Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 35, Number 241, Decatur, Adams County, 12 October 1937 — Page 1

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BRADY GANGSTERS ARE SLAIN at a.i -■— ' ~ * — "'■ — ' ' ■""— ' "" * lm " ’ '... *

Swish Embassy jars Are Attacked From Air Today

vHpants Os Three Carsi ■F‘Capv Injuries When to H K tll - M;iihine-(.mined Vrplane. « '■'"'l kI.EGED JAPS x '■k« h - li ' 1,1 ’ lU,R) ~ An air ‘ 4|\ ..i.biiH’ gun \./Ke Nanking I six " " .■ I’.iitish ambas Chit..i ■ I crisis U „t ill til'' cars was exI ... , th.■jX 111 British minds \ "•' 1,1 ' ht ' ~mbasß> ’ \ , which attack had been identified 1B '* " ~ lllal t,,< ' B,ilisll "I.- ' ■ |^K 2 — of the - •; I"' ton.orrow <■ ■ ■ Ce orge Muri/y -■ a COR- • Id the United Press ■ ,<sy cars left NanHlg i 41" a m The drive was lie raid, until as the .! Shanghai, not far from the airplane appeared. that the plane was attack. Braham said, all Hmlrs of the party left the ■rs :id scattered to fields on said of the road as the overhead. )■ 0* bullet, members of the i t>. • ■ 'rated a window oft :■ did Britain call the dangerous incident S ■seisitattri by a Japanese airattack on the automobile in Sir Huge Knatchbnll fluges■e. i di ambassador to China.! ■WBiiviug - along the same from Nanking to Shanghai ■ anust 26. C. was gravely wounded, ■l arrived a' Manila October 8 K ■ ■ way to the Philippine mounrecuperate. attack on the British eracars overshadowed not Only arfw rtvag. fighting on the Shang__JW f Inn a second important «as allotment by NelMr' I h ison, American atni-as-to < liina. of SIOO,OOO appro■~lai' by the American Red , to Chinese relief. allocated $40,000 to mi r among other areas. I ’ I Anterircan Consul GenE. Gauss to take ' of the distrilmtipn of the allotment. Gauss at once ■tai' as an advisory committee ■«S IXTWI CM lOCV, FOUR) !■ — — o »_ . H| hool Students { I Give Favors To I Local Hospital ■ h a view towards hrlghtning II Sg hours which a patient must I >ti bed. the 21 ipupils of the I ins school of Monroeville and fl teacher, Mrs. Mildred Van ■ have “adopted” the Adams By memorial hospital for the ■1 year. flt- school plans V» make favors Bighten and add to the attracfl ' of the hospital trays. The ■gift box was presented Mon■evi‘Hng. it contained clever Bhipe outlined Ih black in comBrat ion of Discovery Day. The ■of the ship held a s f lck of ■ Each ship bore the dates 1492 ■937. Ten dozen joke cards and ■sons were also included In the •ox, 5' entire personnel of the hos■is very grateful for pt-e clever ■and wishes to express thanks B>e Interest and effort of the

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U.S.GONSUL ASSASSINATED BY ARMENIAN .1. Theodore Marriner Is Murdered This Morning In Syria Beirut, Syria. Oct. 12.— (U.R> —JTheodore Marriner. 45. American consul’ general and one of the most brilliant members of the United States diplomatic service, was assassinated today l>y an Armenian to whom the consulate general had refused permission to visit the United States. The assassin was held on a murder charge. Police said there had been several cases of insanity in his family. Marriner, in his motor car, was driving through a narrow crooked street of the ancient city when the assassin fired from a doorway with a revolver. He died lyMarrlner's chauffeur leaped from the car and caught the assassin. Persons nearby joined him and the Armenian was beaten severely before. police arrived, rescued him and took him to prison. an investigation at once, and police in an official report said that the assassin was Nejardich Karayan, an Armenian. They timed the murder at 8:30 a. in. Karayan fired six shots, police said, and Marriner was hit in the head, breast and thigh. There was one report that Mar(CONT'NUED ON PAGE FIVE) ANNUAL DRIVE FOR MEMBERS Red Cross To Open Annual Drive For Members Armistice Day Preparations for the annual Red Cross membership drive to be conducted in Adams county, from Armistice Day until Thanksgiving were announced as complete today by Miss Annie Winnes and Wai Wemhoff. secretary and chairman of the Adams county chapter, respectively. The yearly membership fee of the Red Cross is sl. Os this ' amount 50 cents remains in the ! county for use while the other 50 ' cents goes to the national chapter for flood relief and other emergencies. Appointments of chairmen for the drive were announced by the local Red Cross heads today, Walter J. Krick, superintendent j of the Decatur city schools, will, act as chairman for the drive in Decatur. Mrs. E. W. Busche. of Monroe, will have charge of the drive in the rural districts south of the city, while Mrs. Henry Breiner will have charge of the rural district west and north. ’ In the south, Clarence Rayne of Geneva will be in charge of the drive in his home town and the three southernmost townships, while Ernest Stengel, Berne druggist, is chairman in Berne and the three next townships in line. TEMPERATURE READINGS DEMOCRAT THERMOMETER 8:00 a. m. 54 10:00 a. m. 56 Noon i 2:00 p. m. 6° 3:00 p. m. 60 WEATHER Cloudy, probably showers south portion tonight and Wednesday and north tonight; considerably cooler tonight and Central and south portions Wednesday.

Brady Gang At End Os The Trail I 5 * cRr v I 3! v jtdPR Brady Shaffer Dalhover

NATURAL GAS TO BE TURNED ON WEDNESDAY Company Lists Instructions To Be Followed During Change Refined natural gas will be turn- 1 ed into the mains of Decatur on Wednesday evening, officials of the Northern Indiana Public Service | company stated today. It is thought that two days wi'l I be required to change all of the appliances in the city, the work being done at no cost tc the consum-1 ■ -ex- i Officials of the company have issued a list on instructions to follow from the time the natural gas is turnea on Wednesday until the individual consumer's appliances have been adjusted. The directions are as follows: Do not use the oven on a gas range. The t.gi burners may be used but be careful when lighting. Turn on the burners only halfway. After ■ the burner is lighted, reduce the flame to about one inch in height. | DO NOT TURN THE VALVE | OPEN as natura' ga>s will produce too high and to hot a flame. DO NOT LEAVE gas water heaters, room or fireplace heaters BURNING Wednesday night. DO NOT USE any of these appliances until they have been adjusted. As an additional precaution keep your lu»~ne well ventilated. C. A. Stapleton, Decatur representative of the NIPS Co. stated that a specially trained corps of uniformed service men, carrying identification cards, will call at the homes as soon as poseible after Wednesday evening to adjust the appliances. The adjustment crew will work as rapid'y as possible, he stated. The company has assured everything possible will be desie to prevent any inconvenience to the consumer and asks the cooperation of individuals. Mr. Stapleton has staat"d that (CONTINUED ON PAGE FIVE) GIVE PROGRAM I OF CONVENTION Blue Creek Township Sunday School Convention Sunday Plansjfor the Sunday School convention of Blue Creek township, to be held at the Union U. B. church in that township next Sunday have been completed, members in charge stated today. The program will lhe held in the afternoon and evening at the church witk interesting entertainment and speakers at each session. During the evening, members of -the Honolulu conservatory of music from Fort Wayne, will furnish the musical portion ..f the program, with local talent fiv,m the churches appear ing in the afternoon. The committee in charge of the event is headed by Omer Merriman, president of the Blue Creek township Sunday School association, and Eldon Ford, secretary of the organization. The public has ibeen extended a cordial invitation.

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Decatur Indiana, Tuesday, October 12, 1937.

f Decatur Knights At Dedication Os Home Several Decatur Knights cf Columbus attended the dedication of the new Knights of Columbus home in Fort Wayne last evening. The new lu.ne was formerly a church. Among those from here who attended the program were Herman Jnapke, Joe Lose, James Lose, Jr„ Martin J. Mylott, Pete Miller, Herman Geimer, Francis Wertzberger. Raymond Wertzherger, Jerome J Mylott, Mark Braden. I The Fort Wayne council presented Mr. Mylott with a pipe, in recog- ■ nition of being one of the charter memmbers .4 the Decatur Knights ■of Columbus. SAFETY DRIVE i BY RED CROSS — School Students Are Enlisted In Third Annual Safety Drive To combat the sharp rise in home and farm accident rate, students in public and parochial scheo's of De- ! catur and Adams county are taking ; part in a farm and home inspection j program. School children are to be given Red Cross inspection forms and with the supervision of their parents are asked to inspect their individual homes to check on hazards. The Adams county chapter of the American Red Cross under the supervisi.»i of Wai Wemhoff. county chairman, is distributing 4.500 inspection blanks to school children of Adams county with the aid of Walter J. Krick, C. E. Striker, E. M. Webb and Sr. M. Rosemary, superintendent of the Decatur schools, the county rural schools, the Berne schools and principal of the Decatur Catholic schools, respectively. The Inspection form deals with hazards of f’oors. stairways, porches household appliances and equipment. t.*ols, toy fires, trash, i firearms, foodstuffs, poisons, garage and yard. On the reyerse side of the form are listed farm home and farm w.<rk hazards. I After the inspection has been I made the parents are asked to sign ‘a stub, which is to be torn off and [returned to the teacher. This i<s a part of the third annual ' safety drive of the Red Cross to I reduce home accidents.

Man Who Tipped Off G-Men To Brady Gang Tells Story

(Editor’s note: Store Manager ( Shep Hurd, who furnished the tip that brought about the downfall of the Brady gang today, tells here ; his own story of the case.) • By Shep Hurd (Written for the United Press) Bangor, Me., Oct. 12 — (U.R) — I was checking stock in my sport-1 ing goods store on Tuesday, the 21st of September, when two men came in and asked quietly to see some colt automatics. I noticed ‘ that their pockets bulged and that one man kept his hand in his coat pocket all the time. I showed them several guns and they finally bought two .45 1 colt automatics, three extra clips, I and a box of ammunition, which contained 50 shells. Under the law I have to report all gun sales to the police and this time I also reported to Chief |

WORLD WAR VET TAKES OWN LIFE AT CRAIGVILLE Roy Herman Deihl Commits Suicide This Morning At Craigville Roy Hermafi Delhi, 42. a veteran of the World War. committed suicide at 8 o'clock this morning at his home in Craigville by discharging a 410 gauge shot gun into his neck. His death was evidently instantaneous as the load of shot entered the head and penetrated 1 the brain. I His death was attributed to despondency over ill health. ~frnm which he had long been afflicted. • and circumstances indicated that he had carefully planned the tragedy. His two daughters had departed for school at Lancaster Center when Deihl suggested to his wife that she go to the post office less than a block from the home, to see if mail he had been expecting had arrived. In reply to her suggestion that it might do him good to get out and walk that far he said that he had not slept well during the night and did not feel like making the trip to the post office. ■ Mrs. Deihl therefore made the short trip and stated to Coroner > William Mcßride df Wells county, who was called to conduct the official investigation, that she was not absent from the house more than 10 minutes. When she returned and missed her husband she began to look for him. Her ' suspicions aroused by the odor of gunpowder, she found his lifeless ' body lying in his bedrooTfi. The discharge from the gun had made a comparatively small hole from the small sized shell but evii I (CONTINUED ON PAGE TWO) Discovery Day Observed Here I I J Flags were being displayed today in commemoration of the 445th anniversary of the founding of America by Christopher Co'umhus. Hailed as Discovery Day, the event is sometimes known as Columbus Day. The First State Bank is closed | in of the day.

Crowley what 1 considered the suspicious actions of these two customers. The chief said hq. ' would check with Washington. I heard nothing more about it I till last Tuesday when the same i two men came back and bought j another .45 automatic, another clip, and another box of bullets. When I reported this to the 1 chief, he said he had just received descriptive circulars of several wanted men from Washington. When I looked at them I spotted the one named Dalhover immed- ' lately as one of my customers, i Then I'realized that my customers ; had been DalhovA and Brady — i and police told me Brady was ! America’s public enemy No. 1. Last Friday the G-men came and we made arrangements to hide s them in the store because Dalhover and Brady, on their second i (CONTINUED ON PAGE FOUR)

Al Brady, Shaffer Are Killed In Trap At Bangor, Maine And Third Member Os Gang Caught

AFL HEADS ARE AUTHORIZED TO EXPEL UNIONS Annual Convention Authorizes Leaders To Oust Lewis Dbnver, Oct. 12. — (U.R) — American Federation of Labor leaders, armed with powers to expel insurgent unions, today opened the third i phase of their offensive against John L. Lewis by seeking to destroy his political alliances. The plan of battle was based ’ upon a thunderously approved grant of authority by the 57th annual convention, for the executive council to oust ten rebel committee for industrial organization i , unions. In adopting an aggressive plan of action, the A. F. of L. high com-j mand first asked for and received authority to deal with the rebel unions at its own discretion. Then it announced plans for a nation-wide organization campaign I centered in CIO strongholds. Today it sought to undermine I the possibility of any political or governmental aid to the insurgent organization. The resolutions committee set up the national labor relations board as the first object of attack, on the grounds that it has been prejudiced in favor of the CIO. A free-swining attack on the board was intended by convention leaders to end the alleged favoritism or lead to congression(CONTTNUED ON PAGE FIVE) DEATH CLAIMS J. E. SPANGLER Prominent Preble Township Farmer Dies At Local Hospital J. E. Spangler, 65. well known Preble township farmer and lifelong resident of Adams county, died this morning at 1:30 o'clock at the Adams county memorial hosI pital. Death was caused by heart trouble and complications. The deceased was born in Root township June 20, 1872, the son of; Jacob and Margaret Baker-Spang-ler. When but one year old his parents moved to the farm in Preble township, where he lived j until his death. He had been confined in the local hospital for three I weeks. He was a member of the Mt. I Pleasant M. E. church. Surviving, besides the widow, Mrs. Ollie Ab-1 bott-Spangler, are two brothers, the Rev. C. W. Spangler, of Bippus and the Rev. D. D. Spangler of Mishawaka; two sisters, Mrs. Mary Henschen of Kirkland township and Miss Eliza, of Preble township. Those who preceded him in death were: a first wife. Cora ' Sheets-Spangler; a second wife, j Nettie Shackley-Spangler and a , daughter by his second wife. , I Funeral services will be held . Thursday afternoon at 2 o’clock at the Mt. Pleasant M. E. church and burial will be made in the Reyn , olds cemetery. The Rev. J. W. Reynolds will officiate. The body will be returned this evening to the home, seven miles . northwest of Decatur on the river [ road, from the S. E. Black mortuI i ary and may be viewed after 7 : o'clock. i I —■° ; Suffers Fractured Shoulder At Play 1 . Leo Ulman, young son of Leo Ul--1 man, Sr., of Marshall street, is recoveting from a broken right 1 shoulder sustained in a practice ’ football game several days ago. Leo has started back to school, but is ' able to participate only in wal 1 studies.

Heads Meeting ; ■ ■ 4 "v- ■ ifli . rt-. Xafa.nV . ig ■iwiiwi, T' * V Rev. J. M. Montgomery, district I [ superintendent of the Church of I the Nazarene. will conduct the i I Northern Indiana preachers' con- ■ I vention, which will be held here i Thursday and Friday. 500mPAYERf I SIGN PETITION Petition For Bond Issues For School To Be Presented Tonight — Duplicate petitions signed l>y ap- 1 proximately 500 taxpayers of Deca-1 tor will be presented to the city school board and the city council tonight asking the raising of funds by bond issues for the construction of a PWA school house here. The city council will be asked to issue bonds totaling $50,000 and the school board approximately $90,000. The remainder of the cost I is to be raised through a govern-1 ment PWA grant of $110,045. Those who were active in the soliciting of signers to the peti-1 tions stated that time was the only limiting factor. The petitions were only available for distribution Thursday and it was necessary to limit the time for obtaining signatures because of the limitation imposed by the government on the acceptance of the federal grant. Particularly active in the obtaining of signatures were the PTA members and the civic department I of the Decatur Woman's club. It I is estimated that there are only • I approximately 1,000 property ownI ers in the city, so the petitions will have been approved by almost half of the possible signers. This morning there were 475 signers to the petitions. A preliminary meeting of the I (CONTINUBJP ON PAGE FOUR) HEARINGS ARE HELD BY BOARD I State Industrial Board Member Holds Hearings Here Today William A. Foust, of the state I industrial board, is hearing evidence this afternoen in a suit to col- [ lect workmen’s compensatirzi, brought by George Hill against the city of Decatur for permanent and partial impairment. i Hili' a’leges he sustained peri manent injuries as the result of be- • ing asphyxiated by sewer gas, Nov.- . emlber 1, 1935, in a manhole, while ’ working for the city. Evidence was also heard in a suit brought by Robert DeVore against the Krick-Tyndall Tile Mill for injuries alleged sustained Sepr tember 28, 1936. He claims he sufi sered a double hernia. Two cases • I one brought by Mine S. Habegger ■ against the Nusbaum Novelty com- : pany, and one brought by Fred Liby i i against the Meshberger B others > I Stone company were dismissed, i The final decisions are made by I the state industrial board in Indianapolis.

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Indiana Gangsters Are Trapped On Clerk’s Tip To Officers; One Agent Wounded. LONG WANTED Bangor. Me.-, Oct. 12 —(U.R) —Two Indiana gangsters — one of them the midwest's current public enemy No. I—were slaiu. another was captured and a G-man was wounded severely in a main-street ambush here today. Slain were gang-leader Al Brady, 31, and his lieutenant, Clarence Lee Shaffer Jr., 22, who had been hunted by federal agents as the outstanding members of a midwest desperado mob charged with Three Left Washington, Oct. 12. —KU.R) —The slaying of two members of the notorious Brady gang and the capture of a third today reduced to three the number of "public enemies” for whom federal rewards are outstanding. They are: The unidentified kidnap slayer of Charles Mattson. 10, Tacoma, Wash.—slo,ooo. Hugh Gant and Alva Dewey Hunt, brother-in-law and leaders of a southern bank robbery gang, SSOO each. four murders and robberies with | loot totaling more than $85,000. G-man Walter Walsh. 28, of I Washington, D. C., shot high in the i right chest, was taken to Eastern j Maine general hospital. The man captured was James I Dalhover, 30, of Madison, Ind. At the city jail authorities denied reports that Dalhover also had been shot. They said his only injuries were minor lacerations “probably received in the scuffle (CONTINUED ON PAGE SIX) ■— — 0 FIRSI UDI TO TAIKATWfiYNE Mrs. Franklin Roosevelt To Speak At Ft, Wayne November 17 Tickets for the address to be given by Mrs. Franklin Roosevelt, wife of the president, in Fort Wayne, Novemmber 17, went on sale today. Mrs. Roosevelt will appear at the ; Shrine auditorium, under the aus--1 pices of Delta Gamma chapter of Psi lota Xi. Fort Wayne. Her subject will be, "Relatkoshlp of the individual to the community.” A number of tickets have been sent to the Decatur chapter of the Psi lota Xi sorority. The balcony tickets sell for 50c, 75c and $1 The main floor tickets are $1.50. The tickets must be reserved at the Shrine box office. Many persons from this city are I planning to hear Mrs. Roosevelt. ' Audiences are captivated with her charming personality and wide j knowledge public and national I affairs. She is one of the most interesting speakers in the country and I proceeds from her radio broadcasts and lectures are donated by the First Lady of the land to charity. She contributes many thousand dollars a year to the charities supported by her. A number of the tickets have been placed on sale at the Daily Democrat .'.’flee. Reservations can also be made through Mrs. A. R. Ho'thouse. or members of the sorority, but the reserved seats must be obtained at the Shrine auditorium. o ~ . Fathers And Sons Meet Monday Night A large crowd attended the father and son meeting at the Knights .of Columbus hall last evening, Charles Miller, president of the Holy Name society, was chairman of the program. Clifford LaDcl’s, slight of hand . performer from Fort Wayne, enter- ■ i tained the fathers and sons with an ■ i interesting program. A lunch was served during the evening,