Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 30, Number 9, Decatur, Adams County, 11 January 1932 — Page 1

DECATUR DAILY DEMOCRAT

■vEATHEFt ■tl y cloudy to- ■ and Tuesday. ■ib I y rain or ■, tonight ex ■ north portion; ■bat warmer ■lay.

DSEPH EVERETT GIVEN LIFE SENTENCE

Id murder ■CINCINNATI KCONFESSED ■ Bischoff, 45, Ad- ■ Gruesome Killing lh.year-old Child Iman who 1 I’Ol ND BODY; ■iiinnli, O. -lan. 11. ] Bischon, l i ■ d totltiv, police anK| |o the killing ol si\- ■ | Marian McLean ■ inuliliatetl hotly was ■ in the basement of Ins ■nt three days before Kitis. . „ ■tH'. an eccentric whit.’■ami student of criminology ■ n under arrest since bo ■ finding the »o<ly beside ■ heap. ■oned almost continuously Hen. Bischoff stoutly denied Hlling until early today ■,. finally ' broke" and co:i- ■ Sheriff Asa Butterfield ■onnty Prosecutor Robert ■ announced. ■ nine was discovered five Her Marian had disappear■r mother. Mrs. Mildred ■. had permitted her to go ■ play for an hour while ■rted the gifts she had ■to gladden her only child’s The report of a neigh-1 ■ that a "dark looking; ■r" was walking with her| ■■- last trace of her until | m emerged front his house. I £> 's a dead child in 'the had been deploy-} ■? neighborhood for davs,; ■ by offers of reward, were i ■ three houses of the place] ■the shcut attracted their] ■» They found Marian | ■ She had D-n attacked and i ■ho coroner reported, less ] hours before. confession read ini irist hofl'. under no] ■< or promise or encourage- . ■do hereby state and sign I ■nr that I killed Marian Mc- ■'■ a hl of insanity and ex- ■ leniency possible." Idhpswife I IS ARRESTED ■endence Loaders! ■ -Jailed In India, By British Guards ■">>• India. Jan. 11—(u.R>— ■F K. Gandhi, wife of the B" a Gan dhi. and Miss Patel, B] r of a family prominent in of Gandhi's independence ■”’ were arrested todav. ■ nationalist civil disobedi■•ntpaign took a new turn rokers at the cotton seed B sh ' irp "oirkets decided I • transact Ittsineas until ■> is released irom prison at I •nahst volunteers picketed sa e deposits to prevent •Port of goll | ■ ( "'n<lhi wJk arrested for H"? resumption of a cam- ■ w lon-pavtnem o f taxes at ■^J ,11ls i’le Bombay. ■ford City. | n( | j an u Km 0 " ° f nine Person's ■ * h 'ontplir ity in robbery ■ enS State here 7 nn ’ n,f -n<led in a reBl hv the Blackford Brhe Ury ltS r,lla! sessKMinv P ° r ' BaW U ha<l n( »t Bril of the rob- ■ commended that lho ■ ’ ■ s,,n ’'"oned today. eon- ■ mqutry at once. B nvi( l Is Identified ■tn’ Ja "' 11 - (VP) - ■' ,r °® Mo - erV ‘ ng “ 8en ’ ■ires * *. to ’ yea,s >n the Bll.hm ry for Possesion ■Mltn »t n jdpnti fied as one ■itr barn *a° robbe '’ ’he HartB‘H»nne ° Ctober 'of 19.940. B chief of t) to " ay b >- E- L. Os- ■ f state criminal I

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Injured Man Removed To County Hospital lla*ve Baker. North Sixth I street, was removed to the Adams | County Memorial hospital Sunday. Mr. Baker was knocked down by an automobile Wednesday evening ; at the N[onroe and Second street | crossing. He was badly bruised I and had a couple of ribs broken. He was suffering from shock ami the injuries and was removed to the hospital for medical care. o FARMERS MEET I AT PURDUE U. I Business of Making A Living Urged by Sr. E. (’. Young, Economist Lafayette. Ind.. Jan. 11 (U.R) - The next 10 years should be an excellent time "to begin the bus'news of making a living." Dr. E. C. Young, Purdue farm economist, told persons ‘gathered here today for the annual agricultural conference. Dr. Young saw for the farmer a strategic tins- to better his position. "The individual farmer can profit by the present situation," Dr. Young said, “by learning to increase efficiency of product! >n, using all technical information available, and learning to substitute for those items which may be expected to remain high in price, or in which further deflation may i be expected.” i Class work in nine of the 11 ; sections into which the conference ' has been divided, opened today. I Group meetings were held for | those interested in agricultural , engineering. agronomy, botany, dairy, farm management, home ecwnM»irn. hnrtictiltnrer lives!o--k nnd poultry. The annual dinner meeting of 1 the Indiana Corn Growers’ asso- ; ciation will be held tonight, at (CONTTNCFD OX «1X Proposal Is Accepted Washington. Jan. 11. (U.R) SecI retary of State Stimson announced ‘today he had accepted the program paid down by Japan as full com pensation for the attack by Jap. anese soldiers on American Consul Culver B. Chamberlain a week ago. When this program has been (carried out. Stimson said, the Chamberlain incident will have lbeen closed. o — I Attend Funeral Today The Rev. Father J. A. Seimetz, I pastor'and Rev. Father Joseph' A. Hennes, assistant pastor of St. Mary's Catholic church, and Rev. Father Ambrose Kohne, Hammond. attended the funeral services for the Rev. Father Michael Howland at Yoder this morning. Father Howland died last week. Tuesday morning the priests will attend the funeral for the Rev. I Barnard Wiedau at the Cathedral |in Fort Wayne. Father Wieda.i i was a retired priest. He formerly i was the pastor at New Haven. His death occurred last Saturday HOOVER CALLS CONFERENCE Economic Situation Is Discussed By Leaders at White House Washington. Jan. 11— (U.R) — A special conference on his emergency finance legislation was called today by President Hoover at the White House. While congress pressed forward with the $2,000,000,Ode) reconstruction finance corporation bill, the President called in Senators Glass, Dem.. Va„ and Walcott. Repn., Conn., Governor Eugenie Meybr of the Federal reserve hoard and Cndersecretary of Treasury Ogden Mills for a prolonged discussion of the general economic situation. o Date Is Accepted London, Jan. 11. — (U.R) All In- ■ forested governments have acceptled Jan. 25 as the date for convening the debts and reparations con|ference at Lausanne, the government announced today.

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iCHUIICHNAMES TWOTRUSTEES . ; ’ t jCatholic Congregation i Holds Annual Election Sunday Morning , i The annual election of the hoard of trustees of the St. Mary’s I Catholic church took place Sunday! morning following the 9:45 high] i mass. Two trustees were elected.] I Miss Mae Berling was the new I ! member elected. J. O. Fisher was ; re-elected The other members of ; the board are Rev. Father J. A.] | Seimetz. John Bak-r. Joseph Laurent. F ed Colchin, Robert Meibers . and Frank Heiman. The rnnual report of contributions towards church maintenance] and the Catholic school fund has I ! been compiled by Rev. Father J. J. I Hennes, assistant pastor and will he published this week. Each year the congregation , pays SIO,OOO. plus interest on the; school fund. The debt on the i school has 1 |-en reduced from i $300,000 to $90,000. 1 The congregation is one of the I outstanding Catholic congregations ’I in the state and is distinctive in, I having one of the most modern 11 1 ond state accredited high schools ,in Indiana. The congreg&tion is | ’] composed of more than ISOO inem-i l ’ | bers. |— o — Thie\es Get Big Loot J Indianapolis, Jan. 11 (U.R) I Carefully operating thieves broke H i into the Hamilton-Harris wareI house here and carted ■ away 2.- ■ 500,000 cigarets in two stolen I trucks. Value of the loot was! ’ estimated at $17,000. Statistically incllued authorities] figured that if there wero‘“'fhree 1 . members of Hie robber gang, each' 1 obtained enough cigarets to smoke] '■ one pack a day’for 113 years. ' . Entrance to the warehouse was I gained through two 30 inch walls. I 1 ■ The trucks were stolen from a furniture company adjacent to the; | warehouse. The loot was contained in 245' ’(cases, each holding 10.000 cigarets, i 1 officials said a large quantity was’ ’ I Hot molested because the cases | could not be slipped through the, hole the thieves chiseled in the) I walls. 'I Both trucks were recovered sevI oral bouts after the roblery ' i EXTRA SESSION HOPES FADING Settle, Kingan Attempt to Select Committee; Failure Predicted 1 Indianapolis, Jan. 11. — (U.R) — (While William H. Settle and John “ I R. Kingan discussed today the personnel of a committee to draft a j'; program for the proposed special 'session of the legislature, there ‘ was a general feeling that their efforts were marked for failure at ' I the outset. Legislative observers predicted (that an extra session would not be ■ called and that any revision of the taxation system to ease the load (now borne by property owners ’ imust wait at least until the 1933 ’ ] regular session. Settle and Kingan were named Iby Walter Myers, “speaker of the , I democratic House of Represent- 1 "jatives, and Lieutenant Governor . Edgar Bush, president of the republican senate. The four represents the farm bureau, which has y been the driving force behind the ;. special session movement, and the ] latter represents industry. e It appeared Inconceivable that these two factions can agree upon I a program. Settle’s object is to re•|Hove farmers of their tax burden e and place it elsewhere. Any shlfti. ling that might be done wotTld as- . 1 feet the pocketbooks of the IndusI'! trial groups. Kingan fought vigi- orously and successfully during the ■> last session tq prevent such a shiftf ing. There has been much talk about the possibilities of trimming governmental expenditures, but many believe that the 1931 session went i- as far in that direction as was prac- ■ ticable. '• Special session advocates say '• that the divergent interests Involvi- , (CONTINUED ON PAGE FOUR)

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John W. Fon.nr, government chemist in Chicago, is shown testing mottles ol liqtu.r seized in the Chicago area by prohobition agents and finding that only 1 per < ent of all the drinks is genuine whisky.

BEET ACREAGE MOUNTS HIGHER I Total Is 11,072 With Four Days Remaining; Meeting Tuesday Sugar beet acreage for 1932 j growing for the local beet sugar mill today stood at 11.072 acres., ,it was announced today. Optim- , ism is prevalent among the solici- j ( tors and it is believed that more! ; than sufficient pledges to insure 1 ire-opening of the plant will be 1 | received soon. All solicitors will meet Tuesday; ( morning at 10 o'clock at the I offices of the loial mill Plans! I will Ip made at the meeting for i a final campaign for acreage ami I each solicitor will check his] pledges. January 15 has been set as the! deadline for receiving acreage pledges from farmers and on that date the total acreage will be sent to Col. Galiagher who will forward the data to those interested in financing the run next fall. All solicitors are urged Io attend the Tuesday morning meeting. H. C. Oksen, chairman of the campaign and representative of the Holland-St. Lo.us Sugar Co., in Decatur, said today. SAYS LOANS WERE‘ABSURD’ South American Loans Scored By Authority On Foreign Finance Washington, Jan. 11 —(U.R) — laurence Dennis one of the leading authorities on South American finance told the senate investigation of foreign loans today that it was “absurd" for American hankers to loan money to South America since the world war. Washington. Jan. 11 —(U.R) Tho Bolivian minister today transmitted to Secretary of State Stimson a memorandum from bis government protesting statements made before the senate investigation of foreign loans that Bolivian bonds ha ( | been defaulted. The memorandum said that Bolivia "has every intention of resuming its payments" when economic conditions Improve. It admits that “a temporary suspension of interest and sinking fund payments" has been necessary, however.

Officers Are Installed The installation of officers of the Holy Name Society of the Si. Mary's Catholic church will take place this evening at tlie K. of ] c. hall. Jar (1 J. Reed is Hie new presi- ■ dent of tho society. Tlie oth< r ! officers are Frank Gillig, viee- ■ president; Rev. Father J. J. Hen- | ties, secretary-treasurer; Char’D Voglewede, Robert Miller, sacristans; Herman Ulman. Frank Braun, marshals. A luncheon will be served fol- ; lowing the meeting and plans will bp discussed for the annual mem i bership drive. The society lias I about 300 members. OFFICERS ARE NAMED SUNDAY Oscar Lankenau Named Chairman of Decatur Lutheran Church Oscar lankenau, local dry goods merchant was re-elected chairman .of tlie board of governing officers lof the Decatur Zion Evangelical | Lutheran church at the annual election 'of officers Sunday afternoon. Mr. Lankenau was named for a one-year term. Herman Hollman, of t'ue Daily Democrat joli department was re elected trustee for a three-year period. Henry Haugk was elected elder (and Carl Smith was chosen deacon ! from >a field of three candidates, tirover Pleeke and Henry Krueckei berg were elected to tlie Lutheran | school board. Albert Scheumann was re-elected treasurer of the .church and Arnold Welling was renamed i ecording secretary without opposition. * - Jones Funeral Held Funeral services for Robert Norman Jones. 9 months old son of Mr. and Mrs. Raymond K. Jones who died Friday morning, were held Sunday afternoon at one o’clock at the home on North Second street, with Rev. A. 11. Brown, pastor of the Baptist church officiating. Burial was made at Venedocia, Ohio. <j Credit Again Renewed Basle, Jan. 11. (U.R) -In spite of objections hy the French representative. Clement Moret, the Bank of International Settlements council decided today to renew the bank’s share of the $100,000,000 credit to the Relchsbank for a period of 90 days.

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WABASH CASE RESUMED TODAY Judge Kister Returns To i Resume Jurisdiction At Dredge Hearing The Wabash river dredge case was resumed today before Special i Judge Henry Kister of Princeton. The case was adjourned Decent I her 23 and was not resumed until | today because of injuries received! by Judge Kister in an automobile | accident following his return; ' home for the holidays. The first witness today was Eil 1 Stahley, trustee of Wabash town-1 ship. Other witnesses were sub-] poenaed for today. It is likely that the petitioners will conclude their testimony this week. The' • remonstrators, including several: hundred farmers and property owners, Adams County and the I City of Bluffton will then be heard. I The petitioners are represented 1 jby Judge George Whitaker of I I Portland and Todd Whipple of I 1 Muncie, C. J. Lutz is attorney foY i 1 the remonstrators and H. B. Heller represents Adams county. The case started September 23. Sessions of the court are held in the K. of P. home on third street. . _ o Laval Refuses Offer Paris, France Jan. 11 —(UP) —■ Chancellor Henrich Bruening’s declarati m of Germany -■ inability to pay lepa ations is uni ccrptable to I France, Premier Pierre LaVal told j , 1 Dr. Leopold von Hoesch. German 1 I I ambassador, today. — ORIENT CRISIS THOUGHT NEAR fl China to Sever Relations With Japan Soon Spokesman States Shanghai. Jan. 11 (U.R) An; official spokesman told the United' ‘ Press today that China plans to sever diplomatic relations with Japan soon. ' The spokesman said that Chinese affairs at Tokio wood be cons ducted through the Gorman and American embassies there, a pro-| | cedttre adopted when the diplo-i ! mafic representatives of one pow-; I er are withdrawn from the capital of another government. I The political situation hero was 1 critical due to the stalemate arising from the refusal of. Chang Kai-Shek, Wang Ching-Wei, and . other leaders of the late govern-1 I I ment to proceed to Nanking ] where Cantonese and Nationalist, leaders recently formed a government headed by Lin Sen, Sun Fo. and Eugene Chen. , There had been no resignations, 4 however, ponding attempts to per--1 suade Chiang and his colleagues . to participate In 0 coalition. Sun] Fo, presently in Shanghai, said, , that Wang Ching-Wei would leave for Nanking as soon as he was ’ discharged from hospital here. 1 o__ BANDITS GET $6,000 HAUL ; . Missouri Bank Robbed ol Money; Watchman Is Kidnaped Bevier. Mo„ Jan. IL—(U.R)— Three slow but thorough bandits captured the town watchman and 1 two other men today, held one of 1 them prisoner more than six ’ hours, and escaped after looting the People's Bank of from $5,000 ’ to SO,OOO. ’ Tile trio seized James Holbey, '■ watchman, shortly after midnight. * i nnd forced him into their automo- " bile. Then they drove to the bank and began opening the vault Three hours later they saw George Davis, a baker, going to work, nnd held him up and took f him to the bank. Sometime after that they waylaid Fred Thomas, a merchant, and forced him to H join the other captives. ]] 1 About 0:30 a. m.. six hours i after they began efforts to open | (CONTINUED ON PAGE FOUR)

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Collapse Kills One Chicago, Jan. 11. (U.R) - Just five minutes after he warned his younger brother from a condemned building, Walter Glasehrook, 19, was trapped and killed in the collapse of the structure. j Glasebrook went to the building (which was about to be razed and sent his brother Raymond, 13. who was playing with half a dozen other youngsters to the street. The younger boy had hardly reached the sidewalk before tlie I roof and third floor of the building ! collapsed burying Glasebrook tin-1 |der debris. The other youths savjed themselves by clinging to Winslows where they were rescued by ■ ; tiremen. HOG SCHOOL ! IS SCHEDULED i Adams County Farmers Invited to Monroe On January 21 And 22 1 I Au Adams county hog school will! be held at Monroe high school . Thursday and Friday. January 21 ' and 22, it was announced today by ; 1.. E. Archbold, county agent. The school will be open to all farmers of the county. The sessions both days will start at 10 o’clock in the mornings and close at 3 o’clock in the afternoons. On tlie opening day from 10 o'clock until 11 o’clock. John Schwab will conduct a class on "Feedilig and ! Managing Brood Sows." W. B. Stout. Purdue, will have charge of the second class on the (opening day at 11 o’clock. His sub--1 ject will be “The Hog Outlook For | Indiana Farmers." In the afternoon from 1 o'clock (until 2 o'clock Mr. Schwab will | have charge with the subject "Grow- | ing Thrifty Pigs." From 2 o’clocli Ito 3 o’clock Dr. Stout will talk on "Marketing Hogs in Indiana." On the second morning Mr. '(Schwab will discuss "Feeding" and in the afternoon there will be lessons from farm and experimental feed lots. One of the interesting features I (of the closing session will he the ! posting of three runty pigs by Io(cal veterinarian doctors to show tlie effects of worms and necrotic conditions. The entire program has been built with an idea to instruct I farmers how to raise better bogs through care and feeding. Archho|d ] said. NAVY OFFICER WILL BE TRIED ' Murdered Attacker Buried As Thousands of Natives Look On Honolulu, T. H.. Jan. 11.—(U.R)— Four Americans charged with .murdering an Hawaiian accused in 1 | an assault on a white woman will I be tried hy a jur» of Honolulu resi I dents stirred by bitter charges] made during an impressive funeral, for the victim, and by city and naval officials in publie statements. The largest crowd that ever attended a civilian funeral on the, islands heard Catholic and Protestant rites for Joe Kahahawai, the slain man. Tlie strains of the native songs. "Ponoi" ami "Aloha," stirred their emotions anew at the cemetery. Tlie Rev. Robert Ahuna, who conducted the native Protestant rites, spoke the native tongue. Hie comment was typical of that heard from citizens of mixed blood, although action of the accused slayers in waiving their rights to naval court martial was expected • to quiet much of tlie resentment. Lieutenant Thomas Hedges Mas- . sie, U. S. N„ and E. J. Lord, an en--1 listed man. waived their rights, and another enlisted man, Albert O. Jones was expected to wave his right. Mrs. Grace Hubbard Fortes(CONTINUED ON PAGE FOUR) o Murder Trial Starts ! Lebanon, Ind.. Jan. 11 —(U.R) — The ground work of a long court battle was laid here today as Charles Witt and Louis Hamilton ( went on trial for their lives, charged with the murder of Lafayette Jackson, Indianapolis chain ! grocery proprietor. The case was 1 brought here on a change of I venue from Marlon county.

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SECOND TRIAL IS DENIED BY JUDGE ERWIN ) ■■ — Convicted Man Will (Jo to ■ State Prison Probably Next Thursday LIFE TERM IS IMPOSED Joseph Everett was sen;fenced to the Michigan City |prison for the rest of his natlural life, by Judge D. I>. Er- ■ win, at 9:55 o’clock this morn. ! ing. The court required 13 minutes to read his opinion on (the motion of attorneys for (the defendant for a new trial, which he overruled. Prior to ' rendering his decision the attorneys for Everett filed a motion in arrest of judgment which was overruled. 'itie opinion covered 2(1 tviiowiili ten pages, reviewing each of the (reasons assigned by tlie motion lor a new trial, at the conclusion of ’ I | which Judge Erwin ordered Mr. Everett to stand. Everett did as ordered, placing his haniLs behind Ills back. When asked by tlie court ( if lie had any tiling to say before sentence was passed, he stood with ; head down a half minute and then ( replied “no." The court immediately pronounced sentence. 11 Attorneys for the defense said , (that an appeal to the supreme court , I probably would be taken. Sheriff J Johnson who will be busy several .(days in summonThg witnesses in I the Wabash river case, said li" .(would probably take Everett to I prison about Thursday of this .'(week. Judge Erwin’s written opinion jltook up the first of the S 9 reasons, (which was "Tliat«the verdict is not (sustained hy sufficient evidence" hand which he stnted is tlie most -1 important." I The constitution provides that the jury shall have the right to de- ; tertnine the law and the facts and • the supreme court has held in many ■ decision that is the law and has ■ refused to weigh the evidence. Tlio • trial court is given a little more i authority but is not authorized to change tlie verdict of the jury uni ,less it is clearly against tlie weight I of the evidence. "It would destroy the afe-guard of the jury system " said Jndgo I Erwin, "for tlie trial judge to tell ■ the jury they are the exehtsivo .judges of the evidence and its I weight and lite credibility «l tho | witness, and then when the jury I 'exercises that right, simply be- | cause, as it may lie. they did not | coincide witli the view of the trial I (couit. he may arbitraily set their (verdict aside on the weight of tho evidence. The jury lias passed on tlie evidence and tlie court is inclined to accept that verdict.” Tlie court then reviewed considlerabbj of tlie important evidence land concluded with this: ( "In nearly every law suit them is conflict of evidence and lor that (reason this power is given the jury. I The jury lias exercised this power and has voiced its judgment in the j (CONTINUED ON PAGE FOUR) ~ —o * BRITISH FAVOR CANCELLATION London Newspapers Say Cancelling of Debts Becomes Necessity ] London. Jan. 11.—(U.R)-Germany's declaration site cannot resume rep. arations payments and Prime Minister Ramsay MacDonald's stateI meat that European recovery dopends upon facing "the hard facts ’ led most London morning news, papers to say today that cancellation of war debts and repar.itiotu is necessary. MacDonald said of Chamollof Heinrich Brucning's declaration: “In view of the economic conditions disclosed by the experts' re- ! port (the Young plan advisory committee which met at Haslet atid ini ternal political problems In Ger--1 many, it was not unlikely that some ’ such declaration would he made at Lausanne, t January 25). "The fact that It has already been ’ made rendered the Lausanne cott(CONTINUED ON PAGE SIX)