Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 33, Number 75, Decatur, Adams County, 28 March 1935 — Page 1

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Vol. XXXIII. No. 75.

Blufl'ton Hires New Municipal Manager J. A. Wallace of Jaaper ha« ae ; cepted a position as,superintendent; of the municipal light and water de-' part men tH ut Bluffton, effective. April 1. He will succe d Superintendent I Kd Hana. wh.> has held that posl-! tioa since January 1, 1924. The new superintendent will re 1 ceive a salary of $3,609 annually | with the provision that any further Increase would dep nd upon the of"the municipal plant. COUNTY BOARDS TO ENFORCE LAW County Beverage Boards, State Deputies To Enforce Liquor Law 'lndianapolis, Ind-. March 28 —I : (UP) — With orpinizatlon in Rs early stages, enforcement of the state liquor law will tie placed in the hands of county beverage | boards and a email squad of state deputies. Bml Fry. state ext Lee administrator said today. Fry said that no more than 20 excise deputies would be appointed at first, but that the squad would 1 be enlarged as the organization of I , the n w d partment iprogressed. County b arde are being organiz ed tDronghout the etate. Official I notices that the board must be appointed within the next 15 days are I being eent to imayors and county commissioners. Undre the new law. the mayor of the largest city in the county, and I the county commissioners name one representative each n the hoard. The third member is appoint d by t.he state depirtment and proliably 1 will be a deputy administrator. Seoree of applications for the deputy positions are being received . by-th* excise deparhYent. Th* ap-’ I plicante will be givsn examinations, and thcee qvnlifying will be r?com-' mended for positions Dy the state alcoholic beverages commieei-rn Tls» • pointnVnto will be made with the ei iproval of Gov. Paul V. McNutt. • Fry issued a warning to beer and liquor retailers yeeterdny that vio-. (CONTINUFm ON PAGE TVVOi WOULD REBUILD 0,0. P. PARTY Some Old-Line Republican Leaders Suspicious Os Latest Move Washington. March 28 — (U.R) Conservative and liberal Republicans appeared today to be making progress toward consolidation of party forces scattered in the 1932 presidential campaign. More promising than proclamations by former President Hoover or individual efforts by other Republican spokesmen was the plan of mid-west party regulars to convene farm belt politicians in con--1 vention next May. Republicans who have disagreed on almost everything else since the 1932 campaign have found common ground in the plan to shift the GOP center of leadership toward the Mississippi river. The projected preliminary Republican convention — time and place still to be announced — is to raise a mid-west w»ir chest and discuss policies for 1936. All . agree the gathering is not to become a pep meeting for any indi-j I vidual presidential candidate, hut none can guarantee it. Although the get-together pro-J gram has the endorsement of such . ■ liberals as Sen. Arthur Capper. R„ Kan., the old line progressive ttepublican leaders are suspicious They demanded in 1932 and still (CONTINUED ON PAGE SEVEN) O Elks Invited To Union City Meet Members of the Elks lodge have received invitations to the annual Indiana Central Elks association convention to be held at Union City, Saturday and Sunday, April 6 and 7. The program calls for a golf match, bowling, dancing and entertainment on Saturday. On Sunday there will be an initiation and a parade, a banquet at noon and a 5 business meeting in the fternoon.

First of 34 Indicted in Bank Crash Go On Trial

l k J I L? i John H. Hart

Curious crowds clamored for admission to Detroit 1 federal district court when three Detroit bankers, the first of 34 indicted in connection with the collapse of two gigantic bank and trust holding companies. went on trial. The first three defendants

KEEP UP DRIVE ON EMBEZZLERS Marion County ex-Bank-ers, Public Officials To Be Arrested ‘lndianapolis, Ind., March 28 — (UP) —Additional officers of de- , fun-.t Indianapolis banks and two , former public officials were expected to be named in affidavits filed .in crimiunl court today as Marion I county authorities c ntinueJT their drive against embezzlement cases., Prosecutor Herbert M Spencer said he has prepared affidavits filed in criminal court today as Marion county r.uthoriti-es continued their drive against embezzle-; m?nt case. Prosecutor Herbert M. Spencer ■said he hat prepared affidavits charging Charles Bailey, former Washington township r.atessor. with a .shortage ■ f $3,000 in his act tints. The shortage .ao been made up. it was said. Judge Frank Baker of criminal court announced tbit he plans to file an affidavit against Thomae Doyje, former criminal court clerk,, whose accounts were found to be $.958 abort by examiners for the . Ute beard ol accounts. D yle has ■ been discharged and his shortage ; was made up but no criminal action has been taken apiinst him. Affidavits charging embezzlement; and ? rjury were filed yesterday against Scott R. Brewer, former pre-ddent of the defunct state savings and trust company, nnd earlier . in the week Ralp i Hitch, chief dep- ■ i uty und r former Sheriff Charles j Sunner was arrested on charge of i embezzling SB,OOO. i Si encer indicated that he would; prepare affdavits against otiher banking officials as quickly as possible e that the cases will not be outlawed by the statute of tionso -~ Dismiss Injured , Man From Hospital Henry Hornetein of Racine. XV isconsin, who has been a patient at; th® Adams county mem rial hospital since Monday night wihen he was injured in an accident, was dis-| I rafesed from the hospital today. His ; | condition was reported to be much j i improved. Mr. Hornstein was injured when , the automobile in which he was rid-! ing with Henry L- Watt of Milwaukee, was struck on Winchester ; street by a Pennsylvania freight i train. Mr. Watt received only minor 1 bruises. Bluffton Stockyard Bought By Brady Bros. A. D. Welty, manager of the | Brady stodkyard in Berne lhas been j placed in charge of the stockyards | at Bluffton, it was learned here to-, ' day. The Brady Brothers took over | the yards formerly -operated by E. I C Bunker. Mr. Welty will continue to manage the local yards us well and will continue to live in Berne.; Brady Brothers of Payne, Ohio. 1 own a large number of stockyards, including one at Decatur. j

Decatur, Indiana, Thursday, March 28, 1935.

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1 were John 11. Hart, left; H. L. Chittenden, center, and John Ballintyne. light, all officers in the First National Bank of Detroit and Detroit Bankers Co. They are shown as they arrived at ' ourt to staiiil D ial.

HEAR HAUPTMANN APPEAL JUNE 20 Defense Counsel’s Motion for Delay Until October is Denied by New Jersey Court R nton. N. J.. March 28—(UP) — Bruno Richard Hauptmann’s appeal from his death sentence for the murder of Charles A. Lindbergh. Jr. will be lheard by the court of errors and appeals cn June 20. The court Os nine jurists >ind five lay members set the date after defense couneel had pleaded for a delay until October in order to perfect their appeal and have “time XIO read the 11.800 pnges) of testi-, morv taken in this important case.” Arguments for the delay were by Frederick A. Pope, ae-so iate de-! sense counsel. Attorney general David T- Wilentz opposed a p stponement bey.nd June. I If the state’s case is sustained, ; Haupt nann would go to the chair within eight weeks of the decision after being re-sentenced by justice i Thomas W. Tre.nchard. NAME CHICAGO MAYOR TUESDAY Democrats Expected To Roll Ud Huge Majority Next Week Chicago, Mar. 28, — (U.R) — Chicago’s mayoral election next Tuesday may demonstrate the arrival at adult estate of another DemoI cratic city machine with the steamrolling efficiency of tammany in New York and the Tom Pender- > i gast organization" in Kansas City. The Republican organizatzion that made William Hale (Big Bill) | Thompson loss of Chicago for al-; most a decade has been frightened into virtual surrender five days before an election which probably i will deprive it of its last bits of | life-sustaining patronage. Moguls of the G. O. P. who used to raise the rafters when Big Bill I attacked King George, and then go 'out to produce votes with persuasion. checks and fists, clapped politely and tepidly yesterday at i theTr last city rally before Tues-, day’s election and devoted most of I their time to discussion of 1940. ! ; Not more than a dozen ward I committeemen attended the meet- ' ing. Silas H. Strawn was the speaker and he touched only in passing upon the city campaign. The essence of his address was an i argument that crop reduction and i wheat imports, considered I (CONTINUED ON PAGE SEVEN) ' — O Grover C. Cottrell Quits Police Force Grover C. Cottrell last evening' 'tendered hfe resignation as a mem-| ' ber of the City police force to Mayor A. R. Holthouse. Mr. Cottrell, who before Joining ; the force five years ago was engagled in the oirputer and contract j business,, intends to follow that : trade. | Adrian Coffee was named to fill I the vacancy temporarily.

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MOVE MADE TO AVERT STRIKE Richberg Calls Soft Coal Miners And Operators Into Conference Washington. March 28 — <U.R> Dona’d R. Richberg. new NRA board chairman, summoned bituminous coal miners and operators into conference today in an effort to avert a walkout of 50.000 min- ' ers next Monday. j Called into the meeting to at temnt a solution of wage and hourproblems after weeks of frrtile negotiations between operators and miners were John L. Lewis. i UMWA president, and a joint committee of 16 onerators and miners named from the Appalachian wage conference. i Operators desire to continue the present wize contracts, which 1 expire at midnight March 31, anI other year. Miners have asked for I a 30-hour week and a 10 per cent basic wage increase. In a sudden move after months of apparent inertia at NRA. Rich-1 berg asked the wage conference I . chairman. D. C. Kennedy, to send ' a committee to tell NRA all about the situation. I Complicating wage negotiations was the fact congress has before it a 30-hotrr work week bill, a proposed extension of NRA which would affect the soft coal code, the Wagner labor disputes bill which would give workers more bargaining power, and the Guffey bill which would grant separate government control over the bituminous coal industry. The contracts signed last year give miners a work week reduced , from 40 to 35 hours, and increased the basic wage from $4.60 to $5 1 per day. Appalachian field conI tracts govern virtually all coal j fields. Southern operators last year won restoration of lower wage differentials. This differential again a point of controversy, operators have been unable to agree among themselves. la»wis has warned the miners can not work without a new agreement. NRA fe “deeply concerned” Richberg said. He hones to avert serious disruption of the soft coal industry. It was generally bei lieved some compromise will be worked out to avoid suspension of work. There was no talk of a general coal strike. School Operetta Friday, April 5 “The Magic Piper," the operetta ' chosen for the annual North Ward presentation, will be given at the Decatur righ school auditorium. Friday night, April 5. Admission will be 15 cents for adults, and 10 cents for children I under 12 years of age. —o Rev. Prestige At Baptist Church Rev. F. Prestidge of Ohio will speak at services at the First Baptist church Friday evening at 7:30 o’clock. Regular prayer meeting I will be held tonight at 7:30 o’clock. I

FOUR PERSONS HELD CAPTIVE BY 3 BANDITS Four Unidentified Persons Held By Fleeing Bank Bandits Janwville, Wis.. March 28 (U.R) Patrols of heavily-armed officers, weary after a 20-hour search for 1 four persons reported kidnaped by fleeing bank bandits, were inclined toduy to believe that the victims were held only temporari ily. Sheriffs posses of southern Wisconsin and northern Illinois spread out fan-shape in their hunt for the four unidentified persons, two men and two women, whose car was commandeered by three bandits yesterday afternoon. The concentrated pursuit netted no clues, however, to the trio who attempted to hold up the Mauston ■ State bank, wounded Cashier R. H. Hale, and fled. Within the .space of two hours they stole four cars and seized the owners as hostages. The prisoners, if they actually ■were held by the bandits, might have been taken to a hideaway in Chicago, police said. Department of justice head-j Quarters in Chicago, although informed of the supposed kidnapings, took no official recognition | of them inasmuch as the bank was not a federal depository and the abductions were not of a nature to come within federal scope. The report of the kidnapings came from Ed Shea and Mrs. Aimee Winrich, of Madison, who i were abducted by the bandits but abandoned because their car w.is ■ I “too slow.” The couple saw the . three men. waving revolvers at the roadside, halt a big green | ! r.edan. crowd in beside its four occupants and speed southward. Authorities, retracing the hurried flight of the three men. said ' the four motorists may have been dumped from the green sedan and failed to report the incident. i Fears that they might have met with violence were discredited by the statements of those in auto- " (CONTTNURG ON PAGE TWO) REVEAL PLOT TO KIDNAP QUINTS Canadian Police Verify Story Os Plot To Kidnap Quintuplets (Copyright 1935 by United Press) Callander. Ont.. March 28—<U.R> •—The existence of a well-organiz-ed plot to kidnap the Dionne quintuplets was verified today by the provincial police. The United Press learned tha* I the plotters are known but cannot be arrested because no overt acts were committed. The plan of the would-be kidnapers. it was learned, was to steal the babies from Dafoe hospital and take them across the United States border by automobile. There they would have been put on exhibition for profit. Discovery of the alleged plot prevented it from being carried out ; and now Dafoe hospital is guarded day and night by provincial police in uniform. Another precaution against kidnaping has been taken within the hospital. A nurse now sleeps in the same room with the ‘ quints." Today the five Dionne babies are 10 months old. Their weight has increased an average of one (CONTINUED ON PAGE EIGHT) <t Former County Resident Dies Edward Muter. 60, died Wednesday morning at 11 o’clock nt his I ihome near Rockford, Ohio. Death was due to heart disease. Mr. Muter had epent most of his life in Adams county, having resided east cf Berne and in Berne for a number of yenrs. Surviving are the widow and several children. Funeral services will be held Saturday afternoon at 1 o’clock at the Rookford. Ohio, United Brethren church and burial will i be made at Rockford.

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Won’t Accept Second Endorsement Checks Checks requiring second endorsement will not be accepted at the county treasurer’s office in payment for taxes. County treasurer John Wechter pointed out that many taxpayers submitted checks which required the endorsement of the holder. These checks then have to be endorsed by the county! treasurer and when deposited to ■ the county’s account, a charge is ■ made by the bank against the coun-1 ty. To eliminate the expense and the inconvenience of checking back ■ the charges each month, county treasurer Wechter stated his office [could not accept second endorsement checks. Persons wishing to! pay by check should make the checks payable to the county treasurer. START MOVE TO OBTAIN VOTE ON BILL NEXT WEEK Administration Leaders Put On Pressure To Get Early Vote Washington. March 28— (U.R) — | House administration leaders put on pressure to obtain action on the social security bill next week as a drive opened to force consid- | eration of the radical Lundeen unemployment measure. The administration hoped to bring the security program to a vote next week and take up the 1935 banking act the week after. [ Pressure to whip the security bill into shape was applied personally by speaker Joseph W. Byrns shortly after representative [ ; Ernest Lundeen, Farm-Laborer, 1 Minnesota, filed a petition seek-, • ing to torce action on his bill which would pay $lO weekly bene-, fits to all unemployed. Byrns appealed to the ways an.l , means committee to halt quibbling over tax features of the security bill and report it to the house Monday. Fund Handling Washington. March 28 — (U.R) Assurances that President Roosevelt personally would rupervise the $4,880,000,090 work-relief pro-' gram failed today io quiet senatorial discontent over methods suggested for handling the fund. The President, in a message re- 1 laved to the White House, said today that he would make no final plans for adminfetering the program until final enactment of the i bill. The message was sent to | (CONTINUED ON PAGE TWO) — Two Mexicans Plead Guilty To Charges Dema-s Furtrrez and Raymond Seja. Mexicans, plead guilty in Mayor Arthur R. Holthouee’e court j Wednesday afternoon and were fined $1 and costs amounting to sll each.cn pulblk- intoxication charges. They were arrested Tuesday night by Chief of Police Sephus Melchi. and officer Ed Milker. MISSING PERSONS ARE FOUND SAFE Four Thought Kidnaped Return to Illinois Home After Being Missing for Twenty Hours Harrisburg. 111.. March 28—(UP) [ i —Four persons for whom federal i agents and police of four states had i I searched for 20 hours, believing them kidnaped, returned to their home in Red Bud, 111., at 2 A. M. today. Mrs- C. G. Smith. 32 year old wife of Dr. C. G. Smith, wealthy Red Bud physician, telephoned him in Harrisburg, where he was consulting with federal justice department agents and state police. “We had car trouble,” she told him. “You come on home. I’m too tired to talk more now.” She and lher father, the Rev. WE. Hauff. 64. her daughter. Emllie, 5, and her cousin, Miss Elsie Linn of Mitchell, Nab., had been missing almost 36 hours. They disappeared Tuesday aft rnoen in Harrisburg 70 imiles southeast of Red Bud, where Mrs .Smith and Miss Linn parti ipated in a radio broadcast sponsored by a women’s club. Reached by telephone at her ■ home, Mrs. Smith said liltingly: "I think I lhave nothing to say. Goodbye.”

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GREAT BRITAIN LEADERREPORTS ON CONFERENCE Tension Increases Over , Germans Sentenced To Death In Memel (By United Press) Sir John Simon, after giving a report to the king which was described as “rather gloomy,” admitted to the house of commons that “considerable differences of opinion" had developed at his Berlin conference with Adolf Hitler. London sources heaid Hitler had demanded restoration of at least one of her lost colonies and formal abolition of the military clauses of the Versailles treaty. Captain Anthony Eden was understood to have found common ground on the European situation in his conference at Moscow with Maxim Litvinoff. Tension increased between Germany and Lithuania over the Memel death sentences. The Polish cabinet resigned for reorganization under the revised constitution virtually abolishing i parliamentary government and replacing the present dictatorship * with one more like Italy’s and Germany’s. Demands Colony London, Mar. 28.— (U.R) — Adolf Hitler has demanded restoration to Germany of at least one colony and formal abolition of the Marseilles military treaty clauses, it was said today on semi-official authority. He demanded also, it was said, that the League of Nations covenant must be separated from the treaty. These conditions, it was said, were to be the price of Germany’s j re-participation in league activities. and were entirely aside from [ other demands. Plan Early Action Berlin. Mar. 28.—(U.R)—Germans angrily demanded action from the government today to prevent execution of four Germans of Memel territory. The government, it was learned, planned early action to try to halt the executions and to demand a new deal for the thousands of Germans in the little Memel territory taken from Germany after the (CONTINUED ON PAGE SEVEN) O RUNAWAY HORSES RUIN LIGHT POLES _ Runaway Team Knocks Over Two Light Poles When One of Horses is Bit by Dog History repeated itself this afterncon when Frank Smith’s team of light western horses, frightened iby a dog. staged a run-away remJnisi cent of the doys of 20 years ago. Smith leaped for his life just before the team, pulling a wagon behind them, shattered two light posts at the corner of Madison and Third | streetsHe said that he was driving west | on Madison street when a dog bit I the leg of . na of the horses in his I team. Pursued by the dog. the team I broke away and hurtled the wagon [ behind them over the sidewalk on south side of the sttreet. Just before lite saw that they were going to straddle the ornamental light post on the southeast cornear of the street he leaped to the ground. The team struck the light I post nnd dragged it across the street. The second light post halted the panic stricken horses and hurled tlhiem to the ground where they were caught by a pedestrian. Both light posts were broken into several parts and dragged a iportion | of the cement foundation out with i them. The honses were only slightly I bruised and cut. The wagon was slightly damaged. , Catholic Ladies To Sponsor Party, Dance The Catholic Ladies of Columbia II will sponsor a card party and : dance at the Knights of Columbus I hall Tuesday night, April 23, it ; was announced by the chairman, > Miss Catherine Schumacher. i The card games will start at t 7:30 o’clock and the dance will follow at 9:30 o’clock. Bridge, ‘ five hundred, pinochle and bunco I will be played. Tickets for the • iparty are selling for 25 cents. The public is invited to attend.