Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 30, Number 95, Decatur, Adams County, 20 April 1932 — Page 1

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lei sees Il E DEFEAT I FUNDS BILL H —— Willingness To Kfeasure II It Pass- , ■ Both Houses ■senate M WILL NOTE NO I ■iiu’lnn. Apr. 20 ■cut Hoover IS firinlv. K, that tlie soldiers . ■lilts now Ix lore con- 1 ■ivc not the slightest ■of Incoming law. ■>rcshh ni believes that. ■louse should IUISS the! ■the senate will defeat I ■l j| tli<' seiudc should ■ contrary n> his expecta- ■ will use the veto. ■i D « io administration estl-] Ke 1,..ni1s .lirctly or indi-l Koubl <oi 'l"’ country ■i.wii whether it wan paid ■over'inx nt bond Issue ori ■sue of new currency as ■in the Patham bill. The ■i feels the country cannot I ■time Ivar sinh an added ■ and if congress doesn’t ■ it. he will. ■ th,. President's full back■tinistr.it ion officials are Ba major part of the attac k ■ bonus Itefore the house. ■<l mean committee. Vet- ■ Administrator Frank T. ■as scheduled as a witness ■ president Pawes of the reBtion c orporation. Chairman ■of the federal reserve! ■nd Secretary of Treasury ■ill appear later in the ■ will combat the argument ■ advocates that payment , ■o.MM.OOO of new currency | ■x soldiers would be a sound, B of expanding moneyed Hand bringing the dollar bn its average talite. ■dent Hoove* thinks that ■ might have passed the t ■rd sent it to him to Veto ■ not c ome out so firmly ■ it from the time he ad■tMOTCD on I'x.tc i-'ivvd INS COUNTY IESIDENT DIES I — I I Brandyberry, 77, Is It's Victim; 111 Two ■ nths of infirmities I lander Junior Brandyberry. I f long resident of Adams II died at 1 o'clock this mornI I the Adams County InfirmI pere he had been an inmate lie past four years. Death I aused by complications and I ed an illness of two months. I deceased was the son of and Eliza!-th Brandyberrv las born September 4. 1854. 'as united in marriage to C. Hahn, who lives with a daughter near Monroeville, wiring are six children: Mrs. B X N’oriol of Fort Wayne; ■Pearl D. Wagoner of Grand Mich.; Mrs.' Maggie M. ■>z of Fort Wayne; Earl O. ■J’berry of Fort Wayne; Mrs. f Wilber of Oakland, Calif.. Phr Minnie M. Matsos of I'l Mich.; nine grandchildren ■mtrteon great grandchildren, t body was taken to the •stein and Doan Funeral rs "here it will remain until of the funeral. Funeral ser"'lll be held Thursday afteral 1:30 o'clock at the •is church at Monroe with I'wnon Riley, pastor, offif L ’ Burial will be in the Rav I" Pnsull, Jr., Elected faro. April 20—(UP)—Samuel I i ■ was elected chairman of prd of the Central Indiana 1 mpany yesterday, sticceed|i» lather, Samuel Insull. L ~o llicers re-elected are: *' Feustel, president; WilI • Sauer and Lucious B. rice presidents; W. MarI me. Treasurer, Bernard P. L, B ( eCretary: Edwin. J- Booth ft to the President; Louis B. k’w"l P,roller; Alfred E - Jost [L ll,iani S. (forman, assisL”" Uref: Pa «l D. Birdsall, '“nt secretary

DECATUR DAILY DEMOCRAT

Vol. XXX. No. 95.

G. 0. P. Keynoter l| r ] Senator L. .1. Dickinson Qf lowa I who has been named "keynoter "i and temporary chairman of the Re-: i publican national convention to be I held In Chicago in June. i WOMAN'S OEAfiT BEING PROBED Under Cover Operative Is Beaten To Death In Cleveland, Ohio Cleveland. Anri! 20. — (U.R) — A 'pretty, titian-haired divorcee who, acts as an investigator tor private detective agents and reputedly as a federal informer, was beaten to death farly today in an apartment lin tliA little Hollywood district : where she haT gone with three men ,following a speakeasy party. Mortally wounded, Mrs. Kathryn Jones, 23, was found by officers of a scout car which chanced to halt outside the building just as she screamed for help. j Her three alleged companions were captured as they emerged rotn a side entrance of the* buHding. They denied knowledge of the killing. | Detectives immediately plunged into an investigation on the theory I she may have been killed because of her activities as an investigator. I They said they had been informed by a former employer that she had acted as under-cover operator for federal prohibition agents. Patrolman Harold Hoff, who was off duty, halted the police car, carrying Patrolman Harry Mobley and Walter McCord, for a chat when they heard a woman's scream. "Save me! Help! They're killing me!" she shouted. The officers rushed inside to find the pretty operative crumpled . to the floor at the foot of a flight ot stairs. She was alive but died a few minutes later of a fractured . skull and broken neck. Scurrying outside. Patrolman Mc- ■ Cord seized Sol Levy, 40. Harry Weiss. 23. and Nathan Solomon. 31. i as they ran out a .de entrance. ; They pretended they were drunk when they learned the girl had been tCONTINI'IfD OV PVCIE TWi>‘ JAPAN REFUSES I LEAGUE PLANS 1 j Break With Nations Is Bei lieved Near; Spokesman Gives Views 5 Tokio. April 20. — (U.R) — The 1 league of nations latest suggested - solution for the far eastern ques- ' Hon is entirely inaiceptable to Japan and tended to increase possibility of Japan's withdrawal from the league, a government spokesman said today. [ The spokesman believed that ■ Naotake Sato, Japanese delegate at Geneva, would reject the draft . resolution of the committee of 19 without even referring it to Tokio. Japan will ignore the resolution if it is passed by a public session of the league assembly, the ipokes- . man said. Japan will not relinquish her , mandate over islands formerly belonging to Germany if she withdraws from the league, the spokesman said, adding "they were awarded to Japan before, the (CONTINUED ON PAGE TWO)

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COMMENCEMENT WEEK PROGRAM IS ANNOUNCED I ' ■' Decatur High School Seniors to Have Busy Week May 13 To May 20 FESTIVITIES ARE PLANNED The annual Decatur high school commencement week program for the graduating , class was announced today by school authorities. The week will open Friday, Mav 13 with the annual Junior-Senior reception. The event will be held at Decatur Country club. On Sunday night, May 15,

the baccalaureate services will Ibe held at the Methodist Episcopal < httrch with Rev. R. E. Vance, pastor of the United Brethren I 'church delivering the chief sermon. Rev. Vance's subject will be “Bet Iter Than." May 19 has been designated as [Class day and the activities will lie I held at Decatur high school auditorium Friday night. May 20. at o'clock.. Tlie Senior reception will follow the commencement : program. Following is tlie complete May 20 program; ! Marell The Gridiron Club" John Philip Sousa Decatur Junior Band. Invocation Rev. M. W. Sunderman Pastor Evangelical Church Music—Freshman chorus i (a) "Indiana Dawn" Roos-Zansecnik (Boys) (b) "Amaryllis" Old French Air ((Hvls) (cl "The Old Refrain' I-—■. Urrtiter - U.\>u)luil,l,'4A, t:

(Address- "New Viewpoints" Hon. Sam Grathwell, Traveler and Historian, Cleveland. Ohio. I Select km —"Favorites” Victor Herbert Decatur Junior Band Presentation of Graduating Class Principal W. Guy Brown j (CONI INC l?i > OM PAGE TW<>> NO PROGRESS IN KIDNAPING Police, Private Detectives Continue To Work on Known Clues Hopewell. N. J.. April 20. —(U.R) —Police and private negotiators > continued their search for the I kidnaped son of Colonel Charles A. j Lindbergh today, the 51st day of II the search, with no apparent proI gress although airplane visitors yesterday aroused considerable ■ interest. A plane from Kansas City, Mo., • brought two callers at the Lindbergh home. Their identity was ; I not disclosed nor was their mis--1 j sion revealed. The plane landed !at the Princeton airport and a man and woman alighted. They asked the way to the Lindbergh estate and were driven there l»y | Richard A Newhattse. manager of the flying field. It was learned 1 later that the couple stopped overI night at Pittsburgh. The woman was described as | about 45 years old. The man ap- . | peared .about the same age While activity was at a low ebb at Hopewell. Dr. John F. Condon, (CONTINUED ON PAGE FIVE) 4—oil Potato Expert Coming >| County Agent L. E. Archbold to- > day announced that Tuesday even--1 ing April 26 at 7:45 o'clock W. B. t Ward, potato specialist from Purdue University will be at the count ty agent's office for a meeting with ? the men and boys interested in a t 4 H potato club. • Walter Thieme, Nathan Sprunger, Noah Fox. Louis Dornseif and f Harve Haggard have shown interi est in the matter and will attend - this meeting with a group of boys fi-,m their various neighborhoods, r Indiana is potato-deficient, acf cording to Mr. Ward and the coun- • ty agent feels that if quality pota- ' toes are raised and sold on a grade ed basis our own market for this e staple crop can be regained and will make a worth while cash crop.

Decatur, Indiana, Wednesday, April 2d, 1932.

| Promotion Scheme Is Explained To Council I A proposition to place metiil waste paper boxes on the prlnci ' pal uptown' corners in the cltvl was brought to' the council's| | ,iit. i.ilon last ci<'ninc a■..) refett I ed to the Public Safety committee. An out of town coniern and the Civic Section of the Woman's club both made petition for the right. The boxes would carry ad- ; vertisemonts and in that manner pay for the cost. It was stated that the charge was SIO.OO for an ad. Several of the councilmen I objected to this form of advertising and the matter was left In the hands of the committee. — o —— FAST TIME TO BE VOTED ON

Council Favors Referendum On Daylight Saving j Time Question Here i The daylight saving time question will be submitted to the vol- , ers either at the primary election. , Tuesday May 3 or at a special j , election, the time and manner to ; be determined by the judiciary) | committee of the city council. The matter was iTought up be- ; fore the council last evening ami i a motion was made by Councilman O. L. Vance that a referendum be taken. City Attorney J. Fred,Fruehte was instructed to write': to the State Board of Election! Commissioners to ascertain if it I i i were legal to hold the election <n connection with the primary. A t motion was also made that if the eleciton could not be held in con-j nection with the primary that a' special election be held, the tnan ' nor and lime of holding it to be determined by the judiciary com"rtflttee. fooncilman H F. Linn

voted against the motion for the special election. Councilman George Appleman. chairman of the f judiciary committee was unable ’ to be present at the meeting and j the committee report was made by Councilman Vance. To* Observe Standard Time A recommendation was also | made that if the matter was not: settled until Tuesday. May :’>. that | Decatur operate on standard time until the expression of the people 11 was obtained. The ordinance provides that daylight saving time 1 shall go into effect at midnight. I April .10, but since the matter is to be voted on the council suggested that standard time be ob- ( 1 served until the vote is taken. ' No petitions were presented to the council last evening and members of the council expressed the belief that proponents and oppon- * ents of the time regulation would 1 lie satisfied with the arrangements : and would be willing to await the i ' outcome of the election. — o Woman’s Brother Dies Mr. and Mrs. S. R. Alexander of North Fourth street, were called ' to South Milford. Indiana, this afternoon. by the death of Mrs. 1 Alexander’s brother. E. W. Nichols who had been ill for several 1 months. The message did not 1 state the funeral arrangements. BOND ISSUES I ARE APPROVED i State Board Grants Per’ mission To Construct Two Roads In County Permission to issue bonds for the building of the Finley Bryan road in Blue Creek township and the Joint Drake road in Union township was granted by the State Board of Tax Commissioners today. The bond issue on the Bryan road is $3480 and the Drake road is for $.3660. Meshberger Bros, of Linn Grove have the contracts for building the roads. Both improvements are less than a mile in length. The state board ordered that the interest on the bonds should not exceed four per cent per annum. These two roads are the only ones ou which the county commissioners received bids this year and the proposed bond issues were submitted, to the state bjpard before any further action was taken towards their construction.

FUND REQUESTS PRUNED DOWN — ( ounty Council Refuses Several Appropriation Requests Today The county council in special session this morning pruned the appropriations asked for and in two cases refused additional appropriations entirely. In the item for special judge in! the Wabash river dredge case, SI2OO was asked and the council' allowed only $94. This amount was due Special Judge Henry Kister who is presiding in the case. Auditor Albert Harlow snbmi'ted figures to the councilmen show ing that $3075 had been paid to the special judge since the ease was started last September. The

state reimburses the county for] the money paid to special judges, the county Reducting the amount from the semiannual distribution of tax funds due the state. It is not known what effect the refusal of the county council to make the additional SI2OO appropriation will have on the case. It] is nearing the close and it was believed that the SI2OO would have been more than ample to pay the judge during the balance of the trial. Other Appropriations The request for SIBO for salary of the assistant to the county school superintendent was reduced ■ to $24. The request for $67 for] the county attendance officer was refused. The request for S4O for the township assessor in Preble | township was refused. The coun(CONTI Nt’FT) GN PAGE SIX) Mishap Proves Fatal Plymouth. Itul.. April 20.—(UiD John V Hahn. 28. Upper Sandusky. Ohio, died here today of injuries suffered last week while he was working with a repair crew on the, Pennsylvania railroad. An iron; bar fell from the car on which Hahn was riding and pfbrced his abdomen. The widow and a two months old baby survive. G.O.P. ISSUES MEETINC CAIL State Convention Delegates To Meet June 8 At Indianapolis Indianapolis, April 20. — (U.R) Formal instruction for delegates to assemble in the Republican state convention here June 8 and 9 were issued from G. O. P. headquarters here by Ivan C. Morgan, state chairman. Delegates will meet at the statehouse the night of June 8 to name representatives on convention committees. Each district, also will select two delegates to the Republican national convention in Chicago, June 14. Morgan's announcement set out that at the convention nominations will be made for U. S. senator, governor. lieutenant governor, secrc(UONTINtJEI) ON PAGE THREE) o Dr. Poling To Speak Dr. Daniel A. Poling, former pastor of Marble Collegiate Church on Fifth Avenue, New York City, editor of the Christian Herald, and president of the International Society of the Christian Endeavor and the. World’s Christian Endeavor Union, will speak at a union massmeeting in Berne, Saturday afternoon. May 14. Tlie address by Dr. Poling will he given in the Mennonite church in Berne, and will be given under the auspices of the Berne Ministeral Association. He will represent the Allied Forces for Prohibition. Hoffman Found Insane Fort Wayne, Ind.. April 20 —(UP) (UP) — Walter Hoffman, 38, who was indicted on a charge of murdering his parents at their farm home near Monroeville. January 24, has been committed t<3 the state hospital tor insane at Michigan City state prison. Hoffman was committed by Judge Clarence R. McNabb after four Fort Wayne physicians testified that he was mentally unsound.

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To Give Play Again I The play "Nn.i. Wake I'p." will be presented at tin- Cuthollc high schrxd auditorium, Thursday even- | ItiK, undtn the. unspl<s ( l of the it’ailndic Ladies Social f lub .The play wat presented for the first I time last Sunday night and was | Weil received by a large audience land will he given lor the-lust time i .nnorrow night. I Il is a ct.medy in three acts and those who did not see the play Sunday ni-ht are urged to attend the second presenation. The curtain will rise at 8 o'clock. J The cast of characters include I some of the best local talent. YOSTS LOWEST | ON LOCAL BID Council Receives Bids For a i r-4* i ii fs?..

Acker Sidewalks; I iremen List Filed Yost Bros., contractors ot this j < ity were Jow bidders on the Floyd Acker sidewalk improvement on Walnut street, bids being received I liy the council last evening Three other bids were filed: Julins Haugh, $1,100; Don L, Hakes. '51,177; Yost Bros.. SS6O; Cowen and Schindeldecker. Rockford $593.65. ; The bids were referred to Dick I loch, special engineer fpr tabulation and th<“ contract will be award cd later. The council will probably j [award the job to the low bidder. Firemen's Exemption A list of volunteer firemen was filed with the council by Fred Engle ; and petition was made that the city refund the members of the depart-j ment for city taxes paid during the last three years. The law provides that members of the fire department are exempt from the city's tax ! levy on a valuation not to exceed ss<>#. There are 21 members of the. [department and the tax refnndj I would amount to about SBS a year.' I The city does not have a fund out | jof which the refund can lie paid I i and tlie payment may have to go j iover until next year, when an ap-1 [ propriation can lie included in the! 'budget. Tlie city's tax levy has ranged from 71 cents to 75 cents 1 on the SIOO in the last three and tlie firemen agreed to have the exemption figured at 71 cents. Representatives from the Knox I County Coal company,' appeared before the council and advocated the use of Indiana coal at the city , light and power plant. One of the ■ (CON I INITN> ON PAOI-: SIX) I Rich Men Disappear New York, April 20 — (UP) - "There are no rich men in America [ today" Chatles M. Schwab declared in a speech before the Pennsyl'l vania sacietv here. > I 1 The famous steel man said that I I I riches in America have vanished due j to uncertain values. Hard work is the only solution of economic difficulties, Schwab asserted. He added that America, after five or six years of jreat prosperity, "must not complain of fixe or six years of depression" or even of "going broke." "I have been, an am. an optimist" Sdiwall said. The address was given Wednes- . day.

SEN. WALTER FACESTRIAL Rollo Walter, LaGrange, Charged With Embezzlement From Bank i- Lagrange. Ind.. April 20—(UP) — ■ State Senator Rollo N. Walter was to go on triad in Lagrange-Steuben i circuit court today on charges of bankers’ embezzlement in connec- ■ tion with the closing of the LaI grange County Trust company, of ■ which he was secretary and treasurer. Walter made a last minute attempt to have the trial delayed until September term of court on t grounds that his wile is seriously ( ill. Special Judge James L. Harman, Elkhart, overruled a motion ( to postpone the trial. The trial is the culmination in court of a political feud linking several ither officials and dating back to the closing of the bank. Dispute , over the indictment of the bank J officials and attempts to oust pross ecutor Ralph L. Foster from office (CONTINUED ON PAGE FIVE)

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Social Wroker Dies —— . — - ■— j . ... .. k

I 1 Miss Julia C. Lathrop, nationally known leader in child welfare, social service and women s political movements, who died Friday in the Rockford, Illinois, hospital. Miss Lathrop was head ofithe children’s i bateau of the Department of 1-a- --; bor for many years. GARDEN TRUCK” BEING PLANTEB Former Employes Will Benefit From Big Tract of Garden Land Chicago, April 20—(U.R)— Trac- ! tors chugged over a 1,000 acre i faun today breaking the land I which will mean an ample supply i of fresh garden truck and occuI pation for 4.500 men. fretful under their enforced layoff from the great International Harvester Co.. I works here. Watching (lie tractors drag plows through the city land were | members of the army of "rookie" , farmers which the concern hopes ito create among its idle former I employes as a contribution toward i unemployment relief. For each of these men the comj pany has set off a quarter acre I plot on which In 1 can grow vege- ! tallies to fill a larder grown lean with tlie stoppage of pay roll cheeks. At the company's works at Fort Wayne, Ind . Milwaukee. Wis., i Canton. 111., and Auburn. N. J., similar plans are under way. The concern has leased IJHIO acres here in several tracts not far .from the plants where economic depression has curtailed activity sharply. The land is being broken with tractors and plows from the company's stock and tools from a similar source will he 1 supplied each worker. Those who can not afford to buy i their own seeds, will be furnished

them free. The men. many with little more) 1 experience in gardening than a : few amateurish efforts born oi i the average city dweller's spring) longing for a few flowers in the (CONTIxrEH ON PAGE EIVE) — —o ~ Reno Entertains Big Audience Here Tuesday Edward Reno, famous magician, entertained a large audience at the Decatur hi||i sclutol auditorium, Tuesday evening, with many features of magic and legerdemaen. The program was the fourth of a series of Rediatb Lyceum numbers and wa< sponsored by the senior class. Mr. Reno's various tjcts of magic were different and unique. He presented them without, a trained assistant, hut at various times called on children from the audience to help him. Mr. Reno intermingled his magic features with an entertaining wit ami kept the close attention of the audience throughout the program. This was tile final Lyceum program of the sea-on and was conddered by many as the best. It has not been decided whether the senior class of next year will sponsor a similar group of Lyceum programs.

VOLK HOME PAPER—LIKE ONE OF THE FAMILY

SHORT SELLERS | ARE SUMMONED I TO COMMITTEE — No Cabinet Members Are Listed As Short Sellers On Wall Street iNAMES WILL BE PUBLISHED Washington, April 20.— ( U.w I —The senate’s stock exchange i investigation narrowed down [today to 20 brokers and traders selected from among 350 persons whose short interests I was reported to the banking land currency committee to be jin excess of 2.500 shares. ’1 he icommittee has subpoenaed the

[V. 'll 11 111 1 I VVV mo [ - 120 persons and the plans to 'make names of short traders pubjliic today. i "We are through with the list, it has served its purpose." a committee member told the United Press. Transcription of 24,000 names from short order sales slips is almost complete. A senator who had examined all the typed names said no members of the cabinet were listed. He was not certain whether that subpoenas were being issued in the belief that there were many fictitious names on the sales slips. The United Press was informed that the .list contained numerous well known names but that outstanding political figures were not. included. Chairmen Norbeck of the committee will be asked to authorize publication of the names of traders whose short position, as of the opening of business on April 8. was [ ir excess of 2,506 shares. 1 lie ('•- Jvestigators are proceeding on the I theory that smaller aertrnnts do not merit investigation. Senator Walcott, Repn.. Conn.. (CONTINUED ON I’AGE SIN) 0 — Governor Goes Wet • St. Louis, Mo.. April 20— (UPJ—- •' Governor Henry S. Caulfield of Mis- , i souri was cheered at a Patriot s day .dinner here when he made his J.irst public pronouncement on proJhfbition by declaring that the ISth ■ amendment is “fundamentally . wrong." "It was never intended that the ['federal government should police the entire country," he said. “That i? why prohibition is not enforced: ' It doesn't belong to the federal government to police this country." —. o Youth (Joes Fishing t| Dallas. Tex., April 20.— (U.R) — . Robert M. Hurt. 10. son of a prom- . inent Dallas family whose absence I aroused fears he had been kidnapLed. was found today, merely a vici tint of a spring urge to go fishing. The boy. for whom a widespread ■ search was in progress, was discovt ered asleep in a cabin on the shore < of White Rock lake, a few miles 1 east of Dallas. He explained he ha I • gone fishing after school yesterday and bad fallen asleep in the secludr ed cabin. 1 o

MASSIE'S WE AIDSHUSBANO Testifies In Behalf of Honor Killer; Insanity Is Chief Plea Courtroom. Honolulu. T. H.. April 20. —(U.R) —Thalia Fortescue Massie. . whose attack by a gang of island-r ers led to the honor slaying trial of her husband, mother and two ; navy men, came forward today to • climax their defense pleas of insanity and the unwritten law. The winsome young wife was tin* . last witness to be summoned by i Clarence Darrow, skilled defense. . chief, after questioning two noted . psychiatrists who testified L.ieut. Thomas H. Massie was insane when . he "held the gun" that killed Joo Kahabawai, husky native. , Her presence in court for the first time was a crowning emotional touch as Darrow led the trial to a swift conclusion. , Cross-examination of Dr. Edward Huntington Williams, second de- ,. sense alienist, was scheduled before Darrow called Mrs. Massie to corI (CONTINUED ON PAC.E FIVE)