Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 34, Number 81, Decatur, Adams County, 3 April 1936 — Page 1

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ILI) WAVE AND {HOD MENACE IN SOUTHEAST L«rj^ tctric |orn ,, Death Toll Is Forty Persons .——■ •Bv I'nltod • >rP9sl anti a .old wave !tr,> I<> the wea her Lortf o< ,h '' Ho " ,h *,“ h w dead from tornadoes {Jtrie storms in five states. r* W;I C lhe Sixth south-1 into the weather „ , , h . THin-ss-e nW rose J? \ sudden drop in u niper Lutwl -if”''- s,or, ” 1 S - , L, counted 2;. storm dead ... Cordele and s. sen tn other tosof the state. (Ither deaths were: 12 at Greensc. from a tornado: one L tornado victim: one kill l h igh winds in Smith Caro2S!i one Struck by lightning ■ Apollchocola. 1 a . as north- ■ Florida was visited by a ■y wind. ■ Mjy Increase Toll ■wrshorn. N M’ l ’- ■’ (U.R) ■itior.a! guardsmen and rela- ■ a missing persons dug into, ■ loddmi debris of a wrecked ■cntia! and industrial area to■hr bodies exp., >. d to im reuse Kttb toll of a s tornadoes ■ south to nearly 50. ■iv. .rushed bodies already ■Vsn nxtrac '.‘'l fiom a strip ■ bio<ks wide .. • tit ire ■sm edge of Greensboro. ■ the lust of ■ ah' tornadoes ■ ■bi o'cloc k last night. ■r? J,,. I' I'liipt-- . -timat.'d ■not* than 4", c persons were ■cd. hi-i'ital leper's listed 25 ■>t as < riti< ally hurt he said. ■eight near death Phipps ■uPd property damage l at ; ■ than f1.5M.000. ■witr-Hl persm.s bail been kill- ■( hours pre vimisly by a tor■at Litt!. Cord -. G.i . and of almost a third of its 7,-1 ■ nsidents wrecked. Six per-; ■ terr killed by otlo-r twist- ■ tin at Washington. Ga : one ■user. Ga.. on.- at Dawson. ■ on.- at Dalton. Ga.. and one Mapton. S. ('. ■uuge at I md.-i-- passed sl.■m. principally b.-niuse the tai. s< hoc:- wir.- wrecked, ■e culmir itiim blow of a day ■fcast-rs m th.' south at the ■k ‘ ■ - in. hiding ■hot Prod of the Tennessee k Gi.ei.-boro at the of a h.avy rain and wind ■$ just after darkness fell, ■fra few resi'b nls of small MXnxPED ON p.vtl-: EIGHT) i ■ 0 ...._ BtfCluh Entertains E Decatur Rotarians ® Decatur high sc hooi glee ■ ««■!-: 1t... direction of Miss Ha-.;b.instruc tor. the m...nhors of the ■*® r Hotary chib at its regular last evening at the Rice y f '"' i'.tb sang several selecJanies Harkless sang a ■ M(l a trio composed of Mr. ■“"" Bob Johnson and Robert ■*• favored th.- club with a M election. ■■Guy Brofti was . airman of ■Wtram, ■’Polled Word ■ Contest Winners ■s"* 1 . niicsspelieci word ( .- >ntpsl Mw auxiliary n t the Amer!- ' n D sj.Gnsoied this week four persons are anK.. ** winners. Mrs. Gar! K.?' 0- P. Mills. O. (’.Fuell- ■ v..' ,x Sweigart. Each winner Er b^ ded a chkken if he will at l ’ le ‘hreatur produce ■ Patterson ■ ’"Elected Moderator ■ Uul grcgational Ku ne P1 " J -* : 'y’■ ."Ln church Kta»» da> ." ig ‘ 1L Dr - Fred K t|] P a,s asa ’ n <‘it(>ien t.) modK»t ph,» n f regat!u " liu ''ibg the • aV> ' y€ar J ' Kt>!tl l r. P ' ! ‘ e< ' W trußtee fov 11 EialS* tio, ' S We ‘'* g iven. ■ «tbl t /‘.' h W1 ‘ !i oftered he- ■ n Neath <| h ■ lad b;< ‘ n ca,led the IXIBI -VGar- ■*"• M1 p * eac °he were also ? e<l a net gain to unm T ' 16 ad- ■ " for the .^ Un ‘ iay morning, ■ ad<l; tiona] ,u ' Pl,rp( * e of elect- | ' Clothe session.

W.II I I n ■— KLOOI) All) I I ND Previous total $785.92 Patsy * Shirley Lou Borling 1.00 | Loom c hange in box .25 i Plensnnt Mills Ancient Order of C.leaners 3 oo Mr. and Mrs. Goo. Harding 200 Mr. and Mrs. John W. Shafer 1.00 Zion Christian Union church SHO I'nlon Township Emanuel Walther Ijoague 10.00 Mrs. Otto Ehelerding Loo Mr. and Mrs. Leo Ehlnger 2.00 Mrs. Dora Akey .25 Bobby Mutschler 1.00 Loose change in boxes 1.05 St. Paul Sewing Society of Preble 5.00 Total $81547 TO ACCOMODATE REGISTRATION — Clerk’s Office To Be Open Extra Hour Saturday And Monday County Clerk G. Renty Bierly announced today that his office will be open until 6 p. m. Saturday and Monday to take care of late registrations only. Mr. Bierly decided to keep his office open an extra i\our because of the large number of people who have failed to register. The percentage of those who have failed to vote in some of the larger counties is more than 20 per cent. It is believed that a smaller proportion has failed to do so in Adams county. Monday is the last day permitted by law to register for voting in the May primary. Those who have moved from one precinct to anoth > er, have changed their names by marriage or divorce or will come of age on or before the day of the general election in the fall must | register, in addition to those who have been qualified in the past but have failed to register. Saturday is the last day to file I declarations of candidacy for nomination in the May primary. Monday, absent voters' ballots may be obtained al lhe county clerk's office. Those who are in the army or navy, employed by the government out of the city, or who will not be able to be in the county by reason of business or who are students at college may obtain ballots. together with their wives and dependents. The ballots must be marked in private, scaled and returned by mail or in person to the countyclerk's office in time to be sent to the proper precincts before the polls close on election day. o— —— Men’s Brotherhood Will Meet Monday The men’s br therhood of the Firot Evangelical church will meet lat 7:?n p. i.n. Monday, with the April section in charge. Lawrence Amspangh will give a comical presentation and Lawrence Walters will be the Iprincipal speaker. All men and Itoys of the church are invited. --o Local Girl Ranks Hijjh At Franklin Franklin, Ind., April 3 — Mine Mary Elizabeth Frisinger, Decatur, did an outstanding piece of work on the Franklin college campus during the pa.st semester, according to a scholastic report released from the office of Dr. W. G. Spencer, president. A member of Zeta Tau Alpha,, Miss Frisinger is one of the outstanding persons on the campus, scholastically She is a senior. Her parents are Mr. and Mrs- M. A. Frisinger. 520 Third street, Decatur. - -— o STATE RETAIL GROCERS MEET Annual Convention At Evansville Latter Part Os April The annual state convention of the retail groc rs of Indiana, will •be held in Evansville. April 26. 2< and 28. On Sunday evening an informal reception will be held for Orville W- Roseberery, state president. A grand ball will be held Monday and on Tuesday a banquet will be held at which Congressman Wright Patman will be the principal speaker. Jack Dempeey and Irene Rich will be guests of the grocers. The groc- | ers will enjoy a Goat ride on the Ohio river, a tour through several industrial plants in Evansville and other places of interest. There are about 7,500 independent retail grocers in Indiana.

STRETZ MURDER TRIALTO JURY THIS AFTERNOON Prosecutor Fails To Ask Death Penalty For Defendant New York, Apr. 3 (U.PJ —The trial fit blonde Vera Stretz for murder of Dr. Fritz Gebhardt goes to the jury this afternoon. laiwyers completed their summations last night and Judge Cornelius F. Colons announced he would complete his charge by 2 p. m. Prosecutor Miles M. O'Brien did not ask the Jury to consider a death penalty and did not argue he had proved a case of first degree murder. His abstinence, coupled with the expressed opinion of Judge Collins that premeditation had not been proved, led most trial spectators to believe that Miss Stretz would escape the electric chair. Verdicts possible besides first degree murder were second degree murder, manslaughter, and acquittal. Miss Stretz admitted as a : witness that she shot Gebhardt > but said she did it in defense against a criminal attack. She : had been his mistress for more than a year prior to his slaying. Nov. 12, but said she had broken with him because she learned that a reconciliation was possible between him and a wife in Germany. O'Brien called her a "tigress" in his final argument and derided her testimony that she was in Gebhardt's apartment at 2 a. m„ when ' he was killed—both of them clad i in night gowns—because he had . telephoned her that he was in I agony from abdominal pains. o Two Are Dismissed From Hospital Today Carl Deitri. h and Aris Voigtmann b:th of Willshire. Ohio, were dismissed form t.he Adams county memorial hc-spital this morning. They were utighrty fnjnreitwftert thew-ear struck the signal light at the rail-! road crossing on Mercer Avenue I Thursday nr rning. JUNIOR SCOUT I PROGRAM PLAN Club Pack Will Be Organized Here For Boys Nine To Eleven A Cub Pack, junior organization of the Boy Scoute. will be organized in D catur as a program for hoys 1 from the ages of nine t?. 11 inclu-. oive. The Parent Teachers Cauncil of De atur voted to sponsor th? new group at a meeting in the Central' schocl Ipti’.iing, Thursday night. The Decatur ministereial association and the Adams county district Boy Scout co.r.mitte promised their assistance- Representatives of: the North Ward and the St. Josei. h schools, which are not membera of the PTA, altso promised their support. It is planned to make the new organization a community affair. Charles Imngston has been named chairman of a committee including Earl Colter. Tillman Gehrig and Glenn Hill to administrate the activities of the pack. Th? cub master will be selected this week. Bryce Thomas, chairman of the Adams county district Boy Scout committoe, and Lloyd Cowens, chairman of the activities committee, have pledged their support to the movement. At the meeting Thursday Bryce Thomas gave a reipart on the packs visit at Bluffton and Fort Wayne. The meeting was then turned over (CONTINUED ON PAGE EIGHT) — Warmer Weather Is Forecast For State Indianapolis, Apr. 3.—(U.R)— more night of freezing temperatures before the current cold wave breaks and spring warmth returns was forecast for Indiana today by the U. S. weather bureau here. A light snowfall was reported in some sections of the state today, contrasting with flurries of yesterday which caused numerous traffic accidents in the north. The cold weather halted drainage and flood waters began receding from inundated lowlands. —o — WEATHER Fair tonight and probably Saturday; not so cold Saturday.

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Decatur, Indiana, Friday, April 3, 1936.

Cherry Trees Bloom in Capital .<i<» i . , i 1 < » It's cherry blossom time again in Washington where the cameraman caught this artful picture ot the dainty blooms with the capitol dome silhouetted in the background Mies Adrienne Tolan. daughter of Congressman J. H. Tolan of California."inset, is the attractive young lady holding the bouquet.

CANDIDATES BID FOR NEGRO VOTE " ■■ Gubernatorial Candidates Bid For Vote At Rally Thursday Indianapolis. April 3. — (U.R) — Three camiidates for the Democratic nomination for governor • made a bid for the negro vote last ! night in a rally here. I Speakers were Pleas E. Greenllee, ousted patronage secretary to Gov. Paul V. McNutt: Lieut. Gov. I M. Clifford Townsend, and former Mayor Reginald H. Sullivan, speaking in behalf of E. Kirk McKinney. I More consideration for negroes •in the next state administration was promised by Greenlee after ■ attaoking “bossism" in the present administration. “If I receive the nomination and am elected governor 1 am going to place sone negroes in responsible position,” Greenlee promised. "I don't mean $1,500-a-year jobs, either. I mean positions that have i salaries of some consequence, be- ' cause I happen to he a Jeffersonian Democrat and believe in the principle of equal rights for all." Townsend said negro voters “found escape from political slavery when the majority gave their votes to the Democratic party." Sullivan spoke principally on McKinney’s business record as city board of works president and state | director of the Homo Owners Loan Corporation. o COMMITTEE TO SEEK EVIDENCE Suspend Public Hearings On Townsend Old Age Pension Plan Washington, Apr. 3. — (U.R) — House investigators of old age pension schemes today took up new and reputedly “hot” trails into the financial background of the Townsend movement. Public hearings were suspended for at least 10 days to permit a search for new evidence. Chairman C. Jasper Bell, D., Mo., made the suspension announcement unexpectedly after a closed session of the group during which the future program was discussed. The action followed disclosure that Dr. F. E. Townsend, co-author of the S2OO a month pension plan, collected approximately $1,700 from followers in his Old Age Revolving Pensions, Ltd., for a third party during a mass meeting in Los Angeles, Calif., last February 20. Robert E. Clements, former Oarp secretary-treasurer, testified he urged the doctor to put the money as well as that of all other mass meetings into the Oarp but that he refused to do it. This brought a different version of what happened at the meeting at which 12,000 Townsend follow(.CONTINUED ON PAGE EIGHT)

♦ - ♦ ABSENT-MINDED Hammond. Ind . Apr. 3. —(U.R) —Ernest Swanson, 26, foreman | of a South Chicago steel plant, went to sleep last night at the home of his father in Porter, Indiana. His clothes still were there | but Swanson and his automo- j bile were missing this morning. Police discovered Swanson in | bed at his home in South Chi- | cago. He had driven the 30 miles'f* home in his sleep. APPROVE FUND~ FOR HOMESTEAD Appropriation Os $15,000 Is Made For Local Improvements Champagin. '.11.. April 3—(UP) — Authorization for $15,000 worth ot 'additions and improvemento at the Decatur Ind., homesteads was announc d today at the regional federal resettlement administration of.fices. The money will bo spent to conI.struct garages at each of the 48 homes in the Horostead project, installation -cf laundry tubs, coal I bins and screens and for landscapI ing it was announced. No Official Notice Miss Marion N'eiprud, community ! manager of the local (project stated today that no official notice ot the appropriation had been received here. It is probable that Washington will send an engineer here to receive bids, supervise the construction and work with local officials. The appropriation had been requested to make the buildings and lots complete before they are turned over to the homesteaders with I the final pur: hase contracts. The majority of the homesteaders have constructed temporary coal bins. Thes? will be replaced. The screens will be purchased for every window in the houses. Th? (CONTINUED ON PAGE EIGHT) Notices of Candidacy To Be Published in Daily Democrat Beginning Monday, April 6, the Daily Democrat, will follow the example of other newspapers and publish political announcements in listed form. The list will run not less than five times a week until the day of the election. #** • * The charge per candidate for this form of advertising will be $5 from now until election. The charge per week, if announcement is inserted lated, will be $1.75 per week. «*« » * Charges for all political advertising, including the printing of campaign cards, is payable in advance as in previous years. **» . » A sample of how the bating will appear is shown on page 4 of today’s paper.

Wilentz Orders Prison Head To Execute Hauptmann Unless Gov. Hoffman Grants Reprieve

BORAH LOSES IN NEW YORK VOTE Senator Borah Says Loss In New York Os No Consequence Washington, April 3 — (UP) — Backers ot Sen. William E. 'Borah took the position today that defeat of all Borah pledged national convention candidates in the New York state primary was of small consequence in the Senator’s campaign for the Republican presidential nomination. “Yen, O read alioiit it in the ipapers,” Borah said today when .his breakfast was interrupted by the United Preus with final returns of yesterday's New York polling. “It was no surprise to me. I didn’t know anything about the situation there and I didn't expect to win." The New York primary gave the state’s democratic national convention delegation to President Roosevelt although Alfred E. Smith easily won the convention seat. Smith Jias promised to “take a walk” if the convention endorses the Roosevelt Administration, which it will do with c. nsiderabe emphasis. 'Porah said he did not consider the New York poll a real test of his strength but would so construe results of the Wisconsin qTrimary, April 7 and that in Illinois one week later. All 17 Borah-ipledged delegates in New York were defeated yesterday. Uninstructed district delegates were uniformly successful. Regular G. O. P. leaders said New ; York’s convention delegation — 90 streng—would go to the Cleveland I convention to sufpport “the outstanding candidate —a man who can defeat President Roosevelt. Pclitical observers beieve NewYork's early support will go to Gov. Alf M Landon of Kansas with Frank Knox of Chicago and SenArthur H. Vandenberg likely legatees if the Kansan fails to clear early ballot hurdles. Strong financial •backing for Landon already is evident in New YoYrk City. Yesterday's presidential primary was the first ot' six scheduled for > this month. Borah will leave tomorrow night to campaign in Wiscon-sin-one Milwaukee speech—and to appear in several Illinois communities. Ai.ril primaries, in addition to those named, wil take place in Nebraska. April 14. and in Pennsylvania and Massachusetts on April 28. Borah is entered in Nebraska, and Pennsylvania but said today he had no idea what his chances were in the latter state. Earl Peters To Represent Agency Indainapolis, Apr. 3. — (U.R) —REarl Peters, Fort Wayne, state director of the federal housing administration, will represent the government agency at an insurance mortgage clinic opening in Houston, Tex., April 14. it was announced here today. o GAME LEAGUE MEETS MONDAY Conservation League To Observe Ladies Night Monday The Adams county fish and game conservation league will hold the regular monthly meeting in the Moose lodge rooms Monday evening at 7:30 o’clock. The club will observe ladies night at this meeting and all ladies are invited to attend. The meeting will also be open to the general public and a large attendance is desired. French Quinn, prominent local attorney and historian, will deliver the principal address, speaking on “Love for the Outdoors.” Lawrence E. Archbold, Adams county agricultural agent, will discuss soil conservation and reforestation, explaining the features of the new farm program of the federal administration, replacing the outlawed agricultural adjustment administration. Club officials also announced that anyone in the county desiring pheasant eggs for hatching purposes should notify the secretary not later than Monday night.

I. U. FACULTY ! MEMBER HERE Indiana Professor Talks To Seniors On State University Prof. Geoffrey Carmichael of the Indiana university school of business visited Decatur high school this week and conferred with members of the senior class on courses, costs, entrance requirements and other matters pertaining to the state university. Mr. Carmichael pointed out the advantages of a university train ing for students of intellect and determination, and explained that the state university's program represents a continuation of the public education which has been pro-, vided Hoosier boys an d girls through grade and high school. He explained that the major expense of an education at Indiana university is borne not by the individual but by the state, as in the grade and high schools. This means. Mr. Carmichael said, that if a boy or girl is successful in entering the state university, he automatically wins the equivalent of a four-year scholarship equal in value to that offered by most private schools. Five new buildings are being constructed at I. U. this year, the speaker said, to meet a 22 per cent increase in enrollment of the past two years. Attendance reach*ed a peak of 5.217 last fall. The Indiana university speaker called attention to the fact that 1.1 U. holds membership in the inter-. I national accrediting organization, ■ 1 the Association of American Uni-1 versifies, in which only 30 of the , leading universities of the United | Stattes and Canada are represent-! ed. The list includes Yale, Har(CONTINUETD ON PAGE FOUR) DEMAND OUSTER OF SANCTIONS Mussolini Demands Sanctions Be Removed Before Parley Paris, April 3—(UP)— Premier Benito Mussolini insists on aboliton of sanctions against Italy before Italy will re-assume her role in European affairs. Count Charles De Chambrun. ambasador to Rome, informed the government today. Chambrun made his report at a meeting of ambassadors, called from the principal capitals of Europe, to confer with Premier Albert Sarraut and foreign minister Pierre Etienne Flandin on the Rhineland chrisisThe ambassadors from Berlin. London and Brussels also attended. The conference discussed the advisability of sending a detailed plan for the consolidation of European peace as France’s reply to Germany's latest (proposals. The plan will be, in efect, a complete rejection of the German proposals but at the same time will! provide the basis for further direct negotiations between Great Britain, on behalf of the Locarno Powers, and Germany. Non-official sources reiported that, I in token of French displeasure over Germany's attitude in the Rhineland dispute, Andre Francois-Pon-cet. French ambassador to Berlin, might take an exteneded “vacation." ' Reliable sources said, however, that Francois-Poncet was unlikely ' to remain here for more than the few days necessary to prepare the ( French campaign of action o — ‘ Judge McNabb Is Out For Congress i Judge Clarence M. McNabb of I the Allen circuit court, Ft. Wayne, ■ has announced his candidacy for i the Democratic nomination for congress from the fourth district. i Judge McNabb's term as judge • expires December 31, 1936. He is - the fourth candidate to announce E for the nomination for this office. - James I. Farley, who has repre- ) seated the district tor the past four t years is a candidate for re-nomin-ation. 1 In his announcement, Judge Mej Nabb pledged to support policies - and measures sponsored by Presi- ; dent Roosevelt and his administration.

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Bruno Is Again Prepared For Death As Powerful Forces Fight To Delay His Execution. SUSPECT NABBED Trenton, N. J.. Apr. 3.—(U.R) — Attorney General David T. Wilentz today informed the warden of state prison that Bruno Richard Hauptmann must be executed tonight unless the governor grants a reprieve. The attorney general added that he had already informed the governor that he was without authority to grant a reprieve. “However,” he told head keeper Mark O. Kimberling. “if an order of reprieve is served upon you by the chief executive it is not your duty to question its validity but to obey it.” Wilentz also listed the two other alternatives to execution, both of which already have been closed against Hauptmann—a stay of execution by the court or a commutation of sentence by the board of pardons. Bruno Richard Hauptmann went througjh the motions preparing for death again today while outside his cell in the state capital, powerful forces worked to stay his execution. Guards again shaved the Lindbergh baby killer’s head and stripped his death house cell as though he were going to the chair at 8 p. m. as experts hunted for some means of legalizing further delay. Hauptmann's reserve of good luck began running low at midnight when the Mercer county grand jury recessed without takj ing any action in the case of Paul I H. Wendel whose repudiated confession cansed Kimberling to post- ■ pone Hauptmann’s execution Inst ■ Tuesday night. Allyne Freeman, foreman of the jury, told Kimberling this morning that the jury had no reason for asking further delay. Kimberling then went to Erwin Marshall, prosecutor of Mercer county. After talking with Marshall for an hour the head keeper announced he would go ahead with plans for the execution tonight, but would check also with Attorney General David T. Wilentz. Although Wilentz is the state's highest legal authority his word alone may not be enough to send Hauptmann to the chair. Wilentz and Gov. Harold G. Hoffman are bitter political enemies. Hoffman wants to save Hauptmann and Wilentz wants him killed. The (CONTINUED ON PAGE SEVEN) o Ohio City Man At O. K. Barber Shop D. W. Defter of Ohio City has started work as a barber at the O. K. barber shop on North Second street. Mr. Defter is a licensed barber and is well known in and around Decatur. 'He formerly lived at Willshire The O. K. barber shop te owned and oiperated by Forest Elzey, one of the vetereans of the trade in this city. Q MILTON HOWER FOR RECORDER \ Decatur Grocer Fourth Candidate To File For County Office Milton E. Hower, well known local grocer, today announced his candidacy for the Democratic) nomination for county recorder. Mr. Hower filed his declaration with county clerk G. Remy Bierly today. The race for the recorder’s nomination is becoming the most interesting of any in the primary election. Mr. Hower is the fourth candidate to announce for the office. Mr. Hower has been engaged in tthe grocery business in Decatur nearly all his life. He served several terms on the Decatur school board and has taken an active part in community affairs. Saturday is the last day for candidates to file their declarations with the county clerk. A petition signed by at least one-half per cent of the number of votes cast for secretary of state at the last election must be filed by the candidate.