Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 32, Number 46, Decatur, Adams County, 22 February 1934 — Page 1

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MS DIES 111 CRASH NEAR TOLEDO. OHIO L fatalitv Since Army Eots Took Over Air I Mail Service LfR PLANES ARE ■ forced to land L| riving weutlier Kami the east I<» a v Ep (he ( oiled States Email via ice its fourth a | () in <1 landing in En'hwiei wilds. and curKg| of service in New KgJ ami parts ol the |jplai" living mad helm Chieaeo and Toledo Kj in >1" wo °ds nenr lAe* l ’- E killing Pilot Lieut. Dur ■tlowrv of Milwaukee. Frank Hollenstein was Kj do»n bv tog and haze in C|l clearing near HaydenK pj, but wan uninjured. K planes at Memphis were Kfed by the weather. Th" Kkounil Cleveland plane was Kat Louisville- At Newark K center of the storm area. Kiedules were being maintain Klh the exception of the Kt runs. Kte service pilots, flying to K new assignments, crashed ■ rer- killed before the army ■jetted the mail service Kir night Lieuta. Gene D Ker and Edwin D. White wore ■d In the v re, hare of their Ke near Oakley. Utah. I .lent Kt* Eastman crashed last Fri ■ light near Jerome, Idaho I Crashed in Woods ■abler. 0.. Feb. 22- <U» An Ki plane carrying mall from ■Ko to Toledo crashed in a ■As near here today. The ■t tentatively identified as ■it Durward Lowry of Mil■kee. was killed. lit was the first fatality in the ■hail service since the arm" ■t over the task of flying the ■W'cixrwpr. nv n»r»p> ano ■ - -o hcatur Scouts To Collect Clothing Ifcauir scouts will start tomor- ■ ■noon to collect clothing, ■fate and anything which will p the poor to get along until the p*a revival predicted this sum- ► Tile scouts are doing this on brequest of President Roosevelt they do a “National Good hb scout will have a card of ■tification on the back of which •de will be kept of the donau The drive will continue until Way evening. March 3. A* the scouts will not go out of * dty limits and any persons A*re not reached are asked to "r their donations either at Punt•tfi Jewelry Store or Teeple (Peterson's Clothing Store. • —o UMS FACTOR FAKED KIDNAP Sa v s Factor wed Storv To Win Government Aid Feb. 22—(UP)—The deof three Touhy gangsters, to excape death for the Pbing of John Factor took a ® 4 >c turn today when an accus--6m .? !r ‘ Plice teet >fied that he was l0 -' 8 d by Factor to aid him in , ,ln K a fictitious story of abduc- ™ ‘nd torture. taith SUrpr ' se w ltnese was Basil WtinvT’ rec * ntl F captured in L „. | r . of ,he kidnaping gang as h» .v inat " r an<J Sector of 'he ivm "* fta< ied. Factor said, with Ba r ? »'O,OOO ransom. . A art 3aj() p actor hoped l D ' J ?iTin K the government aid i»i n W,ltion °P alleged kidnapers ®tezt* J 6pr ' M ’ e from a court orch ‘ aaitin M him to England to a,ges of a huge investment

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GENERAL ORDER RECEIVED HERE CWA Office Receives Order Regarding Compensation Claims The local office of the CWA is in receipt of a general order from Washington regarding the provisions under which men working on CWA projects receive compensation in case of injury. Evident-i ly many eases have occurred where men so injured have employed law firms to press their claims. Hurry Thompson, stated. The federal government lias made the granting of compensation to injured CWA employees a very simple matter and all such claims, when just, are handled through the local CWA office. The order follows: ' No claim for legal services or other services rendered in respect t.f a claim for compensation shall be valid unless approved by the commission and the acceptance of any fee or other consideration nr gratuity on account of services so rendered unless approved by the commission and the solicitation of such business on behalf of a lawyer is expressly prohibited. Conviction on violation of thia provision subjects the offender to I punishment hy fine or imprisonment or both. Local administrators are requested to see that this provision of 'he law is given appropriate publicity through the local press ami otherwise and to report violations to the commission." o Methodist Choir To Sing At Fniiefal The m mbers of the adult choir of the Methodist church are to meet Friday morning at 10 o'clock to sing at the funeral of Rev. C. P. Gibbs. SAYS HOOVER APPROVED BIDS Walter F. Brown Savs His Actions Annroved By President Washington, Feb. 22— (U.R) — Former Postmaster General Walter F. Brown today told senate air mail investigators his handling of air mail contracts had the ap- i nroval of former President Hoover. Under the friendly questioning of Republican members ot the senate investigating committee. Brown vigorously defended his award of the contracts which have been cancelled by the Roosevelt administration. Brown also testified that former secretary of the treasury Andrew W. Mellon. R. K. Mellon and W. L. Mellon wrote him “perfunctory” letters urging award of a mail contract to Pittsburgh Aviation Industries, Inc. R. K. and W. L. Mellon were on the comnanv’s hoard of directors. “Somebodv stirred up the directors of that company to bombard me.’’ he said. The*matter was not pursued nV PArtV CTX> —< —o College Prnfe««or Speaks Here Today Prof. William H. Blough of the department of education at Wittenberg College spoke before tne seniors of Decatur high school 'his afternoon. His subject was "Educe tional Guidance.” Prof. Blough is speaking before the senior classes of thirteen high schools in Indiana and Ohio over a space of nine days. Other schools include North, South anti Central of Fort Wayne, and Lancaster. Circle- ( ville Portsmouth. Ironton. Celina, Lorraine. Ashland. Norwalk, and Painesville high spools In Ohio. , V— 0 Men’s Brotherhood Met Last Night The men's brotherhood of the Zion Reformed church met Wed- , nesdav evening in the church. French Quinn gave an interesting, I talk on Abraham Lincoln.

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Smoldering Ruins •*’ A 4 s' yr.?. sE.- wV /j V — —-4*- j'tar ... / The ruins of the infirmary of the Pennsylvania Memorial Home, in which ten feeble' wotm-n relatives of Civil War veterans perished when the frame building was consumed by flames. Only five escaped.

COUPLE ADMITS [ EXTORTION PLOT Man And Wife Admit PhHimngExhwtHHi PU4 Against Doctor South Bend. Ind . Feb. 22. .U.R) —Confessions in the $2,500 extortion plot against Dr. R H. Thomas, local physician, were claimed by police today to have been obtained from Mt. and Mrs. Robert Peterson. Police said Peterson. 33. and his wife, Helen. 22. confessed the extortion attempt, repudiating earlier statements charging the physician with improper advices toward Mrs. Peterson. The couple had beaten, robbed and threatened Dr. Thomas after calling him to their home Tuesday night, police said they were told. The physician was called to the home to attend a sick baby, according to police reports. When he arrived at the home he found Mrs. Peterson alone and she asked for an examination, claiming illness. During the examination the husband allegedly came home and accused the doctor of making advances toward Mrs. Peterson. The physician was choked by Peterson and threatened with death, police were told. Peterson allegedly took S4O from the doctor, forced him to sign a promisory note for $2,000 and a check for $465. The physician then (CONTINUED ON PAGE FIVE) o —»—> TWO ANNOUNCE FOR OFFICES Dennis Striker. Phil Sauer Are Out For ReNomination Following precedent, county commissioners Dennis Striker and Phil Sauer announced toddy that they would seek the democratic nominaton for commissioner from tbeir respective districts. Mr. Striker is serving the third year of his first term on the board. Mr. Sauer began the second year of his first term in January. Mr. Striker ie president of the board this year. It has been customary for a number of y< ars to renominate the com- ■ missioners for a second term and in some cases, a third term has been given a member. Frank Martin, the third member of the board holds over next year, j •f nominated and elected. Mr. Strik-: er will begin his second term next | January and Mr. Sauer will start his January 1. 1936. Mr. Sauer lives in Union township and Mr. Striker lives in the south part of the county. ;

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Decatur, Indiana, Thursday, February 22, IH3I.

Name Speakers For K. Os P. Anniversary State senator Thurman A. Gottschalk. Berne. Jonas Tritch, Fort Wayne, and O. L. Vance, local clothier, will speak at the 76th anniversary observance at the K. of P. home Friday evening. A ffoT tnck slipper will be served at 6 o'clock. Community singing will be led by W. F. Beery and Don Farr. Olh r entertainment will be furnished. Al! Knights ot Pythias and their families and all Pythian sisters and their families are urged to attend. MINTON ENTERS SENATOR RACE Sherman Minton Is Fifth Candidate For Democratic Nomination Indianapolis. Feb. 22. — (U.R) — Sherman Minion. New Albany, public counselor of the Public Service Commission, today announced his candidacy for the Democratic nomination for United States senator. He is the fifth to enter the race. "For some time my name has been mentioned as a possible candidate for the Democratic nomination for the United States senate." he said in a formal statement. "I have decided to become an active candidate after careful consideration. My loyalty to the party dictates that I make no bitter utterance or personal fight against members of my party, and I will not. I staunchly indorse the record and purposes of our state and national administration.” Minton said lie would continue (CONTINUED ON PAGE FOUR)

NOTICES OF CANDIDACY To Be Published in Daily Democrat Beginning Monday, February 26, the Daily Democrat will follow the example of oth T newspapers and publish political announcements in listed form. The list will run not less than four times a week until the day of the election. * • • * • II The charge per candidate for this form of j I J advertising will be $lO from now until elec- | | | tion. This charge applies only to those who I I I are candidates for major county, city or leg- f i I islative offices. Exception is made in the case I | | of township trustees, county commissioners 4 « f and city councl'men The charge for them T f t will be $5.00 from now until election. The I I I charge per week, if announcement is inserted j • | ? later, will be $1.50 per week. 11 ***** Charges for all political advertising, including the printing of campaign cards, is payable in advance as in previous years. ***** A sample of how the listing will appear is shown on page four of today’s paper. . i

BANQUET HERE THIS EVENING Democratic Women To i Hold Washington Day— Dinner Tonight i 8 The Washington day banquet by s the Adams County Democratic Wo--1 man's club to be held at the Evan--1 gelieal church this evening, will be ths prin' ipal feature of the observance of the 202nd birthday anniversary of George Washington. Kietli Johns, secretary of the , state democratic central commit- , tee. will speak at the banquet. <* In observance of the birthday of the Father of Our Country, the mail seiVice did not function today. 1 There were no deliveries of mail either in Decatur or on the rural routes, it being one of the holidays given mail carriers and post office employes by the government. The First State bank was not opened for business because it w p a legal holiday in t'he state. 3 The pubic and parochial schools '■ gave short programs n observance of Washington's birthday and flags '■ were displayed in the -business dis--3 trict as a mark of respect to the '' great founder of American government. —— Morbidity Report Shows Three Cases y. The state’s morbidity report for the week ending February 17, lists 1 two eases of diphtheria in Adams ' county. One case of measles was re- ' ported for the same week. No vases of influenza, scarlet fever or smallpox were reported for the week of February 17.

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TWO SUSPECTS ARRESTED FOR ALLEGED PLOT Plot To Kidnap Union City Banker Disclosed By Police TWO NEGROES ARE HELD BY POLICE Indianapolis Feb. 22 —(UP) — Hershel Gee, 45, negro, third suspect in the attempt to kidnap Elmer Kerr, Union City banker, at Winchester, Monday night, was arrested here today by Indianapois police. He was booked on charges of vagrancy and being a fugitive pendng arrival of Winchester authorities. Winchester, Ind.. Feb. 22.--(U.R) A p'ot to kidnap Elmer Kerr, president of the Commercial Bank of Union City, by luring him to the home here of Janies P. Goodrich. former governor of Indiana, during tlie latter’fi absence, was I announced by police today. Two suspects, both negroes, have been arrested in connection with the plot and police are seeking the third, Herschel Gee. Goodrich's chauffeur, in. Indiana;!-1 olis. it was learned. Those under arrest are Gee's wife and a .man giving his name as John Copeland. Prosecutor Nathan Mendenhall and Sheriff Clem Slack of Ran--1 dolph county, left here today for • la.litUiu.poUs to continue the investigation. In the absence of Hie prosecutor and sheriff it could not be learned immediately whether anv charges had been preferred against the suspects or whether confes{CONTINUED ON PAGE FIVE) ROY GAUNT IS DEATH'S VICTIM Former Decatur Man Dies Wednesday At Irene Byron Sanitarium Roy D. Gaunt, 37, salesman, died at the Irene Bvron Sanitorium north of Fort Wavne. at 7 o’clock Wednesday evening of •überculosis. Mr. Gaunt had been ailing for the past three years, and a year ago was taken to the sanitorium where he had been bedfast. Tlie deceased was born in Adams county. December 12, 1897. the son of Ollie and Clara Gann', both deceased. On June 14. 1919 he was married to Hilda Kern, j who survives together with two children, Kenneth and Peggy Lou, »nd a grandmother. Mrs. Polly Gaunt aged 84, of this city. 'The following brothers and sis»ors also survive: Khlone of Fort Wavne - Wavne. Decatur: Rolland. Flnffton. and Mrs. Mary Pierce of , [ Lynn. Mr. Gaunt lived in this city until . seven years ago when he moved with h's fnmilv to Huntinvton and : then to Fort Wavne. He was a | member of the First Evangelical 1 church of Fort Wavne. Be f ore his death. Mr. Gaunt mad' hi® own funeral arrangei ments, choosing the nasior. funerj a! director, and nail bearers. The men he chose for pall bearers are i Wii'iam Linn. Albert Beery. Earl | Butler Frnest TThrick. Harve Koos I and Harrv Staley. The body will from rCONVTNT'Fn nN PAGE FIVE) Glee Will Broadcast Sunday The Decatur high school mixed , glee clubs will present a musical program over radio station WOWO Sunday night .at 9:30 o’clock, it was announced today by Miss Helen ! Haubold. music director of the high school. The program will consist of [ three numbers by the Glee Clubs, i and a whistling solo to be given by Miss Martha Elizabeth Calland. The | people of Decatur are invited to ; hoar this program.

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FJlingham Named Acting Postmaster Washington, Feb. 22—Announce , ment was made by the post office department Wednesday of the appointment of L. G. Ellingham as acting postmaster at Fort Wayne The new postmaster will take over the <>fflc“ at the close of Ims-1 iness on February 28 from Ernes' (lallemeyer, who offered his resig- i nation to re-engage in privaie bus-I iness. The appointment is by the post- : master general on tlie recommendation of Cong. James I. Farley. BELGIAN KING LAID TO REST THIS MORNING Final Rites Are Held To« day For King Albert I Os Belgium KILLED IN FALL LAST SATURDAY Brussels, Feb. 22.--(U.R) —Belgium, in deepest sorrow, paid final tribute to it’s hero king. At the sharp note of a bugle, there started from the royal palace the funeral procession for Albert I. warrior, statesman, and citizen. The body, on a flag draped gun caisson, was taken to St. Gudule's cathedral for the funeral service, to go thence 'o Laeken, four miles away, for burial In the family vault. Princes, peasants, statesmen, and soldiers were in the long procession with the members of the royal family. Queen Elizabeth, ill of lumbago. and heart broken, was scarcely able to walk to her carriage. It was just after 10 o'clock the bugle note stiffened to attention the throngs massed about the royal square fronting the palace. The king’s body on the caisson had lam in tile palace courtyard since dawn, while 25,000 World War veterans filer! past. Standards fluttered. Marshals and admirals in brilliant uniforms, picked troops of Belgian and allied armies, came to attention. Horses curvetted, in a moment there was stillness again. Then an escort of blue uniformed mounted policemen with white helmets led the cortege around a corner of the square and into a street flanking Ahe palace. The procession started through narrow ways to the medieval gothic pile of St. Gudule's. Six big macK norses drew the caisson. Behind it marched Crown Prince Leopold, who will be made Leopold 111 tomorrow. Erect and youthful looking, he wore the uniform of a (CONTINUED ON PAGE TWO) NINTH MAN IN SHERIFF RACE 1 — George Fosnaugh. Kirkand Townshin. Out For Nomination The race for the democratic nomination for sheriff became a nine point affair with the announcement that George Fosnaugh, Kirkland township farmer had thrown his hat in the arena and would contest for the nomination in the May primary. Mr. Foanaugh has lived in Kirkj land township for six years, moving there from Linn Grove where he resided for nearly 25 years. He came to Indiana from -Illinois in 1905. (Mr. Fosnaugh stated that this was the first time he ever sought political office. He is married and the father of six children. The sheriff's race is one of the most lively of any of the county contests. So far eight other men have announced their candidacy. They arc Dent Baltzell. Samuel Bentz, Joe Colchin. Frank Fortney. Arthur Lehman, Ed Miller. Louis Reiniking, F. J. Schmitt. The candidates have already started to canvass the voters and political gessip has it that others will announce in the near future.

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CONFESSED TO PLOT IN ADLER KIDNAP EFFORT Fred Mayo Commits Suicide In Chicago Jail Cell Today ANOTHER SUSPECT . IS UNDER ARREST Chicago, Feb. 22 —(UP) — James Lacey signed a full confession today, according to police, admitting a part in the attempted kidnap of E- P. Adler, prominent newspaper pubI Is her. The confession followed by a few hours the suicide of Fred Mayo, who also admitted taking part in the daring abduction attempt. Chicago, Feb. 22— <U.R> — One of the most bizarre kidnaping attempts in Chicago police annals was climaxed abruptly loflav when the conf'essed pern<’trator of the i plot hanped h'inse'f in iail, A startling chain of events that started with th<‘ assault iinon and aHeninted k’.'hianini’ of E. P. Ad'er, prominent newspaper publisher, was followed toda? by the suicide of Fred Mayo, who had confessed the abduction attempt. Mayo admitted that he set upon Adler in a loop hotel hallway, hoping to beat him into unconsciousness. drug him ami smuggle h’m to a hide-out in a salesman's sample trunk. Shortly before Mayo's suicide police had arrested James Lacey ot Des Moines, la., whom they suspected as Mayo's accomplice in the daring plot that was frustrated by Adler's vigorous resistance. Lacey denied implication ami Mayo died before he was confronted with the suspect for identification. Mayo had tied a siik scarf over the bars at the top of his cell, knotted it around his neck and (CONTINUED ON PAGE FIVE) ,—o URGES RETURN TO WASHINGTON Secretary of Mar Urges Return To Principles Os Washington Washington, Feb. 22— (U.R) — A return to the principles of George Washington was urged today by Secretcry of War George H. Dern. Speaking at Memorial Continental Hall under the auspices of a number of patriotic societies on the 202nd anniversary of Washington's birth. Dern cited Washington's advice, in his farewell address, In favor of “reasonable preparedness," but said this did not mean the United States should maintain "an overgrown military establishment." “Conscription, or compulsory m’litai v service, despite the physical and moral value of the train- : ing and discipline to the soldier, is repugnant to American ideals." Dern said. "A large standing armv is likewise objectionable, not from the standpoint of cost alone, but also because of the danger that it might usurp the. functions : of the civil government. “It is because of this national sentiment that we have hartllv any standing army at ail. but only a skeleton framework upon which an armv may be built in time of emergency. In numbers we rank with Greece and Portugal. As a great nation, how could we better show the world that we have no (CONTINUED ON PAGE FIVE) o , Pep Chanins To Snonsor Movie The Pep Champs of Decatur high school will sponsor a movie on FeH)rttary 28 and March 1. at the Cort theater. The play will he “Advice to the Lovelorn. ” with Lee Tracy. The tickets are selling for ten and fifteen cents, ani the money derived from the benefit will be used to pay for the band tickets which enable band members to attend the basketball games and play for them.