Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 30, Number 91, Decatur, Adams County, 15 April 1932 — Page 1

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Beauty Queen k.,1 Miss I>rontina Renner, a brunette. who was chosen "Miss St. Joseph" Wednesday in the first of the beauty contests to select the Blossom Queen of Michigan’s annual Blossom Festival. Miss Renner. who is 19. was picked as the prettiest of thirteen St. Joseph beauties who entered the contest. BOXELLSPEAKS TO ROTARIANS Marion Man Tells of Need of Well-Lighted Store Windows Speaking before the Decatur Rotary club Thursday evening on the retail bwsines ;. Max Boell, of Marion. emphasised the need of welllighted window : and displays and ' stated. ' ' irre windows are the eyes of your business. Keep them shining and bright." Mr. Boxwt'll has been ci. ployed the past few week • a' the Schafer Hardware C.unpany. His talk last night -dealt with merchandising problems und practices tallowed by progressive ston a in pleasing costumers and increadng sales. “There are three important factors in the retail business", stated Mr. Boxell. "They are, buying, display and selling" "If your merchandise is not properly displayed the public will not want it. Courteous service and suggestions aid many a slippper in making a purchase", Mr. B xel! stated. “Back o every successful busibess is a program of consistent advertising ami in the e times the public la interested in values” the speaker stated. Bonus Is Endorsed Washington. April 15 — <ll’l [The s2.tHhi.oilo.i»int (B) cash bonus far veterans was endorsed before the house ways and means committee today by representative Condon. Democrat. Rhode Island, as a measure which would "not inly benefit the soldiersjbut the whole nation as well." The Rhode Island members said I that the Legion convention at DeI trait which went on record as opposing the bonus did not represent the true sentiment of the rank and :ile of veterans “A number of delegates," he said, "violated their instructions on the banns question and voted against it. I know that two Rhode Island delegates did so. My state overwhelmingly favors the bonus and the sentinynt is not confined to veterans." Rep. Cochran. Dem.. Mo. followed Condon and urged favorable consideration of a bonus bill whiel\ would pay the veterans from a tax on legalized alc.tholic beer William Howard Dies Woid was received here this morning of the death o! William Howard. 85. of LaFountaine. father .of Mrs. C. R. Bell Os this city. Mr. Howard's death occurred at 1 o'clock this morning. He had been ill for some time. Mr. and Mrs. Bell left immediately lor LaFountaine- Funeral arrangements have not been learnjed. Infirmities were given as the .cause of the dqath.

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SECRECY ASKED BY LINDBERGH IN KIDNAPING Climax Believed Near As’ Press Is Urged To Lend Cooperation RANSOM BILL BEING TRACED New York, Apr. 15 <U.R) S crecv thrown nbotit evt rv phtise of netiviliy to return tlie kidnaped son of Colonel Charles A. Lindltergh gave 1 hint t<Mlav of an approaehiiibl' I climax Io the baffling crime m hit'll has held world interest since March I. Dr John F. Condon. "Jafsle." asked to be gfven rein in his' | efforts to recover the baby after! ; he and Col Linhergh were double- ■ crossml in the $50,000 ransom deal |on April 2. Lindbergh likewise, asked the co-operation of the press' insisting that it was of the utmost . I importance that he and his repre- ; ' sentatives be not followed or' ' questioned. These tacts indicated the Lim! ' be. gh family still places the greati est hope in private negotiations,| but police efforts to trace one of I the S2O bank notes from the ransom fund was asked, apparently! I in a desperate plan of action toj lenve no stone unturned until the | ; baby is found. [ (Copyright 1932 by United Press) j New York. Apr. 15- (U.PJ fol. 1 Charh A Lindbergh and his wife | were on record today as expressing "our great appreciation to those luembers wt Die pros#*.wso ■ in many inst.-mces have given t's their cooperation, often to their own disadvantages.” This constituted their answer to a growing flood of private . criticism in some portions of thej , ! public concerning lengthy publi- . I cation of stories on the kidnaping I and its attendant searches. I j The Lindl erghs, torn by w eeks ' h iINUNT ED ON PAG,’ EIGHTi I j - l> - - FIGHT PRESSED BY FARM BOARD National Group Urges Revocation of Board of Trade License » Chicago. April 15. —((J.R) -Charges that the Chicago board of trade had • i (discriminated unfairly against the 'I Farmers’ National Grain Corporlation were reiterated today in a [statement Issued by C. E. Huff. ’ president of the grain corporation. At the same time Peter B. Carey, president of the hoard of trade was enroute to Washington, presumably to lay the board s side of the dispute before Secretary of Agriculture Arthur M. Hyde. Open conflict between the board > and the farmers' national began • Tuesday when Huff appealed to • Secretary Hyde to Hike action to i revoke the board's license on the ground of unfair discrimination in • denying the grain corporation's application for membership in the 1 board of trade. "It is apparent that every possi- ■ ble effort is to be made by a cert tain element in the private grain I trade to prevent further growth of the co-operative movement." Huff , declared today. "The principal dc- ■ sense of Mr. Carey to the charge t that the board has discriminated I against farmers' cooperatives is • that he doubts whether Farmers' I National Grain Corporation is a co- ) operative. "Mr. Carey lias ample opportunu’()NTlNUED ON PAGE EIGHT» » 0 Fire Destroys Mill Evansville, Ind*. April 15. —(U.R) —A new soy bean milling plant at tlie Mead Johnson Company here ■ was swept by fire late yesterday, i resulting in damage estimated at • $250,000. i Guy Vafighn. an electrician, was : credited with saving the lives of i four men who were overcome by SriioTce. The mon. who were figlit- ■ ing the flames, collapsed on the I [ roof of the building. Vaughn . brought all four to safety. II The fire was attributed to a burning rubbish pile near the factory.

Decatur, Indiana, Friday, April 15, 1932,

♦— ' ♦ Burnley Will Draw For Daily Democrat ♦ ♦ A walking sports encyclopedia! Thetef, only one in the world [and that’s young Hardin Burnley, boy-wonder puts cartoouist. I • Burnley is eighteen years old land has more sport facts on file in i [his brain thun any man living! He never had a drawing lesson in I his life, yet today experts of the | sp;rt world acknowledged his cartoons to be unsurpassed in the entire newspai er field! This boy's feature appears in nearly two hundred daily newsI papers. Burnley warrants watching and give the utmost in returns! Watch for the Burnley feature in the Decatur Daily Democrat beginn- i idng Monday. April 18. Here is the | : s >rts phenomenon of the century! LOCAL WOMEN ATTEND MEET ■ — District Federation In Annual Session at Muncie | All Day Thursday Fourteen Decatur ladies attended tlie Eighth District Indiana Federation of Clubs held in the Parish Hall of the now High street i Methodist Church at Mtnu ie. Thursday. The morning session was held at 9:30 o'clock and an afternoon session was at 1:30 o'clock. At the noon hour a luncheon was | served ly the Ladies of the Methodist church at Mancie. The meetings were attended by J 240 ladies from the various federated clubs in the eighth district. , Ditring the afternoon session the , elm limi of officers was held and [ IWrs. Paul Powers of Gaston xv.is| . named president. During the morning session Mrs. j . E. D. Engeler. of this city, past , I vice-president presided over the , reports given by tlie department 1 < hairmen. . [ The merit flag was presented to I the Woman s Club of this city for the third consecutive year, and is now the permanent property of the elub. The flag was awarded ' for the very efficient work done I by the elub. Delatin' ladies who participated in the program were: Mrs. John[ W. Tyndall vho gave a report for, the Junior membership depart] ment: Mrs. Henry Neireiter who] ] gave a report of the Educational i Agencies department: Mi s. Charles i Knapp who gave a report of the Public Welfare department. | Decatur ladies who were memi bers of committees were: Mrs. I John Peterson of the Registration ' and Credentials committee; Miss 1 : Rose Christen of the Merit Flag ' committee; Mrs Homer Lower of [the Resolutions committee; Mrs R. D. Myers, Adams county president, and Mrs. Engeler. vice-presi- ' dent. The ladies from this city who ' attended the meetings were the Mesdames E. D. Engeler. 11. D. ■ (CONTINUED ON PAGE SEVEN) MASSIE WILL TELL SLAYING — Naw Officer To Tell of Honor Killing of Hawaiian Native Courtroom, Honolulu, T. H., April 15.—(U.R) — Judge and jury waited ■ in a sultry courtroom today for a ’ white-faced, shuddering young navy 1 officer to unmask the honor -slaying of Hawaiian Joe Kahahawai. Only this final drama of the tragedy of his life remained to be told by Lieut. (J. G.) Thomas Hedges Massie as he related the stirring events culminating in Kalialiawai's death and the murder trial of Massie. his society matron mother-in-law, Mrs. Grace Hubbard Fortescue. and two seamen. Albert Orlen Jones and Edward John Lord. Like a gentle father, Clarence Darrow stemmed the 26-year-old Kentuckian’s rising emotions which neared the breaking point when he described the brutal attack on his blue-eyed bride by a gang of native hoodluws —of whom Kahahawai allegedly was one. The brilliant Darrow announced I insanity would be a defense plea, and Massie added to bis tale in i a passionate outburst, '“it had a j (CONTINUED ON PAGE SEVEN)

WAGNER URGES BRIEF REPEAL OF AMENDMENT — [Suggests 13-Word Paragraph As 19th Amendi ment to Constitution WOULD RETURN STATE RIGHTS Washington, Apr. 15. (U.R) 1 Senator Robert F. Wagner, 'Dem., N. Y„ today urged a senate jiidieitirv sub-eoniinit-tee to report favorably a 13word amendment to the con-] slilitlion which would say: j ‘‘l’he eighteenth amend-' | ment Io the constitution ol’| [the United Slates is hereby 1 repealed." ; Wagner, long an advocate of re j i peal, said he favored this un-; I adorned amendment lV»cause the' i states automatically would repos ] | sess the power to regulate liquor: | the moment the 18th amendment , 1 was Rtrii ken from the constitution.' He believed other lengthy repeal amendments specifically guaranteeing the rights of states to han liquor were unnecessary and otrty complicated the situation. The New Yorker summarized his argument for repeal thusly: “We face the fact that through] this country is flowing a mighty ( river of illicit liquor which is inundating both communities in fav j or of local prohibition and communities opposed to it. We have observed it undermining our every : effort to achieve real temperance; we have seen it enriching the ‘ gunman an<| racketeer and finani H ing every unspeakaMe crime; ntid G for a dozen years we have been ' J helpless to defend ourselves. We 1 I are manacled to the IStli amend-] ment. “Is it not perfectly natural that we should wish to become free again; free to bring this traffic ' under control: free to check it. restrain it. regulate it and tax it?" 1 Wagner said "reconstruction", I H'ONTINI'ED ON PAGE EIGHT) | q_— MURDER CASE j ;[ NEARING END I Richard Gladden Accused of Killing His Wife At Frankfort [ Frankfort. Ind.. April 15 (U.R)— , Final witnesses in the state's case [j against Richard Gladden. 24. acidised of murdering his wife, were ealled today. Sheriff Dan Powers and other authorities were expected to testify. , Evidence intended to show that , Gladden plotted the death of his wife. Dolores, several days before she died in an auto in which she and her husband were parked outside the city, was given by Roscoe Ashley, a mechanic. Ashley testified that Gladden had ; aeked him to install a heating de-1 II vice in his machine. Ashley re-1 | [fused, lie said, on the grounds that , the device would be a "death trap." : endangering occupants lioth by I • fire and carbon monoxide gas haz-[ [aids. Gladden is accused of killing his wife either by strangulation or carbon monoxide gas from exhaust I fumes of their machine. Doctors W. L. Hammersley and A. G. Chittuck testified that an examination revealed that both strangulation and monoxide gas contributed to Mrs. Gladden's death. Donald Bates, another mechanic, 1 testified that Ashley asked him tor ’ several feet of rubber tubing. 1 When Gladden left the garage. Bates said, he took with him five feet of tubing. Gladden is expected to be called to testify in his own defense Monday. Court will be adjourned tomorrow. o Bandits Make Big Haul Cranston, R. 1., April 15 —(UP) — i Five bandits who arrived on a moI tor truck apparently stolen, stormjed into the offices of the Imperial [Prnting and Finishing company i here today, held up all the workers 'and escaped with a $12,000 payroll

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♦ ♦' Popular Books Placed In Local Public Library i ♦ ♦ Books of fiction and non fiction ' that have proved most p ipular at j the Docatnr public Librrary during , March anil April are: The “Bi ~i Louners' on the Lib- : inry fiction -helves were. “Good Earth" and "East-side West-side"] by Burk: "Years o. Grace", and "Westward Pa.-sage" by Barnes; "Lantern in her H >nd" and "White Bird Flying" by Aldrich; "American Beauty" by Edna Ferber; “Folkhouse". by Ruth Sawyer; "A Buried • rreasurer'by Elizalteth Madox [ I Roberts; "Shadows on the Rock", I by Farther; "Windmill on the I Dune", by Waller; "Laughing Boy". iby Le Fame: and "Maid in Wait-: ICONTINUSD ON PAOR FIVE) BLAST PROBED AT COLUMBUS New §6.000,000 Building Damaged: Six Are Killed In Blast Columbus. 0.. April 15. (U.R) G explosion which wreck- ] 'cd the new $6,000.01)0 state office building yesterday, killing five and' i injuring nearly 60, was blamed toIday on liombs. gas or marble dust I [explosions as an official investiga-I tion got under way. The investigating body was head- ] led by Governor George White and | Colonel Carmi Thompson, chair-' Iman of the state office building commission. Thompson would not comment on possible causes of the blast. Other officials were inclined to the theory >t hat it was due to a bombing i resisting frow labor troubles. No odor of MSis was apparent am' >io gas piping had been installed in [the building, which was nearing completion. Marble dust, accumulated in the finishing of file stone work, would not have caused such a violent blast, in their opinion. Three times during construction, strikes interfered. The state construction board had insisted on the ‘use of union labor. Tlie possibility that a bomb caused tlie explosion was expressed by iFire Chief L. Nice and Frank [ Henry, chief state marshal, on the [basis of a report from Assistant Fire Chief C. W. Ogburn. Ogburn [said he detected a "sweet odor" [when he first entered the sliuttered building-and thought this odor might have been the fumes of nitro- | glycerine. William Green, president of the [American Federation of Labor, teleI graphed to T J. Donnelly, secretary of the local labor federation, urging union support fora thorough (CONTINUED ON CAGE SEVEN) Bandit Raids Theatre Fort Wayne, Apr. 15 —(U.R) An unmasked bandit held up the box office attendant in tlie lobby of the RKO Emboyd theater here last night and escaped with $l5O. FIVE-DAY WEEK IS INSTITUTED Bedford Stone Company Stortens Work: Studebaker Cuts Wages Bedford. Ind., April 15. — (U.R) — A five-day working week scheduled . for all employes of the Indiana Limestone Company was announc- . ed at the general offices of the cowpany here. The order becomes effective immediately. At tlie same time officials an- ' nounced the company had been awarded the contract for 250 carloads of stone for a building of the ] Fjanklin Institute at Philadelphia. A temproray employment increase was predicted as the result of the order. All mills of the company,'both here and at Bloomington, will operate on the five-day basis. They will be closed from Friday night until Monday morning. Tlie order also will be effective at the executive offices in Chicago, it was announced. Officials said they adopted the plan In order to furnish ewploy ment to a greater number of s oneworkers. The order, however, forecast ad(CONTINUED UN PAGE SEVEN)

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Bound for Alaska ] t JWW - yi John Potsch. 17-year-old Boy Scout and student at the Morton I High School in Cicero, who won the icontest sponsored by the National Museum at Washington, D. C. He i will be a member of the United States geological and archeological expedition to Alaska this summer. INSULL GROUP ASKS RECEIVER — Statement Says Action Not To Affect Any < Iperations __ BULLETIN Chicago. April 15.— (U.R) — Federal Judge Walter C. Lind- ( ley declared the Middle West Utilities Company, $2,500,000.000 (B) unit in the vast Samuel Insult financial system, in receivership today but delayed naming three receivers. It was the largest receivership ever ordered in American business history. ]i Samuel Insult, chairman of I tlie board of the Middle West. Charles A. McCullough, chairI man of the board of the John R. Thomson Restaurant Com- . | pany and Edward N. Hurley, former member of the U. S. shipping board, were suggested as receivers by the company. ' Chicago. April 15—(U.R) —A fed- . eral court order was awaited today iito make effective the largest rejeeivership American business has 'ever witnessed —that of the Middle West Utilities Co.. Samuel Insull's $2.500,00<>.()0<1 <B) holding corporJation. ( The tremenduous ramifications . of the company which touch industry at virtually every important industrial center on the continent make the receivership perhaps the most important in tlie iiistory of finance. Strikingly enough the petition j tor receivership brought against i'tlie gigantic concern the floating I [drill of which aggregates $400,000.000 (Ml is made on an SB,OOO bill. The action is friendly and was made by the Lincoln Printing Coin .which a large block ot stock is held by Instill interests. U. S. District Judge James H. Wilkerson, jurist who heard the] trial of Al Capone, said he would I hear the petition at 10 a. m. ! Appointment of three receivers. one of them the white-haired Insull who built the spider-web chain of properties which stretch from New England to the Pacific and across the border into Canada, was j expected. The action had long been antici- , pated as a means of conserving the depression-shrunk assets of the ' (CONTINUED ON PAGE SEVEN) . o Prof. Tritch, Speaker Prof. J. C. Tritch, principal of International college at Fort Wayne ' delivered an interesting address on "What Worries You" before pupils of Decatur high school at tlie chapel hour this morning. Prof. Tritch was formerly an instructor in the Decatur school system and is well known here. He will also speak Sunday inorning before the Men's club at the First Methodist Episcopal church 'in this city.

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GARNER SAYS PLAN WILL BE READY TUESDAY Rider To Bill Will Save $200,(100.000 In Federal Government [PRESIDENT IS CONSULTED Washington. Apr. !•» A comprehensive program i for economy in the lederal government, estimated to stive more than .S‘2,(HM 1.000 will he brought before the house for tielion luesdav. according to present plans of the Democratic leadership. Speaker Gaimer said today that tlie entire program would be offor- ; ed by the special house economy t committee as an amendment to ] the legislative appropriations bill now under consideration by the house. “It is my understanding." the speaker said, "that the whole program will lie offered as a rider to the legislative bill. That's what I understood from conferences this morning. "Tlie whole question of courso depends upon tlie president getting his program up here in legislative shape. As it lias been presented so far it was not in logis- | lative form and it is rather hard to tell what it would do. "Tlie house committee program is of course al! in legislative form and ready for presentation." Garner said that it was hoped tlie presiilent would transmit his complete scheme for government aakitigs by this afternoon, thus giving the eebnomy clnniiilftiN three full days for consideration. Bryant Man Arrested George Adams, about 45. of Bryant. was taken into custody at Hai l ford City this morning in company with a Hartford City woman whose name was not divulged on charge of violating the liquor laws. They were arrested 2 mills .-•onth of Hartford City at what i known as the Swift corner, by Sheri f Ira Manniz and deputy. When the two officers arrived the woman was seated in a fence corner and Adams was not to be found.. Officers que tinned the woman and she said that she and Adams had had a quarrel and that Adams had left in his i ,ir but would soon return. They waited but a few moments until Adams returned in his sedan and a .search of the car revealed pint bottles about hal: full of alleged liquor. Warning Is Issued Washington, April 15—<UP)- A warning against the results which might develop from increased taxa- . tion of stock transfers was brought to the Senate finance committee , today by Richard Whitney, president of the New York Stock Exchange. Whitney warned of a possible panic if increased taxation reduced trading to such a point that ex- . changes might be forced to close. BURNS.NOTED SLEUTH DIES I i . [Nationally Known Detective Dies Following Heart Attack I Sarasota. Fla.. April 15. —(U.R) ■ 1 William J. Burns, whose "horso sense" detective methods solved coast-to-coast bomb outrages, counterfeiting plots, land swindles ’ and election frauds, is dead here, after a heart attack. The 70-ycar-old man-tracker's death here last night ended :i career rivalling the most noted oil f fiction - but never included fiction- , al methods. It was a career that t included solution of these cases: . The Los Angeles Times- McNamara bomb plot. 1 The Ohio election tally sheet tor- , series of 1885. I Tin? Philadelphia-Lancaster counterfeit plot. Oregon - Washington - California , land fraud cases of 1903. ( San Francisco mint robbery with (CONJINt'ED ON PAGE EIGHT)