Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 30, Number 258, Decatur, Adams County, 31 October 1932 — Page 1

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>, HOGG E. ■« TONIGHT -lINTHIS CITY ftrner And Congress‘n(lf Address Rercik Kicaib at Court House «JgE w\lters I PRESIDE £ ||S vcrc completed toEj, Republic;)!! meetlxJil at 7:3(1 o’clock 11] EA, the court house. /ÜBTI ov roor llarrv G. ■l! deliver the prin(9C»ssin:iii David IlojJiL scheduled Io speak ■ Bon 'loxeiiiher I, thting|L si ■akiii.i’ dale Io towjo Im could appear on with Governor LesHogg will Governor Leslie’s Kan :ated plans were being K to inter 1 linl’.overnor Leslie Bnrrt .i- evening al the Rice ■ ®vidnie he arrived in Hgrfc !;!;! “ 1 l|p Otne of the not known Kon.liut it is expected that ■HI bi here by six o'clock. MB&tina tonight is the first ■liiV m ll *' ng belli in Deca- ■|£) campaign and ■ Ma ilocg had changed 8 from i Ky J to that no other ■ B®& F" ; 111,1,1 llt ' re tllis ■ Wolters who Was JR Kd M Gov. 1 nor Leslie to fill of of the Adams " ll "’' ,!I '' <1p£ ” 11 " f ■ i. the meeting an I k| BW#|the speakers. RIBW' .Metelmni's band J B* lr ® 111 111 " 1 ' " 1 ' 1 " ’’l" To Meet 1 "'ll the speaker, rm-leal numbers will S^Bt* 1 - - I, Walters. and C. E. Bell will Br*r 1 oinmittee in charge IBS for the FriBiffet noon meeting. Women's Club was organized lasi afternoon at a meet- | M'■» Geneva. The officers ■vtTn n N PAGR vivi? |Bb1" All Saints Here Tuesday ■V sl ” f •' ll Stints will be f Willy C.itlio'.’.e < 'ini■ bus Ma-.-es at the St. Mary's rhur. !i will bo at five, nine o'clock. It is a holy The f„ ast , vs ■ ■ " I,sp rve I on Wedn.m"’ill be said up uuK''' l ck in the mornin l ;. '■aHRICE.B2, WES MONDAY (K e: Away at County f« r hiary Today After |An Extended Illness fir. 'W par;l| i Robinson Rice, 82, llle Adams County J ,lip d Monday morning following a long ille^^B" rs ' Rice, who was both ,>,lnt ' l lla( l been bedfast four months. -'Pi Rl< ~ t ‘ eamp to the infirmary . Eff"* 1 Methooist Memorial B3J“‘ "arren on November 1, was taken to the Is uneral Parlors where the ■ "lay be viewed Tuesday until four o’clock at the body will be taken Ithi. . services will be held da >' afternoon at 1:30 bluin' the Ulfirmary and be made (n the DecaI A t etery ' Rev B - H FrankLiE, 1 ' of the Methodist EpisUrtlll will officiate.

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Vol. XXX. No. 258.

Here Tonight ■HR ■ _ HL wwMb I ; MA j Sqf 'I wSmBKEt ' .flfiaKKK • i Be Gov. Harry Leslie Chief executive of Indiana who will deliver the principal address at a Republican rally to be held at the court house tonight. Gov. Leslie is well known in Decatur. GOV. ROOSEVELT ENTERS MAINE Campaigns Through New England Today; Speaks In Boston Tonight City Hall Auditorium, Portland, Maine, Oct. 31—ill.R'— Gov. Franklin D. Roosevelt invading Maine in the final drive of his campaign for the presidency today predicted the Democratic triumph in the September state election would be repeated in November. En Route to Portland. Me., Oct. 31. — (U.P) — Governor Franklin D Roosevelt today took his campaign into Maine, in a vigorous attempt to consolidate his party’s September political gains in that ordinarily Republican state. Cheered by the Democratic victory there when his party succeeded in electing a governor and a congressman, Roosevelt hoped his presence would revive the interest that was manifest then and set a definite tide running toward the ticket. The governor was up at dawn in his quarters at Parents House, Groton school, at Groton. Mass., where two of his sons, Franklin, Jr., and John, are students. After a leisurely breakfast his schedule called for departure at 7:45 a. in. for the northeast. Roosevelt's route was to take him through Lowell, Lawrence, Haverhill, Mass., Exeter and Dover, N. H„ Berwick, Me., and Portland. After a 15-minute address there he will take the road for Boston, passing through Willsbeach, and Portsmouth, N. H., Newburyport. Beverly. Salem, Lynn, Revere, Chelsea. Somerville and Cambridge, Masas. At night he will make one of his major campaign ulteranccs in Boston. The governor plans to remain in Boston until Tuesday morning when he will enter Rhode Island and Connecticut. He will not deliver any speeches in those two states, however, but go directly to his home at Hyde Park, N. Y , remaining there for the night The route through Rhode Island and Connecticut calls for appearances at Providence and Woonsocket. R. 1., Hartford, Winstead and Canaan. Conn. 0 Hold Convention In . Monroe Township The Monroe Tciwnthlp Sunday School cou.vention was held Sunday. The meeting was in two jjsssions, the afternoon praprarn b|B liel(1 at Springhill and the evening program at t.he Monr e Methodist Ejiscopil Church, The election of officers was held and Waldo Lehman of Berne was chosen president; Ira Waggoner. Monroe, vice-president; and C. H. Miisseiman l of Berne, aecretary anti ■treasurer. o — Evangelical Church Women Will Meet All women of the Evangelical Church are asked to meet at the church Friday astern on promptly at 1 o’clock for the purpose of cleaning the church. All women and men who are able are asked to assist in. this wonk.

State, Nations) And international News

BANDITS LOOT MONROE, MICH., , BANK AT NOON Six Bandits Obtain Loot of $35,000; Two Policemen Wounded W ILMINGTON, OHIO, BANK ALSO ROBBED — Monroe. Mich.. Oct. 31—(U.R>— Six bandits invaded the First National Bank here al noon today, obtained $35,000 in a holdup, then fled the city, wounding two ■ policemen as they eseaped. The bandits eluded a hastily ' organized posse and were believL ed heading toward Ohio. M The six bandits admed with re--1 volvers and a sub machine gun entered the bank together. One stationed himself at the front of the loby and trained his machine gun on the banking room. The others looted each of the six cashier’s cages systematically, forcing tellers to dump cash from the vaults on the counters. One of the employes had maneuI vered his position in the cage to I step on a burglar alarm. Patrolman William Lynch and Charles Knuth rushed to the bank, arriving as the bandits fled to an automobile with their loot. The machine. a sedan, bore an Illinois license plate. Lynch and Knuth opened fire on the bandits. The shots were returned and Lynch was struck in the arm and head by bandit bullets. Knuth was cut when a bullet . struck the plate glass window I near him and scattered glass over the sidewalk. Obtain $2,000 j Wilmington. 0., Oct. 31—;u.R) — i Robbers today used explosives to 1 break into the vault of the trank of Port William at Port William. Ohio, nehr here, according to rei ports to Sheriff Gus Miller. First reports said the robbers took $2,000. There were four explosions 1 which aroused village residents. i The interior of the bank was said to have been damaged liidly. , I o MONROE WOMAN DEATH'S VICTIM .1 ,1 Miss Caroline Scherer,Re- ; tired Teacher, Dies Early This Morning 'I Miss Caroline Scherer, 34. a resilient of Monroe for many years and a retired school teacher, died at her hccne at 5:25 o'clock Monday morning following an extended illness. Death was due to complies- ' tions. Miss Scherer was born in Ohio. April 9. 1848, the daughter of Martin and Elizabeth Scherer. She taught school in Omaha, Nebraska. 1 for many years, receiving a pension 1 i following her retirement. She was 1 a member of Hie Presbyterian j church in Omaha, Nebr. ; ’ I Surviving is a sister. Elizabeth I I Scherer and a brother. Jacob, both of Monroe. [ Private funeral services will be held at the home at 1:30 o’clock Wednesday afternoon and a service I will also l>e he’.d in the Monroe Methodist Episcopal church at 2 o'clock. KeV. E. M. Dunbar, pastor of the church will officiate. Burial will be made in the Ray cemetery, west of Monroe, The body was taken to the lobenstein Funeral Parlors in Monroe and prepared for burial, and retnov- ' ed to the home late this afternoon, j Friends arc requested to omit flowers. Labor Leaders Urge Roosevelt Election Indianapolis, Oct. 31 —(UP) —<SupI port of Franklin D. Roosevelt and the Detmocratlc ticket in the general election next week will be urged by two labor leaders at a mass meeting here tomorrow night. ; A. F. Whitney, international president of the Brotherhood of RailI read trainm.emit, and chairman of ■ the Railroad Labor Executives Au- ' sociation will speak for Roosevelt. • ■ George L. Beery, international prei sident of the pressmen'® Union, will ! spesak in favor of the entire Delmoi cratic ticket.

Decatur, Indiana, Monday, October 31, 1932.

Senator Watson Greets Hoover ' ,x ’ ■ ■ ; ■ Bb President Hoover is shown being greeted by Senator James E. Watson of Indiana on his arrival at Indianapolis. In his speech at Indianapolis, the President hammered hard at his rival, Governor j Roosevelt, and again declared that the Democratic program is fraught l with danger to the nation's economic welfare. This theme he has stressed from the beginning of the campaign. He emphasized it above all else in this speech.

MANY MEETINGS FEATURE WEEK Both Democratiac and Republican Parties To Be Active This Week B th Democratic and Republican workers will be busy in Adams county, this wsek, closing toe cami; .itgn with numerous meetings. Governor Leslie is billed for a speech at the court bouse here tonight and Congressman Hogg for Saturday night. Mr. Hoff; also is to speak in Monroe and Jefferson townships Wednesday night if this week. The Dem cratic program includes a meeting at Kirkland high school auditorium tomorrow nfeht, with farmers itr charge. This program will include speeches by Clifford Townsend, candidate for lieutenamtgovernor, J. D. Hull, former organizer for the Fanat Bure ui and now the chairman < f the Dem ocratic agricultural division. Jerry laeichty will preside and there will be a special musical program. On Friday evening James 11. Farley, Democratic candidate for couigress. will address mneetings at Monroe and Jefferson, township. On the progir.mi will appear also H. M. DeV.; ss, candidate for judge, Senator John W. Tyndall. J. Fred Fruchte, John W. Kelly and others. Plans for a clcsing mti-ting here CONTINUED ON PAGE SIX SAYS SUSPECTS NOT CONNECTED State Police Say xMen Had Nothing To Do With Lindbergh Kidnaping Trenton, N. J.. Oct. 31.—(U.R) — The state police announced today that three men he'd at Southampton, L. 1., had nothing to do with the Lindbergh kidnaping. Captain J. J. Lamb questioned the men last night. He reported they were “amateu’ 1 detectives, honest but misguided." Southampton, L. 1., Oct. 31.—(U.R) —Three men were held here today for questioning in the Lindbergh kidnaping case, after newspaper clipping describing the crime had been found in their possession. The three, Michael Raduno, 38, Sante Ragno, 26, and Joseph Ringo, 48, all of Franklin, N. J., were arrested by police after their strange actions had alarmed Mrs. Ellis CONTINUED ON PAGE SIX

■Relief Officials Issue Appeal Today i An appeal for children's shoes land overshoes was m :de- today by ' I local relief agency officials. Tihe I cool, wet Weather created a demand j for shoes and oversh es and thv, relief agencies have requests for for several ipairs .cf shoes and over-1 shoes. Parsons wishing to donate ] these items are asked to send themd to relief headquarters in the Peo-1 , pies Loan and Trust compawy building, where the county truancy officer and ethers will see that they ' are properly distributed. EXTENDS GALL TO REV. PRUGH ' Zion Reformed Church Congregation Extends Call to Dayton Pastor A call has been extended to Rev. , Charles M. Prugh of Day tn. Ohio, to fill the pulpit of the local Zion ! Reformed Church. The minister was (voted upn at a congregational meeting Sunday m,earning. An acceptance to the call is expected this week, J. Fred Pruchte, elder of the church, announed today A total 'number of 131 votes was cast, 97 of which were for Rev. ' Prugh. His name was the only one voted upon. Provided th.o minister accepts the call, he will move to this city the latter part of November. Rev. Prugh lias served as a substitute pasfui at tlie Reformed Church for severlal Sundays. T.be church lias been i without a pastor since the death of I the late A. R. Fledderj liann, for mer pastor, wh, was killed in an automobile accident near Hamlet last May 12. i A call had been l previously Issued to Rev. Ernest Fledderj.Thanni of Chicago, cousin of the late pastor of the church, but he was unable to accept t.he call, as his congregation would not relinquish him. Rev Prugh is a young man and , married. His wife is a capable teacher. Rev. Prugh was graduated , from 'Priinwtcm University wheine I . he won a scholarship to Heidelberg. IHe spent a year at Heidelberg, Germany, and at the present time is working on his doctor’s degree from , that schuoL . — o—, 0 —, i Horseradish “Mill” Resumes Operations Boyd May started his horserad- ’ ish making business today. All for- ' mer employes liave been put to work ard his "mill" is running one hundred per cent, capacity. His customers declared "business has turned the cornier."

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LONDON HUNGER I MARCHERS MAY | CAUSE TROUBLE I Threaten Serious Trouble Unless Allowed To Present Petition TWENTY INJURED IN RIOT SUNDAY — j London, Oct. 31. — (U.R) — The | "hunger army’’ invading London presented an ultimatum to government and municipal authorities today, threatening serious trouble unless they are allowed to present their petition for relief to the : House of Commons. The jobless agitators, whose presence here has led to serious rioting, i threatened, to remain in London indefinitely, stage repeated djemoni strations to enlist public support, and held their present temporary 'lodgings by force, if necessary. The marchers spent the day invading various boroughs and participating in mass meetings, so that police were reinforced and put on the alert throughout greater London. Originally, the marchers were j scheduled to begin their journey homeward afoot and by rail after tomorrow. Since police served notice that none of them would be allowed to approach within a mile jof parliament, their original objective, the organizers decided that the I marchers should assemble on Clerkenwell Green and chose 30 leaders to accompany 20 elected representCONTINUED ON PAGE FIVE LOCAL PEOPLE HURTIN WRECK Mr. And Mrs. George Ap- | pelman And Daughter Suffer Injuries Sunday I George Appelman, city councilman and well known grocer of this city; Mrs. Appelman, their daughter Miss Celia Appelman and Cornelius Geimer were injured in an automobile collision at about* 6:30 o'clock Sunday evening on State | road No. 27, north of the Adams ' county line. None of the injuries was pronounced serious. Mr. and Mrs. Ap- ; pelman were the most severely injured. Mrs. Appelman receiving a possible fractured left rib and Mr. Appelman several cuts and bruises on the faace and head and possibly I a sprained back. Miss Appe'man j received a bruised right leg and | cuts on the foot. Mr. Geimer, who was hurled through the windshield escaped with The Appelman s were driving south and another auto, driven by Thomas Connelly, East Wayne street, Fort Wayne, traveling north, collided with the Appelman car in a head-on collision. Both cars were greatly damaged The left front i wheels of the two autos were torn 'off and the Appe'man car turned lover three or "four times. There were three other men with CONTINUED ON PAGE SIX REMOVE SPIKES FROM RAILROAD Find Line Damaged Over Which President Passed Early Saturday Athens, 0.. Oct. 31.(U.R) —Author ities today learned that 67 spikes had been removed from rails on a ; high curve of the Baltimore and I Ohio railroad over which President Hoover’s special train passed early Saturday. It was not known when the spikes were removed' from the rails, whether before or after the president's special passed. The epikes were milled from a section of inside track on Allison’s crossing about four miles west of I Athens. I Two miners found the spikes 'which were hurled down a 40-foot J embankment on which the rails b were elevated. The track curves at the crossing. Railway officials (said ang'e irons apparently held the I ’JoN’ITNUED ON PAGsTsix*'*”'

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Seeks Senate Seat ■ < ' ' * ill M.._Professor Milton Conover, of Yale University, ex-soldier and one of the founders of the American Legion in Paris, who is the Independent Republican candidate for election to the United States ■Senate from Connecticut., Professor Conover, who will oppose Senator Hiram Bingham, is a noted authority on government. He served with the American commission that negotiated peace after the World War. PRESIDENT TO ~ SPEAK IN EAST Hoover Will Address Rally At New York Tonight As Campaign Climax Wilmington, Dela., Oct. 31 — (U.R) —President Hoover’s special train en route to New York arrived here at 1:40 p. m. today. The president made a five minute talk from the coach platform to thousands of persons gathered at the station. Philadelphia, Oct. 31— (U.R. - The special train bearing President Hoover arrived in Philadelphia today after making up lost time en route from Baltimore. Washington, Oct. 31— (U.R) — President Hoover today carries his appeal for votes to the heart El the nation’s industrial and financial section, prepared for a meeting tonight in New York that is regarded by his advisers as the climax of his campaign. On his way to the rally that will mark the end of his eastern drive, he will cross four states, Maryland. Delaware, Pennsylvania and New Jersey, slashing at his opponent’s economic pronouncements in a series of eight speeches. 'One of the hottest speeches of his campaign," as well as “the most important,” was the way in which Republican party here described tile address the chief executive is to deliver in New York. Julius Klein, assistant secretary of commerce, and New York Republican leaders prepared some of the material for the Madison Square Garden speech. “It will be a hot one,’’ Klein said emphatically. The presidential special train, departing from Washington at 10:40 am. is due in Pennsylvania! station, New York City, at 6:05 p. m. The president's party included Mrs. Hoover, members of his sec-j retariat. Captain John T. Boom, I U. S. N„ White House physicii i. stenographers, mimeographers, newspapermen and photographers. ' CONTtNUEI* o’n’pAGH THTtOT * T- * O Close Treasurer’s Office Half-Hour C unty treasurer John Wechter announced today that the treasurtii’s office would be cl sed lust onehalf hour at noon from 12 to 12:30 p. m. This is done to give taxpayers an opportunity to pay their taxes during t.he nj oib hour. The last week rush is < n at the treasurer’s office and from now until next. Monday, the final dly f ir paying 'the Novelinber installment the rush will eoutlinue. Mrs. Faye Knapp To Speak At Berne Mrs. Faye Smith Kn.ipp f this city will address a DemiM'ratlc Women's meeting in the Democrat headquarters at Berne, Thursday afternoioii.

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THOUSANDS IN HUNGER MARCH TOCITTSLOOP Many Marchers Display ■ Red Banners And Communist Signs Today ALL POLICE ARE READY FOR DUTY Chicago, Oct. 31— <U R) Through streets dulled by a steady drizzle, thousands of unemployed men and women moved on Chicago’s loop today in a “hunger march.” At 10:15 a. in., the first ■ contingent of 2,500 started from 22nd street and Wentworth Avenue, openly displaying red banners and communist signs banned by the police. Other thousands gathered in the north and west parts of th" city, forming in long lines of drab clothed men, women and children. At Union Park, in the heart of the west side industrial district, 3,000 marchers shuffled in the rain. Red flags, red arm bands and red umbrellas in the hands of women brightened the human parade and held omen of possible violence. Many of the women i wore red hats. Children were in red dresses. Banners in red letters against white canvas proclaimed the grievances of the marchers. “We pledge solidarity with the London hunger marchers.” “On to Washington in a national hunger march.” “We want bread, not bullets.” “$80,000,000 for Dawes’ bank; 8 cents a day for workers.” Another contingent of 2,000 or more marched from Washington Square, north of the loop — tho familiar "bughouse square" of the soap box agitators. With the west side group wa« a detachment of ex-service men carrying a banner reading: “Wilson’s Heroes; Hoover’s Hoboes." An Italian group bore a huge painting of Mussolini. Under his picture was a skull and cross bones. A group of negroes carried a life size painting of a negro in an electric chair. Its caption read: “Scottsboro Electrocution.” Communist agitators passed nn and down the lines. There were explosive shouts in a dozen tongues. More than 1,000 police stood ready for any emergency. Patrol wagons were parked near the . assembly points and police stood every dozen feet or so along (he immediate line of march. ‘ A platoon of children. 7 to 10 years old. carrying empty milkbottles, formed the vanguard of the northside marchers. They sang the Internationale and then “We'll hang Mayor Cerrnak to n sour apple tree when the revolution comes." They varied one song by substituting President CONTINUED ON PAGE THREE GRANT RELIEF I LOAN TO STATE —— ■ ! Reconstruction Finance Corporation Grants $247,009 To Indiana Washington. Oct. 31—(U.R) The Reconstruction Finance Corporu- ■ tion today granted a relief loan of $247,200 to Indiana to meet. . emergency relief needs in St. . Joseph county and South Bend from October 1 to December 3: i The governor of Indiana in hi 1 ) application said: ; “None of the monies which are being asked for will be used for i any of the activities or expenses which are being and have been . carried by the voluntary agencies, [ but will be used only to take care of poor relief bj l the township and county officials made mandatory by our stale laws and which they are unable to meet as tile result ! of failure to sell the last two issues of their Ixmds necessary ) to provide funds for their poor ■ relief." t Today's loan was the first r authorized to Indiana by the corporation.