Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 29, Number 303, Decatur, Adams County, 24 December 1931 — Page 1

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loots CLOSE H YULETIDE J ■ertainment n Hm.l .Worthman (Jets M From Teachers of [ K| Public Schools ■stmas ■ SPIRIT RI LES ■jitprinh n<h nt Martin I', of the Decatur schools was presented oift of Sa*) in gold bv rs ol tilt' school-.' Mr. Worthman reto his office at the High school buildafternoon, he found Claus had visited j ■| had left a SSO gold pi.-e.-i|. K. a gift from the trai n ■ gift nt' money was present Worthnian as a Chris'-j K | 'com the tern tiers for . interest and co-opera-i - He' local public school ..in.mil Christmas program at the Decatur High bmming this afternoon and tin- charge of the senior Miss Louise Hau- - < :.iiman of the progi was also observe,] m sard buildings in the city. '■ Ward Parent-Tr mhm|^n..'. >:i again sponsor ■la lig dinner this noon at tin’A ird school, for the pupils building. ward building and the ■lai school. the Christmas was celebrated in a fitting with the singing of Christ and recitations and .>u standing features of t'n •itaias decorations in the var school buildings wen arranged sand talc three ward buildings, large sand tables contain.;! nf the Nativity. arraiilo d ■ nun, I'm-e figures. Treats were to the school pupils a' I buildings this afternoon to the closing of school Christmas holidays. B| High School Program is the complete prowhich was presented at the high school building this the Herald Angels Sing" K Girls Glee Chib ■ solns. “Oh, Little Town of ■thlehem” and “Come All Ye _____ Alice Vance Hlity Trio, “Noel." and "It ’ ■® p Upon tjie Midnight B Sara Jane Kauffman ■wina Shroll and ■ Elizabeth Franklin ■ets to Santa Claus read by ■ r *. Claus.. Miss Ina Anderson ■'NTIX'TTEn on PAGE FOUR) ■ o—■f uneral Held Today •neral services for Charles Col ■*' farmer who was found dead I Bis home a half mile south of A alley church, Wednesday ing, were held at 10 o’clock morning at the W. H. Zwick Son Funeral Home. Burial made in the St. Joseph Cent- . this city. GLIMESTONE ORDER SECURED diana Mills to Cut 144,Tons For Construction of Towers f ew York, Dec. 24—(UP)— Apximately 144,000 tons of Indiana eslone, believed to be the lart contract of its kind ever artied, will form the exteriors of <l>o City towers. r, ’e type of stone to be used in 1250,000,000 Rockefeller project e was revealed with announcent of the contract to the Indiana leston company. The stone with light shades of buff and gray 11 give the buildings a hue simr to that of ancient Gothic and ’man Cathedrals. Mitch of the limestone already 8 been quarried at Bedford, Ind. ’iprnents were expected to start Ithin three weeks.

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Officers Are Named I The Mt. Pleasant Methodist Episcopal Sunday School held the elec tion of officers for the coming year | at a meeting Wednesday night. The I tormer officers were re-elected and | are as follows: ■■uperintendent I Jesse Singleton; a dstant superinpendent, M . S. P. Sheets- secretary, Everett Singleton: assistant [secretary, Charlotte Cook; treasurer, Milton Fuhrman; pianist Miss [Lois Fuhrman; assistant pianist, , Miss Martha Katheryn Fuhrmanchorister J. S. Spangler; and assis- ’ tant chorister, Mrs. S. P. Sheet:;. PREBLE WOMAN ■ | EXPIRES TODAY - Mrs. .1 oh n Werling Is. Death's Victim Following Operation ! M.S. Emma Werling. 54, wife of I John Werling living 3 miles northwest of Preble, died at the Adam:; I | County Memorial Hospital at 4 o'-1 I clock this morning following an! [ emergency operation she underwent | Wednesday evening. Death was caused by a severe hemorrhage of the lung with inflamation of the gall bladder. i Mrs. Werling had been ailing I I for about 2 years, and became er i I tically ill Wednesday noon. She was removed to the local hospital at 4 o’clock Wednesday. She was born hi Madison township. Allen county. December 25,1 1876, the daughter of Mr. and Mrs I August Koenemann, both deceased. She was united in marriage to [ John Werling, November 13. 1898, | and resided in Adams County since | her marriage. Surviving is the husband, a son, Herman of Fort Wayne, a son Arthur and a daughter. Hulda both at hoifie, One grandchild, a half brother, Lewis Koenemann, Allen county. and three half sisters, Mrs. Bertha Koellinger, Mrs. Martha Salfrank, and Mrs. Lizzie Koenemann, Fort Wayne. The body was removed to the _ W. H. Zwick and Son funeral home and will be taken to the Werling ' home thia evening. [ Funeral services will be held . Sunday afternoon at 1 o'clock at j the home and at 1:15 o’clock at the ( St. Paul Lutheran church, where the deceased was a member for a number of years. Rev. 11. Gaiser, pastor will officiate and burial will ' be in the church cemetery. ♦ ~ "“t ' Good Fellows Club ♦ ♦ The Good Fellow Club which has been sponsored by the Delta Tan 'Sorority. received a number of contributions today before closing the club so. this year. The sorority has purchased food, clothing, shoes, fuel, and same toys and are busy this a ternoon distributing the Christina.-, cheer to poor and unfortunate families, who otherwise would not have Ltd a happy Christmas. The contributions received today include: Previous total $359.00 Friend Friend * Mr. and Mrs. J. G. Cowen u.OO Total $375.28 Two Bandits Caught Allendale, 111.. Dec. 24-(UP),— Three youths robbed the First national Bank here today of SIO,OOO in cash and securities, only to have their speeding automobile overturn two miles out of town, as a posse approached. Two of the bandits were captured one witli a wound. The Hurd escaped into underbrush. All the 100 was found intact in the wrecked car. _ —o —; Trial Dates Set Hanrtnond, Ind., I>ec. 24 (U.R) Trials of Hazel K. Groves, county treasurer. and ('ommissi.m' William Linton and James Black were set on the Uke criminal court calendar today. Linton and Black, charged in grand jury indictments with neg gence in allowing claims, will be tried January 7. Groves, who was president of the American State bank, ’>as Chicago, now closed, was charged with overdrafts »*' Proß ® c Robert G. Estill after a grand jury failed to indict him. His trial was set for January 11.

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KIDNAPED BABE IS RETURNED Family Squabble Blamed For Disappearance of Hobard Child Hobart, Ind., Dec. 24.— (U.R) — The “kidnaping" of the four months old son of Mr. and Mrs. Clarence Piper was characterized by Police Chief Fred Rose of Gary as “just a little family squabble" after the boy was returned from Chicago today. Donald, the youth, was brought here this morning by Fred Treiger after Rose promised he was “going to settle everything up so the Pipers can have a merry Christmas.’’ The boy’s parents refused to discuss the “kidnaping” today. Mrs. Piper previously told authorities he was taken from her Monday night after she had been chloroformed. Her husband, a musician in a Chicago Heights cabaret, said the boy was not taken for ransom. — o Geyser Becomes Active Honolulu. T. H„ Dec. 24—(U.R)— Kilauea volcano, legendary home of Hawaii, shot giant billiows of sulphur fumes and intermittent geysers of fiery lava high into the air while around it the earth rumbled and shuddered. The eruption was the most violent in 27 years, pioneer residents of the island said. JAPAN ISSUES’ NEW WARNING “Hands Off” Are Words Given Bandits In Manchurian Territory Tokio. Dec. 24 —(U.R) — A new “hands off" warning was prepared by Premier Inukai today in answer to notes from the United States, France and England which expressed concern over Japanese military operations against Manchurian bandits. It was understood the government was greatly displeased by the attitude of the three powers, and the Japanese press considers their representations are impertinent and unwarranted. Inukai’s note, to be sent through ambassadors, expressed Japanese apprehension over the position of Chinchow. The premier reported to have reiterated Tokio’s conviction that Chinchow leaders have been instigating bandit forays in the section of Manchuria served (CONTINUED ON PAGE SIX)

Decatur, Indiana, Thursday, December 24, 1931.

Barger School Gives Christmas Program A Christmas program was presented at the Barger school in Kirkland township which is taught by Mijs Pauline Buckmaster, who Uvea with h-.' mother, Mrs. Rachel Buckmaster, 5110 West Jefferson street, Wednesday afternoon. The program consisted of recitations, musical numbers, and a playlet by the pupils. Santa Claus was present and gave treats to the children. More than 50 guests were present, including parents and friends of the pupils and teacher. Among the guests were two of Miss Buckmaster’s former instructors at North Manchester college, Prof. R. C. Winger, and‘Prof. Wampler. BORAH URGES SALARY CUTS Senator Suggests Drastic Wage Reductions In Government Washington, Dec. 24 —(U.R) Senator Borah took the edge off the impendirtg arrival of Santa Claus in Washington by his proposal for a 10 per cent cut in all governmental salaries. The capital, almost entirely dependent on the government payroll, naturally does not welcome any such action. But it is not really concerned. The fact that Borah would include senators and congressmen in the pay cut was taken to guarantee that congress would do nothing about the matter. In fact, it is regarded by i some as merely Borah’s annual Christmas greeting in another dress. Borah has made it his annual holiday custom for some years to add a dash of bitters to the capital’s Christmas cheer. Last year, he called on President Hoover to call the newly elected congress into extra session in the spring. On Christmas Eve the year before he declared prohibition could never bp enforced with the existing personnel .“from totp to bottom" in charge. Attorney General Mitchell and (CONTINUED ON PAGE FIVE) BRINGS EVIDENCE W. F. Beery, rural mail carrier on route 6 out of the Decatur this afternoon with a fresh dandelion which he picked this morning. December 24. j in the yard of the John Wechj ter farm home in Blue Creek | township.

NATION PLANS FOR ALL NEEDY Cities Will Care for Poor; Dinners And Gifts Are Planned New York, Dee. 24.—(U.R)—The j nation's needy will be cared for to-1 morrow when more than 500,000! persons are given Christmas baskets of food or Christmas dinners ; by relief organizations and philan-' thropic individuals, a United Press I survey showed today. For months plans have been ; underway to care for the unfortun-1 ate in almost every city of the na-1 tion. Children will receive toys. [ Destitute families will be given baskets of food. Transients, many forced from their occupation by the ■ economic conditions, will be fed at bounteous tables. Clothing will be supplied to many wearing threadbare garments. In some cities groups of employed have banded together to care for one or two people. Restaurant proprietors in many instances have donated their restaurants at certain hours. Churches are caring for many. Even animals and birds are to 'have relief. In New York the Humane Society has offered food for animals if the needy bring them in. In Kansas City, Mrs. E. D. Hornbrook is giving the annual dinner for birds, horses and other animals. (CONTINUED ON PAOK SIX) OCEAN HOLDS FATE OF SHIP Famous Tug Reported Lost In Rough Sea Off West Coast Seattle, Dec. 24 —(U.R)— Mountainous seas and raging winds today held secret the fate of 11 members of the crew of the tug Roosevelt, famous as the craft in which Admiral Robert E. Peary made his successful expedition to the North Pole. Her radio sputtered out a final S. O. S. picked up by the coast guard here. Since then all lias been silence—a silence that coast guardsmen said probably meant, disaster for the crew and the sturdy tug, about 15 miles off Cape Beale, Vancouver Island. The cutters Snohomish and Chelan were scheduled to reach the scene early today but no word had been received from them, indicating, coast guard headquarters said, that they had been unable ON PAGE SIX)

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READJUSTMENT OF ALL DEBTS RECOMMENDED International Study Committee Urses Meeting Os Nations GRAVITY IS BEING STRESSED Basle, Switzerland. Dec. 24. — (U.R) —An immediate and complete new deal on war debts and reparations to avert “new disasters" is called for in the report of the international experts who have been studying Germany’s “capacity to pay." Germany's inability to resume payments after the expiration of the present Hoover moratorium, and economic conditions prevailing throughout the entire world make such international action necessary, the advisory committee of the Young plan reported. Despite the seriousness of the situation as outlined in the report, it suggested: “The assumption that equilibrium will not be regained after the present crisis would be to counsel deIspair.” It observed that a period of prosperity had followed every previous world crisis. “Although it is impossible to fix a date, it is none the less certain that equilibrium ultimately will he reached with the assistance of measures suggested in the conclusion of the committee's report." the report said in holding out the promise of prosperity in return for war debt revision. The committee’s report, which will be referred to the interested [governments which include Geri many's principal creditors, called [the governments’ attention to the I following important conclusions: , Germany is justified in declaring her inability to resume payment on some $268,000,000 conditional reparations in the year following the ' Hoover debt holiday. The committee would not have [ considered that it had fully accom- , plished its task if it had not callied the attention of the interested governments “to the unprecedented gravity of the crisis, the magnitude of which undoubtedly exceeds the ‘relatively short depression'

| (CONTINUED ON PAGE FIVE) KIDNAP CHIEF IS IN CANADA Leader of Missouri Gang Reported Safe In Canadian Land Kansas City. Mo., Dec. 24 —(U.R) —Marshall Depew-, sought as the leader of the gang which kidnaped Mrs. Nell Donnelly, is en route to Canada and his wife. Mrs. Ethel Depew, is under arrest at Bloomsburg, Pa., authorities here were I informed today. The information was contained in a telegram received by B. H. Thurman, chief of detectives, from Sheriff Arthur Rabb of Columbia county, Pennsylvania. The telegram said: “We have in custody Mrs. Ethel Depew. Her husband left her in Buffalo. N. Y., intending to go to Canada.” o No Snow Forecast Chicago. Dec. 24 —(U.R) — The snow that most children of tho United States asked Santa to • bring them for Christmas isn’t in • prospect unless St. Nick upturns L weather forecasts by personally ; scattering it from his sleigh on i his annual tour. r Government weather forecasts > said today that Christmas would be generally fair and moderately I warm. There’s going to be no t sno wto try out new sleds and the ( Ice will be pretty mushy under t new skates,' the forecasters said. o BULLETIN I Rev. Harry H. Ferntheil, who is seriously ill at the Adams County Memorial hospital was reported late this afternoon to be “holding his own." ' Rev. Ferntheil underwent an operation for the removal of appendix a week ago.

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[Fort Wayne People Hurt In Accident Rockford, 111., Dec. 24—(U.R)— I Mr. and Mrs. George Sc-hlumbohm | and their seven-year old daughter j Virginia, of Fort Wayne, were severely injured when their autoI mobile crashed into a cattle truck on a highway 12 miles west of here today. The child, who suffered a fractured left shoulder, was the most seriously injured. All three were brought to a local hospital. POPE ISSUES HIS MEETINGS Reproaches Nations In Annual Message Os Christmas Cheer ; Vatican City, Dec. 24 —(UP) — , The Pope, referring to the world . economic crisis, reproached the Na- . tions today for forgetting God in a time of sorrow. , The Pope made his remark in replying to Christmas greetings from a group of 25 cardinals, headi ed by G.anito Di Belmonte, who . read an address of homage. “America remembered greatfully I the benefits God ggranted the Nar tion, nor did it forget to thank Him also for the benefits extended to £ other countries." ( The Pope spoke with sorrow of , the collapse of a wing of the Vatif can library, remarking that the loss of life was more painful to him than a the material damage. The body of another laborer was taken from the r ruins today, making a total of tive dead. "All workmen and all sons of j labor" the Pope told the Cardinals, I “are physically and truly imitators II of him who was born at Bethlehem and on the morrow became a workman of Nazareth." , He recommended that the Card- ’ Inals say three masses for the rek pose of their souls. The Pope referred feeling to the religious situation in Russia, Mexico and Spain. " Os Mexico he remarked that the [ tribulations of the church were I continuing there, although miticated in the past few days by the maternal smile of the Virgin of Guada i- , s loupe. Referring to Russia, he said the 1 ..i.......i. .ii.... ,

church was undergoing the greatest tribulations and untol hardships, but made all the more precious, however, by the heroism of “so many confessors and martyrs who are undergoing the hardest trials ,for the sake of Christ and his | church." (CONTINUED °N PAGE SIX) o Twenty-One Injured I Palmer, Mass., Dec. 24 —(U.R)— Twenty-one persons were injured today when a speeding motor coach carrying 35 passengers from Boston to New York for the holiday rammed into the rear end of a truck west of here. All the injured were taken to Wing Memorial hospital. where only one. Jacob Beanstalk of Malden, was found to be in a serious condition. He suffered a possible brairt concussion as well as a broken nose and cut eye. o Young People To Meet All members of the Younx Peoples' societies of the protestant churches in Decatur are urged to meet at the Zion Reformed Church Friday morning at 4 o’clock to assist in the Christmas Carol service. The young people will visit the various homes in Decatur to sing Christmas carols, and will return to church at 6 o'clock for a breakfast. o — John 1). Sr. Wishes All Merry Christmas Ormond Beach, Fla., Dec. 24— (UP) —A future of prosperity and good fellowship was predicted by John D. Rockefeller, Sr., today, in a nation-wide holiday message through the United Press. “We’ve reached the peak of the depression" the 93 year old oil millionaire said. “Things will now get better. I see nothing more to worry about. Everything possible is being done to promote prosperity, and I think it is about to arrive. “Wish all the country a Merry Christmas and Happy New Year for me and tell them that I am glad and full of greatfulness for my health and this bountiful weather.

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PROGRAMS FOR OCCASION WILL BE PRESENTED Poor Will Be Cared For By Local Organizations Tonight CHURCHES TO HAVE SERVICES Decatur and community is ready to forget everything as far as the commercial world is concerned and join in the general observance of Christmas. greatest of all holidays and most important of all feast days. The anniversary of the birth of the Child .Jesus will be appropriately and fittingly observed in the churches tonight and Christinas morning. The spirit of good will accompanying the Christmas season has been prevalent for' sometime and k will reach its climax with tho celebration of the joyful feast of Christmas, tomorrow. Since last Sunday services have k been held in the churches inark- ( Ing the observance of Christman. Cantatas and special programs have been held in several of the churches and at the Prsebyterian, . Evangelical. Zion Lutheran. Zion ( Reformed and Methodist churches. ( services will be held this evening. , The United Brethren Young Peo- , pies Society will sing Christinas carols in different parts of the city tonight. * At the St. Mary’s Catholic ' church nine masses will be celes brated Christmas morning, the first * mass being held at five o’clock. Other masses will b|i> said up until 9:45. The Young Peoples societies of the Protestant churches will sing carols Christmas morning at four e o'clock, visiting the sick and 5 those who have been unable to attend the church services. They B will gather at the Reformed ? church at six o'clock for breakfast. •' Business to Cease •' • All business will cease on Christmas Day. The banks, post- •* office, retail stores. offl<v>s and

manufacturing plants will be closed. Offices in the court house and at the city hall will also be closed for the day. Judge [lore H. Erwin will not hold court. The mild weather, unusually warm for this time of the year, has made it possible for everyone to get out and plan for the happy holiday and this week has been brisk business in local stores. The Daily Democrat will not be published on Christmas day, a. custom followed since the daily paper was established in 1903. Good Fellows Members of the Delta Theia Tau sorority, sponsors of the Good Fellows club, will distribute food. ' clothing, fuel and gifts to the ' needy of Decatur tonight. The event Is an annual affair and is made possible by contributions from Decatur citizens and benefit basketball games. All of the gifts are purchased by a committee of the sorority and (CONTfMiED ox page EIVEI FARMER SHOT BY BANDITS Indiana Man Returning From V isit Is Shot In Hold-up ; Bedford, Ind.. Dec 24 —(VP) • Mike Russell. 62 prominent Washington county farmer, was sb t three times as he resisted two bandits in a holdup attempt near hero last midnight. His condition was not serious. Russell was returning from a vis- , It in Illinois. Two men walking along the righway leaped on his autt> and ordered him to stop, when Russell attempted to force them oft his auto, both opened fire. Russell was shot in the leg and hand and body. The auto crashed into a ditch while Russell battled the bandits. A fourth shot fired by the bandits cut a wire, setting the auto on fire. Both the bandits escaped.