Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 28, Number 4, Decatur, Adams County, 4 January 1930 — Page 1

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KE PUN TO [COME MAYOR 6 WY TANGLE I - I lay Claim to Office; ■nson Was Peoples’ | Choice I INCUMBENT. ■ ’plans TO STAY ■ Ind. Jan. 4—(U.R>—Three terar-.i today t<> assume Kroixhip of Cary next TuesI situation resulted from a ■ n () f the state supreme, ■late yesterday which affirm-1 ■ l.tke .il l'lit court in deny-1 ■snry G. Hay a temporary, ■tin:' to prevent either 11 O. ■„ or Emmett White taking ■the office until legal quee- i ■ are settled. ■ question of who was the ■l mayor was not touched ■ h ah court’s decision. ■s petition to the circuit ■ cant" as n . result of litlga■turted I White, the defeated ■tatir candidate, in which he ■l Johnson, the winner of ■cln'ii. wcs ine’.igtb’ie he■of havi' g served a sentence ■cr 1 ’ pr'son for violation of Khibition law. ■<(..l ...etested the allegation ■ e-nni.d that a pardon from ■resident had cleared his ■and also because he had ■iven n clean bill by the Lake ■ court before the primary Bpril. Bn both of the candidates an■d they intended to take ■e office on the sixth of Jan- ■ flay sought injunction pro■s against them. ■n oral argument before the ■e court in Indianapolis a Kys ago. Albert Gavin, an ley for Ray, said unlees the ■ion was granted Gary’ I be plunged into a state of ■rar Tuesday. ■in announced today that the ■ne couit decision did not ■ate Hay from the contest for ■ayorality. I Two At Valparaiso laraiso. Ind., Jan. 4 —(U.R) — ■ the announcement of Mayor I F. Leetz that he would not ■der his office Tuesday to ■I J. Schenck. Valparaiso ■ forward today to having mayors when the new term I next week. ■z protested at a special ■TINUED ON PAGE FIVE) B f) I Attempt Made To Raise Airplanes |*a Monica, Calif., Jan. 4 — r-A new ittempt to raise to nrface of the Pacific ocean f’ 1 airplanes believed to hold Julies of seven of the 10 men Jerished when the movie craft Jd in mid-air was started at | today. Jepers equipped with special Jiug hooks headed the salvagfceratmns off Point Vicente. | the tragedy occurred late ■day. \ NESFOREMAN IS GANDIDATE Run in Democratic frimary For Office of Commissioner [ es Foreman, prominent BIu? I township farmer and DeinoI Politician, today announced p would be a candidate in the pfatic primary next May for F\ lce of commissioner of the [district. I foreman hats been precinct I teenian in Blue Creek townf Ol more than 20 years and r“' n "i active worker in the I'" -3 lr,n K time. He stated that r never held public office P never sought an office until lais ,ig 0 when*h,e was a cant oi commissioner. or ' man staged today that be L‘‘‘ d ' <e an active campaign for ’ e on the Democratic ticket . minated would do all in his o aid the election of the democratic ticket In the NovKeneral elctlon. I announcement made by Mr. ! er,..^ 8 the flrst t 0 be made i county office.

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I Bilik* Dove and Husband Separate A--.fw *B V?: t SW Bs ■ r I W F I f it W 7 x f * w■ w * I * .1 a- . * ’ WWIC ■ 1 Billie Dove, one of Hollywood's best known movie stars, has admitted that she and her husband, Irvin Willat, have decided to separate. They have been married six years. CAPITAL FIRE LOSS IS $7,000 Rotunda of Building is Threatened by Blaze Friday Night Washington, Jan. 4. — '’J.R) —The cost and cause of a spectacular fire which for a short time last night threatened the rotunda of tapitol, were the subject of an investigation being conducted today by David Lynn, architect of the cap'tol. The blaze, which provided ex- • citement for more than 10.000 on-. lookers, is believed to have caused only about $7,000 damage. This includes $4,000 for destroyed documents and oil paintings of several justices of the court of claims; duplicates of the documents are available elsewhere. The first started either in the artists’ studio or the document storage room, just off the base of the b'g rotunda. It was confined to those two rooms. The blaze which came just nine days after flames raked the White House executive offices, started shorfl’y after 7 p. m„ and was extinguished less than an hour later. The fire was the worst the capitol building had known in many years. The interior of both wings of central section was destroyed by fire in August, 1814, set by invading Brit'sh troops. The capitol, like other government buildings here carries no insjirance, although the building cost $15,000,000 and is valued, with the grounds, at $37,500,000. Firemen, brought from all parts of' the city' by fire alarms, found Charles Moberly, a capitol artist, unconscious In the burning studio. Aber he was revived, physicians said he was suffering mostly from shock. The studio is near the dome of the house wing of the building. It was filled with art''materials and a number of valuable oil portraits. The portraits were saved and will be ready for hanging after refurnishing. Aged Couple To Make Air Trip Detroit, Jan. 4. —(U.R) —Mr. and Mrs. August S. Storch, a 75-year-old couple, plan to hop off from the Ford airport today for South Bend, Ind., to attend the wedding of their grandson, Carl Jordan, a South Bend flier. Jordan arranged for the flight.

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MAGLEY FILES ANNUAL REPORT County Road Superintendent Files Report With Commissioners The county highway department ’ i had receipts of $133,353.30, p1us a’ cash balance of $26,647.73 at 4he j beginning of 1922 and spent sllß,030.38, leaving a cash balmce at the end of the year of $31,970.65 The annual report of the highway depaitmen: was compiled by Charles E. Magley. county superintendent of highways. His report al .o shows that the value of road tools and ma< hinery on hands at the olose of Hie year was appraised at $21,800. * Included in the receipts* for the yeai is an item of $39,673.04 from he stilt” gasoline tjx and $83,494.88 from th- county tax distribution Several other small items make up th • total of the receipts. The largest item of expense wa“ for stone, the report shows. Cost of stone and gravel is listed at $59 566.16. The next largest item is for labor on roads. This total is $40,555.48. Other expenses items ate I's'e das follows: Hoad tools, sl. 901.36; gas. oil tires, auto repairs aril machinery repairs, $5,949.88; lumber $2,987.33, tile, sewer pip? culverts, etc.. $1,973.30; paint, $20225; road tool repairs, $1,800; in surunce $1,215.56; superintendent's s kry $1,860; exj>ense to road school, $23.66; railroad rental and storage. $75; electricity from town of Monroe $17.40. Mi. Magley filed his report with he board of county commissioners today. o Famous Cartoonist Is Called By Death i New York. Jan. 4. -<U.Rk—-Clare Bi iggs, creator of the ‘'When a Feller Needs a Friend.’* “Ain’t it a Grand and Glorious Feeling” and other popular series of cartoons, died last night. i Briggs had been ill for a month with pneumonia. Late yesterday, his condition became acute, and h? died suddenly. Briggs was born in Reedsburg, Wis., but made his first acquaintance with newspaper work in Dixon, 111., where he became a carrier ' boy. He leaves three children, Mrs. Reuben A. Lewis. Jr., Ruth Briggs, and John O. Briggs. Services will be held Monday. o WARM WEATHER IS PREDICTED Spring-Like Temperature Forecast For Northern Indiana Indianapolis, Jan. 4.—(U.R) —After a’ brief cold ' snap, near-spring weather is scheduled to return to Indianapolis late today, J. H. Armington. U. S. weather bureau meteorolgist, forecast today. Thermometers sank last night to 2t> degrees, but are expected to reach 30 degrees or higher tonight, he said. Sunday will be generally fair throughout Indiana. Four state highways were flooded today, according to the state road department. H f gh water closed state road 27 between Geneva and Berne, where a 6%-mile detour was established. Road 31 was inundated north of Seymour, but traffic was able to pull through today. Road 50 was covered with eight inches of water at Medora, but traffic was going through. Eleven inches of water covered road 67 at Romona, but highway officials said they did not expect further rise. o Allen County Man Kills His Friend 1 Fort Wayne, Ind., Jan. 4.—(U.R)— Darrell R. Hiatt, 48, was slain by a friend, Sam Bartholomew, 41, of near Harlan, at the Alien county infirmary where both were held pending transfer to a hospital for the insane. Hiatt was shaving Bartholomew in the presence of two guards, but ■before either could interfere, i Bartholomew seized the razor and slashed his friend’s throat. :

Decatur, Indiana, Saturday, January 4, 1930.

BIRTHS SCORE BIC GAINS OVER DEATHS IN 1929 Total of 124 Births Recorded in Decatur During Last Year DEATHS TOTAL 88 IN CITY There were 124 births as compared with 88 deaths in the city | of Decatur during the year 1929,, Dr. J. M. Miller, City Health officer, reported today. The births : included 63 males and 61 females i for the past year and the deaths include 54 males and 34 fema’es. Deaths under 5 years of age claimed 17; over 5 and under 21 years of age, 6; over 21 and under 60 years of age claimed 24, and over 60 year? of age, 41. The comparison of births and deaths shows that there were 36 more birhts than deaths and that the gi eater percentage of deaths included those over 60 years of age. The indicates that more births occurred during the month of February, there being 17, with the month of October second, having 15. The report of births by the month is as follow-: 1929 Births Males Females i Tanuary 10 6 4 February .17 10 7 ’ March . 7 3 4 April 6 0 6 May .10 6 4 Tune 12 4 8 Inly 11 5 6 'n gust 12 6 6 September... 7 5 2 October 15 10 5 November .10 5 5 rjecenrber 7 3 4 Dr. Miller stated that the death rate as compared with the birth rate was normal for any town this size. He ai’so stated that the only epidemic reported during the last year was the recent small pox epidemic. Dr. Miller said that through the excellent cooperation of local doctors this epidemic was controlled. At present there are still two homes in Decatur under quarantine and Dr. Miller stated that danger of this epidemic is practically over. No deaths resulted f rom the disease. Indiananolis Schools Will Remain Closed Indianapolis, Jan. 4 —(UP) —Nearly all schools and colleges in Indian i polls will lemain closed ait least another week as a precautionary measure against spinal mengitis in conformity with a recommendation of ithe board of public health. The board of school commission °rs announced yesterday that all public schools will remain closed prolonging the Christmas vacation Butler University officials will make no announcement until Dr. Robert J. Aley, president .returns to the city. o Wife of DePauw U. Head Gravely 111 Greencastle, Ind., Jan. 4 —(U.R) — Dr. G. Bromley Oxnam, president of DePauw University, received a wire today that Mrs.j Oxnam was in a Los Angeles, Calif., hospital in a serious condition. It was intimated that a surgical operation might be imperative. Dr. Oxnam and his son, Phil, left Greencastle this morning for Kansas City by train where they expected to catch a fast passenger n’ane to the Pacific coast. A number of speaking engagements were canoe’led by Dr. Oxnam and it is possible that the meeting of the board of trustees of the university set for Jan. 13, will have to be postponed. — o Nelson Cassaday Is Struck By Automobile Nelson Cassadiy, 75. who resides east of this city near Bellmont park was struck by an automobile driv en by W. Frauhiger, on state road 16 east of Decatur about 2:30 o’clock this afternoon. The aged man received a blow on the head and was unconscious for a few minutes. He was taken to the Adams Couny Memorial Hospital. The attending physician stated that he did not believe the injuries to be serious. Mr. Cassaday will remain under a physician’s care for a few days.

♦ —— ♦ ■ I H DON’T SHOOT MISTER! | New York, Jan. 4. (U.R) — The Amer < :m Cur and Fouii- | diy company has asked the i Uniled States coast guard not to fire on its nevly constructed standard type A. C. F. 47 cruiser when that craft is sailed here from Wilming- | ton, Dela., for display at the | i i93(i m<>(or bout show. Accompanying tlie written request, which was signed by Edward A. Hodge, in charge of the foundry company’s cruiser division, was a photogiaph of the boat. I ♦ - — — - — % PREPARATIONS MADE FOR TRIP Total of 75 to Sail as Official American Party To London Washington. Jan. 4. — (U.R) — Trunks are being packed by some 75 per ons who will sail on the George Washington next Thursday as the de’egates and official stall to the London naval conference. Twenty-one young women have been ransacking Washington shops for new clothes —the lucky stenographers and clerks selected to handle the voluminous memoranda which such an important ■otiference always sipawns. In addition several wives will travel in the party, headed by Mrs. Henry L. Stimson, wife of the secretary of state. She is taking a truck load of trunks and packing cases. The Stimsons have leased a country home and a golf course, the Warren House estate at Stanmore, just outside Loudon, where they can be free of the noise and ' contusion of the conference scene. Not only wi’l they entertain delegates there, but the retreat will give Secretary Stimson a secluded spot for important discussions during critical periods of the negotiations. The belle of the American party will be Miss Elizabeth Morrow, elder sister of the former Anne Morrow, now wife of Charles A. Lindbergh. Miss Elizabeth Morrow will accompany her mother and her father, the ambassador to Mexico, who is a member of the American delegation. Other women in the party will include the wives of Secretary of Navy Adams. Senator Reed, Sena-1 tor Robinson, Rear Admiral William V. Pratt, and Rear Admiral Hilary B. Jones. o Harlan Will Not Seek Re-election Richmond, Ind., Jan. 4—(UP) — After serving in the state senate for eight years and as president pro tern during the last session, Denver C. Harlan, local attorney, announced today' h? would not seek re-election. Harlan said he did not wish to leave his law practice for as long as 60 days every year while ho attended the general assembly. Taylor Murder Is Brought To Surface San Francisco. Jan. 4. — (U.R) — The latest development in the William Desmond Taylor murder ease, reopened recently by a former governor of California after a lapse of eight years without arrests or indictments, was volunteered today by an executive officer of a statewide law enforcement organization. He told newspapermen that Henry Peavey, negro valet of the slain movie maker, had witnessed a bitter quarrel in the Taylor home immediately preceding the tragedy. Taylor was violently denounced by another person well known in the film world, and recognized by Peavey, the latter said. o Man With Heart on Right Side Is Dead Petersburg, Ind., Jan. 4 (*UP) — Edward Conrad. 49. whose heart was on the right side and who several years ago refused to take SIO,OOO with the understanding that ait death his body should become the property of a medical institution, is dead. He died of injuries suffered when struck by an automobile.

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HEALTH BOARD I ! ISSOES NOTICE! Aid of All Asked in Effort To Stop Spread of Meningitis Indianapolis, Jan. 4. — (U.R) — Although at Hie present time there is no outbreak of meningitis of epidemic proportion anywhere in Indiana outside of Indianapolis, “conditions are generally favorable to he spread of the disease” according to Dr. W. F. King, director of the state health department. In a report published today. Dr. King urged all local health officials to report cases in their communities as they are discovered. The bulletin lists the following I regulations of the American Pubi c I Health Association for control of such communicable diseases: Recognition of the disease and isolation of infected persons. Concurrent disinfection, which means absolute cleanliness with testruction of all infected vaterial. throughout the course of the disease. Search for carriers among those exposed to recognized cases. Instructions as to personal cleanliness. Prevention of overcrowding. Carliers should be isolated untill the secretions of the nose and I throat are proven by bacteriol-1 ogical examination to be free from: the infecting organism. Rule of the/state board of health regard'ng quarantine in epidemic cerebrospinal meningitis as follows: "For the patient, quarantine and isolation until 14 days after the temperature hi? become normal or until three successive cultures from *he nose and throat at intervals of not less than five days are shown to be free of menincococcus by laboratory examination. Persons living in the house where the d’sease is present shall not be in contact with the general public and school children from said house and shall be excluded from school, during the period of isolation. except on permission of the health officer having jurisdiction." The bulletin also advises the use of a non-irritant nose and throat spray and above all absolute cleanlines s. o SEVEN SCHOOL BOYS KILLED Ohio Basketball Team,Returning Home is Struck by Train Shreve, Ohio, Jan. 4.— (U.R) — A school victory sonfi swelling from a busload of high school boys and girls homeward bound after a basketball tourney, drowned out th° warning whistle of a speeding Pennsylvania express train near here last night and the resulting crash claimed a toll of seven dead and nine injured. The dead were all boys. Three girls and three boys were injured critically. Three others were sightly injured. Survivors told , how the gay party in the bus, all from Burbank, Ohio, singing lustily because the boys’ team had won its game over Big Prairie. 3G to 21, rode blithely nto disaster. No one was sure whether the drU'er had stopped but most agreed he had looked up and down the tracks. No one remembered hearing a whistle. The crash was followed by screams and there was a scene of horror as bodies were flung in all directions as th wreckage was borne down the track. Tentative identifications of the bodies gave the dead as: Forrest Grubb, Claude Repp, Wilbur Grubb, Wayne Lehman, Eugene Talley, Willis Baker, and Emil Timmick, (CONTINUED ON PAGE SIX) Two Lose Lives In Hotel Fire New York. Jah. 4 —(U.R) —Two persons periqhed when fire and two explosions in the basement of the Hotel Marguery shot fumes and thick, smoke throughout the 11 stories of the luxurious Park Avenue hosterly last night and routed several hundred fashionable guests.

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Record Breaker F '■WHMka,. MMMB Aill ? '• A world's record for aerial transportation fell wli e n Ray Fortner, Universal Air Lines pilot, aided by a tailwind of 70 miles an hour at the 5,000-foot level, roared ; into Cleveland in iiis tri-motored j Fokker plane, carrying twelve i pas engers, just 1 hour and 37 . minutes after leaving Chicago — 326 miles away. His average speed : was 203 miles an hour. appeomT TO GOVERNOR State-aid Committee Goes Direct to Leslie For Funds Indianapolis. Jan. 4 —(UP) — Direct appeal for funds to relieve th” bankrupt situation of state aid schools’, was made to Gov. Harry G. Leslie and his recently appoint ed school commission today by a committee aid counties. Members of the committee, which was selected at the conference at Shoals a month ago. said they intended to request a special session of the legislature be called to appropriate funds to eliminate the $1,000,000 deficit in school funds. At a meeting yesterday, the committee declared that the increase in state aid funds to care for this year’s expense does not lessen the deficit created in recent years. It was planned to request immediate payment of back salaries, due teachers. hut some of the committeemen were reluctant to say what methods the governor should use in securing the money. State Sen. Alonzo H. Lindley, Kingman, a member of the commission named by Governor Leslie to study the situation, met with the committee yesterday and indicated he would suggest to the governor that a special session be called. He also said the special session diould provide a statewide levy to pay the minimum salaii s of all teachers in the state. Lindley declared that while P was true, probably that much of the pt eSent deficit was caused by extravagance of township trustees He believed that immediate steps should be taken to pay teachers who have been borrowing money to live on for the past year or two. Members of the committee rep resenting the school superintendents were:: T. L. Jones, Corydon; O. M. McCracken. superintendent of the Daviess county schools, state representative Claude G. Malott, Bloomington; State Senator Carl M. Gray, Petersburg; and Lewis Taylor, tax expert of the Indiana Farm Bureau Federation. Mellon Has Backing Os President Hoover Washington, Jan. 4.—(U.R)—Secretary of Treasury Mellon will stand by his guns, backed by President Hoover, in the face of the dry attack on him to be renewed when congress returns to work Monday. Mellon has no intention of resigning, it can be said authoritatively, despite revived demands from congressional drys who have sniped at him continually for the last several years.

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7 PROTESTANT CHURCHES WILL HOLD MEETINGS Sunday Morning Services Opens Two Weeks of Great Revivals SPECIAL MUSIC TO BE FEATURE Decatur Protestant church congregations and ministers prepared today to open two weeks of simultaneous Evangelistic services. Seven local i churches are joining in the .plan and each church will open the two weeks of concentrated devotion at the morning services Sunday. The seven cooperating churches include United Brethren. Presbyterian, Reformed, Evangelical, Methodist. Christian, and Baptist. Each minister, with the aid of his church committees, is planning great devotional services for each night of the two weeks. Special sermons, special music, spec’al devotion, with ail seven : churches “united in one spirit for one cause," according to the idea ; propounded by the co-operating min’sters. At a meeting of the Ministerial J Association held recently it was decided that each church and each i pastor should carry out the two weeks' program in his own congregat'on in the manner best suited for his own people. Hundreds of Decatur people are expected to attend the opening services Sunday morning. A’,l I local lodges, societies and school organizations are co-operating with the churches and have decided not to hold any night meeting, excent the few that were scheduled before the simultaneous meeting dates were announced. The meetings will be conducted each night and of course on Sunday mornings. Each church has special announcements of their own particular programs. Reformed Church The Zion Reformed church congregation joins the other churches in the simultaneous evangelistic services to be held from January 5 to 19. There will be services at the Reformed church every night with the exception of Mondays and Saturdays. The first week, the pastor of the church, Rev. Fledderjohann, plans to do his own preaching. The second week, the Rev. Geo. P. Kehl of Indainapolis, will ass’st the local pastor, while th° three Sunday nights, the sth, 12th and 19th, the Rev. F. H. Rupnow, D. D., of Fort Wayne, who has so ably ass’sted in special church choir as well as th«» young men’s chorus and the young girl's chorus will assist in these services with special music. One night during the series of services a stereopticon sermon will be given on the Holy Land, the land where evangelism had its beginning and where the Savior of mankind busied Himself to proclaim the story of salvation. The services at 10‘30 o’clock on Sunday morning will be 4 com(CONTINUED ON PAGE FOUR) DECATUR MAN’S MOTHER DIES Mrs. Elizabeth Graliker Dies at Decatur, HL, After Short Illness Theodore Graliker, cashier in the First National Bank in this city, left this noon for Decatur. Illinois, where he was called on the account of the death of his mother, Mrs. Elizabeth Graliker. Mrs. Graliker has been ill for the past ten days suffering with bronchial pneumonia and death came last evening. She was preceded in death by her husband who passed iway a year and a half ago. Funeral services will be held Monday morning at 9 o’clock. K. of C. Meeting The regular meeting of the Knighs of Columbus will be held Monday evening, Jan. 6 at 8 o’clock Business of importance will come up and all members’are urged to be present.