Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 31, Number 122, Decatur, Adams County, 23 May 1933 — Page 2

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DECATUR DAILY DEMOCRAT Published Every Evening Except Sunday by THE DECATUR DEMOCRAT CO. Entered at the Decatur, Ind., Post Office as Second Class Matter. J. H. Heller.... Pres, and Gen. Mgr. A. R. Holthouse. Sec’y & Bus. Mgr. Dick D. Heller.. Vice-President Subscription Rates: Single copies $ .02 One week, by carrier 10 One year, by carrier 5.00 One month, by mail .35 Three months, by mail 1.00 Six mouths, by mail 1.75 One Year, by mail. 3.00 One year, at office... 3.00 Prices quoted are within first and second zones. Elsewhere 13.50 one year. Advertising Rates made known on Application. National Adver. Representative SCHEERER, Inc. 115 Lexington Avenue, New York 35 East Wacker Drive, Chicago. Charter Member of The Indiana League of Home Dailies. A revolution in Cuba has reached the stage where bombs are being dropped around the capital at I Havana, as reminders that the boys i from the provinces mean business. 1 Check the lights on your auto-! mobiles. It will save you and the ’ police trouble. Officers have been! ordered to see that car lights are ' in working condition and that's 1 wise. Thursday's issue of the Daily• Democrat will go to practically every home in Aiams county, giving an extra circulation to those who wish to advertise and you are invited to do so without cost for i the extras. Better times are no longer around the corner—they are here. While it may not have been noticeable to you directly, there is a general up- ■ trend, every where and in a few | weeks it will be visible to the I naked eye. Keep smiling, the worst is over. A cross in the circle of the first column means you want the Eighteenth amendment repealed and in the second column that you want it to stand. If you keep that in mind you should be able to vote your desire on June 6tl* when the special election will be held. President Roosevelt wants the world to disarm and there is no' bluff about his plea. If he succeeds ; and With Italy, Great Britain. I and Germany already in accord, it looks like he will, he will have done another act which makes I every one happy that he was elected lasUNovp.mber, The 4»ig circus cometi the 31st — and thousands of tickets have already been given out. These entitle you to admission for only a dime tn a real three-ring, old-sash- 1 ioned qjrcus. It ought to bring a' big crowd to town and the mer- ‘ chants will have the opportunity of ’ showing their goods to advantage.' We njay not like the store tax. the grots income tax or the intangible taxes but as long as these forms are the law, it is wisest qnd cheapest to follow the rules as j fixed by those in authority. Your store rax is past due now and June ! 15th is the deadline. If you want' to play safe, you will look after l this little matter immediately. "Waxey" Gordon, racketeer, is on trial in federal court in New York for dodging income taxes. Follow-. ing him will come the trial of! Charles E. Mitchell, leader in bank-1 ing aud club circles on the same charge and then Joseph Harriman, also an 'nteruational hanker for

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(falsifying the books of his bank. The old depression seems to have brought many to a level. t , When the supreme court gets through with the tests and everybody has had their say, it is possible that draught beer at a nicklo ' a glass may be obtainable in Int diana. There seems to be considerable competition among the ! * brewers and most folks can't see ] much difference in beer out of a i bottle and beer cut of a glass. Just 1 seems impossible to please every ) one in this handling of beveridges. ' i The farmers over Adams county are certainly making up for the time lost by the weather. Numerous reports have come in where they are working day and night, ’ using double crews. Others are starting at daylight and keeping it up until dark. There is plowing and planting to be done and it must be taken care of within the next ten days or two weeks ro assure a crop. Corn and sugar beets are ' ■ the main crops now requiring atI tention. — | Gangsters continue to steal slot ; machines in and near Fort Wayne 'and nobody seems to care anything ' , about it except the owners of the I places and machines. Since its unlawful to have them, there is evidently no chance to make much of la "squeal." Os course the bandits 1 could be charged with carrying concealed weapons, tresspass, house-I ! breaking or other crimes, but that Imight get the boys in bad. so its' just being passed up. Looks kind ,of like a case of "dog cat dog," doesn't it? Meredith Nicholson believes *e■ i should all get back to a more; jsimple life than we have been lead-! ' ing. Recalling the stock buying era ! of a few years ago he said he presumed we would try it again as; jtimes got better, but advised I against it, in a recent talk to the Biufiuyg. Jiotary club. He said Mark Twain was probably right when he declared, "As I look I | around and see so many fools, 1 'some times wonder if it wouldn't! have been better if Noah had missled the boat.’’ — Its a cold day when Judge Frank) 11’. Baker of Indianapolis don't make I i the headlines. He seems not to agree with some of the laws enI acted by the last legislative sessi ion. Recently he declared the beer 1 law unconstitutional and now he , charges that "pressure of money i and position" is influencing the j I state board of elemney, referring ! particularly to the case of Malcom ; Berger, a DePauw student who was : ' let out after serving three months ' of a years sentence to the state | farm. The scrap may become in- , | teresting one of these days for ; ! usually there are two sides to every I .battle between those in authority. ■ ♦ __'7- ; -—J Household Scrapbook I —By— ROBERTA LEE Furniture Bruise A furniture bruise can be removed hv using a piece of blotting pa--1 per soaked in warm water, placing I it over the bruise and applying «. | warm iron until all moisture is gone. R peat if necessary. Gloves . Ha:.ds that perspire give the, glove a nasty, leather odor. To pre- • vent this, dust rice or talcum pow-> der into' the gloves as soon as they , arc removed. The Tea Wagon Daintiness wiH be added to the i tea wagon if a small vase of flow- ! era is placed on it when serving | tea. Master Mason degree will be con- I ferred Tuesday evening at 7:30 ' o’clock. Bob Helm, W M. O Sprague Appointed Washington, May 23 —(UP)—O. M. W. Sprague, former economic xdvisbt to the bark at England and Harvard professor, today accepted j tb« position of economic advisor to the United States tendered him yesterday by President Roosevelt.

j J APS ATTACK . ON ALL LINES Chances of Peace Truce Fade With Dropping Os Negotiations . Peiping, May 23. —(U.PJ —Japanese J troops, their big guns within range of Peiping's suburbs, intensified op- ■ erations on all lines today, Shoichi Nakayama, Japanese charge d'af- . fa.ires, announced. Nakayama announced complete suspension of negotiations with I Chinese officials which, it had been hoped, might' lead to a truce. Japanese artillery shelled TungI chow today. Tungchow, ten miles east of this ancient northern capital, is really a suburb. j Adding to the confusion in the city, where troops, citizens, and . refugees with livestock milled ■ through the streets, six Japanese airplanes, three of them super- , bombers, roared over the city. The bombers each had a crew of three, with machine guns in addition to the bombs. Chinese antiair craft guns remained silent and ■the planes confined operations to observation. But with the walls sandbagged land some Chinese saying they ■ were determined to repeal any further advance, there was constant danger of outbreaks. General Ho Ying-Ching ordered some Chinese troops, whose presence had brought Japanese com(plaints, to evacuate the city. As they did so, however, the Peiping garrison troops, in addition to continuing fortification of: the city walls, placed artillery | posts midway between Peiping and ■ Tungchow. Six hundred Japanese troops ' were sent from Tientsin to rein- j : force the legation guard here. Ho's evacuation order followed , reports that there had been agree- i ■ ment to remove superfluous troops j ■ I southward to Paotingfu. 90 miles' ■away, in return for a Japanese' j promise not to enter the city in | i force. Ho himself was reported to 1 ' 'be prepared to move his head- ■ quarters to Paotingfu. leaving the I civilian authorities under General Huang Fu in charge of the capital Troops from the Japanese lega- ; ition guard entered the eastern sec 11 ition of the native Tartar city to-1 iday to protect Japanese lives and i property.

TWENTY YEARS * AGO TODAY From the Daily Democrat File Virginia Margaret is the name of jth baby daughter born to Mr. and Mrs. Ralph Bentz. i Fire truck collides with horse 1 and buggy. C. E. Baughman of Homer. Mich., arrives here. Mrs. John Thomas a,nd grandson ! are visiting at Dixon, Ohio. Miss Mabel Weldy entertains tor ' Misses Velma and Nellie Daniels. Miss Flora Peters of Fort Wayne I is the guest of Miss Lydia Kirsch. Harry Quinn of Kansas City is j visiting here. Mrs. D. T. Stephenson of Goshen | is the guest of Mr. and Mrs. John , Niblick. Naomi, ten year old daughter of I Frank Teeple, is ill with scarlet j fever. 1 Class of thirty-five receive diploi mas tonight. o Memorial Services The First Lnited Brethren church, iwili hold the annual memorial set-1 j vices next Sunday morning from 1 9:15 to 11 a. m. Names of church I members who have died during the year will be lead and they will I thus be remembered. The following members of the ' church have died during the past year; Mrs. Lucy Johnson, July 10, 1932; Richard A. Harker, July 10; Ross | Hays, October 11, John Hill, November 13; Philip HcuHe. November I IS; Albert Luce. November 29; I Mrs. Lillie Burkhead. December j 29; Dayton V. Steele. January 7, '1933; Mrs. Hattie G. Gilpin. March '2B; Thomas Elzey, March 28; Mrs. Martha Deitsch, April 6; Mrs. I Sarah Pyle, May 19. i The pastor. Dr. Charles J. Rob;erts, will deliver a memorial ad.dress and there will be music and 'other features appropriate to the 'service. All relatives and friends of those who have gone from us are given a special invitation to attend the services. TWO TORNADOES • KILL SEVERAL (CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONE) I'Tlescue squads searched the debris strewn business district of Liberal today for missing persons after a tornado that struck the city late yesterday causing damage estimated at $1,000,000. Three persons were known dead and it was t*a’wd at least three others were buried somewnere in Hie wreckage of demolished buildings. More than 150 persona were

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injured, several seriously. The tornado struck at 5:27 p.m. The body of George Rosendale. 45, was found crushed In his I furniture store. Near him lay Neal I , Hergert, 40, his body smashed | by a falling wall. M. D. Grossman, 40, salesman, I was found dead on a sidewalk. A flying timber had struck him. The tornado also struck near Garden City, Kan., where Allen Felt, 50. was injured fatally when his automobile was blown frpm a highway. Ten other persons were injured near Garden City. o DAN NIBLICK IS DELEGATE i (CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONE) members of the Masonic Lodge of Bloomington in their efforts to assist in the entertainment of delegates to the convention. A lunch was served the delegates i and guests at noon on Monday by I the Bloom iugton Council of Knights of Columbus in K. of C. Building. O’Donnell Re-elected Bloomington, Ind.. May 23-4U.R) —John P. O'Donnell, Bloomington started his fourth term as state deputy of the Indiana Knights of Columbus today following his election at the annual meeting here. Other officers re-elected were: O. D. Dorsay, Lapovte, state secretary; Matthew Young, state treasurer; Charles Bultz, Tipton, state warden. The Rev. Edward J. Mungovan. Hammond, was reappointed state chaplain. Gerald Olvaney, Michigan City, was elected state warden succeeding E. A. Laroque, Elkhart. August Flick of Jasper and William Schnarr were elected new members of the board of directors of the Gibault home for boys at Terre Haute. Eight delegates were elected II for the first annual convention of j Knights of Columbus to be held in Chicago in August. They are J. P. O'Donnell, Bloomington; Joseph Ai Naughton, Indianapolis; D. N. Niblick, Decatur; John Mack, Elwood; Hames Nabor, New Albany; Raymond Behler, I Garrett; William J. Doody, Whiting, and Leo Kimmett, Bloomington. The site for the 1934 convention will be selected later. FOUR BANDITS : GET 55.000 IN BANK ROBBERY

(CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONE) the automobile, attracted by the bandit who remained on guard with drawn pistol. They tired at random over the heads of the crowd and into the automobile of' Dr. Neil Davis, Lowell physician who was parked across the street. The bandit car was a large dark sedan bearing Indiana license 1933 j number 683,683. The license was issued to G. McClellan of Michigan City but authorities assumed it had ■ been stolen. The robbers tied northward and I a posse was quickly organized to give chase. Plates Stolen Indianapolis, May 23. — (U.R) — License plates used by bandits who robbed the Lowell National Bank i today were stolen from the automobile of Gilbert MeCMIaM, 14"3 'l Washington street, Michigan City. ( A duplicate set of plates was issu-1 ed to McClelland March 211. Officials I of the license bureau reported. Marcus Shows Are Major Extravaganzas The advent of the popular Marcus Show marks such a radical de-1 i parture from custom in noth policy | j and prices that A. B. Marcus, labels the innovation. “A New Deal in Show Business.” When the big organization unfolds its wares and undresses its coryphees at the Shrine Auditorium, Fort Wayne, Sunday matinee an dnight and Monday night and midnight, May 28 and 29. will sec tor the first time a major extravaganza designed especially for presentation in auditoriums of large seating capacity at prices in keeping with the times and made possible by Urge volume of patronage. Scrapping what he describes as the "sinister New York influence" Marcus has produced shows that . in point of magnitude, novelty and richn ss of sartorial and scenic era- ■ belishment are the peers of my . that have eminated from Broadway I and is now offering them al but a i small fraction of the scales usually i charged for more imporant girl-and: i music attractions. 'Without exception the big Broadway musical shows are presented during their New \ork engagements in theatres with seating capacities of Sub o 1.200,” declared • | Marcus in a recent interview. “With high sharing terms exacted by the house and other extraordiu- ! ary metropolitan expenses, it is . necessary to charge $3.00 to $5.00 • for seats. , "La Vie Paree" which will be prei sented. Sunday matinee and night and Monday night and "A Night at [ the Folies Bergere.” announced for j th* midnight frolic Decoration Day i E v *. at 11:30 P. M. ar* th* results i . of the Marcus New Deal in Show , >! Business." Advt.x 1

Test Your Knowledge 1 Can you answer seven of these test questions’ Turn to page Four for the answers. ♦— * 1. Name the U. S. Food Administrator under Woodrow Wilson. 2. In which nation did the metric system originate? 3. In church architecture, what is a transcript? 4. Who was Richard Cobden? 5. How is the price of gold .leterminsd? t>. Who was the Presidential candidate of the Communist Party in j 1932? 7. Which state leads in gold pro- ' duction? 8. Where is the CitJ- of Metz? 9. What is the nickname for the Bank of England? 19. Which. city in the V. 8. has the largest area? CLIFFORD LEE DEATH CAUSED BY CHLOROFORM (CONTIN UED FROM PAGE ONE) | family for Mr. Lee’s act. He did j not leave a note. He had been brooding and worrying over some matters, members of the familyl stated, but they did not think he was contemplating suicide. Services will be held at the Lee I home, Wednesday afternoon at 1:30 o'clock, and at 2 o'clock at the First Evangelical church. Rev. j M. W. Sundermann. pastor of the I church, will officiate. Burial will I , be in the Decatur cemetery with I rites conducted by the Red Men's"} lodge. 1 The body was removed to the home this morning from the S. E. Black Funeral Parlors, and the remains may be viewed until time I for the funeral.’ Son Os Meredith Nicholson Named Indianapolis, May 23— (U.R) — Meredith Nicholson. Jr., son of the Hoosier author, was appointed examiner in the state insurance department late yesterday by McClain, insurance commissioner. Three other examiners were appointed. They are John T. Rash, Greenfield, Ora Hopper, Salem, and J. A. Miller. Rockville. SENATE OPENS INQUIRY INTO BANKING FIRM (CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONE) upon much of the current legislation aimed at restricting the activities of bankers. Upon businesses such as his. Morgan told the senate stock market investigating committee in a prepared statement, will depend in large measure America's recovery from the present depres-1 sion. He defended private anking, the I

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i over-lapping directorships tor which his firm has been criticized . i and said that "we should not by 1 any means force the oranization I for distribution of securities out ' of business." | J Morgan was asked to pi" the articles of partnership binding his firm but refused upon the ad- . vice of John W. Davis, his chief ; counsel. The first Morgan secret pried fiom the witness by Ferdinand Pecora, committee counsel, was , that the aggregate deposits of J. i P. Morgan & Co., and Drexel & j Co., of Philadelphia, were "about" i ’ $250.(MX),000. Morgan, dressed in a smart blue ' suit and with a flashy ring glittering from his right hand, ap- I peared calm aud un flurried as he faced the committee and the roomful of pushing. crowding spectators. The famous banker, who previously had beep worried aud nervous about the prospect of testify-

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