Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 32, Number 228, Decatur, Adams County, 24 September 1934 — Page 1

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®T STRIKE for WHILE MILLS <>• Workers «,Hurn To • ooms Nation J Bkike is sixteen or Sept. 21 4 U.R> to lheir looms today ——tliell' J,l| l' 1,1 textilt* with the greatest the new deal at an K ni | a new fight tor K, ration of everv opera|M, the x.rd industry just tin' strike is over, 7 challenge to the in- . I ■ I" ii.t“mifted. Francis '/J riH'i-'l T-xtile Work H lir ,. 51 ,|. directed walk, in warned mantiW K_t III’ 1.000.W0 tin- | now ha " ® ami wax able to operatives the i.f ih" conflict, one of and most far flung American industrial was set today at 16 dead. wounded. $15,000..oul um oiinted milinst business. In addition dollars of property for mililia and special and d e" for unionization »hoi" industry reflected ' "don ranks came the strik.- unharmed and by thousands of esp<" hilly in southern centers. roal. if achieved, would lire G xiii" union the largin organized labor in the of th" most powerful of I spokesmen. I 11- cram seemed to I o-rtain that the end of the / »".mi mean a reign of I»o e the textile inExact remedies for the which the strike comwas based must be found. k| I’luf.o ■ I-. 's are certain to M unioi.iz:.' , vigorously. ' ’ declared M- shall organize, all textile 1 believe it fair to say prote. t the right of workany attempt at entlie questions still to be is that of industry's acof the peace plan of the mediation board. The accepted this as a basis of the s’like. The manufacwhile generally expected it. have given no forV answer. / "as not expected to Interthe reopening of many 1,1 ih" main manufacturers Jj “* anxious as workers to Ret running again. Little difwas anticipated over the of re hiring workers with- § ■ > dis, ' ri,,li " l '<ion. This was the of the Winant As a precaution union ■ were asked to re | ■ anv c.'sos of discrimination ashnmfon headquarters inis Firemen ♦ I To Meet Tonight important meeting of the Dei rv i>liinteer firemen will be hel ' “ e fire station on Seventh 8 o'clock tonight. All metnurged to attend, ■oblesyille Banker | Is Freed Under Bond i d., Sept. 24—(U.R) on a charge of bankers’ resulting from a a !'! ry invest| gation which 23 days, Harry L. Craig, |B ’° r vice preseident and cash'er p closed Citizens State Hank Was free today under SIO,OOO bank was closed last June order of the state banking deagainst Craig was only one returned by the grand ■” after Questioning 78 witnesses, is the son of the late Samuel ■/' former treasurer of Hamilcounty, and is widely known in banking circles.

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Vol. XXXII. No. 228.

i Heads Gotham Police , v. ■ ■I i '*■* i A, 2 I J Ljlplhh, - J i ® 111 * > Chief Inspector Lewis J. Valentine, who has been appointed police commissioner of New York ! City by Mayor FioreDo La Guardia. * ( Valentine succeeds John E. O'- 1 Ryan, who resigned his post on the heels of the arrest of Bruno i Richard Hauptmann as a Lind-, bergh kidnaping suspect. JESSE VELEZ TO SERVE SENTENCE I Mexican Taken To State Penal Farm By Wells County Sheriff Bluffton. Sept. 24 (Special)— .!«•(.» Velez, a Mexlettn known as • [ a leader of one group of his • I countrymen in Adams county, ■ 1 was taken to the state penal farm ■ j today by Sheriff Orv Lantis, to : serve UK) days. Velez had been at liberty under a suspended sentr ence since his appearance in cir- 1 . cuit court here several weeks ago ' on a charge of violating liquor • I laws. . | At that time Judge John Decker I made as a condition of the suspen-! . i sion of sentence that Velez disi ‘ pose of his liquor equipment and j supplies. This, officers say, Velez . I nromised to do. There came to the attention of > j the officers Saturday afternoon in’J formation that liquor purchases . had been made again at Velez’s . place, and the revocation of the | suspension of sentence resulted. This action is believed to have • cut off one source of liquor sup- . p'ies that would have threatened ' . trouble during street fair week. . ' Velez lives just across the line in . Adams county. Officers went to the county line road and called to . Velez. He crossed the road into 1 i Wells county and was taken into .; custody. NEW POUTICfIL PARTY FORMED Party Organized to Bring Municipal Ownership Os Utilities Indianapolis, Sept. 24. —(U.RF —Organization of a new party, design- ■ ed principally to bring about municipal ownership of all utilities in Indiana was announced here today. The party is incorporated under i the name of the People's F'usion I party and petitions now are being circulated 1 nseveral Indiana cities I ;to obtain sufficient names to get I the party's candidates placed on the November election ballots. 1 Two slates already have been prepared, Hartford City and Indian--1 apolie candidate being the first two 1 cities to present tickets. City, ' | township and county candidates will be presented here, but only a ; city ticket will be presented at. ' Hartford City, it was announced. | Both Democrats and Republicans . ! are listed among the leaders of the • new party. William T. Quillen, In- : dlanapolis attorney, is chairman,, 1 and J. J. Jones, also of this city, is ’ 1 treasurer. ' Jones said that there were 273 ' ' cities and towns in Indiana which < own one or more public utility i (CONTINUED ON PAGE FIVE) 'i

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BELIEVE NRA INSIGNIA TO BE ABANDONED Vast Change In New Deal Policy Administration Foreseen GEN. .JOHNSON MAY LOSE OUT Washington, Sept. 24. — (U.PJ — j i General Hugh S. Johnson, due back today at his job of bossing NRA, , 1 will find his organization in confusion and his own days in the I Blue Eagle's nest numbered. Odds are belter than even that the famous initials "NRA” will be ' abandoned altogether in the forthcoming reorganization. Some influential persons believe NRA has become a political liabll Tty and that the sooner its identity ; Is extinguished the better for the adminisration. But with the politi leal tide as tested in Maine and elsewhere flowing strongly with : President Roosevelt, there is no I necessity for summary execution , or for burial of the corpse before ' I the November elections. Whatever happens to NRA, some 1 of its features —prohibition of child i labor, a limited degree of industrial i self-government, a guarantee of I labor's rights—will be continued as 1 i new deal policy. In place of one-man rule by John-' j son a divorce of policy-making and j administration has been proposed. I This one provides a board probably ’ iof governmental and industrial leaders to formulate policies. John ' son might find a seat on this board. , Actual day-to-day running of NRA would be in the hands of a second 1 group roughly similar to the group j of NRA deputies who have been' in technical charge of the urtian ization during Johnson's absences. Overshadowing Johnson's person aFTbrtunes is bitter dispute de-1 veioping between labor and industry over NRA s future. Disagree- ; inent centers around section 7-A,' I the national industrial recovery |, act guaranteed that labor shall have the right to bargain collec., PAGE FIVE) o TRAFFICDEATH TOLLIS ELEVEN Scores Os Others Injured In Indiana Over Last Week-end Indianapolis. Sept. 24— <U.R) I A weekend traffic death toll of at ;, least 11 lives was counted in In-1 diana today. Scores of others, were injured in other accidents. Three persons were killed and ; three others were injured in a ■ ! headon collision on U. S. road 40, ; near shoals. The victims were Bela Eads. > 44. Bloomington; Mrs. Jennie Hen-1 dricks Shaw, 32. Bloomington, and , Orville Brown, 18, Barnesville, O.' Brown, a CCC worker, was riding on a truck with three co-1 i workers in a camp at Loogootee, j i His companions were injured and I were taken to a 'hospital at Wash-1 I ington. Mrs. Ruth Miller 38, Shelbyville. | was killed instantly when the automobile in which she was riding with Turner Caine, 34, Franklin, crashed into a tree near Shel- | (CONTINUEID ON PAGE FIVE) ; o — Decatur Priests Attend Services iFather Joseph Seimetz. pastor and pastor of St. Marys Catholic ' church, attended the closing of ' Forty H urs Devotion at Bluffton and Fort Wayne laet evening. Fath- ' er Seimetz attended the services at ( St. Joseph's church, Bluffton and Father Hennes attended St. Joseph’s church, Fort Wayne. Regular Legion Meeting Tonight All members of Adams post num- 1 1 ber 43 of the American Legion are ■ urged to attend the meeting tonight |; at 8 o’clock at the hall on South Second street. Charles Massonee. first vice-commander will be In : charge of the meeting because cf the illness of Tillman Gehrfg, com i Inlander. 1

ONLY DAILY NEWSPAPER IN A DAMS COUNTY

Decatur, Indiana, Monday, September 21, 1934.

Missing Girl /f If r W * A f ...I f » dUk/ i Lb lOT W In ’ ■jy j i Dorothy Ann Distelhurst. 6-year-old daughter of A. E. Distelhurst I of Nashville. Tenn., who lias been missing since Wednesday and whose father believes that she was kidnaped. He has requested the police to let him attempt to contact the kidnaper without their aid LUTZ IS NAMED SPECIAUUDGE Clark J. Lutz Is Appointed To Trv Foremans, Clark •——— •Clark J. Lutz, today was named special judge to try the cases now pending in the A.’ams circuit court against Elmer F reman, Bernas Clark and Florence Foreman on charges of burglary in the first degree. The charges arose from the case when two men are alleged to ; have tied up Mrs. Amanda Ayers, aged 74. at her home in Blue Creek township. The men escaped, aided by a woman who drove a tar back and f rth in front of the house until the men came ut. They drove away leaving Mrs. Ayens, bound but un- ( harmed, in a chair at her home. The men had disappeared by the j time Mrs. Ayers was able to free herself and report the attack to a neighbor. The car was later traced to Indianapolis by the license number noted by a resident in Blue Creek township. Police in that city picked up the alleged thieves and affida(CONTINUED ON PAGE KVE) o SOCIETY WILL SEEKMEMBERS Holy Name Society Opens Annual Campaign For Members The annual membership campaign of the Holy Name society of St. Mary’s Catholic church, opened today, continuing for the next two weeks. An effort will be made to enroll the present membership of 385 and obtain at least TOO new members. All the men of the congregation, in eluding the juniors and seniors of the Catholic high school are eligible. 'Prefects of the society will make | the canvass among the men of the parish. It is planned to hold the enrollment ceremony in connection with the society '’ Holy Communion Sunday on October 14. A breakfast will be served following the Communion mass. Members of the society will attend the mass In a body and the investure ceremony will be held during the service. Elmo Smith is j resident of the Holy Name so-lety and invited all men of the *>ngrt gatlon to enroll I in the society during the membership campaign. The goal has been | set ax 500 members this year.

TO BUILD SIX HOUSE TYPES Plans Progressing Fo r Erection Os Houses At Homestead Plans are rapidly progressing for the erection of the 48 houses to be built here by the subsistence homesteads division of the U. S. depart-i i nient if the interior. The final plans and specifications are being drawn up in Washington as quotations in the bids submitted by Hoggeon Brothers suit essful contractors, are checked. The originaLplans contained several specifications for different features in the houses in order that the cheapest and most ft-asable might be selected. Six types of hi uses will be built here. They are all five room houses and with three exceptions, the first I choice of homesteaders. Second I choice was given only where several h niesteaders selected houses of ' the same type to be built adjacent to each other. This was done to provide contrast. The houses to be built are: two type A-2 houses, one type A-5 hbuse, ! four type AJ6 houses; 12 type B I houses; 17 type C houses, and 12 [ type D. houses. 1 All of the type A houses are semilar in that they have one story and a halt and have five rooms with the interior arrangement. They differ j in the type of porches. The type B. bouses have a story and a half, five rooms and an underslung porch. The type C houses are i colonial in exterior appearance and I have five rooms. The type D. houses I are slightly different from the type •C. houses. None of the type E. which are f ur room houses will be i built. A letter received from homeI steads officials today by the A. A. Watrous, projeul manager here, states that the homesteaders selected for the Decatur project represent a cross section of the community. The men are empl yed in industries trades, and professions and have annual incomes averaging approximately $1,200 which will be sufficient to pay for the houses over (CONTINUED ON PAGE FIVE) REV. FRANKLIN MOVES TO CITI New United Brethren Pastor Assumes Active Charge Here — Rev. and Mrs. H. W. Franklin and family have taken up their resiuenee in the U B. parsonage on South ' Ninth street. Rev. Franklin Being the newly appointed pastor of the United Brethren church. Rev. Franlflin succeeds Dr. Charles J. Roberts, who has been assigned to Galveston. Ind., He formerly was pastor of the U. B. church at Fulton. Services at the local church have been in charge of Rev. Franklin for the past two Sundays. The Franklin family consists of five daughters. Two of them are Miss Nina, teacher in La Grange county and Miss Bernie, teacher at Sandborn. Miss Frances is employed in a drug store at Fulton, but expects to come to Decatur to live. Miss Stella and Miss Naomi Ruth are living here, the latter being a junior in the Decatur high school. Rev. Franklin was meeting residents of the city today and commented favorably on the attitude of the people here and the civic and spiritual advantages offered in Decatur. He was much impressed with the good business conditions existing in this community. — oMissionary Will Speak Wednesday Father Wyss, C. S. C„ a Holy Cress missionary recently returned I from India, will give a lecture and show a moving picture at (lie Decatur Catholic high school auditorium, Wednesday evening. Father Wyss has been stationed in India tor nine years and has a congregation consisting of nearly 5,000 souls. It is one of the largest parishes in India. ,A matinee will be given in the afternoon for the school children and the evening pro- ' gram will begin at eight o’clock. A I free will offering will be taken, the I proceeds being used for the Indian mission. ,

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MRS. PIERPONT SAYS HER SON NOT A KILLER —— Harry Pierpont’s Mother Says Van Meter Killed Sheriff Sarber PIRPONT WOUND IS NOT SERIOUSi Columbus, O„ Sept. 24—<(J.R> — I i John Dillinger was quoted here I today by Mrs. Gilbert Pierpont, i mother of Harry Pierpont who was wounded Saturday at Ohio I penitentiary in a futile attempt to I escape from the death house, as I - having named Homer Van Meter i as the trigger man in the slaying j iof Sheriff Jesse Sarber of Lima, j Dillinger was freed from the Lima jafl. where he was held cn ! a bank robbery charge, by memI hers of his gang who fatally shot ' Sheriff Sarber. Pierpont and Charles Makley, who was killed I Saturday when he joined Pierpont in the attempted prison break, were convicted of the slaying of > the sheriff and were sentenced to I , die. Mrs. Pierpont visited her son Sunday, coming from her Lakeville, Ind., home. Physicians had 1 just pronounced him out of dan-1 ■ ger from wounds he suffered in a ; I laze of gunfire which stooped his 1 bid for freedom, a bid backed only , i by toy guns he and Makley ha 1 ! ■ made of soap. The mother told how a rendez- . vous with Dillinger was arranged j ■ for her at 7823 South Shore Drive.! . Chicago, two weeks before fed- ■ eral agents killed Dillinger, Ir.di- ' ana desperado and gang leader. -' “I asked him point blank.” she: . j said, ‘‘who freed him from the , i Lima jail. “He told me: “ 'l'll tell you who turned me out. Homer Van Meter is the ma i ■who fired the shot that killed II Sheriff Sarber and Tommy Car-. roll and George McGinnis are the men who were irf the Lima jail 1 , and turned me out'.” Van Meter was slain in St. Paul I, (CONTINUEID* ON PAGE* FIVE) Committee Members Meet At Huntington 'i Henry Rumple. W. H. Patterson Lind Homer W. Arncld. members of , l the Adams county ccrn-hog aJlot- ! ment committee, and county agent ; L. E. Archbold, will attend a dis- ■ ■ trict corn-hog meeting at Hunting- | ton. Tuesday. At this meeting instructions will i ' he given the local committee for , i holding community meetings the | first week in Octcber for all contra* t signers. At these meetings, i , vote will be token regarding future , . reduction programs. Notices of , 1 these meetings will be made , through the newspapers of the , i county and by mail from the county . J agent's office. , | o , SAYS CAPTAIN FEAREDALAGNA Testifies Cantain of Morro Castle Locked Him- i self In Cabin i New York, Sept. 24. —<U.R>-—Cap-tain Robert R. Willmott of the burned Morro Castle locked himself in his cabin about 16 hours be- | fore the fatal fire because he, fear-1 ‘ ed George I. Alagna, second radio operator, would throw acid on him. ' acting Captain William F. Warms 1 testified today. Warms, recalled before the de- ' partment of commerce inquiry into . the disaster that cost 134 lives, 1 said the captain summoned him to his stateroom at 10 a. m„ Friday, , . Sept. 7. The captain told him. he said, that Alagna had “a bottle of sulphuric acid" and that he was wori ried. Willmott added that he was going to keep his door locked for 1 [ fear Alagna would throw the acid on him. Warms said. ' Willmott died that evening, six ' I hours before the fire broke out. 1 Death was ascribed to heart dis- ’ ease. The captain gave no explanation ■ of iris fear for Alagna and also re. * fused to have Alagua put in irons • .-1 T-- ,- ■ (CONTINUED ON PAGE SIX)

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Fasts Seven Years f. - Claiming she has not slept or partaken of any food or water for seven years, Mrs. Martha Nasch, above, 44. of St. Paul, Minn., offered to prove her feat to anyone or undergo any tests. LAUNCH PLANS FOR HALLOWEEN ■ Chairmen Are Named To Plan Huge Parade Halloween Night Jess Rice, general chairman of ■ the callithumpian paride to be held | here on Halloween night, Wednes--1 day. Oct-iber 31. announced today that a drive will be held this week to raiue S2OO to make it the largest l celebration in the history of the I city. At a meeting of those interested I . Saturday night the chairmen for the parade were selected. They are finance. I Bernstein; bands, Dan H- ' Tyndall, autos, Charles Massonee, , horses, Dr. G. F. Eichhorn, red fire, Robert Helm, judges, Herman Ehinger, and parade marshalls, Joe , Laurent and Paul Sauer. These chairmen will select the, members of their committees this week, and the committees will work out the details for the parade. The plans this year call for more and better prizes. Several bands . will march and new features will be 1 be aided. Two judging stands will ■ be erected. The city merchants and the Deca- ' tur Chamber of Commerce, which is cooperating with the parade com- ; mittee, made a request today that , residents of Decatur and the county assist in making the parade a sue- ' ( cess. The purpose of this celebra-1 , tion is to provide amusement for the night without the destruction of ( pr perty generally attendant with (Halloween observances. During I * each of the years in which such a parade was held in Lhis city very 1 little damage was reported. The Decatur merchants are mak- i ing donati.ns in order that every- ' , thing in connection with the parade ' will be tree. There will be no entry , feesfees. It is planned to have contests for i ■both the city and the country people in the community. These will be announced later. Economics Club Leaders To Meet Leaders and chairmen cf the Ad- , ams county home economics clubs ] will meet Friday, September 28, at Monroe. Miss Meta E. Martin, Pur- ( due clothing specialist, will give the , ( lesson. A pot luck lunch will be ( eerved at the noon hour. Plans will , be made for the trip to Purdue dur- I , ing the agricultural conierence, week in January. |, o Sugar Beet Growers Meet In Washington Washington, Sept. 24. — (U.R) - Representatives of sugar beet growers in important producing j areas have been invited today to; attend a conference in Washigton . today with officials of the AAA to complete work on the beet sugar production control program for next year. Following the conference the contract for making individual reductions will be placed in final form and offered to growers for signature.

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FAMOUS FLIER WILL SEEK TO IDENTIFY MAN Federal Agents Are On Trail Os Supposed Accomplice THINK HAUPTMANN AT BREAKING POINT New York Sept. 21 <U.R) — Col. Charles A. Lindbergh was understood today to be flying eastward to New York Io confront Bruno R. Hauptmann to try to identify him as a man Lindbergh saw at the scene of ransom payment to kidnapers of his infant son. The disclosure that the famous flier, speeding from California by airplane, might be able to identify Hauptmann as a man he saw when Dr. J. F. “Jafsie” Condon handed over the $50,000 ransom came while a grand jury was considering extortion charges against the prisoner. Lindbergh also will be asked to examine photographs of Isidore Fisch, who Hauptmann says gave him the ransom money found in his possession. The famous flier saw a man outside St. Raymond's cemetery in the Bronx on the night the ransom money was paid to a man he knew as “John.” Authorities kept this fact secret to keep the kidnapers from possible effort to prevent the flier from testifying, it was said. On the night of April 2, 1932, while Condon was in one part of the cemetery Lindbergh waited in an automobile outside the gate. A man passed by several times, once with a handkerchief held in front of his face. Lindbergh said alter he might be able to identify I the stranger. The flier's report of this person was one of the main facts which led authorities to believe that more than one man was involved in the kidnaping. Lindbergh's description of the man he saw, it was learned, differs from that of Hauptmann. It is closer to the description of Fisch, who died in Germany last year. A Family Affair Washington. Sept. 24— KU.R) — (CONTINUED ON PAGE FIVE) Henry Busche Is Honored By Cluh Henry Busche. son of Mr. and Mrs. Fred Busche of this city, has been elected president of the men’s glee club of Indiana Central College in Indianapolis, where he is taking a post graduate course. Mr. Busche has also been offered a position as chorister of a large Baptist church in Indianapolis. While spending the summer vacation in this city Mr. Busche assisted as chorister in various organizations in the Methodist church in this city. OHIO CONVICT REVEALS PART George E. Paulin Claims Knowledge of Lindbergh Baby Kidnaping Columbus. 0.. Sept. 24.—(U.R) — Warden P. E. Thomas, of Ohio Penitentiary, today said that any further investigation of a story told by an Ohio convict, tending to implicate Bruno Hauptmann in the kidnaping of Charles Lindbergh, Jr., would be carried out by federal agents. The warden Saturday revealed that the convict, George E. Paulin, 27. sentenced in Ohio for robbery, had received a letter from Perth Amboy. N. J., prior to the kidnaping which. When decoded, read: “Will kidnap Lindy baby. Hope for me..” The letter was signed "Bruno" and Paulin said it was from Hauptmann.. “There are facts which we are keeping secret,” the warden asserted today in stating that department of justice agents have been given all evidence bearing on Paulin's claims. Including the name of a family in New Jersey with which (CONTINUED ON PAGE FIVE)