Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 32, Number 90, Decatur, Adams County, 13 April 1934 — Page 1

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Vol. XXXII. No. 90.

Heads Army Air Quiz 1 : jL W* 1 fit r : Ik ibh 1 k’i.Wßwfe. M-X W > y ;: Appointment of Newton D. Baker. Secretary of War under I‘resi--1 dent Wilson, as head of special I committee to investigate army aviation, particularly as regards airmail transportation, murks return of statesman to active par- '' ticipation in national affairs. The ' committee he heads is that upon ’ which Colonel Lindbergh refused 1 to serve. r —

RATEHEARING 1 IS ADJOURNED A j Public Service Commission Adjourns (las Rate Hearing - Indianapolis. Apr. 13. —(U.P ter hearing testimony and evidence for the past five weeks, the Public Service Commission lias adjourned . the gas rate hearing of South Bend. Mishawaka and Elkhart until next month. The case.'one of the longest aiid most expensive in the history of the commission, was against the Northern Indiana Public Service I Company, which serves gas patrons in the Calumet and South Bend : districts. A definite date for oral arguments and tiling of briefs by attor I" neys for Imlh the uti'iity and the three cities was not set but at least | a month will be needed to transcribe the voluminous minutes of the hearing. Members of the commission announced they did not expect to make a decision in the [ 1 . case before July. ’ Thus far the rate case has cost ’ the utility and the Public Service ’ commission approximately SBO,OOO. ( This included appraisal of the utility's properties in the three cities ’ and expenses of engineering and ’ appraisal experts. Attorneys for the three cities and t - » tCONTINURD ON PACC r\VO) TEST SITES FOR RADIO STATIONS I Purdue Man Tests Locations For State Police Radio Stations Indianapolks. |nd.. April 13 —(VP) Tests to determine the best loca- , tions for state police radio stations were being made today by Prof. G. E. Went. Purdue electrical engineer-' ing instructor. ' Traveling in a car equipped with . special radio apparatus to determine "dead spots." Prof. West made a tour of the northwestern section of the state today ’ The central broadcasting station ; will be located here, while others are to be establishe.i im each of the four corners of the state. The plan, advanced by Al G. Fee- ’ ney, director of public safety, is be , ing supported by members of the , Indiana bankers association, who I have subscribed most of the money required to finance the project. Details of station construction I and equipment have been eomplet--1 9N PAUbt TWO)

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CONTEMPT CASE AGAINST JURY ISDISMISSED .ludjfc Murray Drops Action Against Lake County Grand Jury NO DISRESPECT MEANT BY JURY Crowin Point. April 13—(VP)— Judge William J. Murray today dismissed a contempt of court citation wlii- h he had placed against member. of the gran.l jury that investigated John Dillinger’s jail break. Tile action i oncluded one of the strangest legal tangles in Indiana court annals. The legal profession throughout the country have become interested in the strange spectacle of a judge citing for contempt of court his own i grand jurors. Opinion was divided as to whether Murray was within his powers in making Hie citation. Murray said he dismissed the contempt action after the jurors against whom it was directed ex-, plained that they intended no disrespect of the court. They said, ac■ording to Murray, that they thought that in criticizing the actions of tlie court they were following the instructions Murray gave them to "get to the bottom" of Dillinger's escape Attorneys for both Murray and the grand jurors agreed, they said not to discuss the incident further. Ed Mutschler Buys Business Building Ed Mutschler has purchased the Mart Gilson property corner of Madison and Third streets. Tile property is occupied by Goodyear Service. Inc Mr. Mutschler purchased the property as an investment The transaction was made by Roy Johnson SUNDAY FINAL PAYMENT DATE Gross Income Tax Payments Must Be Filed By Sunday Sunday, April 15. is the last day to file state gross Income tax returns for the April period. J. L. Ehler, manager of the Decatur auto license branch, warned today. Persons or firms that owe more than $lO tax on gross receipts for the months of January. February land March, will be subject to penalties if returns are not in the mail by midnight Sunday, unless they have received a special extension of time, Mr. Ehler said Those who have applied for extensions which have been granted by the state gross income tax division, have until May 15. to file. The auto license branch will remain open until 8:30 o dock Sat- | nrday night for the convenience of persons who want personal assis- ’ tance in making out their returns, i before the regular tifne limit ex piles. More than 400 April quarterly return forms have been issued from the license branch, the manager said, indicating that many persons owing less than $lO tax are filing , returns. Those owing less than $lO in taxes for the quarter, although allowed under the law to defer mak- i ing a return until the annual tax paying period in January, have been urged by the state to file a return ! now and pay the tax. Money paid , now. it was explained, will be j available for distribution to schools in July, while later payments can ! not be distributed until next year. —o — Maurer Funeral Services Changed The funeral services for Mrs. Maiia Maurer, 78, Berne, which were to have been held Saturday afternoon have been postponed until ' Sunday afternoon at 2 o’clock at the Reformed church in Berne. The change in the services was made i pending the arrival of relatives from a distance. Rev J. L. Conrad ' will officiate and burial will be 1 made in the M. R. E. cemetery.

Decatur, Indiana, Friday, April 13, 1931.

Federal Judge I IRrf I H t ‘ |i The first woman in U. S. history to hold such a post. Judge Florence Allen, of Cleveland, O„ takes her place for the first time on the bench of the United States Circuit Court of Appeals in Cincinnati. This court is second only to the supreme Court of the United States.

ROOSEVELT IS WELCOMED HOME President Returns From Fishing Vacation This Morning Washington. Apr. 13— (U.R) Parading congressmen with the marine band welcomed President Roosevelt home from his fishing vacation today with a blare of brassy music and whoopees of enthusiasm. Tlie presidential special arrived from Florida at 9:50 a. m. "Good morning." said Mr. Roosevelt as he appeared on the rear platform, and discovered the band, approximately 200 representatives and a score of senators waiting. “I‘#ish you ha I the chan-e that I did to get away for two weeks. 1 learned a lot of lessons from barracudas and sharks —and now I'm a tough guy.” the President said. “I can’t l>e truthful and say that I'm glad to get back. I'm very sorry to have to get back. "While I've been iraving a wonderful time in the south 1 understand both houses of congress have been having a wonderful time also.” The President chose to accept the occasion somewhat less than seriously despite the wrangling argument aroused in both houses by the parade plan. Representatives were angry because senators wouldn’t march with them and their band from the Capitol to the union station. "I expected some good publicity rCON'TINUED ON PAGE CTVE) GOVERNOR WILL GIVE KEYNOTE Gov. Paul V. McNutt Keynote Speaker At State Convention Indianapolis April 13 — (UP) — Governor Paul V. McNutt will be the keynote speaker at the Demovatic state convention here June 12. The governor will act as temporary chairman of the convention and Senator Frederick Van Nuys will be permanent chairman. The convention will nominate candidates for U. S. senator, secretary of state, state treasurer, state auditor, superintendent of public instruction, clerk of thy supreme and appelliate courts, judge of the supreme court (fifth district) and four judge# of the appella'e court, two from each division Dr. Carleton B. McCulloch, state chairman; Mrs. A. P. Flynn, state vice-chairman; Omer Jackson. Greenfield, eleventh district chairman. and Virgil Simmons, Bluffton are members of the convention committee.

WOMAN'S CLUB PLANS PROGRAM Annual Athletic Program Will Be Presented Tuesday Night The annual athletic program sponsored by the Civic Section of i the Woman’s Club and the athletic idepartment of the Decatur high school will be presented Tuesday night. April 17 in the high school gymnasium. Admission will be bl cents for children and 20 cents tor adults. Tickets may be procured from any member of the Civic section. The program will be in the charge of Herb Curtis and Miss Jeanette Clark, athletic instructors hi the high school. The complete program will be as follows: Playlet, “Two Hicks from Hicksville" written by the Misses Marie Grether and Agnes Nelson. The characters will be as follows: Esmeralda. Winona Fleming; Hiram. James Harkless, and Henrietta, Arlene Porter. Specialties: Old Fashioned Dance Freshmen girls. Pyramids Freshmen girls. Three Little Pigs Went to Market sung by Evelyn Kohls. The three little pigs will be Evelyn Jane Graber. Marjorie Gay and Betty Brown. The Farmer in the Dell—sA class. Dance—Sophomore girls. Song, "Shine on. O Harvest Moon" Miss Margaret Campbell Scarecrow dance Sophomore class. Dance "Did You Ever See A Dream Walking?” Following the program a basketball game will be played between two city teams. Harry Knapp anil Herman Myers will act as captains of the teams. HUGE AWARD IS MADE BY JUDGE Judgment of More Than $250,000 Granted By Judge De Voss What is believed to l»e the largest judgment ever granted in Adams county was awarded in the Adams circuit court today by Judge Huber M. DeVoss to the Peoples Equities Corporation, trustee, of Fort Wayne, against the Washington-Calhoun Realty Corporation. Inc., Peoples Trust and (Savings company, Lewis H. Schoppmann and S. A. Blum, of Fort Wayne. The amount involved including the principal, accrued interest, attorneys' fees, abstract bills and advancements was $229,745.12, plus $22,219.93 awarded in the cross complaint to make a total of $251.9(15.05. The property on which the judgment was awarded is the one story building on the southeast corner lof Washington and Calhoun streets in Fort Wayne south of Wolf and Dessaner building. The original complaint filed with the Allen county clerk asserted that the defendant on December 30. 1933 delivered in trust in consideration of the sum of $200,000 paid by the plaintiff (CONTINT'WD ON PAGE SIX) a —e I SUPERSTITIOUS? I I ' I ' Humboldt. la., Apr. 13 —<L).R) ' Raymond Hanson, city mail | carrier, walked under ladders. ! I | smiled at black cats, stepped | I | on every crack in the side- . I walk, and otherwise celebrated Friday the 13th today. | Hanson's birthday was to- | day. But that's not all. He went to war on his birth- 1 | day, Friday the 13th. and re- j > || turned without a scratch. | i I There are 13 years of married | life behind him, during which | the family has moved 13 times. | He. his wife, son, and I | I daughter all have 13 letters | . in their respective names. His | I j son is 13 years old. | Oh, yes. He's also been a ( | mail carrier 13 years.

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RELIEF ROLLS REACH PEAK IN UNITED STATES All-time Peak of 1,700,000 Is Reached On First Os April EXPECT PICKUP IN NEXT MONTH Washington. Apr. 13 «J.R> Relief rolls reached an all time peak of |,7oii.otUi families April 1. 1934. despite employment increases,, Relief Administrator Harry L. Hopkins said today. Hopkins attributed the increase to rapid exhaustion of monetaryreserves of persons who had been unemployed during a major portion of the depression. The 4.700,000 figure. Hopkins said, is equal to approximately 18.000,0'0 persons The figure in March, 1933. Honkins said, was 4.fi00.000 and in October. 1933, before civil works became effective, approximately 3 000,000. He estimated that about 1.950,000 heads of families now are employed under tlie now work relief program. The balance, Hopkins said, are receiving direct relief. Hopkins said state relief organizations hive reported varying employment increased but that despite this their organizations hit the new high. The peak is expected to continue through April due to tlie transition from CWA to the emergency work program. Hopkins expects an additional pickup in employment in May. Relief statisticians reported t\e number of relief cases in the United States increased 13 per fCONTTNrt'TD GN PAGE SIX) Leaders In House Recover Control Washington. Apr. 13. — (U.R) — President Roosevelt’s house leaders suddenly recovered their wavering control today and apparently succeeded in muffling a series of anti-administration drives that had sprouted in tlie President's absence. By means ot various parliament ary devices, the leaders side-track-ed tlie McLeod bank deposit "payoff” bill, the krazier Lemke $2,500,000.000 inflation-farm mortgage hill, and tlie Feisinger silver remonetization bill. Similar pressure awaited the 30hour work week bill if the President desired it. Decatur Young Man Is Under Arrest Rex Sheets of this city was arrested late Thursday afternoon on a bastardy charge filed by a Bluffton ' girl. He was brought before justice of the peace John Kelly ami releas < ed on a SBOO bond to appear in that court May in. 3,500 WORKERS GO ON STRIKE Detroit Strike Is Not As Serious As Was First Expected — Detroit. Apr. 13.-(U.R) Thirty-five ’ hundred automotive tool and die, workers went on strike today in nearly 100 plants in tlie Detroit area, which, while serious in its I potentialities, was far from tying j up production as had been origin ally threatened. , The strike action does not affect . 17 members of the automotive tool and die manufacturers' association , and scores of non-member jobbers. Seventeen association jobbers and three non-association i tnanufac- ( i turers signed agreements meeting , the workers’ demands for a 20 -per , i cent increase in wages and 36-hotir. , five-day work week, a few hours . j before the strike vote was taken. , The wage agreements caused the mechanics educational society of .America to modify its original , (CONTINUED ON PAGE TWO)

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Moves Up in NRA -| c I wt'il J -5 ■ aMItgOoM aMfc.Vr ?- f ;;i* Lieutenant Colonel George A. Lynch, pictured at his desk in Washington, after he had been named special aide to General Hugh S. Johnson. NRA Administrator. Colonel Lynch lias been given wide powers in dealing with codes and other NRA business formerli handled by General Johnson.

HERMAN MYERS IS GIVEN HONOR Decatur Attorney Heads (’lass In Scottish Rite Consistory Herman H Myers. Decatur attorney. was elected president of the 'spring class of the Fort Wayne con- ' sistory. Ancient Accepted Scottish Rite masonry. Thursday .afternoon. The reunion ot' the consistory was I concluded Thursday evening after degree work had beep given for three days. All meetings were held in the Masonic Temple in Fort Wayne. Other officers of the class are Custer A. Dunifon, vice-president and Charles W. Wells, secretarytreasurer. Fifteen candidates took the entire work of the Scottish Rite at this convocation. The 21st, 22nd and 23rd degrees were given Thursday afternoon. A banquet was given for the class Thursday night, with Dr. K. O. Crosby of Howe Military AcadI emy making the principal address. The Scottish Rite choir from South Bend sang at the meeting and O. :E. Richard'!' orchestra furnished (he music. Among those from Decatur who attended the meeting were Leigh Bowen, Dr. C. C. Rayl, Dr J. C. Grandstaff, C. J. Lutz. E.l Ashbau- . her. C. (' Pumphrey, Gerald Grandstaff, Cal E. Peterson, C. A. Dugan. M. E. Hower. Dr Roy Archbold. Walter Deitsch, Dan Sprang. C. A. Burdg, Bob Freitag. Floyd Acker, Martin Gilson. Dr. Fred Patterson. Wilson Lee. Amos Yoder, Norman Lenhart, Herman Myers, Dick Archbold and Alex Wilhelm. u — Berne Church Choir Sings Here Sunday The large chorus choir of the Berne Mennonite church will give a sacred concert Sunday evening at 7:30 o'clock in the First United Brethren church. The concert is free to tlie public. A free will offering will be taken. Erie Railroad To Show Free Talkie H. N Blair, local Erie railroad agent, announced today that the passenger department of the Erie ■would show a tree talkie of the Century of Progress in this city, April 17. A free show will be given in the Catholic high school auditorium next Tuesday, beginning at 2:30 o’clock. All the school children, parents and friends are Invited. In the evening the film will be shown at the Lions club meeting at the Ri< e Hotel. The film consists of pictures of the Century of Progress and many interesting scenes will be shown.

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OUTLAW STAGES DARING RAID IN INDIANA TODAY Fugitive And Companion Take Bullet Proof Vests And Guns IS NEARLY CAU(JHT BY TOWN OFFICER Union Mills, Ind., April 13 — (UP) —Another Dillinger tip "blew up” when Hammond police arrested a man named Camini who is wanted for a store robbery in Hammond and a murder in East Chicago. When the squad of armrd officers left the Hammond police headquarters for Union Mills it was reported that they were seeking a gang hideout where John Dillinger was believed to have sought refuge following a raid on the Warsaw police arsenal. Warsaw, Ind., Apr. 13 (U.R) .ludd Pittinger, a small town policeman, told the I nited Press today how he took the muzzle of .John Dillinger’s machine gun anti C't’mlv pointed it into the air. 'flic gun was pointing at Pittinger's vitals when he made the hold hut futile effort to capture tlie ace outlaw single-handed. The 54-year-old night watchman patroling the deserted main street of this little resort town when he ' encountered Ae marauding desperado and a companion early to- : day. said that Dillinger called him | 1 “the biggest damn fool I ever I ' saw.” ! When he took the menacing j muzzle of the machine gun and ; pushed it aside he knew that his k assailant was the widely-hunted | Dillinger, he said "I recognized him immediately." he declared. He also described how he at- ■ tempted to lock Dillinger and the latter's companion, Homer Van Meter. Indiana parole violator, in a room at the Warsaw town hall i and police headquarters. “If there had been a lock on the door I would have had Dillinger and his companion just like that,” he explained, snapping his fingers. As the officer ran for help however, Dillinger and Van Meter picked up three bullet-proof vests and two revolvers, jumped into a large blue sedan parked in front of the town hall and fled. As Pittinger, who said he defied the notorious Dillinger "because he got me mad." told his story in his home here armed posses of state police, vigilantes and sheriff’s officers spread over Indiana , in aii excited bunt for the guerilla outlaws. Blockades were thrown up at highway intersections and everv available peace officer in the northern part of the state was mustered into service. : Pittinger, who was under a doctor’s qare today because of a torn ligament in his left leg received when he fled after attempting to trap the bandits, said that when he daringly Rushed aside the muzzle of Dillinger's machine gun the cartridge clip fell to the ; ground. "He couldn't have shot me then if he had wanted to." the policeman related, "but Van Meter had i another machine gun trained oti (CONTINUED ON PAGE FOUFD* — o ADAMS COUNTY FARMER DIES Henry A. Durr Dies At Home In Blue Creek Township Today Henry A Durr, 72. a resident of i Adams County practically all his life, died at his home in Blue Creek j township at 8:30 o'clock this mornI ing of complications. Mr. Durr was born in Crawford I County, Ohio, on July 9. 1861. He was a son of George and Elizabeth , Durr. When a small boy he moved to Adams County where he spent , the remainder of his life. He was united hi marriage to , Mathilda Hurless on September 6, , 1889. and she preceded him in death ■ (CONTINUED ON PAGE TWoU