Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 28, Number 85, Decatur, Adams County, 9 April 1930 — Page 1

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' Ru B Q r’’! < ou w W Jr ITS - jj| ... . j6SB9h t.' i i ■■■■l Mrs. Ruth Hanna McCormick who was chosen Republican candidate for the Illinois senatorial seat in the national congress voted downstate yesterday. Mrs. McCormick is at present congresswoman at large from Illinois.

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VOTING BOOTHS AREPURGHASED Commissioners Buy Ten New Booths For Washington Township The county commissioners in session yes erday purchased 10 voting booths and 10 ballot boxes which will be installed in the voting preeints in Adams county for the primary election. The booths and boxes were purchased from the Berne Lumber company on their bid of $35 for the booths and stalls and $5 each for Hie ballot boxes, with an allowance of 19 per cent if 19 or more sets were taken. Kiger and Company of Indianapolis also submitted a bid. To sell three Roads Bids for the construction of three roads will be received by the county! commissioners next June. The roads i are. North Point road in Wabash ownship; Jai'ob U. Amstutz road in Jefferson township. Specifications for these roads have been approved. Supplies are Ordered Contract for supplies at the county infirmary was awarded by the commissioners before the board adjourned last evening. The Home j Grocery was awarded the grocery contract on its bid of $24809. Niblick and Company was awarded the contract for furnishing linoleum nt tlie county infirmary on their hid of $27.35. Bridge is Accepted The Adams county commissioners met with the Van Wert county commissioners Tuesday afternoon at tlie Indiana-Ohio state line, Both counties accepted the bridge and ordered tlie bill of the contractor, Yost Bios., of this city paid. The commissioners were busy today with viewers on tlie Martin road. The report will be filed at the next meeting. Ford Makes Big Profit Boston, Mass., April 9—(U.R) - The Ford Motor company made an indicated profit of $81,797,861? in 1929, according to the company s balance sheet filed with Henry F. Long, state commissioner of taxation and corporations today. This compared with an indicated loss of $72,221,498 for 1928 and a loss of $42,786,727 for 1927. q —— Decatur Young Man Paroled From Prison Virgil Cook 17, of Adams county who was charged with transporting a stolen automobile across the OhioIndiana state line, was given a sus pended sentence of two years in the federal boys' school at Chilicothe Ohio upon his plea of guilty in federal court at Fort Wayne yesterday. Cook was arrested last November by Sheriff Harl Hollingsworth. The boy was placed under probation for two years and was told that unless his conduct was good during that time, he would be brought into court and made to serve his sentence.

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Abram Simmons Heads Bluffton Rotary Club Abram Simmons, leading attorney in Bluffton and well known in Decatur was elected president of the Bluffton Rotary club at the organiI zation meeting of the board of direc- ■ tors yesterday. Al I. Farr was elected vice-president. Paul J. Ritt was elected treasurer and Jack Belger secretary. They will assume office July 1. ■ oChicken Thieves Busy Thieves stole 45 chickens form the Jake Tieben farm in Jay county upon investigation it was found that a number of them were sold to a produce dealer at Phenix. The dealer upon learning that they were stolen returned the fowls to Mr. Tieben. An arrest is expected in the case. AIR FIELD TO BE ABANDONED Army Landing Site at Ft. Harrison Will be Done Away With Indianapolis, April 9. — (U.R) — Schoen Field, the U. S. army air service reserve flying field at Ft. Benjamin Harrison, is to be abandoned, leaving the air reserve officers in Indiana without army flying facilities nearer than Chicago, according to Major Gen. William G. Everson, head of the Federal militia bureau, Washington. "Due to budget reductions the army has decided to abandon Schoen field," Everson said while in Indianapolis. “A survey showed thgt the Municipal field at Chicago had many more hours credit for reserve officers than the one at Indianapolis. It was decided to retain the reserve field there instead of at Ft. Benjamin Harrison.” Reserve air officers in Indiana are making a fight to retain the field, it was reported at the fort today. Efforts for a special congressional measure to hold the field have been launched. Congressman Louis Ludlow has taken up the matter and asked General Everson to take steps to permit use of the Indiana National guard field at Mars Hill, Indianapolis, by reserve fliers, if their field is abandoned. "I am willing to attempt some program whereby reserve fliers could use the Mars Hill field, but now it seems impossible," General Everson explained. "Each National guard ship represents an investment of about $27,000. Should a ship be cracked up by reserve officers, there is no provision for paying costs. “Our budget does not provide for flying and maintenance costs for other than National guard officers." There are berths open in the squadron at Indianapolis tor reserve officers who want to join. General Everson suggested.

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MG CORMIGK IS NOMINATED BY BIG MAJORITY Democrats Choose J. Ham Lewis for Senatorial 1 Race In Illinois DENEEN LOSES BY BIG COUNT Chicago, April 9. — (U.R) —Ruth Hanna McCormick, born to polit-l leal purple, today became the first I woman ever to be nominated fori the United States senate by a major party. Illinois, which furnished the first republican president, signified its choice for the G. O. P. senatorial nomination in unmistakable figures yesterday, casting aside its veteran Senator Charles S. Deneen for tile dynamic daughter of .Mark Hanna. Today it appeared the final results of the primary, the first national one of tlie year, was a matter of adding up Mrs. McCormick's plurality. The latest returns from 5.157 precincts of the state's 7,117 gave Mrs. McCormick 576,249 votes and Senator Deneen 327,92 k. Adding machines in election headquarters hummed today as tlie final votes were tallied. Indications were that Mis. McCormick's plurality might reach 200.000. In Cook county it appeared she would pile up a plurality of 150.000. The victory was more than just a political triumph for Mrs. McCormick. It meant to her political revenge for the defeat Deneen administered her husband, Senator Medill McCormick, six years ago. Dtneen won that nomination by about 6,000 votes. Thus Mrs. McCormick's revenge, six years late, was multiplied by perhaps 40-fold. Senator Deneen, hitherto undefeated in 38 years of public service, retired to his home early today without making a statement or conceding defeat. Mrs. McCormick, seasoned by years of politics since the days of President McKinley, took her victory calmly but there was no masking the joy it brought. Her ever-ready smile flashed as she got returns from the United Press wire in her headquarters. At her side in a Palmer House suite sat a friend of long standing and tried devotion, Mrs. Alice Roosevelt Longworth, also born to l>olitical purple and credited with as much behind-the-scenes politics as (CONTINUED ON PAGE SIX) o Attempts To Set New Light Craft Record Cincinnati, 0., April 9 —(U.R) —in an attempt to break the light plane long-distance record for a nonstop flight to New York, Pilot Stanley C. Huffman took off from here at 7 a m. in a small 400-pound plane. Huffman, operations manager of the Embry-Riddle company here faced the perilous 600-mile journey in the Aeronca C, equipped with a 35 horsepower motor and with only--35 gallons of gasoline. Officials at Lunken field said it was the longest flight ever attempted by such a small ship. o JUNIORS PLAN TO GIVE PLAY Decatur High School Pupils Will Present Farce Comedy The Junior class of Decatur high school plan to present a three-act farce cotnetdy “Anne, What’s Het Name?” as the annual Junior class play. The show will be given at Decatur high school auditorium April 24 and 25 and the public is invited to attend. The play is a comedy full of thrills and is entertaining from beginning to end. The cast has already started work on the production and indications are it will be one of the finest high school presentations of the year. Tickets for the event will be sold by members of the Junior class of Decatur high school or they can be i obtained at the door on the nights i of the production. No seats will be i reserved. It was stated today and the doors will be opened an hour be- i fore the play starts.

| New York Newspaper To Publish Articles Concerning County The first of a series of several articles on the conditions In Adlams county ns applied to the prohibition question appears today in I the New York Herald-Tribune. The articles are written by Mr. Alva Johnston, one of the leading newsi paper writers of the east and a sluff cuirespondent ui the übuumentioned paper. Recently Judge J. T. Merryman read articles in the Herald-Tribune which led him to believe they had the wrong perspective of conditions in the rural sections of the country and wrote such a letter that it luttracted the «attention of the I (CONTINUED ON PAGE THREE) FARMERS GET GRAIN CONTROL Corporation Passes Into Hands of Stockholder Farmers Today Chicago, April 9. — (U.R) —Control of the $20,090,0011 Farmers’ National Grain corporation, an auxiliary of the Federal Farm Board, passed into the hands of its farmer stockholders today. A new board of directors, made up of stockholders representing 21 regional farmers' grain marketing associations, was chosen to run the corporation's affairs at the first annual meeting of the concern held here yesterday. The new board supplants the government administration under which the organization was incorporated. C. E. Huff, Salina. Kas., was chosen president of the corporation with John Manley, Enid. Okla., vice president and Lawrence Farlow, Bloomington, 111., secretary. Two original directors —P. A. Lee, Grand Forks, N. D., and H. C. Keeney, Omaha, Neb. — were dropped and five new men named. The new members are C. B. Steward, Omaha: E. E. Kennedy, Kankakee, Ill.; Oscar Slosser, Astoria, O.; \V. J. Kuhrt, Minneapolis, and F. J. Wilmer. Rosalia, Wash. Samuel R. McKelvle, wheat rep(CONTINUED ON PAGE THREE) OPERETTA TO BE PRESENTED Public Invited to Mt. Pleasant School Presentation This Week A Japanese opere:ta entitled “O Cho San” will be presented Friday and Saturday nights of this week by the teachers and pupils of Mt. Pleasant school at the school. The curtain will rise at each performance at 8:15 o'clock. The music in the operetta is under the direction of Miss Lavon Christener. Miss Dorothy Rabbitt, another instructor at the school takes the part of O Cho San in the presentation. The public is invited to attend the play. Following is the cast of characters: O Cho San, daughter of a wealthy merchant Dorothy Rabbitt Taro, her brother, older than she Charles Barnhouse O Yana San cousin of O Cho San Ruth Harshman Saburo, Taro's chum, of same age Harold Strahm O Waki San, O Cho San's best friend and playmate, Charlotte Cook O Taki San, younger sister of O Waki San Eleanore Roop O Lo San, who likes to spread excitement Martha Strahm Len o, friend of O Lo San, Ruth Linlger Story Teller, who makes his living as a professional ■ Charles Barnhouse Ist Officer Everett Singleton '2nd Officer, who likes sensation Harold French Two Coolies Dale Harshman and Harley Hoop Paper Man Waldo Wiseman Begger Marion Laturner Caretakers Arhtur Cook and Curtis Laturner —o HOLD MID-WEEK MEET The pastor Rev. M.” W. Sunderman will conduct a special service at the Calvary Evangelical church on Thursday night at 7:30. Sermon subject: "The Sacrifice that means Life.” Holy Communion will be observed at this service. ,

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EGG THROWING STORY IS TOLD — (Suspended Government Employe Tells of Incident With Chief Clerk Washington, April 9. — (U.R) — A gentle-mannered woman whose husbanu attests “they’ve never had a spat in 14 years of married life," gave the United Pre s today a I graphic description of her recent egg-throwing attack upon her boss !at the Federal power commission. Th s attack, savoring of comedy, | has brought forth serious and surI prising allegations regarding the I inner working of the commission which coni rids some of America's most valuable waterpower sites. As a result of the attack, Mrs. Minnie L. Ward is under suspensii'ii from the power commission, where she served as file clerk for 10 years. She has been a govern- ! ment employe 23 years. Meanwhile, serious charges made by Mrs. Ward against Frank W. Griffith, her chief clerk, are before the attorney general, the senate interstate commerce committee and Secretary of Interior Wilbur, chairman of the power commission. Griffith is accused of abstracting from the government files . valuable papers concerning the relations between tlie power commission and the power industry. The charges were made by Mrs. Ward after tlie egg-throwing incident climaxed a long-standing feud between her and the chief clerk. "It happened March 21 after Mr. Griffith had been working at a table opposite me for a week,” Mrs. (CONTINUED ON PAGE THREE) Candidate For Allen County Office Killed Peter A. Deitschel, age 43. one of the Democratic candidates for county auditor in Allen County was killed instantly Tuesday afternoon when struck by an automobile while walking across the Maysville road Mr. Deitschel died of a fractured skull. He was struck by an automobile driven by William Harter of Harter's corner, Allen county. Mr. Deitschel was walking across tlie road for tlie purpose of tacking up one of his campaign cards. A heavy wind prevented him from hearing the car. o Theft Is Reported In Kirkland Township Livestock thieves have been active in Kirkland township according to reports coming from residents of west ot' Decatur. Sunday night, vandals, evidently equipped with a light truck or wagon stole a 350-pounds sow from the Sam Barger farm. Mr. Barger reported the incident to Sheriff Harl Hollingswoth today and also posted a reward for the arrest and conviction of the thieves It is understood that clues concerning the theft have been uncovered. The activity in Kirkland township is the first in several months. CANTATA PLANS ARE ANNOUNCED Eight Soloists From High Schools Plan to Participate Hehearsals are being held daily for the sacred cantata to be given next Friday night at the Mennonite church at Berne under the auspices of the -seven Adams county township high schools. The Easter pageant, which will be free to the public, will start at 7:30 o’clock. Each of the seven township schools will take part in the cantata and each school is furnishing one solo singer. Geneva high school has contributed two solo singers. They are as follows: Doris Foreman, Jeffernon: Vincent Sprunger, Geneva: Marcella Atz, Geneva: Paul Neurge, Monmouth: Austin Merriman, Pleasant Mills; Jean Houck, Kirkland; Henry Bnsche. Monroe and Dorothy Baker, Hartford. The cantata will be given under the supervision of the Adams county high school system and those connected with it say it will be one of the greatest Easter spectacles ever given in Adams county.

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R. E. Roth ,JB - r i For fifteen years connected with lthe bank division of the First National Bank of Fort Wayne who this morning began his duties as (acting cashier of the Ohl Adams County Bank of Decatur, to serve | during the absence of D. ,1. Harkness who is taking a Iwo months' 'vacation to recuperate. WINTER FLOOD COST MILLIONS Data Is Gathered to Show Actual Wabash Valley Loss Vincennes. Ind., April 9. —(U.R) — The January flood cost the farmers of the Wabash valley $4,883,190 according to data prepared by official weather observers for the army engineers, who will come to Vincennes this month to make a flood survey in connection with a prevention program. The report, made by The IT. S. weather bureau at Indianapolis, places the total damage caused by the Wabash and White rivers at $6,862,305. The Wabash was responsible for all but a small portion of the amount. $721,693 being attributed to the White river in 32 counties. The Wabash damage was set at $6,140,612. Most of tlie damage suffered by farmers was from loss of the corn crop most bf which was in the fields at the time of the flood. Matured crops were damaged $3,513.500, and prospective crops, such as wheat. $463,550. Damage to farm equipment and livestock was estimated at $601,110. Other damages listed were: levees, $75,930; public utilities, $4,000; industries, $111,463; railroads, $210,301; cities and communities, $34,600; fences, $510,850; roads and bridges, $113,000, a total loss of $1,090,144 in tangible property and loss. Suspension of business cost $167,278, according to estimates. In the White river valley, property loss wasplaced at $349,008; mattired crops, $290,925: prospective crops $27,960; equipment and livestock. $20,300 and suspension of business, $33,500. Will Give Recital Miss Kathryn Jackson will present Miss Bertaline Blocker of Bluffton in a piano recital at tlie United Brethren church of this city. Sunday evening, April 13, at 7:30 o’clock. Others who will participate in the recital are tlie Misses Arlene and Helen Becker who will render a vocal duet, and Miss Arlene Becker who will give two saxaiphone selections, accompanied by Mrs. Tyndall. Miss Alice Vance will entertain with her saw, accompanied by her mother, Mrs. R. E. Vance. o One Killed In Train Mishap In Texas Today Alvin, Tex., April 9—(U.R)—A brakeman was killed, an engineer critically injured, and a dozen persons were injured at 6:45 a. m. today when the Missouri Pacific's fast Rio Grande Valley passenger train crashed into an express train of the same system. The express was at the Alvin Station. 20 minutes behind its schedule, when the crack flyer running on time, plunged into its rear coach. Both trains were bound for Houston. The brakeman was crushed to death, and the engineer of the express train. Burton Rayford, was mangled and scalded by steam fronjsgbroken pipes. Doctors said he could not live.

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BOMBINGS ARE BELIEVED NEAR BEING SOLVED Chicago Men Arrested at Marion; All Face Charges of Murder HAS ATTRACTED WIDE ATTENTION Marion, Ind., April 9 (U.R) AH’idavils charging murder (and cons|)iracv to commit I murder, were filed in (Irani [circuit court todav against six persons arrested yesterday as suspects in three Marion bombings which have claimed five lives since last October. One affidavit charges Peter Kmieciak. Harry Dunford and Joseph Beckett, all of Chicago, with murder, and conspiracy to commit the murder of Andrew Legos« who died of injuries sustained last Octolier 28 when a bomb exploded as he stepped on the starter of his car. The second affidavit charges' Mrs. Erma Legos, widow of Andrew' Legos, and Duke ITiimphing and Mahon Humphing, the latter two of Elwood, with conspiracy to commit murder, and the murder of John Ashcraft, on February 15. 19.39. Floyd Humphing, brother of Duke and Mahon Humphing. was sought. The six will be held in jail at Marion without bond, pending action of the grand jury, which is scheduled to meet on April 28. The affidavits were signed by T>w<i Lindemuth. Marion police chief. ‘ Red’’ Heavlin. Marion, was named by police as the informant whose efforts resulted in the arrests. Heavlin brought the Chicago men to Marion on the pretense of hiring them to "pirtl a bombing job” for him. police said. Through these alleged gangsters he learned of the Humphing brothers at Elwood. o Light Committee To Meet With Farmers Councilmen O. L. Vance, Joseph Hunter and Herman Gillig and Power Superintendent Martin Mylott will meet farmers of northeastern Adams county at the Martin Gerke home tonight to discuss the feasability of extending city light service to that section of the tyfl - T -I. TO HOLD SERVICE There will be a special service at the First Evangelical church tonight at 7:15, witli sermon by the pastor. Rev. M. W. Sunderman, on "The Steadfastness of Jesus.” The public is most cordially invited. SUMMER MEETS ARE PLANNED Hord Improvement Assn. Program Committee has Meetings Scheduled The Dairy Herd Improvement Association program committee composed of Dan H. Habegger, Roy L. Price and Otto D. Bieberich met at the home of the association's president, Peter B. Lehman. in Washington township, Tuesday evening, where details were drawn up for the joint meeting of the Dairy Herd Improvement Association and Calf Club memers, Tuesday evening. April 15. at the Monroe school building. Plans were also discussed for a meeting of the Dairy Herd Improvement Association in June. At this meeting it is not expected to have extension workers present, but a question box will be established and the members will be expected to answer these questions as called on. It is also planned to have a dairy, lime. legume tour in the county on either the first or second week of August in which extension workers from the dairy and agronomy department will be invited to attend. On this tour in addition to visiting good dairy herds the members expect to visit the lime plots, on the C. C. Wittwer farm in Monroe township and the Rolland Grttte farm in Union township l .