Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 30, Number 269, Decatur, Adams County, 12 November 1932 — Page 1

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-MH.RUPNOW .b$ JDRESS MAY NIGHT Pastor Makes JUUHL Talk At An- * in® Banquet IJJ life —~ i 1 WJMISO MEN . meetinc "•’W, n k H. Rupnow,'' HEr of ll'<■ S’- Johns Re- [ \Ed«rch of Ft. Wayne,]' ' EefedO inspiring address,[ fEll CMI- ation Endure,” ' Ewresifiately 150 men at . EiniflE! Armistice Day Eet f B|ld at the K. of C. night. The meetR«wasW> ll '‘'red by the De®lii' port ' lhe American £n asstf I I'v I In- Rotai > and I ' Ening #i' address. Rev. Rup- * said Aifl it would be disasEifer S'! J-"P1»* l ’t Ute United E and he world not to re- : Eht BB'Vol id War. We are 1 MMBaw , 1 < Pfennig ■ new age and a new Ffe SB List• >ry of the world. Euted Bns war is caused by 1 Eiees end not by the virtues 1 i ■L speak "aid that wars nev- , Eded !■ i-- :es iu life and that , ■ recover.' from a great world ( Met is?!" 1 greatest test of a . En, we must remember that , the ■w*Wbuffers from the effecis , Er. air. ■»r. Rap' >w said that money is , in war. K Miote of dollars changed , ■lis dui'tßg file World war. He], [ Biissized the fact that we can,, Kumes the United States i, ■ai the Hist of the world. I] ’the ■ion deAtni:- on solving econ- ■, ■c recon y. No civilization can] ate tflti? because of possess-1, The primacy of life lot thhls. but life itself. We terms of quality, [, b ‘^P s of Quantity.” t eloflb Rev. Rupnow assert- , ttafafc civilization is to surs, K not depend upon ma- , »i thh s. but it depends on I e manh nd and true woman- ■ Program opened with the! I "America,” with Don . I as song leader and Al-1 1.-yei acting as accom- ■ tv B. H. Franklin of the ; Episcopal church led in lams, commander of Ad- , Led' on page two L— —o —— SHOE DAY IT IN DUBLIN lied, Over 50 Inj In Street Riotg In Ireland Nov. 12—(U.R) —Armistice g which continued into hours today resulted in and more than 50 injurmblicans pareded through t.s, fighting police and is. burning British flags ig up Armistc" day pop|’'Wibnbtrators, wearing badges! British Goods,” WBM' We will crown De Vaof Ireland.” as they *|trough the streets. i' MtaMbPies will be worn,” was ttus horiua ] at noon . rfßßf w as no unusual police Six persons arrested £■■ were arraigned in police tMy ar ged with interfering of. poNce duties disorderly conduct. kjyMQMration started on PjMßy night, when a union [ burned on the platform of the league against U^B 8 " 1 on college green.' Sean Mcßride and leaders of the Irish L3^W si ’ army, a volunteer favoring a republic, ~ jßF’"' People to shoot down LfflSdown the British flag, fe ul Bnatp bed ppqpies from of their wearers and i, W' ow windows where popr ■” disp,a y e(| . ° n * y a preliminary to 1 WfINUED ON PAGE SIX

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Chicago Man Held For Causing Death Michigan City, Ind., Nov. 12 — (UP)—An inquest into the death I of Edward Rosentheter. 40, railroad crossing watchman, was planaelj today following the arrest of Charles |W. McConnell, 45, Chicago accountant and resident of the Long Beach Shore line resort near here. McConnell is charged with driving while intoxicated and leaving the scene of an accident pending--the verdict of Coroner John H. FosII er. Rosentheter was attempting to flag dowi.i u.n automobile when he was struck. A buinber was broken off the ear and the watchman was Inirled 40- feet. MeConmell was j traced through the bumpber. — RED CROSS WILL ASSIST NEEDY 6,000 Yards of Cotton Materials Will Be Distributed Here The Adams County Red Cross chapter will be of great service in helping in the relief for the unemployed and needy in the county during the next tew months. Wai Wemhoff, chairman of the local chapter, has received acknowledgement of his application for 6.000 yards of cotton materials, prints, ginghams, outing, shirting and unbleached muslin, —which will soon reach the county to be made into garments for needy children, women and men. This clothing project, as was true of the flour, is made possible through the cooperation of the National Red Cross [and the Federal Government, and [communities throughout the Uniti ed States are receiving shipments Io f cotion materials and ready[made garments of underwear, hosI lery. men and boys’ trousers and [overalls. Mr. Wemhoff has appointed Mrs. I Charles Knapp as county chairiman of the production committee. For the handling of the work, the I county will be divided into three sections, with Decatur, Berne and Geneva as the distributing centers. Decatur will serve the six northern townships — Preble, Root. Un- ' ic.n. Kirkland. Washington and St. i Marys; Herne will serve French, [Monroe and Blue Creek townships; [Geneva will serve Hartford, Wa- | bash and Jefferson townships. Mrs. Knapp has appointed the [following committee chairmen for |the Decatur province: Mrs. P. B. Thomas, registration; Mrs. W. E. Smith, investigation; Mrs. Wai Wemhoff, garments; Mrs. T. A. Gottschalk will be in charge of the Berne province. Mrs. J. A. Long, Mrs. Richard Briggs and Mrs. Jim Briggs will have charge of the Geneva province The headquarters for Decatur i CONTINUED ON PAGE SIX — -o Barley Future Prices Advance Chicago, Nov. 12—-<U.R> - Agitation for beer legislation sent barley future prices up 3*i to 4 cents per bushel on the hoard of trade today. December barley, quoted for the first time tn two years Thursday, advanced to 33Vi cents while May was at 36 cents. Wheat continued to rise and December touched 46 cents at one time, up 2'4 cents. Buying was more general than for sometime with commission houses aggressive purchasers. De< ember wits the highest since Oct. 25 before profit taking appeared to eliminate some of the advance. Noblesville Judge To Preside At Trial Lebanon, Ind . Nov. 12—(U.R) Judge Fred E. Hines, Noblesville, will preside Monday at the opening of the second trial for Louis Hamilton, charged with murdering Lafayette Jackson, president of the Standard Grocery company, Indianapolis, during an attempted holdup more than a year ago. The jury will be selected from a special venire containing 65 names, all residents of Boone county. A jury composed of Montgomery county citizens failed to reach a verdict when the first . trial was held. Judge Hines will- return to Noblesville each night of the trial to hear his own cases.

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ESTIMATE DEAD I IN CUBAN STORM! HIGH AS 2,000 Many Others Are Reported Injured Following Tragic Hurricane . CITY COMPLETELY WIPED OFF MAP (Copyright. 1932. by United Press) I [ Camaguey. Cuba, Nov. 12 (U.R) The last pitiful contingent of the 1,500 refugees from the stricken town of Santa Cruz Del Sur, wip-| ed off the map by a tidal wave! in Wednesday’s hurricane, was distributed among the emergency, hospitals here early today. Most of them were injured. Estimates of the dead in the ob- j | literated town ranged from an [ .! undeniably conservative 1.000 to [ as high as 2,000. In addition, [ many more dead were reported [ from other parts of Camaguey province. The reports were still province. The rpeorts were still I far from complete. An official telegram to Presi-I dent Gerardo Machado from Na-1 ricso Onetti. secretary of public I ' works, who is directing relief in Santa Cruz, estimated probably! ' 1,000 dead and 700 injured. Dario, Castillo, Camaguey attorney, who ! returned here after aiding the re-1 lief work, said: ”1 am sure 2.000 perished. The J site where Santa Cruz stood is a[ I soul-sickening spectacle that I will j ■ never forget. "It is a city of the past. Nobody [ [ remains except a few distracted, I obdurate refugees s<axrhing among [ the dead for relatives, and small [, | squads of volunteer workers. The I latter burled 472 bodies today. 1 1 They will burn the other bodies, which are still strewn for several miles around.” Dr. Justo Lamar, a national i senator who has opened his priv- ■ ate home as one of eight emergen- j cy hospitals, said he believed 1 “ i there were 1,500 refugees here. 1 i including the wounded, of whom '! there are about 1.000. ‘ | The last survivors, numbering ', about 500, arrived in a train of ■ I ten coaches shortly before mid- I • night. All were underclad and some had no clothes at all. Bare- . ■ rnNTTNTTEn nN PAGR TWO o ROSCOE TURNER [ HALTS FLIGHT . — | Abandons Attempt To Set New Speed Record When Tire Blows Out < Columbus, Ohio, Nov. 12— (U.R? — Col. Roscoe Turner 1 abandoned his attempt to lower the mark for an airplane crossing of the continent today when he blew a tire on his small speed plane in ( landing at Port Columbus. Los Angeles, Nov. 12—(U.R) — , Col. Roscoe Turner, Pacific coast . speed pilot, left United Airport at '. 2:34 a. m. today tor an attempted[ one-day flight to New York and|! I return. , Turner was flying his stream- , lined Wedell • Williams Gilmore [ , cub plane with a limited fuel sup,l ply. He pin nm'd three stops , eastward, at Albuquerque. Kansas J City and Columbus ami hoped to [ arrive at Floyd Bonnett airport before noon and back in Los Angeles tonight. Turner ho>tcd to break Jimtnv Haizlip's eastern trans-continental [ record ..of 10 hours and 19 min- ! utes. This record was established last , summer during the national air • races. Turner finished the Beni dix race in second place, flying ’""’wWTIN'L'KD ON PAGE SIX o [ Spectacular Fire Destroys Elevator l Terre Haute, And., Nov. 12 —(UP) ;—A spectacular fire last night desj troyed the SIOO,OOO gm-in elevator of, j Terre Haute Terminal Grain Com-1 . pany. and spread to 100 box cars on' , a ne. rby siding. Several of the cars were demolished. ] The elevator which had a capai city of one million bushels, was I empty. Most of the freight cars filled with nail equipment.

Decatur, Indiana, Saturday, November 12, 1932.

Plane Crash Victims : f i ■ IBilL / f ■'Jr: i Mrs. Inez Hirt and little Inez Hunter, two of the five Chicagoans who were killed when a plane piloted My Mrs. Hirt’s husband, Joseph F. Hirt. industrial engineer oi Chicago, plunged into a forest near Kempville, Tennessee.

POLICE SEARCH FOR MURDERER Tremont, Ind,, Woman Beaten To Death In Barbecue Stand Tremont, Ind., Nov. 12. —(U.R) —A police hunt was made today for Fred Burroughs, crippled nephew of Mrs. Helen Nagel. 46, found beaten to death with a baseball bat yesterday hi a barbecue stand she operated near here. The hunt was started when it was learned Burroughs was the last .person to see Mrs. Nagel alive. Burroughs had made his home with the Nagels for some years. The body of Mrs. Nagel was discovered by her husband on his return home yesterday from a trip [ to Chicago. He found the body on a bed in the living quarters to the rear of the lunch stand. The bloodstained baseball bat lay near by. On a table was a jug of moonshine whisky. Mrs. Nagel was criminally attacked before she was killed, Sheriff Burnie Maxwell of Porter county was informed by Dr. J. 11. Dale, coroner. Two slot machines were broken open and emptied of their contents, apparently by the slayer, Sheriff Maxwell said. Fingerprint experts were called from Gary to make records of marks on the bat. The restaurant, known as Dunes Park inn, is located about 100 feet from Dune highway near the entrance to Dunes State park. | Coroner Dale planned to order a formal inquest either today or [ Monday and Sheriff Maxwell said] he would ask the county prosecut- j or to issue warrants in connection [ with the case. o Indiana Students Honor Paul McNutt Bloomington, Ind , Nov. 12 —(U.R). Governor elect Paul V. McNutt expressed his forma, farewell to faculty members and residents of students of Indiana University, Bloomington in a reception here las tnight honoring his recent election. Introducing McNutt and his family to the 3,000 persons attending the reception, John W. Cravens. Indiana University registrar, said that Monroe county gave the governor-elect to the state and predeted that “the state will give him to the nation." McNutt’s work as natio„rtl commander of the American Legion and as a professor and dean of the Indiana Law school was outlined by President William [ Lowe Bryan of Indiana University. Mayor Joseph H. Campbell expressed the congratulations and offered the best wishes on beh. If of the city.

Workers Conference Held At U. B. Church A workers conference was held ini I the United 1 Brethren church Friday [ evening. Dinnr was served to about 150 persons. The Christian church orchestra furnished the music. Frank Bohnke, chairma i of the program committee, served as toastmaster. Dr. Charles J. Roberts, pastor of the church, welcomed athe workers 1 and explained the plan for the camipaign. Charles O. Holton, dierctor of the visitation committee, presented chairmen of the committees and captains of the various groups each of whom pipoke briefly. Mrs. Charles 'Holton gave a reading, “When the Chimes Rang." The workers then adjourned to the auditorium where Mr. 'Holton gave full instructions as to procedure with the work of visitation. PHI DELTS WILL CONDUCT DANCE Annual Turkey Trot Will Be Held Here Thanksgiving Night The Turkey Trot dance sponsored j each year by the local Phi Delta Ka.pp|.i fraternity, will be an event [ [of Thursday evening, November 24. [ it has been announced. Arrangements have been completed for the dar.ee which will be helul | i' i the large ball room at the j Decatur Country Club. Dancing will begin l at 10 o'clock with music j furnished by Earl Gardner's nine -Ipelce orchestra from Fort Wayne. The large hull will he decorated ; | for the occasion in Thanksgiving appointments and motifs. Snrpentine dances, special favor dances [ 'and other specialities will lie' features of the evening’s entertabn-j merit. ; The dance will be a subscription [affair anil tickets will be sold by i[members of the fri’lernity. A mum-] I her of out-of-town couples are plann ' , mg to attend the Turkey Trot. The entertainment committee of I the fraternity includes Bill Erwin, I , Tom Hwubold, and Severin Schurger. The committee which will have charge o fthe dance will comprise l Jjmes Fisher, Bob Kleinheinz and . Paul Handler. Republicans Report > No Campaign Deficit Indianapolis, Nov. 12— (U.R) — I The Republican state committee ■ cmled the recent campaign withi out deficit. Ivan C. Morgan, cliairII man, reported today. i Morgan said lie would continue Jas state chairman and that thej - committee would be able to fln-[ I ance itself for another year. t He plans to call a meeting of. the state committee soon. )

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NATIONS WAGE [ CAMPAIGN FOR j POSTPONEMENT[ ; j [ltaly And Other Countries Expected To Seek ‘ War Debt Relief , j MAY CAUSE DELAY t OF SOME MONTHS Washington, Nov. 12— (U.R) i Italy, Poland and Czecho-Slovakia [ 1 i were expected today to join Great | | Britain and France shortly in a I ' campaign for relief from war [ ] I debts due the United States. A French note regarding the | debts was delivered to Secretary! lof State Stimson last night. The i | British note arrived a day earlier. I It was learned today that the]. ■ state department plans to make! public the texts of the French and' British notes in morning newspapers next Monday. President I Hoover is scheduled to reach [ Washington at 10 a. nt. Tuesday' I on his return from the west coast. While both Britain and France'* I want a readjustment of their ( ; whole funding agreements with 1 this country, it was not known t whether their notes advanced ‘ definite proposals along this line. | Officials intimated the notes prob- [ ably askcu pnetponoment of ’ 1 CGNTTNnF.n ON PAGE TWO D o— [ SGHUG FUNERAL |. < RITES MONDAY Services For Prominent , Decatur Resident Will Be Held Monday I Funeral services for John 11. 1 Schug, 64, well known retired j business man of this city, who ( died at his home. 330 South Third j street, Friday afternoou, will be held Monday. A private service i 'will he conducted at the home at 1:30 o’clock Monday afternoon, < followed with a church service at [ 2 o’clock at the Presbyterian i Ichurch. Rev. George O. Walton,, 1 [ pastor, will officiate. Burial will [ 1 [be made in the Decatur cemetery. I The body of Mr. Schug will lie in state at the home from 7:30 o’clock tonight until time for the | funeral. Friends may view the [ remains at the home, as the casIket will not be opened at the I I church. Mr. Schug died suddenly Friday I [afternoon at three o’clock follow-' ling a two weeks’ illness of heart 1 1 [trouble. His condition was , 'thought to have been improving] ■ and death was unexpected. The deceased was born in [ Newville, Adams county, Septem- ( [ her 11, 186 S, the son of Carl and [ j [Catherine Rauch Schug. He was , [one of a family of seven children, [only one of whom survives, Ru- ] . dolph R Schug of Berne. ( He was united in marriage to , Effie Woodward of Decatur on ( June 23, 1900, and three children . were born to the union: George L Schug of Dayton, Ohio; Miss|, Mary Katheryn Schug, a teacher! lln the Decatur Public schools. ;< and Richard Schug, a student at;j Indiana University. Bloomington. , A gr.uidson, John Butler Schug also , ] survives. I Mr. and Mrs. Schug had resided [on South Third street since their i marriage, 32 years ago. Mr. [ ( Schug had beeff a metnbor of i .the Presbyterian church in this 11 I city tor 31 years and has also [ f , been trustee of the church. He ; I * ’ ’cOVI’INI'WII ON PAGE SIX 0 Twenty -Four Miners Killed In England Wigan. England, Nov. 12 (U.R) I —An explosion in the Garswood Hall Colliery at Ashton-Maker-fleld, near here, killed 24 miners today. Four were missing, three seriously injured and three slightly ■ injured. Rescuers brought out 72 ’ injured. The Garswood colliery is only i three miles from the mine in which 19 were killed In a pit cage i crash last month. It is four miles i |fram Ashton-Makerfleld, whosa -, traffic policemen were sent to conI trol hundreds of weeping relate lives of the miners who clamored [ I at the pithead in the grey dawn.'

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Escape Injury In Automobile Crash Occupants of cars driven by Louis Scheumanm, north of Decatur, and George Kahn, of M._ireimont, Ohio, escaped injury about 4 o’clock Friday 'aiternoon when the cars collided. on state road 27, near the St. Johns church, seven miles north of Decatur. The Scheunra-nn car was badly damaged, Both front wheels were smashed, front bumper smashed, front folders were crushed and the hood was badly damaged 1 . Damage to the Kahn car was not so extensive. The exact manner im which the accident occurred was not learned but uro one was injured ii.i the collision. ROOSEVELT IS MUCHIMPROVED President - Elect Decides Complete Rest Is Necessary To Him Albany, N. Y„ Nov. 12.—(U.R) — Although much better as a result of a day in, bed, President-elect Roosevelt, suffering a head cold, decided on a further program of complete rest today and cancelled arrangements for a week-end at his Hyde Park country estate. The governor, who had a physician examine him, was found to be running a slight temperature. There were no other complications, however. Because of the raw, damp weather, with a threat of rain, members of his family believed he should take every precaution and remain indoors another 24 hours. Mr. Roosevelt, restive under the enforced stay in his room at the executive mansion found an outlet for his energy by dictating answers to some of the thousands of letters and telegrams of congratulations that poured into Albany on the night he was elected. The governor was prevailed upon by Mrs. Roosevelt “to take things easy” for the next couple of days and to enjoy a much needed sleep. It was the first lady-elect who informed newspapermen that “Franklin is not going to see anyone.” There were no callers expected [ at the mansion over the week-end Mr. Roosevelt would devote most * * CONTINUED ON PAGE TWO REPUBLICANS CLAIMCONTROL Claim Senate Control In Short Session On Vote Re-Check Today Denver, Colo., Nov. 12 —(UP) — Control of the United States Senate in the fourth coming short session was claimed by Republicans today. The claim was based on a united Press re-check of the votes every Colorado county for the short term Senatorial vacancy. T'he Colorado election will break the existing Senate voting deadlock of 47 Democrats i 47 republicans and one Farm-Labor member. The re-check today showed Karl | c Schuyler, Denver republican, leading Wnlter Walker, grand junction Democrat, by 449 votes. The vote was: Schuyler, 201.915; Walker 041,466. Ai; proximately 6,000 absentee billots awl the official canvass will definitely determine the result. ”We can expect nt least an even break on the absentee billots, and the United Press tabulation shows Schuyler campiign mam -ger. Under Colorado law. absentee CONTINUED ON PAGE*"siX * -... Woman Cashier Stops Robbery Hoylton, 111., Nov. 12—(U.R)—A 21-year old woman assistant bank cashier frustrated the attempted robbery of the Hoylton State Trust ami Savings bank here today when two bandits with drawn revolvers entered the bank, leveled their guns and fired at Miss Corrine Beckmeyer, 21. The girl, saved by a bullet proof glass rushed to the rear of the bank a-nil sounded a burglar ilurin. The bullet proof glass of the cage was shattered but the bullet did not penetrate it. [ The bandits turned and fleil ns i the alarm sounded.

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MAN AND WIFE ARE MURDERED WITH SHOTGUN Aged Couple Found At Farm Home By Neigh bor Early Today THINK ROBBERY LIKELY MOTIVE Hartford City. Ind., Nov. 12 —<U R) The double murder of an aged farmer and his wife wits disclosed todav when their b o dies were found in their farm house nine miles northeast of here. The victints were A. C. Moore, 60, and his wile. Violet, 55. The crime was discovered this morning by Perry Macon, who had called to collect Moore’s milk for the creamery. Only one can instead of the customary two was sitting outside. Macon went into the house to ask where the othecan was. On the kitchen floor lie found Moore face downward in a pool of blood. Macon stepped into the living room and there found the wife. She was lying on her ba-, k. Both had been murdered with a shotgun. No trace of the weapon could be found, disproving any possible theory that it could have been murder and suicide. Sheriff Ira Mannjx and Coroner W. W. Ayres were called by M aeon. They said that robbery apparently was the motive, since neighbors could give no other reason why the aged couple should have been killed. Coroner Ayres said the murder apparently was committed some time after 8 o'clock last night. All the chores had been done with the possible exception of feeding the sheep. Neighbors reported bearing the sheep Meeting in Moore’s fields during the night. It was also considered likely that Moore was killed before he had an opportnu ity to prepare his second can of I milk for delivery. Suspends Sentence Os Lafayette Man Hammond. Ind.. Nov. 12 — Z U.R) —• Rchard Mather. Lafayette, received a suspended sentence of 69 days from Judge Thomas Slick in United States district court here because prohibition agents admitted using a former bootlegger to get evidence against him. “If a law can not be enforced without the use of such methods." something is wrong," commented the judge. Mather, appearing without counsel. admitted selling a gallon of whiskey to agents who came to his farm witli the former bootlegger. o STARTS RETURN TO WASHINGTON President Hoover Will Be in Washington Tuesday lAboard President Hoover's Special train, Nov. 12 iI’P) President Hoover, his brief holiday ended, was on ills way buck to Wu«h to Washington today. He will arrive at the Capital -at 10 A. M Tuesd ty. The only speech scheduled on the fast three ami one-half day dash back to the \( bite House was at Glendale, Cal., this mon.i.ng. The official scbo.liile called for 'i. stop at Glendale, and a drive to new residenc of Mr. Hoover's son, [Herbert Hoover, Jr., outside Pasadena. The President and Mrs. Hoo- ! ver will join the train at Del Monte , Cal. The retunn 1 journey will be by L way of Yuma. Tucson, across Texas . north to Missouri 'and thence eas-t- --, ward to Washington. The President will reach Kansas City. Mo., at 5:22 . A M. (C.S.T.) on Monday. St. Louis .[at noon, aiaid. Washington arouml 10 A. M. Tuesday. , Lawrence Richey, the President s t secret cry, said Mr. Hoover was "still taking it easy” He was expect- , ed to keep in touch with the WJilte I CONTINUED ON PAGE SIX