Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 31, Number 226, Decatur, Adams County, 25 September 1933 — Page 1

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Berne Residents Injured In Wreck Mr. and Mrs. Otto Stuckey and. son Edward. 15. and Ralph Heer of B. me reelved severe Injuries In an I automobile accident Friday while j enroute to Chicago to attend the world** fair. They returned to thejr homes In Berne Saturday. The accident ! occurred on state road 6. six miles north of Valparaiso. .Mr. Stuckey lost control of the car which rolled down a 20 foot embankment. The. car was completely demolished. | The automobile was owned by Mr. j Stuckey's son. Lewellen Stuckey, and there was no insurance. The occupants of the car were severely cut and bruised STATE EFFORTS ARE ASSAILED Efforts of Administration To Dictate Tax Budgets Attacked II Indianapolis, Sept. 25 — (UP) — State administration efforts to dictate local budgets is being assailed in several counties of the state, ac- ' cording to reports received at the statehouse today. One of the most outspoken attacks was made at Richmond by assemblyman Wilfred Jessup, who fathered the McNutt Administration reorganization measure at the 1933 ’ legislative session. Both Albert Walkman of the state tax board and Keith Johns of the income tax department were hi Rhhmond to discuss local budget making. Their advocacy of an ade- ' quate "working balance’’ in the Richmond school budget brought the criticism from Jessup. He charged that the state administration's interest in the matter was "purely political". Jessop assorted that tt wits dei sired to build up large working bal- ■ ances so that the 1935 levies could • be lower than those of 1924. thus giving the administration campaign material. Gov. Paul V. McNutt denied that politics were involved. He declared that Richmond budget makers re- ' psatedly have refused to provide adquate working balances and are using state funds as soon as receiv- ' ed to carry current expenses. The Governor pointed out that the state has plenty of appellate power in the state tax board and that where state teacher payments have not been properly consider'd by local budget makers the cuts will be made on appeal. It was in a spirit of cooperation and to instruct regarding the state pay-1 ments that men from the state- ■ house have entered local communi- • ties to talk with the budget mak- • ers. McNutt declared. Mt. Tabor Church To Observe Rally Day Rally Day will be observed at the Mt. Tabor Church on Sunday. October 1, when a basket dinner will be enjoyed at the noon hour and a program will be presented in the I afternoon. The publi ■ is invited to attend. ENROLLMENT IN SCHOOLS GIVEN Supt. Striker Announces Enrollment In County Rural Schools Enrollment in the Adams county rural schools totals 2.926 pupils, ac- 1 fording to figures announced today by Clifton E. Striker, eounty super- j Intendent. This figure is one higher than ; the total enrolled last year. Public i schools show larger increase, as ; the A. C. parochial school in Monroe township is closed this year. The enrollment by schools this year follows: High Schools Hartford Township. 91. Jefferson township, 64. Kirkland township, 86. Monroe. 108. Monmouth. 53. Pleasant Mills 102. II Geneva, 117. Grade Schools Blue Creek, 122; French. 174; , Hartford. 152, Jefferson, 127; Kirk ! land, 164; Monroe, 354; Preble. 60; Root, 93; St. Mary's, 178, Union. 82; Wabash, 370; Washington, 128. Parochial Schools Preble, 222; Root 21; Union, 58.

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ROSCOE TURNER BREAKS SPEED RECORD TODAY Transcontinental Airplane Record Is Set By Col. Turner PLANS RETURN TRIP AT ONCE Floyd Bennett Field. New York, Sept. 25—<U.R> —Col. Roscoe Turner today cracked the transcontinental airplane record, when he arrived from lx»s Angeles at 11:43:3l) a m. (official time.) His time was 10 hours and 5*4 minutes. The previous west to east rec- 1 ord was Jimmy Haizlip’s spectacu- , lar flight across the country Aug- ; ust 29, 1932. when he travelled the distance —2,520 miles —ln 10 I hours and 19 minutes. Turner already held the east- ! west crossing record, of 11 hours and 30 minutes, hung up on July I 1. 1933. Turner ordered his plane refueled immediately, and announed his intention of returning to Los Angeles within an hour, in an attempt to beat his own westward record, making the round trip in less than one day. Indianapolis, Sept. 25— (U.R) — Col. Roscoe Turner, attempting to set a new west-east transcontinental speed record, left Municipal Airport at 8:13 am. CST today after a 13 minute stop for gas. He was 28 minutes behind the record when he took off tor the last hop to New York. Turner averaged 299 miles an hour from Los Angeles to Wichita, | Kas.. but head winds encountered >in Kansas and Ujinols had cut down his average to 258 miles an i hour when he landed here. DECATURMAN i DIES SUNDAY Charles E. Pennington Dies At Home of Brother Sundav Night — Charles E. Pennington. 57. well known r sident of this city for many years, died at the home of his brother. Will Pennington 1121 ; West Adams street, Sunday night at 10:20 o'clock, following a sev- ' eral months illness. Death was due to complications. Mr. Pennington had been ill for the last six months, and had been bedfast for seven weeks. Mr. Pennington had resided in Decatur since he was six years old. 1 He was a butcher and operated the ! City Cash meat market in Decatur I until three weeks ago. Previous to opening the market here, he had been employed with the Mutschl. r Pa: king company and for three ; years had been with the Bro- ‘ ' thers company of Van Wert, Ohio. He was a member of the St. Mary’s Cathoic Church and of the B n Hur lodge in Decatur. He was born in Paris. (Illinois, on March 20, 1876, a son of Mr. and Mrs. Herbert Pennington. His wij dow, Mrs. Emma Pennington, and three children. Mrs. Lawrence I Myers, Charles T. Pennington and I Mary A. Pennington, survive. One brother, William Pennington > of Decatur, and the following sisters. Mary Hunt, Edith Lower, Nora Korn. Virginia McMacken all of Fort Wayne; Nettie Edwards of > Los Angeles, California and Lizzie i Hitezman of Canada, also survive. Three grandchildren. Benny and | Jimmy Myer and Robert Pennington are survivors. Funeral services will be held Wednesday morning at 9 o'clock at the St. Mary's Catholic Church with the Rev. Father J. Selmetz officiating. Burial will be made in the St. Joseph cemetery. The body will be removed from ■ the W. H. Zwick and Son Funeral ; Home to the Pennington home late i this afternoon. Hurricane Causes Immense Damage Mexico, City, Sept. 25—(UP)— The worst catastrophe in the history of a Tampico was reported today in official dispatches dearcribing a hurricane which destroyed "three fourths of the town with many dead.”

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Believed Smoke Screen Killers J-3 ’A I' < J lai 4. ■ ■bmhhi .ar ■■■■■■»■■■■■■■**>•" Using an auto with a special smoke screen device, Verne Miller Heft) and George ("Machine Gun") Kelly (right) are sought by thousands of police in the mid-western states as the killers of Policeman Miles Cunningham and the robbers of the Federal Reserve Bank truck in Chicago's loop district.

OPEN HEARINGS ON LOWER RATES Public Service Commissions Opens Fight For Lower Utility Rates Indianapolis. Sept. 25 — (U.P) — The administration renewed its fight for lower utility rates in Indiana today as the public serI vice commission opened its hearing on a petition for reductions throughout the entire south sy«tern of the Public Service Company of Indiana. ' The petition was filed June 20 j by Sherman Minton, public counselor of the commission, who ‘ charged that the company made excess profits of $2,600,000 last year through exorbitant rates in the 270 southern Indiana cities and towns which it serves. Efforts to effect a compromise rate agreement failed and Perry McCart, chairman of the commission. ordered the case to trial. Today s hearing was regarded ' as the first major test of GOv. : Paul V. McNutt's promise to low-1 er utility rates. Minton is depending upon data gathered for him by Mark Wolff. New York accountant who has scored a long list of rate reduc(CONTINI'RD ON PAGE SIX) 1 STATE HIGHWAY PROJECTS OPEN Over 5.000 Men Start Work On “Pick-And-Shovel” Program Indianapol. , Sept. 25 - (U.R) — More than 5,000 men selected from unemployment relief rolls throughout the state started to work for the state highway department today in a gigantic "pick and-shovel" road improvement program. The work, to be carried on as long as weather permits or until given projects are completed, will be financed with a -special fund of $1,000,000 transferred from the state general fund to the highway department. Intended to give immediate relief through the disbursement of the payrolls, the program is strictly a state-supported projects. Janies (CONTINt'RD ON PAGE SIX)

Local Legion Post To Show Prize Winning Float In Chicago Parade

Memories of the days of ’l7 and ’lB and of No Man’s Land will be recalled by thousands of people as they witness the American Legion parade in Chicago next Tuesday. Adams Post No. 43 of this city will depict "Memories of No Man's Land," through entry of the float and cannon, which won for the local post first and second prizes at the state Legion conventions at Fort Wayne and Anderson in 1930 and 1931. The cannon, captured during the war and sent here by the war department folowing the war, will be mounted o na float and transported to Chicago. Otto Yost and Lloyd

Muncie Man Killed After Drinking Bout Muncie. Ind., Sept. 25. — (U.R) — | Wounded in the neck by a bullet tired through his kitchen window. John Day, 58, died in a hospital today after naming James Nicho's.' Jamestown. Tenn., as his assailant. Police immediately started a search for Nichols hut he could not he found It was thought he might have started back to Tennessee. Day and Nichols had spent most of yesterday playing cards and drinking at the former's home. The shooting occurred after Nichols had left in anger because of a quarrel with his host. Nichols apparently proiured a revolver, returned to the Day home, stood outside the kitchen window and tired, police said. WELLS COUNTY | WOMAN IS DEAD Mrs. .1. D. French Dies Sunday Night In Nottingham Township Mrs. Sarah French. 66. wife of J. D French, died Sunday evening at 10:30 o’clock at her home in Nottingham township. Wells county. Mr French was a former school principal at Berne and also • was Wells county school superintendent. Death was due to cancer and I complications. Mrs. French was born September 21. 1867 in Illinois. Surviving are the husband and three children. Douglas, at home, Mrs. Chris Egly of Petroleum, and Mrs. John Walko of Little Falls. New Jersey. One sister and one brother also survive. Funeral services will he held Wednesday morning at 9:30 o'clock at the home and at 10 o'clock at the Old Salem Evangelical church at Linn Grove Burial will be made in the Greenwood cemetery near Domestic. o Nearby Counties Have High Rates Tax rates for the cities of Bluffton and Huntington are higher than the rate payable in Decatur next yehr. The Bluffton rate tot als $3.78 and the Huntington levy. $3.36 on the SIOO. The rates were fixed by the county adjustment boards last Saturday. Decatur's total rate next year will be $3.30 ■ on the SIOO.

Baker, members of the local Legion post are in charge of arrangements. The cannon has been located in Le- I gion Memorial park for several years. Al Feeney, state director of pub lie safety will furnish a military essort to Chicago with the float. The state highway commission lias given permission to the local post to take the float and cannon over state roads. The float is camouflaged to represent a scene from No Man's Land ‘ A number of local Legionnaires will ride on it, depicting in a realistic i way an actual scene from No i Man's Land. ■

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FARMER GIVES TESTIMONY IN KIDNAP TRIAL — Shannon Hopes To Save Self And Family From Prison Sentence ONE DEFENDANT IS FREED BY JUDGE Oklahoma City. Okla.. Sept. 25 — (U.R)—ln a desperate move to save themselves from prison, the three Texas Shannons placed the blame > in the $200,000 Urscliel kidnaping 1 case today on their daughter. Katherine, George (Machine Gun) Kelly and Albert Bates. Farmer “Boss" Shannon, elderly grey haired and dressed in a dark brown suit with blue shirt and no tie. sat in the witness stand and told a story he hoped would save him and two of his family from prison. He related his family life under questioning by his counsel and declared he was forced to take part in the kidnaping as a guard : for the victims. Opening the fight for the remaining 10 defendants in the spectacular case, the Shannons' ; counsel beat Bates to the jury with a story that directly conflicted with the one he had promised to tell regarding them. Defense testimony began after Judge Edgar Vaught, presiding in the heavily guarded tower courtroom. dismissed Pete Valder of St. Paul as a “money changer” in the alleged conspiracy. This left 10 persons, including the notorious Harvey J. Bailey, on trial in the government first major test of the new Lindbergh law, chief weapon in the campaign against kidnaping and other rackI ets of extortion. Evelyn Kohls To Head Pep Champs An organization meeting of the Pep Champs of the Decatur high 1 school was held this morning. Evelyn Kohls was selected president; Martha Erma Butler, vicepresident; Katheryn Engeler. secI retary. and Mildred Acker, treasurer. Miss Jeanette Clark, physical training instructor in the public schools was chosen the Pep Champ sponsor. .Mrs. Lillie Raush Dies At Cicero, 111. Mrs. Dora Seabold of Bluffton has r ceived word of the death of her sister. Mrs. Lillie Raush. widow of Joe Raush. former resident of 'Adams County, who died at Cicero. Illinois. Mrs. Raush was formerly Miss Lillie Pence. She was born near Honduras. Surviving are the par- • ents, Edward and Mary Raush. and daughter, Miss Eva Raush all of < Chi ago. BERNE MAN IS DEATH'S VICTIM David Augsburger. Berne Store Owner. Is Victim Os Paralysis David Augsburfter, 83, manager of the Variety Five and Ten Cent Store in Berne for many years, died I at his home in Berne. Sunday morning at 12:02 o'clock. Death was due to paralysis. Mr. I Angsburger had been ill for one week. The deceased resided on a I farm in French township until 35 years ago when he moved to Berne. I He was in business for 20 years. He was born in French township May 23. 1850, a son of John and 1 May Moser Augsburger. On January 14. 1875 he was married to Anna Baumgartner, who preceded him in death on February 20, 1927. Two daughters. Mrs. Moody Brenneman of west of Berne, and Mrs. Henry Schinder of Van Nyss. California; one brother, Levi and two sisters, Sarah, and Mary of Berne, > survive.' Three brothers and two ■ sisters preceded him in deata. Funeral services will be held Tuesday afternoon at 1:30 o'clock at the home and at 2 o’clock at the Missionary Church. Burial will be mdae in the M. R. E. cemetery.

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Father J. J. Hennes Gives Closing Sermon Father Joseph Hennes, assistant | pastor of St. Mary's Catholic church of this city gave the closing sermon at the Forty Hours Devo-1 tion held at St. Joseph's church. Fort Wayne, last evening. Father i Joseph Seimetz, local pastor, sang ' the Liteny during the service. Father Charles Girardot, formerly of Bluffton. Is pastor of St. Joseph's He has delivered several sermons in this city. MANY DECATUR MEN AT RALLY 150 Members of Holy Name Society Attend Ft. Wayne Rally About 156 men of the Holy Name society of St. Mary's Catholic church of this city, joined the united Holy Name rally and parade in i Fort Wayne Sunday afternoon. Nearly 2.500 men marched in the parade which formed on Clinton I street near the Cathedral rectory and proceeded north on Calhoun 1 street to St. A’incent’s Villa, where a program was held. The parade was headed by a band I i and each church delegation carried the American flag. The local dele-1 gation carried the flag owned by Adams Post of the American i Legion. The services consisted of a sermon, congregational singing of church hymns and Benediction of . the Blessed Sacrament. . The men marched four abreast and it required more than a half hour for the parade to pass a given ' point. It was one of the largest demonstrations of its kind ever held in Fort Wayne. William Faurote, president of the 1 local society. Father Joseph Seimetz pastor and Father Joseph Hennes, assistant pastor of St. Mary's Cath- . j olic church were among those who 1 attended the rally. ; — o — FARMER DIES AT BLUFFTON ’ I I Floyd Stoutenberry Dies At Wells County Hospital Sunday Floyd Stoutenberry. 38. Adams County farmer died at 6 o'clock Sunday morning at the Wells Coun- ( ■ ty hospital. Death was due to penu- > monia. He had been ill for three weeks. Mr. Stoutenberry was born in Kirkland township. March 26, 1895. a son of John and Sedalia SautbineStontenberry. He was a life long resident of Adams County, and made his home two miles south and one and a half mile west of Decatur. He was never married. Surviving are the parents, Mr. and Mrs. John Stoutenberry. two brothers. Marion of Decatur and Raymond, at home, and two sisters j Mrs. Russell Owens of Decatur and Mrs. Samuel Baumgartner of Bluff- ; I ton. Funeral services will be held at I 2 o'clock Tuesday afternoon at the 1 home, southwest of Decatur, with 1 > the Rev. Johnston of Decatur, offi-; ciating. Burial will be made in the i i Zion Cemetery at Honduras. ! O Sleeping Sickness Epidemic On Wane St. Louis. Sept. 25— (U.R) —Dr. i Paul J. Zentay, assistant health : commissioner of St. Louis, an- ! nounced today that the city's > . sleeping sickness epidemic “is j definitely on the decline, almost to the point of to'al disapparance." City and county records show a total of 171 deaths since the epi- j demic began on July 30. Total cases reported were between 900 ; and 1,000. ° Three Members Os One Family Killed — Jeffersonville, Ind., Sept. 25 — ■ (UP) —Three members of a Bedford i Indiana, family were killed today . when their automobile was struck i by a passenger train north of here. The dead are Captain Raymond A. Ramage. 31, his wife, 30. and : their five year old daughter. Cap- ■ tain Ramage was enroute to Henry-; > ville where he was in charge of a| civilian conservation corps camp.

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ADAMS COUNTY RESIDENTS ARE CRASH VICTIMS Mrs. James Manley, William Goldner Are Fatally Injured OTHERS ESCAPE SERIOUS INJURY Tragedy stalked the highways of Adams county again Sundav. when two persons were fatally injured in a crash of two automobiles at a road ! intersection one mile south of the Washington church in I Kirkland township. Mrs. Elizabeth Manley, 69, wife of James Manley, near Preble, died at the Adams County Memorial Hospital at 12:30 p. m. Sunday. William Goldner. 65. French town--1 ship, died at the hospital at 5:30 o’clock Sunday evening of his injuries. Three other occupants of the two cars were not seriously Injured. Mrs. Goldner. 56. is still confined I to the local hospital, suffering from ' injuries to her chest. Her condi- ; tion is described as not serious, i Mr. Manley, husband of the dead woman, sustained minor scratches and bruises but was not taken to the hospital. Mary Goldner, granddaughter of William Goldner, also suffered only slight injuries. Cars Demolished Mr. and Mrs. Manley were driving east, enroute to the Steven Longenberger home at Pleasant Mills. The Goldners, accompanied by their granddaughter, were traveling north, enroute to Decatur to attend services at the Zion Luth- , eran church. The Mauley car. a coach, evtI dently struck the side of the Gold- , ner auto, an Oldsmobile coupe. The Goldner car was overturned, pinning Mr. Goldner underneath. ! Mrs. Clarence L. Macy, who lives | only a few rods from the scene of the crash, witnessed the accident ‘ and immediately notified Sheriff i Burl Johnson. John Spahr of Decatur, who was picking wild grapes near the scene of the tragedy, brought Mrs ManI ley and Mrs. Goldner and granddaughter to the hospital. Mr. Goldner was brought to the hospital by John Schnepp of Decatur and Rus- > sell Krider of Fort Wayne. Skulls Fractured Examination at the hospital dis- ' closed that >x)th victims of the accident suffered fractured skulls. > Mrs. Manley also sustained a crushed chest. Manley Rites Wednesday Mrs. Manley, who formerly resided at Bluffton, is survived by the husband and five children, Ralph Jahn and Mrs. Lulu Ratliffs ’of Bluffton: Mrs. Fred Bentz. Delaware. Ohio; Ray Jahn of Fort Wayne and Clark Jahn of Chicago. Three brothers surviving are: Charles and Stephen Longenherger. Adams county; and John Longenberger. Toledo, Ohio. Mrs. Manley was a member of ; (CONTINUED ON PAGE THREE) STOCKHOLDERS TO PAY DOUBLE Thousands of Indiana Bank Stockholders Will Be Affected •Indianapolis, Sept. 25 — (UP) — Thousands of bank stockholders in : Indianapolis were affected by a de- > cision handed down by the State I 'Appellate Court here, it was revealI ed today. The decision written by Judge 1 Harvey J. Curtis, of Gary, held that the stockholders are subject to i double liability in ease of the I bank’s failure regardless of I whether they have previously paid i a capital stock assessment. The court affirmed a decision of the Jay County Circuit Court, to that effect in the case of James Fogle and other depositors of the Farmers and Merchants' State Bank of Geneva, who sought to impose the double liability upon William H. Wai nock and other stockholders. The stockholders of the bank paid an assessment of 60 per cent I in 1926 after the bank had closed. ■ With the additional capital, the , bank opened soon, but again was eclosed in 1929.