Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 31, Number 31, Decatur, Adams County, 6 February 1933 — Page 1

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i frank lose Ilf's SUNDAY I OF INFECTION ■inent l»ecatur Phys■an Succumbs Early ■ Sunday Morning ■sjll COMES AS ■ \ <|A ERE SHOCK ■ h . ri l sei s ices for Dr. K W I .<»<•, 3<S, pronmiH l | l vsici:iii >d<l surgeon ol H..,p wlie 'lie<l at seven ■„i suikljv morning al ■i, •>•_»«> South Second ■1 Will be held Wednes- ■ ul nine o’clock ■, st. M.irv's Catholic Kh. ■ - d.-atli resulted from ■ w . l „~■< s- piii i-mia. developKoin m intection on the right ■ Th,-, blood poison spread ■ich fl’'’ arn> an '' in ■ Im mid Saturday night his ■lior. was considered critical, ■ar" «as -wellen about twice ■tmnal size. ■rntling physicians believe ■r. ci.'.itracted the blood Hn either front a scratch or ■an infected patient. He took ■uesday night, hut was at his Kon Wednesday. His condi- ■ hfcani" worse Thursday and ■is farced to go to bed. Being ■ weaken, d condition, due to a ■er illness and overwork, the ■tion spread rapidly and Satnoon '.»!>• n Dr. L. E. Sont■called on him. his condition ■critical. ■ consultation of local physi- ■ and Dr. Beaumont S. Cor- ■ specialist from Fort Wayne. ■ held and everything possible ■ dnne to save the life of the ■tiir physician. He grew ■- rhe night and death ■ml at 7:07 Sunday morning. K Born in Decatur ■. Lose 'c is horn in Decatur, ■ary 4 1895. He attended the ■Joseph's Catholic school and ■ graduated from the Decatur ■ school in 1914. In 1915 he ■red the University of Mis- ■. completing a two year Ke at that institution. ■. Lose was an industrious in■tad and when he entered ■hwestern Medical college. Kston. in 1917. he worked his ■ through school, following the ■ers trade after school hours, ■plrlmg the medical course at ■hwes’ern in 1921 he became ■nterne in Oak Park hospital, ■ago. and remained there ■t a year, returning here to ■ice medicine in 1922. I p Decatur physician took a B interest in school athletics one of the diversions he e«i d immensely was attending tetball and football games. He president of the Catholic high ONTINIEI, OX PAGE FIVE) PUNTT BOARD TO OPEN BIDS iimissioners Will Open ids Furnishing Highway Material Ids for furnishing stone, graved other material to the cotltitighway department will be lf fd by the county cummissionTitesday. i« commissioners met in Feb X session today and devoted morning to checking and *ing of monthly claims, he board announced that the 1 material bids would be opentomorrow. This year the board not advertise for gasoline and "ids. the commissioners desirto work out a plan with gasodealers over the county, buyfront any station and obtainthe quantity allowance of two is on a gallon of gas. A simiPhn may be worked out on oil requirements. signing of a contract with try B. Heller t o serve as conn btorney for another year will llp done Tuesday. Mr. Heller consented to serve another fu county attorney. " e fixing of a date for a 'spemeeting of the county council jhe purpose of approving poor * bond issues by several of Townships and to make rever•Pmial appropriations will be *•' before the board adjourns.

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Vol. XXXI. No. 31.

Harvard Hitlerite - tel w i Dr. Ernest Franz Sedgwick Hanfl staengl. Harvard graduate of the ‘ class of 1909. who is taking up i residence in the Reich Chancellory in Berlin as confidential sec--1 retary to Chancellor Adolf Hitler. Dr. Haixfstaengl’s mother was . Catherine Sedgwick Heine, danghI ter of Brigadier General Wilhelm • Heine of the Fifth Army of the Potomac. He has been a follower i of Hitler since 1922. WOMAN IS HELD BY KIDNAPERS I Aged Woman Is Held In California; Ask $lO,000 Ransom • Los Angeles. Feb. 6. (U.R) Kidi naped by a gang which drove -in . automobile to her home, kaovkvd . her door, and lured or forced her . tiro the machine. Mrs Mary Skeele, • 65. wife of the dean of music at I the University of Southern Calir fornia. today was held for $10,900 1 ransom. While her husband. Dr. Walter Skeele. payed the organ .it a church service last night. Mrs. ’ Skeele received a telephone call ' advising her that he had been in- • jured in an automobile accident. ’ Then, police were told, she telephoned a son. Franklin, asked him • to meet her at the hospital to which 1 s e had been told Dr. Skeele wa ; ’ ttken. ’ The son. an advertising exeett- ( tive, promised. Suddenly, he said his mother told him: 1 “A car has jt.st pulled up in t front of the house and somebody's knocking on the door I think it's , the car they said they'd send for , me.” 1 She ended the conversation, locked the house, and vanished, apparently spiriied away in the abductor’s ear as site emerged from the front door At the hospital the son learned his father was not a patient, that 1 his mot iter had not appeared. He I found his lather at the church, rushed with him to the home, to find a two page ransom note pinI ned to the screen door Threatening harm to Mis. Skeele if police were notified, it demanded $10,900 ransom "immediately.” Police searched in vain the modest neighborhood in which the ' Skeeles lived tor anyone who had ' seen the cur. or who hdd aeon Mrs gkeele leave the house. Police refused to reveal the en tire contents of the note, but admitted that it said In part: "It will be too bad tor Mrs. Skeele if we don't get $10,090 immediately.’’ Another passage in the note threatened to “do away with Mrs. 1 Skeele at once” if police were summoned. Dr. Skeele said he could not possibly meet the ransom demand , at once. Police said they were convinced Mrs Skeele was the victim of an ‘ organized gang of kidnapers who had studied movements of the ‘ family very carefully. Marketing Schools r . Dr. W. I). Shelby expects a much - larger attendance at his marketing I school this year. The first meeting • in the Adams County will be held f at Monroe High School Auditorium - Tuesd iy February 7 at 7:30 P. M. > and at St. Johns at 7:30 P. M. Wednesday, February 8.

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MUNCIE PASTOR IS SUSPENDED PENDING TRIAL Rev. Conway Is Suspended Pending Trial On Girl’s Charges ACTING PASTOR IS APPOINTED Mui.He. Ind,. February 6—(UP) Appointment of the Rev. J. P. ■Chamness as acting pistor of the Madison Episcopal Churrh definitely t . tfirmed reports today that the Rev. G. Ix>muel Conway, regular pastor has been suspended pending tri ll by a church court of charges involving an 18 year old girl. Chamness filled Rev. Conway's pulpit yesterd iy and the Rev. Frank L. Dougherty, district superintendent confirmed his appointment. Bishop Edgar Blake will preside at a meeting of church officials in Fort, Wayne tomorrow when a venire of 24 ministers will be selected for Conway's trial. Out of the 24 names approved 12 will be selected to hear the case. The girl s charges were contained in an Indictment recently return-j ed by the Delaware county grand l jury. Rev. Conway is specifically .charged with assault and bittery w. ilc attempting a criminal attack Another indictment also charged him with assault and battery. This ease grow out of a fight between tl.e inister and his choir leader in the church January 22. William Aurand the choir leader, was knocked over the chancel rail. GENEVA MAN IS NAMED OFFICER Chester Nelson Is Appointed State Motor Policeman Here Chester Nelson. 24. of Geneva, has l>een appointed a member of the Indiana State police force to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Had -Spot” Hollingsworth of Decatur. Mr. Hollingsworth, who had been appointed to the police force in June 19111. after having served as sheriff of Adams county, died last Monday night at the local hospital. The appointment of Mr. Nelson was made Saturday by Frank Mayr. Jr. secretary of the state and became effective immediately. The young man will cover the same territory as Mr. Hollingsworth had covered. Mr. Nelson was graduated from the Geneva high school and has been employed at a bakery In Geneva. He is a brother of Nathan C. Nelson of Decatur, forntei prosecuting attorney. GIVE BANQUET FEBRUARY 21 Farm Bureau Cooperative Association Plans Banquet Here At a meeting of the Adams County Farm Bureau Cooperative association, together with tlie social educational board comprised of women of Adams County, held at the office of the county jgent, L. E. Archbold Saturday night, plans were made for a banquet to be <erved Tuesday noon. February 21 at 11:30 o'clock. The basket dinner will be furnished by the farm women and will be served in the Niblick building on Second street, formerly occupied by the Beavers. Fryback and Beavers store. Joe Wluteregg of the Farm Bureau organization will be the general chairman in charge of the arrangements for the banquet and Mis. Harry Crown-over will act as chairman of the social educational hoard. All farmers of the county, merchants of Decatur and Adims County are urged to attend this banquet. -A committee comprising Mayor George Krick, John H- Heller, John S. Peterson and L. E. Archbold has been appointed to invite ard urge farmers and merchants to attend. A program to be presented in connection with the meal will be announced later.

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Decatur, Indiana, Monday, February 6, 1933.

Bee-Keepers To Meet James E. Starkey, secertary of the Indiana state bee-keepers association and chief inspector of apiaries will have two bee keepers meetings in Adams County Thursday/ February 9. The first meeting will be held at 10:00 o’clock in the directors’ room of the First State Bank of Berne. The afternoon meeting will be held at 2:90 P. M. in the county’ . gent’s office at Decatur. Mr. Starkey will discuss, “Brood Diseases of Bees and Their Elimination’’, and also answers any questions on the seasonal management of bees. He will be accompanied by T. C. Johnston. veteran deputy state inspector who will probably speak on the "Value of the County Bee-Keepers Association". Interested bee keepers will find this an excellent time to push plans for the bee inspection work. ASKS FARMERS TO AWAIT COPY .1. Ward Calland Announces Beet Contracts Will Be Mailed Later Farmers and beet growers in nearby territory were asked today to wait for copies of the contract which will be offered by the new purchasers of the Holland St. Louis Sugar company, expected to be issued aft»r February 15. J. Ward Calland of Pontiac.: Mich., who has been employed by Dale McMillen, president of Allied Mills and head of the company which is negotiating tor the purchase of the local sugar factory. was here today and in touch with several of the former field representatives and beet grower-.. Mr. Calland will be field super- . huendent of the local mill and intends to assume his duties shortly after February 15. He returned to his home today and announced that he would return in about 10 days. He also intends to move his family here. De nils pertaining to the purchase of the sugar mill will be completed by February 15th. when the case is to he acted on by the federal court at Grand Rapids. Until then the prospective owners must wait time, but assurance has been given th’t the program to operate the mill this year will go through. o Kokomo Girl Dies Kokomo, Ind.. Feb. K — tl T P) — Miss Mary Hilligoss. 22-vear-old Kokomo waitress died yesterday, from pneumonic, ending the long] fight waged by firemen to keep her: alive by artificial respiration. Death cae a tew hours alter physickins had ordered the resuscitator removed and predicted he:- recovery. The girl became ill last Sunday! and a squad of firemen volunteered their services when all hope had been given up for her recovery. I They administered artificial res-, Ipiration for 138 hours, five minutes out of every 15.

Congress Con. memorates Life And Public Service Os Calvin Coolidge

I Washington, Feb. <U.R) —Congress in formal joint session today commemorated the life and public services of Calvin Coolidge, late former President who died last month. President Hoover and the nation’s high executive, judicial and military figures attendinded the solemn services in the house chamber. They heard one of the former i President's close friends. Chief Justice Arthur P. Rugg of the Massachusetts Supreme court, eulogize him as “the incarnation of the ideal of the America of his day." A male chorus from the interstate commerce commission sang two hymns and the chaplains of the house and senate offered prayers. President Hoover sat at the front of the chamber, flanked by his aides and members 6f the cabinet. Nearby were gathered the robed justices of the Supreme court, the chief of staff of the army, the chief of nav al operations, foreign ambassadors and ministers and members of the senate. Farther back in the chamber sat Hie members of the house Mrs. Coolidge did not attend the rites.

ROOSEVELT ON FISHING TRIP President-Elect Arrives In Bahamas For Extended Stay Nassau. Bahamas, Feb. 6 ; —(U.P) i —-President-elect Roosevelt arrived today aboard Vincent Astor's yacht Nourmahal. Arrangements were made immediately for a flshitog cruise, starting at one o’clock, with a native pilot guiding the yacht to the likeliest spots near the islands. It was indicated Mr. Roosevelt and his party would spend six days in the Bahamas. Governor Clifford paid the visiting dignitaries an official call and was invited to join the fishing party. Those in Mr. Roosevelt's party were Astor. Kermit Roosevelt. Justice Frederick Kernochan. George St. George, A. A. Gentnerkrk. R. D. Clark and James H. Reidy. They left Jacksonville. Fla.. Saturday. List Appointees Miami. Fla., Feb. 6—(U.R>—Under the sheltering palms of Miami’s golf courses and in private suites of its big hotels. Democratic leaders today were drawing up lists of secondary appointments in the Roosevelt administration—postoffices, clerkships, great and lesser plums in the line of regular patronage. While the presidemt-elect fished nrwTTNT’wn on pacc five HEAVY ADVANCE SALE REPORTED Advance Sale For Annual Farmers Banquet Reported Heavy A heavy advance sale of tickets for the ninth annual farmers banquet has been reported. The banquet will be Tuesday evening. February 14. at Monmouth, with the ladies of that community preparing the meal. Peter B. Lehman, president of the Adams County Guernsey Cattle club, plans to have all paid up members of this organization as his guests. Separate tables will ; he arranged for these twenty people. Separate tables also will be arranged for the officers and lead ers of the home economh s club" and the institute workers. Ben H. Petty of Purdue Univer- ’ sity. guest speaker at the banquet, will arrive early Tuesday morning in order to make a trip over county roads and secure first hand information for his address, which will be on ‘‘Highway Im- | provement." The Monmouth ladies announced ; the menu for the banquet today. It will consist of creamed chick- [ cn. mashed potatoes, baked beans, I cold slaw, fruit salad, cake, cot--tee. pickles and jelly. Tickets for the banquet are priced at 25 cents.

- Mr. Coolidge came to the presidency, Chief Justice Rugg said in ' his memorial address, at a time ‘ when the country after the upheav- ! al of the war needed an opportunity to readjust itself. “The people wanted to attend to ' their own affairs “ he said. “They were reassured to know that in the |Offffice of President there was a I man of rugged honest, calmness, , wisdom, who was reticent, modest, courageous, experienced; to whom no duty was trifling or obscure; , who had broad sympathy and deep ' understanding of his fellow men. “The depth and breadth of his . nature, the acuteness of his mind, ; the soundness of his moral purpose, . the resources of his wisdom, were sufficient of every day and for every emergency. i “The people responded to his . ability to discern their thoughts and , needs. They looked to him. not ’for new and startling theories of I government, economics or politics, i'but for expression of their in-most . spiritual longings and aspirations. . i “They were not disappointed. I They could understand him. They , I thought of him as one of their own I*' continued' on page’ four' ’

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BARRY DEFENDS BRIBE ARTICLE IN COMMITTEE Senate Employe,Suspended For Authorship, Testifies Today CITES ALLEGATION MADE BY SEN. GLASS Washington, Feb. G --(UP)—Sen-! .to sergeant-at-arms David S. Barry under suspension for authorship of' a magazizue article asserting that! some congressmen sell their votes for money? defended himself today' ! before the sen..te judiciary commit-' tee by citing a similar allegation made in the senate by Senator Glass, em.. Va. ' If it is an offense to have said what 1 said in my article. ’ Barry said in a prepared statement read to the committee, “Then I am not alone guilty, for on the lotli of May 1932, Senator Glass of Virginia, speaking on the subject of the opposition of certain banke-s to the proposed legislation in regard to branch banking, said: “They hired a skillful and persivisive professional lobbyist and paid him a high salary to come here to Washington—Worse than that, they hired some congressmen to my positive and documentary knowledge to oppose even that small measure of branch banking." 4 Barry’s statement distributed to the press underscored the reference of hiring congressmen. The witness was-composed and enip utic in his statements in the 'crowded committee room. He scarcely blinked as a barage of flashlights exploded in i.is face. Chairman Norris of the committee said Btrry had requested to be permitted to make a statement. Barry told the committee that in the "New Outlook" article he was "endeavoring to represent it as the ttue sltuuUuii that the : s’n!at°d of misconduct of individuals in office offered no basis for the loose public condemnation of the Senate one so often hears.” He said he would not resign but would await the judgment of the senate. The committee had before it a motion for his remove! from office. The senate has agreed to vote • on tee motion tomorrow. Barry cited also a letter written by chairman Nye of the Se. ate campaign fund committee to the late Senator Caraway, Dem., Ark. referring to activities of lobbyists on Capitol Hill end to the fact that a Seir.’.tor had said "a certain measure would be’ enacted because the interests were behind it." NEW CRISIS IN MINE DISTRICT Picketing Is Resumed In Mine Area Near Taylorville. Illinois Taylorville, 111., Feb. 6.- (U.R) —A new crisis came at dawn today in the Taylorville mine area, scene of slayings, bombings and riots in the past six months, when members of the Progressive union said they would resume picketing of Peabody mines. Detachments of troops were held in readiness but they did not plan to intervene if picketing was "peaceful." Truce in the Christian county mine disorder was ended following n conference between mine officials and Gov. Henry Horner. Members of the Progressive miners union, opposing employes of the United Mine Workers of America who are working in the Peabody mines on the new $5 scale, immediately announced that picketing would be resumed. Horner began peace negotiations shortly after his inauguration, temporarily ending weeks of warfare and bloodshed. Commanders of the troops, including four Illinois national guard (CONTINUED""on PAGE* SIX) To Judge Exhibits W. T. Rupert, veteran corn grower of Adams County, has been invited to judge the agricultural exhibits at the Farmers In ditute at New jCorydon Saturday February 11. He i , will be accompanied on the trip by ! iL. E. Archbold, county agent.

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Jailed ; * '* 4 ■ II MN > A A JI Murray Humphreys, Chicago’s “public enemy No. 1” since the. incarceration of Capone, who was sentenced to jail for one year for gun-toting. AUfOCRASHES KILL THIRTEEN Thirteen Persons Die In Indiana Over WeekEnd From Accidents Indianapolis. Feb. fi.—(U.R)—Automobile accidents brought death' to 13 persons in Indiana during the weekend. Four of the victims were passengers in a car which was struck by a C. and E. 1., train at Terre Haute. Three other persons in the same car were injured. The dead include Paul Purcell, 27. Sullivan, owner and driver of the ear: Frances Booker. 16. Terre Haute; Lena Biggs, 30. Terre Haute, and M. D. Meßridge, 26. Terre Haute. . Lena Booker, 35. mother of Francis, and Virgil Booker, 45, the father, were injured along with George Ames, 27, Sullivan. The car was driven on the tracks directly in front of the train, witnesses said. Two occupants of an automobile which crashed into a street car were killed at Richmond. Walter Vossler. 68. chief engineer of the Richmond Water Works Company, met death instantly while How r ard Van Zant, senior member of a printing firm, was fatally injured. Vossler, who was driving, crashed head on with a street car while attempting to pass another automobile. Walter Bastin. 24, was fatally injured when his car collided with a taxicab on the Main street levee at Lafalette. Bastin lived south of Lafayette. Stepping in front of an automobile during a snow storm Frank Prevost. 47. was killed eight miles southwest of Portland Saturday night. Ernest K. Jones. 44, became the 13th traffic victim of the year in Marion county when he drove his automobile into a traffic signal at Indianapolis. Frank Krebs, 56, died in a hospital here from injuries received in an accident January 27. Harley Heimbaugh, former grocery store owner at Elkhart, was found dead in his automobile which had run into the St. Joseph’ river. Police suspected foul play, and arrested a suspect. They said Heimhaugh's body was in the rear seat of the car Instead of the front ami they feared his car had been pushed into the stream. sidore Collier. 1151 S. Mozart St. Chicago was killed on U. S. 30 m ir Fort Wayne last night when he was struck by an automobile while walking after gasoline for his stalled truck. A hit and run driver killed Thomas Kladuslc, 52, at Hammond early today. Kladus-tc was on tils way to work. — o Threaten Mutineers The Hague, Netherlands. Feb. 6 (U.R) —Naval seaplanes flow over the cruiser De Zeven Provincien, seized by mnltneers in the East Indies, and threatened to bomb the ship if it does not surrender, authorities were advised today. The fliers displayed their bombs threateningly to the men -on the decks of the ship. Meanwhile, the entire Dutch ’ East Indian fleet was concentratI ing near Sumatra.

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HOUSE LEADERS ! MEET SERIOUS OPPOSITION Three Proposed Amendments To Reorganization Are Defeated URGES PASSAGE OF BANKING MEASURE Indianapolis, Feb. 6. House administration leaders encountered their most serious opposition ol the present legislative session today when their highway reorganization bill came up on second reading. The fight was precipiitiled when Representative Paul B. Sturm, D.. of Danna, offered an amendment reducing salaries ot the commissioners from $5,290 provided in the bill to $3,590. His amendment was defeated 48 to 44. Another amendment reducing the salaries to $4,200 offered byLee E. Shafer, D., of Royal Center was tabled 45 to 39. A third amendment setting the salary figure at $4,801) was tabled by a, voice vote. The bill was advanced to engrossment after being amended to conform with the reorganization bill passed last night. It proj vides for a commission of throo full time men instead of the present four man part time group. A chairman is to be appointed front the three members. Urges Passage Contending that a bank deposit ' guaranty law that will really work is "the only possible legis- • lation which will restore confii i deuce in Hoosier financial instifu- ’ Hons" Representative John R. ‘ Jones. D.. of Plymouth prepared • today to fight for passage of such a measure. His bill getting up the niachin- - ery for a deposit guaranty is al- ■ ready in the hands of judiciary A committee in the house. . Although not recommended by the administration nor backed by the survey commission Jones predicts that his bill will pass "when ' the people hack home understand what it means to them.” ‘‘The trouble is now that tha people are scared of the banks ' and the hankers are more scared of the people,” he declared. "A deposit guaranty law such as provided under my bill will remove the cause of that fear. “It will work because it places responsibility for hank failures right where the survey commission found that it belongs—upon ‘he banks themselves.” o OPEN WAY FOR DISSOLUTION Von Hindenburg Removes Otto Braun, Prussian Premier Berlin. Feb. 6 —(U.R) —President Paul Vin Hindenburg opened the way for dissolution of the Prussian diet today by signing air emergency decree removing Prussian Premier Otto Braun and making Vice Chancellor Franz Von Papen to replace him. Papen immediately summoned a meeting of the Prussian state council to vote dissolution of the diet, which was made possible by his substitution for Braun. The Nazis expect to increase their i strength In the election which will ' be called in Prussia. Vou Papen also is federal commissioner En Prussia. The Prussian government was 1 ousted by Van Papen when he was ‘ chancellor, but retained the nominal rights of office and representation on the federal council. A federal commissioner was installed to rule the state. Braun was a member of the > Prussian state council and would not vote for dissolution of the I FONTINPEn ON PAGE FIVE New Term Opens ’ The February term of the Adumg • circuit court opened this mornlrg, with Judge H. M. DeVoss presiding. i A large number of entries were •Imade In several cases but no trials ot any importance wore heard.