Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 30, Number 127, Decatur, Adams County, 27 May 1932 — Page 1

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DARNER UNEMPLOYMENT BILL LAUNCHED

iPR AIS AL OF »|||K'S ASSETS harts today ■ceifti hip Asked In Betitiun l i led l' ate '> Wternoon ■gfc ■ \M> f h<>! HER NAMED ■o 4tri the value of RM ihe Old Adams Kniv He i' which closed kwKHt 'lKedl' ' '” appraise all KS . il ami personal, Ej'k the bank. Kj ] let-son, clothier KjX l Kot her, lumber ,■ K ( , fc. ilirei tors of the ■ < lock tllol ll : t banking 1 E| 11 John Myer, who in , K„. A, -tailed to work Kmo -1 is allernoon .in I IK. ...My take two or For Receiver il Hpetlt mg that a receiver ■tb» 1 ih’in!...| was ti Kg fir I a-'. I: . ■ Bbr so was tiled i.\ ■ I K| Ml \ iireseiii ing Ja n ■ ■ -B* ft’ " I1 ali, 'ged th.it the and and •I to take said Old Adams County: R ether with its assets and[ of every kind and .charthe purpose of closing up ms affairs thereof under s of said court and for I ■f as may be found prop- ’ il Hilpo I .1 Tuesday. June 7. BA< cried by represent■fes o ii.king depart ni<'l:t : ■A|e- eii for a receiver w s I billowed by the depart i . essarily i receiver would be 1 1 ■ R trail act on the petition 1 th tue bank is solvent be named. report will be n. allied what the j i-i board will be : a is taken at the meetl'i because it was deappraisement BSBflsets of the bank. tin closed than sß7s.mm ami l '-i ''l ON PAGE 111 PMCTICE lUSE IN COURT B°r Mayne Dentist Is ■ Deiendant In $5,000 Suit Here' { f mal-practlce suit of Vera Allen county vs. Dr. M. A. a " Allen county dentist is in ,\.lanis circuit venued here from B®B° u|1 ty. B'BPla in tiff charges that an ill teeth p'ate caused in she is asking for $5,000 ■Pf*' The case is being heard Judge |>. B Erwin and a H» I‘U'z of Decatur and Janu s of Fort Wayne are rep■B’S the defendant anil the 111 of Eichorn, Gordon and Bluffton is representing B »intiff. includes: Suddeth, Noah F. Moser. Weiland, Daniel Kauffman, • Bowers, W. D. Porter, PhilK Charles Ahr, Eli AugsI Fred Finkhouse, Jess De-, p 1 - Theodore Lengerich.

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To I’lay In Band B? .onTington, Ind., May 27 — I James Engeler of Decatur memhe of the Indiana university concert ■ band will go to Indianapolis Monday morning for the Indi map,dis M to Speedway raes. This will be i the sixth year for the band to play 'for the races. It will be lo rated iii ! front of Grandstand A this year. The band members, accompanied |by Ccpt. .1. J. Pirtle and Musical ! Director V. E. Dillard, will mike | the trip to Indianapolis by special lints. The icturn trip will be made i the same day. LETTERS GIVEN HONOR PUPILS 15 Scholarship Awards .Made At Decatur High School Fifteen Decatur high school students received scholarship "D's" at the cloae of the school year for maintaining honor scholarships throughout the year. The list of [honor students was announced toIday by W. Guy Brown, principal. Those who received the “D” awards are Tom Allweln, Doris Cook, Eileen Burk, Mary Grace Zimmerman. Ina Anderson, Mary [ Kathryn Tyndall, Evelyn Kohls, j Katherine Hower. Ival Newhard. Minnie Moyer, Gail Franklin, Mary Cowan. Harriet Fruchte, Ida Mae Steele, and Mary Madeline Coverdale. Honor Roll Miss Mary Kathryn Tyndall, Decatur high school sophomore, led the honor roll for the final six week's period with 4A plusses and lA. The honor roll contains the names of 4b pupils of which 16 were seniors, 11 juniors. 11 Sophomores, and 11 freshmen. 1 Fol owing Is Hie honor roll: A A B Plus Pius [Mary Kathryn Tyndall 4 1 Toni Allwein 4 Mary G. Zimmerman 4 (l-ON'l inhri* ON PAGE TWO* oMINER TALKS ; ON SCIENCE Demonstration On Electrical Waves Is Given Here A scientific demonst-ratim of electrical waves and ladio reception was given by W. B. Miner, science and physics teacher in the Union City high school, before members of She Decatur Rotary club last evening. Mr. Miner is a former Decatur buy. He is the son of Rev. J. C. Miner, so. mer pastor of the United Brethren church. Rev. Miner accompanied his son here. It was his first public demonstration. Mr. Miner showed a keen knowledge of the subject and alth ugh it was of a scientific nature, his explanations were clear and interesting. •He ex'plained and demonstrated how waves traveled through the air at the same rate as light w ives, 186.30 U. miles per second and that made a direct and indirect current. The speaker had an appaiatu:; hooked up for the purpose and demonstrated the contrast between sDort and long waves and what made them. The program was in charge of O. L. Vance and foil .win.’ the formal presentation of the subject, Questions were asked by the members and answeis given by Mr. Miner. — o— Kohr Funeral Held Funeral services were held this morning at Cromwell for Mrs. William Kohr, aged resident of Cromwell, who died at her home Tuesday. Her ihusband. the l ite William Kohr, resided in Decatur for several years, and liad a number of relaLives in Adams County. Surviving are two sons. Brent □f Cromwell and Frank of Fort Wayne. Twins 5 Hours Apart Sullivan, Ind.. May 27 —(UP)— Mr. and M s. Charles Johnsoji are parents of twin sons born at different times and places. The first arrived at the Johnson home. The mother was removed to a hospital, where five hours later • the second son was born.

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SHIES TAX IS AGAIN TALKED ! , Universal Tax Gaining In Popularity; Hoover Is Informed BULLETIN Washington. May 27 —(U.R) — The fight to substitute the general manufacturer's sales tax for the revenue bill now pending in the Senate came out in the open today when Senator Walsh, Dem., Mass., offered an amendment to impose a 1 3-4 levy on sales of practically all mei chandise. Washington, May 27 — (U.R) — President H over, in ea-rly morning conferences witli Senate leaders of both pa ties. was advised today that tlie sales tax is gaining favor in Congress. Chairman Smoot of tlie Senate finance committee and Senat r Copeand, Democrat, New York, calling on the President separately, both said they had told him there was a definite swing toward a general sales tax. Smoot said he c. uld not predict when the senate would pass the revenue bill, indicating that the reconsideration of the sales tax might hold it temporarily. Coipeland, on leaving the White II use, said he told the President “sentiment generally was swinging toward the general sales tax". The New Yo.k Senator said this was due chiefly to the growing opinion that “it would he the most satisfactory way t> raise revenue." He -aid he believed that it would |be impossible to raise sufficient ■ ‘ revenue otherwise without resort- > ing to “an outrageous inc me tax” Copeland said the idea that a geneal sales tax would fall ijiiefly on the poor man was an error beI cause necessities such as most ; food and clothing would be exempted. Distance Flier Ready New York. May 27 —(UP) —Stanley Hausner, Linden, N. J., flier, today awaited favorable weather I tor an O. ean flight to an unan- | nounced destination. Tlie flier's Bellanca m noplane ' is fueled for 50 hours in the air. sufficient to carry him to Continental Euiope. Hansner waited in vain all diy yesterday for a favorable wind that would permit him to take off in his heavily laden plane. • 0 Starts Non-Stop Trip i j Dallas, Tex., May 27 — (UP) — 'Harold B cm ley took off from Love Field at 4:42 A. M. today on a non stop New Yoik flight effort as a test of the Diesel engine plane in i whicli he plans a third attempt to fly from Seattle to T kto. He expected to fly byway of Texarkana and Memphis today and to average 115 miles per hour. 10 MORE FILE PRIMARY COSTS t Deadline Approaching On Filing of All Expenses For Recent Primary Ten more candidates have filed their expense accounts with Milton 1 C. Werling, county clerk, making a total of 23 who have filed. The fin- , al date far filing the accounts is Thursday, June 2. and candidates are urged to file their lists as soon as possible. Those who filed within the last . few days are: 1 Janies W. Barr, Democrat, Jus- ■ tice of the Peace, Wabash township - none; • Nathan C. Nelson, Democrat, for I prosecuting attorney, $130.58; Alfred R. Fjlrrar, Democrat for congressman 4th district, $115.a0, Frank Amstutz, Republican, for County Auditor, none; Otho Lofoenstein, Democrat, tor coroner, $53.70. Burl Johnson, Democrat, for sheriff $20.62. John Weohter, Democrat for treas suer, $12.50. William A. Wells, Republican, for delegate to state convention, none; , Rudolph Schug, Democrat, for au- , ditor, $117.25. . Glen Cowan, Democrat, for auditor, $137.95.

Decatur, Indiana, Friday, May 27, 1932.

Plan Prosperity Drive / -T kA Ml ’ ''-‘t 'I 11 " I ■At ’SR W 1 u ' w . ‘ -- • . x . Melvin A. Traylor (left), president of the First National Bank of Chicago, and Ogden 1.. Mills. Secretary of the Treasury, discussing tlie new Prosperity Drive," which was launched in Chicago l>y a committee of eleven hankers and business men to co-operate witli tlie federal reserve.

PUBLIC POOL” TO OPEN SOON i W. Guy Brown To Have Charge of Municipal Swimming Pool The city swimming pool at Water works park will be opened sometime next week and not later than Monday, June 6, W. GuV Brawn, manager of the pool announced today. . i The pool is being cleaned and [ necessary repairs made. Repairs : had to be made to the chlorinator [ and M'r. Brown stated that this i would be done at once and that it!' might be possible to open the pool | next week. Miss Geraldine Hower, who was I graduated from the N. A. G. U„ at • Indianapolis this week will lie tlie | assistant at the pool. She will sup- j ervise the plaie when the girls use [ tlie pool. A schedule for boys and girls is] being arranged by Mr. Brawn and* will be published previous to open- I ing the pool. Q Moronk Is Indicted Lrt>orte, Ind., May 27 — (UP) — John Moronk, farmer whose wife's body was found in their burning home two weeks ago, was indicted late yesterday by a grand jury, on charges of murder. Indications were that Moronk would plead insanity. iProsf’cu^ / r Norman Sallwasser said he hoped to bring Moronk to trial in about two weeks. Parts of the body of Mrs. Moronk were said to be more than 10 feet apart, indicating that it may have been dismembered before the fire started. ,> ■ — ♦ I 1 PLANTS AVAILABLE Anyone who is caring for a ! | garden plot provided by the I loc*’ unemployment committee | | can secure tomato and cabbage | plants by communicating with [ William Linn and the Vance | and Linn Clothing Store. ;

Orphan Band Coming The Reformed Chur Ju Orphan Home band and orchestra from tlie ! o: phanage at F. rt Wayne will make its annual appear nice at the local 'Zion Refoimed chinch next Sunday : night at 7:30 o'clock. Tlie programs that the orphan children have presented during the I past years have been much appre- ' dated by the large audience- that : have attended them. Besides the musical numbers theie will also be a Bible drill. No admissi >n will be chaiged but a free-will offering will be lifted for the benefit of tlie Home. | Following is the program: Selection, "Aida." Verdi. Serenade. "Night in June." King. Cornet solo, “Gypsy Love Song" i Jierbe. t. Paraphrase, "Pilot Me.” Barn- ' houses March, “On Parade," Zumecnik. EDITORS MEET ATFRENCHLICK • Democrats Gather For Annual Mid-Summer Political .Meet French Lick. Ind., May 27 — (U.R) Indiana Democratic editors, meeting here today for the first session of their two-day summer gathering, were doing their best to make the meeting a love feast, and close the breach between supporters of Frank Mayr Jr., secretary of state, and the team of Paul V. McNutt, gubernatorial candidate. and R. Earl Peters, state chairman. "Little Dick" Werneke, Terre Haute leader, was playing the role of/ peacemaker, in quieting talk of defeating Mayr for re-nom-ination. It was a continuation of the movement he started at the sixth district meeting at Sheridan Tuesday, where he introduced a resolution asking that all incumbents of two-year state offices, be re-nominated without opposition. Party veterans, fearing a possible schism if Mayr were defeated, joined Werneke in the movement, but it was not apparent whether they were making great (COxNTINUED ON PAGE TWO)

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BONUS ARMIES SPRINGING UP ■ Groups Organizing Over Nation; Plan To Visit In Washington Chicago. May 27. (U.R) Bonus I "armies ’ sprouted their ragged, hopeful heads al! over the country today, starting from the seven points of the compass a straggling march on Washington, 1). C. Inspired, it seemed, by tlie picturesque success of tlie original i bonus crusaders from Portland, i Ore., more than half a dozen brigades were streaming toward freight lines and highways intent on agitating payment of the soldiers I bonus before congress. The main bonus army witli W. \V. Waters of Portland, Ore., as its field marshall advanced on Cincinnati, 0., today taking its ease in 29 national guard trucks provided by state officials to transport them across Indiana. This army broke its journey at Seymour, Ind., for tlie night and ate a plentiful meal provided from rolling kitchens and tlie donations of hundreds of curious and sympathetic citizens. The group will be met at Cincinnati by Ohio state officials who have promised to provide similar transportation across Hie state to avoid controversy with railroad otfieijls which brought mobilization ot the Illinois national guard at East St. Louis, 111. Trucks are also expected to meet the veterans at the Ohio line to carry them across West Virginia to within striking distance of their goal, the nation's capital. A contingent of 30 veterans waited at Cincinati to join tlie Portland group which now approximates 400 men. At Evansville. Ind., another veterans protest group was being organized. These men hoped to ride east on a fast freight train and E catch up with their comrades be- ’ fore the des. ent on Washington. J Another group of 500 veterans is (CONTTNITED OX PAGE TWO)

LICENSES TO BE RENEWED Drivers’ Licenses Expire In July; Plans Made To Renew Them Indianapolis. May 27 — (UP) — [ Likelihood that the state will take advantage of the piovision for is- [ suance of new drivers licenses to mot ,rists after July 1. was expressed by Frank Mayr Jr., secret iry of state. “The general fund could use the money,” Mayr said, as he debated the question of making all existing . licenses obsolete. In replacing the 1,440.000 licenses now in fo:ce, if that is decided-upon James W. Carpenter, chief of tlie license bureau, said he would recommend a physical examin itlon of every applicant, to "put teeth" into , the existing measure. Sale of passenger auto licenses , dropped this year from 638.590 to 589,523, a loss of 48.767 over a year ago. it was announced. The levenue ■ ioss was al> mt $300,000. o Bandits Get $5,000 . Chicago. May 27—(UP) —Bindlts ' invaded the First Trust and Saving [ bank at Riverdale a few minutes L after openin’ time today, cowed emt ployes, scooped up $5,000 from the cashier’s cage and escaped. ' Two bandits entered the hank while a third sat jt the wheel of I the automobile in which tihey made a get-away. John Ha ms. Jr., (ashler, and three other employes were in the bank. o Pardon Board Meets ; Michigan City. Ind., May 27 E (UP) —Clemency pleas f 98 con- ‘ victs in Indiana state prison were 1 heard today by the prison trustees, 1 sitting as a pardon and parole board Among the petitioners seeking ’ parole was Max Kos. Indianapolis, who was sentenced to one to 10 • years on a manslaughter conviction ' Kos’ auto killed two street work- ' men in Indianapolis New Year's eve. 1928. Because of his world war record, tlie American Legion joined | in tlie fight foi his release.

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Murders Are Recalled |' Rich Valley, Ind., May 27—(U.R) i—A lonely, hillside grave here conI talning the bodies of six victims !of a gruesome log-cabin murder, | will he decorated Sunday as James ' B. Farr keeps faith with a vow I made 31 years ago. In the grave, once grown over with weeds and virtually obllter- . ated by long neglect, is Hie family of Aaron French. On a small [.[tombstone that Is worn and ! crumbling, is the terse inscrlp- . tion: * “Here lies Aaron French, his wife and five children, who Were I brutally murdered October 9, 1855, j by John Hubbard and his wife." Tlie story of tlie murder of lite t French family in their crude cabin j . is outstanding in Waitash county s criminal annals. The bodies were hidden beneatli tlie cabin floor and lay there undiscovered until t i authorities, investigating tlie death .I of Henry Boils, whom Hubbard , I and his wife also killed, unearthed J them. They were buried in the 1 (CONTINUED ON PAGE FIVE! i GIRL KIDNAPED [ BY ARMED MAN •I California Officials In Search For Missing Girl And Her Abductor t BULLETIN Riverside, Cal., May 27.—(U.R) i —Frightened but unharmed, > Mildred Cutler, 20, attractive r daughter of the police chief constable of Perris, returned to her home today after a few ter--1 ror-filled hours in company of ) an armed man who abducted her from her escort. The kidnaper, she told her father, Chet Cutler, apparently ! finally lost his nerve, got out I of the automobile in which he had taken her and told her to “go on home." I Riverside. Calif., May 27.—(U.PJ— Radio broadcasts brought hundreds

of Southern California police into a search today for Mildred Cutler, j 20, who was kidnaped from Fair-1 nioni Park last night by an armed , I j Hours of search failed to reveal a clue after Homer Beal, 21, had! walked two miles on bleeding feet Ito report a lone man had hei d ‘[them up, taken his shoes, thrown him from his automobile and had driven away witli Miss Cutler, tlie I daughter of Chester Cutler. Parris, Calif., constable. , Beal told Police Inspector P. M.j Scott that the armed abductor had , left him two miles from a highway after taking his shoes and over-! f coat in the automobile witli tlie girl. , Los Angeles deputy sheriffs ; blockaded roads leading to Los , Angeles. And the girl's father joined posses searching for her. Beal told police, as lie nursed his ’ feet which had been lacerated by i — — ’ (CONTINUED ON PAGE TWO* DEATH CLAIMS ALFRED GREWE r Y oung Farmer Expires Early Today at Home Near Tocsin ’ Alfred F. Grewe, 30 year old far■i mer residing one and one h lit mile - north of Tocsin, died at ills home ? at 3:30 o'clock Friday morning. Death was due to sugar diabetes, { from which he had been ailing f>r f tlie last year. He had been bedfast i since last Tuesday. Mr. Grewe was born two miles i north of Tocsin, July 18, 1901, the son of Christian and Louise Biuermeister Grewe. He was united in man tage to Miss Emily Bum k August 19, 1929. Surviving aie the parents, the widow and a daughter, Lucille. • Three brothers, Paul of Fort 3 Wayne, and William and Edwin of , near Tocsin also survive. I The deceased was a member of ; the Bethlehem Church located two , miles northeast if Tocsin. ) Funeral services will be held i Monday at'te noon at 1:30 o'clock - at the .home and at 2 o'clock in the i Bethieham Lutheran church with r the Rev. Karl Strausburg in charge. I Burial will be made in the church cemetery.

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RELIEF PLAN IS CERTAIN TO PASS IN HOUSE Administration Is Opposed To Bond Issuance For Construction INSURGENTS ARE FAVORABLE Washington. May 27 U - R) Defying the atlininislralion s I unrelenting opposition to fctleral bond issues, Spetikt r Garner today launched his $2,1 I7.<MM».(MM» (B) unemployment relief program on a cleared course through the house. Early passage was indicated. Tlie measure goes befote tlie house with the unanimous endorse metii of tlie Democratic majority mid assurances of support from Republican insurgents. Garner's program provides: $100,000,900 for direct relief of [ distress, the fund to lie adminisI tered by the President; $1,047,874,468 (B) for public workers throughout the country, including several thousand new postoffices, to be financed 1 y issu mice of bonds which would lie re tired by a special gasoline tax ( f one-fourth of one cent: $1,000,000,000 IB) increase in the borrowing power of the reconstruction corporation to finance I “self-liquidating" projects by c:' i ies. states ami private companies. • Majority Leader Rainey planne I formally to introduce Garner's bill today. The ways and means committee will forego its memorial day holiday and begin hearings Monday. It is expected to report tlie measure before the end of nex week. Tlie house then will put I everything else aside. Garner yesterday summoned i special party caucus In what lie described as "camp meeting" style (CONTINUED ON PAGE FIVEI

SHERWOOD AND WALKER LINKED Seabury Says Former Is Not In Jurisdiction of State Probe Group New York, May 27 — U.R)—.The hundreds of thousands of dollars I handled by the missing Russell T. I Sherwood were hinted as linked to i Mayor James J. Walker, when I Counsel Samuel Seabury addressI ed the city investigating committee today. "If these transactions were on behalf of anybody other than the mayor, Seabury said, then there would have been "no reason on earth why Sherwood should have fled the jurisdiction" of the investigation. For two days, Seabury had endeavored to establish a link between Mayor Walker and Sherwood, l”,tt Walker swore that I Sherwood was not his fiscal agent >| but merely a friend who had acted i in minor domestic finatic ial matters for himself and Mrs. Walker. ; Seabury was arguing against a Tammany, minority motion to strike from the investigation’s evidence all testimony relating to Walker and Sherwood. Seabury presented evidence yesterday that Sherwood had deposited with various bunks and brokerage houses upwards of $700,000 in a four year period He also showed that Sherwood was given, in cash, about $204,000 to close out. a "special account" with the brok--1 erage house of Horn blower <v Weeks. Walker, who was on the stand for two days, denied that Sherwood was his financial agent and said he had only handled a few “grocer, butcher and baker" hills for Mrs. Walker and it few other minor personal matters. He said (CONTINUED ON PAGE FIVE* O Youth Loses Life Marion. Ind., May 27—(UP)—An ; unidentified youth f about 18. found unconscious at tihe freight station here, died today without re . gaining consciousness. Police said i theiewere n..> marks on his clothing to aid identification.