Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 30, Number 203, Decatur, Adams County, 26 August 1932 — Page 1

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fall PLANS IHWION 111 W LEW |a> > Kale 'la.' »>• ■ ff dto '>9c <»’l IH ’ et ■For Next Year B PLANT TO 1* l.|\l-A\IN<.S ■ possible that the civil Kjevy in Decatur tor K ar will be cut to 59: K the hundred dollars, ■Gwrge Kruk .Dated to-. Knowing a conlerencei council last evening. ■ would be a reduction Kents in the levy and a ■ m dollars and cents ot Kmatelv to DeKupa.'er' A ; S"' nl ' ■irodaiv £!'.<;■•” .’1 based on ot S' ' 7l < onipaied Ktauirt of jll.l-o-H thiH ■ndured by a 71 cent levy ot 58.21-1.11 Kr wrick stated the council Molts of redux mg the hudas possible and giving r tupayers tin advantage Dnr rate next year. "The | u working on the budget I endeavoring to reduce the Irrr JS much as possible. A hi budget has I preparlit is possible that the levy p cut to 59 cents or lower." ( iKrick stated. | receipts from the state g tax am! a legistration Is planned t , eliminate the apprupriati'i. nu street read labor required to keep nets clean. A reduction of in the levy for street lightid JliW fur hydrant rental', tire protection chy. another {s,sih> could be E the budget. Mayor Krick i city light and power plant fllaable asset to the people •tur and we might as well use of it now. By reducing , ties for street lighting and < t rentals, which amounts j formerly credited to the , departments, actual proof . advantage of owning a mu-j I plant will be given taxpaythe Mayor stated. K savings are planned in the Kind without destroying the MB of good government and I Decatur those advantages jrivileges enjoyed by a profa city. it is thought that the I tan be cut down to actual mental expenses, the city bearing a big share of the |t lighting streets, providing faection, etc. lot the councilmen stated he ht the levy might be reduced ’’ cents on the hundred dol,ad that diligent effort was iaade by every member ot Mtcil to get the tax rate re1 not thought possible that •• rate in Decatur can be F 51.50, but a substantial re*is assured. Levies which Mke up Decatur’s total rate * state levy, township, townbond and interest, II- ' roonty, school city and poor . SHTO SETTLE farm strike * Are Taken to Avert 1 e nce And Bloodshed ,n Farmer’s Area lowa ’ Aug 26 -— of , lawattoni| e county, hotL he lowa farmers’ strike, ay as c *'-y. county and L ti v2 a s . cooperated wtth re Plih?’ Os „ the strik ers to elimUtul ?° M J >ility of greater violle iaT*’ ble b '°o<hhed in this r’sone, he P n a . rtS ° f the Rlate are feell bitt > I SBUr “ Os the strikers’ «r 8 now e h dra ” aUC action for i ana u ,een concentrates ' about Council Bluffs. j ftessin. aC \ B, gun *® re » stormy ie conn. 8 ’ tbreats to break op•'tiotls in< jail ~ eVen a <leath m resu| tlng from h th e fan t *‘ Bcharg e of a riot a tJV ied e »rltemem. “ C °” B ' ant - aßt re presentON

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[Four Youths Raid Watermelon Patch — Indianapolis, Aug. 26 —(UP) —A raid by four youths on a watermellon patch had resulted today in I serious injuries to one ot them I and assault charges against owner I of the melons. Victor Konoveck, 19, wis in a hospital here with gunshvt wounds I in the head. Sight of one eye was I destroyed. Abbert Sawyer, 65, who I fired on the youths, was charged i with intent to kill. WOMAN DENIES SHE IS GUILTY Mrs. Florence Foreman Denies She Is Accomplice in Ayers’ Case ■ ' * ' ’"■** Sheriff Burl Johnson returned I front Indianapolis last evening. 1 Bringing with him Mrs. Florence Foreman, 41. who is charged with auto banditry in connection with the asault on Mrs. Amanda Ayres. 72. of Blue Creek township who was bound to a chair at her home on the night of August 17th. She is being held in jail here and will be arraigned as soon as further investigations are made. Mrs. Foreman stoutly denies her guilt, declaring she was en route to visit at the Floyd Stover home near Rockford. her five year old son accompanying her. Sheriff! ' Johnson stated there was evidence! I that the woman visited near the Ayres home two weeks previous to Aug. 17th and at that time in-j quired as to the residence of Mrs. j Ayres. She stopped at the Glad-1 fellow filling station, north ofj Decatur and bought some oil and, gas, promising to pay later. Mr. | " CONTINUED ON'' PAGE VflltlTE McCulloch Named To Finance Committee Indianapolis, Aug. 26. —(U.R) —Dr. , Tarleton B. McCullach. Indianap-, olte. Democratic candidate for govjernor in 1924. has been named to I j membership on the national Demo-’ I cratic finance committed, R. Earl j iPeters. state chairman announced.! I Other Indiana members are John I jK. Jennings. Evansville and J. Henry Hipskind. Fort Wayne. NEW AUTO TAGS ARE RECEIVED License Bureau Gets 4.000 Plates For 1933; Are White And Maroon J. L. Ehler, local manager of the - automobile license bureau today received the auto license plates for! 1933. They have white numbers on ' a maroon background and are very l attractive, Mr. Ehler stated. The! shipment included 4,000 passenger | car plates and 600 for trucks. The | first number on the passenger car ! plates is 435.701. They cannot be issued until December 15th. Mr. Ehler also received notice today to report at the office of the Secretary of State next Friday for a general discussion of how best j to serve the public in the distribution of licenses and for further instructions. Place Line of Candy W ith Decatur Store Dick Peterson and Charles Breiner. both well known here, have opened a candy jolfbbing business in Chicago, distributing the famous “Miss Marguerite” hand dipped chocolate candies. Here on a visit this week, they closed a contract with Lose Bros., to handle the line in this territory. The firm Is known as Peterson and Breiner and the outlook for a successful business is - excellent, they tated. The candies , are neatly packed in one, three and j five pound boxes and their first | order in Chicago from one of the 1 large stores was for 5,000 boxes. o Receivership Asked For Transit Company New York Aug. 26—(UP)—The Interborc-ugh Rapid Transist Company which operates a greater part ' of the subway lines underlying Manhattan was thrown into receiv-1 ership today on a creditor's action filed in federal court by the law firm of Breed Abbott and Morgan. |

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lowa Farm Strikers Meet Resistance v. • ”-♦<■«.- x.. « •'.» J * I W ■ gB **--. . ■- . Holland Ruse, a truck operator, is shown on the running board of his vehicle a moment after he had s< ized a crank handle and threatened to use it on striking fanners picketing the highway near Council Bluffs, la., unless they got out of his way. The strike is spreading to several other states, threatening I food supplies for the larger cities.

COLORFUL LIFE COMES TO ENO ■I Mrs. Edith McCormick, Once World's Richest Woman, Dies Chicago, Aug. 26. — (U.R) — Edith j Rockefeller McCormick’s body lay 1 today in an undertaking parlor a 'stone’s throw from her famous I Lake Shore Drive home and from : the hotel suite where her tragic |life ended quietly at 3:40 p. m. yes- | terday. . Relatives said no funeral arrangeI ments have been made. It was be- ■ lieved. however, she would be buried in a Chicago cemetery near the grave of her first son. John Rockefeller McCormicck. Her brother, John D. Rockefeller. Jr., who visited her during her last ' illness, was reported returning from the east. It was said that her I father, John D. Rockefeller. Sr., would be unable to come because of his advanced age. Lights blazing again last night in the I-ike Shore Drive home for the first time in weeks led to speculation that the body of the "great lady” might he taken there to lie lin state until the funeral. All the members of her immed- ! iate family, including the two ’daughters from whom she was estranged for years, were present when the wealthy society leader i succumbed to the cancerous dis-, ease which she had fought with al I vitality that amazed physicians. [ After a week during which she, had improved remarkably, she suf-1 sered a relapse early yesterday and i was in a coma most of the day., Physicians said she suffered no pain during the final hours of her life. A short time after she died, her, daughter. Mrs. Mathilde Oser, was! led, weeping, from the suite. Others at the bedside when death came here werre Mrs. Muriel Hubbard, another daughter; Fowler McCormick, son, and his wife, the former Anne (Fifi) Stillman; Harold F. McCormick, her divorced husband, and Edward Krenn, the Swiss architect who had been tier friend and business adviser for the last 10 years. Major Elisha Dyer Hubbard, Muriel’s husband and Mrs. Fowler McCormick’s son, Alexander Stillman, also were present. Two years ago Mrs. McCormick [underwent an operation because 'of the disease. This summer she 'became ill again, at almost the '.same time of he publication of disclosures that millions of dollars of her vast fortune had been swept ' ' CONTINUED ON PAGE FIVE Sale Postponed The Curbstone Auction Sale | which was to have been held in Hoagland. Saturday night, in con- ! nection with the Firemen’s Fall ' Festival, has been postponed one ' week.. Fred Engle will act as the I auctioneer at the sale.

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I. U. Entertainment Costs To Be Lowered I Bloomington, find., Aug. 27—(UP) I j —lmported orchestras and costly ! dinners by fraternities and sororI ities should be curtailed, according to President William Lowe Bryan ' of Indiana university, who has endifrsed a movement for “a concerted program of retrenchment in the costs of entertain|ne>nt” for tile 1 coming school year. , President Bryan has pointed out ■ I than entertainment costs make the J difference in costs of a college edui cation. ' i “Imported orchestra, costly din- - [ tiers, favors, and decorations bring i a burden which the wealthier stud- - J ents or their parents may be able -; and willing to bear, though even in - those cases a simpler life would be ■ 1 better in every way,” Bryan said. DEATH FOLLOWS LONG ILLNESSI Mrs. Oscar Ainsworth, 59, Dies At Home Here, Os Paralysis Mrs. Diitha Ainsworth, 59 wife of | Oscar Ainsworth, life long res- ’ j ident of Adams County, died ait her ’ I home on Schirmeyer street, at 4:45 ' o’clock Thursday evening of paraly- ! sis.. Mrs. Ainsworth Ind been ill | for nine weeks. | She was born in Adams county, I near Bobo, July 15. 1873, a daugh-j Iter of James and Mary Jane Ault-, 1 Thatcher. She was united in mar- j J riage in 1899 to Oscar Ainsworth. Surviving is the husband and one , son, Gayl of Bobo; two grandchild- ■ ren; two sisters, Mrs. Anna Krick of Fort Wayne, and Mrs. Permelia ■ [ King of Wabash. Mrs. Ainsworth was a member of • the United Brethren church at Bobo for many years. The body was removed to the S. E. Black Funeral Parlors and will be returned to the home late this afternoon Where friends may view it after seven o'clock tonight. Funeral services will be held Sunday afternoon at 1:30 o’clock (C. S. T.) at the home and at two o’clock at the Bobo U. B. church. Rev. Walter Johnson, pastor, will officiate. Burial will be made in the Mt. Tabor Cemetery. o Mahoney Appointed To Fill Vacancy 'lndianapolis, Aug. 26 — (UP) — Mitchael M. Mahoney, Indianapolis attorney, was selected unanimously at a meeting of the Marion County 'Democratic Committee last night to fill the vacancy on the state ticket created by resignation of State Senator Edgar A. Perkins. Perkins was appointed to the industrial commission. Mahoney, who ran fifth in the M ly primary, was the only person nominated for the vacancy.

OSLO FLYERS NOT SIGHTED Lee And Bochkon Should Have Neared Irish Coast Early This Morning London, Aug. 26 —(UP) — Fog batiks off Ireland and a steady, driz- ‘ zling rain over half the Atlantic lay ■ today in the Aerial path charted by America’s two young bachelor ocean fliers. The fliers left Harbor ; Grace, NFD., yesterday in their monoplane “green Mountain Boy,” . in an attempt to reach Oslo without a stop. 1 Although a dozen or more TransAtlantic ships are on the North Atlantic, the big Red plane, piloted by Clyde Allen Lee and John Bochkon, apparently had not been .sighted. Lee and Bochkon roared away [from Harber Grace at 5:02 A. M. EST. they expected to reach the '[ Norwegian capital within 30 hours. [•Unless they have met heavy head- | winds, they should have neared the , Irish coast early today. The air ministry was keeping a close check on atmospheric conditions over the Atlantic today. The winds were moderate and southerly though the rain and fog made flying fairly dangerous. It was understood that the positions of the ships along the route were registered on a chart carried by Led and Brochkon. They had taken extra precautions against forced landings at sea. the i doors of their cabin plane were seal- | ed, mainly to permit more storage I space for fuel. A hole had been cut over the pilot seat to permit entrance and exit. In sea landing they could get out quickly. They estimated that their plane would float on the ocean for several days. Dr. H. Frohnapfel Returns From School Dr. H. Frohnapfel, local Chiropractor, will return Saturday from Davenport, lowa where he took four week's course at the Palmer School of Chiropractic and completed a course in X-ray and Spinography. Dr. Frohnapfel was selected as one of 50 Chiropractors to conduct a Public Clinic during the Annual P. S. C. Lyceum and Homcoming which was held from August 21 to 27. About 2,000 Chiropractors attended this Lyceum program. Runaway Girl Is Found In Indiana Terre Haute, Ind., Aug. 26 —(UP) —Jean Mace, 12 feared kidnaped from her home in Manhattan was found here today. She told authoities she had gone on a hitch hik I ing trip. Her parents were reported en I route here to take her home. Fear that the girl was kidnaped was expresssed when she left home [ after writing a note that she was going to New York to become a model.

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BOMBING MAY START A NEW MINE BATTLE Reinforcements Sent To “Little Egypt” Where Home Was Bombed FEAR OUTBREAK WILL RESULT Taylorville, 111., Aug. 26 -(U.P.) — Bombing of a striking mine lead-; er’s home today was the ominous prelude to another invasion of the, Southern Illinois coal field, an -| nounced by officials of the strik - ers for next week. Leaders declared reinforcements had been promised from mine regions in Oklahoma, Indiana and Kentucky for the next drive into, "Little Egypt.” where an army of i 18,500 invaders was routed Wednesday night by bullets. The front porch was blown off I the home of Raymond Tombozzi, I strike leader, here. Occupants were shaken from their beds but | none in the house was injured. The bombing was the third in | this area in recent weeks. A filling station at Pawnee was i Blown up and two unoccupied min-1 era’ homes at Kincaid were dyna-| mited. Plans of the miners protesting against operation of southern i Illinois mines under a $5 a day ’ wage scale to reinvade Franklin; county, scene of the “battle of MulkelviUe” were announced at I Gillespie. Mass meetings were called to decide on the exact date and tactics. No decision had been reached I as to whether the men would go, armed or would rely on their fists ’ as they did in the first “march” with the disappointing result of| complete route, with four shot and’ . scores slightly injured. "Flying squadrons” advancing) on the Franklin county front from. ■ numerous strategic vantage points will characterize the next advance, leaders said. The announcement did not ex-’ plain how miners from other | states would co-operate nor what 1 'con’Anurd on page six FARM BUREAU HOLDS PICNIC About S(H) Members Attend Reunion at St. Johns; Talks M ere Given Approximately 500 people attended the tri-county Farm Bureau picnic today in St. John’s grove, north of Decatur. A basket dinner was enjoyed at noon. Members of the bureau from Adams, Wells and Allen counties attended the meeting. A program was held this afternoon and R. G. Mj-EIJi enie otb New Haven, pre-1 sided as chairman. William H. Settle, president of| the Indiana Farm Bureau and I Congressman David H. Hogg ofj Fort Wayne delivered the principal talks at the picnic. Impromptu talks were given by several other men. The committee in charge of the picnic included Mrs. R. G. MeElhenie of New Haven. Mrs. H. M. Crownover, Adams county and Mrs. Charles McCaffrey of Wells county. It was the first farm bureau picnic held in the Decatur district this year. J. D. Winteregg, Berne, assisted in the arrangements for the picnic. —o Erie Employees To Have Picnic Employees of the Erie railroad of this city and their families are invited to attend a picnic for railread employees of the Marion district, on Saturday, August 27, at Lake Manitou, it was announced today by H. N. Blair ticket agent. More than a thousand employees of the Marion division, which includes Decatur, employees and their families will be present. Two special trains and scores of automobiles will take the representatives o’ all departments to- the I lake.'No special program has been I arranged tor the day but itaseballi and acquatic sports will be on the I schedule. Dinner will be served at, j the Colonial Hotel ait noon. |

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Final Union Service Will Be Held Sunday | The last of the series of union I services held by the four Protes- | taut churches here during the month of Augusit, will be held in the • First Christian Church next Sunday night. Rev. M. W. Sunderinann, pastor of the First Evangelical Church will deliver the sermon. The Evangelical, Methodist Episcopal, Baptist, and Christian churches held joint Sunday night services during the month of August, and the programs were largely attended. Follow’.ng the Sunday night service, each church will hold its own separate program on Sunday nights. o TEACHERS OF COUNTY WILL MEET HERE — One Day Institute to Be Held Sept. 2; Speakers Are Announced TWO GROUP MEETS ARE ANNOUNCED All teachers in Adams county, ) Berne and Decatur will attend a i teacher’s institute to be held in the 1 Decatur high school gymnasium, I Friday, September 2, it was anI nounced today by Clifton E. Striker ! county superintendent. Dr. Albert E. Wiggam, a lecturer and writer from North Vernon and Dr. Earl E. Harper, president of Evansville college. Evansville Ind., I will be the principal speakers. Mr. i Striker will preside over the meetings. The morning session will begin ’ at nine o’clock and the afternoon ' ; session will begin at 1:15. Pcoblems I jot teachers and hejpful suggestions ’ will be discussed by speakers at J both the morning and afternoon sesi sions and final instructions will be , given to the teachers. Special Meetings A special c tiled meeting for all school principals of Adams County . j will be held in the Decatur high I school gymnasium, Wednesday, i August 31, Mr. Striker announced j teday. A called meeting for all elementary school teachers of the county will be held Thursday, September 1. at nine o’clock a m. The meeting will be for teichers of grades rangj ing from the first to the eighth, and I will be held in the high school I gymnasium. No special called meeting will be ’held for high school teachers. Mr. Striker stated, but they will be required to attend the institute here September 2. o S. E. Shamp To Open Service Station Here Work was started today on the building ot the Shamp Service Station, corner of Seventh and Adams streets, south of the Decatur Fire Department. The station will be operated by S. E. Shamp, former I ticket agent at the local Nickel ! Plate railway station. Mr. Shamp expects to open the (station by September 1. In addition to gas and oil products, soft drinks, tobacco and candy will be sold. Three gas pumps will be installed. Mr. Shamp stated. Mr. Shamp plans to beautify the grounds surrounding the station. Ornamental .shrubs and floxver borders will be planted along the 30 foot driveway which will enter the station. The remainder of the lot will be transformed into a park and flower gardens. Mr. Shamp stated. o Senator Matson Begins Campaign . Winona Lake, I’nd., Aug. 26— (UP) —Senator James E. Watson came to a second district Republican rally today to deliver the open Ing blast of his 1932 cdmpxigin. With him were several candidates for state positions. Watson and Raymond S. Sprunger, Connersville, candidate for governor, were principle speakers on the afternoon program. Senator Arthur Robinson, who recently returned from a federal investigation tour of the West Indies, and Governor Harry G. Leslie, were due to speak at the morning session. The rally was held in the Winona I Lake Tabernacle, under the direcI tion of E. J. Freund, district chair- | man.

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MEETING HEARS MESSAGE BY PRESIDENT Financial Crisis of Depression Has Been Overcome, Hoover Says GIVES THREE-POINT PROSPERITY PLAN Washington, Aug. 20 ( U R> President Hoover today assured banking and industrial leaders from all parts of tlie country gathered in conference here that the major i f inancial crisis of the depresI sion has been overcome. The president said confidence and hone were reI appearing. lit* explained that the conference of banking and industrial committees of the 12 federal reserve districts had been summoned here to plan the next moves in the anti-defression war. Mr. Hoover addressed more than 200 tankers and industrialists in the auditorium of the new commerce department building. He was the first of nine speakers. The president cited a program of immediate needs as follows: 1. Better distribution of credit. 2. Co-ordination of effort to provide employment. 3. Agricultural relief. He called for "equitable plans for sharing available work." “As a matter of national policy” Mr. Hoover said. “The shortening of hours is necessary not alone to meet the need of the moment, but it may be necessary to take up the slack in the future from the vast and sudden advance in labor saving devices.” But Mr. Hoover said direction of systematic efforts to shorten, hours is “not properly the function of government." “Moreover, with all the various phases of employment and operation to be met in private business. no general rule can be applied. "Results must he achieved through cooperation on the part of employers and employes suited to each locality and industry. I suggest you should consider the effective part which you can play in further forwarding organization to this end." Mr. Hoover told the assembled bankers and industrialists that credit is available but in many sections is "flowing inadequately in directions which would stimulate consumption of goods and employment. “It needs resolution to use our banking and governmental resources and coordination to make them effective,” he continued. "There can be no question that there are in certain sections large numbers of businesses, particularly small businesses, which have been unable to find credit facilities to buy raw materials and to CONTINUED ON PAGE TWO O — -—. — FLYING FAMILY ONTOLABADOR Hutchinsons Ready To Take Off On Third Lap Os Atlantic Flight Port Menier, Anticosti Island, August 26—(UP)—Col. George R. Hutchinson and his “flying family” hoped to take off in their huge sizor sky amphibian today on the third lap of their leisurely transatlantic flight. Their next stop will be at Hopedale, Labador. Col. Hutchinson, accompanied by his wife, two small daughters, and a crew of four men, said t> day that the removal of the planes wheels at St. John, N. 8.. had caused considerable delay. He revealed that Mrs. Hutchinson and the two girls, Kathryn, 8, and Janet Lee. 6, narrowly escaped injury in an automobile accident at St. John, before the flight northward to this island in the Estuary of the St. Lawrence. The children told their father later that they did net want to ride in automobiles any more, “jusit airplanes.” The Hutchinsons are flying to Europe byway of Greenland and Iceland, and will tour the continent before returning.