Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 35, Number 81, Decatur, Adams County, 5 April 1937 — Page 5

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■ P " MAI KI( e MEKRY'FIELD YORK Helping the unyouth of America their formative years to respectable citizens of the re is **' e es t*mable task of the Youth organization, one , largest of its kind in the ■»ited States, ■An extensive and systematic y (l *: ram i” being carried on by the ■ * 0. in such effective manner ■w. thousands of boys and girls in ■’ r, Med metropolitan centers have benefits which never would ■>l? been possible otherwise. ■‘be organization directs its ■™rts to providing youth with ■ acucal guidance in use of their E rp time ' Fair P la y. courage, ■ esty and the principles of good K „ h 'P are taught the citizens Err', n ’2 rrow ' is accomplished Kn i vocational activities and JW’lructive recreation. E " e n of the model units of the Er r. \ S tfle new Manhattan CenKr P r 1C ? recent >y opened. Here Katinn U ?r the children of a host of Eomraal's? 8 min S>W a spirit of Khich Ps h l P and understanding E. h Promises a greater kinship Eem i 2‘, op . erativc feeling among I mln ’ater years, I ti,„ Btarted 25 ¥ea rs Ago It !• u as y al vlsitor may observe ■l<tur» lly engaged in painting fcrnlan 8 ' readin g. building model & I '% . engaging in various |vocatirJ 1 ? ,a king part in numerous I Rational activities. Ido o,'. t y° u ngster is encouraged to W -^ Ch he or 4116 u most l« ec.nn,,; There 18 no atmosphere I pulsion or discipline about

Drains constructed at great ex[>eiiwo to landowner* have been alflowed to choke with underbrush and I roots and fill up with silt largely because of the lack of funds with H which to repai rdamaged drains. The work program Is a direct benefit to landowner*) who find them- ’ selves unable to meet the expense of drainage maintenance in that a goodly share of the responsibility is assumed by the camp. It is purely a co-operative program with, in most cases), the landowners furnishing materials and the camp furnishing labor and equipment. It can easily be seen that the cnaracter and extent of the work done depends largely upon the co-operation recelv;ed from the landowners. f According to the estimates made i by the District Office of the Bureau of Agricultural Engineering the i eight drainage camps in Indiana {have saved the counties and drainage districts a total of (928.400 be- ! tween August 1. 1935 and December 131, 1936. Since April 1. 1936 Camp D-2 has cleared 1,104.672 square yards of I brush and undergrowth over 81.3 ' miles of ditches; 16,050 cubic yards lof dirt and silt have been moved 1 by hand; 41.239 cubic yards by tractor and slip-scraper, and 188,771 cubic yards by dragline. Over 67.3 miles of tile have been layed. The winter, being mild as it was j has not interrupted the work program although excessive rain and mud made conditions disagreeablein spite of a very hot and dry sumI mer and an abnormally wet winjter the drainage work performed by the camp has benefitted 83,709 acres directly and very many more have received indirect benefits. In addition to the regular main- | tenanee work the camp engineers are conducting research work and gathering data relative to the flow of water in open channels. Experimental work is being conducted on several ditches in order that the I capacities of all open ditches may , be more accurately determined. During the winter months the edit'cational program ha» played a large part in the camp life. Classes in the

the program, but the esprit de corps and the enthusiasm characteristic of the project is evidence i of its success. i By thus interesting them in coni structive pursuits, the children are ‘ kept off the streets, away from i harmful influences, and their minds i are instilled with forthright habits of living. It was 25 years ago that a young i priest, the Rev. Bernard Sheil, now ■ bishop of the archdiocese of Chii cago, in a Cook county cell sat i with a boy about to be hung, and I heard him say: "I’ve been thinkin’ that if I could've played more when i I was a kid and had some fun 1 i wouldn’t be checkin’ out tonight.” ■ The tragic story of this lad who , had never had a chance led the i Rev. Sheil to organize the C. Y. O. i and the idea soon spread to other I cities in the United States. 1,000,000 C. V. O. Members More than 1,000,000 boys and ' girls in the country now belong to the organization and its activities • and influence are constantly expanding. Each unit is headed by a director assisted by his associates ' and the program includes compe--1 tition and association with the 1 youngsters of other units as well as intramural activities. One of the factors contributing i to the success of the C. Y. O. has been the success of the organizal tion in interesting the parents of i the children, as well as other i adults, in what the youngsters are doing. This has tended to further i understanding between the children and their fathers and mothers and i has stimulated the financial and , moral backing; of their alders.

DECATUR DAILY DEMOCRAT MONDAY, APRIL 5, 1937.

Destiny*of “Wonder Baby” Is at Stake f ■ ' . .. \ # x \ ./■ I kt k jZ f —1 X JF r I Eduard Randall | • jflp

i > Trial against the life of his young father, Horatio Randall, may also decide the destiny of the eleven-week-old "wonder baby”, Edward Randall, who was born by a Caesarian operation as his mother lay

I following subjects are held; Agricul-i ture, Drawing, Sign Painting Leath-1 . er craft, Auto Mechanics, Surveying I . Concrete Construction. Foreman-, , rhip. Penmanship, Spelling, Math., , Shorthand. Filing. Typing. Journal- . ism. Woodworking, and Elementary . accounting. Aside from the above mentioned , classes the work itself has taught I the enrollees to know, u«te. and care r for most of the tools used in con- . struction work. They have acquired ! a working knowledge of a number , of valuable trades including trac- . tor and dragline operation, tlie use of scrapers and graders, concrete and masonry construction, tile lay- > ing. drafting, surveying, carpentry, . tool repairing and truck driving and • many others. The competition for the preferred job* is keen and this competitive spirit brings out qualities and abilities in boys who otherwise might pass un noticed with these qualities undeveloped. Hence, the work besides being valuable in itself is charaeter-buiding and will, undoubtably enable many boy* to become useful citizens. o— WILL INCREASE STATE POLICE Fifty Additional Men To Be Added To State Police Force Indianapolis .Apr. 5 (Special' Under authority of an act of the last general assembly, the state police board has begun making plans for selecting 50 additional men to lie placed on the state police force, carrying out a part of Governor M. Clifford Townsend's desire to establish a greater degree of safety on the highways. 'i ne four-member board, two of whom are now appointees, has effected its reorganization, elect- ' ing Major Claud Crooks of Lebanon president and Albert Robb of Indianapolis secretary. The new members are William H. Bell of | Decatur. Republican, and Clarence Gramelspacher of Jasper. DemoI crat. The selection is to be made through a system setting up initial standards, competitive written examinations and training school elimination. Application blanks for men desiring to compete for the police positions are being distributed by the division of personuel of the state police. Don F. Stiver, director of the department of public safety said ap- . . plications for appointments this i year must be on file with the peri sonnei bureau on or before May 1 i and none will be accepted after that dale. The 1937 act authorized the addition of a total of 110 new men. but only 50 this year. Mr. Stiver said emphatically that ; no person need make application who does not meet the initial standards. An intensive training school and practical study of po- ' lice science will be condusted at i ' Indiana University July 5 to 31. i The new appointments will be effective September 1. o REVISED PLAN (fOyTiyitEI 1 FTIQM BACF--. r> . N -^ ) 1 ! legal question (135,200.00. In re- ! ducing this, we have worked out a I scheme whereby various wings can be added in the future so as to | eventually give Decatur the build- ' ing it needs and still arrange to lake care of their immediate needs ’ with the building covered in the revised drawings attached The board gave considerable consider- ’ ation to either building all school ' rooms and no gymnasium or a ’ gymnasium and a reduced amount of school rooms. Because of the impoitauce of physical education and the old inadequate condition of the present gymnasium, the

dying of gunshot wounds. The elder Randall, on trial at Oakland, Cal., on charges of slaying his wife, has declared his intention of seeking custody of baby, also claimed by relatives, if he is freed.

Wife of “John the Baptist” < GWgafcilfrEb -.'7T. •* ■ ■ ■ i x w • ’ ■ a *** fl IOIFt ■Fi (HBH: • Mrs Eleanor Hunt, estranged third wife of John W. Hunt, is pictured j above Hunt, a wealthy white aide of Father Divine and termed '‘John the Baptist ' in the Divine cult, is being sought by Federal officers on , charges of violation of the Mann Act. He is alleged to have transported j 17-year-old Delight Jewett from Denver. Colo., to Beverly Hills. Cal., tor ! immoral purposes. Mrs Hunt, questioned at Los Angeles, declared she ■ was unaware of Hunt's whereabouts.

board decided upon the arrangement shown on the attached drawings. Furthermore, by building the • gymnasium at this time, rooms ! could be added in groups of a few , at a time which would obviously be advantageous from a financial standpoint. The retirement of , bonds during the coming year to- ' gether with other minor funds ' available will give the school city adequate funds to provide what equipment is necessary A large part of this equipment will be de- , rived from existing buildings and the fact that a lesser amount of rooms need to be equipped will . make it easily possible to provide I this equipment from other funds. DAUGHTER AND MOTHER SLAIN Author And Daughter Brutally Slain In Los Angeles Los Angeles. Apr. s.—|(U.R>-Po-lice today had finger and foot prints of the man who invaded the bedroom of Mrs. Edna Worden and ’ pounded the 48-year-old author and her 12-year-old daughter to death' with a brick. They said it was a crime of passion. The killer left both bodies near ly bare in a room cluttered with 1 religious books and pictures, and I manuscripts that Mrs. Worden had composed. There was a blackboard: in one corner of the bedroom on ( which the daughter, flaxen haired Marguerite, recorded the time and length of her prayers. Mrs. Worden was clad only in a nightgown, which had fallen to hetneck. The lower part of her body! lay exposed on the edge of the | bed. her head touched the floor j and one foot was crooked over the ’ window sill. Marguerite’s body lay on anotli er bed. clad in the upper part of pajamas. Her battered head lay beside a blood-spattered pillow. The imprint of the brick was left in the head board of the bed, indi-, eating the kilter may have flung it J

as he entered. Doctors believed an attempt had been made to ravish the child, but I it was not successful. Her nose was smashed by one blow, and a second crushed her head below the temple. A gingham doll lay beside her pillow. The intruder entered the tworoom apartment through the kitchen window. He picked up his weapon from a'brick pile outside, left fingerprints on the window sill and footprints from the house to the alley when he left. The room was not ransacked, although Mrs. Word en's opened purse lay on the floor. Letters indicated that she was the wife of It. A. Worden of Poughkeepsie, N. Y. . The woman and child had lived in the apartment seven months, it was crowded with books, works lot Shakespeare, Scott. Dickens and I similar classics, Bible, child's prayer book, and several of Mrs. Word- ': en's completed and unfinished I manuscripts. Some of them were , ior the Christian Si lence Monitor. REPORT AIRLINER I < CONTINUED FltriM PAGE MB) ' ported it was forced to fly by ini struments through thick clouds and I rain over Hie mountains. I The missing plane should have ill-cached Albuquerque early Saturj day afternoon. ■' Ttie schedule called for an overnight stop at Albuquerque, ami a . flight to Kansas City Sunday. It I was a DC-3 model, with a wingl| spread of 190 feet, a 27-foot cabin II that would accommodate 21 pasllsengers. The two motors were .(.capable of 200 miles an hour speed It was built for the Dutch KLM Airlines. I Passengers aboard were: ,' Bernard Try. Jr.. 33, Santa Mon■l tea, Calif., parking station operator. •I George Kent, address unknown . Mr. and Mrs. Merl Estey, Santa • Monica, Douglas engineer and wife. Mrs. B. B. Brunderlin, Santa i Monica, mother of a Douglas engi- • i neer. I E. E. Moser, father of the pilot. o — Glen Kiser of Battle Creek, Mich, was called to Decatur on account of • the illness of his brother Kenneth .! Kiser.

SCHOOL HEADS | AID IN SURVEY Aid In State Survey For Census Os Crippled Children Indianapolis, Apr. 5--Incoinplete I return* from a census of crippled | children in Indiana indicate that . there are more than 1,000 children of school age in Indiana who are sufferers from crippling defects, *t is announced by Dr Oliver W ■ Greer, of the state department of public welfare, director in charge iof the extension of services to crippled children. Dr. Greer has just written to all county superintendents of schools . in Indiana, asking their co-opera-1 tion in thj few remaining weeks 1 of the current school year toward completion of the crippled chil-1 l dren's census Taking of the euuin-1 eration was begun December 15. , 1936 by superintendents, princl-! pals and teachers in the public and parochial schools on an appeal from the state department of pub-1 lie instruction and the state department of public welfare. The Census of crippled children in Indiana is the first step in the federal-state program, under the federal social security act, toward the extension of medical, hospital and welfare services to crippled children in needy families The services are particularly designated by the social security act for i extension to those in rural areas ■ who are in need ‘'Unfortunately.” Dr Greer said, "the reports which have l»een the slowest to come to our office are those from the small rural schools, and these are the areas which have Iteen particularly designated by the social security act for extension of services to cripplod children We are making this appeal to county superintendents in I the hope that our enumeration will be completed and our program I can be put into effect before the elosw- of the present school year.” Another phase of the Indiana census of crippled children is receiving the cooperation of the Indiana state medical association. This has to do with children of the i pre-school age The journal of the ! state medical association and county medical societies are cooperating. When tlie Indiana census of t I crippled children is complete, Dr . j Greer expects to have the names of all children in every county and : township of the state, between the i ages of 1 and 1 years who are i suffering from crippling defects, a l description of the detects, and , knowledge of whether or not they i are in need of or ever have received treatment. YOUTH ADMITS VOLIVA FIRE Confesses Firing Voliva’s Tabernacle, Radio Station Zion, 111., Apr. s.—((U.R>—Thomas j Griffith, 19, has confessed setting the fire which destroyed the great tabernacle and radio station of Wilbur Glenn Voliva’s Christian ‘ Catholic church. Police Chief Alven Ruesch announced today. Griffith believed the overseer had "swindled” his foster-father, John. ' Steiner, Ruesch said. He sought revenge by destroying the temple where Voliva had preached the ( earth is flat and damned cigaret smoking, liquor, short skirts, and ' bobbed hair. J Ruesch said the youth surrend ! ered voluntarily after hearing he was being sought, and presented a I confession he bad prepared in ad ; vance. He will be charged with arson, the chief said. Shiloh Tabernacle, believed to have been the largest "frame building in the world, and the closed radio station WCBD were destroyed Friday. Voliva estimated the loss at more than $600,000. Voliva, grey-frocked successor) to founder JJohn Alexander Dowie, I had charged the fire was set byi opponents of the Passion play by which he sought to establish Zion |as a “second Oberammergau.” Voliva’s dissenters admitted they opposed “turning the tabernacle into a theater” for the play, de--1 nied they set the fire, said it was 1 "the judgment of God.” Griffith, dark-complexioned, presentable youth, called Chief Ruesch by telephone last night, arranged a meeting. He gave the chief ths, I confession. Griffith explained that when his I parents separated he went to live' with the Steiners, who had invest-i ed heavily In the Zion industries.' 'When Mrs. Steiner died. Voliva de-1 . dined to pay funeral expenses, Griffith said. The youth charged j J that Voliva "swindled” him out of i his inheritance. He had not been legally adopted. Ruesch said. He planned revenge, and Friday [. morning poured kerosene on luinbi' er stored beneath the floor of a , corner of the tabernacle and set,

Model’s Ex-Mate at Her Bier L aBFk- • f - t si w y.F_ w Fowler kneels at bier Robert Fowler, former husband of the slain New York model, Veronica (Ronny) Gedeon, kneels before her bier in New York prior to last rites

i fire to it. Ruesch said he asked Griffith if * he were sorry and quoted the youth i as replying: “I am not. I feel that lam even with Voliva.” o CONGRESS TODAY Senate Meets at noon. Resumes debate on Guffey-Vin- ' son coal bill. ■ Judiciary committee continues hearings on President Roosevelt's judicial reorganization bill. Appropriations committee meets to consider appropriation bills. House Meets at noon. Taes up bills on unanimous consent calendar. Subcommittee of appropriations committee considers agricultural appropriation bill. o Refuses Amendment On Sit-Down Strike | Washington, Apr. a—(UP) —The senate today refused to include in the Guffey bill a declaration that the sit-down strike in illegal and . contrary to public policy. The action , was on the Byrnes amendement which referred to strikes in all in- ' dustries engaged in interstate commerce. Chrysler And Lewis Back In Conference Lansing. Mich.. Apr. S—(UP) — Walter P. Chrysler and John L j Lewis resumed strike negotiation ' conferences today as Gov. Frank

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Murphy planned a series of meetings with other auto manufacturers in efforts to settle industrial unrest in Michigan. "No comment," the governor said. The millionaire manufacturer and I the chairman of the committee for ' industrial organization, arriving a few minutes later, likewise declined Ao discuss the stalemate in negotiations over the question of sole collective bargaining rights demanded ; by the United Auto Workers of America. Decatur Man In Accident Sunday Indianapolis, Apr. s.—jtUJO—Mrs. Margaret Hudson. 20, wife of James Hudson, 21, Bloomfield, was treated at city hospital yesterday for injuries suffered in an automobile accident at a street intersection. The car driven by her husband collided with one operated by Leland I Smith. 26, Decatur. The Morning After Taking Carter’s Little Liver Pills