Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 34, Number 84, Decatur, Adams County, 7 April 1936 — Page 1

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IIOEWSS (f’OINTEO JfITWRNEY [I Attorney Is Apinted Today By Mayor Holthouse „ DeVoss, a member of ton, county bar. was »> □ty attorney for Decatur i OT eceMfnß the late Herman who died from Injuries H Murch 28. in aji auto lon in Indianapolis. . appointment was made by . Arthur It Holthouse. virtue of the law. Mr. Depontes a member of the o( public works ami s afe, y. ito of Mayor Holthouse and ilnun Andrew Appeltnan. PeVoss is one of the junior of the Adams county He has practiced law in this Ince IW. new city attorney is a ,of Decatur. a s on of Judge (rs H. M. DeVoss. FollowL< paduation from the DecaS h school m 1928, he entered jin college, w here he roll one year. he 0.11 of 1929. Mr. DeVoss Hi Indiana university, took a nr course and then com* his law course at Indiana itbool. Indianapoli s . receivis 11. B. degree in 19.24. DeVoss was admitted to the jriulKl. He ha.s been acp bis profession and in com--1 affair 0 new appointee will join the 1 city family at the regular gos the city council this tragic death of Mr. Myers ed early on the morning of | ,28. the result of injuries i el in an auto collision nt ■ (tersection of Full Creek , ard and Meridian street in i apohs. where he had gone to ■ iter official business amt to tpiejt of Mr. and Mrs. ißeatty over the week-end. nillTY OF EBROADSEEN ling Os Road From ren To Decatur Dismissed At Meeting tasibility f a road opening trading area for Decatur and ■ >county from Ohio was disIbjdirectors of the Chamber raerce today with th ■ Adams !«®niisnioners. irate highway department of is WWdering the constrnc<l new road from Lima to to make a sohrter route iracoand to eliminate the railrassings on the old Harding ei routes have been eerveyed•wd enter Indiana at WillOhio. A second would cross lie line near Wren, Ohio. The would enter the state in Allen F. Wrth of the Adams county 5 officials favor the route * Wren, which it is estimated ™ W miles from the disLima and Chicago. Bffc of Wren, Ohio, wish the '“ Hon of an east and west through their town and they W the assistance of Adams r »ad Decatur officials in " the route. ci., president amber of Commence, point- . at j' le ' a(i w<>ul <i open up 'Wing area for towns in • county, Bronte is to be considered it *"«««ry for the county ' * inretch of road from a loa h' e D linf ' near Wren to Ulen f e lqua roa<i near the itk, p’™' The route would roa ‘* at the Point »t Sc , n esec,s wlth e| ate road ’t’ouldTu 11 '' nPar Rellm<>nt Hu™. °* rOad 224 weet lngtou and on to Chii W, i b ee n ° n,^ One I railroad ■This „ V, n Dec&tur and Wnte'd ou t b<> fleeted, it Meet At Monroe Thursday ? ee 'Xshi- p farm ' ?rs Os Wash ‘ inter oßted in Sy i WUI b 0 h *d 30 at lh ° ’ill be Monioe - Ralph M wlll exm»i prinei oal speak- • Won Program the rural elcc ' '’iinty m am ar ‘ d Plans for "’’mbership drive. ■

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ASK STORES CLOSE Request was made today by Roscoe Glendenning, president of the’ Decatur Chamber of Commerce, that all business establishments of the city close during tihe Good Friday services here from 12 noon to 3 p. | m. Stores in past years have closed during the Three Hours and are expected to cooperate likewise this year. ♦ ♦ SEEK LAND FOR RECEIVING SITE Chamber Os Commerce Directors Meet With Commissioners Directors of the Decatur Senior Chamber of Commerce and a representative of the Decatur Junior Chamber of Commerce appeared before the board of county commissioners today regarding the possibility of locating a receiving station for the Crampton Canneries. Inc., on ground owned by the county south of the Adams county memorial hospital. The plau was presented by Roscoe Glendennlng, president of the Chamber of Commerce, James Elberson. H. P. Schmitt and Merle Ellenberger. The canning company wishes a site for the location of a receiving station this year with an option to buy the ground later for the erection of a processing plant. Directors of the Chamber of Commerce stated that they had been assured by company officials and by personal visits to various factories owned by the company in Ohio that it would not be objections! to citizens living near the I factory. All cooking of tomatoes and othler vegetables is done in sealed I vats. The only noise in connection with the operation of the company is the clicking of cans as they are loaded. A smoke stack sufficiently high to evenly distribute the gmoke will be constructed. If suo acres of tomatoes and otner vegetables should be obtained. it is expected that a pay roll of SIOO,OOO would be distributed among the farmers in the county. The commissioners said that they I were in favor of anything which would help build the agricultural prosperity of the county. They were unable to give a definite answer concerning the possibility of the sale of the land until it had been properly investigated. County Attorney Henry B. Heller was requested to give a decision as to the legality of leasing the ground to the Chamber of Commerce for the period of a year or less for the purpose of a receiving station only. Under this plan the tomatoes would be shipped to Ohio processing firms. Final Meeting At Kirkland April 14 The Parent-Teachers association of Kirkland township is completing arrangements for the final meeting to be held Tuesday, April 14, at the Kirkland gymnasium. This committee comprises the following Miss Mary Detting, Mr. and Mrs. Earl Arnold. Mr. and Mrs. Franklin Freuchte, Mr. and Mrs. Arden Miller. The program will be completed and announced Friday. As in the past, this meeting is open to the general public. ADAMS COUNTY NATIVE DIES Mrs. Elizabeth Davenport Dies At Home Os Son In Fort Wayne Mrs. Elizabeth Davenport, 74, sister of Mrs. Nettie Bowman of this city, died late Sunday night at the home of a son. Herman, in Fort Wayne. The deceased was born in Adams county May 31, 1861. Surviving besides the sister in Decatur are the following children: Mr. A. W. Heidt of Davenport, la.; Mrs. Bert Reed of Bluffton; Herman, Fred and Claude Davenport of Fort Wayne and Merton Davenport of Kansas City. Mo. Also surviving are 15 grandchildren and one greatgrandchild. Funeral services will be held at the home of the son at 140 S Hugh street. Fort Wayne, at 1:30 p. m., Wednesday and at 2:30 o’clock .at the Christian Union church •at Craigville. Rev. P. H. Graeser will officiate, assisted by the Rev. Hines. Burial will be made in the Elm Grove cemetery at Bluffton

MANY KILLED AS BANDITS BLAST TRAIN More Than 10 Killed As Bandits Dynamite Mexican Train Mexico City. Apr. 7—(U.R>—The Vera, Cruz-Mexico City night express was wrecked lagt night by a terrific explosion, apparently a dynamite bomh set by bandits, which sent two pullman cars, an express car, an oil car and the locomotive plunging into a ravin". Survivors reaching Vera Cruz said they believed more than 10 wore dead and five gravely wounded. The explosion occurred on the Paso Grande bridge, near Paso Del Macho. Apparently the bandits were reeking a large consignment of money aboard the express. The estimated 150 passengers included several of prominence but it was believed few if any foreigners were aboard. Official reports indicated that bandits planted a. dynamite bomb on bridge "kilometre 354" near Pa.ro Del Macho, hoping to obtain a large sum of money the express was bringing to Mexico City. The train left Vera Cruz at 7:30 p. m. CST. and arrived at Paso Del Ma.'ho a little before 9:10. There an oil burning locomotive was substituted for the electric locomotive for the pull up into the mountains through some of Mexico’s most beautiful scenery. A few minutes after the train left Paso Del Macho. 50 miles from Vera Cruz, it crossed a bridge over a 33-foot ravine. Reports indicated that the locomotive. an expre s s car. a.nd two first clast, and two second cars passed and that, as the three wooden pullman cars were in the center of the bridge, a bomb ex«v»nttnitri> ov pmir pivK) EDWARD GREEN DIES MONDAY Circuit Court Bailiff Dies Monday At County Hospital Edward G. Green. 69, Adams circuit court bailiff, former sheriff and recorder of Adam-; county,, and prominent Democrat and citi-| zen of Decatur, died at the Adems’ county memorial hospital Monday ■ afternoon at 3:30 o'clock. Pneumonia was the cause of Mr. Green’s death. He underwent two operations for hernia several weeks ago and wa.; recovering when he developed pneumonia. Mr. Green was born in Crawford county, Ohio. November 2. 1866, the son of John and Mary Green. In 1885 Mr. Green came, with his parents, to St. Mary’s township, Adams county where he grew into manhood. In ISS7 he was married to Mies Amanda Heath at Monroeville, In Allen county. In 1893 he moved to Decatur, which has been hiq home since. Mr. Green served as chief of police of Decatur for three years and was later deputy sheriff of the county. He was employed as conductor and motorman on the Fort Wayne and Decatur Interurban electric railway for four years. Active all his life in Democratic politics, he was elected to the office of county sheriff in 1914 and served two terms. beginning in 1915. He served a four year terra as county recorder from 1925 to 1930. On January 1. 1933 he was named by Judge Huber M. DeVoss as bailiff of the Adams circuit court.. At the time of his death he was a candidate for Democratic, precinct committeeman from Decatur 3-A. He is survived by the widow and two children, Lawrence Green of Decatur and Mrs. Ro s e Burgess of Kent. Ohio. Two children preceded him in death. Two sisters, Mrs Ben Teeple of Courtland, New York and Mrs. Martin Gilson of Decatur, and one brother, Bert Green of Chillicothe, Ohio, also survive. There are 14 grandchil(CONTtNUED nN PAGE FIVE) — Pre-Easter Services At Christian Church The Rev. Kenneth Timmons, pastor. will deliver a series of three pre Easter sermons at the Christian church Wednesday, Thursday and Friday nights of this week. -pjjg service will start each night at '7;SO o’clock. The general public Uinvited to attend

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Jilted Suitor Slays Schoolgirl J| f” W ■[ Charles Wilton HU | Jean Moorhead*

First degree murder charges were drawn againstt Charles Wilson of Mansfield. 0., following the fatal shooting of pretty Jean Moorhead, 17. high school senior and prominent sub-debutante. The girl was shot as she and her escort sat in their parked automobile in front of the Moorhead home after returning from the theater. Police said Wllgon. a former “boy friend." had driven up in an Intoxicated condition. demanded that the Moorhead girl accompany him. and. when ehe refused, had shot her. Wilson claimed the shooting was accidental and caused when an attempt was made to disarm him.

URGENT APPEAL BY RED CROSS Adams County Officials Urge Contributions To Flood Relief Officials of the Adams county chapter of the American Red Cross today issued an urgent appeal for contributions to the fund tor the aid of flood sufferers in the eastern and southern states. Adams county's quota in the national drive, first set at SI,OOO. was later raised to $1,500. With j the frighUul toll of lives and prop-, icrty damage wreaked by Monday's i tornadoes in six southern states. I the money raised by the Red Cross is urgently needed to relieve suffering in these communities. i Today's report of contributions | brought the county’s total over the | two-thirds mark, with a total of j $1,026.07 reported. Today's report ■ follows: Previous total $836.47, | Mrs. Lizzie Able 1.00 I Employes General Electric 6.90 j General Electric Co 30.001 Loose in box Democrat office 2.00 1 I Chas. Maloney S.OO A frietiu 1.001 A family 6.001 IN. A. Bixler -’no j Collection at theaters 4.62 Collection by Children's Red Cross Nurses, Girl Scouts Red Cross. Saturday 34.33 Berne contribution 87.00 Mrs. Gilbert Stucky, treasurer M. W. F. Home Economics Club 13.75 Total $1,026.07 o COMMUTES ON SOIL PROGRAM Additional Township Committees Named For New Program Additional township committees were announced teday by County Agent L- E. Archbold for the new soi conservation program in Adame county. Theee committees are: Root: Winfred Gerke, chairman: 'Henry Auman. Philip Strahni, Hugo Boerger. IJenry C. Fuelling and Berle Sheets. French: Henry Meyer, chairman; 'August Schlickman. Alonzo Smith. George Ringger. Monroe: Daniel D. Kauffman, chairman; C. R. W. Schwartz, William T. Rupert and Dennis Striker. (Bine Creek:' William H. Pattereon, chairman; Rolla Raudenbush, Albert Burke and Ben F. Tickle. Wabash: 'Harve Ineichen, chairman; Leon Neuenschwander, Orton F. Wheeler and John A. Hendricks. The chairmen of the 12 townehipe will be called into the county agent's office Wednesday morning at 10 o’clock to elect the county board In the afternoon of the same day, C. M- Long, district supervisor will give instructions at a trainnig school. WEATHER Fair and colder tonight; aevere freeze; Wednoaday generally fair- not quite so cold in afternoon.

G. E. Employes To Vacation In August E. W. Lankenau. superintendent of the Generaj Electric plant in this city, announced today that ■the local industry would be cloned during the first two weeks in August in order to permit employes to attend the Decatur Centennial. A vote was taken last week by employes of the concern as to whether they would want to take their vacation at that time. The results of the ballot, indicated that the proposal in favored by the majority. MERWIN MILLER ISSUES PAPER County Cow Tester Publisher Os State Cattle Club Paper Merwin Miller. Adame county cow . tester who was recently elected seeI retary-treasurer of the Indiana Jer- ' sey Cattle club. ha«< begun the pu.ilii cation of a state paper for i ganization. I At tlie present thte newspaper is mimeographed at the office of Adams County Agricultural Agent L. E. Archbold. The paper and sufiplies are furnished by the state organization. Mr. Miller has published a similar paper for Adams county cattlemen for some time. This attracted the attention io£ cattlemen over the otate and it is at their request that he has begun the publication of the state bulletin. Among the stories in the first issue is the announcement of the date ■of th ■ Jersey Parish show to be hed in Decatur, Thursday. August 6 i in connection with the Centennial I celebration here. The article states: “.t you can't go to Texae, come to Decatur! Counties represented are Adams. Allen, Welle and Jay" Sol Moseer of near Geneva, a director in the state organization and owner of one of the first two Jersey farm herds to be classified in the state, is quoted in the paper. Subscription to the paper is free Cattle dub- Officers of the club are: Cattle clu. Officers of the club are: W. E. Weaver, Washington, president; Merwin Miller, Decatur, sec-retary-treasurer, and Sol Mosser. Geneva, Bergen Lagrange, Indianapolis; Ethbert Newson, Worthington, Guy Daily, Mooresville, Dr. William Amy, Corydon anq Merwin Miller, Decatur, directors. o American Legion Band To Rehearse Thursday The American Legion city band will rehearse at the new legion home at First and Madison streets Thursday night at 7:30 o’clock. (All members are urged to attend. Ohio County Boards Confer Here Today Members of the Mercer county Ohio beard of commissioners met with the Adams county commissioners today in reference to a strip of mud road, approximately ■one mile in length on the state line between the tw-o counties. Mercer county officials wish the road improved with grave!.

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401 Bodies Are Recovered From Tornado-Torn Areas In South; Agencies Aid Stricken

Roosevelt Directs Relief Work In Stricken Area By Navy Radio; May Visit Area In Person. TO END VACATION Miami, Fla.. Apr. 7 —(U.R>—President Roosevelt, by navy radio, to-' day directed the government's rehabilitation work in tornado-scarr-ed states. From his yacht Potomac in Bahama waters the chief executive called on the war department and the works progress administration to do all in their power to help the suffering thousands. Frequent bulletins kept Mr. Roosevelt in ali most constant touch with relief | developments in areas that he knows well—it was recalled that some of the scenes of tragedy were not far from the Warm Springs Foundation in Georgia. Warm Springs, however, was unscathed. Mr. Roosevelt was told that national relief directors already were in the devastated regions reinforcing Red Cross workers; also that the WPA in Washington had instructed state directors in Georgia. North Carolina, and Mississippi to cooperate as far as the law will permit in relieving tornado suffers. The president, in communication with Secretary of War George Dern, was advised the war department had sent orders to the commanding general of the fourth corps area to make a personal investigation and extend whatever assistance is needed. First word of the tornadoes camo to the Potomac as the president was preparing to terminate his sea going vacation that for the past two weeks has been spent in the Bahamas and off the Haitian and Cuban coasts. He ordered his ship and the escort destroyer Monaghan to proceed to a Florida port which will be reached about Wednesday noon. There he will disembark and board a special train for Warm Springs. It was expected that Mr. Roosevelt probably would pass through I the storm area and see for himself the extent of the damage in some (CONTINUED ON PAGE THREE) ' O Yost Brothers Bid Is Low On Bridges Indianapolis. Apr 7 — (U.R) — Gsade separation, bridge and road improvement projects included in a f1.407,u5? enntra.-t letting by (the highway commission today included: bridges in Adams county —state road 224 over Holthouse ditch, one mile west of Decatur; one span 40 feet, also on state road 27 over William Smith ditch north of state road 124 — Yost Brothers, Decatur. $17,970. 0 GARDEN EXPERT HERE THURSDAY Government Expert To Conduct Meeting Here Thursday H. E. Young, director of gardens and food conservation for the G. C. U. R„ will conduct a meeting at the South Ward school building Thursday evening at 8:15 o'clock for the benefit of homesteaders members of the P. T. A. of tho South War<i and others who are interested in the iplanting of gardens this spring. Mr. Young was obtained upon the recommendation of Purdue University. A garden specialist was requested by Miss Marion Netprud community manager of the homesteads project here. The meeting was arranged by County Agent L. E. (Archbold. Mr. Young will discuss new varieties of vegetables standard varieties and proper fertilizer and proper fertilizer applications, lit was pointed nut today that though the meeting has been planned primarily for the homesteaders it will >be of value to every garden owner in the city. The Homesteads lots were laid off in tracts ranging from one to nearly two acres each. These were to provide garden space. Many requests have been made by residents at the project for information as to vegetables best suited to the soil on the site.

REPORT ELEVEN KILLED AS AIR LINER CRASHES Western Air Liner Crashes Today; Three Escape Death New York, April 7 —(UP) — A transcontinental western air liner, , carrying 14 persons, crashed today near Uniontown, Pa., killing 11. ac- ■ cording to advices received by PWA main offices here. The hostess of the plane, Miss N. H Granger, telephoned the ofi flees here from Uniontown and rei ported the crash. She said that only she and two passengers stir- ■ vivedMiss Granger said she was only ■ slightly hurt. She did not iminediately give the names of the two surviving passon- . gers. The plane, known as “Flight No. I’’ made its first scheduled stop at Camden, N. J. It was due at Pittsburgh at 10:23 (A. M„ but was more than three hours overdue when the hostess telephoned word of the crash. Earlier it had been reported the plane was having radio trouble and had passed up Pittsburgh to contintinue to Columbus- It was due at Columbus at 11:36 A. M. but was overdue there even before the dis- ; (CONTINGED ON PAGE THREE) — ——o— — FURTHER BOOST TO BOND SALE — Total Sales To Date Os Centennial Bonds Near $6,500 Mark A further iioost In the sale of “Good Will" bonds to finance Decatur's Centennial celebration August 2 to 8 was reported Monday night to the executive com- ' mittee by Herman F. Ehinger, chairman of the finance committee. The total subscribed to date is $6,483.25. glightly more than SSOO short of the $7,000 goal set by the Centennial executive committee as necessary to guarantee Decatur the greatest celebration ever held in this community. General plans for the Centennial were discussed at the weekly meeting of the. executive committee Monday night. Clark J. Lutz, prominent local attorney, appointed program chairman for the week, spoke briefly. While hi s committee hae’ made no definite plans, ea<ch day of the week will he designated as a special day and distinctive events will be planned to make each day of the entire week stand apart 11 from every other day in the form of entertainment ajid historical value. The committee also voted adoption o£ a form to be used in invitations, letter heads and also for a souvenir program. Financial Report The total of $6,483.25 as reported last night by Mr. Ehinger, had i been subscribed as follows: > Manufacturers, wholesalers and utilities $2,020.00 ; Retailers, commercial concerns, 2,402.50 , Professional men and women 486.00 , Lodges, s ervice clubs and churches 311.00 . Employee of factories, offices ajtd stores . 903.75 (CONTINUED ON PAGE FIVE) ______o Rural Schools To Close Later Date The rural schools in Adams ' county will not be able to close at 1 the usual time this year because 1 of the cold weather last winter, which made attendance impossible 1 in most of them. i Attetndance reports are being i made by the township trustees and ■ school officials. The closing dates • of each of the schools will be ani nounced soon by County Superin- > tendent of Schools Clifton E. Striker,

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Property Damage Likely To Exceed $12,000,000; Nearly 2,000 Persons Are Injured. DISEASE FEARED (Copyright 1936 by UP.) Relief agencies, guarding against disease and looting, worked today to rehabilitate tornado-smashed communities as crushed homes and business buildings yielded a total of 401 bodies. Gov. Hugh White, of Mississippi, personally directed relief at Tupelo. Miss., where the number of dead passed the 200 mark when additional bodies were uncovered. A central relief committee coordinated rehabilitation activities at Gainesville. Ga„ stricken by a tortnado and a fire yesterday. The property loss in the six states affected by the storms of Sunday and Monday was approximately $12,000,000 with nearly 2,000 injured. At 1 p. m. (CST), the United Press correspondents reported the following tolls: Property Dead Injured Damage Gainesville,Ga. 163 650 $6,000,000 Tupelo, Miss. 205 1.200 5,000,000 Booneville,Miss. 4 20 50,000 Grenada, Miss. 5 10 30,000 Columbia,Tenn. 6 13 50,000 Waynesboro,Tn. 5 5,000 Red Bay, Ala. 7 9 1,000 Elkwood. Ala. 4 4 1,000 Lacrosse, Ark. 11 75,000 Anderson. S. C. 1 20 300,000 Melbourne, Ark. 1 25,000 Scattered smaller Communities 1 0 75,000 Chaotic conditions existed in I Gainesville, a manufacturing city lof 10,000 in the mountains of j North Georgia, and in Tupelo, a I farming center of 7,500 In northI east Mississippi. Partial electrical I service was restored in both cities early today, but both were with- < out water, communications were I badly crippled, and acute food shortages threatened. National guardsmen enforced what amounted to martial law and had arrested more than 20 persons for alleged looting. One half of Gainesville, includI ing the business district, and one third of Tupelo were leveled by the 300 to 400-mile an hour tornadoes that struck Tupelo Sunday night an <1 Gainesville Monday morning. In Gainesville, the national guard and the Salvation Army fed hundreds from soup kitchens. An estimated 2,000 homeless in Gainesville had been quartered in private homes by the national Red Cross. Several thousand more were quartered in school houses and other public buildings. Several cases of illness were reported in both Tupelo and Gainesville which, according to first diagnosis, were due to contaminated drinking water. Aided by national guardsmen who rounded up the refugees, large staffs of emergency physicians and nurses marshalled in Atlanta, Memphis, and other communities near the storm center, administered typhoid, diph(CONTINUED ON PAGE SIX) o — DANCE PLANNED DURING APRIL Junior Chamber Os Commerce To Hold Dance This Month The directors of the Decatur Junior Chamber of Commerce voted. Monday night to hold an invitational dance for members and guests during the last week in April. Thu affair will be free to members. They will have the right to bring two couples as guests. Guest tickets will be 50 cents a couple. The invitations will be considered a ballot to vote for a director to replace Miss Bernice DeVoss, who recently aocecpted a position in South Bend. The ballots will be counted at the dance. Memberships will be accepted the rest of this week and cards may be obtained from Frank Wallace, chairman of the drive. Bud Townseud was named general chairman of the dance Kathryn Hower and Robert Heller are other members of the committee. Roseimary Holthouse and Kathryn How. er are members of the invitational committee. —ra