Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 29, Number 271, Decatur, Adams County, 16 November 1931 — Page 1

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«ESE FORGE ®!GHT UNTIL « MAN DIES' Ma Chan-Shan Personal Com■kl of His Army B|i PRESS Kj STATEMENT rick Kuh j , ■-!>■ x i lit 1931 by the Kg 4 reserved Knliut. Manchuria, Nov. (e.ncral Ma C.liuitand powerKSini.iDtlcr of (he (Tiin■gi ii\ tn North Manwent out to assume H of warfare Kjns( tin Japanese today Ka d< Juration that lit* fiuhl until the last fallen. great. fur-collared General Ma ■gie headquarters and lus policies to me a few ■H«|h':>'. he departed on a tl.. Mene of battle on -• a few miles Anganchi. ■! leader, whose opp -Ilion to the Japan- ■ ■ let! grave complica■t ji, liuria. he was con- • ■Sly|r>-'• iving reports of the :>n nines away. Despite ■■v " ,il( ‘ military situaM.i spoke with fatal■era ■ 11- 1 drove home these Briant Japan is beginning a which may re- . Jibing of Tsitsihai. iln- Chinese "are not ■■lentiiigli to fight, but we ■f-Ttat ■!:• Chinese have not ■s a|il<-d oid do not want the ■ of Soviet Russia. 'lie Chinese want the nations to intervene. .'.evinced we face s.lid M. as he glanced hastily telling of the spread ■W''l\TEn ON PAGE FIVE) IM BANDIT fl IDENTIFIED ■Joid City Banker Suspect Out of ■ Group of Prisoners ii. : Mi. 1,.. Nov. 16 -(I Ci A'. with Joseph arrested near here ■ ♦'"k wlien found with SIS.9SO " in his possession, identified as one of the n. n held up and robbed the |K‘ i Ind.,) bank Dctolmi cashier of th" < itv , tvatik. picked a gr.mi (l ; prisoners. to identify Roberts as one kB r ’ 'hers. Swain was kidnaped - 11111 '* th.dr car several |B Uartfo.d city. A. Lucas. B”r i;l ■ '■-■il.-r, failed to identify |V n Held On Charge Off* l ”' 0.. Nov. 16 — (UP) — ■Hr Quiroz, 34. who says he is <>f a former .Mexican ambasEj to France under Presidential Was held in the county jail Bu!' "' ay . charged with contribute delinquency of a 16 year ’hey high school student 1P ’’tarried in Fort Wayne, police said used the |B“£U Kearns. He is 34. B * -—- —o — Klane Crash Is Fatal ‘ g0 ’ Nov. 16—(UP)—Two ad- ■ dl u . nit ion fatalities were recw len a Plane piloted by a r who had received his pilot's K. l ’’ ol at a ” altitude of 1,060 crashed. The dead were W. Mason, the pilot and 1 ". 11 * Robert G. Lewis, a for’distant city attorney. Cause K e crash was undetermined.

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Girl Torn bv Two Loves ' i ■ So Mapir I® * WlißlH I' 4 Uli -■ sBIM l £ "lip - a > 'S W< w w, ' » wx ■ <M x.’C a \ U > <an Torn between her desire to avenge the death of her fiance and to save her brother from the electric chair. Rose Allen (above), whose lover, Francis Donaldson, was slain by her brother, Edward, remains in seclusion in Philadelphia, silent on the charges that followed the fatal shooting Albert Lucas (inset), youthful scion of one of the socially prominent Quaker City families and the only witness to Alien’s shootng of Donaldson, whose friend he was, is expected to prove an im-1 portant State witness, I

ELEVEN FIGURE IN AUTO CRASH Mrs. Ferd Mettler of Berne injured; Others Receive Cuts, Bruises Berne. Nov. 16—Mr. and Mrs. Ferd Mettler and daughters Catherine and Betty Alice of Bern >, and Mr. and Mrs. Fred VVeidler and children Paul, Wilferd. Arnold. Rudolph and Leona of Wells County figured in tin accident north of Berne, Sunday afternoon, when two automobiles collided at a road intense ".ion. The automobile driven by Mr. Mettler and occupied by members of his family was going north on the road, three miles north and one mile west of Berne Sunday, and Mr. Weidler was driving east. The accident was unavoidable as neither of the drivers saw the other until they were at the road inte section. The Mettler car was struck in the middle and rolled over two times before landing erect about 50 feet from the crossroad, the other car turned upside dow n on the road. Mrs. Mettler was the most seriously hur‘, suffering bad bruises and shock. All members of the two automobiles were cut and bruised. Arnold Weidler received a four inch gash on his head, and Leona Weidler suffered a bad cut on her arm. The automobiles were almost totally damaged. o WINNIE JUDD IS ARRAIGNED Accused Woman’s Parents Arrive In Arizona For Hearing Phoenix, Ariz., Nov. 16 —(II.R) — Bolstered by the presence of her father, mother and husband, Winnie Ruth Judd was ready today to plead in superior court to charges that she murdered Agnes Anne Leroi and Hedvig Samuelson. Arraignment before Judge Howard Speakman was tentatively scheduled for this afternoon’s session of court. At that time the woman who admittedly shot her former friends and shipped their bodies to Los Angeles in trunks must plead guilty, not guilty or not guilty by reason of insanity. Defense attorneys Paul W. Schenck of Los Angeles and Herman Lewkowitz of Phoenix refused to disclose any phase of their defense plans. They would not coniflrm or deny rumors that a fight to save their client from a (CONTINUED ON PAGE TWO)

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Garner Is Invited To Editorial Convention Indianapolis, Nov. 16.—(U.R) —An invitation will be sent Representative John N. Garner, Texas, to address the winter meeting of the , Indiana Democtutic Editorial Asso- ' ciation, it was announced here. The meeting will be held late in Februl ary, C. G. Brodhecker, Brownstown, i president of the association, said. . 1 Garner is considered the leading - candidate for speakership of the next house of representatives. ; A dinner, which will be patterned after the National Press Club dinner in Washington, will be held the night before the meeting at ’ which Garner is expected to speak. I The annual business meeting of the association will follow. LEGION HEADS HOLD CONCLAVE i National Leaders Attend Session At Indianapolis Today, Tuesday > j Indianapolis, Nov. 16. —(U.R) —National leaders of the American Legion gathered here today for the 1 (annual meeting of the national ex- ' ecutive committee. The session ' will continue through tomorrow, to Ibe followed by meetings of state ‘ commanders and adjutants. Legislative goals for 1932, care of disabled veterans, and plans for I tlie national convention in Portland, ' Oregon, next year, will be discussed. Henry L. Stevens Jr., national commander, will preside at all meetings. In a report by Russell Cook, nat- | ional Americanism director, atten- | tion was called that 4,195 school award medals were presented by the Legion from January 1 until November 1. Cook said the Legion ’ made a "special effort to combat the inroads of communism in our schools and colleges." James G. Habbord, chairman of the board of directors of the Radio r i Corporation of America, addressed . the executive committee today. ,! Prizes of 325 were awarded posts ij at Whiting, Elkhart, Jeffersonville , and Jasper for enrolling the great(est percentage of the 1931 member.'ship. Snow Strikes Idaho Pocatello, Idaho, Nov. 16—(U.P) The heaviest snow storm of the •season whipped across Idaho today, gr< unding mail planes and in some sections blocking highways. A southbound airmail plane from Idaho Falls was forced to turn back when the pilot's vision . ‘ was blurred by driving snow. The i plane landed safely at Idaho Falls. A northbound plane was held to ( the ground here. 1 Railroad officials reported all I trains to this city behind schedule.

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Decatur, Indiana, Monday, November 16, 1931.

NOVEMBER TERM CIRCUIT COURT STARTS TODAY Criminal Cases Will Be Heard First Two Weeks of Present Term MURDER CASE NEXT MONDAY The November term of Adams circuit court opened today with Judge D. B. Erwin presiding. The first order of business was calling of the docket which was started shortly after court convened at 9 o'clock. Many cases were set for trial during the present term. Attorneys were called back after the lunch hour, and it was hoped by court attaches that the enjtire calendar would be completed today. The criminal court cases set for November will be tried first. Tuesday morning the case of state vs. Stanton Dailey, charged with grand larceny in connection with the alleged theft of sheep from the Samantha Young farm, will be heard. Dailey claimed tliat he merely drove the sheep from the Young farm to the farm of his father to pick out his own animals which had strayed to the Young | (CONTINUED ON PAGE FIVE) DRIVE STARTED BY RED GROSS .1 Sunday Membership Canvas Opens Annual Drive In Adams County The canvass for the American Red Cross which was conducted in this city Sunday, netted a total of $196.25, Miss Annie E. Winnes, county secretary, reported today. This does not include all the money received Sunday, as some of the solicitors have not made their reports to the secretary. Several persons whose homes were canvassed were not at home when the solicitor called, and those people are asked to leave their money with Miss Winnes, as the solicitor will not call at the homes again. Business men who were solicited at their homes, and who were not at home are also requested to pay their membership tee, if they desire to join the Red Cross, to Miss Winnes. According to a ru.e (CONTINUED ON P4GE THREE) o - Sovine Funeral Tuesday Funeral services for D. L. Sovine, 80, former Decatur man who died Saturday morning in Burr Oak, Michigan, will be held Tuesday morning November 17, at 11 o'clock at the Zion Church in Honduras. Burial will be made in the Zion cemetery. o VIGO COUNTY OFFICERS HELD Six Men Indicted For Conspiracy To Defraud County of Claims tTerre Haute, Ind., Nov. 16 —(UP) Six men indicted in the final report of the Vigo county grand jury were at Liberty today on their own recognizance. All were charged with conspiracy to defraud the county by presenting false claims for jail supplies. The indictments were returned against auditor Carl Pinson; commissioners George Smock and Morton Whelan; former commissioner Charles Nehf, Deputy Sheriff John Cannon, and Charles H. McCalla a hardware and sanitary supply dealer. The men were charged specifically with making illegal orders for soap. The grand Jury report brought ta a close a session which began September 1. Prosecutor Charles C. Whitlock presented the evidence which resulted in the indictments.

BURNING LEAVES! 1 Amos Fisher, superintendent | of the city street department I | today issued a warning against | | people burning leaves on any | of the city streets covered with rock asphalt or pre-coat. Mr. i | Fisher urged tliat all people | hire some unemployed person | to rake and haul the leaves ; | away, making employment for | a number of people. He also ( | stated that there was a city 1 | ordinance concerning the burn- | | ing of leaves. . - -» HOOVER'S KIN IN COURT TODAY C. V. Leavitt. Faces Liquor Law Violation In California Court BULLETIN Santa Monica, Calif., Nov. 16.— (U.R) —C. Van Leavitt, 57, brother-in-law of President Hoover, and C. R. Dailey, a Santa Monica gro-i eery store proprietor, today pleaded not guilty to charges of possession of liquor. The men and their attorneys appeared before Police Judge C. A. M. Spencer at a preliminary hearing and asked for jury trials. Leavitt's trial was set for police court on November 24, while that of Dailey was scheduled for December 7. Santa Monica. Calif., Nov. 16.— (U.R)C. Van Leavitt, brother-in-law of President Hoover, who assert edly “held the sack" for a companion and was arrested for poss-1 1 ession of liquor, was to appear in [ court today before Police Judge. (Charles A. Spencer. , Leavitt, a retired plumbe?, was arrested with C. R. Dailey, grocer, 1 a week ago, when federal and Santa i Monica officers raided Dailey's ( store and halted Leavitt when they I declared they found him walking out the back door with a sack containing 19 pints of whisky. "There was nothing irregular" with Leavitt's arrest, as far as Chief of Police C. E. Webb could find. Chief Webb, by the way, is | the father-in-law of Rudy Vallee. Leavitt, according to his own .CONTINUED ON PAGE FIVE) o LOCAL PEOPLE GET $35,000 I ■ , Christmas Savings Accounts To Be Paid Last Week In November Approximately $35,000 will be paid to the people of this city and Adams County by the two Decatur ’ banks as Christmas Savings checks it was announced today by cashiers of both banks. The Old Adams County Bank will mail out checks totalling approximately $20,000 the week of November 30, and the First State Bank will mail out approximately $15,000 on December 5. New Christmas Savings Clubs will start at the First State Hank on December 5, and at the Old Ad- | ams County Bank on December 7, | it was stated. The amount of money to be paid out in Christmas savings this year is about the same as was mailed out a year ago, bank officials stated today. This indicates that the people of this city are realizing the advantages of having a savings check for use at Christmas time. The Christmas Saving Club are plans whereby persons save an amount each week, beginning about ■ the first of December, and a year i later received a check for the mon- ■ ey paid in together with interest. (CONTINUED ON PAGE TWO) _O_ Magician To Present Show at Pleasant Mills i Claudius, "Mysterious" Brown, a . famous magician and artist will ap- ■ pear at the Pleasant Mills high ■ school, Tuesday evening, November ■ 17 at 8 o’clock .under the auspices of the Pleasant Mills high school. A chalk talk act. with tricks with ■ live stock, flowers, rainbow silks,! . thrills, mysteries and laughter will s he features of the program. The . public is invited.

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SUNDAY SCHOOL | CONVENTION TO' STARTTUESDAY Meetings Begin Tuesday Night In Local Reformed Church at 6 P. M. CONTINUE TO WEDNESDAY NIGHT Final preparations have been completed lor (he Adtuns ('.onnty Sunday School convention which will be held at the Zion Reformed church in this city. Tuesday and Wednesday, November 17 and 18. The convention will open with a banquet at tile Reformed church at 6 o’clock Tuesday evening for young people, county and township officers, teachers and leaders, superintendents and pastors and I friends of the Sunday School. I A Young People's conference i will be held at the Tuesday eveu- | ing session, beginning at 7:30 o'clock. Dr. W. P. Dearing, president of Oakland College will be the speaker, delivering an adI dress on “Cheated." Special . music will be furnished by Miss Lulu Gerber, organist; Rolland Sprunger, the Geneva school; Miss Christine Winteregg, and the Mennonite Male chorus. Other sessions of the convention (CONTINUED ON PAGE TWO) GRANDI HERE - FOR MEETING Italian Foreign Minister To Confer With President Hoover — New York, Nov. 16 —(UP) —One of the world’s youngest diplomats, Dino Grandi, foreign minister for Italy, came to the United States today to discuss international problems with President Hoover. Through the thick fog which obscured Manhattan’s famous skyline G and prepared to hurry, with ela Grand prepared too hurry, with elaborate police escort in the Metro politan area to Washington. The thick fog prevented Grandi, his beautiful wife, and members of the official party from (lying to Washington with Colonel Lindbergh in the 48-passenger "Caribbean Clipper." Arrangements had been made for the flight and Lindbergh was called back from the south to whisk the Italian diplomat to Wash(CONTINUED o?,’ PAGE THREE) Fund Is Enriched lludianapolis, Nov. 16 — (UP) — The attorney general operating fund was enriched by $398.65 today when the federal district court returend that amount in a check which had been posted to perfect appeal of the chain store tax case. The case was won by the state recently in the U. 8. Supmeme court. o SEE RISE IN FEDERAL TAX G. (). P. Senate Leaders Believe Rise Is Inescapable This Year Washington, Nov. 16—(U.R)—Republican leaders in the senate today pronounced an Increase in federal taxation inescapable. They said they expected a deficit at the end of the fiscal year of about $2,006,000,000 and that Secretary of Treasury Mellon feels It cannot be met with a new short term bond issue. Senator Watson, Republican floor leader and Chairman Smoot of the senate finance committee discussed the financial situation. Watson yesterday talked for three hours with President Hoover and it was believed his ideas were those of the administration. Washington. Nov. 16 —(U.R) — Senator Smoot, Repn., Utah, who is chairman of the finance com I CONTINUED ON PAGE TWO)

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Murder Cycle | lbw ■ i 1 / it' guk ~«■ The tragic cycle of murder which Joseph E. Bamforth, a life prisoner at the Bridgewater, Mass., i State Hospital, began 13 years ago, turned up its latest victim when ‘ he beat his daughter, Irene, 13, to; death with a hammer while left ■ alone with her for a moment at i the institution. Irene was just a babe when Bamforth (above) kill ' ed his wife and his mother-in-law.!

BAPTISTS HOLD SPECIAL MEET Home-Coming Observed By Local Church; Big Crowd Attends — Crowds taxed the capacity of the First Baptist church of Decatu I Sunday morning, afternoon and night as the annual homecoming observance was held. Dr. T. J. Parsons, Indianapolis, was the chief speaker at the morning and evening services. The morning sermon was entitled "The Church" and at night Dr. Parsons talked on "Joy Among the Angels over One Repentant.” The services were attended by almost every local member of the church and a number from out of the city. The two surviving charter mem- ( CONTINUED ON PAGE THREE) GRAIN PRICES MOVE UPWARD — Wheat And Corn Values Jump As Market Opens This Morning Chicago Nov. 16 —(UP) —Wheat, prices advanced fiom 1 3-4 to 2 1-4 cepts as trading opened today on the Chicago board of trade. A rush o fbuying orders at the start halted the downward trend of last week which had carried wheat, prices 12 cents lower. As buyers held the floor and it was seen the selling splurge was over tor a time, the price bobbed up sharply. Strength in the Liverpool market unfavorable news from Argentina, and the accumulation of buying orders piled up over the weekend were credited with adding momentum to the rise. Corn prices kept step witli wheat on tlie ascent and oats trailed the major grains upward. Corn was up 1-2 to 1 3-4 cents at the opening and Oats were 3|l to 5-8 cents higher. Rye prices rose 1 5-8 to 2 cents. Unfavorable weather reports aided In the recovery of corn prices. Ogden Plans Attack Indianapolis, Nov. 16 —(U.R) — Attorney General James M. Ogden conferred with assistants today in regard to further efforts to support his charges that Grant county is "seething in corruption." Ogden said that he is “not through with Marion yet.” A grand jury report Saturday failed to indict Harley Hardin, prosecutor, whose office was investigated by George Hufsmith, deputy attorney general. The investigation was the outgrowth of Ogden’s charges. Hufsmith and Arthur Bruner, who assisted in the Investigation, conferred with Ogden today regarding the inquiry.

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SCORE METHOD OF ENTRAPMENT BY DRY AGENTS State Discounts Story of Killer And Urges Death Sentence MURDER CASE NEARING END Fort Wayne, Nov. 16 <U.P) I —Defense attorney R. <„ i Parrish pleaded with a circuit court jury today to acquit George Adams as a gesture showing disfavor of entrapment methods allegedly used by the federal government in enforcment of liquor laws. Adams is I charged with the murder of j John Wilson and Walter Gilbert, federal prohibition agents, who were killed last July 22, and is on 1 trial for Wilson's slaying. Parrish made his startling appeal in the opening final argument I for the defense. He touched only I briefly upon the testimony and ' then launched into a discussion of "unfair entrapment methods.” used in enforcing the prohibition laws. He charged that Wilson nad | Gilbert and two other dry agents had attempted to arrest Adams ' after allegedly asking him to deliver a load of liquor to them at , the Stellhornl bridge on the HuntI ington road near here. Additional defense arguments ,' were heard this afternoon. Adams’ story of the slaying was attacked as illogical by Dan C. Flanagan, deputy prosecutor, in the state's initial final plea. He ( said the defendant had admitted I on the witness stand that he could not recall what occurred after he was shot in the neck a moment before Wilson and Gilbert were slain. He urged the jury to dis- ; count Adams' plea of self defense and to recommend the death penalty. ’ o 1 Fort Wayne Athlete Reported Near Death Tuscaloosa, Ala., Nov 16 —(UP) — Little hope was held here today tor recovery of James Nichols. Alabama university Freshman football ' player of Fort Wayne, Ind., tnjuri ed Wednesday in practice. Physicians said his spine l was I shattered. The parents were at the bedside. o Will Return Bandits Coldwater, Mich., Nov. 16— (UP) Joe Roberts and Bert Angus. Toledo, Ohio are executed to be extradited this week to Kendallville, Ind, where they will be charged 1 with the holdup of the state bank. Five employes of the bank Sunday 1 picked the two men from a lineup as the bandits who stag"d the holdup. They were arrested at Jones--1 ville, Michigan Friday night by 1 Michigan state troopers who found ' $18,090 in bonds, taken from the Kendallville bank, in their possession. OGDEN ATTACKS LEGAL LAXITY ' Church, Press, and School Charged W ith Furthering Law And Order Brazil, Ind., Nov. 16 —(U.R) —In an attack upon lax law enforcement in municipalities, Attorney . General James M. Ogden told a ( Brazil audience that it remained for the church, the press and the 1 schools to further the doctrine of • law and order. . The address was a continuation . of attacks upon vice and corruption which the attorney general 1 started several months ago at a state l.’kir association meeting. r His broadside against the city of ' Marion recently resulted in a grand Jury Investigation, but no ■| city officials were indicted in the "I report made Saturday. I "Sometimes vice and crime bocome so much a part of the busi•|ness of a community that thev ’! cannot be gotten rid of, because (CONTINUED ON PAGE THREE)