Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 35, Number 291, Decatur, Adams County, 10 December 1937 — Page 6

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TWO MEN ADMIT BRUTAL MURDER Two Men Held At Whiting; Killed Farmer, Wounded Wife Whiting, Ind.. Dec. 10— <U.R> Deputy sheriffs and police today; captured two men who confessed| killing' Edward Pansa, 45, respect-' ed Crete, 111., farmer, and serious-' ly wounding his wife, during a robbery "(hat netted only $77. Announcement of the confession was made by Whiting police. The men held were John Jelliga.' 33, Whiting, and Mike Nunjaa, 45,' Indiana Harbor. They were ar-i rested* at their homes. Their apprehension came only a. few Hours after Pansa's wife.: Hulda. 37. despite bullet wounds that crippled her jaw and spine ' had crawled half a mile over a I snowbound country road to the J home of her brother. There she told of the brutal slaying and nam- s

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I ed the attackers. | Her pitiful story spurred an or-1 I gunlation of farm vigilantes, who! I term themselves the F-tnen, to an i intensive search of Crete town-' | [ship. Whiting police were enllatj ed in the search and arrested Jeb ' liga In short order. He was identified by Mrs. Pansa and named; I Nupjas as his accomplice. The j j latter was arrested half an hourj !later. i From her hospital bed, Mrs.) Pansa told police the story of the I robbery and killing. The men, she said, posed us ! friends of her husband“They visited him yesterday I morning." she said. “Then lust i night they returned. “They killed my husband and i thought they killed me, because' ' they knew we recognized them.” I Police said the slaying appeared! ! to have been a deliberate execution designed to remove the farm-; J er and his wife as witnesses to the j I robbery. “The slipup was that Mrs. Pansa 1 pulled through," one deputy said. I i Mrs. Pansa said the men enter-I 1 ed her home last night under the ' 1 guise of friends. She said they suddenly announced it was a hold-

I tip. ■I "They thought I recently Inherit--11 ed some money," she said, "They ! demanded $2,000 and then forced • ■ me into the bedroont I “I heard them threaten niy busI band. Ore of the men said, ‘you ! know us. so we're going to bump ' you off.’ Then I heard shots. Ati ter that fhey came into the bedroom and shot me." A bullet shattered her jaw and I coursed downward into her splnt "I came to aftuu a while,” she •aid, “and found my husband dead In the living room. He was on the floor by the sofu. His hands were tied." Unable to talk and suffering from I severe shock, she started for the 1 farm of her brother, William. He i took her to a Chicago Heights hus- ! pital and then called police. Deputy Sheriff Thomas Wise of . Will county said the robbers ransacked the home and obtained $77. PREDICT FARM fCONTINUED FFOM ' reading for floor amendments to j the house version of the presi- | dent’s No. 1 emergency measure for the special session. Church Os Nazarene Rally Ends Tonight ; Miss Mary Cooper, a returned | missionary from Portugese East Africa spoke on the subject, “Darkness Turtje dto Light” last evening at the church of the Nazarene in ! connection with the P.ally. The message was very enlightening. She des'cribed in (picturesque language the condition of the Ifottentots before i conversion and after conversion. Miss Cooper is a graduate of Olivet College and has been in Africa ten years. She is now on her first furlough. There is now displayed at the church a large number of Afrl- I can curios of interest to the children. The Missionary rally will cloee tonight with Miss Cooper bringing an- I other spiritual and educational message on Africa. The service will start at 7:30 p. m. Kokomo Factory Is Damaged By Fire Kokomo. Ind., Dec. 10. — (U.R) — Authorities today sought the origin , of a fire which partially destroyed the huge north plant of the Continental Steel corporation here last , night. The building, a block and a half I long and a block wide, used in the manufacture of ornamental fence,

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was rbeked by an explosion shortly after the blaze broke out. No one was injured. I Another explosion which probably would have hud a more ser- • ious effect was averted when a i Pennsylvania railroad switch en- | gine crew drove through the blaze • and hauled three tank cars of gaso- ■ line to safety. xon< n <»!' fUMI’AT OF I'FXMti. KT 4L. DKUIN . Notice is hereby given to all p«r1 sons affected thereby, who are ‘lf owners of trai ts <>r parcels of land, highways or easements, situate in Adams County. Indiana, aga Inst whic h assessments of benefits have been approved and confirmed by the Adams Circuit Court for Indiana in a, certain cause pending In said Court entitled "In re William Fennlg, et ul . Ex Parte, Petitioners for lonin ", the same being cause numbered 12646 on the docket of said Court, that pursuant to an order or the Board of County Commissioners of Adams County. Indiana, made and entered on the 6th day of De* < ember, 1537, an assessment sheet of such iiHsesrmente, and the ap-, portlonment thereof, has been pre- ( pared and placed in the hahds of the j Treasurer of Adams County, Indiana, tor collection, and that said Board of County Commissioners of Adams county, Indiana, made and entered an order in said matter setting forth their determination that they will require the said assessments to be paid in ten equal installments, one of which installments shall be and become due and payable on the first Monday in May, 1939, and one of 1 such installments shall be and become due and payable on the first Monday in May of each and every| year thereafter until all of such installments shall have been paid in full; and notice is further given that tile Board of County Commissioners of Adams County, Indiana, at the same time made and entered an order fixing the 15th day of March, 11,38. as the day on or before which the owner or owners of any tract or l parcel of land, highway or easement, desiring to pay in full such assessments, and discharge such tract or \ parcel of land, highway or easement; from liability for such assessments, shall have the right so to do: and all persons affected thereby desiring to pay such assessments on or before the said 15th day of March, 1938, may, do so. Witness my hand this the 7th day of December, 1937, JOHN W. TYNDALL Auditor of Adams County, Indiana. Dec, 10-17 ; —-o —— notice or declaratory ni:soi.i tion TO WHOM IT MAY CONCERN Notice is hereby given by the Common Council of the City of Decatur, Indiana, that it Is desired and deem-, ed necessary to make the following desc ritied public improvement in the; Citv of Decatur, Indiana, as authorised bv the improvement resolution adopted bv said Common Council on the 7th day of December, 193 c, sot . the construction of a local sewer on and along the following route, to-. W»t: . Commencing in the center of Madison Street, fifteen <lsl feet west of •he center-line of Thirteenth Street, thence west along the center-line of Madison Street six hundred and sev-entv-five feet to sewer number 36 as shown on the city plat for sewers, in the Town, now City of Decatur, Indiana and there to terminate. All work done in the making of j said described public improvement shall be in accordance with the terms and conditions of the improvement resolution, adopted by the Common Council on the above named dav. and the detailed drawings, plans, profiles and sepeif ications. which are on file and may be seen in the office of the City Engineer of the City of Decatur, Indiana. j The Common Council has fixed the 2lst dav of December, 1937, as a date upon which remonstrances may be filed or heard by persons interested in or affected by said described public improvement and on said day at 7:30 o'clock B. M„ the said Common Council will meet at Its Council Room in said City for the purpose of hearing and considering any remonstrances which may have been filed or which may be presented and will hear all persons interested or whose property is affected by said proposed improvement and will decide whether the benflt that will accrue to the property abutting and adjacent to the proposed Improvement and to said City will be equal to or exceed the estimated cost of the proposed improvement as estimated by the i City Civil Engineer ADA MARTIN Clerk-Treasurer By order of the Common Council of the City of Decatur, Indiana Dec. 10-17

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I was reported to have been selected by Democratic chieftians to oppose Senator Frederick Van Nuys i for renoinlnatlon. Judging from ; the company in which he sat last I night, administration support Is i still on his side ff be runs. Townnend was unable to attend I; the meeting, but the Democratic | high command was represent'd by I Alex Pursley, fifth district chairI man and intimate advisor of th* i governor; Dick Heller, Townsend's 1 1 executive secretary; Omer Stokes ' Jackson, state Democratic chairman and attorney general; and 1 Janies Beatty, secretary of the Democratic state committee. ■[ The only politically significant ' incident which occurred openly was the remark of Pursley when : he introduced Omer Jackson aa "your state chairman and your I j next state chairman." Coming from Pursley, it was vlr-

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■ tually official confirmation that ■ Jackson will not resign to be re. i placed by Heller, who was known i to have desired the state chair I tnanshlp but who recently ) 1!ls i changed his mlirtl and decided tu remain ns Townsend s secretary. I R. Karl Peters, Indiana's federal • housing administrator und bitter ’ foe of Sant Jackson who would like ■ to be the senate nominee, did not > attend the rally but sent u te]e. i gram of good wishes, 1 Sam Jackson asserted that Presi- ' dent Roosevelt “Is stronger today 1 with the people thun he has ever ' been before" and that the "old ord er of industrial tyranny has been correspondingly weakened." ’ He predicted the repeal of the i corporate surplus profits tax by i congress and that anyone who thereafter “purposely stifled bus I iness in order to discredit the new ■ deal will do so at the price of con

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