Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 32, Number 143, Decatur, Adams County, 15 June 1934 — Page 1

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Semen me ■EISED AND ■ptor taken NH Men \hducted In Thursday Rei n harmed Wl RKD MAN IS K( Al’I.D CONVICT ■Joseph. M<>.. June 15.— Three men abducted at Davenport, la., ■llra.'ci! unharmed near ■ Lilay and the alleged' was arrested by po-1 ■e Palmer, 30, who said from East ham farm at Huntsville, with Raymond Hamilwas arrested by Jos -ph policemen a few after the three men were unharmed. ■ J W. Reynolds told the tout Palmer admit!was overtaken on a St. just before dawn as throe allducted men were] near a tourist camp. armed with two .45' Sr>- automatic pistols and six .c ion. he suriendei when the police squad to a stop. K| tapir.-s. traffic Patrolman Dr. W. H Fitz. secretary of the baseball club in the league, were released at Reynolds, said, left the , KJi'ile and walked down a! ■ Fitch and Schultze 1 the police station and re ; alriuotlon. Four police-’ in pursuit of Palmer I, [Ji; the long drive from Dav the patrolman was ride in the rear of a coupe other two men were on with Painter. ■r said he was one of the ■ escaped from the Texas . when a guard was kill Barrow and Bonnie now lead, engineered the B o

aHORITI OF |IMSI) UPHELD May Use To Retire County ■ I Road Bonds 1 - ill’’ of county commission gasoline tax and auto refunds to retire county was upheld by the In i court late yestiT l i) was appealed from the circuit court by Frank Greencastle, who commissioners from bonds maturing in iwa::. contended in his suit in l|H> circuit court that the acted illegally in divert IHSj ll ' v received from the slut' taxes and auto lic-ii M<> retire t'he bonds. He under the iaw Hie _ VS< be used solely for const rtr and repairs of co ißSlPiitnam circuit court dm>i<«l Mi'i<m. upholding tile action ot in retring 1 1"’ the road fund. The (■■court in its action yestei'la.. ON PAGE TWO) 0 : Taken To j State Hospital fg- Nellie Oakley was taken to r^B v en sanitarium today ‘by Bur ' Johnson. She was re°rdered committed there ■ of two pity IB Announces g Price Reduction June 15.— (U.R) - R>'<htc |W $lO to sls In the list prices Ford V-8 passenger cars to S2O for commercial cars became effective today. [■ unexpected announcement [■« reductions followed sim |Hvtion by most of the antomo■gmpanies in this area.

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Vol. XXXII. No. 143.

| Youngest American College President w r ■ Dr. Gordon Keith Chalmers, brilliant eastern professor, is the new president of Rockford College at Rockford, 111. Dr. Chalmers is the youngest college president in the country, being but 30 years of age. He and his wife, who is a l noted writer, have both been | members of the English depart- | ment at Mount Holyoke College. PLAN PROGRAM SUNDAY NIGHT Children’s Dav Program Will Be Given At St. Paul Church — | LA Children's Day program will be j presented at the St. Paul church, (four miles southeast of Decatur next Sunday night at 7:30 o’clodk. The program is as follows: Song—Choir Invocation —Rev. Smith. Rec. —Vivian Beam Rec. —(Patricia Noll Rec.—Bobby Smith Re-. —Doyle Hawkins Rec. —Howard Foreman Rec.—Jean Walters Song -Class 1 ReCrf-.Winifred Shoaf Rec. —Margaret Wilson Rec. Frances Workinger

Song —Jean Walters Rec. —Walter Fairchild Rec. —Virginia Beam and Janice | Feasel. 11 Diologue—'Raudenibush Triplets I Rec. —<Dowena Raudenbush Song —Doyle Hawkins - Rec. —Charles Mcßride Rec.—Virginia Beam Song—Choir Dialogue—s girls. Rec. —Dean Reber Rec.— Floyd Marschand , Rec. —Ferris Mertz Recj-Jaye Martin Music— Roger Arnold I Rtf. .—Joe Railing . Song—Classes 2 and 3 Rec.—Richard Fairchild , Ri*e. —Juanita Mcßride Song—Choir* Flag Drill— Croup of boys Reading Romaine Raudenbush •"(CONTINUED ON PAGEJrtVE) RIGHT TO SET RATES UPHELD High Court Rules Adjustment Boards May Go Over $1.50 Limit Indianapolis. Ind.. June 15-(UP) —Actions of county tax adjustmen boards in setting rates in excess of the $1.50 property tax limitation iaw. was upheld by the state supreme court today. The high court, in refusing to view Ohe action of the Marion connty adjustment board, denied an In- < »ir>n against county auditor £«» 'T X“.« «- i" “ above the $1.50 on each SIOO taxalble property. The action was appealed from the Marion circuit court by a group court reiterated Rs TcftHWNWWI S N PAUK £,yßi

State, National And International News

t ONLY DAUGHTER I OF PRESIDENT SEEKS DIVORCE Anna Roosevelt Dall Leaves For Reno To Establish Residence SECOND DIVORCE IN FIRST FAMILY Reno, Nev., June 15.—(U.R> The second divorce tn the nation's first I family since President Roosevelt ■ took office impended today. Anna Roosevelt Dall, only daughter of the President and Mrs. 1 Roosevelt, left Washington yester-' day for Reno to establish residence: preparatory to divorcing Curtis Dall. New York and Chicago brok- 1 ■ er. Only a little more than a year, ago Elliott Roosevelt, the second son, went to Reno to divorce his wife, the former Elizabeth Donner,; Philadelphia. Mrs. Dall, who has lived at the; White House almost continuously I since her father was inaugurated, I I took her two children with her. I She is understood to plan to estab-. ' lish residence at a cottage on Lake Tahoe, on ths border between Ne-1 vada and California. The children 'are Anna Eleanor, 7, (Sistie) and I Curtis. Jr., 4, (Buzzie). Both are; familiar figures around the White House and have been attending a I nearby school. Mrs. Dall has been a society favorite, only recently having won a' cup in a Fort Myer horse show. Dall was said to be in New York. [ Annual Picnic At St. John’s Sunday The annual picnic will be held Jal the St. John’s chutch, north of I Decatur on U- 8. road 27, Sunday I afternoon. A program will be pre- : sented by the children and the 'church choir will sing. CIVIL WAR VETS TO MEET SUNDAY Indiana Veterans Will Hold Annual Encampment At Muncie

Muncie. Ind., June 15 — (UP) I Their ranks thinning rapidly through deaths from old age, Lndj lana veterans of the civil war will i gather here Sunday for the 55th an- < Dual encampment of the state j j Grand Army of the Republic. 1 Less than 100 of the state’s reI malning 237 members are expected •' ' w attend the five-day meeting. But members of six affiliated pat- ( I riotic organizations holding their annual conventions in conjunction with the G. A. R. encampment, will swell the numiber of visitors. The affiliated organizations are I the Women’s Relief Corjxs. Ladies < ot the G. A. R., Sons of Union Veterans of the Civil War. Auxiliary to Sons of Union Veterans, Daughters < of Union Veterans of Civil War, and Federated Patriotic Stf ieties. _ A gigantic aerial display will fe ■ ture the opening of the encamp- j ment Sunday. Between 50 and 75 airplanes will participate. Army pyanes from Fort Benjamin Harrison will display formationma“mvers ami civilian ships w orm an air parade over the city. A douNe parachute will climax the t show Attending veterans will be , l g iven tickets for free airplane , ; flights as they register. ‘ Business sessions will begin Mon- ( dav morning. ... . t Highlight of the ON PAGE J National Executive J To Address Meeting , -—- i Burt L. Knowles, a member of the national executive committee. , will address the district code meet- , lug of the Associated General Con- t trat. tors of America, Inc, at Fort . Wayne Monday evening June 18 at ] 6:30 CST. . 1 The state code agency has ar- , ranged to have representatives of ; the divisional code authority in this meeting to explain: Chapter 1. Gen- j eral provisions; chapter 2, General < Contractors Divisions, and chapter , 8 Mason Contractors Division. i ’ Local contractors have been aslk- , ed to attend this meeting by the , secretary of the organization.

Decatur, Indiana, Friday, June 15, 1934.

Her Gems Stolen I _ . ’ a *1 * ■ JySrTWrW*jocaCllßh wz . fcjrvwrni Mrs. Adolph Zukor. wife of the movie magnate, who reported to : police Thursday the loss of $82,025 in Jewelry, taken by a sneak thief I l as she slept in her room in a j ] Chicago hotel. BERNE SOCIETY TO APPEAR HERE Christian Endeavor Society At Baptist Church Sunday Night A program will be presented by 1 the Intermediate Christian Endeav- ! or Society of Berne at the Baptist I church here Sunday night at 7:30 o’clock. The public is cordially Invited to attend the program which will in-! elude musical selections and read-1 ings. Following is the complete program: Invocation —Rev. Brown. Song—“ Lift Up Your Heads” Ashford | Chorus Quartet— “Help Me To Be Holy” Baumgartner. Habegger, Liechty, Burkhalter Boys' chorus—“ Let The Lower Lights Be Burning” Bliss Dorcas Liechty, Lores Stucky Song—“ Come Unto Me” Towner] Chorus Violin Quartet Selected Baumgartner, Burkhalter. Habegger, Lehman Vocal Solo Selected Miss Mildred Habegger Reading—“ The Colonel’s Word * (CONTINUED PAGE TWCH — o

Will Give Second Play Performance The Christian Endeavor Society of the Union Chapel church will give a second performance of the play “At the Sign of the Pewter Jug” at the Monroeville high school Saturday evening at 8 o’clock. Children To Give Program Sunday iA children’s day program will be presented at the Mt. Pleasant Church Sunday evening at 7:30 o’clock. The program will include songs, exercises and recitations by the children. The new pastor of the chudch, the Rev. L. J. Bruner will, have a part in the program.

Postoffice Official Gives Talk To Decatur Rotary Club Thursday

Over a period of 30 years a rural mall carrier travels an average distance of 468,000 miles and a city mail carrier walks approximately 112,320 miles, Charles E. Hocker, assistant postmaster of the Decatur post office told in a talk before the Rotary club last evening. At present there are seven rural routes out of the Decatur office, ranging from 44 to 67 miles in length and averaged at 50 miles each. Six days a week a carrier travels 300 miles and in a year, 15,600 miles. Mr. Hocker told many interesting facts concerning the postal service, the exactness demanded by the government in following orders and making reports and illustrated his point by telling that it was necessary for the local office to receive bids for the purchase of a 10-cent box ot soda. Reports must balance to the penny and must be made on the day they are due, the assistant postmaster stated. Mr. Hocker also told how the duties of the local office were divided and what departments constituted the department. Mr. Hocker has been a member of

ANNOUNCE DATE OF CONFERENCE i Examination F or P r eSchool Children Will Be Held June 22-23 Mrs. Charles K. Champlin, general chairman of the county public health committee, today announced that a conference for the physical examination of all pre-school children In Decatur and Immediate vicln- . ity will be held at the Decatur pub-1 lie high school Thursday and Fri-; day, June 22 and 23. This will include all- children who will enter ] school in September. The city has been divided into; four sections. Children living north of Monroe street and east of Fifth ; I will .be examined from 9 a. in. to , | 12 noon Thursday; north of Mon -| I i,oe and west of Fifth from 1 to 4 p. m. Thursday; south of Monroe; and east of Fifth, Friday from 9 a. m. to 12 noon; south of Monroe and west of Fifth from 1 to 4 p. m. Friday. Parents of children living outside the city are asked to abide by these sections. Similar conferences will be held at Pleasant Mills. Monroe, Berne land Geneva the week of June 25. ' Definite information regarding I these conferences will be held later. ( Examinations at the conferences ! will be given by physicians of the I | Adams county medical society. I j county nurses and volunteer work- ! ers. A meeting of all committee tnemi bers and volunteer workers will be I held Monday afternoon at 2 o'clock ] at the court house. Miss Funk, disi trict supervisor, will attend this, I meeting. All committee members I i are urgently requested to attend . , the meeting. Assistant chairmen tor Decatur i and the county are as follows: Detatur—south ward. Mrs. Wil-1 | Ham Linn; west ward. Mrs. William; Kohls; north ward, Mrs. R. D. Me-j • ♦ ♦ ♦♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ (CONTINUED ON PAGE FIVE) — o— CONCERT WILL BE GIVEN HERE Willshire Band Will Give Concert At Evangelical Church Sunday A concert of mixed sacred music will be given by the Willshire band under the direction of Joe Danner,. |at the Evangelical church in this [ city at 7:30 o'clock Sunday evening. I About 15 musical numbers, tea-! turing Miss Mildred Wolfe on the xylophone, vibra harp and anvils will be given during the evening., The program is sponsored by the I June section of the Men's Brotherhood of the churtch. Alva Buffenbarger is chairman of the meeting. Mr. Danner has directed the program of semi sacred music in a number of churches in the local terj ritory. Miss Wolfe is an accomp- ■ lashed musican and the program I furnished by her and the band is I entertaining and inspiring. A cordial welcome is extended to ' all to attend.

the local post office force for 26 years. "If a city mail carrier could pile up all the porch steps he has to climb, he would be 15 miles in the air with a load of 615 tons of mail on his back,” commented Mr. Hocker. The Icoal post offfce is not self supporting. Mr. Hocker explained. The receipts from stamps and other sources, which are deposited in a local ban?.. pay operating expenses of the building and the salaries of clerks, city carriers and assistants. The receipts are not sufficient to pay the salaries of rural carriers. They receive their checks from Indiananolis. The 30-year service ot carriers, when they are eligible to retirement, figured on the number of miles covered by the rural carriers is equal to about 14 times around the world. Estimated at 12 miles to the gallon of gasoline and at 20 cents a mile, a rural carrier spends approximately $7,800 for gasoline in 30 years. Mr. Hocker’s talk was greatly enjoyed by the club members. A. R. Holthouse of the Dally DemoI crat was chairman of the meeting.

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VIGILANTES TO SEEK ATTACKER OF FIVE WOMEN Defiance, Ohio, Citizens Up In Arms Over Recent Attacks THINK ATTACKER MAY BE DEMENTED Defiance, 0., June 15—(UP) A I committee of eight private citizens ] today formed a secret vigilante with an unnannounced plan to capture an apparently demented at- - ta. ker who, in the last two weeks ' lias wounded three women and two ; girls. | Rosemary Mansfield. 16, daughter of Atty, and Mrs. Victory L. Mansfield. victim of the fifth attack ' Tuesday night, was recovering today from a slight knife wound in her back. Rosemary, with two companions was walking along a main residential street when her assailant rushed up behind her, plunged a knife in her shoulder and fled. It was this abtaick which led to the calling of a mass meeting and . the formation of the secret protet.’- | tive committee. Service and patriotic organiza'lions have offered to patrol streets until the maniac who has clublbed two women, shot one and knifed Rosemary is captured. At least 10 suspects have been i viewed without identification by ] the victims in a general roundup of ] all town characters and strangers. Meanwhile authorities under Karl i.A. Weaner, chief of police hunt for ! a man between 20 and 30 years old 1 slight of build, with dark short hair 1 combs straight from his forehead. | When last seen during Tuesday : night's atta'ck he was wearing a ililue shirt and work trousers. o » ■ — Life Sentences For Confessed Kidnapers Washington, Ind June 15—(UP) I Life sentences were given to con- ! fessed kidnapers today when they ! pleaded guilty on charges of ab--1 ducting Frank Wood here a month j ago. The prisoners are Deark Howard i 21, Bedfond, and Calvin Lebieu, 22, Orange, Tex., Lebieu told the court . he had served a term in Texas on I charges of killing a negro. —> o Earl Adams Delegate To Elks Convention — I Plans are complete for the anj nuai state convention of the B. P. | O. Elks, lodge June 19, 20 and 21 at Anderson. The business session i will open Wednesday morning witli | Joseph Clark of Indianapolis, state president, presiding. A full program has been arranged for the three days. R. Earl Adams will be the delegate from the Decatur chapter. A number of local members are planning to attend the convention. NOTED SPEAKER HERE NEXT WEEK Mrs. Adah Mae Halger To Speak At Methodist Church June 20 Mrs. Adah Mae Halger of Albion, Illinois, a noted speaker, will deliver an address at the Methodist Episcopal church in this city on Wednesday evening, June 20 at 8 o’clock. All church members and the public in general is invited to hear this address. Prayer services in the various churches will begin earlier to make it possible to hear the address. Mrs. Halger is highly recommended by schools and religious organizations. She is especially interested in young people, has a pleasing personality and presents her subject in a pleasing manner. Following is the program planned for the evening: Song—Congregation. Prayer—Rev. H. R. Carson. Saxophone number — Group of girls. Reading—Miss Zulu Porter. Address—Mrs. Halger. Offering. . Benediction—Rev. C. J. Roberts, president of the Ministerial Associated.

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Methodist Minister x & j % ■ \ I A ■ The Rev. Herman R. Carson. I newly appointed pastor of the 1 1 First Methodist church of Deca- ] I tur, will deliver his first sermons in the local church Sunday morn- ' ing and evening. Rev. Carson has been pastor at Portland for the ; past five years. He and his fam- ( ily will move to this city next ! week. REV. CARSON TO PREAGHSUNDAY Newly Appointed Methodist Pastor To Preach First Sermons — The Rev. Herman R. Carson new-' | ly apopinted pastor, will deliver his first sermon at the First Methodist church in this city Sunday morning. Rev. Carson will also preach at the evening service. Rev. Carson was assigned to the local pulpit at the North Indiana Annual Conference, held in Elkhart last week. He comes to Decatur from Portland, where he served five I years as pastor of the Methodist i i church there and succeeds the late I ; Rev. C. P. Gibbs. The Rev. Mr. Garson has four I sons, namely Asbury, John D. Rob-, ert anti Frederick. The oldest son is in the east, John has employment | in Portland and will be in Decatur] on week-ends, Robert was a Junior] in Portland high school, from which I both his older brothers have been graduated, ami was a forward on I the basketball team last season. Frederick will enter the seventh I grade next fall. Mr. Carson is a native of Illinois. He was graduated from Asbury College in 1916, where he was in many of the classes of the Rev. H. H. | Franklin former pastor here and! came directly to the North Indiana Annual Conference, June 4, 1916. He was admitted on trial in 19117 and has served various changes . | during the past seventeen years. The Portland .Commertrial-Review recently gave a summary of his five years in that city. A few of the items are as follows; marriages. 71 funerals 198; pastoral calls, 9.454; average attendance of church school, 293; received into full membership in the church, 267; money raised for improvements, $6,613; raised for missions. $13,693; raised for current expenses, $28,490. which with several smaller items totaled *7cONTINUHD ON PAGE TWO) — o— — ' Four From Decatur Attend Convention Arthur J. Keller and the Misses Edna Hoile, Frieda Schaerer, and Vera Bleeke will leave Saturday morning for Louisville, Kentucky where they will attend the state convention of the Walther League. Miss Hoile will attend the sessions a< a delegate from the Zion Walther League and Miss Bleeke will represent the Immanuel Lutheran Walther League. They will spend Saturday in Cincinnati, Ohio, and attend the convention which will open Sunday and continue throughout Monday. - — —o ——— Approve Project To Clean Light Globes The state ERA pay roll here this week will amniount to $971.20. The checks will be mailed front India ' ■ napolis. , A new project to clean the globes ; on the ornamental lights in the city ; has been approved by the Indiana ] polls headquarters of the state ERA The work will require the employment. of two men for aibout two weeks.

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F.D.R. URGES LEGISLATION TO AVERT TROUBLE Federated Labor President Urges General Strike Be Cancelled OFFERS SOLUTION TO DIFFICULTIES Washington, June 15.—<U.R? —An effort to drive through some form of labor legislation aimed primarily at the threatened steel strike, was begun today after President Roosevelt stepped into the picture. Returning to the senate from a White House conference with Mr. Roosevelt and i his labor advisors, Majority | Leader Joseph T. Robinson began i a series of conferences for speedy i enactment of legislation. It was indicated he was under ' direct White House pressure, with the President Insisting on some ; form of legislation before congress adjourns. Robinson had said earlier that congress would wind up 'tomorrow night. Back in the senate he admitted ' there was "slight possibility’ of ad- ] journment. , He and Mr. Roosevelt went over ' substitute legislation for the Wag- [ ner labor disputes bill which the 'White House proposed Wednesday. It was understood that Mr. i Roosevelt objected to some of the suggestions made by Republican J senators when asked to review the proposed legislation and that Robinson would attempt to weld the divergent points of view. He discussed the situation with Minority Leader Charles L. McNary. McNary earlier submitted to Robinson the changes recommended by the Republicans, who for the most part were willing to go along with the new labor legis- ] lation if their suggestions were | accepted. The unknown' quantity was the | Republican Progressive element, I particularly Senators Robert L. LaI Follette of Wisconsin and William E. Borah of Tffaho. They said they (CONTINUED ON PAGE THREE) o Accomplices Os Putnam Arrested — Two pennons accused of being acI complices of Earl Putnam and MiM- | red Davis have been returned to Celina Ohio, following their arrest in Chicago. Thev are Mahlon Lacrosse of Duluth. Minnesota, and Catherine Peck. The two are alleged membens of a gang which held up a number of country stores and filling stations in Indiana and Ohio. Local authorities believe that they are connected with the robberies of four Adams county stores this year. Putnam and Miss Davie are now serving terms for robberies committed in Ohio. They were iilentifled as the pair which held up several Adams county stores. NAME RECEIVER FOR PUBLISHER Portland Man Receiver In Hawkins-Kist Partnership Case Winchester. June 15.—(Special) —Judge Bales, of the Randolph circuit court, named Robert M. Jones, Portland, as receiver in the HawkIns Kist partnership case. He qualified by post ing bond of $30,000 late Thursday afternoon. This action came as a surprise to many of the county who understood that A. A. Kist, Portland newspaper publisher, came out of the Indiana State Supreme Court last Saturday with the edge on his opponents. A temporary writ of prohibition against Judge Bales which had tied up action for more than a month was dismissed at that time. Judge Bales also entered an order restraining A. A. Kist, his sen I Robert, and Mrs. Merle Kist, from | secreting or concealing any of the ; partnership assets and ordering such property turned over to the receiver. The main property which the plaintiff claims belong to the partnership is understood to be as folON PAGE FIVE)