Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 26, Number 272, Decatur, Adams County, 16 November 1928 — Page 1

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FEDERAL AGENTS RETURN TO NEW YORK

■ POSSIBILITY OF I BELIEF ACTION I ?| EASES HOOVER I I short Session May Enact I Immediate Relief For The Fanners I HOOVERS READY FOR OCEAN TRIP | |>ai (l Alto, cAf., Nov. 16.— U.K' I I pi,. -nt elect Hoover is pleased with I I r,.pm is from Washington that con- | I [Tes- it its coming short session, may I Bmait a farm relief program adequate I I for immediate relief, thus obviating I I ihe in-. essity of an extra session.after EH Man h 4. I Hmiver promised an extra session I I in Hi.- closing days of his presidential I I campaign. unless adequate relief was I I attorned during the short winter sessI I ion. which at that time seemed iinI I probable. Now however, it appears I I Secretary of Agriculture Jardine and I I Senator Charles McNary of Oregon, | I to author of the McNary-Haugen bill, I I are likely to agree on legislation along | I lines laid down by the president-elect, I I and that McNary and other farm lead I I ers will press relief measures. Establishment of stabilization corI ■ porations constitutes the heart of [ I Hoover’s farm relief program, it pro- | I vides for tariff increases on agricul- | I tural products and further aid to coI I operative marketing, as well as such | I long time assistance as development I B of inland waterways. | If congress at the short session I I meets his views in so far as to pass I ■ a measure setting up stabilization I corpora ions,th two TES shrd cmfwt I | corporations, thus establishing maI ■ chinery to aid the farmer in market- | I ing next year’s crop, he will not call Ban extra session. _ ._ | This will leave him free to plan I B during the several months before the I B new congress regularly assembles in | B December 1929, other measures for t I aid of agriculture on a long time bas- ■ is, including tariff increases, further I aids to cooperative marketing and in f ■ land waterways. A president who faces congress at i ■ the outset cf this administration, no I matter how friendly, runs into diffiI cutties. Hoover would be pleased if ■ congress passed a stabilization bill at I the short session. After the inaugurI atlon, it is understood that he would I start investigations into every phase I of the agricultural problem, establishI ing the basis for a series of legis’aI five proposals for permanent cure of I the agricultural distress. These proI posals would be submitted in the folI lowing December. The president elect completed pack- ■ ing today for his South American I tour. Trunks and boxes carrying his I and Mrs. Hoover’s effects were loadI ed aboard trucks and carted to the I station, to be shipped to San Pedro I and there put aboard the battleship I Maryland which sails Monday. Further details of his itinerary will I be announced by Henry P. Fletcher, I ambassador to Italy, representing | President Coolidge on the trip, when I he joins the party at San Pedro, according to George Akerson, Hoover's assistant. o VERN A, BRIDGE DIES THURSDAY Son Os Former Methodist Minister Os Decatur Dies In Indianapolis Word was received in Decatur today of the death of Vern A. Bridge, 36 son of the Rev. and Mrs. U. S. A. Bridge, of Wabash, formerly Methodist Pastor cf this city. Mr. Bridge died at Indianapqlis Thursday fallowing an operation for the removal of the appendix. Vern A. Bridge was born at Claypool Indiana, in 1892. For the last several years he has been circulation manager °f the Indianapolis News. Mr. Bridge underwent an operation a week ago Thursday and never rallied following the operation. Surviving besides the widow and one child and the parents, the Rev. and Mrs. Bridge, is one brother Don U. Bridge, advertising manager of the Indianapolis News. Funeral services will be held this evening at Indianapolis and burial will he made at Spring Grove cemetery at Cincinnati.

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Vol. XXVI. No. 272.

Gottschalk Re-Named State Budget Member Indianapolis, Nov. 16. - (U.R) —Pliny H. Wolf a rd, Newcastle, secretary to Governor Ed Jackson, has been appointed by the governor as a member of the state board of tax commissioners. M olfard succeeds John J. Brown, Rockport, whose term expires Dec. 1. Tlie secretary’s appointment will make William A. Hough. Greenfield, the ranking republican member of the tax commission and he will succeed to the chairmanship which Brown held. The governor also announced the selection of William Storen, Scottsburg, as a member of the state budget committee, and the reappointment of other budget committee members. Storne replaces Addison Drake, Fairbanks. Members who were re-appointed are Guther O. Draper, Spiceland ;• Thurman A. Gottschalk, Berne, and Samuel J. Farrell, Haitford City. PEPPLE TO BE ROTARY GUEST District Governor Will Attend Luncheon Here Tuesday Noon Wot th W. Pepple, Michigan City, district governor cf International Rotary, comprising the state of Indiana, will be the guest of the Decatur Rotat y club Tuesday noon at luncheon, meeting to be held at 12 o’clock at the the K. of C. Hall. The Rotary governor is visiting every club in Indiana and his visit here is the nature of an official visit. Plans have been made for the luncheon Tuesday noon and M. J. Mylott, president of the local club wil preside as chairman. There will not be a meeting of the Decatur Rotary club , next Thursday. Last evening W. Guy Brown secretary of the board of Children’s Guardians spcke to the members of the local board and how the members endeavored to aid the orphan children of this community. In recent years the boatd of Guardians has adopted a policy of placing the orphan or needy children in private homes, rather than send them to an orphan’s home. Mr. Brown related an instance cf one Decatur orphan, without mentioning any names, who was adopted by a family of fine character and financial means in Chicago. This county is providing aid for 47 orphans in private homes and 11 in orphan homes. Mr. Brown’s talk was interesting and he stressed the fact that the board and juvenile courts did not seek publicity as to their work. o INSLEY FINED AND SENTENCED Local Young Man Gets SIOO Fine And 60 Days On Farm Robeit Insley, proprietor of a filling found guilty by Mayor George Krick in mayor’s court this afternoon on a chaige of selling liquor to Julius Roop who was arrested Sunday night on a charge of public intoxication. Mayor Krick fined Insley SIOO and costs, amounting to $141.20 and sentenced him to 60 days at the Penal farm. Attorney Ed Bosse, counsel for the defendant, pleaded for a suspened sentence and the court ruled against it. The defendant’s counsel then announced that he would appeal the case to the Adams Circuit court. The trial started this morning at nine o’clock. B. F. Roller, local attorney, tried the case for the state, acting as deputy prosecuting attorney in the absence cf Prosc-c.ttor John T. Kelly. Julius Roop, Robert Ball and Merlin Venis testified for the state, alleging that they bought liquor from Insely on November 1 1th. Mrs. Insely and Robeit Martin testified for the defendant. Mrs. Insley attended the trial throughout. She left the court room in tears. Several hundred persons attended the closing session of the trial this afternoon. o Leaves For Detroit Otho Lobenstein, of tile local undertaking firm Lobenstein and Hower, left this morning for Detroit, Michigan where he will have charge cf the funeral cervices of C. H. Branch, Jr. who died at that city this morning. The body will be taken to Shelby Michigan, for burial.

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Local Scouts Will Journey To Ft. Wayne Troop 64. Boy Scouts of America, of this city will go to Fort Wayne tonight where they will enjoy an haur swimming in the indoor pool at the Fort Wayne Catholic Community Center building. The local Scouts also will take swimming tests for First Class Scouts. POSTMASTERSHIP TO BE DECIDED Official Notice For Examination at Berne Is Sent Out Today Official notice has been sent out* frem the office of Postmaster-Generol Harry S. New that applications for the postmastership at Berne will be recened until December 11, Fred H. Rohrer, present postmaster was appointed for the vacation period and the permanent appointment will be made after December 11. The p:stmastership at Berne pays an annual salary of $2,700 a year. To be eligible for the examination, an applicant must be a citizen of the United States, must reside within the delivery of this post office, must have so resided for at least two years next preceding the examination date, must be in good physical condition, and within tlie prescribed age limits. Both men and women are admitted. Under the terms of the Executive order, the Civil Service Commission will certify to the Postmaster-General the names of the highest three qualified eligibles, if as many as three are qualified, and the Postmaster-General will select one for nomination by the President. Confirmation by the Senate is the final action. Applicants will not be required to assemble in an examination room for scholastic tests, but will be rated on their education and business training and experience. The Cicil Service Commission will make inquiry among representatives local business and professional men and women concerning the experience, ability,, and character of each applicant, and will assign ratings upon the evidence secured. Nothing will be permitted to appear in the evidence upon which ratings are assigned which might even suggest the political affiliation of any candidate. Full information and application blanks may be obtained from the secretary of the local board of civil-exam-iners at the post office in this city, or from the United States Civil Service Commission, Washington, D. C.

Decatur, Indiana, Friday, November 16, 1928.

Their Daddy’s a Hero! i ■ r I 7 * -W * y > ■ V ■ 1 £ u / B •. 7 If -BT.. a M fel" - Jm mR * * Mrs. Mary Cummings, of No. 3195 Hull ave., Brooklyn, and her two children, Ruth, four, and Schuyler, Jr., the proud family of Captain Schuyler Cummings, master of the American Shipper, tt hich played a prominent role in Vestris rescue. (init>rnanonai Newsreel)

DRIVE PLANS ARE COMPLETED Local Committee Asks Citizens To Display Flags All Day Sunday Citizens are asked to display the American flag next Sunday in observance of the opening day for the American Red Cross Roll Cal 1 , which opens in Decatur. At a meeting of the board of directors of the local Chapter held last evening, this request was made by the Red Cross chairman and members of the general committee who are desirious of completing the drive for members within a very short time. An appeal through the ministers of the different churches in the city will also be made Sunday. Everyone will be urged to enroll in the Red Cross. Adams county is expected to have at least 1 000 members. Mrs. Henry Breiner has been named chairman of the Roll Call in Peterson and that territory. The drive is under way in Berne under the direction of Mrs. E. M. Ray, Mrs. Thurman Gottschalk and Mr. E. W. Jeffery, superintendent of tlie Berne public schools. Good progress is reported from that place. The school children are assisting in the canvass for members and prizes are being offered by the Berne merchants to the person securing the most members. Plans for the Roll Call are being made at Geneva today and as has been the custom a good report is expected (< <>XTINt'EI> ON PAGE Sl'tVKNi NeVeFI A CIRU * Xou Are UNWORfHY • OW HER - SHE KNOWS <HAI’ f—already

RECEIVERSHIP IS ASKED FOR ’ GENEVA BANK Luther Symons, Examiner, Files Petition In Circuit Court HEARING IS SET FOR NOVEMBER 20 A petition, asking that a receiver be appointed for the Farmers and Merchants state bank at Geneva, which failed to open its doors Tues- [ day morning, after an apparent run | Monday afternoon, was filed this afternoon before Judge Jesse C. Sutton of the Adams Circuit court in tliis city by Luther F. Symons, state bank commissioner. Mr. Symons in his petition “alleged that the Farmers and Merchants State Bank of Geneva, is insolvent and asked that a receiver be appointed.” The petition was docketed by Judge Sutton’at about two o'clock this afternoon. Mr. Symons, who with his son, O. G. Symons, banker of Frankfort, Indiana, filed the papers, together with an inventory of the assets and liabilities. They made an examination of the bank beginning Tuesday. The only statement that. Mr. Symons would make for publication was ‘‘that, the bank is apparently insolvent and in a failing condition." The petition for the receivership will eome up Tuesday, November 20, and If objections are not offered and sustained by the court, the procedeure of appointing a receiver will be made. The bank will not lie opened for business, the apparent insolvent condition making it impossible to do so. The directors last Monday afternoon dec’ded not to open the bank Tuesday mornng. The Farmers and Merchants Bank is capitalized at $25,000. Following a reorganization of the bank in 1925, the capital stock was reduced from $35,000 to $25,000. At that time the stockholders paid in a sixty per cent, assessment on the capital stock and the bank again re(CONTINI El» OV PAGE SSVF..X Q

ARE PROBING t I SHIP DISASTER - U. S. Commissioner Will Make Complete Probe Os Ship Wreck New York, Nov. 16.—(U.R)—The seaman's view of how and why the S.S. Vestris went down some 240 miles off Virginia, carrying with it a probable loss of life of 114, will be told today in a United States commissioner’s office. The story will be recounted as United States District Attorney Charles H. Tuttle attempts to learn whether any American maritime laws were broken by the Vestris, whether American lives were endangered unnecessarily and whether any officer of the Vestris or of the Lamport and Holt lines should be prosecuted. Commissioner Francis A. O’Neil has heard the condemnatory stories of passengers rescued from that liner. There was no sparing of the officers of the Vestris and there were few good words about the voyage. The stories told by the four passengers yesterday generally were alike. The facts in general as told were: 1— One steward was so drunk he could not wait on one passenger's cabin. 2 — No verbal order was issued for the passengers to put on life belts. 3— All life boats were unseaworthy. 4— No life boat drill had been held. 5 — The delay in sending out the SOS caused the loss of life. 6 — Officers in command showed indecision in the crisis about 2:30 p.m. Monday. Fred W. Puppe was one of the best witnesses of the day. He is a slight, quiet spoken engineer, whose wife and child are among those missing. He blamed poor seamanship to a great extent. ‘‘From Sunday night on, I was convinced that the ship was doomed," he testified. “She was listing more every minute when I put off in a lifeboat and saw my wife and child, unable to break themselves away from the Vestris. At 11 a.m. Monday morning Captain Carey ordered the passengers to take to lifeboats, but it was 1 p.m. before the first boat was launched.”

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Threatens To File Injunction Proceedings Indianapolis, iNov. 16 —<(J.R) —Clarence N. Dugan, former teacher in Indiana State reformatory at Pendleton, has threatened to file a petition in Madison circuit court at Anderson for an order restraining Superintendent A. E. Miles and the present trustees of the prison from further exercising control. Dugan also declared he intended to ask the court to direct Gov. Ed Jackson to name a temporary superintendent and board to operate the Institution, as a sort of receivership pending investigation of his charges that Miles and the board have confoned brutal treatment of prisoners. Butial Made Friday The body of J. K. Mann, of Liberal j Kansas, a foimer resident of Decatur, i was bin led in the Decatur Cemetery Friday. The body arrived here la’e yesterday afternoon. Mr. Mann was 74 years old. He was a brother-in-law of Mrs. Coat Cook of |his city. SCRAP ON FOB CURTIS POST Rumor That Several Candidates Are After Senate Leadership Washington, Nov. 16. —(U.R) — Senator Wesley Jones who belongs to neither the so-called old guard nor , to the progressives, probably will I assume the republican leadership of I the senate when the mantle is shed by vice President-elect Charles E. Curtis. , His selection already is being negotiated as a compromise in the lively . little political campaign being waged around this highly important party post, since Curtis indicated he would ( resign before or at the coming sess- . ion of congress. The contest for the post is being waged by friends of Senator George > Moses of New Hampshire and Senator 5 James E. Watson of Indiana. Next in t the list of five contestants are Sent qtors Simeon D. Fess of Ohio and > David A. Reed of Pennsylvania. Jones is being boosted as a compromise because he is the oldest of the group in point of service. He has

been a senator from Washingion since 1909, and the senate follows the rule of seniority except when it con- , flicts with the desires of the leaders. He was one of the original supporters of Herbert Hoover and has been closely identified with Hoover's administration of the department of commerce, as lie is chairman of the senate commerce committee. The Washington seator was whip under Curtis and handled the senate during Curtis’ lengthy illness last (CONTINUED ON PAGE SEIENI "NEW BROOMS” PLEASES MANY Evening Star Festival Is Enjoved Bv Largest Crowd Os Week

“New Brooms", a four act comedy, staged by the Ernest Raymend Misner Company as the third night of the Evening Star Festival at the high school auditorium last night measured up to everything critics had said of the play and the cast. The show was enjoyed by a large audience which was kept in an uproar during the entire performance. The play is the story of a father and his college son. The father is a serious minded business man with harsh habits and the son is a "happy-go-lucky” young man witli a lot cf high Ideals in business. The father has some trouble in interesting the son in his broom factory business and finally lie decided to turn over his entire business to the son and take a year's vacation.

Thomas Bates, Jr. the son, takes hold of the broom business while father takes a year's vacation. Complications develop, and in the course of the time father goes south with the Bates’ housekeeper for the winter. The housekeeper is the sweet young daughter of an old friend of Mr. Bates, Sr. The junior member of the family breaks his engagement with a young lady of the town who has the habit of going to parties with someone even if her fiance cannot go. The factory continues to lose money and the young man is glad when his father returns from his vltit south. The play ends after the father explains why he took the vacation to the son, metely to show him that to sue(CONTINUED ON PAGE FOUR)

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[FIFTY AGENTS STAGE SECOND NEW YORK RAID i Thirty Taken In Series Os Raids In Twenty-One Places ) FIVE SQUADS IN GROUPS OF TEN New York, Nov, 16. — <U.R) — i fifty federal agents early today . made their second concerted drive on New York night clubs and speak-easies, raiding 21 places and taking 30 prisoners. The places visited by the agents ranged from office buildings in the mid-forties to the gay resorts in Greenwich Village. None of the better known night clubs were visited today. i The squads were sent out in five groups of ten each and made a whirlwind campaign. Some of the federal forces were augmented by city police. The Gay Paree and Jimmy Kelly's were among the better known night clubs raided. In some quarters it was reported the raids were ordered directly by Mrs. Mabel Walker Willebrandt, assistant attorney general, but these reports could not be confirmed at the federal building. The government lost the first of 26 cases that grew out of night club raids ordered last summer by Mrs. Willebrandt when a jury yesterday acquitted tlie owner and four employes of ■ Luigi's,” a Greenwich Village case, of conspiracy to violate the Volstead act. Since the defendants admitted selling liquor, however, they were con- ■ victed of maintaining a nuisance. A prohibition agent testified that f one of Luigi waiters boasted of the s tact the establishment was protect- ’ ed by “Senator Wagner.” U. S. Seui ator Robert Wagner became a voluntary witness to deny that he had any I dealings with Luigi or with prohibition agents. —oWill Probe Rumor i

New York Nov. 16 Rumors that the Lamport and Holt steamship line wirelessed Capt. W. J. Carey of the Vestris not to send out an S. O. S. on Sunday when the ship first showed a decided list opened up another avenue today for Fedeial attorney Charles II Tuttle's investigation. Tuttle immediately issued subpoenas for officials of the radio corporation of America calling upon them to produce copies of all radiograms that passed between Carey and Sanderson and Co. agents for the Lamport and Holt line. o Publishers Meet Bloomington, Ind., Nov. 16— (U.P.l — Several Indiana Newspaper publishers opened a two-day session at Indiana University here today to form a new non-partisan press organization. The meeting was called by H. A. Wefige, publisher of the Jeffersonville Evening News. It was proposed to name the oiganization the Indiana Allied Dailies. o

LOCAL DOCTOR’S SON EXPIRES C. H. Branch, Jr., Dies Os Heart Trouble At Detroit, Michigan , Charles H. Branch, 25, son of Dr. C. H. Branch of this city died suddenly at his home in Detroit early this mornk . ing according to a telegram received j by the father here today. The young I man had not been in ill health and the death report came as a shock to the

family here. Charles H. Branch, Jr., was born In Hesperia, Michigan in 1903. At the age of 20, he went to Detroit where he has since been employed by the Chrysler Motor Company. Details of the deatli were not given in the message received here today, except that the death was sudden and caused by a heart attack. Surviving are three children, the patents Dr. and'Mrs. C. H. Branch of Decatur and three brothers. Harold Blanch and Owen Branch, of Grand Rapids, Michigan and Kenneth Branch of Decatur. Funeral arrangements have not yet been made, but Dr. Branch stated this morning that services probably would be held Sunday and burial would be made at Shelby, LVlichigan.

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