Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 30, Number 242, Decatur, Adams County, 12 October 1932 — Page 1

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ss« ~ ■IS INFANT WES FATAL f JURY TODAY Miraculous EsK'oni Instant Death Kun Accident held in : hwd" t®®K i ■ ’ v ' '' ■MKr... plat ■> - ami a half Y||K of Monro.- The old-r I Hf Binibril • th. kit. lion p„i eh',.a ...I the gun. been left top of the he pnlleit the gun .ho, liarge.l , manner. (-<■■ ■, front of the cabinet Wt hand raised. The ■p. -T i'. ' to- baby's left rearing ami fourth fingers the middle finger ■ and. rher smir k the child jaw. tearing out a if tin jaw bone. Some "’■■L ■■'■ th.n lodged in the Bi < ie<t. . below the right lleg Be was rushed, to the Ad- ■ hinty hospital, where a examination led the pi .- HO the i ' )S ' P '<SH THUMB JI WOMEN ARE -■LED TODAY! m B Children Also SerInjured; All Merc ts ■eaten On Head ore. pa„ Oct. 12—(U.R) ( .’ :i found dead )( seriously injured home in Murphv street "“‘■f ail four victims had on rhe head. No weapfound and police had no th.- assailants. «, r. Mrs Nellie Tressher mother. Mrs. Amt>3. both" widows. j^B”' ’• Mrs Tresslers two 1 B»h. eight, and Sadie. Orlando Molin- , '"' l shed ar the rear of I rt^^B I ''. near ihe Tressler home I IB 'ting. -1^ B& lhe ground near the, - s,l( ' was clad only in I^B ol hing and a trial of blood the body to a window’ in *" jK) * B 'ei house *| ,he lxl <ly ot Mrs. hi a bedroom. The girl no a | >p{ ] an( j ■ living room of the home, im. ’ llir,, » "Pre taken to Con state hospital where ex- ■ injuries was not de|B' 1 '"""“diately. Both were 1 In serious condition. ■ o — Felty Family ® In Auto Wreck K*" 1- ’’ ('minty assessor. Mrs ■P ’ daughter Dorothv, are re fr m shock and a few ■ suffered Sunday evening in V ,!’. In front of the I ■.J',' farm ' on slate roa <i 27, | ■ Berne. I r >lty * as driving north and ( 'Y attempted to pass him. ln J OO 8,0011 an<l hooking Kh' 1 tlf the Fe, ‘y c«rKi.' n Was torn oft - but ‘he ' “ ps «- The driver of K tar ||V| ”* in Portland.

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. ..| ISSUE WARNING I — | Chief of Police Sephus Melchi I this morning issued a warning [ | against Hallowe'en pranks. Several complaints have been ; received by Decatur officials | concerning the soaping of windows and automobiles and the I I chief issued a warning today !. that if these practices are not j . stopped, severe action will be I taken. • ♦ DELINQUENTS ASKED TO HELP County Treasurer Wechtcr Issues Figures On Taxes Paid To Date County Treasurer John Wechter, stated today that collection of|< taxes up to October 9 am unted to $35.0*8.26, of which $30,909.00, was ; current tax and $4,189.26 delinquent tax. The new tax law pertaining to paying of delinquent taxes has occasioned much extra work and j i detail in the treasurer's office. ; The penalty tax is reduced from I six to three per cent and interest |i must be figured at the rate of!: eight per cent per year for the | number of days the tax is delin-l quent. Persons owing delinquent tax'are asked to call before the fall 1 rush and make payment. Each ' receipt must Me figured separate-1' ly, .Mr. Wechter stated. In requesting taxpayers to cooperate with the county treasurer. Mr. Wechter stated: "The new law provides that a penalty of 3 per cent shall be added on delinquent .taxes, also interest at the rate of 8 per cent l figured from the date of delin , quency until the date of payment. Owing to this fact the treasurer can not collect the amount now; shown on delinquent tax receipts and as shown on the tax dupli-l cate, since this law reverts back to May 2nd. 1932. The state tax j board advises that all county I treasurers ask all persons owing I delinquent taxes and expecting to pay them making a special effort to| secure the amount as soon as posI sible in order to help save the| | confusion of a last minute rush." Monday, November 7, is the last I day for paying the fall installment | without the penalty being added. Tocsin Store Is Robbed By Thieves Blull'fton, Oct. 12— Thieves who made a night raid at the town of Tocsin, mine miles northeast of Bluffton, escaped with merchandise amounting to about SIOO from the Kreigh filling staticn and store. A tto tires and other accessories, groceries. cigarels, candy, etc . were taken. The same night thieves stole 150 hickens from the James Hunt farm near Tocsin. EARL EVERETT CHOSEN MAYOR — Muncie Council Selects Democrat Member To Succeed George Dale Muncie. Ind.. Oct. 12. — (U.R) Earl Everett, elected mayor of Muncie by city council last night, demanded today that George R. Dale . surrender the office. Everett, a member of the council and Delaware county Democratic chairman, was chosen after Judge L. A. Guthrie dissolved in circuit court a restraining order issued when council attempted to oust Dale last week Council previously had declared the office vacant as a result of Dale’s conviction and sentence on federal liquor consph acy charges. Everett said quo warranto proceedings would be Instituted if Dale refused to relinquish the office. Judge Guthrie recommended election of a successor for Dale and immediate action to clear up the municipal tangle. He said the proi eeedlngs, In the event of Dale's re j ' fusal to quit, would be speeded through court.

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MRS. RUTH OWEN I WILL SPEAK AT BERNE OCT. 24 Daughter of Late W. .1. Bryan Will Address Democratic Rally JAMES I. FARLEY WILL ALSO SPEAK • = — • THE PROGRAM Music by Quartette. Welcome — Senator Gottschalk | j Introduction of Candidates. Address J. I. Farley. Music. I | Address — .Mrs. Ruth Bryan Owen. Plans for a big Democratic rally iat Berne the evening of Monday, I , October 24th, when James I. Far- j : ley, candidate for congress and ' Mrs. Ruth Bryan-Owen, congresswoman and leader in many organizations of American women, will address the voters of Adams county, were made last evening at a ; meeting held at the home of Senator T. A. Gottschalk. The meeting was attended by i about twenty men and women interested in the important coming ! event. J. H. Heller, county chairI man. presided. Senator Gottschalk : was chosen general chairman and ic. H. Muselman, secretary, and assisted by various committees will have charge of the rally which Is to be made a county-wide affair. A big parade of marchers with torches, automobiles, banners, bands, drum corps and numerous features will precede the speaking I program. The meeting wilt be held jat the Herne auditorium, beginning CONTINUED ON PAGE FOUR FORMER LOCAL MAN DROPS DEAD Ross C. Hays, Died Suddenly Tuesday Afternoon Os Heart Attack Ross C. Hays. 58, of Waynedale, for many years a resident of Decatur, died suddenly at 2 o'clock Tuesday afternoon on rhe Merton farm, located 1 mile north and 1 mile west as Poe. Death was due Ito heart trouble. Mr. |Hay3 was walking in the woods on the Morton farm Tuesday afternoon when he dropped dead. Dr. Kruse, Allen c unty coroner, conducted an autopsy on the body here this morning and reported that death was due to angina pectoris. The deceased was born in Clinton County. November 9, 1873, the son of Phillip and'Emma Hay«. He was united in marriage to Daisy Campbell of Clinio C, unty, who survives. Mr. and Mrs. Hays lived in Decatur for 15 years, moving to Waynedale eight years ago. where : they had made their home Mr. Hays had beein ailing for the last I year. Surviving besides the widow, are 'the mother Mrs. Emma Hays of ) Frankfort, a daughter, Mrs. .Marie iGilpin of Waynedale, a sister, Mrs , Mamie Vaughn of Danville. 111., 'and two brothers, Charles of Council BllNlfa. lowa, and John of ! Frankfort. The father preceded him in death many years ago. Funeral services will be held Fri I day afternoon at 1 o'clock from the Waynedale Methodist Episcopal church and burial will be made in the Prairie Grove cemetery in Waynedale. The body was br -ught to the Black Funeral Parlors in I>ecatur where the autopsy was held. The body will be removed to the home in Waynedale Thursday morning. o— — Milk Wagon Driver Killed At Anderson Onderson. Ind.. Oct. 12. —(U.R) — Arlie Collings. 21, was killed here when the milk wagon he was driving was struck by an automobile. The accident occurred as Donald I Brown. 22. driver of the car, turn|ed Into a railroad underpass.

Decatur, Indiana, Wednesday, October 12, 1932.

Tear Gas Routs Pickets C- ■ ■ •v ' ' ' ■ . ■ ; ‘SwWTO x aSaWfe W’t-Acyy..-. ■ ■faBBUJKagM* -S.'■* 'BIIBIIIIIIII National Guardsmen watching the tear gas clouds which routed pickets of the Progressive Miners’ Union Monday, when mines reopened at Taylorville, Illinois.

LOCAL WOMEN TO ATTEND MEET Decatur And Monroe Women Will Attend Missionary Convention ' | The fifty-fifth annual Convention ■ of the Women's Foreign Missionary ] Society of the Methodist Episcopal! Churches in the Fort Wayne district I . will be held in Angola, Thursday] and Friday, October 13 and 14. Sev-; : einl women fr. m tile local Metho- : dlst church and a large number 1 .:rom the Monroe church are plann-' ■ ing to attend the meeting. The 'opening session will be held Thursday afternoon at 2 o'clock az ; ■which time registrati ns will be ] made. Mrs. Delton Passwater of I this city will conduct the Memorial , service, and Mrs. E. M. Dunbar and | Mrs. Otto Longenberger of Monroe] will furnish special music. The sub-1 I ject. Stewardship will be treated by ! I Mrs. John Floyd of Monroe. The Y'oung Peoples Supper will : be served at 6:30 o’clock Thursday 1 , evening with Mrs. G. P. Weaver in i charge. A program will f. How the I 1 banquet, at which time Anna Har-! rod. a returned missionary from ! India will address the group. . The Friday morning program will : - open at 8:30 o’clock. Mrs. Jack] Leigh of Decatur is treasurer of the I ’.group, and during the session tihe ] I election and installation of folfficers ] will be held. A luncheon will be served at th.- ] ' n on hour and the meeting will ’ close with the afternoon session. | Friday. Talks will be given by* the ; various missionaries attending the | ' meeting and communion will be l conducted by Dr. J. T. Bean, dis- j 1 trict superintendent and other pas- I ' tors. The principal address for the | 1 meeting will be by the missionary. | 1 Mrs. Mina Mallek of Africa. ‘MURDER’CASE ENDS HAPPILY t Girl Whom Indiana outh 'j Said He Killed. Announces Her Marriage l,os Angeles. Oct. 12 —(U.R I The] f final chapter to the strange story] i of the "hoax murder" of Mildred I Scheidler. 20-year-old Indiana! i hitchhiker, was written today with s a reunion with her mother and I the revelation that she was mar t ried to the youth who complete I > the transcontinental junket with, her. > Mildred, whom Arthur Metcalf.' r Indiana farm youth “confessed s killing." calmly embraced her| • mother, Mrs. Wanda Scheidler, of) . Fresno. Calif., whom she hadn’t seen since she was 5. shook hands with Metcalf, and then introduced George Redden. 20, as her hitsI band. Mildred’s appearance at police station Monday night to deny she } was dead, exposed the fantastic story of Metcalf that ihe had killed her near Needles. Calif., beI cause she had spurned his advances. The two had hitchhiked CONTINUED ON PAGE TWO

Bryan Officials Are Sentenced Bryan, 0,, Oct. 12 —(UP) —Lewis H. Rohb, 'former treasurer of Williams county and his deputy, Prather Hitt, pleaded guilty Tuesday to | embezzling county funds and were i sentenced to one to 21 years in the | ; Ohio'penitentiary and fined $25,400] I each. : Execution of sentence was post- 1 ; poned for 10 days to give them time Ito arrange their private affairs. Meanwhile E. H. Ward, a salesi man for a Fort Wayne, Ind., brokerage firm through which Rohh and I'Hitt said they bought and sold ■ stocks with $37,678 taken from ■ county funds, provided $2,500 bond ! after he was arraigned today on an emlbezzlement charge. | The changes against the trio were] ,(filed after a state examiner two] weeks ago discovered the shortage! ] in Robb's accounts. -o CHIEF MELCHI ! ASKED TO AID Police Chief Assists In Search of Relatives of James McAuliffe | Chief of Police Sephus Melchi [ !has been asked to assist in a search ; [for relatives of James McAuliffe,] I who was found dead along state] ■ highway No. 2, near Irvington. 111-) l inois, October 3. Whether death (was caused by murder or suicide | has not been determined. A letter from Joseph D. Max (well, state's attorney at Nashville.; ; 111., has been received by Chief; ! Melchi and a copy of this letter ] i also has been received by the Daily | I Democrat. This letter states that I McAuliffe’s identity was establishled by fingerprint records. ] The communication received here [also stated that McAuliffe was ,sen-! I fenced to the Indiana state farm] i front Jteeatur in June of 1925 for a ] lliquor law violation. A thorough search has been made ■ | by local officials of circuit and city 1 court records and no trial of James] [McAuliffe has been found Files of ; the Daily Democrat also have been (examined and no trace of such a [.story has been found. Il is thought ) possible that the man may have ] been sentenced from Decatur coun- i ty instead of this city ,I Anyone having any knowledge] . I of this man is asked to notify local | II officers —o —■ — ! Local Precipitation Totaled .81 Inch I The < lai precipitation in Decatur II for the 24 hour period ending Tues- | day morning was 81 inch, and the .'river measurement was 1.3 feet.] 1 Miss Mary Ycst. kee.per of the ■ | water gauge, reported. Wife of Senator Jim Deed Dies Suddenly Kansas City. Mo.. Oct. 12 U.R) —Mrs. Janies Reed, wife of the former United States senator from Missouri, died in St. Luke's hospital here today. Pneumonia following a septic sore throat caused death. Reed, who rushed here last night from Des Moines was at her side at death.

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VIEWS GIVEN BY CITIZENS I ON TAX CUTS General Disposition Is To | Accept Action of Board i And Meet Emergency CURTAILING TO BEGIN NEXT YEAR j Taxes, budgets and levies forj ~ next year continued th be one of | the principal topics of discussion, here today, following publication) of the new rates resulting from! the action taken by the County] Board of Tax Adjustment in re-| ducing town and city, school, i j township and county levies. ( Public officials, school author!-1 ( ties and others affected by the taxi j levies, were more or less in ai , quandary, but there was a dis-] | position on the part of a major ity| t to accept the action of the tax , board and “wiggle through" the best possible. I , The county hoard of tax adjust-] i ment was praised and criticized, - in expressions voiced by citizens. I Those who agreed with the board I voiced sentiment in favor of the I action taken and stated. “Decatur] I and Adams county are on the road ] ]to recovery. We're getting back I , to a sane basis and everything will work out alright. We must do' without things, but one thing to ] remember is that real estate owners will be given relief and makej it easier to pay taxes." The decision reached in this' county by the tax adjusters was] one of the most decisive and far] ] reaching of any taken by similar] boards in the state. Decatur's] i rate was cut to $1.95 on the hun-l l dred dollars and all rates propor-] 1 tionatelv. the average rate in the] j county being $1.52 on the hundred j dollars. The 1933 tax bill will therefore be cut in half, author!-i ! ties state. Decatur’s rate this yearj I is $3.18 on the SIOO. M. F. Worthman. city superin-1 ] tendent of schools, stated the] | school board would meet Thursday evening to view its budget and | ] figure how the reduction of the! school's levy from 85 cents to 60 j I cents would affect next year's I j operation of the school system.! | The present semester, up to Jar.-! juary 1. 1933. will not be affected. | unless the ’ Uoard should decidp j ] to conserve in the tuition fund ] , ahead of the expected deficit next ] I year. Levies collectable this year] i are not affected by the new proposed rates. In curtailing their] ! program, the school board may be | I forced to retire several teachers. ] i consolidate departments and jani- | tor jobs or let one or two of the ] men go, Mr. Worthman stated. Officers in the court house may i install their own telephones next' year or pay station phones might] be placed in the offices. Milton | C. Werling. county clerk, stated CONTINUED ON PAGE TWO GALCOOLIDGE 1 MAKES APPEAL — I ? ormci' President Urges Re-Election of Hoover In November New York Oct. 12 (U.R)--Calvin ' | Coolidge urges that Herbert! | Hoover he kept in the White] | House because "things would have been much worse" but for his ] "vision, courage and leadership." and because Franklin Roosevelt's silence on the bonus menaced economic recovery. The former president appealed I for the re-election of his own successor last night in an address to a cheering throng at Madison I Square Garden and a vast unseen 1 audience. "I am convinced," he concluded. ( “that (he public welfare requires that he be re-elected." Coolidge, in his calm, droll man- , ner, attacked Democratic policies, and Democratic leadership; he , accused Franklin Roosevelt, without naming him. ot prolonging . the depression by failing to speak against the lionus. The former president roused his CONTINUED ON PAGE TWO

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To Tammany KI 1 BkIL 1 L jpK |k--An excellent close-up of Lewis: H. Pounds, former Borough Presi-j dent of Brooklyn, who is the G.O.P. candidate for Mayor of New York [ He is 71 years old and will oppose] Surrogate John P. O’Brien, the, Demucratic-Tammany nominee, ini the special election on November j 8, which was ordered by the Supreme Court as a result of the resignation of Mayor James J.| ■Walker. REV. OTT GIVES FINE DISCOURSE Father Ernest Ott Delivers Sermon on “Judgment Day" Tuesday The Rev. Father Ernest Ot,t,| Franciscan missionary, delivered' an excellent discourse on “Judgment Day," at the Men's Mission! at St. Mary's Catholic church. Tuesday night. Father Ott drew an analogy be-] tween a murderer on trial for his I life and a man at the last judg-' ment. The worst the criminal] need fear is a shortening of a few) years of his earthly life. The man, on trial before God must fear] God's wrath for eternity. He continued, describing the] first or particular judgment and the last or general judgment. ] Father Ott said we must expect] God to show us no mercy at that] time. On earth the intercession! of friends or relatives may mitt-] gate the sentence of a criminal. I In the last judgment not even the, pleas of the Virgin Mary herself] can help a lost soul. Father Ott told of numerous! cases of men professing to be confirmed atheists during life but; who. on their death beds, threw ] themselves upon the mercy of God. He told of Voltair who said at the height of his fame “In twenty] years 1 will undo all that Christ | has done." Twenty years later he; called a Catholic priest to his death bed and begged to make his peace with God. The way souls are judged was ] then explained. The temporal! world is not a good judge of the worth of a man to God. Good! deeds which win Ibe applause of man can not he acceptable before God because of lhe man's desire to win praise or flattery. Only deeds done for God are credited for us. Intent, good or evil, is more important than tile deed Itself. He also said that the omtnis sioti of an opportunity to do good, is as bad as an evil deed. Father Ott concluded with an exhortation to so live that we need have no fear of looking at God's' ledger. In this ledger are wiltten all the good and bad deeds together with the sins of omission. Tile good will find God merciful on the day of judgment and the CONTINUED ON PAGE FOUR Q Dr. Daniel Poling Speaks Tonight Dr. Daniel C. Poling will land at the afnport in Fort Wayne this aftemon. where hi- will be met by a committee of Decatur citizens and t scorted to this city. Dr. Poling, chief editor of the Christian Herald, will deliver an address at the Decatur high sch ol auditorium at 9 'duck t night. Rev. .VI W. Sunderiuan of Decatur, will preside at the meeting to (which the public is invited. A number of Decatur residents heard Dr. Poling's address a-t Fort Wayne Sunday.

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ATTORNEYS TO CARRY PAPERS I TO WASHINGTON i Plan to Sail For Paris Saturday, Then Fly To Athens, Greece SENATE INQUIRY IS OPENED TODAY Chicago, Oct. 12.—<U.R) —Dei spite the fact Samuel Insult I was unconditionally freed by Athens police State’s Attorney John A. Swanson and his assistants rushed preparations of extradition papers today. Two assistants will take them to Washington tomorrow night, Swanson said and if all obstacles can be sur- ! mounted will sail from New York I for France either the 15th or 19th. | From Paris they plan to fly to Athens where they will press demands for return of the former ] utilities king to Chicago to face criminal charges growing out of I the $2,000,000,000 crash fcf his com- ' panies. Assistant States Attorney Charlies Bellows and Andrew Vlachos were selected to make the trip. In addition to the extradition papers they must obtain a state warrant ] from Gov. Lewis L. Emerson. All ]the papers must be approved by i Secretary of State Stimson at Washington. ' Chicago. Oct. 12.—(U,R>-The Unit- ■' ed Slates senate launched an indeI pendent inquiry into collapse of I the Insull utilities here today belting a wall of secrecy. James E Stewart, director of per’lsonnet of investigators for the sen'.ate banking and currency commit--]tee. arrived from Washington and i| admitted the investigation had bei gun but refused to say what had been done. Take Up Passport *! Washington. Oct. 12—(U.R) —The - state department today instructed II the United States consulate at Ath'!ens to take up the American passt, port carried by Samuel Instill, Sr., ' Chicago utilities magnate. Washington. Oct. 12. (U.R) State I department officials declared today ■ they had a “definite plan" for bringt ing Samuel insull. Sr„ Chicago utilt ities magnate, back to the United i'States for trial on indictments re- -] turned in Chicago. They refused ;to reveal the plan on grounds that * premature publicity might prevent i • CONTINUED ON PAGE THREE ROOSEVELT TO r I VISIT INDIANA i! —. Presidential Nominee To Be In Indianapolis Oct. 20 On Big Tour 'I '! Albany, N. Y.. Oct. 12—(UP) — Franklin D. Ro sevel will make '.major campaign speeches, in St. ' , Louis, Pittsburgh, amt Ba'timore on his 3,000 mile campaign tour into the south and border states starting ’ October IS. ' Tile tour, the second in ills bid y for tihe presidency, will carry him i into 17 states, the governor announced' todaj. '] He will travel in a sp-clal train which will be fitted with working 1 r om for wteuographirs Roosevelt will arrive in Indiana- " | |h»lls at II a. m. October 20 and [will leave at 11 .p. m. the same day. U lie will arrive at Springfield. 111., ut. 11:30 A. M. October 21 and will 1 leave at 2:30 p. m. October 22. lie will visit Douisville, Ky.. arriving there from St. Louis at 10 A. M. and leaving at noon. t Damage Case Goes To Jury At 3 O'clock t !- The damage suit of Otto Sullla van, ol Fort Wayhe, against the 1 board ot commissioners of Allen :. county, asking judgment of $4,000 •- for the death of his son. Leo Sttllie van. went to the jury shortly bet fore three o’clock tills afternoon. The case opened In the Adams i- circuit court before Judge ('. L. o Wallers and a jury Monday morni- ing. Evidence was completed ’. Tuesday even.ng and arguments ej were heard and the court s instructions given today.