Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 32, Number 231, Decatur, Adams County, 28 September 1934 — Page 1

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WON MAN Known FRIEND MAUPTMANN ■Lanier'- Defense May; Insanity; U ill ’B ,{c Examiiwd MAKES B I KI HI’R DEM \LS y„k Sept. 28 <U.R) K rl |i Ihitiplni.iim mid «»t th.it sever;.! |>erw< r> involved in the J |K|„, l, kuhiupmi’ proeedK . mid \ i.kl.iv w .th federal K. ‘is jii.l nolice rounding ■ ; 1 ,|. w itnesses for Ku. Ironing man. a friend of HauptM, ".o i,v f, ' ll, ‘ ral to 'lie office of District rn ,, Salim* Foley shortly noon. Ki,., . mphasized that ’ arrest and that . was ques|H- ibility that , of the ran- ‘■ wr Hauptmann and unwittingly, passed it. ... - id the man's 1 w from Foley. He German. Haupt al.n by reporters e. . til.- prisoner's either alive or dead. asked if he win n he appeared in :i reactions were extortion indictment. ... s the grand jury accuse of anything." lie m Insanity Defense Y.'ik 28 — (U.R) The hint that Bruno R. Haupt.might be insanity was seen n. ement by defense that he would be examin-j by a psychiatrist. Mir- M ' Weott, counsel for, < .inferred again to-' at the district attorney’s i lie would have a ' ml a doctor examine | will be guided solely by the nf niv own doctors in this Fiw. .-tt said, declining ' (lie specialists who will the prisoner. if that indicated an inplea, he replied: a matter of conjecture, j McONTiNPED ON PAGE SIX)* ■ — —o j; Mayliuht Savings I Time Ends Saturday MBevcral changes will be noted in I a'ur Monday as a result of the of daylight savings tin)r| Her the country. Cities which have. Men on fast time will move their < back an hour Saturday mid■file General Electric Plant hers 1 ■U return to s’andard time when'l E rk !s rp - sl >nied M nday. The ARC ■p line operating between Decatur ■d Fort Wayne will make three ■anges. The north bound hue ■i< h leav<s Decatur new at 6a. m. ■u leave Monday at 7 a. m. The ■o buses which now leave Decatur ■ 9:1., p. ni. will leave at 10:15 ■ m ' ■ Six changes will be made on the ■nusylvania railroad line passing ■ r ugh here. They are: north ■and which now leaves Decatur at P>p. m. will leave at 12:37 p. m. ortlib und which now leaves at :() 8 »• m. will leave at 1:46 a. tn. orthbound which leaves at 2:44 a. '• will leave at 2:35 a. m„ south Mud which leaves at 11:55 p. m. ill leave at 2:35 a. m. southbound nich now leaves at 3:36 a. m. will a ' e at 3:19 a. tn., and the southound which now leaves at 12:20 m. will leave at 12:37 p. tn. o ——- a <*ob Olwin Dies At Daughter’s Home Bluffton. Sept. 28 — (Special) — ia<ob Olwin, 82, died this morning' the home of his daughter, Mrs.' rred Adler, nine miles east of , luffton in Adams county. Funer-, ■1 services will be held at the i easant Dale church Sunday af■ernoon at 1 o’clock with burial n Union City. , He is survived by the daughter I ln d three sons. i

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Vol. XXXII. No. 231.

Death Solved? A W MT >' V IM p -w Marvene Appel, 8-year-old South Bend. Ind., girl who was brutally I slain in August, 1930. Memphis police have arrested Marvin O'Day, 22, in connection with the murder. O’Day, it Is reported, boasted of his crimes while in a transient ( camp in Missouri. He had gone i by the time police arrived, but ' they ran him down. Marvene was ' strangled after being assaulted i criminally. POLICE PATROL CHICAGO AREA Bus Routes Patrolled: Orders Given To Shoot Interferers Chicago. Sept. 28.— —Seven . | hundred policemen patrolled bus ' routes of the strike beset Chicago Motor Coach, Company today with ■ orders to shoot at sight any one interfering with bus movements. At the same time detective officers said that Alex Semple, held ; on a charge of shooting to death a bus despatcher. had named the '“union official" who paid him 110 j 1 for the job. Relatives of Mrs. Mary , Kennard. 65-year-old bus passengI er who died after being struck by I a ball hearing thrown through a coach window, sought to reopen an j inquest into her death. The coroner's jury decided she died of heart' 'disease. | State's Attorney Thomas J. (Courtney announced murder in dictments were being sought against Semple and two other men . who dragged James Kelly, the bus i dispatcher, off a street car and ' shot him. The grand jury also was asked to indict three union sympa- ■ thizers captured in the act of ; throwing bricks through the win. i dow.s of a tavern owned by a non-! ■ union driver. Sixty-five union members, taken in a raid yesterday on headquart-. ers of the A. F. of L. union which I ; includes street car. bus and elevated employes, were released after • ; (CONTINUED ON PAGE THREE) DEMOCRATS TO MEET AT BERNE Meetins Will Be Held October 5; Farley May Make Addresss Democratic county chairman 'Nathan announced today that plans were being made for a meeting at Berne, Friday, October 5. All of the details have not yet been worked ont, Mr. Netei n stated. An invitation has been extended to Congressman James I. Farley of Auburn, and if the date does not conflict with the congressman’s sched-1 ule for that week, he will attend. 'Chairman Nelson has been informed that Sherman Minton. Democratic candidate for Unite 1 States senator, will visit Defatur on the afternoon of Monday, October 29. Other speakers will be here during the campaign and schedules are being arranged, pending the fixing dates by the state speaker’s bureau.' which is in charge of Samuel Jackson of Fort Wayne. (Democratic headquarters In the Erwin building are open every evening and democrats and their friends are invited to visit the i rooms.

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YOUTH ADMITS SLAYING GIRL AT SOUTH BEND Attack, Killing Os Four Years Ago Solved By Confession ARREST MADE AT MEMPHIS, TENN. Memphis. Tenn., Sept. 28 —(UP) 1 —The mysterious assault and slaying of pretty 8-year old Marverlne 'Appel in a dark South Bend, Ind., alley four years ago was solved today with the confession of Marvin Day. 90, of South Bend. Young Day, held here since last I Tuesday night, broke d< wn and confesed after more than 48 houre of ! quwdkrning. file told details of the slaying in a written statement to Memphis, South Bend, an*d Jeffer;son CiCty, Mo, offers. Fear overcame him, he said, after he had harmed the child and he struck her with his fist and knock- ! ed her down. “'While she was lying on the ground,” he continued, “1 picked up a piece of wire lying on the ground and fastened It around her neck. I tightened the wire around her ne k and took her into a barn . nearby. 1 lai 1 her on some hay and (then left.” The youth said he then returned t the park, told a boy friend, and asked him if lie wanted to see her. The boy friend picked up the girl's i body and he led the way out of the i barn tor him, Day related. They saw an automobile when they reached the alley, Day said, and dropped the body and ran. Release Probable Michigan City. Ind., Sept. 28— • (IWi—Release of George Sherman Myers from the hospital for the insane at the state prison here appeared probable today after it was reported that Marvin Day. 20. South Bend had confessed the slaying of eight-year-old Arvenine Appel, in S nth Bend in 1930. Myers confessed the slaying a (CONTINUED ON PAGE FIVE) o - WOLCOTTVILLE GIVEN MEETING j, ______ _ Next District Legion Auxiliary Meeting (Joes To Wolcottville The next meeting Os the Fourth district American Legion Auxiliary will be held in Wolcottville, it was : announced at the closing session 'of the Fourth district convention ; held at the Decatur country club I Thursday afternoon. The retiring presiddTit of the Fourth district, Mrs. Beulah Brooks of Angola, was named delegate to the sixteenth national convention of the American Legion to be held •in Miami, Florida. October 22 to 25. The newly elected president of the district, Mrs. Hattie Whitman of Columbia City will be the alternate. During the afternoon business session, reports were given by the various units represented at the meeting and bills were allowed.. A luncheon was served at tne noon hour during which community singing was enjoyed. Miss Patsy Fullenkamp presented sev. eral of her pupils in a song and dance program. Among those who appeared on the program were Donnabelle Fenlmore, Rosemary Fullenkamp, Monica Schmitt, Dixie Miller, Bonnie Fryback, Bobby Porter, Virginia Lee Kuhnle, and Evelyn Jane Graber. Norma Myers played piano *(continued’ ON PAGE FIVE) ______o No Remonstrances Against Tax Levies No remonstrances were filed late this afternoon against the tax levies set up and approved by the Adams county tax adjustment board on . Tuesday, September 18. The law provides a period of ten days after the final action of the ! tax adjustment boards within which objectors to the rates may file their remonstrances with the auditor. The ten day period ended today. 'Clerks in county auditor John W. Tyndall’s office will begin on October 10 to compile the taxes which will become payalble next year.

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Decatur, Indiana, Friday, September 28, 1934.

White House Aide 1 ’ y. j ■ ■ Fw . — — 17 Lieut. Thomas C. Perrin, above. ’ 1 has been appointed to serve as I I marine aide at the White House. i A native of Bishopville, S. C.. ' '' Lieutenant Perrin until recently ' ‘ had been serving alioard the bat- ’ tieship Texas. » ' PARITY PRICES ARE NECESSARY Fair Exchange Value For Farm Products Must Be Obtained r , “If pro sperity is to l>? perman- > ! ently restored to this nation, balance of production to bring about parity prices or fair exchange val- ' ue for farm products must be obtained. because agriculture is one 1 ’ of otir basic industries,” stated Karl Knous of Lafayette, who was i.i : charge of a meeting of county agri-'' ’ . cultural agents and corn-hog allot- . ment c< mmitteemen at Huntington, which was the finst step in conduct1 , ing a referendum among corn-hog 1 producers to deterine whether or I net production 'control programs ■ should be continual for another ■ year. Besides county agent L. E Arch- ' hold and (Henry Rumple. Wm. Patterson, Homer Arnold and Amos ■ Stoneburner, members of tho Ad-; ■ ams county corn-hog allotment c m- | mittoe, representatives from Allen, i Huntington, Wabash. Welle, .and Whitley counties attended the , meeting. “In spite of a short feed crop this ( year, the shortage of corn-consum-

' (CONTINUED ON*PAGE FIVE) O FERA Payroll For Week Is $896.30 j The total FERA payrcll for this! 1 week will amount-to $896.30 with a ■ i total of 115 persons employed. ' I On urtban relief work there are 1 75 men and two women who will ' receive $545.90. Nine non-ielief urban men will be paid $103.30. Own1 ers of equipment used on urban pro-1 ' i jects will receive $24.50. I The 27 men working cn rural re- ’ habilitation program in the county will receive $16.80. o fiEV. SEIMETZ IS SELECTED [ Father Seimetz Is Chosen Head Os K. Os C. Fourth Degree Rev. Father Joseph Seimetz, pas1 tor of St. Mary's Catholic church. 1 was elected faithful navigator es ' the Fourth degree of the Knights of Columbus at a meeting held at the K. of C. hall last evening. Other officers elected were: J. G. Niblick, admiral; Thomas Ehinger, Dynois Schmitt, cap- | tain; August Heiman, pilot; Joe ■ Lose, friar; J. S. Colchin, outer sentinel; Lawrence Vi glewede, inner :: sentinel. i A chicken dinner was served by the Eats and Peoples Restaurants. About 25 men attended. The Fourth degree ie an honorary ■ degree conferred on members of the ] Knights of Columbus. i Following the election short talks , were given by the members, Father '< . Seimetz, making the principal talk. | It was decided to hold meetings c f | the organization the fourth Monday I of every month.

URGE RETURN TO GOLD STANDARD Federal Advisory Council Urges Dollar Os Fixed Value Washington. Sept. 28 — (U.R) — The federal reserve board sharply rebuked the federal advisory council today for urging important changes in the administration's financial policies. The action of the council yesterday was “entirely outside their jurisdiction," the board said in a resolution. Federal reserve board members obviously were agitated by the advisory council's financial reform recommendations and were at a loss to explain why the recommendations were not made to the board when the council held its last meeting here on Sept. 18. Chicago, Sept. 28—<U.R>— Return to the gold standard and a dollar of fixed value was urged today by the federal advisory council, a statutory body of the Federal Reserve system, as a necessary prelude to national economic recovery. Recovery cannot even be hoped for the council said in a statement sent to the federal reserve board and member banks, until industry can rely on a gold dollar of "definitely and permanently fixed gold (CONTINUED ON PAGE SIX) — o Supt. Worthman is Taken To Hospital Superintendent of schools M. F. Worthman was reported at noon today to be “slightly improved”. He was taken to the Adams County Memorial Hospital last evening for . observation. The exact nature of ; his illness is not known but he Is 'suffering from an abdomnial com- . plaint. Mr. Worthman spent s me time 1 last week in Indianapolis where specialists examined him. Sin - e his return to this city he has not improved as much as his physicians desired so it was considered best i to take him to the hospital. HAMILTON IS ELECTROCUTED Killer Os Indianapolis Merchant Executed

At Midnight Michigan City, Ind., Sept. 28. — (UP) — Calm and unprotesting. Louis Hamilton of lola, Kan., paid in the electric chair today for the murder of Lafayette A. Jackson, i Indianapolis merchant. Charles Vernon Witt of Bainbridge. Ind., Hamilton’s accomplice in the slaying, was executed in the same chair in the state prison on Nov. 24, 1933. Hamilton walked to the death chair unassisted, conversing quietly with a chaplain. He maintained silence while he was strapped quickly into the seat. The current was turned on at 12:06 a. m. and he was pronounced dead at 12:12. The 29-year-old killer said goodbye to his mother and father and a sistea-, who came here from lola, yesterday afternoon. He refused the regular prison meals yesterday and ate only a quart of ice cream in the last 24 hours. With his execution already delayed four times by supreme court orders, Hamilton maintained hope almost until midnight that h (CONTINUED ON PAGE FOUR) o Rev. Charles M. Prugh Entertains Rotarians Moving pictures taken by Rev.' Charles M. Prugh, -pastor of the Zion Reformed church, on his visit to Germany and Switzerland last summer, were shown at the Rotary meeting last evening. Two reels of scenes from Germany. Switzerland, Heidelberg and Oberammergau were shown. Rev. Prugh prefaced the showing of the pictures with a short talk. He told of the big youth’s day celebration held In Berlin last June and of a duel he witnessed between two Heidelberg students. ißev. Prugh spent about two months in Germany, where he attended Heidelberg university and obtained hie D. T. degree.

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I. J. CORBETT I GIVES ADDRESS I HERE THURSDAY Fort W a y n e Attorney Speaks To Democratic Woman’s Club t I OVER HUNDRED WOMEN ATTEND •I "The only Hung republican can--1 didates offer is going backward, backward to those dark days in 1932 i and early in 1933, when business . was paralyzed”, Francis J. Corbett, . prominent young attorney of Fort . Wayne, stated In an address before . the Denr cratic woman’s club of . Adams county, at a banquet meeti ing held in the basement of the iChristian church last evening. Mr. Corbett was the principal i speaker at the meeting which mark- ■ ed the opening of the fall program ■ of the women’s organization. More i than 125 women attended. The next • meeting will be held in Geneva, Ortober 18. Other speakers were Mrs. Clara 1 Parrott, Fort Wayne, vice-chairman I of the F urth district: Mr.i. Cath- : erine Dinklage. Fort Wayne, and I lArthur R. Holthouse, newspaper ■ editor an t Democratic candidate for •' mayor of Decatur. I Democratic t andidates for city 'offices were guests <,f the womea. ' Those [resent were. Mrs. Ada Mar- ; tin, candidate for clerk-treasurer 1 and a granddaughter of Thomas 1 Johnson, one of the founders of Decatur; Herman Gillig, Albert Mil ! ler and Andrew Appelman. candi- ' I-dates for the city council. George Stults, the other democratic can- ’ didate for the council was unable to attend be; ause of his taking part ,'in a Knights of Pythias program. " Mrs. Fay Smith Knapp, president 11 of the club presided and presented the city candidates and Mrs. James J Briggs, c.unty vice-chairman. Mrs ’ John W. Tyndall, hail charge of the program and introduced the visit- ! ing speakers. Miss Bernice Nelson, 'secretary of the dull read minutes ’ of the previous meeting. A trio composed of Angela Michaud. Marjorie Baumgartner and ; Violet Reppert, sang. A chicken I dinner was served by the ladies laid of the Christian church, y ung |' (CONTINUED ON PAGE THREE, Koeneman Heirs Given Judgment Judge Huber M. DeVoss in the j Adams circuit court today awarded the heirs of the Martin Koenemann ! estate a judgment of $425 f r dam- ■ - ages resulting from his death which ■ followed injuries sustained when he I' was struck by an automobile driven ‘ J by Elizabeth Remington and owned ■ by Margaret Remington on U. S. highway 27. six miles north of De- ■! catur near the Allen county line. The heirs of the Koeneman estate I alleged that the (Remington an; - ■! mobile was driven in a negligent manner. They .asked $10,009 for '' medical bills and other expenses ■ | contracted before Mr. Koeneman’s ■ death on March 29. 1934. ( ' O JUDGE UPHOLDS DAIRY COMPANY 1 I Federal Judge Rules Against Secretary Os Agriculture Wallace k Indianapolis, Sept. 28. — (U.R> — The federal agricultural adjustment administration was restrained from imposing milk marketing restrictions on dairies engaged , l strictly in intrastate business to•'day in a decision of Judge Robert 1 C. Baltzell of southern Indiana fed- ' eral district court. * Judge Baltzell dismissed a suit of Secretary of Agriculture Henry A. Wallace to enjoin the Greenwood Dairy Farms, Inc., from engaging in the distribution of milk. Holding that the dairy’s position 1 of doing business only In Indiana ' removed it from the jurisdiction ‘ of the AAA, the court pointed out that the question of constitutionally of the federal agriculture unit was not pertinent to the case. “It is urged in the brief of the plaintiffs that to deny the prelim- ' inary injunction applied tor inevlt- ' ably means a collapse of the In’’(’oNt’nUElJ ON PAGE SIX)

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Kidnap Prosecutor < I a ■ ’ Attorney General David T. Wilentz of New Jersey, who will' ' prosecute Bruno Richard Haupt- ' mann at Flemington, county seat 'of Hunterdon county, when the l Lindbergh kidnap suspect is extradited to New Jersey. Charges of ; kidnaping anil murder are ex- ’ pected to be lodged against the ' - suspect. REPUBLICANS NAME HAGGARD Auburn Haggard. Monroe, Nominated For Countv Clerk I I Ralph Yager, republican county chairman, today filed the namq of , Auburn Haggard, proprietor of the Haggard Meat Shop at Monroe, In , place of True M. Andrews, as ret publi' an candidate for clerk of the ' Adams circuit court. , Mr. Haggard was nominated at i I a meeting of republican committee-1 . men and committee* men at a con-' ( - vention held this week in the repub-: , lican headquarters in this city. The resignation of Mr. Andrews wa« tendered several weeks ago ’ with the announcement that he intended to move out of the state. His ' ' store was one of those destroyed j I by fire at M nr e several months , ago. Three c ther names were also fil- ! . ed by Mr. Yager today with the county clerk. They were nominated at a convention held recently, to fill the republican ticket. The can-; I didates are: Clarence Smith, cash- ‘ ier of the Farmers State Banlk at - Preble, auditor; Charles K. Champlin. local oil company representa- ' five, county surveyor, and Milton 1 Girod. Kirkland township farmer.’ 1 commissioner of first district. 0 Charge Against Gafl'er Dismissed •I The assault and battery case, . against Ed Gaffer was dismissed in Mayor George Krick’s court late: . Thursday afternoon when Mrs. Gas- . I fer refused ,to press the charges . Mr. Gaffer was arrested at noon , ■: Thursday on an affidavit signed by > i' his wife. ,; . i o Contractor Knows Johnson Secretary One person who is more than ordinarily interested in the resig- ( • nation of Gen. Hugh Johnson is G. j C. Erwin, executive vice-president I of Hoggson Brothers, New York |' contractors who will build the 48 ~ ■houses on the Decatur subsistence,, ' homesteads project. I Miss Frances Robinson, execu-!, tire assistant to the general, was j formerly a secretary to Mr. Erwin.!, Mr. Erwin, who was in Decatur j | several weeks ago, told business i men and sub-contractors who in-j. , terviewed him some interesting j ■ facts about Miss Robinson. Miss Robinson came to the NRA j in a minor secretarial post and rose to the place of executive as-1 sistant at $6,800 a year in only a- - months. In that position she ; became the center of much conI troversy.. , Thousands of the most import-1 ant business men in the country ! stormed the door of Johnson's oft flee each day to interview him on ( code problems. Each had to tell , his story to Mies Robinson before gaining admittance. t Miss Robinson made all appoint- j ments for the general and saw to j , it that he kept them. As an execu. ' five her decisions were of the! utmost importance to the country. She was one of the few persons in , the United States who could speak ' her mind to the general.

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CLAY WILLIAMS IS APPOINTED HEAD OF BOARD Tobacco Manufacturer Chairman Os New Recovery Board GREAT POWER IS GIVEN RICH BERG Washington, Sept. 28 <U.R) — President Roosevelt's new anti-tlepression general stall organized for recovery action today and announced through Director Donald R. Richberg that business is now insured against sudden un-coordinat-ed shifts in new deal emergency policy. Richberg promised there would be no sweeping changes in NRA. Price fixing and production control will be considered from the standpoint of individual industries. He said the organization created by Mr. Roosevelt yesterday should he considered as a “trial set-up” pending congressional action on the future emergency agencies expiring during the next session. In two executive orders Mr. Roosevelt substituted a seven man board for General Hugh S. Johnson's one-man rule of NRA and established over all emergency organizations the industrial emergency committee to fix blue eagle policies and coordinate all antidepression maneuvers. The national industrial recovery board organized today with some of its members in Washington and others listening to proceedings through long-distance telephone | connections. S. Clay Williams, former presi- ■ dent of the Reynolds Tobacco i company, was elected chairman of i the board which will administer I the NRA. He was in Winston ; Salem,, North Carolina, as the 1 action was taken. Richberg's press conference revealed that General Johnson was outsted from NRA authority at 5:15 p. m. yesterday. The* White House announced the new set-up at that moment. All Johnson's authority was shifted to the board subject to industrial committee guidance. The (CONTINUED On’pAGeVoUß)* ROOSEVELT IN TWO MESSAGES Says People Doing Own Thinking; Addresses Police Chiefs Washington. Sept. 28. — (U.R> — President Roosevelt feels that gossip.mongers and rumors from anonymous sources are hampering intelligent discussion of current problems. In a message to the fourth annual women's conference on current problems, meeting in New York city, the President last night directed attention to the growth of independent thinking in the past two years and the part played by false reports in confusing the situation. "More and more people are doing their own thinking.” he said. “The number of ipoll-parrots in our midst is steadily declining —for which we must be very thankful. More and more men and women are looking up their own facts and forming their own opinions. “We are learning to discriminate between news and rumor. As a people we put out tongues in our cheeks when a fact or a series of facts are distorted, no matter what ’(CONTINUED ON PAGE TWO) :—o Membership Day At Church Sunday Next Sunday will be membership day at the Decatur Methodist EpisI copal church. A class of new memI l>ers will be received into the i church and opportunity will be givI en for the baptism of children. Special music has (been secured from Portland and a special message will pie given by the pastor. Rev. H. R. i Caretn. Anyone desiring to unite with the church or parents wishing to ! have children baptized are asked to communicate with Rev. Carson.