Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 28, Number 99, Decatur, Adams County, 25 April 1930 — Page 1

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"ill SETTLES Oft THE OHIO Jl ISON TODAY nN^H I) |s Relieved and ELcr- March I’eaceto Breakfast I E \R ANY ■IiTHER UPRISING; ■ I W. Sharpe Correspondent)! . n April 15 —(UP) I • settled over the I '" llav I »IMH S prison. a I S .ikfast this morn '•’til wet''' insistent that but they were less mi ' them voluni,.nan tn work. . open ,. so quiet that Col:t ibrich, in charge the penitentiary. - would be tedneed by 'net i 1 "' 1 ■' ii,,, '”'- v for u ■ r . apparently weaami with 1 retired to their refused 'o resign (her- no reason why intimated that i| develops evi"jH aligence, the govsupport him. Kttlaa i> smiled his investigaKtlik iiiiu i.iiig and officials mean KL: ' pairing to transfer ’■CO! I '- to other prisons, recongest ion on the overH)4t< penitentiary. ■ »L », i:.-veil today the con most of t|ieir dethe hope their aims can over a perio dot' ■Mt:»r t'ooper said everything possible will lie done for ' aß^ftrvlC:. i . d msnram e against Kep' ti ion of what happened” Bmjiile. he said, constituted auKy will prevail in administraK <ll ail; irs at the penitentiary. investigation was to S, 'i d with the recall of Brtl Watkinson. Hall, Baldwin V. ho have told conflicting why there was delay in ■eia prisoners from the burning Monday night. today suspended arthe fifth, since the fire Hall, lit his own request, i from night captain to captain. •nd'in e submitted thus far live principal points: p. "ildlity that faulty wiri.diarism, caused the I • <b-ia> in opening the cells Jwr 1 p fire was discovered. st ithing of two other fires B-The lime the fire started and :ii,. fijjq alarm was turned i rdors of Warden Thomas release of the men from BADBONDSSOLD If LOCAL BANKS ■ r einiunis Are Paid by Oecatur Banks For jjßounty Road Bonds Treasurer Ed Ashbaucher ft j awarded bonds for three \dHft'omi y roads, the Ben Eiting ■.||wie highway and the William and C. O. Manley maca'lB 1 ' ,| atfks bid on the bonds, earn premiums in varied aim hiding the Fletcher SavTrust company, Inland lucompany and the City company of Indianapolis. ! being awarded however Old Adams County bank and .^■ irst National Bank of Decatur. e Eiting road in Washington rs National bank at a presloo.B4 as was also the 1.. Frazier road. Blue Creek $8,400 at. a premium of while the C. O. Manley road Creek, $4,240 went to the ' (ia ms County bank at a preB 1 of $37.16.

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I Workinger Funeral to Be Held Saturday Funeral services for Mrs. Samuel I Workinger, who died at the home of her daughter, Mrs. Sylvia Smitley, Thursday afternoon will be held Saturday afternoon at 1:30 o’clock ut the home on South First street, and nt 2 o'clock at the Evangelical church. Rev M. W. Sunderman will officiate and burial will be made in the Decatur Cthnetery. 0 i ARE PRINTING COUNTY BALLOTS I — Work Started on Printing Ballots for Primary Election Next Month , The printing of the ballots for the primary election to be held Tuesday. May 6. started this morn-1 ing in the printing department of the Daily Democrat. The job is supervised ami done under the direction of the county board of election commmfsssioners composed of Miss Bernice Nelson, county clerk, the chairman; William Linn, the democrat member and Harry Essex, the republican member. Orders have been given for 8,000 Democrat ballots and 7,000 Republican ballots. The Democrat ballots are printed on pink paper, nine and one half by twelve and one half inches and Republican ballot is printed on canary colored paper, seven and one-half by twelve and one-half inches in size. it will require several days to print the ballots, the job being one of the most difficult in recent years. Due to the great number of candidates on the Democrat ticket the ballot is larger than usual and where there are more than three candidates for any one office the names of the candidates must be rotated on the ballots. Democrat sample ballots are printed on green paper and the Republican sample ballots are printed on blue paper. The names of all candidates on both tickets were printed in Thursday's issue of the Daily Democrat in the legal notice given by the county ' clerk. — o Lawrence Beal Is Struck On Head Lawrence Beal sustained slight in- , juries at 9 o'clock this morning when a piece of lumber fell and struck him on the head, Mr. Beal was assisting his father, John Beal in building a porch on the Beal home near this city when the accident occurred. He came to this city where a physician dressed the wounds, which were not of a serious nature. , O Tocsin Bank Case To Come Up Saturday Bluffton, Ind., April 25 — Local attorneys interested in the ease in which Grover Essner filed suit against stockholders of the defunct Bank of Tocsin, have been informed that W. D. Lett, special judge in the case, will be here next Saturday to lake further action in the litigation. One of the attorneys in the case stated today that Judge Le:t is expected Saturday to sign special findings of facts and conclusions of law in the case. The case is one in which Essner is seeking to have the stockholders of the bank adjudged liable, individually and collectively for the balance due him on his deposits amounting to about SI,BOO at the time the bank closed. He has been paid a little more than 50 per cent of the amount. Precedent In Tax Case Was Set Here Indianapolis April 24—(UP)—The Florida sheriff who “held up" a passenger train for payment of delinquent taxes which the road owed his county, had a long-time precedent in Indiana, it was learned to(lar- . u i Harry Miese, secretary of the In dtana Taxpayers association, recalled a similar incident that happened in 1891 when he was in the Adams county treasurer's office. The Grand Rapids and Indiana railroad owed the county $14,000, Miese said. He happened near the G. R. and 1 tracks one day and noticed the pay car being pulled over the road with cash for employe pay rolls. Melse hurriedly secured an attachment and “held up" the pay car locomotive, money and all. He got a promise of payment before he permitted the train to leave town. The money was delivered to him at hort Wayne next day.

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STANDARD TIME TO BE USED IN ELECTION Decatur Polls Will Not Open Until 7 a. m. Daylight Saving Time ORDER IS MADE BY STATE BOARD Indianapolis, April 25 —(UP) — Towns operating under Daylight Saving Time must hold their Primary elections according to Central Standard time, the state board of election commissioners ruled yesterday. The ruling was made in conection with a query from Decatur, Adams County, where fast time will be in effect on Election day May 6. Miss Bernice Nelson, county ' clerk and chairman of tho county board of election commissioners, received official notice today from Wiliam 8. Spencer, of the State board of election commissioners ’ that the voting places in Decatur should operate on standard time. In his letter Mr. Spencer stated. "Judge Gause and 1 conferred on your question and in our opinion "Standard Time" is meant. Miss Nelson wrote to the State Board of Election Commissioners asking them for their opinion in the matter. Decatur wll operate on Daylight Saving time, beginning Sunday, ' April 27. The law says that the polls shall be open from six a. m. until six p. m. . . Following the ruling made by the state board the election booths in Decatur will not open until seven ' a. m. and remain open until seven . (CONTINUED ON PAGE FIVE) Two Years In Prison For Chicken Theft Warsaw, Ind., April 25. —(U.PJ— . Two chickens cost Bryan Hire, 35, Warsaw, $250 each, and disfranchisement for five years. Hire was convicted of stealing the chickens from Mrs. Ruth Snyder. He was unable to pay the. fine, and must therefore serve between two and three years In prison. APPEALS TAKEN IN STATE SUIT Senator Watson and Gov. Leslie Are Defendants in Federal Court Chicago, April 25. — (U.R) — Previous unsuccessful court action against two high Indiana state officials—Gov. Harry G. Leslie and United States Senator James E. Watson —resulted in filing of appeals here in the Federal Circuit court of appeals against the two. Action was instituted against Gov. Leslie by Otto Gresham, Chicago and Indianapolis attorney, asking $50,000. Gresham charged J. Glenn Harris, former chairman of the judiciary committee, along with Leslie, while "speaker of the state house of representatives refused hhn permission to file a petition for a legislative investigation into alleged misgovernment under the Ku Klux Klan regime. The petition sought the impeachment of State Judges James A. Collins and Linn A. Hay. In the second appeal docketed William Rogers, a former klan official, seeks $50,000 charging defamation of character before the Reed senatorial committee investigation of Indiana politics, and attempted intimidations to repudiate his testimony. In the bill, Rogers names United States Senator James E. Watson, Burt Thurman, former republican national committeeman, and Albert Ward, former United States attorney. The suits were dismissed in the Federal district court by Judge Fred L. Wham, the jurist ruling that they were not within the jurisdiction of the Federal court. Eiting's Automobile Found At Warsaw The Ford roadster belonging to Bernard Eiting, which was stolen last Tuesday, was found today at Warsaw. Authorities there notified Sheriff Harl Hollingsworth this morning.

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Decatur, Indiana, Friday, April 25, 1939.

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Minnesota’s Famous Last Man’s Club Down to One Man; Charles Lockwood, Chamberlain, S. D., is Last Survivor. Chamberlain, S. D., April 25 — That gallant hand of Civil War veterans famous as Minnesota’s I.ast Man's Chib is down to its last man. One by one its members have answered the final bugle' D. C. H. S. SENIOR [ CAST IS NAMED “Ghost Parade” Will Be Presented Sunday and Tuesday Nights “The Ghost Parade,“ a comedy in three acts will be presented by the senior class of Decatur Catholic high school, as the annual presentation in the high school auditorium, Sunday and Tuesday nights, April 27 and 29. The curtain will rise promptly at 8 o’clock Daylight Saving Time. Several musical numbers will be given before and during the play. The high school boy’s glee club will open the evening's entertainment by singing “Tom, Tom, the Piper's Son. The girl’s club will present “The Laughing Song.” Both clubs will then join in singing the "High School March” and “Old Man Clothed in Leather.” “Bohunkus,” a novelty number will be sung during the play by Leo Dowling and George Harris, followed by “Sing On, Brother. Sing,” sung by several members of the cast. Mrs. L. A. Holthouse will accompany the selections at the piano. The plot of “The Ghost Parade” centers on the inheritance of a (CONTINUED ON PAGE FIVE) MAN KILLED IN AUTO WRECK Indianapolis Man Killed and Ft. Wayne Man Injured Near Bluffton Bluffton, Ind., April 25—(U.R)~ Samuel Geyer, 65, of Indianapolis was killed and Mortis E Brown of Fort Wayne, suffered a broken arm and other injuries when the auto in which they were riding overturned one mile south of Pennville on State road three this morning. The small roadster, caterpillared into a ditch when brakes were applied suddenly as they passed another car on a turn, Brown said. He was brought to a Bluffton hospital where his condition was said not to be serious. Geyer is eurvived by a widow and three sons. He was registered at the Randall hotel at Fort Wayne but lived at Indianapolis.

I call, and now only Charles Lockwood, 89, of Chamberlain, S. D., is left alone with his dreams and memories of the 33 men who, 44 years ago, met to organize a club that would keep alive the spirit of B Company. First Minnesota Volunteer Infantry. Peter O. Hall, of Atwater, Minn., who was lackwood’s comrade of war and peace, has just died at the age of 91, after having made plans to attend the annual reunion of the club in July, with Ixickwood and himself as the sole guests. ganized in July 21, 1886, the anniversary of the day that the coinI The Last Man’s Club was orpany went under fire at Bull Run. Each year the club has met and each year it has dwindled in membership but not in spirit, and for reunion, although charged with a sad undercurrent, was ever a happy and cheerful affair. And always, a bottle of Burgundy, purchased at the inception of the club, has been placed on the ban(CONTINUED ON PAGE FIVE) TO LET ENGINE HOUSE CONTRACT Council to Receive Bids Tonight for Building New Fire Engine House The city council in special session tonight will receive proposals from contractors for the building of the new fire engine house on South Seventh street. Plans for the building have been drawn !>y Pohlmeyer and Pohlmeyer. Fort Wayne architects, who were employed by the council to prepare the specifications. The new fire engine house will face Seventh street. The site purchased from Mr. and Mrs. E. N. Wicks, has a frontage of about 200 feet on Seventh street and extends west on Jefferson street to the right of-way of the Peensylvania railroad. The building will be of the bungalow type and will conform to the style of architecture found in the residence districts. It. will not have an appearance of a public building, but more a home, this being the type now used in cities. The engine house will have a frontage of 54 feet on Seventh street and 74 feet on Jefferson street. It will be one story high, built of brick, with basement under that part of the building for the furnace room. The new engine house will besides containing three stalls for the fire trucks, will have a lounging room, a bed room, kitchen, bath and toilet rooms for the firemen. Work on the constructions of the building will start as soon as legal details are disposed of and the contractor can start work. It is estimated that the cost of the new building will be between $15,000 and SIB,OOO. Following the moving of the fire department from the city hall on Monroe street to the new engine house, the building will be remodeled into offices for the city light and water departments. 1

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LEADERS AND DIGGERS ARE NAMED TODAY Eighth Grade Pupils Lead Other Grades in Awards MUCH INTEREST IS APPARENT Leader and Digger awards for the second six week period of the present school semester at Central school were announced today by the faculty of that school. There were 26 eight A pupils who received I leader awards and one received a Digger award. This was the largest number in any of the classes. Following is a complete list of iawards made in each grade: Eight A—Leaders Marie Teeter, Helen Suttles, Barbara Krick. Pauline Hakey, Ruth Foughty. Roselyn Foreman. Marjorie DeVoss, Mary Cowan, Helen Becker, Melvena Williams. Ellen Uhrick. Joyce Riker. Helena Rayl. Vera Porter, Mary Myers, Mildred Hesher, Valera Hart. Marcella Gilbert, Kathryn Engeler, Faye Eichar, . Margaret Campbell, William Saundi ers, Myles Parrish. Bob Arnold, 1 I Ignacio Hernandez. James Cowan. I ( Eight A—Diggers II Dale Johnson. Eight B —Leaders -1 Mary Kathryn Tyndall, Maxine ’ Humbarger, Martha Christen. Jacob . Moyer. Junior Kelley. Paul Hend- , ricks. , Eight B—Diggers I Catherine Brown. Clark W. Smith, i Charles McGill. Harold Kolter. f Chalmer Hart. Seven A—Leaders Mildred Gause, Helen Gay, Martha E. Calland, Martha E. Butler. Jean- - ette Beery, Alice Jane Archbold, . Harriet Fruchte, Pauline Affolder, Sephus Jackson. James Harkless, William Elston. Madeline Spahr, | ■ Mary Jane Schaffer, Kathleen Odle, Eula Myers, Jane Linn. Marciel . Leatherman, Evelyn Kohls, Louise Kiess. Seven A—Diggers Donald Gage, Idora Lough. Seven B—Leaders Naomi Ladd. Cover McClure, Fern Zimmerman, Eileen Wells. Seven B—Diggers Lee Anna Morrison. Mary A. Bauman. Ellis Squier, Leroy Huffman. ’ Six A—Leaders Faustlnio Hernandez, Agnes Nelson. Ruth Porter, Harry Moyer. Thelma Gage. Floyd Ely, Billy Schafer. > Six A—Diggers Bob Ashbaucher, Robert Engeler. , Herbert Banning. Dale Myers, Carl Evans. Six B—Leaders Catherine Jackson, Catherine 1 Murphy, Harold Zimmerman, ■ Evelyn Adams. Six B—Diggers Lewis Beery, Robert Brodbeck. Five A—Leaders Liewis Fennig, Jeanette Christen. ' Alice Kathryn Baker. Jane Krick, ' Eugene Friedt, Katharine Chap(CONTINUED ON PAGE FIVE) o JUNIOR CLASS PLAY GIVEN Large Crowd Attends First Presentation of High School Play A large crowd witnessed the production of "Anne, Wh,*i» Her Name" the Decatur high school Junior Class play which was presented at the Decatur High School auditorium last night. The mystery farce met with the approval of the audience and was acclaimed one of the best plays of the year. The play will be repeated tonight at 8:15 o’clock. All members of the cast, which consisted of members the the Junior Class of Decatur Hhigh School performed their parts in a capable manner. The play opens in Tony Wheat's home and centers about Tony Wheat a young man who is fleeing from the police for a crime he is accused of falsely. The many incidents that occur before Tony is vindicated of suspicion adds many interesting features to the plot. Miss Verneal Whalen diredVed 'the play.

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Rotarians to Entertain Wives Aiml Mothers Il was announced today by the entertainment committee that th«« Decatur Rotary club whould entertain the wives and mothers of the Rotarians on Thursday, May Bth. The meeting will he held ut th< K. of C. hall and Ward Calland is the ehairman of the committee who will secure the speaker. It will he the regular meeting of the Rotary club and the annual ladies' night entertainment will be combined with a mother's day observance. CLUB DIRECTORS ARE ELECTED Rotary Club Elects Five Directors; Rev. Franklin Delivered Talk The annual election of directors of the Decatur Rotary club was held last night, five men being elected. The directors are. Clarence Beavers, William Bowers. Edward Coffee Paul Edwards and James Kocher. The newly elected directors will he called together within the next week by C. O. Porter, president of • the Club, for the purpose of electing 1 officers. A president, vice-president, • treasurer, secretary and sergeani- . at-arms will be elected from among J the board members. Mr. Porter will J be a member of the board for the I next year, serving in the capacity lot' tlie immediate past-president Rev. Franklin Spoke The Rev. Benjamin H. Franklin. . new pastor of the First Methodist , church in this city was the speaker . at the regular meeting of the club last evening. The Reverand Franklin was introduced by O. L. Vance. Rev. Franklin spoke on "The man who dares". He stated that “the man who dares is one who is ahead of his day" Too much attention is paid to thu physical side, while to 1 succeed you must consider the spiritual side, stated Rev. Franklin. His ’ talk was greatly enjoyed. ■ —o Large Snake Killed By Otto Lammert ' Otto Lammert, while working this! morning in the woods on his farm.' found a blue racer suake. The snake was killed. It measured five feet, five inches in length and was five inches in diameter, Mr. Lammert stated. o DID NOT BOTHER WITH SMALL SUM Bandit Who Staged HoldUp at McAlhany Store Not Pleased With Cash A holdup took place at 11 o'clock this morning at the McElhany store at Salem, Blue Creek township. A young man drove up to the store and asked for gas. He filled his car with 12 galons of gas and walked into the store with David Habegger who was at the store and George! McElhany. Inside of the store the stranger whipped out a revolver and demanded that the two other men hand over their money to him. The men told him that they had only a small amount of cash and the safe drawer contained only a couple dollars. The bandit evidently seemed “regusted” over such a small amount and walked away without taking any of it. He did not pay for the gas. The stranger drove west and then south and then west again and is believed to have been one of the Liberty (’enter bank bandits, the car lie was driving answered the description of the Bell car which was stolen here last night and used by the bandit in making his get away from the bank this morning. —o Amended Barrett Law Is Heid Invalid Hammond, lnd„ April 25—(UP) — The newly amended Barrett law was held void and inoperative against property owners chargeable with improvement assessments started before March 16, 1929, by Judge Clyde Cleveland in Lake Superior court at Hammond. The decision was given in the case of Soltesz vs. Keckler, Hammond city treasurer. Soltesz said the new higher rates of the Barret law amendment did not apply to him as the city treasurer held, because the improvement w r ork had been begun before March 16, 1929, the day the changed law became effective.

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MAKES GET AWAY WITHSI.46OIN STOLEN AUTO I ■ Woman Was Waiting Outside; Car Stolen Here From William Bell THANKED CASHIER AT DOOR; DROVE AWAY Bluffton, Ind., April 25. — (Special.)—The Liberty Center State bank, located 10 miles southwest of here, was held up bv a lone bandit at 10:15 o’clock this morning and robbed of $1,460 in cash. The bandit, accompanied by a woman, whom he kissed, before leaving his car and go--1 ing into the hank, was driving and escaped in a Buick roadster auto- ' mobile, which was stolen from William Bell. Decatur, sometime last evening between six and ninethirty o'clock. Roy Mossburg, cashier of the • bank was the only person in the bunk when the bandit entered and demanded that he “stick them up." Just a few r minutes before ten o'clock Mr. Mossburg, had locked the bank and gone across . the street to a drug store. Mrs. Nova Cole, iiostmaster, noticed the green colored roadster park in front of the bank and the . driver of the car get out. He went to the door of the bank and found it locked and returned to his car i and drove around the block. In the meantime Mr. Mossburg returned to the bankiand shortly 1 thereafter the bandit entered. Mr. > Mossburg informed him that he 1 did not have a gun and that he 1 (tlie bandit) should not shoot. The ' bandit walked back of the counter and gathered up all the lose money 1 on the counter and in the drawers. l ut did not go into the safe, which was open. Mr. Mossburg stated state if he had a gun he could very easily have shot the man when he I turned to walk out. Mrs. Cole was watching the proj ceedings and recognized a signal from Mr. Mossburg, notified the men in the garage next door of the hold up. The bandit, alert to such cases, ordered Mr. Mossburg to walk to the door with him and when they reached it he held out (CONTINUED ON PAGE FIVE) o Nine Men of Crew Missing in Wreck Greenwich, Conn.. April 25. —(U.R) —Nine men were reported missing today after the Bridgeport freighter Thants caught fire and had to be abandoned in Long Island Sound. Greenwich police were unable to say whether the missing men might have drowned, been trapped in the blazing hull or had escaped to nearby Captains Islam!, a barren, uninhabited body of land several miles off shore. The estimate of nine lost was based on reports from New York that the Thams had left there yesterday for Bridgeport with a crew of 24. SCOUT SCHOOL WILL BE HELD Three Day Session to be Held at Chamber of Commerce Next Week Scoutmasters, troop committee men and anyone interested in boys and scout activities will have an opportunity to do so at' the training course to be giver, next Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday evening. at the Chamber of Commerce rooms in this city, W. Guy Brown, chairman of the leadership ■ training committee, of the Decas tur Scouts, announced today. C. R. Danielson, assistant scout • executive, will be the Scoutmaster > of the training troop which will be made up in the same way as a ’ troop of hoys. Bryce Thomas, commissioner. will be senior patrol leader. Scoutmasters Paul Briede 1 of troop No. 64. Robert Helm of 1 troop No. 61, Bud White, troop 65, and Tilman Gehrig, troop 63, will attend the course. 1 Requirements of Tenderfoot and (CONTINUED ON PAGE TWO)