Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 33, Number 256, Decatur, Adams County, 29 October 1935 — Page 1

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died bandit takes poison M IAIL CELL ygei j enu kes Commits H>ide Rather Than ■eturn To Jail >llfnry . - -iiii'iug diniinii K*lt. ■ i ■ lll,l " r BK , elid-d ;i ■ I .. < til. 1,., i. Kj ; ,;u:d:i: in the -tale ad ■ til*' _-n.it :<>n of War- :. Kip's; rney'i- police. night, at,. breakfast :, . on K , a, .. toil- When 11" ... Bind worked (ranith physicians to save his | was transferred to the' oapital. but was found to ' Ml arrival. Niles declared Fernekes 1 n either arsenic or strye- j police ordered an autopsy | ,-sis of his breakfast to dehow he killed himself. Po-J minutely examined his i > learn how Fernekes con- 1 ■ A rl i " ilar of Fernekes' Kiledihe death dose there. i li a.nt. in li" KKkr .i‘iri'l ■ of death for but escaped hanging when court reversed the de'ii'k'-- id ntified as robbed the N. Y. state bank in ii cashier and a police■Bn -.-lain II <■ record also iu;::i.. "0- lesser crimes in a: Valparaiso. Ind. I for ,d refused. On August . - smoked ■liaagßd into a smuggled suit of tore from his upper lip tape under which he had ru .ii-t.i and walked oat ■lre ■non gates. Ho was released by the guards who ■tad •tched him for 10 years, --lll.Oil'll B>ribut it did show that Fern b eii directing stock marJrt derations from his jail cell. Bbs is supposed to have conbetween $60,000 end SIOO,it from his robberies, having a reputation for thrift. once was arrested in a ■ here studying a profound on chemicals and evplosWf pre-ii.r.ab I .} developing his nowldge of the beet way to blow M safe. 1 ' al.-o was etart- d today for ■Mian" with whom Fernekes by the proprietor of a | house where he lived be-1 oreiiu capture. brotherhood To Entertain Sons brotherhood of the First ' church will sponsor the . H 1 father and son banquet at j "Syrch Friday night at 6 o’clock. ] H. Mueller, pastor of the rS i vang lical church in Indiana- j J®®! w bo is also the conference of Christian education of will be the banDr. Mueller is a popn“r®b!er among the young people ® speak on the subject, ‘'Where "* J®«lee?" I ringing and other pel? exans win feature the banquet, nan of the church is asked to his son to the banquet. The ihood has an objective of ?n and boys present. Tickets e l’ r °cured for 30 cents from I evident, Earl Fuhrman, or at . Ui ' the night of the banquet, i ■test Building ‘ Huntington Stadium cl^f2 n 8n ’ Ind " Oct ' 29—(Spe-i Taxpayers of Huntington ! ism* ' gned a ren '°nstrance to the of sii,ooo to covsr t'he ■ i-i new high school stadium. BB* at H a Un,ington ech ° ol City has w<X e *^ at llle new structure “re iskt Mt t 2 ’’ 000 ' Sch ° ol officials the PWA to furnish $9,-

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Project Is Approved For Local Hospital A WPA project to make curtains, i sheets, pilllow costs, gowns and bandages for the Adams county | memorial hospital has been approved by the Fort Wayne WPA head ' quart rs. The project will give employment Ito four women for three months. The federal allotment is $528. The local cost for materials is $229, making a total of $757. W. T. Owens, district director of the WPA. made the announcement. PARADE STARTS B:ISTHIIRSDAY Callithumpian Parade ' Will Be Held Here Halloween Night The Callithumpian parade here Thursday night will begin at 8:15 I o'clock sharp, Jess Rice, chairman ■ of the affair announced today. It ' in sponsored and the cash prizes , totaling over sl3l furnished by the j Decantr Chamber of Commerce, which is being assist d in the arrangements by the Decatur Junior Cham >er of Commerce. Aerial bombs furnished *by the Decautr roller skating rink will officially announce the beginning of the parade. Second stree.t from Jefferson to Monroe street, will be blocked off i al 6 o’clock. Hoy Scouts will the local pciice in this work. Everyon? in Decatur and surrounding communities has been in I vlted to take part in the giant par- ’ ade and to compete for the prizes. Police Chief Sephue Melchi today reiterated his utaj?ment requesting 1 that boys and young men in the city j take cognizance of the efforts made 1 by the two clubs ta entertain them. Chief Melchi urged that there bo no'i roprty damage this year. The .meeting places of the various participants in the parad > were announced today by Mr. Rice. 1 House riders are requested to i m et on Cort etreet headed west. Drivers of decorated automobiles are requested to meet -n .tofferson •street east of Third street, headed west. All dealers cam are requested to meet on Jefferson street, h adeil east. Masked paratiers ar? to meet on Third street between Monroe and Madison otr?eto. Red flares will be furnished the paraders to give color to the event. The parade will be entered with Dierke’s eteam calliope which has become an inotitutim in CallithumI pian paradeo here. Official Board Meets Wednesday The official board of the Methodist Episcopal church will meet at 7:30 p. m. Wednesday. All members are urged to be present ae business of importance will be discussed. Final reports will be made on the campaign for a new b; iler and other | items. Quarterly statements will be ready for distriibution. Final plans will be made for the evangelistic j campaign from November J to -’l. —— o STATE SLASHES THREE LEVIES Reductions Ordered Today In Three Township Tuition Levies Reductions in the tuition rales iof Jefferson. Root and Hartford 1 townships of Adams county weie ordered today by the tax board, according to a I nited Press dispatch to the Daily Democrat. The board cut the Hartford township tuition levy from 4.. to 35 cents; Jefferson township tuition from 50 to 37 cents ami Root township tuition from 15 to 3 cents. Based on the valuations in the i three townships the tuition fund cuts wiil he as follows. Root township. $2,558 to $511; Jefferson i township from $4,615 to $3,41a. and ' Hartford township from $4,178 to I $3,645. The tuition fund budgets for the three townships in 1936 are Root. $7,285: Jefferson, $7,500, a,nd Hartford, $6,299. On July 31 the three townships had the following balances in their tuition funds: Root. $6,858: Jefferson. $5,345, and Hartford. $6,299. The townships will get the following amounts for their tuition funds in December from the No(CONTINUED ON PAGE FIVE)

I CHANGE RULES ON WPA WORK WPA Workers May Take Private Employment For Short Periods John M. Doan, Washington township truntee, has been informed • that WPA workers may now take private employment for short times without losing their work certifications. Under tlie old rule WPA workI ers were urged to take private employment when possible. However, under these regulations they were required to go on direct ret lief for 30 days before they could ' | make an application for certification back on work relief. In some 1 cases the certifications were not i made for from two to three . < months. , For thio reason PWA workers , were hesitant about taking private employment which might lie for j a short time only. Among those , who suffered under tills system were farmers who were unable to . get field hands for the heavy part of the sea.son's work. WPA men would rather take less money for several weeks and be sure that it would continue. f Vnder the new regulations WPA workers may take private employment for any period of time and ‘ l lien be immediately eligible for certification back to work. By this means the government hopes to gradually decrease the number of persons receiving federal help and at the same time make a large number of men available to private employment during rush periods of the year. The old rule requiring applicants for direct relief for the first ‘I time to come from persons on direct or township relief for at least 30 days etill holds. To Post Watchmen At School Houses ► | Trustee John M. Dean announced i today that watch.non would beponti red at al! Washington tmishtp I school houses to protect them from property damage on Halloween ' j night. |l — 0 ADAMS COUNTY NATIVE DIES i: Benjamin Shilts Dies Monday Night In Van Wert County Funeral services for Benjamin . ‘ Shilts, 81. of Van Wert county. Ohio a native of Adams county, who died 1 ; at his home Monday night at 7:15 1 o'clock, will be held 'Wednesday - afternoon at 2 o’clock, eastern stan- > dard time, at the United Brethren ' Woods Chai.el church and burial will be made in Clark's Chapel > cemetery. Rev. Bennett will otfii date. Mr. Shilts died at his home of embolism Monday night. He had suffered three previous heart attacks and one Monday, but had not been bedfast. He was a prominent farmer of Harrison township. Van Wert county, Ohio. He had assisted 1 in clearing road 22 when it was oriI ginally built. The deceased was born in Adams j ; county on October 16, 1854 and was j ■ a son of Mr. and Mrs. Daniel Shilts. I He was married on December 29. i 1913 to Janet Erwin, who survives. ! No children were born to the union.' Surviving besides the widow are j - the following brothers and sister: | Harry Shilts, Convoy, Ohio; John I Shilts, Kansas; Mrs. William Roop, Monroe. Three brothers and one ! sister are deceased. The body was removed to the Shilts home this afternoon from the Zwick and Son funeral home. —o Society Matron Takes Own Life Washington. Oct. 29 —(UP) Mrs. i Rosamund Hodges. 28. New York Park Avenue socialite, leaned to her ' death at a Washington Hotel today. [ apparently, police said, in a .mood ' of despondency. As cooks the hotel were pre | ’ paring break-fast, Mis. Hodges’ body [ crashed through a skylight. Police reported she had leaped from the window of a suite which she oc-| 1 cupied with her parents. in the room police found a note, it said: • My death was inevitaol-e. For-1 give me.” The young woman's parents said i she had Ibe-en deeply despondent ' since the death of her husband, | John K. Hodges, last July.

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Decatur, Indiana, Tuesday, October 29, 1935,

Kills Judge and Self ■ I 7'.? - .di Former Judge William R. Fetzer (above) of the Chicago Municipal Court was shot to death and a law clerk and another lawyer were '! seriously wounded Monday by an ex-convict, Raymond launming '(inset), whose diseased mind blamed tile judge for "mining'' his life when lie was sentenced to prison for one year in 1926. After killing . | the judge ami wounding the others, the nwlman shot himself.

TOWNS TO VOTE NEXT TUESDAY Town Elections Will Be Held In Berne, Monroe And Geneva Voters of Berne, Monroe and Geneva will cast ballots next Tuesday, November 5, to elect ’ town officials. Democrats and Republicans have named complete slates in each of the three towns. The complete list of candidates ' for the three towns follows: Eerne Democrats—Paul Felber, councilman ward 1; Henry Winteregg. H councilman ward 2; C. D. Balsig I ■ er, councilman ward 3; David D. ! Stauffer, clerk-treasurer. Republican- Ezra Snyder, counI oilman ward 1: Calvin Sprunger, ! councilman ward 2: Emanuel! ' Neuenschwander. councilman w:-, d I 3; Roy Girod, clerk-treasurer. Monroe , Democrats A. I). Crist, trustee' ! ward 1; Martin L. Hoffman, trustee ward 2; Otho Lobensteiu. trustee ward 3; Earl L. Sanders. 1 clerk-treasurer. Republicans — Frank Johnson. trustee ward 1; Roy L. Price, i ' trustee ward 2; James W. An- 1 1 drews. trustee ward 3; Floyd Ba.x-i 1 ter, clerk-treasurer. Geneva Democrats — Fred E. Lindsey, trustee ward 1; Adam Egly, trus-l ' tee ward 2; Clarence O. Rayn, ’ (CONTINtTED ON PAGE FIVE) -0 CHICAGO MORON! AGAIN ACTIVE ' . Binds Two Young Women, Beats Them And Then Attacks One Chicago, Oct. 29.—KU.R)—A mor- ’ onic gunman invaded a northside apartment hotel last night, whipped two young women with a leather belt, attacked one of them, and left them bound with wire. He is believed to be the “whipper" who terrorized the west side several ’ ' weeks ago. The slender young man appear-: ed in the second floor corridor of 1 the Belmont-Plaza hotel as Miss I Mary Smith. 23. walked toward | the room of a friend. Miss Anna i Wilhelm, 23, Milwaukee. He drew i a pistol as Miss Smith entered the room and followed her in. Both girls were forced to dis-' robe. The degenerate first tied ' them together, drew a belt from! his pocket and lashed them. Then I he gagged Miss Smith, tied her to' a chair and attacked Miss Wil-’ helm. The attacker was in the room ! for more than an hour. His vic- 1 j tints’ screams were drowned by the radio which he turned up to prevent alarm. He took $0 from j Miss Wilhelm’s purse before leav(CONTINUED ON PAGE FIVE)

“Teaspoon Bandit" Is Given Sentence ' Fort Wayne. Ind., Oct. 29. —(U.R) —Fort Wayne’s ‘ teaspoon bandit.’’ James Anderson, 23, was sentenced to l-to-5 years in the state re- > formatory late yesterday in Allen circuit court. He was charged with robbing Clem Junk, a taxicab driver, of $7 and bis cab with only the aid of I a teaspoon. Anderson admitted to the court that he is a cocaine addict and blamed the crime on the ! drug. He twice attempted to commit suicide while he was held in jail awaiting trial. ... o OSE PROCEEDS TO BUY ORGAN Annual Children’s Festival Planned At St. .Joseph’s School Tlte proceeds from the childr n’-t festival to H e given November 25 and 26 by the pupils of St. Joseph's school will be used in purchasing a new pipe organ for St. Mary’s I Catholic church. ; The festival will be held in the auditorium of the Catholic school building. Tlte entire floor will be devoted to booths, games and other attractions of the big festival. The festival will be open afterI noon and evening and the public is I invited to attend. The children are j now selling tickets on several val- | liable prizes to be given away durj ing the two days. This is the third annual indoor fair to be given by the grade pupils lof St. Joseph school. About SIOO9 j was cleared each year and the j funds were spent in painting and decorating the class rooms, dining. I ror m and corridors. ,i A Wicks small type two manual : direct electric action organ has been ordered. It will have 219 pipes and will be located in the choir loft in front of the old organ. The old organ of the foot -pedal type will not be removed as present. The loft is sufficiently large to house Roth organs. Sister M. Patricia is the organist at St. Mary’s Catholic church. It it ' planned to have the organ installed 'try December 1. There will not be I any dedicatory program held in con- ' nection with installing the organ, ! the Rev. Father Joseph Seimetz, rector, stated today. o Cartoonist Leaves Estate To Family Chicago Oct. 29 (UP) —The will iof Sidney Smith, newspaper cartoonist killed in an atomoft'ile crash ( leaves hie $190,000 estate to his fa- | mily. it wan revealed today. I One half of the eslate will go to i his widow, Mrs. Kathryn 1. Smith, j with the remainder to be shared by ' his two children, Mrs. Gladys Smith Luckow, Chicago, and Robert Smith Phoenix, lAriz. Smith wan killed Oct. 20 in a collision on U. S. highway 14, a short distance south of Harvard, 111.,

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GOAL COMPANY LAUNCHES TEST OF GUFFEY ACT Carter Company Declares Coal Control Act Is Unconstitutional Washington, Oct. 29.—KU.R)—The Guffey coal control act was attacked in District of Columbia supreme court today as a “gigantic I conspiracy in restrain of trade.” Attorneys for the president of , the Carter Coal Company asked | the court to grant temporary and permanent injunctions restraining l collection of a T 5 per cent penally ! for non-compliance with the act. “Every member of the coal code becomes a conspirator in restraint of trade,” William Whitney, attorney for James W. Carter, president of Hie company, asserted. Constitutionality of the act was ‘ contested in Whitney’s opening opening argument. John Dickini son. assistant attorney general in charge of the government's defense. told Justice Jesse Adkins b that “we want an early determination of the constitutionality of the Guffey act." . i “What you both want," Justice Adkins observed, “is to get this case before the supreme court of the United States as quickly as possible." | Both Whitney and Dickinson ; rose witli emphatic affirmatives. Both asked that the court assume jurisdiction in the case and ’ rule on evidence as to the act's constitutionality. ' Tiie coal company attorney ask- ' ed. however, that the court first 1 grant a temporary injunction restraining officers of the company from complying with the act and | restraining government officers j from enforcing it. Penalties operative Nov. 1 for non-compliance would cost Hie company $1,500 a day and would amount to confiscation in violation (CONTINUED ON PAGE SIX) O Seaplanes Plan For Second Mass Flight Honolulu, Oct. 29.— IU.R) —Preparations were rushed today for a second mass flight which will send 48 seaplanes of the United States navy across the 1.380-mile overwater course flown by navy flying ' I boats several months ago in the longest mass ocean flight ever undertaken. The destination of the navy air fleet will be Midway Islands, sec- : ond of the Pan-American airways trans Pacific flight liases. 'I Announcement of the flight ' scheduled for November 9. was ' j made by Rear Admiral Frederick ■ ■ Horne. o MINE PATROLED BY GUARDSMEN Scene Os Fatal Shooting Monday Is Heavily Patroled Today Birmingham, Ala., Oct. 29. —(U.R) —A heavy guard of officers today 1 patroled the mine areas of St. Clair county where one man was slain and at least ten others injured in - coal strike disorders yesterday. The disorders centered about the Margaret and Acmar mines of the Alabama Fuel & Iron Com- , pany. largest non-union pits in the state. A request for martial law was considered by Robert B. Moore, state commissioner of labor. The request was submitted by William Mitch, local United Mine Workers jof America president. Moore said ' he would make no recommendation to Gov. Bibb Graves, now in Wash- : ington, until he had completed an investigation of the violence. A special session of the St. Clair grand jury will convene Monday - to investigate the death of Virgil Thomas, the slain union miner. It was disclosed that the question as to whether Thomas, a Nyota miner and U. M. W. A. member, was killed on a public or private road might enter largely into the (CONTINUED ON PAGE FIVE)

THIRD VICTIM DIES OF WOUNDS Chicago Attorney Dies Today From Wounds ; Inflicted By Fanatic Chicago, Odt. 29- (UP)—'Atton ney William L. Hawthorne diesl today, the third victim of the manical rage of Raymond Lamming, former convict, who aleo killed former ! judge William Fetzer and commit I ted suicide. Nathan Weintroob. 29. who was wounded by Lamming is expected to recover. Lammiflg left in his pocket a fantastic manuscript in which he described the slaying of "His Honor, the mayor."setting forth his motive for the slayings. The 85-page manuscript, apparently autobiographical, which Lamming brought to the former judge's office where the shooting took 'place yesterday, indicated the i former convict planned to take : five other lives and set tire to the [Chicago stock yards before bis i' death. ■j The red-haired killer referred to ; himself as “Rusty," in the tnanu- • ‘script. Judge Fetzer was “Judge ' Metzer" and a character named I "Rev. Barrow" was believed to lie , ■ the Rev. Phillip L. Yarrow, vice i crusader. The other imaginary victims of i the writer’s revenge were a police' officer and a stock broker. i In the manuscript Lamming blamed Judge Fetzer for “ruining" - his life by sending him to jail. ; I “His honor, the mayor,” reprei seating the forces of society that had deprived him of his standing -i in the community, was "assassins (CONTINUED ON PAGE FIVE) JUDGE DENIES MCNUTT CHARGE l .1. W. W illiams Criticizes Governor For Attack On Court . I Martinsville. Ind.. Oct. 29—(U.R) j —J. W. Williams, former Morgan I circuit court judge who sentenced | . : John Dillinger to 10-25 years on a holdup cha.rge, today criticized' ;|Gov. Paul V. McNutt for terming | . ! the original sentence of the Hooslet desperado "an obvious injustice.” ■ ! The governor made the statement in an address before .the, American Prison Association Congress at Atlanta. Ga„ yesterday. He described the case of the i notorious criminal as a, “classic example to poor treatment of parole cases.” Dillinger, a first offender, was sentenced by Judge Williams in connection with the holdup of a Martinsville grocer. A former convict, who was Dillinger’s companion in the holdI j up. was given a light sentence, McNutt said. He attributed Dillinger's subsequent life of crime I to the “apparent injustice and inconsistency of sentencing." Making public three letters he and the governor exchanged in j March, 1934, Judge Williams reiterated criticism of the governor for publicity denouncing the ■ Morgan county court. He first took exception after , the governor voiced the criticism in a speech at Kokomo March 21. 1934. Williams quoted the governor as saying, “Dillinger was tried • before a Republican judge in Morgan county. The judge and prosecutor took him out and told (CONTINUED ON PAGE FIVE) ,—o— New England Dinner Postponed One Week Owing to the fact that the annual f high school football banquet date is set for November 7, the date for the annual New England dinner given by the Ladies’ Aid of the ' First M. E. church has been changed from November 7. to November 14. ' --o WEATHER Fair tonight and Wednesday, rising temperature Wednesday.

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France Offers Peace Plan For Consideration Os League Os Nations; News From Front Littile. SOME CONCESSIONS Rome, Oct. 29 — (U.R) — Eric Drummond, British ambassador, hid a long conversation with Premier Benito Mussolini, which was described as “most important" However.) British and Italian official quarters refused to comment on its nature. By Ixiuia F. Koenile (United Press (’able Editor) Mussolini put his country on a wartime food and economy basis today, showing hta determination to prosecute the war to the utmost. While there will he no actual rationing cards, sales of essential foods, particularly meals, will be restricted. To augment the food supply, public preserves and private estates will be opened to public fishing and hunting. The new regulations are designed to offset the sanctions being applied by the league — indicating that Mussolini expects them to be applied and also does i not expect the war in Africa to last less thaji six months, since i that is the duration of the reI strlctione. i Paris, all along the Pollyanna of i the present crisis, sprouted an- [ other morning glory today, which i may or may not. like the others, ; wilt under the heat of Ixmdon and Geneva. The latest French peace effort is a plan, its contents carefully guarded, intended for submission to Geneva. It was reported to make considerable territorial concessions to Italy. Britain apparently has at least agreed to consider it. However, Britain insists, as sho has from tlie start, that any plan must be approved by the League of Nations and by both parties to the dispute, Italy and Ethiopia. Therein lies the difficulty. Anything acceptable to Mussolini is not. likely to be acceptable to Great Britain, and to an even less degree to Ethiopia. Conversely, tlie minimum British requirements would not be enough for Mussolini. Geneva was not as optimistic as Paris but was fully ready for the full application of penalties which it was hoped might exert enough pressure on Mussolini to end Hie war soon. The news from the war zone continued unexciting. There was some minor skirmishing in the south. The Italians in the north were within striking distance of Makale, their next objective, and apparently caji take it almost at any time now with little resistance. The main Ethiopian stand. (CONTINUED ON PAGE TWO) 0 WIDE MAJORITY FOR CORN PLAN Nearly 90 Per Cent Os Indiana Farmers Favvor AAA Program Lafayette, Ind.. Oct. 29 —(UP)— The 1936 cornhog program produced by the agricultural adjustment administration today had the approval of 89.3 per cent of 'lndiana farmers participating in the nation-wide referendum. Os the total of 75,521 votes cast, 67,474 were yes and 8,047 were no. In the referendum conducted a year ago. only 64.8 per cent of thosa voting favored continuation of tho program. The total vote at that time was 42,134 with 26,210 in favor and 15,923 against. The program enjoyed increased favor with both the signers and non-signers in this year’s referendum, the results show. Signers of last year's contracts voted 58.239 to 5,155 and non- signers voted 9,225 to 2,892 in favor of continuation of the program. All In Favor (By United Press) Most of the returns were in today from the cor-hog referendum in (CONTINUED ON PAGE FIVE)