Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 28, Number 56, Decatur, Adams County, 6 March 1930 — Page 1

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M HIGH «L HONOR ®OLL HAS 31 Kj Teeters Leads Ail Kkm lliffh Average; I Kshman Class Leads ■)M) PERIOD B is COMPLETED |K ■ ophomore. 1 . school honor |H -lied today for |K,„. SIX week’s , ..ml semester. A plnsses and I A. !.- ■ - led the class |K,. roll, having K, a total of 31. s was second j 1( . a’' had and the 7 p >;dls on the ■m-i. H A+ A B-f-1 BB M Coverdale 4 1 Zimmerman 4 1 Nelson 4 ■ Fork Klh Frisinger Hower 2 K Mover K McKinley 1 1 Krueckeberg 2 2 ■ null' 2 2 1 Blakey 1 4 Khv Little 1 4 Moser 1 3 1 3 Winans •’> K Burk ... 5 Baumgartner 4 Becker 4 Butcher 4 Kliy Christen 4 Foughty 4 Toney 4 Lehman 2 11 Ke Manley 2 11 M. Brown. 12 1 Kline Miller 1 2 1 Shralnka 12 1 Ke Haiibold 3 1- —-- ■Ms Attend Meet 9At Willshire Lodge Ketal members of the Decatur Kir lodge motored to Willshire Hhst night where they attend- ■ ■'!>'-' ial meeting and program Bfted by members of the Will- ■ Masonic lodge. A large nuni■f visitors from Indiana and ■ittended the meeting. ■ge Coffin of St. Marys, Ohio ■he chief speaker and he de■d an interesting address on ■lie history, past and present. ■Strikers Hold Riot ■>beihtou, Tenn.. March 6 — ■-Strike pickets hurled stones ■weildi-d < lubs today in an es■to prevent employes of the ■Things of Rayon plants from ■ to work. Car w indows were ■ n and automobile fenders dent ■ the missiles. ■ outbreak occurred five miles ■ here, as employees sought to ■ their cars through a Jine of ■ondred pickets and strike sym ■’'.ers. No one was reportedhurt. ■ O : MYER MY TO HE OBSERVED I Local Missionary Solves to Join in ObserI vance of Friday J home and foreign Missionary ■°f Decatur churches will |,' e World Prayer Day, tomor■“W'loon at the Zion Reformed ■ al 2:30 o’clock with an aprstion program of prayer, it lannommed today. The societies I'hurches will have part in the Lp subject for the afternoon will I " a ’ Jesus May Be Lifted Up", r "ill be special music, with I ® n Shroyer presiding at the I ' lk ’ v °tional hymn prelude Lu «. e( ’ e tbe P ra r« r service, t WorW Prayer Day ia bein « [, ' x in every Christian naL y world and is under ausF n various Missionary socleL, ? P 1Q Bram here will be comp y in charge of the ladies of the , al organizations. i,'^. 111611 ot Protestant churches ed to attend the services.

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Robert Heller Pledged To S. A. E. Fraternity Word was received here today that Robert Heller, son of Mr. and Mrs. Henry Heller of this city, a student at Indiana University, was pledged recently to Sigma Alpha Epsillotn national college fraternity. Mr. Heller is a freshman at Indiana. JACOB BIERIE BADLY BURNED Heart Attack Causes Man to Fall Into Burning Rubbish; Is Serious Geneva. March 6. — (Special! — Jacob Bierie, fi3, prominent farmer residing five m'les west of Geneva was seriously burned Wednesday afternoon, when he fell into a fire after a heart attack at his farm home. Mr. Bierie was burning rubbish in a woods near his home. The man, who suffered frequently from attacks, fell over and his clothes caught fire from the rubbish. The heat of the fire evidently caused him to become conscious. He managed to extinguish the flames and drove his team back to his house. Mrs. Bierie was not at home when he arrived at the house. Mr. Bierie called a physician and then called his wife who was at a neighboring home. The physician arrived and an investigation showed that Bierie had been seriously burned. His clothing had burned almost off of him and his shoes had been burned to the soles. Both lees and his back were badly burned. He was rushed to the Wells county hospital where a complete examination showed he had chance to recover. His burns, however, were serious and recovery was regarded. a* doubtful. Mr. Bierie has had several heart attacks recently, it was stated. o Leslie Refutes Charges Indianapolis. Mar. 6. —(U.R)—Gov. Harry G. leslie today refuted charges that his mansion was eXtravangtly furnished, in answer to revelation by the Indianapolis Times in a copyrighted story yesterday that he had spent some $15,000 from his emergency contingent fund, on mansion repairs and furnishings. The governor did not deny the expenditures or refer to charges that they were illegal, but pointed out that the mansion is quite modestly furnished, and that the budget committee approved diversion of the funds for this purpose. Bar Association Favors Repeal of Amendment St. laiuis, Mo.. Mar. 6. —(U.R>—A resolution presented at a meeting of the St. Louis Bar Association, has placed the association on record unanimously as in favor of repeal of the eighteenth amendment The resolution decried the amendment as "a source ot undermining the Federal system of government, a breeder of corruption and hypocrisy, the cause of ruthless killing ot men, women and children, and bringing about a general disregard for law and order." A copy of the resolution will be forwarded to the Judiciary committees ot the senate and the house of representatives. Over 300 barristers attended the meeting. o Decision Is Reversed Cleveland, O„ March 6—(UP) The Cuyahoga county court of appeals today reversed contempt of court sentences imposed by com mon pleas Judge Frederick P. Walther upon Louis B. Seltzer and Carl ton K. Matson, editor and chief editorial writer of the Cleveland Press Judge Walter sentenced Seltzer andMatson to jail for 30 days each and fined them SSOO each last sum mer after the defendants had written and published an editorial in the press criticising the Judges action towards horse racing. ■ : o Draws 10-Year Sentence Indianapolis, Mar. 6. —<U.R>—Arno Ross. 36. Marshfield, Wis., confessed bandit, was awaiting transfer from the county jail to the Indiana state prison today, to serve a 10-vear serfience. He was convicted on a charge of robbing an Indianapolis filling station attendant of SBO.

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DRYS CONTINUE : THEIR DEFENSE Show Good Derived From! t Prohibition in Nation; Several Testify Washington, Mar. tl —(U.R) —Social leaders of the country are ready to quit the liquor drinking I fad as an unutterable nuisance, Mrs. Ruth G. K. Strawbridge, Philadelphia society woman, told the house judiciary committee today. Mrs. Strawbridge submitted a 1 secret poll she made of leading society matrons and wives of government officials. This showed 247 in favor of serving liquor at functions and 1,337 in favor of ' abolishing the custom. r Life saving and the diminution ( of religious prejudices were added to prohibition benefits in the testimony of Patrick H. Callahan, ’ Louisville manufacturer, secretary 1 of the Association of Catholics . favoring prohibition. In answer to Callahan, Rep. Graham, Repn., Pa., wet chairman 4 of the dry judiciary committee, read a letter from Charles D. McShane. Pittsburgh advertising man, in part as follows: ' "While the Catholic church commands personal abstinence it i would not endorse prohibition because it numbers among its members so many different nationalities, and the church has no right 1 to interefere with the racial cus--1 toms and pleasures of tho<e different nationalities as long as these are indulged in moderation and 1 temperance. Then again, it has 1 decreed that ipeople cannot be. made moral bv law, but only by ‘ ‘ education and moral custom " ’ Callahan's life-saving figures ' w-ere disputed by Laguardia, who a said he had figures from the cen- * sus bureau showing exactly the I opposite, and after an argument - obtained permission to put his t figures in the record. Bulletin George Tricker, 69, died at the home of his son Jesse Tricker, Decatur, route 6, this afternoon it I was learned. Mr. Tricker had been paralyzed for about 10 years, and , had been in ill health for some time. He was born in Blue Creek township and resided in Adams county most of his life. No funeral arrangements have been made, but will beannounced later. ! _ 0 , Carbon Gas Causes Death of Autoist i ' Indianapolis. Mar. 6.—(U.R)—Paul • G. Weiss, 62. Indianapolis, was i found dead today in the garage in the roar of his hohie. The auto motor was running, anil Weiss is believed to have inhaled , carbon monoxide gas to end his L life. II! health was given by relatives as the motive. SCIENCE CLUB IS ORGANIZED Decatur Bovs Form Group i To Study Wireless 1 Telegraphy-Radio “ A chapter of the Amaturo Science ■ League of America, with organizaE tions in four states, has been organized here by several young men ‘ and headquarters and a laboratory have been established in the basement of the Ben Schroyer home, where amature experiments are made weekly by the organization. Frederick Shroyer is president -of the organization and Charles f Ehinger is vice-president. Both young men have shown consider- • able aptitude for scientific experiments and both are radio and wire- • less telegraphy students. The Amature Science League is an organization of boys and young 1 men of the nliddlewest to further ■ experimenting in science and also ‘ to further development in radio 1 and. telegraphy. The boys meet ' each week at the experimenting station and study various phases of science. Besides the regular members there is an advisory board includi ing Gerald Cole, Miss Annetta ■ Moses and Othmar Smith. Raymond Musser is treasurer of • the organization and the members s include Paul Hendricks. Edward Summers, Robert Ashbaucher, i Harry Musser, James Ehinger. ■ Frederick Kirsch and William Hunter.

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Decatur, Indiana, Thursday, March (», 1930.

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Tlie wheels of justice momentarily pause in their ceaseless grind as 21-vear-old William R. Howell, himself a convict, says farewell to his fatli-r. W. H. Howell, aged 65, who is under sentence to be electrocuted at Little Rock, Ari: The younger Howell, serving a sentence in (he Michigan State Prison for carrying a pistol, was granted a 14-day furlough to visit his father. After lie had started upon his trip southward, with money furnished by fellow prisoners, the father received a stay of execution ot his sentence to death.

PERFECT PLANS FOR UNION MEET Reception Committee is Named for Friday Night Banquet-Meeting Final plans have been completed for the Union meeting of men of all Decatur Protestant churches to 7>e teld at the Masonic hall in Decatur Friday night at 6; 15 o'clock. A banquet will be followed by an address by Hon. Arthur Sapp, of Huntington, former president of Rotary, International. The meeting will be the first of its kind ever undertaken in this' city and a huge attendance is pre-1 dieted. It is understood that t'ae Masonic hall banquet room swill accommodate about 150 or 175 people, and about that many tickets have been disposed of. All Decatur men are eligible to attend the meeiing, which is being held to create a stronger mutual feeling between the men of various churches. Al! ministers of the city also have been invited to attend, but the meeting is largely an affair of laymen. The reception committee for Friday night was appointed today by the chairman, (’. E. Peterson and besides the chairman it concludes J. E. Anderson, Dr. Burt Mangold, E l Warren, S. E. Black. James Hurst Roy Mamma, A. R. Ashbaucher. I Fred Fruchte, Leigh Bowen, C. A. Burdg, Dick Heller, Sim Burk, Will] Whines, H. N. Shroll. Dr. Fred 1.1 Patterson and W. F. Beery. The Masonic hall will be open at 5:45 o'clock and all those planning on attending are urged to be present promptly at 6:15 o’clock, in order that the entire program may be held on scheduled time. Mr. Sapp, speaker of the evening, is regarded as one of the leading speakers of the middlewest. He has a message of great interest to all Churchmen. SCARLET FEVER IS REPORTED Donald Kirsch Suffering With Disease; 2 Homes Are Under Quarantine Two cases of scarlet fever and three cases of small pox have been reported to the ci y board of health, it was learned today. The scarlet fever cases both were reported in, the last 12 hours. Donald Kirsch, son of Mr. and Mrs. Leo Kirsch contracted the ailment, and the Kirsch home was quarantined late last night. The Kirsch child is said to be quite ill with the disease. Aonther home in the north part of Decatur was quarantined this afternoon for scarlet fever but the name was not learned. They are the only two # cases of the fever in the city at present. Three lighttcases of small pox also are pervalent in Decatur, but the small pox is thought to be well under control of autorities.

Issues Warning To City’s Dog Owners A warning to keep dogs at home I was issued today by Police Chief ■ Shephus Melchi, who stated that , several complaints had come to > him about stray dogs. Poliecman Melchi stated that he did not wish I to kill the dogs, but that he could , not do anything else if the dogs I were not kept at home. About this time of the year owners of dogs are ; inclined to let them loose and the strays are running about the city. o— — Exchange Rate Drops On Bank of England London, Mar. 6. (U.R) The Bank I of England exchange rate today reduced from 4% per cent to 4 i per cent. j The bank rate reduction today put the rate at its lowest since October, 1925. ' 0— - Committee Plans To Solicit “Radio” Funds A committee of local merchants is obtaining voluntarily donations of one dollar each for a fund which they will send to W. H. Henderson, the radio broadcaster at KWKH. Shreveport, La. The fund is being sent “in appreciation'' of Mr. Henderson’s broadcasts in behalf of the homeowned stores. About SSO will be sent to him, it was stated. GIRL'S DEATH IS UNSOLVED Investigation Continues Into “Suicide” at Madison Last Saturday Madison, Ind.. Mar. 6.— (U.R) — Further questioning of Nathan P. Mayfield in the death of Alice Lola Lee, 20, found dying in front of the Slayfleld home with a bullet in her head, left authorities still undecided as to the certainty of suicide. Mayfield is said to have held to his- -original story, which absolved him of any blame in the shooting, but officials were working to clear up several puzzling circumstances. Identification of the gun found near Miss Lee, from two sources, strengthened the suicide theory. A Madison hardware merchant said the gun was the one Miss Lee had shown him when she came to the store to buy cartridges. Orville Thomas, 35, former ownler of a Chicago restaurant where I Miss Lee had been employed, was i questioned when it was learned the gun had been given him by a Chicago detective. Thomas said the gun disappeared while Miss Lee was employed in the restaurant, and that it was probable she had borrowed It. Relatives of the girl denied she was the mother of a 2-yeaijold child, and further strength to#he statement was given by the family physician who performed an autopsy on the lady. He said she had never given birth to a child.

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SALEM STORE IS RANSACKED Thieves Gain Entrance by Prying Front Door Open With Bar Thievt s, Wednesday night, pried open the from door of the George McAlhaney geneial store at Salem south of hero and looted the store of merchandise and cash valued at about $25 or s3(l. The robbery occurred sometime after 10 o'clock last night, it was thought. When McAlhaney went to the store to open it this morning he found it had been entered. About $5.00 in cash and sls in merchan- ' dise was stolen. Sheriff Hail Hollingsworth was working on the robbery today. It is understood that an authentic clue has been found and it is highly probable that an arrest will be made soon. —o Gangster Is Killed Lafayette, Ind., March 6—(UP) — "Orlando Jack” Horton, whose bootleg partner, John Duffy, was Chict,go’s first gang “ride" victim, has taken his own last ride. Horton's bullet-riddled body was found in a strawberry patch near here yesterday. It apparently had been tossed from a speeding autoI mobile. A necklace of playing cards i tattooed on t\.is neck beneath his ' initials led to identification of the i former Chicago gangster who cam? to Indiana when the gang war in | the big city got too hot. o Weather Changes Are Predicted For State Indianapolis, March 6 —(UP) — ■ Capricious as a flapper, March will change her mind in apportioning weather to Indiana at least twice VFlThin the next three days, according to the forecasts from the U. S. 1 weather bureau today. Today, and perhaps tonight, she ! will smile benignly as she lavishes south winds on hoosierland, but early Friday she may send rain clouds over the state. Then late Friday, north winds will dispel another taste of spring, ami tempera:itres will fall to below freezing Friday night, probably re turning to above 10 degrees during the week-end. — ——_o Arrest Clears Thefts i Indianapolis, Mar. 6. — <U.R'—-Ar-rest yesterday of Fred DeLuldsom. 19, Indianapolis, confessed member of the Everett Perry gang, cleared additional burglaries, safe robberies and auto thefts iu Indianapolis and nearby cities. Perry, escaped convict from the Pendleton reformatory, and two other men. Ralph Baines; 22, and Alphonso Head, were arrested several days ago. charged with burglary and auto theft. Donaldson was the last member of (he gang at large. In a detailed statement to detectives, he admitted safe blowings and robberies at Bloomington, Richmond, Kokomo, Rushville, Connersville, Bainbridge. Lafayette, New Palestine, Huntiugton, Marion, Anderson. Indianapolis and other cities. .—————o Unemployment Discussed Washington, March 6 (UP) — Legislation to relieve unemployment was given the right of way today by the senate commerce committee, which voted to hold open hearings for consideration of measures proposed by Senator Wagner (Dem., N. Y.) A subcommittee was appointed to open hearings, probably this week, at which officials of the labor de partment and others will be asked to testify and thus present a picture ot the situation that is now engaging the attention of the administration. 0 — Murder Case About Completed at Logansport Logansport, Ind., March 6—(UP) The state was expected to rest its case late today in the trial of John Horace C. o< kett. charged with the murder of Earl Armstrong and Jack Williams at an alleged liquor camp near Logansport. The state using 14 witnesses, is relying on circumstantial evidence. Its case was strengthened when Mrs. Pearl Cellet told the court Armstrong and Williams had ousted Crockett from the camp the nigh' before the double slaying. The defense has summoned 40 persons.

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(’ommissioners Will Receive Booth Bids The board of county commissionI ers will receive bids for the furnishing of election booths and boxes, to be used at the primary election, at their next regular meeting on Tuesday. April 8. Specifications for the booths and boxes are on file at the office of the county tieasurer. NAME FILING TIME ARRIVES j Candidates May File For Offices For Primary Elections May 6 Candidates for township, county district and state offices can file | their declarations of candidacy, it was announced today hy County Clerk Bernice Nelson. The time limit for filing is set at 30 days before the primary elections May 6. The general election in Adams county next November will be for , a clerk, treasurer, sheriff, prosecutor, surveyor, two commiss’on- ! ers, township trustees, township assessors, county assessor, circuit judge, joint state reprsentative and joint state senator and nominations the various offices will be made at the May primaries. Nominations also will he made 1 for eighth district congressional candidates. A number of candidates have filed for the Democratic primary for almost every office. As yet no Republicans have announced intentions of becoming candidates, for county posts. Several important changes in , election laws have been made by the state election commission and the books containing the laws and political calendars will arrive tr Decatur next week, it was learned today. The new laws give more authority to the board of election comm'ssioners, instead of the county commissioners. Miss Nelson, by virtue of her office js a member of the board of election commissioners and each county chairman is entitled to nominate a hoar I , member. These three persons have complete charge of the primary elections. Neither county chairman has nominated a board member, hut it is understood that the appointments will be made in the next . few days. 0 Tariff Increase Loses Washington, Mar. 6 —(U.R) ~ The senate today rejected by a vote of 41 to 34 the Copeland tariff amendment to increase the duty on casein, a milk product, from 5Li to 8 cents a pound. o SECRETARY TO STIMSON DIES Pearl Demoret Falls From Sixth Floor Hotel Win- E dow; Accident? London. Mar. 6. (U.R)—On the eve of her joyfully anticipated return to the United States, Mrs. Pearl Demoret of Washington, acting secretary to Henry L. Stimson, fell from her window on the sixth floor of the Mayfair hotel today, and was killed. The accident cast a pall of gloom over the entire American delegation to tile naval conference, with whom Mrs. Demoret was exceptionally popular. Police reported their belief that death was due to accident. An inquest will be held tomorrow. Mrs. Demoret had sa d good-bye to her friends of the delegation, and had been honored by Mrs. Stimson who presented Iter a bougnet as a going-away gift. Site was due to sail on the President Harding from Southampton today. Site roomed at the Mayfair with Miss Hurley Fiske, another stenographer of* tile delegation, who left the room for a moment about 1 a. m. Hearing a noise behind her, Miss F ske rushed back Into the room, to discover her roommate had disappeaed through the window. The American consulate will take charge of her body.

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SOME DISORDER IS REPORTED IN LARGER CITIES Tear-Gas Bombs Used in Several Places; Injuries In Riots Reported SOME COUNTRIES BREAK UP PLANS —(U.R)— Thousands of communists and other thousands of jobless gathered in major cities of the world todav in a great (mass demonstration against . unernplovment. Alreadv there have been scenes of violence attendant to this “red Thursday.” which is one of the most widespread displays against unemployment and of communism in history. Police over the world made careful plans to prevent bloodshed and rioting. In Berlin last night a crowd in Moabit district refused to obey an order banning open air meetings. The crowd attacked a policeman and reinforcements had to he called in to quell the disturbance. At Fort Worth. Texas, unemployed and workers clashed at a dam. Two hundred shots were fired and one man hurt. Major centers of the world were geared to handle the great demonstration as quietly as possible. Police mobilized in New York. Chicago, London, Paris, Berl'n. Vienna and other centers to prevent rioting. The precautions were greater in many instances than for tlie sporadic "May day" demonstrations carried out for years. In New York City, where thousands are expected to converge upon Union Square, .25,000 .men from the police and fire departments were assigned to assure safety. Police commissioner Grover Whalen advised women and children to remain away from the district. Certain police squads are provided with rifles, machine guns and teatgas bombs. Ten thousand troops and 15,000 police mobilized in Paris while ’highways and roads leading into the French capitol were patrolltd. Six thousand police are in constant patrol in Berlin; the Saxon government has banned open air meetings. Prague, Reval. Vienna. Bucharest and other capitals were guarded and even in Rome,-where communists are not expected in great number, police were On guard. Communists were converging from four sections to march in an unemployment parade to the lord mayor's residence in London and police planked the marchers. Demonstrations were carried out in Manchester, Birmingham, Newcastle and other industrial centers. The demonstrations spread to all parts of tlie United States. Chicago authoiities took extra precautions and police commissioners announced assassination threats had been teceived. Communist demonstrations were scheduled in many cities of the old south atffl the west coast — particularly Seattle —was (CONTINUED ON PAGE SIX) VON TIRPITZ IS DEATH'S VICTIM Former German Admiral Dies Near Berlin From Heart Ailment By Frederick Kuh, UP Staff Correspondent Berlin, Mar. 6 — (U.R) -Alfred von Tirpitz, former lord high admiral of the German fleet, died today at Ebenhansen, near Berlin. Death occurred at 2:30 a. m. today, from heart disease. The admiral had been resting in a sanitarium at Ebeuliausen since the middle of last month, after an attack of bronchitis. Although his attack was not considered extremely dangerous, i( had resulted in a weakened heart condition. Von Tirpitz would have been St years old on March 11. His death had not been expected. To the world, the name of V<m Tirpitz was associated with submarine warfare. As early as 1881. (CONTINUED On'pagE FIVE)