Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 36, Number 130, Decatur, Adams County, 2 June 1938 — Page 1

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■eat BRITAIN MS to end ■IUFAR IN SPAIN j^Ecan 2—(UP) — 1 R jap.nnc-r g< vf-rnmcnt toSOrr ' e ° f ■ Zands n’.uln '" the Am■Jro.es.’ thfTokioformr L. ve- ci '.tinned ocBr .X American property a b> trcops, bfp.il tment was off n^^^Erfused. 0 be developing; today j r t to dampen the fit'® B lurope and the Far^Eaat.j Jan Instating on Ameriy rights in China, Great j pared to take the lead j rll war as a foundation j stabilization of Euro-1 tk at present —is eaaen-1 realistic program under- j British Prime Minister underlain when he first talk terms with Nazi j time * the Nazi-Fascist , Spanish rebels appeared I tory within their grasp. | n smoothed out Brit- j ea with Italian Premier jsolini on the basis of it triumph—only to have j illy by the loyalist govmies interrupt the well- j In addition, the loyalist j prevented Britain from | ance and Germany into hip demonstration, dditional day of the •uggle has further raenUerlain’s broad program friction between the :h combination and ell as for diminishing of Germail expansion n a war with CzechoKvery day of delay is favor of the Spanish , which has received naterials and is con- j : the conflicting inter- j insurgent groups event- \ cause their disintegra- ; of peace on the basis JED ON PAGE FIVE) 1 CLAIMS U MEYERS ob Meyers Dies ;sday Night Os mplieations ma Meyers, 72, well- [ itur resident, died In’S! 10 o’clock at her home, | Adams street. Death j led to complications, ased was born in Van ! y, Ohio, April 7, 1866, x of Mr. and Mrs. Beilis. She moved to this i n a young girl and had e since. her 27, 1882, she was Jacob J. Meyers, who The couple connnemorgoUlen wedding annibesides the husband, ilowiug children: Mrs. x, Mrs. Rolla Crozier, Nettle, and Charles, all John, of Geneva, grandchildren and 12 children also survive, iter is deceased. No sisters are living, services will be held ernoon at 1:30 o'clock te and at 2 o’clock at Reformed church, of was a member. The * M. Prugh will officiate, be made in the East stery near Decatur, will be returned from ; Black funeral home to ice Friday morning at id may be viewed there for the funeral. IATURE READINGS * theremometer 62 2:00 p.m 73 : °night and Friday; 1 warmer Friday as-

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Edward Hall Parole Is Announced Today Indianapolis, June 2—(UP)—Kd. | ward Cecil Hall, Adams comity, I serving 12 years for auto banditry, toduy was paroled by the state clemency commission, The above dispatch confirms a ' story published In the Dally Democrat us of May 17. Hall was sentenced here following the ktdnap-roh-bery of Wilbur Porter, former garage proprietor. 13 MAJOR OIL COMPANIES, 11 LEADERS FINED — Plead Nolo Contendere To Anti-Trust Law Violations Madison, Wls.. June 2 — (U.R) J Judge Patrick T. Stone fined 13 j j major oil companies and 11 execuI tives $15,000 each and a total of $25,000 costs today when they | pleaded nolo contendere to charges | of anti trust law violation. The government thereupon mov|ed to dismiss the indictment against 27 other executives of the j companies which entered pleas, | and began plans for bringing to j trial Sept. 26 still oilier companies ' i and their executives who did not i join In the "no contest" agreement. Charges involved in the cases ! disposed of today were covered in I a second indictment returned by ! a federal grand jury here alleging I that the defendants adopted unli form jobber contracts and policies i in violation of the Sherman antitrust act. Judge Stone announced that he ; would hand down his decision i June 9 on motions of some of the same companies and executives for a new trial on charges of conspiracy to raise and fix prices. Their conviction on this charge followed a four months trial which ended here Jan. 22, 1938. Judge Stone announced from the bench that his action in accepting the pleas and fixing the fines after negotiations between the department of justice and the defendants, he was familiar with and j guided by facts developed in the j j trial of the first indictment. “I have come to the conclusion j that the disposition of this case, j |as recommended by the government, is, under all the circumstances, fair ami iu the public interest, and one which this court should and therefore does approve,” he stated. The 13 indicted oil companies j and 11 of their executives who pleaded nolo contendere today to charges contained in the second indictment were: Socony Vacuum Oil Co., and Charles E. Arnott, vice president. New York City; Wadbams Oil Co., A. G. Maguire, board chairman., Milwaukee; Standard Oil Co., of i | Indiana, Amos 8011, general sales manager, Chicago; Cities Service Oil Co., and its subsidiary, Empire Oil and Refining Co., Harry D. j Frueauff, / vice president, Tulsa. 1 Okla.; Continental Oil Co., Edward j i Karstedt, former vice president, ! Denver, Colo.; Pure Oil Co., G. ( . (CONTINUED <>N PAGE FIVE) CROWD ATTENDS LIVESTOCK SALE Roy Johnson Conducts Annual Sale At Van Wert, Ohio One of the largest crowds in its history attended the annual \an Wert county, Ohio breeders association livestock sale, conducted Wednesday by Col. Joy Johnson of Decatur. I $132 per head average with v27j on } $132 pe head average witli $275 oil a four-year old cow the top price. The cow was consigned by Adam Geisler of Wren, Ohio. A pair of twin heifers, consigned by Wesley Stulls, of Adams county brought a price of S2BO. The association also paid tribute to Mr. Stults, who is one of the oldest cattlemen in this part of the counU Col Johnson who is becoming one of the outstanding .pedigreed livestock auctioneers in the nation, left this morning for Columbia Missouri, where he is to conduct the first Missouri slate Guernsey tie breeders’ sale. Outstanding heds in the 8011 and southwest will be sold at the sale, held at Hie state agricultural school grounds. Mrs. Johnson acOulstanding heads in th-. trip.

AUTO ACCIDENT HURTS FATAL TO ROBERT TAYLOR Monroeville Man Dies At Adams County Hospital This Morning — Robert L. Taylor, 25, of Monroe- \ vllle, died Ibis morning at 6:20 o'-1 | dock at the Adams county memorial hospital of injuries received in I in auto accident Meniorlul Day. Death was attributed to complications resulting from a fractured I hip and other injuries. He had been in a serious condi- \ lion since he was brought to the local hospital following Hie crash in ! Van Wert county, Ohio, shortly beI fore midnight Monday. Taylor was riding in an auto : driven by Robert Gels, also of Mon- ! i oeville, when it collided with another car driven by Paine Morgan, j of Dixon, Ohio. Neither of the drivi era was hurt. The accident occurred west of Convoy, Ohio in Tully town- . ship. According to Deputy Sheriff J. Frank Mounts of Van Wert county, l Morgan had stopped at a narrow bridge when the cars sideswiped. i Funeral Saturday Funeral services will be held Sat-! urday afternoon at 2 o’clock, central standard time, at the Monroeville United Brethren church. wilJi tlie Rev. J. W. Dickison officiating. Burial will he made in the I. O. O. F. cemetery there. Surviving, besides the father, Edward Taylor, are three brothers: ; Walter of Oceola, Carlton of Gar Creek and Gerald of Monroeville, and one sister, Lucille, at home. After Taylor had been brought to the local hospital, it was found that he was suffering a compound fracture of the left hip bone, which was splintered in the crash. .—o Huge Strawberry Is Grown By Jacob Koos i A huge strawlberry. four in one to be exact, grown by Jacob Koos on : his truck patch near Decatur, has been brought into the Democrat and j | left on display. Mr. Koos believes ' Hie berry breaks a record for size. DECATUR YOUTHS TO BOYS' STATE Five Local Youths To Attend Second Annual Hoosier Boys’ State Five Decatur young men have been selected to attend the second annual Hoosier Boys’ State, to ibe I j aeld at the fairgrounds in lndiana- ! jiolis Saturday, June 18, to Saturday, June 26. The Hoosier Boys’ State is sponsored by the Indiana department of ! ibe American Legion, together with all other civic and patriotic minded | organizations. The five youths who will attend, : and the sponsoring organizations, iare as .follows: William Schnepp, j American Legion; Rev Riesen, | j Herne, Legion auxiliary; David | Macklin, B. P. O. .Elks; James I Krick, Loyal Order of Moose; Carl ! Miner, by his father, Albert Miller, j •Purpose of the Boys’ State is to \ educate youth in the duties, privil- J eges, rights and responsibilities of American citizenship. 'lt is in no way political o militaristic, and is strictly to teach citizenship. In the Boys' State, the boys have their own city, county and state | governments. They elect their own city, county and state officials. They learn the duties of the var- ; jous public offices; their functions, their limitations and their powers, i They have their own legislature, inI troduce and argue their own bills; j (b e y have their (,wu c * ty coimc * ls * ! their own city officials. They make I au d enforce ordinances regulating their cities; conduct their own elections. They have their own police force, courts of law and administer justice. The boy inis a chance to learn for himself that his government is just what he maikes it. A large portion of the time spent at the camp is devoted to sports, ..■i.nTINUEDON PAGE TWO) A * FORECAST FRIDAY The Daily Democrat's weekly | feature, Weather a Week J Ahead, will be published in Fri- ' day’s edition, instead of today, as customary. Lack of space | prevented publishing the ea I I ture today. ♦

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Suspect Seized in Cash Kidnaping: Seized near Hie home of James Hailey Cash, Sr.. M. F Braxton, a i bald, portly carpenter about 55 years ifld, is shown above (facing | camera) in an elevator as he was being taken up to G-men headquarters in Biscayne building in Miami. Fla., for questioning in I lie kidnaping of little Jimmy Cash. Pictured at right is a G-man.

CONDITION OF TWO UNCHANGED. j No Change Reported In Condition Os Two Accident Victims The condition of two auto acci- j dent victims confined in the Adams county memorial hospital was reported to be unchanged today. Peter Minch, 78, of tills city, , who was taken to the hospital when his car overturned near Geneva Sunday is reported by the attending physician to be In a still serious condition. Minch, whose advanced age increases the seriousness of his injuries, sustained a fractured hip, ' a fractured nose, left ear nearly ' torn off and other lacerations. ' Beard Unchanged Tile attending physician for Sylvester Beard, of Fort Wayne, who was hurt Tuesday night in an auto crash east of the city, stated that his condition remained practically unchanged. Beard suffered a broken elbow, a broken wrist and a finger nearly i torn off when the car he was driving crashed into an auto manned . j by William Stewart of Fort Wayne. The physician staled that the . broken bones in Beard’s arm had i been set today and that he was \ I still under the anaesthetic shortly I after noon. Awaits Arrest I Beard, upon release from the ~ hospital, is to be arrested on a | charge of drunken driving. The charge was filed against him by Stewart, who alleged that Beard 1 was drunk at the time of the crash.

Elver Foreman Becomes Just A Number At Michigan City

“Losing a name and becoming a j number,” could be aptly titled the scene witnessed late Wednesday by a Daily Democrat staff reporter as he watched the gates of the state prison close behind a convicted auto bandit—probably for 10 long years. Elver Foreman ceased to be a name and became a number —No. 19,494 to he exact—as Foreman, in the custody of Sheriff Dallas Brown, stepped between the gray iron doors of the Michigan City state prison to serve his sentence. Marching up the gray stone steps of the prison entrance, Foreman longingly puffed at the butt of his last “tailor-made" cigarette for 10 years—then carefully flicked it away as he exhaled a breath of nerve-soothing smoke through twitching nostrils. The clerk stopped him at the desk with the word to empty all pockets. His handkerchief and his

Urged To Obtain Health Certificate All girls and Imys under 14 years of age are reminded to get their health certificates Friday afternoon as lo’cloek if they wish to use the tpublic swimming pool this summer. FINAL DAY TO FILE EXPENSE Today Is Final Day For Candidates To File Campaign Expenses Today was the last day for candidates to file a list of campaign expenses. Late this afternoon it was expected that several more would file i n addition to the large number who bad already presented lists. Those who filed late Wednesday and today: Hubert R. McOlenehan, candidate for judge, SIBB.IO. O. L. Vance, candidate for mayor of Decatur, $105.50. Ed P. Miller, candidate for sheriff, 183.80 Robert 11. Heller, candidate for joint represeuative $272.71. Walter Hofetetter, Wabash township trustee candidate, sl4. A. C. Smith, Monroe township trustee candidate, $5.25. Those who had no expense were: .Charles Troutner, St. Mary’s advisory board; William .Johnson Blue Creek advisory board; Sherman Alexander, St. Mary's advisory board; Frank Liniger, county commissioner; Jacob Dolch, Blue (CONTINUED ON PAGE FIVE)

glass case were the only possessions left him. Even his cigarettes were taken, for from now on he will smoke the home-made “coffinnails" of the prison tobacco shop. A word of goodbye to the sheriff and his aides and he stepped through the bullet-proof steel door, there to be disrobed, examined, take a shower bath and don the prison blue. For a week to 10 days he will sit “in solitary” to meditate—probably for the most part on the folly of his ways back in 1932 when he bound, gagged and robbed Amanda Ayres in her Blue Creek township farm home. Last evening Foreman ate his fist prison meal — "string bean soup,” “spuds ', sausages and cos fee with the long line of convicts assembled in the giant mess hall probably not what he has been ac(CONTINUED ON PAGE FOUR).

PUBLIC WORKS FUND BOOSTED i BY SENATORS Hundred Millions Added To PWA Funds Is Recovery Measure Washington, June 2. t(U.R) The senate today boosted public works | ! funds in Hie recovery bill to $965,1 000,000, nn addition of $100,000,000 j which brought the total of the bill I to date to $3,422,000,000. The addition of the extra SIOO,- | 1 000,000 for PWA made it likely 11hat Hie total funds carried by the hill when it is finally approved by j Ibe senate will exceed $3,700,000,- i I 000. The $100.0*10,000 PWA fund was | restored to the bill by senate vole j | after it had been originally placed ! in the measure by the house and ] j then eliminated by the senute ap- | propriations committee, i The senate thus far has made ; these major additions to the recovery bill: Farm parity payments, $212,000,I 000. Rural electrification, $75,000,000 j (additional). PWA, $100,000,000 (additional). ! The senate also increased the . works progress administration to- 1 tal by $175,000,000 but this was for the purpose of carrying the | WPA program for one month long- j er than the house bill provided, prospect of a possible bitter house-! The senate changes carried the j senate conference row over the | new provisions. Rep. Clifton j Woodrum, 1)., Va„ floor manager | of the measure in the house, said ’he opposed the $212,000, parity! , payment provision and indicated ’ | he might also oppose (he senate’s - I $125,000,000 allotment for direct re- \ ; lief purposes. Minority leader Alben W. BarkJ ley, I)., Ky., called the senate into j j session an hour early again today s' in an effort to obtain final approval r of the recovery measure. He plans ( to convene early an dto keep the , 1 . senators working late until the B j bill is passed. '• Fights over power, administraj tion of relief, and earmarking of i funds remained unsettled. All ! committee amendments except one 1 had been acted on when the pro-. 1 posai of Sen. Richard H. Russell. I I). Ga., to appropriate $212,000,000 ■ for parity price payments to ocot ton, wheat, corn, rice and tobacco j was adopted. f The single exception was a committee amendment to prohibit the public works administration from i using ally part of its $1,265,000,000 j for municipal power plants that j _ j would compete wilh private util-j 1 ities. That amendment was reach-1 .Jed at 6:10 p. m„ last night, but j Sen. George W. Norris, 1., Neb., j asked that consideration lie post'■j poued. Barkley consented. y o , Prominent Indiana Legionnaire Dies C i Kokomo, Ind., June 2— (UP)—Dr. •- E. N. Bennet, 45, etate American J I Legion leader aud former command- j r|er of the Kokomo Post, died of aj | heart attack today. In his youth he - was a noted basketball player. SLICK ORDERS APPEARANCES [llndicted Auto Executives Ordered To Appear In Person 1 South Bend, Ind., June 2—(UP)— | Federal judge Thomas W. Slick to- | day had ordered each of the 50 au- [ tomdbile executives Indicted on anj ti-trust charges to appear in U. S. j . I district court here personally for , arraignment. , ! Assistant U. S. district attorney j ..Alex Campbell also requested the. ; court to set a deadline for appear- ' lances. Campbell suggested June | 28, the date when court adjourns for | summer vacation., ’ U. i 9. Distict utlorney James R. j Fleming had set June 28 as the, deadline to rpostlng bond of $2, I t 500 for each defendant Indicted.! r j some executives were expected to f post bond and lie arraigned simul-, > | laneously. Others were expected ter I I post bond through legal counsel and j i appear personally for arraignment later. , I Fleming said ‘‘information at. i hand Indicates all will plead not guilty.’’ ( Campbell yesterday asked the court to eliminate the usual pnac- - lice of taking fingerprints and tCONTINUED ON PAGE TWO).

Head Os Federal Agents In Charge Os Kidnap Search

FREE ACTS TO FEATURE FAIR Outstanding Free Acts Obtained For Annual Decatur Street Fair One of Ihe finest arrays of free 'acts ever presente din this city will j be shown lo visitors to Decatur at | the annual Decatur Free Street Fair and agricultural show, which will Ibe held on the etreets of tills city I Monday, August 1 to Saturday Aug- [ ust 6, inclusive. Members of the free acts comin it tee, composed of William Linn, j chairman, John L. DeVoss ami Dr. Hen Duke, have selected outstanding attractions for the entire weelk and the (air association, in signing Hie contracts, will pay more money i for free acts than in previous years, I in order to assure fair-goers of out- ! standing entertainment. Heading the list of free acts is Hie Bench Bentum diving revue, i The first appearance of Bench Ben--1 turn's revue in Decatur, she will | bring a spectacular day and nighttime thriller to this annual fair. The actual high dive, made at ; tight through a seething mass of ' fire, into shallow water, is the tea- ! ture of the act. Another feature act will be the Five Rollers, an European Importation, billed as the "modern exponI onts of swing on roller skates.” I Heel and toe catches, fancy figure ! skating, buck dancing o n skates, and a number of original features are on the program of the Five Hol- | lers. The famous Wells Brothers trio will present t.he original comedy ! liar act during the fair. Featured circus stais for many years with [the leading shows, the three lirothjers are now traveling throughout the country to state and county : fairs. Two of the brothers work (CONTINUED ON PAGE FOUR) I. 11. BANQUET IS HELD HEBE Clarence McNabb Principal Speaker At Banquet Wednesday “Indiana University is just blossoming forth into a new era. ( larence R. McNabb, former Allen circuit court judge, and district alumni chairman, told the guests at the annual Adams county I. U. alumni banquet, held in the Rice Hotel Wednesday night. Among the distinguished guests j at the meeting were W. A. Kunkel, i Fort Wayne publisher and meini ber of Hie board of trustees of I. U.; Dwight Peterson, president of ilhe City Securities Corporation of Indianapolis, and also a member j of the board of trustees, and F. J. * ff, head of the 1. U. Extension | j Center in Fort Wayne. Wives of ! these men also attended. Following the program the business meeting was held and all of | the former officers of tile county i association were re-elected. They are: G. Reiny Bierly, Decatur, president: W. Guy Brown, Decatur, vI?S-p'fesident, and Rolland Sprunger, Monroe, secretary-treasurer. Mr. Kunkel said, “People of Indiana are beginning to consider our university as one of the best in j the country. Indiana University is second to none. There are no better schools of law, dentistry, | medicine and business administration than those at Indiana Univer- ! sily. New buildings are being constructed, which are giving it one j of Ihe finest university plants in (CONTINUED on PAGE FIVE) Six Minors Killed In Mine Explosion Pitislon, Pa., June 2—(IIP) —Six j miners were 'burned to death and | six Injured today in an anthracite mine explosion a mile underground. Two more men were missing. The bodies of five men were removed from the Butler slope of the Volpe mining company’s colliery near liere more than four hours after the blast, occurred. They were not identified immediately. The sixth fatality was John Clark, 28, of Hoosic, who died at Pittston hospital.

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J. Edgar Hoover Arrives In Florida To Take Personal ('barge Os Cash Kidnaping. CONTINUE HUNT Princeton, Fla . June 2 — (U.R) Director J. Edgar Hoover of the federal bureau of investigation arrived In Florida today to lake personal command of the hunt for the kidnapers of five year old Jimmy Cash. Tile chief of Ihe G-men arrived liy plane as hundreds of men, organized Into armed posses, searched Hie Everglades, Ihe Keys and the farmlands of southeastern Florida in a heating rain for the boy who was kidnaped last Saturday night. Hoover’s presence added weight to reports that a break in the case may be approaching. Neither the chief G-man nor his assistants would comment on such reports. Hoover, who had been directing the manhunt for Hie kidnapers from his Washington headquarters, established the center of thp hunt in Hie Miami office of Hie FBI 25 miles from the home of James B Cash, Sr., where the blond little boy was sleeping when Hie kidnaping occurred. Flying to Miami in a chartered plane. Hoover was accompanied by Clyde Tolson, his assistant director of the FBI. They left Washington last midnight. Shortly after their arrival, radio stations at Miami broadcast at Hoover's request appeals to all persons handling currency to check bills coming into their possession against serial number lists of the ransom currency. Wilh Hoover here, the drive to capture the man or men who kidnaped the Cash boy, collected SIO,OOO ransom and then failed to return the child, assumed new intensity despite Ihe rain. FBI officials guarded I heir activities with secrecy, but a large number of agents were massed here and at Miami. Until Hoover arrived, they had been commanded by E. C. Connelly, an ace of the FBl's kidnap force, who flew here from Washington to take charge in first stages of the case. Hoover gave no Indications of his plans, other than to say he may remain here several days. In other cases, however, his arrival on the scene of a major case usually has been followed by a break in the case. With Hoover's arrival, activities were speeded up at the Miami headquarters of the FBI. Shortly after noon, federal agents brought iu a negro believed to he the owner of the house where one of tlie three ransom notes was found Sunday night. Purportedly authentic versions of the case said that the kidnapers sought to have the negro deliver ihe note directly to Cash, but were* refused. Finally, they thrust the note under the door of Hie negro's tCONTINUED ON PAGE THREE) LINK NEGRO TO OTHER GRIMES Confessed Chicago At-tack-Slayer Identified By Janitors Chicago June 3 —(UP) —Two apartment house janitors identified Robert Nixon, 18, confessed attackslayer of two women, today as a young negro they saw in the vicinity of Chicago hospital last fall a* bout the time Anna Kuchta, 19, student nurse, was assaulted and buld* geoned to death in her room. The janitors, Thomas Debruynfl and Carl Wilhelm, pointed out Nixon in a special police “show-up" o$ prisoners. Wilhelm, employed in an apartment 'building across the street from the South Side hospital, said he had seen the young negro in the vicinity four or five days prior to the killing of the nurse Aug. 21. He pointed out Nixon wore bellbottomed trousers similar to those worn by the negro lie had seen iu the neighborhood. Detbruyne, employed In an apartment building across the alley from the hospital, said Nixon’s build and walk were "almost identical’ to that of the negro he had noticed. Nixon was seized last Friday (.CONTINUED ON PAGE THREE).