Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 32, Number 107, Decatur, Adams County, 3 May 1934 — Page 1

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> hums ' OMI RANSOM RE REOPENED Md Intermediary In [idlnping On MysterI ions Trip ■ers ready TO RENEW SEARCH TuCB’H. Ariz., Mav 3 <U.R) EZSt ns for payment <»t ■V ransom and return "juit Hobles, (>, kidnaped iresi "ere believed to ivp pL‘ii r<*<i| tciu*<i today. Thwliel was founded <>n iiivwrions trip made by i,Biri reputed interin the case, and ni.ibr Rubles. 73. regrandfather I. child. • abducboardings L a t 7 boi J-i town, for ■ WIMB li»- bns reached here, he L,|3 J, "’ ar<l - This caused relie embarked on a l.ret mission to arrange payransom. I Thewi“ driver, who was two in .u living here, denied ■siiirre ' ii a passenger but i-|un>-r men insisted key A him depart. b.li.-ved he left the bus ■nretly o throw possible pur-■ii-rs c* his track and to assure his movements. a close friend of June's pcalthy ;ra ii-I fat her. had accomfcanied feobi. s into the Mexican Sonora last week-end phen t|e 7 . year old rancher was Binderstlt)d to have established a Kontactw'ith the kidnapers. At ■the tins. Robles was said to have p*en to prepare for a p oind kip to Sonora to meet the in exchange for pi’ gmlddaughter’s release. I '.gairr- returned to Nogales Bate y«l<rday. He was seen in a hange, a private instiBinion si iilar to a bank. He deB'oi hfe ip had anything to do HWi i.-r> r>\- icvic FOUR) ■RAM WILL I BROADCAST ‘uflfcit Founders’ Day l®ram Will Be BroadBeast Saturday i sB ■ May 3—(Special)—A ' cinders’ Day program for >M flß’mversity will be broadcast IVM W-"”s new 500,900 watt Staton »ne| short wave station of 10.W Wits from 4:45 to 5 o'clock afternoon. May 5. On the will be President E. C- Eltt» G» i.ccr Ade. of Brook, distiniNoble Kizer, athand head football I the Men's Glee Club. JWflhgram will originate in the “Bon J Union Building on the and will be carried over special leased r»* University will be 65 years May 6. land on SatPurdue alumni club utough mt the United States will i 0« fceir annual Founders’ Day a nd election of officers, part of the United a tea, and especially where dayStttflving j g j n order, these clubs H be assembled for their banJnd will receive the broad,2Xls ‘' --*- -- - ♦ • ■■p'INUED ON PAGE FIVE) udgf Names Members 01 Board Os Review •Ittdgt H. M. De Voss today ap’lbted Levi Sprunger of Berne, oMowat, and Dean Dorwin of Deas members of ! 'd of Tax Review. Other by virtue of their office mlttdl Glen Cowan, cpunty audiWechter, county treasurJohn Felty, county assessor. ® e ®t in the rooms of *<»d tor Monday, June 4th and ntfaue in session during the en®B>onth, reviewing the valulons as reported by the assessors, •atfat, days will be announced nHgihose from the various townand corporations may be

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Salesman For Local Company Dies Today Fort Wayne, May 3 — (UP)—Alfred H Wolte, 24. was the second victim today of an automobile accident Monday In which Miss Mary Herring. 36, was killed Instantly. He died today in St. Joseph Hospital. The accident occurred when the car Wolke drove crashed Into a tree. Wolke had been employed for the pa-st six weeks as Mleenuin for McConnell and Sons of Decatur and the auto he was driving was owned by the company. o SUPPLIES FOR ELECTION HERE — Election Inspectors Will Receive Supplies Saturday The election inspectors will re- ■ ceive their supplies from County clerk David Depp Saturday. They must also be .sworn into the offices j : on that day. The election supplies have been ' received from the state ami are now I stored In the county court house, i The detailed list of the .supplies 1 are: Two copies, primary election law and interpretation; 20 poll list i sheets; two covers for bin-ling ' poll list sheets; two Australian tai- 1 i ly sheets. Democratic district, cir- | cult, county and township offices, I i Australian tally sheets. Democratic I city offices; two tally sheets, Re-1 publican district, circuit, county and l township oftices delegates and pre I i cinct committeemen; two Auetra . Ilan tally -sheet. Republican city of flees. Twelve Democratic and 12 i republican sheets of votes east tor , district, circuit, county and town-1 I ship offices, delegates and precinct I committeemen; 12 return sheets of Democratic aio 12 of Republican i votes cast for city offices, two oaths jof inspector, four oaths of judge, four oaths disqualifying judge, six oaths of clerk; four additional I ! oaths of member of election board; i I tour appointments and oaths of el- | ection sheriff; 20 affidavits of per I sons who will be 21 years of age before the next election. 30 affidavits of party affiliation; 20 affidates of voter unable to read the English language; 10 affidavits of 'arrest of illegal voter; 10 affidavits for violating bribery law; 20 aft'iJ Javits on information and belief; 20 affidavits of elector that person j challenged is a legal voter; 10 affidavits of voter that no person of same political party etc.. 40 affidavits of registered voter, change of name; four certificates of precinct committeemen; two statements of expense of election board; one paON PAGE SIX) O Arrest Geneva Man For Stealing Fleece Jim Murphy, Geneva, was taken into custody today by Sheriff Burl Johnson on a charge of stealing six wool fleeces from John Switzer. ? Murphy had helped in cutting wool ’ at the Switzer farm and the fleeces j were missing shortly after.

REPORT THEFT OF MERCHANDISE Tobacco Is Stolen From Truck Near Berne Wednesday Night Tobacco valued at between S3OO and S4OO was stolen from a truck operated by a Fort Wayne firm for the Kroger Grocery company Wednesday night south of Berne. The theft was not discovered until the truck arrived in Fort Wayne- A large hold had been cut in the tarpaulin and one or more thieves evidently had crawled on the truck and threw the merchandise out along the road, others evidently picking up the loot. Burl Johnson,,Adams county sheriff, accompanied by a railroad detective, was driving along road 27 late lost, night and noticed a carton lying along the roadside. Upon investigating, the officers found a carton of chewing tobacco and a carton of smoking tobacco. It is thought likely the thieves, frightened by the approaching headlights on the sheriff s car, had aibandoned their thievery and fled without recovering all the loot.

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HUGE TAX BILL | COMPLETED IN SENATETODAY Conference Report Adopted; Measure Now Goes To President NO RECORD VOTE ON ANY ACTIONS Washington, May 3 (UP)—The $417,000,000 tax bill ended its long journey through congress today when the senate put the fininshlng touches to a measure which has been more than three mouths in the making. Tlte senate sent the tax bill to President Roosevelt for signature after adopting the conference re- ' port on the measure and receding from an amendment which would have aided 10 per cent to every income tax payment for 1934. There was no record vote on any of the actions taken by the senate in completing congressional action on the bill. Senator James Couzens, Republican, Michigan, spoke in favor of his 10 per tent amendment but made no effort to hinder the sen-1 ate's recession from this proposal. 1 The house refused to accept this amendment, tl't was the only major point -of difference between the house and senate versions on which the senate* yielded. The next tax bill was designed (CONTINUED ON PAGE FIVE) O — — Putnam Sentenced To 10-25-Year Term Lima. O. May 3—(UP)—Earl Puti nam, woun-ded near Van Wert April ■ 15 when he resisted arrest on robI bery chargee against him in western Ohio and eastern Indiana towns today pleaded guilty to holdups in ! Celina, and was sentenced to 10 to 25 years in Ohio penitentiaryA girl, registered as Mildred Davis, who was arrested with PutI nam, was taken to Mansfield to a- ' wait action on charges of implicai tioti in robberies in that vicinity. Putnam also has been identified as one of those commiting post office robberies at Pleasant Mills and Peterson, both in'Adams county. He may face charges in federal court later for these robberies. —■—— GIVE PROGRAM FOR CONVENTION — Mammoth Parade Will Feature Legion Meeting At Bluflton The joint meeting of legionnaires and auxiliary members which will be held at Bluftton Sunday. May 6, s will open at 1 o'clock in the after1 noon. I iA special invitation has been received by the Adams post number 43 to attend and the Bluffton post is expecting 125 legionnaires and auxiliary members from Decatur to attend. The host city has made arrangements to accomodate 3.000 registrations to attend the meeting and take part in the mammoth parade at 2:30 o'clock. Every legion and auxiliary member north of and including Indianapolis, as well as many Ohio cities, has been invited to take part in the parade of 20 bands and drum corps. The local drum corps and American Legion city band will join in the parade. The compleie program follows: Registration. Concert—Fort Wayne band, 1-2. Parade, 2:30 to 3:00. Drum corps and band competition, 3:00 to 4:00. Auxiliary meeting, 4 to 5. Fun fest. 5 to 7. Speaking by state officials, 7-8. Floor shew, 8:00 to 9:00. Dancing. 9:00 to ? Glee Club Concert At 8 p. m. Tonight The concert by the Decatur high school Glee Clubs in the school auditorium, will start at 8 o'clock tonight. In addition to the program.by local high school talent, Jack Moyer of Fort Wayne, nephew of Max Moyer of this city, has been secured to entertain with violin selections.

Decatur, Indiana, Thursday, May 3, 1934.

Dillinger’s Girl Leaves Court # ** flu I 11 ■ ’ ’ i’’ ■■ “’Wt. k ! 11- J ’ ■» W SHF v ■ MUT i w John Dillinger’s sweetheart, the black-haired part Indian Evelyn , Freschetti, pleaded not guilty in Judge M. M. Joyce's gun-bristling I I Federal Court in St. Paul to the charge of harboring Public Enemy I | No. 1. Never has a desperate criminal guarded more carefully I I than was Evelyn. Four heavily armed deputy marshals sat with her ' ' in the car that took her the three blocks from the Ramsey County jail j I to the Federal Building. Ten officers rode behind her in two other i I cars. Still others stood at posts along the curb. Picture shows Evelyn j Freschetti, shielding face from photographer, as she was leaving the Federal Building. ' i ,— ■■ ——————-

PARENTS VISIT SCHOOLS TOO JI Youth Day In School Is Observed In Decatur Today ' iA large number of parents of : school children, and numbers of the various civic clubs in the city took advantage of the invitations extended by the schools to visit the class rooms and observe the pupils at work This was a part of the youth day in school program. A short program | was given in most of the city schools this afternoon for the enterI ■ tainment of the guests. Committees i from the Decatur Rotary club con- ' tributed to the programs with short I talks on education. A baseball game was also shedI uled for this afternoon between the Central school and the Berne eighth 1 grade team. The game was played at the South Ward diamond. The Central antd the ChthoMc ’ eighth grades combined to hear a i program at the Catholic auditorium 'in connection with Youth Day in '' Athletics and Recreation Wednesday. M. F. Worthman talked on "Ath1 ’’'(CONTINUED ON PAGE FIVE) T. J. METZLER TO HEAD ELKS Local Store Manager Is Named Exalted Ruler For Coming Year T. J. Metzler, manager of the C. A. Douglas company store in this city, was elected exalted ruler of the B. P. O. Elks at the annual election of officers Wednesday night. Other officers chosen last night are Vincent Bormann, leading knight; Wendell Macklin, loyal knight, A. B. Kleinhenz, lecturing j knight; R. A. Stuckey, treasurer; Lawrence Beal, secretary; C. C. Schafer, trustee; Dave Rice, tyler. The newly elected exalted ruler I and other new officers will be inI stalled at the first regular meeting I night in June. The new officers are planning an extensive program during the coming year in an effort to build the local organization up to a high plane. Several candidates have been accepted for membership and initiation ceremonies will likely be held in the near future.

Two Diphtheria Cases Reported — Two cases of diphtheria were re-; ported in Adams County for the I week ending Saturday, .April 28 and three cases of measles were report- j od for the same week. According to I 1 tlie morbidity report of the Indiana I Division of Public Health there were 17 caee-s of diphtheria in the: state, an increase of two over the ' preceding week. There were 973 , , cases of measles in the state for the week of April 28. compared with : 1073 for the week of April 21 _______o FORMER LOCAL RESIDENT DEAD Mrs. Sarah Cowan Died Wednesday Afternoon Near Monroeville Mrs. Sarah Cowan, 79. widow of James W. Cowan, and a former rest- j dent of this city, died at 3:27 o'- j clock Wednesday afternoon at the home of a daughter. Mrs. Sherman Townsend of Tillman’s Crossing near Monroeville. Sarah Ford Cowan, a daughter of ( Katherine and Nathan Ford, a Baptist minister, was born September i 28. 1854 in Clinton county- When two years old she moved to Wise with her parents, where she grew to womanhood. She was married on March 29, 1 1876 in Monticello, White county, to I James W. Cowan and they moved i to Decatur where they resided un- ! ti the death of Mr. Cowan 12 years . ago. Eight chidren were born to the union, two sons and two daughters ) preceding their mother in death. The surviving children are Stella Townsend, Edith Alexander, Grace ; Moser and Pearl Shirley. There are ■ 10 grandchildren and two great 1 grandchildren, a sister. Mrs L. W. Fairchild of Collins, Ohio, and two ! brothers. Almond Ford of Seattle, Washington and John W. Ford of Kansas. Funeral services will be held at ' 2 o’clock Friday afternoon at the Mt. Tabor Methodist Episcopal church east of Decatur and burial will ibe in the Mt. Tabor cemetery. o— Andrew Gottschalk Slightly Injured Andrew Bottschalk, Berne, father of state senator T A. Gottschalk, escaped with minor cuts and bruises Wednesday afternoon when his auto turned over east of Berne. . Brakes of the car failed to hold, I causing the accident.

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SILAS STRAWN UPBRAIDS NEW DEAL POLICIES Prominent Chicago Attorney Criticizes New Deal Policies TALKS TO NATION’S BUSINESS LEADERS Washington, May 3— (U.R) — i The president of the Canadian chamber of commerce warned ’ today that if there are any more ; gyrations of the American dollar, Canada may have to retaliate. W. Sanford Evans, Winnipeg, speaking before the 22nd annual meeting of the chamber of commerce of the United States, said that Canada was none too happy about the United States' monetary policy. Washington, May 3. —(U.R)—Amer-: ica must balance her budget, re- i turn to the gold standard and revise her securities act before there can be any real prosperity, Silas H Strawn, distinguished Chicago attorney, insisted today. His prepared address before the | 22nd annual convention of the United States Chamber of Com- j merce was one of the most vigor-1 ous criticisms of the new deal yet voiced by an American business: leader. Strawn’s remarks were address-1 ed to the same 2,000 executives who heard H. 1. Harriman, president of. the chamber, defend the adminis-1 Itration's recovery policies yester- ! day and endorse the principles be-1 hind the national recovery and I agricultural adjustment acts. Most of the executives had heard ■ also an impromptu address by ReI (CONTINUED ON PAGE FIVE) O New Temperance Society Formed Berne, May 3 The name adopted | by the new temperance society ori ganized at the Mennonite church here Tuesday evening was "Christ-1 , ian Temperance Union." E. W. Baumgartner, chairman of a com-' : mittee appointed sometime ago, pre-1 siJed at the meeting. Other members of the committee ' which proposed the tentative ton- ■ stitution at the meeting last evening are J. P Habegger, O. F. Gil- : Horn, Woodrow Wilson Gilliom. I Howard Lehman, Gordon Leichty and Edison Sprunger. These men ' ire to act as officers until the next i meeting which will be held during I the last week of May. when permanI ent officers will be elected to serve. o Paul Davis Held As Chicken Thief Paul Davis was arrested Wednesday night by Sheriff Burl Johnson I at his home one mile southwest of I Berne on charge of stealing chick- ' ens in Jay county. Davis was turni ed over to the sheriff of Jay county j to face charges in circuit court at I Portland. o SCHOOL FUNDS DISTRIBUTED Adams County Receives $6,207.30 From State Excise Department Indianapolis, May 3. — Adams county will receive $6,207.30 from the state excise tax division in the May distribution of funds for school purposes, Paul P. Fry, excise director, announced today. This amounts to $1.35 for every school pupil in the the county, Fry said. The distribution of funds collected from beer, wine and liquor taxes and fees is made twice each year. Six months ago, Adams county received $6,115.34 for school purposes. making a total of $12,322.64 Bent to the schools of that county in the first year of operation of the excise tax law. Total collection of funds by the excise tax division in the first year was $2,731,521.33, Fry an|nounced. Os this amount, $1,762,I 587.76 went to the schools of the state on a distribution basis of $2.68 for each pupil of nearly ssu for each teacher. Besides the disYcONTtNUED ON PAGE FIVE),

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J Hull Family Will Give Program Friday The Hull family, musical enterI talnere from Detroit, Michigan, will present a program of ctaUMical and | religious numbers at the Monroe IM E. church at 7:30 p. m. Friday. The company consists of Captain B. H. Hull, Mrs. Hull and daughter, Benita. The program is sponsored by the Epworth league and no admission will ibe charged. SCHOOL PUPILS HEAR ADDRESS Fort Wayne Woman Gives Interesting Art Talk At High School Mrs. omer G. Davisson of Fort Wayne gave an interesting talk on j art at a chapel program in the puib- I lie high school auditorium Wednesday afternoon. She illustrated I I her talk with pictures painted by ■ ; her husband, Homer Davisson, dean ' of the Fort Wayne art schwol. Mrs. Davisson gave a short sketch of her husband’s life. She told how he studied in New York and Munich and spent many of his summers painting in the NetherI lands and Brittany. "He prefers," she said, “the scenery in Brown I county and along the Wabash to, any he has seen in Europe." Mrs Davisson displayed 21 of her husbands paintings which were taken from sights in Brown County; I i Bruges, Belgium, and Brittany. She j told how and where Davisson painted most of them. She left five which will remain j i in the city for about a week. These may be seen by audiences at the ’ glee club convert in the high school I building tonight. She closed her talk with a few ■ hints on becoming a painter. “To be a good painter," she said, “One must be a good drawer." She admonished pupils who had any desire to become painters to practice drawing Homer Davisson was the Indiana | ‘artist who was selected to repre-1 sent tlie state in die Hoosier Art ‘ Saloon at the Century of Prograss I last summer. o — Directors To Hold Meeting Friday ■ | The board of directors of the: Chamber of Commerce will meet in i regular session at 7:30 o’clock Fri- ’ iday night in the Chamber of Com- ( merce rooms. REV.PAGE TO GIVE ADDRESS Chicago Man Principal Speaker At Berne Convention Sunday Rev. Isaac Page of Chicago, will be the principal speaker at the Ad-1 ams County Young People’s convention, which will be held at the First Mennonite church, Berne. Sunday. Afternoon and evening sessions | will be held. Following is the program : Representatives from each of the twelve townships in tho county ' will take part, appearing for either a talk or special music. A carry-in supper has been ar- > ranged for Sunday evening at 5 o’clock. The supper and fellowship will take place in the large basement of tlie Mennonite church. Among those who will give talks are Arthur Isbell. Jeanette Sprunger, Lois Fuhrman, Eileen Bierly, ’ I Everett Johnson. Elizabeth Cramer and Dale Shanks. Tlie programs for tlie afternoon ' and evening sessions follow: Afternoon Session Song service. Devotionals. Roll Call. Special music, St. Marys townYcONTTNitSD ON PAGE SIX) o Trial Opened For 1 Sam, Edith Bailer 1 A Jury had not been selected late this afternoon to try the ease of the state vs. Samuel and Edith Bailer on a charge of encouraging the ' delinquency of a minor child. Judge Huber M. DeVoss ordered the case 1 tried after overruling a motion filed last week to quash the proceedings.

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REPORTBARROW IS HEADED FOR DILLINGER GANG Officers Believe Dillinger May Be Dead Or Badly Wounded “SHOOT TO KILL” ARMY IS READY Chicago. Mav 3. — One of the West’s most notorios outlaws today was reported to be rushing toward Chicago — his route marked by wanton gun-play —to join forces with John Dillinger. Clvde Barrow, the Texas terrorist to whose bloody depredations a half dozen lives i have been charged, was believed I headed for Dillinger’s hideout ; here after opening fire on a highI way patrolman and a truck driver i in the Missouri Ozarks. With him. it was reported, were i Bonnie Parker, his cigar smoking sweetheart, and another outlaw. A woman believtd to be Bonnie i later was reported captured at Cabool, Mo. A grimly tense "shoot to kill" i army of 7,090 police and federal ' agents—realizing that a union of Dillinger and Barrow probably ‘ would spread more death in the ' wake of the Hoosier outlaw’s I marauderings—put new vigor in their search for Dillinger whom I they felt sure was in hiding here. The officers’ belief that DillingI er was in Chicago was based on the finding of his bullet-marked. I blood-stained automobile on the ! north side late yesterday. There was ample proof that it had been abandoned by the killer. There also was speculation that ; Dillinger might be near death or seriously wounded. The theory that Barrow might i head for Chicago to throw his lot ' with Dillinger against the massed ' forces of the law unless headed off downstate was supported by information in possession of the j federal authorities. Alvin Kanpis and Arthur (Doc) ' Barker have been identified as followers of Dillinger when he I spread death and terror through northern Wisconsin and Minnesota. Both were members of the Barrow gang when it cut a swatli of lawlessness through Oklahoma. . Texas, and the great southwest, j eluding capture in the same miraculous manner as Dillinger. The frenzied manhunt for Dilj linger, tlie son of a Quaker farmer, was converged on a new subdivision on tlie extreme northwest side of Chicago. Federal agents and police, working on a tip that tlie outlaw was liiding out w itli his lieutenants in a bungalow there, threw squads around a suburb known as Sauganash. o FIX PRICES ON I ELECTION DAY Commissioners Fix Prices To Be Paid Election Boards Inspectors In the primary elections will be paid nine dollars for their work and all other officers six dollars, according to a decision by the board of county comniissioners, Wednesday evening. The law provides for three dollars per day but the large ballots will require considerable time and it is expected that in each precinct the time will extend over any ordinary wage day. The board also decided to allow not to exceed fifty cents per meal for members of the election board and in no case more than $1:50 per member. Three extra booths will he placed in 1-A, 2-A, 3-A and 3-B and ons booth in 1-B and 2-B. Extra booths as needed will also be placed in Berne and Geneva, and West Root . and replacements will be made In north and south Hartford, South St. Marys, north Kirkland and Ea.sl i Root A number of changes on tht ( boards are being made, because ol ' disqualifications. In one preclnd i the inspector failed to register and In others relationship to candidate! lyas been reported. In 2-A. Decatur * (CONTINUED ON PAGE FIVE)