Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 30, Number 186, Decatur, Adams County, 6 August 1932 — Page 1

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B WALKER OBTAINS RELEASE ON BAIL

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Vol. XXX. No. 186.

Severe Storm Causes Four Deaths at Chicago Chicago, Aug. 6 —(UP) — Four persons were dead in the Chicago area today after a severe lightning and rain storm that also Injured several and causes! considerable property dcinage. The dead were Geneva Magruder. 19. and Marvin Mullen, 3f>. both struck by lightning along the Chicago lakefront, and Nichols Candea, 38, aud his wife 36 electrocuted near their farm home at Griffith. Indiam. MEMBERSHIP IN LEGION GROWS Organization Has 906,155 Members of 96.79 Per Cent of Quota The membership <>f the American Legion is steadily climbing toward the quota set tor the national oiganization. the latest report from j national headquarters received by 1 Adams Post No. 43 of the Legion here being 906.155 or 96.79 per cent 1 of quota attained. Twenty-two states, or depart-! ments, had attained their respec- 1 tive quotas on that date, Missouri! and Texas being the latest ones' added. Others, in the order in| which they succeeded in surpass- j ing their quotas, but not neces-1 sarily of highest standing in per- 1 centage at this time, are: 1. (Haw-! aii; 2, Rhode Island; 3, Maryland;] 4. Nevada: 5. Michigan; 6, France; ' 7, West Virginia; 8. Italy; 9, South | Carolina; 10. Panama; 11. Wisconsin; 12. District of Columbia; 13. Arkansas; 14. Virginia; 15. Porto! Rko; 16. Ohio; 17, Kentucky; 18. i California: 19. New York, and 20, i New Jersey. Above Ninety Per Cent Mark Other departments are within striking distance of their quotas. Among those above the 90 per cent mark are. alphabetically: Alabama, 98.31 per cent; Alaska. 97.32; Arizona, 95.93; Canada. 95.94; Colorado. 91.05; Connecticut, 93.94; Delaware, 96 64; Florida. 92.25; Georgia. 96.16; Indiana. 93.99; Kanon page two STOCK MARKET HAS BIC WEEK Continued Advance Shown in Quotations Today; Sales Largest in Year New York. Aug. 6 — (U.R) — A burst of buying orders caused sensational price advances on the New York stock exchange today. Tickers fell eight minutes behind the pace of trading as big blocks of shares were bought up on orders flashing in from all parts of the country. The biggest week of the year in the stock market was ending on a high note of enthusiasm and prices were from one to 12 points above the previous clone. The list was up 1 to 3 at the outsqt. and gathered momentum with the best prices made near the close. It was the largest Saturday of the year. Shorts covered feverishly. Some of these I*’ars included the bigg-st operators in the street. Bulls of 1928-29 resumed operations, running up first profits since the crash wiped them out three years ago. Incentive to buymg stocks was provided in part by another sharp rise in wheat which made new highs on the movement, and by a firm bond market where railroad issues were in demand. Sentiment was helped by the weekly car loadings report for the week ending July 30, showing 510,687 cars—up 9.557 cars from the preceding week. Railroad shares subsequently swung into action. They rose 1 to 10 points and helped the remainder of the list. Traders had been waiting for the rails to confirm the uptrend and when they did, buying became hectic. Traders CONTTNTtRn ON PAGE STX 0 Legion Meeting Monday The regular meeting of the American Legion, Adams Post No. 43 will be held Monday Evening at 8 1 o'clock <at the Legion hall. All memIbers are urged to be present.

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Principals in Sensational Murder Trial \ r 1 ■■ k. ■r 4 i SI JhF HmO, I nSSHEB w 1 L “kFj ■■Jr w i nW; 11 > i M| | ~ \W - ! Libby Hollman Reynolds, accused of the murder of her husband. Smith Reynolds, has not surrenderied to authorities. Albert W alker (lower right I arrested on the same charge, was ordered released from ! jail on bail today. The picture at top shows Smith R >ynolus, who died from a gun shot wound following a party at his palatial home at Winston-Salem last month.

KIDNAP BANKER AT HIS HOME I • Fear Felt For Safety of Convicted Head of Defunct Illinois Bank Taylorville. 111., Aug. 6.- IU.PT--T Southern Illinois police today hunted John B. Colegrove. 68. con-! victed president of a defunct ■ hank, apparently kidnaped from' his home by several men after a| fierce struggle. Evidence of a rough-and-tumble, fight, a discarded blackjack and j bloodstains in the aged banker’s i home led police to believe Cole-1 grove had been wounded or pos-| sibly slain. Officers suspected Colegrove was seized by men who believed! 'the banker had a hidden store of I money, saved from the crash of his bank. Colegrove was convicted last month on charges of receiving, ! deposits after he knew his bank 1 was insolvent and was free on I 15.000 bond pending an appeal | ' from a one to three year sentence. I Police called by neighbors who . h«ard the struggle found the din-| • ing room of the Colegrove home: ■ in disorder. A blackjack lay on .i the floor and a trail of blood led! I| to the rear door of the house. i Neighbors saw an automobile! •I speed away from the rear of the| | house after the fight. It was be-! ! * continued on' page three KIDNAPED GIRL FOUND BY POSSE > I Carol Read, 9-Year-Old Oak Park, 111., Girl Found In Arkansas West Pork, Ark., August 6 -(CP) ' Carol Read, nine-year-old Oak Park 1 111., girl, kidnapped from her home | May 8. was found in ramshackle 1 •’.cabin in the wooded hills near here ' today by a posse that searched all night. The girl's father, Fred J. Read, 31 ' formerly cashier of the CeintraJ Republic investment company of 1 Chicago, wis under arrest in hot ‘ i Springs on a warrant issued by 11l- ■ inois officers. ,He charged him with 1 the kidnaping. < The little girl, dressed in rags and leading a hound puppy, was ’ taken to Hot Springs by police. She ' cried for her mother. Mrs. Kather--1 yn Nelson Read, of Oak Park, oftl--1 cers slid. ' Read told arresting officers he 1 took the gitl from Oak Park, but that the courts never have specified who should have possession of her.” ■Read had been separated from his ! wife four years. Mrs. Read filed 1 . suit f r separate maintenance. “Publicity cost me my position” Read said. "I came to Arkansas , with the intention gt filiag suit for divorce under the 90-day law.”

— T -..— Decatur, Indiana, Saturday, August 6, 1932.

Indiana Officials Conclude Conference Bloomington. Ind., Aug. 6 —(UP) , —Use of high powered automobiles | by criminals, inn ipermlt speeding ; away from the scene of a crime be- ! fore the victim has a chance to notify police, was cited by Grover I Garrott, chief of the state police, as one of tlie biggest problems facing peace officers today, in his address before the conference of findiam peace officers here. Garrott lauded co-operation received by the state department from I local officers and urged even closer I relationships. The conferetgce, being held here ' under the sponsorship of the Indiana State Bar association and Ind- ! itna University, will close tonight. JOSEPH MOSER DIES SUDDENLY Former Resident of Adams County Dies at Home In Bluffton Friday Bluffton, Aug. 6 — (Special) — I Joseph Jr Moser, 62, former resi- ! dent of ’Adams county, died at nine o'clock Friday night at his I home, 803 S. Morgan street, follow- ■ ing a short illness of angina pectoj ris. The deceased was born April 23, I 1870, the son of Jacdb Schwartz. His wife, formerly Emma Joray of Berne, died June 29, 1926. Three children, Walter, Pearl and Rubey of Bluffton survive together with three brothers and one sister. The brothers are Abraham ot Berne ' Noah of Bluffton; Aaron of Adams county and the sister, Mrs. Daniel Kipfer of Adams county. Funeral services will be held at nine o'clock Monday morning from the house and ten o'clock at the Christian Apostolic church, Bluffton Burial will be made in the church cemetery.

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SCHOOL BOARD SIGNSCONTRACT M. F. Worthman Given Three-Year Contract; . Award Paint Job The Decatur school board in sesI siou Friday night signed a three year contract employing M. F. worthman as superintendent of the Decatur Public Schools. Mr. Worthman has served 16 years as superintendent of the 1 Decatur schools and previous to that time taught in the grade schools and served as principal. His salary was fixed at 13,200 for the next year, the same as paid under I the former contract. The job of painting the steel frames in the windows and skyI lights at the high school building, ' was awarded to T. L. Becker on his | bid of $65. The outside of the winI dows are to be washed by Mr. i Becker. Work on compiling the budget for ' I the 1932-33 school year has started, | Dr. Burt Mangold, president of tlje 'J board stated, but totals ire not yet 1 available. The school board has •I decided not to reduce the teacher’s I wage scale here, as the average ! salary pi id is about equal to the average minimum wage scale in the state. The total of the budget will be , less as the school board plans to . keep the levy at $1.37 on the hund- ' red dollars, which based on the lower property valuation in the city I will produce about $20,000 in reve- ■ nue. H. OKSEN GOES TO BLISSFIELD > Former Sugar Factory Superintendent to Become Chief Engineer H. C. Oksen, superintendent of the Decatur plant of the HollandSt. Louis Sugar Company, left today for Blissfield. Mich., where he has accepted a position as chief engineer of the Great Lakes Sugar company's plant. Mr. Oksen has been a resident of i Decatur since 1927 and has remainied in charge of the local sugar factory since it closed in 1930. T. C. Smith, former chemist at the local factory has been placed in charge of the mill. Mr. Oksen stated that the Blissfield mill would operate this year and expected the campaign to begin about September 15. The Blissfield plant is one of the largest mills owned by the Great Lakes Sugar Company and has a capacity of 1,200 tons of beets per day. It is likely that negotiations towards operating the Decatur factory will be started in the near future, with the hope that some arrangement can be completed which will make it possible to open the plant next year.

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MAYOR WALKER CALLED BEFORE GOV.ROOSEVELTi New York Mayor Must Appear Before Executive Next Thursday OPPORTUNITY TO DEFEND SELF Albany, N. Y., lAug. 6 —(UP) — Governor Franklin D. Roosevelt has called upon miyor James J. Walker of New York to appear before him at the executive offices here next Thursday to dfend himself against ouster charges, it was learned today. Judge Samuel 'Seabury, who preferred the charges against the New York Mjyor of an exhaustive legislative investigation of his administration, also has been asked to appear before the governor. The bearing is scheduled for 1:30 P. M. E. D. T. "At' this time you will be given an opportunity to defend yourself" the governor's telegram to Walker said. • o Swimming Pool Will Be Opened Sunday W. Guy Brown, supervisor of the | city swimming pool, announced today that the pool would be c.pened ' at two o’clock Sunday afternoon. I The pool has been closed for sevI eral days during which time the ipool was cleaned and fresh water placed in 1 o Rains of Past Week Benefits Corn Crop Indianapolis. Aug. 6 — (UP) — . Bountiful rains of the past week . have effected marked improvements in the (Indiana corn crup, N. ; B. Benner, secretary of the Central , States Grain association, said. He , predicted that the 1932 corn crop , will be one of,the best in Indiana, . both in quality aud quantity, in re- , cent years. BONUS ARMY IS STILL ENCAMPED Remnant of Outfit At Johnstown, Pa.; Others Stranded in the West Johnstown, Pa.. Aug. 6. — (U.R) — Determination "to ride the cushions" home kept the last remnant 1 of the bonus army in camp McCloskey today while negotiations with the Pennsylvania railroad for a train were continued. ' Approximately 1.000 veterans of the original 8,000 in the B. E. F. remained. An unofficial count showed 400 from Pennsylvania, 300 from New York, 50 from Connecticut, 50 Massachusetts and 150 others from various states. Edward Atwell, chief of staff of the army, ruled just before midnight against complete evacuation I of the camp until today. “I promised the men they would | ride on cushions and they will," Atwell told Mayor Eddie McCloskey. . He said he was negotiating with jthe Pennsylvania railroad and that the line probably would furnish a train today if an accurate court of the men was made. • McCloskey also was negotiating with the railroad, indicating a split between himself and Atwell. , Conditions at the camp grew ■ worse as the morale dropped with I the vote to disband. Debris cluttered the site. The place reeked > with odors. Few women and chil- ! dren remained in these squalid sur- . roundings. Atwell said the B. E. F. treasury t contained more than SI,OOO. Every veteran who owned a mot- ( or car was given a tank of gasoline, [ one quart of oil and a dollar bill , upon departing. Bonus army lead- . ers were not worrying how the drlvf ers would replenish their fuel sup- ( ply- * Chicago. Aug. 6.—(U.R)—Between 500 and 800 homeward bound members of the bonus expeditionary army were in Chicago today and . the question on the lips of all was , "where do we go from here?" I The veterans who reached here , by railroad train from Johnstown, CONTINUED ON PAGE THREE

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iTwo Killed From High Tension Wires Griffith, Hnd., August 6—(UP)— I Two persons were dead here today victims of shock from a high tenI sion wire carrying 11.000 volts, that i fell across their farm during a thun derstorm. Mrs. Sarah Candea, 36, was shocked fatally when she jttemipted to move the wire. Her husband Nick 38, died when he attempted to free her. iA son Nick Jr.. 19 suffered severe burns when he attempted to free his parents. The bodies were removed after the power company officials turned off the current. The Griffith victims were elecrocuted by a high tension wire blown down by the storm. Fifteen thousand persons attending the Cook county fair were drenched aud several slightly hurt when the high wind blew down a large tent sheltering many exhibits. HARRY COFFELT ! BROUGHT HOME Condition of Decatur Man, Injured In Auto Accident, Not Serious Harry Coffelt, driver for the Cloverleaf Creameries, Inc., of this . city, who was injured in an automobile accident near Celina. Ohio, Friday afternoon was brought to his home, 310 Oak street this afternoon. Mrs. . Coffelt accompanied her , husband to Decatur. He was resting • good this afternoon and his injuries were not considered serious. John ißockelmann Chicago, driver of the auto which struck the creamery truck, is in a critical condition; I at Otis hostpital, Celina. He has! been unconscious most of the time. The body of Mrs. Bockelmann . who was killed in the accident was taken to St. Marys. Her father is a . job printer at that place. Funeral services will be held at St. Marys. ! The accident occurred at the ini tersection of Ohio route 54 and the | Mendon Pike, about two miles east of Mendon. Mr. Coffelt was driving the creamery truck and Mr. Bockelmann was driving his own car. The creamery truck was greatly damaged, together with many cans of butterfat. The loss was estimated I at several hundred dollars. O y i Illinois Miners Vote On Basic Wage Scale Springfield. 111., Aug. 6 —(UP) — Approximately 49,000 illlnoio Union miners went to the polls today for the second time in three weeks to vote on a proposed five dollar a day ’ basic wage scale for the Illinois district. Three weeks ago the miners defeated a similar proposal, two to one However, due to a whirlwind "Education campaign" conducted by John L. Lewis, president of the United Mine workers and John H. Walker, district Union President, it was believed today's proposal had an even chance for victory. LOCAL BAND TO GIVE CONCERT Merchant’s Band to Furnish Program at Second Concert Tuesday Night A Decatur merchant's band composed of about 25 musicians will give the second of a sertes of concerts in this city Tuesday evening at eight o'clock. The band is composed of former G. E. band members and Decatur musicians who have played in local organizations. It is directed 'by Otis Danner, former G. E. band director. An hour’s concert will be given. Many of the stores will remain open after supper and the public is invited to attend the concert and visit the stores. Last week's concert was attended by a couple thousand people, the program being given by the News-Sentinel boy’s band of Fort Wayne. Deeatur merchants plan to give a concert every week during August and September and the success of the entertainments depend wholly on the attendance of the public. Several features are being planned in connection with the concerts and every effort will be made to entertain and please those who make this city their shopping center.

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YOUTH ACCUSED OF MURDER IS GIVEN RELEASE Do Not Consider Evidence Sufficient to Hold on First Degree LIBBY REYNOLDS HAS NOT SHOWN UP Court Room, Winston Salem, N. C„ Aug. 6.—<U.R)—On agreement of counsel and court, Albert Walker, accused with Libby Holman of the alleged murder of .Smith Reynolds, today was ordered released from jail on bail. The state indicated it did !not consider the evidence in i the case sufficient to hold him I without bail for first degree ir.urdI er. The solicitor made no immediate I recommendation of the amount of bail. Walker’s lawyers argued that because of the disposition of their client not to evade prosecution, the bail should be made low. There was no mention of Libby Holman in the hearing and it was not known whether the release of Walker could be regarded as a precedent that would free Miss Holman also whenever she surrenders or is arrested. Bail for young Walker was set by Judge A. M. Stack at $25,000. “The prosecutor admits, argued Bailey Liipferts of the defense, "that this a bailable offense. That indicates that he has no evidence of first degree murder that is of I malice or premeditation." | “AU I suggest as to the bailability of this offense,” said Solicitor Carlisle Higgins, “is the absence of evidence of premeditation.” Winston Salem. N. C.. Aug. 6.— (U.R) — Libby Holman was expected to begin her journey here from an .unknown haven today —a journey that was to end in a jail cell or freedom on bail on a charge that she murdered her wealthy playboy husband, Zachary Smith Reynolds, CONTINUED ON PAGE SIX MURDER PLOT FRUSTRATED Attempt to Kill Dominion Secretary In Canada Balked With Arrest Toronto, Ont., Aug. 6 —(UP)— Ar, attempt to assassinate J. 'H. Thomas, British Dominions secretary was prevented with the arrest of Dan Malone, alleged Sinn Felner, Toronto police claimed today. The attempt, police said, was to have been made as 'Thomas travelled'with other emlpire trade conference delegates from Ottawa to the Welland canal, scheduled to be opened formally at Thorold, Ont, Malone was arrested in a rooming house here yesterday and held on a vagrancy charge at the request of Ottawa authorities. Ottawa police said they had learned of the plot against Thomas’ life, and later, during the recent Workers’ conference here, picked up a pistol which had fallen from an automobile in which Malone allegedly was riding. Magistrate Emerson Coatsworth remanded Malone for a week when he was arraigned on the vagrancy charge before him yesterday. Meanwhile, authorities prepared deportation charges against him. The desire to assassinate Thomas, (police said, supposedly was based on the secretary's activity in negotiations for settlement of differences between the British government and the Irish free state. 0 Ends Short Career As Check Forger Fort Wayne, Ind., Aug. 6—(UP) — A four-month career as a check , forger, during which Von R. Kaufman, 18, Roanoke, obtained over SI,OOO, was ended today with his arrest here. A check-writing machine stolen, from a Roanoke creamery cotnipany , to which the name of the owner was forged, was used by Kaufman, police said. Several of the checks : were found in Kaufman's possession..