Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 32, Number 105, Decatur, Adams County, 1 May 1934 — Page 1

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p; YOUNG *1 SOON TO JIE RELEASED ■ Six-Year-Old Girl ■II He Freed Soon ■ By Kidnapers ■authorities ill' FROM SEARCH K;ht 19.14 by United Press) ■on. An/... May 1 <U.» 8n1.1.5, (i. i>ruii(l(l:iugh■:t wealthy retired cat- ■ will he released by ■natters within two or Ktvs upon the payment R.Otlti ransom money, Hiiited Press was in■l bv a reliable source police activities, including Df federal department of agents, were suspended to e negotiations, ibe Robles, the grandfathassnred that the girl was d being held captive near during a secret 30-hour made into Mexico, the Press informant said. The money will be paid, it was a secret rendezvous across der in Sonora. One condi- | tlie purported agreement gt the kidnapers be guara cessation of ail police ps I 73-year-old cattle baron E had returned from his mission last night before Dunn of Oos Angeles, in ot 12 federal agents here, red they would be withfrom the case. Police and authorities previously had ered jurisdiction to Dunn, sudden withdrawal of the ;ators was construed as e that Robles had establ contact with the kidnapto awaited only assurance action before surrendering ‘inued’ont* PAGE VIVK) DO PUPILS KILL COMPETE 'd Number of Eni In School Band I Orchestra Contests fords villa, Ind., May 1. —(U,R> oiii number of entries wilt e in the annual Indiana Band and Orchestra Assocontests here May 3-5, it Bounced today, uximaiely 2,500 students fnting 47 musical organizarom 39 schools will take tnond nigh school and HamTech will enter the largest being .represented by 90Inits. Organizations of sims will he entered from Reitz tsst high schools of EvansThe Elkhart high school it 00 pieces also will cornschool units, and the class sh they will compete, ini county (Fort Wayne) band ugola orchestra (C), Bloomorchestra (A), Columbia od (B), Converse band (C), I band and orchestra (A), 1 county band (E), Reitz WUe) band (A), Bosse (EvO band and orchestra (A), Side (Fort Wayne) orchesf Goshen baud aud orchesh. Technical (Hammond) Al, Hammond high school md orchestra (A), Hebron fTINUrcn ON PAttR SIX) o ►n Trusties Will Be Guarded Inapolig May 1— (UP) — j I will 'be placed over trusties | Hate prison at Michigan City 1 •'ent further escapes. Gov. McNutt said today after a suce with Warden Louis E. I and chief clerk, Howard C. j of the prison.governor said he and the two officials decided that eetabht of a system of frequent ng on the trusties is-the best £ in which to eliminate "walk [' and other infractions of j [Plan Is only in the formative Kunkel will work out deke governor said.

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[School Children Will View Train All tlie school children in the city will be dismissed Wednesday, May 2 to view the World's Fair" II train of .the Pennsylvania railroad which will stop at the local station from X a. tn. to 10 a, m. Air-conditioned throughout, the , big ml steel six car train repreI (tentt) the latest in comfortable, modern railroad equipment. The cars selected for the Pennsylvania's exhibition train are representative of those on the Broadway Limited. C. H. Armstrong, local agent, an- [ jnounced that visitors will lie peri milted to pass througii tlie latest i I type sleeping cars, a parlor car. 1 1 diner and a coach. Folks also may . | make a close-up inspection of the . j big passenger locomotive. HEALTH DAY IS OBSERVED HERE , l ft . Youth’s Health Day Is Observed With Special Prorams Todav 'I i* I Today is Youth's Health Day, . | which Is being observed in the city . | as a part of National Youth Week ( | Pamphlets and folders from state ( agencies, insurance companies and other institutions interested in ! health will be distributed lo the . | children. .' The committee in charge of this ■day is: Chairman, Dr. Palmer Eieh- ,' er, Charles A. Brodbeck, O. L. , Vance and Wilson Lee. • L- E. Archbold. Adams 'county i agricultural agent, in a talk he- , j fore the pupils of the Lutheran - school Monday afternoon as a part l 1 of the Youth Week in Vocation day I ! said. "Ilf it were not for the coloring . matter in plants there could be no '' Industry." i I .Archbold illustrated his talk with - ! a dandelion plant. "The green mat- - j ter in the plant" he said "is one * j thing which the man can not immii tale and is absolutely necessary for ; his existence.” O. L. Vance talked to the Central I grades on pioneer industries. He ! told the stories of three famous tin Idiana inventors and pioneer industrialist "Oliver’, he said "invented , 1 and promoted his plow' which made , ; Indiana known over the world. The | Studabakers developed the wagons I which were used extensively during . | the Civil war. Haines invented the j automobile and established an auto- »- •*••«••**♦••••• (PONTINUED ON PAGE EIVE> , John Myers Named 11 Berne Town Clerk i, -j ißerne. May I— (Special)—John i Myers, 30, proprietor of the Myers , grocery store in this town, was i'elected clerk-treasurer iby the town ■ j board in special session Monday ! evening. Mr. Myers, who has been active in Democrat circles for several years, will serve until January 1, 1 1930. He succeeds Davkl D. Depp, i who resigned after being appointed ; J clerk of the Adams circuit court. GIVE AWARDS TO STDDENTS i Winners of Athletic Contests Will Be Awarded Wednesday The pupils of grades five to eight in the city will meet in tlie Catholic school auditorium Wednesday afternoon at 2:15 where the awards for the athletic contests, which were competed for by the boys and girls of those grades during the past several weeks, wil be given. The meeting will be presided; over by Dr. Fred Patterson, presi- | dent of the Decatur Rotary club. } The girls glee club of the Centra! school will sing two numbers. The | Rev. Joseph J Hennes of the Catho- ! lie church will talk on iA thletics and superintendent of the city schools j ! M. F. Worthman will speak on j Sportsmanship. [ The awards will be presented by j (the committee which includes: j Chairman Sylvester Everhart, Htib[ert Schmitt, T. C. Smith, E- W. I Lankenatt. The winners of the varj ious contests are asked to go to j i the stage as soon as they enter the ; j building in order to facilitate giving | of the awards. The complete list of winners will be found on page 6 of todays Democrat. 1

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I HEAR ARGUMENT ON TEST CASE i — Constitutionality of Reorganization Bill Is Attacked ' llndlanapoli* May 1 —(UP)—Oral 1 arguments in a suit testing const!-j 1 tutlonality of the state government reorganization act were heard here today by circuit judge Earl R. Cox. Tlie suit brought by Herman Seeger, Indianapolis attorney, contends that M. Clifford Townsend, lleuten- ! ant governor and secretary of the slate board of agriculture is fiolat- j ing the slate constitution by hold- 1 ing offices other than the one to which he was elected. Townsend also is director of the , state department of commerce and , Industry, a position which pays him ! ( | 96.000 a year. Joseph Hutchinson, deputy altor I 1 ney general, arguing the state’s I lease, contended that the lieutenant , governor’s duties as presiding of- , ficer of the senate merely are in cidental ami that he is an executive | officer, i % , | Decision in the case will be an- ; nouneed later. k . i Continue Anderson Case Until May 21 The case of Garth Anderson on i | charges of operating an automobile , ■ without drivers' license was con- ! . ' tinued in Mayor George Krick’e [ ! court last evening until May 21. Anderson was arrested Saturday | evening. April 14, after a car lie , was driving struck a parked autot | mobile on Second street near five . points. No one was seriously in-, , jured in the accident. , i.AinJerson plead guilty at that ; time to a charge of operating a car i , without license plates. He served . out his fine in the Adams county k jail and lias been released. Tlie second charge was filed at tne same r time WILLIAM ENGLE ; QUITS SERVICE , I — ; Veteran Rural Mail Carrier Retired Monday; Consolidate Routes William Engle, the oldest man j in the Decatur postal service in j years of service and the youngest to retire according to available i; records, treated his brother mail s carriers with ice cream this morn-! < ing before they started carrying; i their routes for tlie first lime in 1 r , tliirty-two years without him. j Mr. Engle completed his 31st [ , year wnen he retired -effective : 1 j Monday, April 30. Hls route was | , J number two, which extends j ~| west of the city. |, Under the consolidation policy i jof the present economy act no I new carriers will be hired. The | mail will be delivered by comhin- j j ing the route with others. In the changes ordered hy the { department on the local routes the j 1 following instructions were receiv- | ed by Postmaster Graham.. ] Charles Malloney, carrier on I route five will be transferred to I route two. i Earl Btitler, carrier on route 1 one and Mr. Malloney on route two will absorb the present route four. Route one wil! be 51 miles In | (UONTINUKJD ON PAGE TWO) 1 O I Elberson Talks To Sociology Classes i James Elberson, head of the De-! catur Homesteads. Inc., talked to > the sociology classes of the Decatur j high school Monday afternoon. Mr. i [ Elberson discussed the local subsis- j 1 \ tence homestead site project, explaining various matters of interest [ to the students in detail. — , o Farm Bureau Meet Scheduled Friday | A farm bureau educational meet- j ing will be held at the Jack school j house In Monroe township Friday! I evening, May 4, at 7:30 o’clock. An-; : thony Lehner, member of the cooperative organization at Indianapolis, will be the principal speaker An interesting program and entertainment have been arranged and all interested are urged to attend.

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Decatur, Indiana, Tuesday, May 1, 1934.

Accuses Brain Trust llil Dr. William A, Wirt, Gary, Ind., educator, as he spoke Monday in Chicago under the auspices of the Advertising Post and Cook County Council of the American Legion. He charged the administration "brain trusters" with filling the high schools of the country with communistic beliefs through their teachings and their literature, as a means to attaining their ends.

MEAD CHARGED WITH EVASION Federal Government Charges Criminal With Tax Evasion Chicago, May 1— (U.RV--The federal government turned again to- ; day to the income tax laws in its | war on crime. With the *200,000 kidnaping of Edward G. Bremer virtually solved, the government moved to utilize in another case the income tax statute I by which it sent Alphonse (ScarJ face AH Capone to prison.. m ’ ) District Attorney Dwight H. Green tiled a criminal bill of in- ! formation in tederal court against William E. (Christian kid) Mead on charges of failing to pay an income tax on the profits of a confidence! I game. It was the first time that the ; government ever lias moved to con-, vict on this exact charge although Capone was sent to Atlanta peni- 1 .tentiary for failure to pay tax on i tile profits of his vast liquor and vice domain. Mead, said by department of justice operatives to be as shrewd as his famous colleague, Joseph (YelI low kid) Weil, is hunted as the "linger man” in the kidnaping of Bremer, wealthy St. Paul banker. Four men, two of whom are rei ported by government operatives to ' have signed confessions, are under i arrest for Bremer's abduction. The criminal bill of information tiled against Mead today charged hint with failure to pay a federal I tax on $59,501 income in 1932, alI leged by the government to have [been obtained through a swindle. The victim ot the swindle, who ....» ».«....*•• tCONTINUED ON PAGE FIVE) APPROVE MANY APPLICATIONS Knights of Columbus Approve 47 New Applications; 27 Reinstatements Approval of 47 applications for new members and reinstatements for 27 former members were given last night by the Knights of Columbus, preparatory to the initiation tobe held in this city, Sunday, May 20. The council members met last 1 night and disposed of many details pertaining to the big initiation The [ membership committee reported a j total of 47 new applicants and they ] ( were approved. i' C. J. Carroll, grand knight, named ! a committee of past grand knights j to serve as the initiation committee,! they to make arrangements for the i program to be given here on initia- , tion day. i The second and third degrees will , be exemplified by the Fort Wayne t degree team and arrangements are ] being made to put on the firsi by I the local council. t It has been several years since |i the local knights of Columbus have 1 ] put on a class initiation aud a large . t crowd is expected for the ceremon- ,< ies and program to he held. j.

—• NOT DILUNGER I I Marion, Ind., May 1. — <U.R> — | Sheriff Verne F. Deats of Tiffin, i j 0., returned home today after j j explaining to Sheriff Ira Man- | nix of Hartford City and mem- | l hers of a heavily armed posse | that he was not John Dillinger | j nor any of the notorious out- | law’s henchmen. The automobile in which ! j Deats and a deputy were taking I I a patient to the U. S. Veterans Hospital here broke down near the Blackford-Grant county line. | | Suspicions farmers notified j Sheriff Maddox that they sawtwo machine guns in the car. The machine guns proved to |, , be a small revolver which Slier- !! iff Deats carried in a boater. I« PHI CELTS PLAN FOR CONVENTION Committee Chairmen Are Named For Tri-State Convention June 2-3 Further plans for the tri-state Phi Delta Kappa convention were made at a meeting of the local chapter Monday evening. The convention will he held in Decatur Saturday and Sunday, June 2 and 3. *\lelvin Collier was appointed general chairman in charge of all, arrangements for the convention. Walter Brunnegraff will be chairman of the house committee. John Burnett is chairman of the anniversary dance committee. Dr. R. E. Daniel is chairman of the finance committee. Phi Delta Kappa chapters from Indiana, Ohio and Michigan are expected to attend the convention and 25 to 3ft chapters likely will i have representatives here for the j two days. The feature of the two-day con-j vention will be the dance at the j Country Club Saturday night. June [ 2. Other features of tlie meeting j likely will be a banquet and spe-, cial entertainment. At the Monday night meeting, | Harold Strickler was appointed delegate to a special meeting of chapter representatives at Indianapolis Wednesday night. Dr. Daniel was named chairman of tlie, cabaret dance which will be held at the Country Club Thursday, May 10. Everett Sheets is in charge of the ticket sale for tlie show- sponsored by the fraternity May. 16 and 17. Special Mother’s Day Stamp On Sale A new Mother’s Day commemorating three-eent stamp will be on sale at the local postoffice Thursday. The government Is giving the office 10 days to push the sale of the 10,000 stamps before Mother's Day which falls on Sunday. May 13. The new stamp will be larger than the ordinary three-cent stamp. Whistler's famous painting “My Mother" is engraved on it. Beside, the picture are the words "In Memory and in Honor of the Mothers of America.”

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COPS WITHOUT DEFINITE CLUE ON DILLINGER Members of Manhandled I’olice Squad Identify Gangster WILL ARRAIGN TWO WOMEN WEDNESDAY Chicago, May IXU.R> — Mocking still the thousands of federal, state and local officers who lor eight weeks have Joined forces against them, John Dillinger and his crew of killers had eluded their pursuers | again today utter disarming and ! racuously insulting three policei men of suburban Bellwood. Members of the manhandled squad were positive in identifying [their assailants as black-browed . Dillinger and three of his most feared henchmen. "It was Dillinger, all right,” deI i Glared Patrolman Harry Wayland. | "I've studied his photograph on . | 'wanted' circulars enough to recog nize him any place. He's shaved > his mustache and is heavier, but 1 ‘ knew him." Wayland. who was slugged withj the barrel of a machine gun when ! he reached for his own revolver, I apparently was supported in his ; identification by discovery a few i hours later near Chlllicothe, 111., of, a gray, V-8 Ford sedan with bullet j riddled instrument panel. The four men who disarmed Wayland and, his companions drove a similar car. Aside from a general pointing of, the search to the vicinity of Chi- 1 cago, federal department of justice! agents admitted today they were ; . without even a definite plan to further their efforts. | The discomfiting contact of the Bellwood policemen with Dillinger was tlie result of chance. Tlie pa ; trol members ran down the gangsters only because they crossed an ’ intersection against a red light and were entirely unprepared for the, arsenal unlimbered against them when they caught up with their ! quarry at a filling station. | Chicago federal agents and Indi- | ana state police yesterday raided I I the farm of John W. Dillinger, 70- • j year-old father of the nation's most ' hunted man, on information that k the young Dillinger might be hiding there. The elderly farmer, a respected member of his community, calmly milked six cows and fed likestock ' while searchers ransacked huildi ings. I , Melvin Purvis, chief of the deI (CONTINUED ON PAGE THREE) Kelley Funeral Rites Thursday i, I I Funeral services for John W Kel■l ley, mayor of Bluffton, who died ■ Monday morning, will be held at ■ 9:30 o’clock Thursday morning at i the St. Joseph Catholic church in • Bluffton, in charge of Rev. John ' Itapst, pastor of the church. Burial ! will be in Fairview cemetery. 11 o FUTILE SEARCH 1 FOR DILLINGER ■ 1 < Police, Federal Agents ] Make Fruitless Raid At Father’s Home I j Indianapolis, May 1 — Lll.R) Taking elaborate precautions to prevent possible escape, city po--1 lice ami federal department of j justice agents late yesterday con-! ducted a fruitless raid upon the, Morgan county home of the father, 1 of John Dillinger. Information that the notorious j outlaw was at the home of his father near Mooresville came! from federal agents assigned to! watch the farm. - Utmost secrecy surrounded the activities of the city police as 1 they were summoned to aid thei federal men. They donned bullet, proof vests and were given maps of the urea. Patrols were established on all roads in the vicinity and tratt'i•• I was blocked off state road 267, which passes the farm home, while the officers conducted the; raid. When the outlaw was not found [ in the house, the raiding party | made a systematic search of other | * * CONTINUED. ON PAGE TWO)

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I George L. Andrews Named Accountant George L. Andrews of this city I has been appointed chief accounti ant and special disbursing agent I for Decatur Homesteads, Inc., and '' will begin his duties as soon as his I bond is accepted by the federal government. Mr. Andrews will be in charge I of the office to be established here in connection with the activities of the homestead division. He probably will go to Washington in the | near future to receive instructions l land supplies necessary to carry I • out his work. Tlie appointment was received Uhis morning from the department of interior. SENATE PASSES RELIEF MEASURE Bill Is Designed To Give Relief To Insolvent j Cities Washington May 1 (UP) —The; senate today passed a bill designed i ! to afford relief to insolvent municipalities. The bill now goes back to the : house for consideration of senate j changes which were written in with j administration approval. These changes set up regulations 1 for municipal bankruptcy proceedings more stringent than in the j ; house measure. As passed by the senate the bill j requires approval of 51 instead of 30 per cent of claim holders before a ! debt adjustment can be requested. Also, a definite plan for readjust- | ment must accompany the original petition. i Before a federal court could put the plan into effect it must have | the approval of three quarters instead of two thirds of the claim . < holders. Passage followed a warning hy ! majority leader Joseph T. Robinson ’ j that a "national calamity" would I 1 result unless speedy relief was I found for debt-burdened municipali1j ties. MEMBERSHIPS | OVER 700,000 ! 100,000 Cards Brought to Indianapolis In Annual Aerial Round-up Indianapolis, May I.—(U.R) —Com- [ 1 merciul airplanes flying througii Indianapolis paused on their regu j lar runs today to discharge 100,000 I paid up membership cards in tlie ; 1 American Legion. ;, The cards represented the re- , I suits of the Legion's second annual , 'aerial roundup aud membership ] ! campaign. j Between arrivals of the eommer- , 1 cial planes, 50 privately owned , j ships landed at municipal airport , j with legionnaires who will partici- , pate in tlie roundup banquet here: ] I tonight. The cards were collected from | I i local posts in stale wide rouuilupK | Sunday and placed at strategic | points where they were loaded on j I the commercial planes.. Addition ol the 100,000 new cards [ gave the Legion many more members than it nad at this time last j (year. I 1! The Legion's national quota for 1934 has been set at 904,391 aud H. L. Plummer, assistant adjutant in charge of the membership today expressed the belief that by June 30 the quota would be tilled. ' "The iiietiiberships brought in to- 1 'j (CONTINUED ON CAGE VvVO* * | Churubusco Post To Give Barbecue ' i All district posts are invited to 1 ! attend the Legion Elmer barbecue 1 j to be held at Churubusco oil May , 10. The Fort Wayne band, drum J [ corps, parade, and concert will ibe 1 | features of the veiling and a big * 1 ! time is planned for the Legion- 1 j naires. o 7 — 1 Decatur Glee Club , Will Give Concert i The Glee Club of the Decatur j i high school will present a concert i ! in the school auditorium Thursday -1 I nglit at 8 o'clock. Tlie public is , i iinvited to the musical concert. No J1 I admission will be charged. The ] I complete program for the evening j will be announced later. i

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DISORDERS MAR INTERNATIONAL LABOR HOLIDAY M ore Serious Disturbances Are Feared After Nightfall I HEAVY FIRING BY SOLDIERS IN CUBA Ry the United Press May Pav, tlie international labor holiday, was celebrated throughout America and a great part of a restless world today with wide-spread dis- | order and threats of more serious disturbances at nightfall. Troops and police massed in tlie I'niled States its well as in almost every country to ! cope with communist threats of i violence. One of the most serious events j occurred in Nazi Germany, where ! communists are severely repressed. Nevertheless, malcontents ! succeeded in setting afire and , destroying the great "Singer [ Hall" In Augsburg, a coup of vio- ; ience comparable only to tlie famous firing of the reichstag. In Austria, extremists fired on a group of Italian motorcyclists en route to Vienna to take part in [ the May day celebration. In the United States, national guardsmen patrolled the KunsasMissouri border to prevent a threatened invasion of Missouri by disgruntled Kansas miners. Strong forces of police were marshalled in New York, Chicago and Boston at communist annual demonstrations. Argentina was under a state of siege, with a general holiday in effect. Censorship was established in Chile, where serious rioting occurred, with one dead and 13 j injured at last reports. Despite a vast mobilization of ! troops in Paris, disorder broke I ’ (Continued*on page eive> o Two Men Fined For Public Intoxication Harry Spencer and Oil Johnson were each fined a dollar and costs totaling sll. They were unable to pay their fines but were released by staying the docket. Both plead guilty to charges of public intoxication. o Clean-Up Week Is Opened In Decatur City trucks began picking up rubbish this morning as the first day of Clean-Up week began. Fred Linn, city street commissioner. Is in charge of the work which lie expects will be completed this week. ■Residents are asked to clean up their yards and houses in the annual drive to make Decatur more attractive The city will pick up all rubbish free of charge, which is placed in containers in the alleys. FIRE DESTROYS HUGE BUILDING German Building, Scheduled For Nazi Meeting, Totally Destroyed Augsburg, Germany, May I.—-<U.R) —The great "Singer hall," scheduled for use at a Nazi May day celebration, caught tire in five places today and was destroyed. Authorities believed the fire tbo work of communist incendiaries. Communists recently distributed thousands of pamphlets in Augsburg, promising to "celebrate"' May day in their own way. The hall seated 8,000 people. The fire, if it was started deliberately, is the greatest incendiary blaze since the reichstag burned in February last year, and prosecution of five men — four internationally known communist leaders, who were acquitted after a trial watched throughout the world. A Dutch half wit was executed as the firebrand. Secret police in raids throughout the country in anticipation of May day had seized quantities of communist propaganda, and It was known that communists, though | hunted and subject to summary punishment for their views, were active underground at many places.