Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 28, Number 19, Decatur, Adams County, 22 January 1930 — Page 1

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M CHILDREN Mild in dhio ■b ACCIDENT fp Train Strikes Bus Hm*a Crossing I ■Thi; Morninjj «r IS C.iNC BROHED V an. UR>_ . s fast l t rashed into a |H;.: school children kiihnjr nine pupils 1 I’ild. Mary Davitl- " SB; ml. She was hurHH pital in a critical ► ■rd • to study th" heavy weltlit the of lots irozr-ii moisture ■■ the ill > Park village, t'.iil- . : •v.irttiUK sign, ill" school upon tragedy. The Irani screamed so -"it motorists on the 'd llctn hocks away I his train sevci.il - beyond the scene train proceeded '•> ■ re Hand was reliev'd took charge. Hand ' to return n'' the acrid -! ’ ■ from Berea took tic .die to a hospital where 'li.it all I nr three had Two of these died a ,unity prosecutor Ra v three investigators witli instructions to it graphs and gather evi efficials checked the roll ■Si. 1 !' parents hurried to the to claim their own. The H 'live were the parents of Walter. 12, and ills sister, Walter. 9. ' 'ic second disastrous nc ' ■ a school bus in til's dis- ■ a month-. A school ing a iiigli school basketto Burbank, in Wayne was struck by a passenger Slireve and nine children - ate public utilities comfound the driver was not because he could not Hlo ard the whistles of the Gty Utaffs Enjoying Vacation In California 1' i ly Democrat has received '' I'nm Dr. J. C. Orandstaff, Adams county coroner. B'i'h Mis. Orandstaff is winter19' Kalita Barbara, Cal., stating Bln"' are enjoying the winter Mrs. Orandstaff will reune in the spring. I*o ENDURANCE I IE RS TO AID W Take Food and S lothing to Flood Sufferers Soon Bianapodlis, Jan. 22. —(U.f)— Walter R. Peck and Hk Oenaro, Flamingo endtirflight pilots, took off from rM I n Field, Fort Benjamin Harat noon today, in a National gß'l observation plane hound At. Vincennes the was to ire loaded witli c.lothr R B blankets, food and medicine !■? dropped at Claypbol Hill. fH Decker, where XSO persons B marooned and in neetl of I ■ report from Vincennes earlier fM'e day said a plane had droppfß>ackages of food and bundles to a groftp of refttM at Orrville, in Decker town- ■- The plane was not from Fort {■jamin Haroi,s*>n, as the report army officers said, and Bxtinckd ON PAGE FIVE)

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MAGLEY WOMAN EXPIRES TODAY I Mrs. Katherina Conrad.Bo, at Homo of Daughter in Fort Wayne Mm. Kath ?rlwi Conrad, 80. for j many years a resident of Magley ' died a' the home of her daughter, ■I Mrs. Elizabeth McGill. 1016 Fairj Hold Avenue, Fort Wayne, this ! "'ortiing at four o'clock. Death was 1 ' lne to apoplexy from Which she i J suffered for the last two weeks, j | Vrs. Conrad was boi n in Ger- 1 i many, October 9, 1850 and was the , only ctiild of Jacob and Katherina j Kefn Forty-two years ago she came o this country and since that time v lived in Magley. until recently. j Sh“ was united in marriage to l Fred Conrnd who died 22 years ago. I To this union were born the fol-1 ’owing children who sutvive. Mrs.! Dan Weiuler of this city, Mrs. Elizabe'h McGill of Fort Wayne, Mr?-.| ' Emma Kuehn, of D troit, Michigan Mrs. Katherine Hendticks of San i Diego, California, and Jacob Con- > rad. at home in Magley. Thirteen 1 grandchildren and four great grnnd--1 children also survive. Mrs. Conrad had been in failing , Heal li sot the last five years and sot th> last four months lived with hi-r daughter at Fort Wayne. Her' final illne-’s began two weeks ago. Funeral services will be held Friday afternoon at 1:30 o'clock at the , home in Magley and at 2 o'clock at . the Magley R-formed Church, where the deceased was a member. Tlte Rev. .David Grether, pastor of 'lie Reformed Church will officiate Ituriul will he made in the church cemetery at Magley. MEASURE WOULD ENLARGE FUNDS New Bill Calls for sll,000,000 For Dry Enforcement Washington, Jan. 22.~ <U.R) -Approximately $11,000,000 would he made available for the justice department's prohibition enforcement activities next year under tfle state, justice, commerce and labor department appropriation bill reported to’ the House today. If the measure is approved as expected, the House will have appropriated a total of about $4■4,GOO,OOO to make the Volstead law effective in the fiscal year 1931. The treasury department bill, passed last week, carried $16,000,000 for the coast guard's antismuggling operations, $15,000,000 for the prohibition bureau and $4000,000 for the customs bureau’s prohibition activities. According to Chairman Wood of (CONTINUED ON PAGE FIVE) Former Local Lady Dies In Arkansas Mrs. Lydia Martz received word of the death of her sister. Mrs. Elizabeth Wagner-Middleton of Paragould, Arkansas, who died Sunday morning. Her husband. James Middleton died about two years ago. Both were former residents of Decatur, having lived here 25 years ago. Mrs. Middleton was the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. James Wagner. Interment will be made in Paragould.

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I)r. F. A. Cook To Regain Freedom Kansas City, Mo., Jan. 22 (U.R) The Kansas City Journal-Post said in a copyrighted article today that the federal parole board hae “acted favorably” upon a parole for Dr. Frederick A. Cook, one time Arctic explorer serving a 14vear sentence at Leavenworth penitentiary on charges of misuse of the mails. The newspaper said the board "had recommended to Attorney General Mitchell that Cook be paroled.” ThP three members of the tmard re Warden Thomas H. White, A. if. McCormick, assistant sunerlni tendon' of prisons from Washington. and Dr. C. A. Bennett, prison ! physician. W. 0, M. L. HOLD j DISTRICT MEET More Than 100 Ladies Attend Annual Session In Decatur Approximately 100 ladies from the various cities of district three of the. Women Os Mooseheart Legion arrived in ttiis city tills afternoon to attend the annual meeting held in the K. of C. Hall. Chapter! from Auburn, Fort Wayne, Huntington, Bluffton. Columbia City, Angola, and Sturgis, Michigan, were represented in the meeting today. Visitors from the Van Wert, Ohio, chapter were a'eo present. The local ladies are hostesses to the visiting chapters. ' Mrs. B. J. Breiner, Senior Regent of the district had charge of j he afternoon session which began lat 2:30 o'clock. Mrs. Audy Zeser j is treasurer of the district, is the other local lady to hold an office in the district organization. The afternoon session was devoted to the regular routine of business and a general social. Mrs. Albert Glass and Mrs. Doy Lhamon were on the prize committee for the afternoon. The drill team from Huntington had charge of initiatory exercises for several candidates. Mrs. Bud White, Mrs. David Teeple and Mrs. William No'l were the local candidates for initiation and several ladies from the visiting chapters also were initiated. At six o’clock tonight the Dorcas Cle « of the Evangelical Church will serve a banquet for visitors to be given at the Evangelical church basement. Following the banquet (he ladies will enjoy a social evening at the K. of C. Hall. Games of Bunco under the direction of Mrs. Bert Haley and Mrs. Andy Zeser will be enjoyed. Refieshments will be served following the games and will be in charge of Mrs. Bernard Loshe and her committee. Personal Injunction Held Unconstitutional Omaha, Nel>., Jan. 22 —(U.R) — The personal injunction feature of the national prohibition act was held to he unconstitutional in a ruling today by Federal District Judge J. W. Woodrough. Judge Woodrough asked the department of justice to take a case involving this issue for final ruling. Federal District Judge T. C. Munger of Lincoln, had ruled exactly opposite in another case.

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SICKNESS ADDS NEW TERROR TO FLOODED AREA Pneumonia Victims Are Reported in Southern * Part of Indiana - -♦ RESCUERS ARE UNDER HANDICAP Vincennes. Ind., Jan. 22. U.R) i Sickness and hunger demanded: full attention of the American Red | Cross as it continued its struggle aguinst stubborn harriers of ice and water in Ihe flood zone of th*‘ Wabash and White rivers today. As relief crews fought to homes | hilhrrto unreached since levee breaks early last week, cases of utmost privation were found, ('litical illness and depletion of flood stocks were revealed. Twenty-two cases of illness, some serious, were reported in one small locality in the town of Orrville, by Dr. E. S. Small, Decker, who made a tour of the flooded district yesterday with Ray Sisson, Decker. As only one section of the town was reached, there was no way of appraising the health s tuation elsewhere. Four persons seriously ill with pneumonia weie found in one home. Nine cases of influenza and nunifroils eases of severe colds which threatened to develop into pneumonia or flu, were found. The grocery store at Decker was hare of staples, and had only a small supply of odds and ends in edibles, which was being distributed sparingly. Unless help arrives to all famines soon, actual starvation is threatened. Dr. Small said. At present food is carried via Vincennes, in long, tedious trips thence by boats, and many isloated homes have been completely missed. Additional charges of dynamite, placed in the hope of breaking levees at the lower end of tlie flood zone and allowing water to flow back into the Wabash river failed to accomplish that purpose. Citizens long the lower Wabash had ceased to worry over the pros- j pect of a wall of water which may be released with breaking of an ice gorge fit Hyatt’s Ferry. The river had gone below 22 feet at Vincennes, and it was Improbable that a break in the ice could send sufficient water down to again (CONTINUED ON PAGE THREE) DRY TRANSFER IS APPROVED Mellon Endorses Plan to Place Enforcement With Justice Dept. Washington, Jail. 22.—(U.R) legislation providing for transfer of prohibition enforcement from the treasury to the justice department was warmly endorsed today by Secretary Mellon who appeared before the house expenditures committee which is considering tile proposal recommended by President Hoover's law enforcement commission. “The treasury,” Mellon saitl, “(s responsible primarily for managing the finances of the nation, collecting the revenues, and protecting the integrity of tlie revenue laws and other currency. I know of no reason why the treasury should be charged with enforcing an unrelated penal statute.” Inasmuch as administration of the permissive system for industrial alcohol is already lodged in the treasury , Mellon said he thought its retention there desirable from an administrative standpoint. He added, however, that functions of this nature were not precisely related to treasury fiscal activities. Evangelicals Plan Mid-Week Meeting There will be a special evangelistic service at the Evangelical church tonight at 7:15. A large chorus choir will sing. Ernest Foreman will lead the congregational singing. The Rev. M. W. Sunderinan will preach on “The Pearl of Great Price.” The public is most cordially invited.

jMacy Conveyors, Ine., Holds Annual Meeting At the annual meeting of Ihe stockholders of the Macy Conveyor i Company, held Tuesday afternoon I thi' ImUiil of directors elected Ini eluded I. W. Macy, l.eo Yager, T. C. wet ts, ,W. A. Klepper, J. W. Tyndall 110. (!. Mistele, of Detroit, C. M. Root Del i oii, John O'Conner, Fort Wayne j land J. 11. Heller. Mr. Macy was rrelec ed president and Leo Yager secretary-treasurer. The company las been operating six mouths and turning out machines about three mouths, indications for a rapid growth i lie coming year being splendid. TARDIER SAYS DIFFERENCES HAVE ARISEN Believes England And United States Differ On Parley Plans SOME PROBLEMS ARE IRONED OUT London, Jan. 22 —(U.PJ-The British and American governments failed to reach an accord on naval policy as a result of Premier J. Ramsay MacDonald's recent visit to Washington, and today are farther apart than ever, Premier Andre Tard’eu of France told the United Press in an interview today. Assuming the role of a mediator between the two delegations. Tardleu said he "must spend the day between MacDonald and Henry L. Stimsnn in an effort to reconcile American and British theories on several outstanding points.” Tardiett further insisted that the "breach” between Ihe two English speaking nations actually has widened since Ihe American navy department and the British admiralty experts assumed a prominent part ill tlie negotiations. Tlie French delegation left their headquarters shortly after 11 a. m. to go to No. 10 Downing street, (CONTINUED ON PAGE THREE) Says Wright Is “Framc-up Victim” Indianapolis, Jan. 22 —(U.R) —A move “to clear tlie good name of Frank E. Wright was started today by C. E. Crump, Chicago, who was brought to Indianapolis from Chicago to answer charges of violating the Indiana securities law. Crump, who was president of the defunct Indiana Real Estate Securities corporation, Indianapolis, said Wright! state representative and author of the states "bone dry law" was “the victim of a frame-up. He said that he, too, was a victim of “certain officers" of the company, and that both he and weight were innocent of any wiong. Ice Cutting Starts At Geneva Quarry The Geneva Ice Co., of which Ray McCollum, of the Daily Democrat is a member, was busy ull day today s orlng ice at the Geneva storehouses. The task of filling th" hire > sheds witli ice will lie completed in another day or two. The freeze of the last several days has made ice at tlie Geneva gravel pit. which tlie ice concern leases, of a suitable thickness for cutting. FORMER LOCAL LADY EXPIRES Sarah Jane DeVinney, 86, Dies Tuesday at Home of Her Son Mrs. Sarah Jane DeVinney, aged 86, succumbed to a complication of diseases Tuesday at the home ot a son, James DeVinney, 162 East Leith street. Fort Wayne. Mrs. DoVinney has been ill for tlie last five months. The deceased resided in Decatur and Fort Wayne for the last 70 years and was a member of the Women's Relief Corps in this city. Mrs. DeVinney’s husband, Andrew Jackson DeVinney. died 19 years ago. Surviving besides the son in Fort Wayne are Harold DeVinney of Chicago and a daughter Miss Bertha DeVinney of Fort Wayne, and three grand children.

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NEW LIGHT AND : POWER LINE TO BE BUILT HERE j City Service Will Be Extended Southwest of City to .‘lO Farms CONTRACTS ARE SIGNED TUESDAY A light and power line will lie built southwest of Decatur to sonm "lout 30 farms and farm homes witli power and light from tlie City light and power .plant, tlie roniract being signed by a representaI Mve group of farmers with the | i'ity council last evening. About five mites of line will Is* '•onstrueted, beginning at the John S. Myew home, west of Decatur and extending through the territory to lie served. Tlie line will lie constructed by the farmers and 'lien turned over to the city of Decatur, who will own and maintain it and supply power and light current to tlie patrons along the line. Between 25 and 30 farmers are | asking for electric current. Twelve j farmers signed the contract last j night and tlie additional signatures! will he secured within a few days. 1 The city of Decatur will own the j line and have supervision over it j and will probably extend it as de-1 mauds are made for electric service. The city light and power plant | serves several rural lines in Adams county at present. Although the Plea-ant Mills line was purchased sometime ago by the Insult interests, the city plant is still, furnishing power to the line. NEW GROCERY TO BE OPENED Ed Miller Store Will Have Formal Opening Next Saturday Announcement came today from Ed Miller that he will open for business Saturday his modern, new-ly-pquipped grocery store at 937 North Second Street. The building was recently Jeused from Sam Acker and lias undergone several changes, Mr. Miller stated today. A new basement and kitchen have been added to the building. The interior has been redecorated. A refrigerator which together with tlie *•? cream cabinet will be controlled by a frlgidare system that has been installed. A complete line of groceries and other merchandise will lie ready for he opening, Saturday. Mr. Miller will conduct a free delivery service and the store will remain open on Sunday and evenings He stated today that Mrs. Miller and their two daughters, Magdeline and Virginia will assist in operating tlie business. Besides groceries, light lunches and short orders will be served, and gasoline and oil will be sold. Oscar L. Bristol Adjudged Insane Oscar L. Bristol, of northeast of Decatur was today adjudged insane and ordered committed to Richmond State Hospital at Richmond, Ind., Biistol is 69 years of age. Sheriff Hollingsworth was called to tlie Bristol home several days ago, where the man stated lie wrs out of work and was preparing to “butcher” one of his children. Ho was brought to the Adams county jail and lias been locked in the insane ward since. Mr. Bristol will be taken to Richmond either Thursday or Friday, it was indicated today. o, Josephine Alger Is On Trial At Wabash Wabash, Ind., Jan. 22. —(U.R) — Josephine M. Alger, wife of Gene Alger, now serving a 15-year sentence for bank robbery at Paris Crossing, went on trial in Wabash circuit court today charged with having aided her husband in robbing a bank at Lafontnine last, October. The court began the task of selecting tlie jury from a special venire of 15 men. Mrs. Alger lias been in the Wabash jail for a month, unable to provide $15,000 bond.

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Held in Hank Raid nggp*-H Mrs. Theresa Sutton Woodard, 1 who is being held in connection with a laid on the Exchange bank of Clayton, Mich. Two men who j pleaded guilty to their part in the robbery were sentenced to Jackson prison for forty years. ! MRS. J, W. BRYAN DIES TUESDAY . -— — — Wife of Late Democratic Leader Succumbs at California Home Hollywood, Calif., Jan. 22.—(U.R) ■ —Tlie wife who was William Jen-1 nings . Bryan’s inspiration through I three unsuccessful campaigns for the presidency, seven national conventions and the trying days of' the secretary of state's df?d in the home of her daughter here last night after a short illness. A heart ailment, complicated by ! I arthritis, caused the death of j Mary Baird Bryan, throe and a half years after tier husband died in Dayton. Tenn.. where he made his last speeches fighting evo'.u i lion in the Scopes trial. Definite funeral arrangements' were not announced, pending word ; from Ruth Bryan Owens, another daughter, who followed tier father's footsteps in politics and was elected to congress from Florida. Tentative arrangements, however, called for services here Friday. Then the ashes will be taken to Arlington Cemetery In Washington to rest beside thoee of the husband whom she advised through' 35 years of political strife. Since tlie sultry Sunday after(CONTINUED ON PAGE FIVE) ZERO WEATHER TO CONTINUE Temperature Reported Lowest In Middlewest And Southern Section Chicago, Jan. 22—(UP) —Waves j or’Arctic weather rolled southward over the middle west today from j Canada and sent the mercury below I the zero mark with an obligato of snow and sleet. From the far northwest to the Great Lakes and southward into Texas, blizzards howled across plains and mountains. In tlie Chicago territory temperatures dipped to 12 below zero as a prelude to the fast approaching hour when the storms will race eastward and grip that region. The cold wave brought death and suffering with it, the former taking a toll of two in Chicago and one in Texas and the latter in the flooded sections of Arkansas and Indiana, approximately 500 families fwere marooned in Arkansas with the cold wave hearing down on them as they used up their scant supplies of food and firewood. Almost 200 persons suffered in isolated farmhouses tirouiid Vim cennes, Indiana, marooned in hackwater from the Wabash and White rivers, made almost impassable to boats by cakes ol' ice. On a kiioil near Vincennes, the only dry place in the vicinity, 64 persons, 15 of them children, were isolated with water on all sides. The blizzard running in Ihe vail of sub-zero mercury readings took its wrath out on Kansas, Missouri, Oklahoma and Northern Texas, stopping trains and marooning passengers.

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PERMISSION OF STATE BOARD TO RE ASKED SOON New Rates Will Affect All Users of 200 KWH or More A Month BIDS FOR TRUCK ARE RECEIVED The city council voted lust nijilil to yiimt another reduction in power rates of the City laylit and Power Plant and petition for an adjustj meat of the rates will be | inside to tlie Indiana Public j Service Commission next i week. The new schedule of rates does not affect the litllit [rates or the minimum power rate. I tlie reduction being made after ihe first 200 KWH used per mouth and up to 100.000 KWH and on all over 100,200 KWH used per month. The proposed changes are: First 200 KWH uned per month, I 5c per KWH. . Next 100.000 KWH used per month. 2’4c per KWH. All over 100,200 KWH used per j month, l%c per KWH. Minimum charge of 50c per HP | connected per month. I Tlie reduction comes in the first 1100,000 KWH used per month, the rates now effective being: First 200 KWH used per month, 5c tier KWH. Next 50,000 KWH used per month, 2)£c per KWH. All over 50,000 KWH used per month, 2'4e per KWH. Minimum charge of 50c per HP i per month. U ers of more than 200 KWH per month will be iienefited by the reduced rates, the 2 1 ic applying on. the first 100,000 after the minimum 200 KWH used, wlifle another reduction in given to those users who use more than 100.200 KWH lier month, tlie low rate iieing 1 "ic per KWH on the second 100,000 KWH. Application will be made by the city council to tlie Indiana Public ! Service Commission to reduce the ! rates at once. Members of tho citv council. Mayor George Krick land City Attorney J. Fred Fruchte will go to Indianapolis January 28 or 29th and file the petition. Council Matters The bonds of Senlius Melchi, city policeman; J. Fred Fruchte, city attorney and Mrs. Ada L. Martin, city treasurer, wore filed and approved. M. J. Mylott. superintendent Qf the electric light department notified the council that a street light hud lieen placed on North Nintli (CONTINUED ON PAGE FIVE) Local Man Attends Chicago Radio School Gerald Cole of the Decatur Electric Shop is in Chicago this week, attending tlie Majestic Radio Sales School. Mr. Col* and Paul Saurer, | another member of the local firm, I won free ti ips to tlie school toy ex- | reeding their sales quota on radios |in Adams county. The tadio school is a complete 'course in selling, servicing and inj railing radios. Trips through the I. adio factory also are included in the school. ED H. GILLIOM SEEKS OFFICE Will be Democratic Candidate For Monroe Tow nship Trustee Edwin H. Gilliom, Monroe township farmer for the last 30 years has announced his intentions of being a candidate for the office of Monroe township trustee, subject to the decision of Democratic voters at the May primary. Mr. Gilliom is the first to announce for the office in Monroe township. At present Gilliom is a member of the Monroe township advisory board and prior to that, office he lias never held public office, he stated today. Mr. Gilliom, who resides on Federal toad 27, a mile north of Bertie stated that h* planned to make a thorough canvas of ull Democratic voters of Monroe township and that if nominated he would continue his campaign for election next November.