Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 28, Number 105, Decatur, Adams County, 2 May 1930 — Page 1

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( losed Season Violators Will Be Prosecuted Indianapolis, May 2.—(U.R)-Fish-ermen caught with black or silver bass, bluegills, yellow perch, pike, i pickerel, r<M-k-bass, red-eared sunfish, pike-perch or crappies before •June it> will be arrested by game wardens, Walter Shirts, state fish and game superintendent, warned | today. Closed season for these fish be|came effective April 30, Shirts said. First spawn of black bass at Riverside, Indainapolls, hatchery (occurred April 29, which is earlier ' f’i'tn usual, according to Shirts. Warm weather will brink transfer [of fingerlings to natural waters ; within the next few days, lie said PLAY PLEASES LARGE CROWD Central Schoo) Will Repeat Show Again at 8 P. M. Tonight A capacity crowd enjoyed the opening performance of “The Absent -Mitided Bridegroom,'’ a farce in three acts which was presented by the Central school pupils at the I I’catur High School auditorium last night. The play, which contains laughs from begining to end pleased the audience and was declare*! by those who saw it as a funnier and better play than has been presented for several years. Preceding the play an orchestra composed of Mr. and Mrs. Ed Coffee Freeh Hower. Bob Coffee, Clarence Durkin and Don Stump presented a in minute musical program. The 'plot centers about Patrick Rooney, played by Milton Huffman, who is supposed to marry Daphnay Rooney, played by Marie Teeter He affec s a state of coma in order to escape the ordeal of marriage, but ipimediately js restored to his normal health when he learns that the bride has inherited a fortune A complicated situation results when it is learned that the fortune does not belong to the bride, and a number of funny scenes follow. The groom is about to be carried away by police as a criminal, whose name he accidently assumed during the state of coma, but is rescued, and a happy ending follows. The play was ably directed by Miss Grace Coffee, instructor in the English department and all characters performed their parts in a capable manner. Credit is especially due to Paul Strickler who took the part of Slade, in the place of Paul Gramelspecher, who became ill three days before the play was given. The play will be repeated tonight beginning at eight o’clock and those who missed the performance last night have an enjoyable entertainment in store for them tonight. r> Police Probe Story Indianapolis, May 2 —(UP) — The police today were investigating the story of Edward Gandof, 22, Indianapolis, told to Mrs. Lula Moore Indianapolis, that he left her son Ira Martin, 19, on a western desert crying for water. Police were hunting Gandof. Mrs. Moore said Gandof and her son left Indianapolis last summer for the west coast. The son had not written his mother since he left, she said, and she had heard nothing until Gandof visited her. Gandof told Mrs. Moore he and her son were crossing the desert when their car broke down, out of waler, the two youths walked across burning sainds seeking aid. Finally Martin collapsed and was left behind by Gandof. she said. When help was found, Martin could not be located. Police, in their investigation, were told by one woman that Gandof told her be went with Martin to the Kansas corn belt, where they separated. Stop Communist Parade Gary. Ind., May 2.—(U.R)—Communist parades in Gary and East Chicago as a part of celebration of international Labor day yesterday, were halted without violence when police made 11 arrests. Officers rigidly enforced the order against street parades and meetings. Although crowds of several hundred persons saw the arrests, there were no demonstrations. --o —— Saves the Speech Derby, England, —(UP)— J. H. Thomas, Lord Privy Seal, was unable to make himself heard above the noise of machinery he started in inaugurating a new power station. so he saved his speech until after hincheon.

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BROTHERHOOD UNION PROGRAM IS COMPLETED . . — — f.ulihur, Magician And Ventriloquist Will Entertain Men’s Meet REV. RUPNOW CHIEF SPEAKER i An added attraction has been He- . cured by the committee in charge of the Decatur Union meeting of Protestant men to be held at the First Evangelical church under the auspices of the Evangelical Men’s I Brotherhood, Thursday night May 18 ut 6:15 o'clock. O. L. Cullihur, or Fort Wayne, ventriloquist and magician has been obtained by the committee on program to entertain the 1 crowd. The meeting, which will be in the form of a banquet, is open to all Decatur church men and tickets for the affair can be obtained from any of the Protestant churches. It is the second of a series of Union ban-quet-meetings, with the purpose of aiding a better acquaintance among local church men. The Rev. F. H. Rupnow, pastor of ’ the St. Johns Reformed church of Fort Wayne and prominently known as speaker and orator will be the chief speaker on the program. Rev. Rupnow has spoken in Decatur before and he always has a great 1 message for his audience. ’ Ed Warren, president of the Evan- ' gelical Men's Broterhood stated that all arrangements for the meeting had been completed and a large attendance is expected. The Ladies ■ Ad Sociiety of the First Evangelical ' church will have charge of the banquet which will precede the meeting. • Tlie event will be held in the din- ’ iug hall of tlie local church. All men . planning on attending are urged to obtain their tickets of their own 1 church committee as early as pos--1 sibble in order that lhe exact atteli- ' dance might be ascertained before ' the meeting. — o — LINDY STARTS RETURN TRIP Mail Plane on Way to United States From Nicaragua I Miami, Fla., May 2. — (U.R) —Col. | Charles A. Lindbergh resumed his ' flight to the United States with South American mail today, taking off from Puerto Cabezas, Nicaragua, the Pan-American Airways radio station here was advised. Lindbergh, flying a Sikorsky Amphibion plane of the Pan-American Airways, hopped off from Puerto Cabezap for Havana where he will pause 45 minutes and fly here late today. Co-pilot Basil Rowe and radio operator Bert Denicke accompanied -him. The flight today will complete the opening of the Pan-American's new weekly airmail service be- ; tween the United States and Argentina. Col. Lindbergh piloted the plane carrying the first south- : bound mail from here to Cristobal, i C. Z., last Saturday, and after a threeslay rest in the Canal Zone, ■ picked up the first northbound mail yesterday and took it to Puerto Cabezas. The communications department of Pan-American received the following mesage, sent by Denicke as ' the Amphibion plane was speeding over the Caribbean Sea this morn- ( iug: , “Well, we beat the sun into the air this morning. Left Puerto Ca- , bezas at 5:55 a. m., est. There is , now rain and broken clouds ahead , Looks like we wil Ibe rained on be- , fore we reach Havana, Cuba, our next stop. We have 211 pounds , of mail on board and about three 1 (CONTINUED ON PAGE THREE) , o Station Moved 100 Feet , 11 --- ( Warsaw, Ind., May 2.— (U.R) — A , rainstorm of near-cyclonic propor- i tlons struck a small passenger station of the Winona interurban line at Fields, north of Warsaw, early this morning and carried it 100 feet into a nearby field. Another station along the line , was torn from its foundation and overturned. The storm brought , considerable damage to small farm buildings and orchards. i

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M AGLEY CHURCH IS REMODELED I Rural Church Services Postponed For Sunday; Complete Work Soon Ttie Magley Reformed church, one of the leading rural churches of his part of the state is being completely remodelled and redecorated and there will be no services there Sunday, May 4.. it was announced today by the Rev. D Grether, pastor ,A new pulpit is being constructed ajld a new platform larger in size is I neihg built into the the church. The 1 interior is being completely redecor-1 ated. A. L. Schlickman. Ernst Kruetzman are in charge of the remodeling. The church trustees are in charge; of the decorating, They are August ! Peck, Walter Reppert and ()it>| Kruetzman. Elmer Reppert of Fort Wayne is the decorator and has been personally supervising the work. The benches and floors of the church are being finished this week I and it ts said the entire project will be completed by the middle of next week, so services will be held as I usual Sunday May 11. BLUFFTON HAS FEWER PEOPLE Population Drops Off 422 In 10 Years, Census Figures Show Preliminary census figures give Bluffton a population of 4.969, according to announcement made by .1. Monroe Fitch, supervisor of the census in the eighth district. This is a loss of 422 for Bluffton as compared with its 1920 population of 5,391. The census figures released by Mr. Fitch are not final and additions may be added before the censtra is officially completed. Bluffton's loss in population 1“ attributed to the fact that several families moved from there two years ago when the Bay Piano factory closed. Within recent weeks the employment condition there has been improving and the new furniture factory moved there is employing about 2tli) persons. Decatur's unofficial population has been given as 5,240, an increase of 478 in the past ten years. Since 1920 Decatur has secured the General Electric factory and Decatur Casting company, these two concerns employing more than 600 persons. Figures for Portland show a loss of 681 in population in that city. The census figures released by Mr. Fitch give Portland a population of 5,277, a loss of 681. In the city of Bluffton the school city population showed an increase of 66 over a year ago. Bluffton is credited with 1,165 children of school age. o New' Screen Installed * A new ‘‘life-size'' motion picture screen has been Installed at tho Cort theatre. The new screen makes the pictures larger and much clearer, those in charge of the installation said. The new screen is now in operation.

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Kokomo Bank Plans Reopening Soon Kokomo, Ind., May 2. —<U.R> - The Farmers Trust & Savings bank of Kokomo, closed by the state banking department Jan. 29, has been j reorganized ami will reopen soon, it was announced. It was also announced that all depositors and creditors will be paid in full by the new organization. The new bank will have a capital stock of SIOO,OOO and surplus of $50,000. B. D. Mitchell, president of the bank at Windfall, will head the new organization. Other officers include John E. Fredrick, president of the board of i directors of the Continental Steel I company, Kokomo, who will server las president of the bank's board of j 'directors, and Ernest B. Seward,! vice-president. It was said the new organization probably will be named the Union I Bank & Trust Co. K, OF 0. OFFICIAL TO APPEAR HERE — 1), E. Butler,' Representative of Supreme Council Plans Visit New Haven. Conn., May 2 — (Special)—D. E. Butler, representaI tive of the Supreme Council, Knights of Columbus, will visit two Indiana councils, during the week i of May 5, to explain several improvement in the insurance laws which were voted at the last Supreme Convention and to outline the boys work program which is now the major peacetime welfare activity of the order. Mr. Butler is one of several representatives who provide a contact between the headquarers of the I Order here and the more than 2,000 subordinate councils in the United States. Canada, Mexico, Cuba. Porto Rico, and the Philippines. He will arrive in Fort Wayne on Monday, May 5 ami will be tne[ guest of Fort Wayne Council on l Mpy 5 and 7. On May 8 ami 9. he I will meet the officers and members of Decatur Council in Decatur. One of the changes on which Mr Butler will report will be that which permits a member to borrow against his insurance equity for the' purpose of paying assessments. An-; other will be the reclassification of j occupations ami the renloval of sev-j eral of them from the extra hazardous list. The insurance in force of j the Order as of June 30 was $278,j 235.306. and the insurance liabilities i as calculated by the actuaries on Jan. 1 were $21,493,574. The ratio or margin of safety of assets to liabilities was 131.51 per cent. All changes in the laws are made on the advice of the Order’s actuaries. In connection with the boy work program, Mr. Butler will report on the Columbian Squires (junior order of the Knights of Columbus) the ten-night courses in "Boyology” for all men and the Knights of Columbus Foundation at Notre Dame which trains college graduates in boy guidance and leads to an M. A. degree. During the cruse of a year, the representatives of the Supreme Council travle thousands of miles in order to meet the officers and members of each council. They offer suggestions and advice in the conduct (CONTINUED ON PAGE THREE)

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TRI-TOWNSHIP MEET PLANNED Sunday School Convention to be Held Here Sunday Afternoon Rev. J. O. Winger of North Manchester will be the chief speaker at the annual Sunday School convention of all Sunday Schools in Washington. Kirkland and Preble townships to be held in Decatur Sunday afternoon at 3 o'clock (daylight sav hug time) at the Methodist Episcopal church. t ■ The program for the convention was announced today by Mrs. W. A. Lower, chairman of the tri-town-I ship meeting. A large attendance is expected at the session. The meeting was set at 3 o'clock Sunday afternoon, fast time, to accomodate rural attendants. The usual time of the annual convention is 2 o'clock, standard time. Following is the program: j Opening Hymns Lead by Mr. Wilson Beery. Devotional Period—Revt B. H. Franklin, Pastor First M. E. I church. Solo—Mrs. Walter Krick. Announcements Townships. Special Music. Address — Rev. J. O. Winger. North Manchester Indiana. Solo —Miss Josephine Anderson. (CONTINUED ON PAGE THREE) ADMITS ROADS NEED REPAIR Highway Commission Is of Belief Weather Caused Deterioration Indianapolis. May 2. —(U.R) —State highway commissioners admitted today that several miles of "black I top" paving laid less than six j months ago, had deteriorated to | such an extent that it will have to be repaired during the early summer. The surface in large areas lias literally blown away, A. 11. Hinkle, I superintendent of maintenance, I said. He attributed the deterioration to bad winter weather, and explained that companies which I laid the surface will be called upon to make repairs without charge, I in accordance with their contracts. Several detours will be necessitat--1 ed during repairs. A controversy has arisen in which "black top’’ men claim that oil was poured on their surface in order to discredit their material, and cement boosters ridicule the charge, Hinkle said. The worst case of deterioration was on a seven-mile sretch of state road 51 leading to the city limits of Kokomo. This road was completed last November by P. E. Putnam. Fort Wayne, at a cost of aproad 15, between Wabash and Mar proximately $12,000 a mile. State ion, is pointed to as another example. Several instant es. on a smaller scale, are cited. This year’s highway program calls for a much larger percentage of concrete paving than heretofore compared with the so-called “black top."

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i Places of Speaking ( hanged in Decatur in the uniiount emeiit in the Dally | Democrat Thursday, error was: made as to the iliurcbes in which Dr. Joseph Menard Tlbbets, se* retary of the Anti-cigarette Alliance of America will speak on May 18. On that da e he will talk at Sunday school mid morning ctiurcli services at the Methodist church amt at the evening services of the United Brethren church He is not shedtiled for the Presbyterian thurch as was announced and will be at the* Methodist church in the morninv, instead of in the evening. Plans for a mass meeting in the afternoon may also be completed we are informed. Further announcement t will be made later. 24 DEPART FOR 0. E. CONVENTION Local Delegation Leaves This Afternoon for Annual Conference Twenty-four young people from the Christian Endeavor Society of ’ the Presbyterian church of this city 1 I left late this afternoon for Hunting-1 ton where they will attend the Presbyterial Young People's Conference * at the Huntington Presbyterian church, tonight and Saturday. The conference will open with a banquet at six o'clock tonight in the * church basement at Huntington. I. Delegates will be present from j every Voting People's Society in L the Fort Wayne Presbytery and an award will be given to the society ■ having the largest representation. . Local members feel that the 241 delegates representing this city I' . city have a chance for gaining this recognition. Rev. Hubert Cravens of .Auburn will have charge of the coni'erenc:’ , which includes a service tonight, and a morning and afternoon session Saturday. Those from this city who are at-! i tending are Mr. and Mrs. J. U. May J I nard. Dr. and Mrs. Fred Patterson. I 1 Mr. anti Mrs. Fred S'ni:h. Rev.[: Harry H. Ferntheil, the Misses , I Betty Macklin, Ruth Macklin, Ber-[t nice DeVoss. Dora Shosenberg, I i Mary Madeline Coverdale, Helen t Christen. Dorothy and Miriam [ I Haley, Betty Frisinger, Mary Jane | Kunkel. Dorothy and Laura Alice 11 Christen, Mary Jane short, and j | James Engeler, Dick Steele. Dick . Sutton and James Moses. - O Activities Are Denied i New York, May 2. —(U.R)—Peter A. Boclanov, chairman of the Am- ’ torg Trading company, today said ( that the letters written on Amtorg stationery purporting to involve , the company in communist propa. ( ganda, were forgeries. The letters were given out today by Grover , Whalen, New York police commis- ( si on er. , Maurice Mendelsohn, a spokes- t man for tile company, maintained . that Amtorg was not identified with or interested in any communist activities. | All employes, he said, were at work yesterday and did not observe ' international Labor day. , Breaks Endurance Mark ' Le Bourget, France, May 2. —(U.R) Mlle. Lena Bernstein, well-known ! French aviatrix, broke the women's endurance record today and continued, in tlie air after approximately 30 hours of flight. She dropped a message informing airport authorities that she in- ' tended to remain aloft until 8 p in. The record of Miss Elinor Smith ! of New York, set at Roosevelt field on April 24. 1929, was 26 hours, 21 1 minutes and 32 seconds. * Will Restock Cellar Washington, May 2. — (U.R) —De- j daring himself "no teetotler," Sir ■ ■ Ronald Lindsay, new Biitlsh am- , bassador, has decided to restock * with choice wines and spirits the • embassy teller, which was dried i up by his predecessor. Sir Esme ■ Howard. It has been nearly a year since . Sir Esme made his widely-public-ized decision io dry up the em- * bassy. At the time, his decision ■ was interpreted as a courteous i gesture toward American prohibitionists. Shortly before leaving i here two months ago, however, the > late ambassador explained his ac- > tion was designed to eliminate any : suspicion that embassy* liquor was I being bootlegged to Americans.

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DESTRUCTION AND DEATH IN STORM'S PATH West And Northwest Are Badly Damaged By Severe Storm RED ( ROSS TO AID SUFFERERS Chicago, May 2. — (U.R) — [Death, injury, destruction and I suffering dotted scattered | communities in seven middle I western sttaes today after the 1 first series of tomaodes and lashing rain storms of the season. Ripping out of the west and northwest where tornadoes brew this season of the year, a half dozen storms came with darkness last night and by the time the sun broke through the black clouds today more than a score of deaths were counted in Nebraska, Missouri. Kansas, Minnesota. Wisconsin and Illinois with heavy property damage in lowa added to the toll. Probably two score or more were injured when their homes collapsed end they were beaten by a driving rain and tattoos of hail. The fury of the storms first was reported last night at Winchester, Kas., in the northeast corner of tlie 1 slate, where a tornado roared in [from the west and tore a path three miles long and half a mile wide. Here Lawrence Jern, farmer, was [swept from his feet and dashed to .death before he was aware the : storm was near. Swirling eastward into Missouri, the funnel-shaped agent of death and destruction descended on Norborne, Mo., a village about 100 miles northeast of Kansas City and killed five persons before it spent itsself amid hail and rain. Almost simultaneously reports ■ filtered in over broken wires that another tornado had hit Tekamah, Nel>., north of Omaha, where four persons were killed. One of them a baby, was killed in the arms of its mother, Mrs. H. C. Anderson, as her farm home was dashed to bits in the whirling tornado. Three times the Nebraska storm dipped to earth and each time it razed a path of shattered farm homes and small communities. More than 200 were homeless today in Tekamah. Fifteen homes were ruined and 30 tc 40 others damaged when the tornado made one of its dips. Speeding northward on the Nebraska side of the Missouri river, the tornado lashed the commuities of Walthill, Winnebago. Jackson. Homer and Lyons. That tornado spent itself in the vicinity of Sioux City, lowa. Typical of the experiences of the storm hit communities and familes, was that of the Wells family, who live near Norborne, Mo., and felt the full blast of the tornado in (CONTINUED ers PAGE TWO) PRIMARY COST DRAWSCOMMENT Senate Committee to Thoroughly Pro h e Illinois Primary Washington, May 2 —(U.R) —Silently the sentatorial opponents of large campaign expenditures today greeted the news that Mrs. Ruth Hanna McCormick spent a quarter of a million dollars of her own money—or four times the salary of a senator for a six year term — to obtain the republican senatorial nomination in Illinois. AVhile public comment was lacking, private supeculation was not. There was every indication that the question of senatorial campaign expenditures may be raised again in a seating contest if Mrs. McCormick wins tlie November election. Those who led tlie fight to censure Senator Truman H. Newberry of Michigan because he spent $195,000 in his primary election are withholding judgment because lhe full evidence about the case has not yet been developed by the senatorial investigating committee. The committee has sent agents to Illinois to determine, if possible, how much additional was spent in Mrs. McCormick's behalf by tlie various independent groups which supported her.