Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 36, Number 155, Decatur, Adams County, 1 July 1938 — Page 6

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FATHER RELATES KILLING OF SON Georgia Roadhouse Operator, Two Waitresses Held In Death Waycross, Go., Joly 1- AU.R) Tho slaying of a 10-year-old boy by one of two girls who. directed by the child's father, had drawn straws to see which one would do it, was revealed today by solicitor general John S. Gibson. The girls, waitresses in the roadhouse of Harvey Nelson. 40, father of the victim, and Nelson, were under arrest. Gibson said he had obtained a confession from Nelson, which said that he. Verna Mae Clark, 18, and Mary Kent, 17, had

plotted to kill the boy. known as *'J. C.” in order to collect S9OO insurance on his life. The confession climaxed two moths of Investigation into the mysterious slaying of the boy 1: F ,7/ // / F/ / MAKES 10 J nc,- t

!■—i <■! i s—i i hit iinrrn -•BrwißwwwmiiMrwirr— NOTICE To Cut Weeds Property owners are ordered to cut and clear all weeds off their premises located in the city of Decatur on or before JULY’S -1938 If this is not done the weeds will he cut by the city street department and the cost charged against the property owners. Do not pile the cut grass and weeds on the paved streets. This is in compliance with the City Ordinance. Dr. R. E. Daniels Sec’y. City Health Board Saturday Produce Specials LARGE RIPE TOMATOES, pound 10c POTATOES 10 lbs. __ 25c Peck __ 35c SOLID HEADS NEW CABBAGE — pound 4c FANCY SUNKIST ORANGES — dozen 25c LARGE JUICY LEMONS 3 for 10c NICE RIPE BANANAS 4 pounds__2sc LARGE BERMUDA ONIONS pound 7c FANCY CANTELOI PE 2 for 25c THURINGER SUMMER SAUSAGE (chunk) 25c No. 1 FULL CREAM CHEESE, pound 19c LARGE SLICING BOLOGNA, pound 15c D D r Rib or Plate iaL Boiling Beer Pound PORK SHOULDER STEAK — pound 23c • VEAL PADDIES (boneless) pound 25c MINUTE STEAK, pound 25c FRESH GROUND BEEF - 2 pounds ___ _ 35c MEATY NECK BONES lb. 7c 3 lbs. —2O c OUR OWN FANCY BACON «« — _ RINED AND SLICED — pound FRESH PORK or SHEEP BRAIN lb. 12 ’/>c PURE PORK SMOKED SAUSAGE, pound 25c FRESH BULK SAUSAGE, pound 18c BREAD, 3 loaves _ 25c FOODCRAFT OLEO, 2 pounds ZZZZZZZZZZZ 25c "" Mi-atakiJ' r ' w SUGAR ~ — — 10 lb. bag. Cane Don’t Forget Our Line Os Saturday Only 55c 5c a: d Salad Dressing or P „ k s Kidn „ Beses To. bandwich Spread mato Juice, Mustard, Sauer Kraut, AN- Vegetable Soup, Tomato Soup’, Q| Spinach, Hominy. For the Convenience of our Customers we will be open Monday morning from 6to 9 o'clock. We will also he open Sunday morning from 7 to 9 o’clock. Phones 106*107

I i April 26. Authorities described the . crime, citing the father's confess--1 lon. us follows: II The three bad plotted for many ! weeks on ways to dispose of "J.C.” They agreed that the girls should draw straws to decide who should be the actual slayer and also agreed ’ on the division of the blood money. The child left the baseball field late on the day of his death, put away his glove and ball and went into supper. As he ate, the three were watchI Ing. from windows and doors, every. bite he took. Miss Clark, the con- | session said, having drawn the longer straw, had a pistol, loaded and cocked. The child finished his supper, walked out to the porch, i A shot rang out and he fell dead, j All three denied the actual shooting. Mis Clark said the father tired the gun. Nelson, a backwoodsman, a na-' tlve of Douglas, Ga„ came here

1 with Miss Clark and his family to ' set up a roadhouse. His wife died two years ago and he was charg1 ed with murdering her. During r the trial, it was testified that he ■ had beaten her two days before her ijdeath. He was sentenced to 20 years for manslaughter, but has I been free on bail under appeal. Nelson had told police earlier that his son accidentally shot himself through the chest. He has been held, but the two girls were implicated only recently. ruder the terms of the agreement. Nelson was to have received

the largest share of the Insurance. [ Miss Kent was to have gotten S2OO. Nelson promised to pay the S9O still due on Miss Clark s car. The I father also was to have paid the, boy's funeral expenses, keeping i I what remained of the S7OO. "Verna Mae took the pistol," | ' Nelson confessed according to po- 1 lice, “went on the back porch and i squatted near the wall. When I | "J. C.” finished and started out on ■ ■ the buck porch, Verna Mae fired I the shot. He fell on his face." Nelson broke down several : times, police said, during his con-| session. "How could 1 kill my own child?" he cried. "But I did." o— SEEKS TO HALT (CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONE) , i ors. Meanwhile, the state board of ■ tax commissioners today was ex-

pected to act on a request by Judge Baker for a $15,000 appropriation to defray expenses of the investigation. The request has been approved by the county council. The investigation grew out of numerous irregularities found by a recount board which has completed its work in 184 of the total 336 precinctst. The recount was demanded by Al G. Feeney, unsuccessful Democratic candidate for the nomination of Marion county sheriff, and Otto Ray, incumbent sheriff, who was defeated for the nomination as mayor of Indianapolis. Both defeated candidates have gained numerous votes through the recount which uncov-

Weather A Week Ahead As Forecast By PROF. SELBY MAXWELL, Noted Meteorologist , -10,1938 4-10,1938 l zLz ’ jo ■ T-i L' ’ I °W ■/taZ - HOT 8, COLD WET DRY TEMPERATURE AND RAINFALL FOR INDIANA July 4 to 10. The N. E., E. cen.. S. and N. W. portions of Indiana will be moderately cool. The remaining areas will be cool. Moderately dry weather will prevail over the S. and N. W. portions of the state. The remaining areas will be moderately wet. Copyright 1938, John F. Dille Company

Earth Nearer Sun in January Than in July In winter, when driving snows are swirling across the country, the earth js actually nearer to the sun than in the sweltering days of July. The average distance of the earth i from the sun is 92.897.000 miles, with an extreme difference between the farthest distance away, on July 3, and the nearest distance, on January 3, of more than three million miles. “Does this difference appear in the weather”? you ask. Yes. winter in the southern hemisphere is fully a w-eek longer than our northern winter, and it is also colder. It is no accident that Antarctica, a continent larger than Australia, is deeply buried under ice. The ice age is still so intense there that it is difficult for ships to approach Antarctic land. Floating ice from the Antarctic Ocean sometimes actually drifts into the torrid zone. Chill winds in July often blow to Brazil, and the South Atlantic Ocean between South America and South Africa is so filled with ice that ships seldom go there. Yet summer sunshine south of the equator is hotter than summer sunshine for us. The northern hemisphere, which is turned toward the sun when we are farthest away, is a land hemisphere, while the southern hemisphere, which is turned toward the sun when we are closest, is a water hemisphere. The South Pacific, Indian and South Atlantic Oceans partly equalize the extreme weather of the southern hemisphere. But twelve thousand years hence, when the procession of the equinoxes shall have reversed the months of the year, whiter in the northern hemisphere will fall when we are farthest away from the sun and summer when we are closest, and then winters and summers will be far more extreme in America than they are now. Was there an ice age 12,000 years ago, when the northern hemisphere was tipped toward the coldest part of the earth’s orbit last time? What is the evidence? Twelve thousand years ago saw the ending of the Old Stone Age in Europe. Archaeological research has shown that there was much glacial ice in Sweden, Norway and I Scotland at that time, and in fact I there probably were small ice fields i in Scandinavia as late as the time ‘ of Abraham, the Biblical patriarch.

I 'ITHE FAW IS CLOSEST TO THE- SUN ON 3 1 JANUARY J.-TARTHEST ONJULY 3 z W" ( f \ ■ SUMMER. }* \ ik ' j /' W I V \ average distance io y X ( WN I i V 9LJ iM. 92.397 OOOMllb 3 S UN F ( * I " r s' **' wS I ' 94,400,000 ~~ ( If a/™ 3 ’ p AI ‘ TUMN jfc

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,’ered Irregularities In several pre-, clncti. J o — YOUNG BANDIT I (CONTINUED FROM PAOB) ONE) that he would take his life. The '.youth was wounded in the shoulder [ i when his brother was killed. I Once during the trip Easton had said: "If you were a sport, sheriff. I you’d handcuff my ankles, give me 1 your gun and one bullet, and leave I me alone In the middle of a field | for a few minutes.” Easion also remarked that he envied his 'brother, who would not have to face a trial. First to greet the extradited farm I boy was one whom he had kidnaped iin the wild flight through northern I Indiana and Illinois before being ! run down .by the posse near Deeehn, | 111. As Easton faced Charles Hahn,*, one of the two kidnaped deputies

I who was released unharmed, some ' i one said: “There’s a guy you ought to reI member.” ' I “I know you,” Easton eaid to Hahn. "We took you for a ride.” Kankakee authorities released Easton last night after R. J. Hennings, South Bend newspaper photograph- ' er, and Walter Sanders, Michigan ■ City, told of the bandits shooting from their automobile as the two ' men approached with Dixon to offI er assistance. Dixon was wounded fatally, and Hennings and Sanders fled. A minute later two deputies arrived on the scene and the two bandits commandeered their car, hold-

! JULY 1938 ®| r 4- 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 | INDIANA 4 i OCALM ©fAIRWNSrniED ©UNSETTLED a | » UtCfIIItDbSTQQMY • MORM i ■ e The maps show total effect of Hot, - Cold, Wet, and Dry Air to i be expected next week. DAIL FORECAST WEATHER QUESTIONS Question —I have a very expen- 1 sive thermometer. Can I use a metal shield to keep the sun’s di- i' rect rays off my thermometer, or S will the metal transmit too much J p of the sun’s rays? (G. B.) [ j Answer—lt would be better to make a shield out of plywood or . other non-conducting substance. 1 Metal conducts heat from the sun’s a rays with ease and this might o affect the accuracy of your ther- I. mometer. Question —How will the summer . ii be on the coast of Maine, warm or u cool? (R. O.) Answer—Late summer will prob- C ably be warmer than early summer. J The bulk of the heat comes in 1 August and September. j t Question —Why does the moon | s turn colors? (L. S.) Answer—When moonlight shines through air which Is filled with water vapor some of this vapor ab-1 ( sorbs the blue light of the moon's ! rays, and those which come through are seen red. When there is no water vapor in the air the . j moon is bright and clear.

THE WEATHER FOR LATE * SUMMER AND FALL 11 Many requests have come to I us for a forecast of the probable | weather to come in the late I summer and fall of this year. ! Will late summer and autumn I I be warm or cool, wet or dry? ' Prof. Selby Maxwell and his : j staff have prepared an interestI ing forecast for weather for late i ' summer and autumn of this j | year which will be sent to you i free with the compliments of I this newspaper. Address your I i request to Prof. Selby Maxwell, | care of this newspaper. Just i i [ ask tor “Autumn Weather ” I 1938, John F. Dille Co. i

TURROU FIRED. NOT RESIGNED Dismissed G-Man Says “Jealousy” Os Hoover Caused Act New York. July I—<U.R>—Leon °- Turrou, dismissed from the federal bureau of Investigation because he contracted to write a spy expose, charged today that the “Jealousy of J. Edgar Hoover, F. B. I. director. was responsible. Turrou. who was credited with breaking a German espionage ring almost single-handedly, submitted his resignation on June 20 before I his writing plans were announced. Subsequently the resignation was refused and he was listed as “dis- * missed with prejudice." The dismissal was ascribed to violation of a pledge which all agents must sign promising not to divulge information received in the service. "I haven't done anything wrong," Turrou said. "I am only doing what the man behind all this complaint has been doing. He is Just 1 sore because he didn’t get to write this stuff. He wanted to write it himself. “What is this so-called pledge? It I signed it, it was not when I joined the FBI. but in 1935. with a lot of other papers, which 1 supposed were routine. "After Melvin Purvis resigned and wrote stuff, he (Hoover) was Jealous. He just wanted to give this stuff to his friends. He wanted that pledge as an afterthought I so he could write and nobody else. Here the humble Turrou comes out with something which was going to be for good and to prevent repetition of things which have occurred and jealousy steps in. "I wanted to quit six months ago and they begged me to keep on. I i had no agreement with a paper then, I just wanted to quit." Turrou's dismissal was announced last night in Washington. Turrou charged that the only motivation for the pledge G-men were asked to sign was “to protect Mr. Hoover so that he could have exclusive book, magazine articles| and movies, for money, for mater-I ial gain. "There are at least half a dozen men on the government payroll doing nothing but preparing artl-1 cles, books and so forth to be used i under Hoover's name for money which he will pocket. “These six men, a whole staff, are camouflaged as a ‘research division." The most recent capi-1 talization by Hoover based on the secret files of the bureau, is the release of a book called ‘Persons in Hiding,’ the movie rights for which recently were sold for a huge ! sum to Paramount. “If every agent had to sign such a pledge, did Hoover sign it? And if he did. he should have set an example. But let him answer this —whether he signed such a pledge.” o 1,000 CASUALTIES (CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONE) I dye, the member in question, and thus satisfy those clamoring against the government for violating parliamentary privileges and free-! dom of speech. In the Spanish war, the Nationalists continued battering at the Loyalist lines defending Valencia without making appreciable progress., Like the Chinese, the Ixiyalists ,'being them as hostages for eight hours. An illlinois farmer was seized after the deputies were released, j out the police blockade hurriedly thrown up ran them down a short time later in a farmyard near Detelm. o “Meet Your Friends” at the Green Kettle.

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, W n resorting to guerilla tactics and, ■' succeeded In hampering the Nation-j allst advance. A similar situation existed in the Orient, where the 1 toward Hankow but were treaty I harassed by Chinese "suicide unit i , , which covered the slow retrea I their main forces. , 1 Gen. Chiang Kai- Shek Indicated that there will be no early end of , the war by declaring, according to , the Hong Kong Telegraph that I there shall be no peace In the UH- • ent until China’s sovereignty is rec-, , ognized and that China does not welcome foreign mediation under any other circumstances. — 0 — ’ 4-H Calf Club Will Meet Tuesday Night The Adams County 4-H Calf club will meet Tuesday evening at 7:30, at the Monroe high school. All members are requested to bring their record books to the, meeting. Ftaal instructions will be given for Hr 4-H Calf club exhibit to be held in connection with the Devalue high school. The dairy demonstration con test will be held at thtis time. It is hoped that many club members will participate in this event. The, winner will represent the calf club in thte agricultural contest to be held during the fair. Franklin Steury will give a talk on fitting the dairy heifer for the show. Harmonica music will be furnished by Clinton Steury. Alli calf club members are urged to i be present at the meeting to receive their last instructions. o— CAR AND TRUCK (CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONE) line. There were no eye witnesses to ' the accident, but according to Mr. Sawyer he was driving east with heavily loaded truck at about 30 miles an hour. Mr. Wetet was driving north. Neither saw the other until they entered the intersection, when Mr. Weist pulled abruptly to the east with the result the car and

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truck sideswiped each other. The car was mashed In and push-1 ed into the ditch. The truck swung around into a ditch and the topheavy body rolled off into the field., spilling about a ton and a half Ofj milk. Adams County Sheriff Dallas Brown investigated the accident. Mr. Sawyer owned the truck and j bought milk for the Hoosier Con-i densed Milk company of Bluffton. The truck was not Insured. — Five Arc Sentenced On Fraud Charges Citicago, July I—(U.R>—1 —(U.R>— A federal judge today imposed penitentiary 1 sentences on five men convicted of ' using the mails to defraud midwestern physicians and other pro- | fessional men of $1,463,940. , C Joseph Tamuel. 50, president of the Devon Loan and Finance Company. Chicago, and Frank D. Shobe, 54. Chicago attorney and

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