Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 32, Number 170, Decatur, Adams County, 18 July 1934 — Page 1

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jjo SHORTAGE ■EASING UP IN lan francisco And Private Agen- ; Ks Defy Order Os Strike Committee BIEROI'S arrests KIeIH'KING NIGHT I <Ai I ruiici-sco, Julv IX. — La While strike leaders E3 r< | outcome of their lur arbitration, tniSi Hid private agencies bceeii shaking off the I'lKlis "I <•"' San Francisni ral strike. result was a definite of the food shortage, ; .provetnent In the situation. r> were here and there, ~(.en defiance on the part s community, of dictation" by the strike committee. ~iv owned and operated railways announced It rut. buses on Third street, leads t<> the Southern Pastation, and on IvM street strikers have tied Q|, usual market street rail that the Standard Oil bf California would be tinder a dispensation strike committee to deoil ’ > apartment houses .. strike commitPhilip Patchin, vice of the oil company, an n-'e owners will leeßrv,it without limit hut our will be in the form of protection.” EK .-u assigned to food trucks in the wholenv page FIVE) |s. MCADOO I WINS DIVORCE Mighter of Late President Wilson Divorces Senator Amrelcs, July is.— (U.R)—Sen. Gibbs McAdoo's interest ■ .Withe affairs today had led to of divorce for Mrs. EleanRandolph Wilson McAdoo of the late President Wilson They married 7, 1914, in the White House. California law. Mrs. Mcmay apply within one year Huai decree. Mrs. McAdoo granted the decree within a minutes after her attorneys t!.- action late yesterday. McAdoo charged cruelty; in brief testimony from the stand the senator's "tastes differences” have become so from her own they have incompatible. senators attorneys tiled an gks'i'er denying charges in the tiled also a stipulation ■Reuse might be tried without a ■Rand without being contested, the quick action. ■“ h parties issued public stateasserting "greatest adniir--1 and affection for Mr. Meand ' warmest friendship and ■Mien for Mrs. McAdoo.” ■fording to Mrs. McAdoo’s the couple was separRF Dec. 28th, last. Gibbs McAdoo and KJ‘ lllur Randolph Wilson, daugh the late President, were mar 'lay 1814 j n t jj e mos t brtlceremony official Washington since the Alice RooseveltLongworth nuptials. ■? rs McAdoo was fresh from the ny page five) iß’llshire Annual I Homecoming August 5 e M ilLshire, Ohio, annual homen 8 will be held Sunday, Aug 0 at the Willshire public park, la ‘ n G. Hoffer, publicity chairBJr ■ has announced. ■ immunity religious service | s ' during the morning and ■ teKe t dinner will be served at ■?7“ hour. Speaking and a a P r °Bram will be features j FP are ur 8 e(1 to attend and llg 1 i® welcome.

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Vol. XXXII. No. 170.

Tammany Chief by IL -J ’ 4 ' Tammany Hall's new chieftain. I James J. Dooling, Is pictured , above shortly after the meeting at which he was chosen to lead the ' | Democratic organization in New i York City. He succeeds John F. | Curry, who was deposed. WILL STREET REPAIR Resurfacing Os Macadam Streets In City To Be Continued Resurfacing of the macadam streets in the city will be continued and carried on as far as finances I permit, the council in session last night decided. A number of the streets have already been improved with a water-! bound top. O. L. Vance, councilman ‘ inuvod- ehat wtreet-wiwnmidwtoner 4 Fred Linn make a survey of the I streets not yet improved and carry ‘ , on the program as far as finances i permitted. The council desires to i improve all of the macadam streets 1 with the stone and asphalt top and will do it if funds are available. The complaint of property own- ; I ers about the dust coming from the ' grinding machine at the Reed-i Mac ; ' I Feed and Supply Co., corner Second and Jackson streets, was referred : t to the board of health. Residents i | on First street filed objections with i the council. j iMiss Alice Funk, rural health nurse employed by the federal gov- ; eminent appeared before the counI cil and asked for a small donation to pay traveling expenses for the . next month in visiting homes in i the county. The matter was referred to the finance committee with the power to act. An appro- ' priatlon of S2O was sought. ~ Financial reports of the electric ' light and water departments as prepared by Miss Mary McKean, bookkeeper for the period ending June 1, were filed and referred to the finance committees. A report of Charles Brodbeck, | ICOVTIN’I'Rn GN PAGE FIVE! NATIONAL HEAD OUT OF STRIKE : Green Says San Francisco Strike Has No National Significance Chicago, July 18 —(U.R) —William I Green, president of the American I j Federation of Labor, said today 1 that the San Francisco general ! strike had ‘‘no national significance” and that the A. F. of L. ; was net entering into the contro- ■ versy. Green made his statement while ! en route to Racine. Wis., to address a convention of the Wisconsin federation of labor and ask for the reelection of Senator Robert M. LaFollette. i “The strike at San Francisco Is strictly local in character and . possesses no national signiff- . cance,” he salt). “It originated with the workers directly involv- . ed through an assumption of authority growing out of certain , autononomous rights conferred I upon local organiations. “Their representatives ordered t the strike nad must accept full i responsibility for this action." i The American Federation of ! Labor, he said, neither ordered *7oONTINVED ON PAGE FIVE)

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1,000 GUARDS I AWAIT ORDERS IN MINNEAPOLIS Hundreds Os Pickets Roam City’s Streets To Enforce Strike GOVERNOR OLSON ISSUES WARNING I Minneapolis, July 18 —<U.R> —The i ■ creeping paralysis of a strike haltj ing 90 per cent of a city’s comI mercial traffic struck forcefully j I today at the Industries and homes of 600,000 persons. A thousand national guardsmen | I waited under arms for developI inent of violence in a strike of' I 6.000 truck drivers and freight handlers. Several important industries halted operations and activity of dozens of others was threatened by an embargo on movement of commercial vehicles. Hundreds of militant pickets roamed the streets tn automobiles and afoot, enforcing their edict that only the carriers of a few essential services may operi ate. Pickets al the city’s edge fought two brisk battles with stubborn non union drivess. Women mem- ; bers of a union auxiliary treated ihe fractured finger of one belligerent in their emergency hospital i end applied liniment to bruises of , others. One group of pickets, unarmed I in accordance with a union order, was forced to aland aside when i the driver of a truck they halted i enforced his opposition with a inreateuing shotgun. The strikers, demanding recoe,r<*NTlNl’En GN PAGE FIVE) ADAMS COUNH NATIVEDIES Mrs. George Humerickhouse Dies At M ells County Hospital Mrs. George Humerickhouße, 82, died at 10 o’clock Tuesday night at the Wells county hospital where she had been a patient for six days suffering from a fractured hip which she received in a fall at her home near Craigviile on Wedneei day, July 11. Born in Adams County on September 5, 1851, she was a daughter of Conrad and Catherine LenhartChronister. Her marriage was solemnized March 25. 1875 in Adams County. Survivors include the husband, one son, Elmer Humerickhouse. Wells County and two brothers and a sister; William, Adams County, Edward, Allen county and Mrs. I Catherine Welker, Adame County. Five brothers and two sisters prei ceded her In death. Funeral services will be held at 10 o’clock Friday morning at the Craigviile Christian Union church of which she was a member. Rev. Jay E. Smith will officiate. Burial will be made in the Elm Grove , cemetery, Bluffton. o Youthful Pilot Killed In Crash South Bend, Ind., July 18 (UP) I Hertbert Downey. 17, was killed instantly today when the monoplane , he was piloting went into a spin ; an J crashed from 200 feet at Ben-; dixiMunicipal airport. Downey was attempting to turn I the ship when he lost control. He was the son of Clem Downey, a state game warden. _, Former Sheriff At Muncie Found Dead Muncie, Ind., July 18 (UP) Harry Hoffman, 53. former Delaware county sheriff, was found dead in his jvrecked ear three miles north of here today. Believed to have been a victim of a heart attack, Hoffman was found penned in his car at the bottom of a 10 foot embzankment. A small gash on his forehead was believed to have been caused by broken glass. However, coroner Clarence Phelppo ordered an autopsy be held later today. Hoffman was sheriff from 1922 to 19126.

Wecatur, Indiana, Wednesday, July 18, 1934.

Return From Rural Carriers’ Meeting iMr. and Mrs. W. F. Beery and i Mr. and Mrs. Harry Crownover re- I turned Tuesday evening from Le-1 banon where they attended the 29bh j annual rural carriers convention of the state. The convention opened Sunday : and continued throughout Tuesday [ afternoon. The alate meeting next i year will be held at Lake Wawasee The national convention of the | rural carriers will be held in Den-1 ver, Colorado in August and Mr. I and Mrs. Beery are delegates to! this meeting. iMrs. Beery was nam-j ' ed committeewoman for the north third of the state for a period of three years. —o — TAX VALUATION IS INCREASED Decatur Taxable Valuation Shows Increase Os Over SIOO,OOO I The taxable valuation of all , rersonal and real estate property in Decatur this year was increas-: ed approximately SIOO,OOO, ac-, cording to the abstract drawn up I in the county auditor’s office from 1 the reports of the county board of' tax review. County Auditor John W. Tyndall received notice of the approv- ' al of the county assessments to- ! day through field representative; Paul Weber of the state board of; I tax commissioners. Horizontal increase! and decreases were I recommended in several counties' i because of the unfavorable com- i ■ parison of assessments of these I counties in comparison with' | others in the state. The exact valuation of Decatur; this year will not be known until the state assesses the railroads and utilities. Thus will be done next WMith. The total taxable property in ' Decatur this year was assessed at! $4,213,840 in comparison with $4,122,070 in 1933. Using last 1 year's assessment of $424,094 for utilities in the city this makes a total assessment this year of sl.- ■ I 637,934 in comparison with $4,-, 546,164 in 1933. Mortgage and soldiers' exemption decreased $15,695 this year Total exemptions this year amount to $235,030 in comparison to I $250,725 in 1933. I Subtracting the exemptions from the total assessments the valuation this year is $4,402,904 in comparison to $4,295,439 last year or an increase of $107,465. College Quartet To Give Program The Huntington College male ' quartet of Huntington will present 1 a program of sacred music at the Mt. Victory United Brethren church : Friday evening, July 20, at 7:30 o’clock. No admission will be charg- 1 ed. The public is invited to attend. 1 EX-KLAN HEAD FOUND GUILTY: I Ex-Organizer For Indiana i Klan Is Convicted In Florida |J Indianapolis, July 18. —(U.R)—Edward Y. Clarke, one-time organizer of the Indiana Ku Klux Klan and principal figure in a motion picture venture which cost $200,000, will be sentenced in a Florida Federal court this week, it was learned here today. Clarke is to be sentenced on a charge of using the mails to defraud, the Indianapolis Better Business Bureau was informed. He and his wife were convicted in federal court at Jacksonville, Fla., ; in connection with organization of Esskaye, Inc., a fraternal order. j During Clark’s operations with the Twentieth Century Motion Picture Corp., here in 1925, it was understood life memberships were; sold for SSOO. It was claimed the profits would amount to $5,000. Later, suits alleging Clarke had misappropriated $200,000 of the i corporation funds were filed in lo- I cal courts. The company went into the hands of the receiver in : 1926. i Clarke took hold of the Ku Klux | Klan when the organization had i only 1,000 members and the treasury was depleted, according to the Business Bureau.

REPORT GIVEN BY WATER REPT. Over $15,000 Expended By City Plant For Extending Mains The water department of the: city plant expended $15,786.91 for pipe and material in extending the ; water mains to the Decatur Home-. stead site and on nine streets in the city. Charles Brodbeck. superinteud ent of the water department filed 0 financial report with the council last evening showing the amount of money spent for material in making the line extensions. Pra • tically all the labor required was CWA labor Materia) for *’ ~ 1,1 “ i,f! extension amounted to $9,106.62. For the street extensions the, total expended was $6,680.39, for, material on’y. The statement filed by Mr. Brodbeck showed the following: Homestead extension $9,106.52 Streets Grant, 1084 feet $1,005.00 Thirteenth, 925 feet 654.50 Line, 1675 feet 1,468.03 Sti’dabaker, 305 foet 840.36 Oak, 637 feet 861.0'1 Washington. 630 feet 615.00 Patterson. 314 feet 306.55 Adams, 420 feet 415.36 Short, sbo feet 515.00 Total feet, 6,990; total expended. $15,786.91. The water department is also spending about $4,000 in drilling and connecting the two new water wells on the South Ward lot. These wells, which have already 1 been brought in will be connected with the city mains on Studabaker street. It is estimated that the two wells will produce about 475 ; gallons rer minute. STATE RESTS MURDER CASE Defense Evidence Os Indianapolis Woman Is Presented Charleston. 111., July 18.—(U.R) — The state rested its case in the trial of Mrs. Ann Sandstrom, Indianapolis, Ind., on a charge of slaying Fred Thompson. 43, casket salesman and also of Indianapolis, shortly after 10:30 a. m. today. The defense then began presenting evidence. In concluding its case the state gained what State’s Attorney J. V. Dilsaver considered an important point in the admission of an alleged confessison by Mrs. Sandstrom that she shot Thompson to death while they were in a hotel room at Mattoon several weeks ago. The confession is that which Coroner F. S. Schilling said was made to him but about which there was some contention over admission yesterday. Today Dilsaver gained consent of the court for its admission. First witness for the defense today was Mrs. Mary Clark, Indianapolis, owner of the building where Mrs. Sandstrom had au apartment and which apartment is said to have been given the woman defendant by Thompson in furtherance of an alleged romance between the two. o Indiana Men Are Held In Wisconsin Madteon, Wis. July 18 —(UP) — Three Indiana men, Leon Deßolt, 21, Anderson, William S. Ward, Garrett, and Bob Gogley, 19, South Bend, were arrested here today and held for Delavan, Wisconsin. Police are seeking t'hetn on robbery charges. Gogley, the others said, was a hitchhiker and wae picked up on the road. Police found loaded 25 calibre revolver in his suitcase. — o Rescind Grants To Hartford City Washington, July 18 —(UP) —The Public Works administration today res' inded allotments of $91,000 and $117,000 to Hartford City, Indiana. The allocations were tor improvements to streets and for construction of a sewer system and disposal plant. They were rescinded because the applicant failed to execute the bond contract and failed to reply to Inquiries from PWA regarding its delay in meeting requirements.

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BOBBY CONNOR IS RECOVERING FROM EXPOSURE Authorities Abandon Kidnap Theory; Say Boy Wandered Away MORE THAN EVEN CHANCE TO LIVE Hartsdale, N. Y., July 18.—(U.R) i — Bobby Connor, who was born prematurely and for two months struggled for life in an incubator, today was winning another desperate battle for existence. The 21months old boy was believed to have spent five days without food, or water while lost in a dense | woods near his Hartsdale manor ; home. Physicians at Grasslands hospital where Bobby was taken after being discovered three-quarters of a mile from his home yesterday, | were astonished by the curly-head-ed baby’s recuperative power. A diet of a teaspoonful of whisky each four hours and other liquid as rapidly as he could consume it was returning his dehydrated, emaciat-1 ed little body to normal. A corps of nurses and doctors; attended the baby, whose body was ' torn by scores of bramble scratches, insect bites and bruises suffered as he crawled through briars and 11 brush. They said the insect bites. ' partially infected, were responding 1 to treatment and that Bobby now had better than an even chance to , , live. ! | Although federal agents, state ' | police and local authorities whose I i search for Bobby was the great- >' est since the Lindbergh kidnaping ■ definitely had abandoned a kidnap--1 ing theory, there was considerable I discussion among residents here; and other unofficial sources. Many persons scouted physic-, i ians’ conclusive statement that i Bobby subsided on grass and vege'i (CONTINUED ov PAGE FIVE) O— Society Members To Recite Rosary Members of the Knights of Columbus and of the Holy Name soc- ■ iety are requested to meet at the K of C. hall at eight o’clock Thursday evening and then march to the Nesswald home on Marshall street to recite the rosary for the repose of the soul of Godfrey Nesswald, deceased member. Funeral services for Mr. Nesswald will be held FriI day morning at St. Mary’s church. —o Don Farr Speaks At Lions Meeting Don R. Farr, supervisor of the i northeastern territory for the Rural Bankers life insurance company of South Bend spoke at the regular meeting of the Decatur Lions club Tuesday evening. Dr. N. A. Bixler, was chairman of the program committee. HOLD NESSWALD RITESFRIDAY Daughter Is Located Late \ Tuesday At Yellowstone Park Miss Rose Neesiwald will arrive I in Chicago from Billings, Montana at 10:45 o’clock tonight and will then proceed to Decatur, relatives I in this city were advised last night. She left Billings at noon today and | is flying to Chicago. Miss Nesswald and the party of Decatur people with whom she was touring the west were located at Yellowstone National Park late yesterday, a few minutes after they registered. Upon receiving word she telephoned to the family here. Her father, Godfrey Nesswald, died suddenly Saturday night and funeral services were delayed pending receiving word from her. Funeral services for Mr. Nesswald will be held at 9 o’clock Friday morning at St. Mary's Catholic ehurch, the Rev. Father Joseph Seimetz, officiating. Burial will be In St. Joseph’s Catholic cemetery, where Mr. Nesswald served as sexton for more than 30 years. Other members of the Decatur motoring party will proceed home in the Car and are expected here by the first of the week.

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Federal Agent Held ill ■ ?■ L I - kl r- ■ / Lear B. Reed, federal agent In ' charge of the Department of Justice in St. Louis, Mo., photoI graphed at the inquest into death of Mrs. Bessie Masterson, who was shot and killed when a raiding squad fired through the door of her home. Reed is held in the shooting. NEW PROGRAM i FOR SCHOOLS Latin And Higher Mathematics To Be Dropped As Requirements County superintendent of schools Clifton E. Striker announced today that a new program will be followed in the county high schools next year which will eliminate Latin and higher mathematics as required subjects during the first two yeans. The proposed change was brought up before the county high 'school principals in a meeting laat ' spring and unanimously approved. Mr. Striker was ordered to plan a i program which he has just completed. The new curricula will contain elective subjects of a more practical nature during the freshman and sophomore years. The change will be made because It has been observed that a large number of pupils drop out of school at the age of 16 when school attendance is no longer required by law. Mr. Striker said. 'Un my opinion the purpose of schools is to prepare , pupils for adult life. This is not being done for those students who drop out after the first one or two years, when they are required to ! take academic courses in preference to subjects of a more practical i nature.” Latin and higher mathematics plane and solid geometry will be , taught to the 11th and 12th grades. This will enable every pupil who cares to go on with his schooling , to college or desires to acquire a knowledge of these subjects to study them without penalizing those students who are financially unable to continue their schooling or are not interested in them. At the same time by postponing the study of these subjects the pupils will -be better prepared to comprehend them. Latin II will be offered this year and Latin 1 to juniors and seniors in the county high schools. English will continue to be a four year required subject, history a three year required subject, and physical training and science one year required subjects. The science courses to ba offered will be physics and biology. The courses to be given as electives will Include agriculture, home economics, commercial arithmetic, commerce, public speaking and manual training. The study of agriculture among the boys and home economics among the girls will be especially encouraged because it is known that a large percentage of rural high school pupils live on farms after school. The two agricultural courses will be covered by two text books “Engineering on the Farm” and “Soils and Crops.” In these courses the study of soils, crops, farm machinery and similar subjects will be taught. ■ ■ - o ■ 1 " "■ Sunday School Board To Meet The Sunday School board of the Methodist church will meet at the church tonight at 8 o’clock. W. Guy Brown, superintendent, urges all members to attend.

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NORTH DAKOTA PLACED UNDER MARTIAL LAW Governor Dares State Supreme Court To Oust Him From Office FACES SENTENCE ON FEDERAL CONVICTION Bismarck, N- D., July 18 — (U.R)—North Dakota was placed under complete martial 'aw today by Gov. William 11. Lander. The executive, convicted recently of a federal felony and facing a penitentiary sentence, virtually dared the state supreme court and his poliitcal opponents to oust him from office. The governor’s proclamation, suspending civil law and turning the state over to 1,200 national guardsmen, was issued less than three hours after the supreme court had ruled that he was disqualified for office by his conviction. It preceded by only 36 hours the convention of a special session of the legislature, called by Langer in contemptuous defiance • of demands that he be impeached. The legislature will investigate his official conduct but, being overwhelmingly of his faction of the nonpartisan Republican organization. is expected to acquit him of any offense. Sixty national guardsmen tooK control of the capltol immediately ; after the proclamation of martial law was stamped with the state < seal. Their appearance on the building’s portico was the signal for a mixed chorus of boos and cheers from a mob of more than 500 persons which milled around the capitol grounds during the supreme court session and for hours afterward. Adjt. Gen. Earl Sarles, a Langer appointee, hastened to Bismarck from his home in Hillsboro to mobilize his guardsmen throughout the state. It was believed here that their function would be limited to a demonstration of power except In Bismarck, where Sheriff J. L. Kelly, also a Langer adherent, requested use of troops. Lieut. Gov. Ole Olson, wh-> under one interpretation of law became the acting governor when the supreine court ruling was (CGN'TTNTTFD nv P4GF FIVE) * __O , Church Class Will Hold Picnic Friday The Philathae class of the Baptist church will hold the annual picnic at Legion Memorial park Friday evening at 6:30 o’clock The husbands and families of the members will be guests of the class at the picnic. o : RAILROAD MAN STILL MISSING Fort Wayne Man’s BloodSoaked Auto Found By Police Fort Wayne July 18 —(UP) —Contents of a letter Arthur E. Jenks, 29 missing Fort Wayne railroader left with his parents July 8 Instructing them "it should not be opened unless something happened to him” today threw some light on the mysery surrounding Jenks’ strange disappearance here the night of July 12. The letter, opened hy Mrs. Sam Jenks, the mother, was turned over to county authorities today. It told of threats which were being made on Jenk’s life and mentined trouble he was having with his wife, Mrs. Lillian Koch-Jenks. Fort Wayne, July 18 — (U.R) — County authorities today admittedly they were without clues as to the whereabouts of Arthur E. Jenks 29, former railroader, strangely missing for six days and whose blood-soaked, bullet-shattered sedan was found abandoned near here Monday night. Chance discovery of the car along a lonely cemetery road by Deputy Sheriff Tony Fappiano was *^(CONTINUED*ON’paGe’ FIVE) ’