Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 30, Number 251, Decatur, Adams County, 22 October 1932 — Page 1

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■ON DOLE HAS ■mow esc ape ■ FIRE TODAY ■mir Resident Is Res- ■ | rom Burning Home Krh This Morning ■\L MAN SAVED ■by taxi driver ■ ■ Odle, 77-year-oki ■ -of locatur. narrowly ■edserpni - injury <>r poss- ■ Kl tr. at o’clock SatnrWnmniiiiK "hen fire eom- ■ destroyed his home at ■' S’e.rth Second street, ■he slept e the building. ■ <i<lb wa.' sleeping in his ■ ;i ,>i>r\ and a half frame ■ l4 Kated just north of .... Oil ■■■!. lu-ii fire a.r ■din. a ;.i-<inir tourist. j. m . by iVe.i. i.,xi driver, who i . : the owner of was unsuc- ■; he piei-uin-i that the bniltlunoccupied. til til- Samuel Acker .... a.street from alarm w is ■',. ■ P ,‘ however, that a in the building. • ■ In- home where hiw'i tin- front door ami ..linig which w»s ■ He located, the - ■' mrrmd him out Ib.o. .i- the roof caved in. ■»» till' taxi driver was I:.completely deby t! flames. The local :c was called to the and prew-med the fire from ■ iMstr tin chief, estimat -.-i .!_>■ tu the building at ■[> Noiii' nf the furniture in was saved. !■ S’ ■' Bt Wayne Schools ■ Hix ide Press Honors ■nhliii. Ind.. Oct. 22—(UiP) — ■* For'. W'ayn sell ols divided ■- th ( lass f r 1.0-m or more in 'h. Annual aw inis of ■ '.: M'l 00l press a -so Me awards, announced at the i.ro.niion, wer- based on Mleniv of sdi t>i puplicatics ■ spotlight, published by CenM»ot; tii ; plain, the NorthernM X'rtli. so iml. and the South ■ Times of Santa high school ■third. M— — o ■o Goshen Women I Killed By Train ■ehen. Ind.. Oct. 22 — (UP) — ■ Mary Walker, 53, and Miss An■"mb. 74, both of Goshen, were M t lay when their automobile ■ struck by a New Y rk Central ■ train at a crossing her?. They ■ st’pped on the track to wait ■ "’•st bound train to pass when ■ express coming east struck hIBLOSSOM I DIES FRIDAY l rnivr Adams County Sutters Fatal Stroke Friday r"‘ R Blossom. 48. former Ads' e Ul >ty resident, died at his F ttsar Hillsdale, Michigan, Fri|Df ernoon, following a stroke of P XJ Mr. Blossom had suffered r ral Previous strokes, but was WPirent good health before the f«e Friday. P* deceased was toern July 28, F' !n Adams c unty, the son of F” n it. and Electa Sheets-Uks-f left this county twenty L s ago and located at Hillsdale, L,',, IP liad been employed on the F ork Central railroad. He was u'”' 1 to Anna May Kling SetpL ' 4. IMo. No children were P 10 this union. urvl ving besides the widow are ,?' Q * in * brothers and sisters: L of M'irion, Mrs. L? St0 «dIU c< Fort Wayne,, t. Blossom of Girard, Ohio, rs Arilla Burkhart of Deca,h n^ al Serices wln be held at nc ®e h Hillsdae. Michlan, Sun‘‘■ternoon at 12:30 o’clock.

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I Bobo Homecoining At Church Sunday The Bobo United Brethren church will hold a home coming celebra- | tion at the church Sunday. A basket dinner will be served at the noon hour at the Bobo school house. CLUB LEADERS HOLD MEETING Miss Meta Martin of Purdue Addresses Home Economics Chibs The lenders and presidents of the various Home Economics Clubs in Adams county met with Miss Meta Martin, home economist front Purdue, for the fourth lesson in sewing, at the Masonic Hall, Friday. The meeting was presided over by Mrs. E. W. Busche, and was ■ opened by the singing of the club ( song and reciting of the duh creed. The roll call and regular routine of business followed. An invitation from Mrs. R. D. Myers was read, inviting the club women to attend the Adams County Federated clubs meeting next I Tuesday evening at 7:30 o’clock in the Decatur Public library. Miss Martin spoke on the value of the dollar. She discussed the twelve different parts of the clothing. and many problems of remodeling old clothes were discussed. She mentioned ai, important slogan. "Adapting the Mode vs. Adopting the Mode." Some silk cocoons and a silk baby quilt were displayed at the meeting. A pot-luck dinner was served at the noon hour by two I II club girls, the Misses Neva Fricke and EarlCONTINUED ON PAGE SIX REPORTS THREE CONVICTS HURT First Official Statement of Canadian Prison Riot Is Made Today Kingston. Oct. 22 — Z U.R) — Three prisoners were wounded in rioting within Kingston penitentiary, according to an official statement and explanation Issued by Brigadier General D. M. Ormond, government inspector of prisoners. "One man," he said, "has a wound in the shoulder from a rico diet buckshot; one man in the isolated prison is wounded in the leg and another is wounded in the shoulder. No wounds are serious." This was the first official word that anv of the prisoners involved In two riots Monday and Thursday night and Friday morning had been injured. General Ormonds statement said “all is quiet. A complete cheek shows that the penitentiary count is correct. The damage is less than expected." It had been reported that a starvation siege would he initiated by troops and guards to force the surrender of the mutinous convicts, hut every evidence early •today was that all Involved in the revolt had been placed in cells. Tlie mutlnv occurred among men housed in dormitories, because of insufficient cell space. Honor convicts, as result of the mutiny, were removed from cells and the troublesome 200 replaced them. General Ormond led a group of newspapermen through the prison late yesterday, showing them everything they said, but the section of the prison within which the mutiny occurred. Heavily armed troops, at that time, remained within the prison Continued on page threje o Hoagland Stores Robbed This Week Several robberies have taken place in Hoagland the last twt> nights, the Henry Koeneman store belnig entered last night ami merchandise valued at about $lO was stolen. The Earl Smitley general store was entered Thursday night and several pairs of overalls, shoes amd sweaters were stolen. The thieves also tried to enter the Harr d Filling station and the Pennsylvania railroad office. Deputies from the office of Sheriff Fred Uunz, Allen county are investigating the robberies.

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i housands Hail Roosevelt At Indianapolis L L J-’ Ww mi Jes rail i||[ • mHk Iraiip WMHSHhJ « W»^rsrmv»..' "I f ■■Bitan* 11 A general view of the huge crowd that listened to Governor Franklin D. Roosevelt at Indianapolis ' | Thursday afternoon in the Monument Circle of the city. The audience was estimated at 100.000, about all 1 | the space could hold. They heard the Democratic ca ididate assail Wall StretA "buccaneers."

CITY MUST PAY HYDRANT RENTAL Public Service Commission Tells Ft. Wavne Officials To Pay Bill — F rt Wayne, Oct. 22 —(Special)— Contrary to advice given the Alien ! County Board of Tax Adjustment during its sessions on the civil city tax levy, the civil city must pay for fire hydrant rental and water service from the waterworks department. city officials were told in a conference Thursday with th? "Pub|lic Service Comnission of Indiana. |at Indianapolis. "If the waterworks is n t paid for (fire hydrant service in 1933. it I means that the city will owe that ■amount which will have to be paid eventually," City Attorney William Fru-chtenict stated Major William J. Hosey stated ‘that the public service commissioni ers asserted that the fire hydrant j rental is as much as part of the irate-making set-up as ar? any other service charges sot by the comnits- ' sion when rate schedules are made ( for waterworks, whether they are I privately or municipally owned. 1913 Act Still In Effect. [ Mi. Fruechtenicht also stated that the c.mmissicn pointed out that ' the Shively (Spenser Act of 19'13 i governing waterworks was still in ■effect; that the 1931 act enabling board of works to have jurisdiction in waterworks masters within a distance of 25 miles from city limits did not repeal any of the provisions of the earier 1913 statute. Fire hydrant rents in 1933 will cost $62,400, under the appropriation made by the city council. o MRS. MATTHEWS TO SPEAK HERE Thank Offering Service Will Be Held At M. E. Church Sunday Tin? Women's iHome Missionary Society of tlie Methodist Episcopal Church will sponsor a Thank Offering service at tlie church Sunday 'night at 7 o'clock- Mrs. E. N Matthews, of Columbus, Ohio, a National Pr rwctlonal secretary will be the guest speaker at tlie annual Thank Offering service. Mrs. Henry Heller is the local thank ottering secretary. Music will be under the direction of Mrs. Tyndall. The complete program tor the rvoninr follows: Organ Prelude—'Mrs. Avon Hurk. Opening Song —“O, Zl.m Haste.” Prayer- Mrs. R. D Myers Scripture Lesson —Mrs. C. D. Lewton. Special music, “Savior, Preathe, and Evening Prayer."—Girl’s Choir. Anmcuncoments — Rev. B. HI. Franklin. Off.rt' ry—(Mrs. Avon Burk. Special music. "Now the Day is Over," — Girls Choir. Address— Mrs. E. N. Matthew. Closing song—“ America." Benediction—Rev. B. H. Franklin. Organ Postiude.

Decatur, Indiana, Saturday, October 22, 1932.

Betting Odds On Roosevelt 5 To 2 New York, Oct. 22—(Special)— Betting odds on the presidential election advanced today to 2% to 1 in favor of Gov. Roosevelt, owing tu the receipt of a large amount of ’(Democratic money by betting com(missioners in the financial district. | Yesterday the Democratic '’candidate had been a 2 to 1 favorite. IHe was a 7 to 5 favorite today I to carry New York state —slightly I higher odds than had been qu 'ted ( ' previously. ■ ( Hoover is a favorite at Btos to . 1 carry Pennsylvania and 6 to 5 to . i win New Jersey. TELLS STORY OF CRUEL TORTURE — Gary Woman, Speakeasy i Barmaid, Tells of Kidnaping, Torture - Gary, Ind., Oct. 22—(U.R)—Chief lof Police Stanley Bicklin today . j ordered a thorough investigation >’ of charges that members of the I Gary liquor squad were bribed to I tip off Joe Sannicola. alleged local ; I bootlegger, on impending raids. ;( The charges were made by Mrs. ’, ■ Catherine Blanco. 20. mother of i two children, who formerly was ; | employed as a bar maid in Sanui--11 cola's resort. i ( She was kidnaped Tuesday i; night and tortured by two unii J dentified gangsters into revealing secrets of Sannicola's liquor deaiI ings’ according to a story told . police after she was released by her abductors. Chief Bucklin said that officers mentioned in Mrs. Blanco’s account were shifted from the liquor squad in a recent shakeup of the department. lie said no public statement in the matter would be , made until he had obtained a signed statement from tlie woman. Gary. Ind.. Oct. 2? (U.R)— A " brutal tale of kidnaping and torture fry flame and knife was reported today by Mrs Catherine Blanco Manserott. 2ti, mother of ■ two children who told police she , - was a barmaid in a speakeasy here. Police said Mrs. Manserott was released by her abductors last ■ night after being held three days I by a torture gang who sought to learn from her the source of her employer's alcohol supply. She was given a police guard and taken to a secluded house I today for protection against atI tempted retaliation by the kidnap-- . ers because of her revelations. , Two men, Mrs. Manserott said, | seized her last Tuesday night. I They took hei to a faiinliuUM not ■ far away and demanded that she I tell what she knew of her employer’s alcohol business. “We know," she quoted them as saying, “that Joe (her employer) ( is selling 25 gallons of alcohol a day. But he only buys 15 gallons a day from the syndicate. Where does he get the rest?” ,1 Mrs. Manserott, who said she j had just been discharged without I cause by the speakeasy proprietor, ( refused to divulge the alcohol .' source. i The men then took matches ! CONTINUED ON PAGE SIX

PRESIDENT TO SPEAK TONIGHT Hoover Will Deliver Address At Detroit, Mich., Tonight i ( Charleston, W. Va„ Oct. 22. —(U.R) ; —President Hoover announced here ' i today that he had "asked the tariff ! commission to reinvestigate the whole rates of many commodities to see whether the tariff is giving the protection provided in the law " The President returned to his I sturdy support of the Republican i party’s protective tariff policy. He ] reiterated his attacks on the Democratic policy of lowering the tariffs . and told an audience packed in a I stadium near the railway station that “the Democratic party promJises to destroy the effectiveness of I the tariff commission." He declared a recent survey of I the standard of living in the Unitied States and abroad showed Am- ’' erican workers to be far better off - [ than any of their foreign brethren. It was the longest address on a (day of campaigning on his way to '! speak in Detroit at Olympia hall I ’ tonight. He was up early working on his 1 speech for tonight. He arose short;(ly after 5 a. m. ( The President in his speech here ’ I promised aid for the soft coal | workers. “Some years ago,” he | said. “I suggested there should be I some measure of cooperation in the ‘marketing of coal." : Aboard President Hoover’s Spec- ' ial Train en route to Detroit, Oct. 22.— (U.R) — President Hoover cari CONTINUtm ON PAGE SIX 0 EXPOSITION AT CHICAGONOV.26 ‘ I International Livestock Show Will Be Held Nov. 26 To Dec. 3 ' Chicago, Oct. 22—(Strscia!) —Dramatizing in spectacular manner the i year's progress In American agriculL|ture. the far famed International i Live Stock Exposition will open Its > (doors for its 33rd airiiiversary cele- • I bration at the Chicago Stock Yards | November 26 to December 3 II Secretary-manager B. H. Heide ■ asserts that the 1932 International .(will bi a fitting Bi-Centennial Ex---‘positi n of the relmarkable forward strides made in American farming , since the birth 200 ye irs ago of the . nation's first president-farmer, LiQeorga Washington. ■ 1 Rush of Early Entries ■ Early entries arriving at the Exposition headquarters indicate that i every foot of exhibit space, every stall in the mamouth exposition am11 phitheatre and 22 adjoining buildi(ings. will be filled to capacity with ■ 'the finest specimens if the fields (and feed-lots of the land. ■ ( The fact that the prfte money t(wlll remain tlie same in practically , all dapartments of the show, and in lia few instances will even be high-’ er than in past years, is attracting' i the patronage of liv»stocknien and) CONTINUED ON PAGE SIX

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GOV. ROOSEVELT WELL RECEIVED AT SAINT LOUIS Enthusiastic Crowd Hears Democratic Nominee Friday Night CONTINUES TRIP IN BORDER STATES Louisville. Ky.. Oct. 22—(U.Rl— Restoration of prosperity to the whole people is the great issue of this campaign, Governor Roosevelt told an audience from the rear platform of his special train just before reaching Louisville today. The train paused at New Albany, i d., just aer.us th? river from here. "The great issue in this campaign is to bring prosperity back to the American people as a whole,” he said. Tlie governor was obliged to collect his thoughts rapidly for this back platform appearance because he was just getting dressed when the train reached New Albany. Aboard Roosevelt Special Train, en route Louisville. Ky.. Oct. 22. — (U.R) — Gov. Franklin D. Roosevelt carried his Democratic presidential I campaign today into the friendly borderland of the Mason and Dixon 1 line, meeting with ridicule and satire a Republican counterattack he said was based on fear of panic. The Democratic candidate swung on through Kentucky and Tennessee today with pledges left behind in addresses at Springfield. 111., and St. Louis, Mo., to give relief to American farmers and protect the i*" CONTINUED ON PAGE SIX HIRAM JOHNSON TO TAKE STUMP Republican Senator Will Campaign For Franklin 1). Roosevelt San Francisco, Oct. 22 — (U.R) — United States Senator Hiram W. Johnson, powerful progressive Republican, will campaign actively for Franklin D. Roosevelt. Democratic candidate for president, and will speak on behalf of Roosevelt at n mass meeting here next Friday night, it was announced today. In bolting his party, the senatoi took with him powerful labor leaders and the northern and central California lieutenants who have aided in making him a dominant figlire in California politics for a quarter of a century. "Senator Johnson will speak in support of the candidacy of Gov ernor Roosevelt at a mass meeting to be held under the auspices of the Progressive Republican Roosevelt League of California in Dreamland auditorium. Oct 28." said a statement issued by Fred V. Williams, representing the Democratic party That announcement was the only formal notice that Johnson had bolted his party to support tlie Democratic nominee. The senator himself could not be reached "We’re all organized and r ady to go.” commented Paul Scharrenberg, secretary of the state federation of luboi and a vice president of tlie organization, in confirming the announcement. The same supporters who elected Johnson governor 21 years ago, sent liim to the senate and followed him into Theodore Roosevelt’s “Bull Moose’’ party in 1912 today joined him in a militant organization seeking to defeat President Hoover in Ids home state. Jubilant democratic leaders lost no time today in claiming Senator Johnson's active endorsement of Roosevelt definitely assured tills state being in the democratic column at the November 8 election. Republicans professed to be unworried. Johnson's antagonism to CONTINttwn ON PAGE SIX (Gasoline Reduced Two Cents Today Tlie price of regular gasoline was reduced two cents at Standard Oil stations in Decatur this morning. Prices of other grades are not affected by this reduction.

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BROADCAST SPEECHEES — I Governor Franklin D. Roose- ; I velt in his address from Balti- [ more, Maryland on the evening j | of October 25 will speak over I l j stations WFBM, Indianapolis; j | WOWO, Fort Wayne, and WGN, j ' Chicago, at 7 o’clock. Al Smith, 1928 presidential | ' j nominee, will speak over stations KYW, Chicago, and WSAI , i Cincinnati, from Newark, New Jersey at 9 o'clock, Oct. 24. f Senator Bronson Cutting’s address from Albuquerque, | I New Mexico on Oct. 26 will be j j carried over stations KYW, j ; Chicago, and WSAI, Cincinnati, | at 9:30 o’clock. • . SAM INSULL, JR J WILL RETURN TO! UNITED STATES Announces Determination For Return Even If Facing Arrest Here CONSIDERS TRIP TO ATHENS, GREECE London. Oct. 22.— (U.R) —Samuel' I Insull, Jr., will return to the United j i States even if Chicago authorities! decide to arrest him, he told the! United Press today. Instill professed to be a tourist, chiefly interested in London’s pen-, ny-slot museums. He insisted he: would return to the United States; in November to resume his job as i chairman of the three Chicago operating companies. In response to a direct inquiry by the United Press as to whether he would return even if Chicago j authorities decided to arrest him. for complicity in the collapse of the| Insull industrial empire, he replied: "I probably—yes, 1 will.” Insull refused a formal state-! ment. He declined to comment on a question regarding char ge s | against himself, his father, or Mar- 1 tin Insull. Insull insisted he was here mere- j ly on a personal visit. It was re-1 ■ ported, however, that he hoped to j '!sound out the British government, -|on the possibility of Samuel Insull.. • jSr.. requesting political asylum dni I. British soil, perliaris in Cyprus. The ; elder Insull is in Greece, but his (Greek visa will expire in a short ■ I time. Samuel Jr., admitted he might I make a quick trip to Athens before (going home. He admitted he would 1 consult London barristers associat’l ed with Greek attorneys in handlling his father's affairs. 1 Insull sat in the lounge of the Park Lane Hotel for two hours and 1 faced a barrage of questions from American and British correspon- | dents. Twice he obliged photographers by walking to the Green 1 park, opposite the hotel and posing , for them. I Insull bad not decided if he . would try to vote by mail. He evaded several questions, apologizing . good humoredly. saying it was I “best to allow matters to develop . fully." “I feel like a carp taken from a : muddy river and put in a goldfish bowl, under u spotlight," Insull isaid of the publicity he has ret-eiv- ■ ed. Insull smoked a cigarette in an 'ivory holder less than an inch long. ;|He wore shell rimmed glasses and a itusiness suit. He appeared in • good spirits." > "1 have lost a fortune," Insull • said. “Now I have only a salary." 1 He insisted that lie was not going r to resign from the offices he holds ■ in Chicago. ”1 am on vacation and my boss, James Simpson, expects me back in November. I am also anxious to see my wife and my 17 months 1 old baby," Insull said. o Indiana Publisher’s Mother Is Dead > Lebinom. Ind., Oct. 22—(UP) — Funeral serices will be held here tomorricw for Mrs. Martha Ellen Pullman, .nr tlier of Eugen ■ C. Pullman. Indiana pubisher, who died at her home here yesterday after a i year's illness. I Mrs. Pulliman and her husband, ■ i.rving S. Pullman retired Methodist minister, celebrated t'beir sth wedding anniversary last year.

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GUARDS SUBDUE PRISONERSIN NEW YORK CITY Rioting Starts When Convicts Begin Fight In Warden's Office NO PRISONERS TRY TO ESCAPE New York. Oct. 22 <U.R) - i Police emergency squa (I s | summoned from the heart ol ( Manliattan laid siege lines across the crowded banks ol ( East Biver tod a v whi t e ; guards clashed with rioting : prisoners in city penal insti- | tutions on Welfare Island. One convict. George Holi shoe, was stabbed and killed. Shortly after the outbreak a police sergeant from the island passed through guard lines and reported: “It's all over now." The rioting started when a group of convicts visiting the warden’s office to present grievances started to fight among ( themselves, police said. ‘ Police emergency squads lined , the river banks in the siiadow of ' shadowing apartment buildings 1 armed with tear gas. shot guns, , and machine guns. An pmphibean police plane flew < overhead and fire boats and police i boats circled close to the island. I While police on land. sea. and i in the air guarded against possible j attempts to escape, guards on the ' island clubbed the unruly convicts I into submission. Fighting lasted I about 45 minutes but none of tlw I ‘7OO prisoners on the island I attempted to escape. ■I Anderson Woman Fails In Suicide Attempt Columbus. Ind , Oct. 22—(UP) — Mrs. Martha Friend. 23, Anderson ! made an unsuccesful attempt to ■'hiat’tg herself in the Columbus jail i late yesterday afterno n receiving a suspended sentence of two to 14 years fcr forgery charges. Her husband, Virgil. 27, pleaded j guilty to similar charges and was sentenced to the state reformatory ■ for two to 14 years. Jail attendants discovered Mrs. ' Friend just as she was fashioning a noose around her neck. Hitchhiker Killed Near Elkhart Today Elkhart ilnd., Oct. 22—(UP)—A hitchhiker tentatiely identified as William Forsythe, Adrian. Michigan died here today of injuries suffered when he was struck by an autonmbile driven by Ellsworth Wilbur, Elkhart, near here last night. Tlie name was found on a abel sewed in the man’s trousers and a card bearing the name of an Adrian firm was found in his pockets. LOCAL PEOPLE AT HUNTINGTON Over 1.100 Attend Young; Peoples Twelfth Annual State Conference Bryce Daniels. Glenn Ray. Helen Daniels. Ruth Ray and Mary Evelyn Archer of St. Marys township, attended the Friday session of the twelfth annual stale Young Peoples Conference which is helnir held at Huntington. The confer- ; ence opened Friday and will continue throughout Sunday. , More than 1,100 young people : registered for the three-day cotii ference, the sessions of which are i being held in the Huntington high school. An Inspirational talk was given by Roy Burkhart, associate direc- . tor of Young People of the luteiII national Council of Religious Education. Friday night. He talked - on the subject, “Tlie Challenge of ’ the Tinies to the Youth of Today.’’ i Other young people of tlie coun- •: ly are attending the sessions t which are worth while and benst fleial to both young and old. Among other speakers are Nellie , C. Young, superintendent of the ■ state children's division of the t Religious education and R. H. Mueller, who spoke Friday.