Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 28, Number 145, Decatur, Adams County, 19 June 1930 — Page 1

WEATHER Partly cloudy, probL shower* southr, y t portion tonight Ft south portion f r d |d.y: «"ohtly F' r extreme F’th portion tonight.

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tHMELING IS ■made world I CHAMP TODAY Commission De-! td in Favor of Gertan by 2 to 1 \ ote Biol.|) REFEREE’S | 1)E ( ISION IN BOUT K v York .lune 19 -(UP)—Max onlay was recognized le. K.-w Yelk state Athletic com K n as world heavyweight box tampion The vote was 2 to 1. ■ jllhnl a Muldoon, one of the L Sbee-rs objected Io recognizK..,,,,..! but he was overruled Kmmissioners Janies A. Farley ■ John I Phelan. ■ r l<y. chairman of the comma ■ said t’-at while he felt lie must ■ f‘.r Sihmeling neither he nor Lbli. had accepted the German Ke champion solely upon the ■ of the outcome of the bout ■ Sharkey. ■ — o ■e lU'ld Too Many • I Surprises For Her tnmond, Indg June 19.—(U.R) Ks no surprise to Mrs. Bonnie ■rise when her husband Oliver Kd come home of an evening ■ tell her that they were going ■ove. It happened every month. Erding to a divorce petition Ill■n Hammond Superior court to ■he bill avers that if the SurKs didn’t move they wete Eown out" by various landlords ■failure to pay rent. ■ o •— I Agustine Bank I Was Closed Today » ■he Rankers Trust Company of ■ Augustine capatalized at SIOO.- ■ and deposits of $284,590.30 fa 1■to open today, Ernest Amos, ■te controller announced. It Is the ninth Florida bank in 10 |’s to take such action. JOCKS SHOW taSETOWY Inening Prices Higher ■Today Although Sales Ran to High Total ■New York, June 19. —IU.R) —The lock market presented a firmer fcdrney today following a fair re•very in the last few minutes of lading yesterday. ■Several large blocks came out ■t forced liquidation of poorly frrzfned accounts was tn uc h ■hter. ■The feature of the opening was ■ ’ale of 5,000 International nickel 1 24 up 2 1-8. ■General Electric opened s,omt lares at (19 1-8 up 1 1-8; American le'ephone 3.000 at 206 up 2; Radio jwporation 3,000 at 35 up 1-2; freuger & Toll 5,000 at 27 1-4 up |k and Westinghouse Electric I""" at 137 up 4 1-4. |A few minutes after the opening Bekers carried the announcement F suspension for insolvency of foody & Co. [The announcement had no ini fediate effect on the market which fii’lnued to show the result ol filter heavy short covering. [Standard oil of New Jersey met pmendoua demand, opening 10,00< ptes at 65 up 3 5-8, a gain ol learly $100,000,000 in market vain fiun on the more than 25,000,001 lluues outstanding. I Other wide gains were made by Jmeriean can at 119 3-4 up 4 1-2 huadium 72 7-8 up 2 7-8; stan F'd gas 90 up 2; Consolidated gat |°7 7-8 up 2 3-4; Fox film 41 1-8 ill I 7-8; International telephone 41 s «P 2 1-2; Electric Power am HKht 65 up 4 on 5,000 shares; Goh P'ist 37 up 1 7-8; Houston oil 71 p up 2 1-2; J. I. Case 180 up 6 pion Curbide 65 1-4 up 2 1-4 am pi'urn auto 103 up 1 3-4. I Copper shares rebounded ot r , ' V B of an advance in the prict 12 cents a pound. -United States Steel opened dowr '* at 158*4, one of the few issues 10 show a loss at the opening factional losses also were notei [' Woolworth, Baldwin, Alleghany [ofPoration, and Texas Gulf Sul pur.

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Win Health Title i -2 r ”• ’ *> j. ~ _ 3 ' O I1 V *** * >4 W, • ai i 1 ~ Ju fl A i* ■, •* i T>. <0 o pr.. s fit (> .' ’k“i U\ i « ifITA w- ; Gertrude Scholtens Bier, left, and Harry Guenther, declared healthiest of Cook County's 250,000 grade school pupils. They were found in perfect health. Gertrude is 13 years old and is in the seventh grade of the Stockney school. Harry is 12 and attends school at Niles Center, Illinois.

WORK ON BRIDGE MAY BE DELAYED Building of Gallmeyer Bridge May be Postponed Until Next Spring It is not likely that the county will construct the new Gallmeyer bridge across the St. Mary's river in Preble township, replacing the old Scheimann bridge, this year. # County attorney Henry B. Heller stated today that if the county de sired to do it this year it would be practically impossible to complete , all the legal details in time. Mr. Heller stated that if the county] council was called now, the appro j priation made by that body, the time required for giving legal no-1 5 tices would run up until next September and that the contract could not be signed before October. ’ At this late dale it would be itn-| ■possible to construct the bridge, this year ami Mr. Heller believes 1 that gooil judgment would be pos»polling the matter until next spring If work was started on the bridge next fall, it could not be finished bes fore winter and the span across the; 1 river would be closed until next spring. Working a hardship on tesi-| 0 dents who used the bridge. a It is estimated that the cost 01, o construction will be around s..ojh 11 ; The span across the river is 200 p feet. Although dang (r dgns at e c erected at 'he bridge, it is still be ing used and with ordinal} watchR ing will be safe for light traffice unt til a new structure is erected . Robinson's Circus Will ’■ Not Show in Decatur h ls John Robinson's circus will no' show in Decatur on Saturday, July 0 5 Word was received here this morn ing by 11. M. Gillig. cancelling the 1. engagement for Decatur. Hie Smit . 0 lot in the south part of town, east of Memorial park had been leased as the site for holding the inius. y —o t New Bus Line Places s New Cars In I se p 3 F i V e new buss s are now In use 41 by the Modern Traveler. Inc., a Col3 Thev are Studabaker cars and the il last word in luxuriousness and eomd f 1)r > The company is anxious t have the mad between this city and n willshire, Ohio paved so they wnl f Xies lines to various part, oi Ohio.

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Rockford Bank Loss Is Fixed at $3,852 ; — A < heck-up of the loss suffered by .the Rockford National bank of | Rockford Ohio which was held up ibv two armed bandits Wednesday after noo nrevealed a total of $3,852. Tlie bandits-calmly held up two emI ploy s and a customer in the bank an 1 swept up tee currency from the counters, walked out of the building and drove away. No trace has been found of the nandits although the Van Wert oui ty sheriff has spread a broad network which reaches into Indiana in an effort to find them. The robLeis headed south, according to an eyewitness, but when a hasty chase revea.ed nothing, it was believed the> had backtracked and probably headed for Fort Wayne or Muncie. BERNE WOMAN IS CALLED BY DEATH Mrs. Elizabeth Augsburger. Age 86, Died Early This Morning Mrs. Elizabeth Augsburger, 86, widow of the late Christian P. Augsburger and one of the oldest I women in Adams county died at the 1 home of her son, Samuel Augsburger, \ x /z miles southwest of Linn ■ Grove, in Hartford township, at six o’clock this morning. Death | was due to the infirmities of old I age and complications. The deci used had been in ill health for some time and for the past ten days hail been bedfast. Pho deceased was born in French township. Adams county. December 10, 1843. the daughter of John and Catherine Amstutz-Baumgart-ner. both deceased. On January 21. 1859 she was united in marriage to Christian P. Augsburger, who preceded her in death seventeen years ago. Surviving are the following children: Mrs. Edwin Meshberger of French township. Mrs. Adam Biberstein of Hartford township, Samuel Augs'ourger of near Linn. Grove. Adam Augsburger of Berne, Jess Augsburger of Hartford towmfjiip, Eli Augsburger, Chris Augsburger, and Edwin Augsburger of Hartford township, and Joel Augsburger of French township. Two children died in infancy. One sister, Miss Mary Baumgartner of Anderson 1 also survives. Several brothers and sisters preceded the deceased in death. • Funeral services will be held Saturday afternoon at one o’clock (c ' st) at the home of her son, Samuel Augsburger in Hartford township, and at 1:30 o’clock test.) at the Defenseless Mennonite church, west of Berne. Burial will be made in the church cemetery.

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Decatur, Indiana, Thursday, June 19, 1930.

ENGINEHOUSE WILL BE BUILT Council Decides To Go Ahead With Construction of New Building Work will continue on the construction of the new city fire engine house on South Seventh street, regardless of the present situation in Decatur, members of the city i council stated today. Instructions have been given the | contractors, Yost Bros., by the public improvement committee and the finance committee to proceed with the work. The work of laying mrtek is now in progress and this job will be completed in a few’ weeks. A light tan colored brick, with a shade a little darker for contrast is being used. The concrete floor has already' been laid and with the conncril’s determination to go ahead with the wmrk the building will be completed by fall. The council has made the proper financial arrangements for the paving of the building and the members believe that it would be harmful to the city if work was stopped. Several men are employed on the job. The council has not yet determined about the remodeling of the city hall building on Monroe street, definite plans not having yet been drafted for the remodeling of the building. 0 , ~ Wiswell Funeral to Be Held Friday Berne, June 19 —(Special)—Funeral services for James Wiswell, who died at a Flint. Michigan Hospital, Wednesday morning, will be held Friday afternoon at 2 o'clock (Central Standard Time) at the Geneva M. E. Church. Burial will l»e ! made in the Riverside Cemetery at Geneva. _o — iSt. John’s Picnic to Be Held at Bingen The annual school picnic of the St. John's Lutheran congregation. (Bingen) will be held Sunday alter noon in a grove on the Decatur road 7 miles northwest of this city. A varied program will be presented by the pupils of the school and in addition to the program, the male choir will render several musical selections. The program will begin at 1:30 o’clock, standard time. o [Condition of State Commander Improved Noblesville. Ind., June 19—<U.R) —Condition of the newly elected | State G. A. R. commander, Dr. Isaac Austin, Noblesville, was reported improved today. Physicians said the 86-year old Civil war veteran suffered a relapee yesterday, but hail recovered nicely today. Circulated rumors of death being near were branded as false by the attending physician. Dr. Austin became ill with ini fluenza shortly after the close of I the G. A. R. encampment at Wabash last week. The illness developed into pneumonia, but he recovered sufficiently to lie driven in an ambulance from Kokomo, I the home of a sister, to his home city, Noblesville, ANOTHERKING IS GOING HOME Exiled King Ferdinand of Bulgaria Plans to Return to Country Bucharest, June 19—(UP) —Bucharest newspapers report that the Roumanian government has inform- , ed former King Ferdinand of Bulgaria was returning to his country from exile. The wartime King has left Col- • ogne, Germany, travelling incognito, the newspapers said. His return was [ sanctioned by the Bulgarian government, ami he planned to pass [ through Roumania, arriving at Solia within the next few days. Ferdinand has been living in exile since October 3, 1918, when he abdicated his throne at the insis ' tence of the Bulgarian army and 1 fled the country, leaving his eldest ■ son, Boris, to rule as King Boris 111. 1 The army revolt was promoted by • rumors circulated in 1917 that Ferdt inand had “rented'' his army to the German Kaiser for three years.

Tire Held ’em Up; Not Bold Bandit ▼ - ♦ A false rumor was circula'ed a bout the county today that an A. B. C. bus had been held up on th Decutui Berm* road last night. The rumor came from a passing motorist who saw a number of passengers standing outside of the bus which had stopped, and later reported a hold-up. The motorist failed to nolice that the bus had merely stopped to repair a tire. \ new tire was placed on the bus and it pro ceeded on its way. BANK AFFAIRS REMAIN SAME No New Developments or Statements Made; Clarence Ayres Assisting No new' developments took place today in Decaturs banking sitm* tion and aside from the fact that both the Old Adams county bank and the People laian and Trust col.l- - remained closed, business was going on as usual. The officers and directors of the Peoples Loan and Trust are working on a refinancing plan, bin had no statement for publication. The bank is solvent and Deputy state bank examiner Thomas D. Barr, stated Tuesday that the could tn*

opened if the directors desired. Yesterday at a meeting of the di rectors of the Old Adams county bank, the only action taken was th ■ appointing of temporary liquidating agents. John W. Tyndall, president of the bank and Jesse G. Niblick, one of the directors were named temporary agents, pending a meet-! ing of the stockholders which will | be held at the bank next Monday | afternoon. A definite step will mor *, than likely be taken at this meeting. Committees of local citizens interested in the welfare of the commurity. representing both banking institutions have discussed plans informal, which might relieve the financial deprs sslon here. Among the suggestions made was consolidation the opening of the People Loan and Trust company and the liquidating of the Old Adams county bank. Os great assistance and encourag ment to those connected with Decatur's banking institutions has b en the help rendered by Clarence L. Ayres, piesldent of the American Life Insurance company of Detroit. Mr. Ayres is a former Adams coun'y (CONTINUED UN P'GE ElGH'l MALADY CLAIMS THREE LIVES! Three Children in O n e Family Die From Malady; Two Others 111 Chicago, June 19. U.R) — Physicians were baffled today by a . strange malady which has taken * the lives of three children in one family and left two other children critically ill. Dr. R. H. Jaffe, head pathologist i of Coun’y hospital, said the ailment . was one of the strangest he has • ever encountered and that its nature is different from that of any other known diseas ■. He performed autopsies on the bodies of two of the fatally stricken children. The dead are Evelyn, 6; Paul, i 10, and Raymond, 2, children of Mr. and Mrs. Benjamin Kittrick, i County hospital physicians said there was little hope for the recovery of Donald, 3, and that the life ’ of Kenneth, 8, was in danger. Dr. Jaffe said the disease apparently was caused by a bacterial organism which s p read poison through the stomach and intestines ' of til" victims. He said he was certain it was due to a cause other than food poisoning, but that he was unable to Isolate the germ. The children all became ill a week ago. The father submitted to blood transfusions for them Tuesday, but three of them died that night. Mrs. George Raymond, 4 grandmother of the children, also t suffered from the malady, but was reported recovering today. —o o They’re Sitin’ Charles Magley and Wayne Ber--1 ger relaxed yesterday and "tuk" t their poles over to Jay Cline's gra- . vel pit to tease the finy tribe. They z returned with the smiles of success, ■ having caught thirty sunnies, an ? Inch and a half long besides a lot ot little ones. Order now.

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Bounty given RECOGNITION Gold Crown Awarded Adams County at Convention at Huntington i Huhtington. Ind., June 19 —(UP) ■ —Muncie will be the 1931 conveti- \ tion city for the Indiana Council of Religious Education, members de ! cided. Adams County received the Gold : Crown awarded to counties which , i had paid their regular apportion- I, j inents assessed them, it tin* con , 11 vention last year, it was announce ! [Wednesday at the state convention I of the Indiana Council of Religions •j Education at Huntington Nineteen I other counties of the state were awarded similar recognition.. Adams County ranked among tin* highest in the standing of apportionments. i It was also announced yesterday . that Charles R. Lizenby of indianat polls, wlio lias been connected with t the young people's division of the . State Sunday School Association for , several years, resigned on account of ill health in his family, and that , R. W. Rowe of Huntington conaen'.- ; ed to accept the position. , A large delegation of Decatur < people have attended the convention t which convened June 17 the filial I sessions of the meetings being held > today.

—o School Superintendent Has Unique Ink Stand County Superintendent of Schools Clifton Striker is mighty proud of I a new pen holder and stand which I [now graces his desk. It was carved by Berchtohl Ruf. well known i Bern man at Mr. Striker's request who saw the statue of the Lion of i Lucerne while traveling through [Switzerland several years ago. Th"! lioti is representative of the Swiss guards when the hastile was stormed in 1792 and when they fought I to deatli to protect tin* people. Tile lion with an arrow through his back is nevertheless guarding the spears witli which to defend. Tile carving is an excellent one and "Cliff" lias a right to feel proud of it. Mr. Ruf's father was a carver in Switzerland where Berchtold received his training. — o K. of I*. Meeting To Be Held Tonight The regular meeting of the Knights of Pythias will lie held at the K. of P. home at eight o’clock tonight. Tlie members who ar.* planning to attend the round-up at Geneva Friday night should attend | the meeting tonight so transporta- ■ tion arrangements can lie made. o .Junior Band Gave Concert Last Night Tlie Junior Band of Decatur gave the second concert of the season, last evening, on the large stand located on the Central School ground The members of the band appeared in their new band suits which are white with purple capes and caps. I’ was decided following last eveinnig’s program, that seats would be furnished for the large crowds which gather at. the concerts. SEARCHING FOR TORCH VICTIM • Believed That Supposed Victim Lives; Wife Admits Having Letter ' Mobile, Ala., June 19.—(U.R) —A 1 search for Harold Herbert Si hroed er, Mobile business man and heretofore supposed victim of an automobie torch murder at Ind'anapolis, Ind., on May 30, centered at 1 Nashville, Tenn., today after ad--1 misHion of his wife, Mrs. Leah 1 Schroeder, that he had mailed her 1 letters from Nashville recently. • Mrs. Schroeder's admission was > made to Sheriff George L. Winkler i of Indianapolis here last night after hours of questioning and threw an entirely new light on a mystery that had baffled authorl- • ties of two states. A charred, leg- ' less and armless body found in Schroeder's automobile at Indian • apolis originally was identified as , that of the owner. i Sheriff Winkler came here to ' investigate a persistent rumor that Schroeder was alive.

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New Chicago h Police Chief I ‘ ’A Bmrak Al First Deputy Commissioner John H. Alcoek. who assumed control as acting commissioner of police of Chicago after Commissioner , William H. Russell handed in his resignation as a result of the cry [ for a departmental sliaketip, horn of the downtown assassination of Alfred Lingle, Tribune reporter. CHICAGO CHIEF TAKES A HAND Police Chief Warns Criminals That Electric ( hair Is Ready for Them Chicago. June 19. U.FJ' \ gray hailed police veteran, “iron man"! John 11. Alcock. warned Chicagoi gangsters and police alike today, that “criminals will he sent to tie penitentiary or the electric chair, and there'll he no excuses from department shirkers." Commissioned by Mayor William Hale "Big Bill" Thompson to "gi t j quick results, not reports.” Alcock j assumi (I in earnest today Hie reins of the police department, which has been under fire for 10 days on all fronts because it lias not yet turned up the murderer of Alfred J. Lingle, Chicago Tribune reporter. The new chief began work in the full glare of publicity before a background of tangled clews and innuendo that surround I ,'ngle s activities in reporting underworld news. Before he puls any of his plans into action. Alcock faced questioning today at the hands of a city council investigating committee. He lias agreed to be the first wit ness in th ■ hearing voted by alder-1 man in answer to the indignation' aroused by th.- murder in all quart 1 ers of the city. The mayor's orders to the acting commissioner were brief and point-1 ed: "Your first job is to capture every gangster in Chicago. Your second is to get tin* evidence which will send every one of them either to the penitentiary or to the ele<' j trie chair. Yon have a free hand.l You will not be interfered with." Alcock was characteristically; brief with his answer that "there'll! be police work done, ami no * x [ cuses from shirkers.” Disposed of legally but still one] of tin' many sidelight, developments I of the Lingle investigation was the case of Anthony ( 'Red”) Kissair', west side gangster who was convicted yesterday on gun carrying charges. The detectives who arrested him testified that he proi test d with the words, "You can't arrest me, I'm working for Jake (CONTINUED ON PAGE EIGHT) Tidal Wave Kills 27 In England — i London, June 19—(UP) Twenty seven persons are dead in the Brit ■ Ish empire as a result of storms and i a tidal wave. Seven were killed by a spectaeu i lar rain and electrical storm in Southern England. The other 20 > were sailors, who were drowned by t a tidal wave which followed an earthquake in New Guinea.

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EXPLORERAND PARTY GIVEN BIG RECEPTION South Pole Explorer Arrives in New York Amidst Acclaim ESCORTED FROM HARBOR in 77 SHIPS New Yolk, .lune 19 JU.R> Hettr Admirtil Bicaril F.vdvn Ilvnl and his paitv ol Antarctic explorers who l<>r two years have been lollowiiit* the sea and ice lanes tar troni civilization, returned today to their homeland. A procession of 77 ships escorted them up New York harbor. Thousands of people crow’ded the Battery, Broadway and City Hall Park to acclaim them. In high spirits the double handful of men whom history will record as the first to map the Antarctic ice map and to explore the frozen regions of the south by air, fairly blinked at the towers of Manhattan: the swarming traffic of the harbor; the crowded streets; the roar ng subways; and all the accoutrements of civilization so long denied them, except for the brief foretaste in Australia. Bornt Balclien, who piloted Byrd's plane in tile major explorations: Paul Sipple, the Boy Scout member of the expedition; and all the others were in full uniform as they climbed over the sides of their two ships, the Eleanor Bolling and the City of New York into (the midst of the mayor's committee headed by Grover A. Whalen. : The two-starred flag of a roar admiral was run up from the Macotn, the first time it had boon flown in America for Admiral Byrd, who was hut a commander when hi« left two years ago. “It's good to lie back.'' said Byrd ns he shook hands with Whalen ! and all the other-. “It's fine to ho I back.” Someone took him to the radio ' installed on the cutter and asked him to say something. "It's good to he hack.” ho said. MANIAC SENDS SECOND NOTE Savs He Did Not Kill Third \id ini; Claims to Have Received Papers New York. June 19 —(U.R) — The maniacal slayer, who unflinchingly killed two men as part of his announced plot to murder 16 persons to retrieve some mysterious “papers,” wrote today that he had spared his third victim "W R.V. -8.” it was the second note the slaver had sent to the New York Journal today. In the first ho boasted ] that he had killed his third victim despite vigilant watch by hundreds of detectives in the College i Point section and that the body ! would bo found on the “Boston [ Road." The first letter said the I dead man's name was “Harold ! Bridenbat h." and added. "Find the ' woman and you’ve got mo." I The second letter today did not I mention the previous boast of i death but said W.R.V. 8 had returned the "papers" and $37,000 j blackmail money. New York, Juno 19.—(U.R)~ The t murderous maniac, who already (CONTINUED ON PAGE TWO) Former Kaiser Helps To Save Two Lives Doorn. Holland. Juno 19- (U.RY--Former Kaiser Wilhelm of Germany and his wife help, d to rescue land give first aid at two separate i accidents near Doorn yesterday. 1 The former Royal pair were ( driving along the -hores of Lake Kagermeer when they saw a motor iHiat. explode as it was crossing the i lake. They joined a patty who I | wont in another motor boat to the scene and helped take the two z passengers, both of whom were badly burned, to a hospital. I Shortly afterward, as the emperor and his wife continued their drive, they noticed an overturned i automobile. They stopped and diei) covered Hu* occupants were servc ants at the former kaiser's own home. They were only slightly hurt.