Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 32, Number 304, Decatur, Adams County, 24 December 1934 — Page 1

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HICIALS ARE ■determined to ■ CAPTURE TOUHY ■u ers Are Given For ■ Capture Os Notorious ■ Gangster IuGHT for many ■ POSTAL HOI.IH I’S ■fright 1921 t’y United Press) ■ Chicago. Pee 24— <U.R) ■g resoiir:-'< <>i the inub'lcKstern stn r f <>f noslal in■L.i(lrs ami of Chicago no-K-r l“'<’'i concentrated K ; >n effort to couture Bfirihle'* Tommy Tonhy, ■l'/jsirr wlv' lv'«s made himKif;> living bomb. knows of the order ami threat* n»d to’ “blow to hell" first oflioT who attempts its ■ having anil sleeping. the tuber. ■ ; ijr little gangster keeps at his a vial of nitrogiveerino nowHffol enough to wreck a building ■rki'l a dozen men at a blow. 11 • to die himself, carrying ■barkers with him, rather than captured. ■ postal inspectors admitted t<>d:n ■it t|i>-v know of Tonhv’s det.-rt ; - and that it is a factor in ■1 their plans to end his 20 v»ar Kreer as safe cracker, auto thief, ■pr and gambling magnate, aril ■gtoffice robber. Chief postal ■ejector Walter Johnson doesn't ■tat his agents blown to bits by ■ ralciding gangster. I Janson wan’s "Terrible Touhv" ■kieflv for a $130,000 nostoffic.. ■nek ho’dun in Charlottsvi’lo. N ■ hut incidentally for smaller ■liberies of nostal funds in Sac■memo. Calif., and Butler. Pa ■e u susnected. a’so. of narticl■lion in the $427,000 holdun last hrM of an armored money M in Brooklyn. N. Y. Totihv is one gangster who ha= lienuino claim to the ‘toughm- ’ fe which his ilk takes pride. Suffering from advanced con sum p-km-iinderw'nrld reports say ho meets death from a hemorrhage t tnv moment — he still is as meant as on the day when he CONTINUED ON PAGE THREE) Predicts Stormv Weather Christmas Indianapolis. Dec. 24. — (U.R) — bin. sleet or snow for Christmas t Indiana w r as predicted by J. H Innington, meteorologist, at the I S weather bureau. His forecast was qualified with three “ifs." “If the temperature is above fewzing, rain will fall,” he said. “If it is just above freezing there Uli be sleet. o- ■ ■ BULLETIN Mrs. John Rex, one of Decatur's most prominent citizens, died at few hoome here shortly after 4 •'dock this afternoon. Mrs. Rex •offered a stroke of paralysis last week and had been failing since that time. Christmas Party Given By Stuckey H- A. Stuckey of the Cash Coal •nd Supply entertained a large numfew -f children this afternoon at a Christmas party at his office on Monroe street. The party continued from 2 to 3 •dock. Preparations ihad been »ade to give gifts to 600 children Each child present registered and »us presented with candy, an orapples, nuts and a lead pencil. The gifts were distributed by Santa Claus, who was present at the party.

Merry Christmas TO EVERYBODY. The force of the Daily Democrat

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veiunjr Funeral Rites Wednesday Funeral services for Ferdinand D Getting, «9 of Fort Wayne, whim . ,h °5 < " So-day morning, ' will held Wednes ay afternoon at three o'clock nt the Emmaus Lutheran church. Fort Wayne. -Mr. Getting was known in Adams County, having relatives In the 1 north part cf the county. Two sons and flue daughters survive. His wife. Mrs. Caroline Getting died j five yearn ago. DISTRIBUTION ■ IS ANNOUNCED I Distribution of Taxes Cols I lected In Adams Coun- • ty Announced I County Auditor John W. Tyndall , today announced the distribution of county funds derived from, tax--1 ation and other sources during the last six months of this year. The • total distribution is $241,997.32. • The money lias been divided as • follows; state revenue, $6,146.18; t state school, $8,137.67; teachers' re- » tirement fund, $2,550.88; World war ; Memorial fund, $425.20; state i board of agriculture. $371.89; state forestry fund. $212.51; education r improvement fund. 90 cents; Clark . Memorial fund. $3.89: state library ! building, 46 cents; county general - fund, $62.799.07; gravel road repair, $3 67; county bonds, $5,183.77; I township bonds and interest. $39,I 362 67: township tax. $9,198.53; tui- , tion. $35,876.75; special school, $30,- , 543.59; school building bonds, $4.193.30; road tax. 25 cents; town . ship noor. $19,296.71; corporation tax. $16,393.45; library tax, sl,066.81; treasurer's payment for col- ' lev tion of back taxes. $39.17; special judge, $l9O. ♦ checks mailed to the taxing units; in Adams county and to the state are as follows: Bine Creek. $5,049.41; French, $3,047.49; Hartford. $6,432.80; Jefferson. $2,543.14; Kirkland. $4,420 24; Monroe, $7,639 96; Preble. $1,838.25; Root, $3.646.47; St. Marys. $4,575.21; Union ’ $1,459.70: Wabash. $8,512.16: Wash- ' ington, $6,609.95; Berne. $5,002.89; Perne school. $4 359.34; Decatur, $8,956.92; Decatur schools. $17.678 05; Deca'ur library. $1,086.81; ' Genova. $2.143 13; Monroe. $290.51; state, $20,770.17. The money was distributed for the various funds as follows; Soeclal School Tax i St. Marys, $2,940.55; Union. (CONTINUED ON PAGE FIVE) ALL CHURCHES HOLD SERVICES Special Christmas Services Held In Churches Os Decatur : Churches, organizations and citi- ' gens are uniting this year to observe Christmas spiritually as wel. as materially. Every church in Decatur has ! had or will have, either by special sermons or programs some reeonition of the anniversary of the nativity of Christ. i Returning proanerity mingled I with the spirit of the day and . hope for the future has resuLed In probably the largest Chnstmas ' trad e Decatur merchants have exnerlenced since 1929 and 19.,0. For the younger folks the Tri Kappa and Psi lota Xi sororities are planning dances during the . the Goodfellows dub n,m tn’ke its fourth annual d:strichildren. The Goodfellow club is . peered hy the Delta Theta Tan sorority, the members of which a the investigating committee, elnh has been genereus’y sunported and raised a larger fundi than last year.- I : Ni ne masses will f <zt Marv’s Catholic church Ch) is. m ss dav. Father Bede, O. M. Can. Ts Huntington will. a«W_at the (CONTINUED ON PAGE FIVE' j Close Library’ For Christmas The Decatur""]public library will remain closed all Tuesday. De • r oc tn observance of Christ-1 Z Mli W 1 "’ OT "'I today-

r Greetings Os The Season X/ww?’ qK 5 ' I rm ' ■ -W * I j <* . EL .B-fc .1 > A * - • Posed by S'.iirey Temple.

MINA COLLIER WINS CONTEST Awarded SSOO Prize In Daily Democrat Subscription Campaign Miss Mina Collier, well known school teacher of this city, won first prize of SSOO in the Dally ■ ( Democrat's Christmas club subscription conlest. The contest, in progress for six weeks, closed Saturday night at eight o’clock. Judges who made the awards were. H. F. Ehinger. manager of the Citizens Telephone Co.; T. F. Graliker, cashier of the I First State Bank and W. A. Lower, insurance representative of this j city. I. . Eight of the 10 contestants won stated prizes. Commidslons were paid to those who did not win one □f the regular prizes. Mrs. Crystal Rice of Monroe won second prize ■! of $225. Several hundred new subscribI ers were added to the Daily Dem- ' I ocrat's subscription list and the I 1 ' publishers of the paper stated the I; circulation was higher than at any ! time in the history of the daily. ' J Additional names brought in SatCONTINT’ED ON PAGE FIVE) TRUSTEES HOLD FINAL SESSION , Townshio Trustees Hold Final Meeting of 1934 This Morning The last session of the 1934 board I of trustees was held this morning jin 'County Superintendent of Schools Clifton E. Striker’s office. ( It was announced today that be- , j cause of tihe new law the old trus- ( | tees will serve for one week after ( ' January 1. The new trustees will , not take office until January 7. This ! W in give the 1934 officers an oppor- , I I tunlty to complete their records and . "T'nuetlng of the 1933 trustees j [has been called for Thursday. Dece"ltbe has not been .decided whether ' nr not to have the regular meet7ng of trustee on the first Monday _ in January. . ,i; j Nine trustees met for the last ( I (CONTINUED ON PAGE SIX) t

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Decatur, Indiana, Monday, December 24, 1934.

Licenses Issued Twenty Years Ago Twenty years ago today applications for marriage licenses were filet with the county clerk by six couples. They were: Adam Schafer and Miss Vida Stoneburner; Harvev Beer and Mies Rose I.ekhtv; William Strickler and Laura Wolfe Roy and Emma Cook; Harry Floy Poling and Estelle May Roop; Herman Franke and Iva Bucher. o— — To Retain Schug For Thirty Days Rudolph Schug of Berne received a letter tod’y fr_m the department of financial institutions at Indianapolis, stating that he would be retained as liquidator of the Peoples State Bank for the next 30 days. Berne Store To Quit January 10 Clint Smith, manager of the Richardson Store at Berne, -announced today that the store would be disr.onlinued after January 10. Mr. Smith stated that he would move to Georgia. The retail stores will be discontinued and wholesale business conducted.

Daily Democrat Reaches Objective Sought In Subscription Campaign

.Since a newspaper can exert aa influence for good in its community and give a service to Its advertisers only in proportion to the number of .people who read it, the Dilly Denu rat entered the subscription .campaign with an earnest desire to effect as nearly as .possible a one hundred per cent coverage of the Decatur trading area. It was never intended as a money making porjeet, the prime objective .being to give its advertisers a wider circulation for their business messages, and also to afford a wider audience for the newspaper and the things for whicfii it stands in the community. The management is glad to be able to state that all cf these objectives were achieved by the campaign. The Daily Democrat fe now going Into several hundred new homes in Adams county. The entire Democrat staff is glad to welcome these .new readers Into the family and sincerely trusts that they will not find disappointment in the paper. Every effort will be made to strive each day to get out a .bettei and more interesting newspaper

, HEAVY SALE OF AUTO LICENSES c IDistribution Os Plates In Indiana Will Set New i High Mark ■ Indianapolis, Dec. 24. — (U.R) — Distribution of 1935 automobile . license plates in Indiana will reach ' a record total. Frank Finney, commissioner of the state auto license ; department estimated today. Definite figures have not been 1 compiled on new license sales, but t reports from bureaus in all sections . of the state point to a record in all . types of licenses, Finney said, j Two factors are accountable for the early purchases. First, he said, improved business conditions have ’ enabled auto owners to release the j license fees without making it a ) hardship. The other fact, he said, was the establishment of an absolute deadline of Dec. 31, as the final I date automobiles can be operated with old plates. The deadline was established last year, and except for a few instances ' , where local police allowed a few days leniency because of congest- ’ ed license bureaus, the order was I (CONTINUED ON PAGE FIVE)

for them. Advertisers are assured of having an even more complete coverage of tlbe Decatur trading territory than ever before in the pzper’s history. To the members of the campaign who so loyally worked during the six weeks of the campaign, the Daily Democrat wishes to express its sincere apipreriatlon. Without their good work nothing ccull have been acccplished and to them, after all, should go the accolade of nraise for the complete success of the campaign. That the campaign during its entire duration and after the award of the prizes brought not the slightest iparring note of dissatisfaction Is another feature over the Democrat felicities itsel . The complete satisfar tion of all members that the entire affair was handled in a square open-and-above-board manner is one of the pleasant features that makes the Democrat staff happy over the net result.. It is a matter for mutual congratulations between the management and the workers who took part in the campaign.

STATE CHARGES TAMPERING OF JURY MEMBERS Charges Made of Tampering With Hauptmann Jury Panel BOOKLET MAILED ALL VENIREMEN Flemington, N. J., Dec. 24—<U.P) --/Safeguards to assure a fair and impartial trial for Bruno Hauptmann were considered today by state officials. The prosecution charged that "a malicious and deliberate attempt" hud been made to tamper with the jury panel. A booklet mailed to veniremen aroused New Jersey authorities and led to postal inspectors being notified. The literature, mailed from Chicago, described a fictitious case which closely paralleled 'he kidnaping of Col. Charles A. Lindbergh's infant son. It set i forth that the defendant was aoultted and attemoted to prove that the kidnaped infant strayed I from home and was not kidnaped. Anthony M. Hauck, Jr., Hunterdon county prosecutor, said the i namnhlet was a deliberate attempt to distort the state’s ease and that it might "land somebody else i in a cell along with Hauntmann.” The defense was not suspected. The prosecutor planned a conference with state officials today or Wednesday. Attorney General David T. Wilentz. who i-s directing the state’s case, declined to inti(CONTLNI’ED ON PAGE TWO) Ellis Sauier Is Found In Hospital I Sheriff Burl Johnson hns received a telegram stating that Ellis Squier 17. of Decatur is in a Columbus. Ohio, hospital. His parents, Mr. and Mre. George Squier, have left for Columbus to return him. Squier, a student in the Decatur high school, has been missing for over a month. The telegram did not state hie illness. i Mr. and Mrs. Squier solicited tte old of the Fort Wayne police shortly after the boy's idisappearance. Local police were not informed. No reason could he given for his leaving home. No word was heard from him until the telegram stating that he had been located in Columbus. BITTER ATTACK BY Carter Glass Denounces Tampering With Bank Legislation Washington. Dec. 24 —In a letter nunctuated by acrid phraces Sen. Carter Glass. D. Va.. today denounced the "wise men of Washington for •‘unwarranted tampering with bank legislation." The “unreconstructed rebel" President Roosevelt’s endearing term for the peppery little Virginian — lashed “sub-professors" and “embryonic solons" for what he termed “usurpation of legislative authority." The letter to C. S. Hamlin, secretary of the federal reserve board, charged the federal deposit Insurance corporation had acted illegally in ordering member banks and trust companies to reduce interest rates on time and savings deposits from 3tn 2% P er cent > elective Feb. 1. 1935. ISen. Glass revealed he had asked the FDIC by what Igeal authority it proposed "to exact any such requirements from nonmninher state banks.” He said the FDIC general counsel admitted he was “unable to find any legal 'unification" for the order. “The chairman of the cornoration frankly admitted to me that he could cite no legal authority (CXJNTTNUED ON PAGE TWO) o— Magley Church To Present Program The Magley Reformed church will hold the annual Christmas program at the church Tuesday night at 7 o’clock. The ipublic is cordially invlfpd

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I — —ij —— —- >0 Good Fellows Club Previous total $ 221.31 Tri Kappa sorority . .. 10.00 Mutaehler Meat Market 10.00 Thompson Chevrolet .... 10.00 Adorns County Red I (Cross : ... 10.00 City Light and Power Plaint Employees . ... 5.00 . Phi Delta Kappa fraternity 5.00 A Friend 2.00 A Friend 1.00 Rosemary, Katheryn and Robert Kohne 1.00 [ Total $ 275.31 : AIR TRAGEDIES TAKE LIVES OF SEVEN PERSONS I ■ Seven Others Are Appari ently Hopelessly Lost At Sea THREE CHILDREN AMONG VICTIMS 1 By United Press Four aviation misfortunes over ’ the weekend today left seven persons dead, seven apparently I lout at sea. ~' Searching parties worked /through the territory between Elko and Mountain City. Nev., looking for a pilot and three ihil- , dren passengers missing since I yesterday. Snow blanketed mountains impeded the search. The C pilot was taking the children to their home at Mountain City for' j the holidays. Two American pilots and five passengers last were seen clinging . to wreckage of an airplane 125 • miles at sea from Mazatlan, Mex. Seemingly there was no hope for I their survival. Pilots Noel Bnlfork r and Parker Abbott and their five • Mexican passengers left La Paz. I lower California, for Mazatlan r Friday. A searching plane sighted 1 them yesterday, in a sinking con- • dition. The pilot was not equipped • to land on water. Ru-'sell Riggs, an air mail pilot, died in the wreckage of his plane ' near Sunbright, Teuii. The plane ’ left Louisville, Ky.. Saturday as- ■ ternoon and was found wrecked yesterday. ’ A young amateur flier, Thomas 1 Girard, and a friend. Clarence ’ Broz, were killed Sunday when their p'ane crashed in a wheat field near St. Louis. Mass of Wreckage Elko. Nev., Dee. 24— (U.R) — I Searchers found a plane missing i for almost 24 hours a mass of ) wreckage against the -side of deep, t anow covered Owyhee Canyon, i (CONTINUED ON PAGE TWO) i ’ Postal Business Mich Higher Here — Postmaster L. A. Graham today ['stated that the Christmas mail , and parcel ;post business will bo 5 r per cent higher thant lastymr. I f : o 'PEACE APPEAL i MADE BY POPE I Pope Pius Makes Eloquent Anpeal For Lasting Peace 1 Vatican City, Dec. 24— (U.R) — J Pope Pius made an eloquent api peal for peace today in respond-! ' fng to the Christmas good wishes ! 'i of the college of cardinals, i assembled in the consistorial hall., “If there were some one who w«s a victim of suicidal or homl- i cldal mania and hence was de»irous of provoking war my appeal < to the Almighty would be: I “’Disperse, oh God, all peoples who want war'. “Several statesmen during the! year have said that an increase I in armaments would give the best assurance of peace. We wish that were true." "We want peace," th« pontiff continued. “We bless peace Peace, peace, peace." 1 The pope spoke for 20 minutes I in response to Cardinal G’-anito's 1 address of Christmas and New 1 Year’s wishes. With reference to j ' the moral state of the world, he (CONTINUED ON PAGE THR®JE)

SON’S RECENT DEATH IS HELD GAUSE OF ACTS Kills Sister, Brother And His Four Children; Takes Own Life OFFICERS SAY WOMAN INSANE Perrysville, Pa., Dec. 24. — (U.R) — Mrs. Katherine D. Schoch, 38, stepped from the role of Santa Claus into that of mass killer. She killed her sister, her brother, her brother’s four children, and probably fatally wounded his wife. Then she killed herself. Authorities today ascribed I her act to insanity caused by the recent death of her child. She left four vaguely phrased i notes. She came here Saturday | loaded with toys to play Sahta ; Claus for the children, but the pistol with which she killed her victims and the poison with which she killed herself, were in her baggage. Twenty-four hours earlier she killed her sister, Mrs. Ruth Hughes, with a bullet in the back as Mrs. Hughes slept in their Dunkirk, N. Y., apartment. Mrs. Hughes was Hot discovered until last night. Mrs. Schock’s brother, Walter F. Dempsey, 42—and his children, Robert. 11; Walter. Jr.. 8; Thomas, 6. and David, 18 months—were wounded fatally as Mrs. Schock moved from bed to bed in the Dempsey's Perrysville home, loading ber six-chambered revolver, firing, reloading and firing again, i Dempsey's wife, Mrs. Clara Veith Dempsey, 36. was in a Pittsburgh hospital today in a precarious condition. I Mrs. Schock came to Perrysville ■ Saturday, ostensibly for a Christmas visit with her brother's family. In an upstairs room —one of the two where the family later was shot — Christmas presents were stacked on a dresser. Mrs. Schock had bought some of them for her son, Jimmy, but when he died six weeks ago, she sent them to Dempsey and asked him to give them to his ow n children. When ahe arrived Saturday, the Dempseys tnoug’ni she would take part in the Christmas festivities. ' (CONTINUED ON PAGE FIVE) MYSTERY DEATH IN WISCONSIN One Man Murdered, Another A Suicide, Two Women Wounded Bayfield. Wls., Dec. 24— CJ.R) — Murder of one man, suicide of another and shooting of two women, coupled with a blizzard that covered forest trails feet deep, produced today a north wood-s mys- | tery that may never be solved. Deputy sheriffs said the two I men who died could alone have answered questions their deaths raised. The tnan murdered was Hector Le Mont, 50-year old fruit farmer and township chairman. He was | killetl by the bullets of an unknown sniper who fired early yes- ' terday from the darkness of a pine copee in front of his home. Two more shots dropped his wife and a 15-year-old daughter, Margaret, critically wounded. A few hours later Sheriff Jaltnan Frostman found Don Roy, 40, a ! neighboring farmer, dead in his (CONTINUED ON PAGE TWO) o *BUYS HEALTH BOND* The Psi lota Xi sorority has purI chased a $5.00 Health Bond from Bi ■ W the Adams CounU I ty Tuberculosis chhistmas Association, acckal* cording to an IaAAAAAM/ announcement siAWScuttniM P mis morning by . P W. Guy Brown, E president of the .a r assoclat lon. Money from tbe ße bonds is used In the fight u'r \ o to Btami> out H tL r tuberculosls FIOHT and is added to tuberculosis receipts from Christmas Seal sales.