Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 28, Number 106, Decatur, Adams County, 3 May 1930 — Page 1

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W MEETING Ki SALE TO bm SUNDAY I (jdrt lx's to Have L|X for Thursday Man's Meeting ■S PROGRAM | | is \RRANGE!) will go oil sale Sunat all local rt he Union men’s by the |l3 ;i l Men’s Brotherheld at the First ta'iwal <' hur c h next E3E night at 6:15 LS® i banonet will be> )!><■ Ladies Aid so-l kjß 1h e Evangelical IT. Rnpnow, promin!ll '' St. John's Reform- ■ s Fort Wayne will be sneak'r following the v Rupnow’s subject MBH’ Unavoidable Spiritual MBn Today's Civilisation.” j ' is favorably known Indiana as a great he has delivered advarious men's meet- | of Bis part of the state for Those in Decatur' Bjgßlii ird Rev. Rnpnow say a real common-sensei I always has a worthd attraction at the' meeting, Oscar L. GulWavne. famous venmagician will enterwith a new series of magical illusions. h has been given a unrulier of tickets attendance from each i H* anticipated. The next) ■ ’’’“’'ting is the second of men's meets planned of this city as a means Ker and closer understandt lie various churches. meeting was held sevw®s ago at the Masonic hall, sponsoring the 1 ’' lal time the EvangelBrotherhood invited the with them and the was unanimously acceptn. president of the! Brotherhood, is gen-' of the meeting and ; of worthwhile things by those in charge, 'oil n\ estimate Death ■port. Ind.. May 3.—(U.R)— ■s county grand jury meet- ■ 5. is expected to investideath of Mrs. Katherine ■os>- body was found at the ■i stairway in her home at M< rt on April 2. Husband, James O. Ray, is ■ 'oimty jail awaiting the ■'U’y report. It was said Mi. Ray died of shock after ■ been struck on the head ■ hatchet. ETING HELD BT FRIEDHEIM lers - Business Men Bd Get-Together in I‘i'cble Township B than 300 Prehle township V and Preble and Decatur B’s men attended the fa mis' held last night at Friedcliool. A farm program was led and the Friedheim band, I northern Indiana's wellbands furnished plenty of linment for those present. I Klepper of Decatur presidhe meeting as chairman and 1 h's audience with many inng stories, Speakers at the K included William Myers and J. W. Tyndall, O. L. Avon Burk, A. D. Suttles, J. hind, Amos Graber. Carl Kiep- "• County Agent L E. ArchFriedheim school was filled acity and many were coinpellremaln outside during part of -eting. It was one of the'larger. meetings ever held in the I’. lowing the program and ths al entertainment by the Friedband, ice cream, sandwiches oftee wore served those pre-

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I Named on Program iwj 4 MB B ly / * BK A O. L. GULIHUR Gulihnr, magician and ventriloquist. will appear at the banquetmeeting sponsored by the Men of the Evangelical Brotherhood next Thursday night. All Decatur Protestant church men are invited to attend. K, of’cTddgF PLANS MEETING ■ — All Members Invited to Monday Meeting at Local Hall An interesting meeting of DecaItur council of the Knights of Col limbus will be held Monday night at the K. of C. Hall. I Plans will be made for the initiation,'which has been tentatively set i for Sunday, May 25. Arrangements I are being made to hold a joint ini’tation with the Huntington council. ' A number of new members have I been signed to take the work. The ini iation work will be held at the K. of ('. Hall in this city. It has been several years since the local council held an initiation here and there is much interest in the coming event. I; has been decided not Io go ahead with plans at this time for the observance of the Silver Jubilee of • the local council. It was at first deckled to observe the event this j month, but the committee has de- . cided to wait until later, at which I time a suitable observance will be 'held. Decatur council of the Knights of Columbus was organized here in 1905. Several of the charter members are living. D. D. Coffee has been appointed assistant financial secretary, succeeding the late John Starost. Memibers are asked to pay their dues to , him. ——— o— To Investigate Rumor Washington. May 3—(HP) —An inquiry into reported "Hipslapping by customs agents who visited the German liner Bremen in New York Harbor last night and searched 7,000 persons, was begun by assistant secietary of treasury Seymour Lowman today. Lowman said newspaper reports indicated his recent order banning •'hipslapping'' of tourists had been I violated, but he could not say definitely until he received a report from New York. z ELECTION RETURNS , The Daily Democrat has made • arrangements to receive th,e com- . plete primary election returns . Tuesday night. Inspectors in the i 33 precincts are asked to call , 'phone 1000 as soon as the votes are ■ counted and give the results. ’ The telephone circuit throughout the county will be opened to all who to call the Daily Democrat for election returns. All toll charges ■ in the county are paid 'by the Dally ' Democrat through special arrange--1 ments with the Citizens Telephone ■ company. On the Democrat ticket there are ' contests in eight offices and in the majority of cases for township trustee and township assessor. On the Republican ticket the race for , congress is the only contest. In St. Marys township there is a contest for trustee on the republican ticket. Results will be a little late in coming In due to the tact that the polls do not close in Decatur until . seven o’clock daylight saving time. 'Phone 100 tor election results.

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DEATH CALLS I, ALICE ACKER High School Pupil Is Vic-1 tim of Death at Local Hospital | Miss Alice Drusilla Acker 16, popular Decatur High School girl died lat th« Adams Ooirnty 'Memorial I Hospital this morning at 7:45 o'- ( clock. Death was caused by peritonitis which resulted from an operaI tion which Miss Acker underwent, j Monday night for appendicitis. The deceased attended high • school, where she was a sophomore, j Friday April 25, ami on the follow- , I ing Saturday shv- suffered an attack I >f appendici. is. An emergency oper- ' at ion was performed .Monday night ’ in an attempt to save her life. Alice Drusilla Acker was born in 1 Decatur, April 11, 1914. the daugh- < er of Floyd and Zona Suman-Ack- 1 er, both of whom survive. She spent her en ire life in this city and at- < tended Decatur high school where 1 she was always popular among her I school mates. < Surviving besides thq parents are i three sisters, Vivian, Helen. Pau- i line and Mary Kathleen, all at home ’ The grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. < Samuel Acker of this city, and Mr. and Mrs. (). J. Suntan of near Plea- > sant Mills also survive. ; The deceased has been a member < of the Methodist Episcopal church •>f this city for the past few years. , Funeral services will be held ( Tuesday afternoon at 2 o’clock , (Daylight saving time) at the Mehodist Episcopal church with Rev. . B. H. Franklin, pastor, officiating. , Burial will be made in the Decatur ( •einetet y. o Berne Girl Dies at 9 o’clock This Morning Berne, May 3 (Special)—Geraldine Beitler, 13, daughter of Mr. anil Mrs. Rugo Beitler died at the Beit- i ler home here at 9 o’clock this morning. Detflh resulted from leakage of the heart. Geraldine Beitler had resided in Berne all her life, surviving are the paren's and five brothers, Richard James Roger, Chester and Calvin. Funeral services will be held Monday afternoon at the Reformed church. The time was not announced. oBee Wrecks Auto Rlomoington, Ind.. May 3.—(U.R) — A honey bee was indirectly responsible for the wrecking of Robert Spaulding's auto, occupied by himself, his wife and their son. Spaulding made a quick movement to brush the bee from his forehead, and the car swerved into a telephone pole, broke it off, and then overturned into a ditch. No one was injured. STOCK MARKET HASJBUSY DAY New Record For Saturday Made as Brokers Are Rushed New York, May 33—(TTP) —Hundreds of small margin accounts were wiped out today as millions of dollars were sheared from stock market values in the most frenzied trad ing since the crash last October. It was the busiest day of the yea? Brokers offices were jammed. The floor of the exchange was trem- ’ endottsly active. Tickers were more ■ than an hour behind and the market owing to the tremendous volume, i trading proceeding at a rate of 10,000,900 shares for a full day. Sales, exclusive of inactive stock odd-lot transactions today totaled 4,862.800 shares, a new record for a Saturday. The previous record ■ was made on Dec. 8, 1928, when sales totaled 3,749,890 shares. Prices see-sawed through the first two hours. There was an opening recession, but the small traders were alarmed by the drastic dip yes terday. They dumped their holding.! into the opening. There was a slight gain. There was another loss. For a period there was steadiness. Then just before the close another great wave of selling started which shot prices downward and brought out greater and greater blocks of stocks. There were strings of sales ranging as high as 30,000 shares. Many of the lesser traders sold out and withdrew. Many other accounts were wiped out this morning after the down swing.

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Decatur, Indiana, Saturday, May 3, 1930.

ALL IS READY FOR ELECTION NEXTTUESDAY Ballots Are Obtained by Inspectors of 34 County Precincts CLOSE RACES ARE PREDICTED The Adams county board of election commissioners made final plans toduy for the general primary election to lie held next Tuesday in 34 precincts of the county. Political leaders and candidates were making their final appeal to votenn of the county, and many close primary contests on the Democratic ticket were predicted. Interest in this county centers completely around the Democratic primary conte-ts with one exception. Joe H. Davis of Muncie is opposing Albert H. Vestal, Anderson for the nomination for congress on the Republican ticket. The Vestal-Davis contest is the only Republican scrap. A usual Democratic vote next Tuesday is expected with aJiont 8.500 citizens voting. Candidate's divided their time today in throe Adams county towns. Berne, Geneva and Decatur. Most of the candidates came to Decatur this afternoon to make a final drive tonight. Because of ineligibilities three inspectors were changed today for Tuesday's election. The new Inspectors are. Henry Aumann. west [Root: Louis Koldeway. East Union •and Martin Boese, north Preble, rhar'es Stegle was named judge to Ifi’J a vacancy in Decatur. 28, and Elisha Mann was named sheriff. The inspector and two judges nt each election board must not have anv relatives as candidates. Returns will be received next Tuesday as early as possible by the Daily Democrat and all interested persons are invited to come to the Democrat office or call 1900 Indianapolis, May 3-(U.R)—-Indi-ana’s po'itical picture presented a scene of confusion today with the primary election only three days distant. The absence of clearly defined issues and the numerous slates presented voters hy newly formed political clubs, has resulted in a lack of statewide interest and today the election had resolved itwelf largely into local contests for political dominance. Tlte issues before the voters are of every description. Some politicians and organizations are asking for decision in the 10-j'ear old wet and dry wrestling match; others want a constitutional convention; the farm bureau federation has questioned candidates on taxation; and in southern Indiana State school aid is a dominant iistie. Party leaders were fearful today that the vote Tuesday would be the smallest in more than a decade. Not only Is it an off year primary, but lack of concentration on issues and candidates has created a lack of interest. In the 1924 primary 60.3.897 votes were cast. The large primary vote was attributed to the (CONTINUED ON PAGE FIVE) o IDENTITY OF MANIS SOUGHT Stranger Hangs Self to Tree at Bluffton Friday Afternoon Bluffton, Ind., May 3—(UP)—lnformation leading to, identity of a man, about 50, whose body was found late yesterday along the Wabash river bank near Bluffton, was sought hy coroner William Thoma today. Carl Power and Ray Martin, both of Bluffton, found the body white fishing. Coroner Thoma said death was due to strangulation. Four strands of chalk line were about the man's neck, and other portions hanging in a nearby tree gave indications that the man hail attempted to hang himself, and the suspending strands broke. A. W. Plessinger, chief of police, said the man might have been a tramp. It was believed he had been dead about 36 hours.

’ Former War Secretary i HI With Pneumonia ! Bl / J Yx y ' An excellent closeup of Newton D. Baker, former Secretary of War. who is confined to his bed with an attack of bronchial pneumonia. Mr. Baker's attendance at a recent Democratic rally Is said to have brought on the complications. FINAL MEETiNT TO BE MONDAY I — Woman’s Club Plans Annual Closing; Guests Are Invited The Decatur Woman's Club, winner of the eighth district merit flag will hold its closing meeting of the season Monday night at 7:45 o'clock at the Decatur Country Club. Each member may bring one guest to the meeJng by paying 25 cents. A committee from the Dramatic depai tnient of the club, with Miss Jeanette Clark as chairman lias prepared the program. The member.-: of the Junior Arts dull will assist on tlie program and will have dliaige of serving light’, refreshments after the meeting. The program wil be presented in the form of a "Harlequinade ", witli lots of music and entertainment. Special features are planned and darn ing acts will be given by Marha Elizabeth Calland and Patsy and Rosemary Fnllt-nkamp. The Junior Arts girls also will give a speciality darning act. Miss Surah Jane Kauffman and Miss Pattsy Holthouse will give piano solos. The meeting will start promptly at 7:45 o'clock. STORM AREA IS TO BE REBUILT Work Starts After Toll of Dead Is Counted; Los Is Heavy Chicago, May 3 —(UP)— Strom shatteied sections of Hie nine central states turned today to the task of reconstruction as volunteer workers cleated away debris left by . the season's first onslaught of destructive, 1 ife-laking tornadoes ami violent storms. Scores of families, after a night in Temporary tent shelters provided hy relief organizations, began the dis-heartening work of rebuilding i their ruined homes. Red Cross and National Guard units engaged in relieving (lie suffering of the many injured and the hundreds made homeless in the ser- , ies of cyclonic disturbances reported a storm toll of 24 deaths and damage approximateing $5,090,909. A Survey showed tliat the towns of Tekamah, Neb., Norborne, Mo., . and Westby Wis , and Russell, la., i had suffered most. i Tabulation of the deaths due to . the tornadoes and storms showed i five persons killed at Nobrorne, Mo., i four at Nekamah, Neb., three at Lake City, Minn.. Duluth, 2; Antioch i 111., 2; Kickapoo, Kas„ 2; one each I at Russel, la., Chicago, Wis., Rockford, ill., Lawton, N. D., and Galesi burg. 111. i At Tekamah both Red Cross amt i National Guard units were busy ; caring for those Injured and the I many left shelterless by the torna- ; do. Losses were estimated at $150,i 900. First aid crews established head- , quarters yesterday at Norborne, i Mo., where damage totalled $100,090 i At Westby, Wis., the damage was to total SIOO,OOO.

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BOYS'WEEK TO BE OBSERVED {Rotarians to Sponsor Week’s Activities for Local Boys Boy's week opens in Decatur Sunday witli a request that every boy attend church during the <lay. Several ministers will deliver talks to the boys al tile day's service. M F. Worthman, chairman of tlie isiy's work committee of the | Decatur Rotary club, sponsors of 11 lie annual week lias prepared tile following program for Hie week. Tlie liaseliall game lias been post poned from May 8 to Muy 15th, on account of the Ladies' night banquet next Thursday. Monday and Tuesday, May 5 and 6 Mr. H. L. Curtis will try to have the lioys to finish in tlie following events: 50 yard dash, 100 yard dash, running high jump, running broad jump. baseball throw and basketball free throw. Ril>bons will be given for places one to five inclusive. Mr. Curtis will try to find the five best in each event. Wednesday. May 7. — Rorseshoe Day, Committee, Carl Klepper, chairman; R. S. Johnson and William Bowers. All lioys in grades 5,6, 7 and 8 will be eligible in this contest. It will be worked oil' by grades. Bovs who wish to enter i this contest will please hand their (names to Father J. A. Hession or IW. Guy Brown. The contest will ) begin at four o’clock Wednesday (afternoon. Elimination will take place until the final winner is determined. . The contest will take place on tlie Central school lots. Thursday, May 15, postponed from May 8. —Baseball game. The Red team is in charge of Clarence Beavers, chairman; H. P. Schmitt and A. D. Suttles. Tlie White team is in charge of H. J. Yager, chairman; O. L. Vance and James Cowen. The Blue team is in charge of Sim Burk, chairman; Paul Graham and O. B. Wemhoff. The Rotary team is in charge of Ferd O'Brien, chairman; Eno Lankenau and G. M. Krick. The baseball series will start at 3:45 sharp Thursday ijfteroon and continue to eliminate until the winner is determined. The ball games will be played on tlie city lots on Seventh street, back of the city barn. M. J. Mylott. and W. A. Lower will officiate. Friday. May 9—Hobby Exhibit (CONTINUED ON PAGE SEVEN) o ♦ ♦ First Adams County Home Is Located hy Decatur Historian ® — M French Quinn, Decatur historian has found reliable proof that the first house built in Adame county has been located. Following is a story concerning the first Adams count)’ home: By French Quinn. We have from time to time written of the "firsts'' that have marked happening in our beloved Adams county, but some how or other we overlooked a "first" that seems to us to he of quite considerable importance. Would you like to hear of the first home of the white man in Adams county? You know "Way Back When” before white folks settled here the birds had their nests and tlie beasts their dens and the Indians their tepees and tlie giant trees furnished shelter for the white hunters and trappers that roamed this section and that, about ended tlie habitation proposition unless we count the tented camps of the early soldiers. A real sure enough settler however had to have a house. Tradition has it that hardy and courageous souls had tried from time to time to locate along the Wabash and St. Mary's in this county but the Miami Indians would have none of it and the wolld-be settlers moved on or got scalped. There is always a beginning, you know, and this is how it was. When Henry Lowe of Ohio and all points east, way back in the year 1819 prospected this section he must have come in by the way of the Wabash river, because, you know, most all travel those days was as much as possible by river and he evidently took the wonderly old Indian trail where the trail crossed the Wabash river just a little south of the center of. section (CONTINUED ON PAGE EIGHT)

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Will Speak Here L' * Rev. F. 11. Rupnow Rev. Rupnow, pastor of St. . John’s Reformed church of Fort ( Wayne will lie tlie chief speaker at a union meeting of Protestant ’ men to lie held next Thursday i night at 6:15 o'clock at the Evangelical church here. Mon of all local churches are invited to attend the banquet-meeting. LIQUOR GANG IS ROUNDED UP — Southern Indiana Rum 1 Conspiracy Blasted by Federal Men Indianapolis, May .3. — (U.R) —A large and powerful liquor manufacturing gang, whose operations covered a territory bounded by Chicago Heights, Louisville and St. Louis, ,was dealt a heavy blow in the report of the Federal grand jury at Indianapolis late yesterday. Four murders were disclosed, said to lie directly attributable to the conspiracy to violate the Nat- : ionai prohibition laws. Forty-six persons, most of them residents of Terre Haute and Clinton were named in one indictment) charging conspirai y to violate the liquor laws. it is said tlie gang, which dealt mainly with the manufacture and wholesaling of sugar alcohol, had 38 stills in operation at one time. Names-of 24 persons, all of whom are under arrest or free under bond, were announced by George R. Jeffrey, U. S. district attorney. The other 22 defendants will lie arrested immediately, lie said. According to the report, the gang was headed by Joe Traum, and his brother, Jacob Traum, liotli of Terre Haute and St. Louis, it is said the two men were former members of the once notorious “Egan's rats'' of St. Louis. Joe Traum is at liberty under $10,090 bond as the result of a previous in- . dictment. Wilmont Connors, chief of Clinton police until lie left office Jan. 1 and Dominic Gerino, Clinton represntative of several steamship lines and tlie Italian consul, were among those named. It was charged tliat Gerino was “pay-off man" for the gang and maintained headquarters for an elaborate protection (system for still operators and liquor runners. Others indicted included Jack Bell, Terre Haute and St. Ixiuis gangsters, already awaiting trial on a liquor charge; Mario Bonacarsi, ’ (CONTINUED ON PAGE SEVEN) • o Lindy Starts Today For New York City i , Miami, Fla., May 3 —(UP) -Col. . Charles A Lindbergh took off from , the Pan-American airport today resuming the new mail service from Buenos Aires to New York. i Lindbergh, copilot Basil Rowe, and tadio operator Bert Denicke landed at Pan-American airport yesterday, eleven houts out of Puerto Caliezas, Nicaragua, where they spent the previous night. The Sikorsky amphibion plane 1 had aboard more than 209 pounds ’ of mall from South and Central ' America. o , May Call Grand Jury I Evansville, Ind.. May 3. —(U.R) —A ( grand jury has been ordered to ' stand ready tor call to convene , Thursday to investigate any cases t of illegal voting or ballot fraud ? which may arise during the pri- „ mary election at Evansville Tuesday. I Circuit Judge Boek gave the ordj er after receiving a report, that t negroes were being brought to the city from Princeton by the carload ) to vote.

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WILL WAIT FOR FINAL REPORT OF COMMISSION Friends Believe President Is Qualified to Recommend Either INTEREST IN FINAL REPORT Washington, May 3.—■WJ-R) — I The administration's attitude toward prohibition will not be ' further clarified until the fin- ’ al report of the law enforce- ' ment commission is made, I probably next December, responsible authorities acquainted with President Hoover's views said today. By tliat time the congressional elections will lie over, and definite information will have been obtained to uphold or refute the claims of wets that there has been a change of public sentiment. Then, also, the Wickersham com- ] mission will have completed the (most Intensive study ever made of | any modern issue in this country and full recommendations as to 'the wisdom of the prohibition policy I can safely be made. Mr. Hoover does not have a preference for a report favoring either the wet or dry causes, his friends declare. He is not wedded to the present prohibition policy, they say, and would feel free to recommend modification or repeal if the commission selected either of these alternatives as the best way out. He likewise would just as energetically follow the commission in a recommendation for retention of the present system, those close .to him say. Meantime he will insist npon carrying forward his strict law enforcement reform program as best ' lie can in view of the failure of congress to provide ail the legislation recommended in the preliminary report of the Wickersham commission. These authoritative statements of the executive's views are regal (led witli great interest because of the recent correspondence of William H. Stayton, head of the association against tlie prohibition amendment. Produced by the senate lobby committee. These letters developed tlie big question: Is Hoover wet or dry?" Stayton in his correspondence labeled th* president "a wet at lieart," or at least not in sympathy witli prohibition. The wet leader charged tliat the chief executive witli six members of his cabinet, believed "prohibition is a failure." Tlie only answer which lias come from the White Iloutte was indirect. It was a message to congress, received while Stayton was on Hie stand It urged tlie senate and tlie house to get busy and pass tlie seven (lending law enforcement (CONTINUED ON PAGE FIVE) GENEVA GAINS IN POPULATION Southern County Town Has 895 People; Gain of 16 Over 1920 Tlie town of Geneva in southern Adams county has a population of 895, according to the 1930 census figures announced today Ly J. Monroe Fitch, district census supervisor. This Is a gain of 16 over the count in 1929, which was 879. The gain was a surprise to Geneva residents, and is t n indication that tlie town has been able to maintain its population while many towns in Indiana are losing heavily. Geneva, at one time when the oil boom was at Its height!: in southern Adams county had a population of 1,800, but when the oil boom ended, the town fell off. in the last few years, several stores have been added and Geneva has become a trading center for far mers of southern Adams county and northern Jay county. The Wednesday night crowds in Geneva especially dining the summer band concert months are estimated at several thousand. Mr. Fitch in announcing Geneva’s count s ated that it was subject to revision when the final count is re--1 leased from Washington. D. C. but indications tire that the present population will stand.