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AUSTRIAN DEATH TOLL NEARING 200

ijght Children Hilled Thursday By Fast Freight Liters Horribly Mangled When Struck By Triin While Flaying Cards On Railroad Track; Warnings Are Unheeded.

■helloli. » • ’’“’X 27 ' ■ Hi, tr.idic detail ot ■ ..ioM children were to'leath by .a frewht Rniotive " ere l’ lect> d to_ ! R bv authorities today K,. this entire factory citv Rnbesol the victims, most Kilited bevond recogni»,re identified last night, ■ r 3 lalwri"- 1 ' process of elitn■on m which hundreds of hys- ■ a ; metiers joined. Man” ■ted uh-i; th” complete death j ■ was announced, ■kec'tiu.- George Rum- ■ ls Ruth. id. and Charles ■jitlt id; .1 Im. 12. and Joseph ■lie 14 Stephen Raikewich, ■osepli lowonzik. 14. and Carl ■though there were no wit- ■ es aulheritms succeeded in ■utrurtine the tragedy. ■he children. all of whom had ■asuimmuf .n the Housatonic ■r';! oil -heir way home ■sup-er to play < ards in a railK embanku -i.t directly oppothe finish line of the Yale ■s • Th-y were sitting ■ the westbound track. ■ freight n tin came roaring ■tn the eastward track. As it > westbound freight ■bed around a curve 50 feet | ■v The sound of the eastHitid trai’i. which the children drowned the noise of the ■ (wiring l< wu upon them. John Ray on the easttrain saw the children's As lie roared past he 1 ■tttei a Waiting and hurled a if water to attract their ■er." 'i” f the boys thought ■m< plavinc and threw a stone ■tie engine cab. ■ : eight was upon ■ children before they could ■atr.be down the embankment. vr< k.ii-’d instantly and the ■er two di- 1 in a few minutes, ■th train w.-re spattered with ■cd and service was held up an ■tr wr.:!e I'l .'... . were extricated the cars. ■s'orJ of the tragedy turned ■e'ton into panic. Factories ■it down immediately, a half ■r before closing. ■RA Payroll For ■ Week Is $416.40 ■Th-FERa pay roll for this week ■*!-• Ill*’ 4” with ,">9 men and two ■nen on relief. Non relief men ■ei'sd $36 with four on the pay ■l. The tearn.s and one truck were ■d $26.90. ■fhrrs are now 32 men working ■ the Deca'ar Homesteads pro-■t-Tiers are also four non relief ■• on this. men will begin next week ■siruig and replaying the brick walks at the Riley and North ■lid school houses. This is the ■Potion of an old CWA jroject. ■About eight men will be trans- ■“- week to a school build■p project under the direction of ■® ( 'ity school etc., in preparation ■jbe opening of the school term ■ wptenaber. B ■®y Scouts Will ■ Sponsor Auction ■The Buy Scouts of Decatur and ■“ eva “nd the Decatur Rotary ■“ w :ll sponsor a sale to be con■tW by the students of the Rep- ■” Auction School Monday even■An 7:30 o'clock at the corner of ■^' i!l<i ana Madison .streets. The ■w-eds of the sate will be used y° e th * week of August 5 on ’eland at Rome City. ■7 er >' person interested In scoutIs ur B*d to donate salable arnature to scouts. The ’ or articles Monday ■ . ag . d donators will get in K y with Bryce Thomas. Articles ■„/, , be bought to the sale ■* ’ “afore the auction, Kills ’ i Valuable Mule ■u't? 3b, “ mule on th ® Carl Bar■L J®. 7 miles southwest of ■'•bout * as , killeil Thursday night ■^ Un 6 o’clock when struck by

DECATUR DAILY DEMOCRAT

Vol. XXXII. No. 178.

MANY PLAN TO i ATTEND CAMP ————— Sixty Will Attend Annual Epworth League Institute About 25 members of the Decattur Epworth League and 35 from i Monroe will attend the annual Epworth League Institute to be held at Lake Webster next week. This meeting of young people is the largest gathering of its nature in the world. Only aibout one-third of the state of Indiana is included In the territory drawn upon, while over 2,500 persons attend. The activities of the Institute will Include lecture classes in religious education, social problems, and training in devotional life. The day’s program will be introduced by a devotional service at 6:30 o’clock. The afternoons will be given over to recreation. There will be volley ball, baseball, swimming rowing, archery, painting, music, nature study, hikes, etc. Rev. H R Carson and older members of the Decatur Methodist i church iwill be in charge of the local group. They will stay in the large cottage on the lake front called Epworth Heights which is owned by the Decatur church. I The Monroe delegation under the direction ot Rev. Elbert Morford has financed the trip by holding tee cream socials and similar activities. They will leave by bus Sunday afternoon. Although the institute closes Sunday, August 5, the Monroe group will remain over until Monday morning. They will return by the way of Fort Wayne, stopping there to inspect the Methdist Hospital. o Homemakers Class Will Present Play The Homemakers class of the Church of the Brethren of Fort | Wayne will present a missionary play at the Kirkland gymnasium on j Sunday evening. July 29. No admission will be charged but a free will offering will be taken. QUARRY SEINED FOR CARP, SHAD Ton And A Half Os Fish Are Seined From Quarry Today — Eight members of the Adams county fish and game conservation league under the direction of Harold Harvey seined a ton and a half of carp and shad fish from the north quarry along U. S. highway 27. I , (Several hundred persons in 4” 1 or 50 automobiles gathered around I the quarry during the operations I and carried off the fish in bags, cans, dish pans and all available i containers. Members of the league explained that these two fish are very destructive to firfh nests, eating the eggs as soon as they are laid. These fish are not valued as food. The carp have a taste which many persons do not care for. The shad have agood taste but ar too bony. The seining is a part of the program of restocking the ponds and streams of the county under the leadership of the league. About 5,000 fish have been received from the federal and two or three thousand from the State conservation departments. These have been plac- ' ed In quarries, rivers and ponds in i Adams county. ' The league now has four selns ! in operation in the St. Mary s river. i Four members of the league, Har- : old Harvey, Herman Lengerich, • Buck Baxter and William PatterI! son, are in charge of them. The L league has taken three tons of ' obnoxious fish from the river this j summer.

ONLY DAILY NEWSPAPER IN A DAMS COUNTY

State, National And International Newa

ENTIRE STATE I IS BENEFITTED FROM SHOWERS .Scattered Showers Over Indiana Brinfc Welcome Relief SOME HEAVY WIND DAMAGE REPORTED 'lndianapolis, Ind., July 27 —(UP) ---Scattered thundershowers, accompanied In some sections by a [damaging wind, (brought relief to- ! day of torrid temperatures. The death toll, steadily mounting with each day's rise in temperature, passed the 50 mark, and reports of alditional prostrations, drowninge ! and other fatalities attributed to the heat came in hourly. Just how long cooler weather will prevail was not indicated by J. H. Armington, U. S. meteorologist here but his forecast for today and toI morrow was “continued fair and ellghtly cooler in east and southern sections.’’ Several sections reported heavy damage from the wind which ac- [ companle.l yesterday afternoon's 1 thunderstorms. (In several places utility wires, poles and trees were blown down. A wind storm which hit Richmond *aue i heavy damage. Buildings were unroofed and large trees uprooted. ‘Farmers welcomed the showers which allayed immediate dangers of a shortage in water supplies for , blistered crops and livestock. The corn crop was saved from ' total destruction (by rains of the past two days, Armington said Al-1 i though tassels and top leaves of corn had been scorched by the six ! day heat wave, the crop will survive he said. A dozen fatalities were added to 1 1 *7(N3NTTNUED on page eottri INDEBTEDNESS IS DECREASED — Township Road Bond Indebtedness Cut In Half Since 1929 ■ The township road bond indebtedness In the 12 townships in Ad-1 ams county has been decreased more than half since 1929, a table prepared in the county auditor’s office shows. In 1929 the amount owed by the 1 12 townships was $658,744.60. On I January 1, 1935, the total of bonds; outstanding against the townships ; will be $277,665. For the past two years road bonds have not been issued by the townships. The moratorium on! issuing road bonds extends through 1935 and the legislature next year. may further extend the period. The outstanding bonds in the 12 townships for the different years,, 'beginning with 1929 follows: Year Amount 1929 $658,744.60 1930 593,213.16 1931 585,542.60 | 1932 513,661.86 1933 411,383.88 1934 .... 351.499.20 1935 277.665.00 The Township Debt The amount each township will owe at the beginning of the year follows: Amount Township Owed i Union -$16,213.00 Root 20,430.26 Preble 20,373.38 Kirkland - 8,256.00 Washington 81,722.78 St. Marys 6 ’^ s ' sS Blue Creek 18,778.96 Monroe 43,226.94 French 7.248,00 Hartford 14,048.60 Jefferson . 13,96 ~40 Wabash 26,548.50 — o —- Rotarians Hear Jonas C. Tritch — J. C. Tritch. president of Inter- ■ national Business College. Fort! Wayne, gave an interesting talk [ on modern business methods, before members of the Rotary chib ; last evening. Mr. Tritch dwelt on the psychology of salesmanship and the manner of operating business toI day. The meeting was in the charge • of C. E. Bell.

Decatur, Indiana, Friday, July 27, 1934.

Dies in Leap I LMjjT ' *' J i T t. > <■»» V. » ; *• - x James Johnston Probasco, 67, in whose home, it was reported, John Dillinger and Homer Van Meter, a leading Dillinger gangster, had their faces lifted and Yheir Unger tips blurred with acid in attempts to thwart identification, jumped to his death from the nineteenth floor office of the federal bureau of investigation in Chicago. RAINFALL HERE BRINGS RELIEF Half Inch Os Rain Thursday Night Also Boon To Crops The half inch of rain which fell , in the city Thursday night and this 1 morning brought relief as the temperature droipped 20 degrees. Late farm crops were also helped. Thermometers which yesterday recorded 95 degrees today were 1 around 85 degrees. The first cool i night in two weeks waa experienc- [ ed last night when the mercury hovered around the 75 degree mark. W. (E. Gladifelter, who measures ■ the precipitation here for the govi ernment stated that this rain of .53 inches makes a total of 1.39 inches i for the month. There were three I other rains during the month of i July which measured as follows: j ■ July 7, 0.53 inches, July U, 0.06 in.hea, and July 14, 0.28. The rain was general In Adams county north of Berne. There was little in the southern part of the county. Farmers say that the rain soaked 'CONTINUED ON PAGE FIVE) o - I—l— Rev. Hocker Will Preach At Monroe Rev. Harvey H. Hocker, pastor of 1 the Hartzell Memorial Methodist Episcopal Chunch of Pasadena, California, will preach in the Monroe M. E. Church Sunday evening at ,7:30 o’clock. ■ Rev. Hocker formerly resided in Monroe and is visiting with relatives in this community. Rev. Hock- ! er's subject will be “A Glorious InI vltation.’’

Father Os John Dillinger Spends 70th Birthday Anniversary Quietly

Mooresville, Ind., July 27. —(U.R) — The rugged Quaker father of John Dillinger celebrated his 70th birthday today quietly at his farm near here. There were no special activities because John W. Dillinger, Sr. is exhausted from the trying experiences of the past week. Sunday night he was informed that his son had been killed by ; federal agents at Chicago. The next morning the elder Dillinger i went to Chicago to claim the body. Then came the harrassing exper- ; ience of the funeral. He appeared greatly relieved • that the uncertainty of his son's fate was ended. Doris, 16, and Frances, 12. stepI sisters of the notorious ace outlaw, ' had the little farm house spotlessIly clean today. They have cared ; for their aged father since the death of their mother. Mrs. Audrey Hancock, Maywood, the outlaw’s sister, had planned a surprise dinner for their father to celebrate the birthday. But John’s death spoiled all that. For a man 70 years old, the father survived the trying ordeal of the funeral remarkably. He stood

STRIKE TRUCE STILL DELAYED Mediation Efforts In Chicago Stockyards Strike Fail Chicago, July 27 —<U.R>— The biggest livestock market in the world passed today the end of 48 hours in which not a single animal has been sold. Commission firm clerks idled over empty desks and a few thous- ! and head of cattle in the yards were depleted even further while 1 mediators unsuccessfully sought to i end a strike of 800 livestock handl- i ers. Carl Steffensen, secretary of the regional labor board, said after re- , ceivlng a peace proposal from O. T. Henkle, manager of the Union Livestock and Transit Co., that he was “hopeful" ot reaching an early truce. Terms of Henkle’s proposal were not revealed.. Pickets guarded all entrances of the huge yards, preventing move-1 ment of all except government j cattle. Two days ago the pens held 80,000 animals. Many died of heat, thirst and starvation after the handlers abandoned them and i prevented employment of nonunion men. Many more were mov- ; ed to packing shutes and several j thousand shipped to southern grazing grounds. Buyers and sellers met yesterday and did a considerable bus- j iness at an outlying railroad yard i unaffected by the strike. o Auctioneer Will Speak At Church Col. W. H. Heldenbrand, Wichita, Kansas, an instructor in the Reppert auction school, will speak at the First United Brethren church Sunday evening at 7:30 olclock. The general public is invited. VENDEANCENDTE FOUND AT GRAVE Promise To Avenge Death Os John Dillinger Left At Grave Indianapolis, July 27. — (U.R) — A note promising to avenge the death of John Dillinger was found on bls grave in Crown Hill cemetery late yesterday. It was believed directed to the ' woman in red" whose tip enabled federal agents to kill the desperado as he emerged from a movie theater in Chicago Sunday night. "I am going to get her, John. So long, old boy. “J. H.” The initials are those of John Hamilton, lieutenant of the Dillinger gang anti one of the few members who have not been killed or captured. The note was found beneath a small rock. Two policemen on guard at the grave to prevent vandalism did not see it placed there but said that a mysterious automobile containing two men ’continued* “'N page TWO'

• up under the strain much better ‘ than any of the other immediate relatives. His outdoor life on the ' farm gave him the stamina to j withstand the terrific heat and his sorrow. For a few days the elder Dillinger plans to rest. “There isn’t much we can do on 1 the farm right now but mow weeds,” he said. “So 1 decided to . take it easy." Curiosity seekers continued to drive slowly by the farm house, a few stopping to look at the former home of the outlaw. Supplies of picture postal cards in local stores have been almost exhausted. Scores of letters of sympathy have been received by the elder i Dillinger since his son’s death. A . Washington minister wrote that he i would broadcast a funeral sermon for young John over the radio tomorrow night. A juvenile judge wrote to extend his sympathy and ask about . John's early life. Friends of the family in Mooresville sent notes of sympathy to j ' the father and offered their assist- 1 . ance In his grief.

Funiahed Hy United Press

Revolters Give Stubborn Resistance; Adolf Hitler Denounces Nazi Riots

German Chancellor Takes Steps To Placate Europe (Copyright, 1934, by UP.) Berlin, July 27, — (U.PJ — Chancellor Adolf Hitler, soberly aware of the hostile gaze of suspicious nations surrounding Germany, took extraordinary measures to placate Europe and rewin the friendship of Austria. Hitler named Baron Franz von Papen, vice chancellor, special minister to Austria for the duration of the political crisis, in a letter which eulogized him and condemned the Austrian Nazi revolt. Theo Habicht, the loudspeaking German leader of Austrian Nazi legionnaires whom Germany has given shelter, was dismissed ignominiously. Alfred Frauenfeld, commandant of the legionnaires, was forbidden to make a radio speech he had planned and announced publicly. These events followed the summary recall of Kurt Reith, German minister to Austria. They were a plain token of Hitler's alarm. His letter to Von Papen, naming 1 him minister in Height's place, was eloquent of his concern. It follows : "In the course of events in Aus- ! tria I was compelled to suggest to President (Paul) Von Hindenburg the recall of the German minister to Austria from his post because, upon the request of an Austrian cabinet minister and the Austrian •insurgents, Dr. Reith (the minister) without asking the German government, consented to an agreement reached between the two parties mentioned concerning free conduct for the insurgents and their right to come to Germany, i “Thereby Rieth without reason ' (CONTiyUED ON PAGE THREE) I Harting Funeral Held This Morning (Funeral services were held this morning at St. Marys Catholic church for Raymond J. Harting, whose death occurred Wednesday, i Rev. Father Joseph Seimetz, officiated. Pall bearers were H. P. Schmitt. Norbert Holthouse. August Heiman, J. G. Niblick, Albert Colchiu and Arthur Kleinhenz. Burial [ was made in St, Joseph cemetery. I o SEIZE WHISKY VALUED SI,DOO Unlicensed Whisky Seizure At Fort Wayne Is Revealed Indianapolis, July 27. — (U.R) — Seizure of SI,OOO worth of unlicensed whisky at Fort Wayne was revealed tc ’ay by Samuel H. Lesh, deputy state excise director. The confiscation marked the opening of a drive against illegal shipments into the state, Lesh said. The whisky w*as seized by special agents of the excise department when it arrived in Fort Wayne consigned to two retailers selling whisky by the drink, ac- 1 cording to Lesh. It had been shipped from the 1 Certificate Corporation of America, Chicago, and was consigned to Louis Didier and the South Side Inn, both in Fort Wayne, he added. In explaining seizure of the whisky before it had been delivered to the consignees, who are required to attach excise stamps, Lesh said: “Shipments into the state direct to retailers can be made only by firms authorized by the state excise department. The Chicago company has not been authorized. “The retailers to whom the whisky was consigned are not licensed by the state to handle liquors. Therefore, there was no possibility that the tax ever would be paid." Lesh said the state tax on the *Tcontinued on page TWO)

Price Two Cento

VISIT IS MADE TO NAVAL EASE President Roosevelt Inspects Pearl Harbor Naval Base Honolulu, T. H.. July 27—(UP) Turning today to his first love—the navy—after the most Impressive military review he has seen since the war, President Roosevelt set aside his second d a Y Honolulu for a visit to the Pearl Harbor naval 'base. In completing the picture of the defense Uncle Sam has eredted to protect his mfd-Pacific possessions, the President planned a thorough inspection of the strongly fortified area and ot the armament centered there. After lunching with rear admiral Harry Y’arnell at the base, Mr. Roosevelt will collect countless souvenirs of his memorable reception to the Hawaiian capital and turn toward the U. S. S. Houston, which will carry him back to the United i States. The President climaxed the busiest day of his vacation cruise yesterday with a 90-mlle swing around | the Island of Oahu, on which Honolulu is located. The tour took him past almost every public works and relief project on the island and finally to the Fort Schofield barracks. where 8,000 troops passed before him In review. The President stood bare-beaded in a light rain to watch the great military demonstration. TWO NEWSPAPER i MEN ARE JAILED — Kentucky Newspaper Men Refused To Reveal Information Danville, Ky., July 27 — (UP)— Two Danville newspapermen, adamant in their refusal to break a ■ confidence, spent six more hours in jail yesterday—the third time in 1 three days that they have been jailed. The men refused to divulge i where they obtained advance inforI mation of a hanging in effigy here ' of state representative J. Sterling I Towles for his support of the i state sales tax. The two newsmen, Jack Durham and Wesley Carty, also were fined $3 each. They previously had been ; fined $lO for their alleged contempt 1 of court. , A six hour sentence was conferred on the men Wednesday, and a i three hour sentence the day pre- ; vious. The $lO fine was assessed Monday when they first refused to divulge their source of information. Polios Judge J. W. Harlan yesterday told the 23-year-old reporters they had challenged his court and it was going to be an endurance contest. In Frankfort, the Capital Press clu'b, organization of newspaper correspondents, adopted a resolution commending Durham and Carty for their stand, and censoring Judge . Harlan "and all others who had , part in the jailing.” j The resolution said: “The first re--1 qulsite of a good newspaperman is that he never 'break a confidence.” ' i Report Federal Men Hold Doctors Chicago, July 27 —<U.R) —Federal authorities were reported today to have in custody one or more doctors suspected of altering the features of John Dillinger, by means of plastic surgery. Agent Samuel P. Cowley, hunting down the man w’ho gave the | outlaw a "new face” refused, howi ever, to admit that anyone was I in custody. Nor would be confirm a report ' that Polly Hamilton Keele, the last of Dillinger's sweethearts and his companion last Sunday night when government men shot him down, had surrendered.

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United Press Estimates 250 Persons Have Been Wounded Vienna, Julv 27 — <U- R) — The Austrian government today smashed another bold attack by Nazi plotters, who liad planned to se’ze the chancellory and hold. the cabinet prisoners. S’lnji - taneously, heaw f ! ffh‘’.”4 with large loss of life was reported from the nrovinces. Scores of arrests were made by ortlce spies, who reported the n’otters were infiltrating into th( -entral section of Vienna, disguised in Helmwehr uniforms, : end had planned to start their desperate putsch this afternoon or evening. Discovery of the plot brought heavy military reinforcements to the chancellory and the muzzles of machine guns were trained on the streets from the chancellory windows. Every person approaching the government buildings was stopped and searched, and the utmost precautions were taken by the guards. While the government was frustrating the new Nazi plot in the capitol, its armed forces were engaged in ruthless suppression of Nazi insurgents in the provinces. Desperate fighting spread over a wide area of southern Austria. About 165 to 185 were estimated to have been killed and 250 wounded. Word from the town of WolfI berg, on the main railway line in upner Carinthia, said it was occu- ’, pied by Nazis at noon. They ■ made a stand again&l the genI : darmie. All communications were ' cut. Trains through Carinthia I were re-routed. Fighting was reported to have broken out this afternoon in Lueg I Pass, province of Salzburg, which extends on the north of Carinthia down to the Ita'ian Alps. . The pass, which is near the frontier of Bavaria in the north [ of the province, was reported to I be in full possession of the Nazis, I who were receiving reinforce- ■ ments. The Vienna military courts, "nder the emergenev law of July i 48. sentenced two Nazis, Leopold . Mitferuscher and Oskar Ertel, to i *tve years at hard labor today, and another. Otto Ktihr, to six i wears on a charge of dynamiting. Three others were bound over ' *n the ordinsrv courts (the July ’8 courts are distinct from the '■pecial military tribunal decreed bv the cabinet yesterday for trial of the Nazis who assassinated Chancellor Enge’bert Dollfuss.) L o ALLEN COUNTY FARMED DIES Di°S Thursday: D°ath Caused By Heat Funeral services will be held Sat- , urday afternoon for Henry Hocke- ' meyer, 36 year old farmer residing ‘ 14 miles north of Decatur, who died ( Thursday afternoon at the LutherI an hospital in Fort Wayne. Death was due to the heat. Sui-vices will be held at 2 o’clock 1 daylight saving time Saturday at- . ternoon from the home and at 2:30 o’clock at the suburban Trinity 1 Lutheran church Rev. Karl Wyneken will officiate and burial will • be in the church cemetery. I iMr. iHockemeyer was taken to , the Lutheran Hospital Wednesday afternoon after being overcome by .' the heat while wanking in the fields . i on his farm. IMr, Hockemeyer was born Feb- . i ruary 8 1898 on the fam 14 miles , north of Decatur where he was . living at the time of his death. He i was a son of Frtd and Lizzetta . Hockemeyer. His mother preceded : him in death 14 years ago. >; Survivors include the fathei, Fred I one brother and one sister, both of t, Marion township. Alien county, and i several cousins residing in Adams county.