Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 30, Number 206, Decatur, Adams County, 30 August 1932 — Page 1

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■TOR DAVIS Ikies guilt ■flea TODAY '' nator and ■er Moose Leaders VDeny Guilt fl charges OF iOlTEin My.rC 30 ;U.R) .kuiu's a. Dasis, Mo.N or.l- '■ Miller. lu.<! .a l iui/ati.>n s .l.partnirnt, HFrud nuill\ today to W in <li.'tin<-ntv .lian>mM I'onspira.’s to oplulti'f' Hui op. ration made before K'l- " I' PaUer Aurora. 111. anil -.I for the K t'' anil Shri.ibodies, and his Raymond Walsh, of ]Hvrk plead.-! Hot guilty to ■ Mictments |H B .n had t.-r-d similar R.- s-wk w’ ■ n arraigned hartim: operation Bail of $2,500 M-dlll'.. :,.-t week, was a. -'-•nt indictwas til. S'. bail post V • "as s.-t lor >.;u-. t Attor Z trial was Uy Sept 19 Davis' attorney. H Till'.- 'i.< t I'nited niev. told the M|kU the d.it,- was satlsfa.his 11 - but indicated an ear:,.-: 'rial might Miestrd am! Miller arrived in the ■wvedTn page'thrkb' BION STARTS RNNUAL drive ■bership Drive For Bams Post, No. 43, I Opens Today ■t Baker, chairman of the ■rthip i-oii.nntAdams Post ■ 43. American Legion, an■s toitn that the local post's ■ membership drive will start ■ty-five new members have R ten secured this year and ■>M to obtain 100 members ■ third meeting night in Sep- ■ when new officers will be ■tephip in the Adams post ■J-J2 totaled 251 men. Ev-ser- •“ wishing to enroll in the ■ may obtain applications ■ and necessary information ■ Legion hall in this city, fl"" O- — — I Cole’s Father I Dies In Michigan I and Mr’ J H. Cole and B “• left Monday afternoon ■ottsburgii Mich., t,o attend ■ services for Mr. Cole's 0. M. Cole, 89, who died t“ome in Pittsburgh Monday Cole had been in ill health ’ extended period. Funeral '** will be held at Pittsburgh p m Wednesday. C.erald » r and Mrs. Jess Cole. Jr., Urroil Cole and Mrs. Paul will leave tomorrow to 0 me services. ee Men Escape Marshal! Co. Jail m outh, Ind., Aug. 30— (UP)— ’•caped from the Marwina y ail here today by saw*»outh T Frank WhltiD ‘ of “tit. 0., serving a term fol- * convict| on on a charge of s,. o J raudulent check; Wilchar» ° f Plymouth sentenced «! and w.'. drlvlng while lntt>l ' . aw a if W ' llam Snyder of Chila change* trlal ° n 8n lnt<>xl '

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Chicago Suffers From Heat Wave I Chicago. Aug. 30. — (U.K — Hot winds blew into Chicaga from the southwest today and threatened to send the temperature to record heights for the second successive day. Forecaster W P. Day predicted tTiat by 3 p. m. the mercury would climb to above 95 degrees and set an all-time record for August 30. Yesterday the temperature stood at 98 at 3p. m it was a record for that date. While the official temperature yesterday was only 93. government thermometers in the loop registered as high as 97. Official temper atures here are taken on the comparatively cool campus at the University of Chicago. o ' CONFERENCE IS OPENED TODAY Annual United Brethren Church Session Opens At Winona Lake The Eighty-eighth annual session of the St. Joseph conference of the United Brethren Church opened at Winona Lake, today and will continue throughout Sunday. September 4, when the appoin’ ment of ministers will be read. Rev. H. H. Fout, D. D. is bishop of the St. Joseph conference, and Rev. A. F. Knepp is acting superintendent. Rev. R. E. Vance of this city and his family left Monday for Winona Lake to attend all sessions of the conference. Rev. Vance is a member of the standing committees, having charge of the Christian Education committee. He will give a report of the committee on Christian Education at the Thursday afternoon session. A number of local church members are planning to attend the closing program of the conference Sunday, when the report of the stationing committee will be read. The conference sermon on that day will be given by Bishop H. H. Fout, D. D. and the ordination service will also be held. The conference Love Feast, conducted by Rev. W E. Stanley, will be held Sunday morning at 8:3.) o'clock followed by Bible School at 9:30 o'clock and the public worship period at 10:45 o'clock. The opening session Tuesdav afternoon will be devoted to organization of courses of study and committee meetings. The Tuesday evening sermon will be delivered by Dr. F. L. Dennis. Rev. Knepp will preside over the proggam. Wednesday night will be known CONTINUED ON PAGE THREE o Flying Family Leaves Port Menier Today Montreal, Aug. 30 —(UP) — The "Flying IHutchinson" family left Port Menier, Anticosti Island, at 11:05 A. M. (ElrT) today on their flight across the Atlantic via Greenland and Iceland, according to a message received by the Canadian National Telegraphs. ROOTTOWNSHIP STAtfNAMED Trustee Schieferstein Announces Teachers For School Term Philip Schieferstein, Root towntownship trustee, today announced the list of teachers for Root township schools for the approaching school term. Mervin Hostettler has been secured as principal of the township high schcool at Monmouth. Miss Ethel Piper will teach commerce and mathematics, and Miss Catherine Weidler will teach Latin. English and Home Economics. Mr. Hostettler and Miss Piper are new teachers this year. In the Monmouth grades, Harry Johnson will teach the grammar grades and Miss Margaret Schenck, primary. Miss Lois Fuhrman will teach in district school number seven. A teacher for district number 1 has not been selected.

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BELIEVE PLANE WAS HEARD OFF WELSH COAST Lee \nd Bochkon May Have Been Sighted Well Out At Sea Friday MEN HAVE NOT BEEN HEARD FROM London. Aug. 30 —(UP) —An airplane. possibly that of Clyde Allen Lee and J hn Bochkon on their attempted trans-Atlantic flight, was heard oft the Welsh coast Friday by a patrol of the Automobile Association. officials of the Association announced today. The plane was well over the sea the patrols reported, when the noise of the motor suddenly ceased. Lee and Brochkon were not reported after leaving Harbor Grace for Osip early Thursday in the monoplane "Green Mountain Boy.” The jvatrol was on duty on the shore near Taylbont when the motor was he.rd. Visibility was bad. The patrol believed that the motor stalled. o Governor Leslie To Discuss Loans Michigan City, Ind.. Aug. 30 — (UP) —Governor Harry G. Leslie planned to meet with other officials ! at his summer home in Dunes State . Park here t day to discuss the proposed first reconstruction finance corporation poor belief loan in Indiana Dr. John H. Hewitt, state unemployment relief director, and Walter Riley. Chairman of the Coast y Poor_aelief •commiasiua. were to meet with Leslie. Consideration was to be centered on a proposed loan of $1,000,D00. Dr. Hewitt was represented as favoring the loan, but it was not known whether Governor Leslie would sanction a request for $1,000,000. TEXASCONTEST STILL CLOSE “Ma” Ferguson Leading Gov, Sterling By 404 Votes, Last Report Dallas. Tex.. Aug. .30— <U.P.) — Three days after the runoff prim ary, Texas Democrats still were waiting today as to who will be their candidate for governor. Mrs. Miriam A. Ferguson was leading Ross E. Sterling by 404 votes, b"t hundreds of ballots still were uncounted. Complete returns from 220 coiint,ieiv and incpmpleke (igures from the other 34 gave Mrs. Ferguson 473,000 votes and Sterling 472.686. Both sides agreed that the final result would not be known until after the official canvass Septem ber 12. And then there is a strong likelihood that whichever side loses will contest the election. Former Governor James E. Ferguson. husband of the candidate, already has announced that he will contest if the official canvass shows Sterling the winner. o Messenger, Guard Robbed of $52,000 Milwaukee, Wis.. Aug. 30 —(UP) —A bank messenger and a guard were robbed of $21,000 in cash and $31,000 in cheeks today by three machine gun bandits. A heavy automobile carrying the bandits forced the lighter machine of the victims to the curb on McKinley avenue as they were on their way downtown from the Badger state bank. Two bandits held machine guns on the victims while the third seized a suitcase containing the mony. The bandits escaped. o Legion Members To Escort Body Members of the Adams Post, number 43, are requested to meet at the Legion hall at two o'clock Wednesday afternoon to escort the body of Fred Mahan to the home at Monmouth.

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Teacher Confesses Killing Wife #■- — l *** i Sb . * ■ k afW Hubert C. Moor, Robinson. 111., high school teacher, and hjs wife, whose slaying he confessed Sunday. Moor had previously maintained that robbers killed his wife. Mrs. Moor was found shot to death Aug. 14. For two weeks Moor maintained that robbers had accosted himself and his wife and that they slugged him and killed Mrs. Moor.

MOLLISON AT HARBOR GRACE Plucky Scotsman to Begin Last Lap of Return Ocean Flight Today Sydney. Nova Scotia. Aug. 30- ' (U.R) — Capt. Janies A. Mollison ; planned to take off today for Harbor Grate, New Foundland, start- ' ing place for his aerial jaunt back i home in Europe. The gritty little Scotsman, first to make the westward crossing alone, flew to Sydney from St. John. New Brunswick, late yesterday. He encountered such a severe storm during the last 70 miles that he had to land on a farm three miles outside the city. It was the third time since he left Britain that he has been forced to come down in a pasture. Dense fog made it impossible ' for him to find the Cape Breton Airport in Sydney. He cruised over this area tor an hour before Bringing his little monoplane, the "Heart’s Content" to a safe landing in a field near the Stewart river. Captain Mollison’s plane was guarded last night by Canadian mounted police. Today the transAtlantic flier was to have his motor checked in Sydney. and replenish his fuel before taking off for Harbor Grace. He said he would head for England as soon CONTINUED ON PAGE TWO COURT DECISION FAVORS WALKER Plea Denied to Halt Trial; Court Criticises Procedure of Case Albany, N. Y., Aug. 30.— (U.R) — Mayor James J. Walker’s fight against ouster charges was given new life today by a court decision which denied a plea to halt the hearing, but criticized the procedure as "unfair.’’ Supreme Court Justice Ellis J. Staley ruled against the mayor, who sought to prohibit Gov. Franklin D. Roosevelt from removing him, in a 3,000-word memorandum handed down late yesterday. The governor "is responsible, not to the courts, but to the people and his own conscience," the justice held. In every other respect, however, the ruling seemed a victory for the embattled mayor. It appeared to uphold Walker in three major contentions, as follows: That the governor should have summoned witnesses against the mayor and allowed him to crossexamine them instead of accepting the ex-parte testimony before the Hofstadter legislative committee, ou which the ouster charges are ; based, as evidence which he mus< CONTINUED ON PAGE SIX

Bert Thurman Will Support Springer Indianapolis, Aug. 30—(UP)—M. : , Bert Thurman, defeated in the race ! for the G. O. P. Gubernatorial nomination, today swung his support be- ', hind the successful candidate, RayI mond S. Springer Connersville. Doubt that Thurman would not support Springer was swept aside ! when Thurman introduced Springer |at a -meeting of the Republican 1 Wage Earners’ League here. "I went to the State Conventk-V a . Republican, and I came out a Re- : publican" Thurman-said. “I want all my friends to transfer to Springer all the political allegiance that has ; been mine." o CALIFORNIANS HOLD PRIMARY 1 Bitter Contest on Both i Tickets For Party’s State Nominations San Francisco, Aug. 30—(U.R) — Factional strife within the Demo- ! cratic party and a wet-dry fight i in Republican ranks created bit- ■ terness and enthusiasm as Californians voted today to nominate candidates for United States sena- , tor. congressmen, state legislature and the appellate bench. The old political rivalry of William Gibbs McAdoo, former secretary of the treasury, anl former Governor Alfred E. Smith of New York, was a major isgue in the Democratic senatorial race. McAdoo, himself a candidate, opposed Justus S. Wardell. San Francisco, recognized until the ieI cent Democratic national convention as nominal head of the party in California. ; Wardell, Smith supporter in , 1928. campaigned for Franklin D. Roosevelt and headed the ticket which sought to win California's convention votes for the New Yorker. McAdoo blocked this movement, 1 however, and won the state's delegation for John N. Garner. ' Shortly after this, and just prior to the national convention, McAdoo announced his own candidacy and, armed with California’s ’ 44 votes for Garner, he went to 1 the convention. Hhis history making coup, in ’ which Garner withdrew and the ’ California and Texas delegation ’ cast their votes for Roosevelt, 1 bringing about bis nomination, CONTINUED ON PAGE THREE o >ll4 Are Arraigned In Federal Court ’ Indianapolis, Aug. 30 —(UP) One s hundred and fourteen persons were ■ to be arraigned in federal court to- > day before Judge Robert C. Baltzell on charges contained in indict- • ments returned by the federal grand jury last week. Anoter group of about 150 will be j arraigned Thursday.

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VON HINDENBURG COPES WITH NEW GERMAN CRISIS - Chancellor Papen Given Power to Disband Reichstag at Own Discretion TO THWART LACK OF CONFIDENCE Berlin, Aug. 30—(U.R)— President Paul Von Hindenburg granted his chancellor. Franz Von Papen, to-1 day powers almost of a dictator., in authorizing him to disband the relchstag at his discretion. The aged "Fehlmarschal” at his I east Prussian estate told Von Papen and two ministers in con-1 ference that he is at liberty to undertake this dictatorial step if the reichstag tries to vote misconfidence in the Von Papen regime and its reconstruction program. Von Papen was armed with this fresh power as the reichstag gathered tensely. Crowds surged in the streets nearby; many brownshirted Nazi followers of Adolf Hitler were present. Visitors sought admission to the reichstag building to witness the opening of a momentous session. Police I placed a cordon around the structure to maintain order. Von Papen. War Minister Kurt Von .Schleicher and Baron Wilhelm Von Gayl, minister of the interior. conferred with* the president at Neudeck. The official annuoncement i|om that meeting was that Von Hindenburg is in full accord with the cabinet’s policies. Hiller, anticipating a crisis in the government, was in Berlin. He was deeply chagrined over a conference yesterday with Von Papen and Von Schleicher, in which he was told bluntly that he cannot have the chancellorship. Von Papen told the Fascist chieftain that he can become vice chancellor, that his party can have dictatorial control over Prussia and that several minor! posts in the cabinet can be given | to National Socialists. But Hitler, adamant as he has been through i out, spurned this offer, declaring he would take all or nothing. o Preacher Demands Death For Slayer Marshall. 111., Aug. 30 —(UP) — The Rev. A. E. Wrentmore, pastor of the Christian Church at Indianapolis, demanded a lite for a life today in his insistence tint the state of Illinois electrocute the man who killed his daughter. “The electric chair is too good for him: O'm opposed to life imprisonment”, declared Wrentmore when told that autorities considered recommending a life sentence if Mubert C. Moor would plead guilty to killing his wife, Marjorie, daughter of the minister. JURORS NAMED FOR NEXT TERM Grand And Petit Jurors For September Term Are Announced Jury commissioners Jacob A. Long. Democrat, and James Bain. Republicans, have filed with the county clerk their selections for the grand and petit juries for the September term of the Adams circuit court. The September term will open Monday, September 5. Members of the grand jury are as follows: Harlow M. Mann. Root township, foreman; Wiliam Alfather, Washington twp.: Fred J. Adler. Kirkland twp.; Henry Berning. Root twp.: Carl Flueckiger, Wabash twp.; Frank Gillig, Washington twp. Petit jurors are: John W. Schaefer, Root twp.: John W. Blakey, Union twp.; Jacob C. Bixler, Wabash twp.; Charles Bentz, Hartford twp.; A. J. Lewton, Root twp.; John Losche, St. Mary's twp.; Fred W. Beeler, Hartford twp.; L. C. Annen, Washington twp.; Harvey C. Tinkham. Blue Creek twp.; Charles D. Hawbaker, Wabash twp.; James Glick, Moni roe twp.; J. V. Tricker, St. Mary’s township.

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I Sewer Gas Claims One Life, Monday New Albany. Ind., Aug. 30 —(UP) —'Sewer gas was blamed today for the death of one man and serious illness of two others who tried to rescue him after a ditch he was digging collapsed. John Christiansen, 43, world war vxeteran. was killed. Gerald Wise 28, and Nonnun Emery, 25, who were with Christiansen, were over-1 come by the gas. Wise's condition J was critical. JUDGE WALTERS NAMES MEMBERS Jeff Lehman, James Kelly, Charles Magley Appointed on Tax Board Judge C. L. Walters today appointed the remaining three members of the Adams County Board of Tax Adjustment, which will con vene October 10th, for the purpose of adjusting local tax levies in compliance with the new $1.50 tax limit law. The members named by Judge Walters Mre. Jeff Lehman. Berne; James Kelly, Geneva and Charles E. Magley of Root township. The county council yesterday selected from its membership. Mat Kirsch. Henry Dehner and Ben Eiting. County Auditor Albert Har low is the seventh member of the board. The new law fixes the tax rate I in any tax unit at $1.50 on the hundred dollars and the only way the levy can be increased Is by the County Board of Tax Adjustment, local tax units must certify the levies to the county auditor not later than October Ist and the proposed rates together with the budgets are turned over to the Tax Adjustment body with authority to cut levies. Members of the board serve without pay and it is not known how long they will be in session. The CONTINUED ON PAGE SIX TWO AVIATORS ! BREAKRECORD Jimmy Haizlipp, Roscoe Turner Beat CrossCountry Time New York, Aug. 30 —(U.R) —Two fliers who spent a record-break-ing day yesterday in the fastest coast-to-coast flights ever made, planned to show the fans at the National Air races in Cleveland today some more of their record smashing speed. Jimmie Haizlipp of St. Ixmis and Roscoe Turner of Hollywood Both shattered the flying record set last year by Jimmy Doolittle. Haizlipp’s elapsed time from Los Angeles to New York was 10 hours, 19 minutes and 48 seconds? 56 minutes and 12 seconds under Doolittle’s time. After Haizlipp landed here. Turner brought his red and yellow plane roaring out of the west. 39 minutes behind the new recordholder in elapsed time, but still ahead of Doolittle’s old mark of 11 hours and 16 minutes. Both Haizlipp and Turner were flying in the $15,000 Bendix trophy race from Los Angeles to Cleveland. Haizlipp’s earnings, won in an average man’s working day, were $6,700 in first money to Cleveland and $2,500 additional for breaking Doolittle's record. Turner and Haizlipp both pil )tl ed tiny, bullet-like planes designed by Jimmie Wedel) of Patterson. La., and Harry Williams, of New Orleans, and powered by Wasp Junior motors. — o One Killed, Eight Injured In Wreck Scottsburg, Ind., Aug. 30 —(UP) — One person was killed and eight injured, one critically, in an accident near here in which four automobiles figured. Klah Pounds, 23. died after being token to a Louisville hospital. Miss Helen Layton, 17, Madison, was in a critical condition in a Louisville : hospital. Nene of the other injuries were serious.

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FRED MAHAN AND FREEMAN FISKE DIE UNDER CAR Auto Catches Fire Following Smash-up Near Ottoville, Ohio BODIES WERE TERRIBLY BURNED Fred Watts Mahan, 42, Monmouth, amt Freeman IFis ke , 57, Decatur, were burned to death Monday night when the car in which they were riding overturned, pinned the two men beneath I the wreckage, ami caught fire. Ihe accident occurred near Ottoville, Ohio, shortly before eight o’clock Monday evening. The two men were enroute to Ottoville on business. Although there were no eye witnesses to the tragedy, it is thought that the touring car in which they were riding, skidded in loose gravel and struck a cement abutment at the side of the road. The road, a detour, curved sharply at the scene of the accident and it is likelv that Fiske, the drvier, failed to see the turn in time to slacken speed. When the car turned over, pin- ■ ning the men underneath, it ; caught fire in some manner. Bei cause of the intensity of the blaze, no attempt could be made at rescue until the fire was extinguished by the Delphos tire department. which was called to the scene. Both bodies were burned beyond recognition and considerable difficulty was experienced in identifying the bodies. Fiske’s identity was established through the auto license plates issued for the car in which the men were riding. When a telephone call was received by Mrs. Fiske in this city, she stated that Mr. Mahan had made the business trip with her huei band. Sheriff Burl Johnson was | also called in the effort to identity I the men. In Garage Business Mr. Mahan had for sometime I operated a filling station and gar- ] age at Monmouth. He and Mr. I Fiske recently had formed a •partnership in the garage business and they were on a business trip in the ineterests of this garage when the accident occurred. Fiske came to this city from Cleveland in June. He was manager of the Fiske Frigid Transport. Co., and at the time he came here, was under contract to haul butter from the Cloverleaf Creameries to Cleveland. Taken to Cleveland Mrs. Fiske, upon receiving word of the tragedy left for Ottoville. Mr. Fiske’s body was .shipped to Cleveland, where funeral services will be held immediately. • Born at Upland Fred Watts Mahan, 42, of MonCONTTNUED ON PAGE THRRE LOCAL WOMEN'S SISTER DIES Mrs. Mayme Haag Chambers, St. Louis, Died Sunday; Funeral Thursday Funeral services for Mrs. Mayme Harg Chambers, 48, of St. Louis, Mo., sister of Mrs. Lawrence Green and Mrs. Richard Burdg of this city will be held Thursday afternoon at 2 o’clock at the Thoma funeral parlors in Bluffton. Mrs. Chambers died early Sunday morning at her home in St. Louis, following an extended illness. Death was due to complications. The deceased was born in Bluffton, February 24, 1884, the daughter of Frederick and Mary Berge Haag of Fort Wayne; and seven sisters, HU.. Mrs. Vern Dunlap, Peoria., Hl., Mrs. Theodore Johnson and Mrs. A. 'E. Ferkes of Fort Wayne; Mrs. Green. Mrs. Burdg of this city, and Mrs. J. J. Hitzemun of St. Louis, : also survive. The bi dy is expected to arrive i in Bluffton, Wednesday morning. > Funeral services will be held Thursi day afternoon. Burial will be made in Fairview cemetery.