Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 27, Number 282, Decatur, Adams County, 27 November 1929 — Page 1

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CECATUR HIGH SCHOOL HONOR PUPILS NAMED THrty-Five Included On List Released Today; Sophomores Lead AVERAGE for SCHOOL HIGHER Two sophomores and two freshmen; tj C (] for first place on the honor roll of Decatur h'gli school, which was I computed for publication today. The soph nnore class leads other classes In having 11 representatives on the honor roll, the seniors and freshmen each having 9 and the juniors 6. Tli > honor roll includes six more pupils th : s time than before, and] Principal Walter J. Krick stated that; the genral average is higher than before, although there are a few more failures. Following is the honor roll for the second six weeks period: Mary Madeline Coverdale 4A plus 1A Olive Teeter 4A " 1A Eileen Burk 4A ” 1A Kathryn Hower ,'4A ” 1A Ival Newhard 4A ” Ina Anderson 3A ’’ LA; Minnie Moyer 34 ” 1A Margaret Blakey 3A ” 1A 'nnn Winnes 3A ’■ 1A Doris Nelson 2A ” 2A Lydia Lehrman 1A ” 4A Martha Moser 1A " 4A James Burk ... 1A ’’ 4A (tO'-rtWRi) ox- PAGIS FIVE) ■ ■ ■ —■ o — Prisoners Will Have Turkey Dinner Thursday Michigan City, Ind., Nov. 27.—(U.R) — A corps of chefs it the statle prison here today were preparing 4.mh) pounds of turkey for the prisoners' Thanksgiving dinner. The menu includes the following: turkey, sweet potatoes, apple dressing. hrown gravy, lettuce salad, pumpkin pie, coffee. After dinner tomorrow, the prisoners will be shown a motion picture in the prison auditorium. o Pardon Board Plans Special Meet Friday Michigan City, Ind., Nov. 27—(U.R) —Whether .lames C. Pattie, 68, school teacher and lawyer of Rockport, deserves clemency from a life sentence on a murder conviction will be dis cussed by the board of pardons and paroles of the state prison at a special meeting Friday. Other petitions to be considered are those of Nathan Christner. Lagrange county, and James Hoskins. The board also will hear requests for paroles at a meeting Friday night. o— -t—— General Electric Band To Play At Net Game The Decatur General Electric band will present a concert at the Decatur high school gymnasium Thursday night, before and during the intermissions of the G. E. Club-Hoosiers basketball game. New music has been secured for the occasion and the public is assured a great entertainment. The entire band w I be present and several numbers wb be played during the evening's entertainment. o NEW GROCERY TO BE OPENED Ed J. Miller To Conduct Grocery In North Part Os Decatur Edward J. Miller has leased the Samuel Acker building, located in the north end of the city, and will open a grocery and meat market with a full line of notions and confectionfry in connection, it was announced today. The Acker building is now undergoing a complete remodelling and will be in a first class condition by the first of the yera. Mr. Miller wishes to thank the public for the past patronage and when occupying the new location, will carry on the business in the same courteous manner as before. Mr. Miller also stated that he will use the free city delivery and will deliver to all parts of the city.

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Vol. XXVII. No. 282.

Kidiuipprd lor Ransom; Finds SaL ly in His Mother’s Arms • J IfflW \ - I »«-■«■— / ■ Jackie Thompson, five years old, and his mother, Mrs. Henry S. Thompson, on the witness stand when Jackie was questioned during the trial in Detroit of James Fernando, who Is accused of kidnapping for ransom. His mother at on the stand with him during the trial in which Jackie failed to identify Fernando as one of the kidnappers.

DEATH CLAIMS DECATUR LADY Mrs. Jane Frisinger Dies At 11:30 o’clock This Morning At Her Home Mrs' Mary Jane Frisinger, 66, life! long resident of this city and widow i .of th.e Jate John Frisinger died at 11:26 o’clock this morning at her home on West Jackson street. Death was due to complications. Mrs. Frisinger has spent her entire life in Adams County and was one of the best known women in this community. She has been in failing health for some time, but has kept up with active life here. Five weeks ago she contracted a severe case of influenza from which she never recovered. Her death occured this morning from complications resulting from her recent illness. Mrs. Frisinger was born in Adams County. March 10, 1863, the daughter of Isaac and Sarah Peterson. In 1881 she was. united in marriage to John M. Frisinger who preceded her in death nine years. To this union were born six children all of whom survive. They are M. A. Frisinger of this city; Mrs' R. C. Gipe, of Alexandria; J. F. • Frisinger, of Gary; Mrs. J. Dwight I Peterson, of Indianapolis; Mrs. George Myers of Palo Alto. California, and Richard Frisinger of Indianapolis. Five grandchildren also survive. Mrs. Frisinger was a devoted member of the Evangelical church of this city all her life. The remains have been taken to the home of M. A. Frisinger on North Third Street from whose home the funeral will be held. Burial will be made in the Decatur cemetery. Funeral services will be held Saturday morning at 10:30 o’clock at the home of M. A. Frisinger on North Third street. — o — St. Joseph Pupils Present Program The eighth grade pupils of the St. Joseph Catholic school gave an entertainment this afternoon in the auditorium of the Catholic high school building. Sister M. Agnes, teacher of the grade, had charge of the program. The Catholic schools are dismissed this afternoon the Thanksgiving holidays. The pupils in the grades and the students in high school presented the Sisters with articles of food for the Thanksgiving dinner, including a turkey, chickens and other good things to eat. — Daily Democrat Receives Wilson-Bryan Photograph Adolph Hart, who recently retained to Decatur after an absence of twentyfive years and has opened a barber shop at 231 North Second street, was is and always expects to be a red hot democrat. He was a Wilson booster and some one who knew that sent him a picture some years showing President Wilson and Secretary of State William J. Bryan coming down the steps of the. Capitol in Washington. Harty presented it to this office today.

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!County Coroner And Wife To Motor West — Dr. and Mrs. John C. Grandstaff of Preble are preparing to leave December 9 for Santa Barbara, California, where they will visit their son. Dr. Floyd Grandstaff amt as the doctor puts it, "dodge the winter weather’’ for about three monthg. They will make the trip by auto, take their time land expect to enjoy ail the trip. Dr. ! Grandstaff is coroner of Adams I county and will soon announce the appointment of two deputies, one in the north amT one' in the south part of the county to look after the duties of that office. Dr. Floyd Grandstaff, who they will visit is now assistant director of one of the largest hospitals on the Pacific coast. —.—o — Lew Starr Dies At Bluffton Today Bluffton, Nov. 27—(Special)-Lew Starr, 70 of Bluffton, father-in-law of ; Mrs. Florence Sprunger Starr, former Adams county woman, died here toi day following a long illness. Surviving are two children Hr y Starr, of Bluffton and Mrs. Ethel Tomlinson of Oakland. Cal. Funeral arrangements have not yet been completed. o — FARM BUREAU MEET CLOSES Delegates Accept Plans For Reorganization With Much Optimism Indianapolis, Nov. 27. — (U.R) Delegates to the 12th annual convention of the Indiana Farm Bureau Federation returned to their homes last night, confident that the reorganized association will be of greater service to Hoosier farmers than ever before. Under the new articles of incorporation and by-laws, the organization | will be entitled to receive the maximum aid from the Federal farm board and will be legally able to carry on business of its subsidiaries, insurance companies and elevators. Actions of the organization will be 1 directed by three officers, a board of ■ directors of ten members and three 1 directors at large. County organizations will retain their present corporate forms but will work for Fed- ' eral aid in marketing surpluses '[through the state association. Addresses on the convention pro--1 gram stressed the importance of organizing a campaign to fight for a constitutional referendum and organizing to secure greater aid from the Federal farm board. VV. H. Settle, president, as well as I other speakers, pointed out that farm- - ers are paying an unfair amount of • governmental expenses through the present property tax system and thrt I the constitution should be remade to - provide for adequate taxation of in- , comes and less taxation of property. i Leon Worthall, editor Os the InterI national Barbers Association journal, i urged in the concluding session that I farmers cooperate with organized la- , bor in bringing about a more satisfactory economic system of wages.

Decatur, Indiana, Wednesday, November 27, 1929.

ALL CHURCHES P 1 WILL OBSERVE THANKSGIVING Protestant Churches Join In Observance Tonight; Others Thursday i HIGH MASS AT CATHOLIC CHURCH All Decatur churches wiil observe I Thanksgiving either tonight or Thnrs-i day and practically all business 1 houses and factories of Decatur and Adams county will be closed all day tomorrow. The Union observance of Thanksgiving by members of Decatur Protestant church will be held at 7:30 o'clock tonight at the United Brethren church. A Thanksgiving high mass will be celebrated at 7:30 o'clock Thursday morning at the St. Marys Catholic church and a special Thanksgiving service will be held at 10 o'clock tomorrow morning at the Zion I.,uththeran church. • Tlie program tonight at the United Biethren church will be participated in by pastors and members of the Christian, Evangelical, Baptist, Presbyterian, Reformed, Methodist and United Brethren. The Rev. O. E. Miller, pastor of the Baptist church will deliver the chief address. Special music also has been arranged for tonight's Union meeting. The 7:30 o'clock High Mass at the . St. Marys Catholic church will be of a Thanksgiving nature and will be that church's observance of the day. Members of the Lutheran church of th s city will join in observance of the day at 10 o'clock tomorrow morning at which time the pastor, Rev. t Paul Schultz, will deliver a Thanks- . giving address. i i " ' 0 ~ HEALTH BOARD ADOPTS RULES State Board Announces New Rules To Be Effective At Once Indianapolis, Nov. 27 —(U.R)—Bathers in all public pools in Indiana will he required to undergo personal inspection before entering the water, if rules announced by the state board of health today are rigidly enforced. The rules, governing regulation of swimming pools, public water supplies, and sale of oysters, were announced by Dr. William F. King, secretary of the board of health. They were sanctioned by Attorney General James M. Ogden, who told the board that the rules have the force of ’ statutes, and violators may lie prosecuted. The most drastic new rule is one which empowers the health board to require a town or city to provide a municipal water supply of healthful quality where none such exists. This rule is already being applied in the case of Hazelton, which has been drawing an impure supply of water from White river and using it in the schools, Dr. King said. similar rule requiring adequate sewage disposal has also been adopted and is being applied in the case of Lawrenceburg, he said. The water rule also can lie enforced to require chlorination or any treatment that the health board might (CONTINUED ON PAGE SEVENJ_ ■ — tri MORE »i U r 07/ 1 Lady Godyma probably !he FIRS! BARt’BACK A ’ . y A ■

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Meyer Funeral To Be Held Friday Funeral services for Ernest Meyer 1 who died Tuesday morning at the home of Ills brother, Fred Meyer, north of Decatur will be held Friday afternoon at 1:30 o’clock at the home I of Fred Meyer, and at 2 o'clock at 1 the Flatrock Lutheran church. Burial , will lie made in the church cemetery. o ! OFFICE BOOMS ABE CHANGED All County Officials To Be j Housed In Court House After January 1 By January 1, 1930. all the county ' offices will be located under one roof ( in the court house building in tills , city, tile board of county commissioners stated th s morning. The commissioners have agreed on 1 tlie moving and location of the county offices within the court house. The county surveyor, county highway superintendent and county agricultural agent's offices will lie moved to tlie court house. In the relocation of the offices in the court house the sheriff's office will be moved to the second floor in the room now occupied by the county school superintnedent. The office of county school superintendent will be moved from the northeast corner of the second door to the new quarters arranged in the southeast corner of the court house. Tlie county surveyor's office will he moved from the Haugk building on Madison street to the room now ociupiul_by the sheriff, in tlie southwest corner of the first floor in tlie court house. The county highway superintendent’s office will also lie moved from the Haugk building to the basement of the court house. The northeast corner room in tlie basement is being arranged for the highway superintendent. Bids were received today for the installation of radiators in this room. The county agricultural agent's office will be moved from the Peoples Loan and Trust company building to the new room prepared on tlie second floor of the court bouse. Tlie moving of the offices will be (CONTINUED ON PAGE SEVEN) o ——— — ROLL CALL TO END THURSDAY Red Cross Membership Drive Lacks About 150 Os 1929 Total The roll call for tlie Red Cross drive for the city of Decatur has 359 members to date, Miss Annie E. Winnes, county secretary announced today. She stated that an accurate count would not be taken until the first of next week when a final report will be filed. The results up to the present, time show a decrease of 150 members from last year's results. Every solicitor has turned in his report but the committee in charge feels that tlie drive was not a successful as in former years. Various economic conditions account for this decline, and committee believes. The contract which Miss Winnes lias signed with the National Red Cross expires tonight and tlie drive will terminate accordingly. Final efforts to raise the membership were made by the committee this afternoon. Miss Winnes stated. The rural districts which have been organized have not turned in any reports but Indications are that they are meeting with some success. The final report for Adams County will be ready for publication by Monday, Miss Winnes stated today, and tlie committee hopes that it will he as good as in 'former years. o - Steele Boy Is In Critical Condition Ralph Steele, 10-year old son of Mr. and Mrs. Charles Steele is critically ill at the Steele home with smallpox. It is the first serious case of the disease reported here in the last few weeks. Other eases reported are said to be rather light.

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Logansport Editor Writes Os Difference In Two American Generations IBy Frederick I.andi«) Thursday is the anniversary the Pil- ’ grims gave us. a band of lonely men and women, camped on the bleak rim of a continent, inhabited by Indians There Is drama, as well as beatify. In the thought that our only day of gratitude was established by those who had the least. They were grateful for life. for liar- ( vests and. most of all, for freedom | to worship in their own way < The-e values are highly esteemed l in the market place, but to those ( flint-lock souls they were the priceless I things of earth. « They were poor in material trea- I sures, but rich in contentment, and after all. this is the sum of human I wealth, the goal for which all strive, i no matter what their stages of (level-it opement. |c ■We need not pity the Pilgrims, but;« we may with profit emulate theirij straight philosophy. i Pioneers see realities dearly lie- i (CONTINUED ON PAGE SEVEN) ' ■ o 1 GARNISHEE LAW HELD INVALID 1 Allen County Judge Says Act Violates Section Os Bill Os Rights Fort Wayne, Ind., Nov. 27. —(U.P> — An act of the 1925 legislature providing for garnishment of any amount up to ten per cent of a debtor's wages or income, was declared unconstitutional by special Judge John Morris, in Allen superior court. Judge Morris sustained a defense motion to quash the affidavit and dismiss tlie action in tlie case of the ■First National bank of Fort Wayne against Richard Willseller and the New York. Chicago and St. Louis Railroad company. The bank had previously obtained a judgment against Willscher, an employe of the railroad company, and brought action to garnishee his wages. The judge quoted section 75 of the bill of rights, which provides that “the general assembly shall not grant to any citizen or class of citizens, 1 privileges or immunities which, upon the same terms, shall not equally be- ■ long to all citizens." Ife then said ' that in his opinion the acts of 1925 “clearly violates tlie last quoted section of our constitution.'’ “I believe that the law of 1925 gives to one class of citizens immunities which it wrongfully withholds from another class,” he said. "If a resident householder has only S6OO, either in money or in some other kind of property, and has it in ills actual possession, he can claim it as exemption from ids contractual creditors, but. if lie lias this S6OO deposited in a bank or due him as wages or on a note, he cannot claim it as exempt from a judgment creditor .... it seems to me that all pel-sons similarly situated are not treated alike by tlie act in question and that the | (CONTINUED ON PAGE SEVEN, Good Will Probated Chicago, Nov. 27. (U.R)-—Mrs. Lucy I). Good will receive tlie income from the entire $115,000 estate of her late husband. Secretary of War James W. | Good, until her death, under terms of Good's will, which has been filed for probate here. After Mrs. Good's death, the Income will be divided between two sons, James W. Jr.. 19. and Robert Edward Good, 12. If either son marries or enters business, he will receive $25,000 at tlie time. o TO RECEIVE SCORE The Daily Democrat will re- , ceive tin- score of the Decaturkuburn basketball game to- < night. The game will not start until about 8:30 o'clock, so the I score will not be here until about 10 o'clock. Call 1000 or tool for the scores. ♦ -♦

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PROGRAMS ARE ANNOUNCED BY MANY CONCERNS Total Money To Be Spent Will Be More Than Nine Billion Dollars PLAN EXTENDS OVER A YEAR New York. Nov. 27. <U.R> (.(instruction mid improvement programs in the United States during the coming year will aggregate more than 000.000. divided among industrial. public utility, railroad and stale mid municipal programs, according to a survey by the United Press. Those figures, compiled from various statements of state governors, industrial leaders and railroad executives after President Hoover's seriee of business and economic confer euces, show tlie nation is facing the greatest building program in its history In 1930. Next year's construction program is estimated ae follows: Industrial corporations, 13.500,000.000; public uti tty $2,000,000,000; state and municipal, $1,921,800,000: railroad, sl,250.000,000 and federal government! $750,000,000. Total $2,421,800,000. In addition to the programs already announced, a number of uncompleted projects might be undertaken which would swell next year's total to nior« than $19,000,009,000. American Telephone and Telegraph (CONTINUED ON PAGE SIX) Woman Is Released Columbus, Ind., Nov. 27. —(U.R) -A spree which Is confined to one's own home, and causes no one injury, is not a just cause for prosecution on an intoxication charge. William U Dobbins, prosecuting attorney, ruled here. Dobbins asked dismissal of drunkenness charges against Mrs. Isaac Walters, who had spent a night in jail on a complaint issued by her husband. Walters charged she was intoxicated in their home. She had brought action against him the previous day on a charge of non support. o “King Ben’s” Widow Asks For Cult Dissolution St. Joseph, Mich.. Nov. 27. —(U.R) — Secreted somewhere in the “Diamond House” with the body of King Benjamin Purnail, former House of Davi I cult leader, is more than $809,000, the king's widow. "Queen Mary.” claims in a petition filed here. Since tlie death of King Benjamin, followers of ills cult have split into two factions, one headed by his widow and tlie other by Judge. T. W. Dewhurst. The queen's petition asks that the colony, which numbered more than 1.000 persons before the king’ll dentil, be dissolved and the property and cash prorated among the remaining members. The petition gave tlie first confirmation that tlie eo’ony bus dwindled to less than half Its former mem bership. Tlie widow said her 217 followers constituted a majority. LOCAL FIBEMEH DINNER HOSTS Annual Dinner Is Given At City Hall Wednesday Night Decatur Volunteer Firemen and Captain Jack Friedt entertained at the City Hall Tuesday night In honor of all city employes, city officials and a few invited guests. The dinner is an annual pre Thanksgiving affair. Sixty local people enjoyed the dinner and program following tile meal. Mayor George Krick wus the chief speaker and following him several other city officials responded with short talks Tlie menu included chicken rabbit oysters, and many other accessories necessary io coilipleie a li<l« meal. Practically all of the Volunteer firemen were presented, and the guests gave them a rising vote of appreciation following the program. Several games of bingo were played after the talks, and blankets were awarded the win ners.

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