Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 30, Number 175, Decatur, Adams County, 25 July 1932 — Page 5

■ fekgvson " i|M \\ |XS IN TEXAS i Hn< Ferguson e fruits and made J'' ll *"” < engaged In t governor nndjc lee." she used to nay.,] Mh»>r.-d fiery Pan Moody. R, 1(11 wv general, defeated , .v. Th- Fergusons . ul ,n th. .npital city, and j l.irming once more announced f - t I^R r stumpFerguson. hla broad, black hat. high shoes, made 1 1 m .- P «. Ma” ait on t»he L snl fled at the t strength Is in i ( ,h *'ii the creek cron-| ( k ,,! vest pocket ■L to run his wife ( * . '< policy of pari■fc ;n .l I e prisoners in ( f° r f , her K" <1 the people that „ : V.i meant "election y.-r’isoti anil he was! office once. - ’ ... . Ma' Fergnson rai L | H ask my husband Mrs Ferguson said. -L"l!ii: the people of a ,-..,! bargain.” Ferguson, governors the] .... beat that times?” ■ -* R>r\ Personal I I Fortune Dwindles Ificg «.1 e ?•'. -<UP) I’resiK, t g as lost more than ~f personal f .rtune, - i otazi e. Fortune, : dwindled fi ■ 1914. annually when he was old. said. Five thouwas salary as an en- j L>tr: JU. was income from. M g ’ ■Mk -t much of his for-1 a s4iHm.i>im in the] Development com-| a He lost ai Ilion m a newspaper ven-1 ' the Ind'i-, 'JL ' ■'OP SESSION J RNE: TAX PROB|P LEM HANGING FROM page one BOB' .: - til, I , ut. W hen am! | ■Kr 's !!> county will have that will be to operate his the week IHH. .ix reduction bil's I on by the House, iiimiltee of the whole Sis week. There ia a decld-[ etween Floor Leader Delph >n. Earl Crawford. Demo-' lens chairman and Virgil] b. Bluffton, the three lead frs gfl J.-nici ra< yin the House. j I 8M ®n> argues that reductions >re ssary, but that the House j nothing so drastic that] progress will be; i.- for tax cuts, but de-i

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sires to have the new measures meet his personal approval. Crawford is for cuts in everything. The latter leader also has Introduced a number of bills which would almost entirely eliminate legal advertising Opponents of the Crawford measures say there would be many loopholes for bribery and small graft If officials were not compelled to publish their reports in items. Contractors are badly hit In a number of measures introduced and a house truck measure, if passed in its present form would wreck every trucking concern in the state. It is understood, however, that the measure will be amended. Horse racing, gambling and taxes on auto races are some of the minor legislative measures appearing in the two houses. A measure placing a lb per cent, tax on motion picture theatres is not expected to pass. The bill is the usual “force” measure,. so 1 ndianapolls theatre owners will present members of the two houses with season passes to their shows. Leaders of both houses are united in the plan of holding night sessions this week. It is doubtful if the Assembly will adjourn before the 40th day. - ■ -o — Sues for 23 Years' Alimony OAKLAND, Calif. (U.R)— Twentythree years" unpaid alimony was the 1411 presented Albert T. Church by his divorced wife, Wilda. recently. She brought suit in court to collect 112,200 she claimed owing her since an Ohio court awarded her 1420 yearly alimony 23 years ago. Sport Writers to Be Guests SAN FRANCISCO (U.R) Feature writers and special correspondents attending the Los Angelas Olympic Games will be guests of honor at the League of Western Writers' convention August 16-20, officials of the organization have announced. ■ —o — —— City Stores Evicted Furniture Pawtucket. R. 1. —(UP) —FurtiiI ture of needy families evicted by landlords for non-spayment of rent is being stored at the expense of the city. o Owl Steals Spectacles Wimbled, n. England, — (UP) — ' An owl attacked Sidney Ernest Sug | | den, here, recently, .nd flew away j | with his spectacles. As payment, • it left a number of deep scratches. o Sharks Caught Off England ] Yarmouth. England, — (UP) — Fony shanks have been caught off ‘the Norfolk coast, near here, reicbntly; the largest, 12 feet long ! t ok 20 men to haul it ashore. Dove For 50 Cents ! Tacoma, Wash, — (U.K) —To win a 50-cent wager. Bob Palmateir jumped into a pool with his clothes on. ■ -o— Rare Cloth Found in Wall | South Dennis. Mass, — (U.PJ — Pieces of cloth and a mica pattern I for a patchwork quilt, identified by a research expert as being more ■ than 200 years old. recently were I discovered in a drawer built in a ■ wall of an old Colonial house here. Canada Deported 7,124 Ott-wa, Ont—(U.R)—Total deportations from Canada to other countries during the fiscal year 1931-32 totaled 7,124. Os this total 4,248 [were deported to countries in the 'British Empire. Persons becoming j public charges comprised 4,507 of .the deportees. o The Lord Mayor of London gets $36,000 a year but expenses of j the office require an expenditure I of double that amount.

DECATUR DAILY DEMOCRAT MONDAY, JULY 25, 1932.

Cards That Foretold Murder » . Used by Police in Manhunt ♦ ♦ ♦ * ♦ ♦ Chicago Detectives Balked When Seance With “Death Pack" Fails to Identify Slayer of Grocer Whose Death Was Predicted in Wife’s Fortune. ~~~L—- ■■ If Spy -yJSr ■ M - Rmk ‘4MB . fIK! k JL -A -r * X# ‘ . d.e -< \aJ I ' - — -7 -■ -tA - Xi ‘ E.d LfE MrsSuSAN ST Ballot" _-* i **- i '• I ' & vmLv■ - 1 > JF ' / T « E i Fatal l__ J Hand Since George Cnrl wn. found .hot to death in the rear room of hu httll grocery .tore in Chicago, the ma.ter mind, of the Windy City . Detective Bureau ha. been scratching a collective head and asking itself whether Carl's death was an amazing coincidence or is there something in the fortune-telling racket after all. For the grocer was murdered just seventy five hour, after a rny.tic reader of card, had predicted the tragic i event to Carl', wife Reasoning that if the card, could forecast a murder they ought to be able to give a line on the identity of the .layer, the police had the seeress, Mr. Su.an Ballow, a Bohemian, give a ‘P*' I’l 1 ’ 1 reading with her magic pack. But beyond once more bringing the death card into the limelight, Mr. Ballow'. effort, to put the finger on the murderer were vain. The authoritie. then conceived the idea of reenactmg th. seen, of th. evening when Mr.. Carl drew the card, that foretold her hu.band'. murder. At thi. .enion were all tho.e whom the police believed might have .ome connection w>th the ca.e Th. object of the .eance wa. to create the ten., atmo.pher. calculated to play havoc with guilty nerve, and make guilty knowledge of the crime mamfe.t it.elf But again the re.ult wa. negattve. Either the slaver wa. not among tho.e present, or, if pre.ent, i. a hardened .keptre on whom the supernatural atmosphere produced ? o other effect than a determination nolle be found out. Meanwhile, Mr. Ballow i. reaping a golden harvest a. a cult of the publicity .he received, her home being the mecca for many who are willing to pay for the privilege of knowing what the future may have in .tore.

Chicago —Was it just coincidence or is there something in this for- ] tune-teliing racket after all’ That is the qflestion that has worried the' muster minds of the Chicago Detec- ] tive Bureau ever since George Carl was found shot to death in the back room of his little grocery store, just seventy-five. hours after a for-tune-teller had predicted that his wife would soon be a widow. The poice, suspicious by trade] and nature, at first ridiculed the. story sobbed out by the dead man's widow of how the cards hrd fore-] told that her husband was to be murdered. Policemen are of the opinion that the cards can only i forecast the future when the other fallow has a better poker hand.] Then it's a sure sign that a sum of money is abcut to leave ones possession. But on interrogating the seeress turned by Mrs. Carl, detectives found that the widow bad told a straight story. The fortune-teller Mrs. Susan Ballow. a gray-haired, Bohemian. was not at all averse to discussing her clairvoyant art with' the representatives cf the liw. In fact she was pleased at the opportunity of demonstrating her powers! to such a distinguished gathering, explaining the significance of the various cards to the skeptical manhunters. (However, police suspicions, are• not so easily dispelled and, reasoning thi t if Mrs. Ballow’-s cardc uld predict the murder of Carl they should also be able to disclose the Identity of his slayer, they arranged for the seeress to go through her repertoire In the interests of justice. This ses-ion, though impressive was not a success from the police i point of view. For what they want-1 ed was the slayer of Carl and what | they got was a repetition of the] performance on the evening tint, Mrs. Carl drew the cards that fore ] told her husband's murder. (It was then decided to take a leaf front the 'book of some of our senatimal writers of fiction, and a seance was arranged at which Mrs. Billow and Mrs. Carl re-enacted the scene of the fatal fortune-telling. \t tills session were all the immediate family and relatives cf the slain man as well as several friend;, of Mrs. Carl, who, the police though, might know something that would help ttiein in the hunt for the slayI er. It is expected that the tense J atmosphere cf the seance would 1 work so much havoc on the nerves that if the guilty party were prei sent police observers would have i | little difficulty in pinning the crime] I where it belonged. That may bej

good psychology, but in this in- , stance it didn't work according to plan. Either every me assembled In ! the room was innocent or the guilty one is a haidened skeptic ! on whom the tense atmosphere of the supernatural produced no other effect than a determination not to i be found cut. So the Chicago police force is i still scratching a collective head 1 and asking itself unanswerable rid- ■ dies about cards and clairvoyants. | Meanwhile the publicity followi ing on the heels of her murder pre--1 diction has not done Seeress BalI low any harm. On the contrary it has inundated her in a wave of prosperity. For her horn is the mecca jcf the morbidly curious and the more moibidly credulous who are desirous of knowing what the fuj titre has in store and are willing Ito pay for that knowledge. Mrs. Hallow s first act since the arrival of her prosperity was to purI chase a new deck of cards. She explained that she had been suing 1 the old pack for fifteen years, durI ing which she claims to have made many predictions that worked out according to the cards. But despite | her claims, the Chicago cops have lost faith in her powers since she failed to make her cards perform- | miracles like the fictional Philo Vance. o Campbell Confesses Driving Automobile Springfield 111.. July 25 —(UP) — Robert Campbell. 35, ot' Indianapolis ] confessed today according to police that he drove an automobile from i which sh"ts were fired at Patrolman Charles Holt and William McCutcheon, here June 29. Holt was ; wounded fatally. A signed statement by Campbell ' accused Sherman Clemons. 24, of ] Indianapolis of firing the fatal ] .shots. New Evidence In Embezzlement Trial Angola, Ind., July 25 —(UP)— Es forts to show that Milton K. Jacobs’ former officer in the defunct Noble county bank and Trust, company Kendallville, loaned money to business organiz itions in which he was interested, withrut sufficient security, were made by the State in his trial here today on a charge of Bankets' embezzlement. Notes made out to the Kendallville Building corporation, the Cani terbury Building corporation and the National Trading compiny, j were presented as evidence.

MACHINS GUNS I FIRE ON YACHT; WOMAN INJURED CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONE out of rrnge of the bullets. In a few minutes ft became evident the < boat was leaking liatlly and Quirk headed toward this port at full speed. Guests set about bailing out water and Quirk managed to dock here, with the bort a quarter full of water Police and autln titles were un- . able to locate any possible source of the bullets. The yacht was not far from camp Logan when the hall of fire struck but officers there said there had been no firing on the rifle or machine gun ranges during the day. Miss Peterson was taken to the hospital. It was found ahe had been struck in both legs. The bullets removed. Physicians characterized the wounds as serious but not dangerous. The attack was described by Wellington Quirk. “We were cruising at a noimal r ite,” he said. Just about a mile offshore and five miles north of Waukegan. Miss Peter- n cried out sud j denly she had been shot and in a minute tine water about us was spat- i tered with bullets. “The bullets crashed into the 1 framework of the yacht and all about us. I shouted to everyone to fall flat on the deck. Bullets whined above us for a minute. Then as we gained speed and drew out into the lake we apparently dear d the range of the gun or guns. "When we f -und we were taking water rapidly, 1 put about and drew in here.” Quirk, owner of tho yacht, is a weilthy amateur aviator. His home is at Evanston, 411. He had invited i the group of 20 friends, all of th m residents of Evanston and other north shore Chicago suburbs, on a Sunday -uting. The yacht, setting nut from Evanston, had made a leisurely cruise pa t the exclusive noith shore suburbs. when the startling attack occurred. Several members of the party were members of the Evanston walking club. Waukegan police later Vaid their investigation disclosed the shots might have been accidentally fired frem the Camp Logan rifle range at the time of the outburst. Camp Ixigan is a Notional Guard rifle range, located just north of Zion City on Lake Michigan. A | group of guardsmen including the I 132nd Illinois infantry is encamped I there now. 0 _ 1_ BOUND TO BE READ There isn't a bald headed j butcher in Munich. Bavaria's capii tal ' Viscount Snowden and Sir Neville Chamberlain, t'g‘ British t - Government's financial wizards. r suffer from the gout. } Perfume is now being made in Europe from castor oil. 9 It will require 1,000.000.000 galI lons of water daily to keep New York City wet. Rudy Vallee, the radio crooner, i is studying to become a lawyer. Only bachelors or widowers without offspring are allowed to t learn flying in Italy. In Poland women court employees must wear black overalls covering neck and arms so that the attention of male co-workers will not be diverted. France has Ven a republic three J times and Spain twice. Since women have learned to smoke there are 17.000.000 cigarettes consumed daily in New York 3 City. ’ If your piano is in a damp place yon can prevent it from being - ruined by keeping a lighted elee--1 trie lamp inside. 3 11,000,000,000 bottles of soft 3 drinks are consumed annually in - the United States. Your share is ■ 91. 3 Under the now revenue act yon have to pay a 10% tax on the gold or silver used in filling your teeth. Membership in the Federal Ret serve System is no guarantee a ’ bank cannot fail. Don Perignon. a Benedictine monk credited with having discov--3 ered the process of making chain- ' pagne fizz. 250 years ago, has a 1 statue to his honor in his native France. The Boston News Letter, which 3 appeared in 1704. was the first actual newspaper printed in Amer 1 lea. its European “news" was 13 1 months stale. I Tho U. S. Coast Guard is under the jurisdiction of the Treasury Department, not the Navy as many suppose. ■ Stalin, tho mystery ruler of Soviet Russia, who is 50 has a wife only 15. ’ Neither the White House, Capi- ' tol nor other Federal buildings 8 are insured. The Crinese postal service is '■ the oldest in the world dating back 3 to the Chou dynasty, 1122 B.C. In one year American women II use 52.000 tons of cleansing cream, e 4,000 tons of face powder. 26.000 tons of skin lotions. 2.375 tons of I- rouge and enough lipsticks to ’■ reach from Chicago to I,os Anged . les. r, I o Get the Habit — Trade at Home

A Significant Handshake - ■ Bl Sk ■Jb : JM ‘ 't - % iflß* r - .... Governor Joseph P. Ely of Massachusetts (left) is shown as he gueted James A. Farley, chairman of the Democratic National Committee and campaign manager for Governor Franklin D. Roose vet in hia bid for the Presidency, during Farley’s recent visit to Springfield. Ihe Bay State , Governor, who made an impassioned plea for the nomination of Alfred E. I Smith at the Chicago convention, gave Farley his assurance that he would ; meet Governor Roosevelt. It is regarded as certain that he will bury the hatchet and support the party candidate. Star’s Romance on Rocks .. S - SIR ar I I ' Illi Mik > f ? Fit® W' Wi/: MSufes-W" H ..iiiiriv "■■t'iamrMN I There was no ripple on the matrimonial sea when this picture of Maur ye Chev'dier famous French musical comedy and screen star and his wile, ‘i Yvonne Vallee, was made. Now the marital barque has come a cropper upon the rocks of incompatability and Chevalier has filed suit for divorce in Paris. Chevalier married Mlle. Vallee, also a stage luminary, av< at five years ago.

COURTHOUSE Marriage License Romey Franklin Ruble. Allen j I county, farmer to Treva Maxine ' Barkley, Adams county. _o —_ [■ illing Station At Geneva Robbed Today j Gen va, Ind. July 25 —(Special) ’ >' The Limberlost Service Station] lat Geneva was entered early this | >] morning nd S3OO worth of met-. ■; chandis • was stolen. ■' The station was entered by pry- | ing open the front do r. The rob- j ’' bery occurred sometime after mid- i night, a the less was not noticed ' I until early Monday morning. I A number of tires and tubes, a ’ [ radio, and an electric clock were I I stolen end several dollars in cash j were mis sing. I o Geneva Disarmament Conference Progresses I Washington, July 35 —(U.R) — A state department spokesman said] ! today that the administration felt • that substantial progress had been] made l l y he general disarmament; i conference at Geneva. Although t lacking dramatic qualities, this] official said, the conference has i made a real advance in crystallizing opinion for arms reduction. —— .—o Homing Pigeon Sets New Distance Record r ~ " South Bend, Ind.. July 26—(VP) i —A new record of 1,090 miles in : f <two days, an average cf approxiII mately 40 miles an hour, was ests'bI lished by a homing pigeon belong-' • ing to Alox Aftowski, to win the] v, (previous record was two and one- • | half days. s Second place winner, owned ci Alphonse Tagibon, was, 30 minutes i | behind the winner. i j o ]• Failure To Vaccinate May Cause Epidemic □ . •Lafayette. Ind.. July 25—(UP)— I Dangs r of a general epidemic of heg Cholera in Indiana this summer s I and fall has been greatly enhanced

, by failure of farmers to vaccinate I more than a small portion of their I pig crop. Dr. R. 11. Craig, chief I vet rinarian at Purdue, w med toduy. Dr. Craig urged general vaccina- ! tion at an early (late to prevent I i what ho b lieves will otherwise be an inevitable high loss. Oldest Married Couple Montgomery, Mo. —(UP) Mr. i and Mrs. Morrison Henjiershott, i ; whose combined age is 175 years, i claim to be the oldest married ; couple in the United States. They recently celefbiated thei-i 70th wedd ing anniver.-ary. 0 81 Lives I Hoquiam, Wash. — (U.P) — John Iluelsdonk lias nine cats, each nine years old. College to Honor Adams ! Chester, Pa., —(UP) — Charles Francis Adams, Secreta y of the Na-, y. will t>e pwarded the honvnary I degree of doctor of laws at the 112 the annual commencement exer--1 cises of the Pennsylvania Military i College here June 7.

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DROWNINGS TAKE HEAVIEST TOLL CONTINUED FROM PAGO ONS I Cleveland, Ohio. Cannelton. Ind., July 25—(U.R) — ! A man and the two children ho | attempted to rescue from drowning i loet their lives in the Ohio rivor near here iHunday. George Hiifnugel, 75, former president of the Cannelton Milling company, was drowaed after a futile attempt to save his grandson, I Quentin Feder. 8. and a companion. Bessie Cummings. The children stopped beyond their depth ■while wading. Hufnagel was pulled under by a strong current. Montmorenci, Ind.. July 25 (U.R) —-The third drowning in Tippecanoe county this season was recorded with the death of Howard Magert. 30. a farm hand. Magert drowned while swimming in a gravel pit near here. Spencer, Ind., July 25.—(U.R) — Paris Peden, 26, was wounded fatally when the shotgun he was carrying discharged accidentally. Peden, who lived on a farm near I here, was crossing a fence when I the accident occurred. — j Greencastle. Ind.. July 25.—(U.R) I —John R. Spaulding, 76. Terre | Haute, was killed instantly on the National road here when he was ' struck by an auto driven by J. O. Fortner, also of Terre Haute. Wabash, Ind.. July 25 'U.R) - The body of Merritt Millspaugh, who : was drowned in Lukins was : discovered by Ivar Johnson, a pro--1 fossional diver of Michigan City, i Millspaugh drowned while swlm- ) ming. j Aurora. Ind.. July 25- (UJ?) - Floyd and Carl Buckingham. 17 and 24 respectively, wore killed instantly by a B. and O. train near here. Authorities believed they either fell from the train or had fallen asleep on the tracks. Willard Coleman, who was seen | with the victims shortly before 1 the bodies were found, was sought. South Bend. Ind.. July 25 —'U.R) —Twenty-mouths old Nina Ingle was drowned in a wading pool near her home here. The body was found in the water soon after she had left her home. Gary, In.d. July 25 - ,'U.R>— The body of Edward Gravien. 25. was recovered from I<ake Michigan here after lie drowned while swimming. —o Otd Indian Scout Dead I Beverly, Kan. — (UP) — J. J | Peate, pioneer Indian sc ut who led federal forces from Fort Wallace to 1 the rescue of the Arickaree nianacre, is dead. He was one of the 1 original settiers of thi- community. | o Old Gold Ring Recovered Oneida, Kan., —(UP) —Mrs. Emi ery Conwell lost a ring in the tornado of May 17, 1886. In cleiring

away the debris caused by another i recent storm h r husband found the gold band buried in the barnyard. — - - - — n —~ Annual 4-H Club Camp Will Be August 15-19 South Milford. Ind., July 25 'U.R) | —The annual 4-H club’ camp of I Northeastern Indiana will be held August 15 to 19 at Blackman lake I near here, according to announce- ] ment today. The camp is operatied by county agricultural and home demonstration agents and 4-H club leaders of Allen. DeKalb. Elkhart. LaGrange, Steuben and Whitney counties. NOTICE The Gloria Helen Beauty Shop will be closed for the remainder of the week and will open again next Monday. It HELEN TEEPLE o NOTICE We will start our cider mill July 26 and will operate every Tuesday and Thursday until further notice. Charges per gallon 2c. Minimum charge 50c. Factory North Third st. PETER KIRSCH 1 Mon., W. F. S.