Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 28, Number 227, Decatur, Adams County, 25 September 1930 — Page 1

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Mrs. ‘'Casey’ Jones «•** 4 v Sit ■' " Wil . r ■ ~ -J - j- MMMMMMHHBHHN No mythical personage, but a brave man of fle-li and blood who obeyed orders, and. obeying them, went to his death, was “Casey" Jones, hero of the popular railroaders' ballad. And here’s proof. This is Mrs. John Luther Jones of Memphis. Tenn., widow of Casey, w-ho is in Chicago for the Traveling Engineers' convention.

PRESBYTERY ENDS MEETING Rev. H. H. Ferntheil And C. I). Teqple Honored at Huntington Session The fall session of the Fort Presbytery held at Huntington this week was concluded yesterday with the naming of <b legates to the Fall Synod of the Presbyterian church to he held October 7, 8. and !» at Indianapolis. The Rev. H. 11. Ferntheil. pastor of the Decatur Presbyterian church was named an alternate to the Synod. The delegates ami alternates to the meeting are: It v. 11. M. Allburt, Huntington; Rev. (’. O Shiry. Fort Wayne; ! Rev. D. R. Wilson. Pierceton; Rev. fl. H. Bachelor. Ligonier; Rev. A. P. Bourns, Fort Wayne; Rev. Samuel Call n, Fort Wayne; Rev. Paul Chalfant, Columbia City. The al ternates are, Rev. lames L. chest nut, Fort Wayne; Rev. H. F. Craven, Auburn; Rev. .1. A. Gordon. Winona: Rev. H. J. Jordan, Garret; Rev. J. E. Agans, Ossian. The seven elders elected to attend this year are C. N. Trusstell, of Goshen; F. G. Smetzly, of Howe; F. E. Berlin, of Nappanee; E. E. Rupright, of Ossian; Fred Kontp, of Pleasant Lake; J. C. Marchand, of Troy church, and George Harrison, of CCdumbia City. The seven alternates will be seb cted from the seven churches fidlowing on the roster of the Presbytery. C. D. Teeple of Decatur was named to fill a vacancy on the Foreign Mission committ e. Other appointments are: The vacancies on the Program and Field Activities committee were filled by Frederick Cromer, of Winona Lake, M. E. Runden. of Kendallville; A. E. K< By, of Ligoneer, and E. H. McKee, of Westfieid. The next quarterly meeting of the Presbytery will be held in Fort Wayne in December. o ■■— Goshen Attorney Dies Goshen, Ind., Sept. 25 —(U.R) Benjamin F. Dealt!, 67, prominent Goshen lawyer, died early today of a heart attack. He was former mayor of Goshen and was active in Democratic politics. Probe Woman’s Death Martinsville, Ind., Sept. 25. —(U.R) —A grand jury investigation will be opened tomorrow into the sudden death of Mrs. Carrie Thelma Pryor last August 19, shortly after her husband. Ernest, had taken out a $3.w00 insurance policy on her life. A report "by the state chemist indicated that death was due to arsenic poisoning. Pryor is held in jail pending completion of the investigation.

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Talks Against German Alliances With Nations • Leipzig. Germany, Sept. 25 —(UR) —Adolph Hitler, leader of the National Socialist (Fascist) party, told the federal court today that if he came into power in Germany, he would employ every means, including illegal ones, to evade the fulfillment of international treaties by Germany. I He stressed the assertion that he intended to grasp power in Germany only by legal means, but without referring specifically to the Versailles treaty or Young , plan, he made it plain that he would go to any length to qpset , the post war committees accepted ! by previous governments. o REEDFORWARDS REPEAL PLANS Former Senator Makes Drastic Suggestions Against Dry Laws Washington. Sept. 25. —(U.R) — Former Senator James A. Reed of Missouri today stood sponsor for one of the strongest anti-prohibi-tion platforms thus far proposed. I His program calls for: 1 Immediate repeal of the Volstead act. 2 Repeal of the eighteenth amendment as soon as possible. 3 State control of liquor without federal assistance but with each state having authority to seize liquor imported for distribution within its boundaries in interstate commerce. This declaration by Reed places him ahead of other possible Democratic presidential nominees on th' prohibition repeal program. Governor Franklin D. Roosevelt of New York has declared for repeal of the eighteenth amendment, but for substitution of an amendment to protect state enforcement of prohibition. Senator Joseph T. Robinson of Arkansas, vice-presi-dential nominee in 1928, is a prohibition supporter. "The Volstead act should be repealed immediately,” Reed declared in announcing his program. "It should have been written in blood by a dragon and not by a modern legislature. I "It was drawn by fanatics who ' crowded into it all of the atrocl- | ties from all of the state laws.” Reed said he expected little to come from President Hoover’s law enforcement commission. "It is obvious now that the people of the United States have given this ‘noble experiment’ a thorough trial and that it has been the most ghastly failure of the century. It has created mbre crime than any other law in the last 100 years.” Reed provided another campaign issue by charging the business depression to the tariff and government interference with business. (CONTINUED ON PAGE TWO)

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Decatur, Indiana, Thursday, September 25, 1930.

MEN'S CONGRESS WILL BE HELD HERE SUNDAY Reformed Church Men of Fort Wayne Classis to Hold Annual Meet GOOD SPEAKERS ARE OBTAINED One of the most important' religious meetings of the year to be held in Decatur will take place next Sunday when several hundred men. members! of the Reformed churches of I the Fort Wayne Classis, will I gather here for the sixth an-i nual men’s congress. A great program, starting at 10 o'clock Sunday morning, and lasting all day. has been arranged by the program committee. The day's program will be conducted on central standard time Edwin E. Pats. of the Giace Reformed church of Fort Wayne Is president of the 1930 Congress. Other officers are: Dr. Nevin E. Bretz, Goshen, vice-president; Harold Pifer, Plymouth, secretary; Richard E. Hughes, Bluffton, treasurer; Ed C. Close, Fort Wayne, chorister; Dwight Campbell, Fort Wayne, organist. Officers are elected during the afternoon session each year and the business session here Sunday afternoon also will include a treasurer’s report and reports of the nomination and resolution committees. ’ Last year about 1.000 men of Re formed churches of northern Indiana attended the meeting at Fort Wayne and it is predicted that the Decatur meeting next Sunday will have a larger attendance. Dr. Josias Friedli, professor of Historical Theology. Mission House college. Plymouth, Wisconsin, will deliver the morning address. Dr. Friedli is regarded as one of the leading speakers of the church. Professor J. Raymond Shutz, of Manchester college, North Manchester, will deliver the afternoon address. Following is the program as anI (CONTINUED ON PAGE THREE) Bluffton Woman Elected

Lafayette, Ind.. Sept. -25. —(U.R) — At the election of officers of the Synodical Woman's Missionary Society, Reformed church, Mrs. W. A. Allspach, Bluffton, was again chosen president, and other officers elected were: Vice-president, Mrs. Bernard Maas, Louisville, Ky.; second vice-president, Mrs. J. W. Hawk, Lafayette; recording secretary, Miss Emma Baumer, Louisville, Ky.; statistical secretary, Mrs. J. N. Nally, Dakota, ill.; treasurer, Mrs. Abram Simmons, Bluffton, and historian, Mrs. Margaret Bretz, Goshen. o BARR MAY BE NAMED CHIEF X * Bank Examiner Slated to Head Department After October 1 Indianapolis, Sept. 25. — (U.R) — Thomas D. Barr, assistant state bank examiner, probably will succeed Luther F. Symons as chief of that department when Symons’ four-year term expires October 1, it was learned authoritatively today. It also was believed that Symons will again take the position of assistant which he held under Barr at one time. Barr had been appointed to serve the unexpired term of Eben V. Wolcott and Symons was assistant. Under the regime of former Governor Ed Jackson, Symons 'was made chief of the department and Barr Ills assistant. Symons has not made formal application to Governor Harry G. Leslie for he said, making no further comment on the situation. Another appointment for October 1, is that of the state insurance commissioner. Reports were current today to the effect that Leslie has agreed to let Clarence C. Wy(CONTINUED O*N PAGE TWO)

Rally Day Planned At Christian Church Sunday, September 28, will be observed as Rally day and promotion day at the Christian church, and plans are being perfected to make It one of the most successful days ever held at the church, it was an nounced. A special program has been planned and will be presented at the Sunday School hour. The adult classes will observe Rally day. while in the graded department promotion day will be held. STATE PRISON NEEDS FUNDS Deficit of $17,000 Is Reported to Auditor at Conference Indianapolis. Sept. 25.—(U.R) — The Indiana state prison trustees and Warden Walter H. Daly conferred with State Auditor Archie N. Bobbitt at the statehouse today, making settlement for the fiscal year, ending September 30. It was said the board would ask the state finance committee to advance $17,000 of the prison’s funds for next year, because of a deficit this year. ’ An increase of two cents a day for the food budget, making about 17 cents a day per prisoner, had served to increase prison operation costs, John Moorman. Knox, chairman of the board, announced. He also said that addition of two probation officers, making the number four, had added to ex(CONTINUED ON PAGE TWO) —o Trial Jury Disagrees Connersville. Ind.. Sept. 25 —<U.R) —A Jury in the trial of A. Carl Carter, former mayor of Connersville, on an embezzlement charge, was unable to reach a verdict after 11% hours deliberation and was discharged today by Special Judge John W. Craig, Greensburg. Carter is alleged to have embezzled $l3O paid him as fines and court costs while serving as cityjudge. It Was understood 15 ballots were taken. No date has been set for retrial.

IGNORANT IN STATE, 52,034 Indiana Ranks Twelfth in Proportion of National Illiteracy Indianapolis, Sept. 25. —(U.R) — Figures received from Washington today showed that 2.2 per cent of Indiana's papulation was illiterate and the state ranked twelfth in the 48 states in proportion of Illiteracy. Indiana’s total was said to be 52,034, a decrease over ten years hgo, when the percentage was 3.1. The total of illiterate native whites was nearly 5,000 greater than combined totals for a group of 13 states, it was pointed out. The figures were received by the recently appointed commission on illiteracy from Ray Lyman Wilbur, secretary of the interior. Os the total illiterates in the state, all but 1,887 were of voting age. Native white illiterates totaled 27,929; foreign born white illiterates totaled 17,555 and illiterate negroes number 7.476, Craw-ford county, with an illiteracy of 4.9 per cent, was the most illiterate county in the state. Steulwn. with a percentage of three-tenths of one per cent, was the least illiterate Counties hiving more than 1,000 illiterates were: Marion, 5,839; Lake, 9,627; Allen. 1.987; St. Joseph. 2,439; Vandersburg, 1.940; Vigo, 1,937; and Madison, 1,028. 0 Kendallville Man Killed Kendallville, Ind., Sept. 25.—(U.R) —A fall from the second floor of the barn at the home of August Rendez, 62, cost him his life. Kendel had gone to the loft of the barn to remove an old iron kettle. Up lost his balance and fell backwards from the top of a 20-foot ladder. His head struck a wheelbarrow and his back was broken. Rendel was prominent in northern Indiana Masonic circles. His widow survives.

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MRS.COAT COD* DEATH'S VICTIM Prominent Decatur Lady Dies at Home of Son in Root Township Mrs. Mary Cook. 84, wife of the late Coaf Cook and long a resident of Adams county died at the home of her son, David Cook, in Root township at 4:40 o’clock this morning. Death was due to influenza and followed an immediate illness ' of one week. On Thursday, September 18. I Mrs. Cook contracted this malady and on last Saturday was removed from her home on North Fifth street, this city, to the home of her son, David in Root township. Prior to this illness Mrs. Cook had been in fair health. She was born in Fairmount cotinty. Ohio. May 23, 1845. the daughter of William and Christina Bartling, both deceased. In the year 1869 she was united in marriage to Coat Cook who preceded her in death four years ago. In 1919 Mr. and Mrs. Cook celebrated their fiftieth wedding anniversary i in this city. Surviving are six children. Charles and David Cook both of Root township: Mrs. Aurora Mann es Root township: Mrs. Ida Fisher of Paw Paw. Michigan; Mrs. Edith Singleton of Albion, and Will Cook at home. Twenty-three grandchildren, and G great grandchildren also survive. She was a devoted member of the Methodist Episcopal church of this city and was formerly a member of the W. C. T. U. The deceased was well known in this city where she spent the greater part of her life. Funeral arrangements have not been completed. — o Tta Complete Plans | Indianapolis, Sept. 25 —(U.R) —Finjsd legislative recommendationswill I be drafted by the state school aid icommission at a meeting NovemI her 17. it was announced by Chairman Arthur Sapp, Huntington. today. Yesterday's meeting of the commission was taken up with discussion of two bills, incorporating recommendations for school relief, which may be submitted to the legislature.

o Attorney Is Attacked Valparaiso, Ind., Sept. 25.—(U.R) — Ira C. Tilton, lawyer, was suffering today from wounds allegedly inflicted by Dr. W. F. Smith, and his brother, William, Hobard auctioneer. Tilton questioned the character of the Smiths during the recent trial of Nicholas Vandera on a murder charge. He was attorney for the defense, and they were state witnesses. INDIANAPOLIS HAS CLEAN-UP Gambling Houses Get Brunt of Many Police Squad Raids Indianapolis, Sept. 25.— (U.R) — Bonds had been provided today for most of the 80 persons arrested late yesterday in a series of liquor and gambling house raids in Indianapolis. Police Chief Jerry Kinney issued orders that the city must be cleaned up. following indictment last Saturday of 18 members of the police force by Federal agents, with intimations that corruption was widespread in the department. I.i ttle opportunity was given patrolmen to tip off places to be raided, should they have desired to do so. Squad car after squad ear was sent out to conduct a raid, with no one in the machine aware of the intended victim until departure. With one exception the raids were orderly. Virgil Morris, 24, and Mortis Becker endeavored to escape in an auto and were fired upon several times by police in a squad machine before they lialted. Gambling houses, which Federal officers have said were dperating “wide open’’ in the city, bore the brunt of the attack In only two instances were arrests made on liquor charges.

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Mrs. Cook Dies B I IK hT w \ I '’• ♦> ’’ •.<<;" I Mrs. Coat Cook, prominent Decatur woman died at the home of her son, this morning. Death resulted from an attack of influenza. FISHER ASKS TIME TO PLEAD Decatur Man Held In Jail Unable to Furnish $1,00(1 Bail Homer Fisher, arraigned in Adams circuit court on a charge of second degree rape, asked for more time in which to plead. The request was granted by the court and Fisher’s bond was set at SI,OOO. He was unable to provide the bail and was ordered returned to Adams county jail, until further order of the court. Fisher was arrested at Sturgis, Michigan last Monday in company with a young Decatur girl. Both were returned to Decatur and Fisher first was arraigned on a juvenile court charge. Later he j was arraigned in circuit court on the second degree rape charge. Fisher and the girl are both at the Adams county jail. It is-und-erstood the girl is now on parole from a state institution. She was first sentenced from Grant county and probably will be returned to i that court. HYDE, LAMONT, LEGGE CONFER

Board of Trade Representatives Attend Wheat, Confab Washington, Sept. 25. —(U.R) — Secretary of Agriculture Hyde, Chairman Legge of the farm board and Secretary of Commerce Lamont met today with representatives of the Chicago board of trade here in a conference which was understood to concern the short selling of wheat by soviet Russia in the Chicago pit. The board was represented by Silas IT. Strawn, counsel, and James Norris. Peter P. Carey and Siebel C. Harris. The conferees refused to discuss the purpose of their meeting before entering tlie conference room at the department of agriculture. Tlie board of trade’s conduct committee continued its investigation yesterday in Chicago into charges tliat a soviet Russian agency had sold wheat short, but adjourned until tomorrow without announcement and without hearing anv witnesses. The meeting here today began almost simultaneously with reports from Chicago that the soviet government had reversed its policy and now was covering its short selling by buying heavily through its brokers. Hyde has been asked to appear before an investigating committee of the federal farm board which will begin hearings in Chicago Oct. 29. o — Injuries Are Fatal Indianapolis, Sept. 25—(UP)—Injuries suffered in an auto accident near Franklin Tuedsay night, today resulted in the death of Dave Meggs address unknown. Identification was made from letters found in the man’s pocket. Robert Long Hospital authorities today were attempting to communicate with a brother of the dead man, Guss Meggs of Tulot, Ark.

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THELMA MYERS FIRE VICTIM; HOME DAMAGED Kerosene Explodes When Girl Attempts to Start Fire In Stove FATHER’S ACT MAY SAVE LIFE Thelma Myers, 16-year-old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Moses Myers was critically 1 burned and the interior of the Myers home and furniture were damaged when a stove exploded at 6 o’clock this morning at the Myers home, 2 miles south of this city in Washington township. Miss Myers was building a fire and was in the act of pouring kero- | sene into the stove from a 5-gallon can which was three fourths full of oil, when the stove exploded, bursting the can of kerosene, and igniting her clothing. The interior of the kitchen was immediately in flames and the girl (an from the house into the back yard where her father, Moses Myers, and her brother, Elmer Myers, tore the clothing from her body and poured water on her to extinguish the fire. Elmer Myers received painful burns to his arms while helping extinguish the fire. The furniture in the kitchen and surrounding rooms was badly burn ed before the fire could be extinguished. A physician was summoned who dressed Miss Myer’s wounds which were largely on her face, aims, and body. He stated that it was not likely the girl inhaled the flames, but that her burns were of a serious nature and iter condil tion late this afternoon was critical. Little* hope was held for her recovery. The loss of furniture and interior fixtures of the house was estimated at several hundred dollars. The farm is owned by Mrs. Johanna Brown of this city and is tenanted by the Moses Myers family. —o Hodges Visits Rotary Club Here Tonight William Hodges district governor of Indiana Rotary Clubs will make his official visit to the Decatur Rotary club this evening. Governor Hodges will deliver a short addres at the meeting and following the meeting wil! meet with the ehatitnen of the different committtees.

Claims Gamblers Were Tipped On Raid Plans Indianapolis, Sept. 25 —(UP) — Tintimation that gamblers and booileggers in Indianapolis had been "tipped off" before a series of raids by police squads yesterday afternoon. was made today by Paul C. Wetter, Municipal Court Judge. NEW YORK G.O.P. IN CONVENTION Republicans May Divorce Selves From Prohibition Endorsement By Thomas G. Ford. UP Staff Correspondent Ablany, N. Y„ Sept. 25. (U.R)— The republican party in New York stood on the brink today of divorcing itself from prohibition. Conferences among state leaders, prior to the opening of the convention at noon failed to bring about a settlement of the wet-dry controversy, which threatens to split the party and recreate the prohibition party under a different title. Drys, in the face of defeat of their demands for a platform placing the party on record for enforcement of the prohibition law, prepared to go into the general election with a candidate of their own. It was predicted that upstate lead ers would accept membership on the resolutions committee, which is to be named today, to direct personally the drafting of a plank which would call for repeal of the 18th amendment. The tentative slate, while it took a position of secondary importance (CONTINUED ON PAGE TWO)