Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 33, Number 30, Decatur, Adams County, 4 February 1935 — Page 1

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Surprise Witness ■ ■ I r|| ? v '1 liL \ $ y/ Peter H. Sommer, surprise defense witness for Hauptmann, who declares he saw Violet Sharpe with Fisch and golden-haired baby on night of Lindbergh kidnaping. ! was a private investigator who ! testified for defense in celebrated Hall-Mills case. GILLIOM TALKS WITHTRUSTEES County Surveyor Explains 1933 Statue To Townshin Trustees Walter Gilliom. county surveyor discussed the law making all trustees de.puty surveyors at the regular meeting cf tli» trustees held in the county superintendent of school's office today. Mr. Gilliom explained the 1933 statute which requires that the trusf?eT measure she open drains and I tile, ditches in their townslhips. The law went into effect krst year and trustees were ordered to measure half of them in 1934. The rest are to be measured thie year. Mr. Gilliom urged that the truate’S seek cooper'tion with the farmers in setting up permanent markers in order that the ditches and drains will not have to be remeasured ench year. Leigh Bowen discussed the agricultural .riCiabilitation program in Indiana. M itters pertaining to the schools will be discussed by the board this afternoon. o Julius Devolder Is Held As Drunk Julius Devolder was arrested late Saturday night by local offioens when he was creating a disturbance near the Brunnegraff grocery on Nortu Second street. He was scheduled to be arraigned on public intoxication charges at 4 o'clock thia afternoon- The case will be heard in I Mayor Holthouse's court. SET CONTRACT CLOSING DATE February 16 Is Deadline For S’trninK Beet Production Contracts February 16 has been set as th® dosing date for the signing of sugar beet production adjustment contracts by Indiana sugar beet producers, according to word received here from agricultural adjustment administration headquarters in Washington. “The closing date for the sugar beet campaign.’’ said L. E. Archi bold, county agent, “annlies onlv : to the signing of production ad i 'ustment contracts and dore not I refer to purchase contracts which : growers enter into with sugar beet I factories. Completion of the signup by February 16 is essential in. : order that individual acreage al- ■ lotments may be computed and I growers given such information which they will need in making their contracts with the factory. i Field workers report that eligi- ' bie beet producers are already I signing contracts in Indiana and > that the work should be completed > easily before the dead-line, Feb- . ruary 16. A few more than 1.000 producers raise approximately i i 13.000 acres of sugar beets in ' Indiana.

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TROUBLE LOOMS WITH ORGANIZED LABOR, CAPITAL Strike Talk Is Heard From Labor In Three Major Industries AUTOMOBILE CODE INTEREST CENTER Wasington. Feb. 4. — (U.R) — President Kooeevelt’s industrial truce was jeopardized today by an -open break with organized labor j and strike talk in three major industries. Automobile workers are reliably reported to have sought American Federation of Igibor sanction for a strike about March 1 in reprisal 1 against the renewed automobile code. There are some indications the hlixHiy textile strike of 1934 may 1 be repeated this year. The steel industry is torn by dispute among workers. A “rank and file” organization inclined to strike rather I than bargain for improved workI ing conditions challenges the leadership of Michael Tighe, head l of the Amalgamated Iron and 1 Steel Workers' union. ( The A. F. of L. executive council meeting here is expected to hear the automobile strike argument this week. Automobile work- ’ ers contemplate a mass meeting Feb. 23 in Detroit to consider I future action. William Green. A. F. of L. presi- . dent, has rejected the code in behalf or organized labor. Hie protest was aimed at code nomination ; of the “merit” clause which per- , mils discharge of workers under circumstances which labor be- , lieves would be detrimental to ' i organized employes. Baek of that, however, is labor's dislike of the automobile labor board ' headed by Leo Wolman. Donald IL Riehberg, director of I frONTINTrBD ON PAGE F’IVE) C. L WALTERS IS ON PROGRAM Former Judge One Os Principal Speakers At Laymen’s Meeting Former Judge C. L. Walters of Decatur, president of the Fort ; Wayne M. E. church laymen's association. will be one of the prin- • cipal speakers at the annual coni vention of the North Indiana M. E. Laymen’s association at Fort Wayne on May 1. it was announ- ■ ced here today. Juuge Walters will speak on ‘Duties and Responsibilities of the Lay Delegates to the United M. Conference Sessions." The layman's meeting will be held during the week of the North Indiana M. E. Conference convention at First M. E. church in Fort Wayne, i All sessions of the one-day laymen's meeting will be held in the First Presbyterian church there. 1 Other speakers on the laymen's program are: Dr. Otto U. King, Huntington, president of the con- ! ference laymen's association: Roy Roudebush, postmaster of Greenfield; Rev. W. 11. Bransford. Anderson: Raymond Shirey. Daleville, and O. J. Neighbours, superintendent of the Wabash city schools. Members of the program committee for the laymen's meeting (CONTINUED ON PAGE FhVE) February Term Os Court Opens The February term of the Adams ' circuit court opened today. A large number of entries were made and 1 some new cases filed. The calendar will not be competed for several ■ days. C o , Many Activities At Court House ■Octlvitles were brisk «t the - court house today. The February r term of the Adams Circuit court I \ opened, the township trustees met [ with C. E. Strftier, county school - superintendent, and the board of ) county commissioners mlet i*i ■ monthly session. L The commissioners will remain in session over Tuesday.

Decatur, Indiana, Monday, February 4, 1935.

To Open School Os Music Here The Majestic Conservatory of Mu- ■ sic of Fort Wayne plans to open a' school of music in Decatur, and an I opportunity will be offered the J grade school pupils of the city to- ' determine natural musical talent in them through free musical itests. These tests will be conducted this week by O. Robert Falls, president and H. W. Seifert, secretary, i These free tests are being held in connection with the Conservatory of Music to be opened In the Niblick block on Second street in this , city. Lessons on various stringed instruments will be given. The lessons will be conducted in small groups after school hours and in the evening at the studio. LIST PROGRAM FOR BANQUET Bov Scout Anniversary Will Be Observed Here Friday Night Bryce Thomas today announced the program for the 25hh. anniversary banquet of the Boy Scouts which will he held in the Knights of Pythias home here Fridny night at 6 o’clock. Two hundred are expected to attend. i Uraal Walley, chairman of the Rotary troop committee of Fort Wayne, will give the chief address. Each of the chairmen of the De- ' actur trcop committee will give a report of the activities of their troops during the last year- The ■ chairmen are: St. Joe -troop. 64, A. • R. Holthouse; American Legion i troop 62, Vernon Aurand; Lions • troop 62, Dr. Burt Mangold, and ' Rotary troop 61, Avon Burk. ,A court of honor will be held in > connection with the banquet under f tire direction of the Rev. Father ' Joseph J. Hennes, chairman of the I court of honor committee. Tfte singing of scout songs will r i be directed by Wilson Beery with i Mias Lon’se Haubold accompanying on the piano. The Arrerioin Legion, the Lions ; club and the Rotary club will attend ! in a body. Representatives of the St. Joe sponsoring organization will I be present. The members of the Rotary chib will attend the banquet in place of their regular weekly meeting scheduled for Thursday. ’ Allleged Thief Given Hearing A hearing was held this afternoon 1 for Howard Parr. Jr. in the Adams circuit court. Parr is accused of staling SSOO from his .grandfather, Howard Parr., Sr. Civil War veteran of near Berne. The affidavit, signed by former sheriff Burl John- ' son, states that the alleged crime took place on October 1. 1934. He was granted until March 1 to make his plea on the grand larceny > charge. Feast Os St. Blase Celebrated Sunday ' The feast of St. Blase was celebrated yesterday in St. Mary's ’ 1 Catholic church. The blessing of i throats took place following the masses and in the afternoon. , Important K. of C. Meeting Tonight The Knights of Columbus will fiold tin imnortant meeting at the ■ K. of C. Hall this evening. Members are urged to be present.

Retiort Os Death Os Former Decatur Resident False; Susana Mayer Alive

Few people ever have the experience and resultant shock of 'reading newspaper accounts of , their own death and when it does ,! happen the supposed deceased I person has the laugh on the mourn- . ers. , Miss Susana Mayer of San Diego, California, formerly of this city, probably has enjoyed many a laugh since an account of her death was published, January 24. J 1935 in the Daily Tremocrat. This is the way it happened. > Miss Celia Mayer of West Mar- • shall street, well known clerk in : the Pumphrey Jewelry store, re- : ceived a telegram on the above I date, from her brothers and sisters [ to the effect that an operation per formed on Miss Susana Mayer, a sister was Dnsuccesful. The telet gram read: “Operation on Sue unI successful. Letter follows.” Miss

'OFFICER FILES ANNUAL REPORT ’ Mrs. Faye Smith Knapp Files Annual Probation Office Report Mrs. Faye Smith Knapp. Adams | county probation officer, in filing i a summary of her monthly reports prepared for the Adams county I court and the state probation department, shows that her office handled 109 cases during 1934. Os this number there were 15 men. 1 four women, 57 boys and 33 girls. 1 Two girls were committed to the I Indiana state school for girls dul - ling 1934. The summary also shows that ! during the year the probation ofi' fleer made 61 investigations, 177 I visits and 537 office interviews. Through the cooperation of the ■ | courts and the state probation department, probation Ls being developed in Inruana as an effeepiv I method of handling juvenile deliniquentsnnd adult first offenders — I Governor McNutt, recently speak- ■ ing on the subject, of probation. I said "The study of anti-social at- ' titudes and juvenile delinquency I 1 has become a prime consideration I of the nation. The use of probation 1 is an accepted and proven method ' of dealing with juveniles and first i offenders. It is an established part, ‘ of court procedure in dealing with them. Those who think of it as an ■ excursion in the field of mere • sentimentality are not cognizant | i of the fact that it is a scientific ■ analysis of the casual factors ly- » ing in the background of the of- . fender’s life and the application of i a definite plan for his rehabilitai tion. Eighty per cent of the perl sons placed on probation make i good: no other profession can i boast of such a high percentage of r success. 1 am heartily in favor of ■ its extended use." > I Mrs. Knapp is cooperating, with , |the parent-teacher association of I Decatur in bringing Francis D. Mc- ! (CONTINUED ON PAGE FOUR) FIVE PERSONS • IN AUTO CRASH Five Serious Injury Tn Accident East Os Monroe 1 Five -persons escaped serious in- ' jury in an automobile accident which occurred one mile east of ’ Monroe at 9 o'clock Sunday night. The accident occurred wf.ien the ' driver of the car faied to negeotiate a jog in the read at the Mon- ’ ro° townsh’p line. Occupant* of the car were John ' Hendricks, hie three sons, Melvin 7, Robert. 8. and Junior 11, and his brother, Walter Hendricks. The family was enroute from Decatur to I the John Hendricks home, two miles east of Monroe, when the accident took .place. Mr. Hendricks failed to see the ' jog in the road at the township line ' and drove into the ditch- A tele- ' phone pol? was torn down and the I cir was considerably damaged. Mr. Hiendfricks was not badly; hurt. Melvin suffered a broken leg ; and cuts; Robert, a bad scalp laceration and Junior received cuts and I bruises. Walter Hendricks received a blow on te head. The condition i of till was reported to be sitisfac--1 tory today.

Mayer interpreted the message as meaning that her sister died. Late that afternoon a Dailv Democrat reporter called at the Mayer home and was told that Miss Susana Mayer died the night before. Several days later the sister in this city received a letter informing her that her sister was operated on and although her condition ■ was considered serious, no mention was made of her death. The case recalls the inquiry sent to Mark Twain. A friend received word that Twain was dead and sent him » message. Twain replied to the effect. "The report of my death is greatly exaggerated.” The many friends of Miss Mayer, who was employed in the. Smith and Bell office in this city for many years, are glad to learn she is living and hope for her speedy ■! recovery. Her condition is considered grave. !l

TWO COUNTRIES IN AGREEMENT ON ARMAMENT Great Britain, France Offer To Recognize German Rearmament GENERAL ARMAMENT TREATY PROPOSED London, Feb. 4 (U.R)-Oreat Britain and Franco today offered to recognize German rearmament under proposals that would send the air forces of neighboring European nations against any nation that j started a war. Three days of negotiations between the premiers and foreign ministers of the two great world war allies were brought to an end I with a communique which envisagi ed a complicate dseries of regional treaties whose authority would be I the bombing airplanes of their sig I natories. The negotiators based their aI greement on a Germany which, recognized as an an equal for negoi tiatory purposes, would return to ! the League of Nations and participate in a general armament treaty. Both the British and French expressed satisfaction with their a- ’ greement. However, interpretative ! statements by spokesmen indicated it might cause considerable difficulty in the next few weeks for I both British and French governi ments. Though on the surface the agreement was plain, it seemed to be subject to interpretations which might make it unsatisfactory to Britain, France or Germany—or to j Italy—when the time came for | backing it up. Tlie agreement was of major importance if for no other reason l than that it represented a joint of--1 fer of the two great allied powers to Germany. For years. Britain and France, sometimes alone, someI times with the support of other powers, had tried to devise some i means of consolidating peace. For the first time they are working toI gether. The negotiations of the British and French leaders ended last | night. The agreement regarding mutual aerial defense was the real issue. It was based, according to announcements, on two treaties already in existence: I—The Locarno Treaty of 1925 in which Germany, France, Bel(CONTINUED ON PAGE SIX) L o Opens Life insurance Agency Here Today Emerson D. Neuenschwander. Berne, today opened a branch office of the Northwestern Mutual life insurance company in this city. He will be located in Earl Adame law office at 134 North Second I street. Mr. Neuener hwander is a native of Berne and formerly worked in a furniture factory at t'bnt town. He has been Adams county agent for the insurance company for the past year and will devote his full time to ' the new agency located here. o COUNTY BOARD HOLOS MEETINC Cnmmissionprs Meet In Regular Monthly Session Today The county commissioners met today, it being the February session of tihe board. Claims against the county were checked during the morning and allowed. The township trustees who met at the school superintendent's office. visited the commissioners and O. K’d bills for poor relief. C. J. Voglewede, one of the Adams County Memorial hospital trustees, conferred with the commissioners relative to the outstanding bonds on ■ the hospital. The commissioners will be in session Tuesday. Members are planning to attend a regional meeting of ccunty. city, aeftool and township officials to be held in Fort Wayne Tuesday afternoon, when questions relative to the listing of public works projects will be explained by ia state representative.

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Here Wednesday 1 £ Kathryn Turney Garten of Indl- ■ anapolis will review the book, | “Phantom Crown." a story of tire life of Maximilian, emperor of Mexico, in this city Wednesday evening. January 6. The program, sponsored by the Psi lota Xi sorority. will be held at eight o’clock ;in the Library building. Mrs. GarI ten Is an entertaining speaker and book critic. Tickets can be obtained from the sorority memI hers. BODY IS FOUND” FROZEN IN ICE John M»’U“n’« Bndv Is Found J n Pit Near Berne Saturday Coroner Robert Zwielt returned a v°rdict of “accidental death, possibly while intoxicated” for John Mullen. 66. who was found frozen in the ice in a sand nit near Borne Saturday n on by Chi rles Miller. 16. W o was skiting on the ,pond. The theory of murder was dis- ' counted when it was discovered '■that the marks of mutilation on the head of the body were caused by ekate.s and not from blows. Onlv the head projected above th» ice ond bovs questioned by Sheriff Dallas Brown stnted that they saw the b?dy frozen in the I ice about three weeks ago. but believed it was a a'neep. A townshin funeral was accorded the body Sunday afternoon at 1:30 o’clock in n Bsrn-e undertaking par’or. He was buried in a Berne cemeI tery. Mr. Mullen had lived in Berne in- . termittently for the last 18 years, ' coming originally from the coal fields of Pennsylvania. He was accvsitomed to making trips occasionI ally as a transient and for this season was not missed. Mr. Mullen worked at odd jobs I in and near Berne. For several years he was employed as a farm hand in the Amish settlement near Berne. There are no known surviving rel-! natives. He was last seen about a I week after Christmas. For this reason it is believed that he had been ! in the ice for about a month. The ’ body was badly decomposed. Identification was made by a hunting (and fishing license found 'on the | bodyMr. Mullen had been accustomed L'o fish in the sand pit and it is he|llcved he accidentally fell from the bank into the pit and his cries pass-i | ed unheaded from the houses some ' distance away. There is also a possibility that he was intoxicated at ■rhe time. o Transfer Teacher To Indianapolis Miss Mina Collier of this city, who has been an instructor in the FEE classes in Adams County for | the past month, has been tranferred I to ilndianapolis to teach in the FEE I classes there. Miss Collier had charge of the ' music ond dramatic classes here. Previously sllie taught in the Jefferson township school. - Woman Is Drowned As Boats Collide Vancouver. B. U- —(UP) —An un- .! identified woman passenger was . drowned after a collision between ’ the Canadian Pacific steamer Prini cess Alice and the West Vancou- > ver ferry in a heavy fog at entrance i of Vancouver Harber today. The ferry boat sank. All passengers and crew were saved, except the i woman.

WITNESS SAYS VIOLET SHARPE SEEN IN BRONX Defense Tries To Link Morrow’s House Maid With Kidnaping FRIEND’S EVIDENCE AID TO HAUPTMANN Flemington. N. .1., (U.R)-Counsel for Bruno Richard Hauptmann wedged another piece of testimony into the record today designed to Drove that Violet Sharpe, house maid of Mrs. Dwight \V. Morrow, t>articipated m ' the Lindhers’h kidnaping. Mrs. Anna Bonesteel, proprietor of a Yonkers New York restaurant, testified that Miss Sharpe and another girl entered her establishment about 7:30 p. m. on the night of the abduction. iShe could not recall the other girl's name. Miss Sharpe, who committecd suicide when sho was being questioned about the kidnaping, was ’ crarying a blanket, according to Mrs. Bonesteel, and seemed very nervous. She said Miss Sharpe left the restaurant about 9 p. m. i when several men in an automo- , bile called for her. , Earlier. Peter H. Sommer clung to the story that he saw two men help a woman who resembled , Miss Sharpe board a New York ’ City street car about four hours after the baby was kidnaped. Th® woman, he said, carried a baby. Ben Lupica testified under diI rect examination that Hauptmann was not the man he saw in a Dodge sedan near the Lindbergh 1 home on the evening of the kidi naping. lie admitted the man • “resembled Hauptmann strongly.” . 1 Hans Kloppenburg. a friend of Hauptmann, bulwarked the story - that Fisch left a shoe box con--1 taining the ran-'-om money at (he ■ Hauptmann homo before he sailed ' to Germany to die. It was the defense contention ' that the package contained what ■ was left of the $50,060 ransom ! morrev passed over the fence of • St. Raymond's cemetery, and into ■ the hands of the Bronx extortioner. I Kloppenburg's story from the ' witness stand was designed to • clear Hauptmann of charges that ■ he collected the ransom money 1 and, bv inference, to place the ■: guilt on Fisch. He swore that on the night (CONTINUED ON PAGE FIVE) o Bernard Wemhoff Given Promotion 1 Bernard Wemhoff, son of Mr. and Mrs. George Wemhoff of this city, has received another promotion on I the Detroit Free Press. Mr. Wem- . ijoff is now in charge cf the Sunday ■ news desk. He started as a reporter on the papor. following his gradua- > tion from Detroit university, where ■ he served as editor of the college ; p;>per. He has been promoted sever* i ul times and each time has made ■ good on the job assigned him. . | o DEATH CLAIMS JOHN SCHUMAN Ag’f'd Adams County Resi- > dent Dies This Morning- At Infirmary John Schuman. 84. a resident of Adams county practically all his I life, died at the Adams county infir- ‘ mary at 6:40 o’clock this morning, following a stroke of paralysis. Mr. Schuman had resided at the ' infirmary since March 16, 1921. He had spent most of his life in Adams ccunty and was employed as a laborer and plasterer. He was bom in Indiana on December 13, 1860. He was never mar- ) ried. Surviving is a brother. W. S. Sdhuman of Upper Sanducky. Ohio. Funeral services "will be held i Wednesday afternoon at 2 o’clock i at the infirmary with Rev. H R, ■ Tarson. pastor of the Methodist • Episcopal church, officiating. Bure s ial will be made in East Salem. The body will remain at the S. E. - Black funeral home until time for » the funeral when it will be taken to the infirmary.