Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 28, Number 16, Decatur, Adams County, 18 January 1930 — Page 1

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n UEGATUR ■MEET FAIR Bates are set Huai Event Will be ptember 9-13 I J | Inclusive. Here HiOX WILL !!E SPONSORS !««;<» Decatur Free | r will be held Se)><i io 13 inclusive, it 'meed lodav by Paid ili.ui’. general cbair- ■ for the event. The v r • set after a inect-i Jr.i. rested perso n s .ill lil <>r!»anizations. ' i ilreadv have been in mechanical rides ijii’ilred feet of eon-, s .H" The idea this year I ■!.. .ibout twice as many] as lust year and a rnn’h* shows. Mi i.-udy has started on ( iass entertainment i Giaham announces .1 al money would be b i the farm shows next i , w ill be named in few weeks and n general Mv will be called early in the to present plans, street fair was spon- | v the Adams post of the n udon and was highly il It is not conducted as it S 'jn: organization and; v it. lived from the var- . - turned over to i d farm premium Graham stated that he I he ’ dv to name all choirBHof the various committees »is||l:at i T,egiou desired the of all interested persame as last year. " — Out Dangers Os Nullification of "milliflcation" of prohiHRgf l' v repeal of state enforcewhs brought before the convention of the Antileague here today. i.ferince was made to 't..b iii|uor law by referend-e’.-ir- iiiiimr aw by referendyear. - G. .hmos, superintendent Wi ionsin state league. a d.:rk picture of the reBl *B ■ t'ttition. “My judgment s.iid. “that Wisconsin comw York for first plac? wet test state. Th? state wliat our Federal pro•■■mtnissioner calls a boot|B- ntecca. _ K. of C. Not'ce lev'll.ar meeting of the r ' "i < olumbus will be held 8 ' evening at 8 o’clock. Busi mip.irtance and special er. ln “ m by the committee in "i" be given. All members to attend. gB - o Ito license ■DEAUE set ■Drivers Must Have ■ w Plates by January 131, Order States ■ r< ,' was received today by rM (!I ' ullaili . manager of Adams y automobile license bureau, t; Fifield, secretary of ,llat all persons driving after ,j ant j ar y 31 with ■ icen-e plates would be und fined to the full ex'lie law. usual month’s extension kiven, according to the ■ ‘"" l state police and city throughout the state have ■ Ol i ored to arrest all violators. >!)■■«’'i' 1 lntliana drivers with ■to) i,es alrea( ly have been ■ ' "> Ohio and Michigan '<• month of grace is not and those who are still 'n' 1929 plates are warn--Btay in Indiana, as the ! an half of the automobile Hu. i Adams county have heir 1930 plates and a ■L? , is expected the last ‘ -' s in January.

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1 Becomes Assistant I to u. of u. Head ■ rh sg #- s ' gysMaß v z r < f BKip. ■« I iIK 1 1v FI MW: Waited Grey Preston Jr., who ■ has resigned his position as 1 assistant treasurer of the Bankers' Reserve Lift' Company of Omaha. Neb, to act as assistant to Presi- ' d< nt Rols-rt Maynard Hutchins of the University of Chicago, Mr. i Preston is. among other things, a licensed pilot. expßWe - I CROWDS SUNDAY Church Revivals Will Close With Impressive Sunday Services TII9 entire membership of the seven Decatur Protestant churches is expected to attend tike claaing se; vices cf the two weeks of Simul 1 I 'aneous Revival meetings which I 1 will close here Sunday night. All ministers and church committee? ' has centered their efforts to have | a great turn-out tomorrow morning and night. Concerning tomorrow one of th? pastors rail: “Tomorrow should he a great day for the churches of Decatur with every member attending. The services tomorrow mark the closing day of the two weeks simultaneous evangelistic services held by the cooperating Protestant churches of the city. The attendance and intere t in the several churches has been splendid. Reports fiom all the chunhes have l»een encouraging and a renewed interest has been manifested among the members. There hrs been a very fine cooperation on the part of the other active oraguizations of the city by postponing their meetings or setting the time of their meetings at a later hour so as not to interfere with the church services. "Tito sei vices tomorrow should be a great climax to the simultaneous program and the auditoriums of the churhes should be filled with anvious worshippers." o Asks Receiver For Fox Film Corporation Now York, Jan. IS.—(U.R)-A re ceiver for the Fox Film corporation was asked in a suit brought today by Ira M. Gast, a- class A stockholder. The suit, charged that obligations of $91,(100,000 were improperly contracted and assumed. o Judge Landis Issues New Baseball Ruling Chicago, Jan. 18 —(UP) — Judge Kenesaw Mountain Landis, commissioner of baseball, issued a ruling today in which he held that any baseball player who engaged in pro fessional boxing would be regarded as having retired permanency from organized baseball. • The ruling was announced after U.ndi.s had interviewed Arthur Shires, th? White Sox first baseman, who had made SIO,OOO recently as a professional pubilist. 0 — Woman on Committee Washington, an. 18 —(UP) —Mrs. Catherine Langley, republican representative from Kentucky, was selected today for membership on the house committee on committees. She succeeds former representative Robinson, Republican, Kentucky, now a member of the senate, and will be the only woman on the committee.

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ADAMS COUNTY CENSUSTAKERS ARE ANNOUNCED — Ralph E. Yager and John Hilly to Have Charge of Business TO COMMENCE WORKING SOON Ralph K. Yager, well-known Deca-1 tur business man and John llilty of j Bern have be -n appointed busi-i (less cemms takers of Adams county , according to word received liere today from J. Monroe Fitch, district' census supervisor of Muncie. Yager will have charge of the' business ceigsus in tiie northern par; of Adams county and Hilly i will have charge of the south half of Adams county, according to the | announcement accompanying the I two appointments, Other Adams county census-tak-ing positions will not lie filled for several week , it was announced to-j day. Th? taking of the 'business ven-1 huh will s art in the next few days it was stated. Both appointments are important ones and Yager and Hilty and their assistants will have charge of alt bu.-iness census-taking (n the county so. the official 1930 census of the United States government. The plan has been changed this year, according to those in close touch with the census machinery. | There will Im 1 no county supervisor,! and tTose employed in Adams coun - ty will be directly under the district I supervisor. The two newly appoint-j el mon. will have.charge of thi-i conn y and will lie directly res’,on-1 sible to Fitch. - . I Both Yager and Hilty accepted the appointments today and will begin laying plans for the census at om e. o—- —■ ——— WOMAN'S CLUB PLANS MEETING Dr. F. H. Rupnow Will be Chief Sneaker Here Monday Night The Rev. Dr. F. H. Rupnow of the St. John's Reformed Church in E 'ort Wayne, will address ’ th? Woman's Club, at th” regular meeting Monday night in the Library Auditorium. The program for the evening will be in th? charge of the Literature Department of the organization. The 1 usinees session of the evening wTI begin promptly at 7:45 o’c'ock. Rev. Dr. Rupnow will speak on the subject of ‘.‘The Affects of Modern Russia on Future Literature and Art.” Dr. Rupnow who is a talented and fluent speaker, ba> addressed several of the Fort Wayne Clubs and has been assisting with the evangelistic services which are in progress, at the local Reformed Church. Tiie program for Monday night ’R as follows: Piano Solo, “Prelude C Minor." Rachmaninoff, Miss Olive Teeter Boys Quartette, “We Meet Again Tonight,” “Tho-e Pals of Ours,” Brown Greaton-Cole, “Marianina," Italian Popular song — James Enget'er, James Burk. Harold Me'chi, Paul Frosch, and Russel Jaberg. pianist. Piano Solo— Russel Jaberg. Address, “Effects of Modern Russia upon Future Literature and Art" —Rev. Rupnow. 'lie program for the evening b»s been arranged by the following committee: Mrs. Ralph Yager. Mr-'. Albert Coppess, Mrs. Henry Heller. Mrs. Paul Graham, Mrs. Herbert Curtis, Miss Katherine Hyland, Miss-Eloise Lewton, Miss Elizabeth Peterson and Miss Blanche McCrory. o • Col. Johnson Calls Sale at Versailles, O. Col. Roy Johnson has returned from Versailles, Ohio where he conducted a sale of registered Guesnsey cattle for Sherman Spillers. Twenty one head of Guernseys, most of them under one year old, sold for an average of $194 per head the top cow bringing $540 and was purchased by G. D. Compton of Oshville, N. L., Col Johnson sold the dam of this cow two years ago on the same farm for $565. The scarcity of pure bred Guernseys makes them very much in demand.

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Decatur, Indiana, Saturday, January 18, 1930.

Free to Rewed • • V. -'j® Gilda Gray, noted dancer, r”- | ported engaged to a New i York broker, Ih free to marry. . The clerk of the Circuit Court at I Port Washington, Wis., has announced that her divorce decree from Gil Boag, former cabaret | >wner, was final. MAYOR HALE IS FOUND GUILTY East Chicago Political Leader: Chief of Police Both Guilty Hammond. Ind.. Jan. 18. (U.R) The mayor, chief of police and 1" other residents of East Chicago were found guiltv of conspiring to violate the prohibition laws by n | jury in th? Federal distr et court I here last night. The jury deliberated 12 hours. Mt was the third trial growing out of a special grand jury investigation of eraft and liquor corruption I ! n northern Indiana. The grand J juvv returned 300 indictments. I Mayor Raleigh P. Hale and Chief of Police James W. Regan were free on $20,000 bonds today, and ; PlTllip Collenger, said to he an agent of the Al Capone gang, was required to post $25,000 bond. Four defendants, including Sob dad Moreno, a woman, were acquitted. Cases against three others had been dropped and four had been freed previously by instructions of Judge Thomas W. Slick. Among the 13 others convicted were Nick Sudovich, known as the “king of bootleggers” in Indiana, and other liquor and gambling overlords, as well as several members of the East Chicago police department. 0 French Optimistic Paris, Jan. IS—(UP) —Expressing the greatest optimism over prospects of a successful conclusion to th=> London naval conference. Foreign Minister Asistide Briand and his corps of experts left Paris anoon today for. the British capital. "Either premier Taidieu or I” he said, “will alternately be at Paris and London.” The group of naval experts head ed by Geoiges Leygues, Minister of the Navy, leaves for England at 4 P. M. today. Ruth Bryan Owen Makes Own Plea Washington, Jan. IS —(UP) — A dramatic personal plea for the right to retain her seat in the house which lias been challenged on the ground she does not possess the necessary citizenship reqqulrements was made before an elections subcommittee of the hoube today by Mrs. Ruth Bryan Owen, daughter of the late William Jennings Bryan 0 DRY FIGHT IS OPENED TODAY LaGuardia, Republican Is Leader of Wet Forces In Lower House Washington, Jan. IS. —(U.R) —The constitutionality of tiie 18th amendment was challenged in tiie house today by the west enthusiast, Ren. Fiorello L>a Kuardia, Repn., N. Y. La Guardia lodged a point of order against the $15,000,000 apprlation for the prohibition enforcement unit contained in the treasury and post office department appropriation bill now pending before the house. The New Yorker made an exI tensive technical and’ legal argument contending that the states did not properly ratify the eighteenth amendment. (CONTINUED ON PAGE FIVE)

SEN. PITTMAN’S HOME IS BURNED Home is ( ompletelv Destroyed by Flames Which Spread Rapidly Washington. Jan. 18 (U.R) Sen. Ken Pittman, Nevada, was driven out into the worst blizzard of the winter with his wife today when his beautiful home was destroyed by an ear’y morning fire. The fire was just beginning to roar through a second floor room ; when Pittman and his wife were warned and fed outside to safety. ' The early warning was fortuitous ) ’or tiie senator because the flames spread rapidly and the 18-room mansion burned to tiie ground Jepite heroic efforts by firemen. Senator Pitman estimated the f loss at $150,000, none of which is | •overed by insurance. The firemen not only battled the r’ames during a blinding snow-1 torm. but were numbed by bitter "old. An added handicap wan the listance to the nearest fire plug. Three firemen were injured. One mfferad a dislocated shoulder, another a sprained wrist and a third va - overcome by smoke. The cause of the fire was unde- , termined. Investigation indicated it started near a fireplace on the second floor. The principal loss came in the destruction of valuali'e works of art, tapestries and furniture. The home had been furnished with French, Italian and early English pieces, obtained by the Pittmans -luring their travels abroad. Six police dogs were the only occupants of the house when the Senator and Mrs. Pittman return-1 ed about 1 am. from a dinner given in honor of former Senator Peter Gerry of Rhode Island. Pittman discovered the blaze several hours later. The firemen were injured by an explosion, believed to have, been canned by the formation of gas due to the mminting heat. o Coste Breaks Record Paris, Jan 18.—(U.R)—At 915 ■> m.. today. Dleudonne Coste had broken two world records for flights carrying a half-ton load, when lie completed his fiftheenth lap on the Nimes-Narbonne course. Coste had passed the record of the Germans Schnarbcle and Loose, with a distance of 3.759 kilometers igainst 2.735, and had maintained tn average speed of 214 kilometeis an hour as against the German, Steimdorff's average of 205 kilometers an hour. JOE NIERMEYEH TO LEAVE CITY Receives Appointment To Study Casualty Insurance Business — Joe Niermeyer. of Graham and Walters Co., of this city will leave Monday for Indianapolis where he will be associated w’ilth Landers and Landed, state managers for Metropolitan Insurance Co., where he will take a six-week study course in casualty insurance, it was announced today. After completing the course Mr. Nii nneyer will return to this city where he will have charge of the jcsualty department of Graham and Walters Co. Mr. Niemeyer lias been in the insurance business for seveial years. Landers and Ixmder.s offer each year an opportunity for a limited 'lumber of insurance men throughout the state to' study various branches of insurance under their supervision. Mr. Niermeyer was appointed from a great number of ai> plicants. # —- : • • i TRIXIE ALIVE! I ' I Waukegan, 111., Jan IS.-r-j (U.R; — A week «.to, George | Van Valkenburg chloroform- | ed his police dog, Trixie, be- | cause she was ill. He postponed burial because the ground was frozen. Yesterday he dug a grave, j despite the hard ground and | went to get Trixie’s body. | As lie took a blanket from j | around'her, the dog blinked her eyes and got up. A veterinarian was called. ! I « —♦

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H. M. OEVOSS TO RUN FOR JUDGE I’ormer Decatur Mayor And Attorney Seeks Democratic Place Hubei' M. D'Voss, attorn v of Deeatur announced today that he would seek the nomination on the I j Demociiutic ticket, for Judge of the Adams Circuit Comt subject to the dec’Hion of the vo ers at the Demo-1 cratlc Primary election to be hel I j j next May. 1 Mr. DeVoss has been a resident l | of the city since 1883 and has been | 'a men.h'-r of the Adams County Bar for twenty nine years. Since 1901 !he has been engaged as court re porter of the Adams Circuit Court, and in th? practice of law wi h his father, the late L. C. DeVoss. He [has also been admitted to the Supi rente and Appellate Court Bar. and ! is a member of the Indiana State i Bar Association. For many ytsars ho has been affiliated with the Democratic par'y, and has been active in public and political affairs, and served as Mayor of Decatur from 1922 to 1926 being succeeded by the present Mayor. H > stated that he believed his experience in legal affairs and his standing as a citizen and a lawyer would recommend him to the voters of Adams Coun'y. He further stated that he had never been a candidate for county office and that in the near future he would make an active canvas of the county, and would continue in the campaign for th? election of a complete Democratic ticket. Huntington Man Is Suicide Victim i Huntington. Ind., Jan. 18.--(U.R) i —George Anderson, 72, pioneer resident of Huntington county, committed suicide yesterday by slashing his throat with a butcher kn'fe. No reason was indicated for the act. : LOCAL LADY'S FATHER DIES William J. Foor, Father of Mrs. John Spahr is Heart Disease Victim William Jerome Foor. G 9, father of Mrs. John Spahr of this city. ?nd resident of Willshire Township, Van Wert County, Ohio, died at hist home four miles west of Ohio City. Ohio, last evening, following an attack of heart trouble. Mr. Foor had lieen to Ohio City yesterday and on his return home became ill. passing away at 6:45 o'clock last evening. Mr. Foor is the son of Joseph end Sarah Foor, both of whom are deceased. He was born in Fairfield County. Ohio, June 21, 1860, moving to his present home shortly after, where he has engaged in farming. He was a member of the Bethel United Brethren Church and was a devout Christian. His wife. Annabelle Foor, survives him as do his eight children. They are as follows: Mrs. John Spahr of tliis city; Miss Agnes Foor at home; Mrs. Margaret Akom. Ohio City, Ohio; Mrs. Florence Stover, Rockford, Ohio; Mrs. Bernice Brubaker, Van Wert. Ohio; Mrs. Inis Schaadt, Fostoria. Ohio; Mrs. Josephine Cribbs. Middletown, Ohio; Dr. Clifford G. Foor, Cincinnati, Ohio. Two boys preceded their father in death. Six brothers and four sisters also survive Mr. Foo.r and are: Mrs. Emma Murphy, Van Wert, Ohio; Henry Foor, Paulding, Ohio; Mrs. Mary Seelye, Belding, Michigan: John Foor, Mercer, Ohio; Frank Foor. Dayton, Ohio; Mrs. Ella Dougal, Cavett, Ohio; Bert and Jess Foor, Ohio City, Ohio; Mrs. Ollie McCrory, Ohio City, Ohio; and George Foor of Pleasant Mills. Twenty-three grandchildren also (CONTINUED ON PAGE FIVE) Zeppelin To Make Another Ocean Trip Friedrichshafen, Germany, Jan. 13 (UP)—Commander Hugo Eckener announced today that the dirigible Graft Zeppelin will make a transAtlantic flight early next May from Friedrichshafen to Seville. Spain; Pernambuco and Rio De Janeiro, Brazil. The trip will not be extended to Buenos Aires. However, Eckener said.

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Mcßride Plans Huge War Chest for Dry League k k Plans for raising a $50,000,000 "war chest” for use in the next ten years were announced by General Superintendent F. Scott Mcßride and other Anti-Saloon League officials at the twentyfourth annual convention of the league held in Detroit, Mich. MAG DONALD IS HOST TO GROUP — American Delegates Arc Guests of British Premier in London London, Jan. 18.—(U.R) —Premier J. Ramsay MacDonald received the ent’re American delegation to the London naval conference as his residence. No. 10 Downing street, at noon today. Tiie delegates, arrayed in customary diplomatic style, wearing morning coats and toppers, arrived at Downing street at 11:55 a. m., shortly after Miss Ishbel MacDonald, tiie premier's daughter, made her entrance. A small crowd was present in the historic street, as the Americans approached the traditional home of British premiers. Before entering the building, tiie delegates posed for a group photograph. The Americans were entertained by the premier for an hour, emerging from Downing street at 1 p. m„ highly pleased with the cor diality of their reception. Secretary Stimson, who headed the visiting party and introduced them to Premier MacDonald, appeared much refreshed by his night's rest. Except to say that the delegation had met not only the premier but th entire official British delegation, he declined to discuss tiie meeting. — , — 0 — It was officially announced th'it Prime Minister MacDonald will re ceive all delegates to th? conference at 10 a. m. Monday. The preliminary visits today attracted a small crowd to No. 13 Downing street, including a few young women. They waited on tile sidewalk across tiie street while the delegates visited the prime minister. One cockney bystander, seeing automobiles parked outside the fore gn office decorated with Stars and Stripes, said: “I never thought I'd see the American flag on Downing street.” (CONTINUED ON PAGE FIVE) o Warsaw Firemen Who Quit, Join Again Warsaw. Ind., Jan. IS—(U.R) Fifteen of the 35 former members of ♦ lie Warsaw volunteer fire department, who resigned two weeks ago after the city council appointed two new truck drivers, have accepted the invitation of Chief Charles B. Moon to rejoin the organization. A new department will be organized by Chief Moon, the men to be selected from a list submitted by the city council. There have been no fires in Warsaw since the volunteer fire department walked out.

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16 BELOW ZERO IS REGISTERED IN COMMUNITY Coldest Weather of Season Arrives During Friday Night: No Relief FLOOD WATERS ARE RECEDING Detalur mid noi'lliern Intli■>na citizens shivvered when the'- awakened this morning ' to find this imi't of the state I in the ffrin of the worst cold Iwuve of the winter. Temper•dures dropped al 1f» degrees he ow zero in Adams county and till northern Indiana rent 'fed siih-zero weather. Street thermometers in Decatur registered 13 degrees below zero nt 10:30 o'clock this morning, ami the sun which broke through on several occasions failed to force th? mercury upward. Cold weather was forecast for the week-end and no break was , expected for at least 24 hourn, according to state weather forci casteis. The central part of the state suffered along with northern Indiana and flood-laden Southern Indiana reported zero temperatures. The severe drop in the temperature came rather suddenly. At 4 o'clock Friday afternoon street thermometers registered about 15 degrees above zero in Decatur. At 11 o'clock last night the temperature had dropped to zero and at 4:30 o'clock this morning local | readings were from 16 to 22 degrees below zero. The mercury failed to advance much and sub-zero weather was predicted for the rest of the day. ' The cold weather caused many flotxled roads to be covered with ; ce and hundreds of acres of faim lands were covered with ice. Berne and Geneva reported suitzero weather and while the north part of the state apparently was differing the most, the entire state reported sudden drops in tempera ' ture readings. Hundreds of local automobile , owners stormed local garages and i service stations today with frozen radiators and gasoline feed lines. ' The weather change had not been predicted and many auto owners ' were caught unaware, with little or no alcohol in the radiators of their cars. Tow-in trucks worked all day pulling frozen cars into garages anil extra men were necessary tit all garages to care for the rush of business. Many automobile radiators were bursted, while ‘ others were badly frozen. Several motorists reported that their gaso’ine lines froze solidly while thev were driving and others reported battery-freeze-ups. Several inches of' snow covered the e< unty and in Deeatur the snow-plow worked all morning sweeping sidewalk paths for pedestrians. Few people were on the (CONTINUED ON PAGE FIVE) FORMER LOCAL LADY EXPIRES Mrs. Emma Hedrick is Victim of Death at Her Ypsilanti, Mich. Home Death claimed one of Decatur’s : fo.mer residents, Mrs. A. B. Heil > lick at Ypsilan’i, Michigan, Friday. $ Mrs. Hedrick is lietter known • Emma Johnson H.'drtck, tiie daughter of J. T. and Minerva Johnson, and siste; of Mrs. George Ruckman of tilts city. A father, mother and two' brothers Willis and Edward'; three sisters lida, Stella and Mae pieI ceded her in death. Mrs. Hedrick was th? oldest daughter of s</ven girls four of ; whom are living. They are Mrs. Adda Haley of Muncie; Mrs. George Ruckman of this city; Mrs. Charles 1 Johnson north of the city and Mrs. Rosa Wilder of Mishawaka. ’ Mrs. Hedrick lived in Decatur until she married Alb rt Hedrick, who ' survives, and ipent the remainder of her life in Michigan. Funeial services will be held at 1 the home in Ypsilanti at 10 o'clock Monday morning. One daughter, Miss Eth 1 Hedrick. a liigh school teaches at Ann ■ Arbor, Michigan and one stepdaughter survive.