Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 32, Number 79, Decatur, Adams County, 31 March 1934 — Page 1

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■URCHES WILL | (serve feast IaSTER SUNDAY K.»iric Preparation# i r , Being Made For | Celebration fcpRKDS ATTEND* I'sEKMCES FRIDAY 1— — * ■ ■ E ASTtrt SERVICES I 4 list Hi Mi*' program* and ■ , ial Kiim.t service* to he Ein ih.' Decatur ch«rch»«i I ■u„da> "ill he found on page lj,i today's Issu** of the | ftulv Democrat. 1 ♦ ■jt \. w iil c »re|Miralit»ns ft,. (H'iii!' mad** ttHlov to ftbnitr Hie jnvful feast of Bier, rliiiri'li services |>n*B)inatiiiU in llte tiltservitiwe B|ir holitliiv. Bvcn church in the citv B Imlil special services, heBiiiiu \\ tilt sunrise services Bln* tin'i'll in l ! nntl ending l Biama' i- ami program* Ip the nil! deliver discourses CTk,.. i 1,. lion of Christ from IjMiih and their messages will Bnr<! V. it h 'he joyful tidings E? has risen." Bandoy afternoon a cantata will Eiren ai the Methodist church Khs Prop-t.nit churches of the ■toirs will sing special Raster Kns ami a celebration of the El! feast (lay will Ih* preyalent Lghout the day. Endreils . f people participated ■he Good Friday services held It he city yesterday. A union ■rice of the Protestant churcKes ft held at the Methodist church | L 12 to :i o'clock, the ministers ■the different churches partici- ( In. T..iks and discourses on list s passion and death on the . les and on the seven last words Iken by Jesus were given by , I ministers. It St. Marys Catholic church I entire congregation attended ■OKTINUWn ON PAGE TWO* DAN OFFICERS AT FORT WAYNE I —r katurMen Attend Meeting of Farm Loan Association Friday I Hurt Lenhart, secretary-lrea r- and Schttrger, inveeti- |° r the National Pa nil Loan pociation in Adams county atll**d a meeting of secret ary trear* of Northern Indiana at Fort Bne yesterday Where the bond kram was expained. They were rmpanied by Theodore (iraliker, pier of the First State Bank of Far and Rimer Baumgartner, pier of the Bank of Berne. •! I«er D Branigln, general conn [ of the loan company, explained 1 | bonds. Me also announced the F bonus tin the market Were pg with a 50 cent premium. pe corporation Is authorized to Flits financial lending opera ICONTINITRIV on r*woF q|X) L ~ i prymans Buy National Hotel pe sale of the National hotel. r 1 an<! Madison streets,, to Mr. f '* rs Leonard Merryman and 6 "Ms announced today by J. W. wrs. who has operated it the R several years. ‘he new proprietors will take “session Monday morning ami II make a number of intproveW * l in preparation to take care of f spring and summer business. - a "d Mrs. Meibers will move to 1 * H. Bremerkantp residence south Seventh street. o Ackers Asked To Stay Off Gravel Roads ■ounty road superintendent ’ Pit Hoop issued a request to f ,0 truckers and haulers of \ V/ loads to stay off the gravel 1 8 in the county for several days l ' p rs have been busy getting the * m shape again After the thaw. 65 ar ® *sttll very soft.

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DECATUR DAILY DEMOCRAT ONLY DAILY NEWSPAPER IN ADAMS COUNTY

Vol. XXXII. No. 79.

Many Registration Blanks Mutilated County Clerk Milton c. Werllng |. stated today that a number of tin* it«*Utration blanks returned to his office have been discarded a* mutilated. The blanks are being checked now by girls in the office. One of the common errors was the using of husband*' names by wives rather I than their maiden names. FINAL DAY TO JOIN PROGRAM No Corn-hog Reduction Contracts M ill Be Accepted After Today No new corn hog reduction con | tracts will be accepted in Adam* | county after 5 in. Saturday, March 31. according to County Agent L. K. Archbold, who has received word that the state cornhog committee has set March 31 as the final diadliiu- for receiving new contracts. "This means that all farmers in the county who ate expecting to enter the corn hog reduction proi gram must file their signed contracts with all the necessarv 1 forms filled out. on or before 5 o'clock Saturday evening, March 31.” said Archbold. More than M,OOO corn hog reduction contracts have been signed in Indiana since the cantnaign started about 'February 1. These 1 contracts will cover approximately 75 per cent of the com producing land and between 75 and SO per cent of the hogs produced for market in the state. County corn hog production coni troi associations, with permanent township committees and county allotment committees have orgai nized in each county of tin- sta'e -sjfHX In Tiffin and rteTTr-Tsiri. i which have united because of only a few signers. The members of these committees are going about 1 their tasks now checking over contracts for possible errors or inaccurate reports, the contracts are being tabulated, and the local I committeemen are well started appraising the contracted acres to determine the probable yield per acre of this land. Township ami county commit- ' tees arc pushing their work with all possible speed but the lack of accurate data Is holding up the work in many districts, it has been learned. o Road Simcrintendent Will Give Banquet O. D. Baker, road superintendent for the Wells-Adams district. Bluff-* ton. has invited his patrolmen ami truck men and a number of others from the district to be his guests at a banquet, to be given next Friday evening a* 115 East Wayne street. Fort Wayne. The list of gueste also includes a number of the officials of the State Highway Commission. LUTZ RULING . IS REVERSED Attorney General Reverses His Decision On Feeding Os Prisoners Attorney-general Phillip Lutz, Jr., has reversed his decision in . the matter of sheriffs purchasing food and feeding jail prisoners. It was previously held by the attorney genera! and W. P Cosgrove. of the state hoard of accounts. that sheriffs could not be paid for mealu served prisoners, ian interpretation classifying the allowance of 20 cents a meal as i “fees.” A meeting of county sheriffs was held in Indianapolis yesterday and the state officials reversed their decision In the case. ' Sheriffs will continue to serve 1 the meals and the counties will pay at the rate of 20 cents a tneal per prisoner. The county commissioners here i intended to take up the matter i next Monday, but since the Attor-j ney General reconsidered the j question, no action will be necessary, as the old plan was favored here. With only three prisoners in Jail the total cost to the county Is less than if a commissary had to be established and a cook employed to prepare the meals.

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ARMY AVIATOR FALLS TO DEATH WITH AIR MAIL !i . Lieut Thurman Wood ( rashes To Death Near DeWitt. lowa, Friday HEAVY RAIN STORM BLAMED FOR ( RASH I DeWUt, la , Mar. 31 ((JR) Lieut. Thurman A. Wood, army flier, crashed to death last night with a heavy load of mail on a farm four utiles northeast of De- ; Witt. Wood's death was the first since the army resumed air mail service following a period of suspension ■ ordered by President Roosevelt because of 11 previous fatalities. A heavy rain storm, of which the flier hail not been warned, was blamed for the crash. Although Wood was bound westward from Chicago to Omaha, the plane was 1 found to be headed eastward. ' with its nose plunged four feet into the ground. The 23 mail ' sacks, weighing 500 pounds, were, scattered Wood had turned off ’ Ids ignition switch before the' 1 crash and there was no fire. Coroner L. !>. Riggert of Clinton who investigated the accident. I ordered the flier's body taken to ' Clinton. 17 miles front the scene! ' of the crash. Riggert believed! that Wood had turned back on his • (ourse. seeking an emergency 1 lauding field. The pilot left Chicago at 7:15 p. ra. and made good time along his course until he struck the rain storm tvsar Clinton. When ' he passed over the farm of l*eon- - aril McGuire, near the scene of • the crash, he was flying low. STTTu iris’ wariKnmw fw reach ■ the wreckage on the farm of r William Mommsen. He described the crash as terrific, saying he • heard the sound of the plane strfk- ■ ing the ground from his farm. Volunteers collected the mail I sacks and drove them to DavenI port. 20 miles away, where another i army plane took over Wood’s - flight. Wood was on his course ami in territory in which there j were landing fields within every ***** , ((’(INTINUEO ON PtltF SIX I DR. FERRY DIED FRIDAY NIGHT Former Adams County Man Died Friday at Home At Akron, Indiana A telegram to Cal E. Peterson , this morning, brought the sad i news of the death of his boyhood pal, I)r. Perry L. Ferry, of Akron. Indiana. Dr. Ferry died last evening after three or four years of Illness following paralysis. Dr. Ferry spent his boyhood days here and at Preble, where I his father was general superintendent of the oil station many years. In those days the doctor was known among his companions as "Punk" and he was well ■ known in the county. He gradtt- . ated from the Decatur publics , schools In 1899. then studied , medicine and graduated from Cor- ! nell University. He served as an i interne at Ithaca, New York and then located at Akron, where he soon built up a splendid practise. Dr. Ferry is survived by the widow and two children, a daughter, Marjory anti a son. John, the j latter a senior at Indiana University. Funeral services will be held from the home at Akron, Monday morning at ten o'clock. -272 272 Employed On CVVA Last M eek Figures released from the CWA I headquarters in tills city today show-that 261 men ami 11 women were employed last week. In addi- 1 . jtion 180 working on the subsistence . homestead project south of the city , | were included on the payroll which I amounts to $3,716.74. i The last CWA payroll will be made up Tuesday. It will Inciude men working Friday and Saturday. It is expected that Cltls pay roll will make the total paid in the county above SIOO,OOO.

Decatur, Indiana, Saturday, March 31, 1934.

Monroe Speaker BEwSh**’ jgji . -. finßEgß fHPjs Rev. William J. Briggs, of Economy. Ind., will be the speaker in i the “Win-My-CUum" services at the Monroe Methodist Episcopal Church beginning Monday. April i 2, and continuing through the week. Rev. Briggs is a native of 1 llte state of. Oklahoma, attended high school in Wichita. Kansas, and graduated from Asbury College and Ashtiry Theological Seminary at Wilntore. Kentucky. Two j years ago Rev. Briggs assisted in revival meetings at the Mt. Tab*)!' anti Mt. Hope M E. churches, both !in Adams county, ami he mademany friends during his former visits to this section. The public is invited to the services at the Monroe church next week. Especially are young people urged to j attend. BEER DEALERS ~ ARE ARRESTED Fourteen Gary Unlicensed Beer Dealers Are - Placed Under Arrest Gary, Ind.. Mar. 31.— (U.R) —Pro I prietors of 14 Gary beer retailing establishments were free tinder $1 ,- not) bond each today after their arrests in the opening of a statewide drive against unlicensed dealers. The raiding party, including five carloads of officers, was led by ! Fred W. Bechdolt, attorney for the state excise department; Robert G. Estill, Igike county prosecutor, and |Carroll Holley, cnief deputy sber- | iff of l ake county. After the raids. Kecltdolt and Es--1 till issued a joint statement announcing that a similar drive will I here. He said he robbed a grocery istate. 'The raids, they explained, are part of a new policy of the excise department since the state supreme court ruled against Abe Rosen, unlicensed Gary wholesaler, in his tight to have the state law decIai(fONTINITBn ON PAGE SIX* EXAMINATIONS GIVEN TODAY High School Students Os Adams County Take Examinations Today Honor examinations are being given at the Central school building 1 in this city today for the leading students of the seven county high schools. The examination is under the direction of county superintendent of schools Cliffton E. Striker. One award and honorable mention will be given to the three students who receive the highest grade in each subject. Those getting first place will receive a letter “D" in which is inscribed the abbreviation of rhe subject for which the award was given. Two pupils from each school are eligible for the contest in each subject. County high school teachers will grade the papers as soon as each examination is completed and ; the results will be announced early this evening. The examination is being given i in the following subjects: Algebra, biology, home economics, United States, history, plane geometry, La tin 1, Latin 2, world history, economics, civics and physics.

WILL RESTORE WORKERS’ PAY Local Postoflice Has Received No Instructions From Washington j Postmaster 1,. A. Graham said ' today that tin- local office itas re reived no information as to how ! the Senate's overriding the Pre*t-| dent’s veto on the hill to raise pay i of governmental employes will affect the employes of the postofl'ice. It is assumed front newspaper j istores that the postal employe* will [get a live per cent raise effective ! February 1 and a live per cent raise j effective July 1. Mr. Graham stated that the econ I onty program now being planned will seriously curtail the local mail service. The cut will lie effective j April 1. Under the new pulley, sick leaves ; will he abolished. In case a carrier is unable to work it probably will i be necessary for one matt to deliver Ids own route in tlie morning and tlie absent man's route in the i afternoon. If a clerk is unable to work Mr. Graham himself will probably have to work at a win dow, or at sorting mail. Only six* hours have been allowni for parcel post and extra clerk hire, it may he impossible to de i liver parcels. Patrons may simply he notified that there is a package ■ at the office which must tie called for. On the other hand it may lie . possible to take a man off an after ■ noon route to make one delivery trip for parcel post, the postmaster ■ stated. I Substitute pay lias also been ' | abolished. At the present there are two men available for this j work. No provision has been made for a paid vacation which formerly ' required one substitute about half I the time. Iln addition to the curtailment in hours and men. each employe win i he required to take a full day's furlough each mouth without pay. No provision lias been made for extra help and on the days the men are i off the mail delivery will probably j lie suspended. It is possible that ' the men will take a half day off at a time, permitting a morning dei livery. These plans are only tentative, .: Mr. Graham emphasized. The gov<CONTINUED ON PAGE TWiD GWA PROGRAM COMES TO END I; All Persons Still Receiving Aid Will Be Changed To New Projects Washington, Mar. 31— (U.R) — ■ The administration's civil works program which cost sl.ooo.ot>o,otlo ■ and gave work to 4.000.000 people. •; came to an end today with about 1 1 2,000.000 persons still on the payi rolls. With the ending of the CWA. the government's greatest experiment in mass employment relief, Relief Administrator Harry Hopkins announced that all those still receiving aid would lie transferred automatically to new con Btruettve projects under the re vamped federal program. Tite new federal relief policy becomes operative Monday. It is planned to operate on a considerably less expense scale, and to provide the framework of a permanent policy in federal relief. Hopkins said he had approi- ' mately S6tHt.OOO.(K)O remaining ; j * (CONTINUED ON PAGE TWO) Durr Is Candidate For Committeeman John Durr of North Blue Creek ■ township today announced his can- ' didaey for committeeman'of the township, subject to the May pri--1 mary. Mr. Durr has resided in Ad--1 ants County all his life and has I previously served as committeeman. i 0 Purdue Dairy Expert I Spoke Here Thursday i G. 'A.. Williams, Purdue dairy expert, discussed the cost of produci ing milk at a meeting of the dairy , herd improvement association I Thursday night. His studies show that it cost slightly more to pro • dure milk in the summer on pasture than on winter feed.

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WERLING CASE IS CONTINUED UNTIL MONDAY Trial of Adams County Clerk Adjourned Late • Friday Afternoon FOUR ADAMS COUNTY MEN (JIVE TESTIMONY Chicago, 111.. Mar. 31 <U.R) The! (trial of Milton Welling, clerk i of llte Adams circuit court at Decatur. Ind . was adjourned late Friday until Monday morning, when the case will he returned in federal court here. Chicago police officers Joseph , Connelly. Joseph Walash, and 1 Michael Whatlen testified in court late Friday to finding SSOO in 1 counterfeit money in possession of Werling, Citfrence Kintz and I William McKinley Van Pelt. Van ; Pelt has been returned to Indiana as a parole violator. All three officers stated that 1 the men told them shortly after 1 their arrest that they had bought ssdo in counterfeit money for S2OO. Werling and Kintz, if convicted, face maximum penitentiary sentences of 32 years for purchasing, possession and conspiracy; ' Following testimony by secret 1 service agent Peter A. Rubatto; 'that he found the counterfeit' money in Werling’* auto, a judge, sheriff, prosecuting attorney and a banker were character witnesses for Werling. i The witnesses who told of ■ Werling’s good reputation in his i home community were; Circuit - Court Judge Huber M. DeVoss. f (CONTINUED ON PAGE SIX) Fire Causes Damage To Clothing Today ’ A small fire was started in the 1 Toby Worst residence on High ‘I street at one o'clock this afternoon when Mrs. Worst entered a clothes 1 closet with a lighted match. The ; city fire department extinguished the blaze with chemicals. The dam- ! age to t te clothes amounted to • | about $25. ‘I . —o— Ask Registrars»To File Reports Monday Persons employed as registrars ito register eligible voters are reI quested to turn their blanks into I the county clerk’s office by Monday. April 2. , The compiling of the lists will be j started as soon as the final reports are In. Monday. April 9 is the last • day to register. o Conservation League Meets Monday Night * j The Adams county conservation j league will hold the regular monthI ly meeting at the. American Legion " j hall on south Second street Monday night at 7:30 o'clock. Willis ' Hanlon.. Portland, state game warden. will speak at the meeting. All ' members are urged to be present. 136 HAVE FILED IN THIS COUNTY Fifteen Republicans. 121 Democrats Have Filed For Nominations According to the records in the county clerk's office, 121 and 16 republicans have filed their I declarations for candidacy. Republicans have candidates for . the nomination in the spring primary as follows: trustee 16; , U. S. Representative, 1; prosecuting attorney, 1; sheriff, 3. The democrats have filed as fol- . lows: precinct committeemen. 30; trustee, 36; joirtt representative, 2; U. S. representative, 1; councilmen of Decatur, 3. county council 5; city clerk-treasurer. 4: mayor of Decatur. 6; county treasurer, 5; r county surveyor. 1; county clerk, 3; county coroner, 1: county asses- - Bor, 4; township assessor. 3; pros- - editing attorney 1; county commisr sloner, 3; sheriff. 14; Joint state senator. 1. t A number of candidates have annotiiiced candidacies but have not - filed their formal declaration with the county clerk.

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Five Persons To Bi* Continued Sunday 'Examination and confirmation of I five young people In this year's | confirmation class at the Preeby- 1 terian church will tuise place Sunday morning at the close of the service. These young people are Rack- | el Mlckley, Evangeline Fuhrman, | j Jeanette Christen, James Christen and Frank Erickson. LIGHT LINES IN | SERVICE TODAY All Electric Lines In City Will Be In Service By Tonight All the electric light lines in the eit\* will he in service hy tonight, M. J. Mylott, superintendent of the light and power department of tile municipal plant announced today. All the rural lines, except a few branches in Union township, have also been restored to service and workmen were still busy today making temporary repairs so service could be furnished hy tonight. Yesterday every home in the city except about a half dozen had 1 lights, Mr. Mylott stated. New poles have been erected on Nuttman avenue, South Tenth street and a gang of men were busy today putting up new poles on Line street. A crew of 21) men have been employed ever since Monday night to restore light service to patrons in this city and on the rural lines. In some cases temporary repairs were made in order to make the hookups. Later the lines will be gone ! over and permanent repairs made. Long distance telephone service was restored between Decatur and ! Fort Wayne late Friday afternoon. H. F. Ehinger, manager of the Cit- ; izens Telephone company stated I that the rural lines to Berne and ’ 1 Geneva, would probably be in service by tonight. The sleet storm was one of the i worst ever experienced here and communication and light lines were ' torn down by the ice and falling ■ tree limbs. o — DIRECTOR FRY ISSUES ORDER l Indiana Beer Retailers Ordered To Remove Outdoor Beer Signs ; Indianapolis, Mar. 31. —<U.R> —ln- ; i diana beer retailers were given 10 j days to remove outdoor advertis I ing signs from their establishment* in strict regulations announced toiday by Paul P. Fry, state excise » director. Breweries are prohibited from 1 giving outdoor advertising signs to ' retailers and retailers are prohiblt--1 ed from displaying outdoor adver- ' ] Using of any certain brand of beer ; or alcohol, under Fry’s new order. | Failure to comply with subject violators to revocation of licenses, j Fry said. The new regulations. Fry announced. are similar to those in effect in Michigan. New York, New i Jersey and lowa, and contain some j iof the provisions of tlie- national brewers' cod.* under the NR A. The brewers’ code prohibits brewers from providing equipment to retailers at less than cost. "In placing these regulations we are averting an evil that existed in the pre-war era, when many breweries owned saloons, gave iixItures and paid rentals in order to ' have exclusive outlets.'' Fry said, ij "Those practices are violative of j **CONTINUED ON PAGE TWO) . O Two Youths Escape Injuries In Crash j Eugene Knodle, high school '! student, was knocked off a motorcycle driven by Robert BVown • | when the machine collided with '! an auto driven by F. L. Britson of 1 near the Ohio state line, on ! Second street last evening. M,r. Britson was .driving onto , Second street from East Jefferson -; street. He was headed for the - Elberson service station. Mr. - Brown and Mr. Knodle were riding * south. The two machines collided in front of the service station - driveway. The Knodle youth was t | taken to the hospital. He was not i j injured seriously and was able to leave the hospital this morning.

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FUGITIVE IS THOUGHT SHOT DURING FIGHT Notorious Gangster Is Identified Soon After Battle Is Ended TWO COMPANIONS ALSO MAKE ESCAPE St. Paul, Mar. 31.— <U*> — John Dillinger, fugitive public enemy No. 1 today was identified as the machine gunner who with two companions blasted his wav out of a. federal trap in St. PauFs exclusive residential district. The identification was made within a few minutes after the smoke from the duel had cleared away. The gunman, and a man and woman companion, fought their way out of the trap In sucli haste thai some of their belongings were left behind. Among them was a photograph of Dillinger taken seven or ' eight years ago. A sub-machine gun was found in the apartment by police squads who ransacked the living quarters later. Bloodstains in an alley way behind the apartment where the ma chine gunner identified as Billing ! er, battled coolly and desperately with two federal officers and a St. I’au! detective, were taken as evidence that he had been hit in the I fray. The gunman, surprised in his apartment by Detective Cummings, opened tire with a sub-machine gun immediately utter his woman com panion opened the door. Cummings ; crouched in a niche in the wall as i the bullets streamed hy, smashed j! into the wall and ripped through [ 1 windows. Dillinger. another man and a wo- , mahTTed by Cummings, chased federal agent Rufus Coulter through a haiiway. and succeeded in gaining the open alley way before officers could return the fire. The woman, with a heavy grip I in her hand, ran to the garage and iiacked out a Hudson sedan, beIiev<CONTINUED ON PAGE SIX) O — Young People Play Has Been Postponed The play, “Deacon Dubbs" which was to have been presented by the 1 Calvary Evangelical young people in the Pleasant Mills high school Tuesday night, has been postponed i until a later date. o Ministers To Meet Wednesday Morning The Decatur ministerial associa- . j tion will hold the regular monthly j meeting Wednesday morning at 10 o’clock. The meeting will be held i in the library room on the second floor of the courthouse and all local ministers are urged to attend. CANDIDATES TO BE BALLOTED ON — Knights of Columbus Will Vote On Candidates Monday Night Candidates for membership in the Knights of Columbus will be ; held Monday night at the K. of C. .; hall. A large class of new members is | being signed up and the initiation will be held either this spring or next fall, officers of the lodge announced. It is expected that the : nembers will be the largest ever j initiated at one time in the local i council. Followi' 'he business meeting Monday a butch lunch w,,l be served and the committee in charge is , anticipating a large attendance. , it was also announced that the • K. of C. dance committee is arrang- [ ing dance events immediately after Easter, plans for which will be > announced later. , On Sunday, April 8, the Knights , of Columbus will observe their an i uual custom of receiving Holy Comr; munion in a body at St. Mary’s I Catholic church. They will march i with the members of the Holy i i Name society from the Catholic t school to the church and receive ) I Communion at the seven o’clock mass.