Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 33, Number 156, Decatur, Adams County, 2 July 1935 — Page 1

WEATHER Generally fair extreme south; local showers or thunderstorms central and north tonight or Wednesday; little change in temperai ture.

Legion Conference Will Be Held Here | Thursday, July 4

tllge c rowd Expected To Attend Fourth District American Legion Meet Here Thursday. FAULKNEIJ SPEAKER Thirty-four American Legion >os:8 in Indiar.a. have been extendms MCltationH and are expected to >o : ! *d by delegations at heiWoiirth district conference to w n|B<l in Decatur on the Fourth < July The buhlic is invited to watch he parade which will march I. rough the business district ax :3ft ofclock. This will be followed With a public service at the Memorial park where the lag pole purchased by the city and he flag bought by Adams post lumber 43 will be dedicated. I» Whai is believed to be the iri-t'liiita.'ice In the history of the ountry, a German-American Le:ion <Bganlsation will march in lublic Biriying its colors. This®"- 1 is the German-Amer-ran jfak l "' P° st * n Fort "ayne. t wasKrpa ,:ized recently by men t-ho fought for Germany in the Vorid Wa-. This|»ost will also be representd by a perman band and will be ne of the 15 bands and drum corps o march in the parade. The &e of march for the parade rill be as follows: Clril War veterans. Gold Star Bothers. Spanish American War iteraxisi Wold War veterans. Amricar. Legion Auxiliary, World Var nunfes; Red Cross nurses, Boy bouts. Girl Scouts, speakers, disingulshed guests and visitors. The parole is to assemble at 2:30 o'clock at the Decatur Counrytlsfc»::i the march beginning t 1 o’clock. The route to be followed is: Jercer •Venue to Second street; iecond street to Monroe; west on lon roe to Third: south on Third o Adams: east on Adams to Winhester; south on Winchester to .egion park whore dedication will k held: east of park to Mercer, nd south on Mercer to the County elub. The Four'll district conference rill be he’d at -the Decatur ( ounry club At the conclusion of the .-rad". Speakers will be: Perry Faulk«r, pasi..jflaie commander; Mrs. 'eggy Barr of Princeton, state ■resident of the auxiliary; Wai•ed Lindstrom, Fourth district oaimunder, Col. A. L. Moudy of Feterloo, Eeducator, soldier and 'Cturer. and Mrs. Hattie Whitman ' t'olnmbi' City. Fourth district iresTdent of the auxiliary. ■ Foust Brothers, trepeze artists, fill present their art at 5 and 8:30 the club. These performances 'ill be free. At 9 o’clock in the evening the '■eworks will be presented. The 'splay was purchased through a ‘.nation made by the business men Decatur and through an approbation made by the Adams post. dance will also be held. Dee Fryback is general chairin in charge of the affair. Other >mbers of the general committee Tillman Gehrig. V. J. Bor RrnNTitnyin on page five) ASPECT DECATUR HOMESTEADS SITE -verr.ment . Officials Examine Local Project; Grading Work gl « Continues 101. Walter L. Simenon, senior ional engineer for the federal r nfnistration of resettlement was ttt Decatur Mqnday examining the if jeet south >f the city limits. He Ado the office formerly o cupfed E. L. MWdleton, who was region- - tipcrvieor of the homesteads profs in the middle west. I. G. Hajfey, associate engineer the administration of resettleit, fe atao spending some time at Decatur project. h*> iproject now comes under the itnlstration of re-settlem'ent " ch replaced the federal subsishorn, id'si ds division. Rev Tugis administrator or re-settle-rt. woof the lights have been erectly the city of Decatur under the -etion of ,M. J. Mylott at the theast gate. Two lights will be ■ed at each of the other two ss. Tte stone gate p. irk ways ft been graded and sown in soy Jl(l®i. T’ae other park areas are bethis week.

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Vol. XXXIII. No. 156.

ONE PRISONER KILLED TODAY AT PENDLETON Another Badly Wounded In Escape Attempt At Reformatory Pendleton, Ind., July 2. — (U.R) — One prisoner was killed and another was wounded critically today when four youths attempted to escape from the state reformatory here. One youth escaped but was reported trapped in a woods southwest of the institution. The fourth was recaptured unhurt. The prisoners were sighted attempting to scale a tire wall to reach the roof of the administration building. Ralph Wright, guard in the high tower, fired three shots from a sawed-off shotgun when the fleeing prisoners failed to heed his shouts to halt. Simon Dyer, 24, was killed instantly by the guard's first shot. He toppled 20 feet from the top of Die wall. Robert McAllister, 21, was wounded critically. Hospital physicians did not expect him to survive. He was shot through the chest and shoulder. Robert Sanders, 18, was found hiding behind the fire wall. He was ca.ptured unharmed. Darrell Paul Jones, 23, escaped over the wall and was traced a few hours later through a field southwest of the reformatory. Guards believed they had him cornered in a woods at the edge of the field. The • men. sleeping on the second floor of a dormitory near the administration building- had lowered themselves through an unbarred window on bed sheets. They managed to reach the fire wall without detection but were sighted by Wright when they were silhouetted against the grey wall. Dyer was serving a 2 to 21 years sentence on a voluntary manslaughter charge imposed in Marshall county. McAllister was sentenced to 10 years from Vigo county on a robbery charge. Sanders was serving one to 10 years on a vehicle takifig charge imposed in Gibson county. Jones was sentenced from Marion county to 10 years for assault and battery with intent to rob. Floyd Gillespy, 25, Bloomington, serving two to Is years from Monroe county, escaped from the institution in a truck late yesterday. Tlie truck was found las! night at Greenfield. Q —

FIVE PENSIONS GRANTED HERE Old Age Pensions Are Granted By Commissioners Today Five old age pensions ranging from $5 to $7:50 were grimed this afternoon by the county board of commissioners in their tegular meeting. At three o’clock this afternoon three bids had been accepted for the county infirmary. Lankenau’s Boston store’s bid of $128.85 was accepted for dry goods. The SprungerLehman end Co., of Berne w.is given the contract for greceries at $149.99. Walter D itsch of Decatur was given tlbe bid for tobacco at $75.45. The commissioners Were also examining bids for the county highway department. Five compmies submitted bids for 12,000 gallons of gasoline, 200 gall mu of motor oil, 300 pounds of grease and 100 gallons of kerosene. These concerns were the Western Oil company, th Sinclair Oil comipany, Phillip’s 66, the Eastern Indiana Oil comipany .and the Ohio Oil company. |Bids for the repair of the highway trucks were submitted by the Fulton Machine company of Berne, the Butler garage of Decatur and tlhe White Truck Sales of Fart W.ayne. Several •"onferns submitted bids for all or part of the following (CONTINUED ON PAGE FIVE)

KEY BROTHERS END ENDURANCE RECORD FLIGHT Record-Breaking Flight Ended At Sunset Monday; 27 Days Meridian, Miss., July 2.— (U.R) — Fred and Al Key slept right through the wildest revely Merid- | ian ever saw today making up j weeks of sleep lost While establish- | ing a world record for sustained airplane flight. The young brothers landed their borrowed nlane, "Ole Miss," on the municipal airport at sunset last night, a few hours after surpassi ing the unofficial 647% hour reci ord of Dale Jackson and Forrest : O’Brien. They had been in the air 27 days. 5 hours, 33 minutes. Trouble with their plane’s barograph and controls forced them down. Officials of the National Aeronautics Federation and department of commerce inspectors at the airport said the record undoubtedly would be accepted as official after instruments are calibraied in Washington. The previous official record for j sustained refueling flight was established ax Chicago July 4, 1930, by John and Kenneth Hunter, another brother team. The Hunters and their famous "Question Mark” flew 553% hours before motor trouble forced them down. Jackson and O’Brien bettered the mark i at St. Louis the same year but it was refused official recognition because their instruments and reports were improperly verified. The young Key brothers were hardly able to walk, so dizzy were they from lack of sleep when they landed. National guardsmen and police held back a crowd of 18,000. They had averaged less than four hours of sleep daily since they took (CONTINUED ON PAGE FIVE) o

WILL PETITION DIVED DREDGE Petitions Are Drawn Up For Federal Grant In River Dredging Petitions were drawn uip this morning by th’ Jay and Adams county commissioners relative to the obtaining of a federal grant to dredge the Wabash river. If n grant could be obtained and would be approved by the persons involved in tlfe it would be included in th? PWA program, in wftich the government w >uld pay 45 per cent. The rest would have to be paid by th'’ property owners and others involved. The resolution as adopted, is with the understanding that during its tlm" and pendency attorneys in the dredge c se will consent and agree that the time of filing of the appellants brief in said cause with the state supreme court may be extended by th'e high r court so that appellants may Dave n naisonable length of time after filing the project with the public works administration to complete said brief in case the application for government aid shou-'d be rejected.” The petition to dredg 1 ? th? ditch was one of the most bitterly fought suits ever tried in Adans county. It was tried before Special Judge Henry Kister of Princeton, who found for the petitioners. The remoustrators immediately carried the case to the state supreme court where it is still pending. Tod Whipple of Portland, attorney for Kite petitioners has announced that the authorities at Indiana,polis have stated that the dredging is the sort of projeefs the government desires under the PWA program. If the dredging is completed it will bte necessary to rebuild several bridges. The commissioners have als> signed .petitions for the granting of federal funds for these under the PWA program. Customs Collection In Indiana Higher Indianapolis, Ind., July 2 —(UP) — Indian® had the largest increase in customs revenue of any internal revvenue district during the fiscal year ended June 30, Wray E. Fleming, collector here, announced today. Fleming said customs collections here during the year totaled $lO- - compared to $633,000 in the year ended June 30, 1934. Liquor importations accopnted tor the exceptional increase, Fleming said.

Decatur, Indiana, Tuesday, July 2, 1935.

Legion Conference July 4 Dee Fryback Perry Faulkner Dee Fryback is general chairman In charge of the annual Fourth District Conference of the American Legion, which will be held at the Decatur Country Club Thursday, July 4 Perry Faulkner, former state commander, wiil deliver the principal address.

UNDECIDED ON EVERETT FATE Prosecuting Attorney Uncertain About Second Everett Trial Prosecuting Attorney Edmund A. Bosse stated tod<iy that he is as yet unprepar d to say what sort of an indictment he will have brought against Joe Everett, who is awaiting a stecond trial for the alleged murd r of Dorcas Werling ut Pleasant Mills, in 1931. Several indictments are possible. He was first convicted on a first degree murder charge and given a life sentence at the state prison at Michigan City. The state supreme court recently granted him a retrial. Other tadielmont* which might be brought against him are second degree murder, third degree murder or some fornfM manslaaighter. To obtain a second conviction on a firet degree murder charge it would be necessary to prove that the killing of Dorcas Werling was (premeditated. The state supr me court ruled that insufficient evidence was brought out in the first trial to show that the killing w a pr; meditated. In case Everett would be con-vict-‘ed on an indictment carrying a relatively short sentence it is possible that h? would have all or part of it suspended in view of the fact that he already spent 3% years in the state prison. Another possibility is that the O’eft would be dismissed under the assumption that Everett had spent a sufficient time in prison. Prosecutor Boss© stated that he w s comparatively unfamiliar with tlhe case because he has not had an opportunity yet to examine care(OONTINUWD ON PAGE TWO) 0 ENROLLNOWIN REGULAR ARMY Furl Wayne Recruiting Oflice Is Now Open For Enlistments Sergeant Roy E. Quillin, army recruiting office, Fort Wayne, Indiana. announces that he has started and will continue until further notice to accept applicants for enlistment in the 11th Infantry, 19th field artillery, signal corps, quartermaster corps, medical corps and headqquarters company 10th Infantry brigade. All men enlisted will be stationed at Fort Benjamin Harrison-, Indiana, same being located 11 miles north-east, of Indianapolis. No applicant will be enlisted who cannot give definite proof of good character. Quality wiil be the rule in all enlistments. The minimum height is 5 feet 4 inches,; the minimum weight is 115 pounds. The applicant must be a citizen of the United States, unmarried and without dependents, he must be between the ages of 18 and 35, if he' is under 21 years of age the written consent of his parents are required. He must be physically sound and able to meet the required mental tests designed for grade school graduates. . Applicants for the signal corps, medical corps, quartermaster corps and headquarter company 10 the infantry brigade must possess qualifications required for the branch of service they are raaJcing application for. •

Ministers Trophy On Display Here Tlhe “Ministers Trophy", a silver figure of a softball play, r in tha ' act of delivering the ball, is on dinjlay in the wind, w of Carl Pumphrey. local jeweler. This trophy will be placed in competition .ach year in the boys softball league of the vacation church school. The name of the winning team and the y ar will ba added each year. The first engraving to go on it is “Cardinale, ’35", representing the team captained tills year by Kenneth Chilcote. it in bell'?v.-d that this evid nee of the l eal minister’s interested in the boys will mean, on their part, an add d interest in tlfe vocation church school. The trophy will be kept in the case in the Central o.'hool building, where the school is held. AGED MAN IS FOUND DEAD I Arnold Aeschliman Suffers Heart Attack Laie Monday Afternoon Arnold A:.s;hliman. 75, prominent retired farmer, was found dead beside his automobile on a road ne. r Linn Grove late Monday afternoon. Coroner Robert Zwick found th? cause of death as acute myocarditis. ettip. rinduced by the he>it. Aes hliman evidently had Buffered a dizzy si.rell wiliile driving his' car, running into a ditch and into a post. He then backed the car onto the road and was att. mpting to repair >1 flat tire when he suffered the fatal attack. He was found by members of the August Baker fair ily, n ar whose heme the attack occurred. The deceased was born in Canton 16. 1859, and came to Adame county when a young man. He married Mary Myer, who survives. Mr. Aeschlimnn had resided in Linn Grove for the past 15 years. Surviving besides the widow are tlhe following children; Mrs. Elmer Raymond. Fort Wayne; Mrs. Martha Kraner, Geneva; Homer, Lawrence and George Aeischliman. Fort Wayne; Henry A.BChliman. weet of Berne. Also surviving are two half brother. William Miller, Bern? and J icob Miller, F. rt Wayne, and a half-Bieter Mrs. Rose Anderson, Hartford township. Funeral st rvi. ee will be held at. (CONTINUED ON PAGE SJV> O General Closing Here On July 4 The commercial life of the city was prepjring today for the cessation of activities on July Fourth. Retail stores and offices will be •cloeed. City and county offices will aso be cloeed. Banks will be closed for the day. The Daily Democrat will not publish on the Fourth. There will not be any delivery of mall, either on the rural routes dr in the city of Decttur, Postmaster Phil L. Macklin announced. The General Electric plant will close all day and will remain closed f >r th. balance of the week. 0 Ordinance Would Allow Roadhouses ilndianapolis, Ind., July 2 —(UP) —' Three iproposed ordinances whidli would extend city limits to include beer taverns now classed as roadhouses and defeat the purpose of the 1935 law prohibiting rural lav erns were attacked at a meeting of the city council last night.

House Passes Utility Control Bill Minus “Death Sentence” Provision Asked By Roosevelt

TRUE STORY OF MURDER GAINED IN CONFESSION Schweitzer Admits Dickinson Was Murdered For His Money (Copyright 1935 by UP.) Detroit, Mich., July 2. — (U.R) — Mysteries of the murder of Howard Carter Dickinson, New York attorney and nephew of Chief Jus- ! tice Charles Evans Hughes, were definitely solved today. An underworld procurtr and three ladies of the evening conspired to kill for his purse. They face life terms in, the Michigan penitentiary. Breaking under long questioning, William C. Schwtitzer, 26, who has lived most of his adult years as a parasite on women, and three of his girls gave detajle'd accounts of the last hours of the professionally and socially high-placed Dickinson. Believing he had a large sum of money, Schweitzer, with the girls’ approval, killed him. His purse contained only >l2O. Schweitzer will be arraigned today on a charge of murder. A plea of guilty was believed likely. Since Michigan law does not permit the death penalty for any offense, life imprisonment was the worst possible punishment. The girls, Florence and Loretta Jackson, sisters, and Jean Miller, probably will be charged with first degree murder today. The Misses Jackson admitted they knew Schweitzer intended to kill Dickinson. Miss Miller, while denying | she knew of the intent to murder, did admit she knew of the intent to rob. On the basis of their confessions, they are legally guilty of first degree murder, subject to ‘i Michigan’s most severe penalty. Prosecutor Duncan C. McCrea accomplishtd the final denouement of the murder drama by confront--1 ing the sullen Schweitzer with the detailed confessions of Miss Miller and Miss Loretta Jackson. All the girls had steadfastly insisted that, while Schweitzer killed Dickinson, they were not present when it was done, nor knew it had been plan(CONTINUKD ON PAGE FIVE) 0 Decatur Boy Scouts Will Meet Wednesday All members of the four Boy S. out troop© of Docatur were asked i to be present tomorrow evening at 7:00 o’clock nt the Central school building. A short business meeting will be held and all scouts are requested to be present. o PUDLIC DEBT AT NEW NIGH All-Time Record Public Debt Reported For U. S Government — Washington. July 2 — (U.R) —An all-time record public debt of $28,700,892,625 was reported by the treasury department today in complete figures for the Federal government’s 1935 fiscal year which ended Sunday. Total government expenditures in the 12 months period set a peace-time record high of $7,375.825,166, compared with expenditures of $7,105,050,085 in the preceding fiscal year. Offsetting these expenditures was revenue in the 1935 fiscal year of $3.800,467,202, compared with $3,115,554,050 in the preceding fiscal year. This left the government "in the red” $3,575,357,964 in the 1935 fiscal year, against $3,989,496,035 in the previous fiscal year. Because of the huge deficit in the 12 months ended Sunday, the . treasury was forced to borrow | $1,647,751,210 from the public and to draw down to the extent of : $740,576,701 on its cash balance. These transactions carried the ! public debt to its present record : peak of $28,700,892,625 and left the treasury’s available cash at $1,001,142,951. Included in the 1935 fiscal year expenditures was $3,654,590,531 (CONTINUED ON PAGE FIVE)

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CIRCUIT COURT REPORT GIVEN ————— County Clerk Reports Action On Cases During April Term The number of civil cases pending decreased from 428 in the February term to 417 in the April term according to a report just announced by County Clerk David D. Depp for the April term of the Adams circuit court, which concluded in June. Six divorces were granted in the term, four to men and two to women. Sixty-nine civil cases were disposed of in the April term as follows: dismissed, 15; personal judgment, 19; foreclosure, five; venued or remaj’.ded from county, 12; divorces, six; miscellaneous, six; partitions and quiet titles granted, six. There were 47 civil suits filed in the county and 11 venued here. Seventeen estate cases were filed and 42 dismissed during the term. Four guardianship cases were filed axid one dismissed. There are now 46 criminal cases pending in the local court. During the last term two were dismissed and three persons sent to jail. Five were filed. The Adams circuit court is now in vacation. The next term will begin September 3. During the summer cases are filed and reports made to the county clerk subject to the approval of the court when it convenes in September. o— AL FEENEY IS NAMED TD JOD Ex-state Police Chief Appointed Milk Control Administrator Indianapolis, Ind.. July 2—(UP) Appointment of Al G. Feeney, former state safety director, as adininistmtor of the Indianapolis mha marketing area, was announced her? last night. The appointment was made by Marion county producers and retail-1 ere comprising the Indianapolis area control board and approved by the State milk 'control board. Feeney, who recently was dis■d’.iarged as head of the state police and other safety divisions by Gov. Paul V. McNutt, will have charge of enforcing milk marketing agreements in this area. His salary will be $3,600 annually. Funds tor operation of local control boards are provided by producers and distributors, each group paying in accordance with the amount of milk handled. In lipproving the appointment, Lieut. Gov. M. Clifford Townsend, chairman of the state control board, said “There were no politics involved in the selection.” Feeney was ousted from the state positino after a two-year fight with Pleas E. Greenlee, abate ipatronuge (CONTINUED ON PAGE SIX) o Kalver To Operate Madison Theater 11. A. Kalver, proprietor of the Adams tiheater, today leased the Madison theater, from Julius Haugk. The theater has been operated several months by Richard Reed of Hartford City. Mr. Reed and family stated they would return to their former home. Mr. Kalver stated he took a long time lease on the play house. Opening of the theater under the new management will b held Friday. The theater will slhow up to date pictures of the same high class as shown at the Adams, five nights a . week, including Saturday and Sunday. Mr. Kalver stated. i ■ ■ Q— ■ Indiana Allotted Million And Half Washington, July 2—(UP)—Federal emergency relief administrator Horry L. Hopkine allocated late yesfeerday $88,174,139 to the states for feeding and clothing the needy during July. Indiana’s allotment was announced as $1,500,000,

House Revolts Against Terrific Pressure From White House For Provision. VOTE 323-81 Washington, July 2— (U.R) A rebellious house today passed a modified Wheeler Rayburn utility control bill over strenuous opposition from President Roosevelt, who demanded a mandatory “death sentence” on unessential utility holding companies. The vote on final passage was 323 to 81. Revolting against last minute personal pleas and terrific administration pressure, the house approved a bill which vests broad discretionary powers in the securities and exchange commission to simplify utility holding company structures into "integrated public utility systems." The bill now goes into conference with the senate, which has approved a “death sentence” measure favored by President Roosevelt. The senate bill calls for compulsory dissolution of all unessential utility holding companies beyond the first degree by 1942. Belief arose in capitol hill circles that the new deal’s utility program is now facing a deadlock with prospects that it will be a prime national campaign issue in 1936 because of apparent irreconciable differences between house and senate. (Senate leaders have insisted that they will not yield on demands for a “death sentence.” The 'size of house votes against this feature is believed by leaders to preclude possibility of adoption later of any conference report I that might include this. I Passage of the bill came after the house defeated by a vote of i 312 to 93 a Republican motion to I recommit the bill to committee. Adminisration leaders now are (CONTINUED ON PAGE SIX) 0 Dr. Nelson Ross To Ask Leniency Again Indianapolis, July 2 —(UP) —Efforts to free Dr. Neleon B. Ross. 63. Muncie, from life prison term he started in 1909 will be renewed next month before the state clemency ' commission, the United Press learned today. The Mun: ie physician’s case has been set for tlhe next meeting of the ■commission, which begins late this month. It will be his ninth application for executive clemency. He has been denied freedom on ipardon and parole petitions eight times since September 24, 1912. Dr. Ross was sentenced in Delaware circuit court October 28, 1909 on a charge of slaying Edward Linder, motorinan on a Hartford CityMuneie interurban, WOMAN DIES IN KOKOMO WRECK Eight Others Injured When Train Hits Bus Monday Night Kokomo, Ind., July 2 —(UP) —One Woman was dead and eight other persons, including odd girl who may die, were injured last night when acity bus in which they were riding was struck by a freight train here. Mrs. Dan Gray. 40. was killed instantly. Miss Dorraine Risher, 16, was in a hospital in serious condition. Fiften persons were Tiding in the bus which had stopped at the crossing and then started across the tracks during a heavy thundershower. Among the others more seriously hurt were Florence Canfield, 12, Fort Wayne; Mrs. Martha Ftaher, Miss Agnes Lindley, 22, Ed Thomas, Lee Bromley and Mrs. Mark Garrison. . The train struck the rear of the bus and hurled it against a utility pole. The boiler of the engine was torn open and a tender and Gondola loaded with steel w<as hurled down tlhe tracks nearly 600 feet. Witnesses and members of the tnain crew told conflicting stories regarding the speed of the train at the time of the accident.