Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 31, Number 112, Decatur, Adams County, 11 May 1933 — Page 1

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. | NG WOMEN j |re INJURED 1| IN ACCIDENT L. Are Confined To liosniial Followinu Accident W'R BROTHERS /!■ ESCAPE INJURIES . ferft- voting women ace Stall'■ ■ Adams County Sw itil H'Oi'i'nl today as z Siwuli < vere injuries ZBL whi'ii an automobile $ ■which tl.i'V were riding : Krtnnii"l diortly after midnight. J Bhc ■ injured are: Ela>tha ' !. Imi. daughter " ■ Janes i olehin, Rugg and strep’-. sufl'Ting from laceration of the scalp. Si K ( 1 tjim-d a gash sev- $ Kr>igh' in. . h-tiK. 15 stitches K,, I .jr, , lose the wound. I snff.'i 'd an injury to her K le t W l!if ( '"’ k ''- : " Kl ' tPr ot A,lol Pl> » Kt, S'.H'ih Third street, injured K; Hl linii' wrist. The extent Elin: had not been ascerMthis X-ray picto he taken late t >day the injuries, la d.nhach. daughter Ih h: ‘e h Decatur tj HKlini-d h'ii Il'S and numerous bruises. \. riding 'lice Baker. ''Hgilrth Oi ■. itur, and were .” by Mr. Baker's sons. * Ki; hard. Robert Baker bruised shoulder while Hollier was uninjured. It ti .’ people were ; to city after attending ■to <• at S in Set Park, south ot i As they neared the Det -. ci Hi. the car left the • where part of the berm KdiL : a .1 out. swung around Berturned. ■ Till y.nii women were picked ■) i passing motorists an d to the Decatur hospital. lik'-r brothers were not .n---leriottsly enough to require I attention. mtomobile was badly wrecktie accident. c Invited To Attend Performance its forth? slight of hand n to be given by Robert z, boy niagicain of Fort at the local Moose home, and Saturday may be purat the door preceding: the lance. The public is invited nd the program, which w 111 n Friday and Saturday even1 BOOSTERS STROYBOOKS 9 Books Deemed ile to Nazi Govern* ent Are Bunted Silin May 11—(u.pj—Ten t lions binging and shouting students ped around a blazing bon tire h>era square until the early ’day, jubilant at destroy representing ideas ami considered hostile tn Germany. Some 20.000 books consigned to the flames ■Jj" w ” rlis <>f some of the most ■W ral ''l of modern German autli Bjlbooks of social and political inimical to Nazi beliefs, ■■books detailing the horrors ot Est s u*'h as ‘All Quiet on the |W|iiTn Front,'• made a tremend ETF ri ,llat blazed tor hours while ■T" a,| d Hremen stood by to fire it from spreading out of the ■ into surrounding buildings education has been ■/T 1 of smut and dishonesty." leader Gutjahr said when I’H* l "'' burned itself down to embByß a " ( l the students marched |Zr' Ixxiks destroyed were ran- [■ copies of widely printed works only a slight per['■Zße of the total number of R*pl work extant in Germany and the students destroyed eon thought. Nazi storm troopers |Wcre j’jmplettng Jhe to-

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Plans Farm Strike |||g ' JIIL'' IHfit.nib Milo Reno, president of the National Farm Holiday Association. whose organization recently voted for a farm holiday to start May 13. Members of the organization. who met at Des Moines, lowa, plan to start hoarding their' crops and produce on that date and refuse to deliver them to markets. The proposed holiday would disturb regular deliveries of milk and produce to large cities in the Middle West.

GIVE PROGRAM OF CONVENTION St. Mary’s Sunday School Convention Will Be Held At Bobo Sunday The St. Mary's Township Sunday School convention will he held at the Bobo United Brethren Church Sunday May 14. The key note of the convention will be ‘Church Constancy" and the slogan. ‘‘Greater Preparedness." The afternoon session will open ' at 2 o'clock and the principal address will be given by the county president. Clifton F Striker Kermit Bowen will act as song leader , and special musical selections will be presented The evening program will start at 7:30 o'clock and county super intendent of the Young People's Department. C. D. Teeple. of Decatur will deliver the address. Following is the complete program for the day: Afternoon Session 2:03 P. M. Song Leader —Kermit Bowen Piano Doris Shifferly Congregational Singing Deader Devotionals Rev. ,1. Peters Music U. B. Church . Address — County President Clifton Striker i Music Pleas.int Mills Baptist i Church Reading -Calvary Church Boni'a Miller , Song—Collection Congregation I Appointment of Nominating Committee. Tulls by County Officials, Benediction Rev. L. M. Pierce Evening Session 7:30 P. M. ' Song Congregation G (PONTtNCKD ON PAGE VIVE) Five Thousand New Stamps Received Here ' Five thousand three cent stamps of a new series were received by the Decatur postoffice this week. , These commemorate the two hundredth a.nniversary of the esttblish- ■ ment ot Washington's camo at New burgh. New York. They have a picture of his headquarters on the ' Hudson with a scenic view of the hills and landscape. J o Forged Letter Ruins Chance For Parole 1 Indianapolis, May 11 — (UP) — ' Floyd Blatk's chances for a p role 1 from his life sentence at the state prison were spoiled today. The state clemency commission 1 announced that a letter recommend- ' leg his relei.se was forged. r Black was found guilty ot loosenI Ing rails on the Chicago and Easter i Illinois railroad at Dewey, Vigo ‘ county, in 1924. He had a previous II crtmiml record a. d was sentenced 'lto lite under the habitual criminal. ’ 1 statutes. _

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GENERAL SALES 1 TAX PROPOSED BY GOVERNMENT ■ Administration Considers ! Financing Works Pro- I gram By Such Tax I ( LABOR WITHDRAWS ITS OPPOSITION < i Washington May 11—(UP)—The administration contemplates tin- I amcing a $3,300,000,000 public works ( program itlter by a general sales tax or a tax on tea and coffee, the , United Press was reliably i formed ! today coincident with antnouncei ment that President Roosevelt would propose a t. w tax program to raise $200,000,000 annually. i Amortisation of the proposed public works bond issue was discussed at the White House in conferences hegin.iiing last week-end and which ar? continuing. The United Press was informed that labor organizations hitherto oppos- 1 i“d to a general sales tax had an- ' nounced they would not object to 1 such a levy to i reate jobs. 1 Three Plans ' Washington. May 11—(UP)—Ad- 1 ministration lead rs and advisors were whipping together today de- 1 tails of a huge legislative measure ‘ combining three plans designed to open up millions of jobs and stab- : ilizi? industry:

i 1. A public works expenditure of $3,000,00(1,000 (Bi 2. Industrial pLunning with the ; cooperative supervision of the federal government. 3. A shorter work week. President Roosevelt has agreed to the principals of the combined measure and intends to press for its emactme.:ut this session. It will displace the revised Connery-Black ’ W-hoitr w -ek bill reported"ye^ter-' day by the house labor committee. Disclosed with the broad legislative plan was Mr. Roosevelt'is fCONTINUED ON PAGE I‘IVE)* CLAIM VICTORY FOR PARAGUAY Paraguay Claims Overwhelming Victory Over Bolivian Forces Asuncion. Paraguay, May 11. — (U.R) — An overwhe'nting Paraguayan victory in heavy lighting at West Gondra in the Gran Chaco was claimed in a semi-official announcement today, as all Paraguay mobilized to back the government’s formal declaration ot war against Bolivia. The Bolivian Campero regiment: virtually was annihilated, the an-j ! nouncement said, and a large quan-. tity of war material was captured. Paraguay's civil population, chatting for months because of alleged Bolivian aggressions in the Gran ’Chaco, hailed the declaration with; delight, apparently unaware that it made little difference in the actual relations of two countries that have been engaged in sanguinary fighting since last June. Prac(CONTINCED OX PAGE THREE) O Plan Friendlv Suit To Test Old Law Richmond. Ind.. May 11 —tU.FD—- ! A friendly suit is being planned here to test validity of an old Indiana law which provides bonds may be issued over a 30-year period when a judgment is given against a township. * If the law is held constitutional Wayne county will be able to meet poor relief costs through sale of bonds over a long period. The suit would be brought by { one of 70 persons who have provided poor relief supplies to Wayne township. Attorney General Philip Lutz, Jr., is said to have agreed to assist in : hurrying tlie test case through the courts. Mrs. Leland Ripley Is Named Student Mrs. Leland Ripley, Blue Creek township, has been chosen by the Adams County farm bureau as one t of t ie students from this county to attend the school given by the hur- ! eau at Lake Lodge, near Warsaw, i igtarUiug Juue K, , ‘

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Decatur, Indiana, Thursday, May 11, 1933.

Burglars Enter Local Moose Home Burglars entered the Moose home on North Secoud street sometime after midinight last night and stole a quantity of cigarettes, cigars tobacco and other merchandise, valued at about SIOO. Entry to the club room was made j by prying up a window in the rear of the building. Jake Grim, housemanager, locked the place about midinight and this morning when he tame to work noticed that thieves h. d been in the room. Sheriff Burl Johnson was notified and a checkup was being made today. SIO,OOO SUIT IS FILED HERE O. C. Chronister And Mrs. Vida Lammert Sue Erie Railroad Co. O. C. Chronister and Mrs. Vida Lammert have brought suit against the Erie Railroad Company, seeking damages of $10,0(10 tor the death of their father, Isaac Henry Chronister. Isaac Chronister was instantly killed on the morning of May 29. 1932. when struck by a fast freight on the Erie railroad at the South Eleventh street crossing in Decatur. It was believed at the time of the accident that Mr. Chronister saw the train, but evidently misjudged tlie distance and speed of the freight. The complaint tiled by the two children today alleges the defendant, the Erie Railroad Company, was negligent in failing to have warning lights or signals of any kind at the Eleventh street crossing. The complaint further alleges that employes of the railroad, o,i---f-rtHiug the train, were negligent in failing to give any signal of their approach and that the train was being operated at tlie excessive rate of speed of 60 miles per hour. 1 The law firm of Peters and Leas, Fort Wayne, is attorney for the plaintiff. — o Frank Wemhoff, .Jr. Spelling Champion Fr nk Wemhoff, Jr., son of Mr. and Mrs. Frank Wemhoff. Sr . former Decatur residents, won the gtade school spelli g championship of Fot t Wayne, conducted by elation WGL Wednesday night. He will compete for the county championship next Wednesday night ag i st Leona Brockamp of Hoagland. Frank won the county championship last year. By winning the city match. Frank woa a loving cup and a. sllO cash prize. (>. Markets Still Rising New Yonk, May 11—(UP)—The i nation’s business tone continued to improve today with prices on stock and commodity markets sweeping forward to this new optimism. ADAM KRIEGEL DIES AT LIMA Father of Decatur Women Dies Wednesday Night Os Pneumonia Adam Joseph Kriegel. 74. of Lima Ohio, father of Mrs. Charles Lose, Mrs. Mark Brauitt and Mrs. Andrew Appleman of this c.ity. died at his - home in Lima, Wednesday night at 9:25 o'clock, following an illness :of pneumonia and complications. Mr. Kriegel's condition had been serious since Saturday. He was born at Cranberry. Ohio, i in 1859 and spent his entire life in Lima, Ohio. He was a retired carpenter, was a member of the Holy Name Society and of the St. Rose Church at Lima. His wife preceded him in death eleven years ago. Surviving are seven children: Joseph, Carl and R.imond Kriegel of Lima, Ohio; Frank Kriegel of Galion, Ohio; Mrs. Charles Lose, Mrs. Mark Braun and Mrs. Andrew Appleman of De.etur. Four children are deceased. Twenty-one grandchildren. i Funeral services will be held ! Saturday morning at 9 o'clock at I the Imm 'culale Conception Church I at Celina. Ohio and burial will be 1 made in the St Mary’s cemetery.

GOVERNOR OF I WISCONSIN IN DRASTIC ORDER Issues Proclamation Closing All Creameries Tomorrow at Midnight CONSIDER STRIKE OF LITTLE VALUE Madison. Wis., May 11 —tli.R) — Gov. Albert G. schmedemdn today issued a proclamation announcing would close all creameries, milk distributing plants, and cheese plants at midnight tomorrow subject to reopening later. The action will be taken to combat the farm strike which starts Saturday. Schmedeman expressed alarm over reports of threats of barn burning and business boycotts against farmers who fail to join the strike. He warned that Wisconsin may lose its Chicago market and dairy prestige unless the strike is national. Two Views Des Moines, la.. May 11- U.R) An intimate, unvarnished picture of just how farmers, urged by the National Holiday Association to join in a nation wide strike May 13, view the embargo was obtained by the United Press today from two lowa planters. Each operates an average farm in the heart of the corn belt. Each profited in the boom years and each has felt the pressure of depression prices and debts since 1929. Equally sincere in their convictions, one will not join the strike; the other will . Lester O. Hunter is a cattle feeder and poultry raiser on 160 ' acres of good Boone county land. He is 35 and father of two boys. He feeds several carloads of cat tie annually, and has one of the I (CONTINUED ON PAGE THREE) INDIANAPOLIS BANK TO REOPEN Fletcher American Reorganization Plans Are Approved Indianapolis, May 11. —(U.R) —Reorganization of the FlStcher American National Bank. Indianapolis, under the name of American National B. nk. was approved late yesterday by the federal government. Approximately .$10,000,000 will be released to depositors when re organization is completed. The Fletcher American was Indianapolis' oldest and largest financial institution, having been esj tablished in 1839 by Soughton A. Fletcher. It has been operating on : a restricted basis since the national banking holiday. The last statement available at the state banking department | showed that the Fletcher American had deposits of $21,170,000. loans of $18,325,000, and surplus and un divided protits of $1,365,000. Reorganization of the institution I not only will bring financial relief to Indianapolis but will aid many state banks in Indiana. It was learned that 288 of the 425 state hanks have used the Fletcher American as a depository. Tlie reorganization will enable j many of these to be raised from class B to class A rating, it was , understood. Through the Reconstruction Finance Corporation the national gov- * * CONTI Nt'El i ON PAGE FIVE) Officers Os Closed Bank Are Indicted Wabash. Ind.. May 11.— (U.R) —' Seven former officials ot’ the closed Wabash County Loan and Trust ■ | Company were under indictment I ’ by the county grand jury today on J charges of violating the state banking laws. I Those indicted are Lucy Latch- :' em. former secretary, charge with . receiving deposits while knowing ■lthe bank was insolvent; Charles I atehem, former director, charged ■| with obtaining funds as a borrowler from the bank in violation of I state laws; and Ed Stone, Harley ' I Gamble, Frank J. Rettig, Jr., Jost eph W. Elliott, and Walter D. N. s | Wilson, all directors, charged with lYiuUtiug alalu baukrng lajra, i

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WARNINGS OF FLOODS GIVEN Weather Bureau Sends Out Flood Warnings In Indiana Today Indianapolis. May 11- (U.R) — Flood warnings in upper reaches of tlie Wabash and White rivers were sent out today by the United States weather bureau here. Heavy rains in northern Indiana during the past 24 hours will send the streams well above flood stage in several localities, J. H. Armington,; meteorologist, predicted. He said that four inches of rain had fallen in Kokomo during the past 24 hours, sending the Wildcat Creek and other Howard county streams over their banks. Marion reported 2.72 inches of raii’fall. Logansport 2.01 and Farmland 3.65. Armington said the Wabash was at flood stage in Lafayette this morning and would probably rise seven feet higher. He predicted a level of 23 or 24 feet in Covington where flood stage is 16. A smaller rise will be shown at Terre Haute and the flood danger below' there will be negligible, he said. The White river is expected to rise several feet at Anderson, Noblesville and Indianapolis. Lowlands will be flooded but the situation is not considered serious. Comparatively light rainfall in the southern part of the state during the past 48 hours has re duced the flood danger there. Armington said. n — Apparent Kidnap Attempt Revealed Terre Haute. Ind.. May 11 —(UP) —An apparent attempt to kidnap Amv Ann Monnig r. 10. daughter of G. A. Monniger, Terre Haute contractor. was revealed by police today. They said two men appeared at Amy's school yesterday and said '' they wanted her to appear for rehearsal with an orchestra. She was I home at the time and the men disappeared. police reported. The girl is a talented d nicer and filled several engagements in Hollywood. California, last year. 14-Year-Old Girl Commits Suicide Chicago May 11—(UP)—Pretty 14-yen-old Marie Bode, a high school student in a western suburb brooded through a s.le?pless night ■ because she had struck a seven-year-old boy on a bicycle with her automobile, then hanged herself in her b-droom today when her rnoth- ' er went to visit neighbors. o— — , Jury Trial Opens In Circuit Court Suit for wages by William Worden etal vs. Fred Fox et al. went to trial this morning before Judge Huber M. DeVoss and a jury in the Adams circuit court. Th- case was venued here from the Allan superior court. ANNETTE MOSES QUITS LIBRARY Forced to Resign Position Held Since 1906 Because Os 111 Health Miss Annette Moses, librarian at; the Decatur public library since tlie ■ institution was formally dedicated : j and opened to the public in July,: 1906. has resigned her position, df- ! feetive June 1. Miss Moses resigned ’ ' the position because of ill health. Members of the library board ait-. nounced 'that Miss Ruth Winnes j assistant librarian for some time, j will be in charge of tlie library. Because of the lowered tax rate > and lower appraisement values on property, the amount of money availa'ble for the library will be con- j siderably less tit in in former years. For tills reason, no assistant will be appointed to help Miss Winnes at the present time. Effective June 1. opening hours at the library will be changed. The building will be open six days a week from 12:30 p. m. to 5 p. m. and form 6:30 to 8:30 p. 'nt, The hoard accepted the resigna- ; tion of Dick I). Heller from the j board of trustees, N. A. Bixler rej gluei'ug Heller,

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New Harvard Head j: Dr. James Bryant Conant, noted authority on chemistry, who has been elected president of Harvard University to succeed Dr. A. Law-' rence Lowell, resigned. Dr. Conant, who has been identified with Harvard as a student and teacher since 1910, is widely recognized as a isßder in scientific research. He is only 40, one of the youngest heads the university ever has had. ■ MERVIN DONALD GIVEN PAROLE Man Convicted of Grand Larceny Here In December Is Paroled Indianapolis, May 11 — (UP)— Paroles were recommended for 11 inmates of the state reformatory today by the state clemency com- j mission. Sentences of five prisoners were commuted and 10 wer? denied clemency. Disposition of cases follows: Paroles Marshall Bailey. Vigo ckt, auto banditry, paroled to Scranton. Pa., where he has a job. Carl Blue. Vand rburgh ckt. burglary. Virgil Carson, Blackford ckt. grand larceny. Loren Collins, Shelbyville, Rush ■ ckt. robbery. Mervin J. Donald. Adams ckt, grand larceny. Andrew Gentry. Warrick ckt. grand larceny. Edwin P. Huffman. Elkhart ckt. third degree burglary. Donald was arrested December 9, 1932 on an affidavit charging him and Bernard Eiting, Decatur, with robbery at five different places in the county. The affidavit charged robberies at Ira Fuhrman's cottage, the Dierkes and Ellsworth filling stations and at Gustav Bleetke and ' Fred Ahr’s farm. He was sentenced by Judge C. L. Walters to not less than one year nor more than 10 years at the state reformatory. His age was given as 23. Eitlng's sentence was suspended. Attorney Herman Myers appeared for Donald in .presenting the ease before the parole board. Donald was paroled to tho county sheriff at Coldwater, Mich. o Samuel Insull Plans Business Come-baek Athens, Greece. May 11— (U.R) — Samuel Instill, former Chicago util(tty magnate, now a fugitive from I justice, planned a business come-j back today. With a parly of British experts; Ihe expected to leave for Mace I 'donia to inspect lignite mines. He (hoped to establish a power plant to electrify Port Salonika. Instill is in Greece to avoid ex(tradition to Chicago where indict-' ments growing out of the collapse of his utility empire stand against him. o—; Admits Starting $2,900,000 Fire Ellsworth, Me., May 11.—(U.R) —A [young Hancock farmhand has coni fessed, authorities announced tojday, to setting the tire which caused $2,000,000 damage here Sunday night. Tlie firebug, Norman Moore, 25, was said to have made a detailed confession which Sheriff Hal Hodgkins of Hancock county and Colonel Herbert Bowen of the 152 d j Field Artillery. National Guard, brought back today. Moore, whom authorities described as mentally deficient, had been under suspicion for several days.

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GASTON MEANS TELLS STORY IN SUPREME COURT Former Government Employe Gives Sensational Testimony Today FIRST PLANNED TO KIDNAP COLONEL Washington, May 11.—<U.R) —Gaston B. Means, ex-con-vict. former department of justice investigator and now on trial as an alleged extortionist today told his “inside story” of the Lindbergh kidnaping. Apnearing to enjoy the prominence of the witness 'stand, the portly Means declared : That the kidnaped Lindbergh baby was in Washington on March 8, 1932 and that Col. Robert Gugi genheim, a close friend of the [ flier, refused to accept it. That the original kidnap plot called for the abduction of Lindbergh himself, and that he. Means, knew the identity of the kidnapers, how the baby was killed and what became of the $50,000 ransom paid by Lindbergh. Means named as the kidnapers two underworld characters whom he called "Irving Fenton" and f “Wellington Henderson." The former department of justice investigator was testifying in his own defense. He and Norman T. Whittacre are charged with defrauding Mrs. Evalyn Walsh McLean on a promise that they could effect return of the kidnaped baby. “Henderson told me they plan- , ned to kidnap Col. Lindbergh him- | self.” Means testified. “They ' never intended to get the baby. They couldn't kidnap Col. Lind- [ bergh because he moved too quickly and they couldn't shadow him.” He said they wanted other kidnapers to rise up all over the country after they had kidnaped Lindbergh and to realize the biggest men and bankers could be kidnaped. “They planned to hold Lindbergh for $500,000, The night the baby was kidnaped it was carried to a cave which had been used to store illicit whisky for seven or eight years. “Henderson told me he expected Lindbergh to rush out in search for the baby and they would grab him." The jury members sat rigid in their chairs, listening intently as Means proceeded with his story. The courtroom was crowded, with persons sitting on window seats and standing in tlie aisles. Means resumed, declaring he left New York on Feb. 26. 1932, and returned to his home in Chevy Chase, Md. He said he told Mrs. Means what had happened. "On March 2. 1932," he said. "I read in the morning papers that Lindbergh’s son had been kidnap(CONTINUED ON PAGE FIVE) BOARD ADOPTS NEW TEXTBOOKS State Board of Education Adopts Only Eight New Books Indianapolis. Muy 11. — (U.R) — (Inly eight new textbooks for the [2B Indiana high school courses were adopted by the state board of education yesterday. Thirty throe books used in the courses were re-adopted. Four will be slightly higher in price for the next five years, prices on nine were [cut and the remainder were un- ,[ changed. Tradein values also changed in some cases. Indiana touchers are authors of three of the new books. The two Canby-Opdyke-Gillum E n g li s h books for freshmen and sophomores , are partly of Hoosier origin. Miss Gillum being from Terre Haute. Wholesale prices are 75 and 90 j cents, respectively with 20 per cent profit allowed. A new second year laitln hook I adopted was that of Berry-Lee, the former of Indiana university and the latter of Shortridge high school here. Its price to deniers is $1.20 ! phis the 20 per cent protit allow(CONTINUED ON PAGE FIVE)