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Takes Own Life Y.i ISli * n Charles K. Dubois, suspected of complicity in the death of his wife, committed suicide Friday at Quincy. Mass. A tew hours later, the body of his wife, who disappeared several weeks ago, was found buried in the cellar at their home. ROOSEVELT TO~ SPEAK TONIGHT Will Speak In Mormon Tabernacle In Salt Lake City Tonight Salt Lake City. Utab. Sept. 1? —(UP) —Representatives of thia state's greatest industry mining, appealed today to Gov. ernor Franklin D. Roosevelt, Democratic Presidential nominee for a “new economic deal." Calling on the governor they told him Gov. Georg? Dern of Utah and U- S. Senator William Kane that price stabilization of metals must be had if prosperity is to return to Utah. Salt Like City, Utah. Sept. 17— G. vernor Franklin D. Roosevelt entered Utah today to expound his views on the silver question, one of paramount importance to this state in particular and to the far west in general. Roosevelt. Democratic Presidential nominee, acclaimed by ID.OPO noisy partisians. planned to rem in here until Sunday. He will deliver the second map r address of his trans-continental "stop, look, and listen" tour at the Mormon tabernacle tonight. Utah, whose economic life is largely bound up with the price of silver, one of its principal products was anxious to hear what the governor had to s iy on the subject. The price of the white metal is low now too low, the producers assert; for them to mine with profit. They point out that if the price of silver could be stabilized industry in this state mt only would be aided immeasurably, but trade with the orient, which uses silver as a monetary standard of exchange and Barter, would be revived, thereby bolstering business in other areis. The principal theme of the governor's address, however was expected to deal with the railroad situation throughout the country. IThe governor came t Utah after a long and dusty train ride from Denver, Colo.. He stopped off at Cheyenne. Wyo., where he met governor George H. Dern of Utah. CONTINUED ON PAGE SIX O Democrat Candidates Will Meet Sunday Indianapolis, Sept. 17—(UP) —All Democratic state candidates will meet here Sunda with state chairman Earl Peters and Dick Heller, head of the speakers bureau. Similar meetings wilt continue each Sunday until the election, Peters said. o — Southern Bad Man Makes Another Try Indianapolis, Sept. 17 — (U.R) — Hunter B. Watson, 30 year old southern "bad man” said to be wanted in Louisiana and Texas for bank robberies and jail breaks made another attempt to gain freedom today when his attorney filed with the state supreme court au appeal on the habeas corpus proceedings denied in superior court. Watson was arrested here last week on a fugitive warrant. Police said he admitted several Louisiana and Texas robberies. He was said to have escaped from the Texas state prison at Hunt-, vllle while serving a term for. bank robbery.

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HEAVY DAMAGE SUIT IS FILED IN NEW YORK Stock Brokers File 21 Million Dollar Suit Against Stock Exchange ALLEGE BOYCOTT AGAINST COMPANY New York. Sept. 17. (U.R) The* New York stock exchange, its president. Richard Whitney, and 40 members of its governing board were made defendants in a 121,000,t 000 (M > damage suit tiled in fed’jeral court today by Pirnie Simons, I and Company. Inc., stock brokers. • I The brokerage company charged - that the exchange had set up a ’ "boycott and blacklist" against its ' business and asked 13,000,000 (Ml; actual damage. $4.000,000 (Ml pun-i itive damage, and. under the Sherman anti-trust law and the Clayton' acts, which the suit seeks to in.voke, a total damage of three times ' those figures, or >21,000,000. (M). • The Pirnie Simons and Company [originated the "package” sale of I stocks by which, for a set price, a> buyer could obtain one share each II in a number of diversified corpor'ations. all neatly engraved and delivered to him in a black and silver portfolio. On June 22. 1932, tlie stock exchange's governing board passed a I resolution which prohibited its' members from doing business with any company dealing in package! lots that did not conform with stock exchange regulations. The exchange regulations speci-i fied that package lots should have a gross value of not less than 1500. that there should be five shares of each corporation represented, and that Ilia br. kerage fee should not , ■ , , i i r - t - ‘ - ... ——— CONTINUED ON PAGE SIX —o Decatur Hatchery Changes Location The Decatur Hatchery is moving i from the building on east Monroe . street near the river bridge to the i Fritzingegr building 122 Monrcei , street, formerly occupied by the De- . catur post office. The incub itors i and other equipment is now being I Installed in the building, under the supervision of Irvin Stuckey, manager of the business. The building has a frontage of about 30 feet on Monroe street and extends north ( 80 feet. o, FIND BODY OF ■ DUBOIS' WIFE Body Is Found In SubCellar of Home Few Hours After Suicide Plymouth. Mass., Sept. 17—(U.R) —Mrs. Edith Dußois heard and possibly watched her handsome gemdealer husband dig the sub-cellar grave in which her own body was found a few hours after he solved a five-week mystery by killing) himself, a letter revealed today Not many days before the 40-year-old wife of Charles Edwin Dußois mysteriously vanished from their Great Herring Pond summer bungalow, she wrote to a friend, a Mrs. Gillot of Hastings-on-the-Hudson. The gist of her letter, as quoted by Assistant 'District Attorney John V. Sullivan, read: “Charlie has not been himself for at least six months. He has acted like a crazy man oa account of that woman. He would go down into the cellar and dig and then come up and not say a word. He has been working down in the cellar all of the time.” The husband she acquired as a result of a French matrimonial magazine ad, was digging the , grave into which the assistant district attorney was satisfied he placed the body of his wife, killed ' that he might remarry. The irony of the situation, however, was that Dußois cheated the 1 law which tried to charge him with murder, but was frustrated by failure to find the body of a murder victim until after tho , Jeweler had slain himself. Dußois was in love with Miss Grace Atwood. New York Uni ver-, sity graduate and daughter of a / wealthy Massachusetts manufacI CONTINUED ON PAGE SIX >

Decatur, Indiana, Saturday, September 17, 1932.

New Minister I jl MKH ■MHfIHHi Dr. Charles J. Roberts lias arriv-l ed in Decatur to assume his duties I as pastor of the local United Brethren church. Dr. Roberts has been pastor of the United Brethren church at Peru for the past four years. NEW MINISTER j ARRIVES HERE Dr. Charles .1. Roberts Assumes Duties at United Brethren Church I Dr Charles J. Roberts, pastor of the United Brethren church at Peru for the last four years, has moved with his family to Decatur where he will serve as pastor of the local j United Brethren charge. | Dr. and Mrs. Roberts and daughter Ruth moved to this city Thursday. Rev. Roberts has been an ini fiuentisk leader of church and civic j activities in Peru, having served as | president of die Peru Ministerial,’ Association for two years. He was also a member of the; Kiwanis Club and chairman of the I educational commitee. and was a i member of the executive committee of the Community Relief Association in that city. During the Sunday morning ser- ‘ vice recently the congregation at I Peru unanimously adopted resolutions honoring the pastor and his family. Rev. Kessler Dies Os Heart Trouble Portland, Sept. 17—Funeral services will he held Sunday for Rev. R. L. Kessler, 62. pastor of the Sardina Christian church who died iat his home five miles northwest of Portland Friday morning of heart disease. His condition had been critical for several days. Surviving are the widow; two sons, William and Samuel Glen, both of Portland; two daughters, Mrs. Fred Stults of Portland and | Mrs. Paul Logan of Bryant; one | sister. Miss Stella Kessler and two ibr thers. Casper and James. The funeral will be held at 2 >p. m. Sunday at the Sardinia church. o Special Session Acts Are Received Milton Werling. Adams county cclerk, this morning received morel than 11)0 copies of the acts of the | 1932 special session of the Indiana | General Assembly. The acts, bound In. books form and also containing an index to the contents, contains 325 pages. These acts will become a part of the law of the state of Indiana when reports of recipt of these acts have received by Frank Mayr, sec- ; retary of state, from all county clerks in Indiana. — o ‘ Buckshot Wounds Cause Farmer’s Death Elkhart, Ind., Sept. 17 —(UP) — Buckshot wounds from accidental discharge of a shot gun which Delbert Juday, 22, farmer near here, was carrying on a mowing machine caused his death. The shot struck [him in the abdomen. Juday carried I the gun on the mower to shoot: ; snakes and pests in the field. )

GOLDSTEIN IS | SPEAKER HERE - Traveling Lecturer Gives' Interesting Talk Here Friday Night David Goldstein, traveling lector ! er and Jew convert to the Catholic faith, gave an interesting religious and patriotic talk from his automobile in the St. Mary's Catholic yard Friday evening. tHis automobile was hooked up ;with im-plifiers and the large crowd assembled in the school yard and; in automobiles parked along the I curb were able to hear him. Mr. Goldstein is a foe of radical-; ism and an advocate of religious I tolerance. Speaking on radicalism he stated. "Ridicalism is but an idealist's dream that arouses pasions and leads to an intolerable in justice. I came to the conclusion that the peace based upon justice, which the hearts of all gm d men yearn for, depends upon a morality founded upon the teachings of the Christi in religion; that all other ; ideals are worse than dreams for [they lead to disruption’. Speaking on religion, Mr. Goldstein said, "Christ has been gmd to I me. He has led me from error into truth and in return I mean to show my love for Him by making His church better 'known. This tl shall endeavor to do with Christian courtesy. void of any religious animosities”. C. J. Carroll, grand knight of the Knights of Columbus, under whose auspices Mr. Goldstein cime to Decatur. was chairman of the meeting. I : Literary Digest Ballots Mailed Here 332,000 secret ballots, tlie second i allotment for Indiana in Tlie Literary Digest iNation-Wide Presidential referendum, have been mailed from the Poll Headquarters and will be distributed here in the nert day or so. according to advice received today. Decatur's first lot of ballots in this "post-card election" was distributed here about a week ago. . William Seaver Woods, editor of; ! the magazine, who is in charge of I ; the poll, issues a warning that I under no conditions will ballots be mailed to those requesting ' them individually and that the I only way one may vote in this poll |is to receive a ballot directly , through the mail. — ——_——o PARTY LEADERS AFTER BORAH Republican Heads Want Sen. Borah to Endorse President Hoover Washington, Sept. 17—(UP)—Republican party managers are turning longing eyes toward Idaho where Senator William E. Borah is biding his time. His endorsement of President Hoover w -uld do more than anything else that the party managers I can suggest to rally Republican morale from the dejection of tlie Maine election. An effort to smoke him out appears to have been started. After a conference at the White House, Senator Hastings, Req>n., Del., said Senator Morah's declaration against the soldier bonus following the action of the (American Legion this . week definitely bad put him on the Republican side. "He is in at the back door.” said : Senator Hastings, "But that’s better than not at all.” Sen.itor Borah, asked by the United Press to comment on Hasting’s statement, made light of the announcement. “I knew Senator Hastings had many accomplishments. But I did not know he was a humorist,” Borah telegraphed. Borah has said nothing about his attitude toward President Hoover since his speech in the Sen ite just after the Republican. National convention when he declared he could ni t support Mr. Hoover on the Chicago platform. Since then he has said that the west was any inqn’s tight and that October was early enough to talk politics. IThe Leonine Senator from the , big potito country stands with reI" ’ conti'nue’d on’page’two**

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'JOHN GARNER'S I AGED MOTHER GRAVELY ILL ! Democratic Vice - Presidential Candidate’s Mother Is Near Death — GARNER LEAVES FOR HER BEDSIDE Washington, Sept. 17. — (U.R) —I Speaker John N. Garner, Demo-j cratic nominee for vice president, forsook politics today to rush to, the bedside of his aged mother, I i gravely ill at her home near De-1 troit, Texas. Advised by relatives of his moth-1 er’s relapse he hurriedly packed ai ! small bag. and boarded the Mem-1 phis Special of the Southern rail-i road at 3:30 a. m. Union station officials confirmed ' the departure of the speaker after ( the Washington hotel, where Mr. I and Mrs. Garner makes their home' while congress in is session, reported he had checked out hurriedly. The Memphis Special is due in Memphis jt 7:15 a. m. Sunday, it was considered possible that the l Democratic leader might charter a! plane enroute if lie received word | that his mother's condition has be- ( come more serious. An airline operates from Memphis into Texas. [ Garner arrived here yesterday I from Topeka. Kansas, where he i conferred with Governor Franklin D. Roosevelt, his running mate. He had planned to spend the weekend in Washington and then leave for New York, where his campaign I speaking itinerary was being map-, ped out by Democratic national. headquarters. He was ruddy faced and smiling at a press conference yesterday at which he predicted an overwhelming Democratic victory in November. He appeared ready for an intensive speaking tour, after a month of fishing and relaxation at! his Uvalde, Texas, home. 81 Years Old Detroit, Tex., Sept. 17.—(U.R) — Mrs. Sarah Garner, the 81-year-old , mother of John Nance Garner, I Democratic vice-presidential candidate. today was gravely ill at her home here. Physicians, holding slight hope for her recovery, advised relatives to notify her distinguished son, now | in Washington, of her condition. Mrs. Garner became ill, suffering with a general toxic condition, a week ago, and has grown stead-; ily weaker, it was said. Mrs. Maude Blair, a daughter with whom the aged woman lives, i said the family had decided to notify the vice-presidential candidate of his mother's condition, al- [ though they had hesitated to do so :

since he is busy with campaign CONTINUED ON PAGE TWO O Gov. Leslie Issues Proclamation Indianapolis, Sept. 17. —(U.R) —The 145th anniversary of formation of the United States Constitution was observed today under proclamation issued by Governor Harry G. Leslie. Next week will be Constitution week. “This is George Washington's 200th anniversary and the 145th anniversary of the Constitution." the proclamation read. “It is well that in our celebration of Washington's birthday we emphasize the part which he took in framing the Constitution which makes and keeps us a nation." Leslie urged all citizens to “become familiar with provisions of the constitution.” Bandit Is Killed In Muncie Robbery Muncie. Ind., Sept. 17.—(U.R)—One bandit was dead and three others were under arrest today, two of them wounded, as result of robbery of a grocery store here late yesterday. Luke Keith was shot fatally by police who arrived as the robbers were leaving the store. Ed Duffy was shot in the abdomen and AndyTuttle was shot in the legs as they attempted to escape on foot. John Hartranft, alleged driver of the bandit car. was arrested without injury. All confessed participation in the robbery, police said. Loot totalling $l3O was recovered.

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Legion Commander j- ——j A A’ ollSmTl ■ kHkKJHk laiuis A. Johnson (above) of | Clarksburg, W. Va., was elected j National Commander of the AmerI lean Legion at the Portland. Ore., | convention. DECATUR LADY NAMED OFFICER Mrs. Ada Martin, City Treasurer, Is Vice-Presi-dent of League Gary, Ind., Sept. 17—(U.R)—Mayor Samuel Trabue. Rushviiie. took over the reigns of the Indiana Municipal League from the retiri ing president. Mayor R. O. John- . son. Gary, following the> election ■ last night at the closing session ! of the league's 32nd annual convention. Next year's convention was sent to Bedford after a spirited battle on the convention floor with the Fort Wayne delegation. Bloomington, the third city I seeking tlie convention, withdrew as balloting started. Other officers elected were: vice presidents. Daniel Hess, sup- ' erintendent of the Richmond light! plant; and Mrs. Ada Martin. Deca tur city treasurer; secretary. Silk Spurgeon. Kokomo, re-elected; treasurer. Mayor H. Karl Volland. Columbus, re-elected. Mayor Zach Dungan. Huntington i was elected honorary life member i in recognition of his work with , the league. Dungan was first pres ! ident of the league and served I three terms. o Auto Is Damaged On River Road A large car owned by a Mr. | Shackley of Cincinnati, 0.. .was da-

, | niaged at 11:30 o’clock Saturday mi ruing when it struck loose gravel on the River Road, three milej north of Decatur and went into the ditch. Mr. Shackley was en route to I Coldwater, Mich., and Was driving i north on the river road when he • struck the hsvse gravel and lost I control of the car which went into t a six-fi ot ditch. i The front of the automobile was ■ badly damaged. The car was i brought to the Saylors Motor Car Company in this city where the dai mages were estimated at $l5O. Mr. i Shackley was uninjured. 1 Father And Son Banquet Tuesday I The Father and Son Banquet of the Zion Reformed Church will be held in the church dining room , Tuesday night at 6:30 o'clock. Every man and boy who are members of either the church or the Sunday School are invited to attend. o Kathryn Hower Is Yell Leader ! Miss Kathryn Hower will be the . yell leader at the Decatur High i Schcol during the present term of school. An error was made in the announcement of yell leaders in i Friday evening's edition ot the • Democrat. n Plymouth Farmer Reports Good Yield Plymouth, Ind., Sept. 17—(UP) — William (Lake, of Green township > had an unusual yield of clover seed from this arela. Lake hulled 29 ■ bushels of clover seed from tour and one-half acres.

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STATE SENATOR ROLLO WALTER FACES CHARGES Legislator and Father Are Indicted on Charges of Embezzlement ROLLO WALTER IS NOW OUT ON BOND LaGrange. Ind., Sept. 17 (U.R) Eleven new indictments were returned bv the LaGrange cuontv grand iurv today against State Senator Hollo N. Walter and his father, B. S. Walter, both former officials in the defunct LaGrange C, oun t v Trust comnanv. Five of the true hills named Senator Walter, who is at lilxerty on $5,000 bond pending an appeal to the state supreme court following sentencing to two to 14 years in the Indiana state prison on bankers' embezzlement charges. The six indictments against B. S. Walter grew out of transactions of a producers association for which he was agent. The new indictments against Senator Walter accused him of embezzling funds from the local Red Cross, embezzling SI,OOO from the trust company. $l,lOO from Martin Baer. SI,OOO from Phlllin Choler. and additional funds from . the bank. The elder Walter acted as I agent for the producers association when it sold to the Gordon company. Detroit, for $6,000. It was ! charged that he failed to distri- ! bute the $6,000 among owners ot the farm. Prosecutor Theodore Wood was directing the grand jury investiga- , tion. Efforts were started im- , mediately to set the bonds for Senator Walter and his father. Lewis O. Chasey, secretary to Governor Harry G. Leslie, signed Senator Walter’s appeal bond. Later it was turned over to State Senator Lee Hartzell. Fort Wayne. O_ Tax Board Employes Must Take Reduction Indianapolis, Sept. 17. —(U.R) —Employes of the state tax board must. , take a 25 per cent wage reduction for September, the board has announced. The -reduction is necessary. the board pointed out. so its budget will balance at the close ot the fiscal year. Sept. 30. o Cities May Lose Fourth-Class Rating Indianapolis, Sept. 17 — 'U.R) — Several Indiana cities probably will change from fourth to fifth class cities as a result of reduced valuation according to Dr. Charles Kettleboro, director of tlie stato legislative bureau. Cities in danger of changing class are Princeton, Washington, Franklin and Seymour. SEIZE BANDIT SUSPECTTODAY Alleged Indiana Bank Robber Is Arrested In Haines City, Fla. Indianapolis Sept. 17 —(UP) —• Capture in Hlaines City, Florida, of John Vincent, 28, of (Indianapolis, sought in connection with with three Indiana bulk robberies and. holdup of the Italian consul to the state criminay bureau today. E. L. Osborne, chief of the bureau, said extradition proceedings would be started immediately. Oslborne said Vincent was suspected of participation in the robberies of the Amo Citizens Bank of Amo. last April 27, in which $1,300 was obtained; the First National Bank of Monrovia, March 10 in which $1,200 was taken and the 1 Farmers State Bank of Clarks Hill in which no loot was obtained. Vincent also was wanted in connection with the attempted holdup of Vincent i LaPenta’s daughter frustrated the •' robbery. >! Earl Northern and his brother-in ! law. William Behrens, were sentenced to 25 years in the Indiana • State Prison on a charge of robbing • the Amo Bank.