Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 33, Number 205, Decatur, Adams County, 29 August 1935 — Page 1

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Hamilton 1 HaJ Been Killed '1 [luring Gun Battle

■wuestThis Morning Re- ■ veals Gangster A Vic- ■ tim Os (i ’ Me,fs Bul ' CtS ■ |nl934.____ I [\ST OF GANG Hii ~, 73 29 XU.P.)-John wa* "I"" “ nd "“d ’ JB’Lwat South St. Paul. Minn,. ■*3 -3 11 wa! * revealed I .. an wlli<h f,,110w ‘ ■Lovery <>f his body in an | “ d grav.'l pit near here. K coroner’s jury returned a ■" , w Hamilton came to his Mr;',,. S un slid wounds from unknown but we believe Hamilton." p Brown ami I 'ante; i”. Sub ,'pooial agents Os the departO s justice working out of |K3„ testified at the inquest were duty bond to keep the Sdire.- of their in■utM lhi " ,lis,ov “ ry of body. did reteal for the firs* seme of the details of the ■inionths s-an I, that the departof just: - prosecuted for whib- minors were ramin the umlei world first that was ih-ad and then that alive. Brown disclosed that exantinKjoa of Hamilton’s body convincMlthe agents who found it that he ■ns wearing a bull"’ Proof vest at ■time lie wa< shot in the South Ml Paul battle but the vest was armor against the Kerf'll rides in the hands of the men. agents revealed that for they had been acting on assumption I -* Hamilton was Kiid and had been searching for Kubody "W. dug into the ground Making for a shallow grave in al Kg a dozen differ, nt spots before found the right one,” ■zt: testified. His story reflectti what had been the watchword I the department of justice, ‘‘Find Lilton. dead or alive”. ’Sullivan in his testimony told of ke discovery of the partially de■posed body and the difficult ■stißiation. He said no trace ns found of the wound Hamilton ns supposed to have received in I South Bend bank holdup. Other marks, however, made the testification "positive,” he said. Paces of sandy red hair and the ■lie* in Hamilton's spine were kt clues of identity. Difficulty was encountered in kdieg the body since the confi(COXTINTED ON PAGE SIX) o PIIILICLIf CALLS HISER A LIAR School Girl Publicly Denounces Noted Writer As A Liar N'e*v York. Aug. 29— (U.R) — A tallusioned school girl called ks father a liar in the public fflst today. His lies, she said, ••re "deliberate, malicious, ini'ous lies.” The accused was H. Bedford®b’. an exceptionally prolific •tl’er who made himself a mtl“®‘lre writing for the “PuipPaper” magazine. The accuser was 17 year old incy Bedford-Jones, a college student who does not approve of Present day political and social brranization and is militantly de“mined to do, personally, something about it. Basic cause for the quarrel of ° aug “ ter against father involved e 'alidity of the social order, •as directly precipitated by an ’ lcle In the current Libertv magazine which she alleges is row his pen, though signed bv another name. M ? rldag in the New Masses, a ." a we ®kly with pronounced j ™ u nlst sympathies, she said ather had betrayed her and daa >"’ She US6 ’ d the P ast fli»M teMe ln "Peaking of her obL ?■ For the mos ‘ Part ann»" e y Put ‘ heart ‘break was e 8s ’ n ‘ botween ,he line " ot her her father effeCt ’ ® he diaowned anL lhe CUrrent Liber ty «" an “Shaw” in •CONTINUjjd ON PAGE SIX)

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Rotary Speaker ..-&L <2! i-Y Ar a &sl! \ wH j Donald H. Smith. Van Wert. ()., will address the members of the Decatur Rotary club at the weekly meeting of the club this evening at tne Rice hotel. Mr. Smith will epeak on "Peculiarities of the Presidents.” BERNE TO ASK A NEW SCHOOL Application To Be Made This Week For Federal Fund Grant ■An application will .be (presented thi-3 week to the PWA for the approval of a SIOO.OOO school bouse at Kerne with a 45 per cent grant from the government. Fred Pohlmeyer. an architect of Fort Wayne, hao submitted preliminary plans to the Bern ? school | board. The proposed structure would be a 20-room eo’.'.ool, with a larg? asaetibly roam or home room, domestic sei one? ream, manual trainhg Voom, offices and a large number of class rooms, it would be a U-typs building and would not includ a gymnasium nvr auditorium. It would be so constructed that an additicn could be built if the need for it arose in the future. Th? stockholders of the Berne auditouirm have indiiat d that they will not opsone the construction of the school building, providing no additional money is expended for a gymnasium or public auditorium. The school officials have been using the Berne auditorium for the last 13 years. Berne has had a school ground offered it forth. last 13 years. Sa n Nussbaum offered th? 24 lots in the Nussbaum addition for school purposes 13 years ago. The first grant was for ID years. It was renew-cd by the school board three y ars ago. Th' valuation of Berne is $1,563,490 and the school town .could be bonded for $30,000. The civil town. I which is bonded for $25,000 for the j water works, could be bonded for only $5,000. Salvag? from the old building is estimated at from $20,000 to $25,04)0. With the government’s grant of 45 per cent or $45,000 this would make the total amount of funds available equal more than the SIOO.000. o Berne Telephone System Improved — The conduit system for the telephone lines west of the railroad in Berne has been .completed by the; Citizens telephone company and the Workmen are now busy under the didection of Charles Hear?, superindirtetio nos Charles Heare, superintendent of the company, removing all .f the firi's old utility poles. The Berne town officials have Issued a statem.nt thanking the Citizens Tel i hone com . any for the new system which wil ladd to the at-, tractlveneas of the town. An expression of thanks was also given to Herman F. Ehingsr. general manag er of the concern. o — Burl Johnson To Be Sworn Sunday Indianapolis, Aug. 29. — (U.R) Sixty-two graduates of the state police training school will be sworn In as state patrolmen and bus inspectors here Sunday, Donald Stiver, safety director announced today. Burl Johnson, former Adams county sheriff, is one of the new appointees.

BOARD ORDERS BUILDING NEW ’ GENEVA SCHOOL State Tax Board Issues Order For Construction Os Building The state .board of tax commissioners Wednesday approved the petition to construct a new school house at Geneva, and Decatur Democrat was iniormed today by Albert F. Walsman. a member of the state board of tax commissioners. Only the PWA approval by the federal government is still to be gained before the project can be start d. State approval was given by Forrest M. Logan, state PWA director, who then forwarded the ■ plans and specifications with the i application to Washington. The petition filed same time ago I by over 500 residents of Geneva eeti- ! mated the total cost of the building to be SIOO,OOO. The government will .pay 45 psr cent of this amount j or $45,000 it the construction is approved as a PWA project. The civil and school townships of Wabash ask. d in the petition for bond issues totaling $45,000. The rest of the cost would be regained by using the materials salvaged from the old building. The rcmonstrators took exception to the issuance of bonds, stating that the old .building could be repaired satisfactorily for $7,700. | Charles H. Houck of Muncie, engin--1 eer employed by the petitioners, esti-mat.d that the cost of the repairs would be $21,000. Mr. Walsman in his letter stated: "The writer stopped and personally examined the building Monday afternoon, and believes that with th- propoeed expenditures of $7,700 or $21,000 repairs only could be made, whereas by th? expenditure of the amount of the bend issue which is only $24,000 in excess of the highest trtlmate, a whol? comi piste ne wfir proof building can be secured. This we believe to be good business, ther fore .our approval of the larger amount.” Th = estimate filed with the PWA , '’(■.VTJVTpn nV PAGE TWO' DEATH CLAIMS DECATUR LADY Mrs. Bernadine Smith Dies At Home Today; Funeral Monday Mrs. B rnadin? Smith. 74. promin- | ent and respected rtsident of Decaur for 61 years, died at her home, 34 South Fifth street at 10:10 o’lock t-. is morning. Dtath followed a stroke of .paralysis which Mrs. Smith suff.r?d last Saturday evening. She had been ailing all summer and had previously suffered a stroke three y ars ago. Mrs. Smith was a member of the : St. Mary’s Catholic church, the Sacred Heart League, the St. Mary’s i Sodality and the Third Order of : St. Francis. She was born in Muenster, West- : phalia, Germany on June 16, 1861 | Sha came to this country when 13 years of age and settled in Decatur I She had resided on South Fifth [street over 50 y;ara. She was united in marriaga to Th :dore Smith, pioneer resident : of Deiatur, who preceded her in I death 32 years ago. Four children survive: Martin J. Smith, Gertrude and Anna Smith of Decatur; and i Sister M. Laurine, C. S. A. Crown 1 Point. A daughter, Clara and a eon Bernard, are deceased. Fuifral | rviceu will be iheld Monday morning at 9 o’clock at the St. Mary's Catholic church with R.v. Father J. J. Seimetz officiating at the solemn requiem high maw. Burial will be made in the i Ca’holic cem. tetry. The body will be returned to the ■ home from the Yager "Frothers undertaking parlors tonight, and may '.be, viewed from Friday until time I for the funeral. o — To Appoint Local Man As Manager Walter A. Terpenning, regional management adviser of the Re settlement administration, Wash ■ ington, D. C., was in the city to- : day conferring with H. G. Halsey I project manager of Decatur Homesteads. Mr. Halsey will complete his work in the next few weeks. It is the intention of the depart- , ment to name a local manager who will supervise the final details in connection with finishing ' the roadways and grounds at the site.

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Decatur, Indiana, Thursday, August 29, 1935.

Fire Bug Arrested I jK / ’ ■ 1 ■ -a J t r 1 Denver’s reign of terror from a fire bug ended with arrest of Warren R. Cramer, above, 17-year-old r Oakland. Cal., youth, who police ' said admitted touching off more 5 than 20 fires in four days because • he liked the scream of fire engine ' | sirens. 'MUSSOLINI IS PREPARING FOR THREE YEAR WAR > Italian Cabinet Mobilizes Economic, Financial Resources r' •, (Copyright 1935 by United ? With the Italian Army, Bolzano, 1 Aug. 29 —<U.R>—Fascist Italy was put on a war time basis today by L a cabinet steeled to defy the j league of nations and wage war ! if need be on two continents. Economic and financial resources were mobilized in a series of I decrees of startling scope that indicated Benito Mussolini was pre- » pared for a three year struggle. The dramatic ‘ war" cabinet. meeting which Mussolini called at the government palace here, interrupting gigantic army maneuvers, I proved worthy of its name. If there had been a lingering' ' n*'‘ in the mind of any statesman regarding Italy’s course, it was dispelled by a communique ‘ issued soon after the meeting; ended last night. The communique covered every ■ nh aqe of the Italian-Ethiopian crisis, outlined Italy’s case, cover- ■ ed all questions which statesmen : have been asking, and provided • means to wage war against any- • body who wanted it. It was announced that there > ••■>u , d be another cabinet meeting > on Sept. 14. The league of nations i council meeting is set for Sept. 4. trONTTNtTWr GN PAGE FIVE) o SAY LINDBERGH ■ 1 SON IS ALIVE I Hauptmann Attorneys Assert Child Is Still Living Hollywood Aug. 29—(UP) —The first born son of Col. Charles A. Lindb.rgh still lives, and they can ' produce him in court, attorneys for Bruno Richard Hauptmann contended today. On the basis of the assertion, the counsel planned to seek a new trial for Hauptmann, convicted of murdering ths child and sentenced to ’ die in the electric chair. The disclosure was made after a conference of Lloyd Fisher, .counsel for Hauptmann, with Mrs. Emma Gloeckntr, sister of the convicted man. > The boy, five years and six months old and “the image of the Lindbergh baby,” is said to be in ■ custody of a Flushing. Long Island i family whicl took him from an orphange and adopted him. Mrs. Gloeckener said she saw the , child on a recent trip to New York. “The boy strongly resembles picture of the Lindbergh baby," she said. “My sister-in-law, Mrs. Hauptmann. found him accidentally one day while he was playing in the street.” Fingerprints of the Lindbergh (CONTINUED ON PAGE SIX)

TOWNSHIP MUST PAY EDUCATION Washington Township Must Pay Transfer For Homestead Pupils Walter J. Krick, superintendent of the Decatur public schools, this morning received official notice ’ from the state department of public instruction that Washington i township is obliged to pay the cost of education for children of families residing at the subsistence homestead site south of Decatur. According to this notice, Washington township will be forced to pay transfer costs for the pupils to the Decatur schools, which are located nearest to the homestead site. An opinion on the case was rendered by the office of the state attorney general, and the letter explaining .‘he opinion is as follows: “August 28, 1935. "Dear Mr. Krick: "I have made careful investigation relative to the school situation which you have presented and have been advised that the school corporation in which your homestead is located is obligated to educate the children. This may seem somewhat irregular, however, I have been advised by the attorney general's office that this case would be handled somewhat similar to that of the children of the army officers located on government property, prior to the enactment of the special law in 1933. The special law to which I refer provides that the children of soldiers may attend any school within the county in which they are located. "We are unable to see our way clear to advise you that this law would be applicable to your case, therefore, it seems that the general law which was applicable to the army officers’ children prior to this special law would apply in your case. “Should I learn of anything more helpful for you I should be glad to communicate with you at once. I’Yours very truly, "Grover Van Dyn, "Assistant Superintendent of Public Instruction.” | O =r—„. .1 NORMAN THOMAS AT TERRE HAUTE Indiana City Is Center Os Socialist Activities — Terra Haute, Ind., Aug. 29 —(UP) i —Defying threatened arrest by mill-! tary and civil authorities, Norman Thomaa, h;ad of the so-ialist party. | demanded the end of martial law here today in an address from the l court bouse steps. He was permitted to complete hie talk to more than 2,000 listeners without molestation. Arrest of the national socialist leader had been threatened if he violated the military rule .prohibiting outdoor speeches. “I deny Gov. McNutt the right to give or deny me the right to speak anywhere,” Thomas shouted at the opening of his address. It was on the same steps that Leo Vernon, 27-year old Madison Wis., socialist, was arrested while criticizing city and state administrations so ruse of troops during a general strike. Powers Hapgood, state socialist leader, subseqpantly was arrested when he protested that Vernon’s power of free speech had been abrogated by militia authorities. The socialists were massing their forces to fight their battle through every available law court and through an appeal to the highly tin- 1 ionized ipopulace of this area. . Other speakers scheduled were . Hapgood; Aaron S. Gilmartin, sec-retary-treasurer of the Labor and socialist defense committei?, and Max Schafer, vice president of the Vigo county Labor Union. Hapgood was warned by Maj. , Earl Weimar, .commander of the National Guard unit here, at the ( time of his release Tuesday that he ( was not to make any open air , (CONTINUED ON PAGE SEVEN) -0 — * Liquor Hearing Held Wednesday ’ — The Adams county alcoholic beverages board in a meeting [ Wednesday in the county clerk’s office held a hearing for the petl- 1 tion for a beer, wine and alcohol license submitted by the Moose lodge. The lodge is now operating , under a beer retailer's license.

DEMOCRATS MAY JOIN IN FIGHT ON HUEY LONG Several Senators May Enter Drive Against Senator Long Washington, Aug. 29. — <U.R) — Prediction that a senatorial flying squad might pursue Sen. Huey P. Long through the farm belt during the presidential campaign year coincided today with a general administration drive gaainst the Louisiana kingfish. “If he gets out of his territory we might go after him," Sen. Lewis Schwclienbach, D., Wash., told the United Press. Schwellenbach Is one of half a dozen Democratic senate freshmen who ganged Long on occasion during the session just closed. During the kingfish's all night filibuster laat June Schwellenbach and other back benchers repeatedly stood and chorused their objection to Long’s pleas that the senate adjourn so he could cease standing and talking. They made him stand and talk. Long killed the third deficiency bill last Monday night in the final hours of congress. The measure contained funds for railroad pen-. slons and for Initiating the social i security program of aid for the aged, the blind, and for children. ' President Roosevelt, Senate Majority Leader Robinson and other administration Democrats evidently have decided to impress "non the country the fact that Long blocked those appropriations. Mr. Roosevelt spoke of it with emnhasis yesterday at his press conference. Lo«s than two davs after congress adjourned, Mr. Roosevelt | annoin*ed Philip Albares, a bitterly anti-Long Democrat. United , States marshal for the eastern ‘ Louisiana district. The appoint'ment further strengthened an'i-. ' '.one forces holding federal office iin Louisiana. The recess apnointment effectively forestalled a Lonir fieht against confirmation in the j senate. Robinson discussed in detail the I imnistv n»- o ip C t a imneded | by Long and announced he would ask the senate next session to ! amend its rules against “one ; man filibusters.” United Front New Orleans, Aug. 29 — (U.R) — . | Anti-Long Democrats sought to : marshall every possible resource “nd to achieve an entirely united front today in a “do or die” fight . .TX-f-nn nV P»GE SEVEN* Lewton Funeral Services Friday Funeral services for Lowell Ed- ” ard Lewton, 2. who died at the Adams county Memorial hospital at 1:45 o’clock Wednesday afternoon ' of pneumonia, will be held at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Paul Garner, route 1 D?catur, Friday afternoon at 1:30 o’clock and at 2 o’clock at the Antioch (Beery) o’jurch. Rev. Harold Spencer will officiate and burial will be in the Decatur cemetery. ROGERSLEAVES ALL TO WIDOW Humorist’s Widow Is Sole Heir To Will Rogers’ Estate Hollywood, Aug. 29—(UP)— A ’presentiment will” by which the late Will Rogers, cowboy philosophmade his widow sole heir to his estimated $5,000,000 estate was on tile here today. Th? will was dated August 3, just ‘ 12 days before Wil y Post’s “Little Red Bus’’ plung’d into an icy .Alaskan stream, bearing the humorist and toe round-the-world flijbr to their deaths. Whether or not Rogers had a presentiment of death before he took off on the Alaskan trip probably never will be known. His gay bearing before the trip would s?em to deny it. But actors are iprone to believe in signs and portents, and many here today thought that Will must . have heard a faint “warning." The will, written on a single sheet of paper, was cached in toe probate .clerk’s safe, and a copy was placed in th? files. It read: “I, Will Rogers, hereby .publish and declare my will: “My wife’s name is Betty Rogers. (CONTINUED ON PAGE SEVEN)

Queen Os Belgians Killed Instantly In Auto Accident

G-Men P’-nbe Death ” J ' --wli Sr <'iV/ ■

G-Men launched an investigation into the strange death of Joseph Hurley, assistant United States attorney, who was discovered seated on a curbing on a Boston. Mass., street, his skull fractured. Shortly before hia death, Hurley told police he suffered a fainting spell, but was unable to explain his injuries. Police believe Hurley may have been the victim of racketeers whom he had been prosecuting.

END PAINTING AT HOMESTEAD All Houses Painted; New Drive To Be Completed September 15 The painting of the 48 houses at the homsesteads development hsre was completed by a crew of 25 men Wednesday evening. The staking out of t'a.e grades for the new drive will be completed this week. Th? road will be completed by S p ern , r 15, providing bad weather docs not detain the work. A car load of oil was received Thursday for the roads. The rest of < th? oil will be received next week. Th? government is building the road through a for •? account. The labor will be employed and the marials purchased by ths government. The equipment has been rentd from Mes-bergere’ Stone com--1 pany at Linn Grove. This company will also furnish the expert road men to supervise the work. A dispat. h from Washington D. C. has been received by the local office discussing th? work done on th? homesteads in the United States. This is: “The United States suburban resettlement division of the’ resettlement administration has announced the compl.tion of one half of the active projects turned over to it on June 16 tiom the subsistence homesteads division of the department of the interior. ‘There were 22 projects transferred on wnich work had actually begun. Eleven of these are soon to be put in the hands of the management division for permanent admin- ' istration.. “A total of $1,810,654 was spent in the construction of 522 individual homesteads, many of which are already occupied. “Streets, roads, water and sewage ' disposal barns and outbuildings ' have been provided. “Among the 11 projects there are 75 three room houses, 277 four room couses, 161 five room houses and seven with six rooms.” o Kirkland Program Tonight Cancelled Hansel Foley, Kirkland school principal, today announced that the amateur program, scheduled to be held to night at the Kirkland gymnasium, has been cancelled because of conflicting circumstances. The program will be held within a few weeks. o WEATHER Generally fair northeast, unsettled west and south, showers southwest tonight and west and south Friday; continued cool.

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Automobile Driven By King Leopold Skids And Overturns Into Swiss Lake. SWEDISH PRINCESS I (Copyright 1935 by UP.) Zurich, Switzerland, Aug. 29 — Death struck again at the tragic Belgian rolay family today when a car driven by King Leopole 111 skidded on the shores of Lake Luc- ■ <.rne and catapulated Gueen Astrid against a tree, .killing: her instantly. Astrid was catapulated from the car to a tree. Her skull was fractured. Leopold, dazed from head injuries, staggered to her side and found her dead. The pretty Swedish princess who married Leopold in 1926 after a romance which started in their childhood at a Swedish castle, was in the back seat. The chauffeur was sitting in front, beside Leopold. The couple were on their way from Lucorne to Luessmacht, where they own a villa on the lake shore. On a part of the road strangely considered very safe, the car skidded. It got out of control, swerved against a tree, overturned and was thrown into the lake. Leopold was given first aid for i his head injuries and, still dazed, was taken to Horw, on the outskirts of Lucerne, where he and i the queen had been staying until their departure for their own villa. Queen Astrid's death ended a happy reign over subjects who loved her. She ascended the throne only last year, when Leopold’s father, war-time King Albert, was I killed while climbing a peak of I the Marches-des-Dames hills near Namur, Belgium. The spot was a favorite of the I late Albert in his long mountain climbing expeditions, and Queen Astrid met her death today at a spot which she and Leopold loved. They spent the summer at Lucerne t as often as they could. > Her death leaves the Belgian t succession to the throne safe. She gave Leopold three children—Prin- , cess Josephine Charlotte, who is ; i; Prine? Boudonin, Duk? of Brabant and heir to the throne, who (CONTINUED ON PAGE SEVEN) O City Hearing Will Be Held Sept. 4 A h.aring on the city’s petition ;o transfer and appropriate additional money to th general fund will be held Wednesday, September 4 at 10 a. m. at the court house. C. A. Ketchum, member of the state tax board notified County .Auditor John W. Tyndall of th. hearing. 0 OPPOSE WOMEN ASBARTENDERS Anti-Saloon League Leaders To Fight For Prohibition Return Winona Lake, Ind., Aug. 29 — , (UP) —Decrying employment of wo- , men as bartenders and widespread . drinking of liquor .by young people, leaders of the Anti Saloon League of America today launched a campaign to bring back .prohibition “as . soon as posible.” Temperance leaders from 11 mid- , die western states here for their . annual meeting, adopted resolutions i calling for “an unremitting warfare I against liquor traffic until another nation-wide ban is possible.” “The present deplorable conditions Indicate the complete folly of repeal and failure of so-called liquor control.” toe resolutions said. “Alarming increase of drinking ! among young people, the debasing | influen.ee of women bartenders and wo.ren drinking at bare, continued increase in number of deaths from drunken driving and a general break of morale Indicate the need for continued activity to breakdown the drink habit and finally overthrow legalized liquor traffic.” The leaders subsequently voted to wag: a nation-wide educational campaign to overcome propoganda of liquor interests, renewed campaigns to obtain local option laws and approval of the Cap>per Bill introduced in the recent session of congress to prohibit advertising of alcoholic beverages also were voted.