Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 34, Number 141, Decatur, Adams County, 13 June 1936 — Page 1

K t \\\l \. No. 111.

■SEVELT IS ill. PLEASED Ks RECEPTION Warm \\ <‘lcome In ■Luthwest; At Vinfflfennes Sunday *'^H V >U.R> -i t ip mil Hi" ~ t,emendous in November .. iib'iif will il". . ...j “^K.,, spent 1100(0 ver-terday. ... Ill" United States embroilments. W <). .ni"t' monopoly and -.i ' 'he hatehet H i,, I .•••> Long itiui-li:IL e luncheon in Dul■\l„ \.m lit iv.' del HIV"!'. on expressed Imp" , mild be Ilf help "^B'" 1 aiming n.i JK (ftli.- mi. rid by providing ist hat help B going to be ti. moral help." he said. •K sr. : ’>'ig to gi t tang '.l ' .lllbles ill llm > Lei hl' of 1.. ''II - gU- .. . . I to to c ..i ■cißty.' gjp m :■• i.- that :hei nl Mkke> <1 b. t ween the nev. deal i. the regime of the' had been ad- , |H|lr legisl.lt 111 " Mtn. .'I"" ■\l r.lll'll 111.1 exi cotton bowl stadium. li.-.ii BB V At tlm MH ..~i.mn I. . ; 1.. . :•-1.111.1 ! I . HMM !i a!i11 s ‘ ,h " •• I" B^^Mi 1 " msbM l l>ill.!- ‘ m .i vigorous warning has meant the ownerlabor as a commodity" th., administration democracy in govern■K lin! imwrivy in opporl mi IKSTIBN GIRL WOR SLAYING M-Yfar-Old Indianapolis »H Held For Killing Uncle Ind., June 13 -(UP) ■Bi'-" Cole, 14-year-old high f """!i:iian. remained i I home little (bewildered and eon authorities held an inI W‘"*|pto the death of her uncle. : Farren, whom .she stabbed during an argument. 1 M » I '' l antl worried. Betty told .MM' r Herbert M. Spencer slm "uncle Joe" with a paring grabbing at her" while she M 5 ®' dinner. a typewritten stateth© tragedy ami B it in a sprawling hand. a " permitted to return horn. Mrs. Nellie Cole, who "Ohl 011,11 ° f lleart disease. Mswi 'l. maybe mother won't ' tn(, w anything about it " B" wllPn taken home. The be kei.it from Min. Cole if of her illness. '"id authorities the always he r unc ] e j oe an( ] s ;,hl B*’ a .'-s been fine to her. ever fcotiti came to live with them yeans ago. Farran, 41 and a world war veteran. Ihav" received an SBX> bonus ™'leek. me on e of the first s JH , was going to do when »4 s il>o,lus money wan to buy Betty said, “I love ON PAGE THREE)

DECATUR DAILY DEMOCRAT

Plan Reception For Evangelical Pastor j The congregation of the Fl rut Evangelical church will give u reception at the church Tuesday evening at K o'clock for Rev. and I Mrs. George S. Lozier and family. All members and friends of the church are < ordta.lly invited to attend. —o ——— COUNTY CLUBS PROMISE AID Economics, 4-H Clubs To Cooperate During Centennial Leaders of |he home economics clubs and 4 H clubs in Adams county have promised their cooperation in the Decatur Centennial celebration from August 2 to 8. At a meeting Friday in Monroe the ladies were addressed by Carl C. Pumphrey, general chairman; Dr. Fred Patterson, chairman of the pageant committee, and Roy Kalver, chairman of the publicity committee, of the celebration. An invitation to participate was extended in view of the fact that the anniversary of Decatur marks the 100th anniversary of the organization of the county, as the first official act of the commissioners in 1880 was the selecting of the site for the county seat. Roy Kalver asked the ladies to select a girl from each of the 12 townships to form the court of honor of the Centennial queen who is now being selected, by popular vote. The members of the court of honor must be unmarried girls, residents of the townships from which they are selected, and between the ages of 17 and 30. inclusive. Dr. Patterson gave the ladies an outline of the week's activitiees. All of the clubs are planning exhibits during the week. These will be designed in an effort to show the old with the new. As soon as plans are given of the approximate space to be used by the exhibits, arrangements will be made to provide adequate housing for them. "ilss Inez E. Kent, extension home management specialist from Purdue university, then talked to the club on the summer activities and gave recommendations Tn the planning of exhibits for the Centennial celebration. LEADER'S VOTE SLASHED TOW Other Contestants For Queen Gain On Frieda Scherer Interest continued unabated today in the contest to select Decatur's Centennial queen and her two attendants. The heaviest vote of the week was recorded last night, way over 100,000 votes counted for the day. Freida Scherer, while still having a lead of more than 100,000 lost considerable ground to the next five contestants, namely Mildred Teeple, Ruth Elzey. Kathryt Eng eler, Gladys Harvey and Patricia ; Fullenkamp. Miss Scherer’s total is expected I to go over the million mark after the counting of today’s votes. She now has 093,175. Mildred Teeple with 875.650; Ruth Elzey with 682,050; Kathryn Engeler with 620,000; Gladys Harvey with 566,750 and T’atricia Fullenkamp with 548,- ‘ 850, all scored more than Miss Scherer for the day, the largest number to gain on the leader in a single day's counting. The cut to 15 contestants will ;be made after Monday's votes are counted, which will drop live of the trailing aspirants. Attention is again called to the ■ picking up of the votes on Monday. . All merchants, whose ballots have noTbeen picked up by 2:30 p m. are to call the Centennial office, phone 166. Due to the largo number to be gathered, outlying mer- ; chants are asked to bring in their , own ballots to the office by 3 o’clock. The committee will not be responsible for any votes not , being cotinted in Monday's cut unless the above rules are observed. The pink ballots will not be counted unless they were deposited today, or before. Starting Mon- ' day the pink ballots will be dis--1 continued. Additional white bal- ' lots may be secured at the ' nial office above the A. & P- rot ■ 10 cents per pad of 100. . ' — —O' ’ WEATHER Fair, slightly waimer toi night except extreme southwest, Sunday fair south, increasing cloudiness north, | warmer.

Roosevelt Honors Texas Heroes at San Jacinto ' ' I JN W - - ww-B sgfeif/ ~ ’I ;-v ,A h I' i 1 / ’ ’ . i h If ■ / "1 i w x wifi | | ' r U I t I* \ U_S

With a historic Texas battlefield as a setting. I President Roosevelt is ehown in the foreground of I this picture witli his party, which included Mrs. |

ALF M. LANDON I GALLS MEETING Republican Nominee Calls Knox, Committee To Conference Topeka. Kan.. June 13 —(UP)— ' Gov. Alf M. Landon launched his campaign for the presidency today with a vigor indicating that he intends to retain the party leadership he assumed in his interpretation of '-•the party oebiiu -lie was., nominated. Less than 24 hours after the con-1 vention named him its candidate.' he sent a telegram of congratulations to Frank Knox of Chicago, selected as his running-mate, and asked him to come to Topeka Monday. The conference will brinf together two one-time followers of i Theodore Roosevelt, a fact to which Landon called Knox's attention. . The meeting will constitute, Landon said. "An immediate move on j the enemy." "The .purpose" he add-' ed is to discuss campaign plans." Plans for the notification cere-1 mony probab'y will be worked out i at the conference, but Republicans I here said July 22 would be chosen as the day when Governor Landon | ■ will be told formally that he is to . carry the 1936 standard of the G. 1 O. P. Topeka was favored as the place. | Lawrence, site of the state univer- ■ sity, and independence, the Gover-1 nor's home town, submitted .bids. Knox Pleased I Chicago June 13 —(UP)—Frank Knox elatedly accepted congratulations of his friends today on his R publican vice (presidential nomin-1 ation. and termed himself "merely ' the first mate” eager to carry out ' the orders of "Captain" Alf M. Lan- ' : don. Presidential nominee, for the coming ampaign. Knox, who fought beside Landon 1 in Theodore Roosevelt’s 1912 Bull Moose campaign, said he was "pro1 soundly stirred" at being chosen the Kansas Governor's running mate for the 1936 campaign. “1 feel a deep sense of reverence for the compliment paid me in the unanimous vote of the convention,' J ; he said. Quickly, Knox accepted Landon's I invitation for a conference in Topeka .Monday. He sent Landon a I telegram saying: "We are at (Armageddon again ' and 1 prize highly the opportunity under your leadership to battie to a . victorious conclusion in a far graver crisis than that of 1912. Both political and economic conditions call (CONTINUED ON PAGE THREE) — o——————0 —————— April Court Term Will Close Today One of the busiest days on record was held in the Adame circuit court today as attorneys transacted their j business before the close of the ! April term. The court will recess i this afternoon until the Septembeer term. Judge Huber M. DeVoss has been out of the city for two days while he acted as special judge in the I Mayor Bangs contem.pt case at j Huntington.

ONLY DAILY NEWSPAPER IN ADAMS COUNTY

Decatur, Indiana, Saturday, June 13, 1936.

Edison Rickord Is Badly Burned Edison Rickord. Decatur route 6, was admitted Io the Adams county memorial hospital this morning for treatment of third degree burns on his left ankle, leg I and foot. The injuries were received Wednesday when he spilled a mould of hot iron, while working at the Decatur Castings Co., where he is employed. The burns were | deemed so severe that he was removed to the hospitaj. Catholic Rectory Destroyed By Fire — Auburn, Ind., June 13 — <U.R) Fire, started by sparks on the roof, completely destroyed the I rectory of St. Michael's Catholic ; church north of Waterloo yesterday. Damage was estimated at $9,000. DEATH CLAIMS | ] MRS. SCHULTE Mrs. Henry Schulte Dies This Morning After Long Illness *— i Miv. Emma Echulte, 67, prominent | Decatur lady and wife of Henry j Schulte, clothier for many years ; in this city, died this morning at . 6:55 o'clock at her home on 209 I North Fourth street of uremic poisoning, from which she had been suffering for several yearsMrs. Schulte was active in the St. Mary's Catholic church and the ! many church organizations of which | she was a member. She belonged to the St. Mary's Sodality, the Catho- : lie Ladies of Columbia the Third order of St. Francis and the St. I Vincent de Paul society. Mrs -Schulte was born October 19. 1868, north of Decatur, the daughter of Joseph and Mary Starost and. had lived in Adams county all her life. She married Henry Schulte April 16, 1895. She is survived by the husband, one son Fred Schulte of this city, land two grandsons, William Edward ! and Brian Mathew Schulte. Two sisters and one brother are deceased. Funeral will be held. Tu-iday morning at 9 o’clock at the St. Mary’s Catholic church with the pastor, the Rev. Father Joseph J. Seimetz, officiating. Burial will be made in the St. Joseph's cemetery. o— Nightclub Worker Beaten To Death St. Charles, 111... June 13—<U.R> Pretty Ellen Parnuuzi, 23, St. Charles nightclub employe, was found beaten and shot to death in a roadside ditch early today. The girl's mother, Mrs. Ida Parnunzl, reported her missing at 8 ' p. m. last night when she failed 1 to return home at ithe usual time. 1 A passing motorist found the ' body this morning on the Wayne road, north of St. Charles. One i bullet had been shot through her • head. The running board and > cushions of a car found abandoned t 200 feet from the body were splattered by blood.

I Roosevelt and Jesse Jones, as he addressed a huge throng at San Jacinto. A general view of the crowd is shown in the luekground.

JURY RETURNS 23 INDICTMENTS Federal Grand Jury Returns Indictments At South Bend Twenty-three indictments, inI eluding three in the Fort Wayne division, were returned by a fedleral grand jury at South Bend, in j a partial report submitted yesterI day afternoon. I Included in the true bilU.agu.inni the defendants in the Fort Wayne division, was one against Walter IE. Wehmeyer, 51. postmaster at i Kendallville, who is charged with embezzling $1,084.86 in post office 1 money and converting it to his own use. Wehmeyer, who was named postmaster at Kendallville in 1934 i is also charged with making false : entries in post office records and 1 account books. He is at liberty ■ under $2,000 bond. Mrs. Ruth Potts, 34, of 1012 MeKinnie avenue, the mother of four I children, was indicted on a charge |of violating the internal revenue , I law. A 100-glUlon still, 50 gallons ' 1 of mash and some alleged moon- ! shine whisky were confiscated by lalcohol tax agents in a raid on ! her home some months ago. Dewey Sandmeyer. 36, of 2609 Wells street. Fort Wayne, was indicted on a charge of violating the internal revenue law. The , indictment charges that he was , in possession of a mash fit tor disit illation on premises other than a i distillery. Sandmeyer was arrested several ' I months ago after raiding officers ' seized 400 gallons of mash, live i gallons of alleged moonshine I i whisky and a quantity of barrels. ■ jugs and bottles. Defendants, who were indicted yesterday and who are now in jail, will be arraigned before the , court on Friday. Following submission of the parI'tial report, the grand jury was azl-, i journed until next Thursday morning when it considers the slaying of John R. Foster, internal revenue agent, near St. John on May ’ 14, and the closing of the Columbia State bank at Columbia City for which federal warrajrts for the arrest of three men. including the president of the bank, have , already been issued. I Voter’s Assembly To Meet Tonight The Lutbheran voter’s assembly will meet tonight to consider bids for remodeling and redecorating the Zion Lutheran church. The 1 Rev. Paul Schultz, pastor, stated today that ithere was a possibility of the contract being awarded after the meeting. i Graham Building Sale Is Approved l Judge Huber M. DeVoss today approved the eale of the Paul H. >' Graham Insurance agency builds | Ing. not including the fixtures a,nd < partitions on the first floor, to • August Helman for $6,000. The I building, located on South Second 1 street, was ordered sold in the > settlement of the estate of the late Paul H. Graham.

U. S. WARSHIPS ORDERED SENT TO HONG KONG Order Issued After Reports Are Received Os Fighting Hong Kong. June 13 —<U.R) U.S. warships were ordered to Hong Kong todlay as first reports were received of fighting between forces of Cantonese and central Chinese government. The It. S. S. Asheville has been instructed Ito sail from Shanghai tomorrow, a day ahead of its scheduled departure and the H. S. S. Tulsa already is steaming 1 south, having Interrupted target practice at Crefoo. The fighting between Cantonese and central government troops reported by Chinese sources, was said to have resulted in a retreat j by the southern forces, who have , been advancing northward with ; the announced purpose of fight- ] ing the Japanese. i Central government advices from Hunan province denied, how- i ever, that any clash had taken plaice. ' | Anti-Japanese feeling was dis- j played in mane demonstrations ( at Canton and Peiping. The Canton demonstration, a giant parade of 30,000 persons ' shouting their determination to oppose Japanese imperialism, may ' lead to the greatest civil disturbance in a decade. British observers fear. The parade included farmers, students, workers and labor- , ers of all classes. The marchers wound in and out through the narrow crooked ( narrow streets for five miles. Police accompanied the paiaders. Sub-machine guns were carried in their arms but there was no disorder. At Peiping, Chinese demonstated in protest against the threat of civil war and Japanese imperialism. Scores of the students were clubbed. The demonstrators tried to rush the city gates which were 'dosed to prevent students from suburban universities from rushing in. The demonstration finally ended when students called off the mass protest and said they would (CONTINUED ON PAGE THREE) ' o HOLD EXERCISES THIS AFTERNOON Annual Rural Eighth Grade Commencement Here This Afternoon The 30th annual commencement i (program for the reural eighth grade schools in Adams county will be i he'd this afternoon at 2 o'clock in the Decatur high school (building. There are 269 graduates of the schools in the 12 townships this! year. (lover Van Duyn, assistant state | superintendent of public instruction, ■ ' will deliver the commencement i address. A concert by the girls hand ot i the Decatur high school directed by Albert Sel'enteyer will be given at the Central school yard at 1:30 o’clock. The band will then march to : the high school gymnasium where i the commencement exercises will be held. The program is: Music —orchestra. Invocation—The Rev. C. M. Prugh pastor of the Zion Reformed church ' of this city. Music —Wabash Valley quartet. ('.'ass address —-Mr. Van Duyn. Music —quartet. —C. E. StriHer, county superintendent ot schools. Benediction —The Rev. H. R. Carson, pastor of the Decatur Methodist Episcopal church. Music —quartet. The township trustees are: Howard Manlier, Union; Ralph W. Rice i Root; Ed Zwick, Preble; H. H. High j Kirkland; John M. Doan, Washington; ißen McCullough, St. Mary’s D. D. Habegger, Blue Creek; Edwin i 11. Gilliom, Monroe; Edwin Beer. French; Eli Dubach, Hartford; J. ' C. Mann, Wabash, and Charles Al>neet, Jefferaonfl Ross Mallonee Is Injured In Fall Ross Mallonee, local carpenter, was admitted to the Adams county , memorial hospital yesterday, with ■ a severely strained back. The back was injured when he jumped from ( a falling scaffold while working on ■ Eleventh street. He is reported to be improving.

Cross-Country Road To Go Through City Plane for the new croas-couutry highway, which would be routed through Decatur, have .lieen reported. The new route, which would Iscalled the Transcontinental Airline highway rune from New York to Pittsburg over federal road 1, N. J--29 and Federal road 22; from Pittsburg to Mansfield, Ohio on U. S. 30 ! land then on through Delphos, Van Wert and Decatur to Huntington, where It joins road 24. The new road will run to Los Angeles. ■ o RECESS TRIAL 1 TO NEXT WEEK Trial Os Mayor Bangs Is ‘ Recessed Until VV ed- ' nesday i Huntington, Ind., June 13. —(Spec- I ial)—ln order to close the April 1 term of the Adams circuit court, Special Judge Huber M. DeVoss of I Decatur recessed the contempt I damage case against Mayor C. W. > H. Bangs and 12 others until Wed- ’ nesday. Mayor Bangs and W. M. lairge, 1 district manager of the Northern 1 Indiana Power company, were prln- ' cipal witnesses Wednesday. The mayor, in contending that ( no current had been diverted to private consumers since the in- . junction against the city's entrance , into the commercial field was made permanent by Special Judge David ( E. Smith of Fort Wayne last Aug ( ust, maintained that current just “flowed automatically" to the pri- ] vate consumers along lines pre- , viously connected. Large estimat- , ed the company's revenue loss , from the city's electric connection j at $11,283.03 since August 16. ( Arthur Kinkleman. chief ac- , countant for the N. I. P. testified ] that he had examined 600 accounts ,n the unofficial utility’s consumer lodger, covering the period from August 16 to the present. His ex amination showed total collections of $10,365.24. Mr. Large based his estimate of revenue loss on the bills covering the same period for 400 of the city consumers who were formerly N. I. P. patrons. Large estimated the former customers would have used 226,382 k.w.h. for which they would have been billed $11,238.03. There has been no decrease in the , number of employes or taxes, he said, although expense may have been reduced SSO per month for bookkeeping, postage and stationery. Bangs said he was familiar with provisions ot the injunction but contested the point whether the city had continued under his direc- i tion to generate power, a part of which is used by commercial and domestic consumers. All the current used for domestic and commercial purposes is generated at the city light plant at the direction of "myself and others." he said, the "others" being city councilmen and board of works members as of January 1. 1935. Since August 16 current has ! “flowed automatically" over whatever lines had been connected previously, the mayor explained. He i i said James P. Adkins was In com-] plete charge ot city street light | workers after August 16 until his [ dismissal in March and that Ad- ] kins had issued orders in connec-1 tion with operating the plant. The mayor maintained that no part of; the current from the city plant had been diverted since August 16 because it just “flowed automatically to consumers." City trucks were used to make maintenance and customer changes, it was developed. The mayor said no orders were issued to stop the current from ! "flowing automatically" to consum- : ers. He said he had continued Max Pinney in office as cashier of the unofficial utility since the injunction, and knew what Pinney was doing. The situation was ex- j plained to S. P. Hull, new waterworks superintendent, when he came, and to James B. Vernon when he was appointed to the board of works, the witness sdid. Max Pinney, cashier of the utility, recalled to the stand to comI plete testimony, went into detail i to describe use of the "black box” in which consumers’ collections are deposited. He said burglary insurance was kept on the money but he did not believe the office records were covered and did not report the disappearance of the cash book and letter which he was unable to produce in court. Under I cross-examination he admitted that the lost records were all he had , to protect the unofficial utility ’ I from being billed a second time i for materials. He said Miss Leona ; Fansler, the mayor’s secretary, II Clayton Brown and himself alone i knew the combination to the vault >. in the mayor’s office. The mayor, [he said, did not know It,

Price Two Cents.

JOHN HAMILTON TAKES CONTROL OF COMMITTEE Landon Manager Becomes Head Os National Committee (Copyright 1936 by UP.) Cleveland, June 13.- (U.R) —The new leaders of the Republican party seized the offensive today in a < to pH < v.-ry modern political warfare against the new deal. Imbued with the enthusiastic western pioneer spirit, the men who guided Gov. Alf M. Landon and Frank Knox to the leadership of the party lost no time in prepar ing an aggressive drive to oust the Roosevelt administration and to put new life into the political organization which fell from power three long years ago. Redheaded, square-jawed John D. M. Hamilton took over the nat ional chairmanship from Henry P. Fletcher. With the same energy that he drove the Landon band wagon to triumph. Hamilton sum moned the vice-presidential nominee and a sub-group of the nation al committee to meet in Topeka with the presidential nominee on Monday and promised a lighting campaign. The plans of the new leadership subject to changes after next week’s conference included: A probable challenge to the new deal by Hamilton at a Republican dinner in New York before the June 23 opening of the Democratic national convention at Philadelphia where President Roosevelt and Vice-President John Nance Garner will be nominated for re-eleCtion. In this connection, it was recalled that Mr. Roosevelt spoke over the radio several times during the Republican convention. A constant use of radio to carry the Republican battle to the nation's voters in competition with the Roosevelt, radio showmanship. An emphasis on the western, lib eral leadership of the party by use of frontier symbols such as the covered wagon and pioneer figures in Landon celebrations. An appeal to “common sense” as the basis of the Landon bid for the favor of America’s voters. There appeared to be no doubt that the Landon leadership intend ed to keep up the aggressive fight which the Kansas governor inaug urated when he clashed with op posing factions at the national con vention — and came out not only triumphant but with a united party behind him. Perhaps the only cloud over the Kansas Sunflower field was the shadow of Sen. William E. Borah, who had yet to say definitely whether he would carry out his threat to bolt because-of Landon's action in going beyond the plat form and declaring that he favored a constitutional amendment, if necessary, to give states the right to regulate hours and wages ot women and children, and that a return to the gold standard when feasible was part of his pfogram. CHURCH PICNIC AT SUNSET PARK Annual St. Mary’s Picnic Will Be Held At Park Sunday Plans were completed today for the third annual st. Mary’s church picnic to be held regardless of the ; weather, at Sun Set park, three miles southeast of DectUur on state road 527, Sunday. As the meale will be served in the pavilion, it will be possible to accomodate the huge crowd expected, in case of rain. Arrangements have been made by the St. Mary's society to furnish food for 1,000 dinners, which will be served at the rate of 35 cents for adults and 25 cents for ! children. The food has been donated by members of the parish. The ladies will begin serving ' the dinner at Ila. m. and continue until all have been served. A cafeteria supper will be served beginning at 4 o'clock. At 2 o’clock in the afternoon a concert will be played by the American Legion city band under the direction of Robert White. Games will be played and retreshmente may lie obtained from . stands. I Those who do not have means of ’ transportation are requeslted to ' meet at the school house after i 10:30 o'clock, where cars will take . guests free of charge to the pic- > i nic ground. I The money raised will be used , to pay the interest on indebted--1 ness of the school.