Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 30, Number 108, Decatur, Adams County, 5 May 1932 — Page 1

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IERNOR IS fa GUARD ( I IN HONOLULU! ■es Threaten .Judd Af■He Pardons Massie And Other Three fcoW SAYS I ■ HE IS PLEASED(| Kohilti, T. H.. May 5.— i ■.Military police guarded, ■nor Lawn-nee M. Judd ■in lolaiii palace, ancient ■of Hawaiian monarches, ■ threatening messages ] ■received after he freed ■nr American honor slavK commuting their 10■prisoii sentences to one ■pirtul dissatisfaction among 1 ■vhites and natives over i ■sudden action again menac- ( ■ peace lie had sought to re- ’ ■ Honolulu. 1 ■,- elements, led by Princess ; (Kawanakoa. denounced < imniiitations as a ' farce, ’ k i..~ .iii.l other while Kts were openly bitter be- i ■tlie governor did not accede ii Klar demand for full pardons, 'i ■commutation was as unex- . ■ as the verdict of a mixed ■st Friday night which con- ■ Mrs. Granville Fortescue, < ■onin'.aw. Lieut Thomas H. I ■ and two navy enlisted men, I ■ones and E. J. Lord, of tnanK‘i charges in the slaying of ■ahahawai. half-caste street | ■ductor. ■•haired. Shrewd Clarence; ■ chief defense counsel, re-1 1 ■ himself as a moving spirit: ■ decision which brought to ■leu close the most famous ■ trial in south seas history. ■ learned Darrow and asso-j ■ounsel called on Judd WedK and applied for the com ! ■on. ■ificantly. the 75-year-old bar-1 ■ was almost alone among ) ■ntators to approve the ac-: ■though he indicated a tight. ■ pressed to secure full par-; ■n the interests of the defend | ■civil rights. ■row said: "We are pleased! ■ what has been done so far. ■ are not satisfied with this I ■illation. My clients automatI lost their citizenship when ■TINI Klt ON PAGE SEVEN) INY WETS WIN hIMARY RACES liocrats Nominate 8 ■Vet Congressional i Office Seekers ■isnapolis. May S.—(U.R) —Hoo■hemocrats found themselves ■e wet side ot the prohibition ■ion today after nominating ■>) congressional candidates ■ly unfavorable to the AntiBn League, and only four who Iwl its endorsement. |rty lines were even more clearIrSni'd on this question than ■been anticipated, with Repub|s showing just as positive a | leaning. Only two of the G, ■congressional nominees—those! jstricts so wet that a dry didn't I a chance'—were listed as havi"'et" leanings. I virtually every district, except I'iglith. voters had the oppor|y of choosing between wet and ■candidates. In the eighth, all fre aspirants had campaigned Li-prohibition platforms. This ■><'t and the first —Lake county pt-re nine wets entered the race ►st one dry, were the only sec- ■ where Republicans selected ■Wales opposed by the Antilon League. rmocrats selected moist candiF in the first, second, third, F l . fifth, sixth, eighth, and P 1 districts. In the twelfth disP’t'rivitßn on page ftvei Plks To Hold Dance F 1 B. P. O. Elks will sponsor a at the Elks Home, Wetlnes- ( evening, May 11 for all memf- their wives and sweethearts, king will begin at 9 o’clock and ['Weaver and his Rhythm Kings Fort Wayne will furnish the mupickets ate on sale tor one dolper couple.

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Man, Known Here Dies I Word was received here today of the death of Walter K. Terry, manager of tlie Cleveland warehouse of the Great Atlantic ami Pacific company in tuat city. Mr. ferry died at 8:30 o'clock this morning, following an operation for appendicitis. Pneumonia developed a few days ago. Mr. Te.ry and wife visited here,J several time-, being the guests of [ Mr. and Mrs. W. A. Klepper. He is ; sit vlved by his wife and three I children. | PETITION IS GIVEN HOOVER 1 Economy Commission In Favor of Eliminating j, Many War Pensions New York. May S.—(U.R) -Immed- >' iate and total elimination of all H government payments to veterans i who were not disabled in actual j war service have been demanded ! in a petition to President Hoover ■ i and congress by the national econ- , omy committee, consisting of war ; veterans, it was announced today. | Success would mepn reduction of: more than $45(1,000,000 of the sl,-' 000,000,000 in the national budget, now being spent annually for vet-! erans’ relief. The national economy committee' is composed largely from the group! of men who launched the military: training camps association in 1915, , providing the vanguard of volun- 1 teer officers for the draft army during the World war. i Captain Archibald B. Roosevelt, (CONTINUED ON '"ACK SIX) TRUCE SB IN SHANGHAI Government Representatives Sign Truce After Bombings Shanghai, May u-'-riU.R)- Repre-; sentatives of the Japanese and Chinese governments were propp-j led up in their hospital beds today, to sign an agreement which ended I | hostilities in the Shanghai area. I A Japanese surgedn amputated ■ the right leg of Minister Mamoru. Shigemitsu soon after lie signed the agreement. The amputation| was successful and the niinistei was reported in good condition. He was the most seriously hurt of> the five highest Japanese officials, here wounded in a recent bomb- . ing. I Chinese Vice-foreign' Minister! Quo Tai-Chi signed at the Chinesej hospital, where he was taken' after a student mob invaded his home and beat him severely dur-! Inga reception for Shanghai civic, leaders. , Only the English versions of the agreement were signed today.) The Chinese and Japanese verslons were expected to be signed tomorrow, after which the text of the agreement will be published. Tlie agreement was initialled at the British consulate by Gen. Wang Kiang and Gen. Tai-Chi for | (CnWlNl'El* ON PAGE SIX) MORE PAYROLL TRICKS FOUND — ——-- I One Senator Employs Son; Also Interested In Paving Works Washington, May 5. (U.R) One senator who formerly had his wife on the payroll as his secretary admitted that it looked bad. but offered in mitigation the plea that ' being a senator was quite expens*'Tills was undoubtedly true in his ' case as in several which have been discovered in the United Press inquiry into the family payroll racket in congress. Others, however, are better able to bear the financial burden of serv- ' ing the public - Senator John ( . 'Townsend, Repn, Del, for instance 1 His son, Paul, is his secretary at ) 83.900 a year—the top salary. ie senator also is president of the ’ Highwfjy Engineering and Construelion (CUNI'INULD ON PAGE THREE)

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GARNER LOOMS AS NEW CHECK TO ROOSEVELT Speaker of House Cap-! tures California Delegates In Primary SUPPORTERS GET ACTIVE Washington. May 5 — (UP) — There's been another check putnnder the wheels of the Roosevelt presidential bandwagon. Alfred E. Snißih announced he had thrown ne chock under the wheel when he carried the Massachusetts primary against Governor Roosevelt last week. Now comes Speaker John N. Garner taking California's 44 delegates in three cornered contest in which Roosevelt ran second and Smith third. Tills development momentarily at least shifts tlie Democratic Presii dential situation. It increases the ' possibility th it tlie Anti-Roosevelt groups may interpose a much more ! Stubborn fight at the Chicago convention Gian had been expected. Garner lately had been sihrinking :as a -presidential possibility. His j difficulties in driving the Democratic members of tlie Houthe in tax and economy legislation reacted ! unfavorably on his prestige as a : Presidential possibility. But any Democrat who can take ' 210.001) Democratic votes in Caliifo:nia away from Roosevelt and I Smith becomes automatically a figure to be considered in any convenI tian deliberations. He may go to the c invention with only a twostate bloc of 90 delegates, for these are the first delegates he has won. | He will have Tex is' 46. j ' At the same time. Rooaevalt now i has a major reverse in the west ! against him following shortly after i that in Massachusetts. The west 'lias been regarded as Riosevelt's I I strongest territory. That is where] | he lias made his real hid—such bids as that in behalf of the ‘‘Forgotten Man" which Smith charged was de- ' magogery. That attack and the loss 'of two key states on opp -ite sides of tlie <■ ntinent may be expected to icontribute materially toward shak- ' ing confidence in him as a Presidential prospect. The steady inarch I of Roosevelt through the early pri'm tries and the early state conveni tions gave him a momentum which I (CONTINUED ON PAGE RIX) — o WOMAN WINS IN | 11 TH DISTRICT I Mrs. Virginia Jencks Is Winner in Democrat Race Over Incumbent Indianapolis, May S.—(U.R) Mrs. Virginia E. Jenckes, Terre Haute business woman, today was the first woman ever nominated to congress in Indiana. Supported by the Democratic organizations in Vigo and Vermillion counties, she was swept to victory jon a wet platform over Courtland |Gillen, incumbent, who gained the support of the Anti-Saloon League I after voting against the Beck'Linthicum resolution providing for consideration of a prohibition ref erendum. Three of the congressional races remained in doubt as tlie final ballots were counted. In county 'Oscar Ahlgren continued to hold his slight lead over Oliver Starr and Mayor Roswell O. Johnson of, Gary, for the Republican nomination, and William T. Schulte. Hammond labor leader, edged into a small lead over Frank Martin. I Hammond county chairman, but the Democratic race likewise remained in doubt. It was certain that anti-prohibi-tion candidates would he nominated as each of the leaders campaigned on a wet platform. In tlie eleventh district Democratic cpntßSt, William H. LarraON l-AGW SfX) 4-H Club Will Meet The 4-H Potato Chub will meet Friday evening at 7:3o'o’clock p. m. 1 at the Monmouth High School. All ■ men and boys of the community are requested to be present. County 1 County Agent L. E. Ardhibold will be present.

Decatur, Indiana, Thursday, May 5, 1932.

‘Big Shot’ No Longer Blip 11. Al Capone, most notorious of the nation's hoodlum chieftains, is just an ordinary convict today. This photograph, one of Hie best ever made of him. was taken aboard the heavily guarded train which bore him from Chicago to the federal penitentiary at Atlanta, Ga. When lie finishes his ten year sentence there for income tax frauds he will have another year to serve in the Chicago jail.

TO CARRY OVER NEW CONTRACT I Commissioners to Investigate Veterinarian Plan of State The county commissioners carried over the contiact submitted to them by the State Veterianariin for employing a veterinarian to conduct the bovine tuberculosis test in tliis county next fall. The contract aubmitted states that tlie inspector shall receive $125 per month from the county and $75 per month from tHie state, plus six cents for mileage. The contract states that a local accredited veterinarian of Adams, County can be employed and will be given an opportunity to participate under the present agreement’'. The county council last fall appropriated $1,500 for continuing the tuberculosis test in cattle in this county. The farmer or cattle owner is allowed a certain price for the cattle killed. The contract reads, “It is further agreed by and between the parties hereto that the said party of the first <part. agrees to indemnify, in cooperation with the Bureau of Animal industry, insofar as funds permit”. The commissioners stated that it was their impression that focal veterinarians could be employed to do the work and that they wlsthed to investigate the matter before signing tlie contract. PROBERS STILL ' UNSUCCESSFUL No New Clues In Lindbergh Kidnaping Found By Many Voyages Norfolk. Va„ May S.—(U.R)-Un-succes-sful in their fifth cruise to sea in search of Charles A. Lindbergh, Jr.. John Hughes Curtis and liis associates expected to start another today. They hope that, weather permitting, a group of men who say they have the Lindbergh baby will meet them off the coast and deliver the baby to them. There seems little doubt now that Charles A. Lindbergh, Sr., has been aboard the Marcon, Diesel-motored yacht in which the Curtis cruises (are made, for at least one trip and ■ perhaps mofe. His presence would , be a guarantee of his faith in the authenticity of the group with Which Curtis is dealing. (CONI’INUE’D ON PAGB TWO)

Bleeke Baby Expires Eugene Cail Bleeke, three months ! old son of Mr. and Mi s. Joe Bleeke.! of Union township, died at 1: 15 o'- j clock this morning of pneumonia. Tlie baby was ho:n at the Bleeke I home, 7 miles northeast of this city ' January 29. 1932. Surviving are the ■ parents. Mr. and Mrs. Joe Bleeke. | tlie grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. I Charles Young of Preble township I and Carl Bleeke of Union township. ' This was the nly child in tlie family. Funeral services will lie held Fri- ' day afternoon at 1:45 o'clock (Sun! time) at tlie home and at 2 o'clock . (•Sun time) at t'he Emmanuel Luth-! eran church. Rev. M. J. Frosch pas-1 tor, will officiate and burial will he in tlie church cemetery. GUNTER WINS RENOMINATION Lake County Treasurer Piles Up Big Majority Over Opponents Herman L. Confer, former well known Decatur man, was renominated for county treasurer in Lake county in Tuesday's primaries by an overwhelming vote. Mr. Confer received 12,549 votes while his nearest opponent was given but 3060 and Herman lacked but IS6 votes of having as many as all his five opponents. The democrats cast more thin 32.000 votes in Lake county, exceeding the republicans by about 3,000. The largest vote was for sheriff and commissioner but there were 25.284 votes cast for treasurer. Mr. Confer in a telephone message ti'.iis morning, said he was tired but veiy happy over tlie showing made and said he expected to come to Decatur next week for a days visit. He was elected treasurer two years ago but began his term of office January Ist last. Indications are that the county will again elect democrats. In the congressional race the republicans nominated Albgreu, R. O. Johnson, running third, while file democrats nominated Sdhulte. o —• 0 — A EXHIBIT TODAY The public is cordially invit- | ed to a boys’ and girls' exhibit 11 at the Library auditorium this ! | afternoon and tonight. The j exhibit includes art, pentnanj ship, mechanical drawing and j manual training.

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WILL OBSERVE MOTHER'S DAY Reformed Church Here Plans Program In Observance of Day M .Gier's Day will he observed at the Zion Reformed church with a j special program on Sunday night at ! 7:39 o'clock. A .program of songs,' recitations and exercises will lie i given by the primary children of the Sunday school in charge of Mrs. Dallas Goldner. Following are tlie! nu mftiers:Organ Prelude Invocation. Welcome Letha Fledderjohann Group Exercise "Welcome Mothers.” "A Prayer" Ruth Yost. (in.up Exercise—'KM Course 'Tis ! Mother” Songs— ‘‘Welcome Mothers” and "A Song For Motllier” Primary Children. Group Exercise —“Mother’s Day” Exercise —“Wliat Can We Do” — Group of Children. Group of Recitations by Primaries . tSolo —“-A Flower ami a Kiss”— Kathryn Shroyer Recitation—“ Huh Day”—Phyllis Beineke Recitation "Some One"-—D maid I Werling. Group of Recitations "Message of Joy” Reading "Mother's a Chum Mine"—Margaret Hoffmann. I Recitation —"My Prayer" Kathryn Yager. S .ng "Mother”—Junior Girls Pantomine — “Just as Mother (CONTINIIED ON PAGE EOIT11; SENATE GROUP ! APPROVES TAX — Newspaper Increases To Remain In Tax Bill As Permanent Unit | Washington. May 5. (U.R) —The senate finance committee by action j taken late yesterday made a permanent part of the national tax plan (taxes which will cost the newspapers of the country, according to I estimates by government experts, a | million dollars a year. These taxes are levied on telephone an d telegraph messages, cablegrams and radiograms and on wires used in the transmission of news. The taxes on telephone messages range from 10 to 20 cents I per message, according to the (amount of the tolls. On telegrams the tax will be five per cent of tile tolls. The tax on radiograms and cablegrams is 10 cents for each ' message. On wires used for news transmission, the tax will be five per cent of the charges paid. News gathering facilities had been exempted from taxation in the revenue bill as passed by the house. The senate finance committee removed this exemption but first specified that the taxes would cease July 1. 1934. Yesterday the finance committee revoked the time limit on the taxes and voted to make them a permanent part of the revenue raising scheme to con(CONTTNITWr) ON PAGE TWO) GASTON MEANS UNDER ARREST Secret Service Operative Charged With SIOO,000 Theft I - Washington, May s—(UP)—Gaston5 —(UP)—Gaston B. Means, former secret service investigator who gained much notoriety during the administration of Pres. Harding was arrested by District of Columbia authorities today. He was charged with taking SI9O,W>O from Mis. Edward B. Me- ‘ Clean, a wife of a Washington and Cincinnati, pu'blisiher on a representation that lie knew tlie wherealbouts of the kidnaped son of Col. and Mrs. Charles Undbergh. The warrant for Mean's arrest charging “larceny after trust,'' of $100,009 was swe-n out yesteiday .before a U. S. commissioner. It was ' served on Means this afternoon by department of justice agents. I d’ONTINPEn ON PAGE h'IVE) , .

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Judge Sorrells Dies; Wife Dies Hour Later! Pine Bluff, Ark., May 5 (UP)— Judge Walter B. Sorrells, 64, died of a heart attack here today, and itis wife, 55, died an hour later of shock. Judge Sorrells w is the father of John Sorrells, editorial director of the Scripps-Howard Newspapers in New York, and Walter Sorrells Jr. editor of tlie Pine Bluff Commercial. John Sorrells formerly was managing editor of the Memphis PressScimitar and editor of the Fort Worth (Tex.) Press. o OPERETTA TO REPRESENTED Boys And Girls Clubs To Give Musical Tonight At High School Tlie members of the Boys' and Girls’ Glee Clubs of the Decatur High School will present a clever operetta, “Up in the Air." a musical j presentation in two acts, in the | school auditorium, tonight at 8 o’clock. Admission will be 25 cents for children and adults, and the public is invited to witness this musical | comedy .produced by the school •The Central and High School orchestras will furnish instrumental music during the evening’s program. Approximately 50 boys and girls will take part in the operetta, in which there are twenty musical numbers, comprising solos, duets and choruses. Speciality dances will also be featured. The dances ihirve been rehearsed under the direction of Miss Jeanette Clark, physical education director and- Miss Grace Coffee has coached the characters Iw.i:) have speaking parts. Miss Gladys Schindler, supervisor of.mn(sic ill the public school, has had I general charge of the operetta. The story is a modern one ceni tering about the plot of a young | man’s friend, who proposes to stage a spectacular flying stunt by an aviator, in order to make an impie.ssion upon a young lady friend's parent. The scene of the entire play is laid in the garden of the McCollum residence in Beverly Hills, Calif. Among the principal characters are Saia Jane Kauffman, Gebhard Schultz, Richard Schirg, Margaret Campbell, Helen Suttles. Bernard Scheiman. Betty Franklin. Fred I (CONTINUED ON PXGE TWO> CAPONE STARTS PRISON TERM Famous Gangster (Jets Thin Reception When He Starts Sentence Atlanta, Ga., May S.—(U.R) —Al Capone, whose name has flashed throughout tlie world as head of Chicago’s unmerciful criminal syndicate, today was just another number behind the stone walls of Atlanta federal penitentiary. The fat. bragging gangster was received'at the prison last night amid a very weak racket from a few prisoners—and became No. 40,886 for us long as he serves on his 11-year term, pressed upon him through conviction on a charge ol i violating income tax laws. “Scarface Al," whose word had become law in the underworld he built up in Chicago found himself completely ignored when he arriv- . ed at the federal penitentiary. He seemed unable to understand and fidgeted as he held his coat, his little black traveling bag and his gray fedora. He had been accustomed to the limelight and even shortly prior to his reception at the penitentiary had basked in the words of an interview. “Al," he was asked in that last interview, “what kind of work do you want to do at the pen'.’" "Well, I'm too heavy for light work and too light for heavy work,” (CONTINUED ON PAGE FIVE) Brotherhood To Meet The Brotherhood of the First Baptist Church will meet at the home of Curtis W. Moser. R. R. 2, Friday levelling at 7:30 o’clock. Mr. Charles D. Teeple will be the speaker of the evening. Come and bring a friend.

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PARINGS FALL BELOW PLANS OF PRESIDENT Committee Says Department Is Not Crippled By Any Reduction MEASURE IS UP TO SENATE Washington, May S.—(U.R) — (The house appropriations committee today concluded its | share of the campaign for economy in the government by reporting a war department supply bill cut more than $58,000,000 below current appropriations. Retirement of 2,000 regular army officers was provided, the committee holding tlie officer personnel was larger Ilian needed. The measure, last of the great annual appropriation bills, carries $386,983,452 for military and nonmilitary activities of the department. This is a reduction of $24,389,319 below President Hoover's budget recommendations. The committee stated that in recommending economies it hid avoided crippling the regular military activities of the army. Appropriations for rivers and harbors work also were kept at last year s figure, $60,000,000. Reserve corps activities were ! subjected to heavy reductions. ] Training pay for the organized re- [ serves was suspended. Citizens . and reserve officers training camps t were stislpended for the coming tisi cal year, witli total economies in . this group amounting to approxiI mately $6,009,000. More than 5,090,000 will be saved through econ- . omies in army transporation. : Tlie committee expressed the > opinion that any retrenchment had - to lie in tlie personnel and related - branches of the service, as only I $15,000,000 is actually spent for improving efficiency and effeffetivei ness of material. Therefore no cuts i were made in the $11,009,000 appro- . priation for new airplanes. $517,000 i for mechanization and other relatI ed items. t The principal non-military activ--1 itie.s of the department receiving 1 severe cuts wer- Mississippi flood control work which was reduced $3,226,225 under last year's appropriations, $31,773,775 being recommended in the bill. In addition the appropriations for maintenance and operation of the Panama canal was I cut $347,025 under last year’s appropriations the committee refusing to approve a budget increase of $3,500,000. The committee avoided any reduction whatever in the $69,000,000 allotment for rivers and harbors work, the same amount carried in current appropriations. 1 The following inland waterways ( appropriations are provided: lower 1 Mississippi, $401,500; middle Mississippi, $2,675,000; upper Missis- '' sippi, $4,550,000; Missouri river, ■ $6,663,000; Illinois river. $4,900,000; Ohio river, $6,242,000; Great Lakes 3 for connecting channels. $3,273,009, for harbors, $4,059,000. i ♦ TERRORISTS ! INVADE GARAGE f e Employe Finally Drives Vandals From Building After Gun Fight e Chicago May 5— (UP)— Four tero rorists invaded a Near West side y garage today, sprinkled gasoline i- over 100 automobiles prepaiatory to setting them afire and were alit most ready to speed away when two o attendant stpened fire with a revolver and routed them. t Frank Mendyk, 19 year old atten- ” dant. was alble to thwart the plot ' because 'he became suspicious when reporting for work, telephoned police and bonowed a revolver at a nearby garage. One of the terrbrlsts j. torch in hand, was ready to light It e and then the fire when Mendyk v opened fire. The terrorists fled on foot. A dee tective bureau squad captured Jack d Sopkin. 27, who was identified by ' (CONTINUED ON PAGE TWO)