Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 30, Number 25, Decatur, Adams County, 29 January 1932 — Page 1

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Ml SENDS MINS NOTE 11 JAPANESE ■ Expressed That ■lenient Port Will ■ot Be Fired <)n ■•LANS ■ S\ME \< tion ■on. Jan. 29. - ‘U.R> - SM llr'aii: <'!'■ i'«‘PreJapan today. ■!?’! W'lild be takBHjapane''' Ii s inside ettlemeiit -in.-ult injx Britain invited the to make similar to Tokio. I • 1,1 ,l "' State- to .Japan. a sk..il Japan also Tor ill«a< U . th.- - " " hat-■n-ton. Jan The i.’X PAGE SIX) .|OLEBOARD IKES 5 MEN r Scßailer FaiL To Get ■srdon At January •■Beard Session I 29—(U.R) ■ - ■ inions as a ,|<>; at ion nt s't petitions unlay. MHh'iil'l ■ at.-I) t U rn*Ml picas St) “ !l " bav. completed term-. It" Moore., Kitov 14 ...I 2-14. forgerv; va '' M.atiti . irettit, 2 It. Bfr t'hioh., Walton. Dubois - burglary ; Joseph Hendric ks ciniiit. lti-21. ■ Martin Laporte i’t.’l. a.-- . tit and battery to 9| - "' to deni-d ■"' " a!l ' '>' Daly announced appointment of 1,. (• HeiL-hts, Mich.. MB erilllPl “l , .nt of the pr(Fon which W ||i | )pgin shortly. considered | H| . t | le tai .. on page six. iHiera! Is Conducted s'-rviies fm Mrs. Kate ■' IS years was ■ '■'Wperoi,,. and i l(Hls .. nwtlv nV. ” 1,1111 s dormitory, were today Mrs. Roberts died at Martinsville. ■egranted |OR LICENSES ■ >Slon For Procuring gin'Licenses Goes I To March 1 j an 29, _(u pj for 1931 may be ' (IBed gEi.J' 1 niot<,r ’ Hts up to March KI the y ever have been ' it was announced today " far Penter, head of the Kff Bsp department. H'' Xt ®" S ‘ on time for pur- ■ ‘nr .1 I,ce,lses was given ■ tlle mortage of money d y ao m any people. CarpHi?'." 1 "' '>alt the motorists ■rith o'* their 1922 licenses P^bUv ll i‘ Ullin *‘ I ”' eVi ° llsly

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Eight of Family Are Stabbed To Death Elina, Manitoba, Jun 29 (UP) Eight members of the Martin Sitar family were found stabb —I to death in their beds today Two other members of the family were etitiealiy wounded. Flames issuing from the family home, a few miles west of town, attracted the attention of John Altar. who discovered the tragedy. Sitar found only two children alive. He carried them through a blizzard to shelter, but their condition was critical Sitar said he believed an unknown assassin had stat bed th* victims in their sleep. U.S.-ENGLAND ARE IN ACCORD Ambassador, Stimson in Conference On Japanese Crisis Attitude Waashington, Jan. 29. (U.R) Sir Ronald Lindsay, British ambassador. called on Secretary of State Stimson today and informed him that Great Britain would join the United States in making representations to Japan. Stimson went at once to the White House to present the British memorandum before a cabinet meeting. The British attitude was described at the state department as “very satisfactory ” The co-operation applies to matters which are under formal discussion between the United States and Great Britain, chiefly covered by Great Britain's representations to Japan today against any interference in the international settlement of Shanghai. The United Su4a»-i» expeeled ro make similar lepresentations soon. The subject of economic pressure or a boycott of Japan is not under formal discussion, it having been taken up only informally. The British assurances appeared to make certain that the moral weight of two of the world powers at least will be thrown against Japan, should Japan's course endanger the international settlement. As news of the bombing of the international settlement reached the state department today, it was learned that Japan last night had (PONTfNUED ON PVlf? SIN Gets Longer Term Greencastle. Ind.. Jan. 29 U.R) - Riley Shipley. "4. Bloomington, who was captured after escaping from the Indiana prison farm, was sentenced to one to five years in the state prison. FORMER LOCAL MAN EXPIRES John Patterson Dies Os Chronic Heart Ailment At Hospital Bluffton. Jan. 29. — (Special) Mrs. Henry Mackey of Ossian received word of the death of her cousin. John Patterson. 50, of Fort Wayne, which occurred I'nesdav night at the Methodist Hospital following an illness of chronic heart trouble. Mr. Patterson had been a patient at the hospital for the past two weeks. The deceased was born in 1880 at Decatur, the son of Coulter and Mary Bailey-Patterson. Surviving is the mother, and two brothers, William and Daniel all of Fort Wayne. Mr. Patterson was a member of the Moose and Red Men lodges. Funeral services will be held Saturday afternoon at 2 o'clock at the Elzey Funeral Home in Ossian, with Rev. A. F. Elzey in charge. Burial will lie made in the Oak Lawn Cemetery at Ossian. —o Tremor Is Recorded Denver, Colo., Jan, 29i—-(U.P) —A 50-minute earthquake of second degree of destructive 'intensity, was recorded today on the regis seismograph. It began at 7:29 a. m. M. S. T. reached maximum intensity at j 7:41, and subsided at 8:19 and Iwas estimated to be from :i,OOO to 4,000 miles from Denver. The direction was undeterminable.

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BOARD SELECTS ! 6 CANDIDATES Three New C. of r '. Directors To Be Elected February 8 Six Decatur men were nominated for positions as directors on the Chamber of Covninerce hoard at a meeting of directors held Thursday night, as a nominating body. Those 1 nominated were: 11. N.' Oksen, Theodore Graliker, ■ James F.Hienwm, Carl Klepper. A. I Il Ilollhotise and F. I. Litterer. Three of the six nominated will I be elected to serve as directors o?, the local Chamber of Commerce for a three-year periial at the annual: organization meeting of the bus-i iuess organization February 8 at the K. of C. hall. The meeting will be in the form of a chicken dinner. All members ' ot the chamber will be admitted flee, and non-members are invited to attend. Tickets for non mem hers will sell for 50 cents each. Ballots will he printed with the six names placed alphabetically on sheets. The three receiving the' highest number of votes will be j elected to the board, each for three I veal's. The retiring directors this year, are C. C. Pumphrey, A. It Ash-; baueher, and Dick Heller. A rule I of the board prohibits the re-elec-1 tion of old directors. i Mr. Osken is the local represent ! ative of the Holland-St. Louis Sugar' Co.: Mr. Graliker is cashier of the (CONTINUED ON PAGE TWO) o PETERSON IS MEN'S SPEAKER U. B. Brotherhood Holds Meeting; Officers For 1932 Are Elected C. E. Peterson, local clothier was the speaker at the regular monthly meeting of the United Brethren Men's Brotherhood, held at 6:45 o'clock Thursday night al the local U B. Chnrelk John T. Kelley, local attorney opened the me -ting with a prayer and the 43 men present then sat down to an oyster supper. The supper was cooked and served by the men of the local church. Mr. Peterson spoke on "Brotherhood", lollowing the supper. His address dealt largely with the spiritual and social phases of Church brotherhood. Officers for 1932 were elected following the address. Mr. Kelley was elected president of the organization. O. P Mills was named vice-president; E. A. Crider, secretary and Charles Robinold was elected treasurer. It was decided to hold a meeting the last Thursday in each month during the year ot 1932.

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CHAPTER I. The Fugitive and the Pocket Eye j THE dam on the Racquette so increased in prosperity and size of the small settlements on either shore of the river that a bridge became necessary. It was built. The two communities separated by flowing water had long been at war with each other. The bridge drew them together in one village. Their petty jealousies vanished. It was unregenate Colonel Spenlow, the miller and local Republican boss, who gave the new place its truthful and euphonious name. They called it Amity Dam. thus visiting on its inhabitants a certain curious penalty for the sins of their fathers. They were soon known as Amity Dammers. Long after that the little village was the home of a far-famed mystery out of which came a murderer convicted in the face of unexampled difficulties and against the testimony of three eye-witnesses. It was, moreover, for a time the home of a number of remarkable characters related to the mystery. One of them was the boy Shad Worryson whose courage and shrewd intuition served the state and put him on the road to fortune. Shad was discovered on a bright June day in 1896. He lay asleep on a bed of moss under a group of nine trees. Two fishermen who had come ashore for luncheon found

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Decatur, Indiana, Friday, January 29, 1932.

Don f t Shoot Those Aret Pound A Minute Off Club ’•i Organized In This City Thote portly looking men you ' noticed walking down the road he- I fore sun-up today are not tramps i or knights of the road, hut on the ' contrary are leading business men iof Dccautr who have organized a, ! Fat mutt's club and each morning i I hoof it for three to five miles in 1 | hopes of wearing down that corpu-1 I lent look. The club was organized by Jess I Le Brun, talkie theater proprietor, .' I‘attl Graham, insurance man and! republican political boss, and Aug- ■ ust Ilei.nan. restaurant proprietor , whose weight is evidence that they i feed 'em good at his counters. Today a new recruit was enlisted I Robert Mills, clothing merchant who takes a 42. making a foresome of good-fellowship, all united in the | PETITIONERS FINISH CASE .1. T. Kelly Is First Witness For Remonstrators Today I I John T. Kelly. Decatur attorney, ! and a land owner in Jefferson town>iship. was the first witness to take I the stand for the remonstrators in : the Wabash river dredge case ! which has been in progress] jin th* Adams Cirr.iit i >urt since j last September. Tlie petitioners rested their case II al noon today. The entire morning L wjijS devoted to tlu question of corrJ reeling errors in the reports of the I viewers and engineers relative to the lands o: Abraham Egl»y in ’ Hartt'ford township. Special judge Henry Kister who . is hearing the case sustained the | objections of the remonstrators as ,! to amending the engineer's report. ' 'The ruling on the viewer's report was withheld until later. The , (CONTINUED ON PAGE SIX) : —- Bulgin Gives Address — Dr. E. J. Bulgin of Portland. Ore., ' who is conducting evangelistic ser- ) vices at the First Meihpdist church ’ in this city, was the speaker at the : i regular meeting of the Rotary dub last evening. Dr. Bulgin spoke on the subject. ("The City Lies Four Square". The four principle requirements which ' go to make up a city should b? fini'ance and business, health and saniItation; the training of boys and girls and the moral and spiritual side. His talk was instructive. Charlie Clark, singer favored the club with a couple of songs. O. L. Vance acted as chairman of the meeting.

| him. Nobody knew exactly when I Ihe was born —a matter of slight! I importance. Shad's life began the! , day he was discovered. It is likely that he had been eating and] drinking a little more than sixteen I years. The fishermen came upon him , suddenly. He lay sprawled on his , back with an ancient long-barreled. . muzzle-loading shotgun at his side. . He was a pale thin lad in rapped ] clothing. Both big toes protruded from soles in his hoots. The fish- ] ennen aroused him. He sat up and rubbed his eyes and started at the i strangers looking down at him. The odor of frying bacon came to his nostrils. Kindly faces were before him. “I guess I must be dead,’’ he whis- ■ pered. They saw the heart of the boy ■ when he asked from the lifting I cloud of his slumber: “Is God here?" One of the men put his hand on t the hoy's shoulder and gave him a gentle shake as he said: ■ “Wake up, young man. You're • still dreaming. You’re not dead • yet. Come. Lunch is 'most ready.” Still it was a fact that the old Shad Morryson, known to a few people on the forest township of i Blair, was dead, that the water at ’ his feet was in effect the River JorI dan. Moreover, it would seem that I God was really there.

Mister! rt Elephants one urea* cause for reducing. The pedestrian merchants start I fronuthe court house about five o'clock in the morning for they want plenty of time to cover the ! several miles on their route —and | i get back in time for a good break- | fast of ham and eggs, rolls and col- ' ' fee before they start on anolher i I day's grind. The men had a promise fiom I Perry Short, who represents Henri 1 Ford in the sale of his automobile i I in this city, to join them today.. : ; liiit somehow Mr. Short failed to ap- I pear at the starting post and the other men went on. The men add a little territoryj each morning and enjoy the hike' ; very much They claim that they | are going to keep it up As long as : ! the weather permits and will know ■ first hand if there is any trufh in I ! the saying that the way to reduce i i j by walking a mile or two every . | day. » ] Traced To Indiana Chicago, Jam 29 —(U.R) — The I automobile in which two Milledgeville, Ga., state prison convi-ts I escaped after shooting a guard! was traced today to Hammond. I Ind., leading to the belief that the fugitives were iti hiding in I the Chicago area. However, when detectives went I to the north side home of al brother of Aubrey Smith, 35. one of the, escaped prisoners, they! were unable to pick up the pair s trail Smith was accompanied ini his flight by Roy Gardner. 31. CLIMAXNEARS IN MINE MEET i Illinois Insurgents In Great Effort For Recognition By Union Indianapolis. Jan. 29 (U.R)- Two years of internal warfare within', the United Mine Workers of America neared a climax today as, Illinois insurgents fought for! recognition of their right to manage affairs within their own dis ] trict. if the struggle fails, a second! disruption of the nation's largest] labor union may result, amt the' union's aim towaid solidarity ofj membership in bargaining for new; wage agreements, will be shatte. I ed. Demands of the Illinois group.] comprising district 12. were explained by President John Walker. Springfield, after the convention! had unanimously voted approval] of the proposed federal legislation ! for $375,000,1)00 for unemployment I relief. $5,000,000 for federal public works, and $10,000,000 for federal assistance to states with old age (CONTINUED ON PAGE FOUR)

“Well, I kind o’ expected to be I dead when’l woke up.” said the boy | las he arose. “If 1 ain't. I’m glad ] of it. 1 want to live.” What a pitiful look of drooping j | discouragement and supplication j was in the figure of the lad as he j arose! “What's the matter? Are you lost?” one of the strangers asked. "Run away from 4ionie." “What's your name and where do you live?" "Don't (last tell ye." "Are you hungry?’’ “Starvin'. Ain’t had nothin' to eat for days but one pa'tridge an’ a chipmuck." “Well, you're in luck! Here’s sandwiches and bacon and eggs and fish. The fish are frying." As he spoke the fishermen was undoing packages of food from the back basket. The boy trembled with eagerness as he saw it. His face quivered. "Oh, mister, can 1 have a sandwich now?" he asked. “You bet. Take two." The boy devoured them. He ate like a hungry dog just returned from the chase. "1 feel better already." said the boy. "I’ll go an’ wash. I'm dirty. 1 ain't fit to eat with nobody, not even myself.” • He hurriedly undressed on the i iver bank. The fishermen observ- ]

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WINTER WAVE ? IS PREDICTED ( old Weather And Snow! Predicted For Northern Indiana Soon I A touch'of real w inter weather has been promised northern Ind- ! ! iana either tonight .or early Satur- ■ ,duy morning, stat - weather fore-I casters sat. The cold wave, expected Io send the spring like tempera- | tore to near zero. Is -aid to be ap- ■ proachtng from the west. Mild weather has been predomin ; ant here for the last several days, ] after short winter seige.’ Rain al ] >so is predicted for today or Sat-! I urday, turning to snow. During the spring weather, trees j ' have blossomed; flowers have start-1 ]ed to grow and grass has turned 1 • from a brown to semi-green color. ! Adams coutily farmers have taken I CONTINUED ON ."AGE TWu> COURT TERM ! OPENS MONDAY Judge Erwin Summons Attorneys To Arrange Calendar For Term ■The February term of Adams git ■ ] ! cuit court w ill open next Monday I morning at 9 o'clock. Judge D. B. | ! Erwin has ordered all local attor- ( I neys to report Monday morning at ! I which time the calendar for the] : ter n will be complet?d. It is believed this work also will I , take most of Tuesday. The petit I j jury has been called for next Fri- ] i day. at which time a jury s-auss I | w ill be tried. Judge Erwin did not indicate ; whether the grand jury wotjld be ] ’ called, but it is not customary ; ito call the February grand jury I ; unless some important law viola ] Jtions are call d to the attention of] I the court and prosecutor. ’ o Banks Prepare For Withdrawal Plans Warsaw. Ind., Jan. 29 —(UP)—A ! i moratorium on banking w as declar led in Kosciusko county today. Eight of the county's 12 banks ’I closed their doors temporarily toI day as the result ol a decision by ' the Kosciusko county bankers assc- ] ciation to suspend business and retrict withdrawals. Banks at Mentone, Etna Green, Atwood and Burki et remained open, but officials said j they also would join the morator-1 ! ium. Officials of the bankers associa-' | tion said all the institutions would] be reopened within a few days. | There have been no bank failures iin Kosciusko county during the current depression.

Jed that the back of his shirt was ] slashed and bloody, the skin of his ! back ridged, red and swoolen. "My G —d, boy! What has happened to your back?" one of the | men inquired. “Does it look bail?" the boy asked. “Bad! I should think that some one had used it lor a chopping block.” “Well, they did. My dad gits mad awful easy when he's drunk. I'm party mean myself. I don’t take no interest in the work. What's the use? It don’t do no good. He got home an’ ketched me fishin’ when 1 should 'a' been hoein' potaters." Shad swam around a moment, came out of the water, dressed, with his new friends. They were afraid he would eat too much and compelled him to stop before his appetite was appeased. "I want to pay ye fer what 1 et," said the boy. "How can you pay us for all that food ?” , , "I guess I can pay ye. I've got five dollars. I earned it workin’ ! out. It was hid in the clock. I stole it when I run away." “We don't want your money, but we rather like your company." “I ain't got nothin' else but a top lan' some brass wlieelr that come ] (CONTINUED ON PAGE TWO)

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New Church Bell 1 f . * J - X J W-' i f 'W ■ j \ j The Reformed church bell will] be dedicated next Sunday morning lat 10:3l) o'clock. The bell is of bronze metal and was made by the Baltimore Bell Foundry in Maryland. It is 36 inches in diameter; has a four-foot wheel and is equipI ped with a tolling'’hanimer. The bell weighs Sot) pounds and , is placed on iron standards. The] I liellsounds the key of E-flat. It ' ] will he used for all set vices andi |each Saturday night at 6 o'clock.] lit will announce the approach of I Sunday. It was recently hosited I into the belfry tower by Yost |Brothers of Decatur. rescueW " AGAIN FADES — Workers Continue Hunt But Little Hope Is Expressed For Men Portland, Eng.. Jan. 29 —(U.R) — Search for the subbmarine Mi 2 ] continued today in the angry: ' channel although weary crews of! 1 rescue ships and anxious crowds I ashore had given up alt hope of saving any of the 60 men aboard.] Heavy seas hindered operations! of minesweepers and destroyers ] as they scrape I Hie ocean floor. | Divers were ready to go lielow but piohahly cannot. A section of the rescue fleet was sent north of Portland where a sweep brought up two submarine hand flags believed Io have be-j longed to the M-2. The sweep; parted close to the surface. Op-] erations were resumed there in:' the hope further traces of the M-2 might be found. Searchlights played last night I (CONTINUED ON PAGE FOUR) ARTICLES OF LEAGUE FORCED China Invokes Articles Ten, Fifteen; Have Never Been Enforced Geneva, Jan. 29. —<U.R) —China invoked articles X and XI of the League of Nations covenant today, opening the way for invocation of an economic boycott against Japan its spokesman demanded action, not words. The articles invoked call on the league to guarantee league members against aggression and provide that disputes not submitted to arbitration or judicial settlement be submitted to the league council. The council of the league met in public session at 4:20 p. m. to consider China's appeal and invocation of articles. China reserved the right to invoke other articles as the situation develops. China’s action, announced official<cont:nued on page sixi —o Taggart Plans Tour Hammond. Ind., Jan. 29.—(U.R) - Thomas Taggart, democratic national committeeman from Indiana, will make an inspection tour of Lake county next month, he advised party leaders today. i Ten Lake county democratic Headers went to French Lick early in the week to invite Taggart here. According to present plans, a mass meeting at which Taggart will speak, will climax the tour.

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111. S. MISSION DAMAGED BV JAP DEFENSE Stimson Sends Note To Japanese; Action Similar To England’s SITUATION MORE TENSE BULLETIN Washington, Jan. 29 —(U.R) — Secretary of State Stimson announced today that the United States and Great Britain had made formal representations to Japan, stating they hoped there would be no military occupation of the international settlement at Shanghai unless police were unable to protect Japanese lives and property, France and Italy were advised through their ambassadors here of the Anglo-American action. This was regarded as an informal bid for them also to make representations. Secretary Stimson had not been informed as to what action France and Italy will take. Slitingliiii. .Inn. 29. ( U.R) An armistice brought at least a temiJorarv lull in- Ute bittle ol Shanghai tonight, after the Japanese had showered the nathe city with bombs from the air. eatisio *; tremendous <k struction and endangering American mission and other ntonerty ] within and without the iuter- : national setlk ment. > The armistice was in full effect f lute tonight, although there was much skepticism over how long it would last. Authorities of thq foreign settlement, within which bombs ha<| been droppel. continued their vigilance and there was much uneasiness, although there t was some easing of the tension ! when reports to the United States i consulate general of supposed ] violations of the truce by the Japaiuese turned out to l.'e less serious than at first believed. The American property endangered included the Yottng-J. All.-it missionary group of buildings in the foreign settlement. Hie Chenj.t) radio station owned by the Radio Corporation of America and thrt ] Chinese, and the Texas Oil comI pany station at Woosung. i A bomb was dropped in YoungtJ. Allen court, around which the (CONTINUED ON PAGE SIXi o Concern Mill Move Offices To Ft. Wayne Chicago, Jan. 29 —(U.R) — The Magnovox Company, Ltd., announced today that its executive and sales offices would he consolidated with the production, engineering and purchasing offices at Fort. Wayne, Ind., effective February I. The change also effects the company's subsidiaries, the Magnovox company, dynamic speaker manufacturers, and the Electric Formation, Inc., electrolytic condennei" manufacturers. "The primary purpose of tho consolidation is to facilitate the workings of all departments at one location." Stanley S. Sondles, sales manager of the radio division, said. ‘TRUCKS MENACE SCADS'. LESLIE Governor Says Highway System Is Menaced by Heavy Truck Traffic Lafayette. Ind., Jan. 29. (U.R) —• Increasing motor trnck transportation is regarded by Governor Harry G. Leslie as a serious menace to the state highway system. Governor Leslie expressed this view in an address here last night, climaxing the annual Purdue University. road school. He said he was opposed to "the destruction of roads by the big trucks mid busses, which are too wide, too long, aid too heavy.'' Trucks are supplanting railroads as carriers of freight Leslie said. (Cont;nued on °age two)