Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 32, Number 234, Decatur, Adams County, 2 October 1934 — Page 1

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FORMER UTILITY CZAR GOES TO TRIAL

M —— democrats Will Open Campaign Saturday

Congressional CANDIDATES TO GIVE SPEECHES Os Indiana And owning Of Tennessee To Speak Here OFFICIALLY OPEN CAMPAIGN Adams county Democrats open their campaign a big rally to be held in city. Saturday night, October 6. County Chairman han Nelson announced toTwo representatives in Congress will be the speakers the meeting, which will be in the Decatur Catholic high school auditorium. Judge H. M. of the Adams circuit court will preside as chairman. I Farley from the will be principal ed the local district in confor the past two years. He made an enviable record and candidate for re-election. Farley is a member of the currency commission ing his first term in congress has aided and been of great service to the farmers, business and individuals in his unswerving support of President Roosevelt and in the passage of , New Deal legislation. Browning of Tennessee is one of the leaders of the majority in the national house representatives and the third king member of the judiciary committee. He is a brilliant and careful speaker and his part in CONTINUED ON PAGE FIVE ■ — — Catholic Alumni Dance Thursday Plans are nearly complete for the Catholic high school alumni dance to be held at the Decatur country Thursday. October 4. d Foos, has been named general chairman and Severin Schurchairman of the committee on arrangements. several speciality dances have been scheduled and Hal Teeters’ orchestra will play for the affair. The Admission will he 50 cents a couple and the public is invited to ■•i-The dance will begin at 9:30 Bock. Bxican Is Fined I For Intoxication Beadirs guilty to a charge of B* f Itfoaication. Peter Oonteur. i B«n living near Bobo, was finBU and ccets by Mayer George | Bk in tity court Monday evening. BMexican was arrested Saturday B™ 0 n by chief Sephus Melchi. , I*' 1 ' release diipon pavnrent of Bum. [ ‘ o >'■ mer Peterson Sues Railroad ™ er E - Petersen, 32. of Fort Pte has filed a sult for ,20.000 the Pennsylvania Railrcad | Wny in federal court at Fort i»e for personal injuries allegre lived in a train-truck crash I. S. Highway No. 27 one mile 3 “ of D «atur on October 14, a tru-k driver for the Cartage Company cf Fort >'"e. alleges that he wae riding » Mssenger in the cab of a truck , ( ,.. rai ‘ M - °I )p rated by Glen Fitch, the truck was struck by a ( P^ liß6nCe on the [:art of thf> aar ’t is charged in tliat there ■in watchman onjriuty at the .. " s „ and -at the train, allegedvpling ,at a speed of? 5 miles oa„h U n di<l not si snal its ap- „ ,' ste rsen said that he was „ to such an extent that he ln a hospital until , en ■' 2 * l, t 934 and that he has i<nl» e L“ anently ' n i ure( ' and will t " '.“P er cent efficient in earn-1 *

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Vol. XXXII. No. 234.

(Officers And Committees Meet The officers and standing com J | mittees of the Parent-Teachers as I sociation of the Central school met | in the school building Monday as .ternoon at 3:30 o’clock. Plans for; the year were discussed and’ var ious committees were instructed ' concerning their work. The theme of the program this year is based on "Today’s Child in Tomorrow's World.’’ This program is advocated by the National; I Parent-Teachers congress. Definite announcement will be made with respect to the P-T program before each meeting is held A larger membership is solivitel ’ and the cooperation of every Cen tral school parent is desired. YOUNG VOTERS ORGANIZE CLUB Young Democratic Club Is Organized Here Monday Evening A erdwd of over 50 enthusiastic Democrats attended the organization meeting of the Young Democratic Club held in the county headquarters Monday evening. A goal cf 500 members was set .by the organization and plans were discussed for a membership drive to begin this week. A committee was appointed, composed of Robert Heller, chairman. Jotin DeVoss. Dee Fryba. k, Don Farr and Dr. R. E. Daniels, who will head the drive 1 this week. A short business meeting was i scheduled for Friday night in the Democratic hradquartens at which . f time officers will be elected. The matter of holding a dance and banquet before the election was discussed and approved. A committee will be appointed soon to work out the details for these affairs. Short taks if encouragement were given to the new organization by party leaders. Those wh? spoke were Mrs. Faye Smith Knapp. G. Remy Bierly. Mrs. Ada Martin. August Hieman. and Gerald Vizard. Membership cards will be avail able from the membershi'pc mmit(OONTIXURD ON PAGE FIVE) ——-—o ■' — — '■ — John Hammitt Is Seriously Burned John Hammitt, route 2. Bryant, is in a serf us condition at the Adorns county memorial hospital, suffering from burns he received Monday afternoon. Hammitt was severely burned from below the wais<e to the scalp when his clothes caught fire when he poured coil oil in the ! stove at his home. o Church Board Meets Tonight The official board cf the First Evangelical church will meet Tuesday at 7 p. m. in the church parj lore. — o WOULD EXTEND PUBLIC WORKS Secretary Ickes Will Seek Large Appropriation From Congress Washington, Oct. 2. — (U.R) Secretary of the Interior Harold 1,. Ickes Indicated today he would seek a “real'' public works appropriation from the next congress to carry the recovery program until industry has resumed normal activities. “I would like to see a real appropriation," Ickes said when ask ed if he would seek an additional appropriation of $1,000,000,000. “I think the public works program has more than justified itsself. I think we should go ahead i ; with it until we are out of the de-, pression. We should be prepared, however, to slacken up when pri- ’ vate industry has resumed its nor- , mal activity.” I Ickes estimated that it would require $200,000,000 to carry on the < I *7eONTIKUED ON PAGE SIX) I

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LABOR. CAPITOL T BATTLING OVER TRUCE PROPOSAL; Roosevelt’s Proposal Variously Received By Labor, Industry 800 COAL MINERS OUT ON STRIKE By United Press President Roosevelt's proposal for an industrial truce to speed ! recovery invoked this response today. Capital:—ln New York, the National Association of Manufacturers challenged lalmr to accept the truce and asked President I Roosevelt to guarantee preservation of the status quo. Labor: —In San Francisco, labor leaders attending the American Federation of Itabor conventl n doubted the association's sincerity, claiming it had defied court and NRA rulings. Meanwhile, new strikes began. , including 800 coal miners who quit work in southwest Virginia. The labor convention mapped a militant fight for the 30 hour week and protection of the right of collective bargaining. Washington. Oct. 2 —<U.R>- President Roosevelt's proposal for a , truce in the perennial warfare between labor and capital threw those historic antagonists into another battle today over exactly i what the chief executive meant. This paradoxical turn of affairs i found labor chieftains in. San, Francisco making unr-i mpliment- : ary statements concerning the sincerity of employers and the National Manufacturers’ Association challenging the American (continued’ ON PAGE FIVE) ASK CHANGE IN DIVORCE LAWS Social Workers In Conference Favor Change In State Laws Indianapolis. Oct. 2.— (U.R) —Enactment of more stringent marriage and divorce laws as a step toward solution of the ‘alarming” child delinquency problem was favored today by the 43rd annual state social workers conference. The plan was recommended by its president. Mrs. Edmund Burke Ball. Muncie. The conference is expected to select a committee to study the marriage-divorce law situation so that "subnormal children in Indiana may dwindle in numbers and that we may have pride instilled in the blood of our children.” “We need better and more uniform marriage and divorce laws," Mrs. Ball said. "And the persons legally qualified to perform the marriage ceremony should know something about the folks they are uniting and should refuse marriage: to unfit applicants." The annual conference, which opened Sunday night with approximately 1,000 probation and welfare workers, state penal and correc. ;tional institution heads and others in social service work attending, will be concluded today. Eightyseven counties are represented at >♦♦• ♦ ♦ • • (CONTINUED ON PAGE FIVE) —o — Rehearsals For Play Are Started Rehearsals for ,the home talent play, "Crazy Politics", will begin ' this evening at seven o’clock at I the American Legion hall. The play is sponsored by the Psi i lota Xi sorority and at least 100 local people will take part in the;, presentation. In addition to the . cast, composed of prominent men . and women, there will be a large chorus and special groups of girls and boys. The play will be staged at the , Catholic high school auditorium, October 11 and 12 and tickets will be placed on sale this week.

ONLY DAILY NEWSPAPER IN ADAMS COUNTY

Decatur, Indiana, Tuesday, October 2, 1934.

Ready to Prosecute Insull plmbP I JF B|mß a ... ' ■* " - * When the long awaited trial of Samuel Insull and sixteen oth--r defendants finally gets under way these federal officials will be the I prosecutors. United States District Attorney Dwight Green is pictured examining documents pertinent to the case, with itis aids. Front (left to right): Special Assistant United States Attorney Forest A. Harness. Mr. Green and Leo J. Hassenauer. first assistant to Green. In ‘ the rear: Special Assistants Leslie E. Slater (left) and Harold Huling.

SCHOLARSHIP TO BE GIVEN Purdue WT 11 Award Scholarship For 8-Weeks Short Course A scholarship covering the registration fee for any of the four 1935 i eight weeks short courses in agri--1 culture at Purdue university will be awarded in Adams county to the winner of a county essay contest which is to be conducted this fall, it was announced today by Roy L. Price, county advisor of the Purdue agricultural alumni association. The scholarship, which is offered by the board of trustees of the university, will be awarded for the best essay written by an Adams county resident on “Farming as a Business”. The scholarship will have a value of $lO. covering the registration tee for any of the four short courses which are to be offered the coming winter. The rules of the contest provide that the scholarship award will be made only if at least five or more contestants participate in the county contest, and if the essays are deemed worthy by the judges. Contestants must be eighteen or more years of age by January, 1935. The essays will be judged by a committee of three, composed of the president of the <ounty former Purdue agricultural student association. the president of the county farm bureau, and the count)' superintendent of schools. In ease any of these men can not serve, a substitute may be appointed by Mr. Price.. The essays will be graded on (CONTINUED ON PAGE FIVE) AMANDA CROSS DIES SUDDENLY Mrs. John Cross Victim Os Acute Indigestion Monday Evening Mrs. Amanda Ann Cross. 75. wife of John Cross, died suddenly at her heme four miles east and two miles north of Berne at 7 o'clock Monday evening. Death was caused by acute indigestion. The deceased was born in Blue ‘Creek township September 24. 1559. She married John Cross O tober 16. ; 1879. Surviving are the husband, one daughter. Mrs. Hilda Burkhart, eaet of Monroe; one sister, Mrs. Ervin Srickscn. Cooperst wn. N. D.; and two brothers, Scott McDaniel. Jefferson township and J. W. McDaniel. Los Angeles, Cal. Funeral services will be held at the home at 1:30 o’clock Thursday afternoon and at 2 o’clock at the Mt. Hope church, with the Rev. L. M. Pierce oficiating. Burial will be made in the church cemetery.

* ARE YOU REGISTERED? Are you registered for the 11 November election? If you were not registered tor I the primary last May and wish to vote in November, you must register by October 8. I If you changed voting pre- j j * cincts since last May. you must file a transfer with the county : clerk, not later than October 8. If in doubt about, being regist- II i ' ered or in the correct jiWMRct, J| .11 get in touch with your precinct l.i committeeman or county clerk ■ in the court house, before Oct. |. : 8FOURTH MEMBER UNDER ARREST 1 j ■ Catherine Peck Arrested As Member Os Putman Robber Gang ‘ Officials in this county will not attempt to have Christine Peik. 24. of Fort Wayne, brought here for ' trial unless she is acquitted on a post office robbery charge in Ita- , grange county. Sheriff Burl Johnson announced today. Miss Peck was arrested in Fort Wayne Saturday night and accused ; of being the fourth member cf a gang which terrorized small stores and filling stations in Indiana and ' 1 Ohio a year ago. She is wanted in Adams county as a member of the gang which robbed the general store at Magley. I She is specifically charged with aiding Earl Putman, notorious Ind-' i iana-Ohio gunman who was shot 'and captured a few months ago in Van Wert county, in the robbery of I the Ontario, Lagrange county, post j office on September 28. 1933. Miss ■Peck made no denial cf her guilt i and was b un i over to the U.S. disI trict court under bond of $l. 11 00 and ' Is now being held in the Huntington ; county jail. ; Mildred Davis of near Van Wert, I I Ohio, and Mahlon LaCrosse are the other two members of the gang which were captured by federal and . civil police authorities. Reception Wednesday For Pastors, Wives The members of the United Breth- > ren church wil give a reception ! WednjMday night in the church ' basement for all the Decatur pastors and their wives at 8 o'clock. Members and friends of the church , are invited to attend. Charity Board To Make Regular Visit The Adams county chairty board ' will make its quarterly visit to the ; county jail and infirmary Friday afternoon. All members of the board ■ are requested to meet at the jo.il ■Friday afternoon at 3 o'clock and will go from there to the county j i farm.

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NEW JERSEY TO TRY HAUPTMANN Governor Moore Determined To Ask Extradition From N. Y. Trenton, N. J.. Oct. 2 —<U.R>—New Jersey is determined to extradite Bruno Richard Hauptmann from Bronx county to try him on charges of kidnaping and murdering the Lindbergh baby, Gov. A. Harry Moore announced today after a Conference with New York and 11 New Jersey officials. "We hope to extradite him and get him here before the extortion trial in New York," Gov. Moore said, “but we can not at this time set a definite date for his extradition." Officials Confer New York, Oct. 2.— (U.R) —New Jersey and New York officials con- ' ferred at Trenton. N. J., today on prosecution of Bruno Richard Hauptmann on a charge of kidnaping and murdering the Lindbergh baby, while dozens of investigators continued turning up bits of circumstantial evidence connecting him more firmly with the crime, j District Attorney Samuel Foley of Bronx county, who obtained an i indictment against Hauptmann charging extortion, left for Trenton to confer with Gov. A. Harry I Moore and Attorney General David ! T. Wilentz. After the conference, i New Jersey may begin proceedings to extradite Hauptmann to (CONTINUED ON PAGE FIVE) Organize Historical Society Here Thursday A meeting will be held in the Delator high school building Thursday evening at 8 o’clock to organizethe Adams county historical society. 1 Several short talks have been schedule! for the meeting. Membership fees will probably be ne dollar a year. Anyone interest- j ed in the movement which will sponsor the collection and preservation of historical objects, data, ; and records is asked to attend this meeting. o Sister Os Decatur Residents Is Dead Mrs. Wilda Potts. 69. of Fort Wayne, sister cf Mrs. Capitola Clark and Mrs. Margaret Zeigler of. Decatur, died Monday morning at 6 o’tlock at the home of a son, Merle Potts, 1012 McKinnie avenue Fort Wayne. The husband. Sam Potts, six children, Mrs. Harlan Hershey of Kalida. Ohio. Mrs. Jesse Railing of Worthingtcn. Ohio. Red Railing of Superior. Nebraska. Richard Potts of New Haven and Glen and Merle Potts of Fort Wayne, an-d two brothers. Wilbur Lcrd, Fort Wayne. Frank Lord of Arizona, and two sisters. Mrs. Margaret Zeigler and Mrs. Otpitola Clark of Decatur. ' survive. Twenty one grandchildren \ and three great grandchildren also survive. THIRTY-HOUR WEEK IS GOAL American Federation Os Labor Holding Annual Convention San Francisco. Oct. 2 — (U.R) I Against the militant background laid down by its leadership, organized labor today mapped its major objectives — the 30-liour working week and the protection of its right of collective bargaining—in the second day of the American Federation of Labor. ■ convention. Most of the work was being done in committee rooms and conferences. as the leaders cautiously \' probed the sentiment of the 433 , delegates regarding the fighting]' program offered by President William Green and the executive council in the opening session. The convention itself set an example it hopes industry will follow by putting its sessions on | the basis of a six-hour day and a I (CONTINUED ON PAGE SIX)

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County To Receive $4,643 Distribution Indianapolis, Oct. 2 — (U.R) — Apportionment of $752,681 to be distributed among counties Oct. 15 as the semi-annual allotment of state intangibles tax collections was announced today by William E. Storen, state treasurer. | When received by the counties, 75 per cent will be allotted to the school funds and the remainder to the general funds. County allotments include: Adams, $4,463; Allen, $43,256; Blackford, $3,195; Wells $4,824. GIVE EVIDENCE MURDER TRIAL Mother, Sister And Friend Os Murdered Girl Give Testimony Wilkesbarre. Pa., Oct. 2—(U.R) — ] Three women told a murder trial ; jury today how the romance of ‘ Robert A. Edwards and Frieda ] McKechiiie faded into an Ameri- ( can tragedy. The mother, sister, and a girl 1 friend of Frieda testified at the ' trial of Edwards on charges of j murdering his childhood sweet-, heart to clear the way for a ro-1 inance with another girl. A fourth i witness, a physician, told of i Frieda’s visit to him and confirmed that she was to have become a mother. In clear, unemotional tones, Mrs. George MeKechnie relat'd I the story of her daughter's romance and told how it was ‘breaking Frieda's heart and mine’ when the other girl won Edward's affections “He (Edwards) said, Don’t cry,’ Mrs. McKechnie testified. Then on the morning wh< n Frieda failed to return home — the morning after the state char’(continuw’onT’ag’e’ HVE)’ SAWHAUPTMANN NIGHT OF GRIME Chicago Civil Engineer Saw Hauptmann Near Lindbergh Home Chicago, Oct. 2. — (U.R) —William B. Dennis, Chicago civil engineer, I asserted today to department, of justice agents that he believes he saw Brune Hauptmann, Lindbergh baby kidnaping suspect, near the Lindbergh home in Hopewell. N. | J., on the night the crime was committed. Dennis said he recognized Hauptmann “positively" from a newspap,er photograph. Motoring with his wife, Dennis said, he was halted on a road ’ southeast of Hopewell by a man . who borrowed his tire pump to re-1 pair a tire. That man was Hauptmann, he said. In the car. a gray four-door se- ] dan of median) price class, Dennis told federal agents, were a blonde , woman and a man almost covered ' with a blanket in the rear seat.: ; DeDnnis said he thought the man I had a bulky object on his lap. ; A few days after the kidnaping, Dennis said, he talked over with j his wife the possibility that they (CONTINUED ON PAGE FIVE) o Commissioners Grant Nine Old Age Pensions — Until nocn today the Adams coun-1 ty commissioners had allowed nine additional old age pensions which will range in monthly payments from $1.50 to $lO each. The new pensions will total $70.50 a month. Last month there were 149 persons receiving old age pensions in amounts from $5 to $lO each. The total paid out last month was $1,054. The commissioners also awarded 1 several contracts for supplies for the next three months at the Adams county infirmary. The otiI tracts were awarded as follows: Fisher and Harris grocery $528.11; NiT.)li-.k Co.. $528.11 for women's 'clothing; Millers Bakery, 1% pound loaves at 8% cents and two pound j loaves at 11 cents each, the Charles Teeple, men's clothing at $49.75.

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SAMUEL INSULL CASE OPENS IN FEDERAL COURT Insull And Associates Face Charges Os Defrauding Investors INSULL BELIEVES VINDICATION SURE Chictigtf, Oct. 2—- ®J.R> - Samuel Insull, the glint of buttle in his deep-sunk eyes, came into federal court today to stand trial in connection with the greatest industrial debacle of the century—the collapse of his $2,(M)0,000,000 util'tv empire. The fallen croesus, an Aladdin whose magic touch brought unreckoned millions within his command, entered the courtroom of Federal Judge James IL Wilkerson at 9:53 o’clock. His step was sprightly, his jawset as he marched down the aisle ' of the court over thick beige car- ■ peting. The courtroom, austere in its emptiness, had been closed to j spectators until Insull and his 16 | co-defendants were ushered in. The trial got under way 10 minutes later as Clerk Dennis J. O'- ' Sullivan of the federal court read I the indictments against the onetime monarchs of finance in a rapid monotonous drone. Judge Wilkerson garbed in black judicial robes and toying with its ' black cord, sat quietly as the inI dictment was read. To all apnearances the trial of Insnll— unfolding the drama of an ■; English lad who rose from a booki keeper’s bench in a London office ' to fabulous wealth —held no more . interest for him than the everyi day routine of his court. ■ ' “The United States of America versus Samuel Insull, Sr., No. i I 26900," road the clerk. ] The 74-year old Insull. at the ■ I end of a weary odyssey which i carried him almost around the ; world in flight from the law. I listened attentively as the clerk | read the charges rapidly. They recited that the defendants. all of whom rode to riches 1 on the crest of the Insull wave. ; were guiltv of using the United ' States mails to defraud trusting I investors. Glittering promises ■ were mailed to thousands of per‘i sons, the government charged, to i sell $143,000,000 in stock of the Cornoration Securities company. The securities unit was a major I link of the Insull empire that I reached into 23 states. ; Insull. seated 30 feet from the ] mahogany car of justice, cocked i a hand to his ear to hear the I indictment read. ] Scores of spectators elbowed ’(CONTINUED* ON PAGE FIVE) Money Stolen From Civil War Veteran Over SSOO in cash and a Civil war pension check was stolen ■ from Howard Parr who lives with :T. M. Parr on a farm several miles east of Berne. Thieves broke into the house pnmotiiue Monday night and escap■ed with the monev unheard by ' the members of the family who I were asleep. None of the doors nt tb" farm residence was locked, i Mr. Pai r kept the money hidden in his clothing o Hospital Board Meeting Delayed The meeting of the Adams Coun- ] ty hospital board which was to have ' been held Monday night to award I the contract for a stoker to be installed in the heating plant of the j institution has been postponed. It pr‘bably will be held the latter part of this week. 0 Suits Against County Council Wednesday i A hearing will be held in the I Adams circuit c urt Wednesday on ■ four suits filed by former deputy - assessors against the county coun- • ■ cil in an effort to get additional payments for back salary which they claim is due them from 1932. The s plaintiffs are Lee Stults. Leigh I Bowen. Charles Marshand and Jay I Cline. Henry B. Heller, county at- ) torney, will represent the county council.