Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 32, Number 67, Decatur, Adams County, 17 March 1934 — Page 1

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MAKLEY TO BE SENTENCED TO DEATH

reams Enter Semi-Finals In State Tourney

Testers peg tew and M IN FINALS ■noon Game Between Er Team* Will Decide I Kunners-1 p Etfokd city I LOST this a. m. Ijjanapolis Mar. 17.—-W- R, j ■ransp"it. Jasper, lechKs Indianapolis and Jet - ■nvillt'entered the senii■oundot th< Indiana state ■school basketball touriia- ■ today. ■the two games this afteric determine the tinal- | Logansport is paired ■st Jasper and Technical Kt .Jeffersonville. ■ big powerful Logansport ■iminatwl Hartford City in the '■ K finals this a. tn., 21 to 12. ■ ilrtea’osl Richmond. 1# to ■cl! brat Hammond. 30 to 20. Kgersonolle dvfeal*l la-ban ■H„. four .-ano remaining in Lning Jasper is the smallest, ■hers ate blest with at least ■ plajers each six. feet tall or jerwasthe only team extend ' the quarter tinal round. The B! southern Indiana teaml tme a Richmond lead and j brilliantly during the last. gri<sl' Bnsport and’ Tim h remained ; hr« to enter the semi final| lon the basis of their play h its overwhelming victory , Lebanon, b ffersonville earn e title of "tournament dark Today s Games iMjrsilis Mar. 17 — (U.R) - the ■«<> outstanding favormill contenders. second play in the finals of the u state high school baskettournament started Imre to-; •of the favorites, Logans tn-: llartfo.d City in tl.e tame of th-' morning. t her favorite. Indianapolis opposed Hammond this it is coached by Tim Caripa broth;r of “Spnd'* Cntupn£ih of the Hammond five, er second round games were r vs Richmond and JeffersonVS Lebanon. it round games yesterday culminated with Jefferson thrilling Id to 28 victory Wabash In the first half the lead changed hands times Wabash led during I of the Ust half but Jetfer Be pttt on a winning rally in ' M feu miantes. the firsl of the two gaiu-f ti tost night. Lebanon pulledIbtinurd on page st x> o —— —- Os Candidates Continues To Grow f latest candidates to file declarations of candidacy I County Clerk Milton <’. Werirlev Nenenschwander. Demo commht“eman of Rerne li tour I) Cnversaw, Repuhli fcosecuting attorney, btibach. Democrat, trustee •rtford township. toil E. Roop, Democrat, conn-1 icveyor. rl «y \V. Ward, trustee of township, Jitur H. Bicberich. Democrat, 'V treasurer. *’ lst F. Baker. Republican, *°f Hartford township. uhrtnan. Democrat, trustee "inngton township. tenee Heiman. Democrat. • lf man. North Washington. Nenenschwander, Demoomntitte Pnian Berne b. “ r< Manlier. Democrat. °t Union township. 7 Pieman. Democrat, trns "Root township. °i'l A. Seesenguth, Demo-1 xc Pn ' 1 '°wnship trustee co t-i ’ High. Democrat. Hha c «Vr DRhip tv treasurer y ’ nemoprat " democrat, com-. man - East Root.

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DILLINGER HAS. NOT BEEN SEEN IN MAN HUNT Officers Patrol Border and Set Up Road Blockades To Prevent Escape MICHIGAN SHERIFFS ARE RECOVERING Port Huron. With.. Mar. 17. (UR) Both side.-. of the interna I tional bound.ny were Idovkt-d >t>day in a new manhunt for John , Dillinger, notorious outlaw, follow , ing the grocery store gun l-uttle in which his negro companion. 1 Herbert Youngblood. and Under sheriff Charles Cavanagh were killed. Nearly 500 peace officers were concentrated in the surroundin' ■■thumb” sec* ion of Michigan, blockading ali roads, stopping ami senr<hing each automobile within a 50-mile radius of the city. The intensive vigil was maintained after Youngblood. dying from seven bullet wounds, said In a hospital hen- yesterday that Dillinger and three other men accompanied him here following thwooden pistol jail break at Crown point. Ind Dillinger's negro pal die d 'shooting it out” with three ofli<ers in a small grocery store owned by Mi's. Pearl Abraham, on the outskirts of Port Huron. Youngblood. mortally wounded < avanagli, ami shot two other officers and a negro store employe. Deputy Sheriff liuuaud. Luhc was in critha! condition with art abdominal wound. Sheriff William Van Antwerp and Eugene Field:, son of the store owner, suffered minor arm wounds It remained for another negro. Fields, Io foil Youngblood's efforts ’o shoot his way out. Fields, wounded In the shoulder, picked up a pistol on tin- floor after Youngblood had wounded the three officers, and fired two bill < CONTINUED ON PAGE Sixt MATHERS'TRIAL SETAPRIL27 Youth Charged With Murder Os Rev. Saunders To Be Tried Indianapois, March 17. — (U.R> — Trial of Theodore 'Mathers. 19. charged wth the murder of Gaylord V’. Saunders, former Wabash minister. had been set for April 27 today after two alienists reported the , youth sane. The trial date was set by Judge i Frank P. Baker in Marion county criminal court late yesterday im- | mediately after the alienists. Dr. E. I Roger Smith and Dr. Murray Dear i monfl made their report. Matters is charged witih slaying the resigned pastor, his roommate I and schoolmate at an Indianapolis embalming school, in a conspiracy with Mrs. Nioma Sattndere. 35. the slain man’s widow, and Masil Roe. 19 Mrs. Saunders will be tried on a murder charge after completion of I Mathers’ trial, Judge Baker said Roe. former schoolmate of Mathers lat Coalmont high school, will he I tried later. Mathers was arrested anti charg led with the actual slaying after j ■ Saunders’ body was found with a I bullet hole through the head in the j I latter’s parked car here Feb. 2. Police said Mathers confessed and implicated Mrs. Saunders and Roe The sanity examination was made at the request of Judson L. Star’k. I attorney Mr Mathers Two Workmen Die In Vat Explosion Paris, March 17 —(DPI I — Two i workmen were killed today when a vat exploded at an alcohol factory at St. Malxent. The workmen were alone in the shed where the explosion occurred | Normally 3b men wort; there, and ‘ early reporta were that all had been killed. Twenty-eight, it developed, had left the building just before the explosion.

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Instill and Brother to Be Returned to U. S. ’ —•— --WTsx-W. ' fl w j f 9 k. .. , ■■■■■»»..- . ’ ■ s.- .. ■> Left to right: Martin Insnil. Mrs. Samuel Instill Sr. and Samuel Instill Sr. Martin Insull's extradition to Chicago from Canada was upheld Friday by the appeal court of Ontario, Canada, and it is expected he will be returned to Chicago immediately to face a charge of embezzling more than $500.00(1, from the Middle West Utilities Co. Samuel Instill ST. was located on board a freighter bound for Egypt after his flight front Greece. The Greek government announced that Instill would be returned to Greece ami then < xpelled directly to the United States. Mrs. Samuel Instill, wife of fallen utilities czar, fainted twice while being grilled on the whereabouts of her husband Site has been ordered deported from Greece.

SCHOOLSWILL GIVE CANTATA Seven Rural High SchoolsWill Present Cantala At Berne Friday The seven rural high schools ot Adams county will give an Eastei cantata al the Menhonite churyh in Berne. Friday night. March 23. beginning at 7: 15 o’clock. The program tollows: Organ prelude Mrs Leeter Kerr Invocalion Rev. (’. H. Suehatt Chorus "Joyous Morn" by Ashford directed by Mrs. Velma Fort ney. Pleasant Mills. Chorus "My Faith Looks Up to Thee" by Daniel Protheroe directeu by Robert White, Kirkland and Monmouth. Violin solo Floyd Johnson chorus "Angles Roll ths Rock Away” by Prind’.e Scott-direct ed by Miss Dorothy Sprunger, Monroe. Chorus "Ring Out! Christ is Risen” by John Prindle Snott —directed by Miss Esther Hutton. Geneva. Solo —“Open the Gates of the Temple" Miss Mina Collier. Jefferson. Chello solo Irene Girod. Kirkland Chorus --"Rejoice and Be (>lad Directed by Mrs. Ruth Mahoney. Hartford. Bass solo "Ride On In Majesty" - David Kunkel. Monmouth. "Go to Dark Guthesemne" Chorus (CONTINI'RD ON PAGE SIX) CWA PAYROLL TOTALS $3,7T1 Lay Offs For Next Few Weeks Overcome by Employment on Homestead The local CWA payroll for the i week ending March 15. totaled $3,777.70; it was announced today. I Since the first of the month 51 men have been laid off each week, on orders received from state CWA headquarters. About 257 men. not including those wno started work on the ' Subsistence Homestiead site project, were employed last week. Men who we.’e on the township relief rolls are employed on the Homestead project and the lay-offs on the CWA list will he overcome by the employment of the township workers. Between 50 and 60 men were working today on the water and i electric light lines. The digging of the trenches for the water pipe started yesterday on south High , street and it is estimated that more than 250 men will be employed on the homestead division I when work gets under full sway.

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Conservation Camps To Be Continued I ; Earl B. Adams, home service kt chairman of the American Re-1 Cross, has received notice of the l continuance ol the civilian coni sc-rvation corps after March 31. ” i Additional war veterans will be I tw Ml varaatiies. the | Indiana quota at a time and pla--to In- announced later. Unemployed veterans, who were honorably discharged front a I i>eriod of war service and who can II qualifj physically, are eligible to >. apply. Veterans who wish to join the I camps are asked to file their r names with Mr. Adams and applications will then lie filed with the 1( department. LOCAL WOMAN'S : MOTHER DIES Mrs. Anna Rebecca Emery, Died This Morning At Memorial Hospital i Mrs. Anna Rebecca Emery, 87, I mother of Mrs. Charles Case of this p ! j city, died at the Adams County Memorial Hospital at 2 o’clock this I morning of complications. Mrs. Emery was born in Ohio. May 11. 184(1 a daughter of Joshua . and Elizabeth McCardle. She was united in marriage to Thomas Em- 1 i cry, who preceded Iter in death a s , number of years ago. She resided in * Ohio until 25 years ago when she I moved Io Monroeville, and later to ; Fort Wayne. | Surviving are three daughters and a son, Mrs. lona Case. Decatur; : Mrs. Cora Harris of Mendon, Onto; f Mrs. Myrtle Orvis of Kenosha Wisconsin; and Ira Emery of Fort’ Wayne. One brother, Lilbcrt Me-; I Cradle of Dixon, Illinois, and a sister, Mrs. Mary Ellen Fisher of Decar I tur, survive, also a number of grand . children and great grandchildren. , [Private funeral services will be' held Monday afternoon at l:30| > I o’clock. Rev. Harry Thompson will j ‘ officiate. The remains may be viewi ed at the S. E. Black Funeral home ■ | on Adan\s street until time for the ) j funeral. o — 1 Decatur Girl Debates On College Team lAda, Ohio, March 17 —(Special) Miss Esther Sunderman of Decatur, i 'lndiana, a senior in Ohio Northern . University here, recently debated , against Capitol University as a > member of title Ohio Northern de- i . bate team. The question was “Capi-' tol Punishment". She has also taken > part in contests against Kent Col-: I lose and Whlttenberg College. : l Miss Sunderman served as secre- . tary to Grave Iztuks Eliot, who was i \ on the campus six days confering t with students with the cooperation j -of the dean. Mrs. Elliot advised the 1 student’s on “Personality Develop- ■ ment."

r LIQUOR LAW IS DECLARED VALID ! | Supreme Court Holds All Phases Os Control Act Constitutional i Indianapolis. .Mar. 17 (U.R) —All phases of the Indiana liquor con , irol act were declared constitution al late yesterday in a decision of . the state supreme court. The decision automatically quashed a Lake county Superior court > injunction held by Abe Rosen, tin licensed Gary beer wholesaler, re ’ straining county, and state enforce ment officers from interfering with his business. The case was appealed Io Ihe Supreme court by the state after Rosen obtained the injunction from 1 Judge Virgil S Reiter of the LakI county court, who held that the i liquor control act, passed by the ,1933 legislature, was unconstitutional. The high court's opinion upheld ■all taxing, licensing and sales re 1 striction provisions of the act. I Rosen had charged that the > licensing and monopolistic features iof the importer’s section of the measure was in restraint of interstate commerce. He termed wide regulatory powers granted Paul P. Fry. state excise director, a usurption tc legislative duties and claim--ed Ihql passage of the state law, to become effective after action of, • CONTINUED ON PAGE SEVEN RICKENDACHER l CAUSES STIR I Famous Ace Infers President Was 111 Advised In Air Mail Decision Washington, Mar. 17— (U.R) —' | Capt. Eddie Rickenbacker, famous i war-time ace. told the senate post-' office committee today that President Roosevelt had been lead by, “traitorous elements in his ofl'i-1 cial family” to act “contrary to! American principles" in cancelling private airmail contracts and | ordering the army to fly the mail. I Before completing a prepared ■ statement, Rickcntacker was interrupted by Chairman Kenneth D. McMellar. D.. Tenn., who told | him sharply that he could not be < j permitted to “attack the Pres!-1 ! dent or make a political speech.” McKellar’s action touched off a i dispute among committeemen and J Rickenbacker finally retired from I 1 the room while spectators and Senators M. M. I-ogan. D.. Ky., and Warren W. Barbour, R., N. J.. npoiauded. “I think I’ve earned my heritage :to American cittzenship,” Rickert-1 j ’(CONTINUED ON PAGE THREE)

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GREECE DECIDES TO LET INSULL GO HIS WAY Government, Harressed By Public Opinion Refuses To Hold American BROTHER MARTIN IN TORONTO JAIL * Athens. Mar. 17 (U.R) The Greek government, surrendering to the amazing resist; nee of Saniut I It- till, fugitive t’liicago financier, igainst efforts to deport him to America, agreed today to give him his traveling, papers and let him I-.ail away on the steamer Maioli-.. The government’s decision in a I eomitlicated international situation was materially influenced by I a strong public opinion which had viewed Insull's battles for liberty with admiration. His last desperate attempt to evade the deportation order, when he escaped a police guard and ; dashed through tlic Mediterranean ■ on the Maiotis. only to be ordered back Io Greece by highly indig nanl officials, brought the aged multimillionaire further sympathy. Instill remaim d aboard the MaiotU after his return to the harbor of Piraeus, and will stayon board. sA'luded, until the steamer leaves tomorrow morning. The Maiotis, hurrying back to: the harbor of Piraeus after wireless messages had flashed through lite air ami a destroyer sent in pursuit, brought the fugitive back to Greek jurisdiction touay. A strong flotilla of naval eraft, headed by the patrol boat Paralos. iiret the Maic is at the entrance to the port and escorted it the remaining six miles to shore. Exeitena-nt tn the harbor was at fever pitch. Strong patrols of sailors were- thrown around the - docks and offices of -lie harbor i ’ master MeanwliHe. flu- government ; tCONTINTTFm ON PAGE SIXt HOPE TO AVERT AOTOSTRIKE Manufacturers Seek Means To Prevent TieUp Os Industry’ Washington, Mar. 17. — (U.R> —Industry’s ability to govern itself was | put to the test today as automobile ! manufacturers sought some means of averting a crisis with labor. The situation held implications of maji or import to the entire NRA setup and the President's recovery program. Upon the shoulders of the three 1 man code authority of the automobile industry was placed responsibility for settling its long-festering labor dispute which today reached ’ the point where the American Federation of Labor had ordered 75.01*0 tnen to strike. It seemed likely, however, that i some manner of solution would be , reached, probably on the basis of I appointment of a mediation board, whose findings would be agreed to by all parties. Though no direct , word came from the President, it : was believed he was taking a hand in the situation behind the scenes. William S. Collins, A. F. of L.. : organizer said the strike would start Wednesday if agreement has j not been reached. The serious nature of the crisis 1 i lay not alone in the effects the walkout might have on the revived business of the specific General Motors and Hudson motor car j plants involved. Once started, it is feared labor's direct-action tactics I ** GCINTrNI'Eti ON PAGE OTXV o St. Patrick’s Day Observed Quietly St. Patrick’s Day was observed today by the “wearing of tihe Green." No public observance was held, : however. The local Tri Kappa sori ority sold shamrocks throughout i the business district today, the pro- | ceeds from he sale to be used for charity. 1

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Dillinger Pal Slain If' Ip ■ % i M I vA« Herbert Youngblood. Negro murderer who escaped with John Dillinger front the Crown Point. Ind., jail was fatally wounded Frjday in a desperate gun battle! al South Port Huron. Mich. He shot the sheriff and wounded two : of his deputies before being subdued. Dillinger was in the vicinity at the time. PURPOSESOF COMPANY GIVEN Functions of Productive Loan Ass’n, Are Received By Local Office Fred Schurger, director from Adams county, of the Muncie Productive Loan Association has received additional information concerning I the functions of the organization. ’I Its purpose is to aid general agri- ' culture. Including the producing ami harvesting of crops; breeding raising, and fattening of livestock: production of poultry and livestock products. To obtain a loan the borrowers must offer acceptable security to. buy voting stock in, and become members of, a hx-al production i credit association, of a value equal - I to about 5 per cent of the money borrowed. The association is chartered under the Farm Credit Act of 1933 by the Governor of the Farm ■ Credit Administration. It is super- . vised and regulated by the produci five credit corporation of the dis-i trict. A loan to any one farmer may , not exceed 20 per cent of the combined capital and guaranty fund of the association unless the collateral is approved by the production credit corporation. With such ap- ; proval of the collateral, a loan may be made in an amount not exceed ing 50 per cent of the combined capital and guaranty fund of the association. No loans for less than j SSO are made. Almost all loans are made with maturities not exceeding one year. The maturity of a- loan will approximate the marketing period of the crop or livestock financed by the loan. Primary security must be a first : mortgage lien on personal property. | such as livestock, implements, and , i crops. Real estate liens are ac-. I ceptable only as secondary secur- ’ ’(CGNTINT-En GN T’AGE RtX> 0 Mosure Files With Secretary Os State —-4—’ Indianapolis, ilnd.. March 17 —j (UP) —Two candidates for congress ■ were among those who filed formal applications for candidacies with the secretary of state yesterday. W. T. Schulte, South Bend Republican, is seeking the congress position from the first district, and A. I J. Hickey. Laporte, A Democrat, is a candidate from the third district.' Among others who filed late yesterday were: John Mosure. D.. Bluffton, state I ! senator, Adams, Welts, Blackford | I counties.

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FOUND GUILTY IN MURDER OF OHIO SHERIFF Second Member of Dillinger Gang Guilty of First Degree Murder JURY DID NOT RECOMMEND MERCY Limit, 0., Mar. 17. Charles Maklex todav was found guiltv on a charge of firsl decree murder in the slaving of Sheriff Jesse 1.. Sarber anti will be sentenced (o i lea th. The im v, which resumed deliberation this morning after receiving the case last i n'ght, did not recommend merev Thu: Makley became the second Dillinger gang.-ter convicted on murder charges growing out of a gangster raid on the jail here last ta to liberate Dillinger. Last week a jury which deliberated barely an hour convicted Harry . Pierpont, alleged "trigger-man” in the raid. Russell Clark, the third < gangster facing the same charge, will go on trial Tuesday. Pierpont will be sentenced to uea’h next week by Judge Emtnit E. Everett Miss Jessie Levy, who served as ; defense counsel in both the Pierpont and Makley cases, indicated she would file a motion for a new trial for both defendants. The jury was composed of It men and one woman. A majority of them were Lima farmers. It received the ease at 9:30 o'clock i last night and deliberated un'il i midnight, when the foreman ani nounced no verdict had been ■ reached. Deliberations were resumed at 9 o'clock this morning. At to o'ctoclr (hr foreman notified the court a verdict > reached. Five Persons Die In Flaming House Memphis, Tenn.. March 17—(UP Five persons burned to death early today when flames wrecked the home of Earl Hammond. The dead included Hammond and : his wife, both about 22; their infant son; Mrs. Hammond's sister. Kitty Kay. 21; and Earl Hammond, Jr., 3. Mrs. Hammond returned home yesterday from the hospital where the son was born. All were sleeping in upstairs bedrooms. —— o— —— Japan To Withdraw From League Soon Tokio, March 17’—(UP) — The government today announced It would deliver to League of Nations headquarters today or Monday notification of its withdrawal from the world tariff truce and from the export and import agreements reached at the 1927 conference. It was explained that the agreements were incompatible with the government's program of exerting increased authority over tariff matters. o Earl Peters V isited In Decatur Today A number of people, including party workers, old Adams county friends and those interested in his candidacy for the Democratic nomination for U. S. Senator call ted on R Earl Peters at the Rice hotel this afternoon. The former state chairman spen: several hours here and besides receiving friends at the hotel, called on officers in the court house and friends around town. C. J. Sterling and J. Henry Hipskituf of Fort Wayne and L>r. Laurie Myers of Monroeville were among those who accompanied Mr. Peters to this city. Is Candidate For Township Assessor Charles L. Estell. today announced his candidacy for the Democratic nomination for assessor of Washington township. Mr. Estell is a farmer and a former deputy assessor. Bulletin Washington, March 17 —(UP—• Army air mall operations will be resumed at one minute past midnight Monday morning In all three i Zones, tjlie war department revealed today.