Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 28, Number 153, Decatur, Adams County, 28 June 1930 — Page 1

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■SSIS WILL |EET IN CITY IIeXT MONDAY H Wayne Classis of Kfonned Church 11 Plans Meeting ■SIXESS OF Ell ( II IMPORTANCE nt he r important ■ s <. scheduled to come meeting of the Fort ( lassis of the Refomi- >’ to he held in Decathe Zion Reformed ■Ji Monday afternoon, centers about Victor Weidler will bn for the ministry by .f the Classis. The ox will he of interest ami of interest to Decatur :iiisc Student Weidler the local church. otlmr important feature , "i'ing much interest is of del gates to the Classis • ■ women will be entitled ordained ministers, aid elders in Reformed all Protestant churn’nation are discussing tloof ordination of women ’ large groups have al ■■ on the probl m. The the Fort Wayne Classis will be carried to the mooting of the church s 2'i churches are included Fort Wayne Classis some are located at Decatur. Vera Cruz, Magley. Fort ■K three; Millersburg. GoshMBl oi). Culver, Three Rivers. Fulton. Mich., and Moore h. There also are sev r.il in Michigan in this Classis. R. S. Beaver, pastor formed church of For; will act as presiding offic -inlay meeting. The tm close Monday night with services for Student o ■■York Prohibition El Officer Resigns Post |M>ington June 28 (VPi To.■Brv department has a> i .ttion of Maurice 1-1 Cat ■l-r;<n prohibition admim-' York City. n ~ SB Market Closes I I With A Firmer Tone ■ York, June 28 — HTI - volume on the stock er fell off to the pace of tied prices moving ii --citin' range. tendency was no'.-.l the close with U. S. steel the advance. Bators get ■more honors !■ or k Continues to |Bete Atlantic Ocean I Quartet » ’ork, June 28. (U.R) Folit a closely planned sell'dr York continued today to M honor-3 upon Captain Char pßngsford-Stnith. and his three of the transAtlant u Southern Cross. ■ ■ the time their powerful |B|er-beaten plane land'd at |®velt field Thursday from Hat pßGrace. Captain Kingsford (*■ and his crew have been at numerous functions which rßleft them little time to them was known of their future plB except that they will leave Monday where be received by President rBBr Following this reception rß*'ill undoubtedly pi epare their v for the fligi,t to San Erun ’ sometime later in Ute we k. ■gsford-Smith was the busier four. Shortly after 6 p. m. “Slked to his fiancee Miss Mary at her home in Melbourne, "■alia. Following this the capto Schenectady to board- ■" his native country. He was to return to New York

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Kills Two; Then Ends Her Own Life Terre Haute. |nd„ June 28-Hip. et r hnl ,lO ?l e8 ’ T h a Hing|p b1 "- •t hole through the forehead, were round in an apartment above a grocery Store heie this morning The body of Wesley N. Oakley 65, storekeeper, was found in his room in-his apartment above the , T . he . b ° dieS Os Clara Raney. -8, Oakleys housekeeper, and her six-year-old son, Carl, were found nt an adjoining room. A .32-ealibre automatic revolver was held in Mrs Raney s hand. ORDINATION TO BE MONDAY Victor I). Weidler to Become Reformed Minister Monday Night A service of much significance will be held at the Zion Reformed church Monday night, June 30, at 8 o’clock, in which student Victor D. Weidler will be solemnly ordained to the Gospel Ministry. A committee composed of the Rev. Dr. F. H. Rupnow, Rev. A. R. Fledderjohann and Elder J. H. Graber will have charge of the ordination ceremonies. Student Weidler is a son of the local church and the second son of Mr. and Mrs. Jacob Weidler to enter the ministry. He recently completed his theological training in the Seminary at Plymouth, Wisconsin. After his ordiudtion-Mr. Weidler will become pastor of the Reformed church at Humbird, Wis. Following is the ordination service program: Organ. Invocation. Hymn—"O Master Workman." Scripture Reading and Prayer. “Quit You Like Men" Young Men's Chorus Ordination sermon — Rev. Dr. F. H. Rupnow, of Fort Wayne. "I Want My Life to Tell for Jesus" Young Men's Chorus Ordination ceremony in charge of Dr. Rupnow, A. R. Fledderjohann, and Elder J. H. Graber Vocal Solo—"I Will Be With Thee" Mrs, Dallas Goldner Hymn—“He Leadeth Me” Benediction and Doxology. Silent Prayer. Organ. Plan Extension Picnic At a meeting of the publicity committee of the Berne Chamber of Commerce Friday. Roy Girod was appointed director of recreation for the Purdue extension service picnic to be held in Lehman’s park on Thursday July 17. Mr. Girod will appoint as many assistants as he will need and will also have charge of all games and contests. All people interested in Purdue Extension Service including the 4-1 J Boys and Girls Clubs. Home Economics Club, on Littere Entrants, 5Acre Corn Club. Gold Medal Colt Club. Sugar Beet Club and CowTesting Association members are invited to attend this picnic. It will be a basket lunch affair and immediately after dinner the contests and games will start. Chicago Gangster (Jets Parole at State Prison Michigan City, Ind.. June 28— (UP) —Thomas Toohey, alleged Chicago gangster, sentenced to the Indiana state prison upon conviction of a charge of robbing the L. S. Ayres company store, Indianapolis, was released from the prison today. Toohey was reported by the prison doctor to be in poor physical conditions, and the institution trustees. sitting as a parole board, released the prisoner after he had served more than the minimum of his two to 14 years sentence Parole also was granted William Adams for his heroism in the Oh o state penitentiary fire. After the fire he was paroled from (he Ohio institution, because of his conduct during the tragedy that took the lives of more than 300 prisoners. After his release from Columbus, he was returned to Michigan City prison where lie had violatec la Pas o 1( . granted to permit a visit with his wife who was ill at Columbus. Drinking May Be Fatal

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HOOVER SEEKS PRIVATE FUND Reluses to Abide by Senate Limitation Decision Friday Washington, June 28. — <L’.R) — President Hoover started work quietly today to raise a SIOO,OOO unofficial fund to substitute for the appropriations which congress denied to his law enforcement commission. The president is communicating, the United Press learned from an authoritative source, with a number of wealthy men and women who recently informed him tlwy would be glad to contribute for such a purpose. There is no hurry about raising th® money as the commission has nearly $120,000, including the $50,000 carried in the pending second deficiency appropriation bill and $70,000 left over from its $250,000 expense fund provided by congress for the fiscal year ending June 30. The president's vigorous statement refusing to abide by the senate's decision to limit the commission's fund met him with no response in congress, where final action already has been taken on the second deficiency bill including the commission's appropriation. Mr. Hoover stated chairman Wickersham informed him that the work of the commission would go forward without hindrance. When it will make its report is still problematical. It has employed a number of social workers and crime experts who are investigating conditions in various sections of the country; it is conducting a questionnaire of crime conditions and has more than 50 employees on its payroll. Twelve sub-com-mittees are at work, going into ait phases of the causes of crime and law enforcement problems. It made a preliminary report last winter recommending eight or ten bills to congress, of which only two have been passed. One transfers prohibition enforcement from the treasury to the (CONTINUED ON PAGE FIVE)

MINISTER IS GUN VICTIM Enraged Man Kills Preacher; Wounds Estranged Wife Niagara Falls, N. Y. June 28 — (UP)—Frank Ross. 37, who last night shot and killed the Rev. Edgar R. Wood. 37, and wounded his wife and another man, surrendered to police today. "I’d been planning to kill four people for two months," he said, explaining that lie considered his wife too friendly with the minister. Ross said he had been practicing marksmanship to be certain not to miss. He shot Wood first, killing him instantly. Then lie shot and seriously wounded Mis. Ross, his estranged wife. Leonard Towe wim tried to prevent Ross from leaving the church was wounded in both legs. Wood had just completed his evening sermon with the passage, "In the midst of life, we are in death,” when Ross, who was sitting unnoticed in the back of the church walked up the aisle and fired his first shot. Wood fell dead. Then Ross wheeled around and fired one shot at his wife. The bullet struck her just below the heart. Tile small congregation was panic, stricken. Most of the men cowered behind chairs. But Towe attempted to stop Ross as he started leaving the church. He was shot twice in the Ross and his wife, both in their late thirties, had been estranged for some time. They had quarreled violently on several occasions over church affiliations. Bank Head Sentenced Rochester, Ind., June 28—(U.R) Sentences aggregating two to 14 years. Inasmuch ae they run concurrently, were passed upon Vv llliam Gohl, 67, former cashier of the First State Bank at Kewanna, when lie pleaded guilty on five counts charging embezzlement. Gohl was charged with having appropriated to his own use $560 belonging to a sister-in-law, and having forged the name of a sister to a note for $1,500.

Decatur, Indiana, Saturday, June 28, 1930.

Cherry Queen Takes Pie to Hoover y\ v >jjl||ywW BJ Miss Signe Holmer of Manistee, Mich., who. as cherry queen of her state, won a trip to Washington, is shown here as she paused in Chicago for a brief stay before leaving for Washington. She will present a cherry pie to President Hoover upon her arrival in Washington.

TWO THEORIES ARE WORKED ON Lingle Death Causes Much Speculation on Real Reason Chicago, June 28. — (U.R) —Two sensational theories were advanced today to explain the gang murder of Alfred J. Lingle, Chicago Tribune reporter—an assassination whose ramifications have extended into public officialdom and into the underworld. One of the theories was that Lingle was sacrificed by the Mor-an-Aiello northside gang of gamblers and liquor racketeers in order that the ensuing indignation would result in the ouster of Police Commissioner William F. Russell and Chief of Detectives John Stege, who had been “pushing the gang around.” The other was that Lingle failed to “fix" dog racing for “Scar-face" Al Capone. Neither theory had the indorsement of the "clearing house" set up by combined law enforcement agencies to investigate the gang murder. . In the investigation of Lingle's financial dealings with both public officials and gangsters, it became known that he never has filed an income tax return. That angle was revealed by Mrs. Myrtle Blacklldge Tanner, collector of internal revenue. She did not indicate any (CONTINUED ON PAGE FIVE) o PRESIDENT TO APPEAL DIRECT Treaty Cause Will Be Taken to People If Congress Balks Washington, June 28 — (UP) — Tactics found by President Hoover to have been effective in dealing with the world war veterans' pension bill and adopted in answer to congress’ curtailment of the crime commission’s powers are to be employed again, if necessary, in behalf of the London naval treaty. Evidence of a dangerous delay in dealing with the treaty in the special session tentatively scheduled to begin July 7 will be the cue for Mr. Hoover to appeal to the people. Persons close to the administration are aware the President considers speedy ratification essential both with respect to foreign policy and domestic affairs. The President already has had three of the London conference delegates speak over the radio to crystallize popular opinion in behalf of the instrument. Secretary of state Stimson’s radio address is being distributed now by mail through out the United States. Senators Robinson. Deni., Ark., and Reed Repn., Pa„ have challenged the treaty fores, who have been represented on the air so far by Senators "TcONTLNUED ON PAGE FIVE)

SEEKS SIO,OOO FOR INJURIES Cedric Tumbleson Asks Damages Against Dennis Striker in Case Cedric Tumbleson. 15 year old son of Mr. and Mrs. Ernest Tumbleson of north of Decatur, who lost the sight of an eye, when a dynamite cap with which he was playing exploded in the yard of the Tumbleson home last November, has brought suit for SIO,OOO against Dennis Striker, contractor, whom the plaintiff through his next friend, his father, says left the dynamite caps in a box near a retaining wall which defendant was constructing in Root township. The plaintiff states that he found a bright, attractive box near the retaining wall while returning from school one day and that lie had no knowledge that the box contained explosives. He further state's that he took the box home and was playing with the dynamite caps. Plaintiff states that he placed one of the caps on the end of a pitch-fork and struck it against a fence in such a manner as to explode the cap. The pitch-fork struck plaintiff, he states, in such a manner that it was necessary for his eye to be removed. Plaintiff claims that defendant left the box of explosives near the highway, knowingly and carelessly and seeks SIO,OOO damages. The case will be heard in the Septeml»er term of court. Other Court News E. L. Carroll and Son have brought suit on note against Herman Meyer, of near Decatur to collect SBO. Sanford Richards has been ordered to appear in Adams circuit court June 30 and show cause if any why he should not be punished for contempt for refusal to abide by an order of court to pay his estranged wife $35 for attorney fees, in a divorce action. MOB SCATTERED BY TEAR BOMBS Texas Men Fail In Attempt to Lynch Negro In Jail Beaumont. Tex., June 26 —fU.R)--Tear bombs were used to disperse a mob of 400 or 500 men who surrounded the county jail here early today in an attempt to lynch a negro accused of attacking several white women. The mob came from Port Arthur, where the negro, Rainey Williams, was arrested yesterday. The negro was brought here last night by Officers who saved him from death by fighting their way through a crowd of men who surrounded the Port Arthur jail soon after his arrest. The crowd of angry men and boys arrived here by automobile to find Sheriff W. Vovington pre pared for them. Machine guns had been mounted at vantage points surrounding the jail, and deputies had been armed with automatic rifles. Sheriff Covington stood in the jail door and tried to pacify the mob. He was seized, and the mob announced the intention of holding him ae hostage until the negro was released to them. That was the signal for deputy sheriffs inside the jail to throw tear bombs at the men. The mob dispersed, leaving the sheriff behind. The negro was arrested in Port Arthur and was identified as the man who attacked a white woman. The negro confessed to attacking eight white women in the vicinity of Port Arthur within tlie last month. o Hoot Gibson Married Saugus, Cal., June 28—(UP)—After a wedding befitting one of the screen’s most versatile cowboy ac tors, Hoot Gibson and his bride Sally Eilers, were away on their honeymoon today. Gibson and Miss Eilers,, once a wampus baby star and leading screen actress, were married last night at Bakers ranch—famous foF) its rodeos.

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CONCENTRATE ENFORCEMENT OF DRY LAWS New Plan Will Center Around Territory Where Law Is Wanted TRANSFER TO BE ON JULY 1 Washington, June 28. — (U.R) Prohibition enforcement under Attorney General Mitchell after July 1 will be concentrated more than ever before in those areas where public opinion is sympathetic witli ithe dry law. it was strongly indicated today as the justice department prepared to assume command. In the wet states where little or no co-operation Is forthcoming from state authorities, the government's prohibition enforcement efforts will be little more severe than now, it was intimated. Where local authorities co-operate, however, I intensive campaigns will be conI ducted by the federal dry army. (Tear indications that this will he the government’s new' policy was offered by Mitchell's statement announcing plans for the transfer of prohibition from the treasury to the justice’ department, which said: Tn those states which have repealed enforcement statutes and whose authorities do not perform a proper share of the work, there have been, and will continue to be, grave deficiencies in enforcement. Where such conditions exist they are a matter of choice with the states.” Mitchell said the justice department will seek conferences with state authorities relative to the part the states are to play in prohibition enforcement. Further indications of this new policy were contained in recent sepechts of George W.Wichersliam, chairman of President Hoover’s law enforcement commission, on prohibition Commissioner •James M. Doran's recent plea for better state aid, and in unofficial statements by other high government authorities. Treasury officials have long sought Increased state help, but have had indifferent results from their campaign. In some states excellent results were achieved but in the wet states, notably NewYork, virtually no help was forthcbming. The new policy under Mitchell indicates that such states as New York will receive just that degree of enforcement that they want. o Gets Heavy Sentence For $6 Check Forgery Loganspott, Ind.. Jupe 28—(UP) —(UP) — A $6 check forgery to which Joe Roush, 23, pleaded guilty brought him a one Io seven year sentence in circuit court today. oPlans For New Bank In Decatur Proceed Although no new plans were announced today, directors of the old Peoples Loan and Trust Companv and others interested in organizing a new bank, succeeding the Peoples Loan and Trust company, were arranging details today. A meeting of the executive committee will lie held this evening and it is planned to hold a general meeting Monday night. The name of the new proposed bank has not yet been decided upon. W. A. Lower, secretary of the Peoples Loan and Trust company and temporary liquidating agent for the institution was in Indianapolis today. BULLETIN LaPorte, Ind., June 28—(U.R) — Edward L. Bunch, Nashville, Tenn, must continue as a convict in Indiana State prison despite the fact that former Governor Ed. Jackson granted him a parole 2 days before expiration of office January 14, 1929, Alfred Link, LaPorte Circuit court judge ruled today. Link ruled that he could not determine the question of what Jackson intended to do When he wrote parole for Edwin L. Bunch Instead of Edward L. Bunch, on January 12, in denying ttle wr *t of habeas corpus.

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Whittredge Funeral To Be Conducted Tuesday — Funeral services for Clifford Whlttredge, Pleasant Mills young man who was killed in an auto accident at Fort Wayne Thursday night will be held Tuesday after- | noon at 2 o'clock (central standard time) at the Methodist church at Pleasant Mills. Burial will be made at the Wright cemetery in Jennings township, Van Wert county, Ohio. oDECATUR MOOSE TO CONVENTION Brennan, Heare, Tester, And Rumschlag to (•eave Sunday for Mooseheart The forty-second annual convention of the Loyal Order of Moose will begin at Mooseheart, Illinois, June 29 and continue to July 4. Mooseheart is situated thirty-five miles west of Chicago, and is the child city of the order where about 2,000 orphans or dependent children of deceased members of the fraternity are given a home, a high school education and instruction in a trade. The convention will officially open Monday morning when Director General Davis will present his report, followed by ceremonies and reports of other supreme officers. During the afternoon, the Women of Mooseheart legion will meet in the women’s building, and at 3 o’clock, the fellowship degree of the men’s legion will be conferred in the Roosevelt auditorium, followed by a banquet to be held In Aurora. Business meetings for both men and women will continue on Tuesday and the friendship degree of the women's legion will be conferred at the pieeting to he held In Aurora at 5 o’clock. One of the outstanding features of the convention will be the commencement exercises of the Mooseheart high school at 7:30 O’clock Tuesday, when 67 members of the graduating class will receive their diplomas. Wednesday afternoon a Moose picnic will be held at 2 o'clock and the Junior Moose initiation at Roosevelt auditorium will follow. A music festival will be held at Mooseheart at 8 o’clock with music by the Mooseheart band, orchestra and chorus. Ou Thursday, the business sessions will include installation of the new supreme officers. During the evening, the high school students will present their class play. Friday, the Fourth of July, will be devoted to patriotic exercises at Mooseheart, with athletic events, mass calisthenics and field sports at the arboretum and an address in keeping with the spirit of the day. The convention will officially close with the supreme council meeting, Friday afternoon. Joe Brennan, George Tester, Frank Rumschlag and Charles Heare of the local order will attend the convention and will leave early Sunday morning for Mooseheart, where they will spend the day visiting with the children who formerly lived here. Diet Authority Dies Los Angeles. Cal.. Juno 28. —(U.R) —Dr Lulu Hunt Peters, 49, nationally known writer on diet and health topics, is dead in London, according to a radiogram received today by Mrs. H. W. Perkins, a sister. Dr. Peters, with a group of other physicians, was making a tour of inspection of medical Institutions in Europe. She contracted pneumonia on the steamer en route from the United States and (lied shortly after reaching London, the radiogram said. o Copper Magnate Dies Yonkers, N. Y.. June 28 —(U.R) — Col. William Boyce Thompson, 61. multi-millionaire copper magnate, philanthropist, and for many years a powerful figure in the Republican party, died at his home here last night from pneumonia. He had been confined to a wheel chair for the past four years dtie to partial paraylsls although his fatal illness was contracted only a week ago. His wife, Gertrude Hickman Thompson, and their only child, Mrs. Margaret Thompson Schultz, were at his bedside.

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FLIERS HOPE TO REMAIN IN AIR SOME TIME “City of Chicago” Is Less Than Day Away From New Mark OPTIMISM IS EXPRESSED Chicago, June 2N (U.R)— Man and machine gave signs of weakening today as the endurance airplane “Citv of Chicago” passed i*s tOOlh hour of continuous flight and sailed on toward the world record of slightly more than 120 hours si t last year by the “St. Louis Kobin." At 8:4(1 am. (CDT) the City of Chicago was just 20 hours, 21 minutes and 30 seconds from the Robin's record. But to break that, mark the Hunter brothers will have to remain aloft at least another hour. They may stay up several more days. Heartened by completing another 100 hours the Hunters, Kenneth and John, took on another load of gaeoline and oil and flew on. The first complaint came from Kenneth who dropped a note saying “I’ve got a tooth ache. Wish I could parachute down and get back before we break the record but I'll stick it out now." The plane was listing but Its motor seemed to be functioning smoothly. To equal the present record, the Hunter brothers must remain aloft in their orange and black StinsonDetroiter plane until 5:01 am. (CDT) Sunday. To establish an official record, the plane must stay in the air for one hour after ft has surpassed the existing record. The motor of the City of Chicago slipped off on an uneven beat occasionally, but mechanical exports said that was because the Wright .1-6 engine was “loosened up" from the strain of keeping the big Stinson-Detroiter aloft so Jong. Little attention was paid to a list which developed in the plane several days ago when a leak de-, veloped in a fuel line and the reserve gasoline tank in the left wing drained out. As a result the City of Chicago was tipped slightly to the right, but the pilots reported this only made the plane a trifle more difficult to handle. Albert and Walter Hunter pilot the refueling ship, “Big Ben,” which nine times or so a day goes up to transfer gasoline, oil and food to the "City of Chicago.” Albert ami Walter had received word that the Big Ben might bo required to refuel the “Southern Cross" which just, completed a trans-Atlantic flight. They were informed the Southern Cross may pass over Chicago Wednesday — when the City of Chicago would be aloft just four weeks — on a non-stop flight from New York to California. ROTARY BRINGS PEACE MESSAGE Delegates Depart to Various Parts of Entire World Chicago, June 28. — (U.R) -Inspirational messages pointing the way to world peace were started around the globe today by home-returning Rotarians, whose sliver jubilee convention ended yesterday. Admiral Mark Kerr, of London, addressed the concluding seszion on "The Interdependence of Nations" and urged the United States to assume responsibility for international peace through a warning against war to all the nations. He praised the Monroe doctrine tor the part it has played in maintaining peace in the western hemisphere and suggested that it bo used for a model in issuing the warning. The United States as “arbiter of the world with regard to peace," should declare that any nation engaging in war without first seeking arbitration of its disputes, should be condemned by this country as doing an act “dangerous to our peace and safety and a manifestation of an unfriendly disposition toward the United States," (CONTINUED ON PAGE FIVE)