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The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1942-08-20

Mr.. and Mrs. Clarence Gleason
and family spent Sunday with MIR.
and Mrs. A. L. Stines of Lima.
Mr.. and Mrs. Lyman Barnes and
jeanne spent Friday evening with
Mr.. and Mrs. Sam Blosser and
family.
Mr.. and Mrs. Daniel Younkman
and family of Clyde, Ohio spent
Friday night at the VIM. Lugibihl
home.
Miss Patricia Huber spent Friday
afternoon with Dorothy Lugibihl.
Mr.. and Mrs. Joy X. Huber and
daughter Sondra Sue called on Mr..
and Mrs. David Holman Sunday
afternoon.
Dorothy Lugibihl is spending the
week in Clyde with Mr.. and Mrs.
Daniel Younkman and family.
Mrs. Bessie Heffner and Mr.. and
Mrs. Joe Heffner and daughter
Linda called on Mrs. Cora Huber
Sunday afternoon.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1942-08-20
Beaverdam

Mr. and Mrs. Carl Schmidt and son
Robert of Terrysburg and Mrs. Harry
Davis of Clevela nd, were Thursday
evening dinner guests of Mrs. Gym
thia Elliott.
Mrs. Ruth Conrad Murphy and son
Jacie of Rartlettsville, Okla, are Wis
iting at the home of her parents Mr..
and Mrs. Jacob Conrad.
Mrs. Lucinda Mcclure of Chicago
is guest of Mr.. and Mrs. Leonard
Green and family.
Miss Irene Rowland spent the past
week with relatives at Mcclure.
Mrs. Mary Steele spent the past
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1942-08-20
HARMON FIELD NOTES
TOWN LEAGUE
Club STANDINGS
Major Leaders

Major Leaders
Batting Ave.-W. Niswander, Har-
vester, .538; H. Bogart, Ell Verso,
.529; H. Basinger, Firestone, 500;
r. Crawford, FL Verso, .469; F.
Swank, Ell Verso, .463.
Total Bases-F. Swank, Ell Verso,
10; F. Hermann, Firestone, 80; r.
Lugibihl, Goodyear, 80; r. Crawford,
FL Verso, 80; Russ Gratz, Harvester,
90.
Hits-F. Swank, Ell Verso, %; r.
Lugibihl, Goodyear, %; F. Herr
mann, Firestone, 10; H. Santschi,
Harvester, IT; Russ Gratz, Harvest
er, II; w. Triplehorn, Harvester, IT;
B. Fritchie, Ell Verso, IT.
Singles-F. Swank, FL Verso, IT;
r. Burkholder, Goodyear, IA; r.
Lugibihl, Goodyear, IA; w. Triple
horn, Harvester, 13; B. Fritchie, Ell
Verso, 13; r. Zuercher, Firestone,
13.
Doubles-D. Diller, Firestone, 6;
H. Santschi, Harvester, A; F. Herr
mann, Firestone, A; B. Fritchie, FL
Verso, 4; p. Eichenberry, Ell Verso,
a.
Triples-C. Clark, Goodyear, 3; F.
Swank, Ell Verso, 3.
Home Runs-R. Crawford, Ell
Verso, A; F. Hermann, Firestone,
a; Russ Gratz, Harvester, a; r.
Lugibihl, Goodyear, 4.
Pitching-S. Stettler, Firestone,
Sc; c. Dudgeon, Ell Verso, Sd; M.
Geiger, Goodyear, 8-8.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1942-08-20

Final Game
Yankees-(25) (pitcher, j. Klay)
Indians-Q6) pitcher, E. Frick)
Minor Leaders
(Final Statistics)
Rank, Leading Hitters-First, H.
Basinger; second, H. Klay; third, c.
Stonehill; fourth, K. Stonehill; fifth,
C. Swank; sixth, R. Which; seventh,
M. Reagan; eighth, R. Newlan;
ninth, K. Bracy; tenth, r. Fisher.
Complete Batting Averages-C.
Smith, 1888; H. Basinger, GAS; R.
Which, Sal; C. Stonehill, .53s; H.
Klay, .521; X. Stonehill, $40; C.
Swank, .507; J. Schmidt, .5O7; r.
Newlan, .455; r. Kuhn, .45O; P.
Steiner, .434; M. Reagan, .433; r.
Fisher, .426; K. Bracy, 1888; R..
Grouse, 1888; D. Fritchie, 800; P. D.
Bixel, PSI; J. Bronson, .194; G..
Patterson, $50.
Total Bases-H. Basinger, 230; II.
Klay, $50; C. Stonehill, 1913; C.
Swank, 121; X. Stonehill, 119; R.
Newlan, 107; r. Which, 100; M.
Reagan, 90; X. Bracy, 50; R. Fisher,
rs.
Hits-H. Basinger, 109; H. Klay,
1o2; C. Stonehill, rs; K. Stonehill,
rs; X. Bracy, 73; R. Which, 72; C.
Swank, 6S; M. Reagan, &c; R. New
Ian, So; r. Fisher, SO.
Singles-H. Klay, 73; X. Bracy,
So; r. Which, 81; H. Basinger, 81;
C. Stonehill, 81; X. Stonehill, 81; M.
Reagan, 43; C. Swank, 40; R. New
Ian, SO; R. Fisher, "a.
Doubles-K. Stonehill, IT; H.
Basinger, IT; H. Klay, IT; M. Rea-
gan, Is; K. Bracy, Is; R. Which, ID;
C. Stonehill, IA; R. Fisher, 13; c..
Swank, II; J. Schmidt, 8.
Triples - H. Basinger, Is; C.
Stonehill, s; C. Swank, 7; M. Rea-
gan, 7; X. Stonehill, 6; R. Newlan,
5; K. Bracy, 5; H. Klay, 5; R.
Fisher, a; R. Which, 4.
Home Runs-H. Basinger, "a; R.
Newlan, IL; C. Swank, 9; H. Klay,
7; c. Stonehill, S; X. Stonehill, A.;
R. Which, 2; ]. Bronson, 1; R..
Fisher, 1; M. Reagan, /.
Pitching R. Grouse, 10; c..
Stonehill, Al; X. Stonehill, 81; H.
Klay, 6-5; H. Basinger, 6-5; R.
Fisher, "a; K. Bracy, 3-5; C. Swank,
1-2.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1942-08-20
DIVORCE GRANTED

A divorce has been granted in the
Allen county common pleas court to
Iona Hoffer from Roy Hoffer on
grounds of gross neglect. Custody
of two children was granted the
plaintiff and the defendant directed
to pay $12 a week for their sup
port.
Granted to the plaintiff as alimony
was all personal property together
with a one acre tract in Richland
township.
Ground which has been planted
continuously to corn loses almost
half of the normal rain fall.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1942-04-22
Chicago Sun Denied
AP Membership
Franchise Also Refused
TO Washington Paper

NEW YORK, April 22-(P)
Two applications for mem
bership in the Associated Press
have been voted down by its
members
Tabulation of votes as an
nounced early today following
the APPS 42d annual meeting at
the Hotel Waldorf-Astoria
showed the balloting was ga
to 287 against :he application of
the Chicago Sun, published by
Marshall Field, for a morning
paper membership and STA to
242 against that of the Washing
ton dc. TimeS-Herald, pub
lished by Mrs Eleanor Medill
Patterson, for the day and night
report.
Col. Robert r. Mccormick,
publisher of the c h iC g o
Tribune, a morning paper, had
withdrawn his application for
AP evening paper membership
prior to the voting, which was
conducted under revised AP
bylaws requiring only a ma
jOrity vote for election to mem
bership, instead of a four-fifths
votes as heretofore.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1942-04-22
Ardent Romeo
Reviives Days
of the 1896

The wooing last week of a
young woman in the county
Jail by a young Romeo who
parked himself on the Macomb
street bridge sans guitar or
lutte stirred old memories for
Richard Dick Dekay, hotel
clerk here, whose father, Sam
uel, served Macomb county as
sheriff before the turn of the
century-l886 to 1888, He died
while still in office.
In those days Mount Glenn
ems boosted no police depart
ment and the space now occu-
pied by Chief RosSo, his Off
GERS and their guests in the
municipal lookup served as the
Jail kitchen.
Mrs. Dekay presided there
and the food was bounced up
TO the county'S goal guests on
a pair of dumb-waiters. Dick
and his younger brother, Roy,
now residing at BlaCkfoot, Ida
no, used to enjoy riding the food
carriers up and down their mar
row shafts.
So far as Dekay remembers
no one ever wooed a fair lady
through the Jail bars but Roy
and himself, about six and nine
years old, respectively, made
themselves a lucrative income
by providing cigarettes, candy
and other things to the prison
ers. Jail guests weren't molly
coddled then and such deli
cacieS and smokes were forbid
den but the inmates would drop
coins out tr0m oStweeu the oars
of the Jail windows and, haul
the merchandise back up on the
ends of strings. ,,,,a sam91 -,
zone of the oldest shooting
scrapeS in the city's history oc-
Cured during the Dekay in
cumbency at the Sheriff's Of
flee when an actor named Sim
mons, who lived near the Mar
ket street bridge, went out on
a party with a hack driver NAM
ed Wilson, a brother of one
time prominent DR.. Wilson.
Entering a saloon on old
Pearl street, now par of Ora
tiot avenue, Wilson saw a man
whom he didn't like.
He handed a pistol to Sim
mons.
"See that fellow there? /
don't like him. Go ahead and
Simmons took the weapon
and shot the man dead.
He was sent to prison for life
but was eventually paroled by
Governor Hazen S. Pingree,
Dekay declared.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1942-04-22
Father Shuns
Draft Listing
Follows Lead
Set by Sons

WEST CHESTER, Pa, April
% Up Edward Darlington
Mayo Richards, former CHIEF
forester for the Tennessee
Valley Authodity whose two
sons refused TO register for Sc
lective service, disclosed today
he will not register in the fourth
draft call Monday.
The 55-year-old member of
the Society of Friends, a con-
scientiouS objector in the First
World War, said in a statement
he had notified President Roose-
welt that he considers register
ing for compulsory service IAN
act which promotes war"
His oldest son, Frederick
Howard Richards, % former
SWarthmore College student, is
now serving a year and a day in
prison for failinf to register.
William Richards, 81, a student
at Antioch College, Ohio, eX-
poets to join Frederick in pris-
on, the father said.
Richards said he had asked
the President last February
whether "absolutist" conScien-
tious DIRECTORS could be ex-
empted by executive order and
was told it would take all act of
Congress to change the law.
AS a result, Richards said, he
wrote the President:
Il now either must go back
upon my conscience or openly
break the law and take the con-
SEQUENCES. / realize. only too
- how uncomfortable 81
wiz make rod feel because you
X X appreciate the priceless
value of sincere ChristjSp faith
HulIfess'To conscience. But what
can l do?"
In 1918 Richards served
as social worker in Persia.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1942-04-22

A flying wedge" is an old
time football formation.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1942-04-22
Shortage Of Food Fiber Crops Confronts German,
Strikes to Spare

Schultz Av .... ass p. Vsnd.rhsSen ass
Handicap .. 81 @. Elliott ..,.. As
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1942-04-22

Reports Indicate" the de-
partment said, that spring SOW
ing in the Ukraine is no easy
task owing to the shortage Of
machinery and horses taken or
destroyed by the Russians. De-
spite repairs and resumed pro-
duotion of some farm imple-
mentS spring work must be chief
ly manual. 1t is impossible to
till the land thoroughly owing
to insufficient plows."
The department said the Ia
Dor shortage was especially Sc
we're in the southern districts Of
the Ukraine, but that Germany
planned to procure workers from
cities. Reports from Russia told
how the Wet Army had
slaughtered great numbers of
sheep for food to prevent them
from falling into German hands.
With supplies of silk and 9TH
er line tlDerS running low, Ter
many had ordered all its schools
to give instructions in the breed
ing of silk worms.
The department said Germany
appears to be getting large sup
plies of oranges from Spain. The
fruit was said to be moving
mainly by coastwise steamers
from Spanish ports to French
ports and then by rail to Ger
many.
English farmers, the depart
ment said, are now plowing
about so percent more land this
spring than they did before the
war, despite acute shortages in
'-r.-tts, Z-~e.s..srfy md 0ahef st4y-
owes ..ye ',.'51
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1942-04-22
GRANGE GETS DUTIES

CHICAGO, April 22-P)-
Harold Red" Grange, former
"Galloping Ghost" of the Uni
versity of Illinois gridiron, was
appointed to Selec.ive Service
Board No. IA yesterday as a re-
employment committeeman. His
duties entail handling of ques-
tionnaires and the occupational
status of prospective selectees
who may be eligible for defer
ment.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1942-04-22
GETTING AROUND
THE LAW

During the Gay Nineties,
North Carolina law forbade the
operation of freight trains on
Sunday unless they carried live
stock, In order to comply with
the law and still keep its trains
running, one railroad carried a
mule on each freight.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1942-04-22
MaiorLeague
Standings G
IA o. NJ
AMERICAN LEAGUE

Games behind leader.
TUESDAYS RESULTS
DETROIT 4, Chicago 2.
Cleveland 4, ST. Louis 2.
New York 10, Philadelphia 4
Washington at Boston, wealth
er.
WEDNESDAYS GAMES
DETROIT at Chicago.
st. Louis at Cleveland.
New York at Philadelphia.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1942-04-22
NOTHING

SAN FRANCISCO, April %
P)-There is a suspicion that
coast league pitchers haven't
in accordance with baseball ira
dition-been saving their Sun
day throwing for the second tour
of the League.
Of 40 games played in the last
two weeks, % have ended eth
90 w. !shMtoEts, ~ H., lcsi--,2,r :,
t-am has scored dot qIe iml g..
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1942-04-22
PIN BUSTERS LEAGUE
BOWL-O-DROME

Total ......1777 Total ......l76O
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1942-04-22
GREAT INCREASE

In 1910, the United States
produced 1,35O,OOO.OOO barrels
cf crude oil, as compared with
production of 335.OOO,O0O bar
rels in 1917.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1942-04-22
Baby Born During
City's First BIatkoui

READING, Pa, April 22-(P)
Private and Mrs. John Lam
bert's new son is definately a
war baby.
He arrived during Reading S
first blackout test a st night
while his father was away serv-
ing in the army The hospitals
emergency lighting system was
used.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1942-04-22
S,InE KiDf

'So1nE ixilDf
If you averaged 20 mile- to
gallon, you could make 2444
round trips to the sun on the
gasoline consumed in the United
States during 1910.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1942-04-22

TUESDAYS RESULTS
Pittsburgh 5, Chicago ..
Brooklyn l3, Boston 2.
St. Louis 8, Cincinnati o.
WEDNESDAYS GAMES
Brooklyn at Boston.
New York at Philadelphia.
Cincinnati at st. Louis.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1942-04-22

Total zSo< Total .......2 261-
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1942-04-22
MAXI Occupied Countries
Face Food Rotioning Edict
Unoeeupied Fronee Awaits Six Breodless
Weeks Before New Wheot Horest

WASHINGTON, April 22-(P)
The Agriculture Department,
in a summary of recent cables
on European food developments,
told today Of increasing diff
culties confronting Germany and
Nazi-oCcupied countries in pro-
ducing and supplying their peo-
pie with food and fiber crops.
Unoccupied France was said TO
be facing six breadless weeks
before the new wheat harvest
because of diversion of grain by
the black markets, illegal use of
wheat for feeding livestock and
poultry, counterfeit ration cards,
and failure of farmers to deliver
the quantities expected.
The department said reports
coming out Of Germany indicat-
ed that stringest measures were
being taken against violators of
food rationing regulations.
STOCKS DECLINE
Recent restrictions upon the
milling of wheat and rye indi-
cate, the department. said, that
German grain stocks have de-
clined to a level where econo-
mics must be affected in order
to insure against a poor crop
at home this year and the posi-
bility of supplies from southeast
ern Europe falling below ex-
pectations.
Agricultural pr d u ton in
+ enmark, which in l94l was
less than half of normal, was
said TO be seriously threatened
this year by the late spring,
Shortages OF feI ,nn-e.s, Jeso asfe.
lanor, .E' co., 10,
The department said Germany
*. u ..s4laie We ptoduction
of sufficient food in occupied
Ukranian Russia TO meet the
needs of Nazi occupation forces
and for the bare maintenan c
of the local population.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-06-14

United States produeiHc
poper, greatest in the World, ~
rolling on TO neo heights. Whsrt
IS years ago - in 1929 - Amer
lean manufacturing plants
VeTs setting records ~ produe-
tion Of peaeetims material, TO-
day they are going TO topn"
Vith Heper-endiH0 lines Of air
planes, ships. tanks, guns, all the
weapons Of MODERN todr. Felir
CotteR, international News
Service staff writey, who has
just returned from a tour cover
ing more than 5000 miles, visit
ing so Of the chief iOar plants
from the Middle West to the
Atlantic sedboard, hereoith pre-
SCENTS a roundup Of the produe-
tion picture, but With the
GdmoHitioN that eveH greater
roiume must be reached 70 viH
the wdr.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-06-14
BY FELIX GOTTEN
I-,r New, serv,o. star ccrr,.po.a.r,

In'r News Service star Ccrre.pc.dsnt
WASHINGTON, June ia
W volume of weapons, war de-
vices and materials probably
unequaled In world history Is
rolling from the nations fac
tories now 10 American and AL
lied armed forces.
A huge portion OF these mate
rails is manufactured in new
plants and with new machine
tools. A vast quantity is made
in plants converted to war work
from civilian production, and in
many cases with converted
machine tools.
Old ba n d on-e d shops, Old
warehouses. gerages-and in
Akron, o.. a massive cid diri-
gible hangar-have been mus
tered into service, and are hum
ming with war industry.
Hurriedly-trained labor, much
Of II earning good American
dollars for the first time. 10 in
there pitching. Yong girls and
young wives IN overalls and
Stacks. sometimes with grease
behind their ears but with their
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-06-14
Hunting. Fishing
Licenses Checked

State officers scanned the
Larsons who had received hunt
ing and fishing licenses in Michi-
gan, personally questioning all
before they dropped this phase
Of the investigation.
On Jan. Is, 1888. state police
obtained a list of all CCC en-
rollees who had been discharged
or had deserted during the first
three months of 1887, but the
answer was the same.
The secretary of states oper-
ators' and chauffeurs' license
files were scrutinized.
IL you recall. Larson had no
luggage when he arrived at the
Davis farm, and subsequently no
photographs were found of the
suspect. 3
Undaunted, the resourceful
state police decided to sculptor
a likeness, and from descriptions
furnished by persons who had
seen him, bust was completed
in March. 1888.
Pictures of the Larson head
were distributed throughout the
nation.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-06-14
Larson Suspected;
Robbery Motive

Watkins, an investigator with
Is years experience In police
work, knew that the elementary
thing was to find Larson.
II was apparent that he was
involved, especially after an ex-
tenSive search failed to disclose
his whereabouts.
Lee Davis, the grandson, es-
tablished q motive for a muir
derer. He told Watkins that his
grandfather carried large sums
of money on his person. Larson
had seen II.
Davis was known 10 have car
ried about $375 at the time Of
his death, but the money was
missing along with the farm
hand. The women's purses had
been ransacked and tossed into
the stove.
Lee quickly recalled that a
Ford truck was missing from
the farm and remembered II was
not in running order previous to
LarSon's arrival. He had seen
him working on II In his spare
moments.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-06-14
BY AL KAUFMAN

MURDER stalked Michigan
Nl highway US-23 the afternoon
of March 1S, 1887. but to Peter
Irish, amiable Fenton truck
driver. the solitary figure tr1dg-
ing along the shoulder repre-
sented another hitch-hiker
shifting aimlessly through the
Flint industrial area.
Hop IN" said Irish. unaware
that in that brief moment he
was shaping the murderous fate
Of three aged persons whose
killer became the object Of the
greatest man-hunt In the history
OF the Michigan state police.
The stranger introduced him
ssE an Ray Larson" bound for
Ann Arbor. perhaps. but badly In
need of q job. That was prob
ably one Of the few truths he
told In his life.
Unkempt. without luggage.
teeth badly discolored, he ap-
peared to be without the price
of his next meal.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-06-14

bombers-are being produced in
quantity, along with a great deal
of other naval equipment.
Air-Hundreds of b ON b ers,
fighter planes. trainers and
transport craft are rolling each
month out of factories visited.
They are being improved con-
stantly in design.
Real mass production Is under
way in both air-cooled and liquid
cooled aircraft engines. Numer-
Gus plants are making body,
wing and tail sub-assemblies Of
Dlanes
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-06-14

only man who could identify
Larson IL he were found.
Al one time he was living at
state police headquarters TO
facilitate Identification.
The four from Michigan drove
throughout Tennessee checking
addresses that Larson had
talked about. including one OF
his grandfather"
A thorough check was made
OF small communities, hut no
one, apparently. had seen or
heard of Larson.
Watkins said afterward that
he was convinced that Larson
never lived in the South.
Watkins also took time out
to check the Red Cross and
food disaster angle, but this,
too. proved false.
The grandmother angle in Bay
City was also unfounded after
a check OF old age pension re-
cipients in the state files.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-06-14

times during the week 10 help
with the farm chores.
Lee was delighted TO see Lar
son puttering around the farm,
picking up the routine without
much difficulty and relieving
him OF much work.
Davis was virtually bedridden
at this time with a throat all
ment and unable 10 talk. All
conversation with him had 10 be
carried on by writing.
The Seatons, Peter Irish, the
neighbors. all thought from Lar
sons appearance and CONVERSE
ton that he was reliable and re-
marked how he was making
Mr.. Davis a good man."
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-06-14

southwest OF the Davis farm was
dragged by authorities who pre-
sumed Larson might have been
murdered and thrown into the
lake.
The quest proved nothing. and
Watkins was convinced beyond
any doubt that Larson was the
killer.
To wind up details of this
amazing search. $500 circulars
were issued by state police.
They went to AL railroad po-
lice chiefs. sheriffs and police
departments throughout the
nation.
Penal institutions In United
States and Canada checked their
inmates named Larson. but the
story was the same.
Several men confessed the
Fenton murder tragedy. but in
vestigation revealed they were
Rewards have been offered
for his arrest.
. -homicidiai crackpots, familiar
10 murder investigators.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-06-14
Grandson Bids
Adieu to Family

Lee made a brief visit TO the
Davis farm the night Of April
Ia, talked 10 everybody and par
ticularly noticed that all were
in good spirits.
He was about to leave when
Larson, a snuff addict, asked
him 10 bring back a box of snuff
when he returned on the NOR
row.
What happened after Lee
walked off the farm Is mystery.
That was the last time he saw
his aunt and grandparents alive.
That night they were the VIC
Tins of a fiendish slayer.
Their deaths were swallowed
in the disappearance of Larson,
the farmland, whom state police
are convinced Is the slayer,
though they can't prove II be-
cause he hasn't been seen to this
day.
DR.. c. ". White sensed that
something was wrong on the
Davis farm when he arrived
the following morning AZ IL
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-06-14
Hears Moan
Coming From Barn

Berriman provided the first
answer. In his search around the
farm he thought he heard a per-
son groan.
The sound seemed 10 come
from the barn. Within a few
minutes the gruesome discovery
was made In a grain box.
1t was tightly nailed. Why the
slayer had taken such deliberate
pains cannot be answered, but
the cover was quickly removed.
damned inside lay two bodies.
The murder weapon, a small
wooden mallet soaked by the
blood Of the three victims, was
found ut the rear of the house.
Mrs. Hildebrandt was dead,
her skull dashed In by repeated
blows. /ois ~
Mrs. Davis was breathing
family but was apparently badly
hurt.
Her skull was also crushed
and her clothing bloodsoaked.
Deputies took her 10 Doctor