Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 34, Number 105, Decatur, Adams County, 1 May 1936 — Page 1

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IISANT MUIS WATE PLANS t Exercises ißHiill Be Hehl Saturi | day Night | '-nn tl>p (Kn Mill* school graduat- ■■ held Saturday k it: the seho >1 audiby orchestra. the Rev. E. IE. by Orchestra. | lr R U | )now by ' ,f diplomas lIV Clif. ■ E striker. ■B“» l<,i "n by the Rev. €. E. 'he class arc: Rosey Horothv Feasel. Mary ■* Koos. Marjorie R. Ha beg- \ Anspaugh, Lewis M. ■F~ ,! " ll AH. Bertha Heath, Earl Sheets. Roh- , :i>ne Cott , €lj Verney W Wliiii » l| i M- 11 Hen. Vernon BELL Rll ey. Ijeeter Burkhart., MEI M| Her. Marion Burke, 'lark, Earl L. Lautzenhein. Royce. l lll ’y f the school is comdeary Snyder, principal: Viza " 1 ' Ma >y R. Gu’iek, I jg![ ortn( ‘- v and Agnes Yager. I ns H ould Retain I W wo district Schools reSS&MaL * ~ i of two of the district m Wabash township are HER "■ ''’tinning classes in 1 s< hool buildings, accorddespite the building jMB! " pw consolidated school I Geneva. W Bai ' S N°' 1 a nd 2, known as mE 1, and Hirsch y schools, resa'P. ,lle onea w ' lo have to continue. Petihflß* ~“, s ef fect are being cir--11 <s said. 11 ■> al!e ' l tor al ' Wabash bo attend school at consolidated building at

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“No-Divorce Week’’ I I 1 jk <* t In an attempt to stabilize marriage conditions, Judge Benjamin Buente of the superior court of Vanderburgh county (Evansville) Indiana. set aside the first week in June as “no-divorce week" and proposed congressional enactment of 11 proposals which he believed would cut down the number of divorces. DISPUTESMART STATE PRIMARY Factional Disputes Mark Both Political Parties In State Indianapolis. Ind.. May I—l1 —I UP) — Factional disputes in both the Republican and Democratic itirties were added today to the confusion facing 'lndiana wters in their primary next week. The ballots in next Tuesday's voting; will list orte of the largest I fields Os primary candidates in the history of the state There are 75 candidates for the 24 congressional nominations, heading the tickets. While weeding out their choices from the long lists of names, the voters als.v wil' be called upon to decide what they think of the various “isms” of the campaign — “Hoover-ism.” “Me Hale-ism." “Me-Nutt-ism,” and "Greenle-ism.” Even after the ballots ali are I counted it is -doubtful whether the I winning "ism" can be determinedThose fights will be carried over I into party organization meetings in I May and state conventions in June I “Il .over-ism” became a definite issue today in a statement .by Burrell Wright, Indianapolis, treasurer of the Republican state committee. Wright answered two carges that he was allied with the Democratic state administration leaders with the accusation that “Hoovercrats” are attempting to control the Indiana delegation to the G. 0. P. Nationa' convention at Cleveland, 0., next June. The party treasurer’s republicanism had been challenged by the Republican editorial association —■ which claimed he worked with Dem(CONTINUED ON PAGE SIX) FORMER COUNTY OFFICIAL DIES John Felty Dies Thursday Night At Adams County Hospital John Felty, aged 60, former Adams county assessor died at. the Adams county Memorial hospital last night at 9 o’clock from diabetes and twlitis- The deceased whose home is in Geneva was taken to the hospital recently after suffering for several years from diabetes. Mr. Felty served as assessor of Adams county for a four year term from January, 1931 to January, 1935 and was well known in this city- He suffered from the affliction while still in office. He was born February 29, 1876Surviving are the widow, who before her mariage was Pearl Boehm; five children; Mrs. Ted Myers, of Geneva; Mrs. Ed Myers, of Geneva; Mrs. George Sipe, of Willshire, Ohio; Mrs. Noble Lobsiger of this city and Dwight Felty at home. Four brothers and one sister also survive. Funeral services will be held at 2 o’clock Sunday afternoon at the Apple Grove church, three miles east of Geneva, with the Rev. WH. Kendal, of Huntington officiating Burial wil! be made in the Riverside cemetery near there.

MURDER CHARGE FILED AGAINST BARTON TODAY Former Farm Hand Is Charged With Killing Capital Officer Indianapolis, May I.—-(U.R) —AI Barton, 25, former Newton county farm hand who aspired to become “a second Dillinger", was slated on murder charges here today in connection with the fatal shooting of Sergeant Richard Rivers, Indianapolis patrolman. "I don’t want to land where he (Dillinger) did. But it looks like I have,” he told police who questioned him in an effort to learn the whereabouts of three other members of the bandit gang. Barton, whose real name, police say, is Alfred Brady, was arrested in Chicago, where he told authorities he participated in robberies in Ohio and Indiana and was with the gang when Rivers was shot to death. He was brought into police station here at 3 a. m. today. With him was Margaret Barry, his com-mon-law wife, who said she left her husband during the Mardi Gras at New Orleans to go with Barton. "I will marry him if I go to jail," she said. “1 will marry him of I go to the chair, or even if we go to hell.” She displayed a diamond ring which she said Brady had given her. “I always felt that we were married.” the 21-year-old brunette said. She was being held under a vagrancy charge. Rivers was wounded fatally when he attempted to apprehend members of the gang who had called at the home of Dr. E. E. Rose here to obtain medical aid for a companion shot during a gun battle with police at Lima, Ohio. (CONTINUED ON PAGE SEVEN) CONTINUE FIGHT ON HANNA WILL Previous Will Os Oliver Hanna Is Cited In Objections Fort Wayne, May I.—Mutual and reciprocal wills made by Oliver S. Hanna and his deceased wife, Mrs. Mary Ella Hanna, May 29. 1912, were cited in verified objections opposing admission to probate of I Hanna’s alleged last will, made on or about August 2, 1935, filed in Allen superior No. 2 yesterday. Although the mutual wills were i mentioned in the course of the I contest action involving his 1935 will, they were not in question in that action. “Future procedure that we may take in the case may relate to the former will,” commented Attorney L. B. Harper of Fort Wayne, who with Attorney Howard Mottntz of Garrett, represented Mrs. Gertrude Grosvenor and Mrs. Julia N. H. Williams, contestors of the 1935 will, which was held valid in a decision rendered by Judge Muller Wednesday. It was indicated that the attorneys for Mrs. Grosvenor and Mrs. Williams, daughters of Mr. and Mrs. Hanna, may contend in a new pleading, tentatively scheduled to be made Saturday, that the 1935 will, which was at issue in the case just decided, was superseded by the earlier mutual will made by Hanna and his wife in 1912. "Whether it will take the form of a motion for hearing of the case decided, or be incorporated in an independent action has not yet been determined," said Mr. ~arpar. The contest action decided Wednesday represented an attempt to disolve a trusteeship created by the 1935 will, under which the Fort Wayne National bank is to serve as trustee and pay Mrs. Grosvenor and Mrs. Williams, as Hanna’s daughters, a life income from the estate. It is stipulated that the income at no time is to be less than $2,400 each for the two daughters. After the deaths of the daughters, the estate is to go in trust to the grandchildren, who are to receive the corpus as they (CONTINUED ON PAGE SEVEN) Two Autos Collide On Second Street An auto driven by John G-llliom crashed into the rear end ci a car driven by George Strickler on North Second street late Thursday afternoon. Both cars were moving slowly. Very little damage was done to the Strickler automobile.

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Decatur, Indiana, Friday, May 1, 1936.

MM Congressman Farley To Visit In Decatur Rapresentrfive James I. Farley of Auburn and a party of friends from Fort Wayne and Auburn, will arrive In Decatur about noon Saturday, according to word received here today. Representative Farley returned from Washington and will remain in the district to vote next Tuesday. He and the caravan of Farley boosters will visit in Decatur Saturday afternoon. o - ... NEW ANGLES IN WENDEL KIDNAP CASE LAUNCHED New York, New Jersey Authorities Redouble Probes Trenton, N. J„ May I—(U.R)— The Hunterdon county grand jury. meeting in Flemington where Bruno Richard Hauptmann was convicted of the murder of the Lindbergh baby, today declined to return on indictment accusing Paul H. Wendel, disbarred Trenton attorney, of the Lindbergh crime. The charge against Wendel was filed by Hauptmann's wife, Anna, in a futile last minute effort to prevent the execution of her husband. April 3. Trenton. N. J., May 1 — (UP) — Grand juries and police in New Jersey and New York delved with new vigor today into the tangle of crime and intrigue that resulted from the kidnaping of Charles A. Lindbergh, Jr., four years ago. A grand jury in Flemington, where Bruno Richard Hauptman was convicted of the kidnaping, began an investigation of charges that the kidnaper was Paul H. Wendel, disliarred Trent™ lawyer. At the same time a New- York >ity grand jury heard new testinKMiy that Wendel himself was kidnaped with the cognizance of New Jersey officials in an effort to frame j the charge against him in Flemington. Ellis H. Parker, Jr.. New Jersey 1 istate employe and friend of Gov. Harold G. Hoffman, has been indicted with four other men in New York on charges it abducting Wendel and torturing a confession of the Lindbergh kidnapfrig from him. A multitude of other fast break(CONTINUED ON PAGE SIX) GIVE PROGRAM FOR CONCERT Decatur Girls’ Band To Present Concert Sunday Evening The following program will be presented by the Decatur Girls band, under the direction of A. M. Sellemeyer and Miss Eileen Jackson at the Evangelical church Sunday evening. The concert is being sponsored by the Missionary society of the church. Military Escort Bennett Idle Fancy ... Bennett Country Garden E. DeLamater Elves Dance P. Tschaikowsky Twilight in the Mountains Saxaphone and accordion quintet I Love a Lassie My Faith Looks Up to Thee Nearer My God to Thee Clarinet quartet Progress March Bennett Themes from Mignon A. Thomas Selection — Saxaphone. Accordion duet Overture Zenit lit Bennett Two Chorales J. S. Bach Till We Meet Again— Sacred selection

Mayor Requests Cooperation Os All For Clean-Up Week

"Let’s not only scrub Decatur’s face but wash her neck and ears,” said Mayor Arthur R. Holthouse today in requesting the cooperation of the citizens in the clean-up drive to begin Monday as a preparation for the Centennial celebration“Thousands of visitors will inspent industrial sites and homes of Decatur next August'', the mayor continued. "Let’s show them that Decatur has completed 100 years as the cleanest and bast town in the country." Mayor Holthouse and civil works commissioner Ralph Roop promised the assistance of the city trucks in. collecting the trash, tin cans and other retuse which should be piled

YOUTHS GUESTS OF ROTARIANS Youth Os City Honored By Club; L. E. Templin Is Speaker Special tribute to the youth of Decatur was paid by the Decatur Rotary club at the weekly meeting iu the Rice hotel Thursday evening. Boys and girls, elected Wednesday as “city" officials, and athletes of the grade schools were honored guests of the club. Lawrence E. Templin, athletic director of the Bluffton public schools, was the principal speaker. Mr. Templin, who has been active in youth work for tnauy years, delievered an inspiring address on "Opportunity.” The speaker said that while in the opinion of many persons, the youth of today is at a distinct disadvantage after leaving school, be believed that many opportunities, better than ever before, are available to the boy or girl willing to work when given such an opportunity. The world of science, particularly, Mr. Templin asserted, has not even been scratched. With the serious problem of unemployment confronting the nation, however, steps must be taken to provide means of keeping the youth of the country occupied after leaving school. Mr. Templin urged the need for a more diversified recreational proprogram, both in the schools and in civic activities. He stated that in his opinion, athletics is overemphasized in the schools. Participation in athletics is rarely continued in after school life, the athletic director said, and a program is needed to provide a more diversified recreational system, from which the individual may continue to reap benefits in later life. In closing, Mr. Templin praised (CONTINUED ON PAGE FOUR) q ANNUAL CHURCH SCHOOL PLANS Vacation Church School Will Open In City May 25 The annual vacation church school, conuucted by the Decatur Ministerial Association, will open Monday, May 25 and will ctose Friday, June 19. This was the announcement made today by Rev. C. M Prugh. who has been selected dean of the school again this year. 1 Other members of the Committee in'charge of the school are Rev. H. R. Carson and Rev. Homer J. Aspy. One imiportant position remains to ibe filled, the Edition made va- ' cant by the death of Mrs. F. WDowns, who had been at the head of the primary department for a number of years. The list of teachers and classes will be announced in a few days. Ten classes will be held as last year, pupils being graded according to their grade in the public • schools. Boys and girls who will .be four years of age by Feb. 1, IBS'? will be admitted to the first kindergarten class. Classes will ibe held in the Central school building as in ■ previous years. o Central School To Give Play Tonight The public is urged to attend the play, “The Girl in the Fur Coat" at the Decatur high school auditorium , this evening. The play is being given by the Central eighth grade under the direction, of Miss Grace Coffee. The proceeds of the play will be used to 'buy new uniforms for the girls' band.

in Iboxes -in the alleys by Monday morning. City employes will work a week on this project at no charge to the citizens. Mayor Holtirvuse stated that a survey would show that there are numerous sheds, and shacks in back yards of the city which have long ago served their period of usefulness and are now eyesores. They could be removed at a minimum cost and would greatly improve the appearance of the residential section. Clean-up week is an annual event In Decatur. Especial emphasis has . been placed on the project this year because of the Centennial celebration.

THREE KILLED WHEN TORNADO HITS MIDWEST Four lowa And Minnesota Counties Are Hit By Tornado Milford, la.. May I—(UP1 —(UP) —Rural residents of four ilowa and Minnesota counties pried into the tangled wreckage of hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of property today in the wake of a tornado that killed three .persons and injured several score. The tornado struck in the northwestern corner of lowa, whipped along the state boundary for 200 miles, and leaped into Minnesota tc blow itself out. The dead: George Roskins, 30, farm laborer near Milford. Mrs Julius Heuer, Everly, la., farm wife. Ray Schelmeki, 19, Fairmont, Minn., Farmland. iTospitals at Milford and Easterville. la., and Fairmont, Minn., required emergency equipment to treat the crushed and lacerated limbs of scores of injured whom survivors rushed into towns over almost impassable roads. Authorities believed the death toll would have been considerably greater had the twisting winds bent their full fury on scattered towns in their patiis. Outlying farm and resort districts boro the brunt of the storm. Communication lines were ripped out and roads flooded and clogged I with debris. Authoriies called out emergency crews to restore them so isolated injured could be treated, exact number of injured computed, and propert damage surveyed. Torrential rain and hail storm followed the wind Hail stones as large as eggs shattered every window in one side of the Easterville la., hospital- All .patients escaped injury. Hardest struck was the rural region around Easterville. For hours after the storm snvivora rushing injured ot hospitals plowed their way through .inches of mud and havked away at trees smashed down across the roads. Easterville itself, with 5,000 pnpulation, escaped serious damage. Other Northwestern lowa towns including Spencer and Spirit Lake reported comparatively small damage. Farm houses, barns, cottages and residences directly in the path of the wind were demolished, and the debris scattered over acres. Hundreds of trees were blown down on roc.fs in outskirts of the towns. Two residences and 15 cottages on the shore of Lake Okoboji were (CONTINUED ON PAGE SEVEN) O Van Wert Man Killed Near Middlebury B. Joseph Longsworth. 55, Van Wert, Ohi'i, was killed instantly last night by a high power line on federal highway 224. near Middlebury, east of Decatur. He was e'ectrocutcd when a wire he was supporting with a board slipped and struck him. He was working with a crew of men moving a dance hall from this city to Middlebury- He is survived iby a sister, Gracia Longsworth, Van Wert. 0 LOCAL MEN AT ANNUAL MEET Decatur Men Attend Spring Scottish Rite Convocation A number of Decatur men attended the annual Sipring convocation of the Scottish Rite in Fort Wayne, Wednesday and Thursday. The banquet was held Thursday night, with 1,100 members attending. The banquet followed the completion of the ritualistic work, a class of 70 taking the work. Several Decatur men were memlbers t£ the class. The class was named in honor of Edwin R- Thomas, prominent Fort Wayne attorney and Scottish Rite Mason. Officers of the class were, Nicholas Stepanovich, East Chicago; Judge Roscoe D. Wheat, Portland, vice-president; Dr. Ralph WElston, Fort Wayne, secretarytreasurer; Clayton Hudson, Kendallville, historian; Clyde Reed. Fort Wayne, orator. Dr. F. H. Rupnow, pastor of St. . John's Reformed church, made the ■ principal address at the banquet ■ and E. H Kilbourne presided as toastmaster.

Emperor Selassie To Resist Italy t To The Last\Man

Weds Congressman » ll* ii i ■ |F yi® The former Rubye Louise Nix of Texarkana, Tex., a PWA steno-. gra.pher, is pictured in the nation's capital after she became the bride ! of Representative Marion A. Zion- | check (D.) of Washington. BROTHERHOOD MEETING HELD United Brethren Brotherhood Meeting Is Well Attended The meeting of the United Breth-j ren church brotherhood, which was ! held last night in the church was well attended. The meeting opened j with a fine atg service led by David Wynn, and the scripture j reading by Dick Shaffer. Frank Fisher offered the prayer. Glenn Hill, president, then turned the meeting over to Rev. H. W. Franklin, who aided in arranging| the program. He in turn introduced the Rev. Simons, crayon artist from South Whitley, whose presentation was thoroughly enjoyed. William Welsheimer was the principal speaker and soloist of the evening. Mr. Wilsheimer, aca?mpanied on the .piano by Mrs. Gail Bitner, sang several numbers, while the Rev. Simons exhibited his artistry with the crayon by portraying scenes appropriate to the number. The song pictures included, “Sunrise.” Tlte Old Rugged Cross”, “Whiter Than Snx>w” and TThe Church by the Side of the Road.” At the conclusion of each of the numbers special lighting effects were cast upon the pictures enhanci ing their reality. “The Task of the Church” was the topic of Mr. Welsheimer’s address. He explained in detail the various methods he had employed • to handle all problems, arising in the church. The speaker, who has had 30 years of experience in church work, stated, “the church . will be victorious if all men are Christians and work at it ” Refreshments including homemade ice cream and cake, were . served at the close ot the session, , 1 o Country Conservation Club Meet Postponed 1The monthly meeting of the coun- : try conservation club, scheduled . for Monday night, has been post- > iponed until Monday, May 11. The , members are urged to attend, as of- • ficers will be elected for the ensu- • ing year. , o WEATHER Thundershowers northwest this afternoon or tonight, and east and South tonight and probably Saturday morning > becoming fair Saturday aftert noon; cooler central and i north late tonight, cooler Saturday.

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Ethiopian Emperor Says War To Continue In Spite Os Abandonment Os Addis Ababa. OCCUPATION NEAR Addis Ababa, May 1. —(U.R)—Emjieror Haile Selassie, with the Italian forces at the gates of liis capital, proclaimed late today that he would resist the Italian invaders to the last, althougTi forced to abandon Addis Ababa. The emperor said direct peace negotiations with the Italians are out of the question and that he would negotiate only through the League of Nations. Receiving the press just before the departure of 5,000 men of the imperial guard for the hills, Haile Selassie said his abandonment of Addis Ababa under pressure is not significant and that a new seat of government would be established farther to the south. “I will never negotiate peace directly with the Italians,” he said. “This country will negotiate only through the league. I will never leave my country of my own free will —never.” “Will the outside world abandon us to our fate?” The emperor said that although he is abandoning the capital and leaving it without defense against the Italian occupation to avoid unnecessary bloodshed, he would be in communication with the outside world from his new seat of government, and would continue to urge league action to enforce a settlement. "Ethiopia is not suing for peace,' I he said. Such of the population as re. i inained in the capital looked to Um emperor for advice as to whether they should remain or flee. Haile Selassie conferred continually with his ministers prior to departure. He had lost his debonair look of a few months ago and seemed worn and haggard. His beard was streaked with grey. His hands were bandaged, allegedly because of burns from Italian gas. Occupation Near By Reynolds Packard. (Copyright 1936 by UP.) * With the Italian vanguard on I the Addis Ababa road (via army | field wireless, Makfud), May 1. — i (U.R)—Addis Ababa, capital of Ethiopia. is expected to be in Italian hands by the week-end. The motorized columns formed by Marshal Pietro Badoglio for the : final phase of the campaign are approaching the capital steadily and irresistibly, over roads almost unbelievably bad, with a grim efficiency that approaches the terrl- | ble.. It is a triumphal procession. It has rained —showers —for two days. The columns halt only to receive the occasional submission of warrior chieftains of the Wollo-Galla tribe. As I write we are well past the halfway mark from Dessye to Addis Ababa. Some distance back we passed the River Robi, |9O kilometers (118 miles) south of Dessye. (Variations are wide in estimates of distances between Dessye and Addis Ababa. Dispatches direct from the front show them to (CONTINUED ON PAGE SEVEN) WARM WEATHER HITS DECATUR Temperatures Above 90 Are Experienced Here On May Day May Day was ushered in with th® warmest temperatures unofficially recorded in this city for the season. Local therometers registered from 90 to 96 degrees in the sun, with but a few degrees lower in the shade at noon today. Billowing black clouds rolled around the city this morning shortly betore noon, without 'producing the much expected stormy showers. Weather forecasts predict showers tonight and Saturday followed by cooler weather In this portion. Local business houses, preparing to ibatt’e the hot rays of the sun unrolled their awnings and began repairs on the winter weather-beat-en canvasses. Several new awning. 4 were being put up by the merchants. Men iu shirt sleeves and women in light dresses were common on the streets today for the first) time.