Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 30, Number 155, Decatur, Adams County, 30 June 1932 — Page 1

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®EAL PLANK I ADOPTED BY 1 BIC MAJORITY Wage Battle -* Floor; Smith (liven ■1 Greatest Ovation ■ V. RITCHIE FOR REPEAL -?K '..• union Headquarters. June 30. — (U R> — in in national eontoday repudiated the and the Volact. By a four to >- convention pledged HMpari \ to repeal and to of the Volstead legalize beer and wine. inlorpari .utered a new phase ..i reading clerk drafted for .■i option services, bellowed |gh the roll call. eHfr.. 'l'dv states voted umilii '■Wily for the so-called "moder pi.diib.iion plank merely to It the repeal issue to state |KlTmtiobs Twenty-nine states ’ unanimously with the .vets, tht.-e standpat delegations C.-uigia. Mississippi and Okla vote was 934% to 213%. HStltl Carolina east "18 votes no" Haltigan inquired if that would substitute submission unqualified pledge to repeal wet majority whoop- d ■if- asure. bandwagon stampede was By loin if there were any drys. Gilbert M. Hitchcock perspiring through tjie KU statement of party policy, then a burst of applause things better. Those were ■final flights of approval. Finlicoi k reached the last But! favor repeal—.” no further. With a rising. vote of assent the deleassured him he was right. Bate standards went up in the ait . hopped into the aisle. momentarily tried to keep in their own section. It use. Kansas. Oklahoma. Mississippi and Utah sat motionless standards They not parade. the eaves an organ blared 800 Dry I Am.” Senator Millard Md.. young, handsome. beamed into the crowd get our beer," propio -i-’ Senator Tydings. David I. Walsh. Dem.. repeal plank, smiled up from the speakers' stand hard labors Walsh was Mk I floor leadership of the jßjkrby was Senator Cordell Hull. ■*■. Khim. gnawing on the fiani" B®S spectacles and finally r- ml book. He was the lead"moderate" Bubmissionists UgAXriNUEp'TO PAGE SIX lIDGE PLANS [|ARE DISCUSSED disability of Building Considered by i Commissioners program will be eensid ISrB by the tboard of county com at a special meeting -m ■Bay, July 18 will ibe received fur building ■■repairing four county brid.■Fw"’' the hugh Gerke bridge in I. the Relle Culvert febie township; the Schnepp e and the Sam Fuhiman 6 . both in Root township. s estimate on the Gerke bridge 300; (Reile Culvert, $170: ! PP bridge $1,900; Fuhrman e - $550. Bids will also ‘be re--3 for painting bridges, the esp being S2OO. 'Posals must include all labor naterial requited on the jobs, toaid reserves the right to rean Y and all bids. 00 appropriation was made "■ldges and repairs in this 1 budget, the cost will be -paid f the county highway repair

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♦ ♦ MAY WAIT. Convention Stadium, Chicago, I I June 30. — (U.R) - Chairman ' Walsh told the United Press following the Roosevelt demonI stration that balloting would i be postponed until tomorrow. The convention, he said. , would sit tonight to hear nomi- ' i noting speeches. TRI KAPPAS ’ AT CONCLAVE ■ Seven Decatur Members Attend Province Meet At Wawasee Lake ' Seven members of the local Tri Kai; pa sorority attended the province convention which was held . at the Wawasee Jnn at Lake Wa- . wasee, Wednesday. Mrs. William . Bell, president of the Dee itur' chaip- , ter, was a delegate to the meeting and others who attended we e the Mesdames Dick Heller, J. H. Nep- . tune, P. B. Thomas, W. G. Brawn, and the Misses Marcella Hower and Mary K. Schug. One hundred one persons attended the meeting from province six, and Mis. Karl Gilbert, the province officer, p esided at the meeting. During the morning, a delegates meeting was held. Luncheon was served at the noon hour in the main dining ball, and the table was decorated with bouquets of summer flowers and ivory candles. Miss Hallie Bortz of Leesburg, Grand President of Tri Kappa attended the meeting, a id several othu grand officers and province officers were present. They were each ipreseltfed with a Vfft. A program was given, including musical numbers, and exhibit by an Olympic Woman diver, swimming and bridge. The Tri Kappa Hoosier Art Salon picture. “The Hoosie: Cabin" by Williams was displayed at the meeting, and an exhibition of Hoosier Art Salon pictures was made at the Hotel. The Tri Kappa (picture will be exhibited in Decatur some time this year. ELECTRIC CARS CRASH HEAD-ON Six Known Dead In Interurban Crash Near Cincinnati, Ohio Middletown, ()., June 30.— (U.R)— Two Cincinnati and Lake Erie traction ears raced down a section of track and crashed together with a roar three miles south of here today. Six persons were known to have been killed and a seventh was reported injured fatally. Several others were injured. A passenger car, northbound from Hamilton. Ohio, was struck by a two-car freight carrier, bound south from Cleveland. Officia s believed the passenger failed to stop at a switch to allow the freight to pass. The dead: Ray Bowman, Dayton, freight motornian. Jose Brose, Hamilton, passenger motornian. R. C. Wilson, Hamilton, C. & LE. trainman. Harry B. Augsberger, Trenton. Jack Augsberger, his son. George Betz. An unidentified girl was believed to have been crushed fatally. Four persons were taken to Middletown hospital. They wen unable to give their names. The freight train plowed half way through the passenger coach, , slicing its steel and timbers. — | Reprisals Announced ; London, June 30—(UP)— R e, P ri ‘ sals against the Irish Free State for its failure to pay the land annuities _ due Great Britain were annoiinced in the House of Commons today by j H Thom is, Dominions secretary. , Thomas said no payment on the annuities due today had been re- ■ ceivod, and therefore he wouldl in tioduee in the House on ' , -Proposals to deal with the Mt , nation.”

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W hile Democrats Argue On Repeal Convention Is Entertained - —wp-w /•JIJjBJJBBiJgBBBBJ ■■■■■ . ■ il 1 p ' — IHBaWKMKMKM “ ■ w /Mm ■»■ iBR * * ' j®; ’ 1 V ' A // r > : t j x , / L i 1 r A Idling away time until the Resolutions Committee, arguing over a repeal plank, could report, th Democratic convention in Chicago gave itself over to entertainment. Among those heard were Fathe Charles E. Coughlin of Detroit, left. Will Rogers, right, and Gene Tunney, inset.

Democratic Platform Is Shortest And Wettest

HOOSIERS ARE BEING COURTED Candidates Seeking Assistance From Indiana; Roosevelt to (Jet Bulk By Steve Richards United Press Staff Correspondent Chicago June 30—(UP)—Speculation as to how Indiana will swing its strength in today's vote for the Democratic Presidential nominee wa- as intense in the delegation itself as among National leaders angling for every available ballot. IL osier forces supporting Franklin D. Roosevelt were undismayed by yesterd ly's surprise vote of only 13 out of the 30delegates. They contended that since the informal caucus at which the vote was taken they had gained new ipower and were prepared to turn a majority of ballot- far the New Yoik executive. On the other hand, there were reports that Gov. Albert Ritchie of M iryland bad considerable untested strength. Ritchie’s Hoosier adherants claimed that after the first (ballot, if a nominee is not nam<V on the initial vote, the tide will swing toward Ritchie with increasing numbers. By the third or fourth ballot, it is claimed, Ritche will have 15 hoosier votes. Suppotters of Alfred E. Smith T't PAGE FIVE Firemen Make Run The local fire department was < ailed to the Adams County Memorial Hospital. Wednesday afternoon at 3:30 o’clock where a grass fire was reported. The fire started from I>:ush that was being burne dat the rear of the hosiptal building. No damage resulted from the fire. Mrs. Dutcher Wins M s. George Dutcher Jr., won the silver medal awarded in the Missionary Oratorical contest conducted by the Women's Missionary Society of the Evangelical Church. The contest was held in the Evangelical church auditorium, Wednesday night and a large crowd attended the oratorical event. Other contestants who participated in the contest we:e Mrs. Amos Ketchum, Mrs. Robert Garard and Miss Elva Anspaugh. The contest is held annually by missionary societies in the entire north eastern Indiana conference of the Evangelical church. The program is a part of the missionary w-ork for the years. Mns. Dutcher will be quqalified to compete next year for the gold medal.

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| Chicago, June 30. — (U.R) — The Democratic party platform as ap|prpved by the national convention follows: I * “In this time of unprecedented economic and social distress, the Democratic party declares its conviction that the chief causes of this condition were the disastrous policies pursued by our government since the World war, of economic isolation; fostering the merger of competitive businesses into monopolies; and encouraging the indefensible expansion and contraction of credit for private profit at the expense of the public. “Those who were responsible for these policies have abandoned the ideals on which the war was won, and thrown away the fruits of victory, thus rejecting the greatest, opportunity in history to bring peace, prosperity and 'happiness to our people and to the world. They have ruined our foreign trade, destroyed the values of our commodities and products, crippled our banking system, robbed millions of our people of their life savings and thrown millions more out of work, produced widespread poverty and brought the government to a state of financial distress unprecedented in times of peace. "The only hope for improving present, conditions, restoring employment, affording permanent reI CONTINUED TO PAGE FIVE REPORTS ARE DISPOSED OF 1932 Democratic Platform Adopted After Brief Arguments Convention Stadium June 30 (UP) —The Democratic convention today adoptqd by acclamation its “wringing wet” 2,000 word platform for 1932. The wo:k was quickly done. After, senator Carter Glass of Virginia and William Gibbs Mci.Adoo had joined in virtually the only debate on the McAdoo plank to protect bank depositors, the convention proceeded to vote. One by one it rejected planks presented as amendments to the resolutions committee report by acclamation. Gov. William H. Murry's plank to support the soldier’s bonus first was defeated. Next fell McAdoo’s plank. Then two silver planks were defeated, one by Murray and the othdr by Idaho. Tire convention then with a shout of acclamation accepted the entire platform and democracy formally (became a “wringing wet" ■party —favoring repeal of the Eighteenth amendment and early modification of the Volstead Act.

ECONOMY BILL BECOMES LAW Hoover Signs Bill But Says It Is With ‘Limited Satisfaction' Washington. June 30 — (UP) — President Hoove: today signed the economy bill —designed to reduce I the cost of government .by approximately $150.000,000 —but said he did so “with limited satisfaction." die said the measure “Falls short of the ecomomies proposed by the cabinet and executive office: s of the government.” Mr. Hoover continued the bill imposes unnecessary . ‘Hardships on government employes | in minor matters and recommended I that “some of these should be remedied at the next session of con- ! gress.” o— ! — Clothing Store Closes The John T. Myers Company clothing store was closed tills afternoon with a sign on the door “closed for invoice". No official statement was issued, but it was underi stood that the tsore would be turned over to a committee of creditors and would be liquidated. 1 Bernstein was in charge of the store this afternoon. Health Station Friday The Adams County Baby Health Station will be held in the Decatur Library, Friday, all-day. Miss Nancy Gibbs and Dr. Dorothy Teal [of the Child Hygiene division of (lie State Board of Health will conduct the station, and all mothers with babies under two years of age are requested to attend. The station will open at 9 o'clock Friday morning and continue throughout the day until 4 o’clock in the afternoon. Mothers are requested to bring their babies to the station each month to note the progress made. Habegger’s Herd Has Highest June Record Dan Habegger of Berne owns the Holstein herd which was adjudged the highest producing herd in the Adams Dairy Herd Improvement Association so r tlie month of June. The average was 46.7 pounds fat. Telfer Paxson's Jersey herd is second witli 44.9 pounds fat. Dan Maselin's herd was third with 41.0, Sol Mosser, fourth with 40.5, and Sam Williams fifth witli 38.4 pounds butterfat. The high cow for the month is a grade Jersey belonging to Dan Lesh of Markel. This cow made a record of 80.8 pounds of fat on retest. Other high cows are as follows. Dan Mazelin, 75.3; Dan Mazelln. 73.7; Sam Williams. 73.2; Sol Mosser, 71.8; Dan Habegger, 70.6; Dan Habegger, 67.4; Dan Lesh, 64.9; Dan Lesh, 63.9; Sam Williams, 63.6.

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ATTORNEYS FOR CURTIS DEMAND HIS ACQUITTAL Say Statement of Prosecution Is Cause For Man's Release STORMY TIME IS PREDICTED Flemington. N. J., June 30 —(U.R) —What promised to lie the stormiest session of the trial of John Hughes Curtis, self confessed Lindbergh hoaxer, opened today with defense counsel demanding a directed verdict of acquittal on the grounds that members of prosecution counsel had given out a newspaper interview saying: "Curtis is as good as convicted already." Waving a copy of the Hunterdon County Democrat, a weekly, Defense Attorney C. Lloyd Fisher expressed indignation. Judge Adam C. Rolfliins took opposing counsel into his chambers where wrangling could be heard through the door. When they returned a half hour later, Robbins overruled the motion. Captain John J. Lamb then resumed testimony which was interrupted when court adjourned

Wednesday. The state police official was reading one of the lengthy statements Curtis made to police. The courtroom, crowded to capacity, was noisy and restive. Colonel Charles A. Lindbergh sat at the prosecution counsel table, his chin cupped in his hands, listening to lamb's testimony. Curtis' eyes wandered and he was not wholly attentive. He smiled occasionally. Outside other officials of the police were giving out interviews to reporters on the promise their names would not bo used. They said investigators were hopeful of a “definite break" in the search for the kidnapers and murderers of Charles A. Lindbergh. Jr. soon. Frank J. Wilson, federal investigator. had testified that police CONnNUED TO PAGE TWO O — Johnson Lad Honored The Columbus Dispatch of Columbus. 0.. carried an article recently in regard to Dave Johnson. 13-year-old son of Guy and Maude Christen Johnson, formerly of Decatur, who is a talented .accordian soloist. The article read as follows: “Dave Johnson, 13-year-old boy. said to be a wonder, is featured accordian soloist with the Kenney Bowsher Band at Blue Bonnet Garden. East Main street. Columbus. His big brother, William, is a vocal soloist." The two Johnson brothers will be remembered as singing here during the Reppert Auction school last year. BOHN YOUTH IS KIDNAPED Wealthy Manufacturer’s Son Taken at Point of Bandits’ Revolvers St. Paul, Minn., June 30- (U.R) -- Two men today kidnaped Haskell Bohn. 20, son of Gebhard C. Bohn, president of he Bohn Refrigerator company, from the garage at the rear of the Bohn residence. Young Bohn was forced to accompany the kidnapers at the point of pistols. Witnessing the kidnaping, which occurred at 9a. in., was the family chauffeur, who was forced to stand aside while the youth was forced into the automobile. The wealth of the elder Bohn is estimated at several million dollars. Descriptions of the kidnapers given the police 'by I). B. Myers, the chauffeur, read: "No. 1, 35 years old, five feet five inches, 135 pounds, black hair, blue eyes, blue coat, grey trousers and a cap, carried an automaitc pistol; No. 2, five feet eight inches, slender build." The kidnaped youth is the youngest of four brothers. His brothers are Charles, Gebhard, Jr., and TWO

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| Crowd (Joes Wild As Smith Takes Platform I ♦ ♦ Chicago, June 30. — (U.R) — The roar of the crowd! Jack Dempsey slips off his faded bathrobe and fists cocked, shuffles In to meet bi» man. You get it then. Bobby Jones eases back on “Calamity Jane," lets her fall, and the bull trickles across the rolling green and to land in the cup with a ringing little "plup.” You get it then. Babe Ruth steps into a curve, straightens it out, and does that mincing little prance of his around the bases. You get It then. Al Smith walks to the speakers' platform of the national Democratic convention and smiles that smile of his. You get it then. The roar of the crowd, I mean. That 21-gun salute to a champion that starts with a handclap and swells into a thunder of wild noise that sets the lieart thumping, the spine jumping, and the blood to pumping. Al Smith got it last night. His head was hardly visible above the mob on the platform when the organist, high in the rafters, pulled out all 583 stops and hammered intc that tune, which with the possible exception of Dixie, seems to . stir Democratic delegates to the .[highest pitch. With the first notes —"East Side, CONTINUED TO PAGE FIVR —o SPECIAL MEET TO BE JULY 18 . County Council To Consider Requests For Extra Appropriations A special meeting of the Adams , County council has been called for ( Monday, July 18 to consider appro- • priations totaling $2,440. Most of the items are routine run- ' ning expenses and transfer of balJances from one fund to another, i The largest single item is for sl,- . j until for special judge in the Wa- • bash river dredge case. ■ lAt the last session of the county council the board refused to make an appropriation of $1,200 for carrying on the case. Special Judge (Henry Kister of Princeton adjourned court until the first week in September. The case was adjourned last May. A request for S2OO for insanity and epilleptic inquests, S9O for prosecuting attorney's special expense S3OO for preliminary road expenses $lO5 for deputy assessor Washing- ! ton township. $250 for county attor- . i ney’s special fund and S3OO for I special judges in Adams circuit : court are included in the notice. Ben Hur Picnic To Be Sunday, .July 10 The seventh annual Ben Hur picnic will be held at Oliver Lake, Sunday, July 10, It was announced today. The affair will be for all Ben Hur members and Invited guests. The program will begin at 12 o'clock noon with a basket dinner. At one o'clock a band concert will j be given by the famous Wainwright eighty-piece Band from the Wainwright Band camp on Oliver lake. I At two o’clock vocal selections will he presented by the Moore Brothers, broadcasting artists; an address by P. O. Bowers, state manager of Crawfordsville; vocal selections by the Misses Eileen and 1 Betty Crofoot of Kendallville; a reading by Wanda Keller of Fort Wayne and special races and con- ! tests will be held. At four o'clock four three-round boxing contests will be held between men who were Golden Glove ' contestants at Chicago, New York, and Boston. At five o'clock a soft ' ball game will be held. ' All boats at the resort will be at the disposal of the picnickers and bathing will also be enjoyed. Oliver Igike Is located four and onehalf miles south of LaGrange, on State road 9. Several members of the local Ben ' Hur lodge will attend the picnic, ’ it was stated. Prince Becomes 111 Sunnlngdale, England, June 30 — (UP)—The Prince of Wales was confined to bed with a chill today at Jills country residence. Fort Belvedere. The King's physician, Sir | Stanley Hewett, was in attendance.

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ROOSEVELT IS PUT INFIELD BY NEW YORKER Hour’s Demonstration Is Followed by Mention of Roosevelt’s Name INDIANA IN FIRST PARADE BULLETIN Convention Stadium, Chicago, June 30—(U.R)— Presentation of the name of Governor Franklin D. Roosevelt of New York as a candidate for the presidency set off a tumultuous demonstration at the Democratic National Convention today. When John E. Mack of New York spoke the name of Roosevelt in his nominating speech the Roosevelt delegates began their rampage at 2:18 p. m. New Hampshire, the first state to give Roosevelt a primary victory led the tumultous parade. Right behind New Hampshire oame Nebraska. A cheer went up when Indiana, a doubtful state, fell in. One sign read “Out of the red with Roosevelt.” Chicago, June 30 <U.R) —- The Democratic National convention today began placing before the delegates the names of the candidates from whom ole will be chosen to run for president on a “wringing wet" platform. Gov. Franklin D. Roosevelt of New York was the first to bo nominated. At 1:50 p.m. the platform formally adopted the roll call of states for nominations for the presidential candidacy was ordered. Alabama, first state on the list yielded to Judge John E. Mack of New York who placed Governor Roosevelt In nomination. That was the first of the Roosevelt strategy designed to get the name of the New York governor first before the convention —a psychological advantage. Huston Thompson of Colorado, one of the Roosevelt mon predicted some “surprises" even before the balloting begins in a break of “favorite son" delegations. Expressing confidence of an early nomination Sen. Pat Harrison of Miss., said the New York: governor would be here tomorrow to accept it in person before the convention. Convention headquarters Chicago June 30 —(UP) — Roosevelt forces, claiming that victory was just around the corner, planned a bold strategic move today. They maintained that they had around 700 votes lined up for the first ballot. They professed confidence that they would, on an early CONTINUED TO PAGE EIGHT MONROEVILLE MAN EXPIRES .1.1). Friedline, Civil War Veteran Dies; Heart Ailment Is Cause John D. Friedline, 89 year old retired farmer of Monroeville, died at the home of his son, John L. Friedline, Wednesday evening at 4:30 o'clock. Death was due to heart disease. Mr. Friedline served as a stockholder in the Citizens State bank at Monroeville and was a former state chaplain of the Junior O. U. A. M. He also held several officers in the G. A. R. Post at Monroeville and was a former trustee of the Winona Lake Assembly Association. He was a veteran of the Civil War, having been a member of the Decatur company. Surviving is the widow, one daughter and four sons. He has several distant relatives in Decatur, and a number of friends here. Funeral services will be hel<l Friday afternoon at 2:30 o'clock (D.S. T.) at the Monroeville U. B. church. Burial will be made In the I. O. O." F. cemetery at Monroeville.