Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 36, Number 260, Decatur, Adams County, 3 November 1938 — Page 1

\ I No. 260.

EWELER IS SLUGGED. ROBBED

m HEARING Ol ADDITION n HOSPITAL ■ax Board RepreConducts I Hearing two and one-half hour t .. morning, evidence FS&t by Paul Weber, field ..Megbtivr for the state tax BBlndianapolis for a final •iiloa by l,lt ' board 0,1 ,he ,>r °- bond issue for the to the Adams iatySeniorial hospital. persons crowded room in M house, where the hearMUmld Originally schedulhour meeting, the aait- " of evidence, hearing and the arguments extended the meeting . over the limit and deedßmings scheduled for tax units in the county a member of "thlt oi state tax beard, alnt on the meeting for a leaving to conduct on the public welfare the county later this part of the evidence was taken up w-ith of the number of ■cn the petition and the ■ Stand presented of Mildred Blosser, abtai-tor. as to their numfigures were: signed by 798 pershoni 74 were not freeeaving 724 names. From her six were deducted 12 persons had signed ons twice, leaving 718 In addition they quesnarnes obtained by Mr. the grounds he had purls property on contract not have a deed to it. fed on the same grounds had been stricken by y auditor from the re:e circulated by Ed Neuut stated they believed raid be restored and Mr. Neuhauserls remoiii which an affidavit had nitted by a person trav--1 him. This left 703 trance: signed by 979 :>f whom 109, were not s, leaving 870 names, of were not verified, leava majority of 95 for the nee, which would pronning of action on the ■n foi a year. Os the 72 not Hi they stated the 33 ob- ■ by Mr. Neuhauser should Hinted. I Petitioners' Stand ■ petitioners submitted the ■» certified by the county Br and changed by the counBm<ii which were: Btion: signed by 798 per■of whom 54 were not ownB property, leaving 744. From ■riNonn on page three) locratic Rally Held Last Evening 1 than 100 persons attended ot township rally held in the 'uth school building WednesEght. speakers were J. Fred |te, democratic candidate for (Arthur E. Voglewede, Democandidate for prosecutor; H. Heller, Democratic cantor joint state representative Vinfred Gerke. Democratic ate for Root township trus- | 8 is the last Democratic rally luled during the present cam I — o fMPERATURff READINGS Imocrat THERMOMETER l® a -tn 56 2:00 p.m 77 F° a m 60 3:00 p.m 76 ® 74 WEATHER Rain beginning late tonight Friday except becoming unified in east portion tonight; •ler in west portion Friday, 'ch cooler Friday night.

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Woman Accidentally Shoots Daughter Terre Haute, Ind., Nov. 3—-(UP) Linda May Armstrong. 29. of Cory tn Clay County, died in a hospital bxiay of gunshot wounds lu the abdomen received when a gun in the hands of her mother, Mrs. Joseph B. Armstrong, accidentally discharged. The two women were alone in Mrs. Armstrong’s house last night and attempted to load the gun when they became frightened at hearing a noise nearby. The gun went off while they were loading it. o ADAMS COUNTY GIRL CHAMPION Marjorie Dilling Named One Os State’s 4-H Club Champions Lafayette, Ind.. Nov. 3. — (U.R) — State champions in 10 4-H club contests who will compete on their records in the national 4-H club congress at Chicago early next month, were announced today by Dr. Z. M. Smith, state leader of Purdue university's 4-H club department. The 10 winners came from five counting Tippecanoe, Scott, Adams, Carroll and Jasper. State champions in the 4-H leadership contest were Marybelle Halstead of Battleground and Robert Arvidson,#lß, Lafayette. Miss Halstead. 18, has spent eight years in club work and her record was described as being "unusually well organized.” Arvidson has completed 30 projects during his eight years club work and has been on • j, e =tate poultry and vegetable judging teams. Both are freshmen at Purdue. Achievement contest champions are Agnes McCulloch, 18, Scottsburg, and Henry Amsler, 18. Rensselaer. The judges decided Miss McCulloch had a "splendid allaround record" after seven years as a club leader, being a 1938 Indiana delegate to the national 4-H club camp and having a high scholastic record. Amsler has completed nine years ot club work during which he completed 18 projects including corn, calf, lamb and pigBoth are also Purdue freshmen. Dorothy Arvidson. 17, Lafayette, sister of the boys' leadership champion, won the girls record contest. She has been in club work seven years. The canning achievement contest vtas won by Marjorie Dilling, 17, Preble, Adams county. Florence Wolla of Wanatah, LaPorte county, was named alternate. Carolyn Hedderich, 19, Delphi was named state champion in the food preparation contest. Six of her seven years in club work have been devoted to the food preparation project. She is a freshman at Purdue. Mary Noblitt, 18, Lafayette, was (CONTINUED ON PAGE SEVEN) —oSTATE PRISON INMATE SLAIN Michigan City Prison Inmate Is Killed During Fight Michigan City, Ind., Nov. 3.—<U.R) The state welfare department today was Investigating the slaying of Henry Smith, 65-year-old prisoner, during a fight in the state prison tool shed last Friday. Warden Alfred Dowd said Smith died Saturday of injuries inflicted by JfTmore Sims, 49, negro serving a term for murder, who apparently struck Smith on the head with a chisel as he was swinging the instrument at another prisonThe name of the third convict involved was not revealed. Dowd said Sims told him ho did not intend to hit the older man but that Smith stumbled in the way. “I'm awful sorry,” Sims said, didn't mean to hit the old man at all.” The outcome of the investigation and the coroner's report will determine whether Sims will stan trial for murder. Meanwhile, Sim was placed in solitary confine_(CONTINUED ON*PAGE FIVE)

PREMIER SAYS JAPANESE WILL CONTROL CHINA Prince Konoye Says Japan Determined To Hold Control Tokyo, Nov. 3. — (U.R) — Prince Fumimaro Konoye, the premier, In a speech broadcast to the nation today demanded a world new deal to establish peace on the principle of afair balance of power. Thus the government statement of last nlgliT was extended to embrace a world policy in which Japan presumably would be united firmly with the other “have not” nations, including her allies of the German-Italian-Japanese “anti-com-munism" front, and at the same time would reserve for herself the future of vast China with its untold wealth, its 450,000,000 people and its 4.480,000 square miles of territory, regardless of such nations as Great Britain. France and the United States which have interests in China. Prince Konoye in his speech maintained a ckse parallel with the government statement on Chinese policy. He started out by saying that | seven great Chinese cities have I fallen to Japan and that Japan held the key to the disposal of China. “However, Japan desires the development, not the ruin; cooperation with, not the conquest of China,” Prince Konoye continued. He then said that Japan and Manchukuo were closely related and must work closely on their common mission toward esublishment of peace and order in the Far East through displaying their own individuality. Paralleling the government state(CONTINUED ON PAGE FIVE) 0 SOCIETY PLANS DISTRICT MEET Pat Manion To Speak To Holy Name Societies November 14 ' Approximately 400 members are expected to attend the district meeting of the Holy Name society to be held in this city Monday, November 14, G. Remy Bierly, president of the host society, announced today. The meeting will be held in the local Knights of Columbus hall at 8 o'clock, preceded by music by the Decatur Catholic high school band, which will start at 7:15 o’clock. Clarence "Pat” Manion, professor of law at Notre Dame university, and .Indiana director ot the national emergency council, will be the main speaker of the event. Mr. Manion is well known in this i community, having recently delivered an address at a local political meeting. His abilities as a speaker) are widespread. Members from societies in Glut!- j ton. Besancon and Monroeville will I be In attendance, in addition to the local order. Following the meeting, a social session wiii be held in the lodge hall, with the local committee serving lunch. Blue Creek Store At Berne Is Sold Calvin Steury, manager of the Blue Creek Dairy stores announced today that he had leased the Berno store to Ralph Liechty, of that town. I Mr. Liechty has been managing, the store there for some time. An-1 drew Habegger, Berne dairyman, has taken over the milk route, Mr. Steury stated. —o — C. Os C. Directors Meet This Evening The board of directors of the Decatur Chamber of Commerce will meet at the office of the president, John L. DeVoss, at 7:30 o'clock this evening. All directors are urged to be present as important business will be disenssed.

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Decatur, Indiana, Thursday, November 3, 1938.

Heart Action During Execution

Dr. Stephen Besley studying tape recording heart action As condemned murderer John Deering was strapped into the chair in front of the Utah state prison firing squad at Salt Lake City, his heart beat 180 times per minute, nearly three times the normal rate of 72 beats per minute. This was disclosed by Dr. Stephen Besley. prison physician, following a record made on the electro-cardiograph which was attached to Deering during the ordeal The device showed that Deering's heart continued to beat for 15.6 seconds after the fatal bullet struck it. The scientific test was made at Deering's suggestion.

ROPER PRAISES PARTY POLICIES Commerce Secretary Speaks At Ft Wayne Rally Fort Wayne. Nov. 3 — (U.R). Party lines must be dropped for consideration of more vital factors in national life, Secretary of Commerce Daniel C. Roper told a Democratic rally last night. Roper said conditions todayl transcend partisan political issues and involve the form of govern- 1 meet under which Americans are to live. He criticized “rigid control” of human initiative under dictatorship and warned that the nation must not become so in-I different to liberty and freedom j that they are sacrificed for a "mess of pottage.” “No government which treats flippantly the sacredness of human lite and tolerance can long withstand the decadence that inevitably comes through a decline of spirituality,” he declared. Chances of such a government in the United States depends upon the aroused public conscious- ! ness to defend their rights under democracy. Roper said. Roper praised Sens. Frederick Van Nuys and Sherman Minton and congratulated Indiana upon its “splendid” governor, M. Clifford Townsend. Reciprocal trade treaties, which have been a favorite subject of (CONTINUED ON PAGE SEVEN) TRAFFIC HURTS FATAL TO MAN Fort Wayne Man, Struck By Adams County Truck, Dies Wednesday John 11. Schroeder, 7.*, Fort Wayne, died Wednesday afternoon at the Lutheran hospital in that city of injuries sustained when he was struck by a milk truck diiven by Otto Kruckeberg of Decatur R. R. 5. Schroder was knocked down October 18 while crossing Clinton street near Leith street. Death was caused by a cerebral concussion and general arterio scherosis. Dr. Walter E. Kruse, Al'en county coroner, announced that he will continue his investigation into the accident. The deceased is survived by the widow, Louise; two brothers, Charles C. and Frederick W. Schroeder, and two sisters, Mrs. Flora Fiedler and Mrs. Ida Schwler, all of Fort Wayne. Funeral services will be held at the residence at 1:30 p. m. Saturday and at 2 o’clock at the Zion Lutheran church in Fort Wayne. Burial will be in Concordia Luth-1 eran cemetery.

Subpoena Union Head Before Committee Washington. Nov. 3 — (UP) — Chairman Martin Dies, Dem., Texas of the house committee investigating unAmerican activities today served a second subpoena on President Homer Martin of the United j Auto workers union to testify concerning sit-down strikes in the mo- ' tor industry. Martin, in Washington for a meeting of the executive council of his union failed to respond to the first. subpoena issued by Dies, informing ; the committee that he was ill. PROPOSER TAX RATES STUDIED State Tax Board Members Conduct Hearings Here Today Hearings continued late this afternoon on the proposed budgets for a number of the taxing units in Adams county next year. They were being, conducted by C. R. Benjamin, a member of the state tax board, and Paul Weber, field man for the state tax board in this district. Objections were made this morning to the Adams county welfare department's budget for i next year. This afternoon objections were filed for the inclusion in the budgets of appropriations for fire engines, proposed to be bought by cooperation among the 1 tow-nships. At 2 o’clock this afternoon the examination of the city tax levy was begun, with no objections being filed by local property owners. TIPs civil rate is 40 cents. The hearings are required, either where remonstrances have been filed, or where the total rate I in 'he unit is more than $2 in an [ incorporated town or city or more than $1.25 in a township. This also includes the county 1 budget, against which a remonstrance has been filed. None of the hearings today will be final, as the evidence taken will be sent to the state tax board, which will make the final decision. It probably will be some time before the decisions are made due to the necessity of the state board considering budgets in every county in the state. Tne county auditor can not begin the figuring of taxes payable next year until the final rates are appioved. Hearings were conducted on the following tax rates: Adams county, 48 cents; French town(OONTINUED ON PAGE SEVEN) o _ G. E. Club Plans For Party* Friday The General Electric club will hold a public party at the recreati ional tn the Decatur plant Friday I evening at 8 o’clock. The public has I been urged to attend.

Man, Woman? Stage Daring Robbery At Sutton Jewelry Store; Proprietor Is Slugged

Jesse C. Sutton Is Slugged By Bandit Pair This Morning And Loot Estimated Between $4,000 and $5,000 Is Obtained; Only Meager Descriptions Available An unmasked man and a woman, carrying a .32 calibre automatic, staged a daring daylight robbery at the Sutton Jewelry store, 210 North Second street, this morning shortly after 8 o’clock, slugging the proprietor, Jesse C. Sutton, and escaping with an estimated $4,000 to $5,000 worth of diamonds, watches and other jewelry, and about S2OO in cash. It was but a moment after Mr. Sutton opened his small store that the man and woman quietly entered and menaced him with the gun in the hands of the woman. The woman, said to be about five feet and five inches in height held the gun on Sutton, while the man ordered him to open the safe. — Sutton said he was warned,

TOTALITARIAN NATIONS MOVE TOWARD POWER Dictators Consolidate Economic And Political Powers By Joe Alex Morris (Copyright 1938 by UP.) Dictatorial gbvernment re-made the world map today at unprecedented speed. Impetus given the totalitarian philosophy by the Munich fourdower agreement was felt with mounting force from the China Sea to the Mediterranean. Dictatorial regimes consolidated economic and political power, added to their prestige among the small nations and met at conference tables to re-draw the frontiers of central Europe. In the Far East, Japan declared all of East Asia her political and economic domain, made the future of American and British interests uncertain in that area and called for a world-wide new deal to set up afair balance of power. Japanese armies will enforce Tokyo's policy if necessary, Premier Fumimaro Konoye declared. In central Europe, a brief meeting of the nazi and fascist foreign ministers sliced another 4,000 square miles of Czechoslovakia, and returned 800,000 persons to Hungarian rule. There was talk that Hungary’s long vacant throne at last would be occupied—possibly by recent Admiral Nicholas Horthy rather than the exiled ArAduke Otto. From Bucharest came hints that Roumania would like to have the Czech towns of Apshitza, ApshaSlatina and Biseritza-Alba. all along the River Tisa and all demanded for Roumania in a resolution passed by the league for cultural union of all Roumanians. Adolf Hitler an dßenito Musso-, lini had never made their power felt more effectively than In the quick action by theis foreign ministers at Vienna, where the southern edge of the dwindling Czech republic was sliced off as a gift ; to Hungary. The German fuehrer’s influence | was particularly noticeable inasmuch as he blocked an Italianfavored plan for giving all of the Czech province of Ruthenia to j Hungary in order to form a com- I mon frontier between Hungary and Poland. Even more significant, it ! was felt in Prague, was the fact that Hungary was given important railroad centers which appeared to indicate that Budapest would be the spearhead of the future nazi thrusts eastward — toward soviet Russia. Although Czechosolvakia has (CONTINUED ON PAGE SEVEN) oFormer Local Woman Dies At Fort Wayne Mrs. Sara Miller Earl, former resident of this city, died this morning at 1:30 o'clock at her | home at 416 Butler street, Fort 1 Wayne. Mrs. Earl was a resident ' of this city until about 25 years ' ago and has many friends here. She was 80 years old at the time lof her death. Funeral arrange-' I ments have not been made. 1

TOBACCO PLANT STRIKE ENDED I Middletown, Ohio, W orkers Vote To Call Off Strike 1 Middletown, O„ Nov. 3. — (U.R) — | ' Tobacco workers abandoned their . strike against the P. Lorlllard To- ( bacco Cb. today and promised to return to work under the surveil- i lance of 500 national guardsmen. The strikers, members of the ~ Pioneer Tobacco Workers union of . the committee for industrial organ- ( ization, planned to file new charges with the national labor relations board however, in an attempt to force resumption of collective bargaining with the company. They demanded vacations with pay. seniority rights and establishment of a grievance committee. The rtoops remained on hand for “safety” purposes. They had been called out by Gov. Martin L. Davey to prevent possible violence as < plans were announced to re-open 1 the plant today in spite of the month-old strike. Authorities said troops would be ' held here until tonight after which 1 one company .iil be demobilized 1 at a time if the conditions war- 1 rant. The strike was called off at midnight after about 500 workers, 459 i of whom were said to be members i of the union, voted at an emerg- 1 ency meeting to return to work. 1 The vote was taken in response to an order from Paul W. Fuller, 1 Cincinnati, CIO regional director. There was only one dissenting 1 vote. It was said that the strike had 1 thrown 1,100 employes out of 1 work; Gov. Davey said that only 200 of them were CIO members. Fuller sent a telegram to Sam 1 Sponseller, CIO field representative J in charge of the strikers, ordering (CONTINUED ON PAGE FIVE) . ( O TOWNSEND HITS ATPROPAGANDA — Strikes At Efforts To Frijrhten And Confuse Farmer Greensburg, Ind., Nov. 3 —(U.R) j — Gov. M. Clifford Townsend ( charged here today that “one of I the worst social crimes of our i generation is the effort made by irresponsible politicians and i wealthy interests to frighten and confuse the farmer.” “Those who during this campaign have levelled a barrage of propaganda against the farmer are the same who always oppose any program benefittlng the farmer,” he asserted. This propaganda is inspired and paid for, Townsend said, “by the wealthy city interests which have tried for many years to control agriclulture. and the great crime is that such efforts tend to arouse the suspicion of the farm- | ers against all city groups.” The great masses of people In l the cities, however, have no sympathy with these selfish interests because they are the same Inter- ■ j ests which have exploited and I oppressed the working people, he : ‘ '(CONTINUED ON PAGE FIVE)

Price Two Cents.

"don't look around and try to watch us.” After the safe was unlocked. Sutton said he was suddenly struck on the head from behind. He remembered nothing, he sai<t until he regained consciousness some 45 minutes later, set off the store’s burglar alarm and called police. Chief of Police Sephus Melchi and Sheriff Dallas Brown were both notified and reported at the store immediately to open the investigation. Report of the theft was put on the short wave state police broadcast and an alarm sent out for fh° pair. W. G. Spaneth. state Pursue Auto Indianapolis. Nov. 3. —(U.R) — State police said today that an automobile containing a man and a woman, believed to be those who earlier robbed a Decatur jewelry store of $5,000 in gems was seen travelling through Marion this morning. State police and authorities in the vicinity are in pur suit and are marshalling their forces in the Marion area police fingerprint expert: William Bell, state police commissioner; Jeny Lantis. Wells county deputy sheriff and all state police patrolmen in this district were summoned to aid in the search for the bandit couple. Meager Description The fact that only a meager description could be ascertained and the 45 minute start given the couple is expected to diminish the chances of their capture. Mr. Sutton described the man as: five feet and eight inches in height, weighing about 180 pounds, wearing a gray hat and gray topcoat. His only description of the woman included thefact that she wore a hat and coat. Mr. Sutton’s ability to describe the bandit pair was further handicapped by his injury, it was apparent. He was taken to the office of a local physician where his injury was cleansed and dressed. Dirt on bis face indicated that he had rolled on the floor after being struck. Blood matted his hair around the injury. It is considered probable that he was struck by a gun butt or some similar hard, blunt object. He stated he did not see a weapon in the hands of the man. Theft Passes Unnoticed Gerald Durkin, city mail carrier. stopped at the Sitton store, supposedly during the time Mr. Sutton was lying on the floor. He stated that he opened the door, tossed in the mail and dilivered his usual “Morning. Jesse” but did not get a response. Thinking that Sutton had stepped out for a moment after unlocking tho store, he proceeded on his route. Scores of supposedly “hot tips” were volunteered from all sides by spectators and passersby. Some, however, were considered Important by the authorities and all reports were being investigated W. H. Foughty, of Thirteenth street, told authorities that he had seen the man and woman enter the store, but gave them only a passing glance. Frank Edgell, Bluffton salesman and Robert Holm. Decatur clothier, also reported having seen a strange couple in a local restaurant, whose description tallied closely with that of the pair. $2,000 Insurance Local agents, who carried the insurance on the store, stated i _ (CONTINUED ON PAGE FIVE)