Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 30, Number 118, Decatur, Adams County, 17 May 1932 — Page 1

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InDAMSGO. ! BINK CLOSES ' I TO LIQUIDATE Notify State De<»f Action IVhb Morning Ipl to pay J \1 I DEPOSITS M HI Vilnius County K\ || l|s , iiv was dosed: this moriiiiii'i Kljaidiihoii. the board of idlin' action 10l- ; i special meeting hour departimnt Thomas D. Banc > ' iimissioner of Indafternoon to of the bank. Mgi ,|ii ii, allies to keep op Kite dome i- for eash. w<re reasons for dosKSbank "To treat every fair to Rive each the th.. was adv io elose the K et:i. .-rs of the hank are: .■ Robert ia<!iier: Albert Schen- ■ I Statement Issued officials of the BE *f i.iilent that the de- !"■ paid in full, unless ex,.- ■ liquidation following stateMs issued: regret the K|<. of clo.-ing the bank Ini' to be i>o other aveheli. v. the batik is tint dopositors will be I ' the I tin assets of $875,622. total of $623,236. and a loan ■|l- Reconstruction < $70.n00. sul'ii, cash to unavailable and to rests, 'he board h.i I but to notify the Si lepa:: , e.it (l s its intenBl !.;.:li.:te. We will, if I.. so. do every thing M b‘ as early a .ii of funds, as is posin 1930 , ' lM reorganization of the M the the institution illant fight to en- ' 'et vices of the bank to and to resume its tlm ’unking field. The 'frair of cash from small tiie inability of borto li'i'itdate their loans and cotidii unis prevented an I sincere efforts on the bank's officials to cope nx p AGR SIX) ■ To Have Charge Er Wednesday Service f’resbyt. riau prayer service night at 7 o’clock will by the Progressive School class of the church. Thompson will deliver address and Paul Sauter several solos. A cordial is extended to everyone the sei vice. | SERIOUSLY Ml IN FALL |Bard Stairhime Under--9g Operation Here As- ■ P al) From Barn Stairhime, eight yeat old jM’vil'e boy was seriously inM ln a fal ' i>> the barn on his at about four o'clock afternoon. ■ te " seve til feet and was IS* 011 a manger. His spleen was 18., 11 '' was brought to the Ad ■ oUnt y Memorial hospital d ' l °P p 'ation was performed. ■ Physician stated that the ," as broken alb out two-thirds KU i, rrU!n the Bhoclt ' the at - Physician believes that the ■'h recover. He suffered greats con <lition is considered

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Jubilee Parly Tonight * I All members of the Knights of Columbus lodge, their wives or sweethearts, sons ami daughters, are urged to attend the Golden Jubilee celebration of the organization to be held In the K. of C. hall tonight. The evening's program will begin at 7:30 o'clock and the enter- ( tain ment committee has planned a series of events for the entire evening. . The entertainment in connection with the celebration of the fiftieth anniversary of the 1 lodge, will be free for members 01, the lodge and their guests. NEW EXPENSE I ITEM IS FOUND — $20,000 In Appropriation Bill For Folding And Mailing Speeches UP Staff Correspondent Copyright 1932 by UP. Washington, May 17. —(U.R)—-It is a big help to congressmen seeking | re-election that they can conduct 1 so much of their political work under the guise of congressional business at government expense? One instance is found in an inconspicuous item in the pending legislative appropriation bill — the famous economy bill which the house recently passed after much gnashing of teeth. The casual reader would hardly notice it. its sig-1 nificance is completely hidden, it 1 reads: "For folding speeches and! pamphlets at a rate not exceeding' $1 per thousand. $20,000.’’ This was approved'’by the house and doubtless will be by the senate. It will pay for mailing out 20,000.000 pieces of mail — campaign! literature of congressmen. The | postoffice will have to deliver this 1 mail for nothing. The item represents an increase ol $4,000—25 per cent more than last year. This violation of the rule that all expenses must be cut was excused on the ground that this is campaign year and the congressmen will have more speeches and pamphlets to mail out. Here is the official explanation given to tiie appropriations subcommittee by the assistant clerk of the house: “An increase of $4,000 is recoinmended for folding speeches and pamphlets which will be necessary as this is a congressional election year in which this fund will be called upon more than in an off year.” Naturally anything as urgent as that was instantly approved. So constituents all over the country will be getting some of these 20.000.000 campaign circulaters. Many of these circulars will be sac similes or imitations of the con-l gressional record carrying a pur-i ported speech by a congressman—a speech that was never delivered, with cheers and applause noted that never reached a human eat. Lest ’anybody think that a congressman would stoop to petty graft and do his (CONTINUED ON PAGR FIVE) —o — ~~ Bucher Funeral Today Funeral services for Miss Edith Bucher. Decatur young w.im'in who died Saturday night, were held this afternoon at 1:30 o’clock at the •home. 515 West Madison street, and at 2 o'clock at the Zion Lutheran church. Rev. M. J. Frosch, pastor of the Emmtmuel Lutheran church conducted the services in German and Rev. Paul Schultz officiated durinli the English services. Burial was made in the Decatur Cemetery. ■—o Funeral Is Thursday Funeral services for Mrs. Katherine Madden, 88. resident of Allen county and g andmother of Mrs. Dwight Kimble of this city who died at the home of her son. Jacob Madden in Fort Wayne, Monday morning, will be held Thursday at 1:30 o’clock at the home and at 2 o'clock lot the Parker Chapel Church. Burial will be made in the church cemetery. Mrs Madden died suddenly Monday morning at the home of her son at 211 West Fifth street, after suffering a stroke of paralysis. The deceased was the widow ot John Madden who was a policeman in Fort Wayne for about 30 years. Suriving are four sons, JUcob and Clifford Madden of Fort Wayne, Fred and Harry Midden of Gary. She was a member o t'the Parker I Chapel Church.

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RECOUNT BOARD I IS APPOINTED IN COURT HERE ______ Commissioners’ Votes To 1 Be Recounted Starting Wednesday Morning WILL CONTINUE UNTIL THROUGH 'l'lie recount til the votes' cast for the Democrat candidates for county coinniis- ' sioner from the first district lin the primary election, I Tuesday, Mav 3, will begin l at eight o'clock Wednesday ' morning in the library room 'of the Adams circuit court room. Judge Dore B. Erwin today named the three election commissioners. who together with County Clerk Milton C. Werling will comprise the official board to recount the votes. Tiie three men whom Judge ! Erwin appointed are. Wesley O. : Neuetischwander. Berne; Samuel Butler and Freeh Hower. Decatur. Mr. Butler is the republican member of the board. The other two men are democrats. The court also ruled that “each candidate may be present during said recount and two qualified voters selected by each candidate may also be present.” A. Fred Thieme and Phillip I Strahm. two of the candidates coni cerned in the recount informed the court that they would not appoint watchers, but would attend the canvassing of the votes in person. The petition for a recount was, I made by August Gallmeyer, whoji | was defeated for the noniinationi 'by Phillip Sauer by three votes., | Gallmeyer received 1.407 votes! and Saner received 1,410 votes. The vote for the other two candidates was Strahm. 1.368, Thieme, 1.167. Must Stay in Session In the case of a recount the commissioners cannot adjourn until the count is completed. Judge 'Erwin stated. The board will go' into session Wednesday morning [ and the members will not be per-| milted to leave until the votes! are counted and a report is mafle.' Mr. Werling will act as clerk of the board. Cots will be placed in the library room and members of the, board may retire if they wish.l Meals will be furnished them and , no one except those named by the court may enter the room during fCGNTTNIIFtT' AN PAGR SIX) ' O FRED LIBY IS HURT IN BLAST Stone Hits Quarryman; Suffers Fracture of Skull This Morning Fred Liby of Linn Grove, an employe of the Mesluberger B others Stone Company at Linn Grove, is a patient at the Adams County Memorial hospital suffering with a fractured skull. “Liby’s skull was (Pictured when he was struck by a stone hurled through the air during the blasting at the quarry. The accident occurred about 11:30 o'clock this morning. The men at the quarry were engaged in blasting stone shortly before noon today, using the method known as “pop shooting.” After the fuses had been lighted, the men ran for shelter. Liby took shelter under the shovel of a large machine. A stone from the bJisting struck him in the back of the head. The accident was not discovered until Liby fell by the side of a fellow workman. Lilby is married and has one child. He has been employed by the Meshberger Stone company since 1917. BULLETIN William Schamerloh, who served for many years as Adams Circuit Court bailiff suffered a stroke of apoplexy early this morning and his condition was regarded as critical late this afternoon. Until he suffered the stroke, he was in apparently good health.

Decatur, Indiana, Tuesday, May 17, 1932.

Happy Once More w.. The joy of life that for many long, weary months was absent illuminated the features of Mrs. Granville Fortescue as she was photographed in Chicago, where she paused for a brief stay before proceeding to her home in New York. Convicted, then freed with her son-in-law, Lieut. Thomas H. Massie, and two navy enlisted men in tiie famous Honolulu ‘ honor slaying" case, Mrs. Forescue now looks forward to a complete pardon.

FIGHTING IS MORE TENSE Hindu Rioting Claims Many Lives; British Troops Called Bombay, May 17.—(U.R)—Riotous ! fighting between Hindus and Mos-; ' Jems which caused 67 deaths and | I SOO injuries in four days spread to | the mill area today after armored I liars and British troops rushed | here had eased the situation in the I Hindu quarter. Curfew orders were proclaimed ■prohibiting free movement, loitering, or the assembly of over five | (persons in the streets. The second battalion of the Green Howards : (Yorkshire) regiment and five armored ears from Poona patrolled native sections. Hindu mill hands attacked a mosque last night. Police were unable to break up gatherings of workers while the military could not be cabled away from patrol duty. Bombay auxiliary units were mobilized. Tanks were en route here from Poona. Casualties in yesterday’s guerilla warfare in which Hindus and Mos-1 lems were ambushed, murdered in) the streets, or burned alive in their homes, were 32 killed and 286 wounded. Hundreds of Hindus were housed and fed in the Hindu temple here under strong guard and thousands of others were escorted outside the danger zones. Local morgues were hilled with bodies and hospitals were so hard pressed to care for the injured that many were placed on verandas. Guards were stationed at the hospitals to prevent possible raids on the injured. Most of the casualties were suffered in by-lanes in the native quarters. Assailants usually managed to escape. Houses were set on fire, property was looted, and the rioters built huge bonfires in the streets. The trouble started Saturday when the traditional rivalry between Hindus and Moslems was fanned to violence by the stoning of several Hindu houses. o — Winner Is Named Miss llreta Lonlgenlberger was the winner in the Bible Memory Contest held at the Monroe Methodist church at Monroe, Sunday night. Judges were Mrs. Frank Downs, Mrs. Vera Owens, and Milton C. Werling. —o— Belgian Cabinet Quits ißrussels, May. 17 —(UP) The Belgian ca/binet resigned today.

Lost Professor Found i Aurora. Me.. May 17 (U.R) — Lost in the woods for nearly 48 hours, Roland P. Levinson, professor of philosophy at-the University of Maine, was found, alive ami unharmed, by a posse near here today. •'Gee. it's great to lie back!” exclaimed the professor, son of Salmon Oliver Levinson, Chieag > lawyer, as he rounded a bend in a brook and came upon one of I the posses engaged in the hunt I for him. i One member of this posse, i which was led by Game Warden Hollis Patterson. was Robert Tucker. Orono business man who was fishing with Levinson Sunday morning when the professor was lost. Tucker and Professor George ; B. Fundenberg of the (Diversity of Maine, another member of the fishing party, found their way home safely. APPOINTMENTS CAUSE DISPUTE 1 Optometry Board Members Under Fire; Appointments Are Up Indianapolis, May 17 —(U.R) —The 1 most hotly contested dispute over I two board appointments in the I administration's history was wagI ed in the office of Governor Harry G. Leslie today. Letters and telegrams were heaped on the governor’s desk, and were being added to continually. The opening gun in the fight was fired when a group of optometrists wrote the governor urging him not to rename Dr. George L. Frank, Lebanon, and Dr. H. R. Coil, Fort Wayne, to the state optometry board. Frank's term expires June 3 and Coil's May 19. In letters to Governor Leslie It was alleged that both violated ethics of the profession by certain advertising and capitalizing on their' board memberships. One charge against Dr. Coil, secretary of the board, accused him of making a radio speech over a Fort Wayne station offering glasses at a cut rate. Both Coil and Frank are republicans. Dr. Orris Booth, Valparaiso, president of the board, urged their reappointment. Name Published Wrong Hai vey James, Decatur route 5. was injured Sunday morning in the automobile accident west of Decatur. Monday’s Daily Democrat published the name as ‘‘Harvey Jones", Reports toddy are to the effect that Mr. Janies is recovering.

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THREE NAME DALE IN GRAFT Muncie Mayor Implicated In Conspiracy Case In Federal Court Indianapolis, May 17. — (U.R) — Testimony of three men that they, were offered liquor and gambling concessions in Muncie as rewards for helping elect George Dale as mayor, has been added to the chain of evidence upon which the government seeks to prove a widespread liquor conspiracy. On trial with Dale, facing charges of conspiracy to violate the prohibition laws, are eight police officers, headed by Chief Frank F. Massey, and two alleged bootleggers. Chauncey Stillson, whom the government accused of being the recipient of the mayor’s favors instead of those to whom promises were made, also was indicted, but has not been arrested. Sixteen witnesses were summoned by District Attorney George Jeffrey during the first day of the trial. Testimony was intended to substantiate accusations that Dale promised privileges to certain bootleggers it he were elected: that witnesses were intimidated; that drinking was common among police officials, and that “protecI lion money" was paid by bootleggers and gamblers. The cross-examination of defense attorneys apparently was intended Ito bring out that Dale made a sweeping clean-up of the city following his election, and that the government witnesses were persons holding a grudlge against the administration. Two witnesses testified they had (CONTINUED ON PAGR FIVE) SMITH OFFERS . ECONOMY PLAN Urges Congress To Quit , Playing Politics And i Get Down To Work fi New York. May 17.—(U.R) Alfred E. Smith lias called upon congress to quit playing politics, and as if to i set an example, presented his own t financial program for the national > emergency which demands defeat -of soldier bonus legislation and i calls for support of President Hoo- • ver in effecting economies through t consolidation of government bn- > reaus and activities. ’ The Democratic presidential candidate irt 1928 called for a manufacturers sales tax, a wine and beer tax to finance unemployment relief construction, and he urged congress to suppress all “blocs, 1 cabals, insurgencies and mugwamp 1 tactics by whatever name they may 1 be called which bedevil legislation, increase the depression, unsettle business and endanger our credit ’ at home and abroad.” The program was enunciated in an address last night. It reiterated certain other measures, such as ) repeal of the eighteenth arnendi meat, and extension of President ‘ Hoover's moratorium through grant- • ing Hoover power to make such an ' extension "until a real solution can ■ be reached." The Democratic leader criticized 1 President Hoover's unemployment relief plan calling for use of funds Mot the Reconstruction Finance Cor- ’ j poration. He urged that the Presiident be given “a free hand to pro- ! I vide aid for productive public • works of states and municipalities.” 5 Former Governor Smith’s most 1 radical departure from the politic- ■ ian’s program came in his state--1 ment of policy on veterans’ legis--1 lation. He said: 1 "No group of patriots can proper--1 ly ask that their care shall become (CONTINUED ON PAGE SIX) o —— I Bush Visits In Decaiur Lieutenant-Governor Edgar D. Bush, Republican candidate so governor of Indiana visited in Decatur , today and called on a number of local Republican leaders. Gov. Bush has strong support among the farmers and small town business men and also is said to have won a . I large bloc of Marion county votes »'in the approaching convention. He - is now serving his third term as - lieutenant-Governoir. Dick Broody, an Indianapois busit ness man accompanied Mr. Bush to this city.

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1200 Hoosiers Will Be i Arrested As Disturbers | Indianapolis, May 17 —(U.R) I Federal officials here today awaited an order issued late yesterday at Springfield, 111., by Judge I.ouis I Fltzhenry, for Hie arrest of 201 Indiana residents accused in minej riot cases. U. S. Marshal A. O. Meloy sai l the order would be handled ] through his office. | The cases are based on dlsord- ' ers April 6 at the Dixie Dee mine at Pimento. Vigo county, and the Hoosier mine, near Dugger, Sulli- ' van county, and at the home of Ray Tison, Dugger, an employe of the Hoosier mine. 1 Judges of both Indiana Federal i court districts disqualified themselves in the case. 100 MISSING IN DISASTER French Ship Completely Destroyed By Fire; Reports Scanty London, May 17 —(UP) —At least 100 persons are missing from the Liner George Phillipa’., according to a wireless message to the even--1 ing Standard from (’apt. Owen of the British ship Contractor, which rescued 75 of the liner’s passengers. Capt. Owen credited Capt. Vico of the Geo ges Phillipar with the estimate of at least 100 lost. Many first class passengers were reported trapped in their cabins by fire. “Approjchin:; the Georges Phillipar we found a few hundred people gi ouped on the forecastle head," ('apt. Gwen reported. "We lowered two boats and took off 75 passengers.’The fire is believed to have originated from the short circuit ip an empty cabin deluxe.” "The wireless room and the Captain's quarters were said to have been destroyed first. The fine travelled rapidly through all staterooms fanned by a fresh breeze. My officers on tiie second journey reported that the French Captain was ' the last to leHve ami that nobody was left aboard,” Capt. Owen reported. “Our boats saved some of the o ew ami passengers hanginig over the bow on ropes. Many jumped in the sea. “By 81A. M. the steamer was burning furiously fore and aft from the water's edge. Many passengers 1 were slightly burned. Wives were separated from husbands and children from parents. “All the passenge. s rescued were in night attire. They lost every thing else. We are due at Aden at 4 P. M. today.” Vivid and terse radio messages exchanged between tile steameis [ Contractor and Kaisar-l-llind were sent to the exchange telegraph com- , pany by the purser of the Fitter . ship. ' "Ship afire all over. Only safe , spot so ecastle. Head wind changing now,” the Contractor advised the Kaisar-HHind at 3:20 A. M. Monday. “Can arrive position 9:30” the Kaisard-Hind replied. , "Proceeding Arden with passen-ger-4 and injured., seJ.'rcWng for boats and rafts. Keep lookout tor same," was the next message from ( the Contractor,, set at 5:25 A. M. “Keepinlg good lookout for boats and rafts,” the Kaisar-l-Hind replied. “Congratulations splendid rescue.” . The Contractor next replied, "I | , have got wives without husbands, . children with nt pirents, all anx- . ious to know are you taking sur- . Ivors off Russian (the Sovietkaia • Nett) and taking them to Aden. Cannot make Russians understand . English or F ench.” The Kaisar-UHind relieved minds . of the survivors aboard the Contractor with confirmation that the . Russian ship w'is proceeding to , Aden. 0 Insanity Is Cause Fort Wayne, Ind., May 17—(U.R) —Temporary insanity, caused by ■ a brain tumor, resulted in the sui- ■ cide of Will B. Gntelius, executive t vice president of the Citizens 1 Trust Company, according to a • coroner’s verdict today. The turn--1 or was revealed in an autopsy. 1 Bank officials announced offi--1 daily that the bank was sound i hut that it will He closed a few 1 days 10 permit an audit by slate bank examiners. Gutelius killed himself In the > basement of the bank building yesterday.

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POLICE GIVEN DESCRIPTION BY DR. CONDON Many Rumors Declared To Be False; Police Continue To Work THOSE ACTIVE ARE QUESTIONED BULLETIN Trenton, N. J„ May 17—(U.R) John Hughes Curtis, Norfolk boat builder, today confessed to police that his activities in the Lindbergh kidnaping negotiations were figments of his imagination, Col. H. Norman Schwartzkopf of the state police announced. A police bulletin this afternoon said: “At 4 a.m. this morning John H. Curtis sat down to a typewriter and himself wrote a complete confession concerning his activities in this case. He stated that the boat and all the people to whom he had been referring were creations of his own mind and do not exist in fact.” Shortly after the kidnaping Mr. Curtis told a story about having a conference with tne kidnapers. A newspaper representative according to Mr. Curtis’ statement made a very lucrative offer for his story to be given exclusively to that paper. Hopewell, N. .1., May 17. (U.R) One man whose name is either unknown or unreve:ile<i is definitely beimj; sought in connection with the kidnaping and murder of (.harks Augustus Lindbergh, Jr., police slated today. This announcement, in the regular morning police bulletin issued by Col. H. Norman Schwartzkopf. came as the Bronx county grand jury in New York began Investigating the payment of $50.1109 to a group of men who claimed to be the kidnapers. The payment was made by Dr. John F. Condoa (Jafsie) and he was one of the witnesses to bo heard, along with Col. Henry L. Colonel Lindbergh’s friend and legal adviser. Col. Schwartzkopf was asked whether police, in seeking through various penal institutions and mental hospitals, were seeking a specific imliivdual. Dr. Cmdon yesterday visited several such places in the Bronx and it lias been announced lie would attend the lineup at the New York City police headquarters in an attempi to identify the man to whom he paid the $50,000. “There is a generally described individual, unnamed, we have ia mind," Colonel Schwartzkopf said. “We will not mention his description as we are not positive and it would be misleading and tend 'o confuse those wo have requested to interrogate prisoners." Meantime, coastguard vessels continued their search for the mackerel schooner which John Hughes Curtis of 'Norfolk, Vn. said a group of men were using (CONTTNDRD GN PAGE SIX) JAPAN SEEKS NEW PREMIER Suzuki Termed Most Logical Successor to Assassinated Leader Tokio. May 17—(U.R) —The Seiyukai government party has singled out home minister Dr. Kisabura Suzuki as the most logical candidate to succeed the assassinated Premier Inukai in its effort to thwart establishment of a “super party” or Fascist-like dictatorship. It was understood that several members of the Inukai government. including Foreign Minister Kenkichi Yoshizawa, would not participate in the new government. Dr. 'Suzuki was scheduled to Im elected president of the Seiyukai on May 20. and thus frill be the logical successor to Premier Inukai if the party is able to continue in power. Observers outside the govern(CONTiNUBD ON PAGE TWO)