Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 32, Number 247, Decatur, Adams County, 17 October 1934 — Page 1

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WOMAN KIDNAP VICTIM IS RELEASED

Reef Growers Organization Formed

Eleven Hundred Eroircrs Meet At IschooZ Building H-pose Os Central Growers Is To Protect And ■Further Interest Os Growers; Board Os Direct■ors Chosen; E. VV. Busche Elected President; ■■Resolutions Adopted And Letter Sent To Secre- ■ t;in Wallace Seeking Acreage Quota Change; ■■McMillen And Local Industry Lauded.

■„,-,■ tluin 1.100 beet growthe Central Sugar ■ p . a Iriloiv in north ■ern buli.ina and western ■ , .pili,i.-.l at the C.atho- ■ |ii„|i school auditorium ■ till' ntx last night and Knßni/" 1 l,u ‘ Central Beet ■lrwers Association. t | ■ 1,, inii pose ol the organiku is to nro'ect and further ■ )nt . r ,. st ~f ->••■ 1,, ,-t grower, to i • ... membership in apr> development in M|. , wheie beets are is nonprofit making assessments are I harvested. >, ~| ■ ■ ■■ directors was i: \V Busche, of Monroe. ( , i. mporary chairman p...fii,g was elected presi■der.' t the board. Mr. Busche is ■wicplv k"nwn in agricultural The title of "master was conferred on him by University several years ■ Resolutions Adopted ' adopt, d point ■ feed fmm raising beets for the' Ih*l company: lauding Dale W |M dillen for the rehabilitation of ■ industry with the purchase of i ■th factory in 1933; compliment-; fin the local management on its with the growers and , the advantages of th'- I contract, termed by the as a “most satisfactory rship arrangement." resclipjon was also adopted the secretary of agriculHenry .'.Wallace, to allocate I' to 'he Decatur trict. to assure the continued fration of the Central Sugar gory in this city. The growers also diree’ed a ter to Secretary Wallace setg forth the great value of the rar beet industry to bo'h the ricnltural and industrial develwent in the area affected by i operation of Indiana's only ‘t sugar plant. The let'er ONTTNTH® ON PAGE FIVE) EORGE TESTER I RIES TUESDAY etired Decatur Merchant I Dies After Extended Illness I George w. Tester. 57, well known lj tlrwi merchant of this city, died I his home at 739 High street, ■tesday evening at 4:45 o'clock ■llowmg an 18 months' illness. ■ Dwth was due t c . Hodgkins disa very rare ailment. Mr. Tes■h although he was not-bedfast, •« been ill since April, 1933. He in business here until three ■ ar< ae ° ' ast J anu,! ry. i - r. Tester opened a store here in • known as the Racket stor 1 , “ivn was later purchased by C. E. aughnian. He owned and operated De-atur Dry Cleaners and nm rU ' Vell Shoe Btore from 1911 "til three years ago. T^ lter wa s a member of the ■ larys Catholic church and Holy aaie S ciety. He was also a mem'r of the Loyal Order of Moose en Hur lodges. He w. M born at. Natpoleon, Ohk, - Se Ptember 12. 1877, a son of “ c ob and Mary Tester. He came! eeatur in July, 1900. and was tarried to Edith Hackman n May • 1904. Previously he had reside! II Rochester. -^ llr 'J_'U r3 Reside the widow are CONTINUED on PAGE FIVE)

DECATUR DAIEF DEMOCRAT

Vol. XXXII. No. 217.

Democratic Speaker ■ u ■ J® - Jw w M ■ fe.. J 4 Harvey Cole, Peru attorney, will speak at the Adams county DemoI cratic woman's club meeting at ! Geneva Thursday evening. The I meeting will be held at the Masonic hall at 6:30 o'clock. | James I. Earley, fourth district ! congressman, will also speak. BEET GROWERS ELECT BUSCHE E. W. Busche. Monroe, Named President Os Beet Growers Officers and directors of the Central Beet Growers Ass<r iati n. elected at a mans meeting f more than 1.190 growers held in the Catholic high si hool auditorium last evening, follow: E. W Busche. Monroe, presi 'ent. Clyde Schultz Union Ci'v. vice-pre-sident: Allen Lcront. New Haven, secretary: Wiliam Hughes. Van Wert, treasurer. The ab ve o-fficers, together with r the fol! wing m n comprise the I board of directors: George Wallenhorst, Fort Jennings, Ohio: Martin I Etzler. Convoy, Ohio; Ernest Knoblauch, Wordburn. Ler y Pifer, Rock- C. C. Caley. Markle. The nominating committee was comnosel of Adolph S-hamerlah. P. D. Morris and Otto Bieberiek. One director was selected from each of the nine fi. IdmenM territories. The executive committee of the association is comp eed of Mr. "(CONTINUED ON PAGE FIVE) Merle Burkhead Is Hurt At CCC Camp Merle Burkhead. a member of a CCC camp a' Prichard. Idaho, and sen of Mr. and Mrs. John Burkhead 3.32 North Eight street, this city, is in a serious condition at >1 private hospital in Wallace. Idaho, after suffering a head injury Sunday evening, according to word re eivei here. Mr. and Mrs. Bu.rkheid received a. telegram Monday from Captain John A. Deweiss M. I. reserve camp Devils Elbow, Prichard. Idaho, as 1 follows: “Merle suffering fr m in I juries received to head this evenling. Condition satisfactory. Will notify <f >tny changes.” They later received another telegram stating that Merle had been , placed in a private hospital and that although his condition w>is serious it was not critical.

■fate. National Aat lairraatlunal News

PIERPONT PAYS DEATH PENALTY FOR HIS CRIME Harry Pierpont Is Electrocuted Eor Slaying Ohio Sheriff WARDEN POSTS EXTRA GUARDS Columbus, O„ Oct. 17. —(U.R) —An ! entry in Ohio penitentiary tiles to-1 day recorded the last grim chapter of the violent story of the John I Dillinge routlaws —electrocution of Harry Pierpont. The gangster, executed for his part in the slaying of Sheriff Jesse Sarber at Lima, 0., a year ago, entered the execution chamber at 12:07 a. m. today. He was pro-: nounced dead eight minutes later. Catholic Fathers J. A. Sullivan, prison chaplain, and John Smith of Cleveland, accompanied. Pierpont .to the electric chair. His lean jaws were set. He held a crucifix before him. Not a word was uttered. Pierpont made a public gesture of acceptance of liis Catholic faith, (lone was the profane defiance with which he entered the penitentiary last March, predicting that he would be freed by John Dillinger. his leader, guard?,! by state soldiers as one of the nation's most dangerous criminals. A hush fell over the crowd. Pierpont’s face was sallow from weakening wounds he suffered when he and Charles Makley made a futile dash for freedom from death house i I, last month. _ Makley was slain by guards in that mad break. A grave was pre- . pared today for Pierpont near Ijeipsic. 0., close to that of Makley. Within three minutes electrodes were adjusted around Pierpont's arms and legs, the death mask was • affixed. A guard made a signal. ’(CONTINUED ON PAGE SIX) Col. Repoert Returns From Conducting Sales Col. Fred Reppert returned last i evening from the northwest after , o nducting a series of sales in Nebraska. Wyoming, Montana ond other northwestern suites. Mr. RepI ipert said, hereford cattle are commanding a higher price average than they have for the past four yearn. At Sheyenne, Wyoming, on October 10, 41 head of herefords were sold f r an average of $483.00 per head. The sale was attendel by buyers from all parts of the county and eastern buyers were especially active. ALLEY REPAIR VOTE DELAYED Final Action On Improvement Is Delayed By City Council (Final action on a petition for thej improvement of alleys in the De catur business district was delayed by the city council in regular s ssion Tuesday evening when proiperty owners appeared to object to I the repairs. Three property owners appeared ; and sta'ed that s' me of the alleys 1 named in the petition are not in need of improvement and that such improvement would be needless expense on the owners. The petition askei.l that the alley running north and south between First and Second streets, between Jefferson and Jackson streets and all intersecting alleys be improved. Property owners who aippenred last night stated that the east and west alley between Madison and Jefferson anid the vast and west alley between Madieon and Monroe streets is in good condition. The matter was referred to the I street and sewer committee in conj junction with the city attorney and an effort will be made t'. settle the ' improvement to the satisfaction of all property owners. Regular bills were allowed by the 1 council and on early adjournment wae taken.

ONLY DAILY NEWSPAPER IN A DAMS COUNTY

Decatur, Indiana, Wednesday, October 17, 1931.

Beet Growers Adopt Resolutions And Forward Letter To Secretary Wallace Resolution

Whereas, Two years ago with there-estabJshment of the beet ' sugar industry in this area more | than 1.500 farmers of the ten counties comprising the Decatur area, ! or district, did definitely put sugar ! beets back into our farm crop rotations 011 the basis of 13,500 acres | for each year, and did contract : and try to plant this acreage in 1933 and were prevented from doing so only by the most unfavor, able spring planting season ever j experienced throughout this disi rict, and. I Whereas, again in 1934 we not ■only contracted, but also planted 13,500 acres of our best land to sugar beets, and. Whereas, hundreds of us signed wheat and corn-hog reduction contracts expecting to put this same amount of acreage to sugar beets each year, and, • Whereas, under these reduction programs we would have no other cash crop that would offer us nearly the gross income from our

Resolution

Whereas. Mr. McMillen, the President of the Central Sugar Company has owned and operated a large farm within 8 miles of Decatur for the last twenty years and understands thoroughly the problems and needs of this farming community, and Whereas, Mr. McMillen has personally given bis time and thought to the operation of the Central Sugar Company so that it might be one of the greatest benefit to the community and the farmers residing therein, and Whereas, the Central Sugar Company has spent large sums of money in building the most modern yards and weighing and unloading equipment, in order to better preserve and handle the haiwested beets with the greatest convenience to us. and Whereas, the Central Sugar Company is now erecting a processing plant for soy beans that will enable us to grow and market a crop

Resolution

Whereas, the beet growers of the Decatur district are confident that the cooperative program adopted two years ago by the beet growers and the present owners of the sugar factory, is working to our best interests and to the mutual benefit of both the growers and the company, and Whereas, with the adoption of the 50-50 cooperative contract, the growers are assured our fair share of the net cash returns from the sale of the products processed and sold from our beet crop, and Whereas, the two million hours of productive labor the best crop i offers to the farmer and workers of the district at a time when so many are unemployed Is of the greatest importance, and

Letter to Mr. Wallace

The following letter covering I crop conditions, the beet sugar | industry, the operation of the local plant and requesting an increase in beet acreage in the Decatur area was forwarded to Secretary of Agriculture Henry A. Wallace, administrator of the AAA program: Decatur, Indiana October 12, 1934 Honorable Henry A. Wallace I Secretary of Agriculture Washington, D. C. Dear Sir: [ The Central Beet Growers Association of Decatur. Indiana, consistI ing of 1387 sugar beet producers located in the Decatur District I hereby protest against the propos[ed plan of limiting the total acreJ age to be allotted for 1935 to the i growers of the Decatur district to 1 between 90 and 100 percent of the 1933 planted acreage, and against the temporary sales quoto formula, which permits the Decatur plant I to sell but 187,000 bags of sugar, if this sales o.uoto is to be used as a basis of future sales or production quotos. In February, 1933, the present owners of the Decatur Sugar Factory met to discuss the reestablishment of the beet sugar industry in the Decatur area with approximately 1,500 growers, from 100 coun-, ties around the plant, who had

i land nor provide the hours of employment to labor as could be ex- , peeted from tile beet crop, and, Whereas, a 25 percent reduction in the acreage we had planned for ■ beets will seriously menace the success of the wheat and corn-hog j programs in these counties, now. Therefore, Be it Resolved: That the attention of the Extension Departments of Purdue University and Ohio State University, our rep ■ resentatives in Congress, and the Sugar Section of the Agricultural Adjustment be called to this situation and we respectfully request that fliey take whatever steps are i necessary to investigate this situa. lion and to endeavor to allot suf ficient beet acreage to the farmers ■ of the Decatur district to permit • u.s to plant not less than between , 90 and 100 percent of the 13,500 acres we planted in 1934 ami would have planted in 1933 except for • the extremely unfavoi’able weather i conditions peculiar to this district ■ during the 1933 planting season.

that will fit in so splendidly in our , rotations, and open a market for a cash crop heretofore denied us, ■ and Whereas, the Central Sugar Company has spared neither their time nor money, in their effort to co. operate with us to make the growing of sugar beets a profitable op eration on our farms as evidenced by the excellent returns for our beets last year, and Whereas, in all of our dealings with the Central Sugar Company, we have found it to be an honorable and just concern with best interests of this farming community at heart. Now. Therefore. Be it Resolved: That we do give to Mr. McMillen and his entire organization a vote of thanks for rehabilitating an industry that is so vital to the prosperity of the farmers in this area and for the splendid manner in which they have cooperated with us during the past two unfavorable growing seasons.

Wf.ereas, sugar beets have been ’ the best paying cash crop that could be raised on our farms for the past two years, and Whereas, these conditions have caused the beet crop to occupy a decidedly more important place a. mong the farm crops of this area than it did the last few years the plant was operated under the old j plan before it closed in 1930, Now Therefore, Be it Resolved: That ' the growers of the Decatur area feel that the sales quote established for the Decatur plant as well as - the acreage allotment to be determined for the growers of this dis- ; trict, to be fair and equitable, ! should be based on the important ■ place the beet crop occupies in the farm operations of the Area since , "its re-establishment in 1933.

; previously supplied the beets for '' the factory until It was closed in i 1930. \ At this meeting the new owners : of the factory offered to the growers a 50-50 contract under which the growers would raise the beets and deliver them to the factory; I the sugar company would process J the beets into sugar, pulp and mo[lasses and sell the products; the books would be audited and the i net cash returns from the sale of the products divided 50-50; which would be the same proportions as I their investments in the produc. I I tion of the products. The owners ! [also promised to build new receiving and storage yards and to repair and re-equip the factory so as to handle and process the beets in the most efficient manner poss- | ible. The growers pledged themselves to grow sufficient acreage, to supply beets for a normal run j of 90 to 100 days, and to make the [ necessary investment of land, seed. I fertilizer, tools and labor to grow and deliver the cron. Within twenty days from the time the contracts were offered to . the farmers the company had contracted with 1.465 growers to raise 13,470 acres of beets, and it was necessary to refuse contracts to a great number of farmers who wanted to add sugar beets to their farm [ crops. On the basis of these con7cONT*INUBD*ON PAGE FIVE)

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LUTZ TALKS TO DEMOCRAT CLUB Young Democratic Club Holds Meeting At Geneva Tuesday One of the most enthusiastic ■ meetings of the year was held by the Young Democratic club of: Adams county at Geneva. Tuesday night. The Masonic hall was ! packed by a large crowd from Geneva. Monroe. Berne. Decatur; and townships in the southern half of the county. The meeting was organized by Mis. Mary Br'ggs and the tw > . Geneva chairmen. Aleta Harlow and Lester Pontius. Robert Heller. president of the organization. I presided. The program opened with a concert given by the Geneva ! orchestra directed by Marcus | Lehman of Berne. Miss Gretchen Stuckey enter-j tained with several selections on the accordian. Miss Majeska Ineiehen gave two readings, which were much enjoyed. Democratic candidates who were present an<l gave short talk i were: G. Remy B'erly. candidate for clerk; Ernest Worthman. candidate for county assessor; Jeff; Liechty. candidate for treasurer, and Dallas Brown, candidate for sheriff. Na'han Nelson, the county Democratic chairman, was introduced at the meeting. Clark J. Lutz. Decatur attorney, rave the address of the evening. Mr. Lutz discussed na'ional. state' and local politics, speaking from ; his own experience. Touching on the attacks of the ■ Republican critics against what thev claim to be the destrne ion of the constitution by the admin- ■ istration, Mr. Lutz said. “When Abraham Lincoln, without con-j suiting the people, signed that (CONTINUED ON PAGE SIX)* Pastor Returns From Conference — R v. M. W. Sundermann. nastor of the First Evangelical church, has • returned from the general conference at Akron Ohio He will have I charge of the mid-week prayer meeting tonight at 7 o'clp-k an'i will also - reach at the Calvary Evangelical church Thursday night. —— — o United Brethren Rally Day Sunday The United Brethren Sunday Sch ol will observe rally <jay at the ! 1 church next Sunday. A large attend-: ance is anticipated. Mr. Debb, conference superintendent, will be “re- ! ■sent nt the meeting and will speak s at the morning session. A pr gram hae been arranged. FIRST MEETING OF YEAR HELD Parent Teachers Association Holds Meeting Tuesday Night The first meeting of -the Central; School Parent-Teachers' Associa- . tion was held at the Central school building Tuesday evening, with the j president. Mrs. Faye Saiith-Knaipp. | presiding. The minutes of the previous meet-1 ! ing were read by the ee: retary. | : Miss Neva Bnindyberry, membership com>mittees were named by Mrs. Joseph Hun'er and an interesting article entitled “BJJucating Today for Tomorrow" was read by Mrs. Knapp. Mrs. C. O. Porter of the program | committee, had charge of the pro- ! gnnm and ann uncel that the topic ! to be studied this year in the ntee-'- ■ ings will be “Today’s Child in Tomorrow’s World.” The topic of the study for the evening was “The School Looks to the Future.” W. Guy Br wn spoke ■of the subject, “How the School is Meeting New Conditions.” Lowell Smith, Mrs. N. A. Bixler and Mrs. ject, “Various Ways in Which the John Tyndall talked on the subCommunity is Meeting New Conditions. 1 '

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Officers Os Four States Searching For Kidnap Head Mrs. Alice Speed Stoll Is Returned To Her Home At Louisville, Kentucky, After Six Days; Reveals Kidnaper Threatened To Kill Her At Indianapolis; Wife Os Kidnaper And Her Father Are Held As Accomplices; Robinson Is Reported Demented.

Returned Home I . - ---- - r ‘ 'U ■ V-G-'-' Mrs. Alice Speed Stoll, young Kentucky socie;y woman, was rej turned to her hon e in Louisville Tuesday night after being he'd taptive by kidnapers for six days. Mrs. Stoll had not been harmed during her captivity. 11,145 VOTERS IN THIS COUNTY Registration Figures Are Announced By County Clerk County' Clerk David D. Depp I announced today that there are 11,145 persons in Adams county who are registered and will be eligible to vote tn the general election which will be held Tuesday. November 6. The election commissioners have announced that there will be | four ballots in Decatur and three outside of the city. The law re- | quires that the state ballot be ! pink, the city and county ballots, i white, and the township ballots ; yellow. The Adams county board of- - election commissioners this year ' is composed of Clark Lutz, Demoi crat, W; Iter Johnson, Republican. ! and David D. Depp, member of the board by virtue of bis office as j county clerk. During the last ten days,! •'assistants in the county clerk's 1 office have prepared six typewritten lists of the registered voters | in the county, taken from the ; books • ontainlng the permanent (CONTINUED ON PAGE THREiE) Christian Brotherhood To Entertain Members The men's brotherhw.l of the • First Christian church will enterI tain all members of the church with la marshmallow and weiner roast at I the country home i f Mr. and Mrs. ■ William Teeple tonight at 7:30 | o'clock. Quarterly Conference At Hoagland Thursday A grouip second quarterly conference will be held at ths new Methoidtert Episcopal church at Hoagland Thursday, beginning with a 6:30 o’clock supper. Composite reports f r Decatur, the Decatur circuit, Monroe, Bobo, Pleasant Mills, Geneva, the Geneva circuit and Hoagland will be made by the respective pastors, and the forward program discussed. The Epwort'h league cabinet;-, of the churches will also meet for a business session. As er these 'meetings, the Rev. Walter Krider, returned missionary from Japan, will present an Illustrate! lecture f his w rk in that country.

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Louisville, Kv„ Oct. 17.—■ (U.R) I'he kidnaper of Mrs. Alice Speed Stoll, 2X-year old society beauty, became excited when government agents started closing in on him and threatened to kill his victim, it was revealed today. 'l’he kidnaper, identified bv the government as T. 11. Robinson. Jr., former inmate of an insane saylum, ann unce<] his decision to slay Mis. Stoll after an argument with his wifel She perj suaded her husband, however, to leave the captive unharmed and flee. The wife, an attractive young woman seized when Mrs. Stoll was released at (Scottsburg, Ind., i last night, is in custody. Robinson, fleeing in a stolen 1 Ford V-8 sedan with yellow wire 1 wheels and Illinois license plates i and earring $49,450 of the $50,000 ransom money, is the object of a ' manhunt in Kentucky, Illinois, Indiana and Michigan. Mrs. S oil, brunette wife of an oil refinery mi'lionaire. was severely beaten over the head by i her aliductor as he raced over ! southern Indiana highways to a hideaway in Indianapolis a week ago today. Mrs. Stoll revealed to her cousin. the Rev. E. Arnold Clegg, of Indiananolis, that the kidnaper | knocked her to the floor of his car ' and heat her over the head as he r drove crazily away from the scene of the crime. Hours of waiting in the Indiananolis hideaway began to tell on , Robinson’s nerves and those of . his wife. Mrs. Stoll told the Rev. I Clegg and his wife. Thev argued and Robinson annonneed that things were “getting too hot." He decided to kill Mrs. , Stoll, according to her story. Later, after pleadings by his (CONTINUED ON PAGE THREiE) “Buck” Baxter Named State Game Warden Charles “Buck” Baxter.- who has been employed in the local General Electric Company for 14 years, has re-signed to accept a position as state game warden. He will work in a district between Brazil and Terre Haute. Mr Bixter has been a prominent member of the Adams c unty fish and game conservation league. He has also been a deputy assistant game warden in Adams county. MEETING DATES I ARE ANNOUNCED Democratic Meetings In County Announced By Chairman The speaking programs for Democratic meetings in the county have been partially filled by county chairman Nathan C. Nelson. The rest of the schedule will be announced ItfiAr. The speaking schedules and committees are: October 22 Kirkland high school. Speakers: I Herman Myers, John W. Tyndall and Frank Thompson. Committee: Jeff Crum, chairman, Hibberd High and Rudolph Kolter. Octoßer 23 Jacob school house. Speakers: Herman Myers and John Tyndall. Entertainmant committee: James Parrish, chairman, David Habegger and James Foreman. October 24 Monmouth high school. Speakers: Frank Thompson and Thurman Gottschalk. Entertainment committee: Winfred Gerke, chairman, Charles Magley and Harvey Tieman. October 25 Monroe high school. Speakers: « • « » • . . • » .T-»«TT~-«TT»T» (CONTINUED ON PAGE FIVE)