Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 30, Number 28, Decatur, Adams County, 2 February 1932 — Page 1

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Bmarines Are victors ■AT SHANGHAI ■ted Attack Is ReK e d At Chapel By ■apanese Troops I M |?E averted ■ |!h United Press) I ■ world powers ■ hxhv l» I” 111 - : .' n (IH K&I nix! warfare bi ■ Shd Stales and ■ n ilain. "Uh tin' stip- ■ 4'm., IlDv and ■ ' (.(.riaaiix. ottered .1 Kl peace plan to (.Inna, ■ I | () bl ing a st Hl< - K’ o „ bl .. «!.M. have earns- ■ kl , n.tion between the ■.lit:)! IHiliens th:'" ■ and Japan had appealed Krresfion; the former to Khostilities; th** hitter to ■china's Shanghai forces. t p.-u was made 10 both the ■ and Chinese 10 cease ■ .ijspat' i’"- reporting the ■ . 1 Japan look"! ■. at n. since Japan was - to a'lntni-nl her forces ■d around Shanghai, hut preset tati v.' at Geneva ■ ■ ..1:1-' reaction. ' 1 Washington govwas adii'-'J. from Shangtin- Japanese had agreed ■ have their patrols act in ..ml British qnartt.. ’!o>s.- uudertakiinf - that the la at lack tin- district heavily BA and partly burned last sector. Geneva rhe ■ of the league of nations, ■ from J H Thomas, dornin-■wr-'ari a -latement that ■ anil Japan acre in effect, and tli - w mrld should ■ this. r . I.it oil ail Amel- ■ tnllnwiu.L. liomi.a: dinelif by ■se warships. — Japanese approach ■jhinese struggle desperately ■rrixi'ho i,y page sin> ■--- — ■I Move To Decatur ■ami Mrs. Riley Crissman of ■> 111. former residents o’ ■lb. will return to Decatur ■ ' to make their home. They in the Clark residence ■ :tl Second street. Mr. Criss■>*have chatge of the Eastern ■ Oil and Supply Company ■ or Second street. *ose Reported To Be Much Better t- W. Lose, who has been ill "[’"' »« South second street ' several weeks suffering p ? infection is reported to “>d im,roved. It is believed L “ se w '!l soon be able to 'Wients at this office. The 011 follow 'I a bruise to the II OPPOSED IH HENDERSON rma ment President Sw That Influence e Tsed To Avert Feb. 2.-<U.R)-“Ex S rt all . *° avert war in the Far • «f Henderson of Great ■ P Mident of the world disi t conference, told repre--0 seventeen hundred ' People assembled here toaddress opening the conferICC i’j War ' !oudß - the black-' lathsr a re llle V/ ° rld War in « >ered in the Orient. ia'tth°M d r " fer to the OMerencl!!,?® raomen ‘ that ich 1. , the ’ VMy Purpose ainten. t 0 take steps ‘oward Jtenance O s peace-begins confronted with a NflXlL ' b ON PAGE SIX)

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| Called By Death I flrval Harrttff Mr. liarruff, weli-know'n Decatur citizen and church man died sit his home Monday evenin-t following a heart attack. ATTENDANCE RECORD FILED Catholic School Attendance Average For First Semester, 95.6 Percent. The semester checkup on attendance at St. Joseph's and Decaturj Catholic high school revealed that ISO pupils had not been absent during the first semester. The attendance average for the entire, school system is 98.6 per cent, [ The follow ing were not absent | during the first semester: First Grade koliert Anderson. Alfred Bentz, Joseph Deininger, Lee Gage. Fran-1 era aieeis. Jero*C Heimann. Rav-| mond Lengerich, Robert Lengerich. Edward Raudebush, John Voglewede. Patricia Bollinger. . Vera Heimann. Mary Adeline Holthouse, Margaret Ripbereer. Dolor--* Rumsehlag. Second Grade Arthur Heimann. Donald Mill--. 1 Robert K'thnle, Paul Schultz, William Raker. Oaiar Miller, Patrick ■ Hacktualiii. Robert Lament. Her-: bert Welker. Catherine Licht le. j Dorothy Braun, Alvi-ra 1 eimt-rieli. Harriet Weber. Eileen Hess. Max ' , ine 'Steigmeyer. loan Brunton.[ • Jeanette Brann. Third Grade James Raudebush, WiII 1a m Schneider. Bernard Ey a n son, Maurice Colehin. Jerome Reed. (< ONTINt •|-:n <IN PACK FIVI'D FORMER LOCAL PASTOR DIES ißev. E. A. Allen, Presbyterian Minister Is Death’s Victim Word was received here today by Mr. and Mrs. Wilson la>e that the Rev. E. A. Allen, for many years pastor of the Presbyterian church in this city, died at 9:30 o’clock last evening at his home at College Corners, Ohio, where he has Ipen located the past several years. Rev. Allen was twice pastor of the church here, coming to Decatur in the eighties and serving ajront ten years. He left here in 1595. after the local church had been destroyed by fire, and lived in Indianapolis. Kokomo and in Illinois ami then 1 » returned here for five years dur-1 ing which time he built the ne-w church. No one here knew of his illness. | , Mr. and Mrs. Lee stopped at his| home recently but Rev. Allen was, not at home. His housekeeper J however, told them he was in excellent health. I Mrs. Allen died a numlwr of years ago; one son. Everett died while they lived here and another (CONTINUED ON PAGE SIN) Dr. Neptune Better Dr. J. G. Neptune who has been ill with a throat infection for the . ‘ last several weeks, was able to be ' outside for about an hour today. He : 1 states that he is feellug much bet-' 1 ter and will be able to get back to j work In another week or two.

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ORVAL HARRUFF DIES MONDAY OF HEART ATTACK Prominent Decatur Man Dies Suddenly Monday Night At 6:30 FUNERAL TO BE THURSDAY Orval HarrufT, age 52, superintendent of the water department of the City Water Works plant and splendid citizen of Decatur died suddenly at 6:30 o’clock Monday evening at his home, 335 Line street following a heart attack. Mr. Harruff became ill two weeks ago tonight with infleueirza and had been con.ined to his home. :He teemed better yesterday and I win up and around in the house. • He al - su, per ami listened to the I radio and while reclining in a chair . died. Two weeks ago Mr. Harruff at-1 tended the regular meeting of the; [city council and fidlowing the sens-1 I ion met. in conference with mem- ■ bers of the water work’s committee 'relative to department business. : He had just completed his annual I repbrts and inventories and turned | them over to the committee for con- : sidpration. In al! city affairs Mr. IHarruff was punctual and efficient. Besides being superintendent of | the water department, Mr. Harruff.' who was qualified engineer, acted ' |as civil engineer for the city, hi I 1921 he was named civil engineer | ( -ONI INL E’D <>N PAGE TWO) SIX AiRFLANES REPORTED LOST Bad Weather Is. Blamed For Disappearance of Several Planes (By United Press) Six airplanes with more than 17 'passengers abroad were lost, in 'bad weather along tin-eastern and ; western slopes of the United States 'today as rescue planes and ground searchers sought them. Storms whipping the Florida coast and blizzards which raked the far west were believed responsible for forced landings. in Florida a Bimini airways cabin monoplane with five passengers abroad is lost on Hie short flight from Bimini to Miami. Five planes are searching for it. A Century Pacific air liner, .carrying 8 persons, has been lost I in the mountainous district between Baker Field and Los Angeles since last Friday. Ground searching 1 parties and air liners have failed to locate the craft despite vigilant' search. - Uetit. William A. Cooke, Jr., world glider flight record holder. I and Lieut. Edward D. Hoffman I have been unsighted since they left Glendale, Calif., for San Francisco. An arrfly patrol lias been ordered i to search for them. Ranchers near Soda Springs. Calif., seek a plane reported forced down on the summit of the Sierra Nevadas. It is believed to be a private commercial craft but, the number of persons abroad is not known. State troopers were searching (CON I INI'l-?l> ON PAGE TWO) —o Radio Artist Here Miss Myrtle Snyder, the Book- ! house stody lady, presented proI grams at the various schools in this j city Monday and Tuesday. Mies ' Snyder presents the Bookhouse 1 Story Hour program over radio stall ion WMAQ at Chicago every MonI day. Wednesday, and Friday afternoon at 5:30 o'clock. She is making a tour of the United Slates, meeting the children in person and presenting programs. On Monday she appeared at the North Ward. South Ward and Riley building, this morning she presented a program at the St. Joseph school and this afternoon she was at Central building. The Lutheran pupils heard Miss Snyder at CenItral building. , Monday night Miss Snyder pre-s-tiled a program* at the supei inluuI dents and principals meeting at iKit'kland high school.

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Decatur, Indiana, Tuesday, February 2, 1932.

Trade Places in Jail • ■ L '-’Hy j i*-s3S. ■ ~ Alfred Russell (left), indicted in a $500,000 kidnaping ring in Chicago, switebe-l identities witli Ids brother. Stanley, (right), Sunday afternoon and walked out of the county jail at Chicago to fretdom. The isei-.pe was accotnylished when Stanley visited Ids brother in jail The two are singularly alike physically and Stanley remtined behind while Alfred was allowed his freedom. Alfred Russell, in addition to the kidnaping charge, has a criminal record of ten years.

COURT ORDERS TWO CITATIONS Guardianship Docket Is Regarded As Being In “Fine Condition” ! The probate court docket, incltld'ing estate and gugardianshp causes ' in Adams circuit court, was brought up to date Monday afternoon. It was found that of the 147 guardianship cases on file, only eight are idelinquent with reports. ' Two citations were issued by r Judge D. B. Erwin for failure to file reports. One was guardianship [and the other concerned an estate, jAn attachment for Forest Gilpen, ;guardian for Hattie E. Gilpen. in- ' [ firmed pet son, was ordered issued | and Gilpen was ordered to show I cause why he should not he retnov[ed as guardian. in the estate of Dasie O. Parrish 'an attachment was ordered issued ' for Jesse (). Parrish, executor, returnable forthwith. The record of only eight delinquent guardianships of the large number is reI; gai-ded as remarkable by local at- [ torneys. *; A few other actions in guardian- ' ships were filed. They included: 'I In the guardianship of Lena and Arveda Wulliman. the guardian Helena Wulliman was ordered to ' report within 20 days. in the guardianship of Ernest i and Helen Idlewine, Charles Idle(CONTINI'ED ON PAGE FIVE) o Talks On Lincoln I An interesting meeting of the Knights of Columbus was held Monday evening at the K. of C. Hall ! Following the lodge session, a proI gram was given. French Quinn of this city delivered an address on Abraham Lincoln. About 75 men attended the meeting and (’. J. Carroll acted as chairman of the program.

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Mrs. C. A. Sauer, Sister of A. I). Suttles Writes Concerning The War IA. D. Suttles, insurance agent of this city, is in receipt of a cony of the December issue of the ‘‘Station KYB News', published at Yeng IByen, Korea, (China) ay his sister and brother-in-law Mr. and Mrs. Charles A. Saner,, who are ‘n charge of the Methodist Mission in the Orient. . Mrs. Saner writes an article under the title of “War in Manchuria”. She expresses the opinion that Japan "moved troops to protect her interests just as the United Stales have moved marines into Nicaraugua and other places in Central America and Mexico” She asks the question. “Is Japan wrong? Perhaps America, too, was wrong”, is the opinion of the writer. The editor of the “NEWS” also asks, “Does Japan want war? No. Do her war lords? Yes. Else they will nave no reason fur being". Mrs. Sauer’s article on the Manchuria situation follows: “And now

J. .1. Helm Appointed To Head Miami Drive J. J. Helm, former Decatur man I and now Manager of the Miami Coi lonial hotel at Miami, Florida has I been named chairman of the comJmitte- on arrangements for the i Community Chest campaign which I opens this week. The opening Jin- ; ner was held last evening with Mr. Helm in charge. Mr. Helm during I his eight y-ars in Miami has been [active in civic and fratarnal organi izations and served for some time las secretary of the Greater Miami ! Hotel Association. LOCAL CHURCH ■I HISTORY GIVEN I Dallas Spuller Relates History of Evangelical i Church At Meet ! An int-resting repori of the ; history of the Evangelical Church . was given Monday night at the .[February meeting of the Evan--I gelical Men's Brotherhood, hold ; in the church. I The report was given by Dallas , Spuller’, chairman of the February l' section of the Brotherhood, which [! had charge of the program f-:r the , evening. ! Martin Zimmel man. pi esidenl ' of the organization, presided over the business meeting, and read a list of the chairmen for the various months during the year. Lawrence Anspaugh and Arthur Sunderman entertained the group with a cornet duet. Mr. Spuller then gave the story of the Evangelical church tracing it from its beginning with the establishment of the (hutch by Jacob Albright. He also told of the early settlement in this county, and of the circuit, extending from Elkhart to Fort Wayne, which was covered < ONIIINI’I-.D (IN PAGI-: TWO)

| it is Manchuria. Bandit ridden Mani churia. Here again no responsible government. Japan moved troops to protect her interests just al the United States have moved marines into Nicaraugua and ether places tn Central America and Mexico. "After a hundred years or more of the Monroe Doctrine, Americans are now protesting because Japan has followed our example and started a similar policy of Asia. Too bad we hate lived in a glass house so long.” She concludes her article with these two sentences, And so the war lords will take advantage of Japan’s difficult position and use force or. every pretext. “Yes, tvar’s a game which, were the people wise, war lords would not play it". Mrs. Sauer is a grad rate of Ohio Weslyan and has been in China tor nearly ten years. She is known to many people in this city Mr. Sutt les is anxious to receive the Jar uary issue of the magazine with, his sister's comnieiit" . the Chine le Japan“sn war. Korea ts south of Manchuria.

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BIDS RECEIVED FOR SUPPLIES' I Commissioner* Tabulating Various Bids; Will Complete Work Today The county commissioners re-1 ceivtd bids today for furnishing I .-ton'-, sand, gravel, gasoline, oil, bridge culverts and lum'oer and other material for the county highway department. A number of bids were submitted and the work o, tabulating them was in progress tills aft Ttioon. The commissioners were being assisted by County attorney Henry It. leLate this afternoon the tabulations were not comp!-ted and it may be necessary for the board to return Wednesday to award the cunt rads. The contracts cover all material required by th- highway department during the next 12 months and tin- lotal awards amount to around Uu.out). o — Final Report Filed County surveyor Ralph Roop has filed final reports on four drain improvements in Adams County. The | drains completed under his super-1 vision are the Weber drain in Root , township, the Kauffman drain in Blue Creek townshp and the George I Urich drain in Monroe township. Ihe reports were approved by the > commissioners. | o— Council Will Meet The regular meeting of the city council will be held this evaning at! the city hall. The matter of redtic- 1 ing salaries and wages of city ?m-. ployes will probably lie acted on, i as(tlie question was not settled lust week. The moving of the city clerk and treasurer’; o flees from the second floor to the first floor of the ' city ball building will also bo decided at the meeting, members of the council staled. Warsaw Man Killed Foster Rickel. 21 year old son of' Mr. and Mrs. Charles Rickel of; Warsaw , was instantly killed Mon-1 day morning when * derrick lifting a steel girder at the Kosciusko ' County T-roduce exchange overturn-1 ed and crushed him. Charles Rickel is well known i , here, having been engaged in the ■ building of the local United Brethren church, MINEWORKERS VOTE FOR BEER I ~~ Delegates Vote to Petition Congress For New Law On Liquors Indianapolis, Feb. 2. —(U.PJ —Unit- - ed Mine Workers of America joini ed the American Federation of Labor today in petitioning congress to amend the nation’s prohibition laws to make “good beer” available throughout the nation. The resolution, adopted without debate, emphasized that the miners feel exactly as does the A. F. of L. on the prohibition subject, viz., that repeal of the ISth amendment is to be desired, but could not be attained at this time, and that in lieu thereof good beetshould be made immediately available. with states receiving the right to determine their individual program relative to spiritous liquors. Delegates from the three. Pennsylvania anthracite districts, Nos. 1,7 and 9. passed a resolution, after a night of oratory, in they gave emphatic support to the present wage agreement, an d pledged their efforts and ability to solve their unemployment problem to the best advantage under existing contracts. The suggestion for a “stagger” system of employment, spreading work among more men. was rejected. (CONTINUED ON PAGE SIX) O Sr / 'ttip ! ’ "te Masons mg Vtend Funeral All Scottish Rite Masons are i asked to meet at the Masonic hail Thursday afternoon at 1:30 o'clock to attend the funeral of Orval 1 Harruff.

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In Battle Zone Vi K Miss Grace Mertsky. 21. of. Western Springs. 111., a North- 1 western University graduate, is in the center of war-torn Shanghai' [and her mother is anxiously! awaiting news of her fate. Miss' ; Mertsky is employed as a statis-l I tician for a real estate company ; in Snahghai and is housed in the French concession: around which' i much of the violence of the last ' few days has occurred. LEGALITY OF OATHFEAREB C oolidge May Have Served Illegally For 14 Days As President — , (Copyright, 1932, by United Press) Washington. Feb. 2 —(U.R) —CalI vin Coolidge may have been ! Presid- nt of the United States | illegally for 14 days, 11 hours and ; l-S minutes in August, 1923, the ; United Pr-ss learned exclusively | today. This*hecanie known today when Judge Adolph August Hoehling, I Jr., fromer associate justice of I the supreme court of the Distri-t iof Columbia, lor the first time broke silence and related the ci. 1 -1 | cumstances of the second and ! “legal" presidential oath taken by Coolidge. "The second oath was repeated I to me by Calvin Coolidge on AugI list 17, 1923, at 2:45 p. m. in a private suite of rooms on the fourth floor of the New Willard hotel in Washington. D C.." Judge Hoehling said in a telephonic interview from his home in Chevy Chase. Md. “No one else was present but the president and myself. “I promised to keep the ceremony a secret. I have never mentioned the incident to anyone. I would not tfow give details of the oath repeated by the thirtieth president, had not Harry Daugherty’s book been published revealing that Mr. Coolidge took two oaths to make legality of office certain." Daugherty was attorney general Hom 1921-24. (CONTINI'ED ON PAGE FIVE) O Present Winter May Be Warmest on Record Indianapols. Feb. 2—(UP) —lf the groundhog, who failed to see his . shadow anywhere in Indiana today is half the weather forcaster he’s , cracked up to be, the winter of 1931-32 is going down in history as , one of unprecedented warmth, U. S. weather bureau officials reveal- . ed today. The December average temperature of 41.2 degrees exceeded nor- ; mal by 9 degrees and January, with a 35.8 average, was 10.4 above normal. Neither was an all-time record but the two combined were far warmer than any other two consecutive winter months on record. During the past 18 years the averi age winter temperature has not varied more than 4 degrees from ■ normal, It February maintains its i average of 31.1 degrees, the winter : average will he approximately 37 I degrees, which is nearly 7 degrees above normal.

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WORLD POWERS OFFER 5-PART PLAN OF PEACE United States, Great Britain Lead Offer Towards Peace OTHERS ARE IN ACCORD bulletin Washington, Feb. 2—(U.P.) — Reports from Geneva that the United States, Great Britain. France and Italy were adopting a strong attitude and demanding that peace be restor ed were received in high ad ministration circles with alarm. First, it was pointed out that the United States was not even represented in the league ; session where the announcement of strong measures was reported to have been made. Second, it was emphasized that this government is using I its good offices for peace at the invitation of the two dis putant powers. Washington. Feb. 2 ( U- R) • A five-part proposal lor re- ! storing peace between .Ittpan ; and (’.liina was submitted !•» | the two nations today liv the [ ( niled States tint! Great : Britain. | 'ibis action was taken alI ter both the ('.hinese and [ Japanese foreign offices bad appealed for intercession. The Chinese asked that hostiliI ties be ended. The Japanese asked that the United Stales use its ' good offices to induce the Chines.) ' not to reilrfofeo Ihmr troops in Shanghai. Italy and France a expected 'o join Hie United States and Great Britain with similar proposals soon. The program, submitted by Ilin British and American ambassadors at Tokio and Nanking, follows: 1. Cessation of all aits o£ violence on both sides I'orlbwiilt on the following terms: 2. No further mobilizatjm of preparation whatever for lurilr c hostilities between Hie two nations. 3. Withdrawal of both Chinese and Japanese combatants from all | points of mutual contact in th ) Shanghai area. 4. Protection of the international settlement in Shanghai by the establishment of neutral zones to divide the combatants; these zones to be policed by neutrals; the arrangements to be set np by the consular authorities. 5. Upon acceptance of these conditions prompt advances to bo made in negotiations to settle all (GONJINCKD ON PAGE TWOI Meeting Night Changed The regular weekly meeting of Kekionga lodge, Knights of Pythias will be held here Friday night instead of Thursday night. local lodge members will go to Ossian Thursday night to attend the forthieth anniversary of the founding of the Ossian lodge. Members are requested to note the change of meeting here. GOTTSCHALK GIVES ADDRESS State Senator Speaks On Taxation At Meet Os Teaching Group State Senator T. A. Gottschalk of Berne was the principal speaker at a meeting of the superintendents and principals of Adams County, held at Kirkland high school Monday evening. Senator Gottschalk spoke on the subject of "Taxation." The pupils of Kirkland high school presented a musical program. and a playlet. Miss Myrtle Snyder, the Bookhouse Story Lady from Chicago gave an illustration of the importance of story telling in schools. An annioiiueetnent vias made tiiai the March meeting will .not be hold, and the next meeting of the organization will he April 11. The place will be selected later.