Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 30, Number 111, Decatur, Adams County, 9 May 1932 — Page 1

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■«W MAY <JSKEDIN ■Nf CONTEST a Vote Victory of Ekiucr I «>i < ommisKJoner Discussed Aa lOM I * NT H l< < o\SII)ERED |„ < i. count in the nlil.-sl lor |M lrl ~| ihe first district,l ftd^Httoriu\s. In the olti|B(;I I .st \\ ediu s.lax >UI I d three Ins closest comK \|io||sl (..iHmever was 17 Miles th,. .I< < I'treil w iniv r of .1 recount lias | understood t w ,, u |.| be asked. Local <a> that if a recount is .: will appoint be made in all • 11"' receivEX I'oi ' candidates will 1 cheeked. It is like.'ill take at least K . .. Hirns in the com- , were watched last Titesd-I - „ . a Wednesday , Gallmeyer won! I ■' I and then Sauer "i'll three precincts M>V-' -...1b Hartford and I.ir'ibr.l Cline in and with Kg, ..ni '-.met s lead was cut V votes to almost even ■> in... di> • k of the board of o.i: Iters gave Sane. Keßy In three votes. Believa mistake in counting made in any ot frciit.Mr Gdlmeyei besieged hint in, -luod til noon today Arnii.l be asked, but the fell LEAVES fcISON TODAY "■Kr Cabinet Member . ■Bediilcd To Complete And Day Term Fe. X M„ May 9.—(U.R) Fall. 7|. was scheduled •■-■.. from prison Imre toprison hospital room (lie cell of tile former of the inerior. ,->-iviiu of "■< aid,.■ uood time, which T 1 ’ ’' l! l| l ,,| ii the conviction a bribe.' the former tii. iiili. r has been treated m'ln i- ami tuberculosis. l.a I \ isitors. He lias Iw-eli , to sit out the -hospital fl has watched the prison names. His food has been ' 'Bj [" ,l "’ Prison physician pre spirit has not suffered. ■'! it on the eve of iris restating he would "be dam la would sign a pauper's vigmously resisted going #l ‘ii irtuni and insisted on gotome." f 0 i visitor he was credited with mi Edward 1.. Doheny's of giving the bribe Fall of taking, “Well, I kn-w it was more blessed than td receive." ! s answer to a request for a fed statement on his release INTINCffn ON PAGE FIX) flicial Board Meets fe will be a meeting of the Official Board of the First elical Church, on Tuesday at 7:30. This means all tnernthe Board of Trustees, and fds, the Class Leader and 'Assistant, all department ents. The purpose is to plan e Program of the church for esent Conference Year. It is mportant that every member esent.

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| Mother's Day Observed ] Mother’s Bay was observed at the Pleasant Grove Church, Sunday j when the young people of the I church had charge or the Sunday | School service. Frank darkless acted as superln-1 tendent for the day, and Miss Helen Fairchild was the secretary. The I Misses Faye 'darkless and Mary j Burger, acted as chorister and libra: lan, respectively. The young people taught the ' classes of the school, and the teach- ' ers included Fave Harkle-s, Iris Markless. Rosetta Jackson and Leland Sheets. Following the Sunday service, a short program of readings and I songs were enjoyed in keeping with I Mother's bay. TWO MEETINGS HELD SUNDAY Two Sunday School Conventions Conducted In Adams County Sunday The Jefferson township Sunday. School convention was held at the Bethel Brethren church, Sunday afternoon and evening. The services were largely attended. An address was given by C. D. I Teeple. of this city, Young People’s' superintendent of Adams County Sunday School association during the afternoon session. Clifton E. Striker, president of the Adams County Sunday School association also spoke. A reading was given by Allene Boze, of the Maple Grove church; music was furnished by the Mount Carmel church, the Neu Mar Win trio, and the Bethel Brethren church. The evening address was given by H. H. Moser, returned missionary from Africa and Frances Burk halter also spoke. — The Hartford township- Sunday School convention was held at the Evangelical church at Linn Grove. Sunday afternoon and at the Union Chapel church in Hartford township. Sunday evening. The Marion Jubilee quartette, composed of colored people which has been on the air from C. B. Hediger’s tabernacle at Fort Wayne, furnished special music. A debate on the subject. "Resolved: The Sunday School is a Menace to the Community,” was given (luring the afternoon. Rev. J. W. j Yantis took the affirmative and Rev.| J. M. Kistler argued for the neg ! ative. Rev. Kistler delivered the evening address on "Hear ami Heed." Rev. Glen Bryan was chairman of | the programs. o Phelps Funeral Here The body of Richard Carl Phelps infant sun of Mr. and Mrs. Carl Phelps of Saginaw, Michigan who died Thursday at the hospital in Saginaw, was brought to this city Saturday for burial in the St. Joseph’s cemetery. The child was born April 26. 1932. The mother was formerly Miss Mary Schneider, daughter of Mrs. , Catherine Schneider, 4tT5 Adams street, this city. Funeral services were held in the St. Mary's Catholic Church in Saginaw. May 6. with the Rev. Father O’Hara officiating. PLANS ARRIVE FOR BIDDERS Federal Building Lawn to Be Beautified; Graham Gets Instructions Plans and specifications for beautifying the federal building lawn in Decatur were receivefl today by L. A. Graham, postmaster and bids will be received for the work until June 10. Mr. Graham announced. The wiork will include planting trees, grass and shrirbbry at the federal building lawn and the specifications show exactly the way the lawn must look when the job is completed. u j Mr. Graham said that he had 1sets of plans and they can be examined at the post office or a bidder may take a set of plans. The ' plans taken from the building must be .returned and it is necessary to place a fee until the plans are returned.

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ESSAY WINNERS AREANNOUNCED I County Contests Held, Here; Short Story Winners Named I Adams county winners In the j essay and short story contests which were conducted at the rural high schools during the winter months, have been announced. The papers were graded by Dr. 11. H. Carter of the Indiana University English department and the . results were sent to Clifton E. ' j Striker, county superintendent of I schools. Each rural high school sent an entry In both the essay and short story division and the winners were < hosen from this list. Following are the winning story, the writer, and the high school: Freshmen Essay My Ideal Chum —Mary Katherine McMillen. Pleasant Mills. Teaching of Thrift —Fern Bierly, Hartford. Lak<> Morn —Eli Habegger, Monroe. Sophomore Essay I Americanism — Helen Bluhm, | Mon joe, I A Community—Beatrice Welling. Jefferson. I Music Lucile Mauller—Pleasant I Mills. Junior Essay Racing the Thoroughbreds—Wil- I liam Glendening. Hartford. Traveling — Myrtle Walters, ! Pleasant Mills. A High School Education—Ethel j Hunt. Jefferson. Senior Essay Should Indiana Have a New Constitution? —Wilbur Fricke. Monroe. Unemployment— Marjorie Pusey, Geneva. Responsibility — Warren Munro, Hartford. Freshmen Short Stories The Haunted House — Eleanor Huston, Geneva. Stone's Reward — Anna Romey, Hartford. The Gunman of The Texan Bord-er-Loris Habegger. Monroe. Sophomore Short Stories His Mistake — Arthur Bollinger, Hartford. The Family That Was — Neva Fricke. Monroe. Midnight David Kunkel. Mon<cnN tiniirii on page SIX) ADAMS COUNTY M A N EXPIRES Sherman Schnepp Dies at Jefferson Township Home Early Today Sherman Schnepp. 64, resident of (Adams County, died early this morning May 9. at his home in Jefferson township,, after being confined to his bed for the last four months. Death was due to cancer. ■Mr. Schnepp was born in Van Wert County, 0., October 19, 1867, the son of Adam and J.me Schnepp. He was united in marriage to Rillie Harker, and to this union three children were bom. Surviving are the children. Mrs. Effie McGill of Decatur; Ixtyal Schnepp of Bluffton, and Cletus Schnepp of Cincinnati, 0., Six grandchildren ami one great grandson also survive. Funeral services will be held Wednesday afternoon at 1:30 o’clock at the home in Jefferson ■township and at 2 o’clock (standard time) at the Mt. Carmel Church. —o — Contests Are Completed Evansville. Ind., May 9 (UP) Marion's High School band won the Class contest here 'Saturday night, with Huntington and Tell City first classes B and C respectively. Central of Muncie was second and Bosse, Evansville, third in class A. Whiting was second and Valparaiso third in class B. and Stanley thiid. in class C. Oakland City, .Southport and Elmhurst won top honors in class D, and Baker, Evansville and Campbell Svansville in Class E. lu orchestra, Class A. Hammond, Bosse, Evansville, and Michigan City won; Whiting, Crawfordsville, land Frankfort took class B> honors. Westfield, Stanley Hall of Evansville and Lawrence township of Oakland, in Class C, Salem (uncontested) in Clasis D.

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Downer's Assassin I 11 nil «•' ||j I ifASj . 11l | Illi i This radio picture from Faris shows Dr. Paul Gouguloff (left) assassin of Paul Doumer. president of France, being held by a policeman immediately after he shot the venerable French statesman.

SMITH FACES | | CHARGE HERE — Asks For More Time To Make Plea to Charge of Intending to Kill Roy Smith of thin city was charg ed with assault and battery with intent to kill in an affidavit filed j Sat u: day afternoon by Nathan C. Nelson, prosecuting attorney. A I hearing was held in the Adam.' Cir- j cuit Court before Judge D. B. Er-1 win, and the defendant asked for I more time. He was granted his re- ' quest and was returned to the Ad- I ams County jail to await a future I hearing. Mr. Smith drew a ,32-caliber re- j volver and attempted to shoot , Deputy Sheriff Charles Coularflot ofl Fort Wayne when the latter called ■ at his home here Saturday after-I noon to question him on charges of chicken thefts. Mr. Smith snapped the revolver twice but the cartridge failed. Coulardot was accompanied by Fred G. Lunz. Allen county sheriff. He was arrested by Sheriff Burl Johnson and taken to the Adams County Jail. - o To Attend Convention South Bend. Ind.. May 9 —(U.R) — Governor Ruby Laffoon of Kentucky and Senator C. C. Dill of Washington are expected t oattend the Democratic state convention at Indianapolis June 20. party leaders said today. Both Laffoon and Dill will aid the campaign of Franklin D. Roosevelt for president. Laffoon said he was "anxious to see Roosevelt carry Indiana," and Dill, in replying to the invitation to attend, said he desired to be “helpful to the Roosevelt cause." DEATH CLAIMS R, M. FF.USTEL Ft. M ayne Man Succumbs Sunday; Funeral Will Be Tuesday Fort Wayne, Ind., May 9—(UP)Robert M. Feustel. 47. high officer in the Samuel Instil Utility hierarchy, died at his home after a brief illness. 'Feustel was president of the Midland United Co., instill utilities corporation operating in Indiana and Ohio. President of Public Service Co., of Indiana, and vice chairman of Northern Indiana Public Service Co. In his various capacities, Feustel was in charge of all the Indiana Instill properties. He was a.so a director of the Chicago Fede: a! Reserve ■bank. He is survived by wife and two children. Funeral services will be held Tuesday.

.James Engeler Honored Bloomington, Ind.. May 9 —James j Engeler of Decautr has been selected to play in the Indiana university I concert band next fill at the Indiana State Fair, Indianapolis. He is J I one of 50 picked musicians from the ! i university’s larger band of 100 1 pieces who will make up the con ce:t organization for the State Fair program. He will play the sottsaph.me. This is the fourth engagement of ■ the I. U. band at the State Fair ' since 1927. The musicians will be !at the Fair seven days, opening I . Saturday, September 3 with a ser- I , ies of concerts from the stage of I the new Indiana university exhibit i building. The band will play a | sacred concert in the coliseum Sun- | day afternoon, and on the follow- ' I ing five days will alternate between 1 ! the stage of the I. U. auditorium, | I the grandstand, and the coliseum. WOOD EMPLOYE IS NOT FOUND Indiana Representative Has Clerk Employed But She Is Absent (Copyright. 1932. Uy United Press) Washington, May 9— <U.R) When a congressman says he is for re- ’ ducing salaries and cutting government expenses to the bone, it should be understood that he is 1 not necessarily a fanatic on the subject. That is what has caused much of the present criticism of con- ■ gross and drawn three sharp blasts from President Hoover. Congress as a whole prefers its 1 economy with reservations. This is shown in repeated instances of the family payroll racket disclosed by the United Press in dispatches in the last i few days. Several of the most I noted economists in congress have relatives or absentee employes on the congressional payroll. One of the most distinguished of these is Rep. Will R. Wood. Repn.. Ind. He was for years , chairman of the house appropria- ' tions committee and is chairman of the Republican national congressional committee. At the time the United Press j correspondent talked to him last week, he still had an absentee clerk on liis pay roll. She draws about $25 a week. Wood said he did not know where this employe could be reached in Indiana as she (CONTINUED ON PAGE THREE) , . o Radio Program Heard Residents of Decatur heard Miss Etma Singleton of Auburn sing two I selections ■over radio station 1 WOWO at Fort Wayne this afternoon. Miss Singleton who is a daughter of John Singleton, formerly of Decatur, and a granddaughter of William Singleton of l this city, sang "Kingdom in the Eyes," and the “Old Irish Rose.’’ |

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SENIOR PLAY | IS SELECTED!; Graduating Class Will i Give Play at D.C.H.S. Sunday, May 15 The sen! >r class of the Decatur | Catholic High school will present | thb three-act mystery and comedy, "Has Anyone Seen Jean.” In the school auditorium. Sunday. May The play Is in three acts, the first laid in a railway depot where 1 the topic of Interest is the kidnap-j Ing of Jean Mallory, a twelve j million dollar heiress. Just as her I sister enters with a policeman,l they see a train bearing away a > blue dress and red hat in which Jean disappeared. The events of the second and third acts take place in a den of crooks where Jean Is held captive. Acey. an amateur detective, relieves the tenseness of the situation, becomes the self-appointed protector of Jean and furnishes the audience with amusement. The mystery-comedy is produced by special arrangements with Lean ami McLean of Chicago. Special musical numbers will be presented, the first. "Zampa," by Carl Geels and Lawrence Hei(CONTINI'En ON PAGE SEVEN) JURY CASE IS BEING TRIED — Allen County Cause Is Venued Here; Damages Being Sought The damage suit cause of Wil- , liam Schwink. Fort Wayne, vs. -Allen county board of commlsssion-1 ers. resulting frim the collision of the Sell wink automobile with an | Allen county truck more than a I year ago at which time Howard Schwink was killed, opened in Adams circuit court today.. The complaint asks for $545 exI pense for hospital and funeral bills I for the boy wlio was killed and $355 i I fcr wages which would have been I learned by Moward before he be-| came 21 years of age. The regular panel of the petit jury wis hearing the case. John j Everhart was called to jury service ' to take the place of W. D. Porter | 1 who failed to report in court at' 9 j I o'clock this morning. The accident occurred more than a year ago in Allen county, and the suit was venued to this county. (CONTINITEn ON PAGE THREE) Hearing Date Is Set Valparaiso. Ind.. May 9—(l T P) — Hearing in Porter superior court on the petition of D. C. Stephenson, serving a life term in the state prison, for an injunction against Warden Walter H. Daly, was set for May 31 when the court convened today. Stephenson is seeking to prevent Daly from being present at conversations with his attorneys, and Charges that the Warden lias withheld personal papers from him. The hearing had been set for today. TARDIEUWILL RESIGN POST French Premier Beaten In Run-off Election Held Sunday Paris. May 9. (U.R) —The cabinet of Premier Andre Tardieu, whose parliamentary majority was wiped out in the final voting in the legislative elections, decided today to submit its resignation to the new president to be elected tomorrow. It thus appeared certain that Edouard Herrioto, leader of the victorious radical-socialists, would be called on to form a government. The Tardieu cabinet decided it i would not ask the new president to request the present government to i remain in office until the new parliament meets June 1. Tardieu told the United Press that election of a new president coincident with the changed parlllament majority caused the cabI (CONTINUED ON PAGE SIX)

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Hunger March Planned Indianapolis May 9 (UP) — A second "statewide hunger march” of unemployed, to be conducted from June 22 to June 25.wa<planned at j meeting here Sunday of representatives of various unemployed councils. The “hurger marchers" plan to leave in trucks from Hammond, South Bend. Fort Wayne. Richmond Evansville anal Bio -mlngton. and to hold demonstrations en route to Indianapolis. SCHOLARSHIP CONTESTS HELD Striker Announces Winners of County Competitive Contests Results of the Adams County Scholarship contests which were held in this city a week ago were' announced today by (Tifton E. | Striker, county superintendent of > schools. The scholarship letters are| awarded the winners in the stth-j (ects of English, Ijatin. Algebra, Ifology. general history. American history, physics, plane and solid geometry. Each rural high school entered two pupils in each division, making 14 contestants for each subject. The first three winners in each subject are as follows: Freshmen English Anna Romey. Hartford; Fem I Bierly. Hartford; Willard Kurtz, I Jefferson. Sophomore English Margaret Greene, Geneva: Helen I Huser, Jefferson; Neva Fricke, Monroe. Junior English Gordon Sprunger. Monroe; Atmu Liechty. Monroe; Marclle MayA. I Hartford. Senior English Warren Munro. Hartford: Ruth Ray. Pleasant Mills; Doris Johnson, Geneva. Latin I Helen Bluhm. Monroe; Luella Steiner. Hartford; Helen Huser, Jefferson. Latin II Anna Liechty, Monroe; Louise i Zurcher, Monroe; Chester Smit ley. i Jefferson. (CONTtNITEH ON PAGE THREE) KIDNAP TRIAL STARTS TODAY Twelve Illinois People Face Charge; Health Penalty Is Faced Peoria. 111.. May 9. —(U.R) -Twelve persons went to trial today charged with the kidnaping for ransom of Dr. James W. Parker, with death penalties possible if convictions are obtained. Ten defendants are men and two are women. Seven lawyers represent them. The trial may last from two to five weeks, since a total of 480 premptory challenges, equally divided between state and defense, may be exercised. Dr. Parker was kidnaped March 14 and held prisoner until April 1.1 Death threats came to his wife by, mail and telephone demanding SSO. I 000 ransom. Later Joseph Puriful told the Parker family he had been selected by the kidnapers as a “go between.” The ransom demands were scaled down to SIO,OOO. Nothing was paid, however. A state-wide hunt for the gang was begun, with Alexander Jamie, chief investigator of Chicago’s “secret six," and his operatives (CONTINUED ON PAGE THREE) Verdict Is Suicide Lake Foest, 111.. May 9 —(UP) — Six millionaires sitting In a coroner's jury returned a verdict of suicide as a result of a nervous breakdown in the death of Donald M. Ryerson, 48, a wealthy industrialist. Ryerson, chairman ot the board of Joseph T. Ryerson and son, a pioneer midwest steel firm, shot himself to death yesterday on the Lake Michigan beach of his estate here. The board chairman, a leader in the Steel industry, was originator of the “four-minute-man” ompaign to sell liberty bonds during the world war. He had been prominent in civic and caritable activities until recently. i

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TAX BILL GOES TO SENATE BY GROUP'S ACTION Discussion Probably To Start Thursday; Measure Carries Billion Tax HOUSE MUST THEN APPROVE Washington, May 9.— ( 9 R>— ,The $1,030,000,000 (B) tax |bill reached the senate floor today with a favorable report froni the senate finance com-. mittee. Chairman Smoot reported the bill. Smoot said he expected the senate to begin consideration of the bill Thursday. The report to accompany the bill will be 'filed Wednesday. Following passage of the bill In the senate, it will be returned to I the lower house where approval of 'all senate changes must be obtained. It is believed likely that most of the changes will be approved witboi’t much dissension. o Fugitive Is Wounded Indianapolis, May 9. —(U.R) — George Lane. 38. fugitive from the Joliet. 111., penitentiary and reputed "bad actor," lay in City hospital today in a critical condition. the result of an attempt to escape recapture. Lane, alias Bicknel, was seen to enter the home where his wife and four children lived after authorities ha ( | held it under surveillance for many weeks. Authorities of Joliet peniten- ! tlary, from which Lane escaped April 5 while serving a one to 10year term on a robbery chargv. had warned local police that Lane | was a "dangerous character.” Machine guns, shotguns, revolvers. and tear gas bombs were trained on the house by a police squad while Lieutenant Dan Cummings ami two patrolmen entered. Lane, they said, made a dash for a revolver lying on a table. Unable to reach it. he started for the door and Cummings fired, striking Lane in the side. If he survives, police said, he will be charged with being a fugitive from justice, ami returned to Illinois. Elks Dance Planned i Plans were completed today for j the Elks dance to be hold here j Wednesday night at the Elks home. A- committee of Elks is selling ticklets for the affair, which is opened ito Elks and their friends. A good j orchestra has been secured. The dance will start at 9:00 o’clock. o Financier Is Missing Washington. May 9 —(UP) —Charles R. Flint. 83-year-old financier known as the “Father of Trusts” today was reported to the police as missing. z Wearing lounging clothes and house slippers he is believed t' 1 have gove from his apartment at an exclusive hotel to Union station land perhips boarded a train for I some undetermined destination. SUBPOENAES ARE UNSERVED Mrs. Massie Is Safe On Board Shin Bound For San Francisco, Cal. Honolulu, May 9.— (U.R) —Thalia Fortescue Massie, central figure in Hawaii’s famed honor slaying case, was safe aboard a mainland-bound liner today after an opera bouffo chase in which she dashed through companionways and slammed doors to elude panting detectives armed with subpoenaes. One minute before the Malolo sailed Mrs. Massie accepted the summons to appear in court against four islanders accused of attacking her. She surveyed it calmly, locked her cabin door ami the ship cleared, leaving officers with an empty victory. Clarence Darrow, elderly chief defense counsel for her mother, (husband and two navy enlisted men < (CONTINUED UN PAGE FIVE)