Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 32, Number 11, Decatur, Adams County, 12 January 1934 — Page 1

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■ate opens ■ATE TODAY i » WATERWAY K (hi St. Lawrence Kerway Treaty Is Kited hi Senate Kes supply K.I I r IX HOUSE ■hiimion. Jan. 12. <U.R» I! tie louuv itished Km into debate 01i ■ tioii (il the SI. I.awr- ■ rwnv treaty, one <>l controversial issues K'titi't Pittman <>l the K I'-'itioos I’lHlllililtee ■ with :i soe-uli uii>init ■ tion is reoueste.l bx ■ ' !’■]. IIS lion I < >l-< t > >' I ■»•:! aided him with to the cost of the a ,i qeesiions regarding on railrbad and Missisrg, ! .■ traffic. began debate on the offites supply hill, bus hill of the It, onomy provisions hv a drnsti;' wl.i. h Republicans and K<ui><" * Were .martin.’ "f banking condi- ■ national holidt.v further clarified before the senate committee. Edsel Ford ■ ’hat his father. He ry ■. ■ appeal from th” to pour millions into in an effort tn stave closing in February. P Leyburn. a chief n:iMh.iLk •'..onmor. swore that ■tn easy" o? bank ->xprior to the holiday ■t-d from the White House 5... rotary of treasury ■ tli.. f> >ever administration ■ house agriculture committhe Jones bill carry■t Mr Roosevelt's plan for ■al farm mortgage corporaMil a stoi. ii nie ’t guarantee ■ hillion dollars of farm ■go refinancing bonds. Bnnairps Tn I Attend Funeral ■bers of the 'American I.e■e asked to meet at Legion ■ the Graham building on ■ Street at 7:20 o'clock Sat■wni::: T The delegation will ■> to New Corydon to attend ■neral of Arthur .1. Kenney. ■ war veteran whose death ■*l Wednesday. Funeral ser[will be held at St. Mary's Be church. New Corydon. ■ Minnie Mover I Honored Bv School ■ Minnie Moyer, a .student at c ork University, and a dough- ■ Mt. and Mrs. Max Moyer of ■ty. rec.-ived special reeogniB an essay contest held at Biversity recently. A portion ■ novel by H. 0, Wells was ■o the class, who then wrote ■ versions of an appropriate ■Nm. ■ h. SUNS LIQUOR BILL b°i’ Tax Bill. Passed fsterdav Bv Senate, binned Last Night Fhington, Jan. 12. — (U.R) — Pent Roosevelt has signed fcuor tax bill which was passpterday by the senate. I Roosevelt .put his signature f e measure at 11:50 o'clock | n '?ht, a brief White House fheement said. F Pres ident’s signature of the P*de the new tax rate effoc- | a ' an< l thus gave the treasimmediate benefit of the new F- The measure provided that f” rates take effect the day pignature. pg congressional debate, it pimated that daily tax reF under the bill wonld be L Ro° s evelt placed his signa 11 tile hill in the oval room on ’ con<l floov of the mansion. L s,l mg was without ceremony, ■ vsalent being alone.

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Letter Carriers Meet January 211 i A meeting of the letter carriers \ of the fourth congressional district ‘ I will be held in Fort Wayne. Satur- ' day, January 20. The district meet-1 Ini will be held in Junior Hall with Blanch No. 116 of the National i Association of Letter Carriers as ' host. Leland Franks of Decatur, presi-' dent of the district aseor iation will , preside over the meeting and Post- I master Ernest J. Galhneyer of Fori ■ I Wayne will In the principal speak-! er. A pot-luck dinner will be served at 6 o'clock Saturday evening, fol-1 lowed with a social program. The annual state convention of letter carriei- will be held in Ko komo on February .22. FIVE WOMEN ON LIBRARY WORK Books In Decatur Public Library Are Being Catalogued The work of cataloguing the books In the Decatur Public Library is progressing nicely, five women being employed on the job. Mias Paulino Ashley of Bloomington. a graduate of Indiana Univer-, «ity and registered librarian of Illinois university, is directing the work. | The work is being done as a- - project and the women em . ployed have been assigned the task of cataloguing all the Itooks, repair- I ing those torn and separating ref- i erenee books from current] volumes. Local women employed are Mrs. I J. H Burroughs. Miss Betty Reichert. Miss Helen Draper. Miss s ia r i ice Gilbert and Mrs. Blanche Stalter. Mrs. Dore B. Erwin of this city is lotfal supervisor, appointed by | ■ Bearrtre Owens, elate CWA administrator for the women. The appropriation made will per- ( mit about five weeks work and f those directing the job state that additional funds will probably be ' necessary to complete the project. 1 U GRADUATES FROM CENTRAL I Eighth Grade Pupils Will ’ Enter Public High School Monday Twenty four pupils of the >A class of the Cen ral school will ' enter the Decatur high school as freshmen at the opening of the > sdcond semester of school on Monday, January 15. Os the class. 14 are boys and 10 girls. The first semester of school - closed today and the new six weeks periods will start Monday. Freshmen will register at the high school Saturday and attend classes on the following Monday. Diplomas will be presented the | eghtli grade graduates at a meeting of the Parent-Teacher Association at the Cential school build ing Tuesday night at 7 o clock. A program is being arrang 'd sot j the meeting and all parents are invited to attend. A business session of the association will also ( be held. The 8A class presented"a play at the regular class period at the Central school this afternoon, and classes were reorganized for the new semester. * Following are the names of the t eighth grade graduates: Meredith Cline.' Harry Drake, t ON PAGE «IX> r o —— ■ 1 New Details Os h Vice Ring Bared ' Niles. Mich.. Jan. 12—(UP)—New 1 details of a vice ring involving 1 more than 150 high school girls and » a score of older men and women were revealed today by ministers and mothers of the girls when pro- , bate Judge. Malcolm Hatfield re- . opened an inquiry. Their testimony was suppiemen- j tary to that given yesterday by a score of girls, none over 16 years old, who told of wild parties, roadhouse escapades and group miscon- r One of seven girls held by offi- “ ciais. two of whom are in an Ann Arbor maternity hospital told composedly of intimacies between older men and women who systematically cultivated such relations with i high school students.

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Dr. Wynekoop’s Trial Opens ' -M- M| - • 1 ' J : Bl ■ 'w^' Tv ■ U ■ & wO®*' 8 "" afeß-j, --”. ' ■« l - c draßb.' SK Ww* ' v ■ <r Wßiiiir Dr. Alice Lindsay Wynekoop (left) is shown in this remarkable courtroom photograph a> her trial for tlie murder of her daughter-in-law. Rheta Gardner Wynekoop. opened m Chicago Thursday.

GORE RESIGNS AS GOVERNOR — Robert 11. Gore Resigns As Governor of Puerto Rico Today Washington. Jan 12.—(U.R) Robert H. Gore today resigned as governor of Puerto Rico. The resignation was accepted by President Roosevelt. Gore, who since his appointment lias been embroiled with tlie political minority of the island, gave as bid reason fur retiring his own health and that of his wife. He wrote to tlie President: "As you know, the climate In I Puerto Rico has not been conducive i to my own healtli or to that of ; tlie members of my family. 1 have had to return to the United States on two occasions to regain my health. My family returned in November. and Mrs. Gore is now ill. "Since my return to tlie states in November, my own health is much improved, and 1 do not want to jeopardize my physical condition by returning to Puerto Rico. "I wish, therefore, to tender my resignation to become effective, t your convenience. "1 want you to know that you I will have my loyalty and cooper~*(CONTlNri?D ON PAGE SIX) o “BLACK CROW" CRASH VICTIM — Charles Mack of Famous Comedy Team Dies In Auto W reck Mesa. Artz.. Jan. 12.—tU.R> Charles S. Mack, whose droll humor in the “Two I’lack Crows” partnership delighted millions of listeners ' for years, is dead. He was fatally injured last night near this small desert town, when his automobile overturned, pinning j him in the wreckage. With him | were his partner. George Moran; | his wife and daughter, and Mack 1 Sennett, prominent film producer. They were injured. Sennett perhaps seriously. Mack died shortly after being ; brought to a local hospital. Moron sat by his bedside, weeping. His wife, suffering from abrasions on head and body, was in an adjoining room. She did not hear j him. Attaches said she was on the verge of cidlapse. • The accident occurred as the! group was en route to Hollywood j where the black-face stage, screen and radio comedians were to make a motion picture. "We were traveling about 45 i miles an hour," Moran said. "Mrs. Mack was driving and Sennett sat beside her. Charley, his daughter, (CONTINUED ON PAGE SIX)

Decatur. Indiana, Friday, January 12, 1931.

Missionary Will Lecture Sunday Ralph E. Baney, who will leave • soon, as a missionary to Palestine. . will lecture at the First Unite 1 Brethren church Sunday evening. 1 His lecture will be made vivid by a ' large number of stereopti; on slides of both ancient and modern Jewish customs and religious exercises and uy Uie Jewish rabbi’s enstome, in which the speaker will be dressed. A number of slides of the Holy Land, as well as a number of which depict persecution of the Jewish people in different nations will be shown. No admission will be charged for the lecture. BODY FOUND IN BURNING AUTO Charred Body, Without Head, Arms Or Legs Found In Burning Car Cleveland. Jan. 12 —(UP)— Belief was expressed here today that tlie victim of a torch murder on a highway near Dover might be Frank T. Joiner, reputed Cleveland slot machine operator, who has been missing from his home here for 10 days. Police here were informed that a belt buckle bearing the initial i “J" was found in the rumble seat I of the automobile where the charred torso ot the victim was discovered. Dover, O. Jan. 12- (UP) A charred body without head, arms or legs i taken from the rumble seat of a furiously burning automobile, lay in City Morgue here today while antrorities attempted to deterniine ' the victim's identity. The body had been wrapped in an I oil-soaked blanket and fired with the automobile. Coroner Albert Bal--1 mer of New Philadelphia, after a preliminary examination, said he ■ believed from the bone formation ’ that the victim was a woman, but the body was badly charred. The coroner had not been able to determine, either whether the missi ing head, arms and legs had been 'severed from the body and carried away by the murderer, or burned off in the fire. j The sole clue in possession of autborities was a meager description •of a man seen in the machine a short time before the fire. License plates had been torn from the small coupe. An empty two-gallon I motor oil can was found nearby. o Explosion Rocks Goodyear Plant Los Angeles, Jan. 12 —(UP) —A I terrific explosion rocked ti e Good- ' year Tire and Rubber plant here today, endangering the lives of 50 workmen. Gas or dust accumulating in the calendar room was believed to have caused the blast.

'DEATH CLAIMS fiDDISQN WOLFE Aged Boot Two. Farmer Dies This Morning After Long Illness Addison R. Wolfe, 86, a resident of Adams County practically all his life, died at his home in Root town shipti two and one half miles east of Decatur on state road 224. died at his home at 5:30 o'clock this morning of complications. Mr. Wolfe had been in ill health I for the last two years. He suffered several slight strokes recently. Mr. Wolfe was born in Onio near lanidenville on December 22. 1847, a son of Sylvester and Hannah Gladden Wolfe. He came to Adams County when two years of age and bad resided here since that time. ■ He was united in marriage to Catherine Cline 63. years ago. Surviving besides the widow is a son, Bert Wolfe, of east of Decatur. Two sisters, Mrs. Ida Parker of Ligionier, and Mrs. Emma Spaulding of Kansas, and one granddaughter. Marie J. Wolfe, also survive. Funeral services will be held Monday morning at 10 o'clock at the Union Chapel United Brethren . Church of which Mr. Wolfe was a member. Rev. Frank Engle will ofticiate and burial will be made in the Decatur cemetery. HUGE PAYMENTS OF BACK TAXES Government Intensifies Drive Against Income Tax Evaders (Copyright, 1934, by UP.) Washington, Jan. 12. - (U.R) — Upward of $50,000,000 of back tax payments has been paid into tlie treasury by frightened evaders, internal revenue officials estimated today as the government intensified a drive to obtain the last penny legitimately due in long pending income tax cases. Some estimates of the sum frightened into tlie treasury were as high as $100,000,000. These .payments were ascribed largely to a campaign begun last summer by ’ Guy T. Helvering, commissioner of internal revenue, to dispose of pending cases. Belief that prosecutions would eventuate from the income tax drive was expressed in liigh official I quarters. There was suspicion that inexcusable laxity in handling tax cases would be revealed in some instances. Treasury policy was understood in general to be to warn first ofi fenders and permit them to make a settlement with the government. But second offenders against the J * (CONTINUED ON PAGE FIVE)

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.NAVAL PLANES COMPLEIEIONG MIER FLIGHT Six Seaplanes Set New I Record For Mass OverWater Flight TRIUMPHED OVER ADVERSE WEATHER Honolulu. T. IL. Jan. 12. dJ.R/ Into the illustrious log of the I'. S. navy, in which John Paul Jones and P.lug John Harry made tl.e first 'notations, wis written today tlie , record shattering flight of six giant navy seaplanes from the San Fraiii cisco mainland to their permanent I base at Pearl Harbor. Honolulu. Traveling ala speed the navy's first heloes never dreamed was possible, the intrepid squadron. \p io on navy record, triumphed! over murky skies and annoying j cross-winds to set the planes down in the harbor here just 24 hours and 42 minutes after they had left ’ tthe mainland 2.150 nautical miles . away. To the HO naval fliers led by Lt. Com. Knefler McGinnis the facts •that they had set a world's record for long distance non-stop movement of planes in mass formation. I and had broken the record for flying time to tlie islands, were matters of apparently little moment. Regularly, on the hour, came Hight Commander McGinnis’ radio reports of the latitude and the 1 longitude of his position. But his ' messages failed to reveal the ■ drama They did not tell of the triumph over the patches of fog. 600 miles off the California coant. I’ They did not record the anxiety felt for the 10-P-5. piloted by John Perry, Greenville, S. <’.. which had I become separated from the rest. They did not mention the seven ’ hours of blind flying. They felt s out. too. the realization that a storm was brewing west of Hawaii t and threatening to blow into their path. The flight had started inauspic(CONTINUED ON PAGE SIX) REGISTRATION’ r, i STARTS MONDAY I County Clerk Werling Plans To Start Registration Os Voters t i County Clerk Werling was informed this afternoon tnat i alj registration blanks will be I delivered in time for the registration work to start Monday. All registrars are requested to call at the ' clerk's ottice Saturday afternoon to receive their supplies and information. County clerk Milton C. Werling was proveeding today with plans to start the permanent registration system in this county next Monday. I The registrars will be called to k the office Saturday or Monday to ' | receive supplies and the job of regl istering the 10.000 voters in the ! county will begin at once. ■i | The lack of registration blanks prevented Clerk Werling from sum j moning the registrars, including j the township assessors and the 68 men and women named by the Demi erratic and Republican chairmen ' j today. ’ I The county commissioners will ’ meet Saturday or Monday to decide 1 . on what precincts will be changed. • • The establishing of additional prei i cincts in the city of Decatur, in eon- - • nection with the new ward boun•l daries, will also be brought up at the commissioner’s meeting, Conni i ty Attorney Henry B. Heller stated. J! Voters have until next April to J (CONTINUED ON PAGE SIX) f Boy Is Killed In • Auto-Train Crash Mitchell, Ind.. Jan. 12— (UP) — 4 [ A seven-year-old boy was killed and 1 j three other persons were injured I here late yesterday when the autos mobile in which they were riding - was demolished by a Monon passenger train. 1 Stanley Leatherman died instant- ‘ ly. Mrs. Ira Leatherman, 38, mother 9 of the victim, his brother, Eugene. ' 3, and Mrs. John White, 28, all of e Mitchell, were taken to Dunn Me- ” mortal Hospital at Bedford.

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Rev. Seimetz Talks To Local Rotarians Tlie Rev. Father Joseph Seimetz, pastor of St. Marys Catholic church, gave a short talk on the Mate peniI tentlary at Michigan City, before members of the Decatur Rotary ,-lub last evening. Father Seimetz. 1 was born and reared in Michigan | City and made many trips to tlie! state prison. He termed the insti . j tutlon tlie “University of the sei olid chance". He told of eonversa- • tiona he had with prisoners and I stated that the public should not | look down on a prisoner, after he was granted a parole or pardon, but | rather try to help hm. Often a lit-! tie encouragement from the other, fellow will help the former convict go straight and make good on his , si ond ( hance. the priest stated. j KALVER BUYS WARING SHE FOR THEATER Owner Os Adams Theater Will Remodel Factory Building At Once MODERN THEATER WILL BE BUILT 1. A. Kalver. moving picture proprietor, has purchased the Waring Glove Company building on West Monroe .street and will remodel it immediately into a modern, first class theater, having a seating capacity of at least 600. The deal was formally closed this morning, purchase being made from the American Life Insurance Company of Detroit. I ■ M. Albin, vice-president of the insurance company in charge of .real estate completed the trail-j sac t ion. The sale includes the modern brick two story factory building, located on a lot 50 by 132 feet. The building itself is 44 by 100 feet. It was one of tlie largest real estate deals completed i ' this ! city, since 1928. Tlie price was ' not divulged. Mr. Kalver stated this morning that the building was well adapt 'd to a moving picture theater. The width and height of the structure lends to the general remodeling plan in an excelle it way. Mr. Kalver stated. The theater will continue to be known as the . Adams Theater. The first floor will be lowered and the second floor and post supports now in the building will he removed. There will be a.i expanse between the first floor and ceiling of from 22 to 24 feet. j The front of the building will also be remodeled and a center • entrance made. Rest, smoking and wash rooms for men a?d woI men- will be installed in tlie basement and an office for Mr. Kalver will be built. The interior of the place will (CONTINUED ON PAGE SIX) o WOULD IMPROVE ROAD CROSSING Improvement of Railroad Grade Crossing Under Discussion Indianapolis. Jan. 12. — (U.R.' Inij provement of railroad grade crossings by civil works employes was s under discussion here today by the ! ' state civil works administration j and railway companies. Tentative plans for improvement [ of 219 grade crossings already have been worked out, it was an- j nonneed by William H. Book, state civil works administrator. The work would consist princi- • pally of widening cuts at crossings, j using material to widen shoulders I of road approaches, clearing brush or other things which obstruct a clear view of the track and opening or extending drains at cross- [ ings, Book said. He pointed out the result would add to the safety of motorists. In recommending such projects to county administrators Book pointed out the state's quota of men for CWA employment is already lied and the grade crossing ' . work would have to supplant other plans already approved. Counties in which crossing im- ■ provements were suggested by 1 ON* PAGE* SIX)* * 1

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JUDGE ORDERS ADJOURNMENT UNTIL MONDAY Jury of Twelve Men Obtained Few Minutes Before Noon Today WOMAN S HEALTH BRINGS RECESS Criminal Court Building, Chicago, Jan. 12 tU-P) A jurv was completed at 11:4X a. in. todav Io deterniine the late of Dr. Alice Lindsay Wynekoop charged with as macabre a cri in e as lias startled tlie citv in a decade. Immediately alter tlie jurv liad lieen selected Judge Joseph B. David ordered the trial adjourned until 10 a. m. .Monday. Tlie adjournment was ordered, it was understood, because of the weakened condition of Dr. Wynekoop. Tlie jury, qualified to send the once eminent physician to the electric chair if it finds her guilty of slaying her daughter-in-law. Rheta. was picked as Dr. Wynekoop looked on emotionless, her face more like a death mask than a human countenance. The men chosen to determine the woman's fate range in age from just over the legal limit of 21 to middle age. Some were responsible business men. others had gone through long years of unemployment and only found work with creation of the CWA. The jury was almost equally divided between married and unmarried men. Heeding the exhortations of peppery Judge Joseph B. David , the jury selection was speeded today after four men had been pick ed at the first session. Jurors did not know of the serious physical condition of Dr. Wynekoop. She was carried to the courtroom by bailiffs but the jury was not a witness to this scene. All the jurymen knew of Dr. Wynekoop was that she sat. seldom moving, huddled in a great chair and almost hidden behind the bulk of her counsel. Frank Tyrrell and W. W. Smth. Beside her was her daughter, Catherine. also a physician, caressing her mother's hand from time to time. Dr. Wynekoop was dressed in black which emphasized the deathlike pallor of her face. She wore a black caracul coat thrown about hex shoulders, a black felt hat with bluck veil, a'd black dress. Nearby sat her son. Walker, and her old friend and spiritual counsellor, the Rev. John Henry Hopkins. The adjournment was ordered, it was understood because of the weakened condition of Dr. Wynekoop after the ordeal of two days in court. Her pallor, marked when the trial started yesterday, was j increased today ami she complained to her counsel that she was I "terribly tired." Dr. Wynekoop smiled for tlie irriNTl NT’ET' ON PAGE SIX) “Stagger” Svstem Into Force Monday 'Announcement was authorized today that the “stagger'' system of employment for PWA workers on T T . S. road 27. north of Decatur, will start Monday, weather conditions permitting. It is estimated that 100 to 120 men will work, half ot' the number working each week. Workers on the road will not need to re-register, but new working cards must be filled out. These cards tan be obtained from Doris Stalter. o Hoagland Bank Officers Renamed All officers and directors of the First State Bank of Hoagland were re-elected at a recent meeting ot the stockholders. Directors are John S. Youse, Martin A. Griebel. Henry C. Grotrian. T. John Fackler. John F. Witte, Fred E. Oehler, Fred C. Berning Charles Sorg and Louie Saalfrank. Officers reelected are Martin A. Griebel, president; John S. Youse, first vice-president; Fred C. Brening. second vice-president; Muri Lvbarger, cashier. The annual report of officers was made and It was also announced that the bank’s deposits are now insured for each in I dividual up to $2,500.