Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 34, Number 249, Decatur, Adams County, 20 October 1936 — Page 1

I XXXIV. No. 219.

ROOSEVELT TO VISIT INDIANA

resident of |SPAIN FLEES IFROM MADRID II Bjesident Azana In Barliana; Fall Os City I Imminent (U.R) , I. . f> ibrd today by a Et«i ■ .('.ration that the civil fought out its within a few days. . . .. astonish ■Ht),.... atmosphere within ■ hours. ■ ■ Maninl Azana was in the capital did trip 11),. country with four of K ( i||> vative < altinct ■* officially tour of the war MB; the Madrid were quiet. Hut i - . o-d at a ny mon, « tierce attack on main sectors. Ejt »• |> ,i 'o.| without confirthat nationalists severM , East Coast railtoad B, a t i«i n. s south of Madrid, ff Fall Is Near HMx'ti. French-Spanish Fron (U.R) Spanish nut le.idcts joyously proclaim B the ial of President Manuel Barcelona today as an that the fall of Madrid fc Brtain nd imminent. ffhffle y. t!m president and four Mr- of his cabinet were at Br Ana. on the Mediterranean Bradpud only 85 miles from the border, on a series of “pep" ■sits a loyalist cities. and his aides are B>d|n it necessary to continue Br fft front or loyalist governBat > ith their temporary capital ■ Bajrelona. while the hard boiled Francisco Largo Cabal- ■ (®NI IXI F.lt ON PAGE SIX) - - o — KTE6TIVE FOR I KRS. SIMPSON Ip&tive Aids King’s j To Conceal Movements o». Oct. 20—(U.PJ— Adele,, assigned to King B«fd aided Mrs. Wallis Simpn her elaborate precattconceal her movements ■-'tt ■London. Simpson apparently spent at her new home in Terrace. A little be--BWB ■>nn she left. Simpson's automobile in front of the house. was loitering outopoke to the chauffeur r'y-ove off around the block up Mis. Simpson, who exit from a side entrance 0 th* house. his friend was here, King entertained his shooting 'J'Mn bleak Norfolk and the •' lrs - Simpson’s impending s l>read on by gossip in circles, like those w “’ e causes in a. pond. , (>f the cheery party that f Pn expected to attend the Ilarty a t Sandringham, estate near the Norfolk were only men — .and i®'teiip of the party indicated e cheer would be restrainlate arrivals were the brother-in-law, the Earl of who preserves the con- ■ itNTTRn ON PAGE. PTVE) o Merwin Dies Os Heart Attack |B )e ' Merwin, noted author and * 3 tS‘ ?hl ' died in New York Cit y 1)1 day of a heart attack. Mr. waa ®2 years old. si Prwin was the father-in-law HB Sa ®«el Merwin, Jr., of New \<J? rmerly Lee Anna of Mr. and Mrs. 0. 1*™““ O s thlg c]ty ■al services were held Monm the Merwin home in Conass.

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McNutft Offer To I Debate Still Open Valparaiso, Ind., Oct. 20.—(U.RF Gov. Paul V. McNutt last night I said that his offer to debate state | | issues with Raymond S. Springer, Republican nominee for governor, will be held open until election. Referring to Springer's refusal to accept the challenge, Gov. McNutt said, “I am disappointed of course, but I don't biame him a bit. Mr. Springer has demonstrated so effectively to everyone that he knows practically nothing about state government that he could 1 hardly be expected to finish the job t before a public audience." I o LONG HENCHMAN PRESENTS PLAN 1 1 ’ Gerald Smith Says He Will Organize Fascist Group New York, Oct. 20 —(UP) —Gerak! L. K. Smith, follower of the late Huey P. Ixnig who recently showed I motion picture audiences how he ■ did his “rabble-rousing Act," an- ' nouncement today the formation of a fascist organization to “seize the ■ government of the United States." His aim. he eaid. is a following of 1 $10,000,000 patriots” willing to lay down their lives to save the country from “an international plot to collectivize it.” Smith eaid he already had financial backing to carry on the organI ization for a year, and more than ! 1,000 “politically potent leaders” in I various parts of the country who await hie orders. “Four hundred business men in i 22 key cities, worried over the fui ture of private property, have pledg- • ed themselves to contribute 1 per ' cent of their 1935 incomes to make America vigorously nationalistic,” t he eaid. > In New York alone, he said, he - has 40 financial backers, one of 1 them a man with an Income of S2BO,- • 900 year. The organization will combine the best features of long's political scenes, and the economics of Rev. Charlee E- Coughlin and Dr. Fran-1 cis E. Townsend. Smith said. Beyond that he wasn’t willing to j I discuse details. Decatur Red Men At State Meeting d Charles Cook and J. M. Breiner are in tlndianapolls today, attending the state meeting of the Improved Order of Red Men as repreenta- • tives of the local order. ; o Beverage Board To Hold Hearing The Adame county alcoholic bei verage board will conduct a hearing ■ on November 6 in the county commissioner’s office on the following ■ application: Fred FuDenkamp (Stag Restaur- • rant), 132 S. Second Street., liquor ' and wine retailer. : o INSANITY TO BE DEFENSE I 15-Year-Old Boy On Trial For Murder; Tall- < I inadge Trial On Chicago, oct. 20— (U.R) — The state today set out to tell how sleepy-eyed Roland Munroe, Jr., 15. beat to death a crippled widow for a few cheap baubles of jewelry 1 ■ worth less than $lO. ’ Jurors qualified to order the death penalty, selected after less : than a day of questioning, listen- < ed as prosecutors described the boy's crime as brutal and cold- • blooded murder. His defense maintained he was | insane. I I Listless, apparently bored, the ’ youth lolled back in his chair as . assistant state’s attorney Richard , Devine lay before the court the . hammer and, the gold-headed cane • with which it is charged he beat the widowed Mrs. Agnes Roffels ’ to death after visiting her at her home. Munroe confessed the killing. He said Mrs. Roffels showed him (CONTINUED ON PAGE FIVE’

OFFICERS WAIT I EARL BROWDER AT TERRE HAUTE Communist Leader Determined To Return To Indiana City Terre Haute. Ind.. Oct. 20—(U.R) —Fifty policemen waited at a railroad station today for the arrival of Ea.rl Browder, communist candidate for president, whom they I jailed lees than a month ago to prevent him from making a speech. Police Chief James C. Yates, who, with other officials, is opposed to Browder speaking in Terre Haute, was non-committal concerning the heavy concentration. The policemen were there, he said, "to take care of anything that might happen.” He hinted that he feared mob violence directed at Browder. Browder was en route with a SI,OOO certified check with which to prove that he is not a vagrant, and was due to arrive a half hour before a scheduled hearing on a petition for a temporary injunction to restrain city and county authorities from arresting him. Yates said that “under ordinary circumstances.” he would not arrest him until the hearing was over. Browder also carried a copy of the constitution. The purpose of his return to the city where he spent 24 hours in jail, he said, was to see whether free speech is permitted in Indiana. Mayor Samuel l O. Beecher and Yates had ordered , him not to return. If he is not a/rested, Browder will speak under auspices of the American Civil Liberties Union at memorial services for Eugene V. Debs, labor and socialist leader, who was born here and died 10 years ago today. Tonight he hopes to speak over radio station WBOW. There were reports that Brow(CONTINUED ON PAGE SIX) ELLIS PARKER, SON SURRENDER Plead Not Guilty In Connection With Lindbergh Case Mount Holly. N. J. Oct. 29—(UP) —Ellis H. Parker, Sr., Burlington county chief detective and hie son, Ellis Parker Jr., surrendered today to the United States marshall here to answer indictments returned against them in Newark in connection with their investigations of the Lindbergh baby murder case. The indictments accused the Parkers of having had a part in the purported kidnaping of Paul H. Wendel of Trenton, whose “confession” of the abduction of Charles A. Lindbergh, Jr., delayed for three days the execution of Bruno Hauptmann, convicted of the child's slaying. The confession allegedly was obtained under Duress. It was repudiated. The Parkers were arraigned immediately and the younger Parker was released on $25,000 bail furnished by friends while the senior Parker was released on SIO,OOO bail. They pleaded not guilty to the indictments. which charged that they had a part in the kidnaping and torture of Wendel in New York. In releasing, the men on bail., U. S. commissioner Ralph Haines ordered both to appear in federal court at Trenton on Oct. 27. James Mercer Davis, Sr., attorney for the Parkers, asked that specific charges be read against his clients, but commissioner Haines said that it was not necessary to name the specific charge when a 1 bench warrant was sworn out by a federal judge. The bench warrants were issued 1 yesterday by federal judge Guy L- 1 Fake at Newark. o ■ WEATHER Partly cloudy to cloudy tonight and Wednesday, possibly showers Wednesday; slightly warmer east and south tonight; much cooler northwest Wed- I nesday and east and south In afternoon or night. <

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Decatur, Indiana, Tuesday, October 20, 1936.

To Speak At Fort Wayne . AS”: K .w IBEKI & w* * W ? I ' r ' r Am Wwimiu* ; - President Roosevelt

DEADLINE DATE IS NOVEMBER 1 Final Date To Make Application For Farm Inspection November 1 is the final date for receiving applications for inspection of farms under the agricultural conservation program, it was announced today by Homer \V. Arnold, chairman of the Adams county ' agricultural conservation committee. His announcement was based on word contained in a letter from the state committee, setting the final date. Sometime ago a letter with a return card, on which to make application, was sent to each farm operator and person who owns land in the county. Mr. Arnold stated. Twelve hundred of these cards have be.en returned to the county office, but many of the owners and operators who have them, and who wish to make applications for inspection, have not yet filled them out and mailed them back to headquarters. Because of this situation, all ‘ who wish to apply for inspection are urged to return their cards at once so that the work of inspection may be completed as soon as possible. In case the card has been lost, another may be obtained by writing or calling the office of the (CONTINUED ON PAGE FIVE) 0 CONDITION OF YOUTH BETTER — Harold Fortney Is Reported As Slightly Improved Today The condition of Harold Fortney, eight year old son of Mr. and Mrs. Earl Fortney, of Dixon, Ohio, was reported to be slightly better today by attending physician. He still remanis in a coma, into which he lapsed Sunday afternoon, after being trampled by horses at the Fortney home in Dixon. The physician stated that, while' still in the coma. Harold show's signs of rallying to consciouness.' The chief cause of the lad’s serious condition is a brain injury. He also suffered numerous bruises. The youth is confined in the Adams county memorial hospital, where he was brought following the accident on Sunday. He was injured when bis parents i sent him to the pasture field to j bring in the livestock. It. is though’ that the horses knocked him over and trampled him. as they were coming into the barnyard.

Dunbar Company To Add New Buildings Two new buildings have been announced by the Dunbar Furniture 1 company of Berne. The work will he done by the B. and G. construc- . tion company of Berne. The larger of the tw'o buildings will be located on Fulton street and will be 81’2 feet long and 40 feet wide. It will be constructed of tile ■ block. Eventually it will house the - ofices and several departments. The second building will be 30 feet by 18 feet and will house the carving machines. It will be of tile block ’! also. ASSENT VOTERS BALLOTS GIVEN ■ County Clerk Is Distributing Absent Voters Ballots ’ i Alisent voters' ballots are now i being distributed by County Clerk | G. Remy Bierly. Two persons have ■ already filed their votes and a numi her have submitted applications for , I the ballots. , I Persons eligible for the ballots I are state and federal employes . | students afid teachers, members at i C. C. C. camps, and those who by ■! reason of their business must be I out of the city on election day. De,pendents of these persons will be i eligible to use absent voters ballots. I Mr. Bierly pointed out today, that i those voting by absent voters' bal- | lots must be registered. I Persons who are in the county ,' but can not vote because of illness Lor other reason are not eligible to I' use these ballots. I Persons other than those in the ' employment of state and federal government must obtain the signai Hires of at least two witnesses in I the precincts in which they are reg- ; istered before the applications will 1 be accepted. Persons in the employment of federal and state govern- [ ments must obtain the signatures of their department heads. Those I applying for ballots should state under which classifications they come. These applications should be filed as soon as possible. I Persons who are in the county > now but expect to leave before 1 election day may vote in the county I clerk's office after fil'ing out the I application forms. The balots will 1 be placed in sealed envelopes and ! delivered to the poi.s on election day. —■—n — Arthur Merriman Is Reported Improved ' Arthur Meriman of this city, who was injured in an automobile acci- , dent early Sunday morning is re--covering. He sustained a fractured jarm and minor injuries.

President Roosevelt To Make Major Speech In Fort Wayne; Saturday Night Likely Date

SEVENTY-TWO PERSONS LOST IN SHIPWRECK Seaplanes Aid In Rescue Oil Coast Os Java Today Amsterdam, Oct. 20.--(U.R> -Seaplanes. landing repeatedly on the. sea amidst floating wreckage, sav | ed 43 persons today of 178 report-! ed rescued from a mysterious disaster off Java to the steamship Van Der Wijk—perhaps the result I of an under sea quake. Called to the scene by an heroic I Netherlands wireless operator who stayed in his cabin and went down: with the ship, the planes raced from Batavia. Seventy-two persons, including i 11 Europeans, had been lost, re-| ports said. Native fishing boats were plying i in and out amid the wreckage I picking up survivors. Two native! boats alone saved eight Europeans and 31 natives. Twenty-two persons were seen drifting in a sloop from the Van Der Wijk and were believed safe. The airplanes arrived to see many persons floating on the sea, holding on to tables, chairs and pieces of wreckage. They landed repeatedly, in great danger from the wreckage, and picked up 43 of the survivors. Capt. B. C. Akkerman, the Van Der Wijk’s master, was saved. A master of 25 years’ service in the | Netherlands Royal Packet Com-1 patty, no previous ship of his had j met with serious trouble. SOS messages said that the ship 1 listed heavily, then began sinktl ing. Company officials here could not j understand how the disaster oc- j curred. They pointed out that the I sea could not have been very rough or the planes could not have landed, and the Van Der Wijk. recently overhauled, wa§" seaworthy. Some marines here believed that the ship might have been caught in one of Java's occasional seaquakes. o Lists Vacancies In Regular Army Sgt. Roy E. Quillin, army recruiting officer, 320 Federal Building Fort Wayne, announces that there are 145 vacancies at Fort Benjamin Harrison. The recruiting office at Fort Wayne will be open Saturday afternoons until these vacancies are filled. Any man wanting to enlist should apply at the Fort Wayne office, Sgt. Quillin stated. DEAN ACHESON FOR ROOSEVELT Former Treasury Official To Back President Roosevelt Baltifore, Md. Oct. 20 — (UP) — Dean Acheson, resigned undersecretary of the treasury, today announced hie support of President Roosevelt for reelection. (Acheson's announcement closely followed that of James P. Warbug, another formerly estranged adniinstration fiscal adviser, who revealed over the week-end that he intended to vote for Mr. Roosevelt in November. Acheson quit the treasury because of disagreement with new deal financial methods. The former undersecretary's de-' cision was revealed in a letter to the Baltimore Sun He attributed his decision to agreement with the reciprocal trade policies of secretary of state Cordell Hull —The same point ci'ed by Warburg—and to apposition to statements of Gov. Alt M. Landon (CONTINUED ON PAGE SIX),

LG. MEETING ! HELD MONDAY Local Members Attend Regional Meeting At Fort Wayne I ——. Twenty-five members of the local Knights of Columbus attended the I regional meeting held in the Fortj Wayne Knights of Columbus hall last night. Harry G. Kitchin, state deputy, l delivered the princijial address of ! the meeting. In his speech to the ! members, he outlined the work of the supreme and state organizations during the year. He also reported on the Gibault j home for boys, at Terre Haute. The home is maintained by the Knights of Columbus order. j The men also heard State Secre- . tary Gilbert Powell deliver the I Supreme Knight’s message denouncing communism, and ’he plea : for cooperation with the American (Legion in stamping out any com-| : munistic activity. District Deputy Hastings and i Brother Ruppert of the Gibault j home gave short talks on activities there. Members were in attendance from Huntington, Fort Wayne and' Garrett, in addition to the Decatur; members. o Truckload Os Beets Overturned Monday A truckload of sugar beets overturned on U. S. highway 27 Monday ■south of Decatur near the Coppess I Filling station, when a front tire j blew out. The driver was not inI jured. The truck was damaged con- ! siderably. HONOR ROLL OF SCHOOLS GIVEN! — * Catholic High School. Grade Honor Rolls Are Announced Honor rolls for the first six weeks of the Decatur Catholic high school and the St. Joe grade school were announced today by school officials. A total of 29 students are placed on the high school honor roll and 24 on the grade honor list. The complete list of honor students follows: High School A B Mary Catherine Holthouse (1 Celeste Heimann 5 1 Ethel Kleinhenz 5 1 Helen Kohne 5 1 Bernardine Faurote 5 Marjorie Kintz 5 Laurine Lengerich 5 Lucille Baker 5 Ethel Miller 5 Marjorie Brown 4 2 Martha Jane Foos .4 21 Frances Loshe 4 2 Mary Martha Terveer 4 2 Lucille Braun 4 2 Monica Schmitt 4 2 Esther Rumschlag 4 1 Vera Braun 4 1 Kathleen Heimann 4 1 Carl Schultz 4 1 Mary Catherine Spangler 4 1 Ruth Borns 4 1 Josephine Daniels 4 1 1 Geraldine Heimann 4 1 (CONTTNUED nN PAGE ETVE) 0 Mother Os Former Local Woman Dies | Word was received in Decatur 1 I late Monday afternoon of the death i of Mrs. Warren Dix, of Pierceton. I Ind., mother of Mrs. Clyde Noble 1 Mrs. Dix died following a long illness from heart trouble. She had visited in Decatur many times and I had a number of friends here. Mrs. Noble was a former resident of Decatur, leaving here about eight years ago. i

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President Rearranges Plan To Visit Indiana This Week; Major Speech To Be At Fort Wayne. LEAVES FRIDAY Washington. Oct. 20 — (U.R) — ' President Roosevelt will leave Washington late Friday night on a ' campaign invasion of Indiana. I Ohio and Pennsylvania, with a i major speech scheduled at Fort Wayne. Indiana, it was learned today. Mr. Roosevelt also will visit Toledo aqid Akron. Ohio, and on the return swing will call at Scranton, Pa., in the heart of Pennsylvania’s coal mining territory. The president, who leaves at 11 o'clock tonight for a tour of New England, rearranged his plans this morning to permit his return to Washington Thursday evening. He will spend Friday in clearing away routine administration busii nqss preparatory to hi|t.ting the j campaign trail again within 24 ! hours. I Only last week Mr. Roosevelt canvassed Ohio. Party lieutenants, however, felt that he should renew his drive in that pivotal i state. It was likely the Fort ' Wayne speech would be delivered Saturday night, and that the Ohio cities would be visited enroute there. Exact details, however, were not available immediately. Meanwhile, the White House cancelled a scheduled press conference for this afternoon because the president was working on the text of several addresses he will deliver beginning tomorrow morning when he reaches Providence, 11. 1., as the starting point of a tour through that state, Massachusetts and Connecticut. His major speech will come tomorrow night at 9 p. m. CST at Worcester. o iMoose Entertain Ladies Tonight I Ladies night will be observed at the Moose lodge tonight, with a chicken dinner at 7 o’clock. Dancing and cards will follow the dinner. Appliants and their wives are invited. Roebuck Funeral Rites Wednesday Funeral services will be held Wednesday afternoon for Mrs.'Anna Roebuck, who died Sunday evening at the Adams county memorial hospital. Services will be held at the home, south of Decatur, at 2 o’clock. with burial In the Pleasant Mills cemetery. WELFARE ROOM NEARLY DONE Room In Court House Basement Is Being Re finished Workmen under the direction of Charles Robinold are completing the refinfehing of the court house basement room, which will be occupied by the county welfare board. The outside stairs on the north side have been laid. The brick entrance is now being erected. Carpenters are setting up the frame work for the inside wall In the room. Special preparations must be made to avoid the dampness present in the other basement rooms. This room was formerly used for storing coal. All of the fuel has now been removed to the new coal bin constructed recently on the south aide of the court house. The room is being divided in order that a waiting room and a consultation room may be provided. Funds for the construction work were obtained from a special appropriation and from the court house repair budget,