Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 36, Number 20, Decatur, Adams County, 24 January 1938 — Page 5

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I Did These Men Abduct Ohio Co-Ed and Slay Patrolman?

■gl !' B **** ■ JP | Lt I * ffiSwßaas - I ■ Z | 1 jf- • I • u— ’ •' mu-in •■■- - I Ruth Baumgardner iJ," an lleged “confesßtoh,” the mysterious disappearance I tag!,. Obir ®**rdner, Ohio Wesleyan university co-ed and the slaymen > r 2 luian George Conn are '“solved Following arrest I JohEson rm . St Clairsville, 0., deputies announced that Booker > g ae 01 tiie suspects “coniessed." The other three, all ot

Cantors Daughter to Wed j* - — —jPWssgßfr '‘N £?¥tw .1 SEar WK 4k JBK ■ > I & > fa L iT&W wsfiW' . ■L H Jimmy McHugh. Jr. and Edna Cantor [ iWOt J®! An!** - Abie’s Irish Rose" romance becomes real tn Hollywood with announcement that Edna Cantor one of the five daughters of Eddie Cantor, will become the bride of Jimmy McHugh. Jr., son of the Trish songwriter The wedding ts set for May. with a honeymoon in ,i Honolulu j

SAFETY AWARDS /onvrrwT’n'n rerun mov ~»’»■> order were Muncie, Terre Haute. Elkhart. New Albany. Mishawaka. East Chicago, Hammond, Anderson and Michigan City. The latter city, in 12th plade, reported lit deaths and a percentage of 71.1. Newcastle won the plaque in the j group of cities with a population of 10.000 to 25.000 although two other cities, Peru and Jeffersonville. had no traffic fatalities during 1937. But Newcastle had no , deaths in the preceding year either while the other two cities each had three deaths then. Included among the ratings in this division were: Bloomington, fourth place: Whiting, eighth. Laporte. ninth: Logansport, 10th: Vincennes. 11th: Marion. 12th; Goshen. 16th; and Elwood. 17th. Brazil won the plaque among cities of 5.000 to 10,000 population by having a spotless recording during 1937. ‘ Included among the ratings in this division were: Hartford City, third; Madison, fourth; Kendallviiie, seventh; Linton, ninth; Bluffton. 10th; Mt. Vernon. 11th; Wa bash. 12th: Clinton. 13th; Warsaw, HSth: Sullivan. 17th; West Lafay i ette. ISth; Auburn. 19th; Columbus 21st. and Decatur, 27th. Martinsville had no deaths to lead cities of the 2,000 to 5.000 classification. Greencastle was i third; Noblesville, 27th; Alexan 'dria. 28th; Tipton 42nd; West Terre Haute 48th; and Columbia City vsoth Danville had no deaths to rate : first In the group of towns with i a population below 2.000. j County ratings were: i Group with more than 25,000 <

DECATUR DAILY DEMOCRAT MONDAY JANUARY 2L 1938..

' population—Greene county, first, three deaths, percentage of 9.5; and in order the counties of Allen, Howard. Monroe, Daviess, Cass. Kosciusko, Montgomery. Vanderburg, Sullivan, Marion, Vigo, Wabash. Lawrence, St. Joseph. Huntington. Clay. Delaware, Wayne, Clark. Knox, Gibson, Shelby, Grant I Clinton, Henry. Elkhart. Marshall, Tippecanoe. Floyd, Lake, Miami, 1 Madison and Laporte. Group with 20,000 to 25,000 population Vermillion county first, four deaths, percentage of 17.2; and in order the counties of Vermillion, Dearborn. Dubois, Barthol-I omew, DeKalb, Putman, Jackson Boone. Randolph. Noble, Hamilton, Jay, Johnson and Porter. Group with 15,000 to 20.000 population- Harrison county first, no deaths; and in order the counties of Jefferson. Fountain. Decatur, i Warrick. Wells. Fayette. White.« Posey. Hendricks. Morgan, Ripley, ’ Orange, Fulton, Pike. Adams. Rush ; Whitley, Parke, Hancock. Carroll and Tipton. Group with 10 to 15.t«u> population—Franklin county first, three deaths and percentage of 20 7; | and in order the counties of Lagrange, Blackfotd. Jennings. Owen. Martin. Pulaski, Crawford. Benton, Jasper, Steuben and Starke. Cvmtp with lose th«n 1000(1 nomi> 1 lation - Switzerland first, no i deaths; and in order the counties I of Brown. Ohio. Union, Scott and Newton. MARRIAGE LAWS ; iroXTINUTO KROM 9*09 ONttl j reu. will be permnent secretary. Recently the famed Hoosier] j “Gretna Greens" operated with j considerable profit by county i

Charles Ford lE. iwp I | r ||| , i Bernard Masulla

whom have police records, are Charles Ford. I'em Serino ami Bernard Masulla The prisoner's story, which is doubted by Ohio state high wav noiiee asserted that Miss Baumgardner was abducted May 5 of last year and taken to the vicinity of Pittsburgh Conn's bulletriddled body was found in a ditch near Freeport, Ohio.

clerks in border counties, were outlawed by a decision of the state supreme court upholding the constitutionality of an 1852 marriage law. The law states that clei*ks may not issue a license unless the female applicant ts a resident of the county In which applietaion is made. included among the committee I members Is Thurman A. Gottschalk, former state senator from Adams. Wells, mid Blackford counties, and now director of the state department of public welfare. Indianapolis Man Buys Geneva Agency William F. Pfennig, of Indiana polls, who has been identified,with the Household Finance Corpo’ ation, at Indianapolis, for several years, has purchased the Chris Lehman insurance agency at Geneva, and is in active charge of his new bust-; ness. Mr. Pfennig is a son-in-law of Mr. and Mrs. Frank Smith, of Port-1 'and, his wife being the youngest ■ daughter (Lida Jane) of the Smiths. For the present, the Pfennigs will remain with Mrs. Pfennig's parents in Portland, later moving to Adams county, locating either in Berne or Decatur. o Reports Livestock Prices On Upgrade Col. Fred Reppert, who returned over the week-end from conducting sales in Denver, Colorado, and Hntchiuson. Kansas, reports a marked increase in stock buying and a return of confidence among buyers, evidenced by the sales. Col. Reppert state dthat kt Denver, where he conducted the first Hereford sale of the year, one which cattlemen anxxlously await to determine the trend during the season j 100 head averaged $437 per head, with the top 50 averaging $646 and a high of $1,650. Livestock men seem to be more optoniistic regarding the buying, acording to Col. Reppert. o Initiatory Meeting At Moose Tuesday — Plans have been completed for the initiatory meeting to be held at Adams county lodge 1311, Loyal Order of Moose, here Tuesday night The. meeting will open nt 8 o’clock with initiatory ceremonies for a class of eight candidates. Degree i work will be conferred by the Fort i Wayne team, known as the outstanding group in northern Indiana. Following the ceremonies a chickjen banquet will be served in the dining rooms of the lodge, under the direction of the committee in charge. Earl Whitehurst Is general | chairman. o Bison Scorn Domesticity Toledo (U.R) —Two bison, part of 1 a herd of 100 shipped East from ; Wyoming, are giving local cattle- ! men a headache. They are too I wild to be weighed, must be fed ] by remote control, and are ready I to defy all comers. Cattle handt.lers hope lime will provide a solu- ' tion to the problem. OPEN MEETING U. E. R. and M. W. of A. 1 8 P. M. Wednesday. Jan. 26 Above Green Kettle Ft. Wayne G. E. Local 901-

Booker Johnson - jPIHh. < Ol i 1 M A.-1 yww life, ‘ Pete Serino

ALL OF CHURCH DEBT IS PAID Rev. Harry Thompson Leads In Paying Ofl All Debts Rev. Harry W. Thompson is wearing the broad smile that conies with hard earned victory these flays, having, as pastor of the Central Church of Christ, Fort Wayne, don what every one belief d and said, was impossible. When he accepted the pastorate four years ago, the hurch owed $6,200, including a mortgage on the building and $1,900 in debts on small accounts. Rev. Thompson built up the spiritual body of hie church and then showed them how necessary It was to pay tho debts. With the determination of soldiers going into battle, ho and his congregation battled for four years and finally won. The last dollar 1 has been paid off and the event was celebrated with a family din-, ner Friday evening. Rev. Thompson and his trustees, , 1 elders and others who have so con- ■ 'sistently "kept on keeping on” are , entitled to say as the pastor did i in telling the story today, "We are j very happy.” o NOURISHMENT ' VTTH'TA FWCIM ONR' The former dean's transfer to the I hospital was supervised by an old friend. Dr. W. N. Lynn of Knoxville. Physicians had been watch- . Ing anxiously for four (lays while I Noe’s strength declined. What j ■ alarmed them was that his heart ] was weakening and that he was I 1 having spasms occasionally due to i j a difficulty In breathing. . An examination by a physician | I last Wednesday had shown that i Noe’s heart and breathing were ■ affected. There was evidence that I certain vital organs were becoming I inactive. The doctor told Mrs. Noe ] .; then that her husband could not \ I last much longer if he persisted i ! in his fast. Arrangements immediately were ; ’ i made for just such a contingency ias came last night. An ambulance : company was told to be ready. Arrangements were made to 1 have specialists examine Noe as j soon as he was taken to the hos- j pital, and these men gathered around his bed in consultation last ’ | night. , He began to show some symptoms of starvation. He became ,i ing, and one leg dragged; he suf- ] irritable; he had difficulty in walk I sered a nose bleed: he slept fit- • fully; dehydration weakened him I seriously, although he had been putting ice cubes in his mouth fl and expectorating the water when , the ice melted. But somewhere he . | ivuiiu oti'c-iigt*. meet every tes. , 1 of physical endurance. j Yesterday he sat among the wor- , shipers in the Cathedral of St. . t Mary the first time he had not the pulpit in 17 years—and heard a fellow priest denounce . those who preach and practice’ "vagaries.” It was for his "vagary” of fasting that Noe was removed as dean by Bishop James M. Maxon, head of the Tennessee diocese. He left the cathedral just before the end of the services and walked alone across the street to the deanery. As he entered, his mind was filled with plans for the fu- , ture. He was considering taking 1 a trip to North Carolina where his [ mother lives. He was meditating i On the final stage of his experii , ment with immortality—the abandonment of holy communion. Ho ■ was thinking of the hundreds of letters and telegrams he was receiving A few hours later he lost consciousness Tho already , made arrangements began to function and soon doctors were feeding him o Africans Take To Divorce Cape Town.— |(U.R> — The Bantu. Zulu and other tribes are taking I to another white man’s fashion —' I divorce. More than 500 divorce I cases wore heard by the South I African native courts last year. TO ASK DEATH "n* WT.’OM nVRJ) I for $5,000 instead of the $50,000 I which actually was paid Oct. 8 | near Rockford. 11l I He disclosed also that :m autopsy I of Ross’ body at Spooner showed I three separate skull fractures and I a bullet wound in the body. Gray. I whom Seadlund killed for profit. ’ was shot nine times Planned Other Crimes I New York. Jan. 21 ((J.R) Walter I Winchell. newspaper columnist I and radio commentator, told his I radio audience last night that .1. I I Edgar Hoover, head of the federal I : bureau of investigation, told him I that John Henry Seadlund had at I one time planned to kidnap Dizzy I Doan and Joe Di Maggio. ! Hoover and Winchell are close friends and Hoover, seeking relaxI ation, often comes to New York 1 and he and Winchell tour the Broadway hot spots together. ’ Winchell, quoting Hoover, said 'that Seadlund and James Atwood 5 Gray, his accomplice in the kidnapt- ing ot Charles S. Ross, had planned to kidnap Dean but decided not to

Concealed Cave Where Abductor Hid Body of Ross ■ ► I JR* V*l I A * *■'’ Cave near Spooner, Wis„ where federal agents found bodies of Ross and Gray

Led to the spot by Peter Anders, confessed abducI tor-slayer of wealthy Charles Ross of Chicago, fedi eral agents found the body of Ross and Anders'

' because they were afraid the St. I Louis Cardinals would not pay a ! high ransom for him. Then they turned to members of

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accomplice in the crime. James Gray, in this shallow grave, described as “filthy,” 12 miles northeast of Spooner, Wisconsin.

the New York Yankees, believing that Col. Jacob Ruppert, the Yankees’ owner, would pay almost any sum to free his high-priced stars

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from kidnapers. They thought : especially of snatching DiMaggio. This plan was given up because it Involved too much publicity.