Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 35, Number 204, Decatur, Adams County, 28 August 1937 — Page 1

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■HOCRATS TO ■ST VANNOYS [IS CANDIDATE £ I Jackson Os Fort ' I tie Still Favored ■ To Be Nominee tick. Ind . Aug. 28- (U.R) s! ,.r G- neral James A Eg'',, t crass roots' !>. m to determine par Blf to'' the 18:tx election BBj jts first practical appli — I today «* Oov. M Clifford al” lel ,|, '“ l ■, k Van Nays out of party. . •!.-• coventor pa. k (■HL 1,1,1 s this famed Spa. llv Thomas Taggart. Jr. ISV'.. ■ ' ' ghgß hvi." • ’ ,l f, ' r Va " ' ■Kfrcd '• " against Town , that Van Noys' is "impossible." ■K s . « one of th igin I'-.-.dellt linnscart reform pro 1....,.,, .pposed in 183 d the ■■t - » nst-nd as cover ■■L- - ITU lie fought the noin |H : shern.an Minton as l'n senator. |K, fruits of this insttr|K,.about to be eaten by S|K\. . o.liori. ally speak MMr h- - 'I himself on his |K, ,a>: surrounded bv . ~.■■■! friends, all of o. S- Fort Wayne ■ pr. nous predations. " .S o'l everyone S^K\ \ opponent it: the And Jackson him named about, his previous B; ■-. -ll' -<i. -I’’o their absence. :-..wnsend and \ |K>> ■ tins summer out ■l «... In-mo. rati. E.ii isMxiation. c has everything tn sympathetic audi .. --W at devoted ad |^L: --a.sorts and the bill |Kt ’ . . machine rally its chieftains. ' deliver an address cal |Hh delib-ra'.-iy to sound a key on PAGE SIX) ■I CONFESSES [ SLUING WIFE ■wntaineer Admits KillHag Red-Haired Evangelist Wife ? N J. Aug 28—lU.PJ— Pusey, tall, gaunt Blue mountaineer, asked for a today rested it on his knee police that he had killed ' evangelist wife bethe didn't tell him that he fifth husband came to Mrs. Pusey, 40, “nd of a trans-continental. journey from I.os An |Bk where she and Pusey. 41. married last October They a|| the way. except stopped their battered. HBmtotiiddle to conduct revival at which Mrs. Pusev and Pusey performed a ■ bass choir. ■H" lUBI ar sued and argued ali the country." Pusey told DB* county prosecutor Abe I "She orter told me she before. Sot me sore, her not telling M 1 ® *fter the weddin." quarrels became more viothe couple neared Oakland, where Pusey had farmed moving to the west coast »■;» Parted Thursday night. peeping in his car while went to a hotel. Thev up their differences Fri or mng and continued their night Pusey parked his car ■•nitle brook about 20 miles 81, Jalila nd, and our argument a $ a in. Suddenly. Pusey I ■g s wife picked up an urn■K,' a nd swung at him In self : ■T B*' 8 *' he added! he grabbed a jig ’ hammer, which he had Bvtt" a roa< * 1,1 Arizona, and gE? *r on the head. ■j*’. drove to a gasoline staBtmu aslted ar ‘ attendant where find a doctor. When the B J nt heard Mrs. Pusey moan. ; Bi b- away Police found “ r ‘ Parked on a side street But' 8 * ifes body slumped on B* at beside him. e>t 11111611 my wife," he B hil° Urney east B,arte<l M ay j Ki! j. y Ba W. and all went well K p, isey revealed that she . 4 llve times a bride. 1

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Union Services At M. E. Church Sunday j One to the absence of the paa tors of the cooperating churches the union service Will be held at ' tile First M K. church Sunday evening at 7:20 o'clock, with Rev. ' l! W Graham paat< i dsiiy, the sermon. Special music will be furnished, with congregational singing emphaslzed The public is invited i to attend. THREE PERSONS UNDER ARREST Two Men, Woman Are Held For Murder Os Chicago Man Chicago. Auk 28 U.R) —Police sped to St. Louis today seeking extradition of two men and a woman in connection with the moonlight slaying of Herbert F. Lee. 40. I respected Evanston butcher shop proprietor. St. Louis police said they were holding Leonard Doxey, 31. Lawrence Dixon and Louise Lamay, 25, all of Chicago Doxey is a former sweetheart 1 of Lucille Buehler. 22. blonde party girl with whom Lee was keeping; a moonlight rendezvous when he was shot last Sunday. Miss Buehler, a buxom blonde' who told police she has been a party girl since she was 14 years old. was held under $25,000 bond here on a warrant charging she 1 was an accessory to the murder. St Louis police picked up Doxey and Dixon last night us suspicious > characters and found Miss Lamay at their hotel room. Out of con-, 1 flicting stories they told, author!- | lies decided the trio left Chicago shortly after the slaying. Doxey and Dixon were taken in an automobile bearing Ohio license I plates 437-PV. A Set of Indiana . plates. 790-877. was found in tbe, car. Lee's assailants escaped in i a car bearing Indiana plates. Police said they wanted to bring : Miss Buehler and Doxey together I to test two theories. One was that • Miss Buehler led Lee to a robi bery-death when she strolled with i him through Grant Park, along j the latke Michigan shore. The other was that Lee was killed by : a man who had been living off : Miss Buehler’s income and feared I she would marry the butcher. Underworld sources Informed ' authorities that Lee was robbed I of $250 in cash and a diamond ring ' when he was slain. A tavern waitress said Miss I Buehler and Doxey quarreled less than an hour before the shooting already had been living here nine years, known as Robert F Burns, a respected butcher shop owner, with a woman to whom he was not married. The woman known as his wife identified her | self as Mrs. Theresa Weichbrodt. | I formerly of Detroit. She said Lee; abandoned a wife and three children in Detroit when he assumed I the name of Burns Mrs. Weichbrodt was en route; | home from visiting a sister in Remser. la., when the shooting occurred. She said she had gone there after a quarrel and was returning to “make up" again. I Admittedly hardened by eight ; : years of immoral living. Miss Buehler denied stedfastly through a court session and appearance be-' tore the grand jury that she knew the two gunmen who killed Lee. She broke into tears when an I elderl yjuror patted her on the shoulder, quoted from the scripi tures. and urged her to help solve the crime. She refused to talk because it would "dirty up some people who, have been nice to me." ••I’ve nobody to blame but my-i self for the life I’ve led." she said “Young girls should keep away from strangers, but they won t. Girls’ Band To Meet On Sunday Evening Members of the Decatur Girts band are asked to meet at the high scho 1 Sunday evening at 6:30 o clock. They will go to the picnic at Preble from there. Release W reck Victim From Local Hospital Bob Dowling, Fort Wayne boy injured in an auto accident August 13. was released today from the Adams county memorial hospital, where he had been confined since the wreck. — 0 “ Dan Sipe Released From Hospital Today Dan Sipe, who lost three fingers on his left hand while working a ! the Wayne Novelty company las Saturday, was released today from the Adams county memorial hosi pital.

DAUGHTER OF SCREEN ACTOR IS THREATENED Wallace Beery’s Adopted Daughter Threatened By Kidnaper Los Angeles, Aug. 28 — (UP) --I Carol Anne Peery, adopted daughter of Wallace Beery, the actor, ha;-, been threatened with kidnaping unless Beery pays SIO,OOO, it was revealed today. The threat came in a letter. It was intercepted by postal Inspectors before- It reached the actor. It said: • “Demand SIO,OOO. payable not later than Thursday.” Authorities were inclined to believe it was the work of a crank, but the news circulated quickly through the movie colony where the fear -_-f kidnapers has been acute for years and where the children of stars and near stars and the players themselves are usually heavily guarded. The inspectors detected the letter because it was addressed in letters clipped from newspapers and magazines and pasted on the envelope. It was addressed simply, "Wallace Bsery, Los Angeles." ' Beery hae a magnificent home in Beverly Hills where his adopted child is under heavy guard. Beery himself was on location at Kaibab Utah, lie said he had been advised of the letter by federal authorities. He said he was not alarmed; that he was leaving on a hunting trip. Carol Anne is 6 years old. i The letter made a reference tj the Inglewood murder case. Thursday, Albert Dyer, WPA watchman at a school crossing there, wae condemned to death for strangling three kittle girls. At the bottom cf the leter to Beery here was printed I in large blae-k letters: “Dyer case." The rest of the note was made up from words clipped out of a magazine and pasted to a sheet of foolscap. The letter was signed “R. Kelly. General Delivery, Culver City.” '! Culver City is a suburb •where (CONTINUED ON PAGE STX) FEAR REVOLT IN R OHM AN IA Revolution Is Reported Brewing; Exiled Prince Returns Vienna. Aug. 28— <UR> —Revo- : lution was reported brewing in i Roumania with the return from I exile of Prince Nicholas, banished brother of King Carol, to lead the Nazi Iron Guard in a coup d’etat which might make him dictator. Diplomats said Nicholas's sur-' prise flight to Bucharest from Italy —officially denied l»y King Carol's government in fear of an uprising ' —was engineered by the Iron Guard, which has sought since i 1933 to*lrive Carol from the throne I because of his extra marital romance with red-headed Magda Lupescu. Minister of War C. Angelscu was reported to have resigned and to ! have been replaced temporarily by ' Minister of Navy N M. Iremescu The Iron Guard, outlawed by : Carol but strong, is bitterly antisemitic and Mme. Lupescu is said to lie Jewish. At one time, according to reports, the guard plotted to assassii nate the "Royal Camarilla.” Nicholas was stripped of his titles, became plain Nicholas Bran and fled to Vienna, thence to Italy. April 26, after being denounced by ills older brother. He supposedly was ostracized because he dared to marry a com moner. After denying Nicholas's presence in Bucharest for hours tne • foreign office admitted he had flown from Italy, but said his trip was "solely on business matters.' Some diplomats predicted that the threatened uprising of the Iron Guard would force Roumania to seek postponement of the Little Entente conference scheduled to convene Monday at Carol's sum nier residence at Sinaia. It was reported that the Iron Guards called Nicholas hack from his exile to brave Imprisonment ; because of the King’s refusal to replace Prfme Minister George Tatarescu. Tatarescu replaced Premier lon G. Duca, who was slain by the Iron Guard in 1933. Should a coup d’etate be success | ful, Nicholas probably would rule :as dictator, although his title would be that of regent until the coming of age of Prince Michael, I Carol's 15-year-old son.

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Decatur, Indiana, Saturday, August 28, 1937.

Held In Park Murder As Accessory Yk A 1 1 -1 I y ■■ J • Lucille Buehler and her attorney Arnold Harris, as she appeared in Chicago felony court after she was named accessory to the murder of Herbert Lee. alias Robert F. Burns, who was shot to death in Grant Park early last Sunday. August 22. Named as the actual slayer is ! Leonard Doxey, who investigators say is another of Miss Buehlers sweethearts, but disclaimed by her. Miss Buehler is held without bond.

MORE TRAFFIC SIGNS PLANNED Additional Stop Signs And Traffic Lights Are Planned Here ' Additional stop signs and traffic .lights are to be placed on Decatur streets to insure more efficient and safer handling of the constantly guowing number of autos, Ralph E. Roop, city civil works and •street commissioner stated today. At Five Points, extra stop lights j will be set up to make all but the light on the corner nearest Mercer avenue double-faced, he stated. This light will remain the same. The other lights will be backed by a stop light directing traffic] from the other side. The lights will be made visible only to the cars approaching from J the street to which the light turned, he stated. Mr. Roop stated that the method ] of eliminating the caution light oh the red-to-green change has also proven popular. This was tried] for the first time on the present i system at Five Points. It is don ■ [ to prevent cars from starting away too soon on a red light. The can I tion signal is maintained on the i green-to-red change. He also stated that 36 new stop I signs are to be placed on city i streets before the entire change is made. The new stop signs are . of the high hexagon type and are] I placed on the side rather than in . the center of the street. Mr. Roop stated that the oldtype center signs would be left i.t place until autoists become accus--touted to the change. Several of 1 the new type signs have already' been placed. LOCAL GROCERY PLANS ADDITION Stults Grocery Builds Addition For Storage Purposes A new addition to increase storI age facilities is being erected in | the rear of the Stults Home Gro-; eery on Second street. John B .Stults, manager of ti e | store, stated today that the nt w, building will be extended 50 feet 1 in length from the rear of the ■ present store building. The addition will be 20 feet in width. It is being made of brick and will be used as a storage bin, | mostly for vegetables and fruits, he stated. The store plans to install a vegetable and fruit market. Several weeks will be required before the new addition is completed. The office of the store will also be moved to the addition, which runs nearly to the alley between Second and Third streets. A stairway and sliding chute for loading and unloading are being erected to the cellar from the new addition.

Sovine Funeral Services Sunday Funeral services will be held Sunday afternoon at 2:30 o'clock in the home and at 3 o'clock at the First U. B. church for Mrs. Edith M. Kidwell-Sovine. who died here Friday morning. The Rev. C. J. Minor, retired pastor, of this city, and former pastor at the First V. B. church will officiate. Burial will be made in the Ray cemetery west of Monroe. o — _ GIRL'S DEATH BEING PROBED Inquest Is Opened Into Death Os 12-Year-Old Girl Today Hendersonville, hl. C„ Aug. 28 —■ <U.R) -Henderson county coroner, I Bruce Cox today opened an inquest, i into the death of 12-year-old Gloria ] Hauser, whose step father. T. T. Hazlewood. 28. former Butler Uni-] versify student, is charged with i statutory carnal knowledge and 1 murder of the girl. Attorneys for Hazlewood declined to reveal what defense they will 1 present at the inquest. They said i they would call about eight wit-1 1 nesses and expected their client , to be “completely vindicated.'' R. L. Whitmire. Hendersonville, is chief defense attorney. Fred E. , Barrett. Indianapolis, attorney, was understood to bo representing the , family of the girl's mother. Mrs. I Maxine Dollman Hazlewood. Indianapolis. Solicitor C. O. Riding. Forest j City, said he expected to present i a dozen witnesses. Ridings said he ' was convinced it was a case “for j the jrand jury investigation at I least.” j Gloria's body was found by two | motorists at the bottm of a 120-foot I ravine seven miles from here AugI ust 17. Hazlewood. wTTh whom she had been spending a few days, was ' crawling down the ravine mumh- : ling "for God's sake, save my ' child." He appeared in a dazed J condition. Hazlewood was taken to a hospital and placed under guard. After several days treatment for ner(rn NTWtTEn ON PAGE SIX) o Conservation League Directors To Meet — i Members of the board of directors of the Adams county fish and game conservation league will inspect the site for the proposed new lake at Sun set Sunday afternoon at il o’clock. Anyone interested in the i project is a'so invited to attend. o TEMPERATURE READINGS DEMOCRAT THERMOMETER 8:00 a. m. 76 10:00 a. m. 82 11:00 a. m. 86 Highest yesterday, 98. WEATHER Fair tonight and probably Sunday; continued warm.

FAMED SOYBEAN CAR TO VISIT CITY OCT. 4 Pennsylvania Railroad To Have Car On Exhibit Here In Oct. Residents of northern Indiana I will have an opportunity to see a unique industrial and agricultural exhildt in October, when the Pennsylvania railroad brings It famed soybean car to Decatur. The ear. I which contains an elaborate assortment of soybean products and is itself painted with soybean paint, will be on a siding at the Central Soya Company's Decatur plant. It will he open to the public for the entire day. In conjunction with the exhibit ' car. Purdue University will hold a soybean field day in the community and visits will be made to test plots in that area. Opportunity will also be given to inspect the bean ' processing plant of the Central Soya Company. This mill is the largest in the state and has a capacity larger than the total amount of soybeans that have ever been j harvested in Indiana In any one 1 year. With the rapidly increasing interest in soybeans and their manifold uses, the public will have an opportunity to see at first hand the remarkable uses to which this , magic bean and its products can ; be put. The car is sponsored by the Am-' erican Soybean Association with co-operation of state agricultural colleges and the U. S. department | of agriculture. The Pennsylvania railroad utilizes one of its air-con-ditioned passenger coaches fitted for exhibition purposes at its Altoona. Pa. shops From roof to rails it was redecorated with soybean paint and soybean varnish. To enter the car one turns a knob made from soybeans and is attracted immediately by an arch supported with big columns made of soybeans. The car interior is finished with plywood put together with soybean glue. Incidentally, ■ 50.000 acres of soybeans are needed annually to supply the nation s plywood industry. The ear'y history of the Soybean in the Orient, where for 5.000 years it has been a staple crop, is displayed in one section. Primitive methods of cultivation and markI eting are depicted here. i As a natural development a large map of the United States next shows the extent and growth of soybean cultivation in this country together with fundamental principles necessary for successful production. The U. S. Dept, of I Agriculture has a well prepared exhibit showii.g the research work it is doing at its laboratory in Urbana. 111. A flashing sign at one end of the car is devoted to the great industry which has developed to process the annual soybean crop. Here is pictured the manufacturing plants where more than 55 million bushels of beans are crushed annually. The uses of soybeans in flour, animal feed, edible oils, foundry proceeeses, plastics and paints is also shown. The exhibit car started from New Brunswick, N. J. Aug. 16 in tribute to James Neilson, who in I 1870, grew a field of soybeans on what is now the cajnpus of Rut- , gers University. Tfie car will follow an itinerary through Ohio, Ind- '! iana and Illinois and will be on display at the state fair at Indianapolis. —— o —— INDIANA YOUTH IS ABDUCTED I Brookville Youth May Have Been Kidnaped By Mother Brookville, Ind., Aug. 28 —(UP) Franklin county authorities today l expressed belief that 14 year-ol* 1 Frederick Kamliter. missing from the home of his foster parenle since Thursday, had been taken away by his mother, Mrs. R. T. Bussell, Druce Lake. 'lll., i Sheriff John Moore said the woman was reported to have bepn seen in Brookville the day before the youth disappeared after leaving the home of Mr. and Mrs. Fred Ruess, to deliver newspapers. The sheriff said all efforts to ! trace the whereabouts of the Woman had failed, however. The boy’s parents have been separated for several years and the father, Arthur Kamliter, Cincinnati trust company official, was awarded ;his custody. He has .lived with the Ruess couple, Foster parents of his I (CONTINUED ON PAGE SIX).

Great Britain To Ask Satisfaction For Plane Attack

JIM WILLIAMS SEEKS BROTHER Newport Man Searching For Brother, Former Local Resident James Williams, 31. of Newport, Indiana and a former reali dent of Adams county, walked Into the city this morning In a prolonged search for a brother whom he had not seen for 14 years. Telling a tragic story of an early separation when the two boys, still of the teen age. were separ- , ated when different families look them from a Wells county orphanage, "Jim" appealed to Police Chief Sephus Melchi to aid in the search. The brother. Joe. who, if still living, would be 25 years of age, i was last heard of when he was 14 11 years old. At that time Joe lived with the Herman Scheimann family near here. The Scheimann's took the lad from the orphanage. Jim went to the Mart Keifer family, who also live near Deca- | tur. This was the last the two i brothers saw of each other. When the lads' mother died two years later. Joe was unable to return home for the funeral. After growing into manhood. Jim moved back to Newport, his native home, married and settled down there. He, however, never gave up in the search for his lost brothel, he said. Jim stated that he would stav around Decatur for a while in an I effort to learn something of Joe's whereabouts, if possible. If unsuccessful. he plans to return home, only to again continue the ' search at a later date. He appealed to anyone knowing of his brother's whereabouts to write to him at his permanent home in Newport, or have the 1 brother contact him. CREATES FUND TO FIGHT FORD United Auto Workers Make Assessment To Fight Henry Ford Milwaukee, Wis. —(UP)— 28— The United Automobile Workers voted a sl-a-member special assessment to create a $400,000 war chest for its campaign to organize 125,000 , employes of the F.crd Motor Company. The action was taken shortly , after John L. Lewis, chieftain of the Committee for Industrial Orga- , ization, told the UAW convention, "We are going to organize Ford u. -rkers.” The convention adopted a resolution. offered by William E. Dowell of Kansas City, Mo., organization 1 committee chairman, with a howling standing vote that touched off a three-minute demonstration. The resolution for setting up Ford department and building organization committee, house-to-house canvasses, radio broadj casts, advertising, and “all moral and financial support of the international union.” Coming to the UAW’s embattled national convention in the role of peacemaker. Lewis rallied bickerI ing delegates by challenging Henry Ford, declaring for labor's greater participation in national politics, and by calling William Green, pre- , sident of the American Federation ' ' of Labor, a "traitor". The Committee for Industrial Organization chairman was cheered poud and long when he declared: "Henry Ford may believe his will , Jis superior to the will of his employes: he may believe he is bigger than the United Automobile Work--1 ers, bigger than Congress in ret'us- ' ing to abide by the Wagner act, but |if he cv'ntinues to believe these ' things he will become a very tired old man. “Some of these days he will get J very, very tired and stop flying in the face of the inevitable and ac- ! cord the right to organize to his i employes." Commenting on Lewis's remarks, Harry Bennett, personnel director for the F.-rd Motor Company and spokesman for Ford, said at Detroit, Mich.: “My feeling toward Mr. Lewis and the United Automobile Workers is pretty well known. What I said the other day about Homer , Martin (UAW president) goes for John L. Lewis, b?o.”

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To Demand Satisfaction For Attack On British Ambassador; Americans In Line Os Fire MANY IN DANGER London. Eng.. Aug. 28 i(U.R) - An angry British pretest, demanding the fullest satisfaction lor a Japanese aviator's attack on the British ambassador to China, is to be presented to the Japanese foreign office, probably today. J. L. Dodds, counsellor in charge of the affairs of the British embassy at Tokyo, will make the protest on instruction of the foreign office. It was said in reliable quarters that it would demand an indemnity for the attack, in addition to an apology and assurances that British subjects in China lie guaranteed against any similar attacks by ap soldiers, soldiers or aviators engaged in Japan's war on China. Lives In Danger By H. R. Ekins (Copyright 1937 by United Press) Shanghai. Aug. 2S~-(U.R>— Hundreds of American lives, including those of women and children refugees, were brought into urgent danger today when Japanese warships. maneuvering in the Whangpoo. drew Chinese fire close to the Dollar liner President Lincoln and a refugee tender. Machine gun and rifle bullets smashed against the tender and against the hull of the big Dollar liner. Passengers on Hie tende", and the United States navy guards with them, dropped prone to tha deck or fled to cabins. There were no reports of wounds aboard the liner, and none aboard the tender was wounded. As this urgent danger came tn American citizens, hundreds of Chinese civilians were torn to pieces in the Nantao section of Shanghai, immediately adjoining the French concession, by bombs from a fleet of gigantic Japanese bombing planes, newly arrived to reinforce the army. It was estimated that 400 civil lans were killed by one load of bombs that fell on and near the i south railroad station. Chinese officials announced that I total casualties in the area | amounted to almost 700 dead anil 1,200 wounded. The threat to the Americans was the gravest since the Chinese crisis, involving hundreds of United States citizens directly. The tender started down tha river at 11 a. m. with 321 refugees, including 160 continental Americans and Filipinos. A navy guard was aboard. Nearing the President Lincoln, a Japanese patrol boat circled the liner, firing at Chinese ashore. Chinese responded with machine gun and rifle fire. The President Lincoln itself was under fire at intervals from 9 a m. to 2 p.m. because Japanese warships. a cruiser and four destroyers, maneuvered near it. Two of the destroyers passed between the liner and the Chinese lines. Bullets, too many to lie estimated. hit the liner’s sides as it lay off the Woosung quarantine station. Four Americans who had come via Japan on the liner boarded the tender and they and the navy guards in turn were brought under fire as they came up the river. The President Lincoln made otf with urgent haste for Hong Kong. The threat to the Americans seemed over, for the moment, but many hundreds of torn bodies of Chinese, many of them women and children, lay in the streets of the Nantao district. About 1.000 Chinese were huddled around the south station when bomb after bomh landed within a few seconds. Some of the people there were awaiting trains, others seeking shelter in the “safety" of the station from the Japanese bombs, raining down mercilessly on the crowded native section. The bombs that landed on and (-CONTINUED ON PAGE THREE) O Alice Archbold Second In Class Miss Alice Archbold, daughter ot county agent and Mrs. L. E. Archbold of this city, ranked second among student® of the 1940 class at the Indiana university school ot nursing (luring the past term. Capping services were hold Friday night at Indianapolis for the members of the 1940 class? _