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[CONF SSIONOF ■ MRS. SAUNDERS I READ IN COURT ■ Wrft»n Confession Os I Wajtw >h Woman Pre- | sented As Evidence Idefexse ATTORNEY I FIGH H WMITTANCE ■ Leli'ion. ln<l„ Dec. 12. ■ ■ Ow written confession <>l ,| MrsWi <-ii';i S innders, in wliirli she ;><!- *lO to ll:l'e sin in whs .■<!- JTimHei evidence lodav her trial in Boone ■R <Hhl'| court. ;j| Mhh r lK flflHL M-il? N Walker. '1 ® . !■& was " ,; " 1 ' !l " 1 n ' fl9K r,r> F" 1 'I ■• > • -’>,l'l o. . ■ •• H* W','., IS W;1 '‘ ERE hs> -a tn:- ’

insane asylum and I igfct he should be killed. ■re Ted Ma'hers $lO to hire to kill him." ■ . is being held in the ■county iai! awaiting trial kvcos of first degree murder. ■ > ■> contends he and Mrs. had an illicit love affair Sr 1 ted th ■ slaying as a result Ted to wait until I re»4 o Wabash before he killed ■t-jaml," the confession conhe would kill my hus■limself instead of hlfiQSjtr ■ to do it." Sh> pcs was found shot to Hfr his automobile on a ■side street in Indianapolis H He and Mathers were ■nates a‘ an Indianapolis emK- school at the time of the Ki' the confession was being ■klrs. Saunders leaned forKp:. a table, watching the re- ■ of each juror intently. gy Pope, investigator for the ■n county prosecutor, and ■forrlsev. Indianapolis police ■testified that the confession ■obtained in the Wabash po■titlon Feb. 3. It was witBd by H.irrv Ridgeway, Wa■police chief, and themselves ■MTINUED ON PARE SIX) K——— 3 Ice Proceeds To Good Fellows Club ■needs form the basketball fe to be held Friday night at ■asonic hall under the auspices |e Psi lota Xi sorority, will be I to the Good Fellows club. The )e will start shortly after the Bur -North Side game ie conid. Admission prices will be L> I per (person. I ~ h our Christmas Ipping In Decatur [The Decatur merchants are lady to meet your needs in pristmas merchandise. T Oll nuld have to go a long wa> I find a city of this size, or even L considerably larger, where | more complete or more athctive display of Christmas fems can be found. Nor can iu shop for less, even in metroblitan centers. Through the Decatur Daily leinocrat, these merchants are bntinually telling you what. key have to sell. Tomorrow lere will be a large amount of ids shoppers' news. The papei till be full of suggestions. Read | carefully —a few minutes ( pent in studying the ads will live you hours of worry over bristmas gifts. Visit the stores that adverse. An advertising merchant , i a live, up-to-date merchant , ith a good selection of up-to- , le-minute items. He knows . hat people want TODAY and , as it. He knows quality. He ; ses the latest money-saving i lerchandising methods. His 1 rices are right. He is worthy i t your patronage. '

DECATUR DAILY DEMOCRAT

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! Cecil Waters Is Taken To Prison Sheriff Burl Johnson and deputy sheriff Dallas Hower left late this afternoon to take Cecil Waters to ' Pendleton. Waters was sentenced this week to three to 10 yearn in l the state reformatory after he had I pleaded guilty before Judge Huber > M. DeVoss to a charge of burglary. He was caught in the act of robbing j the Goodyear Service Station. — * o I CRIME EXPERTS DEMAND CHANGE 1 IN PROCEDURE — Eipht Major Recommendations Are Given Out By Experts REMOVE POLITICS FROM ENFORCEMENT Washington, Dec. 12—(UP)—The whole .procedure for battling crime ; must be overhauled if the underworld is to be subdued, delegates to ths attorney general's conference on crime agreed today. Io presenting recommendations for consideration in the formation of 'a national institute of criminol-

ogy. they criticized everything from pclitice to paroles, and from softhearted judges to herd-headed s' ientiet.s. With the program now half completed in Continental Memorial hall these eight major recommendations were advance ! by the foil awing experts: 1. Politics must be removed from law enforcement if criminals are to be punid:el. ' — J. Edgar Hoover, chief of the bureau of investigation, department of justice. 2. Juries should not be forced to vpl.e unanimously to obtain eftpvig; tion; a 10-2 majority should be sufficient.— .Ferdinand Pe’.ora. member of the federal (securities commission. and one time chief investigate r for the senate stock market (CONTINUED ON PAGE SIX) WOMAN NOT ON MISSING LIST Mrs. Vidobel Hesher Denies Report; In And Around Decatur Mrs. Vidsbel Heshe;, reported lost by her father Jasper Bailer, is spending her time “in and around Decatur", according to a letter received to the article published in the paper at tine request of her father and says, "1 am free, white, twenty-one, Keithdr lost, strayed or .stolen and the master of my own destiny". Her letter follows, "The Decatur Democrat. “Dear Sirs: “In retaliation of your published ■article of Dec. 11, and fore your information and guidlance please bear In mind. I am free, white, twentybine, neather lost, strayed, or stollen and the master of my own destiny. |Where >1 go and where 1 spend my, I time is neither the business of the Democrat nor the members of my family. If however, it will ease your anguish, you may say th.it I , am spending my time in end around Decatur. I von for vour intereet

"Thanking you iui — In my welfar©. I remain, t "Very truly yours, "Mrs. Vidobell Ilesher "daughter of Mr. Jasper Bailer and not Samuel Bailer." _ Plan Every Member Communion Service An every-member communion service win be conducted at the Decatur M. E. church next Sunday n,. ruing at 9:30 a. m. and every member of the church is being not'ded by a personal call bom a lieutenant Communion tickets, such ms were used in Methodist Episcopal churches a century ago, with the announcement of and time and the name of the pas to" are being distributed in each family. All who are present aie asked to sign their cards and turn them in at the communion » ervlc ® Z1 then the cards will be checked against the church membership Hst. It is expected that the largest attendance in years will be registered.

Hotel Fire Viet im s Being Rescued Fl. ■ WiLw W g -1 ‘ * ZS' M *» r<Sg‘<' O. 'I -if* » ' Vj*- Mik fr■SRI — ” ' s * * Victims being rescued during the fire of the 30U-room Hotel Kearn-i at Lansing, Michigan, which claimed scores of lives. At left, a victim being placed into an ambulance and at the right, a victim being carried away trom the tin*.

CHAS. HALLECK IS NOMINATED Jasper County Prosecutor G. O. P. Choice For Congressman Winamac, Ind.. Dee. 12.-XU.R) — ' Republicans will pin their hopes of regaining the second diswiol seat in the national house of representatives on Charles A. Halleck, 35-year-old Jasper county prosecutor. Halleck was nominated by the second district committee late yesterday to fill the vacancy created by the death of Frederick Landis, i Logansport, only Indiana Republi-i can to win a seat in congress Nov. i«. Landis died nine days after the i election. The youthful prosecutor’s Demo- > cratic opponent in a special election to be called next month by. Gov. Paul V. McNutt will be Geo.' , R. Durgan. Lafayette. Durgan was > Landis’ opponent in the Nov. 6 > election. Halleck was nominated on the fifth ballot of a convention which ; had all the tensity of a major polit-; ical gathering. He received 15 j votes as compared to 11 for the, rerresentative elect’s widow, Mrs. Bessie Landis. otu°rs receiving votes in the nomination on the first four ballots were former Governor Harry G. Leslie, West Lafayette, and the Rev. W. C. Aschenhort, Flora, Disjeiples of Christ minister. Halleck's nomination was a sur- > prise to most political observers. (CONTINUED ON PAGE TWO) LIONS CLUB IN REGULAR MEET — Rev. And Mrs. Harry Thopinson Entertain

Club Members Rev. and Mrs. Harry Thompson i entertained the Lions club at the I regular meeting Tuesday night in the Rice Hotel. Andrew Appelman was chairman of the program. I Mr. Thompson entertained the 'I c’ub with the recitation of several Jof his poems. Mrs. Thompson ■ Among the poems written and 'I recited bv Mr. Thompson were ; , •■Ambition," •Retrospection" U ‘ Nothing to be Thankful For." and I hts best known poem. “Words. He closed by reciting James , Whitcomb Riley’s poem “Kissing • ' the Rods.” [ Mrs. Thompson sang her first i i selection in German. It was en- • titled “Calm as the Nieht.” She i j then sang "Danny Boy" and an • • enonre. “Absence." II The club voted to hold Its anJnual boys' Christmas party next 1 Tuesday evening. The plans for ■ 1 this event have not yet been completed.

ONLY DAILY NEWSPAPER IN ADAMS COUNTY

Decatur, Indiana, Wednesday, December 12, 1934.

Convicted Trustee Must Serve Sentence Hammond, Ind.. Dec. 12 —(U.R) — Eric Lund, former North township trustee, convicted five years ago on a charge of filing false poor relief claims, will go to prison Dec. 31 in order to be eligib'e for ’ executive clemency from a two to 14 year term. Lund was convicted by a jury in Like criminal court and appealed to the state supreme court. The high coui-f affirmed the eouvictlon and refused a petition for rehearing. Decfelon to send Lund to prison was reached in criminal court today after the court said it had been mandated by the supreme court to have the prisoner begin his term. Attorneys for Lund are ! circulating a petition for executive clemency for him. FAUROTE CHILD DIES SUDDENLY Infant Son of Mr. And Mrs. Henry Faurote Dies Today Jerome Leo Faurote, four months old son of Mr. and Mrs. J. Henry Faurote, died suddenly at the parental home on Winchester street at 8 o’clock this morning. The child was ill only a few hours. The biby was born July 30. 1934 |to J. Henry and Mary BraunFaurote. Surviving besides the parents are the following brothers and sisters: Anthony, Mary Catherine, Francis. Carl, Henrietta, Josephine and Vincent. Funeral services will be held I Friday morning at 9 o’clock at the . St. Mary's Catholic church with Rev. Father J. J. Seimetz officiating. Burial will be made in the St. Joseph’s cemetery. I The body will be removed to the ; home, 433 Winchester street, late this afternoon from the S. E. Black i funeral home.

Close Contest Develops In Daily Democrat Christmas Club Campaign

11 . I “It’s one of the closest contests . among three of the members that I 3 have ever seen", declared the DemI ( ccrat's Christmas Club manager II this morning. I "Just like the winds that veer 1 from north to east and then to > south und west,” lhe continued, “the ’ tide of the leaders in the campaign 1 j has veere.l and varied every week '. since the very beginning." 41 ILast week, the c ampaign man;Jager went on to explain, the number of new subscriptions turned In, t counting double the number of cred- . its that renewals count, tended to a 1 change the standing of several i workers. And the award of the cash : prize, which will not be announced . i until the end of the campaign, will t certainly put someone in the sorer front that was not in tl'.nat enviable -I (position the previous week. | This week's final extra credit of-

SCOUT MEETING HELD TUESDAY ) I Scout Leaders From Nine Counties Meet In Decatur Tuesday Over 100 scoutmasters, leaders, and c. maiitteem‘n from the nine - counties of the AnthoTtj- —Wayne • are i council attended the meeting held in Decatur Tuesday night. i Winter tamping and patrol work were the main topics of discussion. I Bert Handwork. Wells county i commissioner was in charge of the meeting. The visitors were first taken ■ through the plants of the Central Sugar company and bie Central Scya company north of Decatur. The meeting was held in the Knights of Pythias home. The first thing on the program was an inr vesture service conducted by the Deiotur s - out masters and leaders. Bryce Thomas, Adams county scout executive and principal of the . Central grade school, gave a talk I on the relation of scouting and schools ais shown in Decatur. John Hattery, field commissioner of Fort Wayne, discussed patrol , work and the training of patrol ’(CONtIN "ted" ON PAGE FIVE) -c Charles Langston Named By Masons , Charles Langston will serve as , worshipful muster of Decatur lodge ’ number sfl’, Free and Accepted Masons, succeeding Floyd Acker who held the position for the last two years. The election was made at a , meeting Tuesday night. Ollier officers elected were: Gecrge [Harding, ‘.sonh r warden; . Robert Krick, junior warden; A. D. Suttles, treasurer; Earl B. Adams secretary, and Dan Sprang, trustee > for three years. A representative crowd attended ! the meeting. - ~~ ~

i fer will without doubt really decide :, the winners of the first three prizes. ■ The 300,000 extra credit ballot will ■ undoubtedly pla'e someone in a i pretty safe position to win that SSOO j check on the night of December • 22nd. And the other two smaller ■ prize ballots will almost as securely place two others in second and third position. In St. Matthews, S. C. the cam- ' >paign manager recounted a case ' where a member lost the first prize ballot by tf.ie narrow margin of just $1.50, and consequently missed first ’ prize. It only takes a $1 margin to win either f the prize ballots, but that $1 margin can mean the difference between a SSOO prize and a S2OO prize very easily, and more ’ than likely will mean just that in the Democrat campaign. It only "cONTLNUED ON PAGE TWO)

Hoagland Patrons To Get Earlier Delivery A more speedy delivery of the Daily Democrat will be made at Hoagland, following an order issued today by the Railway Mail I Service, to have the mail sack dispatched from this city to' Hoagland on the Pennsylvania train, winch arrives here about 1:4. r > a. m. ' Tile papers will be placed in a ’ separate pouch and thrown off at » Hoag'and. Clyde Clayton has : been employed to take the sack to the post office. This change : will make it possible to get the . paper to Hoagland in time for the morning rural route delivery. ~ o SAMUELJACKSON SPEAKS TONIGHT Public Is Invited to Hear Fort Wayne Attorney Give Address An invitation was extended today to hear the Hon. Samuel Jackson, Fort Wayne attorney and orator of note, free of Charge immediately after the banquet to be sponsored tonight by the Young Democratic ; chib of Adams county, in the Ma-ig-Jc Hall. Mr. Jackson, who will be the prin- ' cipal speaker, will be on the program which begins at 7:30 o'clock in the Masonic Hall. This will be proceeded by a dinner at 6:30 o'clock. ■s short business meeting of the club will be held after the speech. At 9:30 o’clock the club will sponsor a dance which will be open to I the public. Tickets for tlie dance may be purchased at the door at 25 cents f r couples and 15 cents for single admiaeione. Mr. Jackson is one of the best speakers in Indiana, having talked here on several occasions. During the recent campaign he was chair-, ’ man of the Democratic speakers ‘ I bureau in Indiana and made many

| uuivau •** : speeches in the state. Mrs. Fye Smith Knapp, president [■of the Democratic woman's club of . I Adams county will make a short , talk. Mrs. Knapp is one of the most j ’ interesting of the county speakers. Henry B. Heller. De. atur attorney , 1 will be the temporary chairman of i ............ > (CONTINUED ON PAGE FIVE) .' o Portland Given i Ofl’er For Park | .Au L. Jaqua prominent citizen of Portland, has offered his home and i ’ 27 acres of ground, known as ' "Peaceful Valley” to the city of Portland as a public park. Mr. Jaqua requests that, the park be twtn- ’ cd la memory of his wife, Louella ' E. Jaqua, who died three years ago. ; The Jaqua home and grounds, i J whl'.h contain an old stone quarry and several acres of beautiful trees, i ' lie west of the Pennsylvania rail- ' road tracks at the south edge of , | the city. <

Price Two Cents

* Good Fellows Club Previous Total 55.00 Soil’ha Rea t'lub 5.00 A Friend *. 30 Total $60.30 The Delta Theta Tau sorority, sponsors of the Good Fellow Club, announced today they have been in- 1 vestlgating and have found about fifty needy families who will not have a happy Christmas unless the ; Good Fellows provide it. All organizations, lodges, and sororities who wish to contribute are asked to do so soon so that tfae sorority members can start buying | next week. Several requests have been re-1 ceived for used clothing, and perIsons having articles of clothing | they wish to give to the needy are ! asked to notify members of the sorority. There has been a request for : a used coat size 16. Local people are also asked to j i attend the benefit basketball game I tonight between the Cloverleaf and Huntington teams. Proceeds from th? game will be placed In the Good ' Fellow fund. —— F. D. R. MOVES TO REMOVE ALL PROFITS OF WAR President Calls Conference To Mao Out Legislative Program CONSIDER PLAN OF GREAT IMPORTANCE Wa Ington, Dec. 12—(UP)—President Ro-sevelt called a conference today to ntaip out a legislative program designed to take the profits out of war. Cabinet officers and Gen. Hugh S. Johnson were summoned by the chief executive for the meeting to prepire the program which he regards as one of the most important tn be presented congress. "The time has come to take the profit out of war,” Mr. Roosevelt bluntly remarked as he outlined in 'his press conference today one of the broadest programs he has yet embarked upon. The President made it dear tfaat every one knows what munition profits end other profits have been and that the world is especially alive to the financial gains of those In the first category. | lie explained that the hearings conducted by the special committee ’ of Ssn. Gerald Nye, R., N. D., into Munitions profits had made the nation conscious of the subject. Furthermore, he added, he -believed the time opportune for legislation in view of dhe fact that there are no war clouds on the horizon. Mr. Roosevelt indicated that the whole discussion would cover >i wide range not merely from the profit standpoint but from the econnomig side as well, keeping in mind bitter lessons learned in the last war. > Some of these, he cited .deal with overproduction, enormous salaries, personal profits, lack of coordination in the economic system. He said also that the personnel "(CONTINUED ON PAGE TWO) o— SURGEONTALKS TO PHYSICIANS Dr. Lyman Rawles of Ft. Wayne Addresses Adams County Doctors Dr. Lyman Rawles, prominent surgeon of Fort Wayne, addressed , the Adams County Medical Society on the problem "Health Insurance" in a meeting held at the Adams county memorial hospital Tuesday evening. Because of the interest of the subject a number of leading industrialists in the county attended the meeting. Dr. Rawles, a graduate of the Northwestern Medical School in Chicago and qualified by exiperfence in the subject, gave an interesting talk. Dr. Lyman discussed the growing social and medical problems relating to health Insurance. He gave a details 1 account of tide difficulties arising in the establishment of health insurance both for the employers of labor and to the (professional men.

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SEVENTEEN OF BODIES FOUND AT NOONTODAY Smoking Ruins of Lansing Hotel Are Searched For Victims INJURIES OF SOME MAY PROVE FATAL lAinsing. Mich., Dec. 12. ; (U.R) Officers supervising the search for bodies in ruins ol the Hotel Kearns estimat 'd , today that they will compi c a final death list ol 40 to .>O. At the time this estimate was drawn, only 17 bodies had been recovered. Best estimates of those familiar with the hotel were that It contained 213 guests and employes when the fire broke out yesterday morning. Os these, 163 are known to he alive, although 29 of them are injured. These figures indicate a total of 50 cither dead or missing ! and probably dead. State police said 50 is the maximum total, and that 40 might be a more accurate figure. Besieged by requests for information about "missing persons, police and firemen tore upari the i smoking ruins today in their 1 search for bodies. The bricks and I girders were too hot to enter, and i pulled into the openjiv Summary of Victims A summary of victims of the ! hotel fire: Guests in hotel at time of fire . —213. Escaped unhurt —132. Injured—3l. Missing or dead—so. Bodies recovered —17. Bedies identified —10. ’ — 1 special dragging machines to cool before they could be searched. A temporary morgue was established across the street, and little piles of charred bones, all that was left of those trapped in the hotel when it burned, were taken there when they were found iu the ruins. Police began examination of charred records taken from the wreckage of the hotel office in the hope of establishing a complete list of the names of gueets. Caked with ice and badly burned, tho | documents offered little hope on their exterior. Between 200 and 235 guests were believed asleep in the hotel when fire broke out and spread swiftly, yesterday morning. Police checked off 108 who escanod uninjured; thirty-two were injur- ■ ed. If the total number of gues's j was 225, this would make tho number missing 73. in addition to 12 now known to be dead. If the total was 200, the missing would number 49. besides those known to be dead. This does not include the injured, some of whom may die. It was feared that only a (CONTINUED ON PAG® SIX) O Taylor University Quartet Here Sunday The Tavlor University male j quartet will assist in the Sunday i evening service at the local Methodist Episcopal church, according to an announcement by the pastor, tlie Rev. JI. R. Carson. They are well known over centrial Indiana and their coming l« expected to attract a large audience. Dr. Robert Lee Stuart, president of Taylor University will accompany the quartet and will deliver the evening address. Dr. Stuart was formerly pastor of a large western church and is an excellent speaker. The program will begin promptly at 7 p. m. I o *BUYS HEALTH BOND? Bl I Y W ' Ouy Brown ' -- • president of the Christmas Adams County SEALS Tuberculosis As- < hhhhj sociation, an- ! [ nounced that a $5 Health Bond > has been pur- ’ ' ■ chased by tho ' Research Club. ’ ■ ' Funds from the i« * . ! Ba ' e I he s e ' LJ C I D bonds is added n tL r to receipts of riaHT Christmas Seal ■ tuberculosis sales.