Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 27, Number 96, Decatur, Adams County, 22 April 1929 — Page 1

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ha ENTURE PLAN 1$ RETAINER IN FARM MEASURE ■ Senate Agricultural ComI mittee Votes To Keep Plan In Its Bill I PI AN TO SUBMIT I BILL TOMORROW Washington, Apr. 22.—(UR) — ■ The seiiale agriculture coniiiiil|lfc lodav voted eight to six to I retain the debenture plan of ■ l irin relief in its bill Io lx* rcliuirted Io the senate, despite ■ President Hoover’s objections ■'Vhe majority in the committee de- ■ cideti that notwithstanding Mr. ■ Hoover’s prophesies that the plan I “will bring disaster to the American farmers" it would stand by its original endorsement of the pioject, and let the issue go before the senate. Discuss President's Letter The vote was reached after an hour and a halt's discussion in executive session about Mr. Hoover’s letter yesterday to Chairman McNary of the committee, vigorously opposing the scheme. The fitst poll of the committee |showed seven to five in favor of the [debenture plan with three senators not voting. Later two allentees [were polled, one casting for and one against the plan, hanging the total Ito eight to six with one absent. In view of the president's letter [McNary announced he would f be unable to report the bill to the senate today as planned but would order it Itomotrow. [New Trial For Girl Forger Sought In Petition Ilfoomfield. Ind., Apr. 22. — fU.R) [Efforts to obtain a new trial for Daisy Sullivan. IS, serving a two to 1-1 year sentence for forging a $2.St) check I were begun here today. Attorneys were to file petition for a new trial on the contention that the girl was ignorant of her constitutional rights when she pleaded guilty to the forgery. [ A psychiartric examination of Miss I Sullivan showed she was above normal intelligence. 0 ,— L K. Fishback Named Gasoline Tax Collector Indianapolis, Apr. 22.—(U.K)— Leland K. Fishback, formerly of Richmond. I Ind., today was appointed gasoline tax collector by Archie N. Bobbitt, auditor jof state to succeed Charles T. Brown, Panli, who had been ill since his apIpointment to the post when Bobbitt I took office in January. Fishback has resided in Indianapolis since he became head of the republiI l “ n “tate speakers’ bureau in the cam Ptign last fall. He served as secre- | tary of the senate in the last general [ assembly. — uq ; PLEASANT MILLS GRADUATES EIGHT Annual Commencement Exercises Are Scheduled For This Evening •he commencement exercises of ,he Pleasant Mills high school will be llel(l tollight ' Monday, April 22 There are eight graduates. ’* following program will be rend*''*‘<l at the commencement: March. Glee Club Wellesley Selection, "Mighty Lak a Rose" . Frank McKee ‘Ration Rev . A . E . Bus k ‘"oughts of Youth St. Clair <iess, “Turning Stones into P “ r . ead ” Dr. William H. Wylie Pluribus Unum Fred Jewel! r esentalion of Class p„ Principal Peter W. Vitz “•esentaiion of Diptonas Co - S “P‘- <Tifton E. Striker R ' , lhe Wisp. St. Clair s ( /, dlct,on Rev. A - E - Burk M^ USlc "'I I ,)e furnished by the Th 06 school orchestra. " e Members of the Pleasant Mills dating class of 1929 are: Charles Evm , hai ' (lt ’ Bryce Daniels, Juanita arion Foor, Eldon Habegger, p..,. Johnson, Pearl Ray and Itut “ C, Smith.

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j Debt Parley Respite i la ? |g||i ' OL yr v b / In addition to the general gloom overhanging the tangle of German war debt reparations negotiations, the sudden death of Lord Revelstoke, financial giant of Gieat Britain, has caused a temporary adjournment. It is thought that he broke down under the great strain of the tense situat.on. APPROVE ACTION OF CITY COUNCIL Citizens Like Idea Os Voting On Daylight Saving Time Issue In Primary Approval of the city council's action In referring the decision on the question of adopting daylight saving time to the voters at the primary election, Tuesday, May 7, has been heard on every hand. The voting on the daylight saving question adds great interest to the primary election apd it is expected that a larger vote will be cast for that reason. Since there are only two contests among the candidates, interest in the election more or less lagged, but with the daylight saving issue added to the election, ardent supporters sf the question, will at least go to the polls on election day. When the voters go to the polls to vote, a daylight saving ballot will be handed to them and the ballots will he counted and the election supervied in the same manner as a general election. The council has asked the city election commissioners to look after the printing of the ballots and the distribution of them among the six precincts. The voting on the question will be made easy apd the election commissioners will decide as to the wording which goes on the ballot. Voters will be given the opportunity to vote "yes' or "no" on the question and the council be guided by the voters' decision in either adopting or rejecting the fast time schedule. If the daylight saving time question carried, the new time will go into effect on Saturday at mid night. May 11. Dies Os Lockjaw Shelbyville, Ind., April 22—(UP) — Clarence Bassett, 49 died oi lockjaw which developed after amputation of a finger injuied by a saw. 0. H. S. WINS IN BPM CONTEST Decatur Team Wins First Honors In Novice A Class Os District Meet Decatur high school won first place in the Novice A class of the district high school typewriting contest, held at Columbia City, Saturday. Nine schools were entered in the contest. Decatur was represented in the contest by Evelyn Kelley, Gerhard Schultz and Miriam Parrish. The three pupils made an average of 39.03 words per minute. As a result of their victory, the Decatur team won the tight to enter the state contest, to be held at Muncie next week-end. It was said today, they would take part in the state contest, providing means of transportation are procured. The novice A class is for those pupils who have had one school yeaFs course in typewriting, with one hour s work per day.

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DENT REHEARING OF SINCLAIR CASE Oil Magnate Loses One Os Few Remaining Chances To Escape Jail Term Washing or.. Apr. 22—(U.R> —One of Harry Sincla'r's few remaining chances of evading a three months iail sentence for contempt of the senate faced today when the supreme court refused him a rehearing of the case in which it decided two weeks ago that he was properly convicted. The court announced its action in a pencilled memorandum stating that a rehearing had been denied. No formal opinion or announcement was made, the memorandum indicating merely that the nine justices had considered and rejected the argil-' ments put forth by Sinclair's lawyers in ape .ition filed last Wednesday. o Physicians Refuse To Release Sheriff Haynes Columbia City, Ind., April 22 —-(UP) — Attempts of Sheriff J. M. Haynes to leave the hospital where he has been confined since being shot by four b andits during a robbery at the state bank here were countermanded by physicians this afternoon, because of his weakened condition. It had been announced earlier in the day that Haynes would leave the hospital and join in the search for the bandits who wounded him, killed one woman ami hurt another in a gun battle during the robbery. Hospital attaches said it would be several days before he could be discharged. The sheriff, although still carrying the bullet filed by the bandits, had recovered enough today to direct the search for the four men from his hospital cot. “When $ get out of here I'm going to make an eyeusive search for Kirby Davis", Haynes told hospital attaches. Davis, identified by witnesses to the robbery, is wanted in several Indiana towns in connection with several crimes. Authorities again were on the lookout for the bandits today. They also made a search of surrounding counties yesterday. Funeral services for Mrs. Fred Binder, 50, who was killed as she watched the gun battle from her home were held yesterday. CENTRAL SCHOOL TO STAGE PLAY “Aunt Mary Did” To Be Presented Thursday And Friday Nights “Aunt Mary D'd,” is the title of a home-talent play to be given in the Decatur high school auditorium Thursday and Friday nights of this week, 'ey the pupils et the eighth grade of Central school. The play vas v rftten by Laurecce G. Worcester. who also wrote “Cat o' Nine Tails," which was presented recently by the Decatur high school seniors, and which, was very favorably rsceiz ed. The plcy chosen by the eigli h grade pupils is a comedy from start to finish and the quarrels between the two children, Betty and Willie mae almost any parent feel perfectly at home. The gardner and hired girl also provide much comedy. There is an air of mystery pervading during the play, also. The admission charge for the play will be twenty-five cent? for both children and adults. Following is the cast for the play: Mary Sterling, a modern “Joan of Arc” Eileen Burk Laurence Grey, a modern “Lancelot” Hugh Engle Mrs. Sterling, an old fashioned mother Minnie Moyer Dressa Rand, the girl that men forgot (?) Edwina Shroll Daniel Grey, father of Laurence and ambitious as to his matrimonial and financial career Marion Feasel Edith Smith, Mary's chum whose chief aim In life is to “lass off” the other fifty pounds Sara Jane Kauffman Willie Sterling, Betty Sterling, Mary’s broter and sister, the dear little angels. Theirs is the adolescent age Max Stoakes and Dorothy Little (Miss) O. G. Whittaker, a masculine monument to feminine (CONTINUED ON PAGE SIX)

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To Reign at Festival gngl ' 'I ri\ Pretty Mary Ma'thews,of Mannington, W. Va., senior at University of West Virginia, is queen of annual Apple Blossom Festival at Winchester. Va. Mary has just been voted most beautiful girl at the University for the fourth time. LINN GROVE MAN RECEIVES BURNS Calvin Dubach Severely Burned In Accident While Repairing Motor Linn Grove, Apr. 22. — (Special l — Calvin Dubach, well-known Linn Grove garage man, was severely burned, at 1:30 o’clock Saturday afternoon, when a small quantity of gasoline which he held in his hand while working on an automobile motor, exploded. His right hand was so severely burned that it will probably be necessary to amputate it. His left hand and body was painfully burned, also. Mr. Dubach was repairing the generator on a huckster truck belonging to Frank King, of Linn Grove. He had completed the job and Muri King, son of Frank King, who was in the truck, stepped on to starter of the motor. The motor statred and sharks from the exhaust ignited the gasoline which Mr. Dubach held in a can in his hand. There was about a pint of the liquid. Mr. Dubach jumped back, but the gasoline spilled over his clothing and the fire spread rapidly. Frank Mount?., an employe of the garage, grabbed a fire extinguisher an dsucceeded in ex tinguishing the flames, but not until Mr. Dubach had been severely burned. Mr. Dubach was given medical attention and removed to his home here. ZIMMERMAN IS FREED BY JURY Former Steuben County Sheriff Acquitted On Charge Os Murder Angola, Ind., Apr. 22. —lt took a jury in the Steuben county circuit court just one hour and eighteen min utes late Saturday to acquit Charles D. Zimmerman, former sheriff, of a charge of murdering Thomas Burke, Toledo, O„ gangster, near here last August. Two ballots were taken. The first was 9 to 3 tor acquittal and the second was unanimous. Zimmerman, the prosecution had charged, killed Burke, placed his body in a barn on a farm near Angola, and set the barn on fire. Fear of exposure of his alleged affiliation with rum runners, hijackers, bank bandits and automobile thieves was given by the prosecution as the motive fol* the alleged killing. The verdict was received in silence, Special Judge James L. Harman of Elkhart, having warned the packed court room against any demonstration. Zimmerman smiled and was immediately surrounded by a group of friends. The defendant, who was sheriff of the county from 1925 until the first of the present year, shook hands with the jrors and thanked them for freeing him. His five brothers also shook hands all around.

MILLER TRYING TO OBTAIN BOND Bond Os Decatur Man, Arrested At Alky Plant, Reported Reduced to $5,000 It was understood on good authority today that the $1(1,000 bond, under which Ed Miller, of this city, who was arrested last Wednedsay when a still was found in operation on a farm nmtheast of this city, had been reduced today to $5,000. Al noon today. Miller had not yet gained his freedom, but it was learned in this city that an effort was being made to obtain the bond and secure his release from the Allen county jail. The entire case was turned over last week to federal authorities and it is said that a thorough investigation into the ownership and operation of the alcohol still will be made. The other two men arrested with miller both foreigners, have not yet secured bond anil all three are being held in the Allen county pail under federal supervision. — o Chicago Loses Point In Lake Water-Level Cases Washington, April 22 —(UP) —The city of Chicago today was denied supreme court permission to intervene as a defendant in the Great Lakes waterlevel cases, in which the conn has ordered the Chicago Sanitary district and the state of Illinois to limit its diversion of water from Lake Michigan. The city's main reason for intervention was the supreme court's requirement that it build a plant to dispose of its sewage in Lake Michigan instead of washing it dow n the Illinois river into the Mississippi. Such a sewage purification and disposal plant will cost many millions of dollars and work a greaX,economic hardship on the city it was stated in the city’s petition. o — Republican Editors To Meet In Bedford In June Indianapolis, April 22 —(UP) —The 1929 .summer meeting of the Indiana Republican Editorial Assn, will be held in Bedford, June 20 and 21. The executive Committee accepted an invitation to visit the stone city at a meeting yesterday. ELDER J, L KLINE CALLED BY DEATH Well-K now n Churchman Dies At Bluffton As Result Os Accident Elder Joint L. Kline. 63, residing one-half mile east cf Honduras, died at midnight, Saturday, April 20, 1929, at the Wells county hospital in Bluffton. where he was taken on Saturday, to be treated for injuries sustained in an accident the previous Wednesday. On Wednesday. April 24, Elder Kline was caught, between a post and a manure spreader, severely crushing his entire left side. He was conscious to the very last. John L. Kline was born in Berks county, Pennsylvania, November 24, 1865. On August 2. 1884, he united in marriage with Parmilla Barttorf. at Spencerville, Indiana, After the wedding, together with his bride, he returned to Pennsylvania where they resided for three years, after which they returned to Indiana where they resided throughout the remaining years of his life. In 1887, Mr. and Mrs. Kline united with tlie Church of the Brethren. In 1889, h e was made a deacon, in 1901 was accepted into the ministry, and in 1919 was ordained an elder at the Pleasant Dale church. He has been quite active in the evangelistic field even during the past winter. Surviving, besides the widow, are the following ten children: Daniel D, of Elkhart; John R., of Rochester; Arabella, of Harrisburg, Pa.; Roy, of Sliver Lake; Reuben, of Harrisburg, Pa.; Pearl, at. home; Charles, of Fort Wayne; Delma, of Los Angeles; Mary, of Detroit, Michigan, and Herbert, at home. Eleven grandchildren also survive. Funeral services will be held Tuesday afternoon at 1 o'clock at the Pleasant Dale church, Elder L. J. Moss, of Wauseon, Ohio, officiating, assisted by Elder Sherman Kendall, of Bringhurst, Indiana, and Elder D. M. Byerly. Interment will be made at Cedar Chapel cemetery, 20 miles north of Fort Wayne,

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Fugitive Drops Dead • I wfc JiK 03 David Steinhttrdt. fugitive bankruptcy lawyer of New York, long sought as an embezzler of millions, dropped dead at Philadelphia, Pajust as he was about to give himself up. The finding of cyanide of potassium on his person has raised the question of whether or not he took his owu life to shield his friends. HOOVERSPEAKS ’ TO JOURNALISTS Calls Upon Press To Throw Influence Into Law Enforcement Fight New York, Apr. 22.—(U.R>—Presi dent Hoover called upon the press of the nation today to throw its influence unreservedly into the tight for law enforcement. The president asked for a quickening of the public conscience on the whole problem of lawlessness. He represented prohibition enforcement as merely a part of the problem, declaring that only 8 per cent of felony convictions last year came from that source. “It s solution,” he said, referring to the problems of law enforcement, "is more vital to the preservation of our institutions than any other question before us. "If law can be upheld only by enforcement officers, then our scheme of government is at an end "No individual has the right to determine what law shall be obeyed and what law shall not be enforced. ‘.‘lf a law is wrong, its rigid enforcement is the surest guaranty of its repeal. If it is right, its enforcement is the quickest method of eomipelling respect for it. “The duty to enforce the laws rests upon every public official and the duty to obey it rests Upon every citizen.” The president,’s address, his first [ since he entered the White House. [ was delivered at the annual luncheon [ of the Associated Press. The president recalled he has seen recently newspaper articles “encouraging citizens to defy a law because i that particular journal did not approve of the law itselg" The president said be would leave comment on such cases “to any citizen with a sense of responsibility to his country.” WORK STARTED AT SCOUT CAMP Former Home Os Gene Stratton Porter Being Prepared For Boy Scouts Work has already started on the modification of the Gene Stratton-Por-ter Limberlost Cabin property on Sylvan Lake, near Kendallville, for the use of the Boy Scouts’ summer camp, which will he opened the first of July The famous Limberlost property was recently pm chased by the Anthony Wayne Area council of Boy Scouts as an ideal site for all year round camping purposes, together with Big Island containing 80 acres of wooded land just opposite the Limberlost Cabin. John L. Anguish, scout executive stated today that work is now being done on the service roads leading directly to the camp from the main highway in order they may he in (CONTINUED ON PAGE FIVE)

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FLOOD WATERS TURNED LOOSE IN ARKANSAS Special Trains And Boats Rushed To Rescue Os Persons In Area DANGER GROWING AT QUINCY, ILLINOIS Helena, Ark., Apr. 22. (U.R)—A private levee on the Mississippi river, eight miles above Laconia, Ark., broke shortly before 10 a.in. today and loosed flood waters of the White river, (he district engineers office here reported. Backwaters of the White river were pouring through a 150-foot break above I.aconia. The engineers office here estimated that between 1,500 and 2,000 persons within the area were endangered. Rescue Work Started The Missouri Pacific railroad has sent special trains into the district and the engineers office here has ordered government boats rushed to the scene. It. is not believed there will be any loss of life, the engineers office said. Resdients of Laconia at. first !#- lieved the waters were coming from a break in the Mississippi levee, but engineers explained the break was on a private levee on the bank side of the Mississippi and was holding back flood waters of the White river from the northwest. Word Spreads Slowly Word of the break spread slowly as all telephone lines had gone cut of order because of highwater and storms. Everyone moved to higher ground as rapidly as possible. Inhabitants of Laconia, a town of 300 popuitlion, hurriedly loaded personal belongings into whatever vehicles were available. There is little hope of plugging the hole in the levee. It already is too wide and is rapidly widening. The area which will lie inundated is a huge semi-circle about six or seven miles in diameter, and is bordered by the Mississippi river. iCOXTIV’ e I> O' P4GH «IXI o — :— —— Monroe Township Sunday Schools Hold Convention Laige audiences attended the two sessions of the Monroe township Sunday school convention, held Sunday afternoon and evening. The afternoon session was held at the Spring Hill church and the evening meeting was held at the First Mennonite church in Berne. M. F. Worthman, superintendent of the Decatur city schools, was the principal speaket at the afternoon session During~4he evening session, the Rev. Byron Smith, of Fort Wayne, delivered the principal address. TO CELEDRATE BANDITROUNDUP Bankers Os County To Give Banquet For Sheriff And His Deputies Sheriff Harl Hollingsworth and other Adams county officials who aided in the recent arrest and conviction of the four bank robbers in connection with the robbery of the Bank of Linn Grove, will be the guests of honcr at a banquet to be held at Berne, Thursday nfght, April 25. The invitations for the affair have been issued by E. W. Baumgartner, of the Bank of Berne, and president of the Adams County Bankers association. The banquet will be held at 6:30 o’clock Thursday night. A program has been arranged following the banquet, and the bankers and police officers will enjoy an hour or two telling of the events which led up to the arrests and convictions. All members of the bankers' association and the officials have Leen invited to attend the banquet. — . o Auburn Man Nominated To Be U. S. Marshal Washington, April 22- (UP) —The nomination of Emmitt O. Hall, of Auburn, Indiana to be United States Marshal of the Northern District of Indiana was sent to the Senate by the I White House today.

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