Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 29, Number 280, Decatur, Adams County, 28 November 1931 — Page 1

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■snafmands ItSS DENIAL ■Oil STIMSON Krfed Statement Is K er of Controversy ; Katement Denied Kn will K\ki <1 MEMEX T Mil'* W Vaughn, |K <■_, ■ ■ -pondent. K ■> _<u.R) —The ■ r S denounr■•■'.nients on Jap- ' Manchuria atto him in press disK. -!■ '!i. 'A a-hington. and ,|- an immediate denial statements, vigorous statement ■ on Washington disfr other than vigil office <• nm-n misleading the ,-hare J ' to take all |H::. ia was running office said that if i.jj ... quoted correct Japan and her motives. b: cX t< link. lidic a statement all tlo-e accusations at- . m.itt'T to Ambass !>i at Washington, and irate -informs we wish to point out | points attributed to .Mr. tail::..: for immediate deuffie, said Stimson's -laten., !ii< that Japan had reg: ' and had said that ■*'•'■■- -o :,.i never happen ■ ' time an advance was ■ in Mam linria were "quite ■ting.” ■ foreign office said Japan expressed regrets to anyactions forced on her by ■i-o-ssin oi self preservation ■an she • ver promise not to self defense again.” statenien was read to fors tlte regular ■non press conference at the ■“ office by s. Shiratori. chief ■ nitelliimnce bureau and con■'ith the foreign press, ■isoii was quoted as saying he ■ not understand reports that ■*se troops were moving on ■how in view of definite assur- ■ given him that Chinchow °°t be attacked. ■o*oll also revealed, according ■t press report received at the ■" office, that he had asked ■ssador \v. Cameron Forbes to ■be attention of Foreign Min- ■ Baron Shidehara to the situ- ■ * n| i that the ambassador was ■**itliat there would be no hos■tion toward Chinchow. ■ foreign office statement was ■ on the basis of an Associated ■ dispatch delivered to Baron ■ aiJ through the Japanese ■> agency. ■ foreign office statement said: ■ Stimson's precipitate action ■ TIN'CED ON PAGE FOUR) IK WATCH FDR RIOTERS |f inor Has Special |Uard at State House I After Threats Nov. 28.—(U.R)—City E., 6 , Po ' ice continued to guard r ciiouse and office of Goverort G' kosM®, because of 6 threats by members of a A,!l aniZatlon of the unemployorities discounted reports rtous, disturbances, and even ’rm to the Governor, had _ [ eat ®ned, _ but nevertheless ~,t eMary Pfecautions against Bnc h uprising. were that a committee r P oye< l was to call on the on r yesterday, demanding for Theodore Luesse, and thrm , unger marchers” due to ~ 1 here Monday en route ’’hlngton. No sign of the J tlee w as seen. I th' 8 ,?°“ ce kuard will accomL 6 hunger marchers” in Ini' 1 was announced.

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Saved From (’hair F **“ I I IK ■I H kw ***** J ■■ WL W «"* Frank Bell, who was under sentence to die in the electric chair at the county jail in Chicago onej minute after midnight Friday morning, was granted a thirty-day ; stay of execution by Governor! Emmerson two hours before he was scheduled to start upon his i death march. Beil, who was convicted of the murder of a Chicago restaurant keeper, is credited with revealing a jail-delivery plot 1 that would have cost the lives of the warden and several of his aids. I

JAPAN TROOPS ARE RECALLED — AH Aggressiveness Is Disappearing; Troops Are At Mukden Mukden, Manchuria. Nov. 28 — (UP) —Japanese troops wire returning to Mukden today being billited at homes of Japanese resid nt ; i All indications of aggressiveness I have dissappeared. The drastic change in attitude mystified residents here. "The pressing needs of troops in i Korea, where bandits prevail, i makes prompt return of the Korean ; Brigade likely,” a spok stnan fc i the army said. There were indications that all contemplated expeditions of the Japanese forces along Chinese front were being abandoned. Mukden, Manchuria N. 2t (UP) —Gen. Shekurt Honjo has decided to withdraw all Japanese | troops west of the Liao-Ho river.; which includes the forces tn the , Chinghow and Asinminfu area.-, it , was announced today at Japanese Military headquarters. It was understood the withdrawal was ordered by Tokio. Most of the troops will he with drawn inside the south Manchuria railway zone. Japan is allo" <1 to keep troops there by treaty right. Forces at occupied points outside the zone will be reduced to the minimum necessary to guard against emergencies. The withdrawal began early today. Japanese headquarters intense ly active 24 hours ago as troops rushed southward toward Chinchow and airplanes took off with loads of bombs, were quiet. A spokesman for General Honjo declined to explain the sudden change of front. He confined bi- r ■ marks to, “There is no political purpose to our withdrawal. It was stated that improvement of the situation at Tientsin made further action in the direction of Chinchow unnecessary. Despite official denials it was learned that Japanese troops 1 riday reached a point near Yangchuzanteze 30 miles from Chinchow, but withdrew during the night. Headquarters said two Japanese were killed and four were wounded in skirmishes with Chinese armored trains. — o Proctor Name Proposed Elkhart, Ind., Nov. 28— (UP)— Robert E- Proctor, Elkhart attorney and former state senator, said today he was considering the proposal that he enter the Democrat race for the Gubernatorial nomination. Proctor is a former national president of the f aternß ‘ Eagles, and styles himself a Jripp ing wet.”

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POST OFFICE DEDICATION PLANS READY - E. .1. Gallmeyer, James J. Patchell To Be Chief Speakers At Meet PROGRAM IS ANNOUNCED E. J. Gallmeyer, postmaster of Fort Wayne, will deliver' the principal address at the I dedication of the new Decatur] | post office on Tuesday, De|cember 1. i James J. Patchell, Union City, president of the Nation,al Postmaster’s Association-, will attend the ceremonies and also deliver an address. The new post office building will ,be open for inspection throughout I the day. 1 The dedicatory program will begin at one-thirty o'clock with singing of patriotic music in front of [the building. The school children I will march from their respective I buildings to the post office site and join in a singing service, lead by I the Decatur Junior band. Paul Graham, general chairman and master of ceremonies for the ( day announced today that word had I been received from Senators James Watson and Arthur Robinson and from Congressman Albert Vestal, that it would be impossible for I them to attend the dedication. The - opening of congress on December -7, makes it necessary that they be 1 in Washington. The Program The official program, prepared I by a committee of women, of which I Mrs. J. W. Jyndall was chairman, I was announced today as folluws; 1 Master of Ceremonies Mr. Paul Graham Post Office open for inspection en- ] (CONTINUED ON PAGE THREE) INDIANS STILL FACING DEATH Five Hundred Tribesmen Isolated by Snow And Cold In Blizzard Manuelito. N. M., Nov. 28 —(U.R) — The season of Kishnus Yazhie today brought terror and despair in place of the traditional joy of the Navajo Indians' "Little Christmas" as 500 tribesmen faced pos- ' sible death on the snow-blocked ' Cepro Alto and Santa Rita mesas, j A great blizzard, long ahead of I schedule, trapped the Indians during the annual pinion nut harvest turning the customary Thanksgiving to anguish and mourning. Members of almost every family in the big Navajo tribe are among the 500 who have dared death to guard their crop of nuts--which represent wealth to the Indians. Bitter cold weather, with the temperatures of 25 degrees below zero, will, it is feared, take a toll among the poorly dressed tribesmen. Seven already have perished. , The condition of the rest was not known. Communication is uncertain in this rugged section. From those Indians who have made their way Hack to the trading posts and reservations, it is known their tribesmen on the great snow-swept mesas have little fuel. Fear that the Indians would starve was light sned today by the words of veteran Indian traders. Mike Kirk, proprietor of the trading post at Manelito scoffed at the thought of starvation. "Why should they starve,” he said, "They have their horses. Horse meat is a delicacy among the Indians. If there is any question of starving, the tribesmen will slaughter horses to get sufficient meat on which to live.” But even Kirk, who knows the hardiness of the Indians and th-ir ability at woodcraft, feared the temperature. o — — Drum Corps To Meet All members of the American Le-! gion Drum Corps are asked to meet in the Legion hall. Tuesday afternoon at 1 o'clock to take part in the program of the dedication of the new postoffice here.

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, Wins Wilson Award - '* - ■ a, A-' x . '7 I _ ***** * ziW < • V Harold Hamilton, 19-year-old farm boy of Charlottesville, Hancock County, Indiana, who will be awarded the Thomas E. Wilson S3OO agricultural college scholarship at the International Livestock Exposition held in Chicago. Young Hamilton, shown here with one of his Angus cows, was national winner in the 4-H Livestock Project Contest.

TAX QUESTIONS SENT TO OGDEN Chain Tax Brings Hundreds of Questions To Tax Commission Indianapolis, Nov. 28. —(U.R) —The flood of questions regarding the new chain store tax law that have poured into offices of the state tax ’ boald here will be bundled into one [group and sent to Attorney General James M. Ogden for answers. L. C. Johnson, store tax administrator. said today. As an illustration of the perplexing queries coming in from all parts of the state with inaugur-1 ation of the new law. Johnson cited! the following: I "Must a dentist pay a chain store tax because he fits you witli a set of I false teeth?" , “If not, should a shop that fits | you with false hair, be taxdd?" I "Should a newsboy pay a $3 tax per year for the privilege of selling papers at a few cents, and if not should the newspaper and magazine stands on street corners be taxed?” While waiting for answers to the , questions, Johnson has instructed CONTINUED ON PAGE TWO! 0 — UTILITY FACES NEW LAW SUIT Investments Concern Is 1 Charged With Failure To Follow Program Chicago, Nov. 28—(U.R) —Fred C. Griesel, Chicago, has brought suit against the Insull Utility Investments company, for an order against payment of a dividend on second preferred stock, for an 1 accounting, and for a receiver- ’ ship. The action was brought Jhrough Allen E. Homan, an attorney. The company, one of the Samuel Insull corporations, listed total resources of $280,000,000 on its last balance sheet. Samuel Insull, Jr., commenting on the suit, said he understood that Hogan was Griesel's brqther-in-law. He added that "the bill

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* Rev. Franklin Gets Two Deers On Trip The Rev. B. H. Franklin, pastor of the First Methodist church, returned tiiis morning from a huntI ing trip in Quebec. Canada. Rev. . Franklin and party killed six dear. . Rev. Franklin shot a buck and doe and brought them both home with I him. The other four deer, includ- | ing two bucks and two does were taken to Muncie where the other members of the hunting party live. The members of the party were Rev. E. E. Franklin, pastor of the Normal City MetTiodi it church; Dr. Charles Botkin, (tree Gable, ill of Muncie. They camped about 1000 miles north of Decatur and hunted for six days. FARMERS GET HIGH HONORS Nine Indiana Farmers Receive Master Title At Meet Sunday • Lafayette. Ind.. Nov. 28—(UP) — Names of nine Indiana master farmers. as judged by representatives of Purdue University, the Indiana Farm Bureau, and the Prairie Farmer were announced today. Medal awards will be made tomorrow. Judgement was rendered on efficiency in farming, rating as husbands and Fathers and contributions to community advancement. I Requirements are high, as indicated by the fact that in si years only 56 Indiana Farmers have attained the distinction. Those chosen this year are Marion Ellingwood, Grand County; Henry Voile, Knox county; Earl B. Newell, Carroll Gounty; Charles Zimmerman, Vanderburg county; Harry M. Shull. DeKalb county, Garth R. Kyler, Whitley county; Clyde 11. Seybold, Parke County; Churchille Barr. Tipton county, and Newell M. Merril, Madison county. Middlebury, Ind., Nov. 28 —(UP) —Sanford Eash was notified today that he had been awarded the degree of “American Farmer' by the National Congress of future farmers of America at Kansas City. He was the only candidate nominated from Indiana this year. Each, who graduated from Middlebury high school last spring, now is farmftig in partnership with his father, and is the sole manager of a 290-acre farm. Funeral Held Today Funeral services for Harley K. Anderson, Magley young man. who died at the Adams County Memorial hospital Wednesday afternoon, were held at 2 o’clock this wflernoon at the Pleasant Valley church W’ith Rev. E. L. Johnston officiating. Burial was in the Oakland cemetery. Mr. Anderson was a member of the National Guards at Fort Wayne, and the services were In charge of that organization. 0 BULLETIN Football Finals Army, 12; Notre Dame, 0.

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'STARTS PROBE OF TRUCK LINES I Score of Trucking Concerns To Be Investigated In Indiana Indianapolis, Nov. 28 —(U.R) — Harry K. Cuthbertson, public service commissioner, has carried out the first part of his threat against Tom Snyder, Indianapolis, by fostering an investigation of operations of more than a score of trucking lines in Indiana. Cuthbertson promised the in-1 vestigationl with threats that | "illegal operations" would b|e halted, after denying the application of the store door delivery corpor- ■ ation to operate 23 lines as common carriers in the state. Snyder answered the refusal with the taunt that the line would continue to operate on a contract basis, outside commission jurisdiction. as they had in the past, until commission approval was granted. Organizations controlled by Snyder, which come under the current investigation, in addition to the 28 truck lines, are the warehouse distributing corporation and Central Union Truck Terminal, Inc., Indianapolis, and truck terminals in Richmond, Kokomo, Marion. Fort Wayne. Terre Haute, Vincennes, Evansville, Crawfordsville, and Muncie. Snyder, Clem Wickett, Richmond: Glenn E. Shively, Peru; Lowell Hannum, Bloomington, and ' Verne Morse, Bedford, were named as objects of the investigation.! Snyder said the public service commission's nvestigation was welcomed bby his group, which was confident in the knowledge . that purported law violation did not exist. . o s Wins Damage Suit Crawfordsville. Ind., Nov. 28— (UP) —A year's salary with interest totaling $5,558 was awarded A. D. Montgomery, former superintendent of Crawfordsville schools, on | a breach of contract action. Montgomery charged that he had served ) only two years of his three year contract. .—o Mail Planes Crashes Pittsburgh. Pa.. Nov. 28 -(U.R)--A United States airmail plane crashed in the downtown district today. The pilot jumped with his parachute and landed on the old exposition building. He escaped with minor injuries, first reports said. FARM BOARD IS ATTACK TARGET Crisn Will Introduce Bill To Abolish Federal Organization Washington. Nov. 28.— (U.R) —A bill to abolish the Federal Farm Board will be introduced at the opening of congress by Rep. Crisp, Ga„ one of the Democratic leaders who expect to control the house. Crisp announced his intention today as the senate agriculture committee, investigating the general . farm situation, heard a spirited defense of short selling and other . grain exchange practices by Siebel C. Harris of the Chicago exchange. Harris’ testimony brought from Senator Frazier, Repn., N- D., the comment that short selling is "pure gambling" and has “destroyed the law of supply and demand.” J. Earl Roberts. Philadelphia, appeared before the committee on behalf of the Nation League of Commission Merclui .its and opposed the use of government funds through tlte farm board to finance marketing of.freifli fruits and vege- ' tables. Crisp's bill, which already has been drafted, would prohibit sale of any cotton and wheat now held by the Farm Board for three years, unless cotton can be sold for 12 ' cents a pound and wheat for 80 cents a bushel. The Georgia congressman explained that he had supported legislation creating the Farm Board as “an experiment,” but had found that it, similar to all government measures to interfere with the law (CONTINUED ON PAGE SIX)

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SECOND EYE-WITNESS TELLS FATAL SWIMMING EPISODE State Continues To Build Evidence In Effort To Convict Joseph Everett On Charge of Murdering Doras Werling. This afternoon’s session of the Everett murder trial opened with the largest crowd of the trial, the room being filled to capacity and people stood all afternoon in both the front and rear corridors. After a short cross-examination by Attorney Walters of Denison Tinkham, in which nothing particularly new

disarmament” MEET RAIDED International Conference Interrupted by Wild Anti-Mob PariS, Nov. 28 —(UP) — Rioting . marked the end of an international conference of peace and disarmament here, caused the collapse of Viscounit Cecil, president of the council, and drowned out Senator William E. Borah's international i radio address broadcast to the con- j ference hall. Speeches scheduled for broadcast j all over Europe were drowned out, and the uproar “went ont the air” instead. During the rioting, an anti-dis- ] mament conference was conducted ] i peaceably in another part of the j I city. Scores of steel helmeted republi-1 can guards rushed from antidisarmament meeting at the Salle Wagram in answer to a riot call from the Trocadeero auditorium, one of the largest halls in Paris. There' they found men and women fight ing and scratching, the speaker's platform wrecked, chairs smashed and a huge disarmament banner torn to shreds. Amid the uproar which produced many black eyes, and bloody noses,: Viscount Cecil collapsed in his chair. The noise squelched efforts! of Alanson B. Hougliton, former United States ambassador to Great Britain, to restore order, beside: l blanketing Borah’s speech. ■ Houghton made a speech linking armament expenditures with the world depression but his remarks hardly were audible. He made his address a second time with no mote success. Ba.ore the meeting was broken up, the x'onference adopted a resolution urging the League of Nations council to uphold the Kellogg pact and to oblige Japan and China to quit fighting in Manchuria. Houghton told the conference, before he was shouted down, that two thinds of all money raised by taxation today is used to pay for past and future wars. “While industry languishes, unemployment grows, and bread lines lengthen, we are spending five thosand million dollars annually for naval and military purposes. We who pay the bills must seriously consider the need for a substantial measure of disarmament” he said The conference was supposed to give expression to the feeling of people of substantial armament refavor of substantial armament reduction by international agreement. Forty nations were represented. The conference was one of the largest ever attempted by a peace organization. * o Probe Bank Suspect Indianapolis, Nov. 28 —(UP) — Authorities planned to question Fadella Waif, 19, Brooksburg, today concerning the recent $30,000 robbery of a Madison Indiana bank. Wolf was taken into custody as he entered a pawnshop with two new rifles and a shotgun. It was learned that he had just arrived from Madison in a taxi. o Petition Is Denied Undianapolis, Nov. 28 — (UP) — The city of North Manchester's attempt to acquire by condemnation the electric power plant property of the Northern Indiana power company In North Manchester was denied today by the Public Service commission. An accompanying opinion, written by Commissioner Howell Ellis, said it was believed no authority existed for the condemnation, as set out in arguments included in the city's petition.

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_ was brought out, Thqjnas Halberstadt, an eye witness to the occurence was called. Thomas Testifies The young man gave his age at 116, resides with parents near Pleasant Mills. On June 29th worked in corn field, quit about 4:30. AsI ter supper started to take some milk to Jesse Steel home in Pleasant Mills. Doras picked him up. * After delivering milk, they drove |to Mann's garage, someone having suggested they go swimming. Met Luther Bovine there and invited him to go along. All went down to quarry. River was high and about 100 feet wide. Joe Everett was fishing about 250 feet away in quarry. Werling tossed stone in | river, saying, "wonder how deep it !is here.” Joe yelled. "What the |h—l you going to do up there?” jjim said, “We’re going in swimming.” Joe replied, “by g— well see about that.” Joe rowed his boat over and stopped about 30 feet away from us, took chain and i walked up bank, came over and said, “You can't go in swimming (here until I take up my trout lines." |He made several other remarks, according to Tom, who is known as “Mutt.” Then Werling said, "Are you going in?” Joe pulled gun on Jim and then on me and tsaid “beat it." We started to run up the bank. Bovine leading, Jim next and me last. About ten feet up I heard a shot, looked back and saw Doras lunge forward. I said. Jim he shot Doras, lets get him. We ran back and struck him several times. Pretty soon another shot was fired. Werling slipped i into river. I just stood there. No one touched Joe until after the first shot was fired. I went in and helped Doras out of water. He walked 15 or 20 feet and I helped him lie down and told Jim to get a doctor.” Question —"Did Doras say anything to you?" Answer — Yes. What was it? Answer He did not say any tiling when 1 helped him to He down.. ' Thomas identified the photograph handed him as one of the* spot where the affair occurred. Ben McCullough and Charles Hague were first to arrive. Helped carry him to top of bank. As Tom told of seeing Doras die he almost broke down but soon recovered his composure. Mr. Lutz asked, “Did Doras Werling say any thing to Joe Everett at any time that evening?” and Tom answered, "no sir.” Cross-Examination Attorney Walters cross-examined the witness, reviewing the case and then asking Thomas, "You didn’t intend to go swimming that night, did you?" “Sure we did.” Did you?” “Yes.” Did Doras intend to go swim(CONTINUED ON PAGE FOUR) CONCERN WILL BE DISSOLVED Cuthbertson Orders Dissolution of Intercommunication Concern Indianapolis, Nov. 28 —(U.R) —Din* solution of the Intercommunications corporation and the Interstate Radio corporation was ordered by the public service commission today to enable local exchanges of 11 northern Indiana telephone companies to handle their own toll business. Commissioner Harry K. Cuthbertson, author of the order, said the toll property held by the Intercommunications corporation and the rights to special radio service now held by the Interstate company were being taken over by the United companies. Inc., an operating firm. The Interstate Telephone com pany at Union City will remain a separate exchange, however, Cuth(CONTINUED O?,' PAGE THREE)