Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 30, Number 89, Decatur, Adams County, 13 April 1932 — Page 1

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IINE WORKERS, OWNERS HOLD MEETING

PLEADS | Jl UNISON OF -i DEMOCRATS 1 1'nMo _ I‘i<valcnl Al Oi l eaders at I o<lay ... HkvF.LT is V I muiirt: )('■ th, ,'hvtion caml ' inadiday rallits. national <x , n.n.;ttoe. told his -imatlon call "til till' be. against any ■ them Smith Roose■j-. campaign, i , : i Mfreil E. Smith. to di.-cuss his • tile proper th- i.os going to asked. ■ •: ink Ernie's any doubt —be stamp in the ought to be ,b \pii! what we will fall.' Smith answered. j of "minute men" th.it $115,000 had. i l. ' drive fol fluids? lemocmtic - Raskob as hona—embled from all to take stock election chances. arranged an all day proAn array of actual and po- . .iiidida'os were »1,..w some of the tnaii-hip l^^B 1 ’ the Democrats: tiehtimi morale for the Halie.ul ■ . •■i.spii-mms figure ■V” 1> Roosevelt of New H'" "a- ivited. as were all I" ■tie titioned for the I nomination, but he de-1 - . instead to sound" i ’’" >t. key note at St Paul, “Minn.. in the ’he insurgent'belt. wire- brought reports more delegates to add to whirl- far exceeds any of lI NI f-'|. IIN PAGE SI XI ■ CRASH I CLAIMS LIFE |Mh' r And Freighter Cob H'' In Harbor At New I N ork City v "t"k. April 111 - (U.P) A ■■ Wardsinan. James C. Reilly. third class, was drowned, x coast guardsmen slightly .today in a collision be■Bl the cutler Manhattan and B liinai ”a Railroad company's Guayaquil. collision occurred in the IB 1 ' l)p,wp en the battery and' ■"’Ge of liberty Reiily. of |V arbara. Calif., was thrown ■J 1 "' Wiltp i' and drowned. His some seriously hurt, tn lllP Broad street for treatment. p cuter is 123 feet long, and tons. ■ p Manhattan, one of the p *t of the coastguard cutters from the battery ■?., M ‘ ,lup t 0 cl, ange guard on ized vessel, Maurice Tracey, rum runner. ■" ,ros se<l the bow of the ' Bn L at a Bpot where the East ■ iitdson rivers meet, and was B. ami dsliips. A two foot ■ u' l '?' P tl>e waterlin e marked B Manhattan's damage in addi- ■ disabling of the steering B* e Guayaquil is a freighter of B u' OX3 „ 10ns ' built at Lorain.' in 1919.

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Ulobrock Funeral W ill Be Conducted Thursday Funeral services for Martin II ’ I Hobrock, former Adams county, 'man who died suddenly al Fort’ Wavin', Tuesday morniug. will 1,.. held Thursday afternoon at 2 ,o'clock al tin- gome, Illi W, |>, Wald street, Fort Wayne, and it 1 12:30 o'clock at the Eritreans Luth etan. church. Rev. Fred Wambs ’ jganss will officiate at the services Burial will be in the Lindenwood i liitnetery at Fort Waytre. NOTED RUSSIAN AUTHOR SPEAKS Lions Hear Address On New Russian (Government at Tuesday Meet N. I Saloff Aslakhoff. Rn iaui minister and author, was the I speaker at the regnlat meeting of Det atnr Lions dub Tuesday night , lat th;' Cltristian church diningl j hull. The noted visitor delivered, an interesting lecture on Russia, i and his wife translated the addressi into English. Mr. Astakhoff is the author of i • ' number of interesting books, in I his address he scored the present plan of government in Russia and • stressed especially the failure ofj the new government to reckon | with (Tod and Christianity Harry Knapp, president of the local club, announced today that a complete set of Astakhoff s books had been secured by the 1 Lions dub and the books will he presented to the Decatur Public Library. | The famous Russian lecturer has! • been spending several weeks at | Berne with his wife, where he has . Ijnen resting after a long lecture! trip in the I'nited States. He left) : ILissAa ii pear or txvo apo. j ing the overthrow of the govern-. . ment. AWARDS MADE AT CENTRAL Leaders And Diggers Are Named For Second 6week School Period The leader and digger awards 1 for the second six weeks period of i the second semester were pre-l i sente,] to 137 pupils at the Central I school building. Principal P. I’- ' i Thomas announced today. Following is the list of pupils who received the awards: 8A Leaders Harry Moyer. Willjant Schafer. Marlowe Hoagland. Eileen Jack-| son. I-ois Mann. Agnes Nelson. Ruth Porter. 8A Diggers Walter Summers. Herbert Ban ning. 8B Leaders Evelyn Adams. Catharine JackI son. Ruby Igtdd, Catherine Mui phy, Betty Short. Lewis Beery. . Robert Brodbeck. Byron Trit ker. • Harold Zimmerman. 7A 1 Leaders Donald Bixler. Ix>wis Fennig. Eugene Freidt. Alice K. Baker. Edna Beane. Virginia Breiner. Jeanette Christen. Margaret Delhi. Phyllis Hoagland 7A-2 Leaders Katherine Kohls. Emma Margiuart, Irene Sell, Ralph Hurst. Arthur Sttnderman. 7A 2 Diggers David Macklin. 7B Leaders Merdith Cline. Cdlbert Egley, i Jim Krick. Dwight Kimble, lAUres Meyer. Helen Britzenhofe, Mary Martin. Rosie Moyer. Zula Porter. Marguerite Staley, Marjorie Ixvrd., 7B Diggers Marion Drum. Ralph Steele, j r -1 (CONTINUKD ON PAGE TWO) Nelson Corrects Rumor Nathan C. Nelson, prosecuting attorney stated today that he had received a number of calls at his office inquiring how his deputy prosecutor, John T. Kelley was being paid and whether the law provided for deputy hire. Mr. Nelson asked the Daily Democrat to state for him that the law provides no fund with which he can : pay a deputy prosecutor and that i Mr. Kelley is being paid by Prose I icutor Nelson, personally. Mr. Kel-! 'ley was named deputy two weeks 'ago.

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Massie Trial * jag .■ S L/ oA’ 7 *-'V w fcSky 4 JMMBMBLjk j Plioto shows <rowd gathered at Judiciary Build ng in Honolulu on morning of opening of Massie Itiial. Insert is picture of Ed wild Vlii. half-brother of the slain Joseph Kahahawai and the prosecution's | I sia, wltncs in the Massie trial. ‘

REBEKAHS HOLD DISTRICT MEET Members of Three Counties Meet At Bl nil ton Tuesday P. M. A meeting of District No. 31 of I the Daughters of the Rebekah 1 lod.e was held in the I <). <). F. hall lin BluHton Tuesday afternoon. Ihe I district included Wells. Wttams (and Biackford counties. Mrs, Wilda Philebaum. district ’deputy president of Montpelier, presided over the meeting, and Mrs. 1 Margaret Miller of Huntington, I state warden, had charge of the I school of instructions. The next district meeting of the lodge; will be held in October in_ Geneva New officers were chosen 'during the business session, and I a laylet was given by a group of the m-unhcr; of the Bluffton lodge. At t; o'clock the Blirfton lodge :. rvt d a supper in the hall, following which the degree was conferred on a cla-s of new candidates. M s Mildred Baker of this city i wa; initiated by the Huntington No. S 3 degree team. She will be a member of the local lodge. Those from Decatur who attended the meeting were Mr. and Mrs. 1., t. Helm. Mrs. Noah Frye. Mrs. Emma Heckathorne. Miss Mildred . 1 Baker. M-j; Miirnie Teeple and i I Jack Teeple. NEBRASKA GOES FOR ROOSEVELT Sixteen Votes Added To Long List For Governor j Os New York State Lincoln, Neb. Apr 13 (U.R) - Governor Franklin D. Roosevelt, candidate for the democratic presidential nomination, apparently added Nebraska’s 16 delegate votes to the total he will claim at , the Democratic national convention. on basis of today s Nebraska I primary returns. Roosevelt had more than the| combined vote east for his twoj opponents for presidential prefer-, ence—Gov. William H. Murray of I Oklahoma and John N. Garner. I speaker of the house. Tabulations for slightly more than one-third of the precincts in the state changed l-git little the, trend shown In early returns, when Roosevelt led from the start. Returns from 720 precincts ont of 2.040 in the state gave Roosevelt 29,566, Murray 10.415. Garner 9,055. Governor Charles W. Bryan- appeared assured of victory over his closest opponent. William Ritchie. Jr Tabulations of votes from 682 precincts gave the governor 28.787 votes for re-nomination as against I 18,916 for Ritchie. Kenneth S. Wherry, and Dwight Griswold, ran neck and neck for the i Republican nomination for gover(CtINTINUETt ON PAGE TWO)

Decatur, Indiana, Wednesday, April 13, 1932.

Plane Motor Crashes Wabash. Minn.. April 13 (CP) — One motor .if a big northwest air- . ways tri motored plane jerked loose i while the plane enroute frjm St. 1 Paul to Chicag > was passing over ! Wi hash ye deiday and lodged on a • strut. Knowing that should the heavy * motor shake loose and fall in the town it might cause death or injurys. Pilot M. B. Freeburg shut off the switch and maneuvered the . lane out over the Mississippi river there he put the plane through hank; and turns until the motor dislodged. It dived harmlessly (into the river. TWO NAMED ON ] REVIEW BOARD John IL Blakey And Jell Lehman Appointed For Adams County Board John 11. Barkley, Democrat, and I well-known Union township farmer and Jeff Lehman. Re,publican of B< rne today were appointed members of the Adams county board of review by Judge I). B. Erwin. The board will meet o ficially June 1 for a period of 60 days. Judge Erwin stated that his reason for making the appointments at I this time was so the hoard mem- ' hers could meet several times prior Ito June 1 with the various townI shv> assessors to learn personally |of their problems in making the i 1932 as essments. Mr. Blakey is well versed in the i problems of the fanner ami he is I regarded as one of Adams county's I successful farmers. Mr. Lehman is well known . jthroughotit the < ounty and for many < years he has taken a deep interest I in taxation problems. Jndte Erwin expressed his willingness to co-operate with the board in solving the tax problems of the • county and lor that reason he appointed the two members of the hoard at an early date. / nteresting Features Added to Paper — Beginning next Monday. ’I April 18, three new features will be added to the Daily Democrat. A aerial story. "Embers of ' Love," by Hazel Livingston, will start. It is one of the '| latest pieces of fiction by this well known author. A three column news car toon for the sport page will be published and a cartoon for the editorial page will appear daily. These features in addition to the comic strip. "POPEYE’' illustrated news features, pictures. questions and answers, ami other interesting and entertaining features go to make the HOME PAPER a paper for every home in Adams county. Start the serial story next Monday.

JOINT MEETING ! IS ANNOUNCED Union-Root Townships to Join In Sunday School Conference > I A Sunday school convention of the Union and Root township Sun<:.i> schools will be held in the Mt. j Pleasant Methodist E.piscopal 'church Sunday. April H. Tlie meeting will he in two sessions, after- ' noun and evening. The afternoon program will begiu J at 2 o’clock and the address will he ' given by Rev. J. L. Conrod and I music will be furnished by the GosIpel Messengers of. Fort Wayne. The evenin., program, beginning .at 7:30 o'clock will be featured by ! short stalks by Rev. E. L. Johnston. ( ‘, C. I). Teeple and Rev. T H. Har-1 I mon. Following is the complete 1 program for the day : Afternoon Opening Service Gospel Mes- ' 'senger of Fort Wayne. Address Rev. .1. L. Conrad. Music —Pleasant Grove Sunday . i School. ■ ; Report of Nominating Committee , Offering and Benediction. Evening Son> Service Mt. Pleasant Sunday School. . | invocation. | Solo—Robert Clem. . I Short talk "The Value of Young I People to Our Homes and the — — — ,■ - . -. teONTINUBD ON PXOE TWO' VETERANS FOR SOLDIER BONUS I ’ ’ I High Officials Favor Inimediate And Favorable Senate Action Washington. April 13 —(U.R) ' High officials of veterans' organi-| zations today urged immediate] | and favorable congressional ac- . Ition on the $2,060,000,000 cash! bonus. • ; Appearing before the house ways I and means committee. Harold D. Decoe. commander-in-chief of the veterans of foreign wars, asserted that 98 per cent of the veterans of the world war are backing the l|onus. Wallace J. Howells of Detroit told the committee that "there are 4.300 veterans in Detroit alone who have not paid their taxes in two years.” | The payment of the bonus I would be a tremendous help to ] them and to veterans in every section of the country-.” he said. While representatives of veterans organizations were presenting their arguments in favor of his hill Rep. Patman, Dem . Texas, took notice of bankers' opposition to . his proposal. It was his opinion, he said, that a meeting yesterday between the federal reserve hoard and members of federal re serve hanks was held for the pur pose of “starting a backfire. (CONTI N CEP ON PAGE TWO)

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PRESIDENT FOR FIVE-DAY WEEK IN GOVERNMENT Presents Economy Plan To House Committee in Conference Today i NO LEAVES WITH SA LAR V WushiiißliHi. Apr. 13 (U.R) President Ihiover lodav i lillt ietl ;t sintplilieil ‘‘staggeri I eißploviiK Bl system" planj ; mi iutiing a general five day j week for government work-1 ers, designed Io < IT er I tt sav-| ing of S!>.">,(MMI.tMIO as part of his national economy uro-, gram Io halanee the budget.| The president's new scheme! was offered by .1. Clawson Roop." director of tin budget, at an execu-| five meeting of the house special economy committee It involved among olln-r points: | 1 Tlie principle of a five day, week throughout I lie government 1 service. 2—Elimination of all leave with I pay. Chairman McDuffie. Dem.. Ala.. | lefrained from comment on the | I new administration plan. Hit said’ I Ihe committee was now ready 10l ' proceed to the White House Io | resume conferences with the president at 3 p m. The president's simplified plan, the memorandum submitted by' Roop set forth, would not extend, to the enlisted men in the defense j services or to rural mail carriers. | It was asserted that the five day week could lie generally applied directly to the per diem, or irregular employes, by eliminating work on Saturday morning. F<p" regular •unjdoyes it was stated a very close equivalent Io lI'ONTINI'I-TII on PACtE SIM INSPECTION OF LODGE PLANNED Decatur Masons Will Attend Inspection at Bluffton Thursday Several Decatur men will attend a joint in peetion of the R iyal Arch 1 Masons of this city and Bluffton at Blufftoii, Ihursday evening at 7:30 o'clock, it was ann.ntnced today. An inspection of the Bluffton council of Royal and Select Masters will be held Thursday a ternoon. Ht r >ert A. Graham of Elkhart, grand lecturer and ir ,pector will have charge of the inspection services. Following the atternoon meeting a supper will be served by the Blnfft in Masons. Decatur men who are members of the Bluffton council will attend the afternoon meeting and will lie special guests at the suppet. The of jeers of the Decatur eha,.ter who will attend the services include E. B. Adams. Wilson I Lee. R. D. Myers. (’. (J. I’.irter. 1. , Bernstein. Floyd* \i ker. George Suuier. H. T. Vail. L. C. Helm, C. A. Burds. A. I). Suttles. J. S. Peterson. Cal Peterson and Ear! Blackburn. 0 Funeral Is Friday — Funeral services will be held Friday morning at 10 o'clock‘at the 1 Linn Grove Evangelical church fir D. A. Baumgartner, 55, widow- ‘ er. who died Saturday morning ■ from burns when gasoline exploded, with which he was attempting to start a fire at his home near North ’ Manchester. S Q Graf Arrives Home 1 Friedrichshafen. Apr. Hi (U.R) — The Graf Zeppelin was moored 1 here today after completing a trip ' of 101 hours from Pernambuco, j Brazil. The ship carried 11 passengers and made the trip with- ■ out incident. ... Q . Burns Prove Fatal i Hamtnond, Ind.. April 13—(U.R)— Herman Moorehouse. 40. died in a ', hospital here o. burns suffered when t'he auto he was driving was ■ ■ struck by a Nickel Plate train, i ‘ Moorehouse was trapped in the ' burning wreckage.

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I Bluffton Men Visit Adams County Towns I ' A group of Bluffton btl.dliess men visited Decatur t.xlay during a lour of Adams mid Wells connI Iles -ip.m- ring the Democratle prl ’ uiaiy campaign es Frank Thompson ( Bluffton new aper man who is n ieiindidalo lor joint represenlaiive | of Adams and Wells counties in the i state hvlshiture. j included In the party wen 1 Mayor I John Kelley, Judge J. F. Decker, j Wut'i-i Mi'Croy. Virgil Simmons, pre -nt representative, William I Kunkel. Jack Monyhan, Ervin Lesli. Robert Stine, Elmore Sturgis, Firin i Woodward ami Mr. Thompson. NEW CONTACT REPORTED IN I KIDNAP CASE — Lindbergh Negotiator Says lie Has Had Direct Contact Again OFFICIALS ARE SEEKING MONEY New York. Apr. 13 (U.R) I Jalsie" claimed todav to have “direct contact” still I with the kidnapers of Col. i Charles A. Lindbergh's son. Dr. .1. F. Condon, aged retired school principttl. the !“.lafsic'’ of negotiations, stranger than Ihe plot of :t| nii lirdranKi. declared he hath i resumed the contact broken last I | week w hen the kidnapers after I ■. receiving front him |SO,OiM) ransom ■ In a Bronx cemetery, failed to ■, delixer the child as agreed. ; Behind his statement, however. I appeared to run a strain of I possibly indicative of throats front Jthe abductors Hurt mrther nego» ! tiations hinge on a pledge of j greater secrecy. "I have never identified them nor said a word against them.’'i Condon vowed after returning I home during the night from an-| , other of his mysterious errands.l !"1 value my life. They value i theirs. 1 know my life wouldn't | ‘ be korth anything if I said anyJ thing against them." Condon was especially anxioii i l that he not bo followed on his j numerous trips, lest this frustrate , his efforts to restore the baby. | Washington. April 13 (U.R) Treasury officials, confident that secret service operators will dis-1 covet the identity of the persons involved in the Lindbergh ransom payments, said today that additional circulars describing the currency used in the transaction! are being distributed throughout i the country. It was said that tremendous in- | tcrest has been aroused by printICHNTINCKD ON VAtIH FIVE) REPEAL CLUB HOLDS SESSION Women of Nation Meet At Washington: Hear Repeal Addresses Washington. April 13. — (U.R) — When upper-class women take to crusading, they say it with votes. This was apparent today at the third annual conference of the I women's organization for National | Prohibition reform, when the chairmen of the 41 state divisions presented their reports of progress and plans. Several state divisions, including Illinois and Pennsylvania, reported that they enroll and check their membership by election districts. Their leaders talk practically upon records of congressmen, senators, and state legislators. If these women have their way, the politician who misguesses his [district will be presented with something like the “hairshirts for the misrepresentatives" which Mrs. Janies Ross Todd of Kentucky told the convention her state was designing for those who failed to support the Beck-Linthicum prohibition referendum resolution in the house. *‘We intend to see that Connecticut elects wet congressmen at large, ’and to see that our representatives jand senators stay wet,” Mrs. Ltt|clus Robinson Jr., of New Haven I (CONTINUED ON PAGE FIVE)

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LESLIE CALLS CONFERENCE ON WAGE DISPUTES Elfort Being Ma<l e To Create Truce Between Two Factions WAGE PROBE IS PLANNED in<li:in:i|><>lis, Apr. 13 (U.D Miners mill operators Iroiii i western bidiana’s slrike-lorn j coal fields met willt Gov. i Ilarrv G. I.eslie todav in an I effort to reach an agreement on wages. Governor Leslie acted as mediator for the which was attended hv 1 • mine representatives and eight menihers of the Indiana Coal Operators’ association. Abe Vales, president of district 11. I'nited Min - Workers of America. led the miners' delegation, lie was supported by George Dudley. Terre Haute, vice president: John Suttle, Linton. secretary and treasurer of the district: and board menilA-rs. John Templeton, president of the operators' association, and Harvey Cartwright. secretary, headed the operators. it was intimated as the miners and operators went into their I closed conference that operators I would offer a basic wage scale !of $4. Governor Leslie was repreI sented as planning to urge tho | miners to accept this scale. Following expiration of contracts last March 31. after several joint scale conferences brought no results, operators threw their mines open to non union labor on the *4 scale. Governor Leslie and Dr John Hewitt, director of Indi(CONTINUED ON PAGE TWO! MONTPELIER ! MAN SUICIDES I T. F. Ochiltree Kills Self; Leaves Letter Saying Good-Bye Hartford City. April 13—I Special to Democrat) Thadileus Finley Ochiltree, (IS. of Montpelier, shut himself to death with a :1S calibre revolver in his autoni ibile at his farm, one mile west and one half mile north of Monhielier at 1:1:20 j o'clock today. William Starline, a hired hand, had assisted Ochiltree to load stumps at his farm home this morning. Starline went to tho barn to put the horse away, and Ochiltree entered his automobile. When Starline returned ho found Ochiltree leaning over the wheel of the car. He summoned aid. The bullet from the revolver ( ruck Ochiltree in the right temple. A irate was found on the windshield o:' the car which lean as follows: “You do not need a coroner. I I ni just an old man going home.'' The deceased man had been in ill health durin; the winter. The hired hand stated that ho had acted peculiarly during the morning. Surviving is the widow, ono daughter and one son. ._o .. Mr. And Mrs. Linn Are Parents of Baby (Girl Mr. and Mis. Lawrence Linn. 3<H> Winchester -treet. are the parents of a girl baby born at the Adams County Memorial Hospital shortly before noon today. April 13. 1932. The baby weighed eight pounds and thirteen ounces at birth. This Is the first child in the family. Mrs. Linn was iormerly Miss Veronica Anker. oTroops Are Supressed Berlin, April 13 —(UP)r- President Paul Von Hindenburg has si-411 en an emergency decree dissolving ad surpressing the brown shirt fascist army of Adolf Hitler, it was announced officially today. Hitler’s army and "shock troops" have been estimated to number about 200.DU0 picked men. During the presidential election campaign. Fa-cist headquarters in Prussia were raided and authorities claimed to have discovered plans for forcible seizure of the machinery of government.