Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 30, Number 71, Decatur, Adams County, 23 March 1932 — Page 1

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In BRITAIN ■OPPOSED TO |fLAND'SPLAN H,.. lH nent \<»nof Annuities; ot Oath ■ V |>| |\|()RMED .'■Lion. Mui. (UR) - 1 - 'l' ns ‘ jnlnrilicil lilt' house "I , K l|lllls hsl.tv lh;il Hio, UOM rnlllelll stulKls Uh iigjinsl .ibolilion of i «^K ki || i In th< bill- .III<I non■urn! el tile I m<i inniliHHproposed bv the rcAivHbli'"ii> -"M rniiK nt <>l’| I I l * ll,p 1 « • - ■ 'landp.'iiu i I.'at beyond' K )n ot the oath." he said, P'*’" Oto land annul-1 H » uld he .. eianilest Violation i ■ t .a-wn»-t.’ ulm li is binding Bi» ami lienor on tile Irish '

an<l II'HH’I "U ill’ ■ , Ildmillistrabe in power." ilir- vol .-rnnu-nt '< after an audience with K " t:mt < ;ibin-'t PIB in . !' I'ly to a ques- ■ W [tii'antv I-'i.-e state comin l.<'n<io:i. in which the i ..t.t.-nd- d the oath was ■»)>' mandate: in the treaty ■ it nianift si that the oath is 1 part of the treaty." said. th- land annuities. 1 laid been no official ' inn on the basis ' Valma s sp,>e< h to the free ' wnatc ye-t-rday. as reportih<> pres-, wo understand frw- state government pr > S -f-t.iin ?' . laud annuities." 1 horn.lab:- aareeniont coni I I* alter, d in ugri-ement on ' sides." Timinas said "The state ton-num nt is hound > |B th* nil)‘l I.uni.(l and explicit to cohtiiuio to pay the tnnnltios p> the nation::! 1 rnmmissloners " land antn.iiies are collecti>x t'.AGK FIVE! ■levival To Continue (levival Meeting of the W' Tabor M E. Church, Bobo. . ■|B 'ontinii*- throughout the reweek with the Rev. ■•k Prestidge. of Wren. Ohio each evening at 7:30 , .merest in the meeting has ■" splendid and attendance is Special singing is a feature jB” 1 * 1 service. Mr. I’restidge anthat his subject for \Vednipht will |,e. "What Dress ■'Vwi Weai- Mt Tabor church invitation to the entire U#unity to |,e present in these ■ '■ Mr. I’restidge is an experpastor and evangelist, hav- ■ »wkt. ( | in lumber camps, on the in the city, and in the eonnthe interests of religious enHe brings a message backenthusiasm and power. ~ — — — - o— MITA TO I IE PRESENTED Ward Ticket Sale ■‘•wts; Is Annual AsS fair For Children ■J*- operetta. "Spring Glow " will Bea * ,ed the grade pupils of ■in.'"!" " ai ' d St ' hoo > in 'he audi- " u the Decatur high school evening. April 1. ■ ’small children will take part ■ f .7 ere,ta wh,ch wil > be in ■tot , The P la yß will be pre■ehl.r"ni,er the dir eetion of the ■ er «of the school. ■ , h _ ets "' IU be *>ld by the pupils ■bnt SCh ° 01 ' and children 12 Bird . age and un der will be adBus CMM the aud ltorium for 10 K»w?i over 12 years - and BvdiiHi P °' V 20 centß admission. Buthj .' S ~rged tO -l" an “> witB i%lldren eVer P ' ay r ’ resented by

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i Queen of Engineers | t - - |g < I OB Beantitul .Mary Ixmise Butter-' ( I field (above), co-ed at the Vniver-i , I sity of Missouri, won’t have to | - worry about a bonnet for at least ' ( lone week. Mary has been choseni| I by the M U. engineering students' , to reign over the Engineering! J I Week celebration as queen. So I she’ll wear a crown on her Titian ( | lork«. Miss Butterfield is a jount--1 alisnt student and expects to be , i come a girl reporter. . ,

COLLEGE FEUD | GROWS BITTER Missouri Students Ar e Seriously Injured; Gun Play Is Prominent Columbia. Mo., Mar. 23. —(U.R) —A hitter college feud between Uni verSTty of Missouri engineers and law students passed from hazing to actual violence with three students suffering gunshot wounds and a fourth tn the hospital with a possible skull fracture. Kidnaping of a co-ed. Mary Louise j Butterfield of Kansas City, last I Saturday so she could not reign as queen of the engineers' ball brought an attempt reprisal that ended in gunplay. Burnis Frederick, law student who had been identified as one of I Miss Butterfield’s abductors, shot three engineering classmates when they tried to kidnap him in revenge. Frederick, after he had wounded Frank Luckey of Columbia; Char les ixvve of Jefferson City, and Jerry F. C.ebe of St. louis. was beaten severely by the engineers j His skull may be fractured. Luckey was snot in the alulom en. and physicians, after an operation, described his condition as "Serious." Three automobiles bearing 11 engineering students surrounded Frederick's rooming house last night, determined to kidnap him and even the score with the lawyers. Miss Butterfield had said he was one of a group who captured her in front of her sorority house. Frederick, as he came out of his house, was stormed by the engineering students. me alone, or I'll shoot." he shouted. When the students surrounded (CONTINUED <>N PAGE b'lVI!) o Young Man Murdered Chicago. March 23 —— I be body of a young man. apparently a murder victim, was found today in an automobile parked in Westchester, a suburb west of Chicago. He had been shot four or five times. The automobile was found at 22nd street and Mannheim road, hast of the Dupage county line, in a sparse settled but well traveled neighborhood. ,The man was well dressed and wore an imitation camel's hair overcoat. He had been killed by a bullet which entered his right eye. Wound around his neck four times was a length of wire. The gear shift knob of the automobile was missing. On the running board were a white bathing cap. a right handed glove and a man's white handkerchief. Thirty feet away was a .38 calibre revolver from which four bullets had been fired. The automobile license Was issued to E. J. Fernock. Maywood, at business address in that city, and police chief George Wahlstedt tentatively accepted identity of the victim as Fernock. May wood Is only a few miles from Westchester.

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PEACE PLANS AREDELAYED ( hinese Official Puts Halt To Negotiations With .lap Interior Shanghai, Mar. 2:1 (U.R) Peace! negotiations between Japanese an<| Chinese wore further delayed today when Gen. Chiang KwangNai, commander ins hies of the Chinese litth route army, refutted to participate with an inferior Japanese officer. Gen. Chiang loft for Nanking. Quo Tai-Chi. representing. the Chinese foreign office, notified the Japanese that he was not prepared to participate in the negotiations duo to Chiang's departure, so tlie scheduled peace mooting was postponed. The Japanese had named Lieut. Gen. Kenkichi i’yeda as their military representative instead of the highest ranking officer here, Gen Shirakawa. After the departure of Gen. Chiang, the (’hinese named Gen. Gaston Wing to represent their military. Despite Gen. Chiang's attitude Gen. Shirikawa will not participate In the conference and Japanese conferees resigned themselves to hopeful waiting. It was underz. •< x .4 •1 < ■ • A * ««c. .... ■■ >« Xf. >. •,, 4•. I

'stood th it American Minister Nel- . son T. Johnson and British Min ' istei Sir Miles Lampson wer" 1 negotiating with the Chinese to I arrange resumption of the conferi ence. Chinese newspapers appearel* ! disturbed over the trip made by; | Japanese Admiral Shiosawa up , the Yangtze river toward Hankow. IHe travelled on he warship Ataka | ■ and stopped briefly at Nanking. | I The Nanking Evening News suspected "sinister motives" in the ' admiral's movements The peaca meeting ocUmtulcd I for today was based on truce pro- | posals agreed upon by Chinese and Japanese representatives here. The international settlement i seemed more interested in (h-f I election of members of the Shang i hai municipal council than in the 1 peace negotiations, for a precedent (CONTINUED ON PAGE LIVID NEW KIDNAP CLUE PROBED I Conversation on Night Boat Told to Authorities By Youth Hopwell. N J .. March 23—(UP) A chance conversation overheard on an Al-oany night boat was added today to the investigation in the! kidnapping Charles Augustus'! Lindbergh. Jr.. Ralph Shenton, 20. of Schenectady. N. Y., appeared In Hopewell today upon request of authorities investigating the Lindbergh case and was escorted to the Lindbergh home by state troopers. He said his information came from a conversation he overheard on an Albany night boat March 10. Shenton wotiid not reveal what he had heard in the conversation. I saying he preferred to consult only the authorities working on the investigation. He said he was on the night boat on the night of March 10—nine days after the child was seized from its crib in the Lindbergh Mansion —ami ( heard several men discussing the kidnaping case. The men were New York racketeers and said they ap- ■ patently w’ere members of a gang who had headquarters in a NewYork speakeasy some place "in the fifties," He said he knew the the address of the speakeasy. After the trip he said he telephoned detectives in charge of the kidnaping investigation and was (CONTINUED ON PAGE FIVE) — o Easter Egg Sale To Be Held Saturday . I The annual Easter egg sale sponsored by the Women's Missionary Society and the Girls Missionary ’ •Guild of the Zion Reformed Church will be held in the Mutschler Meat , Market on Monroe street, Saturday morning. ( Colored and decorated Easter eggs will be sold, the sale starting ' at 8:30 o'clock Saturday morning. , Anyone desiring to order eggs may do so by calling Miss Eleanor Reppert phone 312 or Mrs. M. F. Worth- . man phone 352.

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Where Crash Took Seven Lives I I — —r—- -. , 1 r -1 . ~ xX”* <■ i vT ; Ua / / / i l Z > IF - ..." L ..Mr wfeiL ...-w as*. , l This mass of twisted wreckage is all that remained of the big 'I American Airways passenger plane after the Crash at Calimesa. Cal., | that look a toll of seven lives. The air liner was enroute to Ix>s Ange‘l les. from Phoenix, Artz., when it encountered fog. It is believed that >i the pilot was endeavoring to get below the mist when he crashed into .' the high tension power lines that set his plane afire. Only one man ' , was taken from 'he wreckage alive, and he succumbed shortly after | ,j rierhing the hospital.

LENT SERMONS ARE CONCLUDED Rev. Father Holsinger Delivers Final Sermon of Series Tuesday Making a plea lor perseverance unto the end and urging everyone tA live a life according to the teachings of Christ, the Rev. Father Carl Holsingec. assistant pastor of St. Peter's Catholic church. Fort Wayne, concluded his series of Lenten sermons at the St. Mary's Catholic church last evening. Father '.lolsinger took for his discourse the text "He that loveth his life shall lose it; and lie that haletli his life in this world, keepeth it until life eternal”, from the I gospel of St. John, chapter 12:25. "There are three states in which you can tarry out a life in keeping witlt the teachings of Christ. The religious life, a life of singlene.ss and the married state", the speaker stated. "You should pray for guidance in selecting your vocation and then fulfill the tenets ! which make for a happy life and I reward in lite next world". Father Holsinger urged. His sermon was an inspiring one and was concluded with a plea for | all to persevere in the grace of the i Lord. A pvayer beseeching God for I the grace for a happy death was recited by Father Holsinger following his sermon. Benediction of the Blessed Sacrament was given following the sermon. Father Holsinger delivered six sermons at the St. Mary's Catholic church during the Lenten season, the sermons being given every Tuesday evening. 0 _ STUDENTS AT STRIKE AREA Two Hundred Seek Real Truth of Conditions In Mining Camps New York March 23 —(U.R) —Two hundred students from Yale, Harvard. Princeton. Columbia, the college of the city of New York. New York University, Smith and Hunter colleges piled into buses and automo<biles today planning an impartial "search for truth" in the coal-strike region of Eastern Kentucky. The party planned to proceed to Knoxville. Tenn., where all the groups will unite on Friday, then enter Kentucky and spread out through Harlan and Bell counties until Sunday when they will return. (Their purpose was not to make "demands” or "protests," they were told, but to remember they were students doing sociological research. Robert F. Hall, president of the Social Problems club at Columbia University who will accompany the party, warned the students before (CONTINUED ON PAGE FIVE)

Peterson Funeral To Be Thursday Morning The remains of Robert H. Peter-| 'son, Jr., whose death occurred at | 1 Dayton. Ohio. Monday evening, ar- | i rived here over the <l. R. and I. this | morning, accompanied by the father ‘ 1 Robert Sr., and grandmother Mrs. ' IJ. S. Peterson. The mother and | other relatives arrived by motor j last evening. Funeral services will be field irom the home of the grandparents. Mr. and Mrs John S. Peterson. 211 west Jef.orson street, at 11 o’clock (tomorrow morning. Rev. I:. 11. ; Franklin of the Methodist church Io filiating. Interment will be in the,' Decatur cemetery. Friends may view the remains at i any time this evening or before the i I funeral hour tomorrow. WAR CONTINUES IN MANCHURIA .lap Soldiers Scrap With Chinese Bandits; Six Japs Are Killed Tokio, Mar. 23—(U.R) —Continued fighting ttetween Japanese soldiers and Chinese "bandits" in Manchuria was announced officially today as T. Tacaka. former Japanese ambassador to Russia, prepared to to Manchuria to inspect the new independent government there. Tacaka will represent Foreign Minister Kenkichi Yoshizawa. An offi< i(1 announcement sa \ "bandits" who attai ked the Taochiatun station on the South Manchurian railroad killed six Japanese soldiers and wounded ten. The Japanese repulsed the attack and claimed they killed (10 Chinese. Taitor another official announcement said 15 Japanese soldiers were killed hnd 19 seriously wounded in fighting Guerillas it Nanhutou. and 'hat 200 Chinese were slain. Two hundred more were killed in attempting to attack i Hunangihotze. Two Japanese civ- 1 ilians were slain in this fight, and troops were dispatched in pursuit of the attackers. 0W — 0 Would Annul Will ♦ 0 Toronto, Ont., March 23—(U.R) — Tiie provincial government today moved to annul the “capricious” will of Charles Vanve Millar who j bequeathed almost $500,000 to the Toronto woman who, 10 years after Millar's death, had borne the most children. Millar died in 1928. To date, Mrs. Florence Brown, 42, married 22 years, seems to be leading the marathron. She has given birth to 27 children. 13 of whom are living. Mrs. Florence Bagnato, 37. is a i close second. She is married 241. years and has had 20 children. 111 of whom are now living. A bill was introduced in the provincial legislature yesterday by Attorney General Col. W. H. Price to convert the money to the University (CONTINUED ON PAGE FIVE)

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GLASS MEASURE i IS CONOEMNED BY ALLENPOPEi — Investment Bankers President Says Bill Not of Soundest Origin i SAYS PEOPLE WOULD DISSENT I Washington. Mar. 23 -(U.Rh~AI< lan M Pope, president of 1-»e hivestment Bankers association, to-i day before the senate banking! and currency committee condemn-' ed the Glass linking bill as i “defaltlonary” measure to which the banking community was op-‘ posed. fie said he recently had visit-, ed a dozen cities and interview 11 several hundred bank'rs who were! ■'unanimously opposed to the bill, on the ground that we are at j present engaged in an attempt to; stem the tide of deflation.' "The results of this bill are I diametrically opposed liecause ot its extreme deflationary chara z '- ! ter." Ire said. Pope said that sections of the I bill discriminated against national banks to an extent which “might I cause national banks to surrender | their national charters and become state banks." “We were confronted with that ' threat from practically all national banks." said Senator Glass. Dem.. Va.. "when we adopted the federal reserve act.” Pope objected that the bill did not sufficiently define security affiliates, explaining that under the present terms of the bill he understood that the Bethlehem Steel Corporation would fall withaifiliate dofinitsni and be "•itNI I.Xt'EP ON PACE f'lVEt o A Capnella Choir To Offer Special Concert On Easter Sunday morning. March 27, at fl o’clock (C.S.T.) the ' sixty voice a cappella choir of ’ Wittenberg College. Springfield, i 0.. under the direction of Prof. ; John Thomas Williams of the Witj lenberg School of Music, will sing i a concert of sacred music daring I (he "Church of the Air” period of the Columbia Broadcasting System A special Easter service will be conducted and sermon preached l.’y the Hev. Ries Edgar Tulloss. Ph I).. D.D.. LL.D., president of the college, wito. with the choir.' will travel to Columbus. 0.. to broadcast from the studios of WAIT. The musical numbers of the Wittenberg College Choir will include Christiansen's "O Sacred Head Now Wounded"; Haydn's "Darkness Obscured": Christiansen's "Beautitul Savior"; Tschaikowsky's "Light Celestial'' ; Tschaikowskv’s “Hymn of Praise" Kalinnikolf's "Gloria and Only Begotten Son"; Schuetky's "Send Forth Thy Spirit”: Lvovsky's "Hospodee Pomeelooy. (Lord Have Mercy)”; and Kopoiyoff's "Alleluia! Christ is Risen". PROBE MISSING LIQUOR SUPPLY Indianapolis Tinies Relates That Republican Leaders Play Part Indianapolis, March 23—(UP) — The Indianapolis Times said today that Federal prohibition agents for the past two weeks have been investigating alleged disappearance of 1,200 pints of confiscated whisky from a Federal building storeroom. The Times said the whisky was believed to have been part of 1,182 sacks seized at Evansville March 4. 1931. while enroute from Ansley, Mass., to Chicago liquor gangs. “Reports have been made," the Times said, "that this whisky has been the principal item at scores of more hilarious drinking parties in a north-side apartment house, at whch high Republican officials were present." The Federal building storeroom from where the liquor allegedly was taken is the one from which approximatey $225,000 worth of liquor from Lawrenceburg, Ind., distilleries. was stolen six years ago.

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h 11 GOOD FRIDAY PLANS Practically every store, office I, and the banks will, close from j 12 to 3 o’clock Friday after | noon, in observance of lite ; Three Hours. A united service of nil Prol- !' cslant churches will be held at the Methodist church, the ministers fro m the different I (Imrches parl ieipat ing. ' |At Hie St. Mary's Catholic | | church, private devotions and adorations tiefore the Cross of Jesus will mark the observance } of the Three Hours. i At the Zion Lutheran church. Good Friday services will be bold at 7:20 o'clock in the evening. i fl _ 0 MEXICAN HAY i CONFISCATED Three Mexicans Arrested For Violation of Narcotic Laws Sheriff Burl Johnson and Police Officers Sephus Melchi, Arthur Clark and Ed Miller started an ‘ investigation today to trace down Mexican hay (cannabis indica) ( die source of a large quantity of which is being sold in Adams j county. The hay is smoked in cigarettes ' or pipes and produces a sensation similar to intoxication. Sear h warrants were secured on all ( shacks inbaUtod by Mexican laborers in the north part of Decatur. A raid was first conducted this afternoon on shack number one, and a quantity of the finished product was found. Officers arrested Baltazar Huerta. In shaik ' I number four more of the smoking ■ compound was found and two Mexicans were rrrested. Nibres Suniga and Joe Rivez. Rivez served time several years ago for shoplifting in Decatur. The trio will face charges in Adams circuit court for selling the . cannabis indica. Sheriff Johnson ’I said that the probe would continuei and that he believed more arrests ' would be made soon. WORLD WILL OBSERVE DAY Markets To Close For Good Friday; Re-open Following Monday New York. Mar. 23.—(U.R)—Major I financial and commodity markets of the world will lie closed March 25 in observance of Good Friday and in Great Britain and tlie Latin-Am-erican countries will remain closed . until Tuesday. Most American markets, includ- ! ing the New York stock exchange. ! tlie Chicago board of trade and . livestock and produce markets, will resume for the half-day session Saturday. American markets open : Friday include Chicago livestock and vegetable, Kansas City livestock. and other smaller live stock : markets, The New York cotton exchange i and tlie National Metal exchange will be principal'American markets closed Saturday. All will resume on Monday. All English markets will resume on Tuesday. , o Charles L. Bull Dies Oradell. N. J.. Mar. 23.—(U.R) — Charles Livingston Bull, naturalist, animal painter, illustrator and author died here at his home late yesterday. He was 57 years old. Bull was one of the best known illustrators of animal stories in the United States. President Roosevelt once remarked of his work that "Bull is the only man who can put legs on four sides of an animal and make it look natural." o Hunger Striker Weak Washington. Mar. 23—(U.R) —Dy 1 Frederic F. Wolter was feeling weaker today but said he liad no 1 intention of abandoning the idea ot starving himself to death unless ‘ he finds employment which he feels suitable for a man of his i high scholastic attainments. Wolter, on the 24th day of his fast, said he was beginning to ' find it difficult to climb tip and) - down the stairs to his fourth floor i room at the Salvation Army hotel.l

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DEATH TOLL IS MORETHAN3OO: MANY INJURED Reconstruction Sturts In Southern States Where Cyclone Swept SOME INJURED ARE CRITICAL BULLETIN Birmingham, Ala., Mar. 23— (U.R) — Death toll from the southern tornado mounted above the 300 mark today with 1,000 injured. Tabulation by states: Alabama, 254 dead, 872 injured: Georgia, 34 dead. 93 injured; Tennessee, 18 dead, 34 injured; Kentucky, 2 dead. 4 injured; South Carolina, 2 dead, 6 inji.red. Totals, 319 dead, 1.000 injured. By SAM SLATE. UP Staff Correspondent (Copyright 1932 by UP) Montgomery, Ala., Mar. 2. —(U.R)—Ruined towns, wrecked homes, broken families, maimed bodies, scenes and incidents that tear at the heart and brought tin appeal for help by the governor were revealed to me in K* hours of duty in Alabama’s storm-torn districts. I had just returned from Clanton in Chilton county, hardest hit in the great storm swept area in which the United Press found 272 were dead and nearly a thousand were injured, when Governor B. M. Miller issued his appeal. Although food, medical supplies, temporary homes in shelter tents, and other immediate neetls of llio stricken people were being provided. Governor Miller, citing the intense suffering of the community, asked: "Citizens of Alabama and others able to help to contribute as they are aide to the relief of the storm stricken area, through the Red ; Cross." Here's the picture as 1 have found it, the picture that has moved the governor to call for relict of the homeless, hungry and injnrj ed: One trip took ns past levelled telephone and telegraph lines, along loads strewn witlt debris, blocked here and there by fallen trees. A flashlight that flickered and blinked among tlie ruins of crumbled homes revealed the dead. Farther up the road, we were bocked by splintered jumbled timbers of what had been a home, lifted in air and dropped in a heap ill our path. We came upon a man who hail thrown a heavy overcoat over his shoulders and stood gazing silently at the ruins of what had been his home. Former Sheriff J. L. Goce of Chilton county, living at Union Grove where not a home was left standing, where only one family, the Goce family, was spared death, said: "It was an act of providence wo. were not all killed." he said. Ihe storm came so quick we were seated at the table eating. When I came to. 1 was wedged under ti (CONTINI’KD ON PAGE l'Ot'f:> SHERIFF NABS ALLEGED THIEF Muncie Young Man Produces $2,000 In Cash To Be Released Ralph E. Aurand. slick looking young man, of Muncie was arrested Tuesday afternoon by Sheriff Burl Johnson at Muncie and returned to this city to face a charge of vehicle taking in connection with the. recent theft of an automobile. Aurand was arraigned late Tuesday alternoon and pleaded not guilty to the charge. Judge D. B. Erwin placed the bond lit $2,000 and the young man reached in his pocket and produced a cashier's check on a Muncie bank for the necessary amount. He deposited the «a.h bond with the clerk. Milton C Werling. and was released. It is the first time ja $2,000 cash bond has been given in Adams county for several years. I Trial dale will be set.