Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 35, Number 92, Decatur, Adams County, 17 April 1937 — Page 1

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nj.raskob 0 DUPONT TO SWER CHARGE alists To Appear On 'harges Os Tax Evasion » H g W pont. Wilmington. Det., Ulist. and John / ; firman of the Democratic i committee, today prepar- “ ar before the board of at publie hearings in L* IO defend themselves , fhargr , of tax evasion. „ learned that the governm subpoened them, togetnUh hundreds of records, toa head the most prom-1 us claim cane since proseuf Andrew W Mellon, hearings are scheduled to I h, ihe city hall post <•«><* , » New York, on Muy 3. , A Disney, board member, 1 wide. ! treasury is seeking to col-; 1M’,318 from Raskob and 4 from Dupont in alleged I Income tax deficiencies. It -cd that the two men. con's series of "wash sales" of ic in 1929 for tax avoid- • gt chairman of the board of upont De Nemrous and comwas one of the largest con-I „ to the Republican party the last campaign. lit. vice president and mem-1 I the Dupont finance commit- . yes in New York He is a 1 er of the finance committee teral Motors corporation and ihainnan of the Democratic | *1 committee in 1928. Both ; alive in the American Libergue. I uses will be heard jointly, pneinment alleges they are ricably involved. It is cond that the alleged "wash • of securities were specificaladurted in order to avoid in-. tax payments Government leys claim that the tax looses ' "iclitioun." . J rerament records purport to I that Dupont received checks Raskob amounting to $14,Ki.s6 and Raskob received 13.354 from Dupont through rmactions Tiie actual differ-1 between the two amounts was e government's case will be BKTINUED ON PAGE SIX) !■SCOUT IIHRUEI HERE itiir Senior Scouts To fold First Banquet Monday i first banquet of the newly fed Dece’ur Senior Scouts ke held at the Decatur high •i Monday evening at 5:45 d. »Senior Scouts were recentWzed in the city to carry 4e ideals and traditions of tog among young men of the ’flu have grown too old for h>y Scouts. present there are 24 young the city enrolled in tiie oritflou in addition to scout !ri and scoutmasters. ••ident bud Townsend of the #w Junior Chamber of Com- *' with a representative com- •* of that organization, will “and complete plans for the « Camporee to be held here Ue. toud Van Horn. Fort Wayne ■ ttecutive, will also attend *™ Ver a short address. The !p ,(^ reBB of the banquet will reek Civilization,” by the ' ™ r les M. Prugh, of this . w Guy Brown, local high 'Principal, will also speak. gWPticon slides of early Revj " ar ba,, ' es will be Ih? ° ew Senior Scout songs -Jhg, with Miss Louise St a ' I,lanlß, ■ Ift** 0( the organization, lolu. Baders, scoutmasters «—l'*! l *' ll Persons hope to I^L PAGO SIX) m G rtle Is Named eneva Valedictorian (Jriio 11} ♦ 7 Veter &n Geneva baallctori? tWs been nan 'ed ht! M° f b ” claßfl ’ whlch '“rclse,*!, ln commence- . at tlle school auditorI years i i was 92 82 for the UeaJ“ ach<>o! - Walter J. •7, ° n th6 basketball U nan >ad salutatordan ■' ,r «Be of 92.10.

Lima Doctor Talks To Medical Society Dr. Fred Maurer, physician of Lima, Ohio, spoke to members of th'* 1 Adan* county medical society in a dinner meeting at the Rico hotel Friday evening. Dr. Maurer spoke on "Heart Diseanes" He was accompanied to Decatur by I)r.\Fred Tilletson, also of Lima, an orthopedic surgeon.! Following the dlacourneai. several clinical clashes were presented and 1 I discussed. o —— LIST PROGRAMS FOR GRADUATION — Monroe And Pleasant Mills Announce Annual Exercises Two more schools in the north half of the county announced today the programs for their commencement exercises. They are < Monroe and Pleasant Mills. Kirkland announced its program earlier in the week. The commencement exercises will be held at Pleasant Mills Wed nesday night. April 28 at 8 o'clock in the school auditorium. Music by * the school orchestra will open the program. The commencement adI dress by David Hogg, former con- | gressman. will follow by Rev. Bragg. C. E. Striker, county school superintendent, will present the disploinas and Rev. Bragg will close the exercises with benediction. Nineteen sTfidents will receive diplomas. They are: Ruby Bragg. Pauline Carver, Ida Mae Cottrell, » Doris Durbin, - Catherine Fairchild. Robert McMillen, Bonnie Meyer. Maurice Miller, Faye Myers, ! George Ray. Mary Ray. Thelma Ray. Ellen Spencer. Phyllis TayI lor, Rebecca Teeple, Ethyl Tinkham, Robert Wells. Gorden Welk er, and Earl Williamson. Baccalaureate will be held Sunday night. April 25 with the Rev. C. Emery Smith, of the Pleasant Mills M. E. church delivering the sermon. Monroe Twenty students of the Monroe ‘ high ‘school will receive diplomas at the commencement exercises I Thursday evening, April 29 at the Monroe M. E. church at 7:30 o'clock. Dr. Charles M. Houser, of the Plymouth Congregational church in Fort Wayne, will deliver the, commencement address. Bacca • laureate services will be held at I the same church on the Sunday ' preceding, April 25. The Rev. P. B. Smith, of Bluffton, will deliver the sermon. i At the commencement exercises, i Superintendent Striker will prei sent the diplomas. i The names of the graduating students: Leroy Rich. Edward Sprunger, Elfrieda Liechty, liar1 vey Laughrey, Thora Kaufman. Kermit Hocker, Corrine Liechty. | Kenneth Longenberger. Earl Stu-j , cky. Rufine Liechty, Weldon Stuck ley, Louise Niles. Richard Moser, Ruth Landrum, Glen Jones. Jean 1 Huser, George Engle. Otho And- ‘ rews. Harold Fricke and Ermal Git- ’ bert. I Jefferson will hold exercises onj April 27, Monmouth on April 30, r Hartford on May 1 and Geneva on I May 30 at their respective schools. ‘ Complete programs are yet to be announced. THREE DAMAGE SUITS ON FILE i! — Three Suits Are Filed As ’ Result Os Automobile II Accident i ’ Three damage suits have been 1 filed against Lawrence Schroeder e and the Adams county farm bureau ’ as the result of an automobile aril cident, which occurred January 1on a gravel road seven and one- • half miles north of Decatur. 5 Mr. Schroeder was the driver of n a truck owned by the Adams counB ty farm bureau co-operative association, Inc. It in alleged that the '- truck made a left turn in front of s a car driven by Paul Conrad. u Herbert Bentz, a passenger in the car driven by Mr. Conrad, alleged he sustained scars and disfigurement about the left side ot the face and that he was unable I to work for more than two weeks. ' He is asking $5,000 damages. -i Paul Conrad, the driver, alleged 1 he sustained cuts and lacerations 1 on his forehead and head, his left .. upper leg was severely bruised. ■ his left upper arm was severe y 3 bruised, and sustained a general bruising and contusing of his body j with a resultant shock and injury • to his entire nervous system. He I (CONTINUED ON PAGE SIX) ■

HANSEtFOLEI IS CANDIDATE Kirkland Principal Is Candidate For County Superintendent Hansel I, Foley, principal of the ! I Kirkland high scliool, became the ■ fourth candidate for the office of superintendent of Adams county . schools when he made his formal announce'uent today Mr Foley's experience consists of three years teaching in rural one-room schools, two years teaching in high school and nine years as principal and teacher in conI solidated schools. College and university prepara- ■ tion consists of a total of six and one-fourth years training. This work was taken in Tri-State college ai Angola. Indiana university, the stale University of lowa, and Ball State Teachers' college. , He completed his bachelor of arts degree at Indiana in 1925 and his master of arts degree at Bali State this year. Mr. Foley holds first grade life | licenses for teaching all social I studies, englisli. physics, chemistry , and high sehoo Igeography. His ■ master's degree work meets the requirements for a first grade principal's. superintendent's and superI visor's license. The supervisor's ! license is a major license, which' is the requirement tor wull time supervisory work. * During all his teaching exper-; fence. Mr. Foley has taken an active part in all extra-curricular activities of his school and also has taken part in community farm 5 organization meetings. He teaches the men's Sunday school class at the Beulah Chapel church. A resident of Peterson, Mr. Foley is married and has one child. o Children To Give Program Sunday A special program entitled, "Mother Goose in Kono Land," will be given in the children’s department of the United Brethren Sunday school, Monday morning at 9.15. The characters are. Mother Goose, Marjorie Springer; Little Miss Muffett, Rae Meyers; Big Spider, Eddie Gene Deitsch; Jack and Jill. Dora Light and Eloise Jackson; Wee Willie Winkle, Junior Hakey; Children in the rain. Martha Sheets. Patsy ■ Springer, Don Marbaugh. Soloist. Irene Light. Pianist, Vivian, Hitchcock. o ENROLLING IN 10MATOCLUB Enrollments Are Now Being Received For 4-H Tomato Club Enrollments are now being received for the newest 4-H project in Adams county, the tomato club. The Adams County Tomato Growers' Association stressed the 4-H tomato club work in a meeting ' held recently. Through it they hope to encourage more and better tomato growers. It will also give the boy a chance to earn some money while enjoying the privileges and advantages of a 4-H club. Tomatoes are a new crop in Adlams county and have done very well. They serve to give the farmer a different crop in his rotation and are very profitable in view of ; the price guaranteed in the coni tract. The Purdue agricultural alumni association is sponsoring the 4-H tomato club. The age limits are 14 j to 20 years. Members will be required to grow not less than onehalf acre of tomatoes, and keep records in books supplied by Purdue university. The Crampton Canneries will furnish the plants and fertilizer at a very reasonable price. Soil testing for fertilizer may be done in the county agent’s office. At the end of the club year the members will exhibit theii toimatoes in connection with other crops’ project exhibit. Further information on this project may be obtained from Law(CONTINUED ON PAGE SIX) — Name Guardian For Pleasant Mills Man D. Burdette Custer today was appointed guardian for Dale Harper of Pleasant Mills. A hearing for the appointment of a guaru.an was held before Judge Huber M. De Voss in the Adams circuit court. The court after hearing the testimony found Mr. Harper to be of unsound mind and incapable of I managing his own estate. A bond |of SI,OOO was set.

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Following testimony before the senate civil liberties committee in Washington, Richard Tackett, right, Kentucky mountaineer, is seen being led out of the committee room by a U. S. deputy marshal. Robert H. Bonham. Tackett, along with two others, testified before the committee that an official of the Harlan County (Ky. t Coal Operators’ association had paid them to “blow up" a union organizer with 15 sticks of dynamite. Although §ach denied actually touching off the charge, they readily admitted the plot against Lawrence Dwyer. United Mine Workers' organizer, whose hotel room in Pineville. Ky., was ripped away by a blast in 1933. Dwyer received only a few scratches.

ARREST TWO AS DRUNK DRIVERS Two Men Arrested Here; Face Drunken Driving Charges Two men were being held in the Z.dams county jail this morning to await arraignment after being apprehended as allegedly drunken drunken drivers. A man. whose Identity is yet to I .be definitely established, was ar- 1 rested north of the city Friday as-1 ternoon by State Patrolmen Paul Beaverforden after he had a.’leg-| edly operated his auto, while in an intoxicated condition. The tnan, who said he was a soap salesman, first gave his name as M. A. Sullivan. Bowling Green, Ohio. Receipts in his car and coat pockets were signed by A. J. Ward, while an army discharge was issued to a Wood. Chargee were filed against him in circuit court todayRalph Gilliam, of Berne, was the other man to be arrested. He was apprehended by local Policeman Floyd Hunter on Monroe street last night. Chargee were to be filed against him In city court today. His arrest occurred shortly before midnight. The Ohio man was ap-1 prehended about 4 o’clock Friday 1 afternoon. HUGH BARNHART EXCISE CHIEF Rochester Newspaper Man To Succeed Paul Fry On May 1 Indianapolis, Apr. 17,-|(U.R> —Hugh A. Barnhart, Rochester newspaper publisher, late Friday was named administrator of the state alcoholic beverages division by Gov. M. Clitford Townsend. He succeeds Paul P. Fry, Linton, who resigned from the post effective May 1. The new appointee was a candidate for congress in the strongly Republican Second district during the last election and was defeated by Charles Halleck, only Republican member of tiie Indiana congressional delegation. He is a graduate of Indiana university and son of the late Henry Barnhart, former congressman. Fry offered his resignation March 27. He was appointed head of the state liquor department by former Gov. Paul V. McNutt when the department was created by the 1933 legislature in anticipation of repeal of the eighteenth amendment. In 1935, the general assembly re(CONTINUED ON PAGE SIX)

Tells of Harlan Dynamite Plot

Monmouth Students Aid Flood Relief : Long after many people not tn ; the stricken zone had forgotten tho I privations and suffering caused by ' the recent ravages of the flooded Ohio river, the students of the Monmouth school contributed toward the flood relief. Miss Annie Winnes. secretary of the county Red Cross reported this morning that students of the school returned to her a contribution of $lO to be used in the work. This i makes the total figure -In the coun- ' ty $6,457.68. ERECT SHELTER AI PLAYGROUNO Shelter House To Be Built At South Ward Playground Site Plans are now being made to rect a shelter at the city playground supervisor, announced today. According to the plans, the shelter will be 10 by 18 feet and will be constructed of six two-by-fours covered with a roof. Seats will be i built under the structure. Mr. Ketchum stated that the shelter was planned to afford a resting place for persons trsing | the tennis courts and baseball fiehl. as there are no trees or shelters from the sun on the grounds.. The structure will be built from proceeds of the pop and candy stand at tbe playground and a small appropriation from the city school board. Interested persons hope to make the playground one of till 5 ’ most used sites in the city this summer. The ground will be worked on and put in shape for the various activities and tiie local woman’s club has furnished a net for the tennis court, as some of the many things done to increase its attrac- , tlveness. The playground will officially open on May 29. the day after closing of public schools. —n ■ ■■■ ' ■— Bluffton Plans For Centennial Bluffton, Apr. 17. — Announcement has been made here by the general committee headed by William R. Barr that the centennial celebration for Wells county would he held on Wednesday of the annual Bluffton free street fair, which will be Wednesday, September 22. This will be designated as Cent nnial day and plans will be developed to make it one of the most impressive days ever observed in connection with the fair. Gov. M. Clifford Townsend will be Invited as the principal speaker of the day.

GUNMEN CAUGHT AFTER ESCAPE FROM ONE TRAP Two Men Who Shot GMan Are Caught By Country Sheriff Omaha Ne4>. April 17 —'(UP) — j Department of Justice agents rode off today with two suspected public enerniee captured by a country sheriff as they fled a federal trap in Topeka. Kan. Six agents and the prisoners left ■'.fi two cans, reportedly headed through lowa to Topeka, where the men admittedly shot an FBI man ;and two bystanders to escape a trap laid for them in the postoffice. Sheriff Homer Sylvester of Plattsmouth. Neb., and his brother,. Cans, captured them after they had kidnaped a country doctor to obtain medical aid. The fugitives lost themselves in Plattsmouth a town j of a few streets, followed a blind road, were stranded on a river bank. They gave up without fightAgents obtained the men from Sylvester, brought them to Omaha where they said they were Gerald Lewis, 46. Alias (Alfred Power, and Robert J. Suhay. Agents swarmed about Omaha FBI officers as the men were questioned. Only person allowed to enter the building was reported to be a doctor summoned to remove n bullet from Suhay's arm. In a few hours yesterday, the | two prisoners who had been hunt- ' ed for bank robbery in New York rose to top of the list of public enemies by seriously wounding a G- ' Man. They submitted meekly to Sylvester and his brother, who trailed them eight miles and approached I them with leveld rifles. The gunmen admitted to the 'sheriff that they had done the shooting at Totpeka, but denied the bank robbery charge. They were sullen and nervous. Speeding across two states after the gun battle, tbe outlaws .invaded f a farm home for food, summoned and kidnaped a doctor, forcing him ! to treat an arm wound that one of I (CONTINUED ON PAGE SIX) o————— Local Baptists At B. Y. P. U. Convention Nine members of the First Baptist church of this city attended the Friday night session of the Indiana B. Y. P. U. annual convention, being held at Fort Wayne. The convention will conclude Sunday afternoon. Feature of the convention will be the banquet at 6:15 this evei ning at the Fort Wayne Y. W. C. |A. gymnasium. The annual stewardship speaking contest was held Friday night. Mary Evalyn Moody lof Muncie and Clifford Abshire of I Rockport won scholarships to Franklin college, and Catharyn Landall of North Vernon won the scholarship to the Baptist assembly at Franklin. Decatur persons who attended Friday night’s session were Rev. and Mrs. Homer J. Aspy. Forrest Kenworthy, Leroy Huffman, Lester Johnson, Alice Lake, Patricia Baughn, Wanda Brunner and Ruth Virginia Baker. —— o MRS. LOOP TO GIVE PROGRAM Art Department To Present Program Here Monday Night The Art Department of the woman's club will present an interesting and entertaining program Monday evening at library hall at 7:45 o’clock. Mrs. Leota Williams Loop of Kokomo, will present a lecture and ! paint a picture in oil. The title of ' the picture is "Painting a Picture.” Mrs. Loop will be accompanied by Miss Virginia Thatcher, also of Kokomo, an accomplished soloist. She will give special vocal numbers. Miss Thatcher will be accompanied at the piano by Miss Helen HauboTd of Chis city. Mrs. Loop has won recognition throughout the state by her ability and talent in art. She was state chairman of art of the Tri Kappa sorority for a number of years. The picture which Mrs. Loop paints will become the property ot the Art Department and will later be presented to some public building of the city. The program promises to be entertaining as well as inspiring. (CONTINUED ON PAGE SIX)

Railroad Strike Threat \Averted; Mediate Dispute

ROBBERS WILL PLEAD GUILTY Robbers Os Pleasant Mills, Peterson Post OHices To Plead 11 is reported that Earl Putman. 35. will plead not guilty when arraigned on three post office rob- ! bery indictments before Judge Thomas W. Slick in federal court : in Fort Wayne Monday. Putman has been accused of , robbing a post office at Ontario in LaGrange county and the Pleasant Mills and Peterson post offices in this county. He lias been identified by picture by Mrs. Bertha R Everett, postmistress of Pleasant Mills, as one of a gang of four which held up her office March 8, 1934. He is now serving a burglary sentence in the Ohio state prison in Columbus. Ohio. Mahlon LaCross, 38, recently disi charged from the federal prison at Leavenworth for a post office robbery at Toledo, Ohio, will be arraigned with Putman Monday on the same charges. He has been ' identified in person by Mrs. Ever- ’ ett as a second member of the ; gang. Other members of the gang were Catherine Peck and Midge Davis, both of whom were cap- , tured. tried and sentenced a few months after the robberies, i-ut-man and LaCross were taken from the jurisdiction of the federal I court in Fort Wayne on other i charges. : The four also robbed general > stores at Magley and Honduras the • same night that the Adams county post offices were held up. . j o 1 WEATHER t i Mostly cloudy tonight and Sunday. Probably local showers and thunderstorms this afternoon or tonight. Likely warmer tonight. Extreme south portion cooler Sunday. I o UNION CHAPEL HOST TO MEET — 1 St. Joseph Conference Os U. B. Churches Meet Wednesday i — ' The District conference of the H Fort Wayne district of the St. Jos- ’ eph conference, of the United 1 Brethren church, will be held Wed- ’ j nesday, in Union Chapel three miles northeast of Decatur. This district includes all of the 1 churches of the denomination located in Allen, Wells and Adams counb, ties, north of the Wabash river. The river, in this case, forms the 1 boundary line between the St. Jos--1 eph and White river conferences. The Fort Wayne district has within its borders nine ipastors, representing as many fields ot labor. ‘ and fifteen local churches. In addition to the ministers, and the lay I delegates to the preceding annual | conference, the attendance always I includes a number of visiting lay members. The program for the day is as follows: ' 9:30 Devotions —Rev. J. W. Dickinson. 9:40 Sermon —“How to Remain a Christian’’ Rev. Charles Moore10:10 Reports — Superintendent, district leader and Pastors. ’ 11:00 Address —"Next Steps in Laymen’s Forward Movement" A. D. Hamilton. 11:25 Special MitS'lc Decatur I church. C 11:30 Address — “Leadership in ■ the Rural Church” Rev. IH. W. 1 Franklint 12:00 Announcements and prayer. Luncheon period. i 1:05 Devotions Rev. A. F. Knepp. 1:15 Business Session i 1:30 Address —“How to Re-Enlist the Indifferent Church Members." t Rev. J. F- Bright. -I 2:00 Address —"Our Need of Go- )' ing Deeper in Christian Stewardi ship." Rev. H. C. Dobbins 2'35 Address — "Preparing the ’ church for a Better Every-Member C Canvass. Rev. E. F. Hine. 3:05 Directed Prayer. Rev. S. A. ' Wells. The district leader is Rev. S- A. ' Wells, ipastor of the Fort Wayne ;| Calvary church, who will preside I during the day.

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Major Strike Averted As Mediation Offers Are Accepted; Settlement In Canada Delayed. MEET TUESDAY By United Press Threat of the nation’s first major railroad strike in 11 years, which seemed about to upset mediation machinery established under the railway labor act, was successfully averted today when 3,500 unionists of the Southern Pacific agreed to allow a presidential mediation board attempt to settle their differences. Announcement was made in San Francisco that the president’s board would meet Tuesday to study ways of settling a jurisdictional dispute between the ’“Big Four” railway brotherhoods involved. In the same city, six unions claiming a membership of 3,000, set a 5 p. m. deadline for a hotel srtike which would seriously hamper operations of 15 of the cities major hostelries. Meantime, John L. Lewis' United Automobile Workers appeared ready to settle a strike in the General Motors plants at Oshawa, Ont., and submitted seven working condition demands to the Packard Motor company in Detroit. Delay Settlement Toronto, Ont., Apr. 17— (U.R) — Negotiations pointed toward settlement of the General Motors of Canada assembly plant strike at Oshawa were delayed again today. Premier Mitchell F. Hepburn announced that a conference scheduled in his office with representatives of General Motors and the United Auto Workers union "may not be held today or at all.” He declined to explain what was holding up the proceedure that had appeared to augur early peace in the controversy involving 3,700 employes at the Oshawa plant. Strike leader at the plant maintained an attitude of watchful waiting. They said they were expecting word from Hepburn setting the time for the conference but had heard nothing from him. Martin declared that there was “very good" reason to believe that ' an agreement would be reached. He said in a formal statement: “We have always stood ready to negotiate, provided negotiations are upon a proper basis. A proper basis was reached in Detroit and confirmed by telephone with General Motors officials in Detroit. “According to the agreement reached in Detroit, negotiations were to be resumed between a local committee, buided by international representatives, including Hugh Thompson, and local plant managements. With that understanding we came to Oshawa. General Motors desires these negotiations to take place In the premier’s office. “Upon arriving in Oshawa we learned that C. 11. Millard had (CONTINUED ON PAGE SIX) JUNIOR C.C. PLANS CONTEST To Conduct Poster Contest During Improvement Week Here The Junior Chamber of Commerce will sponsor a poster contest for city improvement week, it was announced today. Pupils of both the public and parochial schools of Decatur are eligible. Judges for the contests were also announced today. They are Mrs. Lawrence Linn, Mrs. Adrian Wemhoff and Miss Madge Hite. There will be three classes of the contest. The first will be for those of the first four grades in school. The second will be for pupils of the fifth, sixth, seventh and eighth grades. The third will bo for the two high schools. Prizes in each class will be $1 for the best poster. No definite rules werJ- laid out for the contest, the purpose being to permit the contestants to draw upon their own imaginations. However, the general idea must be a- | long the lines of the civic improvement ot the city. All posters will be displayed in store windows In the city, and will |be used tor general publicity.