Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 27, Number 235, Decatur, Adams County, 3 October 1929 — Page 1

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(SEAT DIPLOMAT CF GERMANY IS HILES BY DEATH ]r Justav Stressmann, Minister of Foreign Affairs Dies Today ENTIRE WORLD | IN MOURNING Beilin, Oct. 3.—XU.R>—Dr. Gust v Stressemaiin, German minj tp- of foreign affairs and one of Europe’s outstanding statesre.i died today. His last act va/to achieve, at the cost of ].n health, one of the compromises for which he was famous. While flags through the nat on were at half mast and Presi- ( Paul von Hindenburg prepare I ( t> hasten to the capital from his ( hinting lodge at Scliorfheide on b - ( jag informed of Stressemann’s death, ( the relchstag met in an atmosphere ( of mourning. Almost in a routine fashion the bglsla.ive body passed on its third ( r-adin; the government's unemployr.ient insurance bill. A cabinet crisis lid arisen over the measure but <tn ss'matin averted it yesterday at . the expense of his fast-slipping healt.i. In . shaking voice. Chancellor Her ‘ t.iann Mueller, who yesterday had told P'r.ss'mann he would resign unless the foreign minister whipped hie re- ( calcitrant folks party in a compromise <n the bill, spoke to the reichstag. , It was a tragedy, he said, that ( Stressmann could not live to see the . rccomplishment of the work for international harmony which he had begun when he promoted the Locarno ( peace pact and other pacific under- , takings. "It was always h's aim.” said Mueller, "to oLboiale ue/uiuay iv^-o.j uninfluenced by dally petty party . strife, will do him justice and he will 1 go down in history as the man who ' worked successfully for his country, (CONTINUED ON PAGE THREE) I o 1 — Liquor Conditions Are Probed At Bloomfield Bloomfield, Ind., Oct. 3 —(UP) —An ’ investiga ion into liquor conditions in ( rnd around Bloomfield was resumed here today by combined federal and county forces. Three men already have been ar rested and taken to Terre Haute where ' they are being held for federal court. They are: John Ploutch, Worthing ton. Indiana . Harry Smith, T into”, and Robert Patterson, Bloomfield. Ploutch and Patterson are cun „ with possession of liquor and sale to minors. Smith is charged with [tosses sicn. o Gets Life Term Indianapolis, Oct. 3—(UP)—A life sentence in the state prison was given Carroll Ratty, 31. today by criminal judge James A. Batty, for an attack on a three and one halt year old girl. LOCAL CHURCH WILL BE HOST Methodists to Entertain Fort Wayne District Missionary Clubs The sixtieth annual meeting of the Port Wayne district Woman’s Foreign Missonary Society of the Methodist churches will be held in Decatur next Monday and Tuesday, It was announced by church officials here today. The Pev. Ross W. Stoakes, pastor of the Decatur Methodist Episcopal church W >H preside at the convention as pastor-host. Mrs. Carrie Haubold 'of this city will serve during the various meet>»gs as pianist and Rev. E. P. White *>U be the song leader. The meetng opens Monday afternoon, October «t 1.30 o’clock. The complete prog ‘ am for the two-day meeting follows: Monday Afternoon Prelude Hymns 2 and 497. ’’’vocation R ev . Edward White Hymn 325. Holy Communion. Dr. J. T. Bean, assisted by visiting pastors in Memoriam Group Leaders Paradise, Bright Paradise” »n Ladies Trio reminiscence” Mrs. Robt. F. Harding . J ' lst Sixty Years Ago.” be Olive Branch”. .Mrs. E. L. Meier Mrs. Thelma Lint (CONTINUED ON PAGE THREE)

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I Dr. Beavers Attends Medical Conference Dr S. I) Beavers is attending a | three day’s confetence at the Irene By. .on Sanitoriutn, For. Wayne, on tuberculosis. This special meeting of phy siclans Interested in the causes, cures and different phases of the disease, hng:>-. sterday and will continue tin I til tomorrow. Sevetal ve<y interesting i '..!!;s are bring presented by well known physicians from Terre Haute, Sou h Bend, Fort Wayne and other cities of the state. NELSON SEEKS CO-OPERATION — Prosecutor Says Criticism And Suggestions Always Welcomed By Him S ating that criticisms and suggestions are welcome and appreciated at his office. Nathan Nelson. Adams coun'y prosecutor, explained his action in the McClure case in a letter to the Daily Democrat today. Mr. Nelson's letter is as follows: October 2, 1929. Decatur Dally Democrat: Decatur, Indiana. Dear Editor: An editorial appearing in a recent issue of the Adams County Witness asking that I be ousted from office as prosecuting attorney because of my action concerning the McClure case has been brought to my attention. Recently in a conference with officials. higher than myself in law enforcement. these officials stated that it was usually customary for the state's attorney, if the family' and other circumstances warranted it, to ask the court for suspension of sentence •n the case of first violators of the prohibition law. After a thorough investigation cf the John McClure case I found that if McClure was sent to the state penal farm for any period of time, his wife and family would suffer because he (McClure) was the sole means of their support. It was McClure’s first appearance on a liquor law violation in mayor's court. Using the information I had secured from those of higher authority as a background and using my own judgment, I asked that the McClure sentence be suspended. This action is no different than the action of other prosecuting attorneys throughout the state and United States, when they find that conditions warrant such action, in either first liquor law violations or other violations. I did not however make a plea for suspension as the Adams County Witness, stated. I shill not enter into any discussion with the Witness or any other publication regarding the right or wrong of my action as an officer but feel I should make this correction. I am making my best efforts to serve the people ahd ask your support. I am human and perhaps make mistakes but they are honest ones. It would seem to me that to oust one from office as suggested there should be considerable more cause than the recommendation of the suspension of the pri on sentence for a first violator who in addition had been fined SIOO. 1 appreciate criticisms and suggestions which are helpful in conducting my office. Very truly yours, Nathan C. Nelson. Prosecuting Attorney. Colby Divorce Case Is Set For Monday Reno, Nev., Oct. 3. —(U.R)—The divorce proceedings against Bainbridge Colby, secretary of state in Wilson’s cabinet, have been set for Monday. In a complaint on file here today, Mrs. Nathalie Sedgewick Colby, author and writer, charges her husband deserted her in New York in 1923. The couple were married in Stockbridge, Mass., in 1895. They have three children. Attorneys have drawn up a property settlement. No mention was made as to whether this agreement would be used in connection with the divorce proceedings. Colby was one of the founders of the progressive party and served for a time on the U. S. shipping board. Wheeler Charges Board Failed To Act Promptly Washington. Oct. 3.—(U.R) —Senator Wheeler, Dem., Mont., a member of the senate agriculture committee examining the qualifications of members of the federal farm board, charged today that this body had devoted too much time to the relief of the grape industry and had failed to act to prevent huge losses to wheat farmers.

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TRI-K APPA PLAY OPENS TONIGHT Large Crowd Expected To Witness Opening Showing Os Musicale All is in readiness for the first showing of the Tri Kappa play, "Sweetheart Town,’’ the first showing of which will be given at the Decatur high school auditorium at 8:15 o’clock onight. The doors will open at 7:30 o'clock and those who have not ob- i tained tickets may do fao at the door, tonight or tomorrow night. France CMiter, as the hen-pecked husband and Mary Macy as his wife, take the leading parts in the musical comedy, which has created great- interest wherever it has been shown. There are many musical numbers included in the comedy and “Sweetheart Town” is said to be one of the finest musical productions ever to be staged in Decatur. The cast and choruses are composed of local people and they have been practicing for the musical for the last several weeks. Several good chorus numbers are included in each act of the production, and lovers of hometalent plays are promised a fine evening's entertainment. o Jury Reports Friday South Bend, Ind.. Oct. 3 —(UP) —The Federal Grand Jury which for five weeks has been investigating r’leged corrupt conditions in Lake County will report to Judge Thomas ,W. Slick Friday. It is expected 160 indictments will be returned. Hearing of witnesses end- : ed Wednesday. Today the Jurors aae ■ considering the evidence and preparing indictments. i o BEET DELIVERY TO START SOON Local Company’s Weigh Stations To Open Tuesday, October 8 The delivery of sugar beets for the annual campaign of the Holland-St. Louis Sugar company in this city will commence next Tuesday, October 8, . when weigh stations throughout the territory will be opened. H, It. TutI tie, manager of the local plant stated this morning. The lifting of the beets has already ) started, Mr. Tuttle stated, but deliveries cannot be made until the weigh ' stations are opened; i The probable date for the opening i of the big mill Is October 15 and if i sufficient beets are in the yards by that time the eighteenth annual sugar 1 making campaign will start on that • date. The beets are in fine condition this year and it is expected that the sugar content will be good, Mr. Tuttle stated. Persons who have applied for jobs in the mill and in the territory will ■ be notified by post card a day or two ! before the opening of the mill. Apple ■ oations should be filed at once with i the local office, it was stated this ■ morning. > Although the acreage is small this ) year, a fair run is expected and with • a good crop of beets the harvest will be a successful one for the grower.

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ISHBEL SHOULD WORRY! London, Oct. 3 - (U.R) —Miss Ishbel MacDonald, accompanying her father, the prime minister, to the United States, is not worried I over where she will be seated at White House banquets, a dispatch fiom the Daily Express correspondent. aboard the Berengaria i said today, “Oh, I am not worried at all about where I sit as long as there is somebody nice to talk to,” the | correspondent quoted Miss MacDonald as replying to his question. -7“ O STEAM COOKER EXPLODESiTWO RECEIVE BURNS Mr. and Mrs. Richard Speakman Painfully Burned By Scalding Water MISHAP OCCURS WEDNESDAY NIGHT Mr. and Mrs. Richard Speakman, residing east of Decatur were painfully and severely burned Wednesday night when a pressure steam cooker exploded in the kitchen of their home, throwing scalding water and steam over them. Mr. and Mrs. Speakman wore standing in the kitchen near the stove. Evidently the steam pressure was too high and the lid of the cooker was blown off. A heavy stream of scalding water and steam poured out striking both people. Mrs. Speakman received severe burns on het face, arms, neck and breast. Speakman was burned' painfully on the face, neck ami arms. A physician was called and rhe wounds were dressed. The attending physician stated that both Mr. and Mrs. Speakman had received painful burns, but that both would recover unless infection set in The steam pressure stove is a contrivance for cooking by the use of steam, being generated from a boiler. Evidently the ptessure was too strong ' and the lid was blown completely off ! of the cooker, releasing the hot water and steam. ’ The Speakman farm is east of this ’ city and about two miles west of PleaI sant Mills. Dr. Shumaker Better i Indianapolis, Oct. 3. —(U.R) Dr. E. S. Shumaker, head of the Indiana Antl- : Saloon League, was "resting well and f considerably improved’ 'today, his , doctors reported. Shumaker has been confined to his 1 bed with an illness caused from over work since his 60-day term on the In ’ diana state prison farm for contempt of the state supreme court. —o— Police Halt ChSse , Indianapolis, Oct. 3 —(UP) —Robei' • Van Hook. 28, was chasing his wife 1 around their home with a revolver lasi s night when police arrived in response ;o a call from neighbors. The officer* s entered the game of “tag" and chase' i Van Hook a mile before catching ami 1 arresting him He faced charges oi vagrancy today.

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A. L BODENHAMER HEADS LEGION Great Convention Closes At Louisville Today As Officers Are Chosen Louisville, Ky , Oct. 3—(UP)—A for- | mer college professor who enlisted as a private in 1917 and rose to rank of major today was chosen national commander of the American Legion. * A. L. Bodenhamer, Eldorado. Ark., is the new legion chief. He was born at Coldthwaite. Texas, and was graduated from Baylor University at Waco. Bodenhamer was head of the Arkansas Legion in 1922 and was a member of the National executive committee serving as chairman of the legislative committee in 1924-25. I Albert L. Cox. Winton-Salem, N. C. | nominated Bodenhamer and r| commended that rules of the convention be suspended ami Bodenhamer be elected by acclamation. The motion car- ■ ried and Bodenhamer was phosen unanimously. It was the first time in the history of the legion that a National Commander had been so chosen. J Five Killed When Train Strikes Auto Warrqn. N. H. Oct. 3— (UP)—Vive ' men, all employed Uy a power company t as field, worker.', were killed today when the Bos’on Montreal flier of the Boston and Maine Railroad crashed into an automobile on an unguarded 1 grade crossing. The dead: Joseph LeClair, 29, Brook- * lyn, N. Y. William E. Johnson 28, Evergreen, > Ala. Ernest Anderson, 31. Worcester, s Mass., Paul Baldwin. 30 Barton. Vl., ? Hugh Tucker, 30, Daco. Tex. TO INVESTIGATE j ALLEGED'LEAKS’ t Activity Renewed In Lake 1 County Corruption Probe By Federal Men Gary. Ind, Oct. 3— (UP)-Renewed activity of government officials engagf ed in an investigation of Lake Counr ty political conditions was expected today to result front the arrest of Alfred a Petty, edi or of the Glen Park news, a weekly paper. Perry was arrested on charge of criminal libel. Government attention was expected to be turned to an investigation of sources of leaks of information regarding testimony meant only for purors ’■ ears. I- Reports have been current here, as (I the inquiry progressed, that Ralph H Bradford. Lake County politician, has been the writer of Various stories in the Glen Parke paper, carrying matter * regarding the probe not published in any other papers. Bradford is one of the signers of a bond which gave Perry Liberty pend,ing trial. The editor is accused by Dale Flickinger of East Chicago, who says he was libeled by a statement in the paper that ills trucks hauled beer p for Nick Sudovioh to Max Salmon's n hotel in Indiana Harbor. The paper e describes Salmon as "A piotected bootb legger.” •I Flickinger was a member of a Lake d county grand jury which indicted Sluin' ovich on a charge of murdering Urosh Marovich East Chicago bootlegger.

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Wife Os Famous Ball Player Gets Divorce Lincoln, Neb.. Oct. 3.—(U.R) —A divorce was granted here today to Mrs. Aimee Marie Alexander, wife of Grover Cleveland Alexander, St. Louis Cardinal pitcher. She won the decree on grotinds of extreme cruelty, charging Alexander drank excessively and was quarrelsome. District Judge Lincoln Frost granted the divorce on default of Alexander, who did not appear to oppose it. 0 t - BEMONSTRATORS HEARD TODAY Representative of State Tax Board Hears Objections To Increase Walter G. Bridges, special represent tative for the state board of tax commissioners, conducted a hearing on the remonstrance against the Root township tax levy at the County Assessor’s office this afternoon. Mr. Bridges stated that he would not make a decision in the case, but would tepoit the evidence to the slate board and action in the matter would be < made by the board.. Fourteen taxpayers of Root township filed a remonstrance against the-town-hip levy. The proposed for next year is 59 cents on the hundred dollars, an increase of six cents over the levy this year. Township trustee A. J. Lewton attended the hearing and stated that the increase was necessaiy, that in the township and special school levies needed additional money for next year. He stated that neither he nor the township advisory board intended to build a gymnasium, as was rumored. The additional money, he stated was needed in the regular discharge of the township’s business. The proposed increase included five cents in the township fund and one cent in the special school fund The six cents increase would raise about $1,500 more than a year ago, Mr. Lewton stated. ——o . Local Legionnaires Return To Decatur Decatur members of the American Legion returned home today from Louisville where they attended the annual convention of the American Legion. The Decatur men participated in the doings of the big convention. The 1930 convention will be held in Boston. o —’ Fred Major Purchases Local Filling Station The Scuth Winchester street' filling station formerly operated by Herman Lee opened today under the management of Fred Major. Mr. Major stated that his station would handle Sin clair gasoline and Opaline motor oils. The station is now open to the public. Missing Bluffton Man Found In Fort Wayne Bluffton, Ind., Oct. 3—(UP)—Claude Cole, local grain company manager, missing since July 3, was being brought here today for questioning. He was located last night in a hotel at Fort Wayne. The cause of Cole's dissappearance has not been learned, but autorities have intimated a shortage was found in company books kept by Cole. No charges have been filed. - o Alleged Bandits Are Caught At Fort Wayne Spencerville, Ind., Oct. 3—(UP) - Three men, alleged to have robbed the Farmer’s and Merchants’ bank of Spencerville liU yesterdtay were being held today pending filing of charges. The trio is believed to have held up E. G. Rectenwall, cashier, and W. G. Erick, assistant cashier, and forced them to show where the money was kept. About $5,000 was taken according to Erick. A posse captured the men near Harlan a few hours after the robbery, thirty-eight hundred dollars was found inside one man’s shirt. Their names were given as Walter Dill. Cascalia, 0., John L. Belton. Detroit; and James Fagen, Detroit. :—q IRVINGTON IS CHOSEN Logansport, Ind., Oct. 3—(UP)—lrvington Presbyterian church at Indianapolis was selected the 1930 meeting place of the Indiana Synod of Presbyterian churches at its closing session here today.

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LEADERS THINK COALITION WILL LOSESTRENGHT House Apparently Favorable To Flexible Part Os Tariff Bill INTEREST LOOMS IN .JOINT MEET Washington, Oct. 3. (U.R) I While the elimination of the flexible provision of the tariff act was an apparently serious defeat for President Hoover and his senate leaders defending the pending Republican bill, they claimed to see more (silver lining in the clouds than would appear from a first glance. The coalition of farm bloc Republicans and Democrats which is working against the tariff measure was forced to muster full strength for a 47 to 42 vote in the senate late yesterday. cutting the flexible core out of the b’ll and adopting the SimmonsNorris amendment. In few votes to come upon important rates in the bill will the coalition be able to hold the strength they manifest, administration leaders argue. Three votes would have changed the result and leaders claim they will lie able to win many more than three votes when the rates come under consideration. Admittedly, the coaltion was strongest on the flexible feature of •he hill. Its leaders switched procedure at the start of the special session in order that the administrative feature? might be taken up before the rates. They frankly did not have enough votes then or now to put over their program of eliminating all the industrial rates of the bill, preserving only the increases granted agriculture. although they wanted to do so. The only possibility of disaster to the bill in the senate’s action will depend upon what is done about the flexible provision when conferees of house and senate get together to iron out differences in the measure as passed by each house. The house passed a flexible provision which went much further than the present law. It wiped out the nonpartisan feature of the tariff commission and gave the President sufficient power to lower and increase rates almost at will. Even such ardent protectionists as Rep. Beck, Repn., Pa., protested against the feature, but it was preserved in the bill as passed by the house. Senate Republicans abandoned the house provision and wanted to maintain the present law which authorizes the President to conduct investigations through the tariff commission and raise or lower duties by 50 per cent upon their recommendation. The Simmons-Norris amendment which the senate has now put in the bill would make the tariff commission only a fact-finding agency. DECATUR WOMEN GET INVITATION State Convention of D.A.R. To Be Held At Gary First Os Next Week All Adams county women interested in lhe Daughters of the Revolution are invited to attend the state convention of that organization, to be held at Gary October 8,9, and 10, Mrs JS. Peterson ot this city announced today. Efforts now are underway in this city to organize a local chapter of the organization and several Adams county women* already have secured their lineage for membership Twenty-five reserved seats for the historical pageant to be given at Gary 1 October 8 in Connection with the state convention have been sent to Mrs. ’ Peterson, witli instructions to give - them to all Adams county women who are planning to attend. Many people prominent in the D A. R. national and state organization will ■ attend the three-day convention and • several local ladle* arc contemplat- ; ing a*tending. It Is thought that a par- - ty of Decatur women will motor to i Gary for at least a part of the convention.

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