gallon today because ot the new 1 federal tax provided la. the industrial recovery acj.. The advance followed'an Iden--1 tical raise yesterday because of decline in crude oil production.

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Decatur, Indiana, Saturday, June 17, 1933.

WEALTHY YOUNG p MAN KIDNAPED Wealthy St. Paul Brewer Is Being Held For SIOO,OOO Ransom (Copyright, 1933, by UP.) St. Paul, Minn., June 17. —(U.R) — i The kidnappers of William Hamm, wealthy brewer, contacted William ! Dunn, business manager of Hamm's i brewing company, at 5 p. m. Friday, | as promised, and apparently made 1 arrangements to give him instructions for payment of SIOO,OOO de-, manded for Hamm's release. Contents of the note which Dunn received were not made pub-; lie, but it was believed the brewing company executive had been : instructed to remain in the office ■ today awaiting further word. St. Paul. Minn., June 17. —(U.R) — William Hamm, wealthy brewer and Twin Cities business leader, i was held for SIOO,OOO ransom to-; day by kidnapers whom police suspected were led by the man accused ot engineering two of the midwest’s most daring abduction plots ( ' in recent years. Grave concern for Hamm’s safe-' ty was expressed today after the kidnapers failed to keep a contact they arranged for 5 o’clock last night. The abductors, who seized ; Hamm Thursday noon as he walk;ed from his office to his home, I threatened to kill the young millionaire unless the money was paid quickly. News of the kidnaping was not made public until late last night. I after William Dunn, business manager of the brewing company, and ; police officials received a com-: munication from the kidnapers and i a note from Hamm himself saying: I “Do as they tell you." Police suspected Verne Sankey, : sought, as the master mind in th» ; kidnaping of Haskell Bohn here I just a year ago and of Charles Boettcher II in Denver several months ago, as the leader of the gang which seized Httmni. Orders to shoot Sankey on syght jyere issued by Police Chief Thomas Dahill of the St. J’aul police ; force. Last summer, when Bohn ; was returned upon payment of $12,000 ransom. Sankey escaped from -•-• 4 (CONTINCRD ON PAGE TWO) Freight Loadings Show Increases Washington. June 17 — (UP) — The American railwav association : today reported a further increase in freight loadings for the week end ; June 10 which showed a total of 5fi4,544) cars, an increase of 56,312 cars over the preceding week and t the highest figure for the year. I’ The figure also represented ’an . increase of 62.861 cars over the , same week, a year ago although it ; was 167,863 cars less than the corresjyonding week of 1931. RATES REDUCED IN THIS COUNTY Adams County Communities Awarded Electric Rate Reductions — Indianapolis, June 17— (U.R) — Fourteen Indiana communities served by the Indiana Service 1 Corporation received electric rate | reductions totalling $1,129 in a Public Service Commission order late yesterday. The places are Pleasant Mills, ! Preble, Peterson, Coesse. New Corydon. Majenica, Linn Grove, j Laud, Landes (Landisville). Keyj stone, Bobo. Lancaster, Craigville and Barbers Mills. The commission authorized the I Illinois Central railroad to abandon its station at Solsberry, Greene county, because of operating losses. Permit of John B'osoneto to operate a bus line in Clinton was revoked because his insurance had expired. '< James S. Morris, Noblesville, lost his petition to oi - ate a bus line from Noblesville to Anderson on the ground that no necessity exists. The petition of Edward Dolotowaski. Indiana Harbor, asking the commission to set aside a previous order cancelling his permit -for an Indiana Harbor-Chicago bus line, was overruled.

Some Garden Lots Still Available I A number of individual garden lots are still available for the'unemployed. Unless these lots are taken immediately it will be too late to plant them. Cabbage and to- ; mato plants needed were donated by the Fisher grepn house. Some of the unemployed are ' clearing away debris caused by a large tree which floated the St. Mary’s river and lodged against the ; Monroe street bridge. URGES NEED OF ' HIGHER WAGES Industrial Control Bill Administrator Points To Dangers Chicago. June 17. —(U.R) — The danger of an economic relapse in ■ , this “critical stage of the depres-; ; sion” unless wages are brought into line with ascending prices was pointed out to the National Coal Association last night by i Gen. Hugh Johnson in his first ( | public statement after his official; ‘ appointment as administrator of the industrial control bill. Shortly before Gen. Johnson’s I brief. extemporaneous address was relayed from Pittsburgh, a working code by which the coal ; industry will operate under the ■ control bill was accepted by 19 of J the nation’s leading operators. j Johnson was en route to Chi-, caeo from Washington bv plane 1 to land at Pittsburgh. Arrange- : rnents were made for transmitting i the address to the association ! meeting by radio and Johnson spoke without a manuscript. “The President today signed the i recovery bill and appointed me 5 the administrator." he said. “It is a responsible position and I accept it with solemn regard. The president also gave the country his policy governing this work. The act is a charter of a new industrial self-government ; for this country. “I think we would have come to such a step even if we never had had a depression. It is the dis<ponttnttEt> on page TWO) INTANGIBLE TAX LAW IS TESTED First Tost of Now Indiana Law Scheduled To Open At South Bend South Rend. Ind.. June 17 —(U.R) —Tlie first test of Indiana's new intangibles tax law was scheduled to start in St. Joseph superior court here today with seven local • attorneys leading the attack. Seven suits, challenging constii tutionality of various phases of the law, have been consolidated by agreement of both sides to expedite hearing on all points and , to make a major test of the statute. In five of tlie actions, the stale tax board's construction of the j law is attacked. One of them charges that while the law may he constitutional as an excise tax. it gives the state no authority to exempt intangibles from regular property taxation. The law levies a tax of one- ■ 1 fourth ot one per cent on stocks, ' bonds, bank deposits and other ' ■ intangibles and exempts them I from regular taxation. Cither points raised in the suits challenge the state’s right to tax ■ leases, the taxation of postal sav- ’ ings deposits and taxation of •, court judgments to out-of-state • residents. ) The Western State Bank and 1 the Franklin Trust company, | (PONTINtTED ON PAGE FOITR) •I o ; Will Honor Rev. And Mrs. Engle ) I ' II Members and friends of the Uta. | • ion Ch ipel U. B. church will honor Rev. and Mrs. Frank L. Engle, with ~ a reception at the church. Sunday i morning followed by a pot-luok i dinner to be s rved at tlie Legion r Metnorl.il Park in Decatur. Rev. and Mrs. Engle were recently married. ■ I A program will be given at the ■ church and all members of the Sunday School aind friends are invited t to attend. Everyone who attends is 11 asked to bring his own table ser-j 'vica.

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REV. DEININ GER 1 FUNERAL HELD THIS MORNING Funeral Services Held Today For Rev. Father Leonard Deininger DIED WEDNESDAY AT LAFAYETTE Funeral services for Rev. Father I Leonard Deininger, pastpr of St. I i Patrick’s Catholic church, Oxford, were held this morning at St. Mary’s Catholic church, attended by the Most Rev. Bishop John F. Noll. Fort Wayne, four Monsignori, about 50 visiting clergy, relatives and friends. A solemn requiem high mass, ■ Coram Episcopo. (in the presence ■ of the. Bishop) w-as celebrated at: ; ten o’clock, following the chanting of the office of dead by the clergy at 9:30 o'clock. The Rev. Father Michael Aichinger, pastor of St. Joseph’s Cathi olic* church, Logansport, was I celebrant of the mass. It was the second time this year - the Bishop and clergy of the diocese gathered at St. Mary’s Catholic church to conduct the obsequies and pay final tribute to a member of the priesthood. On January 1, funeral services were held here for the Rev. Father j Julius seimetz, for 19 years pas- i ; tor of the local church. Bishop Noll in his sermon, remarked “We are assembled here today to pay respect and conduct the final rites for a reverend son ; of the parish.” Referring to Father Deini ’ger, ( Bishop Noll said, “His life in the j ministry of the priesthood was ■ only eight years, just two-thirds of fire time he devoted in studying for it. A short life can be a long life if during that time good is accomplished. A priest is an am- ' bassador of Christ aid through the sacrifice of the mass he offers infinite sacrifice to God.” Bishop Noll stated that if J Father Deininger had a final reI quest, it was that members of his ' church and ‘ friends offer their prayers for the repose of his soul. Bishop Noll asked that prayers he said for the deceased priest. Officers of the mass, besides the celebrant were. Father Vincent Ehinger. C. P , St. Gabriel Mon- ’ astery. Des Moines. lowa, deacon; ; Father Ambrose Kohne. pastor St. i Joseph’s church. Goodland, subi deacon; Father Lawrence Monahan, pastor St. Mary's church, Lafayette, master of ceremonies, tlmrifers, Jerome Miller of this city and Thomas Durkin, seminarian, at Mt. S'. Marys seminary, Norwood, Ohio; Robert Wolpert and James Lose, acolytes; Dynois Schmitt, student at St. Joseph's college. Rensselaer, cross bearer. ! Father Anthony Kroeger, pastor i of St. Charles church. Lowell and Father Simeon fschmitt, assistant TcON’I’INUED on BAOE TWO) CONFESSION IS RANK PERJURY Prosecutor Brands Confession of Hymera Man As Rank Perjury Sullivan, Iml.. June 17—(UP) Tlie confession that Frank Vanderpool, 38. Hymera, killed two men for whose deaths he and five others were arrested, was branded “perjury” by prosecutor Rex Bridwell I today. “Defers’e attorneys are attemptI ing to try a case in newspapers ’ after it had been lost in the courtroom," Bridwell said. The statement, signed by Vanderi pool and exonerating five cO-defe r- | d ints in connection with the slayI ing of Andy Reedy. 60. and his son Oral, 28, was released to newspai pers two days ago. It was saiil the father and son 1 were shot by Vanderpool during a ; fight over a mortgage foreclosure suit the elder Reedy ad filed against Otis Turner convicted three weeks ago or charges of murder in i connection witli the case. Bridwell charged the confession was a direct contradiction of previous testimony by Vanderpool. He said defense attorneys were gra tIrd iwo weeks in which to file a moj lion for a new trial and had failed to do so.

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Heads U. of I. i I TH I 3 aw i I J i ■ ■4— ■J Dr. Arthur H. Daniels, dean of the University of Illinois graduate ' ' school, who has been chosen to be acting president of the university, ■ succeeding Dr. Harry Woodburn* Chase, who resigned to become 1 chancellor of New York University. Dr. Daniels has been associated with the University of Illinois for forty years. ANNOUNCE LIST OF COMMITTEES Committees In Charge of Legion Convention Are Announced Today N. R. Holthouse, general chairman on arrangements for the; Northern Indiana convention of the American Legion which will he held in Decatur Sunday, June 25. this morning announced the roster of committees for the meet- ' ing. Several thousand visitors are ■ expected for the all-day Vonven- . tion. which will open with a golf tournament at the Decatur Country Club Sunday morning. A military parade and speaking program will be held in the afternoon. Wilbur Brucker, formw governor of Michigan, will deliver one of the principal addresses on the afternoon program, which will be held at the country club. An invitation has been extended ; to Paul V. McNutt, governor of Indiana, and a former national commander of the American Legion. Th" governor assured Mr. Holthouse and other Legion mem- | bers that he will attend the convention if at all possible. More than a score of Legion drum corps and hands will be here for the military parade and will compete for numerous prizes. The complete list of commit tees follow: Executive Committee N. R. Holthouse. chairman; Paul G. Graham. J C. Laurent, I Dave Adams. J. K. Staley. Fiance Committee Joe C. Laurent, chairman: V. J. Bormann. Dee Fryback. Clem Kortcnbor. non Aurand. Entertainment Committee L. V. Baker, chairman: Joy ' Bockman, Elmo A. Smith. Paul Briede, William S Halo, Ford O'Brien, Raymond Kohne. Hez Cochran, W. August. Joe Brennen. Bon Lange. Charles Harris, Bort Cnlchi.i, Dr. J. G. Neptune. Joe ■ Johns, Charles Weber. Ed Zeser, Dal Brown. Harve Stevens. Eats Committee Abe Miller, chairman; 11. P. ; Schmitt, Harry Knapp. Harry Mil- ' ler. Joe Burnett. C. A. Bell, Her-1 I bert Burdge, Frank Schumacher. [ ' Ollie Schnepp, Leo Ehinger. Herb ; (CONTTNI’ED ON PAGE THREE) j o Rev. Vincent Ehinger Attends Deininger Rites Rev. Father Vincent El)i’ger, C. P... of St. Gabriel Monastery, Des Moines, lowa, was here today to attend the funeral of his first cousin. tlie Roy. Fath r Leonard Deininger. Father Vinre.it Is doing mission work In the northern part of ■ lowa. He was deacon of the solemn -. requiem higli mass held at 10: o'clock this morning at St. Mary’s. I Catholic church for Father l>in-| I Id ger. z

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FOUR OFFICERS AND 1 CONVICT ARE MURDERED Machine Gu n Barrage Slays Five In Effort To Free Convict THREE OTHERS ARE REPORTED WOUNDED Kansas City, Mo., June 17. (U.R)—A desperate underworld attempt to free a recaptured convict ended with the massacre of five men here today. They were shot down in a machine gun barrage at tne union station plaza. Three others were wounded by the gunfire and lives of scores of motorists and pedestrians passing the plaza were endangered. Frank Nash, notorious Oklahoma outlaw, was ope of those killed. The other dead were officers escorting him back to the Leavenworth federal prison, from which he escaped in 1930. The slain officers were: Ott Reed, chief of police of McAlester, Okla,; Raymond J. Caffrey, agent of the bureau of investigation, department of justice, and William ‘ Grooms and Frank Hermanson, Kansas City detectives. Without warning the murderous ; fire from three machine guns was ■ turned upon the officers. They were mowed down with no ■ chance to defend themselves. One gang of five machine guni tiers was in the automobile that sped down the plaza and raked the group of officers with gunfire. | A second car that drove through I the plaza at high speed was believed also to have contained gangsters linked with the plot to liberate Nash. Nash, a member of the Al Spencer gang of bank apd train robbers i in Oklahoma, was captured yesterday in Hot Springs. At*k.. and officers brought him by train to Kan- ' sas City. He arrived here early today tn custody of Heed, C affrey and F. F. Lackey, another agent of the bureau of investigation. As the train pulled into the union station, a group of Kansas City officers met the party. Nash was taken from the train to .11 automobile parked on the station plaza. He was manacled to one of the officers, and was placed in the car with Chief Reed and two federal men. Suddenly bursts of fire from three machine guns echo<|l through the plaza, spraying bullets on the group. The bullets rattled against ths motor car and found, their marks in the bodies of the officers caught without a machine gun to defend themselves. Nash and Reed slumped over In the car. dead. Grooms and Hermanson fell to H’GNTINt'WI > OX PAGE TWO) WINTER WHEAT OUTPUT LOWER Production In Indiana Will Show Over Million Bushel Crop Lafayette. Ind , June 17—(UP)— Winter wheat production, in Indiana this season will total 21,930.000 bushels, drop of more than 1.000,000 bushels under last year, according to a report of crop conditions on June 1, It was announced today by the Purdue University agricultural experiment station. This estimate is more than 7.000,000 bushels 1 ss than the 10-year average for 'lndiana. Rainfall duri'i.g May was nearly double the normal precipitation, land forth" second successive month farm work was retard ‘d greatly, the report said. Considerable d mage to crops /rowing on low ground occurred when river bottoms were flooded and planting of corn was delayed. Ry was 78 per cent normal, with an Indicated production, of 1.020.- . 000'bushels, as compared to 978.000 bushels last year. Oats, planted late and under unfavorable conditions, were reported j at 66 per cent of normal, 11 points I » »-• « • • • • ♦ (CONTINUED ON PAGE TWO)