Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 30, Number 213, Decatur, Adams County, 8 September 1932 — Page 1

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■■Jngersays -Ihisiiion is i 11 AN ISSUE Imeric* -— - . Nominee I For ■nor Opens State r ’Baiun In I t.W ax ne ' ■ SBil'S xationai. ■ state I'l asks has •i. U-P 1 Ha'inolid I guberna ‘'fit jhl;-..:. last VffinH 7- «atn be 1; ■ rfl. i. ■ i" tie- sub- ■ •w spoke at a fourth disthat inaugurated the .:. t an.l a’lra.te.l can- ■> ' .< t lie ell3 preceded by Everett Sandbnal chairman who urged [ a ot Senator James E. "because the party needs ership and rutry statesmanship." —l>en:..-i r for their repeal i.eer added. at form Ul-tt. ■ pledges ■ repeal ' amendment • :•!.• affili- « Ml •;.- - 7 que<tiun platform •>-ie or repe 1 -h - p.nty reeogright ot the people to.' | taith state and* pMge our party unalter- ( tin --turn ot' the B>i again-' attending _ Mtik> tu the people. I siil’i:.!-- ,f the pro-' > : ' -ar deterni- • launch. d a hitter atpart, for calling [■* Strife xSB "' iperhurnan President H....v.,r to inti q seven :.:hs after his ‘ f. collapse ■ . ■ !i Franklin seems to think was and cause of world- \ er hig today." he said. ej, j. nt Hoover for Hecon.strue- >' For;-ration and the J Buii Hauk W | 11( h he termed ot his heart and brain." ■l. lauded Senator Watson ' , ' i ' | Fs in putting' through loan measure. to consideration ot state s Springer came to the dethe new $1.50 tax law re- ( ‘ n “cte 1 | | iy t | lP st ate legisS^B Uw was enacted at the redemand of the people, be relieved 2 :l ' " X PA,iE THREE fcSUSPECT ;|IBE RETURNED "R'ti^ ief Returning ■f H anted In Police-' J.H n,an s -Murder Sept - 8-(UP)-Po rank Massey was due to •£Ba S eVe " lng wlth Frederick ,bieß arrestwi at N«™ OrK ?. n " e< ’ ,i ‘ “ wli “ ‘-he slaying rrfH^ 1 trolrt >an James Ovid Mc’rtaßt Rjl ' r a " d Edgar Luker - Bond , a " a| ’ ulis guilty de f ree murder charges 0( Boris Were sentenced to il-^B prlß on>ment. i2(BX« hat Wildemann had Masse y participaticn in pe Botfi c .j a i* as nOt cnnfirra ed by *BXrH W ' 3 SUIn M » Fch 24 Bto » ;' g two theater ern--1 K ts l) ank with the day’s

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I Ida Tarbell To Speak In Ft Wayne Sept. 16 I Fort Wayne, Ind, Sept. S <U.R) — Ida M. Tarbell, known as a biographer of Abraham Lincoln, will I speak here September Hi at dedication services of a new bronze statute of Lincoln erected by the Lincoln National Life foundation, 'it was announced by Dr. Louis WarI ren. director ot the foundation. Mias Tarbell, author of several volumes, was a member of the Women's committee of the Council of National Defense, President Wilson's Industrial conference in 1919, and a member of President HardI ing's unemployment conference. MERCHANTSPLAN TREASURE HUNT Prizes to Be Given Shoppers in Connection With Band Concert Tuesday Decatur merchants will sponsor 1 a treasure hunt in connection with the band concert to be given here Tuesday evening. The treasure hunt will begin at , five o’clock Tuesday afternoon. I Wilt Linn, chairman of the Merchant's committee announced to-1 I day. Practically every retail store I in the city will join in offering valuable prizes to shoppers. Cards bearing a number will be placed In the store windows Tues(day afternoon and the person holdi ing a corresponding number will be ! .awarded the prize offered by the' [ merchant. Tickets will be issued ■ with every purchase, Mr Linn stated. The concert Tuesday night will ,be the last one of the season, it I was announced today. The Decatur Band will provide the music and fa fine program, beginning at eight [o'clock will be provided. ' The stores will remain open un- [ til about nine o'clock and shoppers are invited to visit the city, be entertained and participate in the treasure hunt. Ixwal merchants will issue tic-1 jkets. beginning Saturday and con - tinue up until Tuesday evening. .Shoppers are invited to visit the | I stores. o PARAGUAY CULLS MEN JO COLORS F — ... Government to Mobilize Citizens Between 33 and 40 Years of Age Asuncion. Paraguay, Sept. S. —(U.K) —The government ordered mobiliization of all citizens between 33 land 40 years of age today, subject to congressional sanction, after capture of the Paraguayan forts Rojas Silva by Bolivians was reported. Armed conflict over the disputed Gran Chaco territory again seemed possible, for Bolivia already is considering “in committee" a declaration of war. The mobilization decree was is sued after the council of national defense discussed the latest de-, ve’opments in the Chaco. Congress | was considering certain to approve ; the decree. It was reported that customs house authorities had confiscated 30 cases of gas bombs, apparently . intended for the Bolivian air corps. | Large crowds gathered in the i [streets after publication of reports | I that Bolivia had captured the fort. {President Eusebio Ayala told the United Press that if the report was true "this would signify the beginning of a Bolivian offensive. The newspaper La Critics published the report under the head line, “cannons now have the word ' o Capt. J. A. Mollison Arrives In France Cherbourg, France, Sept. B—(UP)8 —(UP) Capt. J. A. Mollison, transatlantic flier, arrived from America today on the Empress of Britain and was met by his wife, the former Amy JoHinston, who flew from England to meet him. They continued on the boat to Southampton. Mollison, after embracing hia bride, sald;l “The doctor has ordered me to take a complete rest. After that I will think of other projects.”

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Building Falls; One Dead ’' xwflp Jiar . - -i—:■■! 11 If & ■ f It One person was killed in the collapse of a building at 2103 Herndon avenue, Chicago, and eight injur-{ ed were taken to the hospital. Five children were reported still in the wreckage. The building was an 1 I abandoned one and the trapped victims had been inside gathering kindling wood.

HOOVER WILL MAKE SPEECH President Will Speak in New York or Boston in The Next Few Weeks Washington. Sept. B—(UP8 —(UP) —Pre- , sident Hoover in all probability will deliver his first campagn address in the next few weeks either at I Boston or New Y rk. The President’s plans however for the entire campaign remain uncertain. It was reiterated that he would not take a major part in the ; public side of the Republican party's efforts to reelect him. Re.publican chieftains in New York . and New England have brought i considerable pressure to bear to get | him tc- open his brief part in the I campaign in that area. I Senator Watson. Repn, Ind. said [ after a lengthy conference with the i President late yesterday that he be [ lieved Mr. Hoover would deliver at least three speeches in the east, one I in the middle west and one in the { far west. . lit was doubted in administration 1 circles, However, that the chief executive would go behind the Mississippi valley. He cancelled his planned trip to open, the Olympic games at Los Angeles last m nth and to accept his nomination at Palo Alto because of the pressure of state affairs—and it was pointed out it would hardly be politic now to make the long journey s. lely to appeal to the far west electorate for support. Hence, it appeared —as reported last month by the United Press that Mr. Hoovers political appeils will be confined to speeches in the east and middle west. Aside from New York apd B ston. it was believed he would appear St Chicago and possibly in St. Louis, Mo. The President meanwhile is “talking politics" with various republiI CONTINUED ON PAGE THRFJE APPENDICITIS THREATENS BABE Babe Ruth, Famous Yankee Star, Returns Home For Examination Detroit, Sept. 8. - (U.R) — Babe Ruth, baseball's heroic slugger, returned to New York today for examination and treatment of abdominal pains which he feared might I result in appendicitis. The New York Yankees' famous home run hitter was seized with the ailment yesterday afternoon. When the pains grew worse, he telephoned to Manager Joe McCarthy at Buffalo, N. Y„ fob permission to go home. Ruth and his wife left Detroit aboard a Michigan Central train at 18:30 p. m. The seriousness of his ailment will not be known until he Jis examined by his personal physician in New York. He declined an I on page five '

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Civil Service Job In War Department Open I The United States Civil Service | Commission will accept applications I until September 27. 1932. for the position of superintendent of the | [ National Military Park, to fill a [ [ vacancy in the War Department at | I Gettysburg National Military Park. Pa. The young man to fill the vacancy | - must have a college or university I education or the equivalent in res- { ponsible supervisory experience 8 showing familarity with principles * of Civil engneerng on construction and maintenance and wtih problems r of forestry ad landscaping. Five . years such additional experience is { necessary. Full information concerning the ‘ position may be obtained from C. E. 1 j Hocker, secretary of the United J States Civil Service Board of Exa-* [ miners at the .post office in Deca- { tur. McKEE HOLDS WINNING HAND New Mayor of New York. Backed by Public, May Defeat Tammany New York, Sept. B—(UP)—A8 —(UP)—A five i foot Scot who once taught Latin i t and Greek lias a chance today to i twist the tail ot a Tammany tiger! I: that has terrified many a politician ] ' and supposedly put him on the spot | i at the Democratic National c. nven- ] '{tion. | Indications that Joseph Vincent 1 1 (IHoly Joe) McKee, successor to i ! James J. Walker, would force Tam - [ 1 many Hall to come to terms on his I • candidacy for the Mayor's i ftice — and other things, particul irly the, * Presidential campaign— continued [ ’ to pile up today. It was reported at Chicago that i { Tammany Hall "strategy" dictated I { by Boss John J. Curry called for a poll of the New York delegation so that McKee would be forced to announce publicly that his choice for the presidency was not Alfred E. Smith, but Franklin D. Roosevelt. ' Such a vote on the record, it was 1 expected, would "Kill" McKee with 1 the mass of New York’s voters as a candidate against Jimmy Walker should he decide to seek the nomination for Mayor. McKee, however, got the office through Walker’s resignation, resulting, Walker said, from Roose- ! velt’s "unfairness” in hearing re-{ . moval charges and inspired, accord-; ing to Tammany Hail, by Republican efforts to split the party in New York to beat Roosevelt fcr the t presidency. The diminutive McKee, professi ~ ■ < »—■»■ » CONTINUED ON PAGE SIX o Rev. Joseph Hession t ' Transferred to Gary > Word has been received here that [ 1 Rev. Father Joseph A. Hessian of j t Hammond, former assist mt pastor 8 of the St. Mary's Catholic Church B here, has been transferred to Gary. ' Father Hession will have charge 1 of the young people ot the Holy ” Trinity parish.

NEWVETERAN'S UNIT FORMED ——— Former Bonus Marchers Organize The American Emergency Forces Indianapolis, Sept. 8. —(U.R) —Or-, [ ganization of a new veterans' or-, ganization — the American Emerg ency Force — was announced here today by Capt. Doak E. Carter, 1 former chief-of-staff of the bonus marchers in Washington. darter said Indianapolis probably would be chosen as national headquarters for the organization. According to Carter's present { plans, former service men, farmers {and laborers will be organized into a political group to throw its strength behind relief legislation.. There will be no connection, how-1 ever, between the A. E. F., and the , [khaki shirks, the veterans' organ- * j ization founded after the bonus { (army was routed from Washington. [ [Carter said. ■ Doak resigned as second in com- 1 I mand of the bonus army after dis [ ■agreeing with policies of Walter; [ Waters, leader of the lionus veter- i ans. Carter said he had 50 assistants located strategically throughout the country to assist in organiza- [ [ tion. The group's activities will be i [restricted, be said, to supporting; [legislation. No attempt will be* , made to name candidates or to i launch a third major political [ party. Carter declared. | "There are 30,000 homeless vet[erans drifting around the country i without means of making a living." I Carter said. “It is my plan to organize the A. E. F., with sufficient voting strength to command the at- [ tention of political candidates and I legislators. In this way a wedge, Scan lie driven between the two oldI line parties, resulting in the needs ; I of workers receiving attention from I CONTINUED ON PAGE THREE DEPUTY DENIES * CAUSING DEATH Pekin, 111., Deputy Sheriff Denies He Killed Prisoner Perkin, 111.. Sept. 8— (UP)—Dep- ! uty sheriff C. O. Skinner waived exi amination t day on a charge of mur- 1 i dering a .prisoner in the county jail here and was released on $20,000 bail. Martin Virant, war veteran, held for questioning in a murder case was found hanging from his belt in jail shortly after li# had com.pl lined that Skinner and other oficers beat him. An autopsy physician reported that the prisoner did not die by hanging and Skinner was charged. Peoria, 111., Sept. B—(UP)—Deputy Sheriff C. O. Skinner of Pekin denied from his jail cell today that he had caused the death of Martin Virant, prisoner. “I didn’t beat him and there was CONTINUED ON PAGE SEVEN

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DEMOCRATSWILL MEET SATURDAY TO ORGANIZE Precinct Committeemen And Candidates to Meet Here at Headquarters I COUNTY CHAIRMAN CALLS MEETING j An organization meeting of Dem [Ocratic precinct committeemen and ’ county candidates will be held in {this city Saturday evening at 7:30 lo’c’ock at headquarters above the j Daily Democrat office, Dick Heller, j county chairman, announced today. Mr. Heller, who is chairman of the speaker’s bureau in state Demo-, I cratic headquarters in Indianapolis, {has sent notices to all committee- ; men and candidates to attend the [meeting. Plans for the coming I [campaign will be made and an organization to carry on the work in this county will be completed. Local headquarters will be openled at about the time the state cam ! paign gets under way and plans for {carrying on the campaign will be acted on at the Saturday meeting. Indiana will be favored with visits {by many Democrats of national {prominence this year. Governor Franklin D. Roosevelt, Democratic nominee for president will be in the i state for one or two days and [among others who will address Hoosier voters are Senator Thomtas Walsh of Montana; Senator I David Walsh of Massachusetts', [Hon. Josephus Daniels, secretary of the navy in President Wilson's cablinet and others. * The nomination of Huber M. De[Voss of this city as the Democratic {nominee tor judge of the Adams Circuit Court was certified last week and the democracy of Adams I county presents a complete ticket of candidates to be voted on and | elected next November. DONEES OBJECT s TO DOLE CUT Newfoundlanders Riot W hen Pensions Are Reduced; Several Killed Carbonear. Newfoundland Sept. I 8- —(UP) — Police and unemployed I - demonstrators f tight in the streets * today as a re-enforcement of police I raced from St. John. | The sasulaties were unkn wn but [ it was believed there had been many fatalities. The unemployed rallied against a ! 25 per cent reduction in dole allowances. When a police inspector sought to arrest the ringleader the crcwd surged forward and refused to allow it. Fighting then broke out. The demonstrators by now a mob threatened to raid stores unless they receive immediate promise of a restoration of thed ole rations to j their former amount. Police were holding the crowd in the streets | away from the stores. State Getting Ready llndianaipolis, Sept. 8 — (UP) — Plans for feeding and housing ind- : iana needy during the winter were I conti'nit’ed on page five O Sophia Yager W ill Admitted To Probate Fort Wayne. Sept. 8. — Will of Mrs. Sophia Yager was admitted to probate in superior court No. 2 yesterday. Under the will a son. George F. Yager, and a daughter, Augusta Yager Smith, were to receive the decedent's home property at 426 Packard avenue and I S3OO each. The remainder of the * property was left in equal shares to the daughters, Mary Amelia Houck, Anna Josephine Crum and Rosella Louise Crum. The estate . comprises personal property with a value estimated at $550 and real i estate estimated at $3,000. o Directors Meeting Scheduled Tonight The regular monthly meeting of the directors of the Decatur Chamber ot Commerce will be held at ’ 7:30 o’clock this evening at the * Chamber ot. Commerce rooms. ! Theodore Graliker. president, an- ’ nounced today. Members are ask- ’ [ed to be present.

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[Darwin’s Theory Is Worry To Negro' Terre Haute, Ind., Sept. 8. —<(J.R) —When Darwin's theory of evolution reached the ears of Earl Teel, 25, negro, he worried so that his 'mental balance lyas questioned. Teel told his landlady he had heard stories that Ills father once belonged to a tribe of apes. She | called police when he sat up all night writing a letter to his father to obtain proof of his human linePOLITICAL DAY AT STATE FAIR Governors’ And Legislators’ Day Is Observed At Indianapolis Indianapolis, Sept. 8. —(U.R) —Political atmosphere predominated at I the Indiana State Fair today as Governor's and Legislators' Day was observed. The fair hoard had as its guest at a luncheon visiting members of {the state legislature. Lieutenant I Governor Edgar D. Bush, Speaker Walter Myers of the House and E. J. Barker, secretary of the board, were slated as speakers.s Campaigning and general political activity was expected to continue throughout the day. Elaborate preparations for the day had been made by both Republicans and Democrats at their headquarters buildings. Attendance at the 80th annual exposition yesterday was announced as 24,791. Another clear day with rising tirkperature was forecasts. The Boys Club Camp entertained members of the state agriculture board and their wives last night. Barber and Dr. J. H. Skinner of Purdue gave brief talks. ~,, . . First honors in the grand championship for females in the Indiana cattle classes was won by Paul Stewart, Maynard, la. Another entry owned by Stewart was winner in the junior division. C. B. Teegardin. Duvall. 0.. had the senior and grand champion in the female polled Shorthorn breeding class. Tlie junior championship was taken by an entry from the Elm Grove farm. Belvidere, Tenn. In the Oxford Down sheep division an entry by O. R. Wauckenbush. Sharpsville, was named winner. Big Chief, owned by Charles Trowbridge, of Mays, was adjudged senior champion In the DurocJersey boar class. Junior champ{ion was owned by Lester Nance, Arcadia. Finals in the mixed and male quartet competition will be held tomorrow. A male quartet from Adams county is entered in this contest. o Illinois Special Session Adjourns Springfield. 111., Sept. B—(UP) — The special session of the Illinois legislature which convened yesterda to consider enacting relief legislation for 700,000 unemployed adjourned today until next Tuesday. The legislature will attempt to raise relief funds aggregating $36,673,000. FARMERS WANT LEGISLATION Striking lowa Farmers Hope For Favorable Congressional Action Sioux City, la., Sept. B—(UP)— Striking farmers are turning their eyes hopefully toward Washington again, it appeared tiday, despite one of the principal arguments for Holiday movement that it is useless to expect -relief from congress. Leaders of the strike laughed at opponents of their move who urged farmers to “Battle witli ballots" instead of with picket lines. Since the “strike" began, hkwever, there have been many statements from its leaders emphazing that “if we never raise the price of produce one cent we will have accomplished great things for agriculture in calling the situation to the attention of the general public.” The job of blocking enough market places actually to influence farm commodity prices is stupenCONTINUED ON PAGE SEVEN

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FILM LEADER CLAIMS ONLY ONE NOTE FOUND Irving Thalberg, Film Executive, Testifies At Investigation JEAN HARLOW NOT TO TESTIFY TODAY Colorado Springs, Colo. Sept. B—(UP) —A woman referred to by Paul Bern's brother as his paramour was Bern's, wife and his marriage to Jean Harlow was bigamous, George darken Los Angeles insurance man said today. "About ten years ago." darken said, “Bern told me of his wife who then was and has been ever since an inmate of an institution for the insane in New York State. His reason for telling me was that I was writing an insurance policy for him and he asked that the policy be made payable to a New York Trust company fcr the benefit of his wife against the possibility of returning sanity.” Los Angeles, Calif., Sept. 8. —(U.R)—Only one suicide note, the one which referred to “abject humiliation” and the “comedy of the night before” was left by Paul Bern, husband of Jean Harlow, when he ended his life. Irving Thalberg, prominent film executive, testified today at the coroner’s inquest into Bern’s death. Thalberg, husband of Norma Shearer, the screen star, said he and David Selznick, screen producer, were the first to reach Bern's home after ftie body was found by a butler. “The only note was the one I found near the body," he said. Jean Harlow pleaded physical unfitness today and was excused from giving testiminy at the inquest. Hollywood. Sept. 8. — (U.R) —Sil-very-haired Jean Harlow held a secret conference with the brother of her dead husband. Paul Bern, today to discuss intimate details of their life preceding the motion picture executive's suicide. Even the studio officials an<J friends who have been Miss Harlow's counsellors since Bern shot himself were barred from her room —the room in which her wedding took place two mouths ago. Seeking a key to his brother's death. Henry Bern, accompanied by a little group of studio executives. went to the home of Miss Harlow's mother, where the actress has secluded herself since the tragedy. It was an emotional scene. Bern had not seen his beautiful sister-in-law since the wedding. Both wept. Miss Harlow refused to talk to anyone but Bern. Then for two hours they conferred in secret, and an expected statement which it was thought would disclose the motive for Bern's suicide was not forthcoming. What Bern discussed with the CONTINUED ON PAGE SIX — o Blutt ton, Wells County Councils Cut Budgets Bluffton, Sept. 8. — The Wells county council Wednesday afternoon adopted a budget totaling $102,963.13 for the expense of county government and adopted a tax rate of 44 cents on each SIOO to raise taxes in 1933 to meet the budget. The council in a two-day session slashed $13,012.03 from the budget advertised on requisitions of county officers and heads of departments and thereby was enabled to reduce the rate from 49 cents to 44 cents. The council pared the budget all down the line and few items escaped reductions outside of the items of fixed salaries over which the council has no jurisdiction. The council will meet again September 20 for final action on the budget. The city council last night adopted a budget totaling $33,921.03 to cover the expenses of city government in 1933 and adopted a total city rate of 76 cents on the SIOO. This is a decrease of 12 cents from this year's rate, despite a decrease in valuation of city property of $618,810.