Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 27, Number 247, Decatur, Adams County, 17 October 1929 — Page 1

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headquarters OPENED TODAY BY DEMOCRATS ( •|\ Chairman Mangold Is (infident Os Victory In Approaching Election administration HAS GOOD RECORD Democratic city headquarters wert officially opened today and w .ll rtmain open to the public for meetings and conferences until after the t,ity election in No.ember, it was announced. Dr. Burt Mangold, city Democrat c chairman will be in charge awl several important meetings wiil be arranged in the next two Th<> moms are located above the Daily Democrat office In the county Dcn.ocratic headquarters. They will remain open each night, and all voters >,f the city are invited to call tor In'oi nation concerting the approaching election. While quiet has reigned in the city campaign for the last several weeks it was announced today that all Democratic candidates for the various city posts would conduct a two«<>k campaign calling on the voters to c nitinue the “economic and progir-.- v, present administration.” Why change’’’ is the question asked by voters in all parts of the city, Dr. Mangold stated today. "Everyone seems perfectly satisfied with the progressive policies in force anil with several great objectives accomplished for a better and morel economical city gpveAment, there! appeals to be little desire among voters for a change." Dr. Mangold stated today. Mayor George Krick, who is a candidate for re-election has started a personal solicitation campaign and Mrs '.<!?, Martin end Mrs Alice Christen. candidates for treasurer and clerk respectively are making a thorough canvas of all homes in the city. The Democratic councilman candidates, fresh from a victory over the State Insurance Inspection Bureau, which caused local insurance rates to be reduced materially are making thejr campaign on a pledge of a continued economic and progressive city government. The financial condition of the city is the best it has ever been, Dr. Mahgold pointed out, and there will be no reason for concern if the voters continue the present business administration. Mayor Krick has fulfilled every promise of his last campaign, and is asking the voters of the city to return him to office to continue the present administration. Republicans At Work The several Republican candidates are working quietly among the voters in a hope of holding down the Demo(CONTTNUED ON PAGE TWO) STEURY HEIFER PUCES SIXTH Adams County Animal Gets Honor At National Dairy Show At St, Louis The senior yearling heifer belonging to Elma Steury of Monroe township won sixth prize in a class of 17 heifers at the National Dairy Show at St. Louis according to word received from St. Louis this morning. Miss St miry exhibited her heifer in competition with the best dairy calves hi the United States and accordin to reports the competition in the senior yearling class was keen. Miss Steury is a member of the Adams County Dairy Calf Club, her calf having won sweepstakes at the Adams County * luh Show held at Decatur several weeks ago and also first in her class ail d Junior Champion at the Indiana State Fair. Three Adams County Holstein bulls are also being shown at the National Dairy Show at St. Louis this week but io word has yet been received on their Placing. Some of those attending the dairy show »t St. Louis this week from Adams County are Elma Steury, Dan bteury, David Graber, Peter Mazelin, rianklin Mazelin, John K. Mazelin, Eli M. Schwartz, Peter B. Lehman, Otto D Bieberich, Roy L. Price, John J. >< iwartz, Peter D. Schwartz Calvin b ury, and Sinton Schwartz.

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Hunt Continued For Lafontaine Bank Bandit ( Lafontaine, Ind., Oct. 17. — ((J.R) — Gene Alger, play boy killed who, durI Inga vacation from his studies as a ! university student, ended the life o' lan Indianapolis policeman, was the object of an intensive search today following the robbery of the Lafoutaine bank here yesterday. ; Three men who saw the bank bandit declared there was a resemblance between him and pictures of Alger which they were shown. Loot in the robbery totaled approx imately $1,01)0. CORN YIELD IS i BELOW NORMAL I Estimated Yield Placed At 31 Bushels An Acre For Indiana In 1929 , Lafayette Ind., Oct. 17—Corn pros- . pects in Indian i have improved apI proximately one per cent from Sep- - tember 1 to October 1. but the 1929 ’ eiop, estimated at 132,122.000 bushels • will he only 85 per cent of the 1929 yield, while the forecast for the en- ' tiro United States predicts a crop of > 2.528,077.000 bushels, which is 89 perI cent of the 1928 corn crop. These figures are included in a report issued by the denartment of agricultural stai tistics of Purdue University agricultural experiment station, in coopera tion with the United States department of agriculture. The corn acreage in Indiana is 4,262.000, slightly lower that the acreage of last year. A proportionate reduction , is noticeable in that the entire conntry, the acreage reported for this year • being 98,333.000. as compared with I over 109.000.000 acres in corn last year. The predicted yield for the entire country is 77.2 per cent of a ten year average. The yield for Indiana is esji- . mated at 31 bushels per acre about three fourths of a normal crop. Indiana's oats production this year was much below that of the entire United States, as compariad with 1928, with only 61 per cent of the crop »f last year being produced, as compared with 85 per cent for the entire country. Indiana produced 54,720,000 bushels of oats this past summer, but of a to- ! tai production of 1.226.573.000 bushels ! according to the latest figures avail- . able. Os all crops listed, only the yields of tobacco and hay are greater this year . than last over the country as a whole. In Indiana, however rye, buckwheat, ! winter wheat, tobacco, hay and ! ,peach3S showed increases over last year. Prospects for the tobacco crop in . Indiana have improved, latest estimates placing the yield at 790 pounds ' to the acre, where the preceding esti- ‘ mate was 765 pounds. , The Indiana apple crop will be shorter than the average crop for the United States, with a yield of about 28 per 1 cent of normal. Final figures of the 1 peach crop showed that the yields were as high as had been predicted. Milk production on reporting farms, which is estimated to include about three-fourths of all milk cows in the state is higher than the average for the past several years, but shows the usual seasonal decline, the production being 19.6 pounds per cow each day. The state’s hen population is on the increase, with an average of 129.3 hens per farm, compared with 126.5 last , year. Fourth K. Os C. Degree Conferred On Local Man ■ August Heiman has returned from Indianapolis where he took the Fourth ' degree of the Knights of Columbus ' last Sunday. More than 100 Knights of Columbus from Indiana took the degree work at Indianapolis. The Fourth 1 degree is a patriotic degree. Several ’ members of the Fort Wayne council ’ were members of the class. Mr. Heir man was the only Decatur man to take r the degree. f o 4 ’ Appeal For More** i Money Is Rejected t Washington, Oct. 17—(UP)—President Hoover s desire to keep govern J ment appropriations tor the coming 1 fiscal year within the amount now bet ing spent has caused the budget burr eau to veto a requested increase in prohibition enforcement funds, it was learned today. - instead of an estimated $50,000,000 i which the governmental agencies concerned in prohibition enforcement i planned to obtain for next year, The ) budget bureau has pruned the appropriations to about $40,500,000. This is i virtually the amount appropriated for this fiscal year.

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Ishhel Turns Engineer Enroute h Hi I I Ishbel MacDonald, daughter of England’s Premier, rode in the cab of the engine of the Empire State Express as the train rushed across ork state on its way to Canada. Miss MacDonald took the throttle for a time and vigorously rang the bell. The photograph was taken at Syracuse, N. Y., as the train paused at the station. Internatienal Newsreel 1

♦. . * I II Local Red Men Join In Sandwich “Scalp” I ♦ ♦ Clayence “Beef Weber, well-known j local man was host last night to the ' Decatur Red Men's lodge at Red Men's hall following, an interesting meeting. Several of the local lodge's members attending the affair evidently framed on Mr. Weber and it is reported that, several had refused to eat tor a week in anticipation of last night’s “sandwich scalp.’’ The entire party was given by Mr. Weber, who has been a member of the local lodge for several years. There were about 35 members present and more than 75 sandwiches ■were consumed to say nothing of the gallons of coffee. The banquet followed an interesting session of the lodge at which time it" was decided to postpone the regular meeting next week in order (CONTINUED ON PAGE THREE) MANY ATTEND TEACHERS MEET More Than 2,500 Register On Opening Day At Fort Wayne Fort Wayne, Oct. 17—(Special)—■ The two day convention of the North 1 Eastern Indiana Teachers Association opened here- today with about 2,500 teachers present. About 1,000 more are expected today. M. F. Worthman of Decatur, secre-tary-treasurer of the organization took a part this morning at the Shrine Temple in the opening of the convention. ,J. B. Wiles, manager of the Fort Wayne Chamber of Commerce gave the welcoming address to the visiting delegates. The response to the address was made by H. M. Dixon of Kendallville. The chief address at the opening was made by Dr. John Murray, Principal of the University College. Exeter, England, in his address Dr. Murray stressed the importance of education in paving peace throughout the world. He stressed the fact that education has taken the leading part in building up International peace during the past 3 or 4 years. o Defense Makes Effort To Prove Frame-Up Los Angeles, Oct. 17—(U.R>— Defense attorneys made a strong effort today to prove that an association existed between Euncie Pringle, 17-year-old dancer, and others, to compromise Alexander Pantages, multi-millionaire theater owner, charged with assaulting her. The showman's lawyers declared they planned to reveal that Nick Dunaev, diminutive Russian author of “The Prince of Hollywood,” was more intimate with Miss Pringle than the proeecution disclosed during earlier sessions of Pantages’ trial

Decatur, Indiana, Thursday, October 17, 1929.

JOHN PETERSON IN AUTO MISHAP Decatur Man Painfully Injured When Car Hits Rear Os Truck John S. Peterson, well-known local insurance man. was painfully injured last evening about seven o'clock when his Studabaker car in which he was driving to South Bend on a business errand, collided with the trailer of a truck loaded with lumber and which carried no tail light. Mr. Peterson was taken to the Methodist hospital at Fort Wayne where he is reported to be recovering. The accident occurred on the Lincoln highway about three miles northwest of Fort Wayne. The radiator and front of the car was smashed in and one side badly damaged. Mr. Peterson was jambed by the wheel, receiving several broken ribs. He was rendered unconscious but manI aged to tell a passing motorist his name and asked to be taken to the hospital. His suit case containing clothing and valuable papers was taken from his car and police are making an effort to recover it and to ascertain who the driver of the truck and trailer was, no report having been turned in. At noon today Mr. Peterson was resting easy and the attending phys- ' icians expressed the opinion that the injuries would not prove serious unless complications should follow. There were five fractures of three ribs on his right side. Mishap Near Here A. Smith and Cornelius Shirack driving in a Ford sedan and a construction company ’ ink collided at (CONTINUED ON PAGE TWO) —O KELLER STORE IS COMPLETED Formal Jewelry Store Opening Will Be Held Next Saturday, Oct. 19 The Keller Jewelry store was moved today from the Morris building to the Keller’s new store on the east side of North second street. Raymond Keller, owner of the store announced today that the formal opening of his new and modern store will be held Saturday, October 19th. The store room has been remodeled with a new Kawneer type front and is one of the most attractive buildings in the city. Thd interior of the room also has been remodeled, one of the attrattions being the new cork floor, the only one of its kind in the city. The whole building is as fine as a store room can be made and Mr. Keller invites the public to visit his place of business on the opening day. Flowers will be given away as favors.

DECATUR MAN HEADS COUNTY C. E. SOCIETY Lewis Armstrong, Elected President At Meeting Held Last Night MASS MEETINGS BEING PLANNED Lewis Armstrong, of the Peoples Loan and Trust Co., of this city was unanimously elected president of the Adams County Christian Endeavor society at the first meeting of the organization held at the Mennonite church in Berne Wednesday night. Homer Augsbuiger was chosen as vice-president. Miss Martha Depp of Berne was elected secretary of the new organization and Laurence Moser of Geneva was chos»n treasurer. The organization includes members of all Young Peoples' societies of all Protestant churches in Adams county. Mr. Aimslrong stated today that plans would be announced soon for an active winter program, incin ling several county-wide meetings, at which time speakers of national note would be brought to the various churches of Adams county. The organization was the outgrowth of a desire of several county leaders to bring al] Christian Endeavor %nd other Young Peoples’ societies of the county together under one organization in order that a closer friendship might be formed and greater cbjecI tives carried out. The new officers of the organization will be called together soon. President Armstrong stated and complete plans for the year will be outlined at that time. It is the desire of the organization to hold several joint meetings during the winter months and also to have meetings in all parts of the county. All the officers have been active in the respective churches for several years. The new organization is said io have the support of all Ministerial associations of tire county. Hoover To Deliver Armistice Day Speech Washington, Oct. 17 —(UP) —President Hoover will make an Armistice Day speech here November 11, under the auspices of the American Legion, it was announced today at the White House. 0 AGENTS SMASH ; BIG RUM EMPIRE Millions Os Dollars W orth Os Liquor Reported Conficated In Raid New York. Oct. 17—(UP)—A mighty rum empire which suread along the Atlantic coast from the French possessions off ths eastern shores of Canada to the Bermudas has been smashed by a single, well-directed blow. Throughout the domain of this lawless but powerful organization, which supplied most of the imported liquor to the Eastern bootleg market, ware spread, for operative purposes, a large number of Citadels protected by machine gun nests and heavily armed men. r On a hilltop five miles ’bat k of highlands, N. J., an outlaw radio station kept in constant communication with a fleet of six ocean going liquor carrying vessels as well as a number of speed boats. It was literally the nerve center of the organization. At 4:30 P. M., yesterday the rum empire collapsed precipitately. At that hour 130 treasury agents, deputy United States Marshals and State police, converged simultaneously on 35 branches of the ring, stationed along ths coast from Sac Harbor, 1. I. to . Atlantic City. N. J., seized perhaps , millions of dollars of liquor and made , more than 30 arrests. A group of armed agents forced the radio operator from his set. Federal . man took his place at the key and started a string of code messages to a rum-laden syndicate boat, leading it ! into unsuspected lendevous with a , coast guard destroyer off Montauk , Point, I. I. , Not far from the radio station, another group of agents cautiously made . their way up a hillside and captured “The mansion,” a veritable fortress L which had a machine gun nest in the . tower, telescopes mounted on an obC servatory tower and spacious under- . ground storage rooms. It was the prin(CONTINUED ON PAGE THREE)

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Two More Bombs Are Thrown In Chicago Chicago, Oct. 17 - (UP) -Two bombs the 108 rd and 104 h in Conk county this year, were exploded last night, one in a Chicago Chinese caie and the other in an Oak Park garage. Diners were terror-stricken when tile blast shook the Golden Lily case. The bomb, thrown from the alley, tore away a back stairway and a door. Police blamed substitution of a negro for a white orchestra. The Oak Park bombing was the third within a radius of four blocks in recent months. No motive was determined SENATOR PROBED BY COMMITTEE Hiram Bingham Subjected To Severe Questioning By Quiz Members By Paul R. Mellon (United Press Staff Correspondent) Washington. Oct 17—(UP)—Senator Hiram Binkham. Repn., Conn , was subjected to severe questioning for more than two hours today by the Senate Lobby investigating committee concerning his employment of Charles L. Eyanson of the Connecticut mantifactuters' association as his tariff advisor. Industrial tariff increases granted Connecticut manufacturers embribing the whole stiucture of the pending tariff bill were brought into question by Democratic and independent Republican membeis of the investigating committee. Many of the questions were directed to the point whether Eyanson might be prosecuted for receiving Money from the government and private interests <t the same time. Senator Walsh, Dem.. Mont., continued Eyanson’s woik on the tariff bill was "effective” because anj ng >52 Connecticut industries, 44 received tariff increases, which Walsh said would cost $622,000,000 in all, or $76,000,000 nioie than the present law costs in tariff revenue. Bißnghim and Eyanson who follow'd him on the stand maintained no prosecutions could lie considered because Eyanson tinned over his government salary to Bingham. This practice was resorted to, they said, in order that Eyanson could sit in the executive sessions of the Senate finance committee writing the tariff bill, as Senate employee and yet not actually get any money from the government. The merciless examination of Walsh, chaii man Caraway and Senator Blaine. Bingham to accuse the committee of third degree methods which the com inittee answered by accusing Bingham of seeking to evade the questions of the committee. Bingham admitted he had not told previously that he knew Eyanson was a SIO,OOO a year employee of the Connecticut manufacturers association or that Eyanson did not keep his governmental salary. Eyanson claimed to have had no understanding witli Bingham about receiving money and they both claimed he had done no lobbying. About September 1. Bingham sent him a personal check for SI,OOO which Eyanson said he intends to return to Bingham. Caraway said after the committee adjourned he never had any intention of referring either Bingham s or Eyanson’s testimony to the justice department or to the local district attorney for prosecution. | — Dirigible Is Wrecked Pittsburgh, Pa., Oct. 17 —(UP) —The Goodyear dirigible Vigilant crashed and was wrecked at the PittsburghButler airport today after it bad lost its way last night en route from New York to its base at Akron. Ohio. None was injured. The blim was about to take off from the flying field to complete its trip to Akron when it was caught by a gust of wind and crashed against*a small aiiport building which was demolished by the impact. -—• League Fiscal Body Is In Session Today By Henry Wood (United Press Staff Correspondent) Geneva, Oct. 17—(UP) The League of Nations fiscal committee convened here today with one of its chief problems the providing of cheaper American automobiles for Europe The opening of the committee’s sesj sicns coincided with the opening of 1 the English Ynotor show in London, ' where new models will be on display for the next ten days. The principal duty of the League fiscal committee is t.i prevent double tax ation. It is ojie of the. newest of League creations.

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15 TRAPPED AT ONLY EXIT OF OLD BUILDING Believe Some Os Injured Will Die; Was Occupied Mostly By Laborers DEAD ARE NOT IDENTIFIED YET Seattle, Wash., Oct. 17. (UP) —Fire, breaking out in an old hotel in Ihe “skid roads" district of Seattle earlv iodax tra, , <1 a number of guests at the head of the stairway the only exil and before firemen could battle their wav through the flames s»‘ven nersons were killed and 15 iniured. Hospital attendants said some of the injured probably would die. The hotel, The Portland, was an old. three-story brick structure, conducted by a Japanese, and tenanted by lodgers and laborers. The fire, believed to have been incendiary, broke out on the second Poor. Guests on that floor and the third were unable to reach the stairway in which flames were roaring. They piled up on the stairway screaming, and fighting to get free. There, in a heap, some dead, some dying, the firemen found the victims. A number of persons leaped from the building, several being killed. Tlie Japanese wife of the proprietor leaped from the third floor ami was seriously injured. Tlie entire downtown and waterfront forces of the fire department were thrown into action within a few minutes of the alarm. The fire ww under control in a short time, but not soon enough to prevent the deaths. Among the injured was Fireman J. I S. McNamee, who suffered a broken shoulder when he fell through a skylight. He was attempting to rescue lodgers from the roof. The incendiary theory was advanced when firemen found a broken bottle, smelling strongly of kerosene, near the origin of the blaze. The coroner was not immediately able to identify any of the dead, nearly all of whom had died in their night clothing, away from their rooms. Among the identified injured were: C. A. Moore. 22. Pensacola, Fla. Carl Zimmerman, 69. Portland, Ore. William Norris, 55, Seattle Davis Richel, 39, Seattle William Longstaff, 55. Seattle K. Mayeda and wife, proprietors John Miller. 5g Jack Hart, 55 Frederick Lutz Robert Elms, 19. High School Journalists Attend State Convention Franklin. Ind., Oct. 17 —(UP) —The associate editor -cf Collier's Weekly. John B. Kennedy, was speaker at the , opening session here today of the convention of Indiana high school instructors and students in journalism. Franklin college is host to the meeting. Sessions are scheduled t last tlie remainder of the week. SUGAR MILL TO START MONDAY State’s Only Beet-Sugar Mill Will Begin Operation Monday Morning i Announcement was made today that > the Holland-St. Lotti Sugar factory t will begin next Monday I morning. October 21. The mill starts . operating at 6 o'clock and those who have been notified to report for work are asked to be at-the mill at that time. Tills will be the eighteenth annual r campaign of the Holland-St. Ixiuis Sugar company. The run is expected to be a normal one and probably less than a year ago, due to the small acreage of e beets this year. i The beets are arriving daily and sev- )- eral thousand tons are now stored on i- the yards in tile north part of the city. The beets are in good condition and s- in view of the fine weather the last 'f week tlie work of lifting and shipping i. is well under way. y Several hundred men will lie employed by the sugar company during the s- campaign. The mill operates 24 hours c- a day and also on Sunday. The local if plant is the only beet sugac plant in Indiana.

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