Ligonier Banner., Volume 68, Number 12, Ligonier, Noble County, 19 April 1934 — Page 2

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Dismal News Miss Opal Byrd is assisting Mrs, Charles Beck with her Louse work. Mr., and Mrs. Lon Burley and son Frank visited relatives in Van Wert, 0., recently. _ Claus Bobeck and wife spent Thurs day evening with Dora Clingerman and wife. 7 Mrs. Ralph Lung returneq home from South Beng Friday night after spending several days with Dr. Cleland and family. Max Burley and wife of Ligonier called on Virgil Bobeck and wife, Thursday evening. o Mr. and Mrs. A. Larson of Ligonier visited in the Tilda Bobeck home Thursday. Mrs. Will Debrular of Mishawaka fcrmerly of the Dismal underwent an operation last week. Mr. and Mrs. M. Mullen and baby of Chicago were recent guests of Mr. and Mrs. Ralph Lung. Miss Katie Bitner and Roy Wilkifison were South Benq visitors Saturday evening. Indian Village Sunday-school gathered at t¥6 fiome of Grandma Clingerman to help her celebrate her birthday Sunday. A pot luck dinnr was served and a .social time enjoyed. Wants Wife ang Is ParticularAdd to the duties of the editor the task of finding a good woman for a resident of rural route No. 2, LaGrange. In a letter addresseq to “Mr. Editor of the Advertiser Fort Wayne,” the farmer asks the editor to find for him a woman, aged about 45 or 50 or younger, who can “do my baking and washing and cooking, but I want a good looking woman and I want a nice Christian woman.” The writer of the letter sets out that his wife described as a good Christian .woman is dead and that he needs a housekeeper to help in maintaining his farm home.

Nearby Deaths. William H. Wagner, 83, of complications, at Goshen; Mrs, Joseph C. Keister 76, at Goshen; Benjamin F. Coy, 82 retired farmer at Syracuse; Bli Grissom 73, harness maker, at Syracuse; Charles A. Beamer 49 superintendent of the Fort Wayne street car system of pneumonia, at Fort Wayne; Mrs. Annie D. Wisel, 82, near Angola; William D. Miller, 57 near Angola; Mrs. Jacob R. Thomas 81 of Auburn at Angola from paralysis. | Father Killed, Son Esecapes. Wood D. Robinson 35 was killed instantly at Warsaw when struck by a Pennsylvania passenger train as he attempted to crank his stalled automomobile. £ His son, Albert, 12, jumped to safety a moment before the car was demolished by the locomotive.

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; Poppie Day, May 26th. 1 Ligonier will be called upon to honr tiie World War dead and give aid to the war’s living victims by wearing acn.orial poppies on May 26th. This .ay, the Saturday before Memorial ay, will be “Poppy Day’” throughout he United States and will be observed y the wearing of the little red flower ¢ Flanders Fields, Übservance of “Poppy Day”’ here vill be girected by the American LeJon Auxiliary, Fredenna Barnhart, resident of the local Auxiliary unit :as announced. - Women of the AuxJdary will distribute poppies on the .ireets and receive contributions for e Auxiliary’s welfare and relief vork among the disabled veterans and neir families. Organization of a corps of volunteer ;orkers to distribute the memorial lowers throughout the city is going apidly forwarq under the leadership { Helen Hillegas, chairman of the .uxiliary’s poppy committee. A large apply of poppies has been ordered com the Veterans Administration iospital at Marion, Ind., where disbleq veterans have been given emsloyment during the winter and spring aaking the little flowers. The purpose of “Poppy Day” is to ,ive everyone an opportunity to pay ndividual tribute to the men who gave heir lives in defense of the nation. ‘he little act of wearing a poppy ouches the individual more closely han large public ceremonies in which te is only a spectator and awakens a -ealization of the individual responsiility to the nation, so greatly needed «t this time. “Poppy Day” also gives veryone an opportunity to share in he vast work which the American Legion and Auxiliary are doing for } he disabled men, their families and ~ he families of the dead. ‘ ——— i Décision to Be Made June 2. ~ Special Judge D. R. Best will decide on June 2, whether Milton K. Jacobs ‘ormer vice president of the defunct Noble County Bank & Trust compayn of Kendallville, is entitled to a new trial. Arguments on a plea for a new trial were hearq in the Steuben ecircuit court Saturday. After the arguments were completed, the court announced late Saturday afternoon he woulq take the matter under adwisement. The aMrch term of court closed Saturday. Ask Road Be Left The Same At the Chamber of Commerce meeting in Syracuse a committee was appointed to go with members of the tcwn board to call upon James D. Adams chairman of the State Highway Commission to find out about the routing of Road 13. : The committee will agk the chairman that roaq 13 be routed as it is at present, instead of being changed a 8 rumored. - ;

VISITED WARSAW

Patrolman Pittinger of Warsaw Tells Own Story of John Dillinger’s Raid

Judd Pittenger a small-town policeman told the United Press Friday how he took the muzzle of John Dillinger’s machine gun ang calmly pointed it irto the air. 5

' The gun was pointing at Pittenger’s vitals when he made the bold but{ futiie effort to capture the ace outlaw single-handed. : , ‘ The 54-year-old night watchman patroling the deserted Main street of the little restor town of Warsaw when he encountered the maurauding desperadoes and a companion early Friday. said that Dillinger called him ‘“‘the biggest damu fool I ever saw.” When he took the menacing muzzle of the machine gun and pushed it aside he kmew that his assailant was the widely hunted Dillinger he said. “] recognized him immediately” he leclared. ; . He also described how he attempted ts lock Dillinger and the latter’s companion, Homer Van Meter, Indiana parole violator in a room at ‘he Warsaw town hall and police head jquarters. “If there had been a lock on tne dcor I would have had Dillinger and Ligs companion just like that” he explaineq snapping his fingers. ' As the officer ran for help howaver, Dillinger and Van Meter picked ap three bullet-proof vests and two revolvers jumped into a large llue sedan parked in front of the town ‘nall and fled. .As Pittinger who said he refied ‘the notorious Dillinger “because he eot me mad” told his story in his ‘home there armed posses of svate ‘police, vigilantes and shearitf’s officers spread over Indiana in an exicited Lhunt for the guerilla outlaws. Blockades were thrown up at highway intersections and c¢very available peace officer in the northern part of the state was mustereq into service. Pittenger who was under ¢ doctor’s care because of a torn ligament in his left leg received when he fled after attempting to trap the bandits, 'said that when he daringly pushed aside the muzzle of Dillinger’s ma‘hine 'gun the cartridge clip fell to the ground. : “He coudn’t have shot me then if he had watned to,” the policeman related, “but Van Meter had another machine gun trained on me so I hesitated about drawing my own gun.” Pittenger’s narrative of the raid on the Warsaw police arsenal the third such foray staged by Dillinger in Indiana was given to the !United Press with injections of humor »v the policeman who said that “now that I ' look back on it maybe 1 was a damned fool after all.”’ ; y

“There are only two police offizers on duty at night here and I was walking leisurely along Buffalo street ‘when these two men cama up to me,” ‘he said. “They were swaggering across ‘the street and I saw they had ma‘chines guns. When they came closer I recognized Dillinger. “Dillinger stuck the muzzlz of his machine gun into my stomach and said, just as though he meant business, that they wanted rthose bulletproof yests in the police station. “I grabbed the muzzle of the gun and forceq it into the air, but Van Meter as he later was identified had another machine gun on me from behind. “There wasn’t a soul on the street “Dillinger swore when I pushed his gun _away and said, ‘Don’t try to get funny, copper.’ “I asked Dillinger if his gun would shoot and he asked me what the hell I thought he was carrying it for. Just then the clip fell out, but Van Me" ter had a gun on me ang I hesitated about drawing my own revolver, a .38-caliber special. Dillinger stooped and pickeq up the clip putting it back in the machine gun. ~ “The odds were against me 50 I gave ‘up and said I woulg go along with them. We started down an alley and then turned east a blolck and a half to the town hall. “While we were walking along ,one on each side of me, Dillinger said I was the biggest damned fool he ever saw and Van Meter suddenly snatched my gun from my bolster and cracked me over the head with it. o “They asked me how many officers were on duty at night ang I told them four although there really were only two of us. I trjed fo scare them by saying I expected the other three along soon. : o,

~ “When we got to the town hall and ‘police staiion they took me upstairs and we went first into te large office. They looked around and realized there were no guns or bullet-proof vests there so they told me to get the key to the small room opening off the office. I tried to stall them off by saying I didn’t know where the key was kept but that didn’t do any good. . ““While we were in there Dillinger said, ‘Let’s take the old boy along with us so he won’t squawk too soon,’ and Van Meter agreed. That made me mad. e “I backed out slowly and then slammed the door of the small room but I couldnt find the key for it. I guess Dillinger had it. : - “I ran about 10 feet down the hall to the head of the stairs, sl}pplng and injuring my left knee. But I made it down the stairs and ran down an alley behind the Centennial motion picture theater. I kept running although my leg pained be badly and when I came to the intersection of the alley and Buffalo street I saw their car roaring away from the town zh&u.” : o , ;“ff‘ i i ~ Dr. Charles Dubois said. Pittenger’s leg was badly hurt and that he would be confineq to his home several days.

BUSINESS IN STATE BETTER

Indiana Director of National Emergency ConnCil Discusses Activities

Continued business improvement in Indiana wasg reported by Fred Hoke Indiana director of the National Emergency Council in a semi-monthly report- in federal recovery activities in the state to Frank B. Walker, NEC executive director in Washington made public. e “Business generall in this district ccntinues on the upgrade” the report said. “Banks are seeking loans. Trust companies continue advertising for real estate loans at 6 per cent with out commission, on a basis of 40 per cent of the present appraiseq value. One of the largest furniture stores with several branches reports busi ness more than 43 per cent in advance of last year, with a few recent days setting a record for sales in excess of 1930. In several of our industrial centers specializing in automobile parts and accessories and eab. inets for domestic refrigeratofs etc., al! houses are occupieq and there is a distinct shortage. h “For example, in Newcastle, there is not an empty room to be had. N&n‘e than 1,200 workers in that city are commuting from other cities within reasonable distamce. Practically the same céndition exists in’' Anderson, Connersville and Hagerstown.” Mr. Hoke recommended that the activities of the Agriculturall Adjustment Administration be simplified by placing all its work of assistance to farmers under one commiltee in ich iccality.

“The entire AAA program is looked on with general satisfaction and favor throughout the state,” Mr. Hoke said in the report, “but farmers seem to be unable to understand why it is necessary to deal with a separate committee for each of the crop reduction programs. It is believed that by placing the several programs under the control of one committec ineach county, the administrative expense could be greatly reduced that all information, maps and general knowledge of the individual farm woulg thus be in the hands of one committee and available for any additional crop reduction programs that may be initiated in the future” The report set out that the farm debt conciliation movement in Indiana, operating under the supervision of Lieut. Gov. M. Clifforq Townsend as a CWA project, had up 1o March 31 effected a totall scale- down in farm debts of $144,167 from an indebtedness of $600,367 a reduction of 24 per cent for the farmers involved. Loans made by the Farm Credit Administration in these cases totaled $456,200. Total expense of the projest paid by CWA was $4,067 or less than 1 per cent. % Under the head of FERA operated in this state by the governor’s comimission on unemployment relief ihe ‘report says: t “This agency, succeeding the CWA

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is confronted with some perplexing problems on an adequate program of relief, However, this office believes that on account of the co-operative ai titude on the pamt of the state and federal governments these problems will b solved. : - “Purdue university estimated market value of food produced in relief gardens in 1933 to be in excess cf three millions of dollars. We expect to plant and cultivate over 75,000 of such gardens this year. FERA is furnishing seeds to those unable to buy them. <~ ; “March report shows an increase over February of 24 per cent relief cases due almost solely to discontinuance of CWA.” o | Concerning NRA the report said in part: : “Reports received at this office from nearly all of our ninety-two counties show that the public generally favor NRA and want to see it succeed. We observe a beneficial attitude toward NRA compliance since the publication of the statement to the effect that cases of violations may now be referred direct to the district attorney. “We are now organizing a state wide women’s organization with a rep resentative committee in each county ‘and city of 2,500 population or more. This organization is charged with the regponsibility of promoting compliance with NRA in their several localities.” o

Columbia City Man Ends Life.

John Taylor 72 a retireq farmer hanged himself in the garage at- his home in Columbia City Monday morning apparently despondent because he cculd not find work. His body was discovered about 6 o’clock by his daughter Mrs. Shole Walter who was summoned when Mrs. Taylor became worried over her husband’s absence. * Although Taylor’s lack of work was not believed to have left him in finacial straits, he is said to have been despondent because of continued idle ress.

Given Release on Bail.

The state supreme court late Monday granted Rollo N. Walter LaGrange banker release from the Steuben county jail on bail. - Walter convicted of embezzlement had been held in the jail pending an appeal to the high court. ' "He haq been in jail since January 9 after being denied a mnew trial and sentencd to srve from 2 {o 14 years Kidnap Manager; Rob Station. Three bandits held up a filling station less than a block from the police station at Warsaw, beat and kidneped Raymond Kincaide, the manager, ‘and escaped with $250. Kincide was ireleased about four miles outside of the town. ; Twenty seniors of the Avilla high school will receive diplomas at the annual commencemeny exercises to be be held at th high school auditorium on Friday evening April 20.

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