Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 31, Number 298, Decatur, Adams County, 19 December 1933 — Page 1

WEATHER Ri in probable toWedneedey Jmer extreme east d c older extreme (.uthweat tonight; #l(l< r rout*’ portion #l!( jne»day.

LINDBERGHS COMPLETE LONG FLIGHT

RSSON GUARD adlywounded THIS MORNING nidentified Convict Critically Wounds Veteran Guard JCAPE ATTEMPT THOUGHT HALTED Michigan Citv, Ind.. Dee. UU.R) A. H. Baunieister, .veteran guard at the stat" ison, was slabbed and critillv wounded today bv an identified convict who aiirentlv had intended t<» ipe. Raumeister is believed to w thwarted the escape hv ngering into the guard house i sounding an alarm. Jfficials said the- prisoner anrently was from o>e of the early irning details and had managed jet back with his fellow pris[rs before his absence was led. Baunieister. although suffering ® several wounds, was able to re a detailed account of the ack. H? said the assailant was disbed as a prison officer. The Worm he used was found buried sawdust in the prison ice house short time after lhe attack. Belief that Raumeister’s assailI was planning to escape was engthened by the fact that a p ladder with a hook attached i found at the wall near the ministration building. kumeister said he was natrolI the prison yard about 5:30 a when he was struck from bed He grapped with his assail- | but the weapon penetrated his | te and pericardium, the sac, rounding the heart. hnmeister also received a th on the wrist. Jr. P. H. Weeks, prison nhvsiB. said that B'aumeister nrohabwould recover unless infection ■ in. she guard said he believed he lid identify his assailant but be s too weak this morning to w the men under suspicion, bison officials said that about convicts who serve in the powhouse and dining room details re under suspicion. Men work--in these details arise at 5 a m. laumeister declared that if he i not been attacked the prisonnight have bee'.- able to reach ' wall without detection alnigh his chance of escape would re been slight. she attack was the first otit*k at the prison s'nce 10 conts shot and slugged their way freedom Sent. 26. AH bu three the escaped prisoners are still large. — -oegro Prisoner Cuts Off Own Arm Mleton, Ind., Dec. 19—RJ.Ph grange case of self torture was Wrted at the state reformatorv lay when officials revealed that negro prisoner who had become Rented cut off his own arm with Jiece.ot broken glass. I ENTERTAIN 400 CHILDREN J nual Moose Christmas Party Will Be Held Wednesday lans are being made to enter--8 about 460 children at the anII Moose party to be given by 1 local lodge at the Moose Home North Second street at 7:30 P- m. Wednesday, Decent'2o.. ril « ladies of the Moose will entain the children. The. program 8 charge of Mrs. William Lister, "rnian. assisted by a number of J’ 1 * 1 ’ whose main object is to enail’ and make the children >py. * nta Ulaua will make his anv'sit to the home and will reeach child with a gift or A program in keeping with se ason will be given and mem- ? of the lodge are asked to bring !’ children to the entertainment. 6 Moose lodge has been enterlnk the children each year and 5 f °r the Wednesday party are 6 elaborate than ever before.

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Lindberghs Reach Miami J-. gw. .. _ it K* IM* ♦ >» £ a i .- ASS Col. and Mrs. Charles A. Lindbergh photographed in their world : 1 traveling hydroplane after they had landed in Miami on Saturday.

♦ ♦ Good Fellows Club Previous total $102.30 Phi Delta Kappa . 5.00 Leo Saylors 3.00 Knights of Columbus 10.00 W. A. Klepper Family 5.00 Good Fellow 3.00| Rose Marie Katheryn and Baby Kohne 1.00 I i Friend .. . .... .50 Tot,il .... .1129.80 LOCALSCHOOLS PLAN VACATION Decatur Schools Will Close This Week For Annual Vacation Public and parochial schools in Decatur will close the latter part of this week for the Christmas and New' Year holiday and studies will be resumed Tuesday, December 2. The public sthools, including the Decatur high school. Central, and three ward buildings, and the local Catholic grade and high schools will close Friday afternoon. The Zion Lutheran school will close Thursday afternoon for the holidays. | Various Christmas programs will be given at the schools. An interi esting Christmas presentation will I be given at the Decatur high school by the senior class under the direc- ■ tion of Dean Dorwin, teacher in the ! school. The program will start at ,1:15 o’clock Friday afternoon. I iA program will be given at the Central School Friday afternoon in which all classes in the school will participate. As is customary, the, ! pupils of the South Ward school; I enjoy a Christmas dinner Friday I noon at the school building. During : the afternoon Christmas carols wil j be sung. A Christmas party and program will be given Friday morning and , I afternoon at the Riley buildmg. The i rooms in the school have been de..I orated with Christmas trees and ! decorations. The complete program I which was to have been presented I at the North Ward school Friday i afternoon, has been dispensed with I “ I i Christmas program will be given: programs will I be> giv-1 S”, Si. O’clock at the church. —O— —~ Aged Farmer Dies Near Chattanooga « Dodge, | been ailing The body Surviving is on - , i have been remov Monroe,: ienstein funeral home i land funeral arrangements w made later.

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LOCAL HOSPITAL I IS GIVEN $4,800 Estate of John S. McClain Bequeaths Sum To Hospital The Adams County Memorial hosi pital will receive approximately $4,- • 890 from the estate of the lute John S. McClain, aged Civil war veteran of Berne who died last i April 19. lAfter making more than a score of bequests to nephews and nieces i and others and providing for the' payment of debts. Mr. McClain be- [ queathed the residue of his estate to the Adams County Memorial hos-1 pital. Previous to Mr. McClain's death I he was a patient at the hospitaj. | suffering from a farctured hip. The , hospital bequest is contained in I item 16 of the original will A. codi-) cil was appended to the will in 1933 Inventory of the estate filed for I inheritance tax purposes shows the , total value of the estate at $17,796.99. The special bequests total sll,- : 050, with an additional bequest that : a monument be erected on his grave not to exceed S2OO in cost. . The inventory filed shows: Per- j sonal property. $12,396.99; real estate, $5,400; total, $17,796.99. ductions for expenses etc. $1,935.97. : Deducting the $11,050 in bequests, the residue of the estate bequeathed to the hospital amounts to $4.- * (CONTINUED ON PAGE TWO) LEGION VOTES TO QUIT CLUB Adams Post Will Not Operate Country Club During Next Season Adams Post 43 of the American Legion will not be connected with the operation of the Decatur Country Club next year, as a result of a vote taken at a meeting of the- Legion held last evening. New headquarters for the local Legion Post will also be obtained, I members stated. Since last spring 'the Legion has maintained headquarters at the Country Club. The club house and golf course was operated this year by a committee of legionnaires. Financial loss was given as a reason for severing connection with the club. In all probability rooms in an uptown building will be leased by the local post and headquarters opened a{t er the first of the year. The Decatur Country club is ownM bvC.J. Lutz of this city, on foreclosure of mortgage from Paul q llulte of Chicago, who purchased the dub house and grounds from Mr Lutz and adjoining land owners ’ several years ago. Mr. Schulte may I endeavor to take over the property next year, it was stated. A large crowd attende the meeting last night and Interesting talks i were made by legionnaires.

Decatur, Indiana, Tuesday, December 19, 1933.

BANK ROBBER I ESCAPES TRAP SET BY POLICE Merritt Longbrake Shot Way Out of State Police Trap Monday REPORT DILLINGER j SEEN IN MILWAUKEE Warsaw. Ind.. Dec. 19. — <U.R) —■ ■ State police were deployed through- ; out northeastern Indiana today in i an effort to capture Merritt Long- ' brake, bank robber suspect and .fugitive from Ohio, who shot his J way out of a trap at his farm home [ rear here last night. Longhrake, accompanied by his 17-year-old daughter, eluded State ; Patrolmen Maurice Eddmeister and : Estel Bremenderfer at the farmhouse and disappeared in the direction of Akron. The officers were outdistanced by the gunman when they chased his I automobile in a decrepit car commandeered from a passerby. After a search of lake resorts in I the region the policemen returned 'to the farmhouse, locked and de- ' iserted in the meantime, but found ' jno tangible clues, they reported. Eddmeister an d Bremenderfer. ' 'assigned to watch the Longbrake ' home for more than two weeks, re-I ported they parked their car some , , distance away and approached the farmhouse through fields about dusk last night. While they lay waiting the fugitive and his daughter came out of the house, sat in a car and talked with another woman, they said. Harking of a dog warned Longbrake of the policemen's' presence and the fugitive swung his car into [ reverse. guiding it toward his pur- . i * q CONTINUED ON PAGE FIVE) LABOR BOARD IS GRANTED POWER Roosevelt Confers Full Authority On National Labor Board Washington, Dec. 19 — (UP) — i President Roosevelt today conferred upon the National labor board the power which it heretofore had lack:ed in dealing with industrial dis-1 putes. The president, by executive order | gave the board the authority to conj tinue its activities as it has conducted them since its formation in i mid-summer. The executive order made all actions of the board to [ date effective and clothed them with the government’s full authority. The order was made public at I the white house shortly after anoth executive order providing sor 1 three additional members of the new National emergency council, which President Roosevelt created "CONTINUED ON PAGE TWO,

Santa Claus Postmaster Gets Christmas Mail Prom All Over

Santa Claus, Ind., Dec. 19.—(U.R) —Childish pleas for Christmas presents came pouring into this little hamlet today as Postmaster James F. (Jim) Martin assumed ills role of Santa Claus again. From rich and poor, from Egypt, South America, Canada, the United States and almost every corner of the earth came requests. Before the holiday season ends, Martim will handle 350,000 pieces of mail in his country store postoffice. Modern equipment such as used in the large cities has been installed to expedite the work. Ten or more of the town’s 100 residents are given employment in the post office Christmas week. The role of Santa Claus is an old one for tylartin. His postoffiee came near being abandoned as a matter of government economy last summer but so many protests were received that the administration permitted the office to remain. In addition to the letters addressed to Santa Claus, Martin receives large batches of mail from advertising firms which wish to have the Santa Claus postmark upon their circulars at Christmas time. If Martin were to don a red suit and long white whiskers he would fit the accepted description of

Robert Acker Named To Head Fraternity Robert Acker was CJlOHen president of the local Phi Delta Kappa fraternity at a meeting held in the clubrooms Monday night. Dr. R. E., Daniels, retiring president, will act i as vise-president and other officers ■ .will be Eugene Durkin, secretary. Harold Strickler, treasurer; Her-' man Omlor master of ceremonies. j Harold Heller Sergeant at arms, i Harry Sheets outer guard and James Fisher, inner guard. j 'installation of officers will take I place next Tuesday night in the Phi Delt quarters on Monroe street. I above the Mutschler meat market.’ and the new officers will entertain. The fraternity recently moved into the new clubrooms which have been remodeled and redecorated. Formal opening of the hall was held on Thanksgiving Day. YOUNG STUDENT KILLS ATTACKER Western Reserve Student Shoots Alleged Attacker Os Girl Cleveland, Dec. 19—(UP)— Britton Dennis Young, youthful law school student, was charged with manslaughter today after confessing he shot a farmer to death while parked with a co-ed companion along a lonely suburban highway in Pepper Pike Village. He waived preliminary hearing and was bound over to the grand jury under SI,OOO bond. Cleveland. Dec. 19. — (U.R) Brit- : ton T. Young, youthful Western Reserve University student, shot ' and killed a middle-aged man early today when the latter assertedly attempted to drag Young's girl . companion from an automobile in ’ which they were sitting in Pepper Pike village. Young, who is a nephew of Con1 gressman Stephen M. Young and son of Don Young, prominent Norwalk, O„ attorney, was held by authorities after he appeared with ' the girl at Shaker Heights police ! station and reported the shooting. The body of the victim. Carl j Meteling. 48. was found lying in the j roadway after the couple directed ! police to the scene of the shooting. 1 He had been shot through the right eye, the bullet lodging in his brain and causing instant death A flashlight was found beside his body. i In a statement to authorities. Young said he and the girl, Ruth j Beiter, 21, a student at'Flora Stone Mather college, drove to Bellcourt road, parked their car and turned out the lights. A few minutes I later, Young said, he glanced out ON PAGE FTVE» o Four Bandits Rob Bank In Illinois De Kalb, 111., Dec. 19 —(UP)— Four bandits raided the De Kalb j Trust and Saving bank today and ! escaped with $1,500 after terrorizing six persons, including four wo- ‘ men.

Santa Claus. He also has the twinkle in his eye that generally is associated with “Saint Nick. Martin answers all of the letters which contain postage stamps. Many of the others are turned over to clubs and charitable organizations. But there are hundreds of the pleas that must go unanswered. Next year Martin hopes that people will send small contributions of a dime or so to "Santa Claus.” Then lie could answer every letter received and enclose toys in a few cases. . No matter where a letter is mailed it will reach here if it contains only the name Santa Claus on the envelope. Many of the, letters are addressed only to Santa Claus, North Pole. In looking over his letters today, Martin found one sent from a little girl in Saskatchewan, Can. “I have been a good girl.” she said, “and hope you will stop at our house. “We didn’t have any crop this year and daddy says you might not have any feed for your reindeer so I will know the reason if you don’t leave us any presents.” Dicky, a lad whose handwriting indicated he is about five years •(CONTINUED ON PAGE TWO)

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BANK DEPOSIT I INSURANCE PLAN j TO BE STARTED Government Will Put Deposit Insurance Plan In Effect January 1 GOVERNMENT STAKE NEAR THREE BILLION Washington, Dec. 19. —(U.R) The , government's stake in the nation’s > banking business approached the $3,000,000,000 (B) mark today as i final preparations were made to extend its sway by putting deposit I insurance in effect at the start of 1 the new year. More than a third of the governi meat's participation in banking is represented by deposits in the pos- | tai savings system, which have I, risen to record levels well above j $1,000,000,000 (B). In addition, the Reconstruction .' Finance Corporation has purchas- ‘ ed more than a fifth of the outstanding bank capital of $3,500,000,000 (B). and expects to increase .this ownership to nearly a third , witli ultimate preferred stock purchases of more than $1,000,000,000 I (B. Direct loans to banks and himI dreds of millions poured into varUcus mortgage loan, building and J loan, and agriculture credit organi izations have further increased the ’ government’s stake. Under the deposit insurance plan, the government will assume j important regulatory powers over participating banks previously not ■ under federal supervision. Augi menting these powers and those del rived from its stock ownership, the ■ government has regulatory func- •' tions through the federal reserve 1 board and the national banking i laws. The government's participation may be lessened materially if the ■ deposit insurance plan succeeds I and is retained. J. F. T. O'Connor. ■ comptroller of the currency lias • indicated that upon success of the i plan depends abolition of the pos*~*CON*INUED TO PAGE FIVE ; ASKS RELEASE OF BANK FUNDS — Abe Rosen, Unlicensed Beer Dealer, Sues In Federal Court i i Fort Wayne, Ind., Dec. 10.—-(U.R) : —Abe Rosen. Gary's unlicensed beer dealer, today was plaintiff in j an action in United States district ' court here seeking release of his ! $1,600 bank account attached by ; federal agents for non-payment of i liquor taxes. Rosen, the man who defied state , ? officials on the question of selling I beer without license, alleges in a . suit filed late yesterday that re- . i peal of the prohibition act also re- : pealed the internal revenue act by - ’ which liquors were taxed. In the same suit, Rosen is askI ing Federal Judge Thomas W. Slick to enjoin Will N. Smith, Inr diana collector of internal revenue, from further attachments against i his bank account. ri Rosen’s attempt yesterday was : not entirely unsuccessful. Federal i Judge Slick granted him release .’ot those funds in excess of the ■' amount ot tax and penalties alleg- - ed due the government in revenue, f ’ Rosen is said to owe $1,048.45. In opposing the case, U. S. Disi trict Attorney James R. Fleming . \ declared that the internal revenue t i act and the prohibition act were ■ ; never connected in any manner, , ; and that the right of the govern- ! "continued to sage five ! Drum Corps Meeting Postponed Two Weeks ’ | The regular meeting of the drum j corps of Adams post number 43 of ; i the American Legion, scheduled to ’ ! be held Wednesday night, has been postponed until Wednesday, January 3. o i Christmas Program Mt. Pleasant Church i ’ A Christmas program will be given at the Mt. Pleasant Church, four ’ miles northwest of Decatur. Thurs- ’ | day night at 7:30 o’clock. The pub- ’ I lit is invited.

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— - | Resigns j | 5 Ji .-'Ct IL r ‘ M 1 .J y ■ William G. Donne of Chicago, Illinois manager of the Home Owners’ Loan Corporation, whose I resignation was announced in Washington by the board of directors of the corporation. At tlio same time of the announcement in Washington of Donne's resignation the board announced tliat a complete reorganization of the Illinois office of the Home Owners’j Loan Corporation would be effected immediately. COUNCIL MEETS | THIS EVENING City Council Will Adopt Lower Light And Power Rates Tonight An important meeting of the city council will he held this evening at . the city hail. 'Adoption of tlie lower light and power rates for tlie City Light and Power Plant will be made and an ordinance prepared, petitioning the \ Indiana Public Service Commission to reduce the rates as outlined by I the council. A change in tlie tentative schedule on the combination rate for heating and cooking will probably ■ be made. Other changes may be made. The ’ ’ tentative rates published last week cut reductions in both the light and power schedules and members of the council announced that they wished to receive suggestions from patrons of the plant before finally ’ adopting the rates tonight. , : Another matter to receive the attenion of the council is the redis- , ' tricting ot Decatur into four wards. ' The preliminary boundary lines di- ' : viding the city into north, south, 1 j east and west wards will probably be adopted. The adjustment of salaries of city policemen, firemen and employes of : the light and power plant will pro- ' bably not be disposed of until a lat- ' en meeting, or at the first meeting in January, the increases becoming effective next year. A special meeting of the council. i will be held during the last week I I In December for the purpose of al ,; lowing bills and completing unfin- . i ished business. ’ i Paul Daniels Hurt On Ditch Project , j ! I Paul Daniels. Root township, suf-: ! ' sered a slight head injury Monday ■ I while working on a civil works pro-, • i ject on the Holthouse ditch west of ’ i Decatur. Daniels was accidentally struck In. the side of the head, thej injury requiring two stitches to close. He was able to return to ’ work today. — 1 Grace Elston VN ill ’ Be Student Nurse i Miss Grace Elston, daughter of ' Mr. and Mrs. William Elston of this j city, has received word that she has passed the examinations and 1 has been accepted as student nurse at the St. Joseph Hosfptal in Fort - Wayne. Miss Elston will enter r training on January 9. She was - graduated from the Decatur high - school and has been taking a post graduate course.

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FLYING COUPLE FINISHES TOUR OF MANY LANDS Col. And Mrs. Lindbergh Land At New York This Afternoon TOTAL FLIGHT WAS OVER 30,000 MILES New \ork, Dec. 19 - (U.R) 'Hie Lindberghs came home from their greatest aerial tour today to celeb ra t e Christmas with their ini ant son Jon, whom they had not seen since they started a 30.000 mile flight around the Atlantic ocean. Col. and Mrs. Charles A. Lindbergh landed at 2:10 p. in. EST. after staging a spectacu hr “dodging duel" in the air with pursuing craft carrying photographers. The "duel' in which Lindbergh was pursued bj* other ships was similar to his aerial encounter with photographers at Miami, Florida, last Saturday. Lindbergh landed off College Point on Long Island sound. The couple thus ended a tour of 31 countries and colonies and four continents. Today's flight was about 760 miles from Charleston. South Carolina, which they left at 8:53 am. They had been gone from New York five months and 10 days. Throughout their long tour, which involved crossings of the North and South Atlantic and a flight from Europe to the midAtlantic Azores islands, they had combined business with pleasure. Lindbergh surveyed the possibilii ties of regular trans-Atlantic air i routes and will report on his coi- , elusions. Mrs. Lindbergh had operated their radio throughout the tour, except enroute to the United , States coast. She also had alternated at tlie controls. Christmas With Son Charleston, S. C., Dec. 19 —<U.R) —Col. and Mrs. Charles A. Lindbergh took off at 8:53 a.m., EST., from here today on the last portion of their 25,060 mile aerial i survey of the Atlantics. They were intent on reaching home in time for Christmas with their young son, Jon, whom they ' icnNTTNUEn on page vtvei o Two Policemen Shot During Gun Battle Chicago Dec. 19—(UP)—Two policemen were wounded, one crlti--1 cally today In a gun battle at the Tavern of Aiderman Patrick Bauler. political leader. Frank Wright, deputy sheriff, was shot in the abdomen and was in critical condition. Policeman John Ahearn sustained a minor . wound in the right hip. The affair occurred (shortly after a Christmas benefit party held for needy residents ot Bau:c-r s district. Ahearn appeared at Bauler's Tavern and sought entrance, police said. Bauler refused to let the policemen in and a fight started. SCHOOL BLAST IS DISCOVERED Indiananolis High School Student May Lose Sight Os Eye Indianapolis, Ind.. Dee. 19— Anexplosion in the chemistry laboratory of Washington high school j here Dec. 7, in which several students were cut by flying glass, was revealed today. One student, Joseph Hancock, Jr. j may lose the sight of one eye, it was reported. ; After a preliminary examination j Al G. Feeney, director ot the state department of public safety, said no arrests had been made but that he felt authorities of the school were subject to criticism tor their i handling of the case. The explosion was not reported 1 . to city authorities or the state fire marshal's office but was revealed only after investigation of meager reports, Feeney said. J. C. Nelson, teacher in charge of the class when the blast occurred, told safety department investiga- . tors he had no license to conduct chemistery classes in Indiana.