Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 32, Number 81, Decatur, Adams County, 3 April 1934 — Page 6

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SEVENTEEN ARE HURT IN WRECK Broken Switch Causes Interurban Car To Leave Rails At Tipton Tipton. Ind., Apr. 3. (U.K A hrokeu switch was believed tod.iv I to have cuus"d a northbound trae | tion car of the Indiana Railroad io j leave the rails and overturn here I lasi night, injuring 17 persons. None of the Injured was hurt ser-1 iously. All were treated at the >t ' Bee of Dr. A. E. Burkhardt and re- 1 leased immediately. The aedd'tit occurred in the | heart of Tipton. The accident occurred about one minute before the car was due in the Tipton station. As .he Inter- i urban rounded a curve, the front I trucks left the track at a siding I switch. The rcat trucks left the track at • the switch and the car careened i for half a block down the street ' before falling on its side against a house. • The foreq of the impact tore the i porch from the house and hurled a stone inside which crushed the i foot of Mrs. Anne Depoy, 111, living there. Tipton residents on the car were taken to their homes after receiving medical treatment and other passengers continued their trips on another car immediately. ILLINOIS COAL MINES ( LOSEI) BY CONFUSION (CONTINUED PROM PAGE ONE) : coal field, started work under the I 35-hour week today. Disorder Quelled Uniontown, Pa., Apr. 3 —(U.R> — i Miners were l>a< k in their pits • today and Uniontown and its nearby mining towns in the heart ofthe southwestern Pennsylvania i soft coal fields were quiet after a •

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| day of rioting and disorders. I State and city police and Sheriff I Harry Hackney said they anticipated no further trouble today.! Most of the miners left for their ! homes by last night. The last I truck load pulled out of Union-1 town about 12: SO a. m., police I | said. i The only extra guards called Into play yesterday wore 20 fire-1 men who were deputized by the! 1 city police department. They paI trolled the city yesterday and lust I I night, but were equipped only] J with their regular sidearms. Police said about a dozen per- > •sons wen- injured in the fighting i I which broke out yesterday during! I the celebration of the 36th untili versary of the eight-hour working , j day for the miners. John Kurnat, 27. of Ada, was the. most seriously injured. He was i found shot through the neck. One | other man was reported shot i ■ through a log. The fighting was mostly belt ween me nib »rs of the United h ' Mine Workers of America and the j miners independent brotherhood. ’ Sporvlie street fighting broke ! out in Uniontown last night and I police closed the beer selling , ! establishments as a preventive f I measure. < o ! ( TWO SCHOOLS IN MUSIC FESTIVAL - (CONTINUED FROM --AGE ONE* • * * * • ♦ ♦ ♦ • • ♦ ♦ ♦ • • • ♦ • ♦ • ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ • program. Schools participating in to- , night's program include White- ( water. Summitville. Farmland. ] Parker, Walnut Grove, Berne. I Middleton. Chester Center. Hart-; ] ford Township and Fairmount. . t Tomorrow night's program will • ( include schools from Frankton, j ( Lynn. Stoney Creek. Albany. Warren. Losantville. Mulberry ( and I-apel. The three-day May festival will I . include groups from Frankfort. | Newcastle. Union City. Hartford , Citv. Dunkirk. Eaton. Bluffton, I cl Tipton and Montpelier. —-—0 ... Bintro and Card Party at . Catholic school Wednesday ; ight. i

Personals' Mr. and Mrs. Milo McKinney and •Wallace McKinney, all of Cln'lntiaitl. Ohio, spoilt Easter with Mrs. MeI Kinney's parents. Mr and Mis. Fred V. Mills. Rev. B. It. Franklin and Mr*. ; Franklin. Garrett, spout Monday 'with Mrs.' Franklin's parents, Mr. | and Mrs. Frei V. Mills. The Misses Jayne Gaffe. Marjory 1 McMullen, nd Messrs. Max KapI lan. Co 11 Soo, Bob Smith and Ray i Muece of Fort Wayne were guests ! of Miss Helen Colehln in tills city Saturday evening. Mrs. Leota Kennedy and Sher i man Stanley of Coloma. Michigan, spent the week-end with Mrs. W. L. ! Stanley and family. Mrs. J imes Carnal! of Bluffton | is spending several ilayq with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. John Colehln. Bernard Wemhoff has re'time.i to Detroit University, Detroit. Mi higan. after spending the Easter vacation with his parents. Mr. and Mrs. George Wemhoff. William It Teeple. a former carpenter of D«<atur. is reported to be seriously ill at the home of his daughter. Mrs. H. J. Conway at Cedarville. His children were called to his bedside Sunday morning. HOSPITAL NOTES Miss Harriet Shockey, 1221 West ' lams street, submitted to a major emergency operation at the A lams j County Meihorial Hospital Monday j night. Miss Dorothy Helton of Montpelier. is a patient at the Adams County Memorial Hospital where she underwent a major operation this morning. The Adams County Memorial i Hospital cared for the largest number of patients during the month of I Marc.r than any previous month | sure the opening of the institut'd.'! Miss Emily Crist, superintendent, announced today. Royal Arch Masons, tonight at S o’clock. WOMAN ASKS SUSPENSION (CONTINUED FROST PAGE ONE! scheduled to be sentenced today along with Lewis Bogie, and Joncie Creech, also of Richmond, who pleaded guilty. The cases of seven other per- • sons who had pleaded guilty were I ' disposed of during the session. ‘ ‘ James Armstrong. 24. Knox j 1 county, was fined SSOO and sent- ■ t enced to six months tn jail for i operation of an unlicensed still. I I Phillip and Vincent Dilski. ; Knox county, each were fined I t SIOO and sentenced to six months . in jail, both suspended, for opera-1 < tion of an unlicensed still, and j Julius Bilski was sentenced to one day in jail on the same 1 charge. t Charles James Bender. New Orleans. La., was sentenced to a j i year and a day for interstate transportation of a stolen automobile. The case of William T. McMahon. 24, Danville, 11.. who forged , I his name to a federal money ord-1 c er, was taken under advisement c o r DAMAGE SUIT IS NEAR JURY I; (CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONE) . that he looked in each direction as soon as he arrivedon the street. He also stated that he sounded the klaxon on the truck. The ear driven by Glee Summers was driven at a speed of 50-60 miles per hour, Gettiings testified. The case may be sent to the jury late this afternoon or evening, ilt was venued to the Adams circuit court from the Allen county superior court number 2. The accident occurred on Baker street in Fort Wayne. January 14, 1933. PREPARE EARLY INSULL TRIAL (CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONE) to a Tut Irish court of last resort to save him from .extradition to the United States. The 74 year old Chicago utilities man, resilient and hopeful, directed from the prison wing of the detention house the fight for freedom —a fight which authorities said would fail, and end in his return to the United States to face trial for fraud in the management of his utilities companies. Chief State Prosecutor Kenan Bey expressed this official poinion:— "There has been no judicial judgment from which to appeal. The penal court gave merely an opinion formally establishing fact, and no judicial opinion was involved." The new Turkish-American extradition treaty was ratified last night by the legislature. Although

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officials emphasized they did not act under the treaty but under the penal code, it was revealed > ( today that they were ready to use the treaty, if necessary, to hold Insull. Insull's appeal was made on two grounds: 1. Thar decisions of the courts 1 concerning extradition are sub-! ject to appeal to higher courts. 2. That Insull's imprisonment l before a final decision is pro-' nounced was illegal. o Frederick Landis . Out For Congress Ixjgan«sport. Ind.. Apr. 3—(l’P Frederick Landis, local magazine editor, and candidate for governor on the republican ticket in 1928. announced last nifriit he would seek the nomination for representative from the second congressional district in t'he May primaries Landis will seek the position now •

Boy’s Body Turning to Bone 'I:/. yHv ■ w i All the resources of medical science lETsMSg /• » appear to be impotent in the case of 7-y.-ar-< Id B. njamin Hendrick, in- .-«• mate of Wilkes-Barre (Pa.) Gen- t ' era! Hospital, who is suffering from . ..... V .* i a rare disease that is slowly turn- $ '/ A <i sicians from all sections of the State ■ ’* have examined the boy, but none i/ ’ ■ /« has been able to halt the ossification i I of his body, which is believed to BE \ j / | have started from an infection W transmitted through a rupture in Mgj&L the skin. y. J'

held by George It. Durgan, D., of | Lafayette. At present they are the only persons who have announced j their candidacies in the second disi trlct. -oBLUNK. CAHOON ARE N \MED BY GRAND JURORS (CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONE) ' evidence" that graft played a part i ! in the almost comic ease with which ' I Dillinger locked up his guards In | I their own cells and walked to free-! dom with only a wooden gun to aid i j him. Reports that the “gun" was a • genuine automatic were scouted by the jury in a stinging arraignment t of jail Warden Lou Baker, and! eleven guards. Testimony of 53 i witnesses, the jury report said, in- 1 dictated that the weapon was only I |a carved stick. Prosecutor Robert G. Estill es-1

i i leaped the jurors’ censure. A photo-11 graph of the prosecutor and IMII- < . inger. with the outlaw s arm flung,< I intimately over Estill's shoulder, i» i was ‘taken at a moment when the ; t I prosecutor had been on duty for 4* , t hours,” the jury said. After reporting to Judge Murray . the jury adjourned until Monday ‘ , The jury indicated it would subunit another report, recommending I changes in law enforcement prac tices in Lake county. Lutz Statement Indianapolis. Apr. 3.— (U.P) - At- ' | torney General Philip Lutz, Jr.., j* ! who directed the state's investiga- j 1 tion Into the Crown Point jail break H iof John Dillinger, said today he 'hoped two indictments returned by 1 the county grand jury today would not close the case. ‘‘l believe the grand jury made ian honest effort and gave its best ! I service from the evidence we were 11 ! able to present," Lutz said. i I "But. I hope that the body will < be continued in service until we t have an opportunity to make furth- 1 er investigations and present addi- i tional evidence we have gathered | since last week. •'ln addition to evidence regarding the Dillinger escape, 1 also hope the grand jury will he held in session long enough for us to place before it evidence in other matters in Lake county." i o Watch Planes For Trace Os Dillinger Roosevelt Field, L. 1. April 3— ■ (UP) -Officials of Eastern flying fields today continued a close watch upon incoming planes for John Dil-, linger, notorious bandit and jail ! braker. The flying fields were warned by the department of justice that the outlaw was believed to be flying ; from St. Paul to some eastern airi port in a chartered commercial ■ plane. o — Plan Program For Law Enforcement i Indianapolis, April 3. <U.P> - A I three point program to promote I i law euforeeinvni was inaugurated j today by the National American ' i Legion. The program, recommended by: I the executive committee of the; legion’s committee on law and ord-1 er will stress removal of politics ' I from law enforcement, better eo--1 ordination between federal, state | and local law enforcement, agencies and better opportunity for instruction of law enforcement agencies. Edward A Hayes, national com1

mender, approved the recommendations last night and said a copy of the program would be mailed to each of the nation's 10.879 posts with instructions to act on the recommendations at once. o CLERK’S TRIAL CONCLUDED IN FEDERAL COURT (CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONE) witness stand before the noon recess. confirmed Werllngs statement that their objective was entrapment of the counierfeiters flooding Allen and Adams counties with false currency. o Bonds Sold Under Par Salem. Ore. —4JJD—Bonds of the State Veterans' Aid Commission brought $98,603 per SIOO when a $460,000 issue was sold here recently. This was the best price for state bonds in many months.

PUBLIC SALE FARM IMPLEMENTS and REAL ESTATE As I am discontinuing handling farm machinery. and will all of my time to my auto tire and accessory busim s-- "ill Mt pnbllc auction at 203 S. First street, Decatur. Indiana. mi FRIDAY, APRIL 6th Commencing at 10 A. M. prompt. 3 grain binders, 7 ft. Deering, 7 ft. Osborne, 8 ft. Osborne: ' f® drills, 10 disc Moline like new, 12 disc American. 1 •’> di" s“l* Superior 4 row fertilizer beet drill; 4 tractor plows. 2 Oliver 2 P. & O. 14 In; John Deere corn planter; I. H. C. corn p'.nitr • Deere gang plow; Oliver riding breaking plow; P. & 1 > ril lllf . j ing plow; John Deere riding breaking plow; John Deer" nto« p new; Emerson mower; W. A. Wood mower; Gale 2 row vator; Turnbull wagon: farm wagon: 3 riding cultivators: - ers; 4 spring toothed harrows; cultipacker. like new ' Deering tractor disc, new; 3 spiked tooth harrow; 2 h<-rse feed grinders; 2 DeLaval No. 12 cream separators. firs ', iass \ p Holt cream separator; 4 walking breaking plows; several 1 . vators and double shovel; 6 steel part bins; wooden part burner oil stoves; 1-4 burner oil stove; one 3 IIP. sas ,." n " in pc* compressor paint gun; Hudson broughan automobile, fir ’ j'l.o tion; 1 lot of used household goods; office desk; hois*«- 1 •* llars ha j - ; belting; plow shares; double trees: single treeft: clevis-. ' several old discs and other farm implements for repair parts, a articles ton numerous to mention. ■ nvit<* NOTICE: This farm machinery has been gone over earrm shop and is in the very best of condition, ready to be put illto ‘ Come and look it over any day before sale day. TERMS—CASH. PEOPLES SUPPLY CO.. GILES V. POKTER. Real Estate at Auction The undersigned will sell to the highest bidder pjrstl on the above date promptly at 1 P. M. the building at 20' ■ The lot is 99x100 ft., has a one story cement block building good renair, suitable for garage, or any similar business. TERMS—CASH. ELMER TRICKER, Owner . Roy S. Johnson, auctioneer. i / ■

Highway ( i>iiiini"i<in ■ Head Back At Nuß o < Indianapolis '■ j —James D. Ala •■. n.buQH : was back at his ;■ «•'. alof the state highway somakfl i today. ■ Evans Stotsei 1 X-w ihad been servile as 1 chairman during i which kept Adam- ,i«ay tnwH j desk for several weeks. ■ ‘•Fort Wayne Man I Burned To 1W Fort Wayne. Im! tpr" —Burns received v> -n ed to kindle a fir • with ■were fatal to Mar- • 1 H Coffin ■ j 39, here today. ’ I Coffman was .<!:■■ ' ■ ■■: with 1 : ing fluid when the ■ an of ' • exploded. He died .. '■ * hours l *® r ——, ■ Ge» the Habit — Tride « HjJ