Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 30, Number 140, Decatur, Adams County, 13 June 1932 — Page 1

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Aver, curtis lIEMJNO OF 11.?. LEADERS 9 ■pistration Force s i S ler \t Chicago For Kpening Tuesday ■y ri mors 9 \R| I’REX \LE\T Raimond Clapper .... .ill Correspondent M| ■. by United Pressl Hago. .lune 13 <U.P.) ( Kistralb'ii forces niobil9at convention liead9 t s hxluv to fight off; 9 (>n the White House' 9m winch is understood 9l l"i' n nomination of 9[>resiilent Curtis anti L 1,1 a resubmission 9ilion plank. Hos the last of the cabinet , 9i«ts b‘ arrive. Secretary of 9t'i*' ii . I. . withnut attempt- ■ SI „„L b't' "'e adniinistralie has his own per ■p Curtis should be 9tol - n»n personal opinion ■ to tin- United Press, "tha' ■esid-: i Curtis has been <iand helpful and is to renomination.” 9 stateim-nt was echoed privhalf a dozen of the men Hntimatelv associated with ■nt Hoover. i expected to effect final , ■ o f tllH attempt to draft ■ Vice-president Dawes, ■gry of War Hurley or anoth-■tioiK-d in corridor gossip ■ Dolly Gann, sister of Viee■nt Curtis, arrived today to ■it for her brother's interest ■ D Rockefeller, Jr., who re ■ created a sensation by re- ■: his life-long prohibition ■and declaring for repeal of ; ■th amendment, arrived to■t was uncertain whether he ■go before the platform com■to argue for repeal in ac- i ■re with his recent declaraH V ■ago. ,I.,ne 13—4J.R1- f'hi< , ■ central daylight time, and ■publican national convention ■perate on that basis. ■ 11 am. C.D.T. is 10 a.nt. ■UNITED ON PAGE THREE) ■ o ■id Exercises At || Indiana University ■ ■W. H. Zwiek and daughter , ■ and Miss Helen Shroll of , ■ty left today for Bloom in g■ere they attended the grad- ■ exercises at Indiana Univer- ■' 5 o'clock this afternoon ■ Zwiek of this city was grad■from the university, receiving | degree in medicine. Phil , 8 1-5 of Incfianalpolis, a friend ■e Zwiek family, also was ■ted, receiving his M. D. in 1 ■tie from the Indianapolis I lIANA G.O.P. I EAGER S MEET 8 s 1 | i rhall to Have Oppo|ion For Post On Rational Committee • 1 •rage. June 13 — <U.R) — Indi- • I uninstructed delegation to ■national Republican convenl'ie'(i the attention of party | rs today as the Hoosiers | Preparations for their first f 8 meeting tonight. r ! f state convention failed to f ft the delegates regarding pniendations for the-'hational '' r r ' n - although it adopted a | blank last week. Indiana " Expected to insist on the relisHion of the eighteenth ( Ftaent or any other measures ( I' would be considered “wet." F r Ke A. Ball, of Muncie, nar Co| »mitteemdn from Indiana l to preside at this evening's I'ug when the member of the ptiotis committee from Indi- P PHI be named. Henry Mar- t r Lafayette publisher, chair- n lofI of the state resolutions com- v r which framed the “wet" F f r tn last week, was expected s | °PPosed for membership on. s pational committee. i 1

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Cates Against Bonus Indianapolis, June m—(UP) a plea that world war veterans "not threaten the government to get the bonus" was voiced by Ralph Gates Columbia City, state commander of I the American Legion, in add easing | the annual convention of the l2tlU Indiana district. "The legion favors the bonus .is long as It does not mean that our disabled comrades suffer through lack of care," Gates said. PROHIBITION CHIEF ISSUE (i.O.P. Leaders In Dispute Over Handling of Referendum Problem — Chicago, June 13 lU.R)—Dispute rocked the prohibitionists today! as the New York delegation offered the first formal repeal plank' for the Republican presidential! platform. Militant women drys were out-1 voted ly their male colleagues of! the prohibition board of strategy; on a project to plump a dry chai-! lenge on the White House steps. * Anti-saloon league men checked ; plans of the angry women led by i Mrs. Ella A. Boole, president of I the Women's Christian Temper-1 ance Union. The women sought 1 to wire to President Hoover a i protest and a challenge. After | this course was decided on, a re-t consideration led to abandonment. 1 Four hours debate in secret ses-j sion of the dry strategists was to! have developed no definite substi-1 tute for the women's telegram ! Mrs. Boole wanted to wire Mr. Hoover that if he had been in ! formed the drys would accept re- 1 submission he was mistaken and; that they wanted unqualified enforcement of the prohibition law. Ernest H. Cherriugton. general superintendent of the Anti-Saloon League, and his colleague. F. Scott Mcßride, counselled caution. Some observers saw in this atti-j tude a change from the bold position of former days when any and all were welcomed by the drys inl a test of strength. New York produced its repeal plank amid the first boisterous' demonstration of the pre-conven-tion show. In a hotel caucus! Russell Wiggins, former countv I judge of Port Jervis. N.Y., brought! the delegates up cheering when I tlie so-called “congressional country club" repeal plank recently drafted by a group of wet Republican senators in the capital. With a whoop the caucus adopted reipeal unanimously. The plank stipulated that tlie issue should lie sub I mittted to state conventions whose delegates had been chosen I at special elections. The dry strategy board was j summoned to meet again today. I The leaders insist they do not i believe President Hoover would j sanction a re-submission plan. A hint of a third party bolt was read by many persons into the opening speech of James Cannon, Jr., before tlie Illinois State AnilSaloon League convention in session here. Cannon suggested the drys might meet after the conventions. Wet leaders confidently assured questioners that the least they would get would be a re-suhniis-sion plank. The report current in Washington that Janies R. Garfield brought to Chicago yesterday the approved Hoover re-submis-sion plank was sweeping the lobbies and the delegate hideaways In the hotels. Garfield is to be chairman of the resolutions com(CONTINTTHP ON PAGE FIVE) Burghart Funeral Held Funeral services of Mrs. Phillip H. Burghart, Monroeville woman who died at the Adams County Memorial Hospital Saturday morning wore held this afternoon at 2 o'clock (C. S. T.) at the United Brethren church in Monroewille.l Rev. P. A. Hubartt officiated and burial was made in the I. 0- 0. E. Cemetery at Monroeville. Band To Play Tuesday The Decatur Junior Band will present a band concert at the (entral school building, Tuesday evening at 7:45 o'clock. The program will he announced Tuesday by Dave Rice, hmd director, and wd! consist of classical and popular band selections. The public is invited to attend.

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DEMOCRATS TO ATTEND MEET State Convention Will Be Held .lune 20, 21 at Indianapolis Eleven Adams county Democrats will lepresent the county at the Democratic state convention to be held at Indianapolis next Monday and Tuesday, June 20 and 21. The delegates were elected at the May | primary. It is believed that the Adams ''county delegation will be solidly : lei Paul V. McNutt, gubernatorial {candidate and also for renomination ' of all two years officials. Other than that the delegates have not expressed themselves, awaiting depelopmeuts at the state meeting , 1 Monday. County Chairman Dick Heller has called a meeting of the 11 dele'gates at Indianapolis next Monday I' afternoon for tlie purpose of organizing for the convention. | The fourtli district convention. . which will name committee members and delegates to the national ' convention, will be held Monday j night at the state house. Virgil fourth district chairman will preside at the meeting. .! Chief among the contests are the i governorship and senatorial nomijnations. McNutt is regarded as beling far ahead of his two opponents, Mayor Wood Posev, Terre Haute land John E. Fredrick, Kokomo I manufacturer. ' j In the senatorial contest Walter I Myers, speaker of the Indiana house of representatives and Frederick VanNuys are running a close ' I race. Van Nuys apparently has a I majority of the smaller counties ;but Myers has much strength in ' j several of the larger counties. | Adams county delegates have not '.expressed themselves on the sena- . torial contest, but it is believed Loth candidates will recetve some 1 votes. The county delegates are: 'I Ernest Stengle, Berne; Edwin I Beer. French township; Dan Rumple, Jefferson township; Albert Harrow. Geneva; Dr. J. W. Vizard, St. 'Marys township; Anton F. W. I Thieme, Union township; Dr. J. C. 'Grandstaff. Preble; David J. . — J (CONTINUED ON PAOF FIVE) DEATH CLAIMS DANIEL FUHRER Hartford Township Farm- ■ er Expires After Eight Month Confinement Berne. June 13 (Special)—Daniel | Fuhrer. 64. Hartford township i farmer died at his, home near Linn Grove at 12:15 o'clock this morni ing following an eight month's ill- ! ness of bright’s disease and complications. Mr. Fuhrer was a native of Switzerland, and was born November 18. 1869. a son of Christian and Eliza Fuhrer. He came to America when lie was 31 years of age, and for the past 21 years resided on a farm in Hartford township. He was united in marriage to Rosetta Schnier, who preceded! him in death on February 26,1918. | Surviving are tlie following cliildren: Fred of Wells county; Alfred and Daniel of Lexington, O.; Charles of Ossian; Mrs. Donald Norwood of Huntington and Rose, at home. One brother, John of Mansfield. Ohio, also survives. i He was a member of the Bluffton Reformed church. Funeral services will be held Wednesday afternoon at 2 o'clock at the home. Burial will be made in the Six I Mile Cemetery. I „ - Funeral Held Today Funeral services for M. F. Rip- ' iberger, who died at tlie Adams I I County Memorial Hospital Friday ( morning were held nt 9 o clock this , morning at the St. Mary's Catho- , lie Church. Burial was made in the Tipton, Indiana Cemetery. — —oAnna McGee Expires > £ Word has been received here of f the deatli of Mrs. Anna McGee. 94, f of Redland., Calif., who died at 9:45 o'clock) Friday evening. M:s. McGee visited in Decatur t list summer with her son. William. 1 She is well known here. <

Decatur, Indiana, Monday, June 13,1932.

Convention Secretary J -' : jw % / 1 'ft • ■" ft--- vSRy - Lafayette B. Gleason of New York, secretary of the Republican national convention, photographed in Chicago as he was reading the order of official business of the convention which opens Tuesday.

KIDNAP CLUES ARE DISCARDED Maid’s Companion Said to Have Been Cleared In Lindbergh Case Trenton. N. J.. June 13 —U.R) — Tlie collapse of numerous «lues growing out of the suicide of a dining room waitress in the home of Mrs. Dwight W. Morrow retarded the Lindbergh kidnaping inquiry today. While the body of Miss Violet Sharpe awaited funeral arrangements at a morgue in Englewood, police were prepared to start all over again in their attempt to find the kidnapers and killers of Charles Augustus Lindbergh, Jr. Although Col. H. Norman Schwartzkopf. head of the state constabulary, declared on Friday that Miss Sharpe's suiqide tended to confirm the suspicion that she had "guilty knowledge” of the Lindbergh case, he admitted today that the case against her and Ernest Brinkert had collapsed. Brinkert was believed to have been with Miss Sharpe at a roadhouse on the night of the kidnaping, March 1, but police later learned that her companion was Ernest Miller of Closter, N. J. Miller was cleared of all suspicion. It was understood that Mrs. Morrow, Miss Sharpe’s employer, was in communication with her maid's family in England and would be guided by their wishes as to funeral plans. Mrs. Morrow maintained from the first the girl I was innocent of any connection j witli the kidnaping. W, G. REDFIELD IS FOUND DEAD Member of Wilson Cabinet Dies of Heart Ailment; 70 Years Old New York, June 13—(UP)—William C. Redfield. Secretary of commerce in Woodrow Wilson's cabinet, died during the night. He was found dead in bed this morning. He would have been 70 years old on June 18. He had retired last night seemingly in excellent health, when his wife went into his room to awaken him she found him dead. Redfield, an authority on business and government nnc the author of numerous nooks on these subjects, was born in Albany N. Y. He first entered public affairs as commissioner of Public wotks for the Borough of Brooklyn in 1902. He served in the 62nd congress | commerce from 1913 to 1919, i

Alfred Heller Visits Relatives In Kirkland Alfred Heller is spending a thirty day's furlough with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. R. E. Heller of Kirkland township. Mr. Heller is a petty ! office: in the aviation crops nt the | United States urmy and for tlie last three months has been stationed in San Diego. California. Previous to the time spent in - California. Heller was two years i in the Hawaiian Islands where he i worked himself up from (private to < an officer. When he tas transfered - he n-|.de the trip across the Pad- ■ Uc O.ean on the IT. S. Saritoga the j world's largest plane carrying t ship. At the end of his vacation he -|exl ects to have his enlistment , lengthened for another two years. I o— HAUSNERILL; WILL RECOVER I — ■ Aviator Rescued After Being On Water More Than Week In Plane X ' By Captain Wilson, Master. S. S. Circ'e Shell, Copyright, 1932 by UP. — M Aboard S. S. Circle Shell, off 'Azores Islands en route to New ' Orleans, June 13. —(U.R) —Stanislaus ■ Felix Hausner was making slow but . favorable progress aboard my ship ' today after drifting at sea for a I week in his wrecked monoplane, forced down on a projected New ' * York-Warsaw flight. ' IHausner was still in a very weak ' condition, unable to give a coherent account of his experiences. He had scant rations during the week from June 3 until he was picked up by Circle Shell Saturday. Fortunately, the sea had been calm. |! He has not been able to tell much [I about bis flight, but asked me to j express his thanks for radio messages sent to him and to send his I love to his family. Please inform | Mrs. Hausner, at 147 Terthune Ave. Jersey City, that her husband is exhausted but uninjured. We were forced to abandon Hausnet 's plane, a red Bellanca. number 7085. at 2.200 G. M. T. (10 p. m. Greench mean time) at latitude 42.041 north longitude 20.004 west (about 500 miles off the Portuguese coast.) Hausner made a forced landing at 9 p. m. G. M. T. June 3. When the Circle Shell sighted him it was dark. We were unable to salvage his plane. He is proceeding with our ship to New Orleans, where we are due to arrive June 27. The monoplane was last sighted drifting southeastward at about one knot. Hausner asked that <ny; passing vessel try to salvage it as, he believes it is in fairly good con-j dition. The calm sea and fine’ weather prevailing all the time he I was adrift probably prevented the! I plane from going to pieces.

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KNAPP CALLS FOR SOUNDNESS Says Special Session Is Important And TSx Matters Should Prevail Richmond. Ind.. June 1.3.—(U.R) An appeal for "safety and sanity" on Hie part of legislators at tlie extra session starting July 7, was issued here today by James M. Knapp, former speaker and now minority leader of the house of representatives. "I will use my influence to exclude from consideration every form of legislation which is not directly related to a sound tax relief program,” Knapp told tlie Richmond real estate board. "We will make no progress in our efforts toward tax reduction until we cut the cost of government. Drastic retrenchment in all units and all departments i.< necessary. “The session will lie too crcitio.il even to fear the adoption of a rub-ber-stamped program. The general assembly should remain in session long enough to make a most, careful study of pending bills and to insure against passage of any ‘lialfbaked' legislation. “We do not want more taxes, but less taxes and these more equitably ' I apportioned." o THOMS INJURED IN AUTO CRASH Local C o u p I e Receives i Cuts, Bruises In Mishap on Road No. 27 Mr. and Mrs. George A. Thoms ( , of Third street were inj ‘red when i i car in which they were riding ran into a parked automobile on state road 27. about 6 miles north of Decatur, Sunday evening at 9:15 o'clock. The acident happened near a bridge by tlie St. John’s church. A car belonging to Dr. and Mrs. Kane of Dayton, Ohio, ran out of i gas and was stalled on the rigid side of the highway. Dr. lyane was | attempting to flag a passing automobile when the Thoms car ap- | proached from tlie north. Mr. I | Thoms stated lie did not see tlie car in time to avoid hitting it. The Kane automobile was also headed , south. Mr. and Mrs. Thoms received a number of cuts and bruises and were brought to tlie Adams County Memorial Hospital where their in-juries-were dressed. Mr. Thoms re- 1 ceived a severe gasli on his mouth t that required several stitches to ' close. The attending physician i ’ state their injuries are not serious. I They were later removed to their i heme. : Neither Dr. nor Mrs. Kane were i i injured. The Thoms were brought to this city by Don Klepper and Ray , Miller. Both cars were badly dam- , ’ aged in the wreck. i Mr. Thoms is office manager at , tlie Cloverleaf Creameries, inc., of ( . this city. MORATORIUM i IS PROBABLE t Two Nations Reported To i Have Agreed On New J Payment Delays Pa is, June 13—(UP)— Britain ’ ' ind France have drawn a tentative , report suggesting a slpeclal mora- , ' torium on reparations payments, authoritative sources said today. The report, drawn up by Premier Ramsey MacDonald and Edward Herriot .it their meeting here, probably wil be presented to tlie interested statesmen at Geneva and at t the opening of the Lausanne con- t ference. 1 Although state .secretary Henry 1 L. Stimson lecently made the Unit- t ed States attitude on debts clear, Europeans are hofpeful that the s I United Stites policy may be modi- t fied to meet the conditions estab- e * llshed at > The MacDonaldsHerriot report, 'was unde:stood to suggest a varia- 1 | ble moratorium oy reparations of f from six months to a year. |i

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Strasburg Is In Charge H. W. Strasburg, examiner for tin state banking department was in i harge of the Old Adams Conn ty Lank today. John Myer, examiner. who hud been In charge of the institution since It closed, M ,y 17 was called to V.ilfiinraiso and will return here the latter part of the week. Mr. Strasbu g lives at Fort Wayne and will remain here until Mr. Myer returns. —o FATHER, SON SERVICE HELD More Than 500 Attend Catholic Program At Sunday Services Fathers and sons, numbering more than 50(1 attended services at the St. Mary's Catholic church and tlie program held in the Catholic school building Sunday morning. The men and boys attended the seven o'clock mass and received Holy Communion in a body. The sermon was delivered by tlie Rev. Father J. J. Hennes, assistant pastor of the parish. Following the mass, a breakfast was served in the corridor of tlie school building. A short program was held in the school auditorium later. C. Byron Hayes, assistant prosecuting attorney of Fort Wayne delivered a short talk at the meeting. J. J. Reed, president of the Holy Name Society, sponsors of the annual Father and Son meeting. presided at the program and Father Hennes, presided as secretary. Mr. Hayes complimented the fathers and sons on tlie excellent turn out and delivered an inspiring 2(1 minute talk. "Tlie family circle is the backbone of the nation and your presence here this nioning is evidence of a true Christian spirit," Mr. Hayes stated. The Sunday demonstration was the second annual father and son meeting held in S't. Mary's parish and Father Hennes announced that the number of men and boys who received Holy Communion this year was greater than a year ago. MANY WOMEN AT G.OiP. CONCLAVE Prohibition Is Chief Topic Among Leading Republican Women Chicago, June 13.- (U.R) —Republican women have been coming to this, the third convention since women’s suffrage, with more influence. more responsibility than ever before in their political lives. They feel they elected Hoover and say it will be up to them to do it again. Many of these committeewomen, delegates and ulternates have had !< decade of practical politics, if (hey haven’t learned how to live up to tlie men, as yet, they have learned how to regiment the women. Smartly garbed, well-groomed for the most part middle-aged, not with out humor, alert, they are not the hard-boiled, nnfeminine females tlie anti's (suffragists, not prohibitionists) feared. Mrs. Alvin T. Hert, vice-chair-man of the Republican national committee tlie past eight years, is the most powerful of the administration women. A tall, wealthy Kentuckian, she has been quieting the unequally emphatic wets in the feminine ranks, without ever wrinkling a Fifth Avenue frock, getting a shiny nose or a bad temper. At a tea given by one of her strongest associates, Mrs. Bina West Miller (CONTINUED ON PAGE THREE) Mrs. Musgrave Dies Mrs. Mary M. Musgrave, 77, widow of O. E. Musgrave, formerly a resident of Adams County, died at her home in Markle at 5 o'clock Sunday morning following a nine week's illness. Mis. Musgrave whs born in Adams County near Decatur, the daughter of Samuel and Lora Aek-er-Teeple on May 12, 1855. Surviving are two sons and one sister. 'Funeral services will| be held Tuesday afternoon at 2:30 o’coclk from the Markle Methodist Episcopal Church.

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MEASUREWILL BE CONSIDERED : IN FULL SOON Tuesday Set As Date For Vote After Committee Is Discharged FIRST VOTE 226 TO 175 Washington, .lune 13. <U.R) -The shock troops of the I bonus ex|x*(litionary forees marched up Capi to I Hill through the rain today and won their first major victory when the house, on a test ? vote, approved the Paint.in 1 bid for immediate payment 1 of S2.t(MI.IMMI,(HM> (B) to discharge the government's ob- ’ ligatio’ns to the veterans. Rain-sodden veterans from tho 3 flooded flats of Anacostla Park 1 peered over the gallery rails as - the house went through tlie technical procedure of discharging tha t rules committee from further con- ; sideration of a special resolution • I for action on tlie bonus lull, thus opening the way for a vote on the i Patman bill tomorrow. Already 1 the cry of victory lias run down through the ranks of tlie army, ■ sprawled in muddy camps along - the Potomac. The vote was 226 ■ to 175. - But two apparently insurmount--1 able obstacles still stand in th<» ' way of the veterans. One obstacle 1 is a definitely hostile senate; .the ’ other is the assurance from administration sources that Presi- ; dent Hoover will veto the bill if it 1 should, by chance, slip through ■ the senate. Before the vote, Rep. Patman, ’ Dem., Tex., author of the bill, ins ' nounced he would move tomorrow \ to substitute the so-called “Owen . plan" for the proposal in his.mea- ’ i sure to issue new currency wit It 1 ' which to pay the bonuses. Thu '! Owen plan calls for issuance of *] $2,400,000,000 IB) in per cent federal bonds to be deposited in ' reserve banks. Currency then would be issued against tlie bonds. ■ o Amendment Is Reported Washington, June 13—(U.R) The house ways and means committee ! today unaniriiously reported an | amendment to the tax hill designj ed to prevent the loss of $60,000.000 (Ml in automobile excise taxes , I levied in the new revenue bill. ' The automobile taxes becomes effective June 21, but the committee was informed that many firms plan to evade the levy by contract- . ing for automobile purchases now. > The amendment would make tha . sales tax applicable as of date of delivery rather than contract date. Extension Established i Bloomington. Ind.. June 13— (U.PJ — Establishment of an 1. U. Exten. ’ sion center for the Calumet ills- , trict, with headquarters in Roosevelt high school, East Chicago, ’ was announced here today. Hugh W. Norman was name I officer in charge, to take up his duties about August 15. o— LAKE FISHING ; STARTS SOON Indiana Law ExpiresVVednesday Night at Midnight, This Week The 1932 Indiana fishing seaso.t ' cipens Wednesduy night, at midnight and miny Adams county people are getting out their fishing tackle, preparing for an ear'y start to the many northern Indiana lakes and rivers. Since April 30 it has been illegal . to take any game fish from the waters of the state .ind the law is out June 15 at midnight. Northern , lakes have been restocked and all undesireaMrle fishing such as carp dogfish and gars have been re- , moved by the state conse vatiou department. Bulletins have been issued by the department warning against violation of the game laws. County Clerk Milton Werling has issued many licenses the last few days, (CONTINUED ON PAGE SIX)