Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 28, Number 24, Decatur, Adams County, 28 January 1930 — Page 1

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|f, CP OSS IS |mf o WITH ■ezzlement ■eta Man Arrested on ■o Indictments, Both ’ ■jr/iiu Same Offense ft-n is SI,OOO ■ IN EACH CASE I' Ho more nl H><’ I've inreturned by the Hmlier term of Hie A(l---■cmiiilv tzrantl uirv were H. l, M |> ie lodav with the W itter David (.loss Grill Ml. oil both inindictment charf'cs i^K 7/ h iih nl and while the hi : not made j. unili-nstiiod that belli .Il alleged inisnf money while X3^«.f ,. v , ,i president and ,H lhe Eastern Indiana ] Supply Co. (tail Hollingsworth Mr Cross at his Geneva mint at Sl.tHiO on each : ti.nilline $2.0011. Crosis furnished bond. The tiiat Cross shall bo -irrt .lay ■ February ,mirt ain't on each day >■ "nt l time of trial is set. ~- v.-r.il months Mr. ■ h: working for an oil ’ -tern Indiana. left territory to his work No date has' for Ins trials, but it is tlie I isos Will lie -et Hi -«i>i I-’. binary term opens. I'. 1 : tainst first two ;-rrestn five indictments reby the November grand HB Two Warrior-, were issued jl^Mtlici-’v am t the grand jury i but neither arrest has This fact would indi-j .■that the person or persons i wiimii the first two indict"‘ere returned were not m and their pt.‘sent locamiliitinent. which also in blank today has made public because the las not been returned. ‘Peculation lias been made the final indictment, is understood that no pule M w:;; si'en that indictment arrest is n >ade. — — B er Weather Is ■Forecast lor Tonight MBwapolis. .tan. 28. — (U.R)--throughout Indiana ’-'ill tall to between 10 and 1- S. weather bureau Ws so today, portion will probjK" av " temperatures varying ■ : ' while southwill be somewhat ls little likelihood of reported. Weath|K' r • s,ut " generally will be oiliier tomorrow. 11111ß MAKES DISBURSEMENT ft Funds Are ■stnbuted in Units I - Auditor Harlow fti' u r ? v e ™ ent of the comm °“ al bv c' 1 ' '" terest has been H, "unt.y Auditor Albert ■ Coni ‘ ' ° m ° re than $10.00" ft arc a" , 8ch ° 01 revenue. The St nnnii>L R ribute<l 011 the basis Hth. ° chi Wren of school ft follow peetlve taxin & unit■m amnn’ g amou * ts were disft(','>'Poratioris e : , ° W " ShiPS H)> Kirn o ’ .°' 65 i Jefferson Htet p $576.59; Monroe, St v ble ' ,751 ’ 32 = K; \v a s ar k ys - *518.39; Union. ■MS o j 4 ash ; Wash■iJ2.rl3n 61 ; Berne ’ SB9B - 81 : Defty" Andu 6 been mailetl by the Ke/" tor ‘° ,he tow " a hin V' Ws. treasurers of the

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Vows to Find Husband's Slayer fMrs. Mamie Lange, of Lawrenceburg, Ind., was sworn in recently to fill the unexpired term of her husband, the late Sheriff Herman Lange. Lange was shot dead two weeks ago. and Mrs. Lange has sworn she » not rest htj until the slayer, or slayers. are brought to justice. (International

LOCAL LAO IS j HIT BY AUTO Billy Schneider Receives Broken Leg While Coasting On Adams Street Billy Schneider, aged 7, son of Mrs Catherine Schneider, received a broken leg and other minor injuries at 5:30 o’clock last evening I when a car struck him as he was 'coasting on his sled at the inter- ; section of Fifth and Adams street. The lad was returning to his home on Adams street and as he crossed the street fell on his sled to coast on slippery pavement. As he was crossing the street two cars approached the intersection ' at the same time. | One of tlie drivers was blinded I by the bright lights of the other I car and as he swerved to one side of the street to miss the other car he struck the Schneider boy who had almost reached the sidewalk. Joe Johns who was standing nearby carried the boy to his home I where a physician was summoned. The lad was removed to the Adams County Memorial hospital l where an X-ray revealed that the left leg had been broken in two places. The leg was placed in a cast last evening and today the lad is reported to be resting well, and will probably be removed to his home in a few days. o RALPH MYERS SEEKS OFFICE Is Democratic- Candidate For Trustee of Hartford Township Ralph S. Myers, who resides in the center of Hartford township, today announced his intentions of becoming a candidate for the office of Hartfol.l township trustee, subject to the decision of Democratic voters at the May primal y election. Mr. Myers stated that he felt his residence at the center of the township would meet the approval of all voters and that he could operate the office of trustee with integrity and economy. The new candidate stated that he would make a thorough canvas of Democratic voters of the township between now and the primary elec-1 tion and that it nominated he would ' make a hard effort to win in the 1 general election next November. 1 0 Mrs. Sephus Melchi Is Seriously 11l i i Mrs. Sephus Melchi has been in a i serious condition since Saturday ! morning when she suffered a severe I heart attack. The attending phys’- ! clan stated that she was resting 1 easier today, but that her condition I remains critical. i o < Lodge Room Burns Vincennes, Ind.. Jan. 28.--(U.R) — J Fire caused $5,000 damage to the , Masonic lodge at Vincennes last £ night. Defective wiring was blarn- f ed. . It was the oldest Masonic. . lodge in Indiana. I

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Embezzler’s Bond Is Raised To SIO,OOO Muncie, Ind., Jan. 28 — (UP) — Bond in the case of \V. P. Noffsinger, 6<-year-od former Brethren | preacher who is charged with em-1 bezzlement, was raised to SIO,OOO in circuit court. Noffsinger's accounts during the' time he was secretary-treasurer of I the Tri-County Mutual protective! Association, were short $52.525.52.' an examiner said, lint he is sp-cifi-! cally charged with embeggling SBSO. Much of the money missing from the association's funds is alleged to have been spent by Noffsinger upon Mrs. Margaret Shaffer, Indianapolis and Terre Haute. He has a wife and (laughter in North Manchester. ——• — O " - - ■ Aid Confined Family Newcastle, Ind., Jan. 28 —(UP) — Kind-hearted neighbors braved zero weather to aid Mr. and Mrs. Charles Loer, east of Newcastle, confined to their home for two months by small pox and other illness. Twenty-five men cut and hauled 16 cords of wood to the Loer home, enough fuel to keep the unfortunate family the rest of the winter. The neighborhood women gathered at a nearby home and served a dinner for the men. 0 FARM BUREAU ASKS FOR AID Want Funds With Which to Rehabilitate Flood Sufferers of State Indianapolis. Jan. 28 —(Special)- - Local farm bureaus consisting of county and township units are being urged to contribute to a rehabilitation fund for more than 600 farm families in the flood regions of southwestern Indiana, who have lost their personal property and will need help to get a new stat", in fanning. A canvass of the flooded regions discloses that more than 2,000 families have been affected with losses and more than 600 of them will not be able to put in thel.’ spring crops without some assistance. These sufferers have lost all their feed supplies, a great amount of livestock, poultry and farming equipment. Overflow waters as deep as twelve feet in many places have mined thousands of acres of wheal fields' and corn standing in the fields which had not been harvested because it was of such quality that it was deemed better to allow’ it to remain on the stalk rather than to crib it. Stored food supplies have dwindled to naught and in many instances, much of it being ruined by the high waters and the balance having been distributed to refugees The executive committee of the Indiana Farm Bureau has deemed the need to be very urgent and thus has decided to make a strong appeal to all the affiliated local farm bureau units of the state to contribute to a rehabilation program. Representatives of the Far m Bureau find upon investigation that the flood waters are receding very slowly, the ice jams preventing the overflow waters from running back into the main streams. Many farm homes have been abandoned be- ' cause of the waters reaching into the second stories of houses and in many instances three to six families ! are quarered in a small home school house or church. , (CONTINUED ON PAGE THREE)

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Decatur, Indiana, Tuesday, January 28, 1930.

ISENIOR PUPIL D.C.H.S. LEADER FOR SEMESTER ♦ Helen Voglewede Makes Highest Average of All I). C. H. S. Pupils HONOR ROLLS ARE ANNOUNCED Miss Helen Voglewede, senior at Decatur Catholic high school with a total of .">3 points led all other Catholic high school pupils for the first semester of the school year in scholastic records, according to records announced today by the school supervisor, Sister M. Vera. The school has two honor rolls; one for high honors and one for those who achieved high records but not sufficient for high honors. To make the high honor roll, a pupil must make more than 88 per cent, in every subject and score at least 14 points. To achieve the honor roll a pupil must make more than 80 per cent.., in each subject and score at least 12 points. There are 29 pupils on the high i honor roll. They are: Seniors I Helen Vogelwede, Edith Lenger(CONTINUED ON PAGE SIX) 0 Dictator Os Spain Tenders Resignation Madrid, Spain, Jan. 28. —(U.R) — Premier Primo de Rivera, civil dictator of Spain since 1923, resigned today. His resignation was accepted by the king. The end of the dictatorship came with dramatic suddenness after; two days of uncertainty. The cabinet met this morning and at noon the premier met at the war office with important heads of the army. The entire cabinet also resigned. The cabinet will meet later today and officially announce the resignation. The king was expected to ask Denlasso Berenguer to form a new cabinet. If Berenguer refuses. Count Guaholoar may be asked to head the new cabinet. The meeting at the war office was attended by General Julio Ardanaz Crespo, minister of war! Jose San Jiurjo, director of the civil guard, and~ Gen. Emilio Bar- | rera, captain general of Catalonia, who arrived this morning from Barcelona. o PLANE MISHAP COSTS 5 LIVES Motor on Plane Fails and Ship Falls Killing All on Board Kansas City, Kan., Jan. 28 —(U.R) —A black mark on the snow in an open field here, marked today the place where five persons were crushed and burned to death in a flaming airplane. Pilot Dyke Laudeman, apparently struggling with a failing motor, had made an effort to land his Travelair Six passenger carrier at a time when he could see the swinging beacon and red markers of Fairfax Airport, his goal, just a mile away. The airplane which flew r from Wichita, Kan., last Monday, was behind schedule and darkness had closed in when the trouble developed. Laudeman, losing altitude according to witnesses, swung away from a building and went into a vertical bank, crashing from about 150 feet. The crew of a switch engine the scene said the craft was enveloped in flames before it fell. The motor was broken in half, both sections' digging into the hard ground. The steel framework, and undercarriage was twisted and charred. Everything else, including the bodies of the pilot and his four passengers, was burned. The dead were: Pilot Dyke Laudeman,i Kansas City, Kan. Passengers: Miss Mabgaret Dice, St. Joseph, Mo. C. R. McKinnon, Chicago, recently assigned as branch manager (CONTINUED ON PAGE TWO)

• —« Two War Veterans Cited For Bravery End Their Own Lives —<u.R>— I j Two mon who went through the L World war as American soldiers, and acquitted themselves well, |died in Indiana yesterday at their i own hands — each a loser in the post war period. George N. Wyant, 49, Lebanon, who won three citations for bravery under fire, shot himself at the home of his sister, Mrs. Ida I: Schmitt. 11l health, which origin- | ated in gas attacks in France, ■ caused the suicide. ! | John Stewart, 36, swallowed 'poison in his Oolitic home. He felt that he was losing his bat‘le > ' in civil life —unable to care for a wife, four small children, his father, sister and six brothers, on the salary of a workman in the quarI l ies. FLOODWATERS ARE RECEDING I I Wabash and White Rivers Reach Normalcy, Report Says Vincennes. Ind., Jan. 28 —(U.R) — Wabash and White rivers were approaching their normal levels today, well within their lianks, having dropped more than four feet since Saturday. Near zero temperatures of the last few days held the back waters . blocked by ice in the lowlands, while the water in the river beds receded rapidly. It was not expected that lowland inundation would be much relieved until a ! continued thaw set in to remove the ice barriers. Relief workers were cheered by the falling rivers as they <x>ntin- ; tied to keep hundreds of families in the flooded southwestern Indiana district supplied with food and clothing . Receding flood stages opened new paths to marooned families and released many refugees from water-bound homes. Less sickness was found among the refugees than was expected, according to a survey made by Doctors M. Graves and V. L. McCarty, assisted by F. C. Leueking, Princeton. The men found very few cases of illness. One family of seven was found with all members suffering from a mild form of smallpox .but their condition was not serious. An appeal was sent to Evansville to send a motorboat to reach 20 or more persons stranded on Cutoff Island, opposite New Harmony. Among those on the island (CONTINUED ON PAGE TWO) o —— Detective Bureau Is Announced at Hammond Hammond,aind., Jan. 28 —(UP) — Hammond’s aoard of safety has moved to establish a detective bur eau. Charles Carlson, detective sergeant who has been the hero of numerous gun battles, will head the new department. He will assume his new duties as captain of detectives February 1. TWENTY LOCAL MEN AT MEETING Van Wert County Men’s Brotherhood Holds Meet at Willshire, O. Twenty Decatur men attended a meeting of the Van Wert County Men's Brotherhood, held last night, a total of 280 men were present at the banquet and meeting. The Rev. Mr. Ellsworth of Sidney, Ohio, was chief speaker of the evening and his message was entitled "The Five O’clock Tragedy". The speaker stressed largely what men should do with their time ba tween 5 o’clock in the afternoon and bed-time. All those attending the affair from Decatur stated that it was an enjoyable meeting? The Decatur men attending included, W. H. Lee, Ralph Kenworthy, W. F. Beery, Henry Adler, Rev. H. H. Ferntheil, Leigh Bowen, Ed Warren, Dr. Fred I. Patterson, Fred Engle. Frank Carroll. Sim Burk, John Zimmerman. J. Q. Maynard, A. D. Suttles, C. D. Teeple, Eugene Runyon, Walter Bean, S. E. Black. S. E. Michaels, and Cal E. Peterson.

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i|TWO INSTITUTE . PROGRAMS ARE MADE PUBLIC I. r e I ■Monroe and Kirkland Farm Meetings Will Have Many Features ■ GOOD SPEAKERS ARE ON PROGRAMS! r Two Farmers’ Institute programs 1 i have been announced by the com- l a | , I mittees in charge. The Monroe , Insuiute which will be held at I . Monroe school building all day L > Wednesday. February 5, will be .. open to farmers and their families from al) over Adame county. William T. Rupert is chairman of the Monroe Institute, and today he issued an invitation to farmers of the county to exhibit their products in the display, which will be I he'd in connection with the inI structive all-day program. Prizes will l>e awarded for corn, oats, potatoes, soy beans, eggs in the men's departments and for ’ bread, buns, meat loaf, home-made butter, cake, cookies, cottage cheese, jelly and honey. In the girls’ department awards will l>e made for best darned silk hose, smocks and kitchen aprons. Decatur stores and manufacturing I concerns and Monroe business' houses are furnishing the awards. Dr. J. R. Brock of the Continental Sugar Co. and C. E. Troyer of Purdue University will be the ’ chief speakers at the programs. ’ The first session of the Monroe ’ Institute will start at 9 o’clock in the morning. The afternoon ses--1 sion will start at 1:30 o’clock anil v the night meeting will be held at 7 o’clock. Fine programs including speaking, playe, singing and f motion pictures will be held. Kirkland Institute ’ The Kirkland Institute which will lie held Tuesday, February 11 ’ at Kirkland township gymnasium ’ will be open to all farmers of 1 Adams county but the exhibits will be open only to farmers and their families of Preble, French and ’ Kirkland townships. • Another all-dQy affair is planned o the Monroe program are being - (CONTINUED ON PAGE TWO) i o CLASS-MATES AT SERVICES I L Eleven Out -of - Town Priests at Fqneral of Mrs. Schmitt Ten class-mates of the Rev. I Father Simeon Schmitt, attended funeral services held Monday morning for Rev. Schmitt's mother, Mrs. i Dyonis Schmitt, at St. Marys i Catholic church here. The Rt. Rev. Msgr. John Durham of Marion also a i tended the services. f The class-mates who attended in- , eluded the Rev. Fathers, Alfred Reinig, Fort Schnitz, . Hammond; John Schafer, Gary; John Bapst, Bluffton; Thomas Daley, Fort Wayne; Raymond Derrick, Kokomo; Leo Pursley, Muncie; Matthew Bodinger, East Chicago; Herman Miller, Fort Wayne and Curt Suelzer. Fort Wayne. I The Rev. Father J. A. Seimetz, I pastor of the St. Marys Catholic church delivered the funeral sermon. The text of the sermon was as follows: i “Weep Not” St. Luke, Chapter 7 Verse 3 “Right Reverend Monsignour, Reverend Fathers, Dear Mourners 1 Kind friends. “You cannot measure the divine 1 mercy revealed in these words. You ■ cannot measure the compassion of Christ as he looked upon Mary and comforted her in her great sorrow. Would that my feeble words could assuage this sorrow and give the 1 same comfort and the same power as did those of our Divine Saviour. 1 But think, dear friends, of the last 1 ' call, before which we all stand help- 1 Jess. And so I can but echo the 1 words of Him, and though 1 feel 'I inclined to tears, 1 hope to lessen 1 your sorrow this morning. Yet I see ' in these words, a tone of comfort ' which will help your sorrow in this 1 hour. Tearfull sorrows are quite 1 natural and must be allowed to run their course. To restrain them forcefully would be to compel a new • sorrow. The words of this text con- 1 vey comfort to the true Christian. ' The Christian that is resigned to 1 .j (CONTINUED ON PAGE THREE) i

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Hoover's Choice for Army Quartermaster I ’ 1 z Colonel John L. De Witt, Infantry, has been nominated by President Hoover upon the recommendation of the Secretary of War. for the post of quartermaster general of the Army, with the rank of major general, for a term of four years. De Witt is 50 years old and received his appointment as second lieutenant of Infantry, Oct. 10, 1898. JURIES DRAWN FOR NEXT COURT Commissioners I) r a w Grand and Petit Jury Members Jury commissioners John S. Peterson and Martin L. Smith met with County Clerk Bernice Nelson Mon day afternoon and drew grand and petit jury members for the February term of court which will open here next Monday morning. The petit jury drawing includes, John F. Kirshner. Kirkland township; Burkhart Monroe township; Edwin Fuhrman. Preble township; John K. Sink, Jefferson township; Grant Owen, Washington township: Phillip Sauer, Union township; James C. Evert, St Marys township; Noah Ellenberger. Wabash township; John J. Habegger, Blue Creek township: Joe L. McConnell. Decatur: Goldie G. Gottschalk, Hartford township and Roy Roth, Flench township. The grandy jury drawing of six members includes Theodore Thieme Union township; Charles O. Hobrock. Preble township; Hugo Hofstetter, Geneva: Fred C„ Kukelhahn. Root township: Jonas Sprunger. Monroe township and George Colchin, Washington township. Both juries will report on the (CONTINUED ON PAGE TWO) CHICAGOSTILL HAS TROUBLES Little Financial Relief Is Predicted Before Tax Muddle is Remedied Chicago, Jan. 28 — (U.R)-- Weeks or months more delay in lifting Chicago from the quagmire of debt threatened today after review of the reassessment of loop skyscrapers was ordered by the board of review, the legal body in charge of tile tax apraisals. The reassessment held up payment of levies for 20 months and as a consequence brought the city of 3,500,000 to the brink of financial chaos. Charges that the owners of skyscrapers in the loop, where much of the wealth of Chicago is massed in a few square blocks, were being favored at the expense of the small home owner and neighborhood men bant brought the announcement from the board of review of its intention to reconsider figures. Additional weeks or even months may lie consumed by assessors in arriving at a fair assessment of the wealthiest part of the city. All this while, city and county emiployes will go without pay, the coal piles will grow smaller and smaller in the bins of city schools, and county hospitals, and mothers and the blind will be without their pensions. Under plans announced by the “rescue committee" headed by Silas Strawn and consisting of millionaire business men. $20,000,000 or more has been raised to save the city from actually suspending aotivitiy, but that amount would last only a month or so.

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SEEK STRICTER SCRUTINY IN APPOINTMENTS House Committee Wants To Air Fraud Reports of Dry Officers MAY ASK FOR SENATE PROBE WiisliiiiL'ton, .Jan. 28—(U.R) While <lrv senators were Dreinirini’ to force an early investigation of their charges ai’ainst federal prohibition officials, the house expenditures committee todav adopted an amendment to the proposed transfer legislation which would put appointment of officials under stricter supervision. The dry senators, led by Wheeler. Dem., Mont., and Borah, Repn., Idaho, are arranging for an airing of private information they have . received concerning alleged frauds and corruption. They plan to bring this up when the dry bills are taken up by senate com- ! mittees, probably the first of next week. If they fail to accomplish their purpose in this “natural course of event-i” as they call it, they are expected to sponsor a resolution for a senatorial inquiry to go to the liottom of the charges. Borah is understood to have been informed that his office is being watched by some one seeking to learn where he is getting the data 1 concerning prohibition enforcement. These data are said to in--1 volve at least 17 United States ■ attorney.--, a situation around Bus--1 fa’o and the transfer of prohibition administrator John C. J. Herbert • from Baltimore to the Montana- ’ Idaho district. A justice depart- ’ ment agent who gave Borah some material is known to have report--1 ed his suspicions to Borah, and th ■ 1 next day he was transferred. 1 The decision of some dry leaders to force an inquiry into personnel 1 is directly opposite to the view taken by the house committees now considering law enforcement 'egislation. They refused to go into the question of enforcement. > In executive session, the expenditures committee today decided to include the word “competitive” in the civil service provision jtf the pending Williamson bill to transfer enforcement from the treasury to the justice department. ' This would make prohibition agents subject to the most stringent civil service provisions. Other similar amendments are to be adopted by the committee later, although Attorney General Mitchell asked that he be allowed full rein in selecting at least the attorneys without respect to civil service restrictions. The house session was opened with a speech by- Rep. Feller, wot Democrat of Brooklyn, N. Y„ who said Mitchell’s letter opposing appointment to enforcement positions of any one not sympathetic (CONTINUED o.N PAGE TWO, R.E.MEIBERSIS NEW DIRECTOR Other Directors of American Security Co. Are Re-elected for 1930 R. E. Meibers was the only new mem Iter elected to the board of directors of the American Security Company at its annual meeting held yesterday afternoon in the American Security Building Mr. Meibers was elected to take the place of W. A. Kuebler who left recently for California. Other directors of the companv include L. C. Waring, W. A. Klepper, H. M. DeVoss. A. R. Ashbaucher, Ross McCollough of Fort Wayne, and H. M. Gillig. The officers of the association will be elected at the next regular meeting of the board of directors which will be in the near future. The officers for the past year ineluded W. A. Kuebler. president; W. A. Klepper, vice preßident, H. M. Gillig secretary; and L. C. Waring, treasurer. This is the ninth year of the American Security Company and the secretary is preparing hia annual report of the year's business which will be given at the next meeting.