Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 32, Number 124, Decatur, Adams County, 23 May 1934 — Page 1

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faCERS KILL HK BA RROW hO COMPANION , Sou th west Des- | perttdq And SweetSlain mHk shoot ITWOFKOM \MBI SII I ILa.. May 23 b _ Civil' notorL soiltl I desperado Ej Bonnie ■lo r, his eii;ar A>wei lheart, were bi down from ambush toL by six Barrow Bud his sweetheart Ere riding m :• fiiw coupe (in the OH I 'rrs. biding beE a slight rise at tLie edge of , t J highway! opened fire. ;«■ hsrrnw fail lidewise against the' ■ Emobile which he had, •e Ened at th' first volley of bulJHe had Br chance to raise a | '"ibchine gun that lay between J knees. Lonnie Packer slumped forward L r * machine gun resting in her ~Tr dSbl ißarrow ant: his companion were | | tli' l »h. li ."■'. ■ ■ Barrow and Bon- j . .'wßßb • M «wtpe» ' ' r A f"”' r* tH a WPP ' < - livinl: 1,1 1 vacaa|St>' e about one mile of his death. |He visitid Gibsland last night. juthoritiesßenrned. This morning Mirers Mck"d all highways leadpg from W town. Sheriff Hend■rson JuAn of Arcadia accompanied by Stive other officers, hid jn the weeds along an embank•wfcent at A side of the highway. 11 Tlley 'he Barrow auro r mobile when it was 4bout away. They open'jd machine guns and , A ftot guns a the automobile cam" > iry Tnetfltosi •rador s were caught kTSH 1 [So nuled and damaged bv gun 1 Ire was th. automobile that it IRd to be moved by a wrecker. Will I Meet .lune 25-26 I [ The 1:1 Branc * l the Nat- ! [nal I.eagu. of District Postmasth which i- composed of the third r nd fourthiclass postmasters, will ) pld the ata’ * convention at Indianjtpolis on June 25 and 26. J A roptwentative from the postJfflce deaßtment will be in attend- " as local inspectors. 1 hiring the past year and a halt here ha»e|been a number of new- ? appointed postmasters and the year's convention is to ' ■SHSbre a "school of instrucioll' henefit of 1,10 np "' W DILLINGER I IN INDIANAPOLIS ■i — Renorts NoMOs Gangster There ■ "■wOn May 10 Indianapolis. May 23—(U.R> -The Hutes ski d todav that John Oil ln ßer, ’fflsguised in overalls and . "n glasses. visited Indianapolis The Notorious Indiana outlaw nut here several hours, during 'Meh tium he left money with trends to be turned over to Miss ■velyn ■'rechette, his Frenchiidian Sweetheart. the Times Miss », Sechette was found guilty a court jurv in St. Paul oday on charges of harboring ■ —lnger. ' The Bsperado stopped first a' 1 garage on the east side of Indilnanolis,| purchased gasoline and dl and Conversed briefly with a friend, the Times said. He was) ’ een by a milkman who was maltPg delitferies in the neighborThe Information that Dillinger **• here marked the first deftrhe word of his whereabouts wee afcprtly after his escape from *<CQNTIMVED ON PAGE FOUR).

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Vol. XXXII. No. 121.

Nine Students To Receive Honor D’s Two boys and. seven girls will receive honor "D's” for remaining on the honor roll at the Decatur high school each six weeks during both semesters of the school year which dosed May 2. This award is the highest scholastic honor given by the school. The girls who will be honored, are Virginia Dolch, Marie Grether. Pauline Hakey, Barbara Krick, Agnes Nelson, Rosie Moyer and Helena Rayl. The boys are Charles Ehinger land Albert Keller. WATER MESSAGE I WILL BE GIVEN Roosevelt To Lay Out Broad Policy In Special Message Washington, May 23 — (U.R) — I i President Roosevelt will lay out a I broad policy on water use, cover- i ! ing rivers and harbors, flood coni trol, soil erosion and reforesta- j tion, in a special message to con- i gress later, he said today. The message will he one of three scheduled to he transmitted , between now and adjournment. 1 The other two will be on war j debts and a suggestion for reduc- j ) tion of the tax on cocoanut oil. The war debt message will not be sent to congress today, the j President Indicated. It was be- ) lieved to be in rough draft. Mr. Roosevelt said emphatical- j | ly that he was not contemplating j a message on social legislation. I The President explained that on | the message dealing with water ) use which also will embrace flood control projects under public j I works, congress asked for a re- I I port outlining a general governi mental policy. | He said, however, that the coni: I munication would not re4ate to specific projects. The St. Lawrence development. Mississippi flood control and all other major projects of a like j nature will be included in the i broad policy. THRH-THREE ON HONOR HOLL — Two Girls Lead Honor Roll At Decatur High School i Miss Virginia Dolch. a senior,) I and Miss Alice Archbold, a junior. ' lead the honor rolls at the Decatur I high school for the last six weeks 1 I of the semester with five “A's"l ) each. In numbers seniors lead the list with 12. The juniors placed 6 on the honor roll, the sophomores ti and tlie freshmen 9. The honor roll is: ' Alice Archbold f>A ) Virginia Dolch 5A Martha Calland 4A I Betty Tricker 4A IB I Jeanette Christen 4A I Charles Ehinger 4A I Marie Grether 4A I Pauline Hakey 4A Barbara Krick 4A Rosie Moyer 4A I Agnes Nelson 4A j Helena Rayl 4A Marguerite Staley 4A ) William Tutewiler 4A J Harold Zimmerman 4A I Ruth Margoli°s 3A IB William Schafer 3A IB *~SrONTrNnFH> ON PA OF «TXV Suit On Account Is On Trial Here A case entitled the Michigan Furniture Co., vs. Elihu Lee and Mary Lee was not concluded at three o’clock this afternoon. The case was venued to the Adams circuit court from Superior court number 2 at Fort Wayne. The complaint alleges that Mr. and Mrs. Lee of Fort Wayne purchased $462.10 worth of furniture from the Economy furniture Company, which was later purchased by the Michigan Furniture Company, (both of Fort Wayne. The complaint further allege) ) that fire destroyed the Lee home land furniture and that Mr. Lee reI quasted a receipt in order to col- | lect the Insurance. The company ) loaned him the receipt for the balance of slsl. Mr. Lee collected the insurance and' failed to pay the furniture company.

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Thirty-seven Injured in Minneapolis Riot r <fwrw. SiHS 'HE A-X. t’ 9 •’iff SE » * fe-... " z * -itimßW ■OMMU— AMMMaiiINMM* 1 Striking Minneapolis truck drivers snapped at the height of their battile with police, as sticks, ) stones and clubs flew. A policeman can be seen lying prone on the street as he was felled during fight.

IMPEACHMENT RECOMMENDED I Committee Favors Impeachment Os Federal Judge Woodward Washington, May 23.—(U.R) —The i house judiciary committee today [ voted 15 to 5 to recommend the i impeachment of Federal District Judge Charles E. Woodward. The committee probably will make a decision on the cases of District Judges James H. Wilkerson and Walter Lindley on Thursday. In announcing the vote, chairman Hatton Sumners of the committee said that the vote was taken after the committee had scrutinized ) carefully Woodward's entire record ' in office. 7 “We made the recommendation for impeachment on the whole mat- | ter concerning Woodward.” Sum- , ners said. "We did not consider any one specific case but may start i ) action on his entire record." Sumners said the resolution re-1 (CONTINURD ON PAGE SIX) o Irwin Wolf Trial Is Set For June 13 | | Fort Wayne, May 23 — (U.R) —) ) Trial of Irwin Wolf, who twice | attempteu suicide at Bluffton before being returned here on a charge of attempted robbery, has been set for June 13 in circuit court. Wolf is alleged to have tried to rob a filling station near here i last February. He was arrested I at Bluffton. KINGSLAND MAN UNDERARREST Clarence Kahn Is Charged With Theft From Erie Box Car ■Clarence Kahn. 27, was arrested at his home near Kingsland late Tuesday afternoon by Capt. R. P. Steen and. Lieut. C. D. Jennings, Erie railroad detectives. Kahn was taken into custody in I connection with a series of box car robberies on the Erie railroad between Kingsland and Ohio City, Ohio. The railroad officials recovered a quantity of cheese at the Kahn home. The arrested man admitted breaking into a box car near Kingsland on the night of May 18 and taking two cartons of cheese. Kahn had cut a hole In the floor of his home and had hidden the cheese there. He has been employed by the railroad company tor six years as a section hand, and formerly acted as assistant foreman. He Is married and has tour children. The officers took Kahn to the | Wells county jail at Bluffton where j he is charged with larceny.

Decatur, Indiana, Wednesday, May 23, 1931.

Church Brotherhood To Meet Tonight The Brotherhood of the Zion Reformed church will meet tonight at 7:30 at tlie oliurch. Dr. F. Rupnow of Fort Wayne, will be the principal speaker at tlie meeting. A trio composed of tlie Misses Helen Suttles. Mary Katheryn Tyndall, and Margaret Campbell will sing a group of songs, accompanied by Miss Helen Haubold. Selections by the saxaphone quintette, Mary Kathleen Fryback, Patsy McConnell, Marjorie Miller, I Berneta Lytle and Anna Jane Tyndall will be played during the pro-1 gram. | All men are invited to attend this meeting. AWARD MEETING ; TO MONTPELIER Annual Pythian Sister Convention Closes Here Tuesday The 1935 convention of the ’ I Pythian Sisters in District No. 4 ; will be held in Montpelier, it was announced at the closing session of the twenty-fourth annual con- '. vention of the district held in De- ( Icatur, Tuesday. Tlie convention opened here; Tuesday morning and continued; throughout the afternoon. Mrs. ■ Clara Gilmour, grand senior, de-. livered an address, "Trails of the' Rainbow'' at the afternoon meeting ; and Mrs. Ocia V. Jellison, grand ) chief, also addressed the meeting )on the subject, ‘ Our Temple of Friendship." One hundred two dollars and i twenty-seven cents was presented to the orphans maintenance fund by the lodges in the district. The , ! Converse Temple was presented the) I loving cup. At the afternoon meeting the; ■ Knights’ initiation was given by) I the Decatur staff, and the ladies’) 'initiation by the district officers ) and the North Manchester staff. I ■ The obligation service was given ‘ by the Marion Temple. Reports of the district commitI * •(CONTlNttwi) *rw PAGE SIX) 0 Mrs. Jacob Eicher Dies Near Berne Mrs. Elizabeth Eicher. 61. wife of Jacob J. Eicher residing one ) and one-half mile southeast of Berne, died Tuesday afternoon at 12:20 o'clock, following) an extended illness. Death was due to cancer. ■ Mrs. Eicher was born in the Berne community on February 1. | 1873, a daughter of Peter and Elizabeth Stuckey-Schwartz. Her entire life was spent in that community. Surviving are the husband, sev-1 eral children and brothers and sisters. Funeral services will be held Thursday afternoon at two o’clock )at the home. Burial will be made | iin the Schwartz cemetery, three . I miles north of Berne. j

NAVY RUSHES MEDICAL AID Aid Rushed By Sea And Air To Stricken Chicago Man Los Angeles, May 23. —{U.R)—The United States navy rushed medical aid by air and by sea today to the Galapagos Islands where Wttliam Robinson, wealthy Chicago sports- ■ man. is critically ill of appendiicitls aboard his 30-foot ketch Svaap. I Joining in a race with the navy destroyer Hale, a seaplane left Bal- ) boa, Canal Zone, for the islands at ■2:45 a. m. <PST) according to a Mackay radio message. The messI age came from the fishing boat Santa Cruz, standing by Robinson's ketch in Tagus Cove. The message said the plane should reach the stricken man within six or six and one-halt' hours. The distance was given as 859 air miles. Also speeding to the island was • the destroyer Hale, which left Bal- ! boa at 9:40 p. m. last night. Although the Santa Cruz radioed that the Hale was expected at Tagus Cove tomorrow morning, the navy radio station at San Diego said the vessel will not reach its destination ! until Friday. It was sent to reI turn Robinson to the Canal Zone i for hospital treatment. Plane On Way Washington, May 23. —(U.R) —The ! navy department announced today that a navy patrol plane bearing a medical officer and equipment for an emergency operation took off from Coco Solo, Canal Zone, at ) <<MXTIX'CEI) ON PAGE FOUR) DOCTOR FACING ) MURDER CHARGE Mishawaka Doctor Accused Os Murdering Baby At Birth South Bend., In<J„ May 23— I (UP) —lAlocused of murdering his ) illegitimate daughter at Birth. Dr. Rarcilla M. Hutchinson. 48-year-old physician of Mishawaka, Ind., was : held today for action by a grand ) jury. Mrs. Freida McGrew. 35 year-old widow, wept in court as she told at ) Hutchinson’s arraignment of the ■child’s birth under Dr. Hutchinson’s I ministry and of its immediate disai pea rance. ‘II heard it cry." the mother sobb)ed. “He said the baby was born dead but I heard it cry.’-’ Not until she read newspaper accounts of the discovery on May 8. a week after the child was born, of ; the decapitated body of a day-old' girl in the St. Joseph river did she | doubt Dr. Hutchinson's word," Mrs. 1 McGrew said'. ) "He wouldn’t tell me what he did with the body.’’ she testified, "and j when d read of the girl found in the i ’(CONTINUED ON PAGE FOUR)

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DEATH TOLL IN TANK COLLAPSE MAY REACH SIX 150-Ton Water Tank On Seven-Story Building Collapses THREE PERSONS ARE REPORTED MISSING Chicago, May 23. (U.R) city of ) ficials believed today that six persons were killed yesterday when a) ) 150-ton water tank atop the seven ) story Oakley building broke from; 'its supports and smashed through] five floors of offices and work-; I rooms. Three bodies were recovered from the debris and three men l ) were reported missing. ; Further search of the wreckage! was discotinued until city work- ) men can shore up the building’s ■ ] 40-year-old foundations to prevent ) the walls from falling. Six other persons were injured ■ 'by the explosive plunge -of the 1 giant tank. Floors were tilted at I crazy angles and fragments of wrecked furniture and flooring shot with bullet speed among fiee- | ing men and women workers as it fell. Thousands of gallons of waller inundated the entire building. , The dead were Kenneth Healy, 29. an engraver; George M. Fischer, I 60. salesman, and an unidentified 1 | man. Missing were Frank M. Schieble. 1 ■ 35, Park Ridge, Ill.; Harry F. Vail.' | 52. Evanston, and Edward Batters-1 1 . by, 30. Scores of lives probably were ] ■ saved by the fact that a rumbling i . warning was given as the giant ; > tank slowly tore from its steel sup-' 1 ports and toppled tor the dive. , j Alarmed workers below already 1 had started for elevators and stair- . ways when, with a deafening roar, . the tank crashed through the roof. I Richard Nosek, working on the I ON PAGE POUR) PLAN HEARING AT FT. WAYNE ’! Public Hearing Will Be Held On Milk Marketing Plan Fort Wayne. Ind., May 23.—(U.R) j ( —Public hearing on the controvers-1 ial milk marketing agreement to place distribution of milk in Fort ■ s j Wayne under federal supervision will be held here May 28, Louis 1 Houck, secretary of the Producers’ I | Association announced last night. | The hearing will climax several! j months’ negotiations between pro-1 1 ducers and the Fort Wayne milk T | council in which the Producers' As-j , . sociation has sought to reach an agreement covering milk prices. , ] Application for federal supervisrrONTTNlTFtn on page six) Five Candidates File Expenses Five candidates filed their ex-) 1 pemse accounts for the primary el--1 et’tion. A total of 70 have filed to ' date. Those who filed today are: ■ George W. Stulls, city council- > man first district, $13.53. Everet Banter, county councilman fourth district, none. ■Clyde Troutner. county clerk. $93.1i7. Clayson Carroll, mayor of Decatur, $43.75. William O. Sautbine, trustee of I Klfkland township. $4.50. o I i Present Program At r Church Wednesday The Rev. M. W. Sundermann. pas- * tor of the First Evangelical churoh 1 will present the annual program of ’ 1 church activity to the congregation Wednesday evening at 7:30 o’clock. ' i This program concerns the entire 1 ) membership, particularly the officers. " | Following the presentation of the ' program, the financial board will E ; hold the monthly meeting, and ' other sections will hold prayer ser-1 ’ i vice. ■ ] The first quarterly conference ■ will convene Thursday night at Cal- ' ; vary church. Rev. D. A. Kaley, Ind--1 ' ianapolis. district superintendent, ’ | will preach at 7:30 and preside over j ’ the business session.

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Memory Expert Talks To Lions One of the most interesting programs of the year was presented at the Lions club meeting, Tuesday night at the Rice Hotel when A. 8. Kellogg of Chicago, memory expert, appeared on the program. Dr. Burl Mangold had charge of the meeting. Mr. Kellogg demonstrated the practicability of memory training and used the 1930 United States census of incorporated places of ) 5,000 or more inhabitants'and other facts and figures, Including in- ; surance rates, books of the Bible | and presidents of the United States. J, j STRIKE TRUCE MAY BE ENDED AT MINNEAPOLIS Armistice Brings Temporary Relief From Food Shortage GROCERIES GET FIRST SUPPLIES Minneapolis. May 23 — (U.R) —j Strife-torn streets where only 24 hours ago a special policeman was , clubbed to death and 55 men in-| j jured in a battle of 6.000 strikers I with police were quiet today with i | the ominous peace of a truce that | may end tonight ; The armistice brought at least, • temporary relief from a shortage , I of fresh foods which had become 1 acute as striking truck drivers ; kept all truck traffic off the; | streets. Leaders of 40.000 striking mem-1 bers of the Building Trades and, Teamsters’ Unions hastily polled their forces for senttmwot on an order of the regional labor board to end the strike and submit , grievances to arbitration. At the same time they contin-1 i ued arrangements for a huge, mass meeting tonight of 60.000 union workers, called to discuss j a general strike which would still every important industry of the | city. Gov. Floyd B. Olson and Adjut. | | Gen. E. A. Walsh stayed in tlie i city, holding over tlie largest i urban area of the northwest the ) threat of martial law if rioting is) ) resumed. "I'm not going to have another , man killed," said tlie governor (CONTTNTTRn ON PAGE SIX) o_ Martha Calland Is Given Scholarship Martha Elizabeth Calland, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. J. Ward CalI land of this city has been awarded a four week scholarship at Northwestern University in the school of dramatic art. The award was giv- ) en because of outstanding personality. activities and scholarship. The course is given to juniors in high schools over the country and begins June 25. Miss Calland completed her junior year in the Decatur high school this spring. QUESTION MAN i IN KIDNAPING — Ex-convict Is Questioned Concerning June Rohles Ahduction Tucson, Arlz., May 23 —(UP) — Joe Newton, ex-convict, will be questioned today in connection with the kidnaping of June Robles, ■ six-year-old girl who was kept! chained to a cage in the desert 19 I days. Newton was arrested on a warrant from Medford. Okla., charging him with bank robbery, but local officers said they would check his movements closely before releasing to Oklahoma authorities. Newton was one of the gang convicted and sentenced in connection with the $2,000,000 mail car robbery at Roundout, 111., in 1924. Newton and two men who came over the line from Mexico with him were arrested late yesterday. New- • ton was questioned briefly and locked up. His companions were released after a short interrogation I but ordered to return today for furj ther investigation. Their names (CONTINUED ON PAGE FOUR)

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OUTLAW’S GIRL FOUND GUILTY BY JURY TODAY Dr. Clayton E. May Also Guilty; Nurse Is Acquitted JUDGE METES OUT TERMS OF TWO YEARS St. Paul, May 23— <U» Evelyn Frechette, part Indian sweetheart of John Dillinger, was found guilty todav bv a jury in federal court on charges of harboring the Hoosier outlaw. Dr. Clavton E. May of Minneapolis also was found guiltv of consniracy to har- . bor Dillinger. He treated the outlaw for gunshot wounds a few 1 days after Dillinger shot his way out of a federal ambush here. Mrs. Augusta SaJt, nurse for j Dr. May, was found not guilty. The jury received the case yesterday afternoon and was locked I up at 9:30 o'clock last night with | instructions to return Its verdict | in court today. Dr. May admitted treating the wounded Dillinger, who hid in ; Mrs. iSalt’s home for three days. ■ Both contended, however, that I they shielded the outlaw because ) of fear for their lives. Judge Gunnar H. Nordbye itn- ! mediately sentenced Dr. May and , Miss Frechette to two-year prison ■ sentences and fines of SI,OOO ) each. The prison terms were the maximum allowed under the law I although the two were liable to ■ fines of SIO,OOO each. Thy specific charges against | the three were that: ! Miss Frechette, knowing that ; her outlaw' sweetheart was a fugi- ■ tive from the federal governtnenr. I harbored him tn an apartment in i St. Paul. Dr. May. likewise knowing that (CONTINUED ON PAGE SIX) CONG. FARLEY PROTESTSCUT — Indiana Congressman Protests Discrimination Against State Washington. May 23 — (UP) — Through their representatives in the house today Indiana, Ohio and' Michigan protested any “disproportionate" alocation of beet sugar quotas under the new sugar control act. With their protests, they demanded that reductions, if any, follow a 1 formula based on growers’ 1933 planted acreage. Leaders in voicing the demand j that mid western producers not be ! discriminated against In favor of | western growers was representative James I. Farley, fourth Indiana ) district. Farley formulated the protest for presentation to secretary of agriculture Wallace after learning the department contemplates authorizing I quotas requiring a 16 per cent reduction in some states including ) Indiana. Ohio and Michigan and only a. four per cent reduction tn ) western fields. ■ ' Seek To Abandon Interurban Line Warsaw, Ind., May 23. — (U.R) ~~ Abandonment of interurban passenger service between Peru and Goshen today awaited approval of j the public service commission. T. C. Frazer, receiver, for the Winona Railway Company, operator of the Hr a, received permission in Kosciusko circuit court 1 ate : yesterday to petition the Public Service Commission for discontinuance of the service. Frazer said that since the line went into receivership in 1931, a total of 87,667 passengers have been carried at a net loss of $37,292. The company plans to continue freight service between Peru and ) Goshen and will continue to operI I ate passenger service between Warsaw and Winona Lake.