Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 31, Number 280, Decatur, Adams County, 27 November 1933 — Page 1

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■ UdamsCoun ty Farmer Is Killed In Accident

WSTRAHM ■||||FD SUNDAY AUTO CRASH ,j jWrenci 1<»" nship Farmer 'mH Crushed Under Car Wesi <»i I F Wayne nd Ithw occupants . ■ ES' \I’E INJURIES ■Hart®* 1 Stiahm. 30, Eretuh tanner, was instanl- ■ about 10:30 o\ lock oWe ®nri«y morning when the ’-’idKitnrfflMlo in which he was lrf *fetferiflß:i<b!e'l from the paveJi:ta iKnt dd turned over on state '“r-Kad 30 nine miles west of I ■ ?«!■ Mrs.®trahm was slightly Edwin (’. Bau-•i-1-Kan. «tße>' ■ ilro'-i >f , .1,-. aliwKft 4 Naomi ,\h Nanama . wiaftiri Wwn. were unhurt. ■ -iiffered a fractured — skull ■ cM® l noting to Dr Raymond I Berglafi Allen county coroner. I St ■kin. who is an expectant KotliewHtfi'i'ed from minor hints K k. She was taken to s.o: l®e ' hospital t'.n io.h 1 Oerghoft'. State Paul Bevertorden ami W. ©9*B*® Sheriff Fred Lniiz. who, 9.K VVPstig&i the accident, that he ■M *4®*' ° f ,he car wh, ‘li ii — lie a i’l'lied the brake. Oiat the highway rrl , u | the fatal ,e It ItSblt a xery dangerous c u ■ilinnM|tt.. morning because ol -(s■ CoSSB ’ f a'e and snow which Lift h e mi nlent. 1 " fl Ole pavement. a s list neb over the ti» ” 1 yn IcompaHioim an.l m oi WBopi ..<l. pulled him from ■■■■ni-'e. I ’ Borr In Wells County fjftSKEli.n resided West of Ihe church in French town MKNk !■■ i ngaged in fanning. Ife wait Rioim in Harrison 10v.11 83? WBs ' ounty on April * W ll Daniel and Lx.lia WSfenttißr Strabm On Sepiem WMfc IStO. hl was i:mrri-d lo Ida P®Ban, >lio survives. WrvMlv besides the patents i ai *4 ; Widow are the following broth •'rS'atid kfeti r ; Mrs. Ben Blume of ■ioanoke; Edwin Strahm and Mrs. wniond (Gibson of t’raigolle; hiiaabeth Earey, of Fort Wayne; |MS. Ernest Gerber, of Rockville. Connecticni Mrs. Anthony M-tz->get of New York City; .Jacob Mniun and Mrs. Joe Kern of Toe 'JvjHMkaroii Mincer. \\ tlln.im. I<D TO TAGE FIVE MEW RULES FOR WORKS PROGRAM New Regulations For Civil Tories Employment 4 Are Received Here .mV raffijatlons pertaining to the '“kkiying >f men on | l)Ca ] ( : V il »orks project.; were received tow by William Linn, counl.v vhair®*n and Harry Thompson, chief for the C. W. A. * p re on the poor relief the 0 bo given employment under the w regulations. Next in line for eokUMeratinn are. worthy war vettkvi* !ilir<l sro!, l> is ‘lassiost in need. Mo distinction was made between parried aim signle men. Mr. ‘"ompspnfctated. B Although practically all men able 0 Wonk who were on relief rolls ast year L re now Pni]) i n yed, Mr. Ohtpsonfctated, some revamping M the employment list will be nec- ; ®***ry to [conform with the new orders. Additional men were employed °uay on the city water line extern «on project lnd between .M> and utneawiil be employed within the 'Wt few days on the state road 527 outh east of Decatur. These men Jul be employed by Meshberger “r?feW*l >f ’''at!ng with the local ei «f,and employment bureau.

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Warsaw Men Badly Hurt In Accident Ligonier, Ind.. Nov. 27—(UP) Robert La Follette, 2S, and Robert Smith. 26. both of Warsaw were seriously injured In a truck accident near here yesterday. Both are patients in a Wolf Lake hospital, where La Follette is expected to die from a fractured ekull Smith was cut badly and received i fractured ribs. Their truck skidded into a tree when th» driver attempted to negotiate a sharp curve. ANTI-SALOON LEADERTALKS J. F. .Jenner Delivers Address Sunday At Methodist Church Here J. F. Jenner. Educational Secretary of the Indiana Anti-Saloon League, speaking at the M. E. Church Sunday morning, said in part: 'The National flood gate which has been holding back alcoholic liquors from deluging the country for the past fourteen years is about to be desroyed. By early December the vandals of this National bulwark tell us they will ihave completed their work. "When that great wall of defense is torn down demon liquor will devastate millions of homes, which have been ease front drink for many years. Few people have realized what repeal of the Eighteenth Amendment means. "As tor Indiana, we have practically no protection in qut laws to defend us against this flood The most sailed institutions we have, namely, the home, the church, and the school, are already unprotected against the alcoholic beverage traffic. "The liquor traffic in our state * ’continued ON PAGE FIVE) LOCAL MAN HAS TWO ACCIDENTS Mear! Chrisman In Accidents Saturday Night, Sunday Afternoon Mearl Chrisman, local young man a filling station attendant, figured in two auto accidents over the week-end. The first mishap occurred Saturday night on state road 2ff, north of Decatur, when he was enroute to Monmouth to assist in pull- , ing a car out of the ditch. The right rear tire on the automobile blew out as he was driving near Monmouth and Ihe ear turned over in the new fill on the road. The car was completely demolished. Chrisman sustained several broken ribs. The second accident took place Sunday afternoon as Christman stalled to Monmouth to bring his wrecked automobile to De atur. He borrowed the Ellsworth wrecking car and as he approached the north bridge, near Decatur, tee wrecker turned over and was also considerably damaged. Other Accidents Walter Bockman, county recorder escaped injuries Sunday night when his automobile slipped on the ivy street at the corner of Mercer avenue and Rugg street, and crashed into a tree in the Henry Krick yard The automobile was sllgh.ly damaged. Several minor accidents weie reported in and near Decatur Sunday due to the icy pavements. The ice and snow covered stretches on the roads making driving dang. rmis. Geneva Infant Dies At Hospital Funeral services for Gene Myer, 13 month old haby of Mr. and Mrs. Edward Myer of Geneva, who died at the Adams County Memonal Hospital Saturay afternoon, were held this afternoon at 2 oclo.k at the Geneva United Brethren Church. Rev. Eokerly officiated at the burial service. The baby died Saturday afternoon at 3:30 o’clock, following a major operation performed Friday afternoon for a ruptured appendix.

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SCHOOL UNITS HERE ELIGIBLE FOR STATE AID Decatur And Three Townships May Receive Aid From State Fund STATE SC HOOL HEAD TALKS TO TRUSTEES Three townships and the Decatur school city will be eligible to receive state aid from the state educational equalization fu n George (’. Cole, state superintendent of public instructions, stated this afternoon following a meeting held this morning in the office of C. E. Striker, county school superlintendent. with the township trustees and M. F. Worthman, superintendent of Decatur schools. The townships that probably will receive state aid funds are Wabash, French and Blue Creek. Mr. Cole and Bert Yager, school relief auditor in the state school superintendent s office are making a survey of the state and explaining to the trustees and school officials tile requirements necessary in obtaining state aid, in addition to amounts received from the gross income tax distribution and that raised by tax levy locally. The distribution is made to assure a minimum eight month's term in all townships and school cities, paying at least the minimum wage of SBOO for grade teachers and SI,OOO a year for high school : teachers. To be eligible the school units 1 must tutve al k*asi a iu-NeuL 141AJI ' per SIOO for school purposes. If • the amount of money raised by this levy does not pay the mini.mum operating expenses as allowed by tlie state, exclusive of money for capital outlay, then the township or school unit can apply for state aid. Included in the state tax rate of 15 cents per SIOO is a seven-cent levy for state aid for schools. This lax is placed in what is called an equalization fund and from it town 1 ships and school units receive I tinauc.ial aid. In the ease where the local levy is more than 50 cents on each SIOO of taxable property, the excess can be used in paying more than the minimum wage to the teachers, for capital outlay, supplies, janitor service or o.H-.er charges which total more than the minimum amounts fixed by the state. At the meeting this morning it . was found that the three townships and the Decatur school city would not have sufficient funds from a . I 50-cent levy to operate their schools. The state does not control local tax ** COXTTNUWII ON PAGE SIX) o MRS. LIECHTY DIESSUNDAY Mrs.-Jacob .1. Liechty Dies Sundav Morning At Home Near Berne Mrs. Jacob J. Liechty. 73, died at 6:40 o'clock Sunday morning at ' her home one mile nortli of Bertie, following a four months illness ' due to diabetes and complications. ' Mrs. Liechty had been a patient at the Adams County Memorial hospital for several weeks but had ' been removed to her home. She was formerly Regenia Luginbill and was born in Allen county. Ohio. February 6.1860, a daugh- ' ter of Peter and Elizabeth MQser- ' Luginbill. (She married Mr. Liechty in Bluffton, Ohio on February 26, 1884 and moved to this vicinity I soon after the marriage. Surviving are the husband and children: Mrs. Robert L. Sprunger ■ of Monroe: Hiram. Elmer and Oswald Liechty of Berne; Dennis 1 and Clifton Liechty at home; and 1 Frank Liechty of Liberty Center. ' Four children died in infancy. One sister and two brothers pre--1; ceded her in death. Funeral services will be held Tuesday afternoon at 1:30 o'clock ■ at the home north of Berne and a* 2 o'clock at the Berne Mennonite Church. Burial will be made ! in the M. R. E. cemetery.

Decatur, Indiana, Monday, November 27, 1933.

Freedom Behind Her; Before Her—? » ■ . t '■ I i SI wj SHI Towering formidably above her. the great steel gates of the county ■ jail in Chicago slowlv closed behind Dr. Alice Lindsay Wynekoop as she stepped into the jail yard with Chief Deputy John Gabriel. The .' 62-year-old physician who confessed she chloroformed and shot her daughter-in-law, Rheta Gardner Wynekood, was remanded to the jail Saturday.

FALL FESTIVAL j OPENS TONIGHT _ I St. Joseph’s Catholic ' School Festival Will Open This Evening The public is invited to the St. I i.Joseph's Catholic school festival , which opens this evening at the j i Catholic school building, corner: Fourth and Monroe streets. ! Preceding the opening of the . I bazaar in the auditorium, a ban-1 t quet will be held by the Alumni! Association of the school. The; j alumni will observe the tenth an- 1 niversary of the opening of the Decatur Catholic high school. Tuesday evening from five to eight o'clock a cafeteria supperl will be served in the dining room. Sandwiches, pasteries and other I home-made foods will be sold The program in the auditorium j will open following the supper: hour. There will be aii kinds .if, entertainment and booths, fishing I ' ponds, and other attraction.-, will feature the display. ■ The school children, all grades participating, are sponsoring the I movement as a means of raising a t fund to be used next, summer in redecorating the school rooms. All ’ donations and money received from the festival will be applied to this t worthy project and the patronage! of the'public will be greatly appre-j I ciated by the pupils, Catholic Sis- j ters and by Father Joseph Seimetz, pastor. Indiana Town Is Damaged By Fire 1 Waldron, Ind., Nov. 27. —(U.R)—- > Fire which swept through the bus : ’ iness district here last night par-! tially destroyed three buildings ' and caused damage estimated at, r SB,OOO. Assistance of nearby fire ' fighting forces was asked to halt * the flames. 1 —

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; Musical Program At School Tuesday Talented pupils of the Decatur high school will take part in the musical program to be presented in I the school auditorium Tuesday night, sponsoted by the Conuner--1 cftil Club ol the school. The program will start at S <>’- . clock and admission will be M and 115 cents. The public is incited to | attend. Forest, Rena and Marjorie Dinger will sing musical selections and ■ Oscar, Edgar, Carl. Frank and ErI vin Grotrian will play selections on [ guitars. Bob, Oscar and Edgar WerI ling will sing, and Ed Keller and I Robert Engeler will entertain with j piano numbers. Evelyn Kohls and i Winona Fleming will also eing and I other persons who will take part I in the program are Herman Bitt- | tier and Marion Baker. STOCK WORKERS GO ON STRIKE Chicago Stockyards Are Thrown Into Confusion By Handlers’ Strike Chicago. Nov. 27.—(U.R) — Striking stock handlers today brought joperations at the world's largest I livestock center to a sudden halt. I Work at the gigantic Chicago I packing plants proceeded temporj arily but will be brought to a standI still soon unless the dispute is i quickly settled. The scene at the union stockyards was one of terrific confusion las a handful of men sought to unload hundreds of truckloads of I cattle, pigs and sheep that arrived lat the yards overnight. Pickets jammed the streets surI rounding the packing plants urgi ing all workers to walk out. Police 'patrolled the area, fearful of disorder. Several sluggings were reported. . First men to walk out on strike were members of the stockhandlers union. Comparatively small in numbers, this union succeeded in tying up operations since these men unload and handle all stock entering the yards. Approximately 5,000 other yards and packing workers also voted to walk out. Their membership ini Vco'ntlNCEd'oN ’page FOUR)

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WYNEKOOP IS CHARGED WITH AIDING CRIME Earle Wynekoop Charged With Being Accessory In Wife’s Death ( J,AIM WVNEKOOI’ PURCHASED GUN Chicago, Nov. 27.— (U.R) — Frank Tyrrell, attorney for Dr. Alice L. Wynekoop said today that his client had repudiated her “confession." “I did not shoot Rheta,” Dr. Wynekoop was quoted by her attorney as declaring after an interview at the county jail where the physician is held on I a charge of murder in connection with her daughter-in-law's death. “Police put those words in my mouth,” Dr. Wynekoop saifl. Chicago, Nov. 27 — (U.R) Earle Wynekoop. handsome young husband. today was charged in an ex parte hearing before Judge Jay , Schiller with being an accessory in the murder of his wife. Rheta. The charge was placed despite tlie bitter objection of Defense Attorney Frank Tyrrell Tlie formal warrant charged that Wynekoop was an accessory before the fact of his wife's murder. A habeas corpus hearing before Judge Joseph B. David followed immediately after the warrant was presented to Judge Schiller. Police Captain Thomas Duffy testified in presenting the warrant that Wynekoop purchased a revolver and billie s and instructed his fCONTINUED ON PAGE THYiEEI GIVE PROGRAM FOR SERVICES I’rotestani Churches Will Hold Union Thanksgiving Services Here Tlie protestant churches of Decatur will unite in a Thanksgiving service to be held Wednesday evening at 7:30 o’clock in the Evangelical Church. The speaker for the evening will be Rev. i.Y. B. Brown pastor of tlie Baptist Church. In accordance with the custom of former years, services for the school children will lie held on Wednesday afternoon at 2:45 o’i clock at the various churches. Tlie pupils of the Central school will attend the service at the Presbyterian Church with Rev. C. J. Roberts in charge: the North Ward pupils will meet at the Reformed church With Rev. C. M Prugh in charge; West Ward pupils at the ' United Brethren Church, Rev. A. B. Brown in charge; South Ward scl'ool at Evangelical Church with. Rev. Glen Marshall; and tlie high school sutdents at the high school with Rev. M. W. Sundernnnn in charge. Following is ti.e complete program for the union service Wednesday night: Organ Prelude. Gloria Patria ’’mimNTTEP ON PAGE FIVE! ' 0— — Gold Buving Price Still At Standstill Washington. Nov. 27—(IJ.R) —The government’s gold buying program ' i continued at a standstill today as I treasury officials resumed consid- ' | eration of the govenment’s $727,- ’ 000.000 December 15 maturity. The domestic buving rate for gold was kept at $33.76 an ounce for the sixtli successive day. This led to further firmness in the American dollar abroad, since the 1 recent bidding up of gold has 1 caused a corre-nonding decline in ' the American dollar. ’ Decision of the administration ' to “go slow” on its gold buying program followed criticism of the ’ program by many economists and business groups last week and the | recent weakness in United States government bonds.

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State Democrats To Make Payment Indianapolis, Gov. Paul V. McNutt and Dr. Carleton B. Mvt'ul- | loch, chairman of the Democratic , state committee, will present a I check for $10,<)0() to the National Democratic committee Friday, it , was learned here today. The money was collected by the I newly organized Hoosier Democra- ; tic club which assesses state em-1 ployes two per cent of their ealar- , ies each mouth. Senator Frederick Van Nuys will i be present when McNutt and Me- j Culloch turn the check over to Frank Walker, national party treasuerer at Washington. o WORK PROJECT STARTED HERE Twenty-five Me n Start Work on Water Line Extension In Decatur A gang of about 25 men started , work this morning on the water ; line extension program in tlie south part of town, the project > being one of several approved in i i this community by tlie Civil , Works Administrator at Indianap ! olis. The civil works administrator allotted approximately $11,500 to the local project and estimated ! that about 40 men could be em-. ployed on the job. Work was started this morning! jon the Grant street extension. The water main will be extended along the street between High and Winchester streets, eliminating two ends at both points. A new main will be run along Studabaker street from Winchester to Line street and connecting lines run to the Niblick lots where I the new wells will lie drilled early ' next spring. Charles Brodbeck. superintendent of Hie water department, is in. charge of Hie water line extension program. A meeting of tlie city . council was held yesterday at ; . which the program was mapped i out and men were called for work today. By the time activities reach their peak, at least 25 men will be employed and more will be hired as Hie work progresses. In addition to the federal funds 1 received for labor Hie water department will expend approximately SII,OOO for material, a member of the council stated. Following tlie Grant and Studalaker street extensions, other Im-1 i provements will be made to the' ) mains in tlie south part of town and along Thirteenth street. 75 Approved ’ Indianapolis, Nov. 27 — (U.R) — Seventy-five new projects, esti(CONTINUW ON PAGE SIX) PRESIDENT TO SPEED PROGRAM — Roosevelt Hopes to Speed Up Gigantic Public Works Program Warm Springs, Ga„ Nov. 27. —(U.R) ■ — President Roosevelt today reviewed the administration’s gigantic public works program and methods of speeding it up to provide jobs for 4,000,001) men this winter. The Chief Executive bad before him comprehensive reports of Secretary of the Interior Ickes, who also is public works administrator and responsible for the carrying out of tills important phase of the , national recovery movement. While it was not revealed what' I , specific matters came up in the first of a series of conference be-1 tween Mr. Roosevelt and Ickes,! observers here felt that the former j , was particularly anxious for the I , comuletion of a program of co-ord- ! ina'ion between public works and the newly-created civil works auth- ' ority. Harry Hopkins, federal relief ad- ’ mlnistrator. who is guiding the latter program was expected to' ! come to Warm Springs within the , next few days to follow through the discussions between the President I and Ickes. Meanwhile, Mr. Roosevelt main- | talned silence on the monetary situON PAGE FIVE)

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TWO KIDNAPERS ARE KILLED BY MOB OF 5.000 ——— Men Who Kidnaped And Murdered Brooke Hart, Are Hanged Last Night SHERIFF INJURED SAVING PRISONER San Jose, Cal., Nov. 27 (U.R) Ringleaders of the shrieking mob that lynched Thomas Thurmond and John Holmes, kidnap - killers ol Brooke Hart, last night, may never be punished, it appearI ed evident today. Although they refused to be quoted bv name, city and county authorities were inclined to agree with Gov. Janies Rolph, Jr., who in an interview with tlie United Press at Sacrar mento indicated he condoned the | hangings. “California will not put up with kidnapers." he said. "The lynching of Thurmond and Holmes proves it to the world. It is time drastic action was taken." Sheriff William Emig of San Jose appealed to tlie governor for state militiamen at 10:30 o’clock last night, an hour before the j snarling, hate-maddened mob | stormed the county jail and seized the victims. “Troops were not needed.” the governor said. Emig and 50 officers fought tlie ; mob*for two hours before the I crazed throng broke into the jail, j Tear bombs held the attackers off until 11:20 p.m. when they batter- ! ed down the main door and surged I into the jail proper. Thurmond was unconscious and probably dead when the rope was placed around his neck. He had I been beaten and kicked senseless. Willing hands jerked his body in--Ito tlie air as the mob cheered. Holmes was naked. His clothing | had been torn from him. He screamed for mercy. “You’ve got Hie wrong man," ihe cried. ‘‘l'm Joe Pierce." A . moment later his body dangled ! grotesquely from another elm a few yards from where Thurmond ’ was lynched, in tlie shadow of a [ monument to President McKinley. He kicked convulsively and was still. Mon. bins and a sprinkling of I women composed the mob. Many fainted and were trampled. Others screamed hysterically and i fled. Others wept. Some laughed crazily. Some faces were flushed with a lust for vengeance. Otlie-s i were deathly white. Tlie pent-up emotion of an enraged city had burst its bounds. ' Legal justice bad been too slow. It was enough for the mob that Thurmond and Holmes had confessed. They decided on quick ' justice. The city had seethed l since Nov. 16 when Thurmond was arrested. He was calling the palatial Hart home here demand- | ing $40,000 ransom when he was i captured. He confessed that Hart was dead and implicated Holmes. ! They had thrown the boy’s wiretrussed body off San Mateo bridge [ into San Francisco bay. Search 1 for Hie body was begun. Two duck I hunters found it Saturday. That was the spark that ignited the mob. Tlie crowd began asserwbling immediately. All day long it milled around the old weather-beaten jail. It steadily increased. Sheriff William Emig called in 50 officers. Streets to tlie jail were barricaded. Its big steel doors were reinforced. Tear gas bombs and rifles were issued. Thurmond was locked in a remote cell on the third floor. Holmes was placed on the second floor. By 9:30 p. m. 4,000 shouting citizens milled around the jail. | Emig was desperate. He called j Oakland and San Francisco police I ’TcONt’nuED ON PAGE FOUR) O Thanksgiving Frolic At Pleasant Mills The Pleasant Mills high school will sponsor a Thanksgiving frolic at the school Wednesday night, November 29 at 7:30 o’clock. The entertainment for the eve- ' ning will Include candy walks, boxpng, wrestling, cake walks, house ‘ of horrors, a chance to win a turkey and a chicken. ‘ A comical circus and other contests and stunts will be features of ’ the program. Refreshments will be served. The public is invited.