Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 30, Number 139, Decatur, Adams County, 11 June 1932 — Page 1

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SET PLANS MY FEATURE SIP. MEETING prcum nt Prevails on K of National Conation at Chicago ;TIS |U IN DANCER L). Jun .e 11 : —< ur )- T | )<Vt > j>..ssibilities lurked , ijeiieuth the calm surthe Republican nation-j nventi*'!i preliminaries. ¥t last ditch drys, who] ‘the hackhone of t h e jeii! 11 ">ver support four ia g„, may make a dramirotest against what they ,1 a <a threatened betray Ihf part;, .ver the prohibition , n ,l 1. legates ami ran , ; n !iU' i• - hope an oppor»iU oi-> nr to stampede the B ion ami upset the vice-presi-I en d ol the ticket with a late for Charles Curtis. Id the Republican national Utee, in deciding contests I factions of southern dele ignored the administration , |,y Postmaster General Wat Brown. Mr. Hoover's in.litlanager and southern patronIspcnser. and reinstated fai*hicli l’resident Hoover liad j j iron: party control in South ] la ami Mississippi in his cam to purfv southern Repute j im in 1929. To the profess politician, concerned with 1 of the Republican orgunlz.i : bis situ it ion holds important le consequences, itb. a struggle over the Hein national chairmanship 1 is | on asiler tlie surface. It isj nover * prerogative to select | ra campaign manager hut a I refold timers on the nation IMiUee are set against any: it member or anyone else too] l associated with the admin I on being named, significance of the new turn j lira is that possible future a may develop between Mr.] ir and regulars who opposed ] i 192 S until he beat them in I onventiun. Some of these Charles 1). Hilles. New York ill committeeman, is one Mentfnl at the domination of It called the Hoover "Boy 1 group in party affairs imen. who were in league to Hoover at Kansas City four ago, finally bowed to the into. Now- these men who have 1 politics a life-time profess'd many of them have been i or 30 years, are looking far the next few weeks. They liking of the time not far disrhen, whether Mr. Hoover is d for a second term or not, (estion of who shall control arty machinery will involve future stages. President is figure years ahead, prohibition last ditchers, who d the banner for President tr four- years ago, are putting grim fight against the engulf ide of re-submission. Their generals are not on hand to them. Wayne B. Wheeler is Senator Borah stays in WTINIIPn ON PAGE TWO) GRG DUET HERE SUNDAY me Finding Society •onsors Colored Pro--ams In Churches asm Ella Wynn will be featur--1 number of negro duets to be lnle( l at several Decatur :ll es Sunday under the aus--01 the Home Finding Society ftagton, Ky.. The o ionization tatained by a group of negroes - care of negro orphans and suitable homes for them. e singers will appear at the >yterian church during the 11 y school hour and also will the early ipart of the tniv n■utlieran services. ] r y Sunday evening the songis r Biven at the Church of God * fu " Program will be render- ■ 'he local Baptist church in the % ] c s higing will be given in con 011 with the regular services at -hurch.

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Memorial Is Sunday All members of the Knights of j Pythias and Pythian Sister | ~| K( , S j ire asked to take part in the an- ! nual Memorial yfrvln* to be lield I J Sunday afternoon. Members of the! i two lodges are asked to meet at the ] ] lodge home at 2 o’clock, Autom idle t ansportution will be ! furnished for all members to giro- i eeed to the Decatur cemetery I | where ritualistic services will he | held and all members’ graves will i | be deco: ated. BANK HEARING TO BE JUNE 24 — | Attorney-General Asks For Postponement In Local Court Case At the recite u of Utorney general James M. Ogden, the case of the State Banking department, petitioning for a receiver for the Old Adams County Bank, was postponed until June 24. Tile case was called this morning and John Myer, state bank ex-1 j aminer, who has been in charge of the hank since it closed May, 17. was called as a witness. Henry B. Heller, attorney, represented the bank. Judge Dore B. Erwiit was asked! by the attorney-general to postpone the case until a later date and fixed June 24 as the time of j I hearing. The board of directors may pe-j | tition for a liquidating agent when the case comes up. members of, the board stated. o FIREMEN GO TO ;! DISTRICT MEET, Northern Indiana Convention at Columbia City Friday. Saturday Sixteen Decatur firemen are , j attending a meeting of the Northern Indiana Volunteer and Indus-] trial Firemen’s association at Columbia City today. The meet-: ■ ing opened Friday when the election of officers was held. I.eolin Moon of Warsaw was ; chosen president; I‘. J. Yoos of j Markle. vice-president; 0. W. Darr, of Columbia City, secretary-treas- 1 i j urer: executive board. W C. Cook • of Hartford City, T. E. Hatfield of; - Bluffton, Joseph Banks of Fort] . Wayne, R. I. Spaw of Fort Wavne, j ■ and L. S. Crothers of Bremen. t Bremen was selected for the 19 1,. ’ • convt ntion. A Ihnquet was held Friday eve- i - ning with Attorney Ralph F. fiates j i commander of tlie Indiana depait-i ment of tlie American Legion de- j 1 livering the address , The program today consisted of, an extensive program with various contests, a large parade, a musi-j i cal program, and later dancing. Those from Decatur who attend-] ; ed the meetings include Arthur: - Baker, Ervie Elzi-y. Amos Fisher. • Charles Fisher. Joe Smith. Arthur ,! Clark, Ed Hurst, C. U Meibers. i Herman Dierkes, Oscar Sprague.] i Patti Phillips, Joe Kortenber. j Chales Robinold, Fred Engle, I- , C. Helm and Roy Steele. 40 Attend Exhibition Forty persons attended the Can - d, Thistle spaying demonstration; held at the Everett Banta farm in Hartford township, Friday. ’I he home built power spray outfit , owned by Floyd Baxter of Monroe was an interesting specimen. L E Archbold, county agent had charge of killing thistles with sodium chlorate, and also recom- ■ mended the cultural method, which > is plowing the thistles under deeply - in the s-jring and cultivating once -a week throughout the growing 1 season, so that all vegetation is i eradicated. The following year, i ground thus handled can be used. I seven acres of Canada Thistles were eradietted in this manner last s year on a farm in Kirkland %towns ship. 1 Funeral Plans Made , The members of the Loyal Order 1 of Moose are asked to meet at the -‘Moose Home. Sunday afternoon < j one o’clock to attend the funeral of Ca l Schafer. The funeral will be j at 1-4;-, o’clock at the home and at t 2 o’clock at the Zion Reformed jehurch.

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EIGHTH GRADE j COMMENCEMENT! IS HELD TODAY] Hev. .1. 11. Arndt, Delivers Address; Several Hundred Are Present EXERCISES AT C ENTRAL “There are great tasks lie-j lore you; tasks too great for this present generation 1 tilt wc have faith in you, tin 1 w orld tuts lailli in you. The Almighty (■<><! has faith, in i von that vou will muster the tasks ol life.” staled Rev. .1. 11. Arndt, pastor of the Crescent avenue Evangelical church at Fort Wayne, at the Adams County Eighth Grade commencement, Hus afternoon. Tin; program was held on the east lawn jof the Central school building, and several hundred Adams couni ty persons were present. 1 Rev. Arndt’s subject was “Mast- - ering Life’s Tasks." He named ' three principles which assure the : mastering of life's (asks. The first was diligence. He advised ; the graduates to keep busy, don't ; trifle, and stated tlie diligence! ] must have a grand objective. "Success in life does not de-| ! pend so much on the privileges ] and opportunities you may have as it does on how you use them. Living in tlie same environment and under same conditions some people make a glorious success, j while others make a miserable failure." He illustrated this point : by the Wright brothers, who built the first aeroplane, and Mr. Haines a pioneer automobile builder. The second principle mentioned i ‘ i7y Rev. Arndt was thoroughness. I "Do your work so well that you need not lie ashamed of it." He stated that the great curse of our modern commercialism is to speed ] up things and drive men on until l pride in their work is ground out of them." Tlu-y have little chance for pride or shame, their work is lost in the long length of an endless chain and in tlie other huii--1 deeds of hands that touch it as it ( ! passes. But the great master I j workmen of all ages have found highest reward for their work in ' the sure knowledge that their work is well done. Anything that ] is worth while doing is worth while doing well; if ii is not worth while doing well, it should if-oNTTNT'ten nv page srX) DRY LEADERS GET LET-DOWN G. O. P. Leaders State President W ill Take No Part In Cause Chicago. June 11 —TU.R) Organ- ] izod dry leaders were given lo I understand today that they prob- ] ably will obtain no support from President Hoover in any fight to resist the rising tide sweeping ] the Republican party toward adop- ] tion of a resubmission platform at its national convention next week. Two of the most prominent professional dry leaders. Dr. E. C. Dinwiddle, head of the allied dry : forces, and Dr. E. H. Cherington, lo ad of the World League Against Alcoholism, alarmed by reports that tlie Republican convention i was in danger of beTng stampeded for direct repeal, anxiously sought j council from their chief allies within tlie Republican organization, Chairman Simeon D. Fess, of the Republican national committee. They received news discouraging to their projects. Fess told them lie personally was as loyal to prohibition as ever but as chairman of the Republican national committee he would take no part in attempting to influence tlie convention. Then the two leaders asked if Senator Borah was coming to the convention. Senator Fess explained he did not think so, because Senator Borah had attempted recently to obtain President Hoover's backing for a dry tight on the convention floor tut was unsuccessful. When tlie two dry leaders left ! senator Fess they were still uncompromisingly opposed to resub(.CONTINUE!! ON PAGE SIX)

Decatur, Indiana, Saturday, June 11, 1932.

Keynoter Arrives mm+toiii*,, a tiwnrr ,ifTmn'ifu f Wmm *■ ,•■»..v jags t„. . . I|<U r Senator J. L. Dickinson of lowa, keynoter of tlie Republican i national convention, photographed with Mrs. Dickinson, as they arrived in Chicago.

GOVERNMENT RAID IN CHILE Socialists Collect Gold and Jewelry; All Foreign Currency Taken Santiago, Chile. June 11. (U.R> — i Shil * s< , iail.fl '.yivernment sent carabineers to raid jewelry stores and seize gold and jewelry today, close foreign exchange shops, and commandeer all foreign currency on the stock exchange. Approximately 1,000,000 pesos ($120,000) in gold was confiscated. Receipts were given for all gold and jewelry seized which may be i edeemed in Chilean currency at the official rate of exchange. Tlie carabineers also confiscated all arms carried by members of the stock exchange. The raiders descended on 55 foreign exchange shops, breaking the signs of “compro oro" (we buy gold) over their doors. After tlie raids on the shops, a cordon of carabineers was placed around the stock exchange. Among tlie jewelry shops raided were Weil’s, tlie largest in Santi- , ago, where tlie owners estimated tlie value of confiscated gold at l 350.000 pesos; the Casa Sanchez, , where the railders took 70,000 pesos , worth of gold, and the Casa Real. Minister of Finance Lagarrigue told the United Press tlie government intended to carry out tlie decree for the exchange of foreign crriNTINUKD ON PAGE FOUR)

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Attend Commencement Mrs. Cartie T. llauhold. and daughter. Miss Louise Haubold left this mortiitt'j, fa Bloomington, 1 where they will attend the graduation exercises at Indiana University. Mis* Helen Haubold is a iuetnI her of the gruluating class. Tlie baocalau! eate service will he held Sunday night and the graduation exercises will take place in the stadium Monday afternoon at 5 o'clock. T: til Haubold will .ttend the Senior dance known as tlie Si- ; ] wash, at Bloomiii'dton tonight. Mrs. Catherine Kauffman and I daughter Miss Sara Jane acconiIpanied the Hatibolds to Blooming--1 ton who e they will also attend the 'commencement exercises of the |gradmting clads of which Miss I i Katheryn Kauffman is a member. GERMAN HEAD IN STATEMENT Says Government Will He of All Parties in First Public Talk II -I Berlin. June 11. —(U.R) —Lieut.-Col. I i Franz von Papen, head of the German "all monocle" government, an- . | nouuced today that the new regime ('intends to exercise dictatorship 1111- . I fettered by political parties hut I I "naturally adhering to tlie frame- - ] work of tlie constitution.” • ] The chancellor made tlie pro--1 I nouncement in his first public speech since he assumed oft ice. li M addressed the agricultural council. ]the central body of all German i landowners. i Angrily waving away news photoIgraphers, Von Papen. sleekly taillored, spoke with the crisp enunciI ation of a Prussian officer. He was interrupted by occasional bravos jfrom ids audience as he proclaimled the breach with the past system of parliamentary democracy. “The formation of the new govleminent lias little in common with j the usual change of parliamentary cabinets, hut involves a fundamentlal departure in the leadership of jthe nation," he chancellor said. "The unprecedented spiritual and j material situation of the German t people requires liberation from the (rONTTNTtRTI ON PAGE TWO) Legionnaires To Meet | Tliere will be an important tneetI ing of Adams post, American Legion Monday night at 8 o'clock. Reports on last Sunday's district conference will lie filed by N. It. Holthouse, general chairman and plans will be completed for the final membership drive.

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APRIL COURT 1 CLOSES TODAY —- i Vacation Extends to First Week of September, ' 1932 Tlie April term of Adams circuit ' 1 court closed this afternoon and tlie] local court will be in vacation un-| til next September. Many cases] | have been disposed of during the,] term just closed, hut because of ( the addition of new cases tlie docket is still crowded. Judge 1). I!. Erwin is eontem-] plating a new system of court service during the summer vaca-j tion. He said today that he prob-j ably would designate one day of each week during the three-months vacation on which he would I9> in] his office at the Court House to take care of current matters. No causes will be tried during] vacation, unless something unforseen occurs. Judge Erwin lias j planned a visit to all of Indiana’s j correctional and penal institutions | during ids summer vacation and! he also is planning on attending the state convention of the Democratic party. He said that lie had j made no other definite vacation] I pltnis. May Call Witnesses Washin'-iton, June 11 —H'Pt The possibility that Owen D. Young ! I eh liman of the board of tlie General Elect ic Commpany, and Mel- ] vin A. Traylor, president of the i First National Bank of Chicago, I might testify .(before the senate i banking and currency committee ] Monday on relief legislation was re- | j vealed today bby chairman Nor-1 DATES ARE SET FOR HEARINGS Review Hoard To Hear Appeals of Various Townships Soon The county hoard of review to- ] day set a calendar of dates for taxpayers to appear before the board relative to assessments on j personal property and real estate. The board also announced that | j it was considering placing a 10 per] 1 : cent increase on the real estate t valuations in Blue Creek, Jefferson, Preble. Root and Wabash ] townships, a five per cent boost j in Washington and St. Mary's township and a 12 per cent increase in Kirkland township, i Members of the board stated that the real estate valuations in these townships were under the[ general average in the county and that the proposed increase would ‘ lie made in order to equalize the assessments. The schedules of hearings set I by the board for tlie various towns ships and taxing units follow: Unit Date Union June 14 Root June. 15 - Preble June 16 Kirkland June 17 Washington June 20 St. Maris Jude 21 Blue Creek June 22 Monroe June 23 ' French June 24 ' Hartford June 27 . Wabash June 28 i Jefferson June 29 Berne and Monroe June 30 Geneva July 1 Decatur July 5 and 6 Property owners wishing to file : objections against their assessments are asked to appear before ■ tlie board on dates specified for • tlie particular townships. —o Cloverleaf Truck Wrecked !A iat'.e Cloverleaf Creamery . truck driven by Clarence Mitchell was wrecked north of Font Wayne Friday night. Mitchell stated that lie li st control of the auto and it si ink a culvert. The driver whs not injured. Tom Sullivan Arrested Tom Sullivan, near Geneva, was arrested late Friday by Sheriff Burl Johnson on a charge of violation of tlie prohibition taws. Sullivan was arraigned before Judge E win and piepded not guilty. The man’s bond was fixed at SSOO and lie was released until the 1 September term or court.

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(ieneva To Have Hand Concerts This Summer The Berne Concert Band, under the direction of Perry Shober of Fort Wayne, will piesent a serie* of hand concerts at Geneva, this summer, it was announced today. The first concert will be held Wednesday evening, June 15, and conce. t will he held Wednesday evening, June 15, and concerts will be held each Wednesday evening. Tlie 1 while is invited to attend. CONGRESS MAY ADIOURN SOON Leaders Relieve Session Will He Ended In Next Few Days Washington, June 11 <U.R) — j Congress is whipping up its pace ! in an effort to adjourn by the end ! ; of next week. The senate, where the legisln-j i live jam lias been most severe, 1 went to work today on the remain-1 | Ing appropriation hills which must, j lie passed before adjournment. It ! i gave its final approval to the agri- ' culture department appropriation ! hill without debate yesterday and ' ' then quickly passed tlie $300,000.-1 ' non emergency unemployment rej lief hill. The emergency relief measure] i may meet some opposition in tlie j house, but early enactment is ex- ' peeled. The bill passed the sen--1 ate, 72 to 8. It increases tlie bor-j j rowing power of the reconst rudlion! finance corporation by $300,000,000 | to provide for Immediate loans ofl that amount to tlie states for rej lief work. Tlie Joans will lie apportioned on the basis of population and will! he granted upon application of the j governors. They will bear three , per cent interest and can be re- ! paid either directly or through de-i I dudetions from federal-aid high-! j way appropriations beginning in] | 1936. President Hoover approves the I measure. Senator Reed, Pa., one I of the staunchest administration men, voted against it, witli tlie; declaration that historians of the] future writing on the rise and fall j of the American republic, would] “point to today as a milestone onji the road to disintegration." Before adjournment, the senate!, ] still has to work out some sort ofl | compromise between the plans of j the administration, senate Demo-; ] erats and house Democrats for re- ! lieving unemployment by stimu-rpoN-rtvi'i-tn niv paur wtxi FREDERICK FOR WET PLATFORM Gubernatorial Candidate, Loiitf a Dry, Favors Repeal of State Law Indianapois. Juno 11 - (UP)—John E. Fredrick, Democratic candidate for the governorship nomination, lias broken from a steadfast dry stand to announce in favor of Government control of liquor. Fredrick said he still believed in total abstinence, but "since prohibition cannot be enforced wo ought to repeat it and substitute some form of government contro." in a statement that announced his repeal stand Fredrick described the failure to enforce p ohibition laws as “threatening the foundations of government if not the social older itself." “The underworld, ’’ lie said, “not only bids defiance to our government, hut it is successfully diverting tlie processes of government from thei, just and true course.” Fredrick’s announcement came rroNTwnter) ox page stx> Monroeville Woman Is Death’s Victim Here Mis. Philip H. Burghprt, 63, Mon-j roeville woman died at the Adams County Memorial; Hospital at 6 o’clock this morning of aevute pancreatitis. Mrs. Burghart was brought to the hospital Thursday where she underwent a major enter- 1 gency operation from which site did not recover. (Surviving iH the husband and one daughter. The body wits removed to the Painter Funeral Home in Monroeville. where funeral arrangements will be completed later.

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CONFLICTING STORIES TOLD BY BRINKERT Lindbergh Kidnap Case Again Gains Momentum After Girl's Suicide ALL ANGLES UNDER WATCH Trenton, N. J„ June 11. —• (U.R)—Ernest Brinkert, taxicab driver, friend of Violet Sharpe the maid who committed suicide rather than face further questioning in the Lindbergh kidnaping case, was led through New Jersey today while police checked his story. Brinkert was with Violet Sharpe March 1. the night Charles Augustus Lindbergh, Jr., was stolen from Itl.s crib. Immediately after Violet, a servant in tht» home of Mrs Dwight Morrow at Englewood, had committed suicide yesterday after being summoned for I further questioning by police, Brinkert was arrested at New Rochelle, N. Y. lie partly resembled a descrip* Con of "John" to whom Dr. John F. Condon paid sso,not) in ransom, ho had a criminal record, and two women claimed they had married him while he represented himself ic Miss Sharpe a-s single. Through the night he was questioned in New Rochelle, and then at dawn Inspector Harry Walsh of the New Jersey City police department started on la tour through New Jersey with Brinkert accompanying him. During tlie night Brinkert had I told evasive and conflicting stories of his former life and liis activities on March 1. Walsh, whose questioning nielliu,ds led to confession by John ! Hughes Curtis that he had fabricated a story of ransom negotiajtions in order to make personal I financial gains, was relentless as the talked with brinkert. He had directed the questioning of Miss j Sharpe and had summoned her for tlie conference she feared to attend. The inspector placed Brinkert in j one room. In an adjoining room ]lte placed Dr. Condon, who had been ! attempting to connect tlie taxicab idriver with the negotiations which lied in Colonel Charles A. l.iindLcrgh paying ratfsom money whilo ll:is infant son already lay dead. Detectives darted from room to room, checking and recheckine: Brinkert’? story They brought in one woman who claimed site married Brinkert last September and had been living with him in New Rochelle. This story differed from Brinkert'? Mrs. Helen Brinckert i married tlie taxicab driver in 1927. Site said last night site "didn't; care what happened to him." After hours of this the trip to New Jersey was decided upon. At high speed tlie motor car containing police and the taxicab drivel* swung through Westchester county and thence into New Jersey. Tito destination could not he learned. Today the parly had not appeared at any of the police headquarters. Meanwhile authorities checked back on Violet Sharpe, the demure English girl who suddenly became the central point in the vast interlI'GNTtNCtdO GV I'AGR SIX) DYNAMITE IS FOUND AT CAMP Owner Not Located At Bonus Army Camp; Total Now 12,000 With tlie Bonus expeditionary Forces Washington June II <UR) A quantity of dynamite, with explosive caps and a length of fuse, was seized by 'police today ill one of tlie amps occupied by the more than 12,000 veterans here demandling enactment of Bonus legislation. Two and one-half stick's of dynamite, six dynamite caps and 50 fern of fuse were found in a bed tiik at the Anacosfia camp, where / the la:gest part of the bonus army is quarto ed. The owner was not found nor arrested. An investhsafiion to determine the source of the dyreimite was ordered and police decided to search Incoming automobiles to prevent any more being brought in. There (CONTINUED ON PAGE SIX)