Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 32, Number 256, Decatur, Adams County, 27 October 1934 — Page 1

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IRNEST KELLER COMMITS SUICIDE

Gherman Minton To Speak Here Monday

HWOCRATS TO ■WHY MONDAY :i »N THIS CITY «ih flrAidate For Senator | Will Speak At Court |J|MB|()iise, 2:30 I), m. deal parade (i I Jro I’KE( EDE TALK II 0.... ol die largest crowds vcar is expected to W Slieniiiin "Shay Mintiiic candidate lor ■ r-flol Slates senator, when the public sponsored by the Ba>hs coiintv Democrats, in court house at 2:30 ■ o’lid. Monday afternoon. I X. aridr.— will b« preceded ■ h . x. w peal" parade which man’ll through the business ■ aJict of the streets. R. A. P v chairman of the comwhich has organized the The other members of are Albert Miller Un!....’ M. DeVoss will be the reception comOther members of this will be John H Heller. I 101 l house. Henry B. Hei- ■ ler. Leo Saylors, (’lark Lutz, * .lames T. Merryh ■ ma: will .haiinian of the Mint H «ft, Mr Merryman, de in t \ i.iiih . ..untv bar assoiia so old. is one of the KjSn loyal Ilf the veteran Demo~~Eftls in ih. county. He served as I 8S first nri'or of Decatur an 1 judo.. the Adams circuit ■" ’ Minton, the democrat i.f,,r senator, is one of ■fl aid. si lawyers in the state, earned by bio. after-school labor <. He graduated B *tl ■<t < i his class at Indiana Yale universities. He was a I^Bl.' 1 Minton is also a World BkjMr o-. mi. having served overB ■■ more than a year. Since Bfl li.oo t... <1 -charge from the

iid.t urrii pi uiiimriu -'.,■ \mcrican Legion organ- ■ tation. He has bent his efforts ..blaming assistance for veterans. I ■' rlv a member of nt th. -st known law partsoutheastern Indiana, ’ nliurg. Weath“rs Minion. The experience gainliege debating teams has el good service to him in the of his profession and in life for he is known as a orator. HMBefore his nomination on the ticket for i'nited senator he won the udmirand respect of all for his - as public counsellor of P'lnlie service commission. He s directly responsible for savings of more than BB. |N " to rate payers in Indi- ■ a HBShennan Minton is a staunch fo the -New Deal." He i in. l v per cent of the banks i'|.is(. t | have been licensed to steps in and pays EB rh depositor up to $5,000 . . . ■ Ba"' "' an have been ■■® ne ' l to save Hoosier homes. ■W 10 farmers of Indiana have re-■Kt'-ud )noi . e q )an S3 O 5 fM) (Kl o to their mortgage burden, ■■"'nstead of 12,000,000 men and 88l_ on ’ en trudging the streets in the IK 1 "' " f ,he unen 'Ployed 5,304.000 returned to work. Business have dropped from 31,0'10 year to 12,000. I'"' Constitution doesn't beBB C<)X ' i ' | \l'El | ON PAGE FOUR) nL ‘ — - _Q Funeral I Services Monday services for Mrs. Camiel Wo-l’eart, who died at her home KB"" Bf?rne Thurs ’ a y evening, will e rm Monday morning instead of a "rday, as was announced yester|B ay ' Fina l rites will be hell at «a. ■" Monday at. the St. Mary's Cathochurch, with the Rev. Father J. officiating. Burial will be in the church cemetery.

DECATUR DAILY DEMOCRAT

Vol. XXXII. No. 256.

Sentenced R ***** n»« Mg jHH gglV j fc- . - i -x / - i JU Murray Humphreys, regarded as i Chicago “Public Enemy No. 1." i pleaded guilty to income tax evasion and was given eighteen months in the penitentiary and a $5,000 fine. He was seized in Indiana after a countrywide search lasting eighteen months. MAIL CARRIERS MEETING TODAY ' i _1 . District Meeting of City Mail Carriers Held Here Today Welcome to the mail carriers. City mail carriers from the ‘ Fourth district were arriving in Decatur at noon today for the quarterly conference and picnic to 1 , be he'd nt Sun Set park this afterI noon and evening. 1 | Between 150 and 200 visitors ’ are expected for the meeting, ' Leland Frank, general chairman "I of the entertainment committee annniliw-fd

■ announced. Preceding the program to be ‘ I held at Sun Set, a sight-seeing '. tour of Decatur will be made. In- ' eluded in the tour will be visits Ito the Decatur Homestead division. south of the city: to the ' Central Sugar company, the GenI i era! Electric nlant and other I places of interest, including the | II parks. 1 ’ | Simper will bo served at Sun Set I I at six o'clock this evening. An I I address of welcome will be given by French Quinn of this city. A . musical nrogram will be given during the evening and a short business session will follow’. ’ There will not be any election [ of officers at the meeting. The: ’ invitation to the carriers was extended by Decatur carriers and ' postal employes who were anxious ’ to show visitors the progress being made in local industry and 1 to acquaint them with the many ’ civic advantages here. > o 1 Ornamental Light Posts Are Painted 1 The ornamental light posts on Madison street, between Seventh ’ and Fourth streets, have been at- ’ tractlvely .pointed with aluminum j paint. They formerly were painted i green an I cltize.ns have expressed I satisfaction with the brighter color. If finances warrant more posts will I ' be painted next year, M. J. Mylott, superintendent of the electric department stated. The poets in front of the General Electric plant on Ninth street have also b en painted aluminum. . Geneva Man Is Awarded Medal I . 1 • J 1 > According to a messag? received I by the Daily Democrat, Edwin T. ’ Moser of Geneva, has be n awarded ■ a Carnegie heroism medal. De'ails were not available at noon today, ’ - when the paper went to press. It 1 . was stated that Mr. Moser was in i strumental in saving the life of a : woman from drowning. i

■tat*. Mattaaal Ab< laleraatlvaal News

MOB LYNCHES ATTACKER OF FLORIDA GIRL Young Negro Is Lynched By Enraged Mob After Confession BODY HANGS FROM COURTHOUSE TREE Marianna, Fla.. Oct. 27—<U.R>— The body of Claude Neal. 23, negro, confessed attacker and ! slayer of a white girl, swung from a tree on the courthouse lawn here today, victim of an enraged I mob. A crowd of 100 men. women and children silently gazed at the body, nude except for a sack reaching from the waist to knees. The negro had been shot at ' least 50 times, burned with red hot irons and dragged through the streets behind an automobile. A crowd of 5 000 men assembled ' around the home of George Cannidy, farmer, dispersed with word that the mob had decided not to turn the negro over to Cannidy for his personal vengeance, but I instead had hanged him in a swamp on the Chattanoochee river. Neal was taken from the Brew1 ton. Ala., jail early yesterday by I a mob. The leader told the jailor I that Neal would be taken to Cannidy’s home, tied to a stake, and ' Cannidy then would take whatl ever vengeance he wished. A crowd gathered around Cannuly's house at nightfall, awaiting ' the arrival. Bottles were “passed’ •>nd bv midnight, the nartv was in gay humor. A few hours later, word was received that the mob had grown tired of waiting for the crowd to disperse and had lynch- . ed the negro. i ■ Miss Cannidy's body was found ■ Friday on her father’s farm. Neal ' was arr°s*cd n few hours later ■ and authorities announced a hloodv trail led from the scene of , i the asspnlt to his cabin, two miles ■ distant. He was said to have coni' fessed. Soon after his arrest a . mob formed, and he was taken to West Panama. Another mob form-

1 ed there, and he was snirited to: I Uhiplev There, on Saturdav nitait Sheriff .1. R. Harrell dressed him in women’s clothes and snirit >d him awav. escaning ano'her mob. ' He was then taken to Pensacola and from there to the county jail at Brewton. o TWO HAMMOND YOUTHS KILLED Four Others Injured As Jov Rido Turns Into A Tragedy Chicago. Oct. 27 —(U.R)’ — A joy- ! ride for six Northwestern university students ended in tragedy to-1 i day when their automobile j ! careened from the road and overi turned, bringing death to two and I injuries to the other four. The dead are Donald Schulte. 20. and Charles Alvin Bounds, 19, both of Hammond. Ind. Those injured are Dudley Perrin, 20: Natalie Rogers. 18: Mary' Jane Graves, 18, and Virginia Burnham. 18. all of Chicago. They i were taken to the Highland Park hospital, but attaches there said the extent of their injuries hnd not as yet been completely determined. The accident occurred on the Deerfield road, near Deerfield. 111. A fog obscured a turn in the road, and the car hit a light pole, careened and overturned. Both of the dead youths. Bounds and Schulte, were outstanding athletes at the Hammond high school, and during the past year, Bounds was one of the outstanding ends on the Northwestern freshman team. Bounds was an all-state forward last year on the Hammond basketball team and Schulte the center. ■ Both were outstanding high school football players. Schulte at end and Bounds at halfback.

ONLY DAILY NEWSPAPER IN A DAMS COUNTY

Decatur, Indiana, Saturday, October 27, 1934.

Minton Here Monday *’ I f a IgWl , 1- --* * I % 4 Sherman Minton. Democratic i candidate for the United States senate, will be the principal speaker at the Democratic rally i to be held at the court house in this city Monday afternoon at 2:30 o'clock. i GIRL ESCAPES SERIOUS HURTS I Harriett Maddox Slightly Injured By Automor; bile Friday Harriett Jane Maddox. 7, daugh- 1 i ter of Mr. and Mrs. Harry Mad- ‘ . dox, south Fifth street, was releas- •! ed from the Adams county memor- ; ial hospital this morning, when it I was found injuries she suffered 1 when struck by an automobile • late Friday afternoon were not! i serious. r The Maddox girl and Arnold i Kortenber. small son of Mr. and .'Mrs. Joe Kortenber. Johns street, i ran into the side of a car driven > by John Pyle, west Adams street. Mr. Pyle was driving west on > » x.x .1 -£„ —* ».1 a A i

Adams street and had started to turn south on Line street when the children darted out into the street, running into the left front feder of the auto. Both children were thrown to the pavement, but the Kortenber 1 boy jumped up and ran away, unI injured. The Maddox girl was taken to j the hospital by Max Huffman, Romaine Rolli and Virginia Grice, I all of Bluffton, who were enroute to town from the Bluffton-Decatur football game. Mr. Pyle and Grant Lyons, who was riding with Pyle, also accompanied the girl to the i hospital. Examination disclosed that the girl suffered a slight concussion and minor cuts and abrasions. Her condition is not serious and she was removed to her home this morning. —o Father Kuhnmuench Delivers Sermon The Rev. Father Simon Kuhn1 tnuench. C. P. P. S„ delivered ths I ! first of a series of three evening I sermons at the Forty Hours D voi tion at St. Marys Catholic church I last evening. Either Simon chose for his text i the words of St. Matthew, "Behold I am wi:h you all days, even to the consummation of the world". 28-20. His discourse dealt with the presence of Jesus Christ In the Blessed Sacrament. ■Services will again be held nt 7:30 o’clock this evening. The devotions will close Sun lay evening. — o Sether Lunch Room Is Reopened Today Motz Sether eropened his lunch room and cigar stand on North Second street today, following repairs and redecorating of the place. The room was damaged by sunoke from on oil stove explosion last week. Mr. Sether had the room redecorated and everything was in epic and span order today for the otpeming.

G.E. FACTORY WORKINGTODAY Annual Inventory Will Be Taken At Plant Next Week The Decatur General Electric ■Works operated this morning and I will run eight hours a day for four days next week, to make up for i loss of time when the fac:ory, closes down Friday, Nov. 2 for in i ventory, E. W Lankenau, super ’intendent of the local plant an I nounced today. The annual inventory will be j taken next Thursday and Friday. Manufacturing operations will cease entirely on Friday. In a statement made by President Gerard Swope it is announced that sales billed by General Electric Company during the first nine months of 1934 amounted to $121,735,122.98. compared with $97.426.146.39 during the correspond . ing period last year, an increase of 25 per cent. Profit available for common stock for the first nine months of this year was $11,714,247.20, com- , pared with $6,886,600.45 for the first nine months of last year. This profit is equivalent to 41 cents a . share for the first nine months of 1934 and 24 cents a share for the t first nine months of 1933, on 28.,845,927 shares outstanding in both periods. Dividends declared for | nine months this year amount to i 45 cents a share, compared with 3) cents a share for the corresponding period last year. Orders received during the first: .nine months of 1934 amounted to I $132,613,543, compared with $104.. '785.001 for the nine months last ■ ■year, an increase of 27 pef cent. Decatur Shows Increase Orders received by the Fort' Wayne Works during the first nine | months of 1934 show an increase over the same period last year as indicated by the following state(CONTINUED ON PAG? SIX) o Defendant Wins .Jury Verdict —,——_ A jury in the Adams circuit | court reported to the court at 8 o’clock Friday evening to find for the defendant in a replevin suit

’ i filed by the International Harvest11 er company against John McCar- ' thy. Wells county farmer, in attempting to regain possession of a truck. ’ The case was given to the jury ' at about 5:30 o’clock Friday after- ’; noon. McCarthy stated in his cross complaint the allegation I that the truck delivered was not • the one he believed he was pur- • i chasing and that it was not worth 1 i more than the one traded in. The '! plaintiff asked the price of $340 i! with damages amounting to $lO. , —■ ■ - ■ ■ O’ ■■ — Funeral Directors Hold Meeting Here i! I A business meeting of the WellsII Adame funeral directors was held , at the W. H. Zwi- k home on North Second street, Friday night. The president. William Mcßride of Bluffton, .presided over the meeting which marked the closing session of the present year. 1 The next meeting of the organization will be held in January. I Those who attended the meeting j were Mr. Mcßride, William Thoma ! and Ralph Jahn of Bluffton; Lawrance Yager of Berne: Mr. Boyer and William Wells of Geneva, Otho Lobenstein of Monroe, and Robert Zwick of Decatur. Voglewede Funeral Held This Morning Funeral services for Mrs. Mary Voglewede, prominent Decatur woman, whose death occurred Thursday morning, were held at nine o’clock this morning from St. Mary’s Catholic church. The requiem high maws was sung •by the Rev. Father Joseph Seimetz, pastor, Fall bearers were grandsons cf the deceased. Honorary pull bearers were members of the (St. Mary’s sodality, of which Mrs. Voglewede was a faithful member. Burial was made In St. Joseph’s Catholic cemetery. A number of relatives from out of the city were here to attend the services.

Fnrnlahrd By Valted Prm

JOHN A. ADAIR TALKS FRIDAY TO DEMOCRATS Former Congressman I)e---liversStirring Speech Friday Night URGES SUPPORT FOR PRESIDENT “Every major depression in this i I country since the Civil war has occurred during and been brought ; about by the abuse of power by the I leaders of the Republican party," 1 John A M. Adair, formerly of Portland and former congressman from the old Eighth District, stated in an address at the court house in this city Friday night. The meeting was well attended. ; Attorney Clark J. Lutz of this city : acted as chairman of the meeting. He was presented by Democratic , county chairman Nathan Nelson. Mr. Lutz introduced Mr. Adair as a former neighbor and friend of the people of Adams County. Among the honored visitors at ' the meeting was former Senator Silas Hale of Geneva. 90 year old i Civil war veteran and a great ad- I Imirer of the former Eighth district congressman. Mr. Adair discussed national issues. He reviewed the history of politics since the Civil war and said that every time a Democratic , president was elected, the Republicans helped do it, because they | were disgusted by the abuse of ■ leadership and legislation in their own parly. . He said in part: “The importance of .’he coming . 'election cannot be over estimated, i The most unfortunate thing that can happen under our form of gov. ' ernment is to have a divided responsibility between the two great parties. It always results in chaos. ■ uni’eriainity, delay and business destruction. II is always better Id have the legislative branch of government in entire sympathy with the executive branch We know now that President Roose-' velt will be our president for two more years and he should have I back of him a Democratic house ( ■ .1 . W n ♦ Vi « - 4 4 V , Vi 4 , I

. and senate in sympathy with his - policies. Therefore, the election of i Sherman Minton to the senate is : of the greatest importance. He is | well qualified for the duties of rithat high office, will support loyal--!ly and faithfully our president and ii render a service that will reflect | ' ’(CGNt’nuEd’on’Y’AGE FIVE) PRISON ESCAPE EXPOSE DELAYED k ~ Long Promised Expose i Os Dillinger’s Escape Again Delayed i ! Hammond, Ind., Oct. 27.—<U.R>►— ’.The long promised expose of John ‘ Dillinger’s “wooden gun” escape | from the Lake county jail was decayed again today while J. Edward •' Barce, deputy attorney general, i gathered together the last of his ■ i evidence. The- arrest of four or five persons. including three public offi--1 cials and an attorney, has been predicted, it was thought the arrests would be made last night or early today. But Barce assured newspaper . men last night that "nothing will ' happen for at least 24 hours " He intimated that his investigation had not been completed as quickly as he had expected and ' that he would refuse to take any drastic steps until he is in possession of all facts in the case. Robert G. Estill, Lake county prosecutor who was photographed ’ with his arm around Dillinger after the latter’s return from Tucson. Ariz., had a different opinion than ' Barce as to when the arrests would ’ be made. "There will be a ’break' this at- 1 1 ternoon,” he said. Later, Estill told a Gary newspaperman: "You may expect some--1 ’CONTINUED ON PAGE FOUR)

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Freed; Pals Doomed — T —' —* /J : Marquita Lopez, Broadway dancer and hat check girl, is pictured in a courtroom in New York City waiting for the verdict of the ! jury which acquitted her of j charges in the murder of Patrol- i • man Peter Costa. The girl’s two , male companions, Joseph Jerossi ! and Thomas Saunders, were found , guilty of first degree murder. She I later was rearrested on a gun- | carrying charge. GIVE REPORTS | ON HOSPITALS I Officials Give Reports Os Methodist Hospitals In State Committees from Methodist I Episcopal churches in Adams | county met in the Decatur church ‘ last night anrt listened to reports on the progress of the "Five Year Plan” for Indiana hosnitals locat-' ed at Fort Wayne, Indianapolis,! Garv and Princeton. The Rev. W. B. Fallis of Geneva | spoke on ‘Humanity's Debt to' Hospitals." Henry B. Heller, local I layman, spoke on "Christ’s Em- • ... At. Aft., 1.-tr,, •• I

nhasis on the Healing Ministry, i Dr. F. E. Fribley of Fort Wayne ■ snoke of "Methodism's Interest in ■ Hospitals.” He recalled that John Wesley qualified as a physician in order that he might minister to the sick -in i that he opened ; the first, and only dispensary in' London for a period of over twenty years. Dr. E. T. Franklin, superintendent of the Methodist hospital in Fort Wayne stated that the larger ( | church hospital is not in compe-i ■ tition with the smaller county hos-i ■ pital but alms to render a super-; service' which can be given only with the larger staff and better} I equipment of the larger hospital. I He stnt"d that two-thirds of hos-1 i nital beds todav are in church or I private hospitals and that Methodism stands in the unique posi-j tion of furnishing enough hospital! } beds to care for her own sick, and ! one Methodist hosnital in Indiana gave SIIO,OOO worth of charitable service last year. Dr. Geo. H. Myers, an Adams county product, now field representative for the Methodist hospitals of Indiana stated that the average expectancy of life had increased from 32 years to 60 years in the last 30 years and that many diseases once greatly dreadTcontinued’on’page SIX)’ o Two Youths Are Given Suspended Sentences 'Lloyd Garwood and Anthony! Buenzsi were given fines of $1 each and six months sentences to the Adams county jail this morning by Judge Huiber M. D»Voss in the Atkims circuit court. The sentences were suspended. They have been placed on Probation to Mrs. Faye Smith Knapp, county probation officer. The pair plead guilty to a charge of petit larceny in the Adams circuit court this week. They are accused of stealing about S3O In cash and merchandise from the Joe Palmer filling station south of Decatur on state road 527.

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BODY IS FOUND IN WOODS NEAR HOME LAST EVE Ernest F. Keller Shoots Self Through Heart With Shotgun NEIGHBORS FIND BODY OF VICTIM Ernest Frederick Keller, 50 year old tile mi'l eniplove, committed suicide on Ins farm, four miles northeast ol Decatur, td about 5 o’clock Friday night. Mr. Keller's bodv was found by Harve Butler. Hubert Butler and John Mann. neighboring farmers, at 7 o’clock last night, after Keller did not return to his home at meal time. Mr. Keller left the home early in the afternoon, stating that he was going hunting. About 5 o’clock shots were heard in the woods on the farm and it is thought that one of them was the shot that killed Mr. Keller. When he did not return after a reasonable, length of time. Mrs. Emma Hebble. who rents the farm asked the neighboring men to hunt for him. They did not find him on their first trip into the woods, but a second attempt was made about 7 o'clock and the deceased man was found and some distance away were two squirrels which he had killed. The suicide theory was advanced when the shot gun was found a short distance from the body, with the stock of the gun placed | against a stump. A long stick near the body was thought to have I been used to pull the trigger. Mr. j Keller was shot through the heart. Mr. Keller was born in Switzer- ' land on August 5, 1884. and came Ito this country in 1909. settling ■ near Monroeville where he was ■ employed for a number of years at the Springtown tile mill. He also worked on the Gottlieb Leui enberger farm west of Monroe- ■ ville for about six or seven years, later returning to the tile mill. Three years ago he suffered the | toss of his left leg in an automobile accident. He purchased the farm on which Mrs. Emma Hebble lives, two years ago. and had made his home there. There aro no known relatives. Funeral services will be he’d

. (CONTINUED ON PAGE SIX) —■ ■ n Phi Delts Meet Monday Evening An important meeting of the Phi j Delta Keppa fraternity will be held I at the club rooms on Monroe street | Monday evening at 8 o’clock. 'Business of importance will be transacted and all members are urged to i be present. Following the business meeting refreshments of Hungarian goulash -and coffee will be served. FARM YOUTH IS UNDER ARREST — Boy “Wanted To Be Like Dillinger”; Given Five Year Term South Bend, O t. 27 —(UP)—The 16 y or old farm youth who "wanted to be like Dillinger" was back in hie cell today after a whirlwind escape, kidnaping, holdup and ca(;> ture. Bruce A. Saunders of near Bristol. pleaded guilty before circuit court judge Dan .Pyle to four holdups and was sentenced to a five year term tn the state reformatory. ; “I've learned my lesson, Judge,” he said as he was led away by deputy sheriff William Walsh. In an alley separating the court- , house from the jail, he broke away from Walsh, leaped onto the runn- , ing board of a car driven by a Wai karusa woman and forced her to i drive him to the outskirts. > The car ran out of gasoline and - the youth returned to the heart of the city. R. H. Swaneon was bit > over the head with an iron bar as . he walked along a street not far - from where city and county authori ities were organizing a posse. Saunders was seized by city de- - tectives two blocks from the scene of his escape. He submitted meekly.