Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 33, Number 10, Decatur, Adams County, 11 January 1935 — Page 1

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pATORIUM Bill passes I both houses Lirate Bills For Year’s ■■tension l >asse( * • ■■ Legislature Bosses adjourn I |TO NEXT MONDAY I Ji Jail. ! Jr^ U ‘® Upamte l>Uls provuknfl * H'vcar a\!i’iisi< ai ol the Eilutorium die sa,e K v .IrlilMlllflil I'H'IHTtV HI Hniiiiui "‘Tt nasscjl under ■,,,.,(>11 ..I II" 1 I-" l *’* V M r o lli the Miialf and ’lie ol representatives. . . alter missing the liotli branches ol the Mm, -.. aii J ,nir!ieil until 2 !>■ m. moral' rium bills will n .■l'muiittee Mon.ld OOP will be selected for passage , administration's measures to be introduced. pie. ip •at-d argument in .. Tini-atoned amend- • „ extend moratorium ttt , ted for final likely to contain living Gov i’.iul \ McNutt niorutorfor’ an additional year by order. south bend, and RepresentaGlen R Slenker, D. MontiWm it'.'rodttced the measures. with unprecedented ; made full ; t tight ,n during tti" ■H . minutes. 4 score more offered in the house. i ’ll-" ■m : .apicnririaiion bill of session. Hp‘ e-nat° pii.-.fil ’wo emergi'!' amending tile vot- , law to facilitate -■ i |H' -I'rei- 'if the .bllin I idlin'which brought Indiana up me..'li,d miblicitv were "I ’die I asi, for crime bills in both houses. Answers I Utilities' Charges ■Washington. ,i p , x_TP> — §■- Ro>e.-!■ lay presentSB'" federal p r mmi-siaiTs r ln ’"c 1 iiarg - that the g >v- - yards!i k power policy B threatening the s rings of w>and orphans. ■ h " Power commission told thy i!! effect that the charge 1 hUe issue drawn into the SB/ °‘ P'i'eie power interests extension of the govern- ' drive for lower electrical M’ 1 " utilities had claimed money in life insuran- e and sav|B 1,a " ! " dei'-'CIN ». .s ,hi 'UteiU'd ■?“ se ° r [ho alta ‘ k «n power cca bailies. B m °crat Company 1 Awarded Judgment I)p, ' a ’ ;;r Daily Democrat Co. R Bl . ‘ !V ' )r<i e<.l judgment of 51y.15 Auburn Haggard of Monroe mornln 8 In the -ourt of <’. H. ■ M „ e ‘ n ' an ’ Berne jUßtice of the . Haggard was former prothe Monroe Market. By Pettit Talks § To Rotary Club Pettit of Hlcomfield, B Schn r tor in the Re P nei 't Aucn SaV ® an PXC? Hpnt talk ■• Pettit dUbl ' St evening ' Bnily" L ' e ° n tlle '' SuK « I,’: I *, ,lle members an Bio r Work ' Mother AmBvah. “f ter rheerfuiness, it.,., mZr K aby opportunity. He d each '-haracter. Hi R o y r f h am waa >•> charge of Bo; l h 80n of ,h!s city also ■ in the sobooi. Bhumi Bulletin |»»c”w t"-" - <OP> - ■ J °Hnson in u ‘° * heriff °- ■art today, Huntln 3ton circuit

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Held In Slaying Marian Murphy, freckle-faced IT i year old girl, is shown In New York City following her arrest ln connection with the slaying of a case patron during a holdup. She was held with a male companion. ELEVEN CENSUS TAKERS NAMED Farm Census Enumerators Are Listed By Chairman Nelson Eleven farm tenstts takers were announced today by NV.than Nelson. They were appointed by Congree.man James •!. Farley on Mr. Nelson's recommendations. The enumerators are: Elm r AndcLSDU. Lee AooeU, Oust Mann. Ru j fus Bo*e Forest Ilar-.hberger, all i of Geneva: APi>ert Burke of Berne; ! Frank P. Helm .n. I-Jarv? Tietrntt. Tlermaa WoPpert, and Thomait .1 Durkin f De atur and Groce T:;e of St. Marv’o township. The report to be filled in iiy the enumerators for each far r in Adams county is in eight oarts The first section dealt w-ith the operator of the f. rm. Among the questions askpd him is 'i’ow m nv | days during l£‘f!4 lie w rked f. r pay at jolw no>t • .nnected with the farm. The second section concerns the j tenure problems on the farm, including the question of whether the, operator worked as a hired manager. Section three is entitled farm a-reage. 1 1 •’sks the numb-r of scree from which crops were h r- , vested in 1934, the land used for ( grazing, and woodlands, and land lying idle. , Section four asks the operator , Cow mu- h would be received from the farm if it w re .sold. , Questions on mortgage debts are , asked in -section five. ( Section aix of th ? report con- C cerns “housiag, popuV.tion and la-1 (CONTINUED ON PAGE PIVE) MARY PICKFORD GIVEN DIVORCE “Ideal Couple” Divorced After 15 Years Os Married Life Lew Angeles, Jan. 11 — (UP) Mary Pickford's ro iatr e with douglae Fairbanks io over. M rried life for the "ideal couple" end?d late yesterday when tit? ae:- j re3S was a worded » divorce in a sui-prisingly brief oppearance before superior Judge ißen B. Lindsey. Her complaint, filed 13 m nths ago, charged ment t cruelty, but the ojarg l ? w a not discussed in the three minutes required to obtain the decree. There was oadnese in her volte when she left the ha'l of justice to return to “Pkkfair,” the couple’s • estate, which she will continue to occupy under an agreement with Fairbanks. “This h,is been too dreadful," she told reporters. "1 have no commentOnly four questitns were asked her 'by liter attorney Loyd Wright. | before ehe w « excused, a nervous, tremulous figure in Gta.v. "Have you lived in this county for more than three years prior to j filing of this complaint-” Wright (CONTINUED ON PAGE THREE) I

PIQUETT SAYS JUDGE MURRAY PROMISED AID Dillinger Attorney Claims Indiana Judge Promised Leniency CLAIMS HE URCEI) JOHN SURRENDER Chicago. Jau. 11 — (U.R) —laruis P. Piquett, squat and bushy haired “mouthpiece” for the outlaws of John Dilllngor's gang, revealed from the witness stand in federal court today that he had been, promised by an Indiana judge that Dlillnger would be saved from death in the electric chair If he surrendered. Piquett's testimony, given in the hushed court room of Judge William Holly where he is on trial on charges of being the "master mind'' of the Dillinger mob. named criminal court Judge William J. Murray of Crown Point. Ind., as offering the promise. Dillinger was awaiting trial before Judge Murray on charges of killing an East Chicago policeman when lie used a “toy pistol” to break from the Crown Point jail last March 3. Piquet* was the first witness in his own defense. He denied conspiring with Dlllinger — although he admitted meeting the outlaw in Chicago a few hours after the toy gun episode —and hotly refuted the statements of a dozen government witnesses that he arranged for plastic surgery operations on the faces of the Hoosier outlaw- and Homer Van Meter for SIO,OOO. “Did you ever see Judge Muri ray iu Chicago?" Plauett's attorney askod him. “Yes.” Piquett answered quick(CONTINUED ON PAGE THREE) WOULD CHANGE PRIMARY LAWS G. Remy Bierly County Clerk-elect, Proposes Changes A number of changes in the state primary election laws and election laws governing state conventions and organization of the county central committees have been proposed to the state legislature by G. Remy Bierly. newly elected clerk of Adams county, who will take office in 1936. The proposals were printed in an article published this week in the Hoosier Sentinel, state Democratic paper published at Indianapolis. Mr. Bierly's plan follows: Primary Elections 1. Require each candidate for nomiation at a primary election to pay a fee of 1 per cent of the salary of the official holding the office the preceding year. (1 per cent of ONE year's salary). 2. This fee to be paid to the clerk of the circuit court at the time of filing. 3. OneJtalf of such fee to be paid intoAhe public fund of the county to be used by the commissioners to pay for primary election expenses. 4. One-half of such fee to be paid July 1, after the primary to the treasurer of ttie county central committee of the party to which the candidate belongs.. 5. Candidates for precinct commit-1 teemen, members of advisory | (CONTINUED ON PAGE THREE) Former Berne Youth Is Held Joseph W. M Spctdden, 18, Fort j Wayne, formerly from Berne is under $2,000 bond on an auto vehicle stealing charge. He has admitted j to Fort Yaynep olice that he stole j three automobiles. He was captured Sunday when Fort Wayne police caught him as he was lr.iving a beer parlor with a high schocl girl in that city and about to enter a- ar belonging to Georg* N'eizer. He admitted that ue had stolen that car, thrown away tltep lates. and fastened to the car pines stolen from Albert Mills of Fort Wayne. Further questioning brought out the confession that he had stolen two ether cars.

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On Witness Stand * * ; JHBfKpIP- • ? Louis P. Piquett, Chicago attori ney on trial for aiding members of the John Dlillnger gang of 1 murdering outlaws, took the etand in hts own defense today. Piquett reluted promise of Indiana judge ’ for leniency. i LIST BANKS TO RECEIVE FUNDS i 1 — ■— County Depositories For 1935 Listed By County Attorney 1 County attorney Henry B. Heller today announced the county dop sitoried for 1935. Tie members or the Adams county botrd of commissioners acted as the county board of finance by virtue of their offices, i The bids were pia ed on r?cord and acrepted at the amounts bid. The contracts are: First State Bink f Decatur, $150,000; First Bunk of Berne, $lOO.l 0; Dink of Geneva. . $S0,000; and Farmers State Bank | of Pro !e , $25,000. I Because most of the banks in the county already have more n.on- ; ey in their vaults than can he loanr ed advantageously under the present banking laws nothing tightr than the minimum two per cent interest was bid. Under the law passed by the spe- ! cial session of Indians legislature 1 in 1933 the -.ounty will not re.eive 1 Che two per cent interest. It will be ' be sent to a banking house in Ind- ' ianopcis where it will be U6ed as an ■ insurance fund. When s2,(K’o',ooo is deposited in 1 the Indianapolis, insurance center the interest will again be used by 1 the counties in which it is raised. The largest amount of the county money will again be kept in the Decatur bank .because of the convenience to the offnee and to those who receive county money. EARL MILLER TO RE HERE MONDAY Field Agent Will Assist In Compiling Gross Income Returns Earl Miller, field agent of the Indiana gross income tax division will be in Decatur Mondays, Jan. 14-21-28, to assist taxpayers in filing annual gross income tax re- ; turns, it was announced today by Dee Fryback. auto license branch j manager. The field agent will be stationed at the auto license bureau and it was urged especially that persons who have unusual problems in connection with their tax returns i obtain his assistance. Service of regular employes is available every day at the license branch. Mr. Fryback pointed out that all persons who received more than SI,OOO during 1934 are required to file an annual return. Quarterly returns are required by law only of persons whose tax amounts to more than $lO a quarter, although many taxpayers owing smaller amounts have elected to pay quarterly. “Even though quarterly returns have been filed during the year.” he said, “all income received from January i to December 31, 1934, (CONTINUED ON PAGE SIX)

Decatur, Indiana, Friday, January 11, 1935.

CLARK I. LUTZ FILES REPORT Current Report Is Filed By Peoples Trust Co., Liquidator Clark J. Lutz, special representative, Department of Financial institutions of Indiana, ln charge of the liquidating of the Peoples Loan arid Trust Co. bank, lias tiled his third current report for the period between September H, 1934 and December 31, 1934. On September 9, the report shows that the special representative had $125,771.41 on hands in assets. Since that time he lias collected $1,202.29, making a total of $126.973.70. The items Included in the inventory assets for September 9, 1934 were: Mortgage loans, $19,952.32; personal and collateral loans. $69.- j 168.33; overdrafts, $56.55; advances to estates, $28.73; banking house, $20,000; other real estate, sll,674 83; due from bank, $4,240.65; Home Owner Loan bonds, s6su. 1 total. $125,771.41. Addition charges or funds received by the bank since Septemb- i er 9 were: cash from compromises, j $81.95; interest received, $316.28; rent received, $752; miscellaneous receipts, $52.06, total, $1,202.29. A total of $3,056.72 in credit was ! asked for money paid out by the bank during the period from September 9. to December 31, 1934.1 The credits asked were: Assets comprised, $81.95; losses determined, $270.05; common (claims paid. $561.87; - taxes paid, expenses of administration. $1,176.82; special representative. $400; attorney fees allowed, S2OO, total, $3,056.72. Mr. Lutz had the following inventory assets on nand December 31, 1934: mortgage loans. $19,607.08; personal and collateral loans. $67,961.57; overdrafts. $56.65; banking house, $20,000; oilier real .CONTINUED ON PAGE THREE, ANNOUNCE PLAN FOR DIRECTORY Rural Directory System Proposed By Governor’s Commission Indianapolis, Ind., J*n. 11—(UP) —'P’.ins for the rural directory system, designed to make country homes as easy to find as city residents, were announ-.ed today by j the run:! rehabilitation division of the governor’s commission on un employment relief. It was proposed as a project that would provide permanent rural improvements as well *>s make work for unemployed. The project is open to all couties 1 that are willing to furnish materials i Dr. E H. Shideler, di’rector of the , rehabilitation division, said in an-; nouncing the plan. ■lt has the endorsement of the Indiana farm bureau, sb te planning board, and many county officials, especially sheriffs, h? said. Under th I • lan, a’l roads in the j county would foe designated with j letters. East a->d west roods would be known as “A” roads and north and south roads would be designated as “B” roads. EjO'.i road w uld the numbered, with the figures starting at the west and south boundary lines of the -.ounty. Workers are to be placed in the j norteast c rner of each road inter- j section to enable travelers to de-, termine directions. Farm residences also'will be num- j bered. The numbering of homes will j run from south tc north and from! west to east as in the Philadelphia system of house marking. By allowing 40 numbers to each (CONTINUED ON PAGE SIX) Starts TOMORROW A dramatic love story with a beauty and breath-taking suspense that will hold you from beginning to end. Be Sure to Watch for The Lady Dances in Tomorrow’s Democrat

COMMITTEE ON RELIEF NEEDS FILES REPORT Sweeping Social Legislation Is Planned By Roosevelt HEALTH INSURANCE INCLUDED IN PLAN (Copyright 1935 by UP.) Washington. Jan. 11. — (U.R) — President Roosevelt's sweeping social legislation plan contemplates j security for the wage earner, independence for the aged, and health insurance for needy and children, the United Press learned today. The plan was revealed In the report of the subcommittee of experts to the cabinet committee and goes to the White House today. , The president will bundle the plans into a message to congress next week. The security program, as worked out by the subcommittee and which the cabinet group and the president are expected to adopt in its main points, provides: 1. Old age pensions of SSO a month for needy persons over 65: 2. Employment insurance to which labor would contribute 1 per cent of wages and Industry 3 per cent of payrolls; 3. A health insurance plan which would give free medical attention, by private physicians, to j those on work relief; 4. Extension of present work to protect child health. In some quarters it appeared that the SSO a month recommended for old age pensions will be cut to below S4O a month by the time congress starts actual work on drafting of the bill. The fund to care for persons now eligible is to come from the public treasury, j with the federal and state governments sharing equally the cost. It is clearly intended that only aged persons who have no immed(CONTINUED ON PAGE THREE) Herman M. Johns Slugged At Store Herman >M. Johns, Fort W-iyne grocer who was slugged in hie store : there Wednesday night w well known in this city, having lived here for many years. He is the son of the late Mr, and Mrs. Jl hn j Johns of Decatur. Johns was slugged by Ansen Hefer. 23, Fort Wayne youth on parole from the state reformatory at Pen dl-eton. Hafer will probrbly be returned to the institution for viol--1 tion of his parole. Mr. J uns stated that he was a-1 lone in his grocery store at the time of the hold-up.Hafer entered the i store and ordered some groceries. When Mr. John 3 turned his ba k Hafer slugged him wi.h a hanrmer.! Mr. Johns w.is not seriously injur-1 ed. LOCAL DOCTOR'S MOTHER IS OEAD Dr. C. C. Rayl’s Mother Dies At Monroe This Morning Mrs. Mary Rayl, 72, wife of T. J. Rayl of Monroe, and mother of Dr C. C. Rayl of this city, died at her j home in Monroe at 8 o’clock this j morning. Death was d«e to arthritis. I S.-e had been bedfast for the last eight weeks. Mrs. Rayl was born in Tipton county October 15, 1862, a daughter of No>h and Almarianda Hunt. > She was united in marriage to T. < J. R>iyl. who survives, together with the following children; Dr. U. C- Rayl of Decatur. Carydon F. Rayl of southeast of Decatur, and Silva May Rayl at home. 'Seven grandchildren, two brothers, Clurles Hunt of Monroe and Perry Hunt of Cralgville, and .t sister, Mrs. Laura Lee of Shall sville, survive. The parents, two sisters and two brothers are jsceased. Mrs. Rayl had resided in Adam 3 county for the past 31 yzors. Private tuner 1 services will be Held »tt the Rayl home Sunday afternoon at 1 o’clock with Rev. Vernon Riley, pastor of the Monroe Friends Church, officiating, and burial will be made in the Decatur cemetery. The body will be removed to the! i ~(CONTINUED ON PAG3 SIX)

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, — Because so many demands for his custody were made following his capture. Sheriff Evan Shore of 1 Barry county, Missouri, decided to call for bids for Bob Johnson, above, notorious Ozark bandit. , The desperado went to Jasper ( county, Missouri, when Sheriff Oil Rogers bid S6O in the auction sa'e. HEALTH BOARD~ HOLDSMEETING Important Matters Discussed By Members of City Health Board 'Menvbera of the city heath hoard,! Dr. R. E. Daniels. Dr. G. J. Kohne! and Mrs. Paul Graham held their i first meeting Thursday evening. The most import.int matter discussed by l e board w> s slicing .provisional quar mines on homes where one or more members of the family are suffering from influenza. The board stated that under this i provisional quarantine, 'ill • hildren must he kept o\it of school and other j members of the family must refrain from attending miblic g therings cf any nature. If this provisional quarantine is not adhered to, a strict quarantine will be ordered by the board members. An increasing number of influenza eases have been reported ia Decatur rod this order has been issued by the board to prevent j nread of the disease into proportions of an epidemic. T'-e board also -decided te conduct a sanitation inspection of the tity next June. All stores and basements will be inspected by board members and any orders deemed necessary will be issued. Members of the board of health went on record as urging small pox vaccination among children. Unless properly vaccinated, all persons exposed to the disease are subject to strict quarantine. Physicians and s' bool officials of the city have pledged their cooperation to the hmith hoard in reporting ail contagious diseases. Seven>l cases have been noted lat ly of (CONTINUED ON PAGE SIX) o Herbert Hoover On Board Os Directors 1 — i (New York, Jan. 11 — Herbert Hoover, former President of the United 'States, was elected today to the board of directors f the New York 'Life Insurance Company, it Wttg announced after the regular meeting of the directors this noon, at the company’s h >me office, 51 Madison Avenu 1 , New York. Alfred E. ISmith, former governor of the stJte of New Ycrk and a director of the company, placed Mr. Hoover’s name before the board of directors fiy moving the adoption of ti e nominating ■ onvmittee’a resolution that Mr. H over be elected. Tlie election was unanimous. Organize Classes At Preble Tuesday A meeting of all Preble town si.: ip j residents interested in the federal | emergency education progmm will be held at the Preble school Tuesday evening, January 13. at 7:3b o’clock. W. O. Little, county supervisor, will explain the program and classes. Enrollment will be received for the classes, which wil! start in the near future. All persons over | lfi are eligible for the classes, for ! which there will be charge. TJhere j'llso will be no charge for textI books.

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EXPERT GIVES TESTIMONY ON HANDWRITING Expert Declares All Ransom Notes Written By Hauptmann RECOVERED MONEY ALSO IDENTIFIED Flemington, N. J., Jan. 11. (U.R) — Bruno Richard Hauptmann, his face a deathlike mask, today heard himself described as the author of the Lindbergh ransom notes. Albert S. Osborn, handwriting expert and scientist, declared: 1. All the ransom notes were written by the same hand. 2. The writing in the ransom notes stamps them as the product of Hauptmann, as proved by Hauptmann’s script in other documents. Osborn described the contents of the notes, and placed before the jury a graphic picture of their similarities and peculiarities, of which he noted. Ue said, "seven ’ or eight.’’ IHe called attention to the repeated use of the word “singnature" for “signature" and "ingnore” for "ignore.*’ Before the handwriting expert, a key witness in the prosecution’s case, was called to testify, the court had received for identification the bundle of $14,600 in ransom bills that was dug from hiding places in Hauptmann’s garage ; in the Bronx. Frank J. Wilson, internal revenue intelligence officer, identified the money and told of the government's tracing other ransom bills from shops and other sources in New York. The most striking testimony ha ! offered was that since Hauptmann's arrest, no further ransom monej has been recovered. But he quailtied the statement, undfr crossexamination, by saying that he could not check every place in the world to determine the truth of his belief. The defense explored deeply the facts surrounding a deposit of nearly $3,000 in ransom bills in the Federal Reserve Bank, on a i slip signed “J. J. Faulkner" which was not in Hauptmann s liandwiiting, but the state countered with the suggestion that it was possible for any person to sign a fictitious name to such a deposit slip. Col. H. Norman Schwartzkopf testified briefly to specimens of Hauptmann's handwriting immediately before the noted expert, Osborn, was called to the stand. Osborn dwelt in detail upon the similarity of the symbols at the bottom of each ransom note, declaring that they could not have been made from "description,” since they were mechanically identical’ and the three "pin holes” in ea. bw ere not "pet'forxations ’ hut "punched bv some crude mechanical device.” "Hold them up to the light together, and you can see through the punches—they are identical.” he says. Court recessed for lunch while Osborn was telling his engrosstug storyKiller Sentenced To Serve Life Term Angola. Ind., Jan. 11—(UP) —Arrant ere five hours after Charles Good, 317, Bronson, Mich., was killed with an ax, William Mahler. 29, was sentenced to life imprisonment 3s the slayer. Mahler was taken into custody >it his home here. He ipUaded guilty and was sentenced four hours later at Coldwater, Michigan. Jealousy over Good's impending marriage to (Miss Billie Jo Enseln. Angola, at whose home Mjhler roomed, motivated the killing, authorities said. The slaying occurred five miles south of Bronson. Book Review Given Here Thursday Night A capacity crowd enjoyed the review of the book “Mary Peters”, by Mary Ellen Chase given at the Library hall Thursday niglht. Mrs. •Herbert Bard of Connersville gave the review. The program was sponsored by section two of the Tri Kappa sorority. Mrs. Carroll Burkholder was chairman.