Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 29, Number 307, Decatur, Adams County, 30 December 1931 — Page 1

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■afer co. ■ MENGE TO [ND THURSOAY ■ ■nu n For holesale Kcern Here; PromiK«nt Men Attend ■|) TALKS ■ ARE FEATURE ■ a n nun I salesman’s' Hnnce of the Sihal’er Kam salesmen will eml Ktluv evening alter al ■l:iv session. The meet-' ■as been in progress all ■(Tices of the company ■jrsl street, attended by ■> salesmen. ■ y c ! ”f, sales manager and ! ■ \\..’. l.Tadvertising main ■if ihe Cleveland division of ■liilden Paint and Varnish, ■tn. attended the conferee e ■lay. The Schafer Company , ■tribiitor for Glidden paint I products. ■ Wonders stressed the ini-■ ■<- of retail advertising an 1 I ■f experiences in Cleveland ] ■ her .ities where cooperate., ■ising and a general revampofc stores and stocks result I i ■reased sales for 1931. Con■k today. Mr. Wonders stat-. ■tmand that every merchant | ■ every effort to interest i ■ers and one art the best ways | ■ugh advertising, giving sc.--1 ■ anti making your stores. ■day evening the salesmen; ■embers of the Schafer Com-' ■ organization were guests of ■festinghouse Electric coni-, ■at a dinner served at the i ■ restaurant. The Schafer! ■any is also distributor tor] ■nglntise electrical products, ■ng other prominent sales, ■ers and manufacturers a--! ■g the conference yesterduv ■oday are: D. T. Henneman. | ■ manager for the Monarch i yr Co., Akron, Ohio; .1. A.| ■'TIN BED ON PAGE FIVE) I ■ o lIITBINE GETS lINE. SENTENCE I ■fessed Turkey Stealer laws Part Suspension I Os 180 Days ■ ■lter Santbine, Kirklan.i town- ' ■ youth who confessed to the! ■ of 13 turkeys was sentence ! j ■# days in jail and fined SI.OO | ■ costs by Judge D. B. Erwin ■ All of the jail sentence ■ the exception of 20 days was ■tided. ■thine, who has been in jail ■ his confession several days ■ was returned to jail to comfc his sentence. He also will ■>ni|ielled to remain in jail 11 ■ional days unless his fine ■costs are paid. ■ his confession, Sautbine iin- ■ p d Robert Anderson, another ■and township young man. ■rson pleaded not guilty to ■areeny charge and on DecoinI-' 1 he provided bond in the lof SSOO and gained temporal y ■tom. powd Sees Program I large sized crowd attended the I I program presented by I'n i ius Home Economics Clubs B'lacns County at the Catholic I school auditorium, Tuesday l ln K- A special program was givfy each club ana the evening's attainment was greatly enjoyed r' money received from the I" will be used to send the club l p rs to Purdue University in f a y and also to sponsor a boys I cirls 4-H Club band and orchesL • —-- —■' -o -- buspect Is Questioned Mianapolis, Dev. 2(I—(UP)—A f said to be a half-breed Indian f save his name as John Carter. r’ as questioned today in regard [ u ' kidnaping and murder of six f old Marlon McLean in Clndnr p man, held Incommunicado, p connection with the affair , was said to be well acquainted details of the crime. He was BBte< i after he begged for food 1 residence.

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Vol. XXIX. No. 307.

I. C. C. Chairman >’.A« I I ‘ WX. - J ’ * Claude R. Porter of lowa who has been elected chairman ot the 1 Interstate Commerce Commission ; for 1932. Mr. Porter has been a I member of the commission since j 1928. He is a Democrat and has served in l.t>th branches of the i lowa Legislature. MASONS HOLD | INSTALLATIONS 1 ” ? — Three Masonic Orders Hold Public Services And Pot-Luck Supper — 1 Public installation of newly electled officers of the Decatur chapter. Royal Arch Masons, the Blue lodge, :anfl tl(e Eastern Star was held at. 'the Masonic Hall, Tuesday evening. The services followed a banquet 'served to 150 lodge members and their families at 6:30 o'clock. Herman Thoma of Bluffton was the installing officer for the Royal Arch Masons and was assisted by ' Cal E. Peterson of this city. Officers of the Blue Lodge were installed by R. D. Myers and Leigh I Bowen, and the Eastern Star ofI fleers were installed by Mrs. Charlies Burdg and Mrs. L. A. Graham. Following the installation, which I was open to the public. Mrs. R. D. ! Myers gave an appropriate address land presented Mrs. Charles Burdg, ;past Worthy Matron with a past I Matron's pin. The committee in charge of the banquet, which was pot hick, comprised the Mesdames Nellie Haney. iDan Tyndall, R D. Myers. Leigh | Bowen, J. C. Sutton. Henry Heller, i Giles Porter and E. B. Adams. pfficers Installed i The officers installed in the Royal , Arch Masons, include A. D. Suttles, high priest; L C. Helm, king; 1. I Bernstein, scribe: E. B. Adams. | secretary; C. A. Dugan, .treasurer; Wilson Lee, Captain of Host; Dougi las Haney, Principal Sojourner; R. I D. Myers. Royal Arch captain. (CONTINUED 6L’ PAGE THREE) DANIEL MOSER DIES SUDDENLY Well-Known Resident of Near Berne Dies of Heart Attack Berne, Dec. 30 Daniel Moser. 41. a life long resident of Adams county. died suddenly this morning at his home two miles west of Berne. Mr. Moser suffered a heart attack at 7:30 o’clock this morning while working in the barn at his home. He had apparently been in g° 0(l health. The deceased was born September 11. 1890 in French Township, the son of John and Christens Steiner Moser. He married Ruth Gottschalk of Berne. January 18, 1915. His father died 25 years ago and his mother survives. His widow a so survives, together with the folic ■ Ing- children: Richard. 13. Mary and Maxine, 12. Roger 9. Roy 3. and one adopted child. Edward Pierce ' 2 One child preceded him in dea.h Ten brothers and sisters also gui vive. , | Funeral arrangements have no definitely beeu completed.

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j AUCTIONEERS BEGIN GLASSES Voice Culture Stressed at I oday’s Session By Col. Reppert The Reppert School of Auctioneering was formally opened with classes this morning, held in the former Peoples Loan and Trust Company Bank building. , I he students began their studies in auctioneering immediately and Col. Fred Reppert spent the morning in endeavoring to rid the stu-' dents of stage fright. Col. Reppert stated this morning that the school room sounded like a boa:d of trade and that the students were developing their voices for speed volume and tlie necessary auctioneer's conversation of arguments and appeal in order to receive higher prices tor goods. The first auction sale will be held i Saturday and the public is assured ■ c.:' plenty of entertainment when tho embyro auctioneers make their first appearance on the auction block. Twenty two students are enrolled in the school for the mid winter term of the Auction school. Col. Reppert, founder ot the school is assisted by a number of well known auctioneer instructors. o Farmer Brought To Jail Jesse Yaney, Jefferson township i farmer, was brought to the Adams County jail by Sheriff Burl John I son, Floyd Yaney and a Mr. Smitley | at 6:30 o'clock Tuesday evening, , where he will be kept pending charge of insanity that will be filed soon. The charges will be filed by Floyd Yaney, a brother. Mr. Yaney. who lives on hij-i father's farm in Jefferson township, became violently mad Tuesday morning., and refused to permit his wife and 7 children to enter the kitchen where he was lying on the floor when the sheriff arrived. He had suffered with a malady for the past three yeais, and it is believed this made him insane. i CHINESE FLEE TO GREAT WALL Once Powerful Manchurian Leader Forced To Leave Country Peiping, China. Dec. 30.—(U.R) — Remnants of the once powerful war machine of Marshal Chang HseuhLiang retired today from Chinchow, gateway to Manchuria, and left Manchuria in the hands of the Japanese. The retreat to the great wall meant the end of Chang's influence | in the country he once dominated. It marked the achievement of two principal Japanese objectives 1 —elimination of Chang's power and retreat of the last organized Chinese army from Manchuria, a conn-1 try half again as large as Texas. The long expected battle between ( Japanese and Chinese at Chinchowl was avoided presumably because Chang realized the hopelessness of facing a superior Japanese force. Chang announced that he had ’ ordered the evacuation because he did not "desire to afford the Japanese the pretext for further aggression in North China. Chang also announced that the ■ civilian government and the normal garrison stationed at Chinchow under ordinary circumstances would remain there. The foreign obser- ' vers, including diplomatic and military representatives of the United (CONTINUED ON PAGE FIVE) — o Offices Will Close The offices of the Auditor, Recor- ■ der and Treasurer in the Adams County Court House will close at 1 noon Thursday to get out the quar- • terly report. Patrons are also requested to note that these offices I w ill be closed all day Friday Jani uary 1, 1932 for the New Year's holiday, and are requested to take c are of all business before 11:30 I o’clock Thursday. The office of the County Clerk will be closed all day Thursday, when Miss Bernice Nelson will got everything ready tor Milton Werling to assume his office on January Ist.

Decatur, Indiana, Wednesday, December 30,1931.

TO PRESS FRIDAY NOON The Daily Democrat will go ! I to press at noon Friday, January 1, 1932, in observance of New Year’s Day. Tlie edition will carry several interesting articles and a chronology of local events. The grocery and meat market specials will also published in the noon edition and ad- | vertisers are requested to get | their copy in early. ; I FARLEY VISITS ADAMS COUNTY Auburn Democrat Seeking Congressional Nomination In Primary J. 1. Farley, Auburn, who is seeking the Democratic nomination for Fourth district congressman to oppose Rep. David Hogg next November visitesl in Adams county Tuesday. Mr. Farley spent most of theday meeting Democrats in Decatur and northern Adams county and stated he planned to return soon to make a visit through the southern part of the county. Farley was defeated in the 1930 primary by less than 100 votes and is regarded as one of the outstanding candidates in the new district which includes Adams, Wells, Allen Dekalb, Steuben, Noble and LaGrange counties. Political leaders claim that the new district is decidedly Democratic and as a result several congressional candidates are expected. Farley is known in Adams county and in Northern Indiana. He formerly was president of the Auburn Automobile Co., and a few years ago he retired from active service in the Auburn Company. He stated that he was planning an extensive campaign in Adams and Wells counties where there are thousands of Democratic votes. o_______ 0 _______ Oppose Dry Law Change Indianapolis, Dec. 30 —(UP) —Unalte.able opposition to dry law repeal was urged in a report submitted here to the board of temperance and social welfare of Disciples of Christ by Rev. James Crain, a member of the National prohibition board of strategy. The church board approved Rev. Crain's report. The report, in addition to urging opposition to repeal movies, urged adequate law enforcement, adequate appropriations by congress and an education program “to acquaint the nation with evils of alcoholic beverages.’’ o Injuries Prove Fatal Lafayette, Ind., Dec. 30 —(UP) | Injuries suffered by Guy Crary 35, Lyons, Ind., when he was kicked by a mule, cause his death in a hospital here today. o CHARGE MOVIES FORMED TRUST Block Buying System Attacked by Indianapolis Movie Group Indianapolis, Dec. 30 (UP) — Charges of monopoly in the movie industry were directed against 12 motion picture producing and distributing, companes in a $450,000 damage suit on file in Federal court here. The suit was filed by the Indianapolis amusement company formerly operator of a local theater. Com,panies named in the suit are the motion picture porducers and distributors of America, the Indianapolis film board of trade. First National pictures, Paramount Publlx corporation, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer distributing corporation, Universal film exchanges. United Artist corporation, Fox Film corporation, R. K. O. corporation, Education Film exchanges, and Vitagraph, Inc. The suit alleges that the companies’ "Block Booking” system theater operators were forced to accept pictures without first seeing them it charges that, as a result, the Indianapolis company was forced to sell its theater at a loss of $150,000.

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DOMD EXPLODES ! IN POST OFFICE; j MANISKILLED Easton, Penn., Postal Em- < ploye Fatally Hurt by Bomb Today I SOME OTHERS ARE INJURED Easton, Pa., Dec. 30. — <U.R). —A bomb intended for ship-1 ment to New York city exnloded in the post office today, i killing one man and injuring several others. The bomb was one of five packages, each addressed to , different persons in New York ' city, left at the post office by two men shortly before the explosion. They were left at the parcel post window for mailing. Edward Werkheiser was fatally injured, and John House, postal clerk, w r as taken to a hospital. Both his arms had been blown off and doctors said he had little chance for recovery. At least thiee others were injured as the bomb shattered windows and partitions in the post office building. Employes said two men had entered the building n)iortly before the explosion. They withdrew five packages from a carton and had them stamped for parcel post to New York. As a clerk was handling on® it exploded. The four other packages contained explosives, the postal workers said. During the confusion the two men who had presented the packages for posting had disappeared. Police said the contents of each package had been arranged so as Ito explode upon being opened, but the one exploded prematurely in the hands of the postal clerk. Postal authorities at Washington an-.l Philadelphia were notified and prepared to come to Easton to open an investigation. Police would not reveal the : (CONTINUED ON PACffi SIX) LABOR LEADER PESSIMISTIC McGrady Says Loss To Workers Will Total Many Billion > • Washington, Dec. 30. — (U.R) —Ed- . ward F. McGrady of the American . Federation of Labor today told the senate relief committee hearing American wage and salary earners had lost $18,000,000,000 (billions) to $20,000,000,000 in 1931. "The spectre of starvation is drawing nearer all the time,’’ he j said. McGrady said that if states and communities are unable to provide unemployment relief the A. F. of L. wants liberal federal appropriation "in order that human lives might be saved and hunger, misery and want alleviated.” He estimated the totally unemployed numbered 7.500,000 and that 6.000,000 men are working one to three days a week. He urged upon the committee relief for miners in Indiana, Illinois, Tennessee, Ohio, Kentucky and Pennsylvania, asserting that mining sections of Pennsylvania alone will require $15,000,- - 000 this winter. - The estimate ot wage and salary ! losses in 1931 was reached on a - basis of comparison with 1929 lev- ) els. McGrady said that bank deL posits of all institutions which - closed in the year ending Septeinb- • er 30, 1931, aggregated only $1,500,000,000. Business failures reported s for that period amounted to $750.1 000,000, less tlian one twentieth of - the combined wage and salary loss t of American workers. The entire ' (CONTINUED ON PAGE SIX) o — i G. O. P. Leaders Meet . Indianapolis. Dec. 30 — (UP) — - Date for the Republican state convention will be selected at a meei- - ing of the state committee here i tomorrow. June 1 and 2 is being - considered according to Elza Rog- ; ers, state chairman, who called , the meeting after a conference with - senator James E. Watson and other f G. O. P. Leaders. Watson came here from Chicago.

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Increase Is Predicted Youngstown, 0., Dee. 30—(UP)— I an increase in steel production next month, reflecting an improvement in the automobile industry was , foreseen today by Benjamin F. ’ I Fairless, executive vice president |of the Republic steel corporation. I Although the outlook for business in general is still clouded with economic forces unquestionably are working toward a recove y Fairless said. Republic plants at present are operating at approximately 25 per cent of capacity, the level for the general industiy. o— LIONS HOLD WEEKLY MEET Schafer Co. Employes Are Guests of Lions At Tuesday Meeting 'The Decatur Lions club entertained the Schafer Wholesale Co., employes, executives and salesmen at regular meeting of the club Tuesday night at the Christian church dining room. C. C. Schafer, president of the local wholesale concern and D. C. Boxell, Marion were the chief speakers. Twenty Schaier employes attended the banquet and meeting. Following the regular meeting and addresses Harry Knapp local hardware merchant succeeded ! Ralph Gentis as president of the local • — ~ - -—o ‘ — Plan Watch Service The First Evangelical Church will have a watch night service i Thursday night from 8:30 until 12 i o'clock. There will be features of , Interest to all ages. The program will change every thirty minutes. The committee has so arranged the - program, not to have a dull moment I in the entire evening. The last 30 i minutes will be strictly devotional. I Friends may come and go at any ' shift period. o Program Is Planned A Watch Night program will be I presented at the Clark's Chapel | I M. E. church. Thursday night, it . | was announced today. The memI bers will visit at the homes of the congregation until 8:30 o'clock when all will assemble at the M. • A. Clem home for a social program and refreshments. Mrs. M. A Clem and Mrs. Chauncey Clem will be the hostesses. At 10:30 o’clock all will assem- ! ble at the church where a special ? service will lie held with Rev. - Edgar Johnston, pastor of the De- ? catur Circuit, preaching. This ser- } vice will close shortly after 12 o’clock midnight. 5 The revival meetings will be , held each night this week and next week and Rev. Johnston will I preach each evening. The meetings start at 7 o'clock (C. S. T.) j each night. MANY FIGHT . LEVEE BREAK J 1 11 ' Convicts Sent To Aid As Waters Pound at Weakening Wall Glendora, Miss., Dec. 30 —(UP) y Convicts were rushed from one * village to another in this sector ■ today in an attempt to bridle the “ raging Tallahatchie river as its h flood waters lapped at levees along '■ a 11-mile front. ■■ Citizens worked besides felons in (I piling sandbags against weakened levees as the river showed a steady f rise. s Forty families were reported mare ooned on little islands itt a 25,000 acre flood area after the Cassidy Bayou levee broke near here. Weakening of other embankments increased their peril. |A constant patrol is maintained - long the river front, watching for ' weak spots in the levee. As soon ' as one appears, an alarm is given s and convict gangs are rushed to ? the scene, if the Tallahatchie continues to rise throughout the day ’ a general crumbling of the levee II is expected. r Rivermen saw a ray of hope in e— —■ — '~'- (CONTINUED ON PAGE SUL)

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Hunts Leader ( I I , ] '( < 1 _ La " 11 Senator Smith W. Brookhart of lowa photographed in Chicago] where he addressed the Rotary, Club of that city. He combined i his speaking engagement witli a search for a Progressive candidate] for President to oppose President! Hoover. He stated that lie voted! for tlie moratorium because the moratorium had already been in existence six months. BEET ACREAGE - " TOTALS 9,020 i Group Busy This Week Getting Remainder of Necessary Acreage The total of beet acreage so far reported to Mr. Oksen at tlie offices of the local sugar plant this morning was 9,020 acres. This did not include the work done by the solicitors this past day or to which it is believed will increase that several hundred acres. About 1,200 to 1,500 acres in the Antwerp, Ohio field may be secured here, there being some indicision because of the probability of tlie Paulding plant being reopened for next year. This will be decided today it is believed and if tills acreage comes here will prove a big help in the pi esent efforts to secure the 13,000 acres of pledges by next Tuesday. E. W. Busche of Monroe. Rufus Clark of Liberty Center and Edward Fuelling of Hoagland have all agreed to serve on the board of manage; s for the Decatur Growers Association through the Indiana Farm Bureau and a meeting of Ohio farmers will be held this evening to select a representative from this territory. The solicitors were out today going full speed to secure the required acreage which will assure operation of the plant here and the first of next week the committees will he in touch with Mr. Gallagher who will then go to New York to present the matter to those interested in financing the big proposition. Indications seem very bright at this time, if we can but secure the very important cooperation of tlie farmers of this section. Two Leaders Rebuked Washington. Dec. 30 — (UP) — Speaker of the house Garner today sharply rebuked two of his leaders concerned with the tax legislation for issuing statements that were interpreted in some quarters as outlining a Democratic tax program. o Assailant Is Trapped Chippewa Falls, Wls., Dec. 30 — (U.R)—A posse of 100 men today trapped Charles Uselman, 35, St. Louis, who allegedly wounded a Chippewa county farmer because he refused permission to call cn the latter’s sister. The farmer, Verner Johnson, was shot in the face and body at his home last night. He had opposed Uselman's attention to his sister, Mrs. Eunice Bennett, 35. The farmer’s neighbors formed into a posse, but lost Uselman's trail. They searched all night. At dawn, Useiman was surrounded in a farmhouse 10 miles east of here. He surrendered.

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SHERIFF STILL HELD; WOMAN IS ARRESTED I i Authorities Seek Two Accomplices in Bank Bandit Organization MRS. GREEN STAYS SILENT Portland, Ind. Dec. 30. —• (U.R)—Two additional members of a craftily organized bank robber gang, believed to have j included a county sheriff and several women, were sought throughout northern Indiana today. Their capture, authorities’ believe, will mark destruction of a band that terrorized banks in Indiana and Illinois. Charles Bolte, of the state criminal bureau, planned to go to Municie today for evidence to support I charges against Mrs. Hazel Green. | an alleged member of the gang, j Mrs. Green surrendered to authorities there last night and was I brought to the county jail here. The specific charge against Mrs. ] Green is "conspiracy to commit a felony with five other persons, two of whom are at large.” The (three under arrest are bandits who were captured after robbery of the first State Bank at Dunkirk last Thursday. Next Monday Bolte will go to Michigan City and one other northern Indiana city, lie said, to wind up evidence against Mrs. Green and lira Barton, sheriff of Blackford county, who is aiTSged to have operated with the bandits. Affidavits filed against Barton in Blackford county charge him with conspiracy to commit a felony. In Jay county be is charged with robbery and bank robbery. Authorities had not yet decided whether he would be held here or returned to Blackford county, where the grand jury is in session. All charges against Barton were filed by Janies Ensliwiler, Blackford county prosecutor. Albert Frabotta and Frank Valentino, who pleaded guilty to bank robbery charges were sentenced to 20 years imprisonment, were to be , taken to Michigan City today. A movement to reduce their sentences was started here. Bolte said that Lorenz Catielli, the third bandit under arrest, wa s ready to plead guilty to bank robbery charges, but that he probably would wait until an attorney arrived from Chicago. Mrs. Green was said to have been identified by Capelli and Valentino. I She was non-committal as to whether she was acquainted with i —— (CONTINUED ON PAGE TWOi f o Choir Will Practice The members of the Senior Choir ■ of the Zion Reformed Church are ■ to meet for rehearsal at 7 o’clock ■ tonight. BOARD GRANTS : FEW PAROLES Unemployment Is Bit; Factor In Actions of Pardon Board Michigan City. Ind . Dec. 30. — . (U.R) —Hard times and unemployj ment played a major role as trus- , tees of the Indiana state prison , heard pardon' and parole petitions of 92 convicts. Only four paroles and two temporary paroles were granted. Four prisoners who hate served minimum terms were freed. Several convicts whose petitions were denied were consoled, however with the promise that they y will be freed at the April meeting if employment is assured. Among '* the petitions denied was that of ® Nick Sudovich, Lake county gangII ster. Paroles were granted Churchel '■ Elmore, serving a one to five ye ir * term on a burglary charge in Du- ’’ hois county; Edward Fawcett, s Clark county, serving 10 to 21 years on a robbery conviction; I Charles Owens, Montgomery conn--8 ty, serving one to 10 years on a I grand larceny conviction; and II Oscar Wagner. Blackford county, (CONTINUED ON PAGE FIVE)