Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 30, Number 64, Decatur, Adams County, 15 March 1932 — Page 1

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llmism is ■PRESSED BY j ILLSPEAKERS ■crats From NorthErn Indiana Cheer ■ Victory Forecast | (iFTS ON ATI ON ■ ihousoml IVinocrats I northeastern Indiana E{ an<l elieeml at Oath-; K,(|| school auditorium Eight as Paul V. McCnlxTiniloi'i.d candidate in,| VanNuys, senatoi■mini,ilc unloosed some Chinned democracy as iiiiil-ti|> of the Fourth If banquet and rally. K, (he t*n headliner*. all | | congressional candidates I k (.- ar | peters, democratic Ihairraan. made short talkk. j |D R Erwin presided at the j I- and introduced the var■ats and concessional can--1,. Erwin was introduced by I Chairman Ed. A. Posse. Ist ot the night's program I bamiuet held at six differIces in the city. Following ■niiuct. Democrat* from all ks Indiana braved the snov. y leather to watch the 75-foot p pole go up on the court [Mptare. American legion drum then tod the crowd to the kilim where the speaking Uace. k'utt. former national com ) rr of the American Leglm, lean of Indiana University jrhool stole a lot of thunder | ir of the greatest political! lies ever made in Decatur. | (iterated his stand on home loci sta'ed that if successful | | candidacy for Hie governorbe would insist on public es ‘giving a dollar’s worth Diet for every della! ICC"!VKn the punlio." m McNutt flayed the state Stations of the last 16 amt told the big crowd that ta had served its indetermintnteme of from two to 14 and was now ready for four of government by the peo- " hen he- concluded t tie I arose an,| gave him an app that finally had to he ?d by those in charge so the n S could continue. forniei United States tt .ittornev and state chairand candidate tor U. S. senfnont Indiana. declared at the national sales tax. He d the administration with of the evils of today and all people to vote for a an d national democratic ■miration. Pait! tribute to all Demon~imUana_J^) <i especially, °N PA OP THREE, lanta has RECALL VOTE ror K<k v Faces Ouster " Anti-Wet Petition I'or Recall Jaata. Ga.. March 15—(UP)— . ' is '‘'lt’d today on the recall tot prohibition mayor, James e election was called by city Det!tl'' ee ' t aK ° 0,1 ,lle atre »Kth ton sponsored by me Great 111 a prohibition and law en-the-Atlanta FeSoa of trades. me Pmentß 1,1 the Ci ty have ir , in k ng for the reca ff of the lihiri n< t he ‘ a, 'ed America's Lhn aW Co,lld not i* enforcln P«rt« with other AmeB ma > - or.t last year. c of his companions on that Ug ay ® r ■' Vnn c - Porter of Los s ~ faces a repall elec“Wnsoreu largely by those afankliiJ 118 failure t 0 Participate t 0 the Pfeaident ’ N ’ T INL r ED ON pace FOUR)

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! Purse Snatcher (Jets Sl.'i From Miss Mylott Mi - Margaret Mylott of SI6 Rift), I street, this city, was the victim i of a purse snatcher at Fori Wayne I Monday night. Miss Mylott had just j left Central high school when a man grabbed her purse from her i band and ran. The purse contained j sls In currency. Miss Mylott described the man j as being 25 years old and five feel 10 Inches tafl. He was wearing a black cap and blue overcoat. Fort Wayne olive are investigating the case. Miss Mylott is employed att secretary to \V i.\. Ktopper at the Ctoveriest Creameries, inc„ of this city DREDGE CASE PROGRESSING Hofcr Completes Testimony For Remonstrators In Wabash Case A. K. llofer. civil engineer, of ! Fort Wayne, appearing ns a wit-1 ness for Adams county in the, Wabash river dredge case, eon-1 eluded his testimony for the tv ntonstrators this afternoon and > was being cross-examined by j Judge George Whitaker, chief counsel for the petitioners. Mr. Hofer has been on the stand since last Thursday and was ques- j tioned by County Attorney Henvv | ft. Heller Adams county is a re-1 monktrator against the proposed drain on the grounds that the proposed dredging is not necessary] and the expense it will entail, against the eountv in building new! bridges., road approaches anil. damages resulting from the pro ! ! posed change in the channel. In answer to a question asked, I by Judge C E. Sturgis, city attor-j ney for Rluffton. also one of thpj | remonstrators against the dradg-1 j ing of the river. Mr Hofer tesii j | fied that if the river was dredged j ! as proposed that the 1929 water 1 level would have been 1.58 feet ] highpr than it was. It was brought j out that this increased amount of! water would have flooded the eityj power plant in Rluffton. Answering the hypothetical question, Mr. Hofer slated that j the proposed change in the chan-j net of the river would Icing a greater amount of water to the] Limberlost, cause an additional , flood danger in that territory and would creat a flood hnzzard in j and near the terminus of the proposed dredging Assessments in the proposed; river dredging total about $185,000. j of which $7,500 is assessed against, property in Ohio and about $175,000 in Indiana, most of which lies in Adams county. o Judge Is Bankrupt New York. Mar. 15.—ftJ.RJ — Judge, humorous weekly, closed a career of more than 40 years with a voluntary petition in bankruptcy today. The petition, filed in federal court here, said the board of directors last Monday adopted a resolution saying the corporation was unable to pay its debts. I The publication recently has been in the hands of equity receivers, and decided that the bankruptcy action was now the only way cut. o Youth Is Released Anderson, lad.. Mar. 15.—(U.R) — Kidnapers who seized William Rarkdun, 10, near his home in Daleville yesterday released him last night near the home of his grandmother, Mrs. Clyde Steigner, here. The boy. who was unharmed, told police his abductors freed him after he told th£m his name. They believ ad that they had kidnaped a son of Mr. afid Mrs. Hesse Green, Daleville, Darkdull said. Police had no clues to the kidnapers. o Are Sentenced To Death Lima, Peru, Mar. 15.—(U.R)—Sentence of death was passed by a courts martial today on Jose Melgar ami Juan Seoane, implicated in the attempt to assassinate President Luis Sanchez Cerro recently.

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INTERNATIONAL BANKERS FACE JOHNSON HEAT Flr e y Senator Attacks Post-War Loans Made Foreign Countries — SPEECH IS IN MANUSCRIPT Washington. Mar. la (UR) Senator Hiram \V. Johnson, nt’Diiblicnn, California, turned tlu* lire of liis oratory lo«tav against the international hankers. He denounced their postwar loans of hundreds of millions of dollars to foreign | countries and enterprises as ! infamous exploiting of the Am<*r- | icon investing public. Johnson arose in the senate to make Ids long awaited speech cul- ! urinating the investigation of | foreign financing which he led ! during the early part of the pres--1 ent session of congress. Johnson spoke fiom the front 1 row desk in the senate chambers ] where he has battled for years in j an oratorical skill not exceeded by his colleagues. Rut at the out- ! set today the fire was dim. For the first time in the memory of , his colleagues the senator under- ! took to read his speech instead of ] launching into it on tlie wings of ! memory. Gestures were fewer : and the characteristic shadow boxi ing movement of Johnson's hands was restrained by the necessity jof reading trom the text — He told the senate tnai i1.600,I 000,00 ft worth of European governi mont bonds floated in the l niteil States had depreciated by $742.1 000,000. He said on the $2,540.i 000,000 of all European bopds otuj standing depreciation aggregated 1 *800.000.000. Rut Johnson s bitterest com- ! plaints, Iris most emphatic chal- ] lenge to the operations of bond j selling hankers was reserved for , dealers in Latin American issues. [ He charged bribery, greed and monev-madness agafnst the men who passed on these bonds to American investors. Tlie senator cited the record: , $1,600,000,000 of Latin American | bonds sold here are now worth ! $422,000,000 and $(>15,458,300 worth CC'ONTINI'Kt* Cl.v PAGE FOl'li, JOSEPH LONG FACES CHARGE — Portland Man Is C harged With Violating National Bankrupt Law Joseph iA. loing, former wealthy produce man of Portland and Esther It. Brigham, also of Portland, were arrested in Fort Wayne yesterday, charged with conspiracy to violate the National Bankruptcy laws. Long is also charged in a second indictment with violation of the National Bankruptcy Act. In the conspiracy indictment. Long and Miss Brigham are named with Walter Hill and Allen P. Rice, of rnion City, who were arrested last week and were released under bond. Long and Miss Brigham were released today after posting bonds of $5,000 and $3,000 respectively. Both surrendered to a Department of Justice Agent and Deputy United States Marshal Herman V. Atkins at the Federal building, after they teamed that they were wanted. TFie defendants in the indictment are charged with having conspired in concealing assets. Long tiled petition in bankruptcy proceedings several months ago. Attends District Meet Mrs. Maybelle Myers, Adams county attendance officer is attending the Northeastern" Indiana district attendance officer's meeting at tiie Catholic Community Center in Fort Wayne, today. The meeting began ai 10:30 o'clock this morning and Blanche Merry state attendance officer, was in charge.

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(Jeorge Kastman Kills Self L i jM* r 1 4 \ 4?) ■ iJfcjijS t » ’ George Eastman, nuiltl-nrilllo.i- --' aire manufacturer of photographic supplies, who shot and killed him--1 self in his home at Rochester. N.Y. f| Monday. Mr. Eastman was 77 years old and had been ill for 1 three years. The coroner’s verdict ■; was “death by suicide while tem- ", porarily insane." Mr. Eastman's; ' ; fortune was estimated to he >n ‘ i excess of $5(90,000,000. DON LEBRUN BUYS THEATRE ! Jess Leßrun Sells Local Theatre to Son; Change Made Today i| Don Leßrun. well known young man of this eity has purohsed the J Cort Theatre from his father. Jess I* Laßrun and has today assumed ae- . live management anti ownership of the theatre. 1 The theatre will continue to opi erate tinder the same policy as be- > fore and will make every effort to show the latest and best pictures for the convenience of local theatrei goers. i The Cort theatre has been opert ating under the management of Jess Leßrun for the naxt ten years Mr. Leßrun is at present undecided as to what he will do in the future. Canned (Joods Exempt '! Washington. March 15 —(UP) — j The house ways and means com- , mittee today voted to exempt most 1 canned foods from the proposed manufactures stalCs tax. Canned fruit, vegetables, fish and meat were exxempied. I.t was estimated these exenrp- ■ (ions would cut $11,000,000 from the $595,000,000 which the sales tax was designed to raise o INCOME TAX TOTAL IS LOW First Figures Show Lowest Collection In 12 Years, Report Says Washington. Mar. 15 — (U.R)--Preliminary check by internal revenue officials today showed , that income tux returns lor the fiscal vear 1932 probably will fail to reach sl,ooo,ooo.ooo—the lowest total in a dozen years. | Income taxes for the fiscal year 1932, paid on individual and corporation incomes of 1930, totaled $679,803,240.86 on March 11. Treasury officials expect that about $130,000,000 will be paid by midnight tonight on income for the first quarter of 1931. The fiscal year begins July 1, ( and is dated for the calendar year , in which it ends. Thus this is the ( fiscal year 1932, and income tux ( payments today are for its third quarter, although for the fiibt , quarter of the calendar year 1932. ( June returns are expected to | (CONTINUED ON PAGE TWO) 1

Bandits Obtain Loot Wichita. Kan.. March 16 (UP) Three bandits today seized the night watchman of Sedgwick, small town east o. here, cut all telephone wires forced a hank cashier to assist In i ontng a vault and escaped with $2,500. the men forced Ray Wiley, the wa:chmun to accompany them to the home of Tom Grinwood, cashier of the bank of Sedgwick. Grinwood was taken to the bank and forced to open the outer door. The vault was blown open- with explosives. DOC FUND HAS CASH SURPLUS All Townships To Pay Outstanding Claims; Surplus Is Left For the first time in several years the county dog fund does not show a deficit and every township will be able to pay outstanding claims in full. Tl\e distribution of the dog fund has been completed by County Auditor Albert Harlow and deficits in the several townships will l;e wiped out with the credits turned in by six of the townships. After all of the township deficits ! were paid, there still was a balance of $51.88. which was distributed among the fourteen school units in the county. Loses suffered by the townships totaled $3,509.60. Part of this total i was carried over from 1930 and was shown in the 1931 reports as paid or outstanding balance due. I' l»sses are paid property owners for sheep, livestock or fowls killed by dogs. Last year there was a deficit of i $2,341.17 in the dog fund. The I deficit this year totaled $1,411.64 I and this balance was wiped out l>& tlie credit received from the six townships. Tlie credits amounted to $1,469.28. The townships whi-'h paid in a credit are. Wabash. $322.25: Union, $166.50; French. $111.60: Preble, $55.40; Washing--1 ton. $448.00; Monroe, $365.53. Tlie balance. $57.64 was divided. 11l per cent to the state fund, $5.76 and $51.88 among tlie school units. ! distributed on a per capita for the number of school children. The townships which had a deficit in the fund are. Root. (CONTINUED ON PAGE KOUI!) HONOR ROLL IS ANNOUNCED — Tom Allwein Leads At I). H. S. For First SixWeek School Period Tom Allwein. Decatur high.school junior, led the high school honor roll lor the first six weeks of the second semester with 4A plusses, it was announced hy W. Guy Brown, principal, today. Mr. Allwein has led the honor roll every six weeks period since the opening of school last Septem- ] her, and in addition to his scholastic record has participated in all athletics. The honor roll contains the names of 38 pupils of which 15 are seniors, 7 are juniors. 6 are sopho-1 mores, and 10 are freshmen. Following is the honor roll plus plus Tom Allwein 4A Minnie Moyer 3A 2A Eula Myers 3A 1A Mary G. Zimmerman 3A 1A Betty Frisinger 2A 3A Mary Kathryn Tyndall 2A 3A Harold Mumma 2A 2A Dick Schug 2A 2A (CONTINUED ON PAGE THREE) To Advise On Case Warren, 0,, March 15—(UP) — Trial of Dowell Hargraves, Youngstown, on charge of kidnaping James I)e Jute, Jr., Niles schoolboy, ended today and Judge Lynn B. Griffith took the ease under advisement. The judge who heard the case when a jury Dial was waived by the de.ense, Indicated he would have his decision ready Wednesday morning.

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$106,000 CASH STOLEN FROM BANK IN IOWA i Bandits n t c r Clinton Bank; Wait Eor Vault To Be Opened NO SECURITIES REPORTED TAKEN Clinton, la., Mar. 15.— (U.R) I —The City National Bank i here was robbedy today by I! five bandits who escaped with approximately $106,000. The money was all in cash. The bandits waylaid the janitor, Clyde Willis, forced him to let them into the bank, and then waited for Ihe bank vault time lock to release the bank I funds. While they waited, bank em- * ployes and officers were gathering for the day’s work. As each person entered, lie was tied with rope and placed In the director's room. J where all were kept under close guard. I One bandit wounded himself with \ a knife when he cut the bonds | s holding the janitor so Willis could i '' open the bank door. The bandit s igave no indication of his injury, I r jbut left a pool of blood on the floor "! of the bank. j Before the time lock clicked, per-! mitting the robbers to get to the, * J resources of the big bank, there ; * were more than 30 employes and! d officers of the institution imprison-j s i d in the d’.’-“ctnrs' room. “ - "‘Tliey went about it in business-! a like fashion and apparently knew j jast what they wanted.'' said O I*. I Petty, vice president of the bank j (and one of the officers who arrived j B before the robbers fled. The robbers took only cash, pay-1 "] ing no attention to the securities. | I The loss, according to Petty, ! was covered by insurance. Bus’l loess was conducted hy the bank las usual despite the holdup. •i Besides Petty there was among j •jihose imprisoned by the bandits G. ] ■|L. Curtis, president; W A. Antler -j Ison, vice president: H. (1. Cramer, I ; vice president, and L. H. Nissen.j 5 J (CONTIXUHP OX IM6I-: Fnci:i Unique Teaching Plan *| Miss Helen Shroll. teacher of the second grade at the South Ward j school, is teaching her pu'pils responsibility, class room cooperation j land other valuable facts about life! | through ail unusual object lesson.) The lesson is a chicken that is j II setting on tifteen eggs, which will I Ihe hatched about March 31. The] | children have made a pen and nest 1 I for the hen, water and feed it daily, j j an 1 are learning the habits of t hick-, > ens. These are related to the bab-1 its of human beings, bringing a lesson of importance to the children. 'The idea of a chicken and smalI ler chicks is also seasonal, this . being the Easter time. The hen is , a Buff-Orpington amt was given to the class by Mrs. Curtis Moser. MAN LIVES IN ELECTRIC OVEN Tennesseean Survives In •| Contradiction To Scientists And Doctors Memphis, Tenn., Mar. 15. —(U.R) —L. Jack Dotty, known as the “oven man" because lie lives in an electrical contrivance under a temperature of 103 degrees, “cheated” science for the 318th time today. Doctors said Doty could not survive the severe burns ho received in an automobile crash last May. because they covered one third of his body. No one ever had, according to scientific opinions. But Doty so far has fooled them all. He even plays bridge. The 27-year-old man, married and the father of a two-year-old boy, has sandy hair, and sharp blue * eyes. He takes his plight philosophically. "It's not so bad," he said, dropping his chin in his hands —the rest of his body is encased in the oven. “People are awful kind to me. Just (CONTINUED ON PAGE THREE)

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Parks Automobile On Rail Crossing; Sleepsi Hammond, hid., March 15 tlM*i| The besii place to park a ear and : go to sleep Is not on a railroad j crossing, Osman llrozan, of Whit-, ing, was convinced today. Brozzan was held in city jail on a i charge of driving while intoxicated. I police officers of the Pennsylvania I railroad said they found llrozan i ! asleep ia Iris machine on the Dick- | cy crossing in Whiting. They awoke | hint and drove the auto off the | I tracks a short while before a train . | passed. | WETS JUBILANT ON HOUSE VOTE Predict Wet Congress In 1934; Drys Claim Solid Victory Washington. Mar. 15 — (U.R) —Jul> I riant wets claimed today they would have a majority in the next house. Their astounding show of strength ! lon the Beck-Linthlcum vote yester- . day reimhued them with z.eal for 'a campaign to continue through | this session of congress and on into ihe elections in November. It encouraged them to change j ! their immediate program. They! had planned to force the 2.75 per | icent beer bill as an amendment to) j the pending tax bill. Now they! jhave a new idea. Wet leader Beck. Repn., Pa., in- ; [formed the United Press they prob-, I ably would move to get separate! j c onsideration of a beer bill. They j i want to put the house ou reccvd, ion that just as they did on the j ! Beck Linthicum home rule plan. | j They believe they could get more, votes for beer as a separate propo- ; ! sition. because there is strong j j pressure on the house now to take J !the tax bill as it came from tlioj ! ways and means committee with-| out change. A movement may be | i started shortly to get 145 signatures | ! lor a petition for a beer vote. Drys, however, insist that their 1227 to 187 victory yesterday against [ ; Uie home rule plan showed they | I were still safely in control. “It came oat just about as i ex-, j pouted,” said energetic young Rpp.. j ; Moore. Repn.. Ohio, the only dry j [who participated in debate prior J to the vote. "I cannot see that ii j I makes any difference wiih respect i j (CONTINUED ON PAGE THREE) j EASTMAN.KODAK INVENTOR DIES Nationaly Known Inventor Kills Self; Says Work Is Done Rochester. N Y.. Mar. 15. ( (U.R) —Old friends of George Eastman who built a fortune on kodak ( films and gave most of it away, ] talked today ot' the hobbies, fancies and qualities of their 77-year old comrade who wrote “My work is done, why wait?" then carefully | extinguished his cigaret and killed himself. Their comment, their praise, their stories of the l>oy- who started his life work on a $3 a , week job, worked as a bank clerk. . I and perfected a photographic film ' because the old fashioned plates were a nuisance, came today from every part of the world. They came as Rochester, the city Eastman made beautiful, lay blanketed by a heavy snowfall. Tliey bore witness to Eastman 1 gifts of millions for hospitals, ‘ science, playgrounds, music, the i drama and the arts. | All night ami early today they | piled up. as the body of (he phil- ( unthropist lay in the Eastman • home, a beautiful home half hidden from view hy heavy growlh of trees and shrubs buried under (CONTINUED ON PAGE TXCO» f o i Service Is Announced The First Evangelical Church will have a special Lenten Service on 1 Wednesday night at seven o'clock 1 The regular church choir will sing. ! The sermon will be preached by the 1 Rev. M W. Sundermann. iiastor ‘ of the church.

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CLUES TRACED DOWN WITHOUT AUTHENTICITY jOHicers Express I'ear F or Safety; Langs Are Probed For Clues TWO WEEKS HAVE PASSED Hopewell. N. J., Mar. 1.) - ! U.R) —Fear for the safety ot Habv Charles A. Lindbergh, Jr., was fell in sonic quarters ; today as the two weeks mark neared in the mystery ;of his kidnaping, and police 1 chased down blind alleys for real clues to his abductors. There was no official expression ! of opinion as to whether the child I was alive or well, or harmed by its cold. Authorities still w in checking everything that would yield a trace of the child and ' alTect its restoration to its par* I ents. Col. and Mrs. Lindbergh. Police and. apparently, the fam- ' ilv were hoping against hope. The centerpiece of the police work today was :■ scheduled examination of Frank Berg, yachtsman. The police communique this i forenoon said Max Phillips hi I voluntarily rolaled liis experience !in an attempted kidnaping in i 1926 “which was frustrated by adI vance information. " Berg's name ! cropped up in the course of ties ! statement, and the police said tli it ! the information surrendered by ! Max Phillips will be given the necessary attention for tlie purj pose of ascertaining whether or : 00l the kidnapers responsible t'oi* f-the attempt on hint run h<* ermj nected with this case." Phillips, a wealthy man of RatI ontown, N.J.. did not discuss the 1 Lindbergh case, it was said. Berg owns a yacht which is i understood to have I'-en anchored I recently at Oyster Bay. though I residents of that district said they • did not see it for a few days in I the past fortnight Insofar as po- ; lice revealed, the scheduled exami inatinn of Berg was routine — in I line with questioning any persons I who might, even remotely, tie abb' | to assist in throwing lights on :i j mystery unequalled in recent kid- , naping annals. I "We are not responsible," said i the forenoon press statement, "for j (CONTINUED ON PARK TIIRKKi Funeral Is Thursday FuneraH services will be held Thursday afternoon for Frederick Antacher, 9<(. who died al the Adams County Infirmary near here Monday morning of paralysis. Services will be held at 2 o'clock Thursday afternoon at the Reformed Church in Berne, with the Rev. J. L. Conrad officiating. Burial will be made in the M. R. E. cemetery. Mr. Amacher was born in Switzerland in 184! 'His wife preceded him in death in 1918, anil seven children also preceded him in death. Surviving are the two sons. John of Fort Wayne and Fred ot Petoskev, Michigan. SAYS SPORTS ARE INJURIOUS Over - Indulgence Ruins Hearts, Medical Director Declares Fort Wayne, Ind. March 15— (UP) College youths who over indulge in com'iie'titive sports for “dear old alma mater ’ or to maintain winning record of a highly paid coach are ruining their hearts, according to Dr. W. E. Thornton, medical director of the Lincoln National Life Insurance Company. "The recent growth of competitive sports ln our colleges and high schools has been of too brief a duration for our Insurance records to reveal definite statistics show ing that excessive competition in youth results in a shortened life span; but most of our associates in the medical '; rofesion will probably hack me up when 1 say tliai thousand of young hearts are being impaired, if not entirely burned out. on our Athletic fields," l)y. Thorn(CONTINUED ON PAGE THREE)