Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 34, Number 80, Decatur, Adams County, 2 April 1936 — Page 1
Buya ,
-
u >ma</o Takes Toll J)/ Lives As It Hits jJCora'e/e, Georgia r >» —
i __ . H property Damage Knitted M S 1,000,■i H„nu- De-troyed. — — ■eIH K'H" AIDS (;•■:- lU - P) »■■•■ | .foe; W.Usb ’I H> ' om- -. ■■■ !l> i g! | ' ~, > killed. j. s*roy-d by '.irmulo ~. ' "f :! ;y,; hrli tlv‘ city, jus* ■K> j, injured. §■«<... ■■:.• k.;l- d by lighten- - ■?Ga c. whi. s*ru< kat . l.» (I A;.,;■■■•■ F f’ K- manage,. • . II- appeal.-d to the It.'d . JRb’ said. M - i [Htiickv Liquor Tax ■■Bill Lots To Senate ' B ' ' ■ ' t, the J EXPLAIN fcSTATE LAW < oinpen|Mtion Laws To Be ExAt Meeting v i:lw "ill explained at a n : eight or 1" meetings durlat'er pap ~f April, Clar"t"' , r of tp,. divisthe cities under consida- centers tor the state ■H educational campaign are ■■h.unniond. Smith Bend, Fort BM" Lafayette. Mamie, RichB|J Jer e ll.mte. Vincennes. " New Albany, and Co■H" 1 -' will be made to hold Jackson said. b ( lyd>- White, director of bureau of amt an advisor to during the nrepar- ■■ a “ d Passage of the unemploy■R ompensatmu measure, will division also will seek the of chamber of com|^R.' ra ' ! ' associations, and civic «■ *" ad "-iistration of the uncompensation law. ac- *° Jackson. a s the division’s legal prepared questions and the law, copies KUi’" P ” l; " 1 "' ,h " se urganizau“ said. ~~ °~~ ton Hung Man ■ ■ Sentenced For Theft fr ,nd - Apr. 2.— (U.R) — w te “'' 19, allas Wil liam one' as senle,l< 'ed to serve t yea, ' S in the stttl « » court JUdge J - F ’ Uecker t Ktihg Merle Ple p <led gUilty to B edr ' Ja 2- PCr ‘ rot1 ’ 19 ' wh ° ■‘id’obbery 0 , ' ar sentence, in M far ni horn « rs ' John Bain at Bble soJ enCe 18 ‘he lightest B heeause h Tl d robber y’ and LJ 18 a m >nor did K eßca ” e aloto 25 year I - U’laE
DECATUR DAILY DEMOCRAT
REHEARSAL IS HELD TODAY Final Plans Made For Presentation Os Annual North Ward Play The final rehearsal of "Lacy Town.” the two act operetta to be presented by the pupils of the North Ward in the high school auditorium Friday evening at 7:30, took place this afternoon. The scene Is in Mama Roocee's l cottage in a Holland settlement of a small western town. She has two children. Peter and Meena. Papa Roozee left home five years before to look for gold and they have not heard from him for over a year. Mama Roozee does launI dry work and E’eter sells papers to support the family. As the action continues Papa Roozee returns with a trained burro which he has brought all the , way from Nome. The cottage is beautifully refurnished and the curtain falls on a gay company in old. iCrazy. Lazy Town. The price of admission is 15c for adults and 10c for children under twelve years of age. Following is the cast of characters: Meena Roozee Pauline Smith Mama Roozee, her mother Evelyn Andrews Mary Jane, a playmate June, a playmate Dolores Moyer Snltzy, little, but not silent Rosamond Graham Baby Doll, can say "mama” Joan Meyers j Witch of Good Luck Dorothy Hammond 'Peter Roozee Donald Eicher (Sum James Whitehurst | Patch Frank Young I Tubby, eats everything Bobby Mutschler Lotchen Irene Brooks 1 Gretchen Lois Ann Eady i Lena Betty Weber j Tina, Tubby’s mother Doris Adler j , Nellie, has long ears . Christie Franz. Billy Bromer j I Papa Roozee, man of the hour Keith Hammond | j Playmates — Ann Maddox, Jane Maddox. Donald Boxell, Rich ; ard Saylors, Betty Brueck.' Frances Moyer, Leigh Edward I Nelson. Richard Knapp, Don ! aid Kirsch, Helen Barber, Jun-, ior Myers, Kathleen McCon-l nell. Helen Frank, Joan Ham-' ma. jFlower Girls — Geraldine Andrews.! Mary Jo Butler, Lois Chronister, Shirley Woodring, Norma Eady, Jean Hutker, Grace Daniels, Mary Brueck. Lois Mitchell, Anna Jane Guilder, Virginia Hutker. Mabel Death, Doris Richards. Brownies —Philip Thomas, Richard Gunder, Jack Richards, "Bobby Lee Teeple, Billy Musser, Jimmy Beery, Herman Andress, Billy Wyant, Bobbie Boknecht, Billy Freeby, Bobby Meyers, (CONTINUED ON PAGE FIVE, SIX KILLED IN ACCIDENTS Fort Wayne Girl Meets Death On Way To Spring Festival Fori Wayne, Ind., Apr. 2. —(U.PJ — Anxious to reach Rudisill school where she was to have participated in a spring festival, Marjorie Coe, 7, darted into the street and was struck and fatally Injured by an automobile driven by Dewey D. Kaylor, 21. Gary, Ind.. Apr. 22. —(U.R)—Steve Lynch, 41, Kalamazoo, truck driver, was burned to death and another driver wa» burned and injured critically in a three-truck collision on U. S. road 12 during a blinding snow storm early today. Two of tthe trucks were destroyed by flames after gas tanks exploded. Lynch was driving a truck of the McNamara Paper Company. Kalamazoo. Elkhart, Ind., Apr. 2. — (U.R) — Harry Jacobs, 16, mascot of the Elkhart high school basketball team, was burned to death and four others were burned and injured last night when an automobile (CONTINUED ON PAGE FIVE)
VERA STRETZ FACES DEATH FOR KILLING Judge Rules Against Dismissal Os First Degree Murder Count New York. April 2—(UP)—Vera Stretz must fa e the possibility of death in the eectrie chair when u jury late today or tomorrow deliberates the charges against her for the killing of Dr- Fritz Gebhardt, her German loverJudge Cornelius F. Collins, at the convening of court today, denied all defense motions, including one to throw out the first degree imurder eharg against her and confine the jury to counts of second-degree murder on mansaughter. iA first degree murder conviction would carry the death penaty. Under a conviction for second-degree nrurd’r, the uentance may be 20 years to life; and for the first degree manslaughter 7% to 15 years, er the jury can acquit her. Comments of Judge Collins yea- i terday had been construed as indi-1 eating strongly that he felt the ’ state had failed to establish the element of premditation essential to a ■ flnst degree murder finding. By his ruling, however, this will be left to the jury to decide. It still mav return a variety of verdicts against the 31-year-old blonde former art student who shot Dr- Gebhardt in -his Beekman Tow-| ers apartment last November 12-1 She contends she did not mean to I kill him. hut shot only to protect i heiself against an attack by him. —o Gasoline Tax Checks Received Checks have been received from the state for local taxing units’ shares of the gasoline tax money. Th- city of Decatur received sl. 691.46. Adams county received 128.110.32. The payments are made quarterly and are larger this time jMsauae. i-Usy also ir.cluUe a auctiuu of the money paid for new license plates. o — DEATH CLAIMS DECATUR WOMAN Mrs. Mary Bollinger Dies At Local Hospital; Funeral Saturday Mrs. Mary Bollinger. 63, of 718 High street, this city, died ar the j Adams county memorial hospital I (Tuesday at 5 p. m. Death was due, ito heart trouble. Mrs. Bollinger j j underwent an operation a week ago and her death came~very suddenly. The deceased was born in Adams county. April 6. 1872, a daughter of Mr. and Mrs. William Cline. She was a member of the United Brethren church and her entire life was spent in and near Decatur. Her husband preceded her in death in July, 1923. The following children survive. George Lautzenheiser, Bluffton; Mrs. Lulu McKean. Bluffton; Arlie Bollinger, Monmouth; Peter Bollinger, Geneva; Walter. Homestead Addition; Mrs. Ida Meyer, Bluffton: Vilas. Homestead Addtion: Mrs. Mary McClure, Decatur; two step-children, Mrs. John Lobsiger and W. A. Bollinger, Monroe; two sisters, Mrs. Jess Stevens, Bluffton; Mrs. B. O. Harmon, Portland; two brothers, S. A. Cline, Bluffton and Samuel Cline, Muncie; twentynine grandchildren and one greatgrand child survive. Funeral services will be held Saturday at 1 p. in. at the Walter Bollinger residence and 2 p. m., at the Winchester United Brethren church, near Monroe, with Rev. Henry Klopfenstine. assisted by Rev. H. W. Franklin officiating. Burial will be in Zion's cemetery. The body will be removed from the Zwlck funeral home this evening to the Walter Bollinger residence, No. 41 Homestead Addition, and may be viewed by friends and relatives after 7 p. tn. — o To Organize Young Boys In New Group A special meeting has been called for tonight at the Central school building at 7:30 o’clock to discuss the poeeibility of organizing a cub ißoy Scout “pack" in Decatur. Representatives of the Parentteachers council, the Decatur ministerial association and of the Adams county Boy Scout dietrict will be present. The new organization includes boys from nine to 11 years of age, inclusively.
ONLY DA IL Y NEWSPAPER IN ADAMS COUNT Y
Decatur, Indiana, Thursday, April 2, 1936.
Springtime for Henry Thirsty (fl BMB Hi A. s — < \ I ?> •Little Buddy was forced to put everything he had into the boost required to elevate kid brother. "Henry,” to a position where he couM satisfy the thirst generated by an intensive afternoon of exercise in New York's Central park.
ROOSEVELT IS ON WAY HOME President Leisurely Cruises Behaman Waters And Fishes Miami, Fla. Alp-ril 2—(UP)—President Roosevelt cruised leisurely; through Bahacran waters today, his 1 course, bringing hint gradually closer to American shores. as he pursued his favorite outdoor eport of fishing. Communications continued to go j to hint from the temporary white ■ house office* here, keeping him advised of developments in Washing- ’ ton. the nation, and the world. | One of the m -sages he received 1 yesterday was from Admiral Cary T. Grayson, who brifly but com pre-1 hensively reported on cooperation! of governm nt agencies with the i Red Cros sin flood rhabilitation of government agencies with the Red . Cross in flood rehabilitation in i Northern states. Grayson, chairman of the Ameri- j ■can Red Cross, returned to Wash-| I ington after a tour of New England., land reported to the president that I he found “everywhere evidence of full government coopration in Red Cross relief work " indications to the temporary White House were that the the pre-1 iddent probably will remain abroad ' his yacht Potomac anti the end of the week, then come ashore and return to his White House desk with a brief stop en route at Warm Springs, Ga. o FURTHER PLANS FOR EGG HUNT Elk’s Lodge Plans To Entertain Children In Easter Egg Hunt Plans are nearly complete for the egg hunt to be held Easter Sunday at 2:30 o’clock on the lawn of the B. P. O. Elk’s home in this city. Members of the lodge stated today that the Easter rabbit Will play no favorite and has promised a supply of eggs for all children under seven years of age who live in Decatur, Adams county and surrounding community. Dick Ehinger, general chairman of the hunt, announced today that in addition to the membership of the lodge, who will serve as hosts, the Decatur Boy Stouts, dressed in uniform, will parole the grounds. The Easter rabbit will lay the eggs in hidden spots on the grounds. Parents may accompany their children to the lawn but, may not leave the side walk. White Easter rabbits will be let loose to entertain the children. Members of the Elks will be on the grounds to assist the smaller children in finding the eggs. The wish of the lodge is that no child be disappointed in tfie egg hunt. The hunt will be made an annual affair.
More Candidates File Declarations Harry Moore today filed his declaration a* candidate for the Repub- ! lican nomination as county commissioner from the third district, I located in the southern i; art of the j county. Moses Augsburger, the present ‘ commissioner, has announced hie I : intention to run for re-nomination j on the Democratic ticket. R A. Stu key filed his declaration I jot nomination as Democratic precinct committeeman from Decatur I “3A". SNOW STORM HITS MIDWEST I Chicago Has Worst Storm i Since 1926; River Conditions Improve Chicago April 2 —(UP)--A bluet-1 i ering snow storm wh:l p d over the , | mid-west tcday, disrupting highway ' traffice and blanketing the first ‘ ! green shoots of spring. While not unprecedented it was the worst April storm in the Chicago area since 1926. Snow was heaviest in south eastern Wisconsin northeastern Illinois . More than 8 inches tell in Milwaui kee while western Chicago suburbs 1 reported 6 inches with the snow expected to continue throughout the day. Freezing weather alleviated flood conditions in southern Illinois and Indiana. The Ohio reached a 44.1 foot level at Evansville, and was expected to begin a gradual recession today. Continued cold weather was forecast for tomorrow. o ■ — —- One Case Os Scarlet Fever Reported Here Os the 298 cases of scarlet fever in Indiana tor the week ending, Saturday March 28, one was reported in Adams county. No other infectuous diseases were reported in the county. —o American Legion To Meet Next Saturday All officers and 'members of the Adams post number 43 of the American Legion are urged to meet at the Legion hall Saturday morning at 9 o'clock. Possession will be given the organization Saturday for the building recently purchased on West Madison street. Furniture will be moved to the new club house. —o Physicians Will Meet In Ft. Wayne Fort Wayne. April 2 — (UP) — More than 800 physicians from Indiana, Ohio and Michigan will attend the annual convention of the Northern Tri-State medical association here April 14 Dre. Robert M. Moore, and Louis H. Segar. of the Indiana university school of medicine, will be among' the speakers. i
Hoffmans Appearance Before Grand Jury Likely To Cause Postponement Os Executition
Child’s Body Found In Ashes After Fire' Goshen. Ind., Apr. 2. —(U.R) —The charred body of Cletus, four year old son of Mr. and Mrs. Floyd L. Randolph, was recovered late yesterday from the embers of a chicken coop in which he had been playing. His whereabouts had been unknown until the body was found. It was believed the child sot the coop on fire while playing with matches. WIDOW SLAIN BY FARM BOY Youth Confesses He Beat To Death Wealthy Land Owner Edwardsville. 111., April 2—(UP) —The confession of Julius Kuethe, 22-year-old farm 'boy, disclosed today that the murder of Mrs. Charlotte Pilz. wealthy 48-year-old widow and land owner, had its beginning in quarrels over operation of a tenant farm. j The immediate cause, however, was Mrs. Pilz' charge that young Kuethe killed her "little white dog” the confension said, “But I realy didn’t g t mad until she began cursing me.” Then, he eaid. he struck her with a fence picket, and a flaehlight. “1 felt swell this morning; I slept soundly last night,” young Kuethe said on arising today. Kuethe’s confession eaid in part: “I then etnuck her on the head with a fence picket. 1 hit her twice, then three times with a flash-light When I quit, ehe was lying their quiet She made no sound. Then 1 knew ehe was dead.” Kuethe was held pending a corI oner’s inquest. o Twin Daughters At Orval Roop Home Twin daughters were born April il, to Mr. and Mrs. Orval Roop. , i 916 Nuttinan Avenue. The babies : i have been named Donna Ruth and . [ Rose Marie. Both are fine healthy ' girls and they as well as the moth-1 I er are getting along nicely. i Auto Driver Held After Accident Fort Wayne, Ind., April 2—(UP) —Will L- Ort, 21 who drove the car in which Arthur Engelkin. 21. was killed March 22. was under technical arrest here last night on a grand jury indictment charging operation of a motor vehicle without a driver's license Bond of SSOO was to be posted by hie parents. Castor Southard, 25, was arrested on an indictment charging criminal assault, with bond fixed at $2,500. A third person indicted had not been arrested early this morning. NEW MEMBER TO BE ELECTED County Council Will Meet April 17. To Fill Vacany On Board A special meeting of the county council has been called for April 17 to fill the vacancy of James Jenney who died Friday night. Mr. Kenney was a resident of Jefferson township and served on the council several years before his death. The law requires that the council elect the new member. The Council will also be requested to make appropriations totaling $367 to take care of unexpected expenses which have occurred ' during the year. These requests are: binding assessors' books and stationary, $53; postage, $25; telephone, sls; office supplies, $5; special deputy in the assessor’s office, S7O, and administrative expense of the newly organized county welfare board, S2OO. 1 The legal notice which will be published in announcement of the special meeting states that the additional appropriations, it made, will be referred to the state board of tax commissioners for further hearing within 15 days at the county auditor's office. Taxpayers objecting to additional appropriations I may be heard at that time.
DIPLOMATS TALK OF WAR War Threatened On Two Fronts By Foreign Offices By Norman S. Duel (Copyright. 1936. by United Press) Mos<ow(. April 2 —(UP) —Outer Mongolia, claiming a decisive victory in a two day battle with Japan-ese-Manchukuoan forces denounced today an "tthameleas lies” Japanese ' versions of the fightingMongolian officias, said a disI patch from Ulan 'Bator, Calpital of | the repubic, charged that Japanese | army leaders were deliberately | trying to create afalse impression ! not only in the outside world .but in | Japan, in order to influence popular I opinion. It was indicated that the fighting was on a bigger scale, and the resulting anger on both sides more intense, than had been the case in any previous frontier incident. Paris. April 2 —(UP) —France denounced Germany’s , proposals for European peace consolidation as utterly inadequate today- She 'pressed for joint French-Belgian Britieh general staff conultations and a meeting of the Locarno powers to consider action. o Lindbergh Permitted To Fly In England London. Apr. 2.—(U.R) —The air ministry said today that Col. Charles A. Lin</»ergh's American pilot's license had been validated for Great Britain, effective until the ' end of the year. He will be permitted to fly any private plane but not to fly commercially. However, it was explained it would be possible for him to take up an experimental I plane. TWO COUNTY RESIDENTS DIE Lavan Fogle, Berne, Joseph Fenstermaker, Geneva, Claimed By Death Bernek April 2. — (SI eciall—Lavan Fogle. 86. retired fanner dieci this morning at 1:30 at his home four miles south east of Berne. Death followed a heart attack. The deceased was born in Ohio. January 26. 1850, a son of Mr. and Mrs. William Fogle. He was married in 1876 to Elizabeth Beeler The widow and the following children survive. Sam Fogle, Mrs. Frank Hiestand. Mrs. Otis Burk, all of near Berne and Otto, Portland. Funeral services will be held at the home Sunday at 2 p. m. with burial in Riverside cemetery near Geneva. Geneva Man dead Joseph Fenstermaker. 80. died at 5 a m. today, at the home of his eon James near Geneva. Death was caused by paralysis. j Surviving are two sons Janies and Alva -both of Geneva. Funeral services will be held Saturday at the home at 2 p. m. The body will be taken to Findlay, Ohio for burial. ——o Willshire, Ohio, Boys Injured In Auto Crash Two boys are in the Adams county memorial hospital as the result of an automobile accident on Mercer avenue this morning at 3:15 o’clock. The young men, Carl Dietrich and Aris Voigtmann, both of Willshire, Ohio, struck the signal light over the rail road crossing. The car over-turned and was badly smashed. The victims were rushed to the hospital where they were treaeted. It was found that Dietrich suffered only a laceration on his left hand. Voigtmann suffered bruisies, scratches and miinor cyts. He may have sustained more serious injuries. _o__ WEATHER Cloudy; light snow north; colder tonight with hard freeze; Friday generally fair; not quite so cold southwest.
Buy n CENTENNIAL Good . Will Rond
Price Two Cent#.
New Lines Os Inquiry Taken Up Today By Mercer County Juryj. Gov. Hoff man First To Testify. NEW CASE PROBED Trenton. N. J., Apr. 2— (U.R) — Bruno Richard Hauptmann's chances of escaping the electric chair tomorrow night increased rapidly today as the Mercer county grand jury opened new linos of inquiry in its consideration of the Lindbergh baby murder. Gov. Harold G. Hoffman, who believes Hauptmann did not commit the crime alone, was the first of several new witnesses to go before the grand jurors, indicating that their investigation might i extend far ibeyond 8 p. m. Friday, the time set for Hauptmann's execution. There was no official word from the Jury as to how far it would inquire into the murder and the case of Paul H. Wendel. who wrote a.nd then repudiated a confession to the crime. But with the appearance of the governor to urge that the mystery be solved before Hauptmann is iput to death; with the preparations of Attorney General David T. Wilentz to go before the jury in opposition to any such delay, and with reports that Dr. John F. (Jafsiet Condon, who paid over $50,000 ratisom to the kidnaper just four years ago today would be called, there was every indication that the jury would be unable to compete its inquiry before the hour now set for Hauptmann's death. Wilentz. superintendent of state Police H. Norman Schwarzkopf and Hunterdon county Prosecutor Anthony M. Hauck made every effort to force the gra.nd jury to jdrop the murder charge placed against Wendel and thus permit Hauptmann to go to the electric chair this week. But so heavy was the tangle of political animosities, so powerful was the momentum of sensational developments in the climatic hours <»f the case that it appeared only I drastic action could force the jury .to bring its inquiry to an end tomorrow. Whether Hoffman, under such circumstances, would issue another reprieve was uncertain, but head keeper Mark O. Kiniberling of the state prison, already had (announced that he will delay execution until Saturday or Sunday if necessary unless the grand jury has reached a decision before .then. Federal investigators made their first appearance in the case when Edward C. Dougherty. Philadelphia district supervisor of the alcoholic tax unit of the Pennsylvania, appeared at the state house and made available records con(CONTINUED ON PAGE FIVE) INDIANA MAN HATCHED PLOT i — Lafayette Man Arrested For Fantastic Plot To Roh U. S. Mint Denevr, Colo., Apr. 2. — (U.R) —‘ Charles A. Stanbaugh, believed to be a wealthy retired Lafayette, Ind., businessman, was lodged in jail last night for investigation of an alleged fantastic plot to rob the United States mint. Stanbaugh. 59, was arrested yesterday by federal authorities, after a guard at the mint, Joseph Bixby, reported Stanbaugh had asked him for “inside” help to perpetrate a mint robbery. Rowland K. Goddard, United States secret service agent in Denver. said that the submission of the plan to the guard occurred in the lobby of a downtown hotel, but that behind that episode "were months of preparation.” Federal authorities were more sympathetic than alarmed, blaming Stanbaugh's predicament on monetary theorizing so intense that it caused gold to loom in his mind not only as the symbol but as the fact of security. Stanbaugh had $10,330 stuffed in the pockets of his worn clothing when he was arrested and was carrying a suitcase filled with newspaper and magazine clippings on monetary economics.