Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 32, Number 280, Decatur, Adams County, 24 November 1934 — Page 1

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HUGE SWINDLE PLOT IS UNCOVERED

f OINTMENTS ■[ANNOUNCED ■mayor-elect ■nan Myers City At-K-ney; Ralph Roop Works Commissioner

a«ERS will be ■ appointed soon hBL of several appointof city officials who will their "duties next Janu-1 the new administakes office were an■red today by Mayor-elect Holt house. » r nian H. Myers, a memthe Adams county bar SK 1930, was named city ittflrtiev and Ralph Roop, enuinl road supervisor was apcivil works commissioner. nd duties of city street com- 1 park supervisor and en. 1 ■ for the civil city and the i ■ department will be combinthe new title of civil . commissionergj ler sections eight and 10 of ■ passed by the 1933 general ■Lbly of Indiana and regulat-: fejidties of the fifth class, the! aayt r has the authority to com and appoint such ofas are necessary to carry on of the office. There is appropriation for the payof a street commissioner next city appointees are well-: ■n Decatur men. They have in their professions for Unbt-r of years. Both are gradethe Decatur high school. Myers was graduated from Kwul school in 1920. lie entered university the following, ye» and was graduated from the ■> instituticn with an A. B. th.-. ■ in 1925. He engaged in the re-1 tiling business with his frith- f Ohe late John T. Myers for five and then continued hie law Mies at Cumberland university. Tenn., graduating in 1921 1 ■ an LL® degree, ■turning to Decatur he opened a! ■office in thLs c ity an-d since the j part of 1931 has been acso■>d with C. .1. Lutz, one cf the attorneys in this city. He ■ taken an active part in Demo politics, is married and has ■ son. Str. Roop whs graduate! from tne ■atur high school in 1917. He ob■ed employment with the Gen- ■ Electric company and eomplet-l ■ a civil engineering course. In | ■ he peeked the required examin■a and was named a professional ■1 engineer, licensed to practice: ■ndiana. ■r. ho p has held three terms as. Bnty surveyor, beginning his first Bn in 1929. He was re-elected to , Bother terms and will complete ■r ounty duties December 31. 1934 B the past two years he has held B additional office ot county road B*rv;sor in connection with the Beyor's office. As engineer he ■s also named drainage commia■tner and is 11 man of wide exper■tee in road, ditch and public conduction work. As road supervisor ■ CONTINUED ON PAGE SIX) Bo Word Heard Os Missing Boy ■No word has been heard from ■liis Squier, 17, son of Mr. an 1 ■rs. George Squier of this city, ■ho disappeared Tuesday night. I is believed that? he ran away ff'iiu home. I The matter was not immedlatep reported to the local police or ■ hool authorities. An investigaf" for the Decatur high school, fliere he is a pupil, was told that fiung Ellis was cut of town visitkg. I Friday the family enlisted the fsistance of the Fort Wayne noF's. giving a description of the kv. He is five feet eleven inches lull and weighs 135 pounds. I No reason can be given for the f°- v suddenly leaving home. — o I — — Q . Ko Morning Service At Christian Church There will 'be no worship service Jt the First Christian church Sun«y morning on account of the illless of the pastor. Rev. J. M. Diwkn. The regular Sunday school sesJ* On win be held at 9:3D o’clock. ’ iaß Mina Collier will ronjuct the !v< ming service at IT o’clock.

DECATUR DAILY DEMOCRAT

Vol. XXXII. No. 280.

Threat Target I ■ a r X. ll[ ww A k— I— « >■ - Disclosure by state officials that underworld figures have threati ened to kidnap Miss Evangeline i Davey, above, daughter of Govi ernor-elect Martin L. Davey, of I Kent, O„ in order to "force him to make certain appointments" re- | suited in a state highway police I guard being placed around the Davey family. Miss Davey, only ; daughter of the governor-elect, | is a graduate of Wellesley college. SETTLE LOSES AS PRESIDENT William IL Settle Is Defeated For Farm Bureau Leader Indianapolis. Nov. 24 <U.R) — ' Lewis H. Taylor of Newburg, one

ulthe foundnis of iho organize-. • ion. was elwted president of the ' j Indiana Farm Bureau as the six-1 teenth annual convention ended hero Friday afternoon. lie defeated William 11. Settle' lof Petroleum, president for the ; j past 12 years, by a vote of S 2 to " ' 60 on the second ballot. The new president's election ' : meant victory for leaders of the co-operative department of the | bureau, a purchasing unit, in a I battle which divided the conven- : tion into two factions of almost. j euual size. Settle’s backers charged that the Taylor faction was "socialistic" in aims. Resolutions were adopted snpj porting the AAA “with such; j changes as shifting conditions may j warrant:" an educational program intended to provide rural students : with a broader vocational and cul-j I tural training and for simplifies-|. i tion of the state criminal code. Resolutions included: Asking an amendment to the , state constitution making a net. | income tax legal. Enactment of an adequate ware-J; (CONTINUED ON PAGE TWO) ' NEW DIRECTORY TO BE ISSUED t Citizens Telephone Directory Will Be Issued January 1 Herman F. Ehingen manager of the Citizens Telephone company of this city, announced today that a , new directory would he printed and , ' issued about January 1. 1935Contract for printing the directory was awarded to the printing • deparment of the Decatur Daily Democrat. Many of the pages are , now in type torin and delivery has ( been promised by the last week in , December. The book will contain the names of all telephone patrons. Street and rural route addresses will also be listed, together with the telephone numbers. As has been the custom advertising will be sold in the book. ■ Space will he limited in order to hold the hook within the same t number of page, as the J9J4 ed tion, which consists of 7- Pages : '"X •' % : printed in "he directory. Persons . who have changes to make or wish . tn be listed in the new directory . J are requested to communicate wit i the telephone office.

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INSULL TRIAL I NEARS END IN FEDERAHJOURT I Jury Will Be Given Samuel Insull Case This Afternoon FINAL ARGUMENT BY PROSECUTION Chicago, Nov. 24. — (U.PJ — Pleas for sympathy and understanding jfor Tamuel Insull drew a flood of I scornful oratory from federal i prosecutors today, as they cleared the way in final arguments for trial of the 75-year-old financier and 18 associates to go to the jury this as. ternoon. Jabbing an accusing finger almost into Insull's flushed face. ■ special prosecutor Leslie E. Salter ' concluded four hours of argument with a mimiced repetition of the ' plea yesterday of Floyd E. Thompi son, former state supreme court justice and council for the chief de- ■ fendant. Mr. Thompson said: “‘Send this old man back to his home and send , hie son back to a motherless boy," Salter reminded the Jury. The climax of the life that led I from an English farm to the throne lot an industrial empire came to a climax today in the ninety, old fashioned courtroom where for 1 nine weeks Samuel Insull has i fought his greatest baffle. Insull, white-haired, who spent

his 75th birthday in court recently, | wept openly as Attorney Floyd E. Thompson pleaded with the Jury I yesterday to "send this old man back to his home, and send his son back to a motherless boy." Leslie E. Salter, special assistant attorney general who directed two "7coNt’nU»D~ON PAG2 SIX) -■ o ■ WIFE OF TOWN MARSHAL GONE i Mrs. Bert Reasoner And Daughter Disappear From Geneva Home • ! The disappearance of Mrs. Bert ,E. Reasoner, wife of the former 1 Geneva town marshal and superintendent of the water department, has confirmed the suspicions of j many of the Geneva residents that she was aware of her husband s I location. Members of the family have, never requested the assistance of! the local police authorities or of (Sheriff Burl Johnson, giving rise to the suspicion that, they knew ; Reasoner's whereabouts. The daughter, Imogene, left with 'her mother. Friends who attempt, ed to visit the family Thursday found the apartment locked. Mrs Reasoner, when questioned j by" members of the Geneva board l of trustees and others, steadily: maintained that she did not know ■ where her husband had gone. She also stated that she did not know what he had done with the town books. Bert Reasoner has been gone for nearly two weeks and investigations of all the rooms of the town building there have failed to reveal the town records. Because his books were audited in July and because he turned into the town his usual amount for this quarter the town board first believed that there was no shortage tn his accounts. The continued absence of the books has caused some suspicion. Even though the books are in good . shape it is a statutory offense to i destroy or conceal the accounts of I a municipal etf’erprise. — 0 Emil Badertscher Dies At Hospital Emil Badertscher, 61 year old carpenter and cabinet maker of Berne died at the Adams County memorial hospital at 9:30 o’clock thia morning Mr Badertscher underwent an operation recently tor kidney and bladder ailment. |He was born in Switzerland. Surviving are the widow, formerly Barbara Nussbaum, and daughter, Mrs. Noah Sprunger, five grandchildren, a sister, Mrs. Albert Bentz of Berne and a brother, Adolph of California Funeral arrangements have not been comipleted.

ONLY DAILY NEWSPAPER IN A DAMS COUNTY

Decatur, Indiana, Saturday, November 21, 1934.

(General Electric Employes Awarded The local plant of the General Electric company operated this morning in order that the employes 1 might work the full number of hours permitted under the code. The company will be closed for Thanksgiving Day. Among the 106 men and women ' in Decatur and Fort Wayne branches of the General Electric given awards, two from here were among those to receive suggest! 'll awards. Donald Gage was awarded (5.00 for a suggestion calling for | the provision of molds for winding arm clamps. Harold Baughn won i the same amount for the sugges- . tlori to supply cutters for emery ’ discs. NEW CLUB WILL BE ORGANIZED Organization Meeting Os Historical Society December 11 A committee composed of Deane ( Dorwin, Mrs John W. Tyndall and I Earl Adams has drawn up a tena- . jtlve constitution for the Adams County Historical club and will I present it for approval at the organization meeting of the duh to t be held In the Decatur high school I building on December 11. The committee in writing a con- ( stitution has made considerable in. vestigation into the organization . of similar clubs in Indiana. The new constitution proposes

t iix? urn cuiint nut iuii |>iupunr.-> six officers, namely: president, vlce<president. secretary, treasurer, curator and historian. These ofI fleers shall form the board of driectors. In addition to these officers an advisory board will be appointed by the president. The president shall select for members on this board one person from each township in the county. It will tie the duties of this board to encourage the study of local history in the separate communities. Four or five meetings a year are proposed by the constitution These i will be in the form of large mass I meetings in which the entire socilety will take part. It will be possible for members in the communities -to band themselves together and bold separate meetings to study history. The dues proposed in the constitution will amount to 50 cents a year. This has been considered sufficient to pay all the expenses of the organization and to keep ■up the museum now established in the county court house. The constitution sets up the theme of the new organization as an effort to collect and preserve ‘historical data and objects. An effort will be made to make the organization as comprehensive as possible in order that every per. son in the county will have a better understanding and appreciation of local history. o Evangelistic Service At Baptist Church Professor Gerber of the Fort j Wayne Bible institute and male quartet will present an evangelistic (service Mt the First Baptist church Sunday evening at 7 o'clock.

Records Os Two Unbeaten Football Teams Are Compared By The Players

When the graduate athletes and friends of the Decatur high school gather to swap stories at the Zion Reformed church Tuesday night to do honor to the current Yellow Jackets football team, which, undefeated, won the conference championship, one question will be upperI most in the minds of diners. "If by some necromancy of Father Time the football team of 1934 I could meet the squad of 1898 in its prime, which would win the title of all time Decatur high school football championship?'' For older fans who saw both teams in action an 1898 lineup is presented today besides the starting line up for the 1934 DecaturBluffton game. The team of 1898 won all five games played, giving them a rec. ord of 1.000 per cent. They met and defeated the following schools: Fort Wayne Catholic high school, here; Van Wert high school, there; Bluffton high school, there; Portland high school, here; and Huntington high school, here. The team of 1934 won six games and tied two to win the conference

I (DEATH CLAIMS DECATUR LADY Mrs. John I. Chronister Dies This Morning Os Pneumonia 1 Mrs. Rebecca Alice Chronister, ’ 68. wife of John I. Chronister of 1 503 North Seventh street, died of 1 pneumonia at her home at 10 i o'clock this morning. Mrs. Chrou- ’ ister became ill with the flu sev--1 eral weeks ago and later it developed into pneumonia. She had been seriously ill since last Sun day. The deceased was born In Adams county. March 30, 1866. a daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Emmanuel Hawks, deceased. She was | united in marriage to John I. i Chronister on September 10. 1884. Mr. and Mrs. Chronister celebra’I ed their go-ldcn wedding anniver- , sary on September 10 of this year. Surviving besides the husband are two children. Mrs. Myrtle Brown of Wren. Ohio, and Paul Castle of Fort Wayne: a brother. F. F. Hawks of Willard. Ohio, and four sisters, Mrs. Emma Guise of 1 Delong; Mrs. Ivan Coil of Fort Wayne: Mrs. John Bailey of ' Litchfield, Michigan, and Mrs. 1 Laurin I.ake of Decatur. ' I Mrs. Chronister was a member Ji of the local Baptist churcn. 1 ! Funeral services will be held ■ Monday afternoon at 2 o'clock at the home on Nortli Seventh street ■ ! with Rev. A. B. Brown, pastor of ‘.the Baptist church, officiating. I Burial will be made in the Deca--11. ...... „ . .

(CONTINITED*ON PAGE SIX)’ . | o Grand Jury Still In Session Today I 1 The Adame circuit court grand jury met again today, investigating ‘ several canes. It is act kwrwn how J long the jury will be in session. STATES RELIEF CHARGES FALSE Harry L. Hopkins Tells Mavors Charges Os Waste Are False i l Chicago. Nov. 24. (U.K) —Only 1 7% Per cent of the government's • expenditures for unemployment i relief has been spent for administrative costs. Federal Relief Ad1 ministrator Harry L. Hopkins said 1 last night in a def.nse of FERA - activities. Hopkins, although he mentioned ' no names, replied to charges made ‘ by Senator William E. Borah of • Idaho. He said that in many in- ■ stances "totally inaccurate charges • of wasteful administration have been made by aggrieved politicians.” “Any charge that relief has been withheld from the needy people because of the expense of relief is false,” Hopkins declared in an address before the National ConferJ ence of Mayors. ' Senator Borah had said that ad--1 (CONTINUED ON PAGE SIX)

I championship. The games played I and the scores this year are: Ceni tral Catholic, 7-6; South Side, 0-0; i Central, 0-0; North Side, 13 12; Auburn, 13-6; Garrett, 12-7; Portland, 14.0; and Bluffton, 6-0 Both teams have 1.000 per cent recorded in the win side of their ledger. Fans of the '9B team aver ■ that their record is better in that I they had no tie games. Fans of i the '34 team argue that their re.'ord' > is better in ttiat they won six I gomes in addition to tying two. While the question will never be 1 decided it is furnishing consider--1 able good humored arguments amdfig the opposing sides. Cal Peterson, a member of the '9B team stated that although this squad had the best record, he be- ■ lieved that the '97 team was the superior. In 1897 the Yellow Jackets had the services of Dick ■ France, who later became an allAmerican when the University of Michigan shifted him from the backfield to tackleIn commenting on the football . , TT -, -• . (CONTINUED ON PAGE SIX)

FuraUhed By Valted Preus

Princess Leaves for Wedding * 1 . ‘ :: ' ; V' { Ve * - J. ■ I >' Z 1 ‘/ r J V - < I -"»'*■ /'ll-',’ JWKMl 1 . MUMU B Her trunks overflowing witli fashionable gowns, pretty Princess . Marina of Greece is pictured with her parents and sisters. in Paris as she prepared to return to lamdoii for her wedding Nov 29, when she becomes the Duchess of Kent, daughter in-law of the King and Queen ;iof England. Princess Marina is shown in the center with her sister. ' Princess Elizabeth, and her lather. Prince Nicholas in rear At the extreme left is Marina's mother, and her sister, I rincess Olga, at ; extreme right. —— —

SOLON URGES (( SINGLE HOUSE Unicameral System 01 I K a M O I £l4l*l LL' 1•!4 11 I*o

Indiana Legislature Urged By Klen Indianapolis. Nov. 24 (Special) 1 The proposal of RepresentativeI elect Joseph Klen. Democrat, of Whiting for a one house state egislature. is being discussed by political leaders. ICen Is prepared to make a drive in the January session of the gen oral assembly by introducing a j resolution asking for submission to the people of a constitutional amendment to abolish the the cham-j , her system and to replace it with iI a single house of 100 members. , Voters of Nebraska on Nov. 6 jadopted the unicameral system as. jter it had been championed by Sen , \ ator Norris, veteran Republican ’ I progressive from that state. In urging liis proposal. Klen said: “Under the new setup, voters of Nebraska will elect a one-Jiouse ■ legislature witli 100 loss members i ; than the old bi-cameral general assembly. Furthermore, the new • legislature will be a non partisan • | body. [ I “The veto powers of the Govern J or and of the state Supreme court ! will remain: hence, ample checks against legislative excesses will ro- ■ ' main in the new system ’. '"The new system not only is less ' (CONTINUED ON PAGE THREE) OPEN FESTIVAL MONDAY NIGHT St. Josenh School Festival Will Be Held Monday And Tuesday The second annual St. Joseph school festival will open Monday J evening at 5 o'clock with the serving of a chicken supper and grand , opening of the bazaar between 7 and 8 o’clock. Supper will be served in the school dining room- The menu consists of chicken and other delicious dishes. The price per plate is & cents for adults and 15 cents for children. Women of St. Mary's parish will serve the meal. The bazaar will be held in the auditorium of the high school • building. A dozen booths will attract visitors and there will be fishing ponds, bingo and rhnmy stands and other features found at an indoor fair. Tlfe grade children are staging the festival, assisted by the Sisters of St- Agnes and members of the parish. Last year the children in augurated the festival and were very successful in their efforts. Proceeds from the event will be used in continuing the decorating and painting of the rooms, hallways and auditorium of the school building. The fair will be in progress also Tuesday evening. Supper will be served both Monday and Tuesday and the public is invited to attend.

Price Two Cento

Decatur People Escape Injury Bryce Thon us, principal of the Central school of this city, and five 'i members cf the grade basketball I team, fortunately escaped injury . Friday evening when Thomae’ I ear was .struck by another auto on tt a hichwnv ‘>7. one mile north of

U. S. highway -i. one nine noi m Monroe. The lc.'al party was returning i from a basketball game at Berne shortly after 5 o'clock. A cur going ■ south suddenly swerved toward Thomas and struck the left rear fender. The back end of the car was I ba lly damaged Imt none of the oe- . cr.pants was Injured. The dr4**»**>f .(the other ear failed to stop. CIRCUIT COURT j CALENDAR SET iCalendar For November Term Os Circuit Court Is Set In an effort to char the docket l'of old cases a large number have been set for hearing on the Adams J circuit court calendar by Judlge Huber M DeVoss. The November term of the court will continue until January 19. The calendar tor the remaining of this term is: November 26 —Kalamazoo Stove Co. vs Paul Graham, replevin. I First State Bank vs Lena Bultemeyer et al, note. , November 30 —Peoples Trust and Savings Co. vs Griswold, petition ■for receiver. Huber McClenahan vs Adam Biei berstein, et al. professional serj vices. Clinton Bell vs Muriel Bell, divorce. , Dec. 3 -Cloid Ratfil'f vs Charles | Caylor et al, damages. | Dec. 7 —Leonard Amstutz vs Noah Amstutz, account. Dec. 10—City of Fort Wayne vs ' Solly Frankenstein,, violation of . city ordinance. Dee. 11 —Lueberger Bros vs True Jm. Andrews, account. . I Dec. 12—Old Adams County ißank, ex parte petition by James | Toughe to establish preferred I claim. State vs Cecil Waters, petit lar. 'ceny. Dec. 13—Geraldine Campbell vs Bettie LeFevre, damages Samuel Barger vs Charles Niblick estate, claim. Dec. 14—State vs Harry W. Isler. 1 petit larceny. Dec. 17—Elmer L. Koenemann vs Shell Petroleum Co., profession*U?ONT.lNLED ON PAGE SIX) o Walther Leagues To Have Special Service , I The senior and Junior Walther ! 1. agues of the Zion Lutheran chur. h < wil participate in special services ; held in their behalf tomorrow at the i chur h.'E’Oth societies will attend in Ju body and give special music. larry Heuer and Albert Keller, , presidents of the sent;r and Jun- . ior leagttcß, respectively, will deliver short addresses. The services will he held at 10:30 a. m.

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ATTORNEYS SAY SWINDLE GANG IS DISCOVERED Alleged Plot To Plunder Insurance Company Os $13,000,000 CONFESSIONS OF TWO ARE CLAIMED Cliicngo, Nov. 21 <U.R> State’s attorneys charge t<»day that a gang of alleged swindlers plotted to plunder a $13,000,000 life insurance company and gain control ol three Indianapolis banks. Vernon Iltonipson and Thomas Doth! Hea.lv, slide’s attorneys, claimed they had full confessions from Hayden Sanders, formerly Chicago gambler and treasurer of the Abraham Lincoln Life Insurance company of Springfield, 111., and Otto Van Derek, 22-year-old bank clerk. Thompson and Healy announced they had asked police throughout the middle west to look for • Gustave Lindquist, president of the insurance company, and former state insurance commissioner of Minnesota. He has been missing since Thursday. ■ They held Joseph Baiata. exi convict and confidence man. Dave I Barry, the "long count" referee of the second Tunney-Dempsey fight ’ in Chicago, and Abraham Knratz, attorney. Th., Ahrshani I.incoln comnanv

The Abranam nincoin company was merged last night with the Illinois Bankers Life Assurance company of Monmouth. 111., nt a conference of directors of both companies, the latter concern becoming dominant. Details of the merger were not announced. Both Lindquist and Sanders were ousted from their offices. R. W. Turnbull of Springfield was appointed to succeed Lindquist as president and W. A. Fairley was named treasurer. The Abraham Lincoln Life Insurance company has assets of $13,000,000 and outstanding policies totalling $70,000,000. State insurance commissioner Ernest Palmer. who took immediate charge of its assets, announced it had lost no money and was in excellent financial condition. Tlie state's attorneys said Sandors confessed that he was the tool of a gang that hoped to make away with virtually all of the company’s assets. Balata. Barry, and Karatz already were charged witli theft of $54,000 from the Amalgamated Trust & Savings Bank of Chicago. ■Sanders and Van Derek had not been formally accused of a crime. The conspiracy was made possible by the fact that the Abraham Lincoln company recently was re(CONTINUED ON PAGE SIX) NEAR HUNDRED ARE EMPLOYED Nearly 100 M c n A r e Working On Decatur Homestead Project Twenty-three cf the 4S houses being built a't the Decatur homestead site are complete to the secend floor framing. Eight of these houses have the insulation nailed* on tlie first floor framing. Only one house lias the rafters erected for the roofing. Additional carpenters are being added every jay to the fore. About one third of the men are employed in beaquarters at tire corner of Jefferson nnd Eighth streets. These men are cutting the wood to fit. If the weather remains good there is a possibility that the first roof may be laid within a week. The drive is being laid with heavy gravel which acts ns the first course. Cars of tlie homesteaders will be permitted to drive over this base road before tlie remaining courses are laid. Trucks have been barred. 'The weather during the early . periods of construction hns permitt- ■ id Hoggson Brothers to keep slightly ahead of their schedule. Tlie houses will probably be completed . sometime in February. including the FERA laborers and employes of the contractors, there : are nearly 100 men working on the project.