Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 32, Number 251, Decatur, Adams County, 22 October 1934 — Page 6

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M. F. WORTHMAN DIED SUDDENLY LATE SATURDAY FROM PAOR ONI' grpyr too ol! or st&ld to Indulge; In a ball game or outdoor contest ' with the boys. Public Servant tjilmr achievements which stand out sublimely in a life largelv de voted to public service ulid In the Inter’«t of youth, was his active participation and leadership in boy scout and boy and girl week ac-j Hvlties For more than I'l years, no public program has ever been staged -*• re that Mr. Worthman was northe guiding hand in seeing Its successful execution. Last May the program held in observance of National Youth week was of Mr Worthman s planning It was-not alone in pedagogics that Mr. Worthman was the kind and sympathetic counselor, but in his office and on the athletic field he was the builder of manhood Mid womanhood. He gave of his time in helping others and little does the community realize some of the *wat rewards received from ins spiritual and moral guidance of the child who needed just such a man as Martin Worthman to talk with. Mr. Worthman knew only one way and that was the right way. Poing wrong was a thing apart from his life, but charitable in all tilings, the kindly school superintendent did not turn a deaf ear to one who had trans giessed. Born On Farm Born on a farm in Preble town, ship. Adams County, on April 20. l.sSll. Mr Worthman had the background and was embued with that spirit of faith which comes from the soil. He was the son of Lewis atid Sophia (Bloemkerl YYorthman and was of a family of 11 children. Mr Worthman attended the publie schools of Marion, the Angola Normal school, and the State Normal school at Terre Haute, from which he was graduated with the class of 1910. Prior to tl I CORT Aatch Our Ad Daily. Your Name May Appear Next. Hello Mr. and Mrs. Fred McConnell You are invited to our theatre Tuesday night as our guests. Please bring this ad with you. Not transferable. Tonight and Tuesday it’s x sensation: •DAMES" Dick Powell. Ruby Keeler. Joan B'ondell. Zasu Pitts Guv Kibbee. Ht"jh Herbert. Added fun Fox News and all fun Dotr Novelty “Between You and 1 and the Gate Post.” 10-25 c Wed.-Thurs. -SIDE STREETS" Aline McMahon. Paul Kelly. Ann Dvorak. Dorthy Tree. COMING Kay Francis. Leslie Howard •BRITISH AGENT." NOTE—To the first 500 people who attend the Cort Theatre next Sunday, the management will pre- I sent an Autooraphed Photograph of SHIRLEY TEMPLE.

Assessments Due BARRETT LAW ASSESSMENTS ON Streets Sidewalks Sewers ARE NOW DUE AND PAYABLE These assessments are for improvements on streets, sewers and sidewalks and will become delinquent after November 10, 1934 PAYABLE AT CITY HALL. City Treasurer’s Office

.ever, he had entered actively upon I his profession, his first experience ’ being gained in the Hraudyberry school In Washington township, where he taught In 1902 and 1903 Later he taught in Preble town- ! whip In 190 k he was made principal of the West Ward school in this J city. During 1910 and 1911 he was identified with grammer. grade and high school work, and in 1912 was made principal of the Decatur I high school, where he taught math ematics This position he held until 1516, when he' tiecamo superin-; lendent of th n city schools. Under i his supervision at this time are (five schools, the high school, Pen-I trul. West Ward. South Ward, anil [ North Ward, having a total enroll ment of 1.000 pupils. In recent years Mr Worthman j took post.graduate work at the ; University of Chicago. Due to his illness he was forced to return home from Chicago last summer. | He spent several vacation periods, at the university in the past Is Three Children Survive Mr Worthman was married to ; Miss Lydia Fruechte, daughter ot Mr and Mrs. IHenry Fruechte of Preble township. They have titre* children, who with their mother; survive They are. Mildred, vocational teacher at Graysville. Lil-1 , Han. a nurse at Robert lx>ng hospital. Indianapolis and Robert, al i sophomore in the Decatur high j school. Brothers and sisters ot Mr j Worthman who survive are: Rev I Matthew Worthman of Bluffton; Rev Edward Worthman. of Kiel. Wis : Lewis and Finest Worth-: man of Preble township; Mrs John Hilgemann. Prebl? fWbnship; Mrs.’ Milton Scherry. Magley and Miss Amanda Worthman. Preble town ship. Mr Worthman's father still resides in Preble township. Mr Worthman was an active I member of the Zion Reformed church He served in the Sunday School as superintendent and fre- ' quently was a member of the of- l filial board. His devotion to his church was sincere and whether called upon to serve on committees. to take part in programs or , sing in the choir. Mr Worthman's j response was always whole-heart-edly given. He represented h:s church at district and national con. ; ventions of the Reformed body. Lodge Affiliations In fraternal circles Mr Worthman was a member of the Masonic Blue lodge, tl.e Fort W ayne Scottish Rite, a past chancellor of the Knights of Pythias and a member ot the laiyal Order of Moose, Ail- I ams lodge No 1311 Because ot maTiTon 1 THEATRE Tonight and Tuesday Paul Lukas and Leila Hyams in •SING SINNER SING’ Added -- Comedv. “Clanev at the Bat." Universal News, contains latest news pictures of the Lindbe r ifh kidnaping. 10 & 15c Wed. & Thurs.— The Secrets of "WU SIN" with Lois Wilson and , Grant Withers. An Oriental Mys tery. Added-Comedy, Matchplay. Puzzlegraph. 10 i 15c. Coming — “THE HUMAN SIDE" with Adolphe Menjou and Doris Kenyon.

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• his great interest in boys and girls. l Mr. Worthman was sent to Moose-' i heart. 111., by the local Moose lodge l ! to see the child city and the 1.600 ■ children cared for at the institu- ; tion Mr. Worthman was a member of Decatur Rotary club. He was chair man of the boys' work committee . and his leadership in this respect was depended upon by the club members. He inaugurated many | splendid movements in the interest . ,of the boy and girl and underprivileged child anti aided greatly 'in bettering conditions for the) needy. Active pall bearers for the funer- ' 'al services will be Henry Graber,! Clifton E Striker, county superin ' | tendent of schools; J. C. Tritch. i president of the International Business college of Fort Wayne: W F Beery. J. D. Sareg. Winchester, and W. Guy Brown, principal of. .the Decatur high school. The honorary pall bearers will be Mathias Kirsch. D. O. McComb,< .superintendent of the Allen county; 'schools; Ira Fuhrman, M E How. I er. members ot the Decatur school board; Martin Mylott and Cal Peterson. The flower Joys at the •ervfces will be Boy Scouts in uniform. All teachers in the public schools will go in a body to the services I in the Zion Reformed church at | 2:30 o'clock. They are requested | to meet at the Central school build-I ing at 2 o'clock. All Classes Dismissed Members of the Decatur school j Tonight and Tuesday MAE WEST in “BELLE OF THE NINETIES” with Roger Pryor. John Mack Brown and DI'KE ELLINGTON'S Orchestra. Added - - Coniedv, and ‘Pro Football' a Pete Smith Odditv with RED GRANGE and The CHICAGO BEARS. 10c-25c Wed. 4 Thurs. — ANN HARDING in “THE FOUNTAIN." Coming — BARRETTS OF WIMI POLE STREET.

DECATUR DAILY DEMOCRAT MONDAY. OCTOBER 22, 1934

board. Dr Burt Mangold. Mrs Car-1 rie ~aubold and Ira Fuhrman, met 'Sunday afternoon and decided the schools would not open until Thursday morning Teachers, mov-1 led by grief over Mr. Worthman s ' death found it impossible to prepare for classes today and the ; board decided that a recess should be taken. Thought of His Work The evening before Mr. Worth-1 man underwent the operation for | I the removal of the gall bladder and appendix he called members of the i school board to his bedside. He) was quoted as saying that he knew ; chances were against his recovery., He expressed to the school trus-' I tees plans he had in mind for the :betterment of the schools and ask ' 'ed their cooperation in carrying his program 5b completion in the I event he was not here to do it himself. TEN PERSONS DIE IN WRECKS i 'CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONE) 1 : ette-Attica road. Hoyt C. Pruett. 35. Anderson.! was killed and three companions i I were injured when the automo-, tile in which ‘hey were riding was struck by a Pennsylvania railroad I tra n at Anderson. Frank Anderson. 45. Columbus. ■ was killed when he rode his I bicycle into the path of an auto-, I mobile driven by A. V. Keesling. . Bartholomew county agent. Earl Schrader, 44. Bass Lake, I. was injured fatally when his i automobile left V. S- road 20. west ; of Angola Alva White. 38. farmer of near j Culver, died of a fractured skull ; a short time after the car he was I driving overturned near Burr Oak. o DELAY HEARING FOR KIDNAPER . CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONE) j family demanded the death pen- ■ alty for her kidnapers. Mrs. Alice ': Speed Stoll prepared today to recuperate in Florida from the ' ■ effects of brutal treatment in six ' ! days of captivity. II Plans were made secretly for Mrs. Stoll's departure from the ■ suburban home where rest has i been made impossible by invest!1 ; gators and hordes of curious vis--1 itors. The demand that all of Mrs. ’ j Stoll’s kidnapers feel the extreme i penalty of the law was the first i indication that she has abandoned 1

1 a pica for Mrs. Frances Robinson. I wife ot the indicted abductor, ; Thomas H. Robinson. Jr., who ! Mrs. Stoll said "saved my life.” "1 think that Mrs. Stoll made 1 that statement when she was in a weakened condition." said William Stoll, h»r brother-in-law and presi-1 dent of the Louisville board of trade. "The law should take its j course.” o- . INTENSE HUNT IS BEING MADE FOR GANGSTER — (CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONE) in succession and escape into the i wooded sections east of here. It was believed certain that Floyd' was seriously wounded by a bullet from the gun of police chief John Fultz of Wellsville. Floyd's trail hau begun to cool today when Dave Ransurer. 38. ‘ negro, rushed into the police sta tion here with word that he had encountered a man he believed to I I be Floyd on the highway near' Frederickstown—only a few miles ! from the spot near Lisbon. 0.. where the bandit was last seen. Ransurer's truck had become ' overheated and he was trying to locate someone to tow him back to town, when a man suddenly appeared over a bank of earth at i the side of the road. “The man asked me what I was i doing, and I told him 1 was looking for someone to haul my truck

NOTICE THE OLD ADAMS COUNTY BANK will make a s'< distribution on OCTOBER 26 to depositors. We will also pay the distribution to stock holders whose stock has been fully covered by former distribution. You are asked to call at the bank as checks wi’l not be mailed. DEPARTMENT OF FINANCIAL INSTITUTIONS OF THE STATE OF INDIANA AS LIQUIDATING AGENT OF OLD ADAMS COUNTY BANK DECATUR. INDIANA By LEO YAGER, Special Representative. —

! back to Wellsville,” Ransurer said. "The minute 1 said that word Wellsville' the man turned around, ran down the banks and 1 disappeared in the woods." Ransurer said he did not get close enough to the man to deter I mine whether he was wounded. A dozen federal agents under Melvin Purvis, department of jus-, tice manhunter, cooperated with' local authorities in the search. This usually placlJ farming sec-! i tion was In an uproar as search , forth“ killer was extended. Posses were recruited from a half. . dozen small towns, citizens grabbing rifles and shotguns and joining the hunt. A guard surrounded the Wellesville jail to prevent any possible ' attempt by confederates of Richetti and Floyd to effect a jail delivery. Four men in a big green : sedan swept through the town twice yesterday afternoon, exhibiting machine guns and firing bursts of shots into the air. Richetti. meanwhile, admitted j that he was with Pretty Boy on June 16, 1933, when Floyd and his gang kidnaped the sheriff at Bolivar. Mo., and escaped with him into the hills. Richetti also named several other Kansas and Oklahoma robberies in which he boasted that he participated with Floyd. Police said he refused to admit i that Floyd was his companion at the time of the gun battle Saturday or that the fugitive nowsought is Pretty Boy. but authors-

ties believe the identification was, positive. Federal agents have' searched for both Richetti and I Floyd for months in connection ■ with the Union station massacre at Kansas City, and will try to ! remove Richetti—and Floyd if he ! is caught— to that city to staud trial. o Get the Habit — Trade a* Home

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SECOND HONOR I FOR YEARBOfIi (CONTINI EL ; M rtGE I some phase ;■ •.-•.-,-ry |g A copy of ’!>• ytar book fl I mailed to l’r< u. : ' Fr-ni.il ■ j Roosevelt. H ,t> kncslMStifl I receipt of thi- i->•-s with a kfl I of thanks to Barbara Knctfl I editor. I