Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 27, Number 52, Decatur, Adams County, 1 March 1929 — Page 1

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SUPREME PROHIBITION DRIVE CERTAIN

HOOVER RESTING I PREPARATION for inauguration t£f{s;V:tr Selecting 01 L ahinot TWO SEI ECTIONS T "° REMAIN SECRET W,,hin,.on. Mar. 1- <U.R> - With ! w ~a | i not completed and Uis "ia«ig *1 address in ih«’ »«»«*« of ' " U [’ . s rnsi.l.-l.t .-!• < ! Hoover curhis Mh.MlnU- today in order to (nr o, P next throe days from t toi has proved the Idlest Job he |Tfr had—pit kitty his cabinet of ten Ben. i Hoover has dee'tled to wait until March 4 to select his "Little atinot." the group of under secreftn the vario y. depai ,*nent«. jnd to make certain diplomatic He ilc-ires to consult with Ha new heads of the departments on this matter. Some c f the present indersecretaries will he re’ained. Speculation Is Rife The information from close associates that the secretary of agrlculure and the secretary of commerce in the new cabinet will tie ‘ surprises’ spread confusion among the ranks of the speculators here, and these ranks ire well-filled. i The immediate Hoover family will ' bereani'ed today for Hie inauguration [ with the arrival of Allan, the presi- [ tat-eiect's younger soli, from Palo I Alto, where he is attending Stanford [ uiverslty. Herbert. Jr., and ills faatiy already are here. : The president-elect's sister. Mrs. Mary Leaviti, of Long Beach, Calif., also is due Theodore Hoover, brother of the president-elect, who is hea>l of Stanford University’s engineering •rhool. has been forbidden by his Wtysician to come east at this time because of an attack of laryngitis. He will visit the White House in the Spring. — oSouth Side Wins Tight Game From New Haven i fort Wayne, March I—(Special) - South Side high school, of Fort i Wol ‘ a thrilling battle from the I pew Haven thill Dogs in she first Bunc, of the sectional tournament |e this afternoon. The final score * a * 3 )' 26 N ' ew Haven held the lead -6-4. but was unable to vvatd off ibe victorious rush of the Green Ar- ,?° uth Sil|p led at the end of ® half 20-12. ffIECT IINDY ■ TO WED SOON Probabie Wedding Date Is Widely Discussed At Mexico City I Gpsf( "-'t P. Fine " less staff Correspondent) • exico city, March 1— UP)—The ad MiLfi? 01 ' (harlea A I-indbergh fore ',L' !,pent ' er Morrow beSUtes from hi IRt " nis to the lT|li, ed lit regarded h presen t trip to Mexico y nd , as hlKhl >' probable. 1 ,ee k-ottd ‘fo Cue minK tHp !f ’ r ’ ,hP Slates am, C nava( ' a with United I »wight W. Mor- ! ettasion of »” am .! y leil ,0 renew dis- [ tlle Mori cm P p Sllllp <iuiet wedding at Any erne f , untry retreath°wevei u . thp M orrow family, * Co " SPlC,Ol ' al y Absent,, constantly heh hla flanc>ee took refuge “I have nd their friends h * K t 0 sa y-” said they 'Llh famll - v * nevertheless Ihe weddinw " 0t be B » r Pfised if T^ l haps withm,? Urre<l at Ully tlme ' -he ofrte m Warning - The prono«ncement of ‘Th’' r ° WS . Mlat an a, >' nia,le to the . 16 marr,a Ke would be in ‘•tte time " w® 88 in llue form an(l Bot Preclude 1 WaS Polnt<?d out, did “““ooneentent e , P u° SSlbilit >' ,hal the hai fi be made af '-’ Lindbergh ‘ taken P la «e. "atiy f Ol . R (h as understood to he ** 11 was ' ;; e / ePlony at any time, !*« with the /V !. hat ,hp decision to-be, e ‘untily of the bride!L both S t nw« !°" d in its P raiae i h ! ir Ihtek and Mlas Moir °w for : n( light a «ain L°° ness in soing f or i 'Aadnesdav" t, ° P a^ter the crash

‘Alibi’ Seized With Jack McGurn

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Louise Rolfe, who was seized with Jack McGurn, alleged Capone, henchman, and through whose testimony McGurn will attempt to establish alibi ; to fight the cl large th&j he led ttie execution squad that slaughtered seven Chicago gangsters on St. Valentine's Day.

Shumaker Wins Confidence Os His Fellow Prisoners

Says Many Os Bootleggers Are Really Fine Fellows Editors Note: The United Press presents herewith an exclusive interview with Dr. E. S. Shumaker, superintendent of the Indiana Anti-Saloon League, now serving a sixty-day sen- i fence at the Indiana State Farm. (Copytight 1029 by the Indianapolis j Times) Putnamvdle, Ind., March I—(UP)1 —(UP) — | “Many of them are really fine fellows". After 18 days at the Indiana state t'atm, this was the Rev. E. S. Shumaker's opinicn of bootleggers as expressed in an exclusive interview here today. Shumaker, superintendent of the Indiana anti-saloon League, is serving a 60-day sentence imposed by the supreme court for contempt of court. Wins Their Friendship Smiling, apparently in good health and spirits and enjoying his work in | the farm daily barn, Shumaker told | how he had met the Jibs of the boot-; legger prisoners and won. He has convinced many of them, he believes, that he and the dry league are not to blame for their imprisonment and has made many of them look at as I do” “Have the prisoners here treated you all right" Shumaker was asked- j "Ycr. At fit st some of the bootleg-j gers told me I had broken up their homes because the prohibition laws hftd caused them to be sent here. I asked them if it was absolutely necessary that they sell liquor afid they said no. “After that they looked it as 1 do” "The superintendent told me that if I was not treated properly by the prisoner 1 Vhould let him know. I’ve had no occasion to complain of ill treatment. 1 think he believed the bootleggers would insult me or even harm me, but such has not been t.ie case.” “The doctor has found the bootleggers are not such bad fellows after all” interjected F- L. Arment, assi3tent superintendent of the farm. "That’s true", admitted Shumaker. “Marti' of them are really fine fellows. “These prisoners think I should know everything and be able to help them", he continued. “Many of them have made a confident of me. They tell tne of their divorces; they tell me If they're sick. They ask my advice in money matters. They confide in me about the wife and children at home. One man from Tell City even has gone so far as to tell me he was framed when he was sent to the farm for’bootlegging anu explained what he intends to do to those who framed him when he gets out. "By the way”, Shumaker added, as (CONTINUED ON PAGE TWO)

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YOUNG FARMER i DIES AT HOSPITAL — Otto Luttman, 25, Os Root Township, Dies Following Operation Otto Luttman, 25, well-known Root township farmer, died at 11:55 o’clock last evening, February 28. 1929, at tlie Adams County Memorial hospital. Mr. Luttman was stricken ill two weeks ago. Last Sunday, he was removed to the Adams County Memorial hospital, where an operation was performed for appendicitis. Otto Luttman was the son of Mr. and Mrs. Henry Luttman and was born June 1, 1903 in Root township, Adams county. During his entire life period, he resided on the same farm which is located in the Fuelling disI trict, about seven miles northeast of Decatur, Surviving, besides the parents, are three sisters, Mrs. Julius Scheiman of Madison township, Allen county; Mrs. Paul Scheiman, Marion township, Allen county; and Esther Luttman residing at home. One brother, William Luttman, died quite suddenly five years ago. Another brother, j Henry, died In infancy. Funeral services will he held Sunday afternoon, at 1:30 o’clock, (Standard time), at (he residence and at 1:45 o’clock at the St. Peter’s Lutheran church. Rev. L. J. Dornseif will preach the German service and Rev. Paul Schultz of this city, the English. Burial will be .made in the church cemetery. Curtis Wilbur Named A U. S. Circuit Judge Washington, Mar. 1. — <U.R> —President Coolidge today sent to the senate the nomination of Secretary of the Navy Curtis D. Wilbur to be United State circuit judge for the newly created ninth circuit which includes Wilbur’s home state of California. O Cood Dairy Cattle Selling At High Price The best evidence (hat good dairy cattle are scarce and rh afi otd cattle are scarce and hard to find is shown in the results of two recent sales in Adams county. At the Albert Gage sale February 27, 16 head of milch cows sold at an average of $l2O each and at the J. E. Anderson sale Thursday, 26 cow-s sold at an average of more than $125. In both instances, Col. Roy Johnson, of this city, actpd as auctioneer.

Decatur, Indiana, Friday, March 1, 1929.

Tony Steggmeier Dies At Home In Willshire Willshire, Ohio, March 1 — (Special) I Tony Str tgmeier, 4.1, died at his home h‘'n tit X::!0 o'clock, Thursday morn-* In;;. Death was due to heart trouble. Mr. Sieggmeier|s wife dlde u few years ago. Three small children, who are at the Marsh Foundation, in Van I Wert. Oh'o, survive SENATE SCANS ! BUDGET BILL Hopes To Cut Large Sum Os Total Provided For In Hill Passed By House htdianapolis, Mar. 1 —(U.R) — Senators will scan tlie more than $55,000,000 biennial appropriation Hill closely and the speed with which it was adopted in the house is not expected in the senate according to Lieutenant Governor Edgar D. Hush and Senator Luther C. Draper, finance committee chairman. It is hoped that nearly $2,000,000 jean he lopped o(T. hut failing this the cuts were expected to total at least several thousand dollars. The house accepted the measure as lit eame froit) the ways and means ; ommittes of which Representative Samuel J. Farrell, Hartford City, is chairman. »In less than two hours they had approved it as a committee of the whole, and added $13,0011 to it and passed it without dissent. Bush declared that lie expected to hand the measure down Monday and give the senators every chance to, slash it effectively, By Wallace G. West, I'iP Staff Correspondent Indianapolis, Mar. 1. — IMS—Resigned to a 7 or 8 cent increase in the state tax rate, Indiana legislators today found their talendar bereft •of general fund revenue raising measures but jammed with hundreds of other hills demanding attention in remaining nine working days of the session. l>ast of the measures intended to obviate the necessity of a boost in , the present 23-cent tax rate came to grief in the house of representatives late Thursday when the FreemanLowly hill to tax intangibles at 25 per cent of their value fell before its opponents, 61 to 33. City manager forces and their enemies prepared to debate the Noli clarifying and strengthening amendment hill before the senate committee on cities and towns upon adjournment this afternoon. Senators Sumner Clancy,' Indianapolis and George W. Sims, Terre Haute, hitter enemies of the city manager government, planned to present a sweeping indictment of the city manager act. But Senator J. Clyde Hoffman, Indianapolis, committee member whose minority report form passage will carry the fight to the floor, probably Saturday, announced he would insist that the hearing he contined to the clarifying bill. Opposition to the Moorhead hill seeking to bring utility holding companies under public service commission control had its inning in a public hearing on the measure Thursday night. Opponents argued the bill does not increase the commission's power, is of doubtful constitutionality and easttly circumvented. Additions to the “fatality" list of bills today included the chiropractors' licensing measure, the Walter bill to excuse children from school attendance after the eighth grade on petition of parents and 25 free holders and two hills > permitting a wider selection of school textbooks. They were among the ten measures killed os postponed Thursday. Man In Glider Towed 175 Miles By Airplane Los Angeles, Mar. 1— (U.R)-A new world's distance record of 175 miles for a glider towed by an airplane was claimed today by Dale Drake, whose trip from Sheep Camp to Long Beach ended in tt San Fernando valley barley field yesterday. Drake was being towed over Santa Susanna pass at an elevation of 7,200 feet when the tow rope snapped. The pass below offere dno landing place and he coasted 10 miles to within two miles of the Metropolitan airport at Van Nuys. ■lt it hadn't been for that rope I could have made Van Nuys for sure,” Drake said. "I'll admit the situation wasn't ideal, breaking loose over the pass like that. But I got down safely.'*

DEATH TOLL IN SOUTHERN FLOOD DISTRICT GROWS Thousands Os Acres Os Land Inundated By Overflowing Streams MIDWEST SITUATION LESS ACUTE TODAY j By The United Press Swirling waters of a score or more rivers and smaller streams flooded parts of the south and midwest today, with the former section suffering great damage. The midwest situation is Incoming Jess acute. Raging torrents poured through parts of the south as streams, swollen by thaws to the north and heavy rains, left their (tanks and inundated thousands of acres of farm land. The first deaths were reported yesterday j and it is feared mote may follow. Death Toll Now Ten The death toll was placed at ten today, seven of the deaths oceuring in Georgia and two in Kentucky. Six persons' were drowned whan their motor car plunged off a bridge near Lincolnton, Ca., a youth and a negro drowned in the same state when they fell into streams and two persons died when their automobile left the highway and tumbled into a stream near Louisville, Kv. The floods are striking the south earlier this year than in previous years. It is not unusual for high waters to cause damage hut in the past the inundations have come litter in the spring. Georgia suffered tlie greatest damage. Milledgevllle and Augusta were practically marooned. The Oconee and Oemulgee rivers are out of their banks, cutting off railway and highway traffic. A hurried call was sent out lot Voiiiuueecs to aid in strengthening the river banks with sandbags. MODE IS NEEDED FOR SCOUT FUND Solicitors Hold Meeting; Community Expected To Respond To Appeal A checkup meeting of solicitors in the annual Boy Scout financial drive was held yesterday afternoon, at 41 o'clock, to ascertain how much more money was needed to reach the goal set by the local Scout committee. The goal is $1,200. A complete checkup was impossible, due to the fact that not all of the solicitors had been able to work. While the amounts turned in were encouraging, yet it was found that a substantial sum is still needed to meet the quota. ,M. F. Worthman, general chairman of the campaign, said last night that he was confident that the people of Decatur would respond to the pressing need • for continuing the Scout program for boys. "All progressive communities are taking up the Scout program as a means of assisting the schools, home and church in the boy’s moral education as well as assisting him to find himself," said Mr. Worthman. “The results from this work twenty-five years from now will he inestimable. It must go on.” E. W. Lankenau, who has been chairman of the local Scout committee for the last two years and, therefore, has had ample opportunity to view the work at close range, feels that the results obtained during this time have been highly satisfactory. He expressed his opinion of the Scout movement and its method of organization very forcefully when he said, "The Scout movement is the greatest organization for the training of hoys to high ideals that we have in the country today. With the prospects of one or two more troops being added within a short time, we should be on a par with any community of its size in the country.” Another meeting of the solicitors will be held Monday evening at 8 o’clock at the Industrial Association rooms, for a complete checkup. By that time, all of the workers will have had an opportunity to see the people on their lists. Only a few organizations have been heard from so far, but by next week, it will be possible to determine how the situation stands. All solicitors and members of the executive committee are urgently requested to attend the meeting Monday evening.

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Dr. Burt Mangold Dr. Burt Mangold was re-elected Democratic city chairman at a meeting of the precinct committeemen, held last night.. *

OH. MANGOLD IS RE-ELECTED Democrats Re-elect C ity Chairman; Other Officers Not Chosen Dr. Butt Mangold, president of the Decatur school hoard and Democratic city chairman for the last four years was re-elected city chairman for the approaching campaign at a meeting of Democratic committeemen, held last night, at Dr. Mangold's office in the I<. of C. building Dr. Mangold is well-known in local political circles, and was re-elected without opposition on the first ballot at last night's meeting. All those piesent gave brief talks concerning the approaching campaign. Following the election of a chairman, it was decided to postpone the , selection of a secretary, treasurer and vice-chaiiman until the next regular meeting of the committeemen, the date of which will be annuonced later. The election of a city chairman is ] held every four hours and the chairj man is held every four years and the chairman has charge of the activities I of his party during the primary and j city election held each four years. Dr. Mangold stated that ho would | announce his committee appointI meats and plans for"* organization in the next few days. Bessie May Hutchenson Seeks $200,000 Heart Balm Indianapolis, Mar. I—(UP)—1 —(UP) — Mrs. Bessie May Hutsheson, former wife of William L. Hutcheson, president of the United Brotherhood of Carpenters and Joiners of America, who has been mentioned for secretary of Labor in President elecj Herbert Hoover's cabinet, has filed suit against Mrs. Mrs. Jessie Sharon Hutcheson, his second wife and former secretary, for $200,000 charging alienation of affections. The complaint alleged that the secretary was employed by Hutchesqn foi several years and travelled through the country with him while the first wife, remained at home caring fer the five childrenFull Pardon Sought For Former Governor McCray Indianapolis, Mar. 1— (U.R) — A full pardon for former Governor Warren T. McCray, has been asked of President Cooljdge in a telegram sent him by Governor Harry G. Leslie, Edgar D. Bush, lieutenant governor, and James M. Knapp, speaker of the house of representatives. McCray has been under jurisdiction of prison authorities since his release from the federal penitentiary at Atlanta, Ga., more than a year ago. Q Father Os Suzanne Lenglen Dies Today Nice, France, Mar. 1. —<U.R)'-Char-les Lenglen, 71, whose careful training gave to the world one of its greatest, if not the greatest, woman tennis stars, died early today of pneumonia. Suzanne Lenglen always gave credit to her father for her phenomenal tennis ability, and declared that from fust to last ,he was her only trainer. He began coaching her when she was 11, and before she turned professional in 1927, Mile. L.englen had been champion of France and England for half a dozen years and proved herself unbeatable when she conquered the great Helen Wills.

Price Two Cents

CONGRESS PLANS MIGHTY EFFORT TO ENFORCE LAW Larger Fund And Stifl'er Penalties Are Practic- # ally Assured JONES BILL GOES TO PRESIDENT COOLIDGE • ' By Paul R. Mallon, Washington, Mar. I.—(U.R)—A supreme effort for prohibition enforcement, through additional appropriations of $3,000,000 in the fiscal year starting July 1, and the new Jones act quintupling prohibition penalties, was practically assured today. House and senate conferees reached tentative agreement oil the appropriation increase, proposed by the government after the administration blocked a Democratic plan for $24.000,000 additional for dry-law enforcement. This will provide nearly $lB,000,000 for federal enforcement next year. Jones Bill Is Passed Meanwhile, congressional clerks labored to engross the Jones bill providing a maximum penalty of five years in prison or SIO,OOO fine, or both, for commercial violators of the Volstead act. This does not extend to mere prossession of liquor. Hut can be applied to all sale and transportation. The holts e late yesterday approved this measure, previously passed by the senate, and President Coolidge is expected to sign it before noon Monday. The appropriation agreement ends a long and hitter dispute, started when the senate voted nearly $300,000,000 for prohibition. This vote was reversed, and the senate voted $24,000,000 and stuck to it, resulting In tite killing of the first deficiency in which the sum was included. o- —— Al Capone Summoned In Massacre Probe Miami. Fla, March l —(UP)— AlCapone admitted today he had been served with a federal grand jury summens, but doubts if he can he "forced" to return to Chicago and submit to questioning in connection with the St. Valentine’s day gang massacre. Marshal Foch Shows Further Improvement I’aiis, March 1 —(UP) — Marshal Ferdinand Focli showed further improvement today. A buletin issued by his doctors said: ‘‘The temperature is 37.1 (98.78 fahrenheit) and (lie pulse 84. The pulmonary congestion is subsiding and the patient passed a good night. He is now taking food.' COMPRESSED AIR TANK EXPLODES Seven Men, Working On Stone Mountain Memorial, Are Killed Atlanta, Mar. I.—<U.R> —An investigation was underway today to determine responsibility for the explosion of a compressed air tank at Stone Mountain, which resulted in the death ol seven men and serious injury to eight others. Three of the injured are not expected to recover. It is believed a workman neglected to turn a petcock which connected an air pump with the tank. The safety valve on the tank evidently failed to work, the instrument filling and bursting with a roar which shook the entire neighborhood. Three of the men killed were white men. They were: C. C. Davis, foreman; O. S. Cowan, and John Galze, all residents of the village which has sprung up in the shadow of the massive mountain being carved into a Civil war memorial. Workmen who survived said a group of men was around Hie door of a shack, signing off at llie end of the .day’s work, when the. lank nearby exploded. The building was demolished. Railway Stations Consolidated yuion City, Ind„ Mar. I.— U.R) — Pennsylvania and P.ig Four railroads ' consolidated their fffations here today. both occupying the Pennsylvania's building. The station used by the Big Four is to lie dismantled.

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