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Hoboe Finds This Is “No Soft Toton" As Police Arrest Panhandler Saturday

Hoboes are finding to their own , •orrow that Decatur is not a 'soft * n ' despite the grape-vine mes- ***** that have been going the KNnds in hobo camps that “if you *ant to be fed stop in Decatur." ' A transient is alleged to have B advised this when he told ramps in a Cleveland hobo camp at he was contemplating a trip e ’t. He told a Decatur lady this W last week when, after giving lni a dime, she inquired why lie to stO P In Decatur. r - John Doe." a “resident" of Practfcaliy every city in the Unitti- A teS ' ' s Coolin S Ms in A , ,ianis county jail as the re- „ of taking this advise too literW. Saturday night. officials and police have ap|Prec.ated the extent of the depreian(l unemployment and have tu?®' Pd not t 0 be too hard on down-and-outers.” For sev Jears they have maintained B| " ans ’« n ‘ ro <>m In the municipal 11,.. w1 ’ere tramps could get a.' Warmth during cold, winter . Lasl w| nter, when it was tn *? at tram P B were beginning h MH make Decatur their winter But ? uarters > a one night rule was nto effect at the city plant.

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I Is Sentenced For Contempt Os Court Archie Smith is serving a ten I I day eentence in the Adams tiunty I I jail, imposed Saturday by Judge Huber M. DeVoss in the Adams cirI cult court after a finding of guilty of contempt of ccurt. The contempt charge aroee from divorce proceedings instigated against him by hia wife, Gladys Smith, on April 11, 1934. Smith was ordered to pay to the county clerk for the support of wife and children during the divorce proceedings, the sum of $5.00 a week. Since that time he has paid only $2.00 to the clerk. — o PROMINENT MAN DIESJTBERNE Fred G.Eichenberger Dies Sunday Morning; County Council Member — Fred O. Eichenberger, 71. of 1 Berne, member of the Adams county council and owner of the City Bakery at Berne, died at his : home at 8:50 o’clock Sunday j morning. Mr. Eichenberger beI came ill three weeks previous to I his death. A postmortem was held ' Sunday afternoon and death was ; attributed to general peritonitis j ' caused by abscess. Mr. Eichenberger was born in Switzerland May 30, 1863, a son ' of Fred G. and Susanna-Gammeter I Eichenberger. He came to this I country with his parents, when ,an infant. His parents settled in Ohio. He moved to Berne when twenty vears old and resided there since that time with the exception of two years when he op- | erated a restaurant in Decatur, j He started in business as a restaurant proprietor, operated a • g<«M»*ry. and at the time of hi* 1 death owned and operated the ' City Bakery, in partnership with • his son. Victor Eichenberger. Mr. Eichenberger was a member lof the Adams county council, i having been named to that office | following the death of William Baumgartner three years ago. He I also served as a member of the I Berne town council from 1909 to : 1913, and was a former member of the Berne board of education. 'He took an active part in the j Berne Reformed church and servj ed as deacon and elder for many j years. He was married June 1. 1892 to "Sarah Burgholder who survives, together with the following chil--1 dren: Victor, Berne; Edward of Dixon. Illinois; Esther, at home. One son. Harold Eichenberger, ’(WOTKujiTojT PAGE TWO) o — Zimmerman Funeral Rites Held Sunday Funeral services were held Sunday afterncon for William J. Zimmerman, 71, prominent Kirkland t -wnehip farmer and former county and township assessor, who died in Chicago Friday morning. Services were held at the Zimmerman home near Petersen and at the Beulah Chapel church. Burial was in the 1 Pleasant Dale cemetery.

, Transients were permitted to stay there one night only. The next day they had to get out of town. This ruling materially reduced the number of hoboes in the city. With the coming of warm weather. the number of tramps in the ■ cjty greatly increased. As long as they did not bother any one, police permitted them to stay over night, before ordering them to move on. When the word that Decatur was considered as a "soft" town was reported to the city officials by the lady who “fell” for the Cleveland tramp’s story, police were ordered to “crack down upon hoboes. Saturday afternoon a particularly outspoken hobo dropped into the city. He began begging early in the evening. Several times I upon being refused a dime he ! launched into an attack upon the Arnet lean form of government, j Towards midnight he began intimidating young boys whom he accosted on the main street In . order to beg anything from a penny to a dime. After several complaints he *(CONTINUW*OJr?AGE FIVE)

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SAMUEL KRILL DIES SATURDAY 1' Root Township Resident Dies Follow ing An Extended Illness Samuel Frank Krill, 72 year old , retire! farmer, resltTrng tn Root , township, five miles northwest of , Decatur, died at his hi me at 12:30 . o'clock Saturday afternoon, follow- | ing an extended illness. Death was , ! due to cancer. Mr. Krill had been ailing far a number of years although his condition did not become serious until last Wednesday. , Mr. Krill was born in Wells county on August 20, 1362, a son of . John and Sophia Krill. His wife, ■ I Sarah J. Ritter-Krill preceded him I in death 13 years ago. I Surviving are a son and three I daughters, Ralph S. Krill of Root ' township; Mrs. Frank L. Miller of ■ Monroe township, and Mrs. Earl ReI her and Mrs. Ernest Meri.a of Root , I township. Nine grandchildren also survive. Four brothers are deceasI ed. Funeral services will be held Tuesday afternoon at 1:30 o’clock at the Zwick funeral home on North Sec •nd street and at 1:45 o’clock ‘ at the Methodist Episcopal church 1 with Rev. H. R. Carson officiating. Burial will ibe made in the Decatur i ( | cemetery. ELDEST SON OF PRESIDENTSAFE James Roosevelt Reaches Safety After Buffeting Severe Storm Portland, Me., Sept. 10. — (U.R) President Roosevelt's eldest son. James, was safe ashore here today after an adventure at sea that gave ' his father and the eastern seaboard a few hours of anxiety for his safety. A veteran yachtsman despite his 26 years, Roosevelt thought it all ‘ very silly" that 30 coast guard ' craft searched for him. [.ate last night the Black Arrow, aboard which he and five companions were competing in the cruls- > ing club of America, nosed into Portland Harbor, minus one sail but otherwise unharmed by a northeast gale that drove her far off her course. The 55-foot craft was one of a score that put out of Manchester-by-the-sea, Mass., between 9 a. m.,' and 2 p. m. yesterday in the 13th annual classic. At mid-afternoon all cratt had , been accounted for except the ♦• ♦ • •♦♦♦♦♦ ♦ ••• • • • *-• (CONTINUED ON PAGE FOUR)

Decatur, Indiana, Monday, September 10, 1934.

Contract Signers Slowing Up Work Homer W. Arnold, county cornhog compliance officer, stated today that the failure of contract sign- ! ers to have the weigh bills for hogs ; sold since the count was made, is slowing up the work of his com- ; mittee. ■lnstructions from Lafayette are to the effect that if a man does not have his weigh bills he should be instructed to get them and bring them to the county office of the corn h<g control association; that back trips are not to be made unpegs the signer agtee-s to bear the expense. BERNE CHURCH HAS FESTIVAL Berne Reformed Church Annual Mission Festival Was Held Sunday I j — About 50 members of the DecaI tur Zion Reformed church attended the annual mission festival held at the Berne Reformed church Sunday. The girls choir of the local church contributed two musical numbers to the program held in the afternoon. A similar program will be held in the Decatur church. Sunday, October 14. Three programs were held at Berne Sunday with' Rev. J. L. Conrad, pastor of the Eerne Reformed church presiding. Rev. E. A. Katterhenry, pastor of the , Salem Reformed church at Cincinnati, Ohio, was the chief speaker. Student Nelson Bixler, of the Mis- , sfon House Seminary in Wisconsin and a former resident of Berne, gave a short talk in the as ternoon on “The Use of Hymns in Choir”. The afternoon program was de-| voted to music. All the surround ing Reformed churches contributed music. The C. E. choir of the Bluffton church sang two numbers. A mission festival will be Jield at the Vera Cruz church next Sunday. Another program will be held at the St. Luke's Reformed church. Sunday, September 23. Bluffton will hold its mission festival Sunday, October 21. ■ o Studabaker Rites Held Here Sunday Funeral cervices for David B. 1 Stujalbaker, 40, who died at the home of his aunt, Mrs. Philip Obenauer, in this city Thursday evening were held Sunday afternoon at the Obenauer hume on North Fourth street with Rev. ;H. R. Carson, pastor of the Methodist Episcopal church officiating. Burial was made j in the Decatur cemetery.

NEW PASTOR AT I U. 8. CHURCH I. Rev. H. W. Franklin Will Succeed Rev. C. J. Roberts Here Rev. Charles J. Roberts, pastor of' the Decatur First Unitel Brethren 1 church for the last two years was , returned t his former charge at Galveston, Indiana, in the closing session of the St. Joseph conference meeting at Winona i-aae, Sunday. Bishop H. H. Fouts of Indianapolis announced that Rev. H. W. Fanklin. pastor of the United Brethren church at Fulton would replace ■ Rev. Roberts. Rev Roberts was very well liked , by members of hie congregation, ministers and residents of the city.; He is now president of the minis- I terial association and dean of the i •Decatur Daily Vacation Bible ( isch 01. He is chairman of the nom-: inating committee of the conference i This committee name* officers and I boards of the conference. Rev. Roberts ie also a member of the Decatur Lions club. This year the local church will 1 pay more than SI,OOO cf the prin- 1 cipal of the debt on the church, the f first reduction in five years. Rev. Franklin, who will come to' (CONTINUED ON PAGE TWO) t o i i MAINE VOTERS CAST BALLOTS: f General Election Today; 1 Ten States To Hold ‘ Primaries This Week < Washington, Sebt. 10. — (U.R) — Maine voters today opened a week- F ; long national political festival with ’ genera l election to be followed by s primaries in 10 states where new t deal prestige is due for new lustre « or embarrassing tarnish. I Maine bolted the Republican j party in 1932 for the first time. ( electing Louis J. Brann, a Demo- c crat, governor and selecting Democrats to two of the state's three . seats in the house of representatives. Brann is running again, opposed ] by Alfred K. Ames. Senator Frederick Hale. Republican, is battling for re-election against F. Harold Buboard, Democrat. Brann is glv- * en the edge as polls open. Republicans laid extraordinary ' seige to Maine in the campaign ended last week. National party * figures streamed Into the state to 1 plead for return to the party fold. ■ I i ■ (CONTINUED ON PAGE FIVE) i

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AT LEAST FIVE DIE IN WRECKS OVER WEEK-END Scores Os Others Are Injured In Tratlic Accidents In State TWO VICTIMS OF BUS-AUTO CRASH Indianapolis, Sept. 10 (U.R) —j Warm sunshine which culminated i a week of cool, rainy weather, ati traded motorists to Indiana high- . ways over the week end. resulting ; in at least five deaths in traffic accidents. Scores of others were injured and one Hoosier was killed in an airplane accident at Dayton, O. Two men were killed and four] others were injured at Indianapo-i lis in a collision between an Indi-anapolis-South Bend bus and two | automobiles. Aide Hamilton, 40. was killed in ' the crash and his brother, Burl, i 37. died later. Those Injured, all passengers cf I the Inis, were Mrs. J. H. Guthrie, i 39. South Bend, and her daughters ■ Benita Ann. 9, and Sue, 4, and ' Miss Margaret Phaffman. 24. Indianapolis. L. C. Richard. 30. Ply-1 mouth, driver of the bus, was un- ■ I hurt. Two men were killed near Alex-j ' andria when their automobile was struck by a truck and overturned | during a heavy fog. Jesse E. Wil-i I Hams, 20, and Howard McKenzie. I 27, both of Alexandria were the, i Ictims. Alfred Taylor. 60, was killed instantly when struck by an auto-; I 1 mobile on state road 44 while walking near his home at Rusli-; ville. The Hoosier victim of the air j plane accident wa.s Arnold Haas, i | Cass county farm youth, struck ; i by a propeller while visiting the j , flying field. Nine persons were injured, one I seriously, in a head-pn automobile! Collision on state road 19, north-i ! east of Rochester. They were Mr. ! and Mrs. Warren Gonser. their son. Russe'l. and daughter Myrtle, t and Mr. and Mrs. Charles Tobia. ! (CONTINUED ON PAGE SIX) SCHOOL PUPIL DIES SUNDAY — Catherine Brown, Decatur Senior. Is Victim Os Pneumonia ' Catherine R. Brown, 18 year old i Decatur high school student, and p resident of Decatur all her life,! died at her home at 910 Russel . street Sunday night at midnight, ■ following a .short illness. Death was I due to pneumonia. Miss Br wn ‘became ill Friday: 'night. August 31. She .suffered frem a told which developed into pneu-, nonia. She had not been well for the pist four weeks and had recently undergone a minor operation for the removal of her tonsils. The deceased was a member of the senior class of the Decatur high scho 1 and would have graduated from the school in the«spring. She was a mid-year student and would have completed the tour year course at Christmas. She took an active part in the activities of the First Evangelical church and in school. She was born in Decatur on July 5, 1916, a daughter of Luther and Mary Presdorf-Brown. Surviving besides the parents are the following brothers and sisters: Mrs. Gottlieb Stauffer, Charles. Florence, Frederick. Rosemary, Naomi and James. A brother and a sister are deceased. A grandfather, Edward Presdorf of Bluffton, also survives. Funeral services will be held ’(CONTINUED ON PAGE TWO) o Lions Club To Meet At Park The regular weekly meeting of the Lions club will be held Tuesday evening at 5:30 o’clcck, at the Hanna Park west of town In case of rain, the meeting will be held at 6:30 o'clock at the Central School Building. Members are asked to note the change in time if meeting is held at the park.

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■ Plan Meeting At Monroe Friday At 7:30 Friday evening, September 14, a meeting will be held at the high school building at Monroe that will be of great interest to cattle owners in Adams county. County Agent Archbold has arranged to have Dr. H. Busman, inspector in charge of the Federal Bureau of Animal Industry, to explain the voluntary federal plan for the eradication of Bang'e disease. commonly known as abortion. In this meeting first hand information of the plan can be ' secured from the man in charge of j the work in this state. The plan in relief calls for one . free blood test of the herd ana indemnity to be paid for diseased cattle by the federal government. For grade cattle the government will pay S2O per head plus salvage and for pure bred cattle that are duly registered. SSO per head plus salvage. The signer also agrees to (place his herd on the state plan for control of Bang's disease. TWO CONVICTS KILLED DURING ESCAPE EFFORT — One Other Seriously Hounded; Guard Shot By Fellow-Guardsmen FOUR PRISONERE INVOLVED IN PLOT Joliet, 111., Sept. 10. —(U.R) —A i daring escape plot was frustrated at thd state penitentiary today as- ; ter a bloody encounter between prisoners and guards. Two convicts were killed. One i convict was seriously wounded ami one guard was shot by bls fellow- ‘ guardsmen. The victims were: Frank Bellinger and Fred Barry. I convicts killed. Frank Souder, convicted kidnapi er. seriously wounded. i William Pentowski, guard, shot ; down as he was used as a shield , ' between the convicts and other guards. Pentowski was .hit in the I right arm but probably will recov--1 er. Four convicts participated in the! j plot which entailed a daring plan ' to commander a supply train com. ing into the prison yard. In addi-; Ition to the two dead and one' wounded Warden Frank D. Whipp said Joseph Donahue was among those attempting to escape and; was described as "the ring leader." ; Donahue and this three followers began their coup by overpowering' Pentowski near the clothing work- . shop. They sought from him the j keys to the workshop so they cbuld I obtain clothes other than the pris_ I on garb. Pentowski, however, had no; keys. Holding him as hostage, the quartet went to a tunnel through which trains entered the prison iyard. There they lay in wait until the first train came along. Donahue attempted to board the engine. PAGE SIX)

Visiting Fireman Says Decatur Is Well Equipped For Fire Fighting

"Decatur has a tire department adequate for all its needs,” said; Henry Taylor, assistant fire chief of New Orleans, who is visiting many friends and relatives in and near Decatur. Mr. Taylor has a billion dollars I worth of property in the commer. cial district of New Orleans under ! his direct supervision. Mr. Taylor came to Indiana as a delegate to the National Firemen and Police- 1 men convention which will be held in Indianapolis this week. With him are his wife and two daugh-1 ters. Grace and Katherine. Miss Virginia Miller, daughter of Mr. 1 and Mrs. Ed Miller of West Adams street, who has spent three weeks visiting relatives in New Orleans, returned north with the Taylors. Like the sailor who spent his vacation rowing in the lake in Central Park, Mr. Taylor dropped into the local fire department to inspect its equipment. “The equipment here doesn't compare to that of our department, but Decatur hasn’t the tall buildings and tire hazards of New Orleans," Mr. Taylor continued. "New Orleans has not had a serious tire for more than eight years,” Mr. Taylor continued.

PROBE STARTED TO DETERMINE TOLL DETAILS Exact Total Uncertain; Many Questions Remained To Be zlnswered EXPLOSION ROCKS SHIP AGAIN TODAY Asbury Park, N. J., Sept. 10 <u.R) —The proud liner Morro Castle, death trap for nearly 200 men. women anti children, smouldered on the beach of this pleasure resort today. . Authorities ashore labored (tr care for the living and dead among the 558 abroad when swift and deadly flames raked the holiday cruise ship from stem to stern in one of the most ghastly sea disasters of modern times. The federal government began a searching investigation to determine whether the terrible saeri- ' fice of human life could have been 1 averted or minimized. It was impossible to count casI ualties exactly, because of the ' scattered points at which surviv- ’ ors reached shore or bodies were washed up. An unofficial compila- ! tion by the United Press indicated the following. Passengers Identified dead, 68. ' Missing or unidentified, 46. Crew Identified dead, 13 Missing or unidentified, 50. ; Total believed dead 177. ! While this total was subject to 1 correction from hour to hour, it ' would indicate that a total of 381 '; passengers and crew survived. 1 Duplications and partial, incom- ' plete or "double’’ identifications i caused some discrepancies. (Note: above list is subject to ' | revision). Investigators’ stories of what happened aboard the Morro Castle, ! after she suddenly burst into j flames early Saturday morning while returning to New York from 1 a Havana cruise were contradic- | tory. Inquirers sought these answers: 1. Why there was at least 15 minutes delay in sending out the j S. O. S. 2 Why the passengers were not I given the alarm earlier and assembled on deck for safety, in(CONTINUED ON PAGE SIX) Q Harry Isler Is Free Under Bond ■Harry Lsler of Bluffton is free under bond on a cnarge of petit larceny following the granting by Judge Huber M. DeVoss of his request made Saturday for more time ; to make hie plea. Isler was arrested on August 7 on a charge of driving away from a local sale with a cow which was noi paid for. He was released without bond from the Adams county jail that night to quiet his mother who became temporarily ! insane with grief.

“Years ago, when we had the old horse drawn trie wagons, 1 can remember blazes which caused us to stay at the scene of the tire tor two days before we could get it , under control. “Today our equipment is a model for the United States, It can take care of any blaze originated in a building six stories or less. Owners of high buildings and sky ' scrapers are required by law to install hose connections on every floor. Just before 1 came north we had a fire in a pent house on top of a 32-story building. We ' rushed the hose up an elevator and had the fire out in less time than it took us to get there." Mr. Taylor gave the impression that the thrills of the old “fire eaters" had disappeared with introduction of science into tire fighting. John M. Evans. the present chief of the New Orleans force is the | third chief in tile history of New Orleans. Mr. Taylor gave the chief credit for establishing and building up their model fire department as well as putting through the constitutional amendment which doubl- *( CONTINUED* On'T'AGe" FIVE)