Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 33, Number 100, Decatur, Adams County, 26 April 1935 — Page 1

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IIVE-YEAR-OLD BOY KILLS HIS MOTHER

Brims I ■MISES broken pTO RY YEGGS SI 13 N Obtained nt Elbenon Service |Ht:on l ast Night p„lir-' S.-pllllH Melchi. Dallas . KTX ■ 1 Hill* morn- ~ . w itli slls K e i * * IP a group of. BLX here on March 25 when i ’ and stole ap-[ MSV . s:..| three oilier bus-. KtKetliods aim are similar to K jL.,| .’i ■ o'hTieu in Berne. 1 r. A nine and many Kr Ales in tins territory. bra k e into the > Hi a , ii ehop to steal and some punch-, did th'’ previous. here. a small glass out of Knorth door and were able to Kh I and nni.iich the door. Us-i '.nils they knocked nil the safe and lhe patters in a desk but K ilthin. None of the mer-1 was missed. capture -by sur■k tt Hinges opi m.l two rear was covered by insurthrumrh Ko hoc's litntbthe thieves were able to ■ti lat the glass in a southwest Mb, the A. R. AshbauETffcrj' They unfastened the. Mjt> th>‘ window and went into i t ike off tlie combinthe heavy iron safe Bp* : iiubi- to open tlie inner left a portion of the there. Nothing was were foiled at MntsPacking company by their there on March 25. they first tried to jimmy ' on t > door. Failing at i jimmied a window. have been unable to the doors on the safe since robbery. No money has in them since. The nothing there. tools hut the sledge hamfnun Schmitt's Blackwere recovered. of the thefts could only at between 10 o'clock night when Elberson's and 6 o'clock this morning I ■tinted ov page three) o— Mure Robber | Is Found Guilty ■van, in | , April 26—(UP)—! ■kbl-. Terre Haul'?, was found ■ b - v a jury in Sullivan circuit ' on chargas of robbery, i a maximum term of 251 was charged with the tor-1 ■tbbery of James Bergermun, county recluse. ■ o Bay trial to TERM lof Dewey Van Lear is Postleti Until September Term At Columbia City. •mbta City, Apr. 26. — (SpecTr ‘al of Dewey Van Lear. De--011 charges of theft and em- ■ len t. originally set for trial tV ' c*' llas been Postponed tne September term of court. L , catur man 19 charged Ue theft of sever6l huildleJ 10111 Broach, aged! KT „. hitle y woman. The affi- ■ hsrged Van Lear with g away Personal goods and ■b»^° nging t 0 Della M - B '"’, a tin 'e certificate of de-1 El p ft „ he Fu,, niers Loan and ■ comnany ot Columbia City. I B a >.,. ear Wa3 arres ted early in B bLd nd < has been at Hberty K bond since that time. in»v, „ ant 13 represented by ■a.,' \ F ' Brlnkerhofer of K n , of n*\ d "’biteleather and Bpi, 01,,n ’ bia City. Glenn E. I |iListL?? eCUting R ttorney, will Ku City ° ateS aSd Oates 011

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Vol. XXXIII. No. 100.

CCC ACTIVITY TOLD TO CLUB Rotarians Hear Interesting Explanation of Work Done In Camps C. R. Umpleby, employed at the | Decatur station of the Pennsylvania i railroad, related an interesting dis- | course on the inner workings of ; the Civilian Conservation Camps at the weekly meeting of the Rotary club Thursday evening at the Rice hotel. Mr. Umpleby was a county conti mander in one of the camps for 'six months and told many details lof the work done by the young men, and their activities which are not generally known. i The speaker emphasized the fa< I that the camps do not resemble i regular army camps and that strict I orders have been issued to all camp I commanders not to give any work > tending toward militaristic activ- ■ ities, even though many of the re- | cruits have requested drills and i calisthenics. Mr. Umpleby also stressed the splendid education program which :is conducted at all camps. He stated that nearly St) per cent of the . camp members are taking advantage of educational opportunities offered them. The war department and state ■conservation departments are jointi ly responsible for the proper conjduct of the camps, lhe speaker said, and the work done by the re- , cruits. under capable leadership, is already showing splendid results. Reports from the various chairmen of Youth Week were given, outlining briefly the program which will Im* presented each day of the week, extending from Saturday. April 27 to Saturday. May 4. iu- ' elusive. Tbe glee clubs of the Decatur public high school, under the direc'Tirm of Miss Helen Hsubold. sang three fine numbers. Piano accompaniment was played by Miss Mary Kathryn Tyndall. Walter Gard was chairman of the program. RARE OPERATION PERFORMED HERE Fort Wayne Woman Undergoes Operation !• or “Inverted Stomach” Mrs. Lester Reinchild, 51, of Ft. Wayne, was operated on this morning to rectify an “inverted stomach’’ at the Adams County Memorial hospiSal by Dr. C. C. Rayl, assisted by Dr. Floyd Grandstaff. This is one of the rarest operai tions ever performed al the local i hospital and one of the few- ever I performed in the United States. Several children over the country have “become national figures in ! recent months through such operations. Mrs. Reinchild was reported late : this afternoon to be recovering in j fine shape. Dr. Rayl said today that Mrs. Reinchild had probably been in this abnormal condition since birth, although until recently she did not know the cause of her stomach discomfort. Her condition was diagnosed by Dr. Rayl after an X-ray examination. He found that her stomach, spleen, part of the small, and part of the large intestine bad herniated through a three inch hole in her diaphragm. Her stomach was push (CONTINUED ON PAGE EIGHT) —O- — Finish Renair Work On W inchester Street The city street department completed today the repair cf a 500 foot stretch of Winchester street i near the South Ward school. TDe heavy traffic ovet* the street, ' which is a port of U. S- highway- -7. .caused a number of holes in the pavement. The dirt and pav ment ' was dug up to a depth of about six inches in the bad spots. Dirt and ' stones were tamped into the.u ! places and fresh pivement laid over th: m. All w:rk was done by hand. An effort wae made to have the •state make the repairs as most of tike damage was roused by through traffic. However, the state highway department has a ruling which pn - i vents their making any repairs inI side the corporation limits of a I city of this size.

Belgrano, Morgenthau Speak On Bonus Issue 7 si ■( I ' IM A * W - J ul H ' L. » • k » Immediate cash payment of the soldiers’ bonus would mean new taxes, asserted Henry Morgenthau, Jr., right, secretary of the treasury. (Frank N. Belgrano, Jr., inset, national commander of the American Legion, presented the opposite side of the issue, demanding passage of the Patman bill. The adminfe- . tration favors the Harrison measure which would space bonus payment over a period of years. Above photo shows the senate finance committee hearing at Washington on the issue.

DEATH CLAIMS DECATUR LADY 1 Miss Elizabeth Werder Dies This Afternoon After Lon£ Illness r I Miss Elizabeth Werder, 86. a r I ■ ' resident of Decatur for many years died at her home at 602 West Marshall street at 1:30 o'clock this afternoon. Death was dm* to Complications. Miss Werder had been ailing for some time and had been bedfast for the past two weeks. She was born in Seneca county. Ohio on September 8, 1848. and was a daughter of Henry and An- , na Werder. She resided on a farm in Seneca county untij she was 25 years of ago when she moved to | New Washington. Ohio and lived there with her sister, Emma Werd- . er. She moved to Decatur 35 years ago and resided here since that time. Her sister, Emma, preceded her in death on September 23. 1933. She was confirmed in the Re- ' formed church at Caroline, Seneca ’ County, Ohio on May 15, 1864. One sister, Mrs. William Casner -of Washington. Ohio, survives. Two ■ nieces, Mrs. W. H. Stultz of Root i township and Mrs. Ferd L. Litter--1 er of Decatur, survive besides sev--1 eral nieces and nephews at a disr; tance. Funeral services will be held ’ Monday morning at 11) o’clock at t the home. 602 West Marshall street - with Rev. Charles M. Prugh officiating. Burial will be in the Deca- ’ tur cemetery. i o Miller Rites To Be Held Saturday ' Funeral services for David F.li Miller, 73. fatiber of Lew Miller of 1 Decatur, who died at his home in ' Blufft n Thursday morning, will ' be held at 2 o'clock Saturday afternoon at the Epworth Methodiet j chur h in Bluffton in charge of Rev H. E. Forbes, aeswted by RevR. S. Scudder. Burkil will be in the I Murray cemeteryo Rebekahs Attend Bluffton Meeting t Over 100 members of tflie Rebekah lodges in Blackford. Adams and - Welle county attended the semi- ' annual tri-county me ting held in t ■ Bluffton Thursday. The meeting ■ wa.s held in the Bluffton I. O O. F. , Hall. , j Sci’.s!-ns of tlw* meeting were ' opened Thursday afternoon and coni'tinned Thursday evening. Mies : Clara Anderson of Geneva, district I ' president, had charge of the g-an- * \ eral open business meeting. ■ ' During the evening session ritualistic work vote given by the Fort - Wayne chapter for five candidates f from Mon’r-'olier. The -state aosemi bly president, Mrs- Mary E. Wilson ■ of New Albany and district ipreel- . d ns. Mrs. Esta Seymone, Wabasibi; - Mrs. Pearl Houghton. Fort Wayne, i j and Mra. Anderson of Geneva, at- ' tended the meeting.

Decatur, Indiana, Friday, April 26, 1935.

Clean-Up Week To Start On May 6 Citizens of Decatur were asked today to begin collecting their rubbish for the annual clean-up week which will be held for six days f beginning Monday. May 6. Ralph Roop, civil works ccmmi.ssioner, asked that the refuse be placed In containers near the alley. If householders wish the containers i returned barrels or boxes should 3 hav>» the name and addrecn of tee . owner affixed to them. 3 ' Clean-up week is an annual cam- . paign to improve the apijearance j of the city. r ! o— POLITICS DRAW ■ CENTER STAGE Political Activity Is Boili ing On Many Different i Fronts (Copyright 1935, by United Press) Washington, April 26 —(UP) — 1 i Political activity boiled jjn a halfi dezen fronts today, with Republir cans preparing an intensive fund- ', raising campaign and independent springing into life and ' ■ around th? Leng and Coughlin ban- '' nens. ■ Huey Long was (heading west to I raise a rallying cry around his ' share-our-wealt.h drive Saturday nt I Des Moines. The repercussions of I I the political outburst of Father ; Charleu E Coughlin i.'bbed across j the land. The Republican national ccmm- ! ittee strengthened ita Washington j organization in preparation for its •, effort to swell its campaign chest [to war time (proportions. i | Democrats involved in administration di tails centering around the 1 work-relief program and the c ngreesional outlook, counted ui.’.on (CONTINUED ON PAGE SEVEN) I

Evangelical Church Conference Has Beautiful Park At Wawasee

Oakwood Park, covering the en-l , tire west shore of Lake Wawasee, the largest lake in Indiana, is own I ed by the Indiana conference of ’ the Evangelical church, which will hold its annual convention in Decatur next week. The management of this park is in charge of a board of trustees, i elected by the Indiana conference.! > It was purchased in 1893 and was • I then known as "Conklin Hill” on 1 the west short of beautiful laike Wawasee. It was named “Oakwood . Park” after the oaks that cover tin* j park. The park contains about fifteen acres in a grove, besides a large fruit orchard, and a field for vege- , table gardening. When the park | was first purchased it contained a hotel on top o* a long hill, sloping gradually to the lake front, besides a large barn and an ice house. . These original buildings have since been torn down, and now there is

MOOSE WOMEN TO MEET HERE District Meeting of Women of The Moose Here Next Sunday I Repre® nta-tiveo from eight cities in the third district will attend the! ccnventi n of the Women of th" Moose in D catiir, Sunday, April 28. [ The sessions will be held in the ; Moose Hom'.* c.n North Second ■ street. The afternoon pr gram will open i t 2 o'clock in the afternoon and the levelling eeesioa at 7:30 ip. m. Following ice evening session a banquet will 1c served in the dining ‘ room of the heme. The eight cities in the third die- , trict are Huntington. Fort Wayne, Auburn. Bluffton. Marion, Angela. ■ Kendallville and Decatur. The members of the Van Wert. Ohio, chapter have also been invited to attend the convention as gueots. The general chairman in charge of the lo al convention is Mrs. C. LAugust of tiliae city. The conference leader will be Mrs. Delta Schinoe, Fort Wayne, and lhe secretary, Mrs. | Dessa Koltz, F. rt Wn.yne. Mrs Kimmel of Huntington is th * ritualistic I : chairman for the meeting. The evening ceremony will be giv | ' en by the Marion officers and team, ' I followed with questions. Virginia . | (CONTINUED ON PAGE TWO) 0 Injured Youth Is Reported Improved The condition of Donald Koenig, ' son of Edward Koenig, route 2. M >nroeville, who ie a patient at the' Adams icounty memorial hospital is ! reported slightly improved .today. | The boy enflUred injuries when he was run over by it roller Thursday morning. He suffered from sevj ere shock and a skull Injury.

I a large modern hotel located near j the landing and bathing beach. There has also been erected a | large auditorium, for general as- ! sembly gatherings. Kimmel Hall, i on the hill side is a large educational plant, built with modern ; class rooms, including idack boards | where the summer schools of Christian education are conducted. On the other slope of the hill side, is a smaller auditorium, for I the training of children in worship. Just over the hill, towards the west, are a boys’, a girls' camp. These ! camps are equipped with modern huts and building for camp life, i Tlie park further contains many beautiful cottages and dormitories. The bathing beach is one of the finest on the entire Lake Wawasee. There is no finer place for young or old. Io spend a summer vacation than Oakwood Park. The management is bent on providing a good (CONTINUED ON PAGE TWO) '

HOPKINS HEADS ONE DIVISION OF WORK PLAN Harry Hopkins Is Administrator of Works Progress Division Washington. April 26. — (U.R) —; Harry L Hopkina, dynamic former ' social worker who directed vast federal relief expenditures, today was given a key position in the president's new re-employment drive as administrator of the works progress division. | In announcing Hopkins’ appointment, the White House said ere--1 ation of the division completed the complex administrative organization which will carry into action I the $4,800,000,000 program. The progress division under Hop-, I kins will -be Charged with seeing | I that projects are speeded in the i areas where the most persons are 'on relief rolls, and that the jobs | actually go to those who need them most. It also will determine the amount of "security" wages to be paid in various areas. A White House statement said: | “The fourth and final announce-j ment by the President regarding the administrative machinery for the handling of the relief program provides for setting up a works progress division. “It is obvious that before allot ments are made, accurate information must lie available in regard to the actual numlter of unemployable whose names are on existing relief i rolls. As the works relief program | is intended to take care primarily ' of these people, the projects must be allocated in proportion to the numbers within a given work atea. The progress division will be in charge of these figures and will keep the other divisions informed at all times. i “Next, after allotments have been made, it will be the duty of the (CONTINUED ON PAGE THREE) 0 — OUTLINES PLAN OFRFEERENDUM Wheat Growers Will Vote May 2.5 On Federal Adjustment Program Columbia City, Ind.. April 26— Outlining plane for the referendum to be conducted among wheat growers May 25 to determine whether or not the Agricultural .Adjustment j Administration’s efforts to help the ' producers balance wheat production witih conenmiption, are favored by I farmers, V. D. Sexson, -state icomplilance officer and P. V. Kepner, Washington D. C-. of the U. S. Extension Service, met with repreeeni tatives of the local Wheat Control : Associations of Elkhart. LaGrange, I Steriben, DeKalb, Noble, Kosciusko. Whitley. Allen, Adanui, Wells and I Huntington counties here Thursday “With the help of the drought last year, our wheat crop this year will [ l»* sufficient to meet the needs of I tlhe country and permit some ex- . port,” said Sex-son. “However, be- | cause of the extremely High tariffs on U. S. wheat in these foreign countries, our farmers cannot expect much export demand. .In Germany at the present time' the duty is more than $3.80 per bushel and in both France and .Italy it i.s more than sl-45 per bushel. “Crop estimates by the U. S. Department of Agriculture on April 1 show an expected production of about 625,000.000 bushels cf wheat with a carry-ovier of 120,000.000 bushels, sufficient to protect the people of this country from a wheat famine. With a world demand this year for only 40,000.000 bushels of U. S. wheat, even if the tariff bardens were eliminated, high .production of wheat In this country would start prices toppling." he added. Plans for local meetings iprevious to the referendum, in whid’.i all bona fide wheat producers, whether or ((CONTINUED ON PAGE THREE) FEE School Directors Meet This Afternoon A county board meeting of the directors of the FEE school in Adams county was held this afternoon in the county ecurt room- W. O. Little, Adams county FEE supervisor, presided.

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S2O Collected Under Peddler’s Ordinance The city has collected S2O in revenue since the passing of the ipedd-1 lers' licensing ordinance. This money was paid by a Delphos. Ohio, dry cleaning concern for tilie right to solicit work in Decatur for four days. Through the <*oopieration of the city police a number of other solicitors, peddlers and canvassers have been prevented from working In the city. A number of local canvassers have (been reported as having taken cut store licenses. YOUTH PARADE SATURDAY A. M. TO OPEN WEEK Decatur's Youth Week Observance Opens Saturday Morning Youth Week in Decatur will officially open Saturday morning at 10 o’clock, with a parade of a number of youth organizations through the business district. Plans for the parade have been made >y Mies Electa Olive r and Al-' bert Sellemeyer. co-chairmen for the event. Included in the parade will be lhe Decatur Girls band, ponies, | girl scoots and boy scouts, junior boy scouts, athletic teams, 4-H club members, new model autos, boys and girls on decorated bicycles, and a colored sextet with banjoes. All participating in the parade will meet at the Central school at 9:30 a. m. The parade will start at Five Points, thence north on Second street to Jackson, west to Third and south to Liberty Way. j As the parade disbands, members of the girls band w 441 assemble at the northeast of the court house and will play a 15-• i minute concert. This band, under the direction |of Mr. Sellemeyer, is unique in. I this section ot the county, as few cities have subh an organization. Thirty girls are in the band and range from tlie fifth grade to high school seniors. Three judges will be named to award rankings to tlie marching organizations. While no prizes will be given, tlie ranking will be recognition of youth in keeping with this first day of Youth Week known as Youth Recognition Day. All giris and boys who will ride bicycles in tlie parade are asked to report at the Central school at 8 o'clock tomorrow morning, where free decorations will be supplied. Order of Parade Pony, ridden by Barbara Duke. Girl Scouts. Pony, ridden by Harold Johnson. Boy Scouts. Decatur Girls Band. Junior Boy Scouts. Decorated Bicycles. Athletic Teams. 4-H Chibs. ■ New Model Automobiles. Colored sextet with banjoes. Special Recognition As tlie special feature for Youth Recognition Day, the Saturday issue of the Daily Democrat will carry a full page devoted entirely to the youth of Decatur. Included on this page, (CONTINUED ON PAGE EIGHT) FRIEDA GOLDEN IS CRITICALLY HURT Sister of Mrs. David Adams of Decatur Badly Injured In Fall Last Night Fort Wayne. Ind., April 26 —(UP) —Mrs. Frieda Golden. 32, 505 State street, ie in a critical condition in the Methodist hospital here suffering from a fractured skull she received in a fall down a flight of stairs nt the Pop Eye lunch room on Maumee aventve, Thursday night. Em.ployeen of the lunch room said she tripped on the toip step of a stairway leading to the basement and fell forward down the stairs. She was still unconscious at noon today. Mrs. Golden is a daughter of Mrs. Emma Erhart of west of Monroe and a sister of Mrs. David Adams of this city. Her husband, Wilmer Golden died lust November. MrsGolden had been taking a course at the Warner Beauty College In Fort Wayne and would have -completed her course next weeik. She is not employed at the lunch room.

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CHILD SAYS HE WAS TRYING TO SCARE MOTHER Young Monroe County Woman Is Victim Os Tragedy Thursday Bloomington. Ind.. Apr. 26. —(U.R) —A five-year-old red haired farm boy demonstrated at a coroner's inquest today how he shot and killed his mother accidentally while trying to frighten her with a shotgun. Despite the fact that the gun is as long as he is tall, Clifford Cain showed how he cocked it and pulled the trigger with the barrel at his mother’s back. The mother, Mrs. Myrtle Cain, 24, was peeling potatoes when the tragedy occurred. Her body was found by her husband, Russell, 28, when he returned from the field at noon yesterday. Clifford lost most of his previous shyness when Coroner Ben Ross gave him several sticks of chewing gum before the inquest was opened. The gum frequently made it almost imposhible to understand the child.. ‘ Clifford’s testimony and demonstration were so convincing that the coroner returned a verdict of acidental death. The father told how lie had left his loaded shotgun leaning against a dresser when he went to tho field yesterday morning. Shortly before noon. Clifford came running out to see him and acted as though he had done something for which he feared punishment. The -boy said nothing about the shooting but when they went back ' to the house, he ran and hid in i the barn. Clifford, his 11 months old brother. and his three-year-old sister. Mildred, were at home with their mother when tlie shooting occurred. Both children said they had not I seen strangers near the home and did not hear a gun. Their father was working in a field more than a mile away. He discovered the shooting when he returned home shortly before noon. Clifford said his mother was peel(CONTTNUED ON PAGE THREE) o WABASH TOWNSHIP RESIDENT IS DEAD Mrs. Susan Hirschy Dies This Morning at Her Home in Wabash Township Mrs. Susan Hirschy. 75. widow- of the late David Hirschy died nt 2:40 o'clock this morning at the Ihome of a eon, Rufus Hirachy in Wabash township, south of Berne. Death was due to paralysis. Mrs. Hirschy was born Decenn'ior 28, 1859 in Hartford township. She was a diiuhgter of Peter and Barbara Stuckey-Moser. She was inarlied to David Hit's-hy in early lite and he i; i" ceded her in death 23 years ago. She (bad spent her entire lite in Adairs county. Surviving are three children: Rufus Hirschy of Wabash township Menn > Hirschy of Berne and Mid. Le nard Lehman, Fort Wayne; two sisters, Mrs. Mary Schendeck of Woodburn. Mrs. Jerry Liechty of Monroe township and a brother, Peter Moser of Hartford township. Mrs. Hirsoh.y was u member of th'? Berne Missionary church Funeral services will be held Sunday afternoon at 1:30 o’clock at the home and at 2 o'clock at the Mennonite chunch. Burial will (be in the M. R. E. cemetery. o Urge Dog Owners To Buy Licenses ,Ai warning to dog owners to purchase the new city dog licensee before May 1 was issued today (by the Decatur board of public works and safety. The time in which to purchase the tags line been (extended to May 1. Under the ordinance dogs found without license tags after that date will be (picked up and impounded. They must be redeemed within 10 days. The (ordinance, similar to those in other cities, was passed to eliminate the stray dogs which have been causing serious property damage. The 50 cent fee derived from the sale of tags will be used to pay for the cost of administrating tihe ordinance.