Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 33, Number 19, Decatur, Adams County, 22 January 1935 — Page 1

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lore Witnesses fine Defendant Crime Scene j tJpcr Testifies To Seeing Bruno Hauptmann Home On Two Occasions Prior Os Infant; State Wins Victory In of So-Called Ladder Into Evidence.

’KJ"" x1 • “7 E r 2* swore todnv that EL., Rklrinl Ihuplniaiin home ol (.01. Lies I I.hhUhTul) close h'le Ihl las hllanl soil Vl^^KLml' r. 4 < ■ t ... l wmL ,X ’& ojtojt oi ■ ’ Mir Har ;ir ,l "' ' in February. tj—;he '' l " 1 '' ,lil ‘ RkmH Whited wm turn ! " f defell-' ~~~ s hont F n.*y f.>l k. d wm wi’l” 1 in several con-1 ■* |ictiotis.i Whited testified at > x-isidition pro..lin:- iif'he Bronx and that lav. In tl lie nx swore lie ' shi by sight every I -idem L miles around his i lie that he had late Ollie ndbe'sh Antler at the time of l 4 e k.d». ) Thcn.’jfr -ait. “you don't ~,w ■,(heller this man you saw was a stranger not. do lou’’’ I Whited (Emitted he had made me MjSi s in his Bronx testiany aHsaiii he wanted to i >|fy the The «tat von an important tot fa th ■ iikii nine; session wn it tOsr ■ •<! Justice Thomas . TrenArl to admit into evince fur.id outside e Liniibe gh home. The defense jeeteib tenuously. ion of the judge means I dder standing against >m wail now is concedeourt to be the one l i kidnaping. Hochmuth, an 87-year of Hopewell, previousared he saw Hauptting like a man who ghost,” in the liighthe Lindbergh £■»*• executed. The otilr five identifications of carpenter have been: F. Condon, the r. who says Hauptman who negotiated for Col. Lindbergh's n M re Joßih Perrone, the Bronx J who says HauptII him a dollar to carry Dr. Condon. Charles A. he recognizes Hauptice as that of the exigarde Alexander, who saw Hauptmann “shad- • Condon in a Bronx ation. la Barr, movie house vho says Hauptmann ransom bill through in November, 1933. Catholic Meet Thursday ° r the Decatur unit o' of Catholic Woheld Thursday eveno'ehwk the Knights of hall. All women of the urged to attend. Rev. i W >ll address the Steers At ■ New High Level ■ Jan. 22-(UP)—A top ■ r hundred pounds was Eg 1 '? steers at the Chicago 8 today, the highest since 1931.

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Vol. XXXIII. No. 19.

APPROVE PLAN TO BUY LAND Reforestation Program In Indiana To Start At Once tlndian.pois. Ind.. Jan. 22—(UP) -The federal government’s gigantic reforest ration program in Southern Indiana will start immediately I with the purchase of 500.000 a. reu of sub marginal land, the state conservation department announced today. The announcement followed receipt of w> rd from Washington i that the national forest reservation | commission had voted to pttrch. se I the land. First purchases of land will he in Martin. iPrown. Jackson. Harrison, and Floyd counties. Virgil Simmons dire tor of the state conservation : department said. Although a federal purchase cf ■ 304.000 acres was approved, it is i likely that no more than 500.000 i acres will be in:hided in the 10-year I conservation prognim recommended to the legislature by the state pTanhTH? cimmbSTon I st week. The plan includes eventual inclueion of 11 southern Indiana counties li the vast reforestration and conservation (program. The federal appr nriations provided that the L.nd in Martin, Brown, Jackson. I Floyd and Harrison counties be I pur hased first. Other counties to be included ar? (Monroa Imwrence. Orange, CrawI ford. Washington and Perry. The conservation department already has taken steps toward carrying out the planning commission recommendations rekiting to soil erosion work. Simmons said. Nearly 11.000 acres of land have been planted with trees, a’/proxiI mately 16,000.000 (M) trees have | been (planted with trees. Approxi'in 500,000 acres of state-owned kinds. Most of the trees were black lo’ ust. he said. FEE Instructor Reported Sick Miss Fancy May Reynolds will not conduct her classes in psychology and ocoking In the FEE s; hocl this evening. W. O. Little, v-up rvisor. announced tod. y. Miss Reynolds is suffering from a heavy cold. WOMAN KILLER 1$ SENTENCED Fort Wayne Woman Given Life Term For Slaying Husband Fort Wayne, Ind., Jan. 22. —<U.R) —Mrs. Louise Schmitt, 24, was sen fenced to life imprisonment in the Indiana state women’s prison at Indianapolis by special Judge Lake E. Rariden in Allen circuit court late yesterday afternoon for the poisoning of her husband, Urban Schmitt, 27, last March 23. Mrs. Schmitt pleaded guilty last December to a second degree murd- ’ er indictment charging her with the . poisoning but sentence was withheld until today in order that she might act as star witness for the . state in the trial of Charles F. I Howensteln, 57, her clandestine , lover, whom she claimed urged her to kill her husband. She admitted killing her husband by administering to him a quantity of potassium cyanide in a glass of orange juice but only because of ‘ i fear of Howenstein whom she alleged had threatened her life sev--1 eral times. Howenstein was found guilty last week of murder in the second de(CONTINUED ON PAGE FIVE)

INTENSE COLD, STORMS RETAIN CRIP ON NATION Huge Toll of Death And Suffering Caused By Severe Weather FLOODS FEARED IN SOME PARTS Chicago, Jan. 22—<U.R) Winter dealt staggering blows to the entire North American continent again today, with snow, sleet, rain, flood and the most intense cold of the season—in some regions of many years—running up a huge toll of death and suffering. Northwestern prairies and the northern Pacific coast gained slight relief from the cold wave that dropped out of Alaska’s icebox Sunday, hut weather predic* tions for the east were full of the phraees "much colder” and “snow followed by cold.” The northern Pacific coast found Its thermometers slowly rising. but was threatened for the second time In a week by torrential rains. In Seattle 2.45 inches of rain fell in the storm's wake. Even the balmy gulf states, except Florida, felt the cold. Texas warmed slightly, but it was much colder in Louisiana, Tennessee. Mississippi and Arkansas, where chill winds brought continued rain to swell flooding rivers and creeks. Red Cross workers cooperated with local authorities in evacuating and caring for hundreds of families, principally negroes, driven from lowland homes. States from lowa eastward to Pennsylvania felt the storm’s brunt this morning. It was 3 degrees be’ow zero in Chicago at dawn. 6 degrees colder than the season’s previous low. That was (CONTINUED ON PAGE FIVE) PRIMARY LAWS HOLD INTEREST League of Women Voters Propose Drastic Changes In Laws Indianapolis. Jan. 22. —(U.R) —Although both Democratic and Republican state platforms pledged repeal of the state primary law, the state legislature toSay prepared to receive its second bill within two days strengthening the statute. A bill drafted by the Indiana Le. gue of Women Voters changing the primary from May to September and providing many other drastic changes, was introduced yesterday by Sen. Thomas D. Hendricks, D. Indianapolis. Senators John Bright Webb, D.. Indianapolis, and Alanson L. Albright, D. Cayuga, were prepared today to introduce a measure which would make candidates for U. S. senator and governor selected in primary vote. The gubernatorial and senatorial candidates are chosen in state conventions at present under a 1929 revision of the primary law. Holding the primary in Septem(CONTINUW ON PAGE FIVE) — o — New Classes At Catholic School Two new claseew will be offered to the juniors and seniors of the Decatur catholic high school the second semester. They will be social problems and conraer ial law- The schedule for the second semester was being arrang'd today. ——o Third Session Os Training School The third eeesion of the community le. dership tniining school will be held in the Decatur high school building tonight at 7:30 o’clock. There is now a total of 53 enrollments in the s-hool. The classes are taught by W. Guy Brown. Mrs. Herman Myers, the Rev. M. W. Sundermann. and th 1 Rev. 11. R- Carson. The chapel exercises will be eonduefed tonight by the Rev. A- B. Brown, paster of the Deaitur B>jp-, tist church.

Decatur, Indiana, Tuesday, January 22, 1935.

Postpone Trial Os Willis Fonner By agreement the ca»e of the state barber board against Willis A. Fonner, practi*. Ing baritering without a license, was postponed in city court yesterday until Monday, February 4. The case will more than likely be transferred to tfae circuit court, the three weeks’ postpone- , I ment being made to extend beyond ■ the court vacation period, so that it v::uld be venued. Pros-ecuting attorney Ed Busse represents the state and former ’ judge C. L. Walters is attorney for ‘ ) I Mr. Fonner. The case wus tri din the circuit court sometime ago. 0 BEET TRAINING MEETING HELD First Session of Sugar Beet Training School r Is Held About thirty men ttend d the , first session this morning of the, sugar beet training school for county tig?nts, local field men and committeemen held at th? Decatur high ( school building. The men plan to meet thio afternoon to name the lo ation of the district headquarters where the - ,onI contracts will be signed. A few ct the contracts will probably be signed Friday. Saturday and I Monday. Another experience school 1 may he held to explain the problems met by the committeemen in . the field. The school today was presided over by E- M. Bus he of the extension department of Purdue UnlverI aity. Mr. Bus'.he has charge of the AAA sugar beet control program in i Indioca. , j. Au Slipher, sttfte agent in charge of tthe sugar be t adjustment in Ohio and a member cf the Ohio . State University agrictultural department. .also talked at the meeting. Mr. Slipher spoke from actual exf;erience as he has already participated in signing the contracts in, Ohio territories. There are six sugar I beet fa tory districts lo ated all or partially in Ohio. i W. A. Smith, from the United 'states comptroller’s office in WashI ington, D. C- also atended the school 1 to make suggestions as to the pro- ■ per way of signing the contracts. i The purpose of all the talks tod ;• was to point out the way to committeemen to have every contract sign ed legally. The vontnacts are quite complicated. Many farms, because of absentee ownership present leg 1 I i problems as to who shculd be entitled to sign the contracts. The men attending the school today represent the districts under the direction of the nine field men of the Central Sugar company of I (CONTINUED ON PAGE FIVE' CONTRACT GOST LIKELY HIGHER Pre-contract Cost of CornHog Program Higher In 1935 ■“While administration costs of the 1935 corn-hog pregnim will be lower than they were in 1934, the per-contract tost is likely to be higher this year because of the reduction in benefit payments,” pointed out L. E. 'Hoffman, who is in charge of the educational pluses of various agricultural adjustment >.dministration production contr; 1 programs being carried on in Indiana “Contract signers should b? waned,” he said, “to elect efficient committeemen who will use every device Ipossible for reducing the administrative costs, which ore born toy the signers in proportion to the , amount of benefit payment each I receives. ‘Efficient a'? tment rornnf ttees . also do much to speed up the work so that the reduction payment will be received at an e. rly date.” he i added- “Contracts which have been correctly checked and in whi.h er- . rors have been eliminated do not ] have to be returned to county head- i quarters before they are sent into r Washington for payment.” Election of -new c nimunity committ. emen will start in the various j counties over Indiana within a few ( days, following application sign-ui? i meetings at which corn and hog i for the 1935 corn-hog contracts. | (

UTILITY BILL IS PASSED BY STATESOLONS Measure Would Prohibit Engaging In Subsidiary Business AUTHORS CHARGE THREATS GIVEN Indianapolis, Jan. 22 — (UP) — Two important bills were passed by the house and sent to the senate after the liveliest debates in the present legislative session. Party lines were ignored ,as both Democrats and Republicans joined to pass the Woodard-Coers bill prohibiting utilities from engaging in i subsidiary businesses. Authors of the bill charged that I they had been offered mon y to i withdraw the bill and that they | were threatened by anonymous tele-1 '.hone calls. The bill passed 57 to I 40. It will remove utilities from th 1 I retail mer handising field. A party fight developed however., over an administration bill which I would designate the governor’s c m- ( mission on unemployment relief as the agency for cooperating with the I federal government in t arrying out provisions of the national unemployment act. With Republicans uniting solidly against the measure, it was passed 59 to 35 and sent to the senate. The house al.t> passed a bill which would maik'e it a felony for prisoners awaiting trial to escap from jail. The vote was 89 to 0. Seventeen hills were introduced in the house. Senators wrangl d over a bill whit h would prohibit county commissioners from granting a franchise to any utility when they already is a similar utility operating in t'he s me city or town. The bill (CONTINUED ON PAGE SIX) DISTRIBDTIDN CHANGE URGED Gas Tax, Auto License Funds Distribution Change Asked Indianapolis. Jan. 22 — (U.R) — Changes in the distribution of gasoline taxes and automobile license fees by diverting $4,325,000 to the state highway department fund to improve city streets will be recommended to the state legislature by the roads committee, it was announced today. Cities and towns would be cut off from their share of the funds under the proposed plan. The recommendation was made last night at a joint meeting of the house and senate roads committees. and is part of the general reorganization of highway funds to be included in a bill to be introduced this week. The plan would divert three of the four cent state gasoline tax and a large portion of the auto license receipts to the state highwav department. Each county would receive an equal share of one-fourth of the auto license fees. Proceeds of one cent of the gas tax would be divided among the counties, distributed on a basis of one-halt in proportion to county road mileage and one-half in proportion to population. The plan, in addition to increasing highway department funds, would satisfy the demands of many counties asking that distribution of auto and gas taxes be made on a more equitable basis. Under the proposal, the depart(CONTINUED ON PAGE FIVE) o Parent Teachers Joint Meeting The three local Parent Teachers Associations of the South Ward Riley and Central schools wil' hold a joint meeting at the Central school Thursday evening. February 7. The princinnl weaker of the evening will he Francis D. director of the state probation department. All patrons are asked Lo plan to otte-nd this meeting which will also bo open to the public.

Public Enemies Abandoned Auto At Monroe, Mich.

Scout Officers Meet Wednesday All vomitteemen and officers of scouting will meet at the Central s'hool Wednesday night at 7:30 o’clock, to make plans for scout work for the coming year. A district president and district commissioners will also be elected j at this meeting. All present officers I and committeemen are requested ■ to attend Wednesday's meeting. SURVEY SHOWS CUURT FAVORED Secret Poll Discloses 60 Senators Favor World Court (Copyright 1935 by United Press) | Washington. Jan. 22 — (U.R) —A secret poll of the senate by a high administration adviser today eh owed 60 senators committed to i support of American membership I in the world court, thus assuring the two-thirds vote necessary fori ratification of the pending resolution of adherence. The United Press learned that 19 senaiors have made known their intentions to vote “no” on i the question. The poll, conducted quietly, disclosed 89 senators are expected ! to answer the roll call when the i vote is taken. If all were present. 64 “ayes” would be required for ratification. Six senators were listed as “doubtful,” but leaning toward I approval. Four others were class-' cd in a similar manner, hut were, regarded ae favorable to the op-1 position. The following are expected to I be absent: William G. McAdoo. | D., Calif.: Peter Norbeck. R.. S. I D.; Millward Tydings. D„ Md.; ' Kenneth D. McKellar. D., Tenn.: Ernest W. Giofon. R., Vt.. and i John H. Overton. D.. La. Rush D. * Holt, 29-year o’d West Virginia democrat, cannot be sworn in until his 30th birthday, and. therefore is ineligible to vote. Although assured of passage, i democralic leaders were notj anxious to rush the adherence; resolution to a vote. It was und-, erstood they desired to make sure I (CONTINUED ON PAGE FIVE) i PERCENTAGE ON RELIEF IS LOW Adams Countv Relief Cost Ranks Sixth Lowest In State Adams county ranks as one of the best in the state regarding percentage of the population on relief, ■ according to the monthly report of the governor's commission ou un-! employment relief. The report shows 4.7 per cent of the county's population receiving' relief from the commission. Only five 'counties of the 92 in the state. show a smaller percentage than i Adams. Dußois county is lowest with a percentage of 2.7. Two hundred Adams county families were listed on relief in the, January report.. This represented , a total of 920 persons. Twenty-five I single persons are also listed. The percentage is based on a popula-' tion figure of 19.957. The total cost of state relief i granted Adams county is $5,053.83. making an average cost per case of $22.46. The cost cf administer-, ing the relief is placed at $418.30. ' The percentage on relief in counties neighboring on Adams is as follows: Allen, 15.7 per cent; Blackford. 9.4: Huntington. 8.0; Jay, 5.6; Noble, 9.3; Wells, 11.7. Vermillion county has the highest percentage on relief, with 33.7 of the county's ' population receiving state relief. ]

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LOCAL MEMBERS TO FORT WAYNE Decatur Rotarians Attend Birthday Meet Os Ft. Wayne Club Eleven members of the Decatur R tary elub attended the regular meeting of the Fort W.yne Rotarians Monday noon. An inter-city meeting was h Id in recognition of. the 20th anniversary of the found-: Hng of the Fort Wayne club. Repre-1 I sentative of Rotary clubs of Angola. I ! Bluffton, De- atur. Auburn. Kendall- ’ I ville. Warsaw and Huntington were l presenti Hugh Ci lloway, fr m NewcastleI on-Tyn , England, dire tor of RoI tary International, was the prkteii pal speaker. He spoke on "Some Rol tary Problems” giving the results of I ! his wide experience as president of] the Rotary clulM of the British | ilsles. Other Rotary dignitaries present; i included Arthur'll. Sapp, past pre-; isident of Rotary International, and | I Ray Willis, present g vernor of the ■ Indiana district. Loiol Rotarians who attended the meeting were C. E. Bell. J. Ward Calland, Si n Burk. James Etherson. | George Krr k. Harold McMillen. ; ('i ll Pumphrey, Rev. ('. M. Prugh. I H. Oksen, Reuben Steury and ! Bryce Thomas. 0 Five Children Burn To Death Montreal, Qu?.. Jan. 22 —(UP) —; Five children, the oldest of whom I was ten, lost their lives today and ■ I sev a ether persons were injured i i by fire at the home of Emile Gad- • i hois at Dongueuil. i 'The children, four girls and a! I boy, were found huddled together ; | in an uiistairs bedroom when fire- j I men arrived. ( Three other children were badly I t burne dand are i na hospital in a critic d condition. The parents, Mr. and Mrs. Emile Gadhois, were burned about the 6a.ee and hands as they tried to j take the childre nfrom the burning ! I house. They are expected to recover i ; as is a roomer. Noe Decelles, 27. , who was taken to a hospital suffer-1 i ing from severe burns about the; i face and hands. 0 — High School Girl Is Found Frozen Canton, HI., Jan. 22 —(UP) —An I i inquest will be h id today into the I death of Reba Brown, 17 year old i high school student, whose fr z?n body was found in a field 36 hours after she went for help, leaving three companions in an automobile mired in a muddy read. The four were returning front a dance Sunday when their car broke down in the road. Miss Brown whos? sister lived a half mile away j offered to sunnnen help. When she failed to return, the I others freed the car and returned | to Canton beleiving the girl had i decided to remain with her sister. A searching party was organized late yesterday when it was learned the girl had not be n seen since leaving the car. After several hours, the body was found at the' foot of a hill in a field near the home of Miss Brown’s sister. o Jefferson Township Farmer Dies Monday Phillip Brewster. 66 year cld J?f---i ferson township farmer, died at his | home at 6 o’clock Monday evening i at his home in Jefferson township. ] Death was du? to complications. He I had been ill for some time. Surviving are the wid:w and ' eight children. Funeral services will be held Thursday morning ut 10 o'i clock at the Mt. Carmel church. Burial will be made in the River- ] side cemetery near Geneva.

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Car Identified As One Stolen By Two Gangsters In Ohio KIDNAPED DOCTOR RELEASED UNHURT Monroe, Mich., Jan. 22. — (U.R)—Alvin Karpis ana Harry Campbell, leading public enemies, abandoned their car south of here today and were believed to have kidnaped another motorist and either sought refuge in Detroit's underworld or fled west to Chii cago. Through license and motor numi beys the car was positively identified as that of Dr. Horace Hunslcker, whom they kidnaped, then abandoned near Columbus, Ohio. ' last night, continuing on in his auto. The car was found in the middle of a highway, its motor still run- • ning, at 5:30 a. m. Lacking reports of any stolen i ears. Monroe police believed the ' pair stopped another motorist and 1 forced him to accompany them I either to Detroit or Chicago. Department of justice agents and state police were notified immediately. Heavily armed, the state and federal officers were speeding here at 11 a. m. to join a searching party organized by Sheriff Joseph Ba rley. Michigan’s state police blocked ’ off main highways around Monroe, i halting all automobiles for inspec- | tion. Detroit police meanwhile 1 were placed on the lookout and | patrolled all the main outlets of I the city. Officers were armed with machine guYis. I*iie automobile was a Plymouth sedan carrying a Pennsylvania ! license. Sheriff's officers reported I they were unable to find any bloodi stains in the car. although department of justice officials believed I Campbell was wounded Sunday ■ when he and Karpis escaped a police trap in Atlantic City. The car contained two suitcases i and some books. Dr. Hunsicker is attached to the Peffhsylvania state hospital at AlI lentown. Sunday night he was drivi ing there from Philadelphia. Near I Quakertown a car containing two i men forced him to halt. One got into his car. held a pistol against his head, forced him to drive after ' the car driven by his’ companion. Three miles farther on the thugs’ i ear was abandoned. One man took the wheel. HunsJcker sat beside ihim and the third man sat in the i rear set covering him with a pis(CONTINUED ON PAGE SIX) ANNOUNCE GAST OF PRODUCTION Catholic High School Juniors Will Give Play Sunday The tuners of the Decatur Catholic high school today announced the cast for their annual c’ass play which will be given in the school auditorium. Sunday. January 27. The play is entitled “Oh, Professor!” and is a farce in three acts. The cast is: Jake, the school janitor, Leo Miller Miss Frederica, assistant to the Dean. Mary Schultz Dr. Aristotle, the Dean William 'Coffee Students. Fluff . .... Elois Leonard Bertha Margaret Wertzberger Jean Marjorie CVirroll Belle Julia Parent Michael Pemberton, returning from Paris Donald Wait Professor Percival Cortwright in need of fun Theodore Appelman Jimmy Anderson in need of a friend Vernon Hebble Patricia Patterson, all returning from Paris Dolores Leonard Mlle. Fifi, belonging to Paris M. Margaret Klepper