Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 35, Number 210, Decatur, Adams County, 4 September 1937 — Page 1

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. VBLENT DEATH ML IN COUNTY j Above average ifeen Persons Die olent Deaths Since January 1 ent deaths are taking one every 1,170 residents in Adaunty, is the staggering coni drawn from a compilation • accidental death toll for more than eight months of ar. TBrti-i'il persons have been killed hi the county to date. Three county residents have lost ttiejß lives on foreign soil. « QjjSpersons lost their lives in the fJKy during the entire year of Shellld the ng* approximately 20 lives will pgjHe year’s toll. taken biggest . ielwof the thirteen killed in the dying on its highways. DeI'm i usually fine record has beHtnarred by four traffic deaths. Erie train wreck that claim <>d I ir lives is next in line. The Mercer iie scene of tw’o deaths, cansleu a car struck the signal r, month of June, oddly enough > the intense traffic and sumctivities, was the only one show a violent death. owing is the list of deaths, te and the manner in which lied: lary 4 —George Wood. 69. f city, died after butted by a uary 12, Roy Dubach. 40, Irove. died in auto crash on 12" iruary 15—J. E. Nevius. 54. ing. died from Erie train ; J. H. Karns. 67. Huntington, from Erie train crash: LawMcConkey, 42, died from Ertin crash. rch 30—Eli Girod. 47, Decalit by auto on North Second MS' ,ity SBjU-il 17 Floyd Rison. 34, Monroevflie, when car hit Mercer crossDan O’Shaugnessesy. 26, Monroeville, died in same crash. .Ma 19 David Luginbill. Herne, diedpn fall from ladder. Jal I .1. W. Davis. 77. Alexandria, pied from auto crash near Bern' Geneva. died from auto crash in diedTfrom auto crash on River Road Adams county residents killed oiit of the county: Fed uary 17—Mrs. Lena DroBerne killed in auto crash Aurtß'n. Illinois. Aug ist 13—Katherine Hyland, 31, ki ed in crash near South Milford. Ma 7 —Howard Helmrich. '2, of Magi* died when hit by auto in FortlWayne. August 8 Dorothy Brown, 14. Mont ?ville, died at local hospital from njuries when car hit buggy near ihat town. j| o Pwbyterian Church ■Services Here Sunday at Jyterian church will be resuminday m.rning, The morning lip hour was discontinued.<iurngust while the pastor was on ition. — o — an Centennial At Lake Wawasee Macuse, Sept. 4-Indiana’s India® centennial wi’l be commemorated with a three-day festival at Syraqfci . on Lake Wawasee, September 16, 17 and 18. The festival, which undoubtedly will be one of the most colorful pageants staged in Indiana in a great many years, will be held on the one hundredth anniversary of the# day the Indians turned over their final tracts of land to the federaEndian commissioners. This historic event has created national atienpin and will focus the eyes of tließiation on the Hoosier state. 9 <> — Temperature readings DEMOCRAT THERMOMETER a. m 78 10 00 a. in 77 !■§( 00 a. m. 78 WEATHER tv ostly cloudy, local thunder•lowers probable south portion tfnight and Sunday; Cooler Central and north tonight and ■kith portion Sunday; Monday ntostly cloudy, showers extreme »|uth.

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LOCAL LEGION , MAN IS NAMED ‘ J. Henry Faurote Is Named District ViceCommander J. Henry Faurote, past command- I er of Adams Post No. 43. American Legion and active worker of the organization, has been named vicecommander of the southern section ’ of th fourth district of American - Legion posts. The appointment was made Fri- ! day night by W. Curl Graham, dls- , trict commander, at a meeting in r Fort Wayne attended by approximately 200 World War vets. The membership chairman for Adams county was also named by ! the district commander. Edgar (Deacon) Yoder of Berne will serve in this capacity. Waldo Grimm, of Garrett, will serve as district mem- . bership chairman. The appbintments were made for I the fiscal year of 1937-38. In addition U■ appointing membership chiarmen for all posts in ’ the fourth district. Commander Graham also announced the Legionnaires who will have charge of fourth district Legion activities during the coming year. 0 Portland Cripple Is Killed By Auto , Portland. Ind., Sept. 4—(UP) — 1 Theodore Lyons, 43, a crippled pushcart junk collect- f. was killed 1 when struck by a car driven by James Farris. He died 10 minutes ■ after being taken to a hospital. i ■ Laundry Workers Still On Strike Lafayette, Ind., Sept. 4—(UP) — ’ Efforts continued today to effect a settl ment of a walkout six days ago by 4>) truck drivers represent- ’ ing eight laundries. Yesterday at the Point ’ laundry plant, all employes went on strike. Meanwhile about 20 lumber truck drivers returned to work yesterday following mediation conferI ences. STATE FAIR IS OPENED TODAY Indiana’s Annual State Fair Opens This Morning - Indianapolis, Ind.. Sept. 4 —(UP) —The gates of Indiana’s colorful and educational spectacle, the 85th annual state fair, swung open at 6 a. m. today to admit the vangard of an army of fairgoers which is ex1 pected to exceed last year’s iecordbreaking thn >tg of 365,961. Opening day of the six-day exposition will honor 25,000 4-II club . boys and girls throughout Indiana Approximately 250 members are enrolled at the 4-H club boys camp located on the fairgrounds. Fair officials rep.i t the camp enrollment is the largest in several years. More than 100 former students of the state fair home economics school will attend the alumnae I luncheon at noon today in the women's building dining hall. Guest speaker will be Mrs. Guy Collins, first member of the school to receive a scholarship to Purdue University after the unit wae founded ; in 1919. Lulu Bee'e, feminine member of the radio t ain. Lulu Belle and j Scotty, headlined the entertainers last night at a dinner given by students of the economic school in honor of Governor and Mrs. Townsend, lieutenant governor and Mrs. Henry F. Schricker, and members of the state board of agriculture. The governor will dedicate the new horse and saddle barn at the exposition tomorr-wv. In lieu of a bottle of champaign, the Governor will dedicate the structure by breaking an ear of corn, posaibly the 'ongest in the state. A total of 272 j entries have filled up the 202 stalls ’ in the new barn and part of the old structure ha<s been pressed into service to nut the overflow. o Woman Banker Held For Grand Larceny Anderson, Ind., Sept. 4. —<U.R> — Miss Elizabeth Thomas, 38, head of the savings department of the Anderson Banking company for 10 j years, was held today for arraignment Tuesday on an affidavit filed yesterday by Sheldon B. Cooper, cashier of the bank, in which she is charged with grand larceny in connection with the alleged theft of $19,000. Cooper alleged the theft was made over a period of five years, that it was discovered while Miss Thomas was on vacation. Judge R. C. Smith set bond at $3,000.

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When Japanese marines and supporting troops in- I vaded Shanghai, Japanese residents of the city en- , ' listed as volunteers to aid in erecting sandbag bar- I

BENDIX FLIGHT RECORD IS SET Frank Fuller, Jr.. Flies Coast To Coast In Less Than 10 Hours Municipal Airport, Cleveland. Sept. 4.— (U.R) —Frank W. Fuller, Jr., San Francisco sportsman-flyer, shot his low wing Seversky Fighter across the continent Friday to set a new Bendix trophy record and win $13,000 prize money in the opening event of the 1937 national air races. Fuller paced six other Bendix flyers into Cleveland. He dipped over Municipal airport 7 hours. 54 min- >, ulea and 2.6 seconds after leaving Union Air terminal in Los Angeles and continued on to Bendix. N. J., to break the mark set by Col. Ros- , coe Turner in 1934. The second crash in 24 hours oc- , curred shortly after the announcement of Fuller's record-shattering performance. Count Otto Hageni burg, of Germany, internationally famous acrobatic pilot, cracked up his Buecker pursuit plane as he was flying inverted four feet above , the turf in trout of the grandstands. The count stepped grinning from the wreckage. He went to the stands and announced that he would try to borrow a plane and continue his stunt-flying exhibition.! Tlie accident occurred when a whig corner of his German-built ship ripped into the grass. Fuller, spanning the nation at a 260-mile-per-hour clip, was clocked unofficially at the eastern finish in 9 hours. 36 minutes. He will collect $9,000 as winner of the Los Angeles-Cleveland race, $2,500 for breaking Turner's record, and sl.500 for the fastest time in the added dash to the east coast. Earl Ort man of Los Angeles, took $5,000 second-place money in the Bendix race. His elapsed time was 9 hours, 49 minutes, 21 seconds. Other Bendix winners, their prize' money and elapsed times were: Jacqueline Cochran, New York, $3,000 —10:29:33; Milo Burcham, Los Angeles, $1,000—11:03:59 Earl C. Sundorph. Cleveland, was in sixth , place with an elapsed time "of 12:17:08. I Miss Cochran, pretty brunette flyer, was the first to arrive from I the west coast. She took off for Bendix, N. J., but turned back bei cause of unfavorable weather con-, ditions. o Decatur Young Man To Jackson, Mich. Ronald Parrish, well known local ] young man, has accepted a position ] with the Michigan inspection buri eau in Jackson, Michigan, it was announced today. Mr. Parrish, son cf Mr. and Mrs. 1 John R. Parrish, is a graduate of the Decatur high school. Since graduation he has been employed at the LaFountaine handle factory here. He wi'l leave on Labor Day : for Jackson. o Milwaukee Man Is Killed On Highway Plymouth, Ind., Sept. 4 —(U.R) — Tony Tesak, 50, Milwaukee, Wis. was killed Instantly last night when struck by an automobile driven by A. C. Smith, South Bend, Ind., while walking along U. S. higjiway 31, near here.

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Decatur, Indiana, Saturday, September 1, 1937.

1 • r- | Man Once Thought Missing Visits Here Morris Steele, former Decatur resident, who was the object of an j intensive search when he suddenly disappeared last March, returned hero yesterday for a visit. When Morris failed to show tip nt his usual visiting places last i March, friends asked police to I aid in the search. After several 1 weeks of intensive investigation it was learned that the well known Decatur man had decided to move temporarily to Michigan. It will be recalled that blood stains on a county by-road at the I time of his disappearance for some time caused an added alarm. The stains later proved to be those left when a farmer killed a dog. TWO BUILDINGS ORDERED RAZED Two Residences On Kekionga Street To Be Demolished — The two old houses on the south end of Kekionga stieet are to be torn down by the owner. Dynois .Schmitt, in compliance with a request issued yesterday from the offices of Clem Smith, state fire marshal’. Mr. Schmitt, after an Inspection was made by the state department, decid d to raze the buildings when ' they weer declared to be in a dilapidated condition, creating a fire] hazard. He indicated that he would sell the places for lumber at auc- I tion. 1 The two homes, located on the! west side of Kekionga street, have ] been known for years as the “bee- ■ hives” because -J their appearance | : They were built about 50 years ago. it is reported, when a group of busi- ' nes« men banded together to fur- | nislt a location for a proposed rail-1 ■ road project. When the project fail- . 'ed to materialize, Mr. Schmitt! bought the homes and moved them , to their present location. They have been standing there for about 25 years. Notice was serv- i ed to the occupants yesterday by | local fire chief. Charles Robenold. : , Ten persons live in the '<ie home | and two in the other. I The action is generally commended. since it will remove one of the "eyesores” in the city. New homes being built near that section of the l I city are steadily enhancing the I | beauty of the south part of tewn. Plaintiff Fails To .Appear At Trial A reckless driving suit against ! Fred Engle was not held this morn- ] iifg at 10 o'clock in the justice of, peace court before John T. Ke’ly, .due to the failure of the complaining witness, Walter Gladfelter, to appear. The affidavit was signed by ] Mr. Gladfelter. as the result of an automobile ajlision of the intersection of Third and Madison' streets a few weeks ago. 0 Prowler Is Reported Again Friday Night Prowlers evidently are becoming: careless about choosing homes | which they try to enter. Among] others, city police were called to. the residence of Floyd R. Hunter, state excise officer, last night. I when he reported an intruder at. his home.

I ricadee in strategic points Io cover landing parties from the barrage laid down by Chinese batteries I along the shores of the Whangpoo river.

APPOINTMENT IS NOT MADE No Appointment Made As Yet For Decatur Postmaster No word has yet been received here on the result of the grading by the civil service commission of the applications for the office of postmaster of Decatur. The dos-, ing date for receiving these was August 31. Only three applications were received at the Decatur postoffice, although others may have been . forwarded to the United States civil service commission at Washington. D. C. The applications are graded by the civil service commission on an | executive order signed by PresiI dent Roosevelt. July 20. to furnish ' a basis for making appointmentr However, the appointment of a postmaster here does not come under civil service. The applications are graded 20: per cent on education and training and SO per cent on business exper- ■ I ience and fitness, with some prei ference being given war veterans. . their wives and widows. Due to the fact that information I contained in the applications are] l subject to corroboration, it may , lie some time before the announce ; ' ment is made as to the appointment. Mrs Lola Macklin is now acting] ] postmaster succeeding her hus--1 band. Phil O. Macklin, who died [ suddenly several weeks ago. BLUFFTON HOST i TO BOY SCOUTS Fall Roundup Will Be Held At Bluffton September 18 | Bluffton will be host to hundreds of Boy Scouts and Scout leaders | when the city will be the site of a | fall roundup on Saturday, Septemi her 18. | Announcement of the roundup, jan innovation in Scouting in this section, was made today by Charles F. Gruenert, newly appointed field executive for the Anthony I Wayne area. | A basket lunch is planned for I the Scouts as well as recreaation. I and training. | Scouts at the roundup will inI elude those from troops in Adams, Wells. Jay and Huntington coun-■ i ties. Two troops at Berne have been newly organized and these! : are expected to take an important ! part in the roundup, he stated. Mr. Gruenert is now traveling in I this area, making plans for the ] event. Decatur troops have been | I extended a cordial invitation to ! the affair. Final plans will be an-I | nounced later, he stated. Jimmy Holthouse Is Bitten By Dog Jimmy Holthouse, son Mayor ] and Mrs. Arthur R. Holthouse, was bitten yesterday by a large collie | I dog. The dog, which bit him on the ■ right leg, is being observed to de- ! j termine whether he is afflicted : j with rabies. After treatment by a l' ] local physician, Jimmy is able to be . ■ I up and around. |'

RESIDENTS OF CITYPLANTO ENJOY HOLIDAY Labor Day To Mark Third Double Holiday Os The Year Decatur and community today prepared to appropriately celebrate its third two-day holiday ot I the year before settling down to ( school work and routine fall laI hors. While no official celebration is planned, hundreds of residents are expecled to take Labor Day vacations seeking enjoyment at lake ; collages and other summer resorts in a final fling at summer plea i , sures. Tuesday morning, both rural and city schools in Adams county i will start the 1937-38 term con ! tinuing for nine months. Pupils in I I rural schools met Friday in a pre-1 liminary opening. Practically all business in the ; city will lie suspended as employer ' i and employe take advantage of i the holiday. Several meat mar! - j ! ets and groceries will be open I ; until 10 o'< lock on Labor Day Restaurants, beer parlors and simi liar stores will be the only ones open for business. Theaters will offer I special programs, with matinees, Monday afternoon. J No mail deliveries will be made,! the Democrat will not publish a I paper on that day, and the First State Bank and public library will ‘ close all day. Drug stores will be open until noon to take care of children seel-. : ing school supplies. Due to the continuing hot weath- ; or, officials have decided to keep j the municipal swimming pool open ' over the holiday to permit those ; who cannot get to the lakes to enjoy bathing here. Despite sb owe r s today, the I weatherman gave hopes of a pleasant holiday by predicting fair and ' moderate temperatures for Sunday > FORMAL OFFER f I NOT RECEIVED Decatur School Board Has Not Received Formal Oller Os Grant The Decatur school board has not yet received the formal offer from the United States government for a PWA grant of $110,045,! towards the building of the proposed Junior-Senior high school. Press dispatches ot August 17, | carried the announcement that Decatur was one of several Indiana towns to receive a grant for a school building. The grant was announced at $110,045, which is 45 percent of the total estimated cost of the new building. The project, as prepared by Architect A. M. Strauss of Fort Wayne, included rooms for the school and an auditorium. A revis|ed set of plans was submitted to the PWA due to high construction costs at the time the application ! was filed. I The regular procedure is for the federal government to send a form- ! al offer of the grant to the governmental unit asking for federal aid in the construction of public buildings. This notice is expected in the ! near future and in all probability the grant will be accepted by the school board. Ira Fuhrman, president of the board, has been designated as agent for the board. The civil city will be asked to unI derwrite a bond issue of $50,000 for ! the school building, the law per-j ; mitting a town the size of Decatur , ! to participate in the construction of a school to that amount. It is planned to erect the pro-! ■ posed building on the Central t building site, between Third and i , Fourth streets, facing Jefferso'n street. 0 Report More Deaths Os Infantile Paralysis Chicago. Sept. 4.— (U.R) —Addi- ! tional deaths from infantile paral ! j ysis were reported in two cities I ■ today as Chicago health officials appealed to survivors of the disease to donate blood for convales- ■ cent serum. Three deaths were reported in : Toronto and two in Chicago. Dr. Herman Bundesen, president of the Chicago board of health, i said 14 new cases were reported i in Chicago today and that this fig- < ure was a new high for this year. I Twenty-two other persons in Chicago were suspected of having the' i i disease, he said.

Capt. Matt Leach Is Fired As Head Of State Police

JAPANESE RUSH MORE SOLDIERS TO WAR AREA Halted By Chinese Resistance, Japanese Rush Reinforcements By H. R. Ekins (Copyright 1937 by UP.) Shanghai, Sept. 4. (U.R> -Japan, l her vaunted war machine halted I iby a history-making Chinese re-1 sistance. rushed a new army to' , Shanghai today in a desperate es- 1 1 fort to capture the city quickly and i restore her tarnished prestige. Chinese intelligence operatives advised the high command that 49 Japanese transports, heavily load- i I ed with troop reinforcements and munitions, had arrived off Woo-! sung at the mouth of the WhangI poo river during the morning. It was reported” that the reinforcements included at least two divisions of infantry on full war footing—meaning a minimum troop strength, if true, of from 40,000 to 50,000 men. Out among the smouldering vil- ! lages north of the city China s ill- 1 armed boys and men had stopped I the trained automatons of the Jap-| , anese army in their tracks. In the city, Chinese artillery batteries still smashed at the battered Japanese strongholds in Hongkew. There was evidence that so ent- , barrassing was the unexpected ferocity of the Chinese defense that the Japanese had altered their entire tactical plan. First, warships were sent down to the mouth of the Whangpoo and 1 around into the Yangtze to try again to blast the stubborn Chin-i ese from where they have held l back the Japanese all week. Secondly, and more important, for the first time since the battle of Shanghai began four weeks ago the Japanese army landed men in the Shanghai sector proper — evidence that the navy lines were crumpling and that immediate reinforcement was necessary. A battalion ot picked infantrymen, backed by three tanks and three batteries of field artillery, landed under cover of a warship barrage at the Japanese docks on the waterfront of Hongkew. Through an official spokesman Japanese army and navy authorities announced that they might ! “retaliate" for the smashing Chinese artillery fire that was being directed from the Pootung section. Hastening to say that the Pootung bombardment would not delay the Japanese offensive —which apparently has been almost at a standstill for three days — the spokesman added that only about 5,000 Chinese were in the Pootung section. The American, British and French naval commanders-in-chief and consul generals held a secret conference today at the American consulate general. After the conference, it was understood, Admiral Harry E. Yarnell, the American commander in chief, invited Admiral Kiyoshi Hasegawa to visit him on his flagship Augusta. Hasegawa's reply was unknown. | It was believed certain that the I secret meeting concerned the urgent danger to which foreigners in Shanghai, and foreign warships, have been subjected by the new phase of the battle. Today, as yesterday, shrapnel I i shells were bursting all over the ! sky above the international settle- ! ment. There were many minor i casualties. Two Farms Sold To Satisfy School Loan The 78% acre Eli Myers farm in Blue Creek township was sold to Fidencio Avino, a Mexican, this morning by County Auditor John W. Tyndall to satisfy a school fund loan. The farm has no house but has a barn, corn crib and well. The J. R. Kerr farm of 40 acres was sold for the same reason this morning to Alva C. Jones for sl,710. It has no buildings. A sheriff’s sale is being continued this afternoon to satisfy a mortgage and costs of $5,171.99. It consists of 80 acres located in St. Mary's township. It was owned by Ben W. Teeple and the mortgage is held by the Union Central Life Insurance company.

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Indiana Police Head Is Fired At Request Os Federal Bureau Os Investigation. NO COOPERATION Indianapolis, Ind , Sept. 4 lll.P.) I — Matt Leach, famed captain of ' Indiana's state police, was fired today at the request of J Edgar Hoover, head of the federal bureau of investigation at Washington, the state police board announced today. Leach's failure to cooperate with , the federal department of justice I in the limit for the notorious Brady gang of killers, was described as the reason for his dismissal. Don Stiver, state safety director and head of the police force, said that Hoover sent two of his agents here to complain that Leach was 1 not cooperating with the federal government and t 0 assert that :he federal bureau was severing its relations with the state police in the Brady case. Stiver said that the state law specifically enjoined the state police cooperate with all law entor- : ring agencies and that Leach was dismissed at a state board meeting last night on complaint of Hoover. Leach will be succeeded by Lieutenant Walter Eckert of Osgood. ' who has been head of the Seymour I and Rushville district, according to Stiver. Leach was outraged at the action of Hie board, even though Stiver said the board would have a fall j hearing into the affair and give Leach a chance to explain his posi- ■ tion. “During the investigation of the Brady case," Leach said, "the Indiana state police contacted assotiates of Al Brady, the gang leader, in an effort to get information aj bout his whereabouts.” I "These police were informed by Brady s associates that they had been instructed by the federal bureau of investigation to tell the Indiana state police nothing about Brady. “This prompted me to criticize openly the methods and behavior of the FBI in this case and the lack of their cooperation with the slate police.” Leach said that he considered the police board action as “most unjust" and that he would demand that he be given a hearing to defend himself. Gov. M. Clifford Townsend and his executive secretary, Dick Heller, both were out of the city. Leach’s dismissal created a positive furore in the state house where he has been a favorite ever since his appointment by Gov. Paul V. McNutt in 1933. He was reappointed by Townsend and was thought to be in no danger politically. Leach not only was an interesting character but was regarded as one of the most competent detectives in the middlewest, with the natural police mind. He was a member of the Gary police before joining the state board when McNutt organized the department. Leach recently solved the famed "head and hand” slaying of Harry Miller, retired Cincinnati fire captain, and sent three men to the electric chair ! last June with a fourth still await- | ing execution. He solved the mysterious murder of Wilbur Bright, Indianapolis druggist, and two youths who killI ed him now are awaiting capitol punishment. He had been instrumental in solving innumerable lesser crimes. Leach was known to have had no love for federal agents after his experiences with them during the famed chase after John Dillinger “sprung" his gang in the famous Michigan City jail break in 1933. Leach was instrumental in the capture of some of the Dillinger hoodlums and several times was known to have been on the verge of taking Dillinger himself in Indiana. only to have that famed outlaw elude traps. ———o Evansville Plant Strike Is Settled Evansville, Ind., Sept. 4—(U.R) — Approximately 100 employes of the Monitor Furniture Co., returned to work today after a two-week strike was settled yesterday. A committee for industrial organization leader said the company had recognized the furniture workers union as sole bargaining agent and promised to adjust “inequality in wages and working hours.”