Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 35, Number 227, Decatur, Adams County, 25 September 1937 — Page 1

L\\W. No. 227.

.monos fc SCHROCK fclll SERIOUS B ri .j Berne Man Still Nussbaum I I Kites Sunday was ci'lUeally la « 13 ,illil,g mF ,1 |,a I' 1 ■■I'll*"" - I’" 1 • 11 ar i. juried as a little i k <.■:■ .1 l.v fractured i sll, " k i "“ l was | ; tltll'k after ral services fol' Victor . , old Amish I II th.- trio k. fur' 1 crash -<l into r was riding, "ill be Sunday At ~„ will be 11 dd at jM,... al 2 30 o'clock at .. , »:a:> church Burhas revealed that SjBL ,v di d of a fractured skull ;„„k. n neck He also suf- ( .fractures above low ill-' right knee and I . dualed that Xoah ~ w. H known Herne conwas driving th.- truck, absolred of lilame for the ■ ■ accident. injured it has been ■|,, L■: is a member of the re-1 Kg!, om Alabama, whose p.-, them from smiling - in the county on a s . first of the month family recently given pul newspapers and Mg because of their I customs. . ■ .. . k. a son of Noah. Li-Vi Schrock, a nephew, j B-w - d unhurt in the crash. ■£ 15 Violent Deaths ’irpi ec.-dented heights ell-iibiug. Adams county's death toll has reached a of !.'■ since the first of the drains within less than a has occasioned this latest : Tin- death of Victor Nuss ■ tat killed yesterday on his biwhile enroute home after a ■■lAWi'IM-ED ON PAGE SIX) W ' O' For Berne I Annual Is Listed p» e staff for the "Budget." annual announced. The members follows: editor. Vera Baumassistant < ditor. Pauline literary reporter. MarMichaud: athletic reporter. ■Mutd Lehman; s fence reporter. ■ ■neth uensch wander; comreporter, Har Id Allspaw: r.-iLO-ter, Mary Ellen Diesen; reporter, James Beitler; i . reporter, Frances Aeschlijunior high reporter, Jean ) elementary reporter, ; IBtih-::-. Brann and senior reportjjjgjjKathryn Nussbaum. Lehman has been elected class president of the school i‘WF er officers are: Kathryn NussI^S ni - ' ice-president; Kenneth hwander, secretary and LeLehman, treasurer. |kf MAN KILLED I|IH auto crash ■ichigan Man Killed In ■-rash South Os Geneva This Morning ■One man was killed and another! ■piously injured in a truck-auto) south of Geneva early this ■ P °n Tullis, 21. 410 Fourth street, Rivers, Michigan, driver of) car, was killed instantly when large semi-trailer truck and his collided. ■■John J. Doremis, 26, also of Mtree Rivers, is confined to the county hospital at Portland in condition, suffering from ■ skull fracture. ■Tom Parker. 22, 504 Riddle street, ■nclmson, driver of the truck, was ■■injured except for slight bruises. [The entire left side of the light Bjto was torn off by the collision, ■bich happened two miles south of) Beneva in Jay county at 1:30) ■clock this morning. ■ State Patrolman Burl Johnson, ■ the Indiana state police investiBated the crash. Parker told patrolman Johnson that he was ■fable to avoid the collision with B* e car, the speed of which he esti■fated at 60 miles an hour.

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GARR BROTHERS | FREE ON BOND Alleged Killers Os Gen. Denhardt Are Released On Bond Shelbyville, Ky . Sept. 25—(U.R) I —Three brothers Dr. E. S. Roy and Jack Garr accused of the ; slaying of Brig Gen. Henry H Denhardt out of revenge tor their dead sister, went free on bail lastJ night after tellii g In their own I words of the fata! shooting, Minutes after Judge Harry F | Walters announced his decision to admit them to bail, the three post-1 ! ed bond and walked from the tiny, sweltering courtroom where daylong witnesses had testified of •■v»”ts eii-munding the slaying. Nearly 1,000 persons, jammed into (ue tiny court room, broke Into applause and cheers as the judge announced his decision. They ignored his stern admonition for silence. Roy Garr, from whose gun the defense has admitted the fatal shots were fired, and E. S. Garr posted bonds of 120.000 each Jack i Garr posted SIO,OOO. The Garrs were the last to lie ! called to the witness stand. "I feared Denhardt," Roy Garr testified "I knew he killed my sister and I was afraid he’d kill us.” Denhardt. pudgy soldier-politi--1 clan, was killed last Monday night as he ran toward the comparative ; safety of his hotel. He crumpled dead on the hotel steps, one bullet I in his brain and two others in his : ; body. The Garrs surrendered to police immediately afterward and gave up two pistols, a 38-calibre and ' a .45. It was the eve of Denhardt’s second trial for the murder of pretty Mrs Verna Garr Taylor, sister of the Garr's and Denhardt’s fiancee. The commonwealth accused him i of murdering her because she, wished to break their engagement I “When I saw Denhardt. I saw a ) ' vision of that dead sister of mine.” j Roy Garr said. “I went to him shooting. I emptied my gun before I quit shooting." Garr said lie and hia Urwihais. came to Shelbyville to confer i with Prosecutor N. B. Kinsolving. "We had heard.” he said, "that : ! Denhardt and his attorneys were | (CONTINUED ON PAGE SIX) PREVENTION OF FIRE PLANNED Decatur To Join In Fire Prevention Week Starting October 3 The city of Decatur will join with the nation the week of October 3 to 9 this year in the boserv- ! ance of “Fire Prevention Week," 1 it was announced today. While plans have only been opened it is planned to have some special ceremonies during the) week, especially in the city schools. Fire Chief Robenold and his department state that they are nat- j 1 vrally anxious to make the week a success in this community. "Qec-, ords show how," the chief stated. I “that about 85 percent of all fires are caused by carelessness of some kind. If we can impress the citizens of the dangers of fire, we, should realize that we are render-j ing a real service to our commun- j ity. We are ready, of course, to; fight all fires that break out, but) we feel that we are doing a much ! better job if we can help prevent | the fires." Some of the common causes of | I fires as related by Chief Robenold 1 ate: faulty electric wiring, careless smoking and use of matches, | uses of inflammable liquids for home dry cleaning, and failure to ! i remove old papers and rubbish j I from buildings and premises.) “These causes can be removed; with little trouble and expense and their removal makes property and i lives safer.” the chief stated. Chief Robenold stated that the [ department is anxious to do everything possible to help make the city safe from fires, and offered to make an examination of any home or business house, where it was desired. o —- Lamp Post Knocked Over Last Evening A lamp post on North Second street near Jefferson was bow-led ■ over last evening at 6:30 o’clock; when a truck, owned by the Unit- j ed Iron & Metal company and driven by O. Bosell, of Auburn, sidesViped the post. Driving too close to the curb, the car struck the post and pulled it over.

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' Last link In the magnificent new Outer Drive along I ; the Chicago lake front is the new Outer Drive bridge, above, a structure which will be officially |

DOUBLE PARKING JAMS TRAFFIC Serious Traffic Jam Caused Here Friday By Double Parked Car A traffic jam was caused on Second street in the middle of the block between Madison and Monroe streets about 5 o'clock Friday ! afternoon, because a car was ' double parked on the east side of I the street. The driver went into a store and 1 left his car double parked. The big trucks hauling sugar beets and other freight trucks could not get through. Chief of police Sept MelLshi took charge of the situation I and a man was placed in the i double-parked car and the big ; truck back of it pushed it to the alley intersection and out of the . way of traffic. Second street is one of the busi lest thoroughfares in the country and the hauling of beets has increased the volume of traffic. The jam yesterday could have resulted. I in great damage to the passenger ! car, for if the trucks started to ] move around on the opposite side. I it would have been side-swiped. | Chief Melchi and Mayor Holt bouse made an appeal to auto owners not to double park on the street. They do not wish to make wh.»esale arrests r.nd feel that every persons who drives an automobile should be interested in seeing that the principal street in the city is kept open to traffic and made safe for travel. The heaviest traffic passes over • Second street between 10 and 121 o'clock A M. and from four to five I o'clock in the afternoon. The bel't I trucks are large and with cars double parked, it is impossible for them to get through, NEW RULES ON GCCENROLLMENT CCC Camps To Be Continued For Period Os Three Years Changes in the civilian conservation corps eligibilty regulations, ' together with the announcement of the continuation of th’e program I for three years, were received today. Recent legislation now makes it possible for unemployed young | men from non-relief homes to enroll tn the camps, although preference is given young men from i families on relief. The camps are open to young I men between the ages of 17 and 23, who are in need of employment. An opportunity is given for young men to engage in healthful outdoor life and to work 40 hours a week under the supervision of trained technical personnel. Officials of the camps attempt to pre-, pare the boys to fill private posi- | tions after their period of enlistment is expired. Educational and recreational facilities are furnished free of charge to those who participate. Food and clothing is furnished free and $5 a month for personal expenditures. A sum of $25 a ' month is sent to the families. A new six month enlistment i period has been set for October 1 ' to 31.

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Decatur Indiana, Saturday, September 25. 1937.

Rev. W. H. Werning To Speak At Conference I The Rev. W. H. Werning, pastor of Zion Lutheran church. Friedheim. will be a principal speaker at the northern Indiana pastoral I conference of the Evangelical Lutheran church. Missouri synod, to be held a Mishawaka. October .5 to 7. The Rev. Werning will deliver the sermon at the confessional service proceeding the main service of the conference on Wednesday evening, October 6. The northern Indiana pastoral conference of the Lutheran church meets annually in the fall and ini eludes 120 active ministers and professors located in the northern part of this state and part of north western Ohio, who are affiliated with the Evangelical synod of Missouri. Ohio, and other states. The Rev. I’. L. Dauuenfeldt of Fort i Wayne is the chairman of the con ference and the Rev. .1. W. Acker of Sherwood. Ohio, is the secretary. o PLAN TO ATTEND DISTRICT MEET Local Red Men To Attend District Meeting Octo- • ber 2 Members of Pocotaligo Tribe 203 j of the Improved Order of Red Men will go to Millgroves, Blackford county. Saturday. October 2, to attend a district meeting of the order. i Great Sachem A. W. Van Buskirk > 'of South Bend will be in attend-1 ance and will deliver the principal! address at the meeting. The state meeting of the Red j Men will be held in Indianapolis.: October 19 and members of the' local tribe are planning to attend. I Mat Breiner. collector of warn ■ pum of Pocotaligo tribe, stated that | | the local members had endorsed; Ed Lawson of Dunkirk for the of-! flee of Great Junior, the first step! in the ladder to the top office of J Great Sachem. Pocotaligo tribe now has about] 75 members and is one of the most j active tribes in the district. It has I acted as host to two tri-state meet-] ings during the past two years. o Friday Night Rain Brings Out Frogs Shortly after the rain Friday . night, hundreds of frogs appeared : in the streets of the city. Most of them were located in the south part I of town, although a few were seen | in the business district. This morning some dead turtles of a small size were seen in the streets. The frogs appeared under about the same circumstances as hund-' dre-ds came upon the city last year i providing a traffic hazard when I their dead bodies made the streets ! and roads slippery. o TEMPERATURE READINGS DEMOCRAT THERMOMETER 8:00 a. m 58 10:00 a. m 56 11:00 a. m 58 WEATHER Fair tonight and Sunday; cooler tonight, light frost north portion; continued cool Sunday.

I opened to the public on Oct. 5 when President I Roosevelt stops there on his return from a trans- • | continental jaunt to make an address.

LOCAL POLICE ARE KEPT BUSY Month Os September Likely To Set Record For Number Os Calls The month of September gives promise of being one of the busiest on record for the Decatur policemen, police records in the city hall reveal. With but 24 days of the month past, a total of 40 calls of a more important nature have already been answered, just two short of the highest monthly total —42 in July, this year. Accidents and the recent prow- ] ler "epidemic’’ have afforded police the biggest workout, with 12 calls each. Several other calls on prowlers were not reported. The always present drunks and drunken drivers took tbeir share , of police attention, being responsible for 10 calls. Attempted suicide occasioned for two police calls, both by the same man. A captured runaway, a dog barking at the hospital and a family quarrel, in addition to scores of other petty troubles kept the police busy. Despite all of the activity, ' nothing of a really serious nature I has occurred. The calls answered 1 by police each month, according ! to the report: January. 30; February, 29; March. 33; April. 32; May, 36; July, 42; August, 34 and September. 40. to date. o I Regular Legion Meeting Monday The regular meeting of the Am- | erican Legion will be held Monday I evening at 8 o'clock at the Legion i home, corner First and Madison i streets. All members are urged j to attend. ———o SUGAR COMPANY OPENS CAMPAIGN Annual Sugar Making Campaign Is Opened This Morning Machinery at the Central Sugar company was moving slowly this morning as the first shift of men | gave it the final tuning up and as ' the first tons of beets were being I processed in the annual fall cam- ■ paign. The plant opened this morning at 6 o'clock, with more than 8.000 tons of beets in the yards ready for processing. Tests this morning revealed that the quality of the early beets is ! better than had been anticipated. | Officials of the plant hope to I have the first sugar ready to pack for the market under the company’s trade name. Sparkling Crystal White sugar, Sunday. The plant will not operate at capacity for several days due to the annual necessity of adjusting the new and old machinery. Next week it is expected that approximately 1.400 tons of beets will be processed daily. By the first of the week the entire force of men will be at work processing and packing the sugar. Approximately 80.000 tons of beets will be processed this fall.

PRISON WARDEN IS BEATEN BY LIFER FRIDAY 100 Inmates Os Alcatraz Prison On Sit-Down Strike San Francisco, Sept. 25.—<U.R>— I A hundred .inmates of Alcatraz IsI land prison sulked in their cells today on a "sitdown strike." The penal colony seethed with unrest. Warden James B. JohnI ston was confined to his home from the effects of a beating ad- ! ministered by a life term prisoner who sprang at him from an inspeci tion line. All 280 prisoners were locked in J their quarters this morning. The crisis was expected when guards • gave the customary work calls. The recalcitrant 100 were inter- | viewed one at a time yesterday. , Each refused to go to his place in ; the‘shops and was put in a cell. All night the island remained in ' gloomy silence. Guards had no way of learning whether the con- ) victs’ tempers had changed overnight. If they refused to work to- ! day it was likely they would be put j on bread and water diets, as convicts were in a similar demonstra- , tion in anuary, 1936. Population of the prison includes the worst offenders against-the federal government — murderers, gang leaders, bank robbers and outlaws. ,It was announced that J neither Al Capone, the Chicago gangster, nor George (machine gun) Kelly, midwestern hoodlum, i who are two of the most notorious prisoners, was involved in the strike. Warden Johnston remained in I charge of the situation despite his injuries, which Dr. George Hess said were not serious. The warden said: “It appears to be an es-, fort to draw attentio* to themselves and to stampede the department of justice into giving them more privileges and paroles as at other prisons.” Only meager details of the uprising were revealed. Alcatraz prisoners are public nonentities. They ’’are held to the strictest routine. ! shut off from all news of the outside world, and rarely are their ac(CONTINUED ON PAGB.StX) O HOSPITAL MEET IS HELD HERE Miami Council Os Hospital Executives Meet Here Friday The Miami council of hospital executives held a luncheon and meeting at the Rice hotel Friday. The highlight of this meeting was prevention of any and all acI cidents in hospitals. Reports were given on the recent hospital con- ' vention held in Atlantic City. Among those present were: C. - E. Moeller and Mr. Borgman, of r the Lutheran Hospital in Fort i Wayne; Dr. E. T. Franklin and i Miss Harrison Poe, of the M. E. 1 hospital in Fort Wayne; Mrs. Minnie Prottinger of the Huntington county hospital in Huntington. Miss Olive Murphy from the Randolph county hospital in Winchester; Dr. Souder, of the Dr. < Bonnell M. Souder hospital in AuIburn; Miss Mayme Terveer. John Stults. and Miss Elizabeth Pitman, of the Adams county memorial hospital. and S. H. Sinex, of the Indiana inspection bureau of Indian- ’ apolis. Moose Lodge To Fort Wayne Tuesday r ’ | The local Moose lodge will cancel 1 the regular meeting Tuesday night 3 to permit all members to go to Fort 5 ! Wayne to attend the meeting there. Albert H. Ladner, of Philadelphia, will be the main speaker at ’ )the meeting to which local memibers } have been invited. The local lodge and club r.vomts will be closed on that night. —o Chicago Schools To > Be Reopened Monday t -— Chicago Sept. 25— (UP)— Reopen- ; ing of Chicago’s elementary schools to approximately 400,000, provided : there is no unusual rise in the pre- > I valence of infantile paralysis during ; the next 24 hours, was ordered to- : day by Dr. Herman N. Bundessn, ■ president of the Chicago beard of ■ health. Dr. Bundesen said all except kin- ■ dergarten and first grade pupils : would be permitted to return to . class Monday if week-end i eports i show a decline in the prevalence of the disease. 1

Japanese Planes Bomb Nanking And Part Os Shanghai

Pastor To Speak Rev. W. H. Werning. pastor of the Zion Lutheran church at Frledheini. will deliver one of the principal addresses at the northern Indiana pastoral conference of the Evangelical Lutheran church, to be held at Mishawaka, Oct. 5 to 7. SAFETY MEETING AT KANSAS CITY National Safety Congress To Be Held October 11 To 15 Chicago. Sept. 25—(Special) — How many drinks make a driver drunk? How fast is too fast on a highway? Why is the pedestrian called "the Vanishing American"? What can be done about night accidents? These are only a few of the hundreds of up-to-the minute safety questions that will be discussed i at the 26th national safety congress and exposition to be held in ' Kansas City. Mo., during the week of October 11 to 15. “The sessions of the street and highway traffic section,” W. H. i Cameron, managing director of the national safety council, said today, “will hold the spotlight of public interest because of the ever mount- | ing traffic death toll. But they ; will by no means overshadow in I importance the numerous sessions . on industrial safety, home safety, farm safety and others. “No phase of the accident prob- | lem has been overlooked in the preparation of the congress program. As a result, the Kansan City congress probably will attract more delegates and visitors than 1 any meeting we have held in reI cent years.” The Kansas City convention committee has made plans to handle between 7.000 and 10,000 safety delegates. Because Kansas City is located . !in one of the richest farming I belts in the world and the con-1 gross session on agricultural I safety will be the first of its type 1 ever held, an unusually large farm delegation is expected to attend. Nationally recognized authorities on all types of safety constitute the 400 speakers who will address mord than 50 separate sessions during the week-long conclave. Important figures on the speakI ers' list include: Gov. Harold G. . Hoffman, of New Jersey; Paul G. Hoffman. South Bend. Ind., president of the Studebaker Corporation; Dr. C. H. Watson, New York City, president of the National Safety Council and medical direcj tor of the American Telephone & I Telegraph company; Capt. E. V. ! Rickenbacker, New York City, | World War flying ace and general [ manager of Eastern Air Lines; F. L. Struggles, Cleveland, assistant i manager, department of safety and i personnel, Greyhound Management ; co. Harold L. Hilton, New York ' City, fleet engineer. Travelers Inj surance Co.; H. H. Kelly. Washington. D. C.. bureau of motor carriers, interstate commerce comi mission. Dr. R. R. Sayers, Washington, D. C., chief, division of industrial hygiene, national institute of health, U. S. Treasury department; Dr. H. I. Spector, assistant health commissioner of St Louis. ; R. J. Baker. New York City, ' president of the American Steamship Owners' association; Curtis W. Sloan, Kansas City, master mechanic and chief engineer, i Swift & Co.; Van B. Hunter, Chi1 (CONTINUED. ON PAOEJ SIX),

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Japanese Continue Raids From Air Despite Ail Protests From Other Nations Os World. IN CONFERENCE Shanghai, Sept 25 — (U.R) — Japanese plane fleets today bombed Nanking and the Chapei quarter of Shanghai, adjoining the International settlement. Chinese radio communiques asserted that seven Japanese planes were shot down in a morning bombardment of Nanking The radio then closed as a second air alarm was sounded at noon. Ten Chinese civilians were wounded in the international settlement as the result of a heavy airplane bombing of the Chapei quarter, on the north side of Shanghai. This seemed to be the Japanese reply to American, British, French and other foreign protests against the merciless bombing campaign which the resistance of China s army has brought upon the country. Nanking's account of the first raid said that the Japanese planes did little damage. A Japanese navy spokesman j said today of the bombing campaign: “It is very deplorable that the ' world thinks the Japanese are bombing Chinese cities indiscriminately. We are not. Chinese noncombatant casualties at Nanking are not so great as originally reported. Damage to foreign property has been very small. We repeat that we are not making war on non-combatants." The spokesman added that as the weather was clearing more yaids were due. The real extent of the bombing campaign to date was difficult to ascertain because many bombings never have been reported. But scores of cities have suffered. Jack Belden. United Press staff correspondent on his way to the northern front, arrived at the little railroad junction of Shihehithuang to find even its hospital destroyed by successive bombings —none of which even had been reported Chinese authorities announced officially today that 650 persons were killed and 750 seriously wounded in a raid on Hankow, fatup the Yangtze valley, yesterday. No count was made of those less seriously wounded. Successive air alarms at Nanking today led foreign air force experts here to believe that Japanese were bombing all along the 250mile route to Nanking. Praises Hitler Munich. Sept. 25 —<U.R' —Premier Benito Mussolini, bestowing on Fuehrer Adolf Hitler the most cherished honor he could devise, hailed Hitler today as "the herald and defender of European civilization against subversive activities." Mussolini, greeted by cheering i throngs, arrived on a state visit ' ■ ■ . I (CONTINUED ON PAGE SIX) O— — DAYLIGHT TIME ENDS TONIGHT Fort Wayne, Other Cities To Return To Standard Time Decatur and community will be { but little affected by the change of 1 Fort Wayne and several other metropolitan cities from daylight c savings to central standard time ' tonight at midnight. Shoppers and visitors to Fort 1 Wayne will be granted an extra ' .hour to get to Fort Wayne before 1 closing of stores and business ' houses. 1 Bus and train schedules will be affected by the change. The early ’ morning bus to Fort Wayne, which, has been, leaving at 6 o’clock, standard time, will leave at 7 o’clock. Two train times on the Pennsylvania will be changed. The northbound, formerly arriving here at 11:37 o’clock in tjie morning will arrive at 12:11 p. m. The southbound, formerly arriving at 3:33 ' p. m. will arrive at 3:03 p. m. The north and south bound night trains ’ will continue to arrive at 1:40 a. m. Workers will be but little af- ' fected. At the General Electric factory where members of the of- ’ fice force have been going on dayi light time, clocks will be turned back.