Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 32, Number 96, Decatur, Adams County, 20 April 1934 — Page 1

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IRGE PARDON FOR JOHN DILLINGER

HE CROWD Il POLITICAL ■MEETING HERE ■ocratic Wo m a n’s ■h Sponsors Meeting ■At Court House K pil M< SAM ARA ■s MAIS SPEAKER n>eviii't room of the Atl-K-ount. court house was; ■to capacity Thursday ■ for the political meet■ponsored by the Adams ■' woman’s Democratic ■'Members of the dub, ■dates for county, city ■town-hip offices, and ■ voter.- filled the room g room at a prem- ■ Ha. Indiana dep . i.il. was the prillIII’- eiening. deal with the New Heal aio! p-d- ial government. Faye Smith Knapp, presi■ the iiib. presided at the Mis. Knapp, after ex-j ■g greetings of the club to - and guests, intro-i 11. Her. Adams county ■ro chairman. and secre Li-I'.-iiant Governor M Townsend. ■ ■;■ ■ urged the members ’■■ -• • -hat Adams conn ■ a heavy vote at the priMav 8 and that the 1 of tin- county participate I ■ W- N.m-.oa, speaker of tile: was then introduced by' The deputy attorneyopened his address by. Adams county for the | ■ l>- ma lorities rolled ■ die voters id' the county for ami of the enthusiasm ; throughout the state by I trom this county ■v -O' I: M’ McNamara's ■ follows: of the administramay be noted, make no ■ i.t -■ ong backward. The ■b-i- nothing if not new. ’ i -I The more dras imw acts, ii is true, are two years, at the end of ■'■:.> may hope, the crisis of Wil! |,e past Congress ■itt». is normal fitnetionm s '' -'. i itut ional balance |Bresi. But. in the nature ' ON PAGE SIX! - -- Hneyer Rites K Sunday Afternoon ■ral se,-, ices for .Mrs. Sophia Vp r. si who was found dea 1 horn.- in Adams township. Wednesday night, will Sunday afternoon at 1: :iti ■ " the toone and at 2 o’clock Trinity Lutheran church, Wym-ken will officiate win |, H i n the- church ■>?.

K icip/es Os American Government grains The Same, Declares Manion

nriiHrt i n America today is 111 Socialism than it was °r 1789 The New Deal is ■ »n attempt to give the indimodern up to-date of protection", said t'lar(jean of the law school Dame university in an a«l---ore members of the Dera•'ary club at lhp Ricp hotpl Manion, an orator of note. • wl "to change in the method ■ er n an government with the ce of a Beveridge and the •'anding o f a Marshall. He ° n Socialism and the New ■ He interpreted the New Deal ■"l'ldualistic and not Socialwas chairman of the ■m. Principle of American gov ■ 's the same now as it was | ■ •'•'terson wrote the Declara-1 ■ independence. If the meth ' ' Prn,,lent f°r the accom-1 , n that principle have i ■j meth(x *a °f business, trans- > otc.. have made the old Ksnrr KoVp, ' nnil ‘nt inadequate ■. 11 ipnt ”• s aid the speaker, •"dress follows: ■ * rs peo P' p have apparent ■of 'i" tflat ,^IF! traditional I ■ ® er^can Government is I n Pk-ly displaced by State

DECATUR DAILY DEMOCRAT ONLY DAILY NEWSPAPER IN ADAMS COUNTY

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LOCAL WOMEN ATTEND MEET Twenty-two Attend Annual (’lub Convention At W inchester Twenty-two Decatur women, members of the Adams County Federation of Clubs, attended the ani nual convention of the Federated Clubs of the eighth district held at Winchester Thursday 1 Mrs. Robert A. Hicks of Cam/bridge City, the state president and I Mrs. Frederick O. Italtz of IndiaI napolte. first vice president of the i state organization, gave addresses. Mrs. Hicks talked on the subjet t. ! "Federation, in Step with the Times,” and (Mrs- Raltz’ subject was "To Become F’erntanent Keep .Mov i Ing.’ Mrs. B. F. Terry of Winchester | was named president of the district 1 federation of dubs; Mrs. J. R. Clark Winchester, secretary and treasurer; Mrs. A. C. Hudgeil, Yorktown, ; first vice-president and Mrs. R. D. I Myers. Decatur, second vice-presi-Ident. The convention in 1336 will , be held in Bluffton. The foundation fund was discuss . led and iboxes were distributed to I the various clubs and each memher of the organization will he ask--1 e<j to place two cents a week in jthe box towards the funds. A playlet was given by the MunIde club, directed by Mrs. A. M. Meeks, first vice president of the | j eighth district. Reports of the de- , partmental chairmen were given Mrs. John Tyndall reported ou ■ press and publicity, Mrs. Charles 1 Knapp on Child Welfare and CorI ret-lion and Mrs. Henry Neireiter l on Motion Pictures. A luncheon was served at the noon hour. The Merit Flag which has been | retained by the De< atur club* for ithe la-fl tour years was awarded to ElwoyXl at this meeting. | Women from -Decatur who attendled the meeting were the Mesdames (CONTtNUWIV ON PAGE SIX) SCHOOL ALUMNI PLAN BANQUET Pleasant Mills Alumni Will Hold Annual Banquet Saturday - The alumni of the Pleasant Milks high school will hold their annual banquet at the high school Saturday evening. April 21, at 8 o’clock. C. C. Giffin, president of Giffin college. Van Wert. Ohio, will be the speaker. The complete program for the evening is as follows: (Invocation—4 Marion Smitn. Song—-Bill Davis Reading- -Midge Davis. Song—Bill Davis. Address —G. Giffin. Welcome— Margaret Schenck. Response Fred Dellinger. Music —Orchestra.

7 Socialism. Writers and commentators upon recent trends in govern mental activity- w hether they are friendly to the so called “New Deal" or not—start out upon the ' common assumption that the recovery legislation is an abnegation of, liberty and that it has for its ultimate object the complete regimentation of American commercial life This common assumption creates an unfortunate psychology in America—namely a popular recognition of the inevitability of Social- J ism. People are beginning to believe that perhaps Socialism ia not so bad after all. so long as it is the only avenue out of the slough of economic depression. Socialization of this country, would be too great a price to payeven for renewed prosperity Socialism would call for the sacrifice of too much that Americans have been I schooled to hold dear. Socialism is I not only destructive of individual I liberty—'but it is a denial of every ' other inalienable individual right. The one distinctive feature of American Government ie and has been the preservation of the rights of the individual. We have gone on | the assumption that those rights. I have been given to the individual jby God himself—and that it is the, | business of government to preserve , *7continued on page five,.

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I GUARD GIRL SLAYER TRfc \IT - 11 *■ s J It V "bE- —e■ *“-*B. SB .< National guardsmen armed with machiine guns and tear gas bombs encircle the Caddo Parish courthouse at Shreveport, La., where 'EVed Lockhart, confessed slayer of 16-year-old Mae Griffin, is being held The girl’s body was found outside of the city.

CARNIVALWILL CLOSE TONIGHT Hiijh School Carnival Plays To Big Crowd Thursday Night With all the attractions of a big time affair the firet night of the Decatur high school athletic a-sso- . elation's carnival was a great' success last night. The carnival will be continued tonight at the .school house, opening , at 7 o’clock. The biggest attraction of ail will lie staged tonight when the king 1 and queen of the carnival are ! crowned at 10 o'clock. The latest idope on the race has it that the ri- > val candidates for the imperial } robes are running neck and net k and tlie result can not be determined until the last of the money is checked in by the sponsoring i groups. Sixteen door prizes were given ’away at 10:30 o'clock last evening and fifteen will be given tonight. Some of the attractions which i were pg’esented last night and that are on the schedule for tonight are listed below: iMiss Catherine Kauffman and and Miss Helen Haulbold will reopen their Japanese Tea Room tonight with its continuous floor show- This attraction Is sponsored by the art and music departments of the high school. Jack Moyer and Ins violin from Fort Wayne will again entertain. Other members of this floor show are the trio consisting of Helen Suttles, Mary Kathryn Tyndall and Margaret Campibell Martha Elizabeth Calland will I-dance and Margaret Campbell sing. Professor Hugh Andrews, daredevil aerialist of the high school ’ will again give his death-defying feat. He announced today that a I slight error was made by the ballyhoo artist last night in announcing ' his act. Along with Professor (Andrew’s ■ •"’(CONTINUED ON PAGE SIX) BRYCE THOMAS TO HEAD CLUB Central School Principal Named President Os Rotary Club New officers of the Decatur Rotary club were announced at the weekly meeting last evening. Bryce Thomas, principal at Central high school and active Boy Scout worker of this city was elect;ed president of the club. The other officers are: Roy Johnson. auctioneer, vice-ipresident; I Rev. Charles Prugh, pastor of Zion Reformed church, secretary: Harold McMillen, secretary Central Sugar Co., treasurer; T. C Smith, chemist at sugar factory, sergeant at arms. The men will assume their offices at the first meeting in July. The officers comprise the board of directors. They were elected a week I ago. Dr Fred Patterson has been serving as president of the club since 1 the first of the year, succeeding I Carl Klepper, who resigned when Ihe moved to Huntington.

Decatur, Indiana, Friday, April 20, 1931.

Milk Producers To Meet Monday Night A mass meeting of the Wayne milk producers institute will be held in the assembly’ room of the court house in Fort Wayne. Mon- ■ day evening. April 23. Lieutenant-governor M. Clifford Townsend will be the principal speaker at the meeting. A Mr. Christensen. representative of the Fed- ; eral Agricultural Adjustment Adi ministration, will also speak. The milk license law and other . matters of information to milk producers will 'be discussed by Mr. . Townsend and (Mr Christensen. ; Regulations pertaining to the Fort Wayne milkshed will also be dls--1 cussed and producers are urged to r attend. ? ■ o— - YOUNG SLAYER i PUT T 0 DEATH 1 John Scheck Is Electrocuted For Murder Os 1 i Chicago Cop Chicago, Apr. 2rt. — (U,R> — John Scheck. 21, who fatally shot a policeman during a frenzied dash for 1 freedom from a murder trial court- ' i room, was put to death today in ' I the electric chair. r | Scheck faced the state’s median- ‘ ical death as cooly as he killed robs 1 bery victims or pistoled a patrols man who stood in his jvay. He was 1 ■ followed to the chair by two other 1 killers, George Dale. 29, and Joseph Francis, 35, a negro. Scheck died , at 5:02 a. m. I The executions were demanded by juries last fall during a campaign against crime. The civic in- > .'dignation which led to the cam-1 paign was touched off by some of I ' . Scheele's reckless crimes. Scheck brought himself under , i control only in the early morning hours after a night of terror and . ' nervous hysteria. With Dale and . ; Francis he was held in a cell less : than 15 feet from the chair from I midnight on. He walked from the ■ gloomy death house corridor into ( ' the brightly lighted chair room in I silence. I Scheck killed Policeman John G. | Sevick In the courtroom of Judge ; Charles P. Molthrop last July 24 I when the patrolman sought to I! block bis break for freedom. Police accused his mother of smuggl-. Inga pistol to him in a detention ' cell, just before the break. Dale said he turned to robbery - because he was bored with factory ' work. With Eleanor Jarman, his red-headed sweetheart, and Leo - Minneci, he shot to death a haber- ’ dashery owner. The victim, Gus- • tave Hoen, was kicked several times by the woman as he lay dy- ■ ing. Dale's confederates were given 199-year penitentiary sentences, i Francis killed Joseph Hartel, a ON PAGE StX) o Additional Grant To Indiana Relief Washington, April 20 — (UP) — t The Federal emergency relief ad- : ministration today announced an | additional grant of $45,575 of relief funds to Indiana, of which $20,000 > j is for transient relief through April : I 30 and $25,5(75 to cover obligations Ifor college students aid program in February. .

ORDER MONTHLY UTILITY REPORT • Public Service Commission Issues Orders To All Utilities Indianapolis, April 2**. (U.R) Monthly reports, designed to keep an accurate and perpetual record of utility operations, were ordered from all Indiana public utilities by the Public Service Commission today. Approximately 200 utility con--1 cerns, both private and municipal, were ordered to submit detailed and up-to-date information os earnings. expenditures, property im- ' provements and other information, i Forms on which such infortna- | tion is to be kept in the offices of the commission, were sent out to I all utilities today. j Instituted chiefly to give the commission finger-tip information . jon the operations of utilities for Irate making purposes, savings of huge sums is expected to be effected under the new system. Under previous plans, extensive audits and appraisals were necessary to obtain data tor rate hearings. The commissioners, in making the order, pointed out there has been a need for such a system for some time, recent hearings showing the necessity for a perpetual inventory of utility operations." "By the new system, the commission can watch the trend of changes and adjustments in public utility l business, fluctuation of operating j costs and other matters affecting I rates." o Fined sl, Costs For Intoxication Jess Leßrun plead guilty to a charge of pu'blic intoxication in justice of peace court late Thursday afternoon and was fined $1 and ■costs totaling $9 55. The case was transferred from the mayor's court to John T. Kelly's court. WILL INITIATE 52 CANDIDATES Decatur Moose Lodge Plans Big Meeting Here Tuesday Night — ' Adams Lodge No. 1311. Loyal order of Moose of this city, is preparj ing for one of the largest meetings i ever held here on next Tuesday, when a class of 52 candidates will be initiated'. The Van Wert. Ohio degree team ! one of the best drilled organizations ' of its kind in Ohio, will confer the work. | In addition to the initiation, the installation of the new officers will take place. Solomon Lord, dictator and staff of officers will be install- ' ed. / ; Many visitors are expected from ' nearby towns and the arrangements ■committee has gone to special effort to accommodate the crowd. Following the initiation and' installation of officers a social session will be held and refreshments wll be served in the dining room The meeting will start at 7 o’clock <i 0 # ♦ •■ j (CONTINUED ON PAGE FIVE),

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SENATE PASSES SUGAR CONTROL BILL THURSDAY Bill Placing Sugar Industry Under Federal Control Is Voted I ALL ATTEMPTS AT AMENDMENTS FAIL Washington Apr. 20 (UP)—The j Costigan bill placing the sugar industry under federal control was passed by the senate late Thursday by a vote of 52 to 18. With administration forces beating down every vital amendment, i the measure was approved in almost the form in which it passed the house two weeks ago. These differences are expected to be ironed i out quickly in conference The bill 'then will go to the White House for presidential signature. The bill guarantees domestic beet sugar glowers a quota of 1.550,000 i tons annually. Florida and Louisiana cane growers are given a quota of 260,000 tons. Secretary of Agri--1 culture Henry A. Wallace is empowered to fix the amount that may .be imported from -Cuba. Purto Ri-. o Hawaii and the Philippines. Attempts to amend the bill to ■ give the domestic producers larger quotas were defeated by heavy votes. Efforts to obtain a guaranteed quota for Hawaii and Puerto Rico, instead of leaving them to Wallace, likewise failed Hawaiian .’ an.i Puerto Ricon representatives contended they were integral parts of the Union and should be given equal treatment with the states. , Chairman Pat Harrison (Dem.) ' of Mississippi, of the senate finance committee promised that the adi ministration would d'eal fairly with -1 (CONTINUED ON PAGE SIX) DEMANDREPEAL ■ OF INCOME TAX l ■ ■ Indiana Retailers Urge Repeal of State Gross Income Tax Law I Indianapolis. April 20. — IU.R) — A legislative program urging repeal , of the state gross income tax law. ■ government economies to permit close adherence to the $1.50 tax limit law, and elimination of issuance of public bonds was adopted here last night by Associated Retailers of Indiana. Terming the income tax as class legislation and a dislocation of the tax load, the retailers demanded its prompt repeal by the next session j of the legislature. If additional funds are needed to maintain the present .public school system, the retailers said they would support a measure with a wider tax base providing it contains provisions that revenue must be used only for education. All the tax reform recommendations of the resolutions committee were adopted by the approximatei ly 800 visitors in the afternoon and evening sessions at the state fair- : grounds. Cool weather was blam;ed for failure of attendance to . reach an expected 5,000. In outlining the organization’s legislative proposals, G. Fred Wiedman. South Bend, president of the association, said the gross income ' tax law resulted from passage of the $1.50 tax limit measure in 1930. “Local governmental units, faced ( ••fCONTTNUBJD ON PAGE SIX) 0 — Small Roof Fire Does Little Damage iA small roof fire was quickly extinguished at the home of Mrs. Bina Buhler on Line street at 8 k I o’clock this morning. A spank from the chimney caused the fire which damaged the roof slightly. Damage was estimated at $1 00. . I o Seventeen Cases Os Measles Reported ' Seventeen vases of measles and one case of scarlet fever was re- ' ported in .Adams County for the week ending Saturday, April 14. ac- '; cording to the Indiana division of 1 . public health morbidity report. There were 1.130 eases of measles i reported in the eibiire state and 210 cases o>f scarlet fever.

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Rally Is Planned For Bloomington Bloomington, Ind.. Apr. 20 —(UP) The (Indiana University Men’s | gymnasium was chosen today as i ( the site of a rally April 25 at which j the Democratic party will conclude its seventh district pre-primary! campaign with a bid for support of Ithe school’s student body. ’I The meeting, concluding a series | ] of district rallies, will be sponsored ’ by the Jackson club, student Demo-1 I eratic organization. Speakers will include Gov. Paul V McNutt, Dr. Carleton B. McK’ul-1 ,1 loch. Indianapolte, Democratic state | ' chairman, and Mrs. A. P. Flynn, Lo-1 . gansport. state vice chairman. NEW AIR MAIL | CONTRACTS ARE OPENED TODAY 1 Post Office Department Opens Bids For Temporary Contracts MAJOR AIR LINES ARE UNCONTESTED i Washington. Apr. 20 — (U.R) ,' Major air lines whose contracts . | were cancelled werft uncontested ; . I today in their efforts to retain control of -the two central trans- j k continental systems as bids were ■ ' opened by the post office departi ment for temporary contracts | over 17 routes. Trans-Continental and Western I Air. Inc., submitted a low bid of ■ 1 i 24 cents per mile, 20 cents below the miximum in the department' ! specifications for the route which ; it formerly operated from Newark. ' New Jersey, via Kansas City. Mo. 1 j to Los Angeles. i Its bid was met with 31U cents ' a mile from American Airlines. | j Inc., formerly the American Air- j I ways. i It was the first step to remove ' , \ the mails from army custody after 10 weeks of furious debate I I which was expected to make the subject a major issue of the full ; I elections. , Bids were received in 45 enve-, (CONTTNITWD ON PAGE SIX) Receive Check To Pay Right Os Way II County Clerk Milton C. Welling | received a 'check today from the state auditor for $1,993.60 to pay ; for land recently condemned to obtain the right-of-way for state road 527 southeast of Decatur. The money will be paid to Frank and Florence JoVien and Alma i I | Bowen. The land was condemned fol- [ ’ lowing the report given by Appraisers Emerson Beavers. Frank Heiman and Thompson Noli The land taken from the Jovien farm 1 or the country club grounds was I appraised at $1,974.60, including ’ I the improvements. The damage to the Bowen farm amounted to sl9. The report was filed by the appraisers March 22.

Schools To Hold Baccalaureate Services In County Sunday Night

, Monmouth fiaccalaureate services for the / Monmouth high school graduates > will be held Sunday evening at 7:30 ■ ' o'clock at the Decatur Zion Reform- ■ ed church. Commencement exer- ': cises will be held at the Monmouth . community btlilding Friday. April 27. " * V The program for the baccalaureate services follows: Processional —"Holy, Holy, Holy” Invocation —Rev. George 0. Walton. > “A Pilgrims Journey" , Londonderry Air Zion Reformed Girls Choir . Devotional —Rev. Walton. i I "Prayer Perfect” Stenson Evelyn Connor 1 Baccalaureate Sermon , I Rev. Charles M. Prugh i “Remember Now Thy Creator” Girls Choir Benediction —Rev. Walton. I Recessional —"Now the Day Is Over." I Jefferson High School Baccalaureate services for the II graduating class of the Jefferson • 1 high school will be held at the ' Bethel church Sunday night at 7:30 . o'clock. • > Commencement exercises will be i; held at the high school auditorium i Wednesday, April 25, at 7:30 p. tn.

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PETITION FOR OUTLAW PARDON IS CIRCULATED Home Town Friends Os Ace Gangster Circulating Petition FEENEY CRITICIZES PETITION SIGNERS liidianupolis, Apr. 20 While home town friends • of John Dillinger were c.ircii- ! lating a petition asking that ' he be pardoned, state police ! officials today demanded co- ! operation of the public in apprehending the notorious outlaw. The petition, containing a rapidly growing list of signatures, is making the rounds ait Mooresville I where Dillinger spent much of his youth and where his father still ; resides. ; It urges that Gov. Paul V. Mei Nutt Issue a pardon on the condiI tion that Dillinger surrenders to i (he nearest legal authority and 1 agrees to abide by state laws and ■ discontinue association with crini- : Inals. Signers of the petition were criticized bitterly by Al G. Feenev ' commissioner of state police. He characterized the public at- ! titude toward Dillinger as anti- ; social, and said he could not understand why Dillinger’s presence at the farm home of his father ' April 8 was not reported by ! Mooresville citizens. “It is unusual that people of the ' community would withhold such valuable Information,” he said | “It seems mighty queer that people would tell a newspaper about Dillinger’s visit before they I told police or other law enforce- | merit agencies.” Feeney referred to the fact I that a newspaper first was ini formed that the nation’s ace outI law "dropped in" at the home of . John Dillinger, Sr., April 8 for a : home cooked dinner and spent : several hours there chatting with i relatives. At the time of the visit, state j police and federal agents were I conducting a concentrated search in central Indiana for the desperado after finding an automobile j which he had purchased in St. i Paul wrecked on a highway near ' Noblesville. The gangster's 70-year-old fath(CONTINUED ON PAGE FOUR) —— o ———— Margaret Mylott Goes To Chicago Miss Margaret Mylott, former secretary to W. A. Klepper. general manager of the Cloverleaf Creameries. Inc., has accepted a position with the J. Walter Thompson Ad vertislng Co., in Chicago. Miss Mylott served in the capacity of secretary to Mr. Klepper for the past ten years, and during the past three years, has headed the advertising department of Cloverleaf Creameries, Inc.

The programs are as follows: Baccalaureate March—Augusta Morningstar. Invocation —Rev. John Parr. “Faith of Our Fathers" Congregation “He Is Mine" Mixed quartet Scripture Reading —Rev. A. .1. Wahl Saxaphone solo, "Sabbath Echoes” Evelyn Fetters Sermon—Rev. A. J. 'Wahl. Duet Violet Yaney. Howard Parr Benediction- —Rev. John Parr. Commencement March —Orchestra. Invocation —Rev. E. C. Kunce. “Come, Where My Love Lies Dreaming” Girls Chorus Salutation Edythe Snyder Violin solo —“Felice” Betty Hart Address —Dr. E. W. Emery. Duet, “One Fleeting Hour” Alberta Brew-ster and Mina Collier Valedictory Mary Lindsey Presentation of diplomas Supt. C. E. Striker “The Royalist” overture Orchestra , Benediction-Rev. E. C. Kunce. Orchestra. , Class Roll i Kenneth Bollenbacher. Robert Buckmaster. Okla Daugherty, True , Hunt, Marie Jutte, Mary Lindsay. . James Moran. Ardon Mosser, Mar- * •••••• •' (CONTINUED ON PAGE FIVE)