Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 32, Number 269, Decatur, Adams County, 12 November 1934 — Page 1

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IUPREME COURT TO HEAR TOM MOONEY

BIISTICE DAV I fittingly ■bserved here Service Clubs W Country Club Mrict legion ■ E Xl> IS SPE AKER SLatur and Adams counobserved Annis-> anpropriate serv-d Sunday. The vutceremony in the SaEv a-as the annual servbanquet, held at country’ club Kv afternoon. Clnirches throughout the county dedicated morning services to the of the war dead, for Day is an annual Linstrom. Pleasant foui th district commander American Legion, thrilled twjearly 200 people present at with an eloquent adas his subject, “Spirit of ■u-rica." meeting opened with a conthe American Legion city Immediately preceding the haK>. the legion ritual was Mass singing of fav-orttjiwar-time songs was led by Elmo Smith. Sparging on his subject of the splrttl ~f America. Mr. Linstrom can't kill spirit like the I service showed during the ■ commander praised citizens for their aid the war. stating that the devotion and spirit of the ■ back home made victory' World War possible. the speaker warned ; uHgfcteners that the Armistice exceedingly grave and problems to America. pßwms which must be met suaw- r and worked out for the ft the entire nation, not for INUEd’on*PAGE FOUR) ICE HIGHWAY | fROGRAM PLAN ■■mate $4,000,000 To Hk Spent; None In I Adams County iadianapolis, Nov. 12 — (U.R) — I construction and ImJBBtment work in 42 counties! ■ an estimated cost of $4,000.-; been approved tentatively authorities as a part ofroad program in Indiana, D. Adams, chairman of the I highway commission antoday. program, which includes 58 ; projects of paving, grading, j grade separations. and pavi mont widening ■Broadside improvements, will ■nanced through the $10,000,000 grant to Indiana for 1935. and specifications for a °f the projects already Uy b-en given approval by the ’ ,a t ! highway department and ■ been forwarded to Washing- ■ Adams said. BS soon- as final approval is 'He highway department ■N’TINUED ON PACK FIVE) o ■ Garden Club Gives Play Here of boys in the city of Decapresent a play, “The Man Shadow" at the Decatur high auditorium tonight. The piny JH fr - v entertaining and portrays spirit of co-operation. 4-II minstrel quartet will fur- ■ entertainment between acts, will be 19 cents and 20 ■-.- o ■n’s Brotherhood To Banquet Tuesday men's brotherhood of the ■• ist thurch will hold a banquet JB>s church Sunday school rooms ■sday evening at 6:15 o’clock.l ■■banquet will hs open only to J of the brotherhood.

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Vol. XXXII, No. 269.

I FILE REPORT ON |l CIRCUIT COURT Total of 128 Cases Disposed Os During Sep- • tember Term A total of 128 cases were disposed of during the September term cf the Adams circuit court, according to figures compiled in county i' clerk David D. Depp's office today. I I 'There were a total of 264 eases ! j filed during the same term of court. I There are now 937 cases pending, j, The greatest number of cases I j j now pending are civil. During the 1 September term there were 107 civil J cases filed, of which 11 were ven-, ued to thia county from other i' courts. Eighty civil cases were disposed of by dismissal or by settlement. There are now 395 civil cases pend- 1 mg. j There were 22 criminal cases filed in the September term. Fifteen cases were dismissed, leaving only 1 45 pending. There were 35 estate coses filed 1 In the court during the last term. .' Twenty-four estate cases were dis-. I pused of. There are now 247 estate 1 1 tase« 'pending. There were nine guardianship ’’ otsea filed and nine disposed of in the last term of court. There is 1 now a total cf 147 guardianship i canes pending. After a two week's vacation, the i Adams circuit court will open MonI day, November 19. LOCAL PEOPLE SEVERELY HURT I Mr. And Mrs. George Burk And Daughter Vivian Are Injured Mr. and Mrs. George T. Burk and daughter Vivian, all of this ; city, are in a serious condition in i a hospital at Wadsworth, Ohio.! following an automobile accident near that city early this morning, i I Attaches of the Wadsworth hos- l I pital did not believe the injuries, were fatal. i The party was returning from a visit with Mr. and Mrs. Burk's l daughter. Mrs. H. W. Sutton, of Akron. Ohio, when the accident occured. An icy pavement from i snows there Sunday was believed I to have caused the automobile to l skid from the road and strike a j cement bridge in the unincorporI ;ated town of Western Star, two I miles east of Wadsworth, on FedI eral route 224. the Behjamin !-Franklin highway. The car over-1 I turned. Mr. Burk received a fractured , hip and severe cuts. Mrs. Burk , j sustained a fractured leg. Vivian ■ Burk was severely cut by flying' glass, and bruised and shaken by ’ the impact of the accident. All were suffering somewhat from i shock but were conscious at 2 ' o’clock this afternoon. A telephone call to Mrs. Sutton, (CONTINUED ON PAGE SIX) FOUR HUNTERS AREINJURED Season Opening In Indiana Brings Death To One Youth Indianapolis, Nov. 12. — (U.R) Four accidents, one of which resulted in death, were on record in Indiana today at the end of the first week-end of the fall hunting season. The quail season opened Satur. day. The rabbit season opened officially yesterday but hunting was delayed until today by a statute prohibiting the sport on Sunday. James Green. 16. son of Mr. and Mrs. Webster Green. Greensburg, was killed when his shotgun discharged accidentally. Howard Black. 30, of Adams, was shot accidentally in the right leg and chest. Howard Wlanman, 22, Washington, suffered loss of bls right arm j when his shotgun fell from the running board of his automobile and discharged accidentally. I Harold Hammond, Hammond attorney. was shot in the face while, 'hunting quail in Jasper county.

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RELIEF NEEDS MOST PRESSING PROBLEM TODAY Approach of Winter Weather Brings Relief Needs To Fore HOPKINS STUDIES BORAH CRITICISM Washington, Nov. 12. — (U.R) — Sharp winter winds. Senator William E. Borah's bitter criticism and an attack on underlying economic causes today thrust the relief question to the fore as the new deal's most pressing problem. Relief appeared today to bristle with more difficult situations than any other faced by the administration. Action went forward on two fronts. The first was a reconsideration of the immediate needs of the na. tion's 4.000,Uti0 families dependent upon the government for food, clothing and shelter. Winter's approach lent emphasis to the necessity for speed. The second was a new study of ' the broad social and economic ; problems which have given birth to the immediate relief situtaion. Spurred by Borah's charges of waste In relief administration, relief administrator Harry L. Hopkins was preparing a thorough cheek of his vast organization. He has already issued orders to weed out all chiselers from relief rolls. He is seeking to lighten the federal burden by insisting that states bear a fair share of costs. Borah is placing in the hands of ; relief administration Investigators the information on which his atjtacks have been based Hopkins has troubles in addition to the Borah complaints. One is the question of personnel The Colorado state adminstrator has been dismissed by Gov. Edwin Johnson. Hopkins confirmed the dismissal despite protests by the relief officer, in Tennessee Sen Kenneth McKellar, D„ is demanding the resignation of state adi ministrator Walter I> Simpson on charges that relief workers campaigned against Democratic candidates. There have been indlca. Twntinued ON* PA*GE TWO) LIST ADVISORY BOARDMEMEERS Township Advisory Boards In County Elected Last W’eek Advisory board members that ! were elected last Tuesday are I being published today. The list of trustees of the townships was published last week. Only one assessor was elected, Washington township being the only one to have an assessor under the new state law. Jonah A. Cline, Democrat, was elected in that township. The following is the list of the members of the advisory boards by townships: UNION Richard Bleeke (D) Sylvester Staub (D) Richard Thieme (D) ROOT Martin Auman (D) Adolph Bleberich (D) August Ruslck (D) PREBLE Martin Bleberich (D) August Kruetzman (D) Herman Stopenhagen (D) KIRKLAND H. M. Beery (D) John H. Borne (D) Samuel D. Henschen (D) ST. MARYS Carl Archer (R) Samuel Cotterell (R) Otis E. iShifferly (R) WASHINGTON B. F. Breiner (D) Dan M. Niblick (D) TcONTINUW ON PAGE FIVE) - «c< Company Awarded Cement Contract The Cash Coal and Supply company of this city has been awarded 1 a contract for an additional 60 barrels of Aetna cement to be used in the erection of the arch at the -Decatur subsistence homestead site. R. A. Stuckey is manager of the company.

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Decatur, Indiana, Monday, November 12, 1934.

Find Urschel Ransom in Oregon I> • 1 ■ ■ ■ 1 '.t. 111 S JU I Wxdßa ; These photos show scenes at a rural home near Portland. Ore.. I where |5.460 of ransom money in the Charles F. Urschel kidnaping case has been recovered by federal agents—top, the farm home, where Alvin H. Scott and his reputed housekeeper, Margaret IF. Hurtienne, j now under charges of conspiracy, had been living; below, where the i money was unearthed.

TOWNSEND WILL SPEAK IN CITY Lieutenant Governor Os Indiana Will Be Here November 19 ' Lieutenant-governor M. Clifford Townsend will be the principal speaker at a meeting of Chamber of Commerce members, 4 II club ami Home Economic club members to be hell in this city, Monday, Nov-' ember 19. The meeting W'ill b- held nt the K. of P. home and Dan Tyndall, pre-' . sldent of the Chamber of Commerce ’ . will preside. ' 'lt is the purpose of the meeting to outline plans for a big agriculture an 1 live-stock fair to be held ' In Decatur nexl summer, and to obtain the Chamber cf Commerce's endorsement of the show. The (proposal has been made to combine the Adams county 4 2 club and home economic shows with ' the reglonoal Guernsey and Jersey cattle shows and to have a several 1 day exhibit in this city. ‘ This year the county 441 club 1 show was held in Berne. County ’ agent L. E. Archbold, under whose ' auspices the club work is carried on ' has been notified that the regional cattle shows will come to Decatur ’ if arrangements can be made to 1 stage the events. Plans for the week's activities will be discussed at the meeting und a large crowd is expe- ted. Tickets will go on sale this week. 1 Will Dinn being In charge of the dinner tickets.

Saturday Marks Final Day For Extra Credit Period In Christmas Campaign

Saturday night, November 17 marks the close of the big extra credit period in the Daily Demo cral.'s Christmas Club tamliwign, during which a ere lit bonus of 240. 000 is credited on each and every S3O worth cf subscriptions turned in on or before that date. After then It will be too late for the earnest members of the campaign to se-: cure the maximum number of cred-, its on each subscription, and theiri greatest cippotunity will be gone. To stress the true importance of this extra credit period, it is only | necessary to state that a one-year ; subscription turned In during this week will count approximately four . times as many credits as the same subscrlp'ion turned in the final . week of the campaign. And It should be . mbered that the ■ prizes will be awarded at the end , of the campaign strictly on a basis > of credits instead of the number of subscriptions or dollars turned

Democratic Women To Meet Thursday I The Adams County liMMuaratic . woman's club will meet Thursday , [ night at 7:30 o'clock for the regu-1 : lar meeting in the major's court room in the city hall. The club has decided to follow . the recommendations of the I National Democratic woman's 1 ! club in the programs for the year. ; Plans are being .made for several ' social events during the remaining ' winter months. o AUTO LICENSE MANAGERS MEET State Bureau Managers Will Receive Distribution Instructions — Indianapolis, Nov. 12 — (U.R) —! A series of 17 meetings of state automobile license bureau manag-1 ers to instruct them in new methods of distributing plates in 1935 will start tomorrow. The meetings will be concluded | Nov. 22, one week before the 1935 I plates go on sale. The meetings orc to lie conduct-1 !ed by Frank Finney, director of the automobile license division; 1 Mark Rodenbeck. assistant to Fin-1 i ney; John Mosier, chief auditor of I the department, and Bed Friedi man, chief title clerk of the de- ’ partment. Bureau managers arc to be inXcONTINUED ON PAGE SIX)

in. The really earnest member who aspires to win one of the larger ' prizes should most certainly exert 1 every possible effort to make every collection he can this week. And prospects should be urged to give their subscription right now while it will count most credits to the ' member, in addition to seeing every i possible new prospect this week, members should carefully check , I their list of promises and try to collect as many ct them as possible ito turn in under this extra credit offer. The largest number of subscrip- j tions turned in will not necessarily j win first prize in this campaign. It depends upon when they are collected «tnd turned in. And a member who is fortunate enough to gain a comfortable lead during ithis week would most certainly have a de* idPAGE nVE)

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CYRUS S. EATON REVEALS OFFER TO AIDINSULL Cleveland Capitalist Tells Os Offer He Made To Halt Collapse DEFENSE WITNESS FOR H. L. STUART Chicago, Nov. 12- (U.R) — Cyrus IS. Eaton. Cleveland capitalist ! whose “battle of the millions” with ! Samuel lusull was a sensation four 1 years ago, revealed in federal court I today that he suggested a merger , to lusull which might have saved (the latter's utility empire from col- ' lapse. Eaton, a witness so rthe defense I in the Instill mail fraud trial, told for the first time his version of the '556,000,000 battle during the dying I days of the lusull companies. It was a $56,000,000 debt thrust I upon insull's Corporation Securities I Company and Insull utilities investments in the regaining of the Eat!on stock that helped bring about I the Insull collapse in June, 1932. He appeared primarily as a chari acter witness for Harold L. Stuart, ! investment banker and cotidante of I the 75_year-old Insull. His testiI mony, however, centered around i his disclosures of what has been I known as the “Eaton raid” on In- ; sull's holdings. He denied that in 1929. when lie and his associates held 151.506 s>.res of Insull operating company I stocks, he was attempting to seize **-»«-* • ♦ ♦ ♦ • (CONTINUED ON PAGE SIX) FRENCH RIOTS ' MAR ARMISTICE — Serious Rioting In France Mars Armistice Day Observances — Paris, Nov. 12.— (U.R) — Premier I Pierre-Etienne Flandin prepared to- : day to face the chamber of deputies | with his new cabinet tomorrow, at'ter an unhappy Armistice day (augury for internal peace. Thbre were riots TiOre. st Lille and at Narbonne Sunda.v in which socialists, communists and right wing extremists fought each other j and police with sticks, stones and i bottles. Most serious rioting was at Lille i where 20,000 socialists and com- : munists fought right wing parti- ' sans. The socialists and the communists with whom they now cooperate smashed windows with bottles : *7oONTINUEiD ON PAGE SIX) 0 c Daughter-In-Law Os Local Residents Dead I Word was received today by Mr. land Mrs. George Chronister, 5116 West J -ffer.MKi street, ilia: Mr.s. 'lllarry Harb, wife of their son, died I this n .ruing at her home in Madi'non, Wisconsin. RURAL LETTER CARRIERS MEET Fourth District Convention Is Held Here Saturday 'The next annual Fourth district convention of the rural letter carriers will be held next autumn in Fort Wayne, it was voted at the convention here Saturday. A total of 217 persons were served at the banquet held in the Methodist Episcopal basement Saturday evening. The letter carriers and their families were served by the Ladies Aid society of the church. James I. Farley, who was scheduled to sipeak at the convention, was unable to attend because of 1 illness. New officers elected at the convention were: Arthur L. Lucas. Allen county, president; Clinton J. Grubb, lien county, vice-president, and Stanley A. Wright, secretary. The men will succeed the officers (CONTINUED ON PAGE SIX)

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NEW SEWERAGE SYSTEM PLANS , Sewerage System For Homestead Site Is Being Drawn Up Austin A. Watrous, project manager of the 48 houses being built for the feneral subsistence hornest’eads division, announced today that he is drawing up a sewerage system 'I for the project. As soon as completed the plans I will be submitted to Washington for ! approval. The original plans drawn up for | the project tailed for septic -tanks I to lie installed near each house. Be- ' cause of the clay soil here the num-, her of feet of run-off tile necessary i fur complete drainage is -prohibitive i in several of the houses. , The state health department recommends 50 feet of tile for drain- , age of tlie tanks for each person j using it. The houses here are being l planned for families of an average lof five which would require 300 I feet of run-off tile for each tank. As soon us plans for the sewerage I system are drawn up giving the i I exact number of material required! ! and the number of cubic yards of dirt to be excavated, an application I will be made f. ra FERA project. .By having FERA' men do the ex ! cavating it will be possible to in-1 stull the sewerage system it is beHev d. without raising the cost of : the houses above $3,000. | ilt will lie necessary to have the | 7cONtInUW*O?T PAGE FIVE) I 0 Highway Director Inspects Horses W -Pe in the parade to the dedication f road 527 last Friday, James D. Adams, state hlghwuv dir- ' ector, chanced to notice the Belgian horses at the 11. P. iSchmitt 1 farm and expressed a wish to inspect Hie animals. After the teremonies, Mr. Ad-j \ ams was taken to the farm to in-1 (sped the horses and praised them I highly, lie also stated that he would i like to spend an entire day in Ad-1 I ams county to inspect the livestock. I Mr. Adams has been an ardent' I booster of extension work since its |inc:i, tion and has been very active in the work in Whitley county. . ■_— o BANKERS WILL HOLD MEETING T. F. Graliker Announces Region Meeting At Garrett Garrett, Nov. 12 — (Special) — Subjects emphasizing manj' phases of present day tanking will be discussed before the twenty-fifth annual meeting of region 1, of the ; Indiana Bankers association, meeting here at the new Garrett Hotel; next Wednesday, November 14, according to announcement made today l>y T. F. Graliker, cashier of the First State Bank of Deca ; tur, president -of the region. Nicholas H. Noyes, of Indianapolis. a director of the Federal Re-; serve bank of Chicago, will speak ■ to the bankers and their wives on “Business and Sound Money." Mr.; ' N-cycs will represent the Indiana! sound money committee in his' discussion and will talk on the need for public education concern-j Ing the serious damage that may | ’ be done to American business if the currency of the country is debased. Magnus J. Kreisle. of Tell City National bank, president of the Indiana Bankers association, will speak at the beginning of the meeting which will follow a luncheon here. Mr. Kreisle will discuss the purposes of the Indiana Bankers association for the ensuing year. He will discuss reduction of interest rates, introduction of measured service for checking accounts in all banks, and mat*(CONTiNUW*6N*PAGE*FiVE) ! Official Board To Meet Tonight The official board of the Methodist Episccqal church will meet at the church this evening at 7:30 o'clock. Dr. E. R. Lewis, evangelist, will bring a special message. This not'ioe was announced by Bryce Thomas, secretary.

MAN PRISONER FOR 18 YEARS TOJEHEARD Thomas Mooney Serving Time For Preparedness Day Massacre DEFENSE ALLEGES MOONEY “FRAMED” Washington, Nov. 12 - Thomas .1. Mooney today was promised consideration of the supreme court in his I fight for freedom from San ; Quentin penitentiary where j he has been imprisoned since 191 G after being found guitfv of murder in connection with the Preparedness Day massacre. The court acted on a plea of attorneys representing the labor leader to be allowed to file a petition for a writ of habeas corpus. The court, while not granting this plea outright, directed the warden of San Quentin through i his legal representatives to show ■ cause within 20 days why Moon- ' ey's lawyers should not be allowI ed to file the writ. The effect of the order is to . bring the Mooney case before thv court at least in its technical i phases for the first time since I 1918. The action restores an element of hope to the case which has been in the public mind since its inception. The last hope to be defeated was when Upton Sinclair failed in his attempt to be elected ; governor of California. Sinclair had promised to pardon Mooney. Permission to tile the habeas corpus petition was asked Oct. 22 by Frank P. Walsh, noted labor attorney cf New York City, John 'F. Finnerty, Washington. and i George T. Davis, San Francisco. The proceeding itself was un(CONTINUED ON PAGE SIX) Legion Membership Committee To Meet The membership committee of Adams p .st number 43 of the American Legion will held a special j session following the regular meet- ! Ing of the post tonight. All members j of the committee are requested to ! lie present. Henry Anspaugh Is Under Arrest ! 'Henry Anspaugh, 21. asked and received more time to make his plea in the Adams circuit court today on a charge of embezzlement of farm products. He was arrested at 10 o'clock this morning and is lodged in the Adams county jail under SSOO bo-nd. His father. Henry Anspaugh, was arrested on the same charge this afternoon when he tame to visit iiis son. The falhi er was on the contract. The affidavit, signed by Amanda Tonneli-r charges young Anspaugh with embezzling $217 worth of farm products due the owners, of the farm in Root township. Amelia, Richard and Rose Tonnelier and 'Marie Boch. as their portion of the I rent, INSULL VICTIM UNDER ARREST Gambled Bank’s Money On Stocks; Hid In Woods Two Years Chicago. Nov. 12—(U.R)—Twenty yards from the crowded courtroom where. Samuel Insull is being tried on charges of swindling 500,000 investors of $143,090,000 preparations were made today to wipe off court books one of the strangest tragedies resulting from the 1922 crash of the utility tycoon's bilI lion-dollar empire. Chief character in the by play of ! the Insull drama was Nicholas - Schwall. a sob-wracked little man -who thought like thousands of ' t others that 'Samuel Insull's name i behind a stock issue was a guarantee of quick and easy money. Schwall gambled $56,000 of his ' bank's money on his conviction and lost. Federal agents and a tank re- » (CONTINUED ON PAGE FIVE)