Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 33, Number 292, Decatur, Adams County, 11 December 1935 — Page 1

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hLO SILVER ■SISIS FEARS I HE MUTING Treasury M a k e s Purchase To Save ,K Ju it her Collapse BwX r " 11 (U - RJ “ TIV> WgL,., <risin spread today treasury. key to the EBn incipal purcha.sBK. «!i.f in.-tal, maintained , lie Treasury Henrailed to cx- - j, i .Ijv that the treaa■Lw , ,u.i inning to carry out Hpgi. ’he silver purchase of whether the tt . i "^^Kf ul Midden cessation of I'. S. pmu in the London deepened. Grave fears K/L -i in Mexico, prim I..uucing nation. that the American R; bidding up the silver fcpended. Kiy It. i nipt ion in the Aniei i- ® prov. Was fared, would Kt Bat... u Mexico where it. business heavih upon prosperity ruining. Ka new < lue to the I r.-asurv s ran," from London to form Itiitidt banking ease traders over crisis. was said orient reacted .-Jiarplv pr. of silver shares with h MB oft on the New York stock while silver on the Ku market was off 70 to 22.. the opening. silver mining Are were calm in face iil ti. was tempoi . the market may swtitccs States government committed to a policy ■■rixri.l ■ ■ -x pAtti: re >fi: ■ - «T LANDON |iS CANDIDATE Newspaper I’ubBack Landon ■ « G.O.P. Candidate Kan. Dec. JI — (Ul’i ' it Alf M. Landon boomed aptoday as a result of his j^Me:n-l>y William Randolph Paul Block, chain newspublishers. Kjß“-S friends interpreted ln.s . jesterday with Hearst, Arthur Brisbane, and Mrs. 1 I’at'rerson. publisher of the Herald as tantam nt .1- , laration of . andida.-v Re üblican nomination. In jy H-tarst, A Dem- ■■' ■ saw a pre .convention weapon far more >wei- ■*''■ anything any other polt-n---jjjjjida'.ate has exhibited. MEBja 1 that Hearst and Bloi k W* Irm after tl eir conferem ■■ 1° Landon's friends that lie himself to a fight for |BB 0 - P nomination. He lias reBB*” admit publicly that his hut the ring. (SHr ' that with Lan candidate, the Repu'dicould defeat President lint said he didn’t know |^K r the party had “the into.l. to recognize governor's virtues. ijreB a ' f i li' never had met Lam! m Brisbane, Block and Mrs ON PAGE FIVE) j|K er Os Former 1 Local Woman Dies Pahala Ruggles, age 87. rß ’ do ' ln Stewart of ' ■''■ formerly of this ity. |^B’ ln( lay and will be buried in 9^B a ' Ind., the "former family Ruggles was visiting with 3^^B Ug hter in Newark. She wa ; ■jMhown in Decatur, having vi.many times when tin' KP‘ lived here.

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“Woman in Case” sfcjjr I lie | Y/h- / 'kJHH Esther Shuron. pretty 18-year- ■ old niece of Leslie Raymond, both i I of San Pedro, Cal., was named as t “the woman in the case" in a suicide note left by Leslie Ray-' mond who police said took his life because he loved his niece more than his wife. DRAWEVERETT TRIAL JURORS Special Venire Os 25 Drawn Today By Jury Commissioners —— The names for a special venire of 25 persons were drawn from the jury box today by jury commissioners Otto Hollo and W. A. Lowef in the presence of County Clerk David D. Depp. This venire has been called because of the ’hitmerbus challenges expected In the selection of a jury for the Joseph Everett case which begins , next Monday. Everett is to be tried on charges ■ of second degree murder, volun-1 tary manslaughter, assault and j battery with intent to kill, in con j nection with the slaying of Doras I Werling near Pleasant Mills four years ago. This is Everett's second trial, i He was convicted by a jury four years ago in the Adams circuit court on a first degree murder charge and sentenced to a life; term. H? was recently granted a new trial by the state supreme court. Tile members of the special venire are: , Ada Shoemaker, Hartford township; Rudolph fuelling, Root township: Frank Habegger, Monroe township; L. L. Yager. Berne; Martin E. Heckman, Root township: ‘Everett R. Heckman, Root town ship. , i Laura G. Crownover, St. Mary s township; Mathilda Peters. Preble ■ township; William Grandlinaid,, French township; Bertha A. Burg- | er, Union township; Carl Nuerge, i Preble townshTfr,' Milton Girod, Kirkland township: Pete Ams , .' paugh, Decatur; John If. Duff, ■ Hartford township. Ralph Clevenger, Union township; Walter Thieme, Union township; Samuel Bentz, St. Mary's township; Lulu Swearinger. Deca- . tur; William J. Bluhm. Washing- • ton township; William Butcher, Jetj (CONTINUED ON PACK FOUR) SUIT ENDS IN DEATH, INJURY Defendant In Court Suit Drops Dead; Badly Hurt ’l Lagrange, Ind.. Dec ! With the defendant in a battle for possession of a s « dead of a heart attack, and tin plaintiff still in a critical condition with a cerebral hemorrhage, -a | grange circuit court moved on to-, • day to other business. The suit was brought b> Van Horn. 75. of Sturgis. ; against Fred Parks. 55, his step son. for possession of ‘> e d “ ’to a farm once owned by Paik J mother, Van Horns late wit ■ . N During the noon recess o . I court. Pa,“ks wa,ked .“X Northstreet to the office of the North 5 ern Indiana Public Service com- ; pany, wherejwjen d -J lpal ( 1 (CONTINUED ON PAGE FOL I-’

PRESIDENT OF CUBA RESIGNS AFTER DISPUTE Cuban Political Situation Further Embroiled By Action (Copyright 19:15 by United Press 1 Havana, Dee. 11— (U.R) —Cuba's i troublous political situation was i freshly confused today when Cax-I lon Mendieta resigned as provis-j tonal president because of a dis- 1 pute regarding regulations for electing a constitutional president. The cabinet accepted the resignation and named Jose A. Barnet ■.Vinagres. 71. secretary of stale, a i career diplomat without political. affiliation, to succeed Mendieta. The cabinet formally offered Barnet its resignation. He re-1 fused to accept. It was arranged that he would take the oath of I office at noon today and that Mendieta would remain in the presidential palace until then. The capital was quiet and conditions were normal. Havana.ns did not learn of the resignation, which Mendieta gave al 1:07 a.tn. : until breakfast time this morn- ' ing. As to the political situation, it 1 was neither quiet nor normal and I weeks of confusion were foreseen ■ before there could be another real | effort to end a period of political , chaos that has endured ever since | i the dictator, Gerardo M echado.' was overthrown in August. 1933. The present crisis has been brewing for months. Mendieta, with the loyal support of the real power of the country — Col. Ful- , genclo Batista, < hies of staff of < the army—tried to arrange an | election for Dec. 15. An electoral j | — — (CONTINUED ON PAGE TWO) TO SELL THREE DECATUR HOMES Homes Owned By Old Adams County Bank To Be Sold Saturday Three Decatur homes will be sold Saturday afternoon by Roy S. ; Johnson, local auctioneer, for the | Old Adams County Bank. The first house is known as the Janies D. Stults property and is located at 40S North Second street. Ht is a seven room house on a lot 41 by 120 feet. It is considered an ideal location. The house may be i remodeled to make it a fine residence. This sale will be at one , o’clock. The second sale at 2 o’clock will be of the Roy V. Miller property at 512 Nortii Fifth street. This is a seven room house. Five rooms are upstairs and two are down. There is a small basement. The house is built on a good cement (block foundation. There is a garage. The house is completely modern. The third house, which is to be sold at 3 o'clock, is the Nettie Roop property at 231 North Eleventh street. It is a six room semi-mod-i ern house on a gd&d foundation with a good garage, cistern, pump in the kitchen and a -well. *7ae houses are to be sold on the premises. The terms are cash, subject to the approval of the Ad- ; ams circuit court. Clark J. Lutz, ■ special representative for the department of financial institutions. Robert Kramer, assistant special representative, and Henry B. Heller, attorney, will be in charge of the sale. Monev Stolen From Fleming Residence A thief took $3.50 from the Paul Fleming borne on Grant street Tuesday evening about 6:15 o’clock. The | thief entered the house while Mrs. Fleming was absent for about 15 minutes on a trip to a grocery store. An investigation is Leing made bj city police. Elks Plan Rabbit Dinner Thursday The Decatur chapter of the B. P. 0 Elk’s will hold a rabbit dinner at the home Thursday evening from 5-30 to 7 o’clock. The party a stag affair, will be for Elks only and no I charge will he made. WEATHER Generally fair to*"O”t; Increasing cloudiness Thursday I rising temperature

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Decatur, Indiana, Wednesday, December 11, 1935.

! Rev. Thompson Speaks , On “First Principles”, The Rev. Harry W. Thompson! (addressed the members of the! | Young Peoples Association of St. | Mary's township at a meeting ofi [ the club In the Bobo school house Tuesday night. The society Is made j up of the members of the five Sun- , day schools in the townshipRev. Thompson talked on “First Principles.” In bis address Rev. Thompson! stressed the necessity of laying plans for later Ilf during youth. | He stated that the opportunities of j youth are such that any boy may become president of the nation. MBS. LIGGETT NAMES LIQUOB RUNNER KILLER Widow Os Slain Crusading Editor Identifies Man As Slayer Minneapolis, Dec. 11 —(UP) —The widow of Walter Liggett today identified a former liquor runner as the assassin of he rhusband while the county grand Jury started sweeping action to "tear the lid off" vice conditions In Minneapolis. The widow dramatically faced a police llne-jp and picked Isadore Blumenfield, alias Kid Cann, once a suspect in the Charles Urschell I kidnapping, as the ma nwho fired the five shorts which killed the Crusading publisher. While the widow faced the man she said killed her husband, the Hennepin county grand jury threw aside its customary procedure and demanded a special prosecutor be named to conduct a searching investigation into the conditions which permitted assassination of the mlltant leader. The meeting of tho widow with Cann was dramatic. He stood in the I center of a group of men. No sign I of anxiety ap eared in his face. Mrs. Liggett viewed the man siti ently for two minutes. Then she | wj)s asked liuikwlbt out the man : she saw in the assassin’s automoi bile as it sped away. “That is the man in the center” she said, stepping forward and pointing a trembling finger at Cann. County prosecutor Ed. L. Goff said the grand Jury can indict Cann on the basis of her identification. Cann claims lie has a dozen wit- ■ nesses who saw him in a downtown barbershop at the time Walter Liggett, publisher of the midwest American, was shot down as he stepped from his automobile at the rear of his apartment Liggett’s wife and rail daughter witnessed the (CONTINUED ON PAGE SIX) o George Harding Is Elected By Masons George Harding was elected wor-•-’’ipful master of the Decatur lodge 571, Free and Accepted Masons; at a meeting held at the new temple Tuesday night. He succeeds Charles Langston. Approximately '75 men attended the meeting, which was proceeded by an oyster supper. Other officers elected were: Robert Krick, senior warden; Homer D. Lower, junior warden; Arthur D. Suttles, treasurer; Ealr B. Adams secretary, and Charles A. Burdge, ■ trustee for three years. 1

Be A GOOD FELLOW; Make This A Happy Christmas

Invetigators for the Good Fellows club, charity organization sponsored annually by the Delta Theta Tati sorority of this city, reported today that they have found many families in need. The Good Fellowe club Is rightfully recognized as a community project and the sponsoring sorority is entitled to the cooperation of the entire city to make the club a success. Chariy has ever been uppermost in the minds of the American people and has come to be recognized as a duty of every able vitizen. Aiding a needy family through donations to this club will make Christmas far more enjoyable and happier for the donor. While the Good Fellows club ordinarily provides only for children, occasionally an aged couple, is given help when found to be In dire need. One such couple was found Sunday by two of the investigators. who stumbled onto their condition by chance. The little old lady was neat and clean and her home was well-kept although bare. She asked nothing for herself but for her husband who has been 111 for five years. AlI

GIB LIGHTED FOR CHRISTMAS 1 . I New Christmas Lighting System Is Turned On Here Tuesday When Santa Claus comes in his 1 airplane to Decatur Saturday he will find the city one of the best lighted towns in Indiana. Tuesday night the new Christman lighting system was turned on on Second street. It provides a canopy of multi-colored lights over the street. Especially effective from the street are the novel holly wreaths suspended from each of the ornamental standards. Within each wreath are three tiny red candles lighted by small electric bulbs. Municipal light and power company employes were busy todaystringing the wires through the I trees in the court house yard. ' The permanent Christmas tree in the court house yard was also decorated. M. F. Mylott, city light and power company superintendent, and his force of men were com- ( plimented on the effective light- ’ ing system. ' A letter was received from Santa Claus toda.v by the Decatur Junior Chamber of Commerce stating that he is prepared to ’ come to Decatur next Saturday In his airplane. ' He will be over the city at 1:15 I o'clock. At 1:30 he will leap from 1 the plane over the city in his ' special red Santa Cla.its parachute jumping suit. He has installed a heating pad hooked to a battery to warm his whiskers as the cold air rushes through them. At 2 o’clock santa Claus lias ■ made a date to meet every child ’ within 25 miles of the city in the business district of Decatur. He wants their orders for Christmas presents. FARMERS FAVOR ' AAA POLICIES Farm Bureau Policy A Blanket Endorsement Os AAA Program I Chicago Dec. 11 —(UP) —The resolutions committee of the American Farm Bureau federation, representing farmers in 37 states, today formulated a policy amounting to a 1 blanket endorsement of the Roosevelt administration farm program. Starting witli a re-affirmation of “our faith in the established order of our government.” the resolutions presented included a vigorous statement of support for the AAA. They wil' >’e acted upon late today. “We serve notice,” said the AAA resolution, “on all groups and individuals who are opposing agricultural adjustment for political, personal or other reasons, that this program was formulated 'by the farmers themselves, aefing through I 'heir own organizations and will be protected and defended by the ■ farmers and their friends on the basis of its fairness to agriculture, | its beneficial contributions to continued national economic recovery, and in the interest of permanent prosperity for all the economic groups and classes of our nation.” I The resolutions pledged faith in ' (CONTINUED ON PAGE FIVE)

■ though they receive an old age pension, it is not sufficient for their needs. The investigators found them in need of personal clothing, also bed clothing. Among other articles asked of the club are a baby buggy and baby clothes. The club feels that there must be some mother in De- ' catur who lias a baby buggy, still usable and no longer needed. And no doubt there are hundreds of baby dresses, gowns, hose, etc., i lying unused in bureau drawers. Truly it is better to give these that a baby may be properly clothed than to permit the clothes to lie unused for years. Roys and girls also will enjoy their own Christmas far more and appreciate their clean, well-kept and comfortable homes more if j they give their discarde'd toys and I clothes to some less fortunate boy ' or girl, who may be under nuorished and poorly-clothed. Be a GOOD FELLOW today. Drop your contribution in a box at the Daily Democrat, the First State Bank or Rice hotel. Call Miss Helen Holthouse at 137 and your used articles will be called for and given to a needy family.

JAPAN DEMANDS EQUALITY WITH OTHER NATIONS — Spokesman Suggests Reduction To Reach Naval Parity London, Dec. IL- —(U.R)—Japan, demanding naval equality with Groat Britain and the United States, suggested at, the five-power naval conference today that the three navies be reduced to tho lowest possible level, entailing the scrapping of witrshipa. The Japanese spokesman. Admiral Osami Nagano, head of the delegation, told the conference ho . was prging parity for the United States, Britain, and Japan only on a total tonnage basis. He thus rejected the British and American thesis that nafles should , be limited by specifying the number ah's size of ships each nation can build in any given type of fighting craft. Nagano said Japan envisages ! achievement of equality for tho i Japanese, British, and American fleets at the lowest possible level, | explaining that if the level decided upon was below the present , strength of the two largest fleets, they would be obliged to scrap some ships. He added that if tho I level agreed upon wwe below that 'of the existing Japanese fleet, Japan also would be prepared to scrap tonnage to reach a common level. Nagano's lengthy declaration was a response to questions put to the Japanese delegation yesterday by Viscount Monsell of Evesham, first lord of the admiralty. One of the most important of these questions was whether Japan was ready to disclose her building program for the next six years, ' upon which there will be no treaty restriction after the Washington treaty expires at the end of 1936 las a result of Japan's denunciation of it. Another question was whether Japan urged a “common upper limit" for the fleets of all the naval powers represeted at the conference or only for Those of Brit- ■ ain, the United States and Japan. Nagano answered 'he first query by proposing a common limit only for the three strongest nasal powers. He explained that at Washington in 1922 and at London in 1930 negotiations were conducted primarily between Britain, the Unit ed States, and Japan witli Italy and France either on the outside, or the periphery, of the discussions. Tokyo's chief delegate announc(CONTINUED ON PAGE FIVE) o Catholic Women To Meet Thursday A general meeting of all of the women of the National Council of Catholic Women of St. Mary's Parish will be held Thursday evening lat the Knights of Colunibuts hall. : A report of the convention held rej cently in Fort Wayne will be given (by Mrs. Harold Smith- The boy’s glee it’lub of the Catholic high school | will furnish music. Each study club | will a'so present its program for the coming year. SPECIALSHOW WILL AID GLOB Adams Theater Donated To Good Fellows For Special Show A special show for children will be given Saturday unorning at 10 o’clock at the Adams theater, all proceeds being donated to the Good Fellows club. Admission textile theater will be: l either a new toy or a five tent piece, s The coins and toys will be turned ( over to the Good Fellows and distributed among the needy children on j Christmas eve. Santa Claus will stand in the lobby and receive the toys and coins | from the children. The toys will be turned over to the Good Fellows I and the money wil be used in ipur- ; chasing gifts for the children. 11. A. Kalver proprietor of the! i theater is donating the use of the theater and the films for the special show. A Mickey Mouse, Po>p Eye and. Our Gang Comedy film will be shownDecatur merchants are also cooperating with the Good Fellows sponsors in giving discounts on all articles purchased from them for distribution among the needy families.

Regard Ethiopia Certain To Fight Loss Os Territory

Mysteriously Slain iraS| V Walter W. Liggett (above), nationally known writer and editor of a weekly newspaper in Minneapolis. Minn., was shot ■ and killed under mysterious cir- ' cumstances. ACCEPT ALIBI OF CONVICTS Recaptured Convicts Establish Alibi For Anderson Killing Indianapolis, Dec. 11 — (U.R) — j I Paul Pierce and Donald Joseph. I escaped felons from the state prison farm, today were placed under bonds totalling $55,000 each I in connection with the shooting of two Indianapolis detectives. ’ Municipal Judge Charles .1.1 Karrabell put eax'h twtdet* bond I I of $25,000 on a eharge of shooting with intent, to kill; $25,000 on charges of auto banditry; and $5,000 on charges of vagrancy. He continued their cases until Dec. 20. Indianapolis, Dec. 11 —(U.R) —An alibi offered by Paul Pierce and Donald Joseph, Indianapolis gunmen, in connection with the slayI ing of Frank M. Levy, Anderson patrolman, apparently had been l accepted today by state police. The men said they were registered at a Hamilton, 0., hotel at approximately the same time Levy was shot and killed when he made | ?, routine investigation of an auto-1 j mobile parked on a street in the ( residential district of Anderson. Capt. Matt Leach said a check of tho hotel register at Hamilton (CONTINUED ON PAGE FIVE) o ——— Gets Letter Mailed On China Clipper Mrs. Belle Dague received a letter from her eon In Hawaii yesterday. The letter was sent air mail (and came to the United States on the China Clipper. Her son has been stationed at Lukefield with the United States air service, for the past six years. o * HEALTH BONDS B> | mt The B. P. O. Elks ’ today announced Christmas t.jj e purchase oi a SEALS $5.00 health bond. The money will be added to that pre- ( viously collected by i the Adams County ( Tuberculosis Asso- ■ elation to provide ( care for victims of the disease and VI/"' 1 t-l’T' m ' lk f° r ulu ' ernnur ! Ivin 1 ished children. TUBERCULOSIS

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Legation Says Ethiopia Will Reject Any Plan For Peace Involving Loss Os Territory. STAND TOGETHER Paris, Dec. 11- (U.R)— Ethiopia will reject any plan for settlement of tho conflict with Italy which does not take into account her territorial and political integrity, the Ethiopian legation announced today. An official communique from the legation said Ethiopia refused to accept any plan “which directly or indirectly accords encouragement or a premium to Italy.” The official text of Hie communique said: “Ethiopia has been a victim of unjustified aggression which has been solemnly condemned unanimously by the league council and assembly. “In these conditions, the Ethiopian government is firmly resolved not to consider any proposal which, in direct or indirect, form, would accord encouragement or a premium to the Italian aggreusor. The Ethiopian government is resolved to take into account the fundamental principles affirmed by the council of the league and its committees, as well as tho assembly, especially' the principle of the territorial and political integrity of Ethiopia. “The Ethiopia.n government is resolved to consider no proposal which would tend to exercise pressure on a weak nation to bring it under the domination of a powerful government, which hM not ceased to affirm that it would <'s«ure the triumnh of its ambi« I tions by force, with, without or ’ against tho league.” Concerted Action London. Dec. It— (U.R) —Great i Britain cannot aztt alone in handi ling the Ethiopian problem. Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin toM tho house of commons today in a re- | statement of Britain’s constantlyexpressed policy. His statement was of particular interest in conjunction of the departure of Caot. Anthony Eden for Geneva where he will try to persuade the other powers to accept the new Franco-British peace ! plan. Baldwin replied to several ques((’ONT) vi-gn ON P AGE FIVE) o City R®c®ivps Check For State Excise Tax Mrs. Ada Martin, clerk-treasurer of the citv of Decatur has received ache k for $2478.75 from the stale auditor in payment of the 1935 exI cise tax. For the year the city received $2869.75 from the excise department, it representing tho tax on liquor and licenses issued by the state to local dealers. The amount is $119.75 more titan the estimate for this year. The division of the excise tax I next year will be on the basis of license fees only and the city anticipates receiving only about halt i the amount in 1936. o FT. WAYNE MEN SPEAK TO CLUB Fort Wayne Lions Address Decatur Club Tuesday Evening A program last night at the Decatur Lions club was a part of the policy of the northern district ot Lions Clubs in Indiana to promote good will between the various chapters. The Fort Wayne club sent two representatives of their club to make short talks. Later representatives of the Decatur club will speak in Fort Wayne in the exchange program. Robert Cordiner, the immediate ! past ipresldent of the Fort Wayne | Lions club, spoke first. He has been i recognizezd as the man who made I the Decatur and Fort Wayne clubs , better acquainted Herb Willis, also a member of the Fort Wayne club, gave a short humorous talk- Mr. McCandless of Fort Wayne was a guest. i Arnold Gerberding the I program.