Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 30, Number 198, Decatur, Adams County, 20 August 1932 — Page 1

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Business Worse; Feeling Better, Report States Indlanapolh, Aug. 20.— (U.R) — A I • fundamental psychological change iln the business attitude” was re-1 I ported today by the business re-| |view of the Indiana University! I Bureau of Business Research de- 1 I spite declines of trade and Indus-! | try to new low levels during July, i "As yet." the Review said, "this! better sentiment has not been trans ; lated into activity in the basic in-i dustrfea." General business activity in Indi-, I ana since the first of the year has j (average 23.4 per cent under the! corresponding period of a year ago! and 46 3 per cent under the first seven months of 1929, the Review said. Sales of department stores were lower during July than any other I month in recent years, the Review | said. Other observations were: Steel mills operated 14 to 15 per cent capacity during the greater: I part of July. Union shaft mines were idle. ; Automobile and accessory rnanu- ; facturers reduced operations. Limestone shipments were 46.2 I per cent below normal. New car sales were slightly less than usual seasonal decline. Hard ware sales were 37 per cent under a year ago. Although unemployment in the ’state showed a heavy decline, there , was a light increase in the percentage of workers on part time (schedules the Review pointed out. COMMISSION MAILED TODAY Duplicate Copy of Appointment of C. L. Walters as Judge Ls Mailed A duplicate copy of the official ' commission appointing C. L. Wal- ' ters. judge of the Adams Circuit I court was issued this morning by Gaylord Morton, secretary to Governor Harry G. Leslie and mailed I to Mr. Walters by special delivery ! mail. The commission is expected late this afternoon or Sunday and if ( it arrives by that time Mr. Walters | will assume jurisdiction in the I local court Monday morning. | Mr. Walters was appointed judge last Tuesday by Governor Leslie I and his commission was mailed ■ Wednesday morning. It had not !at rived Friday afternoon and Ralph Yager. Republican county chairman, called the governors office and made inquiry. A search was made and employes in the executive's office vouched that the document was mailed Wednesday. Mr. Walters was appointed to fill the vacancy caused by the sudden death of Judge Dore B. Erwin, who died July 19. He will serve until January 1. 1933. when the man elected in November will take office. The Republicans are expected to nominate Mr. Walters as their candidate. A meeting will be held for the purpose this evening. Bluffton Man Dies At Portland Races Bluffton, Aug. 20 — (Special) — John Wingfield. 53. for many years a cigar store proprietor here, droppI ed dead of a heart attack at 2:30 o’clock Friday afternoon while attending the horse race at the Portland Fair. He had suffered front leakage of the heart for five years. Mr. Wingfield was acc mpanied to Portland by Charles McAtee. Surviving are the widow. Anna Forbes-Wingfield, a brother, Ed. Wingfield, Burr Oak. Michigan and a sister, Mrs. Edith Fuller, Indianapolis. 0 General Store At Santa Claus Robbed j Santa Clause, Ind., Aug. 29 —(UP) Santa Claus has been robbed. Thieves broke into the General Store operated by James Martin, postmaster, known as Santa Claus because he handles thousands of pieces of mail sent here each year for a Christmas stamp, and took about SSO worth of merchandise. • o Correction ’ In Miller’s Bakery advertisement I in Friday’s paper it was erroneously stated that they were selling 2 dozen of Dinner Rolls for sc. This , was in error as it should have been one dozen for sc.

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BRITISH TRADE TREATY SIGNED BY 9 NATIONS Plenary Session Ends 30-j Day Economic Confer ence At Ottawa HOPE TO IMPROVE BRITISH TRADE Ottawa, Ont., Aug. 20.—(U.PJ- The British empire economic conference— whose delegates represent lone quarter of the population of , the world—wrote its page in hisItory today. In plenary session the chief delegates of nine empire units formally signed the trade treaties they Iliad spent 30 exhausting days in .(negotiating. Stanley Bruce for Australia, and j Neville Chamberlain for Great Brittain, signed their treaty at 10:38 a. tn. Other chief delegates followed in order. Brought into being as the answer of the British commonwealth ot nations to world depression, .seeking to stimulate trade throughout that commonwealth, the agreements were not made public at ’ once. They hit, although lightly ’ conferees promised, at the trade of many nations in favor of trade between the empire units. It was announced a statement showing the "nature and scope" of ! the British-Canadian agreement, (Would l»e issued some time today. The Australian-Canadian treaty ' may not be published until Tues- | day so that the Australian government may study it first. For the signing in the oak-pan-,elled house of commons chamber ’ chief delegates ranged themselves around an oak table at the speakers end ot the rectangular chamber. 1 Prime Minister R. E. Bennett was . at the head, as chairman and offiJcial host. Stanley Baldwin, Brit- . ain, was at his right. Then came .INew Zealand, Ireland and India, j On his left were Stanley Bruce. ~ Australia, then South Africa. New CONTINUED ON PAGE THP.RE 1 ■■ Q Grote Funeral Today H a I Funeral services for Mrs. Henry | C. Grote, who died at the home of M her son. six miles northeast of De‘icatur in Union township. Thurs- ; day in rning, were held this afterj noon at the Emni.nuel Lutheran * I church. Rev. M. J. Frosch, pastor, ■ officiated and burial was made in ’ the church cemetery. i 1 i FLYING BOUDOIR ) I REMAINS IN AIR l Women Flyers, Setting i New Endurance Record, Remain Aloft 6 Days Valley Stream, L. 1., Aug. 20. — (U.R) —Two weary young women piloted their ’Flying Boudoir" aliove . Curtis airport here in the sixth day of their record smashing endurance flight, determined to remain aloft 4 until Sunday afternoon. ’ At 5 a. m. (EST) today Mrs. j Frances Barrel Marsalis and Mrs. Louise McPhetridge Tliaden had been in the air 136 consecutive hours, hours longer thaji the old 1 record established in January, . 1931, by Bobby Trout and Edna May Cooper. It was 122 hours and 50 minutes. ' They were “dog tired” today, but j convinced that they and their plane were good for many hours more. They want to stay in the' air ten days. If they do, they will establish a record of 240 hours. But C. S “Casey’’ Jones, manI ' ager of the airport, declared he would probably order them down i Sunday. “Those girls have done wonderfully,” he declared. "I don t [ want them to risk their lives and I think Sunday will be the limit of ; safe endurance. If they stay up , until then, they’ll have a record . that will stand for a long time." Five minutes before the new record was established Friday afternoon, half a dozen planes stunted wildly about the women's blue and . silver monoplane. ■' The refueling plane, piloted by i Johnny Hunger and Stewart Reiss, 1 hopped off and joined in the dem- ’ ’onstration. Hunger leaped overI * "continued ON PAGE THRE7E

Decatur, Indiana, Saturday, August 20, 1932.

Illinois Mine War Scenes ■// ■ ' ■ r I’l I .Sr j I d 11KKL w* P’Wi xKaBKBL 4 \.W JIS ~ „ Upper picture shows Herman Lisse (center), president of Taylorville. 111., local mine union, and Walter L. Moody (right), superintendent of state police at Taylorville, where union miners are picketing against the $5 wage scale, in lower photo miners are shown peacefully picketing between mass meetings at Kincaid. 111., Mine. No. 7.

ROCKEFELLER VISITS SISTER John D. Jr., Arrives In Chicago To Visit Mrs. Edith McCormick Chicago, Aug. 20—(U.R) —John D. Rockefeller, Jr., accompanied by Mrs. Rockefeller and their son.. John D. Rockefeller, 111. arrived at 1 Chicago at 9 a. m. today and hur-1 ried to the bedside of his sister, Mrs. Edith Rockefeller McCormick. critically ill at the Drake hotel. The Rockefellers were met at the station by Muriel McCormick Hubbard, elder daughter of Mrs. McCormick. She rushed up to her uncle, kissed him, exclaiming. "Oh. John." Rockefeller and his wife drove to the hotel in a taxicab. “I have come to Chicago because of the serious illness of my sister, Mrs. McCormick.” Rockefeller said. “Since I visited her earlier in the summer, I have suffered an attack of the shingles and i my physicians have ordered me not to travel. Hence, I was unable to come sooner." Asked whether John D. Rockefeller, Sr’, planned to visit his daughter, Rockefeller said: “It would be unW.se for my father to attempt the trip to Chicago, not because of his health CONTINUED ON PAGE THKEE o— Democrats Holding Regional Meetings Indianapolis, Aug. 20 — (U.R) — Regional conferences between Democratic party candidates and workers were scheduled today in i Muncie and Greensburg. Frederick Van Nuys. nominee for U. S. senator, and other nominees attended district meetings at Bedford and Greencastle Friday. A HEAVY MEETING I Chicago, Aug. 20.—(U.R)—Hundreds of tons will be gathered i in Wicker Park next Thursday. ’ There will be big Tons and j j little Tons, fat Tons and lean j I Tons —all of them members of I ! the Ton family, Inc. There are, leading Tons say, 1,000 Tons in Chicago. On ; the same date 100 Tons will j ! meet in Los Angeles. ! The Tons, one of the largest ! organized families in the na- , tion, settled in the United i States in 1849, coming from Holland. —.— — ♦

Three Petitions Granted Yesterday i I Indianapolis, Aug. 20 — (I’P) — Three petitions for pe-inission to I I operate motor bus and freight lines j in Indiana were granted by the I state public service commission I late yesterday. Frank E. Lay.ne, Crawfordsville, was granted permission to, operate a passenger bus service in i Jeffersonville. The Mid west motor freight com- . pany was authorized to start an in- ! terstate freight line between Ind- | ianapolis and the Ohio State line, serving Anderson. Muncie and Portland. Operation of property ot Greyhound lines, Inc., between Indianapolis ond Fcrt Wayne, serving Anderson, Marion, and Huntington, by the A. B. C. Coach lines, Inc., was approved. MARKET RALLIES BEFORE CLOSE Increased Car Loadings Tend To Turn Swing Upward; Trading Dull New York. Aug. 20 —(U.R) —Aided by a rise of 16,398 cars in the weekly car loadings report, the stock market rallied today after early irregularity and closed higher. Trading was dull. The increase in ear loadings had been anticipated, hut its size was considered highly encouraging. Further seasonal increases were looked for in coming weeks. The entire railroad group moved up when the report was made public. Utilities, however, made wider gains than the rails and some ot the special issues moved into new high ground for the year. Railroad bonds were strong and the domestic list on the bond , market continued to move into new high ground on the movement. Strength in securities was a factor in preventing recurrence of liquidation in stocks, according to observers. Commodities were steadier. Cotton made small gains, while wheat rallied partially from early fractional recessions. ’Steel Common which broke below 40 in the early dealings came back to 41 where it was up %. Youngstown Sheet & Tube spurted 2% points to 17. Bethlehem made a small gain. A pickup in steel operations was noted in some sections, this improvement being considered highly significant as one of the first indications of a rise in the major indices of business. ■ In the utilities. Standard Gas CONTINUED ON PAGE TWO

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MOLLISONTOO f TIRED TO TRY RETURN TRIP — Scotsman Will Not Go To New York Until Sunday; Wait Here A Week GIVESUP IDEA TO FLY BACK AT ONCE St. John. New Brunswick. Aug. 120. — (U.R) — Captain Jimmie Mollison, “flying bridegroom" who piloted a Puss Moth plane across the Atlantic alone, t|ie first to make that deadly east to west solo crossing. has abanuoned his tliree-day round trip plan and will fly to Montreal and Ottawa. He will fly back home later, he said. The 27-year-old Scotsman told the United Press today that he would not arrive in New York before 3 o'clock p. m. Sunday. “I’m trying to catch up on sleep, you know, and 1 would if you hadn’t called me just now," he chuckled. Thoroughly exhausted after battling heavy fog in that first nonstop solo flight from Ireland to New York, the husband of England’s foremost woman flyer, Amy ’Johnson, said he had been invited to address the Imperial Economic conference at Ottawa on the subject of aeronautics. He will stop, however, at Montreal at the behest of Col. W. A. Bishop, famous Canadian war ace, who is his friend, he said. Captain Mollison landed at Pennfield Ridge, near St. John, at 12:50 CONTINUED ON PAGE FOUR ADJOURN WALKER CASE TO MONDAY Defense For Mayor Hopes To Bolster Case With Testimony Next Week Albany, N. Y„ Aug. 20.—(U.R) — Mayor James J. Walker’s defense! sought to bolster its case today ’ with the hearing on ouster charges adjourned until Monday after Gov. Franklin I). Rooseve't refused to dismiss “charges" on which the proceedings are based. Legal maneuvering to halt the hearing left two test cases scheduled to be heard by Supreme Court Justice Ellis J. Staley. Monday. Action to halt the hearing brought by John J Curtain. Walker's attorney, was argued in part yesterday, but adjourned. The other action, l.rought by Sidney Levine. New York lawyer, to test the constitutionality of clauses giving the chief executive removal power, was argued with decision held in abeyance. Yesterday’s hearing saw the mayor losing his first mayor encounter when Roosevelt declined to grant Curtain's plea that the charges he characterized as "baseless" be dropped. Samuel Seabury. who drafted the 15 “conclusions" against Walker, answered Curtain with the argument that oratory was not proof and that it would be time enough to sum up the evidence when it all had been presented. The mayor probably will offer the first of the 22 witnesses be summoned when the hearing is resumed Monday. The list includes eight men prominent in New York state Republican politics. Several of Walker's friends, among whom are Edward P. Mulrooney, New York police commissioner. and Morris Hotchner, chairCONTINUED ON PAGE THHEE 01J * I TO MARRY STEPMOTHER Oakland. Calif.. Aug. 20.—(U.R) | — Roy Linn, 29. intends to j ! marry his 26-year-old stepmoth- | er, Mis. Gertrude Linn, just as | I ( soon as his father, Charles I II Linn. 64. obtains a divorce, he | told authorities today. | The younger Linn was ar- I j rested on an pssault and bat- | | tery complaint signed by his ; father. The elder man charg- | ! ed his son attacked him when | | ordered from his home after | i ’ discovering the son and wife | were in love. , I Married four years ago, the | 11 father and his young wife have | 11 two children.

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ISchenck Girls Are In Summer Schools! Miss Ifelen Schenck, daughter of Charles Schenck, has spent the summer In Chautauqua, New I York, where she has been a student In the school of speech. Miss I Schenck will coach the dramatic work In the Pleasant Mills High | School this year. i Miss Margaret Schenck, also a teacher in Adams County, has spent the summer studying the Art < f Story Telling under the direction of Mrs. Georgia McAdams Clifford, president of the National Stois Teller’s League. —, O SUIT BROUGHT FOR DAMAGES Estate of Rev. A. R. Fledderjohann Sues Railroad For SIO,OOO Sult for SIO,OOO damages against the New York Central railroad, was brought yesterday by A. R. Ashbaucher, administrator of the' estate of the late Rev. A. R. Fled-’ derjohann. pastor of the Zion Re-! formed church of this city, who I was killed. May 12, 1932. at the N. Y. C. railroad crossing at Hamlet, Ind. Mr. Ashbaucher was named administrator of the estate on August 6 and the suit is filed in behalf of Mrs. Fledderjohann and three daughters, dependents of the deceased. The complaint sets out that it i was about nine o’clock in the eve-( ning when Rev. Fledderjohann' drove his automobile over the, railroad switch tracks intersect-j ing with highway No. 30. when a I train of railroad cars was backed, over a switch track, striking the automobile and hurling it against a post. It is also alleged that the railroad company was guilty of negli-i gence in that there was no light ’ on the end of the train of cars | and that other precautions had! not been taken against an accident. The suit was entered by the legal firm of Eggeman. Reed and] Cleland of Fort Wayne. o - — ■ | Monroe Farmer Wins At Jay County Fair C. M. Laisure of Monroe has re-! turned from the Jay County fair with his bi: ds from his farm flock which won the Yellowing prizes: | First and second cock bird; second hen; first and second cockerel; sec-: ond pullet of Buff Orphingtons; sec-! ond hen. first and second cockerel; : first and second pullet, fi: st young pen on his Dark Cornish. He also won second place for 10 ears of yellow corn. 0 Curtis And Sister Stop In Chicago Chicago, Aug. 30 —(UP)— Vicepresident Curtis and his sister. Mrs. Dolly Gann, stopped off a few hours in Chicago today enroute east. Both certain business has taken a turn for the better and that the Repub-> lican .party will be victorious in November. Curtis said he had noted a bet-j ter business trend on his trip across i the country and back and “that's all I we need—more confidence.” Mrs. Gann said more requests; were pouring in for her to make campaign speeches that she could fill but that she was “eager to start." New Pastor To Be At Church of God Rev. G. Marshall, who recently accepted the pastorate of the local Church of God, will be in the pulpit Sunday, and will take cbaige of the services. The public is invited to hear Rev. Marshall. o Nevada Senator To Make Charges Soon Las Vegas, Nevada Aug. 20 — (UP) —Sen. Tasker L. Oddie, Republican of Nevada, .promised today that he would place sensational charges" before the Irrigation and Reclamation committee when it meets here August 29. Senator Oddie, a recognized opponent of Secretary ot Interior Wilbur's policies will attempt to prevent appropriation of additional funds for the Hoover dam unless administration of worker's condition is changed," he said.

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PEOPLE WERE MISLEAD, SAYS GOV. ROOSEVELT I Administration Risked Life of Nation Through Policy of Speculation CANDIDATE SPEAKS AT COLUMBUS, OHIO Columbus, ()., Aug. 20. - I (U.R) Guv. Franklin 1). Roosej velt opening his spetiking i campaign here for the presidency of the t'nited States said today: “The administration has risked the lives, property and welfare of the people through a policv of governmental speculation." Roosevelt charged that Herbert Hoover and the Republican party, while possessed of accurate know- ' ledge, “played the game of the ' Wall street gambler,” then when I the crash came, deliberately misI led the people of the United i States. “High public officials in the next administration will neither by word nor deed seek to influence the price of stocks and bonds. “It will no longer be possible for international bankers or others to sell the investing public foreign securities on the implied underI standing they have been approved I by the state department. "President Hoover’s leadership | encouraged a vast speculative boom and when the reckoning ’! came it was not honest with the | people. Action postponed prolong- [' ed and deepened the depression. J “Has that party under that lead- . ership ( Hoover's) suddenly become the heaven-sent healer oC the country who will now make ' well all that has been ill? ' "Our industrial and economic i ’ system is made for individual men [.and women; and not individual . men and women for the benefit of the system. J “I do not believe that in the Jname of that sacred word (indij vidualism) a few powerful inter- < ests could be permitted to make [ industrial cannon fodder of the I lives of half the population of the | United States. ; "We must get back to first i principles; we must take Amerii can individualism at what it was intended to be —equality of opporI tunity for all. the right of exploitation for none." He promised, as the Democratic ! candidate for the presidency, that | the next administration "will neither by word nor deed seek to influence the price of stocks and bonds,” but would exercise the stx STOP MINERS FROM WORKING Caravan of Miners From Peoria District Invade Henry County Field Galesburg. 111.. Aug. 20 —(U.R) —• ■ Five hundred miners from GalesI burg. Farmington and other I points in the Peoria sub-district in a caravan of motor cars invaded Alpha in Henry county today and stopped miners from working at the Shulder mine there. When part of the morning shift, approximately 50 men. reported for work they found the place surrounded by an overwhelming force of pickets and made no attempt to work. A mass meeting was called for noon and pickets left at the Alpha mine while the main body of the invaders continued their march on the Valley View mine near Coal Valley in Rock Island county. The invasion of Alpha was the second In 24 hours. Yesterday a delegation from Galesburg visited the Alpha mine and warned ■ mine workers to cease operations, but no pickets were placed. After : the departure of the strikers yesI terday the Alpha miners are said to have held a meeting and part of the workers decided to return . to the shaft this morning. When . their decision became known to . the Galesbiirg miners a caravan I of 150 cars was organized and . again descended upon the mines. State police were on hand to CONTINUED ON PAGE SIX *