Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 28, Number 100, Decatur, Adams County, 26 April 1930 — Page 1

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DMINISTRATION TO TAKE PART IN VOTE

jN MEETING Ihurch MEN KHEIDHERE I'iical Men’s BrothB] Sponsors Second ■lien’s Meetings ■' H.RUPNOW 50 BE SPEAKER S’ cV . I’. 11. Rupnow.j 51 SI. Johns Reformed i K.i I "iI Wayne and; ■mu in Decatur will ■peaker ala banquet B Decatur Protestant ■neii l<> be held at the Kanaelical church of B rinirsday night May announced today. Kion men's meeting is Id [lunch members of all Hii-slanf churches and is B<m "'"'l by the Mens Hod of the Evangelical B Tickets have been proKong the various local Hin proportion to the nuniKn members each church ■> planning on attending ■ to obtain their tickets Hr own church. The dinK will precede the speak- ■». served by the I-adies ■?. of the Evangelical Mtppnow has been in Deca■veral occasions and those ■ heard him say he is one Hiding orators of northern | ■ He lias been active in I ■oik of the state for sev-1 ajtroaching meeting is the H its kind to be held in ■this year, the first one ■il some weeks ago at the ■till under the auspices of ■tee composed of members ■al churches. ■ o lis A arned Against le Working Decatur ■izens of Decatur are warn■st admitting any strange ■r pepple into their homes ■ear st the doors, begging ■ doming, and offering to ■odd |>bs around the home, ■ions, looking couple was ■ the residence in the west ■iwest part of this city to■seveial who saw them de■>i |ioth were men, but ■ dresfeed and passed as a ■rhey'niade many attempts ■ on the sympathy of th? ■nd a warning is given tt ■ving' anything to do with ■ o ■LET FEVER PORTED HERE ft Homes Quaran|<(l in Effort to I'hock Spread ■ fever has been reported and other~parts of Ad■d. the last few days. There ■esent ii homes quarantined ■ disease. Efforts are being I health and school authori■>evk the spread and the coI" <>f all people is asked by I I board of health through | Hr. ,1. M. Miller. ■ sen which have been rein date are extremely light, I'i'l today by health officials Itfort is being made to check f a ‘ p before more serious fvckipe. liseese appeared in Decatur f as prior to Thursday night ■re no reported eases. Most [sickness is among school filer pointed out that the af[ds of the disease are as bad l«ith a light case as with a here case and therefore he < aid of ail people in curbIread of the fever.. f o Solution Is Passed Preliminary resolution for Movement of Marshall street, Dn ' First street to the inter- °- Fifth street, was passed pity council in session last I- Hearings on the improve- ! be heard by the council b'a.v, May 6 and legal notice Perty owners was ordered •y the clerk.

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Blaines Delay for Prison Deaths > Hr ' | * Jr* - »• BBS F jf irr w . A■ f ■ VS • »?' ‘ : : Deputy Warden Woodward of the Ohio state penitentiary at Columbus, O„ who told the board of inquiry into the recent fire, In which .118 convicts were killed, that he believed they could all have been saved. Deputy Woodward testified that delay in unlocking the cells was responsible for the appalling death toll. STATE MEETING WIL BE HELD Rev. M. W. Sunderman and C. E. Hocker to Attend From Here The Seventy-Eighth Annual Session of the Indiana Conference of the Evangelical church will convene in South Rend, April 29 to May 4th. The conference will lie entertained by the five Evangelical cliurchee of South Bend and Mishawaka. The sessions will be held in the Grace Evangelical church, Lincoln Way West and Walnut street. South Bend. Bishop M. T. Maze D. D„ of Harrisburg, Pa.’ will preside. Rev. M. W. Sunderman. pastor of the First church, of Decatur, and C. E. Hocker, lay delegate, will attend the session. There will be a meeting of the official boards and pastors and their families, Monday night at which time the Bishop will deliver an address.

Tuesday morning at 9:30 o'clock is the annual meeting of the Conference Board of Religious Education. At 2 o’clock Tuesday afternoon the board of examiners will convene. and Tuesday night, Prof. P. E. Keen of the Evangelical Theological Seminary will lecture on: “What’s Ahead." Wednesday Program Following is the program for Wednesday, April 30: 9:00 a. m. —Annual meeting of the conference missionary society. 2:00 p.m.—The opening of the tCONTINUED ON PAGE SIX) MOOSE TO HOLD SPECIAL MEET Membership Drive Will Close Monday Night With Initiation Decatur lodge of the Loyal Order of Moose will hold an initiation Monday night at the home in this city. The meeting will close a special membership drive which has been added to the local lodge since the drive started. A large class will be inducted into ■he organization Monday and special representatives of the lodge from Mooseheart, 111. will attend. A social hour will follow the initiation. , .. Cards have been sent out >or all candidates to report at the lodge home Monday night at 7:30 o clock. Local officers will have charge of the work. Several guests from Fort Wayne and Bluffton have siginifed their intentions of attending.

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LAYS BLAME OF PRISON UNREST ON ANARCHISM Ohio Prison Warden is of Opinion That Outside Help Was Used BELIEVES IN . ARMED TROOPS Columbus, 0., April 26. — (U.R) — Warden P. E. Thomas of Ohio state penitentiary today blamed agitivtion among confirmed anarchists and malcontents as responsible for unsettled conditions within the prison. Approximately 100 of the 4.000 population are anarchists, Thomas told the United Press, and intimated that they were aided by propaganda which might have had its origin outside the walls. "We have bolsheviks, radicals 1 — all hardened criminals—in there,” Thomas said, "who represent the law, its enforcement and officers as vile and unjust. They attempt to hoi# up their crimes as something virtuous and their punshment as something malicious. They seek to disseminate their propaganda to unsuspecting and model prisoners in attempts to win converts and cause a revolt. "We have always had to remain vigilant to keep out doctrines of radicalism. That is one reason wliy we search the mails.” Thomas said most of the propaganda had been circulated by word of mouth, but some of it ‘ might" (CONTINUED ON PAGE FOUR) o — Winshield Is Broken A ball, thrown by a boy playing baseball on Winchester street, Thursday evening shattered the windshield of a Chevrolet car belonging to Mrs. Clara Anderson and literally covered tile occupant of the car with bits of glass. Mrs. Anderson was euioute to Berne when the accident occurred and escaped uninjured. The ball, which hit the windshield directly in front of the driver, bounced back onto the street after breaking the windshield in tiny pieces. STOCKHOLDERS HELD LIABLE

Judge Lett Rules Private Bank Must Pay Depoistors In Full Bluffton, April 26 —(Special) — Stockholders in the defunct Bank of Tocsin, privately organized, were held liable individually and collecively for full amount due depositors in a decision handed down here today by W. 1). Lett, of Marion, special judge in the ease of Grover A'esner, a depositor against the stockholders seeking a balance ot about $99(1 due him. The decision handed down today applies only to Assner’s claim. Galginally Assner brought suit for all depositors, but Judge Lett ruled that a depositor could bring suit only for his own interests. The bank to date has paid 50 1-2 per cent, to depositors. The liability was held on the grounds that all were partners in the privately owned concern. One angle brought out iu the suit was an effort to make persons who disposed of their stock previous to tlie closing of the hank jointly liable if they knew the bank was not solvent. Judge Lett ruled that the knowledge must be proved, and it had not been so done in the Assner suit. The Bank of Tocsin was owned by a group of Wells and Adams county people and the ruling makes them all jointly and separately liable. o Former Governor Will Speak Here Sunday Former Governor Janies I’. Goodrich of Winchester will instruct two Sunday School classes at the First Presbyterian church in this city Sunday morning. The men’s class and the young men's class will be combined to hear Mr. Goodrich. The speaker was obtained through the efforts of Judge J. C. Sutton, a personal fi iend of the former governor. The public is invited to attend the class which will start it 9:30 o' clock.

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Decatur, Indiana, Saturday, April 26, 1930.

WARNING! | | During the last two days, a j | sudden eruption of scarlet ! | f 1 ver of a light nature has I | broken out in and near De- I | catur. Eleven families are ! I now under quarantine. All cases seem to be very | | light, but serious cases may de- | | velope later. | The Decatur board of health I I solicits the co-operation of al) I | people of the community to | | check the spread of this dis- | ] ease. The child suffers from a sore | | throat, or chills which is us- | I ually a symptom of the ap- | | proaching disease, that child | , | should be kept out of school, I j | until the nature of the illness | | is determined. • All children now out of | | school with any illness must | | bring to their teacher a doc- | | tors’ permit to be re-entered. We also wish to warn the I I people that the. after effects of | a light case of scarlet fever I are just as dangerous as the ; | more serious cases. | Scarlet fever cases usually I leave the patient’s condition j | weakened. It usually affects i the eyes, kidneys, ears or even | the entire bpdy. Please aid in controlling the | disease. , CITY BOARD OF HEALTH, | Dr. J. M. Miller. Sec’y. j ♦ ♦ TO HELP RAISE” LUTHERAN FUND Local Pastor to Make FiveWeek Tour of Michigan In Drive The Rev. Paul Schultz, pastor of the Zion Lutheran church in this city, will leave Sunday for Cleveland. whcie he will begin a five week’s tour in the interest of the Lulherau Endowment Campaign for Valparaiso university. Prof R. Myers of Concordia university. Fort Wayne, will fill Rev. Schultz's pulpit at the Lutheran church during his absence. Prof. Myer will begin his duties Sunday. May 4. Rev. Schultz will work in Southern Michigan. He will be in Cleveland a few days to receive instructions and then s.ait on the campaign work. The Lutherans of the Missouri Synod are raising an endowment fund of $2,500,000 for Valparaiso university, Already more than $500,000 has been subscribed and contributions are coming in from all parts of the country. Rev. Schultz’s work Will be to speak in the interest of the endowment fund and otherwise help in the raising of the university fund. His family will accompany him.. RD)S' WEEK TO RE OBSERVED Rotarians Plan Program For Decatur Boys May 4-9 Boys' week will be observed in Decatur, May 4 to 9th, M. F. Worthman, chairman of the boy's work committee announced today. The week will open with boy's day in church on Sunday, May 1. AH boye in the city are expected to attend church on this day. On May fifth and sixtli athletic events and field events will be held. On Wednesday, a horse shoe pitching contest will he held and teams will be organized throughout the city. Thursday, May 8, there will be a baseball game between the winner of the Red, White and Blue teams and the Rotary club team. This game will be played on the diamond north of Monroe street, between Seventh and Eighth streets. On Friday, May 9, there will be an exhibit of articlee made by boys, including al! kinds of hand work and carpenter work. Boys of the fifth, sixth, seventh and eighth grades of all the schools in the city are invited to join in the events. Plans for the different events will be worked out during the coming week, Mr. Worthman announced and committees named to supervise the different events.

PROGRAM FOR DISTRICT MEET IS ANNOUNCED Eight h 1 listrict Federation of Clubs to Meet Here Tuesday HEADQUARTERS AT COUNTRY CLUB The complete program for the annual convention of the Eighth District Federation of Clubs which will be held in Decatur next Tuesday at the Decatur Country Club was announced today by Mrs. John W. Tyndall, district president. The first session will start Tuesday morning at 9:30 o'clock. A luncheon will be served at the Country Club Tnesday noon and the afternoon session will start at 1:30 o'clock. Mrs. O. L. Vance of this city, secretary-treasurer of the district organization, is chairman of tlie luncheon committee. Following is the complete program : Morning Session —9:30 A. M. “America," led by Mrs. Dan Tyndall Collect Invocation Mrs. C. E. Bell Greetings Mrs. Frank Downs, Adams county chairman Response Mrs. A. M. Decker, First Vice-President, Eighth District, Anderson Reading of lite Minutes of 22nd Annual Meeting. Reports of District Officers (Three minutes only) Treasurer's Report (CONTINUED ON PAGE FOUR) o Explosion Is Probed Port Arthur, Tex., April 26.—(U.R) —An explosion in the still of the Texas Company refinery which caused the death of three men and injured another was heing investigated today. Bodies of the three mon. workers in the plant, were hurled sky ward and became entangled in electric power lines. They were so charred identification was not certain until company authorities had checked survivors of the explosion. OPEN BIDS FUR FIRE STATION Council to Award Contracts at Meeting Next Tuesday Bids for the construction of the new fire engine house to be erected on South Seventh Street, were received by the city council in session last night. The proposals were tabulated by the architects, Pohlmeyer and Pohlmeyer, Fort Wayne and carried over until next Tuesday, when the council will meet in continued session and award the contract. Proposals were received from si?: contractors on the general contract, from one on the heating and plumbing and two on heating plumbing and wiring. Alternate bids were also included in the general contract for substitutions and additions to the general specifications and deductions for different kinds of material. The council did not make any selection tn decide what substitutions would be made. Tlie bids received on the general contract, exclusive of the heating, pluiubiug and wiring follow: Henry Weigand and Son. Fort. Wayne, $22,640; Hisey and Bebout Rockford, $24,555; H. A. Arbaugh, $24,500; Charles Robenold. Decatur $29,079; Yost Bros., Decatur, $21,596; W. E. Moon. Decatur, $26,866. Yost Bros., also submitted a combination bid for the general con(CONTINUED ON PAGE FOUR) o Faces Murder "Charge Marion, Ind., April 26. — (U.R) — First degree murder charges were filed against Jack Kingery, 17, after it was reported that his counsel was seeking to obtain his release from jail on a writ of habeas corpus. Kingery is charged with the slaying of Martin Tbrig, Jonesoboro grocer, in a holdtip of his store March 29. Glenn Highley, 17, accomplice of Kingery, is being sought.

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FAST TIME TO START TONIGHT (’locks to Move Ahead an Hour at Midnight; Effective Sunday Daylight saving time starts iu Decatur at midnight tonight. Pastors of the various Decatur churches ask that all persons con-' leniplating attending services tomorrow take notice of the fact that ho churches will operate on the fast time. All city business will lie done; on' tlie fast time starting Sunday. | The clock will lie turned ahead an . hour at midnight tonight and after the first day or two of confusion, tlie city will settle down to the hourfast time until the last Saturday in September. Factories also v’Hi use the fast i time, a check-up revealed todaj The county primary election will operate on central standard time, it was ruled by the state board of election commissioners, so the s.ix Decatur voting places will open at 7 o'clock Tuesday morning (daylight saving time) and will dose at 7 o'clock at night (daylgiht saving ' time). All offices at the court house also will be conducted on the fast time ; and Decatur banks will operate on it also. o Robert Heller Honored Bloomington, April 2G —(Special) ; —Robert Heller of Decatur a fresh- I man at Indiana University and a member of Sigma Alpha Epsillon i fraternity lias been appointed gen-1 eral manager of the 1930 freshman Y.M.C.A. camp which is held at Bedford annually the week prior to the opening of Indiana University. The camp which eadi year draws a large numlier of Indiana University prospective students to acquaint them with various activities of the University previously was held under the auspices of tlie seniors but next fall it will be conducted by the sophomores. The general manager of the camp has complete charge and it is one of tlie highest honors any University student cun attain. Robert Heller is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Henry B. Heller. o Mail Pilot Escapes Cleveland. April 26. (U.R) Pilot I Henry J. Brown, flying the night air mail from Clevland to New York, jumped 2.000 feet from his crippled plane and made a safe landing in the mountain regions near Clearfield, Pa., early today. The plane crashed to earth less than lot) feet from the spot where Brown landed. The plane burst into flames and the pilot was bullied badly about the hands when he attempted to retrieve a valuable cargo of mail from the wreckage. o DR. J. M. MILLER TO GIVE TALK Child Health Day Will be Observed by Local Mooseheart Legion Dr. J. M. Miller, City health secretary will be the principal speaker at a special program to be given by the Women of Mooseheart Legion for tlie Moose and their ''amilies at the Moose Home, Thursay evening, May 1, at 8 o'clock. The program will be held to celebrade National Child Health Day and a social hour will be held following Dr. Miller's address. Dr. Miller will present helpful suggestions as to the care of children and will give tlie usual address in keeping with National Child Health Day. AU members of the Moose and their families aj3 cordially invited to hear Dr. Miller. This is the first program that has been announced for the celebration of Child Health Day but several other local organizations will have some special program on Thursday, May 1. Frost Does Damage Warsaw, Inti., April 26 —(UP) — Strawberry plants, flowers, and some frui: trees, throughout north central Indiana were damaged by heavy frost today, when the murcury dropped to 26 degrees. It was the second successive day of low temperatures, and damage to tender plants.

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To Wed 1 W :18k, « ■ /A :; ! ’‘/Mr 14. » 'azKatherine Barker Spaulding, heiress to $30,000,090 fortune and former wife of Howard H. Spaulding, Chicago lumber operator, was : to become the bride of Charles I Hickox of New York today. The I' Barker-Spaulding wedding was the' Chicago' social event of 1915. They i were divorced in November, 1928. Mrs. Spaulding inherited the tremendous fortune of her father, the late obn H. Barker of the Michigan City Car Works, Michigan City, Indiana. PLANSMADEFOR CLEAN-UP WEEK Citizens Urged to Prepare For Visit of Rubbish Haulers Tlie week of April 28 will be clean-up week in Decatur. City! trucks will start Monday collecting rubbish for disposal. The Civic Section of the Woman's Club is assisting the City in thii drive and earnestly seeks tlie support of every citizen,in ch $ ling fir cans and other rubbish from yards •and alleys. The Womans Club is interested in beautifying Decatur and is putting forth every effort to interest tlie heme owners of Decatur in cleaning and beautifying their homes and gardens. Citizens are requested to jilaee all tin cans and rubbish in containers so that city truck drivers can gather it up ami haul it away. Ashes will not be hauled away by the department and no containers will be returned. The co-operation of every citizen will be greatly appreciated and the city street department promises to do everything possible to haul away the winter's accumulation of cans and all other unsightly objects which are always found in alleys. Rev. Franklin Is Speaker Rev. B. 11. Franklin delivered Hie address at the Father and Son meeting at Willshire, Ohio last evening. There were a number of short talks given by those present After the I program and dinner a social time was enjoyed. Rev. Franklin was accompanied to Willshire bv, Messers Frank DeVor, Charles Burdg. Cal Pe.erson, Dan Tyndall, Leigh Bowlin, and Charles Teeple. GANG LORD IS FOUND GUILTY Ralph Capone, Brother of Al Guilty of Income • Tax Evasion Chicago, April 26. —(U.R) -One of the most, notorious of tlie 28 names of “public enemies” designated by tlie Chicago crime commission for banishment, was imminently close today to being checked off the list. It appeared not improbable that Ralph J. Capone might shortly be heading south, although not to join his brother, “Scarface Al” Capone, who is vacationing in Florida. The younger Capone was convicted late yesterday in Federal court of attempting to defraud the government in connection with taxes on his income from the Capone beer business, an enterprise that has led to more than one gang (CONTINUED ON PAGE FIVE)

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NOMINATION OF J. J. PARKER TO BE CONSIDERED •- " — RenublicansTry to Muster Strenuth to Confirm Nomination RUMOR USED EFFECTIVELY \V;isliii)<<t<in, April 26 - 'rhe whole weiifht of the adininislralion. with its power Io punish its enemies and rew ar d its friends, was thrown todav into tlie senate hretieh over the nomination <>f Judge John J. Parker, southern Republican, to tlie I’. S. stmreme court. While Republican leaders wore doing missionary work, preparing for the opening of debate Monday, the inspired report that soon there would be'a Democratic vacancy on the court was arousing senatorial speculation. An unofficial report that James .Clark Mcßeynolds, conservative .Democratic member of the court is about to retire and that Newton iD. Baker, Cleveland attorney may get his place, was being circulated apparently with White House anproval. Mcßeynolds, il! at his home here, declined to comment. This news had a disquieting effect upon Democrats who ar-> about to oppose Parker. The most optimistic Republican polls showed no more than 49 of the 96 senatorial votes for the North Carolina Republican nominee as the week-end recess was taken yesterday. It is believed Parker must get more Democratic vote.r’if ho is to bo confirmed. If Mdßeynolda retires. Mr. Hoover would have it in his power to appoint a Democrat or a Republican to succeed him. Ordinarily a I Democrat could expect to be chosen. ff the Deocrats do not help confirm Parker, however, Baker and any other candidate might bo (CONTINUED ON PAGE SIX) 0 Bluffton Legion Plans Eighth District Meet A district meeting of the American Legion will be held at Bluffton on Sunday, May I. under the auspices of Grover Sheets Post. Nb. ill. Mole than 809 members of the Legion are expected to attend the meeting. Posts from the < ig!uh district have been invited to take par. in tlie event. One of tile features of tlie meeting will he a pilraoo, augmented witli six drum corps. A number of Adams County Le gionnaires plane to attend tlie mooting. FORMER LOCAL GIRL EXPIRES Helen Mangold Gray, 17, Dies at Home of Foster Mother Today Helen Mangold Gray, 17. niece of Dr. Burt Mangold of this city, died at Hie home of her foster mother. Mrs. Francis Haudemaker-Gary iu Fort Wayne this morning at 3 o'clock foil'p ing an illness of four teen weeks. Death was due to leakage of the heart witli which the deceased was afflicted all hei life She spent the past winter in this city with Mr. and Mrs. Herb Kern and attended Decatur High School where she was a sophomore. She was forced to leave fourteen weeks ago because of ill health. Helen Mangold was born in Decatur, November 12,(1913 the daughter of Arthur and Agnes RaudeniakerMangold. both deceased. She was adopted by her mother's sister Francis Ilatidemaker Gray, witii whom she had made her limine. She was also preceded in death by hei 1 foster father, William Gray. Surviving is the foster mother. Mrs. Gray, ami the grandparents. ■ Mr. and Mrs. Noah Mangold of this i city, and Mrs. Cornelius Riuidemak- , er of Foht Wayne. The. remains will be brought to - the home of This. Herb Kern, in I this city Monday afternoon where ■ friends may view them Monday t evening. Funeral, services will be held , Tuesday morning at 9 o'clock at th, . St. Marys Catholic church and burial will bo made In the St. Joseph's Catholic Cemetery.