Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 32, Number 25, Decatur, Adams County, 29 January 1934 — Page 1

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lUSEACCEPTS Lnatechange |r money bill l er House Approves Jnetary Bill Without | A Record Vote I R. APPROVES I SEX'A I’E CHANGES Lhintfon, Jon. 29.-XU.PJ | house accepted senate in the Roosevelt aoh' ■ todnv. thus completing ■ressioiial action on the Eentous inonelarv meuLlv the signatures <>f Klier Painev and Vice Kident Garner were needEfure the sweeping monetary K sent tn the Wljite House Ee President’s signature. Enn came in tlie house today I ■ the bill was called up under Egjous consent request, with-] ■ dissenting voice to its iniEtc consideration. E bill was approved without Erd vote after a few minutes EcuMion of what the senate j Bdments were. E principal change in the bill Ein th* senate was a three- ■ limitation on stabilization ■ operations Sneaker Rainer.: ■e the session convened, said ■enate changes were accept-1 ■to President Roosevelt, ■airman Somers of the coin■committee at the request of I McFadden, Repn., Pa., op-! Et of the bill sought to ex- 1 ■the changes made in the ' ■ chamber Ben Somers had complete! Explanation. McFadden said; Bte explanations are as clear Brt." ■e members laughed. ■e hill in revised form was ■red unanimously, not a voice ■ raised as the sneaker said ■out objection the senate ■dments are agreed to." Be house took its action on the ■XTIXURT) ON PAGE SIX) rdue University Snecialist Here Bnroe McCown, horticulture ■aiist. Purdue University.'will B Adams Countv Wednesday, ■ary 31. A meeting will be held ■evening at 7:15 in the Monroe ■ School where annle scab and ■rd fertilization will he discussle following men are on the Ad ■County snray ring committee: bain D. Mazelin, Otto D. BieIh. and David J Mazelin. They I meet Mr. McCown at 'the |ty agent's office on the afterI of Wednesday, the 31st. and ■our the county with him. visI orchards in which the spray ■ have sprayed for the past I as well as some other orch- | that have not been sprayed. I- o— AIR Cl AIMS iONROE WOMAN k Rich Dies It Home Os Son Sunday Morning p- Catherine Roth-Rich, 6s. lifeI resident of Monroe, died at the F of her son, Eli Rich. Sunday b:ng at 1:40 o'clock of uremic ping. She had been ill for the I ten days. p Rich was born November p 65 in French township. She harried to Peter Rich in 1887. [Preceded her in death five P ago. [rvivhig are three children, ph c. Rich, Eli Rich, and EdP Rich, all of Monroe: three Pers, Peter D. Roth. Vera Cruz; i A Roth, Phoenix, Ariz: JaJ Roth, Monroe, and eight Mchildren. Four sisters precedU in death. fneral services will be held »day afternoon at one o'clock he Eli Rich home, and at two pk at the Defenseless Menno- | church, west of Berne. Rev. fy Klopfenstein will officiate. Nted by Rev. Vernon Riley. Burrid be made in the church cent- “® b°dy was removed to the ie of Eli Rich from the LobenF Funeral Parlors at Monroe,. pay afternoon.

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I Young Man Dies ■HkH The sudden death of Ishmael W. Macy, an engineer for the Indiana I Public Service Commission, at 1 midnight Sunday at bis home in Indianapolis came as a shock to his many friends here. Mr. Macy: died <»f lobar pneumonia, taking , ill last Tuesday at Peru. Mr. Macy] and family moved to Indianapolis from this city last June. ISHMAEL MACY DIES SUNDAY OF PNEUMONIA — Prominent Young Man Died At Indianapolis Sunday Night SUDDEN DEATH IS GREAT SHOCK Ishmael W. Macy, age 35, prominent Decatur man and engineer for the Indiana Public Service! . Commission, died at midnight! Sunday of lobar pneumonia at his j home. 3715 N. Meridian street, j • Indianapolis. Mr. Macy’s illness was of short • duration and his sudden death - came as a shock to friends and | relatives in this community. Last Tuesday while employed in appraising a utility property at Peru, he suffered a chill. He remained in his hotel room Wedne.- • day and on Thursday was advised by a Peru physician to return to his home. His condition became worse and Thursday night the doctor pronounced his illness lobar | pneumonia. He was placed in an oxygen tent Saturday, but did not I rally to the best of medical treat-1 went extended. His heart became weak and his temnerature went ] below normal. He showed a slight gain however Sunday afternoon. collapsing a few' hours later. d°ath resulting at about 12 o’clock. Mr. Macy gained an enviable reputation through the middlewest as a designer and inventor of conveyors and coal unloading equipment. He was the owner of several patents for the latest Improvements made on coal unloading conveyors and previous to establishing the Macy Convevor Company in this citv was employed as engineer and designer for several of the leading conveyor companies in Indiana and Ohio Graduating from the Decatur I high school in 1916. Mr. Macy entered Purdue University in the] fall of that year where he began his engineering course. While at the university, he was enlisted in the S. A. T. C„ serving in the branch of the Navy until the close of the war. He continued his studies until the end of the scholastic year. For p few ve.irs he was employed by the Godfrey Convevor Co of Elkhart and became a designer of coal unloading equipment. he was employed by the Universal Conveyor Co., of South Bend and in 1926 went with the Galion Iron i (CONTINUED ON PAGE THREE) -0Peterson On Trin To Waring Plantation Cal E. Peterson, administrator for the L. C. Waring estate. .est this morning for Columbus. Miss., to : look after business pertaining to th? Waring plantation there. He was accompanied by four Decatur men who will be employed to paint , and repair the several buildings on the place. The men are Arthur Hall Will Dillinger, Bob Brandyberry, | laud T. L. Becker.

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GANG WAIVES EXTRADITION TO WISCONSIN Four Members of Dillinger (Jang Waive Extradition Today INDIAN A TO PUT UP FIGHT FOR MEN Tucson, Aril., Jan. 29— U.R) Neither Wisconsin nor Indiana authorities will be given custody of the Dillinger band of alleged bank robbers until rewards totalling several thousand dollars are paid, local authorities said today in declining to accept waivers of extradition, signed by the accused men. Tucson, Ariz., Jan. 29— <U.R> — Four membars of the notorious Dillinger gang of accused hank robbers today waived extradition to Wisconsin. Authorities regarded the move 1 as an admission by the suspects that they would he convicted on ! charges of bank robbery in that state and escape prosecution for the alleged murder of a police officer in Indiana. Meanwhile, Indiana authorities, headed by Attorney General Phil lip Lutz, prepared a vigorous fight to contest Wisconsin's move for ! the prisoners. Armed with requi- ! sition papers. Lutz flew to PhoeI nix where he was to interview Governor B. B. Moeur. Moeur j was said to have agreed previous ly to relinquish the prisoners tc Indiana where they are wanted on charges of murdering several po liecemen in addition to bank rob I bery. Couxictivu ol murder ip Indiana carries a maximum penalty ol 1 death in the electric chair Ohio was interested in Indiana obtaining custody of Dillinger and his confederates. Capt. Matt Leach of the Indiana state police I said he also represented Ohio in j the case and denied reports the | two states had quarreled over the prisoners. The gang is accused (CONTINUED ON I'AGE THREE) o FARMER FOUND DEAD SATURDAY C h a r 1 e s W. Warthman Found Dead On Farm Near Craigville Bluffton, Jan. 29 — (Special) — The lifeless body of Charles W. Warthman. 68. farmer, was found Saturday evening by a grandson on a farm which he owned, located one and one-half miles north and three-fourths mile east of Craigville. Warthman had gone to the farm on (Friday evening from another farm on which he lived alone. He had been dead about 24 hours. Coroner William Thoma was called to investigate and attributed death to heart disease. Born on April 2, 1865, the d«- ' ceased was a son of Rufus and , Margaret Kempfer-Warthman. His marriage to Emma Abbott was solemnized in Ohio on July 24. 1886. She preceded him in death on May 10, 1910. Surviving are nine children: Wilbur and Ford Warthman. Mrs. Ethel Graham, near Craigville; Zetta Warthman. Craigville; Chancey Warthman, near Markle: Mrs. Louise Weigman, John (CONTINUED ON PAGE THREE) — —o Severe Cold Weather Hits Decatur Sunday Decatur and vicinity suffered from the first cold wave of 1934 Sunday night and today. The sudden change started Sunday afternoon and by nightfall thermometers registered drops of a number of degrees witnin a few hours. Street thermometers registered 3 above zero at midnight and at 8 o’clock this morning were just at zero. At 1 o’clock this afternoon. the temperature had raised 10 degrees. The sudden change caused the flooring on the river bridge at the north edge of Decatur to "buckle in two or three sections. The I damaged places were being repaired this afternoon.

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Dillinger and Aid Under Arrest I •err B| JLI T ' ' * • =• " .. II John Dillinger (left), gang leader wanted in several state for murder and bank robbery, and Charley lt : Makley, a member of the gang, ns they appeared after their arrest at Tucson, Arizona. ,

' PLAN BLOCKADE I , OF STATE ROADS i- j I ' State Police Will Operate Permanent Blockade o System n i j-i Indianapolis, Jan. 29.—(U.R) — A 1 >• permanent state police road blockade system will be placed ic oper a ation iu Indiana this week, with ,f secrecy surrounding all activities. •it was announced today by Al G. a Feeney, state director of public l ’ safety. I Feeney announced plans for the ° blockade shortly before he left for II Washington where he will outline p the system to J. Edgar Hoover, die i rector of the bureau of Investiga--1 tion of the department of justice. * The blockade was established last fall, shortly after ten prisoners escaped from the state prison lat Michigan City, a d is believed by authorities to have curbed crim- * iual activities. 1 Under the new program a special I flying squadron of picked state policemen will be detailed for the road blockade under personal direc I tion of the safety director. "I will be the only one to knew the location of the daily blockade. t Not even the sheriff of the county where we set up the barrier will - know about it until a few minutes before we place it in operation," fl Feeney said. a One-half the width of the road will be blocked with sandbags and II wooden barricades, allowing motorists to pass si ’gle-flle after being e inspected and questioned by the 8 policemen. e o d ■ FEAR BREMER ; IS MURDERED * s Bremer Family Still Confident of Safety of Kidnaped Man — : St. Paul. Jan. 29.— (U.R) 1 — Police : today feared they “may have a : murder instead of a kidnaping’’ to t solve in the 13-day disappears ce ' of Edward G. Bremer, 36, banker and son of Adolph Bremer, wealthy friend of President Roosevelt. While still leaving all lanes open r for the Bremer family to negotiate with the men believed to have ab--1 ducted the young banker, police * started quiet Investigations of * every unexplained discovery of a f violent death in the midwest in last '■ 13 days. 1 In only one other abdu'etion. the ' v kidnaping of the infant so ’ of Colonel Charles A. Lindbergh, Jr., has ’so long a period elapsed between ’ receipt of the first ransom note and agreement on a ransom payment. In the Lindbergh case, the victim was killed. Despite the receipt by the Brem--3 er family and friends of dozens of " notes and telephone contacts, po " lice said that oHy the first note ' was genuine. It was believed that ] On’pAGE THREE)’ J

Decatur, Indiana, Monday, January 29, 1934.

Noted Rotarian Will Speak Here The members of the Decatur Ro- ; tary Club f -el highly honored be’- | I cause of the fact that the local Club 1 is one of only ten clubs in Indiana which will have the pleasure of hearing Janies 11. Roth, the ssere- ] tariat of Rotary international which provides service to Rotary Clubs in Latin America. Mr. Roth will be the guest speak r at Thursday evening's meeting. Rotarian Roth served as special commissioner of Rotary International in Spain, Portugal and Latin 'America from 1925 to 1933. He organized ths first Rotary clubs in Portugal. CTilumbia, Ecuador. San Salvadore, Paraguay. Costa Rica and Peru. He is a native of California and previous to his affiliation with Rotary International was the consular service of the United States in Ecuador. Peru ami Brazil for a period of ten years. M.F.BURKHEAD DEATH’S VICTIM Aged Adams County Resident Dies At Infirmary Today M. F. Burkhead. 79, life long resident of Adams county, died at the County infirmary, this morning at 9 o'clock following a three year's illness of dropsy. The deceased had been a laborer, but for the past three years was an inmate of the infirmary. H? was born in Adams county, November 2. 1854, a son of John and Sarah Anu Burkhead. His wife Amanda preceded him in death four years ago. Surviving ar the following children: John Burkhead. Decatur; Ona Hines, Portland: Mrs. Pearl Ballard. Sturgis, Mich., Ed Burkhead, • Lafayette. Martin Burkhead, Howe iJesse Burkhead, Fort Wayne, and the following brothers and sisters: Mrs. Lib Johnson, Decatur; Mrs. Martha Beery, Tocsin; Mrs. Mary , Burr, Kalamazoo, Mich.; Frank Burkhead and Mrs. Drud Miller of I Los Angeles, Calif. Ths body was removed to the S. Black Funeral home where it will remain until one 'O'clock Wednesday afternoon. The funeral will be held at 1:30 o'clock Wednesday afternoon at the County infrmary with Rev. Charles J. Roberts, pastor of the United Brethren church officiating. Burial will be made in the Ray Ceme- ; i tery. west of Monroe. Disastrous Fire In North Carolina Wrightsville. Beach, N. C.. Jan. 29 —'(UP) —‘Smouldering, charred ruins extended over the entire northern portion of this summer playground today, evidence of the fury of the wind-driven conflagration that destroyed more than sl.500 000 property. The oceanic hotel, one of the south’s oldest and finest bosteleries. was-destroyed along with the . I entire boardwalk and 108 homes] | and cottages. I

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COUNTY AGENT GETS SUPPLIES Corn-Hog Training Meetings Will Be Held Wednesday, January 31 All the supplies in regard to the I corn-hog work have been received 1 in the county agent's office. Training meetings for the township committeemen will be held Wednesday January 31. The committee from the north six townships will meet at 9 A. M. at the Decatur high 1 school building, and the committeemen front the south six townships ] will meet at 1 P. M. in the town hall at Berne. Following the instructions given them, each will prepare the 1 papers pertaining to his own farm. The directions for filling in the i work sheet, map, and form for en-1 tering supporting evidence on hogs marketed will reach the torn-hog producers of Adams County in their | Wednesday mail. A second serks of educational meetings will be arranged, beginning the latter part of this week and ON PAOE FIVE) 1 1 Noah Rich Will Be Trustee Candidate Noah Rich, trustee of Monroe township, announced today that he t would be a candidate for the Dem- < ocratic nomination for trustee of his township. Mr. Rich was elected e in 1930 and assumed office in 1931. < He is a well known democrat and * has made a good record in the of- ' fice. ' ■ t GREAT DAMAGE : DONE BY FIRE: C i r Anderson Building Burns e With Loss Os Million r Dollars c < Anderson, Ind., Jan. 29—(U.R) — t The Citizens Bank building, hous- t ing the telephone company, a de- S partment store and approximately 1 100 offices was almost totally de- 7 stroyed by fire today. i Loss was estimated at more] than $1,000,000. ' t The two story building on Main e street was completely destroyed, j Telephone communication was disrupted, street car service was halted and two firemen were tak- J en to the hospital. High winds, zero weather and an insufficient water supply greatly hindered efforts of firemen to halt the blaze. . Anderson firemen, fearing the , , fire would spread to many other buildings, obtained assistance of f the Muncie department. , The fire started in the base- : ment of the Fair store, located on ( the main floor of the bank build- ( ing. t Telephone company officials es- , i timated their loss in equipment ] ( ’ ON PAGE THREE) ’

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JUDGE DEVOSS TO LEAD GRAND MARCH AT BALL Judge And Mrs. Huber De Voss Lead Grand March Tuesday HEAVY ADVANCE SALE OF TICKETS Judge and Mrs. 11. M. DeVoss will lead the grand march at the Birthday ball tor the President to be held Tuesday night at the Decatur Country club in the nationwide observance of President Roosevelt’s 52nd birthday. A patriotic presentation will !><■ Birthday Ball tor the President to be held in connection witli the grand march. A group of young girls, dressed as Uncle Sam and Martha Washington will escort Judge ami Mts. De Voss and the dancers in, the opening march. The members of the group are' , Misses Helena Rayl. Martha Erma Butler, Barbara Krick, Marjorie’ Carroll, Mary Margaret Klepper and Ruth Voglewede. Music will tie furnished by Earl Gardner's famous 10 piece orchestra and a floor show will be pre sented at 11 o’clock by a company ’ of 13 men and women. All arrangements for the big event were completed today by the various chairmen and committees and one of the largest crowds that ever attended asocial affair is expected. Mrs. C. (). Porter, chairman on arrangements stated that the grand march would be held at nine o’clock. Dan Tyndall, chairman of the ticket committee, stated that the sale of tickets was exceptionally good and that he expected a “sell out” before Tuesday evening. Solicitors will turn in their tickets this evening and those who wish to purchase them before the dance can do so at the following places, Daily Democrat office, Omlor’s Confectionery. Green Kettle, Mr. Tyndall. I. Bernstein or N. R. Holthouse, general chairman for tlie ball. Bridge tickets can also lie pur(CONITINUED ON PAGE FIVE) F. J. SCHMITT FOR SHERIFF Francis Schmitt Announces Candidacv For Sheriff's Race Politics started off this week with the announcement that Francis J. Schmitt, well known local citizen and manager of the Decatur Rendering Co., would be a candidate for the Democratic nomination for Sheriff of Adams County. Mr. Schmitt announced today that he would enter the primary and seek the democratic nomination for Sheriff. Mr. Schmitt is the first man to announce his candidacy for this office. Several other men have been mentioned as prospective candidates and it is expected that the race will be one of the most interesting ones in the primary. So far only two men have announced their candidacy for county offices. Last week G. Remy Bierly of Hartford township announced that he would seek the democratic nomination for county clerk. Since the final date for filing dec- : larations does not expire until April 7, many are .expected to announce in this next 60 days. Mr. Schmitt is well known throughout the county. Besides operating the local rendering company he is engaged in farming. — O ■ ■' • — Eight Christian Converts Slain Nairobi. Britisli East Africa, Jan. 29—<U.R>—Eight native Christian converts were killed and many were injured in a tribal dispute over religion, which was settled only today by the intervention of the authorities. Two villages were burned north of the Gulf of Kavirondo, after a dispute arose between the Christians and members of a new sect who claimed to have a “Massiah” | of their own who could raise men from the dead.

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ELEVEN LIVES REPORTED LOST OVER COUNTRY Temperatures Drop 55 Degrees In Twelve Hour Period SIX REPORTED DEAD IN CHICAGO By U ited Press A bitter January cold wave buffeted two-thirds of the United States today. Temperatures dropped as much as 55 degrees in 12 hours. Subzero marks were recorded. High winds made the sudden change more acute. The storm took at least eleven lives. Six persons diet! of exposure in Chicago. A man was killed in Milwaukee by a tall (in an icy sidewalk and a .similar accidei.t led io a fatality 1 in Indianapolis. Three persons an aged rancher, his daughter and iter small son were frozen to death in a blizzard near Winnipegosis, Mail. Airplane travel was halted and railroads reported that even trains were slowed by a wind which at times reached a 70-mile an hour velocity. Pitiable conditions were reported by charttable organizations as thousa (is of families, tempted by recent spring-like weather to delay requests for fuel, stormed relief agencies with pleas for coal and clothing. Nine firemen were injured in New York, in fighting a fire which destroyed a group ot frame buildings. the fight arena a : d several concessions stands at Golden City Park, an amusement center in Brooklyn. The flaming side wall ot' a frame building fell on them. The temperature drop over an area more thap 2.000 miles square was spectacular in its suddenness. Sweeping down from the interior of Alaska and the Canadian northwest. the wic.d brought the mercury from 44 degrees above zero yesterday morning in Chicago, to exactly zero 12 hours later and to 9 below this morning. Only a few hours later the gale struck eastern states. Telephone poles were blowju down in Ohio as the temperature l sank to 3 alaive. Scow squalls struck Detroit and in Escanaba, in the upper Michigan peninsula, the temperature was IS below. Massachusetts had a 53-degree , temperature drop in 18 hours, typical ot' reports throughout New England. Government weather observers said that the cold would not last long, probably moderating slightly by tomorrow. At Superior, Wis., the mercury skidded from 28 above zero Saturday to 25 below today. Indianapolis, Ind.. Jan. 29 —(UP) With temperatures ranging from five below zero to six above, Indiana experienced its first cold wave, of 1934 today. The cold was swept into the state (CONITINVED ON PAGE FIVEi — o • ADAMS COUNTY RESIDENT DIES George Zehr, 91, Died Sunday Afternoon At Home Os Daughter Berne, Jan. 29 — (Special) — George Kehr, 91, oldeet resident of south part of Adams county, died at the home of his daughter, Mrs. Ed Beigler in Hartford township, Sunday afternoon at four o’clock. Death was caused by hemorrhage. The deceased was born in Germany. November 11, 1842 and came ] to the vicinity of Berne in 1866. He was married to Lydia Roth in 1872. j Surviving are tile following children: Christian Zehr. Berne; David Zehr, Decatur; Javob Zehr, Ohio; Mrs. Ed Beigler. Linn Grove; Amos Zehr, Vi'oodburti; Simon Zehr, New Haven; William Zehr, Williams. Minn., and a brother, Christian Zehr of Illinois. The wife and three daughters preceded him in death. Funeral services will be held Wednesday morning at 9:30 o'clock at the Beigler home and at 10 o’- ! clock at the Defenseless Mennonite church, west of Berne. Burial will be made in the church cemetery.