Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 28, Number 144, Decatur, Adams County, 18 June 1930 — Page 1

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WORD BANK S ROBBED BY fp MBITS -— ■i Assistant Cashier HI I'armer Ordered rjri Lie On Floor Papk WITH THREE KfS.wi) DOLLARS Ohio. June IS— armed bantlup 0. L. Disher. D3nl Him Kl’ord National n built 2 :.‘{o o’clock ■ afternoon and escaped ~~ s.'i.OOO in cash. act walked Into the K as they reached the r, ordered Mr. K; me Martin, nssisiml Roy Jackson. in the hank to up They were then mi the floor. One —Hp tmuj • kept guard whip. Hjfef walked around back of and scooped up all of y and silver on tiie ck^B of tiie loss had not at three o’clock ttiis aswas estimated that about $:?.00n. They the vault. H sci.-i t- were middle-aged t. : the hank employes B«r "itl hands at the busi"fm them to keep quiet'' ■T' vT'rin ON PAGE TWO) ■lightning Kills Man ■kw In-!.. June 18.—(U.R)-Wil liiri'. 7". farmer near New'lea : h -re today after heby lightning while work Bt' I near his house da• Btfiui s,( »Tn yesterday. ■Hi Invention Fails B>f tile. Ind., June IS— (T IM ■frail. Xoblesville though' Biff' hpon a plan whereby li" his own suit of clothes B 1 * ' expense of professiiuil his clothes into ■pfuurliine. Partly filled with ■<»*- His system apparently Blfctls.artorily for a f--w min static celectriciij ignited bursting the machine BV ot the house was blown H roof set afire. Damage ■ fl,#("i Crull escaped injury. Bleat Prices Crash line 18—(UP)—Wheat K tu 3 3-8 c on the hoard i f ■ iPuy, July selling at 9bc, a t°r the crop, at midmoru ■o»wmher equalled its low at ■ ■apd September was with■°e ftf the lo wmark for that ! ,v 1-8. Support was lackB*€[the weak Liverpool close. HP® : yt the low mark for that nt generated ypsterdnx ■cdjeii! export demand. Weak ■ialhe stock market was a i i n factor. KVA WOMAN EXPIRES TODAY , i-ldelaide P o n t i u s HI After Illness of Years June 18—(Special) Mrs. Mshel, Pontius, 66. life long of Geneva, died at her ■ this morning at 3 o'clock pa #ils caused by complication i an illness of several Pf ‘»y years the deceased reP 09 a farm four miles west of a few years ago Mr. ■“a* retired and the family Hd Geneva. |;;Bng is the husband, Clinr Bto, and five children; WorIPo*iis of Wabash, Ralph I’on--1 ■Union City, Bess Pontius Mrs. Forrest ■ sf; 9 1 f Geneva, and Harold I'onik®ome. r aKcbased was a member of fMaft l ord m. E. Church and tin ■ "■f Star for many years. > 1 services will be held at 2 o’clock (CenPttidard Time) at the Hartford BjUttrch east of Geneva. Rev. will have charge of Wees. Burial will be made M. E. Cemetery. ■

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J Tours Hoosier Sky IwimHpW* -^MgBBH ! 3 . bb -'i J|l|» li^^jWii| -L ■■ &*' Vi Phoebe Omlie is the only woman pilot in the second annual Indiana air tour which to*>k ofl June 16 from Indianapolis. She is flying a monocoupe.

ADAMS COUNTY MAN EXPIRES James Wiswell Dies; Result of Fall January 20 At Flint, Mich. Berne, Juno 18. — (Special) — Janies Wiswell, 22. son of Mrs. William W'iswell of Beine died at a Flint, Michigan, hospital this morning from injuries sustained when a scaffold on which he was working at a building in Flint broke last January, throwing him to the ground, a distance of more than 40 feet. Wiswell suffered a brpken back'. He was taken immediately to the Flint hosiptal and since that time he never left the hospital. For a time physicians believed the young man's life could b<< saved, but hope was abandoned several days ago. James Wiswell was born in Adams county, five miles east of Berne. December 10, 1908. He was a son of Mr. and Mrs. William Wiswell. Later the Wiswells moved to Genova and then to Berne where Mrs. Wiswell now resides. Three years ago Mr. Wiswell went to Flint where he was employed with a construction company until the time of the accident. Surviving are the mother, and eight brothers and sisters. They are: Edwin Wiswell, Berne: Roger and Kuel Wiswell of Kalamazoo, Mich.; Earl Wiswell. of Lima, Ohio; Mrs. Emma Geise, Lima, Ohio; Mrs. La von Potitire. Washington, D. C.; Mrs. Mabel Debolt and Mrs. Vada Bixler of Fort Wayne. The body will be brought to Berne tonight. Funeral arrangements have not yet been completed. — -o Stephenson Aide Has Recovery Suit filed Newcastle, Ind., June 18—(UP)— Decision was expected today in the case of Earl Gentry, aid of I). ('. Stephenson, former grand Dragon of the Ku Klux Klan, who is seeking to recover $1,300 charged as an attorney fee by John H. Klepinger, Kushviile attorney. Submission of evidence was nea. - ly completed yesterday in Henry circuit court before Judge John H The case originated in Rush county later was taken to kayette county and finally venued to Newcastle By agreement, A jury was tdispeneed with. Band Concert Tonight The Junior band will hold a concert tonight, the program baling been interrupted last nlgnt ' y The concert will be given at tho Central school lawn at 8 o clock.

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Cool Weather Wave Strikes Adams County 1 i Unprecedented cool weather arj rived in Adams county late Tuesday night and weather forecasters believe the unseasonal weather will remain at least for another day. ' Rain accompanied the temperature drop. No damage was reported by the cooler weather among the neighboring farming communities and the temperature did not drop low ' enough to do serious damage to any i crops. BODY OF MAN FOUND IN LAKE Speed Boat Pilot’s Body Lends Clue to Others Missing Toledo, June 18 — (U.R) — Lake • Erie has given up the body of one of the eight men lost on her waters Saturday night, but continued today to hold the secret of Hip mysterious mishap which emptied their speedboat and set it drifting about off West Sister Island. The lxidy recovered was that of 1 John Lipsgach, pilot of the boat. | Coast guard cutter CG-173, one of the scores of boats searching the shores and islands of eastern Lake Erie, picked Lipsgach's body out of the water late yesterday. The search for more bodies or possible survivors was resumed, with the coast guard, acting under direct orders from President Hoover. leading the fleet. Those aboard when the speedboat put out from Toledo harbor Saturday, bound for an Elk's picnic on Pelee Island off the Canadian coast were Lipsgach, Charles S. Nauts, internal revenue collector; Herbert Nauts, his son; Franklin B. Jones, Toledo poIiti(CONTINUED ON PAGE TWO) _o_ New Haven Bank Formed New Haven, Ind., June 18. —(U.R) A new institution The New Haven and People's State Bank—having the combined assets of two older organizations, has been announced. The consolidation will he effective July 1. The assets of the new organization, which was formed from the New Haven State Bank and People's State Bank of New Haven, will be $1,100,000. It will have a capital of $75,000. The New Haven State Bank was formed in 1909 with a capital stock of $25,000 and the People’s State Bank of New Haven was organized in 1916 with capital of $32,000. The new institution will have headquarters in the first bank.

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Decatur, Indiana, Wednesday, June 18, 1930.

OLD ADAMS CO, BANK MEETING 18 SUCCESSFUL Directors Name Temporary Liquidating Agents in Charge STOCKHOLDERS TO MEET SOON John W. Tyndall anti Jesse (!. Niblick were selected by the board of directors its temporarv liquidating agents for the Old Adams County bank at a meeting of the board of directors held tit 10 o’clock this morning. Thomas D. Barr, deputy state hank examiner who has been in charge of affairs here s'nee the hank closed last Friday, explained the findings of his assistants and recommended the course to pursue for tiie best advantage of depositors and stockholders. A meeting of all stockholders of the bank has been called for next Monday afternoon. June 28. at 2 o'clock in the bank auditorium, at which time plans for reorganization or liquidation will be discussed. An assessment sufficient to meet deposits and all liabilities will he made after payment of which a permanent liquidating agent will be named unless reorganization is completed in the meantime. Under the plans the bank will he conducted by the agents under tiie supervision of the board of directors. saving court costs and other expenses of a receivership. The board will have the power to reopen at any time they deem it wise nr to dispose of the property to the best advantage subject of course to the examinations rom time to (CONTINUED ON PAGE TWO) Girl Is Killed When Maypole Gives Way Indianapolis, June 18. — (U.R) —An eight vear-old girl was crushed to death last night while she was playing on a Maypole in Spades Park. Mary Thomas was shrieking from the thrill of swinging through the air when the rusted pole collapsed at the base and fell upon her. Mary had gone to the playground with two small brothers, with permission to “play until dark.” Terrified by the accident that had killed their sister, the hoys ran home, too frightened to make their parents understand, at first, what had happened. An older brother, James Thomas, 24. spent an hour visiting city hospital and talking to police, before he found that the baby sister had been carried to the office of a neighborhood doctor. City officials immediately began an investigation to fix blame for the defective equipment. MANIAC GETS SECOND VICTIM * New York Murderer Is Still at Large After Threats New York, June 18— (U.R) —Police were convinced today that a maniac who considers it his moral obligation to commit 16 murders is roaming the metropolitan area and already has killed two men. He has threatened, in a letter to a newspaper, to strike again tonnight at College Point unless lie recovers some “important papers” which seem to exist »only in his disordered mind. Noel Sowley, a 2G-year-old radio salesman who was shot to death as he sat in an automobile with a girl, is the latest victim of the man who refers to hlmaef as "3-X, the man behind the gun.” Sowley's body was discovered yesterday in a sparsely settled section of Queens. On the lap of the dead man was a newspaper clipping describing the killing of Joseph Moyznski whose body was found a week ago in a parked automobile at Whitestone, Queens. Someone, perhaps the slayer of Sowley, han pencilled this grim toast on the margin of the clipping: (CONTINUED ON PAGE TWO)

L. A. Graham Attends Tri-State Convention Postmaster L. A. Graham of this city attended the fifth annual convention of the Tri-State Postmasters association which convened In Fort Wayne ut the Anthony hotel to- '| day. The ses.iion this morning began at 9 o'clock, when the president, Postmaster W. T. Huntsman , of Toledo, Ohio, conducted the mee'ing. Mr. Graham also attended the Informal session which was held at tiie Anthony Hotel last evening. Ollier features of today's program i will lie a banquet, entertainment and dance in the Catholic Community Center for the delegates to the 1 affair and their wives. FLIERS SMASH ! TIME RECORD i > ! i Brock and Schlee Are i Speeding Toward Starting Point in Plane , Jacksonville, Fla., June 13 — (UP) — Wm.-S. Vrock and Edward F. Schlee i completed their transcontinental round trip flight at 1:01:45 p. m. est. today, landing at Jacksonville from Sandiego. California, after fear had spread that they were forced down. 9 The trans-atlaritic fliers established a new record for a coast to coast and return flight bettering Capt. Frank Hawk's mark by approximately 6 hours. Not a drop of gasoline remained in the plane's tanks when it landed, Brock revealed. Brock said they were forced down at Tulula, La., at 9 a. m. today for gas, replenished their supply there i na few minutes and then resumed their flight east. San Diego, Calif., June IS.—(U.R) ' —Detroit’s aerial globe trotters, 1 William S. Brock and Edward F. Schlee, on the return lap of a record smashing transcontinental (light to San Diego presumably were speeding back to Jacksonville, Fla., early today. With favorable tail winds reported. it was believed here when the fliers left San Diego at 5:15 p. m. (pet) yesterday that their Imck(CONTINUED ON PAGE FOUR) CLARA BOW TO SETTLE SUIT “It” Girl In Dallas To Prevent Large Alienation Suit Dallas, Tex., June 18 — (U.R) - Clara Bow, "flaming youth" girl of the movies, was in Dallas today for the express purpose of averting an alienation of affections suit. Before the red-headed actress leaves, she plans to see $30,000 safely in the hands of the wife of her latest "boy friend.” It was that unnamed lady, incidentally, to whom Clara said she sent $30,000 more than a year ago to forestall an alienation suit for five times that amount. “I was nice to her husband,” I the actress said. "Then she came along and threatened to sue ino and bring my name as co-respond-ent in a divorce suit she was planning. She said she would take $30,000 cash instead, so I decided to pay off and settle the whole affair. "But now I find that she never got that money. I'm going to see that she gets it, too, because if she doesn't she might lifing up that SN>O,OOO suit again and I (CONTINUED ON PAGE FOUR) Hoys Confess Tc* Arson Kokomo, Ind., June 18. — (U.R) — Four boys arrested at Oreentown for petty thefts have confessed they were responsible for the $30,000 fire which destroyed the Greentown elevator on June 2. Ages of the youths are from 12 to 14 years. The boys were arrested after a series of small thefts. One of them admitted he recently robbed a Freentown garage of S2O. The boys admitted they stole some cigarets and went into a room of the elevator to smoke one of them dropped a lighted cigaret among some corncobs, they said, and later became frightened and ran away, loaving tlio elevator to burn.

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ASK AUTHORITY FOR REMOVAL OF WATCHMAN Erie Railroad Asks That Flashers Only Be Permitted COUNCIL HOLDS REGULAR MEET The Erie railroad company filed | another petition with the city Council last night requesting (lint the watchmen at tiie Winchester street and Mercer avenue crossings he dispensed with. The railroad company contended that it was complying with tiie city ordinance by maintaining flasher signals at tließe two points and expressed the opinion - that they believed the crossings would be better guarded by the signals than with a combination of a watchman and the signals. The matter was referred to the board of public safety. Watchman is Removed Councilman Joe Hunter stated that residents In the south end of town informed him that tiie Nickel Plate railroad had removed its watchman at the Winchester street crossing. The city did not authorize the removal of. the watchman and the matter was referred to the committee on public safety. The Nickel Plate road installed flasher lights at this crossing sometime ago. George Winters has been the crossing watchman for several yeai s. The preliminary assessment roll on the North Seventh street ornamental light improvement was filed by Engineer Orval Harruff. It was adopted and July 15 was set as the date on which remonstrances would be received and heard. Improvement Postponed No bids were filed for the improvement of Marshall street, west (CONTINUED ON PAGE FIVE) o To Present Program The Journal Gazette Concert Car and its entertainer will present a program of radio and music at the Chevrolet Sales Room, Thursday evening at 8 o’clock. All local people contemplating entering the contest for amateur entertainers, which will be held in connection with the regular program, are requested to register at the garage today or tomorrow. o Counterfeits Are Afloat Indianapolis, June IS — (UP) — Warning that $L hills have been raised to $lO and S2O denomination and are being passed generally over Indiana, lias been made by Charles Mazy. Indiana district U. S. secret service. Small merchants and rooming house proprietors have Lome the brunt of the counterfeiters' opera- 1 tions, Mazey said. DALE'S DEMAND STRIKES SNAG Muncie Mayor’s Request Turned Down By Board Members Muncie, Ind., June 18 —(U.R) i Mayor George R. Dale’s request , for tiie resignation of two members of the Muncif* board of works has met opposition, from the two i men themselves, it appeared today, i Dale, now stopping in Martinsville before going to Bedford for the Democratic Editorial Association meeting this week, had announced that Arthur K. Meeker, Democratic president of the hoard of public works, and Earl Randolph Republican member, would resign by agreement among the three. We have not been asked, officially, to resign,” Meeker said. "We made no such compact. When I last talked witli the mayor last Thursday night, everything was fine. We had no quarrel or disagreement and the subject of our resignation wasn't even discussed.” : Dale is said to have declared i that Meeker and Randolph eould l not agree with him on matters of i policy and that for the best interests of tiie administration, tiie 1 three had "mutually agreed" that i tho resignation of the hoard mem- I bers would be in order.

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Awarded Farm Honor Medal : i , - i Professor Stephen M. Babcock, head of the agricultural chemistry department of the University of Wisconsin, who was given ike Capper award of $5,000 and a gold medal for the most distinguished service to agriculture in a generation. Professor Babcock invented the Babcock test for butter fat ill milk. JAIL DELIVERY PROVES HOAX Rising Sun Sheriff Charged With Intoxication In Case Indianapolis, June 18.—-(U.R)— Sensational charges against Sheriff Leon Neal of Rising Sun, from whose jail two prisoners were said to have been delivered hit four friends Sunday night, were made today by Henry Shelton, 19, alias Jack Terrell, one of tiie fugitives after police head captured him In an Indianapolis rooming house. > Shelton told police that three of hi i friends went on a drinking party with the sheriff, and that the sheriff's story of lieing held up with a gun and subsequently locked In (CONTINUED ON PAGE THREE) CROP OUTLOOK IS FAVORABLE Weekly Report Gives Encouragement to Hoosier Farmers Indianapolis, June 18 —(UP) — The week was mostly cool with no precipitation until Sunday, when light heavy rains fell over practically the entire state. Wheat is beginning to turn over the entire state and cutting lias begun In tiie south, where ripening was hastened by the dry weather, heads ure reported as being generally filled. Weather conditions were favorable for the cultivation of corn, which is practically all up and of good color, except in the Soirli, where dry. hard soil has prevented the planting of some fields, while a few fields on uplands ure beginning to yellow. The oat crop is mostly fair to good except in the more southern counties, but the straw is generally short. Dry weather has been usually fav orable for the harvest of rye, Clover and Alfalfa Pastures, Hay Crops, Gardens and potatoes in the south had begun to deteriorate rapidly under the droughty conditions, and Sunday's rains will lie of great benefit, althrough additional ruins are needed to-restore conditions to normal in those localities. Small fruits, except cherries, are reported as being fair to good. Bryant Bank Closes Bryant, Ind., June 17 —(Special) — The Farmers and Merchants bunk did not open for business this morning, the’ directors at a meeting last tion. It had a capital of $2#,000, night deciding to close the instltusurpluss of $11,970 and deposits of $180„680, H. M. Huckriode is president J. F. Arnold Fort Wayne, vicepresident; John Boniface, cashier ami Emma Bonhman, assistant cashier. Thomas I). Barr, deputy bank examiner, came here from Decatur and took charge of the bank today. It is believed that the bank will liquidate.

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i MORROW GETS PLEDGE FROM REPUBLICANS President Sends Letter Pledging Aid to Senatorial Nominee — TWO POINTS ARE IMPORTANT Washington, June 18.—'U.R) —The support of the Hoover administration was pledged today in a formal White House statement to Dwight W. Morrow, Republican senatorial nominee in New Jersey, in his campaign for election this fall. President Hoover thus singled ■ out tiie New Jersey nomine o , men- ’ tinned in some quarters as a possi Rile contender for the Republican presidential nomination in 1932. in the first formal statement of support issued thus far in the senatorial nominating campaigns. By Raymond Clapper UP S ass Correspondent Washington, June 18. — (U.PJ — A new political figure rose up on the national horizon today when Dwight W. Morrow won the New Jersey Republican senatorial primary by an overwhelming plurality exceeding 200.000 oil the chief issue of repealing the prohibition amendment. Political Washington saw two points of national political importance in Morrow's sweeping victory. First Morrow, by his personal ’ prestige and ability, conceded on every side, becomes the national leader of th * movement for repeal , of the 18th amendment and return to the states of control of the liquor traffic. t Second? the possibility that Morrow, with many points of availability in his favor, may become a Republican presidential possibility should the question of replacing President Hoover for a second term arise. Until now the anti-prohibition movement has been largely in the hands of extremists, gome of them with little political acumen and none possessing any strong popular backing such as Morrow lias commanded in New Jersey. Morrow was opposed by one wet (CONTINUED ON PAGE THREE) Man Critically Injured Indianapolis, June 18 —(UP) — Critical injuries were suffered by Arthur Supper of Covington, Ky., tu a three-way unto crash in Indianapolis today. His skull was fractured, and he was taken to City Hospital. o “ Fireman Ends Own Life Indianapolis, June 18 —(UP)— Self-administered poison ended the life of Clyde Parsley, 36, city fireman, lanight. CRIME WAR IN CHICAGO OPENS Headquarters To Fight Gangs Established in Loop District Chicago, June IS. (U.R) —immediate co-ordination of all agencies engaged fn Chicago's unprecedented uprising aguinst an entrenched and pow rful underworld, was started today with a move that had the aspect of military preparation for a long drawn-out war. A general headquarters in one of the loop skyscrapers where the “crime-crushing” campaign touched off by tiie murder of Alfred J. IJtigle, Chicago Tribune reporter, can be directed with maximum effect was sought by State's Attorney John Swanson. Special detachments of police detectives, state's attorney’s investigators, representatives of the association of commerce "secret six" committee, tiie Chicago Church Federations crime committee and other public, semi-public 'and civic organizations participating in tiie drive will be massed at the headquarters, Swanson announced. Referring directly to tiie slaying (CONTINUED ON PAGE FOUR)