Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 32, Number 172, Decatur, Adams County, 20 July 1934 — Page 1

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Iman killer I Evicted of [anslaughter Lnapolis Woman Is found Guilty By Illinois Jury fcNSENTENCE I OF 1-14 YEARS larleston, 111-, July 20.— ! iMrs. Ann Sands txom, 38, Inapolis, Ind., and - moth- | a 15 vear old son, was K guilty of manslaughter ■ jurr in Coles county cir-: fcourt here today, in con-i lon with the slaying of K' Thompson, Indianaplasket salesman. The ver|was returned at 9:40 ft this morning. The jury had ftut all night. ft Sandstrom was sentenced Eve one to 14 years tn the 1 fti's reformatory at Dwight, ftnalty for manslaughter. Sher- ] ft / ochran said she would be I there tomorrow. ■ < lough she listened to the ftg of the verdict calmly, j ( Iy turning and without facial Ksion. saying to Francis ( les. Indianapolis, one of her , fteys, 'thanks” and shaking ftnd. ftn she became slightly hyster- , ■ giggling and laughing until b jourt asked her to be sentenc-' Ifter the sentence Mrs. Sand-. | looked at the judge for a ft nt and then burst into a short ■ ■laugh. ■viously while awaiting re|of the verdict, delayed until i El of State’s Attorney J. V. , Iter, she had said "I don’t I' when asked what sha |ht the jurors would do. , ftrhes and William Remy, chief ■e defense counsel expressed Eelves as pleased with the let saying there would not be! ftpeal or a motion for a new I' |h are happy with the result," , ■Hughes. 11 he verdict suits me,” said ; "There will not be any ap-1 I I 1 he verdict was better than ISrnxrEP ’on 'p'wflK Vottß', IRMER TALKS ITO ROTARIANS <> D. Bieberich of KirkInd Township Speaks To Club 1 farmer must change his bod of farming and meet con- j; ks as well as anyone else in Iness’’, Otto D. Bieberich, prohive and successful farmer of kland township, stated tn a talk re members of the Rotary club ■ evening. r Bieberich owns an 80 acre’ b and holds several records for hg wheat, potatoes and sugar h- He is a practical, as well as ptiflc farmer and believes in king up the soil: He stated that I best producing land was that on p he used from 400 to 7001 Ms of fertiliser. Mt year Mr. Bleberick obtained • Average yield of 20 tons of sugar . I s to the acre. His wheat aver- ( F about 48 bushels to the acre I Ing the year and he sold more h S3OO worth of potatoes from a I acres. His crops this year are F- Bleberick also engages in, ping and has a good herd. He' p that the successful farmer i | to engage in diversified farm-1 that profit could be made . 'ruck farming. He attributed poetess to increasing producI Per acre through fertilization. !' Bieiberich advocated the Flushing of a market place in ™ur where farmers could self r ea Produce and fresh vegetM. jrd Calland,, field manager for i ( antral Sugar Company, was I‘mian of the program. He Board Reports Iwo Cases Os Measles cases of measles were reportn A<i atna c ounty j n t h e jnorbi. ° f the Indiana Division it Health, for the week endt’aturday, July 14.

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Decatur People To Attend Convention Members of the /Evangelical League as Christian Endeavor Will leave Saturday for Oakwood Park. Lake Wawasee, where they will attend the sessions of the Young Peoples Convention of the Evange Heal churches. Among those who j will spend the week at the lake will I be /Mrs. Fred Linn, Mns. J. fO. Tricker, the Misses Martha Jane | Linn. Madeline Spahr, Bernice Hat, ni, Marcia Martin, Martha Erma Butler, Helene Rayl, Vivian Lynch. Esther .Sondermann and Mary, Grace Zimmerman, Arthur Sunder-! mann, Byron Tricker and Harlan Jackson. — — COMMITTEES OF CLUB APPOINTED Bryce Thomas Names Committees For Decatur Rotarians Bryce Thomas, president of the Decatur Rotary club, today an- ‘ nounced the members of the var-' ious standing committees of the club and the chairmen for the / weekly meetings during the com ing year. The committee members and chairman of the programs, begin ning with July 5, follow: Board of Directors Bryce Thomas, Roy Johnson, Charles Priigh. Harold McMillen, Tom Smith, Fred Patterson. Aims And Objects H. C. Oksen, C. E. Bell, O. L. Vance, Rev. J. Seimetz, Bryce I Thomas, Charles Prugh. Club Service O. L. Vance, Fred Patterson, A. R. Ashbaucher, Car! Pumphrey, Jess Rice. Classification and Membership A. R. Ashbaucher, E. W. Lank enau, Arthur Suttles. Music T -| Dr. Fred Patterson, Leo Kirsch. : Fellowship-Attendance Carl Pumphrey, Mart Mylott, ; Ward Calland. Finance Jess Rice, Harold McMillen, Tom Smith. Vocational Service H. C. Oksen, Oscar Lankenau, | George Krick, August Walters. International Service C. E. Bell, O. B. Wemhofi. Bob i Freeby, George Thoms. Community Service Rev. J. Seimetz, Avon Burk, A. R. Holthouse, Joe McMaken, M. F. Worthman. Boys Work Avon Burk, Harold McMillen, James Elberson. Crippled Children M. F. Worthman, Palmer Eichar, Harry Dodd. Rural Urban Acquaintance ■ Joe McMaken, Sim Burk, Wilson i •--*-• • ♦ ♦ ♦ (CONTINUED ON PAG® SIX) O Steury Brothers Plan Retail Store Steury Brothers of the Blue ‘ Creek Dairy are preparing to open ■ a dairy store in the Ellie building I on South second street. iMil'k, cheese. 'butter and ice I "ream will be handled. Steury 1 Brothers operate a milk route in i this city and the up-town location I win retail their products in addi- , tion to other lines. o ADAMS COUNTY RESIDENT DIES — Miss Permilla Mumma Dies This Morning At Home of Niece iMise Permilia Mumma, 89 year ■ old resident ot Adams County, died at the home of her niece, Mrs. Roas Harden in Union township at 11 o’clock this morning. Death was due to infirmities of old age. Miss IMumma fell over a week ago at the Harden home and had not been well since that time. 'She was born in Ohio, a daughter of Christian and Rebecca SnyderMumma. She came to Adams County when four yearts of age and resided here the remainder of her life. She was the last surviving tnemfoer of a family on n-.ue children. When a young woman she united with the Pleasant Grove United Brethren Church. Funeral services will he held Sunday afternoon at 2:30 o’clock, central standard time, at the Pleasant Grove U. B. church.

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NORTH DAKOTA FARMERS RALLY TO GOV. LANGER — "Ousted” Governor Will Ask Impeachment Os Ole Olson MARTIAL LAW IS STILL IN FORCE | Bismarck. N. D„ July 20-<U.P.)— I Hundreds of farmers, grim deter- , mination written on their weath- > er-roughened faces, roamed the / streets of Bismarck today shouting their support of William H. Langer, the “ousted” governor. The farmers, members of the ! Farm Holiday Association which rallied to Lancer’s five-year mortgage moratorium, were defiantly hostile toward Ole Olson, who has 1 taken over the governor's office. Martial law — maintained by a I handful of 40 national guardsmen stationed at the skyscraper capi- ! tol building—still prevailed over the entire state by ploclamation I of Langer. Olson, consenting to retention lof the soldiers, went about his affairs as "governor” under an armed guard. The guard was ordered following threats hurled at him by I.anger supporters—many of them federal relief workers — who , crowded the streets of this little 1 capital city of 11.000 population. Ominous tension ran through Bismarck as it waited for a special session of the legislature, I called by Langer before he suddenly abdicated his office to Olson, to convene shortly after noon. Langer, who placed the state | under martial law in an effort to thwart his ouster ordered by the supreme court, was expected to I make a dramatic appearance before the law makers and aslt for I the Impeachment of Olson, four ' justices of the supreme court and other state officials antagonistic | toward him. Adjt. Gen. Earl Sarles, a Langer 1 supporter, placed troops around 1 the hotel where Olson lives as a : “precautionary measure.” A crowd of Langer supporters booing and o BITTER FIGHT ONNRAENDED Harriman Hosiery Mill In Tennessee Will Reopen Monday Harriman. Tenn., July 20. —<U.PJ — The Harriman hosiery mill fight against the NRA, one of the Blue Eagle's bitterest battles, ended to- ' day. The mill will reopen Monday under an agreement reached with NRA officials. More than 600 men will go back to work. Labor difficulties at the Harriman mill opened one of the most unusual points of NRA controversy. Following a strike several months ago. the mill’s Blue Eagle was withdrawn on grounds that it refused to bargain collectively with employes. Subsequently the mill was shut down by its owners, who threatened complete abandonment. They said that because the Blue Eagle was withdrawn, the mill was being boycotted by other companies and by town residents. They contended that lack of an NRA in- ! signia was ruining their business and that the plant was being persecuted by NRA. The agreement provides that the strike is ended, that the mill hire 7cONTINTTF,r> ON PAGE THREE) 0 Thermometer Goes_ Over 100 Mark Today The temperature at one o’clock this afternoon registered slightly over 100 degrees In the shade in this city. Early this morning thermometers in the city varied from 1N)O to 105 degrees in the sun. IA breeze last night brought some relief from the heat although mercury during the night hovered around 80 degrees. The hot and dry weather is producing the worst oats crop in the memory of many farmers. Corn which will do better in hot weather is also parched by the drought. Yards and gardens in the city are similarly burned up.

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Office Guarded by Troops Safi B Miff tif w watt. w. jmis? ..... J I National guardsmen standing guard at the door of the governor's . office hi the state capitol at Bismarck. North Dakota, before Lieuten- ' ant Governor Ole H. Olson took possession of the executive offices in defiance to William Langer, deposed as governor by a decision of the State Supreme Court.

BREAD PRICES HI6HERMONDAY Baker’s Code of Fair Practice Will Cause Price Advance Bread prices in the local territory win advance Monday due to the adopting of a baker’s code of fair practice the Miller’s Bakery announced. The new prices on bread. ' which will be the same on different brands and in all stores In the area show an increase ot about .20 per cent. The new prices, effective Monday are as follows: 1 pound loaf 8c; 1 1-4 pound loaf. 10c: 1 1-2 pound loaf, 12c; 2 pound loa>f, 15c; pound rye loaf, 10c; 1 pound Vienna loaf 10c and 5 pound loaf whole wheat bread, 10c. The old prices were 7c for a pound loaf, 8c for the 1 1-4 pound loaf. 10c for the 1 1-2 pound loaf, 8c for rye, 10c for Vienna, and 8c for whole wheat, with some varia(CONTINUED ON PAGE THREE) Arrested Man Not Dillinger Gangster Buenos Aires, Argentina, July 20 —(’UP) —/Police thought for a brief time today they had arrested a member of the /Dillinger gang but it turned out to be someone else. The man arrested resembled descriptions sent fiom the United States of Arthur Edward Lofredo, i with an offer of $3,000 reward for his capture. His fingerprints, however, proved his innocence. o May Curtail Work Because Os Heat Due to the extreme hot weather work may be curtailed on the construction of the bridges on state road 52T, east of Decatur, Cal Yost, a member of the Yost Brothers contracting firm, announced at noon. Sam Butler and Ralph Isch, members of the construction gang were overcome by heat this morning and Mr. Yost stated that more ttyan likely activities would cease for a few days.

Miles of improved streets! An abundance of deep well water! Good stores with smart merchandise! Three state roads and surfaced highways! Three city parks; ball diamonds! Daylight streets at night! Swimming pools; air-cooled picture shows! Churches and schools for all! industries employing hundreds of people! More than 5100 people demonstrating the principle of old fashioned Hoosier hospitality! —make Decatur a great place to live, visit and enjoy life even during hot weather.

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Geneva Churches To Unite In Services United services will be held in the Geneva churches next Sunday, July 22. Services will be held at i 10:30 a. m„ 2:30 and 7:30 p. m. The morning and afternoon, services will be held in the Geneva Methoilst Episcopal Church and the evening service in the United Brethren church. The pastors, Rev. E. L. Eckerly and Rew. W.. Fallis , will be assisted in these services by Rev. Thomas Noah Carter, Jr., and party. The Carter party is composed of Dr. Thomas Noah Carter, internationally known prison preacher, Mrs. Carter, soloist and the playing and singing “Twin Woodhouses” John A. S. and Ruth E. I Woodhouse. EDITORS MEET AT LAFAYETTE Indiana Press Associations Hold Annual Summer Meeting Lafayette, Ind., July 20 —(UP) — A short business session and address by Harry Rutledge, secreitary of the National Editorial Association, today opened the annual twoday summer meeting of the Hoosier State Press Association and the Indiana Weekly Press Association. While the editors talked shop their wives were entertained in the faculty lounge of the Purdue Union building with a book review by L. Josseiyn, assistant librarian at the university. An inspection tour of university laboratories and farms, with side trips to other nearby points of interest were on the program for this afternoon. George Ade, author and playwright, and President Edward C. Elliott of Purdue will speak at the banquet tonight. Shop talk sessions for the editors and a special program by the Purdue school ot home economics for the wives are on ithe program for /EGNTTNITED ON PAGE FOUR)

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ADAMS COUNTY CUUNCILWIIL HOLD SESSION Special Meeting Is Called To Make Up Deficiencies APPROPRIATIONS WILL BE SOUGHT A special session of the Adams county council has been called by : county auditor John W. Tyndall I for August 3 at which time ; $5,286.60 will be asked appropriatied to make up deficiencies in ' several of the county funds. The regular meeting of the I county council Is scheduled for September 3. An appropriation of $973.75 will be asked for expenses of the circuit court. This will include salary and expense of court reporter; court bailiff, per diem; probation officer, per diem; special judge, and circuit court furniture. Linoleum for the clerk's office and telephone calls from the ! clerk’s office at $69.50 will be ■ asked. A sum of $250 for books and ! stationery for the auditor's office ■ and SSO for telephone expense in ’ the treasurer’s office also will be i asked. A total of $175 will be asked for > the repair of equipment at the Adams county jail and operating i expenses for the institution. . i Traveling expenses of the two :' county health nurses. Irene Gerke I and Florence Anderson which are . paid by the county will cost S2»O t according to the estimate to be I asked from the council. The state [ pays the salaries and other exI penses of these nurses. ! No appropriation was made by i the county council last year to ! pay for the election inspectors, judges, clerks and sheriffs, in tlie , general election this November. To cover this expense the sum of $908.00 is asked. ' To take the Adams county infirmary out of the red SI,BOO will be asked. This will be spent for repair of buildings and structures, | repair of equipment, fuel, clothi ing. burlap fertilizer and equipment. Incidental items to be asked I will be: Telephone expense in the county treasurer’s office, SSO; county superintendent of school’s ' expense for books and stationery. $25; clerk hire for old age penI sions, $185.35, and old age pension ■ burial, S3OO. FERA Pavroll For Week Is $416.30 The FERA pay roll for this week will total $41'6.30. There are at the present 62 men and two women working. They are making and cutt- ; ing clothes for the poor. The cloth is furnished !by Washington township. RELIEF COST j TWO MILLION 1 Indiana Emergency Relief Expenditures For May Reported Indianapolis, July 20. —(U.R) —Indiana emergency relief for May cost the state and federal governments $2,580,070, the governor's commission on unemployment relief announced today. Funds expended for direct and : work relief, shelter, clothing, medical care, fuel and the rural re-1 habilitation and drought relief programs totalled $2,1X1,540.29. Os the latter sum $1,215,009.60 was paid in wages. An analysis of the direct relief expenditures shows that $580,631 went for food and household necessities; $25,410 for shelter; $46,930 for clothing; $47,090 for fuel; $1,472 for public utility service; $91,785 for medical care; $27,290 : for seed, largely in garden programs. and $83,863 for mfscellanleous items. ; Purchases of materials, supplies and equipment for work relief projects and administrative work /amounted to $179,647. Rental of jproperty and equipment, wages of ia small number of non-relief employes and miscellaneous expenses totalled $279,883.

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jNesswald Funeral Rites Held Today Funeral services for Godfrey | Nesswald were held at nine o'clock I this morning at St. Mary’s CatholIbc church. Rev. Father Joseph | Seimetz, pastor officiated. A large number of friends and I relatives attended the requim high mass. Pall hearers were George Geels. Jacoib Miller, Joseph MetI zer, Julius Kohne. Andrew Steigj meyer and Stephen Seigrisit. Buri ial was made in St. Joseph ceme-, I tery. iMr. Nesswald died suddenly last ' Saturday. o — LICENSE PLATE SALE INCREASE J State Auto License Sales Show Good Increase Over 1933 '! Indianapolis, July 20. — (U.R) — note of prosperity was sounded in ’ . figures of the state auto license : ■ division today when it was shown ; 53,560 more plates were issued dur- , ing the first six months of 1934 j , than were issued for the same per- ; , |lod in 1933. The figures also showed effects of the campaign by state and local police to enforce the drivers’ li- . cense law, requiring all drivers to 1 purchase operators’ certificates. An increase of 632,516 drivers . license sales tor the first six months ,'of this year over the same period . last year was recorded. During ' I the first half of 1933 only 109,535 /licenses were issued. The figure /aS of July 1, 1934, showed that , 1762.359 had been purchased. i Sales of passenger plates increas- ■ ed 39,280 for the six-month period . ending July 1 over the same period 1 . 1 of 1933. A total of 587,746 plates , j were sold up to the half way mark • in 1933, and 627,026 this year. > Frank Finney, commissioner 6f| .; the auto license division, said he | > expected the sale of tpassenger ' plates for the year to exceed last year’s total by at least 25,000. The total sales in 1933 were 652,800. Auto license branches throughout: /the state are making preparations ' for the usual rush for plates Aug. I : 1 when they go on sale at half ! TCONTTNUKD GN PAGE SIX) O BUS DRIVERS SUBMIT BIDS Five Township Trustees Receive Bids For School Drivers Five Adams County township trustees have received blds for school bus drivers for the next year. Charles Abnet, trustee of Jefferson township did not allow any of the Ibids received by him but will ask for new ones. Everett Rice was awarded the contract on route two in Monroe township while C. W. R. Schwartz will hold over for another year. Sam Minger was given the contract for route one and John Schafi er for route two in French town- ! ship. Frank and Leo Merriman were the only bidders in Blue Creek i township and were given contracts. Preston Pyle, 'Ed iMeshiberger, i RaymoJid Yoder, Kenneth Zimmerman, Sam Neusibaum, Fred Eisenj hart, and James Pusey were given the icontracts in Hartford towni ship. — o City Officials Donate Divorce Evansville, Ind., July 20 —(UP) — Domestic troubles interferred with plans of city officials, so that city officials donated .a divorce. The Cemetery board wanted to take over the Fulton Avenue extension into Locust Hill cemetery. But, attempts to buy a house on the street failed because the couple owtning the /property was separated and the sale could not be made without signatures of /both. The husband suggested that if he had money enough to hire an attorney he would get a divorce, thus making it po/ssible for him to dispose of the .property himself. City Attorney /Ireland went into court and obtained the divorce Now the cemetery board has the property.

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UNION MEMBERS ARE RETURNING TO WORK TODAY Paralyzing General Strike Collapses After Five Days NO GENERAL STRIKE CALL AT PORTLAND San Francisco, July 20. — (U.R) — An estimated 150,000 1 men and women went back to work today after four davs of general strike which paralyzed the San Francisco bav area. Half of them were union members who returned t<i work in answer to the orders of their leaders calling off ' the strike. The others were workers who had been forced into j idleness by the closing of business and industry. It was a throng for the most part plainly glad to "get back to normalcy.” There remained the teamsters, I the carmen’s and the marltlmo ' strikes yet to be settled. But the workers seemed to be leaving most of that to the President’s mediation board, and to Genera) Hugh Johnson, NRA chief, Postmaster General James A. Farley, due here today, and Senator Robert Wagner, head of the national labor board, to worry about. The throngs which poured into the city from early morning ferry j boats seemed more amused than angered at the presence of na- ! tional guardsmen along the em- . barcadero. Passengers on street ' cars kidded the conductors and i motormen who had returned to ! work. Merchants made arrangements • for a big day’s business. Window i displays, which had been removed I entirely or had been covered in many stores during darker days ■of the week, were restored. | Shelves gradually were filling with stock. Witli transportation / nearly normal and conditions i quiet again, shoppers were coming i down town in throngs. The early morning streets were ' busy with traffic. Grocers and I produce retailers went to market, finding commission houses filled ! with fresh fruits and vegetables and grocery warehouses again available to them with large I stocks of staple foods. They i hauled these away in a brisk pro- < CONTINUED ON PAGE FOUR* * o— Live Stock Market Takes A Drop Today The live stock market took a 10 cent drop and the grain market advanced two cents, according to the quotations listed in today’s paper. Top hogs are listed at $4.70 per hundred. Number one wheat is quot ed at 90 cents. FIND STAINS ARE OF BLOOD Fort Wayne Authorities Renew Intensive Search For Jenks Fort Wayne July 20 — (UP) — Stains on the abandoned bullet drilled automobile found near here Monday night were made by human blood, according to chemical analysis, police announced today. The report spurred authorities to renewed activity in their hunt for the body of Arthur E. Jenks, 29, feared murdered the night of July 12, when he disappeared from a sister's home here in answer to an anonymous telephone calle. “We had believed that Jenks shot the holes in the car himself and stained the glass to frighten his wife because of their domestic troubles,” deputy sheriff Harold Getting, declared “But with the lalboraitory report it is apparent Jeuk’s or someone else driving the ear was killed or injured.” Police said it would have been impossible for Jenfks to have shot himself and disappeared after losing so much blood. A large pool was found on the front seat floor, and had soaked through the floor mat. It is evident, authorities said, *7cONT*NUED ’on *PA*G*E* FOUR) *