Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 30, Number 102, Decatur, Adams County, 28 April 1932 — Page 1

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fajEEK Im HOTS AHO I IRS SUITS] | cr Thomas Chairman | Annual Affair; Fri- ■ day Is First Day Idgram to r extend week L schedules for boy’s' ■ .nil’s week was shove< t.r <la\ so that Child | ■lh dav eotild he observed ■ dav. April 211, Bryce Knas, chairman ol the ■mittee slaletl today. ■„ w.-ek is sponsored t»v ■Poatur I’mlarv chib and] ■ Decatur Womans club K the nrotfram lor It ' ■ »wk lias been arranged. Kniiig on r ’<> Saturday. May ] • ■r ilte opening day. boys and ■ in the filth to eighth grade*. ■, public. Catholic and Luth- ■ schools. are asked to meet K Catholic high school audi- ■ K at three o’clock Friday Koon where die program for, Keek will be announced and, ■ ■ I. Clinic director of physiKmation in the public schools. Kleiver a short talk on health! ■ hygiene The state board of Kis cooperating with the Ks in the observing of health ■by showing motion pictures K care it teeth and preven-, Ky disease. ■ikl h>-alth day is observed I Ky instead of Sunday so that Kalth prog'am can tje carried ■n the schools. The memrwrs committee in charge of the ■ant are Mr. Curtis, M. F. ■thman anti Mrs. Faye Snili.ltI Program for Week K program for the balance of ■week follows: ■tiirlay. April 30 — Better ■es Day, Amos Ketchum. Low- ■ ativ'l lUi ov PAGR SIX! ■tends Birthday Party ■Circus Here Today ■>. Dick Heller and sons Dick ■nd John. Jr. are in Rensselaer ■ to attend the one-hundredth ■day paly of Mrs. Heller’s ■staadtimtiier. Mis. Lonlse ■• Five generations of the By attended Me birthday party Boon today They were Mrs. B Mrs. Mary Eger. Mrs. Van Brant. Mr Heller tnd the two B 8 Eger i ante to Atnet lea from ■ any when she was 16 years of ■ making the trip acioss the Bi in a sail boat. She has resid- ■ Ren: .eher since 1853. One of ■ Uvorite stories is a trip she fr waVing from Bluffton to I Wayne 80 years ago. The route |tlir ,u.s iiceatur and Mrs. Eger |het- sister stayed ail nigili't at a Kin Monrn nth, which was then largest town in Adams county. PORT WEIGHT ICANOAL OPENS r Mcago City Sealer Parked With Permitting Laxities ("■ago. April 28.— (U.R) — Fat Ptinas ducks for Al Capone's I Kitchen were part of the loot I* $50,000 short weight conspirI "larged against former City lii. i>an Serritella and his depI * r ry Hochstein, the state today. P- pair, appointees of the I'Mpee Pra f ormpr Mayor F ni H ale (Big Bill) Thompson. l’ n trial on charges of winking f° r t weights and measures that I' me state maintains, more I million dollars from the L, s . of t hica K 0 housewives durret ’irn for overlooking skimpIPractices on the part of about f ,r <l of the city’s retail estabF en ts. a stream of "donations" I* orin of cash and merchanI owed to the sealer and his p ors. according to evidence pited by the prosecution. Att orney HarPNriNUUD ON PAGE SIX)

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Connections Are Made I Employes of the city electric ' I light department wo.i> making new | connections with the ornamental , I lights in front of the Broc k and i ■ Baughman st ires to ttie new dist: iliciti in circuit tocFiy. The street had to he torn u-.> I along the curb on Second street.! When the posts on the east side I ■of Second street were erected se>p erate connections were made to: each one. Amos Fisher, city street commissioner will rejuUr the street and use the same material as used in resurfacing the street last fall. It I was stated that the repair could Ihe made and tide -yeet put Intk to its original level. MRS. PAINTER IS RE-ELECTED Monroeville Woman Chosen Head of Methodist Missionary Group M.rs. Seth Painter of Monroev iile was re-elected president of ' the Woman s Home Missionary * Society of the Methodist Churches i in the Fort Wayne District, at the i thirty-fourth annual convention. , held in the local Methodist church ] Wednesday. Two hundred members of the i societies in the district registered ; iat the convention Wednesday) morping and attended the three' sessions of the day. Mrs. Fred Mills was also reelected vice-president of the dis ( trict. and Mrs. 11 N. Wicks and! I Mrs. 11. D. Myers were also reI elected Mite Box secretary and] Thunk Offering secretary, re-] spectively. During the morning session. | apjipfntujents of cuiumittees. and roll call were conducted. and the Holy Communion was in the charge or Rev B. H. Franklin, I lot al pastor, in the absence of Dr. ’ J. T. Bean of Fort Wayne, who aHiXTlxted ox* DEATH OF FOUR I WOMEN PROBED •t Unwed Mothers Die In Oklahoma City; Governor Orders Probe Oklahoma City. Okla.. April 28 i (U.R) Dentils of four women, alleg- | edly after illegal operations, were I investigated today by County i 1 Attorney Lewis Morris. Two ol i the victims were University of. Oklahoma co-eds. A warrant was* issued charging a physician with murder in one/death, his alleged] connection witli two others was investigated, and an osteopath; ’ was called for questioning in the fourth case. \ The prosecutor said the osteo-] patii, whose name was withheld, i was accused in the death lied ] Statement of Virginia Wychoff. 21., of Norman, a university student, of having performed the operation that precedisl her death. Search continued for Dr. Richard E. Thacker, charged with nun - I dar in connection with an allegetl | ! illegal operation on Mias Robbie fCONTINUWD GN PAGE_22* m • Spring Opening Planned The Schafer hardware company is having a spring opening at its store this week and is featuring t a sale of tools and hardware sup--1 plies, advtl tised in tonight’s Diily t Democrat as bankrupted sale of • stsok. ’ Recently C. C Schafer returned - from New York where he purchased ■ the stock of tools and hardware supplies direct from the manufac- ’ turer at a bankrupted sale and for ’ ffitie next few days the public will • be given the advantage of these spet ciils at the local store. Many items are included in the ! ofta inss a,ld everv plece is biand ’ new merthandise. The manufaetur- ’ ing concern which failed was one of the largest establishments of its ' kind in the east. 1 The Schafer hardware company ’ is one of tihe oldest and largest retail stores in this part of the ’ state and recently the interior of ' the store *as changed around and ’ redecorated. AH of the merchandise conveniently displayed on new ’ counters a<nd tables and the public in invited to the spring opening.

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Governors from all parts of tlte country are shown ttss, mbled on lite steps of the historic "Old Hall of Delegates" at the start of the 24tli annual conference of Governors, in Richmond. Va. Left to right in front row are: Mrs. and Governor Franklin D Roosevelt of New York; Gov. Harry Woodring of Kansas; Gov. Norman Case of Rhode Island: Gov. John Pollard of Virginia, the official host; Gov. Jamis Roli'h o; .California; former Gov. Trinklo of

TWO PRISONERS GAIN FREEDOM Lifer Escapes at Michigan City; Scales Wall Near Insane Ward | .Michigan City. Ind., A.prii 28 '(IP) —Two yi.se tiers. ■ one Jf WT,, who es’eaped from the state prison here last night by Tunnelling into the yard of the insane hospital and ; going over the wall with a pipe ' ladder, left no trail behind them. ] Clarence Henry, sentenced to life ] fiotn St. Jose.nh County in 1929 for kidnaping and robbing Richard I ) M. Johnson, president of the South s ! Bend State Bank, of $13,000, and ' I Fred Tenneyck, sentenced to five; | years for auto banditry in Greene I Csunty in September, 1930, wore ■ I missed sao.tly after 10 p. m. AlIt'.iottgh they apparently had left only -.me In minutes before, no [trace of them was found. The men used the some plsin I which failed for two desperadoes | I wlto attempted to escape last Christmas eve. They were re. al.-I ing sewer pipes in a tunnel, and ; ding to a point directly beneath the | insane Hospital yard. No guard is J ikent there at night, and tuey were able to heist their ladder, made of .pipes used in their plumbing weffk. land tl.i j from the witli. I The Dunes highway to Chicago | runs directly by the prison, and auI thorities believe the men obtained [a tide to that city. Henry was forI rnerly a Chicago man. and would I kn w where to find a ready hide- | out, they said. One prison employe was dismissled today for negligence, lint offi- < CHANTIN’InV PACK ‘MX) GARDEN PLOTS ARE AVAILABLE Committee Has Several Plots For Unemployed; Must Plant Seeds Several garden lots are obtainable fiom United Charities for unemployed persons who wish to cultivate the gardens this summer, it was announced today. The committee incharge of securing gardens will have the grout'd plowed and made teady for planting. Seeds will , be furnished, and those in charge of the gardens will do the planting and wiß receive the entire crop. It also was announced that in cltse those taking gardens did not keep them up and keep them weeded the committee wsuld have the work done and would then take the crop, and distribute it to the needy next fall. ( Anyone desiring garden plots is : asked to call C. E. Peterson at I Teeple and Peterson or William j Linn at Vance and Linn. Several ] good plots are now available. A quantity of seeds have been donated to the ottamittee and more seeds are expected this week.

Decatur, Indiana, Thursday, April 28, 1932.

Virginia; Gov Frederick Balzar of Nevada; and) Gov. Dern of Utah. In back row. left to right, are: I, Gov. Uenry S. Caulfield of Missouri : Thomas L. I Farrar, of the Executive Committee of Entertainment: Gov. C. Douglass Buck of Delaware; Gov. William Conley of West Virginia; Gov. Albert Ritchie of Maryland, and Gov. Wilbur Cross ot Connecticut.

Kins Honors Bishop Rt. Rev. Bishop John F. Noll of Fort Wayne has been honored with t'.:e rank of Knight Commander of the Crown of Italy, awarded ] by King Victor Emanuel of Italy. ; Bish. ;i Joseph Chartrand of Ind- ; iana,polis was also given the same * honor. The awards were given to express I the King's appreciation for “the tre- 1 tnemdc us f rce and elevating infra-1 ; e*ce tltat religion alone can give ] ••a'vwl g.atitude to great apostolic bisdiops who ziiilously devote themselves to such w :irk". | Dr. V. A. Lapenta. Italian Consul ] | in Indianapolis announced the con ] | ferring of the decorations and stat-! led that Premier Mussolini apeprov-] j ed the awards. DEATH CLAIMS JOHN W. GROWN Brain Tumor Fatal To Adams County Farmer This Morning I Jclin W. B.own. 44. life long I | resid ‘tit of Adams County, died at ) *4:15 o'clock this morning at his] home 3 miles soutlh of Petei son in j Kirkland Township. Death was attributed to a brain tumor from ' which he had been suffering for the I past seven months. Mr. Brown underwent an opera-I tian last fall at an Ann Arbor. | Michigan Hospital for the removal of the tumor. The deceased was born in KirkI land townshil... Jan. 8. 1888, tihe son of James D. and Relbekah Jane Coch: an Birown, both of whom,are dead 11 is marriage to Miss Pearl Heller took place February 13. 1910, ] I who survives. There were no child- I ren liorn to tills union but the | couple reared Miss Jeanette Wilson. a nurse in the Lutheran Hospital. Fort Wayne, from the age of 10 years. SStlrviving ibe>V es thp widow and a foster daugiliter are two sisters, Mrs. Gus Yake, Decatur, Route . 2, and Mrs. Orval Heller. Preble. He was a member of the Pleasant Dale Brethren Church. Funeral services will be held at 10:30 o’clock Saturday morning at the Pleasant Dale Brethren Church with Rev. Dan Byerly in Charge. Burial will be in the church cemetery. ——o- — Seils Circus Here Today For Two Shows The Seils Sterling four ring wild animal circus exhibited in Decatur today.' The tent is located on the Niblick lot, east of the Monroe street river bridge. A perflornVance was given ai i$»») o’clock this afternoon and another show will be given at eight o’clock | | tonight. The circus arrived in town this j | morning by motor truck. One of the , outstanding features is the perfor- ] fance by Miss Rose Heller, aerial ] gymnast. Another feature is Caip-' tain Seils group of jungle-bred lions. * 1

TEMPLE TRIO COMING HERE Musicale To Be Given Sunday Night at M. E. Church In Decatur The ti io of the Jewish Temple of Fort Wayne will ptesent a 'priygrant at the Methodist Episcopal church in this city, Sunday evening at 7:3U o’clock.. The ti ia is composed of Mrs. Dan I i Tytndall, seprano, of this city; Jess j | Kl-pfenstein, baritone, of Hunting-' ! ton. Chet Hosier, tenor, and Mrs. | Leau Cohen-Malay, org/inist and | directoress, of Fort Wayne. The trio will he assisted by .Miss j Luella Fiertag, soprano and Mrs. I Florence Young, contralto, of Fort ] Wayne. Each of these are well ] known singers. Miss Fiertag. durling the winter opera season, sings i with the Chicago Civic Opera and | concert and radio progi'ims. She ) lias sung before many of the var- | ions clubs of Chicago. At present I she is - pending a short vacation with her p arents in Fort Wayne be- ] | fore iter summer wa k begins ■ when she will again lie soloist for la well known liand in Chautauqua 1 work. | Both Mrs. Young and Mr. KlopI fenstein are heard very often •in ) radio work over station WOWO and I I quite often are soloists for the | ] Lutheran chotal society of Fort | Wayne. This quintet with Mrs. Malay at the-a gam. will give an evening s entertainment of qunitets duets and’ solos, and will include on the program some of the l ively Hebrew music in both tlte Hebrew and Yiddish languages. ICON’I INI'UII ON PMiE TWO' MASSIE'S FATE DELIBERATED Fo u r Americans Await Verdict of Mixed Jury On Killing Charge Honolulu, April 28.—(U.RJ--A jury of Caucasians, natives and Chinese today considered whether four American honor slayers should be punished for the slaying of Joe Kahahawai. a native accused of attacking the wife of a United States naval officer. An impassioned plea for liberty by Clarence Darrow and a blunt, biting, demand front Persecutor John Kelley for punishment and “justice” were the final episodes in this dramatic trial before Judge Charles Davis sent the jury away to deliberate, it has four courses of action: | 1. —Guilty of second degree murj der, punishable by imprisonment of from 20 years to life. 2. - Guilty of manslaughter. * 3—Not guilty by reason of insanity. ‘lll 4.—Not guilty. (CONTINUED ON PAGE SIX) I

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G.O. SELECTION HOARD MEMBERS ARE ANNOUNCED • I 1 Graham Names Sheriff, Judge And Clerk In Each Precinct — DEMOCRATS TO NAME FRIDAYj Paul Graham, Republican county chairman today an-' nounced his precinct election boards for the primary election next Tuesday. The Dem- ' ocratie board members will be announced Friday. (n accordance with the laws of the state, the Republicans in Adams county, having cast the second largest number of votes for secretary of state will name a judge, clerk and sheriff in eieh precinct. Th' Democrats are entitled to a judge, sheriff and clerk and also an inspector in each precinct. Following is the (1. O. I’. list: North Preble Judge, Man B. Caston; Sheriff.] Reed Caston; Clerk, Martin Blomberg. South Washington Judge. Carl Harnett; Sheriff, ci.irenee Macy: Clerk. Harold Owens. South Preble Judge, Wade Mcßarues; Sheriff.] I Chester Ixitt; clerk. Thurman Fuhr-] man. North Kirkland Judge. William Ehrman; sheriff,] Lawrence Beal; clerk. Richard Arnold. East Root Judge, George Cramer; sheriff.) .1/C. Harkless; clerk. Arthur Hall.] South Kirkland Judge. Mrs. William Scherry; I sheriff. John 11. Beery; clerk. Mrs.) j Herman Sautbine. West Root Judge, E. Tumbleson; sheriff, I Charles Gage; clerk, Cal Kunkle. (CONTINURD ON PAGR SIX) SMITH SHOWS SOME STRENGTH I Roosevelt Gets Bulk ol Democrat Votes in Pennsylvania Primary I Philadelphia. April 28. — (U.R) There will he at least 50 of Pennsylvania's 76 delegates to the, Democratic national conventionpledged to the candidacy of Gov.' Franklin D. Roosevelt of New | | York, taintlations of the Democratic] I presidential primary indicated today. The total may go to 60 as a result of Roosevelt's victory over Alfred E. Smith. Today Roosevelt managers conceded 12 delegates to Smith. Supporters of Smith, however, contended they would have a total of 20 delegates when the tabulation of the vote is completed. Results of the voting still are in doubt on 31 of the 68 district delegates. Witli 2,245 of the B.ISI election <iistricts still unreported, Roosevelt had a lead of 20,000 over Smith in the popular vote. The count stood: Roosevelt. 93.515: Smith. 73.490. In the Republican senatorial primary, Senator Janies J. Davis continued to pile up A commanding lead over General Smedley D. Butler. The retired Marine general last night conceded defeat and sent a congratulatory telegram to Davis. The standing in 7.362 districts: Davis. 817.919. Butler. 463,178. o Clean-Up Drive Ends City trucks, wot king under the supervision of Amos Fisher, street cornmissisoner in co-operation with the Woman's club in the annual Clean-tig Week, have completed the task of gatiiiering rubbish throughout Decatur. Mr. Fisher stated that the city had been completely covered and late Wednesday afternoon the last load of winter rubbish had been removed ftom ’local alleys. Those in charge said tint if any place had been missed in the drive. | to clean up the city, persons noting I are asked to communicate with Mr | Fisßter at once.

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Jersey Breeders Meet The Purebred' Jersey Breeders of Adams. Wells and Jay Counties met last evening at the Geneva high SRaool with County Agent L. E. Archbald M S. Smith and E. T. Wallace, of Purdue and a discussion was held on the Jersey Breeding Program. Mr. Wallace stated that all the p irish shows would be held again this year and that the | eastern Indiana show would be held in Muncie August KMHt. He also stated that the Jersey Picnic would be held in McCullaughs Park. Muncie, June 8. More detailed announcements of these events will be given later. The next Tri-County Je.sey Breeders meeting will be held in Bluffton, the evening of June 14th. * HOUSE RAISES SALARY CUT TO $2,500 CLASS Heart Removed Fr o m Federal Salary Cut; Plan to Protect Small Earner HALF-HOLIDAY IS UP TODAY Washington, April 28.—<U.R) —A rebellious house has wrecked the economy bill and refused to reduce the salaries of the hundreds of thousands 'of government employes makling less than $2,500 a year. . Before galleries crowded 1 with government clerks whose! * wages were at stake, the i house last night by 173 to 148; raised Irom 31.000 to $2,500 the ex ; emption from the 11 per cent pay ' < ut proposed by its economy comimittee. Then by a vote of 185 to* 197 it approved the salary' rwftit'tfoff | I section of the bill. The 11 per cent cut with only! I SI,OOO exempted was the heart ofi the economy measure. The com- ; mittee counted on it for $67,302,000 of the $200.01)0,000 total savings in tlte bill. The increase In exemption reduced to $12,000,000 the savings to be made by pay cuts. A proposal to eliminate Saturday half holidays will be voted on toIday. It is under heavy attack and Iff defeated would cut another $9,loCO.OOO from the savings in the bill. | Proposed consolidation of the war I land navy departments, estimated! 'to save $50,000,000 or more, is con-1 ieeded little chance tor passage.] | Sharp controversy also has devel-] loped around the proposed $48,000.-] 1000 curtailment in veterans’ benefit. I The rout of the Democratic leadership on the pay reduction was the story of the sales tax debacle) all over again. Rep. Laguardia, ] I progressive Republican from New; I York City, again was the command ) ing figure. 0 Voting Place Changed It was announced today that the voting place in Geneva "A” 'precinct had been changed front the Cross building to the W. W. Widdows garage. The legal notice which was ] published Tuesday stated that the voting place would be located at the Cross building. 0 STEEL MERGER IS RUMORED — Five Concerns Reported To Be Considered In Giant Consolidation Washington. April 28.—(U.R) —The Washington Post today said that negotiations are being conducted for a $1,000,000,000 (B) merger of live leading independent steel companies. The companies involved are Republic Steel Corporation, Youngstown Sheet & Tube Co., Jones & Laughlin Steel Corporation. Inland ‘ Steel Corporation, and American Rolling Mills Company. They have a total ingot capacity of 15,410,000 tons and if merged would rank sec--1 ond only to the giant United States Steel Corporation which has 27.841.000 tons capacity. Cyrus S. Eaton. Cleveland finan- , cier. is sponsoring the merger, the Post said. His representatives 1 have asked the department of jus--1 Itice for an informal opinion as to i (CONTINUED ON PAGE SIX)

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MYSTERY SHIP AWAITS WORD FROM LEADERS Believe New Contact Is Near With Baby Kidnapers, Report Says U. S. MONEY IS BEING TRACED Norfolk, Va., April 28.—W R) i—John Hughes Curtis and his (associates in negotiations with a group of claimants to the title of the Lindbergh kidnapers awaited a message irom the gangsters today before setting out on another cruise in the motor yacht Maroon. Arriving back at the Norfolk naval base ytsterday | from a 4%-day cruise tn which j ntany obstacles were removed." Curtis expected to leave again alI most at once. The hour of departure was postI poned repeatetlly. and the Marcon I still was in port shortly before noon today. It was learned the self asserted kidnapers of Charles A. Lindbergh, Jr., were having difficulty in establishing their own communications. So Curtis was forced to await a message regarding his own start in the Marcon for a meeting at sea. which lie and his associates ! hoped might be the next to last lone in their long negotiations for retmn of the child. Curtis, Edwin B. Bruce, retired (Elmira, N. Y., banker, and Lieut. I George L Richard. Curtis navy j pilot on his many recent airplane 'flights to Lindbergh’s estate and (elsewhere, were expected to make .the cruise with F. H. Lackman. I skipper of the Marcon. they wure (standing by for word from the ntemliers of the gang with which | they are dealing, ready to leave at :any moment. Refuelled and re provisioned, the 85-foot twin Diesel motored Marcon, owned by Charles H. Consolvo, (CONTINUED ON PAGE SIX) TRAIN CRASH ! FATAL TO TWO Grand Trunk Express Is Derailed Near South Bend This Morning South Bend, Ind.. April 28. (U.R) , —Two men were killed and 4 man land child injured today when the i westbound Maple Leaf flyer, crack (Grand Trunk express train, was derailed on a high embankment here. The dead were James Groves. Battle Creek, Mich., engineer, and Walter Shinning. Battle Creek, fireman. The injured were Jeff Bradburn and his son Marshal. 5, trapped in the wreckage of their house when an express car careened off the embankment and plunged through tile * roof. No passengers were hurt. Seven baggage and express coaches and the engine left the | uwrixiw on I'vnn rvvo) 0 U. B. Young People Hold Meeting Here I Tlte United Brethren Christian Endeavor Societies of the local disI trict held a meeting in the United Brethren Church here, Wednesday night. Oiganizatlons of the churches in Fort Wayne. Ossian. Monroeville ' Zanesville and Nine Mile were represented at tlte meeting. The Deca--1 tur organization had charge of the worship service, and Miss Alice ’ Vince gave a booster talk. Special instrumental music was ‘ presented, and the intermediate ' Girls Quartette sang a vocal selection. The Junior Society of the De--1 catur church ptesented a playlet, 1 and the program closed with music by an orchestra firotn Ossian. 1 Two hundred eighteen .persons attended tHie meeting. Following the ’ program games were played, under the direction of Itev. R. E. Vance. Refreshments were served. At. the close of the program, the group was divided into three s classes, adult, intermediate and junior. and the wo k of the Christian ’ Endeavor organization was explained by various teachers.