Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 30, Number 145, Decatur, Adams County, 18 June 1932 — Page 1

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MAJOR EING URGED bydepositors p < County Bank Decors Sign Petition to •nkinK Department iekal MAN i LEAVES CITY it so uring of signatures petition asking that a Alins’ agent be named i E the affairs of the Old County Bank, instead i receiver, as petitioned kv the State Banking Dement, has progressed to mint where the amount held by the indill is being listed with itures. , work of compiling the ,5 will in »t* probability be Iftnl by Monday muruing and (yer. bank examiner, who teen in charge of the bank ,# closed May 17, stated he | notify the banking departis won as the report was to him. I-eo Yager, one of gnk's directors is in*charge , work. t plan in use, is to secure tires of depositors reprek more than 70 per cent of Sposits in the hank, petition-j the banking department to it the board of directors ot tank to name a liquidating rerai hundred signatures have jr been secured and from »ns expressed by depositors IWieved that more than a pity will sign the petition, board of directors contend the bank can be liquidated per through a liquidating 1 than p receiver. » hank had deposits of more K 35.000 when it closed and hr the naming of a receiver laidating agent, no action has taken in the collection of I due the institution. E Boldin, a representative of Uconstruction Finance Corp.. Ito. who was in the city for veeks. returned to Chicago riay It was stated that ant representative of the _com- ’ would be here next week. L 0 Porter Child Dies nd was received here today » death of Miss Abl y Alice St. 5 year old daughter of Mr. Its Will Porter, which occurrriday morning at 2:30 o’clock tr home in Indianapolis. Mr. r formerly resided in this nd operated a studio. (child was born June 23, 1927 tweral will be Monday mornit 10 o'clock at,lndianapolis, ■d Mrs. Giles Porter and fa •f this city will leave Sunday Mianap. lig where they will It for the funerd sei vices. HI GANG LEADER DIES ? Racket War Flares P In Chicago After Year of Peace fcago, June 18 <U.R> Further pion that the underworld Wakened from its long lethand Capone-induced peace <i’en police today in the viodeath of the sixth gangster hours. * thine gunners cut down ,y Vyhan, known to author! ts an Independent beer operII his Crooked latke resort ' miles from the city. -Att's wife witnessed the * which was conducted by 1 ,ntll armed with a machine ‘nd revolvers. ® notorious of those slain Thursday was George (Red I r. Capone lieutenant and lathcketeer, also killed by gunners. ce had instructions today to up every known leader of Afone syndicate in the belief ~’ s death resulted from an ki’ene quarrel for leadership believed the Nyhan slayulted from the beer dealWusal to deal with the syn

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Injured in Crash ft . he w ’* i Mrs. Louis L. Emmerson, wife! of the governor of Illinois, narrow-i ly escaped serious injuries when! their car turned over near Lincoln. 111. Although the injuries were painful, they were not serious. BONUS FORCES WILL REMAIN — Veterans Refuse To Be Pessimistic Following Measure’s Defeat Washington. June 18. (U.R) Its dreams of cash blasted by the senate's death blow to the bonus bill, the peaceful bonus expeditionaryforce grimly threatened today to fasten itself upon the capital as an army of occupation. “We are going to get more and more men as fast as we can and stay here until we change the minds ot these senators," vowed com-mander-in-chief Walter W. Waters, whose stalwart band from Oregon has grown into an army of 15,000 drawn from the nation's destitute. Waters and his co-leaders spoke confidently ot having 25,000 men here within a week and 50,000 or 100,000 by the time congress meets again in December. What tlte veterans actually will do. no one knows. The authorities still hope that sober reflection on the present futility of their mission! will turn them homeward — there to campaign in the elections, against congressmen who voted, against the $2,400,000,000 (B) bon-1 us bill. Hut tlie thousands of ragged vet-1 erans who trudged bacck to their | miserable quarters in Anacostia at- j ter waiting hours in front of the . capitol for the senate vote seemed . as determined as their leaders to stick it out. “We have nothing to do or eat at home," one put it. "'Veil sit | right here until they pay that bonThe bonus will not be paid by this session of congress, that is certain. The senate killed the bib by the overwhelming majority of i l«2 to 18 and then nailed down the coffin lid by voting 44 - table i motion to reconsider. The 18 who favored the bonus were: Republicans: Blaine, Wisconsin. Brookhart. lowa. Frazier. North Dakota. Norbeck, South Dakota. Robinson. Indiana. Schall. Minnesota. Steiwer, Oregon. Democrats: Ashurst. Arizona. Black. Alabama. Bratton. New Mexico. Broussard. Louisiana. Byrnes, South Carolina. RAORJ'WOI Light Rates Are Cut Indianapolis, June 18 ~ < UP ’ ~ Electric rate reductions niaT Indiana cities was assured today with ofthe se vice commission o, schedules drawn up by municipal officials and utilities » Tihe seven cities are Liberty Mooreland, Green s Fork. w« and Delphi. Rensselaer is ser by a municipally owned plant.

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LEADERS STUDY WRIGHT REPEAL Indiana Would Be Minus Any Enforcement If Law Were Repealed Indianapolis, June 18— (U.P) — Repeal of the Wright “bone dry” iaw. now a conspieious target on the political front, would leave Indiana virtually without statutes dealing with* hard liquors, a survey of state laws reveals. Tlie Wright law. passed by the ; general assembly in 1917 arnf ! made effective April 2.1918, superj ceded and nullified all previously I enacted state dry statutes. Repeal would mean that persons found possessing, transporting, manufacturing or selling liquor could be prosecuted only under the federal statutes. Only two Indiana laws would remain dealing with liquor if growing political agitation to repeal the law accomplishes its goal. One is the old law enacted tiie Indiana criminal code providI ing for arrest of persons found ,| intoxicated in public places. The I other, a part of the Indiana auto < ode, provides for arrest ot persons found driving while intoxi-rnt'-d Tnat the ’Wright law is in a precajious position is seen in the plank adopted at the state Republican convention last week asking for its repeal. Democrats, at their c< .vention next week, are expected to adopt a similar plank. Already, tlie United Press learned, at least two bills are being drafted to be presented at the special session of the legislature July 7 asking that the Wright law be repealed. The most bitterly opposed section of the Wright law is that which prevents sale of whiskey tor medical purposes. if it is repealed, it is pointed out. it is likely that a substitute measure minus this provision will be offered. Although commonly known as the Wright law. it was drawn up by a committee named to draft an enforcement measure. Frank Wright, of Lynn. Ind., representative of Randolph county, a member of the committee, was selected to introduce it in the house. ACCIDENTAL DEATH VERDICT • Mrs. Prince Believed To Have Taken Overdose of Sleeping Sedative I Los Angeles. June 18. —(U.R) —The body of Mrs. Helen English Prince, ] wealthy wife of a noted newspaperjtuan and widow of an Indianapolis .capitalist, was en route east today after authorities determined het sudden death was accidental. Mrs. Prince died in a hospital litre Thursday a few hours after | she was stricken in her rooms at a fashionable hotel. An autopsy disclosed she had mistakenly taken an overdose of .sedative, surgeons said. An inquest, ordered when physicians failed to diagnose her illpiess, was cancelled after the autopsy report and her husband, Frank J. Prince. left at once with the •body for Indianapolis. Prince and his wife came to Los \ngeles a few days ago for a vacation on the Pacific coast.. Prince was prostrated by his 50-year-old wife's death. Mrs. Prince was a native of Lima. Ohio. Her first husband was the late William E. English, Indiana state senator and capitalist. She married Prince after the death of English several years ago. — —O " '• Extradition Is Heard Oolumbus, O„ June 18—(UP)— Hearing of a reqquest for extratition ot' Hyman (Pittsburgh Hymle) Martin, to Indiana, to answer to charges of bank robbery and automobile banditry in Gas City, will be held here next Wednesday. S. P. Dunkle, evecutJve secretary to Governor White, will hear a: gument on the requisition and make recommendations to the executive. Martin was convicted of slaying former councilman William Potter, in Cleveland, served More than a year of a life sentence, and in a new trial was acquitted of that crime.

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Republican Chief | J ’I « JI ' JI i Everett Sanders of Indiana, ex- . congressman and former secretary to Calvin Coolidge, was elected Republican committeeman and , campaign manager. He will make . Chicago his headquarters to run the Hoover-Curtis campaign. SEES DEFEAT OF PRESIDENT i Butler Says Wet-Dry Platform Is Not Satisfactory To Eastern States 1 New York, June 18 —<U.R) —President Hoover and the Republican party will be defeated in November unless wet eastern state con- , ventions repudiate the nationri i “wet dry prohibition plank," Dr. ; Nicholas Murray Butler predicted today in a copyrighted interview published by the New York World ■ Telegram. Dr. Butler, just returned from the national convention at Chicago where he led a fight for a frank out and out repeal plank in the party platform, plans to lead a i fight in the eastern states to obtain such unprecedented repudiation of the national platform. He said the prohibition plank, “every word of which was passed upon by the President," was a “political blunder of the first magnitude.” The administration steam roller piloted by Ogden Mills, secretary of the treasury, and a host of federal office holders, proided the most shocking exhibition of patronage control of a convention since 1872 when U. S. Grant was nominated the second time, the World-Telegram quoted Butler as saying. "I have been deluged at Chicago (CONTTNHED ON PAGE FOUR) 0 RALLY PLANNED FOR C. E. GROUP Out-Door Meeting Will Be Held At Berne Friday * Night, July 1 Plans are being made for an outdoor Christian- Endeavor Rally of ' the C. E. Societies in Adams coun- 1 ty, to be held in the Lehman Park ' at Berne. Friday night. July 1. Tlie rally will be in the form of a picnic supper and program. Hom- , er Augsburger, of Berne, district , president of the Christian Endeav- , or Society will be the principal j speaker and will give a report of , the state convention of the organization which is to be held at Bed- i ford, June 23 to 26. Tlie program, which will be presented in tlie pavilion in the park, will include special musical numbers by the Christian church band i of Decatur. The local Zion Reform- i ed Men’s Vested choir will also sing during the evening’s program. ' The supper will be served in picnic fashion in the park at 6:30 i o'clock, followed with the program. In case of rain, the entire rally will be conducted in the pavilion. |i

DAWES AGAIN S SEES UPTURN Says Country Is Near Turning Point; Back At Chicago Work — Chicago, June 18 —(U.R) —Charles G. Dawes, retiring president of the Reconstruction Finance corporation, expressed the belief on arriving here today that tlie country has reached "The turning point, in the depression." Dawes leased his prediction upon the general improvement in tlie fall business enterprises of the country in the formal statement issued here which was treated with a good deal of significance because of the close Insight lie has had into business conditions as head of the R. F. C. "Coming as I do from niy work at Washington on the R. F. ('. where one gets in its fair perspective of the general business situation in the country. I believe that we have reached the turning point in the depression," Dawes said in his statement, which he handed to newspapermen as he stepped from the train here today. “It is the smaller business enterprises with low overhead expenses which seems to be showing improvement; but in time the larger ones will necessarily follow. “The recovery in the depression will start from the bottom up, not from the top down. That is what past experience shows. “For the real evidences of reaction we must look to the past attitude o four people, not to the shifting opinions of certain secI tions of it. “For instance, I would attribute much more importance to the increase of electric power consumption in the country during the last two weeks than to stock or bond quotations. It is the average man and the average man's business which is the main factor in the situation. His business in tlie aggregate is enormous. “With the force economies and reduced inventories in both our large and small enterprises which have been effected the last year, we need for profitable business in many lines no return to the prices of a few years ago, but only a moderate increase. The oil Indus(CONTINUED ON PAGE FOURI 0 CHICAGO NIGHT CLUB IS RAIDED Fashionable Restaurant Closed By Federal Dry Agents; Liquor Taken Chicago, June 18—(UP) — Tel Federal prohibtion agents early today raided Colosimo’s restaurant, one of the city's best known night life centers. More than 60 persons most of them in evening dress, were ordered to leave by agents who searched the premises for liquor. The restaurant which for 20 years has been one of tlie South Side’s Brightest “sipots” was closed by the agents. Deputy prohibition administrator A. E. Amen slid his men confiscated several thousand dollars worth of alleged liquor. Agents immediately backed up large vans and juarted »trippiii„ the .place of its rich furnishings. They arrested six employes. It was at this case that iAI Capone got his start in the Chicago underworld when he was hired as a “bouncer” by “Big Jim" Colositno, the owner. And it was Colosimo’s slaying in the same case that started Capone on the rise to gang power. While a'gents were busy at Colosimo’s another squad of 10 dry officers invtaded the Hollywood club, a north side ni'gdit club. Three men were arrested and a quantity of alleged liquor seized. —o No Services Sunday At Lutheran Church There will be no church service at the Zion Lutheran Church Sunday, June 19. The pastor, Rev. Paul W. Schultz is attending the Synodical Convention at Milwaukee, Wisconsin. The convention convened June 15, and will dose June 25. The regular Sunday School and church service will be resumed 1 next Sunday at the usual hour. •

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Slay Racket King IL ’ \ i George ("Red") Barker. Chicago ) gangster and labor racketeer, who ) aspired to the throne of Al Ca- . pone, was shot to death by - machine-gun assassins. ( ——————————. DIVERS WORK ■ AT OIL TANKER Debris of Blasted Ship Is ‘ Being Removed From Sea; Toll Is 25 Montreal, June 18—(U.R) —Divers and firemen risked their lives t today among smoking steel plates T and twisted wreckage of the 1 British oil tanker Cymbeline, s seeking bodies buried by three 3 explosions which killed a score or 3 more in drydock here yesterday. Officials of Canadian Vickers, ' Ltd., said they believed the death r toll in the million dollar fire 1 would reach 25. Some bodies may • never lie recovered, because tlie 1 explosion destroyed all trace of * some men. they said. 1 They fixed tlie casualty list as ' revised this morning at 25 dead, 15 of whom are missing but accepted as dead. Thirty seven were listed as injured and in hospitals where 13 were posted as "in danger.” The list of known dead included tour Montreal firemen ami six I Vickers workmen who died in hospitals. Fifteen Vickers men are missing, believed dead, "blown to bits or buried in the debris." Tlie four dead firemen included Fire Chief Raoul Gauthier, noted for his bravery. Eyewitnesses said workmen were busy in the drydock and aboard the ship when there came a great bulge amidships followed by a loud explosion. Flames shot up 100 feet. Most of the crew of > 30 men were asleep aboard the Cymbeline but none was killed Workmen, blinded By the explosion, their clothing aflame, ran screaming for help. A second exCGGNTrNtIRD ON PAGE SIX! NIXON WILL ~ APPEAL CASEWabash Editor Released On Bond Awaiting Court Decision Wabash, Ind.. June 18—(UP) — Don M. Nixon, publisher of the Wabash pl.iin dealer, Pern Tribune and several other daily newspapers, was released on SI,OOO bond today pending appeal to the state supreme court from a 10-day jail sentence and SIOO fine. Nixon was convicted Thursday by Special Judge W. H. Eichhorn, of Bluffton, oit a charge of indirect contempt of court brougnt by Judge F. O. Switzer. The citation followed criticism of appointment (by Judge Switzer, of Q. A. Carver as receiver for the Wabash county Loan and Trust company. Demonstrations at the court house were held both Thursday and today, at which, hundreds ot depositors in the bank appeared to I cheer Nixons appearance.

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(FIGHT STARTS ONROOSEVELT Farley Accused of Double Crossing Shouse In Intra-Party Scrap Chicago, June 18. — (U.R) — Business began to pick up today along "candidates row” in the Congress hotel where numerous seekers after the Democratic presidential nomination have arranged headquarters for the duration of their forthcoming party convention. The first blast of the intra-party struggle came when a representative of Speaker John N. Garner made the barbed suggestion that Governor Franklin I). Roosevelt’s campaign manager should be awarded the political decoration of tlie order of the "double cross’.’ Roosevelt’s manager, James A. Farley of New York, prepared to establish general headquarters here today. His first work will concern organization of tlie fight to defeat Jouett Shouse, chairman of the 1 Democratic national executive com- ’ mittee, for permanent chairman of ' the convention. Shouse already is on the ground , establishing his organization. He expected to spend the afternoon at the races at Washington Park and was scheduled to make a radio address tonight. I Roosevelt forces are out to name | Senator Thomas J. Walsh of Montana as permanent chairman because of their belief that Shouse , has been covertly aiding the SmithRaskob group in its anti Roosevelt activities. Thus before the Republicans are barely out of town, the Democrats , are moving in, laying the lines for , the opening ot their convention June 27, and apparently heading into a good lively family fracas. ' Former Governor Alfred E. Smith ’ will arrive Tuesday as well Nat- ' ioual Chairman Raskob. Members of the resolutions committee are due here Thursday to begin sitt- ■ irtgs in the hope of drafting much 1 of the platform in advance. ! Shouse predicted on liis arrival ' here that the Democrats would go ’ further in their prohibition plank 1 than the Republicans but would not advocate outright repeal. 1 In his opinion of the Democratic ! (CONTINUED ON PAGE FOUR) TO CAMPAIGN FROM CAPITOL Hoover Says He Will Take Little Part In 1932 Campaign Washington, June 18 —(UP) — President Hoover today issued a ’ formal statement declaring his campaign headquarters will be established at Chicago and New York and that lie "will not take part in ' the forthcoming campaign" for his re-election. The president’s statement said I however, make a "few m ijor addresses expounding policies of the administration." Mr. Hoover said that he probably would not be able to go to open tlie Olympic games here in July. The President’s statement foilI ows: “I have info: med Rttfniblican I leaders that except for a few ma- | jor addresses expounding policies of the administration I will not take part in the forthcoming campaign as niy undivided attention must be given to the duties of my office. "The campaign will be conducted as managed entirely by chairman Sanders and the Republican organization. It has been settled that the offices of the Republican National committee should be moved from Washington and established at Chicago and New York. Mr. Sanders will be visiting Wash(CONTTNUWD ON PAGE TWO) .Q Body Is Identified Shelbyville, Ind., June 18—(UP) The body of a man killed near Morristown, find., Thursday, when struck by a car, was identified last night by Mrs. Hany Beatty as that of her husband, 53, at Shelbyville Barber. Beatty Quit his Job in a local barber shop about a month ago. The body was brought here today from Morristown for burial.

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REPORTS FAIL TOGIVEFULL NEWS ACCOUNTS I . Early Reports State Two Cities Were Ruined In ; Three Severe Shocks i SHIP RADIO SENDS MESSAGE f _____, Mexico City. June IS <U.R> —Au earthquake, divided inr to three violent shocks, , shook Central Mexico early , today. Private messages, unconr firmed late today, said the destruction in the state of . Colima was extensive, ini chitling the cities of Colima j and Tecoman. One message from Colima said no house within the city escaped t damage but uo confirmation could be obtained from any official source. f San Francisco, June 18—(U.R) —• Reports received by Mackay • Radio here today from the fishing 3 boat, Chicken of the Sea, In the ' vicinity of the Mexican earth. 1 quake said: "At three o’clock this morning, off Manzanillo. Mexico, we felt a 3 terrific shock and thought we had ’ struck something. We made for ’ Manzanillo where we found that a two-minute quake had struck the town.” 1 Adobe houses had collapsed, railroad tracks were twisted and 3 there were large cracks in thw 3 street.” p Contact with the fishing vessel 1 was broken before it could be de- ' termined if there were any carualtie*. 1 -x. o j Judge Finds Thief 3 ' Indianapolis. June 18. —(U.R) —The l judge’s missing radio, gone since a repairman failed to return It, took ] precedence over a traffic violation , when Abner Anderson was brought E into municipal court. I "Aren't you Anderson, the man who repairs radios?" asked Special . Judge William Henry Harrison. Startled at the recognition, Anderson acquiesced. "I though so," the judge exalted. "Since you took my S2OO set I have wasted enough stamps and paper on you trying to get it back to buy a new one.” The traffic charge was delayed 1 while Anderson went to jail to think over the judge's radio. Chile Has Troubles Santiago, Chile, June 18 (UP) —Chile was under a state of seige today (proclaimed by the New Junta headed by Carlos G. Devila. i (The move was .precautionary, for the country was quiet and appeared to be backing Davila and his i abin et. , Col. Marmaduke Grove, ousted in a bloodless revolt after he had forced Davila out as head of a so- . cialist regime, was imjprisoned at. the Cavalry school with Enrique Matte and other aides. It was under stood they would be departed. o Man Admits Murder South Bend. Ind.. June 18—(UP) —Police said today that Ted Arnett, 30, arrested as he opened a barber shop here, confessed that he shot and killed Gerri ae Jeanes during a fight in Cincinnati Aug. 2, 1929. Arnett refused to waive extradition and Cincinnati authorities were exipected to arrive today to demand his temoval here for trial. Arnett insisted lie ired the shots in self defense. o Moves To Dismiss Noblesville, Ind., June 18 —(UP) A motion for dismissal of a suit of the state against the Ku Klux Klan, designed to dissolve the organization, was filed in Hamilton circuit court here today by the defense. The case has been pending since 1928. Athur Gilliam, attorney general in 1928. filed the suit soon after D. C. Stephenson Klan Diagon, was convicted and sentenced to life imprisonment on a chaige of murdering Madge Olberholtzer. The defense asked dismissal because of lack of /prosecution.