Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 32, Number 229, Decatur, Adams County, 26 September 1934 — Page 1

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Ken. Hugh Johnson Resigns As NRA Head

■SkIGNATION £>S EXPECTED .1 FOR SOME TIME — QjLn.rinization Os The | A|H < ted To Start *«• Immediately I, fy IBIER RECOVERY ■ Wlf AUHtS TO QUIT ; t:j? ■ashint-tnn. Sept. 26 W.R) first major shakeup of ( deal aii’i’t’tl today resignation of Gen. S .Johnson and the <Hcd o organization NRA. I* fii often-|>redi.cted resig- I Kiii hi was finally effected a cordial exchange |^Kh T :.-i< b.’ween President , y>‘at>nl;o The annonnceto indicate that i.. ■i c ization plan was : complete. p-,..t > I'uneng here , I k i ■ revision <>n the , was <t. il to lose no , i ““TBroßi-r details from the White , were awaited today. a <lim < h ince was express■eiji;.' J Imsmi would retain any major or minor, in the re- I recovery agency. However services would not be I witi ly lost to the public. Fu I tura relations between .Johnson ihi administration ware: 'gr 3 sweepinc is the reorganize-1 to he that even the initials of NRA may disfrom the American scene; which they burst with such 1 only 15 months ago. Johnson in the trek to affairs will be of the most familiar recov- ■ cry I leaders. form-.: retirement date for Was set for Oct. 15. to ■■■B alk him opportunity to make The salty lanof this document should T'lmsi.n': true feelings recircumstances that withdrawal from the front and his hectic! of |.s. than a year and a there will leave Mt" Frances Robinson. 28, ' t and petite, who has |B M " Itri Works, dissension and . ■> > yoimn woman who to in a minor secretarial post to pip place of executive at $. xim a year has been by insiders as one of the : SHf 1 'tors in the long smould-d-vei..patents climaxed by resignation. Others who will fol on page FIVE) fccSON BROS. ■ MAY USE MILL I ■! ncs^ea d Contractors I ■’lav Erect Small Saw | MMHere Brothers. New York conwho were awarded the 1 ,0 build the 48 houses here .. federal .subsistence homeg W |C- ject, have written Austin ll^^B project manager. request3"n "Main permission to use !l ” ar the local development ■ IK. a rallroa <l for use of a small min. ■■th™ thiS requMt u was indicatHn ’ " lhP contractors are tonsid--1 cuttin g the lumber here. HowIB r ’ U ls ,pro,)ahle that it will be !| .9 at t * le if prices submitted il Wi Wer ’han the work can ibe ■ K 1 " " ere - ' * ijK' t *' e ' uml:,er ls cut here it would employment to several men. 6 contractors will open an emoffice in this city, probI W y , faring the latter part of next i| Be . This office will be located up l I th" n ani ’ Wi " ren iain open unJBB'h" actual construction werk is

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F. D. R. MEETS I WITH ADVISORS President Confers With Advisors Concerning New NRA Setup Washington, Sept. 28. — (U.R) — President Roosevelt called in close advisors today in an energetic attempt to complete details of the . new NRA set-up to displace the one.man control organization of General Hugh S. Johnson, resign ed. Tackling the question as soon as l he returned from Hyde Park, the . President conferred first with Don-1, aid R. Richberg. whose NRA views ; have brought him into sharp dis- < pute with the retiring Johnson. The President said the reorganiza- ( tlon would be “evolutionary.” Richberg remained with the : president for more than an hour discussing the broad general picture of NRA reorganization. It was understood that they touched generally on the three point program, the legislative, judicial and executive set-up. Richberg declined to discuss his meeting and bur-' ried away after saying that among other things taken up were matters affecting the executive and emergency councils and the industrial emergency committee all of which he is identified with. The President announced the I resignation of Gen. Hugh S. Johnson. NRA administrator, at the summer White House last night before he entrained for Washing. (CONTINUED ON PAGE FIVE) DEATH CLAIMS WILLIAM DRAKE Union Township Farmer Dies This Morning After Long Illness William Drake, 78, well known farmer of Union township and a resident of Adams county for a number of years; died at his home at 4-.30 o’clock this morning of complications. Mr. Drake had been ailing for the last year and ■ a half. He was recently returned from the Lutheran Hospital in Fort Wayne where he had been a patient since in March. He was born in Tod township, Crawford county, Ohio, on March 24. 1856. a son of William ami Ruth Walters Drake. On April 1, 1865 he moved with his parents to St. Mary's township. Adams county. moving in 1866 to Union towni ship. On February 17, 1881 he was i married to Miss Lunetta Krick and in March. 1881 they moved to i Union township into a log cabin, i clearing the land on which they I moved. Since that time they had I resided In Union township on the 1 same farm. Mr. Drake was a member of the I United Brethren church of Wren. Ohio. Surviving are four daughters and a son. Mrs. Levi Mumma. Spencer; Mrs. H. E Jackson, Fort Wayne; Mrs. L. W. Schnepp. Van Wert, Ohio; Mrs. Basil Gephart, Wren, Ohio, and Clarence Drake I Huge Ocean Liner Is Launched Today Clydebank, Scotland, Sept. 26— (U>P) —The Queen Mary, mightiest liner afloat, was launched today with Queen Mary bestowing her own name as she christened it be- j fore 250,000 of her cheering subjects. The costliest experiment in the history of maritime navigation was set a flcat in the Clyde with a smoothness which was a tribute to the engineering skill of the build-; ers. The Queen pressed a button which released the supports, the workers leaped aside and the magnificent (bulk of the liner slid slowly down the ways. One thousand and eighteen feet long, of 73,000 tons displacement, with 12 decks, the ship tost $40,000,000. It will be by 16,000 tone the greatest ship afloat.

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DETROIT COPS FIND BODY OF MISSING GIRL Lillian Gallaher’s Body Is Found Stuffed Into Trunk HAD BEEN MISSING FOR NEARLY WEEK Lima, O. Sept. 26—(UP)—W. B. Goodrich, sought for questioning in connection with the slaying of 11 year old Lillian Gallaher was an inmate of the Lima, Ohio, hospital for the criminally insane for two years. He was released last January on a habeas corpus action. Detroit, Sept. 26— (U.R) — The week long search for missing Lillian Gallaher. 11-year-old school girl, was ended today with the finding of her body stuffed in a. trunk on the fourth floor of an apartment building within a few blocks of her home. Death appeared to have been caused by strangulation. It was not immediately determined whether the girl had been attacked. “We have no doubt the body is that of Lillian Gallaher,” chief of detectives Fred W. Frahm told the United Press. “The body ! wore the same clothes that the j | girl wore the day she diswppeare-1. i The girl was approximately the same age as Lillian.” Lillian would have observed iter 11th birthday today. The body was found sbortly 1 after 11 a. m. Police lines were thrown about the house to keep out spectators I while officials from the coroner’s : department brought an ambulance to the apartment to take the body to the morgue for medical examination and positive identification. Lillian, a student at St. Dorni inic's school, disappeared late last Thursday after telling her mother she was going out to sell some tickets to a school benefit. She had come home from school just before noon and had complained i of a headache. Search for the child was started PAGE* FIVE)’ DECATUR GIRL I IS SELECTED Dorothy Young Is Honored Bv Fourth District Republicans Dorothy Young of Decatur was elected Fourth District vice-chair- ] man of the Young Republican Club at a banquet held by the county ; chairmen and vice-chairmen Tues- ] day nigfit at the Camber of Com- , mer e rooms in Fort Wayne. Dan Ransburg of Auburn was elected chairman of the fourth district Young Republican Club. The banquet was attended by the regular and young peoples organizations ' Only the young republicans balloted. The chief speaker at the meeting j was 'Arthur K. Remmel, editor of the Fort Wayne News-Sentinel. Da-, vid Hogg, former congressman from this district and seven republican j i newspaper editors also spoke. Ralph Yager and Mrs. I Burkhalter, chairman and vice-1 chairman of the regular county republican .organization and Jesse Sutton and Dorethy Young, chair-,' man and vice-chairman of the young . peoples county organization, represented Adams county at the meet- , I lng ' ; " BULLETIN I John Badders, about 72 years of ' age. a lifelong resident of Monroe, 1 died at his home at 2:35 o’clock this afternoon. He had been ail- t Ing for several months. ' Mr. Badders operated a grocery , store and filling station in Monroe for over 30 years. He was a son j 1 of Moses and Mary Badders, de-' 1 ceased. Surviving is the wife, Cecil Bad- I ders of Monroe, and a brother, i William Badders of Fort Wayne. 1 A child is deceased. i

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Decatur, Indiana, Wednesday, September 26, 1931.

Test Pins Note on Lindbergh Suspect HR? 'W/ \ z Jm. / : Es KL \ I /MSB Dr. A. (’. Ixmert. noted handwriting expert, studies a specimen of | script through the microscope in his laboratory at Loyola University iin Chicago. He is of the opinion that microscopic examination willl I reveal that Bruno Richard Hauptmann wrote the Lindbergh ransom notes. '

ANSWER CHARGE BY OPPONENTS Robinson And Minton Continue Campaign For Senate Seat Indianapolis, Sept. 26. — (U.R) — Answers to opponents’ charges were voiced last night by Senator Arthur B. Robinson and his Demo cratic opponent Sherman Minton Speaking at Lafayette. Robinson referred to Mintons declaration I “A hungry man can’t eat a tonsti- ! tution,” and said: “Os course, you can’t eat the J constitution. Neither can you eat the Ten Commandments but no one would like to see them stricken front the Holy writ." If the constitution, is taken away, anarchy or dictatorship will i follow, and in either case you will have starvation. Robinson said. Minton, speaking at Kokomo, blamed “Republican propaganda” for reports that if elected he would resign in favor of Gov. Paul V. McNutt and added a vehement denial. "Governor McNutt is going to finish his job as governor and 1 have not the slightest intention of resigning or walking out midway in my term in the senate.” he said. P. D. SCHWARTZ IS REELECTED Renamed President Os Adams County Dairy Herd Association Peter D. Schwartz was re-elected president of the Adams County dairy herd improvement association 1 at the annual meeting of the organization held Tuesday evening at Monroe. Other officers are: Sol Mosser, vice-president; D. D. Schwartz, secretary-treasurer. In addition to the above officers, the comprise the board of directors: Peter B. Lehman and N ah Rhh. • The .program committee of the association consists of Mr. Mosser. chairman; Dale Moses and Henry Aschleman. The committee will meet in the ! near future to outline the program for the year. G. A. Williams gave an instructive talk at the meeting, emphasiz- ; ing the need of better pastures, using sweet clover, alfalfa and Sudan , grass as a base.

Money Is Paid Mrs. Lena Lunz Mrs. Lena Lunz, divorced wife ‘ of Fred Lunz, sheriff of Allen county. Tuesday was paid the remaining $2,500 alimony due her under terms of the divorce decree, issued is the Adams circuit court several months ago. She was awarded $5,000 which was immed lately paid to the county clerk. Because of disagreement over attorney fees, half the sum was withheld by the clerk. When an agreement was reached Tuesday , by Mrs. Luuzz and her attorneys, the money was released by clerk David Depp. NEW SOCIETY TO ORGANIZE Adams County Historical Society Likely Will Meet October 12 An organization meeting of the Adams County Historical Society , will probably be held Wednesday, October 12. in thus city. At this ; meeting committees will be appoint-1 ed to draw up a constitution and formulate pinna for f unding of the society. FERA laJbor is being used this week to clean the show cases in the court house lobby. Two window spaces in the Bowers Building on west Monroe street, east cf the Cloverleaf Creameries milk station j have been donated for the use of; the society. These are now being I washed and provisions made for 1 the setting up of exhibits. As most of the materials includ- ! ing the show cases have been donated there will be little expense in ; e nnection with the project. It is I now planned to establish the yearly membership dues at ,one dollar. This 1 it is expected, will fully cover all _ (CONTINUED ON PAGE FOUR) t Wants Licenses Good Four Years i Indianapolis, Ind., Sept. 26 —(UP) t —,P initing out that the sale of , drivers’ licenses during the 1933 . netted the state more than $400,000 , the hoosier motor club today an- ] nounced plans to urge the 1935 leg- , Islature to make the certificates . valid for four -year periods. ( “The drivers’ license law was , sponsored as a safety measure, not as a means of obtaining revenue fcr , the state,” Todd Stoops, secretary-, manager of the club, said in anI nouncing the plan.

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COURT RULES PIERPONT TO DIE IN CHAIR Ohio Supreme Court Dismisses Appeal From Murder Conviction TO FACE ELECTRIC CHAIR OCTOBER 17 Columbus, 0.. Sept. 26 — (U.R) — ! Death in the electric chair Oct. 17, 1 was decreed for Harry Pierpont, l Dillinger gangster, by the Ohio supreme court which today dismissed his appeal from a murder ' conviction. The high court found no debat-; able grounds for a constitutional i question in Pierpont’s conviction If r murdering Sheriff Jesse L. Sarber, Lima, 0., a year ago in '' i lil'erating John Dillinger from the Alien county jail. An appeal for Charles Makley, 1 convicted of the same crime, also 1 was dismissed, although Makley 1 j was slain last Saturday when he ami Pierpont attempted to escape ' ! from their death cells with I “pistols” made of soap. Pierpont received word of the ' i court’s action on a penitentiary ' ! cot in death row where he is ' under treatment for wounds suffered in the Saturday break. Makley will be buried late today at Sugar Ridge. 0., after funeral ’(CX)NTINU®b ON* PAGE TWO)’ EIGHT CITIES FIGHT RULING Judge’s Ruling Holding Up Federal Aid To Be Contested Marion. Ind.. Sep. 26 — (U.R) —A. court battle in which city offi- ; rials hope to lift a barrier to . more than $1,000,000 in federal loans for public improvements in I eight Indiana cities was being planned here today. Directed by Julian Lett, Marion ! ' city attorney, a suit to be filed in Grant circuit court will be made a j test case and officials of each of ; the other seven cities will co-oper-■ ate. Other Indiana cities which have applications pending for PWA funds, or which have received federal approval for their projects, are Crown Point. Bedford, La i Porte, Goshen, Anderson. Madison and Ligonier. Judge Oren W. Dickey of the Grant superior court recently; issued an order restraining city officials from entering into a con- i tract to have water main exten- i sions built through federal funds. : Judge Dickey's ruling held that i (CONTINUED On’pAGe’fOUß) o STORM CAUSES THREE DEATHS I General Snowfall In Western Mountain Regions Causes Deaths , i United Press Three deaths were reported to- ( day in the Rocky Mountain and , high Sierra regions after the first , general snowfall of the season had blocked mountain roads, marooned belated vacationists and hunters in isolated cabins ,and opened a period of freezing temperatures. Victims of the storm were Hen- ( ry Allen, California miner found frozen to death, Henry Pedroni, firsherman who died from exposure after becoming separated from his C: mpanions in California; and William Coyne, Skaneatles, N. Y., OCC worker killed when the wind felled a tree near Priest Lake, Ida. Mrs.! Carl Maugher, 23, midwest, Wyo„ ' was missing. i A rescue party on horseback reached a group of vacationists trapped by the storm in the high — i (CONTINUED ON PAGE FOUR) '

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AUXILIARY TO MEETTHURSDAY District Convention At Decatur Country Club I Tomorrow . The convention of the American Legion Auxiliary of the fourth district will open at the Decatur Country Club at 10 o’clock Thursday morning with registration, followed with a program Including business sessions, a luncheon, and musical and dance program. All Decatur merchants are asked to display the American flags before their stores all-day Thursday, as a welcome to the many out of town auxiliary members who will be in the city for the convention. The fourth district officers will have charge of the convention. A business meeting and reports of committees will be held during the morning and a luncheon will be served at 12 o’clock at the country Clufo. immediately following the luncheon a dance and musical program will be presented, and the remainder of the afternoon will be spent in a business session. Talks will be given by the various units. Mrs. V. J. Bormann is chairman , of the reception committee and oth-1 er members are the Mesdames I Charles Weber, Leo Ehinger, Miles | Roop. Albert Mutschler and Ernest ’(CONTINUED ON PAGE FOUR) o Two Escape From State Reformatory — Pendleton, Ind., Sept. 26—(U.PJ - j I State police were asked today to | aid in the search for two youthful convicts who escaped yesterday: from a corn field at the state re-! formatory. Tile fugitives are Russell Long. | 24, sentenced from Montgomery county, March 22, 1932, for a 3-10 ; year term for burglary, and Way-1 man Applegate, 22, Perry county, serving a 2-21 year term for man-| slaughter. Long and Applegate were among j a crew of 35 convicts working in the corn field. Gradually working their way from the rest of the convicts, the two men escaped through the tall corn. o — DECLARES ACTS NOT PERMANENT Secretary of Commerce Roper Reassures Nation’s Business Men Cincinnati, Sept. 26. —(U.R) —Fear that the Roosevelt administration contemplates making most of its , emergency legislation a permanent: feature of American government is unfounded, Secretary of Commerce ; Daniel C. Roper believes. Addressing the National Ex-1 change Club here, Roper declared that careful selection of emergency ; methods will be made and only , those which experience proves sue. , cessful will be retained. Roper's statement was consider- 1 ed a reassurance to business such as has been demanded with in- i creasing frequency recently by sub-1 stantial groups, representing in-1 dustry and commerce. “The fact that some reforms may | be initiated along with emergency acts,” said Roper, "gives no: grounds whatever for concluding I that all or even a major part of [ the emergency acts may become | permanent. "Constructive administrative experience and future developments will indicate what features should ! be made permanent and which are to be utilized only until the em- j ergency has passed.” Roper denied that the new deal ; contemplated the end of the “old (CONTINUED ON PAGE FIVE) o Grants Extradition Os Hoosier Killer Springfield, 111., Sept. 26 —(UP) '—Gov. Henry Horner teday approved extradition of Olivett Greggs, alias Willie Jacksons to Lake county, Indiana, from Chicago. He is charged with murder.

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MORE RANSOM MONEY FOUND BYJDFFICERS Col. Lindbergh Gives Testimony At Final Jury Session INDICTMENT IS FOR EXTORTION (Copyright 1934 by United Press) New York, Sept. 26 —<U-R)— A Bronx county grand jury indicted Bruno Rieh ar d Hauptmann on charges of extortion todav after hearing testimony of Col. Charles A. Lindbergh an <1 detectives who this morning had discovered 10 more ransom money and a (rerman-made pistol cleverly hidden in Hauptmann’s garage. The indictment is considered merely preliminary to Hauptmann’s trial on charges of kidnaping and murdering the Lindbergh baby in New Jersey. It climaxed a series of swift developments in the case which police believed smashed the last shred of Hauptmann’s story and left him shaken and nervous despite liis presistent declarations of iuI nocence. Discovery of SB4O additional I ransom money in ingeniously I hidden holes bored in a two by 'four in Hauptmann’s garage, broke Hauptmann’s story that the first money found was from $14,000 given him by a friend. Confronted with the newly found money, Hauptmann said: “You’ll not find any more ran- ‘ som money there.” Jail officials said that Haupt- : mann spent a “very bad night,” j that he paced the floor of his cell and sobbed occasionally. The ' prisoner was nervous and red- [ eyed when quesioned again at I District Attorney Samuel Foley’s office today, but Foley said he ! continued “defiant” and persisted in his denial of guilt. Hauptmann probably will be ! arraigned tomorrow although l there was a report he might be i taken before the court this afternoon. The prisoner was indicted on one count —extortion from Dr. Condon. When arraigned. Hiauptmann probably first will be taken into West Farms, court where a complaint of extortion is pending against him on a short affidavit. He would be discharged there, however, and taken into Bronx I county court to plead to the indictment returned today. Foley, in answer to a series of questions said that a total of $14,600 of the Lindbergh ransom money had been recovered from the Hauptmann premises. He said tliat Hauptmann had worked as an employe of the Hotel Majestic in New York until (CONTINUED ON PAGE FIVE) Ministers Plan Special Meeting A special meeting of the Decatur Ministerial Aseociation will be held in the Library room at the Court house Thursday morning at 10 o’clock. ■ FIRE DESTROYS FARM RESIDENCE Willis Whittenbarger House In Union Tow nship Is Destroyed The eight room house on the Willis Whittenbarger farm, 9% miles ■ northeast of Decatur, in Union township was burned to the ground between six and seven o'clock this morning. The loss is estimated at $3,000, Wth insurance of $1,500. Mr. Whittenbarger started a fire in the kitchen stove and then went to the barn. It is believed the blaze I started from a defective flu. The alarm was sounded and neighbors soon gathered to fight the blaze. The flames spread rapidly and members of the family and volunteers were able to remove the furniture from the frst floor only. The blaze did not spread to any other buildings.