Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 27, Number 61, Decatur, Adams County, 12 March 1929 — Page 1

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I ANGOLA BANK HOLDUP LOOT RECOVERED

I jOOST IN STATE I WWE LIKELY I jo IE TEH CENTS I Legislature Adjourns Early I This Morning Alter PassI ing Budget Bill I HOSTILITIES FLARE ■ UP IN ( LOSING HOURS I WaMPoIK I P veil kKisla""« atraggled back o I constituents today to explain I X a boost in the state tax rate I io*it4r as high as !<• cents, will be IS2 "> "‘ pp ' ” ,p » 56 - 000 T I hmlet-i appropriations voted in the I . lig hours of the seventy-sixth I tewnl assemWy. I [■ was 3'42 * ,o<, ay ** lore ,he I |, st hills had been passed, and signI by presiding officers, the last I songs sung and gavels in senate and I house sounded adjournment of the I biennial legislative Region. I Budget Bill Approved I Final approval of the biennial apI proprlation bill came with adoption I o t conference committee reports I which dipped $200,000 from the I $140,50(1 added by senate amendments I tat week. Hall of the reduction was I affected by eliminating provisions for I a $50,000 appropriation for each of I the next two years for armories, and I the other SIIXI.OOO economy accomI plished by trimming that, amount I (rnm the governor's emergency fund, I which now is $200,000 annually. After one house conference comI mittee was discharged because it was I unable to agree with senate conferee, I agreement finally was reached on I amendments to the : tore licensing I measure which then was prepared for I the governor. Conferee agreed to a I reduelion of fees for single stores I from $5 to $3 each, while the maximum fee of $25 for each store |n chains nf twenty or more was 'unaltered. Vigorous efforts to remove filling stations fiom provisions of the I measure came to naught. Represeni tative Samuel Farrell, Hartford City, ways and means committee chairman, estimated the measure would return $2,000,000 annually, the equivalent of a four cent tax levy. The politically-minded today were speculating on the effect of hostilities that, broke out on the senate floor soon after midnight when an effort was made to recall the permanent registration hill from Governor Harry G. Lewie's office. The bill, introduced in the house by Mrs. Zeola Misener, Michigan City, passed the senate Saturday after twice failing to receive a constitutional majority. The clock had been stopped ami Procedure was dragging in the senate »hen Senator Roscoe Martin, LogansP'it, presented a motion to recon"der the vote by which the registra--lon bill passed the senate and requesting the house to recall the meas'tre from the governor's office. Tartin said the move was at the •he governor's office a few minutes governor's request, but word from •ei demed this. Senator Martin’s ton was ruled out of order because , '' (,o,lh; ° barrelled." Senator ■ es ,j. N e j (l | quickly substituted seint' ei . "' ,l * ~le sa,ne objective ami mil !"n Wt,e summoned to the when Mrs. Misener entered ""YTtM EF ON PAGE SIX) mercurysoars TO HIGH POINT Thermometers Register As Bigh As 75 Above, Highest Mark Os Year fet?.'-', B°' ' aunc hed his first major ofM ’ lhe year 1929 against Old n lllter today and as a result, the e<i tn' ry ' n s,rept •hermometers soarin o' aS h’gh as degrees above zero hipb' e Sunlis * lt - Doors wore propped “'■''•coats became the exception, ' la - v during the noon hour. Pr ”, ay Was ,he hottest 'lay of the to hn' y , eai ' Pai 'mers were reported wrathJ ßk ? R ’"’vantage of the fine Work 7 1'7 WPre fie,tin K their spring Tl* well under way. ther 6 . h ailVen! of the fine spring weachants n, Weel< fouiul Decatur merstorra 7 ePWfed, for they have their •>£.ShX d county »rf a I ed hlghways in Adams condition "nV? n °7 a,Ki &re in * good heavy nn<! l n ess t le,e are unusually eii Pected t ' o,,tlnuloUß rains, they are remainder o/th* 81 " B ° ,id during ,hfi the spring months.

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Farmersburg State Bank. In Sullivan County, ( loses Farmersburg, Ind., Mar. 12—(UP)— The Faimenburg Stale flank here, today was in the hands of the stale banking commission after being closed yesterday by the commission as a precautionary measure. William H Dexhelmer. clerk in the banking department, has taken cargo of its affairs. The local bank was the third Sullivan county institution to be closed within the past several months The otheis were at Hymera amt Shelburn It was capitalized at ssu,immi. ANOTHER TO TRY FOR SPEED MARK Lee Bible To Attempt To! Beat Record Os 231.36 Miles Set By Segrave Daytona Heath, Fla., Mar. 12. 'U.RI — Lee Bible, now n famous auto racer, this afternoon will settle his 111 he body in the low-huug seat of ,1. M White’s "Triplex” speed car and attempt Io achieve the lacking fame hy beating the high mark set yesterday by Maj. IT. O. D. Segrave of 231.",62 miles per hour. The beach on which these powerful engines of speed travel is in excellent condition, it is hardly possible, how ever, that it could be in better condition than yesterday when the Englishman Segrave's "Golden Arrow" roared over the mile course and back. The "Triplex", though holding the stage today, cannot lessen the brilliance of yesterday's performance by the "Golden Arrow' with the bald, angular Segrave at the wheel. His racer, painted a flaming gold, with a fish-tail rear was rolled onto the natural runway on the hard white sand, and the motor started. The noise of the warming-up process was deafening. At a slow pace for the high-geared machine. ahMt HM4 miles an hour, Segrave jogged it up the stretch The engine droning with a peculiar overtone which set lbe nerves of the watchers on edge. Beneath the drone was the machine-gun-like fire of the exhaust. The tide dropped sufficiently and then the Englishman sent the IrvingNapier built car blurring across the landscape. In the stand sat his wife, her eyes shut tight, a bottle of smelling salts in her hand. It seemed she had barely closed her eyes before the first half of the test was over. The sight was merely a roar, a whining, decreasing drone, a blur of gold—and a sight of relief. The official dockers solemnly announced the time for the first mile witlT the wind behind Segrave's back as at the rate of 2.31.51 miles per hour. Segrave, without knowing the first result, turned his great car around, sent it bowling over the tablesmooth sand again. This time against | the wind, and heard his record announced. It was the average time—the i eturn rate being 231.21 miles per hour. He climbed from his seat beneath the cowling which hides hint as he drives and'from w here he must watch the road through a special periscope and Kjui to his wife. The driver, who some few days ago said he reasoned he had but one chance in ten ot coming out of the test alive, easily showed his relief and pleasure at the results. If Bible breaks the Segrave record today, the Englishman intends to race again. Otherwise, he's through for good, he said. His first act was to place a long distance call for his father in England, who, according to dispatches from London, Is proud of his flying son. ■—o Bandits Get $25,000 In xAutomobile License Fees Madison, Wis., Mar. 12. —<U.P.)—Two bandits Held up and robbed messengers for the state automobile license here today, escaping with 525,000 in checks and cash. nussel Pfeifer and Stanley Hornburg, employes ot the license division, were on their way to the state treasurer’s office when the robbery occurred. ■ —— o Bill Providing For Toll Bridge At Evansville Passed Indianapolis, Mar. 12. —(U.P3—Evansville will have a new toll bridge over the Ohio river it the Clements-Coop-er bill, passed by late last night, is sigifcd by the governor. The bridge would be built from a bond issue to be retired from the tolls. After that the tolls would be discontinued.

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LEGION DRIiM ' CORPS ASSORT0 ■ r Local Post Votes To Equip 9 Corps Os At Least 21 Members At Once —— I c A final decision to organize ami I a equip a drum and bugle was t made by Ad.ims P st. No. 43 of the 0 Ameiican Legion, at a meeting of the i post last night. The treasurer of the post was authorized to finance Ihe « corps and a committee was.appiyiied , to purchase the equipment. < The purchasing committee consists ] of Dr. Glen Neptune. Doe Flyback, Joe t Laurent, Floyd Enos ami Vernon Au- . rand. About 25 members . f the post have signed up to play in the drum corps. It is planned to have at least , eight bugles and It; drums in the or-1 ganization at the start. Uniforms will | not be,purchased at present it was de- | elded. Representatives of firms manufactuing and seling drums and bugles were present at the meeting of the post last night and submitted samples and , pl|‘S ftvr eonsiderai i<pi. The post plans io have the drum corps take part in all public, events here when such an organization is desired, as i so n as the member have been pro-p.-riy trained(CONTINUED ON PAGE TWO) PLAN SERIES OF FARM MEETINGS First Os Series Scheduled .At Fuelling School Building, March 14 The first of a series of farmer's meeting to be held throughout the - county has been scheduled at the Fuelling school building in l nion township. Thursday night, March 14 at 8 o'clock p. m. The meeting is to be held under the auspices of the Adams County Agricultural Association with t,he following Decatur firms cooperating: Cloverleaf Creameries. Krick-Tyndall Co., Burk. Elevator Co., Reed Elevator Co.. Holland-St. Louis i Sugar company, Mutschler Packing company, and H. P. Schmitt. . A program has been arranged with | several short talks, moving pictures by the county agent and a cafeteria lunch of sandwiches, hot, coffee and ice-cream. Everybody is invited to the meeting. Meetings were arranged yesterday hy a committee from the association at Linn Grove on March 30 Geneva on March 22 and Berne on March 23. These meetings will all be evening meetings and will be sponsored by the local association in each town. Several more meetings will be scheduled at. various points throughout the county within a few days. o Pleasant Mills Seniors To Stage Play March 22 The Senior class of the Pleasant Mills high school will present, as its annual clasjt play this iyear, 'ln Plum. Valley," which will bei produced Friday evening, March 22, in the high school auditorium. The public is in-1 vited to witness this production.

Decatur, Indiana, Tuesday, March 12, 1929.

Town Clock Quits Lying; All Four Faces Synchronize

The old story about Ihe biggest liar ; in town is no more. For years.it has been a standing joke that, the town clock in the tower of Ihe Adams i county court house was a prevaricator of no sina.’.l proportions, be-cause-it had four faces and each told a d fierent story. in addition Hie bell chimed the hour a l , a time oi its own. The variation was three minutes. Munday afternoon, Clarence Reavers and David Heller, of the Pnni plirey jewelry store, who have taken care of the clock for about a year, made the necessary repairs in the .i- - .n..i ■ ii■ - — — i .. Go Boom." Knows How And Why Los Angeles, March 12 —(UP) — Leonard Stevens, who wrote the song “I saw d >wn and go Boom,” did. He was in a bospilal today recov- 1 erlng from scalp wounds and bruises after his molar ear was | hit by another, the song writer | “Fawing” down on the pavement and the automobile going "boom". | Armistice Day To Be Legal Holiday Hereafter Indianapolis, Mar. 12. —<U.PJ -Armistice Day. Nov. 11. will be a legal holiday under one of the bills which was passed by the house during the closing hours. The bill was passed by ilie senate several weeks ago. The governor will be empowered to call a conference of leading business I men and farmers of the state to dis-! cuss tax problems under provisions ot a resolution passed by the senate) ami concurred by the house. - “Hypnotic Youth With 190 Sweethearts" Hanged Liverpool, Eng., March 12 —(UP) Joseph Reginald V. Clarke, 21. the so-called “hypontie' youth with 100 sweethearts," was hanged this morning in Walton prison f r the murder of the mother of one of Ids sweet- [ hearts. The young man fared his execution without flinching. He helped the execulionaer prepare the scaffold ami died without a sign of tear. Clarke said at his trial that he had attend Princeton university. Clarke was sentenced to death February 4 for the murder of Mrs. Alice Fontaine, 47, tn ther of a girl to whom Clatk was said to have been engaged. There’ll Be “Whoopee” Around The Presidential Mantion At Washington Washington, March 12 — (UP) — "Whoopee" has come to the White House! A salt and pepper colored Sclinauzer dog bearing the merry-making name, was sent to the White House menagerie from Frances Lillian GllJman, of Chicago. It was the first contribution to President. and Mrs. Hoover’s collection of I pets. The registry name of the dog is “IJurle Von Badenbaden."

[gears so that all faces now synchronize. About sixty years ago. the county saw Ihe need of a means to keep the citizens informed as t » the correct time. A clock, made by the Seth Thomas clock company, was installed. standing about five feet high. IL has a pendulum movement and is run by a system of weights. It is necessary to wind these up from the roof level of the court house proper to nearly«.tlie top of the tower every week. the clock movement to the dial there is another intricate system of rods which turn Ihe hands. In the course of many years, these have slipped slightly from the original alignment. This has been caused, I also, by the weight of ice and sleet on I the bands. To adjust these, was a j difficult operation as there was nothing to judge the jiosition of the bands except ihe shadows of the hands on the dial. However, at 5 o'clock yesterday afternoon, the clock struck five times with every hand in >lts correct position. Since the clock first began acting ias a speedometer for Father Time, it has clicked off roughly 2,485.9(10,000 [seconds or about two and one-half billions. From all appearances it is good for another billion or two. BERNE FACTORY TO DE REBUILT Nussbaum Novelty Comi pany To Rebuild On Site Os Recent Fire Berne, March 12 —((Special)— -Onstructlon work is expected to start > within a few days on the. rebuilding of ! the Nussbaum Novelty company's lacI tory, which was destroyed by fire a i few weeks ago. it is planned to have the building completed by early sum- | mer. The new factory building will be I located on the site of the one that was destroyed, which was on Scuth Jefferson street. Plans for the new building have not been completed, but it is thought that it will cover the entire block and will be built ot ti!6 block two stories high. Judge Simmons Loses Round In Supreme Court Indianapolis, Mar. 12. — KU.R) — A judge who argued the right of his judicial decision before the Indiana supreme court, Monday, lost a preliminary joust with the state's highest court when a temporary writ of prohibition was granted preventing a receiver which he had named for the Farmers' Deposit bank of Montpelier, from discharging his duties. The judge is Victor H. Simmons, of the Blackford circuit court. # The supreme court set March 14, as the time for the final hearing on the writ of prohibition. , The writ was obtained by officials . of the bank who objected to the appointment of .Thomas C. Peterson as . receiver. Peterson was named March 1 by Judge Simmons on a receivership petition tiled by Luther F. Symons, state bank commissioner.

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Search For Lone Bandit Who Escaped With $3,999 j Perrysvib l , hid., March 12 —(UP) Aulhoiitles continued their search Io day for a lone bandit who tabbed the Peirysville National Bank here ami escaped with approximately $3,0u0. Quincy Meyers, president of the institution, was alone in the bank when the bandit entered He was foieed to He OU the floor uliile Ihe robber obtained all available cash The I'errysvile bank was robbed lasi January 9. the bandits obtaining $5,001) al that time. GAS TAX BILL HOLDS INTEREST Considered One Os Most Important Acts Os Legislative Session Indianapolis, March 12 — (UP) — The four cent gasoline tax measure, effective April 1, probably held first place in popular interest today among the major enactments of the legislative session just closed. It was expected to raise an additional $4,000,(100 for state highway building. The most important special levy provided by the 1929 measure was that of a $1,000,000 slate library and historical building. The levy was fixed at one half cent for 1930 and 1931 and one cent for 1932.

Political inteiesi centered in the Republican platform primary modification measure signed by the Governor Monday. It places Nominal ions for Governor and United States Senati r in State conventions, retains voting privileges for proxies and repeal.; ihe Presidential preference featuic of the primary. Its pasage through the two houses was Ihe session's outstanding example of expert steeling with the application or removal -f amendments much as if they had been roller-; — — 0 U. S. Troops Ordered To Protect Naco, Arizona Washington. Mar. 12—(U.R>—Troops from Ford Huachuca have been ordered t.o Naco, Ariz.. on the Mexican border, to protect that town and the water supply of Bisbee, the war department announced today. The department said Maj. Gen. Wll'iam I,assiter, commanding the Eighth Corps area with headquarters at. San Antonio, ordered the troop movement in response to requests from the population of the towns involved. One troop of cavalry and one company of infantry is to lie used to protec', the area. The war department stated that this was the only troop movement in connection with the Mexican disturbance of which it had been informed. • o— Stinson Hops Off On Another Endurance Flight Bav City, Michigan March 12—(UP)

—Making the font th attempt in a week to break the world endurance flight record Eddie Stinson took off from the ice-of Saginaw bay nt 11:17 A. M. today in his Stinson Detroiter monoplane carryting 900 .gallons of gasoline. He hoped to remain aloft SO hours. He was accompanied by George Hopkins. Hoover States Policy Regarding Oil Leases Washington, March 12 — (UP) — President Hoover today declared that his administration will adhere strictly to a policy of a rigid conservation of the oil resources of the country. In response to questions from (he press the President stated: "There will be no leasing or disposal of oil lands except under those required by the mandate of congress." Former State Senators Form An Organization Indianapolis, Mar. 12. -(U.R) -Former members of the Indiana senate have planned an organization to be known as the Indiana Past Senators Association. The organization, non-partisan, or political, is open to any former senator. The following were elected officers: Charles Lanz, Bedford, president; Monroe Fitch, Muncie, vice-president; Ora King, Sweetser, secretary: Frank Culbertson. Vincennes, treasurer and Fred Dickernian, Indianapolis, and Ben Inman, Danville, members of the executive committee. Brief addresses were made before the organization by state officials and senators.

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ALLEGED MEMBER OF DANDIT GANG CAPTURED. ALSO Negotiable Bonds Valued At $59,909 Stolen May 8 Taken At Pittsburgh OTHER BONDS ARE TAKEN FROM PRISONER Indianapolis, Mar. 12 - (U.R) - Detectives of Pittsburgh. Patoday recovered $59,000 in negotiable bonds stolen iron) the First National bank til Angola, Ind., May 6, and captured a man whom they believed was :i member ol mi ring of bond thieves, according 1(1 advices received here. The man gave the name 01 EnianuM Steinberg, 35, and said he was a film salesman. Detectives . recovered a total of $77,900 worth of bonds with his capture. The others were believed to be paper stolen in the $120,000 mail train robbery in the Toronto, Canada Union station .Tune 28, 1928. Believed Work of Gang Authorities raid they believed th* Angola, Toronto and other large thefts were the work of the same gang. Detectives here said they believed he gang included Thomas Burke, whose charred body was found in northern Indiana several months ago and for whose alleged murder former Sheriff Charles Zimmerman is tinder indictment at Angola. Detective agencies searched through this c untry and Canada for William Bovan, Kirby Davis. Bill Lewis and Morris Handel, suspected as accomplices in the international thefts. The Angola robbery was investigated by state police and a special grand jury during a general clean up attempted several weekt? ago. Five bandits appeared at the home of President E F. Croaton at Angola May s. 1928 baout 4 a.nt. They put a guard over Mrs. Croaton and a young man who roomed there, and forced Croaton, under guns, to the bank. They hid in the bank until 8 a. m. when the time locks on the vault opened. Then they tied up Coaton and left with the $59,000 in bonds and ii laige amount of cash, picking up the guard at the Coaton home in their High*. Detectives of the Indiana Bankers Association from Tndianapolis and operatives for agencies of the American Bankers Association soon were convinced there was connection between Hu- Angola case and other large robberies. The Toronto robbery occurred a month and a half after ihe Aiigola crime.

Pinkerton detectives and Canadian police kepi on the ■ trail. Not long ago they said they learned Morris Handel had deposited $23,000 worth of the bonds stolen in the Toronto robbery with a broker in Buffalo, N. Y., and had taken in return $15,000 in cash and SB,OOO in dummy mine ov Pir.rc tu<i» ANOTHER STATE JOINS REBELLION State of Chihuahua, Mexico, Joins Rebels; Government Troops Active El Paso, Texas, Mar. 12. — <U.R> —■ The legislature of Chihuahua has voted to join the revolutionary movement now in progress throughout the state and will support rebel leaders to the utmost. General Marcello Carraveo. governor of Chihuahua, telegraphed the United Press today. Nogales, Sonora. Mar. 12. — (U.R> — Rebel headquarters in Nogales, Sonora, was thrown into confusion today when a report reached here that 400 men under General Augustin Olacha had deserted revolutionary forces and slezed the border port of Naco, Sonora In the name of the federal government. (By United Press). —Plutarco Elias Calles sent his Mexican federal army advance tioops against rebel strongholds in the state of Coahuila today. Simultaneously, insurgent forces wen? Reported moving southwfirtd again for a probable decisive battle in the Torreon area. Military operations centered along the north central front, extending iCONTINUBD ON I*AUB TV"’}

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