Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 32, Number 175, Decatur, Adams County, 24 July 1934 — Page 1

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BOHN DILLINGER FUNERAL WEDNESDAY

ME WORKERS Eg ON STRIKE [ IN TWIN CITY ■. t . r 3,400 Additional ■'orkers On Strike In I Minneapolis ■rtial law IS ■ bELIE\ED LIKELY ■inneapolis. July 24.—(U.R) paralysis spread over Minneapolis today, ■embers of the cleaners, ■L' ami laundry workers K ua mM "lit in sympathy ■ striking truck drivers. ■j frs said the strike was ■a day only. ■j C Ke'< wre placed about ■ 75 affected cleaning and The union, claim■'.mbersln; ot 2.000. said the s-ojld eh-et H.lOo employes industry strike « is called despite a William Green, presiuf the American Federation federation would ..... mpathy strike laundrymen. threatened the with loss of its charter. It a F of L’s first direst ■, h 11. the -trike of the general .. vers ami helpers union, ■ eight days ago. I’-'ts received a re- ■- , :< to a new peace Members of the truck■s u,:oi. said th.-ir reply would later today. Floyd B. Olson said his .-..p »...;i.l depend upon ac- ( >r rejection of the pro- ■ advanced by KeV. ' ■gis J Haas, and E. H. Dunnifederal mediators, has to do ,e-tiemen: the represen- ..; aera- i' ami arbitration !■- wot kers and ~f police convoys inervention deupon the answer of the reparte-- to the proposal subby tie- mediators,” Gov. Ol-n.-ii has assembled ;h 4! . ; Minnesota national in :He Twin Cities. Two others are standing by the state, ready as re- ■ .-inor’s expressed of police convoys and '.bieat to replace all authont-. with military rule, ■■ ■ - tarnished today ■request of employers. necessary food and other to hospitals moved. ■outs Will Meet II Wednesday Night ■ll Decatur boy scouts are ask■o attend a meeting at the Censchool binding Wednesday at o'clock. Arrangewill be made at this meet|H tor the annual summer camp. EE —■ — o ■LAW DOUBLE ■HAKES CLAIMS Klinger's Double Doubts M Identification Os ■ Desperado ■jtdianapolis. July 24— <U.R> — MvPh Alsman, 36, Brookville. c Dillinger's double, hoped toto verify his claim that it was the nation's public enemy N >. ■fr 1- ' 0 was shot and killed in Sunday night. W" was to visit Dillinger’s fath■J" Mooresville to ask permisto view the outlaw's body. pointed out two reasons he believed that it was not BBhnger who was shot. They - The man who was shot was ■ Munds heavitr than Dillinger w h»n he was in Crown Point Alsman pointed out that w buld be little chance of B ?!r »• gaining weight under H,', “ OUa liv 'ng conditions of the ■ ‘«w months. • r eJeral men acted peculiar■»dit WinS: the sl ’ ootin 8 of the ■J, ' A!stnan was refused a n at tt ”’ outlaw's body, de■E j .' fart that he was known B- 'a, 1 umm and positive ■ CO!> 'TINUED on PAGE FIVE)

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MRS. DOLCH IS FIRST VICTIM OF HEAT HERE Aged Monroe Township Woman Is'County’s First Heat Victim FOUND NEAR HOME BY HER DAUGHTER The finst death caused by the heat in A'lams County this year is that of Mrs. Katherine Dolch, 87, of Mon-roe township, mother at louis Dolch of this city. Mrs. Dolch was found in an unconscious condition near her home by her daughter. Mary, Monday evening at 5:80 o’clock. 'She never regained consciousness and death occurred at 2 o’clock Tuesday morning. When the daughter. Miss Mary Dolch. returned to her home from Monroe, she found her mother in a lane about 35 feet f-rom a truck patch on the farm. She was unconscious. The physician called stated that death was due to the heat. Mrs. Dolch was born in Germany on April 12. 1847. She came to this country at the age of 22. Her husband. Jacob Doth. preceded her in death anout four years ago. Surviving are three eons and a daughter: Henry of Jay county, ne.tr Portland; Mary, at home; Louis of Decatur, aud Jacob of Blue Creek township. One daughter, Lena preceded her mother in death in 1901. Mrs. Dolch was a member o< the Cross Reformed church at Berne for the last 30 years. A brief service will be held at the home, one mile west and a half mile south of Monroe, Thursday afternoon at 1:80 o’clock, followed with a service at the pr.otts Reformed Church at 2 o'clock. Rev. j. L. Conrad, pastor, will officiate and burial will be made in the M. R. E. cemetery, west of Berne.

MRS. HAYNES DIES MONDAY Mrs. I. R. Haynes Dies At Home Os Sister In Monroe — Mrs. I. R. Haynes, 65. daughter of the late Howard Thompson, died at the home of her sister, Mrs. J. A. Hendricks at Monroe Monday evening at 6:45 o’clock. Death was cause! by heart trouble and complications. The deceased was bom in Monroe township, six miles south of Decatur. January 15, 1869. a daughter of 'Howard and Katherine Thomipeon. After graduating from high school at the age of 15, she taught school in the county for 10 years. Because of ill health, Mrs. Haynes was forced to relinquish her teaching duties and spent 35 years in the northwest part of the United States and Canada. She was married to Mr. Haynes in Bradenton, Florida. January 21. 1927. She had male her home in Monroe for the past three years. Surviving are the husband, two sisters, Mrs. Hendricks at Monroe; l Mrs. Maude Dorwin of Decatur; and a brother, E Kirby Thompson of Van Wert, Ohio. One brother is deceased. .Mrs. Haynes was a member of the Monroe Methodist 'Episcopal church and the Decatur chapter of the Eastern Star. Funeral services will be held at 9:30 o’clock Thursday morning, with Rev. Elbert Morford, pastor of the church, and Rev. H. H. Hocker of Pasadena. California, offlclat.ng. Burial will be made in the Decatur cemetery. . * Mrs. Faye Knapp . . Passes Examination Indianapolis. Ind., July 24-(WP) -Mrs. Faye Smith Knapp of Ad-, ams county was one of the 99 successful applicants taking the state examination tor qualifications as probation officers. There were 151 persons taking the examination. This was the first state wide examination held for the selection of qualified probation workers and was conducted by Dr. Francis D.. MloCabe, director of the state porbxtion commission and his staff. I

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Took Part in Slaying of Dillinger I Hill ■!■■■■■——k i•' —< w f ml isMf 'Bft.BH *ff i* JO r <' * Police efforts of East Chicago, Ind., who played a part in the trapping and slaying of John Dillinger, notorious gangster, as he stepped out of a Chicago ’heater Sunday night. Left to right: Glen Stretch. Capt. Tim O'Neal, Sergt. Walter Conway and Peter 3opsie.

ANOTHER HEAT RECORD LIKELY Thermometers Register 106 In Decatur At 1 o’Clock Another heat record will probably be smished today, the mercury reaching 106 at one o'clock this afternoon and the hot winds prevalent at that hour indicated that an all-time heat might be established here. The morning started .a little cooler than usual, the thermometers registering in the early nineties up until about 11 o’clock. From then the climb was steady arfiTWnoon the mercury went up several degrees in an hour. A record high was established Saturday and Sunday when government thermometers registered 106 aibove. Yesterday was from 100 to [ 102 degrees. At 1:30 o’clock this afternoon street thermometers protected from the direct rays of the sun regieterI ed a little above 106. The extreme hot wave is damaging the corn, farmers state. The ears are welting and farmers are not very hopeful of the crop maturI ing if the baking temperature conI tinues. Heat Continues Kansas City, Mo., July 24 —(UP) ' —Death dealing temperatures continued in the midwest today, where scores already have succumbed, and where complete crop failure is threatened. As relentless as war and as dead- [ ly as a plague, the sun beat down from a clear sky. (Estimates placed the dead from this 14-day onslaught of 100 degree heat at more than 200. j In the last three days 64 died in | St. Louis. Nebraska's heat dead number 49 and 60 have died in Kan-. sas City in two weeks. The toll was not in human life ► • ♦♦ (CONTT NT’RD ON PAGE STX) SCANT HOPE FOR WEATHER RELIEF No Early Promise Os Relief From Heat Wave Given Indiana Indianapolis. July 24. — (U.R) — Scant hope for a break in the life • destroying heat wave in Indiana was offered today by J. H. Arming- ; ton, meteorologist at the U. S. , weather bureau. Slightly cooler weather in extreme north portions was promised for tomorrow afternoon but the - forecast today said "fair and con-' Itinued warm.” More than a score of deaths have I been attributed to the excessive; temperatures during the past five days. Water supplies are endangered and crops have suffered greatly. A maximum official temperature of 112 was recorded in the state yesterday, with Wheatfield report- . ing that figure for the second sue-, cessive day. Lafayette reported 110; Columbus 108; South Bend 106; Roches- ( ter and Cambridge City 104; Paoli [, 103; Indianapolis and 102, and Vincennes 105. L I Only in the extreme northeast ij I ’’continued ON PAGE FIVE) ’’

Decatur, Indiana, Tuesday. July 24, 1934.

WARNINGS ISSUED I | Warnings were issued again | Tuesday by local sportsmen and | members of the Adams county | | fish and game conservation lea- | | gue against the wanton destruc- j tion of small fur-bearing anl- I mats. 11 These animals, because of the j extremely hot. dry weather are | | gathering along the streams in | the county and several in- | | stances of destruction have | been reported. Drastic penal- | j ties are provided by state laws j and these penalties will be im- j | posed on any violators of such j laws. NAME OFFICERS TO SEEK POSTS Adams Post Annual Election Will Be Held On August 13 Nomination of officers to serve i during the ensuing year were made by Adams post number 43 of the American Legion in regular meeting Monday night at the legion hall on south Second street. The election of officers will be [ held at the reular meeting on Monday evening, August 13. Some of the offices will be filled without opposition. Nominees for each office are as follows: Commander —Herbert L. Kern, 1 Herman Ulman. 'First vice-commander — Charles Massonee. 'Second vice-commander-‘Herbert Burdg. Adjutant—(Lew Hite. Finance officer —Ed Adler, Till- ; mon Gehrig. ■Executive committee —Joe Brenj nnn, R. V. Aurand, Hubert Cochran. Joe Burnett, Charles Burke. (Three to be elected). Delegates—lLPbert Miller, Walter Gladfelter, Herbert L. Kern, (Three to be elected). Alternates —Ferd O’Brien, Charles Weber, Frank Linlger, Otto Case, C. A. Bell. (Three to be elected). The American Legion state convention will be held at Gary, August 25 to 29. 0 Nursing Committee To Meet Wednesday The county nursing committee will meet Wednesday afternoon at 2 o’clock at Mrs. Charles Knapp’s office. All nurses are urged to be present at the meeting. o Men’s Brotherhood To Meet Wednesday The men’s brotherhood of the Zion Reformed church will meet at the church Wednesday evening at 7:30 o’clock. Business of importance will be discussed and all men of the church are urged to attend. Methodist Church Will Hold Social —I An Ice cream social will be held on the Methodist church lawn Thursday evening, sponsored by the Women's Foreign Missionary Society of the church. Ice cream, [pie and cake will be served and 'the public is invited to attend.

RAINFALL FAR UNDER NORMAL Precipitation For Last Three Months 6 Inches Under Normal The precipitation for the lass I three months has been six inches under the mean normal precipitaI tion recorded in this part of the state for a number of years, accordl ing to W. <E. Giadfelter, who ’ measures the rainfall here for the ■ government. lit rained 1.51 inches in June, 0.64 inches in May, and 1.85 inches in April tor a total of four inqbes. It generally rains an average of three ' inches a month. I .During the corresponding three [ months of last year the precipitation was 12.72. A large portion of last year’s precipitation was due to heavy rains in May when a total of ] 9.32 inches of raih fell. The rain fall from July 1933 to I Juine 1934 totaled 27.05 or an aver- > age of 2.55 inches. From August , 1932 to June 1933 the average rain tall was 2.88 inches per month. : These figures show that the prei sent drought h.as been cumulative. The rain a year ago was approxi- ( ■ mately five and a half inches below ’ normal. The rain during the last 12 months is nine inches below normal. [| The moisture that has usually been held below the top soil has i sunk too deep to be of any value to farm crops. The moisture that has been at the surface has been evaporated by a seering sun. The last draught in the United States which compared to the present one in duration and intensity occured In the period between 1884 11888. Some of the older farmers in Adams county remember a drought somewhat comparable to this In 1892. Weather bureau officials state that the United States has • ♦ ♦ ♦-* ♦ (rnVTTNT T FD nv PAGE TWO TOWNSHIPS HAVE DEFICITS Seven Have Surplus Remaining From Township Dog Tax Funds Seven of the 12 townships had a surplus, three were even and two had a deficit in the township dog tax funds. The surplus of the seven townships amounted to $1,216.79. The deficits of the two townships totaled $183.38. The townships that did not have ■ a surplus nor a deficit were, ' Union, St. Marys and Blue Creek The townships with deficits were [Kirkland. $24.38; Jefferson, $159. Surpluses were paid in to the ' county by the following townships: Root, $29.85; Preble. $234.10; Washington. $126; Monroe, $250.50; French, $137.50; Hartford. $154.42; Wabash, $284.42. After deducting the $183.38 [ deficit and 10 per cent of the balance for the state. $930.07 was left for distribution among the 12 townships. This money was distributed to the townships on a per capita basis of the daily average school attendance.

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Jealousy And Lust For Money Caused Outlaw’s Betrayal FEDERAL MEN TO WIPE OUT GANG Cliicago, July 24— ( U-R) — John Dillinger was trapped by a woman torn between i the cons licting emotions of i loyalty to the man who supported her on the one hand and fear, jealousy and the lust for money on the other. The mysterious woman in i red who had plaved mistress lto Dillinger throughout several , weeks of his wild flight from the j law, met the outlaw in a Calumet City, 111., saloon and went with him to escape the sordid life of a lady at the bar. A corner of the veil of censorship that covered activities in the Dillinger hunt was 11 Jed today and revealed that Dillinger never suspected that death was closing I in upon him until the bullet of a federal agent burned through the back of his head. Dillinger's activities for the I last three weeks of his mad career were disclosed today as the government campaign against crime turned from hunting Dillinger to a hunt tor the men who made up his gang. The gang chief, it was learned, went from hs favorite haunts in northern Indiana and south Chi- ' rasto to Rhinelander, Wis., about July 8. accompanied by the ! “woman in red’’ whose acquaint- i I ance he had made in Calumet ; rmNTTKT’En ON PAGE PTVEI O SAYS PRIESTS I WILL BE HELD Austrian Nazis Threaten Catholic Priests As Retaliation Vienna, June 24.—<U.R)—Austrian j Nazis have determined to kidnap Roman Catholic priests as soon as any Nazi terrorists are sentenced to death, and kill their hostages if the Nazis are hanged, a party spokesman told the United Press today. A dozen Nazis are awaiting trial under the government’s new emergency laws, prescribing the death penalty for terrorism. None has been hanged. “The priests led Chancellor Engelbert Dollfuss in his campaign against the Nazis," the spokesman said, “and they must pay the price for his betrayal of Germanic Austria. “The moment any Nazi is sentenced to death we shall capture and hold as hostages several priests from various parts of the country. “These will be killed the moment a Nazi hangs.’’ Dollfuss is a devout Roman Catholic. His ideas of government are decisively influenced by his religious views. After months of unsuccessful efforts to end Nazi dynamltings, Dollfuss on January 19 prescribed the death penalty for any Nazi convicted of terroristic acts. None knows the strength of the Nazi movement in Austria. Though thousands of Nazis have fled to Germany, where they have been given the protection of the German government, unnumbered thousands remain. o BULLETIN Mrs. Henry Crownover, prom- I Inent Adams county woman, was injured shortly before 3 o’clock this afternoon when the car she was driving collided with an auto driven by F. I. Thompson of Illinois, a traveling salesman. The accident oc- j curred four miles south of Decatur on the Mud Pike at a road crossing. The extent of Mrs. Crownover’s injuries had not been determined at press time.

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* 4 READY TO PAY i I Indianapolis, July 24.—(U.R) — I i A check for 81,000 as Indiana's | ' | share of the reward offered for | i| John Dillinger awaits the per- | | son or persons who furnished | i the tip that led to his appre- I hension. Gov. Paul V. McNutt I j said today. Indiana. Illinois, Michigan, | | Ohio and Minnesota each offer- | | ed SI,OOO as a joint reward for | | the capture. Federal agents are not per- | I mitted to accept rewards so the | money will go to the person | | who furnished the necessary in- | i formation. | THOUSANDS OF CABLE DYING IN STOCKYARDS Stock Handlers Strike In Chicago; Stockyards Paralyzed CATTLE SHIPMENTS ORDERED STOPPED Chicago. July 24- — <U.R) — All cattle shipments were ordered halted today as a strike of 900 j , live stock handlers paralyzed the ! i union stockyards and left thou- J ■ sands of drought stricken cattle to | ' die in the jammed pens. The ordinarily smooth routine i of the yards was hopelessly tangi led by the walkout. Parched and j hungry animals bawled lustily | while white shirted executives and office workers worked fever-1 I ishly in the broiling sun to water 1 them. Cattle died literally by the score. Farmers who had driven hundreds of miles were turned I back at the gates to make the long ‘ dusty trip to farms where no feed and little water awaited their ■ calves. Four hundred pickets guarded! every entrance to the yards. A heavy police guard was detailed | to the district, but no violence I was reported. The pickets, on the 1 contrary, were inclined to be amused as the office workers, j neckties askew, worked frantically at jobs they knew nothing (CO V'I’TNT’FT* n\' PA GF PTVE) O DISTRIBUTION IS MADE HERE County Auditor Tyndall Makes Distribution To School Units County Auditor John W. Tyndall has completed the distribution of the surplus dog funds, the com- | mon school revenue and the con- j gressional school fund interest! among the school units of the coun- j tyThe dog fund amounted to $930.07; the common school fund, $1,958.32 and the congressional school interest, $462.82. The dis-1 tribution is made on a per capita basis on the daily average attendance of school children. The report was compiled today |by Miss Mary Cowan, deputy auditor and checks were written to the school trustees today. The following amounts were paid jto the school units in the townships and in Berne and Decatur: Blue [Creek, $144.33; French, $156.92; ■Hartford, $151.55; Jefferson, 162.75; Kirkland, $165.17; Monroe, $305.92; Preble, $174.60; Root, $210.57; St.| j Marys, $178.25; Union, $150.34; Wabash, $333 66; Washington, j 5241.68; Berne, $257.29; Decatur, [5718.18. The average daily attendance of school children in the county was 4,59-8 last year.

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Services Will Be Held At Home Os Sister In Indianapolis TO BURY OUTLAW IN CROWN HILL JndianapoHs, July 24—<U.R» Gates of Crown Hill cemetery will be closed to newspaper photographers and movie cameramen when John Dillinger is buried, Raymond E. Siebert, superintendent announced today.. Onlv immediate friends, relatives and newspaper reporters will be allowed to view the burial, he said. Chicago, Julv 24— <U.R> — A sorrowing old man - he gazed bewilderedly on a morbid crowd that jostled around hijn—today was given a l that remained of John Dillinger, his son and the nation’s terror. Into a small nor t h side undertaking establishment three sweating policemen carried the bullet-riddled remains in a wicker basket. A squad of bluecoats roughly bawled at the crowd to get ba’-k and let them through. John W. Dillinger, Sr., 70-year-old Quaker farmer from Indiana, gazed silently at the basket. 1 He leaned on the arm of another son, Hubert, 26-year-old halfbrother of the murderous John. i Later today, the father said. | John's body would be placed in a simple $165 casket and taken tn ' an old-style black hearse back to Indiana. It was there that Dili linger spent his boyhood, launchi ed his career of petty crime and [ later staged Lis most murderous I crimes. Funeral services will be held ■ tomorrow in Indianapolis in a I little bungalow, the home of John’s sister, Mrs. Audrey Hancock. Buried In Crown Hill Indianapolis, July 24— <U.R) —' Within the walls of a rambling frame bungalow, surrounded by an unpainted picket fence tomorrow will be held the last rites for John Dillinger, Indiana’s most : notorious criminal. It is the home of his sister. i Mrs. Andrey Hancock. After services are completed by [ the Rev. Charles M. Fimore, retired Disciples of Christ minister and life long friend of the Dillinger family, the outlaw will be buried beside the grave of his mother in Crown Hill cemetery. [ Preparations to direct a morbid : crowd of thousands expected to ' mill around the home and ceme- ■ tery were being laid today by Al G. Feeney, state safety director; Mike Morrisey, Indianapolis police chief, and Elmer F. Straub, adjutant general of the Indiana I national guard. Use of national guardsmen was suggested at first but the plan : was abandoned tentatively. Feeney and Morrisey believe that special details of city and state police will be able to handle the crowds and hold back souvenir hunters. “This will be another affair like the funeral of Rudolph Valentino,’’ [ Feeney predicted. In addition to special guards [ around the home and cemetery, ! state police will line the highway between Mooresville and May- [ wood, suburban residence of Mrs. i Hancock. Mrs. Hancock’s home was selected for the funeral in preference to the farmhouse because it is more commodious. As soon as word spread around Indianapolis that Dillinger would be buried at Crown Hill, final resting place of James Whitcomb Riley, beloved Hoosier poet, indignant persons telephoned to object. They protested against the desperado’s burial in the same eeme- [ tery with their relatives ana with internationally famed persons. Cemetery owners hastily consulted with attorneys to see if their position was secure. Hugh McLandon, president of the cemetery, pointed out that since the ’ ’(CONTINUED *ON PaGe’ SlX)**