Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 36, Number 199, Decatur, Adams County, 23 August 1938 — Page 1

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♦ . DOG IS VICTIM Adams county's latest high- | way truffle victim, a large St. | Bernard dog, waa killed instant- j ly about 7 o'clock Monday even- j ing when struck by an auto, | The dog, owned by Fred Ahr, | living east of Decatur, was hit | by an auto driven by Richard | Tope, in front of the Ahr resi- | dence. According to the story j related to police, the dog ran | from behind another car dir- j ectly into the path of the Tope j auto, which was badly damaged | 1 1 about the front end. ♦ * SOVIET LEADER URGES BRITAIN ACT IN CRISIS Demands Committee Call; Spanish Rebels Reject Proposal London, Aug. 23 — (U.R) —lvan Maisky, soviet ambassador, visited the foreign office today and demanded immediate summoning of the non-intervention committee on Spain, in view of the crisis ■ caused by the nationalist rejection 1 of Britain's proposals for with drawal of foreign volunteers. It was reported that when Maisky proposed that the committee meet at the end of this week, Lord Plymouth, its chairman, replied that it would be impracticable, de-, daring that further preparation would be necessary. It was learned that Guido Crolla. Italian Charge . d affairs, visited Plymouth yesterday and urged a further diplomatic exchange between the non-intervention com-' mittee and the insurgent govern-: ment at Burgos, with a view to elucidating passages considered, obscure in Gen. Francisco Franco's ’ note. I-ord Plymouth was understood to share Crolla’s opinion. The. next step would be a further communicatiou with Bwrgoe. be said, i so that a committee meeting mean | while w.ould be inopportune. British cabinet members held; i themselves ready for a special | meeting as Prime Minister Neville , Chamberlain, and other key men I of the government anxiously stud- | ied the situation. A split in the i French cabinet added to the anx- j i iety. It was understood that Viscount: Halifax, foreign secretary, intended to get in touch with the French foreign office and urge that France keep its frontier closed against : any flow or arms to the loyalists, for fear that Premier Benito Muss- j olini might Intervene openly in behalf of the nationalists. Strangely, the nationalist note | seemed to cause more anxiety here , than it did in Pdris. The British leaders were con- j I siderably anxious over Mussolini's attitude. He has long been impat-1 , lent to delay in enforcing the Brit- [ ish-Italian friendship treaty. Delay in effecting the plan for evac- i nation of civil war “volunteers” | meant delay in making the treaty effective. In Paris, however, according to I United Press dispatches, the government seemed to have no (CONTINUED ON PAGE TWO) HOLD INQUESTS INTO ACCIDENTS Coroner May Conclude Accident Investigations Wednesday Coroner Robert Zwlck stated today that the inquests into the three fatal accidents of the past two weeks would probably be concluded Wednesday. Coroner Zwlck stated that but one or two more witnesses are to be questioned before the investigations into all of rhe crashes will be completed. Verdicts are to be returned in the deaths of six persons in the three wrecks. Investigations are now underway by Coroner Zwick and his deputy, Robert Freeby, into the wreck J south on federal road 27, which took the lives of Jerome Gase, Monica Colchin, Detlef Petersen and Linda Niehaus; the auto-bi-i cycle wreck in Blue Creek township, which killed Leslie Stanton and the truck-auto crash near Bobo, which killed Mrs. Mabel Ross. He indicated that all verdicts will be available Wednesday, immediately upon completion of the inquests.

POLICY RACKET LEADER TELLS OF PAYMENTS Operations Manager Re-, lates Paying SSOO Weekly To Hines New York. Aug. 23 — <U.R) — i George Weinberg, operations man- j ager for Dutch Schultz' multi-mil-1 lion dollar policy racket, testified l today that he personally handed to James J. Hines. Tammany district! leader, |6OO a week. Weinberg, who turned state's evidence to accuse Hines of fur-1 nishing political protection for the , racket, testified in the trial of the political figure that he met Hines in front of his home at 444 Central Park West, New York, in April, ' 1932, and gave him the first pay-1 ment of SSOO. He added that Thereafter he met | the political chieftain every week : or two weeks until the latter part , of 1932 and paid him that amount,: at which time Hines “got a raise.” District Attorney Thomas E. Dewey questioned Weinberg about meetings with Hines. Q. Did you meet him regularly? , A. Yes. Q. What did you do? A. 1 paid him the SSOO a week he was sup posed to get. Q. How often? A. Once a week, sometimes once every two weeks. Q. Where did these meetings take place? A. In front of his house or at his club (The Monongahela. Democratic club in Hines' 11th assembly district). Q. Did you have a talk with I Schultz after this? A. Yes. I toid him it was time for us to show the people of Harlem our power, that we had the right kind of protection. I said we ought to open an office. Q. What did Schultz say? A.: He said “you know what you need but don't do anything. Don't open ' any office until you see Jimmy about it." Q. Did you meet Hines? A. Yes his house some time in June j (CONTINUED ON PAGE TWO) LAWYER NAMED LEGION LEADER Newburgh Attorney Elected Commander Os Indiana Department Indianapolis. Aug. 23 <U.R) — Harold A. Shindler. Newburgh iaw-| yer. today was elected state com-: mander of the American Legion: on the second ballot. Shindler scored 400 votes to win I the election over Wm. Hyland of Evansville, his nearest opponent, j who tallied 238 votes. Dr. O. T. Tufitnger of Bloomington and John A. Watkins of Bloomberg scored one vote each in the final tabulation. The convention then made the | selection of Shindler unanimous. The four-day convention, attend-' ed by approximately 25,000 persons, was climaxed yesterday afternoon with the annual parade through the city's downtown streets. An estimated 6.000 persons marched for two hours. Every department in the state was represented. There were bands and drum corps; flags and banners waved in the breeze; veterans marched in their blue uniforms and overseas caps; there were steel helmets and bright., shiny grenadier caps. The drum and bugle corps were I attired in brilliant uniforms of blue,' gold, red and white, and all were led by pretty, blond girls swinging batons and stepping high to the martial music. Sitting in the reviewing stand in front of the Indiana world war memorial, were General William K. Naylor, commander of Fort Benjamin Harrison; Gov. M. Clifford Townsend; Mayor Walter C. Boetcher; Col. L. A. Kunzig. commander of the 11th infantry; Gen. L. R. Gignllliat of Culver military academy: J. H. Stone, commander, and J. B. Henninger, adjutant of the G. A. R.; Adolph Seidensticker, (CONTINUED ON PAGE TH REE) —o — Local Red Men To Attend Warren Meet Members of the local Red Men lodge will meet at the local lodge hall Wednesday at 8 p. m. to make arrangements for the group meeting at Warren the following evening. The northwestern Ohio and northeastern Indiana basket picnic will also be held Sundday at the Van Wert, Ohio fairgrounds.

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Decatur, Indiana, Tuesday, August 23, 1938.

1 ' 1 WOT \ ' A H ■ F’ 1 t I« i 1 ; A B I fH'L-. 'i "I IBi 4 1 ■'\ I . Charles Perrine. Howard Hughes and Harry Connor Once more Howard Hughes, millionaire Hollywood movie producer and sportsman, hops across U. S. from Glendale. Cal., to New York, this time on an experimental sub-stratosphere flight. Hughes, shown in New York after the hop with Harry Connor, his navigator on that round-the-world flight, and Charles Perrine, left, his radioman, flew at an altitude of 30.00(1 feet and made the flight in 10 hours and 35 minutes.

SHERIFF’S GAR WRECKED TODAY Sheriff Brown And Deputy Escape Injury As Car Is Wrecked Sheriff Dallas Brown and Ray-,, mond Shackley. also of this city. [ narrowly escaped serious injury this morning in an accident that involved two cars, a buggy and a mail box post. The sheriff and his special deputy were on a call to Linn Grove, when the accident occurred. The wreck occurred on the Mud Pike, four and one-half miles south of Decatur. According to the accident report. an auto driven l>y George Heare. 22, of this city, stopped on the pavement in front of the Peter . Braun rural residence, with the sheriff's car following close behind. An approaching buggy, driven by an Amishman. whose name was not learned, prevented the sheriff from driving around the motionless auto. Applying the brakes and swerving to the right in an effort to avoid the car, the sheriff drove his auto into a mail box. The back end then swerved into the other' auto. The buggy was not hit. Both the sheriff and his deputy were | thrown from the car, but suffered i only bruises and shock. Heare was unhurt. The rear of the Heare auto was ' damaged and the sheriff's car was j badly damaged. It was towed to a local garage. o — Berne Couple To Mark Anniversary — Mr. and Mrs. C. E. Stuckey of Berne will commemorate their 50th i wedding anniversary Thursday at their home in that town. Mrs. Stuckey Is 69 years old and Mr. Stuckey is 71. Both are in apparent good health.

Adams County’s Traffic Toll Higher Than In Previous Year

“Drive Carefully! — Put an end to this wholesale destruction of life, limb and property” — that today was the watchword on the lips of every blue-coated policeman, every member of the sheriff s department and other city and county officials. This warning comes as an aftermath to a series of traffic crashes that have been the bloodiest and most disastrous in the county's history. Accident - conscious residents heave sighs of relief when a relative or loved one returns from a motoring trip. Elderly persons shake a negative nod at the suggestion of a mid-summer pleasure ride for a child or grandchild. Employers cast a fearful efe down that road that should see the belated return of a vacationing employe. Police authorities, ambulance drivers, hospital attaches, all jump nervously at a sound similar

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To Charge Four As Traffic Violators Charges were to be filed today against four young men for traff-. ic violations committed Sunday night on North Second street. Officers Roy Chilcote and Ad- ■ rian Coffe, who made the apprehensions. stated that charges would be filed today. They stated .that they had just arrested Richard Moses, of north of the city, for running a red traffic signal when the autos rounded the curve three abreast. Those who are to be charged: William Harvey, Ed Schultz and Jack Holthouse. o EASTON NAMED ACTUAL SLAYER State Witnesses Identify Easton As Slayer Os state Patrolman i Michigan City, Ind., Aug. 23 — <U.R> — The state called more witnesses to the stand today in its attempt to prove that Orelle Easton. 25, Valley City. N. D., fired the four fatal bullets into state trooper Ray Dixon near LaPorte last June. The jury of 12 men, six of them farmers, late yesterday heard the state's star witnesses, Ralph Hennings, South Bend news photographer, and Walter Sanders, 19, positively Identify the slim North Dakota farmhand as the one who killed Dixon. Their testimony, by which prosecutor Mark Storen hopes to send Easton to the electric chair, refuted previous claims by the youth who said his 27-year-old brother Clarence shot the policeman. Clarence was killed and Orelle captured by a posse near Dsselm, 111., the day after the murder. Sanders and Hennings were riding with Dixon on the evening of (CONTINUED ON PAGJS FOUR)

to the eerie whine of a siren — all this because of the chain of bloody accidents of the last 20-odd days. One month ago, Adams county led in the state on the accidentprevention side of the ledger. But one life had been lost on its highways — that in April when Bert Bears, of Hartford township, died after his car had been hit by a train near Geneva. Then Crown Prince Catastrophe took over the throne, inaugurating the bloodiest traffic reign the county's highways has ever known, leaving the mangled bodies of the dead, dying and injured in his wake. Today the attention of a horrified populace is being directed by officials to that fact. First, August Leimenstoll died In the hospital on August 6 of accident Injuries. Jerome Gsse, Monica Colchin, Detlif Peterson and (CONTINUED ON PAGB FOUR).

LAUNCH PROBES INTO DEATH OF FOUR CONVICTS ! Coroner Charges Pennsylvania Convicts Scalded To Death Philadelphia, Aug. 23 — <U.R) — ! Four convicts found dead in adjoining cells in Philadelphia county I prison were scalded to death, Coroner Charles M. Hersch charged i I today. Two state investigations began : today into the strange deaths in the crowded county prison which i terminated a noisy hunger strike' of 650 convicts against the quality 1 ( of (he prison food. The naked , bodies of the convicts—two in each of two adjoining cells —were found i I yesterday morning. Other prison- j ers were in the cells with the bod- 1 1 ies. The cells were in the “isola- I tlon block,” customarily used for ' disciplinary purposes. While Hersch and his physician. , 1 Dr Martin Crane, insisted that the j men had met death by violence j and that the circumstances were | “suspicious," prison officials in- 1 sisted that the deaths had been due to accidents and that the men were "radical agitators" who had been ring leaders in the hunger strike. Daniel B. Conlin, senior state j prison inspector, undertook one inj vestigatlon. William J. Donovan, senior investigator of the state department of welfare, was assigned by welfare secretary Charles I. Engard to undertake another. An autopsy will be performed today to I establish definitely the cause of i death. William B. Mills, superintendent ! of the prison, first said the men ■ I had killed themselves. Later he I I refused to comment on the reports I I of Dr. Hersch and of other persons I who viewed the bodies in the | I morgue. Hersch, Dr. Crane, and i ! others said that the bodies showed signs of having been scalded, burn- J i ed, immersed, and beaten. After withdrawing his first statei ment of suicide, Mills said that the men had been agitators who used • the hunger strike as an "excuse to I make trouble.” He offered no j other theory as to how they died I except to suggest that they might , have killed one another fighting. ! After a day of silence from offi-1 cials, two semi-official explanations were offered. Detective Sergeant Martin Cur-1 ran announced that he had inter-1 viewed other prisoners in the iso- 1 lation block, particularly Joseph Forte, 24. and Morris Spatz. 27.1 one of whom had been in each of the cells in which the deaths oc-1 curred, and had concluded that the four men died of “over-exertion. 1 exhaustion, and undernourish-1 ment.” Judge Harry S. McDevitt, president of common pleas court, who on Saturday at Mills’ behest tried to quiet the striking prisoners, said ■ the men had torn out steam pipes in their cells to use as weapons and had been scalded by escaping steam. The dead convicts were Joseph Walters, 28. serving 20 to 50 years i for burglary; Harry Osborne, 22, I 10 years for burglary; Frank Coj modeca, 46, 10 to 20 years for I burglary; Joseph McQuade, 26, I three years for larceny. The prison had been upset for almost a week by the hunger strike (CONTINUED ON PAGE FOUR) _O DISTRICT RALLY OF YOUNG DEMOS Young Democratic Clubs To Meet At Garrett Thursday A fourth district rally of Young Democratic clubs is to be held Thursday at 8 p. m. (C. D. S. T.) at,’ Garrett, according to an annonnee-. ment today by Mrs. Ruth Delßiolt, I fourth district publicity chairman and vice-president of the Adams county Young Democratic club. The meeting is to be held in the council rooms of the Garrett city hall. John Lillich. of Columbia City, fourth district president of the i Young Democratic club, will be present. Mayor Fred L. Feick, of Garrett, wil Igive the address of welcome, and Congressman James I. Farley will be the principal speaker. Following the meeting, a free swimming party will be given from 10 to 12 p. tn. in the new $55,000 Garret municipal swimming pool. Those wishing to attend are asked to notify Edwin Kauffman, president of the Adams county Young Democratic club, or Mrs. Deßolt.

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NEW LEADS IN TORSO MURDERS — Tattered Quilt Used To Wrap Torso Victims Is Identified Cleveland. Aug. 23 — (U.T.) — A tattered quilt in which parts of the 13th torso-murder victim of "the mad butcher of Kingsbury run" were wrapped, with identified today, and police detectives started a hunt for a swarthy-complex-ioned junk collector. Police regarded identification of the quilt as the best lead yet in the four-year search for the mysterious killer. Charles Damyn. a barber, who lives in E. 9th street, near the foot of which the 12th and 13th victims were found a week ago. told a newspaper reporter that he recognized a picture of the quilt it had published as one he previously had owned and had given a junkman. He said he had given it to the man five weeks ago when he saw him prowling in the rear of hisi apartment. Damyn said he had seen the junkman twice and that he was a man about 50 to 55 years old. weighing about 150 pounds. "I saw this fellow prowling around and asked him what he was doing.” Damyn said. “He told me he was looking for junk to sell. I gave him the quilt and some other things and he said he would be back the next day and give me 67 cents for the lot.” “The fellow didn't come back the next day, but two days later I went out on the back borch and saw him at the trash barrel again.” Damyn said that he asked the man why he had not paid him and (CONTINUED ON PAGE THREE) WRECK VICTIMS ARE IMPROVED Condition Os Those Injured In Saturday Crashes Is Improved The conditions of all victims in Saturday’s auto crashes were reported improved with the exception of Mrs. Abbie Krugh, of Convoy, Ohio. Mrs. Krugh, who sustained several fractured ribs and shock in the collision north of Wren, Ohio is re- ; ported unchanged. She is not criti- i cal, however. The condition of Junior McClure, 12, who was critically hurt in the same accident was reported some- , what improved today by hospital at- , t aches. James Everett, James McClure and Clark Ross, the others who are confined in the hospital from injuries sustained in the wrecks, were . all reported improved. 1 Funeral services for Mrs. Ross, of Wren, Ohio, who died in the hos- . pital as result of injuries suffered I in the Bobo wreck, were held this afternoon in Wren. Burial was i made there. o___ 0 ___ Recreation Committee ■ Will Meet Wednesday The executive committee of the Decatur recreation program will meet at the office of the chairman Walter J. Krick, in the high school building, Wednesday evening at 7:30 o’clock. All committeemen are I urged to be present. _o Mrs. Alma Heasty Dies In Arkansas Mrs. Jack Elssworth received word this morning of the death of j a cousin. Mrs. Alma Heasty, 48, of Stuttgart, Arkansas, who (fled i Monday evening at 9 o’clock. It is believed that Mrs. Heasty died suddenly as a letter was received from her a few days ago and no mention of illness was made. The deceased was a daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Fred Conrad. She resided here about 20 years ago and had visited here with relatives a number of "times. Her husband proceeded her in death two years ago. One son, Kenneth, survives. Funeral services will be held Thursday in Stuttgart.

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Europe’s Minor Nations Take Further Step To Prevent Embroilment In Future War. IMPORTANT MOVE By Joe Alex Morris (United Press Staff Correspondent) Europe's little nations today took another step out of the way of the next world war. Roumania, Yugoslavia and Czechoslovakia, bound together since the world war in the little entente, announced after a conference at Bled that they recognized the right of Hungary to re-arm; that Hungary agfeed not to use force to settle international problems; that the league of nations was unsatisfactory as a means of collective security; that the closest economic collaboration was desirable among small powers of central Europe. The action was the most important of a series of moves by minor league powers which hope — not confidently but with a grim desperation—that they may find away to keep out of the conflict that threatens to embroil the great democratic and totalitarian powers. More and more they have sought to abandon positive bonds such as French domination of the little entente (set up after the world war as part of France's steel band around the defeated central powers) and to collaborate among themselves as a united neutral force—even as a buffer against war. That objective of cooperation and reconciliation was behind today's development which came even as Hungary's regent. Admiral Nicholas Horthy, was honor guest of Nazi Fuehrer Adolf Hitler. Most important previous similar steps were recognition by Greece, Turkey, Roumania and Yugoslavia of Bulgary's right to re-arm and the strenuous efforts of Poland's foreign minister Josef Beck to set up a “baltic bloc” of small nations separating Germany from Soviet Russia. Their hopes of final success in the significant trend of events which finds more peace in the former Balkan powder keg than anywhere else in Europe admittedly are handicapped if not made impossible l»y their -economic and financial dependence on the big powers, now nervously watching the effect of collapse of Great Britain's effort to isolate the Spanish civil war. o Decatur Ladies At District Meeting A number of Decatur ladies are attending an eighth district federation of women's club meeting'being held in Bluffton today. ■* Those who are attending are: Mrs. Henry B. Heller, district president; Mrs. W. Guy Brown, Adams county ipresident; Mies Eloise Lewton, president of the Decatur woman's club; Miss Vivian Burk, district secretary-treasurer, and the following ladies who are district chairmen: Mrs. Ralph Yager, Mies Effie Patton, Mrs. W. E. Smith, Mrs, Walter Gard; Mrs. J. W. Tyndall and Mrs. Charles Knapp. WATER CARNIVAL HERE THURSDAY Deadline For Entries Has Been Set For Wednesday Evening The deadline for entries in the giant water carnival to be staged Thursday evening, starting at 7 o'clock at the municipal swimming pool, will be Wednesday evening, Marton Feasel. pool supervisor, announced today. Boys and girls are to be divided into age groups to Insure individuals of an equal opportunity to share in the prizes. Seats for approximately 300 persons are to be erected at the pool. No admission will be charged. Extra lighting facilities and a public address system have been arranged, Mr. Feasel stated. The various, events and contests will include: various stroke-styla swimming, under-water swimming, diving contest and relays. Mr. Feasel, Mrs. Feasel and George Laurent are In charge of the event. The complete program and list of officials will be announced Wednesday.