Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 32, Number 111, Decatur, Adams County, 8 May 1934 — Page 6

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FEDERAL JURY CLEARS MELLON Grand .Jury Returns “No Bill" On Income Tax Evasion Charge Pittsburgh. May 8. —(U Pl A Federal grand jury today Ignored the' , overnment's charges that Andrew W. .Mellon failed to pay sufficient I93f“income taxes, and returned al "no bill' after hearing the govern ; inent’s story. The grand Jury reported to Judge Robert M. Gibson at It) a. in. today i that it found no basis tor the gov-1 erument’s charges that Mellon fail ' ed to pay all his income taxes ini ISM. The exoneration came after a speedy inquiry yesterday, beginningimmediately after the May grand jury convened. It heard income tax experts and Mellon's aides, and then adjourned until today because| all the federal judges had gone' home. Mellon himself. In one of his rare public statements, declared last week that the charges were I unfounded, and that as a matter of faet, lie overpaid his taxes., lie said he would appeal to the federal board of tax appeals, but must await the grand jury's action before doing so. Mellon attributed the order of Attorney General Homer S. Cum mings, directing the grand jury review of the tax returns, to politics. He said a prominent Democrat more than a year ago warned him that an attempt was being made "to discredit me in connection with either my administration of the treasury or my tax affairs." Mellon was secretary of the treasury under three Republican presidents. The government never published the amount of taxes which is claim , ed Mellon still owed for 1931. but .Mellon’s statement last week said he was informed by the treasury department that 11.319,000.90 taxes and J 659.540.45 penalties were claimed. That claim was made, however, he said, after Attorney General Cummings ordered the grand jury review.. The former treasury secretary said he had overpaid his taxes for 1931, besides having contributed >3,800,000 to tax exempt charities that year. CONFESSION IS BRANDED FAKE BY OFFICIALS I CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONE) I ahd will be returned soon.” A few hours later he again cross- j ed the border into Mexico and to- j day was still missing. ' White, upon completing his first ' mission did not reveal the source I of his information but it was believed to have been elicited from the “confessed kidnaper.' The suspect was an American who other-! wise was not identified. Authorities would not reveal where he I was held and later released. A 1 Mexican who was held in the! Nogales, Sonora, jail, also was re-1 leased. Information leading to the Amer lean’s arrest was supplied by Mrs. Eva Coleman, negro operator of a Fort Huachuea case. The negro told officers the man entered her case with a small girl who refus ed to eat. She later repudiated her story and was given a suspended j sentence for misleading investigat- j; ors. Another slender hope still re-'

The Fleet’s In”—Art and Actuality x Ki7pyi§Rl%W v* ” —as art sees him JgjaJjßga Mr ’ * W*X aPWr Vi Br - w \ .yv 1 V/ / A ) Ot 4 t > Jf z ■ WL” — J -v • Hi 41 r y«; 11 t / A MIU u>® • w i | Wr ’ i W'' A, ‘ J * IW li Liu S - *‘M 1 * . >*W* , *‘ Lda-rty party at Panama e_ ». Tr Remarkable record of good behavior during recent visit of the U. S. fleet to Panama, en route to New York for Presidential review, seems to have settled the controversy that raged in Washington a short time ago I as to whether sailors are gentlemen. It began when Secretary of the Navy Swanson and Admiral Hugh Rodman condemned “The Fleet Is In,” a painting by CWA Artist Paul Cadmus, as a libel upon the Navy. During passage of the fleet through the Panama Canal, more than 40,000 officers and men enjoyed shore leave. Not one case of disorderly conduct was reported to Navy officials or local authorities. On the contrary, the sailors behaved just as the Panamans want them to behave. That is, they spent freely. As a consequence tradespeople did mure busmess in twu days than they would have dune normally in two month*.

1 malned that Al Aguirre, a friend ot I Bernabe Robles would find some I trace of the girl on his current ’ trip Into Sonora.. REACTION OF STATE VOTERS TESTED TODAY (CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONE) I most Issues. Estill sum criticized severely by federal department of Justice agents for [losing in a picture with his arm around Dillinger. Lillian Holley. Lake county's ■ woman sheriff who had boasted ihat Dillinger could not escape her jail. Is not a candidate tor nomi nation. One ot 11 Democrats seek | ing the sheriff's post, however, is j her nephew. Carroll Holley, chief I deputy. Dillinger's parole by Gov. Paul V. McNutt a year ago and the prison break of his in henchmen are expected to h- the principal issues of Republicans In the campaign preceding the general election next ! fall. Aside from the Lake county con- . test, statewide interest w ill center ' on the congressional race. All 12 Democratic incumbents ; and five former Indiana representatives in the lower house are among 67 candidates seeking the nomination. . With few exceptions, the Hoosier delegation has stood steadfast-' ,ly behind the Roosevelt administration. Their renomination will indicate that Indiana Democrats approve the president's policy. The one possible exception is Glenn Griswold. Peru, representative from the Fifth district. He has voted against several of the administration's major measures. including the national recov ery act and abolishment of the gold standard. His opponent is Carl L. Houston. Marion newspaper publisher who has pledged to support Mr Roose velt “to the limit." The only other two incumbents whose renonunation is uncertain are Mrs. Virginia Jenckes. Terre Haute, representative from the Sixth district, and Arthur Greenwood. Washington, veteran from the Seventh district. Mrs. Jenckes has a formidable opponent in Charles Whitlock, Vigo county prosecutor, while Green wood is said to have lost support of the state party machine. The five former congressmen attempting a comeback are David Hogg. Fort Wayne; Fred S. Purnell. Attica, both of whom were defeated by Democrats in 1932: Al- ; bert R. Hall. Marion, and Andrew .1. Hickey. Laporte, who lost to Democrats in 1930, and Harry C. ICanfield. Batesville. Canfield was ' eliminated by a fellow Democrat. ' Eugene B. Crowe, Bedford, as re-; •suit of re-districting in 1932. i Today’s election was the first i held since passage of the voters . i law by the 1933 legislature.. Registrations are reported to have I far exceeded the total 1932 vote.' indicating a record number of hal lots will be cast before the polls ' close at 6 p. m. CST. OBSERVE WEEK OF PROBATION I (CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONE) .about probation: “Every scrap of !authentic information from those who have been waging war against I crime and criminals, night and day.. reveals that there is but one way Jto reduce crime. That is through j a policy of prevention. “if the criminal’s past history ■ gives good reason to believe that ' he is not of the naturally criminal . I type, that he is capable of real re-

ls Dillinger Dead? Wounded? or Fled U. S.? i . .. 'TKMtaJI •i, "• a jfsaSPHft i John First Aid Kit Found in Car, Hamilton' . _»■ Finding of the bloodstained car in which John Dillinger escaped Federal trap after battle at Mercer, Wis., in a Chicago street, has given rise to theories that Dillinger is either dead or is hiding out, recovering from wounds. Although the desperado has been reported seen many times since the battle at Little Bohemia Lodge, little credence is given such reports by Federal agents. Another theory is that Dillinger and his henchman, John Hamilton, have fled the country to a South American sanctuary to which they previously had dispatched the greater portion of loot taken in the series of bank raids they started in May, 1933. Total amount taken by the gang iu these robberies is estimated at nearly >1,000.000, little of which could have been spent, as the desperadoes steal whatever they need.

form and of becoming a useful citi-' zen, there is no doubt that probation. viewed from the selfish standpoint of protection to society alone. ' is the most efficient method that ■ we have. And yet it is the least understood, the least developed,! the least appreciated of all our efforts to rid society of the criminal ’ * By its intelligent extension. \ crime can be decreased, the over- ' crowded conditions in our penal in- > stitutions greatly ameliorated, and the necessity for bidding more and more prisons, for needlessly anil ■ ineffectively spending hugh prison budgets, reduced . . . I hope that in all states we shall he continually i decreasing the number of our prison gftards and wardens and increasing the number of our parole . and probation ■ officers.” PRIZE AWARDS ARE ANNOUNCED (CONTINUED UKOM v'AGE ONE) i embassy in London, for "The People’s Choice." Two members i of the jury had voted for “Over : I Here.” by Mark Sullivan, and the I ■ third favored no award. Members of the drama jury had I voted for "Mary of Scotfand” by- - Anderson. The prize for the best repertorial work went to Royce Brier, of the San Francisco , Chronicle, i Brier telephoned his office a run- ! nine story of the San Jose lynchi ings. Frederick T. Birehall, of the New York Times, was named for the most distinguished newspaper i i service. The prize was for his I stories from Europe on foreign , news developments. The Medford. Oregon, Mail Tribune won the award for outstand- ‘ ing public service. Under the I | editorship of Robert W. Ruhl, the; ' Mail Tribune stepped into a bitter

DECATUR DAILY DEMOCRAT TUESDAY, MAY 8, 1931.

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By HARRISON CARROLL Copyright. 113 4. King Features Sybdiota. log, HOLLYWOOD Calif.. —Family resemblance got Loretta Young her first film chance and now, in a curious case of history repeating itself, her kid sister, Georgianne, comes to the screen for the same reason. For a week, Director Erik Charell

has been seeking a youngster to play Loic-tta as a little girl in Fox’s new picture,”Caravan.” Just by chance, he happened to show Loretta to her limousine, where 9-year-old Georgianne was waiting to be taken home. Charell looked casually at the little girl., then suddenly stared. “That’s the very child I

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want!” he exclaimed. Now, the excited youngster is getting ready to make her screen debut and Loretta is pondering the strange ways of coincidence. For, only a few years back, she went to a studio and got her first job because she looked like her sister, Polly Ann, who had had to drop out of a picture. You wouldn’t believe it but they swear it's true. The other night Ralph Morgan came home from the Levinsky-Ramage fight and found his wife entertaining some women friends at bridge. Ralph started an excited description of the fight. “Ramage certainly opened up Levinsky’s eye in the third round. ’ he exclaimed. One of the ladies looked up. surI prised. “Why, I didn’t know they fought with their eyes closed!” she said. The Edward F. (stock-broker) Huttons are here from Tahiti in 1 their 300-foot sailing yacht and are seeing Hollywood in tow of Billie Burke, who knew Mrs. Hutton when she was Mrs. Post (of the Post Toastie Posts). Some of the papers hailed the arrivals as the parents of Barbara Hutton Mdvani but actually they are her unele and aunt. Mrs. Hutton and some of her party j lunched with the red-headed star at the R-K-0 studio and afterwards i i

- —- —— political fight and peacefully! i settled a menacing issue. Tyler Dennett, of Princeton, University, received the award for i the best American work in bio-1 I graphy. He is the author of a : i work on John Hay. Robert Hillyer’s "Collected i Verse” won the award in poetry. I Hillyer is of Harvard University.! E. P. Chase, editor of the At-j I lantic, lowa, News Telegraph,! won the prize for the outstanding, editorial. It was titled “Where is Our Money” and urged thrift as: ! the only solution of the depres-j i sion. He blamed unwise spending 1 j for the 1929 crash. Edmund Duffy, of the Baltimore ' Sun, won the award for the best cartoon of the year. It was capj tioned "California Points With i Pride—!” The history award carries a i cash prize of $2,000. Prize win- ; ning in drama, repertorial work, : novel, biography and verse received SI,OOO. The Medford Mail Tribune received a SSOO gold medal and prizes of SSOO went to J

saw how movies are made. Oddly enough, the first set they visited _ waa the picture, “Down to Theie [ Last Yacht.” Is it good for a laugh that Ann , Dvorak naa bought a three-months- ■ o>d call which she calls “Garbo”? [ Speaking of Garbo, the most • sought-after picture in Hollywood , is still an informal shot of the re- , tiring Swedish star. Hyman Fink, ■ one of the on-the-job bulb-pressers, . almost got her the other night at a ’ surburban theater. He proudly displays a picture of Greta ducking , into a coupe, one hand reaching out to slam the door behind her. More heart-breaking was the experience of Eddie Stone, of the I. N. S. picture service. He caught the elusive Swede hemmed in by autograph seekers as she came out of the Philharmonic auditorium. She looked up and smiled just as he snapped the picture. But—the height of hard luck—his flash-gun didn’t synchronize. The unpredictable Francis Lederer has returned from his San Francisco engagement in “Autumn

, Crocus” and has notified the R-K-0 studio not to look for him until he shows up. Rumor has it that he will stage the opening play in Joan Crawford’s back-yard theater. But, so far. no one has been able to find out just what it is or who will be in it. Add to Hollywood eccentricities Edna May

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Oliver's specially imported drinking water. The star has whole cases of it shipped from Mountain Springs, Arkansas. She has her maid bring a half gallon bottle on the set and even carted a supply on her last trip to Honolulu. When it gave out on the last day of the return voyage, she went without drinking for 10 hours rather than break her rule. DID YOU KNOW — That Otto Kruger is the author of a golf-book on putting?

the winners in newspaper correspondence. editorial writing, and , for the best cartoon. A scholarship of $1,500 was | given Frank P. Price, carillonneur at the Rockefeller Memorial, as I most deserving of European ini struction, and to Cathal O'Toole, I Long Island city, for having artisI tic talent worthy of training abroad. o JOHN DILLINGER IS SEEN AGAIN CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONE) ♦ ♦ -e-—* reached police of a holdup in Hammond, Indiana, nearby, where four bandits held up John Mattingley in a grocery store and escaped with j $25 after wounding the grocer in ■ the leg. It was uncertain whether the hold 1 up had been executed 'by the same gang that Moynihan and Kaminsky pursued. o Get the Habit — Trad* at Home a

LEAGUE MEETS MONDAY NIGHT (CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONE) ' park April 28. Mr. Wysong urged all clubs to encourage the hoys and girls to | study outdoor life He told of the i deer that have been released in southern Indiana, telling of their | feeding grounds and the topography of the land in the southern I counties. He also explained how i the different clubs In the state ure ridding the streams and lakes, of predatory fish. The next meeting of the Adams county league will he held the first Monday in June. HARRY MILLER HOME BURNED (CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONE) • ♦ • ♦ • • ------ two weeks and Monday the house caught fire three times, the last time completely destroying the building. Mrs. Miller and members of the family were In the house when the fire started- Mr. Miller,' who is a CWA employe, was returning home when he saw the house sud denly burst into flames. Only. threJ pieces of furniture were re-: moved from the house, the fire burned so rapidly. The blaze continued sot an hour and a half. There was no Insurance on the household goods, it was stated today. HEAVY VOTE IS BEING CAST IN ADAMS COUNTY (CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONE) favorites. The polls opened at six o’clock I and in the first hour there was a i rush. Several voters were preseat I when the precincts opened and ' for the next hour several score voters appeared. I Although more than 300 men • and women are candidates for j party nominations in the county.j the largest ballot contained not . more than 75 names. Names of i candidates for township trustees,! delegates to state convention, advisory boards, committeemen and ' district members of the county I council appeared on the ballots i according to the respective districts and townships 'Nominations to be made in today’s primary include those for congress, prosecuting attorney, joint state senator, joint state representative, clerk, treasurer. | assessor, sheriff, coroner, survey- 1 or. commissioner, county council-

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An excellent view of a squadron of Marine Corps planes in formation at Quantico. Vs., prior to take-off on the mass flight of 21 planes to the Virgin Islands in connection with Navy maneuvers. The flight of

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men. township trustee, township ! assessor, advisory board, commit-j j teemen and delegates. On the city ticket nomination I I for mayor, clerk-treasurer, city., | councilmeti are being made. The ,' J Republican candidates are unopi posed. Election returns will be roceivI ed by the Dally Democrat tonight, ! in the Ei win building on South . ) Second stleet. The totals will be! | compiled and those Interested in | j the outcome ot the election are! ! Invited to visit the building or' I telephone. I Indianapolis. May 8. — (U.P! -A! primary vote heavier than average' was being cast in Indiana today ' but balloting was slowed up by i confusion over the new registration ■ law and the Tecord breaking numI her of candidates. Municipal tights attracted great-1 ler interest in most places than did . the congressional nominations. in Indianapolis the vote was heavy but poll workers reported | that the time- required to mark bal | lots containing more than 2,000 j names was slowing up the work; ! considerably. Ideal weather conditions prevail-1 !ed throughout the state. In some-' ' sections, however, farmers were, ■ unable to leave the fields but in 1 'others the lack of rain and extended drought gave then) time to cast | votes. Poll workers in many counties; | reported that interest waa running high in the vote on delegate* to the ' state party conventions. Outcome of the fight between j Gov. Paul V. McNutt and R Earl , Peters, former Democratic state! I chairman, was being watched close- ( iiyPeters has filed slates of dele-1 I gates favorable to his candidacy I for United States senator in 72' I counties, while the administration, i • through Pleas Greenlee, chief pat ' I ronage dispenser, has sponsored ! janti-Peters slates. ■ o GIVES CONSENT TO NEW PROGRAM ' cCONTINUED FROM PArvE ONE) ! ator Pat M -Carran. Democrat. Ne- ! vada. Senator Elmer Thomas. Demj ocrat, Oklahoma, and others who I have been interested in silver legis- ‘ lation. ' i Mr. Roosevelt was informed that 1 majority sentiment among the sil-' verites was in favor of mandatory ' silver legislation. The president in 1 itimated he preferred discretionary 1 legislation but was said to have s modified his views later and to be t

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Mount Carmel. The priest was shot to de» ,h ’ n gdin» E went to the aid of his sister-in-law, ,'„ twP en b« r M Moscati (also shot!, during altercation - ■ and Marra over payment for carpen e ».

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