Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 30, Number 187, Decatur, Adams County, 8 August 1932 — Page 5

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I among diplomata in Peiping lent the commander of the Japanese le--1 nation guard might semi Ma men I out after Hie Chinese, despite the attitute of the minister. This, dispatches point out, would i weaken the general legation glia rd in a time of stress. Not only that, but observers believe it would raise i the question of whether the Japan- ■ e*e were using the International i legation quarter us a base for mill i tary operations against the Chinese. ■ The United States and Great Bri- < tain it wjm recalled "protested vig ■ orously to Tok io last winter when i Japanese troupe employed the I Shanghai International settlement as a base of c perations. —— ————o— ——— FINGERPRINTS POINT TO DANA CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONE was declared incompetent. I The body of Jane Merrill, vivacious. charming daughter of the late Ayres Merrill, who as - friend of President Grant and ambassador to i Belgium saw her presented at the 1 ! Belgian court of the court of St. > James, was found by Duncan Minor. Minor, a dashing suitor in ills I youth, had courted Miss Merrill for SO years, but never married, he said. An uncle had threatened to disinherit him if he married, ac- ■ i cording to neighborhood gossip. J Minor also lived on an estate ad j joining Glenn Burnne. Miss Dockery and Miss Merrill I had been waging a feud for many (years, neighbors said, because the ilatter resented the fact that Miss ' Dockery's goat herd strayed onto Glenn Burnne. Both Dana and Miss Dockery are I held in connection wtih the death lot Miss Merrill. A dozen others i are held or have been held for questioning in the same crime. Minor ' was questioned and released. No tangible clues were reported during the early investigation. Latter a blood-stained antique lamp was found near the clump of bushes in ’ which the slain spinster's body was discovered Thursday. More fingerprints were found in one room of I the house where there were signs of a terrific struggle. bate last night some fingerprints were tentatively identified as those iof Dana. Garbed in overalls, a heavy beard drooping from his chin, Dana sat 'in his cell, bewildered under questioning, while sheriffs officers searched bis dilapidated home. 'Glenwood, once a magnificent estate, now termed "goat castle" by ithe neighbors. o Get the Habit — Trade at Home

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Bonus Army Babies Present Real Problem ♦ ♦ * < * * * Illness and Death in B. E. F. Ranks Awaken Country to Sad Plight of Veterans’ Children. rvw '< ffl Ml . -ll#z zfegafcfov swßh, / — i ? “ ni k ■p A - z *. ‘ IB Sall j - W--< > ii-J sCvnus Army Babies Sekgt Ralh/ arui Famivy The recent death of a Bonus Army baby and the serious illness of several others has attracted the Nation a attention to the unfortunate plight of these little victims of the depression. Hundreds of homeless unemployed veterans were accompanied by their families when they hiked to Washington to join the Bonus Army. These children were provided with the best the various camps had to offer—and that was too meagre. Mow weeks of living under unsanitary conditions, with little, and unfit, food, is beginning to take its tragic toll. One two-months-old baby dead, Bernard E. Myers, eleven weeks old, dying. News of these two infant casualties saddened the Bonus Expeditionary Forces as they pitched their camp on the outskirts of Johnstown, Pa. The little Myers boy was accidentally overcome by a tear gas bomb set off during the wild eviction battie between regular soldiers on one side and the tattered members of the B. E. F. on the other. Hospital doctors were working night and day over the prostrate form of the boy. He was born while his parents were en route on foot from their home in Ephrata, Pa., to the capital In the camp at Anacostia flats his poverty stricken parents did what they could but he became ill of under-nourishment and bad living conditions Bernard was in his mother's arms when a whirl of tear gas overcame him. Rushed to the hospital the authorities said ins condition was critical. The other child a girl, daughter of Mr and Mrs. Cecil Mann, of Monessen, Pa , died in the hospital She had been removed from the camp the day before the regulars, at the point of bayonets, forced the bonus army out of their shanty homes in the flats. Mr and Mrs Mann, with their four surviving tots, are now dwelling at the home of a sympathizer. One asks "Why did the veterans take their children to such ■amps ?" Which the veteran fathers answer with another question, Being homeless, where could wa leave them ?”

Washington. D. C. — What is to Ibe done about the children of the j Bonus Army now encamped, some 'at Johnstown. Pa., and others in Maryland or enroute? The death of one baby and the serious illness cf several others has attracted nation wide attention to the plight of these little victims of the depression. Doctors in a charity hospital here worked night ami day to save the life of eleven weeks old Bernard E. I Myers, infant victim of the pitched I eviction battle staged at Anacostia Nats between troops of the regular army and members of the Bonus Expeditionary Forces. While little Bernard's life hung by a thread, another bonus march baby, two months old, was being buried by its grieving and penniless parents. It had died at the Gallinger Hospital, where it had l>een taken the day before triwps were called out to burn down the crude shacks in which the ex-ser-vice num and their families lived. Both ba*l>ies had been ill. suffering from the meagre and rough food which was all their parents could procure. While in,his moth-, ci's arms, wailing Bernard was inadvertently enveloped in tear gas i' om a bomb cast by an' advancing infantryman. Months before his destitute parents. Mr. and Mrs. John Myers, of Fphrata, Pa., had started on foot for the capital. At a small village in Maryland the couple stopped long enough for Mrs. Myers to have her baby. When she had recovered sufficiency, they started once more for the. shining white, buildings oi Washington.

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John Myers would have preferred to continue on alone but he did not know where to leave his wife and new-born chihP There was no haven for them anywhere that he knew about. When they reached their destination, they had exactly twenty cents in cash. But the bonus was a shining hope. Troubled days set in. Food grew ■ s< arce. Up to the last day congress ■ was in session the' Myers along . with their thousands of companions I hoped and prayed. Then came the i end and the order to move on. • Small Bernard was ailing — crying i all day and most <ft the night. Fare home was offered but the little Myers family had nothing to , go back to. Then came the eviction : work of the police, later te-inforc-ed by regular army troops. Mrs. Myers stayed to the last. She was I caught in a whirl of tear gas. Staggering through the fumes, choking and gasping ?!ir held her baby at | her breast. Doctors sent the little one to the i Gallinger Hospital where another baby, the two months old child of Cecil Mann, of Monessen, Pa., lav I dying. Doctors declared that little Bernard had been recovering from his il'ness when he suffered the tear gas fumes. The Mann child was one of five little brothers and sisters in the bonus i amp. She. too, had been ‘ 'born en route. But in the dismal surroundings of the Anacostia Nats the Manns found friends. Mr. and Mrs. F. C. Frost, of Anacostia. visited there and befriended the brood and its parents, brought j them food. A local merchant loan-, ed them a tent to live in. i

The Frosts were sitting before their radio when they heard news of the troops drive on the B. E. F. They hurried to the Hats and found Mann and his four kiddies. Mercifully, the baby daughter had been taken to the hospital the night before. The Frosts took the family back to their home. And there they are now, being taken care of. "We will do what we can for them, " say the Frosts, "they’re good people and 'we can't let them starve no mattet wh.it happens." • But what about the others? The 'i hundreds of little children migrating from camp to camp like gypsies —but without food and ofttimes shelter? Living Costs For Students is Lowered Bloomington. Ind.. Aug. 8- iSpei ciaD—A $273,000 cut in living costs for students attending Indiana uni- ■ versity during the coming year is estimated from reduced rates on board and room which will g i into : effect with the opening of the tall ; -eaiester. Savings to the student d legation from Adams county are ■ laced at about $2,800 on a b .sis ot ' 35 students who enrolled fiom that county last year. i In cutting its d rmitory rates for 1 room and board fr m $10.50 and $lO per week to SB, the university will save 303 students $23,616 during the year. With heavy cuts indicated for those outside these dormi- . tories, the total swing for 3500 , students litre is estimated at $273,I 000.

( AN DI DATES TO DECIDE DATE FOR MEETING CONTINUED FKOM PAGE ONE are candidates for the nomination, to agree as to details and he will act accordingly. These two men are the only announced candidates in the contest and after they have decided on a date agreeable to both the call will be made. New York Stocks Show Substantial Increases New York August B—(UP) —Four million shares had been traded in on the New York Stock Exchange at 1:30 p. nt. today. Up to that hour the Dow Jones average tor 30 industrial atocka had jumped 2.1)2 points, 20 rails were up 3 ipoints and 20 utilities averaged up 1.58. Gangrene Causes Death of Milwaukee Democrat Milwaukee, Wis., Aug. B—(UP) — Daniel S. Rose, 76. five times Democratic may ir of Milwaukee, a militant f< e of prohibition and nationally prominent delegate to several Democratic national conventions dbd at Columbus Hospital today after several mouth's illness. His right leg was amputated last week, O stop the spread of gangr ne. Two Men Charged With Colegrove’s Abduction Springfield, 111., Aug. B—(Two men faced charges today of kidnapping John B. Cob grove, fi”. convicted president of a deffunct Taylorville bink. beating him and leaving him bound and gagged in a open field. The ag d man was in serious condition today af(er lying semiconscius in the field for hours. He staggered to the home of a friend here yesterday in rni’ g. Police had believd he had been viain. The men to be charged today were John Gimmaitoni, depositor who lost heavily in the failure of Coleggrove's bank, and Amelio Puzzoli. charges of kidnaping and assault with intent to kill were prepared against the pair. Both denied guilt. MEASURE VV.1.1/ BECOME LAW IF NOT RECALLED CONTINUED FROM PAGE? ONE mitte today. The bill introduces a new idea in Indiana law making. Instead of setting out a straight salary schedule for various offices, it presents a mathematical formula upon which all cuts are to be based. A flak 5% reduction for all public officials and school teachers forms the base of the formula. Under its operation the salary reductions would range from 5% on SBOO to a maximum of 25% on SIO,OOO. The formula was to be written into the house salary bill, constitutionality of which has been questioned. Signs Two Measures Indianapolis. Aug. B—<U.R) —Gov. Harry G. Leslie today signed two bills, one authorizing cities and towns to acquire utility plants to be paid for solely from their earnings, the other an act repealing the compulsory pest house law of 1903, requiring erection of pest houses for treatment of contagious diseases. On Last Stretch Indianapolis. Aug. B—(UP8 —(UP) —Both branches of the Indiana legislature prepared to deal with impor t nt and highly controversial .proposals at the start cf their last full THE ADAMS Cool and Comfortable Tonight and Tuesday “NEW MORALS FOR OLD” ■’■ ilh Robert Young, Margaret Perry, Lewis Stone, Jean Hersholt, Laura Hope Crewes A drmna of parents whose only sin was in loving their children' Added-( ontedy and Pictorial THE CORT The Coolest Place in Town Tonight - Tomorrow Barbara Stanwyck Regis Toomey in a thrilling druma of hov a witman’s true heart found love false. ‘ ‘ SHOPWORN ’ ’ Added—“ The Billboard Girl” comedy. Also - - Movietone News. 10c-35c

I week of the special session this afternoon. , i In the Senate another effort by i Walter S. Chambers, Deni., New castle, to recall and kill the bill proposing the limitation of taxation to $1.50 on the SIOO ussessed valI uation, was anticipated. G vcrnor ] Leslie told legislators in his special i message that he would veto the > bill; nevertheless it reached his > desk. : Likewise the senate was tchedI tiled to consider on second reading I the general salary reduction bill. ; which already has passed the house. Changes provided cuts rang- • ing from 8 per cent on salari • of SSOO, to 25 iper cent t n those of $7,500 and more, were made in senate committee. Maximum reductions proposed by the house were 20 per i cent. in the house the principal order of business was consideration on ■ second reading of the chain, store

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< tax J>lll, pr poitlng fncre»nen lu 11- ' ce*ae fee* to a maximum of slsu a J »tcre for large chain*. .• 1 Also consideration wan due in the I hou.ie on the bill by Earl Howloy, i Rep., Lupoi te, to iplace a filing fee ■ cf 50 cents for every SIOO of a mortr gage. Rcwley estimated Hut it I would raise $15,000,<M)0 per annum. • Mortgages would be exempt from * all other taxation. The Hoffman "Homo Rule Bill", ! repealing all mandatory levies and ; placing the power of raising and .. lowering local officiila’ salaries in ■ 1 the hands of local councils and adI visory boards, was made a special !l order of business in the house for I tomorrow morning. 'j Effort were anticipated In the II senate either this afternoon or to‘l ni rrow to force action on the house ; bill to repeal the Wright "Bone Dry" liw and tax medicinal whlsi' key 50 cents a pint, with authorii zafion for druggists to sell it.