Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 32, Number 301, Decatur, Adams County, 20 December 1934 — Page 1
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PRESIDENT STRIKES AT UTILITIES
Ike hundred lIIARDS RUSHED 110 RIOT SCENE Li, Killed, 12 Injured 0 When Mob Battles 9 National Guards *0 COURTHOUSE WpESTKOYEDBY EIRE ■ Slullivtille, Tenn.. Dee. _<>. ■ ; Hine hundred national StmrihnK» entered She’bvK;|l r eiriv todav to establish Hnler anil nroteet propertv Shun a mob which burned ■ hl . courthouse and threatK,,| ites'rnetion of other Kn'ilic buildings. ■- . my-anies from Nashville Jackson arrived in truck.; » orlb - lefore Sa. in. and officers to station them at pus’s the business district. Two companies from Athens and ■K,rr'aml wer" expected shortly t.nra! officials believed the mob Mrhi.h mid terrorized the city sim e morning. when they tin--f i'ly attempted to take by from a court room a young b’ditß tried on charges of assaulting a whi'e KrWiUul. had dispersed cm UoHv I f”W earlv risers woie on streets and there wet” m> |Khns of another mob gatli'Tina Mjpnib’-is of the pi’laging band ■ hid abandoned tin--..' dvnamite the jail. Ruins marked the site of th'' Mtointv courthov-se. scene of v-; Ktrday's fighting between l’" 1 guardsmen and a mob i Hk.irr. •' an 1.000 in which two w. .mil 12 injured, two criti'A negro hotel had been dam.ig also by fire. Up Th.- city was without law •m- - -it machinery as the sm .'.l c'mirtrnent K’b. ■ itv hall to prevent it beit a " and the sheriff and hm ha<l fled for their lives. HH Crave fears were felt for th' Hets'- of Ollie Gant. 42. bro'b.■ Tom Cant. James Pmmm deputy, reported earli that he saw several mem'" i ■ ■of the mob force him into an late yesterday wlmn mob's anger aeaim-t tin- -1" '- was at i’s height. He has m i <een since. BB A United Press corresoom 1 ' ' ' a tour of the negro - . no" square blocks of cabins dior-ks. It was a city of the Not a sign of life could !> 9 (CONTINUED ON PAGE SIX) ■John E. Frederick ■ Heads State Group 9 Ind'ait pnlie, Ind., Dec. 20—II'!’’ E. Frederick. Kokomo, wapresident of the Indiana <)i mber of <t nimerce in anorganization meeting <>f mom ■fers and directors last night. ■ G. I'. Tuthill. Elkhart, was nam-d ■>co-'ros:dent; W. 11. Arnett, Ind■anatt ii s , nd paging director, and E. Coapatick, traffic manager. ■ N A. Leist, Michigan City, was ■htwsn to fill the unexpired term ■ ! E. F. M. Sayre, Michigan City, ■deceased, on the board of directors. ■Other new directors elected were ■Thoma-. English, South tEend. J. It. ftptraer. Speedway City, and W A. ■Cttrson. Evansville ■Those re-elected directors were ■~H rles W. Chase, Indianapolis; »■ ■ Smith. Shelbyville; J. Lloyd Kim ■ought. Muncie, B. F. Geyer, Fort ■Wayne; W. F. Hutihsteiner, Tell ■?lty; Henry L. Eriewine. Mart n; ■- S. McQuinn, Newcastle, and D<”’- ■ : M A. Purvlance, Huntington.
3 BUYS HEALTH B<)M' ♦ ■ The Eastern Star Order has purchased a $5 Health Bond from Bl | V the Adams CounU I ty Tuberculosis Association, ar- | lUU cording to an a an n o uncement this morning by W. Guy Brown, president of the a s s o c 1 a t ion. Money 1 from these bonds is used in the fight ■Il _ , to stamP ° Ut ■ HELP tuberculosis 8 FISHT « ntl 18 a(l<lPd l ° M receipts from ■Christmas Seal Bales.
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Good Fellows Club * — ——— —* Previous Total 174.00 Elks Lodge j- ~,, 1 Mr. and Mrs. W, A. Klepper 5.00 Mrs. Frank Barthel 2.00 Kinghts of Columbus .... 5.00 1 A Friend ] 00 1 A Friend .50 A Friend 31 Total | 212.81 | — —'c CHRISTMAS FUND OVER S2OO MARK Goodfellows Club, Sponsored By Sorority, To Aid Children "I want a pair of overalls and gloves." said one little six-year-old boy to a member of the Delta Theta Tau sorority. The little boy had been informed that Santa Claus would come to his house only at the request of the Goodfellows club, sponsored by the Delta Theta Tau sorority and helped by nearly every civic organization and many citizens in Decatur. The sorority member did not tell the boy that his name could not be included on Santa Claus' list it more contributions were not put in the Christmas boxes over town. The little six-year-old buttoned up his thin cotton coat over his patched clothing and trudged nearly two miles home, confident that he had at last gained an audience with soomeone who would transmit his modest wants to Santa Claus. He is only one of 127 children, belonging to 31 families, who have been deemed the most worthy by members of the sorority who act as an investigating committee, through the Goodfellows club, for those who wish to bring Christmas cheer to the less fortunate. The investigating committee pronounced the houses visited this -yvar the efrahesf In the history of the club. A different atmosphere is prevalent in the homes—one of hope. Returning employment has changed the thoughts of many of the poorer families from one of despair. Proving their honesty, the men are paying their old debts and last years rent before buying what they term lunxuries. These luxuries consist of new shoes and clothing for the children. A Christmas dinner or toys for the children will, of couse. be out of the question. This is the purpose of the Santa Claus sponsored by the Goodfel(CONTINUED ON PAGE SIX) Barco Claims StoryIn Paper Only Hoax Indianapolis, Ind.. Dec. 20 (UP) Evidence purported to link Joseph Burns, escaped Ind? na convict with a $427,000 armored car holdtip in Brooklyn. N. V.. was a hoax playel by a Chicago policenaan on newspaper men, J. Edward Barce, deputy attorney genera) claimed todGy. Barce is credited with spending two ml nths in the Chicago underworld posing as a gangster to obtain information which led to Burns capture in the South Side apartment Dec. 16. , „ The "evidence" consisted of some fixtures, including $427,000 written on a magazine cover in Burns a.l rtment. _ MOOSE LODGE GIVES PARTY Annual Christmas Party Held By Moose Lodge Wednesday More than 300 parente “0 Mo r ose g aFthe Catholic high school I’ll ’ltoriunt evening. , " An excellent prt «^ n .\ .ho children, consisting or reel ..«- »' auditorium. jn ( . harge waa . Tlie t,oninld Mrs W m Noll and w 3 ' e Ued.enstager. Hoyd ' Xr acted as master of cere- ' jWi nnifia.
PRESIDENT AND INDUSTRIALISTS i PLANTOCONFER Business Leaders To Discuss Problems With Roosevelt INDUSTRY HEADS END CONFERENCE (Copyright 1934 by UP.) Washington, Dec. 20. — (U.R) — President Roosevelt and industrial leaders plan to get together soon I for a heurt-to-heart discussion of , business problems, It was learned today. The White House conference, to take place ‘ at the earliest possible moment" was arranged at the joint conference for recovery at White Sulphur Springs, W. Va. The conference ended last night. At the conference between the I President and representative members of the 90 industrial leaders who attended the West Virginia meeting, both sides will lay their cards on the table for a frank discussion of perplexing business problems. The administration, it was learned. is ready to discuss recovery problems and any complaints business may offer in tbe light of the 1 conciliatory attitude shown by the ' businessmen at the White Sulphur Springs conference. | ’ One high administration official said a result of the joint business I conference would be to give the ■ administration f° r khe first time a j ' composite picture of united bus- ’ iness thinking on pressing prob- ‘ • lems of the day. The men entrusted with carry- j ' ing the conference message to the : ’ White House were C. B. Ames, chairman, ami George Meade of. New York. 4 As the business leaders who par-, r tlcipated in the West VirgffiFcW ference separated to their homes ‘ some of the more significant features of the meetings became ap- ■ (CONTINUED ON PAGE SIX) —— o— ANOTHER TULSA YOUTH KILLED ! < Slaving Has No Connection With Oklahoma Crime “Ring” Tulsa. Okla., Dec. 20.—(U.R>— The violent death of another youth* E coming on the heels of the slaying of John Gorrell, and the suicide o , Sidney Born. Jr., today provided . new sensations for this city. 1 P S e Sever bXe" 'the ! Eng last night of Carl PulUam. 17 son of a laborer, and the slay ; ing of Gorrell by Philip Kennamer, so n of a fedeuil judge The attempted suicide in Kan : «as Citv yesterday of a man reg- ’ ist ered as E. R. Schroeder of Tulsa ■ Schroeder left the hotel. 10l ce a he was not connected with X d -society gang" ramifications he pulliam was shot to death in a vacant house where he and several , other boys were playing cards and b-SIES ' and Lumary were arrest- ; ( *rd t idn-t ,h t°hln W k a it was loaded." ' he said. — Barbc r T r i’al 1 1 Bed use the Indianapolis attorB 1 > not get to Decatur on > neys could not g mao ’ ' K ' CO hich o WiS V Fonne o r'i.s charged , '”-.n violation of the state barbers S b,.. »y I" | circuit court t|cday.
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Decatur, Indiana, Thursday, December 20, 1934.
Indicted in Ransom Probe ♦ , iW 1W 1 L 1”'-. ■ ■ W fl ■ * ■> id rW f !■■ y. wms* ft mßk 9b - |M x / W Imm eKai J IW * -z gillie . JO jfl Ben B. laiska. left, prominent Denver attorney, and James C. Mathers, right, well-known Oklahoma City lawyer, have been Indicted by the federal grand jury in Oklahoma. City under the Lindbergh law in connection with the $200,000 ransom kidnaping of Charles •. I Urschel. oil millionaire, last year The attorneys are charged with receiving fees from the ransom money while serving as counsel toi ' Urschel’H convicted abductors.
MOGESUOWFALL IS PREDICTED Two Deaths Attributed To Snow In State; Temperature Same — Indianapolis. Dec. 20. — (U.R) — More snow was promising for northern Indiana today, adding to jjhe blanket of three to seven -inches already covering the territory. Temperatures will remain about the same for the next 24 hours with the prospect of warmer weather Saturday, J. H. Armington, meteorologist, at the U. S. weather bureau, reported. Terre Haute reported the heaviest snowfall with nearly seven ■ inches. Bluffton reported four and onehalf while highway workers in the ' Laporte district said there were six inches of snow on the ground. Plows were used all night to . keep roads in the Laporte district open because of drifts on the liighi wavs running north and south. Two deaths were attributed to [the snow fall, the heaviest of the - season in the state. Josenh Carville, 67, Hartford ; City, died from a heart attack sttp(CONTINUED ON PAGE SIX) o — ! Economy Store Sign Torn Down - The large sign at the Economy 1 store, located on North Second ’ j .street, was torn down by m-alcon- ' tents Wednesday night. Either part 1 i of the sign or some thrown cbject 1 also broke a window in the s t ro I front. The sign w's repaired and replac--1 ed this morning. Sam Brooks, owner, announced today that he w ill [ nay n reward for information leadi ing to prosecution of the guilty i - parties.
■ Three Christmas Club Members In Close Struggle For Major Awards
I I 1 Fight o’clock Saturday night ■ may mean merely the near approach ot another session with the ■ bath tub to thousands of peop’e, I but to a limited few it will have • the added significance of marking • a pretty important milestone, an ■ hour fraught with serious eventualities. This, of cource refers to ' the members of the Daily Denio--1 crat’s Christmas Club Campaign, who should know their ultimate ’ fate in the drive within two hours of that eventful closing hour. Three members are in a close struggle to make that moment 1 produce a cheek for 500 good Roosevelt dol'ars-still worth one hundred cents each (and more) in Decatur stores despite devalua--1 tlon. One of these three is des--9 tined. bv fate—and the rules o< 1 ’he campaign—to accent instead s the modest reward of SIOO of tbe same labeled currency, the other t> of the trio to get a more substans tial Christmas check of S2OO. The campaign manager of the
Committee Hears Advisory Nurse A meeting of the joint aivisory committee on nursing was held at the Central school Wednesday evening. Routine business was transaced and reports .pertaining to their work were given by the county nurses, Misses Florence Anderson and Margaret Eiting. The report on corrected defects showed . improvement over the previous . month. Miss Alice Funk, advisory nurse,' talked briefly on the aims I f the 1 committee and expressed satisfac- ■ tion of the work which M-s been ! accomplished. The next meeting of the org’ nizution will be held Jan- ' uary 16. 1935. RESCUER HELD FOR KIDNAPING , — Man Who Saved Life Os Miner Held For Kidnaping Child > Henderson, Ky.. Dec. 20—Because ) of an herric deed which won him i acclaim of an entire community I only Tuesday night. John Wyant, 28 ■ was held today for extradition to Urbana, 111., on kidnaping cHarges. Wyant bad been sought in connection with ths disappearance of [ Verna Lavon Hollingsworth, 3. froin the H me of her father, James H. 1 Hollingsworth, in Urbana. Mrs, Hollingsworth, separate:;! from her husr band, is under arrest in Urbana. I Sheriff J. T. Reed ot Hectder- - son learned Wyant’s identity only 1 through the fame which became his ( after he rescued a fellow coal min- ’ er Stewart Griffith, from a mine at’ Spottsville, Ky.. Tuesday night ’ after an explosion. Both suffered - severely from poift nous fumes. 1 The missing child was found in ■ Wyant's home. Police said Mrs. r '‘ (CONTINUED ON PAGE SIX)
Democrat Christmas Club when talked to this morning was a little jittery —he admitted it. “I don't like to see these extraclose finishes to camnaigns.” he declared. "While I’ve been in the business a long time. I can’t help rather nut’ing myself in the position of the members, because usually, and most especially in this campaign, they all work hard and consistently, and it makes me regretful that there cannot be more major awards. “Where one certain member virtually runs away with first prize, 1 never have any regrets," he continued. “but when three or four seem equally sincere and seemingly work equal'y hard, I dread the final award of the prizes and the incident disappointment, to members who pethans are almost equally entitled to first prize. I think the disappointment would be lessened if one lost by a decided ('CONTINUED ON PAGE TWO)
APPOINTMENTS I ARE ANNOUNCED BY HOLTHOUSE Police Force And City Plant Heads Named By Mayor-Elect NAME APPELMAN TO BOARD OF SAFETY Members of the police force and 1 department’ll heads of the city I plant, were announced today .by Mayor-elect A. R. Holthouse. , The appointments made under! section 10 of the state law pertaini ing to classification and management of civil cities, becomes effective January 1. 1935. when the I administration takes office. The council member of the board lot jublic works and public safety was alsw announced. The councilman who will serve on the board with Mr. Holthouse and Herman IL Myers, the city atorney, will be Andrew Appelman. Mr. Appelman received the highest vote of tihe councilmanic candidates in the November election. Sephus Melchi, well known police officer of this city will be chief of police. Other members of the force are: Ed Miller, senior policeman. Grover Cottrell and Floyd Hunter. The force Is the same as at present, except that Mr. Hunter will take the place of Erman Johnson, who has been serving as a temporary policeman since last summer. M. J. Mylott will continue as superintendent of tile electric light and power department of the municipal plant. Andy Fi os will continue as chief engineer at the .power plant. Charles Brodbeck will be the manager of the water department, .construction work being in change of Ralph Roop, wbo will become i city engineer the first of the year. I These men have served efficientily in their posts under former administrations and for the preseint in.' changes will be made, Mr. Holthouse announced. The newly elected city officials have been informed that no appropriation is available next year for iauto hire of the policemen. Likewise no apiropriation has been jir.' de for the purchase of a city 1 police auto. The matter will be i taken up by the new council next , month and an arrangement made some way to privide the’police with transportation or it possible continue the present system of allowing them a small monthly allowance for their own autt s. Members of the .police force express U willingness to adopt regulation policeman’s uniforms next spring. Many towns the size of Decatur require or provide such uniforms. There were several applicants tor the police chief's pe&t and (CONTINUED ON PAG/ SIX) —o ELMER MAULEY GIVEN PAROLE Adams County Man Paroled Bv State Clemency Commission . Elmer Magley was released today 1 fn m the Indiana st’-te prison at Michigan city on a .parole. Magley I was serving a combined sentence imposed upon him by former Judge Jes.se C. Sutton for rape and prison ■ escape. ’ I Magley was sentenced to five to ’ 20 years in the spring ot 1930 after >|a jury in the Adams circuit court ■ i found him guilty of rape on a ’ 1 charge filed by a 15 year old girl. i On March 20 he escaped from the II Adams « unty jail, where he was ’ being temporarily bald. He stole ’! the late Sheriff Harl Hollings- ! worth’s car but was later recaptur--icl For the second crime he was . sentenced to five to 21 years, of J which all but one and a half- years • j was suspended. Judge Sutton ordei- - ed that the second sentence begin 1 with the conclusion of the first. 1 Lifers Denied ) Indianapolis. Ind.. Dec. 20 (I P) t —sternly opp slng leniency for perI sons convicted of murder, the state » clemency commission' today denied | petitions of 1” life inmates Os the ' (CONTINUED ON PAGE SJX)
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College Alumni To Meet Friday ■— I A meeting of the members of St. | Joseph's <l llegs alumni, will be held in Fort Wayne at the Catholic Community center, Friday, December 21. J. Henry Hipskin of Fort Wayne is secretary treasurer of the association. Reverend Joseph B. Kenl:el, president of St. Joseph s college. Renssalaer. will attend the I meeting. Several Decatur men are | [graduates of the college land are! Claiming to attend the meeting. CLEAR COUNTY ROADS OF SNOW County Highway Department Will Clear All County Roads Ralph Roop, county highway superintendent, announced today tliat the three county snow plows will work night and day until every one of the county's 750 miles of road is cleared of snow. The plows were not put in use until this morning because the snow had not drifted. A wind last night produced drifts, making low spots in the roads impassable. Two trucks have been put behind each plow to speed the work. The plows are averaging 15 miles , ' an hour. The work was slowed up some today when , one of the t’-ucks to which a plow was connected broke down. It was necessary to call one of the county trucks from the southern part of the county to the county garage this morning where a plow was fastened to it. The state highway department is experiencing little difficulty keeping its roads in the county clear as there are plows to each 20 miles of road. The truckmen 'can. if necessary, make trips over the roads m theh dl. trict a day. The city of Decatur s street department employees cleared away the snow Piled along the curb ng on Second street. The snow had been piled against tu [ bin ,® Tuesday morning by the <ny» snow Plows. The snow today was Shoveled into trucks and “Vhe streets in Decatur were all passable but slippery because of tlie hard packed snow. The state highway department threw sand on Second street today Sami was also used On ho curves and bad portions of the; state roads out of the city to increase the traction of tires. Tonight’s Meeting At Berne Postponed The meeting of the Adams County Democratic Women's Club which was to have been h eld at Berne to ■night, has been .postponed, on nccounty of the bad weather condilions. _____ — io? — Lewis Koldewey Escapes Injury Lewis Koldewey of near Decatur, esea ed serious injury Wednesday i atf moon while enn ute to Portland when hist’ r turned over alKnUone mile norfi of Berne and caught fire. ' Mr Koldewey succeeded in gett- ! ing out of the oir immo'.iately and extinguished the blaze which did ' only slight damage. Mr. Koldewey attempted to stop | on the highway when an approach'ing truck flasihed on the head- ' lights. . a— — Will Return Burns To Indiana Prison > [ Chicago, Dec. ' (Jerry) Bunn®, 41-year-cld escaped ' convict and Dillinger gangster, will be returned to Indiana to finish a ' life sentence at the Michigan State ‘ j prison, it was announced today by , postal Inspectors. Burns, .seized in a south side department Stunday after deputy at ’ torney General J. Edward Barce of Indiana and an attractive girl stenographer spent two months tracking him down, escaped from [ the Michigan City prison Sept. 26, 1933. The pri ‘ n brc»ik, in which ten ' convicts escaped, was believed to have been engineered by John Dilli inß er ' Chief post’ 1 Inspector Walter Jc'inson said eastern authorities ■ have been unable to Identify Burns , as a participant in the $427,000 hold- _ up of an armored truck in Brooklyn, N. Y., laet August 21.
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F. D. R. KEEPS 1 UP BATTLE FOR REDUCED RATES Mayor LaGuardia of New York Confers With Roosevelt UTILITY STOCKS TO LOW LEVELS Washington, Dec. 20.— <U.R) —President Roosevelt opened the way today for federal financing of municipal utility i plants throughout the.counItrv as another step in his militant tight for lower elec- ■ trie rates. The President struck at the I very heart of the privately owned utility industry when [he joined forces with Mayor Florello H. LaGuardia in a threat to bnild a publicly owned power system in New York City. Possible far-reaching consequences ot the president's action were reflected immediately on the New York stock exchange, whero utility stocks reeled to lower levels. Wall Street was frankly apprehensive. Machinery for putting through a $15,000,000 PWA loan to t,he city of New York for construction of an electric plant was thrown into high gear. President Roosevelt assured Mavor JjiGuardia of "preferred action" on the application. Mayor LaGuardia, wearing a black felt hat pulled low, arrived for the White House conference with Maurice P. Davidson, his comi missioner of water supply, gas and electricity. Rear Admiral Reuben E. Bakenhaus also took part in the conference. A short time later Mayor laiGuardia, his dark eyes flashing, emerged from the president's office. High pleased, he proclaimed | that plans for the construction were actively under way. that the President had demonstrated his co. operation, and that: "Anybody, at any time, anywhere. can do a better job than the Insulls and the rest of those financiers.’’ LaGuardia, with Davidson, went from the presidential conference to the office of Secretary of Interior Harold Ickes, the PWA admfn(CONTINUED ON PAGE SIX) Bills To Be Filed Before December 26 ! Clerks in County Auditor John W. Tyndall's office today requested that all commissioners hills for the month of December be filed on or before December 26. The commissioners will meet December 31 B allow the claims. TO MAKE CHANCE I IN VOTING LAW Amendment To Registration Law In Indiana Will Be Asked Indianapolis, had., Dec. 20 —(UP) An amendment to the 1933 state [ voters’ registration law to make it applicable to the special a-ngres- , sional election in the second district will be presented the 1935 Gened d assembly as emergency legislation, Gov. Paul V. McNutt said today. The special election will be callI ed next month to fill the vacancy L caused by tbe death ot Frederick Landis, Republican, who died nina days after his election Nov. 6. I In present form the registration I law does not piD-vide for special i congressional elections, ’although it ’ does provide for special elections ' in cities and state at large, the governor revealed. > Fred C. Gause, Republican mem- - her of the board of election comniLs- > sinners, is studying the siluathm I with a view to preparing the neces- ’ sary amendment. i “Whatever cures are needed will • • be known before the legislature convenes Jan. 10 and we will ask that. i body to take prompt action so that 4 the special election can be iteld I- soon.” the governor said. George R. Durgan. der fretted for re-election by Landis, has s been designated ’as the Democratic s candl lai.3 in the special election and I- Charles A. Halleck, Rensselaer, i- has been nominated by district republican leaders.