Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 30, Number 93, Decatur, Adams County, 18 April 1932 — Page 1

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iwiio Mine Opened After State Troops Fire On Strikers

■MINERS GO WORK TODAY I CADIZ MINE ■ Strikers Shot Down ■inu Disorder; Defl tied Orders fIiEKS FLED I ■ \s TROOPS FIREI fliz. <).. Apr. IX (U ® fl u machines sent echo-. ■lll,s Ihrouqh corridors fl Sinners mine of the flcar Tire mid Rubber, fl'ar here today it few flatter shite troops shot fl three strikers who fled on the shaft in an flto nrevenl resumption flralioiis there. was resumed at the mine flu workers who refused to fl, Strike. The disorder flfier officers of the United fliVorkers of America had ■ strict orders against violfl- protesting minors. ■ strikers, defying orders of fltfiiials. bore down on barfl thrown tip by the soldiers, flmiked when they ignorde fl from Captain F. G. Ruff-1 flmpany 1.. Akron, warning! flo "halt." I wounded strikers were ■ Trionfio. 20. Pine Fort, shot fl leg: Louis Porter. 32. BeJfl cracked when they ignore flout, 52. Dillonvale, shot in fl troops erected a placard I die hi es-1 w orks in a ru;ij fl to the Somers mine, readfl road is under rifle and flu- gun fire." I invaders, a rough-clad celflipped the sign down and fll on it. They advanced. Kr:d rounds were fired beHlie striker ft,.,| pi disorder. Kuiional guard airplane was' fll over the area to report flnseinbiies of miners. Sol- ■ sprawled about, resting, flared patrol lines, at the fls mine. fle low." was ih'> order along fI'TIXTIMi ns- pmir six» MPLACE [CHANGEO HERE linct “A” In T h i r d ■rd Decatur Changed fl Adams Co. Garage B list of voting places in Adfcounty for the primary elecfl published in today’s issue fl Daily Democrat. fl' one change is made in the fl places in the county. The fl” is in the Third Ward “A" het in Decatur. p 'oting booth will lie located * Adams County garage, corlrst and Jackson streets. In°f in the Holthouse building, r of Second and Jackson b The County garage is one 1 rani on Jackson street. I' 'Ming places will he opened flsday, May 3. from six o'clock I " ntil s,x o'clock p. m. Voters I appear in persofi to vote, f 'a no absent voter’s law in Ina. L 'omplete list of county and Fsssional candidates, and in!"s precinct committeemen and f e* to the state conventions P Mblished in Tuesday’s Daily pi’s are urged to clip the legal Flwment in tonight's paper L " e , the voting L and the notice in Tuesday’s [idates a complete ,lst of the nev a Has Fire Sunday Afternoon hVm« Pril 19 ~ ,s PWial)—The ’aw residence on Railroad ivhiX nPVa ' "’ as da ®aged by “the ehtm &rte(l ,rOni Bparkg toren h mney at 10 o’o'ock Suni XT. ' rhp ,otal i hadiv 6 *BOO- The house y gß,ted by the flames.

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; Police Lack Clues In Picco Slaying Springfield, 111., Apr. Ik <U.R» Police were hampered by luck of | elites today in the slyaing of John M. Picco. 46. Italian consular agent here, but were convinced an anti-fascist plot was not responsi Ide for the death. Picco was shot down by three gunmen wielding sawed-off shotguns as he started across a street with his son John. Jr.. 12. The boy escaped Injury. DEATUR GIRL IS INJURED Madgeline Miller Is In Bluffton Hospital Following Accident Sunday Miss Madgeline Miller of this city, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Ed. J. Miller is a patient at the Wells County Hospital in Bluffton, where she is suffering from injuries re-1 ceived in an automobile accident ■ at 9 o'clock Sunday night on state, road No. 3. about seven miles north i of Bluffton. Miss Miller received a deep cut I on the right jaw. a gash above the! right eye. and her right ear was nearly .severed. The accident took place near the' (scene where Henry I! Safford, 35. I vice-president of the G. E. Bnrsley and Co., of Fort Wayne, was in i stantly killed at 8:30 o’clock Sun-[ ! day night. Safford was killed when 1 his skull was crushed. Following the Safford accident, a (CONTINUED ON PAGE FIVE) ROOSEVELT IS i IN MINNESOTA New York Governor Rec e i v e s Enthusiastic Welcome In West — Boston, Apr. 18—(U.R) —Governor Franklin D. Roosevelt of New York in a letter to the Liberal Civic League. Inc., to- | day reiterated his opinion that control of intoxicants should be returned to the several states. St. Pauli. Minn.. April 18. —(U.R) Governor Franklin D. Roosevelt (received an enthusiastic welcome I today when he arrived to open his middle western campaign for the; Democratic presidential nomin- 1 at ion. More than 2.1100 persons cheered when the New York executive left the union station for his hotel headquarters. Tonight Roosevelt will make his first political speech outside of New York in his camfCONTINEED ON PACE THREE) PASTOR'S HOME RUINED BY FIRE Residence of Rev. Riley’s In Monroe Destroyed By Fire Sunday The residence of Rev. and Mrs. Vernon Riley in Monroe was destroyed by fire at about S: 30 o’clock Sunday morning. The fire started on the roof from a spark from the chimney. The dwelling which was owned by Lew Sprunger of Fort Wayne, was practically destroyed with a laks estimated at about SI,BOO. Mr. Sprunger carried $1,200 insurance on the building. Neighbors and friends were successful in removing most of Jhe furniture and household appliances from the first floor. Very little of the furniture upstairs and none of the family's clothing was removed. Rev. Riley moved into the house two weeks ago and did not have any insurance on the household goods. He is the pastor of the Friend's church In Monroe and at the Sunday afternoon services a collection was taken for him. More than SIOO was obtained. Rev. Riley was carrying his ten (CONTINUED ON PAGE FOUR)

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ECONOMY BILL | TO BE INCLUDED INMEASURE House Committee Agrees [ To Embody It in Omni- ' bus Bill MICHIGAN LEGION SEEK BONUS PAY Washington, April 18. —(U.R) —The house economy committee today decided to submit President Hoover's .economy program in an “omnibus ' bill" embodying all phases of the proposed $200,000,000 savings in government cost next year. The announcement was made as ithe economy committee took its noon recess after a bitter morning i session. The move was regarded as a virtual surrender to President Hoover. Mr. Hoover has been pounding away in his fight to get the entire program under "one tent" and 'the committee after hours of bitter wrangling came around to his i v lews. Michigan Asks Bonus Washington. April 18. — (U.R) — | Michigan Legionnaires today asked (congress for favorable action on the cash bonus through their representative, David V. Addy of Detroit. Addy testified before the house ( I ways and means committee as hear-1 lings resumed on the Patman bill to . issue more than $2,000,000,000 (Bl 'in new currency for the veterans i payment. Addy told the committee that he I ! represented 52 Legion ]>OHts in i Wayne county, Micltigan, with a , I total membership of 12.820."The Legion official asked pass- i 'age of the bonus as an aid to De(CONTtNUED ON PAGE THREE) | Jack Meibers Is Reported Seriously 111 John W (Jack) Meibers, propriej t r of th? Madison hotel is seriously I ill with erysipelas, which followed an attack of the flu. He became ill | last Thursday ano lias been bed- | a t since. His condition was bet- ! ter this afternoon, the fever having i subsided considerably. HEART ATTACK FATAL TO FARMER • Albert F. Chronister, 70, Drops Dead In Barn Lot Saturday Evening — Albert F. Chronister, 70, life i long resident of Adams county, dropped dead at his home in St. Marys township, at 6 o’clock Saturday evening. Mr. Chronister was working in the barn lot when he suddenly fell over dead. He had suffered an attack of i acute indigestion three weeks ago. i Saturday he felt better and was | working on his farm. An inquest ' | was held and Dr. .1. C. Grandstafi. county coroner, slated that death was caused 'My a heart attack. ' Mr. Chronister was a farmer and resided in St. Marys township for many years. He lived in this city seven years of his life. He was a member of the United ( Brethren church at Bobo. c He was born in St. Marys townI ship. May 23, 1861, the son of > Conrad and Catharine LenhartChronister. lie was united in mar- . riage to Annis Smith on November 17. 1889. ' Surviving is the widow, five 1 children, Mrs. Matic Stevens of Pleasant Mills; Glen Chronister and Wilson Chronister of St. Marys township: Fred Chronister ' and Mt s. C. E. Merryman of tins city; 13 grandchildren; two broth- ( era. William of St. Marys township and Ed of this city; three f sisters, Mrs. George Humeriek- ' house of Craigville; Mrs. S. T. ’ Welker of St. Marys township, ' and Miss Cora of 1 Washington township. : Funeral services will be held Tuesday afternoon at 1:30 o’clock 1 at the home, 5 miles east of this ’ city, and at 2 o’clock at the Bobo U. B. church with Rev. Walter ' Johnson, pastor, in charge. Burial will be in the Decatur cemetery.

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Child Roasted for a “Joke” f - -J VX "* i I Ifebte. 2 \fl 1A hSI ■ 3B' ■ flfla . Hk 711 Of w | flu fly ” flfl . iraf asm William Earl Sheets. 7. of Richmond. Va., is shown being comforted by his mother in the hospital where h els recovering from the effects of sen re burns sustained as the result of a weird "joke" played upon 1 him. Two brothers. Warren and Earl Wade (insert), are held, charged | with putting the boy in a barrel containing wsate paper, wiring on the I top and setting fire to the paper in the barrel. The child was badly ; burned before he was extricated. The men explained their dastardly I action by saying that it was "all a joke.”

GARAGE, AUTO I DESTROYED Frank Young’s Auto Catches Fire In Garage Late Sunday Night Fire which completely destroyed' the ant omoi file owned by Frank Young, iocal barber. broke out in ‘ the garage at the Young hornil North First streel, shortly before II o'clock Sunday night, and, caused damage estimated al about | i s:’,so. The property is owned by Henry | Foreman of Mercer avenue. The; fire also spread to tile home of I i Mrs. Virginia Smitley. adjacent 10l the garage and caused damage oi l Jalnnit $25. The fire was caused by a short' circuit in the Young automobile and the garage was ablaze before I the local fire department was notified. The garage was located between the Young and Smitley homes. It burned to the ground. ' The Young home was also damaged by the flames and Fire Chief Jack Friedt estimated the loss at, : $25. A large crowd attended the| ■ fire. JONES CHAIRMAN IS NAMED HERE E. W. Lankenau Named County Chairman For Dr. Harry 0. Jones i . E. W. Lankenau, superintendent of the Decatur works of the Gen-1 • eral Electric company has been. . named Adams county chairman' . for Dr. Harry O. Jones, of Berne, j ■ republican candidate for congress in the Fourth district. ■ The appointment was made to- ’ day by James Haberly of Fort ' Wayne, district chairman for the: Jones-for-Congress dub in the ' Fourth district. Headquarters will be opened in this city about Thursday. Mr. Lankenau stated. Fort Wayne headquarters for ' Dr. Jones will be opened Tuesday evening on Berry street and an invitation to Adams county repub- ; licans and friends to attend the informal reception was issued by Chairman Lankenau. Dr. Jones will deliver a short talk nt the meeting. Dr. Jones, who opposes David [ H. Hogg, incumbent from the Twelfth district and candidate in. (CONTINUED ON PAGE FIVE)

I. Health Station Plans For County Complete Plans are completed for the pre-' School Child Health Station which I lis to be held in the first floor i [looms of the Decatur Public Li 11. on April 21, 22. 25, 211. and 27 from 9:30 a. in. to 4 o'clock p., m. Dr. Dorothy Teal and Miss| Nancy Gibbs, 11. N„ of the State | I Hoard of Health, assisted by a num |ber of local organizations will be I |ln charge. Mothers are invited to bring I I I CONTINUED <>N PAGE FIVE) BERNE CITIZEN i DIES SUNDAY Phillip Schug, 71, Pioneer Resident of Berne, Expires At Home Philip Schug, 71, one of I he pioneer citizens of Berne, died Sunday morning at S:ls o'clock at his home on East Water street, after suffering only a few days with [angina pectoris. He had been associated in the insurance business with his son for the past 15 years I under the firm name of Philip Schug and Son. During most of his life he had ' been very active in local Democratic j IHilities, and had been president of I I the Berne city council for a 16-year [period, a longer time than any oth-1 lor local official. He had also twice I been a candidate for county auditor ! [ a number of years ago. He had been in various lines of business in I Berne since coming to that place [from French township about 45 [years ago. His wife died in 1919. and he had jsince then for the most part made , him home with his eldest son. SurIviving are three children. Mrs. C. V. Millikan of Virginia Beach, Va„ !Jesse and E. J. Schug of Berne, and also eight grandchildren. Two brothers also survive, Rudolph of Berne, at present a candidate fori the Democratic nomination for county auditor, and John H. Schug , of.thia city j Funeral services will be he <1 i Tuesday morning at 9:30 o’clock at the Cross Reformed church in Berne and burial will be made in the M. R. E. cemetery, west of Berne. Truck Catches Fire The fire department was called to Cleveland street this morning where the Northern Indiana Public Service company truck had caught fire. The wiring in the machine was burned and damages were estimated at $2.

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MAN ARRESTED IN PHILADELPHIA KIDNAP CASE — Police State They Have Man Under Arrest For Brodsky Kidnaping OTHERS TO BE ARRESTED SOON Philadelphia. April 18.— (U.R) — J One man was under arrest today I iin connection with the kidnaping, lof Hilda Brodsky, 8-year-old WU-: imington girl, a Philadelphia police I i official said. The girl was returned home Sunday without payment | of ransom. After admitting the sns|H>ct was| being held and that the arrest of! another man and a woman Is ex-j pectetl shortly, the police official I refused To commit himself further 1 The girl was hired into an auto-] mobile while on her way to school Friday. After she was returned police took her to her parents. Mr. and Mrs. Harry Brodsky, in Wilmington. Police said no ransom was paid, although it was reported $50,000 had been asked in a note received by the parents. The child was returned to police by the Rev. Joseph M. Pugliese, South Philadelphia priest, with whom the kidnapers had negotiat-! cd. Police said the girl had recogniz-1 ed the woman, who took part in the) kidnaping as one she had seen in , her father’s hosiery factory in Wil-1 inington about ten days ago. HOME TALENT IS WELL RECEIVED — Large Audience Enjoys “Nora Wake Up” Presented Sunday Night \ — “Nora Wake I p", a very pleasling comedy-drania in .three acts . was presented in the Catholic high j school auditorium Sunday night i before a large audience. The play (was presented by tin 1 Catholic Ladies Social Club. Scarcely was the play five min utes old when the audience became engrossed in the underlying theme if the play the undying love of a truly great Irish mother, old-fash-ioned though she be, for her so- , dally inclined daughter. "As the plot thickens and Nora becomes more ami more intent on "winning her man” we can see that (a great conflict is raging in Iter I heart—a fight of her old-fashioned | ways. And were it not for the dagger4ike thrusts of a faithful Johnnie and ills handsome collegechum, Danny, the blinding swank of tlie socially-minded Mrs. EdI (CONTINUED ON PAGE FOUR) IS CENSURED FDR RADIO TALK — Cardinal O’Connell Criticises Father Coughlin For Utterances Boston, Apr. 18 —(U.R)— So-called "demogogic utterances" that brought an attack on Franklin D. Roosevelt by Alfred E. Smith, have resulted likewise in censur for a Catholic priest by William Cardinal O'Connell, speaking "as a ( Catholic citizen." Cardinal O'Connell, archbishop of Boston and dean of the Catholic (Hierarchy in America, censured the Rev. Father Charles E. Coughl.tji ..of .1 he "Shrine of the Uttle Flower” for attacking the rich and "littering demogogic stuff to the poor." in a church “that is for . all." The speech was delivered ov the cardinal last night at the University dub here. It did not name [I the Royal Oak. Michigan, priest , but referred to him as “The indi- ( virtual in Michigan." I Father Coughlin has drawn , nationwide attention hy his week- ’ ly radio forum which was taken (CONTINUED ON PAGE ITVEi

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Ruppert Insanity Case Being Heard! The case of Clarence Repperl, Preble township young men. chain rd with insanity by an as Idavlt fil-1 ed by the young man's mother, was held before Judge Dore B. Erwin in the Adams Circuit Court today. she case was in chambers, which i secret court. Attorney R. C. Par hish of Fort Wayne represented I Mr. llenpert. I Mr. Reppert was held in the Adtuns County jail since the tiling | if the affidavit several days ago. I The insanity inquest was conducted by Dr. W E. Smith and Dr. P. B. I Thomas, who wore appointed by (tlie court. Tlie case began this morning an ! (was continued until this afternoon TO HOLD MEETING IN COURT ROOM Anti-Prohibition Association To Be Organized Here Tonight Due to the interest shown, the organization meeting of the Association Against the Prohibition Amendment, will he held in th<‘ Circuit court room instead of at the Chamber of Commerce rooms at 7:30 o'clock tonight. W. A. ( Klepper. chairman of tlie mooting j announced today. A large number is expected at ( lite meeting and an organization will be completed. Mr Klepper | has Been named Adams County | chairman by Arthur F Hall, fourth : rtistrii t chairman. A secretary I and board of directors will be | named at the meeting. Harry G. Hogan, banker, and ] Harry W. Baals, former postmast- ( er of Fort Wayne will be speakers l at the meeting tonight. The org- ( aniz.ition is non partisan and men | of all political faiths are invited to attend the meeting. Several 1 men from Fort Wayne will attend I lie meeting. Purpose is Stated The principles and aims of tlie associntion are: "Whereas, tli<> Const it ill ion of (CONTINUED ON’ PAGE EG I’EY MAGICIAN TO APPEAR HERE Edward Reno, Prominent Magician To Present Program Tuesday . i —.— Edward Reno, the celebrated . magician, will appear at the DecaI tur high school auditorium, Tues- . day evening, April 19. and will give one of the performances of magic and legerdemaen that have i made him famous. The program ( is the fourth of a series of Redpath Lyceum numbers sponsored by the senior class. Mr. Reno's magic stunts are original and unique and promise to | be entertaining to Both young and old. Several features of his program. Tuesday night, will be the | evolution of a magician's wand; I mysterious cornucopia and enchanted rabbit; hatched, matched and dispatched—a romance in the life of a pair of ring doves; the serial treasury and the always popular inexhaustible hat; mysI terious changes, manipulations, and Hindoo transformations: the wizard's omelet, introducing the .[talented Goose “Jim”; the story i of a little bird -the children's de- . light, Father Neptune's fishery, i and many others. The curtain will rise at 8 o’clock. , Tickets for the performance may be procured at the door, and those I wito purchased season tickets early in the season will be admitt- . ed by presentation of their cards. I This i-.-r Hie final program in the > Lyceum course, nnd promises to . be ore of the most entertaining. o— Condition Os Jack Edwards Is Serious 1 Marion, Ind., April is.—(U.R) —The condition of Mayor Jack Edwards, suffering from infection following 1 a tonsil operation, was reported serious today. 1 Edwards underwent the operation Saturday.

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ABDUCTOR OF HUNTER GIRL IS HANGEDTOTREE Mob Overpowers Sheriff And Lynch Richard Read; Made Confession CROWD OF ABOUT 200 TAKE PART St. Francis, Kan., Apr. IS. (U.R) An infuriated mot) of western Kansas farmers early today lynched Richard Read, 53, confessed abductor ami killer of Dorothy Hunter, eimht year old “il l. The mob over powered I Sheriff A. A. Bacon ol CheyI cirne county, forced him to I unlock the jail, seized Bead I and took him to an isolated spot I near McDonald and hanged him from a tree. As he stood beneath the tree I with the noose aliont his neck, I Road, former Colorado convict. | again admitted his crime and told | the mob: "You arc lynching the right man." He said lie was intoxicated at tlie time lie kidnaped tlie .little girl at Selden, Kan.. Thursday afternoon, assaulted her anil hold her captive mote than 24 hours before he killed her. Nearly 200 men were In the crowd that drove in automobiles to St. Francis when the carefully guarded secret that Read was held i there finally spread across the ■ western Kansas prairies. Forty of the men approached i the courthouse, where the jail is (Situated, and overpowered Sin r: t ■ Racon. The mob entered SI. Framit I quietly and sill rotinileil him before he had opportunity to prepare to , resist it. tlie sheriff said. "Tlie men came running up as 1 , was standing outside tlie courtI honseijf Sheriff Bacon told the I United Press. "Before I had a I chance to run inside and lock the doors behind me, I was overpowered and carried alsiut 2DO yards. . where there were other members of the mob. r "I estimate Ibero were 200 or more men in the crowd. "1 saw that they won- determined Io have Read ami that there would be bloodshed il they were resisted by force. | "I pleaded with them to allow' the law to take its course, .assuring them it was certain Re.id 1 would be sent to the state penitentiary for the rest of his life. "Cries came from members of i the mob to !yn< h Read. Its loaders hunted through my pockets and found the keys. "Then the crowd ran to the jail, unlocked the outer door, ran down 1 to Read’s cell, and opened it." Read was dragged from his cell, pleading for mercy. . "We'll give you the same mercy 1 you gave that little girl." one of I (CONTINUED ON PAGE FIVE) HEMORRHAGE IS FATAL TO WOMAN ’I 77 Mrs. Marion Shinn. Dies 1 At Home in Linn Grove Early Sunday 1 Berne. April 18 - (Special! Mrs. ' Marion Shinn. 75. died suddenly ' at her home in Linn Grove. Sunday morning at one o'clock o’ a hemor- ' rhage. Mr-. Shinn liad suffered with ' high blood pressure for the past year, and was bedfast, the. last two ' months. She was born in French town- ' ship. June 30. 1885, the daughter of Christian and Anna Bierie. On * June 30. How she was united in marriage to Marion Shinn of Linn Grove. j She spent her entire life in Jay ) Wells, and Adams counties, and for a number of years resided al Linn Grove. Surviving is the husband and a brother. Eli Bierie of Berne, anti > a sister, Mrs. Suzanne Gottschalk or Wells (Eninty. Thirteen brothers ‘ and Uster: preceded het in death. , Funeral services will be held ; Tuesday afternoon at one o'clock at I the home, and at 1:30 o'clock at the Linn Grove Evangelical church ) with burial in the Linn Grove Cemetery.