Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 30, Number 158, Decatur, Adams County, 5 July 1932 — Page 1

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iIN STRIKES : COHOLTRUCK IEARDECATUR pants Flee Scene of ■ihap, Evidently Uninjured In. Crash 1 GALLONS CONFISCATE 1) r $7,500 White truck.! nft the advertising words it- - Tone of America.; manufacturers.” loaded d J approximately <i(M» gal(f 180-proof alcohol in n cans, was struck bv a k" bound Pennsylvania nger train. No. S(M», at . lonmouth crossing north ecatur at 11:52 o'clock dav night. driver and his assistant >d tn another rar immed- '■ after the ictident, but the and part of the contrabond “ ■ »ere confiscated by Sheriff " ■F** on antl a crew of < ’ otln,y ay men who were called to lG - terlffs aid. e than 175 gallons of the >1 were broken open by the t of the crash and 259 full s are now stored in the room of the Adams county - The truck was towed to the s county highway depart-, garage Sunday morning i It will be held until disposi- _ is ordered by Judge D. B. E\O| riff Johnson went to the of the accident early Sunday ng and at first was able to mly a few Bore than 50 galThis morning the Sheriff lev era! highway men were Ining the truc k and a secret "“inside the huge truck was H peered. > door was opened and offifoutid 200 additional gallons grain alcohol Immediately the crash Adams county e. hearing of the accident. _ sd to the acene and many * is were stolen and carried 0 for private consumption. NTI NT TED TO *PA G E VT VE* x end Has Eye Injured ne, July s—(Specials—(Special to Demo—Donald Foreman 15 year-old t Mr. and Mrs. Arlie Foreman p fferson township received sn [ i ' to his right eye Monday shooting fire crackers at his tai hone. s lad placed a fire cracker in ■M can and then lighted it. The _racker failed to explode and oy approached the can when Idenly exploded. * Can struck him in the eye, Eely Injuring it. He was brought Decatur physician J it was thought that Donald : lose the sight of his eye. alii not MUiteiy determined. IA"KENNEDY 10MMCE OVER ependence Declared n Independence Day By Aimee’s Mother rmosa Beach, Calif., July 5. — -The romance of Minnie (Mai edy and Guy Edward (Whati) Hudson blew up with a loud th of July bang, and verbal echnics which echoed through "love nest' - cottage by the e mother of Almee Semple Meson Hutton, Angelus Temple gelist and wife of David L. .man) Hutton, made an indeence day speech of her own I uncertain terms. She revealrift which may end their much icized marriage of a year, am cutting loose,” said ‘ Ma” •rainedly. am getting out from under. I want it undefttood that I not responsible for debts or r liabilities he has incurred.” kv'hat-a-man” thundered into the ige. He had rushed from his h hotel. ou can say for me that it there sy separation or divorce In this ly it is not because 1 want it,” oomed. "All 1 want Is a chance ork. Imagine a woman letting an go looking, for work with—a dime in his pockets.”

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“Yankee Doodle Dandy” Arrives Here On Fourth • • Daniel James Mills is the name of the Fourth of July, "Yankee Doodle’’ boy baby born to Mr. and Mrs. If bert Mills, 228 Nortfh Fourth street, at the Adams County Memorial Hospital, Monday, July 4. 1932 at 10 o’clock A. M. The baiby weighed six and threeqmrters pounds and is the first child in the family. Mrs. Mills was formerly Miss Harriet Myers. Both mother and baby are reported to be getting along fine. REPORT FILED BY RECORDER Real Estate Transfers For Second Quarter of Year Total 396 There were 396 real estate transfers recorded -in the county recorder’s office during the first six months of 1932, it was announced by Mrs. Clara Anderson, county recorder, today. The report of the second quarter, which ended June 30, was tiled recently and contains the following totals for the second three months of 1932: Deeds. 181; transcripts, 1; mortgages, 56; mechanic’s liens, 17; chattel mortgages, 180; releases, 46; assignments, 15; power of attorney, 1; articles of incorporation, 1; marginal releases, 138; marginal assignments. 1; miscellaneous instruments, 10. During the first six months there were 133 mortgages recorded; 41 mechanic's liens; 318 chattel mortgages; 102 releases; 25 assignments, and 44 miscellaneous documents. The amount of money taken into the office the first three months was $578.05, and during the second three months, $574 was received. The money received during the present quarter will be greater as revenue stamps are now required on rea! estate transfers in the amount of 50 cents for every SSOO of consideration. — -o Many Attend Rally A large crowd attended the Hartford township Young People's Rally which was held at the Linn Grove Evangelical church, Sunday evening, July 3. at T:0o o'clock. During the organization meeting the following officers we e elected: president, Gordon Holloway; vicepresident, Russel Pusey; secret try Josephine Sales; treasurer, Roger Meshiberger. The principal address was delivered by Rev. J. H. Nall on the “Power of Organization” The song servke was in the charge of Dorothy Baker and Rev. J. W. Yantis gave the devotionals. A trio was given by the Zimmerman sisters and Warren Munro played a cornet solo. A song was sung by the Evangelical Young People's chorus and special music was presented by the Union Chaipel Men's Quartette. Remarks were marie by County officials and a pantomine was given by Reiba Jane Pyle. Picnic Is Wednesday The annual picnic of the Women’s Home and Foreign Missionary Society of the Presbyterian Church will be held in the church parlors, Wednesday afternoon instead of at the country home of Mr. and Mrs. Ed Moses as previously announced. The regular meeting will be held at 3:30 o’clock and the picnic will be at six o’clock. Members of the society and their families are invited to attend and are especially requested to note the change in place. o_ - Mrs. McCormick Dies Versailles, France, Jply 5. — (U.R) —Mrs. Katherine Medill McCormick, mother of the Chicago publisher, Col. Robej-t R. McCormick, died early today from a heart attack at her residence here. Mrs. McCormick reached France in May on her annual summer visit and took a house for the season here. Dr. Edmond .Gross, head of the American hospital in Paris, ruehed to Versailles after Mrs. McCormick was stricken, and attended her until she died. It was understood that Col. McCormick In Chicago would make the funeraj arrangements.

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FLIERS START WORLD FLIGHT Mattern And Giffin On First Leg of Attempt To Set New Record Floyd Bennet Airport. New York. July 5.— (U.R) -James Mattern and Bennett Griffin, two army fliers from the southwest, hopped off today on the first leg of a flight planned to beat the round-the-world time of their friends. Harold Gatty and Wiley Post. Their plane droned down the runwav. lifted, and soared over Long Island at 5:01 a. m. (EDT), heading for Harbor Grace, Nfd., where the huge wing tanks that lylped the Winnie Mae break the world fight record were to be refiled. If the barnstorming fliers who lifted skyward this morning with no floats for landing in the ocean, no parachutes for trouble over land, no fire extinguishers or Hares, are successful, they will set their plane down here again within eight days, 15 hours and 51 minutes. J. P. V. Heinmuller. a national aeronautical representative, was at the field to check the time of their departure and make it official. Weather reports earlier had indicated good weathei* en route, but just before the takeoff it was learned wpather was good to Harbor Grace, but stormy over Scotland. The fliers planned to leave Harbor Grace as soon as possible in a direct flight to Berlin. If they fail in that, they hope to reach Ireland. Their plane’s cruising radius is 3,100 miles. A few sandwiches, six oranges, some coffee and hot water in thermos bottles, and some concentrated tea was taken along to keep the aviators in good spirits. They carried 50 letters to friends which I they expected to mail en route. Both Mattern and Griffin wore ordinary business suits, reinforced by leather windbreakers for their trip. "We just have to make it,” Griffin said. They carry with them the good will of Post and Gatty, as well as the gas tanks from their circling plane. And their flight, like that CONTINUED TO PAGE FIVE o— HOOVER SCORED BY DRY LEADER Prohibition Party Opens National Convention At Indianapolis Indianapolis. July S—(U.R) —Prohibftion party delegates gathered here today for their national convention, with the denunciation of President Herbert Hoover as "the most conspicuous turncoat since Benedict Arnold,” ringing in their ears. Dr. Leigh Colvin, national committeeman, told his followers in Cadle Tabernacle last night that U. S. Senator William E. Borah of Idaho would poll 10,000.600 votes if he chose to run for president on the prohibition party ticket. Ho would not say, however, what encouragement, if any. Borah gave him at their conference in Washington Saturday. "The Republican wet plank means that Mr. Hoover, who approved it and whose close associates and appointees drafted it and whose advisors promoted it in their convention, is the most conspicuous turncoat since Benedict Arnold," Colvin said. “Four years ago he received an unprecedented majority because he stood for the maintenance and enforcement of the 18th amendment. Now he stands merely for the enforcement of that which his party is not committed to maintain. He has failed in performing his presidential oath to 'preserve, defend and protect the constitution.” Colvin charged that the two major parties have to the wet voters, but finally came CONTINUED TO PAGE FIVE 0 Band Concert Tonight The regular Junior Band concert will be held at the Central School lawn, tonight at 7:45 o'clock, Dave Rke, band leader, announced. An entertaining .program of band selections and special numbers will be presented and the public is invited to attend.

Decatur, Indiana, Tuesday, July 5, 1932.

“Congratulations, Mr. Speaker’’ < y j J /j u - Wfz I K TT 'll •<Y X 5--" • 1 ( { i f ■ n I||fc- > fJK’ "» tKjS w;.‘ b Kb I ■■■ ' " W 4 First in Washington to congratulate Speaker John Nance Garner on his nomination for Vice President were Representative Sandlin of Louisiana (left) shaking the speaker's hand, and Representative Disney of Oklahoma (right).

LOCAL WOMAN IS RE-ELECTED Trustees Name Mrs. Maybelle Myers Attendance Officer For Year Mrs. Malbelle My&rs was re-elect-ed county attendance offker at a ' meeting of the lAdams County Board of Education held at the of- 1 t’ice of Clifton E. Striker, county superintendent. The only other candidate for the office was Losier Eckrote of Linn Grove. The vote was 10-4. Mrs. Myers will begin her fifth ■ successive year as county attendance officer. She will continue to receive the same salary as was paid her in 1931-32 which is $3.50 per day for ten months of the year. Mrs. Myers is required to take two months vacation without pay each I year. The regular routine business of the board was transacted. All twelve township trustees were present as well as Mr. Striker. Dr. Burt Mangold, president of the DeCANTINUED TO PAGE SIX o Three Killed In Crash Edmonton, Alta., July 5.— (U.R) — Three fliers were killed in a plane crash at Mazemot laake near Ft. Rae. in the northwest territories, ac-1 cording to word received here to- ‘ day. • The dead were. Andy Cruickshank, veteran pilot. L. King, mechanic. J. Tory, mechanic. The message to the Nortthwest mounted police headquarters said the men were killed instantly. BYSTANDER IS BANDITVICTIM Deaf Mute Killed When He Fails To Hear Order Os “Hands Up” I-a Porte, Ind., July 5—<U.R> —Five bandits who robbed the Bank of San Pierre, at San Pierre, today and escaped with an estimated $2,000 in currency shot and killed a deaf mute bystander who did not hear their command of “hands up.” Albert Benham, about 50, died en route to a hospital from wounds he received when he ingnored the bandits’ command as they ran from the bank. He had been shot in both lungs and In the abdomen. Thomas Daly, cashier, was alone in the bank when tlte bandits entered. He was compelled to lie on the floor while the bandits scooped up the cash.

Alice Bandtel Gets Music School Diploma / Mr. and Mrs. J. A. Smith of South First street and other relatives in this city have received announcements of the graduation exercises of the University Extension tkautae of American School of Music of Chicago, which was held Thursday. Their granddaughter. Miss Alice Evelyn Bandtel, 15-year-old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. F. C. Bandtel of Fort Wayne, was a member of the graduating class. She played as her number. “Au Matin,” by Gobard. She is a pupil of Mrs. Marie Simmers of the Marie Simmers Conservatory of Music. BLAST KILLS SIX YOUTHS Butte. Montana, Is Scene Os Fatal July Fourth Celebration Tragedy • — Butte, Mont.. July 5— (U.R) —A police inquiry into the explosion which brought death to six youths here yesterday was ordered today. Four cases of dynamite caps ex- [ ploded ami blew the six boys, all of Austrian extraction, to bits. The boys took the explosives from the powder magazine of the Leonard mine and had been mak- ' ing 'bonDbs, with which they , were celebrating Independence day’ ■ when the blast occurred. The explosion took place in the baseball park at Meaderviiie. a suburb. The force of the blast shook the city and caused hundreds of persons to run into the street. The dead were: Joseph Crnich, 19; William Crnich, 19, cousins; Stanley Serich, 19; Stanley Strizic 18; Rudolph Kavran, 20, and Joseph Mnfish, 19. Authorities believed the boys were making bombs composed of a number of the caps wrapped tightly together with a piece of paper and primed with a fuse. Three other youths who had been exploding the bombs, escaped the fate of their fellows by going home. The bodies of the six were found mangled and partially dismembered in a circle 300 feet in diameter. The force of the explosion was sufficient to blow parts of their llbdies 400 feet through the air. Agreement Is Reached Washington, July 5.-(U.R) —House and senate conferees formally reported out today the compromise $2,100,000,000 unemployment relief bill. Representative Tready. Republican, Massachusetts, was the sole member of the conference group of eight to dissent from signing the conference report, ,

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ROOSEVELT IS RACK AT ALBANI ~ Party Wounds Healing Up After Convention; Reception Planned Albany, N. Y. July 5 — (UP) — Another indication that Democratic Convention battle wounds are healing was seen here today in tplans for a "Homecoming Reception” for Governor Franklin D. Roosevelt, sponsored 'by political factions which supported former Governor Alfred E. Smith for the Democratic i Presidential nomination. The governor returned from the Chicago convention last night. The official reception by the city, planned and organized by Edward J. and Daniel P. O'Connell will be Wednesday, or possibly later. The organizers are ardent Smith partisans. Onother week and developments which indicate dthe Smith-Roose-velt breach would be healed during the campaign for the Presidency, included J Roosevelt's independence day greeting to the society of Tammany I was read before Tammany members and applauded by all, including Smith, an official. Smith himself was given a more enthusiastic greeting. Roosevelt’s message closed with the statement that “I am assured the society of Tammany will follow tfie banners when the cause of real democracy is at stake.” Mayor Frank Hague, returning to CONTINUED TO PAGE FIVE RURAL LETTER MEN PROTEST i I Carriers Object To Pay Cut; Claim It Is Unfair At Convention Indianapolis. July S—(U.R) —Rural mail carriers in Indiana in con- . vention here protested the pay reduction provided in the recent federal economy bill, on the ground that they had already received cuts, and should not suffer doubly. They ask for restoration of the amount taken off bfy the economy bill. Charles H. Woodward of Mt. Vernon was re-elected president, and other officers re-elected were Stanley Jones. Crawfordsville, vice president, and L. L. McConnell, Indianapolis, secretary-treasurer. Ladies auxiliary officers, also reelected, are: president, Mrs. M. M. Thomas, Mt. Vernon; vice president. Mrs. E. H. iSChmalfeldt. In"i dianapojis; secretary. Mrs. Edgar 'I Henthorn. Waynetown, and treasurer, Mrs. Stanley Jones, CraW- ’ fordsville. Celebrator Is Held Detroit, July 5. — (U.R) — Joseph Blackman had a lot of fun yesterday tossing lighted firecrackers to Herman, the Belle Isle Zoo's pet sea Ifon. until police came along. Herman, thinking thb firecrack- ' ers choice tid bits, caught them ■ jauntily in his mouth. He showed great surprise as they exploded. ■ but always came up for the next ' one. Police held Blackman for an investigation. TWO MISSING FLIERS FOUND I ■■-■ ■ ■ — ! German Aviators, Lost for Seven Weeks Located in Australian Jungles ’ Windham, Australia, July 5.— ' (U.R) Two German aviators have i been found alive in the Australian • bush country where they fought 1 off death by living on snails, gum, i leaves and wild life during seven weeks of wandering there and five days adrift at sea. The men, Capt. Hans Betram and his mechanic, Adolf Flaussmanu, were discovered by friendly ’ Aborigines from the Drysdalo ’ Mission station who brought them back to civilization. DuHng their struggle to escape ' from the wilderness, the fliers , once fashioned a boat from a float of their seaplane and started ; *"* ’cANTINUED TO PAGE SIX

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Former Local Woman Undergoes Operalion Mrs. Lew G. Ellingham, wife of L. G. Ellingham, editor of the Fort Wayne Journal-Gazette and former editor of the Daily Democrat, is recovering from an operation performed recently at the St. Joseph hospital at Fort Wayne. Mrs. Ellingham suffered a siege of acute appendicitis and an immediate operation was necessary. According to dispatches from Fort Wayne, Mrs. Ellingham is regarded to be greatly improved. o COMMISSIONERS HOLD MEETING Routine Matters Disposed Os During Forenoon Business Session The county commissioners met this morning and devoted the forenoon to checking and allowing bills. A session was held this afternoon during which county matters were discussed. A record of the county school fund mortgages held by the county was to be submitted by County Auditor Harlow and other matters of finance, including county deposits in banks that are closed was scheduled to come up. The board will be in session Wednesday and bids for furnishing supplies at the county infirmary will be opened. Only a few bids had been filed at noon today. Road matters will receive consideration, but the board is undecided as to what action shall be taken on future road improvements as the state board of tax commissioners Is reluctant to grant permission to issue bonds. CANTTNUED TO PAGE SIX O Coolidge Has Birthday Plymouth, Vt„ July 5. — (U.R) — Calvin Coolidge, spending the summer at his ancestral homestead here where he was born, observed his 60th birthday unceremoniously yesterday, remaining indoors because of heavy rain and an attack of hay fever. JOHNSON MAY BE DEMOCRAT California Senator Is Putting Fear In G.O.P. • Campaign Leaders Washington, July 5. — (U.R) —Senator Hiram Johnson, fiery Californian, had tlie Republican campaign managers on the anxious seat today. They feared he was about to come out definitely in support of Governo r Franklin D. Roosevelt, Democratic nominee for President. The California Republican long has been a bitter foe of President Hoover. Yesterday he issued a statement praising Roosevelt in glowing terms for flying to Chicago to address the Democratic convention. But he declined to say specifically whether his statement meant that he would bolt 'he Republican ticket and support Roosevelt in the campaign. Johnson bolted in, 1912 and ran sot vice-president on the Bull Moose ticket headed by Theodore Roosevelt. In 1916 he withheld his active support from Charles Evans Hughes, the Republican candidate. This was generally considered to have contributed greatly to Woodrow Wilson’s close victory in California. The whole result hinged on that state and Wilson was re-elect-ed. Johnson would have the company of other western Republicans if he supported Roosevelt. Senator Norris, Nebraska insurgent, favors the New York governor, just as he backed Alfred E. Smith against Mr. Hoover in 1928. Senators Brook hart of lowa and Frazier of North Dakota have declared they would not support Mr. Hoover, but they have not definitely come out for Roosevelt. Senator Borah, Idaho, star campaigner for Mr. Hoover in 1928, has said he would not support him if he ran on the platform laid dow-n by the party convention. Borah, a dry, was particularly displeased with the Republican prohibition plank and said it stood for “naked CANTINUED TO PAGE SIX

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ACCIDENTS AND STORMS CLAIM LARGE NUMBER Indiana's List of Dead By Violence Totals 11, Figures Reveal AUTO WRECKS LEAD MISHAPS Chicago, July 5— <UR) — ! America resumed its worka- ' day tasks today alter a weekend Independence Day celebration that left a heavy toll of death. Several disastersand scores of isolated accidents brought a toll of more than 300 fatalities and hundreds of injured. Indiana's violent death total was 11. A tornado struck a Kansas town at the height of a celebration and took three lives. Six youths were blown to pits in Butte, Mont. 1 Eight drowned in a capsized excursion launch in Oregon. Ten . were shot to death in flaming Kentucky feuds. A dozen died in Texas floods. Automobiles took thetr usual > toll. Deaths by drowning were not far behind. Fireworks injuri ed many but killed a few. ; Most spectacular of the trage- ' dies occurred at Butte, Mont. Six t youths, copper miner’s sons, diefl when a case of dynamite with which they planned to celebrate . the Fourth exploded. They were , literally blown to bits in the Meaderviiie baseball park where t they had taken the explosives. , A tornado struck Washington. Kan., cutting a swath through the . little farming community only a few hundred feet from where an Independence Day program was being held. $500,006 damage was done and three persons were killed. Gunplay persisted in Kentucky I mountain regions throughout the I holiday. Shooting and killings ' were reported almost hourly in ■ isolated regions. Several of the affrays occurred at Harlan, Ky., where for months miners have been engaged in bitter strife. Drownings took heavy toll in Texas where areas south of San Antonio were flooded. Record i breaking rains turned normally dry-bted rivers into raging torrents. Districts were still isolated and damage was estimated at $1,000,000. The Red Cross was ; called on for relief. In the midwest many holiday excursions were cancelled by inclement weather. Rain was general over the weekend and temperatures low. Police estimatefl the highway death toll as considerably lower than in several years due to fewer motorists. ' In Chicago fireworks injuries were more widespread than for several years. Hospitals reported more than double the number of celebrators treated for burns and wounds than last year. Indianapolis. July s—'U.R)—Elev5 —'U.R) —Elev- • en of the 13 persons killed by • violence in the three-day holiday ' closing last night, succumbed of

CONTINUED TO PAGR FT VW ASSESSORS TO HOLD PICNIC ‘ County Organization And Families To Gather At Lehman’s Park Sunday The township assessors, past and present, will hold their annual family picnic at Lehman's park, Berne on Sunday, July 10. ’ J. K. Yoder, assessor in Hart* ’ ford township and secretary of the organization invited all former assessors, present assessors and ' their families to attend the reun- ' ion. A basket dinner will be enjoyed at noon and a program will be held in the afternoon. Jay Cline, former county assessor is president of the organiza--1 tlon. He also urged the assessors f and their families to attend the 1 picnic. 1 The townhip assessors organiza1 tlon was organized several years 1 ago and the reunions are happy affairs for the assessors, members of their families and friends.