Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 31, Number 18, Decatur, Adams County, 21 January 1933 — Page 1

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WILL NEGOTIATE ON WAR DEBT REVISION

k ON BEER ILL LOOMS IN I legislature Lition To Adininisfction Measure Has | Developed Imittee may [report TUESDAY Lapolis. Jan. 21-flj.R)—Beer Eecipitate the administra- > ■first legislative tight despite; Etndary position to depress ! Kef in Gov. Paul V. McNutt's ! L. it appeared today. ■bers of the General Assent-! Kw In a week end recess, face Et week of the 78th assemK t probably will bring the ’ K's first spirited fight for op Kn to an administration nieasKe beer bill —lias developed | first time in the assembly. Ke legislators know that re | primary, beer undoubtedly I Kcome the first center of atK despite leaders' efforts to Belief foremost. ■range coalition of drys and ■e wets is almost certain to la spirited fight against the Kill next week when it is relout of the house public morLmittee. L of the bloc began forming ■is week and show signs of ■ strength next week. The I Republican minority and the Ky Democrats flatly opposed ■ll They are joined by wets ■industrial centers who want Kt beer, not provided in the ■The jailer also fear the limit I ■breweries will prevent open-I ■ plants in their home cities. [ Hearing Monday King on the beer hill will he lumday afternoon by the pub■pral.s committee. Its report. 1 K’ Tuesday, is certain to I passage. Then will come the ■ther administration measure opposition is the income K&sure. It developed Friday ■ house ways and means com le Manufacturers appearing ■ the committee vigorously ■ the measure as confiscatory. Lid close up or drive from tne I many factories, they nt'tin■ever, that opposition is more, lut than within the assembly I Ihus less effective. ■ past week showed strength Be wet sentiment in both Is. The lower house passed I 18 a resolution asking conI to repeal the 18th amend- | A similar resolution passfa senate easily. le major administration bills Id through the legislative mill Iweek The total of bills in ■TINTED ON page THREE I 0 —> b Hold Examination louncetnent was made today Bhe high school equivalency exktion will be held next SaturBaniiary 28. in the circuit court r Further information concernF" examination may be obt linI the office of superintendent r 1 E. Striker. SEE KILLED NEARLAPORTE P Others Injured In Automobile Crashes Friday Night * Persons were killed and two near here last nigh* in two Mobile accidents. taham Weiner, 45, and James **■ W. both of Michigan City, killed when the automobile in " 'hey were rldillg collided one driven by Dr. W. W. Hoss lrte ' on State Road 20. “ Berta Halley. 30, died en • 0 a hospital after her auto--8 washed into at ditch near e prison farm north of here. larn Richter. Michigan City. * llh we lner and George, was to a local hospital in a crihluries' 0 ' 1 suffered interJtoss. altough injured, attendee and Richter in the am'ce en route here.

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Red Cross Bulletin Distribution of Red Cross gar ' nients will be made at the Red I Cross headquarters in the Chamber of Commerce room Tuesday ‘ and Friday afternoons of next week from 1 to 4 p. m. Men who need overalls and trousers must know exact sizes. Women's and misses’ hose are also here. MAN ARRESTED IN ARSON PLOT Cleveland Business Man Arrested As Suspect in Tragic Fire Cleveland, Jan. 21--(U.R) —Ray I. Turk, Cleveland business man. was attested in Akron today for questioning by Cleveland polite in connection with an alleged arson plot which authorities said resulted in the burning of the Ellington Hotel here June 7 with a loss of 13 lives. Three other men wanted in connection with the reputed plot were in custody and a fifth man was being sought. Tim men in custody, beside Turk, were S.imuel Neainan and Paul Childs, both of Pittsburgh, who were arrested at Neaman's home la.<4t night, and L. J. Kamons, now serving a term in Pennsylvania's western penitentiary following conviction on charges of arson. The fifth man named was Benjamin Hirsch of Aliquippa. Pa. Merrick announced that the "inside story" of the plot had been obtained from 1 former associate of the Pennsylvania men. He d“(CONTINUE© ON PAGE*SIX) ——ft— Senator Resigns Jefferson City, Mo., Jan. 21 — (UP)—The resignation of United States Senator Ha>rr£ B. Hawes, St. Louis, was received today at the office of Gove. Guy B. Park. Q JAPANESE GIVE CHINA WARNING Jap Government Warns Chinese To Stay Out of Jehol Province Tokio, Ja . 21 -IUPt China was warned by the Japanese goverment today to stay out of Jehol province, scene of inpending conflict between Japanese and Chi esc armies which Japan regards as an integral p rt of the new state of Manchoukuo. Outlining the government's Follicles before t'he imperial Japanese diet, foreign minister Count Uchida said Japan could not look upon . Chinese military activity "without the gravest apprehension.’ He declared tihe “Constructive force of Japan” to be the mainstay of peace in the far east. Count Uchida made it dear that Japanese policy in Manchii'".a would ; ot he changed, despite international efforts to eml the Japam ue Chinese dispute. Count Uchida said Chinese troops were concentrati g on the borders of Manchoukuo and that “some ot them have invaded the province of Jehol." China regards Jehol as ' Chinese territory; The troops were concentrated along the m uichitiknoan border after the Japanese pene--1 trated Shu: kaikwan, below the great will. “The Japanese government cannot look upon such a state of affairs in China without the gravest apprehension,” he said. ‘We are ’ compelled to warn the government ’ and the people of China against the unifortuiMvte eventualities that may i arise from the situation and to invite them to think seriously before proceeding further in that direc--1 tlon.” 1 Count Uchida advanced for the continued on pads: three — o — 1 Will Speak Sunday r The Honorable Oliver W. Stew- . art, president of the Firing Squad- , ron Foundation, and one of the a leading figures in the prohibition - movement, will he the speaker at -a community meeting at the First Christian church Sunday afternoon - at 2:30 o’clock. The public is cor- - dially Invited. No admission will I be charged

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Chicago Police Battle Reds VMI; At the instant tins’ picture was taken a girl in the crpwd cried. "Down with the police!" ami the riot was o:i The policemen shown in the photograph fought foi their lives as several hundred communists beset them. The objective of the cominuni ts was the stoiming of a food relief station. The btl le, lasting thirty minutes, occurred at one of Chi mgo’s busy intersections Friday.

GIVE PROGRAM FOR INSTITUTE Annual Institute Will Re Held At Kirkland Next | Saturday The program for the annual farmer’s institute. with Kirkland. Preble, ami French townships com bining, to make it one of the outstanding meetings of its kind ini the county, was announced today. The institute will be held Saturday. January 28, at the Kirkland township gymnasium and high school. The morning session begins at 9:30 o’clock. Following is the program: Morning Session 9:30 —Patriotic Hymn Invocation Rev. Jay Smith Welcome Mr. R. J. Mann Mixed Chorus High School 9:50 —Address. “Hobbies" Mrs. Harry Stevenson 10:25—Vocal solo Jean Houck 10:35 —Address. “Effects of Power Farming Upon the Individual nd Community" Mr. Maurice S. Lafuze 11:10 —Announcements. Dinner served by the Kirkland Ladies’ Club. Afternoon Session Girls' Quartet Mary Merriman, Mildred Henschen, Helen Hildebrand, Marie Scherry. Report of nominating com mittee. Readings Mrs. Mabel Marshall 1:30 Address, “Come Out of the Kitchen” Mrs. Harry Slevenson 2:os—Vocal Solo Clem Barker ' " “oVTTNttED ON PAGE TWO O • ROOSEVELT AT MUSCLE SHOALS President-Elect Makes Inspection Os Huge Electric Plant Sheffield. Ala., Jan. 21 —(U.R)~ President-elect Roosevelt was weli coined to Alabama today by a.: crowd of several thousand cheering citizens who gathered around the special train that brought him south for an inspection of Muscle j Shoals. Governors Miller, of Alabama, and McAlister, of Tennessee, were ch hand to extend their wel--1 come. Mr. Roosevelt, appearing on the platform of his car with his daughter, Mrs. Anna Roosevelt Dall, smiled and waved at the crowd. He and his party then entered automobiles for the drive to the government's $160,000,000 hydroelectric development. As the president-elect’s special sped through Tennessee and Ala- ’ * CONTINUED ON PAGE TWO |

Decatur, Indiana, Saturday, January 21, 1933.

Correction Made Our attention has been called toj the fact that one or two errors! was made in 'the report published last evening by the Emergency' j Relief Association. The expendi- ; turn of $3,011.45 by Trustee T. R.i I Noil was tor tlie last quarter ofi I 1932 instead of for the month of' i December as stated and the sum ■ of $2,595.57 for adults and $415.88, for! children, included everything spqnt. medical attention, clothing, food. etc. The trustee has received and distributed 800 pounds of beans and 250 bushels of potatoes, all donated. This correction is made so the public may not become confused as to the expenditures and the donations. HOMER FAUST DIES TODAY Aged Adams County Resident Passes Away At Memorial Hospital Homer Faust, 75. died at the Adams County Memorial hospital nt 8:15 o’clock this morning of uremic poisoning. He had been bedfast for the past nine weeks. The deceased was born four miles southeast of Decatur. November 9. 1857, the son of Janies P. and Elizabeth Gard Faust. All but nne year of his life was spent at ’he place of his birth. Miss Georgia. Faust of Decatur, is the only surviving relative. Funeral services will be held at the Black Funeral Home at 2:30 p. m. Monday, in charge of Rev. Jay Smith of the Christian Union circuit. Burial will be made at Maplewood. Friends may view the bodv at ! the funeral home from 1 to 4 p.m. Stindav. and from 9 a. m. Monday until he hour of the funeral sep vices. Friends are asked to omit flowers.

Norris Lame Duck Constitutional Amendment Is Near Ratification

Washington. Jan. 21-'(UP)— The i spectacle of a lame duck congress 1 floundering in futile talk while it'; waits for the undertaker is being 1 witnessed for the last time. t Wit'hin a few days apparently,! l there will be a 20th amendment ! added to the constitution to end 1 such performances by congresses 1 which have been repudiated at the polls. 1 The Norris lame duck constitutional amendment is on the brink ; of final artification by state legis-J 1 latures. Only three more states, 1 were needed today to make the nec- / essary 36. A race is on in state leg- 1 islatures now. Indications are that 1 this will be one of the three fastest ratifications in history. The amendment was submitted last March. This 3 (Uh amendment will ch inge completely the schedule of dates ! for the meeting of congress and the Presidential inauguration. I New senators and congressmeni

GEORGE KELLER DEATH’S VICTIM i T7 Monroe Civil War Yetoran Dies This Morning After Long Illness George W. Keller. 88. of Monroe, a resident of Adams etniniy for 44 years, and a Civil War Veteran, died at his home at 3:30 o’clock Saturday morning, following an ev’ended illness. Mr. Keller had been ailing for the last two years and recently had been bedfast. His daughter. Mrs. Della George, resided with him and cared for him during his 'illness. Mr. Keller had taught a Sunday School class at the Friends jchurch for a number of years until this recent illness. The deceased was born ait Mil- ' lersburg. Ohio, February 3. 1840, . the son of Aaron and Elizabeth Keller. He was united in marriage three times, the wives preceding him in death. Mr. Keller enlisted in the Civil War on September 5, 1862 and was honorably discharged July 17, 1865. He was taken prisoner at Limestone Station. East Tenues see, and remained a prisoner for over six months. lie was wounded near Atlanta. Georgia on August 6, 1864. Surviving are three daughters and a son. Mrs. Della George. Monroe; Miss Viola Keller. Fort Wayne; and Mrs. Zella Egly of Monroe, and J. W. Kellei of I Cleveland. Ohio Two sons and two daughters, William, Etta, AlCONTINUED ON PAGE FOUR Ligaments Torn Miss Mildred Miller, daughter of Ed Miller, Decatur night policeman had the ligaments in her left ankle badly torn during the Decatur Cath !olic-Pleasant Mills girls basketball game Frid ly night.

will take their seats January 3 following election. At present, barring an extra session, they wait until December a year later and meantime the old congress conies back for three months in the kind of session now being witnessed here. It is a relic of stage coach days when the world moved slowly. Presidential Inauguration will be moved forward to Jan. 20 instead of March 4. This would eliminate such a situation as now paralyzes President Hoover. He is unable to act authoritatively in Foreign affairs and must wait for the new administration. He and Mr. Roosevelt are cooperating unofficially to bridge thi ■, gap as effectively us poatiblc. Filibustering will he robbed of iitj effectiveness by this change, at present March 4 Is the deedli e and by talking for the last few weeks of a session, a little band ot “Willful men" as Wilson called one 1

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FRANK STROUSE WILL SPEAK AT MEETING HERE Railroad Official to Speak At Chamber of Commerce Banquet NEW DIRECTORS TO BE CHOSEN Frank Strouse, of Chicago, assis-j taut to the general manager of the Pennsylvania Railroad, will be the principal speaker at the annual meeting of the Decatur Chamber of Commerce to be held Monday. January 30th. The meeting will probably he held a the Knights of Cmtmbns hall and n banquet will be held at 6:30 o’clock, the committee in charge of arrangements announced today. Mr. Strouse is a railroad official of wide experience and has a message of great interest to business men. Through a personal acquaintance with Avon Burk, a former president of the Chamber of Commerce, he consented to some o Decatur. He will speak on the railroad business and other topics of interest. Theodore Graliker. president of! the Chamber of Commerce, today named a ticket eominlltee, composed of Robert Helm. Harold I Niblick and Charles Hite, to sell the tickets for the banquet. They | will go on sale the first of the week at 50 cents each. Elect Directors . The election of three new directors will take place at the annual meeting. The directors who rc 1 •tire, this year are Mr. Burk. Will I Linn and Ix»o Kirsch A ballot -! with the names of six candidates, three of whom will bo elected, r will he given to each person at- > tending the meeting. Mr. Burk was also advised that A. E. Johnston, division freight r .agent- of the Pennsylvania raii- '■ CONTINUED ON PAGE FOUR EGG PRICES IN : DECIDED DROP ’ Increased Production Due To Warm Weather Given As Cause i s The price of eggs ,n the New . York market has dropped 17 cents 1 per dozen within the last two weeks, one of the biggest price de1 clines noted in January for several years. ' The lower prices reflect throughout the rural districts and eggs s are quoted today at prices below the average January price. In Decatur, the quotations were: Number one eggs. 13 cents dozen; number two eggs. 11 cents dozen; I number three eggs, nine cents dozen. Local produce men attribute the breaking of the eastern market to increased production and heew receipts due to the warm weather f the past two weeks. Receipts at 1 the local plant of the Farm Bure eau Association have been heavier than usual the past four weeks 1 and shippers in other rural territories have experienced the same thing. Generally the mon'th of January is cold, production drops off and 'nclement weather keeps many 4 farmers from getting to market. Tills year no market handicaps I’ have occurred, with the consoquense that more eggs have been I shipped east and the price has '■ steadily declined. k The eastern buyers demand 1 fresh eggs and want daily ship- '• men'ts, going on the assumption 8 that no one wants stale or rotten : eggs at any price, e ' o—X Gas Causes Death Springfield 111,, Jan. 21—(U.R) Robert Cunningham. 26, was dead s and Joseph Dispasquale, 49. was in a hospital here today suffering e ; effect i of gas the men breathed e in the Wooside mine of the Peabody Coal Co., last night. Dlsf pasqunle said he and Cunningham ’■ returned to their diggings too soon e after setting off a blast. ’ A few hours before, eight other men were injured, one seriously. e | when slate fell in the mine and * I crashed into a trip car.

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Investigate Plot jaylot ville, 111., Jan. 21 ,(U.R) ! Postoffice inspectors inquired today into a supposed blackhand plot threatening death ‘to 12 niin-j ers working in the Peabody mine at Kincaid, scene of recent rioting in vvhicih three were killed j and many injured. Letters, written in the same j handwriting, were sent to the 12 , miners at. their homes in Tovey, nearby coal town. Each letter bore a skull and cross bones and; a black hand. The one received by Carl Ray said: , “You have scabbed long enough. J ! Kiss your wife goodby. You are going to work and you are not 1 coming home. A terrible death awaits yon." JUDGE ISSUES ULTIMATUM IN HALLORAN CASE Alleged Accessory May Be ’Freed Unless State Proves Murder DEFENDANT MOVES FOR DISMISSAL Phoenix, Ariz., Jan. 21 —(U.R) —Judge J. C. Niles today permitted the detente to make an attempt to impeach testimony of Winnie Ruth Judd at the preliminary hearing of J. J. Halloran, wealthy lumoerman accused of being an accessory after the murder. Frank O. Smith, attorney I for J. J. Halloran, accused of aiding Winnie Ruth Judd in I disposing of the body of Agnes Ann Leroi has received telephone threats that "some- | thing is going to happen to ! you.” he said today. Phoeirix. Ariz., Jun. 21—(U.R)--John J. (Happy Jack) Halloran,! • accused as au accessory-after-the- ' crime, may go free today unless the state proves Winnie Rath Judd murdered their mutual friend. Agnes Ann Leroi, foriwhose death she is under sentence to hang. I: Judge J. C. Niles issued this ultimatum to County Attorney Renz L. Jennings last night as he recessed court at Halloran's prei liminary bearing. S l .ating that evidence indicated Mrs. Judd shot in self defense. Judge Niles advised the prosecui tor: "If ther- has been no crime, , there can be no accessory. "1 11 continue this hearing until morning, at which time I want to hear from you regarding that ’ phase of the case —and that is all | I want, ro hear." The jurist’s unexpected and | startling statement was provoked, by motion of Halloran's defense counsel to dismiss the complaint which accuses the wealthy lumberman of helping Mrs. Judd dispose of the body of Mrs. Leroi. ’! The motion was made after ■ UGNTINITED ON PAGE RTX > — 0 CROWD ATTENDS DINNER FRIDAY Nearly 1,000 Democrats Attend Dinner For R. Earl Peters ' Indianapolis. Jan. 21— (U.R) — Nearly 1,000 Indiana Democrats 1 attended the appreciation dinner , last night for R. Earl Peters, state chairman of the party. I Other guests of honor were Mrs. A. P. Flynn, state vice chairman, j Marshall Williams, secretary, and j Amos Wood, treasurer. Principle speaker on the program was Gov. Paul V. McNutt. He called upon the party to marshal its forces and carry out every promise made in tile 1932 campaign. ' Other speakers were: Mrs. R. ’ L. Mclntosh. Daviess county vice ' chairman; Mayor C. Otis Hall, 1 Sullivan county chairman; Earl Crawford, speaker of the house; ’’ M Cliffc:d Townsend, lieiit. gov--1 <(rnor; Harvey J. Curtis. i<iief 1 justice of the appellate court; Walter E. Treanor, chief justice r of the supreme court; Albert ■ Stump. Indianapolis; Mrs. Marii | I (CONTINUED ON PAGE SIX)

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ENGLAND, U.S. WILL MEET TO REVISE DEBTS Will Discuss Revision of War Debt Soon After March 4 McDonald may HEAD MISSION Washington, Jan. 21. — (U.R) — Washington and I.ondon were pre paring today to revise downward Great Britain’s $4,500,000,000 (B'l war debt to the United States. .Secretary of State Stimson call ed Sir Ronald Lindsay, Brii'ish ambassador, to the state department last night and gave him the qagerly awaited news that the United States would be ready to discuss debt reduction shortly after March 4. The British were invited to send a commission to Washington to carry on the negotiations. Stimson's assurance was based on an agreement made at the White House conference yesterday by President Hoover ami Presideniti-elect Roosevelt. They decided that the Hoover administration should prepare for the debt discussions so that they may begin promptly after Mr. Roosevelt enters the White House. While the British commission is being formed. Sitimson and Secretary of the Treasury Mills will help Roosevelt prepaie for the negotiations. The state department and treasury archives containing the history of the debts will be opened to advisors and officials of the new administration. i Beginning this cooperative proI gram, Stimson discussed the situation last night with Prof. Ravmond Moley. one of Roosevelt's advisors. Maley may be one of the technical experts attached to : l‘he American negotiators. The administration is hopeful that Roosevelt soon will name his secretary of state. Some officials here expect that Norman H. Davis, will succeed Sthlisoii. Davis, although a Democrat. has represented the Hoover administration ait Geneva for the past year and is on intimate terms with many European statesmen, Davis attended the White House conference yesterday and later lef' for Tennessee for a short vacation. He is expedted to return to Washington later. May Head Mission London, Jan. 21 — (U.R) — The British debt mission to the United States will be headed by Primei Minister J. Ramsay MacDonald, well informed political quarters believed today. MacDonald is credited with personally achieving the settlement reached at the Lausanne reparations conference, and is expected to lead efforts to finish "the other half of the job." The prime minister regards the debt questioon as the outs.anding problem of Biitain. He wants to give his personal attention, as much as possible, to efforts to reach a debt settlement Chancellor of the Exchequer Neville Chamberlain was expel ed to be a member of the mission, although he will be busy on his budget in March and April. Stanley Baldwin was mentioned as a possible member. He negotiated the original debt funding (CONTINUED ON PAGE*SJX ’? — o _. Funeral Sunday Funeral services for William M. .Yager, 58. of Kirkland Township ; who died at his home Thursday afternoon. will be held at I:3d o'clock Sunday afternoon at the home, and at 2 o’clock at the Zion Church at Honduras. The Rev. Jay Smith will officiate and burial will be made in. the Fairview Cemetery at Bluffton o —< Long To Prison Fort Wayne. Jan. 21 — (UP) — Joseph A. Long, former Portland produce merchant, started Friday afternoon to tlie federal prison at Leivenworth. Kansas, to begin serving a three ye.i.r sentence imposed by federal judge Thomas W. Slick here Friday. Long was also fined $5,000 and ordered to pay all court costs in the ease. Two other defendants. Allen |P. Rice and Walter R. Hill were placed on brobation for two years.