Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 35, Number 170, Decatur, Adams County, 20 July 1937 — Page 1

■l \\XV. No- 17 °-

|raJy Gang Again I Active In State, I Three Loot Bank

lorious M Brady (Jang ■ oob Bank Near Brazil L, Morning. Robbers Ret $2,000 Loot. I WAIT IN BANK ■ ill 111(1. July 2*>—<U.R> The Eu' s Al Brady "second 1)111K" llg struck again tor the Kime in almost two months, K ' lice believed today, when K masked bandits robbed the K National Bank of Center ■ 10 miles from here, of ap-K--tely s2.oo<> when it was E for'business this morning. Emntl Folu- state police deKe operating in this vicinity. ■ was ■certain" the bandits H Ills feared and hated Brady K already wanted for four Kijeodcd murders and innumK robberis* in the middle ■ clav county deputy sheriff, ■ nanie was not learned, al Kid state police he was confiKthe rubbers were Al Brady. Ks.v boasted he would ■make Dillinger look like a piker; K. inlluoet. the gang's expert Km.m with a rifle and a Kine gtm- ami Clarence Lee Ktfrr. g'-neral mob handyman Krd to have been at the Ki of the getaway automobile Ko federal agents from IndianK »ho declined to identify KilveS. arrived at the bank ■ started a search for fingerKs. They also took prints of K who had been in the bank Kid confusing them with the Kits Kliam Graeser, president of ■ bank, opened the doors for Kess shortly before nine Kelt this morning. Kide found ,wo men 1,1 Kr middle twenties" waiting ■ him. handkeichiefs over their K “d tlali 1,1 blue overalls ■ jackets. Hath wore dark hats also. K e " thrust guns Into Graeser's K>ml forced him to the bank s ■ wilts, only one of which K<! n Pen because of time locks ■h- other. They scooped up all Havailable cash, and then turn■on A B Moon, a telephone Hpany employe, and Miss Jo th Elkins of Ashboro. who had Died Graeser into the bank vare that a robbery was Bring. reducing rope they tied up and ted Graeser. Moon and Miss ins after taking S4O from tn and then strolled outside to ord V-8 coach where an accome drove them rapidly west on canty road. Later they were ited at Clay City heading was reported that the autolile was stolen in Indianapolis night. raeser who kept his back to men during the robbery, was tie to give much of a deption of them. He said the I evidently had broken into tank through the rear door Ins the night and had waited irely for him to appear this uing. «t Moon and Miss Elkins ob*d good views ot the pair and as from their descriptions that and authorities of Clay BNTINUED ON PAGE FIVE) MDALS ENTER ‘ASTOR'S HOME ’fting Valuable Reportfl Missing From M. E. Parsonage •hdals entered the parsonage of p. eT ' W- Graham, pastor of nt M. E. church here some ' j We ek. the Rev. Graham * te d to police last night. ’.' Graham and his family had th d lte " el *ter, home of Epforest, for a week. When timed last night they found of the intruder or intrudS*rette stubs and ashes ground ..4 s ’ Nothing and furniture [e( . aru * other signs gave eviat someone had been in the ■Rev. Graham stated. tiunV* 11 ? Uda y tailed to reveal le ~.' raluable missing from the e culprits had, however, be r.I P ° rted ' avall ®d themeelves ito, tUnlty t 0 ratd the refriolice are investigating.

DECATUR DAILY DEMOCRAT

; JAPANESE ARMY STARTS ATTACK ON CHINA ARMY Formal Punitive Attack Is Opened Near Peiping Today (By United Press) Tientsin: Japanese troops open punitive attack on Chinese as ulti- .] matum expires; Chinese reply to | fire. . Nanking: Generalissimo Chiang Kai-Shek arrives to take charge ot crisis; Japanese residents ordered to be ready to exacuate on short notice. Peiping: Japanese artillery bombards Wanplnghslen, southwest of i Peiping. Tokyo: Cabinet decides Japan , must take adquate measures of self-defense. Washington: C. T. Wang. Chinese ambassador, declared Japan will cause chaos in Far East and upset whole world if she aggravates crisis. Ultimatum Expires Tientsin, July 20.—(U.R) —Japanese army authorities opened a formal punitive attack on the Chinese 29th army in the area southwest of Peiping today. A Japanese ultimatum demanding cessation of alleged Chinese troop attacks on Japanese expired at noon. According to the Japanese, the ’ attacks continued, with the Chin- ■ ese sniping at Japanese troops. A Japanese war plane droned , (CONTINUED ON PAGE FIVE) LOCAL SCHOOL STUDENT DIES I L ’ Leona Hilda Bauer Dies Monday Evening At Parents’ Home I , Leona Hilda Bauer, 17, popular Decatur high schawl girl, died Mon- : day night at 6:25 o'clock after suffering six weeks with heart dis- . ease. She was the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Edwin F. Bauer of 210 South , Tenth street, and moved here with her parents from Union township four and a half years ago. She was born in Union township March 31, 1920. Miss Bauer had been an honor student during her school career. She was a member of the Zion Lutheran church of this city, in which she took a prominent part, being a Sunday School teacher and a member of the choir. She was a member and secretary of the ’ Zion Lutheran Junior Walther lea- ' gue. She was baptised and confirmed in 1934. Surviving besides the parents are two sisters, Vera and Margine, two grandmothers, one grandfather, one great grandfather and a host of other relatives and friends. An infant brother preceded her in death. The body will be returned from the Zwick funeral home this afternoon and may be viewed until the time of the funeral. Funeral services will be held at the home on Tenth street, Thursday afternoon at 1:30 o'clock and in the Zion Lutheran church Thurs--1 day afternoon at 2 o’clock. The Rev. Paul Schult*, pastor of the church will officiate. Burial will ' be made in the Decatur cemetery. Girls of the Zion Lutheran Walther league will act as pallbearers. o Japanese Mistreat Two American Women — i Peiping, China, July 20—(U.R)— Two American women complained to authorities today that they had been maltreated by Japanese troops. It was understood the U. 8. embassy would make representatV'ns to ■ the Japanese tomorrow. The women I were Mies Carol Lathrop of Washington, D. C„ and Mrs. Helen R. ■ Jones, address not given. ■; They said that as they were walk- , ing home past the Japanese emibas|B y last night Japanese sentries reached over the sandbag naarlcade around the embassy and kicked ■ , them. Japanese reported that they ; had tried to peer inside the embaa i ■ I sy’s enclosure, thus arousing suspii cion. 1 '

ONLY DAILY NEWSPAPER IN ADAMS COUNTY

Crowds Pack Capitol for Robinson Last Rites - ■ .< <■.. ~ ■ —— —— < Honor guard at casket

Huge crowds of friends and admirers packed the state capitol at Little Rock. Ark., to pay- last tribute to the late Senator Joseph T. Robinsen.

POULTRY TOUR TO VISIT CITY Annual Indiana Poultry Tour To Visit County On August 24 Adams county and Decatur will be hosts to more than 100 Indiana poultrymen and hatcherymen on the first day of a three-day tour of this section of Indiana, August 24. ; The 100 visitors, with the more than 50 automobiles, will arrive in 'Decatur about 4:30 o'clock on th*‘ afternoon of August 24 and will remain here overnight. William Kohlmeyer, of the poul-' try extension department of Purdue University, is in Decatur making arrangements for the tour. It has been sponsored annually for the last 12 years jointly by the poultry extension department of Purdue University and the Indiana poultry association. The tour will open on the morning of August 24 at the intersec-, tion of state road 28 and U. S. highway 35, north of Muncie and; will move north to Marion. The| tour will then come east through i Wells county, where one of the stops will be the Wells county , game farm. Attention’ there will be directed 'to the breeding of; pheasants and other wild game, birds. Arriving in Decatur the group will be housed by the Decatur; Chamber of Commerce. Dee Fryback, president of the civic organ-, ization, announced that private 1 homes will be sought for those: who can not be accomodated in | the hotel. Boy Scouts will be ask-! ed to direct the visitors to the (CONTINUED ON PAGE FOUR) NEW FIRM TO LOCATE HERE Equity Dairy Store, Inc., Os Lima, Ohio, To Locate Here The Equity Dairy Store. Inc., is moving into the business house on Second street, formerly occupied by the Carmelcrisp here, according to the announcement made today. The entire store, from the building front to the interior, is being completely remodeled. Charles Robenold, Decatur builder and contractor, has been given the contract for the remodeling work. Mr. Robenold stated that the new front will be made of onyx stone, trimmed in white. In the interior of the building, workmen have started the construction of new counters, tables, booths and chairs. The kitchen will be built in the rear of the building. All new furniture and fixtures are to be placed In the building, he stated. The new store will, in addition to serving lunches and meals, handle ice cream, cheese and other dairy produets. A. L. Humpreys, of Lima, Ohio, is supervising the work. Mr. Humpreys is connected with the company tn that city.

Decatur, Indiana, Tuesday, July 20, 1937.

I State troopers formed a guard of honor as the body lay in state in the rotunda of the capitol, , above.

Berne Physician Is Named Scoutmaster Dr. Myron Habegger, Berne physician, has been named Scoutmaster of the Boy Scout troop, recently organized in that town, according to the announcement of G. W. Sprunger, chairman of the Scout committee. Paul Spuller, Berne teacher and former Decatur man. has been appointed as his assistant. The committee in charge of the troop, sponsored by the mothers’ club is: Mr. Sprunger, the Rev. C. A. j Schmid. Howard Sprunger, C. T. Michaud and E. M. Webb. WARNS OWNERS TO CUT WEEDS — — City Works Commissioner Urges Property Owners Cut Weeds Ralph E. Roop, city works commissioner and civil engineer, toi day urged all property owners to I cut weeds and brush away from . their land in the city of Decatur. Each year the city board of i health advocates the cutting of the weeds in an effort to clear the city from any weeded lots within the ! corporation. I August 1 has been set as the deadline this year for the cutting lof the weeds. If they are not cut ' by that time, the city street dei partment will do the work, with 1 the labor and costs charged direct- , ly to the property owner. Mr. Roop called attention to the fact that the weeds could be cut much cheaper privately than by the street department. Persons are also asked, in ac-l cordance with a city ordinance, not to pile the cut weeds and shrubs on city streets. These should be piled on the lot and burned, or carted away. If the weeds on the premises are not cut by August 1, the department will do the work, the cost billed to the owner and payment must be made at the city clerktreasurer’s office. If the land on which the weeds are situated, is rented, the tenant and property Owner are expected ito cooperate in the matter immediately. o Float Committee To Meet This Evening The float committee of the Decatur Free Street Fair will meet at the auto license bureau tonight at 8 o'clock. Any merchant wishing to have a float built is asked to call Carl C. Baxter at the Goodyear service station or any other member of the committee. o Injured Baseball Player Improved The condition of Mel Ladd, local baseball player hurt last Sunday, was reported as improved today. The attending physician stated today that the bone in his left leg was not broken, but that he had suffered a severe wrench of the muscles and ligaments. Ladd hurt his leg when he ran Into a fence, chasing a high foul ball.

LIST PROGRAM FOR CONCERT Berne Junior Band Will Present Concert Here Wednesday — Freeman Burkhalter, director of, the Berne junior band which will I play an exchange concert, here: Wednesday evening at 8:15 o'clock announced today the program for. the evening. The Decatur school hands which 1 have been playing here on Wednesday evenings in a series of ' programs sponsored by the Decai tur Junior Chamber of Commerce, I are unable to play this week because many of the members are with their parents W’ho are G. E.I i employees and have vacations this week. The program is: March, “King Cotton" Sousa "Sylvia" — Speaks “Southern Echoes” Goldman . "My Hero (The Chocolate Soldier)” Strause i, March, “His Honor” -Fillmore “Evaning Star (Tannhauser)” Wagner ■ March, “High School Cadets” Sousa (CONTINUED ON PAGE STX) 0 New Stamp Series Is Received Here A new series of special stamps based on the Northwest Territory; ordinance of 1787 have been receiv-| ed in the Decatur postoffice They bear the drawing of the Northwest Territory and pictures of Cutler and Putnam and are in the three cent | denomination. ° ALL CONCESSION SPACE IS SOLD All Available Concession Space Reported Sold For Street Fair Dee Fryback, general chairman of the Decatur Free Street Fair and chairman of the concessions committee, stated this morning that all available space for the fair has been sold. An unusually heavy demand from' concessionnaires met the propos- ■ als of the committee, causing an early sell-out of space. |. Mr. Fryback stated that it was t possible some room for concessions or stands might be made after the streets are marked out. He stated that probably many turndowns would have to be made concessionnaires who arrive on Monday of fair week, seeking space. Mr. Fryback stated that at pres-, ent every inch of space on both the east and west sides of Second street had been sold out. The rides will be placed on the intersecting east and west streets. Space for concessions at the Decatur fair was this year, as in the past, sold independently, insuring the fair committee of the right to choose the type they wish to play i here. |

Guglielmo Marconi, Inventor Os Wireless, Dies At Home In Rome Os Heart Disease

COMPROMISE ON JUDICIARY BILL ISDISCUSSED High Authority Says Roosevelt Open To Possible Compromise Washington, July 20. — (U.R) —A high administration authority said today that President Roosevelt was standing pat for the objectives of judiciary reorganization but remained open to any compromise in method which congress might desire to employ. Mr- Roosevelt's position as explained today coincided with his letter of last week to Sen. Alben W. Barkley, D„ Ky„ in which he said that it was the responsibility of the executive to propose objectives and of congress to devise methods to attain them. Extent to which a change in method would alter the judiciary bill now pending in the senate was not evident but the corridors of congress teemed with compromise talk as the senate began a one-day recess before resuming formal judiciary debate. The source, intimately related to the court bill fight, declined to allow the use of his name. However, he declared that “there is a very decided belief by all parties—except two or three opposition leaders —that this thing is i going to work out surprisingly I satisfactorily to all concerned." The statement was made shortIly after Vice-President John N. Garner, back in Washington after a Texas veation, conferred an hour 1 with President Roosevelt in the | | (CONTINUED ON PAGE SIX) PLEAD GUILTY TO AUTO THEFT Two Men Plead Guilty To Theft Os Auto In Decatur Sunday Two men, charged with stealing an auto from a used car lot here Sunday plead guilty when arraigned before Judge Huber M. DeVoss in Adams circuit court this morning. The men were Paul Hisey, Three Rivers. Michigan and George Swathwood, Marion. Hisey the first to be arraigned, stated 1 that he had a wife and two chilI dren living in Marion. Swathwood, in entering his plea, stated that the pair came here to | visit his mother, Mrs. Jim Marth, l of Decatur. He also has a wife I in Mo»(nn. he °aid Judge DeVoss remanded both to the county jail, taking their I j entence under advisement. Upon j conviction the charge may carry ■ a sentence of 1-10 years in the Indiana state prison. Prosecutor Arthur E. Voglewede stated in court today that both of the men had participated in a 1 series of auto thefts before coming to this city. Swathwood, it was learned here, I is a former resident of Bluffton, and at present is under a suspended sentence of 60 days for the theft of gasoline from autos (CONT’NUED ON PAGE SIX) O Report Mrs. Davis Greatly Improved The condition of Mrs. J. W. Dav. ' is, Alexandria lady, who has been confined in the Adams county hospital since July 4, when she was in- | jured in an auto accident, was re■p.'Tted as greatly improved today. She is not expected to be released for some time, however, the attend-' ■ing physician stated. o WEATHER Fair tonight and Wednesday; somewhat warmer tonight except extreme southwest; warmer Wednesday. TEMPERATURE READINGS DEMOCRAT THERMOMETER 8:00 a. m. 70 10:00 a. m. 74 Noon 80 Highest this month, 99. Highest yesterday, 82.

joe McConnell BADLY INJURED IN AUTO CRASH Decatur Man Seriously Injured In Accident At Fort Wayne At a late hour th>< afternoon, Fort Wayne Methodist hospital attaches described the condition of Joseph McConnell as “still critical," and reported that he was only “fair." He is suffering from a skull fracture, they stated. Joseph McConnell, 43, member as McConnell & Sons, wholesale tobacco firm of this city, remains in the Methodist hospital at Fort Wayne • in a serious condit-'.on today, as result ot injuries sustained in an auto accident last night about 7 o’clock. 1 Mr. McConnell sustained a sku’l fracture and severe b.'.'dy bruises, when the car he was driving sideswiped an auto driven by D. F. Regan, of Fort Wayne. The crash occurred near the Stellhorn bridge on Fairfield avenue extended The local man was enroute home and Regan was en-! route north when the two cars crashed. The McConnell auto, damaged from the impact, veered out ct control and struck a telephone pole. The pole fell over on the car. It is considered 'probable that the falling pole, which mashed the car, was responsible for fracturing the local man's skull. According to reports, the pole was mainly respon--1 sible for keeping the auto from careening Into the river. Mr. McConnell is also suffering from severe body bruises. Other •han the skull injury, no bones are thought to be broken. Regan escaped injury- McConnell was taken to I the hospital in an ambulance. It I was reported that he regained con sciousnesa several times, but quickly lapsed. The McConnell auto was completely demolished by the impact and the falling pole. While all of I Mr. McConnell's personal belong-1 ings and money was retrieved, a I considerable quantity of cigarettes. and other merchandise was stolen from the overturned auto. According to reports, both men | likely will be absolved of all blame in the crash. Deputy Sheriff Fred Schappman investigated. Mr. McConnell, who works in the sales department of the company, <CONTINUF,r> ON PAGE SIX) o Decatur Man Fined In Bluffton Court George Carpenter, of this city, was fined $1 and costs by Mayor Franklin Buckner in Bluffton City court Monday on charges of public' intoxication. He was arrested by Bluffton police Saturday night. o ALLEGED THIEF IS GIVEN FINE Thomas Huffman Is Fined, Sentenced In City Court Thomas Huffman, 58-year old resident ot Tennessee, was fined $lO and costa and sentenced to 10 days in the Adams county jail when ar- ■ raigned before Mayor Arthur R. Holthouse in city court late yesterday. Huffman was charged with resisting arrest. The charge was filed by Sheriff Dallas Brown, when he had to down Huffman after a twobkxk chase. He was wanted for ' questioning regarding the theft of 73 chickens. His companion, whose name is unknown to authorities, I made good his escape- i Meanwhile authorities are inten- ■ sifying their efforts to learn of any < poultry thefts that might be linked with the chickens confiscated here I when the men fled after failing to s sell the fowls to a local produce i company. i Huffman, authorities say, insists i the chickens belong to him, but I fails to give any explanation, as to where or how they were secured. < While authorities feel confident that the poultry was stolen, Huff-! man, they say, continues to avow, I “you can't pin anything on me.” |

Price Two Cents.

One Os World’s Greatest Scientists Dead; Gave Wireless To World And Developed Radio. GREAT GENIUS Rome, July 20 —(U.R) —Gugliemo Marconi, whose genius gave wireless communication to the world, died today of heart disease. Radio, which he developed and helped perfect, carried to the far corners of the earth, and to ships at sea, the news of the death of one of the great men of this age. He was in a sense a revolutionist, because he changed the course of events and perhaps of history. Because of him continents and nations have been brought within seconds ot one another and man's voice circles the earth with the speed of light. Though a man of science and of peace, he wrought greater changes in the lives of more millions of men than Lenin, Mussolini, and the other political revolutionists of his generation. The great man who had been honored by all nations but was so shy that he was but a name to all except a few intimates, died of a heart attack at 3:45 a. m. (8:45 p. m. Monday CST). He was 63 years old. Five hours after his death Premier Benito Mussolini arrived alone at the Marconi palace in the heart of Rome, signed the visitors book, and went to the simple death chamber on the second floor where he prayed for 15 minutes. The Vatican transmitted the news to Pope Pius at his summer palace at Castel Gandolfo. His holiness was at mass. He immediately dedicated the services to the repose of Marconi’s soul. Marconi had been suffering heart attacks in increasing frequency and intensity since April. He became ill yesterday afternoon and retired early. At 3 o’clock this morning he rang for his valet. “I am very sorry,” he said in a calm, polite voice, “but I am going to put you and my friends to considerable trouble. I fear my end is near. Will you please inform my wife?” Mrs. Marconi was at Viareggio where she was vacationing. Noti- . . — (■CONTINUED ON PAGE THREE) o FIERCE B ATTLE IS CONTINUED Bloody Fighting Continues Between Spanish War Factions Madrid, July 20—(U.R)—A blast ot artillery fire and airplane bombs that rocked the country south of Madrid told anxious residents of the capital at dawn today that the nationalists had opened a new counter-attack in their desperate attempt to erase gains made in the loyalist offensive. Through the night a red glare in the sky northwest of the city told that the battle continued there, in the Brunete-Quijorna-Villanueve De La Canada salient. It started Saturday. This morning the nationalists attacked in full fury on the south front, along the Toledo road at a point called Kilometre No. 6,3% miles beyond the southern suburbs. Their objective was to knock out loyalist shock battalions who cut their communications early in the offensive. Government airplanes went out along the roads to the south, bombing nationalist troops hastening to the front afoot and in trucks. As they did so, nationalist scout planes appeared over Madrid, and anti-aircraft guns added to the din. Northwest of the city, nationalist planes using incendiary bombs set fire to ripe rice and wheat which had not been harvested because of the long battle. For the moment the ferocious battle northwest of the capital slackened. Three days under almost continuous fire, day and night, blasted by airplane bombs, the picked troops of the contending armies were exhausted. That the battle was the biggest of the war there remained doubt. It was estimated here that 500,000 men were concentrated . on a 30 mile front northwest, west I and south ot the capital.