Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 32, Number 88, Decatur, Adams County, 11 April 1934 — Page 1

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■ado Bank Is Robbed Os $25,000 te Colo., April 11—(OP)— I’M bandits today robbed srity stat.' bank <>f Sterling ninately Jj.'. inio, kidnape I ank employes. and fled in h<‘k Man, toward the Negate line. tenJite released their hoses? Holyoke then continual 4 with posses in pursuit. To Nominate Officers Tonight Wortant meeting of the B. *' will he held at S o'clock j fit the home on North Sec-j Nomination of iitfk ers made for the ensuing year r 1 * important business will I I ‘ — o onanes To *» I Speak Wednesday «IXI Mrs John P. Barkmen.! <1 missionaries from Africa.) *ak at the Salem Church “toy evening. April is at rl<« k. The missionaries will | their work in the foreign the public is cordially inIntend the service. IEF REPORT SCOMPUTED — - — lor Compiles Expen* lr(1 For Relief From January 1 [ in Adams county from ine year until April 10 to 48 per c en t of the •■tmrsements, according to mnputed by county auditor ®*an. ’figures include only the directly for poor reiin ° ni>t the cast „ ' Winn of poor relief nor , rnisl,e “ J hy th «-‘ conn : ' la ls used by work- . ' S in a<^itlon t 0 the hv n '°"‘ ll,an HOO.OOu it auA ° WA headquarters I not include the A/ . by prhale charltle*. i ’ tor s figures show that bv'tt’*’ 487 ' 17 hai ‘ lor , e 5 the county. Dhbard m u reqU ‘ red S9.MB.H ♦1 T3Uw CWWren ' 8 Kuar<lians 26 g T , h * .'' , "' nty lnflr ' Usito A total of $2,-1. *>t on old age pensions.

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Vol. XXXII. No. 88.

MANYDENSIONS ARE RESTORED New Law Restores Many Spanish-American War Vets Pensions Under the new law passed by j Congress many of the pensions ! have been restored to Spanish- ' Tmerican war veterans. In a letter to Congressman I .lames I. h’arlev from Georye E. | • Brown, director of veterans claims j service, the official explains that every effort is lieing exerted to 1 restore those to the pension list is rapidly as possible. The letter roads: 'Honorable .lames I. Farley ' House of Representatives Washington D. C. I' Mv Dear Mr. Farley: “The Congress of the United States passed a law on March 28, 1934 which restons to veterans of the Spanish American War some )of the pension benefits formerly provided by the laws which were repealed on March 20. 1933. “This makes it necessary that many thousands of claims he con "idcred in the light of the new law. and it Is not possible, of ■ course, to com Ider them all at | one time. "This office is doing everything In its power to speed this consideration. even to the extent of re storing imin uilately to certain classes, where nossible under the law a portion of the pension formerly received, pending the con , 'ideratlon of the individual claim. "The new law has so changed the circumstances in the indi * vidua! claim that replies by this i office to letters and appeals heretofore received must await the i consideration, under the new law. of the particular claim. ■‘Consideration of all claims i effected will proceed as rapidlv

■ -us possible and. when it is found ! lust how the law nffectr this : c laim, the veteran and his repre- ' I “optative will he advised in detail. without further inquiry from them. “You can materially assist each voter: n to receive benefits to which he is shown to be entitle.!, by withholding further inquire until he has received definite ad I vice from this office as to the j effects of the new law on his , ■ claim.'’ MRS. KNAPP IS AGAIN CHOSEN Mrs. Charles Knapp ReElected President Os Association Mrs. Charts Knapp was re-elec* led president of the Central school < Barent-Teachers association at the final meeting of the organization | for this school year. Tuesday night The meeting was he'd in the Central school. Other officers nominated and : ’elected were Bryce Thomas, vice president; Miss Neva Brandyberry, secretary, and Sim Burk ' treasurer. The speakers of the evening. Dr B. E. Duke and Mrs C. O. Porter * were introduced by lavwell Smith I Dr. Duke spoke on the subject of “Child Health” and Mrs. Porter . gave a review on “A Practical i Health Program for the School " The program for the evening in I eluded a reading. “Boys" by Peggv I Gaunt, and a play. “Grandmother's | Pageant of Memories." The char- 1 I actors in the play were as follows: Grandma Rachel Mickley. Little Kate Anna Jane Tyndall 1 Little Mav Josephine Tucker— 1 Cleona Elston. Music teacher—Barbara Burk. Tommy K ; >x — Leonard Merry 1 I man. I Willie Everette Roger Arnold. ! Dolly Parker- Wanda Fry. Grandma's guests Rose Mary 1 Brown. Onnalee Millisor. Charles < Marbach. Dick Schafer. Betty Smith. Junior Owens. Little Joan -Ruth Hammond. I (CONTTNFED ON PAGE ETVK) . o— — Herschel Boothby Fined By Mayor 1 r Herschel Boothey was fined * ,$1 anfi costs by Mayor George Krick ' , in city court Tuesday evening when < he pleaded guilty to a charge of ’ ptiMic Boothby was • arrested Saturday night on South J Second Street. L

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Congressional Committee Hears Dr. Wirt />■ — ~ I * < * Sh & 1 ' 'V WK ■afr R .<w. .... _ _ Dr. \\ irt Ex-Senator Reed Her - is Dr William A. Wirt, educator of Gary. Ind, who is shown in Washington before a special congressional committee investigating Wirt’s charges that mb i. of the so-called Roosevelt ' brain trust were intellectual radicals plotting to force a change in the American system of government. Former Senator .lames A. Reed of Missouri, Dr. Wirt's counsel is at right.

NAME OFFICERS AT CONVENTION Huntington Woman Is Re-clccted President of Organization Mrs R. B. Met kstroth of Huntington, w.as re-elected president of the Woman's Missionary Society of the Reformed churches in the Fort Wayne Classis of the Synod of the Mill West, at the twelfth annual convention being held in the local Refm med Church. The convention opened Tuesday morning and continued throughout Wednesday afternoon. The two new officers of the organization are Miss Mynnc Ehrsam of Berne, first vice-pie- i lent, ind Mrs. Elmer Culp of Goshen, second vice-president. Officers re-elected are as follows: Miss Mildred Mullet, Fort Wayne, recording secretary; Mrs. fhiyle White, Fort Wayne, corresponding secretary; Mrs. K- Karn, Fort Wayne, treasurer, and Mrs. Ausitin Romig. Culver, historian. Delegates to the Mid-West Synod ; to be held in Indianapolis in Octoi her. were selected at this morning's session. Mrs. Doyle White of Fort Wayne will be the Women's Mis-| sionury Society delegates. Marie Fulk of Bluffton, the Girls Missionl CONTI St!El> ON PAGE FIVE)

PASTOR SPEAKS TO LIONS CLUB — hr. U. S. A. Bridge Gives Address At Regular Meeting "These are days of fast movement, great hazard, complexity and high tension" said Dr. U. S. A. Bridge, pastor of the Decatur M E. ('hutch, in an address before th© Lions club Tuesday evening. Dr. Bridge used as his subject j "The Birdman". He traced matt's I development through five distinct stages. "First." he sail, "Was the: stout man who possessed the neces-; sary characteristics of that period : when man contended against the animal for his existence. "Next came the fighting man or ( period of aggression, plunder and pillage. Next ‘ came the brawny main, followed by the industrialist and finally the birdman.” Dr. Bridge continued "The birdman of these modern days is a man of acquisition and Self control, a master of the latest inventions and appliances of science. He does the t ight thing at the right time Im em-1 urgencies when life depends upon his actions" W F. Beery was in charge of the i program. Miss Mary Kathryn Tyn-! dall was the pianist- j

Decatur, Indiana, Wednesday, April 11, 1931.

Archbold Demands Removal Os Name L. E. Archbold today filed a demand through his attorney that his name be removed as a candidate for delegate to the Democratic state convention The demand was filed with the election commissioners and sets up the fact that his name was placed on ■ the pet't'on 'without his knowledge or consent" and that he does not wish to be a candidate. Mr. Archbold is the agricultural county agent and feels he should continue liimsclf in position to serve all the people and to devote himself to his work one hundred per cent. BUREAU TAKES OVER HIGHWAY — Bureau of Public Roads Will Supervise Work On Road 527 I 'Supervision of construction work on state road 527. southeast of Decatur to the Ohio state line.; has been taken over by the federal bureau of public roads. Orders were received this week by H. E. Pickering, representative of the public works administri j lion, to discontinue his sunervi-

, 114*14, 14* uionrililiiiir ••* --1 •• ’ sion. Mr. Pickering will leave | soon for Muncie, where he will 1 sunervise the building of the new, addition to Ball State Teacher's I ) College. Mr. Pickering has been located; in Decatur since December. W. J Wells, engineer for the' 1 state highway commission, will ' continue his duties on the local project. | Work has been progressing on ' toad 527 for several weeks. The : contract for the new pavement is being carried on hv Meshherger Bros, and Yost Brothers were awarded the contracts for the construction of new bridges on the highway. The road under construction is ( slightly more than seven miles in length and will be a vast improveI ment Dangerous turns and curves I will he eliminated and when the pavement is completed, will mean • a largo increase in traffic through I I this city. | oSheriff From Hartford Twn. i Otto S Sales, the last candidate to enter the field for tb» Drmi | 'r" ,l <' nomination for sheriff has been a resident of Hartford township for the nast 47 vears, 1 Mr Sales is a stock dealer !>'• trade and has lived in Hartford j i township all hfs life. H» entered' [the race last Friday and Is among jthe 18 candidates who are calling, I on the voters.

JOEMcNAMARA TO BE SPEAKER Assistant To AttorneyGeneral Will Speak Here April 19 Joseph McNamara, assistant to \ttorney general Philip Lutz, will be the speaker at the meeting to 'be held at the court house, in this ' city. Thursday, April 19. sponsored by the Adams County Democratic . Woman's club. Mr. McNamara is a brilliant 'speaker and one of the leading j Democrats i i the state. He will be accompanied here by Dick He! 1 ler, secretary to Lieutenant (lover nor Cliff Townsend and several state officials. Miss Mary McKean. 1 publicity chairman of the Woman's; I club announced. Preceding the public meeting at eight o'clock to which all candi dates are invited, there will lie ai business session of the members 'of the club. The election of offijeers is scheduled to take place and j the women are urged to be present 'at 7:30 o’clock. [ The candidates for state, county and city offices will be presented They will not be called on to speak • Extra chairs will be placed in the court room to accommodate a large trONTINI'ED ON PAGE FIVE) BRING INSULL i BACK FRIDAY Start Return Trin With Former Utility Head Friday Istanbul. Turkey. Apr. 11 — (U.R) Turkish and American officia's today arranged to return Samuel Insull to the United States aboard the American steamship Exilona. j which sales from Symrna for Bos- ' ton Friday afternoon. I The Exilona, of the American , export line, is due at Boston about , the middle of May. after calling at a Sicilian port, at Algiers, and ! at Casablanca. j It was understood that Major John A. Crane, military attache of the American embassy, would accompany Insull, acting unofficially. Tuhliish authorities planned to | i retain charge of Insull until he was actually aboard the Exilona outside Smyrna harbor. Then they were to hand hint; i over formally to Burton Y. Berry, : of Fowler. Ind., third secretary of j the embassy, as representative of ! the state department. ■ Hi- was to be sent from here to) i sea of Marmora, aboard the little: Panderma, on the coast of the [ * tCUNTINUED ON PAGE FIVE),

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ILLINOIS VOTE FAVORS POLICY OF ROOSEVELT Recovery Program Given Vote Os Confidence In Primary DEMOCRATS DOUBLE REPUBUCAN VOTE Chicago, Apr. 11. (U.P Illinois j voters appeared today to have given the Roosevelt recovery program a vote of confidence in tile i first statewide primary election re fleeting popular rea. tion to the "new deal.” The Democratic party emerged from yesterday's primary as the majority parly in Illinois tor the first time in 50 years. The Repub- 1 lican party polled less than half as I I many votes as it did in the 1932' primary. Incumbent congressmen who sought renomination triumphed* with hut two exceptions. Walter I Nesbit. Democratic congressman atlarge. was defeated by Michael L Igoe, and James Simpson. Jr., Re ; publican, lost to Ralph E. Church ) in the tenth district. Speaker Henry T. Rainey, Carroll i ton. was given a five to one major ' ity over his lone opponent, J. H. Kirby, Petersburg farmer. Rainey’s <>nlv campaign statement, issued in Washington, charged "Wall street'' was fighting his re.nomination. The voters, turning out in record ! numbers for an off year primary, defeated virtually every candidate ! who expressed opposition to the ad- ■ ministration recovery program. The I nomination of the entire adminis | tration approved Democratic slate' I was hailed by party chieftains as ' a Roosevelt victory. . Democratic policies, injected by ! ; Secretary of the Interior Harold ' Ickes in the Simpson Church fight, ; likewise appeared to have received , approval of some Republican voters. ’ Ickes had charged Simpson witii 1 ; "failure to understand the NRA.” ’ j With returns in from all but 90 I scattered precincts Church forces ' claimed his nomination by 4.200 j votes. Simpson headquarters re-■ fused to concede the election, but (CONTINUED ON PAGE FIVE) I O BOY KIDNAPS i INFANT GIRL Two And Half Year-Old Girl Dies Os Shock And Exposure Chicago April 11—(UP)—A coroner's jury today ordered 13 year old George Rogalski held to the grand jury on a murder charge in connection with the death of Dorette Zietlow, tiny two and a half year old girl. If the boy is held sane, assistant states attorney Richard Regan said he would be tried in the criminal instead of juvenile court. Chicago. Apr. 11—<U.R)~- A tiny, blonde baby girl, Dorette Zietlow.; 2'k ye’ars old. died in St. Elizabeth's hospital today from shock and exposure suffered during two days as the prisoner of an abnormal 13-year-old boy. The girl was kidnaped Sunday afternoon and held on the second floor of an abandoned livery stable. She was unconscious and ; her body was black with frost bite when police found her last night. While physicians worked most *, of the night to save the child. Shakespeare Avenue police fired ' questions and accusations at stub- 1 born, defiant George Rogalski. 13. ; (FONTINI’FD ON PAGE TWO) , Many Registration Cards Transferred Seventy-five transfers of regis-, 1 tration cards within the county J have been made by the county j ’ ) clerk’s office siir e the registration I I started In addition to registration 1 blanks have been cancelled a-s the < parties moved out of the county. 1 It is the opinion of several attor- 1 1 neys that registration cards may • I still be transferred within the coun- f Ity. However, persons moving into;* i the county must file new registra 11ion cards. It is believed that these ; < I registrations will be invalid in the 1 primary May 8. '

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Investigator Will Complete Interviews Mirvs Violet Van Note, case worker In the local re-employment of I j flee, will complete the first inter-* ’ I views with seekers of jobs under) I the new FICRA program this week or the first of next week New application cards must he filed hi de-! tall. I The next stage of her work will ; I consist of personal visits into the; I homes of the applicants to check ) ■their stories. She will also inter-, I view the references offered on the) I raids. She will make visits to the [ homes again later. Miss Van Note will approve a * group of men to work on the extension of the city light and water mains to the homesteads project late this afternoon. The second | * crew will begin Thursday morning I working 18 hour shifts. CONGRESSMAN ATTACKS WIRT IN STATEMENT Michigan Representative Brands Wirt As “Wall Street" Man CONTINUE HEARING UNTIL NEXT WEEK Washington, Apr. 11. —(U.R> DrWilliam A. Wirt, wlio accused six brain trust satellites of a "fed plot” to overthrow the government, was branded today as 'Wall street’s instrument in a "Nazi dictatorship movement" by Rep. George Foulkes, D.. Michigan. Foulkes, whose district is just across Hie Michigan line from Gary. Ind., where Wirt is head of the school system, has assailed the! ' Hoosier schoolmaster at every opj portunity since the "red plot”; l charges broke. Wirt, after his spectacular testimony yesterday before a special house investigation committee, remained in seclusion today in a ; fashionable Connecticut Avenue hotel. refusing phone calls and visit ors. He named six minor goverment employes as present at a Vir-, ginia party last fall. They were the ones who said ; , President Roosevelt was "the Kerensky" of the ‘'American revolu- * tioti" with a “Stalin to come,'' he j said. The six will be summoned before the committee next week. Foulkes charged that Wirt was the "instrument in what will be an eventual effort to sot up a Nazi ) dictatorship in this country." His attack came as the Gary ! schoolmaster was given leave to go) home by his counsel, former Sen- i ator James A. Reed of Missouri. Foulkes declared: "We must face the issue —the fight between plutocracy and the 'people—and not try to laugh it ) j i I (CONTINUED ON PAGE THREE) l STATE LEAGUE CONTESTTODAY Marion Baker Represents Decatur In Discussion i At Montpelier ( Marion Baker, high school senior, J will represent the Decatur school in the section,:)! contest of the Ind- f iana state discussion league at ( Montpelier tonight. The contest is . being held umder the direction of Virgil Wagner. Montpelier principal and district chairman Mr. Wagner formerly was principal at Monroe. The topic for discussion is "Resolved-: That the United States ' should adopt the essential features ] oi *the British system of radio control and operation."’ . Judges will be Victor Eicher, Pet- * I roleuni, a former Adams county teacher; J. Fred Andrews and LeRoy Hedges, both of Lancaster Central high school. Wells county. 1 A total of nine students will take i part in the discussion contest. Oth-; t er contestants will be from Mont-} 1 pelier, Muncie, Marion, Anderson, t Huntington, Portland, Winchester j and Wabash. The winner of this sectional will compete in the finals ; at Bloomington April 26 ; The Decatur entrant will be ac-; 1 companied to Montpelier by W. Guy 1 Brown, principal, amt Dean T. Dor-It win, debate coach. J

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THIEF KILLED DURING HOLDUP AT WHITELAND — Another Os Gang Captured; Third Believed Badlv Wounded ’ IS SHOT BY FILLING STATION ATTENDANT Indianapolis, Apr. 11 lUR) A I) killed during an I attempted filling station holdup al Whiteland today ; was identified as Thomas Moore. 27, Indianapolis, a petty gangster. He had l>een al liberty under bond since Feb. 19 when he was bound over bv ' the Marion county grand jury on a charge of vehicle taking. Further check of Moore's criminal record showed that he served sentences at the state reformatory, the penal farm, and the j Mansfield. O„ reformatory. He was arrested in South Bend May 15 on charges of vehicle I taking but police here were not informed what disposition was i made of his case at that time. Moore was killed when he atI tempted to break into a filling station at Whiteland with two other men. Later Indianapolis police were informed that Harry Melkle, 22. Indianapolis, was kidi naped by three armed men and forced to drive them around the city for several hours. One of the men was badly wounded. Melkle said. Charles Geisking, 30, reputed I local hoodlum, was under arrest. He was captured by City Patrolmen Herschel Musgrove and Walter Bandy here after an exI change of shots. The car in which Geisktng was captured was riddled with bullets, police reported. These bullet holes were believed by police to have resulted when a similar car had outdistanced local officers in a chase a short time earlier when a police ) sub-machine gun jammed. The dead man, the one reported . wounded and Geisking all were (CONTINUED ON PAGE THREE) MARIA MAURER DIES SUDDENLY Berne Woman Dies Suddenly From Stroke Os Apoplexy Today Berne. April 11 —(SpecialMrs. Maria Maurer. 78. widow of Fred Maurer, and mother of Mrs Chris Lehman, formerly of this city, died suddenly at 9:15 o'clock this morning at her home on East Water street. Death was due to apoplexy. Mrs. Maurer suffered a stroke of apoplexy at 7 o’clock this morning. She had been in good health Tuesday and had been busy during the day making garden. Mr. and Mrs Maurer resided in Wabash township on s farm for many years and about five years ago moved to Berne. Mr. Maurer preceded his wife in death. Surviving are two daughters, Mrs. Chris Lehman of Geneva and Miss Lena M.iurer. at home. One daughter preceded her mother in death Mrs. Maurer was a member of the Reformed church in Benne. Funeral services will be held Friday. No exa t time has been set for the services. Mrs. Lehman, the daughter was attending the Women's Missionary Society convention of the Reformed churches being held in Decatur, when she received word of her mother’s death. Fails In Second Suicide Attempt Fort Wayne, April 11 <U*P) — Irvin Wolf, 38. arrested at Bluffton a week ago on a charge of robbing a filling station here, was under police guard in St. Joseph's hospital today after a second unsuccessful attempt at. suicide.. Wolf, who tried to kill himself by slashing his throat and wrists a day after his arrest, jabbed a pencil in his abdomen at the Wells county hospital. Bluffton, yesterday, aa officers prepared to return him to Fort Wayne.