Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 30, Number 175, Decatur, Adams County, 25 July 1932 — Page 1

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OUSE VOTES TO REPEAL BONE DRY LAW

ion Predicts Return Os Kaiser Wilhelm To German Throne

:Jd GERMAN Spire within ‘■•hi, he says TM of Prince August ''"“'■Eh Spot in German k ’ ! ;«rtion Campaign ■exce of f Ik\n ris seen D fgerlr July 25—(U.R’—Presi- < —-~^K au | Von Hindenburg “'E*, rnted to end the milljZXjte of emergency in ~ '**rlin and Branderburg Provh ar ”t >morrow. it was said * today. emergerl cy was prolast week as part of K(X-ernmert's move to end disorders in Prussia. July 25. — <U R> — VM Rfpowt in Germany, his I predicted in an | "®iofcp< • >i that furnished —JLhfcct in the recent politI ' within the GerWilhelm, now ardent supporter' —<Ad< Hitler, said the re- -■ chjgi - i’ the Herman polit-1 • were unimportant' to take I ■ \ MKhil changes returned the I '■ I that ruled in the] Bjfle Hnhi-nz.'Herns back in Kerin bad 11111 l>v*lcl since the S>»nto shi i of i tie republic after i ar M n.id an enthusiastic II his father would II again, and that a | empire was "within sßierOeir i-hanges to which he . 4Berresl 1 orn; :is>-d the seizure of I , r HN uistration by the e.linnet, giving the "all - ven greater pow- —> h»n®ai . iijuved by the kaiser. For ti rteeii years the soul of x t-\<;i: si’\ r » Inize for l-H EXHIBITS (Ib an I Organization To Club Work in This Year ton papers for an organmen who will sponsor inty’s 4-H Club and exws were recorded In the ■s. Clara Anderson, coun- , this morning. :tors of the organization yor George Krick. Carl the Cloverleaf creamand L. E. Archbold, mt, all of this city; mgartner and Ed Newlerne. en will have charge of 4-H club exhibits and 1 held in Ail.ims county. \ will he. the 4-H Club Colt Club show to I. . X* I)ft 'atur. August 18, 19, iy 4-H club calves and - G° l W I, ' llal colts wiH be exhib - Adams County Highway First street and the 4-H J.'T.fll ,lis P |a ys Will be held in ... of the City Hall. The — tor the public. «"j ( feiewis Not Aflst Men Who Steal (W Ip, .JR July 25— (U.R) — steal to feed their famireceive no punishment ,"pJ^^Bl' ul court. Judge William declared when court K todayte cases, he said, had reb * ni tlie dangerous near starvation on men. L an > a brought before me of theft," he said. “I yjJ^^B en tence him to jail, if it LraW tbat be has stolen to family. will do is to put him on entailing regular visits ,Kt L P W on officers. The rnajorwhich I have handled MiC® anner have been justiJ *sF *

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Waited For Owner Os Cow And Saved Life Mexico ' City, July 25.—4U.R) Clarence McElroy, flier who cracked up in the jungles, lived through two foodless weeks and came back alive because he found a calf tied I to a tree and waited for someone to untie it. was in a hospital here today. The Indiana flier was "very! tired," he told hospital attendants who received him as soon as he arrived here by airplane from San Geronimo where he was taken soon after he was found. His plane was destroyer!; his I flying companion. Roy Gordon of ' 'Tegucigalpa, •was killed In the ; crash. The flier was met here by his, I brother, Richard McElroy, of, i Medaryville. Ind , and Dr. A. B. I Goodman. The brothers embraced ' and wept at their meeting. Clarence was able to tell corI respondents how be wandered in • I the jungle for 14 days, without food, although he was able to get | water. Finally he found a calf I tied to a tree. He decided to wait I unil somebody came for the calf. After 24 hours, a Mexican boy I arrived. The flier, not knowing Spanish, explained his predicament as best he could. After another 24 hours, the boy led a rescue party to the j spot. One of McElroy's legs was para- | lyzed in the crash of his plane, I which he said struck the side of a mountain during a storrfi. WOULD MODIFY VOLSTEAD LAW Roosevelt Would Call Extra Session of Congress, Says Nominee’s Son Worcester. Mass.. July 25. —(U.R) —Congress may be called into extra session to modify the Volstead act In the event Franklin I). Roosevelt is elected president, his son, James, told local Democrats here. "The Democratic president,” young Roosevelt said, "will call a special session of congress, if necessary, after March 4 to modify the Volstead act to provide employment for many citizens.” The candidate's son also charged that Republicans would maneuver the stock market in September and October to cause as "artificial l>ooni for the purpose of misleading the citizens." He said they would resort to desperate measures to beat his father. — o Child’s Red Hair Is Cause of Divorce — Waterloon, Ind.. July 26 —(UP) —I The red hair of a child presented Merrill Morrow by his wife, Pauline, is the object of a divorce suit filed in DeKalb circuit court. Morrow’, a burnette, charged no child of his would have red hair. The couple was married last October and separated in April. Eaoh seeks custody of tihe child. ANDREW MELLON MAY QUIT POST Ambassador to England May Tender Resignation To President Hoover Washington, JJuly 25.—(U.R) —The state department said today it had no reason to believe that Andrew W. Mellon, ambassador to Great Britain, planned to resign. It characterized British press reports of his resignation as mere speculation. London, July 25.—(U.R) -Andrew W. Mellon, former secretary of the treasury, will resign his post as ambassador during his present visit to America, London* newspapers said today in discussing war debts and reparations settlements. The ambassador feels that a younger man should handle important questions such as war debts which are expected to be discussed by the United States and her European debtors, the Laborite Daily CONTINUED ON PAGE SIX

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MACHINE GUNS EIRE ON YACHT: WOMAN INJURED Mysterious Gun Eire Riddles Yatch on Lake Michigan Sunday Night 20 PERSONS WERE ON BOARD Waukegan, 111., July 25.—(U.R) — Steel-jacketed bullets whining out over Lake Michigan from a National guard rifle range wounded a young woman on a yacht and imperiled 19 other members of a group -of pleasure voyagers, it was determined today. Capt. Walter E. Anderson, in charge of the rifle range, said guardsmen were practising on the 1,000-yard range and that bullets were falling in the lake. Waukegan, 111.. July 25 —(UP) — Mysterious machine gun fire raked a yacht on Lake Michigan late last night, seriously wounding a young woman and imperilling 19 other persons aboard the vessel. Rosa Peteison, 23, was a victim of the gunfire. The shots riddled the hull of the craft which was in danger of sinking before it reached 'Port. Twenty persons were on board I the boat when the sudden attack! struck. The craft was cruising slowly about a mile out from shore and five miles nortih of here. Suddenly | Miss Peterson who was sitting in the forepart of the boat cried out she had been hit by a bullet. The stream of steel bullets lashed the yacht. Other guests flung themselves flat on bhe deck to escape the fire. The bullets crashed into the hull spattered through portholes jand riddled the cabin. Guests said the water was churned to foam by the mysterious outburst. Wellington Quirk, owner of bhe craft, instantly swung the vessel away from shore and rapidly drew CONTINUED ON PAGE FIVE RESIDENT OF COUNTY DIES Miss Cora Chronister, 60, Dies of Cancer at County Infirmary Miss Cora Chronister, 60, life long resident of Adams county, i died at the county infirmary at I 3:30 o'clock Sunday afternoon of cancer. Miss Chronister had suffered with cancer for a long time and was bedfast the last four weeks. , She had been an inmate of the infirmary for eight years. Prior to that time she was a housekeeper. She was a member of the United Brethren church at Boho. ( Miss Chronister was born in St. Marys township. September 21, 1871, a daughter of Conrad and Catherine Chronister, both de-! ceased. Surviving are the follow-1 , (ng brothers and sisters: Williami I Chronister. Mrs. Catherine Welker both of Bobo. Mrs. Adeline Humerickhouse of Craigville, and Edward Chronister of North Webster. The body was taken to the S. E. Black Funeral Parlors and will be removed to the William Chronister home this afternoon. Funeral services will be held Tuesday afternoon at two o’clock at the Chronister home and at 2:30 o’clock at the Bobo United Brethren church with Rev. Johnson, pastor, officiating. Burial will be made in the Bobo cemetery. o Rev. Sunderman Goes To Evangelical Meet Rev. M. W. Sunderman left for Oakwood Park Assembly at Lake Wawasee today where he will be one of the instructors in leadership training this week. Because of his absence there ■ will be no preaching service next Sunday at the First Evangelical church. The Sunday school session will be held as usual, however.

Decatur, Indiana, Monday, July 25, 1932.

Ziegfeld Dead; Mother 11l O’rtßt : [ .fl R. W Il jli v y I gjSt f m i i-/Wo! ' t WK '-*'-****' ' w -- Florenz Ziegfeld (right), famous theatrical producer, who died suddenly at Hollywood, Cal., and his mother. Mrs. Florence Ziegfeld Sr., who is ill in her home in Chicago and has not been told of her son’s death because it is feared the shock may prove fatal. Mrs| Ziegfeld, who is 83 years old, still resides in her W. Adams street home in Chicago where her son was horn 63 years ago.

FIGHT ORDER ON FUTURES Heads of Marketing Associations to Test Ban In The Courts Chicago, July 25 —<U.R> — Ultimatums were exchanged today by Peter B. Carey, president of the Chicago board of trade, and George S. Milnor, general manager of the Farmers' National Grain corporation, as both promised a finish fight in their war over grain marketing rights. While Carey and Milnor fought over the Washington order suspending for 60 days the board of trade, largest wheat market in the world, prices went up fractionally at the opening but selling depressed the quotations to a cent under Saturday’s lows. Later they rallied to stand about % cents lower. ‘■We will carry the battle to the United States supreme court rather titan allow the farmers’ national membership in the clearing association.” said Carey. Milnor countered: ‘‘Of course, we’ll get into the clearing association. The law provides us that right. If the board of trade wants to commit suicide rather than let us in. that’s up to them." Despite contrary predictions, wheat prices spurted to %c at opening of trade today, ignoring the 60-day suspension order against the board of trade imposed 'by the federal grain futures comCONTINUED ON PAGE THREE ELECTED STATE PRESIDENT Edward Martz of This City, Elected Head of Evangelical League Edward Martz of this city was elected state president of the Evangelical League of Christian Endeavorers at a banquet and meeting of the organization held Saturday night at Oakwood Park, Lake Wawasee. The meeting was held in connection with the Indiana conference of the Evangelical church. Oakwood Park Assembly. Mr. Martz served as president of the local district of the Christian Endeavor Society during the last year. o — Board of Guardians To Meet Tuesday The Board of Children’s Guardians will meet at the Library, Tuesday afternoon at two o’clock.

Florenz Ziegfeld Is Buried Today — i Los Angeles, July 25—(U.R) —The | body of Florenz Ziegfeld reposed I in a quiet tomb today, the final curtain down in a life which gave ! to the world new impressions of ' i color and rhythm, lilting melodies 1 and gaiety as frames for the 1 charm of beauty in womanhood. | The beauty which he loved so; I well in life was present in the i , I simple funeral services al which I | hiR family and friends, many of whom he had aided toward great.I ness. paid tribute. ( It was a different beauty—the t beauty of ritual, of flowers, bank- , ing an austere silver gray casket, j the beauty of love and affection . I resigned to loss. ‘MA’ FERGUSON ! WINS IN TEXAS 1 — ~ . Former \\ oman Governor Leads Field; Texans Are For Modification Dallas, Texas. July 25—(U.R' 1 —Texas Democrats voted two to one for resubmission of the state prohibition laws to the people, a check of Saturday’s primary election revealed to- i day. The incomplete vote was: For resubmission: 218,963. Against resubmission: 88.518. Dallas, Tex., July 25 —<U.R) - For-; iner Gov. Miriam A. (Ma) Ferguson, who canned peaches when I not occupied with affairs of state, ■ will meet Gov. Ross Sterling in| a run off election for the Texas j democratic gubernatorial nomination, it appeared today. Mrs. Ferguson was leading Sterling 264,594 votes to 191,428 on the basis of almost complete returns from Saturday’s primary. election. Without a majority, the) nominee must be selected by a, second balloting. The situation duplicates the 190 U election when Mrs. Ferguson led Sterling in the first primary only to Lose the nomination in the second, tn Texas, a Democratic nomination is tantamount to elecj tion. Results of Saturday's balloting; restores "Ma” and her equally colorful husband. James “Pa"| Ferguson, to positions of front i line import in Texas politics. Their stormy and colorful exper-j iences date back to 1917 when' Ferguson, elected by farmers, was impeached and ousted from office. He was Barred from making further races, and “Ma" became the family candidate. She was elected governor in 1924 on Anti-Ku Klux Klan sentiment. The Fergusons left their Temple, Tex., ranch and moved again into the gubernatorial CONTINUED ON PAGE FIVE

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Session Is Half Over; Tax Problem Hanging (By Dick Heller) After a sweltering week in the Indiana State House the House and Senate of the Indiana General Assembly, meeting in special session. appeared still far apart on tax relief programs. On Tuesday the 40-day special session will have reached the half way mark, and legislators will be forced to work day and night the remaining three weeks to put into law any sort of a relief program. The Wright repeal law is nearing passage in the House and will go to the Senate on either Tuesday or Wednesday. It is believed the measure as it now stands will pass the Senate and will become a law in Indiana to take the place of the present stringent Wright law. The new measure provides for medicinal liquor and also permits the home consumption of homebrew. Utilities received a severe setback this week in the House when several bills aimed at home rule of municipal utilities passed to third leadings after heated scraps on the floor. Perhaps the worst act of legislation so far enacted by the House was the passage of the Dekalb county salary cut bill which makes the salaries of officials of that county ridiculously low. Now if the general salary cut bill passes, the Dekalb county men will be subCONTINUED ON PAGE FIVE O DROWNINGSTAKE HEAVIEST TOLL Twelve Violent Deaths In State Over Week-end; Seven Drowned — By United Press Twelve lives were lost by violence in Indiana over the week-end, a survey by United Press disclosed today. Drownings took the heaviest toll. Seven persons lost their lives in water, one of them in a rescue attempt. A woman was murdered in a family fight, two brothers were killed by a train, one man was killed by an auto and another died of accidental gun wounds. Mitchell, Ind., July 25—(U.R)— Mrs. Harley Edwards was shot and killed at her home here by! her husband, 40, after he had wounded her two children. Clarence. 17, and Louise, 15. Edwards fired twice at his wife, with whom he was estranged, when she attacked him with a stick of wood after he wounded the children. Police were informed that Edwards came here from Martinsville In an attempt to effect a reconciliation. The childrens’ condition was reported not serious. Charges of murder were placed against Edwards, who was being held in the Lawrence county jail at Bedford. The family formerly resided in CONTINUED ON PAGE FIVE PORCH CLIMBER IS SCARED AWAY Burglar Tried to Enter Room of C. J. Lutz at Elk’s Home Sunday A.M. A porch climber, probably with burglary intent, attempted to enter the rooms occupied by Attorney C. J. Lutz in the Elk's home on North Second street at about 2 30 o’clock Sunday morning. Mr. Lutz who occupies the southeast room on the second floor of the Elk’s home, was awakened by footsteps on the porch root directly under his window. He called out, “get away from here" and the man flashed a flash-light into the window. Mr. Lutz was sitting on the bed and saw the man, but could not identify him. Sunday morning Ben Knapke, house manager of the Elk’s Home found the ladder which enabled the man to climb to the porch. It was standing alongside of the house. It was the belief of Mr. Lutz that the man was a stranger. Tlfe matter was reported to officials today.

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JARREST LEADER ' OF BONUS ARMY k FORRIOTING . John Pace, Leader of ‘Left i Wing’ Arrested For Inciting Riot SECOND ATTEMI’T TO PICKET WHITEHOUSE i Washington, July 25.—<U.R) ■ — John Pace, leader of the ' i “left wing” bonus marchers, was arrested on a charge of ■ inciting a riot this afternoon. • Police charged he urged his ■ followers to break police lines: ■ and go to the White House despite police orders. i Washington, July 25.— (U.R) — A 1 shouting crowd of insurgent memI l.ers of the bonus army attempted > to picket the White House today f but was repulsed by police who > met them in front of the treasury - building. i Police were not as patient as in E the similar attempt last week and t pushed the veterans back forcefully, in some cases sending them a- . sprawling into the gutters. ■ I Police shunted the would-be pici kets away from the White House at ' the intersection of Pennsylvania J and New York avenues and 15th I street. The treasury department is i 1 at that corner. There were about 75 marchers in the bannerless parade. 1 i “We want our bonus,” some ! shouted. John Pace, leader of the so-called ; left-wing groups sqid: “We demand an extra session of congress to give us our back pay.” Half as many police as marchers were in the street at the treasury ’ corner. The veterans moved half ’ a block up New York avenue and away from the White House, but broke across the street and started back toward their objective. Scattered fights and disorder ex--1 cited lunch time crowds at the in--1 tersections of 13th and F streets in , i CONTINUED ON PAGE SIX , “ VOTE ON HIRING A NEW PASTOR Zion Reformed Church To Select New Minister Sunday Selection of a pastor for the Zion Reformed church of this city will take place Sunday, July 31, following bhe morning services. The members will vote on Rev. Ernest Fledderjohann of Chicago, who wjll preach a trial sermon preceding the election. Rev. Fledderjohann is at present pastor of the Grace Reformed church located at 2654 West Jackson Blvd. Chicago. He is a cousin of the late Rev. A. R. Fledderjohann and is also a cousin of Mrs. Fledderjohann, the late pastor's widow. (He is married and has three children. According to the constitution of the Zion Reformed church only one candidate may be voted on at a time. In case he is rejected by the church members then another candidate will be brought to the church and a subsequent election will be held. All members of the church in good standing and eighteen years of age or over are entitled to vote. All are urged to be present Sunday morning. The pastorate of the church has been vacant since the late Rev. A. R. Fledderjohann was killed when a train hit the automobile in which he was riding near Hamlet, Indiana, Thursday, May 12. Rev. Ernest Fledderjohann has filled the pulpit of the local church on several occasions since that time. o Band Concert To Be Given Tuesday Night The Junior Band will present its weekly concert on the Central School grounds, Tuesday evening at 7:45 o’clock. The program will consist of and popular numbers.

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VOTE 58 TO 38 TO REPEAL DRY LAW IN STATE Wright Enforcement Act Doomed With Action Today in The House SENATE WILL ACT FAVORABLY lii<lianap<rlis. July 25. —The Weiss bill repealing the Wright “bone drv” law and providing a tax of 50c a pint on medicinal whisky was passed by the Indiana House of Representatives today hv a vote of 58 to 38. Gov. Harry G. Leslie's signature is regarded assured if the Senate passes the hill. A Puzzling Problem Indianapolis. July 25 — (U.R) —A. puzzling economic problem—that of whether retrenchment is worth Rs attending hardships — looms more inexorably each day in the special legislative session. While one school of legislators stands forth for retrenchment at any cost, another questions the policy of mortgaging the future to bring about temporary relief. During debate over a proposal that would place a 10-year moratorium on local unit bonds, one senator remarked: “If the future holds nothing in store for us, it we cannot believe in it. then we are lost.” | The issue again came to the fore in debate over the bill which would place a limit of $1.50 on property taxes and hold the state levy to 15 cents Farm bloc leaders said the bill, which passed the senate, would boost land values. I Opponents characterized it as “violent and destructive, so binding the government that soma units will he virtually unable to operate." Although public improvement; has long been held out as a means of furnishing employment, legislators are baffled by the necessity" of lowering taxes and at the same time providing relief. To cut taxes means to diminish operating funds. Without funds work cannot go on. While one group cries for reduced CONTINUED ON PAGE THREE 0 Legion Meet Tonight There will be a meeting of the local American Legion tonight at 8 o’clock in the Legion Hall. — ——o — Adams County Teachers Enjoying Eastern Tour Three Adams county school teachers are enjoying an extended tour of the East. The Misses Dorothy Dilling and Margaret Geisel and Oscar Geisel left Decatur July 1 and expect to travel approximately 1800 miles. Included in their itinerary are most of the important cities of the eastern states. They remained in Washington, D. C., for one week visiting all the administration buildings of tha capitol. They expect to return home in a month. o AUDIT OF COUNTY RECORDS BEGUN Field Examiners of State Board of Accounts Begin Job in This County C. B. Bales of Richmond and Henry Martin of Portland, field examiners for bhe state board of accounts arrived in the city today to began the annual audit of public, records. The examiners will check the 1931 records of county officials, school boards, township trustees, justice of the peace and the financial records of the towns of Monroe. Berne and Geneva and the city of Decatur. The men will be here several weeks. They started to work this morning in the county auditor’s office and will complete the checkup there before going to any of the other offices. Last year the public records in this county were audited and balanced as to January 1, 1931. Mr. Bales assisted in the audit of the books in this county a few; years ago.