Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 30, Number 112, Decatur, Adams County, 10 May 1932 — Page 1

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MOCR ATS TO |k LEADERS ■ DISTRICT — l.'H.drich Said to Taken Part In Scrap SIDES -■ ( i.\|M \ l< Tom May 10—< u *> ...litical leaders -<lv organ B^K''. si, --tonal <ll---n (h, r> suits. depends 1; l-.arl Peters. Port v. . 11 the party which he gain- . the opposition. - . the « t |^K.. : . ice chairman officials . to ... officials. ; Mayr, and ' tile . to the r vigorously op-li-nic. ratic leader of 192', the opposition KI y.-ar- he was unwarn .'><■ was I. one Hays. Sullivan. A ■. . are opposition aiol - t<> f.,c. today were elainielection •. elections M)J ' oneeded defeat ww.i.d. third and sixth disli m : limed to have remaining dis candidate ■DI is claim they will the first; two in at: i !ao in the third: two two in the fifth: - v tile seventh: ■ one ..mi twelfth, for to of the 24 votes. m the ninth tlistri< I ut-.-i- led. Three a. piranls for the election chairman. They are V, rlmrg. North Vernon: T Jeffersoni il’.e I.. Myers. i.mtest looms the <>:-■ where James Carpseeking the office. received hero toS Governor .lames I' publican. Winchester, become interested the - o BTENDANTIS | FOUND KILLED ■janapolis Gas Station Operator Killed By | ' Night Prowler May 10. (U.R) — W l ' >’ I ''Callaghan. 4S. gasoline attendant, was shot to dealii (■today by a bandit. who slept in the > " was awakened at the baniia *tered a window. As he for a revolver, the bandit the side. the wound. O’Callaghan toward the door. The ban again, the second bullet ■ striking O’Callaghan in the |H The bandit obtained $lO. daughter, who came ' asl week from Orleans. Ind . - evening to a man who said ■' s from Fort Wayne. O’Cai|M& n. however, was unable to dee the bandit. tVe .daughter, O’Callag--8 ’Wvi’Vd by the widow, who e “ in OiMeaus.

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I Will Flip Coin To Decide Election Winner | Indianapolis Ind., May 10—(UP) | 1 On the flip of a coin today depends I the outcome of the race between I I I Alma McAtee and Ixniin- Betzler in the 10th ward for delegate to the Democrat state convention. Each received 682 votes, tying I fur 17th place. Only 17 delegates • were to be elected, so they decides! to let the toss of a coin decide the contest. The “t eremonles” will he held in the county clerk's office. JUBILEE WILL ' BE OBSERVED •I K. of C. Lodge Plans Observance In Decatur, Tuesday, May 17 > The local Knights of Columbus , will celebrate the Golden Jubilee of t the lodge with a celebration in the i K. of C. Hall. Tuesday night. May - 17. • Joe Lose Is general chairman in I charge of the arrangements for the • Jubilee which will mark the lift II leth anniversary of the organization | > ] Mr. Lose will lie assisted in coin-1 i pleting the arrangements by var-1 ious decorating and entertainment ' > committees. ’ The jubilee is being celebrated ’ In Knights of Columbus lodges all 5 over the country, commemorating ’ the organization. I The program Tuesday night wil. j' be lor the Knights, their wives, I sweethearts, sons and daughters. The entertainment for the evening will be entirely free, and wil. ■ 9 start prompty at 8 o’clock. A meeting will be held in tile ■ . TolTge ihall tonight, at which time 1 -! tLuk-variiiua cluuriuen axrt»*onnwtt • I tees will be appointed t.> arrange I J for the program. J ■ - - - o NEW SLANT ON ! PAYROLL PROBE tl _. _ i- i e I .Solons Claim Expenses at. Capitol Force Relatives On Payroll 'I Washington, May 10.—(U.R) -The | ’ living answer has been found to, ’ I those senators and congressmen] " who say the high cost of living in 1 ' jWashington forces them to carry] ’ relatives on the payrolls as clerks ] ' He is Senator Park Trammell. | Pern., Fla., and the gouging real] t estate agents in Washington get I ” very little out of him because he “ [sleeps in his office in the senate e |office buildings most of the time. [ "I take the $75 a month or so ' that I would have to spend on an apartment and sent it to an invalid e relative in Florida and why ' shouldn’t I?" Senator Trammel said when he was asked about the mat- " ter. He doesn't stay there every night, e Sometimes he goes to his brother’s home—his brother and sister-in-law are clerks in his office—and sometime he goes to a hotel. While Senator Trammel was discussing Ills sleeping habits with the United Press, another suggestion I was advanced in the house for deal [ing with the congressional payroll iracket. Rep Patman, Dem., Texas, [proposed that the congressional [payroll be published once a month 1 so the taxpayers could know the (CONTIMI IRI> on page sem Convict Wounds Fatal e Indianapolis, May lb (U.R) h George Lane, a fugitive from the Joliet, HL. penitentiary, who was shot by local police as he attempte ed to evade recapture, died of his ’’ wound last night in city hospital. , Lane, alias Bicknell, was serving a term on a robbery convietion when he escaped last April 5. After going to Chicago, he fled ” through three states attempting ’’ to avoid capture. Police here 1 watched for weeks the house e where his wife and four children lived. Several times they moved, b apparently trying to throw author- •> itles off the trail. t- When a police squad, armed (1 with machine guns, revolvers and 1- tear gas. went to arrest Lane, he 3 - leaped for a revolver lying near by Failing to reach it, he start- !■ ed tor the door. Lieut. Dan umo mings fired, striking Lane in side.

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BANQUETHELD BY I. U. ALUMNI Dean Charles Sembower Chief Speaker at Banquet Held In City Dean Charles Sembower. dean of ! men at Indiana University. Hloonilington, delivered the principal address at the Adams County I. V. lAlUflinl itanqieet. beid atJlle Hr i formed church parlors. Monday evening. Dean Sembower gave an ‘interesting talk, and reminiscences > | of life at the university. I The program was in observance | I of Foundation Day, and was attend-, led by eighteen graduates and for- 1 1 mer students of Indiana University. | During the organization meeting | ! Clifton E. Striker, County superin-1 tendent of schools was elected pre-i sident; C. E. Hacker, assistant I postmaster was named vice-presid-I ent. Miss Edna liangk. nurse at the j Adams County Meanorial Hospital, secretary, and Miss Clara Ruppert, I I Decatur high school tear her, was! chosen treasurer. Miss Patsy McConnell gave a! I number of readin.?s during the pro-, I gram. C. A. Dugan was the oldest! ! I.U. being a mem-1 I her us the class of 1887. At one time j he was a teacher of Dean Sembow- ; er. The banquet was served at 6:30 o'clock by the ladies of the Reform-1 ed church. Those present were | Dean Sembower and Claude Rice of j Bloomington; Mr. and Mrs. Rolland I Sprunger of Monroe; Miss C:itoline| Hlrschey of Berne; Mr. and Mrs. I R. J. Mann. Dr. and Mrs. Burt Man- j gold. Miss Edna Haugk, Miss Lucy Little, Mrs. Carroll Cole, C. E« Ho. ker, C. A. Dugan, Mrs. Ralph Yager, Miss Patsy McConnell, Miss | Clara Reppert, and Clifton E. Strik- ' er. o THREE STATES VOTING TODAY I Ohio. West Virginia And Texas Voters Deciding On Whom to Support (United Press) Presidential primaries and conventions were being held today in 1 Ohio. West Virginia and Texas. Governor George White was | 1 assured of at least 47 of Ohio s 52 j delegates to the Democratic national convention. Delegates supporting Alfred E. Smith were ' contesting five districts. Governor William H. Murray of Oklahoma also wqs entered'in the preferentlal voting. "General" Jacob Coxey, Joseph I. France of Maryland, and Olin J. Ross, Columbus attorney, were on the Republican preferential ballots. but Ohio's 55 Republican delegates were counted certain for President Hoover. Conventions being held In every Texas county were expected to give delegates to the state democratic convention unqualified inICONTINL'ED ON PAGE THREE)

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Muncie Club Looted Muncie, Ind., May 10—(U.R)— Three bandits terrorized 25 mem hers of the exclusive Muncie Club at the Delaware country club last night and escaped with SSOO they took from the victims. » (Several shots were fired by th° bandits hut none was injured. The bandits opened fire when they entered the club, apparently to frighten their victims. One stood guard while the other two rounded-up the .clubmen from the various rooms and rifled their pockets. Miss Nellie Johnson, a main,j called police whert she heard | the shots, but authorities arriv’d; j after the bandits fled. GROUP MEMBER I FAVORS CHANGE Col. Anderson Urges Repeal of 18th Amendment To “Better Country” New York, May 10— (UP)— Increase of criminal activities to an j ‘extent whee they threaten the in-i I tion’s soiial and economic security idemands modification of the eigh ■teenth amendment, Col. Henry W. I Anderson, of Richmond, Va., declar led here in a warning speech. The Virginia Lawyer, who as a | member of the Wickersham commisj sion submitted a plan to modify i the amendment and set up a federal I dispensary system of liquor distriI button, still believes his proposal ■ the most logical one. John J. RasI kob’s referendum plea was labeled | "secession” by Anderson. The plan proposed by the chairman of the Democrat national committee would permit any state by the vote of its people to withdraw from the operation of the amendment. "This, in effect,” Anderson said “would seek to authorize any state to secede from the Union as to this provision o fthe constitution. We have had enough secession In America." The late Senator Dwight M. Morrow’s belief in a substitution amend, ment giving the liquor problem to the states also was criticized by Anderson. “It seems," declared Anderson, “unnecessary to repeal one amendment and adopt another in conformity wit'll principles stated when the entire object can be accomplished by one act : by modification or | (CONTINIIRP r 'N PAGE SIX) 1 0 — | Two Men Convicted Chicago May 10—(UP)—State snator Daniel Serritella former city sealer, and Harry Hoehstein, his former deputy, were convicted by a jury in Judge. James J. Kelly’s court today of conspiracy to countenance short weight practices among merchants which cost housewives thousands of dollars. The verdict was’returned at noon ’ today after the jury had been out since 9:30 p. m. yesterday. Serritella and Hochcstein face from one day to one year in jail and a maximum fine of $2,000 each, hearing on motion for a new trial was set for May 20. I

DEATH CHARGE IS PREFERRED 1 Aviatrix’s .Manager Is Ac- , cased of Killing Her i Sweetheart < Miami. Fla.. May 10- (U.R)—Captain W. N. Lancaster, British. 1 aviator and manager of Mrs. KeithMiller, Australian flier, is under | la first degree murder indictment;, I today in the death of her sweet-; 1 heart, Haden Clarke. The indictment was returned * late yesterday by the Dage county 1 grand jury, considering the death of'the young "phost writer" April 21. It is believed to presage a i trial in which an intriguing love, | ' triangle will be revealed. Young Clarke, son of a woman writer and journalism teacher. I died In a cottage here occupied ' jointly’ ley Mrs. Keith-Miller and I Lancaster. He had been helping her write her biography. Lancast- | er was on a tour. News of the engagement of Mrs. Keith-Miller and Clarke j brought Lancaster home for the ' wedding, evidence so far revealed : has Indicated. He bought a revolver in St. Louis before starting here, it was revealed. Clarke was found dying on the sleeping porch where he and Lancaster slept the first night after the latter’s return. "Suicide notes” were found. Clarke apparently had killed himself with Lancaster’s gun. Investigation brought a doctor's report that Clarke had engaged in a struggle before the shooting. The notes revealed phrases and words never used by Clarke, but often used by English writers. Lancaster, it was said, admitted writing the notes, finally, as an (CONTINKFIP ON PAGE SIX) FARMER SHOT AFTER THREAT — Marshall County Sheriff Saved By Jammed (Jun; Man Wounded Plymouth, Ind., May 10. —(U.R) — Seymour Stull, 60, was in a critical condition in Marshall county I hospital today with a bullet wound I inflicted by Sheriff Frank Gerard after Stull allegedly fired a shotgun at the sheriff. Gerard reported he was called to the home by Mrs. Stull, who told him her husband had forced her ami a small son from the house. Six other children were asleep upstairs. When Gerard approached the home, he said, Stull appeared with a shotgun and fired. Physicians at the hospital said they did not believe Stull would survive. Gerard said he learned that Stull 'had quarreled frequently with his family recently. Mrs. Stull told him, he said, that her husband had made several threats against the entire family.

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DECATUR MAN IS NOT CUILTT Ray Eyanson Freed On Counterfeiting Charge In Federal Court Raymond Eyanson of Decatur, was found not guilty of forgery and passing counterfeit money, by Judge Thomas W. Slick In Federal Court at Fort Wayne. Monday afternoon. Eyanson, a local painter, was charged with having passed counterfeit bills to Samuel Baller and Andrew J. Brickley, both of Decatur, during the street fair here in September, 1930. The case was an old one on the docket, having been continued over two terms of court. A jury was waived in the ease, and the trial was heard before Judge Slick. Eyanson was represented by H. Parnell McGreedey, attorney, who. after the government concluded evidence in the case, tiled a motion for the tinding of Eyanson not guilty. The judge overruled the motion. Eyanson took the witness stand in his own behalf. He stated that he had never had any counterfeit bills in his possession, but, admitted. however, that he gave $lO bills t > both Brickley and Bailer which he had received for painting work which he had done. The bills which were introduced in evidence were one dollar silver certificates which had been changed by pasting a figure 10 over the figure one in each corner. The reading on the bills was not changed. Judge Slick stated, in finding the jnian not guilty, that there was lack [ol proof that Eyanson was the man i who passed the bills. There was i testimony that Brickley went to ‘Bluffton where the street fair concessions moved following the Decatur fair, to see if some one associated with it might have passed (CONTINITKD ON PAGI-i SIX) o GASTON MEANS IS INDICTED SKIO.OOOSwindIe IsCharged By Federal Jury To Means Washington. May 10 ( U.R) -Gaston B. Means was indicted by a federal grand jury today on two charges growing out of his strange operations in connection with the Lindbergh kidnaping case. The first charge alleges he embezzled SIOO,OOO given him by Mrs. Evalyn Walsh McLean with which to pay the ransom for the Lindbergh child. The second charge is one of larceny after trust, alleging the larceny of the SIOO,OOO with whi. n Mrs. McLean says she entrusted Means. Each charge is contained in a separate indictment. Mrs. McLean is the wife of Edward B. McLean, multi-millionaire publisher of Washington and Cincinnati. A society leader of Washington, she is also a multimillionaire in her own right. She is the owner of the famous Hope diamond, reputed omen of 111-for-tune. The indictment was returned ns a result of the grand jury hearing held last Friday. At that time Mrs. McLean, with two corroborating witnesses, told her story of Means' operations to the jury. Each charge returned today alleges that on March 7 Mrs. McLean gave Means, former government agent who gained such wide notoriety during the Harding administration. SIOO,OOO. She did so. it is alleged, after Means had represented to her that he knew the whereabouts of the child and Its kidnapers and could obtain ns return. A second count in each indictment. charges the larceny or the (CONTTNIIEG ON PAGK THREE) O — BULLETIN C. L. Walters, Decatur attorney, was elected secretary of the Fourth district Republican committee at the organization meeting held at Fort Wavne this afternoon. John Yeager, Wolcottville, was elected chairman. It was the first district meeting attended by Ralph Yager. G.O.P. chairman of this county who defeated Paul Graham last Saturday.

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To Attend Convention The Mesdames ('. E. Bell and i William Bell of this city and W. R. Barr of Bluffton left this morning lor Clarksburg, West Virginia, where they will attend the East Central District convention of the | Women s ■'American Baptist Foreign and the Home Missionary Societies. The convention will open Wednesday morning. May 11 and continue throughout Thursday. Mrs. [ C. E. Bell will give the response, to lhe welcome at the morning I session Wednesday. Mrs. Bell is also treasurer of the district organization. DAMAGE SUIT i NEARING END Schwink vs. Allen County Commissioners Being Tried In Decatur The damage suit of William Schwink. Fort Wayne against the Allen county commissioners for hospital and tune:al expenses and unearned wages in connection with the death of a son, Howard, more than a year ago When the auto the latter was riding in and an Allen county truck collided was scheduled to go to a jury in Adams circuit court about 4 o’clock this afternoon. Sihwink is seeking to collect S9OO damages. Another suit, the cutgrowth of the same accident is pending here for $4,000. Attorneys finished examination of witnesses at 2 o'clock and immediately the arguments were started, x The regular panel of the Adams county petit jury is hearing the evi-J dence.' The trial started Monday [ ’ morning and it was thought the i 1 jury would complete deliberations sometime tonight. — Killer Is Sentenced Vincennes. Ind.. May 10 —(UP) — Commodore T. Johnson,. 58, farmer was sentenced to life imprisonment i at the state prison by Judge W. S. | illoover in circuit court today on [his plea of guilty to a charge of I first degree murder in the death of ] Daniel Jordan, 74. farm neighbor, i Jordan was slain at his farm . home home April 30. Jealousy prompted the act, Johnson said. Lyle Miller, prosecuting attorney told the court the state would be satisfied with life imprisonment for Johnson. D. Frank Culbertson, county attorney, said Johnson was 1 willing to throw himself on lhe mercy of the court. o i Victim Is Wounded 1 Indianapolis. May 10. — (U.R) —J. P. O’Callahan, 58, was wounded crith ally when he resisted two bans dits who attempted to rob his gasoline station last midnight. O'Callahan seized a revolver and ] 1 opened fire when the bandits ord--1 cred him to raise his hands. One of the gunmen returned the fire, • two bullets striking O’Callahan. The bandits escaped with no ■ loot. U. S. DIRIGIBLE FIGHTS STORM i Giant Ship Successful In Fight With Texas Storm, Tornado Dryden. Tex.. "May 10. — (U.R) — ? Through clearing skies, the navy’s giant dirigible, the Akron, moved [ westward today — behind her a , night of terror. ! Mild thunderstorms, "diminishing 1 in intensity”, still were reported within her path as she moved along the Rio Grande toward El Paso soon after daybreak, but relief was general among weather observers that the severe electrical storms of the night were safely passed. Lieut.-Com. C. E. Rosendahl. radioing for reports, was given reason to hope that the worst was over, and apparently decided to | continue the Hight. The Akron pointed her silver ' nose toward Del Rio, border town I some 80 miles south of here, and was expected to coutiuue from there io El Paso. Dangerous weather surrounded (CONTINUED ON PAGE SIX)

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LEBRUN NAMED ON IST BALLOT TO LEAD FRANCE To Take Place of Murder- [ ed President; Assembly Holds Election GUARDS ARE NOT NEEDED Versailles, France. Max 10. [ (U.R)- Albert I.eßrun, 60-vear-oltl president of the senate, was elected president ot France on the first ballot today in succession to the ' murdered Paul Dounier. , The Versailles palace where the senate and chamber, sitting as a national assembly, held the election was heavily guarded by thousands of troops as a precaution against any outbreak of violence. The election proceeded in good order and was the calmest in history as a tribute to Doumer. Forty electors dropped blank ballots, preferring not to vote for Leßrun after a meeting of radical socialist deputies and left democratic senators. The others, howI over, voted for him. The socialists, as a body, cast 100 votes for Paul Faure. The voting for Faure was merely a gesture, as he is a parliamentary unknown defeated for reelection last Sunday. He is secretary of the socialist party. Several communists presented an unharmonious note in the formal assembly, wearing blue overalls ’] and work shirts in contrast to LeI Brun’s impeccable full dress. I Paris. May 10—(U.R) Albert LeBrun. new president of Prance, is a member of the great worldwide Brown family. His name, phonetically. Js pronounced “Al-bair Le-broen.” (CONTINUED GN PAGE SIX) O FALL RETURNS TO HIS RANCH Completes Federal Prison Term On Charge of Oil Lease Bribery Santa Fe. > M., May 10 (U.R) - Albert B. Fall, secretary of the interior in the Harding cabinet, prepared today to resume his lite as a pioneer New Mexican rancher in his old home at Three Rivers ranch, after more than nine months spent in the New Mexico penitentiary. He completed hia sentence ot a year and a day, less time off for good behalvor In the penitentiary for conviction of taking a bribe. .M 1:25 p. m. yesterday. Fall, in a big limousine, speeded out of the gates of the penitentiary here. He left Santa Fe immediately for Three Rivers. His wife rode in the machine with him. in a second automobile which followed, were his two daughters, Mrs. Jouett Elliott and Mrs. ('. C. Chase, and Mrs. Chase's husband. Three Rivers, known throughout this state by its Spanish name — Tres Rios —no longer belongs to Fall. It now is owned by Edward |L. Doheny, the oil man. who was acquitted of having given the bribe which Fall was found guilty of taking. Reporters and cameramen who had gathered outside the prison as the time came for Fall’s release, were disappointed in their hopes for a statement from the . former cabinet member. His automobile speeded by them, and none had more than a (CONTINUED ON PAGE SIX) o Feustel Funeral Held , Fort Wayne. Ind., May 10.—(U.R) —Funeral services were held in the Plymouth Congregational ] church today for Robert M. Feustal. , president of the Midland United , Company and nationally known figure in the Insull utility interests. . Private burial rites were held at /Lindenwood cemetery. I In tribute to Feustal. all street , cars were stopped for one minute at 2:30 oiclock. The lines ate op I erated by the Indiana Service Corporation, of which he also was president.