Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 33, Number 179, Decatur, Adams County, 30 July 1935 — Page 1

XXXI!I. No. 179.

MUTATORS AT fiIAL HISS AT ■SANITY CIAIM fcLpson’s Attorney To Save Killer I I |h Insanity Plea July 30 — <U.R> — K H. inK who rioted for th., courtroom hl»s.I (I..lense witnesses :, .tilled that Gerald n ii.- > d sox slayer , : II .Uniatk. is insane. >,i.ed youth, who ,|. bl , A wait exultant nota lues s over girls. ~,,.,11 evidence that he n save ■iKpgt rha,r - urge" f ; ,ih..r drove Thompson ,?■. .ar old case hosn a '>ie ■ Thurman, Ihre.it. ning crowd -, re women. stO'lt anti giggling girls, who bailiff's . alls for order as ~f Thompson him B' Si'iial'le. once a fellov. Thompson. ih,-. , rowd's anger when he (.mimed of the de- ( - 2.000 persons. Egl rini ; fi r admission to tlie l „.|it. a door leading to ,.e front its hinges through a cordon of police. ■noun'ing anger caused ■Sirg-dti.r to increase the guard M Bee' I 11’.' 2' '• at old defend tin KJ four to six officers. 'xiK'tt* f'-Hng was sooth ■ win n Thurman sumThompson’s white-haired s^B. r. Mrs. George Thompthe wi'neso stand. lived with his grandK*r for 22 years and was to his friends as “Grand"“■fee \"i:i!t,..l appatenly moan ■ ■teg tat Im came to her homo hr; mother’s unfortunate IBSr a?p ’4 in a - . of mistreatin': deserting her and sons. in an orchid di -- told of the tnarof (1,-oild’s mother, Mrs. Whit, -ide. to Gibbs mo Gerald couldn’t a b tier hov." she sai l. ■ tv; '■■, ',y riim ftvF) lllgl ■■ - (>irl Enrolled [Mhtuno People's ( amp E:1 ’1 Byerly of this city is in th.- Young People’s of the Breb tr- - l amp Alexand r on 1..i'... W.iwb.e. Milford. • v.i vmiing persons ar ■ H^B-! - imp. ami ther> are - ■ 19 cabin 1. aders \ n f subjects are in th.- program for the »■" ' a plav by the Drarna|KB !:i " W. .ln.---l.n- night at 8 o'an 'l :l i'-"mfit program by a :' S null B nd. Sunday HB d to attend the speI^B' 1 ’ Wednesday will bo vis,B’iay at t :e canto.

dtion school OPENED MONDAY ert School Os Auctioneering 'Pens Monday .For Three Weeks' Course. p Repperl Auction School “<l yesterday in Bellmont "ith 36 studen's from 17 I answering the ro)1 call Tllp 1 was opened by an address 'lcome by Col. Fred Reppert, 6Dt and founder of the ' in which he on lined the ’or tlie next three weeks Presented some of the in,,rs. Col. Roy Johnson of Col. Earl Garfin of "’""K. Harry W. Thompson. ’"' and Col. C. M. Carter of ■nt C ’ Ky ’’ aftor whl(h ea<'h was called on for a short ess. «n iately af,Pr ihis the c,ass .J*.*' ' n sess * on preparing ' es for the auctioneering ?‘7’ n ' Other students and l( >rs will arrive within the •pw days. of the former students . Sl,l oo' have achieved a ' r< I’utation as auctioneers h« T, le trainill K received here Reppert Auction school.

DECATUR DAILY DEMOCRAT

Dairy Day Speaker

■ I i C. H. Kraft, above, first vicepresident. of the Kraff - Phenix Cheese corporation, will be one of the principal speakers for Cloverleaf Dairy Day here August 8. The company was formed in 1904 by J. L. Kraft and is now the largest cheese industry* in the ■world. The speaker will talk on the trend or dairying.

LEAGUE MEETS WEDNESDAY TO PREVENT WAR Only Slight Hope Is Held That Impending War Can Be Averted (Copyright 1935 by United Press) Geneva, July 30 — (U.R) —Delegates representing the 14 nations on the league of nations council converged on Geneva today for a meeting at which they will make an almost despairing effort to avert war between Italy and Ethiopia. Belief solidified that on Great Britain depended the main hope. A trustworthy source reported that Anthony Eden, chief British delegate, would arrive here for the meeting, which starts at 5 p. m. tomorrow, with instructions that, if a basis for negotiations between the disputant nations were found, he should demand that Italy promise to make no attack while they were proceeding. This would give the council a chance to take emeigency action before the start of a war, instead of contemplating a situation in which at any moment Benito Mussolini might send his bombing airplanes, tanks and mechaniced artillery into Ethiopia for a fight whose end no statesman cared to visualize.

( It was eloqucn' of the nervousness of the powers, and the fear that they were powerless to prevent war. that early arrivals talk ed of a "solution” of the present erisis which would merely poet pone for less than a month any real action. Under this "solution," Italy and (CONTINUED ON PAGE FIVE) TEACHERS WILL HOLD INSTITUTE Annual County Institute Will Be Held August 27 And 28 The ttnnual Ada:re county school instltut- will he held on August 27 and 28, Clifton E. Striker, county superintendent of .schools announced today. Adams county is on a circuit with Allen, Whitley and Noble counties f r speakers for the institutes. This year Mr. Striker has been appointed to select the speakers for all four counties. Severn! have been contacted but the contracts have not yet ben signed, Mr. Striker said today. The first day of the local institute will be taken up largely with the addresses to be given iby nationally known educators or lecturers. The two school cities cooperate with the county on this day. On the second day of the institute, courses of study and other details in connection with the next school term will be explained by the school heads. Mr. Striker will address the county school teachers during the second day of the institute. Decatur school t tinkers will be under the direction of Walter J. Krick, superintendent of the city schools. E. M. Webb, superintendent of the Herne (CONTINUED ON PAGE FIVE)

EVELYN SMITH ADMITS TORSO ; MURDER GUILT Former Burlesque Queen Signs Confession To Chicago Murder Chicago, July 30. — (U.R) — Mrs. Evelyn Smith, erstwhile strip danc--1 er on a bur.’esque runway, signed a. confession taking full blame for I the brutal "torso” murder of Ervin !J. Lang, 28, assistant state's AttorI ney Charles S. Dougherty said today, Mrs. Smith, 45, once buxom show girl but now a sligbt, muddy blonde, nonchalantly admitted she strangled the young grocery clerk to death after drugging him with drinks, and then sawed off his legs at the hips “so he'd be easier to carry,” Dougherty said. “I bought a hacksaw at a neighborhood hardware store,” Mrs. Smith told reporters after she had signed the confession. "After I found Ervin was dead I cut off his legs—no. I didn’t have any help, 1 did it al’ alone.” "Thai was on Saturday night, July 5. I stayed alone all night in the apartment with the body and then early Sunday Harry Jung I (Mrs. Smith's dapper Chinese husband) came with a car and we took the body to that swamp. "Mrs. Dunkel paid me 1100 and was to have paid me S4OO more for doing the job.” Here Mrs. Smith i stopped and suddenly looked worn and haggard after several hours I of questioning. "It was a job all right,” she went on. "After I strangled Ervin 1 had quite a time with the legs. 1 tirst cut them with a knife and then hacked through the bone with the i saw.” Mrs. Smith sought to completely exonerate her Oriental husband, whom she married at Crow*n Point, i Indiana, in 1932. "Harry didn’t, have anything to do with it,” she Insisted. “After I dumped the body into ■ the marsh and hid the legs, Jung and I separated. I grabbed a bus j AGQJtTISHIRP ON PAOE FIVE) RURAL SCHOOL OAT AT FAIR — Friday Os Fair Week To Be Featured For School Children Miss Caiharine Kauffman, art instructor in the Decatur chools, and Miss Grace Coffee, penmanship and grammar instructor at the Central grade school, will judge the county school exhibits, which will be a part of the Decatur Free Street Fair and agricultural exhibit from August 5 to 10 inclusive. Friday, August 9, will be conservation and rural school day.

The school exhibits will be on display with the 4-H club and home economics exhibits at the Central school building. Three thousand cards have been mailed to rural school children asking them to take part in the parade which will be a feature of the afternoon of Friday, August 9. City school children are also asked to march. The parade will assemble at 1 o'clock on the Central school yard. The educational exhibit will be as follows: Exhibits in penmanship for the grades one to eight inclusive. The number of specimens from each school shall not exceed two from each grade. The specimens for each grade will be the first three sentences of the Gettysburg address written in ink. Maps will form another portion of the exhibit. Fourth grade pupils will have maps of North America; fifth grade pupils. South America and Indiana; sixth grade pupils. Africa and the United States; seventh grade (CONTINUED ON PAGE FIVE) o City School Board To Meet Wednesday The city school bourd will meet Wednesday evening to select the teachers for the coming year and conclude the business of the present board. A number of appointments have'bean mtide tentatively. The new board will meet on the first cf August. At that meeting Joe Hunter will replace Dr. Burt Mangold os a member. It will be necessary to elect officers at this time as Dr. Mangold is (president of the board.

ONLY DAILY NEWSPAPER IN ADAMS COUNTY

Decatur, Indiana, Tuesday, July 30, 1935.

French^Determined.To'Keep Neutrality Os African Port

(Editor’s note: This -is the first dispatch from the first American Press Association correspondent to reach East Africa on special assignment to cover the approaching war between Italy and Ethiopia. Beattie will make his -immediate base in Addis Ababa, capital of Ethiopia, and move thereafter to report developments where and when they occur.) By Edward W. Beattie, (UP. Staff Correspondent) (Copyright, 1935, by UP.) Djibouti, French Smollland, July 29.—(U.R>—Djibouti, gateway to Addis Ababa and the only route to the capital by rail from the coast, was a deserted port under armed neutrality today. The French havfc landed guns and are bringing up troops to preserve its neutrality. The possibility of unrest among the native population, strongly sympathetic to Ethiopia, has led France to take extraordinary precautions against disorder. A French naval transport in the last few days unloaded four light guns, barbed wire and munitions. The small French Somaliland garrison will be reinforced by black Senega.'ese troops. It was explained that the precautions are not directed against any particular government, but SHARE OF TAX RECEIVED HERE Adams County Share Os Excise Tax Collections Is Received Here Adairs county’s share, amounting to $807.84 of the state excise tax collections for it he period ending July 1, has been received by County Auditor John W. Tyndall. The money was distributed today among the 12 townships and the two school cities in the county. The money collected in the state this period for distribution among the schools amounted to $117,573.80. The average dai’y school attendance was 653,185 for the state. Eighteen cents were given for each pupil on the basis of average daily attendance, which, in this county, amounted to $807.84. The average daily attendance for Adams county was 4,487.32. The distribution was: Blue Creek, $31.40; French, $35.95; Hartford, $38.92; Jefferson. $29.72; Kirkland. $38.17; Monroe. $80.06; Preble, $37.43; Root, $39.28; St. Mary’s, $42.52; Union,, $30.72; Wabash, $87.07; Washington, $59.22; Berne, school city, $69.70; Decatur, $186.68, and total, $807.84. The state auditor requested that the distribution be made before August 1 in order that credit might be given in the 1934-35 school year for which the financial reports are being made. The 1933-34 average daily attendance figures were used in place of the new figures which were compiled today by County Superintendent of Schools Clifton E. Striker.

CHARLES DUGAN FUNERAL TODAY Final Tribute Paid To Decatur Bank President This Afternoon Bankers and friends from Northern Indiana, were in attendance at funeral services held this afternoon at 2:30 o'clock for Charlee A. Dugan, president of the First State Bank. The services were held at the Dugan home on West Monroe street, the Rev. George O. Walton, ■ pastor of the Presbyterian church i officiating. A Scottish Rite service was also conducted. Burial was made in the Decatur cemetery. Many local stores were closed during the funeral hour as final respects were paid to a man who lived here more than 40 years and was prominent in business and banking affairs during hiu two score years of r sidence here. State Highway Clerk Slugged And Robbed Greenfield, Ind., July 30 —(UP) — Walter Parrington, 23, clerk for the state highway district here, was robbed of $238 in funds of the Hoosier Democratic club and personal belongings by two highwaymen, he reported to police yesterday. Pnrrington said the robbers slugged him and left him unconscious in | a woods near the highway.

t j have been laken "simply because i in event of continued European re- > i serves in East Africa, native tribes ■! might be given the idea of attack- ; ■ Ing all whites," ■! Otherwise, the formerly busy ’ ‘ port was dead. The sun-baked, '' wind-swept quays were almost ' I empty, the only ship in the harbor 1 being a small Italian coastal patrol boat. It was a result of the European embargo on the shipments of arms to Ethiopia, apparently, and the uncertainty over the continuance of Ethiopia’s hitherto busy trade with Europe. Europeans in Djibouti said they ' believed that of the thousands of ' Italian troops pouring into Africa, about 20 were dying every day of disease of the effects of the cJI--1 mate. Italians were reported to admit from eix to ten deat Im a ’ day. On the way down the Red Sea ' to Djibouti, Massawa, the port of ’ Italian Eritrea, presented a different picture. There, 25 ships were waiting to unload troops, munitions ajid supplies and port facilities were overtaxed. The speed of the Italian preparations was evident at Suez, through which according to high sources, the Italians have dispatched in the last five months 98 passenger ships, (CONTINUED ON PAOE FIVE) Reroute Highways During Fair Week TIA routing department of the state highway commission started ' t .day to erect detour signs in the city for the state roads which parse ' through Decatur. The detours will be observed during street fair week. U. S. road 27 and state highway 527 from the south ure routed west on Jefferson str-et to fifth street and then north to the intersection of . Second street, following the regular , route out of town. U. S. Road from ’ ! the east is routed north on First street to Jackson sreet, west on Jackson to Fifth street, and then I over to Nuttman avenue. Ora Baker . district supervisor cooperated with the fuir and Clianwer of Commerce >! committees in the rerouting of the ; state roads. ’ | _____--o *- ADAMS COUNTY ► I ON SURVEY LIST Included In Survey Os Country’s SurfaceWater Supply

Washington, D. C„ July 30. Adams county is on the list of Indiana counties which the Geological Survey plans to cover in its survey of the country's sur-face-water supply, it was revealed today by C. G. Paulsen, chief of the division of surface waters of the geological survey. Other counties in the vicinity of Decatur which it is planned to cover include Dekalb. Allen, Wells Noble. Huntington. Lagrange and Steuben. Work planned for these counties includes installation of stream measurement stations on all important streams which do not now have such stations, improvement and rehabilitation of existing stream measurement stations, and maintenance of such stations for a year. Data thus gathered will be collected, compiled and prepared for publication. "In this way.” Paulsen said, "we can positively ascertain if the water supply of the region surrounding Decatur is being called upon too heavily and can advise the state what steps to take if it is found a water shortage exists.” Findings of the survey will be “of inestimable value” in relation to future sewage disposal projects, prevention of droughts and floods, control of stream pollution, navi gation. irrigation, and drainage (OONTTNUHD ON PAGE TWO’ fib 6 LIJ • Days Till The FREE STREET FAIR and Agricultural Exhibit

SENATE OPENS HEARINGS ON TAX MEASURE House Committee Votes Measure Favorably Without Record Vote Washington, July 30. — (U.R) — Taxation of incomes of a million dollars or more will produce only a negligible amunt of revenue, the senate finance committee was informed today shortly after the house ways and means committee sped the administration’s $275,000.000 measure toward a vote, probably Friday. At the opening of senate hearings on the tax bill, L. H. Parker, chief of staff of the joint, congressional tax committee, told the committee that there weren't enough million dollar incomes in the country to bring any large amount of revenue from that bracket. “Real substantial revenue,” Parker said, "can be obtained only by increasing surtaxes from $4,000 all along the line.” The house tax bill starts the surtax increases at $50,000 under a schedule expected to return $45,030,000 annually from that type of taxation alone. The surtaxes increase progressively through $5,000,000. Parker testified that, if the increases had started at $1,000,000 incomes, the revenue would be only about $5,000,000. In 1933. Parker said, there were only 46 incomes in the United States of $1,000,000 or more. In fact, he added, there were only 7,974 incomes of $50,000 or more, showing the scarcity of extremely high incomes and consequent narrowness of the revenue field in that category. The house ways and means j committee, without a record vo’e. today favorably reported the $275,000,000 tax-the-rich bill as it was introduced by Chairman Robert L. Doughton. The rush tax action was taken at a 15 minute meeting of the committee at which only two Republicans were reported present. Seventeen Democrats a'tended. Formal reporting of the measure will enable it to be brought up in the house tomorrow or Thursday at the latest and sped on to the senate, probably by Saturday night. The fast action was in response to administration demands to hurry up in order to hasten con(CONTINUED ON PAGE FTVE) o Junior C. Os C. Meeting Wednesday Members of the Decatur Junior Comber of Commerce are requested to meet at the Rice Hotel Wedn.sday night at 7:15 o’clock. Plans in reference to the club's pert in the Decatur Free Street Fair and agricultural exhibit will be discussed. It is urgent that every member be present.

OVER HONORED THOUSANDSPENT Auditor Makes Report Os FERA Expenditures In This County A total of $109,007.61 was spent in Adams county during the FERA program, it was announced today by W. J. Scott, auditor of this district, who is closing out the books in the works division of the local FERA office. The FERA in Adame county operated between April 9, 1934 to July 31, 1935. No men are now on FERA work relief in the county. Pending further word, the social division of the local office will continue to work as usual. This service includes the investigation of persons and families requesting relief and tabulating the cases on the basis of greatest need. The works division will be reopened under the new WPA program. No date has been announced for the beginning of the new program. State officials have announced that it will be started as soon as possible. The FERA money spent in the county amounted to $65,659.26. A total of $43. 378.35 was spent by local units for supplies and materials used with the labor. This made the total of $109,007.61. The new program wll ibe admin(CONTINUED ON PAGE FIVE)

Germany Resents IJFlag Incident In || NewiYork Harbor

Faces Deportation » • i r' 5 Dillinger's "woman in red,” Anna Sage of Chicago, above, faces deportation to Rumania fol- | lowing her arrest on a charge of ! operating a disorderly house. Miss Sage is the woman who is ' said to have attended a movie with the dead gangster the night he was killed by G-men. AVERAGE SCHOOL FIGURES GIVEN Average Daily Attendance In Schools Increased Last Y ear The average daily attendance for the 1934-35 school year in Adams county was 4,542 as compared to 4.487.32 for the preceding school year, according to figures compiled today by Clifton E. Striker, county superintendent of schools. The average daily attendance is compiled by dividing the number of school days taught into the total number of days attended by all school children in the county. The average daily attendance by townships and school cities was: Blue Creek, 172; French. 201; Hartford. 228: Jefferson. 160; Kirkland. 218; Monroe. 469: Preble. 210; Root, 205; St. Mary's, 239; Union. 165; Wabash. 490; Washington. 329; Berne, 391, and Decatur, 1,065. These figures will be used as the basis for the distribution of common school, excise, intangibles and congressional township school funds. The enrollment in the townships and school cities was: Blue Creek, 197; French. 221; Hartford, 252; Jefferson. 188; Kirkland, 255; Monroe. 510; Preble. 235; Root. 224; St. Mary’s. 284; Union. 191; Wabash. 553: Washington. 363; Berne. 410; Decatur, 1,161, and to’al, 5,023. The difference between the enrollment and the average daily attendance is caused by sickness and absence as well as a number of pupils who attended school only the first day of school. Some pupils dropped out of school as soon as they reached the age of 16. The latter were counted as enrolled for the entire year. The report for Decatur showed that there were 902 pupils enrolled in the public schools, 241 at the Catholic school and 18 at orphan homes. Ninety-six pupils were transferred into Preble township parochial schools from other townships or counties. They were as follows: Kirkland, three; Root. (CONTINUED ON PAGE TWO) 0 Auxiliary Glee Club Practices Postponed The American Legion Auxiliaryglee club will not meet for practice tonight, nor a week from tonight. o WEATHER Generally fair tonight and Wednesday except possibly local thundershowers tonight north portion; slightly warmer tonight east; not so warm Wednesday extreme north.

Price Two Cento

Formal Protest Against Action Os Communists On Liner Bremen Filed At Washington. REFUSE COMMENT Washington, July 30. —(U.R) —The German government today presented a formal protest to the United States over the indignities to the German flag perpetrated by three communists aboard the liner Bremen in New York harbor last week. The protest was sent to the state department by Dr. Rudolf Leitner, charge d’affaires of the German embassy, by messenger. The note was in the German language and was sent immediately to the translation division of the state department. Pending translation, state department officials were unable to comment. The protest was a climax in recent furore over alleged discrimination against Jews and Catholics in Germany, which evoked speeches and resolutions by congressmen seeking to investigate whether the United States should break off relations with the Hitler government. The flag incident occurred when demonstrators against Hitler clashed with police aboard the giant liner Bremen in New York harbor shortly before the ship sailed for Germany. Another sore spot concerned the action of Mayor Fiorello Laguardia of New York refusing a license to a German masseur on the grounds (that Germany discriminated against Americans. It was understood that the proI test today dealt entirely with the I flag incident and did not take up | tHe case of the Germaji masseur in 1 New York. It was understood the note protested that New York City authorities failed to give adequate police protection to the Bremen in the face of the threatening crowd. Three communists broke through the police lines and tore the German Nazi flag from the flagstaff of the liner. While officials were uncommunicative, pending a translation and study of the protest, it was understood this government’s position in the case was definite and clear. Reports from New York saidjhe (CONTINUED ON PAGE THREE) —— —o ————— Preliminary Plans For Town Elections Nothan C. Nelson, Democratic county chairman, hae appointed C. H. Busselman of Berne and Earl Souder of Monroe, as temporary chairmen ut organization meetings in those towns. A third man will be appointed at Geneva to act as chairman at the organization meeting there. Meetings will be held in the three towns preparatory to the election of town councilmen and clerk-trea-surers this fall. The officers will bo elected fra term of four years. CORN PROCESS TAX ATTACKED A. E. Staley Company Obtains Temporary Restraining Order Springfield, 111., July 30 —(UP)— The first attack on the federal corn processing tax was launched today when U. S. Dirstrict Judge Charles G. Briggle isued a temporary order restraining collection of the tax from A. E. Staley company of Decatur, 111. Federal officials said the order probably would be followed by applications of other large companies affected by the tux, one of them being The Corn Products Refining company. The Staley company in obtaining the order attacked the constitutionality of he AAA processing tax in the same manner as liarge packing and mllng interests who have obtained injunctions in the federal courts in recent weeks. The Staley case involved a tax of about $750,000 already paid. The older directed tbe comipany to continue paying the tax with the clerk of the court, the money being held in escrow. The restraining order was issued against the collector of internal revenue.