Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 32, Number 166, Decatur, Adams County, 13 July 1934 — Page 1

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|OD SUPPLIES hREiMPERILED ■IN TWO CITIES Hiking Labor Prepares Bo Lay Siege In Both I Cities ■)l ENCE FLARES [■|\ - W I RAM ISCO Bl I supplies lor more, Itliai Amencans ( imperiled to (lav as., labor prepared to; to two cities. San I raucisco, 20,000 workers were on Vio'ence flared on the Vandalism, pilfegl ;in( | kidnaping* broke other sections ot the general strike, paralyzing ■ Francisco and Oakland by ,was feared unless ship met the demands of longleaders in the strike I It Minr.eapoiis. 6.000 truck drivIhs irepared to walk out Monday. K®- leaders hoped to have a strike in effect within a Drivers in the twin city of refused to strike, hut I Ijli.-apolis labor leaders refused Itoße swayed by their action. j northern Indiana. 120.000 were without their morndelivery. A strike of Bend and Mishawaka dairy! was said to be 100 per i effective. H|| Under Siege ■ Francisco. July 13 —(U.R)Kfe kaiied by land and sea. San' EAcisco and its teeming envirunder siege today as a ■jt ral strike movement crqshed : from all sides. .■ ...Uhl union workers j Istre k By nightfall thousands of' were expected to join a I walkout in sympathy | the t>6-da\ old coasiwlde mar-i workers' strike. food and fuel famine threat--ay PAGE **“W*i* * WINY WAITS ■HITLER SPEECH Chancellor To ■.Attempt Justification *■ Os Methods July ill. 'U.R) A confusmm I. less cognizant of 1 '■’i'al crisis than the outside' waited today to hear Adolf | make possibly the most inisp.. ii of his career—a jusbefore his hand picked ■ ls,as of ’be bloody suppress- -^■ of recalcitrant elements in his Nazi party. worked through long I s of th.- night in his chancel- j assembling material for his ■ and dictating the final ' to a stenographer. the Kroll opera house— congress hall be the retchstag building, burn incendiaries in February. was nut repaired — crowds I awaiting the assembly of ■ reit-hstag at 8 p. lu . U p . m I program was a simple one I ■ “ rie[ introduction of the chan- j ■>ry by Hermann Goering, act- | Bl , " p Os his many official roles 1 of the reichstag. and : hancellor Hitler’s speech. the speech depended, perON PA*GE FIVE* ’ Bymaster Gives I Receipts’ Report ' rele 'P ts for the Decatur cs for the second quarter of including the months of -ay and j une increased $199.- ' r the corrf> sponding quarter ■J/ r accordin B to figures 5 k' A' Graham, postmasreceipts for the second ° this year w ’ ere $5,833,26 I ■ Zrr" t 0 ,5 ’ 633 89 ,n ■ Viarter of last year. ■ mor.° rder rece ’Pt« for the secHas F ter of thiß year total * 3 °.* .. or tlle same quarter of last e money orders totaled S3O, Kaied rnl ngS On June 20 > 1934 «■Kt * 25 ’ 546 - On June 30, 1933 ' ■gain Ar"! 3 toUl6d » 21 - 442 - This ga, n of $4,104

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Acts for Drivers in Threatened Strike fiiit \ Mr ; 1.1 ' MKhUK ~ 'WK ' HMHBI William S- Brown (above), 1 (president of the Minneapolis Drivers and Helpers Union, Local 574. Is acting for the drivers in the conferences with Governor Floyd Olson of Minneapolis and E. H. Dunnigan, commissioner of conciliation for the U. S. Department of Labor. The governor and the federal officer are trying to ' prevent the threatened general i strike which is planned to start in July, the date to he set by a I vote of the union members. START SCHOOL PAINTING SOON Decatur Catholic School Interior Will Be Redecorated Work w-ill begin next week on ! painting the class rooms in the i Decatur Catholic school building, | one of the largest decorating jobs , to be let in this city this summer. Contracts have been awarded to : John Deßolt and Ray Vems, local i painter*. It is estimated that at j least 175 gallons ot paint will be I required to do the job. Father Joseph Seimetz. pastor of ! St. Mary’s churoh and director of the school, stated that 15 rooms 1 would be decorated. The grade and high school rooms will be painted. The color will be cream ceilings, light tan walls and leather brown I dado, conforming with the state b regulations pertaining to school i house des orating. From three to four weeks will be required to dd the work. .Albert Colchin and W. E. Mqon, local contractors, started work this morning on constructing cloak closets in the first and second grade rooms. Other repair work is being done preparatory to the paint-uip ’ campaign. Father Seimetz stated that more than SI.(MM) would be expended for material and labor at the school this summer. The corridors and auditorium will not be painted this year. o DAIRY WORKERS GO ON STRIKE Milk Delivery Halted In South Bend And Mishawaka Today South Bend, Ind., July 13. —<UJ?) —Delivery of milk to almost 120,000 people in northern Indiana was Halted today by a strike of South Bend and Mishawaka dairy employes. Drivers of milk wagons and inside employes struck at midnight after operators of the 18 dairy plants adjourned an earlier meeting without answering demands for union recognition, a S2O mini--1 mum weekly wage and a 6-day week. Pickets who rushed to every plant in the district Immediately after a strike was approved by a unanimous standing vote were joined by union employes of the Studebaker Klotors Corporation, the Bendix Products Corporation, and street car operators. Leaders ot the strikers asserted fIItIIIII > I I 1 T f . (CONTINUED ON PAGE FIVE)

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MANY CHANGES PROPOSED FOR CRIMINAL CODE Drastic Reforms In Indiana Code Are Studied By Lawyers LEADERS ADVOCATE VARIOUS CHANGES laike Wawasee, Ind., July 13. — 1 (U.R) —Drastic reforms in the Indiana criminal code of procedure intended to clean up the profession and eliminate technicalities which provide loopholes for criminals were studied today at the annual two-day meeting of the Indiana State Bar Association. The reforms were advocated in addresses of Prof. Rollin M. Perkins of lowa State University; Attorney General Philip Lutz, Jr„ James M. Ogden, former attorney ; general and chairman of the com- , mittee on criminal jurisprudence, and Prof. James Robinson, Indiana > University, chairman of the governor’s economy and efficiency committee. Changes suggested included: Enactment of a law making 1 possession of a machine gun without a license a felony. Enactment of a uniform extradition act in all states to insure speedy trial of criminals. Enactment of a uniform act to obtain attendance of witnesses from outside the state in criminal 1 cases. Giving the supreme court the j power to make rules of procedure and practice in criminal and civil cases, eliminating technicalities and loopholes which delay justice. Enactment of a law making it necessary* for the defense to plead i in advance of trial what alibi will •be offered “Present criminal procedure ofI fers unreasonable protection to the man who is guilty,” Prof. Perkins said. "It is time now to eliminate those loopholes.” Need for the alibi law was cited nv PAGE PTVE) o - DEATH CLAIMS LI.DUNBAR Prominent Adams County Resident Dies Early This Morning Leander L. Dunbar, age 83. life 1 long resident of Adams county, a former county commissioner and retired furniture manufacturer, dfed at 12:20 o’clock this morning at his home in Linn Grove of infirmities. Mr. Dunbar, who was the founder of the Dunbar Furniture Cont- . pany of Berne, took ill a tew weeks ago. Previous to that time he enjoyed good health and on June 12, was able to attend the Democratic state convention in Indianapolis. He held the honor of being the oldest delegate to the convention. Mr. Dunbar started his business I career when he was 18 years of age when he opened a blacksmith shop in Linn Grove. This business later developed into a buggy and carriage manufacturing coni cern, which he operated successi fully for a number of years. In 1911 he started a furniture upholstering concern and a few | years saw it grow to large proportions, later being moved to Berne, where It now operates as the Dunbar Furniture Company. It is the largest manufacturing plant in Berne and employs a few hundred people. Mr. Dunbar also engaged in the airplane business. (CONTINUED ON PAGE THREE) 0 BULLETIN One woman was feared badly Injured and four other persons escaped injury in an automobile accident which occurred on state road 224, northeast of Decatur at 2:30 o’clock this afternoon. Mrs. Bertha Zollars, 761 Grayston street, Huntington, was removed to the Adams County Memorial Hospital suffering from injuries received in the accident. The automobile driven by Walter Yergens of Huntington, son-in-law of Mrs. Zollars, and Charles Jones residing northeast of Decatur, collided at the intersection of the state road and the Piqua road at (he Myer Buntman corner.

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Walters Is Named On Board Os Directors Former Judge C. L. Walters of I De atur was named on the board of | directors of the Epworth Foreet Assembly of the Methodist church at tihe organization meeting held at 1 North Welister Thurs lay afternoon. Dr. C. H. Smith ot Fort Wayne waa named the ministerial director for ’ the Fort Wayne district. Other officers elected at the assembly are Dr. W. T. Arnold. 'Marlon, president; Rev. A. H. BacHomer Rose, manager of the grounds; Rev. B. M. Bechdolt, plat--1 form manager, Rev. Julius Pfeiffer, Leesiburg. secretary, Rev. R. L. W-il-i son, Eaton, treasurer; and Rev. ■ Conde A. Hile, Ossian, publicity manager. 0 AUCTION SCHOOL OPENS TUESDAY Fred Reppert Will Conduct School At Bellmont Park The twenty-seventh term of the . Reppert School of Auctioneering | will open here Tuesday, July 17. I Thirty-six students from 14 states : have already enrolled. Col. Reppert in announcing the opening ot the only school of its kind in the United State* said that ' there are now over 1,600 graduates from every state in .the Union and 1 every province in Canada. 1 The school will be held again at 1 Bellmont park. Some of the students will sleep in the club house 1 anJ the cottages in the park. Oth- ! ers will stay in private homes and 1 Hotels in the city. 1 The regular program will be ob- ■ served this year. The first public ' auction will be held in Decatur Sat1 urday, July 21. 1 The first student, Elmer GindIwberger »f VbwxHl, Ohto, has arrived In the city. ’ Two new Instructors have been ' added to the staff. They are W. H. ’ -Heldenbrand of Wichita. Kansas, anJ Lee Bedee of Anamasa, lowa. Old instructors who will be back are: Col. Fred Reppert of Pecatur, head of the staff; Col. Guy Pettit of Bloomfield, Indiana; Col. Roy Johnson of Decatur; Col. C. D. Drake of Amazon, Illinois; Col. Roy I Hiatt ot Portland, Indiana; Col. Guy Johnson of Columbus, Ohio, II anJ Col. Carl Bartlett of Muncie, I Indiana. o — Postpone Regular Monthly Meeting The regular monthly meeting of 1 the Adame County Holiness Asso- . elation which was to have been held Sunday, July 15, has been post- . poned until the following Sunday, : July 22 at 2 o'clock. The meeting ’ was postponed on account of the County Sunday School conference which is to be held at Monroe next Sunday. Rev. Rlvin Thornburg us Winchester will be the principal speaker at the Holiness association meet- ' ing at Monroe and special music 1 will be furnished. o TWO BANDITS, BANKER KILLED Cookson Hills “Bad Man” Is One Os Bank Bandits Slain Grove, Okla., 3 —(UP) — ’ One of the two bandits slain yesterday after they had rOixbed the bank of Ketchum and killed its president, Ealum Gregory, has been identified as P. R. Goodman, Codkson Hills "bad man.” Gregory was slain ae he overtook the bandits with two possemen. A second later both bandits were cut . down by a blast of shot gun fire. Goodman, 72, was wanted in sev- .' eral bank robberies, officers said. : The second man was tentatively 1 identified as Jess Swepston, 30year old Cookson Hills farmer recently released on bond in an Ar(CONTINUED ON PAGE SIX) o Shower Brings Slight Relief A shower this afternoon which . continued for albout a halt an hour 1 after 12:45 o'clock brought some t relief from the warm weather. The rainfall was not enough to measure.

JAMES FARLEY TALKS TONIGHT Postmaster General To Give Address At “Harmony” Banquet Indianapolis, July 13. —(U.R>—The ( national administration’s drive to I retire Sen. Arthur R. Robinson, Re-, publican, severe critic of the New ; Deal, wll* be inaugurated here to- ’ night by Postmaster General James | I A. Farley. The postmaster will be speaker - at a "harmony” dinner of Hoosier Democrats arranged to bring together opposing factions of the | party. Hope of the national administra Ition to retire Robinson in the November election is well known and political observers see that as one of the principal reasons for Far- : ley's visit. At first it had been hoped that ,' the national administration’s oppoI sition to Robinson would be signalized by having President Roosevelt as principal speaker tor the Demo- ! cratlc Editorial Association convention at French Lick Aug. 10 j and 11. But, the President declined and it was reported that one of his 1 reasons was that he did not wish <CONTTNUET» ON PAGE SIX) O—BULLETIN Indianapolis, July 13.—(U.R) — ! The state tax board today reduced valuation of Decatur municipal electric plant from M $334,000 to $190,000 and left waterworks plant valuation unchanged at $79,270. o Edison Brock Is Named Engineer . i Charles Brock has received word (Ihu Edison pf CincinI nati, and a native of DecaturT ha« 11'been appointed mechanical engini eer on the $42,000,000 Chicago sanij tary district construction job. Mr. : Brock was also mechanical engini eer for the Union Terminal building . in Cincinnati. o RLE PROTEST AGAINST TALK Germany Protests Remarks Made By General Hugh Johnson ’I Washington, July 13 —<U.R) —Germany formally protested to the state department today Gen. Hugh S. Johnson’s pungent slam at the , Nazi government’s “second revo- ' lution” executions. The formal complaint was lodged by German charge d'affairs Rudolph Leitner, and directly involved the brass-voiced NRA chieftain in an international inci-1 dent affecting German-American friendly relations. Johnson, meanwhile, defied thy state department. lefusing to take back what he said in his lowa cornbelt speech yesterday and adding he did not expect a "call down” from the department. Informed at Omaha. Neb., that his statement was developing into an international incident, JohnI son said “I meant everything I ! said. I will not take anything back and I do not expect to be ‘cal’ed down' by the stale department.’’ Johnson said he considered he was speaking “as an individual” and not for the administration ' when he said. “A few days ago, in Germany, events occurred which shocked I the world. I don’t know how they j may have affected you but they made me sick —not figuratively blit physically and very actively sick. The idea that adult respon(CONTTNUEn ON PAGE TWO) o Railroad Will Have Excursion The Nickel Plate railroad is advertising an excursion to Niagara . Falls, Friday. July 20 for three dollars a round trip. The excursion J train leaves Fort Wayne at 10:58 I p. m. (CST) and arrives at Niagara I Falls at 9:24 A. M. (EST) on July ' 121. The return limit is Sunday ’night, July 22. Agents at the local Nickel Plate office will be glad to > give further details concerning this . low priced excursion.

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FIVE KILLERS EXECUTED ON FRIDAY 13TH Murderers Are Executed On “Bad Luck” Day Throughout Nation HUSBAND SLAYER GIVEN REPRIEVE By the United Press Friday the 13th’s fateful combln- ' ation of bad luck symbols worked with gas. hemp and electricity to end the lives ot five murderers in Nevada. California. Arizona, and New York. Cue ot the executions came an hour before midnight at Sing Sing. The other four in the far west began at dawn today. Mrs. Anna Antonio, originally ' scheduled to die last night at Sing . Sing, was reprieved several days ago and will get a new trial on charges of conspiring to murder ■tr husband in Albany. At Florence, Arizona, youthful George Shaughnessy of Albany, N. Y., died in a deadly gas chamber. He was convicted of the murder of an automobile dealer. A last message from his mother had been delayed to him as he prepared to enter the chamber. The boy who had been reared by foster ' parents, refused to reveal his real mother’s name but he wrote her a i secret message in reply. Joe Behiter, convicted of killing a dance hall girl, died in the gas 1 chamber at Carson City, Nevada. An hour before midnight usher--1 ed in Friday the 13th, Frank Canora died in the Sing Sing electric 1 chair for the torch murder ot his ' wife. He went to the chair peace- ' fully, his lips moving in prayer. ! At San Quentin prison. CallJiiunia. Juae Anagen and Walter 1 Rippy, negro, were hanged for ' mruer. Rippy was convicted of killing a service station operator; Arragon of killing his wife. ■: o Annual Society Picnic Sunday — The annual picnic of the missionI ary society of the Zion Lutheran church will be held Sunday afternoon at 2 o’clock at the home of ‘ Mrs. Karl Krudop, Weet Monroe I street. A picnic supper will be served ' members of the society, their families and friends. Each family is asked to bring its own table service. Games will be played and a short entertainment will be provided. o Gerald Cole Talks To Local Rotarians Gerald Cole, well known electrician and amateur radio broadcastI er, gave an interesting talk at the | Rotary meeting last evening on ra- ' dio. Mr. Cole dwelt on radio reception and the different methods used in broadcasting. T. C. Smith, chemist at Central Sugar company had charge of the program. MILLIONS SPENT FOR HIGHWAYS More Than $7,500,000 Let In Contracts In This State Indianapolis, July 13. — (U.R) —■ More than $7,500,000 in contracts for paving Indiana highways and city streets were let during the first six months of this year, James D. Adams, chairman of the state highway commission, announced today. Award of approximately $1,000,000 in contracts during June brought the total to the largest figure for any six months period in the history of the highway department. Contracts awarded during June ’ were on bids totalling $925,285 and ' represented construction work in i 16 counties. The contracts were ' j for bridge, highway, and street ’! construction and do not include any .; maintenance contracts for surface I treatment with oil or other materials, Adams said. ’ j Construction work contracted *~CONTINUED ON PAGE FIVE)

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Dead in Mystery \ ■ . V- K/ f 7 ' I - >/;r \ - < ■ ).- ' 1 , Miss Marian Mills, 20-year-otd • former campus beauty, and daughter of an associate professor of ! the University of Oklahoma, who died under mysterious circumstances at Norman, Okla. Mrs. • Hazel Brown, fraternity house : cook, in whose home the girl . ; died, blamed the tragedy on an ' overdose of a “quack" remedy taken in an attempt to avoid , motherhood. 11 ~ ' ~~ — TO NOMINATE NEW AUDITOR Democratic Committeemen Will Nominate Auditor Tonight Democratic precinct * commlt+eef men and vice-committeemen will assemble in convention at the court house at eight o’clock this evening to nominate a candidate for county auditor. Five candidates have already announced their candidacy for the ! nomination. They are John W. Tyndall. who is filling the auditor’s of ’ I fice by appointment until January 'i 1; Miss Alice Lenhart, an assistant ’ In the county treasurer’s office; Winfred Gerke, precinct commit- ’ teeman from Root township; Grover Neuene: hwander of Berne and Walter Thornhill of Waibash town- ■' ship. ' Unless the two highest aspirants ■ are tied, the nomination will be ' j made on the first ballot. The Dem- • oeratic state committee has ruled that the successful candidate need obtain only a plurality of the votes cast. This makes it possible for the one receiving the highest number ; of votes to be nominated on the | first ballot. . I 'County chairman Nathan Nelson . will preside at the meeting. Candl-1 . dates have been obtaining pledges .'and proxies from the committee-: . men aud vice-committeemen and I much Interest centers In the out- | come of the convention. I; The nomination of a candidate ,) for auditor is necessary because of I the death of Glen Cowan, who held 1 | the office until hie death. Mr. TynI dall was appointed -by the county ] | commissioners to fill the vacanty ■ untl the first of the year. o Will Reopen Road 1 224 In Short Time O. W. Merrell, Ohio state director ■ I; of highways announced today that j traffic over the Benjamin Franklin highway No. 524 between Decatur and Van Wert, Ohio, will be permitted in about two weeks. A stretch of 3.8 miles long on the ' road has been completed. Contracts for two additional ’I miles to be built by November 15 will be accepted later this month. The job, estimated to cost $61,569 will be done by Van Wert county labor at wages ranging from 50 cents to $1.20 per hour. The road Ls to be 20 feet wide. __o Pickering Rites Will Be Military ’ - - 1 All members of Adams post number 43 of the American Legion and ’ other ex-service men are requested to meet at the legion hall on south Second street at 12:15 o'clock Sats urday afternoon. The legion will ’ conduct military services at Geneva Saturday for John Pidkering, war 1 veteran who died at his home in ‘ Ceylon Wednesday.

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CHILO MISSING FROM HIS HOME NEAR NEW YORK Boy Scouts And Others Aid In Exhaustive Search For Lad FAMILY OF BOY IS NOT WEALTHY Hartsdale, N. Y-, July 13.— (U.R)—The federal government, under the authority of the "Lindbergh” law today joined the investigation of the mysterious disappearance of the two-year-old Robert Connor, feared kidnaped by an eccentric. Martsdale, N. Y., July 13. —(U.R)—A call for Boy Scout and volunteer reinforcements today sent almost a thousand searchers through the woods ’ of Westchester county on the , trail of missing two-year-old Robert Connor, believed to have been adbucted while at play in one of New York city’s exclusive suburbs. An all-night search which led 500 ' men through large estates and ! thorny underbrush of the surrounding area yielded only two vague clews: 1. The possibility that a “demented peddler” seized the child i about 6 p. m. yesterday while he ■ was playing at his home in HartsI dale manor. I 2. The possibility that the child ‘, was led or carried to a road in the rear of the Connor home, where he was taken into an automobile. ’, This was hinted when two trained dogs followed the child’s trail to the road and then circled in confusion. t Charles Connor, father of the J child and an engineer in the employ of the state insurance department, led the search. Shortly after ; dawn, when the first searching r j parties of about 500 came in tired and scratched by underbrush, he said he feared that his son had ’■been kidnaped. ! All night he had hunted through the woods and the rich estates surrounding the district, calling the boy's name. Connor said he was certain that Robert, a normal, blond child, but not very robust, could not have wandered far from the home, which is surrounded by the rambling, wooded homes of prominent persons, including Felix Warburgh, (CONTINUED ON PAGE THREE) Newspaper Os 1800 Owned By Local Man - Dr. C. V. Connell, of this city : has a copy of the Ulster County I Gazette, published in Ulster county I New York, dated January 4. 1800. i The paper is a memorial edition dedicated to President George Washington and contains articles I published in papers throughout the t world following Washington's j death, December 14, 1'7199. Dr. Connell has had the paper in j his possession for a number of [ years. CONFERENCE AT MONROESUNDAY Sunday School Teachers Will Meet Sunday Afternoon The Adams County Sunday school teachers conference will be held at the Monroe Methodist Episcopal church Sunday afternoon at 2:30 o’clock. Dr. Clarence H. Benson of Chicago, secretary of the Evangelical teachers training association and editor of the AU Bible Graded Lessons, will be the principle speaker. The conference is sponsored by Adams County Sunday School Teachers association, and all county Sunday school teacher, workers and others Interested are urged to attend. iMiss Frances Burkholder of Berne will have charge of the music. Dr. Benson wll! speak ort the subject "A Neglected Ministary.” It has been announced that anyone desiring to ask questions - tive to Sunday School wotk" have an opportunity to do t conference. i