Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 30, Number 239, Decatur, Adams County, 8 October 1932 — Page 1

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»' |H BOARD A LEVIES ] ' a WT MONDAY Adjustment Board K ete > Preliminary Kiun Friday Night 1 Ki) HAS POWER K |l\ ANY LEVY W'KfiMnu <'l I' l '' Ki n 1933. in the I / 1 ‘L) Kuni |s 111 v,l ‘" lls he doi? Monday l»v coiiiilv board ol “•WBustment. board . oinph ted its M ; ,v prrliiiiinarv session nXniim and with the exthe county budget . Hiken uh al! proposed A ml levie< next year. IF,! "I . ■Liilwr* .1 members ® Kl'iiiio ■ o " !iii 11 ,iiiilv " the , ,>iint' funds and ntv first hand in- ( . a n t<> the not known c, ■■ w >. Mondavi Auditor Albert Har■o he •■(! to furnish Mr-: inf rnotimi to the tax wino I of tax adjusttax I Knr taxing tnu ieipalitv in ■ Authority to increase ( rat? <>v-*r $1.50 on the must be obtained! ■ f ininin- If urd. Seven of have proposed tlie $1.50 mark. It if further cuts will in these levies. LTS [>i<>p.rate in Des2.4l on the hundred did tin- tax adjusters M ives itcea- ■ hoard and of the Deca- < "I both lAldgets to the members. or less exhaustive study us Un two budgets and' weie asked by tile i [| members. The Decatur has cut its levy from 1 Me s 5 cents on the hundred and the civil city has relevy iron, 71 cents to til tlie hundred dollars in the bud-1 explained to the tax! can be made for more* Pie hundred dollars ■ tax adjustment board . author:'.to the municipalIP 1 . increased rate. $1 ■' is enforced by — effi.i.il, state that it a lioancial hardship on i K llni,s ill 1»34. One off! today. "The $1.50 law be all right and most mufar - but by 1934 these tax would >- bankrupted and borrow tnotiey. because _ *'UM lend funds when not , ertain that a levy i' l ' made to refund the XM' !r " from taxpayers. ReIM II -""' Democrats. has been l»> •’• r d members to 1:11 "X pao’e’ six’ ' * f BARTON TO ■PEAR MONDAY Kr Blackford Coun>heriff Wi|] Testify IK Portland K ana|)oliii - °ct. B—(UP)-Ira IV; wh , white sheriff ot Black- |^■ < ’ (,un, y a(lniit,e d connection uge hank robbery gang, will waov-d rrom Mjclljgan cny londay to testify in the trial J’" 1 Mrs. Elmer Gentry at " waH disclosed today V, P " of the State crim■mreau. B . Mrs ’ Gentr y were in- '/ l . ar^es <>f complicity in Br'k Flrst Sta,e Ba " k ot Br w<o ? W6re ttr rested, tie K i Barton and nearly a Bn w r persons ' after a bank! I an t 1 m ln !ndian;i last year, i ■Miits( Ml “‘ Oentr y' w ho live I ■ «une| G , were accused of har-! V s®" who committed the r.ib-' Btor ey . plfaded not guilty. I Batl O n a i' > IbrO 1 brO ' lght hlB ,rlal t 0 '■to gu tv T Chan King hiH Bterm ’ Bervln ' g a lone

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I nder Arrest -nil M- «. _ B lt law W' Vj w •1 K " Wr. l B w 4 * 1 _ 1 ■ •■ "*'"""• wtw.- j Refusing to return to Chicago of bis own free will to face indictment charging embezzlement and larceny, Martin .1. Instill, firmer president ot the Middle West Utilities Company, is lodged in jail at Barrie, Ontario, awaiting extradition. Photo shows Instill just after arriving in Toronto during his fight to escape jail.

HOLD CLOSING ! MEET FRIDAY Final Program of Adams County 4-H Clubs Held Last Night at Monroe The closing program a? the 4-H clubs of Adams county was hud Friday night in. the Monroe auditorium above the M del Hatchery. I The demonstration team elimination contest was held with six townships represented. The winning demonstration was presented by Josephine Sales and Fern Bierly. of Hartford township, on “Color i Harmony". This team will compete lin the district contest at Fort j Wayne Saturday, October 29. Tlie winner will rouudup at Lafayette next spring. Other demonstrations were: plain seams, Ruth Ineichen and Imogene Reef. Jefferson twp.; canning peaches. Elizabeth Bieh >ld and Lena Sauer; making a set on patch. Pollyanna Lebm :n and Alice Reinhard, Kirklaud twp.; cutting out a slip. Mary Kathryn McMillen and 'Thelma Ray. St. Marys twp. 4-H charters and seals wtye awarded to four clubs, Kirkland, Root, iHartford and Jefferson, in order to obtain a seal or charter the group must have a 85 percent 'finish. Premium awards we-e given to all club members except those having previously won a oive-day State Fair trip. Purdue trip or state fair schixil of Home Economics trip. o—* Today Is Final Day To File Candidates Today is the tinal day for the filing of candidates f. r public office in tlie November 8 election. Late this a ternoon no additional names had been filed to the list published several days ago. Tuesday, October 11. the election commissioners will meet to determine what pre, in. Is If any will need additional clerical help during the election. Milton Werling. county clerk will obtain state ballots for tihe election at Indiiauaipolis Oct: her 24. o Terre Haute Man Attempts Murders Terre Haute. Ind.. Oct. B—(UP) —'Wilbur Mordock, 35, waji In Jail tiday following a shooting in which lhe is charged with firing a revolver at his father. L. S. Mordock, a theater operator, mdtiher, a step brother, : Boyd Bell, and William Maliler, la doorman. He was then said to I have attempted suicide but the reI volver was empty. , According to police, Mordock entered his father’s theater and beIgan firing wildly, none of the bullets taking effect. Mrs. Mtrdock was taking tickets at tlie show. In jail, Mord-ock said toat his father had caused him to lose his job.

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Says He Took Shoes In Payment For Shine Chicago, Oct. B—(UP8 —(UP) — Joseph , Campbell. 43. did not steal the six pair of sir es, he explained in ansi wer to the robbery charge, he took , them.because it was the mil way of getting back the polish he put on ! them. "Clarence Powell who brought j tihis charge,” said Campbell, “proi tnised to pay*me 25 cents if I shined the shoes. After I polished them lie wouldn't pay. My polish was on the sh.es and I took it back. I couldnot help it if tlie shoes came along witli the polish." 1 Judge Leon Edelman arranged a settlement whereby Powell paid the | 25 cents and Campbell returned the \ shoes. 0 INDIANA TOWNS GET REDUCTION Electric Rate Reduction Ordered by Public Service Commission 1 i Indianapolis. Oct. B—(U.R)8 —(U.R) -Elec- ', trie rate reductions for six Indi- ' I ana towns were ordered by the > ! Public Service d unmission late • I yesterday. I The towns affected are Miami. ■ Cassville, Hobbs. Curtisville. Em ’ poria and Lincoln. Estimated an- ■ nual savings in the towns range . from S2OO to $990. The commission ordereil Dickenson and Sons company. Auburn to abandon a freight line between |i Fort Wayne and Waterloo. Approval was given sale of a bus 'line between Indianapolis and El- ■ j wood by Edward Bonham to Cnrl .: Braun. • A certificate of operation was awarded Henry Marsh. Terre Haute, for a bus line from Terre Haute tn Turkey Run A freight i line between Muncie and Fort ! Wayne, operated by the Lamson ' 1 Transportation company, was approved. Permission to operate a freight ' service between South Bend and Wabash. Peru and Fort Wayne, and Indiana]) dis and South Bend ' was given the Wabash Valley | Motor Express company. ; j The town of Rossville was granted nn electric rate revision It is served by the Northern Indiana Power company. o Commissioners Are Still In Session i The matter of paying the state • highway commission for expenses connected in securing the right-of-ways on state read 16 and stata ■ road 27 in Adams county was to • be settled by the county commis- : stoners at a meeting this afternoon, i'The board was in session at three •['o’clock but the matter ha dnot been s ettled at press time.

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BANK BANDITS ' FAIL IN EFFORT TO OPEN VAULT Attempt to Burglarize! North Madison. Ind., State Bank Fails SAFETY LOCK ON VAULT .JAMMED Madison, Ind., Oct. B—<U.R) —An! ■ attempt to burglarize the North Madison State Bank was discover ed today when Cashier Frank Vawter opened the institution. The yeggmen, who had acetylene torches, damaged the vault door but failed to enter. A sensitive j burglar proof lock jammed when heat was applied to the door. Vawter believed the yeggs fled when daylight arrived. Because of the damaged condition ot the door, bank officials were unable to open it and business was suspended for the day. j I Acetylene torches and tanks j which the yeggmen used were left ■ behind when they fled. Vawujer said the do,r was com-1 pletely wrecked and that a new! one would be necessary. Officials did not disturb the I vault after they found they could not open it, pending arrival of CONTTNUE'D ON PAGE SIX * BURL JOHNSON FILES PETITION Asks That Finance Corporation Make Complaint More Specific Btirl Johnson. Adams county sheriff, has filed a petition in circuit c'jurt asking the Rainey Finance Corporation to make a complaint against the sheriff more specific and certain. The petition asks that the company declare how it is legally entitled to the property, on what I legitimate business transaction title claim is based, the consid-1 eration paid for the truck. for| possession of which the suit was I filed, and in what manner the com-1 pany holds the sheriff liable for! | SSOO damage. The suit filed by the finance' company grew out of the wreck : lug of a large truik at the Penn-| sylvania railroad mossing at Mon-I mouth on the night of Saturday. I July 2. The truck carried a large supply of alcohol and the alcohol and truck have been kept in the custody of the sheriff since the time of the accident. A large portion "of the alcohol is thought to have been carried away from the ' truck by passing drivers, as Sheriff Johnson was not notified of the , accident until several hours after the wreck occurred. ANNUAL FRUIT DRIVE OCT. 17 — The Civic Section of Woman’s Club Sponsor Annual Drive The annual fruit drive for the Adams C unty Memorial Hospital, sponsored 'by the Civic Section of the Woman's Chib, will he conducted October 17 to 22. Mrs Ralph Roop, chairman in charge of the drive tfiis year announced today. A canvass of Decatur will start icn Monday. October 17 and bp continued throughout the week. A drive throughout the county will follow. The Home Economics Clubs of the various townships will assist in collei'tfn.g the canned fruits and vegetables in the county. Each year the Civic Section has conducted a drive in Decatur and Adams County for the purpose i>f turnidhlng canned fruits and vegetables for the local hospital. The cans are returned to the Civic section at the close c>f the year so that persons may secure them and refill them for the use at the hospital. i The cans tills year arc stored at the Nidhols Shoe Store and per-) sons wishing t-. di.mate fruits and I vegetables are asked to call for| the cans at the shoe store and have' them ready when the drive opens in i | Decatur.

I Reappoint Members of State Election Board Indianapolis, Oct. B—(UP) —Rc appointment "f William G. Spencer land Fred G. Gause, lx>th of FndianaIp'rdis, on the state board of elections | was announced here late esterday by Gov. Harry G. Leslie. j Gause, (formerly a 'member of the .Indiana Supreme court, is a repub|lican, Spencer, an attorney, is a democrat. Governor Leslie in third member of the board. The a-);]i iiiKnents are for two years. IDENTITY IS STILL MYSTERY Efforts al Identification of Woman’s Body Are At A Standstill Newcastle, Ind., Oct. B—(UP)— ETorts to identify the body of a wi 'man found in a ditch near here Thursday were at a standstill today iwhile authorities awaited word from bowling Green, 0.. regarding a girl missing there since last May 8. After being informed by Bowling I Green offiocials that Norma Murphy, 15 was missing since she elopj ed last May with Herbert Ho. per, | sdhool bus driver, Coroner Ralph Niblock sent descriptions of the body to the Ohio authorities. He expected a reply, today. Niblock said he had not been informed of a Paducah, Ky., woman rep rted missing. She was Mrs. Imogene Gray, unheard from since she wrote her fither in Paducah from Louisville. A picture of Mrs. Gray which was reported sent to Niblock bad not arritfted. Nibliock buried the body after taking X-Ray pictures of ’he skull and teeth, to be used in later identification attempts. . 0 Chicago Gangster x Dies Natural Death Beardstrom 111.. Oct. 8 —(UP) — Frank McErlane the Chicago gangster who invented tihe "one-way ride” died a natural death today in the Schmidt hospital here. .McErlane whoo bore the reputation of being Chicago’s toughest I gangster, died from pneumonia, held in bed b four internes.

FINISHES TOUR OF CALIFORNIA Ogden L. Mills Will Conduct Campaign in Minnesota Next Week Oakland. Cal.. Oct. B—(U.R)--Concluding his whirlwind speaking tour 'of California in behalf of tlie re-election campaign of President Hoover. Secretary of the Treasury Ogden L. Mills rested today at his old home in Millbrae before proceeding eastward. The Republican party during the past four years lias rendered its I greatest service to tlie nati n I since the Civil War. Mills told a' crowd of 1.200 listeners here last I night. It was his third speech In I 24 hours in the San Francisco area. Mills credited the president with having prevented economic and financial chaos through his silent but firm action to preserve national credit and the gild standard, lie lauded Mr. Hoover’s action in the crisis of May. 1931. following the collapse of German credit institutions. Mills charged that congress failed to revise banking laws and adopt tlie full measure of ec'jliomy recommended, but that it otherwise carried out the president's program, thereby saving the nation frdm an economic cataclysm. Mills will carry his campaign activities into Minnesota next week. — —-o Cotton Prices Go Down Two Dollars New York, Oct. B—(UP)—Cotton 'prices broke $2 a bale today following publication of the government's er >p estimate of 11.425.000 hales, [based on condition of the crop as of (Oct. 1. | This was about 30,000 bales above 'general expectations and compared i with government’s September estimate ot 11,310,000 bales.

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lAL SMITH WILL ] CAMPAIGN FOR GOV.ROOSEVELT Democratic Chief Will Take The Stump In Four Eastern States I I MAY ALSO APPEAR IN MIDDLEWEST New York, Oct. B.— (U.R) -Forni!er Governor Alfred E. Smith will •take the stump in four states, it jwas learned definitely last night, and campaign in the interests of a I Democratic victory in November. While the number of his addresses will be limited, he plans at I present to speak in Massachusetts, Connecticut, Rhode Island land New York. Delegations from all four of I those states supported him in the (Chicago convention, and two of them, Massachusetts and Rhode Island, gave him their electoral : vote in 1928. ' Although it was announced in Illinois Smith would speak there, it was learned he has not yet added that state to the list. i Possibility of Smith entering the ■ Roosevelt-Garner speaking cam- ,, paign was seen by Democratic I leaders after he had brought . 10.000 cheering men and women i to their feet at the state conven- . Ition last Tuesday by grasping the ■ governor’s hand in friendly greetII ing. ’ | It was a fight against Tammany dchief John F. Curry's attempt to i withhold the gubernatorial nominfl ation from Herbert H. Lehman 1 jthat brought them together on - the same platform. See Walker Fade Out With the realization they had j won the nomination for their mu- . tual friend, the standard-bearer of ' 1928 and the standard-bearer of 1932 recemented a friendship that I had been interrupted by their fight J against each other for the presidential nomination. Forty-eight hours after they had -| CONTINUED ON PAGE THRKE t ' O i Former Decatur Resident Is Dead

'Mrs. Corrine Kohn, 57, of Hillsdale. Mich., wife of t lie late Thomas H. Kohn, and a Dormer resident of Decatur, died at a hosipital in Min- ■ neapJis, Minn., Thursday, it was ! learned here. Mrs. Kohn, will known former 'Decatur resident, died of complicai tions which followed a nervous breakdown. She was horn in Minneapolis. and resided in Decatur tor about seven year# when she and . Mr. Kohn operated the Murray i Hotel here. They moved to Hills- , dale seven years ago. where they owned and operated the Kiefer • Hotel. ■ Funeral services were held in . Minneapolis. 0 DALE HEARING i SET FOR OCT. 18 Indiana Supreme Court Will Hear Council’s Petition For Ouster Indianapolis. Oct. 8 — (U.R) Hearing before the Indiana supreme court on tlie Muncie city ■ I council's petition for a writ of . jprohibtion against Judge L. A. (Guthrie of Delaware circuit court 11 will be held Oct 18. it was decid I ed today. • The date was set with the und- . erstanding the hearing will not i be held if Mayor George R. Dale, . whom the council seeks to oust, and members of the council i reach an agreement earlier. William McClellan, Dale’s attorney, consulled with Judge Guthrie at Muncie and they agreed on the date for the hearing. Tlie attorney said he would try , to get the council to leave Dale ' in office until the federal circuit 1 court of appeals in Chicago rules on the liquor conspiracy charge t pending against lhe mayor. Bond Reduced J Chicago, Oct. 8 - (U.R) Tlie bond of former Mayor George R. Dale of , Muncie, Ind . eonvfct.d of viola- ■ tlon of the prohibition law. was reduced from SIO,OOO to $5,000 toI page'six* I

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Out of Danger K- J L O | .1 < mW wB ... BK Stricken while awaiting to g'> on the stage of a Brooklyn, N. Y.. hteatre, where she had been mak ing personal appearances, Lilyan Tasliman, screen star, known as the best-dressed woman in Hollywood. is reported out of danger fallowing an emergency operation for appendicitis in a New York hospital. Miss Tashman is the wife of Edmund Lowe, also a film actor. nolanthlas DELIVERS TALK Socialist Candidate For President Speaks In , California i Stockton, Cal., Oct. B—<U,R) —Any social order which produces a«( I much poverty and distress as the . nation now suffers is dbomed. f Norman M. Thomas, socialist cans didate for president, charged in a . speech at the College of the > Pacific here last night. “It is as impossible to maintain the present capitalistic order as it I was to preserve slavery in 1856," • he told an auditorium filled with students, teachers and citizens. “Our problem today calls for the orderly transformation of the I dying order of capitalism into a new social system. The Socialist - party 'offers a concrete plan tor ) the change from a profit system t to production for the use of the ■ whole cooperative commonwealth". 5 Thomas recommended compulsory shorter working hours and a “ large scale public works program ■ to providi immediate unemployi ment relief. He urged American ■ recognition of Soviet Russia, can- • collation of war debts and Ameril can support of world disarmament ’ as a means of restoring healthy - world trade. He charged that “Americans are fl poor preachers against Japan’s imperialism, while U. S. marines 1 remain in Haiti and Nicaragua. Thbrnas carried his campaign into southern California today, pausing for a speech at Bakersfield before entering the Los Angeles area. I. Samuel Nichols Dies At Columbus, Ohio t William Sudduth has received uel Nichols at Columlnis. Ohio. Mr. Nichols was a brother of the late Hannah Suddeth of Decatur. Miami Mrs. William Suddeth, Orval . Suddeth and Sherman Fonner left . at no n today for Columbus to attend the funeral services. o Congressman Hogg To Speak Sunday Congressman David H. Hogg, republican candidate for re-election [ in the Eourt'h comgressional ifistrict is scheduled to make an address at . the Baptist hurch in this city at , 9:30 o’clock Sunday morning. He , I will speak during the Sunday sell ol Ise-,sion and a welcome is extended •| to the public to attend. , o M ill Speak Sunday Instead of Friday Rev. C. R. Lanman of the First |Christian Churdli of Decatur, will speak at Van Werl, Ohio Sunday afternoi.iii. as announced in Friday’s .Democrat. Rev. will speak at t'he an'nual church and Sunday school rally at the Van Wert jChurch of Christ.

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UTILITY HEAD GRANTED BAIL AT BARRIE, ONT, Bail is Fixed at $50,000 By Simcoe County Judge Holmes SAMUEL INSULL IS IN MADRID HOTEL Barrie, Ont., Oct. B—<U-R)— Martin Insull, former operating chief of the Insull Utilities “Empire,” was granted bail today, freeing him from imprisonment on a fugitive warrant. The United States Guaranty Surety and Fidelity company signed the bond. • Bail was fixed at $50,000 after a hearing before Simcoe county Judge Dudley Holmes of Barrie. Tlie action will allow Insull freedom until lie is summoned to the hearing at which Cook county, Illinois, will seek to extradite him from Canada to answer to charges of embezzlement and larceny in connection with the collapse ot Insull utilities. J. C. Mcßner, Toronoto. and J. R. Boys, Barrie, two of insull's Canadian solicitors, represented him in the court room. Insull was | not present. Edward Bayly, deputy Ontario attorney general and the Canadian solicitor for Cook county arrived in Barrie a. few minutes before the hearing began. Bayly had said yesterday that “As far as 1 am concerned" Insull ■ could be granted bond. . Mcßner told Judge Holmes it s would be impossible for Insull to escape jurisdiction of the court if . he were granted bail, even should , he want to. - “Mr. insull,’’ he said, ” is too well known in Canada to hide in i any part of it. When he went to r Toronto the other day to see me, • his identity was known long bei fore his train neared Toronto. “The only place to which he ,: could escape would be to the , United States, where Illinois t could have jurisdiction over him without difficulty." As soon as Judge Holmes an- . nounced he would approve the, , bail, he ordered Insull brought before him to give his consent to bonding arrangements. With his head bowed, and looking pailer than when he was locked in the little county jail last Thursday night, the one-time mil--1 lionaire was led into the courtroom by Deputy Sheriff B. W. Smith. At Madrid Hotel Madrid. Spain, Oct. B—(U.R)—8 —(U.R) — > CONTINUED ON PAGE STX CONDITION OF CHILDREN FAIR Six School Children Injured in School Bus Crash Just “Fair" 1 Lebanon. Ind., Oct. B—(UP)—The8 —(UP)—The condition i f six school children in(jured in a school bus accident near here was reported “fair" at VVitha'in hospital today. 1 Meanwhile charges against Milton Winn. 24, Cincinnati, driver of a truck that crashed against the Ctus. were being delayed, pending outcome of injuries. Winn, wtho was taken to the county jail when parents of toe victims became agnered because qf the crash, was removed to the ir spitul. - IHe is suffering a crushed chest. i The children were pupils at Perry Central consolidated school and : were en route there when the crasD : occurred w'hile the bus was stopped ■ at the henne of Emory Green, south I of Lebanon, I Wells County Farmer Is Found Guilty ’ IBlufftun, Ind., Oct. Bi—(UP)—A j verdict of guilty was returned by a t jury in Wells circuit court here toI j day against Willis Flick, farmer accuscd of stubbing Fay Crlssimore, i j last August during an argument. II The verdict carries a penalty of f (from one to 10 years imprisonment. tiCrisstmore was a tenant on Flick's |fat*m.