Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 32, Number 126, Decatur, Adams County, 25 May 1934 — Page 1

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iWO INDIANA POLICEMEN MURDERED

Bandit Killed In Attempted Bank Holdup

®MIFP FAIL A C an did a te ETfortto i lIIoUPBANK J | L Adits Wounded; O E n el> In Critical W I i Ue\. WOMAN A |IN ■TILE El FORT U May (UR) — ■ ■ i- killed m y Ijadeol .uidtw" |MB£ ■.. r.- t-a<ii IgMSSm, Se.lt >: <W EX S U ’'AU* I ' ' * 1- £ e Mt he wounded ban- I^BW— BMkRI K w h& in Ingalls Memor■Bh' at Harvey, 111., Formal announcement of the can- , l‘ n Mietd condition. didacy of Clarence E. (Pat) Manion. . BJk|K>. -über of the gang. Notre Dame law professor, for the ‘ King ■! a barrage of bullets Democratic nomination for U. S. , K, fiedKhe bank, crumpled on Senator was made today. Mr. ■ s.d.wA and was carried to Manion was endorsed by the St. ' Ear in & hich Ihe outlaws made Joseph county Democrats. Mr. K escape Manion is an orator of ability. He , ■re Ml and a woman were in spoke before the Decatur Rotary Ear. a so di black sedan, which club a month ago. Etui (■tin- bank shortly after — - ES bandit, who had an CIITII F QIIAPPU four employes in iU I ILL UL Hit Wil Eteiik K. "this is a stick-up". KSK.'ial bullets in his [OO PAM OCTCD bank guard. station JUII UH 11 UU I LII I booth above the cashbpened tire. ' E X’wa W s aß kiS Indianapolis Officers Make pandit gang attempted Futile Raid On Tourthe bank in a similar j s f (hIIII) 1 i Og the first bandit De Indianapolis. .Ind.. May 25 —(IIP) again, dropping anoth . _squad of 25 Indianapolis poI licemen, augmented by Federal de- ’ Its, frantic in their es- jrartment of Justice agents from t out of range of De Cincinnati, returned today after n. ran to the street making a futile search for John Dil- t met by more tire ling Indiana out K ' 10a fedantes concealed be- The raid was mate on a tourist | poles and nearby :< . am p southeast of Green-burg fol- ' lowing a tip that Dillinger had Kt bandit, carrying a saw- stopped there after leaving DayK shwun. fell to the ground ! ton. Ohio. bis abdomen. The officers were armed with companions, disre-, aP i,q Pa bine guns. - iwed olf slmiiii>? W bullets flying at him glirus an(i bullet proof vests. Bt|Mdes. stopped, tossed hist police and ft leral agents follow-: ■qMinpanion over his shoul- l d several othpr fruitless clues yes-; :■ I him to the waiting |t .,. d U ||| l „ B ,.|- and his 3 1 1 qters were reporteJ seen in various ] f lv " lg npar dea,h ln parts of Indianapolis ■ was described as about , , <lUf ,.d nortllPrn . ■<l One bullet entered 1 , „„„ „. lit' and came otit in the l iar ' ' l! ■' * '' . . TfiniiitiTtT Ell* ON PAuF'IHHEEt collided with another machine, f 0 Later in the day. a woman reported i, Dy's Rain that ah® had seen a man transfer*- , Benefits Crnn<S in ß packages which looked like ma nenents i rops guns t . roU] one automobne t 0 , lent L. E. Archbold said <; h - | a trip over ha “ ’ “ i I, . ... .. . from an ndianapolte m in. i Ir.i: convinced him that 11 I ■ere greatlv improved ao _ [' ■ :.im Thur-d.iy. TU/H CTPI!/£Q I the greatest improve- | ff U y|[ll(\Lv Ito the grass and hay |h will be cut soon. Grain ADE CCTTI Lit the corn which 111 s 1 As I |LL U [up are greatly improved. n,,1 “ WU barly to see how the rain —— be sugar beet crop. The . . Far. [lie heaviest experienced Hosier} AUU k Pty this month. torv Strikes Are Set- ° ‘ tied Today oclamation st Louis (VP) _ Th e ■ L Saturday. May 2b is mMisXri'. , Poppy Day- and millions an( . ln , |jana haJI been ended ana will wear little red • ’ Cow(lril j. National labor ‘ I tribute to the men who me dlator, announced today. ‘ dives on the poppy-studd- kill said the strike commit- ‘ nelds of France and Bel- r ,, p ,-renting workers in Mor ( U Iberlv Mo.. Salem. Charleston. Mur _ in the city of De atur “ • and Matt oou. Illinois My ■ Will be Observed, in a • ••• lnd 1K1 . ; agreed upon and the Women ' Legion Auxiliary ter "'l’agreement i* '' uli 1 their services In the ion ” ol - employes later to h.v, popples made by dis- . r ,. w .i r ill said that appioval ap- " ■Brans, and turn over the DU certain." '■' the .support of stale I The agreement provides that theL activities of the Am- ( . onipa ny will recognize union , Auxiliary; officials as the representatives ot ( Meretore. as Mayor ot the tcl “ workers , but no immediate , ■■ecatur, Ido proclaim Sat- in wa es was provide* I. f a patriotic response w in he tolerated in any in the purchase of e "’P „ f toriea> the labor board £ emblems of the mediator'announced. < '* veteran’s sacrifice on the 1 After Seven Weeks t 'MI Flanders, as a tribute , ~„„.,,.,,iis [nd.. May 25—(UP) f Kiving to the dead. 4 wei strike of knitters at t ■his 25th day of May. 1®34. * lu , jial ,apolis hosiery mills £ GEORGE M. KKICK ' —’tVMHEE) ! City of Decatur (GpflWWfiiU QN __j.

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RACE DRIVER AND MECHANIC KILLED TODAY Peter Kreis And Robert Hahn Die In Wreck At Speedway FIRST FATALITY OF THIS SEASON Indianapolis, May 25. — (U.R) — Peter Kreis. Knoxville, Tenn., vet-' eran automobile racing driver, and his mechanic, Robert Kahn, Chino. Cal., were killed today when their I car went over the wall at the In-i dianapolls motor speedway. Tlie car cleared the three-foot re-, taining wall, struck a tree and was cut in two. Kreis had just started a warm up run, preparatory to making an , attempt to qualify later today fori the annual 500-mile race. It was not known exactly how fast he was going nor was the cause of the l accident determined. Kreis was driving the front ’ wheel drive Miller eight which was entered in the race by Harry Hartz. The accident was the second ot the year at the speedway but was the first in which any one was killed or injured. Deacon I.itz, Du , Bois, Pa., hit the wall last weekend while attempting to qualify | but escaped injury. The 500-mile race took a toll ot I five lives last year, three being I killed during the actual race and two during the preliminaries. Kreis and his mechanic were in * I tie middle o? The "short sOulh straightaway when their accident | occurred. Kreis was 35, unmarried and was tCONTtNIiWD ON PAGE SIX) BANK REVISION LAWS ENDORSED Indiana Bankers Endorse State, National Law Changes Indianapolis. May 26. —(U.R) —Endorsement of state and national! banking law revisions as the prin-1 cipal factors in national recovery was given by speakers at closing! sessions of the Indiana Bankers’ Association convention today. Giving blanket approval ot' federal deposit insurance, commodity credit programs and establishment 1 of Indiana laws regulating state I hanks and loan companies, 3001 members of the bankers’ association were ready today to pass resolutions commending the "new deal” in the banking business. The two-day convention of the | association will be concluded tonight following election of officers (CONTINUED ON PAGE THREE) o Narrowly Escapes Death This Morning Orlie Krick of near Decatur, an employe of the Blue Creek Stone Company in Blue Creek township, narrowly escaped electrocution this morning. Krick is employed as an electric , welder, and as he turned on the switch this morning, there was a short circuit and he received some severe burns. His right arm and hand were burned. He was taken to Berne where the attending phy- , eician stated that he was not dan- , gerously hurt. o Leila Berning Injured Today Leila. Berning, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Fred Berning of route 1, I Decatur, Is a patient at the Adams County Memorial Hospital suffer- ' Ing from shock and injuries receiv- I ed at her home this morning when she was struck by a rolling log. The child wats struck by the log and pinned under It. The accident < occurred shortly before 9 o’clock * this morning. Although the exitent of her injuries have not been ascer- . mined, she is apparently suffering : a fracture of the sacrum. X-ray pic- : tures were taken today. •

Decatur, Indiana, Friday, May 25, 1934.

To Germany S’ J Jj. ' * The Rev. Charles M. Prugh, pastor of the Zion Reformed church in this city, who will leave ' Monday for New York and sail Wednesday for Germany. He will 1 study at Heidelberg University i for six weeks, completing his i theology course and obtain his I Th. D. degree. He will return, home in August.

PREDICT EARLY END TO STRIKE Minneapolis Truck Drivers’ Strike Is Near Settlement Minneapolis, May 25— (U.R) — The Minneapolis truck drivers’! strike speeded along the road to la peaceful settlement today after' a week of intermittent rioting. i While national guardsmen rest-1 ed on their arms and quiet reign-' I ed under an indefinite truce, Gov. ' Floyd B. Olson jumped into the 'breach between strikers and emj plovers and persuaded them into i a “substantial agreement’’ subject ; to ratification later in the day. Gov. Olson announced an accord had been reached with the excep-i tlon of “two minor changes in phraseology,” which he said had been asked .by the workers and which he planned to submit to the employers “with every hope of success.” The announcement came after a ' night of conferences In which Gov. Olson shuttled back and forth between the strikers' and employers’ committees, convened In buildings five blocks apart. The governor’s shoulders sagged | wearily and his red-rimmed eyes l revealed plainly the stress of an i * "continu’e’d* ON* PAGE *TWO) o SUPPLY PASTORS ARE ANNOUNCED Rev. Prugh Will Sail Next Wednesday For Heidelberg University Rev. C. M. Prugh, who will leave this city Monday to further his education in Germany, announced today the names of the pastors to fill the pulpit at the Decatur Zion Reformed church during his absence. Rev. Prugh wil sail for Europe from New York City Wednesday, May 30 He will attend the University of Heidelberg at Heidelberg. Germany. Rev. Prugh’s thesis, which waa mailed to the institution has been accepted. His oral examination for the doctor of theology degree will take only one day. The rest of the time Rev. Prugh expects to study for the examination. The schedule for supply preachers for the local church is: June 3, Rev. Athniel Steinacker, superintendant of the Fort Wayne Orphans' Home. June 10. Rev. J. F. Tapy, Fort Wayne; June 17. student Robert Vitz, New Bremen, Ohio; June 24, Rev J. F. Tapy July 15 student Otto Gerber Berne, July July 8, Rev. J. F. Tapy; July 15, student Otto Gerlber. Berne: July 22, Rev. J. F. Tapy and July 20, no services, visiting Sunday.

GIVE PROGRAM FOR SERVICES Legion Will Conduct Services Sunday And Memorial Day The complete memorial services which will be held under the auspices of the local American Legion post have been announced. Services will be held Sunday. May 27, and Memorial Day. Wednesday. May 30. Sun lay morning the Civil War. World War. Spanish American and ladles of the American Legion Auxiliary will meet at the legion hall on South Second street at 10 o’clock. From the hall they will go to the United Brethren church where special services will be held. ! ‘ Special music has been planned by the combined young peoples and I I adult choir of the church. Rev. C. J. ! Roberts pastor of the church will deliver the sermon entitled, “Patrietism and Peace”. All the war veterans and their i wives are invited to participate in ! the Memorial Day program which' I will begin WednesUay morning at ! 8:30 o'clock at the legion hall. At , nine o'clock they will march in a 'body to the Catholic cemetery and from there to the Maplewood ceme-' tery and from there to the Maplewood cemetery. They will then march back to the peace monument in the court house yard and from there to the river. While at the monument the band and the American Legion drum corps will play the “Star Spangled | Banner”. The band will remain at the monument while the pyade goes to the river. The boy and girl scouts are a.slo < ed to meet at the Central School grounl s at 9:30 o'clock Wednesday ( * _ ?roNTiNTiT:i> on page five) HONOR ROLL OF SCHOOL LISTED Central School Honor Roll Is Announced; 30 On List The honor roil of the Central school for the third six weeks of the second semester comprised 16 leaders and 14 diggers. Marjorie Miller won the sixth grade final award for high scholarship. Following is the list of leaders and diggers: Leaders Pauline Light, Dorcas Hoagland, Donabelle Fenimore, Lena Teeter, Barbara Burk. Betty Cook, Margaret Hoffman, Kathryn Knapp. Florence McConnell, Marjorie; Massonne. Mary Steele. Mary Frances Dodd. Ardis Brlntzenhofe, Denver Morris, Marjorie Miller, j i Peggy Lou Gaunt. Diggers Imogene Bright. James Christen, Helen Kohls, Billy Buck. ! Rachel Mickley, Annabel Rupert, Esther Baumgartner, Evelyn Burnett, Anna Brandyberry, Thelma Smith. Alice Yost, Kathleen Foreman, Mary Louise Frank, Winifred Skiles. Jonas Tritch Will Speak At Service Jonas Tritch of Fort Wayne will speak at the morning worship perspeak at the Sunday morning worship period at the Union Chapel United Brethren church. Sunday school will start at 9:15 o’clock followed with the worship hour. A cordial invitation is extended to the public to attend. ASK INFORMATION Members of Adams post No. 43 of the American Legion are I making an effort to get in contact with all the living Civil | war veterans In the county. | ! At the present they have the I I names of four: William Drum- | ! mond and Wash Pyle of Deca- I I tur, Howard Parr of Berne and i ;Sllas Hale of Geneva. | Persons knowing of any oth- j I er veterans living in the coun- | I ty are asked to inform any I j member of the legion or the | | Decatur Daily Democrat. « ♦

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GUARDS FIRE GAS SHELLS IN ’ TOLEDO RIOTS Two Me n Killed Late Thursday; Scores Os Others Wounded AUTO-LITE PLANT I IS BADLY WRECKED Toledo, May 25— (U.R) —An unidentified boy about 12 years old was shot in the head as he stood opposite a grocery store near the Electric Auto-Lite company plant today. He was taken to the hospital in an ambulance. — Toledo. May 25-4U.R)—National i guardsmen fired seven “sickening ! gas" shells into a mob of Electric ; I Auto-Lite strikers at 1:30 p. m. I ! today in the first open outbreak , lof renewed warfare between, guards, strikers ami sympathizer:’,. Direct cause of the hostility i could not be determined inline 1- j iately. The “sickening gas” was used for the first time. No one went to work in the l plant today. Machines were kept I idle on orders of Daniel Kelly, executive vice president ot the plant. Two rioters were killed Thursday and 10 were wounded by rifles in the hands of soldiers who fired without direct orders from milii tary superiors. An unknown number of soldiers 1 and rioters, conservatively estimated at lot) for yesterday after- , noon's and last night’s sporadic fighting. suffered bruises from flying bricks and stones. i Officials of the company, conj templating a wrecked plant which it will be impossible to operate for weeks, seemed willing to dis- i ' cuss peace. Officials of the United Automo- ' (CONTINUED ON PAGE THREE) O Stolen Auto Is Recovered Here A car stolen Wednesday evening from Ivan Webster of Monroeville was found Thursday afternoon by Chief of Police Sephns Melchi. parked on the river road north of the city. The car was apparently In good condition. The car was stolen from its parking place on Madison street beside the Teeple and Peterson clothing store, Wednesday night. No trace has been discovered of a second car stolen the same night. I The car was owned by Clarence I Merryman of the National Hotel in I this city and was parked in front of the building on Madison street. DOUBT PASSAGE OF SOME BILLS — Seven Measures May Be Passed Up For Early Adjournment Washington, May 25 — (UP) — Congress may get out of Washington by June 9. but leaders admitted today that seven bills having administration support prolbably will have to go by the boards to achieve that adjournment date. Those bills include the housing program. Indian self government, oil production control, commodity exchanges, food and drugs revision, unemployment insurance and tobacco control. Some of these are very privileged legislation and may squeeze by, but odds are against them. If any are put on the “must" list, adjournment will be delaye’l at least a week after June 9. leaders assert. The house has adjourned until Monday after passing the bank deposit guarantee bill. That leaves two weeks to dispose of tlie defideny In’ll an t the communications bill, and reach conference agreements on legislation. The senate delay on the tariff bill was another hurdle in the way of adjournment. A vote was hoped for by the mid lie of next week by majority leader Joseph T. Robinson. Housing and oil are confronted with serious delays in the house.

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For Judge (Mb. • -li I ' j Judge William D. Ricketts of | ! Rising Sun. will be a candidate for i the Democratic nomination for i judge ot the Indiana Supreme court, at the state convention next , ' month. Judge Ricketts is present . judge of seventh judicial district, I ; composed of Dearborn and Ohio I counties. He seeks the nomination for judge from the Second district. The office is now held by Judge ; David A. Myers, Republican of Greensburg. —

LIST PROGRAM | OF CONVENTION Indiana State C. E. Convention Will Be Held June 21-21 The program for the Indiana ' State Christian Endeavor Conven-) lion to be held in Fort Wayne. June I i 21-24, is rapidly nearing completion i according to Homer C. Augsburger , 1 of Berne, state program chairman. ' ' Other members of his committee include Leslie il. Steinbach, dean of ' Danville Normal College at Dan- ' ( ville, and Elizabeth Cooper of Ind- ' j ianapolis. state executive secretary i i of the Christian Endeavor Union.! The provisional program has al- ! ready been released to state, diet- ! : rict, and county union officers. Conference periods, dealing with improved methods in Christian Endeavor work, will be a feature of the tour dav com lave. Subjects to be discussed Include: “International Relations”, “Orj ganizetl Recreation," “Publicity,” : “Missionary”, "The Young People :In Religious Music". “Religious ] Drama in the Church". "The Quiet ; ! Hour". “Union Wort-:". “Practical : Christian Citizenship", and "Building a Society Program.” lAidtoitional confert-nf.es will in-' elude: “Problems of the church society of towns less than 1000", “Problems of the society of towns be- : tween lOOfl, and 5000.” Problems of I (CONTINUED ON PAGE THREE) j O Boy Scout Troop At Legion Meet Tlie regular meeting of Adams post number 43 of the American j Legion will be held at the legion | hall on South Second street Monday night at 8 o’clock. Tlie legion j boy scout troop with Ed Jaberg. , scoutmaster, will give an exhibition I of their work. FERA Payroll This Week Is $1,945 The 113 men and six women, working on FERA projects in the i city this week will receive $1,945 for their labors. No order to re-1 lease the story of the FERA rural ■ program in Adams county has been received by the local FERA office.!; Work has been begun on the four clay tennis courts being constructed on the new city lot in the south . part of town. The tennis courts will be the first improvement to be made on the lots with FERA labor. The working schedule this week is: Homesteads project, 91 men. $748.75; Homesteads, six men on non-rellef, $70.80; tennis courts, eight men. $83.80; repairing hooks in library, six women, $50.40; redecorating interior of Adams County Memorial Hospital. $43.20; repairing city light lines, nine men. $82.80, and work on relief garden, one man, $1.50.

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EAST CHICAGO OFFICERS ARE GANG VICTIMS Shooting Closely Resembles Dillinger Type Os Killing SHOT DOWN IN COLD BLOOD LAST NIGHT I East Chicago, lnd., May 25. —(U.R)—A star murder witness ' against John Dillinger was ' one of two policemen murdered early today by a machine gunner believed to have been the desperately sought outlaw. Convinced that Dillinger ; shot the patrolmen and fled the scene of his latest killings, hundreds of police and federal I agents guarded highways in lllinlots and Indiana, seeking vengeance land a final showdown with the : man who had defied the law for months. The dead policemen, Patrolmen ! Martin O’Brien and Floyd Mulvihill. had pursued a suspicious automobile out of East Chicago toward Gary. Tlie car slowed down on a ; lonely stretch of highway and a machine gunner within directed a fire that riddled the policemen with i bullets. Mulvihill was the witness ex--1 pected to send Dillinger to the electric chair for the murder of Patrol- ' man William P. O’Malley during a hold-up of an East Chicago bank five months ago. Dillinger, after Ilia arresst in Tucson. Ariz., was j charged with this murder and lodgled in the Crown Point jail. He i escaped to continue his deadly I forays against society. Mulvihill, fattier of six children. ; was within a few Inches of O’MalI ley when he was machine-gunneil, ' and had positively identified Dilll inger as the slayer. I.ast night’s murder, police said, bore all of the Dillinger earmarks jin cold-blooded ruthlessness. The East Chicago patrolmen (CONTINUED ON PAGE FOUR) _o Plan Drive For Park Equipment The civic depattment of the Decatur Womans’ club is planning to stage an extensive drive among the business men of the city to obtain the donation of tables, benched, ' chairs and stoves to be pla.pd. In | the new Hanna-Nuttman park: One stove was donated and Installed by the city last fall. The ; civic department has voted to donate another and also a table. The Decatur Lions club, Rotary club, ami Roy Mumma of the Deea- , tur Lumber company have offered ' to donate talbles. Funds will not perI mit the construction of a shelter 1 house in the park at the present | time. MANION ENTERS SENATOR RACE Notre Dame Law Professor Candidate For Nomination Indianapolis, lnd.. May 25 (UP) | The race for the Democratic nomin- : ation for United States Senator in Indiana was more tangled than ever today with eight candidates in the field and three others considered : as possible “Dank Horses". Latest to announce his lan'lidacy j is Clarence E. Manion, professor of constitutional law at Notre Dame University. The announcement was made !>y John C. Nelson. St. Joseph County Democratic chairman, in a letter sent to the other 91 couny chairmen in the state. Nelson said that Manion was assured of the support of St. Joseph county’s 96 delegates to the state convention June 12. Manion was the Democratic state *^(CONTINUED ON PAGE SIX) Special Meeting Sunday Morning A special meeting of the Catholic Benevolent League of Indiana will be held Sunday at the Wertzberger confectionery, immediately following the last mass.