Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 27, Number 29, Decatur, Adams County, 2 February 1929 — Page 1

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MANY MEASURES ISE INTRODUCED, FEU ARE PASSED One-third Os General Assembly Session last, Many Bills Face Delay RECOMMENDATIONS of LESLIE MET BY BILLS Indianapolis, Feb. 2.-(U.R)~ Onethinl of the session past, journals of In ,liana s seventy-sixth general as<?mbly show that virtually all contemplated important measures have leen introduced. But as attention swings from infractions to bills’ progress, step oy stap through the two houses, a disposition to postpone solutions for a , lu ml>er of important legislative problems until 19313 becomes evident. Taxation Chief Preblem Taxation probably is chief of these. Although proposals have been made for an increased gasoline tax. a cigs at tax and heavier license fees for trucks, none have been given the weight of administration support and lag in the lower house. Meanwhile legislators are showing favor for proposals to create commissions to study vexing legislative problems and report their recommendations to the assembly two years hence. All recommendations in Gov. Harry G. Leslie’s message have brought re-spon-e. Included among bills answering his first message are those to increase highway department revenues; to follow the state tax board's suggestions for revieiotr of tax laws and appeal procedure, to provide more drastic penalties for criminals, to repeal the state wide features of the primary, rewrite the workmen's compensation law. and extend the statute of limitations. But their enactment is another matter. Getting away to a late start, the primary modification bill conforming with the Republican platform pledge, is. being held in the senate election committee while majority leaders try jo marshal enough support to insure its passage. Democrats are in evident g'ee to see the lack of agreement in Republican ranks on tampering with the present law. The new workmen's compensation act, too, got off to a bad start when it was discovered, a day or so after its introduction, that it made no pro(COSTIMI'EP OX P AGE SIX I School Principal Pays $2.50 Per Stroke For Whipping Young Pupil Gary. Ind., Feb. 2—(U,R>—lt cost E. A. Spaulding about $2.50 a stroke to whip a 11-year-old student at Emerson high school, where he is principal. Judge Martin Smith fined Spaaildmg soo on a charge of assault and battery brought by parents of James M liington, 11-year-old student. The boy was struck about 20 times . th a rubber garden hose for violatmg school rules, according to testimony. Spaulding paid his fine. DENEVA C. OFC. HOLDS BANQUET •Judge James J. Moran, Os Portland, Gives Principal Address fiv-e'T? 3 ' F ' e * > ' 2- ~ ,s P eci al) —Seventygue»t^ erS .? nß ’ lncludin 8 members and GenpvL ot ended a banc > uet held by the £o l s a .? ber ° f Commerce, in the preside? 11 , ' laßt night ' E,i Stucky, as to aa ° f the orßail * za tfon, presided Th ' " Quel aud W |h 3 tunl,9lled during the banby the M he program which followed lags w Munro family orchestra. Readand M Ven by Mrß ' E- B. Gauker °ner' nrinH 01 ", Rhoades ' Virgil WagSchool gave P s° f ‘ he °* neva high B’iesse/th Sh ° rt talk ' ln which he Geneva' w* n'c f ° r “ gymnaaium in Geneva L? Cr , 088 ’ Jr - well-known Portland and Pred Beckdolt, a also. attor “ey, gave short talks Jamis introduced Judge an address in Rortland > wh o gave benefit of " b Cb lle dl,3cus sed the business L organlzat ‘on. A short the Program WHS held fol,owing

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Dan Niblick To Attend Convention In New York Dan M. Niblick, of the Niblick and company dty goods store, will leave Sunday for New York City, where he iwlil attend as a delegate, the annual convention of the National Retail Dry Goods Association. The sessions of the convention will be held in the ball rcom of the Pennsylvania lotel. Feo | ruary 4 to 3. inclusive. Ftank McFirren, of Bluffton, also a delegate, will accompany Mr. Niblick. While in New York, Mr. Niblick wi|l buy spring merchandise for the local store. ’ o 1 LOCAL LEGION ; POST WINS CUP s I Gets Largest Membership In Contest With Bluffton And Alexandria i . A beautiful silver loving cup, offered as the prize in a membership con-! test between the American Legion Posts of Decatur, Bluffton and Alex-, j andrla. was won by Adams Post, No. 43. of this city, it was learned this p afternoon. The contest closed at mid- , night, Thursday njght. Each of the three posts bad a quota of 135 members. The number of mem- , bers obtained by each post before the ’ close of the contest was as follows: M Decatur. 186; Alexandria, 155; Bluffon 149. A communication giving the final results of the contest, was recelv--1 ed here this afternoon from Pleas Greenlee, state adjutant. Officers of the local post stated to lay that there would not be a meet_ng of the post next Monday night, but the next regular meeting will be held on Monday n'ght, February 11. o i ’ Weather Man And Mr. j Ground Hog Agree That Winter Is Not Ended Indianapolis, Feb. 2.—(U.K-Six more ' weeks of winter and a toss-up between ice or s ush for tonight and tomorrow. Mr. Ground Hog and J. H. Arming- • ton. U. S. mtterologlst, combined to • day to give Indiana this weafher fore--1 east. r It being February 2, Mr. Ground ! Hog's prediction was given precedence over that of the weather man. Observers agreed that in most parts of the state he had ample chance to see a black clear cut shadow before J ducking back into his hole for six . more weeks of sleep. Armington did not cheer the situation much when he predicted snow or sleet for Indiana. He added that the temperature would rise slowly, the rate of rise determining whether icy streets or slushy ones would result. 1 < -— No Service Tonight At 1 First Methodist Church The pastor of the local Methodist church announced last night that . there would be no services in the I church tonight. In making announcei rnent of this change last night, the pastor said the people had been very i faithful to the services throughout . the two weeks of meeting and that . for the most part those who had started at the beginning had scarcely missed a night and that since the Sunday morning service would be communion and that Sunday would be a full day. it would be advisable for the people to rest Saturday night in anticipation of this full program. Col. George L. Miller, Circus Owner, Killed ■ Ponca City, Okla., Feb. 2 —(U.R)— Colonel George L. Miller, one of the owners of the 101 Ranch, was killed early today when his automobile skidded on the snow and ice and - overturned on the highway west of 1 here. > Colonel Mfller, who was 48 years s old, was returning to the ranch alone , from Ponca City when the accident I occurred. i Colonel Miller, with his 101 Rtffich Wild West show contributed greatly • to the popularization of the western, I cowboy drama in American life, an - element of early pioneer days that r 'ater became such a current theme in - motion pictures. 1 Oi t ..Picture Appears In Paper i The picture of Mrs. Foster Cole, who i is the physical culture teacher at Wesi tern College, Oxford, Ohio, appeared 5 in the Saturday night, January 26, issue of the Cincinnati Post. Mrs. Cole : is a sister-in-law of Mrs. Charles Cole, s of Richmond, who was formerly Miss i Ida Kohne of this city, Students from t this city who have atended Western I College are well acquainted with Mrs. Foster Cole.

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MONROE PLANS FARM INSTITUTE Interesting Program Arranged For Annual Affair To Be Held Feb. 8 The Monroe farmers institute, open to all farmeis in Adams county, will be held Friday, February 8, in the Monroe school building. A long list of premiums is offered by merchants and business houses of the county. Three good programs have been prepared by the committee. The exhibits may be viewed at any time. The premium list will be announced at a later date. The progiam for the institute is as follows: Morning Session Music High School Orchestra. Song. “America" —Rev. E. M. Foster, “Financial Value of the Worn , a In the Home" —-Mrs. Essie Fuller. i Cornet Solo —Henry Busche. Eouality for Agriculture—Albert For- . ris. Saxaphone solo —Elmo Stuckey. Appointment of Committees. Dinner served by M. E. Ladies Aid. Afternoon Session Music High School Orchestra. “Religion—as Taught in the Little Church by the Side of the Road—Mrs. ' Essie Fuller. Violin solo—Mrs. Floyd Johnson. ’ “Profitable Pork Production" — Albert Ferris. Report of Committees. Evening Session Song—Room three, Monroe school Reading—Omer Yoeman. Violin solo —.Miss Mary Schwartz Play—Room one. German songs—Miss Fredia Heyerly Vocal music—young ladies quartet Motion pictures—F. E. Christen, FORMER BERNE MERCHANT DIES: ( “ — I Emil Erhart, 66, Former Partner Os Eugene Runyon, Dies In California Berne, Feb. 2— (Special)—Emil Er- , hart, 66, former Berne business man. • died at 6 o'clock Wednesday evening. January 27, at his home in Los Angeles, California. Death folowed an at- i tack of influenza. Mr. Erhart was formerly a partner in the People's Store of Berne. In 1898, together with Eugene Runyon, then of Linn Grove, he bought out Campbell and Edwin of the company, and conducted the store as Erhart and Runyon, which was later changed to ; Erhart, Runyon and Co., Mr. Erhart was also one of the organizers of the Berne Grain and Hay Co., and later was located in Fort Wayne, where he : ' managed the publication department i of the Missionary Church Association. In 1911, Mr. Erhart moved his family to Phoenix, Arizona, and later to California, where he was engaged in the real estate business. He is survived by his widow, formerly Rebecca Stauf--1 fer, of near Berne, and three children, ’ Eva and Marie, at home, and a son, Clarence, Jules Erhart, of near Berne is a brother. He is a brother-in-law of Mrs. Peter Stucky and Mrs. William Witwer, of Berne. Funeral arrange- , meats have not been learned. o Two Robberies At Claypool Warsaw, Ind., Feb. 2—(UP) —Bandits using an automobile robbed the Shumaker Drug store and the Garman Commercial Automobile garage at Claypool today and escaped with loot worth $250. Included in the stolen articles were a radio, watches, flashlights, cigarettes and cigars.

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Most Groundhogs Saw Their Shadows Today, But This One Didn’t Although it will be acclaimed that the little ol' Groundhog saw its shadow today, there is at least one groundhog which did not. Just as this particulai groundhog started to come out as its hole this morning a couple of hours before the sun came up, Jesse H. Franklin living Southwest of Decatur, saw him and kerplunk, lie hit him over tbe head anil Mr. Groundhog probably had visions of a dark cloud for a second or two and then everything was over. Mr. Franklin brought Mr. Groundhog to the Daily Democrat office early this morning and he has been on display all day. Many persons have taken a look at him and those who hate to think cf six weeks more winter, which is forecast when the groundling sees his shadow, wish that everyone of the little fellows had received a blow over the head before the sun came up. Mr. Franklin made a promise two weeks ago that he would bring Mr. Groundhog in on February - and, before 9 o’clock this morning, he camo to town with his prize. The animal is a fat one. The sun broke through the clouds for a few minutes this morning giving the groundhogs a chance to see their shadow. As a result, the old timers are predicting six weeks more winter. ACCOUNTING WITH BANK IS SOUGHT' — Ohio City Man Alleges Bank Owes Him $20,000 As Balance On Account Van Wert, Ohio, Feb. 2—Charles O. Krugh, of Ohio City, has filed suit in the court of common pleas here asking an accounting of his business transactions with the Farmers Bank of Ohio City. Attorneys for the defendant bank filed an answer to the suit stating that the bank will welcome an accounting. Krugh’s petition states that he had ! done business with the bank for ; more than five years and that his account was closed on April 6. 1925, when the defendant protested! payment of the plaintiff's checks. Plaintiff’s petition continues by averring that since that date he lias had an auditor go over his transactions with the defendant and alleges that the audit shows the bank is indebted to him in the amount of $20,000, as a balance on his account since April 6, 1923. An accounting by the court and judgment for the amount ascertained as due the plaintiff is asked. The plaintiff is represented by Mannix and Billingsley, Greenville attorneys and B. A. Myers, Celina attorney. The answer to the suit filed through the local firm of attorneys, Conn, Hoke and Wright, denies that the defendant refused to account with the plaintiff and avers that the bank has ofßcred plaintiff full access to all of its book|s, papers and accounts pertaining to his transactions with the bank, and now offers to the court for its use all of plaintiff's records referrng to transactions between plaintiff and defendant. n ■— Frequent Precipitation Forecast For Next Week Weather outlook for the period of Feb. 4 to Feb. 9: For the region of the Great Lakes: rather frequent precipitation, no extreme colid likely, temperatures mostly near normal.

"If ZAT SO" TO BE GIVEN MONDAY Late Comedy Hit To Be Staged By Decatur Cast At D. H. S. Auditorium A most entertaining prize fight at which ladies as well as men may feel a.t perfect ease, and enjoy equally, will be staged Monday evening at the high school auditorium in connection with the play, “Is Zat So". The two boxers have been training for several weeks and promise to give the public a thrilling presentation of a boxing bout. The play is being given under the iitspices of the Civic Department of the Woman s Club and is one of the very latent plays being only recently released for amatuer production, at a very high royalty fee. It is now playing in Chicago. The play lias been directed by Mrs. James R. Blair. This production will start at 8:15 o’clock, ptornpt, and a great many tickets have already been sold. All members of the Woman's dub will be admitted without charge by registration, but anyone attending who is not a club member will be required to pay the regular admission charge of fifty cents. Music during the evening will be furnished by Mrs. France Conter. Through courtesies extended by Beavers and I Fryback, attractive stage settings are being aranged and the play, featuring some of the best local talent of tbe city, promises to be a most entertaining one. The play is modern in all respects [ and portrays a story of the lives of a prize fighter, his manager and a rich I young New Yorker, which could easily | be realism in itself TEN LIVES ARE LOST IN FIRE — Tragedy Occurs When Fire Destroys Miner’s Home In West Virginia Buchannon, W. Va., Fell. 2.—(U.R) — Ten persons, two of them small children, were burned to death shortly before midnight last night when fire destroyed the one-story frame house of Peter Sines, a miner. Sines' son-in-law. Roy Gibson, was the only one of the 11 persons in the house who escaped. He is in a critical condition here from burns and shock. Gibson's wife and baby son, and Sines, his wife and six children died in the flames. Firemen found their bodies in the ruins of their beds. Evidently they had been overcome by smoke before they could flee from the flames. o— Ex-Prosecutor Gets Two-Year Sentence Danville, 111. , Feb. 2—(UP)— Arlie O. Boswel, convicted of conspiracy to violate the Volstead act while he was gate's attorney of Williamson coun•v. was sentenced by U. S. Judge Walter C. Lindley today to two years in tiie Leavensworth penitentiary. Lindsley also imposed a? 5,000 fine. Boswell was found guilty by a federal jury at East St. Louis, 111., a week ago. Coroner George Bell of Williamson county, also convicted with Boswell, was sentenced to one year and a day In Leavenworth penitentiary, and fined $2,000.

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Rushville Man Heads School Superintendents i Indianapolis, Feb. 2 —(UP) — 11. B. Allman superintendent of schools at Rushville, was elected president of the cities and towns school superintendents' association at the final session of its convention here. W.i: ren Young, Greencastle, was named vice-president. The nominating committee announced that Allman's advancement was due to his good work as chairman of the executive committee. He was .succeeded in that position by Merle Abbott, Bedford. o MORE ALLEGED BANDITS HELD Suspects Are Identified By Farmersburg Town Marshal As Bank Bandits Farmersburg. Ind-.. Feb. 2 —(UP) —Two more men were in the Sullivan county jail today, accusted, along with James “Red" Dawson, of having robbed the Farmersburg state bank of SSOO. They were Jerry Fitzpatrick, 20, Sullivan, and Joe Walters, 20, Terre Haute. Both were identified by Robert Mahan, Town marshal of Farmersburg and bank official. Dawson vigorously denied, when his alleged accomplices were brought in, that the had given their names to officials. A clteck by bank officials today discolsed that only SSOO had been taken instead of the SI,OOO as first reported. Farmersburg, Ind., Feb. 2 —(UP) — James Dawson, severely wounded by town marshal Robert D. Mahan, when he and four other men robbed the State Bank here of SI,OOO has revealed •he names of his companions. The wounded bandit ha-s given officers the names of Arnold McCroy, Jasonville, Vernon Johnson, address not known, and two others that he knows only as Helms and “Blondie". The automobile used by the bandits found abandoned in Terre Haute. Dawson is in a hospital at Sullivan. Mr, G. Hog. Frightened At His Shadow, Runs Down Street; Killed Racine, Wis„ Feb. 2—(U.R)—The ground hog came nosing out of his hole at Sturtevant near here today and saw such a sharply defined shadow that he became confused and fled in the wrong direction. Instead of running back into his den. as well-bred ground hogs have done for centuries, he set off down a street in the village, apparently trying to escape his shadow. Henry Kraus, the village dog catcher, spied him. Kraus has been shoottug all the stray dogs since an epidemic of rabies struck the town. Mistaking the ground hog for a dog, he raised his gun and shot the animal. Kendallville Citizens Vote In Favor Os Sunday Movies Kendallville, Feb. 2.—One thousand two hundred fifty-one votes were cast here Friday in a special election in favor of Sunday motion pictures fori Kendallville against an opposition of 540 votes. This election was held to get the sentiment of the city on the Sunday motion picture question here. A city ordinarnce passed in February, 1916, has prevented Kendallville theaters from operating on Sunday. The city council will vote on the retpeal of this ordinance next week. It is expected that the council will unanimously repeal the ordinance after the overwhelming defeat of the “blue law" in the special election. The expense of the special election was borne by the theater interests of the city. A long vigorous fight against the return of Sunday movies here has been waged by both the Kendallville Ministerial association and the W. C. T. U. o Fire Destroys Tobacco Factory At Henderson, Ky. Henderson, Ky„ Feb. 2—(UP) —Fire early today destroyed the Rash Tobacco Factory, the office of the Henderson gas plant and two residences, with loss estimated at $15,000 and possible loss of one life. Hundreds of lives were endangered for a time as tjie fire threatened to spread to the main building of the Henderson gas plant. Fearing a disastious explosion firemen concentrated their efforts at that point and checked the flames after they had slightly damaged the plant foot.

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NO ARRESTS MADE ON INDICTMENTS RETURNEDFRIDAY Eight Indictments Returned By Grand Jury Probing Alleged Crime Ring NUMBER OF PERSONS ACCUSED WITHHELD Angola, Ind., Feb. 2. — (U.R) — With eight indictments returned in the grand jury investigation of Steuben county's alleged ciime ring, authorities refused today to say when arrests would be made or how many persons were accused. The grand jury closed its work last night, but in the absence of Judge Clyde C. Carlin, of tiie Steuben-La-grange circuit court, could make no formal report. The judge returned here from Ohio here late at night but has not yet disclosed any information regarding the indictments. Prosecutor Makes Statement Special Prosecutor Thomas A. Redmond, Kendallville, declared as tiie probe ended: “The people of Steuben county will not be disappointed with tiie grand jury's work.” From authoritative sources, it was learned that the indicted persons would include Charles Zimmerman, former Steuben county sheriff. His deputy, Russell Sickert, is declared not to have been indicted, due, according to general opinion here, to his turning state’s evidence and aiding the jury in its probe of charges including murder, bank robbery, and official corruption in connection with raffic in liquor. Zimmerman has been under a cloud of suspicion for nearly a year. He was away from Angola when the body of Tommy Burke was found in a burned barn near Fremont, in August, beieved the victim of a feud which developed following robbery of the First Natonal bank here in May' in which >oot of $116,000 was taken. o Mrs. Henry Dickerson Seriously 11l At Geneva Geneva, Feb. 2. —(Special)— Mrs. Henry Dickersen, well-known Geneva resident, is seriously ill at her home here and little hope is held for her recovery. She is suffering from pneumonia and a complication of diseases. She is the mother of John Dickerson, former Decatur man, who now resides at Berne. o — Junior Band To Give Concert Tuesday Afternoon The Decatur Junior band will give a concert in this city Tuesday afternoon at 1 o'clock. The concert is being given in connection with the Decatur Advertising Association's program which begin at 1:30 o’clock. The public is invited to attend the program and entertainment. DEATH CLAIMS HENRY MARBAUGH Prominent Blue Creek Twp. Farmer Dies This Morning; 65 Years Old Henry Marbaugh, 65, prominent Blue Creek township farmer, died at 9 o'clock this morning, Saturday. February 2, 1929, from a complication of diseases, following influenza. Henry Marbaugh was born May 31, 1863, in B ack Creek township, Mercer county, Ohio, and had followed the occupation of farming, during his entire life period. His wife, Margaret Meyers Marbaugh. preceded him in death three years ago. Surviving are seven children, as follows: Mrs. Allen Wolfe, of Blue Creek township; Francis Marbaugh, Willshire, Ohio; Mrs. Clara Stettler, of Willshire, Ohio; F.oyd and Anna, residing at home; Fred Marbaugh, of Blue Creek township; and Mrs. Naomi Baker, of Decatur. Three brothers and sisters who survive are: James Marbaugh, of Chattanooga, Ohio; Fred Marbaugh, of Willshire, Ohio; Ed Marbaugh. of Jes- . ferson township; and Mrs. Ella Smitley, of Jefferson township. Funeral arrangements have not been completed, but services will probably be held Tuesday.

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