Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 33, Number 178, Decatur, Adams County, 29 July 1935 — Page 1

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Kescue Workers Dig I To Save Man 1 M X V July 29—(U.P>~ ■i- workers due; frantically to roach Richard Hojnocki, B<. who was buried Saturday in an avalanche of sand in ■ 9to w. ll In- had dug near his cottage. is sand gave way throughout yesterday 1 o'd the level where xki would be found. A ehotel, digging a wide beside the pit. brought new as Hojnocki’s small cottottered precipitously on the Cables were strung about and tied to trees on side. guarded closely in a neighliuiHe to prevent her from 'jß ri ’lng herself into the pit. began the well severißr !p ks ago and continued al-! neighbors had warned of of digging in loose He had braced the walls wir. night he reached the level and stopped. Alhe had not struck water to force a pipe the son Frank. IS, handed down and Hoinocki began walln the pit. When the wall was x fret the crude shoring gave a ud Hovnocki was caught beBj, the tons of sand that pourBntord City Man’s | Death Investigated ■J' 11 ' Ind.. July 29—(UP)—The if. " f Raymond J. (Ebb) Misa,"Haftfofd City, was inves1 " y Delaware county auth■F today on the theory the ni was murdered. ®- r e was found along a MunH l)r d City highway early SunA a party of motorists. He H llollrs later in a Hartford ■ “ospital. Coroner John H. ■ o .T urne(l a verdict of a.ecideath. vl^ in ’ 8 wife was found aBhL 7 bakery truck *hleh he Hand n drivln S- B be reported her I atruck lb y a hit-and-run ■bine oh he . Wiw fairing the Bin? th ““ 6 311(1 she ew ouned folB 6 ‘he accident.

DECATUR DAILY DEMOCRAT

All Business Men Will Meet Tonight All business men of Decatur are requested to meet at the city hall at 7 o’clock tonight to make final plans for Decatur Day at the free street fair and agricultural exhibit, Saturday, August 10. The committee in charge of thie special day is Cal Peterson, chairman; Oscar Lankenau, Henry Schulte, T. J. Metzler and Max Boxell. Tonight’s meeting will be concluded in ample time for the meeting of the fair executive committee at 7:30.

i FORMER DANCER ARRESTED FOR TORSO MURDER Evelyn Smith Caught In New York For Chicago ’ Killing i Chicago July 29 —(UP)— Police , hoped that the meeting of two wo , men- erstwhile friends, each accusi ing the other, — might todiy solve i the mystery surrounding Chicago's i torso murder. Mr». Evelyn Smith, former buriesqtie strip dancer, was rushed to Chicago by plane after <her cupture in New York Saturday to tell her i version cf the strange series of ' events which kd up to the murder of Ervin J. Lang. The other woman is Mas. Blanche Dunkel, the victim’s mother-in-kaw. . • The established tacts of the case are simple nough. Lang’s garroted and legless ibody was found in a gangland "cemetery” July 8. The legs later were dfecovered in a trunk. Mrs. Dunkel, who confessed 1 a strange love for tihe husband of ■ her dead daughter, told police she paid Mrs Smith SSOO to murder Lung and dispose of his body. She was jealous of him. she said and ' would “rather fee him dead than marry ..nother woman.” Mrs. Smith when captured readily admitted her idenity. She told police she would “welcome tihe opportunity” to return to Chioigo and clear her name, adding that until she was seized she was unaware that Lang had bean murdered. “1 didn’t kiß Ervin Lang," she said emphatically. “I list saw him at Mns. Dunkel’s home June 30. All I know is tlz.t she was bitterly jealous of him. I heard her threaten to (CONTINUED nN PAGE SIX) O Sugar Beet Meeting At Van Wert Tuesday E. W. Bueche, compliance director for sugar beets, has received word that a compliance meeting will be held at Van Wert, Ohio, I Tueuday. at 2 p. m. oiatern standard I time, and it is expected tiiat E. W. i Bus he, J. W. Calland, pnd County Agent Archbold. L. M. Busche. and V. D. Sfean, state compliance director, will attend this meeting. Following this meeting complience forms will be ,prepared and offered to sugar beet contract signers and then sent to Washington to be audited. After these compliance formes have been audited, the balance of the 1934 and the udvance 1935 p yments will be made.

o MEET TO AVERT LABOR TROUBLE Terre Haute Citizens Seek Settlement Os Strike Problem Terre Haute. Ind., July 29 —(UP) Civic organiznjions met here today to adopt measures which they hoped would prevent a recurrence of a general strike which (paralyzed the city’s industry lust week. Meanwhile, federal conciliators Charles Richardson and Harry Sheck attempted to bring officials of the Columbian enameling and stumping plant and Union Leaders together in a join conference. Employes at the plant went on strike March 23 to enforce demands for Union recognition and a closed shop. The general strike was precipitated by presence of armed company guurds within the plant. All of the guards were removed over the week-end. Col., Alert Whitcomb reported. Leaders in the civic meeting today included the Terre Haute retail merchant® association, Chamber of Commerce, imanufacturere and employer® association, the Terre Haute real estate board. National guardsmen reported tihe city peaceful over the week-end.

SEX SLATER'S LAWYER MAKES OPENING PLEA Counsel To Claim Thompson Inherited Sex Brutality From Father Peoria, 111., July 29. — <U.R> — Counsel for Gerald Thompson, confessed slayer of pretty Mildred Hallmark, told the jury in his opening statement today that the 28-year-old youth’s mother will testify that he inherited a j sex brutality from his father. Thompson, who confessed that he drove the 19-year-old case hostess to a lonely cemetery and slugged her "with one of my special blows” when she resisted his advances. sat with eyes downcast as Ren Thurman, his lawyer, announced his intention of bringing the mother into court. The killer's mother, Mrs. Florence Whiteside, is a patient at Proctor hospital where she has been confined for two weeks with a nervous breakdown. ‘TShe will tell you.” Thurman said, leaning over the jury rail and epeaklng In a confidential tone, “that this defendant's father. whom she married when she was a girl of 14, was insane on the subject of sex and was a brute to her. “We will prove that insanity of this sort—on the subject ot sex—is hereditary." Thurman’s opening statement was brief and after its completion Judge Joseph E. Daily adjourned court until tomorrow morning. In ordering the adjournment he explained that the defense had believed the s ate would not finish until afternoon and had not subpoenaed witnesses. State’s Attorney Edwin V. Champion rested his case at 10:20 a. m. after placing four

YmNTTHUED ON PAGE SIX) O —— RECREATIONAL PROGRAM PLAN — Rural Recreational Reserves Planned Under WPA Programs County Agent L. E. Archbold has received word from T. A. Coleman, assistant director of extension, Jhat the worke progress administration, has created a division to give attention to the development of recreational and > service centers in counties and | communities. The works admin- , istration will provide labor from the relief rolls and up to $2500 for materials. The purposes of these rural re- I creational reserves are: 1. To make available a common meeting place for each and ; every member of rural families. .

2. To develop leacsersiilp and unite efforts for social and economic improvements. 3. To encourage cooperation and crystalize their own resources for the betterment of individual families. 4. To supply convenient, attractive. wholesome and economical tecreationai facilities in the open country. 5. To develop a more w’holesnme community spirit through united action. 6. To enable rural people to live a more abundant life of satisfaction and contentment in their own environment. Reserves must be established on public property and should be in the open country. Organization: There should be created in a district or county desiring a rural recreational reserve, a public corporation or association to be known as the rural recreational reserve corporation or association with a board of directors composed of representatives of social organizations or groups interested In community development such as Granges, Farm Bureaus, Farm(CONTTNUEn ON PAGE FOUR) o Former Adams County Man Instantly Killed Mrs. Vanoe Maddox received a message Saturday of the death of Laurel Forest Reynold®, 35, who was killed instantly nt Detroit, Michigan by a hit and run driver. Mr. Reynolds formerly lived in Monr'oe township, three miles north of Berne. The father, Oliver Reynolds, a brother and a sister survive.

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Decatur, Indiana, Monday, July 29, 1935.

Arraigned in Husband’s Death a . I*" ’ t 2 v * rwA 1 11 r ’ ~ ; : A A. w

Charged by police with murdering her husband to obtain the benefit of two $5,000 insurance policies. Mrs. Olga Cirina, 38, of Brooklyn, N. Y., is shown in homicide court with John Parades, 40, a friend of the family, left, charged with acting in concert. Assistant District Attorney Hyman Barshay is at the right. Louis Cirina, 41, her husband and a musician, complained of pains in his stomach on June 24 and died on the way to a hospital.

REPORTS SHOW HUGE PROFITS Testimony Discloses Utility Head Profited During Depression Washington. July 29 — <U.R) —, Senate lobby investigators heard ; testimony today that H. C. Hopson, utilities ‘ mystery man,” profited $2,855,106 during depression | years through control of the Associated Gas & Electric system. The evidence was presented as j agents of the committee continued I hunting the elusive utilities magnate. The committee wishes to I (question Hopson regarding the. fight by the A. G. E. against the I Wheeler-Ray burn utilities bill and I destruction of records pertaining ; to the fight. During part of the period in which Hopson was drawing huge profits, A. G. E. paid no dividends, other evidence placed before the committee indicated. The profit figures covered the years from 1929 to 1933. Since 1932. the committee was infortn- ' ed, A. G. E. had paid no dividends. Hopson’s profits from private l i companies, through which control . of A. G. E. is maintained, amount-1 ed to about $570,000 annually j during the depression period, the l i committee was advised in a re-1 port submitted by Sen. Lewis ‘ Schwellenbach, D., Wash., and I I prepared by Stewart C. Ross, speI cial assistant to the New York state legislative utilities investigation. In addition to profits of $2,805,106 from his private companies, j the record showed, Hopson received about $50,000 in salaries in (CONTINUED ON PAGE FIVE) O AMATEUR HOUR ON DAIRY DAY Part of Amateur Program Will Be Broadcast On Dairy Day A special attraction on Cloverleaf Dairy Day to be held August 8 will be the amateur hour. G. A. Thoms is committee chairman, and: under his direction, plans are rapidly progressing. This event promises to be one of the high spots in the Dairy Day entertainment, and will be held on the speaker's platform in Memorial Pack between 2 and 2:30 p. m. As much of this program as time will permit will be broadcast through station WO WO. The program will be in charge of W. A. Counterman, Greenville, 0.. branch ■nunager and Hermon Meyere, local attorney. The program will consist of vocal and instrumental numbers, properly selected and arranged to form versatile and interesting entertainment. . Over 30 applicants have presented entry blanks, but it has been necessary to eliminate several applicants due to the limitation of time. The winners will be determined by the applause and cheerlngs of > the crowd. The first prize will be sls, second prize $lO and thirdi prize $5.

One Person Hurt In Auto Accident One person was slightly injured in an auto accident which occurred |ot about 8 o'clock Saturday night on state road 27, on? mile north of Decatur ot what Ls known as Miller’s Bend. ’ Two cars met in a head-on collission. Isadore Richenson and Ansel Alexander of Saratoga. Ind., were ; driving north and C. O. Carlin and ' wife of 933 Burgess street, Fort ' Wuyne, were driving south. The ! two cars collided. Mrs. Carlin was | injured and was taken to a locil physician’s office. She received a I bruised left leg and had several ! teeth injured. Beth cars werei’oadly damaged. o 250,000 PUPILS | WILL BE AIDED Students Will Be Assisted By National Youth Program Washington, July 29 — (U.R) The new deal is seeking to increase the country’s intellectual 1 standard with part of its $4,000,- j i 000.000 work-relief fund. The national youth admlnistraI tion will finance educations for I I 250.000 post-graduate, college and I high school students this winter, I I giving them part-time work to pay ■ tuition and living expenses. The works progress administration will train 1.209 unemployed teachers in seven schools this summer, preparing them to instruct needy this winter in night school classes.

The federal emergency relief administration, through state organizations, will conduct educational classes for jobless women throughout the country during the net six weeks or two months. NYA, in addition to employing the quarter-million students this winter at sl6 a month, will use part of its teaching trades to another 150,000 youths by placing them as apprentices in private industry. The unemployed teachers will attend school at New York university. Ohio State. Purdue, Olivet College, Wisconsin. Chicago and the University of Chicago during the next six weeks. Industrial training will be stressed. Characterizing the activity as a “new type of educational service," Dr. L. R. Aiderman, director of the work, said the governmenttrained teachers “should be able (CONTINUED ON PAGE FIVE) 7LJ. Days Till The FREE STREET FAIR and Agricultural Exhibit

ITALY THINKS ETHIOPIAN WAR IS INEVITABLE Emperor Selassie Offers New Defiance To Mussolini (Copyright 1935 by UP.) Rome, July 29. — (U.R) — Italians believed today that war with Ethiopia was near. They saw In League of Nations efforts to solve the crisis only a waste of words and increased confusion. Stevedores were loading ten big steamships with war materials at various ports. Additional thousands of soldiers were awaiting embarkation. War spirit was high, and the country was ready for a fight. It was said frankly that diplomatic negotiations with Great BrLt aln and France had achieved exactly nothing after ten days of spirited effort.

There was no approach at all between Britain and Italy, and the limits of British and Italian concession remained far apart. Ethiopia’s note of yesterday to the League ot Nations, maintaining its position, caused no surprise, for no cession was expected. But it Was received as tending merely to prolong diplomatic d-lscussion 1 between Italy and Ethiopia and I serving merely to involve greater wordage and consequently additional complication. Pope Pius for the first time implied his Interest in peace yester- . day. He referred to the dispute I in addressing the congregation of ■ missions from his throne in the i consistorial hall, in connection with the beautification of Jiustino De . Jacobis, Italian missionary in Ethii opia for many years till his death ’ July 31, 1860. "Dark c’ouds hover in the skies [ i between Italy and Ethiopia," said the pontiff, "and their significance can not be overlooked.” New Defiance Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, July 29. —(U.R) — Emperor Haile Selassie I j today offered new defiance to fascist Italy in a note in which he re- . fused to accept responsibility for I failure of diplomatic negotiations I and refused to withdraw from his I demand that the League of Nations council intervene to avert war. I The note replied to an Italian one of July 23. In the reply the emperor said that he could not accept responsibility for failure of Ita'ian-Eth-iopian negotiations -to liquide frontier clashes which were the immediate cause of the crisis. j (CONTINUED ON PAGE SIX) Seven Will Attend National Guard Camp Seven young men from Deoutur will report July 31 at the Indiana I National Guard camp at Fort Knox 1 Kentucky for 20 days. The trip to tiie camp and back •ag>jin will be made- by truck. The «even young men are members of the service company 152 infantry, third battalion. They are Garth Andereon. Edward Deßolt, D.ul Hilyurd. Chalmer Lee, Clarence Smith, Herman Smith and I Clarence Walters. INDIANA DEATH TOLL IS HEAVY • Auto Accidents Chief Cause Os Tragedies In State Sunday Indianapolis, July 29 — (U.R) — Fifteen violent deaths, including eight persons killed in automobile accidents, were recorded in Indiana over the week end. More than a score of persons were injured. Charles Thornburg, 60, and Albert Hines, 24. both ot Union City, were killed when an automobile ! in which they were riding crashed into a steel crane near Warsaw. Valentine Fix, 84, Seymour, was killed when he drove his automo- ] i bile into the path of a traction ; car. Injuries suffered in an automo-1 I bile-truck collision near LaPorte; were fatal to Mrs. Lillian Bramer, I 77. Johnson City, N. Y. Mrs. i Mabel Preston. Binghampton, N. iY„ the victim's daughter, was injured seriously. An overdose of sleeping powder taken a week ago was fatal to ' Lemuel Greuihouse, 42, Indianapolis. John Henry Roberts, 12, Fre- ' mont, and Mildred Carter, 14,' (CONTINUED ON PAGE FIVE)

Fair Committee To Meet Tonight Members of the executive committee of the Decatur Free Street Fair and agricultural exhibit, will meet in the office of County Agent L. E. Archbold tonight at 7:30 o’clock. Heads of the various departments of the fair, as well as the executive committee, will also attend this meeting. COMMITTEE TO DISCUSS TAXES Tentative Tax-The-Rich Program Adopted By Sub-Commtitee Washington, July 29. — (U.R) — Chairman Robert L. Doughton called for a meeting today of the full house ways and means committee to pass on a tentative tax-the-r'.ch bill spread to raise $275,000,000 annually. The bill as drawn by the sub-com-mittee would provide increased taxes on incomes down to $50,000 and include inheritance as low as SIO,OOO.

The measure — main obstacle to adjournment —may be favorably reported to the house tomorrow or Wednesday in near its present shape. Leaders plan to rush it the house a.nd on to the ' senate by Saturday. As now drawn after two weeks Intensive work and heated controversy the bill provides: 1. Revenue of $110,090,000 to $115,000,000 from new gift and inheritance taxes with the latter providing a $50,000 exemption for blood kin and SIO,OOO for strangers under a graduated rate ranging from four to 72 per cent. 2. Revenue of $50,000,000 from I increased personal income taxes starting with the $50,000 net -Income bracket. 3. Revenue of $100,000,000 from (CONTINUED ON PAGE TWO) 0 CLOSE STORES FOR FUNERAL Business Houses To Close During Dugan Funeral Tuesday Local stores will be closed from 2:30 to 3:30 o'clock Tuesday afternoon in respect to Charles A. Du-' gan, president of the First State Bank and prominent citizen whose . funenul will be held tomorrow after-

— noon. The services will be held at 2:30 o’clock at the Dugan residence, | West Monroe street. A Scottish Rite I service will be held. The Rev. George O. Wulton, pastor of the De-, catur Presbyterian church will read the scripture and deliver the sermon. The First State bank will be closed all day Tuesday. Loyal to him during life, employes us the bank and those who weje formerly employed by Mr. Dugan will escort the cusket of their “chief” to the Decatur Cemetery for I’lurial. The pall bearers will be, Theodore Graliker, cashier; Roscoe Glendening, usistant cashier; Herman Kruekeberg, Earl Caston, all of the bunk; Fred Jaebker, Fort Wayne, assistant cashier of the Lincoln National IBank, former assistant of the First State Bank and Gerald Viaird, former emiploye of the institution. Girl employes of the bank will act as flower bearers. Mr. Dugun died from a heart attack Saturday morning, following ! an extended illness of asthma. He I became cashier of the bank in 1894 and since 1921 has served as president. He wi s widely known in state banking circles and was a former officer and a member of the executive committee of the Indiana Banker’s Association. The closing of the local stores during the funeral w> is asked by the directors of the Chamber of Commerce. o Defiance CCC Camp Worker Is Drowned Defiance, 0., July 29 —(UP) —Joseph Sulak, 19, member of the Defiance CCC camp, was drowned in the Maumee river yesterday when he and several otiber members of the camp went on an unauthorized swimming trip. He was seized with cramps. WEATHER Generally fair tonight and Tuesday; slightly warmer Tuesday central and north portions.

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MILLIONS ARE SET ASIDE FOR WORK PROGRAM Twenty-Four Millions For Indiana; Wage Scale Announced Indianapolis, July 29 — <U.R) Notification that $24,000,000 in the federal treasury has been set aside to start the works progress administration program in Indiana was received today at state relief headquarters. Designation of the first projects to be started under the program is expected in time to begin putting men to work Aug. 5. The program originally was sch Muled to have started today but was delayed by a last minute survey to determine immediate work is needed most. Meanwhile, the public worke administration program, comprising more expensive projects, is going forward rapidly, Forrest M. Logan, acting stale director, announced. There are 31 non-federal PWA projects costing $7,108,682 now under construction in the state and 14 other projects will be started eoon, Logan said. He said his office has received 53 applications for loans and grants totalling $8,146,214 under the new’ program through which the federal government finances 45 per cent of the cost. Workers on PWA projects may receive as high as the regular union ecale for their work.

The salary scale for PWA work ranges from S4O a month for unskilled labor in counties of low population to $94 a month for professional and technical work in counties of the greatest population. Classification of counties, according to population and the salary schedules for each class, follow: Class A —Marion, Lake. St. Joseph, Allen and Vanderburgh. Unskilled, $55; intermediate, $65: skilled. SBS; professional and technical, $94. Class B—Vigo, unskilled, $52; intermediate, S6O: skilled. $75; professional and technical, SB3. Class C —LaPorte. Elkhart, Tippecanoe, Howard. Madison, Delaware. Wayne and Floyd—unskilled. S4B; intermediate, $55; skilled S7O; professional and technical, $77. Class D —Porter, Marshall, Kosciusko, Noble, DeKalb. Cass, Miami. Wabash, Huntington, (CONTINUED ON PAGE FIVE) 0

Legion Band Will Practice Tuesday All members of the American Legion City Band are asked to meet at the Legion hall Tuesday night at 7:30 o’clock for reheaxsal. o _ FIVE KILLED IN AUTO COLLISION Two Detectives, Prisoner, Brother And Sister Are Victims

North Baltimore, 0., July 29 —• (UP) —Two Cleveland detectivee, a fugitive water department clerk they had captured, and a brother and sister were dead today after two automobiles collided on a highi way near there. i The dead: Detectives Harry McCue and HarI old E. Beingesser, Cleveland. Clarence Elderson, ftO, employs ' of the Cleveland water department. Miss Carey K. Rinehart, 27, teacher in u Mount Vernon, 0., School. William F. Rinehart. 20 her brother, student at Ohio State university. The detectives had arrested Eldenson after a terrific hand-to-hand battle in a shack where he was hidin out with five workers in the sugar ibeet fields. Speeding back toward Cleveland with their prisoner, the police .machine collided with one in which two young couplee were returning from a week-end outing. The detectives and Elberson were killed instantly, ae were Miss Rinehart and her brother. Grant Joaalyn 26, of Conneaut, Ohio., end Rose Ellen Reed of Findlay, the other two occupants of the second machine. were seriously injured. Elberson was wanted in connection with an alleged .SISOOO shortage in water department funds, lit wua charged he hod collected water rents, given out receipts, and pocketed the money.