Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 36, Number 134, Decatur, Adams County, 7 June 1938 — Page 5

ADMITS <JOEO CHIMES ■» N e g r o Admits tn " hi< h AnWas Convicted „> .lune 7 (U.R) Robert ■OMUn ■ffhV-W' 11111 W,U ’ hHB OMM °N EfJK ,| 'that he killed four woHV .. niil dill Illg the last two ' 1., v tl ci hue for -w i« Helving a five .. collfeHSioil of ,„. women in Chih" 11,1 haß inl , ||u , JO.JO o.'l .1 ■ - l -" s '"Et'ies. 17 i ,|. .. . mpany of New York. ''’ Admission of the ' . ' rn- surprised police It.- :.d ni.m Signed a cont.-s- .> U |y Tli.nntis McCall, .'lll, an «I’-" liv 'd in the hotel ;i| , k- occurred, lb- is ?1 " : " itetitiary at Joliet. .. ■ when a w,,inan hotel reported she '"’Bj- Hl lllt'l lh, ‘ filC <‘SCape '■’ H'' was found 1,., it of assault in the *■l GIS .- Inning his trial he ;.- - Ittol forced him to .< Miss Austin ; , t li. tectives John L. Sul In believ d Nixon had W obtain freedom for Mt . .Ifed in his cell p. ; „|ma the th*' of .Matthew about "eternal he called out ■ ... io son-o'b.ing to tell him." ' :d- red Nixon bi oiulil 'a summoned m-w> been reading the Bible t he said. "I'll probably have 'm|| statement for you.” walked in, munching an cone. i.ia’w. chief." he said, "a was s.'iit to the penitentiary ■M^B ,: ' .el.:■ k I done that Austin

< lniibrd the fire esciipc. hit >| .1 In irk mid left tile same I don't like to see an iniiiiman go to the penitentiary. , and why send a man to hasn't done anything” he voluntarily told <>t lite on Miss Deery. He bludid In i stockings around her ■ |W| tile fire and took In i hospital. Hiinuilit she was dead. ' Nixon was doubtful. Nixon <’-d up a piece of yellow paper with tile same technique with Z b " u ‘ l 'of the women lie had hogan to draw detail a Jp|li "f Hi” entire hotel where Miss ■MHeki [or Perjury aßl* 3j||| ■ 1 1 sJB i I SIMS Hk ’ \ I * I i 1 Hl \ S — ■■■*>..■...,.,.:.. z” .'. :i . * ■>■ *' a. | » '- J Merle Middleton K New sensation was added to the M important Harlan labor trial at London, Ky., when Merle Middleton, former deputy sheriff, and two !■ others, Lee Hubbard and Sammy Thomas, were arrested on charges M of "conspiring to suborn perjury”. SB All three waived hearing and were n released on $3,000 bail bonds. SI Twenty coal companies and 42 ■ individuals are on trial, accused ■B °f conspiring to prevent coal muiM wa from joining unions,

I eery and Miss Austin had lived He even added a sketch of an ad Joining garage which he hud climbled to gain entrance to their ns k Storms was convinced. He said ’ N, * on **H be taken to the hotel today to reenact the Crimea Assistant state's attorney John » Boyle said he would ask murder indictments against Nixon and Earl Hicks, 16, his negro accomplice In the slaying of Mrs. Florence Johnson, 35, the mother of , two children. She was slain a week ago Friday in her bed. —— —o— ) • PUN MEETING : ON DRAINAGE 1 Proper Structures To Be Stressed At Meeting 1 June 10

l The importance of proper struc- ■ tures for drainage systems will be , stressed in a meeting to be held at • the Fort Wayne drainage camp five miles northwest of Fort Wayne on » highway No. 30 on June 10, starting ! at 9:30 A. M. and ending al mid afternoon. Incidentally, the farmer is to be shown, by actual demonstration, how he may build concrete structures and be assured of having quality concrete. Too many good farmers." says Dave Harker, drainage specialist from Purdue, "hesitate to build the farm structures they really need because they do not know how, with simple, equipment, to get good concrete. While I am chiefly interested in drainage structures, yet the same rules apply whether the concrete goes into a headwall or a watering trough." To Insure those attending the meeting that the advice on quality concrete will be accurate, arrangements have been made to bring Fred R. McComb to the camp for the meeting. Mr. McComb is the agricultural representative for the Portland Cement Association and works among the farmers and officials throughout Indiana and Kentucky. He wiii discuss "The Fundamentals of Good Concrete” during the morning session, using. a filmstrip to illustrate his talk. In the afternoon session he plans to give an actual demonstration of mixing concrete, showing wltal characterizes good and and what bad, concrete. C. V. Kimmel, county agent from Allen county is scheduled to talk on . other farm uses of concrete, pointing out to the farmer where he can use it to particular advantage. R. H- Hailfley, county surveyor from Wells county will discuss some concrete problems. The camp superintendent, F. M. Poole, and the camp engineer, Harold Soller, are preparing some figures on design and cost of structures built by the camp forces during the ipast three years.

, 1111 CC Jt-Uto. Alwas of interest to visiting farI mers is the camp itself Lunch is to • be served at the camp at a nominal charge and the camp commander i will then conduct a tour of the camp for those who have never before seen what makes a C. C. C. camp tick. From every aspect the meeting promises to be an interesting one. “The real purpose of the meeting ’ says Harker, “is twofold: first, we want to encourage the farmer to build better drainage structures, and, second, we want to show him that he can produce quality concrete on the farm as well as quality corn and wheat.” Farmers and officials have been invited from Steuben, Lagrange, Noble, DeKalb, Allen, Whitley, Wells, Adams, and Huntington counties. Each county agent plans to bring along several of his farmers. It is expected that between fifty and a hundred will attend. o—i DIVERGENCE IN G.O.P. RANKS Some Leaders Want Senate Nomination To Go To Van Nuys Indianapolis, June 7 — (U.R) ~ Despite some sentiment in t m Republican party to no® ll ** 1 ® Democratic Senator Frederick Win Nuys, best opinion here is that the G 0 I’ should and will throw its full strength behind a solidly Republican ticket in the November election. ~ . In addition to considerable private opinion, the proposal for the Republicans to adopt Van Nuys as a (1 O. P. senatorial candidate sympathy to his anti-new dea stand recently has been voiced two responsible quarters. The Fort Wayne News-bentine , a strongly Republican daily, editorially suggested recently that either the Republican party nominate Van Nuys or refrain hoi nominating any Bena, " ,,a ,'' date. thus allowing indm^; Ke publicans to support tan Nuys an independent without qualms of having deserted their party. The Valparaiso Vidette - Messeu-

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ger, spokesman for the usually Republican Porter county, is taking a straw vote on whether the G. O. P. should nominate Van Nuys and who the individual would vote for if the Republicans nominated someone else and Van Nuys ran independently. In audition, the News-Sentinel took a vigorous wallop at the senatorial candidacy of former senator James Watson, accusing him of being “bi-partisan" and intimating that he is a tool of the Democratic statehouse organization. Van Nuys, who split with the Democratic leadership on supreme court reform and other issues, definitely is slated to be discarded in faor of Lieut.-Governor Henry F. Schricker, a known conservative. The Democratic generals also are guillotining Van Nuys to settle several old intra-party scores. To the argument tliat nominating or supporting Van Nuys would help the Republican party in November, several opposite viewpoints have been offered. Titese inilude: 1. That nomination of Van Nuys. a former Democratic state chairman, would embarass the G. O. P. congressional nominees, several of whom have excellent chances of being elected. 2. That selection of Van Nuys would be a humiliating confession of lack of Republican leadership and senatorial timber. 3. That the party should gang its full weight into the November ■ election to take advantage of anti-1 new deal sentiment during business ‘ depression and muster all its re-. sources in the preliminary test for | the crucial 1940 presidential elec-

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tion. 4. That Van Nuys is not a par-, tieularly strong candidate for the Republicans since his record shows, many pro-Roosevelt votes. 5. That Van Nuys very definitely might not carry out his announced independent candidacy if the Republicans select a strong nominee. 6. The belief that the Republi- . cans actually have a chance to win the senate race in the fall election whether Van Nuys runs or not. Republican leaders are very pleased with the party's congressional prospects. They believe that the party can re-elect its only congressman, Charles Halleck, in the second district; has a chance in the third district; possibly can win the fourth district; has a good chance in the fifth and possibly sixth, and sliould win the tenth. To have a Democrat at the head of the ticket, they feel, would take the edge from very promising prospects. 0 ELECTION COST (CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONE) lowing the election. I The campaign expense accounts | were broken down as follows: I county and district candidates i spent $2,939.17; city of Decatur 1 candidates, $480.60; township and I other candidates, $286.25. The campaign expenses account ; statements in the office of Clerk I Bierly do not include congressional J candidates and candidates for state . offices outside of Adams county, as I these are required to file their expense accounts only in the county

BIG SHOW’S LOADED WITH ACE FEATURES The Big Show’s loaded for bear. Better than that, H's loaded with gorilla—Gargantua tho Great, giant primate, who has already made his bid for world wide notoriety by trying to tear the arm off the executive head of the Ringling Bros, and Barnum & Bailey combined shows, which will exhibit in Fort Wayne, Monday, June 13th. Gargantua is the largest and fiercest gorilla ever held captive anywhere on the globe today, and no writer, no matter how imaginative and gifted, can adequately describe him. This great ape has hatred and contempt for man, and he constantly tries to lure visitors within reach of his powerful hands. There is a gleam of alert intelligence in his deep, human eyes, and he out-stares everyone that tries to lock gazes with him. He awes one. One turns away, disturbed, feeling that there is a human soul within that huge bulk. Gargantua the Great will travel in a mammoth steel cage, with i shatter-proof glass enclosing the i bars. It's air conditioning apparI atus was installed by the Carrier I company. The temperature will be kept at 70 degrees. There will 1 be two compartments, so that the , cage can be cleaned, as not even Dick Kroener, who has been with the gorilla for five years, can risk J getting within his reach. Gargan- | tua is seven years of age, and may I grow until he is 20. He stands 5 feet, 6 inches, weighs 450 pounds I and has an arm spread of over six j feet. I Then there is Bring 'Em Back I Alive Frank Buck, who will be tnI troduced from a hunting howtfah I atop an elephant in the new opening spectacle “Nepal,” starting at [ 2 and 8 p. m., daily, which was i created and costumed by Charles Le Maire, Ziegfeld Follies design- | er, who streamlined the show. The l management has stated that the costumes and trappings for “Nei pal” cost SBO,OOO. They are fantastically Rue de la Paix, all of them, even to the uniforms of 60 Bengal Lancers, the last unit in I the processional pageantry. Buck will be welcomed by the Maharajah ’ of Nepal and his court, and in his ! retinue of native hunters and beaters will be wild animals on leash. ' including "Lady," the new tame 1 Royal Bengal tiger and Frank Buck's famous chetah. “Nepal" is a new note in the cir- ' cus. and it is, at the least, a pre--1 lude to a new art form under the big top, an art form steeped in beauty. It marks the greatest ! change in the circus since the last talking clown chuckled his way ' into Valhalla, and the performance ‘ spread from one to seven rings , and stages. ' And wild animals acts have come back. They not only have come back in Madison Square Garden, but they have come back on the road the first group of performing I black leopards. Terrell Jacobs and his performing black-maned lions, ’ I and I’allcnherg's wonder bears, those intelligent bruins that dance, ’ walk tight ropes, skate and ride bicycles like men. Foremost among other top flight features, many of them from abroad, this season are the CrisJ tianis, world famous bareback r’t 1 - i ing stars, with Lucio, double twisting somersaulter from horse to (horse in column; the Angelos, teeter-board somersaulting head- . . liners; Tamara and her equestrian ; cart beautiful; the Davisos, thrilling high perch troupe; Lo Louise, Europe’s aerial darling; the Great Magyar troupe, springboard somersaulting sensationalists in four high flights to shoulders; the Wen i Hais, wonders of Oriental bar tumbling; the Qualtieros, aerial i whirling perch marvels, and others of international acclaim. o GILLETTE WINS | (CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONE) was estimated that the combined Democratic and Republican votes ! would not far exceed 400,000. In 1936. President Roosevelt poll- ; ed 621,756 votes against 487,977 l for Alf M. Landon, Republican nominee. There was no positive assurance that Mr. Roosevelt wanted Gillette defeated. Wearin claimed to be the "Roosevelt-new deal” candij date, but Gillette did not concede i him that position. Hence the Democratic voters could not be certain that a vote for Wearin was a vote of edorsement to Mr. Roosevelt. Gillette was backed by the state Democratic machine, headed by Gov. Nelson C. Kraschel and Sen. 1 Clyde L. Herring. Gillettee took the lead when the first precinct reported. Wearin appeared to have won his own disi trict, the seventh, but his majorin which they reside. A number of Adams county candidates, in viola tlon of the law. also have not filed their expense accounts

ity there was not so groat as Gillette’s was in his district, the ninth. Incumbent congressmen wore leading in all cases where they had opposition. Neither Gov. Kraschel, Democratic candidate for renomination, nor George A. Wilson, his Republican opponent, was opposed. The polls closed at 8 p. in. after a day of mixed weather. Rain in some areas had the double effect of keeping some city voters at home, and giving farmers an excuse for postponing their planting so they could go to town and vote. Dickinson, who was defeated for re-election in 1936 by Sen. Herring, former governor, is an objector of "everything new dealish." Thurston is the orel Iberal of the two and campaigne don a platform of changing conditions for a changing world. The primary campaign waged by Wearin and Gillette during the past two weeks was one of the most bitter In lowa's history. The records of Gilllette and Wearin in congress showed that they voted about the same on new deal measures but Gillette was the first Democratic senator to protest personally to President Roosevelt that the supreme court should not b? changed. Wearin did not have an opportunity to vote on the court bill because It never reached the house,

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ii — CHAPTER XXXI Gregory refilled his glass, sat forward in the deep armchair, and told Sir Pellinore how things stood between himself and Sabine; ending up with an account of her visit to his flat on the previous night. When he had done Sir Pellinore looked unusually grave. “From what you tell me the situation is worse than I imagined. You don’t even know if the wench is willing to quit, so maybe you’ll have to get her out of Gavin Fortescue’s clutches against her will, as well as clear of the police." “I’ll manage somehow," said Gregory doggedly. Garwood appeared, to announce that lunch was served. Sir Pellinore stood up. “All right. I know I can leave the whole question of your private interests to your discretion.” It was after lunch, when they were well into the second magnum of champagne, that a call from Wells came through. Milly had telephoned him from Birchington. She reported that Sabine and Lord Gavin Fortescue had had high and bitter words that morning after breakfast; “A proper scene” was the way she phrased it, and Mrs. Bird, who had butted in on their quarrel inadvertently, described his little lordship as having been “positively white with rage.” Half an hour later Sabine had been taken up to her room and locked in. She was virtually a prisoner there but Mrs. Bird had been allowed to take her lunch up on a tray and reported her to be pale and silent. Milly’s real reason for ringing up, however, was that she had overheard a scrap of conversation which she thought might prove useful. She had been passing an open window of the downstairs room in which Lord Gavin and the Limper had been sitting after lunch. She had heard Lord Gavin say: “Tonight at Eastchurch Marshes I wish you to . .” That was all, and she had not dared to linger, but had slipped out of the Park to telephone Wells from the village right away. In the library Sir Pellinore got jut a big atlas and soon discovered Eastchurch Marshes on the south roast of the Isle of Sheppey. The river Swale separated Sheppey from the mainland of the North Kent roast and a tributary of it marked Windmill Creek, just below Eastchurch Marshes, ran up into the island. “That’s it.” said Sir Pellinore, placing a well-manicured, squarenailed finger on the spot. “You’ll see that apart from sandbanks, the Swale and Windmill Creek still carry five fathoms of water, even at low tide. That's the place they mean to make their landing and Wells said just now that the police will concentrate there after dark tonight." Gregory heaved a sigh of relief. ‘Thank God they'll be busy then, and that the place is well over twenty miles from Quex Park, apart from being on the far side of the Swale. While they’re on the job of rounding up the gang I’ll have a free hand at the Park to get Sabine jut of it before they come on there.” “They’ll probably surround the Park as well,” suggested Sir Pellinore. “Perhaps, but it’s a big place and well wooded. Marrowfat said himself this morning he wouldn’t attempt to pull Gavin in until he mopped up the rest of the bunch. That should give me a chance to get clear of the house before they raid , it." ~ - Sir Pellinore nodded. “I told Wells you were here and he asked , me to pass it on to you that the Fly- ] ing Squad are leaving London for ( Queenborough at seven o’clock. Do you intend to come with us?” Gregory shook his head. “No. ■ I’ve got a perfectly good excuse in , ths gruelling I received yesterday. ; I’d be grateful if you’d tell them . I’m absolutely played out; so done | up that I can’t appear in the last ( act after all. I think I’ll leave now , to get busy with my own prepara- , tions." < • * • I Rudd was waiting for Gregory in ! his rooms, and immediately pro-li

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but he announced publicly that he was for it. - -o ARRIVALS Arnold Anton Is the name of the seven and three-qauarters pound boy born to Mr. and Mrs. Herman Grotrian of Fort Wayne at tho Lutheran hospital Saturday evening. Mrs. Grotrian was formerly Miss Gertrude Thieme of Decatur. Mr. and Mrs. Ralph Baumgartner of Chattanooga, Ohio, are the parents of a baby girl, born at the Adams county memorial hospital Sun-

duced a note which he said he had found half an hour before on the hall mat. It was unsigned but Gregory realized at once that it had ’ come from Gavin Fortescue, for it i read: Dear Mr. Sallust, It seems that in spite of the almost foolproof precautions which I took to prevent your interfering any more in my affairs you are still active and impertinently curious. This is to inform you that Sabine is once more in my care and to warn you, very seriously, that if you presume to lift one finger to interfere further tn my business the matter will be reported to me by my people who have you under observation. If you value Sabine's happiness, as I have reason to suppose you do, and by happiness please understand that I refer to her capacity for ever enjoying anything tn this world again, you will not only refrain from troubling me further yourself; you will also use your best endeavours to persuade your friends at Scotland Yard that, for any reason which you care to invent, it ' would be wiser for them to defer any visit which they may contemplate paying to myself, or my various bases, for the next few days. If you are so unfortunate as to fail in this, I shall be compelled to deprive you finally of the opportunity of delighting in Sabine's company again. When Sir Pellinore arrived in Superintendent Marrowfat’s room at Scotland Yard that evening at seven o’clock he was naturally a little taken aback to find Gregory there. He sat silent in front of the Superintendent’s desk puffing a little more rapidly than usual at a cigarette. Lord Gavin’s letter had shaken him worse than any other incident that had occurred in his decidedly exciting career. Single-handed as he was, he had felt that he simply dare not risk raiding Quex Park. Lord Gavin would almost certainly be protected by his gunmen; Sabine was a prisoner in an upstairs room, in imminent danger of being killed, and in addition the situation was horribly complicated by the presence, outside the Park, of members of the police force who would have been told to watch Jbr him. He had been sorely tempted to throw discretion to the winds, and chance what might happen; but in hia saner moments he realized that the odds were so terribly against him that it would be sheer madness to do so. If Sabine were taken by the police it meant that she would receive a prison sentence; but by making a premature move he would place her life itself in jeopardy. Cursing the necessity of deferring personal action, he had decided that his only hope now lay in leading the police to suppose that he was completely loyal to them. Lord Gavin could know nothing of the projected raid on Eastchurch Marshes; by participating in it Gregory saw that he would at least learn of all new developments at first hand. Such information might prove invaluable and he must trust to his judgment, once the raid was made, as to the best moment to slip away from ihe police and act independently. He had brought Rudd with him to Scotlarsd Yard. Marrowfat’s oration was brief. With a map spread before him he pointed with a stubby finger to various places on it. The Kent constabulary were cooperating with them; special levies drawn from Rochester, Chatham, Sittinghourne and Maidstone would take up their positions on Sheppey Island directly dusk had fallen. The Thames River Police had also been called in. With launches manned to capacity they would slip down the north coast of ths island after dark, meeting near the Ham Fishery buoy m the deeper water a couple of miles or more to the north of Shell Ness. Sound detectors would be on board some of the launches and they would lie in wait there until the motor barges of the smugglers passed south of them up the channel of the East Swale; upon which they would move in and close the mouth of the river.

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day afternoon at 4:45 o'clock. Tho baby weighed eight pounds and nine ounces. She was named Phyllis Jeanne. Mr. and Mrs. Ralph Farrar of 413>£ Mercer avenue are the parents of a baby girl, born at the Adame county memorial hospital this morning at 9:44 o'clock. The baby weighed eight pounds, three and ’ three quarters ounces and has been named Susanne. George R. Bierly has returned home for the summer vacation from his studies at Loyola univesrlty in Chicago.

—.. -I 1 The Superintendent’s own party, e consisting of some Special Branch - men, Sir Pellinore, Gregory and 1 Wells would leave by car immet diately and, crossing the West Swale to Sheppey, rendezvous at Queenborough. Small arms and am- . munitions had already been served I out. / A quarter of an hour after Sir - Pellinore's arrival at the Yard the little crowd of muscular big-chinned e men shouldered their way out along i the passageway from the Superin- - tendent’s room, down the stairs, and a into the waiting line of swift superr charged cars. 8 Gregory had brought his own car for his own perfectly good reasons. • He got into the back with Sir Pelli- > nore; leaving Rudd to drive it and a ; plain-clothes man beside him to der cide on the route they were to take. They were at Queenborough be- ' fore half past eight and, having al- ' ready had his instructions, the plain-clothes man beside Rudd con- ’ ducted them to the police station which served the docks. Wells and Marrowfat had just driven up but r there was no sign of the squad of Special Branch men who had left 1 the Y’ard with them. j Sir Pellinore and Gregory got out , and followed the Superintendent . into the Station. A local Inspector . who had reconnoitered Eastchurcl Marshes that afternoon gave them a brief description of the terrain where the landing was expected. "We shall proceed to Eastchurch ■ village,” he said, “and leave our ’ cars there, parked out of sight in , garages, for which I’ve already ari ranged. We shall then go on foot down the side road leading south from the village. It's about a twomile walk through low-lying unwooded country. There’s a little cultivated land here and there, but it's mostly marsh which is waterlogged in winter. However, fortunately for us, it’s dry enough to walk on without any danger of being bogged this time of the year.” “You'll see from the map the track I’m speaking of doesn’t run right down to the water so, at the bend, just at point 13 which marks a alight rise in the ground, we shall turn right and cross the fields for about five hundred yards until we strike that second track which actually leads to the creek. That’s probably the road they'll use. That, or the third track half a mile to the right again, which ends at the creek where it's marked “Hook Quay." "The only buildings between the second and third tracks are a collection of empty tumbledown sheds near Hook Quay and a new cottage on the river bank about two hundred yards south of it which was built only a few months ago. The cottage is inhabited but, as the people who live there may be in with the crowd we’re after, I didn't like to risk rousing their suspicions bj going near the place when I was having a look round this afternoon.” The whole party then left the station and, piling into four can, drove off along the good road to the north of the island until they came to the little village of Eastclrurch. Having parked the cars they began their walk, crossing the railway line at Eastchurch Statioff half a mile south of the village, and proceeding after that into the gathering dusk which had now descended upon the lonely stretch of country before them. They left the lane at point 13 and struck across the low-lyiiyg ground with its coarse tufts of high marsh grass, found the road to the east and turned south along it until they arrived on the banks of the creek; a sluggish stream set between sloping muddy levels. The opposite bank was about a hundred and fifty yards away and, although scores of police were now lurking in the neighborhood, not a soul was visible in the failing light. The only life apparent In that desolate waste was a shore bird pecking in the mud and a few screaming seagulls which wheeled overhead. (To Be Continued) Caenlshu lilt. St (Ist return Smdletu. Isa.