Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 30, Number 151, Decatur, Adams County, 25 June 1932 — Page 1

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kROOSEVELT t|NS OPENING j [CHICAGO SCRAP |, Delegations Voted to Ke Seated Favorable | To Roosevelt if H WORDS \RE ANSWERED rv Haymond Clapper, l'j> si aIT Correspondent (Copyright, 1932. by UP.) (invent ion Headquarters, ?a g o, June 25. — (U.R) n Democrats bared weap. todav to fight to the hitend in their convention ling Monday. eacemakers, fearing a retion of the 1924 Madison are harden debacle cound harmony but were ■ ■ned by both embittered ions. $ os.otlt forces c'aimed they the necessary votes to drive I igh their attempt to name the ention's permanent chairman, jock out the century-old twos rule and nominate their Mate by a simple majority >n Irst ballot. lith forces charged unfair tacThey said Roosevelt was trylo switch the rules while the! was in play. They are bring-1 ill of the tricks of the master ital minds of the party into' Ifht. legates arriving in large num- 1 were dismayed at the threatconvention fight. They fear' ty even exceed the disastrous gle of Madison Square Carden tterness. and wreck the party's' tea this year. upers are high. Workers fWT factions are saying worse | i about each other than they said about President Hoover, mble-crosser" Smith workers hat a pal ” Roosevelt's sup-: n remark as they look across their headquarters to the row lith placards bearing jides at nan who four years ago Monday placed in nomination ■ Houston convention the man! jrarnily lauded as “the Happy k imied over the fatal possibilin this thunderstorm of anger, (tor Pai Harrison of Mississippi bpted unsuccessfully to work I compromise. It neither side is in any mood insider peace without victory b have the votes and we an ? right down the line.” said rs A. Farley, manager for Gov r Roosevelt. b»re can be no compromise i principles." said Smith. tet tests were carried Easily by levelt forces. ley have taken complete conlof the committee which will t the party platform. Six of [nine men in that group are pevelt men. bey demonstrated complete con ■*••••• • • • • • • CAXTINUED to page six ISBAND KILLS SELF. 2 OTHERS Ranged New Jersey Father Kills Fatherin Law And Son f*ey City, N. J. June 25 —(UP) kee persons we e dead here IF. the result of a quarrel beR George Glendenning. 211. * r "agon driver, and his es•s"'l wife, Julia, over their 2 kid son. Glendenning was perie! by coutt order to visit his once a week at the home of Yesterday Glen bing quarreled with the family •p and suddenly shot and killed J athe -in-law Richard Vinnaniin hd fatally wounded his son and •elf. f kndenning separated from his II year ago. Mrs. Glendenning their Asbury Park home and * to her parents home in Jerdty. * lce Glendenning was arrested Jersey City home on his h corniphints. The second time Tisited the Vannamin home, he *tened to kill Mrs. Giendenn •nd he was arrested. He was i ®*N’I.'tNUED TO PAGE SIX 1

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District Heads Meet Members of the Fort Wayne district, Epworth League cabinet, were entertained at the home oil I Miss He nice Nelson. Friday even-I I ling. Miss Nelson is second vic' !; president of the distilct. The regular business was con-1 dui led, and a luncheon was serv-1 ed. Those present were Rev. A. R. I i Sank and son Robert and Miss Gertrude Sanks of New Haven; Miss Alice Hall of Garrett; Orval Bair and Mi s Chamberlain of Hud-1 son; Miss Jessie Phares of Wayne-1 dale; Rev. and Mis. E. S. Morford i oflHarian; Rev. and Mrs. .1. c. Bean of Fort Wjyne. LIQUIDATION STARTS TODAY Leo Yager Assumes Duties As Liquidating Agent Os Bank — Leo Yager, bank director, today! | assumed charge of the Old Adams! , County Bank, as, liquidating agent! . am l announced that beginning] Monday morning he and his! ! assistants would he ready to tran-l i sact business. | The affairs of the bank were) I turned over to Mr. Yager this! I afternoon by H. W. Strasburg, examiner for the Slate Banking I Department who had been in ] charge for a few days. The doors, I of the hank were locked while the I transfer was being made. By at-l . tion of the board of directors Mr;] I Yager will he in active charge of I i the bank. Mr. Yager announced today that! I Robert Meibers, former cashier, and Miss Genevieve Kitson. former : bookkeeper of the bank, have been] I employed to assist in the work of I . getting Out notices and caring fort Toffice details. “While we wish to be as lenient | I as possible, we insist that persons! , owing the hank must pay their notes as speedily as possible. I VETS BREAK ! j WITH LEADERS Police W atch Actions Closely; Dissension Reported To Be Rife Washington. June 25 — (UP) — The unified leadership which has I held the veterans bonus expeditioniary force under strict discipline aipIpeared to lie crumbling today. | in view of this situation, police fortes through out the city were o.dered to keep in more titan usual I close touch with headquarters and , to be ready for emergencies. On indication of the dissension! (among the Bonus army leaders was ] the way in which Commander-in- i chief Walter W. Walters was ignored when he ordered a mass dem- ] onstrati. n at the capitol yesterday I None of the various camp comman-l de s and only i few hundred of the | rank and file obeyed Waters' orders ] to march to the senate. A contingent of 450 veterans billeted in old buildings near the center of the city was denied food by Waters for four hours, until it deposed John Pace of Detroit as j commander. Pace is a member of ■ the workers ex-servicemen s league ***CAV!'INUED TO PAGE SIX Malley Funeral Held Funeral services for Mrs. Joseph-1 ine Malley who died at her home i in this Aly Tuesday ,afternoon> were held this morning at 9 o clock at the St. Mary's C itholic church, j Burial was in the St. Joseph's | Cemetery. —- -o— Deeds Require Stamps Mrs Cla a Anderson, county re- (, !de ;. stated today (that many persons are forgetting about revenue stamps which are required on all deeds that aie recorded. Ihe new | law requiring the stamps became , effective la-t Tuesday. June 21. and amounts to 50 cents so every SSOO of consideration mentioned in the dt The stamps are secured from the Treasury department at Indianapolis and persons send ng deeds to the recorder are requested to inclose the money for the nec jessary amount of .evenue stamps.

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Amelia Welcomed in Chicago < wbwt *r ■ ■***■ da w l v— — i 1 y • w ' « . ..wMWk ■sa:w:.;iqwM»fn.j*i w Amelia Earhart Putnam, the first and only woman to complete a solo flight of the Atlantis Ocean, is (own here upon her arrival in Chicago to participate in tile military tournament being held in that city, her left is Maj. G. E. Brower, commander of the first pursuit group of Selfridge Field, who command the welcoming escort of army planes. At her right is tier husband. George Palmer Putnam. i

CRITICISM OF 1 BILL SCORED I I — Sen. Wagner Calls Presi- ] dent’s Attack “Absolutely Unfounded” * i Washington, June 25. —(U.R)—Sen- < ator Robert Wagner, Dem., N. Y., • today vigorously defended Ihe sen- ■ ate unemployment relief bill and Itrandtsl President Hoover's, criti- h ( ism of it as “absolutely unsound- ii ed." He declared to tlie senate that Mr. Hoover was “again defying tlie light and truth, obstinately resist- I ing tlie persuasion of fact and < logic, and contributing to the despair which is all too prevalent." Wagner is the author of the $2.-1 300.000,000 (Bi senate relief program. He spoke shortly after he i and other senate and house con-1 ferees had concluded their first] session on Hie work of whipping tlie bill into final form and adjusting it witli the Garner program passed Ity tlie house. His speech was in reply to yesterday's statement in which Mr. Hoover declared tlie senate bill's $500,000,000 public works bond issue provision was “pork barrel legis'ation which would nullify ail efiorts to balance Hie federal budget and would create "direct employment” for only 100,000 men. Wagner denied the bond issue would unbalance the budget. "On the contrary,” he said, “it helps to balance it and to reduce tlie very heavy burden of current taxation hv cancelling approptiations for about $175,000,000 for : permanent improvements." Noting that Mr. Hoover approv- *"**(’( )NT INU I<l> TO PAGE I ’OUIt REBELS HOLD KING OF SIAM Absolute Monarchy Is Doomed; King Willing To Abdicate Throne Bangkok Siam. June 25—(U.R)— Tit, shadow of revolt hung over tlie ancient throne of Siam today and forecast the end of one of the, two remaining absolute monarchies in the world. King Prajadhipok, absolute, but liberal-minded monarch, was expected to meet the demands of rebels Tli. y held the royal family and controlled the government, demanding the establishment of] a constitutional monarchy with] limited powers for the king. Tlie rebel movement was accomplished with little bloodshed or; <disorder. Il was led by army and I n avv officers and supported 4y . Siamese suffering from economic depression and heavy taxation. The rebels arrested the leading princes of Siam. They sent a gunboat to the seaside resort of Huahin. where tlie king was rest- ( ing. io bring the monarch here to , make his decision. i There was no movement to onst ] ‘"’"continued to page four p

Decatur, Indiana, Saturday, June 25, 1932.

Niece of Local Man Dies At Ohio Home Word was received here of the sudden death of Mrs. Herman Geissler, 40, niece of H. F. Callow of this city, which occurred at her home, east of Wren, Ohio, Thursday night. Mrs. Geissler is survived by her husband, her mother, Mrs. Tillie Callow, a 'brother, Lloyd Callow all of Wren, Ohio; two sisters, Mrs. Albert Feigert of Van Wert, Ohio and Mrs. Lloyd Gibson of Saginaw, Michigan. Several nieces and neph- .< ws residing in and near this city [also survive. 'Funeral services will be heldi j Sunday afternoon at 2:30 o’clock] (Eastern. Standard time) at tlie { Evangelical Lutheran church, east of Wren. START WAR ON GAS PEDDLING Bootleggers In Indiana To Be Run Down by Government And State Indianapolis, June 25 — (U.R) — Uncle Sam is going to step into tlie picture to put a crimp into Indiana's second most lucrative racket gasoline bootlegging. A doubletbarrelled provision of the new revenue act puts a powerful weapon into the hands of the federal government. This, linked with efforts of state authorities and the organized oil industry will, it is predicted, send the rapidly expanding (petroleum products bootleg industry scurrying to cover. The night-riding gasoline bcotlegger, slinking upder cover s of darkness from city to city in Indiana, with a gunman at his side, and a 2,000 gallon cargo of illicit motor fuel on his vehicle, must now answer to tlie federal as well as tlie state government for lite untaxed liquid that he pours into the tanks of unscrupulous, get-rich-quick filling station proprietors. It may not be a source of wonder that the gas bootlegger has smiled at the six months imprisonment and SI,OOO fine which faced him under the state law. Neither penalty ever has been invoked, and only a temporary rip-; pie in the Calumet region lias disturbed his activities. But with the sentence of Al Gapone still ringing in their ears, those who face federal statutes have greater respect for the laws. In this case, a SIO,OOO fine and a one-year term in prison await the convicted operator. Worst of all for the gasoline bootlegger, however, is the ominous gauntlet of agents, federal, state and local, which he must CONTINUED TO PAGE THREE o Fireman Is Killed Indianapolis, June 25. — (U.R) —A falling pulley wheel fatally injured Fred Sellineyer, 70. Indianapolis, while employed as fireman at the Riley hospital power plant here. His skull was fractured.

MEDAL GIVEN TO OTTO CASE Local War Veteran Is First To Receive Medal of Purple Cross Otto T. Gase, 616 S. Thirteenth street, is the first Adams county World war veteran to receive one of the Washington Purple Hearts, awarded by the war department to wounded soldiers for military merit. I Tlie medal was received by Mr. | Gase yesterday and on tlie back |is engraved the following: “For j military Merit. To Otto T. Gase.” I The medals are issued by act of j Congress and soldiers who were | wounded, gassed or taken prisoner in tlie World war are entitled to I them. Tins year being tlie Bi centennial ! .anniversary of George Washington's I birth, the medals are issued in memory of the first president of I the United States and founder of J tlie order of the Purple Heart. ] Washington, while general of the Revolutionary Army, awarded tlie I medals to wounded soldiers. ] Earl B. Adams, secretary of tlie -;Home Service department of the > American Red Cross, made applii cation for the medal for Mr. Gase. ! Mr. Adams stated he had a list of 18 men wlio are entitled to the medals. Mr. Gase lost an arm in tlie bat- ’ tie of Verdun. His right arm was I shattered by a high explosive and • later it was necessary to amputate ’ it. He was injured on October 5, • j 1918 and was forced to remain in 1 I a government hospital several months. Mr. Gase was a member of Company “D". 127th Infantry, ■ **’r>N-TINI EH TO PAGE roll: I ] -o WOMAN CHARGED ] WITH FRAME-UP Hutton Attorneys Show Mrs. St. Pierre Tried To Frame Aimee Ixts Angeles, June 25 — (U.R) 1 Myrtle Hazel Joan St. Pierre ■ j cringed, sobbed and collapsed in '! hysterics. It was rotund David L. ' Hutton's day in court, and his ’ clouded brow gave way to a cheerful grin. 1 His attorneys, defending him ■ from Mrs. St. Pierre's $200,000 i heartbalm suit, inferentially eltarg- • ed the pretty nurse — Tried three years agq to ' “frame" Aimee Semple McPherson, evangelist-wife of Hutton. 1 Had participated in other ■ 'alleged extortion plots. And had been intimate with other men. This brought yesterday’s court session to a sudden end. while two spectators fainted from excitement, and youthful Superior Judge Lester Roth sent the jury from the room while he sternly lectured Mrs. St. Pierre and attorneys for both sides. More drama is expected today CANTINUED TO PAGE SIX

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ADJOURNMENT OF CONGRESS NOT IN SIGHT I 1 Hope To Adjourn Today Fades As Uneinployinent ; Bill Is Argued PRES. HOOVER Fit HITS PLAN Wnshington. .lune 25 (U.R) I Instead of being able to! 1 adjourn lodav for lite summer as it bad honed, congress is lied up in knots which may take weeks to unravel. Unemployment relief, econ omv and appropriation bills all are involved in sharp controversies. Absence of many members at the Democratic national convention will delay ‘ major action on these problems. Conferees today began the task of bringing into harmony the widely divergent house and senate ’ unemployment relief programs, J each proposing expenditure of more than $2,000,000,000 (B) to create jolts for the jobless and to provide food for the hungry. The final bill which they evolve is almost certain to call for issuance , of at least $500,000,000 of bonds , for federal public works. ( President Hoover yesterday renewed his assault on these bond issue proposals, terming them t “destructive,” “wasteful." “pork i barrel" legislation which would unbalance the budget. lay new burdens on the taxpayers and provide little relief to the tinetnployi ! ed. Senator Wagner. Dem.. N. Y., ■ author of the senate relief bill, j promised to reply to Mr. Hoover . from tlie senate floor this after- > noon. Tlie President’s vigorous state- . ment was widely interpreted in t congress as indicating he will veto r the relief measure if tlie bond ( ' ' ‘cAx’ljNCEn'-'o* PAGE*SIX* BAKER AGAINST : CHANGE IN RULE 1 f Cleveland Attorney Is For i> Retention of Two-Thirds For Nomination e Cleveland. 0.. June 25.— (U.R) 8 Newton D. Baker broke his political !’; si'ence today witli an attack '•lagainst threatened attempts to t abrogate tlie century old two-thirds 8 rule for nominating Democratic presidential candidates. The former secretary of war, s whose name has been injected prominently into the Democratic 8 presidential nomination race, de- ’■ spite his own indifference, issued a 11 formal statement in which he term- ' ed tlie two-thirds rule a "rule that r lias made and kept tlie Democratic '• party a national party." " “A nomination procured from a majority riding rough shod over tlie I established tradition of tlie party would be deeply embarrassing both to the party and to tlie candidate," I Baker said. ’ “Sensitive men would find it dis ficult to defend a candidate who started out with a moral flaw in his title.” r 1 The complete statement read: “Every member of tlie Democratic party who knows its traditions and is proud of its history has a duty to protest against the pro- , posed amendment of the twothlrds J title at Chicago. That rule has made and kept tlie Democratic party a national party. "It lias prevented the favoring of sectional candidates against tlie will of respectable minorities and '. if the rule is ever changed, it ought {not to be a convention elected under it or in the interest of any particular section or candidate. ’ "Tlie Democrats of tlie United Slates have selected and instructed their delegates to Chicago in the r expectation that tlie two-thirds rule] would apply. Our representatives 1 at Chicago have no right to change that rule after we have instructed 1 our delegates. ’ "A nomination procured from a ' majority riding rough shot over the r , established traditions of the party ' would be deeply embarrassing both Ito Um party and the candidate. Sensitive men would find it difficult to defend a candidate who start- ’ ed out with a moral flaw in his < ’ title.’’

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Persons Interested In Chorus Asked To Meet All persons inteiested in the mixed chorus and permanent musical society are asked to meet In the Adams County Court room, Tuesday evening it eight o’clock. Mrs. L. A. Holthouse, county chairman of the music diversion will organize the chorus. Persons from this city and Adams County are eligible to Join the chorus which will be sponsored by the federated clubs of tlie county. lAt the meeting Tuesday evening officers and committees will be j appointed, Mrs. Holthouse stated. COMMENCEMENT PLANNED FOR D.V.B.S. PUPILS Annual Summer Exercises To Be Held Tuesday Night At I). H. S. 12 CHILDREN FINISH WORK The commencement exercises of the Decatur Daily Vacation Bible School will! take place in the high school gymnasium next Tuesday evening, June 28 at 7 o’clock, at which time a class of] twelve pupils will graduate. ! 'Die graduating class list; includes lAtwrence Earl Anspaugh, Donald Paul Bixler, Benjamin Franklin, Jr., Miller LaVere Hakey, Kathryn Elinoro Kohls. Arthur E. Merriman. Laures Henry Meyer. Leia Catherine Murphy, Zula Porter, Lois Irene Sovine, James Arthur Siuiderman, and Hilda Fae Williams. Following the graduation service a display of hand work -oempleted during the school term will be shown. The public is invited to attend. No admission fee will be charged. Following is the complete program for the commencement: Marell Flag Salute Worship Song Prayer—Rev. R. E. Vance Response Group of Hymns—School Kindergtuten exercise — Miss Carol Cole’s group Solo—Letha Fledderjohann Kindergartenr exercise — Miss Dorothy Durkin's group Song. "Shining for Jesus" — Primary C group Song. "Onward, Christian Soldiers." Billie school demonstration — Primary department Song—Primary girls Song. "Over the Sea”—Primary B group Play, “The Girl Who Knew Howl to be a Friend ”—Junior girls Solo—Harriet Gilson Dramatization. “A Neighbor and ] his Friend" —Junior boys Solo —Virginia Fledderjohann Group of Hymns—School Dramatization. "Prepared and ] Unprepared”—lntermediate girls “The Old Rugged Cross" —Miss Della Sellemeyer and school Quiz. “What the Billie Says”— Intermediate boys Duet. "More Like the Master" — Katherine Mnrphyjtnd Lois Sovine Offering Hymn and Offering Presentation of class — Mrs. Frank Downs Presentation of Diplomas—Rev. . M. W. Sunderman ‘ Song, "America, the Beautiful’’ • School. Benediction —Rev. B. IL Frank lin. Writes From China Kenneth Kessler, former well known Monroe high school athlete. who joined the navy a year or so ago. writes us from Chefoo, China where he lias been stationed several months and where he has enjoyed a thrilling experience. He says in part: “The navy offered a medium of enlarging my experiences for fu-| Hire use in fiction, and I suddenly found myself in China. Fortunately. I arrived here in time to witness the Sino-Japanese fracas. Shanghai, in the monotonous throes of unmolested humdrum life, was a veritable curio shop for the western eye. The recent trouble, lending a touch of war! torn battle fields and colossal devastation, makes tlie city doubly interesting, in the near future I hope to outline a word picture ! of the city before and after the trouble.”

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PRO-ROOSEVELT GROUP FAVORS RESUBMISSION Tentative Platform Also Pledges Federal Aid to All Dry States |WALKER FOR REPEAL PLANK Convention I leatlquitrieis. Chicago, .hint' 25 U.R) Ihe ! prohibition plank tentatively ttgreed upon by influential pro-Boosevelt members of I the Democratic platform I committee was outlined to j the United Press today as in- ! chiding in its present fornt lan unqualified submission of ! the question of retention or repeal to that constitutional conventions. In contrast to the proposal of Gov. Alfred E. Smith to modify the Volstead act pending repeal, the plank discussed by pro-Roose-velt committeemen would contain a pledge for strict law enforcement pending expression of popu- | lar will. There also would be a pledge of federal assistance for states which desired to remain dry, and the i plank would assert party recognl- | tion of general opposition to the ; return of the saloon. Tlie question of retention or repeal would have to be submitted in the form of a constitutional amendment and would be authorto state constitutional cotivenized by congress for presentation tions called for that specific purpose. An informal draft of such a plank is ready for submission to the platform subcommittee late today. The Roosevelt forces are in the majority in the subcommittee. Subcommittee plans are to have a tentative platform drafted within the compass of 1,000 words by tomorrow night. It would be submitted to tlie full committee Monday after the first convention session. Wets denounced tlie Republican prohibition platform because it was alleged to continue federal police force in the states. The extent to which the Democrats Svould extend federal assistance to dry communities is not definite. Under the Webb-Kenyon act, a minimum of protection could be offered through prohibition of interstate liquor shipments into dry CANTINI’ED TO PAGE six O Legion Post To Meet (An important meeting of Adams Post of the Amerian Legion will at eight o'clock Monday night at the Legion hall. The election of delegates to the state convention to ‘be held in Kokomo will take iplace at the meeting and Ernest Stengel post commander urged every member to be (present. BISHOP BLAKE FOR DRY LAW M. E. Leader Urges All To Fight For Retention Os Amendment Battle Ground, Ind.. June 25 — (U.R) Methodist churchmen wero called upon to fight for retention of the 18th amendment by Bishop Edgar Blake, Detroit, speaker at the 81st annual Northwest Indiana Methodist Episcopal conference here. Bishop Blake called "stupid and vicious" the section of tlie press urging repeal of the prohibition laws. A conference resolution supporting the Blake stand on the liquor question was adopted It was announced that Rev. William Calvert Harlinger, pastor of the Broadway M. E. Church. Indianapolis, would be the new superintendent of the Indianapolis district, succeeding Rev. Orlen W. Fifer, recently named editor of the Western Christian Advocate, published at Cincinnati. Dr. Richard M. Milliard, of the city church at Gary, will succeed Dr. Hartinger in the Indianapolis CONTINUED TO PAGE FOUR