Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 32, Number 125, Decatur, Adams County, 24 May 1934 — Page 1

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htfURTHER ftILE FROM [driver strike - like Armi^tice Is Scheduled To End At 9 I o’clock Tonight PROBE OF I LEAI i I' S DE \TH Minneapolis. May 21. <U.R) [tv thottoi d men in Ivo fcii'il eafc" nuuli' MinniNis a tbh ’T linx "I nuns ■ dubs t< Inv as si 11, mill KhII'iHMFk 1 >ls ;| I telH| iti'il Tend a -ink.' <.l lo.'HHi linsters >iniI bllil<l in u ElesHlun In Inn the end of IX-hoiirßiiiee tonitjhl. Hiree r«J ''i> ! nf national IrianM Mil• 'll in their minor [for that would throw L into iln I'.iii'ni'd batt!" | avaital I patMttM th'' streets. Car-I ■s ot' Stt’ pickets (Illis,'.l K the city to .nfoiT.' to ms of I whlci L arir.ii the expires at ft Lk toni*i It a husre mass meeting la t Lt on (■ i' '■ pat .el'' m Is lth« labor board to end I trike til ediatcly. K-n in *1 soiled clothing Lr.-ti apefk s who urged them I "fight IB to a finish.” Hun Lis of Mbineti in tin 1 crowd Jded shrill roices to the uproar poHTWin’i' nv PAGE SIX! I ° leads Sint Guiltv ( li ti'fc Fort Wayne, entered plea before Mayoi Huge Kt® in city court We Ines a loitering : harge. was Mines in Bonn Monday. Failing provide the bond, Hart was retMd to thi county jail. He was fettel Molday night. Mfrth ijtch Os | Rainfall Toda — - ilMn amoipring to .25 of an inch iSdHifdir this morning. This ktt a tote of .55 of an inch for ' Mtnith sb far. which is far be r average! During the month of f.in 1933 total of 9.32 in: he; the southern part the count) was slightly .smaller .21 hundredths of an was the ■ML) th. The to ■4ps <®n inch each. Im®» 1 cooler weather is leMed to ; ■ a welcome relief to ®S in (the county who were seriously feel the eswhich has cov ' Idle west this spring. A ■ to grain crops will be TART RADIO SYSTEM SOON IK•tve For $50,000 For HK Police Radio Oversubscribed S|M<>iis, May 24- 'U.R) notation of a drive to raise •WO for establishment of a ) 6 police radio system and tor m iiai construction to ft withit a few weeks were onneed at the opening session the Indiana Bankers' Associai convention here today, istituted by Al G. Feeney, diW of bublic safety, and spon’di by Indiana bankers, the e polici radio system is conTed the largest stride the state taken i, i its campaign against oves to raise the $50,000 neces rAo.ejfei't five radio stations ’’ldel™ separated sections of state (were started more than ® ago. The report today . tod that bankers had collect®ore than enough to defray ; initial | cost of the program. , o*. Paul V McNutt has donat-i 121,00C| from his emergency ingen t [fund. The remainder he amount was raised through ributiqus of hundreds of Indio «*.» gif page* bjkT ’

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Vol. XXXII. No. 125.

Water Tank Crash Kills 3 ' lOM WB! • IM BBBMB I WHp ha IM a Jyr m, s —i—iwtoMto 'teawtrs Police and firemen searching the wreckage of the Oakley building | tor possible victims after a 330,000-pound water tank on top the build- ' Ing lipped from its tower and crashed through six fluors. Three perI sons are known to have been crushed to death, while others are , believed to lie buried ill Ihe debris.

To Hear Petition At Monroe .lune I A hearing on the petition of tlie | Citizens Telephone Company to i discontinue the operation of tile | switchboard at Monroe, will be 11.• 1 d in tlie Moppyg JmfU tiUU'ui, auditoriinn.Aionday. .lune I m 1" 3A o'clock, by the Indiana Public Service commission. The telephone company has peti- ■ tioned to discontinue the operation of the switchboard and to serve the .Monroe subscribers through the Decatur and Berne exchanges. i Tlie notice of hearing was sent ' out by Samuel L. Trabue. commis- ' sibner of tlie Indiana Public Ser- • vice Commission. NOAH HUNT IS DEATH’S VICTIM Aged Monroe Resident Dies Wednesday Night Os Complications Noah Hunt. 91, who had made his home with his son, Charles Hunt iin Monroe, died Wednesday night jat 9 o’clock of compli atione. Mr. I Hunt had been ailing for the last jtwo years and bad been bedlast for | the past seven weeks. ' Mr. Hunt was born in SwitzerHand county on September. 15, 1542. a son of John an I Martha Hunt. He was a farmer, and a member of the Baptist Church. His wife preceded him in death Mr. Hunt was the last .surviving member of a family of 11 children. Surviving are the children: Mrs. T. J. Rayl and Charles Hunt of Monloe; Perry Hunt of Craigvllle; and Mrs. Laura Lee of Groomsville,' Four children are deceased. i.M short funeral service will lie held at the Charles Hunt home in , Monroe Friday morning at 9 o'clock ■ with Rev. Vernon Riley of the Monroe Friend's Church in charge. The body will be taken to Kempton where services will be conducted Sunday morning at the Baptist church at 10:30 o’clock. Burial will j be made in tlie Baptist church there. Tlie body was removed to the Charles Hunt home early this afternoon from the Otho Loben.«ein i Fuheral parlors and may be viewed | until time fur the funeral Friday ■ morning. — —' One Diphtheria Case Reported One case of diphtheria an.l eight cases of measles were reported in i Adams County in the morbidity reI port for the wee’s ending Saturday I May 19 Tlie’number of cases of ' measles' in the state has increased from 1296 for the last week ending May 12, compared with 1361 for the week ending May 19. Cases of diphtheria decreased for the week from I 15 to 9, ‘

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TWO LIFERS TO MAKE APPEALS -TtofrConviets WiH Appear ■ Personally B e fore Clemency Board Indianapolis, Ind.. May 24—(UP) i —For the first time in the history ■ of the New State clemency comniission, two life-term convicts were allowed to present personal appeals i for leniency here today. Tpe two I'onviH, John G. Reas, j 43 Gibson county, and Thomas | Goins. 42 Marion County negro, i were brought from Michigan City , under guard. Both are seeking commutation of : senten.e. Reas wa.4 sentenced in’ Gil. mn Circuit court May 8. 191" on , a charge of killing. Mary Jones, i Members of the clemency commission indicated lie will be given a . sanity hearing. Goins has servo I nearly eight : years on a charge of killing his wife I during a quarrel. Tlie clemency commission recommei’ii'" "vo paroles and denied 14 | Petitions yesterday. ’Among those denied leniency j were Mike Ryan, serving a life i term on charges of murdeiing his | wife in 1921, and William Johnson, > sentenced to lite from Morgan county in 1923 on charges of killing a woman. JURY VERDICT ! FOR DEFENDANT Adams Circuit Court .Jury Finds For Defendant In Suit A jury in the Adams circuit court found for the defendant in tlie suit on account venued here from the Allen superior court by the Michigan Furniture Co., who charged’ Eli!hu and Mary Lee of Fort Wayne i with failing to pay slsl ballance due on their furniture alter it was J destroyed by fire. The Fort Wayne company alleged that a receipt for the balance was i loaned to the Lees in order that they might prove ownership of tlie 'goods to collect the insurance. The j Lees swore they paid' slsl and were given the receipt for finishing the payments. Tlie case was given to the jury at 4:10 o'clock Wednesday afternoon and the jury returned its verdict at 6:40 the same evening. I The jury selected during the morning session was: Francis M. ’ Stults, William Strickler, Otis Burk. John M. Bollenbacher, Austin ! McMichael, Leonard Baumgartner, i Walter Conrad. John Chilcote, John I A. Helm. Jacob Baker, Henry Selk--1 lug and Roy Dubach.

Decatur, Indiana, Thursday, May 24, 1934.

DEMOCRATS TO NAME SENATOR NOMINEE FIRST I - Democrats Make Arrangements For State Convention .lune 12 ALL COMMITTEES ARE APPOINTED Indianapolis. May 24.- (U.R> —Hxpecting a bitter fight over the nomination of a senatorial candidate. members of the committee in charge of arrangements for the Democratic state convention June 12. have decided to place the senate nominations ahead of all others. Nomination of candidates for U. ' S. senator will be started inimedii ately after Gov. Paul V. McNutt | lias delivered the keynote address, and Senator Frederick ATanNuys. formally has taken over the chair | as permanent chairman. Omer S. Jackson, Greenfield, new ’State chairman, and Mrs. Emory Scholl. Connersville, state vice* I chairman, will welcome delegates i at the opening of the'eonvention, scheduled for 9:30 a. m. A platform committee, consisting of* one representative from each of the 12 districts in the state, with Perry McCart, Paoli, chairman, was announced today. The members are: First district, Oscar Haney. Hammond; second district. Frank Kistler, Logansport; third district, Chester Montgomery, South Bend; fourth district, W. W. Sharpless, Auburn; fifth district, Robert R. Matton. Marion; sixth district, John F. McFadden. Rockville; seventh i district, Alvin Padgett. Washingitoni eighth distriict, Evan StotsenN«w Albany; ninth district, Perry McCart. Paoli: tenth district, (CONTI NURP ON PAGF SIX) — o County School Head To Attend Meeting ■Clifton E. Striker. Adams county I school superintendent, will attend a i meeting of superintendents of the fourth district at Bluffton Thurs- ■ day, May 31. DEATH CLAIMS U.S. DIPLOMAT Brand Whitlock, Former Minister To Belgium, Is Dead Cannes, France, May 24. —<U.R) —| I Brand Whitlock, war-time minister I to Belgium at the time of the German occupation, and famous Unit- | ed States diplomat, died today. Whitlock's services to Belgium during and after the war were such that the nation paid him the high- i est honors in its power. He re- 1 ceived the most coveted decorations Belgium bestows and was 'made honor:' ) citizen of >ts lead- . ing cities. He was received and thanked by ; tlie P.elgian parliament in special session in 1918 for his services to the nation, and Ills bust was placed in the senate. Whitlock was first popularly' known and recognized as a foremost American municipal reformer (CONTINUED ON PAGE FIVE) No Damage From Fire Wednesday No damage was reported from j the fire at the Mrs. Mary Fullenkamp residence on Adams street. Wednesday afternoon at 4 o'clock. Varnish remover caught tire from a blow torch. o Letter Carriers Select Officers The Adams County Rural Letter Carriers Association at a meeting held in Monroe elected G. A. Kahnert of Monroe, president; Harry Crownover of Decatur, vice-presi-dent and D. J. Sprunger of Berne, secretary-treasurer. The Ladies Auxiliary also elected ■ officers for thfe year. They are: ■ Mrs. Louis Neaderhouser of Berne,; president; Mrs. W. F. Beery of Decatur, vice-president and Mrs. S. F. Lehman of Berne, secretary-treas-urer,

John Heller Is Named Receiver Hartford City, May 24 (U.R) - John 11. Heller. Decatur publisher today assumed charge of the First National Bank of Hartford l City as receiver, replacing Earl Reasoner who lias served as con- ' servator since March 26, 1933. j ■ The bank was closed today and I until the first of next week, for ! ! tlie purpose of checking the bank’s ■ records and checking out Mr. ■ Reasoner as conservator. The action means that tlie bank is toj ’be liquidated, leaving only one) bank operating within tlie county, i Tlie First National bank was ’ founded in September, 1903 and ’ was capitalized at $50,000. It is j now capitalized at $75,000 with' $15,000 surplus. No statement ; was forthcoming relative to what | might be paid out to depositors in the liquidation, pending a further examination of records. Mr. Heller has been serving ; since January as receiver for the First National Bank of Montpelier. [ He stated that liquidation of thati | institution is proceeding highly satisfactorily. COMPLETE PLAN FOR POPPY DAY American Legion Auxiliary To Conduct Sale Saturday Members of the American Legion auxiliary have completed plans for the sale of poppies on Poppy Day, which is Saturday, May 26. Sale of poppies, which are made by disabled war veterans, will start ! at 8 o’clock in the morning and continue throughout the day or unj til the supply received here is ex-; hausted. Auxiliary members will also sell them in the residential district us the cjiy. . „ The idea of the poppy as a memorial flower for the World War dead sprang up as naturally as the little wild flower itself grows the fields of France and Flanders. The flower was the one touch of beauty , which survived amid tlie hideous destruction of war. All persons wearing poppies Saturday are asked to wear only those i which bear the identification mark i of the American Legion. Only these poppies are made by disabled vet- ' erans. All of the profit from sale !of such poppies goes to the veterans making them and in most 1 cases this money is all that such veterans are able to earn. Disabled veterans receive free (CONTINUED ON PAGE SIX) Board Os Review Will Meet June 4 The annual session of the county ■ j board of review will be held Mon- ! lay, June 4, at the county auditor’s ' office. The board will lie in session 30 days and will review the assessments made Iby the township assesj sors. make what c hanges are neces- ' sary and correct errors. RATE SLASHES ARE RESCINDED Rehearing Is Granted On SBOO,OOO Electric Rate Reductions Indianapolis, May 24. — (U.R) — General rate reductions expected to save SBOO,OOO annually for electric 1 customers of the Public Service j ; Company of Indiana were cancelled by the Public Service Comniis-i sion today with granting of a rehearing In tlie case. The commission set May 28 for the new hearing. Immediate effect of the order granting the rehearing was to nullify a temporary restraining order obtained by the utility in northern Indiana district federal court April > 27. The reductions were ordered es- j fective May 1. The court order prohibited the ! reduction from being placed in ef-' feet. A new federal law passed since . j the reductions were ordered will! affect the case later. The new law : ’ prohibits utilities from appealing | ; directly to federal courts from public service commission rulings. The cases may be taken into federal court only after having been ruled on by all state courts.

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STEELWORKERS MAY BE CALLED OUT ON JUNE 16 Nation Wide Strike May Be Started On The Above Date UNION LEADERS ASK RECOGNITION Pittsburgh, May 24—(UP) —June ■ 16 wa-s set today as the date for 1 100,006 steel workers to leave their | | jobs and begin a nationwide strike. Miehatel F. Tigue. president of ; tlie amalgamated association of j iron steel and tin workers, an-1 | nounced that unless Union demands < I for recognition are met before June 1 . tlie strike will start six days . later. "There is no question of backing down.” Tigue, who originally opi posed the strike, said. "The work- : ; men themselves decided it at their I convention here a few weeks ago. : i We have no choice but to carry out j I their orders.” There is only the ghost of a .chance that steel executives will !.consent to recognition, observers; | believe. Grim-lipped men who will ! have successfully fought recogniI tion for 40 years are not expected i to submit meekly now, and T. M. Girl ler’s statement before the Am-; arican iron and steel institute to-1 day bore that out. There are two other possibilities i however, of avoiding strike just as ; ♦ to ♦ to-to CONTINUED ON PAGE EIGHT I — ° ~ Boy Scout Troon 63 Will Meet Tonight AU Boy Scouts of Troop 63 are | urged to attend an important meet- i 4jDg_ Qf >he troop at the Central school tonight at 6;30 o’clock. o Mother Os Berne Woman Is Dead I Word has been received of the death 'of Mrs. H. W. Wynn, 70, of } Elk City. Oklahoma, mother of. Mrs. Harry O. Jones of Berne. Mrs. Wynn died this morning following an extended illness. Mrs. Jones was at the bedside (5T her mother j at tlie time of death. OUTLAWRUMORS STILL PERSIST Indianapolis Police Informed Dillinger Seen Last Night Indianapolis May 24 —(UP)- A warning that John Dillinger might ibe in Indianapolis was broadcast over the city police radio today; after a collision between two cars. ' George Krantz, Indianapolis, driv- ; er of one of the ears, reported, that I three men an I two women occupied the other machine. He was not positive in his identification of Dillin-. ger. however. The five persons paused only I long enough to ascertain that the I left front door of their car was I | damaged before they speed away, j | The car bore Ohio license plates 29-875. Indianapolis, May 24. — (U.R) — A . persistent rumor that John Dillinger had planned to horsewhip an InI dianapolis man who was said to (have withheld $3,000 of the outlaw’s money was partially confirmed today. Lieut. Chester Butler of the state ’ police revealed that a whip, similar ■ to those used in old fashioned buggies, was found in Dillinger’s car which was abandoned after a (CONTINUED ON PAGE FIVE) ? ______o Daughter Os Local > Pastor Is Honored Mrs. C. C. Yund of Lafayette, ; daughter of Rev. and Mrs. C. J. Roberts of tills city, was elected I president, of the Northern Indiana Women's Missionary Societies of tlie United Brethren church at the I closing session of tlie annual con- ; vention Wednesday. Mrs. M. R. Garber of Huntington and Mrs. Thomas Hamlin of Etna Green were named vice-presidents; Mrs. S. F. Eberhart, of Huntington, secretary, and Mrs. J. W. Lake of Bremen, treasurer.

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Slain r .. .. • * L Bonnie Parker, the cigar-smok-l ing friend of Clyde Barrow, notorious desperado. Both of them were slain near Black Lake, I La.. Wednesday, when officers: riddled them with riot gun bul- j lets from an ambush as they attempted to escape.

ADAMS COUNTY SHARE $26,400 — Schools To Receive Above Amount From Gross Income Tax Schools of Adams county will receive approximately $26,400.00 as their share in distributions from the stat, gross income tax j July 1. it was announced in Indi-; I anapolis today by Clarence A. ’ Jackson, director of the gross in- ' i come tax division. Money sent to Adams county j schools will be part of about $4,000,000 which will be distribut- ’ ed to schools in all parts of tlie i state on a basis of S2OO for each ! I teaching unit. Tlie exact amount! I of July distribution cannot he de- ( termined until the state board of I education completes its list of teaching units allotted to each I school corporation, Jackson said. I When gross income tax collec-; I tions were distributed in January, j i Adams county was allotted 132 ■ l teaching units and received ' I $26,975.52, or $204.36 for each teaching unit. Floyd I. McMurray. state superintendent of public instruction, estimated that the total number of teaching units in most counties of the state would ; be approximately the same for ( July distributions as for those ; made in January. The law defines a teaching unit; (CONTINUED ON PAGE FIVE) MANY CURIOUS VIEW BODIES Clyde Barrow And Bonnie Parker At End of Long Crime Trail Dalias, Tex., May 24. — (U.R) — Clyde Barrow and his sweetheart, Bonnie Parker, who combined their j talent for crime and ran up a tally of a dozen murders in the south- j west, came back home to Dallas; today to be buried in different graves. Tlie pair met death yesterday as Bonnie had predicted they would. Cruising down a highway near] Arcadia, La., they were ambushed iby Texas and Louisiana officers.! I For once Barrow and his female; [ aide were on the receiving end of! I the leaden hail. They died quick-) ly, Bonnie with her machine gun | cuddled in her lap. Bonnie, in a rambling poem had expressed the wish that she and Harrow be buried together, but today her mother, Mrs. Emma Parker, said the wish would not be observed. “No, I would never consent to her being buried with him,” she said. "He took her from me when she was alive but I’m going to take Lei from him now. She's going * \cONTI*N UED ON PAGE SIX)

GUARDS FORCED TO THROW GAS TO QUELL MOB Bystander Is Feared Seriously Injured By Gas Bullet DRENCHING RAIN HELI’S TROOPERS Toledo. May 24— <U.R) Orville Kune, locoinolive fireman, was hit in the head will) a gas bullet fired by a soldier while he was watching troops and strikers battle at the Electric Auto Lite plant, lie was taken into a nearby house. It was feared liis eyes were blasted away Iby tlie charge. It was the first major casualty since the troops I arrived. National guardsmen twice were ■ forced to loose a barrage of gas to quell incipent efforts on the part of the surly mob to continue rioting which turned the area I into a battle ground during the : night. Coughing from the effect | of the vicious Kocs and D. M. gas.. ' strikers retreated slowly, sulien- ; ly and gathered at a distance to : scream at th > company, its officers and the troops. Battered walls. broken win- ■ dows. and charred remains of numerous small fires gave mute ! evidence of the wrath which strik- , ers turned against the company which has refused to recognize ■ their union. United Automotive I Workers. The big plant was empty of all | save militiamen, company officials and a small gang of workmen who strove to repair damage from last night's fighting. Some 1,800 men and women workers, held prisoners in the plant for almost 24 , hours because they worked as strike breakers, had been freed by tlie coming of the national guards- ! men. Workers Prisoners Toledo, O„ May 24— (U.R) — ■ Troopers, their grim faces and i bristling bayonets belying their youth, held sway over the strike torn Electric Auto-Lite plant to(CONTTNUED ON PAGE SIX) COUNTY LEAGUE IS GIVEN COONS Five Coons Are Released To Increase Game In County | The Indiana Conservation department delivered five coons to the Adams county conservation league as a part of the state program to increase tlie game in the i county. The coons were raised on the ! game reserve in Brown county ; near Nashville. An employe of ; tlie state department delivered the : animals in a crate to the Ross ! Hardin farm, five miles northeast jof Decatur. They will be kept (there for several weeks until it is determined in what part of the county to release them. The local league also received 150 pheasant eggs from the state. The eggs have been divided into settings of 12 eggs each and allotted to the foil )wing farmers. Con- | rad Scheuniann. Ralph Straub, | Ross Hardin. Harold Harvey, I Rottedt Bailey. WiiHam Rickard, Lawrence Carver, H. L. Sipe, Fred j Geimer and Wilbur Suman. Two ; settings have not been given out I yet. When tlie pheasants are old I enough they will be released by i the members of the league over (CONTINUED ON T>AGF SIX) Suspended Term Is Given Kahn Bluffton. May 24 —(Special)—■ ' Clarence Kahn. 27, Kingsland, was sentenced to ouc year a the .w.e penal farm and assessed a fine of $5 costs by Judge John F. Decker of the Wells circuit court. The sentence was suspended during good behavior. Kahn pleaded guilty to petit larceny. the outcome of his theft of two cartons of cheese from a box car on the Erie railroad. He was arrested >by railroad detectives Tuesday afternoon.