Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 30, Number 215, Decatur, Adams County, 10 September 1932 — Page 1

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■iPROBES I' IjPIOSION Beastriver JSU ’ " ■nhrciH hnestiga- . Opened in AtW,, t 0 I'ix Blame B r |H M’TAIN i W[ XDER GUARD Murk. xeJ- 10 f .‘ UR J h 1 ■vesti«ations oi the . on th<- iei■rvution. "Inch prev-i ■aughl J* 1 ? .’"fix X i ■Lr. tried to lix the I |B |M | UV tor the death! ■PZd' after-the-| ■ iiiM'tiU.itors beiiaii HB>"k lipolts oi warn-; against over-j |B ~ practices and’ 18...- .;..i:ti..n- cropped |^K a - k , ’'io hearts of a.ni.d knowledge of J tin- H 'earohl excurnirr to blow up In the, i ...' while loaded | |H ni ',n E-ciio to work, was to'-- been dynamite. know John I- Crone < !„.at Inspection had been 1 thorted " as late as July everything was ti„. Ornamental Iron Vnion whose members' to use the ship beregular munnipal ferry had protested Observation was over‘unmanned and unseaengineer whose name' made public was quoted l workers as saying that) Hires, the engineer of the quite often placed on the safety valve to K- re of enough steam to pull ■kt out of the dock.” was listed among the ■t from such an unversified B° us practice as reported hyj engineer, there ■ these possible causes of terrific explosion: ■of salt water instead of 1 ■water iu the boilers because! ■ convenience. Salt water Btinufid on' pwr 'two' * I 1.080 ATTEND Indians fair I Annual State Fair ■ws 11.043 Spectators I For Final Day ■anapolis Sept. 10—jUM—At■nce at the 80th annual Indi■State fair which closed last ■ »as announced today as by the fair board. YesterB paid admissions aggregated He team of horses owned by ■ Flatter, Greenville, won the B pulling contest for animals Bing under 3.000 pounds. Flatin3lll registered a tractive |of 2,850 pounds for 27 feet, ■ Inches. I'earn owned by Ollie JenB Union City, was second. J. ■ Edwards, Greentown, was ■llOO scholarship for Purdue fersity was won by Richard Plepleck, Brazil, for outstand■*°fk In the fair 4-H Club Robert Parkinson, RensseI w as second, and received a Scholarship to Purdue. ■Mbits were 'being withdrawn I animals removed from the Founds today. R was expectI hat virtually all exhibits F h * removed by nightfall. pial Service At Mt. Pleasant Sunday •Pedal missionary service will at the Mt. Pleasant Church nt ,? Irß ' C- Lewton. presia the Women’s Home Mlssicaoeiety of the Decatur Methowill be present, and ' ■ Myers also of Decatur, »W‘°t< EVangelisln ln Honie Srtai 1 88 Zula port « r will lrtain with readings.

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Judge Bert Fagan | Reported Improving ji Fort Wayne. Sept. 10. —Bert A. Fagan of 21V2 Curdes avenue, Judge of the city court, who was seriously Injured in an automobile accident at Wayne and Barr streets Thursday evening, is improving, his physician reported last evening. He recovered consciousness at 5 o'clock Friday morning. Judge'2 Fagan Is suffering from several fractured ribs, a concussion of the brain, and a severe scalp laceration. He is at St. Joseph's hospital. 1 Unless complications develop the Judge should recover rapidly, his physician said. Miss Margaret Metttler of 121 East Woodland , avenue, his stenographer, who was | also injured in the accident, is Im- y proving rapidly and will probably j be able to leave tbe hospital today | or Sunday. r MANY PAY FALL INSTALLMENT < I $8,065.19 In Current Tax- • es Have Been Paid Since First of May i Although it is nearly eight weeks ( until the final day for paying the , fall installment of taxes, several 1j taxpayers have already paid their current tax, County Treasurer John ( Wechter announced today. ( Payments since the first Monday in May of current tax total IS,- t 065"! J. Miss Alice Lenhart. deputy!, treasurer stated This amount ls> greater than the payments made for , the same period a year ago. The , total November tax bill is around , $350,000. Monday, November Bth ‘‘ is the last day to pay the tax without a penalty being added. tax paid since last Slay totals $3,753.42. Approximate , I ly $38,000 of the spring installment l |Of taxes went delinquent. Mr. Wechter stated. The new law passed by the special session of the legislature reduces the first six months penalty from six to three per cent, and if the spring installment is delinquent ■ the fall installment does not be j come delinquent until after the ■final day for payment, i Treasurer Wechter stated that ■all county treasurers in the state 1 were still charging the old fees on j : delinquent taxes because the attor-; Iney-general had not yet handed down a decision in the matter and' that if the new law Is upheld, those I who paid delinquent tax this year will be givien a refund. A seperate account is kept in the treasurer's office so that taxpayers will re-1 ceive whatever benefit the new law gives them. o — iFire Destroys Barn In Kirkland Twp. Fire of unknown origin completely destroyed a large barn on the farm of Mrs. Hattie S. Obenauer in Kirkland towpshlp shortly before eight o'clock Friday night with a total loss estimated at $4.0(8). The barn was filled with hay i owned by Mrs. Obenauer and her i tenant on the farm. Joseph Baum ' gardner. Mr. Baumgardner also lost . a quantity of farm implements: and several head of cattle Insurance of $2,000 was carried on the Ljbarn but the destruction of cattle [ implements, and hay is a total loss. ! Nearly 1,000 .people gathered at the scene of the fire and it was due ' to efforts that other buildings on the farm were saved from t'he flames. ! The Monroe fire department was called to the scene of the blaze , and rendered fine assistance with I their chemical wagon in preventing the fire from spreading to , other buildings. ' Roosevelt, Peters I Will Confer Tuesday 5 Indianapolis, Sept. 10 —<U.R> —Ri Earl Peters, state Democratic chairman, will confer with Franklin D. Roosevelt Tuesday concerning the national campaign in Indiana, he said today. Governor Roosevelt will pass through Indianapolis Tuesday en ' route west, Peters said, and the 1 Indiana chairman will either go to • Cleveland to board the presiden- ■ tial candidate’s train or will board ’ it here, he said. 1 Gov. Joseph B. Ely, Massachu- , setts, will be one of the national s speakers to appear in Indiana, 1 Peters said that national headquarters had informed him.

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SEEK FOR BODT OF PAUL BERN'S "OTHER WIFE" Authorities Believe She May Have Drowned Self From Steamer PRIV ATE FUNERAL SERVICES HELD Hol'ywood. Sept. 10. <U.R> While police sought the body of Paul Bern's "other wife", believed to have followed the screen executive in self-destruction, the veil was lifted today from bewildering and mysterious circustances of Bern's traglv end, the suicide which left his glamorous bride of two months, Jean Harlow, a widow. As the silvery-haired star, distraught and weeping, attended the private funeral services for her strange husband. San Francisco and Sacramento police were investigating the reported suicide of Dorothy Millette, onetime stage star who for ten years carried the name of "Mrs. Paul Bern," and who was the beneficiary of his will. But if mystery surrounded the disappearance from a Sacramento river steamer of this woman in Bern's past, it remained for Henry Bern, his brother, to brush aside the veil which hid their life together. San Francisco police reported that a woman who took the river steamer Delta King for Sacramento Tuesday night was not aboard when the boat docked at California's capital Wednesday morning. She had checked out of the Plaza Hotel, San Francisco, Tuesday. She had lived there since May 4. when she registered as Dorothy MUUtte New York." She_reaUYed a stateroom aboard the Delta King 1 sailing Tuesday evening. But Capt. W. J. Atthog. the vessel's master, reported that her bed was found undisturbed after the ship docked, that her clothes were [heaped in confusion about the cabin. and that a pair of stockings and ■ shoes were found in the companioni way leading from her cabin to the ship’s rail. Authorities believed this indicated she had leaped to her death perhaps shortly after the Delta King left San Francisco and darkness the slow flowing waters iof the Sacramento. I Discovery of hre clothes and the I CONTINUED ON PAGE FOUR FLIERS BATHER FOR CEREMONY Muncie Airport Dedication Draws Many Aviation Enthusiasts Today Muncie, Ind.. Sept. W —(UP) Muncie today held the interest of Indiana for aviation enthusiasts, | The new Muncie airport dedication I today and tomorrow brought fliers I here from all over the country with Major James H. Doolittle, champion speed pilot the guest of honor. A 100 f ot blimp of Akron, 0., soared over the field as activities of the two-day air circus got underway. More than 50 pilots are entered in the race events scheduled for this afternoon and tomorrow. The contests include a race for OXS planes poney express races, dead stick 1 landing contests and formation fly- ' ing by nine army planes. A patrol I of ships will .be kept constantly over the city. State police, Notional Guardsmen and state police were on duty at the airport. A dinner and dance honoring the visiting pilots was on this even- • Ing's entertainment program. ! — 0 Former Mayor Walker Sails For Italy ’ New York. Sept. 10—(UP)—For- ‘ mer mayor Janies J. Walker .sailed secretly today on the liner Conta ’ Grande bound for Italian ports. ■ He had made no announcement of his plans. His departure was announced by steamship officials asII ter the boat had sailed. , It wjs understood he would re- . I turn on the same vessel, going only ' for the sea trip.

Decatur, Indiana, Saturday, September 10, 1932.

Legion Conventioneers at Play | r *1 w4' Ur WE2. Ek? Bill Browne (left), huskiest cop in Portland. Ore., and sergeant-at-arms for the national convention of the American Legion, and Bowman Elder (right), of Indianapolis, Ind., national treasurer of the Legion, are shown as they waxed playful and gave Aaron M. Frank, chairman of Portland's reception committee, a soldiers’ ride, when Elder arrived | for the opening of the Legion convention. This meeting of the veter- . ans is expected to be the most important yet held, as the vexatious ! bonus question is certain to come up for discussion.

ABSOLVE BANK I 1 OF SUSPICION. ■ . |: Japanese Charges Against National City Bank i Are Repudiated Tokio, iSept. 10-KU.R) A state- 1 ment absolving the National City ' Hank of suspicion in connection with a series of photographs of , industrial plants it had taken for , publication in advertising matter was issued today by Foreign Min-' ister Uchida after a conference!, with Joseph Clark Grew, United States Ambassador to Japan. Ambassador Grew had called upon the minister for a complete . investigation into charges published by the Vernacular Press] that the photographs were fori foreign military use. Certain Japanese 'believed the] pictures were taken to help the American army in case it should bombard Japanese cities from the air. Grew today asked for a formal statement from the imperial Jap-i anese government repudiating such charges. Sections of the Japanese press claimed that the National City bank took the photographs of industrial Osaka for the American war department. The intense suspicion of the military of all foreigners taking photographs in Japan; a possible CONTINUED ON PAGE SIX O GERMANY WILL ASK EXTENSION German Government Plans to Ask Postponement of War Debts ] Berlin, Sept. 10.—(U.R)—The German government today confirmed that it is planning to ask Washington to postpone the semi-annual ' payment of 33,000,000 marks dne 1 on Sept. 30 as arrears on the costs of the United States army of occu- ! pation and other mixed claims. Official announcement, however, has been withheld pending further conversations between the German embassy in Washington and the American government. ’ It is understood that whereas it was first intended to ask a post- " ponement of two and a half years, 1 a longer period may now be rel quested. | If an agreement is reached with| t the United States it is understood - that Germany intends to open nego- ’- tiations with other creditor nations, such as Belgium, seeking to post- - pone payments due. f The government is carefully avoiding the word “moratorium.”

Tschannen Funeral Services Are Held Funeral services were held at I noon today for Benedict Tschannen | >O, who died of infirmities Thurs-1 day afternoon at his home four miles north of Bluffton. Mr. Tschannen had been seriously 111 for the last two weeks. The deceased was born in Switzerland. January 2fi. 1842, and was married in 1869 to Magdeline Walters, who preceded him in death. Two sons. Fred and John Tschannen, both of near Craigville, survive Three sisters and one brother in Switzerland also survive. Funeral services were held at noon todiy from the hi me of the son, Fred, and from the Reformed Church in Vera Cruz at 1 o’clock. Rev. J. H. Meckstroth officiated at the services and burial was made at Vera Cruz. START WORK ON TOWER MONDAY Court House Tower,Cornice And Dormer Windows to Be Painted Painting of the tower, cornice and dormer windows of the Adams County court house building will begin next week, Ed Gaffer and John Deßolt, contractors on the jolt, stated today. The tower will be given three coats of paint. The first coat will be a light grey and then two coats of aluminum paint will be applied. The painters state the I tower will shine like a new dollar j when the job is completed. The cornice and windows will also be painted. It has been near- | ly 10 years since the court house tower was painted. The tower is made of heavy galvanized metal and the painters state that it is an easier job to paint to than one would imagine. Rigging will be placed around the tower the first of the week and the men expect to complete the job next week, providing the weather is favorable. The contract price for the job was $l3O. the painters also furnishing the paint. ———————o Newsboy Indicted For Brother’s Death Terre Haute. Ind., Sept. 10- -(U.R) A slaying that allegedly grew from a quarrel between two newsboy | brothers as to which contributed | most to support of their widowed mother had resulted today in a murder indictment against Carl Romoser. Romoser’s older brother, Louis, was found shot to death at his home. He had been killed while asleep.

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CONTINUE HUNT FOR MISSING DRY LEADER Col. Raymond Robins Is Still On Missing List Today FRIENDS INSIST ON RECOGNITION] Chicago, Sept. 10 — TU.R) - hunt for Haymond Robins, social and prohibition worker who disappeared en route to a luncheon engagement with President Hoover. was redoubled here today when two friends of the missing man reported they saw him here Thursday. W. W. Haupt, an old friend of the prohibition crusader, told authorities he saw Robins and spoke with him just half an hour after the time he was reported seen by Mrs. W. Re Qua Bryant, another long time acquaintance. The two meetings occurred aj block apart on busy State street! Thursday afternoon. Haupt’s revelation set police. | department of justice agents ami' many of the social workers friends' to checking closely through the! districts with which Robins was i familiar here several years ago I as a social worker. Haupt told police he was post- ! CONTINUED ON PAGE TWO — o — POLICE THWART BRIBERY PLOT Arrest Man And Woman Attempting to Blackmail Society Couple Chicago, Sept. 10—(U.R) — Police early today trapped a man and woman in what they charged was an, extortion plot which had threatened to disrupt a fashiona’ble society wedding this afternoon. The wedding was that of Ann Ashcraft, debutante daughter of Edwin M. Ashcraft. Jr., millionaire Evanston attorney, and Raymond Otis Mitchell, son of John R. Mitchell family of Minneapolis. Officers arrested a man who gave his name as Rudolph Diez, 32, a toolmaker, when he appeared at the scene where a dummy ! package supposed to contain the ] $3,000 demanded in an extortion letter had been planted. After questioning Diez, officers took his wife, Bertha, into custody. Police said Diez made a full confession of the plot. The society couple whose wedding today is one of the events of the North Shore social season have been under police guard since 1 receipt of a blackmail note Sept. 1 5. Police had planned to keep all I guests at the ceremony under surveillance to prevent any attack in case the trap failed. Police carried out instructions ( ON PAGE SIX RULES AGAINST WATER COMPANY >No Public Utility Can 1 Cease Service Because It Is Losing Money I Indianapolis, Sept. 10 — (U.P.) 1 ; Public utilities furnishing an > essential public service cannot , discontinue service simply because they are losing money, the Public Service Commission has ruled. } Commissioner Harry K. Cuthberson wrote the order which refused the right of the Jasonville Water company to suspend service. The water company contended that it had not received hydrant rentals from tbe city and the city had no funds to make payments. It had 'Been planned to cease service Sept. 15. The order states that no utility, particularly a water service, can II be discontinued in such a manner, [.‘j Cuthberson also was the author of the order requiring the Public Service Company of Indiana to '' set up full authorized depreciation ? in its annual report on file with I " ON PAGE TWO

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Sisters Re-united After 35 Years lindianapolis Sept. 10 —(UP) — Five sisters, separated 35 years ago in Bremen, German, were re-united ] at a dinner given at the home of j the daughter of the oldest of the sisters, here. In order to attend the dinner given bq a djughter of Mrs. D. IH I . Alfke, lndiana,polis. the sisters came fn m Rockaway, Beach, N. Y„ Detroit, Midi., Atlantic City, N. J. and Ann Arbor, Mich. MAJOR TAYLOR IS BADLY HURT Indiana Air Pilot Thought Fatally Injured In Plane Crash Clinton, Ind., Sept. 10. — (U.R) — Physicians at the Vermillion county hospital said today that Major Richard F. Taylor, commander of the 113th observation squadron, would not live “more than a few hours." I MaMJor Taylor was injured when a plane he was piloting in patrol I duty over the coal mine area crashled near Shirkieville. He was [brought to the Vermillion county hospital here with a skull fracture and other injuries. Sergeant D. B. Vickery, who was with Taylor, was reported recovering. Their plane crashed from a few hundred feet when it struck an air pocket. Vickery told hospital authorities that the ywere flying at an altitude of a few hundred feet when the crash occurred. As Taylor banked ' to the left, Vickery said, the ship fell. Farmers and workmen nearby took the men from the wreckage. Taylor and Vickery were flying a Douglas 0-38. a regular ship of the Indiana National Guard. Indianapolis, Sept. 10. —(U.R)—Major Richard F. Taylor. 38, injured near Clinton, Ind., while patrolling 1 the mine area, was named comi rnander ot the 113th Observation I Squadron of the Indiana National ■ Guard in 1926. He and Sergeant - David B. Vickery left Stout Field at noon yestserday on a flight over i western Indiana mines. ’ The flight was one of numerous ■ air inspection trips made by Major 1 Taylor. On several of these, he

CONTINUED ON PAGE FOUR o SOUTHERN BAD , ’ I > MAN ARRESTED ; j _ Escaped Texas Prisoner Is Apprehended By Indianapolis Police ] Indianapolis Sept. 10 — (UP) — Hunter B. Watson, 30 self-styled 1 southern “Had Man" accused of es- • raping from the Texas State prison 1 at 'Huntsville and wanted by Louisiana authorities on a charge of * robbing the Olla State Bank was under arrest here t day as authorities awaited extradition requests expected from Louisiana md Texas Watson told Indianapolis police that he “is wanted in every county Jin Louisiana." He boasted that he was leader of the "most fearless gang since t'he days of Jesse James Numerous knife wounds and bullet scars were displayed proudly as he I recounted the experiences in which “They almost got me." Watson and his wife, in a car purchased in Indianapolis two weeks ago, were captured by Radio Patrolmen after an all-day search. 1 Watson was apprehended as he and 1 his wife were returning from a loB cal airport after a ride over the c city. “I was just getting ready to pull out last night," he told police today. "If H hadn't had my wife in e the car with me you’d never have taken me with, ut a battle." A large Caliibre revolver and a small automatic pistol were found ' in his possession, police said. o e . American Legion Meeting Monday n Adams Post No. 43 of the Amr,erican Legion will hold election of c , officers at eight o’clock Monday °! evening at the Legion hall. A social 11 1 hour will be held following the meeting. All Legionnaires ” i are urged to be present.

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MOTHER'S FIR LED MILWAUKEE WOMAN TO ACT Both Children Had Suffered Severely From Hay Fever, Asthma WOMAN’S HUSBAND DISCOVERS BODIES Milwaukee, Wis., Sept. 10. j (U.R) A mother’s pity tor the I suffering of her two young I sons from hay fever aiid I asthma caused her to kill them todav and then commit suicide. The dead are: Mrs. Martha Jones, 41. wife of a prosperous heating engineer, anti her sons, Edwin, 11, and James. 9. The bodies were discovered by Edwin A. Jones, husband and father of the slain woman and children. He could not understand his wife’s act. Apparently the mother shot the children to death as they slept and then turned the gun on herself. Jones, who was sleeping in a distant bedroom, did not hear the shots. The note left by Mrs. Jones said: “Dear Daddy: I hope you'll understand. It’s the only solution to our problem with Sonny and Jimmy and I don’t feel so badly about it. We have all three been happy with you. Goodbye." Both of the children had suffered from asthma. Chief of Polic? George Hage advanced the theory that the mother killed them out of pity for their suffering. Jones explained he had been sleeping apart from the family due to an attack of hay fever. Malwaukee, Wis., Sept. 10 —(UP) —Mrs. Martha Jones, 41, wife of a prosperous engineer, shot her two CONTINUED ON PAGE SIX O Elks Will Hold Stag Picnic Sunday, Sept. 11 The members of the B. P. O. Elks will hold a stag picnic at Sunset Park, east of Decatur, Sunday. A chicken dinner will be served at

neon. All members are invited fd attend. o —- Chairman Sanders Makes Announcement Washington, Sept. 10 —(UP) —• President Hoover’s speaking campaign definitely will include at least one speech in the east and two speeches in the west, chairman Everett Sanders, of the Republican National committee announced after a conference at the White House today. Sanders said that so far no definite engagements had been made but tbit the President "Has several important invitations to speak” and will make his choice frpf among them. o HARTFORD CITY MAN IS ELECTED Paul McKee Is Named Governor of Indiana District Kiwanis Clubs French Lick. Ind., Sept. 10.—(U.R) —Paul W. McKee. Hartford City, today was elected governor of Indiana district Kiwanis Clubs in. convention here, on the second ballot. Four candidates were nominated for the office. They were McKee. Judge Frank J. Sheehan. Gary: Richard F. Mullin. Elwood, and Dillon Myers, Bluffton. Myers withdrew before the balloting started. All officers elected will be Installed at the midwinter conference to be held in Indianapolis in January. Wirth Cadbury, past lieutenant governor, was named by McKee as district secretary. Clubs winning achievement cons tests, announced by Governor Luth- , er M. Feqger, Richmond, were: [ Gold division, Evansville; silver , division, Richmond; blue division, ( Greenfield, and white division, El- ” CONTINUED ON PAGE TWO