Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 29, Number 297, Decatur, Adams County, 17 December 1931 — Page 1

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’■.CHRISTMAS ■STY PROGRAM | COMPLETED "» — of Local Employes Hit Attend Annual ■Event Tuesday ■’! \ CLAUS | TO BE PRESENT have completed ■ > and everything is b r the annual General i-inh Christmas party of the Decatur Kfe ami lheir children. The w. I lie held next Tuesat 7:30 o’clock at ■fr :c high school auditor- . houses have been contor boys and one for Kgl ' I.oe booths to pass out . drinks and toys to the ■ d today by Beit Ca.. ' man of the Christ is Kr ■ ' *' showed that i i is and 190 boys preparty. at the plant are ,i tickets for their vliilI K M Tickets must lie pre ’h,. party Tuesday nightj I gifts may be awarded. K| aliment of five w led during the evening has been rehe . tit: ■- before the committee The committee KBid today that the show w.,-, . tamed for i hi Dancing also will lie later in the evening. ' committees hat. for more than a make the party th, best by the club and imlica ■■ attendance will be cent. Following ar. committee KE General Committee Gage, chairman; Lohnasl ON PAGE FOUR) o Auto Display . Graliker. Herb Kern. - and Henry Graber from Detroit wii.-r--a preview of the Hudson and Essex m ■■ A ’>">l' le represent ~i mt from Toledo. For' Grand Rapids and other! ■B II - cities in the Detroit ptimism was express .1 the automobile busitlie coming year. |. SWANSON K APPOINTED Democrat To AtArms Conference I At Geneva ' Dec. (U.R) a A. Swanson, demo, t. 1 will be a member ot ■ A *''i nan delegation to tin In disarmament . a next February, the Wl.it- ■** nnounced. today. KJ" ''l has actively supported 11 administrations policy. He is the rank-1 on the senate foreign s and naval committees, •het delegates probalflv will be before the holidays. It is Secretary of State Stimson the delegation. >’■ Fletcher, recently re JK c l la irtnan of the tariff com ''Hd Senator' l Reed, repub■M Pennsylvania, have been mentioned as probable K^F k of the delegation. a member of the Amerin London in 1930. i of Swanson’s sewas taken to confirm the opposition Io deON PAGE TWO) ' BV Knave! Is Fined charged with petit , B W for the theft of coal Loin , Elevator Ox,, pleaded Mayor's court Wednesday , !, 'l was fined $1,(10 and costs |B ln K to $ll.OO and a 90-tlay . sentence was suspend-1 ( tB Ve l will lay out the sll Ini■K»ty Jan, I

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I i Ready to Rope Backsliders E'jYjgf - • aAI I f< ■Hr, «3F v A fi k/JK sji x\ i Ve coinpleat cow irl. from high-heeled riding boots and wooly chaps o ten-gallon hat, Amice Semple McPherson Hutton is shown with her bautone husband in Palm Springs. Cal., whore they were guests of a! fashionable riding club. Photo was made at an outdoor feast in the i desert, one ot the features of which was a competition in which the | tirade ot Angehts Temple was declared the most typical cowgirl at i the party.

TREE ERECTED FOR CHRISTMAS Large Ever-Green Tree to Be Lighted With Colored Ornaments Decatur’s Community Christmas l tree was erected this morning on j the court house square by M. J. I Myfott and a crew of men from j tl»e City Light ami Power comI pany. The tree will be lighted I with brightly colored lights furnished by the city. The tree was purchased by the Woman's Club of this city, with I Mrs. W. E. Smith in charge. It j is 18 tall, and is a beautiful I evergreen tree that was purchased from the Henry Rider farm, near this city. No special program lias been arranged by the Woman's Club for Christmas eve. but the tree | was erected this year th- same as I in former years to brine the spirit I of Christmas before the people of this community. The money former!' used for treats of- candy and fruit for the children has bieen turned over to tile Good Fellow Club nd the United Charities, it wa stated. Money Is Approved Washington, Dec. 17 <U.R) —The, house today voted approval of a' $200,000,000 appropriation for the Veterans Bureau to b used in payment of Veterans loans approved) by the last session of congress. | Admits Killing Tramp South Bend. Ind.. I>< 17 (U.R) —Sheriff Walter Fegan announced today he had obtained a confession : from'Patrick .1. Flynn, fa. in the! slaying of a tramp whose naim was believed to be Burns in the "hobo jungle'' north of here. Flynn was arrested in a nearby shack. RESIGNED HEAD OF CHINA FLEES Eear of Further Rioting By Students Is Cause Os Flight Shanghai, Dec. 17. (U.R) Gen. 1 . Chiang Kai-Shek, resigned head of ■ Hie China national government, left Nanking by airplane today while Canton leaders were nearing the city for a conference with him Advices reaching here said Chiang's reparture was accompanied by threats of new student demonstrations which officials claimed would develop a state anarchy unless checked. Gen. and Mrs. Chiang: Kai-Shek went to their native, places in Chekiang province. The Cantonese, escorted by an. armored train from Shanghai, re-1 ceived an impressive welcomejvhen | ON PAGE TWO) |

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* 77 ♦ i Good Fellows Club Several contributions were re-1 ceived by the Good Fellow Club, I being sponsored by the Delta Theta Sororoity. today, and the total amount now in, the club is over ! $138.00. An erroneous report has been heard by a number of people ' ) whereby the sorority is furnishing toys for children' this j Christmas. Those In charge of the club stated that the money received by the Good Fellow Club will be used to buy clothing, groceries, shoes, ami supplies just the same as in formi er years. Because of the increased numiber of needy families more money will be needed this year, and everyone who can is asked to donate something to the club. Contributions received to-date include: Previous total $111.72 W. Guy Brown 1.00 Employes City Power Plant 5.00 Young Matron’s Club 5.00 M. Moyer 1.00 Psi lota Xi. sorority 15.00 Total $138.72 MONROE PUPILS PLAN CANTATA “Chimes Os The Holy Night,” Title Os Christmas Play Next Sunday evening. December 20. the Boys and Girls Glee Club of Hie Monroe high school, will present a Christmas cantata. "Chimes of the Holy Night.’’ by Fred Holton, in the Monroe Methodist church. The Glee Club is comprised of fifty voices, under the direction of Miss LaVon Christener. music supervisor in the Monroe school. The program will begin at 7:30 1 o’clock Sunday night with a short musical prelude, followed with . Ihe cantata. All music lovers are i cordially invited to attend. The complete program is as follows: Processional. "Cliiming Bells” Jeanette Rich ! Prayer Rev. V. Riley : "Christmastide,” by H. Hahn. and "Glory to God," by Rotoli Miss LaVon Christener “Chimes of the Holy Night" (CONTINUED ON PAGE SIX) .Q Rev. H. H. Ferntheil Is Seriously 111 Rev. Harry H. Ferntheil, pastor of the Presbyterian church, is in a serious condition at the Adams i County Memorial Hospital where he ! underwent a major emergency operj ation at 10 o’clock this morning, i The operation was tor ruptured apI pendix, and his condition is regarded as very seriotrf.

Decatur, Indiana, Thursday, December 17, 1931.

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HOOVER FACES ' MANY BURDENS OF GOVERNMENT Defeat Feared as G. 0. P. Leaders Prepare For 1932 National Meet MORATORIUM MAY SUFFER Washington, Dec. 17. — <U.R) — I There is no Santa Claus this ,year for President Hoover. His burden grows daily. The! meeting of the republican national' committee this week to arrange! for his renomination ironically em-1 phasized this. It is a bewildering, storm-racked landscape that hems in this lonely man in the White House, elected only three years ago by the greatest majority in American history. Around him he sees defeatism ■ among republicans, openly referred to during the national committee meeting; refusal of some of his most loyal friends, such as Senator ! David A. Reed of Pennsylvania, to . go along with him on his foreign debt program; the possibility of congress attaching a rider to the ’debt moratorium opposing further extension or cancellation, nullify- , ing’his own announced program; the treasury running short into the billions while resistance to his drastic tax increase grows. And j ion top of all his relief program I waits a divided congress flounders. 1 Jthe august senate quibbling over an ! ’’honorary position for Senator I George Moses, Repn., N. H„ that | I involves nothing much except per- . sonal ambition and personal pique. ' and the less august house paralyzied With buck fever while the newHly enthroned democrats groupe with j halting inspiration for some pro(CONTINUED ON PAGE SIXI WEALTHY WOMAN IS KIDNAPED ’ I Garment Concern Head Held For $75,000 By Mysterious Group Kansas City. Mo.. Dec. 17 —(U.R) —Kidnapers today held Mrs. Nell! Donnelly, head of a $3,000,0001 garment company under threat of death for payment ot $75,000 ransom by her family. Mrs. Donnelly, founder of the garment company which bears her I tiante, was seized last night. Early today her attorney received an envelope containing two . notes, one of which was in the i | handwriting of the kidnaped woman. It read: “I hereby give you power to* J draw money against my husband's Recount. The amount is $75,000. 1 sign my name in full. (Signed) Nell Quinland Donnelly." The note was accompanied by another, apparently written by the kidnapers, which informed the family that Mrs. Donnelly would be blinded and then killed if police were notified, or if the ransom was not paid promptly. This note also contained in(CONTINUED n N PAGE SIXI BROWNINGS IN COURT AGAIN I “Peaches” Seeking Divorce From Aged Husband In New York New York, Dec. 17.—(U.R)--New glimpses of Edward W. (Daddy) Browning's petting parties with two blonde sisters in a hired limousine I were promised today in testimony through which Frances (“Peaches") Browning hopes to win a divorce. It was Indicated that the trial will last several days as counsel for both sides said Daddy and Peaches would testify. The sisters, Evelyn and Marion Jenls, will be called by Browning, attorneys said. Browning was uneasy after a day of adverse testimony. His chauffeur, John Gulshaw, thumbed a lit(CONTINUED ON PAGE TWO)

I. B. C. Vacation To Commence Next Friday Fort Wayne, Dec. 17—International college will hold its annual Christmas vacation from jrriday, Dec. 18 to Jan. 4, it was announced today by Prof. J. C. Tritch, principal of the college. This will provide a two weeks’ vacation for many students attending school here from Decatur and vicinity. Rev. William E. Clark, pastor of Wayne Street M. E. church, this city, will make the address at the Christmas program at the college Friday morning. He will be presented by Prof. J. C. Tritch, principal of the school. The college chorus will broadcast over radio station WOWO at noon Friday under the direction of David R. Ramsey, a memlwr of the college faculty.’ ZIMMERMAN TO LECTURE HERE Noted Deep Sea Diver, Swimmer Appears At D. H. S. Tonight The senior class of Decatur high school will present Robert M. Zimmerman, a noted swimmer and deep-sea diver, at the high school auditorium at 8:15 o'clock tonight. This will be the second of a series of four Lyceum programs to be given this winter. Mr. Zimmerman will sp ak on the , subject, “On (he Bottom of the I Sea." He has spent many hours in ! the sea and included in his lecture ' will be a description ot’ the flower gardens on the bottom of the ocean off the Bahama islands. Mr. Zimmerman has not only seen and explored these beautiful under-the-sea gardens, but he has brought from the depths of the West Indian seas specimens of the gorgeous plant and animal life he found there. To illustrate the story of his adventures on the floor of the ocean, he will bring with him an exhibit of hundreds as marine wonders. | Coral plumes four feet high, tinted with all the rainbow colors; j “singing" shells, pigmy and giant: the five toot sword of a giant sword fish, red, blue, green, pink, varicolored to match the sunlight as it filters through the water; the jaws of a man-eating shark caught off Nassau. In this capacity as diving expert for salvaging companies which were ’raising sunken vessels, and for 1 moving picture companies which were featuring subma. ine films, he has walked on the floor of the sea many times. The se who do not have season tickets may purchase single admission cards at the door. SENATE SEEKS STIMSON NOTES Committee Calls For All Messages to Others On Manchuria Washington, Dec. 17. —(U.R)—The senate today requested Secretary of State Stimson to submit to it all his notes and communications with foreign governmeuts on the subject of Manchuria The Johnson resolution expressing this request was adopted unanimously, after a democrat had risen to defend Stimson. Senator King, Detn., Utah, expressed the thought that the resolution might not be sufficiently polite. He “commended the splendid work ot the state department is doing toward pacification of China and Japan In this difficult situation."

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iSKULL INJURY IS FATAL TO FRANK HIRSCHY Man Struck by Miller Auto On State Road 16 Dies W ednesday FUNERAL TO BE SATURDAY Frank Hirschy, 50, farmer living 3 miles east of this city in Union township, died at 5:30 o’clock Wednesday eve- ; ning at the Adams County Memorial Hospital of injuries j received 1’ ues d a y evening when he was hit by an auto. ' mobile as he walked from behind his truck, parked on state road 16, a mile and a half east jof here. His skull was fractured by the impact and he never regained consciousness. The automobile was driven by , Sidney Miller, a salesman from Fort Wayne, who resides at ConI'voy, Ohio, and who was en route j home. Miller was cleared of blame ,by Chief of Police Seplius Melchi and State Patrolman Harl Hollingsi worth, who investigated. Hirschy was driving from his farm in Union township to Decatur. He stopped his truck on the pavement and got out to see.it the taillight was burning. Having looked, he stepped from behind the truck I toward the middle of the pavement; ■to turn to the cab. It was then that ' I Miller's car struck him. I The deceased was born in Mon- : roe township. April 12, 1881, the I son of August and Almira Hirschy, both deceased. 11l 1908 he was I united in marriage to Ida Newfer iwho surives together with the following children: Harold, at home; I ON PAGE TWO) ) | o JURY FINDS FOR DEFENDANT L Case First Filed In Wells County, 1925 Is Disposed Os A jury in Adams circuit court , found today for the defendant, . ! John Hartman in a transportation ( I damage suit brought by the Erie , i railroad to collect transportation [ charges and on instruction of the , Court found for the railroad in a , cross-complaint in the case after hearing eviden.ee and arguments for more than a*day and a half. The suit first was filed in Wells county in 1925 and was ventied here in 1929. Several ImI portant legal questions arose during the course of the hearing. ' The Court instructed a verdict foY the railroad in the cioss complaint because it was not filed within I the time limit. The suit arose over the shipment of a car of straw from Peterson, Ind., to Garrettsville. Ohio. The shipment was refused because of damages sustained duo to a leaky freight car. The raili road sold the straw for S9O net, and later brought suit for freight and demurrage, demanding $250. | The jury was out an hour. BELIEVE BOOTH ENDED OWN LIFE Group Says Lincoln's Killer Committed Suicide In 1903 Chicago, Doc. 17- (U.R)—A jury of prominent physicians drafted today a verdict adding to the evidence that John Wilkes Booth, the assassin of President Lincoln, rather than dying the Ignoble death of a cornered fugitive, lived for years finally to perish by his own hand. The verdict to be announced In h few days, is the result of an Investigation by Dr. Herman N. Bundesen. Chicago health com- ’ niissioner. Dr. Edward Miloslavicb hoted Milwaukee pathologist, and other men of science. They have examined in the (CONTINUED ON PAGE TWO)

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■ Won Rich Verdict 1 ft \ ‘ 4 **• • J . Claiming the unlawful use of his idea for the "push-button” mechanism for opening camera shutters ■ in place of the old bulb-pressure I method. Charles B. Gray (above), I inventor, of Philadelphia, who re- ! cently sued the Eastman Kodak Company for one and a half million dollars, has been awarded a verdict of $153,553. Federal jury in Philadelphia heard the ease. ELKS INITIATE “ 10 CANDIDATES — Bluffton Degree Team Gives Fine Exemplification of Ritual One of the finest exemplifications of the Elk’s initiatory ritual was given last evening at the Elk’s home by members of the Bluffton I degree team to a class of 10 can- ; didates who were initiated into Decatur Lodge No. 993 ot the B. P. O. E. The ceremonies started at eight o clock with L. A. Holthouse, exi alted ruler and staff of officers of I Decatur lodge in charge. I Tlie initiation work was exemplified by the Bluffton team. The team has won several state champion- . I ships and is one of the best drilled i teams in this part of the country. ’ Ten of the 11 candidates were initiated. | The initiation was also attended ’ by Fred A. Weicking of Bluffton • grand esteemed lecturing Knight, 1 representing the Supreme lodge and ‘ Lee M. Bowers, of Huntington, dis--1 ] trict deputy grand esteemed ruler, ‘j Indiana north central. J . (CONTINUED ON PAGE TWO) CHICAGO HAS PAYLESS MONTH , Employes Fa c e Bleak Christmas; One Check Since Last April ’ Chicago, Dec. 17 (U.R) A bleak i Christmas threatens for thousands ’ of employes ,of the city of Chi- ’ I cago. 1 The second largest city in the I’nited States, the fourth city of ■ tlie world, has paid its 14,000 school teachers and 4.000 other school employes only one month's pay since April 15. Thousands of other city employes, working for departments of streets, parks, libraries, hospitals and other municipal agen- ' cies have either been laid off or put on part time. Police and firemen may join the ranks of payless employes unless relief comes from the special session of the state legislature now seeking some solution of the city's financial muddle, city officials warned today. Some $9,000,000 in principal and .CONTINUED ON PAGE SIXI Q Meeting Starts Sunday The Adams County Holiness Association will hold its monthly meeting next Sunday afternoon. December 20, at 2 o'clock In 'he | Pleasant Valley Church, heated one j mile south and two miles east of Monroe. Rev. Joshua Stauffer will deliver the message at the afternoon meeting to which the public is invited to attend.

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H. P. DAVISON STATES MONEY NOT ON HAND Fiscal Agent Fails to Receive Funds; Moratorium’s Fate Feared OPPOSITION IS GROWING Washington, Dec. 17 <U.P) Henry I*. Davison of .1. P. | Morgan & company, fiscal agents for foreign debtor nations, told the house ways and means committee today that none of the foreign governments had deposited < funds in this country to meet December 15 payments i Io the I nited States whiclj > amounted to $124,800,000. Thestf , payments were postponed under (he Hoover moratorium now being ■ considered in congress. Davison was called to testify in i view of reports brought before the ■ committee yesterday that the debtor nations liad deposited funds here and were ready to pay. The committee dosed its hearings after Davison had completed his testimony and went into executive session, to act upon the bill for. ratification of the moratorium. Davison said the House of Morgan was the fiscal agent of Great Britain. France and Italy in this country and had handled payments before. He was unable to specify just how long the company had handled debt payments, hut said he would furnish the committee with detailed information latI er. if necessary. l Asked by Chairman Collier as to the reports that foreign nations had deposited funds to pay tlie December 15 installments. Davison replied: “The answer is a very simple one and it is in the negative. ’ If the payments lyul been deposited. we would know about it. Davison added. The blanker also said that nona of the debtor nations had discuss- , ed the December payments with his firm. The moratorium was called “an entering wedge to debt cancellation” by Rep. Wright Batman, 1 Dem.. Tex., first witness before 1 the ways and means committer-. ■ Batman asserted that other nations do not expect to liive tq pay their debts to tlie United • States. “If France and England thought they were going to have to pay these debts, they would buy Liberty Bonds now at 88 cents on tbo dollar and use them to pay their debts." Batman said. I He referred to a provision in (CONTINUED ON PAGE FIVEt Conrad Funeral Held Funeral services for Esther Conrad, 7 year old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Ernest Conrad who died at the Adams County Memorial Hospital, c Monday following an operation, , were held this afternoun at otto . o’clock at the home and at 2 o'clock at the Zion Lutheran church in this , city. Rev. Paul Schultz pa dor. ofp Belated, and burial was in the I Friedheim Lutheran cemetery in . Preble township. EXPECT RIVER I LEVELS TO DROP Weather Bureau States Cold Weather Will Prevent Serious Floods i ' Indianapolis. Dec 17.—(U.R) River levels over the entire state. ’ which had reached flood stages in some sections, were expected Io subside today, officials of the I . S. weather bureau here said. Except in lower extremities of the state, the decline already had started. The Wabash, falling to below Vincennes, was still rising at Mt. Carmel, but officials believed the crest had been reached. It was reported to he at a level of 15.9 feet this morning. The White river was reported at a level of 16.4 feet at Decker, six (CONTINUED ON PAGE SIX)