Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 27, Number 57, Decatur, Adams County, 7 March 1929 — Page 1

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ffIWER CALLS CONGRESS TO MEET APRIL 15 I Proclamation Summoning! Congress For Extra Session Issued Today I ARM RELIEF AND | TARIFF ON PROGRAM | By Thomas U Stokes, CP Staff Corerapondent Washington. Mar. 7.— (U.R) — president Hoover formally summoned congress into extra session today, fixing the date tor convening at April 15. The president, in his proclamation. the first he has issued, made the call for the session to consider further agricultural relief and legislation for limited changes in the tariff. UTiile the president specified only farm relief and tariff revision, con- ] gress may take up whatever legisiation it desires. _ , Hoover Has Plans It is expected that Mr. Hoover will ( seek repeal of the nation origins pro- ( visions of the 1924 immigration act ( n well as transfer of prohibition en- . fireement machinery from the treas- i ary to the justice department. The proclamation reads: "Whereas, public interests require that the congress of the United States should be convened in extra session | at 12 o'clock noon on the 15tltday of April. 1929. to receive such communications as may be made by the executives; "And whereas, legislation to effect further agricultural relief and legislation for limited changes of the tariff cannot in justice to our farmers, our labor and our manufacture be postponed; “Now. therefore, I, Herbert Hoover, ■ president of the United States of America, do hereby proclaim and declare rnat an extraordinary occasion requires the congress of the United States to convene in extra session nt the capitol in the city of Washington on the 15th day of April, 1929, 12 o’clock noon, of which all persons who shall at that time be entitled to act as members thereof are hereby required to take notice. ' "In witness, whereof, I hereunto set my hand and caused Io be affixed the great seal of the United States. "Done at the city of Washington, this seventh day of March, in the' jear of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and twenty-nine, and of the independence of the United States the one hundred and fifty-third. "Herbert Hoover.” The session was called in keeping with a pledge made by President Hoover during the closing days of his campaign for consideration of farm relief and tariff revision, a move sponsored largely by Senator Borah of Idaho. The plan is to complete the work °f the extra session by July 1, If S J- b ] e .’. allht,llgh a sellale threat to (CONTINUED ON PAGE TWO) 10 STAGE PLAT AT MONMOUTH Junior And Senior Classes To Present Home Talent Play March 14 And 15 "Two Days to Many.” is the title ? a play to be presented by the junlor and senior classes of the Monnrouth high school, next Thursday “l Fr >day, March 14 and 15. The My wh! be staged jn the hiKh Bchool “»<( orium at Monmouth. Play was written by Walter art son. The time of the play is a prese »l and the scene is laid in u’! W York “Payment house. Neal be7h l ! ° n ,. Cllarges for the Play will ’ ihirty-five and twenty-five cents. c: n e ’’a ß * fa as follows: race ’ CllMfe ’ as black as his James t n Wck Lewton J- Dare, a wifeless heir.... R “ford B Alton Bittner 1 U Sa wyer, a timid lawyer Ernilv t... 7.7 Harold Lytle J Jane Pink . blacker than Sadie r tj , Helen Bohnke Boise, a widow by choice Imogeno xt ov Ruth Fuelling tMng McShane > ,he B weet young '(’alter m t (l „- De,!a Boerger *' B| alr. a millionaire Keith Parrish

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Mexican Presidency • ~■*. ■ ' .W TW Wi h 1 i L A ! •S’? IJ’SS It is Ivelirved the intention of the leaders of the present serious revolt in Mexico is to place Gilberto Valen zuelo former minister to Great Britain. in power as president. General dlssat sfa< tion with the administration of President Portes Gill is given as the reason for the uprising. NATIONMOURNS TAGGART’S OEATHi Condolence Messages Pour In From All Parts Os Country Today Indianapolis. March 7 —(U.R) —Leading business, political and professional figures of the state and nation, today were named active and honorary pall bearers for the funeral of Thomas Taggait, former U. S. Senator, at the residence at 2 p. in. tomorrow. Taggart died yesterday after a lingering Illness. Active pall bearers will be: Frederic M. Ayers, Bowman Elder, Chas. A. Greathouse, Perry McCart., West Baden, Indiana. Dr. ( ariaton B. McCulloch; J. Ba:rett Mozley, Reginald Sullivan. Elmer W Stout, Frederick Van Nuys and Lloyd Collins, French Lick. In keeping with the private life of Taggart, the funeral service at the residence will fw simple, consisting of the Episcopalian Ritual, conducted by Bishop JoLph H. Francis, and singing cf one/hymn. Brief Episcopal burial rites will he observed at the grave in the (Taggart family plot in Crown Hill cftnetery. The body will not lie in state at the home. Plans hav® been completed for a memorial sejvice in the state ihouse of represntalives at a join session of the houselan dsenate tomorrow afternoon. / Michael li Foley an old friend of Taggart, wi deliver the principal eulogy at thejpublic service. IndianapJis, Mar. 7. —(U.R) — The entire natßon today mourned the death of fliomas Taggart, veteran Democra*i< political leader, in ids seventy-thld year. Hordes Iff condolence messages, from a«l Bver the country, were received at It he Taggart home, some front of tiie now still house, only to persons vwo knew the veteran leader as just Jain “Tom.” Great throngs of persons, though still as if one, passed the Taggart’s pa’atial liorne, many with a wet eye, although! they probably never knew persona Jy the famous politician. Autonjobile loads of flowers, many of theml were seen to drive to the front off the new still house, only to pull awal- again with the utmost stillness. Senators and representatives joined with the rest of Indiana and the nation to mourn the loss of one of its greatest leaders. Tomorrow afternoon, ] the general assembly will adjourn io pay tribute. Funeral services from the “Grand Old Man of Politics” as he was known to many, will be held from the family residence tomorrow" afternoon at 2 o’clock. Interment will be made in the family plot in Crownhill cemetery. within the shadow of the James WhUpomb Riley grave. Men high in the affairs of state arrived at the Taggart home to pay their last tribute to a great leader. Many whio had combatted him in friendly political bat’les joined the rest. The decision to hold a point meeting of the legislature at the time of nN PAGE TWO)

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CASTINGS CO., TO 1 PUT 30 MORE MEN TOW. MONDAY: I Company To Operate Force In Foundry, Furnace And Machine Company Plant TO HAVE TOTAL OF 150 PERSONS EMPLOYED The Decatur Castings company,! |one of Decatur’s progressive niai.'ifacturing plants, has leased the fouu-1 dry dpeartment. of the Decatur Foun l dry. Furnace and Machine company. l located on Patterson street, and will j pul about 30 men to work Monday morning, .lames Cowan, manager of the company, staled this morning. The leasing of the foundry building is to take care of the extra heavy I. volume of business which the Decatur Castings company now lias. Mr.: Cowan stated. Behind With Orders The extra facilities will make it 1 possible for the company to manufac-; ture a larger volume of their grey; iron castings and catch up with ord j ers. The found) y is equipped with a , cupola and only a few additions and F improvements are contemplated at' j the present. The machine shop of the Decatur ' Foundry, Furnace and Machine com-' | pany will continue to operate in the! i building. The Decatur Castings company was les üblished here in 1920, following the location here of the General Elec- > trie company. Mr. Cowan has been the efficient manager of the company for nearly nine years. The company n w employs 120 jieople and with the increased force which will be put to work next week, practically 150 persons will be employed. __o iChimney, Blown Over By Wind, Falls On Woman South Bend. Ind.. Mur. 7 —(U.R) —Mrs.! Betty Camp, 27, South Bend, received a possible fractured skull last night when a tall brick chimney collapsed before a 50-mile gale. Mrs. Camp was buried beneath the debris. Several other persons were injured. ELKS RE-ELECT EXALTED RULER Dr. G. F. Eichhorn Chosen To Head Local Lodge Again This Year Dr. G. F. Eichhorn, well-known veterinary surgeon of this city, was reelec ed exalted ruler of the Decatur lodge, No. 993, B. I’. O. Elks, at the annual election of officers held at the home last night. A. C. Foos was reejected esteemed leading knight. Charles Welier and Wiley Austin w r ere re-elected to the offices of esteemed lecturing knight and esteemed loyal knight, respectively. Raymond Harting was elected esquire; Robert Meibers was elected treasurer and C. E. Holt house was elected secretary. A. L. Colchin, who has served in every' clrair in the local lodge, was elected to serve as a trustee for three years. Mr. Colchin will succeed Harry Fritzinger whose term expired. Lodge Gets Elk’s Head J. G. Niblick has presented the lodge with a beautiful Elk’s head, wirch has been placed above the fireplace in the living room of the Elks home on North Second street. The elk’s head is one of the finest specimens ever seen. The. antlers have six prongs each and, from the tip of its neck to tiie top of the horns, measures 48 inches. The elk was ki’led at Livingston, Mont., near the Yellow Stone National park. It was killed a few months ago and. according to the story, was one of the elks which wandered away from Yellowstone park. It arrived in the city a few days ago and was placed in the Elk’s home yesterday. Enters Elk’s National Home Through the efforts of the Decatur Lodge of B. P. O. E„ Charles H. Hayslip, Fort Wayne, former proprietor of the Madison hotel, now the National hotel, in this city, has secured admittance in the Elk’s National Home at Bedford, Virginia. Mr. Hayslip has been suffering from infirmities of age and left last Saturday tor Bedford, the local lodge defraying all expenses incident to the trip.

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Lamont Is A Former | Director Os Association I Against Prohibition Law New York, Mar. 7.—(U.R)—Robert P. Lamont, now secretary of commerce in Herbert Hoovers cabinet, told tlie I oiled Press today lie was a director of the association against the prohibition amendment but resigned "some time within tiie last six months." When asked whether lie is still in accord with the policies of the Anti Prohibition Association, Secretary Lamont answered: "1 would rather not discuss that.” * MEXICANS OPEN PITCHED RATTLE : NEAR 11. S. LINE I ••— I 1 Americans In .Juarez Flee , Across River Into El Paso, Texas ! U. S. OBSERVATION PLANES KEEP WATCH El Paso. Texas, Mar. 7.- <U.R>--Mexican federal troops and rcb- 1 el forces engaged in a pitched battle live miles south of Juarez ! at irt-.80 pan. todav. All available military forces in Juarez immediately were ordered south to the attack. Pandemonium broke out in lhe citv. with Americans fleeing fori lhe saletv of the international; bridge to I'JPaso. Observation planes of lhe I nited 1 Slates army flew overhead maintain- ; ing a sharp watch over the course of. battle. As tiie news of ’he battle < reached ElPaso, inhabitants of the quarter nearest the border scrambled to their housetops to watch tiie wild scene that developed in Juarez. Excitement Prevails The military headquarters in Juarez ! was in the wildest tumult. Officers dashed around shouting crisp com- ; inlands while soldiers ran to obey them. Fearing a flank attack from lhe mountains federal leaders dispatched a column to tiie east io scour tiie heights for rebel detachments. Nurses and doctors at Liberty hospital in Juarez made ready to receive I llie first wounded of the battle. o — Set Trial Date For Alleged Auto Thieves Indianapolis, Mar. 7. —(U.R) —Trial of defendants facing new conspiracy charges in the interstate motor theft, four of wltbm entered pleas in federal court Wednesday, will be held May 9. Joe Huffington, former Indiana klan head; Sheldon Beanblossom, former Evansville kian secre’ary, and Lous A. Wiljcerson, Vfncennes; pleaded not guilty Wednesday. Thomas King. Indianapolis, pleaded guilty and will be sentenced later. More than 100 persons entered pleas of guilty at the arraignment, most of them being sentenced during the day. About sixty pleaded not guilty. o Going Away? Having Company? Despite the fact that times have changed greatly and a motor trip to a neighboring town or city is more or less commonplace, your friends like to know about, it Before the advent of the motor car, the society reporter of the home town paper was a familiar figure around the railroad and j interurban depots, jotting down names on her note pad. That evening, Mary read where Ruth and John spent the day in Blankville, and Naomi and Harry arrived from Podunk for a week-end visit wit it relatives. But. those days are gone forever. Now nearly rides in his own motor car and only the neighbors or some friend knows about it. If you know about someone going out of-town for the day, weekend or a longer period, or about someone arriving in the city for a visit, telephone the Daily Democrat, phone 1000 or 1001. Those people may say they don’t want it J in the paper, but if you could see their faces when they read about it, the chances are the faces wouldn’t register anger. The Daily Democrat is your paper. Help make it newsy.

CITY MANAGER BILL PASSED BY STATE SENATE Noll Measure Given Overwhelming Majority Os 39-7 In Upper House GOES TO HOUSE FOR CONFERENCE Indianapolis. March. 7. —(U.R) —Enemies of city manager government were put to complete rout in the Indiana senate today. By a vote of 39 to 7. tiie upper house passed tiie Noll bill designed to strengthen and clarity tiie 1921 city manager act. Permitted to fire every shot they hail at tiie manager government, which Indinaa,polis will adopt Jan. 1, 1930, foes of the Noll bill took the most crushing defeat yet suffered by anti-manager forces. The measure now goes back to the house for concurrence in senate amendments, the final crisis of the bill’s stormy progress through the legislature t > tiie governor's desk. Indianapolis, Mar. 7. —(U.R)— Increased school state aid, without wh'< Ii scores of southern Indiana schools must cl se their doors, was to have the attention of both houses of the Indiana legislature today. The senate was to consider the bill sonsored by Senator Alonzo H. Lindley, Kingman, proposing a 34-cent tax levy to supplant local school taxes. Simultaneously, members of tiie house of representatives were to ask Governor Harry G. Leslie to approve an increase in the state school fund levy from 7 to 8 cents. 'Of the present 7 cent school levy. Hie school aid fund receives 2.1 cents, which would be increased to 3.1 cents to meet the defeit which is approaching the ♦ t.oim.mm mark. The 1-cent increase was to lie proposed today by amendment to the Gilley bill which increases from $1 to $1.20 the minimum special school levy to qualify for school aid. City manager forces drew their ines tight as the Noli house bill, clarifying and strengthening the 1921 u tiMivi i:r ox page six> JOSEPHEYANSON CALLED SY HEATH Complications Resulting From Influenza Cause Death Os Decatur Man Joseph A. Eyanson, 72. died at his home at 121 South Sixteenth street, at 11:50 o'clock last night. Death was due to the after effects of the influenza. Mr. Eyanson had suffered with the influenza just before Chistmas, he experienced a relapse and his condition gradually grew more critical Joseph A. Eyanson was the son of Joseph Lewis and Mary Eyanson, and was born August 14, 1856, just east of Decatur, in Adams county. His entire life peiiod has been spent in and near Decatur. In 1876. he united in marriage with Mary Maple, the surviving widow The deceased was a laborer by trade. He was a member of the St. Marys Catholic church. Surviving, besides the widow, are nine children, as follows: Louis Eyanson, of Los Angeles, California; Don Eyanson, of Oregon; Joseph Evans >n. of Nevada, Iowa; Dallas Eyanson and Ray Eyanson, residing in Decatur; Frank Eyanson. who resided with his parents; Mrs. Jess Kenney and Mrs. Celia Fetters, residing east of Geneva and Mrs. May Fetters, of Salem, OhioOne brother, Edward Eyanson, resides in Paragould, Arkansas, and two surviving sisters are Mrs. Sarah Hughes, aty Fort Wayne, and Mrs. Mejssa Woodruff. Funeral services will be held at 9 o'clock Saturday morning, March 9, at the St. Marys church, the Father J. A. Seimetz officiating. Burial will be made in the St. Joseph cemetery. , o Hymera State Bank Closes Doors Today Indianapolis, Mar. 7. —(U.R) —'The Hymera State bunk was olesed today on orders cf Luther F. Symons, state bank commissioner. The doors were ordered shut after the Hymera Coal company, to which the bank had loaned SIOO,OOO, went iuto tiie hands of a receiver. Examiner Kenneth V. Bonnell took charge of the bank today. The institution has a capitalization of $25,000 and resources of $300,000.

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Accepts Cabinet Post 1 ■ ~ X 1 KK I 1 I T Il Former Governor Arthur M. Hyde of Missouri has accepted tiie portfolio of Secretary of Agriculture in Mr. Hoover's cabinet. This action til’s one of the mystery vacancies. RANK RECEIVER IS APPOINTED Morris E. Stults Named Reciever For Wells County Bank Os Bluffton Bluffton. Mar. 7.—(Speciall—State Bank examiners announced this afternoon. following the completion of an audit of the Union Savings and Trust company bank, of this city, which was closed last month, thqt the bank is solvent. Bluffton. Mar. 7.—(Special)—Judge A. W. Hamilton, of Hie Wells circuit pourt, today appointed Morris E. Stu’ts receiver for the Wells County bank, of this city, which was’closed Febiuary 13. Mr. Stults gave bond tor SIOO,OOO. He is receiver for the Studabaker bank, also of Bint I ton, which was closed in Marell, 1927. TesUmony brought out in the hearing on Hie petition for a receiver today indicates that depositors of tiie Wells County bank will sustain some losses. Assets And Liabilities Listed The state bank examiner testified at the hearing that tiie face value of the banljs asset ar« $1,631,124.17 and the liabiliities, exclusive of surpfus. unpaid profits and capital stock total $1,473,591.42. The capital stock is SIOO,OOO, the surplus is $60,000 and the undivided profits total $768.12. Tiie above figures show an apparent. excess of assets over the liabilities of $157,532.75. However, it was testified at the hearing today, ’lie estimated losses total $222,723.82, leaving a net deficit, on tiie basis of these figures, of $65,191.07. Swarthmore Professor To Speak At Institute Dr. Rufus Zartman, of Swarthmore College, Swarthmore, Pa., will de liver an address on the subject, "High er Education." at tiie regular month ly institute of tiie Adams county school teachers, to lie held in tin school building at Monroe, Saturday Dr. Zartman will speak during the forenoon session. The regular exten sion classes will meet during the .if ternoon. « — - o ~* Wind Wrecks House In Blackford Co.; Boy Hurt Hartford City, Ind., Mar. 7.—(U.R)— Hershell Smith, four-months-old son of Mr. and Mrs. Charles E. Smith, residing on a farm near here, was in the Blackford county hospital today suffering from a fractured skull sustained when a terrific wind blew the root from his home. The baby was showered with bricks and debris. A twin brother, in the same crib, was uninjured. Tiie mother jumped from her chair just in time to escape 1 being crushed by a large timber. o ■ Landslide Takes Big Toll 1 Lisbon, Match 7 —(UP) —Relief par 1 ties were rushed today to the town ( of Savo Vicente, where a landslide in 1 the Grand Ravine crushed a large number of houses and took a death toll estimated at 100 lives, accordine ■ to advices from the island of Madeira 1 Fivie bodies have been recovered fron the debris

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OIL MAGNATE WINS IN HIS BIGGEST FIGHT Col. Stewart Is Ousted As Chairman Os Standard Oil Company Directors VOTE IS ALMOST FOUR TO ONE ('.oininiiiiitv ('.ruler. Whiting, Ind.. Mar. 7. - ( U R) John 1). Rockefeller. Jr., won lhe biggest light of his business career today when he succeeded in ousting Col. Robert W. Slewart from the board ol directors of the Standard Oil Company, of Indiana. . # In a meeting surcharged with personal animosities, born of months of fighting between two oil giants, the shareholders voted to throw Stewart out and elected, in his place. Dr. William Meriam Burton, former president of the company and inventor of the patented process for “cracking’’ crude oil. Rockefeller polled 8.465.276, Slewart 2,954.963. Community Memorial Center, Whiting. Ind, March 7 —(UP) in tiie shadow of oil refineries and steel mills, belching thei raci id fumes over this industrial center, two Titans of the oil industry met by proxy today to settle tiie greatest financial battle of the age. . John D. Rockefeller, Jr., supporters were fiist on the scene of the fig it to oust Col. Robert W. Stewart from 1 his $125,001) a year job as chairman of t lhe Standard Oil Company of Indiana. , Tiie "John D men,’’ headed by Win- ; thrnp W. Aldrich, arrived by special train from Chicago and retired itnmedlafely to a committee room to draw , up thei) slate of candidates to succeed Stewart, whom they weie confident of defeating, ami two other va- ■ cancies on the board of directors. , —— —■ -0 —. ————— Bluffton Democrats Re-elect City Chairman Bluffton, March 7 M. J. Sawyer was re-elected chairman of tiie Democratic city central committee at a meeting held in tile small court room cf tiie court house Tuesday evening. Miss Anna Smalley was elected vice-chairman while Frank Buckner and William Fitzpatrick were elected as secretary and terasurer, respective- , lyThe Republican city committee recently chose llatiison Powers city ' chairman. t 0 Woman Is Killed When Broom Hits Shotgun Placed Behind Door ? North Vernon, Ind., Mar. 7. —(U.R) — ' Grace Carson, 21, was instantly killed 1 at her home near Lovett, Jennings county, when a broom with which she was sweeping struck and discharged a shotgain placed behind a door. The load struck her in the forehead. H.F.LINNTO BE CANDIDATE Another Member Os City Council To Seek ReElection Next Fall H. F Linn, well-known contractor j and a member of the city council, announced today that he would be a candidate for the Democratic nomination for councilman from the first. 1 ward. Mr. Linn is serving iris third term on the city council. He served I eight consecutive years, under the ad- ' ministration cf Mayor C. N. Christen and Mayor Charles Yager and was II elected again in 1925 serving with s the present administration. He is chairman of the street and sewer com- '• mittee and is well acquainted with the 'I affairs of the city government, e Mr. Linn is the fourth member of the present council to 'announce his candidacy for re-election. Herman Gillig, O. L. Vance and Joe Hunter unr- nounced yesterday that they would ho u candidates n Mayor George M. Krick will also be ea candidate ft>r the Democratic uominh at ion. George Appleman. west-end grog ceryman, has announced t’liat he will i. be a candidate for the Democratic n nomination for councilman from the Second ward.

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