Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 33, Number 170, Decatur, Adams County, 19 July 1935 — Page 1

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rSSINIA IS ifieparedto (AGEI.ONGWAR iopian Country Piti]|v Unequipped To Battle Italy is July 19.-(U.R)-Ancient ja fgces a war that will ten e death the stubborn courage wa.riors in their tight to pretbefr Independence, it was singly apparent today. the expected opening day of ,1, f art cut Italy earns nearer, ts multiplied of the military .mredness of the kingdom. !• a Press and other dispatch- ).,! Addis Ababa made it clear the country was ready, from uman standpoint, tor a tight, hat its men and boys were i red to give their lives. [ the dispatch's showed with' kgjjg clarity the formidable hot the war which confronts i jerar Haile Selassie I will. tie to muster perhaps 500,000, In all. But they are warriors. I soldiers. They are undisci-1 j. guerrilla lighters, of ur.-1 «1 bravery but insusceptible ’ t essential strict discipline of | L war with its requirements I jocklike movement of masses | >b under fire. ire are no: even rifles enough > I round. The United Press ( Ababa correspondent reportkt the regular army even now | lered hardly more than 15,000 1 u<l that it was unlikely to be ped to more than 30,000 with-' t next few weeks. men and boys in their teens.. jvil servants, e’eryone who) tire battle are training in j s all over Ethiopia. »( he perhaps 1,000.000 rifles I ible — some reports say 500,-; not more than 250.000 are be-| | to be modern repeating I Many of the remainder are hot rifles, some antiquated, i needing many types of am-1 lion—a great disadvantage. en the tocsin sounds, and the I ... ■ F CmXCF.tI ON PAGE FOUR) EEK CABINET ESIGNS TODAY igrnation Is Caused By ispute Over Change To Monarchy .’ns, Greece, July 19—(UP) — cabinet resigned today after George Codylis, war minister, Jchn Theotokis. minister of n’tur? '..tided their resignato premier I'anayoti Tsaldaidy'shas been dive in w irkw the r. iteration of former Gorge, on the question of i a national pl blscite is to be *o* of th ‘ c abinet crisis, Isa at one? eonv ked a special ® of the nation 1 assembly, taandants of ar i y and navy I and asked Tsaldaris jointly jten th? plebiscite in order h.ion I tension might be re-«-on as the r.signation was ln «l President Alexander Zatnthorized Premier Tsaldaris | ortn a cabinet. binet’s resignation w>is I b) a di.ime over the pros-’ L change to a monoraohy. I '-> an<i Theotokis demanded I • e R publican members of) ‘'bb-’t be oust d before Tsalt4’6B Lr . 4 bath resort at “* a| . Gerxany. Sunday. Tsaiwldnot comply and the two kt leaders resigned. The' rp "Bnation of th? .abinet firm stand was be«nn h'' o , nfi<len< ''' that he had n '^ ~rit >' ,ls tho ’"' nK s,x > ~~ developing ° Ver Speech Freedom j llly Kch > » a i 1 ’ attie OVPr fre «ioni ’’’libih'X? develci::i "B| iv er t ' Progressives Ithet thMP ale(i bv 5 rm ack-Tydings bill 'b an,i authnrs t 0 insulate s Val f ° rWti ag " lnct fenST? o'* 0 '** 1 h ”tot-!an, ht invaw ' e e^is 'ali°n as “a tt 9 ‘he senate F" B * mim >rtP<l favorablv by k ""''Ury affairs com-

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Uncovers Evidence X T i |h < > h 1 1 1 The story of how a deluge of < anti-u'ility bill telegrams, dictatled by a power company repre- 1 I (tentative and signed with fake j names and then mysteriously i burned, unfolded before the sen- 1 ate lobby investigating commit- | tee. has precipitated a com pre- 1 ; hensive investigation. RepresenI tative 1). J. Driscoll of Pennsylvania, above, who received more I than 800 of the messages, brought about the disclosure when he learned many of the supposed | senders did not ex lot. FORMER LOCAL PRIEST NAMED Rev. Father Joseph Hession Pastor At Columbia City Th » Rev. Either Joseph II ssion has be n appointed by Most Rev. i John Francis N ill, D. D., bishop of i Fort Wayne, a? pastor of St. Paul I of the Crsso the Catholic church at I Columbia City. Father H ssion w s assfetnnt pastor of the St. Mary’s Catholic church in th’3 city before th? Rev. I Father Jcoeph J. Hennes. For the laut year h? has be n an instructor | at the Centra) ( nth lie high sobool i in Hammond. At one time he servled <s assistant pastor of the St. Patrick's Catholic church at Kokomo. The Rev. Father G orge A. Hasf ?r, for 20 yearn ut the St. Mary's 1 Catholic church in Fort Wayne re-1 signed b cause of a throat infection. H » will be stitioned as chaplain at t 'e Sacred Heart h spltnl, . Garrett. wh?re he wil biliso receive treatment. Th ■ Rev. J. Nicholas Allgeter, yaetar of St. Louis’ church Besancon, hat been appointed rector of St. M ry's church, succetding Fr. Kisser. The Rev. Jeese I. Lothamtr, pastor of St. Paul of the Crees church Columbia City, has been named pastor f St. Louis' church. The R?v. Fridolin J. Ha..iker„ chrinlain at Sacred Heirt Hosi.iitul, Garrett, has been assign d as pastor ( of St. Aloyslus' church. Yoder, succeeding the Rev. John Oberholz, who. owing to a s.rious illness is a patient nt St. Joseph’s hospital, ’ Fort Wayne. — o BILL OUTLAWING SUITS OPPOSED Fight In Senate Over Closing Courts To Suits On Government Washington. July 19.—<U.R) —New ( deal proposals to close the courts , to suits against the government were involves today in a sharp senate controversy. The -issue involved the AAA amendments under debate for a week, and the ga'd clause resolution which came to the senate asI ter being passed yesterday by the < house. ' The gold clause fight wad bo keen that its fate when put to a vote I in -the senate committee on bank- - ing and currency was doubtful. The committee has concluded hearings on the measure to ban . suits based on the gold clause in government obligations. Chairman i Duncan U. Fletcher planned a meeting Saturday or Monday to con-s-ider reporting the resolution to the senate. The original gold clause bill, carried to the supreme court in a suit won eventually by the government, survived the banking com(CONTINUED ON PAGE SIX)

MASS ARRESTS PREDICTED OF GERMAN CLERGY New Nazi Drive Against Roman Catholic Church Foreseen (Copyright 1935 by UP.) Berlin, July 19.--<(J,R>— Mass arrests of Roman Catholic clergymen were predicted today in -the ! new nazi drive against the church. I Hans Kerr', bitter anti-Jew, assumed charge of all church matters as a minister without portfolio, and was prepared to enforce strictly Gen. Hermann Goering's orders that churchmen who offend the nazi reich must be prosecuted rigorously. It was significant that within a few hours after Goering's decree Adolf Hitler entrusted Kerri with church authority. He will have jurisdiction both j over the Catholic church and the great Evangelical church of Germany. Developments in the long, determined tight ot Protestant clergymen to liTTvent nazification of their church were awaited with interest and, by those involved, with apprehension. Under Goering's decree both Protestant and Catholic pastors will be subject to supervision by Goering's secret police, and anything they say in their sermons may be used against them. It was believed certain that because of the combined facts of Goering's decree and Hitler’s appointment of Kerri, nazi chieftains were prepared to imprison any I priests who criticized the nazi state. Sunday may provide the first test of the working of the laws against Catholic priests. Their sermons, it is believed, will be heard by secret agents who will report direct to; authorities. Kerri's "appointment was a development of major import. He has been in the cabinet as minister without portfolio. He is also a (CONTINUED ON PAGE FOttFl) i JACOB MILLER DIES THURSDAY Resident Here More Than 30 Years Dies Thursday Evening Jacob R. Mil'er, 74, a resident of Decatur torr more than 30 years, died at his home at 916 Russell street Thursday evening at 4:15 o’clock. He had been in failing health" for sometime but was bedfast only eight days. Death was due to a stroke of apoplexy which Mr. Miller suffered a week ago. Mr. Miller was the youngest son | of a family of nine children. He : was born November 24, 1860. a son of Jacob and Eliza. E'eanor I-acy-1 Miller. On December 9, 1879 he j was married to Sophia Ellen Sprain in Mercer county. Surviving are the widow and two daughters. Mrs. Frank MeGath of Salem. Missouri; Mrs. Jennie Miller of St. Mary's township; a son, I Henry G. Miller of St. Francisville.; Illinois, who with his wife are re-; siding at present with his sister,' Mrs. Miller. One son, Algia C. Mil- ■ ler, preceded his father in deaJh. Surviving also are three grandchil-1 dren and four great grandchildren. Funeral services well be held at 10:30 o'clock Saturday morning at the United Brethren church with I Rev. H. W. Franklin officiating. Burial will be made in the Decatur cemetery. The body wil’ be returned to the i Miller home from the S. E. Black | funeral home this evening arid may be viewed after 7 o’clock tonight. o — More Bus Drivers Given Contracts Three more township trustees to- ; day announced the names of the bus j drivers for their schools. > Ben McCullough, trustee of St. Mary's township, reported that no .bids were filed tor routes one and two. These will be re-advertised. Drivers for the other routes tire: James Halberstadt, route three: Frank Troutner. route four, and Carl Archer, route five. The old drivers were re-employ-ed in Root township, Ralph Rice, trustee stated. They ore Marvin Schieferstine and Frank Harkless. Drivers for the two Union townsihlp routes were announced by I Howard, Mauller, trustee. They are Alva Berger, route one, and Richard Bishop, route two.

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Decatur, Indiana, Friday, July 19, 1935.

Former Local Girl Entered In Contest Miss Tillie Yurkovic, formerly of Decatur, is entered <n the Miss Prosperity election, now being conducted in Fort Wayne by American Legion post 47. Miss Yurkovic is a graduate from the commercial department of the Decatur Catholic high school hnd is now sales manager at the Envelope Printing corporation in Fort WAyne. Tickets for the contest are on sale by Tillman Gehrig, commander of the local post, and also give admission to the American Legion circus at Fort Wayne, August 3. o JUDSON EVANS WOUNDED HERE Decatur Youth Escapes Serious Injury From Accidental Shot ‘ Judson Evans, 16, of this city escaped serlouo injury when a bullet from a 22 caliber automatic rifle held by Clarence Hitchcock, 20, struck him in the hip, Thursday evening at 6:30 o’clock. The boys I were examining the rifle at the Hitchcock home on North Firet street, preparatory to doing .some target practice. They had cleaned the gun and had inserted a shell in it. The gun whs accidentally fired just jg the Evans youth walked in its path. Three wounds were caused by the bullet. The boys ran up l.wn to a local physician and then were taken to the Adams county memorial hospiuil. An X ray was m de of the wounds and It was found the bullet was lodged in the fleshy .part of the boy's hip. It narrowly missed several oints which would have made the wound serious. The bullet was removed ot the hospital and the wounds dressed. .It is proluble t.l.at the boy will be dismiosed from the hospital in two or three days. Police absolved Clarence ot all blame in the shooting. They declared it purely locidental. The authorities today issued a . warning to use the most extreme . cave in handling firearms. i Judson ks the son of Mr. and Mrs. Zeke Evans of 1014 Patterson street. Clarence is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Clyde Hitchcock of ! 334 North First street. o Highest Temperature Os Year Here Today Th-ermcmetew in Decatur this afternoon at 2:30 o’clock registered 97 in the shade. This was the highest temperature on record this yejr. Noonday tempenitures: elsewhere: Chicago 97; Lincoln, Nebr., 26; T. rre Hiiute, Indijna 93, Cleveland, 93; Milwaukee, 92; Kansas City; 92; Minneapolis. 906 Columbus. 90; St. Louis. 91; Fort Wayne, 94. o Holiness Group To Meet Sunday The monthly meeting of the Adi ams County Holiness Attsociation will be held at the tubernacle at Monroe Sunday afternoon at 2 o’clock. The speaker will be Joseph H. Smith. A good attendance is desired at this .meeting. WILL ENLARGE FT. WAYNE FIRM Million Dollar Expansion Program At International Harvester Fort Wayne, Ind., July 19—(UP) i — Plans for a $1,000,000 expansion | program to enlarge the International Harvester Company plant here will begin immediately, according to Earl C. Lutz, superintendent of the local plant, who received word from the general offices of the comI pany in Chicago that the board of directos had given their final approval to the .program. Three new buildings will be constructed under the program. The I most important of the three will be a one story machine shop with u floor area of 97,200 square feet. The two other buildings will be one and two story constructions with each having about 12,000 sqquare feet of floor ripace. The expansion will make the Fort Wayne plant one ot the hirgcst in the nation. The plant is .operating at full fores but is unable to catch ut? with unfilled orders. The local International HarViSter Company plant employe about 2700 men, according to Lutz, and this number will be greatly increased with the expansion.

MORE FERA MEN ARE LAID OFF Local Office Ordered To Lay Off 64 Men Temporarily By orders of the state FERA headqquarters 64 FERA workers will be temporarily laid off Saturday evening in Adame county, leaving only 11 men at work next week. . Forty-four FERA men were laid off indefinitely lost week. Miles Roop, FERA work director , for Adams county. In announcing the lay-off stated that the reduction was made necessary because of the expenditure of most of the FERA i appropriations for the county. Simi- i lar peductiionß are being .mode in every section of the state. The men will be re-employed as 1 soon as the new WPA program is i organized. This may be within 10 days, two weeks or longer. Every effort is being made to speed up ' the establishment of the new relief .' system. Th new program may reemploy nil the men luid off by the FERA headquarters. There is possibility that more men and women may ' te used. Th- 11 men w. o will remain at ‘ work next week wili be divided between the relief gardens and the county infirmary. Four men will be used to keci> the relief gardens I in sh ips. Seven will continue pointing the county infirmary buildings. Kurber Funeral Rites Saturday Funeral services will be held Safurda.y morning for Arthur Kur- ' ber, son-in-law of Mr. and Mrs. William Schumacher of this city, 1 ' who drowned Wednesday evening at Delphos, Ohio. Services will be held at the St. ' John's Catholic church ir. Delphos, Saturday morning at 9 o'clock, cenI tra' standard time.. The body will • be brought to Decatur for burial in the St. Joseph’s cemetery, where i the remains may be viewed before .: buriaj. . I RUTH ALT HURT j IN WRECK TODAY — Daughter of Mr. And Mrs. Jacob Alt Injured In Auto Crash i < Miss Ruth Alt daughter of Mr. and I Mrs. Jac?b Alt. four and one half • miles east of Decatur, received severe bruises on ber head and face «.nd body bruises in an accident which occurrad shortly after 9 o’- l , clock this morning, when the car i she was driving struck a ditch near < j Monroe. ’ Miss Alt is employed at the Lee ! Myers home south of Monroe, where < she daes housework. She was en-’ route to Monroe to get Mrs. Oeie < Johnson to help prepare a dinner 1 for threshers. She went around an automobile ‘ hand in doing so struck some locse f I gnivel on the road near the Eli Hen- ‘ dricks farm, lost control of the car 1 and went into the ditch. A tele- ' phone pole was knocked down, and * Miss Alt was pinned under the car 1 Mr. Hendricks neigh- ( tors helped Miss Alt from the wreckage and Meredith Johnson took ber to a Berne iphysicbin where her injuries were dressed. French Economy Move Is Fought r Paris, July 19—(UP)—Police today charged into several thousand demonstrators against the government's wage cuts and economy decrees. They cleared the boulevards, as several minor skirmishes broke 7 out at 6:30 p. m. 1 After the police charged, the dem- 1 onstratoru reformed on the boule- < vard shouting: "Our salaries, we \ want our salaries.’’ j i 1 ■ IT — £ 16 W. Days Till The 1 e FREE STREET FAIR i and ' Agricultural Exhibit

NO RELIEF IS IN SIGHT FROM EXTREME HEAT Three Drownings Are Recorded In Indiana As Heat Continues (By United Press) Searing heat with temperatures soaring spread over the middle: west today and weather forecasters held no hope for relief. Cloudless skies with a glaring gun canopied the great plains states, causing scores of prostrations and bringing a general rush to beaches. Farmers for the second time this year worked their fields at night to escape the suffocating temperatures. Although the heat is favorable to the corn corp at this time of year, fears were entertained for the wheat crop in some sections if the excessive warmth persists. Chicago yesterday perspired in the worst July heat since 1930 as the mercury mounted to 94. LaCrosse, Wis., officially was the hottest place in the midwest with a reading of 100. Kamsas City and Davenport, lahad 98; St. Louis and Milwaukee had 96; Des Moines, la., and Omaha, Neb., each had 94. Record readings were expected in numerous cities as the sun crawled toward its zenith. Three Drowned Indianapolis, July 19. — (U.R) — Three drowmngs were recorded in Indiana as bathers sought relief from yesterday’s sweltering heat. Two persons were killed and eight others were injured in accidents. Nannie Frances Wade, 16, drowned while wading in the Ohio rivetnear New Albany. John Trice, 17-year-old Horace Mann h-Igh school student, Gary, drowned while swimming in Lake Michigan. George Morris, 15, negro, drowned in 10 feet of water while swimming with friends in the St. Joseph i river five miles east of Mishawaka. ON PAGE FOUR) Arms Control Bill Approved Is Voted Washington, July 19 —(UP) —The house foreign afiafirs committee today unanimously approved the Me-1 Reynolds bill requiring federal lie-1 easing all shipments o farms and amunition to and from this country. o Mercer County Fair August 11 To 16 Plans have been completed for the Mercer county fair to be held at Celina. Ohio, August 11th to 16, day and night. The Mercer county fair was discontinued some I years ago because of financial conditions. Celina American Legion Post 210 acquired a ten-year lease on the I grounds and at once started extensive improvements. A new drainage system has been installed. A new 40 horse barn has been added and all bul’dings have beer, repaired and re-painted and extensive work upon the track has put it in the best condition since its existence. -o TWO DOTS ARE CRASH VICTIMS Two Small Boys Killed Instantly In Collision Os Trucks Medaryville, Ind., July 19 —(UP) Two small boys were killed instantly and j third was injured critically last night in collision of two trucks on the Gifford Road, three miles west of here. The dead were Benjamin and Joseph Whitaker, 11 and 9 years old respectively, sons of Mr. and Mrs. Whitaker of near Newland. Another brother, Marvin, 13, suf sered serious injuries. The boyu were members of a party of about 30 Jasper county I fiirm folk enroute from their homes ■ around Newland to a free street show sponsored by the merchants of Medaryville. All the members of the party were former residents of Kentucky who have established j farm colony in this area. The truck on which they were riding was driven by Green Reisener. Children of the group were sitting on the floor ond the parents were sitting on boxes and board seats strung along the sideboards (CONTINUED ON PAGE FOUR)

Goodrich Admits Slaying Girl; Is Given Life Term

New Elks Head As a final act of the 1935 Elks I convention at Columbus, Ohio, Judge James T. Hallinan, above, of the New York supreme court, was elected grand exalted ruler of the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks, succeeding Michael F. Shannon, of Los Angeles. MARTIN GILSON TALKS TO CLUB I Local Rotarian Gives Interesting Discourse On Luxemburg Martin Gilson, a member of the club, gave an interesting discourse on his native country, Luxemburg, at the regular weekly meeting of l the Decatur Rotary club at the I Rice hotel Thursday evening. Luxemburg, the speaker explained, Is a small country, with an area ; oT only 999 square miles, with a population estimated at slightly over 300,000. The country is bounded by Germany on the east, Belgium on the | west and France on the south. The ■ chief industries of the country are ore, slate and tanneries. The population of the Grand Duchy of Luxemburg is almost entirely Catho’ie. Mr. G-Ilson reviewed the strictness of the country's laws, particularly regarding divorces. He stated that divorces j are exceptionally rare in his native I land and that the courts hear divorce cases only four days in an i entire year. Discussing law enforcement in Luxemburg, the speaker said that I the standing army of the country jis only about 200 men. Very rigid physical requirements are enforced for enrollment in the army and the recruits accepted are given special instructions for future ; years, with most of the army men going into police work after leaving the army. . Earl Shea, business manager of the Fort Wayne News-Sentine.’. will (address the local club next Thursj day evening, telling of the International convention held recently I at Mexico City. o Hacked Off Legs Os Lang Found Chioigo, July 19 —(UP) — Mrs. Blanche Dunkel today wae taken to the county morgue to view the hacked off legs of her eon-in-law, Ervin Lang. Police hoped the grueseme sight would break her composure and force liter to reveal more details ot' Lang's death. Mrs. Dunkel hus confessed that she paid SIOO to Mrs. Evelyn Smith to murder Lang, but h>as denied that she w.’s present at the actual slay- | ingMeanwhile, a nationwide search whs pressed for Mrs. Smith, former I burlesque strip dancer, and Harjry Jung, her Chinese paramour i named by Mrs. Dunkel as a parti- « 1 cipant in the killing. Lang's legs were found in a trunk late yesterday in a ditch beside a i lane at Maynard, Ind., seven miles 1 j south of the Hammond, Ind., swamp j where Lang’s torso was discovered. 1 q WEATHER Generally fair tonight and Saturday except locally unsettled at times; continued warm.

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Fiendish Killer Pleads Guilty To Murder Os Detroit Girl; To Try Wife Later. TRIAL HALTED Detroit, July 19.—(U.R)—Merton Ward Goodrich, confessed slayer of 11-year-old Lillian Gallaher, pleaded guilty at his trial for murder today and was immediately sentenced to life imprisonment at Marquette prison. The brief trial of the 37-year-old former trap drummer terminated dramatically when defense counsel Harry C. Hanley stepped before recorder's Judge Harry S. Sweeny, with his client at his side, and announced : “The defendant has failed to establish our plea of temporary insanity or emotional disturbance.” Judge Sweeny gazed at the paJe defendant. “Do you wish to make a plea of guilty?” he asked. "Yes,” Goodrich replied in a low voice. Sentence was passed immediately and Goodrich, under heavy guard, was removed from the courtroom to county jail, to await his transfer to the prison. Goodrich was prepared to testify in his own defense this morning, i after two Detroit psychiatrists had goffered their testimony relative to ; the “temporary insanity” plea of the defense. Hanley said he believed that the ' jury of seven men and five women | would find Goodrich temporarily j insane at the time he lured the | school girl to his home, hit her on the hf-ad, and attacked her on | Sept. 20, 1934.. The body of 'the child was found stuffed in a trunk in the Goodrich apartment five days after the slaying and the disappearance of Goodrich alid his crippled wife, Florence. Prosecutor Duncan C. McCrea announced after sentence was pass;ed that Mrs. Goodrich would be l brought to trial, "probably as an accessary to the crime." "The charge to be placed against her has not definitely been determined,” he added. The change of plea fo’lowed the testimony of Dr. David Clark, one of the defense psychiatrists. Clark testified that lie had examined the defendant for several hours and that in ills opinion there was nothing -In Goodrich’s mental condition (CONTINUED ON PAGE StX) O Berne Male Chorus Will Give Concert The male chorus ot the Berne Mennonite church will give a special feature program consisting of; solos, duets, quartets, iand chorus numbers, at the Union Chapel United Brethren Church, Sunday afternoon at 2:30. This chorus is recognized as one of the best in the state of Indiana, very well tniined, and will give a program that will be worth miles ot travel to hear. Th? general public is invited to attend this service. TOLD MANAGERS TO TAKE ACTION Utilities Official Ordered Managers To Destroy Records Washington July 19 —(UP) —U. E. Bejich, securities manager of the vast Associated Gas and Electric company system, testified before the senate lobby committee today that on his own responsibility he ordered branch managers "all over the country" to “destroy" records relating to their campaign against the administration’s holding company bill. “I told my managers,” Beach said “It was ’O.K’ to get rid of their records because we were through working on the legislation.’’ Beach's tetimony came after the committee had heard from E. W. O’Brien, A. G. E. subsidiary employe, how he and others witnessed conferred in inquiring Into the company's part in the fight against the utility bill, including its activities in 26 states in which it operates. Beach denied that he was Instructed iby O. E. Wasser, comptroller of the company, to take action regarding the records.