Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 29, Number 300, Decatur, Adams County, 21 December 1931 — Page 1

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BEING BANDIT ] It by rabbit Ater : caught ______ Who Robbed Bank J}K)tured As Hunter Him In Back Kek robberies Ke st m;ed tod at A bandit, identified a> Boulder, 111., and captured by a wln> observed him ileea posse after he had the State Bank of here today of sl,K entered the bank at «Ha. ni and placed a paekCashier George W said: "This is a can of d^K|>.-.-i If you don't cr. money we'll all go to was in the bank will: Annabelle Woods .1 assistant, plaee-l sl.a pillow slip the bandit through the cage. ilien ordered Gum ..lit. When tin- easlii.-r vault was locked with a the bandit said. "Rpthere is a hereafter. I:' get it now I'll be back." toward the door, the Guin not to give jninutes. Gum pick - ii.tu and Hollowed 'lonut and shouted to other The bandit heard him li.-lji and started rimuimi a railroad trestle. itizens with shot nt. a 1 I saw the bandit m t lie ot money in one htiml and ■: .-vplosivi - in the other. woods behind the trestle t'arver. hunting for rah ii.ard the shots limn ran to the foot of tlm - viiknient. As Revnob bandit in the back. *^B Chicago Bank Robbed Maar 21.— <U.R) — Four armed with two imichimup tlie Papanek Ko\a. of the North Side to-] . . —. I (■TINUED ON PAGE THREE) fcII CENSES | ID BE ISSUED ■ Hunting And Fish?K? Licenses Received ■ At Clerk’s Office :HL 1932 Hunting and Fislil^B'"were received by ('nunmice Nelson, today. B »)<. desire to purchase the 1 - in advance may do so beBU i‘ first of the year it was an special arrangement with <’. Welling, clerk .-!■ at win. office the first of the Nelson may issue Hie s now. They will have to 1..January 1, 1932. Miss Nelami will not be good un time. hunting and fishiua licost one dollat a year. o S-kral For Lehman ■ Child Hdd Today Dec. 21. — (Special! — services for Nancy Jane Hnan. 3-year-old daughter of Mr. Werner Lehman who di'd morning, were held this ■ptvon at one o’clock at the home and at 1:30 o'clock Evangelical church at Berne. ■> "as in the M. R. E. cemchild died following a 10-day s of influenza and pneumonia. was born in Berne, October Surviving are the parfour sisters, Sara Bell, 1 <; 19; Louis, 7, and Joan, 5. Wealth Bond Is Sold The B. P- 0. Elks ..tod ay II bought a so.uo Health bond i from W. Guv I Brown, president () f d 1( , Ad|B County Tuberculosis Associa-

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As Money Kings Were Quizzed HI IrWftl i £ v 1 th JbßFx MEe j -’Ft aHST 9 c. J ’ s Av- - .;y. KT 1 P?.WW - -umi ll.j ul.j ■■"li' wg; Highlights from the opening of the Senate Finance Committee's foreign bond inquiry sponsored by Senator Hiram Johnson, of California, are shown above. In top photo Thomas W. Lamont (left), partner in the firm of J. P Morgan and Company, is shown as he was questioned by Senator Tom Connally (center) and Senator Thomas P. Gore. O’ erlonded with German credits, admitted that it is the American pubi.'mont. while asserting that American banks are not dangerously lie that sufferrs by deflation, not the banks. Lower left is Charles E. M'tchcll. head of tl National City Bank, who testified that if Germany is forced to pav her “political” debts before commercial, she will suffer economic ruin. Lower right is a study of Senator Reed Smoot, of Utah, chairman of the Senate Committee, as he listened to the testimony of the financial magnates.

CHILDREN TO BE ENTERTAINED Moose Lodge to Entertain Children Tuesday At H. S. Building The Loyal Opler of Moose will give the annual Christmas party for Moose children at the Decatur high school auditorium, Tuesday evening, at six o’clock. The program will begin promptly at six o’clock in order that children may also attend the Gene: al Electric Christinas party at 7:30. A program of speeches and dialogues together with a pageant ‘'The Magic Star" will be presented. | Members of the Women of Moose and children of lodge nr tubers will participate in this program, which promises to be unusually interesting and entertaining. One of the feature dialogues is A Half Christmas” in which six boys and girls take part. Following the progra r all children present will be given their an-, nual Christmas treat, of candy and . fruit. The committee in charge of the party comprises the Mesdames Archie Long, Ervin Sehfer. Cecil Gauze, and Mrs. David Teeple pianist. All members of the Moose Lodge and their families are invited to attend. STORES REMAIN OPEN EVENINGS Practically Every Retail Store To Remain Open This Week Decatur stores will remain open each evening this week including Thursday evening, for the convenience of Christinas shoppers, it was announced today. In addition to the clothing, jewelry, hardware, dry goods and five and ten cent stores, the shoe stores will be open each night this week. Many shoppers are availing themselves of the extra hours in the evening to complete their Christmas buying. . Decatur merchants report brisk shopping despite the unseasonal weather. Saturday proved to be a busy day for local merchants with hundreds ol persons from the Decatur shopping territory doing their buying at the stores.

State, National Anil lalcrnaiiouai News

John Rice Recovering From Serious Injury i John Rice is recovering from in- | juries -ire received at U., Wednesday, when the hay wagon on which he was riding upset. His I left hip was dislocated and the cartilages and muscles of the leg were torn. Mr. Rice was driving off the scales at Dixson, 0., when the accident occurred. He made a short turn to avoid hitting another wagon and the load upset throwing Mr. Rice about 15 feet to the ground. Two bales of hay fell on his hip and leg. o . 18 SENATORS FAVOR SESSION - State Senators Favor Holding Special Session of Legislature Turkey Run State Park, Ind., Dec. 21. — <U.R) —An official questionaire circulated among state senators gathered here for a picnic I revealed that IS of the 25 present were in favor of a special tax session of the legislature if assurance was given before hand that a relief measure would be passed quickly. Five said they were opposed to a special session. The legislators came here as , guests of Austin Stultz and Senator L. J. Hartzzell, both of Fort Wayne. The gathering was informal, but a special tax relief session of the legislature was one of the principal topics of discussion. Members of both parties were preent. 1 It was indicated that another I meeting will be held soon, at which the result of interviews with business, farm and political leaders | over the state on a special session, will be discussed. o County Assessors Meet State Board Indianapolis, Dec. 21. — (U.R) — Problems connected with reassessment of real estate in Indiana will be discussed by state tax board members and county assessors in . their three-day annual conference which opened today at the state- . house. It was expected also that con- - siderable time would be spent in discussion of the new chain store c tax law. An address of welcome by 1 Governor Harry G. Leslie, and a i speech on tax administration by i John J. Brown, director of the high--way commission and former tax r board chairman, opened the program.

Decatur, Indiana, Monday, December 21, 1931.

TWO INJURED IN AUTO MISHAP - Mrs. Vance Mattox And Daughter .Jump From Auto as Baby Falls Out Berne, Dec. 21—(Special)—Mrs. Vance Mattax. and daughter, Vera 17, are in a serious condition suffering injuries recevied In an unusual accident Sunday afternoon. The Mattax family was en route to Decatur to visit at the Adams County Memorial hospital at the time of the accident. Mr. Mattax was driving. Vera was in the front seat with him. Mrs. Mattax was riding in the rear seat with a numlier of small children, and was holding a son, Robert, aged 3, on her lap. The son, Robert, opened the right door of the car and tumbled out onto the pavement before any of the other occupants noticed him. The shock and excitement caused Mrs. Mattax to jump out of the car. Vera, in her excitement, opened the front door and jumped. Mrs. Mattax was hurled to the pavement and suffered a broken (CONTINUED ON PAGE FOUR) o Bluffton Dentist Dies Bluffton, Dee. 21—Dr. P. L, Robinson, 78, dean of the Bluffton dentists died of paralysis, Monday morning. He is survived by the widow and one daughter, Mrs. Cairo Snyder of Marion. Funeral services will be held at 2 o’clock Wednesday afternoon at the Baptist church, and burial will be made in the Fairview cemetery.

VACATIONS BEGIN TUESDAY Catholic Schools Close Tuesday And Public Schools on Thursday The Decatur public and parochial schools will be dismissed this week for the annual Christmas holiday vacation. Programs in keeping with the holiday season will be given at the various schools on the closing day. All public schools, including the Decatur high school, the Central building, and the three ward schools will close Thursday afternoon at 2:30 o'clock. Each public school will enjoy a Christmas program Thursday afternoon beginning at 1 o’clock, after which the schools will be dismissed for the vacation, to be resumed Monday, January 4. The St. Joseph grade school and the Catholic high school will close Tuesday afternoon, and school will be resumed January 4. The (CONTINUED ON PAGE FOUR)

Hitler Predicts Oivn Success And Repudiation Os German War Debt

Leader of army of 200.000, sworn to obey him. predicts he will be in power in few months.

Editor’s Note: The United Press has sent Webb Miller, its European news manager, an American trained correspondent with vast experience in many lands, into Germany to report for U. S. readers the situation in that country so potentially important for good or ill in the present world crisis. As the first step in his vital survey, Miller has interviewed Adolph Hitler, possibly the rising Mussolini of Germany, and presents herewith the startling words of that dynamic leader of a Fascist force of Germans 200,000 strong. Other articles, dealing with economic and political conditions in the great German Reich with an interpretation of their possible effects on world problems of debt, reparations, disarmament, will follow. Munich, Germany, Dec. 21 —(U.R) —Adolph Hitler, leader of an "army” of 200,000 picked men sworn to obey him, proclaimed today that when he comes to power in Germany—which he confidently predicts he will do within a few months —he will tell the world I that Germany can no longer pay

| Christmas Service *! 1 The Zion Christian Union church will have their Christmas program Wednesday evening, December 23. In addition to the program by the children consisting of exercises, songs and recitations, a three-act ] play will be given by the Young J People entitled, “Christmas at Hospitality Ranch.” Following is the complete program: Song. Invocation. Recitation —“Merry Christmas” Charles Mcßride Recitation—“lt Pays” Ruth Smith Recitation—" His Job” Lee Parrish Recitation —“Christinas Dolly" Joan McMillen Sonk —Rock-A-Bye (CONTINUED ON PAGE FOUR) TEACHERS HEAR ABLE SPEAKERS Institute Os Rural Teachers Was Held Here Saturday The Adams County rural school teachers held an institute program Saturday at the Central school building in this city. Three interesting lectures were given during the day. I. L. Peters of Angola, County supervisor of art, delivered an instructive talk on “Art.” He spoke | to a group of rural or one room school teachers, first, and later addressed a group of grade teachers of consolidated schools in the county. During the afternoon Miss Mattie B. Frye, of Anderson, general supervisor of the Anderson schools, spoke on "The Language Arts." Miss Frye is a mmn-ber of a committee which prepares a course of study on this subject. The other afternoon speaker was Mrs. Hughes of Columbus, tkhio, a demonstrator for the American Educational Company. She gave an excellent demonstration lesson in 1 reading. Clifton E. Striker, county superintendent of schools, was chairman of the meetings.. o J Wealthy Widow Dies At Evansville i i Evansville, Dec. 21. —(U.R) — i Mrs. Christina Reitz, 847 last surviving member of a prominent s 'southern Indiana family, died at I her home here. Mrs. Reitz was II heir to a fortune left by a brother, a retired banker, who died less than a year ago. •— —o — 1 Two Prominent Men Are Dead 5 Indianapolis, Dee. 21. — (U.R) — Death claimed two widely known I Indianapolis residents Saturday night. They were Frank R. Wolf, . 52, vice president of H. P. Wasson B & Co., and Sterling R. Holt, 81. , philanthropist and former state Democratic party chairman.

reparations. Such a threat, made in an exclusive United Press interview with the man universally regarded as the rising "Mussolini" of Germany, was the first and most striking iniipieSoion the correspondent received on a tour through the main centers of the country, seeking a cross-section of Germany thought and activity. I sought out Hitler first as the man on whom world attention naturally centers when Germany is under discussion. All travelers to Germany from any part of the world are curious abtove all about Hitler, what sort of man he is, whence he derives his undeniable power, what are his aims, what the prospects of his assuming the leadership of Germany are, and how his drastic program for Germany’s future is received by the Germans —not by his compatriots, for strangely enough, Hitler is an alien, an Austrian who has even been denied German citizenship. Even in a preliminary view of the German scene, it was manifest everywhere that the belligerent (CONTINUED ON PAGE THREE)

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NEW OFFICIALS TO TAKE OFFICE New Treasurer, Clerk and Commissioner Assume Office January 1 Three new county officials will assume their office on January 1, 1932, in Adams County. The officials who will begin their terms are Milton C. Werling, epunty' clerk, John Wechter, county treasurer and Dennis Striker, commissioner from the third district. These men were elected in November 1930. Tlie term of the clerk is for lour years .The term of the I treasurer is for two years and that I of county commissioner is three years. There will not be any other officials holding over until 1933. Their successors will be elected in the general election next year. Mr. Wechter has appointed Miss Alice Lenhart as deputy county treasurer. Mr. Werling has not yet announced who his deputy will be. Mr. Wechter succeeds Ed A. Ashbaucher who will have served four years as county treasurer. Mr. Werling succeeds Miss Bernice Nelson, who has filled the unexpired term of her father, John E. Nelson. Mr. Striker succeeds George Shoniaker on the board of commissioners. — o Good Fellows Club Contributions to the Good Fel-1 lows Club have been coming in and the total receipts today were more than S3OO. Miss Emilie C. Christ, superintendent and all regular employes of the Adams County Memorial] hospital, special nurses, doctors j and friends today gave the soror- j Ity a donation of $24.00. The sorority girls are purchasing supplies, food, clothing, fuel, toys, shoes, and other necessities for needy families and expect to give deserving poor families of this community a happy Christmas. Contributions include: Previous total $284.52 Friend 46 Hospital employees .... 24.00 Total $308.98 ATTORNEY IS MOVING OFFICE » Clark J. Lutz Moving To Erwin Block; Was 40 I Years in Bank Rooms Clark J. Lutz, veteran attorney I of this city, is moving his law office from the second floor of the ’ First State Bank building to the Erwin block on South Second ] street and will occupy a suite of six rooms. . Herman Myers, who recently opened a law office in this city in the Erwin building, will occupy the new suite of offices with Mr. I Lutz. ISarl B. AdamJ, Decatur attorney, who had his office with Mr. Lutz for more than 30 years will continue to occupy the rooms above the bank. Mr. Lutz is out of tlie oldest members in point of service of (CONTINUED ON PAGE FOUR) o s Tonnelier Funeral Held This Morning II Funeral services for Joseph J. a Tonnelier, life long resident of this *• city who died at his home Friday afternoon, were held at 9 o'clock 0 this morning at the St. Mary’s Cathn olic church with Rev. J. A. Seimetz y officiating. Burial was made in. the s St. Joseph Cemetery. e o 1 Bazaar To Be e Held Tonight it e The children of the St. Marys j Sodality will give a bazaar at the r . Catholic high school auditorium e tonight, beginning at 7 o’clock , The public is invited and an inter- „ bating and entertaining program n has been planned by the children Features of the evening will )f include a bingo stand, candy 1( booths. Christmas present booths lt live duck pond, refreshment stand - The doll furniture will also bs I) given away.

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Rebel’s ex-Wife KB /' wli 1 W- £ J rV' B Married in 1924, against the wishes of her family, to General Jose Gonzalo Escobar, former Mexican Army chief and revolutionary leader, Mrs. Concepcion Goelderr de Escobar has resumed her maiden name and returned to El Paso, Texas( to live witli her parents following the annulment of her marriage to the rebel leader. The Escobars have one son, Fernando, aged five. robbersWeT LOCAL STORE Thieves Get $5.93 From] P. Kirsch & Son Store Over Week-end The automobile accessory division of P. Kirsch amt Son. North ] Second street was entered some time late Saturday night or early Sunday morning and robbed of $5.93 in change. The robber entered the building by prying the molding loose from one of the small glass portions of the door at the south entrance to the building, removing the glass and unlocking the door from the inside. IThe small change had been removed from the cash register when ! the store was closed Saturday night, and placed in a pasteboard b box. Articles of merchandise were not missed by the owners after a check-up today. b The glass from the door which had been removed was unbroken and the molding had also been carefully placed in a mailbox near the door. r o— Col. Healey Heads ’ Infantry Brigade <• Indianapolis, Dec. 21 —(UP) —Col George H. Healey, Indianapolis, bes came commanding general of the 1 16th infantry brigade, Indiana Na7 tional guard, today upon appointment by Governor Harry G. Leslie and adjutant general Paul E. Tomliaugh. The post ofrmerly was held by brigadier general William G. Ever- , son, Muncje. who resigned effective November 30 to accept a pastorate in a Denver, Colo., baptist church MUSSOLINI’S t BROTHER DEAD * Arnaldo Mussolini, Broth- < er of Premier Dies I- Suddenly Today Z e Milan, Dec. 21.—(U.R) — Arnaldo Mussolini, brother of Premier Benito Mussolini, died today following a sudden illness. ■ Mussolini became ill while motl orlng. He was taken to an ambulance station where he died. 8 The cause of death bad not been 0 determined but was believed to ’’ have been heart disease. ’• Mussolini was 46 years old. He '' was publisher of the Milan newsn paper Popolo D'ltalia, in which 1 position he succeeded Ills brother. " Benito. y Arnaldo was returning by auto■b mobile from tlie railway station ’• with his wife and daughter after e . (CONTINUED o?.’ PAGE THREE)

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ASKS SENATE FOR IMMEDIATE ACTION ON BILLS Wants Relief Legislation Passed Quickly As Possible, Leaders Told SENATE RECEIVES MORATORIUM BILL Washington, Ike. 21 (U.R) —President Hoover earried his battle for immediate action on his economic program to the senate today. At another breakfast conference to which he summoned leaders of both parties lie reiterated his plea for non-jr.irtisan action at once on the moratorium. the federal land bank legislation and the reconstruction finance corporation. The president urged cooperation on this program in tlie senate ps he had urged it at a similar breakfast for leaders of the house last Friday. Senate Has Bill Washington. Dec. 21 (U.R) -The senate met today under tlie threat, of night sessions to get the $252,000,006 Hoover debt moratorium in Europe’s stocking before Christmas. But the gift may be sharplv qualified by an expression of congressional policies in opposition to any further cancellation or reduction of war deMs. White House pressure for immediate enactment of the president's domestic credit relief pro- ) gram has failed; Congressmen are determined to have their Christmas holiday begin after Tuesday. In their own defense many of them assert that Mr. Hoover could have obtained action on all of his emergency bills long before now if he had been wilting to summon congress in extra sis sion last summer or early in tha autumn. There slill are rumbles from back senate benches against tlnj projected fortnight Christmas vacation and the time might yet bo reduced to one week. Senate and (CONTINUED ON PAGE THREE) BOY AND SIX OTHERS DROWN Slides Into Lake On Sled; Parents, Brother And Tree Others Drown Muskegon. Mich., Dec. 21—(U.R) —A little child led his parents, his brother, and three others to their death yesterday when he glided across the treacherous ice of Errgang Lake on a Christmas sled wheedled out of Santa Claus six days ahead of schedule. Just a half hour before the sun dropped behind tlie tall tree tops, lin’jng tlie lake 35 miles northeast of here, seven-year old Orval Oman had cliniaxed his plea for the shiny new sled he knew was to be his Christmas day. "The ice is melting. Ma. It will be gone by Christmas." She nodded her head in assent mid the happy, laughing youngster skidded to the lake shore and I dashed himself and sled on tlio two inches of ice for a good old "belly buster.” Out he sklntmed. a mile a minute it seemed. • The smiling, parents. Mr. and (CONTINUED ON PAGE THREE) > CHUI JTMASIt' ‘ ir t GSE - Na■nW ' il'2 Shoppingdays -j| 7 tillChrisimas )• I i ———j