Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 33, Number 295, Decatur, Adams County, 14 December 1935 — Page 1

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lIDDEHS WILL [ANNOUNCED AT LATER DATE LJL] Bids On City' EKmproM-iiH'nt Sent I T» State Director ■ I,Hi offered by con- | L the I manufacturin-; a u , light and .. d. , Miig’.oti. < onsuPon the , . v. ro> i, < o'clock last BT.|Jp ,: I would bo made ■ K,. K pOW' "" ailminis'iatiun ■radar ’ ’■ ' 11 u ’ l '■• ’ 1 '■' .. cept oi ,il ■ director. any case. KJK the governin' nt Knntt- tl.' I'WA towards the ■The of the lowest blds on ■HK*. Ktcbtaibi'l and addition to the Eiint io $86,272. The engiKmV'in>a:e on the entire proK i» $1 >5 In addition t i K. a Jon' in. t for pining from - i <>nden>> Kst bjntade later. . The esti■jislyll .3.004). the <a.- I.board the |Se ew any products. Tit Kee f«t> tit the plant are ■ E. ma kc. bid at nra> - ■Hyjhe sanle Dri, ‘'- T,le ,UI ’ Ki*' quoted at $50,410. the K*< at $19,755. A little ■tb&c'T Ul kl switchboard. Mt tB two biwest I'ids for tba difference The Indiana Engineer- - KhCOxil' ' ':■ oX PAGE SIX' n — Convicted X ■r on ' iin - s MM KM|MP"I: ~ Dee. 14— ((J.P) Hkft m t.::in a ye;" > impri S, of the state today with a fall Gov. nt'.ne.’d t circuit Nov. flOgt t - r:n of 2 if years on ■Mt to . V < Hartle. She in cuilt, claiming sin in Kokomo from her home Clay Boilridirme "planted" by <>Higjs. N B® recommendations of th ■ .Spc ®l:.' m y commission B* ■ria-t F. Gallup, superintim prison who mad. im.cstigatmn of the ■r ° MIER LOCAL I RESItIENT RIES X fßn | M. Gilnin Dies Fri|W Afternoon At I Home In Muncie M. Gilpin, 69. former resident, died late Ba a.t his home in K*K after a lingering illness K.. C< j' irat ' ons ' He operated a in Muncie, having was born in AdB 1 " 5 oom’lv December 11. 1866. a ■n iil,ani aiK ' Harriet Gilt'ing are the widow and BNBlowing children: Mrs. Decatur; Dr. Guy ■Jar 11, Ms». Gilmond Hart and ElaH GUpin, all of Muncie; Gilnin. Paoli and Mrs. Albany. Also sin Ej^B 61 ''' a brother, Reuben E. E39| Decatur and 13 grand.dtil ESk 01 ' v Wi " lje * )loue,, t to the home and may be afi er 1 p. m . Sunday, services will be held at home at 10 o’clock morning, Rev. 11. W. Eiirw* 1 opiate and burial ■wo ■ n ' ai ‘ c in the Decatur come■Bl 1

DECATUR DAILY DEMOCRAT ONLY DAILY NEWSPAPER IN ADAMS COUNTY

Convict Polygamist 1 f ' f ilk WFt s*»** 1 ■ ' fv A 1N I ■ b oil i Ob HI o k |L Eg -1 rft wi i 1 Conviction of I. C. Spencer, !>O- - farmer, of "open and notorious cohabitation" at his trial at Kingma.ii, Arfz., stirred several i thousand of his co-believers in the' religious sect which sanctions polygamy to launch plane for an appeal to the United States supreme . court on grounds that his convic-1 tlon violated the religious freedom guaranteed by the constitution. IN CONFERENCE ON GENEVA RIBS Attorney. Architect Submit Bids To State PWA Director Herman H. Mvcrs and Charles I 11. Houck are in Indianapolis to-, day conferring with PWA ofti-i i cials concerning the letting of the contract for the construction of i the Geneva school house. Bids were opened Friday at Ge-1 neva. It was found that contrac-| I tors had allowed approximately i I $15,G&0 tor salvage from old, ; buildings in Wabash township. | providing no alternates will be . ordered. The cost of the building was I estimated at $95,000. This was I thp amount for which the apnro--1 nriatjon was made. It wan found I tha. the total oid without alternates will run only a few thou I sand dollars over the appropria- * tion. One of two courses may be taken. The building may not he completely finished and built acI cording to the original specifications or alternates may be ac-. cepted in the original speelficaI tions. Several weeks ago bids i were opened at Geneva and it was found that they were all too high. The bids opened Friday) were lower. The bids without the alternates which were opened Friday were: General contract: Vincent Juerlind. $73,845; W. O. Curry & Son. South Whitley. $72,666. Electric bid: Smith Electric. Service, Muncie, $3,765; Johnson Electric company. Huntington, $3,550; Otis Electric company, Kokomo, $5,575. Plumbing, hec.'ing and ventda • ing: Tibbits Plumbing nig company, Union < Uy. *“ 9 - 44 .’' M. L. Green & Company, $-7.<9bF. M. Logan, state PWA head, will give the final approval to tie contracts. The PWA is 81'’ in * 45 per cent of the cost of the construction. This will be M 2 <5Work will be started immediately. Kirkland Juniors To Present Play The junior class of Kirkland high school will again present the iplaj. -Me Him and I," at the high «cho° gymnasium Wednesday evening a Fo-clock. Admission prices will be 25 cents for adults and 15 cente for .children. __ —-—o Insanity Hearing Concluded I riday Evidence was concluded Friday „ frlinson inafternoon on the R. K J n -nnitv hea’ing. Judge Hubei -vi. y j first of the week

NEW EXECUTION MTEXNNOUNCEO FOR HAUPTMANN Convicted Lindbergh Killer To Die Week Os January 13 Thenton, N. J., Dec. 14. —<U.R> — | Bruno Richard Hauptmann was sentenced Friday for the second , time to die for the murder of the Lindbergh baby, as Justice Thomas W. Trenchard set the week of January 13, 1936, for his execution. The original date of death, the week of last March 18, was set aside by Hauptmann's application ) tn the court of errors and appeals for a new trial. This court, the highest in New Jersey, denied the appeal on Oct. ' 9, and the supreme court of the i United States rejected a request for a review of the trial last Moni day. The exact date for Hauptmann's execution —dates of executions are never made public in advance — will be selected by Col. Mark O. Kimberling, state prison warden. Generally condemned men in New Jersey go to the chair at 8 p. m. on Tuesdays. Kimberling said he would inj form Hauptmann of the new sentence after C. Lloyd Fisher, one of the convicted German's attorneys, declined the task. Justice Trenchard. who presided l at Hauptmann's trial, signed the new death warrant a few hours after Gov. Harold G. Hoffman told : the Associated Press he knows he "stuck his chin out” when he Interested himself publicly In t*ie Hauptmann case. He said 7ie had to do something “to keep myself square.with my conscience.” Unliss something unexpected intervenes, Hauptmann will die I approximately 11 months after his conviction at Flemington. The new death warrant will be taken to Flemington where it will be signed by C. Lloyd Fell, county .clerk. Later It will be signed by AttornTy-General DavLf” T? WII- - and an assistant. Fisher, informed of the new sentence as he left the death house at state prison after talking with Hauptmann, eaid defense attorneys will confer Monday night on the next step in the fight for Hauptmann's life. GIVES REPORT ON RECREATION Over Million Participate Monthly Under State VVPA Program Indianapolis, Ind., Dec. 14 —(UP) —More than 1.000.000 persona have participated each month in the recreational activities eiponeored by the wor.is progress administration , in Indiana durng the last six months it was rajorted here last night The report was made by Garrett I G. Eppley, state director of recreaj tion for the WPA, at a meeting of I the state recreation committee. Seventy-five per cent of the perl.ions parti rated in physical act!- ) vities, including soft ball, baseball, baslie-tball, football, etc.' Eppley 'said, other activities included community programs, choral groups, orchestras and dramatic clubs. Local communities have co-oper-ated by supplying facilities, it was pointed out. Forty counties supplied 432 buildings for recreational centers and 194 school buildings have b en used for recreational purposes from one to six nights a week. The public school system has in many communities taken the initialive in establishing recreational programs. Superintendents of schools in La Porte, Michigan City, ’! Whiting, Wabash, Fort Wayne, Peru Franklin, Noblesville, Kokomo, Martinsville and Tipton and Carroll i counties serve as committee chairI men. Directors of tax-supported recrea- ’ tional departments in Gary, East l Chicago, Wabash, Evansville, Ham- > mom! and Muncie have supervised . WPA activities. I —o Czechoslovakian i: President Quits Prague, Czechoslovakia, Dec. 14 —President Thomas G. Masaryk, - National hero who has served as chief executive of the republic since ~ inauguration after the world war resigned today. A new i; resident will be elected . Wednesday- , Masaryk's last act was to Issue an 1 amnesty decree.

Decatur, Indiana, Saturday, December 11, 1935.

Butler City Plant i Granted Permission Indianapolis, and., Dec. 14 —(UP) —Permission to Issue 415,000 In revenue bonds was grantej the Butler, Indiana, waterworks plant by the public service commission today. The bonds will be used to finance . additions made to the plant, now being purchased by the city from a iprlvate corporation. When the city relinquished control of the plant several years ago, agreement was made that when the city decided to repurchase the plant, It could do so by (paying for any. additions made. o DEFENDANT TO GIVE EVIDENCE Mrs. Laura Doermer Expected To Refute AlI leged Confession Fort Wayne, Ind., Dec. 14.—<U.R> —Mrs. Laura Doermer, 43, charged with poisoning her two step- ■ children, causing the death of one. was to testify in her murder trial in Allen circuit court today. The defendant was expected to refute a statement, in which she allegedly confessed putting arsenic ■ In cottage cheese eaten by Imogene, 15, and Bernadine, 13, during a meal last April 3. Both the girls became violently ill, and Bernadene died 10 days later in a hospital. Mrs. Doermer also hopes to sub- : stantiate her ddTense plea that ! she was not at the home when the ! meal was prepared. Henry P. Doermer defended his wife when he testified late yesterlay. A packed court room heard his exoneration of Mrs. Doermer and persistent “I don't know.” I On direct examination, Doermer ■ told the jury of 10 men and two women that it was sugar and milk his wife mixed with the cottage cheese on the night his daugliTters jecame ill. Doemer nearly collapsed during cross examination Slid a recess was necessary. He admitted giving his wife an emetic futer she became 111, but said he did not i give the same treatment to ImoI ;ene because she did not ask for .lit. Bernadene d*d not become ill until several hours later, he testified. Doermer said his wife put the rngar and milk in the cottage cheese after the children complained it had a peculiar taste. He said he did not eat any because he knew his daughters liked the cheese. Q Senator Ham Lewis Up For Re-Election Chicago, Dec. 14.—XU.PJ—Senator Janies Hamilton Lewis will be a candidate for re-election In 1936. > Home after a three months trip to • Europe, the senior Illinois senator, ■ noted for his courtly maimers and . fastidious dress, said: i “If my party wishes to present me as an agent of Illinois in Washington, 1 am ready to serve." The senator showed no ill es- ; feets from the attack of pneumonia which threatened his life in Mos- . cow last summer. Q G-MAN KILLER IS SENTENCED I George W. Barrett Is Sentenced To Hang In Marion County Indianapo’te, Dec. 14 — (UP) — ; George W. Barrett, Kentucky desperado, convicted of elaying a fed--1 eral agent was sentenced in district 1 federal court today to die by hanging in the Marion county jail yard March 24, 1936. The 50-year old confessed trafficker in women and stolen automobiles, veteran of two decades of Kentucky mountain feuds, received ' the sentence without emotion. Judge Robert C. Baltzell pronouned sentence after overruling a motion for a new trial and asking Barrett if he wished to retract any statements made during his trial I two weeks ago on chargee of killing Nelson B. Gleln, Cincinnati G-man, I during a gun battle at West College , Corner August 16. i “Your honor, my testimony was i all true,” Barrett replied In a low ' voice. Barrett had pleaded self defense, I claiming he had exchanged shots . with federal agents in belief he was i defending himself against reprisals of mountain feudists. '

FINDS ASSETS INSUFFICIENT Judge DeVoas Orders Large Individual Sale Os Real Estate A hearing was concluded Friday in the Adams circuit court on the Elizabeth Morrison personal estate and It was found by Judge Huber M. DeVoss that the assets were insufficient to pay the debts of the estate. To meet the debts Judge DeVoss ordered one of the largest individual sales of real estate in the history of the county. An inventory and appraisal was filed and approved. The court found that the Old National Bank and Trust company of Fort Wayne has no lien. Judge DeVoss found that there is due the American Life Insurance company the sum of $22,498.39 and that the taxes due on Its mortgage is $2,026.79. The court found that Hajrlet Beatty and Bruce Wallace have a lien on some of the real estate of which the principal and interest amount to $14,868.50 and that the taxes due on this property amount to $277.73. Judge DeVoss found that the : Union Central Life Insurance company holds a, mortgage on real estate in the estate amounting to $18,188.24 and that there are taxes due on this property amounting to $677.49. The court found that the Aehbaucher Tin shop has a mechanic's lien on the real estate in the sum of $521.85. This is a second lien. ReaJ estate in the estate was sold at private sale for not let® than the appraised value on terms of one-third cash, one-third In six months and one-third In 12 months. Publication of the notice of sale was ordered. The tracts are: Number one: Morrison home, corner Jefferson and Fifth streets. Number two: Part of real estate adjoining Cloverleaf Creameries. Inc., unimproved. Number three: Brick business building in Berne, occupied by Schug-Mettler company, south side of Main street. Number four, five, six and seven, vacant lots near Worthman Athletic field. Number eight: Vacant lot be(CONTINUED ON PAGE SIX) O — SAY MACHINE GUNS RENTED Report Adds New Angle In Slaying Os Minneapolis Editor Minneapolis. Dec. 14. —(U.PJ —Reports from Chicago that suburban gang has been renting machine guns to killers for $25 a day added a new angle today to the investigation of the machine gun slaying of editor Walter Liggett. Minneapolis authorities received a request from a Chicago ballistics expert for photographs of the bullets that killed the crusading newspaper man. It also was reported that a Thompson submachine gun was stolen some time ago from county highway police near Chicago. Photographs of the bullets which killed Liggett will be compared with specimen bullets of the stolen gun. In Chicago it was learned the coroner's office, the federal government, and the state’s attorney's office have been investigating reports of machine gun renting by a Melrose Park gang. Authorities refused to be quoted on the Investigation. Although the federal department of justice yesterday refused to enter the Liggett case Htecause of lack of jurisdiction, Gov. Floyd B. (CONTINUED ON PAGE SIX) — o Doctor Arrested For Aiding Escaped Men Indianapolis, Dec. 14 — (U.R) — Arrest of a country doctor who admitted giving Donald Joseph and Paul Pierce medical attention today added another angle to the investigation of the crime careers of the Indianapolis gunmen. Dr. Earl Jewett, St. Paul physician, admitted giving attention to Joseph and Pierce, wounded in a gun battle with Indianapolis detectives at an apartment here a week ago. Jewett was questioned by state police here late yesterday after being arrested at Shelbyville. He said ho treated both youths, but added that he “didn't realize ho was doing something unlawful in I not reporting the incident.”

DRASTIC MOVES I ARE TAKEN TO HALT EPIDEMIC Entire Oklahoma County Quarantined To Battle Disease Hobart, Okla., Dec. 14 —(U.R) — In Kiowa county which has 30,000 residents, medical science today wielded one of its most effective weapons, mass quajantine, against an outbreak of spinal meningitis. Dr. C. M. Pearce, state health officer, decreed that no more than three persons could congregate r.t one place In the county. Towns and villages assumed a deserted appca/anco. Skeleton forces worked behind closed doors of) those few business establishments not closed. In Hobart gasoline couldn’t be bought except with a doctor's order. All filling stations wore | shut down, with service to essential transportation being given by special dispensation. Buses and trains were operating on regular schedules. Highways were open to through traffic. ) Motorists were checked at the county line a.nd informed that they must go directly through the county, could enter the county to remain, or could not enter it at all. No person except trans-county travelers was permitted to leave the county except after submitting to a test for meningitis, and then only if the result was negitive. The Hobart Democrat-Chief, daily newspaper, suspended publication after issuing an edition on the quarantine. The publisher said editions would be put out during the quarantine period only In event of sufficiently important news to justify the action. While only a dozen cases of the germ-caused malady which kills with almost explosive speed were I located, another dozen persons; have died from it within two weeks and possibly scores of others have keen exposed. The outbreak was one of the I most serious of the many which; have cropped up in the midwest) since 1917 when scores of soldiers ■ died In training camps from this affliction. During the past two years an appreciable toll lias been attributed directly to this inflammation of the spinal covering and probably as many more cases not cor-1 rectly diagnosed. Transient camps ; in Nebraska. Missouri. Oklahoma,] ’ and Texas have experienced the ) malady. i Dr. M. R. Beyer, state epidemiologist; Floyd Whinple, state; ) bacteriologist; and Dr. Pearce, I came to Hobart after first declar- ] i Inga quarantine. For five days, the incubation period of the disease. all but vital movements of] residents will be forbidden. Physicians will use serum, cut- ] ting the mortality rate from a, heavy majority of the cases to an expected 30 per cent. o Mayor Bangs Refuses To Light Streets Huntington, Ind., Dec. 14 —(U.R) —Refusing to draw funds “illegally" from other sources to restore the street lighting service, Mayor Clare W. H. Bangs today announced the streets of Huntington necessarily would be dark each night until after January 1. 1936. Vetoing a proposal made by Joseph H. Lesh, representative of the Young Men's Business Association, at a mass meeting last; night, Bangs said: “Anything I do has to be legal because I have been warned that I face criminal prosecution for] any illegal move I make." , Q Vera Ann Wolfe Dies Os Pneumonia Vera Ann Wolfe, small daughter) of Mr- and Mrs. Virgil Wolfe of 819 Bush street, died Friday of pneu-] monia. She was born on May 11, 1934 and is survived 'by the parents and three gran diparents, Mr. and Mrs. , Wavid Wolfe and Henry Faber all of Decatur. | Funeral services will be held at . I the home at 2:30 o’clock Sunday afternoon with the Rev. Glen Marshall officiating. Burial will be made in ' the Decatur cemetery. The body has been removed from the Gllllg and Doan funeral home and rray be * viewed at the home until the funeral. o WEATHER ■ Cloudy and unsettled tonight and Sunday; not much change in temperature.

American Doctor Reported Killed Near War Front

Held as Forger n FI IM 'V* ■ ii® Embezzlement charges were drawn against Mattias Kiesgen. above, Detroit welfare official, following detection of a $24,000 fraud in relief accounts which were blamed on Kiesgen and an accomplice, accused of forging names to uncalled welfare checks. DEATH CLAIMS MRS. BOCaMAN Mrs. Amy B°ckman Dies Friday Niirht After Extended Illness Mrs. Amy Bockman, 67, died at her home Friday evening at 7:15, after an extended illness. Although she had been ill for some months her condition was not critical until a few days before I her death. Mrs. Bookman was born in Van Wert. Ohio. Sept. 29. 186 S. She j attended school in Van Wert and . ] later attended Tri State Normal] at Angola. Ind. After completing ; school she taught school for ten , | years. She was a. member of the Eng-] | lish Lutheran church, until her | marriage to Rev. Wm. OckermanJ April 4. 1893, who was the Evan-] i gelical pastor at Van Wert, Ohio. ] In the spring of 1895 Rev. Acker-1 ; man was assigned to the Celina i circuit and lived there for a 1 number of years. Rev. Ackerman died March 6, 1897. She later married Rev. John F. | Bookman, who was pastor of the Evangelical church. Fort Wayne. From there Rev. Bockman located for four years in North Webster, Ind. In the spring conference be was assigned to Linn Grove, Ind. In October he had a stroke of paralysis and in the spring moved to Berne. Ind., where he and his (COVTivtjriiy ON PAGE SIX) Divorce Is Grhntcd Here This Morning A divorce was granted Helen ] Weber from Charles Weber in the ) ' dams circuit court 'by Judge Huber I M. DeVo.se today. Mrs. Weber had , | her maiden name, Helen Scott, restored to her. i o Deadlock In Mme Disnute Is Ended Brazil, Tnd„ Dec, 14.—(U.R) —A four weeks’ deadlock of a scale I committee of union miners and Indiana coal operators was ended today with announcement that a contract for the Brazil block coal field, district No. 8. United Mine Workers. would be signed next week. Specific cause for rejection of the agreements was not divulged bv the convention but it was be-j lleved that working conditions were the obtectionable sections of the contracts. Officials said that Indiana miners would have been nnlrt wage increase amounting to $1,250,000 under the terms of the two pacts. | The scale committee went into session immediately following adjournment of the scale convention which had been in session since Dec. 5.

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Red Cross Doctor Killed By ‘Dud’ Aerial Bomb; Mussolini Asks Clearer Peace Proposals. LAVAL CONSULTS (By United Press) Addis Ababa — Dr. Robert W. Hockman, American Red Crosa doctor, killed at Daggan Bur on southern front by a “dud" aerial bomb. Rome. — Premier Benito Mussolini countered French British peace plan by asking for clarification of certain provisions, avoiding direct committal for the time being. No specific reply likely until meeting of fascist grand council next Wednesday night. London. — Sir Samuel Hoare, British foreign secretary, made special effort to "induce” Emperor Haile Selassie of Ethiopia to accept Anglo-French peace plan, official British “white paper” disclosed. Quiet demand grows for rioare's resignation. Paris. — Premier Pierre Laval, worried by left-wing criticism of | peace plan, consults with main critic, Edouard Herrfot, radicalsocialist leader. American Killed (Copyright 1935 by UP.) Addis Ababa. Dec. 14. —(U.R) —Hr. Robert W. Hockman. American Red Cross hero, was killed at Daggah Bur on the southern front ) yesterday by an Italian aerial ) bomb—A “dud" which he was trying to dig up—lt was announced I today. During air raid after air raid on the town, the 29-year-old surgeon fr- i Wheaton, 111., stuck to his i post, usually the only Caucasian I in the whole area. I He fell victim to the only recreation he permitted himself. In intervals between long hours at the operating table and in the wards where he treated victims of diseases incident to the terrible conditions on the southern front, he busied himself photographing bombing airplanes that flew over the town, collected bomb fragments, and dug up bombs which failed to explode—the “duds", of which reports show there have been a suri prising number in all Italian air j raids. He buried, at Jijiga further [ north, one bomb of 970 pounds. "It’s got my name on it, for asI ter the war," he said recently. Yesterday, a dud bomb which i lie was digging up exploded. I Hockman's wife, Mrs. Winnie Hockman, left for Egypt just be- | fore the war started. She gave ] birth to a son in Egypt in October ) —their first child. The young American had been in Ethiopia for two years, with the United Presbyterian Mission I which conducts the American hosI pltal here. A native of Wheaton, 111., he was educated at Muskingum College. New Concord, Ohio, and he received his medical degree at Northwestern University, Evanston, 111. Hockman picked the hard spot when the fighting started. He went with a Red Cross unit to the southern front, and insisted on going as far forward as military authorities would permit. He made his headquarters at Daggah Bur, under constant threat of capture and subjected to many terrible bombing raids. Asks Clarification (Copyright 1935 by UP.) ...... Rome, Dec. 14. — (U.R) —Premier Benito Mussolini countered a French-British plan for settlement of the Italian-Ethiopian war today by asking for clarification of certain of its provisions. Thus he evaded a direct committal of his government on the ac(CONTINUED ON PAGE SIX) O * Good Fellows Club • —_♦ The Rotaiiane proved themselves to 'be really Good Fellows at their meeting Thursday evening, when they contributed $11.65 to the fund. The C. A. Douglas Company has ] donated five girl’s coats and a raincoat to the club. These will be distributed Christmas Eve along with I other articles of clothing to needy 1 children. The club will welcome any donation of clothing from merchants or Individauls. Kindly call Miss I Helen Holthouse at 137 and your article will be called for. Previous total $135.93 Rotarians 11.65 ■ A Friend 25 I Total $147.83