Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 34, Number 172, Decatur, Adams County, 21 July 1936 — Page 5

W DAMAGES MIAS, TEXAS L rc Than Million DoiDamage, 3(1 Per- i ■" sons Hurt T< x . July - 1 <U.P> Dal- j 1 K".,,. shakily today and countK than $1,000,000 damage ■a ..,, prisons injured from a tor w hich roared out of the, Keast at midnight. ■ , ls liltered wilh ,lU ' ■ „i smashed trees, sign-i ■ d< r( „,ts and plate glass win-, K'jn.l many parts of the $26.- , ■1,,,. T. xas centennial expos!-, damaged. ■,],< „f lightning crashed into i ■^.', ah a dozen houses and bus-1 ■ plaits but the worst damage ■ wised by the 65-niile an hour ■ 1I1(i nearly 2 inches of rain. ■,,.. ~f the persons injured were ■i by umbers hurtling through ■ aJ '.mb by shattering glass, ■nir hi i men and a dairy store' were overcome by am- ■. al!lln .s when lightning crash■r-<> the cold storage plant of ■ it ,. company. They were reM 1 suddenly at 11:30 p. tn. ■", terrifying shriek followed ■a deafening roar, the storm d lor two hours, drenching n[ ram flooded streets and ■ ’brilliant electrical display ilK. : . : the city with daytime at the centennial exwas estimated in excess The stage setting for ■nlcad- of Texas," pageant de■inc the state's history, was Lightning struck a room but the rain ex th.- fire that resulted. ..oil'd through the - skyscraper district. !><•■< signs and billboards the streets. .stumbled into largtor protection. Many m frame buildings and residential sections fled buildings. arms staggered into the Cliff mu.a al-dental building. K'' .i. halt' of the city, and in a faint. ■ i w .i i-i tret-. many of them ■' than 100 years old. along the show spot. Turtle Creek w<k :mn up and shat branches were scattered the pavement. were kept busy answeralarms as looters entbuildings left unprotected the storm smashed plate windows. of one- wall of the Allen ■ -:.- downtown district. .aid showered bricks on parked alongside. ■B : 0 ■ngs Again Victor I hi Ouster Movement ■ ..'.. l"d . July 21 jj.R) lodged in Huntington ■uiy jail. Mayor Clare W. 11. I today had made his execu-1 '.“Jsition sound after defeating, |Hattempt to override his veto of I Uordinan,-. giving the city coun-- , remove him from

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office. A third attempt to puss the ordinance over the mayor s veto fail cd lust night when Councilman John Pinkerton deserted the ranks of propomeuts of the ordinance and voted to sustain the veto. Bangs hud been confined in Huntington county jail since July 16, for failure to comply with a cir- | cult court order to disconnect lines of the city's "toy” electric plant 1 serving domestic consumers. TAX COLLECTION REPORT LISTED Collections In State Exceeded Current Assessments —— Indianapolis. July 21—(U.R)—Property tax collections in Indiana exceeded current assessments in May this year, the first time since 1930, it was reported today by Harry Miesse, secretary of the Indiana taxpayers association. A net decrease of $254,655 in delinquencies was recorded in first installment payments. Taxpayers wiped out $5,742,140 jn old delinquencies while defaults on the current assessments amounted to only $5,472,474, according to the report. “General effect was that the taxpayers paid the entire amount levied in the state as a whole and in addition turned over to the county treasurers more than a quarter of a million dollars extra" Miesse said. Substantial reductions in the old delinquencies were reported in 56 of the 92 counties. Most ol the counties which failed to show improvement in their tax situations have abnormally high rates, Miesse said. Lake county was shown in the worst position, with a delinquent tax bill in May of $824,012. Previously the- delinquent list totalled $423,566. Marion county was listed with a delinquency total of $688,491 this year as compared with $992,462 previously. St. Joseph couny had the third largest total with $331,492, an increase over the $272,013, and Allen county was fourth with a total of $276,277. a reduction from $368,158 previously reported. ANOTHER BLACK (CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONE) lonely spot near Pinckney. Mich., on the pretext he was going to collect some back wages, and shot to furnish ‘‘excitement" for the . Black Legion party. Dean said. Dean already ha.s pleaded guilty to the murder of Poole, and hence will not ibe named in the new warrants. Rouse and Lorranee ' were both questioned by police in i connection with the slaying of I the relief worker, both being reI leased. Rouse under $2,000 bond. Dean said the wives of the cult members were not present while the shooting occurred in the lonely swamp land, but waited for I their husbands to return after ; taking the negro to the assassinaj tion. Dean said that it was Rouse I who had located the colored man. “Charlie said he had just the

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right man,” Dean's statement to McCrea said. The six men left in two cars, according to Dean's story, and they drove to a lonely bridge, near Pinckney, where they stopped. Coleman had Itecn told that he was going to meet a contractor. who was out fishing, and who would pay him his back wages. Coleman was suspicious. Dean said, when they stopped and he could see no man. The Black Legion member* huddled in a tight group by one car. while the negro remained ir the other. Finally, Dean quoted Eavis as saying: “Let's go get him." Dean’s statement continue!: “When the colored fellow came around the rear of the car, wondering to see what was doing around there, and just as he came ground and faced us, Davis took hits .38 and he shot first, then th' others shot.” Dean said that It is gun jammed, and he couldn't shoot at first because lie stood somewhat in back of tiie others. A bullet, according to Dean, must have struck Coleman in the lung, because he made an inanticulate sound and begat) running. "And," the statement continued, "he run. oh, he must have run down there about 200 feet or more. He run like a deer down there and when he started running they says, Don’t let him get away'.” Dean said they chased Coleman : into the marsh, firng at him as 1

Comb Underworld tor Torturer '■****' Wfe W M <«r. i WHK ; ' wte ; aJB jsoTj fpg wlwiL * SI. . / Margaret Louise Bell An i 'tense search through underworld hangouts in the east was launched by police following discovery of Margaret Louise Bell in semi-conscious condition in her Washington, D. C., apartment. She bad been bound and gagged, a cryptic "C L” and the numerals "3-12" cut on her thigh and left to die from gas fumes of four open jets. Miss Bell told police the attack was motivated by revenge and named as her assailant one of the followers of Charles iLuckyl Luciano, convicted vice lord, against whom she was a witness at his recent trial.,

lie ran. Finally they left, and Dean said he read that Coleman ■was found dead, propped against a pole in the marsh. SAYS MUSICIAN (CONTINUED I'KOM PAGE ONB) the hotel thoroughly.” Jones’ statement in no way affects the investigations being conducted separately by the county sheriff and th** chief of police. Wollner is held in the Buncombe county jail in of Sheriff Laurance Brown who said he plans ‘ to question the violinist further late 1 today and confront him with statements of witnesses who reported seeing him on the street the night of the crime when he claimed he was h nne in bed. A'so in custody of Brown are Mildred Ward. 19-ycar-old daughter of Wellner's landlady, who support'd his alibi, and Daniel Gaddy, mid-dle-aged hotel night watchman. totalling sl.OllO liave 'leen announced tor the arrest and conviction of the murderer. The state, county, city the Ashville hote| nityi.’jß asociation, and |tho North Carolina hotel men's association offered $2l)0 each. <j Phone Call Costs $895 Sydney. Australia (U.R) — Since the England-Australian .radio telephone service was installed six years ago. the most expensive call has just been made, it cost $895.

SPEAKER LAUDS JAMES A. EARLEY Postmaster General Is Praised At Indiana Meeting Indianapolis, July 21. — KU.R) — Postmaster General James A. Farley was described as "the best business man. the best salesman and the most honest man in publii’ life," by W. W. Howes, first assistant postmaster general in an address before the first annual convention of the Indiana chapter, National Association of Postmasters, last night. “The postmaster general in his first year succeeded in lifting the postofllee department from $152,000,000 in the ‘red’ to $12,000,000 in the black,” Howes said. Howes will become acting postmaster on August 1 when Farley takes a leave of absence to conduct the Democratic campaign. Postal receipts, the "greatest barometer of business,” are soaring, Howes told the postmasters. "Postal receipts increased $40,000,000 in the last fiscal year and promise to increase $40,000,000 more in the next fiscal year. “Records for air mail poundage have been broken four times in the last year,” Howes declared. Gov. Paul V. McNutt, toastmaster, declared that “if the people of the United States forget what has been done for them in the last three and a half years our children and our children's children will have cause to regret.” Maurice C. Goodwin. Newcastle, president of the association, introduced the governor. Among the guests were United States Sen.tor Sherman Minton; Clinton B. Uttley, superintendent of the divisional postal service; Representative Glenn Griswold, Peru; R. Earl Peters, state director of the federal housing administration, and Will H. Smith, collector of internal revenue in Indiana. Approximately 300 Hoosier postmasters are attending the convention today, which will be concluded today with a forum conducted by George Ress, Indianapolis, and A. S. Kelly, Muncie, post office inspectors. Officers for the coming year also will be elected. SEARINGrtEAf age of the chill, quick wind. Before the blast came, the southwest recorded: Oklahoma City. 110; Wichita, Kans., 106; Dallas. 101; Amarillo, Tex., 102; Waynoka, Okla., 106; Gainesville, Tex., 103; Enid. Okla., 112. In sections where the wind already had struck, the temperatures were: Kansas City. 93; Omaha. Neb..

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When ’ this fast Missouri Pacific freight was wrecked near Myrtle, Ark., after being derailed when it struck a broken rail, two men were killed

82; Chicago. 72: Moline, 111.. S 3; ■ North Platte, Neb., 88; St. Louis, 85; Springfield, Mo., 91, Aid Extended Washington. July 21. —<U,R>—The | official drought area where the federal government must provide jobs and food to prevent human suffering today embraced 16 states, Colorado being the last included by the works progress administra-i tion. WPA officials assigned 4,000 jobs to Colorado. Most of the desti 1 tute farmers will be employed on water conservation projects—build-' ing dams and reservoirs to store! ruin against another drought. Some 350 of these projects, estimated to cost some $5,000,000 are j under way in the five principal, drought states of the central west. | Nearly 24,000 farmers are employed on them, Howard O. Hunter, assistant WPA administrator in charge of drought operations in the field, reported. Farmers on WPA projects are; in addition to thousands more employed by the resettlement admin-' istrat ion. The Dakotas remain the blackest part of the great seared section on the national map. Hence they led in the number of projects and in the total employment of drought victims. South Dakota headquarters of the WPA reported 162 water conservation projects costing $896,690 are under way there. On these and other public works 11,000 men are employed. o Fire Chief Serves 49 Years Bucyrus, O. (U.R) Fire Chief

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and several injured. Eleven cars rolled over a 200foot bluff. The engineer and fireman were scalded to death.

i W. F. Mader is serving his 49th year as head of the department. IHe was appointed chief in 1887. DEATH CLAIMS (CONTINUER FIIOiIJPAGE ONE) : Thursday afternoon at 2:30 o'clock I at the home on Eleventh street, with Rev. Jay Smith officiating. Burial | will be made in the Decatur cemei tery. . i The body was removed to the IZwick funeral home on North Sec- . I ond street from the Adams county ! memorial hospital. o Earlham College Honors Local Girl ■ J Word has been received here that 1 Miss Mary Grace Zimmerman, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Martin I Zimmerman of Decatur and a stud- > ent at Earlham College, Richmond, * had received the second highest rat- ' ing on the honor list for her junior year which she completed this I spring. She has received another J scholarship and will be assistant to the professor of German for next year. The election of officers of all campus organizations for the comI ing year is he'd each spring and Miss Zimmerman was elected vicepresident of Ejisilon Alpha Pi, honorary journalistic society and vicepresident of the German Club. She will serve as social chairman of j the Women’s Athletic Association. For the past year she acted as feature editor of the Earlham Post, I 1 u weekly campus paper and next

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i year she will be the feature editor . of the Sargasso, tiie annual edition. Miss Zimmerman will also serve as a member of the finance committee of lite Phoenix Literary society. o — . Escaped Prisoner t Recaptured Monday 1 ! l Elkhart, Ind.. July 21. — (U.R) — - Otis H. Winters, 49. Goshen, who escaped from the Indiana state pris , on at Michigan City July 14, was . captured without resistance by po- . lice here last night. The fugitive said he had been staying in Laporte during most of the time since his escape. . Police picked up Winters in the I' residential district on the tip of a | person who had recognized him. t' He was sentenced from Elkhart , ■ circuit court in April, 1935 to 1-10 i years for assault and battery with • intent to kill after he allegedly had beaten his former wife, Myrtle, - with a gunstock. r! o Indianapolis Man Held For Murder Indianapolis, July 21. —(U.R) Ed ( ward Loyal, 28, was held on .a. murder charge today after the death of his father, Benjamin Loyal, 56, from stab wounds. 'I The son contended he inflicted th? wounds while defending his mother from an attack by Loyal. ; The son said Loya! attacked him with a chair and in self defense he picked up a butcher knife and stabbed his father twice. | Mrs. Loyal said her husband had been drinking.