Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 29, Number 306, Decatur, Adams County, 29 December 1931 — Page 2

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DECATUR DAILY DEMOCRAT Published Every Evening Except Sunday by THE DECATUR DEMOCRAT CO. J. JI. Heller Pres, and Gen. Mgr. A. R. Holthouse.Sec'y & Uns. Mgr. Dick D. Heller Vice-President Subscription Rates: Single copies $ .02 One week, by carrier 10 One year, by carrier 5.00 One month, by mail 35 Three months, by mail 1.00 Six months, by mail 1.75 One year, by mail 3.00 One year, at office 3.00 Prices quoted are within first and second zones. Elsewhere $3.50 one year. Advertising Rates made known on Application. National Adver. Representative SCHEERER. Inc., 35 East Wacker Drive, Chicago 415 Lexington Avenue, New York Charter Member of The Indiana League of Home Dailies. Now all Santa Claus has to do for a whole year is to get a few million gifts ready for next Christinas for whatever the general con--ditiona. we will want toys and other 'things for the youngsters. •• . _ There is one way, Mr. Merchant, ’that the year 1932 will not be different from those that have passed —those who advertise and push their, business will be the successful ones when you close the years business. If Senator Borah is right in his statement that since 1915 we have put forty-five billion dollars into • Europe, it looks as though we had ' paid enough for a war we didn't i start. That’s about three times I "our present debt and if we had it we would sure be sitting pretty. Bill Rogers spent Christmas day •in Shanghai and had the blues. They didn't celebrate the occasion "there and he missed the old home; Chriswnas tree. Well come on 'home Bill. We can't figure that, "you are doing much good over there "any way. • We hear some folks complaining about the weather. Twenty years •.ago we were having one blizzard , fatter another, the temperature was. _down below zero. There was much every where. Really we | ought to be very thankful for this i year s brand up to date. For some reason or other the republican speakers and writers have i .quit referring to Andrew Mellon as “the greatest secretary of the treasury since Alexander Hamilton.'' He could have kept his reputation if lie had chosen to quit with Mr. ; .Coolidge and then some other poor! duffer would have carried the heavy load. The democrats are not going to make political speeches in congress at this time, it is announced, that action on important biffs, looking, toward improvement of economic conditions may be hurtled along. That's a splendid attitude and will ■■warrant much more favor from the ‘country than if they heedlessly and •needlessly hold up performances. They have plenty of amunition now for a campaign and the people want something besides talk. Politics in Indiana opened last evening with the great meeting at Winchester and it was some opening. signifying that the democrats are ready and eager to get into the big battle which they hope and be-

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lieve will restore government to the people. From now on there will be tnany meetings of great and small importance leading up to the primaries and conventions and then the big scrap in the autumn. There will be plenty doing. If they ever had any more people in the Winchester auditorium than they did last night for the Newton Baker meeting, they hung them on the ceiling. It was crowded to capacity for a great speech and a great meeting. Mr. Baker’s address was a serious one with numerous high spots and he was cheered frequently. More than eighteen hundred people were banqueted and several hundred besides that heard Mr. Baker. It will soon be 1932. It can be a good year or a poor one or an ordinary one, just as we make it. The first thing to do as a community is to meet the requirements for reopening the sugar factory. That means employment of many people, furnishing an additional crop for the farmers and the bringing in to this community outside money for the product. Its so important that we must not let any thing stand between us and this'plant and we must do those things required and do them soon. Then there will be other matters of importance. A little energy will make the coming year better than many think possible just now. The department of agriculture i l-.as made an estimate of American farmers' crops for 1930 and finds that they were worth $4,122,850. This sum represents fifty per cent of the value of the farmers’ crops . in 1929. It is not unusual, of course, j for the farmers to be playing in | hard luck. They have been doing' jthis during the last ten years. But ; this year there is a difference in ; that they have ample company in ' their misery. It may be some consolation to them to realize that many business men are in the same boat, for stocks and bonds are this year worth only about fifty per cent of their value during the first nine I months in 1929. No doubt the farmers are lamenting the fact that ithey expected help from the government and did not get it. But in i this respect they have nothing on the business men. For they, too, I believed the promises of the government that it could bring prosperity. However, they were mis-; fed. The Hoover administration I has signally failed to restore pros-; perity. All in all, it looks as if , , honors were just about even. The | ! groans of the farmer are as loud as the groans of the business justi-1 fication. —Hartford City News. o ♦ . ♦ Modern Etiquette i —by— ROBERTA LEE ♦ ♦ Q. Should the w nnan who has just moved into a new neighborhood extend the first invitation to the established matron? A. no; the established matron should always make the first move. Q. How and when is the informal invitation to a luncheon mailed? A. A personal note is written for an informal luncheon and mailed about one week in advance. Q. With whom must a man dance fii st? A. With the girl whom he has escorted, always. o * TWENTY - YEARS * AGO TODAY From the Daily Democrat File ♦ ♦ Dec. 29—W. A. Kunkel of Bluffton is elected democratic chairman ~f the eighth district at convention held here. Barbe, Union elects Charles Lose I president, Leonard Merriman vice president, Fied Hancher financial | secretary, Cha.les Kitson recording secretary and Frank Carroll treasurer. St. .Ibs'ph basketball team of ' Reilssalcar college defeats Dcca:tur Hoosiers 30 to 18. Fred Finchte elected chaltcellor commander of K. of P. Degree work given Milton Miller and Henry Adler. W. A. Lower and H. F. Linn are assisting .1. 8. Lower butcher today. Mis. Frank Rumschlag goes to Fort Recovery lor a visit. Clothing stares will close a‘ i> P. M. during January, February and i March. I

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Test Your Knowledge I I | Can you answer seven of these | test questions? Turn to Page , Four for the answers. * 4 1. What is the U- S. S. R.? 2. What is the meaining of the letters Ph. D„ a<fter an individual's name? 3. What is an epigram? 4. What name is connected with that of Damon? 5. In what state is Danbury? G. What empire is called Nippon? 7. Who was Secretary of the ' Navy during the World War? I 8. Who wrote the Divina Connie- ; ; dia? 9. Into what body of water does ] ! the Danube flow? 10. What is Clarence Darrow's I ; profession? | _ 0 Lessons In English Words often misused; Do not say “You cannot fail without yqu forget the instructions.” Say "unless you forget." . Often mispronounced. Camisole. I Pronounce Kam-i-sol, a as in “am," ; i as in “it” (not as in "ice") o as I in ’no," accent first syllable.. Often misspelled: Ghetto. Observe the h and the two t's. Synonyms: Discord, dissension, difference, opposition, strife, con- 1 tention. Word Study: “Use a word three times and it is yours." Let us in- ! crease ou. vocabulary by mastering lone word each day. Today's word: | , Abnegate; to deny and reject. "He j had a habit of abnegating his rights i on such occasions.” o ♦— 4 Household Scrapbook -byROBERTA LEE 4 ■ 4 • Curtains Cut o f the selvedge of the cur- ; , tains and sew a hem in its place, ! ] and the cut tains will always hang < ! staight. Sometimes this is the only ' i thing that cause them to hang . uneven. Felt Hats Soiled spots on felt hats can fre- I qnently be removed by rulibing ; j lightly with pieces of blotters. Bacon Before placing fried bacon on the platter, drain it on a piece of brown ' paper. It will take away that fatly 1 I appearance. I _ o_ BANDITS LOOT I ENTIRE TOWN < CONT’MI ED FROM PAGE ONE! * ed. I Marsh led the way to Marshal ; Hongward's house but was forced j to stay in the bandits’ automobile. Hougward was told that he was > needed to help his visitors sear h -for a fugitive. He demurred when i he saw their guns and was struck i over with the butt of a i shotgun. One of the bandits re- : vived Houghward with a glass <•? ! water, and the constable Ind I I Marsh again were taken to th? , bandits' automobile. II Tim bandits then drove to the ' Horrigan drug store whore Ilorr g.nn. his wife and sister lived. The throe wore forced from their beds. Morrigan was ordered to open the cash drawer in his stere i from which the bandits took $2'H. Th? robbers left a guard with Mrs. Morrigan ano her sister and • forced March. Hougward and Hnrrfgan to accompany them to the > Harp'd Hill hom« where thev 1 routed Hill and his wife from > ' their beds. 1 Before leaving the Hill home, i the khndits took a $l5O diamond

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] from Mrs. Hill and a .30 calibre ■ rifle. All the prisoners were’ I escorted at the muzzles of machine gunte through the cold to the Hill hardware store where s2Oll was taken from the safe. Other valuables also were obtained.. The bandits then drove their victims back to the Horrigan home and locked them in two rooms. Several of the victims heard the bandits race the motor of their automobile and began to shout. Neighbors, aroused by the shouting. said that the bandit ear headed south toward Brainerd. Pine River is in Cass count’,’. The bandits apparently did not know they w ere out ot Crow W ing i county where Frank E. Little is ! sheriff when they used his name • to Hougward in asking for aid. A warning was broadcast to' I sheriffs of surrounding counties and to the state bureau of criminal apprehension at St. Paul. GIRLS CHARGED WITH KILLING (CONTINUED FORM PAGE ONE I 1 ! was invited to join in the robbery j plans. She and Dorothy met on the ! street. | "The boys have a stickup arrang-j <xl,” Marcella remarked casually.) "Want to go along?” "Kayo," Dorothy was quoted as replying just as casually. "1 need the dough.” The girls went along while the five youths tried to hold up the! Beach View Gardens, beside Lake Michigan on the goald coast section of the North Side. The dance tioor was crowded; when the youths entered. The ‘ i frightened dancers obeyed the ! youth's orders — all except I’atrol-1 ■man Capiis. who was on the floor with his fiancee. He opened fire: : with his revolver. The youths fied. I As they reached the stairway,] one of them—Praza, according to I the others—fired and Vaplis drop ) : ped mortally wounded. ; Dorothy's parents said they didn't j blame her for going astray. It was. I | they agreed, her environment. ■ "You cant keep seven kids on 1 $27 a week.” the father, Charles I Evans said. "We didn't even have money to ■pay for electricity and the servtee j was turned off. We didn't hive any | light at night and couldn't play the ■radio. You can't blame the children ' for wanting to go out." Mrs. Evans said Dorothy asked j permission to go to the dance on I the night of the attempted robbery. “She said she didn't know the I boys very well,” the mother wept. I "Oh, it' I'd only gone along.” Evans said he- wanted his daugh- - 1: ter punished “if she was guilty of ! anything.” . | “I don’t believe she is,” he addI I ed. “She didn’t know what she j was getting into.” O_ Miss Bretta Fisher w;,l leave '! soon for Fort Wayne where she will l ibe employed. t c— — —

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BANK BANDITS NAME SHERIFF AS THEFT AIDE i CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONE, after his wife arrived, he said he would wait until he was advised by his attorney. Barton s wife of three weeks, a brother, Everett, liis father and a nephew arrived today. They conferred with Barton in his cell. His lather was said to have urged Barnon to continue to maintain his innocence and fight prosecution. According to statements said to have been made by Capelli, Barton conferred with the bandit gang an hour before the Dunkirk robbery and went with Capelli to the scene of the robbery to plan it. Mr. and Mrs. William Frabetta. parents of one of the suspects, arrived from their home in Steger, 111. Mrs. Frabetta, sobbed as she talked with her son in jail. Portland, Ind,, Dec. 29. — <U.P)—A plot unprecedented in Indiana history to make bank robbery “safe" in Blackford county was charged today by two bank raiders as Sheriff Ira Barton was arrested by fellow peace officers. The scheme worked successfully, the bandits told authorities, until a bank outside tlie county was raided in error and the gang captured. Barton characterized the charges as a "frame-up." No formal com- 1 plaint was placed against him but he was held in jail pending investigation. The charges were made by Frank Valentine, Chicago Heights, 111., and Lorenz Capelli. Steger, ill., sen fenced yesterday to 20 years in prison for the Christmas Eve robbery of the Dunkirk. Ind., bank. The pair was captured in a gunfight with a posse. A companion was slain in the battle. A fourth man. Albert Frobatta, Chicago Heights, is awaiting trial. The men told Sheriff Lon Wherly of Jay county where the Dunkirk

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holdup occurred that Barton was ■ "tip-off" man for the gang. Coron- i er W. W. Ayres of Blackford coun- < ! ty who was found to be the only man with authority to arrest the < , sheriff took Barton into custody and t ’ brought him here. f ‘ The bandits said they entered i into an agreement whereby they r were given plans and information c 1 which enabled them to rob success- t 1 fully the Citizens Bank at Hartford t City. Ind., twice and also a Mont- ' peller, Indiana, bank. s The pair did not know that Dun- 1 kirk was not in Blackford county, i they said, and when arrested for t 1 the robbery charged they had been s 1 doublecrossed. 1 1 The story told by the two pris- 1 oners also named a Muncie, Ind.,)' woman. Jay county officials said the bandits worked on a percent- s age basis. Os the $12,000 loot in c the Hartford holdup July 6, $3,800 ’ was paid for the tip-off, the pair said. , Arrangements were made, the ( liandits said, so that they could ( conduct their raids at a time when 1 considerable sums would be avail- > [ able in the banks and county peace ' ' I officers absent. ■ ■ It was also agreed that if any members of the gang were arrested and confined to the Blackford i county jail they would be enabled Ito escape within five days. Barton's term as sheriff has only ' • two days to run. He will be sue-! I ceeded Jan. 1 by Sheriff-elect Ira I : Mannix. Barton, who Is about 401 I years old. was a well-to-do farmer; i before his election as sheriff. County Clerk Frank R. Nelson said he would serve as acting sherI iff while Barton is in custody. I Barton was confronted by his accusers in tlie county attorney's office here. The bandits angrily berated tlie sheriff as having failed to live up to his agreement, but the officer , made no comment. Charles Bolte, state crime bureau | investigator, questioned Barton at | 1 length. He said the sheriff made no admissions. Barton was known in the county i for his activity as a reformer, his '

associates said. Several times during his term of office he started drives to “clean up" the county. The bank raiders said the circumstance which led to their capture was the location of Dunkirk • on the county line. The raiders were closely pursued as they fled after the holdup and in confusion drove into Jay county instead of returning to Blackford county a they had planned. The woman being sought, Bolte sllid, was Hazel Green, Muncie. Indiana. He said the prisoners named her as having been influential in arranging the plot. She was said to have been in the farmyr.d near the field where the bandits ! battled with a citizen's posse, but was not held by police. The bandits named her, Bolte said, as having accompanied them on the Dunkirk and other raids. Barton who was recently divorced, was married again about three weeks ago. Bolte said he would bring Mrs. Barton here today to confront her husband. MORE FIGHTING IS REPORTED — (CONTINUED FROM PAGE 3NE) said. (Panshan, which the Japanese announced they had captured, is north of Tienchwangtai. between Tienchwangtai and Kowpangtze.) The Japanese were concentrating at Yingchow to relieve the beleaguered Japanese outposts be-

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