Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 30, Number 195, Decatur, Adams County, 17 August 1932 — Page 1

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I L. W altersJs_Appointed fudge Os Adams Circuit Court

>L ATTORNEY ■pointed by «OV, LESLIE — Oflicial (oinmisJj Todav: I o Succeed JKjm- Dore B - Erwin ■ FILL \ U AXCV ■ MIL .1 \M Ain 1 H. Walter'. Decatur alappointed by GoverG. Leslie to till the \ iurn- Circuit ■ •. receive his commission as judge Thursday. \agel. Republican i, ra.r’iiaii. received a ‘ ■&!< last ng from 1,. ' ■Chi- " : ‘" r ' se, '‘ .K' f Ml \\ to til.- local Th.. .'i.ii.'.-il c had > !i Mr. Chasey, the K-. Kt.ited that the official ..a i -. . by th.' sudden death of I! Erwin on July 19.1 1 K-pui.lnaii He will till i ' in for six year will office. Party Endorsements h<of Republican State Ivan C. Morgan, John w • < Mt 1 Adams county | orvnuization ; t'.-d Ml Walters the tight for the appoint 11 \dams and Herd 1.. ' ■ Bfr. I lid liepllb. judge the All Mb I it - .ISince the judic- ■ K l *' hi ' Ax Va*’• '>* k 111 R STOPS I IN UNTIL Blocratic Vice - PresiMtial Candidate Spent ■ lat In Washington hingt.in, Aug 17. — (U.R) !r John N. Garner. Hemo pt■ candidate. MN today fur a brief stopover to Texas to write his 1 unpaign spec, Iles. • \pe.'s to gather consul material from his tilth Which to meet the ••siib iil Hoover’s speed!, many points of ditected at his policies Imus.- of representatives leaker plans to leave for the Wight. H itlent Hoover barged that BPm.it rat lr 01 - the ■ s I h 'i‘'or.-l "wild and duilM ■ inflationary projects. He a.B the Imus,, Democrats of atJB >‘K to taid the treasury for B » of dollars. Bb-r s tirst campaign task will ■ meet Hiese Charges. Reptib"l hav.. undertaken to make aP'leisliip o f the house a prinMht'get in the campaign. They Democratic house meassupport of their contention issue is radicalism and ■ lard experiment as against ■ vative leadership. be 0,1 ,he stum P □ 1 campaign. He has conB with the head of his ticket. 3 101 franklin I). Roosevelt, refl « all questions of party pol«»also sought to bring disgruntle U ° f Alfreil E ’ Smith lnto rn ' 5 his admiration J*" 1928 candidate. ttrtt 6 \’ S B<>me feelinK ln Smtth C4SI ”. llat (;ar,le '- had been unitM , ' ''asty in using his deleft > break the convention dead--Bs£™i! lnßt Roosev «lt at the moand his allies beB* lINb ’KD ON PAGE FOUR

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Vol. XXX. No. 195.

Named Judge 11 i i*vt" «■ • v. i C. L. Walters , Decatur attorney who was appointed judge by Governor Harry G. Leslie, to fill the vacancy caus- . ed by the death of Judge Dore H. Erwin. Mr. Walters expected to , receive his official commission . today. MORTGAGE FEE BILL A LAW Governor Permits Measure to Become Law Without His Signature Indianapolis. Aug. 17—(UP)—The Rowley bill providing for a filing fee of 50 cents on each SIOO of mortgage became a law in Indiana last__pight. The bill became a statute automatically. It remained cn the deski of Governor Harry G. Leslie today ’ after being received without action I having been taken. Rowley estimated that the metsure would mean an annual revenue of more than $5,000,000. The bills was the outstanding revenue measure passed during the special session of the Legislature which adjourned sine die early yesterday. A ‘ home Rule” hili that would have taken municipally owned utilities from the jurisdiction of the public service commission was vetoed by Governor Leslie. The bill was introduced by Charles Strey, Rep., 1 Wabash, and William Moadley, Ret Bloomington. Att rney General James M. Og-1 den had ruled that the measure was i uncontitional. He obpected to the > provision which would have author-1 ized a city council to set up a utility i on a competitive basis. Ogden also pointed out that the provision whereby city councils would have

complete control of building of utilities, without provision for appeals wjs unconstitutional. "More than a hundred utilities are now municipally owned.” Governor Leslie's veto message read. "A majority of these owe their exCONTINUED ON PAGE FIVE JACOBS JURY DISAGREES Trial of Milton .Jacobs, Kendallville ‘Banker, Comes to End Today Angola. Ind.. Aug. 17 —(U.R) - " Tlie jury in Steuben circuit court deliberating the case of Milton Jacobs, Kendallville banker, reported at 10:30 o’clock this morning that it was unable to agree. Judge Clyde Carlin instructed it to continue deliberations. Jacobs, former vice president of the defunct Noble County Bank and Trust Company, was tried on a charge of banker's embezzlement. It was alleged that he accepted deposits with knowledge that the institution was insolvent. Prosecutor Fred Sodenhafer also ito allow ,that Jacotbs participated in irregular transactions that drained $521,650 of bank funds. R. J. Luse, foreman |>f the jury, asked Judge Carln to dismiss tlie jury. It Was unofficially repwled that the last ballot taken was 11 to 1 for conviction. The case went to the jury at 2 p. m. yesterday.

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FARMERS ARE REPULSEDIN EARLY ATTACK Police And Deputies Quell er’s Milk Strike TRUCKS ABLE TO GET TO MARKET Sioux City, la.. Aug. 17. —(U.R) — Police and special deputies early 1 today repulsed an attack of -tat) ’ striking lowa farmers on the Sioux City stockyards. Armed with clubs and brickbats 1 tile farmers stormed the yards as-1 ter more titan a score of livestock trucks had eluded pickets on nine paved highways leading to the city They were repulsed by 20 deputy sheriffs and 25 city ptollca as they sought to take livestock from pens and from trucks which had run the blockade. Farmers were helpless against the latest attack. Deputies, after a day of passive resistance, accom panied many trucks through farmers lines during the night. They stood on the running boards and swung clubs at strikers who attempted to block their progress. Down muddy side roads and unused by-ways independent farmers smuggled their stock to market, after a deadlock yesterday in which only six trucks broke the strike barriers. All trucks were heavily guarded by deputies. Enraged by the show of armed force which they could not fight without similar weapons, the farmers assembled in a noisy mob and I headed in automobiles for the stockI yards. They were bent on liberatI ing slock brought in in defiance of their picket. Police, led by Sheriff John A. Davenport and 80 newly-commission-ed deputies, repulsed the aftack by a show of arms. There was no shooting. After more than 20 minutes of bitter wrangling, the farmers retreated and once more resumed their picketing. The stockyards raid was the cli-

CONTINUED ON PAGE FOUR WANTS CHILD TO BE LEFT ALONE Col. Lindbergh Makes Request to Press; New Son Is Well Guarded Englewood, N. J., August 17 — (UP) —The new-born son of Colonel and Mrs. Charles Augustus Lindbergh slept in his crib here today closely guarded from the inquisitive world by private detectives, and his father's public request for privacy. Colonel Lindbergh happy over the safe arrival of an heir, was taking every precaution to prevent recurrence of the tragedy which lirought death to his first born and bitter grief to the parents. The famous flier asked the -press to "permit our children to lead the lives of normal Americans.” He engaged additional guards to patrol the Morrow estate here. Night and day. sentinels will be on watch over the tiny heir to the fortunes and tragedies of one of the world's most famous men. Police Dogs watch the grounds. Col. Lindbergh's telegram to the Press resulted from his belief that the avid curiosity of the world was partly responsible for the kidnaping and murder of his first child Charles (Augustus Lindbergh, Jr. The full telegram read: "Mrs. Lindbergh and I have made our home in New Jersey. It is naturally our wish to continue to live there near our friends and interests. Obviously, however, it is impossible fi r us to subject the life of our second son to the publicity which we feel was in a large measure responsible for the death of our first. We feel that our children have the right to grow up normally with other children. Continued publicity will make this impossible. I am appealing to the press to permit our children to lead the lives of normal A few scant details concerning ON PAGE FOUR

Decatur, Indiana, Wednesday, August 17, 1932.

Dan Death Receives Fine And Sentence Dan Death of Dierkes street plead guilty to a charge of as-1 sault and battery brought by Mrs. | , Dolly Gunnell, before Mayor George] M. Krick this morning. He was | fined $5 and costs, am> unting to : sls, and was sentenced to 30 days ] in the Adams County Jail. Mr. Dejth has not paid the fine and unless it is i>aid the jail sentence will be extended 15 more days, making a total of 45 days., The charges were filed following] l domestic trouble arising between ] j Mr. Death and Mrs. Gunnell, at ] whose residence the man has been boarding. The arrest was made Sunday evening by Policeman Ed Miller. WALKER CASE QUIETS DOWN ! Morning Hearing Before Gov. Roosevelt Is Dull Compared to Others Albany, N. Y., Aug. 17—<U.RJ Mayor James Walker, “knew I absolutely nothing” about his brother's business affairs, he declared today when Governor Franklin D. Roosevelt confronted him with the sworn charge that Dr. William Walker had split fees with other ] physicians doing business with the city of New York. Entering upon one of the I i most dramatic phases of tbe Walker ouster trial, Roosevelt swept aside a demand that the , i charges regarding Dr. Walker's fee splitting be stricken out and demanded a full explanation of the system under which the mayor's brother is said to have made approximately $250,000 in four years. State Capitol. Albany. N. Y„ ' Aug. 17 —(U.R) — Mayor James J. Walker’s defense counsel strove ’ i vigorously today to show that the Hofstadter investigating committee "called off the New York police in their hunt for Russell T. Sherwood,” Walker's financial fl IXMflt

agent. John J. Curtin, cross-examining | I Jacob Gould Schurman, Jr., assistant to Chief Counsel Samuel Seabury of the committee, prodded | him insistently with questions designed to show he had ordered 11 the police to return a subpoena I for Sherwood. Schurman, called by Governor . Franklin D. Roosevelt as one of his "own witnesses, insisted that the subpoena had been "withdrawn" after the man credited with having handled thousands of ■ dollars for the mayor had been CONTINUED ON PAGE TWO

Families Will Not Suffer For Want Os Water And Light - City To Provide For Unemployed, Allowing Minimum

i Unemployed persons, classed as 1 heads of families, who use city liglit and water, will be permitted I , to use up to one dollar’s worth of * electric current and 85 cents worth I of city water per month, on open account, according to a resolution > adopted by the city council. s The resolution provides that if ; said consumer uses more'than the . minimum allowed, said services shall he disconnected unless the , account standing shall be paid in t full. , Many individuals and several business establishments have left I their light and water bills go delinquent, their inability to pay being lack of employment. The * city wishes to assist these people as much as possible by providing light and water sufficient to “carry * on", because as expressed in the ' resolution, "lights and water are ! necessary to the proper comfort and sustenance of life.” ' The resolution provides that persons who wish to be exempt ’ must file an affidavit at the city ! hall. The resolution follows: 1 "Whereas there are many unemr ployed citizens of the City of De--1 catur, who are customers and users of City light and City water, 1 and are unable to pay the light and water Ijllls, and ' “Whereas lights and water are necessary to the proper comfort

NEW FEATURES ! ADDED TO 4-H ] CLUB SHOWS 1 Showmanship Contest To Be Held In Connection With Livestock Exhibit PARADE TO BE HELD SATURDAY The 4-H Clubs and Gold Medal Colt Club exhibits can be seen in Decatur, August 19tli and 20th. One hundred and fifty club girls will enter exhibits in sewing, canning, baking ami food preparation, in the Schafer Hardware store, I the department being In charge | of County 4 H club leader. Miss | Erma Gage. The judging will be I done on Friday by Miss Rose i Marie Kronmiller of Fort Wayne. The 4-H club calves representing > I the Ayrshire. Guernsey, Jersey and Holstein breeds and numbering about sixty head will be shown in the Community sales barn on East Monroe street. Judging will be held Saturday beginning at 10:00 I am. The judge is E. T. Wallace. | dairy extension specialist of Pur- ] due University. The Gold Medal Colt duh committee with Henry Dehner as chairman will be held in connection with the 4-H Club show. P. T. Brown, state leader for Gold Medal Colt work, will assist in the show and R. B. Cooley. animal husbandryman of Purdue University will judge the colts. The judging will start at one p.m. Friday Following the I judging. Mr. Cooley will give a dis- ! cussion on the care, feeding and ] management of horses. Add New Feature A new feature to be added to the calf club show will be a showmanship contest. Chas. Grandlienard. Ralph Henry and Roy Price will assist the judge in selecting • the best showman from each class • shown. These contestants will f then enter the finals for the selec- ! tion of the best showman among - the 4-H Calf club exhibitors. First : prize in this contest will he a one- | CONTINUED ON PAGE FOUR

Fish Supper Will Be Served At Elk’s Home AU arrangements were completed today for the fish fry to be held at the Elk's heme at eight o’clock tonight. O. \V. P. Macklin, master of ceremonies received two baskets ' of fresh lake fish for the big dinner and urged every Elk to be at the home at eight o'clock. Salad and other good things to eat will be served in connection ] with the supper and a nominal 1 charge of 25 cets per plite will be made.

i and sustenance of life of those ■ persons, and “Whereas, there is an obligation] on the part of those who can. to assist those who are less fortunate in the matter of procuring i employment. i “Now, therefore, Be is resolved by the Common Council of the ’ City of Decatur, that it does here--1 by recommend that any user of i lights and water that upon making ' an affidavit upon forms furnished i by the City Clerk setting forth the fact of unemployment and the I number of dependents depending ; upon the head of the family for ■ support, and inability at the pres- ■ ent time to pay for said liglit and i water service to the City of Decai tur, that said light and water de- ; partments of the City of Decatur. ’ furnish to said unemployed on > open account electric current to > an amount not exceeding one : ($1.00) dollar per month and water to not exceeding 85 cents per : month, and that in event any un- ; employed person consume or use ■ more lights and water than tlie maximum allowed to be carried. . said services shall be disconnected - unless the account standing shall • be paid up in full. , "Be it further resolved that said : service upon the basis herein outlined shall be condition on > account, if necessary, for a period t of six months.”

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| Noted Zoo Head Dies IB V —W •jg K Hl X B ' Alfred M. Parker, director of ] the Lincoln Park Zoo at Chicago. who died at the age of 56 in his , Chicago home. His death result- ! ed from cancer, following a fall which caused him to bite his tongue. Mr. Parker, who was one I of the country’s most noted zoo . 1 directors, spent many years of his . life in a wild animal act with ,I ciri uses. RUNS OVER BOY'S FOOT WITH AUTO Elmer Ralston. 10. Injured While Sitting on Curb 1 On South Second Street - Elmer Ralston 10-year-old son of Mr. and Mrs. Ravmond Ralston of ] Line street, was injured Tuesday 11 evening at 7:45 o'clock when a car -| driven by a Mr. Long of Elkhart ran ; | over his left foot, breaking both ' bones just ab ve the ankle. The ac- • cident happened in front of the Elberson Service Station, corner of Second and Jefferso streets.

The boy was sitting on the cement curb at the edge of the filling station driveway, inside of the sidewalk, waiting to heir the band ] concert which was given at the ] corner at eight o’clock. He was ! facing the south with his feet extending i n tlie sidewalk. Mr. Long, who was enroute to Portland, turned in at tlie Filling station for gasoline, hut became confused because of the large crowd i of people who were gathering for : the concert, and instead of entering the service station by the regular driveway, drove onto the sidewalk. Mr. Long was unfamiliar with the driveway, and stated later tlqit he thought he was driving in at the regular .place. The right front wheel of his auto- | mobile crushed the Ralston boy's CONTINUED ON PAGE FIVE LIBERTY PARTY HAS BIG ROW Convention Split Wide Open as Delegates Gather to Nominate Ticket St. Louis, Mo„ Aug. 17— (UP)— The Jobless-Liberty party, here to nominate candidates for president and vice president of the United ■ States, split wide open today. Father James Cox, Pittsburgh Catholic priest, called about 800 of his “Blue Shirt" followers into session at 10 A. M. to nominate 1 candidates for the Jobless party. ' W. H. (Coin) Harvey, 81-year- ' old free silver advocate, withdrew two miles down the short to Greve Coeur Lake with 100 of his Liberty ' pirty delegates to hold a separate ' convention. ’ Tlhie dispute between the two ' party leaders arose when Harvey 1 intimated Father Ccx should with- ’ draw his candidacy for Presidential , nomination of the combined parties ' because of his religious affiliations 1 "Father Cox never steps aside [ and particulary will not step aside ** CONTINUED ON PAGE FIVE

Price Two Cents

GARBAGE BIDS ARE RECEIVED BY COUNCIL Charles Roop Low Bidder At $320 For Year; Citizens Are Heard COUNCIL WORKING ON CITY TAX CUT Charles Roop was the low bidder for the city garbage contract, his bld of $320 being filed with the council last evening. Four other] bids were filed. The contract will be awarded to Mr. Roop upon til ! itig of an approved bond. The contract begins September] 1 and is for one year. Other bid-1 ders who filed were, William Hart-[ ings, $700; F. J. Schmitt, $350 John Hill. $700; 'George Brown. I $475; Will Ohler now has the contract. f Petitions for street lights at the ] corner of Elm and Eleventh street and Studebaker and Line street, I were filed and referred to the electric light committee. t , P. Kirsch, local manufacturer. , appeared before the council and . requested tliat an adjustment be

j made in his power bill. Mr. Kirsch operates a 67 h. p. motor and the minimum charge is 50 cents per Jh. p.. making his monthly bill | $33.50. The matter was referred to i the electric light committee. Otto Gas e. South Thirteenth | street, appeared before the counI cil and requested that additional fire protection be given residents in that part of town. He stated the , nearest fire hydrant was located on Elm street and that insurance companies had cancelled policies carried by him because he did not have ample protection. Tlie matter was ’ referred to the committee on public • safety. Residents living on Short street requested the council to oil Short street. The city uses this street 1 in hauling coal from the city's bins 1 to the power plant and residents complained of the dust. The mat- ■ ter was referred to tlie street and sewer committee. No remonstrances were filed CONTINUED ON PAGE TWO 0 RIVERS SENT OUT OF BANKS ( Northwestern Oklahoma Menaced by Cloudburst; Territory Flooded Enid. Okla., Aug. 17— (U.R) — ' Cloudbursts sent dry bed northwestern Oklahoma streams over ' their banks today, driving families from their homes and flooding! ■ fertile farm lands. i No reports of loss of life had been received from the area, portions of which were cut off from communication. Damage to crops and property was expected to exceed $500,0(>0. Cottonwood Creek, a flat bed ' stream, became a raging torrent overnight at Cherokee. In 24 hours almost nine inches of rain fell in its drainage basin. Hundreds of families fled from their homes at Cherokee. Business houses, with water standing neck-deep in first floors, were abandoned. Families sought refuge in churches and at the court- , house. J. C. Beaty, director of the city’s charity work, was in i charge of relief work. He said more than 100 persons L were being cared for in the court , house. Late last night power was ( cut off and refugees arrived in , the dark. Salt Fork of the Arkansas river in Woods county near Alva spilled CONTINUED ON PAGE FIVE > 0 Wren High School Band To Play Here ] The Wren. Ohio, high school band will give next week's conceit in Decatur, it was announced today by the merchant's committee. A rube band will also accompany tlie higli school organization. Tlie concert given last evening by the Decatur band was largely attended.

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OPPONENT OF WAGE SCALE SHOT DOWN Leader In Southern Illinois Mine Area Killed By Volley of Shot INDIANA MINERS APPEAL TO LEWIS Orient. 111.. Aug. 17- <UR>-; Ihe assassination today ot ; Joe Colbert. .38-vear-ol<l leader of the Southern Illinois coal miners protesting the new $5 a (lav wage scale, centered here the turmoil in the state’s coal fields. Meantime, armed civilian guards patrolling (.hristian ] county highways had a brush with I pickets near Tovey. One picket ] was arrested near Taylorville. Thousands of angry miners in I the Springfield district continued j plans to march on Taylorville, armed only with their fists, in defiance of 1.500 armed citizen guards. Colbert who was recording secretary of Orient Local 303, United Mine Workers, was shot down by three men in an automobile white picking mushrooms. He was chatting with his father when a volley of shots cut him down. “An automobile drove up the road and one of the three men in it called to Joe to come over,” the elder Colbert said. "When Joe got about 25 feet from the car, the men fired, one with a shotgun. Then they drove away towards Benton.” The father could not give accurate descriptions of the slayers. Colbert, described by authorities ‘ as a firebrand in union matters, was chairman of the recent mass meeting of miners at Benld to protest adoption of the new wage scale. He was said to have wielded considerable influence over miners in Franklin county, who comprise one-fourth the state membership of the union. Tlie brush of Christian county's “home guard" with invaders occurred at the Sangamon-Christian county line. A roving band of pickets from outside the county intimidated 74 miners and they turned back from the Tovey mine. Tlie pickets, in 15 automobiles then dispersed before there was any violence. The lone picket arrested was Raymond Totnbozzi. Taylorville, taken into custody at a Peabody mine. He was placed in the county jail without charge. The citizen guards ran threshers and tractors across highways to block traffic. All automobiles CON'"’*' I 'ed ’ >N* PA<* I* 'FIVE* ’ BULLt I IN Miami, Fla., Aug. 17—U.R' 1 — A Dade county jury today acquitted Capt. William Lancaster, British aviator, of the murder of Haden Clarke, young writer who won the love of pretty young Jessie M. I Keith-Miller, Australian flier, from the veteran. The jury I deliberated 5 hours. — (-) GOV. RALPH HAS A BONUS PLAN . - Appears Before Legion Convention and Suggests State Bond Issue Oakland, Calif., Aug. 17.—(U.R)— ' The California American Legion convention today had up for con--1 sideration a proposal by Gov. James Rolph, Jr., that the state issue bonds for immediate payment of the soldiers bonus, the state to be reimbursed by the federal government when regular federal bonus payments become due. . The convention was thrown into an enthusiastic uproar when the governor, making an unscheduled speech before the Legionnaires, suggested tlie plan. , The governor told the ex-soldiers the state would back the proposal, I provided it was approved by the I I convention. | “Since congress has done nothling for the payment of the bonus f debt,” the governor said, “we might J work out some plan whereby California would take care of its own _ I ex-soldiers, pending action by the I CONTINUED ON PAGE FIVE *