Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 32, Number 246, Decatur, Adams County, 16 October 1934 — Page 1

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||EW BUSINESS him will If BUILT HERE L #( onnell And Sons | Wil! Construct On I Berth Third St. CO. BB TO OCCUPY SITE | < | nitxleni brick ■biii’dii 1,11 |.\ I McOoinull .mil llil'llE n | M I. " holt-side l<>.1 this city, on ■nrih *• "ppositi■the Fi"! i onnell Imine. I The ’t floor of the build- 1 I w tothelnteiInatiotrH II u \ester company. ■ f or a \ <11(1 sales room l ini f th' ■!""'■ " '** nia ■ into » ">eiits er used ■ a , gtor I romp*' I u'ofi Id eg. one of th< - the Itownji - ' '’’al > '-ars. will Ibegin * >4. I’led M< (’oniedl ■ stated Th.' general contract has . I been 1 ■ >•* • lixal cutiI I age of Third stre-t. I ' ,n ( I back 1 ' tile east. ■ Ab .! he built under I "t»- Th.-re will I not br or floor suppor-s I In the udng I used i unction of the I buiMh It will be made fire- . o< i I site es frame house now I I loedßr ha This how? «ts I I I I I in S McConnells also ' I own t uning the site on ■ the n bri and the house will be I moved lot. according <o, I I morin f the large house is imI praeti :■! tlie structure will be I wreck I r ' for mote than a I l |a lf 1 ■ < for the Inn I iiatjft: ,>mpany. statI ed hi I l ' le h > niily I SB' ' reached by repre—l seats : the Harvester coniI pa>j: I °t I 1 "ding agriculture terrs. the International company d. bled to locate a wareI tn I in ot | Th- McConnolls have other and the the first uni! I 1! a ■" i* nal structu f ■ faith in the grdw»h I of and believe this is a | to invest in real ■ (■* ’"'l McConnell was quo*I jd plans. The new buiid- ' ready by January 1. ° — — ■ ' — in Lite Term For Killing Postmaster ii-th. Ind., Oct, IB— (IT’)- | •ding guilty to .> charge of I ’ H. Rainforth, 45,. ister ahj storekeeper at I htood July 13, James An ler1. Louisville, Ky., was sen- ■ in Crawford circuit court to ! iprisonnient. man Ralph. 31, Evansville, <1 with An lerson in conns' • ith the shooting of Rainforth, a robbery, pleaded not guilty ureter charge. __ jh Ma Wemp, Louis al '"S"d companion of the tw „, S not guilty t > a eh;ir.---01 1 pspi racy. I Jyrpont To Die In ( hair Tomorrow Welnesduy, ’’ the state b‘i;n;nato the criminal career | fei- Jy Pri>ont - cne tini e c° n ' r>l *' f John Dillingers mum Wfi'tg which terroriz d middlefor nr nthu, with haul; jail breaks and murders. was sentenced to eleclnl ' tiOn on " cnvk tion of murder e death of Sheriff Jesse Sarof Lima. The state supreme t ejected his appeal an 1 set W her 17 th ® <!’ite for his death. r George White declined to

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I * ♦ Change Is Made To I'acilitate Paper Delivery ♦ ’ ♦ Delivery of the Daily Democrat In Fort Wayne, Monroeville. Con ; Jvoy and other points served by | Pennsylvania railroad mail service, I Ishould not be delayed after today.! in view of the changes imide in the i pick up of mail sacks in this city i A letter from the chief clerk of: 11he railway mail service. Grand I ißapids, Mich., to'the Daily Demo ■ prat, reads as follows: | "My dear sire: 'Answering your letter of Octo-) i her 1.1. regarding dispach for Fort Wayne. Monroeville and Convoy. "We have already established a pouch from Decatur. Indiana, to Fort Wayne, Indiana, over Pennsylvania train 537. which does not tarry a postal ear. This should give die same service you had lie fore the change in time on the Pennsylvania railroad. October Ist." The Daily Democrat appreciates the prompt attention of the ma: •service in re ifying the trouble. DIG BASEMENTS AT HOMESTEAD Basements And Foundations For Twelve Houses Are Duj; Twclv • basements and fonnda , tions for the 4s homes to he conI struc ed here on the homesteads project south of town were rough ly dug at noon today by Aost 1 r.rothers construction company of this city A crew of men with shovels following the drag line have already smoothed the walls of four of the basements and laid the-tooting concrete. A total of 14 men are working Mrwtar on the project. This includes the men working for Yost Brothers and the general contractors. Over thirty PERA workers are also working on the grounds, roads and drains. i The contractors ate beginning ; the construction of the houses in the southwest corner of the project. These houses are the farthest from the road By doing tie’.; it is hoped that trucks will be able to get to the houses still under construction when th ■ i roads in the project become muddy. A sm i'l crew of masons will be added Wednesday and will lay the i cement blocks in the basement foundations and wall c . In keop--1 ing with the plans of the contrac- ’ tors this crew will do nothing hut | lay walls. Other trews will work ‘only at one part of the construction. The contractors believe that if the crews become skilled at one ' typo of work, better time will ho < made as the cons.ruction pro--1 grosses. Several contracts have been let this week. The Schafer Hardwire company of Decatur received the; contract for nails and finishing I hardware. All the rough lumber [ used in the construction will be purchased join'ly through the (CONTINUED ON PAGE SIX) TEACHERS WILL HOLD MEETING Institutes Will Be Held In Three Cities This Week Indianapolis. Oct. 16 (U.R) —, Several candidates stood out today ,as leading the field for the 1936 presidency of the Indiana state' teachers association which opens its annual convention here tomorrow. The conference, which annually attracts more than 15,060 teachers from all parts of the state, will j convene tomorrow morning ini Cadle tabernacle. Schools throughout the state will be dismissed Thursday and Friday to allow the teachers to, attend the sessions. Two o'her teachers conventions, the southwestern teachers association and the northeastern teachers association, will be held simultaneously at Evansville and Fort Wayne respectively. Each is expected to draw approximately 7,060 instructors in its respective ON PAGE THREEk

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CAUTION WILL GOVERN FUTURE PRICE RAISING — Rich berg. New NRA Head, Says No Drastic Changes Are Planned CONSERVATISM IN PROGRAM PROMISED I Indianapolis, Oct. 16. — (U.R) — 'Caution and conservatism in the revised national recovery administration's program of price raising was promised lu re last night by Donald R Richberg, executive director of the national emergency council. Speaking before approximately 13,5(10 persons under the auspices <if the Indianapolis chamber of i commerce. Richberg pledged that Ihe program does not plan sweepling changen or applhoti n of novel theories in its drive toward econ,omic rehabilitation. | -He denied mat past performances or future policies of Hie "new deal" are leading to state socialism and said: "We are still a free people. We intend to remain a free people." Charges that government recovery efforts infringed upon individual freedom and liberty were repudiated with the assertion: "This freedom must lie guaranteed not by letting people alone — bu: by making sure that they are so organized for cooperative action that tlie continuous interchange of necessary products and service will not break down and leave hosts of people theoretically free hut practically deprived of freedom to earn a living, an 1 lefi only what may be called in bitter irony, tlie liberty to starve." "There can be no political freedom and security iu thu .modern world tiiat is not baaed on econ omic freedom and security, and the fundamental guaranee of constitutional liberty is the guarantee of ’(CONTINUED ON PAGE FIVTC) SAMUEL INSULL DEFENSE PLEA Utility Head Will Plead Effort To Aid Recovery Program Chicago. Oct. 16—(U.R)—Samuel Instills defense against charges that he engineered a $143,660,660 swindle will include a plea that he sought to carry out former President Hoover's program of recovery by putting "full steam ahead," it was levealed today. Details of a conference of the ; nation's business leaders and Hoover at the Wiiite House late in 1929 will form an important link in Insull's testimony when he goes on the witness stand in federal court, it was learned. The 74 year-old Instill, on trial with 16 former associates on charges of using the mails to defraud, is "actually eager" to testify in his own behalf, his attorney said. Following the White House conference. a’tended by Henry Ford, Julius Rosenwald and other cap- < tains of finance and industry. Instill made a speech before promI inent Chicagoans at the Palmer House on Dec. 3. 1929, and ani nounced a $200,600,660 expansion : porgram for his vast utility em’(CONTINUED ON PAGE SIX) 1 — K. Os P. Party Is Postponed ■ —•* The bridge and pinochle .party which was to hav ■ been held at the Knights of Pythias home in this city on Friday. October 19, hee been i ]s>.stpound because of the rally speltj sore I by the M ting Democratic I club of Adame county on the sam > night. The date for the K. of P. party will be aim mr ed later. <y Worthman Condition Reported Improving The ecnUtion of Superintendent M. F. Worthman is continuing to improve, the attending physician stated today. Mr. Worthman is a patient at the Adams county memorial hospital where he underwent a major operation last week.

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Decatur, Indiana, Tuesday, October 16, 1934.

Asserted Fire Box Killer, Victim pJL IRB i Mai ■ wife Mkv /ft B B X 1 / 4 Hl! W rlil ■ Mi f ; I" - wi! Ifc. iI ’ t tBiM. -Bl Bi J , In what was termed one of the most brutal slayings on record Lawrence Stone, shown bareheaded, left, 34-year-old relief worker, is being held by Mount Vernon. N. Y . police after he assertedly ndinitted killing five-year-old .Nam y Jean Costigan, right, in die basement of an apartment house, and pushing her tit y body into the flann s ■ of a white hot furnace. Authorities trailed a path of blood into tlie. basement, where Stone had once 1 een employed, to find tlie remains of the child's skull and several bone fragments still I lazing.

ARMISTICE DAY BANQUET PLANS Annual Observance Os Armistice Day Will Be Held At Country Club 1 > Tentative plane li.o- been ma le for the annual ob.serv. ni-e of Armistice day and tne Service club ' program ami banquet to he held \t t ) November 11. Albert “Abe" Miller, f rmer com mander of Adams Post 43 of the American Legion, has bmn nomed genera! chairman 9 r the Aun'sti e day program. Since tlie holi ’ay falD on SunI start until 12:36 p. m. in order n t to in'erf re with tlie church ser I vices. The program will he held at the Decatur country club, south f th:; city. The ritualistic service w 11 begin at about 12:36 o'clock and dinner will be serve 1 at one 'cltr k. A short program will be hel l fob lowing the dinner. Wilfred Linstrem of Plea ant Lake. Fourth district commander - f the American Legion will h-‘- the 1 principal speaker at the banquet. Men an I women are invite-d to the program and banquet and plane are being made to entertain about 466 guests Members f the service clubs, th.- Rotary and Lions and the Chamber of Commerce are invite I. Mr. Miller will meet with his committees this week and outline i the formal prigram. MINERS AGREE TO END STRIKE Thousand Hungarian Miners Win Battle For Higher Wages Funfklrchen. Hungary. Oct. 16. —<U.R)—A thousand coal miners , : who in despair at their living conditions threatened the ultimate of economic protest —mass suicide I —ascended from their 4% day entombment today, victorious. Assured of concessions arranged through the personal interven tion of Premier Julius Goemboes. the men came up from the galleries 1.316 feet below the surface where they had been voluntary prisoners since 5 p nt. last Thursday. They were gree’ed hysterically by wives and children. Weakened by hunger and thirst.; , blackened from days and nights of - lying in thick coal dust, the men, : ended their strike after an agreement which provided: 1— A bonus of $17,217 (57,200 pengoes) now and a similar one at Christmas time. 2 — No prosecution for sabotage PAGE SIX)

Missionarv Societv Will Meet At Ossian 1 A group meeting ot ) ary society - P church will lie held at Oss'.-.n. Monday. October 22. • Miss Ruth Taylor f H>f Springs, North Carolina, will be the-speaker. Tlie m-eeting will open promptly at 16 o’clock M n lay morning. A 25 cent luncheon will he served at . no-a by the women of the O an : church. Reservations shoul-d be I made as soon as ssible w:th Mrs. 1 M A. Frisinger or Mrs. James lie. h--1 er. EXPECT CROWD AT CLUB MEET Young Democrats Meet At Geneva Tonight: Dance Friday A large cr wd is expected t at ( tend the organization meeting of members of the Young D-niocrati club in the southern half of the county tonight at 7:30 in the Ma son!" hall in Geneva. Several interesting talks are scheduled and v musical program has b. en planned by Geneva Democrats. Refreshments will be served free after the program. At a meeting of the general c mmittee f r tlie Democratic rally to be stponsore-l by the Young Democratic club of Adams r-oirity at the. Decatur Country Club Fri ay ven|ing. October 19. it was decided to ;hold a car l party in connect!- it with’i : the dance. A c nimi'tee composed of Mrs. Fr d Ascltliaui iter, chairman. M: Charles I; se. Mrs. John W. Tyn 'all j Miss Mildred Niblick and Mi • Vie ita Harlow, was appe inte Erid - I pinochle ami five hundred will be. j play (1. A floor show will be directed by. Miss Patricia Fullenkamp of Deentttr and will be composed of local | dan- ers. The grand march will be led by i the county, township -ind city candi- - : dates. Masi:- for dancing will be furnished by Hal Teeters «>rehestra. The dance will begin promptly at 9:36 1 'clock. The time for the Icard party will he announced later by the committee. I Admission for the dan “ will be : 56 cents for couples and 35 cents for singles. ■ . — - - Final Asphalt Coat Being Laid Today The final coat of asphalt n .state j road 52'7 betwe n Decatur and PictLsant Mills was placed n the roa-.l at noon today. The equipment is now being move! to Willshire anti work will begin Wednesday or Thursday -on t'he stretch between Willshire and Pleasant Mills. The road will be formally opened Friday ! November 9.

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HANDWRITING IS ADMITTED AS EVIDENCE Expert Testifies In Court Concerning Suspect’s Writing DEFENSE COUNSEL ATTACKS EXPERT New York. Oct. 16—(U.R'~Hand writing described as "an admission : and confession'' that Bruno Richard Hauptmann entered tlie LimL hergh home and kidnaped the famous flier's son went into supreme court evidence today at resumption of tlie German carpenter's extradition hearing. The state of New Jersey, seek ing to extradite Hauptmann on ; charges of murdering tlie baby, introduced testimony of Albert S. Os- , borne, handwriting expert, to prove i Hauptmann wrote ransom notes to Col. Charles A. Lindbergh. These notes said lift- writer had been in the Lindbergh nursery. Hauptmann's counsel immediately attacked credibility of Osborne's testimony. James M. Fawcett, counsel for Hauptmann, forced the portly, ' white haired Osborne to make minute explanations and comparisons to show why in Osborne's opinion. the ransom notes were the same as Hauptmann's handwriting. Osborne, wearing an apparatus to aid his hearing, explained the lines and the errors •< the writing which he said made him "reason. . iably certain." Special emphasis was placed on the handwriting testimony because the notes referred to tile writer having gone into tlie Lindbergh , nursery. New Jersey's greatest difficulty , in evidence against Hauptmann , j has been in proving that ho was i at or near the scene of the crime on March 1, 1932. By proving Hauptmann wrote these notes New Jersey Attorney j G ’neral David Wilentz seeks to establish a "confession” that the ; suspect was at the scene. Fawcett shouted at tlie witness i until Osborne said: "You don't have to shout. I'tn ! wearing one of those things." and : pointed to his ear phone. Fawcett Had the expert attempt ; to select from a sheaf of automobile license applications, tlie six : ho had utilized in his study of the J ransom notes. 0 Former Van Wert Official A Suicide Van Wert Oct. 16 —(UP) —ClarI ence ('. Judkins. 51. former Van Wert county auditor under one to 21 years sentence on a charge of I forgery, committed suicide at his 1 home today. Judkins was found guilty f forgery in t onne - ti'-it with an alleged $291 shorage in ills accounts Sep- ' t mher 36. and was tinder temrorj ary stay of eomimitment to the, Ohio state penitentiary appeal of bus case. JUDGE TO RULE ON TEST CASE Important Decision Will Be Made By Judge Earl Cox Wednesday Indianapolis. Oct. 16. — (U.R) —A j decision which is expected to have a distinct bearing on the outcome lot several suits testing the status; lof Democratic office holders, in-! 'eluding Lieut. Gov. M. Clifford j Townsend, will be handed down in I Marion circuit court tomorrow. Tlie suits seek to have Townsend ; Land several Democratic holdover | state senators declared ineligible; Ito hold office because they accept ed other lucrative positions within; ' the state government. PiT “te specific case here. E. Cur is White, Marion county senator.! ! and John B. Webb, joint senator from Marlon and Johnson counties, seek to enjoin the county board of election commissioners from allowing the names of Repub- , lican candidates for the senate to be placed on the November ballots. Judge Earl R. Cox. of the Marj ion circuit court, announced late (CONTINUED ON PAGE FUVE)

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Civic Section To Aid In Food Drive Members of the civic jtectl- n of the woman's club will collect (annul fruits an I veg -tables to be do- ' nuted to the Adams county mentor ' : - 1 dubs f Adams county are cooperLiting with the civic .sect? n in ( Oil • 'ing the • aimed goods. DAN FLANAGAN SPEAKS MONDAY Fort Wayne Attorney Addresses Young Republican Voters ' Tlie movement of dictatorship throughout the world found fer- , tile fields in the state of Indiana under the regime ot Gov. McNutt. Dan Flanagan of Fort Wayne, republican candidate for judge of Hie appellate court, stated in his address before the Young Repubi lican voters club Monday night at. tile Rice hotel. • Not only has he concentrated in his own hands tlie power of administrative departments but , has added comple'e control over | heretofore bi partisan state highway commission and state institutions. using all of this power to build up a personal militaristic : machine to further his ambition for tin- presidency.” declared the . judicial candidate. Mr. Flanagan, in a forceful i manner, trace 1 the history of the - fall of democracies in the past and their turn to dicta*orship. He also mu lined what would happen to the government and state coni'stitir ion unde- dictatorship. ■ His talk dealt largely with pres- ■ ent trend of government compared i wiili lhat of ancient times He stated that government was pri- • J marily organized for the proteci tion of the weak from the strong t and that "eternal vigilance is the . price of liberty." Mr. Flanagan was introduced by Roy Girod of . tliis ci y. Preceding tlie address, a ban(CONTINUED ON PAGE FIVE) GIVE PROGRAM AT INSTITUTE Decatur And Berne High School Students Will Sing In Chorus Eight singers from the Decatur 1 high school and 21 from Berne will ! be among the singers at the chorus .of 366 voices which will entertain : the teachers at the annual institute to he held in Fort Wayne, Thursday and Friday, October IS and 19. Tlie chorus will entertain the teachers Friday afternoon at 1 o'clock. The chorus will be directed by Jacob Evanson, professor of music of Western Reserve college. The Decatur vocalists have been trained by Miss Helen Haubold. supervisor of music in the local public schools. The iftlpils are Evelyn Kohls, Martha (’alland. Janies Harkless. Robert Carson, Elmer Schultz. Mary K. Tyndall, 'Carl Sheets and Bernice Hannie. I The Berne students are: Eddythe Baumgartner. Ella Jane Baumgarti ner. Ruth Baumgartner, Betty I Craig, Christine Habegger, Dorcas, Hahegger, Betty Lehman, Sara- ; belle Lehman. Vivian Lehman. Miriam Liechty, Berniece Luginbill, Kathryn Mettler, Anna Louise Schtlg, Betty Schindler. Henrietta ; Sprunger. Gordon Angshurger, Samuel Barkman. Edward Burk .halter, Lewis Habegger, Daniell Habegger. Robert Dro. Elderly Woman Is Given Life Term Brazil. Ind.. Oct. 16—H'P) —Con ; victed in Clay circuit court on a charge of shooting Herman Hayden. ; farm tenant. Mrs. Anna Price. 71 . year-old farm wife, was sentenced I late yesterday to one to 16 years j in the Indiana women's prison. Tlie court denied an appeal for suspension - f sentence. Her husband, Albert Price, will be tried next week on a charge of being an accomplice. Hayden, paralyzed from the waist down as a result of the shooting, was wounded by Mrs. Price when he attemipted to break a lock on a farm building after a dispute with elderly couple over his lease.

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LICENSE PLATE MAY GIVE CLUE TO KIDNAPING Mutilated Kentucky Plate Is Found In Fort Wayne Alley VICTIM’S HUSBAND IS MORE HOPEFUL Fort Wayne, Oct. 16 (U.R) ’! A possible clue in the hunt lor Mrs. Berry V. Stoll, prominent Louisville, Ky., societv matron or her abductor, was uncovered here today with the finding of t mutilated Kentucky license plate in a down town alley. Local police theorize that the plate may have been taken < from the kidnaper’s automobile, cut in two and discarded. Department of justice agents have been n’ tiffed of the find, and are expected to arrive here momentarily for thorough investi- : gation. Tlie automobile tag. found by a telegraph messenger, was wrapped in a Kentm ky Tennessee road map and tossed into the alley. The road map bore no identification and carried no name other than that of a nationally known , oil company. The center section of the plate bad been cut away. The left section of the plate bore the abbreviation "Ky." and the number “7.'' the first of the plate's ser- ' ies. The right section of the i plate has the numbers 457. Above these are tlie letters "TT" and the numeral 34. indicating tin 1 ! year of issue. Kentucky license plates carry the name of the county in which they are issued. Five Kentu-'ky counties have names ending with “TT." including Scott, Knott. El- ! liott. Bullitt and Breathitt. Louisville, in Jefferson county, j is located near Bullitt and Knott counties. Police believe the plate probably was issued in one of I these two counties. More Hopeful Louisville Ky.. Oct. 16—(U.R) -■ Berry V. Stoll, freshly shaved , and with most of the haggard look gone from his face, indicat- , ed today he is more hopeful for the safe return of his wife than at any time since she was kidnapI ed six days ago. "Well, 1 shaved today for the : first time in five days." he said !in reply to a question about whether his hrtpes weer rising or | falling. Stoll was interviewed as he sat . in a porch chair on the lawn in front of his big brick colonial - mansion along Lime Kiln road on , th<» banks of the Ohio. At his . side was his brother. William, president of the Stoll refining company in which Berry is an Louis Schindler To Be Returned Sheriff Burl Johnson went to Celina. Ohio, this astern -on t- obtain custody of Louis Sehindl- r. who is held in the county jail there. SchI indler, whoee home is at Geneva. facet- charges o( child neglect in the AJam.s tiriuit court. o SCHOOL HONOR ROLL IS GIVEN Eighteen Pupils Listed On Central School Honor Roll The names of 18 Central school : pupils appear in the honor roll for ; the first six weeks of the first semester. it was announced today. I Fourteen i f the 10 are leaders and four are diggers. Following are the names of the L honor roll students: Leaders , James Christen, Barbara Burk. Betty Cook, Katherine Knapp, : ' Helen Jean Kohls, Florence Mc- : Connell Marjorie Massonee. Ardis Britzenhofe, Gladys Miller, Denver Morris. Marjorie Miller. Et’heiyn . and Peggy Gaunt. 1 Diggers i Dorothy Wertzberger, Leona i Bauer, Robert Porter, and Mary Louise Frank.