Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 29, Number 254, Decatur, Adams County, 27 October 1931 — Page 1

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■ PLAN IS ■PLAINED TO |JL FARMERS Bf G. Gallagher Is |K cr \t Joint Meeting Held Here ■l PLANT * M\j RE-OPEN ■ !>eet at the ■jj. )! cliignn sugar ■ ,nigh? H'l' li. i . i'. prom- ■ :•<■(■! iiulus-. ■l a join’ meeting of o f ■ Decatur <>(' ('.m.inerce and ]K' r> of Ad■l -. ,\ . Jay and ■■ farmers. . 1 ■' i:!i a deI ;,tur mill. IMu. . ..lowing the funds ■-i I'l.in where the t'ainiIhe beets e ■ ' '.•• plant, payL md other exgH 1 manufai takes half o: its share. ii.iif of sugar, longs to farmers may st ’.l them re 11..11 ket pri. e ■>a’. . - ( Mb i.-.-ti, 1 is Operated L.ike- Sugar Co., an ■ i'here is no eon- ■ < oneerns. ■thn Lakes rents the BriM'Eli 0\- PAGE FIVE) 111 ISSUES HEW WARNING Bands That Manchur- ■ Bridge Be RepairBd By China Soon B°. ">i. < I'P) .Japanese ■Shimizu i T.sitsfliar, Man- ■ issueil an ultimatum to ■( authorities today that the army will "’fake effec- ■ bridg. «as damaged lust ■by bombs dropped from Ja- ■ “ar planes The Japanese ■ the bombiiu was started by Troops who filed on the ■liltiniatiiin was sent to heads ■Erkiaiig province. Civil and B leadens in the district re■iisavowed allegiance to Gen. ■ !!sUp h Liang. Manchurian ■■ because of his non-resis- ■ folicy toward Japanese agpnouncenient of the ultimaI l ' coincident with reports ■utnerous sources here that ■ *nd Moscow have reached a ■jkreenieiu^regarding Japan's ON PAGE FIVE) IE TO SEEK COERNORSHIP i' in * Muncie Mayor To Un On Democratic Ticket Tr a* 1 " Oct - 27 ' — <U.R) — n - "ale, Muncie's militant ' a »n<>unced that he will “ndidate for Governor of In 1 » Platform attacking the ( 1 statehouse.” ' P a,la were revealed after . " tax hoard fixed a 69-cent Muncie, In opposition to 'J" n ' aP(I 86 Cents. The 5. '' a<l set the rate at 63 1 >ale refused to recigt„.eSllltlnK * n the appeal. » n the rascals out of the ■“ and return the governat, e people," Dale said. He ■*bo ntio i to hiß record aB 0 111 logical capacity pracJ )ls eiec tion what he “ e| i before.”

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Vol. XXIX. No. 254.

Seek Lower Rates Indianapolis. Octover 27 (VP) Petitions for lower light and water! rates in Indianapolis were filed with ; public service commission today. ( The petitions named the Inilianapo! lis power and light company and | I the Indianapolis Water company 1 They charged that fates were ex ! oi bitant and that returns on invert ' ; tnents were excessive. The commission was asked to in I vestigate both companies with a 1 view toward obtaining a revalua tion. John McCardle, chairman of I the commission, indicated that a reappraisal of all properties would be made. TAX PAYMENTS REPORTED SLOW One-Third Os Totals For • Fall Installment Have Been Paid In — About one-third of the fall in- , stallment of taxes due in Adams > County on November 2, has been i paid. County Treasurer Ed Ashbaucher stated today. The receipts up to last Saturday . of current and delinquent tax were $147,691.74. Os this amount $134,i 650.67 was current tax and $13,041.07 was delinquent tax. The total tax bill for the November payment is about $450,000. Monday is the last day to paytaxes without a ten per cent, pen- . alty being added. 1 The receipts for Monday were a little more than nine thousand dollars, Mr. Ashbaucher stated. Today the check for the Nickel Plate railroad's tax. $9,267.54 for the fall Installment was received. Payments from the other railroads and utilities have not yet been received. Mr. Ashbaucher stated that his office would be open every evening until five o'clock this week and that on Monday he would keep the office open until six o’clock, in order to give taxpayers an oppor- I tunity to call and pay their taxes. I More than the usual amount of taxes went delinquent in May, but it is expected that much of this I will be paid in the November in- i stallment. o Highway Group Meets Indianapolis, Oct. 27 —<U.R> — Members of the Indiana highway commission met with Governor Harry G. Leslie today to discuss planx for the 1932 state road ■ ' building program. NUDE BODY OF WOMAN FOUND Wisconsin Officials Search For Clues To Mysterious Death Mattoon, Wis., Oct. 27- (U.R) — The nude body of a young woman, apparently the victim of a severe beating, was found today in a field at the edge of the Shawano Indian reservation. The girl, dark haired and weighing about 140 pounds, evidently had been slain and dragged into the field from a county highway 300 feet away, District Attorney Louis W. Caitan said Her clothing had been removed and a burlap sack wrapped around the battered head. Bert Lane, a farmer, found the body on his land, and notified Shawano authorities. County Coroner Harvey Stubenwoll and District Attorney Cattan started an investigation. The sack had been drawn over the woman's head and tied below her shoulders. Holes had been cut for her arms. Her head had been crushed as though with a heavy weapon. She did not appear to be an Indian, Cattan said. Unable to determine immediately whether the woman died front a beating or had been killed by other means. Coroner Stubenwoll said he would perform an examination to fix the cause of death. Jilted Lover Suicides Peru, Ind., Oct. 27—(UP) —Failure of a love affair was cited as the cause of the suicide of Joseph Turner, 19, who drank poison at his home near here.

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ENGLAND SHOWS 1 MUCH INTEREST IN ELECTIONS I New House Being Chosen As Twenty Million Go To Polls NATIONALS ARE CONFIDENT London, Oct. 27 -—(U.R)— Twenty million Britishers went to the polls today to choose 547 members of the new house of commons in! bright, cold weather —except in London where the heav-l iest fog of the season ini-' peded polling. Prime Minister Ramsay MacDonald was so confident of victory for the national government that he tentatively arranged for a meeting of the cabinet Thursday afternoon. It will discuss important foreign affairs and draft the king's speech, the outline of the government policy, to be read at the first 'meeting of the new parliament. Bell ringers were employed in southwest London to guide voters I to the polls. Fog delayed opening of some voting booths. The temperature was near freezing. An unprecedented interest in the election was reported from all parts of the country. Many electioneering automobiles were driv-, en by girls wearing furs and mufflers. There appeared little doubt of’ the victory of the national government. With the exception of rural and university divisions, the vote will be counted tonight and the mathematically certain result was expected to be available by 9 a.m. Wednesday (E. S. T.) Conservatives claimed a mini(CONTINUED ON PAGE TWO) COLD WEATHER HITS MIDWEST Light Snowfalls Are Reported In Some Sections Os Nation Chicago, Oct. 27 —(U.R) —The first teal warnings of approaching win•t< i sent chilli through western residents today with the result that some started shoveling snow again and thousands of others | started shoveling coal. Today’p storm area, spreading | from the Rocky Mountains past the Mississippi Valley, was not really severe in most states, but it was a warning. Snowfall was limited to a comparatively small area in the mountains, chiefly around Yellowstone National park. Temperatures in the mountain regions ranged from a low of 32 at Yellowstone to a high of 78 at Pueblo. In almost all mountain states, the temperature dropped last night to below 40. Chicago and other midwestern (CONTINUED ON PAGE SIX) JOSEPH ZEHR HURT IN FALL Adams County Farmer Suffers Injuries In Fall From Tree Joseph Zehr, aged Adams County farmer, suffered serious in juries early this morning when he fell from an apple tree on his farm west of Geneva. Mr. Zehr suffered a broken collar bone and a broken thumb on his left hand. The man was picking apples on his farm, where he resides alone, and tell from the tree sometime this morning. He arose from the ground and walked from the orchard to the front lawn where he fell, and where he lay until a huckster driver found him at 10 o'clock this morning. He was taken to a Berne physician and an X-Ray was taken to determine his injuries. Mr. Zehr was then taken to the home of his son. Preston Zehr in Berne, where he is resting well this afternoon.

Decatur, Indiana, Tuesday, October 27, 1931.

I ‘Old Roman’ Is Dead I % ' ' B i bLW / W y WH wk ... mtg ' ■ » ’ ' r «> ■ - ■ ■wwex-'-wx-c ■ Charles A. Comiskey, owner of the Chicago White Sox ball club and one of the most picturesque figures basebail ever produced, i died at his Summer home at Eagle River, Wis., Monday. MONROE SEEKS NEW PAVEMENT Group Attends Meeting At Bluffton Monday; To Petition State i Arthur Sapp of Huntington. a member of the state highway commission spoke before more than 250 persons at a road meeting sponsored by the Bluffton Chamber of Commerce at the Community building in Bluffton, Monday evening. About 27 men from Monroe and vicinity attended the meeting. 1 Mr. Barr of Bluffton was chairman of the meeting which followed a banquet at 6:30 o'clock. The purpose was to form an organization to attempt to have the road runn- ’ ing from Willshire, Ohio to Peru ' paved and made a state road. This i road runs across Adams county, I through Monroe. , Delegations of interested persons | from Huntington. Wabash, Miami,' t Adams and Wells counties were t present. It was decided to present a petition before the state highway ' (CONTINUED ON PAGE FIVE) INDEPENDENCE NOT GRANTED ‘ President Says Philippine ( Government Is Not Yet Ready T r Washington, Oct. 27. — <U,R) — President Hoover, talking to newsi papermen at his regular bi weekly press conference today, said that Philippine independence cannot be ' granted until economic independence and government stability of the islands can be assured. The President said his cabinet explored the situation in great de- ■ tail at a tv\o hour session this morning. No definite plans were adopted. • Further conferences will be held soon and before a more detailed policy is laid down'. "Independence has at some time been promised by every President ■ and every congress," Mr. Hoover said. "The problem I", one of i time.” i From the standpoint ’of the is- • lands, he said the durability of ‘ their independence must be estabt .CONTINUED ON PAGE SIX) i 0 Mayor Mellett 11l 1 Anderson, Ind., Oct. 27.— (U.R) — s Mayor J. H. Mellett, who suffered s a stroke of paralysis at the stateI house yesterday, was reported to s be in a serious condition in St. I Johns hospital here today. Phys-! > Icians said he had not Improved. Mellett suffered paralysis of the] j left side. He was talking with] i Lawrence F. Orr, chief examiner of ; j the state board of accounts, when' he collapsed. |

J. P. Courts Scored I Elkhart, Ind., Oct. 27—(UP) —Jus tice of peace courts were viewed as I "Relics" by Lawrence F. Orr. chief of the state board of accounts, in an address here today. Orr urged complete revision of Indiana’s court system, "Justice of Peace cdli>-ts have been used to prey upon tlie people" , OFr charged. "Modern bunlness should not be conducted by ancient methods.” Simplicity should be the paramount factor in court re r orm program, Orr said. —o SPECIAL COURT WILL RECESS Dredge Case Attorneys to Attend Schafer Funeral Wednesday P. M. Judge Henry Kisler, who is hearing the Wabash river drain case announced today that there will be no session tomorrow afternoon as i Attorney Lutz and others interested I in the trial of the case desire to attend the the veteran busi- ■ ness man Mr. Schafer. | The witness today was Jacob I Meyer who has been on the stand i several times, testifying for the petitioners as to the value now and if the dredge should be completed, effecting the land in the Adams county territory. The case has become a grind for the witnesses as well as for others and their testimony is being divided up so that each is only on the stand a day at a time and then returns later to continue. —oMeeting Is Called All members of the Knights of Pythias lodg* are asked to meet at the K. of P. home here tonight at 7:30 o’clock to make plans for attending the funeral of Fred Schafer, charter member of the local lodge. FREIGHT SHIP SINKS IN RIVER Crew Saved By Private Launchers; Three Decker Is Lost New York, Oct. 27.— (U.R) — A freighter, inbound from New England points, struck the eastern end of Welfare Island in the East river today, split amidship, and sank. The crew and the few passengers aboard were rescued by a private launch and tugboats. The pilot house was beneath wat-1 er when police arrived, but they •'thought the name of the vessel bore was either "Mohawk" or "Norfolk.” It was assumed that the steering gear was disordered, for the craft ran into the end of Welfare Island near a lighthouse. A large hole was stove in the hull. A private launch, the , fireboat George B. McClelland and several tugs scurried to her aid. Lines were thrown to the steamer and those aboard came off. A tug took the vessel in tow, and (CONTLNCEu on U AGE TWO) RALPH CAPONE FILES APPEAL Government Asks Court To Overrule Petition Os Al’s Brother Washington. Oct. 27.—(U.R)— The government in a brief filed today asked the Supreme court to reject the appeal of Ralph Capone from a three-year prison sentence and a SIO,OOO fine for falsification of his income for tax purposes. The appeal of "Scarface Al's brother was filed yesterday.” Solicitor General Thacher’s brief discussed the technical grounds upon which the appeal is based and asserted that "no question worthy of review" was raised. The court . with both sides before it now, I probably will rule next Monday i whether to consider the appeal. The government reviewed and ] detailed its charges that the young|er Capone, after failing to file an | (CONTINUED ON PAGE SIX?

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NEWSPAPERS FIGHT OVER JUDD STORIES ! — Articles Appear In Papers As True Confession Os Woman MONEY PAID TO PRISONER Los Angeles, Oct. 27.—<U.R) i—Spirited bidding by rival newspapers for the story of Mrs. Winnie Ruth Judd shares interest today with the possibility that she might become a mother. Mrs. Judd intimated the possibility approach of motherhood in conversations at the county jail, where she is awaiting transfer to Phoenix and trial on the charge that she murdered Miss Hedvig Samuelson and Mrs. Agnes Leroi. Many “confessions" of Mrs. Judd and her husband, Dr. William C. Judd, appeared in local newspapers. One paper was in possession of “her own story" which she dictated but didn't write, and for which the paper reputedly paid a | large sum. Another paper, discredI iting the first story, was printing a “confession," not paid for, which is claimed was in her own handwriting. In the same paper the “own I story" of Mrs. Judd’s brother. Burton J. McKinnell, was running in installments, while a rival was printing young McKinnell's narrative in the third person, singular. The loser in the bidding for Mrs. Judd's “own story” laid siege to the county jail hospital last night in a new attempt to buy her “lite Story.” Two purchasing agents, re(CONTINUED ON PAGE FIVE) Q Ask Law Enforcement Lafayette, Ind., Oct. 27. — (U.R) — Resolutions calling for more string-1 ent enforcement of prohibition laws were adopted at the annual Women's Christian Temperance Union convention was brought to a close here. They urged censorship of the “wet" press, deportation of undesirable aliens, a more forceful dry leadership, jail sentences instead of fines for persons convicted on liquor charges, and punishment of landlords on whose property blind tigers are found. Mrs. Elizabeth Stanley, Liberty, who was re-elected president of the W. C. T. U„ was named delegate to the national convention in Washington December 2. BIRTHS DOUBLE COUNTY DEATHS August Report Shows Four Deaths By Accident In Month The number of births in Adams county during the month of August 1931 was twice the ntnnber of deaths, according to a report filed by the Indiana State Boaid of Health. The total number of births was 32 and the number of deaths was 16. Accidents claimed more lives than any other cause, there being 4 deaths in Adams county during the month of August, due to accidents. One person’s life was taken by each of the following causes lobar and broncho-pneumonia; influenza; suicide and cancer. One per son died between the age of 1 to 5 years, 2 from the ages of 5 to 15 years and 5 from ages over 65 years. The annual death rate for Adams County per 1000 persons, as given in this report is 9.6 and the birth rate is 19.2. The death rate for the entire state was given as 10.3 and the state’s birth rate was 17. The total number of deaths In the state of Indiana during August was 2,806 and the total number of births was 4,591. o Prisoners Are Returned Harrisburg, 111., Oct. 27—(U.R) — County officers had returned here today from Evansville. Ind., with ] 3 prisoners charged with burglarizing a hardware store at Galatia on September 18. They are Ernest Atterbury, Lewis Trammel aud Owen Langford, alias Fred Lewis.

Price Two Cents

Jobless Stage Fight New York, Oct. 27 — (UP) — A crowd of 1,500 jobless men some boys and other men past middle age fought today among themselves in front of the emergency employment committee's office in the I Bronx. They had been massed in the streets, awaiting an opportunity to register for work. The opening of the office door seemed to be a signal for a general stampede. The men, who only a moment before had waited with good natured patience, shoved and pushed and cursed. They flung the doorman, A. G. Miller, away from the door and choaked the entrance. o BEET GROWERS GET ESTIMATE Col. Gallagher Savs 50 Percent. Os Debt’Mill Be Paid Soon Beet growers of 1930 who still have 30 per cent, of their contract price outstanding will get approximately 5o per cent, of the remainI ing 30 per cent., without a sale order for any unmortgaged part of the Holland-St. Louis Sugar Co., Col. T. G. Gallagher said Monday night. "At present the receivership of the concern has $113,000 to pay $208,000 outstanding indebtedness on the 1930 acreage. Col. Gallagher I said. He also stated that in the Ohio fields where about 20 to 25 per cent, was still owing, farmers there are planning a compromise, whereby a final payment might be agreed on in order to cut down expenses of court proceedings in the receivership. One of the farmers attending the meeting last night asked Col. Gallagher if he felt the farmers would ever be paid their total 30 per cent,, provided they waited long enough. Col. Gallagher stated that he believed the growers could re(CONTINUED ON PAGE TWO) —. —— o ______ FIRST STATE BANK ELECTS Annual Meeting Held Today; Directors To Meet Tonight The stockholders of the First State Bank of Decatur were voting in annual session today for a board 1 of seven directors. No change was expected in the personnel of the board. The present members are P. W. Smith, Richmond; Daniel Sprang, Dynois Schmitt, J. W. Vizard, Theodore Hobrock, J. P. Braun and C. A. Dugan, I all of Decatur. Mr. Smith is chairman of the board. 'The votes will not be tabulated until after three thirty o'clock this afternoon, oilowing the election of the members, the directors will meet and select ofiicers and transact such other matters as may be brought before the board. Mr. Sprang and Dr. Vivard acted as tellers at the voting. The name of the bank was changed a year ago from the First National Bank to the First State Bank 1 aud the annual meeting of the stock holders set for the last Tuesday in ; October. Officers of the bank are! ; Mr. Dugan, president; Mr. Vizzard. : vice-president; T. F. GraHker, cashier and R. E. Glendening, assistant i cashier. o — Many Cases Heard 1 South Bend. Ind., Oct. 27 —(UP) ' —Disposition of cases in which guilty pleas were entered continued i in Federal court here today before i Federal Judge Thomas Slick. Ap i proximately one-third of the 250 ■ persons arraigned on Grand Jury I Indictments, pleaded guilty. ■ A majority of the defendants were chained with liquor law viola ; tions. i Federal court will convene In Hammond Monday. — o Collector Arraigned Gary, Ind. Oct. 27— (UP)—“Henry > Behrman, former Lake county tax i collector, was free on $2,000 bond j ■ today. He was released soon after j i being brought here from Indianapo-1 lis by Sheriff Roy Holley. Behrman i I is charged with extortion in tax col- . lections. 1

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GANGSTER WINS SUPERSEDEAS; BAIL REFUSED Appeals Court Grants Gang Lawyers Writ And Delay Journey D’ANDREA IS HELI) IN JAIL Chicago, Oct. 27 <u.R) “Scarface Al” Capone was granted a writ of supersedeas today by the United States circuit court of appeals delaying his removal to Leavenworth penitentiary but was denied bail and must remain a prisoner in the county jail. Circuit Judges Samuel Alschuler, William spark and Evan Evan, in a decision returned at 2 o'clock ordered that arguments on any appeal presented should be made I within 15 days after its filing. Defense Attorney Michael Ahern received the court permission to vacate the supersedeas case if he is unable to obtain bail for Capone on an appeal to the supreme court. "If bail is unattainable.” said Ahern. "Capone might as well he In Leavenworth as in the county jail.” The time Capone spends in the county jail will not count on his one year jail sentence, since Judge Wilkerson stipulated the penitentiary sentence would be served before a jail sentence. Federal Building. Chicago, Oct. 27—<U.R) —Phil D’Andrea won another postponement today of his J contempt of court case based on the charge that he carried a revolver into the federal district courtroom during the income tax fraud trial of Al Capone. During questioning, D'Andrea, reputed a bodyguard of the gang chief, admitted he had furnished money to aid and hired an attorney for Gus Winkler, notorious bank robber implicated in a $2,500,000 bank robbery at Lincoln. Final hearing of the D'Andrea case was set for 10 a.m. tomorrow. D'Andrea was ordered back tn jail, where he has linen since his arrest by secret service agents Oct. 10. On the stand, the bespectacled Capone bodyguard admitted that he had known the gang chief five or six years and that ho had stayed at Lexington hotel for extended periods and attended banquets at which Capone was present. He insisted, however, that he attended the income tax fraud trial as a “friend" and not as bodyguard for Capone. D’Andrea said he was in the ‘‘cartage’’ business and that he carted ashes. The city of Chicago was mentioned as his employer. D'Andrea threw himself on the mercy of the court, through Attorney Michael Ahern, but Federal Judge James H Wilkerson decided to reserve decision until the circuit court of appeals rules later today whether Capone must go to prison immediately. D'Andrea contended he did not know Wrinkler personally but said (CONTINUED ON PAGE FIVE) VELES PLEADS NOT GUILTY Mexican Arrested Saturday To Fight Possession of Dope Case Jesus Velcs, arrested Saturday on a charge of illegal possession of cannabis indica was arraigned in Adams circuit court this morning. He pleaded not guilty and bond was fixed at SSOO. Veles, who is unable to speak English, pleaded through an interpreter. He signified his intention of hiring an attorney. Veles said thal he raised the narcotic as a chicken feed and that he did not keep it to sell. A gallon of moonshine whiskey | also was confiscated in the raid I made at the Veles home west of j Decatur Saturday and it was indi- | rated today that an affidavit charging violation of the prohibition law would be filed soon.