Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 28, Number 162, Decatur, Adams County, 10 July 1930 — Page 1

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IPREMIUM IKS WILL BE PRESSSOON; ! - departments Will be |>d This Year; vents Planned R SET SEPT. 9-13 .... iuni lists for the 1930 . free Street Fair; in-ill lie held here Sep--9 to 13, inclusive, will jbuted in the next few was announced today ommittee in charge of [ion of the lists. !> this year, ■l-...- .. lacmers, liouseM a<l i" ’ " k owners ami j !reß .mailing receipt of niun books. ID y |( -w [catiin-s will be added M fa r :lib ' ar thos ■ in charge edlbd indications are there Lit hi • iai.'• as many < onBions ili - ■' 1 ompared to the T . e«ut. ml lent shows f yji ,iv. been ob H H pj - mi sold ■ M I. ngth of the B M section. B H luni- will Im awarded in 3 M I m.-iits ami ■ (tin) have been plac-1 for. in n'~. U was «j. | ire now in the I ■ '... and will be I days. Some It 111 I S Will He .ribui to interested. 'hilt Motorists Killed khJ |er, Ind , July 10. —(U.R) — o wo nen and a man. on their gj rs■ n ('imago to visit rela- «■ rving. i<\ . were burned to itli I lay v their automobile Ickg bridge and caught fire it hl e. IThose killed were Harry (1. 11- ■ idles 11. Macleer, i11..'i.. mother, and Miss Hohman. all of Chicago. ’id'.a - brought the total :■ 1,1 i.d.dii:.* Indiana In. aaiii wrecks to six fss 24 hours. ’ ■ dliers Are Held .PM ipolis .Inly io — (UP) -- : 1 and his brother, ' l im wß I'rim-eton, W. Va., Indianapolis police 8 ’ ' wi'-'t housebreaking. are sa i ( ] to have I 1" riddling three India- —' ■ and two in Terre lute. •erry Family Gets I Another State Job r^4 | " ,| b-. July 10 — (UP) — H Merry has been ap- '' succeed Miss Laura yji liief clerk of the state idrn ii jes. jt was announced ?. y '|U ' :r< ' el y llas retired, “'’’jb riy is a sister of Miss Mr r|, y, state school attenb r she holds a Bachelor II " ■" f"o,n the University Mi' ami recently completed | i®’J 1 11' 1 ' 31 s| udy of the IndianS Im..| f O r a thesis for a rre>' at the University. Boe eady * ItIRS EUROPE Busche to |Mistoric Places Busche, daughter of ' E. W. Busche of Mon'll s ' Bertha Kreghbauin pI " sa *' et l today from Queon the S. S. Megan'ic t.. s os Europe. asi he and Mrs. Kreghbautn and ' at Soutliam Pton, July -• I sr,ent ' some time in 1 ' 'isiting Shakespeare's t in* Ix,ll don. They will also ■ Amsterdam, Holland; ColjulJ ' Ilei delberg, Germany ■ut nnl llley wi " witness the J’] lay at Oberammergau, Chm ' a “ d win vißit the Castle uuS 111 Sw,t zerland. n I Binding several days in ' ls *fing Paris and other interest, they will set sail or W ' ,Jourg ' France on August . ■ iw York City> anil return

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Producer Os “Vanities” Faces New Court Charges

Earl Carroll And Principals In New Revue Are Arrested New York. July 11. — (U.R) Earl Carroll, whose fame as a producer ol daring musical revues is hardly less than the notoriety he drew for his celebrated "bathtub" party in 1926, had a new court battle on his hands today. Scarcely a week after the opening of his latest "Vanities”—a year-i ly extravaganza which tired Manhattan busin ss men and out-of-town buyers seldom find disappointing—police raided the New Amsterdam theater yesterday on warrants charging the producer and principals of the show with giving an indecent performance. While a matinee throng of thousands collected on the sidewalk outside, a squad of patrolmen hustled eight of Carroll’s prettiest show I girls, including three beauty-con-test winners, and a comedian to waiting police limousines outside and escorted them to the nearest police station. Carroll was out of town and missed the raid, but his attorneys prom(CONTINUED ON PAGE THREE) 162 DIE WHEN MINE EXPLODES Silesia Tragedy Is One of Worst In World’s Mining History Neurode, Silesia, JJuly 10.—<U.R) —The total dead in a mine explosion here yesterday was placed at| 162 when SI. bodies had been taken from the mines shortly before noon today. Mine officials said they believed SI other m°n still were entombed in the recesses of the wrecked mine. Earlier estimates were that | only 6.5 were trapped. | Weakened air pressure used on .drills hampered rescue attempts today, and mine officials said they feared the entombed men could not be reached in time to save their lives. Forty-nine miners have been taken from the mine and removed to hospitals, most of them in critical condition from inhaling poisonous carbonic acid gas, which caused the explosion. Two of the SI bodies brought up were leaders of the first party that went down to attempt a rescue. They were overcome by the car bonic gas. which had permeated the underground passages for a distance of more than 9,000 feet from the scene of the explosion. It was believed 12 hours would be required to reach the entombed men. They worked all night but the gas fumes were so strong and debris so heavy, that it was impossible to reach the 6& men trapped in the recesses of the mine. Motor lorries rumbled back ahd forth through the streets, carrying the dead and injured from the mine, and bringing up fresh rescue workers to relieve the working shifts. Torches and electric lanterns cast long ghastly shadows about the mine's entrance and brought out in dramatic relief the grief-stricken faces* of the wives and children of entombed miners, and the strained faces of the workers. o — Woman Seriously Hurt Kokomo, Ind.. July 10. —(U.R) —An attack by a large sow resulted in serious injury to Bjrs. Roll Dawson, 50, of near Greentown, when she went to the air of a young pig that had become caught in a trough. Mrs. Dawson suffered severe lacerations on her arms and back and one finger was chewed almost off. She also suffered from shock. Local Girls Broadcast Martha Jane Linn, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Joe Linn, and Madeline Spahr, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. John Spahr of this city sang over hadio station, WOWO at Fort Wayne this afternoon at 2:40 oclock. They entertained with a group of songs. The two girls were winners in a k contest which was held here recently.

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PLANE SINKS IN ATLANTIC Ocean Attempt Fades As' Boat Abandons Effort To Tow Plane Paris, July 10. —(U.R) —Jean Meri inoz’s seaplane, in which he had: hoped to cross the south Atlantic from Brazil to Africa, was abandoned by the dispatch boat Phocee and sank in the ocean, the Aeropostale Company announced today. The Phocee. an Aeropostale vessel, had taken the seaplane in tow after Mermoz and his two companions made a forced landing near J the ship yesterday when well across ; the ocean on their flight from Natal, Brazil, to Dakar, Senegal. The seaplane proved too difficult to tow’, however, and after valuable equipment' was removed, it was cut loose and quickly sank. The Phocee continued its voyage to Dakar with the aviators and the mail *afely aboard. Mermoz .and his companions were deeply disappointed at their failure to make the first eastward crossing ot tile south Atlantic, the vessel's master radioed. o__ Review State Meeting Dr. Fred I. Patterson, superintenIdent of the Presbyterian Sunday I School together with several other local delegates gave short addresses covering the work of the State Sunday School convention held recently at Huntington, at the regular meeting of the teachers and officers | held at the Manse last evening. I Other talks were given by Mr. and Mrs. C. D. Teeple, Rev. and Mrs. i H. H. Ferntheil, Mrs C. A. Dugan and Mrs. S. I). Beavers. Each speakei gave a short resume of the various divisions of the recent state convention. POLLUTION OF WATER FOUGHT Lieber Starts Campaign Against Pollution of Indiana Streams , Indianapolis, July 10 —t(UP) —A state-wide campaign to eliminate stream pollution has'been started by the conservation department, it was announced today by Richard Lieber, director. Pollution has resulted in killing thousands of fish in Indiana streams 'Lieber said. Charles 11. Bechart, sanitary engineer. has been assigned to the work. In recent weeks reports of pollu- ! tion reached the department from many localities, with the most serious situation at Columbus, the director said. City sewage in the east fork of White River at Columbus, combined with factory waste, has brought about a serious cake of pollution. it was reported. Near Seymour in Jackson county and Austin in Scott county, thj Muscatatuck river is polluted by factory wastes, other charges stated and Greenwood reported a similar , condition from factory wastes dumpI ed into Pleasant Run. Walter Shirts, head of the fish and game division, reported that pollution was more manifest at present because streams were extremely low from lack of rain. Continued dry weather has forced water courses to new low levels and the water is near poisonops, Shirts said, i Farmers in many sections have sought aid of the department through fear that the poisonous water will kill their livestock. In each case reported, Lieber said an effort is being made to aid factory or canning plants to dispose of its waste in a manner to pre-vent-pollution, and at the same time recover a by-product. George Stults Joins Home Grocery Staff George Stults has resigned his I position as manager of the Atlantic ; and Pacific Tea Company store and will be associated in business with • his brother, John Stults, in the i Home Grocery. George Stults has acted as manpager of the A. and P. Store and the Hoosier Grocery here for the last five years.

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Decatur, Indiana, Thursday, July 10, 1930.

Willshire Man Fined For Dry Law Violation W. A. Dull of Willshire, Ohio,| well known in Decatur and Adams' county pleaded guilty to a charge I of illegal possession of intoxicating! liquor at Van Wert yesterday and was fined SIOO and costs. The charge grew out of a recent raid by Van Wert county officials who went to Dull's home and seized 105 quarts, 53 pints and a gallon of beer. It was said the beer was manufactured for home consumption and no intimation was made than any of it was sold. “END CRIME” IS POLICE ORDER Acting Chicago Commissioner Gives Captains New Order Today Chicago , July 10 —(UP)— End i crime or quit was the order which Chicago police captains received today from “Iron Man" John Alcoek, their acting commissioner. Appointed as a direct result of the furore that followed the murder of Alfred “Jake'' Lingle, and determined to solve that as well as many other mysterious slayings, "Jron Man” John emphatically told his captains they could "bring gangland to :rial or go on trial themselves.” “Being a policeman means that the man is hired to protect the pub- j lie against criminals and all police-! men are going to o to work or get off the force," the commissioner declared. The captains, Alcock stated, will be given one chance to explain why gang killings such as the murder of Lingle have not been cleared up and one chance definitely to gam control of criminal elements in their teritorles. Then, he said, if the expanations and results are not satisfactory the captains themselves will be called before the trial board and charged with inefficiency. The mere fact that crime was rampant in a man's district has never before been considered grounds for inefficiency chargee, but Alcock stated that ‘a captain must be inefficient if he does not keep crime at bay. From Los Angeles came reports I that James B. “Forsythe,, suspected of being Lingle's murder was believed to have been under arrest, but had “hit a snag” in its investigation of the Lingle slaying, allege! crime-polltiqs (alliances, alleged newspaper racketeering and the ciime slutation in general. o Flies From Alaska To New York for Operation Chicago, July 10 —(UP)—The airplane in which he has traveled from Alaska, today carried William Bennett, 6-year-old blind Eskimo boy, toward the goal of his journey. New York, where an operation which he hopes will cure his affliction will be performed. William's in Chicago was brief as will be that in Buffalo today and the Rev. Fr., Philip Delon, head of the Jesuit missions in Alaska, expects to arrive in New York tomorrow. If the operation is successful, Fr. Delon said, he and the boy will fly back to Alaska in a new seaplane which will be donated for missionary work by the Marquette League of New York. o — NEW POWER IS GIVEN LESLIE Governor May Appoint Two Judges In Four Indiana Cities Indianapolis, July 10—(UP) —A ruling handed down bv attorney general James M. Ogden gives Governor Harry G. Leslie authority to appoint a juvenile and probate judge for each of four Indiana cities having populations of more than 100,000 persons. (According to the official 1930 census figures, Evansville, Fort Wayne, Gary and South Bend all have passed the 100,000 mark. Indiana statutes provide that judicial vacancies exist in all of the four cities and that the Governor has the power to appoint the judges The opinion, written by Joseph W. Hutchinson, deputy attorney general, held that the 1929 statuson law did not apply to the present situation. That law provided that (CONTINUED ON PAGE FIVE)

COMMISSION ON STATE AID TO RECOMMEND Urges That Present School Aid Law Be Patched For A Time ALSO DESIRES LAW PASSAGE IndianapoJls, July 10 — (UP) — The state aid commission is expected to do no more than recoin--1 mend to the legislature the "patch ing up" of the, old state aid law, although k holds a definite plan for putting Indiana grade schools on a basis of state finance, it was learned today. A bill along this line already n being drafted by Dr. Charles Kettleborough, director of the legislative reference bureau, upon request oi representative George W. Freeman. Rep., Kokomo, member of the state aid commission. A general meeting was held yesterday in which the final draft of the state financing plan was presented by the sulscommittee ot which state senator Alonzo 11. Lindley, Rep.. Kinkman, was in charge. The plan was based upon researches made by J. W. Jones of the | Indiana state teachers college. The plan calls for creation of 11 state aid review board composed of ithe superintendent of public inI struction, chairman of the state tax Iwiard and chief examiner of the state board of accounts. The board i will handle an equalization fund to finance teaching units of all common schools of the state. The teaching unit base would be ssot) for primary and $1,030 for secondary teachers. About $21,000,000 would have to be spent by the state and it was recommended that it be obtained in some other way than by a general property tax. The review board would also pass on transporation budgets, 50 (CONTINUED ON PAGE FIVE) OGDEN OPENS . BAR MEETING Urges Cooperation In Fighting Crime In Hoosier State Bloomington, Ind., July 10.——(U.R) — A general strengthening every force bearing on crime and lawlessness was urged by Attorney General James M. Ogden today as a means of relieving the serious criminal situation in Indiana. In an address at the summer meeting of the Indiana State Bar Association, of which he is president, Ogden opened the program which will continue today and Friday. Approximately 300 Indiana lawyers and their families were in attendance. “That the crime situation is serious cannot be doubted,” Ogden said. "In the United States today there is a prevalence of crime, far surpassing the records of other countties similarly situated. We stand at the foot of the ladder in preventing serious crimes and in bringing the guilty to justice. “Among contributing causes might be listed the following: “The automobile, the revolver, booze and dope; the criminal alien, the corrupt official, an indifferent citizenship and lax law enforcement; a lazy court, the fee system, the incompetent proSßcuting attorney, politics in the judiciary, political police, bail bond nuisance, bogus bail, misuse of pardon and parole: lure ot easy money, easy divorce, disintegration of the home, idleness, salacious literature, ex- ' ploltation of crime by the press, and the uncensored movie." 1 Ogden roundly scored the pres--1 ent conduct of bench and bar, and urged that greater effort be made ' by the profession to curb crime and prevent corruption. “We are spending more money on crime than on education," he ' said. "It costs the nation $6,000 . per criminal to build a prison. For . less money, a whole family could , be housed for a year." r Dodging discussion of the 18th . amendment, and the Wright “bone ; dry” law, Ogden explained the t omissiqn by quoting statistics show(CONTINUED ON PAGE THREE)

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Balloon Race Victors z B 1 IB Wa hington-bound with the barograph which must be calibrated before it can be said officially that they are the winners of the national elimination balloon race. F. A. Trotter (left), navigator, and R. G. Blair, pilot, of the Goodyear-Zeppeliu, which landed at Greensburg. Ky., stopped off for a few minutes at Akron, 0., where this picture was taken.

MOONEY STILL SEEKS FREEDOM 'California Bomber Will Start New Attempt to Obtain Pardon los Angeles, July 10. — (U.R) —If John MacDonald can be found and if he wishes to retract his identification of Tom Mooney and Warren K. Billings as alleged participants in the San Francisco pre--1 paredness day bombing in 1916, he must do so at the risk of prosecution for perjury. Governor C. C. Young announced today through his secretary, Harold Langren. Langren said Young had no power to grant immunity to MacDonald but the governor believed that if MacDonald had lived four years in California after giving his testimony at the murder trials of Billings and Mooney, this would place him under the protection of the limitations satute. MacDonald's willingness to retract his testimony and the acceptance of such retraction by the state supreme court and the governor was regarded as the chief hope of the two convicts for pardon. MacDonald, a waiter, testified at the trials of both men that he saw Billings set down a suitcase at the scene of the explosion shortly before the disaster occurred. He said Billings then went to the corner, met Mooney and walked away with him. Some four years after the trials ended MacDonald, in New York, made an affidavit b fore Frank Walsh, Mooney’s attorney, that he was not sure of his identification. The affidavit formed the mainstay of pardon applications for Mooney and Billings. Supreme court members desired to question MacDonald as to the affidavit, but abandoned -the move will n Billings wrote them protesting that the court hail no authority to go behind records at hand in weighing the applications. In their report to Governor Young, denying Billings a pardon, the majority opinion was that MacDonald's affidavit was of questionable value and that his testimony at the (CONTINUED ON PAGE THREE) o Brokers Suspended New York, July Iff—(U.R)—James H. McGean, floor member of Sutro and company, one of the largest, commission houses in the country, was suspended today from the New York stock exchange for three years, according to an announcement from tlie rostrum of the exchange. Sutro and company were immediately retired as clearing members which practically eliminates the firm from stock exchange privl-i ■ leges. Logan and Bryan company will assume open exchange contracts of , Sutro and company, the announce- . ment sa'd. , Sutro and company in addition to local offices have branches in Los Angeles, Oakland and San I Francisco.

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Health Conditions In Indiana Resorts Good Indianapolis, July 10—(UP) —Vacationists planning to spend a part of the summer at any of the numerous lake resorts in Indiana mav be assured that health conditions will be perfect according to Dr. William F. King, director ot the state health board. Raymond Bright, sanitary engineer in the health department, has started a survey of sanitary conditions in all lake resorts. Dr. King announced today. The investigation will include the general typographical conditions as well as the water and food supplies. Tourists camps also will be inspected. it was announced, although only in a general way, as a sweeping survey of them was made last year. —— o STATE BAPTIST MEET PLANNED July 11 to 25 Set For Annual Meeting at Franklin College Franklin, Ind., July 10 —(UP) — Advance registratio nhas indicated an increased attendance at the annual meeting of the Indiana Baptist Assembly to be held at Franklin college, July 14 to 25. In accodance with a custom established several years ago, the annual convention of the Baptist Young People's Union of Indiana will meet July 19 to 20 in conjunction with the assembly. The threeday pastors' conference will open July 21. A highlight of the Young People's Union will be a banquet on the evening of July 19, when the World Wide Guild, Royal Ambassadors aqd other organizations will unite with the union, according to the president, Miss Loraine Foster, Fort Wayne. Some 500 persons attended the banquet last year. The Rev. Joseph W Clevenger Flora, will preside at the pastor's conference. Frank S. Reynolds, In liannpolis. state stewardship director, will be in charge of the annual stewardship oratorical contest to be held at the assembly. The winner will be given a S2OO scholarship at Franklin college. ,Tlie contest is open to Bap'lst young people.' The athletic field and campus of the college, with all equipment, will be at the disposal of those attending the meeting as well as the American Legion memorial swimming pool. 0 Election Fraud Case Goes To Jury Today ——.— « Crown Point, Ind., July 10.—(U.R) —A Lake county circuit court today retired' behind locked doors to deliberate the case of Owen O’Malia and Joseph Carlson, defendants In the Gary primary election fraud conspiracy charge. Judge Martin B. Smith gave instructions to the jury. The deI fendants had denied accusations lof importations of repeaters from Illinois.

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CROPS WILT AS MERCURY GOES TO NEW HIGHS Little Relief Seen In Midwest Next TwentyFour Hours NEW RECORDS SET IN SOUTH BULLETIN The street thermometer readings in Decatur's business section at 2:30 o’clock this afternoon were between 88 and 92 degrees. The mercury advanced steadily since this morning and predictions were that no relief would come for at least another day. Chictif’o, July 10. (U.R) A scorchin.y sun bent down on the entire central part of the United States from the Alleghenies westward to the Bockv Mountains today, continuing a heat wave that has taken more than a score of lives, created acute suffering in the congested metropolitan areas and indirectly contributed to a heavy toll by drowning. Eighteen cities in 14 states sweltered under temperatures of 100 degrees or more yesterday, according to official weather bureau reports and in many of the cities, the marks were new records. Most of those cities obtained little relief today, the only cooling spots in the country being the northeastern and east-central areas and parts of the far west, al] of which had escaped most of the baking. United Press reports today accounted for a total of 27 heat deaths since the mercury began sizzling on Sunday. Added to these fatalities were 57 deaths by drowning, including the loss of four lives in an excursion boat accident on Lake Michigan. In the middlewest (he deaths were distributed as follows: Heat Drowning Ohio ... 1 9 Indiana 3 f, Michigan () 3 Illinois .... 5 ;> Wisconsin 3 10 lowa 1 2 Missouri 4 q Minnesota 2 5 North Dakota .0 1 South Dakota 1 n Nebraska ... 5 0 (CONTINUED ON PAGE FIVE) o BULLETIN Interlachen Country Club, Minneapolis. Minn. July 10— (UP) Robert Tyre Jones, Jr.. Atlanta, Ga., golf champion of two continents led the field in the first round of competition in the National open tourney here today by shooting a 71 for the 18-holes, one under par. Jones finished the first nine holes with a 34,. two under par and the only hole he took more than par on was the tenth. He drove into the rough by a few inches and coming out, he struck a trap near the green taking a five on a par four. GETS DATA ON PENSION BILL Leo Ehinger Receives Blanks and Information; Will Distribute Leo Ehinger today received information and application blanks concerning the new World War veterans pension bill, passed recently by congress. Mr. Ehinger stated today that any veterans who wished information concerning the new lav could obtain it from him at his office in the Heller, Lenhart and Schurger suite. Application blanks also may be obtained from Mr. Ehinger anil all veterans who are entitled to a pension increase are urged to get the blanks and fill them out. It will be some time before the applications are acted on since the veterans bureau will have thousands to deal with. Mr. Ehinger also has complete information about the workings of the new law and stated he would be glad to inform any veterans concerning how much pension they are entitled to.