Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 32, Number 114, Decatur, Adams County, 11 May 1934 — Page 1

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AMUr NSULL iear: fedom ONH AVY BOND itornef’' Are Arranging To I’. 4 $250,000 Bund Today RHAItNMENT OF INS! 1.1. DELAYED Chicago May 11.— (U.R) — I a brief technical!! ies betw«n Samuel Insull and , relea> from the county j Itodaf I attorney for the .time multi millionaire arfcr the posting of WjSOOli bail. iVhen |he last $50,000 of > bond■ ley is turned over Chief Justice Philip Finneof Ihfjci innnal court, the 7 4 r-old Psi 'er will be cheeked of jail L will 8° ,o St - Luke s pital [ He n>4V a rest, a long rest, at the and strain ol last Sr lays." said his son !lt el Jr. rlends of the former czar of a •e-billioh dollar utility empire ted a K 10.000 surety bond for release on two federal indict its —mai Iraud and violation ot hankraj i y laws, and a moment rhe W® re arrested and taken he crim nal courts building, here, p'loyd K. Thompson, rtluled Property to cover two ds of £ .000 each on state in ments 11 urging Insull with em Dels ed To Tuesday hicago,bi.iv 11.—(U.R> The bat ot Sami I Insull fighting with old sqtf re-jawed vigor fantiliat his city >f his faboulous wealth triump! - against the right ot goverißueni to bring him to I "-'Ep <• poned until Tuesday 'he deft) aus ordered by Fed I Judge ’hilip Sullivan after a >t court hearing when the 74 r old pr Is mer was brought from Cook bounty jail tor arraign it on swo federal indictments rgißg Ki il fraud and violation he bat uptcy laws. Is attoi • y. Floyd E. Thompa torn r justice of the Illinois erne ■mrt. attacked what he -d pr.-t..nd.-d extradition ceding and a “shanghaing" usullSr n Turkey to the Unit States. Attorney Dwight ‘n ask. the postponement in nBWI ON PAGE six> falw Legion I Meeting Mondax lamsmpost number 43 of the . !r l ca WLegion will meet in regu sessio: at 8 o’clock Monday tto tii Legion hall on South nd stre. . All members are urg- ( o attend a business of imporwill ili. transacted. ISTOR GIVEN LEAVE PERMIT I r. Charles Prugh Will pend Two Months In Europe T. Chi rles M. Prugh, pastor of ' church in this W 1 en granted a leave of ( nee b: the congregation of the , Jtiur h and will sail May 30 . Jenna t y where he will attend . (jnlvlrsity of Heidelberg. Rev. ] h Wens to be absent about • &•< ar pastor will sail on , IS President Roosevelt on May , be faculty ot the University of t elberg has accepted his thesis, 's been learned, and he will t thelexamination for the doc- , f theology degree. is is Rev. Prugh’s second trip ( ermany. He spent the year , W®l in Germany where he comd his residence work at HeiTg. *• Prugh plans to spend four 8 at the University. He will •d the Passion Play at Oberergau and wil also spend sevdays in Switzerland. 1 ring this absence a supply pas- 1 vill b<> oibtained for the local i :h. Rev. Prugh has been pas- 1 threlfor the last 16 months. ' Prugh and baby will remain i t

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Lose Insull Fight L,7 O F x * I aI ( x I ; A ■lif \A V ; \\ t I * Looking up the law didn't avail Attorney Floyd E. Thompson Heft) and Edwdrd Fleming Thursday. Their plea for a reduction of Hie s2mi.ism bail on federal charges in the case of Samuel Insull deposed utilities czar, was refused by Judge Will M. Sparks. So was a writ of habeas corpus Meanwhile Insull remains in jail.

Central Sugar Co. Donates Building The Central Sugar Company of this city has donated one of the Mexican houses to the Decatur school city, which will be moved to ■ rhe Wftfetic flel T and used as tt toot house. The building is 12 by 2" feet, one story high. The school board will move the structure in the next few days to the athletic field, corner Adams and Thirteenth streets and will use it to store tools and equipment. MANY ATTEND ARTEXHIBIT Public School Art Exhibit Attracts Many Visitors About 350 persons attended the art exhibit of the public schools Thursday evening at the high school building. The exhibit will be open again today from 2:30 to 5 o'clock this afternoon and from 7 to 9 o'clock this evening. The art show is free to the pub- 1 lie. School patrons and those interested in art and art study in the schools are especially urged to at-' tend. The art work was Jone under the supervision of Miss Catherine Klauffman, art instructor in the Decatur public schools, and the art teachers in the three grade schools Each grade and school in the city is represented with a board of paintings and drawings. In addition the manual training and mechanical j drawing departments of the high school are represented The first and second grades of each of the wards have two boards filled with their art work lining sides of the gymnasium. Each room ; also has a sand table which portrays the life in a nation or village. The third and fourth grades have . boards which indicate the improve,, nient made in the two years. Cen- , tral is represented >by 12 boards and , ( the opportunity room has two. The high school has exhibits of the advanced art students. These ( students have pencil sketches, ■ water colorings, pastels, and cray-; on drawings. The high school also,, ** CONTINUED ON PAGE SIX) • J I ' Woman Is Fined In City Court Naomi Meyers was fined one dol-i‘ lar and costs in Mayor Georg© < Krick's court last evening when she I , pleaded guilty to a charge of pule.! lie intoxication. Otto Enyder, who ] was arrested with her Tuesday night, had his case continued until this evening.

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ANNOONCECAST FOR CLUB PLAY Monmouth Dramatic-Club Will (Jive Play Saturday And Sunday The cast for the initial play of the Monmouth dramatic club was announced today. The production, i entitled “The Mystery of the Third , liable." will be presented at the Monmouth community building Saturday and Sunday nights at S;00 o’clock. Music will he presented between the acts. Admission prices will be 1(1 ami 20 cents. The complete cast is as follows: Roy Lane, who occupies the third gable Edwin Weidler. Mrs. Lane, the housekeeper, j Roy's mother Betty Schiet'erstein. 1 Sally Sherwood, who selected the place —Harriet Kunkel. Tom Sherwood. Sally's brother— Mervin Hostetler. Judge Sherwood, who seeks peace and quiet —Franklin Franz, Jr. Mrs. Sherwood, his wife —Luella Brokaw. I Janet Morgan, his prospective 'secretary - Olive Beihold. Jane Morgan, who takes Janet’s place- Leota Bittner. i Roger Hadley, the stranger— Donald Hoile. Simpson. Hadley's assistant — I Louis Schuller. PAROLE PLEAS WILL BE HEARD Petitions of Eight Lifers Will Be Heard By Board Next Week rndiaiiapoliis. Ind., May 11—(UP) —Parole petitions of eight men serving life terms in the state prison will be heard by the state clemency board during a five-day session next week. The board will open its meeting May 14 and will hear a total of 87 cases before the session ends May ,18. Cases of two of the “lifers” will be presented on the opening diay. They are Boyd Monroe, sentenced from Lake county in 1923 on a murder charge, and Ewin R. Penney, sentenced from Lake county in 1930 on a murder charge "Lifers" whose cases will be considered the second day are Thomas: Evans, sentenced from Vanderburg ' county in 1925 on a murder charge, William Ashby, sentenced from Fountain county in 1931 as an habitual criminal. Two more "lifer’s" pleas will he Y'ontin UWD *ON PAGE SIX)

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Decatur, Indiana, Friday, May 11, 1934.

MAKING PLANS ! OF CONVENTION Stale (’. E. Convention Will Be Held At Fort Wayne Plans for the 46th Indiana State 1 Christian Endeavor Convention to lie held in Fort Wayne. June 21-24 j are progressing rapidly under the I direction of Lisle Hodell of Fort I (Wayne, general chairman for the I convention. The Porter District | Christian Endeavor Union, which (comprises Adrims. Allen. Wells.' I Whitley, and Huntington counties. ; will he host to the four day meeti ing. Dr Vere W. Abbey. M. A., gen eral se ret ary of the Christian En and Ceylon. Ims accepted an invitation to speak on the convention pro-, ! gram, it was announced by Miss : Elizabeth Cooper of Indianapolis. ' state field secretary of the Indiana I (’. E Union, last Thursday night at a pre-convention rally of the Allen County Union at the Calvary U. B. ! Church in Fort Wayne. Dr. Abbey. , accompanied by Mi's Abbey, will be i home on their first furlough this ' summer. Miss Cooper brought greetings from the state hoard and tol l of the unusual interest being shown in tile convention which will , feature such speakers as Dr. Daniel Poling, Dr. A. E. Corey, and Prof i J. Raymond Schultz Registrations for the district have reached 577. which surpasses ’ | the original goal of 56<l set for this district. The aim now is to se'tire I 11000 registrations by June. The! ! C. E. Society of the Bethany Presbyterian Church of Fort Wayne, ; witli 65 registrations to its credit, is leading. Wallace Beer of Fort ’ Wayne is registration chairman of the convention Committees comprising 185 memj bars have charge of the various ' ijhases of the convention. The C. E. I isicieties of Allen county have been placed in charge of the different activities. witli a county or district ! officer as counsellor. Announcements were made at the rally of arrangements made for a big par--1 ade which will include several I (CONTINUED ON PAOE FOUR) JOSEPH COLCHIN DIES THURSDAY ( I Well Known Decatur Young Man Dies At Et. Wayne Sanitoriuni Joseph William Colchin, 23, son of Mr. and Mrs. William P. Colchin of 405 Winchester street, died Thursday nigiit at 12:35 o'clock at j the Irene Byron Sanitorium at Fort ■ Wayne. The young man had been a patient at the sanitorium since March 5. His condition became critical the > I latter part of February and he was taken to Fort Wayne the first of March. His parents were with him al the time of his death. The deceased was born in Brooklyn, New York, on September 17, 1910, and had spent practically his entire life in Decattir. He attend- ] ied the St. Joseph school here, was I a member of the St. Mary's Catholic j j church and of the St. Joseph and I Holy Name societies. He was as-1 , sociated with his father in business | !as a decorator. Surviving besides the parents are ‘ I two sisters, Mrs. Othmar Smith of: this city and Miss Mary Colchin, a student at South Bend. Funeral services will be held Monday morning at 9 o’clock at the St. Mary's Catholic church and burial will be made in the Catholic cemetery. The body was taken to the S. E. Black funeral home this morning and will be removed to the Colchin home at 405 Winchester street tonight where remains may be»viewed until time for the funeral. Man And Wife Are Burned To Death Chicago, May 11—(UP) —Trapped I in <bed in their small apartment, Mr. and Mrs. Peter Anderson, about 60 : j were burned to death today before firemen could gain entrance. Fire department autorities thought the i blaze possibly incendiary. Seven other families escaped the burning building by leaping from windows.

CORRECTION j | Rolland (1. Poling wii; •“Iccl I | cd Republican precinct commit tee for North Washington. In stead ol lames E. MeCulloilgh, , as reported in Hie list published in Thursday's Democrat. Mr. ; Poling received 11 vote-: anil j Mr. Mi('ullotigli nine AMSTUTZ CASE NEARS FINISH Delinquency Trial Nears Completion Late This Afternoon The state case against Norman Amstutz, charging him with contributing to delinquency was con- ' eluded today in the Adams clnnit i coutr and given to the jury. ■: The girl whom Amstutz is accused of encouraging to commit two ■ acts of delinquency is now an inmate of tlte Indiana Girls School near Indiana polks and was called as chief witness for the prosecution. The prosecution managed, after some difficulty, to ellicit testimony from the 14 year old girl which cor!raboratel the complaint. Several local police officers ami J Earl Cunningham, chief probal tion officer of Allen : ounty testified for tlte prosecution. Cunningham stated that tlte pair went to Allen county and attempted to get a marriage license the day after a suit- 1 .poena was issued for the girl’s arrest in juvenile court. Amstutz in his testimony aimitted participating in one of the acts j of which he was accused. He stated lie was a boarder of tlte girl's home. He said he consented to marry the girl after the family had attempted I to find a suitable husband for her in order that she could not he sent to the Indiana Girls School. The girl confessed to Sheriff Burl Johnson shortly after she wae ar-, rested several weeks ago to numerous acts of delinquency. She had been on probation tinder Mrs Faye Smith Knapp for some time before | the arrest Amstutz was lodger! in theiA'dams County Jail for a month after his i arrest. He has made no attempt to deny the charge, basing his defense on the sympathy of the jury. Members of the jury are Walter 'Com:id. John Bollenbacher, Roy Dubach. Leonard Baumgartner. William Strickler. August Schlickman, Joint H. Peters, Austen McMichlaels. Francis M. Stulls, Harve Clark John H. Helm. Henry Brown. ( I Decatur Girl Will Appear On Program Miss Martha Elizabeth Callan i, daughter of Mr and Mrs. J. Ward Calland of this city will appear in a classic toe dance in Jean Ward's [ Stage Door Frolic at the Shrine Theatre Monday night, May 14. at i 8:15 o'clock. This is the annual frolic and spring revue and the program will .include modern routine dancing ■ numbers presented to popular tunes Duke Baier will direct a 10 piece or. hestra as accompaniment, for tlip dancers. Tickets may be obtained ! from Miss Calland. GEORGE KRICK IS CHAIRMAN Named Regional Chairman Os Drain Tile Manufacturers i George Krick, president of tlte , Krick-Tyndall Tile Company, has ( been named chairman of tlte group . committee of the drain tile manu- : ( facturers of Indiana and Kentucky, relative to the enforcement of the NRA code for tlte industry. There are five members of the! , committee for the group known as! ( region two. Tile manufacturers in ( the two states come under the pro-1 j visions of the code. t The other members of the committee are: John Glassglow, Port-, land; Joe Powell. Brooklyn; Nobel Nussbaum. Bremen. Indiana, and] Henry Kleymeyer, Louisville, Ky. | An organization meeting of the re-] gional directors was held in Indian- ] apolis recently. \ 1 The drain tile industry is one ot > the major industries in the country] 1 and matters pertaining to employ-]< ment and manufacturing are liandl- ] 1 ed by the regional board, of which 11 Mr. Krick la chairman. I

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SEEKS7S.OOO FOR RETURN OF KIDNAPED MAN Attorney Receives Telephone Call Demanding Large Ransom WOMAN DETAINED, MEN QUESTIONED Los Angeles, May 11. (U.R) A : demand for $75,060 for the safe return of William F. Geltie. oil mil I Bonaire, was made today in a tele- ■ phone call purportedly from his kidnapers. The call was taken by E. E. Noon, attorney appointed to represent the (Jetties alter tile millionaire was abducted from his country estate at Arcadia, Wednesday night. Noon said lie was inclined to believe he was talking to one of tlte kidnapers or an intermediary appointed by them. A woman was detained and six men questioned today by officers seeking kidnapers of Gettle. Immediately after tlte questioning of the men orders went out for ] officers to block all roads leading to Mexico. Officers were stationed along all highways leading south from Los Angeles. They were under instructions to scrutinize all ears and to stop any which aroused suspicion. Tlte safety of Gettle was placed above the needs of legal justice today. Peace officers for tlte most part withdrew, leaving the way clear for his abductors to demand ransom. Sheriff Eugene W. Biscailuz of Los Angeles county was ready to fling an army of officers into tlte search, lie suspended activities to permit negotiations. Before declaring a truce officers had unearthed two possible clues. • One concerned the identity of a middle-aged, smartly dressed woman who questioned friends of Gettle a few hours before the tnillion- [ alre was kidnaped by two masked : gunmen from the grounds of his palatial estate in Arcadia late (CONTINUED ON PACE SIXI LAY PLANS FOR CHURCH PICNIC St. Mary’s Catholic Church Plans Huge Picnic .lune 10 Great preparations are being made for the first congregational picnic of St. Mary’s Catholic church, to be held at Sim Set park. Sunday. June 10. The Rev. Either Joseph Seimetz, pastor, hopes to make it one of the largest congregational picnics ever held in this part of the state The board of church trustees has been mined as the genera! committee and 11. P S -hmitt, has been selected as ch tirntan for the event, cooperating with Father Seimetz in | making the reunion a happy affair for all. Mrs. Charles Lose was named chairman of the dinner committee, it is planne dto serve dinner on the grounds. The Columbian club, an organization composed with the Knights of Columbus council, will have charge of the refreshment stand The public is invited to the pic- ( nic and those in charge of plans . hope to have every family in the community represented. Details are worked out and plans and programs for the picnic will be announced a.s soon as the committees work them out. O BULLETIN Crown Point, Ind.. May 11-(UP) Ernest Blunk. correspondence! school sleuth, was freed late today of charges that he aide! John Dillinger's escape last March 3 front the Lake county jail here. O ; ~ Fort Wayne Woman Commits Suicide Fort Wayne, May 11—(UP)—Mrs. Entelia Stege,'6s. committed suicide here early today by drowning herselv in a cistern at her home. The body was found by a son-in-law George Bender, several hours after he discovered the cistern lid re-j moved- She had been in il! health I for several months.

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Most (’harming vT Jbl I Poise, brains, personality, humor and looks — Virginia Eyssell (above), 20, lirou n-ltaired University of Chicago co-ed, has them all. Twenty male students voted iter the "ideal co-ed"; the other thirty co-eds in tlte contest just didn't figure at all. McNABBTALKS TO ROTARIANS Judge Clarence McNabb Talks On Probation, Juvenile Court Judge Clarence R. McNabb of Fort Wayne, addressed the Rotary i lub at the regular weekly meeting 1 held at the Rice hotel last evening. Probation and juvenile court work were the subjects of Judge McNabb’s talk. "Probation is a so - ial science It is not a hit or miss proposition. Probation is a real treatment similar to the treatment given a sick person by a doctor", the speaker stated. Judge McNabb dwelt on the purpose of probation and said that l courts envoked it as a cure for | evil and a help to society, not alone financially, but morally. "if criminals are unsafe to have in society then we should cure our delinquents before they became criminals and make them safe for ! society. It is the task of probation to adjust such people to society so that they will live normal lives and prevent them from becoming enemies of so'.iety", declared the speaker. Probation is invoked in juvenile (Cd.N riNtIF.D ON PACE POUR) BOTH FACTIONS CLAIM VICTORY McNutt And Peters Forces Claim Convention Delegates Indianapolis. May 11. —<U.R> —De- ] spite the lack of official tabula- ] tionl from Tuesday's primary, oppositing forces of Gov. Paul V. McNutt and R. Earl Peters today con tinued to claim victories in election of delegates to the Democratic state convention here June 12. The convention will name the party’s nominee for United States senator, a post Peters is seeking over the opposition of state ad-] ministration forces. Claiming some strength from nearly every one of the state's 92 counties, Peters today estimated l that he will control 1,500 dele- ] gates in the convention. Votes of 1,076 delegates are required to win the nomination. In refutation of Peters’ claims, ] Frank McHale, Logansport, admin-; istration leader, estimated that no candidate for the senate nomination is assured of more than 45 ] votes on the first convention bal-' (CONTINUED ON PAGE SIX)

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GRAIN PRICES ! RISE SHARPLY AS A RESULT Storm Is Termed Greatest Natural Calamity In Many Years DROUGHT COSTS MILLIONS DAILY Chicago, May 11. — (U.R> — Grain prices soared spectacularly again today as almost one-third of the nation watched a two-day dust storm blow itself out after causing unestirnalile millions of dollars in ] crop and property damage. The greatest natural calamity in recent years was registered on the sensitive barometer of tlte board of trade pits immediately after the opening. The long sought goal of $1 wheat appeared imminent as a flood of Inlying orders sent brokers into a scene ot' riotous activity. September wheat opened at 92 i cents, up 2% cents from yesterday’s ( lose and almost 16 cents higher i than a fortnight ago. A movement described by professional traders as a "natural reaction." set in tlte market at midsession witli prices off sharply from their highs but still fractionally above the previous close. Trading was at a tremendous pave with tlte pits in a turmoil and the galleries crowded to capacity. Traffic was slowed in and near Decatur Thursday evening by the sand and dust which obscured the vision. Breathing was also difficult l for many people because of the dust. The wind which attended the (storm did little damage to the trees j in the city. Traces of tlte sand storm had dissappeareJ this morning. Reports | from farmers today that the storm ; did less damage to the crops than j tlte drought has causedAlthough the huge cloud of sand and grit which had darkened skies ;over almost 1,500,000 square miles appeared lightening today, ] strengthening winds in lite north- ' west threatened a recurrence of the plague. Sharply lower temperatures in the Dakotas and Minnesota accompanied cessation of tlte storm, but 111 Des Moines anil at other western points sifting dirt still tilled the air. Weather reports offered no hope of rain to break a drought now causing an estimated crop loss of $2,000,000 daily. For mote than 36 hours arid winds front the plains of western Canada swirled tons of sand and grit eastward. Cattle in parched fields sickened and died as dust blanketed grass and fodder. Thousands ol persons suffered seriously from eye and nose irritations, and health authorities warned of the danger ot dust carried epidemics of disease. In Chicago. St. Louis, Des Moines, Kansas City. St. Paul and Minneapolis -everywhere under Die grimy i blanket the sun was obscured and visibility limited to less than a Hi X Pilots of commercial airlines climbed io heights of almost 15,000 i feet to read) clear air. Thick layers of gray powder sifted through window and door cracks, defying every precaution of housewives. Foods were ruined and furniture made unuseahle without dustings. Hits Indiana Indianapolis, May 11. (U.R) —A thin layer of dust, swept out of drought stricken fields of the northwest, settled over Indiana today. The storm was so svere in Porter county that snow plows were used to clear the Dunes highway of sand blown by a strong wind. Traffic was halted at times because the sand obscured visions of motorists. Weather bureau officials said the dust storm was one of tlte worst ever experienced in Indiana. The sun was almost entirely obscured yesterday, and many persons complained that it even was difficult to breathe. Housewives, who had just finished housecleaning, prepared to start all over again because ot the out which settled in their homes. Several hundred acres of onion crops in Kosciusko and adjoining ] counties were destroyed by the higlt wind which tore young sprouts from the ground.