Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 30, Number 7, Decatur, Adams County, 8 January 1932 — Page 1

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ITT NEW I fl MOTION mMONDAY ■min To Rule Oh |e Motion Asking |r New Trial In to be WRITTEN feg on the motion for I »ial tiled and argued K circuit court in the ■nurder case will be |bv Judge D. B. Friday morning at 9 fee stated today. K was found guilty ■rv on first degree fest December 14 and ] feinse! immediately tiled ■for a new trial, settingfeons why a second trial ■granted. feu in lias had tiie motion Ksideration for several Stated that he would be ■ake a decision next MonIng. ■ has not been sentenced ■ng held in the Adams ■ pending the outcome of ■rial motion. ■eVoss and L. Walters 11 for the defendant and | Nathan C. Nelson and fe are representing the fe motion was argued last fed Judge Erwin at that ■he would give a decision | end of the present term I been strongly indicated fee the motion is overrulfeal will tie taken to the ■unit. In case the motion ■ed it is likely Everett fenenn-d immediately, fee jury returned its vorL Everett guilty of first larder a paragraph was I the verdict petitioning Ito express leniency. The lied in receiving the ver■the request would be con-1 Erwin indicated today that ■m Monday would l»e writL -> . pal To Continue R services will continue | kit next week at the Monlodist Episcopal Church, it ( I announced. The services I It the chu.ch last Sunday. I I been well attended each ■ lay night. High School . 1 held, and hte pupil.r of j I School attended the ser- ' I'- E. M. Dunbar, pastor of k'h. is conducting the reviIPublic is invited to attend I begin each night at 7 o’bnction Is Sought [Haute. Ind., Jan. B.—(U.R) pral injunction against inF ( ‘ with operation of the I mine at Shelburn was I" a petitio nfiled in the laute federal court. The I named Ahe Vales, presiI district 11. United Mine lot America, and 11 other I of the organization, pition charged that pick p'« Starburn mine abused I ond hindered their work, prburn mine is non-union. ! BROTHER I SURRENDERS Hung Is Arrested Questioning In hssouri Killings r n - Tex., Jan. 8. <U.R) F"’ R brother of Harry and F'°«ng, the slayers of six F 1 ' 1 ’ Mo., peace officers, surP’ 0 Police here today. k.„T anted for Questioning L 7 lngs ° f officers . when ™ tp arrest Harry and I joung who killed themk n corr| ered here Tuesday. I nuig a t fi rgt wag Relieved With !lls broth «T» in L,. se at the time of the bt 'p?‘ th the Mlaiw ’»rt offikid i " eCU t°r Dan Nee of H»r r 881,1 he «<>nV n» 5 811,1 Je,ln tags were " ones ln the place.

DECATUR DAILY DEMOCRAT

Vol. XXX. No. Seven.

! The Navy's Day in Court | r—j- — ; fe. L Hf ' . I'WF HI! vfr" wllk' vBHBMELjRepresentative C. Vinson, chairman of the House Naval Affairs Committee, is show n as he welcomed Secretary of the Navy Charles Francis Adams to th deliberations concerning naval expansion to the limit allowed by existing treaties. It is understood that the Hoover administration will oppose reduction of world armaments at the Genova Contereme on an. purely budgetary basis.

DAIRY AWARDS WILL BE MADE I < Adams County Men Will Receive Medals at Conference Next Week Indiana dairymen who have quali- i fied for membership in the 300-1 pewwHl-’t'ow Rub during 1931. will be awarded their medals at the Annual banquet of the Indiana State Dairy lAssociation, io he field at Vurdite University at Lafayette.! j Thursday evening, Jamia. > 14. Any dairyman having ten or more] cows each of which j-roduced 306 | pounds of butter.at during the "Year I is entitled to a bronze medal. If eixht of the ten cows produced 4tt(t ' I pounds of fat per cow, the owuet ling period, the owner li awarded ] a silver medal, should six of the ten j cows each producing 300 pounds of ; butterfat make i ecords of 500 • pounds of fat per cow, the owner eceives a gold medal—the highest (hnnor any Hoosier dairyman can [ secure In recognition of the prodm - i tiiti ,>f his daily herd. Eight gold. 51 silver, an.l 207 I I bronze medals we e won by as i ( many her 1, during the ps it year. 1 This is the largest number o. dairy-1 ••NIIXITEK (IX*PAGE (-IVH < JOI ES BABE I EXPIRES TODAY Pneumonia Fatal to Rob-1 ( ert Gorman, Son of Mr. And Mrs. R. K. Jones I Robert No man Jones, !• months | old son of Mr. and Mi i. Raymond] [I K. Jcnes died at the Adams County i Memorial Hospital at 4 o’clock rds ( I morning of [ ueunionia. The babj ■ I had been sick since Tuesday, and I j late Thursday was removed to tii< . h ispital for treatment. The baby was born in Decatur, | Ap.il 8, 1931. Surviving are the par ■ onts, HaymJnd K. and Helen Beard I Jones, a brother. Richard. 3. and 1 two grandfathers, L. A. Beard of: this city and W. \V. Jones of Lima 1 Ohio. , The body was taken to the W. H. Zwick and Son Funeral Home and will be removed to the home late I this afternoon. Funeral se: vices will he held , I Sunday afternoon at the home, 706 : North Second street, with Rev. A ( B. Brown, pastor of the Baptist ] church, officiating. Interment will ( be made at Venedocia, Ohio. ] Dr. J. G. Neptune Is Taken To Hospital II Dr. J. G. Neptune, vho has been , 11 confined to his home the last three 1 ■ days because of Illness was taken i • to the Adams County Memorial , I Hospital this afternoon for medical ] ■ treatment. His condition is unclmng » ed. He is suffering Ironi tin oat trouble.

State, National And lulernntlonal News

Funeral To Be Held Here Saturday P. M. Funeral services for Anthony Henry Lammert, who died Thursday morning at his home on Eleventh street, will be held Saturday atte noon at 2:15 o’clock at the residence and at 2:30 o'clock at the Zion Reformed church. The Rev. A. R. Fledderjohann, castor of the churcfi will officiate, assisted by Rev. R. E. Vance, pastor of the United Brethren church. Burial will be made in the Decatur AUTOS COLLIDE: ONE IS INJURED George Blounts, Geneva Receives Cuts When Autos Collide George Blounts, 21. Geneva young man, was injured when a car he was driving and a car driven by Miss Be tiude Thieme of this city c. Hide.l at the intersection fit Fifth (nd Momoe tireels. ai 5:30 o'clock I hnr.uiay e\ ning. ; he Elojuts ear was going south on F'Jth street and the Thieme car was icing east _n Monroe stfeet when they collided. The two cars ; were pinned togeihei and ran into ! a tree on the F. J. Schmitt lawn. Mr. Blounts received a number of ] cuts and bruises about his head and face, one of the lacerations requir- . ing a few stitches to close it. He was taken to a local physician where his injuries we.e dressed : and later was removed to his home. : Miss Thieme, who is employed |jn the offices o. the Cloverleaf ( Cieamerlcs, Inc., of this city, reekved a slight injury to her left inkle, but otherwise was uninjured. M . Blounts was driving'a car ( belonging to William Zeigal of Genexa. He and Mr. Zeigal had been ( hauling logs. LEGION FAVORS SHORTER WEEK National Group Sponsors Short Day And Short Week For Laborers — Richmond, Ind.. Jan. B.— (U.R) — The full strength of the American Legion will be used to obtain legislation mandating a six-hour day (and a five-day week. Henry L. ' Stevens Jr., national commander, ]said in an address here last night. If the plan is adopted, wages will be cut to correspond with the decreased working time. Stevens said he viewed the sixhour day as the only solution to , unemployment. He announced he I Had wired John T. Taylor, of the i national legislative oommittee, to ( “start machinery which will result In passage of a law requiring a I clause in governmental construction contracts" making the requirements mandatory.

Funeral To Be Held Here Saturday P. M.

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Decatur, Indiana, Friday, January 8, 1932.

CENTRAL PLAY DRAWSCROWD Show To Be Given Again Tonight; Actors Are Praised The Decatur High School auditorium was filled last night for the frst presentation of the Central school play, "Meet Uncle Sally," a clever three act comedy. The play was presented by a cast chosen from the seventh and eighth grades of the school, and was directed by Miss Grace Coffee. It will be repeated tonight in the school andito ium and admission will be JO cents for children and school pupils and 20 cents for adults. . The play centers about Ben Blayne, a young lawyer of a small mid w estern city, and Betty Blayne his sister, the parts being played by Harry Moyer and Evelyn Adams. respectively. These young people leceive word from their millionaire uncle, William Hawkins, Lawrence Johnson, that he plans to visit them. Ben and Betty, who wish to make an impression on their fiance and fiancee, Elaine and Boh Durant, inCONTINUED ON PAGE FIX I BEET ACREAGE NEARS PLEDGE Solicitors Set January 15 As Deadline For Accepting Pledges Tiie sugar beet acreage pledged up to this morning was 10.840 and the .joys have set next Friday, January IS as the time to finish, with every confidence they will have more than the 12,000 acres promised and required. The amount turned in yesterday was 306 acres. Delegations from Wabash, Elkhart and Whitley county are anxious to sign up for two or three thousand acres hut the solicitors are trying to get the amount needed with a radius of 30 to 40 miles and the closer to the plant, the better. Under the old plan where stations were established and the beet shipped in by rail, it did not make so much difference but the plants operating now are [using trucks more than any other means of conveying the beets. No word has been received yet from Col. Gallagher but it is expected .soon and the work of securing the pledges is going right on. The entire field force was out again today. o GOVERNMENT FUND FOUGHT Unemployment Head Says Counties j\nd States Are Responsible Washington. Jan. 7.—<U.R) —Walter S. Gifford director of President Hoover’s organization on unemployment relief, argued against federal appropriations for the destitute in testimony today before the senate committee consideeing unemploymen relief bills. "It would seem that the combined efforts of communities, counties and states can take care of the situation this winter," he said. During the lengthy hearings thus far the preponderance of evidence have been in favor of federal aid. representatives of many organizations and communities asserting that adequate relief could not be provided unless the government took a hand. Gifford, however, stood firmly behind the administration attitude that each community should care for its own eases of suffering and distress. ‘CONTINUED ON PAGE SIX. Student Loses Life Tammond, Ind., Jan. B.— (U.R) — Gordon H. Campbell, a college student of Chicago, was killed here today when the auto he was driving was struck by a Pennsylvania switch engine. Campbell was enroute to his home when the crash occurred.

Rotarians Hold Meet The regular meeting of the Rotary club was held Thursday even I ing at the K. of C. Hall. It was the first meeting held sjnee before the . holidays and a round table discus 1 sion of Rotary affairs took up the time of the program. A. D. Suttles. ■ president of the club presided. En- I thusiastic reports pertaining to club I membership and aetivltes were given by several of the members. WILL RECEIVE SUPPLY BIDS iCommissioners, Eicher Consider 1932 Material For Road Work The county commissioners met ] with Christ Eicher, county road superintendent and County Attorney Henry B. Heller for the pur- ! pose of preparing specifications for road material and supplies needed by the highway department during I 1932. Bids will be received by the board at the February session. Stone,] screenings, gasoline, oil and bridge j material are purchased by the liigh- | way department and bids are received every year by the board. The county highway repair budget is reduced to about $75,000 this year of which 150,000 will be paid by the state in the gasoline tax. The balance is raised by a eight-cent levy on taxable property in Adams county. I The state board of tax commis-] I sioners in reducing the levy fori (highway repair fund for this year I .also designated what the money] was to be used for and the contention is held that the highway de- ( partment must follow the suggestion made by the state board. The 'following amounts were set out in ( j tCONTfNURD ON PAGE rTVE) I MAN OPERATES ON HIMSELF I Noted Surgeon Performs Successful Hernia Operation Today Kane, Pa.. Jan. B.— (U.R) — Dr. Evan O’Neill Kane. 70-year-old surgeon, who astounded the medical world 11 year - ago by removing hi.-,I own appendix, was hailed today as (the “man of steel" following a successful operation on hi*.iself for iniguinal hernia—an operation so del-i icate. tliat a slip of one eighth of, an inch might have meant death. For an hour and 45 minutes he (wielded the knife on his own body (to cure an intestinal rupture sufifered six years ago while horse-1 ] back riding. Had the operation | been performed by another surgeon ion Dr. Kane it would have requir-i (ed great skill and a Steady hand.] I But the aged surgeon was possess- ] led of both these attributes and I nerves of steel as well. He joked (With his nurses during the operlation and when it was over he | smilingly admitted he w r as slightly drowsy but in "fine condition.’’ The operation, performed late yesterday at the Kane Summit hospital, was more delicate than PONT NftEr V PAGE six. o STATE HIGHWAY PLANS EXTEND 1,000 Miles of Road Taken Into Dotted Line System Indianapolis, Jan. B.— <U.R) —The state highway commission has placed approximately 1,000 miles of state roads in the “dotted line”] system, making them next in linei for maintenance by the state. Maintenance will be taken over as rapidly as the commission’s finances will permit, Albert J. Wedeking. chairman of the commission said. He cautioned that the highway commission "is not a relief organization," but would furnish as much work as possible to benefit unemployed. Wedeking said the commission expected to begin maintenance of at least, a part of the new “dotted , (CONTINUED ON PAGE FIVE) |

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ROOSEVELT IS BIG FAVORITE AS CANDIDATE Democrats Gather for Annual Jackson Dinner At Washington, I). C. VESTAL WILL FACE FIGHT Washington, Jan. B—(U.R) - Forces behi n<l Governor Franklin D. Roosevelt of New York took the lead in activity among Democrats who lined tin here today for Hie party’s 1932 presidential kickoff. It was indicated his forces will stoutlv combat the effort to block his nomination and will carry the fight into every primary state except where favorite sons preempt their home grounds. They- also have indicated a preference for holding the Democratic national convention in Kansas City instead of Chicago. They have come into collision with democratic national Chairman Raskob by urging that the convention be held after the republicans meet instead of before as advocated by Raskob. Though handicappel cj- Roosevelt's refusal to announce formally his eangidacy. his friends sought neverHieless to advance his fortunes by active missionary work among the scores of democratic leaders assembled hero for the Jackson, day dinner tonight and the meeting of the democratic national committee tomorrow. Governor Albert C. Ritchie of Marvland formally announced his candidacy at a democratic dinner in Baltimore last night. Speakers at the Jackson day dinner tonight are to be former Governor Alfred E. Smith of New York. John W. Davis of West Virginia. and James M. of Ohio, the three living ex-candidates of the party. Claude Bowers, keynoter at the 1928 Houston convention. will be toastmaster. Smith's plans are buried in a sphinx-like silence. His speech toUight will be inspected wind by word to glean some hint of an (CONTINUED ON PAGE STXI Society to Attend Mass The Holy Name Society will attend the 7:00 o’clock mass in a body, Sunday morning, it was announced today. Members are requested to meet at the St. Joseph school at 6:45 o'clock and march to the chinch. REVIVAL WILL STARTMONDAY Evangelicals Plan Annual Revival; Pastor To Be In Charge Revival meetings will start at the First Evangelical Church beginning Sunday January 10. There will be services each night next week, at seven o’clock, except Monday night. The revival will be in charge of the pastor, Rev. M. VV. Sunderman pastor evangelist. The o:d time gospel: “The Power of God unto Salvation, to eveiyone that believeith” will be the tone of the p.eaching. Ernest Foreman will be the song leader. The regular church choir, with some additional members will be present each night to help make the music an interesting feature. E. nest Foreman and Amos Ketchum are a committee to provide special music each night. T.L.Becker will direct the prayer services. There will be prayer services in the •hitch each evening for fifteen minutes preceding the evening service. Cottage prayer meetings will be held from time to time as arranged by the director. Adolph Kolter, Sunday School Supt., will direct (CONTINUED ON PAGE SIX . J. W. Fordney Expires Saginaw, Mich., Jan. B—(UP8 —(UP) — J. W. Fordney, who for 24 years was congressman from the eighth Michigan district, died at his home here today. He had been ill for some time.

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To China for LI. S. fe. J Hit Appointed American member of the neutral commission of investigation whieh the five great powers will send to Manchuria as observers, General Frank Ross McCoy is a World War veteran and commander of the Fourth Corps Area, Atlanta, Ga. General McVoy supervised the elections in Nicaragua in 1928 and has a wide experience in colonial and insular matters. podrliTnds SHOW DEFICIT Total of $6,909.32 Is Spent In County During- Year Just Closed In 1931 the sum of $6,9(19.32 was expended-tor poor relief in Adams county, according to the annual report prepared by Deputy County Auditor Aleta Harlow. Washington township spent nearly half of the amount used in the county. French township was not called on for a penny of. poor relief and no levy was made last year. The township poor funds show ? deficit of $1,351.52, December 31, 1931. The fund was overdrawn 482,94 January 1, 1931 and a deficit of $868.58 resulted during the year. Receipts in the township poor funds totaled $6,040.74 last year. Expenditures for the first six months were $3,104.91 and in the last half of the year were $3,804.41. The following amounts were paid out in the townships for poor relief in 1932: Union $316.18 Root 689.80 Preble .. 60.50 Kirkland 270.78 Washington 3,361.17 St. Marys 90.63 Blue Creek 457.30 Monroe 935.31 French nothing Hartford 17.63 Wabash 560.02 Jefferson 150.00 Several of the townships increased levy for poor relief for the current year. Bandit Pleads Guilty Po.tland, Ind., Jan. B—(UP) — Lorenz Capelli, 23, Steiger. 111., pleaded guilty late yesterday to a chaige of robbery of tiie First State bank of Dunkirk Christmas eve Sentence was withheld by Judge Frank Gillespie. Albert Frobctta and Frank Valentino, companions of Capelli. precariously had pleaded guilty and were sentenced to 20 years in prison. Anthony Spiro, a fourth member of gang, was killed after the robbery. — o- - Rev. Franklin Speaks Rev. B. H. Franklin, pastor of the Methodist Episcopal Church here, addressed the pupils of the Central School at the chapel period this morning. He told about his hunting trip in the North Woods. Men Face Court-Martial Washington, Jan. 8 — (UP) — T wenty enlisted men of the coast guard will he court-martialed on ■cha ges of accepting bribes from Long Island rum runners, coast guard headquarters announced today. Commandant F. C. Blllard said no commissioned officers were In any way implicated.

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DIPLOMATIC BREAK NEARS: TROUBLE BREWS Americans Protest Conditions In Manchuria; Action Is Foreseen CRISIS THOUGHT NEAR AT HAND Nanking, China, Jan. 8. (U.R)—The Chinese government has decided to ask the league of nations to applv to Japan the economic penalties stipulated under article XVI of the covenant, the l.nited Press was informed authoritatively tonight. The government also was considering breaking diplomatic relations with Japan. The foreign office proposes to ask the signatories of the Kellogg and nine-power treaties to convene and decide on definite steps Io cope with the situation in Manchuria. Meanwhile, China would resort to the most effective measures at hand, such as severing relations. China has requested the Unite'! States and other non-members of the league to continue exerting pressure on Japan for a settlement of the Manchurian dispute. The central executive committee held an emergency meeting tonight and considered the Stimson note to Japan and China. Meanwhile the foreign office was drafting a reply. Article XVI of the league co,enant provides that if any nation resorts to war in disregard of its covenants, it shall "Ipso facto bn deemed to have committed an act of war against all other members of the league, which hereby undertake immediately to subject it to be the serverance of all trade or financial relations, the prohibition of all lute.ecourse between their national and the nationals of the covenant breaking state and the prevention of all financial, commercial or personal intercourse between the nationals o! the covenant breaking state and the nationals of any other state, whether a member of the league or •not.” Washington. Jan. B—(U.R) —The state department has received a flood of protests from American firms in Manchuria against interference with their I.A.isiness by the Japanese. This condition was an (CONTINUED ON PAGE SIX) 0 Will File Charges Indianapolis, Jan. 16. -- <U.R) — State police planned today to file charges of first degree murder against Roscoe Rowe, 36, accusing him of implication in the* robbery and slaying of 1 awrence Elliott, a farmer at Salem, Ind. Rowe was held In the county jail here in default of $5,000 bond. An affidavit charging him with murder was to be signed today at. Salem by Mrs. Elliott. Two other men, alleged to have been members of the gang that robbed and shot Elliott at his home more than a month ago, will be arrested soon, John U. Weir, of the state police, said. o FRANK BELL IS ELECTROCUTED Killer Goes To Chair At Chicago; Claims Brothers Not Guilty Chicago, Jan. B.— (U.R) —Frank (the Squaler) Bell died in the electric chair in the county jail at 12:05 a. m. today after he had reasserted his once discredited confession of the murder of Alfred J. Lingle. Chicago newspaper reporter. The condemned murderer who twice hail escaped death by last minute reprieves called for pen and paper 15 minutes before he was to be led to the death chair and kill ed by the state for tiie murder of Chris Patras, restaurant owner. His last confession of the series which won him the nickname “the i (CONTINUED ON PAGE FIVE)