Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 35, Number 11, Decatur, Adams County, 13 January 1937 — Page 1

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■(.TOWNSEND Ives address Ims MORNING ■ana's New Governor ■>ks Legislature EnI act Few Laws ■auapolis. Jan. 13. <U.P> KonxurHl proposals dominated K MMi on ol the 80th l”<Han» ■ 1 assembly today, which was ■ d W j t |i o! ■ iMUgrated Gov. M. Clifford. ■end that a state department! ■or bd'created. K house and senate received ■sponsored legislation in brief K preceding Townsemi s ad- ■ x 30-hour week for all ■ r s w . pt farm labor and doles. was proposed in d bill of ■^in the house by Rep. John as P Mishawaka. It would ■workers to six hours a day. ■.si of the “emergency" j ■ of the $1.50 property tax, ■tion law. sponsored by a ■r labor block, was provided ■bill introduced by Sen. Perry ! ■on. R. Atlanta. Bonded in■ness incurred prior to en■nt of the original law in 1932 ■ be the only "emergency" Kssible to exced the rate limi■s to make the offices of state , ■intendent of public instrucreporter of the state su- j ■ and appelate court appointPl the governor also were of- ■ in the senate. ■ision of the method of dis■*?ig auto license fees, endors■er by Townsend, was propos- ■ a bill Rep Chester V. Park- ■„ Pittsboro, introduced in the |h houses received bills to ex- j ■ for one year the moratorium ■le of tax delinquent property, ■e postponed by the 1933 and H sessions, public auction to ■t approximately $15,000,000 in ■ are scheduled February 8 un ■'.he present legislature acts. |th the strong Democratic males in both house and senate, ■ difficulty Is foreseen in ruzh■he administration program to ■ment. The real legislative ■ becomes that of restraining ■preponderant Democratic ma- ■ from going to far and obey- ■ Townsend's admonisition to ■ new laws to a minimum. ■nt by point. Townsend’s mess■today may be summarized as j ■ws: ■ No change in department of Bcial institutions except minor ■dments the department itself ■ suggest. ■ No change in insurance laws ■h serve “as a model for other ■ Recodification of the fish and ■ laws. (Yesterday this recodi- ■ ’U bill was introduced in tlfe ■e with sponsorship of the state ■rtment of conservation.) Recommended consideration be highway survey commission irt urging extension of the fht tax to private machines and •ges in method of allocating ■way funds. Passage of a law providing reassessment of real estate year and every four years after. Continue for at least two’ 8 the moratorium on county township road bonds. Adequately finance the pubffirice commission for “neces-’ ' instigations.” Consider changing date of fe purchase of automobile >ses to later than January 1 to burden on citizens after the is 'mas shopping expense. Enact a reciprocity law to la - e agreements with other fir ,°i ’ roni< ’ te smooth motor n< relations. I_ Enactment of the governor’s d t ™ on public BafPty recon >- ■cr ' ncreas "’"’ ’»>« state ‘o 205 members with ade- ... ancine and a student po--1M Ce 150 ifiore men. ith a d^< anße in preßent Public 'k has i ' niß,ration because its been "splendid.” ■—2L reaße ’ n the state’s share ON PACK FIVE) I'P’jpriation Bin s >?ned By Townsend MilUn' In<1 " Jin ’ 13 ~ (UP > ray Px n appropnatlng 125 -°? 0 to leral aßs« S< ki Of tbe Indiana “bycov.M ciftt aß dT Rned laßt Repine »>'(.'' " or< i Townsend, it measure t( . tra(ll,i ° n ’ ” w *’ ‘he r ’broughtJ K Omplete lts iour U1 slunature" h ° USeS t 0 guberna ’ • Rain t WEath ER tiling °te~ ht and Thuraday; U X erature toni9ht Friday d Muth portions

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Paul V. McNutt To Head Delegation Indianapolis, lnd„ Jan. 13—(UP) I’uul V. McNutt, who retired as governor Monday, wan named today to head the Indiana delegation to the annual meeting of the council ot state governments In Washington Jan. 21. Other members of the delegation are Sen. Jacob Weirs, Indianapolis, and Rep. William Treadway, Spencer. both attorneys The committee was named after adoption of a resolution by the legislature yesterday authorizing Indiana r-presentation at the council.

JURY TRIAL IS ENDED TODAY First .Jury In Several Months Is Held Here Today The first jury trial in many months in the Adams circuit court came to an abrupt close this afternoon after attorney for the defense waived their right to present evidence in a suit venued here from Allen county to collect SSOO attorney fee’s and costs in connection with an injunction suit brought against the milk control board of Fort Wayne. The year 1936 probably established an all time record for a small number of jury trials, court at. laches stated. Three were held before the summer vacation and none since. The September -.petit jury never was called. This has been the only case the I November term petit jury has heard and the present term ends next week. The case arose from an Injunction suit filed by the following dairies selling milk in the Fort Wayne areai Crescent dairy. Flaugh & Son dairy. Kings dairy. Associated Dairies Co., Inc., Chris Bulllrman & Son. Beauty Brand dairy. Rowe Dairy company. Carl H. Yoste and Robert J. King. Penalties Sought Suits had been filed against a number of Fort Wayne dairies who were alleged to have been sell mg milk for a price below that set by the Milk Control board of Indiana, the Fort Wayne milk committee and Charles D. Bridgman, who are plaintiffs in the case being tried here. The" milk was sold in chain stores and to private consumers, and others. A number of the dairies protested and a large number j of cases to collect penalties, assessments and equaliza'ion fees were filed, and are pending in various courts in Indiana. One was carried to the United States supreme court. Rulings have been made by the state supreme court. The defendants in the case here filed a petition for a restraining order against the filing of suits against them on July 15. 1936, in Allen county. With the petition was an undertaking reading as follows: “We undertake that the plaintiff in the above entitled cause shall pay to the defendants (Milk control board) all damages and costs which may accrue to them by reason of the injunction in this action.” It was signed by two of the defendants in the present case This undertaking was attached to V I (CONTINUED ON PAGE THREE)

POPE CONDITION MUCH IMPROVED Pope Pius Xi Is Able To Sit In Wheel Chair Throne Vatican City, Jan. 13 —(UP) — Pope Pius XI, gravely ill for more than a month, arose from his bed and eat at a window gazing into sunshlne-fi’led St. Peter’s square, expressing his gratitude to God for the improvement in his condition. The Pope was lifted to a wheel chair throne, specially constructed, and after hearing mass in an adjoining chapel, was moved to the window in a salon of his private apartment. After sitting for a few hours, contentedly gazing into the square and reciting his rosary, the Pope turn ed to his intimates and said: ‘‘This is a most happy novelty As epiphany fell exactly a week ago. my leaving my bed may be claimed to be a gift which the prayers of all the fatihful obtained for me." While in his chair, the Pope received visitors, Paceli and Mariani, and his nephew. Cont Mario Ratti. His Holiness was greatly cheered by the statement of his physician, Prof. Aminta Milam, that henceforth he will be able to receive visitors in the salon if he has no re(CONTINUED ON PAGE FOUR) I

LABOR, CAPITAL ABE GIVEN BIDS TO CONFERENCE Gov. Murphy Invites G. M.C. Heads, Labor Leaders To Meet By United Press Strike situation at a glance. Lansing. Mich. — Gov. Frank Murphy awaits forma,’ reply to hle invitation to General Motors and auto workers union to confer on preliminary negotiations leading toward settlement of strike. Flint, Mich. —One thousand national guardsmen arrive in striketorn city to maintain order. Quartered in unused high schools, they are expected to be called out only in event of recurring disorders. Washington President Roosevelt summons assistant secretary of labor Edward F. McGrady to Afternoon conference, presumably over auto labor situation. Secretary of labor Perkins announces she may fly to Detroit if governor's conference tomorrow does not establish basis for employersworkers negotiations. Homer Martin, auto union head, announces additional organizers will be employed to "strengthen our lines” against General Motors; Martin verbally accepts invitation Io Gov. Murphy’s conference. St. Louis, Mo. —Union members cejl strike in Chevrolet plant; 3,000 of 4.200 employes respond, plant operating on skeleton basis. Detroit —General Motors officiate report that 115,000 of their 135,000 employes out of work as result of strikes and closing of 34 plants. Corporation, awaiting governor’s forma,l invitation to confer indicates. acceptance. Toledo—Negotiations in monthold Lihltey-OwensjFord Glass company strike, which has curtailed production in most automobile factories, delayed when company officic.’s and union submit proposals to federal mediator tardily. Agree To Meet Detroit, Jan. 13—(U.P.>—Peaceful

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LOWELL SMITH TALKS TO GLOB Local School Teacher Speaks To Lions Club Tuesday Night Lowell Smith, Decatur school teacher, spoke to the members of the local Lions club in their regular weekly meeting at the Rice hotel last night, reviewing numerour startling accusations and ex posures made in 1935 by Senator Nye of the munitions investigating committee. In quoting excerpts from the senator’s speech to the education association in that year, the speaker gave a vivid comparison of the enormous amount ol money used to finance the World War and the benefits that could have been gain-1 ed. had it been put to better use. “We could build a home for every person in Germany, Italy, Russia, the United States and several other smaller countries at a cost of $25,000 each —equip this home with SI,OOO worth of furnishings—set it on a five-acre lot. In every city over 20,000 in these same countries, place a two million ( dollar hospital—a three million dol-} lar library and a 10 million dollar university—invest the balance properly at’ 5 per cent to hire 125,000 teachers and 125,000 nurses. Sum this all up and it would be almost the cost of the war,” the speaker quotFd. “It is little wonder that the depression followed." The inadvisability of appropriating 'sTTch huge sums for national defense in comparison to the amounts used for proper education was also lamented by the speakei. "The first appropriation to the navy by the U. S. government for new shipk," he stated, using the 'CONTINUED ON PAGE THREE' Former Decatur Resident Is Dead Mrs. Emma F. Pierce, 84. former Decatur lady, died at the home of her daughter, Mrs. Robina Perry, in Fort Wayne, Tuesday and funeral services were held this afternoon.: Her husband. A. R. Pierce, who eurvives, for many years operated a drug store in this city in the building now occupied b.v the Economy store- Mrs. Pierce was a charter member of the Order of Eastern Star and held all the offices of the organization. Besides the husband and daughter, one brother, Joe R. Eson of Neodesha, Kansas, survives. |

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Decatur, Indiana, Wednesday, January 13, 1937.

Explorer Dies In Air Crash r J Mm i iil Ml Martin Johnson, world famous explorer, pictured above with his wife, died this morning of injuries suffered when an airliner c. ashed in California, instantly killing one passenger and injuring all aboard. Mrs. Johnson wa.s one of those injured.

ARREST NEGRO AS MURDERER Negro Porter Charged With Murder Os New York Wotnan New York, Jan. 13 — (UP) — Thirty-six hours after the battered body of beautiful college bred Mary Harriet Case was found in her bathtub, police today charged Major Green, 33, a negro porter, with her murder. Police announced that the stained trousers found in an incinerator in the Jackson heights apartment house in which Mrs. Case had lived since her marriage a lit’le more than a year ago had been identified as belonging to Green. They said that Green’s fingerprints had been found on the bathruin door of the apartment. When arrested, Green was wearing a shirt which police said had belonged to Frank Case, youthful hotel executive who discovered his wife's body, clad in chemise and smock, in the overflowing tub Monday night. More than 200 (police and detectives worked to “break” the case which bore an amazing similarity to the slaying of Mrs. Nancy Titterton in her apartment last good Friday. Her murderer, John Fiorenza, will die in the electric chair at Sing Sing next week. Green is employed in the bachelors club located in one wing of the 88-family building in which the Cases rented a three room apartment after their marriage in Lancaster, Pa., the home of Mrs. Case’s well-to-do and prominent parents. District attorney Sullivan of

(CONTINUED ON PAGE THREE) ANNUAL CLASS PLAY IS GIVEN Large Crowd Witnesses Senior Class Play Tuesday Night An appreciative crowd tilled the Decatur high school auditorium to capacity last night to witness the single performance of the senior class play, “For Pete’s Sake.” The play, adjudged by many to be one of the finest to be presented by the students of the local school, afforded more than two and one-half hours of humorous entertainment, climaxed with a tings of mystery. The plot of the play was built around the ability of Peter Pepperdine, ably portrayed by David Macklin, to get into “hot water" situations with an endless chain of falsehoods. Lawrence Anspaugh and Robert Franz, in assuming double roles during part of the presentation, afforded much of the humor. Others who took part in the presentation, with each giving a welltrained performance, were: Alice K. Baker, Mary K. Garner. Donald Bixler, Catherine Murphy, Kathryn Kohls, Catherine Jackson, Virginia Breiner, Monroe Fuhrman and Harold Zimmerman. Mtes Mildred Worthman, senior class guardian, was directress of the play.

Porter Funeral Rites Held This Afternoon Funeral services were conducted this afternoon from the home of Mrs- W. Page Y'arnelle, Fort Wayne for her brother, James Pomeroy Porter well known here and whose death occurred Monday evening, after two years illness with tuberculosis. He wart 47 years old, a son of the late Dr. ami Mrs. Miles F. Porter and prior to his illness was for several years associated with the National Pump Company at Dayton. Ohio. He was related to a number of Decatur and Adams Copnty people and in his younger days, frequently visited here. The widow, three daughters, a brother, Dr. Porter, and three sisters, survive. SET PRICE FOR BIRTHDAY BALL Tickets For Birthday Ball January 30 Priced At One Dollar Tickets for the Birthday Ball for the President will sell for $1 a couple it was announced today by the committees in charge. This will be the price in effect during the last two years for Adams coun’y. The affair will be held in the Decatur Catholic high school auditorium, Saturday, January 30. The ticket committee is headed by Severin Schurger and Charlotte Elzey. A partial list of the members of thte committee te: Decatur Ruth Debolt, Jim Lose, Margaret Wertzberger, Marjorie Johnson, Frieda Scherer, Don Leßrun, Frank Wallace, Glen Dickerson. Bud Townsend, Jesse Suttton, Margaret Holthouse, Robert Lee. Marcia Martin, Jeanette Clark. Edna Hite, Robert Zwdck, Francile Smith, Mary J. Fritzinger. Cecil Melchi, Fern Bierly, Delores Shraluka. Mildred Niblick, Louise Haubold and Bernice BorneGeneva Lester Pontius, Mrs. William Widdows and Bud Neal. The net proceeds of the ball will be used for the assistance of victims of infantile paralysis. Seventy iper cent will again be retained in the county for local victims and 30 per cent will be sent to the national committee for use in research in an effort to find a cure or preventative for the disease.

The Man Sentenced Himself to Failure said.' —' F newspaper adder K j iising couldn’t rY help his business- ■ but his com- ■ petitor proVed it could/

KIDNAPED LAD Famous Explorer FR S econ d Fatality . BY B KILLER In Plane Crash

Charles Mattson Roughly Treated By Captor, Examination Shows (Copyright 1937 by United Press) Aacoma. Wash., Jan. 13—(UP)Ten year old Charles Mattson was stabbe ( j in the back and then buldgeoned to death by a degenerate, -The United Press learned today on unimpeachable authorPy. Tlite development gave point to the secret search of G-men and the excited search of approximately 1,000 Washington officiate and citiz--1 ens for the kidnaiper-slayer of the boy sto’en from his parents home Dec. 27. The G-men were seeking a former inmate of the Washington asylum for the insane who has a known mania for kidnaping. The manner of the child's death was revealed by an autopsy perI formed by Drs. S. M. Chesswell and Charles McCall, working under the direction of E J. Connelly, second in command of federal bureau of investigation forces here. The three men worked alone, secretly, and their gruesome task revealed further evidence of the in- , human tortures suffered by the 10-year-old echolboy. It was established that Charles did not die from the stabbing, the knife misled the vital organs, and that the elayer completed his job by battering in almost the entire rear portion of the boy’s head. The killer was a sexual pervert, the United Press learned the sciem tests had decided. Charles had been fed enough to sustain his tiny body, but his fiendish captor had not clothed him sufficient!!’ to ward off aggravation of the cold the boy suffered when i he was stolen from the living room of his father’s Puget Sound home. The autopsy yielded one vitally significant clue. Bits of flesh and a few strands of hair were found beneath Charles fingernails, along , with a peculiar blueteh clay. This indicated the kidnaper was scratched by Charles as he battled vainly for his life, and that the criminal carries possible tell-tale scars on his hands, arms or faceOfficials were puzzled by a fine (CONTINUED ON PAGE FOUR) Sunday School Class Heads Meet Tonight The teachers of the various classes of the church school of the Decatur Methodist Episcopal church or the presidents of organized classes are expected to represent their respective c’asses tonight at a committee meeting to list prospects for attendance and membership in their respective classes. The committee will meet at 8:00 P. M. immediately following the mid-week service. The visitors representing the church in the "attendance evangelism campaign” will meet at the church at 7:00 P. M. for the distribution of the visiting lists, which are already compiled. The five captains are also requested to be present, or to have a representative at this meeetingINNOCENT MAN WILL BE FREED Westphalia Man, Sentenced To 15 Years, Absolved Os Crime Bloomfield, Ind., Jan. 13. —<U.R> — Charles Schwibbe, 40, Westphalia, was promised freedom today from a 15-year prison term to which he was sentenced last June for a crime of which he was innocent. The innocence of Schwibbe was revealed in confessions of Ike Hall, 34, Terre Haute, and Fonzo Webb. 22, Shelburn, that they beat and robbed William Coleman, 74, Midland farmer, of SBOO last May 23. Hall and Webb confessed the attack after being detained by authorities in investigation of a series of petty robberies in Sullivan county. They also implicated Emery Beatty, now serving one to five years in the state reformatory for parole violation. Pleading guilty before Judge J. Raymond Powell in Greene circuit court, Hall was sentenced to 15 years, in prison and Webb was sentenced to 12 years for the attack. Scnwibbe was convicted by a Greene county jury after his positive identification by the victim, despite an alibi supported by members of his family. 1

6 PROPERTIES UP FOR SALE Properties Owned By Old Adams County Bank For Sale Today Six properties in Decatur were offered for sale this afternoon by the department of financial institutions. in charge of the liquidation of the Old Adams County Ba.nk. Roy Johnson was the auctioneer. Clark J. Lutz, special representative of the department of financial institutions, and Henry B. Heller, attorney, supervised the sales. The first property offered for sale w~a,s the Ginley six room house and lot on 443 Winchester street, at 1 o'clock this afternoon. At 1:30 o'clock a 98 by 88 foot lot on the northeast corner of Seventh and Jefferson streets was offered for sale. A lot south of the Elmo Smith residence on 327 North First street was offered at 2 o'clock. At 2:30 o’clock the Niblick property on 404 Marshall street was offered for sale. This lot has a six room house on a lot 70 by 150 feet long. At 3:30 o’clock the Niblick lot which is 66 by 132 feet off Second street on the north side of Monroe street, was offered for sale. The sixth property is the Burdg vacant lot on 652 Mercer avenue. The lot is 40 by 148 feet. This was offered at 4:15 o'clock. Terms of the sale were cash, subject to the approval of the court. Adrian Wemhoff purchased the Niblick property on Marshall street for $1,425. The vacant lot on North First street wa# sold to Clyde Butler ((CONTINUED ON PAGE THREE) LISTS COUNTY CASH BALANCE Adams County Cash Balance At Close Os Year Over $156,000 Adams county had a cash balance of $156,133.10 at the close of 1936, according to the annual financial statement, issued today by County Auditor John W. Tyndall. Receipts during the year amounted to $882,074.40 and expenditures to $725,941.30. There is an overdraft of $12,152.05. The overdrafts are in three funds: principal of the permanent endowment, congressional interest and common school interest. These funds are raised from taxation and must be collected in full each year orjmade up by taxation in cases of defaults of payments. Largest expenditures during the year were: county revenue, $179,794.90; special school funds, $106,633.38; gravel road repairs, $94,126.44; tuition funds, $83,310.01: township road bonds and interest, $71,957.12; corporation funds, $39,480.35. Large balances are left in the following funds: general county revenue. $119,223.65; township road bonds and coupons, $20,164.40. Balances are necessary to carry the gounty over until funds are collected from May taxes distributed in June. Large collections of funds were: county revenue, $299,018.55; special school tax, $106,633.38; gravel road rpaiers. $98,770.64; tuition tax $83,310.01; taxation for township road bonds and interest. $92,121.52: corporation taxes, $39,480.35. The cash balance at the end of the year was $21,075.63 larger than on December 31, 1935 when it totaled $135,057.47. Receipts in 1935 amounted to $737,136.30. Expenditures in 1935 were $602,078.82. o Injured Man Is Reported Better Earnest Tope, who has been a patient at the Adams county memorial hospital since an injury sustained at the Decatur Castings company Monday, was reported improved dayHie shoulder and chest were bruised when he fell from a (platform about eix feet high while carrying coke. It was first feared that his shoulder might have been fractured.

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Martin Johnson Dies This Morning Os Injuries In Airliner Crash; Cleveland Man Killed. WIFE IS SERIOUS Los Angeles. Jan. 13 — (U.R) — I Martin Johnson, the famous AfriI can explorer, died today, the second faltality in the crash of a Western Air Express transport thi'X plowed into a mountain ridge with 13 persons aboard in a stoim yesterday. Johnson, his face torn and suffering from other injuries, died shortly before 7 a. m. (PST) in Good Samaritan hospital where his wife, Osa. te in a semi-con-scious condition. She is expected to live. Because of her condition, news of her husl»and’s death was withheld from Mrs. Johnson. Her in’uries were diagnosed as a fractured knee joint, numerous abrasions, and a, concussion. Her physician reported she was some better. But feared the shock of her husband's death might be too severe a blow. The famous explorers and big game hunters were en route here to lecture when the airliner crashed into a ridge 25 miles north of Los Angeles, killing one passenger instantly and injuring ail others. James Braden, Cleveland, , was the other victim. His neck iw as broken. Three of the 11 survivors, brought down by wagon and truck from the snow-oovered ridge after , lying in the wrecked plane as long as 10 hours, are in serious condiI tion. Worst fears were expressed for E. Me. Spencer, Chicago, president of the Stromberg Electric Co., w’ho lay in the Pasadena hospital with fractures of both legs, one shoulder and his skull. He was unconscious. Pilot W. W. Lewis and co-pilot C. T. Ow’ens ateo were injured , seriously. Physicians feared that the victims might contract pneumonia from lying in the cold for hours jin the wrecked ship. The plane, [coming from Salt La-ke City, I struck shortly after 11 a. m. ResI cuers were unable to bring out the last victims until almost midnight. From cabin windows of the craft the injured passengers could look down and see Union air terminaj. and the safety they missed, in the San Fernando valley. A snowstorm raged about them. The cabin remained intact, providing a fortunate shelter. They huddled, wrapped in blankets, until a tractor and a big truck, hitched tandom-fashion. broke a trail from the nearest road. A buckboa,rd drawn by mulee. followed. The rescue was delayed some time until one of the ship’s tw’o big motors, torn from the wing and blocking the way, was moved. Inst of the injured—Pilot Lewis, who insisted "I got them into this mess” and refused to be aided until all passengers had gone—wag taken from the ship at approximately Up. tn. under the glare of (CONTINUED ON PAGE THREE) o FILE CHARGES HERE TUESDAY Charges Are Filed For Reckless And Drunken Driving Charges of reckless and drunken driving were tiled by Prosecutor Arthur E. Voglewede in Adams circuit court late Tuesday afternoon against Glenn MartinMartin was arrested by local (police and Sheriff Dallas Brown Saturday night and lodged Ln jail, after he had allegedly been the cauee of an auto accident near the Decatur Country Club. The chargee were signed by Renert Hart, of Rockford, Ohio, driver of the other auto, who, with his father, returned to this city yesterday. Hart alleges that Martin while in an intoxicated condition, drove on the wrong side of the road when approaching his auto, thereby causing the crash. Both cars were considerably damaged in the near head-on collision. Martin is expected to be arraigned before Judge Huber M. DeVoes today or Thursday.