Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 37, Number 126, Decatur, Adams County, 27 May 1939 — Page 1

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MADMAN CAUGHT AFTER SHOOTING Escaped Lima. ()., Madman Wounds Two In Chicago Tavern I Ch lento. May 27 — qjp) _ Frank Haines. 37. a madman who. | escaped- with tour companion*! 'from th" state hospital (or the in- ’ Mne at Lima. O. January 2. ran I amuck In a west aide tavern early ’ today and shot and seriously wounded two men He was aeI verely beaten and overpowered by ' | a dozen patrons. He swaggered Into the tavern.' j Witnesses told police. and waved i* gun. About So patrona were; i present Then he walked up to ' Nora Trllleti. 22. operator of a dice table and shouted. "Are you i looking for trouble’" . Mina Trllleti dropper] to the j floor and attempted to twite, i Haltlea by the lega. He liegan firing One bullet fltntck flenrge Roach, i 26. In the throat, and another atrack Paul Hague. Stafford ‘ Hprlnga. Conn. in the cheat Jack ‘ tiondon. manazer of the tavern, trahlieil the gun and other patrona beat the fugitive critically Itefore i police arrived. Rtaich and Gagne were taken to a hoHpluil Their conditlona were I reported to be critical. Halawa wag taken to the Bridewell hospital at the county Jal). He gave hia name an Cecil Campbell, lietroit. He waa not Identified na Halnea until three hour* after the ahooting The identification waa made through flngerprinta In the ■ of identification. • All of the men who eiicaped with Halm-* from the Lima aaylum have been recaptured. One of, them waa William Hlatz. who waa aeiged here Fell IS after he had I wounded a man in a tavern ahi ait Ing. He revealed nhortly after hia arrest that Haines planned to come to Chicago to kill hia former wife. Margaret. 30, who had helped po- ‘ lice trap Haines when he van lead :er of a small Chicago gang. Haifa*. Hlatz said, also planned to.kill four Chicago pulutgneu wbo ' were instrumental in sending him to prison. SEVEN YOUTHS TO BOYS STATE Decatur Organizations To Send Seven Youths To Hoosier Boys State Seven Adams county youths, all of high school age. will attend the , annual Himsler Roy* State, to hr ' held at the fairgrounds In Indian spoils Saturday. June 17, to Saturday. June 24. The Boys State, n week of in- ] i tensive training and education In i citizenship and government, Is . sponsored by the American legion with the cooperation of many I other organizations. In the previous years of the ■ Roys State, ezcellent results haw been ohtalin-d and Recatur and Adams county youths who attended the week's camp have lawn highly enthuaiaatie over the trainI Ing received. Mat year, five Imys from the , county attended the Boy* Slate and the gtunber this year hits been I 1 increased to seven I The hoys who will attend the week's camp and the sponsoring orgnnizallotta are ns follow." Adnth* post number 43, American lautlon Robert Stapleton, son of Mr. and Mrs. Clarence Stapleton. Decatur: Benjamin William , Jones, son of Dr. and Mrs. Dully ; Jones of Berne. Adams post auxiliary — Howard flehrlg, sou of Mr and Mrs. Till-1 man Gehrig of .Decatur. Rotary club William Brown, mm of Mr. and Mrs. W. Guy Brown ( of Decatur. Lions club—Roltert Gent Is. son! of Mr. and Mrs. Ralph Gentis of ~ (CONTINUm> ON PAOB MX) Petition Hearing Continued Today The hearing of the pet'tion of, Willard Steele, a* administrator cf ! the esfate of Mary E. Sleele. In v.hlch It Is complained that Adeline Harp, daughter of fltt deceased concealed and refused to deliver »972. I alleged to be part of the es'ate. was continued In circuit court this morn■ing. The continuance was granted by Judge J. Fred Fruclite because D. Burdette Custer, local lawyer ln- ( I forested In the case, was unable to ! be present because ot the death of | 1 a relative in Columbus, Ohio, ■

Ab I . S. Navy Began Work of Raising Submarine ~ [Fb T* > s ♦

Thia was the acene off Portsminith. N. H. as navy i divers l»-gati the work of raising the submarine Bqualtis. which sank to the bottom of the Atlantic |

NOTEO SURGEON TAKEN BY DEATH Dr. Charles Mayo Dies Friday After illness Os Pneumonia Chicago. May 27— >U.R) —The body of Dr. Charles Horace Mayo, noted surgeon, was taken today Io his home at Rochester. Minn., Where he and hia brother, son* of a country doctor, transformed a Hinall hospital Into a clinic anti re-! I search foundation famous through- * ■Hit the World. He died at Mercy hospital late ' yesterday after an eight-day siege iof pneumonia with which he wa* stricken while in Chicago Oil a business trip. He waa 73 and had spent 4» year* a* an active suygeon and physician. ifl* achievements made the Mayo clinic a medical mecca visited by rich and poor from all corners of tbe globe and brought him i J many honors His awards, degrees i • and titles, including recognitions from several European countries, filled an eight-page booklet. lie was acclaimed as one of the! moat versatile surgeon* of hl*. generation. He waa a pkmecr in surgery of the nervous system. I retogiilzed as the originator of goiter surgery, ami performed mon* than 700 operation* for cataract of the eye. Ills work also Included hundred* of operations on the brain, ear, nose, throat and , alalomen His attending physician. Dr. Thomas Jun Dry of the Mayo din (CONTINL'KD ON PAUN HVB) CHURCH PLANS BIBLE SCHOOL Methodist Church to Conduct Daily Vacation Bible School The tlrst annual Methodist church dally vacation Bible school will be held here June 6 to 16. Inclusive. It was announced today. Lowell Smith, a member of the Decatur Junior-anlor high school | faculty, has been named dean ot , ! the Bible school. Syven cla*se* will be held with I the school catering to tho youngsters of the ages of four to 12. I'uplls ot the seventh and eighth I grades are also invited to attend. , iaa provisions will be made for their < ! classes. ( Following la tho list of grades ! and tho teachers: , Kindergarten: Mrs. Russell Gw- ( ons. teacher and Mias Annis Mae Merriman, assistant. Primary . Mrs. P. Bryce Thomas, I teacher and Miss Annabelle Doan, assistant. Second grade: Mrs. Robert Mills, teacher. | Third grade: Mias Gladys Doan, teacher. Fourth grade: Mrs. Marlon Feasel. teacher. Fifth grade: Mrs. Percy Gould. ’ teacher. Sixth grade: Mrs. R. W. Graham,* 1 ' tefteher,

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Decatur, Indiana, Sal iirday, May 27, 1939.

Practice Schedules For Bands Announced Albert Sellemeyer. director of the sch<M>l liands of this city, toi day announced practice schedules for next week. The combined puttid will practice at 3:30 p. m. Monday, the high school l>and al 7 p. m. Monday, the girls liaud at 4 p. m. Wednesday and the Calho lie liand al 7 p m Wednesday. The high school band will play for the memorial service Tuesday morning and the girls band will leave early Thursday morning for Fori Wayne, where they will lake part in the Concordia college cell- ' leu til* I celebration. GIVE PROGRAM FOR CAMPOREE Annual County Boy Scout Camporee At Berne June 3 And 1 Bern. May 27 Arrangements ure virtually completed for the annual Adams County Buy Scout t Campore*-, to be held here al lx>hman Park on Saturday and Sunday. June 3 and 4. It waa announced by C. T. Michaud, county vice- < hairman and Ralph McClain, who will serve as campmaster. A large number of Scouter* have been appointed to aid with the details. Tin- program for the two-day event which promises to attract many persona and serve as an impetus to Boy Scout work here and in the county has been announcetl. Boy Scout troops from Decatur , (31. Ilerne (2> and Geneva (11 are to participate in the Camporee. The program follows: Saturday. June 3, 7:36 to 9:UVIlcKtster at (Utmisnaster's headquarters in 'Lehman Park — Set j up catnpa. 10:30 — Personal and campsite I inspection. 11:30 — Cookcraft Inspection. 12 noon — Lunch. « 1:16 — Rest period. Every Scout in his tent until 1:45. 2:15 — Scout activities ami contests. 4:40 — Retreat ceremony. 5:30 — Cookcraft Inspection. Judges to bo on hand at 5:46. 8:15 — Campfire y- Court ot (CONTINURD ON PAGE HIM Scout Officials To Meet Monday Nitfht Sylvester Everhart. Adams county 1 Boy Scout commissioner, today called a meeting Monday evening of till Scoutmasters, troop committee* and ' and other Scout officials. The meet- 1 mg will be held nt the junior-sen-ior high school building at 8:30 o'clock. 0 ! Sons Os Legion < To Meet Monday The Sons of the Legion will hold [ their regular meeting at the Leglou home, First and Madison streets, Monday evening at 7 o'clock. All , members are also requested to re- , port st the Legion homo before 9 , o'clock Sunday morning to attend , the annual memorial services of the. i Legion.

ocean during a test dive, claiming the lives of 26 men out of a crew of 59. Thus** are ponuama. which are used to float a submerged vessel.

JURY STILL OUT AT HUNTINGTON Huntington Jury Deliberating In SIO,OOO Damage Suit A Huntington circuit court Jury this morning was still deliberating its verdict lu Gie 110.000 damage suit ot Mrs. Mary B Patterson, i administratrix of the >-*iau- of! Charles W. Patterson, against the ' <'lilcago Erie railroad The suit is predicated on fatal Injuries sustained by Mr. Patter-* son. Erie engine* r. in the collision of two freight trains southeast of Decatur the morning of Sunday.: February 14. 1937. Evidence was completed .In the case Friday afternoon and an evening session was required for completion of evidence and reading of Instructions to the jury. The case went to the Jury at '8:05 o'clock Friday evening Depositions by Kathleen and Herbert Banning, residents of nesr the scene of the accident, were presented by defame counsel Fri- 1 day. - Other closing defense witnesses were V. C. ia'alhermaii, a brakemay on Mr. Patterson's train, who testlfh-d he had jumped as the engine hit the calMsise of the train ahead and said there was no noticeable reduction of speed, and Frank Hurd mid O. J. Krlmblebom, who testified regarding distances required to Stop hH-onio--1 tlves under various conditions. TWO STUDENTS MAKE EXHIBIT Unusual Exhibit Is Prepared By High School Biology Class An unusunl and Instructive exhibit has been prepared by the students of R. A. Adams' biology t'lass of tho Decatur Junior-senior high school. It was disclosed today. ■ The exhibit was hastened to completion before the closing of school and will be used fnr future reference by classes and nature lovers. The exhibit, prepared by Ruth Grether end Jean Zdmmermiin. biology students during the past school term, contains a complete list of all hard woods and a sample of each. It represents hours of arduous labor nnd collecting. Mr. Adams said, and in to bn given a place of prominence In the teaching of the school subject. Seventy-five types of hard wood nre Included. The biology exhibit, gathered by students of Mr. Adum*. hns become known as one of the finest In any school In this section of the coun-J try. Scores of insects, plan is, reptiles and other subjects of biology study have been captured, preserv-, ed and added to the exhibit. In the more’ rare collection* I* a scorpion and 34 baby scorpions, the dead-; Bust of smaller creatures.

MEMORIAL DAY l TO BE MARKED IN THIS CITY American legion To Conduct Services; Suspend Business Decatur and community will observe Memorial Day here Tuesday,' May 30. by generally suspending practically all busine** and paying tribute to the war dead. With the exception of service stations, restaurants, confectioneries. cigar stores, and a few othjer business houses, the stores will ' close for the day. No mail deliveries Wilt be made, except special delivery. The Flrat State Bank will ctaaa and the Decatur Daily Democrat will not publish on that day Th<> official celebration of the day will be in charge of Adams Post No. 43. of the American lagion. This observance will start at X;3O o'clock at the Legion home. Post members and veterans will go to the St. Joseph and Maple wixml cemeteries to pay tribute to , the deceased veterans. At 9:30 o'clock a parade will form on Liberty Way and proceed to the Monroe street bridge where j services will be held to pay | tribute to the sailor dead. The parade will then return to the peace monument on the courthouse lawn and there a short program will held. All veterans and members of the veteran organization auxiliaries are urged to attend and take part in all of these services. Sons of the American ia-gkui. Roy Scouts, and children on bicycles are also expected to form lin the parade to and from the bridge. The public is invited. Adatns post will hold the annual memorial services Sunday morning at 9:45 o’clock at the St. Mary's I Catholic church, with Rev. Joseph J. Seimetz. pastor, delivering the memorial sermon. The veterans will meet at the I-eglon home at 9 o'clock and march In a body to the church. DEATH CLAIMS HORATIO CHASE 'Well Known Decatur Man Dies Today After Lonjf Illness Horatio Seymour Chase, 70. well known Decatur citizen, died at 7:20 o'clock this morning at the Adams county memorial hospital of carcinoma He hud beets ill , several months. . Mr. Chase was a retired farmer - and lived in Decatur and Adams county since 18M. The deceased was born Septeml>er «. 1868, in Switzerland county,! Indiana, a son of James Washington and Dorothy Ann Chase. In 1896 he married Clartf Marie Fisher, who died In 1916. Mr. Chase remarried. Ida necond wife iieltig Margaret Smith, who died ill 1919. » Four children were born by the first union, all of whom survive.' They are. Arthur Milton Chase and Mrs. Ines Marie Htwiver of South Bend; Elmer and William Earl Chase of this city. One son by the second marriage. Charles Andrew 1 chaae of this city, also survives. Mr. Chase was a member of the I’nlted Brethren church. Funeral ' services will la- held Monday as- . ternoon nt 2 o'clock nt the Vttloti ! Chapel church, northeast of DetCONTINCED ON PAtIK TWO) * - - - ' 0 11 Rosemary Fullenkamp Condition Improved Miss Rosemary Fullenkamp. who underwent an emergency operatlon for the removal of her appendlx at the Oak Park hospital. Oak Park. Illinois, Thursday night. Is reported as progressing satisfactorily. according to word received by her parents. Mr. nnd Mrs, Fred Fullenkamp. yesterday. Her sister, Miss Pat Fullenkamp. will spend several days there. I ■! «■ Q.l — Water Filter Bid May Be Let Monday Kenneth Arnold, chairman of tho water committee of the city cotinI cti. stated ioday that the awarding i of the contract for the furnishing j ot a new water filter for tho city I well at the Homestead would probably be made next Monday. Three liids were received this we«k for the furnishing of the filter. Members of the committee this ! week have been corn piling and con- | sidering the bids.

Former Decatur Resident Killed In Auto Accident

PORTLAND SUIT TO JURY TODAY Condemnation Suit In Adams County To Jury At Noon The condemnation suit brought by the Adams county commissioners against John and Hertha Mo* are, being tried In the Jay circuit court on a change of venue, was scheduled to go to the jury at noon today. This morning, attorneys on each side were granted an hour to make their arguments before the jury. The county commissioners are represented by county attorney Henry B Heller, of Decatur, and Albert Abromson. of Portland. The evidence In the case waa completed Friday afteroon. The plaintiff put Forrest Higgins, of the state highway department, on , the stand to testify as to u conver- - salon, which took place between him and Mr. Moaure in regards to the proposed road. Mr. Higgins said Mr. Moaure told him only a few tree* would have to be removed. which is le-ing done by the state highway department, be continued. The commissioners are seeking the land as right of way along a proposed new state highway extending from Geneva towards Bluffton to the Wells county line. A Wells county road from Bluffton toward Geneva to the Adams county line is now under way. It la proposed at a later date to continue this Bluffton-Geneva road east to the southeast corner ot Adams county where it will Join (CONTINUED ON PAGE TWO ~ —- O - Church Os God To Hold Bible School A daily vacation Bible school ! will be conducted at the Church of God beginning .Monday. May 29. The school will be held for two weeks, cloelug June 9. Boys and girls between the age* of 4 and 14 are cordially Invited to attend. Two Plead Guilty In Circuit Court Guilty pleas on criminal charges of two men were received in circuit court late Friday afternoon by Judge J. Fred Fruchte. I<eon Furnas. 15-year-old Marlon lad. who wan returned from Kendallville by state policeman Rusnell Prior Thursday night to answer to charge* of vehicle taking, pleaded guilty. Sentencing wan deferred by the court and Furnas wan remanded to jail Furnas allegedly stole two autos In Bertie in addition to stealing a car and a suit of clothing at Marlon and some gasoline near Kendallville R->l>ert Haln-g---ger also entered a plea of guilty, after being arrested by Sheriff Ed Miller on a charge of child neglect. Sentence was also deferred in his case. RURAL SCHOOLS PLAN EXERCISES County Eighth Grade Commencement Plans Are Announced Plans for the annual eighth grade commencement exercises were announced today by C. E. Striker, county school superintendent. The date of the exercises has been tentatively set tor Saturday, June to. The event will be held In the auditorium of the new Decatur Junior-senior high school on Jefferson street in this city. Albert Stanley, of South Bend. . administrator of the rehabilitation education department for the eighth district, will be the speaker. Approximately 275 boy* nnd girls will receive diplomas, algnlfl- . cant of their graduall<m from the ' eighth grades of the rural schools ! of the county. 0 « NO PAPER TUESDAY In accordance with annual custom, the Dally Democrat will not publish an edition next Tuesday, May 30, which Is I Memorial Day.

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I ■ VauTan Snedeker Killed In Auto Accident Near Mt. Vernon, 0., Friday Afternoon. DIED INSTANTLY V'aufan Snedeker. 26. former Decatur young man and prominent : Decatur high echool athlete, waa ■ killed Inatantly late Friday aftermam near Mount Vernon, Ohio, in an auto accident. i Snedeker and another man. i whose name wa* not learned, were enrouth from Mount Vernon. Ohio i to Delaware. Ohio when the crash 1 occurred. Reports stated that tbe other ' man was driving and that in an ’ attempt to pass an approaching I car. it struck a bridge. Snedeker waa instantly killed and the drivi er was critically injured. 1 Mr. and Mrs C. L. Custer of Pleasant Mills, aunt and uncle ot the deceased. left Immediately ' after bring notified, with their son, i D. Burdette Cuater. They went to 1 Ixdpslc. Ohio to join Ralph Fuller. 1 an uncle of the wreck victim and from there pr<M-erdrd to Mount ' Vernon to claim the body. May Be Brought Hsra Since the relatives here could not be contacted it la not known : whether or not the l>ody will be ’ returned here Mrs Fuller, an ’ aant of the deceased and wife of 1 Ralph Fuller, l-eipsic undertaker, stated In a telephone conversation 1 that the relatives were considering returning the body to Pleasant 1 Mills for burial bat had not J<-ctal- ' ed definitely. [ It is thought that Snedeker waa working In a stock show company 1 with hl* parents. Mr. and Mrs. H. Ray Snedeker In and around Coshocton. Ohio. He left here more than a year ago. At the tlmo he last resided in Decatur the deI ceased was employed at the DecaJ " (CONTINL'ED ON PAGE MX) CENSUS TO BE TAKEN IN 1940 Formula Used By Government Indicates Population Os 5,345 Washington, D. C.. May 27 (WN I SI —The effect of the depression on Decatur will be shown by the extent which Its 1940 population is above or below 6,345. With the approuch of the sixteenth dicennial census, the population figure of 6,345 looms a* very , Important because that figure is ! about what Decatur's population , would be In 1940 under normal ec- , onomlc conditions. The figure Is based <m a formula , formerly u*ed by the census bureau In computing population. By comparing the figure with tbe actual ' county obtained in th«* 1940 cenaua, Decatur residents can determine whether the depression hindered or helped th* growth of their city. Uist estimate for the city, which was based on the formula, waa for 1933 Actual 1930 census count waa 5.156. After 1933, the census bureau stopped computing population by means of this formula because depression was resulting In population shifts which made th formJ ula unreliable. During tho 1930-35 period the general trend of population was from cities to rural areas, but 9eslncl3 returning to cities, to get either Jobs or relief. Weather combined with the depression caused the biggest migration. from drought areas to California and other coast states. Because It will determine defln- , Its population trends and shifts, officials believe the 1940 census will result in new business, agricultural, and general economic theories and practices for private business nnd government. TEMPERATURE READINGS DEMOCRAT THERMOMETER I " " T " 8:00 a m 76 11:00a.in >0 10:00 a.m 78 Weather Showers and thunderstorms tonight and probably Sunday morning. Cooler, outlook generally fair Monday and probably Tueeday, with moderate temperature.