Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 30, Number 178, Decatur, Adams County, 28 July 1932 — Page 1

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William T. Scott Dies At Franklin Franklin. Ind.. July 28—(UP) — William T. Scott, 65, Spanlsh-lAmeri-can war veteran, once city editor of I the Chicago Tribune, and later man i aging editor of the Portland, Ore.. J Oregonian, died last night after a I one-year illness. The widow and one son survive. Funeral services will be .eld Frii day. LOCAL MEN TO CONDUCT TEST OF CATTLE County Veterinarian* To Do Work Under Supervision of Federal Man STATE INSPECTOR ASSISTS IN WORK The tuberculine testing of cattle in Adams county will begin next Monday under the supervision of Dr. E. D. Wright, federal inspector, assisted by Dr. Edgar S. White of the Indiana state veterinarian de- | partment. The work will be done by the four [Adams County veterinarians, two lin Decatur. one at Berne and one at Geneva. An agreement was reached last night at a meeting, with the Uderal iltspeclor and Frank H. Brown, state veterinarin ' and the board of Adams county commissioners. The federal inspector Is paid by the federal government. Adams county agreed to pay his mileage at the rate of six cents a mile, j Tlie county veterinarians will be ' paid at the rate of S2OO per month for the days they work, of which Adams county will pay $125 per month and the state veterinarian department $75 per month. Adams county will also pay $125 per month toward the salary of the state veterinarian. the state paying the bal ' CONTINUED ON PAGE FIVE USE FUNDS AS LAST RESORT R. F. C. Urges States To Apply For Funds Only As Last Resort Washington, July 28 —’U.R) —The Reconstruction Finance Corporation expects tlie states to seek Federal unemployment relief loans “only as a last resort." It laid down this policy in granting a $3,000,001) loan to Illinois. first state to be aided under the new $2,122,000,000 (B) relief act. The corporation said Governor Emmerson presented data showing the Illinois situation was so critiI cal that local resources for helping tlie destitute would be exhausted in a few days. Emmerson report- | ed that the state’s relief agencies ,’already had spent $19,000,000. The reconstruction corporation had planned to withhold loans from the $300,000,000 direct relief fund until Atlee Pomerene, Ohio Democrat, took office as new ■ chairman of the board. Tlie directors felt, however, that the Illinois emergency demanded immediate action. Announcing this decision, the directors added: “In making funds available under the new act for the relief of destitution, the board desires to say that the corporation will excontinu'e’d' on' page two 0 Aged Berne Man Is Seriously Injured Berne, July 28 - ISpecial)—David ‘ Spehiger. 72, was seriously injured when he tell off a wagon load of • oats while threshing at his home, > southwest of Berne, this morning. • The man fell on his head. He also suffered a badly bruised chest and i other Because of his advanced age and » the possibility of complications, ’ the attending physician considers his condition as serious.

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Ghost Fails to Function KwA m Il I Mg* *. W** 'Th*- 7. t f HL: rBO® - ' ' kL i<■ From the grave of Convict Hartman in the Joliet, 111., prison burial ground, a ghost is said to rise i nightlv and chant ancient Latin hymns. One resident of Joliet reported several weeks ago that he heard i the ghost, and now ghost listening has become a popular amusement among the residents of the district. I Photo shows Sheriff Oliver Flint ot Will County and part of the crowd of 600 who gathered Tuesday I night 111 Hartman’s grave, but the ghost failed to appear or sing.

HALF RATE ON t AUTO PLATES -— Licenses l or Balance of Year Sell at Half Price Next Monday J. L. Ehler, manager of the local : auto license bureau announced to-| day that beginning M nday. August 1, license plates w.uld be placed on sale at one-half the yearly rate. The law which specifies that motor vehicles must display number plates on their ears, fixes August 1 I as the date on which license for the ' balance of the curient c (lender years may be sold at half price. Mr. Euler stated 2963 licenses had been issued at the local bhreau since the first of the year. This is about 700 bss than a year ago. Part < of this loss is accountable in the fact that licenses are now issued in Berne for the south half of the county. It is estimated that between 400 and 500 car owners have not taken out licenses this year. With the approach of the half-rate sale next Monday it is expected that sever-1 al hundred licenses will be sold up to the first of the year. With a decrease in the number; ' of license plates issued receipts j from regisrations also show a loss' f r the first seven months. Mr. Eh-i ler stated. BERLIN SCENE OF CAMPAIGN I Adolf Hitler. Speaking From Kaiser's Box, Opens Nazi's Campaign I ‘ Berlin, July 28—(UP)—'Adolf Hit- ' ler. draipper new citizen of Germany in a dramatic plea for a united Germany shouted from the Kaiser s old box at Gruenewald stadium. ’ bn ught the N.zi election campaign to Berlin while bands played, torches flared, and storm troops paraded in ad drizzling rain. Hitler spoke last night to a wildly enthusiastic crowd of 160,000 persons, urging them to drive warring parties from Germany •‘forever.” There were 70,000 in the immense : stadium grandstands, an equal number at the adjacent race track and ' 20.000 Brown shirt storm trocps.| mingled with the Nazi “White j shirt” recruits. Loud Speakers carried Hitler’s message to all in the great crowd. "Our ipeople must raise themselves in unity, or our National life ON PAGE FIVE

Decatur, Indiana, Thursday, July 28, 1932.

Miss Fanny Schindler To Spend Furlough Here Mi s Fanny Schindler, a missionary to Africa, and a sister of Mrs. Mearle Chrisman of this city, returned to her home in Berne Wednesday to upend a furlough with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Jacob C. Schindler. Miss Schindler is a missionary for the Christian Missionary (Alliance at Boma, Congo Beige. Africa. She lias just completed her second four year term as missionary in the African fields. This is the sec-; ond furl, ugh she has spent with! her parents. FUNERAL TO BE HELD FRIDAY Services For Mrs. Man Simon to Be Held at Berne Friday Morning Funeral services will be held Friday morning at 9:30 o'clock at the home and at 10 o’clock at the Missionary Church in Berne for Mrs. ! Mary Simon, 73, who died Tuesday night at 11 o’clock at the home of i her daughter, Mrs. William Thomp- ! son of Berne. Death followed a five weeks’ ill- ; ness from the flu. The deceased , was the widow of the late Anthony Simon. She was born in Switzerland November 11. 1858, the daughter of Christian and iferbara Roth Burry. Her marriage to Mrs. Simon took place in Switzerland, In 1884 they i moved to this country making their I home on a farm in Hartford township, later moving to French town- ■ ship. Mr. Simon died seven years ago and since that time the widowhad made her home with her daughter. Surviving are the following children: Mrs. Mary Gerber of Fort Wayne: Joe of Domestic; Arnold, and Mrs. Aldine Leichty of Berne; Henry of Windsor, Colo., Mrs Sarah Gerber of Gary; David, and Mrs. * CONTOJUED ON* PAGE THKEE o Prison Trustees Meet To Consider Petitions Michigan City, Ind., July 28 — Trustees of the Indiana state prison met in quarterly session today as a pardon and Parole Board to consider the petitions of 145 inmates i seeking clemency. I Forty-four of those seeking freeI dom were incarcerated on life imprisonment sentences; 64 sought clemency for the First time, 66 were renewing previous appeals, three were reformatory cases and 12 reopened reformatory cases.

DEED FOR MOOSE BUILDING FILED Transfer of Charles Sether Building Made to Moose Lodge Today The deed for the transfer of the Charles Sether building on North j Second street to the Loyal Order iot Moose, Decatur lodge No. 1311. was filed today at the county re- ! (-order's office. The price was given at $6,200. The building is a two-story brick i structure with a frontage of 21 (feet on Second street and extends east 72 feet. The Moose lodge will occupy the building as a home. The building iwill he remodeled to suit the lodge s ; needs and the second floor will be I made into a lodge room. The first floor room will be used as club rooms. Mr. Sether will vacate the building by next Monday. He stated this morning he had not decided where he would move his cigar factory. He owns the large two-story building north of the building sold and is undetermined whether he will move next door or to the large warehouse on West Monroe street. The Moose home is located on North Third street, the lodge still retaining ownership of the property. LEAGUE FACES HIGHER BUDGET Walther League Estimate Is $5,000 Higher Than A Year Ago Los Angeles, July 28 — (UP I — The Walther League of the Lutheran church faced a new year with an increased budget today following passage of a financial resolution at its convention here. The budget was increased from $25,150 to $30,1-50 to provide for the presidents’ conference convenexpenses and departmental promotio work. /Another finance resolution urged societies, city locals, zones and districts to cooperate with the interna tional executive board in eliminat- , ing a SIO,OOO deficit incurred partly by the Lutheran radio hour. It was recommended t the executive board that the international Walther League proceed to "incor- , porate under such state laws which , are suitable and practical to our needs." The step was recommended CONTINUED ON PAGE SIX

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SPEED RELIEF BILLS THROUGH i LEGISLATURE House Pass 10 Per (’ent. Salary Cut Bill: Gas Bill The Same 'senate approves 11 MEASURES TODAY Indianapolis, July 28 <U.R) llelicl bills sped through the legislature ttxlav in rapid fire order. A measure that would provide reductions in salaries of all ijoverninental units to •»()', of their 1931 figure was passed by the House. 'Hie Senate which placed its anproval on 11 measures in the morning session passed bills that would limit local budgets for three years to an amount not higher than the 1931 budget, provide for economic surveys in schools on request of 25 tax payers. air private banks by granting than authority to borrow from | tlie reconstruction finance corporI ation, and provide that local bud- | gets I*> made quarterly instead of | annually. For special consideration this i afternoon the house had before it the Stein-Frailing bill which would provide proportionate salary redud ions ranging from 19 to 25% for all public officials. Spirited debate developed over the proposal this morning. Consideration in the senate of gasoline and auto license fund diversion was returned to its original status when the legislators voted down a proposal that would have split the license fund 50-50 between the state and local units, leave the gasoline fund distribution as it now is and provide for tlie state to take over county roads in an eight year program. Under the Holman-Holmes bill. I which passed 40 to 3. budget laws! would be made quarterly instead *" CONTINUED ON PAGE FIVE TROUBLE BREAKS OUT AT MINE Thousand Union Pickets j Surround Dixie Bee Coal Mine at Terre Haute Terre Haute. Ind.. July 28 —(U.R) | —More than a thousand union pickets were reported to have surrounded the Cooperative Dixie Dee coal mine near here today. Seventeen workers of the night shift were unable to leave the mine, and were still imprisoned at 9 o'clock. Picketing of the Dixie Bee mine was the second such, occurrence within a week. Last Thursday hundreds of union men marched on the Hoosier mine at Dugger, and held 27 cooperative captive 40 hours. Members of tlie day' shift at the Dixie Bee, numbering nearly a hundred men, were prevented by the picket lines from going to work. Sheriff Joe Dreher took ten deputies and started for the mine. It was reported that the day engineer and fireman arrived at the shaft before the plcketeers. Many Terre Haute residents were awakened early today by carloads of picketeers en route to the Dixie Bee, which is eight miles south of here. It was said to be the only deep-shaft mine in operation in tlie state. One local resident reported that he counted 22 truck and car loads of picketers driving toward the I mine. The Dixie Bee mine is independently operated. Leonard Mace, Terre Haute, one of the operators, ' nearly lost an eye in a riot there last April 4. only a few days after ■ the union agreement expired. I Prosecutor Charles Whitlock, ■ Vigo county, left here for the mine i today after tlie sheriff was called • out to maintain peace. I By mid-forenoon two reports of CONTINUED ON PAGE TWO

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IMagley Young People To Observe Anniversary The Twenty-Fifth anniversary of the Young Peoples Society of the Magley Reformed Church will be observed at the church Sunday evening. July 31. The programi will begin at 7:30 o’clock. M. F. Wortliman, superintendent of Decatur Public schools and the first president of the organization. will be the principal speaker. Rev. O. H. Scherry of New Bavaria. O„ will also speak. Special music will be a feature of the program and all former members and friends of the society are urged to attend this anniversary meeting. o ROSSMAN FAMILY FUNERAL TO BE HELD SATURDAY Services For Victims In Crossing Accident to Be Held At Columbus W. A. ROSSMAN AND WIFE LIVED HERE Funeral services for the five! members of the Rossman family, who were killed at a Pennsylvania railroad crossing, two miles southeast of Columbus, Ind., Wednesday night, will lie held Saturday afternoon at 2:30 o’clock at the Lutheran church in Columbus. The message received from Columbus late this afternoon did not state where burial will be held, but the son. Edward, stated he believed the bodies of his father and mother, Mr. and Mrs. W. A. Rossman, will be brought back to the St. John's Lutheran church cemetery for burial. The five persons were killed when an auto driven by Carl Rossman, 32. was struck by a freight train. | Rossman, his wife, Marie, 30; their son, John, one year, of Columbus, | Indiana; his parents, W. A. Rossnum, 63, and Sophia Rossman, 57, liotli of Adams county, were all killed instantly. Tall corn in adjoining fields partly obscured the view of the crossing. Carl Rossman was a teller in the First National Bank at Columbus. The elder Rossmans had been visit- : ing their son's family for a few , days and had started for a pleasure drive when the accident occurred. I W. Albert Rossman was a teacher at St. John's Lutheran school, seven miles north of Decatur on state road 27 for the past 12 years. He came to Adams county with his family in 1920. He was considered one of the most progressive parochial school teachers in the county and always attended the public school institutes here. He CONTINUED ON PAGE SIX .MARKETS SOAR TO NEW POINT Securities and Commodity Markets Continue Upward Trend Today Birll forces waged a successful | fight to keep up the recent boom , on the country’s security and com- ( modify markets today. Prices on the stock exchange I climb 1 to 3 points to the highest ! levels in two months as another flood of buying orders from all . over the country poured in, snapp- [ ing up the shares being offered by , .profit-takers. Trading pace was accelerated and . the tickers churned at the rate of 750,000 shares an hour, heavily taxing the new high speed quotation j system. ■ Heavy buying of U. S. Government issues on the bond market sent them up to new highs for the > year. I Meanwhile, Domestic corporation bonds of all kinds rose to new f highs on the upswing that has been CONTINUED ON PAGE FIVE

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CAVALRY TAKES CHARGE OF AREA IN WASHINGTON New Outbreaks of Bonus Army Brings Guntire; One Veteran Killed TROOPS ORDERED TO CLEAR AREA Washington, .lulv 28. (U.R) —Secretary of War Hurley this afternoon ordered General Douglas McArthur, chief of staff of the army to clear and surround with troops the area of the disturbance I between rioting bonus marchers and police. Wasington, July 2S -(U.R) I nited States Cavalry was summoned to protect property in the capital today after gunfire in which police killed a bonus veteran in a bonus camp near the capitol. One veteran was shot to death. At least two others were woundI ed. Commissioners of the District of Columbia appealed finally to the war department for aid in maintaining order. Two troops of cavalry immediately came i the bridge across the | from Fort Meyer. At 3 p.m. they were standing by back of the White House fully armed and the first army officer had reported at Third street and Pennsylvania Avenue to" police authorities at 3 p.m. Troops were summoned after a day of violence. Washington. July 28— (U.R) — Police fired at veterans of the bonus army in renewed disorder here today. At least two shots were fired. Additional police were ordered to the scene. Two veterans were received at Casualty hospital. One had been shot in the neck and one in the chest. The shooting occurred at the entrance of one of the buildings from which treasury agents earlier in the day had evicted about 100 veterans. An attempt was made to rush the entrance. The policeman guarding the doorway fired. Another policeman came up front behind and was believed to have CONTINUED ON PAGE SIX PROGRAM FOR RALLY GIVEN Talks, Singing And Election of Officers To Take Place At Meet The program for the Adams County Christian Endeavor Echo Convention and county rally to be held in Leh'man Park at Berne Friday night, has been completed. Special musical numbers will be sung by the Misses Martha Jane Linn and Madeline Spahr of this city, accompanied at the piano by Miss Arline Becker. The Berne orchestra will also s>lay special numbers. The pot luck supper will be served in the park at 6:30 o'clock followed with the program at 7:30 o’clock. Each ,person is requested to bring food for the supper, and his own table service. Paper 'plates will be furnished. Fallowing is the complete program for the rally: Song Service, conducted by Freeman Burkhalter with Frances Burkhalter at the piano. Devotionals—Rev. W. Baumgartner. Special music—Orchestra. Convention report—Homer Augsburger. [ Offering, with music by orchestra. Remarks by other convention delegatee. 1 Duet —Misses Martha Jane Linn and Madeline Spahr of Decatur. Retpoits of the county secretary 1 and trea-urer. Election of officers. Awarding of Christian Endeavor 1 Shield. ' Closing, “Into My Heart” — 1 Chorus. Mizpah Benediction.