Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 28, Number 88, Decatur, Adams County, 12 April 1930 — Page 1

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■nW (IF ■sICCIBENT ■SSBESSED: ■ IT „ I’chons Are ■d : Injured b* Di (> ■ Mill a < ITV ■ MW IX I! RED uh, V M- April ii>, Ihhlh-s <.i r.i |K S | ;n I,! UHH'UIK'S here |Km,|iih- Hie worst jn'i.i. nl in the his- \\ W Hile uriei - 4? ■ sought to limit' loved ones ■ llK' '’J' 1 " 1,1 ch: "‘ lv<i j wreck I p r p w• re nunl'‘ |Hr>.nim. ll "' isnlies, !■ e-ponsibility Santa i’e |H. huge Pick’a. 1 2 mil's Aliltl' I'!•■ ’ gH|, . from Los ,„!>,■> 28 ocwil|Hi|. ':■"- driver. F !!. . r \ wit|K: ; . ■.’owed down but uppar|Hh., i ' ■ oiLI beat the ' i d schedule. ■ . : ~ line here said. K ■ void the a, ciT’ ,■ although . . kened speed on - the stage, into .bile of the bus. it a thousand Th" c.isoline tank of ■■ t ou verting [ t!,‘ into human P X Olvuin. an Indian! i --"d the tragedy. ■ - ■ ■!■. wn along the ■of w.iy. - ill" decapitated. ■ armless and legless. ■hut :!]■"" ■ : the bodies had ■identifi".! today. Nine nur- ■ were in hospitals here in condition. Several were ■tp-'.il to live. The drive, ■moug those killed. ■sura' .an- were put under- ■’■ ' •■ . attorney's office ■'TIXTEO ox PAGE TWO) ■TNSUMMONS IfRRY LEWTON ■ner Adams County Beside nt Expires In 11 Detroit, Mich. ■L' Vinson Lewton, 59, of De- ■ Michigan, former Adams B)' man. died at the Methodist W, Fort Wayne, Friday at 10 o'clock. ! deceased was horn in Adams J. Maj* 20, 1870, the son of ' Allen and Mary H. Lewton, deceased. He spent the great,rt of hit life in this county, few years ago moved to Dewhero he was employed by °t'd Motor company. " as united in marriage to e E- Zimmerman of Adams y. who preceded him in death id two brothers, Joseph D. mnk M. Lewton. 'd'dng are two daughters, Reuben Kaehr of Bluffton, Mrs. Geraldine Beery of Fort *• Three sisters, Mrs. Lillie PW8 > who is an invalid in the eran hospital at Fort Wayne, Jesse Breniman of Fort '■e. and Mrs. Chester Johnson, *D. ami four grandchildren survive. ®eraj services will be held bty morning at 9 o’clock at the 10 °f Schone Mortuary, 620 Washington Blvd., Fort ” e ' Burial will be made in ‘"cntiir cemetery. Arrange- ' have been made for friends ■ew the remains at the graveTownshin Man Is Seriously 111 ' D- Scheumann, prominent n ’ownship farmer, is seriously nis home in Friedheim. Mr. omann. who is past 84 years of ' s Sll! fering from neuritis and infection. His condition is to he serious.

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I A Blond Peach 08. _ 1 1 Ik - ’ -J <3/ . : \W 1 ’ MX th x li " ?\ 1 ****-*— Maxine Sealy, 18 and blond, of Benton Harbor. Mich., has been chosen Miss Benton Harbor for the blossom festival in the fruit belt. She in employed in the registrar’s office in the town. OFFICIALS IN HEATED SCRAP — State Aid Problem Is Cause of Heated Arguments Today Indianapolis, April 12—(UP) —Indiana's state-aid problems have pre- < ipitatied a mud-slinging contest between state officials and township trustees and unless tactics are changed no solution to the problems will be forthcoming, the state-aid commission was told at their meeting at the statehouse today. President W. I’. Dearing of Oakland City College made the mud slinging charge and followed it with I a picture of the real trouble in Southern Indiana as he sees it. He also offered suggestions for a conI strm tive program to lie fostered by the state. Dearing is a native of Southern Indiana, his parents having been pioneers. He has been president of Oakland College 35 years and was the first graduate of that southern Indiana Ins itution. "It is useless for the state to set up smoke screens as has been done" Dearing said in referring to the recent report to Gov. Harry G. Leslie from the state board of ac I counts. The report charged extravagenre among State-Aid township ■ trustees and over - building of • schools. "These poor schools in Indiana were told what to do by the state laws aiifl then for a long time no funds were available with which to II meet those standards," he said. i "Then stale-aid was devised as a i sort of ciutch. It was appreciated . that the state constitution placed responsibility for the schools direct , ly on the state. —— o President Will Not Withdraw Nomination I Washington, April 12. — (U.R) — President Hoover will not with- ’ draw the nomination of Judge John 1 J. Parker of North Carolina, to be , a member of the supreme court, it was said on his behalf at the I'White House today in connection '' with recent conferences with senators who advised the president of ' objection* raised against Parker. ' While senators outlined the obS jections raised, White House off!- ’ cials said they did not urge withdrawal of the nomination. Opposition to Parker was raised by organized labor because of his I decision involving "Yellow Dog contracts and by the National t Association for the Advancement t-jof Colored People, which objected ■ Ito an alleged speech in North Carfiolina by Parker in 1920 in which 1 he was reported to have said the s negro was not yet ready to take 'the responsibilities of citizenship.

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MORGAN COUNTY FOREST BURNS Thousand Acres Reoorted Destroyed In Indiana 1 Woods Fire Indianapolis, April 12—(U.R>-AH available fire fighting equipment of the state forest and park service were rushed to Morgan county this afterimon to fight a blaze which had swftit through 600 acres of timber this morning, and threatened 1,000 additional acre?.. A hundred men were being hastily organized at Monrovia, near th? ' scene of the fire, and by the state . departments, to sdve the timber j and homes which lie in file vicin- I Ity 1 . Urgent appeal for state aid was made by A. C. Bickel of Monrovia, who said in a telephone conversation with Col. Richard Lieber, director of the state conservation department, that the situation was | serious. Lieber promised the entire facll- , ities of his departments in the emergency, which will include 50 men from nearby state parks and forests. He left in company with Ralph Wilcox, state forester; A L. Freeman, forestry engineer, and John Diggs, superintendent of state patks, to take clwrge of th-? battle. High winds wore hampering the small force which was fighting the flames this morning, and Lieber said just before departing, that back-firing probably would have to be restored to, to save additional acreage from destruction. He expected 50 men from Monrovia to auerment his own 50. in the task. Tinder-like condition of timber and grass’ands added to the peril. A few days ago 2.000 acres of timber and brush land were burn-

ed over in Clark county, near the Henryville state forest, and for a time imperilled the forest, but finally the blaze was brought under control. —o — Will Marry Man She Charged With Battery Los Angeles, Cal.. April 12 —(U.P) —Lena L. Critchfield, 22, Hollywood dancer, who filed a battery complaint against Edward Frank Mills, 45. wealthy retired shoe manufacturer, last January, today signed a notice of intention to marry the man. They plan„io wed in the near future, and. Miss Critchfield said, there will Ivb 1 no more quarrels such as the one at a party three months ago .when Mills, according to the dancdite battery complaint, struck her ail dragged her from the house by She hair. *” - ~ Shows Interesting Relic F. P. Pickeit of Berne was a caller here this morning and displayed an interesting old political souvenir, a copy of the ticket used by the Simon Pure Democratic iparty in the county elect 1 a of many years ago when the candidates were, J. B. Simcoke. for clerk; W. G. Spencer, auditor; Conrad Reinking and Josiah Crawford, commissioners; Henry Hart, surveyor; John King, Jr., coroner; Moses Jenkinson, prosecutor and Joseph S'. France, deputy prose- ! cittor. Mr. Pickett is a descendent > of Mr. Crawford, one of the candii dates. TEMPERATURE REMAINS HIGH Showers Predicted For Part of Indiana But No Relief Promised Warm weather continued to rule Decatur and Adams county today, and while showers were predicted 1 accompanied by a slight drop in ' temperatures, weather forecasters said that lhe upward trend of the mercury would be active again Sun day afternoon. State weather men said that indications were that temperature would remain in the 80 s and might 1 possibly rise to 90 degrees the first ] of next week. 1 Indianapolis, April 12 — (UP) — ’ weather forecasts today indicated I temperatures in Indiana would drop ■ only slightly from their record i marks during the week end. ’ Showers predicted for Northern (CONTINUED ON PAGE TWO)

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Decatur, Indiana, Saturday, April 12, 1930.

Decatur Story Stirs I Interest In Capital Congressman LaGuardia wants it printed in official record; Vestal doubts facts about bottle caps; Humorous and serious slants placed on story.

(Editor's note —The article referred to is printed on page six.) From the Herald Tribune Washington Bureau Washington, April 9. Prohibition in the small town of Decatur. Ind., as set forth In an article by Alva [Johnston, of the New York Herald j Tribune, drew considerable attention on Capitol Hill today, cttl[minuting in the announcement by Representative Fiorella H. La Guardia, Republican, of New York, that lie would ask that the entire story lie included in the hearings before the House Judiciary Committee on proposed changes in the dry laws. The interest at the Capitol took [various forms of expression. Some saw tlie whole thing as hutnoroue —as an outstanding example of <he ‘‘national joke" — while others viewed it as a serious matter and still others saw in it material for political study. The latter talked about it but not for quotation. Representative Albert II Vestal, a Republican, whose district in- ' < hides Decatur, was ill at his home ' and could not lie interviewed. I Representative Albert R. Hall, Re-1 [publican, of an adjoining district, '[however, made the following com-j 1 , ment: ' I "It was all right until J got to '[the part about the bottle caps. ■That was just a bit too thick for ' me. It can't be right. There must ■ I be something wrong with the story, rI — —

Rev, H. H. Ferntheil To Deliver Special Sermon Rev. Harry H. Ferntheil. the, pastor of the local Presbyterian] church has been invited to preach] at the Union Passion week serv j ice at Fort Wayne. The churches 1 uniting in this service are the Simpson M. E., the Third Presbyterian church and the First Evangelical. The services will be held beginning Monday evening at the Simpson Methodist church at 7; HO with Rev. Ferntheil as the preacher. NEW WAGE RATE IS AGREED ON Indiana Coal Miners Assure Concord As Rate is Adopted Terre Haute. Ind., April 12. — | ((j p)__Continued concord in Indi- ] ana's coal fields was assured today With announcement that a wage scale contract agreement for strip mines had been reached bv representatives of district 11, United Mine Workers of America, and the Indiana Coal Producers association. Earlier in the month the deep mine workes and their employers agreed on a new contract. Both contracts will he effective for one year. A union convention will be held at Terre Haute within the next | two weeks for the purpose of pas sing on the contracts. Approval is assured, according to union leaders. The strip mine agreement continues the present wage of $6.10 a day, it was announced. The wage is the same as that of deep mine workers. — 0 Plav Chess Game By Use of Cables: Washington, April 12. — (U.R)—A chess game played across 11.000 miles of ocean was scheduled for today as the Washington and London teams play off a match which was annulled by the international chess federation in 1928. ' The moves will be cabled in code to the contending players. The match will be opened by Sir Ronald Lindsay, British ambassador. The London team will be awarded the Samuel Insul! trophy to be kept permanently should it win. It already has defeated the chess teams of Chicago and New York.

Your Mr. Johnston must have got [ •he facts wrong. My district? Oh it's dry, but I suppose there are I 1 “ome we's there, too. But I think I 1 the facts in the story are wrong?" 1 Mr. Igi Guardia, at first inclined 1 to view the story as a "stunt," ' became enthusiastic as he read. 1 When ho had finished he termed it “the finest example of what is actually going on in this country j I have ever read.” "There's nothing one-sided about the story an far as the writer’s 1 opinion is concerned. Obviously I 1 Johnston was wide open to infor- ' mation when he got there, and just J (took what was literally thrown in- ' to his lap. What a story that is' "i 1 Representative Harold Knutson, i R -publican, of Minnesota, wonder-i[ ed a lot. ho said, about the kegs j Mr. Johnston’s story mentioned. ■' He thought perliaps "they, drink, an awful lot of cider out there and need the kegs to keep it in." On second thought, he said: "I guess the only explanation.■ though, is that it's such a dry country that they have to haul the water from the Wabash and need the kegs to keep the extra water in." Becoming serious, he said ho [thought "the country needs more stuff like this” He thought it [ would “wake them up to the real ■ I facts of the matter." The Senate members read the [story and said nothing for publication. Senator Arthur R. Robinson, I Republican, of Indiana, sajd he had not read it. but would do so.

10CAL SCOUTS SHOW INTEREST Four Troop Meetings Are Well Attended: Activities Planned With spring weather setting in Decatur. Boy Scouts troops have become active and all four Decatur troops are planning outings and other summer activities. During the last week. 107 local Scouts and officials attended troop meetings and at every meeting members of the advisory committee and Scoutmasters were present. Troop 65 of the Evangelical church led other troops in attendance with 25 present at its regular meeting. The K. of (’. troop. 64 was second in attandance with 24 boys present and three committee members. Rotary troop 63 has an attendance of 19 boys and the American Legion troop had an attendance ot ! 18Regular meetings are being planned for each troop and all sorts of summer activities such as baseball hikes, camps and instruction tests are being planned. The interest is growing and each troop is making an effoit to increase scout membership. Much of the credit for increased interest in Scouting in Decatur is due to the untiring efforts of the local Scout commissioner. Bryce Thomas and his officers of Adams county. SEEK MISSING ARTIST-FLIER Ralph Skelton Believed Lost; Left Friday In Plane Chicago, April 12 —(UP)— Airplanes criss-crossed the lower end of Lake Michigan today searching j for Ralph Fisher skellon, Chicago artist-flier, who disappeared on his way back from the Detroit air show. Skelton had been missing I’.S shurs when the first aviators took off from Pal-Wakee field today to scan the shores of the lake and then push out over the water looking for the ariist’s floating machine. Skelton, who maintains a studio in Chicago and devotes the rest ot his time to flying, started back to ' Chicago from Detroit at 2 p. m. Tuesday. At Ann Arbor later that afternoon he stopped for fuel and then flew westward. Since that time he hasn't been seen. I (continued o> page two)

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BOMBING CLUES ARE DEVELOPER Marion Officials Continue To Work on Identifications BULLETIN Marion, Ind., April 12—(UP) — Rumors that Chicago gangsters had filtered into Marion, planning paii delivery of three of their number charged with murder in bombing crimes here, caused placement of police machine gun squads in buildings near Grant county jail today. Marion, Ind., April 19- (U.RLAuthorities probing the underworld activities believed behind the recent Marion bombings, today said additional evidence implicated tlie three Chicago gangsters, held in jail at Marion, not only in Hi? Marion blasts, but in others at Hammond and Chicago. Officers expected developments today to bring identification of Harry Dunford, alias Joe Prado, us the leader in the Marion crime. State Theater bombing at Ilam- ' mond two years ago, and other eases in Chicago and tlie Calumet region. A second Lake county resident was expected in Marion today Io give information that Prado tossed tlie bomb at Hammond and solicited destructional jobs in tlie Calumet district. Additional persons suspected of being connected with the Marion lease are Teddy Triana and Mrs. j Tassy Leill Abbatta. alias Betty I Gordon, held by Chicago police. Tolise held at Marion, arrested earlier in tlie week are: Danford Peter Kmieciak and Joseph Beckett, all of Chicago: Duke and Vernon Humphrey, Elwood, and Mrs. Erma Legos, widow o, one of the bombing victims. All six have been charged in affidavits with murder and conspiracy to commit murder. Mayor Jack Edwards and William Dailey, investigator, returned (CONTINUED ON PAGE FIVE) o Legion To Meet Special moving pictures of (lie American Legion Louisville convention and other features will be shown at legion Hall Monday night as a part of tlie regular Legion meeting. Tlie meeting will start promptly at 7:30 o'clock and members are urged to attend. HOLY WEEK TO BE OBSERVED Catholic Church Plans Special Observation of Entire Week Holy week will be observed next week, beginning with Holy Thurs ■ day. ’ At the St. Marys Catholic church I the institution of the Holy Euchar i ist is observed on Holy Thurday. .1 high mass will bo celebrated ai i 7:30 o’clock in the morning. On Good Friday the mass of the Pre-sanctified will lie celebrated a' i 7:30 o'clock. From 12 to 3 o'clock ii • the afternoon the Three Hours : commemorating Christ's death oi I the Cross will be observed. Ou Holy Saturday tlie service o blessing tlie Pascal candle and Ens ter water will lie started at 5:4’ A. M.( followed by a mass later The season of Lent ends Saturda; noon. I On Easter Sunday there Will b< | three masses. The first mass at fiv< o'clock will lie a solemn high mass The next two masses will lie held a I 8:30 and 9:45 A. M. A visiting priest wil lie here Sat urday to assist in the services. Thi members of the congregation wil receive Holy Communion on East . er Sunday. I The regular Tuesday evenim , Lenten services will lie held nex , week, but the evening service wil , not lie held Friday evening. — Q ■ Child Fatally Burned > i Indianapolis, April 12.—(U.R)— ; efforts of a mother to attemp rescue of her two-year-old daugh j ter from a flaming upstairs bed t' room yesterday were in vain. Mar: > Alice Gamble died at the City hos . pital today from burns. t The baby was carried from tic 1 house by a fireman after the frail t tic mother had been pulled frou a. ladder as she tried to reach he child through a second story win dow.

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ISTARTSMONDAY r. ■I Predictions are That Coming Term Will Be Busy Session The Adams circuit court, April e term will open Monday morning i- Court Bailiff William Schamere loh was busy today tidying up the t court room and otherwise preparn ing for what is predicted will be t one of the busiest April terms of i- court in the history of Adams circuit. Among other criminal cases, scheduled to b® tried at the April term of court are two that have caused considerable comment. The I case of state vs. J. A. Long of Portland, charged with rape, is scheduled to be heard in Adams circuit court on a change of venue from Jay circuit court. § Another case which may he heard in the April term is state vs. W. D. Cross, Jr., charged in a grand jury indictment witli embezzlement. :t Many civil cases also are on s- the docket and more than 85 claims against one estate will be h set for hearing in the coming term, r Judge J. C. Sutton, who spent A his entire vacation hearing a ease it as special judge in Allen county stated that in all probability he ■ e would return to Fort Wayne next it Friday to render a judgment in the u special case. s, Court will convene at 9 o'clock n Monday morning and in all probability the first day or two will be >f devoted to setting of eases and v calling the docket. •SHYSTER'TYPE LAWYER SCORED it ,' p Attorney General Ogden n Says They Should Be Driven Away IS Paducah. Ky„ April 12—(U.P) — Kt An emphatic, denunciation of the 1 ‘‘shyster lawyer” and a plea that this type be ousted from legal profession was made by James M. Ogden, Indiana attorney general and president of the Indiana State Bar association, in addressing the ~ 29th annual meeting of 4he Kentucky State Bar association last I night ' Local bar associations have been ' dilatory about disciplining their '* membership, Ogden charged. He attributed to this lack of aggres- ' sive courage on the part of the bar, the disrepute In which lawyers in are sometimes held. ?t ‘‘Just as in any lodge, church or (CONTINUED ON PAGE TWO)

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THREE-POWER TREATY WILL BE ENACTED Three Nations Plan to Sign Treaty of Parity Thursday PARLEY WILL BE ( OMPLETED Washington, April 12 (Ireal Britain’s struggle to maintain undisputed maslerv of the seas gained with defeal of the Spanish Armad i in 1 ■>S<S, foi inaliv will be ended Thursday in a three power naval agreement to be signed bv Britain. Japan and the I'nited Stales. President Hoover pronounced this final abolition of competitive luiilding tlie most vital feature of tlie London treaty in which AngloAmerican naval parity is to be acknowledged and a proportionate Japanese strength assigned. With receipt of word here that the naval agreement probably will lie signed in London late next week, officials are wondering when I Mr. Hoover will make his first | move to have tlie instrument ratified by tlie senate and what the prospect is for ratification. it is yet unknown whether the president will submit tlie treaty immediately after the naval delegation returns from London or whether he will wait until congress reconvenes next fall. In either event, ratification probably will l>e long delayed, as the senate foreign relations committee plans to hold extensive hearings on the instrument before reporting it. Time far. senators have been reluctant to comment on the treaty in its final form, though several of them made known their opposition to inclusion in it of a consultative pact. Mr. Hoover estimated tlie treaty would save $2,500,000,000 to the three participating nations, of which $1,000,000,000 will represent the American share. These estimates were based upon comparison of what Anglo-American parity would have cost on the high tonnage leveln under consideration by tlie 1927 Geneva conference, and on tonnage levels agreed to at Txuidon. (CONTINUED ON PAGE FIVE) YOUNG PIANIST TO APPEAR HERE [Miss Bertaline Blocker to Give Concert at U. B. Church Sunday Miss Bertaline Blocker, nine years old. a pupil of Kathryn Jackson, will appear in a piano recital at the I'nited Brethren church. I Sunday evening. April 13, at 7:30 o'clock. Miss Blocker will lie assisted by Misse Arlene and Helen Becker, who will render a vocal duet, while Miss Arlene Becker wil! give two saxophone selections accompanied by Mrs. Tyndall, and Miss Alice Vane? will entertain w’tli her saw. accompanied by Mrs. 11. E. Vance. Tlie public is invited to attend. The following program will 1m given: Song Without Words Wilson I 1 \ alse Brilliante ' Durand Bertaline Blocker Snuggle Time . .... E. Barroll Arlene Becker i Caprice Adagio White Italienne Heller Bertaline Blocker Saw Solo Selected Alice Vance - Approach of Spring Nevin ’ Oriental Parade Sartorio 1 Bertaline Blocker ' At the End of tlie Cobblestone Road Sanders ' Arlene and Helen Becker 5 Dreaming Bilbro 3 Kondo Prestissimo Adams Bertaline Blocker ’ Saw Solo Selected Alice Vance 1 Variation —(Offertory) Weber ' Happ'noss Ryder Bertaline Blocker ’’ La Rosita Paul Dupont Arlene Becker s Rolling Reverie Blake r Modern Classical Paldi, Mari Bertaline Blocker Benediction.