Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 30, Number 78, Decatur, Adams County, 31 March 1932 — Page 1

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WALL STREET TAX FAVORED BY HOUSE ■I *

WIN SAYS ; .lOER PEOPLE ; pJNIIST RETIRE - Idea' (hl ihe^Ecol Present EconB. OLDER ■ ME\ Bl 1 NDER Vuk. M.n-. 31 ' U R ‘ ~ until >\'-n P'TM'II Bl w illn B I’llkill. I>sv- . aiillioi priil'-.-: t , llllilb' I Hl' •T’-iStS . is 11, ,i pH''* in'tn ‘ " f .i . ' . ■ - tn • ■ ■ . i'll i.. 1 In rre:‘.t‘‘"i (!><> world I" I - Civil 1 - Win "IliT Hii' - oi " aiiribiif.il *.)• w Wilson r ' "l - m 1 ’ - ,i grow-, !ia, f millions of and (o Professor 1 IVI I , > > ~V p\GE TWO) jßrotherhood To Meet IB'' ll! '" ' of th,. Pnii,.,| ( liurrli will meet in the M <"!oik Herman attorney will give a h< ‘ boys' w j]| sing s[le . Usil ' al numbers. |IE CHARGES 110 BE PROBEO B'lrnev General Orders B'Migation of Muncie ■Liquor Indictments M iir :!1 _ IUR) T|l „ 'l' Parttm nt has ordered a ' invistigation of charges against Mayor Dale of ' 'ml.. Attorney Generil , *“!l said today. llP|l said that Assistant (■''' General Youngquist ord■F agents of the bureau '"'tigalion t 0 conduct an in'i' ni \ ' r ''” rt findings irnined- • t 0 the department. , Kqu 'st has received a reI, nV" ctlar Kes made against. . u ah’ and police officers of £, from the united Stat-s Un*, 10 ? 1 . 6 / at fl, a !S ’ Sa "" t ' llo ’ "e could not 1

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McDaniels Babe Dies Berne, March HI (Special to I Democrat) Darwin McDaniel .25 1 I day old son of .Mr. and Mrs. Roy McDaniels of French 1 ownship died lat the home <. its parents today. | This was Hie first child in the family. Mrs. McDaniels was forniei I ly Mi.Myr'le Andrews of Monroe. ; Funeral services will be held ai | I the home Friday afternoon and Inn i iial will be made in the Mt Hup. ; cemetery. PINCHOT NOT A CANDIDATE Pennsylvania Governor Refuses to Permit His Name On Ballots Harrisburg, Pa., Mar. 31.—(U.R) • -Governor Pinchot announced today that he had refused to permit his name to hr* placed on the n pubiran ballot in Orogen as a can-1 'didate for the preferential presiIdential vote. The governor s;wd he telegraph-; ed his refusal to State Senator .1. E. Bennett of Portland. Bennett ■ wired the governor last week askling permission to use his name , i Pinchot declined to comment on 'the candidacies of a number of his' Ifriends who are running for dele-1 gates or alternates to the repnbli-l lean national convention. Some of. these candidates have been quoted. Jas saying the governor s name ( I would be presented to the coaven-j ition as a candidate for the fires i-' dential nomination. I The governor said lie had made . no reservation for hotel aecommo-| piaiions in Chicago and added he i. did not know whether he would a.itetpl jhe convention or not. \rc Friends Again I Bucharest. Mar. 31 —(II.PJ He I ports of reconciliation between! ; Prime Nicholas and his brother.' I King Carol, were published today; Iby the newspaper Adevernl. It said tlie prime would return t>j i Roumania and live at Queen! I Marie's palace. Nicholas left th"| j country when (’arid refused to ; rescind annulment of his mar- • riage to a commoner. DEATH CLAIMS LYDIA DOWTY I Tocsin Woman Expires At Home Wednesday; Funeral Is Friday ,1 Mrs. Lydia Jane Dowty. M, died at 3:30 Wednesday afternoon ai her f home I*£ miles west of Tocsin, following an extended illness. She had . been bedfast .since Monday afternoon with penumoia and heart trouble. Mrs. Dowty was born Auwust 10. 1850 near Tocsin, a daughter of David and Elizabeth Aungst Myers. Her marriage to Adam Dowty took ‘ i place at the home of her parents near Tocsin on April 11. 1807. Mr. I Dowty preceded her in death in ■; 1900. Surviving are three sons. William Fort Wayne; James, north of Blu- Iton; Benjamin Dowty. near Tocsin, i One daughter is deceased. One brother. W. H. Myers resides liln township. 11 Funeral services will be held FriI day afternoon at 2 o'clock at the Ossian Methodist Episcopal Church . with Rev. George Snider officiating. ’ Burial will be made in the Ossian Oaklawn cemetery. — o —— Three To Be Graduated 1 Three Adams County young wo- ’ men will be graduated from the t Lutheran hospital school of nurs--1 Ing. at Fort Wayne, Wednesday. May 18. it was announced today. . The commencement will be held or a cla.ss of 38 nurses, Miss Pauline G. Bischoff, principal of nurses at 1 the Lutheran hospital school of • nursing announced. iThe Adams county graduates will include Miss Eloise Noll of this . city, Miss Verena Vance of Mont roe, and Miss Donna \. Campbell f of Geneva. ( v The commencement, exercises will . be held at the Concordia concert t hall In Fort Wayne, and will be s the 26th annual graduation from the hospital training school.

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KIDNAP PLOT INVESTIGATED — Police Guard Home Os Chicago Banker: Safety of Child Feared — Chicago. Mar. 31 —(U.PJ — Police i patnded tlie residence of Arthur I. Baer, vice president -wt- —thaCentral .Republic flank A Trust Co. after a suspected kidnaper! i was thwarted by a maid s vigi-, I lance. The guard was posted after a! maid at the Baer home frightened., away a man who was fumbling at, i the window of a room in which' ' Helen Betty Baer, two years old,! I was accustomed to sleep. The maid heard a noise at the; window and entered the room. I She saw a man’s head at lie* window and hoard him say: "This is the child's room." Her scream sent tlie intruder I fleeing Tlie ihnker answered the maid's cries and despite a recent severe illnes ran out of doors seeking trace of the suspects. Tlie Baer ehlld was not in the room at tlie time although she ordinarily slept there. o , Child Falls In Hole Picher. Okla.. March 31 (U.R) Rescue crews worked frantically today to free Jerald Collins. 2, from a mine drill hole, little more than a foot across, into which he had dropped. The child's body fell 25 feet into the hole, and then became wedged I between jagged rocks, preventing, a further fall to an unknown depth. A relative, digging a post hole nearby, ran to the hole when he saw th,' boy stumble and fall. He heard the faint cries O' the ehlld. and was aide to see his body far down. ————o SOVIET ARMY ADDS STRENGTH New Troops Are Added • Along Manchurian Border Bv Russia Washington. Mar. 31—<U.R>—Reports from reliable sources reaching Washington today said the Soviet army is continuing to strengthen its position throughout I Priamuy province on the SiberianManchurian border and that more titan 4,000 tons of wheat have been shipped into Vladivostok during the past 10 days. These moves were viewed in :n---formed circles here as directed toward defense in case Siberia should be invaded by Japanese troops Tokio has dneied that Japan has ativ such intention Still other reports from reliable neutral sources in the far east indicated the now Manchurian gov(CONTINUED ON PAGE SIX)

Decatur, Indiana, Thursilay, March 31, 1932.

Miss Chew To Speak | Tlie Literature Department of the : Woman's Club will present Mis; I Dori Chew o. England on a pro- i 1 gram at the Decatur Public Library. Monday nght, April 4. Miss Chew is the exchange teacher of the Fort Wayne schools and . | she will speak on the subject. ".My! I Impressions of America.' She has , I given this lecture at a number of I ! women's and men's clubs in Fort > Wriyne. Members of the local duh who have not used the guest tickets may , do so at this program as this will , be the last meeting of the year that I | the ticket* may >be used. OFFICER DIES IN GUNFIGHT — Gary Policeman Killed In Chicago Gun Battle Today ; Chicago, Mar. 31. (U.R) —Police-! '.man James L. Kelly. Gary. Ind., was .killed today, and two others were I I wounded, in a gun battle between ;four police officers and two prisloners they had just arrested. , The wounded are Milton Larson, j I Oak Park policeman, shot in the | I groin and thumb, and Richard; ' Fredericks, one of the prisoners, (shot in the breast. Frederick's companion, who was Inot identified, escaped. It was be'iieved he fired the shot that killed I the Gary policeman. I A confession said to have been , obtained from three alleged bandits. held in the Gary jail, brought Kelly to Oak Park seeking four other members of the same gang.! j Sergeant Walter Conhoy. and PaItrolmen George Harms and Larson, j trox I INI'EMi ON PAGE TWO!

County Per Capita Tax Is $7.63 Below Average

i Tax Schedule Calls For $35.62 Per Person In County 1 Adams county's per capita tax for 1931. collectable in 1932. is $7.63 below the average in the! state and the county ranks in 33rd ’ | place in the state in having the ■| lowest average per capita tax. The Indiana Taxpayers Asaocia- ‘ tion has compiled a table showing ’ the per capita tax in the 92 conn--1 ties in the state. The average in ‘I the state is $43.25. Adams coun- ‘ ty's per capita rate is $35.62. ’ Fifty-nine counties have a per 1 capita rate higher than Adams county. The table of per capita rates in; ' the counties follow : 1 Adams $35.62 Allen $47.67 1 Bartholomew $29 14 Benton $62.24 ’ Blackford $39.94 Boone $43.18 Brown $21.26 Carroll $47.20

LITTLE NEWS ON KIDNAPING Norfolk Investigators Halted Temporarily In Baby Lindy Case Norfolk. Ya.. Mar 31 (U.R)— Local negotiations with m n claiming to have Charles Augiusias Lindbergh. Jr., kidnaped Mani. 1. appeared temporarily at a halt today. Dean H. Dobson-Peace k. Rear Admiral Guy Barrage, and John 11. Curtis, acting as intermediaries for Colonel Lindbergh, have had no actual communication with the men claiming to he the kid napers, or witli their agent, for several davs. Statements by the three indii eated they have had great difficulty convincing Lindbergh the Norfolk men have Ihe habv. Colonel H. Norman Schwartz ] kopf lias been quoted at Hopewell . ns saying Lindbergh thought *he ; Norfolk “due" had no special significance. Admiral Burrage explained that the aviator and his wife are "so distracted that nothi ing can convince them except the ! actual sight of the baby." The admiral then admitted ho I was “not completely convinced'' I of the truth of the storv told to Curtis by the man claiming to be the kidnapers’ agent. One of many rumors current in Norfolk said the ransom money has been deposited in a local bank, but Burrage said no arrangements had been made for payment of ransom. Earlier in the day Dean DobsonPeacock had solemnly read a [ statement to the public: “If there is failure in the Norj folk negotiations, tlie kidnapers II’CIX I IXI'PII CIV PSGE ‘l'Wll'

Cass $46.36 Clark $33.04 Clay $34.24 Clinton $42.29 Crawford $15.98 Daviess $34.72 Dearborn $30.05 Decatur $37.82 DeKalb $39.27 Delaware $36.64 Dubois $26.03 Elkhart $42.10 Fayette $38.77 Floyd $29.22 Fountain $38.67 Franklin $30.80 Fulton $46.31 Gilson $39.58 Grant $35.81 Greene $30.35 Hamilton 838.50 Hancock $37 69 Harrison $22.50 Hendricks $43 94 Henry $36 31 Howard $38.13 Huntington $43.96 Jackson $27 40 (CONTINUED ON PAGE FIVE)

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WELFARE GROUP PLANS GARDENS IN COMMUNITY Unemployed To Be Asked To Aid In Cultivation ' of Gardens WILL RECEIVE PART OF CROPS Plans were in progi'ess in Decatur limlsiv bv the Welfare cttiiiinitlee on poor relief to have a number <»♦ ' community oai'dcns to grow; food for the unemployed and needv of the communitv. !| Free seeds will be received ! bv the local committee from | the state. Government wheat also will be received here by the local group.; nnd the wheat will he ground into Hour and delivered to the needy. 1 ! All arrangements have been com ! I pleted for the delivery to tills city i of seed from the state. Potato and tomato plants will be placed on all available lots in | the city, and unemployed men will I he asked to aid in the cultivating |nt the plots. In turn the I will receive part of the crops. | The members of the Welfare! I committee have asked that th-ir| names he withheld at this time, and they pointed out that the pro-; I je-t was a community affair in I , which everyone was interested. The state grown plants and; j seeds will be delivered here from l state institutions, where an over-] I supply of seeds and plants has been reported. Several local people already' | have donated tracts of ground for] 1 this purpose and other plots are; j lMing sought by the committee. Former Mavor Dies Marion. Ind.. Marc!) 31— (UP) —i I F. W. Swezey. 68. former mayor of' Marion, died late yesterday a ter a | ; long illness. He was said to have I I been the oldest practicing member] | of the Grant county bar association. iThe widow and a son survive. MINERS WILL | QUIT 30 DAYS Illinois Edict Will Be Effective Tonight At Midnight Chicago. Mar. 31. (U.R) A3O day j snspension of work in Illinois coal; ' fields was expected by mine and ' union officials to become operatiive at midnight tonight with expiration; I Ilf the existing contract between •'operators and their employes. I The expected shutdown was de- ■ scribed as neither a lock out nor a strike by operators and union men. They said the period was necessary to complete negotiation i of a new working agreement. A committee representing the; Illinois district of the United Mine I 1 Workers and the Illinois Coal Op ! orators Associtaion may report to-1 day on a new wage scale. However, there is no possibility that the! scale can lie made effective before I expiration of the old agreement. | J Union leaders have agreed that' ’ any mine wishing to operate tentatively under the existing scale may do so. The principal conflict between operators and workers! centers about a requested wage reduction. Illinois mine owners contend i (CONTINUED ' iN PAGE TWO) ■ —: — Local Man s Sister Dies At Quincey, O. Dr. P. B. Thomas of Third street has received word of the death of his sister, Mrs. James Jenkinson of Quincey, 0., who died in the Springfield. 0.. hospital, early Wednesday morning. Mrs. Jenkinson had been a patient in (lie hospital for several days suffering with diabetes. Her condition was reported to he improving when she became wors°. Surviving are the husband. Rev. James Jenkinson, pastor of the Methodist Episcopal Church at Quincey, four daughters and two sons. Funeral services will lie held Saturday. Dr. Thomas will attend the funeral

Will Give Lectures Rev George W. Hilton, one of 1 tlie pioneer missionarie. , of the Church of tlie Brethren to China, will give a series of stereopticOU lectures on China at Hie Pleasant Dale Church of Hi.' Brethren. April 2,3, and 4. 'I lie lectures will start each night at 7:3i) o'clock and I lie pulllie is invited to see these pictures of Chinese life. No admission will be charged, however, a ree will offering will be lifted each night. Pictures of the Chinese marriage, bur al, and relto lous ceremoniaa, ; temples, the Gods They worship and tile Chinese methods of farming will be shown. Also Rev. Hilton's experience in feeding 25.000 famine sufferers will lie shown in a .-et of ; .pictures. NORTH WARD < CAST IS NAMED Annual School Play To Be Given Friday Night At Auditorium The pupils of the North Ward school will present as the annual; play this year. Spring Glow." an ( operetta in three acts for children. Tlie production will lie presented by the pupils, assisted by the teachers of tlie building, in the Decatur high school auditorium Friday night, April 1. at 7:30, o'clock. Choruses of Frost Elves. Pussy | ! Willows. Raindrops. Bee-i. Brown- ; ies. Sunshine Fairies. Flower i Maidens. Butterflies and Breezes will provide musical selections, i and the other characters in the play are Spring. Jack Frost and Bluebird. Admission for tlie play will be. If) cents for < hildren 12 years of |age an<| under, and 2ft cents for) j children over that age. and adults. The nublic is especially urged to

witness this presentation given by the small children. The opening of the play is a| ! winter scene and Bluebird comes I 1 in to awaken the sleeping PuSsy] Willows, telling them that 'Spring. !is coming. They protest shiver- ! ing lint finally wake up and sing ; and talk. Suddenly Jack Frost i and his Elves come in to plan a party in the fields seatiering the Ptt-sy Willows and deciding to ' freeze them as a part of the fun. This is interrupted lw Bluebird, i but they will not believe her when ! she announces the coming of ■ Spring, declaring they will not ! permit Spring to come. They defy her; and when I Spring's maidens appear with her I crown these are captured by Jack ! Frost and hidden in his ice cave. | i Various groups of spring's people! ! come to demand the maiden's re--1 lease and warn Jack Frost of pn iI ishment but he is still defiant till the Sunshine Fairies appear to check him. The entire story is cleverly adapted to children's roles and interesting for both children and (CONTINUED ON PAGE FIVE) Ahrs Deliver Horses Fred Ahr and son Lloyd Ahr have i returned 1 rom Pittsburgh Pa., j where they delivered a truck load | of horses to Grant Cruikshank. Mr. I Ahr and son left this city Tuesday | night with the horses. STATE GROUP : FOR HOME RULE Association For Tax .lustice Would Eliminate Commissions Indianapolis. March 31 —(UP) — Restoration of home rule in regard to duties and salaries of public officials is ■ avored by the Indiana association so rtax justice, it was I announced today hy its president, ! William O. Irwin. A statement issued by Irwin read: “There is an insistent demand in Indiana for elimination of mandatory laws which prevent public officials from making substantial saving- because they are compelled by ' state laws to continue functions and practice- which in the present economic situation become shameful extraxagiences. “The Indiana Association for tax (CONTIN'CED ON PAGE FIVE)

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STAMPEDE IS FUTILE i STOCK TAX APPARENT Vote of Entire Tax Bill Expected Friday Afternoon CRISP HAS HANDS FULL bulletin Washington, D. C-. March 31, (U P)—The hoi.se today approved a schedule which would more than double the levy on stock market transaction. The tax of 1 1 of one per cent of the I rolling price was written into the billion dollar tax bill over the objections of the New York delegation. The provision speci ties the tax to be not less than 4 cents per share. The tax under present law is two cents per share , The vote was 207 to 39. Washington, M:ir. •>! Apparently liitile ellorts ! xvere matte at the o|»ening oi the house todav to stampede that hodv awav from the proposed tax on Wall street stock transactions. Lines of the coidiiion held ; firm as their 1 j ol 1 per cent lax was haltered from two 1 sides. The New York Tammany delegation protested against the tax as Rep. Blanton. Dem.. Texas, moved to increase it to 1 cent a share on the selling price of each transaction. A vote on the entire tax bill is I pxpectpd in the house tomorrow The demonstrations came on tli« floor after acting Chairman Cris;> of the ways and means committee gave np hope for final action on

! (he I’illion dollar tax bill today. | He relaxed the pressure on th’' 1 opposition somewhat anil allowed ! 40 minutes debate on the stock taN I amendment instead of 20 minuter • previously agreed upon. “Balancing the Budget" Washington. Mar. 21 (U.R) FoItcoNTINCED ox page rtvi’.i MAINE FAVORS GOV.ROOSEVELT Twelve Democrat Delegates Instructed To Vote For Roosevelt Portland. Me., Mar 31 —(U.R) - Maine's 12 votes in the Democratic national convention will bo cast for Franklin I). Roosevelt until a majority of the delegation is convinced the New York governor has no chance of winning tint nomination. Although at least two. perilous more, of the delegates favor sor.o candidate other than Roosevelt, the delegation formally was instructed by the Democratic state convention yesterday to vote for Roosevelt under the so-called unit rule. The instruction resolution was passed by a vote of 286 to 245 after it previously had been tabled by a decisive vote. Yesterday's convention wont on record as strongly in favor oC a national prohobition referendum, I substantially along the lines sugi gested by Chairman John .1. RasI kob of the Democratic national committee. Air Pilot Is Killed Cleveland. Mar. 31—(U.R) An air mail pilot, enroute from New York: to Cleveland, crashed near Bedford. a suburb, in a snowstorm today and was killed. The pilot was Robert Malick. flying a transcontinental air transport ship. The plane crashed in a wooded field and was found by a schoolboy, presumably a few minutes later Malick. a night pilot, apparently had been driven off his course by the storm. He was last reported over Bellefonte, Pa., at 3 a. m The site of the crash is several miles from the course of the regular New York-Cleveland route. Local airport officials believed ' the pilot had tried to set his stalled ship down in the field. In so doing, be narrowly missed several : houses flanking the site The plane was demolished.