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will Hold Program Marking Road Opening

.jjjl’JD AND ■IISHIRE TO ■meet at line Will (lather JJthate Line Novem|Hr u For Program licuw U DIRECTORS K|l (IT RIBBON arrangements, in n nnnpleletl lor the | ul i program at the! -t thio sla*" line Ky ; X.oeoib. . in eonvilli the formal o|>of stale road 527.) niii"' southeast front Ekh Hr to the Ohio line. t general eonthe read, stated at a held at the Rice hotel 1 . vh,' h'lw.**!) Willshire Kj | . ■ .I': O's that assiirani'O can be given « opened by N - 9" and plans were made ~f th- road may bo a « days Itefore and may !«■ pened to limited before the opening prochaniliers commerce of atnr are cooperarranging a program to ■ ll'.l :t : ite lines, weather expressing the comanpreciation for the imKrewl mail. Tyndall, president of the chamber of commerce. Arthur R. Hoithouse. genof the event. Other . named, who will select | commit'ees are: C. J. j well known Decatur attorof the program; Rice, chairman of the earnF.uo Lankenau. of the General ciinmanv. chairman of committee. last evening's meeting. PostW. G. Hoffer. J. A. Cox. of the Herald and Dale | merchant of Willshire, | ■ the Decatur committee Mavar George Kri-k. Mr. chairman of the Willshire ! program was outincluding cutting of the by Stale Highway Directors D. Adams of Indiana and | ■l- M-rri ll of Ohfp. Ta’ks will bv "be two highway di and renresvntativos of j and Decatur will give ‘ Mrt talks. ■ is planned to have the DecaMaml Willshire hands and posts' ’he high school glee clubs. ■ Meshberger. the contrac'or. ■ he nresented to the crowd. program is planned as a of goo 1-will between the I ■* communities and the states j ■Ohio and Indiana. Bo h of the | ■ p road directors have assured ’ ■j’” l *! committee that they will I Bend the meeting. Bi 'he weather is inclement, the I ■•king and musical program! Bl be held In the pavilion ati ff 1 "' 1 park, midway between ■cstnr Hn(l Willshire. The rib-1 K J v ' 1 ' l,p cut at the state line ■ the narty will then proceed Btk to Sunset, in case the weathB is too severe for an out door ■ogram. |A good will tour will be made ■ owing the program. iFrom the E 6 line the caravan .of autos r' d-ive east through Willshire B a then to Decatur, where siglitB*ng trips will he made to sevfcrt nf thp ,Pa,lin R industries, jtc 8 an d t ’ le Federal homestead I Hans do not call for a night I ra m or any special program F Decatur. LL'i* < ''^ PrPr, t committees will Lan T XI wee k and complete f s or the read program. ‘ o “ A± ate Communion A t Presbyterian Church -ommunion of the Lord’o lorrn r W '" ce i fi hrate:i Sunday Y nE: at t ’ le >res hyterian church. , f „ will, meet at the close , o '? n - v BC hool to receive new “ambers. a 1

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Faces Charges in Gang Massacre ■ S Jh i Oil lltllß WWW? Richard T. Galatas, gang leader suspect, and Mrs. Galatas are pictured in custody in Kansas City, where they face charges growing , out of the Kansas City railway station massacre in which Frank Nash. , a convict, and four peace officers were slain. Galatas, accused of participating in the wholesale killings, was arres’ed w r ith his wife in New Orleans in September, and removed to Kansas City to face the charges Mrs. Galatas, accused of conspiracy to defeat the ends of justice, pleaded not guilty at her arraignment and was placed under bond of 125.000. |l

Press Convention At Franklin Oct. 18-20 Franklin. Ind.. Oct. 13 —(UPi More than 300 high school journal istlc ktudente an J 51 instructors are expected Jier.i October 18-2D.for the 13AU juMiual rrmvenikm of thK Indiana (High School Press ass .iation nnd the ninth annual meeting f the i Indiana Journalistic T. achers anil Advisers' association at Franklin college. Mlsd Margaret Sullivan, a j urnulism teacher at South High school Cleveland. 0., will judge newspapers entered in the annual! contest an 1 H. B. Weaver, New Kinaing on. Pa., will judge year I books. Classes in newspaper year books I for high schools will be conducted j during the meeting. o W FINDS WOMAN GUILTY - Nina Cotton Norton Given Sentence of 2 to 21 Years For Murder Fort Wayne. Oct. 13 — <U.R) Nina Cotton Norton. 31. found guilty by a circuit court jury of voluntary manslaughter in the fatal shooting of Fred Kiesel. 34. today was sentenced to serve a two to 21 year term in the Indi- ■ ana woman’s prison at Indianapolis. Tried on charges of second de-; gree murder, the jury received the . case yesterday afternoon and re- 1 turned its verdict after 13 hours | i deliberation. Trial Judge Clarence R. Me-’ Nahb. sentenced the woman immediately after the verdict was I read. The state charged Mrs. Norton . mon-law husband, to death in a shot Kiesel. her estranged com-1 quarrel the early morning of June ! 18. She pleaded self defense. Grain Thieves Will Be Sentenced John Seeking and Ira Carpenter | will be sentenced to lay by Judge Huber M. DeVoss on a charge of grand larceny. They .plead guilty to the charge Friday afternoon. Seeking first pive his name as Lester Myers and he plea 1 guilty ■nder that name The pair are | specifically charged with stealing I 80 bushels of wheat from Franklin | Myers, an Adams county 'ormer; living near the Ohio State line. ' Sheriff Burl Johnson believes that, the arrests of these men will clear; the large number of thefts of grain ■ in Adams and Van Wert counties. Over 1.000 bushels hive be.n reported stolen in the last two months.

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■--- — I ' RELICS LOANED TO MUSEUM Historical Society Receives Many Valuable Articles For Museum Three show cases in the corridor of the court house and the windows in the Bowers building on Monroe street, have already been filled with loans to the new Adams County Historical society. The fourth case in the court house will soon be filled by the j . city Boy Scouts, under the direc- ' tion of Ed Jaherg. scoutmaster of i the American Legion troop. The ■ ' scouts are collecting an exhibit of Indian relics, peculiar to Adams i county. The latest exhibit of relics was loaned to ’he museum hy Ray-i - mond Keller. It is now in the ! building formerly occupied by the ' American Security company on I West Monroe street and consists ! of. two spinning wheels, a candle mold, a pair of wooden shoes, a . muzzle loading rifle and a powder ' horn. Perhaps the oldest collection is the one loaned by Mrs. E. W. Wicks. The most of this collec-' tion is now located in the court! house and includes a sewing basket 125 years old. a doll 5G years 1 old. a doll cart 61 years old and ■ I nn old birth baptism certificate. 1 I A plate 200 years old. loaned by Mrs. Wicks, may be seen in the! 1 Pumphrey Jewelry store window I after Monday. Earl Adams has loaned a leathi er water bucket used for the De- | catur fire department in 1893. a ' directory of Fort Wayne and Allen county and includes Decatur, pub-! i lished for the years 1880 to 1888, I an 1897 Adams county bar docket, I , a light bulb used for 25 years and , still good. This exhibit is in the J court house. J. M. Gaskill has loaned a num-j her of articles which are now on j display in the court house. This I exhibit includes: a candle mold. I two candle holders, a grease | lamp, a candle lantern, a United I States army cap sack, an 1860 ' powder holder and an apple pealer. William Schumacher has loaned several Adams county newspapers which include old Decatur Democrats and Decatur Eagles dating •back to 1870. One copy is an | edition of a Fort Wayne paper. I Mr. Schumacher also loaned a i block of wood on which all the ! county bonds, checks and other ' papers were canceled nearly a ! hundred years ago. The block was still in use uip until several years ago when a modern stamp was purchased by the auditor’s office. The old hammer used for the cancelling has also been loaned by the auditor’s office.

ONLY DAILY NEWSPAPER IN A DAMS COUNTY

Decatur, Indiana, Saturday, October 13, 1934.

FEDERAL GRAND JURY REPORTS Fifty-Two Persons Are Indicted Bv South Bend Grand Jury South Bend. Oct. 13 —A fe'eral grand jury which went into session Tuesday morning presented a report to U. S. Judge Thomas W. Slii k late Fri lay in which they returned 36 indictments n*iming persons in the Fort Wayne, Hamm nd. and South Bend divisions of the northern Indiana district court.: Two of the in-lictments returned I in the Fort Wayne indictments weresetrei, naming 'persons n t yet under arrest, and two others were against persons now in custody elsewhere. but whose names were withheld. Uaposes for the arrest of the defendants secretly indicted will be forwarded t Fort Wayne immediately. Twelve indictmen's naming 12 persons were returned in the South Ben-J division and 18 indictments j naming 20 individuals were returned for the Hamm nd division. Catherine Peck. 24. Fort Wayne, was nmong those .In-lictcd. She was charged in a true bill with having robbed the Ontario post offl ea year ago. She was ares ed recently at Fort Wayne. Others indicted in the F rt Wayne division included iCliirk McKinley and Byral Kent on narcotic charges; E. Maxwell .Bowman charged with having forge! n government check; ZenTth Stanton, charged with possession of a nonregistered still; and Lee Clemen o and Roy Smith, colored, tharged With vi lations of the internal revenue laws. No indictment agufnst Thomas 'Bentz, alleg'd Dillinger gangster wanted for the r ibery of a South Bend bank in which policeman was killeJ was made public. Herman M. Sharps: en. former Scott, Mi" higan pos ol clerk who stole two ; ads of postal money rders and cashed many of them in South Bend, was indicted, lit was alleged that he secured about $lO.000 by cashing the stolen rderw in South Bend, where he formerly lived. JUDGE ACQUITS GENTRY KILLER Mrs. Carrie Gill Acquitted Os Murder Os exKlan Head Jefferson. Wis., Oct. 13 —(UP) —A j Circuit Court jury Friday night ■ f und Mrs. Carrie Gill. 59-year-old widow not guilty on a charge of 'plotting the sluying o' Earl B. Gen- ; try, former Indiana Ku 'Khtx Klan ! bodyguard. The jury of farmers and store ; clerks, which had listened to testi- ! mony for more than a week, received the case at 2:32 p. m. and re i turned its verdict six houre and forty minutes Inter. Mrs. Gill wept as ehe heard the : verdict. A ripple i f applause ran through the court room. The state charged she conspired ‘ with Carl Church, itinerant painter i to kill Gentry, her common-law husi band, an d tbit she ipaid him S6O tor I the crime. Church Confeses Church confessed the slaying of Gentry, former bodyguard for 'D. C. Stephenson, tne-time grand Iragon I of the Indiana Ku Khtx Klan, and received a senteive of life imprisonment. Both Church and the wi 'ow denied they had plotted to kill Gentry, who stood tri'il in Noblesville. Indiana, nine years ago with Stephenson for the murder of Madge (CONTINUED ON PAGE SIX) o — Pope Pius Not In Good Health Vatican City. Italy Oct. 13—(UP) —The health of Poipe Pius XI was said today to have been somewhat impaired by worry over events in Spain, Fnince and Jugoslavia during the past week an 1 he will n t be permitted to deliver a radio address to the Eucharistic congress at Buenos Aines, next Sunday.

Tickets For Dance Placed On Sale Tickets for the dance sponsored I by the Young Democratic Club j went on sale today. The dance | will be held at the Decatur Country Club. Friday, October 19. Fred Schurger, who will be master of ceremonies, met with the committee at noon today to select an entertainment committee. Dr. R. E. Daniels and Miss Jeanette Clark are co-chairmen of the dance. Qther members of the general committee are Mary Cowan. Cleo Werling. Bernice DeVoss. Gerald Vizard and Marcellus Miller. Tickets may be obtained from the committee, Lucille Miller. Robert Heller, Ed Kauffman, John L. DeVoss, Ruth Macklin, Herman Om. lor. Severin Schurger, or Robert Cole. At the meeting to be held in Ge-. neva. Tuesday night, county dance , committees will be appointed. The tickets will sell for 50 cents for I couples and 35 cents for singles. —o— TO DISTRIBUTE FIVE PER CENT Old Adams County Bank Distribution Monday, October 29 A distribution of five per cent to depositors, making a toal of 1 > i per cent since the bank closed in May 1932. will be made by Leo Yager, liquidating agent for the Old Adams County bank of this city. The payment will amount to about $24,000 and will he matte on October 26. Mr. Yager announced The distribution has been approved by the department of financial institutions of Indiana. The distribution is figured on tot tai deposits of more than $461,000 and is the third to be made by the bank. The first payment was for four per cent, and the second for six per cent of the amount on deposit when the bank closed. The ; three cash distributions total more than $70,000. The checks will be ready October 26 and any day thereafter. Mr. Yager stated. Depositors are asked to call at the bank for them. Morris Stults, state banking exj aminer, recently completed an aud- ! it of the local bank. His report is * expected shortly and Mr. Yager stated that the depositors would be informed through the press as ' to the result of the audit. It will show total transactions made during the 'process of liquidation, the amount collected and the amount paid to depositors. BLIZZARD HITS NEW ENGLAND Heavy Snow Falls In Maine And Eastern States Today i ' Boston Oct 13—(UP)—The most 1 I severe early season blizzard in New . England's history, mged today, witli . far northern sections already kne . deeip in snow. Maine was hardest hit, but nearly every portion of the six north ast- < ern states felt effects of the unpredicted storm. ! Thnee vessels were reported in I distress in New England waters. A fifth cf Maine’s bumper potato crop (53'885,1000 bushels) was .. threatened with ruin. Telephoni’, .! electric lines and power lines in that state wens crippled. Railroad, trolley and bus schedules were dfs- , rupted. Highways were blockaded by snow drifted by a stiff northeast wind, with hundreds of motorists I marooned la stalled on isolated 1 ri ads. Condition Reported Favorably Today i The condition of Superintendent M. F. Worthman, who is a patient t at the AOiins County Memorial Hospital, was reported to be favor 5 abje at neon today, by the attending physician.

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MINTON SPEAKS HERE OCT. 29 Democrat Candidate For U. S. Senate To Speak At Rally Sherman Minton, Democratic i candidate for United States sena- ' tor will be the principal speaker at a big rally to be held in Decat- | tur. Monday afternoon. October 29. Plans are going forward to make the rally an outstanding event in the present campaign. Rufus Stuckey, who staged the big parade in the 1932 campaign, has been named chairman of the parade a- I gain this year. A short sketch of Mr. Minton’s life and political career follows: •’A rugged, independent, self- i made man whose individualism, I high character and lofty motives ! !are natural products of the I struggle a»d self sacrifices he I made to equip himself for statesmanship. “Born, October 20, 1890, in a humble cottage in Georgetown, Floyd county community of plain people and lean surrounding hills, ' Sherman Minton with a captivating personality, a will to win and a thirst for knowledge climbed i niche by niche from poverty ridden surroundings to the top of his profession and into public service. “Since he was twelve years old. a lad just off the poor-land hill farm where his mother had died in a log-cabin home he has earned his own way in life; fought for and won an education against formidtable odds; won honors as a scholar at Indiana University, Yale school or Law. the University of Paris; won fame as an athlete on college football and baseball team; volunteered for service in the World War, serving 27 months, with more than a year overseas on the Soissons, Belgian and Verdun fronts; won a partnership in one of the leading law firms of southeastern Indiana; organized the New Albany American Legion post, serving a term as its com(CONTINUED ON PAGE FIVE) INDIANA DEATH TOLLIS LOWER Fatal Traffic Accidents Are Lower Than In Other States Indianapolis, Ind., Oct. 13—(U.R) Although still above the 1933 figj ure, traffic accidents have shown a marked decrease as a result of the ! state highway commission’s safety 1 campaign, figures announced here today showed. Through elimination of traffic hazards and widening of shoulders lon virtually every heavily traveled highway in the state, fatal accidents have shown a smaller in|crease than has been reported by 40 other states, James D. Adams, i chairman of the highway commission said. Traffic fatalities have teduced nearly 50 per cent on heavily traveled roads where shoulders have been widened from 40 and 50 feet to 100 feet, Adams said. A total of 582 fatalities resulted from traffic accidents during the first seven months of this year, Adams said. The figure represents an increase of nearly eight per cent over the 539 fatalities during the same period of 1933. “The increase, alarming as it is,’’ Adams said, “is far below the 20 per cent increase in motor vehicle fatalities reported by a group of 40 states.’’ The part which widened shoulders play in reducing fatalities is demonstrated by a six_months survey of section on U. S. highways 20, 30, 31, and 41. all heavily traveled roads. In 1933 there were 19 fatalities from motor vehicles accidents on section which were later widened. Only ten fatal accidents occurred on the same roads after shoulders were widened. Adams said. The highway chairman said wid- ’ ON' PAGE *SIX*) *

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To Speak Here II H j l y L. -.4 JR9 Sherman Minton, former coun- ■ selor for the Indiana public service i ! commission, and now Democratic ■ candidate for the United States I senate, will be the principal speak-: er at a big Democratic rally in Decatur Monday afternoon. October 29. STATE ISSUES BOOK ON TAXES — Booklet Is Furnished For Indiana Legislative Candidates Indianapolis, Oct. 13 —(Special) I —The state government, through ; •. its three new tax laws —the gross ; 1 income, the intangibles and the | excise taxes —contributed $10,608,338 toward the reduction of local property taxes for schools during : I the 1933-34 school year, according to a booklet prepared for legisla- i tive candidates by Clarence A. ' Jackson, director of the state ■ gross income tax division. The booklets are being mailed | this week to both Republican and I i Democratic candidates. To counties and local govern- 1 . ments in addition to schools the. ' state distributed $1,145,574. the ; I booklet says, and adds that if the total amount of state distributions to schools and civil units from the I new taxes during the first twelvemonth period of distributions haxl had to be raised through property taxes, a state wide rate of 32.5 . cents on each SIOO of property i would have been necessary. The major portion of the book-1 1 let is devoted to a discussion of the results of operation of the gross income tax law. and a com- ' parison of the present law with other laws expected to be presented to the 1935 legislature as substitutes for the gross income 1 tax. : “Since state platforms of both I the Democratic and Republican ' • parties advocate either the retention of the gross income tax, with | amendments found advisable, or the passage of a retail sales tax. ; we believe the information we have prepared will be helpful to , all candidates,” Jackson said. “The booklet is nonpolitical in , nature.” , Arguments in favor of a con- , sumers’ retail sales tax to replace ‘ the gross income tax are present- I ed in the book by G. Fred Wied- i man of South Bend and L. F. , Shuttleworth of Indianapolis, offi(CONTINUED* ON~PAGE* FIVE)* 1 1 Dan Flanagan To Speak Here Monday Dan C. Flanagan, Fort Wayne i i attorney and Republican candi- . date for judge of the state appeli late court, will be the chief speak-; . er at the Young Republican Vot- !■ ers club banquet at the Rice i Hotel, Monday evening at 6:45 ( o'clock. All the county Republican candidates will be present and [ Jesse Sutton, county Republican , chairman, will be in charge of the banquet. Tickets are on sale for 50 cents , a plate. A large crowd is expected.

PAYMENT OF RANSOMFAILSTO BRINGRELEASE Relatives Fear Mrs. Stoll May Not Have Survived Brutal Kidnaping SEARCH MARSHES NEAR THE HOME Louisville, Ky., Oct. 13. — (U.R) — Police anti relatives of young anti wealthy Mrs. Berry Stoll betrayed today their fear that she may not have survived a brutal kidnaping from a sick bed by organizing a huge search of desolate districts near her home. Fifty county policemen and American Legion members left the Louisville armory at 9:30 a.m. to search the marshy bottoms of the Ohio river and the brakes of numberless small feeder streams. Federal agents and other investigators. temporarily balked by fear they might disrupt negotiations with the kidnaper, expressed open fear that they might be witnessing a parallel of the Lindbergh baby case. The Lindbergh’s infant son was found dead not for from home after a ransom was paid. All signs indicated that the $50,000 ransom demanded hy the abductor of 26 year old Mrs. Stoll was paid or cached for the kidnaper yesterday. Except for the visit of an unidentified airplane at the 16 acre Stoll estate at 2:50 a. m. today there was no indication that the ; cap’ive woman’s family had re- ' ceived a message. The plane, , despite orders throughout the . state to ground private airplanes, circled over the house for 10 minI utes before droning away in the ! darkness to the southeast. Police and federal agents proi fessed ignorance of its mission and members of the multi-million-aire family would not be interviewed. An unconfirmed but circumstantial rumor said that the ransom money—a package of $5 and $lO hills —was sent bv express to a nearby town but was unclaimed today. It was considered possible that delivery of the package to an isolated express agency office was the mission of young Berry Stoll, vice-president of the Stoll Refining company, in a wild automobile dash across cent tai Kentucky yesterday. The dis'raught husband, disheveled and red-eyed from lack cf sleep in the last 60 hours, refused to discuss his errand beyond a formal statement. “We have carefully fulfilled instructions.” the announcement said. “Met all ransom requirements and the awaiting fulfillment of promises. The parties may act freely without fear of hindrance.” COST IS MORE THAN DAMAGES Court Costs More Than Damages Awarded In Local Law Suit It cost Alams County over SIOO dollars in jury fees and expensra for the S9O damage suit in which Mark Smith sued Clarence Habegger for damages following an automobile accident on December 30, 1933 in the city of Berne. The jury f und for the defendant late Friday afternoon and the witness and other court costs w re taxed against the plaintiff. The county however, must ipay the jury. The jury was first called in Monday but was ex- used b?fore the case was completed because of the death of Louis Dolch, a brother of Jacob Dolch, one of the juror. It was called in again Friday morning and rendered its verdict later in the day. The county must pay each of the jurors $2.50 a day which for the two days would amount to S6O. Traveling expenses of the jurors at tive cents a mile will average about one dollar each. As the original panel was net excepted in its entirety extra jurors hire and expenses will make the total come to over SIOO.