Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 30, Number 131, Decatur, Adams County, 2 June 1932 — Page 1

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S ONEL COLE |ll deliver IoPRESS HERE ■uUlhio Legionnaire ■ Speak M l egion nMeeting Sunday I PORTER IS ■ tMEI> 1 II Al RM \N ■t-Col. Kalph D - Cole of ■v Ohio famous veter■he W< r ' War. will de■the priii' ipal address at ■er.ar ; ■ viol) program Hht'iii Sa' .iav afternoon ■ h ,n Memorial park on ■ester street. ■it Haiti ouse, general ■an of the Fourth dis■nnfereiive and Eighth ■ reunion "f the American ■ lo be held here Sunday, an- ■ today that Chalmer O. ■\„ulil be chairman of the ■ < program Mr. Porter will the speakers. ■ ceorge Krick will deliver K r ..,< „f home and Ralph ■ c.dtinibi.i City, state com- ■ „f the American Legion Kp.nd. The platform will he ■in the park and the public ■«d to attend. ■ big military parade will be ■ ~11.. oi lek and following ■r, . through town and past ■viewing stand in front of ■> ' house, the l egionnaires ■>r b to i.egion Memorial Kr the speaking program. ■ Is Famous Colonel K 4 Cole is one of the best ■ Legionnaires in the middle ■ Following America's enB into the war, Colonel Cede ■ as a private, recruited a ■u of infantry and was later ■sioned a Major of Infantry. ■ Buckeye division. ■received ills military trainK Camp Montgomery, AlaHand in 1918 was sent over■nd served with his division He of the principal battle H Alsace I...rain, Argonne, St. ■riS’l’W' ON PAGR TWO' IT PROBLEM I IS DISCUSSED lef General G. O. P. Is Banning Compromise I For Platform ■kington, lune 2. — (U.R) —ReBu leaders appear to be pre ■ the way for a compromise fction on prohibition at the ■lication national convention B opens less than two weeks ■today. Btident Hoover is issuing no ■ so far as has been disclosed. none has penetrated ■h the thick fog of talk which ■les the prohibition issue here. Ibelieved to be sympathetic to plmiission proposal, coupled | a reassuring expression for fr)' voters. pical leaders and delegations ring in and out of the White f like a line of ants as contime approaches. They go f ai| d speak their pieces. T(te Bfrirnced wait hopefudly for |“Wit Hoover to express his fln reply. He only smiles and I s them for coining in. The Fenced callers preface their ps by saying in effect, “now president I don’t want you to r word, but 1 think you ought F’— ’’ an( j 80 on I Hoover’s chief political manI Postmaster General Walter sown,f ow n, has announced that the Pliean convention will agree [PFohibltlon plank that will be factory to all." The usual Teri suc h effort is something un--1'2212’2” ON PAOE th it KE> pringer Is Candidate P ners ville, June 2— Raymond eer ’ Connersville attorney toai|nounced his candidacy for ’Publican nomination for govrtngino to eight the number ■°ns seeking the nomination. n ßer issued a brief statement out that there was no time ' a ®paign in connection with ian Idacy but that he would q is na ®e to be entered at ■ P- convention in Indiana ’ “ ttn e 8 and 9.

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I A I Water Off Again ♦ City water will be shut off again I this evening from 8:30 to 9:30; o’clock. Charles Brodbeck, city I i iwater superintendent announced i I this afternoon. • Repairs to the mains at the corners of Second and Monroe street 1 are being made, necessitating ti" ! turning off of the water. (FUNERAL PLANS ARE ANNOUNCED Services For L. C. Waring , To Be Held Here Friday Afternoon Funeral services for | C. Waring, prominent manufacturer and banker whose death occur-1 red suddenly Wednesday morning. 1 will be held at 2:30 o’clock Friday I . afternoon from the Waring residence, corner First and Monroe i streets. Arrangements, subject to change were made this afternoon by L. G. Ellingbam. J. R. McCulloch and C. R. Weatherhogg of Fort Wayne and Cal E. Peterson of this city. The Masonic Blue lodge service will be given by the Decatur chapter. Dr. Charles Noyes Tyndall, of the Episcopal church. Fort | Wayne, will deliver the sermon. 1 assisted by the Rev. R. H. Franklin, pastor of the First Methodist ’ church of this city. The body will then be taken to Fort Wayne and placed in a receiving vault until final disposition is made. Mr. Waring’s niece. Mrs. W. D. Sanders of Columbus, Miss., is expected to arrive here Friday ■ noon, at which time final arrange-' melits will be completed. Friends may view the remains from seven to nine o’clock this evening and from twelve to two o’clock Friday afternoon. Tiie committee in charge of funeral arrangements named the following active pall bearers: Cal E. Peterson. H. R Moltz. John Heller, of Decatur; L. G. Eilingham. C. R. Weatherhogg, J. R. McCulloch. Fort Wayne. The honorary pall bearers are, John Everett. C. A. Dugan, Leo Yager, John W. Tyndall, G. T. Burk of Decatur; W. J Vesey. H. C. Rockhill 11 and William C. Rastetter. of Fort I Wayne. Stabbed Youth Better Lafayette. Ind June 2 —(IIP) — With Improvement in the condition of Lawrence Sutton, wounded from ■ stab wounds inflicted by Norman Neal, 18, during an argument over i a girl. Judge Homer W. Hennegar , i ha< revoked the suspension of a one i to five yea sentence against Neal on a petit larceny conviction. Neal was returned to the state , reformatory, and it appeared 'probable th it he would not he tried on , the stabbing charge, unless Sutton should succumb to his wound, which . today seemed unlikely. i o PLANE SEEKS MISSING PAIR , Mission Worker And Pilot Lost In Newfoundland Several Days Boston. June 2.— (U.R) —A big 1 silver monoplane left here soon atter sun-up today, carrying three young Boston aviators on a two- ’ stop 1,300-mile flight to far northern Newfoundland to make an aer--1 ial search for a Grenfell mission ’ worker and an airmail pilot, miss--1 ing since Memorial Day. Aboard the pontoon-equipped NC- ’ 4616, loaned for the expedition by Dr. Alexander Forbes of Milton. were: Charles Joseph “Charlie" Hubbard, Jr.. 29-year-old architect and former Harvard football captain. as navigator; Harold G. Crowlev. 30, one of the ablest seaplane pilots in New England, as pilot, and Edward T. O’Toole, 30, as mechanic After refueling stops at Charlottetown, P. E. 1., and St. Oe°« eß ’| [ Newfoundland, they expected to reach the Grenfell mission at S | Anthony at about 8 p. m. (EDTL Tomorrow, if all goes well, they wi H |~7cONTINUED ON page TWO)

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EXTRA SESSION CALL STUDIED BY OBSERVERS — Leslie’s Sudden Change of Attitude Surprise To Many Politicians RELIEF BILLS TO BE TOPIC Indianapolis, June 2. — (U.R) ! —Governor Harry G. Leslie’s 'su<l de n conversion to the ranks of special session proponents caused considerable wonderment among political observers today. With no apparent shift in [the outward picture of the situation, Leslie abandoned his unyielding disfavor of the special session plan and summoned the legislature to meet July 7. Since almost a year ago, when agitation began tor legislative tax relief, the Governor lias been quoted as unrelentingly in opposition to a special session. He was said to believe tliat since the regular session took no cognizance of tax relief needs, an extra session could scarcely be expected to accomplish the task. In answer to his demands that a majority of representatives and senators submit written statements showing they were willing to consider only pre-drafted relief bills in event the legislature was summoned. a committee was appointed by Lieutenant Governor Edgar Bush and Walter Meyers, speaker of the house, to draw up proposed legislation. It was incorporated in a 17-poiut program. After a majority of representatives and senators agreed to the they were laid liefor* the (Governor May 12. Leslie replied that he was unchanged in his attitude. Through bis secretary. L. O. Chasey, he issued a statement that one of his "main objectives" would be to block special session plans. He said he would not concur in the (COMTTNIIRD DN PAGE FIVE) — O—--11. S. DEFICIT IS GROWING Shortage To Date Larger Than Two And Half Billion Dollars Washington, June 2—(VP)—The Federal government entered the last month of the present fiscal year with a deficit of $2,684,950,446. the treasury announced today in its drily statement for May 31. The present deficit compares with $1,1)44,910.099 on the corresponding date last year and a $903,000,000 deficiency for the entire fiscal year of 1931. Receipts for the first eleven months of this fiscal year totalled $1.770,269,398. while expenditures have amounted to $4,455,219,844. On the corresponding date last year the receipts and expenditures were $2,626,869,537 and $3,729,348,486 respectively. Iln the present fiscal year more money h* is been spent by the gove nment than during the .past fiscal year deslpite sharp reductions in revenue. Chief declines in receipts this year include: 1 llncomo tax, $895,9f78J6’40 tas ; against $1,564,628,881. Custom's, $310,379,420, as against ' $349,356,553. Miscellaneous Internal revenue $457,0016,256 as against $517,817,379. Principal increases in expenditures include: Refunds of internal revenue amounting as compar(CnNTINTTED HN PAGE STX) — O Auction Sale Saturday A large crowd is expected to attend the Schafer Hardware company' auction sale, Saturday, June 4, in this city. The sale will be held on Madison 'street in front of the comipany’s 1 warehouse and a diversified line of merchandise wil be offered for sale, i Farm implements, harness, electric washing machines and scores of other items will be sold. Cols. ' Roy Johnson and Carl Bartlett will have charge of the sale.

Decatur, Indiana, Thursday, .lune 2, 1932.

Lie Detector Proves Love «iim MBBBiBMMMBt ’ " ■r~>r 2 — I For the first time in Chicago a marriage ceremony was performed both parties were strapped to the "lie detector" in the crime detection labratory of Northwestern University. Photo shows Harriet Berger, bride, Vaclav Ruud, bridegroom. Judge Charles B. Adams per- ] forming the ceremony and Charles M. Wilson observing the couple’s reactions by the lie detector chart. The bridegroom's chart showed a steadily declining blood pressure during the ceremony. But the bride's j blood pressure steadily rose and her heart almost stopped at the end of the record when they were pronounced man and wife.

LIBRARY GETS VALUABLE GIFT Psi lota Xi Sorority Donates Young Folks Books To Library The Decatur ch Ipter of Psi lota Xi sorority has presented a 21-vol-ume set of children’s books to the Decatur Public Library and the j bouks now are ready for the child- i len of Decatur and Adams county I and children’s teachers and parents i to inspect and read. The set is called The Younsj Folks Library and contains stories narratives and poems of all sorts and descriptions and for every phase of child life. The greatest educators of the nation have combined their efforts in 1 making tiie books the finest and most I'eadalble for children ot all ages. The books also are used largely | by parents and grade school teach-1 ers and are now available at tiie Lib ary. The gift was presented by ■ tiie sorority to Miss Annette L. Moses, Librarian, wbto accepted the volume on behalf of the trustees of the Library. The Psi lota Xi officers at present l are: Mrs. William LiLnn, persident; Mrs. Carroll Cole, vice-president; Mrs. Frank Rowley, treasurer; Mns. Chalmer Porter, corresponding secretary and Miss Bernice DeVoss, secretary. The books have been placed on the shelves at the Libtary and are now ready for reading purposes. TAX IS PASSED ON TRANSFERS Prosperity Gifts Come Under Revenue Bill Which Is In Conference Washington, June 2 — (UP) — Transfer of property of all kinds in trust or otherwise is taxed under the igift tax provisions of the revenue bill which went to conference today between representatives of the Senate and the house. The gift tax is effective this year from date of final enactment to tiie end of the fiscal year. There are 24 schedules of taxation beginning at 3-4 of one per cent or 1 $75 on gifts ot SIO,OOO and culminating in 33% per cent on the excess of gifts, greater than $10,000,000. Upon a gift of $1,000,000 (M) would be paid a tax of $92,125. transfer of property directly or indirectly for less than adequate and full consideration would be taxed on the basis of difference between Consideration given and the full value of the gift. There is a specific exemption of $50,000 “less the aggregate of the amounts claimed and allowed as slpecific exemptions for the previous (CONTINUED ON PAGE TWO)

♦ — •! FRIED CHICKEN — Legionnaires from the Fourth , I and Eighth districts who will | j be here Sunday for the big | I American Legion conference I | and Reunion will be well fed. An order lias been placed for I | 400 spring chickens and each plate will be graced with half of a chicken. H. P. Schmitt is chairman .of | the eats committee and arrangements are being made to take j : I care of nearly 1.000 men. [ j The banquet and program will \ i I be held at Sunset Park, south- ; | east of Decatur, following the j | I parade and program up town | [ early Sunday afternoon. I I ST JOSEPH TO GRADUATE 29 — 'Catholic Grade School ! Commencement Will Be Held Here Friday Diplomas will be presented to 29 eighth grade pupils of the St. Jo-1 seph's Catholic grade school at the i commencement exercises to be held in the high school auditorium. Friday night, June 3. The exercises will be held at 8 o’clock Friday night, in connection with the high school commencement exercises. The diplomas will be distributed by Rev. Father J. A. Seimetz, pastor of St. Mary’s Catholic church. The list of pupils who will be-1 come freshmen of the Decatur Cath-; olic high school follows: Theodore] I Appelman, Walter Baker, Robert] Braden, William Coffee, Eugene Daniels, Elmo Faurote, Ambrose Case, Francis Geimer, Lawrence Heimann, Donald Hess, Louis Holthouse, Robert Keller, Jerome Kohne, Leo Miller, Paul Murphy, Franklin Teeple, Samuel Wagner, Donald Wait. Marjorie Carrol, Helen Gillig, Mary Margaret Klepper, Dolores Leonard, Eloise Leonard, Mildred Miller, Julia Parent, Mildred Rumschlag, Mary Schultz, Agnes Schultz, Margaret Wertzberger. o Men’s Chorus Coming The Men’s Chorus of the Mennonite chinch at Berne will be in charge of the service at the Baptist church, Sunday evening, June 5, at 7:30 o’clock. The local church welcomes the Men’s Chorus, and extends an invitation to the public to attend the meeting. Cadle Is Nominated Indianapolis June 2 —E. Howard Cadle, Indianapolis evangelist, operator of Cadle Tabernacle, was nominated as the gubernatorial choice of the prohibition party here today, and A. E. iWrentmore, Indianapolis, was nominated for United States Senator.

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SIXTEEN TO BE I GRADUATED AT D.C.H.S.FRIDAY — Rev. Simeon Schmitt To ; Deliver Commencement Address Here PROGRAM IS planned! Sixteen students of the De-| icatur Catholic high school, i will receive diplomas at the 1 tenth annual commencement' to be held in the high school auditorium, Friday evening. The program will begin at eight o’clock. Rev. Simeon Schmitt, assistant pastor at the St. Peter’s Catholic church, Marion, will I deliver the commencement address. Rev. Schmitt was graduated front the local Catholic high school in 1917. The diplomas will be distributed by Rev. J. A. Seimetz, pastor of St. ( Mary's Catholic church. . One of the special features of | | the commencement program will jbe a one-act playlet based on the! senior vlass motto, “We Shall Be' jWhat We Make Ourselves." The (CONTINUED GN PAGE FIVE) TO CONSTRUCT LAKE CABINS Bellmont Park Tourist Cabins To Be Built East of Decatur Convenient and modern tourist cabins are being built on the banks of Bellmont Lake, and at the inter-1 section of state road 16 and Beil-' iniont road for the use of tourists' coming through Decatur and Ad-1 Jams county. The cabins will be’ [called tiie Bellmont Lake Tourist' I Cabins. i The picturesque setting afforded by tiie lake and the trees and shrub-1 bery of Bellmont Park is an ideal place for the cabins. Additional gardening and transforming of'the grounds around the cabins promise to make that section of Adams county one of the scenic spots. The cabins are being built of wood and are 10 by 14 feet, con-1 gaining one room, and are equipped I with shower baths, electric stoves, and electric lights. Two of the cabins are joined together with a garage in the center. They are [painted white and are trimmed [with gray. | Tiie cabins that are located direct[ly north of the Twin Bridge Service Station, at tiie intersection of Bellmont road and state road 16, will be especially interesting. The surrounding grounds will be beautified, with the natural stream being transformed ihto a lagoon and having a rustic bridge connecting the (CONTINtIFtn ON PAGE SIX) TWO YOUTHS FOIL ATTACK Youngsters Extinguish Bomb Placed At Home Os Chicago Leader Chicago, June 2 —(U.R)— Two alert youngsters braved death to foil partially a bomb attack on the home of Aiderman Bryan Hartnett of the twelfth ward, police revealed today. The boys were the alderman’s 7-year-old son, Bryan, Jr., and his chum, Robert Perry, 8. They extinguished the sputtering fuse of one bomb a. few minutes before a , second bomb rocked the home. , The children saw a man dash , up to the porch of the house, deposit a parcel, light a match and run away. Curious, they went out and found the smoking bomb. Each took a glass of water and , tossed it on the fuse which had , burned to within two Inches of [ the five sticks of dynamite in the ( bomb. < A few minutes later a second , bomb exploded in the rear of the j house next door, occupied by Michael Hartnett, father of the • (CONTINUED ON PAGE SIX) ‘

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Woman G. A. R. Dies Wa'basli, Ind., June 2 — (UP) — I Mrs. Wiliam Rose, 47, one of the two women in the Nation honored [with membership in the Grand I Army of the Republic, died at her home here after a long illness. Funeral services will be held Friday. Mrs. Rose was elected to the James H. Emmett post of the G. A. R. Subsequently she was named secretary, which office she held until her death. 0 STONE DAMAGE SUIT STARTS Plaintiff Seeks Personal Injury Remuneration As W reck Result The $10,500 damage and personal injury suit of William Stone vs, Mary Lengerich opened in Adams circuit court today before a jury, with Judice D. B. Erwin, presiding. The plaintiff is seeking SSOO Innages to his automobile and $lO,000 petßonal injury damages as the result of an automobile collision here in September 1929. ' Stone was badly injured, accordling to the complaint and was forced to beaipatient of the Adams County Memorial Hospital for several weeks. The complaint further alleges that the accident was caused by the negligence of the defendant. Attorneys D. Burns Douglass. Walter Helmke and O. E. Smith, all of Fort Wayne represent the plaintiff and C. J. Lutz and Herman : Myers of this city represent the defendant. —o . ■ Will Probe Sanity Laporte, Ind., June 2—(UP) — A I sanity commission was to be named here today to study the mental condition of John Moronk, local farmer" finder indictment on a charge of murdering his wife, Mrs. Antoinette ! Moronk May 13. Judge A. J. Ling ' said he would appoint the. commis- | sion. Moronk is scheduled to go on trial June 13. if the commission 'rules he .is mentally unsound, he iprobably [ will be sent immediately to the state hospital for Insane. DIRECTORS TO MEET FRIDAY Bank Board Postpones Meet Because of Sudden Death of Member The regular meting of the board of directors of tile Old Adams County Bank was postponed last night on account of the sudden death of I-awrence C. Waring, for many years a member of the board. The meeting haas been called for Friday evening at which time the appraisal report of assets made by Cal E. Peterson and Janies L. Kocher will be submitted to tiie board. Although no information or figures were given out relative to the appraiser's findings, it was indicated that the bank was in a solvent! condition. Tiie petition for a receiver for the bank, filed by the State Banking Department, May 26, will be heard before Judge Dore B. Erwin in the Adams Circuit court Tuesday, June 7. Action in the matter will depend on the decision of the court and no steps will be taken until the hearing next Tuesday. The bank closed May 17 and since that time John E. Myer, state bank examiner has been in charge of the institution. He will remain here until court action is taken in the receivership petition. Charges Dismissed Hamni'ond, Ind., June 2 —(UP) — Charges against four youths implicated with Vlngil Kirkland in the death of Arlene Draves have been dismissed, it was disclosed here when a divorve was granted the wife of David Thompson, one of the youths. It was recalled that afteih Kirkland was sentenced to one to 10 years at a second trial, prosecutor Robert Estill said he would ask that charges against the others be dismissed. Investigation revealed that they were dismissed June 6. 1931. Implicated with Kirkland and Tiiomlpson were Paul Barton, Leon Stanford and Heury Shirk.

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PRESIDENT IS OPPOSED; WILL FIGHT MEASURE Garner Plans To Hold Strength To Get Bill Through The House [ATTACK IN BOTH HOUSES dULLtI IN Washington, June ’—iU.R) — The Republican slco> >g committee of the House today decided on determined opposition to the Garner $2,309,000.000 (B) relief bill. After the meeting of the Republican leaders, Minority Leader Snell said he was convinced he would be able to keep a majority of his followers in line against the speaker's program. Washington, June 2 — <U.R) — The iidministnition marshalled its tor c e s today against what President Hoover calls “pork barrel legislation" and sent Secretary ot War Hurley before the House wavs and means committee to testily against the Garner unemployment relief program. Ten minutes later Secretary of the Treasury Mills carried the administration's fight into the other wing of the capitol when lie appeared before the Senate banking and currency committee in opposition to a Democratic relief plan specifying the issuance ot $500.000,090 (M) in bonds for Federal construction projects. The bill carries a total appropriar tion of $2.300,000,WH» (ID. A dramatic session was forecast at the House hearing when Speaker Garner arrived ready to defend his $2,309,000,000 (B) bill, which includes $1,309,000,000 (M) for a public works program. It is around the public works phase of the bill that the sharp controversy between Garner and Mr. Hoover has developed. The tanned, athletic secretary of war began a vigorpus exposition of the administration’s opposition to the bill. I He submitted charts prepared by army engineers to show the extent to which each state now is benefitting under war department | river and harbor and flood control projects. Hurley sought to show that a negligible amount of employment would result from this phase of the Garner measure. Alabama, for example, he said, under army projects lias found employment for 308 men, and under the Garner plan the maximum to be employed would be 778 men. The per capita expenditure would rise from 19 cents to sl.Ol. The Garner bill provides for expenditure of more than S3OO,(CONTTNtTRD ON PAGE TWO) 0 BONUS ARMIES ARE MARCHING More Than 3,000 Former Soldiers Proceeding To Washington Washington, June 2. —(U.R) More than 3,000 war veterans In at least eight “bonus armies" moved toward Washington. D. C. by boxcar, truck, bus, and in marching platoons today to press demands tor a cash bonus. Seven more armies were recruiting and expected to leave for the national capital with 3,200 more marchers before the week ends. The veterans advancing today reported less difficulty getting transportation than did the Oregon army which started the crusade and was marooned in southern Illinois by a railroad's refusal to let them board freight cars. Progress was marked, however, by increasing difficulties in getting food. Cities which had donated provisions to the first armies, shut off the free food. The veterans were forced to turn panhandlers. Armies moving today, their num hers and approximare locations were: (CONTINUED ON PAGE THREE)