Muncie Post-Democrat, Muncie, Delaware County, 24 April 1931 — Page 2
FRIDAY, APRIL 24, 1931
THE POST-DEMOCRAT & Democratic weekly newspaper representing the Democrats of Muucie Delaware County and the 8th Congressional District. The only Democratic Newspaper in Delaware County. JBntered as second class matter January 16. 1921. at th* Pomofflct at Muncle. Indiana, under the Act of March* t. 1879
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Muncie, Indiana, Friday, April 24, 1931.
ICELAND WOULD THROW OFF ME
Oklahoma Adopts ;Pennsy Company is
Demand for Republic Growing as Cabinet Crisis Arises.
Good City Government There are some people in Muncie who do not approve of ; the present city administration but here’s something they ■ must acknowledge. Organized gambling and bootlegging is suppressed. The paving trusts is busted. Muncie is in good shape financially and will not have to borrow a dime this year and will have a good balance in the general fund at the end of the year. Graft has been eliminated. Fire losses are less than ever before and insurance rates ' have been lowered. The streets^nd alleys are clean and the parks now mean .something to the. city. Political “pull” means nothing here. Democrats and republicans look alike. You have an administration that is your servant instead of your master. You are getting exactly what you voted for. That doesn’t always happen. You are frequently disappointed. Muncie has been miserably misgoverned in the past. If good government doesn’t suit you the chance to change comes around every four years. Please pardon for these rather personal remarks, but other newspapers here won’t tell you about your own city so it’s up to the Post-Democrat, as usual.
The Question of Sunday Golf
Reykjavik, Iceland, April 24.— UP— A cabinet crisis following" demands for the proclamation of a republic in Iceland occurred Wed-
nesday.
Sterilization Bill
Oklahoma City, Okla., April 24.— Governor W. H. Murray Wednes'day signed and thus enacted into law a measure passed by the re,cent Legislature providing for j sterilization of third-term crim-
linals.
Originating in the House of Representatives, the bill by Dr. J. T. Gray of Stillwater originally provided for sterilization of insane patients of state institutions. Men less than 67 years old and women less than 47 were subject to the
Two of three ministers in the, °P era<:ion cabinet of Iceland resigned. They I are Jonas Jonsson, minister of justice and ecclesiastical affairs, and Einar Arnason, minister of
finance.
Premier Tryggvi Thorhallsson forthwith reconstructed the cabinet with himself as minister of finance and of justice. He appointed Sigurd Krustinsson as jninister of trade, a post he had held until
the shake-up.
The premier’s action was seen as virtually creating a dictatorship in Iceland, an island of some 95,OCX)
population. Thorhallsson. last| ,, ,, f t TT77 stri ct contests week dissolved parliament—the Al- .. ™e uisuict coniesis thing, which is the oldest such ^ the Ind, 1 ana b f tat f H ^ h , Sch ° o1 body in the world-during debate U Co ,T.\ e1 '?!^ CO,ltest wlllch were
on ^ motion of non-confidence sub-
STATE CONTESTS TO GE SATURDAY County Students to Enter
Commercial Battle
at Muncie.
Ruled to Answer Hartford City, April 24.—:The de■fendant in the suit of Jack Carder vs. the Pennsylvania Railroad company, filed in the Blackford circuit court on March 31, asking damages as the result of an automobile-box car accident, was ruled to answer Wednesday morning by Judge Eth-
an W. Secrest.
The complaint alleges the defendant’s agents left a box car across a street intersection in Dunkirk, and that the defendant drove his automobile into it, demolishing his automobile and severely injuring himself. It is alleged the car bore no warning lights, and that no watchman had been left there
to warn motorists.
Rev. Straton, local Bapticl minister, gave the ministerial association a tough nut to crack at a recent meeting of that body when he advocated repeal of the thirty-third amendment, which granted to church members the right to play golluf on Sunday on the Minnetrista links. Attempts to move the previous question were headed off by an amendment to include playing on all golf courses, parlor, African, peewee, welterweight and acreage setups, which carried over protests and cries of gag rule by a vociferous minority. Since that time local dailies have been painfully eu deavoring to interpret the clerical mind of Muncie, -as to what really constitutes a proper observance of the Sab-
bath.
The thing has been argued, pro and con, with the accent distinctly on the con, until the laity is all confused and the public will have to decide for itself whether to go" to church, play golf, or go fishing on Sunday, or in fact whether or not one might not do all three without violating more than four or five of the ten commandments. As a matter of fact the average citizen is just naturally full of all kinds of cussedness, and that even includes the very good as well as those'of various degrees of badness. Strictly interpreted the Gopel bans golf on Sunday, a day of meditation and prayer, so the point was well taken by Dr. Straton. But, we fear, the young minister will have a hard time of it convincing his own parishioners that their Sunday program should be confined to going to church, Sunday school and prayer meeting. We are all hypocrites, Dr. Stratin, and we might just as well own up to it instead of attempting to strike a happy medium by amending the scriptures to suit our own individual lives. Sometimes we fear that the census taker will have an easy job in Heaven. Arguing with onesself as to what constitutes right and wrong is a popular indoor sport in America and few there are of us who are unable to make split decisions, even to the point of kidding ourselves into believing that is possible to use the right hand to play golf early Sunday morning and the left to pass the plate in church a few hours later. But brother, you can’t do both and get by St. Peter witlf> a clear bill of health if the gospel as preached by Rev. Straton and others of Muncie means what it says. The parson preached .hell fire in the early days and everybody went to church, 'principally because there was no place else to go on Sunday. But with the invention of automobiles, moving pictures and other devices of the devil, hell cooled off, and a new and modern gospel sprang up with ffie thought uppermost that hell isn’t such a bad place after all. But occasionally somebody like Dr. Stratin pops up and disturbs our modern philosophy and we begin to squirm and sweat and make excuses like the roisterers of Babylon when the handwriting appeared on the wall.
mitted by the independence party. Demonstrations followed during which the people, led by students, demanded that a republic he proclaimed, and that Iceland’s recognition of King Christian of Denmark as their king be repudiated. King Christian, at Copenhagen, is understood to have ordered an in-
quiry into the movement.
5-YEARPLAN IS MENAGE TO U. S.
MURDER OF GIRL MAY BE SOLVED
Suicide of Man at San Diego, Calif., May Clear Mystery.
San Francisco, April 24.—Discovery of a similar hanging near heie made this city today the center of a search for a possible solution to the death of Louise Teuber, aged 17, whose unclad body was found hanging from a tree on the outskirts of San Diego last Sunday
night.
In a cemetery lb miles south of here, the body of Jo^n Porcellano, aged 40, a spiritualist, was found dangling from a tree under circumstances closely resembling the girl's mode of death. The body was found Tuesday, but the details were not revealed uxitil today when the case came under the keen eyes of a woman deputy coroner, Mrs. Luella D. Pepper. Apparently, Porcellano had committed suicide by stepping from a box after he attached a rope to his neck and slung the other end over the branch of a tree. The “sailor’s knot,’ ’which figured in the hanging of Miss Teuber also figures in the man’s hanging, Mrs. Pepper reported. The other
the tree with half hitches similar to the San Diego case, Mrs. Pepper added. Face, Hands Scratched Mrs. Pepper was struck by one observation in view of the /fact that human flesh had been found under the dead girl’s fingernails. On the face of the man, she reported were humerous scratches and gouges a'k though made by fingernails, similar marks were noticed on the hands.
DRASTIC ORDINANCE IS PASSED AT UNION CITY
Through the efforts of women, Union City, Ohio, has passed an ordinance setting that village out as a bird sanctuary., No birds ex cept sparrows and blackkbirds when they become a nuisance are allowed to be killed. Furthermore owners of cats must put a bell on them when they roam the out doors. Penalty for the first offence in disobeying the ordinance, will be a reprimand, with possibly a slap on the wrist.
end of the noose was tied a bout chemist
Partly cloudy to cloudy Thursday and Friday, possibly rain Friday in southwest portion; not quite so cold Thursday in east
portion.
Through the aid of a continual flow of oxygen, sparkling pure water and fertilizers are now produced from sewage. That one person in three is “tasteblind” to a certain bitter chemical has been discovered by a
Former Governor of Iowa Warns of Danger and Pleads for Action.
Des Moines, April 24.—(UP) — The development of Russia's fiveyear plan will “completely annihilate” the world grain markets of middle-western United States fanners and reduce them to a self-suffic-iency basis, W. L. Harding, former governor of Iowa, told the Western Grain Dealers association Wed needay night. / Speaking before 300 delegates to the association meeting Harding pleaded for immediate development of the upper Mississippi river channel by diversion of water from Lake Michigan. The only rebuff for the soviet at tack on the grain markets of the world. Harding said, was expansion of the iiuand waterways so that inland grain growers will have cheap, ready access to the oceans, and /roin thence to the markets of
the world.
This must be done immediately, Harding stressed, or it will be too late, and the soviet will have encroached upon the field so far that competition will be impossible. “Your market,” Harding said, “is just as large and no larger than your freight rates will let you go. Your farmer . . . wants to sell in New York, in Europe, in South America, in Russia . . . and to do this be needs to get out on the ocean with the least possible
freight cost.
“If the north Mississippi vallov really is alive to its interests, and to the importance of outlets to the ocean, it will present a united front on this Illinois river demand for water for navigation. Delay is dangerous and frought with many hazards. There must he diversion at Chicago from Lake Michigan to maintain a nine foot channel in the Mississippi river.” o
held in twenty-one district centers last Saturday, have been announced by Prof. M. E. Studebaker, head of the department of commerce at Ball State Teachers college, which sponsors the contest. The winners will represent their schools in the finals which will be held Saturday
at the Muncie college.
The complete, program for the finals lias also been announced by the college officials. The novice typewriting contest for classes A and B, will be held at 9 o’clock on the first floor of the Ball gymnasium. At 9:30 o’clock, the amateur and open typewriting classes will be held at the same place. Beginning shorthand dictation yvill be given at 10 o’clock in the reading room on the second floor of the library building. Advanced shorthand dictation will be held at 10:15 o’clock in the reading room on the second floor of the library build-
ing.
Open Shorthand Dictation At 10:30 o'clock the open short hand dictation contest will take place in room 1 on the second floor of the library building. At the same time the advanced shorthand transscription contest will be held on the first floor of the Ball gymnasium. Pupils in the beginning bookkeeping division will meet in the reading room on the second floor of the library building for the finals at 10:30 o’clock. The last contest to be held at this time will be that for advanced bookkeeping pupils in rooms 2, 3 and 4 on the second floor of the library build-
ing.
The open shorthand transcription contest will be held at 10:15 o'clock on the main flboe' of gymnasium. The announcement awards will he made at 4:30 o’clock in Assembly Hall. At 6:30 o’clock, the annual victory banquet will be held at the Hotel Roberts. A program of pep, music, short talks, followed by several specialty numbers and a dance, will be held at the hotel. This district’s list of winners who have survived is as follows,:
Baltimore Star is Kept Out of Game; Leg Injury Cause
Baltimore, April 23.—A torn leg ligamehUffips kept Joe Hauser- first baseman of the Baltimore Orioles and leading home run hitter of organized baseball last season, from opening his avowed campaign to equal his 1930 record of sixty-three circuit clouts. Hauser's injury came three days before the international season offieally opened in an exhibition game here with the Philadelphia Nationals. Hauser, former Cleve'and and Philadelphia Athletics first baseman, leaped to fame last season when he took the all-time lead for home runs hit in one playing season. His record surpassed Babe Ruth's best mark of sixty-one homers.
Killed in Glider
San Jose, Calif, April 23.—(UP) —Phil Longyear, 35, San Francisco pilot, was killed near here yesterday when a glider he was testing dropped from an altitude of 100 feet. High winds were believed to have caused the accident. Witnesses said the glider ■seemed to collapse -while in the air. | o— HONEYMOON DELAYED
TWO MURDERS ARE UNSOLVED No Clues in Louise Teuber and Virginia Brooks Death.
San Diego, Calif., April 24. (U P)—For the second time in lestthan three mon/ths, local authori ties seemed completely baffled bj a murder in which the slayer ap parently left po clue to his identify —ithe hanging of 17 year old Louise Teuber on lonely Black mountain The unsolved kidnaping and murder of Virginia Brooks, 1(^ hardlv had passed from the public prints when the almost nude body of Miss Teh her was hanged to an oak tree at midnight Saturday. Except for theories and a fact or two, the sheriff’s office has made no progress in the hangingn case. The rope by which the girl’s body was suspended was identified by a ship supply dealer today as a type commonly used for mooring small shore boats. As a result, authorities, linked the case with the sea, declaring that a seafaring man, or perhaps his jealous sweetheart had eominited the crime. The noose was tied in a double half hitch, used by sailors. The identification of the rope was made by T E. McCaffrey. After a chemical analysis showed that Louise ate a sandwich about an hour and a half before she died, deputy sheriffs questioned operators of lunch counters and amusement establishments at the base of Black mountain.
Kansas City. Mo.—Edward B. Cooper and Miss Marietta Tuttle are en route east on a honeymoon delayed 30 years by the fact Miss Tuttle first spurned Cooper’s pro-
posal, whereafter both married and i Cumberland
were freed only last year to renew Imidshipmen. He has served 4 years
‘their romance. lin naval aviation.
County Midshipman Commends Service
George West. Portland Rural Route 8, has received word from his son, G. v. West', now with the U. S. Naval aviation, stationed at Annapolis, Md., in which he states he likes it and writes commenda-
tory of the naval station.
West is oh board the U. S. S. Rema Mercedes, captured by Admiral Dewey at the Battle of Manila bay, and used with the U. S. S
as training ship foi>
CITY ADVERTISEMENTS
Department of Public Works
Office of the Board
City Hall, Muncie, Indiana.
Notice of Declaratory Resolution.
Notice to Property Owners: Notice hereby is given, by the
Board of Public Works of the City of Muncie, Indiana, that it is desired and deemed necessary to make the following described vacation and condemnation of alley in and for the City of Muncie, Indiana, as authorized by the following numbered Declaratory Resolution and adopted by said Board on the 24th day of April, 1931, to-wit:
Declaratory Resolution No. 685,
1931, For the vacation and condemnation of thd alley between Mound and Proud Streets, from Kilgore Avenue to Adams Street.
The Board of Public Works has
fixed the' 13th day of May, 1931, as the final date on which remonstrances may be filed by persons interested in or affected by said described proceedings, and on said day at 7:30 o’clock p. m. said Board of Public Works will meet at its office in said city for the parpose of bearing and considering
1931, to-wit:
curb and gutter on Linden Street from the south line of Riverside Avenue to the north line of Beechwood Avenue, and from the south line of Beechwood Avenue to the north line of North Street. 911 work done iiYHlie making of said described public improvements shall be in accordance with the terms and conditions of the improvement resolution, as numbered, adopted by the Board of Public Works on the above named date, and the drawings, plans, profiles and specifications which are on file and may be seen in the office of said Board of Public Works of the
City of Muncie, Indiana.
The Board of Public Works has fixed the 13th day of May, 1931, as a date upon which remonstrances may be filed or heard by persons interested in, or affected by said described public . improvements, •and on said date at-7:30 p. m. said Board of Public Works will meet at its office in said City for the purpose of hearing and considering any remonstrances which may have been filed, or which may have been presented; said Board fixes said date as a date for the modification, confirmation, rescinding, or postponement of action on said remonstrances; and on said date will hear all persons interested or whose property is affected by said proposed improvements, and will decide whether the benefits that will accrue to thep roperty abutting and adjacent to the proposed improvements and to the said City will be equal. f tp/«r ! ^xi'ped the estimated cost Hi*"rfife* proposed improvements. as estimated by the
City Civil Engineer.
cause why said account sliould not
be approved.
The" heirs of said decedent, and all others interested, are also required to appear in said Court, on said day, and make proof of their heirship, or claim to any part of
said Estate.
Attest: PERRY W. MANSFIELD,
Clerk.
GEORGE R. DALE^, Administratrix Brady & Watson, Attorney. IB April 24-May 1.
CITY ADVERTISEMENTS
Department of Public Works Office of the Board City Hall, Muncie, Ind. Notice to Contractors and to the
Public:
Notice is hereby given, to the public and to all contractors, that the Board of Public Works of the City of Muncie, in the State of Indiana, invites sealed proposals for the construction, in said City, according (o the respective improvement resolutions below mentioned, and according to the plans, profiles, drawing and specification therefor on file in the office of said Board of each of the public improvements herein below described
to-wit :
1R-683, 1931, For local combina tion sewer in the center of May
day of May, 1931, and each, such proposal must be accompanied by certified check payable to. said City, for the sum equal to two and one-half per cent (2% per cent) of City Civil Engineer’s estiniate which shall b© v fforfeited to §aid City as liquidated damages, if the bidder depositing the same shall fail duly and promptly to execute the required contract and bond, in ca:^a-*a contract sjnjll be awarded imfepn ^uch acejKipanying proBoard resells the right to reject any and mil bids. ' BY ORDER OF THE BOARD OF PUBLIC WORKS. . . , ' Eunice Carpenter, Clerk. April 24-May 1, 1931.
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TO THE TAXPAYERS OF MT.
PLEASANT'TOWNSHIP DELAWARE COUNTY, INDIANA. Notice is hereby given by the undersigned, that an emergency exists for a meeting of the Township Advisory Board of Mount Pleasant Township, Delaware County, Indiana;, to make appropriations of additional amounts of money for expenditures for said
any remoHstrances which may have'j^ is very nmG , v the way yirl been tiled or which then may ho 1 y y
ton Drive and thence south along the center line of May Avenue to the center line of 8th Street. Each bidder is also to file with the Board an affidavit that there has been no collusion in any way affecting said bid, according to the
BOARD OF PUBLIC WORKS.i terms of Sec. 95, of the Act of By Eunice Carpenter, Clerk. I March 6th, 1905. (Acts 1905, p. 219) April 24-May 1. 1931. I All such proposals should be —.— 1» — sealed, and must be deposited with WARNER BAXTER THINKS 'said Board before the hour of ten LIFE’S WAY IT'S TAKEN ^o’clock in the forenoon of the 12tn
Warner Baxter is not the type I of person who attempts to tlnus! f his beliefs and opinions upon, others, but be lias decided, upon the proof of experience, that the
Township during the current year
of 1931, as follows, to-wit : Fund No. 11. Miscellaneous and official bonds $155.00
Fund No. 4. Advertising 100,00
Avenue from 158 feet southwester- and that a meeting of the Townly from the center line of Burling- ship Advisory Board of said Town-
ship and the Trustee .thereqf .will be held at the office ;of s$id; town-
ship trustee at his residence in the Town of Yorktown, Mount Pleasant Township, Delaware 'County, Indiana, on the 9th day. of May, 1931, at 7:30 o’clock p. m.' of said day, at which time said 1 appropriation will be considered.”' • ■•' : V,THOMAS H. AMLLUR, - Trustee of Mdunt 'Pleasant "Township. •• > , . v.Y April 24-May • 1. ‘ V ' .
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presented: said Board fixes said date for the modification, confirmation. rescinding or postponement of action on sa'd proceedings; and on said date will hear all persons interested in, or whose property is affected by said proposed proceedings and will decide whether I lie benefits that will accrue to .tip) property abutting and adjacent to the proposed vacation and con-
demnation and lo,sjH|<Lcilly, equal to or excebd'*uie et
cost of the proposed.
BOARD OF PUBL1G WORKED Eu nice Carpenler. Clerk.
April 24-May 1, 1931. « f>
CITY ADVERTISEMENTS Department of Public Works
Office of the Board City Hall, Muncie, Ind.
Nolice of Improvement Resolution Nolice to Property Owners: in ihe 'matter of Certain Proposed Public Improvements in the City of Muncie, State of Indiana. Notice is hereby given by the Board of Public Works of the City
of Muncie, sired and
take it.
“1 used to get up each morning
pretty much in doubt, that I’d have any luck that day,” he says. “I
gave in to diseoruagement. “Finally, one morning while shav-
ing—I looked at Mr. Baxter in tiie mirror and told him that if he | didn't believe in himself he ; couldn't, expect anyone elsr* d<H ' likewise. | convinced my self fliat] F my affairs; woro wninw i,> ..i ■ fcoj
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were going to take
for the better.
Believe if or not, I haven't ha
a reaj bad break since.”
• One of tile best performances Baxter lias given since “In Old Arizona," is Dial of a prominent surgeon in "Doclore' Wives,” Henry and Sylvia Lieferant’s frank novel. Joan Bennett is eo-featured in this Fox drama coming to the Rivoli Theater Sunday and Monday j
Frank Borzage directed.
NOTICE OF FINAL SETTLE
MENT OF ESTATE
Nolice is hereby given. Dial the Administrator of the Estate of! Percy Hentz Dubois, defeased, has
Indiana .that it is de- filed Iris account for final settle-|
deemed necessary to men! of said estate,
make the following described pub- ! All persons interested in said Eslic inipi ovements for the City of i tate are hereby notified to appear Muncie, Indiana, as authorized by . in the Delaware Circuit Court held the following numbered improve-;at Muncie, Indiana, on Saturday, IR-6186, 1931, For paving ami the 23rd day of May, 1931, being ment resolutions, adopted by said! the 42nd day of the regular Ap' d Board, on they 24th day of April, |Term of said Court, and show!
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