Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 27, Number 260, Decatur, Adams County, 1 November 1929 — Page 1

WEATHER Cloudy and cooler tonight. Saturday fair.

FALL SENTENCED TO YEAR IN PRISON

BO DONALD IN ENGLAND AFTER AMERICAN TRIP —A—— pi niier Warmly Greeted at Liverpool After His Naval Parley Visit BUSY PROGRAM IN PARLIAMENT lie: pool. England, Nov. I.—(U.R)— Pu n: er J. Ramsay MacDonald return. d today from his historic visit to the United States and Canada, prepared to convince h:s countrymen that his journey to America had done much to advance the cause of international peace. TP ■ S. S. Duchess of York, on which V" "Donald. his daughter Ishbel and other members of his party sailed from Quebec on Oct. 25, arrived at Liverpool at 7:15 a. m. Miss Ishbel also seemed in excellent sp'rits. Her face untouched by rorge or powder wore the bright eager expression of a schoolgirl returning from a holiday. Both she and her father were obviously happy to get home. Before boarding the train for London, MacDonald issued the following statement. "I sincerely believe my meeting villi President Hoover and other statesmen of the United States has h’e-iq.ht. our two peoples closer together and has improved mutual understanding. "It has also paved the way for more effectual cooperation of other powers and the maintenance of world peace. lam strong in this convicition. 1 feel thus far the purpose of my njiss'on has been fulfilled and that the way is now clear for further steps. "Throughout my visit, I endeavored to voice what I believed to be the peaceful aspirations of the British people in all parts of the empire. To that I've met nothing but a welcome success. "The visit to the United States and Canada has therefore given me great satisfaction. I am quite convinced it has paved the way for a more effec(CONTINUED ON PAGE EIGHT) o Reformed Consistorial Group To Meet Here On Monday night, Nov. 4, a Group Consis orial Conference of the Reformed church congregations in this dis tr 11 will be held at the local Reformed church at 7:30 o'clock. In this conference are included the Consistories of the Reformed churches of Bluffton, Berne, Vei'a Cruz, St. Luke's Magley and Decatur. At this meeting plans will be made for the proper observance of the 1900th Anniversary of the earthly ministry of Christ and the outpouring of the Holy Spirit. The conference i s not only limited to the deacons and elders of these churches but all of the men of these various congregations are invited and urged to attend. Because of this special meeting the Official Board of the local Reformed church will meet for their regular monthly session at 6:30 o’clock Monday night. 0 DEMOCRATIC WOMEN TO MEET Local Speakers Will Present Issues To Women At 8 O’clock Tonight Plans have been completed for a geenral meeting of women voters of Decatur at Democratic headquarters at 8 o’clock tonight. C. J. Lutz, will be the chief speaker at the meeting and several others including Dr. Burt ManBold. city Democratic chairman and Dick Heller, Adams county Democratic chairman, will give short talks. Pollowing the talks, refreshments will be served and a social hour will be enjoyed. All women voters of the city are invited to attend the meeting, which will be the last women’s meeting of the present campaign. The women also are invited to attend the Monday night meeting at Democratic headquarters at which 'inie all voters, both men and women, will hold a joint meeting. Considerable interest has been created among the women voters this Tear and at all recent meetings good attendance, have bee'ji recorded. A large crowd is expected tonight at Democratic headquarters.

DECATUR I) .ALLY DEMOCRAT ONLY DAILY NEWSPAPER IN ADAMS COUNTY

Vol. XXVII. No. 260.

Seeks Divorce y?. * Il * J., Jw Mrs. Edna King Groh, daughter of a Wyoming cattle king who has filed suit for divorce against her husband, Philip. Mr. and Mrs. Groh were mar- ■ r ed after they eloped from a tall at 1 Fort D. A. Russell, Cheyenne, Wyo,, 1 October 12. 1918. They have lived in Chicago for several years and the • divorce suit was filed in that city. MAKES PLEA FOR CITY AIRPORT James Patchell Addresses Local Rotary Club At Thursday Meeting In an address before the Decatur Rotary club last evening. James Patchell. Union City, Indiana, Postmaster , and vice-president of the National Post master’s association, stated that "a city without an airport in the next 10 years will be in the same eondition ; as a hamlet without a railroad”. Mr. Patchell’s subject was the “Air ■ Mail" and he showed by figures the great progress this branch of the government's mail service had made in the last 10 years. Mr. Patchell also urged every com- ! inunity to establish an airport and stated that small _cities, the size of > Decatur and Union City, need not go • to great expense in establishing a landing field and in marking the towns I for the air service. The first air mail ■ route was established in 1918. when f congress appropriated SIOO,OOO. In • 1920 a day and night schedule was es- ’ tablishad between Washington and 1 New Yotk City and since that time > great strides have been made. In 1928 the air mail service carried • more than 27.000,000 letters and travel- ’ ed nearly 3,000,000 air miles. The govI ernment does not opeiate the air lines 5 but award contracts to bidders for the ? carrying and delivering of mail by airplane. ’ Mr. Patchell paid tribute to the es--1 forts of Harry S. New, former Postr master-general, who developed the air • mail service and became one of the '.leaders in th country in the furthering of the air service. Postmaster L. A. Graham was a guest of the club last evening. C. O. Porter, president presided. Warren Wilkinson Gets Parole From State Prison State Prison, Michigan City, Ind., . Nov j —(UP)—Warren Wilkinsciu, o£ Decatur today was one of 46 prisoners of the Indiana State Prison to receive a parole from the state pardon board in quarterly session here today. I Wilkinson w\is sentenced several f years ago from Adams county on a B charge of forgery. His sentence was e from two to 14 years, and he already II has served more than the minimum '■ time. Wilkinson will be paroled as soon as the necessary papers are arranged, c — , Chicago Politician Is i Killed By Falling Stone e :. Chicago. Nov. I—Henryl—Henry A. Bet ger, t- member of the sanitaiy board of trustees and active in Illinois politics, was :- killed today whan two tons of brick t and stone fell from the 34th floor of h the one North Lasalle Street build i, ing and crushed him. Berger was buried under the mass u of building material which broke loose s from a derrick as he walked to his ofd fice in South Lasalle street. \ I Berger was state’s attorney for one t term and active in Republican circles in tlie state.

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YOUNGQUIST IS SUCCESSOR TO WILLEBRANDT Minnesota Attorney-General Gets Dry Enforcement Job; Accepts Post WILL ASSUME DUTIES AT ONCE Washington, Nov. I.—(U.R) —C. Aaron Youngquist, attorney-general of Minnesota, today was appointed and accepted the post vacated by Mrs. Mabel Walker Willehrandt, that of assistant attorney general in charge of prohibition. The selection of Youngquist disposed of one of the most vexatious problems that has confronted President Hoover since he entered the White House. The important prohibition prosecutor's berth has been vacant for more than five months. Youngquist is 44 years old, and a close personal friend of Attorney General Mitchell. He was born in Sweden. An official report submitted to the White House by the justice department described Youngquist at “dry politically and personally.” Youngquist came to the United States with his parents in 1887 when he was two years old. After a brief residence in Illinois, the family moved to St. Paul, Minn., in 1889. Youngquist was educated in the public schools of St. Paul, worked on a farm for several years and then entered business college. Qualified as a stenographer he worked his way through St. Paul law school where he graduated with in 1909. His first public office was that of county attorney for Polk county, Minn., in 1914 to 1918. He later was appointed to the state board of law examiners and also served as a member of the board of governors of the Minnesota State Bar Association. He served as a captain in the air corps during the World War. In 1921 he was appointed assistant attorney general of Minnesota. In February, 1928, Youngquist was appointed attorney general of Minnesota to fill a vacancy and was elected in his own right to that office in November, 1928. He is vice president of the associations of attorney general. He has specialized in his law practice in tax litigation, representing Minnesota before the supreme court of the United States in the important ore tax cases decided several years ago. His branch of the justice department has a general supervision over prohibition and taxation. The new assistant attorney general is amemher of the Unitarian church and of the Masonic fraternity. RAIN HINDERS WORK ON FARM Beet Raisers Concerned Over Continued Rains In Northern Indiana Continued rains in Adams county and northern Indiana this week have caused anxiety among beet farmers of the community, according to several prominent beet raisers. It was estimated today that more than a ■ third of the beet crop is still in fields and with the continual rain it will be almost a physical impossibility to truck the beets from the fields, at present. If fair weather comes soon, it was 1 pointer! out today, farmers still will have ample time to lift the beet crops 1 and bring them to the local beet-sugar 1 mill. The local mill is still running full force and if all beets can be lifted, there is a sufficient supply for a several weeks run of the factory. , Beet crops were good in all parts of the county this year, and farmers are well satisfied with the acreage yield. The rains of the last two weeks, however, have caused considerable worry and farmers are hoping ■ that the inclement weather will soon be over. Rains also have forced all farm i work to a standstill, and farmers i have little inside work this time of . year which they can do. Weather forecasters are prone to advance any . favorable predictions, and rainy ; weather is predicted at least fcr another day.

Deactur, Indiana, Friday, November 1, 1929,

Rev. Henry C. Rogers To Speak Here Sunday! A special sei vice will be held in the First Presbyterian Church of this city on Sunday evening at 7 o'clock. This w 11 l»e a service which will interest everybody as the speaker has a mes age with power -specially at this time of the year. Rev. Henry (’. Rollers, of Allardt, Fentress County, Tenn., has done his ten years work as a preacher and lead er in the same coun.y that sent Alvin York to the World War and came out as tilt heio of the war. Mr. Rogers knows the mountains and tells a thrilling story of life and service of those mountain people. Everybody is invited to be present at this service. PANTAGES GETS SENTENCE TODAY Under California Attack Law He Must Serve Not More Than 50 Years Bulletin Los Angeles, Nov. I—(UP) —Sen, fencing of Alexander Pantages, multimillionaire showman, convicted of attacking 17-year-old Eunice Pringle, which was scheduled for today, was postponed until Nov. 9, pending disposal of motion of a new trial. Los Angeles, Nov. 1. —(U.R) —Alexander Pantages, wnose millions did not save him from conviction of attacking a 17-year-old dancer, was echedtiled to be sentenced today to not more than 50 years in San Quentin penitentiary. Because his wealth failed to overawe a jury. Pantages was expected to call it into play to gain his liberty pending hearing on a new trial or an appeal to a higher court. Fears that the theater man plans to flee the country by airplane if he gets outside the county jail, expressed by the district attorney’s office, were expected to result in determined opposition to his move for freedom. A report that Pantages planned to fly to Mexico from San Diego was given by District Attorney Buron Fitts as the reason he was kept in custody of deputjf sheriffs while a jury was deliberating after his trial on a charge of attacking Eunice Pringle. Joe Ford, one of defense counsel, said that Fitts was “up in the air.” It was predicted sentencing would be delayed pending hearing on the motion for a new trial. Pantages’ wealth has been a handicap since his conviction because Fitts has been outspoken in his belief that the showman would utilize it in an attempt to escape. 0 Tardieu Attempts To Form French Cabinet Paris. Nov. I—(UP)—ln a determined effort to bling the political crisis to an end, Andre Tardieu undertook to organize a cabinet today by offering the Radicals and Radical Socialists six portfolios, and announcing that his cabinet would be based on the principle of solidarity and action. 0 BINGHAM ACTION IS CONDEMNED ’ Resolution Introduced In • Senate Today; Action Is i Temporarily Delayed > t Washington, Nov. I.—(U.R>—A resolution proposing to condemn the ac- ’ tions of Senator Hiram Bingham. 1 Repn., Conn., as “contrary to good > morals and senatorial ethics and tending to bring the senate into dishonor I and disrepute" was introduced in the • senate today by Chairman George W. i Norris of the senate judiciary committee. A After Bingham had declined prl- • vately to make an apology on the floor ? of tl)e senate for his employment of > Charles L. Eyanson of the Connecti- - cut Manufacturers' Association or for 5 his charge that the senate lobby ina vestigating committee was packed politically against him. Norris took 1 the course he had been threatening a for several days. f Upon objection of Senator Simeon r D. Fess, Repn., Ohio, consideration of f the resolution was prevented immedir ately. It will be brought up again - tomorrow under the rules of the senate.

TEN KNOWN DEAD IN MILWAUKEE SHIP DISASTER Third La k c Disaster In Week Takes Toll of 10 Thursday Afternoon CAPTAIN GOES DOWN WITH SHIP Milwaukee, Wis„ Nov. 1. —(U.R) — Tight-lipped sailors put out grimly today over the fog-shrouded waves of take Michigan because they sailed tn the wake of disaster for the third time in little more than a week. Death struck out of the dismal gray fog 20 miles off Port Washington yesterday, driving the prow of the oreladen freighter Marquette into the ‘fide of the S. S. Senator and sending her to the bottom with approximately 10 of her crew. Eighteen others struggled in the icy water until they were picked up by the Marquette or other craft. Farther down the Wisconsin coast, off Kenosha, lies the stormy lake’s “graveyard” where the car ferry Milwaukee went down with some 50 men in a tempest 10 days ago, and where last Tuesday morning the liner Wisconsin foundered, carrying 13 cr more to death. Shouting orders from the bridge until a lunge of the sinking S.S. Senator threw him overboard, Capt. Geo. H. Kinch followed the gallant precedent of the captains of the Milwaukee and the Wisconsin and “stayed with the ship.” He was listed as missing today and presumably was drowned. The unprecedented fury of the lake whipped by successive gales and treacherous under blinding fogs, has brought grief to tire firesides of more than 100 homes in the last 60 days. Funerals of those who perished have followed in close succession in cities and towns along the shores as one by one the bodies have been recovered. Dawn today found anxious wives and mothers besieging shin offices and coast guard stations for names (CONTINUED ON PAGE EIGHT) A—o Berlin Nationalists Win For Referendum Berlin. Nov. I—(UP)—The Nationalist party champaign for a referendum on the Owen D. Young reparations plan apparently has succeed' d, according to late unofficial returns today. Tabulations accounting for 92 per cent of the electrora’e showed 10.3 per cent of the registered voters in favor of the petition for a referendum. Only 10 per cent of the total, or 4.100.000 signatures, were needed on the petition. o DEATH SOMMONS JOHN M. GIBSON Root Township Farmer Is Victim Os Fatal Heart Attack Thursday John M. Gibson. 73. retired farmer died suddenly at his home in Root . township last night at 41 o'clock. Death was due to a heart attack. Mr. Gibson had been in ill health for the last three years. Last night the fatal attack came just after he [ had gone to bed. John Murry Gibson was born Dec. 11, 1855, in Madison township, Allen county, near Monroeville, the son of Samuel and Sarah Steele Gibson. ■ Surviving are the widow, Mrs. Sarah ' Gibson, and seven children, Mrs. Dora • V. Akey of this city, Mrs. John Bark--1 ley of Monroeville, Harvey Gibson, of ■ Monroeville, Mrs. William Anderson >' of Monroevile, Roy C. Gibson of near ’ Monroe, Mrs. Vernon Bohnke of this • city, and Raymond W. Gibson of Fort • Wayne. Two children preceded the father in death. Nineteen grandchil- ■ dren and one great grandchild also r survive. There are no surviving f brothers or sisters. Mr. Gibson lias been a member of. r the Evangelical church for several • years. He has resided on a farm in I Root township for the past eighteen t years. : Funeral services will be held Sunday afternoon at 1 o'clock at the home 1 in Root township and at 2 o'clock at f the East Liberty church. Rev. C, T. • Betts of Ohio will officiate and will i be assisted by Rev. O. E. Miller of - tliis city. Burial will be made in the I. O. O. F. cemetery at Monroeville.

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On Vacation SF "Wjk . Sr—' >) ♦ / Senator James E. Watson of Indiana, Republican leader of the Senate, who has left for Florida for a fortnight's vacation under his physician's orders. KELLY PRAISES CITY OFFICIALS Large Crowd Applauds As Speaker Tells Os Many Local Improvements Praising the city administration and urging voters to continue in office the present economic, piogresslve administration, John T. Kelly, former county dark and prosecuting attorney and prominent Adams county Democrat, gave an interesting address at tlie public meeting held at Democratic headquarters last night. A large crowd listened to Mr. Kelly and applauded frequently when he told of reducing light and power rates and insurance rates in Decatur under the pi esent regime. The speaker challenged anyone to find any fault with the present government of the city. Burt Mangold, city chairman presided at th ■ meeting and following Mr. Kelly’s talk, several of the candidates were called on to say a few words. Following the meeting a smoker was held. It was decided to have a general meeting of both men and women voters next Monday night at 8 o’clock at Democratic headquarters. Refreshments and cigars will be served following the meeting. Preparations are being made for an attendance of sev eral hundred. o Delegates Return From M.E. Missionary Convention Mts. M. E. Hower, Mrs. Leigh Bowen and Mrs. Delton Passwater have returned from Columbus, Ohio, where they attended th? National Convention of the Womens Foreign Missionary Society of tlie Methodist church which was held in commemoration of the Sixtieth anniversary of the founding of the society. The meeting was held in Memorial Hall with an overflow meeting held at the Central Ave nue M. E. Church. Five Thousand persons weie crowded into M -mortal Hall, while 2,000 were present at the overflow meeting in tlie Central Avenue ■ M. E. Church. Among tlie noted speakers were Bishop W. T. Oldham. Bishop . F. W. Warne, Bishop Nicholson, i Bishop McDonald. F. I). Garner and R. ’ N. Walker. Homer Rod ‘heaver led the . singing, and among the noted singers i present were Senor Mario Captelli, l Italian singer. The ladies from Decatur, were f guests of Dr. ami Mrs. W. C. Roller , former residents of Willshire, Ohio, at . dinner Wednesday, while in Columbus. , Ohio. Mandate Compels Names To Appear On Ballots > : Michigan City, Ind., Nov. 1. —(U.R)— A mandate compelling the city elecf- tion board to place the names of re--1 publican nominees on the ballot for i the Nov. 5 election was granted here 1 late yesterday by Judge Harry L. Crumpacker. Attorneys for Mayor Fred C. Miller ‘ and his forces, and tlie election board, t immediately filed a motion for a new . trial, which was overruled. They then 1 filed notice of an appeal to the state f supreme court. 3 A ruling was expected to be made by the high court before the election.

On Vacation

Price Two Cents

FINED SIOO,OOO BY JUSTICE IN FEDERAL COURT Hitz Refuses Suspension of Sentence; Defense Attorneys To Appeal FALL RECEIVES SENTENCE CALMLY Wash'ngton. Nov. 1. —(U.R)—Former secretary of interior Albert B. Fall, was sentenced to serve one year and fined SIOO,OOO by Justice William Hitz today following his conviction on a charge of having accepted a bribe from E. L. Doheny, multi-mil-lionaire California oil man. in connect'on with the Elks Hills naval oil reserve leases. Fall, who has heen 111, with lung trouble and whose condition threatened to cause a mistrial, was not granted suspension of the sentence. it was the first time in American history that a former cabinet officer has been sentenced to jail for a felony committed while in office. Sentence was imposed after Justice H tz had overruled motions for a new trial and for arrest of the judgment against Fall. Disqualification of Fall from holding public office although not mentioned by the judge in sentencing follows automatically under the law. There was no demonstration in the courtroom when sentence was passed. Mrs. Fall, sitting close to her husband. patted him on the l ’ck and whispered a few words to him. Fall's two daughters, Mrs. C. C. Chase and Mr«. Janett Elliott, bowed their heads as if shocked by the sentence. Fall sat without visible emotion in his chair as tlie judge pronounced sentence. Mrs. Fall, just behind him in the prisoners dock, wept silently. The SIOO,OOO fine was exactly the amount which Fall received in a little satchel from Doheny eight years ago this month which was held by the jury last week to have been a bribe. Doheny, against whom a bribery indictment growing out of the same transaction is pending, sat beside Fall throughout the trial but left for California immediately after the verdict. His trial js expected to he held in January. Fall, much refreshed from the week of rest since the verdict was rendered walked into the court room on the arm of his physician, having discarded the wheel chair which he came to court in during the trial. After the sentence was imposed, however, aw heel chair was used to take him to an automobile awaiting at the court house door a few feet away. Fall's bond of $5,000 on which he has been free since his indictment in June, 1924. was renewed by Justice Ritz pending disposition of the appeal. ;Two members of the jury which convicted the aged former secretary a week ago sat in tlf rear of tlie court room when the sentence was Iniposd. They were foreman Thomas (CONTINUED ON PAGE TWO) LIQUOR FAVORED BY NOVA SCOTIA Province V otes For Government Control Os All Alcoholic Drinks Halifax, N. S., Nov. I.—(U.R)—After nearly 10 years of prohibition, Nova Scotia has' voted decisively for sale ' of liquor under government control. Prince Edward Island remains the only province of the nine in the dom- ■ Inion of Canada under prohibition. With returns from nearly all precincts in. a majority of 36,000 was shown today in favor of a system of i government control of liquor. The voters were asked two questions: “I.—Are you in favor of the reten- • tion' of tlie Nova Scotia temperance • act?’’ r "2.— Are you in favor of the sale : of liquor under government control?” it appeared that thousands of electors answered only one of the two t questions, voting “yes” on one with- . out voting “no” fie other. The ’ result was that both questions were i answered in the affirmative, the first s by a majority of 0<»0 md th econd by a majority ot 36,000, so that the s balance was preponderantly in favor -of government control.

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