Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 33, Number 232, Decatur, Adams County, 1 October 1935 — Page 1

I. XXXIIt No. 232.

Toll In J County Four In J T wo-Day Period

lur Dixon. Injured [onday Afternoon ;Dies | t Hospital: Struck By | u to Near Geneva. ■eld accidental Ifjc accidents in Adams Claimed their f“ urth I,fe ■Ltlv over .4 hours Monday B whm Arthur Hixon. 49. In- ■ Mr | y Munday afternoon. ■at the'Adam- . ..unty mentorHwpitxi' u _ E,n was fatally injured when |L ,truck l>v an automobile B bv ('lit Nussbaum. Berne, f S highway 27. one mile K of Geneva. injured man was rushed to tai hospital- One leg was K v severed at a point just £ the knee, the other leg was ■ criwhed and Dixon suffered ■nal injuries. He died at 7:52 ■ wav night. K dee.'h raised to four the lof lives snuffed out in 28 ■in the county. Three Fort residents. John Emrick, ■les Emrick and Glen Scar- ■ were killed late Sunday K.v.n when their auto was ■k by a Pennsylvania passen- ■ train at the Monmouth crosNo Relatives ■ton. a transient who told ho«- | attaches his home was in ■on. 111., was being taken to ■ie b> Patrickson Allison, of ■. Ohio. A tire on the Allison ■ went flat and Allison pulled ■he pavement to make neees- ■ repairs. ■e car driven by Nussbaum ■ved from the road into loose ■el and ninned Dixon between ■ two autos Allison wae re■l; from a farm house where ■al fone to obtain tools to aid ■akinir the repairs. ■ssbaum and a companion, ■trt Braun, also of Berne, suf- ■ only slight cuts and bruises. ■ car driven by Nussbaum was ■ slightly damaged hut the ■on car was practically de■hi I Accidental Death ■hile Robert Zwick. Adams IcoynyuED ox page six) Listers Will Meet Wednesday ■e Ministerial Association will It Wednesday morning at 10 o’Ik at the Zion Reformed church linage. he Explodes, No Damage Done le local fire department was pd to th? Mots Sether stor? on |th Second street shortly after [dock this morning, when a coal btove exploded. No damage was Irted. ■ Police Watch For Portland Boy kcal police and Sheriff Dallas w re asked this morning to bn the look-out for Charles Boyd, of Portland who is believed to -hitch-hiking towards Antalte, kois. ile was described as weigh•bout 140 pounds. The authoril here were not informed as to Parents' name or as to why or tn he left home.

■dams County Couple Observe gßth Anniversary Os Wedding

f r - and Mrs. William H. Parr I he Creek township received f congratulations of their many ■ends and relatives as they obeyed their 68th wedding annifeary todav. |~ * ar as 18 known no other ■ V ' ivin 8 in the county have ■* re ed their 68th anniversary, r '’- Parr is in excellent health | 8 Mrs. Pair has been l ln 'a.id for the last seven years. F a V both were feeling fine. IL?. arr * 8 a l &0 one ot four r " ln g Civil War veterans in r atlls county. [More her marriage Mrs. Parr F miss Margaret Jane Foster of P“S county, Ohio. The cereP es were performed October L., ' Bt Ule Methodist Episcopal L rJJ S u at Newark - Ohio, by ‘ B . , ReV ' H. M. Hirvey. er Mr. Parr’s return from

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$75,000 SUIT I RESUMED HERE THIS MORNINC — Member Os Caylor Clinic Staff Testifies For Defense Today Dr. Allen C. Nickels, now a member of th? Caylor and Nickels clinic . at (Bluffton, was placed on the witness stand by the defence this ', morning as the $76,000 damage suit I filed by Cloid Ratliff against Dr. and Mrs. Charles E. Caylor and Dr. Truman Caylor began its third I week. | T'.ie suit, which was vanned to the Adame circuit court from Wells I county, is the one in which Ratliff i Is sueing for the lots of his hands, which he alleges was due to the negligent operation of an X-ray machine at the Caylor clinic where he was treated for eczema. Dr. Nickels testified that l»e Join|cd the Caylor clinic after Ratliff 1 was treated. ' | Dr. Nickels subtantiated previous i testimony of the defense which had j been to the effect that Mrs. Caylor was qualified to give the X-ray ! treatments. He recited the names of th? schools and courses which Mrs. Caylor had attended in preparation for handling X-ray equipment. He testified that she was well equipped to operate an X-ray machine which when given orders as to desage and the factors by physicians. Mrs. Caylor, previously on the stand, had teetifi d that she gave treatments only upon the pre- ■ scrip ion of physicians at the clinic. This testimony was given in | 4CONTINVBD OS PAGE FtVKI CHURCH PLANS JOINT MEETING Official Boards Os Local M. E. Church Meet Wednesday . A joint meeting of the official board and the church school board I of the Methodist Episcopal church will be held Wednesday evening at , 7 p. m. and all members of both organizations are requested to be present. | The new family lists for the lieutenants will be ready for distribu- ! tion and each one is asked To be present to receive his assignment. 1 The entire organization is as follows: section A, C. D. Lewton, cap- ' tain, and Mrs. C. D. Lewton, Mrs. I A. R. Stuckey, Mrs. P. G. Riker, i Daniel Sprang. Milton Hower, Avon Burk. Mrs. John T. Myers and Mrs. H. E. Butler, lieutenants; section B. W. F. Beery, captain and Mr. . and Mrs. E. N. Wicks. Mrs Ross Mallonee, Mrs. Jess Roop. John Parrish. Miss Kathryn Mangold. 1 Mrs. B. R. Farr and Mrs. W. F. ' Beery, lieutenants; section C, Fred ' V. Mills, captain, and Mr and Mrs. ' Alva Lawson, Mr. and Mrs. Fred ’ Busche, H. F. Kitson. C. L. Walters. Mrs. Ed Ehr and Mrs. E. W. Johnson, lieutenants; section D. ' Earl Colter, captain and Sam (CONTINUED ON PAGE FOUR)

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the Civil War he engaged in farming for a number of years. Later he retired and moved to Berne where he became interested in civic affairs. While at Berne lie became a member of the town board and was for a time president of the board. The couple then moved to Blue Creek township where they now live with the T. M. Parr family. Both Mr. and Mrs. Parr were born in Ohio. They moved to Adams county 65 years ago and have been residents and prominent citizens since. The couple have three children: John Parr of Adams county: Mrs. Me-y Blowers. Owensburg. Kentucky, and T. M Parr of Adams county. There are 28 grandchildren, 45 great-grandchildren, and one great-great grandchild.

Ten Die In Chicago Fire - "*j‘ .. .. .. 1 * .• - .Sk Jdp I Il ■■ a -V -i ■ I li . || ; jW-W --i w l THhL ; * .; . ’ ' A- v'. r . -.-mK * . • , — » v . ,«> ««*•■> »• .. . >«w S'— . .. ■- -w Ten died and seven were seriously Injured when fire swept through this three-story Chicago tenement house following two terrific explosions Monday. Note the hole torn in wall by force of the explosions. The operator of the grocery store confessed today that he hired a friend to start the fire because the store was losing money.

OBSERVANCE TO OPEN SATURDAY Plans Are Well Underway For Bible Observance In Decatur Rev. H. R. Carson, pastor of the First Methodist church in this city and hairman of the committee for »be observance of the 490th anniversary of the printing of the EngItsh Bible, announced today that flans were wJI underway for the observance, beginning October 4. in connection with the observance which continues until Deeambrr 8, a display of old Bibles, both of the new and old is being arranged by Rev. M. W. Sundermann, pastor cf the First Evangelical church. The Bibles will be display, d in U»8 window of the Daily Democrat. The influence of the Bible on the world Is contained in the following article, contributed by Rev. Carson. “Four hundred years ago, for the first time, our Bible in English was put into print. Thus, in 1935. the "pages of .power” wrought by the earnest English translator. Myles Coverdale, began to reach as never before the man on the street, in the field or in the shop with their story •h ir message, and their inspiration. What ' ad been the ijossession oj learned men became in a day the common property of the Englishspeaking people. “Today, we look back over four centuries in their history and find amazing 'vidence of the influence of the Bibl? in every aspect of their life and work. To meet their call for tlite Book, more copies of it have been printed and distributed than of any book in any language. "Its poetry, essays, prayers, sermons. proverbs, parables, history, and its supreme biography of all time, — that of Jesus Christ — directly and indirectly (CONTINUED ON PAGE FIVE)

SEEK CROSSING WARNING LOT Petition Circulated For Signal At Monmouth Crossing A petition was being circulated in the city today asking the Pend- j sylvania railroad to insta.ll flasher , signals at the Monmouth crossing, | tour miles north of Decatur. The petition was drawn in the , Daily Democrat office by Al, Schmitt, well known auto dealer, and W. A. Klepper. manager of the Cloverleaf Creameries, inc. The sponsors ata.ted that the names of several hundred people would be obtained and that copies would be sent to the Pennsylvania railroad company and to the state highway edmmission. Within the last four years six persons have been killed at the Monmouth crossing. In 1931, a party of three* Dayton people met death, and last Sunday. John Emrick. Glen Scarberry and Charles Edward Emrick were.killed when, a fast southbound passenger train ( struck their automobile.

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Decatur, Indiana, Tuesday, October 1, 1935.

Open Rehearsals For Legion Play Rehearsals opened Monday evening for "The First Commandment," which will be presented by the local legion post October 8 and 9. Another rehearsal will be held at 7 o’clock tonight for characters in the Joseph episode. The choir will also rehearse. Two of the most important parts In the production will be taken by W. Guy Brown and Joe Elzey, both of whom have had considerable experience in stage work similar to that necessary in this production. Legion officials announced today that tickets have been placed on sale at the Erie grocery and Gladfelter’s service station, in addition to the places listed Monday. COMMITTEE TO MEETTHURSOAY County Wheat Adjustment Committee Will Be Reorganized A meeting of the county wheat adjustment committee has been set for Thursday at 9 a. m. The board will re-organize at that time and officers will be elected. Members of the county committee are the chairmen of the local community committees which represent combinations of townships. The chairmen are: Preble and Kirkland townships. Milton Girod: Root and Washington townships, Winfred Gerke; Union a.nd St. Mary’s townships, John W. Blakey; French, Monroe and Blue Creek townships, Edwin Neuhausen and Hartford, Wabash and Jefferson townships, Ralph S. Myers. A president, vice-president, secretary and treasurer as well as a three man control or allotment board will be selected for an undetermined term. The county committees will have charge of the new four year wheat control contracts. This year there were 237 wheat signers in the county. Growers who sign this fall will receive parity on the 54 per cent of their base yields. Parity represents the difference between the average prices paid for farm prices in the United States and the a,verage price of commodities, the farmer must buy plus taxes and interest. Growers under the new contract will be required to reduce their base acreage only five per cent. The base is the average of their acreage for the years 1930, 1931 (CONTINUED ON PAGE FIVE) q Report Observance Os Traffic Light Police officers report that motorists and truck drivers are observing the traffic light at the intersection of North Second street and U. S. road 27. The police appreciate the cooperation. The light was erected to protect truck drivers and motorists, in view of the heavy traffic on the state road and on North Second street to the Central Sugar and Central Soya plants. Police are watching the crossing and after the first warning, arrest of violators will be made.

G. G. FLANDERS RETIRES TODAY I Postal Dispatch Clerk Is Retired From Active Service George G. Flanders, 313 South 1 Third street, dispatch clerk in the Decatur postoffice was retired from ' the U. S. postal service, effective ■ October 1. Earl Chase, senior auxiliary clerk in the local office, was promoted to ( the position formerly held by Mr. 1 Flanders, Postmaster Phil L. Macklin announced today. Mr. Flanders was retired because of the age limit fixed by thw-post-office department for employes. The maximum age limit for clerks F is 65 years. He was retired on pension. Mr. Flanders was employed in the Decatur postoffice for the past 27 l ysars. He had three years yet to serve before putting in the maximum 30 years, at which time he would have been retired, but in view of the new ruling made by the poetoffice department it was necessary that he retire on account of his age. Postmaster Macklin in annuoncing the change today, commended Mr. Flanders very highly for his ’ service. “He was efficient and cour- ' tous and performed his work well" ’ Postmaster Macklin stated. Mr. Chase has been employed in the Decatur postoffice for the past four years. Mr. Flanders was first appointed to the postal e rvice by former postmaster Maynard “Dyke" Frisinger. It is likely that the postoffice 1 department will order a civil ser- ■ vice examination to fill the vacancy caused in the ranks of the auxiliary . clerks. The two auxiliary clerks are Robert Frisinger and Carrel Cole. Since the establishment of the 40 hour week, the auxiliary clerks • practically have full time employ- ■ ment. substituting for the city carriers and clerks in the office. ■! o ADDITIONS TO PWA PROJECTS Decatur And Geneva Projects Included As Announced Monday Indianapolis. Oct. 1. — (U.R) — Presidential approval of 134 pub- ' lie works administration projects in Indiana and allocation of $5,765,517 to finance the program was announced today by Forrest M. Logan, state PWA director. The projects and allotments in- •' eluded: 'j Adams county—Geneva school. $42,750; Decatur sewage treat- . ment works. $12,727. both outright j grants; Decatur disposal plant, i $73,000 loan. $59,727 grant. ’| Dekalb county — Butler school ’ addition, $lB 000: Garrett school, I $46,975; Richland township school $24,777. i Lake conntv —Winfield township /school $13,095. outright grant: , 1 Hobart disposal plant, $50,000 ~ loan a.nd $40,000 grant: Cedar . township school, $46,860 loan and (CONTINUED ON PAGE FOUR)

CHOIR SINGER CONVICTED OF SLAYING WIFE Newell Sherman Condemned To Death For Wife’s Murder Worcester, Mass., Oct. 1. —(U.R) — Newell Paige Sherman, handsome young choir singer and scoutmaster. was condemned today to death In the electric chair. He drowned his wife so he might prosecute a | back-roads love affair with an 18-1 year-old factory girl. A jury of 12 typically Yankee ( New Englanders, with small tolerance for extra-marital love and ingrained suspicion of those who par - take of it, declared him guilty, af-' ter 10 hours of deliberation, of first degree murder of his wife, I who at 22, was mother of two chil-1 dren. The death sentence is mandatory. Sherman's lawyers announced even before a crowd, in a panic mood, streamed from the courtroom that he would appeal to the s ipreme court. The 220-pound, fi feet. 4 inch defendant took his condemnation with scarcely a quiver, i and announced confidently: "I don't think I’ll die.” “My attorneys will get me an- i other trial.” he added. The jury delivered its verdict at I 1:52 a. in. It found Sherman guilty of deliberately overturning a canoe in which he and his wife were riding on the night of July 20 on Lake Singletary, near Worcester, and of either trampling her to her death in the mist covered waters or of abandoning her. knowing she could ■ not swim. The state charged he committed the crime so he might ask Esther Magill, one of his fellow employes in a machine shop at Whitinsville, I Mass., to marry him. Both he and Miss Magill, 17. at the time their romance began but lately become (CONTINUED ON PAGE FOUR) PRESIDENT ON WESTERN COAST Roosevelt In California; Makes Motor Trip Into Nevada Memorial Coliseum, Los Angeles. Oct. I.— (U.R.' —Economic America has come through the stormy seas into fair weather, president Roosevelt today told a huge California audience gathered in the coliseum to bld him welcome. The chief executive expressed his views based on the observation of his swing across the conti nent that took him into the great industrial, agricultural, and mining regions. "As you know I have not come here today to speak formally or even to speak to you about the problems of your national government," he said. “I can tell you truthfully, however. that in crossing the continent, I have been heartened, more than anything else, by the look of people's faces. “In these past years I have sought to understand the trials and great difficulties under which such a large number of our people labor. 1 have tried to visualize the insecurities that have beset the lives of millions of our families." Aboard Presidential Special, en route to Los Angeles, Oct. I.—(U.R) —President Franklin D. Roosevelt entered California today after a whirlwind visit to Nevada, which he climaxed by confounding the army, navy, secret service members of his secret aerial staff, and others. Shortly after he dedicated Boulder Dam, he decided upon an automobile trip into the mountains. This venture, while it had its hum(CONTINI’ED ON PAGE SIX) o Scottish Rite Choir To Present Program The Scottish Rite choir of Fort Wayne will present a program at the Presbyterian church Friday evening, October 11, at seven-thirty o’clock. The program will be given for the Masons and their friends and will be announced later. o WEATHER Fair tonight and Wednesday; cooler tonight with heavy frost except light extreme south; rising temperature central and north I Wednesday.

France, Britain Near To Complete Accord In Crisis

FOUR INJURED i IN COLLISION THIS MORNING Highway Department Truck And Passenger Car Collide Four men are patients at the ! Adams county memorial hospital as the result of an automobile collision at the intersection of U. S. highway 27 and state highway 124 one mile west of Monroe and six miles south of Decatur a.t about 10 o’clock this morning. Roland Case, 32, an inspector at; the General Foods company at Battle Creek. Michigan, is the most severaly injured. A preliminary exaniijnat.ion this moi'n'ng revealed that he was suffering from shock, had a deep triangular, laceration on his scalp and a number of body lacerations and bruises. It was not believed that he sustained a skull fracture. With Case was Jesse Cruse, 45 also an employe of the General Food company at Battle Creek, Michigan. He sustained only minor lacerations, bruises and shock. Two state highway engineers were passengers in the other car. The driver was Charles Henley of Poneto. Wells county. He suffered slight lacerations and bruises. The other highway department engineer was Warren Kelley Shoemaker, 48, who gave his address as Bluffton. He is suffering from lacerations and bruises. This morning officials had found no eve-witnesses to the accident. The Michigan car was going south on U. S. highway 27. The force of the collision hurled the ear down the road 30 or 40 feet where it overturned. The other automobile wa<3 owned by the state highway denart- [ ment. After the impact it struck a cement culvert at the southwest corner of the road where it stonned. A deen ditch was on the other side of the culvert. The truck was headed east. U. S. highway 27 is a through road. The state highway 124 is marked by stop signs. The front of the state highway department automobile was damaged. The Michigan ca.r was al-' most demolished. - 1 ■■ 1 " o ■ - - Portland Resident In Accident Today A. A. Curry, distributor for the Gulf Gasoline company, and a resident of Portland, escaped serious injury at about 10 o'clock this morning on U. S. highway 27 5T4 miles south of Decatur when his car eraser d into a retaining wall. The accident happened at almost the same time as the collision a half mil? farther south on the U. S. highway. Mr. Curry told officials that he looked behind his car and failed to observe the curve which is located just south of the point where the old r<&d leads into Mouroe. Hie car crashed into the retaining wall which prevented it from hurling in*o th- d?ep ditch on the other side. The front of the atomobile was damaged but Mr. Curry was unhurt. *1

Circulation Grows The sworn statement of circulation of the Decafur Daily Democrat, published in today’s edition, shows a total of 3260 daily average circulation for the six months ending October 1, 1935. This is one of the highest peaks ever reached by the HOME PAPER. During September 39 New subscriptions were added to the mailing list, in addition to those who subscribed for the paper to be delivered by the carrier in the city. The Decatur Daily Democrat goes into nearly every home in Decatur and In a majority of the homes in the local trading territory.

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American Missionaries Will Remain At Post Regardless Os Danger In Event Os War. EXPECT FIGHTING (By United Press) Latest developments in the j Ethiopian situation. Addis Ababa — American misi sionarles, deciding to stay at post, ! are equipped with gas masku ! against air raids. Hillside dugout prepared for 65 American residents of capital. Paris — Italy, fearing England will close Gibraltar, specifies 120,000 tons of coal ordered from France must be delivered over- , land if necessary. Prince of Wales ! talks with French officiate. Gibraltar — British battleship Queen Elizabeth arrives to rein- , force Mediterranean fleet. Rome — Italians await news of fighting in Ethiopia, expecting it momentarily. j Via Asmara —Aduwa, scene of Italy’’s crushing defeat in 1896, will be first Italian objective, I Webb Miller finds on visit to front. London — Britain has sounded out other nations besides France on whether they will support her in event of war. Chancellor of exchequer announces that international crisis makes currency stabilization out of the question at present. Djibouti — French prepare for war along railway to Addis Ababa. Brighton — British government is “criminally responsible” for not having checked Mussolini eooner, speaker tells labor congress. Paris, Oct. I—(U.R)—Britain1 —(U.R)—Britain and France moved a stage nearer to complete unity today in the face . of the growing menace of war, -aud an official spokesman said the chances were three to one that France would support Britain. This development came after : “vitally important” talks between I (CONTINUED ON PAGE FIVE) DISTRICT MEET HERE THURSDAY Fort Wayne District Os M. E. Societies To Meet Here The annual convention of tha Woman’s Foreign Miseionary Society of the Fort Wayne district of the North Indiana conference of Methodist Episcopal churches will be held in the Decatur Methodtet church Thursday. The convention will be in three session, morning, afternoon and evening. The morning program will oi;en with registration at 8:30 o’ckck and at 12:20 o’clock a luncheon will be served, followed with the afternoon session at 1:15 o’clock. At 6:30 o’clock in the evening a Young People’s banquet will be served in the lecture room, and the evening session at 7:30 o’clock is open to the public. Pauline Westcott. a missionary from China, will be the speaker at the evening program. Following is the complete proI (CONTINUED ON PAGE FOUR)