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Vol. XXVIII. No. 225.

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Hazel K. Groves, president of r the American State Bank of East • Chicago. Ind., who disappeared . last Friday. The widespread hunt for Groves was redoubled when 5 the bank examiners found a j shortage. POLICEDOyBT ; MURDER STORY f i »l 1 South Bend Man’s Confession Fails to Coincide With Facts I i South B nd. Ind., Sept. 23.—(U.R) r | Authorities expressed doubt today that the confession to the ■ murder of 8 year-old Marverine I I Appel made last night by George \ Myers, to, would stand up under '! investigation. ’I Myers, they said, confessed af- ’ ter long questioning that be had kidnaped and attacked the girl, then choked her to death with a piece of wire, left her body in a barn and later carried it to an : alley, where it was found the next >' day. "I Some of Myers’ remarks did not ’ coincide with known facts, authorities said, and they believed lie might be insane. He was question 'CONTINUED ON PAGE TWO) o dNEWARRESTS : ARE EXPECTED 13 I Indianapolis Shake- up '• I May Result in at Least 40 Jury Indictments ■i; Indianapolis. Sept. 23. — (U.R) Rumors of additional indictments in the Indianapolis police scandal were rampant today, with city, ( county, state anti Federal forces al! (Claiming a >-.nd in the investiga ' tion that has resulted in arrest of k 18 members of the force. Charges of wholesale corruption in the police d partinent were being investigated by the Marion county grand jury. Prosecutor Judson L. Stark, brother of one of the arrested officers, announced. j Stark said the jury held evidence . upon which the state will attempt h to obtain more titan 40 indictments ' against many of the more influent tial members of the police departI ment, as well as against lesser officers and patrolmen. The investigation follows the I Federal grand jury probe of an al- ' leged conspiracy between policemen and bootleggers which ended with the arrest of the 18 men. The prosecutor’s office has been I working on the case about a month, Stark said. Further arrests may come of charges that two policemen passed along word to to ‘’close R up," when the Federal activities n began, it was indicated. B All 18 officers were charged witli 1 accepting bribes or •■protection e motley," and a few were alleged to i- have been taking drinks in speakeasies.

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LUMBER FIRE CAUSES LOSS AT FT. WAYNE North Side Lumber Co., Destroyed; Lightning Believed the Cause LOSS SET AT $70,000 j Fort Wtivne, Sept. 23 (U.R)| Lightning struck the plant | 10l the North Side Luiftberl > company. Fort Wayne, and started a l ire which caused i $70,000 damage early today, I companv oflicials announced. A heavy rain prevented spread lof the names to other buildings, 1 although a stiff breeze fanned the i flames shooting high into the air. The plant had just been restocked with lumber. All available fire fighting apparatus in Fort Wayne was rushed to the fire and for a time control ( was impossible. As the rain be■anie heavier, it aided firemen some in abating the flames. People in nearby properties were ordered to prepare to leave their homes in case the fire spread and became completely uncontrolable. The entire north side of Fort Wayne was I’ghted by the blaze, which destroyed a great quantity of new lumber. Offices Open At Night In order to complete the work of issuing new’ certificates of deposit tor the old ones, a part of the plans for re-opening the Old Adams County bank, the officers have arranged to keep the bank open evenings, from 7:30 to 9:30. until the work is completed. This is dohe to accomodate the farmers and laboring men, whose work prevents them conveniently calling during the day. Announcement of plans will be made within a short time, it was stated today. TWO GANGSTERS APPEAR TODAY "Public Enemies” Will Face Judge Lyle in Chicago Court Chicago, Sept. 23.- (U.R) —Edward ‘ “Spike” O'Donnell and "Dago Law- ‘ rence” Mangano, both listed among Chicago’s "public enemies," faced today tlie ordeal which gangsters have learned to dread. They were scheduled for arraignment in the court of Judge John H. Lyle on charges of being vagrants under an old law’ of 1874. Their I I attorneys indicated they would ask I for jury trials. It was anticipated that Judge Lyle, following lus custom since a city wide war against criminals was launched, would set ' their bonds at SIO,OOO each. Mangano, sought by polce since Judge Lyle last week ordered that every one of the city’s 26 "public enemies” be brought before him, was arrested at his home. O’Donnell walked into a police station, 1 declared he was tired of “dodging ■ the cops" and said he was ready 1 to stand trial. The pair, both notorious for sev- ' eral years among the gangster leaders of Chicago, were the sec--1 < nd’and third of the 26 men arrested since Judge L.yle’s drive was 1 started. Danny Stanton, the first, was in a police cell when Lyle’s ’ orders were issued last week. 3 Screen Actress Sues i — j New York. Sept. 23.—(U.RL-Alma Rubens, former screen actress, has ■ forwarded to Los Angeles a petition for divorce from Ricardo Cortez, leading man, charging deser- ■ tion. The actress is quoted as saying, however, that the real reason she I is seeking a decree lies in her husband’s behavior just after she had i overcome the drug baMt. Cortez, she said, adopted a “hero” pose and tried to claim the credit for f curing her. I “It was my own 1)8106,” the act; ress declared. “My husband coni tributed very little toward helping me, most of the money coming from i women friends." i She asks for alimony, counsel > fees and $30,000 as her share in - property jointly owned in Los Angeles.

Decatur, Indiana, Tuesday, September 23, 1930.

Agriculture Year-Book For 1930 Distributed The year book of Agriculture for 1930 has been released by the Unit ed States Department of Agriculture for free distribution and copies are available at the county agent's office, it was announced today. The book contains a survey ot the agricultural conditions existing In the year 1929. County Agent, L. E. Archbold, stated today that anyone desiring a copy may secure one by writing or calling at the office ' in the near future. PRELIMINARY ; WORK STARTS ■ —- . i Delegates Meet In Effort to Form United States of Europe Geneva, Switzerland. Sept. 23z — (U.R) —Preliminary organization of Aristide Briand’s proposed "United States of Europe” was com--1 pleted today at a meeting of representatives of 27 European countries under the auspices of the League of Nations. Bria nd was appointed chairman and Cir Eric Drummond secretary l of the committee to organize the economic federation of states. Drummond, an Englishman, also is secretary general of the League of Nations. The meeting adjourned until January, to coincide with the meeting of the council of the league of nations. Drummond reminded the delegates that the economic federation of Europe was to be constituted within the framework of the league. Prior to the meeting, Canada issued a rebuff to the proposed ■ federation when Walter A. Riddell, advisory officer of the dominion credited to the league, asserted . that any system of European preferential tariff treaties would exclude imports from America. o Man Attempts Suicide Terre Haute. Ind., Sept. 23.—(U.R) ■ —Despondency over failure to find work was believed to have caused i the attempted suicide of Raymond I Pfifer, 26, at his rooming house here last night. He was reported by hospital attaches today to. be “doing nicely." Pfifer was found lying unconscious on the steps of his home by his landlady. A box which had contained poison powders was found nearby. DEATH CALLS OKELEYBABE Child’s Death Said to Have Resulted From Choking, Report Robert Edwin Okeley, 5 day old son of Mr. and Mrs. Herbert Ojteiey 1 died at 10:30 o’clock this morning at the home of its parents in Plea- ’ sant Mills. According to the at- ’ tendjng physician death was du< to asphyxia. The infant was born Friday at the home in Pleasant Mills and is the first child in the family. Surviving are the parents. Herbert and Flora Dague-Oketey, ’ the grandmother Mrs. James Okeley of this city, and a grandfather, John Wesley Dague of Pleasant Mills. Funeral services will be held Wednesday afternoon at 2 o’clock with short services at the home in Pleasant Mills. Gangster Faces New Charges In Indiana Rising Sun, Ind., Sept. 23. —(U.R) —Formal charges of aiding escape of prisoners, auto banditry and assault and battery with intent to kill were placed against Theodore Geisking, Indianapolis, when he was brought into court at Rising Sun yesterday. A plea of not guilty to each charge was entered by the prisoner’s attorney. Judge William D. Ricketts announced that the case would be held for the next term of ■ court, the December session. Meanwhile, the judge ordered, Geisking would be removed to the state reformatory at Pendleton because of the insecure condition of the jail at Rising Sun. Bond totalling $21,000 was fixed, SI,OOO on the first charge, and $lO,000 each on the second and third. I

LYCEUM COURSE OPENS MONDAY D. IL S. Seniors Sponsor Four-Program Series, Bockewitz Coming The first of a series of lyceum programs sponsored by the Senior Class of Decatur high school will be presented Monday evening September 29, at the high school auditorium. John Edward Bockewitz, note canonist ancj novelty entertainer will present the pro- ' gram which will begin at a o’clock "Nothing is dry but the chalk", i is the slogan usually applied to this entertainer. His novelty nuinbeis t will include “High Lights and Shad ows” a serio-comic entertainment, with humor, wit, and originality. One of the most interesting features on the program will lie the| exhibition of “doublemindedness."j This feat, which is entirely differ-, ent from anything else presented on I the platform, consists of writing.! not only backwards but upsi'de i down, quotations that are suggest ' ed by the audience. Two different | words are written at the same time,: one with each hand while Bockewitz ' .ecites poetry. The entertainer began to draw when he was four years old and at the age of 16 he was first sent out as a feature entertainer. Season tickets for the four programs included in the lyceum series are being sold by members of the Senior class arTcl may be secured for $1.50 for adults and sl.bO for students. Single admission price will be fifty cents. William Wisner Dies Word was received here this morning ot the death of William T. Wisner, who died at Richmond State Hospital. The Lobenstein and Doan funeral directors left to bring the body to the undertaking parlors in this city today. A wife Mrs. William Wisner, of Fort Wayne and relatives in Ossian survive. The funeral arrangements will be announced later. MISSING MAN “WAS IN DEBT" Police Say Groves May Have Disappeared Because of Debts East Chicago, Ind.. Sept. 23. —(U.R) — Disappearance of Hazel K. Groves, Lake county treasurer and banker, who lias been missing four days, was believed by police today to have resulted from his inability to repay creditors. Groves, a northern Indiana republican leader, “ran heavily into debt playing the stock market and it is possible he disappeared to avoid meeting creditors,” tlie police said. Although an investigation of the American State Bank of East Chicago, of which Groves was president. has not been completed, authorities said they believed the institution was sound. Except for an overdraft of slls in Groves’ personal account, there were no irregularities immediately found, it was said. Investigation of the institution's ledgers, started by officials after Groves disappeared, was to be completed today. Affairs of the county treasurer’s office were found in regular order, police said. It was intimated by investigators that they • believed other banks in Lake county may hold personal notes of Groves which he drew to meet the stock market speculations. Authorities, before entering the fifth day ot search for tlie missing official, admitted they were without clues. o Rotarians And Wives Are Invited to Auburn The Decatur Rotarians, their wives and sweethearts have been invited to attend a district meeting at Auburn, on Wednesday, October 1 as tlie guests of the Auburn Rotary club. In the afternoon there will be bridge and golf and in the evening a banquet will be served. District governor William Hodges will be the speaker at the meeting. Following the banquet there will be a dance. Several Decatur Rotarians and their ladies are planning to at tend the meeting.

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CONGRESS FOR CATHOLICS AT OMAHA TODAY Eucharistic Congress Opens Today With Ritualistic Service HUGE CROWD IS EXPECTED Omaha, Sept. 23 - (U.R)— To n I land hallowed by the blood of the i j heroic Padre Juan De Padilla, one : lof the earliest of American martyrs. to a territory where Father: I Peter De Smet, “most active of all 1 American missionaries” labored I for thirty years, came today the ifotv.ee of American Catholicism to ■participate in Hie sixth National I I Eucharistic congress. Tlie congress, first to lie held in ;19 years and the first to which - 1 laymen are invited, was formally [opened by Most Rev. Pietro Fuma ‘ soni Biondi, D. D.. Apostolic Dele- : [gate to the United States, who! i celebrated solemn pontifical high i I mass at St. Cecilia's cathedral at 9;30 a.m., today. The sermon was preached by Meet Rev. Francis J. L. Beckman, S.T.D., archbishop of Dubuque. From the throngs which poured into the city yesterday and early today it appeared likely that anticipations of sponsors of the con-' gross for 50,000’visitors will be fulfilled. Among those wno will attend i the congress are Cardinal Mundelein of Chicago, five archbishops. 50 bishops and 5,000 priests and' monsignori. Hundreds of nuns from surrounding cities also are in attendance. The city streets and public buildings were gaily decorated with the papal colors. The con-[ gross closes Thursday. The general theme of the gathering this year is: "The Blessed Eucharist, by Divine Institution. (CONTINUED ON PAGE TWO) BULLETIN Hartford City, Sept. 23—(UP) — A cmashup of 19 freight cars on the Pennsylvania Railroad resulted in a loss of $50,000 this morning at 6:30 o'clock. The accident took place at the Crumley Crossing, one and one sou-th miles north west of Dunkirk. Eleven of the cars were loaded with coal and the remainder with merchandise. The train was traveling at a speed of between 50 and 60 miles an hour when the pile up occurred. 0 THIEVES GET 55 CHICKENS Entire Flock IS Taken From Mary Reber Farm Last Night Chicken thieves are again busy in Adams county and last night 55 chickens were stolen from tlie farm of Mrs. Mary Reber in Kirkland township. The loot was Valued at about SSO. The chickens were mostly old hens, ready to produce eggs Sherilf Harl Hollingsworth today made an investigation, and a few dues have been secured. Many theft.: of’chickens have been report ed in northern Indiana lately and it is thought there is a large gang of thieves busy. The chicken houses, at the Reber farm are some distance front the house and the theft occurred some time after midnight last night. Every chicken in the houses were stolen. — — 'O’ Kos Found Guilty Indianapolis, Sept. 23 —(UP)—A Jury in criminal court today found Max S. Kos guilty on a charge of involuntary manslaughter, in connection with the deaths of two workmen whom lie struck with his auto. The conviction calls for a sentence of from one to ten years in state prison. Trial was before Judge Harvey A. Grabill. Arrested Twice Same Day For Intoxication Peru. Ind., Sept. 23.—(U.R) Two arrests on intoxication charges in . a single day- were made against Al- ! vin Smith. 45. He paid a fine of $lO and was sentenced to 15 da*s in jail.

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A full-fledged presidential boom will lie sprung for former Senator James A. Reed (above) of Missouri upon his return from Europe if he gives friends any encouragement. His friends will urge him to declare himself now and allow them Ito begin the fight for delegates at I once. WILLREMODEr CITY BUILDING Plans Are Approved At Special Council Meeting Monday Night Bids for the improvement of the city hall building and the building of a small addition at the rear for a work shop for city electricians w’ll be received by the city council on Tuesday, October 7. Plans for the two improvements, prepared by Pohlmeyer and Pohl meyer. architects of Fort Wayne, were approved by the council in special session last night. Tlie front of the first floor of the city hall building will be remodeled. Two large glass windows will l>e installed where the double doors are now located. The center entrance will be left where it is. Office space will be arranged for the city clerk anil city treasurer and there will be a counter for (CONTINUED ON PAGE TWO) o Alleged Attempt Made To Take Witness Away An attempt was made Saturday evening to induce Mae B. Denney, prosecuting witness in the charge of rape filed last week against J. A. Long, to leave the csty. It is said that during the evening a man whose identity has not been revealed, called at the Geo. Rathburn home, West High street, where the girl i>s employed as a domestic and offered her the sum of SI,OOO to accompany him to Chicago. The girl refused to go and the man went away. Last Monday night, one week ago, the Jerd Denney family, who live on the Ixrng farm about three miles west of the city, disappeared with the exception of the father. It was thought he had gone also but it was later found that he was working in the neighborhood and apparently hiding out at night. The disappearance of the Denney family was just previous to Long’s trial in the Adams circuit court. Ruby Denney, one of the prosecuting witnesses ami a sister of Mae B Denney, also disappeared with the rest of the family, and it became necessary to rearrest Long, as charges filed by Mae B. Denney had gone through three terms of court without being tried. At the same time, Prosecuting Attorney Zoe M. Wyatt and Jacob F. Denney, who is assisting Mrs. Wyatt, asked Judge Frank Gillesp'e for an order placing Mae B. Denney under surveillance until the time set for trial, October 6. This was granted. Since the attempt was to bribe the girl to leave the city, a special guard has been detailed to guard the girl. The prosecuting attorney has not revealed the name of this guard—Portland Sun.

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SHORT SELLING CAUSES DROP, CHAIRMAN SAYS Secretary Hyde Expresses Similar Opinion Concerning Low Values MESSAGE TO BOARD OF TRADE Washington, Sept. 23 (U.R) - Chairman Alexander Legge of the federal farm board believes the wheat market should be protected against speculative trading such as officials suspect Soviet Russia has been engaging in by selling short on the Chicago board of trade. Leggo today joined Secretary of Agriculture Hyde in charging that short selling by the aJI-Russian textile syndicate hail a part in causing the recent decline in wheat prices. He said he believed the federal government was able under the grain futures act of 1922 to stop such practices and is confident the government has the power to ciose any market. As was the case when the wheat problem was free of foreign entanglements and merely appeared in the shape of uncomfortably low prices, the situation is developing political angles. Senator Brookhart, Repn.. la., Senator Caraway, Dem., Ark., and Rep. Fish. Repn., N.Y., have indicated their opinion that the Russian short selling incident lias emphasized the advantage of closer control of futures trading. Caraway’s charge that Hyde was using the Russian short selling as an alibi for what the Senator described as the farm board’s failure beoame public about the time Legge was supporting Hyde’s conclusions. "Part of this recent decline.” Legge said, "was due to heavy Russian selling. Tlie ordinary seller can deliver wheat, but Soviet Russia cannot deliver wheat here. I am at a loss to understand -what is behind it. but I do think it has depressed prices. "I think the hoard's regulations should not permit these purely speculative transactions, but that, doesn't mean necessarily that speculative traders should be driven from the market." The business conduct committee of the Chicago board of trade has asked Hyde for specific informa(CONTINUED ON PAGE TWOI 0 ~, Attend Methodist Meet Rev. B. H. Franklin and F. V. Mills of this city attended the conference of the Methodist Episcopal institute at Ossian Monday. The meetings included morning, afternoon. and evening sessions ami were held at the Ossian Methodist church with Rev. G. A. Snider, pas , tor, in charge. Speakers for the day included Rev. J. Thomas Bean, : uperinti'U- . dent of the Fort Wayne dis trict, and Dr. Samuel Callen, pastor of the. First Presbyterian church at Fort Wayne. Meals were served at the church L by women of the congregation. > o--ASKS BISHOP CANNON TO QUIT ) Bishop Dubose Writes August 18 Seeking “Church Harmony” i t Nashville, Tenn., Sept. 23.—(U.R) > Bishop James Cannon, Jr., against . whom ecclesiastical charges have . been filed, has been urged by his ( fellow-prelate, Bishop Horace M. . Duboise, to resign and thus relieve t a "painted and distressed feeling” i in the Methodist Church, South. 5 Duboise to resign and thus releive had written Cannon Aug. 18, ask- ' ing him to make the sacrifice for j the benefit of church harmony. . Copies of the letter were sent to - all bishops of the church, Dubose . said. 1 "I did not undertake to tell him '■ what to do,” the Tennessee prelate stated, “but 1 did suggest that 3 he make the sacrifice to restore 1 harmony in the church because of 3 the dissatisfaction expressed 5 against him for reported dealings — — (CONTINUED ON PAGE TWO)