Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 31, Number 4, Decatur, Adams County, 5 January 1933 — Page 1

;yW' : WSATHtR Fair tonight and rmer tonight.

FORMER PRESIDENT COOLIDGE DEAD

Indiana Legislature Convenes; Dick Heller Chosen

Ml AN A FACES FIRST DEFICIT IN MANY YEARS K>th Houses Adjourn I nti! Monday After Only pH Brief Session ICK HELLER IS ■ NAMED SECRETARY Indianapolis. Jan. s—tU.H<— Both houses of theT 78th Indiana Genera! Assembly ad jovrnefl at noon today until January 9, after hearing the Opening message of retiring Governor Horry G. Leslie. The adjournments were prearranged to await inauguration of Governor-elect Paul V. McNutt and Lieutenant Gov-ernor-elect M. Clifford Townsend, both'Democrats. Indianapolis Jan. 5. — <U.R) The InHiatm legislature conned today for its 78th regu- ■ session It was ■fegm tled with unual iMjere-l because the ata goffemment is faced th its first deficit threat in any years. Both house- convened at 10 m., for .preliminary actives »uch as oa h taking and ford slettlon of officers and ap intees already selected. They ■re scheduled to adjourn. how | ar. until Monday. After they completed preliniines. the two houses met jointly ?»•*»< i uv* gieiinige vs GvV. IlSrrj LMli<. Th® only bill introduced was th ual appropriation measure sett- ; aside *IBII.OOO for expenses of y CD-day session. It was introcefl in the house of represent CONTINI’FTi GN PAGE “IX — Auto Catches Fire Ths local fire rlepartmet w \ led to th’ Paul Edwards rs dnce on Adams street, about 10 •lock Thursday morning, when s Edwards-Automobile b'ckfired die being started, and caught fire a fim was quick.lv xiiiiguish- d <1 no damage was reported. Check Is Received A check tor 136,511.58 from the dlt or es state wua received today Adams Bounty. in payment for | cewnty’s than- of the state gasfetax from March to D cember K ’ check was deposited with unty treasurer John We liter, by ditor Glen Cowan. The amount •resents jgiynient for the t<«> talk's distribution of tl»9 stat gas x to counties fflider the old two nt g’s tax taw. The 1933 U be greater, is the gas tax a id le lag licenses tees alt? I>.>W d; led fifty-fifty with local muni -alities and the state. ECISLATORF. DEARSIE ov. Ham G. Leslie Reivers Final Speech To Legislators Today Indianapolis. Ind., Jan. S—(UP)- ' ntlnuation of his republican polis was yeeoniniended by Gov BarG. Leslie today to the D mo--tic controlled 78th Indiana Gen- ,, 11 assembly. in addressing the joint session of use and senate, the governor was filling requirements of the law outlining the statutes of the comin wealth. i He will be succeeded Jan. 9 by •v. Elect Paul V. McNutt, Dem. Governor Leslie's message 4 alt th the past. McNutt will speak of 1 future. This legislature is the first under mplete Democratic control sinm .mPpt I may take just pride In the lord of th® last four years," said CONTINUJEIToN PAGE THU EE

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Trustee jf , I Charlie J. Voglewede. local busii ness man and shoe dealer of this i city who was named a member of I the board of trustees of the Ad-| runs County Memorial Hospital i ; today. Th- appointment Is for' , three years. CJ.VOGIEWEDE IS APPOINTED Decatur Shoe Dealer Is Named Trustee of Adams County Hospital Charlie J. Voglewede, local shoe dealer was Appointed a member of |Hie board of trustees of the Adams County Memorial hospital, to suece d Frink Heiman, who declined r appotlitmerit. The appointment was made today Iby the board of county commissioner:?. Mr. Voglewede was not an ap- ■ plic’.nt for the place and did not k.iow he was being considered for ill® place until notified by the county commissioners that he had been select d. Mr. Voglewede will become a member of the board at once. The annual organizatlo.i of the board will take plate this wo x. at which time a p: d.dent aid secretary will b named. Oth r members of ‘the board are, A. J. Simth, presid t: Janies Briggs, Geneva; Ed. M. Ray, Berre. The appointment is for three years. Mr. Heiman has been a member of the board ever sine- it was organized in 1920. He was a member of the be’rd when the hospital was built and wished to retire three years ago, but was prevailed upon to serve another term. o— — To Redecorate Office A contract to redecorate the county clerk's office in the court house was awarded today by the county commissioner? to Edmund Gaffer and John Dibolt of this city. Their bid was $75. Their proposal was to do the work according to sp cifications and was judged the best of four otters made. The walls In the office will be painted and stencil d and the old paper removed. Get Bids February 7 Bids for furnishing ni terial to the county highway department will [be received by the county commissioners on Tuesday, February 7. I Stone, screenings, gasoline, Oil 'automobile tires and bridge timber are purchased by the highway department. The county uses about 50,000 tons of stone in the upkeep and repair of the county highways. Change Location The Adams County Baby Health Station will be held Friday, January 6, In, the lower rooms of the Decatur High School building, instead of the Public’ Library as announced. All mothers of babies planning to attend the Health st ilion re urged to notice this change In place of the station. Mothers are requested to use the south east entrance of the school building, on Adams street. Registration hours will be from 9 to 11:30 a. in. and from 1 to 4 p.m.

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State, National And luternatlvnai Xew«

MINE DISTRICT IS REPORTED QUIET TODAY Militia Commander Expects No Further Outbreak In Illinois FORTY-ONE MURDER WARRANTS ISSUED Taylorville, 111.. Jan. 5. —(U.R) — : While state troops patrolled the I strife-torn coal fields today. Sheriff Charles Wieneke of Christi, n county padlocked Taylorville headquarters of tile striking Progressive Miners of America. The sheriff forbade further meetings and said he would close other 'strikers' meeting halls in the county as a blow at the miners’ war ’ that has claimed seven lives, two I of them this week. "I's the only way to restore I peace and stop killings." Wieneke I I said, "We will suppress all mine union meetings until certain the (trouble is over." Deputies and guardsmen helped i the sheriff clear the headquarters of the Progressive Miners, whose controversy with the United Mine I Workers of America caused the outbreaks; they dispersed a group iin front of the building, which is ■ in the city square across from the I county courthouse. • Fourteen persons have been injured in the latest flare-up of strife and it was feared some might die. Tavlorville, 111., Jan. 5. — (U.R) — » , The measured tread ot troops ■ echoed through Christian county: today as national guardsmen again i were called to quell the flaming central Illinois mine war that has taken two lives and wohnded 14 in the past two days. Five companies of militiamen, most of them veterans of the bloody L coal mines labor strife, were depl ployed at danger spots among the four mining communities of the 1 county. The mining hamlets were tense 1 but quiet today. Lieut. Col. R. W. 5 Davis, commander of the militia forces, expected no new outbreak. 1 He placed 50 men at each of the ' four Peabody coal mines. Another f 100 troops were held In reserve, . ' CONTINUED ON PAGE SEVEN __. o .ROOSEVELT AND LEADERS MEET 1 Confer To Bring Speedy Action on Many Governmental Measures a—- — New York, Jan. 5. —(U.R)—Speedy B I action on farm relief and beer I legislation and governmental economies was the purpose of a conference of President-elect Roose- , velt and congressional leaders here p today. b The Democratic congressmen 1 were led by Speaker John N. Gardner who becomes vice-president [Mutch 4 when Mr. Roose v e!t enters the White House. They were prepared to furnish the Presidentelect any desired legislative or 3 1 budget data. 1 The President-elect has been conferring several days with his •_ advisers on subjects that were to il be discussed today. ( Among them r were Professor Raymond McLey, .. William E. Woodin. and C. S. Bart rett, the latter president of the p farmers union. ; Mr. Roosevelt, determined that CONTINUED ON PAGE THREE Wolpert Rites Held ii i-l Funeral services were held at e nine o'clock this morning at St - Mary's Catholic church for Joseph i- Wolpert. age 54, whose death ocs curr:d last Monday. ■ The Rev. Father J. J. Hennes, ase sistan t pastor, officiated at the mass. A large number of friends ate tended the service. The employes il of the Cloverleaf Creameries, Inc., i- where Mr. Wolpert was employed. I) attended in a bodx. Burial was made in the St. Joseph Cemetery. [

Decatur, Indiana, Thursday, January 5, 1933.

Former President Dead I — . ? IM z- ■, i ' * J ’ flMi I I JBL itii- 4 ' aKWk --Aa. ■ AM '• J I^,a,i■>i-1. . - .. i—<t i Former President Calvin Coolidge died at noon today at his home in Northampton. Mass. His body was found by Mis. Coolidge al 1:15 pm. Coolidge became president. August 3, 1923, on the death of President Warren Harding. He was elected president in 1924 and was succeeded in 1929 by President Hoover.

JURY TO GET CASE TONIGHT Conclude Evidence In Trial of Floyd Death And Bernard Hain Fort Wayne, Jan. s—(Special The jury in federal court here is expected to be given the case against Floyd Death and Bernard Hain, Decatur, late this afternoon or early Friday morning. The prosecution completed its evidence today with the erot's exa, mination of Miss Alice Hain, sister of one of the defendants. Miss Hain occupied the stand most of thv morning. She first testified that her brother spent the night of July 6, the date of the alleged theft, with her at Fort Wayne. On cross examination by federal attorney Oliver Loomis she gave conflicting testimony to the effect that her brother had gone to South Bend late that night. Coumsel for the defense stated that they would conclude their evidence today and that the case could be given to the jury at the time stated abova. Mayor George Krick and Sheriff Burl Johnson were among the last government witnesses called. TWO KILLED NEAR KOKOMO Three Others Seriously Injured When Autos Collide Headon Kokomo, Ind., Jan. S—(U.R5 —(U.R) —Two persons were killed and three seriously injured early today when two automobiles collided headon in a dense fog on U. S. highway 31, 10 miles north of Kokomo. The dead: Mrs. Grace Backus, 43. Logansport, beauty parlor operator. i Mark C. Morris, 57, Logansport, : rural mail carrier. Seriously Injured were Mr. and I Mrs. Charles Murray and Mrs. Ruth Morris, wife of Mark They were taken to the Howard county i hospital at Kokomo. I . Albert Backus, husband of the dead woman, was only slightly j hurt. He was the sixth passenger | (continue!) ’(TN*FAGE*SIX)*

| Sends Check To State County Auditor Glen Cowan to1 day mailed a check for $308.&6 to the State Treasurer, representing, Adams county's donation for the month of December to the state, guarantee depository fund. 1 The amount was received by Adams county from banks as interest ,in county funds for the month of December. Under a law passed by . the special session of the legisla- . ture. all municipalities must remit the interest received on public . funds are tied up in closed banks. , December was the first month under which the law applied. The December interest was larger than ’ the average month last year, due ’ to the fact that the county had on t hands a share of the November tax pay ments. J SORORITY WILL SPONSORTROOP r t —— Psio lota Xi Sorority Or- * ganizes New Girl Scout i Troop In Decatur s c A new Girl Scout troop has been j organized in Dscatur. it i« being • sponsored by the Psi lota X: sorority has appointed the following members to serve as a troop committee: Eloise Lewton, chairman. Erna Lankettau and Ruth Macklin. Miss Eleanor Pumphrey, a teacher in Central School, has been selected i by the troop committee to serve as I scout leader. The raw Girl Scouts have been working each Tuesday evening as- | ter school tor the past two months r in order to meet the qualifications to become members of the troop. They have selected Petty Hunter as patrol leadc and Annabel Doan as 3 assistant pa.rol leader. 8 ; The names of the following girls y were sent into National Headquor--1 tors at New Ybrk City along with ■ the application Vor a troop charter: f Katherine Affoljier, h.dora Raker, Annabel Doan, Harriet Gilson, Mary Maxine Hilton. Betty Hunter, Phyli_ Ils Hunter, Marjorie Miller, Katherine King, Sanna Kunkel and Monica Schmitt. ', Tri Kappa Troof No. 1, which (I hrs be n under tht; leadership of i Mrs. Bryce Thomas for the past five y years is being registered again this y year and another nep- troon of girl scouts is in the process of organlzae tian. Plans are being made for the y formation of a local Girl Scout comr mittee which will loota after the In- » terests of all troops In [the community.

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SUBCOMMITTEE APPROVES BILL ASKING REPEAL Senate Committee Approves Repeal of The 18th Amendment WOULD PROHIBIT SALOON RETURN — Washington, Jan. 5. (U.R) Chair man Elaine's senate judiciary sub-1 committee today approved repeal ot the 18th amendment with pro I tec ion for dry states and prohi'ui’ijn of the saloon. The repealer would be submitted to state legislatures. Blaine said no formal vote was taken on the repeal resolution but that he considered the committee's action as “a favorable report for repeal.” Qualified repeal in the form approved by the subcommittee is believed to have more senate support than the pending 3.2 per cent beer bill. But the necessity of a two thirds majority in amending the constitution is a major hazard to senate approval. Senators have indicated they would not obstruct consideration ot the repealer. Chairman Norris of the judiciary committee favors modification of the 18th amendment and opposes repeal but has promised that the repealer will be expeditiously handled in his committee. ! The senate sub-committee was [ CONTINUED rixT PAGE TWO — _ 0 REDUCE STATE F AIR BUDGET Board of Agriculture Slashes Budget To Approximately $90,000 Indianapolis, Jan. S.—(U.R) —The 1933 Indiana state fair budget was reduced to approximately $90,000 by the state board of agriculture late yesterday. The budget for last year was $137,672. Allowances for horse racing events were cut by SII,OOO, the horse show by $4,300 and the cattle exhibit by $5,500. The reductions were made in an attempt to (prevent a recurrence of the deficit (incurred at the 1932 fair. Reorganiza'ion of the board late yesterday resulted in the election ' of Russell G. East, Richmond. Dem(ocrat, as president, succeeding O. !L. Reddish. Waveland, Republican. (Frank J. Claypool, Muncie, was (elected vice-president, and E. J. Barker, Thorntown, was re-elected secretary. An executive committee to serve for the next year was named as follows. Everett S. Priddy. War ren; Dean J. H. Skinner. Purdue university, and R. C. Jenkins, Orleans. FARMERSTRIKE IS THREATENED New Uprising Is Sweeping Through Mid-West Farm Lands Again Des Moines, la., Jan. S—(U.R5 —(U.R) — A farmers uprising which threatI ened to become as widespread and serious as last summer's farm -: rike was sweeping among the ranks of mortgage - burdened . Agrarians today. I It took two courses: 1 — Opposition to delinquent tax ! sales. 2 — Opposition to mortgage fore ; closures. , i inspired by success at forestall i ing the tax sales in several conn II lies by the simple expedient ol . suppressing all blds, the farmers , I have turned to the aid of neigh . hors about to lose their propertj . by foreclose action. At Le Mars, lowa. In the hear

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WIFE DISCOVERED DODY IN 3ED ROOM OF HOME TODAY Death of Thirtieth President Caused by Heart Attack at 12:45 o’Clock at Northampton Home; Mrs. Coolidge Returning From Shopping Trip Finds Body; Was at Office This Morning; Became President In 1923 And Was Elected in--1924; Was 60 Years Old. Northampton, Mass., Jan. 5 —<U- R ) Calvin Coolidge, thirtieth president of the United States, died suddenly today at his home in Northampton. He succumbed according to physicians to a heart attack that developed while he was at his Main street law office. ( He died alone in his bedroom. Mrs. Coolidge returning from a shopping trip discover-

• 1 SEEK FURTHER COOPERATION Propose That All Relief Agencies In City Join To Aid Needy The City Communit}' Welfare committee, composed of former Judge J. C. Sutton. Leo “Dutch”| Ehinger and Superintendent M. F. I Worthman, met with the executive committee of the United Charities, including William Linn, president, i Charles Dugan, Cal Peterson and . Wai Wemhoff, together with township trustee, T. R. Noll Wednesday 1 night for the purpose of providing ways and means of securing the i cooperation of all relief -agencies in I Decatur. The wish of the community is that some plan may be formulated [Whereby all charity in the city may i be done through one channel, thus j avoiding duplications and irregularities. i All charitable organizations of the city or representatives of the organizations are asked to meet Tuesday night at 7:30 o’clock in the Cham-| ber of Commerce room in the Peo- > pies Loan and Trust Bank oulldlng. At this meeting plans will be discussed forth? project and perhaps , officers will be selected. iA plan will be worked out along the line of the ‘jCommunity Chest project. ' Mr. Noll, trustee of Washington ' township, is $5,000 short on reliaf funds, and Mr. Peterson, secretary iof the United Charities, stated that | he had very little money with which : to do charity work. An urgent dJ!mand will be made for funds dur•|ing January. February, and March. TWO HIGHWAYS : ARE INCLUDED State Highway Commission Takes Over Two 1 Roads Through Co. Sttte Senator T. A. Gottschalk announced today that the Indiana State Highway Commission has ' concluded the formalities incident [to the extension of state road 124 and the addition of state road 527 into the 'lndiana sttte system. The barrier to the inclusion of these roads wele lemuved with the pjyment by the Adams county com Imissioniers of money due the highway commission on a prior agreement. These roads are now a part of | the state highway system. Stats " road 124 as extended, runs from Wells county line east to the Ohio state line at Willshire. Ohio. The (addition of state road 527 extends | _ from Decatur southeast to the Ohio' L . state line, passing through Pleafl sant Mills. n The talking over of the roads 6 means a substantial saving each j year to the county in the way of CONTINUED ON*PAGE SEVEN j o x Eiting Bound Over B ‘ Bernard Biting, Decatur man, arrested on a charge of stealing a trailer from Carl Miller on Decentlb ber 3, plead not guilty to the charge Ln the Justice of the Peace court at 3 Van Wert, Ohio, yesterday. Biting was bound over to the common • v pleas court and according to Ohio law procedure the case will be Inrt|Vestigated by the grand jury. Eitiiig, * I claims he bought the trailer. j

YOUR HOME PAPERLIKE ONE OF THE FAMILY

ed the body at 1:15 d. in. The former president had been dead 30 minutes, according to physicians. The tragic death of the sturdv New Englander who ess than four years ago relinquished his high office in anuarently the best of health provided a parallel with the sudden death of his predecessor. Warren G. Harding, who died in a San Francisco hotel while his wife was reading to him and after physicians believed he had passed a serious crisis. It was upon the death of Harding that Coolidge, then vice-presi-dent, assumed office. The oath, it was Recalled today, was given to him in a lamp lit room of an old farm house by his late father, the Justice of the Peace. Mr. Coolidge has been in his usual good health so far as his - family knew. This morning he left his home in time to reach his office as usual at 8:30 a.tn. He was greeted there by his former law partner, Ralph W. Hemenway who remarked that he appeared to be “as sound as ever." He worked steadily for about 'an hour and a half and then acI companied by his secretary, Harry Ross. left for the Coolidge home “The Beeches." He left his secretary downstairs for a .while before noon. Ross continued his work downstairs and did not accompany the former president. Shortly after noon Mrs. Coolidge who had been shopping returned to the house and inquired for her husband. She went upstairs and there in his bedroom made the tragic discovery. Dr. Edward W. Brown, medical examiner. was summoned and after examination of the body said Mr. Coolidge had died of heart disease, and that the death oc- ■ curred probably half an hour be- | fore discovery of the body. The news of Mr. Coolidge’s death broke with stunning suddenness over this quiet town. It , was almost unbelievable under the circumstances of the form r ( president's quiet life in the midst of the scenes and people whom he 'oved. The four years since he surrendered the duties of the presidency had been spent comfortably. The summer had been restful with few business cares and almost no political activities to intrude upon his comfortable and CTVNTTNTTE’n GV PAGE*SIX*" MORE TROUBLE LOOMS IN CHINA Formidable Chinese Army Is Formed by Powerful War Lord Today I Peiping. Jan. 5 —<U.R) - One of the most formidable armies in the orient was assured the Chilie-o today when Marshal Chang Hsueli- , 'lang, a most powerful war lord, placed himself at the command | of General Chiang Kai-Shek, generalissimo of Chinese armies for dealing with the Japanese. Marshal Chang issued a com- . munique stating he would initiate no efforts to deal with the Japanese. and that any Japanese offers , must be submitted direct to the Nanking government. Chang said . he would respond to Nanking’s orders in the event that a settlement was sought. Marshal Chang said he would continue to consider the Shani ON* PAGE*SE VEN *