Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 33, Number 31, Decatur, Adams County, 5 February 1935 — Page 1

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KILLY SAYS FISCH WAS KIDNAPER

Eleventh Annual Farmers Basnet Is Held

D, ADAMS Jfe address »[)AY NIGHT Hall Filled To En fit' 101 A,, ains Banquet MEDALS H" 1 I B W IXNERS sil’MTciviliz is t in ’ho \\>|cmi ,/W-lere " !| be 111 the . (l' v n. of the —barl'Wiv oom. t Hrfai. ' n q s P'‘ ecb w Liich tlu> annual fq'-m-. ML ,■!..< -ot.| l.v 2?‘> " . night. . ...ik bv *ayL t pted in the soil." EL tV ' ' " :l ’ ’ If> " - . ana. itv, mIK On--s Pron’sm Kt, th" u»eram by inKter.ftlr Busch’’ in mm introKrt C. ;i i aman of * • on- ■ ..f •!.. I an.! Mr.- I" W. Busche. ,.f M pr"«ented the Hkb ! contest. K fiv> ar:-- <nn'--st this year by V ■ tr.;! Mrs. Donald wl produced on ■9K- 1". - "i-ln-l P p r acre, ci-.n'.-n..,! by Benjamin ad li’.ion receiving a ■F*ia!. Otto Hoile with a rebaJiak to the acre and ■»r?n< Blum with 76 bushels KK I>r»nze -ills. Benjamin’ ■Klin and Enoch I’, Habegger (or their work. t. Schwartz, president of 8 county herd improve-1 ■n assr.cuo -p presented the ' K®* ‘ reducers. In 3 he said, "eleven years a- | s»t seals which look- ' > After 10 years of i Btß B Lehman has succeed-I this by raising ■•nl. which sired six cows ; produced better than of fat.' Sol Mosser was y c tf ni '"''l“'l ' ,Pl 'win Miller the i insy cow tester was in.Mr. Schwartz. presented medals to ■ egger and his two sons ’ >1 Mosser for the records lerds have made. E. Wright, who has been tdams county herds for i of Bangs disease talked : ' the problems confrontfeeders. ’during, chairman of the ounty gold medal colt Busche said, "the adams moeiation now holds the having the largest numb- j s enrolled in the chib.” mented gold medals to I Parish, H. P. Schmitt: : ler and Ed Pollenbxcher; dal* to B. H. Miller, Ed-1 causer, C. H. Windmiller, Okie, William Riff, and ’dais to David D. HabeggLehman, ,1. F. Merriman, abegger, E. W. Busvhe D. Schwartz. mer told the crowd of the unifications necessary to' store the medals can be hid of the good showing Adams county colts. Hei akes five or six years to sood horse, s 0 there is ter of an immediate over | l Bight now a horse is a - to have and a bad thing ■ Dan i.. Tynda " Talks Biur *’ niian ' Resident of the Defc^jg amher of fonmerce was | K' , ' W;D ON PAGE FIVE)

DECATUR DAILY DEMOCRAT ONLY DAILY NEWSPAPER IN ADAMS COUNTS

Vol. XXXIII. No. 31.

PUT TRANSIENT ININFIRMARY Maryland Transient Will Be Removed From Hospital Soon The Adame county commission-1 ers have approved tfha petition of John M. Doan. Washington township trustee, to place Charles Hertsog. 50. of Hagerstown. Maryland, in the county infirmary. Herstog liecame 111 in the transient camp west of town last week. Friday evening his condition be-' came serious and Mr. Doan, who ’ was notified, ordered medical attention given him. It was found that he «'!« suffering from intestinal flu. The physician ordered him taken Ito the Adams County Memorial hos-, pita! because of the fear that if he ‘ continued to sleep on the floor, at the transient camp he would develop pneumonia. His condition today was reported satisfactory and it is expected that [ he can be removed to the infirmary j lin two or three days. The physician ' stated that if he were permitted ( I several weeks rest at the inetitu- | tion-he would be able to continue, i cn his way. I This ie one of the first c is -s of sem'ous illness found at tSie tran- I ‘rient camp in some time. He found to be exceptionally clean ami said that since he lost his job four I years ago, has been living in transient camps. He had a few relitives 'in Hagerstown several ye»trs ago. ’ but the}- have moved and left no address. The commfesioners allowed I claims M nday afternoon and this uuirniug. o HMB COUNTY 1 NATIVE DIES ( Sister Os Ross Hardin Dies This Afternoon At Bluffton i Mrs. Sarah Anna May died at I 12:55 o’clock thie afternoon at her home at 92 1 ) W’st Cherry street, ‘ Bluffton. She had been ill since ' ; Sunday from pneumonia. She was born in Adams county . on August 7, 1557, >i daughter of William and Jone Ross Dturrell- : Harden. Surviving are six children: Char- 1 lee and Richard May and Mrs. Ott Allen of Bluffton; William May of I Middlefield. Ohio: Mrs. William Lindsey of Detroit, Michigan, and I Mrs. Flunk Metts of Butler. Three I children are deceased. 'Br tlic-rs and sisters surviving are: William and Mont Marden of I Bluffton: Ross Harden of Decatur; George of Marshall, Michigan; and (CONTINUED ON PAGE SIX) o —— Violet Myers Will Teach FEE Classes Mrs. Violet Squier-Myers has been appointed temporary teacher of the music and dramatic classes . of the FEE project In Ad’ms County, to take the pl ice of Miss Mina Collier who was transferred to (Indianapolis. Mrs. Myers will meet with t'he piano pupils at the Decatur high j school building at 6:30 o'clock toI night. ■ o Church Officers To Meet Tonight The regular monthly meeting ot the trustees of tie Presbyterian j church will be h Q ld tonight >it 7:15 . , in the office of Ira Fuhrman. The , elders of the church have been i asked to attend this meeting to ,' transact important business. o_ — Training School ' Classes Tonight . I The final session of the first semester of the community lead rship training school will be held at I the public high school tonight at 7:30 o'clock. Rev. H- W. Franklin . *lll have charge of t''.:e devotions. i, Certificates will be distributed to . . I those who hove completed the j course.

Scene of Shooting .. ■ r~, A. I I . «! k. -l .. i 808 A general view of Chicago's Outer drive following the fatal shooting of Thomas Maloy, movie "czar of the Motion Picture Operators' Union. Maloy was killed by machine gun fire from another automobile and two men riding with Maloy were wounded, one seriously. The police patrol is shown parked across from the car of Maloy, which is seen with door standing open. In the background, at the left, appear - buildings of A Century of Progress. ‘ 1

LOUIS J. HOUK CALLS MEETING Wpvno Cooperative Milk Producers Tn Name Directors Feb. 11 Louis J. Houk, secrelary ,pf the W yne Cooperative Milk Producers has announced a meeting of the members to be held ut the Concordia College Gymnasium on Monday February 11. at 12:20 o'clock. 'Five members of the board of directors conclude their terme of office at this meeting. Plans for j some reorganization in order to meet th" requirements of the department of argiculture will he mad’. Definite policies to be follow- j ed relative to the sale of the mil'k . products will be decided in addition to the regular business. The directors whose terms expire are E. S. Christen, preaident: Byron Yohe. vice-president: Louis J Hotlk, secretary; S. S. Rouch, and John Sonnigsen. The nominating committee has submitted the following names to replace the retiring director: E. SChristen. Decatur, route 7; Loui« J. Houk. Decatur, route 7: Byron Yohe. Clumbit City; Fred C. Berning, Decatur; S. S. Rouch, Columbia City; John Sonnigsen, Tatty. Ohio; Joseph A. Seiler. Fort Wayne; George Fnz, Ditty Ohio; Allen I. Gorrell, Grabill. and Charles J. Thiele, Fort Wayne. — o— SUIT AGAINST CBOONEBOPENS Mrs. F»v Webh V«Hee SepLs Hiffhpr Sum Os Support Money •New York, Feb. S—(UP) -Rudy Vallee, battlfng to prevent his wits from obtaining more than the SIOO weekly stipulated by their aepara- ; tian agreement, admitted reluctantly in supreme court tod iy that his j income varies upward from $8,350 a week. But from this sum, the crooner Listened to exp’nin while Mrs. Fay Webb Vallee fixed him with a steady stare, he must pay his band and other entertainers so that he does not often have us good a year as 1932, when he made SBB,OOO. “That,” he sighed, “was in the good old days.” Nevertheless the parade of figures adduced by Toomas I. Sheridan. of counsel for Mrs. Vallee—s2,Bso for a weekly broadcast. $50.10P0 for a moving picture. $5,500 a I week from a night club— impressed Justice Salvatore iA- Cotillo.. “If you ran show comings of $75,Ingo t 0 SIOO,OOO offhand you’d say SIOO a week was not adequate, i he remarked. I A hint of the spicy testimony in (CONTINUED ON PAGE SIX)

Decatur, Indiana- Tuesday, February 5, 1935.

Case Is Drooped In Mayor’s Court The case of Willis Fonner. charged with violation of the state barbers’ law by operating a shop without a license, was dismissed in Mayor Arthur H. Holthouse s ! court Monday afternoon. Prosecut--1 ing Attorney Edmund A. Bosse filed a nolle prosequi in the court stating he intended to file it in the Adams circuit court. COUNTY RUADS BILLSPLANNED Two Would Affect Conctrurtinn Os Countv Roads Indiamnolis, Feb. S—(U.R) —Two ■ bills affecting construction of , country roads were ’•"adv for advnnrpnient in the Indiana senate i todsv. One mensur". introduced by Sen. .T a ®se E. Wade. D.. Mt. Vernon. provides regulation of comin emnlnvrner* and ■ dismissal of county highway emnlnvAs, T’nq«j- terms of the bill, the rnnn'v surveyor's snisrv w’onld he fncrenued hv grnntlnr h>m an extra 50 c"nt a on h’s minimum and mnvtmn’n se’arv tnr n-x-p mile of r"°d under his s”nervis>on. Tho meneure also sets the "X---nlrstlon date for county bigbwnv supervisor offices at ,T*n. 1. 1928. Reannointment thereafter would he for three years, under terms of the hi’l. Another hirhwav h’li was that introduced hv Aen. Wslte— Chambers, D . Ne w "astle. It would reouire that countv commissioners hudrot all nrr-nosed expenditures on county roads. Chambers said that gaeoline tax refunds are not budgeted by (CONTINUED ON PAGE SIX)

Of Police Officer Is Damaging To Bruno Hauptmann

IFlemington, N. J.. Feb. S—(U.P) I —Col. H. Norman Schwartzkopf. commander of New Jersey state 1 no’ire, nut the finger on Bruno Richard Hauntmann and removed the smile from the prisoner's face. When Schwartzkopf told that In I the attemnt to annrehend the kid- ! naner of the Lindhereh baby every I known criminal at large in this I country or in anv other country ! had been checked for location on ' March 1. 1932. the night B’bv I Lindbergh was carried from his I nurserv to his death, the court- ’ room fell intn admiring eilenco. When h» attested that in nil | that infinite body of crime, trainled investigators found one man who matched the material evidence in the case — the kldnan ladder, the ransom notes, and most damning of all, the ransom money on his person and in hideaways in his home —the courtroom,

LOCAL MAN IS UNDER ARREST Dewpv Va« T-ear Is A’-rnst-ed On C h a r g e Os Grand Larceny i' Dewey S. Van Lear. Decatur, resident, was arrested this morning and lodged in th 1 Adams countv i il bv Sheriff Dal’a-s .Brown and denutv sheriff Ltv> Gillig on a | warrant issued by the Whitley countv clerk, charging him with grand larceny. The affidavit filed in the Whitley circuit court Monday was return- • able forthwith- It wos signed by Deila M. Broach and the .nrosecutinr attorney, Glen E. Thrapp. The affidavit charged him with “carrying way personal roods and 'chattel belonging to Della M. Brooch and a time certificate of de- • ’ no<dt on the Farmers Loan and ' Tr ~qt Company of Columbia City.” The alleged crime o""urrid on ’ or about January 12, 1935. ■| Van Lear is being held in the • Adams county jail until the sheriff I of Whitley county comes for Slim. A hearing will nrohahlv be held Wednesday in the Whitley circuit - oourt. i «_ — ■ Townsh’n Tricep* Conclude Meeting The townehio trustees concluded ’ their regular monthly meeting Mondav night. Matters pertaining to i the eehoolfl ond relief problems , wore discussed. — Case Is Cnnfinund In Circuit Court i Judge Huber~M. DeVoss in the i Adams circuit court continued the case of Ferdinand Reynolds. 16. who 'had confessed to a fraudulent check charge. Reynolds was placed on probation to Mrs. Faye Smith Knapp, county probation officer.

figuratively, stood on its toes. The name of that man, according to the nemesis of the accused is: "Bruno Richard Hauntmann.” The head of the Jersey state police who hns never slacked his nace in the three intervening years since the crime is the onlv man who thus far has made Hauptmann cringe. Hauntmann hates federal agent Thomas Sisk. He sito forward when he is on the stand. His lips curl and his attitude is that of a cat ready to spring. He hates Schwartzkonf too, but it is a cringing hatred. Tt mav be there is a remnant of the war left in Hauntmann. Schwartzkonf is a military man. He renrosents the office’- clews. Hauptmann heard this officer testify in clear concise words, ns cool as though gsjring an order in the line.

GOLD DECISION MAY BE GIVEN NEXTSATURDAY World Markets Anxiously Await Ruling Os U. S. Supreme Court COURT CONSIDERS MARKET TRADING (Conyright 1935 by United Press’ Washington. Feb. 5 — (U.R) —A high government official close to the administration's monetary pro- ■ gram said today the supreme court may hand down its opinion in the gold clause cases Saturday after-j noon. He baeed his belief on the contention that should the decision be rendered on Saturday, the do-1 mestlc markets would have all of Sunday in which to digest the ruling. Market considerations, lie said, would work against a decision next Monday as that is the eve of Lincoln's birthday. Domestic markets are all closed while foreign markets are open. A Monday decision therefore i would give foreign traders on open markets an opportunity to! profit by the informations while domestic traders would be severely handicapped. Indications that the court may be taking market trading into consideration in timing its opinion are regarded by the administration as the most disturbing factor about the court's deliberations. Those close to the administra- I i tinn note that, if the decision is i . (CONTINUED ON PAGE FIVE) STATE MAY ASK FOR GAS PROBE SooL’C Invocfio-qtinn of Natural Gas Industry |T ndianapolis. Ind., Feb. 5 — (UP) :—The etate legislative committee . inve.stieating natural ga.s interests i in Indiana todav voted to memorialize the United States Senate to in- ! vestigate manipulations of natural sris companies throughout the middle west. Legislative memorandums to congress were recommended by an association of mayors of middle western cities at a meeting in ColI nmbi'S, 0.. last week. U. S. Senator Gerald Pt Nve, Ren. North Dakota, has promised to ask I the United States Senate to mak« ' complete investigation of the natur-, al gas indu-strv. a rei ' oivershin action of the MlseouriKan°as Pipe Line company, n w pending in chmcery court in Mil-, i mlngton. Del. Senator Nye charges that Wall 'Street financiers and an cusfern i syndicate f.-ave organized a monopoly of natural gas interests for the rates in the middle west. |pup?cee of charging exhorbitant rates in the middle west. L. J. Scheer, secretary to John W- Smith, president ot the Detroit i City council, was the only witness before the committee today. Frank P. Parish, former independent natural gas pipe line operator and owner of the Missouri-; Kans.is company, is scheduled to; testify tomorrow. Relating information gathered during attempts to obtnin cheap natural gas for Detroit. Scheer said that an offer of the Kentucky natural gas corporation, a subsidiary of the Missouri-Kansas company, i to supply cheap gas to Indianapolis in 1931, precipitated "Syndicate opposition which resulted in the receivership action.” o Support Money Is Granted Ruby Bell | Mrs. Ruby Thatcher Bell was gr>nted $2.50 a week and attorney fees of SSO. in the Adams circuit court today, by Judge Huber M. DeVoss after an interlocutory hearing. Mrs. Bell is being sued for a divorce by William J. J. Bell- She testified this morning that she is now living off the Van Wert, Ohio, coun-1 ty poor relief rolls.

Price Two Cents

Julius Devolder Fined On Charge Julius Devolder plead guilty to a charge ot public intoxication in Mayor Arthur R. Holthouse's court Monday afternoon and was fined one dollar and costs amounting to I sll. He was arrested Saturday i evening and has been in the Adi urns county jail since. He will | serve out his fine. 0 — STATE NRA BILL I IS ADVANCED TO THIRD READING Powers Delegated To Gov. McNutt Are Stricken From Bill ABOLISHMENT OF TAXES PROPOSED Indianapolis, Feb. 5 —(U.RJ—The : 1 legislative spotlight rocussed on the house of representatives to- ■ day as three major problems came I before the lower chamber. Bowling over solid republican opposition democratic members : succeeded in advancing to third reading the state NRA bill. ATI powers delegated to Gov. Paul V. McNutt under amendments to the NRA law were stricken from , the bill when it came up for action.. An amendment making use ot “loss leaders” in advertising and : destructive price cutting illegal j was substituted for the section which would have given the governor power to fix commodity prices I Sand regulate trade wars. Three' bills proposing abolishment of lhe 15 cent state levy on real and personal property were introduced I under republican sponsorship. One of them, signed by all 35 re-, publicans in the house, would substitute a net income tax of one and one half per cent. The other two contained additional clauses which would limit the total property tax levy to $1.50 in cities and towns and SI.OO in rural districts. An election petitioned bv 20 per cent of the voters would he required to exceed the levy. The house made the child labor amendment to the federal constitution a special order of business i for Friday to give majority mem-' bers an opportunity to caucas on the question. Primary Issue Indianapolis, Ind., Feb. 5 —(U.R) —Sharply opposing forces were (CONTINUED ON PAGE SIX) 0 Henry B. Heller County Attorney Henry R. Heller was appointed county attorney this morning by the Adams county commissioners. He will begin serving his 21st year lin this capacity, having been originally appointed in 1914. The appointment is for one year. Mr. Heller indicated this afternoon that he will accept tllie .position. K.OFC.PARTY : NEXT TUESDAY Porfv A nr] Dance Will Hold At Hall •February 12 The Knights of Columbus will ! "ive a card .party and dance at the K. of C. hall. Tuesdav, Febrwry 12, j for members and their friends. The entertainment committee, of which Hubert P. Schmitt, is the chairman, is 1 arranging plans for ; the evening’s entertainment. Door tickets are selling for 25 I cents eacih and arrangements are being made to entertain a crowd ot several hundred people. The party will be staged as a jubilee event and the committee is planning sever >1 features on the program. .Another meeting ot the commit- ■ tee will he held this evening and the program will take definite form. A good orchestra will be obtained for the dance and the series of card games and other features will pro- | vide entertainment for those who Hike diversion of this nature.

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ATTORNEY SAYS HE Wilt PROVE GUILTIOf DEAD Chief Counsel Asserts He Will Prove Dead Man Was Kidnaper WILENTZ OBJECTS TO STATEMENTS I'leininglon. N. .1., Feb. 5 - <U.R) Isidor Fisch instead of Bruno Richard Hauptmann lurked in St. Raymond's ecineterv on the night of Anril 2. 1932, and collected *50.000 ransom from Jafsic, : Beniamin Heier swore today at Hauptmann’s trial. The witness said he was out driving with a girl whose name he refused to give—she since has died — and parked near Hie ceineterv. Suddenh'. he testified, a man sl(»>’'c<l info •h>' glare ol i hi« headlights and took sev,.r.TT dons InwarU the car. “Who woe it?” »«L’nd Ed-m-.r/i t Boillv. chief defense “Isidor Fisch.” was the r.l,Tn tl.-'l ynnnner Poillv C-»l---lmvo-1 |ln-.,i.e1. rn I.:.- «l»lo_ ! mnpt n-nU,. ftn.c mo»nin'* Hv't nrn-o 0,.,f T'lc-li ' ooiincted the Lindbergh ranDfivid 1. ’Wilnnf'F *n h1unjnr Office; p\- fl»V» in*» •»< m <h-if b'vl ViPHUn often* 0 IN noftinn wUh a cabaret his brother onerated. TT|eni' r, ' t ton N I F»b .» — 'n.R) Tl,n sheafed declam- •: fV < of eb : of -cnp.-nl 1 Re :, »” th"’ !, e T-on,-n T«;,l<>r Fto.-11. -nv- Jon-1 Germnnv. «'•»« •ho I.in'’horoh r ,n «nnT pvtor(ione- hronght Bruno R'cbi „v-l Hnnntmnnn’s in 11 rd e r | trial fn a «h"rn cHrnax todav. The declaration came to startle | the courtroom as an interlude to * the droning o’ s groun of petty witnesses bi ought by the defense to clear un some of the hundreds of discrepancies In previous testimony. It was during the examination (CONTINUED ON PAGE FIVE) FAMOUS COUPLE VISIT CHICAGO Parents Os Dionne Quintuplets To Make Theater Appearance Chicago. Feb 5 — (U.R) —A bewildered and excited young couple was swept into a dizzy whirl of crowds, questions and carnet as todav as Chicago turned festive for Mr. and Mrs. Oliva Dionne, parents o’ the famous quintup- ! lets. The nlun.p. 27-year-old mother elbowed her way through a nres- : sing throng and turned wearily to 1 her husband “Quelle foule!” she murmured in French. Elzire Dionne, getting her first ka’eidoscopic glimpse of an American metropolis, was complaining of “so manv people.” Oliva, looking very much like an American college boy in his huae camel-hair coat and halfinch patch of mustache, seemed unconscious of the crowds. He was amazed by the skyscrapers along Michigan boulevard. "So high and so close together." he said. The Dionnes, leaving their five (CONTINUED ON PAGE SIX) o County Rpcpivps Check From State County Treasurer John Wechter today received $3,088.50 from the state to reimburse the county for i its share of the old age pensions naid here for the month ot May, June. July. August, September and October. The state and the county eaclb pay half of the ohl a»“ ; sions but the county | *, to make the full payment ibe reimbursed later, 1