Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 30, Number 58, Decatur, Adams County, 8 March 1932 — Page 1

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I DUELLED ■guardsmen II FORD PLANT ■ " Lal Guard Mobilized K Further Disorders; l <»ur Killed I leader I IM)ER \RREST| Li. Midt. Mar- * , (U ® Kjim of unemployed ;u ( ■ord planl v'l'nlav "'J ■ lour nun were killed] ■ tt crc hull, has rcsiiH-j Kul uiiunl mid arrest <>l ■ mob load. is. in-' Kjf the (Mi.-mt tfirl who I 'I: on you towards. ■ jrimfacM --ill Mary Gosa■r shabby blue dress still; | with the blood of her ( iweetheart who died io her wa< in a fighting mood as. f«l her police accusers to-; 1.1 was there, ini not sordid it fer Starving millions, capitalism which is the; n( all suffering. Now don t : n me." the tearless woman s> charged the rioting of! jobless men and women. > Hirer Rouge plant vaa. dby communists. Sticks. j .tear gas and hnllets werot ,»• police and rioters before . inithanee was quelled. Ford organization disclaim I blame for the riot. An! I statement from the comt Ford company has em-, more men. more eontinu-j nd .at higher wages tijun titer industrial plant or ag-[ ion of plants of the same. i the Detroit area. ring recent months it has Hi more former employes] on the payroll than any j firm. Detroit wants an explanation] h demonstrations as that I nded. Detroit should look to leader* who recruited the. s and the sources from! I their men were drawn, lore were no Ford men in the We have learned the numnf former Ford men was tilde, if there wore any.” t four killed were: .Joseph 25; Joe Dehritxke. 20; Cole-| Unz. 25. and an unidentified. Harry Bennett, head of the] service department. and Collins, a photographer tor '» York newspaper, were t the wounded. Bennett was It by a stone. Collins was is the hand. dawn today, police had led 15 alleged members of nob. including Mary Gossman. communist, accused of leadhe march on the automobile T Prosecutor Harry S. Toy they probably all will he ed with manslaughter, o mercy will ly, shown any f” proved to have participatfr the riot.” Toy declared. I understand those who inspirr ar( ’ planning another demonsl 11 in the industrial area. I ordered police to place all KTINI’ED ox PAGE FIVE) ID RELIEF NOTEXPECTEO Rinued Cold Predicted J State Weather Bureau Forecasters Jianapolis. Mar. B—<U.R)~-No from the cold wave which retailed over Indiana since »ny was foreseen by the U. ea ther bureau today. jntinued cold and unsettled or was predicted for tonight, ’omorrow, with light snow s - The temperature tonight (rn P to about 12 degrees zero, forecasters said. ” r 8 from southern Indiana Irrert tllat fr,lit cro P 8 are enh growers j n Posey county , >Pt their Elberta crops seriously damaged. The cr °P, they Ifelieved escaped ,} will be several days. ’ f ts^ ey sai(i - before the exp damage can be deter-

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Judge Erwin Speaker Judge Dore 11. Erwin of the Ad anu Circuit court gave an Interesting address before members of the Knights of Columbus lodge XJ >nday . veiling. Judge vin spoke on fra ' ternu) orders and their purpose and 'staled that one of the advantages ; in belonging to a fraternal order I was the friendly associations made land the opportunity given to memI hers to be of service to individuals i and to the community. C 1.. Carroll acted as chairman of the m >eting. Following the program a luncheon was served by the com- | mittee in charge. SIXTH MEMBER OF GANG JAILED Edward Kerns Confesses Part In Adams County Thefts. Hold-ups i Edward M. Kearns, 21. 5215 Hoagland avenue. Foit Wayne, a sixth member of a gang which has .participated in a number of liold.ups and robberies in Indiana ami | Ohio recently, was arrested at Antwerp. <).. Monday and returned to Fort Wayne. Kearns admitted taking part in I the burglary of tae Fabler Grocery lat Monroe several weeks ago. Other members who took part in the I robbery were Roy Martz and Charlies Biddle who were given 10-year ' terms each in the Allen circuit ’court last week Piddle was taklen to the Indiana stale prison at ] Michigan City and Martz to the ■ State Reformatory at Pendleton Kearns confessed that he v.as imI plicated in four burglaries to which ] I Biddle. Martz, and Kenne'h Arnold . > had confessed two weeks ago He I [confesoed to his pari in the robb | |ing oX the general store at New [Corydon in December, (lie burglar : izing of the Tabler Grocery at Monroe, and robbing of the Whearley [ Filling Station 10 miles from Fort (cnNTiNi'wn nx page six') I o Final Report Is Made Ralph Roop, county engineer filed his report on the Dora Brewster i i drain in Hartford townshi) with ( tile county commissioner today. The t estimated cost of the drain is $395. ( No objections were filed against the ( improvement and the drain will probably be ordered constructed. BEET RAISERS MAY BE PAID Cause Will Be Heard In Federal Court Monday Morning at 9 o’clock Official notice was received this morning that the cause of Resource , Holding Company of New York , and Charles J. Welch vs. Holland t | St. Louis Sugar Company, will be ( heard in the district court of the , United States at Grand Rapids, , next Monday morning at 9 o’clock. . The hearing is on a hill of inter- 1 I vention filed by Andrew Fuelling and others as beet grower creditors and is the matter pertaining to the settlement of the 30 per cent due the growers for the Decatur plant for 1930 The case will he heard by Hon Kirk I-'.. I Wicks, standing master in chancery and upon the result thereof will depend the. Important matter of whether the growers -will secure a part of the amount due I hem at once. If the petition is granted the farmers will receive a considerable sum in settlement of their claim, which it is believed would be entirely satlsfac- * tory. 1 The farmers who raised beets ‘ for the Decatur plant in 1930 re- • ceived, it will be remembered. about 70 per cent of the amount I due them. The receivers did not I I have the funds tA pay the balance ' and the sugar was sold at such a 1 low price that the final settlement ’ could not be made. Since then t t CONTINUED ON PAGE SIX) Auction Sale Planned / • 4 The Schafer Hartware company 9 will conduct an auction sale. A dem--1 ostration of the new McCormick- 1 1, Deering hammer mill and of the j :- now milking machine will also be 1 '- held in connection with the sale. Col. Roy Johnson will be in charge.

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Questioned in Lindbergh Kidnaping O ■ ■ l Jr- HiMli - : i joy. - is Jk Exclusive photos of Henry (‘Retl”) Johnson, who was questioned by police in Lindbergh kidnaping < a- Johnson is a friend of Betty Gow, the Lindbergh nmsemaid.

BOOSTER MEET IS SCHEDULED Gottschalk Supporters To Hold Public Meeting Here Wednesday — A Gottschalk for Congress boost-1 er meeting has been called for the j City Hall in Decatur. Wednesday] night at 7:30 o’clock by a number] of Senator Thurman Gottschalk's 1 friends here and the public is invited to attend the meeting. Herman C.illtg, local councilman j will preside as chairman of the meeting and will call on several] Adams county Democrats for short ] I talks Sen. Gottschalk also will I give an address during the eve-1 ning. The meeting is being called for all persons interested in the, Gottschalk candidacy and those in charge state they are especially anxious for all Adams county pre-1 cinct committeemen, county and] city officials and candidates for all ! county offices to attend. The meeting will start at 7:301 o'clock tomorrow night and all voters of the county are invited. Mr. |i Gillig said today that no set pro-, gram would be made, and that anyone desiring to talk would be given the opportunity. Representatives from Berne and ] Geneva have signified their inten-I. tions of attending and a number of ; (CONTINUED GN PAGE SIX) * NEW HAMPSHIRE VOTES TODAY Primary Holds Interest of Democrats; Smith, Roosevelt on Ballot Concord. N. H.. Mar. 8 (U.R) ~ The nations first presidential primary of 1932 drew New Hampshire Democrats to the polls today to choose between Franklin D. ■ Roosevelt and Alfred E. Smith as their party's candidate. While the New York governor was conceded an edge over his predecessor, some felt that Roosevelt would not win all eight of the state's convention votes. Smith forces were handicapped, it was thought, in that virtually all their candidates were resident! of Manchester. The Rooseveltpledged candidates were scattered. Included in the Roosevelt slate I WPre several former mayors and | several veteran Democrats who (CONTINUED ON PAGE SIX)

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Twenty-Four Children Are Saved From Fire Lincoln. Neb.. Mar. S ((J.P> — Twenty-four children, twelve of them babies, were rescued early today from a burning nursery building at the state home so rde- | pendent children. Mrs. Alice G. While, nltrsp on duty, discovered the fire as she neared the ward w’here the children were asleep. Mrs. While took a baby under each arm and carried them two to a time out of the burning building. Firemen rescued the twelve older children. The fire started from an overheated furnace pipe. o— ROAD BIDS TO BE RECEIVED Macadam Road Improvements To Be Made In Adams County The county commissioners will receive bids next month tor two macadam road improvements. The roads to be proposed to be improved are the John Drake road in Union township and the Finley Bryan in Blue <r-ek town-X'P- Both roads are about a mile in length and are mud roads. The petitions j ask that they be improved with ma variant. The estimate on the Drake road is $54,124.52 and on the Bryan road is $3,239.11. These two road improvements wore petitioned for in January and no objections were made at the hearing last month. They are the first roads on which stetps were taken by the board of commissioners to have improved and unless remonstrances are filed against the bond issue or the state board of tax commissioners refuse the issuing of the bonds, they will be improved. The commissioners diu not act on any other road improvement at this session. They did not consider any petitions for new improvements and wish to see what action is taken on the two roads ordered improved. —, • — ■o Debts Ordered Paid St. Louis, Mar. B—(U.R)—Receivers for the Wabash railroad have been authorized to pay $5,000,000 in debts of the road, by Federal Judge Charles B. Davis. Almost $4,000,000 of the indebtedness is for materials and supplies, the receivers told the court. The remaining amount is due for trackage rental from the Canadian National railway company.

CONGRESSMEN PUT ON SPOT Three Impending Prohibition Votes Will Prove Important Washington. March 8 (UP) — Three impending prohibition votes in congress soon will pnt the entire membership on record for the election campaign. They will add one of the most significant chapters to the long story of the prohibition docade. . It is a welcome opportunity for those who have been sailing under their true colors, whether ‘dry or otherwise. But for those who would | like to go through this campaign I carrying water on one shoulder and I liquor on the other, it is a cause I for acute insomnia. The three impending test votes are: 1. To tax malt syrup and other ] ingredSents for (home brew and wine. 2. To legalize 2.75 per cent beer and tax it. 3. To bring up a proposed repealer of the 18th amendment. Not only will these vofV shake out a number of congressmen who have b*en hiding up the tree; they will serve also as a guide for be- | wildered Republican party leaders. ' who are debating whether to dampen the party's National platform (CONTINUED OX PAGE RIX) PLANE CRASH ] FATAL TO TWO Century Plane Crash Details Withheld; Three Reported Injured East St. Louis. 111.. Mar. B.—(U.R) —A tri-motored Stimson monoplane of the Century Airlines, carrying five pilots on a practice night flight, crashed near Curtiss-Steinberg airport early today, killing two and injuring three of the occupants. Details of the accident were withheld until the airline, which has figured in a pilot's strike, had removed all wreckage to a hangar. The dead: K H. Atkinson. 35, Chicago. * James Kirk. 35, Chicago. The injured: Sydney Cleveland. 29. Goldfield. lowa. Ira Smalling, Chicago. ] Theodore Graff, Chicago. Smalling, Kirk and Cleveland i (CONTINUED ON PAGE FIVE)

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FINAL BANQUET PLANS WILL BE [■ i MADE THURSDAY I Final Ticket Drive To Close Thursday; Local People Urged to Buy BIC. PROGRAM IS PROMISED .— . Men anti women of Adams i county who are contemplat-; i ing altemling the Democratic , ! banquet and meeting which ] I will he held in Decatur next! 'Monday niifht at <> o'clock, will get their last o|)i)orlnn-1 itv to huv tickets lor the hie! event lodav, Wednesday ami Thi'rsdt'v until l> o’clock Aftet that time sale of tickets will be limited to outside counties and all remaining tickets, if there are any, will be sent to other I ! connties where there is still a de-1 I inand for tickets. Members of the| | executive committee and chair ; ! men of the other committees met I 1 last night and voted to set a deal-; I line for local ticket sales in order, that each church and lodge ran i) -] informed the exact number of plates wanted for the nanquet. I Temporary headquarters for the[ meeting will he established Mon ! day afternoon at the Rico hotel, and all visiting Democrat notables I will arrive at that hotel. Formal I acceptances have boon received from the four major candidates. Paul V. McNutt. Fred VanNuys. Walter Myers and John E. Fredrick. R. Earl Peters also has accepted an invitation to attend the] meeting and deliver an address. The tenative program calls for tlv banquet at <’> o’clock, with the lU' poh' raisin* following c-t 7:30 o'clock in the Court House yard. Consent was given yesterday by the board of county com- ! missioners to raise the poie on the; I Court House lawn. The pole rais-| ing will l>e in charge of Chris | ' Eicher and Cal Yost, with the, ! American Legion Drum Corps furI nishing the music. Following the pole raising th--; drum corps will lead tiie crowd to Catholic high school auditor ! mm where the speaking will take] place. More than 400 tickets have been sold and paid for and I over 250 others have signified j ~ IIX I■ I :t' <>X PA< ; E TWO) ARMIES BATTLE | ON WIDE FRONT Wearied Forces Battle For Advantages Along Shanghai Front Shanghai. Mat S.— (U.K) Wearied armies battled along a wide front in the Yangtze valley today as China brushed aside world wide peace overtures and recalled from exile her greatest military leader. Gen. Chiang Kai-Shek, to direct ; |the defense against invading Jap-' anese. Chinese government leaders, | meeting Japanese charges that de-1 fending armies were responsible; for tl>e renewed hostilities, flatly; announced refusal to attend the ; long-awaited peace conference tin-! less Japanese troops are with-1 drawn. At this same time, the central I executive committee meeting at I the temporary capital of Loyang announced that Gen. Chiang had been appointed chairman of the military council, a post tantamount to commander of the natoin's armies. The Sino-Japanese dash in the i Yangtze valley, which sprang up . shortly after commanders on both : sides had announced cessation of hostilities, apparently encouraged the government to a new assertion I of national entity. Chiang Tso-Ping, former minist- ' (CONTINVRD ON PAGE SIX) [ o Lent Service Tonight The Tuesday evening Lenten services will be Held at the St. Mary’s Catholic church at 7:30 o'clock this evening. Rev. Father Carl Holsinger - assistant pastor of St. Peter’s Catholic church, Fort Wayne, will deliver the fourth of his series of sermons. Following the sermon the 1 Benediction of the Blessed Sacra[ment will he given.

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Canning Factory Burns ■ The Stoops Cunning comimnyil plant of Van Wert. Ohio one of tile | largest canned goods producing sac- | lories in the country was destroyed I by fire Monday night. The loss was estimated at $11)0.000. The fire was discovered übotlt <1 o'clock Monday evening, eastern j i.m<-. and burned quickly and fierce- | ly for alioi : an hour and a half. The y city fir-' department round considerable <1: ficulty fighting tlie lilaze. The building, which was a block . in length and fronted on Pennsylva- | nia railroad was of brick and hoi- j low tile construction. Holmes Stoops, manager of the factory and son of the owner, .limes Stoops, estimated the damage at SIOO,OOO 1 the loss including stock valued at : $«0,000, and some machinery. The factory had been idle during I : ihe closed season. The plant only operates tor a six weeks perkul each, fallSEVEN SHIPS BATTERED IN : OCEAN STORM Freighter Disabled As Crew Awaits; Expect To Disband Soon . — OTHERS CALL FOR ASSISTANCE New York. Mar. 8.— — Coast guard eraft and the ■ White Star liner Adriatic stood bv the disabled freighter H. F. De Bardeleben in distress on the Atlantic today, one of seven vessels battered I by pounding waves swept before a furious windstorm. ! Radio messages from the steamer Adriatic said she was standing by as the crew of the distjpssed freighter expected to abandon her a* soon as feasible. Other ships reported endangert , I led were: The San Angelo. 90 miles northeast of Cape Henry. Norwalk. Richmond bound from : New York. Tug Mars, missing out or Nor-j I fol k. Va. Schooner Nomis. waterlogged out of Jacksonville. Collier Isaac T. Mann, disabled near Hog Island. Va. i Dixie Arrow, being towed to port] i from poinl off Virginia coast. j Lives of more than 150 seamen I were believed endangered by the [storm which had left several of these vessels helpless. Several other vessels, first reported in danger, were reported safe during the night. The De Bardeleben was disabled 110 miles southeast of Nantucket, Mass., last night. The Adriatic, hound for New York, answered the freighter's distress signals. Coast guard destroyers Coyningham and George E. Badger, out of Boston, also were sent to the scene. The ship had a damaged rudder. The crew numbers 34. The W. G. Coyle Company, of I New Orleans, owns the disabled freighter. The De Bardeleben was bound ■ for Norfolk. Va. The ship was without a cargo when caught in almost the center [of the storm which has been sweep- | (CONTINIT-tn ON PAGE SIX) o— — Brotherhood Holds Meet The subject of “Taxation” was discussed at the meeting of the! Mens Brotherhood of the Evan-1 gelical Church, which was held ini the church basement. Mondaynight. Seventeen members of the organization attended the meeting. The regular business of the organization was transacted and ■ the story telling contest was conducted with much enthusiasm. Gregg McFarland addressed the meeting of the subject of “Railroad Taxation." giving many figures on this subject as related to Adams county and the city of Decatur; and William Linn explained the "Sales tax" which is to be put in effect in the near future. "Taxation on Luxuries and Real Estate" was discussed by Rev. M. 1 W. Sunderman. The March section had charge ■ of the program, following whivn an oyster stew was served. Walter Bockman is chairman of the ■ April section and will have charge of the program for the meeting to be held the first Monday in April.

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POLICE ASKED TO WITHDRAW; NO NEW CLUES New Angles Fail To Present Tangible W orking Clues; Johnson Held LINDY WILL DEAL DIRECT I lopewell. N. .1.. Mar. 8. <U.R> Col. Chalies A. I.intlIh fl'll look over lodav almost singlehanded the task ol getting back his kidnaped son, Charles A., ,lr. New Jersey police, while still endeavoring Io solve the mvsterv and rcadv to aid the kidnapers in restoring the child to the Colonel and his suffering wife. Anne Morrow Lindbergh, were virtually superceded by the youthful flier and his immediate associates. Col. HenryBreckinridge. his molhei in-law, Mrs. Dwight Morrow, and Mrs. Lindbergh. Lindbergh made it plain to the state police that lie did not want, his wires tapped or his mail rend by the police, and they were compelled to confine themselves to two tasks: 1 Patrolling the estate to k< o away the curious or others with no valid business at the Sonrland mountain estate from which last Tuesday night the baby was kul- [ naped. 2 —Checking over tips from New Jersey and other points as to “mysterious cars.” "mysterious ' strangers with babies." and i strange hideaways which might ! shelter a stolen baby. Insofar as has been revealed by' Lindbergh and his associates, there still is no definite cine to the child or its abductors. A salsa report, not circulated by the United Press last night, claimed i that two communications h-td l,een received Sunday from the kidnapers. The story proved to be incorrect, and the United Press was advised by an unquestionable source that it had no I basis in fact. “Notes" are being received. But. they- are from people either desirous of being helpful, or from cranks and "chisclers.” Meantime. Henry (Rcdi John- | son. suitor of Miss P.etty Gow. th-’ I Lindbergh ntaid. still is hold for examination but wilbout < harges, at the Newark police headquarters. The proprietor of a roadside stand in Connecticut said he had identified Johnson at Newark as the man who Tuesday night bought warm milk at the stand There were indications Johnson is a victim of circumstantial evidence. He talked with Betty Gow on the kidnaping evening. and subsequently left for Connecticut. There have been some odd coim-i---dences concerning his journey, bnt New Jersey authorities have hinted they do not regard Johnson s action as amiss or ns throwing any light helpful to the inquiry. Meantime, the United Press learned from sources independent of the police and the Lindberghs that there was as stated first by the United Press on Wednesday' (CONTINCED ON I'AGt: I’lVEi 130 INDICTED BY GRAND JURY Only Names of Those Arrested Released At South Bend Today South Bend, Ind.. Mar. 8. —(U.R) Charges of liquor law violation made up a majority of 130 indictments returned by the federal grand jury here. Only the names of person previously arrested and free on bond were revealed. They were: Liquor Charges Ansel Sailors. South Bend: Robert Albert and Ray Burlier, Hammond; Daniel Currant. Ft. Wayne; Clarence Evans, Hammond; Russell and Anna Gratz. Spencerville: Russell Holmes. John Latzero, George and Joseph Kalas. Helena Marquart, Amos Martinal and Andrew Salona, all of Hammond; Ed Keister, Angola: Roy Lancclla. Gary: John Wayne, Wilder: George (CONTINUED ON PAGE TWO)