Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 28, Number 166, Decatur, Adams County, 15 July 1930 — Page 1

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Buy brown Immed new I.S.MCIW Li r High School BrinKna' During last 14 pi ir . Is Advanced VACANCY ■ \OT M l I ILLED l-rm Mi. principal ■ ■-/hi- Junior I'i.ul' -List II vears tndav K, liumic'l principal ol Elr hit'll school to lake S "I duller kl K : k Bn \i st(‘! <KIV l<> . similar post at \an Ohio. BtnV. <" hIH nPW highly qualified. with 16 t,-.H • 15 ,-^K r wh *Il bl' 110 S ti'il as of some school. No , cjc-.il principal has -HK. L,.. :n- it was learnhigh school Ecijohliip o >nly vacancy .it present. K( r ' . atur from Kg L,,j ji -a taught a Kr fi’r or to that hl- taught a K r 1 I'ujeii tow ii>hip. He came -I Decatur ami Ml;,-: lie has seen - : .d policies, which Kh& Ip . . effect Ire local school. Mr. Brown's regime a Kter scholarship awards was and in the last two years system of awarding sold pins to pupils makK X-rlain S<!e-'a<tie ipialificabeen adopted by many high schools in Indiana and Brown received a degree Teachers college at Bk: and took his graduate Indiana University. He is manager of the Decaipal swimming pool the summer months. new high school principal governing always has bad an active ill local athletics. He has as ticket chairman of high athletic events for the last ■*-- Brown assumed his new as principal of high school The school board will meet. '"‘ x ' few days to select a SB* 1 f| ir the Junior high Store Owner He Is Insolvent Tenn . July 15—<U.R) — |M'"' Saunders, chain grocery and. head of the Clar|M Saunders stores, inc., a ’Woration with 150 Br •' the south, withdrew his »f bankruptcy and admitted ency nt the Tennessee comigP " federal , o «rt here today. ■MUON I IS OBTAINED C o u n t y Sheriff - ■ I injf Schroeder July 15. —(UR) — K" county Sheriff George' 1.. guardian of Harold HerM eiu'oeder, principal in the "’ ystPr T- «aid today he e( . ; or an appointment for 1 e P r ’ son er’s former ° e - «'ho is said to hold im- «■“ ’ D,orn *ation given him by Kt i '^ tw , t 0 Sheriff Winkler, | ' Bll,>riff at Mobile, said WviiSV 0111 by R L - j °"-. abn ' Te ' ln ” the former cell E i,., r , ‘ S, hr °eder’s burning ■««ln S rS 8 ’ May 31 - to w fl. h conve rsation ■ne" J\ lnkler by Byrne, told E<l d'. l sh oP " er confided he Bl th',. „ hari,enetl screw driver Bno onp f’ 8 " Sate cra <*er, ML ’ )ne knows.” B'tlT t 0 Bet * detailed B ,ipr t; r as to ,he story B He he B ‘Net-view , y and eXpects - B for Tenn» Wanted, to W :: "ede r '7‘ e on Thursday. BY at th ® <! B^'“ N ' l 'Ro ON PAUifl SIX)

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New Principal El ■ W. Guy Brown Mr. Brawn today was named principal of Decatur high school and will assume his new duties at once. He has been active in school work for the last 16 years. 15 of which he has served as principal. BABY CLINIC TO BEFRIDAY State Health Attendants To Be Here for Examinations Dr. Dorothy Teal and Miss Nancy Gibbs of the Child Hygiene Division of the State Board of Health will conduct the Adams County Baby Health Station on Friday, July 18, at the Decatur Public Library. Registration hours will be from 9 to 11:30 a. m., and from 1 to 4 1. tn.lt is hoped thad many new babies will be brought to the station this month for examination, and all mothers who have had their babies examined at a previous time are urged to bring them back. The benefits derived from the periodical check-overs become more apparent as the child develops. If possible to do so, mothers are requested to bring their babies for re-examination during the forenoon hours. The Psi lota Xi sorority will assist in conducting the health station this month by furnishing committees for personal publicity and the clerical work. There will be no baby station in August but the State Board staff will return in September. o Veteran Publisher Dies Madison, Ind., July 15 —(UP) — Micheal C. Garber, 80, editor of the Madison Courier for more than 40 years, died at his home after a long illness. Garber was born in Madison and had spent his entire life in the town. After graduation from Hanover college, he joined the Courier staff; Then directed by his father. As a boy, Garber accompanied his father, the late Col. M. C. Garber on several campaigns of the Civil war. The outstanding ones included occupation of Cumberland gap. Ky.. and the march of General Sherman from Savannah, Ga., to Washington. Garber served as postmaster at Madison under the Harrison, McKinley and Roosevelt administrations. He also was a trustee of Hanover college for many years. He was a member of Phi Gamma Delta fraternity, The Episcopal church and the Masonic lodge. o — Lafayette Police Find Still on Boat House Lafayette, Ind., July 15 —(UP) — Lafayette police and Tippecanoe authorities, while investigating a robbery south of the city late yesterterday found a still, in operation on a house boat moored on the bank of the Wabash river. The operation of the Liquor manufacturing apparatus escaped officers by swimming across the river. Officers dumped 20 barrels of corn mash into the river and then destroyed the boat by burning it. o New Haven Youth Dies Fort Wayne, Ind., July 15 —(UP) —Fatal injuries were suffered by George S. Best. 19, of New Haven when he was crushed by a truck which he was greasing. The driver started the engine and ran the wheels over Best’s head without knowledge that he was under the machine.

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MINE RIOT IS AVERTEOBY STATE GUARDS Pickets And Workmen Engage In Brick Throwing Battle IS RESULT OF WAGE TROUBLE Harrisburg, 111., July 15.—,'U.R) — Thirty'state patrolmen under Chief Walter L. Moody and 15 deputies under Sheriff Thomas J. Cain succeeded today in averting disorders between mine union pickets and i employes of Ogara mine No. 12. along highways to the shaft where fist fights and rock hurling occurred yesterday between the two groups. More than 200 pickets were along the road but they failed in their attempt to prevent the workers from reaching the mine, and op- i erators of the shaft reported a normal crew at work. Presence of th’ patrolmen and deputies pre- 1 vented an outbreak. The picketing started yesterday and is the result of a conflict be- ' tween members of locals supporting President John L. Lewis of the United Mine Workers and memICONTINUED ON PAGE SIX) ■ QMany Drown In Korea London. July 15. — (U.R) — More than 120 persons were drowned and , many others were missing when Korea was visited by renewed floods Sunday, an Exchange Telegraph dispatch from Tokio said today. Fifty priests were among the missing. The temple they occupied was destroyed by a landslide, and it was feared there was no hope of rescuing them alive. ABNORMAL BOY KILLS NURSE Son of Wealthy New Jersey Manufacturer Stabs Y oung Woman Butler, N. J., July 15. — (U.R) — Harry Woolsey Jr., 14-year-old son , of a wealthy Jersey City paint manufacturer, confessed today, police said, to killing his nurse. Miss Anna Miller, 23, while they were ini a hike Sunday afternoon. The boy, described as mentally abnormal, stabbed the young worn- 1 an seven times yith a hunting knife, it was said, after a quarrel over "different little things.” Nothing was known of the killing until Miss Miller's body was discovered yesterday afternoon, lodged between two large rocks at a desolate, inaccessible spot near Green Pond. \\ oolsey, who has been wandering over the countryside since the 1 killing, spent the last few coins he carried in his pocket at a lunch wagon in Dover and walked into the police station there last night asking for a place to sleep. He was curled up quietly sleeping in a vacant cell when the police re- . ceived a telephone call asking them to keep a sharp lookout for him. Although he had given an assumed name, the boy confessed he was the killer of Miss Miller when they confronted him, police said. Forther questioning today was expected , to bring out more exactly the cause of the quarrel. The stabbing occurred in a particularly wild and undeveloped part , of the country near the Woolsey , summer home at Green Pond. The ( nurse and her charge had left the ] home Sunday afternoon for their customary hike, and when they ( did not return home at dusk, . searchers went out to look for , them. The young woman appeared to have been dead nearly 24 hours when her body was found at ( the foot of a high cliff known as , Lookout mountain, from which it , had fallen. , After the killing young Woolsey , walked ten miles to Rockaway, N. , J„ spent the night in a lumber ( yard, then tramped around the vicinity of Rockaway and Dover. He was hatless and coatless when ( he finally appeared at the police . station.

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Decatur, Indiana, Tuesday, July 15, 1930.

Herbert Oakley Injured Herbert Okeley, Pleasant Mills young man, suffered several lacerations about his face and head when the Ford touring car he was driving ran into a calf in front of the Hubert P. Schmitt farm, southeast this city, at 5:45 o’clock last evening. Mr. Okeley was taken to the Adams County Memorial Hospital where his Injuries were dressed and he was removed to his home this morning. His condition is not regarded as serious. The car was badly damaged. The calf was injured but not killed. o-A —— MAYOR’S COURT HAS BUSY DAY Two Fined; One Case Is Appealed and a Third Continued Two Adams County men were given fines in Mayor’s court last night. One case was appealed to circuit court and a third case was continued to Wednesday morning at 10 o’clock. Ira Carpenter was fined $lO and costs amounting to $45 on a charge of public intoxication. Carpenter was arrested late Saturday night on First street after complaints were registered that he was intoxicated. Carpenter stated he would arrange to pay the fine. Lyle Fennig of Geneva pleaded guilty to a charge of assault and battery on Homer Shoemaker, Geneva filling station attendant. Several witnesses were placed on the stand to show the court the extent of the assault. Witnesses told that Fennig became aggravated because Shoemaker would not allow him credit for the purchase of some gasoline He is said to have struck Shoemaker and in the fight Shoemaker’s nose was broken. Fennig was fined $5 and costs and sentenced to 60 days in jail. Fennig appealed his case to circuit court and was arranging his appeal bond today. The case of state vs. William Dishong for trespass was continued to Wednesday at 10 o'clock. No warrant was ever issued by the court for any arrests following the confiscation of a quantity of alleged beer taken at the Willard McConnehey residence in the south part of the city several days ago. o Kansas And Michigan People Visiting Here Mrs. Earl Batton and daughter Edna of Lawrence, Kansas; and Mrs. Henry Burnett and daughters Joan and Katherine Sue of Otsego, Michigan; are the house guests of Mr. and Mrs. Dave Campbell and daughters Margaret and Betty. Mrs. Batton and daughter, Mrs. Henry Burnett and daughters and Mrs. Dave Campbell and daughters visited Monday with relatives in Montpelier. oDEFENSE TAKES WITNESS STAND George Kolb to Give Version of Death of His Two Wives Greenfield, Ind., July 15. —(U.R) — Hancock county circuit court room was crowded today as the defense began presenation of George Kolb’s version of the death of two wives. For more than two weeks the state has attempted to prove that Kolb, a farmer near Rushville, caused the death of his third wife, Edna Dagler Kolb, with strychnine. The prosecution also presented testimony intended to show that the second wife, Mattie Rhodes Kolb, met with a similar death. Kolb is standing trial charged with murder of the third wife, and a Rush county grand jury has returned an indictment charging murder of the second wife, as well. According to Paul Benson, chief counsel for the prosecution, the two deaths are linked together through the manner in which they were effected. Testimony of the state, which closed its case yesterday, was intended to show that the second wife died from strychnine given her by Kolb in an aspirin tablet, whereas the third wife died from strychnine said to have been given her in a quinine capsule. Using the expert testimony of Dr. R. N. Harger, Indiana University toxigologist. the prosecution (CONTINUED ON PAGE SIX)

NYE QUESTIONS PRIMARY AIDES OF MCCORMICK Publicity Man And Other Workers Queried at Committee Probe HEARING TO BE CONTINUED Federal Building, Chicago, July 15**JU.R)--Senator Gerald P. Nye today began digging into evidence which would show how much money Mrs. Ruth Hanna McCormick spent on her campaign for the Republican nomination to the United States senate in the eighth Illinois counties in which her expenditures were not budgeted. As chairman of the senate committee investigating campaign funds, Nye opened the second day of h>s Chicago hearing by calling W. D. Alexander of Bloomington, 111., who managed Congres-wotnan McCormick’s campaign in McLean county, one of the eight in which no budgets were kept. Alexander said he spent $7,207.56 in his county for Mrs. McCormick but that he received no funds from the candidate, herself. He said that friendship for Mrs. McCormick prompted him to aid her campaign. The expenditure reported by Alexander was not included in any of the monies reported prev-. iously by Mrs. McCormick, who; has listed her personal expenditures and those of friends as totaling approximately $319,000. Frederick A. Smith, publicity director for Mrs. McCormick, testified he spent most of his time doing research work for her. He said he was generally recognized, however, as her publicity man for (CONTINUED ON PAGE SIX) SCHEDULE FOR TOURNEY DRAWN Winner of Decatur Junior Baseball Series to Play Muncie The winner of Decatur’s junior baseball elimination tournament will play the Muncie junior team at Alexandria next Saturday afternoon at 1 o’clock. (Decatur time). The tourney will be played on central standard time so the De-catur-Muncie game is scheduled for 12 o'clock Saturday noon. Eight teams are entered in the tourney seeking district honors and the winner of the Alexandria tourney will go to Greenfield to play in the regional tourney August 2. Other towns with entries besides Decatur are Pendleton, Anderson, Alexandria, Summitsville, Dunkirk, Union City and Muncie. The tourney next Saturday starts at 9 o'clock in the morning, standard time, and will be concluded Sunday afternoon at which time the finals will be played. All first round and semi-final games will be five-inning affairs while the final game will go seven innings, and the winner will represent the eighth district at Greenfield. Following is a complete schedule and all times given are central standard time: Saturday Game I—at1 —at 9 a.m. —Pendleton vs. Anderson. Game 2 —at 10 a.m. — Alexandria vs. Summitsville. Game 3 —at 11 a.m. —Dunkirk vs. Union City. Game 4- —at 12 noon —Decatur vs. Muncie. Game s—at5 —at 3 p.m.—Winner games 1 and 2 Game 6—at 4 p.m.—Winner games 3 and 4. Sunday afternoon Game 7—at 1 p.m.—Winner games 5 and 6. The winner of the tourney besides receiving district honors will receive a large silver loving cup. ——————o Hoover Plans Vacation Washington, July 15 — (UP) — President Hoover expects to be able to spend at least two weeks in Northern Rocky Mountains late in August or early in September, his secretary, George Akerson, announced today.

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To Broadcast Fight New York, July 15- (UP)— A blow-by-blow description of the 15round bout between lightweight champion Sammy Mandell and Al Singer will be broadcast from the Ringside at Yankee Stadium, Thursday night, the National Broadcasting Co., announced today. Graham McNamee, and George Hicks will report the bout. The broadcast is scheduled to begin at 10 p. m. E.D.T CHICAGO JURY STARTS PROBE Will Shift Rumors Connecting Newspapers With Gang Leaders Chicago. July 15. —(U.R) — The Cook county grand jury, described by a criminal court justice as having the eyes of a nation focused upon it, took steps today to bring about an official airing of rumors which have involved Chicago’s newspapers since the discovery that a murdered reporter had been a racketeer. Informed by Chief Justice Denis J. Normoyle of criminal court that they could call any witnesses whether the state's attorney approved or not, the grand jurors invited Harry T. Brundidge, reporter for the St. Louis Star, to testify before them. Brundidge was sent here by his paper after Alfred “Jake” Lingle, $65-a-week Tribune reporter, was murdered on June 9 and it was revealed that Lingle’s yearly income as a racketeer and go-between for officials and gangsters had been $60,000. Articles written by the St. Louis reporter charged that other Chicago newspapermen were as much racketeers as Lingle and that there existed here alliances between politics, the newspapers and gangland. Drawn by Brundidge’s articles onto the general furore and maze of rumors which had caused a general police “shake-up’’ newspapers united in demanding that Brundidge be called here to “tell what he knew.” Brundidge’s offer to appear was blocked when State's Attorney John A. Swanson insisted that he question the reporter before Brundidge testified. Brundidge’s paper would not allow him to submit to this questioning and the matter was dropped. Brundidge sent word from Havana, Cuba, last night that he will testify and it appeared certain today that he will be heard under nis own terms. The Tribune today said Brundidge’s testimony also would concern another paper, the Evening fCONTINUED ON PAGE SIX) REPUBLICANS PLANCAMPAIGN State Committee Organizes Bureaus For November Election Indianapolis, July 15. —(U.R)—Republican leaders will attempt to recruit an army of 75,000 workers for the fall campaign, according to plans formulated at the meeting of the state committee. An invitation to open the fall campaign with a barbecue at Linton was extended by Ewing Emison, second district chairman, and Will Maddock, Bloomfield editor. An effort will be made to have U. S. Senator James E. Watson, senate majority leader, appear and make an address which would be broadcast in a nation-wide hook-up. Paul R. Bailsman, president of the Indiana Editorial Association, will head the state G. O. P. publicity bureau and will be aided by George W. Stout, Lafayette. Linn Kidd, Brazil, will head the veterans' bureau and Eben Wolcott, former banking commissioner, the business men's bureau. The speaker’s bureau will be under direction of Leland K. Fishback, state gasoline tax collector. The candidates, with district leaders, will tour the districts assigned them. A rule giving the county chairman authority to fill vacancies on township tickets, with th,e approval of the majority of the county committee in the township affected, was adopted.

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SIOI,OOO Reward for Burke ■MM* WMf t MM - - Fred Burke, arch-criminal and declared the slayer of at least twenty persons who has a reward of SIOI,OOO for hie capture hanging over his head. Recent raid to capture him at Hess Lake, Mich., proved futile when he was warned in advance and escaped. TWO PETITIONS ARE RECEIVED Root and Wabash Townships Ask for Units of Library System Two petitions bearing sufficient names of property owners from two Adams- county townships have been received by local people Interested in a county library system and as soon as the others are received they will be forwarded to the county board of commissioners, it was learned today. The two townships which have completed their work and have secured sufficient names to petitions are Root and Wabash townships. Washington township under the state law does not need a petition and now nine townships remain to report. Work in each unit of Adams county is progressing and indications are all 11 petitions will be received here in the next few weeks. If the commissioners adopt the plan, it means that every resident of Adams county will have the same library facilities as residents of Decatur now enjoy. The plan when adopted calls for library sub-stations in each town and township of the county, where residents may go and obtain books in the identical manner in which they are obtained at the Decatur Library. The books will be changed from one sub-station to another periodically and the key station will be the Decatur Public Library. The plan has worked successfully in several Indiana counties and the adoption of the plan is one of the chief platforms of the Indiana dederated clubs for the coming year. It is said by those in charge of the petitioning that the cost of operating such a system in this county would not be sufficient to greatly affect the tax rate. o — Rioters Rule Egypt Alexandria, Egypt, July 15—(UP) Rioters, inflamed by the political situation and by anti-European sentiment, held sway in the streets of Alexandria today, killing and wounding many, including Europeans An official announcement late in the day said 14 had been killed, including one Italian and seven other Europeans. The wounded number ig one Italian and seven other Europeans. The wounded numbered 250 of whom many were in serious condition.

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CALLS CABINET TO CONFER ON GRAIN PRICES Capper Plan of Purchasing Discussed; Is Unfavorable HYDE TELLS OF CONDITIONS By Paul R. Mallon. UP. Staff Correspondent Washington, Ju’y 15.—(U.R) — The crisis of declining wheat prices was discussed at length by President Hoover with his cabinet today after Secretary of Agriculture Hyde had reported on the situation disclosed during his western tour. Various methods of coping with the problem were debated, with Hyde known to be in opposition to the plan of Sen. Capper. Repn.. Kan., to have the federal farm board purchase millions of bushels of wheat in order to “peg” the price before it dips further. There was no indication the administration had any intention of adopting the Capper idea. 0 Court Convictions Gain Indianapolis, July 15 —(U.R) —Federal court convictions of criminal cases increased from 354 in the fiscal year 1928-29, to 415 in 192930, according to the annual record released today by Mrs. Florence Winkler, chief clerk in the office of George R. Jeffrey, U. S. district attorney. Four hundred forty-one cases were ended, compared to 381 in 1928-29. Convictions' were obtained in 265 cases of violation of the national prohibition act, and there were seven acquittals. There were 283 liquor cases started. 274 cases ended and 77 cases still pending. Defendants in 229 of the cases pleaded guilty. The government won favorable decisions in 55 civil cases and lost 14. Among other criminal convictions obtained by the government during the year were postal thefts, 41; Mann act, 21; and game laws, 5. o Secretary Davis Will Hold Cabinet Post Washington, July 15 — (UP) — Secretary of Labor Davis has consented to remain at his cabinet post for the present and any speculation regarding his successor is premature, President Hoover announced today. The announcement was made in answer to questions regarding reports robe Carl White, assistant to Davis, was slated to get the post. Davis recently was chosen Republican senatorial candidate in Pennsylvania and has indicated he will remain here until after Labor Day. o TEACHERS FAIL TO GET MONEY Chicago School Teachers’ Salaries Three Weeks Past Due Chicago, July 15 —(UP)—Stories of distress and want among Chicago school teachers, whose salaries are more than three weeks overdue, again harrassed the city board of education today as relief measures were being considered to obtain $6,100,000 needed to meet payrolls. Although the board of education has $13,000,000 in 1930 tax anticipation warrants, they cannot be marketed until the city buys back a similar amount of bonds sold to bankers in 1928-29. Relief for the needy teachers is several weeks away, it was believed, as the only solution lies in a supreme court decision which would allow sale of the 1930 warrants. “The situation is serious,” said James Hemingway, chairman of the education finance committee. “Many teachers and their dependents are suffering from lack of funds. “A typical case is that of a teacher who has $275 salary due but not enough cash to go to her summer classes or buy food. The banks (CONTINUED ON PAGE FIVE)