Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 28, Number 133, Decatur, Adams County, 5 June 1930 — Page 1

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■UBLICANS |ek change ■tax system i Ij'latlonn Suggests| Irease In Property ■| ; ix |n Indiana Iren bum ■ Tl RXED DOWN I bulletin ■ianapoi s. Jone 5. —(U.R)— ■ iu. Graham of Decatur ■tn; eighth district repreE,ve on the important Kntials committee of the Ei.can state convention ■ today Graham was elect- ■ tie district meeting held Kesday night. Hi i Enapolis, June 5. — <U.R) Bjatt'orm which had fori Kn features, recommen-l K that personal and Etv taxes be decreased! Kat school sltae-aid sysE created by embodying. Eons for prompt and acE cheeking of expendi- ■ t\as before the biennial Eicaii slate convention ■ g on planks of the platform] Eedulril to follow election of I E.'iihi addresses by Governor ■g. Leslie and Arthur M. I necretaiy of agriculture. Eicn us party candidates ■ held this afternoon. Eplatiuini. as drawn by the Lee. indicated clearly that Ke campaign on the two| Luxation and school aid. It I approval of organized labor. Kttonal administration, the ■administration. flood control! Ls. (horge Rogers Clark] Lal. th- crime survey, law Lmtiit. the highway and eonLn departments, and farm Lu approved by Governor ■ who attended the meeting ■tommttt - and was reported Baking vigorous protests ■ Inclusion of specific recom■lons such as expressions of ■ regarding a primary regis- ■ law. ■isle recommendations pre- ■ to the committee, which ■ Were ignored or voted down. Md resolutions providing for: BUon referendum; repeal of ■■ary law; repeal of the fee E an income tax law; rati ■by the state senate of ■be appointments; and ere■of school system with the las the governing unit, rather ■tile township. ■ taxation plank was written ■t as presuted by the farm ■t federation, but recommenJte to change the school sysfcntl to have the governor's ■tnients ratified by the senIboth of which were farm proposals, were voted down. lIINUED ON PAGE EIGHT) I o ICA! BAIRY IS SOLD TODAY fury Brothers Buy Jomestead Dairy; To I Move In at Once [“cal was consummated today Fby the Homestead Dairy east city, owned by Mrs. Mary p'kand Mrs. Bessie Niblick was | ,u the Blue Creek Dairy ownr' operated by the gteury Brop Cal and Reuben, who took pMon immediately and mad. r s deliveries. The Homestead P is one of the beat equipped in Plate with a cooling outfit and Fiern eonveninces and machinI " r providing highest grad? petc. R Steury Brothers purchased I Whips milk route here last P’ r> ' and have since that time F l,a hy doubled the output daily. r' s President of the 4-H calf .!" Adams county and both he I i-ulien have been interested in P "’ork al! their lives. n own a splendid herd of acc,e“ cows tuberculin tested and r to increase it as required. A F or the dairy, contingent upon e of the real estate to be r u °n, has been made ami for Fosent the boyrt will operate 1 the plant east of the city.

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Miss Lois Delander of Joliet, 111.. .1 whose pulchritude won for her the title of "Miss America" in 1927 at Atlantic City, will be graduated from Joliet High School June 5 Mi Delander quit school for a 1 stage career, but returned to school ’ to complete her studies. Her ambition is to be an artist. HEATH CALLS MONROE LADY I 1 Mrs. Jesse V. Essex Dies Following Illness oi , Few Weeks Mrs. Jes e V. Essex. (19. well known Adamo county woman, died at her home in Monroe. Wednesday ’ afternoon at 2:30 o'clock from complications. Mrs. Essex had been in ill health for some time and for the last three weeks had been bedfasi. She was born in Monroe, on June 13 1861 and was the daughter o! Jonathan and Martha Andrews, both deceased. She spen: her entire life in and , near Monroe and during her youth was united in marriage to Jesse V Essex, who survives together with nine children, who are: Sherman Essex and Merl Essex oi Monroe, , Mrs. Mae Nelson of this city; Mis. Minnie Kauffman of Monroe; Jason K Essex of Flint. Miclngan. M i. Soulier of Poe; Harry Essex ahi ’ Clifford Essex of Monroe, and Don ' w Essex of DeWitt Arkansas ' One son, Clarence Clella died n in p fancy Twenty-two grandchiidre. j and two gieat grandchildren also .. survive the deceased. * br^ oNKen' I’ Sm s’ Johnson oi liunkirk; ' Mrs John Gross of Monroe; M . 1 S-BBC- '■ e'Lmln's'Anl sJch'D s ? E S “" ” &•-» e by Rev. Fostei n) will b e ir former pastor. t Mon e made in the Ray Cemetery roe.

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MURDER PROBE ! COMPLETED AT : KENDALLVILLE! I Investigators Say Case- r beer Killed (Jiri And C ommitted Suicide — GIRL KNOWN FOR BEAUTY I Kendallville, Ind., June 5. —(U.R) — Investigation of the deaths of Miss Emma Menzel, 20, Kendallville, and Marion J, Casebeer, 21, of Montpelier, 0., was ended today witli the conclusion that Casebeer ■ murdered the girl and committed suicide. A postmortem revealed that Miss Menzel was an expectant mother. She had been keeping company with Casebeer, a married man. since last Christmas. Authorities were convinced that he planned tile murder and suicide in order to escape the consequences of his dilemma. Bodies of the two were found in a coupe in a woods near KendallI ville yesterday, where they had lain for nine days. Her body had a bullet through the head and one through the heart, and he had taken poison. Miss Menzel was known throughout this territory for her beauty. She was a blond. o_. 0 _. FOREST FIRES UNDER CONTROL North Canadian Blazes Reported Abated; One Known to Have Died Fort William, Ont., June 5. —(U.R) —Forest fires which did in excess of $500,000 damage and took at least one life ’ were under control in Ontario today after drenching o ’ tains had quenched the more dangt emus blazes. I Hundreds of refugees made their way back to their homes in the a areas of timber land laid waste by ,1 the flames. Many of the settlers p found only desolation, the villages of Larson and Kelly, Ont., having been destroyed. The only known death was that of Paul Garten, forestry service aviator, whose plane crashed while he was scout- ■ ing a fire near Allenwater, Ont. ' Miraculous escape of two Ontario towns. Dyment anti Port Arthur, after women and children had been evacuated and the successful flights q to safety of settlers in isolated wildernesses were another side of the fire story. Two of the pioneers, Mr. and Mrs. Albert Swain, fled their mink I farm, ami ran the gauntlet of fire d wrapped in water-soaked blankets, y They reached a railroad and rode b an abandoned gasoline ‘jigger’ to Kelly. They they were joined by a II section gang which brought them 6 from the doomed town to a Fort '] William hospital. Tile hames advanced close enough ’ ! to Fort William to trap a party of ' 70 foresters. They dived into a ( l river to save their lives and remained in the chilling water for five hours. h 0 n D.C.H.S. C ommencement To Be Held Friday Night " The animal commencement exer- !! rises of Decatur Catholic High School will be held in the D.C.H.S. “ auditorium. Friday evening at ' which time sixteen will receive high ' school diplomas. Eighth grade di:l plotnas will also be awarded to 0 those who will enter high school next fall. Rev. Father John Bapst of Blut.l . ton will deliver the commencement ; address and Father J. A. Seimetz / will present the diplomas to the graduates. o ——* J Rev. Sunderman Returns Rev. M. W. Sunderman, pastor i- of the Evangelical church is back > in the city and will meet ail his e appointments. The class in: The 1- Handbook of Religion” will meet on e Saturday morning at 10 o clock, for d the final class session with the grada nation service next Sunday Morn- “ ing at 10:15 o'clock. The chatachen tleal class at Calvary will meet at 8 o’clock Saturday morning.

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Decatur, Indiana, Thursday, June 5, 1930.

John Joseph's Cousin Killed In Auto Mishap I John Joseph of this city today received a telegram that ids cousin. Arthur Hateni, 18 of Shawnee. Ohio had been killed in an automobile accident Wednesday night. No details of the accident were staled in the communication. The young man was graduated from Shawnee high school last week . and was coming to Decatur this summer to visit Mr. Joseph. Mr. Joseph left today for Shawnee. Funeral services will be held Saturday. 0 MISS CHESTER | RESIGNS HERE Music Supervisor To Be Succeeded by Miss Gladys Schindler At the regular meeting of the school board held last evening the resignation of Miss Dessolee Chester, who has been supervisor of music in the Decatur schools for the past three years was accepted. Tlie application of Miss Gladys Schindler of Berne, who has been teaching in the Bourbon schools was then considered ami she was chosen to fll this vacancy. Miss Schindler has among her credentials a successful record as a teacher a degree in music from Ball State Teacher's college at Muncie, and is also an accomplished violinist. Miss Chester stated that she has two or three prospective schools in mind but lias not decided definitely | where she will be located next winr Wealthy Chicagoan Jailed Chicago, June 5. —(U.R) —Alimony row in the county jail was the place of residence today of a millionaire - Thomas Condon, head of the General Telephone Utilities company and Condon Industries, Inc. Condon was sentenced to six months in jail for contempt of court yesterday when he attempted to strike Attorney Benjamin B. Davis, counsel for his estranged wife in her suit for an injunction to restrain Condon from molesting her. The attorney was stating his case to Superior Judge Sabath and accusing the millionaire of beating and choking his wife after bieaking down the door of her apartment, when Condon leaped at him and called him a liar. Bailiffs subdued Condon as lie aimed a blow at Davis. Wheatland Has Fire Vincennes, Ind.. June 5.—(U.R)— Fire swept through the business district of Wheatland early today, causing $75,00(1 damage. The Rogers grocery. Ford garage, residence of Thomas Ward, Farmers and Merchants bank building. W. I). Lett store, and the F. D. Wallace bakery were destroyed. Flames, burning through telephone poles, cut off communication between Wheatland and Vincennes. It had not been restored at 8 a. m. Vincennes fire companies were called, but were handicapped because of limited water supply. Origin of the flrfe was not determined. o Lunatics Believed to Be Free Near Toledo Toledo, Ohio, June 5 —(UP)— ■ Three dangerous lunatics who were among the 13 prisoners to escape from Michigan state prison for the ' criminally insane at lonia, Mich., Tuesday were believed to be in Toledo or vicinity today. Police received a report that the three madmen were seen driving a machine near Toledo last night. All- ' thoritles were combing the city for the trio today. Mrs. Lee Markley Dies Bluffton, Ind., June s—Mrs Lee Markley prominent woman from i six miles south of this city, died at the Lutheran hospital at Fort ■ Wayne early this morning, follow- . ing a short illness from heart . trouble. She is well known in Deca- . tur and Adams county. The funeral services will be held Saturday afternoon.

DAMAGE SUIT BEING HEARD IN COURT TODAY — Max Atkins, Fort Wayne Lad, Seeks SIO,OOO In Venued Damage Case RESULT OF 1927 MISHAP A damage suit venued to Adams I circuit court from Fort Wayne in which Max Atkins, eight year-old' Fort Wayne boy, by his next friend Fern. F. Kramer is seeking slu,i)oo damages from F. W. I’awlisch. of Fort Wayne as a result of an auto mobile-bicycle accident September 13, 1927. opened here today. The plaintiff alleges that lie was riding on the handles of a bicycle, whicli his sister was propelling, at 7 o'clock on the night of September 13, 1927 and that Pawliscli was driving his automobile on Eckart street turned onto the avenue and collided with the bicycle. The plaintiff further says that as a result liis leg was broken and he was forced to remain in lied more than a year, during which time a running sore developed near the break in the leg and as a result the lad’s one leg in tour inches shorter and he lias been permanently crippled. Hartzell and Todd of Fort Wayn-' and D. B. Erwin of Decatur represent the plaintiff and Sapp, See and Glenn of Huntington and ('. J. Lutz of Decatur represent the defendant. The case was venued to Adams county in February of 1929 on a statement from the defense that a "fair and impartial jury, because of sentiment toward the lad" could not lie obtained in Alien county. The jury was sworn at 10 o’clock this morning in the ea?e after Mr. Erwin representing the plaintiff and Mr. Lutz representing the defense had questioned the 12 men who will hear the case. It was indicated that the case would not be concluded before Friday night or Saturday. It is the second damage case to lie heard here this week. _o Arch-Bishop Escapes Injury By Assassins Sofia, Bulgaria, June 5. —(U.R) - An attempt was made today to assassinate Archbishop Stephan of Sofia. Tlie archbishop was not injured. The assassins were not identified. BOOM MORROW FOR PRESIDENT Definite Move Believed to Have Started at Political Meet Trenton. N. J.. June 5. —(U.R) —A definite movement to place Ambassador Dwight W. Morrow into the White House was believed under way today. Although it is early to foresee the course of any presidential boom, and Morrow has expressed no willingness to run for Hie office, observers regarded two speeches by prominent political leaders as indicating New Jersey republicans will launch a campaign to make him chief executive. Tlie speeches heralded as starting the boom were made by form■er Governor E. C. Stokes and Dr. John Crier Hibben, president of Princeton University, at a campaign rally last night for Morrow, who is seeking tlie republican nomination for U. S. senator. Tlie speakers set forth the career of the noted financier and diplomat in glowing terms, and when they hailed him as "presidential ! timber," they were drowned in applause. "No man in this country is big enough to decline the call to tlie presidency of the republic,” Stokes said. Dr. Hibben, praising Morrow's stand for repeal of the 18th amendment. remarked: ' "It the ambassador should become president and that is not a wild stretch of imagination — we are going to claim him at least in part for Princeton.” Morrow expressed his thanks to I the speakers and said their compli- . mentary statements had left him "speechless.''

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BIBLE SCHOOL STAFF NAMED Local School Will Open Next Monday Morning at Central Building Tlie program for the opening of tlie Daily Vacation Bible school of I Decatur is in readiness. The school will open next Monday morning. As usual tile classes will meet in tlie Central school building. The woiship period will lie conducted in tlie Baptist eliurcli. Much interest is shown by the pro-enroll-ment, whicli to date is 215. This i enrollment will be greatly increased next Sunday when all the churches in tlie union will accept enrollments in tbo school. •Four of the ministers are serving! as deans of tlie school, namely, WJ M. Sunderman, H. M Ferntlieil, B.! F. Franklin, and R. E. Vuuce. Mrs O. E. Miller is principal of th- school and will be ably assisted ed by the following start of teach-< ers: The kindergarten department | will be in two sections, under the leadership of Mrs. Herman Meyers and Miss Dorotl* Durkin, witli the following assistants; Betty Frisinger, Esther Sunderman, Bernadin ■ Kolter aud Arline Becker. Mrs. Jestine (Hocker) Cole will ' superintend the primary department. with Helen Sliroll and Gre.- ' chen Winans assisting. 1 lie juuior •I (CONTINUED UN PAGE EIGHTi PLANE DROPS INTO OCEAN f ■—• Boston Harbor Scene of Passenger Plane Accident Today 1 PF’LANE DROPS HDvwGH- stuo Boston, June 5. —<U.R)—-X colonial transport plane dropped into Boston Harbor at 1:10 p. m. today , just after taking off from the Boston airport. There were 14 passengers aboard. The craft, leaving Boston on a regular trip to New York, soared > into the air but failed to gain altitude, apparently because of ad- - verse wind conditions and dropped > into the sea about 500 feet oft tlie I' airport. The mishap was witnessed by . several persons at the airport. At- . taches of the field, with ropes and other paraphernalia, immediately put out to the fallen plane in boats in an effort to assist passengers. From the airport the big plane i could be seen on the harbor waters but the extent of damage was not apparent. Neither could it lie immiately determined whether the lives of the 14 passengers were in peril. Tlie plane was a Ford tri motor, one of the Colonial's fleet used regularly on tlie Boston New York run. ‘ A few minutes after the mishap, ' a crowd of about 2,000 had gather--1 ed. . Zeppelin Arrives At Spanish Destination i Seville, Spain, June 5. — (U.R) - The dirigible Graf Zeppelin arrivi ed from New York and Lakehurst , today after a trying flight across > the Atlantic ocean where storms and rain greatly delayed her pro- - gress between the Azores Islands ■ and Portugal. The dirigible arrived at 3:40 p. f m. (10:40 a. m. est). A fast pace on tlie first stage of the flight from New York to the i Azores had indicated that Dr. Hugo Eckener was attempting a r record trip, but choppy winds j . which buffeted the ship and rain' i areas off the coast later slowed her | 1 down. Approximately 61 hours and 1 20 minutes were required for tlie trip which was considerably more r than 3,500 miles due to deviations > from tlie direct route. ■» ° K, of C. Initiation Postponed by Lodge The Knights of Columbus inilia- '■ tlon scheduled tor next Sunday in 1 tills city has been postponed. The 0 Huntington and Garrett councils 1 could not join in the initiation at ths time and plans tor the program o were postponed last evening. A i- meeting will be held Monday night n witli tlie Decatur candidates at the K. of C. Hall.

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>» »■•»»*' oawmaawif Tars* 1Marian Willis of Rensselaer, Ind ,' co-ed at Monmouth College, Mon ] I mouth. 111., wlio was crowned Queen! lot' the May on June 2 in a ceremony] viewed by a crowd of 6.U00 people.!

BANKERS WILL MEETJDNEI3 District Meeting To Be Held at Huntington Y. M. C. A. A number of local bankers will attend the Twenty-first annual meeting of Group one of the Indiana Bankers Association to be held at Huntingtoia June 13. W. S. Rogers. Secretary Indiana State Bank and Trust Company.] Warsaw, as group chairman will! preside over the meeting. Elmer W. | Stout, President of the association and President of the Fletcher American National Bank, Indianapolis,! will be one of the priir ipal speakers, his subject being ' Bankin-; Trends." Other speakers will tie, Thomas D. Barr. Indianapolis, Deputy Bank Commissioner: C. M. Dopier. Chicago Edward R. Burt and Company and D. A. Collings, Crawfordsville, cashier First National Bank. Registration of the more than 30<T bankers expected to attend will take place at tlie Masonic Temple at 10:30. Dinner will be served al 12:15 to be followed immediately by the business session. Local bankers who will attend include: W. A. Lower, L. S. Arm ! strong, and C. L. Walters of The Peoples Loan and Trust Company and C. A. Dugan of the First National Bank. The representatives from the Ohl Adams County Ban!; have not been chosen. HEAT RELIEF IS PROMISED Showers Predicted For Adams County In Next 12 Hours; Cooler Relief from tin' first sever" heat wave 6f the season in Adams eotin- [ ty was promised this afternoon or! tonight by state weather forecas-! ters in the form of rain and cooler temperature by Friday night Tin* heat wave whicli started several days ago reached a peak this afternoon when local street thermo-1 meters showed temperature real ings ranging from 84 degrees to 9! degrees. The sun heat down on th ■ business section of this < ity all da,' I today, adding discomfort to the high I temperature. Showers, greatly needed in tlie 1 rural sections, were promised in the next 12 hours ami slightly cooler weather was predicted to follow tin 1 showers. Season's records were established in several parts of Indiana yesterday but the records were threatened today.as the temperature continued to mount. —o — Bank Will Re-Open — Terre Haute, Ind.. June 5 (T P) . Plans for the re-opening of Hie . Hymera state bank, closed since . March 30, 1929, were announced here after a meeting of depositor-, stockholders aud Luther F. Symons state banking commissioner, at Hymera last Saturday. It is proposk p([ (o open the depository about July 1. Under the plan, depositors are ) asked to sign walversfl statini > will leave a certai namo'unt of their i funds in the bank for a specific t leiieth of time Thus preventin'.: :t i run on the institution at the time i of its opening and assuring dlrect will leave a certain amount of their t invest and place the bank on a paying basis. .31,

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PANIC AVERTED SPEAKER SAYS AT CONVENTION — Secretary Hyde Says Hoover Triumphed Against Odds LESLIE ALSO ON PROGRAM BULLETIN Indianapolis June s—(UP) —The Republican platform prepared in committee last night was adopted unanimously today with objections only by Lake County delegates. It recommends eqi alization of taxation as the principle plank Thomas D. Coulter, Vincennes, ' said to be the anti-saloon league ! favorite was nominated as candidate for the supreme court from the first judicial district defeating Benjamin Willoughby incumbent by a large majority. Allen county delegates switched their vote to put Coulter over. On the first ballot Allen County gave McDonald 21, Willoughby 30. and Cot Iter 30. The vole prior to the switch was Coulter 948, Willoughby 372. and McDonald 612. Indianapolis. June 5. — <U.R) —The Hoover administration j scored one of the greatest of 'peacetime victories in its efforts to avert a panic after [the stock market collapse last fall. Secretary of Agriculture Arthur M. Hyde declared in a speech before the Republi- ' can state convention today. Hyde’s speech constituted an ad- ] ministration answer to the attack upon President Hoover at French Lick last week bv chairman Jouett . . (CONTINUED ON PAGE EIGHT) B. P. O. E. Members At Lafayette Convention Lafayette, Ind., June 5. —(U.R) - I Several hundred Indiana Elks were in Lafayette today for the second day's sessions of the annual convention of tlie Indiana State Elks Association. Grand Exalted Ruler Walter P. Andrews, Atlanta. Ga.. was principal speaker at a banquet last night. The visiting women, while the men were at dinner, were entertained at a theater, party. Both groups met later for tlie convention ball at tlie Purdue University Memorial union. A large parad . one of the highlights of the convention, was held today. The meeting closes tomorrow. CANNON WALKS I OUT AT PROBE Bishop Says Senate Committee Must Issue Subpoena Washington, June 5 —(U.R)—Bishop Jane s Cannon, Jr., brought his [defiance of the senate lobby committee to a dramatic climax today | when he angrily picked up his pa]e • is and walked out of the crowded I committee room while two senators still were questioning him. I This unprecedented defiance of 'senatorial authority left the cont--1 mittee dumbfounded, and an adjournment was taken shortly afterward until next Wednesday, t'halr- ‘ I man Caraway, who is in Arkansas, is expected to be here then and the ' committee will decide at that time [whether to proceed against tlie Methodist bishop for contempt of the senate. "I am not longer a voluntary witness," said the bishop, picking up 1 his papers. ’ "We have not yet excused you," Senator Thomas J Walsh, (Dem., ' Mont.t, acting chairman said. ’ “I am at my office, if you want ’ to issue Hie subpoena,” said Can- ' non, walking toward tlie door. ’ "We realize you are > hallenging the committee, but we do not take , that view of it,” said Walsh. , "1 want to read you some teleP grams showing how you came to . lie here,'’ said Senator Blaine (Rep. I w i i. wet member of the com- „ mittee. Cannon paid no attention to r either as lie elbowed his way - through the crowd and out of the yjom. \