Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 30, Number 179, Decatur, Adams County, 29 July 1932 — Page 1

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HSTIGATION ■ Biioting is fcIERED TODAY ' _ <*der o(l hd Jury to Conduct Ehe of Wild Riot With ■mu- Veterans !«• •• children k ‘-Bi. in 11’ 1 " ,|OME I ll, ! v -•’• < i ßl > I' 111 u l' >'V .i-h wujFK i ■ ■ ■w huiiH I B’alinnlon. .Itilv 29. <U.P.) II ilscui' Lulling ’ ■Dw r “' l "* ’ "l u, "l ) * ;l Su " ■tiK'l'niirl toihv instructed grand jiiiv to - 1 Ili'llLlc after the army took iED ' S fficfal com E the White House, the £JJ was understood to feel JX t'B ff *“ quarters J. Kri t uni organthe governKtw the I>i~:r..r Columbia B M|: emle.l with :< minimum h r^ 1 - ■ SB' (u.R) .l United States in the early hours of to * ■. P ro 0111 " ! eamp I ■ B ' ; the Kg siege ■ misers is ■ and te ;l |- gas ba< k e \ . :.-zy iliumMachine guns were By Bill waiting lb i.le doughboys moved slow gh the flame flecked field. »nt spread over half a mile. >f them trudged the rear ’ the bonus army, a pitiful, s. hopeless, homeless fheir backs bent beneath !ht of their worldly goods, ranks were depleted by the xtlice fire and street riot erday in which one veterkilled and 60 or more perre hurt. « in the fire light the pig Para,l,.' ;l j| over ragH'’ there was no shooting. • nH? BU '*-''•■-•‘11 lest an ,-ar trib b “’ a ear was j Qa^H I ',""' 'Ciliated without a left where no one thanks rumbled behind the Jni’s Right through the fire feese steel monsters, snouts ■ Poked through ■kly. squat conning towers. ° dor of tear gas mingled Re stnorke of burning tinder, pry Officers had said 11:15 i Was the "zero hour.” They 0 their schedule. Commandt. Atwill of Camp Marks cap’an llour before. He adviseave The women ■ibEt A " We,lt Women )("-■ a i " w wer.- hysterical. H ' ral ,r '"'l ks ca'led out al ■■ yesterday to deal with IB” ‘’-'erans who have "besiegiL u ?? i,al for two months ideH u> 11 ParliPr a battle of hen treasury agents under ‘M P ri ’leetion sought to evict ,' lam Ped on Pennsylvania l’ l lLla ra '! 800 n “toward was D^BL deat 1 there 1,1 a scuffle with man ' Upwards Os «0 men '■’^Bp' t ,lurt b efere the night was a d hl rUlnB the make ‘ l®Bs X' ,atabliShed by bonuß- - the cast-off rubbish, d rags of ,hiH c'ty ml '“ ,r velerans ' y^B TINL 'Rb ON page THREE*

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Boy Baby Born On Traction Car Thursday Indianapolis. July 29.—(U.R) —The I I stork paid a visit to a traction cat las it sped into Lawrence, an Indian | . I spoils suburb, last night, and 7 I pound George Lawrence Morgan 1 I owes his name to the Incident. "George" was chosen to honor the memory of the traction car -Iconductor who responded so loy-1 ally to the emergency, and “Law rrnce" designates the locale of the] ! case. Both the mother, Mrs. Dorothy I I Taylor Morgan, and her son. were i 'reported "doing nicely" in City 1 - Hospital today, OFFICE SAFE ROBBED HERE Thief Enters Burk Elevator Office at Noon; Takes Cash And ( hecks A daring daylight robbery took ' place at tlje Burk Elevator, South Winchester street, between 12:10 and 12:20 o’clock this afternoon The thief or thieves esc*ped with between SSO and $55 in cash and $1,384.37 in bank drafts and checks taking it from the s>fe. Miss Grace Llchtensteiger, secretary, left the office for tier noon lunch at 12:10 and closed the safe. J The thief evidently had been await- ; ing somewhere, and entered the of-1 flee immediately taking the cash • and checks before anyone saw him. The robbery was first noticed by | Ered Collier, ill employe, who entered the office at 12:20 o’clock and saw the safe door open. He turned in an alarm to local police. Sheriff Burl Johnson stated this 1 afternoon that there are few clues as to the identity of the robber. It is not known definitely whether the theft was conducted by one or more persons. The robbery was performed while a. numfoer of (picnickers and persons ate in the Legion Memorial park directy across the street, and while a salesman waited outside of the elevator for Avon Burk, gener-I a manager, to return from lunch, i No one saw a n.< n leave the build i ing during the time the robbery 1 | was supposed to have been committed 0 — Seventeen Paroles Granted by Trustees Michigan City, Ind., July 29 (UP) —Seventeen paroles. 12 c>.ntinuance and 26 commutatb ns were granted by the state prison trustees, sitting as u pardon and parole board, during hearing of 146 cases in an all-day session. Commutation was being denied James Pattie, -sentenced from Spencer county May 13, 1927. to life imprisonment on a second degree murder conviction. Pleas for clemency were made by Pattie’s relitives, — o BELL IS GIVEN ROTARY HONOR Clarence E. Bell Named Representative of Group Two Rotary Clubs Carl Bimel, Portland, governor of Indiana Rotary, while attending the weekly meeting of the Decatur club last evening announced that Clarence E. Bell of this city had been named group representative of group two, comprising clubs in several northern Indiana counties. Mr. Bell is a former president of , the Decatur Rotary club. The position to which he was appointed is an honorary one and it will be his duty to keep in touch with the clubs in Bluffton, Port Wayne, Auburn, Angola. Kendallville. Hart ford City and Decatur. He will also accompany Governor Bimel on his official visits to these clubs. E. W. Lakenau was chairman of the program last evening. A. R. Ashtaucher, president of the club gave a talk, outlining a program for the year and reports by the out going treasurer, sergeant-at-arms and secretary were made.

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WATERS FORMS KHAKI SHIRT ORGANIZATION — Former Head of Bonus Forces Launches New Outfit in Washington W ANTS TO MAKE IT NATION-WIDE Washington, July 29. <U.R) Wiilltr W. Walers, whose bonus expeditionary force was smashed vesterdav by federal troops, launched a ne w political organization todav to be known as the “Khaki Shirts." It would be open to women, veterans and non-veterans. Waters ap|>ealed to citizens throughout the country to enlist in the “Khaki Shirts" to "throwout the vested interests and return the government to tlie hands of the people where it belongs." Waters blamed the administration for yesterday's violence and declared "the people have been betrayed l*y the servant of Wall street who sits in the White House.” He said the B E. F. ‘‘nowproved under fire." offered itself as the (nucleus of rhe "Khaki Shirts" organization. He said it would be formed along "strictly American lines" and would use ballots as its weapons. Waters said the B. E. F. leaders "now stand as the spokesmen for all the people whose welfare is ignored by tlij- plunderbund of the wmte House and Capitol heU"That their leadership is feared,” he said, "is attested by the fact that the administration, in a preconceived plan to drive them from their national capital after trickery had failed, sent troops upon them to drive them out with bombs and bayonets and to set fire to their lowly billets and their few personal belongings." Waters declared his new organization was “a crying need of the CONTINUED ON PAGE TWO MINERS HALTED AT DIXIE BEE Non-Union Men Forced to Return Home After Reporting For Work - — — Terre Haute. Ind., July 29 —(U.R) —Non-union men who attempted to return to work at the independently operated Pixie Bee mine south of here today, were stopped, by a crowd of several hundred union pickets, and persuaded to return to their homes. Police were rushed to the city limits, when it was reported that picketers and miners had congregated in considerable numbers there, but no trouble developed. Officials of the mine reported, that several homes of workmen had been picketed by union men. They said no further effort would be made to resume operations today. Pickets dispersed after the nonunion men had gone home. — Terre Haute, July 29 — (U.R) — Indiana’s critical mine situation was potentially as dangerous as ever today, with two non-union organizations promising to return their men to work in defiance of union picketers. A conference yesterday afternoon between miners, operators and Governor Harry G. Leslie, failed to develop any tangible results. None of those who attended the conference would comment. Owners of the independently operated Dixie Bee mine near Pimento, eight miles south of here, where operations were suspended yesterday after 1.500 union pickets had held the night crew imprisoned until noon, said they would resume work today. Simultaneously word came from the Cooperative Hoosier mine near Dugger, where several hundred pickets held 27 men prisoners for 40 hours last week, that operations would be resumed "soon.” ’"‘ continued on page two

Decatur, Indiana, Friday, July 29, 1932.

To Reduce Cost of Government i t V & aw * . 8888 * . BBHHBBBMB ■ J Tg A. Arfjk < fll S SHnfe [I Here are the six well-known men who were appointed members of the advisory council which will assist the National Economy League to ! make drastic cuts in the cost of government. Lett to right (top) are: former President Calvin Coolidge, General John J. Pershing, and Newton 1). Baker, Secretary of State undder President Wilson. Left to 1 right (lower) are: Alfred E. Smith, former Governor of New York, 1 Admiral VV. S. Sims and Elihu Root, one of America’s greatest statesI , men.

CHATTEL LOAN BILL FAVORED Senate V oices Approval of Measure Limiting Interest Rate to 18% 'I Indianapolis Julv 29 — (UP) - 11 , Indiana senators tod iy voiced their ['approval of a bill that would limit : tlie interest rate on small loans to -18 per cent per annum, instead of ■ the maximum of 42 per cent now permitted. The bill was sent to final reading. Although the bill originally provided for a reduction in the rate i from 3*4 per cent a month to 1 per cent, it was amended in committee to make the reduction to 2 per , cent. After considerabe debate, the bill was sent to engrossment with the reduction set at a figure mak | , ing I*4 ,per cent the maximum u flowed. Senator C. Oliver Holmes, Rep , Gary, explained that if the rate was set at 1 per cent it would 1 force numerous small loan companI ies into “bootlegging" at 2 per cent ■ he said, they could operate legiti- ■| mately. William P. Dennigan. Dem., Vm--1 cennes, argued strongly in favor of 1 the 1 per cet rate. He said it would ’afford real relief for the small tax payer and persons needing small loans for home expenses. Ira Clouser, Dem., Crawfordsville CONTINUED ON PAGE FIVE INSTITUTE TO BE HELD HERE One Day Session of Teacher’s Institute to Be Held Here September 2 The Adams County Teacher’s Institute will be held In this city, Friday September 2, at the Decatur high school building, Clifton E. Striker, county superintendent 'announced today. Albert Edward Wiggam, Indiana writer, will be one of the principal speakers on the program. Other well known men will be in Decatur for that day and will take part in the program. The meeting will be for all run.il teachers in Adams County as well as teachers from Geneva, Berne and Decatur. Special sessions will ‘be held a few days prior to the institute for rural teachers exclusively! and tor city teachers. A complete program for the day I will be announced later, Mr. Striker stated. Sessions will be held morning and afternoon.

Howard Wisehaupt Is Brotherhood Speaker Howard Wisehaupt. former Dec.aI tur man, delivered an address before members of the Men's Brotherhood of the United Brethren church Thursday evening. Eighty members and their wives attended the meeting which was held in the church parlors. At 7:30 o’clock a banquet was served with a committee headed by it >y Momma in chorge. <A short busiite-s session was held preceding the program. The address by Mrs. Wisehaupt was very inspiring and was well received by those present. CURTIS MENACED BY HECKLERS Vice-President Is Given Armed Guard As He Leaves Washington Las Vegas, Nev.. July 29 (U.R) Armed guards protected Vice President Charles Curtis today as he sped toward Los Angeles by rail after police arrested six persons suspected of being agitators in the crowd that watched him depart. Fearing a possible demonstratiin as a result of the bonus army disorder in Washington, D. U. S. marshals mounted machine guns on vantage points around the station. A cordon of police surrounded the station as Curtis, en route to open the Olympic games at Los Angeles, arrived here for a brief stop. The officers were armed with tear gas grenades for use in case of violence. Hecklers interrupted Curtis when he spoke a few words to the crowd praising the engineering feat of the Hoover dam. “Why didn't you feed some of those ex-soldiers?’’ shouted a man in the crowdd. Curtis' ire was aroused. ’'l've fef more than you, you dirty coward," retorted the vice president pounding the rail of CONTINUED ON PAGE FIVE o Equivalency Tests To Be Held Saturday The annual high school equivalency examinations will be given in the Adams County Court room. Saturday morning, July 30, it was announced ’by Clifton E. Striker, county superintendent today. The | first test will be given at 8 o'clock, i Anyone in the county who desires to qualify for a high school dlploI ma may take the examinations, and are asked to be at the Court Room Saturday morning.

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WALKER'S FATE WITH ROOSEVELT Mayor Walker Denies Seabury Charge in Letter To Gov. Roosevelt Albany, N. Y„ July 29.—(U.R) — The fate of the dapper, playboy mayor of America’s largest city p and the political destiny, possibly, of the Democratic presidential candidate were entangled today in a I 27.000-word document studied by . Governor Franklin D. Roosevelt. The document was Mayor James | i J. Walker's spirited denial of every I charge made against him by Sam uel Seabury, counsel for the com mittee which investigated Tam many hull’s New York City government. i The answer was more than a denial; It was a counter charge that the whole investigation was inspired by the Republican party "to divert pub'ic attention from those responsible for the dreadful condition of affairs throughout the country.” Roosevelt must decide whether to remove Walker from office as asked. ami thus face the prospect of ( . losing the vote of Walker's friends > in the election in a pivotal state, or dismiss the charges and risk allegations by Republicans in the psoutli and west that he is a Tam--1; many tool. . Regardless of what Roosevelt’s ■ decision may be, he appears assured of Tammany hall’s support. The ( I organization last night in New ] I York adopted a resolution indors- , ■ing him for president; the allied organization dominated by John H McCoey in Brooklyn did likewise. The action apparently freed Roosevelt from any restraint that I might be induced by the threat of 'ia Tammany reprisal. 'I The mayor in his reply speciflcal1' Iv denied he was guilty of these j offenses charged by Seabury: That he violated the city chart- , l er by accepting Reliance Bronze P and Steel Corporation bonds. 1 1 That he owned any Interstate i Trust Company stock. It had been i (alleged that 300 shares of this stock | had been purchased by his asso- I elates and used in connection with I a franchise deal. I That he helped promote a franchise for the Equitable Bus Coni I pany in return for financial "grata.(titles" such as a letter of credit for 1 (a trip to Europe. j That he promoted taxicab legislation in return for gifts of securP ities from brokerage firms interest!ed in such legislation. That he did wrong in accepting I from his friend. Paul Block, a ; | $246,000 share in the profits of a 1 ' joint stock account, or that Block ’ expected anything in return. i That he was responsible for the * $900,000 stock and bank accounts , of Russell T. Sherwood, who he ( said acted as agent tor many but was not his financial agent. ; Walker cited law to the effect that most of the 15 charges made | ' by Seabury concerned the mayor's , ! previous term of office, and there- . 1! CONTINUED on page three I o— MYERS OFFERS RELIEF BILLS Speaker Ha s Program Which Would Save Taxpayers $32,000,000 Indianapolis, July 29 —(UP)— ' 1 A house relief program was announced today by speaker Walter Myers. ( Myers estimated that the bills t * contained in his program would . 1 save Indiana taxpayers $32,700,060 Twelve bills six of which have already passed the house comprise Myers' program. The bills, and the ' , amount of money he estimated each woud save, were: Reduce budgets of all staite in- ( stitutions $1,600,000. Suspend two-cent educational Im provement fund levy for two years ( $2,500,000. ' Eliminate county attendance of- * fleers $200,000. Reduce Sheriff’s fees for transportation of prisoners $300,000. . I Eliminate mandatory feature in ) appropriations for county fairs CONTINUED ON PAGE SIX

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Portland Minister To Speak Here Sunday Rev. J. T. Nall of Portland, prominent United Brethren pastor and speaker will speak at the local United Brethren church Sunday night at 7:30 o'clock. Rev. Nall is well known throughout this vicinity, having been pastor of the U. B. Church in Portland for the lust 17 years. He will bring with him the church choir, several members of which have broadcast at various times. Special instrumental numbers will be a part of the program. The public is cordially invited to attend BURIAL TO BE AT COLUMBUS Rossman Family, Victims of Train Crash To Be Buried at Columbus The bodies of Mr. and Mrs. W. A. Rossman will not be brought back to the St. John's Lutheran, church cemetery for burial, according to a message received by a daughter, Mrs. Arthur Shroeder today. Mr. and Mrs. Rossman were killed instantly together with the son, Carl, his wife, Marie and their son, John, when a train struck their automobile, at u- Pennsylvania railroad crossing, southeast of Columbus, Indiana, Wednesday night. Funeral services for the five victims will be held at Columbus. Saturday afternoon at 2:30 o'clock at St. Peter’s Lutheran church. Burial will be mode in the Garland Brook Cemetery at Columbus. Mr. Rossman, who had been a teacher in St. John’s Lutheran school for 12 years, was well known in this city. The children Edward. Dorothy and Lydia, w’ho resided with their parents. and Mrs. Dan Eckelman of Salem left immediately after receiving word of the tragedy, for Columbus. Columbus is the former home of the Rossman family. LEAGUE CLOSES ANNUAL MEET Walther Leaguers Start For Home and to Attend Olympic Gaines Los Angeles, July 29 —(UP) — Those of the delegates to the 40th annua! convention of the international walther league of the Lutheran church who do not iplan to attend the Olympic games returned to their homes today following close of the meeting. In its final session, the convention voted a $405,000 building program for its varied projects in the United States, including additional buildings at the Lutheran Tubercular sanitorium. Wheatridge, Colo. A diamond pin as first .prize in oratorical contest was awarded Miss Thelma Kruschke of Berkeley, Calif ornia, Florence Jarmish, Cleveland. Ohio, was second and Elmer Burns Havana, 111., third. Miss Florence Gast, Winona, Minn., received honorable mention. Horse Is Injured While Threshing A valuable horse belonging to Charles Marchand of Washington township was badly injured yesterday afternoon while Mr. Marchand was assisting at threshing on the W. A. Lower farm. The horse switched his tail and caught it in the pulley of the engine, throwing the animal around with such force that its tail was -pulled entirely off. A veterinarian was called and it is believed the horse will live. Noah Bryan Goes To Easthaven Hospital Noah Bryan, Jefferson township was re committed to Easthaven hospital, Rich-mond, today. County Clerk Milton C. Werling, Rev. David Grether and Willis Dettinger accompanied Mr. Bryan to the hos■pital. Clarence Reppert, Preble township young man who has been a patient at the hospital for several months was released from the institution today aaid accompanied the Decatur men home.

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LOCAL UNIIS TORECEIVE HALF OF TAX Funds Taken From High--1 way Department Mean $6,500,000 to Local Units MEASURE GOES TO GOVERNOR LESLIE Indianapolis, July —Thu Indiana Senate today adopted its first major taxation relief measure, by passing in rapid succession two House bills providing lor diversion ol half tlie gasoline tax and half the auto license funds to local units. The two measures, which now go to Governor Harry G. Leslie, would give counties, cities and towns approximately $10,500,(KM) per annum, of which $6,500,000 would be revenue hitherto going to the state highway commission. On the proposal to give half the license funds to local units, which have received none of this revenue before, the vote was 39 to 6. On the gasoline tax diversion, increasing the local unit's share from 1 cent a gallon to 2 cents a gallon, the vote was 38 to 9. Action was taken on the bills upon motion of Frank Southworth. Repn., Plymouth, to suspend the rules, recall the two bills from i the senate as a committee of the whole, where they were being considered on second reading, and submit them to a vote. John Niblick, Repn., lis, endeavored to amend both to provide that money returned to local units must !Sp used for highway construction. Both efforts failed. Local units, under these bills, would receive approximately $lO.500,000 per annum, instead of the $.2,500,000 which has been their share of the gasoline tax since the 4-cent tax went into effect. The house took on a determined air and announced it would stay in session until midnight if necessary to prepare the appropriation bill for final reading. The bill would provide 20% reductions in all state operating expenses and 10% reductions in budgets of benevolent and penal instituHons. Consolidation of township | schools on petition of half of the freeholders would be provided in a bill passed by the house. Two new house measures would adjust the interset rate on state deposits and provide for elimination of a township school on petition of a majority of residents. Ready for Signature Indianapolis, July 29.— (U.R) —• Four bills passed by Doth houses of the emergency legislative session today were ready for the signature of Governor Harry G. Leslie. One was a senate bill and three were house measures. The bills were placed on tho governor's desk after the legislature had been in session 22 days. With the exception of the appropriation bill, they were the first to win approval of Imth houses. Most important of the four was the one which would permit Indiana banks to borrow from the Reconstruction Fitiance Corporation. The others would provide for repeal of the 1929 act requiring CONTINUED ON PAGE SIX BANK ROBBED BY BANDITS Five Armed Yeggs Hold Up Officers in Bank and Escape With SIO,OOO Granite City, 111. July 29—(UP) — Five bandits robbed the Gronite City Trust and Savings bank of $lO, 000 at noon today and escaped in an automobile. The bandits armed with pistols compelled five employes of the bank to lie on the floor while they I riffled the teller’s cage. I Employes of the bank exchmged ■ j half a dozen pistol shots with tlie ■ i robbers as they hurriedly left the (bank after H. B. Karanjess, assistant cashier and trust officer had locked himself in a vault and fired ' at one of the men through a grating