Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 28, Number 67, Decatur, Adams County, 19 March 1930 — Page 1

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■etteams ■ffllEFOB ■sjwiIJNSHIP '9;i Louis Favored to | (James to Start hB Tonight B-XiA DRAWS interest K» p .’. ■ the ‘ he Kv< anil Ihe rnoMle- ", - | ll( ln il h.iskctliiHi ■’”|,,in-ht "ill begin K l|llcs | Im- lhe inition.il U| ( I,;.;!) school basketKle. ■n-.hl lure to compete ■ j.uiH l.ovola I ntveint. the teams. youngsters. |K,,. ee v the widest Ahull ever has :l it . tminament ■ , . titlew h:< h yet . ... .... are s the national the Hm entry list.' ■ . the tournament i .\hibit several boys | ■ :„i.’ will Is' heard calle-.' and university ill the entry list is S':ti:i<l;e.< team of Bay St. ■ Miss. That team has lost He p g 'n". 24 starts this ?:■ defeat was adby the Tulane Ulliverfive. ■ runner-up in last year's tournament, the St. Stanis regarded as an out■tur favorite. There is anoth-quint.-t which had drawn notice Father Ryan of Nashville, Tenn. of it-- 21 starts this year is tie- district champion and parochial schools. the most promising on■w the cast is Bishop Eng■licit school of Charleston. S. Biieh has won 23 games and But four this season. Led by t' Cantwell, a scoring 09®, the [P England school is a threat ff title. Cantwell’s ability lltown when he scored 48 ■ in one game recently. Also. Bast has St. Michael of Union BN J., which has won 16 ■lit contests. « ille, Ky., will be repre-1 W by St. Xavier, which lost ■two games in 28 starts and I PI ' la ' *■ hos Denver boasts innidable record of winning istrict championship of both c anti private high schools. p ln0! ' 1 '"fnhiable contenders HTlM’ed ON' page TWO) WSHIP miVE PLANNED niber of Commerce to Eilort to Secure )0 Members for 1930 its fur the annual membership ttrive of the Decatur Chamber 'mmerce were made Tuesday 111 a meeting of the board of U S Os the organization. New “Biship plaques will be given • e at because of the change in ■ °> the organization, it was de- *■ plan for 1930 membership is 111 each present member a ent of ‘l'>es, and if the state's unheeded, when the com- ' 011 membership makes its or new members, old mem- , 0 have not paid their 1930 a 0 will be solicited. Efforts ’ lnei, ibership of more than *'** be made. J'"’ 1 ' s being devised now !' ! k *’ "' lO are employed by 11 °f Cdmmtfrce members associate memberships 'educed cost. e 'tew membership plates will • e , names of each member '"n displaying the plaque unectors also voted to sup"te Adams county 4-H club 1R year and to appropriate ‘ '"t p y ns was necessary. Other , r anl Phases of the year-round ’. nt a:e being worked out at 1 and the hoard will meet <" the next few weeks.

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Rift in Ranks Looms In Woman's Par'y -- L AM Dr. Emma Wold, noted feminist, whose selection by the State Department at Washington as a member of the American delegation to the International Law Codification Conference at The Hague lias so upset another wing of the Woman's Party that wanted Doris Stevens to go that wholesale resignations are promised for May 1. NOTEOORATOR TO SPEAK HERE — Frederick Landis Secured for Stag Banquet to he Held Next Wednesday ■ Frederick Landis, one of Indiana’s best-known orators and colum nist for a group of Indiana news papers, will be the chief speaker at a Service banquet to he held next Wednesday night at 6:15 o’clock at the Decatur Country Club. The meeting is to be sponsored by Adams Post of the American Leg ion with the cooperation of the other local clubs. The meeting will be a stag affair and tickets will be sold to members of the Rotary club. Lions club and members of the Chamber of Commerce. The affair is open to all men of Decatur, and will be similar to the event held last spring. Mi. Landis, whose home is at Logansport, is a former congressman and was in the United States army during the World War. He is well known as a journalist and has for years been regarded as one of the leading orators of Indiana. C. O. Porter of this city is general charman of the arrangements committee. Mr. Porter stated today that rickets would be placed on sale by Legion members at once. It is expected that about 250 men will attend the Service banquet. o Gets Authority For Charter Revocation Indianapolis, March 19 —(U.R)— Delegates of the United Mine Workers of America meeting in a constitutional convention at Indianapolis today adopted a resolution authorizing President John L. Lwwis to revoke the charter of District 11. in the state of Kansas. The resolution further provided that Lewis may set up a provisional union government there until conditions return to normal. The action at the convention was taken as a direct blow at Alexander Howat, district 11 president, and newly chosen president of a dual union organization holding a “rumip" convention in Springfield, 111.1 and his district executive board. The resolution specifically named Joseph Romac, member of Howat’s executive board, as free from charges of insurgency. He was the only Kansas official whose union standing is unimpaired, the resolution declared. o * ! TOURNEY RESULTS “Hockey” Mylott, special cor- | | respondent for the Daily Demo- I i crat will telephone the results | | of tonight's Decatur-Altoona | | basketball game from Chicago. | '■ The half time score should be . here by 9.45 o’clock and the I final score should arrive about : 10:30. For scorts call either I 1000 or 1001. "Hockey” also | will write a story of the tournai ment for Thursday’s Daily I Democrat. 4 ♦

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PHY WILL BE ■ GIVEN AGAIN Local Cast of “Journey’s End” to (Jive Show at Portland March 28 The local cast of American Legion members which recently presented “Journey's End” in Decatur, will present the great war drama at Portland, March 28, it was announced today. The play was said to be one of the best home-talent productions ever shown here. The local cast will present the play at Portland under the auspices of the Portland Delta Theta Tail So rority. The play will be given at tile Portland high school auditorium, with a seating capacity of 8()t> people. Members of the cast have been drilling this week in preparation for the re presentation. Last week the cast went to Indianapolis where the original English cast presented the Play. Several other requests for presentation of the local interpretation of the drama have been received here and it is probable the show will be given in several neighboring cities in tile next month or two. Local Woman Returns From Anniversary Party Mrs. J. M. Gaskill returned home yesterday after sitending the past week at Etna Green visiting her sister and many friends. While there she attended the 35th anniversary of the Dorcas Aid Society of the Christian church, which was held in the church parlors. They i had an all day meeting, and at the noon hour 135 members and guests partook of the delicious banquet prepared by the Aid. In the afternoon they rendered a fine program of music anti readings. Ride Bicycles To Fort Wayne Today Four bicycles headed north, destination, Fort Wayne, four boys Sonny Ehinger. Herbert Foos, Billie Lose and Herman Knappe left Decatur at eight o’clock and arrived in Fort Wayne at Eleven. They will attend a show at the Etnboyd this afternoon then journey home. ITALY REFUSES TO COMPROMISE Stands Steady on Demand In Ratio Agreement; Parley May Break London, March 19—(U.R>— Italy’s only reply to the pressure brought upon her naval delegation to recede from her demand for parity with France is a refusal to retreat, I even at the cost of preventing a five-power agreement on armament. The Italians insist that Aristide Brland and other parties to the Washington conference of 1922 accorded them equality at that time. They see no reason for abandoning that ratio. Accordingly, it appeared today, the deadlock which has occupied the conference for a week was no nearer solution than ever. There are two possible solutions, in the opinion of observers. First, a four-power treaty, excluding and “isolating” Italy might be achieved. Second, a three-power agreement, omitting both Italy and France until they find some basis for adhering to the pact, might be reached. The British spokesman told the press today that the ItalianFrench deadlock still was unbroken. The experts, he said, were seeking a solution of the difficulties which have brought the conference to a standstill. Secretary Stimson, Senator Reed and Ambassador Morrow, of the American delegation, entertained Premier MacDonald and Albert V. Alexander, first lord of the admiralty, at. luncheon at the Ritz hotel today. The American delegates and the British spokesman both denied a story in the Daily Express that MacDonald had rebuked Stimson for creation of a misleading impresston about the Japanese attitude towards the latest American offer. The .story said the incident occurred during Monday's meeting at No. 10 Downing street. The Americans branded the report as “tosh.”

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Decatur, Indiana, Wednesday, March 19, 1930.

‘‘Parish Church” Title of Lenten Address The Rev. Father John A. Bapts of Bluffton, delivered the second of his series of Lenten srmons ai the St , M.Marys Catholic church last night. Father Bapts spoke on the "Parrish I church’’ and the place it held in th< community and in the lives of the members. The Rev. Father J. A. Seimetz, pastor, recited the litany. Benediction of the Blessed (Sac ' rameiit was given following the sei . mon. TO RESURFACE LOCAL STREET i Marshall Street Improvement Petition Accepted by Street Committee The council in session last night granted the petition of It. A. Stucky and others for the resurfacing of Marshall street, from tin- west line of First street, west to Fifth street. The street will be improved this summer. Bids for the furnishing of ornamental light posts on South Eighth street, between Monroe and Adams street and on North Seventh street, between Monroe and Nutt man avenue, will be received by the council on Tuesday, April 15. Engineer Orval Hariuff filed plans and specit'ivatons for lhe two improvements last night. They were approved and notice to bidders was ordered. A report of the electric light com-1 mittee that the interest of John S. Meyer in the Washington township electric line was purchased for $75 was appioved by the council. The city is extending electric service to the residents in the south part of the township. The water works committee arrlv ed at a plan for making a charge to water consumers, due to leaks in line. Several cases, referred to the committee were settled last nigh, on the new plan. Bills were read by Herman Gillig chairman of the finance committee and on motion weie allowed. To Dedicate LaPorte Auditorium Tonight Laporte, Ind., March 19 —(U.R)— ( Laporte will dedicate its new | $500,00(> civic auditorium, gift of I Maurice Fox, manufacturer ami philanthropist, tonight. Fox died Feb. 24, before the building, a memorial to his parents, was presented to the people of the city. The building, of brick and stone ! construction, has a stage equipped by the same firm which supplied the Chicago Civic Opera house, this part of the building alone having cost $15,J00. The main auditorium will seat 4,000 persons for stage presentations, and about 3,500 for basketball games. STUCKY HEADS GENEVA C. OF C. All Officers Re-elected at Geneva Chamber of Commerce Meeting Geneva, March 19 —(Special)--E. C. Stucky, president of the Geneva Chamber of Commerce was re-elected at the annual organization meeting held here last night. L. L. Neal, secretary and Niel Schafer, treasurer also were reelected for another year. About 90 members and guests ■ attended the banquet-meeting at tlie Masonic hall, and all report-, ed the meeing to be one of the best ever held in Geneva. Four local members of the organization gave interesting talks, following the banquet. Dr. C. P. Hinchman, Raymond Hunt, Rev. Mr. Osbun and Jlarold Mattox gave the Talks. A general discussion followed the regular program ' and much constructive criticism was offered by various members. o Find Liquor Under Flag Indianapolis. March 19 —(UP) — An American flag, folded in the top tray of a trunk failed to deceive a police squad searching the apart ment of Howard Lester, 45, Indianapolis. Today Lester faced a charge of operating a blind tiger. Police said they found more than 50 pints of whisky beneath the flag. Lester will be arraigned before a U. S. commissioner.

TRAIN CRASHES I INTO WRECKAGE! — One Killed and Score Injured When Chicago Train is Wrecked Chicago, Mar 19.—(U.R) An en-j gineer was kilied and a score of j passengers and trainmtn were in-1 jured when a Chicago anti NorthI western suburban train struck wreckage of a mail train that had I crashed into a sewer pipe being dragged across its right-of-way la t | night. A caterpillar tractor was dragg- ! Ing the 4.00(1 pound concrete pipe sections across the track when the Minnesota-Chicago mail train plow ed into one of them. A workman attempted futilely to flag the train with a red bandanna handkerchief The locomotive of the express train blew up. scattering wreckag; across the adjoining track. Both engineer and a fireman had jump ed. A few minutes later a suburban I train struck the wreckage. Its locomotive exploded, scalding engineer Carl Kutsner to death. About 20 passengers on the suburb an train were hurt, none seriously it was believed. o —— Capone Home Repaired Miami. Fla.. March 19—(U.R) — The grass was cut. new drape curtains hung and storm shutters taken off Al Capone’s "walled white palace” on Starr island here today. Whether that meant Capone was expected soon could not be determined. Only workmen were visible behind the wall. Persons without pressing business were not poking around. Ship In Distress New York, Mar. 19.—(U.R)—The Mackay Radio Corporation announced today interception of an S. O. S. from the steamer Samos, sent at 10:35 a. m. Position of the vessel was given as latitude 35.30 north and longitude : 66.20 west. CENSORSHIP " TO CONTINUE Books and Pictures to be Examined Before Entering United States Washington, Mar. 19 -(U.R)—Continued censorship of books and pictures imported from abroad was assured today, but a federal judge ’ instead of a customs clerk may be I the censor. The senate made the first certain and the second likely when without a record vote it re-wrote and adopted the Smoot tariff amendment, which it' agreed to by the house will make the restrictions more drastic than now. The house merely re-enacted the present law, while the Smoot amendment extends it beyond obscene matter to include any writing “advocating or urging treason, or insurrection against the United States, or containing any threat to take the life of or inflict bodily harm upon any person in the United States.” The present han on birth control devices and lottery tickets is continued. Collapse of the campaign of: Senator Cutting. Repn., N. 1f.,; •against censorship, preceded tlie ; vote. The day was devoted to de-1 bate, alleged obscenity of the classics and the futility of censor-; ship advanced by Cutting as the chief arguments. The amendment was rewritten to provide that collectors of customs shall reiport the findings of a possibly obscene or seditious hook, by a customs clerk to the (CONTINUED ON PAGE TWO) o Quartet Will Sing At Pleasant Dale A mixed quartet from North Manchester College wll present a program of sacred music and readings at the Pleasant Dale church on Friday evening, March 21. This quartet comes highly recommended and has an interesting program to present. The public is cor dially invited to attend, and at tlie close of the performance a freewill offering will be lifted. •

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[Local Church To Have Special Lenten Service ; A sacred lenten Service will be ('(inducted at the First Evangelical; Church Wednesday night nt 7:15 I The pastor. Rev. M. W. Snndennan I will p.oach upon: The Importance |of a Right Conception of Jesus i Christ.'' All members of the church ate urged Io be present and nil I friends are heartily welcome. LORD BALFOUR EXPIRES TODAY' ‘Grand Old Man’ of England Dies Peacefully at His Residence Woking. Eng. Mar. 19.—(U.R) laird Balfour, the "grand old man" of English statesmanship, died peacefully today at the home of his brother. Wishers Hill Hous?, at the age of 81. On March 10, Lord Balfour suf feted a sudden gastric chill, aggravating a previously dangerous con dition, and sank steadily until the end came shortly after 8 a. tn. today. For the past year he had been living in the secluded estate of the Right Honorable Gerald Balfour, iris brother, who succeeds to the I title. Funeral services will be held at Whittinghame, Scotland. Sunday, and a memorial service will be given at Westminster Abb'ey at, the same time. For 50 years, he had been a notable figure in British and international politics. One of the brilI liant achievements of his career revolved around his visit to the United States in 1917. as head of the British war miss.on. Upon his return, in 1922. as a delegate to the Washington naval conference, he was received in America as an “old friend.” 11l health forced his retirement nearly a year ago. His last official act was in May. 1929, when he presided over the privy council at Craigweli House, Bognor, at which King George signed the decree dissolving the parliament. With the death of Lord Balfour, England loses her "grand old man'' of statesmanship. It came hard for the English to call him. an outstanding commoner. "Lord” Balfour. They bad known him so long as "mister,' or “A. J.” or “Arthur," that the simpler titles clung to him to the day of his death. Incidentally, the bestowal of a peerage on the man who had held every other gift in the power of the British people, including the prime ministership, was the direct outcome of the Washington conference. | (CONTINUED ON PAGE SEVEN) DOHENY TRIAL NEARS CLOSE Defense Rests Case Today After Brief Questioning of Witnesses Washington. Mar. 19. —(U.R)—The Doheny bribi ry trial went into its final phases today when the defense rested its case after less than three days of testimony in behalf of the millionaire dtfendant. Closing arguments will be concluded tomorrow, after which the I jury of nine men and three women will begin their task of deciding | whether Edward L. Doheny gave former Interior Secretary Albert B. Fall a SIOO,OOO bribe in return ' for valuable naval oil leases. The defense maintained the SIOO,000 paid by Doheny to Fall in 1921 was a loan and not a bribe and based its case upon testimony of a score of character witnesses, navy department and oil men. The aged oil man and his wife both testified, their appearance supplying dramatic moments of the trial. Patriotism played a larger part in Doheny’s oil dealings with the government than the expectancy of large profits, the defense alleged. In rebuttal testimony, the government offered two telegrams exchanged between Fall and E. C. Finney, former assistant interior secretary, designed to show that Fall recommended the Pearl Harbor oil tank construction contracts lie handled by the secretaries of interior and navy. The defense offered no rebuttal testimony.

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T'hreatene<l Rift in National \\ oinanX I’arty M ss Doris Stevens, former wife of Dudley Field Malone, well known Paris divorce lawyer, whose sup porters are threatening to resign in whoisale numbers from the National Woman’s Party because she was not chosen by the state department at Washington as a mem her of the American delegation to the International law Codification Conference at Tlie Hague. RANK CLOSES AT UNIONDALE Private Concern Seeks i Permission to Liquidate Without Receiver Bluffton, Ind.. March 19 —.(Special to Daily Democrat.) —Tlie Bank of Uniondale, a private .institution, capitalized at $10.0(10 and having de posits of $155,000. closed this morning for put pose of liquidating. The Bank of Uniondale was or ganized about a year ago. following the closing of the State Bank of Uniondale. It has about 100 stockholders and their combined wealth is estimated at half a million dollars It is believed that the depositors will be paid in full. The d.rectors decided last night >to close and liquidate. This morning they petitioned the court to permit (CONTINUED ON PAGE EIGHT) MUCH HISTORY TO BE DERIVED Census-Takers Required to Obtain Historic and Geographical Data The 100,000 census enumerators who will begin on April 2 to collect facts about the People of the United States will need to know their geography and also something about the recent history of the world, ac cording to instructions which are being sent out from the Census Bur eau in Washington. Among tlie most important questions to be asked of everybody in the coining census are those relating to the place of birth of the person enumerated and the place of bir.il of bis father and mother. Eai li person must be credited in the census records to the state, territory, or foreign country in which his birthplace is now located, regardless of what the birthplace was called or what nation owned that terri lory at the time the person was born. If the person or his parents wore born in Europe, the census taker may have to get out his atlas to find out what nation now owns the locality. If , tor example, a person was born 20 years ago in lite province of Bohemia, which was at that time a part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, the census enumerator should put down Czechoslovak a as the person's birthplace, akhotigh no such country existed when the person was born. It' th,e person was born in Bessarabia 30 years ago and his lather was botn in exastly the same place 30 years before that, the person will probably tell the census taker that his father was borli in Turkey while he was born in Russia, but the wise census taker will put down Rumania as the birthplace of both. By reason of changes brought about by the World War and the Treaty of Versailles, boundary lines in Europe have wavered like rib the wind. On the pre (CONTINUED ON PAGE TWO)

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DRYS FROM ALL WALKS OF LIFE ENDORSE LAWS Brother of Late William 11. Taft Defends Present Statutes SALV ATION ARMY OFFICIAL HEARD Washiiitfttin, Mar. 19.—-U.R) —From the exclusive schools | and from the city slums, the l house judiciary committee reI ceiyed endorsement of prohiI bit ion today. The testimony from the slums was brought from the bedside of Evangeline Booth, commander of the Salvation Army by one of her lieutenants, Walter F. Jenkins. She said her reports from all parts of the country shows that "the down and outer" has been improved 70 per cent by prohibition and that the “drink evil" has been eradicated among I these classes. Horace D. Taft, preparatory school master and brother of the late Chief Justice, William Howard Taft, charged wets with fostering corruption by buying liquor ami piactic tig the "doctrine of' higher la wlessness.” He said his brother was converted to prohibition afterit was inacted, and denounced the wet program of using the late Chief Justice's criticism of prohibition at the time of its enactment. Reading from a statement on his prohibition beliefs Taft said. "Os course wet all know that of every dollar a drinker gives for drink fifty cents goes for corruption. It is a direct and sure result of his action. “If we go on for ten years more and the dry majority in congress remains the same or practically the same, will these so-called good c'tizens continue to contribute to the corruption of the politics of their country and the ruin of all that is decent and law abiding?" Taft said answers to a questionnaire which the owner of a large factory in a wet Connecticut city had submitted to him showed that foremen of the factory found conditions much better under prohibition. Families were better off and work more efficient, he said, which the foremen attributed in the main to prohibition. "A man must be a fanatic Indeed not to see that the bulk of those people are voting for iirohfbition because they like it.” Taft continued. "They are not studying the statistics of the economists on either side.” Turning from his manuscript. Taft chuckled and said he had seen where straw polls were being conducted at Yale. Williams and (CONTINUED ON PAGE EIGHT) FORENSiG TEAM LOSES DEBATE New Haven Team Wins From Local Affirmative Debaters The affirmative debating team of Decatur High School was defeated by the New Haven negative team last night at New Haven at which time the subject “That the State of Indiana Should Adopt by Law the Principle of Old Age Pension" was contest'd. The judges for the debate were Miss Mary Bfyant, Rev. Wyant, and Vere Tustison of New Haven. The members of the wining team included Miss Helen Smith. Lou Ada Girardot, George Lake, and Margaret Griffin as alternate. The Nev. Haven team under the direction o'' of M.ss Harriet M. Daniels, presented splendid arguments on the question. The members of the local team included Martha Moser, Paul W. Handier. Helen Hain, and Betty Frisingt r as alternate. Clifford Richards in charge of the local team, accompanied the team to New Haven. I’ime keepers for the debate were Ed Mclntosh of New Haven and W.lliatn Nussbaum of this city. <V return debate will be held Tuesday evening, Match 25. at the Deca ui High School auditorium. At that time the local%egalive team willjftieet the New Haven affirmative ®'am and will debate on the same subject.