Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 32, Number 271, Decatur, Adams County, 14 November 1934 — Page 1

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BJDY OF KIDNAPED GIRL IS FOUND

K FINANCE iIPERT BACKS | Insull CREED IjoKn Thomas Madden | Milies For Defense I* Ms Samuel Insull | P J|'III.ITY HEAI) \( ! |( E UPHELD W®...... Nov. 11 <U - R) Madden, exf hit’ll finance w hose ■MHlii.s i’llided Hie flow of ' EffOs ..f ilol'ars, today| fc'luee<l i scholarly "< • . K.” on | jSaniUi Insi'H's creed of I practice. IT l® 1 ' 11. dean of the school ■mß.iii.-i'.... >nd finance at . KbJK,. appealed is ■ j defer "I'liess in iho governand 16 assocharges. charged th" 7.7 Instill and his onetime "rigging’’ in ice stocks in company. MKriMblii'. dazzled by leaping j Wwi 1W it was tiling.n. Kinpnert was an entirely ethicalj ■ He (I "'i I ’igging" as a <p ' ;■< -- '■ l ’- v mark. I operat-i '■ The "’is tnu 'a him Itv attorneys the ESSjg Hl' Insult and the ,>th>r buying up stocks on •IthSjß’i market as a beneficial -i ihfßts. C th fur the company fliM I kSkSHv ”* "f wIPNB 1 '* lecal a "' l ••t’.ivol 'MMHb ’> cm norat ions, them officers the market price of their ■ He-tiß-. he said. ilm . ttd t'"dera'reserve formI tO®T Nl’En ON PAGE SIX) H GUNS ■W V. MILIEU Adorns (’oun- ■ fwtan Dios This MornI ing of ('omnlications BjMll n Miller. 48, well ■MB farm r of St. Mary’s tewna of ■ died at h’s home at 10: GO ’li -s morning of cointdicaM Her had been in failing i t the past year and had the last two w ek.s. »Saw member of the Local "’’ " a "'* f ,h e Christian in city. He resided in |^^B r im'il about four yearn ago moved so a farm in St. «■■ 'unship For sovetn! years ■ "’ operated a Standard Oil truck in this city. K4|®P i!! ' r was born at Monroe- ■ ’flp -Inly 3. 18S6 an 1 was a son I ' E. and Anna Mary Miller. ;R ’’.'sod. On May 10, 1909 united in marriage to JenI bfißiller. who survives. There iß^Sgg lo thlldren. ' lui arfl die following bro-; i sister: Charles of F rt I "Ayn : Richard and True Miller township and Ir ‘a of Kirklan 1 township. ■ and a nephew of the de|2h S9 d are Marjorie Miller, Fort I Olive MeGuth. Salem. Mis|*W WrR - "b i’t Coppeas. Monroe Mrs. Alma. Moore, Robinand Robert Miller, ”1 arrangements have not p The Moose lodge 1 ’’l charge of the service. The ■ * IP returne< l to the Miller ■■Thursday afternoon. IHfify Elections 1 Os Assemblymen ■■ sheriffs of Wells and Ria-k- ■ were scheduled to S®tw in Decatur this afternoon to the elections of Frank G. I S^' ! ’ son of Dluffton. as joint state B iv >. and Thurman GottS’ of B ’rne as joint state sen>isheriff of Wells county is li.s and the sheriff of Black - . ■ Ls Ira Mannix.

DECATUR DAIEE DEMOCRAT

Vol. XXXII. No. 271.

Financial Dictator? I i Appointment of Emile Franqni. Übove, as financial dictator of Belgium to straighten out the nation's affairs was considered likely in political circles on the eve of the resignation of Pretn ie r Charles de Broqueville and his cabinet. Frauqui served as finance dictator in 1926 when he stabilized the franc. REGION BANKS MEETINGTODAY T. F. Graliker Presides At Meeting of Bankers At Garrett ♦Garrett. Ind., Nov. 14. — (U.R) — Bankers from ten northeastern Indiana counties gathered today to ’ heal 1 discussion of many current ( WuuUms in the. hmtrw-iai w»rtd 1 Approximately 150 heard outstand- ' lug addresses on federal, state and local questions involving the future of banking as the twenty-fifth annual convention of region one. of the Indiana Bankers Association, held at a luncheon and afternoon , meeting. Appearing in the pro- ' gram were Magnus J. Kreisle, of I Tell City, president of the Hankers i Association: J. Leo Johnson, of . Washington, D. C„ special representative of the federal deposit insurance corporation; Nicholas II Noyes, Indianapolis, a director of i the Seventh Federal Reserve Bank 1 and a speaker for the Indiana i sound money committee; Al Feeney, Indiana director of public ’ safety; Robert H. Myers, assistant to the president of the Merchants , National Bank of Muncie, and chairman of the Bankers NKA committee for Indiana, and F. R. Curda, City National Bank and Trust ComtCONTINUBD ON PAGE TWO) o Sorority Sponsors Dance Here Friday The Psi lota Xi sorority will sponsor a dance Friday night at the Masonic hall immediately following the | Gen va-De a'ur bask tball game, i Admiseion will be 15 vents a person. Music will be furnished by Hal | Teeter’s orchestra. 1.0.0. F. PLAN DISTRICT MEET — Odd Fellows Will Hold District Meeting Here Friday Night ll» —* A district meeting of I. O. O. F. encampments from Atkimei. Jay, Wells and Blackford counties will be held in this city Friday, November 16. The meeting will be held in the hall of the local Reiter encampment number 214. Visitors are expected from Geneva, Dunkirk, Bluffton, Hartford City and Montpelier. An oyster stew will be served after the close of the business meeting. Otto G. Fields of Fort Wayne, gmnl patriarch of the encampment’ branch of Odd Fellowship in Ind-1 iana will attend the meeting and de- ■ ’ liver an address. Arrangements for the meeting will be under the charge of D. L. I Drum, district deputy grand patriarch. All members of the local eni -.iimpment are urged to attend. The (meeting will start promptly at 7:30 I o'clock.

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BIG BUSINESS HEADS MOVING FORRECOVERY Signs Point To Cooperation Between Business And Government DIRECT RESULT OF ! DEMOCRAT VICTORY — (Copyright 1934 by UP.) Washington, Nov. 14. — (U.R) — Signs increased today that business leaders and the administration are moving toward a common front in an effort to cash in on present recovery gains as an answer to prospective new left-wing drives in congress. The movement, apparently already out of the coccoon stage. Is a direct result of the smashing Democratic election victory. It is intended to head off such demands as the 30-hour week and other experimental legislation. Business leaders were represented as believing that the election indicated President Roosevelt’s reelection in 1936 is virtually assuried With four or probably six years more of Democratic control ahead, j many were said to feel the tim® had come to abandon a sniping policy and explore advantages to be gained through cooperation. Another factor was belief that foundation has been laid for substantial recovery in business, providing it is not jarred by new radical proposals. Contributing to the general air of increased optimism, retailers foresee the biggest Christmas busj iness since 1929. One indication of a forward-looking policy was seen in the Pennsylvania railroad’s order of 57 new high speed ’ocomotives emphasizing the fait-kail tUAL i corporation that better times will ■ return. While no publie statements have been made, two important business (CONTINUED ON PAGE FIVE) — PLAN OPENING 13ffl STREET Proposed Extension Would Relieve Congestion On Second St Ralph Roop, county surveyor, is completing the staking of a proposed extension of 13th street which will open it from the south city limits to Washington street. Easements have been obtained by city attorney Fred Fruchte from Mr. and Mrs. James Bain, Clara R. Lare and Oliver S. Hannah for the property over which the new street will run. Beyond obtaining the right of ways, the city has no intention of improving the street this year. The new street will make the Hanna-Nuttman city park more available to the public. The street is now open from Jackson street to Nuttman avenue with a 25 foot right of way. This will be widened to 50 feet, similar to the rest of the street south. From Nuttman avenue to Day--1 ton street a new road will be cut on a 50 foot right of way. This distance is 1,266.6 feet. The street is now open from Dayton street to Washington street. It lias been pointed out that the opening of 13th street to Wash (CONTINUED ON PAGE THREE) Decatur Women Os Moose At Meeting The district meeting of the Women of the Moose was held in Fort Wayne today. The district included the 'cities and towns of northern Indiana. Bluffton, Auburn, Huntings ton, Hartford City and Decatur, and Sturgis. Michigan. Mi-ss Katheryn Smith, grand recorder. was the principal speaker ax the meeting and initiatory work wa.s given by the Huntington chapter. I Those from Deca’ur who attended the meeting were the Meedames I William Huffman, Mary Keller. Robert August, Dora Cook, William Lister. Mat Breiner, Coy Martz, Roy Lehman, John Loscbe, Ed Keller, Bert Haley, Roy Lhamon. and Sol Lord and Miss Grace Lichtensteiger.

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Decatur, Indiana, Wednesday, November 11, 1934.

Denies Routing Insull f ■ to f / SI JHI I ' l 1 ■ ■ 1 1 Cyrus S. Eaton. Cleveland finan cier, is pictured as lie appeared at the federal courtroom in Chi-1 <ago where Samuel Insull. Sr., former Illinois utilities magnate. ■ is on trial charged with using the mails to defraud. During his tes ' 1 timony as a defense witness,] ' Eaton denied lie had routed Insull in a huge stock war in 1930, ' which nearly dethroned the Chi-1 1 < ago capitalist, but it was shown he emerged with a $56,000,000 profit in the deal. FRED LANDIS ~ IS CRITICAL t I Indiana Congressman* L Elect Reported In Serious Condition ! Logansport, Ind., Nov. 11—(U.R) 1 —The condition of Frederick 1/in dis, Logansport, second district congressman elect who is seriously ill with pneumonia, took a sudden turn for the worse today. Landis' wife and children and ■ his brother, Kenesaw Mountain ■ Landis, high commissioner of base- ] ball, were called to his bedside in . Cass county hospital, indicating I that grave fear for his life was ex. I’ pressed. Landis was the only Republican to be elected to congress from Indiana Nov. 6 He ha.s been ill for several weeka and was unable to 1 participate in the last part of his • campaign. o i Anspaughs Freed From County Jail ' Henry Anspaugh of Root township was released from the Adams 1 county jail this morning after meeting a SSOO bond. .His father, Ed Ans(i paugh, wus released Tuesday afteri noon. They are charged with emI bezzlement in connection with the ’ I'ease of the Tonnelier farm in Root township. The owners of the farm allege that Henry Anspaugh kept. ail the produce of the farm when a, ’ iporiion of it should have gone to] ] them for rent.

Christmas Club Members Are Again Urged To Take Advantage Os Credit

Opportunity with a capital “0" presents itself to members of the ’ Daily Democrat’s Christmas Club ■ for just three more days after today, by reason of the exceptionali ly liberal extra credit offer which I expires Saturday night. Several | members are apparently taking full • advantage of it 'by putting in every possible “lick" toward garnering . every available subscription to turn in while the credit values remain at their highest peak. The fact that Dame Opportunity > only knocks once, and is now knocking her loudest at the doors o-f every worker during the remainder of this week should inspire even greater effort on the part of those who have not heretofore realized the extreme Importance of making every minute fount t jwat’d placing every possible credit in before It closes. ■ Credit values will be slashed greatly after Saturday night, and the same number ot subscriptions turned In next week will net members tar kss credit than if they exert a little extra effort toward ■ getting them in this week. The member who succeeds in getting a

ANNUAL REPORT ( FOR_HOSPITAL Report of Easthaven Hos-| pital At Richmond Is Announced There were 35 men and 28 women from Adams county enrolled in the Richmond State hospital at East haven, on June 30. 1934. according to the annual report just filed with Governor Paul V. McNutt by the trustees of the Institution. This number of patients in the hospital gives Adams county the i fourth highest insane rate peri 100,000 of population in this hospital district of 17 counties. The rate of inmates in the hos , pital per 100,000 of population in | the five leading counties is: Huntington, 363; Union. 323; ; Wells. 282; Adams, 270; Steuben, 253, and average for 17 counties, | 232. According to the report seven I men and five women were sent to : the hospital from Adams county ; from July 1. 1933 to June 30. 1934. ; , In this same period two men and (one woman were discharged from: ; the hospital. There were no deaths among I the Adams county inmates during i the year. Five men and four women were ’ out on furlough during the year making the number actually presi ent total 30 men and 24 women. Adams county was one of the i I (CONTINUED ON PAGE FIVE) n __ Reemployment Head To Be Here Saturday 'i Edgar Ludwig, district superin- ■ ten lent of the national reemploy--1 nient service, with headquarters in ' Fort Wayne, will bo at the Ameri-1 can Legion hall on South Second street Saturday morning’'>il 10 o’clock. All 1 gionnaires and ex-service , ; men who are unemployed are askeii I to be present to be interviewed by Mr. Ludwig. BRICE MARTIN IS SENTENCED — Adams County ou n £ Man Is Sentenced To Serve Year And Day ■lndianapolis. Nov. 14 ■— (UP) —’ Senten-e of a year and a day in ’ a federal reformatory was fixed by Judge Robert ('. Dallzell in district ( federal court today as the penalty a jilted lover should pay for at- ■ temp ing to defame the character of his sweetheart. Brice G. Martin. Deratur. pleaded guilty to a charge of sending obscene letters through the mails, de-, faming the reputation of Miss Ruth I Johnston, pretty young former Bluffton school teacher. Under questioning of Vai Nolan, I United Stales district attorney, Mar- | tin admitted he had sent the letters i to Miss Johnston's parents, her bro- | ’her anil associates at the Bluffton (CONTINUED ON PAGE THREE)

' good lead during this big extra cre- '. dit period will have the mighty ■ | comfor able feeling of realizing that : it will be hard for less energetic ■ members to reach him or her later in the campaign under the smaller I credit schedules in effect. I This week any member may be able to put over just the necessary additional subscriptions that will give him the winning “edge” at the end of the campaign. It is possible that the final count may be very close between two leaders and the ■ ex.ra credits one may secure this ■ week by hard work may turn the i tide. The office will remain open ' late Saturday night. And those out of town who find it impossible to i report in person .may receive full ' cerdlt for extra credits if they mail ■ > their reports any time Saturday, j Tills Is an order to give everyone!' an equal chance during this period, a I which the campaign manager real-1' i izes Is of such great importance toj ■ all who want to win. ■ Remember ea-.h S3O club means: I 240,000 extra credits, two clubs; ■ mean 480,000 credits three clubs! i! 720,000 credits, etc.

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F. D. R. NAMES COMMITTEE TO AID IN LOANS New Loan Committee Created To Assist Federal Agencies HENRY MORGENTHAU HEADS COMMITTEE Washington, Nov. 14 — (U.R) — President Roosevelt announced today the creation of a loan committee to obtain improved cooperation among federal agencies engaged in lending government funds. The committee, he explained, would function as a subcommittee of the emergency council and would be headed by secretary of treasury Henry Morgenthau. Jr. The new organization will report to the President from time to time and its activities will cover the treasury, interior. public works, federal housing, farm credit. home owners loan corporation, agricultural adjustment administration. exportimnort banking, commodity credit, federal deposit insurance, the RFU. federa’ re■serve board, and public works housing. Besides Morganthau. those on the committee wi’l include chair- : man John IL Fahey, of the HOLC. l Chester C. Davis. AAA administrator, George N. Peek, trade ex- [ pert. Lynn P. Talley. AAA econo , ui'st. chairman Ix-o Crowley of the I '"deriil deposit corporation. Jesse H. Jones. Governor Marriner S. ’ Eceles, of tlio federal reserve i board, ami James A. Moffett, fetl- ( eral housing director. Decision to name I lie Iward was i made, tlie White House explained. 1 ”t a recent meeting of the execti--1 Hve council at which time Mr. j Roosevelt end his recovery chief- ■ tains ex-anined a number of sneI cial boards and committees, their work and the desirability of tying (CONTINUED ON P*AGE SIX) o Lions Club Holds Snelling Match Dr. Ben Duke won the old fashion- | ed spelling match held at the regular meeting of the Decatur Lions ' club Tuesday night. The words were pronounced by | Dr. Burt Mangold, who had charge if the nregram. He read from an old spelling hook. Lioyd Cowens, vice-president of I the club, presided over the business meeting of the club in the absence of the president, Clifford Saylors. One new member, Gearge W. Rentz, was taken into the organization at the meeting. O LEADERS HEAR COLLEGE HEAD Frank I’. Graham Warns Os Need For Individual Security Washington. Nov. 14 — (U.R) — President Frank P. Graham of the University of North Carolina opened a national conference of industrial, labor and social leaders today with a warning that failure of the new deal to lay the foundations for individual economic security would mean a return to “a false prosperity certain to col-, lapse.” Graham, chairman of the advisory council on economic security, i named by President Roosevelt in his effort to sneed to completion his social legislation program. * (CONTINUED’ON PAGE SIX) Announce Program For Club Meeting — The program for the Democratic Woman’s club meeting to he held in the city hull Thursday night at 7:30 o’clock, has been announced. Several talks will he given as f-illows: “The Administration and American Heme, Subsistence Homestealing” Mrs. G. J. Kohne; “Home Loans in Indiana." Mrs. Margaret Rho Jes; “A New Home and How the National Housing Act will Help," Mrs. Dore B. Erwin; “Make Mine Modern," review of a magazine article, Mrs. O. L. Vunce.

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Find Girl’s Body ] " — -—- aMMOSZ- , The dead body of Dorothy Ann ’ 1 Distelhurst. six-year old Nash- • ■ ville. Tenn., girl was discovered I ' in a shallow grave a few miles I ’ from that city yesterday. Positive i ' I identification f<> the badly decotn-1 posed body was made today. The girl had been missing since Sep- ' I tember 19. ANNUAL DRIVE STARTS SUNDAY I Red Cross Drive In Adams County Will Start November 18 The Red Cross drive in this city ■ I and county will not begin until Sunday, November 18. Miss Anna I ’ Winnes, county secretary announc- ! ed today. Wai Wemhoff is the county chair- . man and he is assisted by I. Bernstein and Mrs. Harve Shroll. The proclamations of both Gov. ~ ernor Paul V McNutt and President Franklin D Roosevelt were released today by Miss Winnes. , They are: Proclamation . | The problems which face the communities throughout the United States in these times of economic and social unrest are un- ■ doubtedly more urgent and more numerous than the present generations have previously experienced. Although the state, county and municipal governments, in cooperation with the Federal Emergency I Relief Administration, are meeting | the urgent relief needs, there re- , niaTii as the responsibilities of the I communities the many tasks of , helping individuals and families in 'i their attempts to adjust themselves to meet their changing situations. I The responsibilities of the local agencies have increased rather than decreased, and the American , Red Cross Chapters in their efforts to render community service are - experiencing unprecedented demands unon their resources. In addition to the need for ser. ’ (vice growing out of the present emergency and t* e ever present need for disaster relief, the Red Cross ■ is carrying on its usual programs of service to veterans, public ' health nursing, home hygiene, first , ( (CONTINUED ON PAGE FIVE) o Mother Os Craigville Resident Died Tuesday ' Mrs. Hettle Lee 63, widow of Darwin T. Lee, died Tuesday at the : hoine of a son. Jay Lee, Craigville. I She had been ill several months from complications. Surviving are five sons, Cloyd Lee. Fort Wayne. Jay Lee,' Craigsville; Beryl Lee, Warren; Wayne, Lee, Liberty Center; Paul Lee Montpelier; and one brother, Frank Perdue, Van Buren. ■ Funeral services will be held at home in Jackson township, south 10:30 Thursday morning at the ; home In Jackson township, south -, of McNatts, in charge of Rev. E. ■[J. Cain. Bur a’, will be male in Van! Buren.

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DEAD BODY OF GIRL FOUND IN SHALLOWGRAVE Dentist Vouches For Identification Os Decomposed Body HAD DISAPPEARED ON SEPTEMBER 19 Nashville. Tenn., Nov. Id—(U.R)—Without a definite person in mind, officers, investigating the murder of Dorothy Ann Distelhurst. today sought a man described as a sexfiend, about 45 years old, owner of an automobile, and familiar with the vicinities surrounding the Distelhurst home and the child's grave, it was learned from an authoritative source. Nashville. Tenn., Nov. I t. — (U.R) llie bodv of a child found in a shallow firave near here was identified positively todav as that ot borothv Ann Distelhurst. t>. who disappeared Iron) a Nashville street Sept. 19. .1. Carlton Loser, Davidson eountv attorney (jeneral, announced identification, following Dr. Leonard F. Pogue’s check of his records and examination of the body’s dental work. Pogue, a Nashville dentist, who had worked on Dorothy’s teeth, vouched for the identification. Ha found that single filling in one of the body’s teeth checked identically with his record of Dorothv. “The nude body of the girl I found late yesterday in a shallow I grave on the grounds of the Davidson county tuberculosis sanltar- ( ium is that of Dorothy Ann DisI telhurst," looser stated. “The child was murdered, the left side of her l.ead crushed by a blow from a hammer. There was a rag stuffed In her mouth. “Department of justice agents, state and county officers are working together to learn the motives behind the crime and ascertain who perpetrated it." It was indicated at the local denartment of justice office that federal agents immediately took up the trail of the criminals when the body was found last night. Federal agents, like police, had withdrawn to give the family every opportunity to ransom Dorothy. Department of justice agents announced they did not doubt but that the body was that of Dorothy Ann. The body was found near tho Davidson county tuberculosis hospital, about six miles from where (CONTINUED ON PAGE THREE) _ o — r KILLS WIFE AND TAKES OWN LIFE Young Husband Shoots School-Girl Wife And Himself Medora. Ind., Nov. 14 — (U.R) — A small linen handkerchief bearing three cryptic notations in ink today told of the tragedy surrounding the childhood romance of a young Medora couple killed here yesterday in a murder and suicide. The message was written by Murle Hunsucker, 25, who killed his 16-year-old schoolgirl wife and killed himself here yesterday. The slaying and suicide occurred in front of a church across the street from Medora higli school, whero Dorothy was a senior and honor student. The tragedy was attributed by Hunsucker to objections of the mother of his girl wife to tlieir union. “Because I love her and can’t have her. we will die together this Nov. 13, 1934" Hunsucker had written. Two other notations told of the brooding Hunsucker had experienced because he could not see his wife. “This is the first thing Dorothy ever gave me and I am returning it," one note said. The other, apparently addressed I to the girl’s mother, Mrs. Lewis VUONTrNUED ON PAGsTtHREEV