Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 35, Number 245, Decatur, Adams County, 16 October 1937 — Page 1

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IsHINGTONIS (gtISULTED IN BtLHOVER CUSF. B,„, Bandit’s Trial M u , To Bo Sot With ■ pedoral 0. *'• nil' lll'l. 1,1 1 l' J — (' *’* k",„ ■„ •Ai.siiiß-it'" li " hi > the trial Pile of jA! Indiana t»a t offieeis. §^BL t .„tatlv<’* "f Ih«‘ two law Wm. late yt stenliiy X,,, j,,i. .tiea'ion Tit* WM WH ■ " tile supera iv "" <>'•* tmtitier H' a federal stat- _ it a eapital -offense to » o’- escapli’K from Hje,,', < line against the government. iiutlmt itie* eonhl try file {H,"' . lection with the EH, email !’; al Minwas slain |BK'. of the N.i!i”iial hank last May. services for 4K. I.ee Shaffer. Jr., who fell , Brad.-. slain lelaler of the S ang. rain of bullets el G-men at Ilangor. Tuestiat a ill he held this as- . Tie of Brady, sleuth —i:d he would make ..H 1 a pauper's grave at yesterday. w :n-nt was leturned , Dalhover. who is held in o-’.ntv jail under $50,000 ; with the murit: rs. Indianapolis sergeant. .. . Marion t s • S a!'"t said an in[tending in Hancock cirwill lie nolle pressed to <■: the gangster Marion toiinty. Kemoval of |9n’.:.. tin- tlreenfield, ja! a rear ago on a change of ;-.o*si their spet--1111... escape. oft.- should determined that the federal will not 'prosecute Halthen murder indictments ahim will he pushed in Mar»’lHor Cass counties. pali e hope to obtain euethe d;min itive gangster for Be»c ’it- murder of Minneia scheduled to be ar- I ON PAGE SIX) iHi —-— Buries Sustained 8 In Kick Os Horse H M t ■ t'iy. middle-aged Ohio X farm,r is ::i ,lu> AUams county hospital suffering from re > i. • <i v-sterday when Inby a house. «, . injuries ite is suffer|H front a fractured nose and a IX' 3 aPh-r jaw. The attfiidiug BB* !< 18,1 sl 'th d today that his c» Jiwas rather bad.” accident occurred on the X taril! an I he was immediately to the local hospital. no WILL HOLD IUNCE 00126 Bcatur CVO To Sponsor Masquerade Dance At 81 School Auditorium members of the Decatur will sponsor a masquerade B*' ” at the Decatur Catholic high X'"' 1 Tuesday flight, October 26. ■‘"’as announced today by CYC) Br;™ 11 *. James Murphy, Jr. ic f°r the event will be furnXl' Jimmy Sanford and his X ‘■stra. widely known Ft. Wayne X, tlmt hus es tal>llßhed an enX, e reputa fion in this territory for fraternity and other X' : Murph y stated today that X"! prlzeß will be awarded to X best costumed, it will not be to masquerade to attend H dance. X ri , zes "if* be awarded to X 1 ' K ‘ st Masqueraded couple; $2 X‘ he best Individual and $1 to X secoil(i be st costumed individare selling for 50 cents X m CoUple ant * ma Y be secured Hm any member of the CYO or M ttle door on the night of the ■‘ c *’ Single tickets for the affair a 80 selling for 30 cents each. K mbers of the CYO hope to 6 ,be even t one of the most ■tceosfui and entertaining they ■ Ve staged.

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DESCRIPTION OF BUILDING Complete Description Os Fort Wayne Catholic School Building This week's issue of "Our Suni day Visitor," Fort Wayne Catholic diocese weekly, contains a descripj tion and picture of the new Catholic high school building to he built in that city. A. M. Strauss of Fort Wayne is I the architect, being employed by j Most Rev. Bishop John F. Noil, to design plans for the structure. Mr. Strauss is also the architect for the proposed Decatur JuniorSenior high school and is preparing final plans for the school board to file with PWA in Indianapolis. The new Catholic High School building Is to* by located at the Southwest corner of latwis and Clinton streets on property recent- j ly purchased for this purpose. The ; building will be two stories, of brick and stone construction, with completely finished basement and j because of the elevation grades on this particular property and the I incline toward the west, a large j ; portion of the basement In the, western part of the building will j virtually have a ground floor exposure. - The structure will face the north with three principal entrances on ! Lewis street, two of which will en i ter into the school portion of the ; building, and the third being the principal entrance to the gymnasium and auditorium. There will | street and on the south as well as also be school entrances on Clinton i a service entrance on the alley to I ward the west. The building will be in the form i of an open “U” facing Lewis street 1 and the location of the gymnasium is rather unique and different from most school house structures. In the average school building of this | type the gymnasium is placed in j I the rear of the building with the class rooms forming a “U" sur- j ! rounding the same. The reversal of this procedure in the new Catholic | school building not only results in a very interesting shaped structure but also makes it possible to enter directly into the gymnasium direct- j ly from the street without going j through the school building. The open court facing the front ! rather than the rear also provides direct street exposure to class rooms that otherwise would face the rear. The gymnasium housed in this center portion of the buildI ing will seat approximately 1500 I spectators (for athletic purposes) 1 and about 2000 for auditorium pur- | poses and is so arranged that it | can be used directly from the I street without any contact whatj ever through or from the school building. The locker rooms, showers, pub- ! lie rest rooms, etc., are arranged beneath the bleacher seating en--1 tirely independently of the portion I of the building. T)ie stage at the east end 60 ft. x f 2 ft. in size will provide average entertainment facilities. The ventilating and heating system for the gymnasium is entirely independent of the remainder of the building and can be operated at night when other appar- , S atus in the school building is not in use. It is the intention to provide the j gymnasium with a public address system accoustically treated ceil- | ing and other conveniences and facilities of a modern gymnasium. ' Bleacher construction will be en- | tirely of concrete and the building , throughout will be of fireproof de- ! sign. The school building portion is arranged with a "U" shaped coriidor surrounding the gymnasium ’ j and with the- various class rooms, | home rooms, etc., opening into this I corridor. Modern glass brick con-| tlnuous vertical .vir.dows light the ends of the corridors. Locker facilities for the entire student 1 body will be provided off us the ' corridors to eliminate congestion ' in ordinary locker rooms. ' The new building will embody the modern home room system whereby rooms in which students ' have their “home” station will also be used for recitations and class work There will be a total of 22 ; home rooms, and 13 recitation and lecture rooms, providing a total of , 35 rooms in the entire building. Two large laboratories with at- ' tached demonstration lecture | rooms will be provided in the basement and one on the second story. The commercial departments of ! the building will be unusually spa- ■ clous and are arranged to provide ’ for considerable expansion in this constantly growing department. The bookkeeping and typewriting , rooms will be located in the south--1 east corner of the first story and will be provided with ample stor- ’ age rooms, the typewriting room to have special accoustical ceiling. The library will be located in ! the center portion of the west \ frontage facing the open court and 1 (CONTINUED ON PAGE TWO)

Family Loyal Despite Mass Murder Charges — * -a

Despite mass murder charges against Mrs. Anna Hahn, accused of the poison deaths of two elderly : friends and suspected In several other cases, her ' husband Phillip and son Oscar remain loyally at

GERMANY FINDS MORE EMPLOYED i Chemistry Boom Is New Aid To Cierman Employment Problems i Washington. Oct. 16.--(U.fi) —Ger many's efforts to substitute domes tically manufactured synthetic products for commodities formerly imported have resulted in a labor boom in that country's chemical j Industry, the Commerce Department reports. Wages, however. 1 remain at the 1932 depression level. the report said. Employment in the German | chemical industry during May of the current year, measured in man ; hours, was 12 per cent above the record-breaking level attained in May. 1936. according to ttre~report | The number of plants in operation j ; also increased more than 2 per cent to a new high of 14,469, compared with 14.099 in 1935, the record showed. Someb ranches of the industry, particularly those engaged in the manufacture of the newer synthetics, and materials basic in the production of such products, are complaining of a shortage of professional and scientific personnel, including chemists, engineers, and physicists, it was reported. The number of wage workers and salaried employes in the German chemical industry increased 11 per cent last year, or from 421,900 to 468,480, while total disbursements for wages and salaries increaed 13 per cent to $418,440,000 from $370,000,000 in 1935, records indicated. The average income per worker j thus has riven from $876 a year, or $17.50 a week, in 1935, to SB9O, or $17.80 a week, in 1936, The income of the average worker is slightly (POVTTVP F'D ON PAOFJ STX) ROOSEVELT SON GOES TO SCHOOL i Young Bridegroom Is “Just Another Student” At College Charlottesville, N. C. Oct. 16 1 fUP) —Franklin D. Roosevelt. Jr., has buckled down to ’earn some law , at the University of Virginia, which I i he chose because it had “an awfully j l good law school.” The President’s 22-year-old a~.n, j 1 just returned from an European honeymoon with his 21-year-old bride, the former Ethel du Pont, was advised by doctors to live in a southern clime because of sinus trouble. So he chose the University of, Virginia. Franklin, Jr., and Ethel live in a six-room cvjlonial-type white stuccoed house on the outskirts of Charlottesville. They are seeking privacy, and hope to find it here. On one side of the neat bungalow is an overgrown field bordered by woods, on | the other a partly r.-.mjpleted house. Several other attractive homes are In the neighborhood. ;>3ked if he had carried his Ibride across the threshold, Franklin, Jr., replied: “I’d never heard of that custom. It’s a very old one and quaint." j The young Roosevelts have several friends here, and plan to spend three years while he delves into law and she studies domestic economy.

ONLY DAILY NEWSPAPER IN ADAMS COUNTY

Decatur, Indiana, Saturday, October 16, 1937.

Ad Gets Results, Patsv Gets Tam i *# Because the Democrat "want ads" get results Patsy Garard, young daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Robert Garad wore her trusty red tarn to the football game last night. One hour after the following ad appearjed in Friday night’s issue, Miss Garad’s tam was returned to her: "Lost—Red tam or skull cap somewhere between Central school and Worthman Field Thursday etenhig. Finder please return to Patsy Garard, 904 Monroe street." INDUSTRIAL ART TO BE FEATURE Industrial Arts Meeting A Feature Os Teachers* Institute One of the high-lights of the Northeastern Indiana Teacher’s Association. which will be held in Fort Wayne, October 21 and 22, will be the industrial arts sectional meeting. This section will meet in the auditorium of Central high school Thursday, October 21 at 1:30 p. nt. Dr. James S. Thomas, A. 8., A. M„ LL. D., President of Clarkson College of technology, Potsdam, N. Y., also president of The Chrysler Institute of engineering. Detroit, Michigan, will be the speaker. Dr. Thomas is a teacher, lecturer, traveler and author of note. His most prominent contributions are: "What the Machine Has Done to Mankind," “The Relations between Agriculture and Industry," “Culture and the Market Place." and countless magazine articles, principally in trade journals. A rare treat is in store for ev- ' eryone who will avail himself of the opportunity of hearing him. oBerne Couple Is Married 52 Years ’ Mr. and Mrs. Henry Laisure, of j Berne, on Sunday will c.-mmemor-ate their*s2nd wedding anniversary. 1 Mrs. Laisure, who before hei mar- ; riage was Elizabeth Striker is 70 | years old. Her husband is 73.

■ - Bierly Agrees With Jackson; Brides-To-Be Must Live Here

"Since the attorney general is the legal dvisor for the state, our office will from now on abide with his opinion, at least until a permanent ruling is made,” G. Kemy Bierly. county clerk, told an en- | quiring reporter today when he ■ was interviewed his stand on the I recent marriage law warning of the attorney general. "The girls in the office have been instructed not to issue licenses to those couples from out of the county, on the strength of Attorney General Orner Stokes Jacksons warning,” Mr. Bierly stated. He slated, however, that should 1 someone well known here—whose age was definitely known to be above the required limit —a concession might be granted and the license given. I “Heretofore,” he stated, “licenses ' have been given in case of neces- | slty—but only after a consultation with the circuit court judge.” Clerk Bierly, however, expressed the opinion that there was a shadow of a doubt In regard to

her side during the trial at Cincinnati. Fate of > the comely German mother is in the hands of a jury which comprises eleven women and one man. | The courtroom is crowded each day j

DELEGATES TO CYO MEETING CYO Diocesan Meeting Will Be Held At Fort Wayne Sunday Delegates who will represent the St. Mary’s parish at the first annual dloceson convention of the Catholic Youth Organiation, which will be opened Sunday morning at the Cathedral of Immaculate Conception in Fort Wayne, were named today. Every parish in the diocese will be represented at the convention i* t,y four delegates, two young men and two young women. The delegates from this city are: 1 Miss Madonna Ripberger, Miss Rosemary Miller, Harold Baker and James Murphy, president of the Decatur CYO. The theme of the convention will be “Catholic Youth and Social Ac- j tion." It marks the first tims in the history of the church that so youth--1 ful a group has been assembled; ' for the purpose of analyzing in the; light of Christian principles, such basic modern problems as peace, ' labor, education, social life, marL riage and family life. The convention will formally open at 10 o’clock Sunday morning 1 when the Most Rev. John F. Noll, ; fort Wayne bishop, will celebrate for the delegates a solemn Pontl- ' ficial high mass. The Rev. Frederick Westendorf, ' diocesan CYO director, will deliv- • er the sermon. ’ o ) • Reuben Runyon Hurt At Lima ’ Reuben Runyon. 32, son of Mr. and Mrs. Courtney Runyon of Hart* j f .rd township, is recovering from injuries sustained Thursday in an auto accident near Lima. Ohio. I He is confined in the Lima hospital with a fractured collar hone, 5 which necessitated placing him in a cast from his neck to his hips, acE cording to the report. The accident happened when a . farmer's car struck him at a lane- - highway intersection. Runyon was I pulled from his burning wrecked auto by passing motorists.

present legislation preventing the issuance of a license to a girl out of the county. “The law specifically states that a girl of Indiana must secure her license in the oeunty in which she resides,” he related, “but it does not give a ruling in regard to a girl living out of the state.” We have had some cases where girls attempted to falsify their addresses, he said, recalling one instance where a girl gave her post office address as IV',ho. a small, community near here which has no post office. A recent survey of the records in the bureau disclosed that more than 50 percent of the licenses were issued to men out of the county. The brides-to-be, of course numbered more in the county. A glance at daily newspaper stories has shown a divided opinion on whether the county clerk is to be permitted to issue licenses to those out of the state, as far as the clerks themselves are concerned.

ITALY AGREES TO WITHDRAWAL j OF HER TROOPS New Peace Hopes Fostered By Latest International Move London, Oct. 16 — (U.R) — Italy agreed today to partial withdrawal ; of “volunteers” —probably 5,000 — on both sides In the Spanish civil war and Britain and France reserved the right to freedom of action if the plan does not solve the non-intervention crisis. The program calls for a symbolic ! | withdrawal of a certain number of l volunteers and then recognition ! by Britain and France of : erent rights to both sides in Spain. The agreement was reached at a | secret meeting of the "chairman's J | sub-committee” of the non-inter-vention committee of 27 nations. Nine nations are represented on the sub-committee. ! The delegates agreed to ask ! their respective governments to ! consider a five-point program submitted by Andre Charles Corbin. French embassador. Corbin said the French government thought it ; essential to discuss the program j immediately. Lord Plymouth, British chair- j man of the committee, announced Rritain was in the fullest agreement with the plan. The French program follows: i 1. Immediate withdrawal of volunteers (the British plan was i understood to call for 5,00(1 withdrawals). 2. After a commission of observation reports that volunteers had been and were being withdrawn in a satisfactory manner certain rights which international practice grants to belligerents should then be granted. DEATH PENALTY SOUGHT IN CASE Prosecutor Brands Mrs. Hahn As Worst Kind Os Murderer Cincinnati, 0., Oct. 16 —(UP) — | Mrs. Anna Marie Hahn heard ; Prosecutor Dudley Outcalt demand lat her murder trial that she be , round “so guilty that the supreme penalty will he assessed." “This woman killed so many,” . Outcalt declared, “that there isn’t another human being like her on the face of this earth!" i) The 31-year-old former German housemaid, charged with the fatal poisoning of Jacob Wagner, 78, - showed no change of expression from the impassive mien marking three previous days in the court. She also is charged with the death by poison of George Gsell-m-n. another elderly acquaintance L fro i whom the state contends she obtained money. “I expect to show the guilt of this person without any reasonable doubt.” Outcalt told the jury of 11 1 women and one man. Outcalt’s reference to mass slay--1 ings occurred during arguments of counsel over a statement concerning “her acquaintance with other elderly gentlemen." during which i the jury was excluded. Motion Overruled Overruled in a motion to limit i the case to Wagner, Defense Attorney Joseph H. Hoodin caused a stir when he said he was "not prefOONTTNUED ON PAGE SIX) Cash Register Is Found By Foreman ’ The keen eyesight of T.'iiy Myers, section foreman on the Penn- - sylvama railroad rewarded him t doubly this week. While working - along the right of-way near Porti land, Mr. Myers saw a stretch »i where the weeds wt re hammered - down. He investigated and found a - j cash register. The register was stolt en from Thurman Ashcraft of Portland last July and on return of the , property, he was given a $5 re- . ward. ; Returning home on the gasoline t car, Mr. Myers noticed a broken rail north of Monroe which he reported immediately. o TEMPERATURE READINGS ■ ' DEMOCRAT THERMOMETER 3 | _____ 8 8:00 a. m ----- 40 b 10:00 a. m. 48 11:00 a. m. 51 , WEATHER b Cloudy, probably rain beginning b tonight or Sunday; not so cool b tonight and east and south Sunday.

Lost Purse Gets Boys In Trouble A lost pocketbook nearly caused i two local boys to get Into serious j j trouble yesterday. When a Fort ! Wayne fruit truck driver arrived I in Cincinnati Thursday night he j I found his truck tarpaulin cut and eight baskets of grapes missing. A search revealed a pocketbook j | with a local hoys name In it. Upon his return here the driver ! called police and they rounded up ! the hoy with a companion. The I I>oys after much persuasion con-1 ! vtneed the drived that they had J only hitch-hiked a ride from Fort Wayne to Decatur on the rear of j i the truck and did not steal the i grapes. HEW DEAL WILL MEET ITS TEST Empire State To Be Indicator Os Political Fortunes Albany, N. Y., Oct. 16 —<U.R) — New York voters go to the polls in November in an election to point . the trend of the political winds in | President Roosevelt's home state for the first time since the last 1 presidential balloting. The state's thousands of voters [ will elect the 1938 assembly, lower j house of the legislature, and delegates to the constitutional Conveni tion, created to revise New $ ork s ponderous constitution. Democratic and Republican state and national leaders, fresh from i party assemblages, have accepted I the challenge of the other to make | the new deal a chief issue at the t i polls. Court Issue Injected Republicans were first to inject national issues into the fall political campaigns. They already have thrust Mr. Roosevelt's supreme j court reorganization program forward as their major stump topic. Democrats, however, were quick I to accept the Republican chali lenge. Postmaster General James A. Farley met the Republican thrust at a Democratic rally in j Niagara Falls. Farley, Demo- '| cratic state and national chairman, told the party pow wow that the i j national and state administrations j j were working in close cooperation : "for the betterment of the people as a whole.” Republicans controlled the po-j litically important assembly last I year by a slender margin. They undoubtedly w-ould seize upon another assembly victory as a distinct blow at the new deal by the president’s own state. Convention Fight Foremost The campaign for control of the constitutional convention promises to overshadow the assembly fight. Democrats, who already are predicting they will win a majority of delegates to the convention admittedly stand little chance of winning control of the lower house. Sen. Robert F. Wagner of New York heads the new deal slate of Democratic candidates for the j convention, which faces action on , a maze of subjects, including the 1 drive for legislation of pari-mutual betting at race tracks. With Gov. Herbert H. Lehman almost certain to retire at the end lof his term, the present cam- j ' 1 paigns are the forerunner of the j . gubernatorial fighting that is to ] ■ come next year. l 0 DETROIT STARTS HOMES PROJECT 100 Low-Cost Houses Being Built To Lower 1 Relief Costs '! Detroit, Oct. 16—(U.R)—One hun- ' 1 dred low-cost houses will be built 1 : in this city to house some welfare : J dependants in a scheme which may ' | pave the way for a substantial re--1 i duction in the relief budget. ' ! To he constructed of salvaged 1 material, the homes will cost only ' | $1,200 if WPA labor is used. ‘ ; Should the project he carried out ‘ | with skilled labor, each home * | would cost about $1,600, it was i estimated by Laurence G. Len'ihardt. public works commissioner. An appropriation of $250,000 1 will be requested for the entire | group of dwellings, and opinion is ; general that the actual expense of the plan will he substantially less than this figure. The model for the homes to be used was built by Jan Schmedding, public works official. It Is a brick, single story and basement house, with bathroom and kitchen. The council chose this plan of reducing Detroit’s welfare expenses over another which would have utilized obsolete street cars, (CONTINUED ON FAGB SIX).

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SIGNATORIES WILL MEET AS BATTLE RAGES Belgian To Be Host To Meeting Os World Powers Soon ■ ■ Washington. D. C., Oct. 16—(U.R) I —Secretary of State Cordell Hull announced today the United States government's acceptance of an invitation to attend the meeting of the nine-power pact signatories at Brussels, October 30. Hull said that the United States would be represented by Norman H. Davis, American ambassador at large. The invitation to attend the meeting of the treaty stgna- ! tories with a view to endlug the undeclared Slno-Japanese war, was received from the Belgian govern- ■ ment today. This government is accepting the invitation from the Belgian government, and is designating as its delegate Mr. Norman H. Davis, Hull announced. Davis, with his advisors, is exi peeted to sail for Brussels the | middle of next week. Signatories j of the nine power pact agreed to i guarantee the territorial and po- ■ litical integrity of China. Davis will have as his advisors. Dr. Stanley Hornbeck. far Eastern advisor to the secretary: Dr. Pierpout Maffat. chief of the European division of the department of slate; Robert T. Pell, press officer and Charles E. Bohlen, secretary of the delegation. Battle Continues Shanghai, China, Oct. 16 —(U.R)— Chinese sources said today that Japanese shock troops had been thrown back with heavy losses in drives on two key points of the Shanghai front and that their offensive in northwest China was dragging. Japanese troops tried to force S their way across Woosung Creek, |it was asserted, in an effort to i take the village of Miaohang. Not only were they thrown hack, the j Chinese said, but in addition to heavy casualties lost more than 20 i machine guns and 100 rifles. It was admitted that Chinese as \ well as Japanese losses were severe in a hand to hand fight at I Chuchiache, where the Japanese (CONTINUED ON PAGE SIX) BODIES FOUND IN AUTOMOBILE Old Murder Admitted By Man After Bodies Are Found North Arlington, N. J., Oct. 16. —• (U.R) —Paul Dwyer, 18, who was arrested because of a hole in his j shoe, confessed today that he had ! committed a fantastic hammer murder which cost the lives of ait elderly country doctor and his wife hut netted Dwyer less than S3OO i loot. The victims were Dr. J. G. Lit- : tlefield and his wife of Mt. Paris, 1 Maine. Dwyer was part time ! chauffeur for the couple. The Lit- | tlefield family auto played an irnj portant part in the chain of events that made up one of the strangest murder cases investigated by j metropolitan police in recent years. North Arlington, N. J.. Oct. 16.— (tU,R> —Police stopped an automobile today and found therein the bodies of a man and a woman. The driV- ' er said that he had murdered them in South Paris, Me.—The man on (CONTINUED ON PAGE SIX) 0 — No Objections Are Filed With Auditor ■ I No objections or remonstrances were filed against the tax levies, and budgets approved several • weeks ago by the tax adjustment •hoard, it wae revea'ed today. Friday was the final day for filing the , objections. The state tax board will conduct a hearing on the levies October 25, since three townships and Decatur. | Berne and Geneva exceed the max- , imum rate. , Man Arrested Here On Speeding Charge Waldo Stevens, Fort Wayne, was ' arrested last night by Policemen ; Roy Chilcote and Adrian Coffee on a charge of speeding. ; Stevens, the officer* stated, was driving down Main street at an ex* J cessive rate of speed and in. a reckless manner. Stevens was arrested i once before by local oficers on a charge of running a red light.