Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 28, Number 194, Decatur, Adams County, 16 August 1930 — Page 1

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"I township Id BOND LEVY |s INCREASED ■.h Rate (Joes Up A ■ nt \ Hundred; ■Others Are Lower cnQN K'bECOMI’I.ETE ■ hi the township road bond ■levies tor U.M Wais " y ’ the levy *' u hP the increase Iwing one ■ (h.. hundred dollars. ■>.: the K townships wiH 512h.41" di', in road bonds in interest, a total W;i-iiiio-ton townthe largest amount to ■ bonds. $>.M7 7- Monroe ■ P is next with $24.704.50. proposed rates lor road and nterest in the 12 Ka,e per * IOO K ais ■t ■ .40 ■ Marys -44 Creek .73 Mr • -54 Wasinnuton township rate in die city of I'. ,atur. the iwinhip t.it. ■ file towns and Monroe and the township ■ hi the town ■ wryrnc, budget and ..t.d.w.e. coir budget . by County Henry H. Heller and HHit published next week. - ■binary Probe of ■ynchinti L Completed Mt today for the court mtn lynching of two ' :c. .imp: si . a, cording jM* in charge, and it was ex'o' irtitm tit would be nntii Monday to give time (,t , t,,. r leads, tic court op.med Harley jß*. prosecutor, has been be|9_ out! Pug factions. o. far as threaten ser|B is pressed, and the other that i-veryti ng possible be convict the mob leaders. ■° f those engaged in the inB rt "" g "p'- th,, d.rticulties to in obtaining convic|B M anyun,. fnll|1 „. . ( . ( | wjth t]le ■™ K ' ' ,liU H;n<li:i lias considertie cases to Federal ■^'" the belief that justice !* more likely to result. ■' War Veteran 9 Dies at Noblesville |Bj e,vlllf '- i I1( | Aug lfi _ ( u p) B? war veterans in Hamilton ■ r J'‘rf‘ redu.cd below two death of Joseph ■ ’!.?"• ' v1 "’ "as with Sher- ■°" hls march to the sea. ! ’in ln .'l <ivi! war Sl >rviVOrS ln the county. |M STRIKES |B AT FIELD Iphip 9 keave Ground Hkur Which has been in Bpialloi m . eek carr ying passen- ■ ' ne f,e,d - we3t ■nger ’trin y eve ning on a '■«the fr antl a 8n ' ashed int ° a ■ Th t end of the landing were' 3 <iamaged but (■Pilot was ar nOt inJured - Bed f X ° nwanied 011 “>e ■ anti wm y Mlbs Crystal ■ was* b ',"' M < d ' R o S h. The ■ tai| e<ito2' aCr ° 88 the field ■ Te skyward" 1 BUfflcient apee<l ■hth/n,? 8 . Pllot Waa unable Ktly i^ hlne and he did not I o,t the » enoilgh s Peed to ■a tr 8 g li ra " , [ d - The plane The th" tle wings were ■ exc eDt occa Pant S were B ce P‘ for being shaken up.

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Gets Award 111 I ■Hr ' ii 4 0 1 ■ 4 v f 5-1 .7 V' i ■ L ».iimi i»m«m . Ml MH—I r Frank R. Kellogg, former Secretary of State, who has been chosen to receive the “great reward of peace" of the Order of the Olive Branch of Argentina. LESLIETALKSRELIE[PLANS Governor Returns From Conference at Washington Thursday Indianapolis. Aug. 16.— (U.R) —Indiana's moves to relieve farmers affected by the drought, as part of the national program advanced by President Hoover, were discussed today by Governor Harry G. Leslie; John J. Brown, highway commission director; Jess Murden, Peru, commission member, and L. O. Chasey, secretary to Leslie. Murden and Leslie had just returned from Washington after the caucus with Hoover. Leslie and his aides discussed plans to have northern Indiana farmers, who were not so greatly affected by drought, help supply those in the southern area with grain and feed. This would be in additiott to the federal agencies to distribute supplies and provide other aid. Today was the 20th wedding anniversary of Governor and Mrs. Leslie, and he planned to leave this afternoon for their summer home at Dunes State Park to celebrate the occasion with his wife and family. o — Day Turned to Night New York, Aug. T6.—ttJ.R>—Night fell over New York city at 11 o'clock this morning and thousands of lights guided the populace through the streets. A heavy haze hung over the metropolis at dawn and this steadily deepened until shortly after 11 a. m. Skies were almost pitch dark. Slowly the city lighted up as it does at nightfall. As the darkness grew in thickness the great office buildings became a mass of illumination. St. Rose Catholic Church Picnic Planned The annual St. Rose Catholic picnic at Giant’s Woods, near Monroeville will be held Sunday, it was announced today by those in charge. Each year a number of people from Decatur attend the dinner and entertainment. Meals will be served at the picnic chicken dinner a program of interest to all will be held. Health Conditions Are Good In South Indiana Jeffersonville, Ind., Aug. 16. — (U.R)—Health conditions in southeastern Indiana were described by Dr. Joseph C. Matthews, assistant sanitary engineer of the state board of health, as being surprisingly good, when he arrived on a tour of the drought district. Dr. Mattherws found no typhoid or other disease which frequently accompany drought. He also noted that people in general have been heeding advice of state and local authorities to have their water supply either tested or boiled before use for drinking. Dinking water which is being hauled in tanks, is being clarified before loading. Dr. Matthews said.

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REPUBLICANS SOUND KEYNOTE Lucas Issues First Statement Concerning Unemployment Washington, Aug. 16 —(U.R)—The new management of the Republican party sounded today a keynote directed at offsetting any political reaction resulting from business depression. Robert H. Lucas, new executive director of the Republican national committee, issued his first statement declaring that while men were walking the streets hunting jobs. Democratic strategists were fearing an improvement before election. A Republican keynote for meeting the economic issue was sounded by Lucas as follows: "When a man gets a serious illness, he doesn't call in a quack. That's just the time he puts hls faith and hope in the old family physician." Lucas said the country is facing a crisis and that if a Democratic congress were elected the country would not see normal business for some years to come. Politicians of* both parties have privately felt the business situation would be one of the chief factors in the coming congress'onal elections. Lucas' statement was devoted almost entirely to this question and to charges that Democrats were attempting to capitalize the situation. Republicans have been delayed in beginning their campaign due to the difficulties over the retirement of Claudius H. Huston as national chairman. However, one week after the selection of Senator Fees of Ohio as national chairman and Lucas as his chief executive assistant, the Republican organization is ready to launch into an intensive campaign of education. (CONTINUED ON PAGE SIX? ADAMS COUNT! MAN EXPIRES Frank Armstrong, WellKnown Citizen Dies This Morning Geneva, Aug. 1G —(Special) — Frank Armstrong, 55, "prominentGeneva farmer and director of the Farmers and Merchants Bank at| Geneva died suddenly at 9 o’clock' this morning at hls home near Geneva. Death was said to be caused by apoplexy but County Cororner J. C. Grandstaff was called to hold an inquest and at 3 o’clock this afternoon has given no report. Mr. Armstrong enjoyed his usual good health until this morning he remarked that he “didn’t feel well.” He was repairing a gate on his farm at 9 o’clock when he suddenly fell over. His son, Junior, was with him and ran into the house for Mrs. Armstrong who found her husband dead. The deceased was well known throughout Adams County where he spent his entire life as a farmer. He was also a director of the Farmers and Merchants Bank at Geneva and was a member of the Apple Grove United Brethren church of Geneva tor many years. He was born east of Geneva on the farm where he spent his entire life, September 22. 1875, the son of Siephen and Miriam Armstrong. Surviving is the widow, Mrs. Armstrong and three children, Lewis. Armstrong of this city, Ruth and Junior Armstrong at home. One grandchild also survives. A brother James Armstrong residing east of Geneva, and two sisters, Mrs. Ottis McCollum of Geneva and Mrs. John Ford of Berne also survive. Funeral arrangements have not been completed. o Train Strikes Train Terre Haute, Ind., Aug. 16—(UP) —Three persons were injured, one critically, when a Pennsylvania passenger train struck an automobile at a grade crossing here early today. Mrs. Jennie Seward, 62, passenger in the automobile, was reported in a serious condition by hospital at taches. John Reagle, 28, driver of the car, and Vernie Mae Darrell, 8 granddaughter of Mrs. Seward, were released from the hospital after receiving treatment for their injuries.

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Decatur, Indiana, Saturday, August 16, 1930.

Girl Tells Story of Holdup And Robbery Mt. Vernon, Ind., Aug. 16.—(U.R) |— A girl attired only in “teddies", I found sobbing beside state road 62 gave an account of a new departure in banditry wh»n she was picked up by Mr. and Mrs. Fred Stang, of Mt. Vernon. The girl told of accompanying two girl friends from Evansville. They stopped their auto, took her purse and all her clothing, and left her in her scant clothing beside the road, she said. They then drove away, saying they were going to Florida, according to her story. Mr. and Mrs. Stang took the girl, who did not give her name, to an address in Evansville which she said was h _>r home. Names of the alleged “friendship bandits" likewise were withheld. LOCAL YOUNG MANJNJURED Clyde Steele Suffers Broken Leg And Severe Bruises Clyde Steele, 20, son of Mr. and Mrs. Charles Steele of this city is recovering today at St. Joseph hospital, Fort Wayne, from a painful injury sustained late Friday when the team of horses, on which he was repairing the harness at a farm north of Fort Wayne, ran away and pulled a land roller over Steele’s legs. Steele suffered a broken leg and other bruises and wae taken Immediately to St. Joseph hospital where his condition was not regarded as critical. The attending physician stated he would recover. The young man has been working at a farm north of Fort Wayne for about a month. Yesterday he was engaged in rolling a field, haying the team of horses hitched to a land roller. He had gotten off the roller to repair a break in the harness and the horses evidently became frightened and started to run away. The roller was dragged ove? Steele’s body, fracturing his left leg and, badly bruising hls body., ~ f tl* 1 . Federal Men Withdraw > Terre Haute, Ind., Aug. 16—(UP) The ‘ljrst concentrated drive on' Haute bootleggers efnee last fall, believed to have ended! today, with the departure of more, than 50 prohibition- agents who tahde 31 arrestst here since Thursday night. ' j < Only II of tho’se taken into custody have been able to provide bond the rest remaining in jail until trial during the October term of court. ROOSEVELT TO DEMANDPROBE New York Governor Is Interested In Graft Uncovered There Albany, N. Y., Aug. 16—(U.R) — Governor FTanklin D. Roosevelt has sent a telegram to District Attorney C. T. Grain of New York City asking for all records and a complete report on the Judge Ewald case, it was announced today. The governor's action was re-< garded as the first step toward a possible state investigation into alleged corruption in the New York city administration. Former Magistrate George F. Ewald, who was accused of having paid $12,000 for his appointment to the bench, was acquitted of the charge Thursday when a New York county grand jury failed to act in his case. Governor Roosevelt’s letter fol10WB • "Please send me at once a full (CONTINUED ON PAGE SIX) o Bluffton Doctor Dies Bluffton, Aug. 16. —(U.R) — Dr. James W. McKinney, 60, oldest practicing physician in Bluffton, died at hls home today. Dr. McKinney was well known In northern Indiana medical circles. The widow, three brothers and one sister survive. Funeral services will be held Sunday.

REV MILLER TO j GIVE ADDRESS > ! Substittuion Made For Union Service Here Sunday Night On account of the critical condition of Mrs. M. W. S’.inderman, > who underwent an operation at the Adams County Memorial Hospital Friday afternoon. Rev. Sunderinan j will be unable to deliver the sermon scheduled for the Union services,' Sunday evening. Rev. O. E. Miller, j ’ pastor of the Baptist church, will , preach the sermon in the place of , Rev. Sunderman. The service will begin at 7:30 o’clock and will be held at the Chris - tian church. The subject will b? I "The Power of a Spiritual Life," | and the regular program will be carried out. This will be the last Union Ser-' i vice sermon that Rev. Miller will I preach to the people of this city. | He and his family are leaving De catur for Mitchell where he will accept a new charge on September ■ 1 and the people of this city are urged to be present Sunday evening to hear Rev. Miller’s fareellw Union service sermon. It has not been definitely decidI ed which local pastor will conduct ’ the services on the following Suni day night. August 24. but in al! • probability will be Rev. Sunderman. 1 Stillborn Child Is Buried This Afternoon A stillborn baby was born to . Mr and Mrs. P.oy Kocher at their ( home on Eleventh street, at 8 o'clock this morning. It was the first child in the family and was nam- , ed Roy Kocher, Jr. ’ Surviving are the parents, Roy Kocher and Dolly Cook- Kocher, and Mr. and Mrs. Samuel Cook, ' grandparents, all of this city. ! Burial was held at 3 o’clock this ' afternoon at the Ray cemetery west of Monroe. ‘ o - i TO PROSECUTE IN PRISON RIOT Expose of Ohio State Fire And Tragedy Is Made Today [ Columbns, 0., Aug. 16 —(U.R) A. , flickering taper lighted by free-dom-mad convicts and timed to explode a can of highly volatile fluid while the prisoners were at I supper, started the Easter Monday I state penitentiary holocaust that cost 320 prisoners their lives. This picture, the portrayal of a tragedy almost unparalleled, was sketched by state officials today as it became known that two convicts suspected of implication in ' the plots, were lodged secretly in the city jail. At the same time it was reported that of four other supposed ring-leaders, two of them perished in the fire of their own 1 making and the other two, their minds twisted by the unexpected outcome of their handiwork, have gone mad. The arson plot, conceived as far back as last November, five ' months before the fire, was intended to loose 4,000 convicts on ’ the city. The fire department was , to have responded to the alarm and the prisoners, when ladder truckfi entered the prison walls M were to seize the ladders and use [ them to scale the walls. , But the taper was inaccurately . timed. It was too long. It was to have exploded the can of fluid while convicts in cell blocks G, H, ' I and K were at supper—at 4 p.m. ' (Instead it dickered pnd burr, d ' slowly and the convicts had been returned and locked in their cells k when, about 4:40 p.m. the taper did its work. 0 BULLETIN 1 Detroit, Mich., Aug- 16.—(U.R)— The coastile steamer Vegas loaded with 10,000 cases of beer was tied up at a Canadian dock across from Detroit today marking officials said, the failure of the first major . effort by rum runners to beat the ! Canadian export law. , Capture of the Vegas and its cargo, estimated to be worth at i least SIOO,OOO, bore out rumors ■ current here for months that a “rum-row" such as formerly existI ed off the Atlantic seaboard would be established on the Great Lakes 1 after enactment of the Candian export law.

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ZUTA'S BOOKS GIVE EVIDENCE Graft of Officials Is UnCovered In Accounts of Slain Gangster Chicago, Aug. 16. —(U.R)—State’s Attorney John A. Swanson and his assistants made public today evidence which they declared definitely linked numerous officials in uuiderworld activities of Jack Zuta, recently slain gangster lieutenant. The evidence was in the form of records which Zuta, a leader in the Moran-Aiello-Zuta North Side gang, kept during the years before he was shot down in a Wisconsin hotel resort. These records were found in two safety deposit boxes by Charles T. Rathbun, Chicago Tribune attorney, and Pat Roche, /hies investigator for Swanson. Both men are members of the special board of strategy investigating the murder of Alfred “Jake” Lingle, Trbune reporter. They have uncovered evidence indicating Zuta engineered the murder of Lingle and was then killed by his own gangsters, who feared he had “squealed." The records, they believed, were the most important evidence found in either case and believed they might lead to a solution of both murders. Some of the names which the investigators said they found in the Zuta records were those of Emanuel Eller, former municipal, superior and criminal courts judge; Joseph W. Schulman, a municipal court judge for many years; George Van Lent, former state senator and political leader; Louis I. Fisher, attorney and brother of a circuit court judge; and Richard J. Williams, sergeant of police. The names of these men, investigators said, appeared on canceled checks and notes. The Tribune today published a copy of a balance sheet which it stated was part of the Zuta records and which disclosed huge financial dealings of the North Side gang. Most of the names listed on this "balance sheet" were nicknames or addresses. One, listed as “East Chicago,” w’as said by the Tribune to indicate a police station. Other entries were translated as meaning George “Bugs" Moran, Barney Bertsche, and other known gangsters. The sheet showed receipts of $429,046.78; disbursements of $400,076.73, including the alleged personal items or withdrawals; profits on various enterprises, including one which apparently was a dog track, of $202,710.34; and losses on other ventures totaling $127,574.97. The balance sl|>et was headed “period ending Nov. 12, inclusive,” aud investigators said it represented! the financial dealings of the Moran-Aiello-Zuta combine for one week only. They found, they said, records for many other weeks, some of which would be more startling than tlie one released. Among the canceled checks made public was one for SSOO payable to the "Regular Republican Club of Cook county,” and signed by Zuta. It had a rubber stamp endorsement in which appeared the name of Charles V. Barrett, member of the board of review. Investigators declared they believed Zuta had retained many of the notes and checks as evidence to be used against officials with whom he had dealings in case they became “unmanageable.” One exhibit to which the officials attached importance was a courtesy card made out to Zuta and signed by former Sheriff Charles E. Graydon. Ft. Wayne Man Named » Head of N azarenes Hammond, Ind., Aug. 16.—(U.R) — On the 18th baiiot J. W. Montgomery, of Fort Wayne, was reelected superintendent of the Northern Indiana Nazarene assembly, breaking a tie with R. S. Rich, of Huntington. Although Montgomery was the favorite during most of the voting he did not receive the required majority until the 18th vote was counted late last night. Other cahdidates for the post were C. H. Strong Anderson; J. H. Strong, Des Moines, la.; anil F. H. Hammond. The conference in Hammond, which has been in session since Tuesday, will close tomorrow.

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Grandmother Flies rw* I I -w---l \ r i f t * - . < — Mrs. Joseph Holt, 80-year-old grandmother of Chicago Heights, 111., has proved that flying should not be reserved for youth. For several years she wanted to go up in a plane but always there were objections. She achieved her ambition on Thursday, however, when she boarded a plane and flew to Columbus, 0., where she will visit a niece. FLIERSWATCH MOTOR CLOSELY Jackson and O’Brine Continue to Add Hours to Endurance Record Lambert-St. Louis Field St. Louis Mo. Aug. 16 —(UP) —The motor of the endurance plane “The Greater St. Louis” was watched closely today for signs of bleak that might force Dale Jackson and Forrest O’Brine to return to earth. Termination of the longest flight ever made.by man depended entirely. the fliers agreed upon how long the motor could endure the strain of keeping the orange and yellow monoplane aloft. Observers at the field agreed the motor soon must give some indication of the strain it has been under almost four weeks, although it had shown no sign of weakening, except for excessive use of oil and some minor troubles that could be repaired in the air. Jackson and O’Brine were confident of reaching the 1,000-hour mark more than two weeks hence — which they had set as their goal. A‘ 7.11 A. M. the plane had been in continuous flight for 624 hours. The fliers had passed the Hunter Brothers' record by more than 79 hours and svere within 376 hours of I the goal they had set for themselves. In a note dropped just before the 136th refueling contact, the fliers said; “There is nothing to do now but just sit back and wait to- sec how long the engine will continue to function.” In postcript they added: “Tell those folks down there to go on home and we'l let them know in I plenty time to get out for the landing.” Except for minor repairs—changing of spark plugs, clearing of a blogged oil or gas line —the phenomenal tlight which bean 26 days ago has been uneventful and the plane has droned away the hours with monotonous regularity. Jackson and O’Brine took their (CONTINUED ON PAGE FIVE) 0 BULLETIN Indianapolis, Aug. 16 —(U.R) —Gov. Harry G. Leslie today told Sheriff Jacob Campbell, Grant county, to “treat those who took part in the negro lynching as mob men should be treated." Sheriff Campbell conferred with the governor regarding the lynching at Marion more than a week ago of two negroes, who purportedly confessed murdering a man and attacking his sweetheart. The governor did advise employment of caution in serving warrants based upon affidavits which have grown out of the investigation conducted by Prosecutor Harley Hardin.

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SOUTH PACIFIC HOLDS FATE OF SHIP REFUGEES Tahiti Reported Sinking; Passengers Take To Life Boats 160 MILES OFF NEAREST ISLES BULLETIN — Suva, Fiji Islands, Aug. 16. (Ujn Fully a dozen small life boats containing 300 passengers and crew members of the disabled steamer Tahiti bobbed on the surface of the South Pacific today while four rescue vessels raced to their assistance. Suva, Fiji Islands, Aug. 16—(U.R)—Two hundred men and women, many ot them prominent Americans, were adrift in small boats in the South Pacific today, fleeing »he foundered steamer ’1 ahiti. While a few members ot the crew remained to pump desperately in a Hooded engine room, according to last radio messages from Captain Toten, all passengers and most ot the crew were reported ordered to the life boats, as the engine room bulkheads gave way under the swells which have pounded against the vessel’s sides for nearly 24 hours. Although rescue vessels were speeding full steam toward the stricken ship, fears were felt for (CONTINUED ON PAGE SIXI —o Illinois Senator Who Exposed Gangs Dead Chicago, Aug. 16. — (U.R) — State Senator James Joyce, who went before the grand jury a few days ago with charges that gunmen rode in state’s attorney’s automobiles at a recent election, was found dead in his room in the Seneca hotel today. Coroner Herman N. Bundesen took personal charge of the case. He said he believed Joyce died of natural causes but would conduct a post mortem examination to make certain — o - Fort Wayne Man Dies Fort Wayne, Aug. 16 —William Wysong, 69, of 1413 Grant avenue, died Thursday night at 11 o’clock at his home after an illness of one and a half years. He had lived in this city for 14 years and had been employed at the Horton Manufacturing company plant for the last 12 years. Surviving are the widow, Clara; a daughter, Mrs. Gloy of Auburn; two brothers. Noah of Celina, 0., and Forrest of Indianapolis; a sister, Mrs. Hankins of Bluffton; five grandchildren and seven great-grand-children. Funeral services will be held Sunday at 2 p.m. at the residence with Rev. Harley Davis officiating. Burial will be in the cemetery at Bluffton. Mr. Wysong had several relatives in Decatur and Adams county, several of whom will attend the funeral. FRANK STRAUB IN ACCIDENT Local Man Taken to Fort Wayne Hospital After Mishap Frank Straub of this city and a woman, whose name was not divulget, were injured in an automobile accident Friday afternoon when the car which Straub was driving collided with an auto driven by a man by the name of White of Monroeville. Straub and his companion were headed for Fort Wayne and when tlie cars collided he was rendered unconscious. The accident occurred ' north of Decatur on state road 27. 1 A Fort Wayne ambulance was called and Straub and the woman ■ were taken to Fort Wayne, where I the woman, without identifying i herself jumped from the ambulance. ■ Straub was taken to a hospital • there where reports were that he was badly bruised and cut.