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-loOPS SAVE Flayer from MOB VIOLENCE m, Hni Hand Wrested For ■ree Slayings, Taken To State Prison PART ■’“WIX THREE DEATHS ■ — ' Kl( Kan., Dee. 11.— ' today claimed a t<> three mysterious 1 after the alleged a 37-year-old farm had been imprisoned bestrong walls of the stale reformatory to from an infuriated confession implicating hand. Jack Wisdom, in ■ f Mr. and Mrs. Hany ( and Emory Large, was •h | ' rll - v before Oklahoma . . found the body of Pritch Wichita clothing merchant arrested early Sunday three weeks search, was to the reformatory at Hutchafter a wild ride through and Kansas with an n, pursuit. Quick action W H. Murray in mobiliztna national gmo<l with saving him death at the hands of be lynchers. Alt:-i M Landon of Kau-a.-he would call out the Kam _ if necessary to give haven. - body was found this three miles northeast >f 1 mar the place where - -d officers last night futile hunt. .Mrs. Pritchb. : . : .id been found yesterdy was found in a dry ’ L. W. Johnson ranch . • Kam, November -ix after the Pritchards disapin company witli Wisdom w 0 L.yle of the Wichita ■ ■ bureau said that shor ly m's commitment at th.- :: reformatory, the pt— -a a verbal confession that kill the Wichita couple Pritchard had filed of passing a worthless s2l confession, the officer s till, oi,.- 'Buck Smith" for s hiying of the Pritchards. Members Os S Family Are Killed Pa., pee. u of the family of Ste- ’ were killed today wlieti V«- Minded by a snow storm bis automobile on the Petinrailroad tracks neat in the path of a train. , KITH CLAIMS : ■KM. STAUFFER Bl ll Mlired Farmer Dies At 1 ■Township Saturday Stauffer, 77. well know. farmer, died at his borne in . Cr6e, k township Saturday afat l:io o'clock following a ;Sf jP' ears *" ness from cancer. bad resided In Adams ('oiictv years, having moved here t! He was born in Roos Couii- <1 on October 19. 1856 a son 1 and Christena Stauffer. T ■ October 2, 1881 be was b to Linda Clark who preeed- A in death on December 23. v One child, a daughter, died in Surviving ie a sister, Em- t< of Chillicothe, Ohio. tl services will be held b morning at 9.15 o’clock home in Blue Creek town- .1 ■ a «d at 9:30 o’clock from the churoh with the Rev. |> k officiating. Burial will be ■ the Springhill cemetery. ■~— o "■ WW Program § ■ At Purdue Jan. 10 f< rs - Karl Ulmer of Norin Mam A |B ter President of the Master |R, emakera Guild met with Mrs. v Busche of Monroe, vice-chiar- <■; IB of the Indiana Guild Sunday ti IJB arranged for a Master Home- 0 L. Y i )ro ®ram to be given at Pur- H ■ ■ University on January 10, d

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Vol. XXXI. No. 291.

' Quits Federal Post -kJ 'W g o HE iEBbBw Jr > W 1 Henry Bruere. ptesldent of the Bowery Savings Bank of New York,, who has itelinquished his post as credit and banking expert for the Roosevelt Administration. Bruere is the author of the plan »o release frozen credits in closed banks throughout the country.

REDECORATING WORK STARTED Work Under CWA ProGram Starts T«day In Local Court House Work started today on the re decorating ot offices in the court house and making repairs in the basement and other places ii the building, the projects being annrpved by the civil works adminIstrator ' ' The county commissioners were purchasing the material for the various jobs and painters, brick masons, carpenters and plas’erers were bei g employed to do the work. All labor on the jobs will be paid by the CWA. Bids were received by the commissioners today for material necessary to install a ho' wa’er system at the countv infirmary. Two proposals were filed. A. J. Moser and Co.. Berne was awarded the contract on their bid of J 237. The other bid filed was by i August Walter, amounting to $268. In addition to the court house renovating program, the barns at the county infirmary will be reroofed and the county jail paint-j ed. inside and out. The auditor's, recorder’s and treasurer's offices will be redecor-1 ated. The old partition in the. auditor’s office annex, used by ‘he county commissioners when , in session, will be removed. Included in the redecorating ; program is the refinishing ot the wood work. The old varnish will , be removed and the fine oak wood ( finished in natural color and j waxed. ' I The entranee to the men’s toilet |, from the court house has been |, changed Io the northwest corri-1 ( dor of the building. The stairway i;> the southeast corner of the ( building now leads to 'he women's , toilet. The hallway in the base- j ( ment will be plastered and en-jj (CONTTNtTKD OK PAGE FIVE) - —O I' I < Meyer Asks Further Time To Make Plea J Joe Meyer, alleged member ,of ' the robber gang which obtained a t quantity of clothing from the , Teeple and Peterson store last; ( Thursday morning, was arranged > t before Judge H. M. Devoss in the £ Adams circuit court today on a jf fharge of burglary. \ I Meyer asked further time to enter a plea, and was remanded to the county jail pending release on ( bond which was fixed at $.>,000. Johnson And Miller Start For Meadville f - i Sheriff Burl Johnson and night g policeman Ed Miller made another t dart for Meadville. PennsyvanJa, Sunday to return Charles Hickman ’ormer Decatur resident, held in I "x v ?x “’.X- ! mt at 8 o’clock Sunday morning, t legree rape charge.

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BRICE MARTIN SHOOTS SELF SONDAY NIGHT Son of Frank Martin Attempts Suicide Near Bluffton Last Night — HAS FAIR CHANCE TOWARD RECOVERY Bluffton, Dec. 11 — (Special) —I Worried over financial matters | and disappointed lit a love affair. | Brice Martin, 27, son of an Adams 1 county commissioner, Frank Martin, resorted to an attempt at i suicide shortly before midnight, Sunday, on a side road three miles north of Bluffton, by shoo’-1 mg himself twice above the right 1 ear with a 38 calibre revolver. The young man was brought to the Wells county hospital at Bluffton, where there is strong probability he will recover. Tne first ( bullet merely flattened agains’ a bone in the region of the ear. The second penetrated a small portion of the brain, where a sinus infec- j ■ tion or similar complication is . feared. The youth, who is one of a fatn-' lly of 13 children, was rushed to the hospital by Paul Kirkwood. Petroleum youth, who discovered h'm stagcerine about on the Bluff-ton-Fort Wayne sta'e road. He bad managed to make his wav. in the hit’er cold, several rods down 1 the dark side road after the shots Im fired had served only to render him half conscious. He told his father at the hospital that. “I was worried so much, I lust went ‘nuts’." It is said a For' Wavn? concern in which he invested money is to close the first nart of thia week. Martin came to Bluffton on an j , Intorucbaa cw from Fort Warne where he is employed by the General Electric Co. An hour or two later he walked out the state road and then over on to the side road. Chances Faif The father of the youth stated | UrnKTTNT’Fn nW rtc.v vtVEt 0 —•— ASK CIEfNINC OF RIVER BANK Petitions For Cleaning, Improving St. Mary's River Are Filed The papers petitioning for the I cleaning and improvement of St. Mary’s River from the Erie bridge, 1 south of Decatur, north to the ' Pennsylvania railroad bridge, near the Central Sugar factory, were 1 made out Saturday and sent to the | ■ Civil Works Administrator at In- i 1 dianapolis. The city council and Mayor, George Krick signed the papers ' and requested that an allotment of funds be made for the cleaning of the river. Civic organizations and clubs m the city petitioned the council that the river be cleaned. The council, also desiring that the project be included in the civil works program, gladly responded to the peti- , tions and completed the making out of the papers Saturday. A number of men w'ould be given employment on the job. As far as recollections go back, no one remembers that the river bed was ever cleaned. Large logs and de-. bris block the river at many points, j The banks, in many places are pil- | ed high with trash and rubbish, de-1 trading greatly from the natural scenic stream. A drag would be used to clear the river of logs and buried obstacles. Gold Buying Price t Remains Unchanged 1 Washington, Dec. 11—(U.PJ—The > government today again set the price for newly-mined American , gold at $34.01, continuing the quo- , tation In effect since Dec. 1. Today’s Washington price was , $1.21 above the world price set in ; London today. The London price today was 127 , shillings, up 6 pence from Saturday On the basis of the opening < exchange rate for the pound sterling ($5-16%) this was equivalent , to $32.80 a fine ounce. The dollar remained at 60.78 1 cents. 1

Decatur, Indiana, Monday, December 11, 1933.

Additional Snow Falls Here Today More snow was falling today, following a several hour's flurry Sunday. A few inches of snow fell Sun- ’ day and towards evening melted a I little. The temperature dropped during the night and today streets and roads were slippery. Sidewalks were also covered with ice and weather reports indicated colder weather. -»— o FOUR BRIDGES WILL BE BUILT ■ Bids For Construction On Road 527 Will Be Received Dec. 29 Bids for the construction of four bridges on state road 527, running | southeast from Decatur to the Ohio I state line, will be received by the State Highway Commission, Friday, December 29. The bridges will be constructed as a Public Works project, in accordance with the provisions of the National Industrial Recovery Act. Unskilled labor will receive 50 cents an hour and skilled labor. $1.20 an hour, contractors taking ' this labor scale into consideration when bidding. The bridges listed follow: 30-foot span, Country club bridge. 24-foot span, 0.7 miles southeast . of Decatur through Engle farm. 36-foot span, 1.8 miles southeast of Decatur. 60-foot scan, 1 mile southeast of Pleasant Mills. Work on the road has started and the project will be pushed as fast as weather conditions permit. Meshberger Bros., of Linn Grove, have the general contract, their bld of $159,000 for asphaltic macadam being accepted by the Federal road commission. About two miles of fill will be Hwcewary on the route, the road being routed through new territory at several different points. The bridge span creeks and the St. Marv’s river. Herman Rvf Escanes Injury Saturday — Herman Ryf, son of Mr. and Mrs. Alfred Ryf of near Berne escaped injury Saturday evening when his car turned over on state rood 27, one mile south of Detatur. Ryf was driving south and went into a ditch to avoid striking Earl Nyffeler who was riding a bicycle and was also going south. The ear was only slightly damaged. Announce Dates For School Vacation The county schools will close Friday evening, December 22, for the Christmas vacation and school work will be resumed on Tuesday morning. January 2, Clifton E. Striker, county school superintendent, announced today. Final examinations will be held in all county schools on Wednesday and Thursday of next week. KUS HUSBAND AT FORT WAYNE Woman Slays Husband To Save Self And Son From Death Sunday — Fort Wayne, Dec. 11 — lIJ.R) Fears for her life and that of their 16-year-old son, Allison, prompted Mrs. Nella Van W ormer to kill her husband, Albert, 37, with a .22 calibre revolver here yesterday. Police said the shooting occurred after a night of horror for Mrs. Van Worm er and her young son in which they were beaten, kicked and badly abused by a dri.ikcrazed husband. Walting in a darkened room for her husband to advance with a hammer he was swinging violently. Mrs. Van Wormer picked up the gun and fired twice as he wa'ked through the doorway. Both shots struck him in the chest. He died an hour later in St. Joseph's hospital. He tried to absolve the wife o f all blame. “I love her. It was not her fault." Van Wormer said before becoming unconscious. Mrs. Van Wormer is under f '"- mal charge of manslaughter todav in connection with the shooting but has been released on SI,OOO bond.

CHEESE WEEK | OPENS TODAY I j Mayor Krick Starts Obs servance In Ceremony I I Here This Afternoon r I Mayor George Krick started the j local observance of national cheese week by slicing a giant loaf of 1 Kraft cheese at the city hull at : three o'clock this afternoon. • Mayor Krick, last Saturday en- . dorsed the local observance of I cheese week and issued a procla- ’ ination to that effect. At the ceremonies this afternoon I officials and employes of the Cloverleaf Creameries. Inc., a subsidiary of the Kraft-Phenix Cheese Corporation and a number of prominent citizens and city officials atr tended. ! Ail over the country this week. > communities are celebrating nat- - I ional cheese week. The idea of ■ Laving a national cheese week, had I it’s inception at a meeting of mid1 western Governors several weeks - ago, and all of the nation was in- ‘ terested. Reduce the dairy pro- ■ j ducts surpluses and boost raw ma- • terial prices . . . and everyone ap- . plauded this splendid plan. The : 1 slogan, “Serve Cheese and Serve 1 the Nation" carries a challenge ! and so Decatur is happy to help in I this vast celebration. 1 Mayor Krick smiled as he cut t into the creami' delicious giant loaf of Kraft cheese and as his mouth watered, he remarked, “that really It was not a difficult duty imposed ’ on the Nation, that of serving . cheese." | ; (J !— Auto Damaged After Slide Into Ditch An automobile owned and driven I by A. Johnson of Arcola wae damaged Sunday afternoon one half ■ mile north of Monmouth w ten the I car slid off the road, hit the ditch and turned ever. The rear end of the car was corn1 pletely wrecked. Mr. Johnson and his family were occupants of the automobile and escaped injury. They returned to their home and the car was brought to the Riverside garage in Decatur for repairs. PLANS MESSAGE ON THE BUDGET I President Roosevelt Is Preparing Biennial Budget Message Washington, Dec. 11— (U.R) — President Roosevelt today turned his attention to preparation of his biennial budget message to congress. The task involved arriving at ! figures for emergency governmental expenditures on the recov- | ery drive as well as for carrying I on the ordinary functions of the ■ government. Mr. Roosevelt scheduled a ser-1 i ies of conferences during the I week with director of the budget i Lewis Dougles and heads of other government departments. Thej conferences were described a' the; White House as "spade work" on the budget. The message will go ; to congress soon after it convenes on Jan. 3. Douglas tentatively forsees a I governme ’tai income of about $3,350,000,000 (B) for the 1935 . fiscal year. , Against this income an outlay i of approximately $2,600,000,000 (B) ’ will he required tor the regular governmental establishments, leaving a balance of three-quarters of a billion dollars according to tentative forecasts by Douglas. This balance a.id the treasury s current fat cash balance of approximately $1,000,000,000 (B) i would be available for emergency relief and public works expend!I tures if their continuation is required. Additional funds are expected to accrue from plugging the holes in the income tax laws and from other sources, such as the liquor * Continued to page five

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GREAT PARADE FINAL FEATURE OF SUGAR WEEK Miss Martha Elizabeth Calland Crowned Beet Sugar Queen Saturday STORE DISPLAYS AWARDED PRIZES "As queen of the realm, I comI maud all my subjects to help themselves by using beet sugar." .said Miss Martha Elizabeth Calland, Devatur high school junior an I daughter of Mr. and and Mrs. J. Ward Calland of this city, as site received from Dale W. McMillen the crown ' emblematic of her selection as first Beet Sugar queen of Indiana. The coronation took place on the Library steps with the Decatur Junior Band and the Wren, Ohio school band playing appropriate music. Her attendants, six Decatur high school junior and senior girls, and crowd of several thousands witnessed the ceremony. Before the’Coronation a great parade marched through the business district headed by one of the city fire trucks. Its bellowing siren was singularly in keeping with the festive mood of the people. Newspaper men and visitors from northern Indiana confessed that this was the first town they had seen, since the depression began, which could laugh with pre-war good humor, confident that good times were already here. The city boy scouts marched behind the fire truck and in front of the Decatur Junior band. The band was followed by the girl scout troops and twelve boys on ponies. One of the cleverest parts of the parade followed them. Six boys, two from each of the three wards, paraded In hundred pound sugar sacks under the name of sugarettes. Then oame the Queen's float on which Martha Elizabeth Calland rode in regal splendor on a throne above her ladies-in-waiting the Misses, Evelyn Kohls. Helena Rayl. Kathleen Odle, Pauline Affolder. Mary Kathryn Tyndall, and <Aileen Porter. This was followed by an auto display and the clever float of the St. Josep'h’s school. The latter had »an immense birthday cake made with beet sugar, labeled "Crystal White's first birthday”. A truck load of Crystal White sugar proceeded the Wren. Ohio school band Floats of Decatur merchants, trucks of sugar beets, the “Death of Mr. Sugar Cane' Dierkes calliope and Peeks Bad Boy closed the parade. | The Queen's coach halted on its second trip down Second street at the corner of Liberty Way. The Queen and her court descended and marched royally to the throne on the Library steps. The queen wore a white dress with a red cape and gold headpiece. Her attendants wore dresses of pastel shades with white capes sprinkled with crystals,, **COVTIN'tTEI> ON PAGE FIVE) — LARGE PAYROLL MADE SATURDAY $2,589 Paid Last Week To Workers On Road 27 North of Decatur The largest payroll of the year was distributed to workers on U. S. road 27, north of Decatur, last < week. Doris Stalter, time keeper on the job, stated that $2,589.00. was paid to the 162 men employed on the project last week. The number of men employed also exceeded any former number and much headway was made on the work, which includes the wjden- ’ ing of the shoulders along the road from the Smith bridge, north to the Allen county line. The same work is being carried on in Allen county. Wit’ll the Civil Works payroll distributed by Harry W. Thompson, local certifying officer, more than $7,300 was paid to workers last weeik. The C. W. A. payroll amounted to $4,751.12 A total of 315 men were employed last week and weather permitting, the entire quota of 3/0 will be put to work this week. In addition to the men employed on the U. S. road project, a number of teams and trucks were also engaged on the job.

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Fights Extradition a xjh 81. r ' Ik MH Il 1, F felt J ,/ z - Although a writ for his extradi- ! . ’ tion was signed by Governor Hen- I • ry Horner, of Illinois, Janies A. La Rue. fugitive from a Florida chain gang, recently captured in Chicago. : . gained a respite when Judge Al- | fred Erickson forbade the prisoner's removal front the state. The . judge told La Rue that freedom was virtually certain.

FARM BUREAU ’ FAVORS PLAN American Farm Bureau Federation Approves Administration Policy Chicago Dec. 12 —(UP) — Commendation of the Rooseveit administration's agricultural recovery policies was the keynote today of the opening session of the (American farm bureau federation's fit-. teenth annual convention. Edward A. O'neal, president of the federation, termed the agricultural adjustment act the “Bagna i Charta of American agriculture its charter of freedom from domina-; tion of predatory business interests. its guarantee of economics equality with other groups. i He recommended a managed currency, in which the dollar shall no i longer be master of our economic ; destinies, but a servant." the tariff he said, could be best handled through barter with countries tin-' willing to negotiate reciprocal treaties. The convention heard a greeting from President Roosevelt, who said .that “in a few short niont.is the whole complexion of the agricultural outlook has been changed. “The members of the Farm Bur-1 j eau know, as 1 do" said the Pre--1 Bident, “That the maladjustment between supply and demand has been years in tiie making and that it ! cannot be corrected overnight, i Nevertheless, in a few short months i the whole complexion of the agri- i ; cultural outlook has been changed. ' Money is getting into the hands of | the people who need it; it is com-j ing from higher prices for the, things farmers have to sell; it is coming in the form of government checks for those cooperating proto page five O Chartrand Funeral Services Wednesday Indianapolis, Dec. 11. (U.R) — i Marked by impressive ceremonies | of the Catholic church, funeral ser- , vices for the Most Reverend Joseph Chartrand, bishop of the Indianapolic diocese, will be held here Wednesday. Co-incident with the announce-; ment of funeral plans, the Most Reverend Joseph Elmer Ritter, ; titular bishop of Hippus and auxil- : iary bishop of Indianapolis, was! appointed administrator of the dio- : cese by the diocesan consultors. Bishop Ritter was born in New Albany, July 20, 1891, and attended parochial schools there and St. Meinard Seminary. He was ordain-1 ed to the priesthood by Bishop j Chartrand in 1917 and was made bishop of Hippus, an extinct see on ; the North African coast, by Pope | Pius XI last spring.

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AT LEAST TEN DEATHSCAUSED OVER INDIANA Snow Flurries Made Highwav Travel Dangerous Throughout State DEATHS REPORTED IN EASTERN U. S. (By United Press) Al letist ten Indiana jmtsons met death in accidents over the week-end as snow Hurries made highway travel dangerous. A double accident cost the lives of William Peak. 19, and M. W. Samples. 45. both <>f Michigan Citv. Peak was dragging Samples from the wreckage of their truck, which had run into a ditch, when another automobile struck them. Leo Deuschle, 25, also of Michigan City, driver of the car which fatally injured Peak aud Samples, was released pending a coroner's investigation. He said darkness nrevented him from seeing the pair. Mrs. Ada Barker. 47. Danville, was killed and her husband. Herman Barker, a'd daugh’er, Lois, 7. suffered crl’icsl injuries when a truck struck their car near ’ ninvUle. The truck driver. James Shelton, was failed on charges of I driving while intoxicated. Tn another trnck-suto collision. ShlHpv piljn’t 40. Muncie, snffer--Ipd fatal I 'iuries. Hp was riding I with friends near Portland when thp’r automobile collided with a truck driven by Earl Hildreth. ' Portland. Roh°r» 1.. Vovles 24. Bloomington, a soldier, was killed when his nit'oTnnh’le overturned near Jef- ' fproonville. Another soldier rids 'g I w”h him. .Tack Donohue, esrmned tnitirv hut was jailed on charges , of Intoxication. A man identified throtieh auto license nlates as Walter W. Downev. 52. Indianapolis locomotive engineer, was burned to death Sunday in the wreckage of his car • hree m'les west of Edinburg. The body was burned beyond recognition. An Indiana Harbor belt freight I train struck an automobile at a i crossing i i Hammond Saturday night, killing Mrs. MUynie Grind’e, 40. Hammond. Her httsband, William S- Grindle, was injured. I The other automobile tcaffie /rONTINT’Fn OV PXGtr r-'tVFI o Loc»l Men Return From Livestock Show Albert* Mutschler. Carl Palmer i and Paul Graham of the Mutschler Packing Company. ha v e returned from Chicago, where they attended the International Live Stock show. Tlte show was one of the largest and most interesting ever held. More than 400,000 people visited tlie show at;<i delegations camo ! from all parts of the country. CLAIM REVOLT ONBERCONTROL Sn a n is h Government Claims General Strike Fails To Materialize Madrid. De<-. 11—(U.R)—With indications that a general strike, threatened by anarchists and syndicalists after Sunday’s battles against police, was failing to materialize, the government claim- [ ed todav to dominate the uprising jon all fronts. Estimates put the ; death toll at around 100. "All public forces, military and , civil, are loyal to the government." Minister of Labor Pi Y Suner told the United Press, “and the government has cotnI plete control over the country." Pi Y Suner was optimistic as i renorts con'inued to arrive that ’ the radical elements had failed to I succeed in forcing all workers to quit their jobs. "The blindness of some of the I revolutionary elements is lamenttih’e.” he declared. “The government wanted to avoid anv injuries ro the peon’e. and therefore gave ; orders to all Its armed forces to I "ermit the rebels to surrender and avoid bloodshed, but in many j cases the leaders refused, and the **rGNTINUFT> ON PAGE TWOI