Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 33, Number 175, Decatur, Adams County, 25 July 1935 — Page 5
hIMSCOUNTY IENTRANTSI ENTRANTS WIN Eke Two of Three Prizes ■ Bln Ilion Amateur i. Show ■ urns county won two out of’ ■ ,hnc Kiaiid Pri»-‘« < lven Bt the ■ ama'oui- night porformtuice at B Wednesday night. K'.' program* had been given ■ "w'dnvMln.v night for » month ■ ’. 1ir ,.,. contestants had been! each night. Because ofc ■ amount of interest it was ■ \ a .„ to "old a fourth elimin■n Friday. Mrin.l prize winners were select-; ■,,. of an applause meter at ■ of the elimination B? h 'v Wabash Valley Ramblers of
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SYNOPSIS ■ i. pick Bannister, young exfrom the exclusive A- .ideiue hotel of his Hod. the body of a man |K Be « hurling through the air. folby 3 snow leopard robe. The ■ ■L. . ~ servant, had fallen — • .nes. Shortly after. ; r - ... t ,i urway, order her chow the robe to her. Dick’s Mredale. ’’Bully." fights with the > IHh-w for possession ot it. When |Ke girl t-naliy retrieves it—in |H ( hastily runs her fingers it tnd exclaims: "The clasp ■ ■ Never rad Dick J — so ' ted by any girl. She — Karen Sire, daughter of the Maurice Sire. 1 |^K e noli '» >.:mmon Dick to the Sire : Kg artmer.t as a witness. Detective 1 Boyle claims the dead man. ■K murdered —stabbed ■ ■ e back. Karen was the only person in the room when he Maurice Sire telephones that o dying up from Washington, lit [ 'Leaving Detective "OneId T. ole (who really had two good arms) on duty, HL| t goes out. When the detecisn’t looking, Dick calls attention to blood in the Without a sign of emo■z she invites Toole to have a in the next room. While officer is gone. Dick plunges arm into the aquarium and forth a stiletto which he into his pocket. Shortly Eovle returns with a police- _ s Karen searched. girl slips over to Dick. He a tug at his pocket—the sti- ■ is gone! With, the certainty being searched within the next Is. K i-tn had deliberaterelieved him of the weapon. " is stunned when nothing is n Karen Boyle leaves. Then Toole compliments and Dick on their smooth He had seen everything and k Karen dr. p the dagger into his ■ pocket before being but had remained silent, g like Dick, he had a hunch she V innocent. Toole suspects a pair international crooks. Big Jeff and his sweetheart. Brenwho were after the clasp and A year ago. Toole had that if he caught the Whip■b'es. "he’d lose his right arm” bejn. they got away. They did esj him and ever since Boyle ' him ‘One-Armed.” Toole is air bitter towards his superior be■ue Boyle insinuated he accepted from Whipple. Karen exthat the robe was an heirand. every now and then, her would request her to wear it for his sake. The detecamazes both Karen and Dick by the stiletto back into the He expects someone to ■pne for it. CHAPTER VI >ns say," Karen wont on, "that V. hippie Syndicate is made up rg two persons—” ■■“'fli? Jeff" Whipple and Brenda,” full Toole. "It’s Brenda I’m cx-thi-afternoon. She’!! want i when your Dad comes Karen paled and Toole hastened “No, Rrenda won’t try any stuff. That ain’t her part of work." who had been slowly to believe in Toole, now skeptical. “Seems to me you've got a mighty long rope , W*’? cd ,0 " ,m all dog,” he said. ' Nevertheless,” thrust in Karen "I d like to be here when he “• >1 in. The mystery of it all me. If father doesn’t it clear I'm going to work with , Toole myself. And if the Whipifu. escape us both there’ll be anl 1 ; a ’r,„' onc arm ed’ person in the Mt. V a, l e two more,” Bannister “Rut m y p art j n g ame . ? ba ? a snow leopard for you. as j P ? v , t ’, the recovery of the clasp “ b . lr '" ( ’ ,n the other members of what’ll we call it—the ■ Amed Syndicate?” J’[? se I lI:e nf Captain Matt the Homicide Squad in the —- , B P ar tment, following what IBr^i' j a "P earc d to be the acci--1 dea '- 1 ? ,°f a servant, or at MLJ ’ sor _ t , hp insistent interest of T^ey taken the manizes af , surance that it was an f n, r - w ' lat was worth—■""•y nothing at all. , a ' ert suspicion was Karnins tlfied w hen the medical j ■'.•Sr" * wt“ ,—■ E >» 3 ‘ re «*wated mnlti-mil- ? up h o hasty trip pNtllWicrg^ 1 - n s fapita h w here he uwiQttaat. «au-
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Idnn Grove won flrat prize. A yodeler from Bluffton won second prize.. Third place was won by the "Winner-Brand Boys" of Berne, auditions over the Muncie radio The three winners will be given station, and WOWO at Fort Wayne. Several thousand persons viewed the performances Wednesday night. The crowd was small because of the rain which delayed the program 15 minutes. Community groups in several surrounding cities are planning to hold similar amateur nights. It has been proposed that Decatur hold programs during the month of August. DEMOCRATS IN CONTINUED FROM 1 AOK ONE i at on tax to raise 130,000,000. Doughton said Democrats tentativa’y had agreed to leave out of the bill the proposed increased capital stock tax and the tax on
ference, to be present at a police inquiry? Why, indeed? The long arm of conjecture, thrust haphazard in a hundred directions, quickly indicated the point of contact. Captain Boyle himself had admitted that Miss Sire was in the apartment when the Filipino went through the window to his death. And the facts that no arrests had been made, and Boyle sepmed still to be feverishly active, indicated the presence of an unsolved mystery. Mystery — murder —a beautiful young woman; the daughter of Maurice Sire involved in a bizarre crime! What a clover patch for the “big story” specialists! Worse than that—or better, from the reportorial viewpoint—Maurice Sire’s plane made a “crash landing” in the fog at Roosevelt Field;
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“I’m a copper, you know,” Boyle said, "and I’ve got to work on facts as they appear, no matter who’s hurt.”
he escaped unhurt, and "dashed” for his new town home in a “highpowered car” that had been awaiting him. Boyle’s temper had not improved when he re-entered the room where Miss Sire, Bannister and Toole were seated. “You’re relieved, Toole!” he snapped. He turned to the girl. “I’m a copper, you know,” he continued with a touch of conciliation, “and I’ve got to work on facts as they appear, no matter who’s hurt. If this had happened in the White House at Washington or in the Governor’s mansion at Albany, I’d have done the same thing: that is, if I was on the job.” “Meaning, of course,” replied Karen with a smile, “you would have placed the first lady of the land or the governor’s wife under the eye of a detective until the matter was cleared up. Well. I acquit you of any intention to offend. Indeed, my thanks are due you for the opportunity of meeting an interesting gentleman.” Boyle glanced at Bannister. "I mean Mr. Toole, of course! explained Karen. “I wonder if you do,” remarked Toole. Bannister remained dumb. He was wondering, too —wondering at the skill and aplomb this young gir had shown throughout the ordeal thus far. Quitting a school room only the day before, she had plunged into one of the most difficult sjtuations conceivable and carried *t oh with the ease of a woman trained for years in intrigue. He began to feei liko a clumsy, bunglcsome booby, to regret the years he had spent in the rough countries, and his own total lack of the nicer social graces. But he was soon to fipd a fresh well of resource in this strange voung woman. Both wished to remain with “One-Armed’ Toole until he had followed his own clues to a conclusion. Boyle already was trying to get rid of the man, one who ... a subordinate in rank and not attached to the homicide squad .. . was also a personal enemy. “I’ve invited Mr. Toole _to luncheon with us,” Miss Sire ex-1 plained, waving the detective back, to a chair from which he had risen. [ “Sorry thaLXPii duties EjllJaiU-
” DECATUR DAILY DEMOCRAT THURSDAY, JULY 25, 1935.
Inter-corporation dividends. The decision of the Democratic majority will be binding on all Democrats on the committee, Doughton said. —.-. O Texas Power Official Presents Testimony Washington, July 25 — (UP) — John W. Carpenter, a suntanned Texas power official, leuned forward In hie chairut the senate lobby committee hearing today and suggested that a mysterious package which h>is excited investigators' interest may have been only a bundle of books on livestock raising. The package punixirtedly was | paused to a congressman the day before the h use voted on the utilities "death sentence.” It was revealed .is the committee continued its inquiry into utilty lobbying I against the bill. o I Trade in a Good Town — Decatur
you away, Captain—or, shall 1 ardor a fourth service?” Even Boyle perceived that ho was not expected to accept this somewhat negative tender of hospitality. It had the well defined hut sublimated air of "Here’s your hat —what’s your hurry?” He threw a sour eye at Toole and, bowing t« Miss Sire, yielded the field. With Boyle out of sight, Toole’s waistcoat rippled over a silent chuckle. “Matt will feel more comfortable in a place where he can take off his coat and chew beef out loud,” he rumbled. “A nice T-bone steak at Mike's over in Third Avenue—that’s his dish.” Bannister could not quite adjust himself either to Miss Sire's attitude or to Toole’s levity. After all, it was n tragedy that had brought them together. “What a jolly little
murder!" he said, putting a littlq sarcasm into the shot. Toole erased the grin from his face by drawing his hand down- . ward over his mouth. “I’ve been i waiting a long time for a chance ■ to laugh at Matt Boyle,” he mut- ' tered. Karen Sire had been surveying i Bannister with curious interest. I “So you're Hod Bannister's brothI er,” she said. “Hod plays chess with ' my father.” Dick welcomed the chance to drop > into an off-hand talk. “No,” he said ■ soberly, "I’m not Hod’s brother—- - he’s mine. That is, if you consider i the book ‘American Men of Science 1 a more important index than the I Social Register.” I Karen caught his mood and I seemed to like it. “Oh, yes—you’re i the great Richard Bannister, the • geologist,” she said with a simulai tion of awe. , “The eminent geologist,” he amplified blandly, “and also the mighty : hunter. I’ve been up in the Canadian Rockies most of the last two years, out of touch with carpets, open plumbing, daily metropolitan murders and dinner coats. This sort of thing is all new to me. But I’ll be more at home back of the Himalayas, bagging a snow leopard for you. That job was made to order for me.” The girl gazed at him with amused incredulity. “My dear man,” she said, “do you think I’d send you half wav around the world on such an errand? It’s all very charming but—” Toole had picked up the telephone to answer the bell. “All right, send it up,” he order loftily. Luncheon was ready, he had learned. In a few minutes the private elevator door opened and a silver panoplied service was wheeled into the room under heavy service escort. “Reminds me of old times,” exulted Toole, plopping down in a chair while Bannister drew up an : other for Miss Sire. “When I was a house detective at the old Waldorf this kind of a feed was a regular thing for the boys. Oscar spoiled me for the Third Avenue joints, but I doubt if he ever could teach I Matt Boyle to eat soup without I making a noise.” (To Be Continued) Copyright, 1955, Chrlt Bawthemt
PERFECT SCORE IN RIFLE SHOOT Leonard Baumgartner Shoots Perfect Score Wednesday
Leonard Baumgartner of Berne shot a perfect score in the 100 and 200 yard rifle shoot held at the Schurger range west of the city Wednesday afternoon by the Adams county vigilantes association. Twelve members were present. A perfect score in a shoot is more difficult than "a hole in one” at golf. Five shots are made at both 100 and 200 yards at a six Inch target. The perfect score Is 50 or five points for each bullet hole placed in the six inch circle. This Is the first time such a score was ever made on a six inch target in Adams county. Several years ago. when 14 inch targets were used. Fred Schurger made a perfect score. The 14 inch target was used by the club before bandits and bank robbers wore bullet proof vests. The theory at that time was that any shot placed in a 14 inch circle would hit a man in the head, shoulders or chest. When yeggs began using bullet proof vests it wan necessary to decrease the size of the target to six inches. This is equivalent to the size of a man's head, the only vulnerable spot when a bullet proof vest is worn. With the control he had Wednesday, Mr. Baumgartner could have "picked off” five men at 100 yards and five more men at the 200 yards, or about two city blocks. Other scores made in the 100 and 200-yard rifle shoot were: W. IV. Widdows of Geneva. 45; Fred Schurger, Decatur. 44; and Rov Dubach of Linn Grove and Dave Dubach of Berne. 42. C. C. Burkholder of Decat ar shot the high score in thd 15 and 25 yard pistol shoot. He scored 83 points out of a possible 100. Other scores were: Leonard Baumgartner, 77; John Dierks. Decatur, 76, and Fred Schurger,
—o NAZIS’ DRIVE — CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONE ional holiday. He announced that in future, coercion would be used to assure that a.’l churches are 1 decorated on Nazi state festivals.. Duisburg: The burgomaster ord-j ered all city officials to resign Im-1 mediately from religious organizations of civil servants and also to take their children out of the confessional youth organizations, declaring, “the state f" entitled to demand that its employes give the state what is due to it.” Weimar: Father Oberthuer, a Catholic priest in the village of Birkungen, was taken into “protective custody,” accused of hostility to the state. The secret police chief, examining him, asked whether he knew national socialism alone had prevented the bolshevists from coming to power in Germany, thus saving the church. The priest replied: "Things could not be worse under a bolshevist regime.” Attacks Methods Berlin, July 25.—(U.R>—The extremist methods used in the antiJewish campaign of Julius Streicher, Germany’s leading Jew-baiter, were attacked today with surprising sharpness by Emil Stuertz, official Nazi spokesman and deputy district leader of the Nazi party in southern Westphalia. In an article published in the party’s official district organ. Westfaelische Landerzeituug, Stuertz did not refer to Streicher nor his paper, Der Stuermer, by name but scathingly denounced the familiar mottoes and features of Streicher’s anti-semetic weekly. He literally quoted Der Steurm-
cr’s motto, “the Jews are our disgrace,” and said the real Nazi does not have to utter “such hysterical cries—reminiscent of a cackling hen liiying eggs.” Hans Kinkel, director of the reich culture chamber, was appointed by Dr. Paul Joseph Goebbels. minister ot propaganda, today to be special commissar, supervising the cultural and artistic activities of “non-Aryans” in Germany. 0 WEALTHY OIL CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONE Ludwig Salm Von Hoogstraten. Millicint. now the wife of Arturo Peralo Ranos, millionaire Argentine cattle baron, was said to have been waiting at the Rogers Long island estate. "The port of missing men” when her father died. A son, Henry, Jr., also survive as do three grandchildren. Peter Salm, whose fither is Count Salm, and Mrs. Ramos’ two eons by the South American. Arturo Henry and Paul Jaimie. Col. Rogens was >1 student of American military history and his hobby was early American sailing ves-
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sels, particularly whalers. His New England ancestors were prominent in the early shipping and whaling industries. He was of genial but rather retiring disposition, (but entertained extensively and was a fr quent visitor to Europe. Col. Rogers, who inherited a vast fortune in 1909 —when the Standard Oil was in its ascendancy—married his first wife. Miss Mary Benjam.n in 1900. T ley had two children, Milicent and Henry, Jr. They were divorced in Holland in 1929 >tnd in the same year Rogers married Mrs. Marguerite Von Baun Save Miles of Philadelphia, widow of Basil Miles. That marriage ter minated with a sensational divorce in Reno in 1933 in whch some doubt was cast on the ancestry of the beautiful Viennese whom Rogers had married after a whirlwind romance in Faris. A short tme later Rogers ann unced his engagement to the twice married Pauline Van D er Voort, former wife of the late Carl K. Dresser of Tulsa, Okla. They were married in August at the exclusive Pierce estate on Long Island. TENSION INCREASES CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONE on hand and further employment expected,” according to W. H. Grabbe, general manager. Meanwhile, normal business resumed with a seriously tense undertone.
Eleven beer taverns closed by the militia last night to enforce the military order against assemblages, were permitted to reopen upon promise of proprietors to aid in preventing unruly congregations. Soldiers continued to make occasional arrests but nearly all of approximately 200 persons taken into custody since martial law’ was declared Monday night were released. Among those arrested and released after investigation by a provost court were two professors and a graduate student at Indiana state teachers college. Dr. John R. Shannon, professor in the school of education, was released on his statement that he had been attracted to the military zone out of curiosity regarding troop activity rather than to interfere with the guardsmen, for which he’ was arrested. W. O. David, sociology professor, and W. D. Barringer, one of his students, were freed on their
insistance they were mere spectators when arrested in a group of rioters at the Columbian plant. They said they were obtaining first-hand information regarding mob psychology. 0 Fountain Freezes in Summer Ashlajid, Ore. — (U.R) — Ashland had the remarkable instance of its Lithia water fountain freezing up in the middle of the summer, while residents sweltered. Reason: the refrigeration system that cooled the water worked overtime and froze the pipes. —o DEMANDS EARLY CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONE the transit of arms destined for Ethiopia would be permitted through British territory or British protected territory adjacent to Ethiopia. The foreign secretary’s announcement that Britain is embargoing arms shipments to either country "for the present" was considered as implying a reservation that Britain may reconsider her position after Ethiopia raises the issue of the supply of war material when the league council meet next week. It was understood Britain hopes the league's decision will clarify the position of all European arms exporting powens. so that she will not be in the position of acting alone. If the league’s action is favorable to shipments. Britain probably would lift her provisional embargo immediately. Army Plans
(Copyright 1935 by United Press) Rome. July 25 — (U.R) — Forty thousand militia officers are undergoing specialized training to give military instruction to 500,000 youths ot the classes of 1915. 1916 and 1917. it was learned today. Under the program envisaged, Italy within two months will have 1,700,000 men and youth under arms or receiving military training. These! are exclusive of all other able bodied men in the country who on the new "Fascist Saturday” afternoons aie being given the basic requirements for military service — physical training and discipline in mass movement —and the boys from 8 years up in the two organizations preliminary to full fascist militia status, the Little Sons of the She Wolf
and the Balilla. Thus Benito Mussolini, pointing i an enthusiastic? nation toward war
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! with Ethiopia, has worked out a i plan to develop the world s most I efficient race of citizen soldiers.