Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 28, Number 152, Decatur, Adams County, 27 June 1930 — Page 1

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■quorers JOI ATLANTIC >ET WELCOME ■t>rn Cro s s Plane ■ ( |s in New York IW'hursday Night ■) PEOPLE j’B.ItEET AVIATORS > ■ BULLETIN «• I Washington. June 27. — (U.R) Charles E. Kingsfordand the crew of the o( J»rn Cross, will be receivPresident Hoover, Mon- ■ t was announced at the DK House today. Tlx Southern Cross will fly Roosevelt field, arI at Bolling field at 11 a. The aviators will be reeivid at the White House at ■p. m. Set York, June 27. — (U.R) qW Southern Cross rested a Jangar today from the forilof a Newfoundland-to-IwTork Hight that was as iadfcist and brilliant as the ir which she is named. prying four weary men, e nßnoplane shot out of the inset at Roosevelt field yesrdaf and coasted to the con-, jsioi of a flight that startat tort Marnock, Ireland, pansHarbor Grace. Newfound ad, ad ended here. TenJhousand persons who had rited or hours at Roosevelt field i the fliers. t unding was made at 7:30 p. F. Before landing Kingsjith brought the Southern to 500 feet and dipped uMr the wings that already i of the way earth. Todiß. Kingsford-Smith, ever sties* to be in the air, was makHs for a flight to California i give him the distinction bettg the first man ever to fly i the world using a single me knd the same motors. Kia®ford-Sniith revealed that e «Ke ill-luck that marked their ;ht. jfrom Ireland to NewfoundI Syed with them on the trip Nety York. Fog and headwinds wedgthem down almost from the they left Harbor Grace. * fheMhree men whom this Aus Iqßgathered from stray plains thM world for the great adven'e wre unanimous in declaring 7 fluid not care to repeat the! ihtlJohn Stannage, the South rican radio operator; Evert Van k,le Dutch co-pilot; and (’apt. trick J. Saul, the Irish navigatchiefly interested in food MfpThelfour men who arrived with , U®of less than SIOO in their passed the customs inINUED ON PAGE FOUR) ■NEY WILL ■|lbe released MB rancisco Bomb Dis--9 Ker Recounted in I Freedom Plea |SaB Francisco, June 27. —(U.R) rw lity tliat Tom Mooney aIKI *»rA K. Billings will be I j ,, m prison within a month was today by the United from sources close to Gov ■r C. Young. and Billings now are their 13th year after conon charges of engineering paredness Day bombing in incisco in July of 1916. ersons were killed in the n. Three died later. Forty landed. ate Supreme court now is is a board of review in the case. From an authoritowrce, the United Press definitely that Governor sxpects the court to recotnpardon, and is accordingly ing plans for issuance of srs which will free Billings iney. Supreme court decision is HBd within a few days, and it as mated today in official cirMBa' action by the governor MBling the recommendation

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Aged Woman Injured i in Fall From Porch Mrs. Phoebe Schumacher, aged mother of William and Frank Schumacher, fell from a chair on the porch of her home at 416 South I Fifth street, last evening about "•:3b o'clock, breaking her right wrist. Mrs. Schumacher was standing on a small chair, washing the windows, when she became overbalanced. falling to the porch. She was reported to be resting well today, but was suffering with the pain and shock of the injury. Mrs. Schumacher was planning to celebrate her 80th birthday anniversary, next Sunday. Mrs. Harry Brown, daughter of Mrs. Schumacher. of Chicago, Illinois, arrived this morning to be with her mother. POINDEXTER TO STAND TRIAL Farm Hand Unable to Provide Bond: Returns to Jail Everett Poindexter, 18-year-old farm hand who was arrested Wednesday by Sheriff Harl Hollingsworth at the Mattie Young farm where he was employed, was arraigned in the court of Justice A. C. Butcher late Thursday on charges of assault and assault and , battery. Poindexter entered pleas of not guilty and his trials were set for i July 7. Bond on each charge was fixed at S2OO. Poiiuiexter was unable to provide bond and was returned to the Adams county jail. The young man was arrested Wednesday afternoon after an alleged fight with Miss Young and her sister Mrs. Lucy Frye. The man is alleged to have assaulted Miss Young and to have struck Mrs. Frye following an argument I over the division of crops on the I farm. A surety of peace affidavit also was filed by Miss Young against Poindexter but the warrant was not served pending the outcome of the other two cases. Attorney Is Suicide Youngstown, 0., June 27. —(U.R) — Leroy A. Manchester, chief counsel for the Youngstown Sheet and Tube Company in the legal battle over Its merger with Bethlehem steel, shot himself to death in his office today just before he was due to appear in court. DRY PERSONNEL TO BE CHANGED Indiana To Have Two Enforcement Divisions, North-South Washington, June 27—(U.R)—The prohibition enforcement personnel was notified of a sweeping realignment today as the treasury and justice departments looked forward to the “zero hour” of July 1 when the Hoover administration opens a supreme drive to stop the flow of illegal liquor. The new division of responsibilities between the two departments was carried out in furtherance of President Hoover's campaign - pledge. It calls for the treasury I to relinquish enforcement to the II justice department, while retaining . supervision over industrial alcohol [ permits. In making public details of the realignment of the prohibition en- , forcement staff. Attorney General Mitchell issued a new and vigorous ’ appeal for further co-operation by ’ the state and local communities in law enforcement. Mitchell emphasized that the 18th amendment was equally binding on the states and the fed- , era! government. ' Instead of the existing 27 prohl- ' bition districts, Mitchell announced there would be only 12 districts 1 under the justice department. They will correspond roughly to the 10 judicial circuits. The 87 deputy administrators in the jud - cial districts will retain their post1 tions, functioning in close harmony with the United States dis- ' trict attorneys. Twelve of the treasury s prohibition administrators are to be ' taken over by Mitchel£an£theJX' "'(CONTINUED ON PAGE TWO)

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ADAMS COUNTY j YOUNG MAN IS MISHAP VICTIM Clifford Whittredge, 21, Killed Near Ft. Wayne When Auto Upsets CAR FAILS TO MAKE TURN Fort Wayne, June 27. — (Special) — Clifford Whitt--1 redge, 21, of Pleasant Mills, employe of the office of the Fort Wayne General Electric Works was killed almost instantly at 9:30 o’clock Thursday night, when the automobile which he was driving failed to make a curve on the i Carroll road, northwest of here, and turned over twice. Whittredge suffered a broken neck and death was almost instant, according to Coroner L. S. McKeeman who investigated. Two Fort Wayne young ladies who were in the car with Whittredge at the time of the fatal accident were only slightly injured. Miss Helen Davies received several cuts about the face and Miss Delores Polley received minor cuts , and was severely shocked. Miss Davies said Whittredge was driving about 40 miles an hour at the time of the accident and that apparently he failed to see a curve . in the road. , The car turned over twice and according to the young ladies when . it stopped rolling it fell directly on Whittredge. Whittredge was graduated from Pleasant Mills high school in 1929 and since that time he had been working in Fort , Wayne, residing with an aunt, I Mrs. M. A. Ensley, 130 East Pontiac street, Whittredge was born in Will- . shire, Ohio, January 20, 1909. He was a son of Byron and Ada Whitt- , redge. He spent most of his life at Pleasant Mills, where he ati tended school. Surviving besides the parents are (CONTINUED ON PAGE FOUR) ADAMS COUNTY PUPIL HONORED Albert Davison Gets Rector Scholarship at DePauw U. Greencastle, June 27 — Albert Davison of Pleasant Mills is includI ed in the list of 230 high school | i graduates that have been granted Rector Scholarships from DePauw University this year. Despite this large number, applications are being received daily and others will be granted between now and September that may equal and even pass the high mark of 260 set last > year. ! Dr. Henry B. Longden, vice-presi-dent of DePauw and director of the ’ Edward Rector Scholarship Foundation, is enthusiastic over the prospects More than ever, the Rector Scholar is the honor graduate of hu 1 high school class. This year there were 100 seniors graduated with Rector Scholarships ' out of a class of 304. It costs the 1 foundation between $120,000 and ' $150,000 every time a class is grad- ' uated at DePauw. The foundation is the largest in the world and rep- ' resents the gifts of one man, the [ late Edward Rector of Chicago. Not I only has Mr. Rector provided this great scholarship fund in perpetuity > but he has also built three great ■ dormitories to house students. Two I of these are for coeds and bear the i name of Rector Hall-and Lucy Row- ' land Hall, honoring Mr. and Mrs. i Rector, Longen Hall for boys was named after Dr. Longden, director I of the foundation. - Conceived in 1919, the foundation - has just passed its ten years of existence. Already the 2,000 mark has been passed In number of scholarships granted and there are now , nearly 700 Rector alunnl in the ’ " filch scholarship is valued at SBOO ■ it nays all tuition and fees for four years providing the student meets ' the scholastic requirements as a ’ rule, the honor graduates among the men are all Rector scholars. In ' addition to scholarships granted to high school seniors, special/ awards are made the members of the freshmen class who meet Rector Scholarship standards. Some sixteen special scholarships were granted this year.

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Decatur, Indiana, Friday, June 27, 1930.

I Aviator’s Farewell to Fiancee * Ww"' / jiar! wl jWi p 1/ It Capt. J. P. Saul, navigator, pictured with his fiancee, Miss Zena Marchant, just before Saul and his companions in the tri-motored monoplane "Southern Cross” hopped off from Ireland for New York, landing at Harbor Grace Airport alter flying through ini|>eiielrable fog.

WAR VETERAN I BILLBOOSTEDI Hoover Favors New Bill; Hines Also Favors Bill Washington, June 27. — (U.R) — While the senate was preparing to sponsor a new veterans pension bill, two developments today swung | the power of administration support to the Johnson compromise measure passed yesterday by the ■ house. First majority floor leader Watson brought word from the White House that President Hoover favors the house measure. l*iter director Frank T. Hines of the veterans bureau, testified in a secret session nt the senate finance committee that he preferred the house bill. These developments halted temporarily at least, the professed plan of the finance committee to report the Walsh-Connolly bill which i raises the disability allowances of the Johnson bill from sl2 and S4O, to S2O and S6O a month. The committee decided to hear also in executive session, the legislative agent of the American Legion, John Thomas Taylor. All hope of getting a bill before the senate today was abandoned, the committee planned to sit all day. It probably will report a measure for consideration tomorrow. Watson predicted he would be able to swing a majority of the (CONTINUED ON PAGE TWO) o BULLETIN Washington, June 27. — (U.R) —President Hoover today approved erection of the $500,000 U. S. Veterans Hospital for Indiana at the Indiana Univers- i ity Medical Center in the vicinity of the City Hospital in Indianapolis. The building is to be ready for occupany by the fall of 1931 or the spring of 1932. AIRSHIP SAFE AFTER CRUISE Navy Dirigible Has Wild Night Flight In Wind and Fog Lakehurst, N. J., June 27.—(U.R) —The navy dirigible Los Angeles reported by radio to the naval air station today that It was cruising safely 180 miles off the New Jersey coast and expected to return about noon to Its hangar. The dirigible returned to the air station at 7:30 p. m. last night after an allday cruise over New York state, carrying a crew of 34 men and 12 officers, under command of Lieut. Commander Vincent A. Clarke, but was prevented from landing by a sudden and terrific thunder storm. It turned away to ride out the storm. Some fears outside had been voiced for the dirigible’s safety when nothing had been heard from it all night. |

I x * TO CLOSE AT NOON | | The offices of the Clerk, Auditor, Recorder, and Treas- | urer in the Adams county | court house will close Monday I forenoon at 11:30 o’clock for | the quarterly report. All people i having business to take care I of in any of these offices are requested to attend to it by ■ Monday noon, as the officers i will be busy getting out the | report. JK » o Dore B. Erwin Is Speaker At Rotary Dore B. Erwin gave an interesting talk on “Rotary’s Twenty-fifth anniversary”, at the regular meeting of the Decatur Rotary club last evening. Mr. Erwin sketched the history of Rotary from its beginning up to the present time. Next week Janies Kocher will be installed as president of the club, succeeding C. O. Porter. Other officers will assume office next Thursday. 0 STATE ROADS ARE IMPROVED Highway Department is Lifting Detours At Rapid Kate State road construction work 1j progressing rapidly in Indiana, according to director John Brown and many detours have been lifted in the last tew days giving motorists many miles of new pavement. Along many state roads, where paving is impossible this year. Brown stated anti-dust treatment was being used. Bridge constructions are progressing and the state highway department is making every possible effort to have as many roads as possible open for the July Fourth holiday traffic.. Among detours still in effect are several on state road 27. which runs north and south through Decatur. There are no detours on Decatur’s east and west state road and tlie only construction work on that road at present is the addition of six miles of pavement east of Decatur to the Ohio state line. Following are the detours now in effect on state road 27. Ohio line. Liberty, Richmond, Winchester, Portland, Decatur, Fort Wayne, Angola, Michigan line—Detour at 3% miles north of Liberty account bridge construction is 4% miles. Detour from Winchester to Deerfield account surface repair will change as work progresses. Bridge run-around just north of Deerfield. Detour just south of Geneva for construction is 6% miles. Detour from Fort Wayne to De-Kalb-Alien county line for paving 15 miles; 12 miles of which is pavement. Detour just south of Waterloo account of retread is 4% miles. o Milk Is Approved P. B. Lehman, the dairyman, received word yesterday that a sample of milk from his herd, which was tested by the Indiana State Board of Health at Indianapolis, -was satisfactory, and up to speciI flcationfl in every way.

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COUNTY PLANS | DISTRIBUTION OF 50 PER CENT Decision Made Because Money is Held in Several Closed Banks BALANCE TO BE PAID SOON A fifty per cent, distribution oil Hie May taxes will be made to the townships, school boards, towns, | city and slate, on July 1. County auditor Albert Harlow stated this morning. It is impossible to distribute the entire amount because of the fait that much of the county funds are tied up in the four banks which are closed in the county. The total of the May taxes to be distributed is $439,863.21, of which the state has already received $20,000, being 40% of the amount due the state treasury. A draw was made last May by the state treasurer on all counties and in the distribution next Tuesday a voucher for the remaining 10% will lie made on' Several of the townships and incorporated units have already drawn part of Hie money coming to them and these amounts will lie deducted from the 50 per cent distribution next week. Tlie balance of the May taxes will lie distributed as soon as the county treasurer can cheek on the balances in the Decatur, Berne and Linn Grove banks which are closed. RADIO SERMONS ARE DISCUSSED — Lutheran Delegates to Try Broadcast Plan With Sermons Fort Wayne, June 27. — (Special) —Tlie laymen attending the convention of tlie central district of the Missouri synod held a special meeting Thursday morning to discuss the resolution on broadcasting Lutheran services over a national coast to coast radio chain. This proposal is sponsored by the Lutheran laymen's league of the International Missouri synod. The estimated cost of conducting such services over a period of one year is SIOO,OOO. T. G. Eggers, field secretary of the Lutheran laymen’s league addressed the meeting, explaining that the league was in the midst of an intensive membership campaign. Membership dues will be the primary source of income to cover this expense. Fifteen circuit visitors were named by the convention yesterday afternoon as follows: George Blievernicht, Toledo. Napoleon circuit; (). G. H bektreit. Defiance, West Ohio (CONTINUED ON PAGE FOUR) D.V.B.S. PLANS FINAL EVENTS School Is Regarded as One of Best Ever Held In Decatur he Daily Vacational Bible School is closing its third week of study. In many ways this is the most successful year of any. Tha attendance is breaking all former records for regularity. The entire enrollment for the school is 256. Tills is not the highest, but those in charge are highly gratified because of the regularity of attendance. They consider this most important. The ministers are delighted at the fine work being done in each department of the school. Many original features are being worked out by the various teachers, and are highly complimented. Rev. B. H. Franklin has conducted the Chapel services for the intermediate department this week and sponsored the play hour for the boys. Next week, Rev. H. H. Ferntbeil will be the acting dean. The public display to be given in the gymnasium of the high school on Tuesday night at 7:30 o’clock will be of special interest to the public and especially the parents. The closing session of the school will be next Thursday morning.

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! Assessment Payments Go Over SBO,OOO Mark Assessments were still being i paid in at the Old Adams County I bank and this afternoon had passed beyond the SBO,OOO mark. Il Is expected the luink will be retonel to the directors by Monday or Tuesday if tlie stockholders continue to meet their obligations. The committee on reorganization met last evening in tlie director's room and organized by electing J. W. Tyndall, chairman and Robert Melliers, secretary. They will meet as soon as the reports of the state department are available the first' of the week and expect to take defi-j ' nite action soon, taking such steps, j as will be best for every one con-' | cerned. THIEVES ARE ACTIVE AGAIN Chickens Stolen From Schwartz Farm Near Berne Last Night Berne, Jud.. June 27 —(Special)— Forty-five white leghorn chickens belonging to Amos M. Schwartz, who resides on the John J. Schwartz farm near Berne, were stolen last night. The chickens were kept in a coup on the opposite side of the road from the house and every chicken in the pen was taken by the thieves. Sheriff Harl Hollingsworth is working on several clues and expects to find the thieves in the next few days. It Is thought that a local group of men are responsible for a number of chicken thefts occurring in the county in the last few weeks. —o- .. - Stephen Porter, M. C. Dies At Pittsburgh Pittsburgh, Pa.. June 27 —(U.R) — i Congressman Stephen G. Porter, 62, died today in the Allegheny General hospital after an illness of several months. Porter represented the 32nd | Pennsylvania congressional district. He had been in a Pittsburgh hospital for three weeks after being brought here from Washington where he had been under treatment for a liver disease. Porter recently led a strenuous drive to push through congress a new narcotic bill, bearing his name. CHICAGO PLANE IN 15TH DAY Endurance Fliers to Continue “As Long As Is Possible” Chicago. June 27.—<U.R) —Determined to "last at least two days longer,” the Hunter brothers brought their endurance airplane. "City of Chicago,” well into Its 15th day of continuous flight today I in their attempt to establish a new i refueling record for sustained . flight. At 9;40 a.m. CDT, the droning plane passed its 377th hour of. monotonous circling over Sky Harbor airport. If all goes well the “City of Chicago” will equal at 5:01 a. tn. Sunday the present record of slightly more than 420 hours. “We'll make it — just two days! longer,” was the message dropped to the field by Pilots John and Kenneth Hunter, brothers, as dawn streaked across the field and the refueling plane. Big Ben. arose with a supply of gasoline. The pilots persistently refused to admit any discomfort after two weeks confinement in the tiny cabin of their Stinson-Detroiter plane. But the other members of the Hunter family who are assisting in the flight—Albert and Walter, who handle the refueling plane, and Irene, who cooks the meals —insisted the grind must be telling on them. The Hunter brothers’ flying experience began in 1923 when they saved up a fund to buy a family motorcycle. They changed their minds about the motorcycle and went from their home at Sparta--111., to St. Louis where they bought an airplane. — _ 0 CAR IS DAMAGGED The new Packard sedan belonging to W. A. Klepper was damaged when a Schafer Company truck hacked into the side of the car, this morning. The accident occurred on Madison street.

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TO LIQUIDATE PEOPLES LOAN AND TRUST CO. Directors Vote For Entirely New Institution Here STOCK WILL GO ON SALE At ;i meeting this morning of the botird of directors of the Peoples Lotm and 't rust comnany, together with a mimher of business men interested in and friendly to i the t'oening of a bank, it was I decided to form tin entirely I lieu ort'anizalion with a capital stock of S.'I(I.(MM) or more. MiK'h of the stock haw already been subscribed and the balance will he sold to local people, after which application for a charter will lie made and the name of the Institution will be selected. The affairs of the old Peoples Txian and Trust company will be liquidated immediately, W. A. Lower, having been appointed temporary liquidating agent. In the new bank all deposits will be insured In full. As explained by the representatives of the new organization, “under this protection it will be absolutely impossible for any depositor to suffer a cent of loss. The insurance of deposits are nrrar ", for by the now bank is a positive guarantee against loss under any circumstances or conditions and the fart that underwriters with unlimited resources have offered to insure our deposits should assure depositors that they will not-and cannot l suffer a loss. This should appeal both to depositors and investors." Tlie new bank will start off with all its capital stock paid and without assuming any obligations, :it was stated. The principle reason for the organization of a new bank, the organizers stated, "is to give the people of the community adequate banking facilities and to make possible the rapid liquidation of the Peoples Isian and Trust company and the relense of its funds to its depositors. This will he done without the loss of a dollar to the depositors in the old bank." (CONTINUED ON PAGE FOUR) -—— Q-- ..., I-, 131 Die in Canadian Ship-Blast Disaster Brockville, Ont.. June 27.—(U.R)— The bodies of 31 men and the wreckage of the drill boat, John B. King, blown to pieces when lightning set off its four-ton cargo of dynamite, apparently are being whirled down stream today through the swollen St. Lawrence river narrows. Forty-two men, most of them foreign laborers, were aboard the I work ship when its steel drills I picked up a holt of lightning late yesterday afternoon. MAKE CHANCE IN PROGRAMS Correct Schedule of Union Church Meetings Announced A change was announced in the schedule of ministers for the Union Sunday night services to be held in Decatur during July and August. An error also ai%>eared in the publication of the schedule Thursday night and the July 27 speaker will lie Rev. H. H. P'erntheil instead of Rev. B. H. Franklin, as announced. Following is the complete and corrected list of Union services and speakers: July 6 - Presbyterian church with, ReV. R. E. Vance as speaker. July 13—At Reformed Church with. Rev. Hurry Ferntheil as speaker. July 20, At Evangelical church with Rev. A. R. Fledderjohann speaker. July 27 at United Brethren church Rev. Harry Ferntheil as speaker. Aug. 3—at Reformed church with Rev. B. H. Franklin, speaker. Aug. 10—Baptist church with Rev. R. B. Hurt, speaker. ■ Aug. 17- at Christian church with, I Rev. M W. Sundernian, speaker. : Aug. 24—nt Methodist church with Rev. O. E. Miller, speaker. • Aug. 31—at Evangelical church with Rev. B. H. Franklin, speaker.