Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 30, Number 47, Decatur, Adams County, 24 February 1932 — Page 1

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<« INTEREST ■democratic MET PLANS Hrilb <•( l> <" " rt 1 ■i FvcutiM' Group; ■ckt> \re Selling 9e than ■ i.ihi i:\ri ( TI.I> H. r ,. « Hill tillendHK,! 111,, inn linn <>l the v( coiiini it tec " iI li ■■'r< irnlll ill <<>llllllll- - (M inn- .ui'l •'< rv ■■ h s, I Inf II I inc lime |i, ()■<.< i 111<‘ ii;iii<|iini . ■ |H r ,I- M I Mylott xn- ..... ■ <-ii'u- ii. ' .:ab.-r an.l if 1 " ii n ,l: will ■ :i “ w |B' . >i .f t . Thnrsd i<‘. - 1..11l th • . s • .11 • ' ili, v.irio'is |K Imrce of \n inform iohalil'. - < ,r> uiu'iml •■<> dirm rod io ii.lit.,' |H<l'• ’■ . ■ :.. .1 kI II:r w ill I'o ■ T i," . v. nine to further --.ii.-nts. Plans tiro- hall w ill ■ n .' . tile ..ption w ill ho ■Ray Funeral Held ■ '•!.i:i. ■ i nniv f a mor. who Snmlay night were held at tlii- morning at the ■ near Pro-a-ant Mills, and at ■’rli'.rk at the pleasant Mills ■*' elittr >i. Rev. Frank John- ■°‘ Hern ■ o ti. iated and burial ■ ma.lt. h; th,. Silting Hill Ceme- ■ Finn Is Bankrupt ■fcago. Feb. 24—(UP)—An in■l;<P petition in bankruptcy ■ fi!( '' 1 to I'nited States district ■* today against th» Reed G. ■Bi company, advertising. East ■ street. Caicago. BLEY OUSTED FROM POSITION ®*evelt Action takes <«w lork Sheriff Out Os Strong Power &»ny. N. Y Peb 2< _ (U R) _ Thomas M. Parley of New’ county was removed from ofWay by Gov. Franklin D. seveit. rf ‘ n ' oval came as a result of s 'fought by Samuel SeaBHUee" 9 * 1 t 0 ' he Hofs,adter P k' > ..f' ),ernor ’ s action came a er '’e had given the sherf,an opportunity to “dear himCutiv * ' ,ubl ‘c hearing in the 1Uv * offices. I f ni ?.' , "2 hall immediately struck a . ,nvernor Roosevelt's der i ntr a ni '.' lyman Ij0 "to A - Cnvil tag th d , UCing a resolu ti°n pro«erm‘o ? USted toiblic officials tto ™ t 0 can T 'heir cases appeals for final deW,Nvp D ON PAGE TWOi

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Fred Stauffer Hurt Fred Stauffer, 1125 North Ninth Istre-t. an employee of the local General Electric company, fell at | hi- horn.’ shortly br io <■ no in I n. . |da..'. differing a fractured arm | Mr Stan.ter had just st •, ped’oiiiI i j. ■he door ot hta h « it n i his foot slipped and he fell break-1 11114 his left arm at the elbow. H The extent of the injury was un able to be ascertaned. Mr. Stauffer J was taken to a local physi fan's office today whe o the fractured arm was r net. 'LOCAL WOMEN i IN ACCIDENT ; Two Women Hurt in Efi fort to Save Each Other From Injuries Mrs. H- L. Curtis and Mrs. Ed. ‘ Bosse- were injured when they fell ; ' from the Bosse automobile at the ■ corner o. Jackson and Second 1 • streets Tuesday night, when the ! ■ right front door of the auto open- I ■ ed accidentally. The car ran wild I 1 ac oss second street and crashed 1 I into a lamp post, damaging the front of the automoble. i. Mrs. Bosse and Mrs. Curtis were returning home from a parly in the ■ | Bosse car. Mrs. Bosse was driving | ■| and turned the automobile north on i ■ Second st eel, from Jackson street, i ’ the rijht front door fiew open. ■| Mrs. Curtis started to fall from | I the cat, and Mrs. Bosse leaned I ’ I across to prevent the lormer f om ' falling and both fell out to the i ' street. 1 he car went aero < Second I • sheet and smashed into a light I • post. | | Mrs. Bosse re eived a ent on one leg and a badly bruised head. Mrs. • Curtin .eeeived several cutts and J s. I>i L Jtafc. ea-.w, • | route home, took both women to; lithe Bosse home where the injuries' II wero dressed. 11 -.. » — WHITNEY TALKS ON SHORT SALES >' I Stock Exchange Head Is ' Called Before Probing Group of House Washington. F ■!>. 24 (U.R) , Richard Whitney, president of the! New Yoik stock exchange, said today before the house judiciary committee that the exchange] would have been dosed a month] ago if it had not Ifeen for the stabilizing efTect of short selling. | Whitney was tedifyfng in con ] neclion with proposed legislation! to regulate short selling. He de-\ fended the practice, saying that without it the market for securi-l ! ties would not have been main-j, tained after the 1929 collapse. ! Whitney contended that without; I short selling there would have been a ('rash of values whichl would have had "disastrous effects'" on the entire country. “I personally cannot see why it i should be wrong to bort ow stock' 1 when it is not wrong to borrow i money," he said. He asserted that protection «,f the market by short selling is an cssentitl to stabilization of values. The exchange's regulation <o I prevent leading of stock without I the consent of the customer, ho said, was to clarify the exchange s | position. This goes into effect April 1. ’ 7 — —o — Mission Is Threatened Washington. Feb. 24. —(U.R) The American consulate at Hankow, China, advised the state department today that a representative of the Lutheran United Mission at ■ Kwangchow had informed him that the mission was “threatened by a large communist force." The consulate at once requested the Honan provincial government to protect ' the endangered Americans. O. K. Relief Measure Washington. Feb. 24 —(UP); An' unemployment relief measure authorizing a $120,000,000 appropriation : for Federal Road construction was favorably reported today by the I house roads committee. The bill provides that the funds j shall be made available immediately for ala proportionment to the states by t'he secretary of agricul- ' lure.

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Japanese Dash Through Chapei ♦ ~ 'HIWIW*II I «4M -4 | i i 7 Vvj i. j- ■ ]’ jL ■' T '* r i tju P' '**’ L*-,,.. JL a* - ~ ! f F < 1 > Jk'x* .. ' MS. W" f ' , WW•• • emuev. . Japanese marines ns they dashed through a Chapei street following heavy bombardment of that I sec tion They were on Hie alert for isolated Chinese riflemen, and themselves stood in momentary peril : of beiug caught in a hail of machine gun bullets.

B ANDITS FIND BANK DEFUNCT Closed Paoli Institution Entered; $lO Obtained As Loot Paoli, Ind., Ft b. 24 —(UP) —Two bandits made a Imld foray on the I uoli »ta<e bank just befo.e dosing time yesterday, but the attempt was a miserable failure. The hank is defunct. <' cil John, on, former cashier. O. >r. HftrnntM dewier, and .U**, Leo, na Atkinson, a bookkeeper, were in the bank working on liquidation when the bandits entered They snickered when the gunmen .» <!< i v.l th nt to He on the floor. "This bank is dosed," Johnson told them. “It’s only open to re'ceive payments from debtors." The bandits paid no heed and started a search tor money. They uncovered $lO and then ordered Johnson to open th ■ safe. Johnson again protested that the bank was de unit. Still unconvinced, the bandits H uX I INI trt> <>N PAGE TWO) — ... — (-) — Two Autoists Killed Kendallville. Ind.. Feb 24- (UP) Two men were killed at a crossing near the Kneipp Sanitarium north of her last night when their auto was .strue . by a Pennsylvania passenger train. Cecil Bixle . 42. Lagrange, and Janie:- A. Beecher. 4G, Shipshewanna, were the victims. BRANCH, FORMER GOVERNOR DIES Martinsville Ma n Succumbs to Heart Attack; Was Governor Year Martinsville. Ind., Feb. 24— (tj.R) Emmet F. Branch. 57, governor of Indiana in 1924 and 1925. died of heart disease at his home here at 9:45 last night. Be had been ill only a few hours. Branch was elected lieutenant governor on the Republican ticket when Warren T. McCray was chosen executive. Be succeeded to the governorship in 1924 when McCray withdrew, and served until Ed Jackson was elected in 1925. As the grandson of a state legislator. Branch entered politics as a candidate for state representative in 1903. He was elected. In 1905 he was re-elected and two years later was named speaker of the house. At the Republican national convention in 1924 Branch made the address nominating Senator James E. Watson for president. Branch was a veteran of three armed conflicts. Two years after graduation from Indiana University he joined the army in the Spanish American war. It was said he was the first volunteer from Morgan county. During difficulties with Mexico on the border. Branch served as (CONTINUED ON PAGE TWO)

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Decatur, Indiana, Wednesday, February 21, 1932.

Legionnaires At Meet The Decatur post o the American 1 1 Legion will entertain the posts at | Bluffton. Fort Wayne, and Ossian. at a meeting to be held here 7*mday. March 2s, it has been announced. I A number of members of the local post attended the (J’orge Washington bicentennial meeting with which the Ossian post entertained , Monday night. An inter sting prog.am was presented, with Robert Bu.shee serving as toastmaster. Short tI ks were ’ given, and the regular routine of business was followed, after which a luncheon was served. Post 47 of Fort Wayne, had the ! ] largest de? gallon attending the celeb ation. i THIEF KILLED II IN GUN BATTLE i Second Captured as Police Battle Trio Near Elwood Tuesday j Elwood, Ind.. Fob. 24—lU.R) . One alleged chicken thief was I shot to death, anol her waslhonght I to have boon wounded, and a third I was captured in a gun hattie at .| a vacant house just outside Ell wood last night. . i Chief of Police Lewis Startzma.i j ami Patrolman Loren Mcßride | were greeted with two shots from : a single-barrel shotgun and sever'al from a revolver when they | commanded two men calling for a i sack of stolen chickens at the house, to halt. Startzman returned the fire with a sawed-off shotgun and McBride with a .38 calibre revolver. Ifovert Wells. 28. Noblesville. I died in a local hospital this morning of buckshot wounds, and j Robert Kuril k. 25. Elwood, was in I the citv jail Wells implicated ' I Alvey Hilton, his half-brother, in 1 the thefts. Officers found a single-barrel shotgun at the scene of the battle. i with an exploded cartridge in the . barrel. On the opposite side of the house they found a .32 calibre , revolver and a trail of blood Hilton had not shown up at his Noblesville home, police were informed. and they believed he would be found either wounded or dead in some hiding place. Wells had said he and Euriek j were the only ones involved in the affair, disagreeing with Ettrick’s statement that Hilton was a third member of the gang. New Witness Called J. E. Daugherty was the witness in the Wabash river dredge ease today. Mr. Daugherty testified about lands owned by the Farmers and Merchants Rank of Brygnt and the Hardy farms in Jay county. The Farmers and Merchants Bank owns 475 acres in Jackson I township John Hardy 200 acres and Ross Hardy 240 acres. The testimony was relative to detailed dss-; cription of the lands, their values etc. James R. Fleming. Portland attorney. represented the hank and property owners. The case of the remonstra- j tors may be completed in another i two weeks, ft was indicated today.

SECOND SERMON 1 , IS DELIVERED Rev. Father Holsinger Delivers Second Lenten Sermon Tuesday The Rev. Father Carl Balsinger. ' assistant pastor of St. Peters Cath- ' olic church, Fort Wayne, gave an ' Instinctive discourse in the second I of his series of Lenten sermons at I the St. Mary's Catholic chu ch last evening. loiTTier Holsinger spoke on- joy awaiting the bl ‘sved in heaven, taking his text from the epistle of St. Paul to the Corinthians, second I chapter, ninth verse: "R at as it is ' written: That cy- hath not seen i nor ear heard, neither hath it enteried nto the heart of man, what things God hath p.epar'd for them i that love him". I Father Holsinger explained what .theologians had written on the j joys in heaven. Iky cumin-d hi.: > remarks to an 'xplanatioli of what I was intei preted as the beatific vi- | sion of God. He stated that beatific - vision of God consisted of, first, the II vision of God; second, the love of tjGod and thiid. th' possession of I God in speaking o the joy in heat : ven. the speaker emphasized that - he was dealing with the immortal I soul and not th" material body. ■l The sermon was Inst uctive and ‘.well delivered. Following the ser- - 1; mon the Benediction of the Blessed ' ■jSairament was given by the Rev. ’l J. J. Hennes, assistant pastor of' l .St. Mary’s Church. ! o MURRAY STARTS STATE CAMPAIGN II — ! Oklahoma Governor Sees Downfall of Nation Unless Leaders Change 'I Indianapolis, Feb. 21. (U.R) —! (With a twirl of his drooping nuts-1 '[tache and a shake of his .shaggy 'locks. Oklahoma's fiery Gov. Wilt|liam H. "Alfalfa Bill" Murray to■jday put his “grass roots" candi■'dacy for the democratic presidential nomination before the citizens of Indiana. The militant governor outlined i his policies in picturesque language before audiences at Indianapolis and Monticello yesterday and today and pushed forward to Marion and Gary for additional ad-i dresses. Mixing homely quips and biting sarcasm, the governor, garbed in a travel-wrinkled, rusty black suit, warned his listeners the nation was following the pathway that led to the downfall of ancient empires. He scattered a trail of ashes from his nickel cigars about the state las he rushed from meeting to jmeeting, unmindful of appearances Gind heedless of the strain of sleep'ei jumps that showed in his carelined face. Though he launched his campaign with a denunciation of the Hoover administration, the Oklahoma govlernor pointed out in his Indiana [addresses that no one administraj (CONTINUED ON PAGE TWO)

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BANDITS GET 535 IN LOCAL STORE HOLDUP Wcrtzbcrgcr Con feet ioni cry Robbed by Two Gunmen Late Tuesday BOTH BANDITS ARE I N M ASKED BULLETIN Chief of Police Sephus Melchi this afternoon received word that three men were arrested in Fort Wayne following a hold-up at Ossian and were identified ar, tht ones who held up a store in that town. Sheriff Burl Johnson and several Decatur people went to Fort Wayne to ascertain if the trio was implicated in the Decatur holdup. Two unmasked lumdils J he'd un the Wertz be ri>er I C.onl’ectionerv store at 11 i o'clock Tttesdav night and (escaped with about $35 in ! cash. One bandit was dell scribed as being small and L about IS years of age. The | other was large)' and older. ! Both carried guns. The two mon entered the local ' store about 11 o'clock last night. ! Barney Wertzberger, owner of the I confectionery store and itis son, ] Di< k. were alone in the establishment. One bandit pointed a gun J at the older Wcitzlwi ger and the > other covered Dic k wit it a gun Then the younger bandit grab'fed the money. At the time of 'he hold-up. Dick Wertzberger was making up the cash for the day and had only the bills in view. ICONTINI'WD ON CAGE SIX) AUTOISTSARE I TERRORIZED Bandits Argue Whether To Kill Man: Get SSO Loot From Visitors Greencastle. Ind . Feb. 24. —(U.R) ' Three tourists from Toronto. I Canada, stood in terror for half an | hour near here today while two i bandits quarreled over one’s suggestion that the man he slain. | Harold Masso. SO. of 171 College i Ave.. Toronto, Amelia Ford, same address, and Edith Kiefer. 599 St. Clair avenue, Toronto, were forced | into a ditch by the bandits. All j their money, about SSO. was taken. I the larger of the bandits aimed al ! Masso with the announced intenpion of killing him. The tourists stood silent, afraid to intercede, while the other banIdit, much the smaller, pleaded for j.Masso’s life. The larger bandit, it i was said, appeared to l>e either intoxicated or under the influence of narcotics. The women were not threatened. The machine in which the bandits traveled was stolen from George Bernstead. Terre Haute. Several other holdups were attempted by the bandits, according to reports here. The driver of a I Kroger truck reported that he nearly ran the bandit ear down as they attempted to force him into a ditch. I 0 Quinn Is Speaker At Lions Club Meeting French Quinn, prominent Decatur man spoke on "Washington" at the Tuesday night meeting of the j Lions chib. Mr. Quinn told several interesting phases of the first President's life and he received enthusiastic applause at the close. Newspaper Man Dies Elkhart, Ind., Feb. 24 —(UP) — Harry Siblt, 50, business manager of the Elkhart Daily Truth, died suddenly today of a heart attack, the widow survives. 0 . BULLETIN Carl Hower, Decatur man. was injured late this afternoon when a large branch from a tree, which he was rawing down broke loose. The branch struck Hower’s left arm in such a manner that it cut the artery and crushed the elbow. He was removed to the Adams County Memorial hospital.

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Mrs. Mooney To Speak ,X'"W York. Feb. 24 (UP)- Mrs. Mary Mooney. White haired. S4-year old mother of Thomas J Mooney, and Corliss Lamont, son of a Mor- . tian partner, will speak from the I same platform tonight in a mass demonst ution on the 15th anniversary of Mooney's death sentence. 'rhe feeble mother made th" trip . across country against advice of her physicians who feared it might be .atal, so that she might lead the thousands of Mooney sympathizers expected to pack Bronx coliseum. AL SMITH TO TAKE PART IN CHICAGO MEET Former Presidential Candidate to Attend Democratic Convention — ; GIVES VIEWS ON CON DITIONS I (Copyright 1932, by United Press) 1 New York, Feb. 21 U.R) ] Former Governor Alfred E. ' Smith revetiled in conversation with the t’nited Press ■ lodiv that he intends to jjo Io the Democration National convention at Chicayo in Inne. j Smith's decision forecasts a fin- ' ish fight between these two popular sons of New York state. They 1 have been political friends and allies for years, but now. they face each other in a struggle that may become historic. Smith is again putting on his war paint. ' He is about to make an important political utterance jsn prohibition. tlie first since he recently announced he was “willing to make the fight" if the Democratic convention so desired. He is preparing to speak for the Raskob . home-rule plan to return liquor control to the states, before the ' National Dem<x rat i< ctab here Saturday. There is an ominous silence in • Smith's 32nd floor office of the Empire State building. I was the I first newspaper correspondent lie' had received since he announced] his willingness to be a candidate | > more than two weeks ago. He! . refuses under any circumstances, to elaborate that announcement. | ' Smith in 1928 stayed in Albany> ' instead of attending the Houston convention where he was nomin-j ated on the fit st ballot. His de-1 cision to attend the Chicago convention was taken as indicatingi 1 he foresees a hard fight both over the candidate anil over prohibition and wishes to be on hand to lead his forces personally. Smith's attitude toward Roosevelt is one of the most mysterious| chapters in democratic politics. He did not discuss it with me. What I report on this subject was gathered entirely from some of his close friends. They believe Smith regards Roosevelt as an unwise presidential choice. One of them told me that in numerous conversations he had never heard Smith utter tin unkind word about Roosevelt and that he bears no personal ill-will toward the man who placed him in nomination before two national conventions and who gave him tho title of “the happy warrior." The explanation advanced oy most of Smith's friends is that he does not regard Roosevelt as the strongest man the party could name. They do not believe Smith himself expects to he nominated. Some expect him. at the proper time, to forswear all claim and name his preference. They think (CONTINUED ON PAGE SIX) To Increase Prices London, Feb. 24.—(U.R)—Increased prices will he guaranteed growers for home grown wheat which British millers must buy, the text of the government wheat bill revealed today. The payments will be guaranteed on a maximum of 27-.OOO,O(M> hundred weight any cereal year starting with 1932. A standard price of 10 shillings (about $1.73 at current exchange and $2.50 at par) per hundred weight will be guaranteed. The wheat bill established the quota of home grown wheat which British millers must buy at a maximum of 19.6 per cent of consumption. j

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U.S. MAINTAINS POLICY OF OPEN DOORS IN EAST Stimson Relates Views In Letter To Senator W.E. Borah Today IIS ADVOCATE OF TREATY Washington. Feb. 21 w I Secretary ol‘ State Stimson i (odtiv announced Io the ' world that the I nited Stales I would stand bv its "odcii door - ’ policv in the Orient. He also indirectlv charged Japan with violating the nine power trcnlv and the Kellogg nticl. I lad these Ireiilies Ix'en I "faithfully observed" the present. ( situation in China could not have | developed, he maintained. He further affirmed that if the nine power treaty were disr garded the whole structure of the Washington treaty of 1922 wonl I be distil’bed. By this treaty the United States limited its naval power in the Pacific and agreed not to strengthen its fortifications in that area. ' The statement, which may go down in diplomatic history as a. corollary of the famous "open I door" nolicy of Secretary of Stalo ’ John Hay. was made in tho form ■of a letter to Chairman Borah if the senate foreign relations com1 mittee. After tracing the rise of ilvi “open door" policy of free ad ■ t In China and its formal acceptan o bv the world powers in 19’2. Stimson called attention to the ' Briand Kellogg peace pm t saying: • I "Tlie recent events which Iw o J taken place in China, especially • | the hostilities which having been . j begun in M incburia. have latterly , loen extended to Shanghai, fie ■ 'from indicating the advisabili';.' ,i of any modification of the it'eatt 'a , we have been discussing, have I tended to bring home the vital ! importance of the faithful ob- . i servance of the covenants therein I to al) the nations interested in j the Far East. j "We see no reason for abandon- ! Ing the enlightened prineipl-t ' which arc embodied in these treaties. We believe that this i situation would have been avoid--led had these covenants been i faithfully observed, and no evii dence has come to us to ii.dii ate • that a due compliance with thorn I would have interfered with the I adequate protection of th” legitimate rights in China of tlie signatories of those treaties and then* nationals." This statemen' was regard"! |as an answer to Janan's conton- | tion in its reply to Stimson's no'o I of Jan. 7 that present conditions in China were not foreseen at tho time the nine power pact, guaranteeing Chinese sovereignly, wr t signed. Shanghai. Feb. 24 (U.R>—Cli'nese artillery, mounted on railway trucks, bombarded the Japanese ((-ONTtNcrtn ov oag l '’ sixi DEPARTMENTS ARE REOOCEO Two More Feel Axe of Economy: Treasury and Post Office Affected Washington, Feb. 24- U.R) — Two more government departments f -lt: the axe of congressional economy today. The house appropriations committee reported an annua! supply hill for the treasury and post office departments $44.655.327 less than current appropriations. A total appropriation of $1,059.’ 898,563 is carried in the measure. $22,000,000 less than the budget estimates submitted by President. Hoover. Os this amount $805,986.575 is allocated to the post offh” and $254,311,988 to tho treasury. In addition to these annual appropriations recommended by tho committee the treasury and postoffice departments in the n’t fiscal year will expend $1,161,687 - 917 as "permanent and indefinite appropriation." This sum renre Rents an increase of more thru I (CONTXNLBU ON PAGE SIX)