Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 34, Number 189, Decatur, Adams County, 10 August 1936 — Page 1

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■ REVOLT MM MORE MIS DAILY L Compile*- ® Threaten Serious H Crisis Kington. Aug. 10—(U.R) — nat.onals remamBi, Midrid W ve been '* arned should evacuate the Bm capital tonight or run not having transpor- ■ .....uhle to take them oft Bspamsn ports, the state announced today. B By Vnihsl Press de'i'lopni.'iits in the revolt - lA.v.ti Mis announce B»o' airplane Brf Seville G.-imany sitsBci®"'-' 'i’ l '""' fiiKh '-' _ Intrt'B ual eompli 'aBistinur m Spanish revolt. ghjp cotnpl'.iins of pursuit Kpl urn flying ted flag; i ByaibM'd" k,ill " d bv K fife wounded. L- 1 ' b,s ‘ K< ■ ■^ tar c.m. inment warns nationals to b< neutral in K thi-rtu-ik- expulsion of any, Bktor either side. K«a.- tinners criimK|b C f rebt 1 barracks at dvnaniH- flung from }(Bou Fiff.-n speedy airL rea h Barcelona from P dspatcli'-s say; a.ssassinaIP [kc.. lu'si average dozen Complications Develop (right 19.16 by United Press) ns. Aug. I" <U.R> - Interna[indents of a sort that; | plunge the powers into a. L crisis over the Spanish |ton'i:i ’sl to multiply today, b German treimit steamship a arriving at Bayonne with to reported that it was pi. off San Sebastian, by an |l boat, flying the re.d flag, [the German torpedo boat Doss appeared and chased it pi Robert Savile, British tsman. was killed off Gijon I the rebel c.uiser Almirante ten shelled his motor yacht Shadow. His wife was seif saunded. The yacht went ir.il on a sand bank. Officers (British destroyer Cornet, aw the firing, went to the ] e anti took aboard Mrs. und her husband's body, (Blue Shadow was cruising ijon First the government, fired on it. mistaking ft for kl ship. Then the rebels, «it for a loyalist ship, ap•tly fired point blatik at ft. alian embassy at Madrid W a reply to a strong protest tot the alleged killing of three its at Barcelona and the Hut; of a fourth. More Protection m. Aug. 10 — (U.R) — Two. ’ German torpedo boats, the | lot and the Moewe, were sent! kin today to protect German toe same time, the official to hews agency confirmed * that the Spanish governI had confiscated German air*ln Madrid. The. Lufthansa kercial line declared that pervice to Spain would be ■lined “as long an possible.” j Vatican Protests ■ton City, Aug. 10— (U.R) — •Holy s ee protested energetiH°th“ Madrid government totWTINCED ON PAGE SIX) stennial Committee Will Meet Tonight •tost a partial financial report * made this evening at the of the Centennial associatttcutive committee and all Utts chairmen. p meeting has been ca’led for ’’clock in the city hall build- j of the financial com■aa held this afternoon in rat i°n for the general meetevening. Wer Narrowly Escapes Death Whitehurst of Berne, Hhi' . escaped serious injury and death this morning while Hu" ln a woods southeast of was hunting with Laalß° ot Berne Hhe ch bls r * Be at a squirrel tor™ ar ° e entere <i Whitehurst’s »t” aß earinK :t badly- Whitetoep f. approx 'niately 75 yards■ **«ccCnt SPrUnßer at U ‘ e time j

DECATUR DAILY DEMOCRAT

Department Answers False Fire Alarm The city fire department answerled a false alarm Saturday night at !) o'clock at the Husael Owens home on North Fifth Street. Smoke comi Ing from the basement was reported us fire. Firemen discovered that I rubbish burning in the furnace was canning smoke to issue from the 1 open furnace doors. FILE CHARGES ON ANSP AIIGH Van Wert Man Faces Three Criminal Charges, Damage Suit Ray Anspaugh was released from the county jail this afternoon after furnishing bond of SSOO on a charge of drunken driving. Bond on the charges of public intoxication and drunken driving was fixed at SIOO and SSOO, respectively by Judge Huber M. OeVoss. He was released on his own recognizance on these charges. His attorney, H. R. McClenehan waived arraignment and Anspaugh plead not guilty to all three charges. Three criminal and a damage suit asking $5,000, have been filed in the i Adame circuit court against Kay Van Wert Ohio, slot machine operator, who Friday night droye hie car into the rear of an automobile owned and operated by Paul York, local mechanic. Anspaugh, still held in the county jail this morning, heard the charges I of drunken driving, public intoxica- ‘ tion and reckless driving placed against him, as an aftermath of the 1 crash In which three were cent to ' the local hospital with serious injuries. York, w ho with his wife and Mary Esther Hamilton. Van Wert girl I companion of Anspaugh were injured in the wreck, is suing for $5,000 for injuries and damages received. The complaint of York, as filed Saturday, states that the defendant tarelesdly and negligently drove into the rear of the plaintiff's auto, when the plaintiff was carefully and slowly driving hie car east on federal road 224. The plaintiff further avers that as u result of the crash he sustained a fractured left clavicale, multiple lacerations ol head and scalp, and contusion of left h»p, for which he asks $5,000. Arthur E. Voglewede is attorney for the plaintiff. Mrs. York, who Buffered two brok- | en ribs, an injured back, and injur--1 iee was released from the local hospital Sunday afternoon. Mary Esther Hamilton, Anepaugh's companion, is still confined to the hospital. She has a fractured nose and other injuries. o COAST GUARDS RESCUE MANY Coast Guardsmen Save Many Lives As Storm Breaks Chicago August 10 — (UPI — j Coast guardsmen saved the occupants of at least 15 .powder cruisers and sail boats caught in Lake Michigan last night by a sudden wind which was reported unofficially to 1 have reached a velocity as high as 75 miles an hour. Twenty-foot waves ran the freight , steamship Arthur Orr, owned by the Canada Transit company, aground at the Chicago lighthouse breakwater. Tugboats refloated the ship two hours later. The excursion steamer Roosevelt, with 1,800 persons aboard, required the assistance of two tugs to enter the harbor. Capt- John O. Anderson of the old Chicago coast guard station re- ' ported the storm was one of the worst he had seen in this section of the country. Passengers of several of the rescued small vessels said they believed they would have drowned without coast guard assistance. Among these boats was the 80foot cruiser owned by State Rep. Charles H. Weber, which ran aground off the Indiana dunes state park with 27 persons reported aboard; the 45-foot cruiser owned byJoseph Pondellk, which wallowed for several hours in the surf oft Gary, with five passengers; a 38foot cruiser owned by M. T. Williams. blown aground; an 18-foot sloop owned iby W. G- Micthel. blown against pier pilings. Several other sail boats were incapacitated when the wind tore away their sails. Weather bureau officials said the I storm, accompanied by driving rain I (CONTINUED ON PAGE FOUR)

NEGRO ADMITS MURDERING OF COLLEGE GIRL I—- - — Young Hotel Hall Boy ('onfesses To Slaying Young Girl Asheville, N. C.. Aug. 10—(U.R) - A deputy sheriff took a blood stained revolver and a mashed bullet to New York today to comI plete, with the aid of metropolitan police scientists, the evidence , on which authorities next Monday •will seek an indicement of Martin ' Moore, a gigantic young negro, for the murder of Helen Clevenger, 19-yearold New York university student. Mise Clevenger wa,s shot and clubbed to death with a gun butt in her room in .the Battery Park hotel the night of July 16. Moore, a hotel hall Amy. confessed the slaying yesterday to Sheriff L. E. Brown and two New York City detectives. A gun loaded with cartridges of the type that killed Miss Clevenger—the gun taken to New York today—was found under the porch of his home. , District solicitor Zed D. Nettles , announced thaj he would ask a grand jury convening next Mont day to indict Moore. “We'll try him within the week and have this murder cleaned up in less than five weeks after it occurred,” he said. Negro employe of the Battery 1 Park hotel. Banks Tayior, another • pantry boy. provided the clue that I caused Moore to confess. “ Taylor told the sheriff Thuru- > day, after keeping quiet three - weeks in fear of becoming involved, that Moore owned “an old . .Spanish pistol.” Ballistics ex- [ perts already had determined that the gun that killed Miss Clev- • (CONTINUED ON PAGE FIVE) o LOCAL LADY'S ■ MOTHER DIES ’ Mrs. Catherine Hergen--1 roether Died Saturday Night j - Funeral services for Mrs. Cath°rine Hergenroether. age 75, moth- - er of Mrs. W. A. Klepper of this • city, will be held at 8 o'clock Tuesday morning at St. Mary's Catholic church. Fort Wayne. I Mrs. Hergenroether died at 10 I o'clock Saturday night at the Adams county memorial hospital, fol- \ lowing an extended illness. She had been a patient at the hospital since last March and for the past few years made her home ■with her daughter in this city. F The deceased was the widow of Joseph Hergenroether, prominent Fort Wayne cement contractor, who died in 1929. » Besides the daughter in this ' city, she fe survived by two daughters, Mrs. A. J. Bo'oay, Fort Wayne; Mrs. Joseph Sorg. Hoagland; a son, Joseph Hergenroether .I of Tampa. Florida; five sisters, . Mrs. Mary Lauer and Mrs. Carrie 5 Harris of Terre Haute; Mrs. Hen.j ry Rehling. and Mrs. Walberga I Nieman of Fort Wayne; Mrs. la'ita j Blaising of New Haven; and two brothers. John Ruple a .nd Charles Ruple of Fort Wayne. I The body was taken to the Ankenbruck funeral home An Fort Wayne Saturday and moved to the 1 home of the daughter. Mrs. Bobay, ‘ 2128 Curdes aivenue. this after--1 noon. Short services will be held at the Bobay residence preceding • the requiem high mass at the 1 church. BuriaJ will be made in the r Catholic cemetery. o ■ ' ' ■ Y Zioncheck Funeral Services Tuesday i Seattle. Aug. 10—(UP)—Seattle ' tomorrow will conduct a huge pub- ‘ s lie funeral for representative Mar- ‘ ion Anthony Zioncheck, the young Washington congeesman who ended ‘ a spectacular career with a five ■ etory suicide leap t£om his office in " a downtown building. “ Arrangements of final details for ’ the rites were delayed pending ar- ' rival by airplane of houee sergeant 1 at arms, Kenneth A Romney, who r befriended Zioncheck during his ' last weeks in Washington, D. C. The Washington commonwealth 1 federation, one of Zioncheck’a • strongest supporters during his ,po--1 litical career, aided the congrese--1 man’s widow. Rubye Nix Zioncheck, • in completing funeral and burial ’ plans, Federation officials believed ' the rites would (be among the largest in Seattle history. I

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Decatur, Indiana, Monday, August HI, 1936.

Parkers At Extradition Hearing I 1 x • mHH ■M «r— A H ■ Here are the Packers, father and son, as they appeared in the office . of New Jersey’s Gov. Harold Hoffman at Trenton to attend a hearing ' on the request of Brooklyn. N. Y., authorities for extradition of the noted deteettvet and his son. They are wanted on charges of abducting Paul Wendel from New York in an effort to implicate him in the 1 Lindbergh baby kidnaping case, of which he was cleared. Governor 1 Hoffman reserved decision until after the Newark gland jury completes • its investigation of the case.

FOUR PERSONS SLIGHTLY HURT Two Autos Collide Near Magley Early Sunday Morning 1 Four persons escaped with minor injuries Sunday morning at 7 o’clock when cars driven by A. S. ; Marshall, Beikeley, California and William Bracht, of Kirkland township. collided on the federal road 224 detour, one mile south of Mapley. Mr, Miuwliall was accompanied I by his sister and her husband, whose names were not learned by authorities (investigating the ■ crash. All three occupants of the i California car received minor cuts and bruises. Bracht escaped with minor cuts. The Marshall auto was consid- ' erably damaged, having turned • over and careened into the (Mtch , after sliding on the loose stone following the collision. The Bracht car. whose owner 1 was enroute to church near Magley, where he is the custodian. 1 was only slightly dajnaged. The (CONTINUED ON PAGE SIX) o Infant Girl Is Drownet' Sunday Fremont, Ind., Aug. 10.— (U.R) —j Marylin. 13-month-old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Charles Neutz of near here, drowned last night when she fell into a rock pool at her home. o WEATHER Generally fair tonight and Tiesday Rising temperature T uesday.

Mayor Expresses Appreciation Os City After Celebration

Although appreciative at the moment for the magnificent manner in which Decatur's One Hundredth Birthday was celebrated, time will bring a deeper appreciation of the significance and benefits of the great civic celebration. Mayor Arthur R. Holthouse was quoted as saying today. “The entire program watt indicative of community building, good eitigenship, constructive thought, with a background of idealism and sentiment. The reeulte should be tremendous, for the youth of today has been given a fine example in true civic spirit, a love of homedown, and unselfish service.; “Our fondest dream was realized in the great program, beginning wiith Sunday’s religious ser-| vices, continuing through with the historical pageant. Paul Siple's visit and talk with the boys and girls; Indiana's recognition of ths event through the address of Governor Paul V. McNutt; James B. Malone'e talk; the beautiful music | and singing: the wonderful hospitality, f:r which Decatur is noted, and the genera! friendly attitude extended by everybody. It made one's heart swell with pride to witness an outward expreesion of thanksgiving and appreciation to those who, through the century, helped I build our town and for the infinite ;

Farmer Loses Entire Wheat Crop From Fire 'j Plymouth, Ind.. Aug.'lo.—<U.R>— Fire resulting from lightning during a thunderstorm last night de-, stroyed a barn filled with grain at the James Stackhouse farm, near Bourbon. Stackhouse’s entire wheat crop was lost. 20,000 FIGHT FOREST FIRES Five North Central States Ravaged By Forest Fires Minneapolis. Minn.. Aug. 10 -- (U.R)-Twenty thousand men fought with axew, shovels, portable pumps i and water soakt>d burla.p bags today to halt fires which swept through the forests of five North Central sta-tes, burned scores of farms and summer lodgea and forced settlers from their homes. Sheriffs offices drafted emergency crews from among Sunday I idlers on streets and in taverns of the fire area, towns. Flames menaced the Douglas county asylum and sanatorium in northern Wisconsin. Three hundred fighters stood guard in the dry fields around the building to : protect it from the flames in adjoining forests. Physicians feared thalt even if the flames- were cheeked, they might have to remove patients 1 suffering from the clouds of choking smoke. Flames which swept across the Canadian Lxvder into northern Minnesota advanced ftteadily de(PONTTNUED ON PAGE FIVE)

blessings bestowed. "Publically, personally and in behalf of the city. I wish to thank ’ the department heads and members of the street, fire, police, water and electric departments for their excellent and untiring service, during and previous to the anniversary week. The quick : clean-up of the streets Sunday; morning is evidence of the pride and spirit which guides them in their everyday work. 1 am truly grateful. “To Carl Pumphrey, general chairma.n, and all the committee members and other individuals who did their part, ithe city ts truly thankful. “We of today will be pioneers in the eyes of those who celebrate the second Centennial of the city’s founding in 2036, so our duty in clear. We cannot resit on the oars. We cannot live in the past. We must continue to build a better community, give more of unselfish service and be worthy of the consideration which those a century hence may bestow", Mayor Holthouse concluded in i commenting on the Centennial celebration thie morning. Mayor Hoilhouse advocated the celebration of the city's birthday years ago and in 1934. began to | arouse puolie sentiment for the, j observance. 1

LABOR LEADER SLAPS RECORD OF ALF LANDON John L. Lewis Backs Roosevelt; F. D. R. Welcomes Leaders Washington, Aug. 10.—(U.R) -John L. Lewis, speaking before labor's non-partisan league, today attacked Gov. Alf M. Landon as a “pitiful puppet responsible to the Standard Oil Co., the steel industry, the Hearst newspapers, and the bankers of Wall street." Lewis was the second speaker before the pro-Roosevelt campaign organization to open fire directly upon the Republican nominee. Sidney Hillman. Lewis' associate in the rebel committe for industrial organization, characterized Landon as the candidate of the "manufacturers association, the chamber of commerce, and the misnamed Liberty LeLague.” The attacks came after league leaders said the organization would ' fight to re-elect Mr. Roosevelt and aid him in furnishing a program of liberal legislation if the second term drive is successful. Lewis characterized the I-andon nomination as “the most brazen piece of political effrontry we have I ever witnessed.” Lewis said that since 1929, labor has been experiencing "seven years , of agony, impoverishment and uncertainty." “The only formula the opponents | of the present administration are | putting forth,” said If'wis, “is to i return to power the satne bankers and predatory interests which successfully wrecked the nations in 1929.” “Why. the nerve of these Republican leaders to ask nonchalantly | that we elect a puppet president—a puppet from whom you and I may expect no more consideration than his masters will permit him to ! give us. “God help the American people if they must depend upon this liti tie man out in Topeka, Kan., who . has no more conception of what ; ails America or what to do about I it than a goat herder in the hills of Bulgaria." Hillman said that if Mr. Roosevelt was re-elected legislation (CONTINUED ON PAGE FIVE) o World M ar Veteran Held As Murderer Mt. Vernon. Ind.. Aug. 10. —(U.R) William H. Bert Mcßeynolds, 43, World War hero, was held in Posey i county jail today facing charges in connection with the shooting of his j wife, Rosamond, 36. mother of three children. The shooting occured Saturday night after the Mcßeynolds return-1 ed to their home in a drunken con-. dition and began to quarrel viol-, ently, neighbors hold authorities. Mcßeynolds fled after the shooting but last night surrendered to authorities. He was held on charges , of assault and battery with intent to kill. McNUTT CITES BUSINESS GAIN Governor Quotes Statistics To Show Improved Conditions Indianapolis, Ind.. Aug. 10 —(UP) —Quiting statistics to show improved business conditions, Gov. Paul V. McNutt declared in a radio address last night that “Indiana is leading the recovery parade of statee,” “Evidence is on display everywhere for those who would defy the i facts and insist that an upward trend does not exist” Gov. McNutt ' said. “The feeble cry contending we are not on the upgrade comes from an opposition that is desperate in its attempt to regain the power it once had and lost after years of complacency and apathy toward human needs.” The issue, Gov. McNutt asserted, is “the forces of greed as opposed to the interests of the great mass of our citizenship.” Gov. McNutt stated that an increasing number of persons are leaving relief rolls, re-establishing themselves on a self-supporting basis. i “From the works progress adminis- : tration comes word of a noteworthy improvement in the ’ast few months I in the situation of those dependent ! upon public aid t'qr their livelihood," he said. In quoting statistics the governor 1 .(GONTIWUfifi ON PAGE SiXi

Decatur Returns |To Normalcy As Centennial Ends

DEATH CLAIMS DECATUR LADY ■ ■■ ■ - ■ , Miss Gertrude Smith Dies Saturday After Long Illness Miss Gertrude Smith, aged 47, lifelong resident of the city, died at 10 o’clock Saturday night at her home aj 134 South Fifth street. Death was due to complications. She had been ailing for some time, and for the past, three months had been bedfast under the constant care of a nurse. The deceased was a member of the St. Mary's Catholic church, a member of the St. Agnes Sodality and a charter member and promoter of the Sacred Heart league. She was born in this city April 24, 1889, the daughter of Theodore und Bernadine Smith, both now deceased and was never married, having made her home with- her brother and sister on Fifth street. Surviving are the following brothers and sisters: Martin J., and Anna 8., of thin city; Sr. M. Laurine, C.S.A., Crown Point. A . brother, Bernard and a sister, i Clara, are deceased. Funeral services will be held at 9 o'clock Tuesday morning in the S 4. Mary's Catholic church with the Rev. Fathei J. J. Seimetz. Father Joseph J. Hennes and Father Ambrose Kohne, of Goodland. officiating at the solemn requiem high mass. Burial will be made in the St. Joseph’s cemetery. SLAYER IS HELD TO GRAND JURY Confessed Slayer Os Three Pleads Guilty In Justice Court , Huntington. Ind.. Aug. 10 —(U.R) Harry E. Singer, 25, confessed slayer of three members of a Wabash county farm family, today was held to the grand jury convening Sept. 7 after pleading guilty to the brutal crime in a justice of the peace court. After his appearance beforo Squire Joseph Melvin at Wabash, the red-haired farm hand wa.s brought here for safe keeping. Prosecutor Eugene Weesner • said he would use Singer’s plea lof guilty to first degree murder charges ae a basis for his demand for the death penalty for the alleged slayer. I John Fielding Wesley. 56-year-old Kentuckian, his wife Viola, and their 12-year-old daughter, j Margaret, were buried in a single grave in North Manchester yesterday. Funeral arrangements were kept secret to forestall attendance by the morbid curious. Mrs. Wesley’s mother. Mrs. Lee Foster, and her sisters, Mrs. Alice Jones and Mrs. Colen White, all of Louisville, Ky., were among 75 persons attending the services conducted by the Rev. Homer Ogle. Mrs. Foster confirmed police theories that the name of Wesley by which the family was known in Wabash was partially an assumed name. She said Wesley’s true name was Kaufman, but that she was asked to address the mail to "F. Wesley" after the family moved to Wabash county in 1929. She could not explain why the name was changed. Singer told state police he killed the Wesleys July 21 after thd daughter had diecovered intimate relaXions between Mrs. Wesley and him. He buried their bodies in a five-foot grave in a cow lot and started on a spending orgy which led to his arrest. He sold possessions of the Wesleys and traded their car for a new machine. o Light Shower Fails To Aid Local Crops — A light shower, falling at 11:20 last night afforded but small moisture to the drought-stricken crops. Observations by Walter Gladfelter, official Observer show that only one-tenth of an inch of precipitation fell during the shower. Considerable wind accompanying the rainfall, brought no report of extensive diwuuge,

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Midway Packed Saturday Night For Final Day Os Decatur’s Seven Day Centennial. STREETS CLEARED Decatur's greatest celebration, the Centennial observance, is a matter of history. Citizens of the oity are lawk to near normalcy todaj'. recuperating from the strain of entertaining the largest crowds in Decatur's history. For seven days, Decatur was host to thousands upon thousands of visitors, many of whom traveled hundreds of miles to attend th® Centemuial celebration. With very few exceptions, every vestige of the great party was removed from the streets of Decatur early Sunday morning. All booths were down, only two or three tents still remained up as remainders of the Centennial program and street fair. Another huge throng packed the Midway Saturday night for the final good time. Practically all activity on the Midway ceased at midnight, when workmen started removing rides, shows and concessions. The street department and fire department immediately began cleaniing up the debris, and bright and early Sunday morning, the business district again looked nearly norma). Well Received The Centennial celebration, from the opening religious service Sunday morning. August 2. to Carnival day Saturday, August 8, was received with acclaim on every side throughout the week. Nothing but praise was heard for the program, planned in every 1 detail by the Centennial association, whose members had worked tirelessly for months to make the celebration the greatest ever held ’ in Decatur. To th<» former residents who flocked to the city for homecoming, the week was a glorious reminder of their life in Decatur. i To present citizens, success of the program leases a glow of satisfaction for a difficult task well done, leaving memories that will last for many years. Alleged Forger In Custody Here Walter Amstutz, alias Noah, alias Norman Amstutz was returned to the Adams county jail this morning, pending furnishing of borid in the sum of SSOO, as fixed by Judge Huber M. DeVoss, when he was arraigned in circuit court this morning on a charge of forgery. The complaint brought by the county charges Amstutz with forging a $5 check several months ago. DROUGHT AREA AIDED BY RAIN • Rainstorms Spread Slowly From Southern Wisconsin Chicago August 10 —(UP) —A rain storm worth millions of dollars to drought area farmers mushroomed over the north cental states today. The rains originated in southern Wisconsin last night, and spread slowly toward 'lllinois and Indiana, and Eastern lowa. Agricultural statisticians in Milwaukee estimated the rain added millions to the prospective 1936 income of Wisconsin farmers. The heaviest rain in more than a month, it drenched pastureland and grain fields which had not recovered from the earlier drought. The rain was accompanied by winds which reached as high as 70 miles an hour as they approached Chicago. Hundreds of small craft were washed into the lake from the Chicago shore by the storm which Capt. John Anderson of the coast guard described as “one of the worst I’ve seen here.” Hundrds of thousands of tourists bound back to the City were forced to the roadside by swirling dust clouds and later by driving rain. . Trees were smashed all over Chicago and the Chicago surface line company summond all its emergency crews to repair high tension lines. Air lines delayed scheduled takeoffs several hours until the winds died down ghortljr before uidnigUi,