Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 30, Number 55, Decatur, Adams County, 4 March 1932 — Page 1

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■MR BEATS ■ROEVILLE H. >l9-12COUNT . Lead' ( urlisnien ’K Victor ; " ill Play ft.Uain Saturday hftl’ES RISE •W | (»R TITLE fort Wayne Scores jK||.s :: is 21 ■ ■ j,.ff<T<on (''■liter .■ s^K^„»n l'4 \\l burn 1 4 M Bluffton Scores K. Inion '• 111 11 ,ls — limit school VIa I- ■ lead al h ill lune :i:i<l Hill! 111. I round l 01l w a; lie scclioird al Fort Wavne this uni triiiiiinie' Monroe-ill-12 as i< r a stubborn t'uiiismen die fir-r tiiivc quarters -a!ir>- O-alll. led by Bob tains to li'e ill Ine third viitory. .■ i- i-ai Iv lea.l : ,po.a .> .inaoi the first Both teams scrapped p(>-,.>-.si.ii> of ill" ball ami Mi'i- playing unusually good with !><. alar I. ailing 8-7. - IV!. Mo' ;0.0 ille < enter, ball." Ihioityh for a ft. bl lill'i !'<• a.is belli scoreli'aniu iiio entire second Ui’b Ilian a minnli ; ' I Illis sent Blythe ll.r s, place Ogg at |H sa- 'll" substitution of M Kame. Th. half ended 98. 1 0..: , .one back in at Hie start of the lialf ano Yellow .lack B<'-' areally improved r:i. ns !■ high r, wnnerai Is Saturday |HBrfal sfrv.es for Dr. E. 0. who I .. i al his home in Weilnesday evening, will M"’ Satin Ti-. afternoon at 2 at the home. :;16 North ■M ’<*et. and a: 2:30 o'clock r'irsf P’.-slivterian church. 11 I'ledd.o . iann. pastor of M z '■ ib'fm iii.-d < htireli. will of tH'" and |fev Harry Thompson The Scottish Hite will ritualr-tie service, at the Burial will be made In the ! "r Cemetery. « ' ~ |HN STEWART I ADMITS THEFT fti<Houth Confesses To <>i Auto Here SevS| eral Weeks Ago I Burl Johnson arrested 20. Dayton. Ohio at ■ ' ' T'wsday afternoon and re'he young man to Decatur. co " fMs <‘ ( i t<> the theft of ft R l n.' loblle beloil K in K to HerW B '"'fnmier Decatur several a jo. ■inuom"' hdS been ißaU « d s os ■kh, <,r *° n ' e time ' but Sheriff ft V( .r\ not ahie ‘° ioci * ie him to n Wday ’ The - vounK man B«fvAnf' atur with an Ohio Cl iy ■ *'' ekß “Ko and stole ■ car « night. fteUin' ® <cordin K to Stewart's Bile hn v ? r ° Ve Stew “rt’s aittoB Sip' k ° Oh '° Ci,y ' Near that » 8 wart 3 tri P p Pd the stolen Bind h. ant ’ e,,Uipment a ’“> ft n“n W L in bo “Taigned before B h L ErWin ln a d “y or two H as Indicated he will plead

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♦ ♦ Farrar Is First To File His Candidacy ♦ * Alfred Farrar of Geneva was | the first Adams county man to| ■ file his declaration of candidacy i in the office of Milton Werling. ’ county clerk, tmtay. Today was the first day when i 1 candidates could file, and those[l who did not file today may filej nt any time until the deadline.; which is April 2. 1932. The primary election will he held May ; 1932. Mr. Farrar is a Democrat and i ’ filed hia Intention of being a < an- ' didate for representative In Com gross from ttie fourth longrossional district. Any person desiring to become i a candidate for any office to be voted upon in the May primary, may file his declaration and request that his name lie placed >n I the laillot, it was stated by Mr. I Werling today. The time for filing is limited between the dates of March 4. to April 2. and anyone who wishes to be a candidate f must file his intention in the clerk's office. It is expected that a large number of candidates will file j within the next few days. SUGAR COMPANY 'i OFFICIAL HERE I tl Plans For Contract Are Worked Out At Meeting of Those Interested i W. F. Schmidt, general field supI erintendent for the Great 1-ikes I Sugar Company. Toledo, was here II today and held a comereiice this ’ morning with officials of th“ Indiana Farm Bureau Sugar Grower's • Association, working out a few de- • tails as to the contract. This was 1 done in a manner agreeable to all ' a few sWght changes being made 1 and these will he submitted to the ' Company's attorn-y to assure legal- ! ity of same. The contract between the bond , holders and the Great Lakes Coni--1 pony has not yet been signed. Mr. i Schmidt reportetl. It is ready but the signatures have not lieen officially subscribed. Plans are going right along so that as soon as the officials have signed the documents the work tan be begun by the field men and the yard superintendents. Paui Marker, chief engineer for the company was also here today measuring the yards and getting the data necessary to start the work on the new dumps to be constructed here. There seems to be no doubt that the plant will operate and that within a few days the contracts will be coming in. Scottish Rite Masons Will Attend Funeral AU Scottish Rite Masons are asked to meet at the Masonic hall at ' 2 o'clock Saturda yafternoon to attend the funeral of Dr. Earl Coverdale. The Scottish Rite services will be held at the First Presbyterian church. < ■ - 1 —o I Choir Meeting Called The choir of the Zion Reformed 1 church will meet in the auditorium of the church tonight at 7:15 o'- ' clock for rehearsal. Every member 1 of the coir Is requested to be pre- ' sent. ' Legion Meets Tonight There will be a special meeting of Adams post American Legion at 1 8 O’clock tonight to make, plans 1 for attending the funeral of Dr. 1 Earl G. Coverdale Saturday afternoon. All members are asked to at- ' tend. Will Distribute Wheat 1 Washington. March 4 —(UP) — 1 President Hoover is expected to ap- 1 prove distribution of 4(1,000,000 ’ (Million) bushels of farm board 1 wheat to the needy. A bill to that effect passed earlier ! this session by the senate was a- 1 dopted yesterday by the house, :144(' to 2. Republican floor leader Enell ‘ approved it, indicating administration. Minor differences now must ( Im adjusted n conference.

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LIGHT, POWER. WATER DEPTS. SHOW PROFITS Combined Net Earnings Are $28,384.72 For 1931 On City Utilities REPORTS ARE ALL ACCEPTED The light titxl power <le--1 ptirlment tnitl the waler department of the C.itv Plant i had combined net earnings lof S2X,3K 1.72 for 1931. acj cording Io the annual reports prepared bv the autlilors. Pease. Sanford and Beinkim» of Fort Wavne. The earnings of the electric department were 119,490.19 and the earnings of the water department were $5,859.52. The 1931 earnfngs were smaller than the 1930 earnings. A year ago the combined earnings of the municipal plant were $33,663 (19, • the electiic department earning, I $22,779 32 and the water departi ment. $10,883.77. Operating revenue from the I electric department totaled $126,- ! i>6B 87 as compared with $132,I 949.05 a year ago. The operating , revenue of the water department last year was $27,535.78. compari e ( | with $30,449.63 in 1930. Income, other than from plant oi>eration in the electric department was $4,549.24. Included in this total was s:’.'739.ns for interest on cash reserves amt notes receivable. The water department had other income of $692.08. including | $73 40 for interest earned Operating expenses of the electric department were $107.269.48,| including a charge of $20,941.851 for depreciation. Other charges amounted to $3,858.44. including $2,400 paid out in interest on bonds and $1,458 44 charged off tCONTINI'ED ON I'AGH FOUR) n- — Woman’s Nephew Dies Mr. and Mrs. arrison Hakes of Winchester street, received word Thursday afternoon of the death of the five year old son of Mr. and Mrs. J. A. Walp of Columbus Ohio. The lad was killed instantly when struck by an automobile at 12:30 o'clock Thursday afternoon. Mrs. Hakes and Mrs. Walp are sisters. Mr and Mrs. Walp formerly resided in Fort Wayne and are well known in this city. o SEN.BANKHEAD MA) BE OUSTED Sub-Committee Reports Irregularities; Vote To Vacate Seat Washington. Mar. 4. —(U.R)—Recommendation that the senate seat of John H. Bankhead. Dem., Ala.. ( lie declared vacant was made to- ( day in a report to a senate investi- . gating committee. ( Senator Hastings. Repn.. Del., ( chairman of a sub committee of the , privileges and elections committee, , reported the results of his. investi- , gation ol the contest filed by J. ( Thomas Helfin. who was defeated in 1930 by Bankhead. Heflin charg ed fraud. The subcommittee heard arguments by opposing counsel and arranged for oral testimony on Doth | sides to be taken in Alabama. The j Hastings report represents con- t elusions drawn from this evidence. s In it he said: c "I realize that it is a serious mat- f ter for the United States senate to , declare that there was no election in Alabama in 1930. 1 do not see, . however how it can Ite avoided ( without ’ approving the shocking facts disclosed by this record. “It is not necessary to show fraud by affirmative evidence. When the evidence produced shows a universal disregard by the election f officers of the election laws of a state, the presumption that such officers did their duty is wholly de- t (CONTNUED ON PAGE EIGHT) ’

Decatur, Indiana, Friday, March I, 1932.

Found Lindy Card Mr jgg aE» " BHMUH Albert Fr»v. postal carrier who found the postcard sent to Col. Lindbergh, presumably by the kidnapers of his son.

SOVIET ARMY STRENGTHENED Reports Arrive That .Japan Plans Attack On East Frontier Moscow. Mar. 4 —(U.P) Th« Soviet government admitted for tlie first time today that it had strengthened military forces on its far eastern frontiers. Simultaneously. it was charged that "responsible representatives of military and nonmilitary circles in Japan" wete planning to seize far eastern Soviet possessions. Through a leading editorial in the newspaper Izvestia it was revealed that Moscow possesses documents, allegedly emanating from Japanese leaders, urging early attacks against the Soviets. These urged attacks allegedly were aimed at the destruction of the Soviet Union with the aid of Poland, Roumania, and other western nations. Izvestia admitted "that the documents perhaps can he considered personal opinions of the authors." but said the authors were too influential to be disreguarded and deserved "serious political weight.” o — Adams Visits Decatur James D. Adams, publisher of the Columbia City Post and one of the candidates for the democratic nomination for congress in the Fourth district, visited here Thursday afternoon. Mr. Adams stated that he would attend the big democratic rally in this city on March 14. Vincent Forbing of Fort Wayne accompanied Mr. Adams here. o Sales Concern Moves The P. Kir.sch and Son. automobile sales company and the Herb Kern garage have been moved from the Holthouse building on North Second street to the building on the corner of First and Monroe Streets formerly occupied by Nearing Chevrolet Sales. The move has been completed and both concerns arc doing business in the new quarters. o Deadline Monday Noon Tickets for tho George Washington memorial banquet at the Masonic hall next Tuesday night for Adams county Masons will be sold until noon Monday. After that date no tickets will be sold.

Many Attend Playlet The musical playlet, "When Betsy I Ross Made Old Glory." which was presented by the pupils of the Riley am! the South Ward .schools in the Decatur High School auditorium, Thursday night, was witnessed by • a large crowd and greatly appreeiated by those attending. The playlet, one of the cleverest of its types, was in three acts. The pupils who participated in the r production, portrayed their parts in I a fine manner, and the special dam es by various groups of school children were picturesque ami enI tertaining. Credit is due the teachers of both ..j the schools for tho splendid manner , in which the patriotic fftay was pre- . sented. and for the official costumes which were improvis-d for ( the event. , The story centered about tho 4 making of the first continental flag ; by Betsy Ross, and included such - characters as Geor»- Washington, Robert Morris. Colonel Ross, Elizabeth Ross and others. f _ 0 WORKINGER TO < •I ASK NEW TRI AL 4 Man Found Guilty of Receiving Stolen Goods Is Free On Bond William Workinger. filling station ' operator, who was found guilty Thursday of receiving stolen goods and was sentenced to serve one day in jail and fined $5.00 and costs indicated today through his counsel H. M. DeVoss that he would file a motion for a new trial. The jury reported in the case late j Thursday afternoon and fixed the fine and sentence as is provided by ( law. Workinger was charged with ( Having received stolen goods, name- . ly chickens from a gang of young f chicken thieves in Adams county. Another charge is still pending against the man, that of failure to procure a poultry dealers license. No disposition has yet been made of the second charge. It is understood that the new trial 1 motion will he prepared soon and 1 will ls> filed in the next week or two 1 Workinger is free on bond. o _ t Two Autos Collide i Automobiles driven by Frederick i Shroyer of Decatur and Ed Scare 1 ot Ohio collided at Monroe and I First streets this afternoon. Both i cars were damaged in the wreck and one of the automobiles went i through the iron fence of the 1,. C. I Waring property damaging the t shrubbery and fence. ;

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NOTABLESWILL ATTEND AFFAIR HERE MARCH 14 Bosse Receives Acceptances From All Major State Candidates, Leaders TICKET SALE PROCRESSES A check-up lodtiv with lul A. Bosse. Democratic county chairman, revealed that the following prominent Democrats had accepted invitations} Io be in Decatur. Mondav. March 1 I for the Democratic} rallv and baiuiuet: Paul V. McNutt, Dean of Indiana t’niversity Law School, anil Democratic candidate for Governor. John E. Frederick. Kokomo man-} nfacturer and Democratic candidate for Governor. Walter Myers, speaker of the 1931 Indiana House of Representatives and candidate for United States senator. Frederick VanNuys. former U. S. district attorney and candidate for United States senator. Miss Emma May. president of the Indiana Democratic Women’s club and candidate for reporter of supreme court. (CONTINt’EP ON PAGE l-’Ol li) GOTTSCHALK GIVES ADDRESS State Senator Is Guest of Local Rotary CI u b Thursday Evening Slate Senator T. A. Gottschalk of Berne gave an instructive talk on "Taxa.ion." before members of (he Decatur Rotary dub last evening. Senator Gottschalk lias lieen ■< member of (lie budget commie ’ of tile stale legislature for the past .four yeais and is well versed in subjects of state and local taxation Tlie cost of government will come down. Senator Gottschalk stated, because' the fountry is through witli the “spending orgy" and out of the present conditions will come betterments that mean for greater advancement and economy, the senator said. Senator Gottschalk stated one way taxes would be reduced would lie by limiting road repair fund expenditures to the amount received from tlie state gasoline tax. The next legislature will probably consider such a measure. Mr. Gottschalk stated. Much of the tax now being paid is for pnHlic improvements and activities of government which the pulilic lias demanded of state and local governments. The bonds must be paid and now the figures loom big. Hie senator stated. The (CONI INI’El> ON PACE EIGHT' — Herses Are Shipped Ed Ahr shipped an express ear of 29 horses to Carl Bailey. Wellsboro Pa.. Thursday. Most of the horses were bought in and near Adams county. The average price paid for the liorse.s was aibout $141) a head. This is the first shipment of horses mad-' by Mr. Ahr this year. o Fennig Goes To Prison Erman Johnson and Roscoe Elzey of th.'s city left this morning for Pendleton where they will accompany Lyle Fennig, confessed young bandit who was sentenced by Judge D. B. Erwin to from one to 10 years In the state reformatory. Fennig confessed to a number of robberies in Adams county, and was also a Hleitfber of a gang of young bandits who have number of robberies in northern Indiena. Fennig was arrested Monday night in Fort Wayne, where he has been residing for the last year or two. Previous to that time he lived at Geneva

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Confidence Day Will Be Sunday In State Indianapolis, March 4 (UP) —A proclamation designating next Sunday as "Hoover confident-> day” was issued today Ity Governor Harry G. Leslie. On that day. Governor Ltudle asked the state to join in the National citizens reconstruction organization in a concerted effort to restore confidence in banks and business conditions. "Tlie public state of mind over our nation and state is in need of better hoy and greater faith in the institut ons which the. people themselves have wrought." the proclamation read. DECATUR NAMED FOR 1933 MEET Methodists Select This City For Convention; Officers Are Named Tlie delegates to the Fort Wayne district conference of the Methodist Episcop'al cbm di which was held in New Haven Wednesday and Thursday, voted to bold the 1933 annual spring conference in Decatur. at the closing session of the meeting. Thursday afternoon. Rev. B. H. Franklin, pastor of the local Methodist Church was elected delegate to the Indianapolis Methodist Area council. Rev. J. Thomas Bean of Fort Wayne was re-elected chairman of the For’ Wayne district of the Methodist church. HeV. Bean is also superinleudeut of the district. Three men from Adams County were recommended for rece/ition into the North Indiana Methodist conference to lie held at Muncie. April 6. The men are E. L. Johnston. Decatur; Kenneth Yost, Geneva; and Elbert Mor ord, Mt. Tabor circuit. Two other men recommended were M. L. Pierce, Coesse and Donald Jennings of Hamilton. Announcement was made at tlie meeting of the annual convention of the Fort Wayne District Epworth league which will be held in Garrett June 8 and 9. Tlie annual camp meeting of the church and the school of missions will bo held at Epworth Forest at Lake Webster. July 11 to 16. The principal speaker at the afternoon session 'l liuisday </is Rev. C. B. Rape, a Methodist minister, who has been engaged in missionary work in China for 24 years. Rev. Rape spoke to the conference in the place of Dr. Pau! Rngg of New York City who was unable to be present. Among the other speakers at the closing session of the two day conference were Rev. 'John C. Wengatz of Africa; Rev. Thomas Davies of Angola; and Rev. Charles H. Smith of Fort Wayne. The conference also voted to support the eighteenth amendment of the constitution of the United States. Forty-One Indicted Indianapolis. March 4 —(UP)—| Forty-one residents of Muncie and Anderson were indicted by tlie Federal grand jury here today, as the climax to one of the most extensive liquor conspiracy investigations in the state in recent years. Names of 29 of the defendants were withheld pending their arrests. Those revealed were only “small fry." Corbett Johnson and Fred Kubeck are two of the 13 Muncie persons indicted; they have been arrested. o Bandits Are Captured Robinson. 111., March 4 —(UP) — Three bandits who robbed the flat rock state Ivank, Flat Rock, 111., of $5,000 were captured today at Vincennes, Ind., and returned here an hour after the robbery. Although the trio refused to give their names, a Vincennes officer recognized one of them as a former Indiana police ofticer, Sheriff John Keller of Crawford county said. Keller said he recognized another as a world war veteran, who was a patient in a Kentucky hospital a bout a year ago.

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HEART-BROKEN MESSAGE SENT TO NEWSPAPERS Immunity Promised For Safe Return of Child; Search Widening $50,0(H) CASH TO BE PAID BULLETIN Brooklyn, N. Y., March 4— (UP) — A man about 55 years old was arrer,‘ed today after he had been identified as having sent a telegram to Col. Chai les A. Lindbergh, saying that the Lindbergh baby would be returned to its parents upon payment of $50,000 ransom, police said. The telegram was sent from a Western Union office on Mry tie avenue, Brooklyn, and the prisoner was arrested on a trolley car at Bergen and Bond street. Hopewell, N. .1., .Mur. I. (U.R) Col. and Mrs. Lindbergh made a heart-broken appeal todav to the kidnapers of their child in a public letter announcing that thev will make anv concessions demanded for the return of their habv. The letter signed by Anne unit Charles Lindbergh follows: “Colonel Lindbergh and 1 want to make a personal contact with, the kidnapers of our child. Our only interest is in his safe and immediate r“turn. ’ I feel certain that the kidnap- ’ er« will realize that this interesr. is strong enough to justify tli“ir having complete confidence anil trust in any promises we may make in connection with his return “We urge those who have th« child to let any representative that they desire meet a representative of ours, who will be suitable to them, at any time and at. any place (hat they may designate. “If this is accepted we promise we will keep whatever arrangements that they may make with their representatives and ours strictly confidential and we further pledge ourselves that we will not try to injure in any way those connected witli the return of tinchild. “(Signed) diaries A. and Anne Lindbergh." Fifty thousand dollars in small bills, as demanded by the kidnapers ate wrapped up and in safekeeping at Newark — ready for instant delivery once tlie al din - tors communicate in a definite, positive way with the Lindberghs. The United Press was authorized today by the Lindbergh family to state that they have no "dues'’ that they are not closing in on any suspect, and that their one aim is to establish tlie contact in order to get their baby back. With such a contact establish(CONTlNl’El’ ON PAGE SEVEN) JAMES 0. BROWN IS CANDIDATE Kirkland Township Farmer to Seek Nomination For County Recorder James D. Brown. Kirkland township farmer today announced his candidacy for the office of Recorder of Adams county subject to the decision of the Democratic voters at the primary election May 3. Mr. Brown stated that lie would begin at once to make an active campaign for tlie office and that lie hoped to see all the Democratic voters of the county before election day. He has been a Democrat all his life and lias never held a political office, he stated today in making his announcement. No member of Mr. Brown's family ever has hold a county office. Mr. Brown was born in Washington township but moved to Kirkland township In early life and has resided there for 50 years. He is well known throughout the county.