Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 28, Number 230, Decatur, Adams County, 29 September 1930 — Page 1

DECATUR DAILY DEMOCRAT

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Vol. XXVIII. No. 230.

DOM GOV. ROOSEVELT FOR PRESIDENCY

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x -wx i Er ? PS ! (left) Bhow7l in 11,8 l ail cell at Martinsville, Ind., where he is held on a charge of killing his wife with poison so he could marry her second cousin. Francis Pryor (riglit). his 3-year-old son, is being- cartHl for by his grandmother, Mrs. Alva Sink.

MANT PLANNING TO ATTEND MEET Popular Speakers Will Open Democratic Campaign Here Wednesday Word has been received that delegations of Democrats from Geneva. Berne. Monroe. Pleasant Mills, Preble and Friedheim will attend the county Democratic campaign opening in Decatur Wednesday night when Walter Meyers, Indianapolis attorney and prominent Hoosier Democrat is scheduled to speak here. Mrs. Faye Smith Knapp of this city, prominent in city and county politics also will address the audience and Floyd Williamson. Indianapolis, Democratic candidate for state auditor will accompany Mr. Meyers to this city. A-l>and will be secured to provide music before tlie meeting, Chairman Ed A. Bosse stated today and indications are the court room will be filled for the first political meeting of the year. D. B. Erwin, Democratic candidate for circuit court judge, who has opened the county campaign for the last 20 years will introduce (CONTINUED ON PAGE FIVE) MARTIAL LAW ISDECLAREO Alabama Town Calls On National Guard To Protect Negro Huntsville, Ala., Sept. 29. —(U.R) —Gov. Bibb Graves ordered martial law declared here today to avert threatened mob violence against G. H. Henderson, negro, confined in the county jail on suspicions of murdering H. E. Ross and wounding his wife. Maj. Raymond Jones, commanding officer of the 127th. battailion a national guard engineering unit, wan ordered to take charge. He ordered out a company equipped w:th machine guns, tear gas bombs and rifles. Local militia men guarded the jail during the night, after a mol> of 500 men gathered nearby. Ross, a Huntsville business man, and ills wife, were shot by a negro whom they caught burglarizing their home. However, Mrs. Ross failed positively to identify Henderson as the slayer. o Ohio Man Gets Car James Fetters of Carey. Ohio was awarded the Austin automobile given away by the Delta Theta Tan chapters at the Bluffton Street Fair Saturday night. The local sorority | participated in the sale of the car. Deputy Auditor Says State Has Some Money Indianapolis, Sept. 29. —(U.R)-The state will end the fiscal year. September 30, with a balance of apI proximately $1,500,000, It was esti--1 mated today from figures compiled I by Lewis Johnson, deputy auditor. Balances at the end of the last four fiscal years were as follows: 1929, $2,993,085; 1928, $4,236,637; 1927, $1,804,780, and 1926, $8,000,284,

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Mexican Beet Worker Uninjured in Accident An accident occurred at the WinChester Street closing at the Nickel plate railroad. Saturday afternoon at' 3:30 o'clock when a Mexican I beet worker from Monroe, drove his automobile into a slowly mor- | ing engine on the track. George Winters, watijiman at the dossing i was on duty and motioned to the i driver of the autoiHobile to stop. The stop signals and warning bells at the crossing were also working. ■ The front of the small machine was ' badly damaged, but the driver, the only occupant of the car, was not 1 injured. ’ o D.C.H.SI CLASSES NAME OFFICERS — Flotilda Harris Heads Seniors; Ed Lose Is Frosh President i Miss Flotilda Harris, senior a* Decatur Catholic high school will lead ,; that class through its final year, ■I having been chosen president of the > I senior class at the annual organiza I tion meeting of the various school I classes. Other Senior officers are: Margaret Vian, vice-president Marcellas Miller, secretary;' Arthur Krick, treasurer: Monica Heimann, histor- . ian; Sr. M. Vera and Cr. M. VenasI tasia, guardians. Junior Officers Naomi Faurote was elected president of the Junior class of Decatur I Catholic high school. Charles Omlor was named vice-president; Salome Schmitz was elected secretary and Mary Ann Lose, treasurer. Patricia Holthouse was elected class his- ) torian and the class chose Sr. M . Benigna as its class guardian. ’ (CONTINUED ON PAGE TWO) ■ SOME OPTIMISM IS EXPRESSED 1 ’ Barnes' Report Says Sav- > ings Deposits Are > Making Gains > Washington, Sept.' 29—<U.R)—In--1 creased savings deposits, itnprov- " ed conditions in building and loan ■ activities and a sounder position ' for the textile industry were the exceptions to a generally depressed business trend revealed today in a report made by Chairman Julius Barnes of President Hoov- ? er’s business survey conference. At the same time a report by iI the foreign commerce department r; of the chamber of commerce of the I United States showed that of a total of 69 principle markets for American goods only seven show’ ed increases in the first half of 1930. ’ In the Barnes report, which attempted no interpretation or (CONTINUED ON PAGE TWO) o At Fort Wayne Hospital i Burt Townsend of Lexington, Ky t who has been ill for the las* several : weeks at this home here on Adams ; street was removed today to a Fort - Wayne hospital. This condition was reported to be worse today.

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GANG LEADERS PLAN EXPOSE OF OFFICIALS Chicago Police Officers Transferred in Effort To Stop “Pay-Offs” TWO LEADERS ARE IN JAIL I Chicago, Sept. 29 —(U.R) —Decen-1 cy’s forces advariced along several fronts today in Chicago’s organized drive against crime, but into the midst of the unprecedented activities was hurled newsipaper charges that gangstM's were planning a countercharfre by making a monster "payoff” to corrupt officials. Among the activities scheduled for the day was the transfer of a number of detectives in an effort to eliminate the spy in the department who gave the Scarface Al Capone gang police orders before the police got them themselves. Two of the city's 26 “public enemiee," Terry Druggan and “Mike De Pike” Heitler, were under guard in hospitals. Druggan was to appear for trial on charges of evading the Income tax laws. Heitler was wanted as a vagrant. Three other “enemies" were under bonds. Others, including Capone, were in hiding, their homes surrounded by policemen with orders to arrest the gangsters on sight and charge them with being vagrants under the strict old law of 1874. At the suggestion of Chief Justice John P McGoorty, one of the jurists who started the organized drive against gangsters, a squad of police was ctommissioned to attend a labor union election and (CONTINUED ON PAGE TWO) o Grandson of Chester Buehler Is Killed A telegram was received today by Mathias Kirsch, local banker, informing him of the death of Chester Buehler's grandson at Hammond. Indiana. Sunday night. The message did not state how the boy was killed. Funeral services will be held Wednesday. Mr. Buehler formerly lived here and the grand son was a son of his daughter who lived here. REPUBLICANS GROOMLEADER Husband of- State Treasurer May Be 1932 Candidate For Governor Cambridge City, Ind., Sept. 29 — (U.R)— Indiana Republicans were entertained at dinner laet night at the country home of Mr. and Mrs. Franklin S. Reynolds, near Cambridge City. Mrs. Reynolds, known at the statehouse as Grace Banta Reynolds, is state treasurer. Informal conversation at the affair mentioned Reynolds as a possible candidate for the Republican nomination for governor. He . is president of the First National Bank of Rushville and owns furniture factories at Rushville and Cambridge City. Senator and Mrs. Arthur Robinson, Indianapolis, and Congressman Richard N. Elliott, Connersi ville, attended. i State officials present included: i Otto G. Fifield, secretary of state; ■ Archie Bobbitt, state auditor; Genevieve Brown, reporter of suI preme and appellate courts; Roy • M. Wisehart, superintendent of public instruction, and Charles Biederwoif, clerk of the supreme and appellate courts. Raymond S. Springer, Republi- . can -chairman of the sixth dis- ■ trict, and Clarence Brown, Richmond, former district chairman, ' were among the several candidates for state and county offices who met Republican voters and ■ party workers. o —; • Is Fined at Bluffton Ezra Metzger of Decatur was fined $lO and costs in the Wells County Circuit Court at Bluffton Satur- ! day, on a charge of intoxication. He was arrested on Main Street at II Bluffton Friday night and appeared jin court Saturday morning.

I’- — ll WILLIAMSON COMING I I Adams county school teach- 1 era are invited to attend the Democratic political meeting here Wednesday night at 8 j o’clock and hear Floyd Williami son, candidate for auditor of I state and former school teach- l ! er. Williamson at present con- j ducts a teacher’s employment 1 bureau and is well-known I among educational circles of | the state. i, j STANDARD TIME IN USE AGAIN Clocks Turned Back In Northern Indiana Cities Over Week-end Decatur moved back officially to central standard time today using the fast time since last April. . Clocks were turned back Saturdaynight at midnight and today schools, factories, offices and stores opened with the old gched- . ule. Almost all other towns and cit-! ies in Indiana and Illinois using the fast time during the summer months changed back Sunday.! , Chicago, and all cities in the Caln- j met region. Fort Wayne, Hunting- . ton. Auburn. Garrett and Michigan I City were among those turning j i back. There has been much agitation I in Decatur and within the Decatur (CONTINUED ON PAGE THREE) q SHIP AND CREW ► LOST ON LAKE — i Young Captain, Bride. Believed Lost In Ocean Storm Chicago, Sept. 29. — (U.R) — Dake ■ Michigan, sere again after winter’s I ‘ first storm had taken its toll of at least two ships and five lives, 1 held today the fate of a young captain, his bride of two weeks and his crew of four men. ’ Airplane pilots and cost guardsmen who made an intensive search of the lake practically abandoned hope of finding the fruit packet, North Shore, which disappeared! during Friday’s storm with ('apt ! | Erwin Anderson, four sailors, and . | Anderson’s 18-year-old bride aboard. The voyage was the Anderson's honeymoon. The packet, loaded with grapes, was en route from Benton Harbor. Mich., to Milwaukee when it was caught in a 50-mile gale that whiped the lake into a fury, battered - the coast line, sank the barge Sale vor and the schooner Our Son and t gave lake states their first taste of '■ (CONTINUED ON PAGE THREE) SCHOOL TERMS ? 1 ; ARE UNDERWAY 3 1 1 Local Schools Return To Central Time; Personnels Are Good i- _____ ' Schools in Decatur and throughout Adams county were running on : standard time today and with the ’> street fair and other fall activities I over, pupils of all grades and high '■ school settled down to the first sef mester’s work. f County Superintendent C. E. s Striker stated that the amount of a work to cover in the county schools this term is larger than usual but i- that with the efficient teaching i- staffs each school has. the work i- will be accomplished. i, Decatur’s teaching personnel is I- perhaps the best it has been in the s last, several years, from an educa 1 tional standpoint. County parochial schools and the Decatur Catholic and Lutheran schools are following the same time schedules as the puolie schools and the pupils of the various grades cover approximately :• the same lessons. Decatur Catholic high school has - the largest enrollment of its history e this year, the attendance being over t the one hundred mark. ExaminaJ tlons for the first month's work will be held soon in all schools.

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FIRST COPY OF INKLINGS' OFF PRESS TODAY Catholic Hijf h School Newspaper Ready For First Distribution MARY HELEN LOSE EDITOR-IN-CHIEF The first 1930 issue of “Inklings,” Decatur Catholic high school newspaper is ready for delivery today. | Tlie newspaper, published 1 each monih by the pupils of Catholic high .school is filled with interesting school and local news. Mary Helen Lose, senior at the school is editor-in-chief and Flo-1 thilda Harris and Patricia Holt-, house are associate editors. Leo I Dowling is managing editor of the publication. The rest of the editorial staff includes: Naomi Faurote, news editor: Helen Teeple, copy editor; Edward Vian, sports editor: Joseph Voglewede and Julius Baker, assoI ciate sports editors; Margaret I Vian, socieyt edtior, Salome ! Schmitz, associate society editor; Loretta Malley, alumni editor; Rose , Mary Schurger, Catherine Schu- \ marker. Marceline Gage and Mary I Catherine Leonard, feature writers: i Henrietta Spangler, exchange editor; Monica Heimann, Mary Miller, Mary Jane Colchln, Patricia Full'CONTINUED ON PAGE TWO) — o Guggenheim Funeral To Be Conducted Tuesday New York, Sept. 29 —(UP) —Funleral services will be held tomorrow jfor Daniel Guggenheim, philanthrci pist who died yesterday at the age lof 74 at his Port Washington, L. I. | home. Guggenheim, whose fortune was I made in several of the country's heading industrial enterprises, not ably American Smelting and refining company, was best known for hip promotion of Aeronautics through the Daniel Guggenheim fund, endowed with $2,500,000. It was, this foundation that sponsored Col. Charles A. Lindbergh's Good- [ will flight after his return from Paris, and aided the development of I a "foolproof" plane with a prize of $150,000. SEEK MOTIVE ; FOR ATTACK! Marine Officer Wounds Wife and Kills Himself With Gun Washington. Sept. 29.—(U.R) —The motive which drove a distinguished officer of the United States marine corps to hack his beautiful i wife with a hatchet as she lay sleeping in their hotel apartment, and then commit suicide, was a mystery today as physicians sought to save the woman's life. | Despite a series of blood transfusions, scant hope was held that Mrs. Louise Reifsnider Creecy would survive the’ three hatchet wounds. Lieut. Col. Richard Bennett Creecy, assistant commandant of the Marine guard in Haiti, died from a revolver bullet through the heart as he closed with tragedy a brilliant career of 27 years in the Marine corps. Many aspects of the case puzzled investigators. The couple had been here on leave since last Thursday, staying at the Mayflower hotel, rendezvous of statesmen and distinguished capital visitors. No difficulty between them was known. They were to have sailed from New York for Haiti Wednesday. One explanation was that Creecy might have suffered from tropical fever and been tortured by the idea of a return to the scene as its inception. Deputy Coroner Joseph D. Rogers, who issued a certificate of (CONTINUED ON PAGE TWO' o Young Boy Is Hurt Donald Arnold. 11 year old son of Mr. and Mrs. Floyd Arnold xesiding on Gloss street, fell from his bicycle while riding on the ctreet. Sun day afternoon and received severe bruises about the face. He was unable to attend school today.

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On Tariff Board w * ■ President Hoover completed the personnel of the new federal tariff ; commission with the selection of Lincoln Dixon (above), Democrat, of Indiana, as the sixth member. LYCEUM COURSE OPENS TONIGHT John Bockewitz, Cartoonist To Entertain At I). H. S. Auditorium John Bockewitz, cartoonist and entertainer who combines elements of humor, pathos, and drama into a fine program, will be at the Decatur high school auditorium tonight at 8 o’clock. The Senior class of Decatur high school is sponsoring the program, which is a Redpath Lyceum course, and is the first of a series of four programs to be presented during the winter months. Season tickets may be secured for the series of programs from any members of the class for $1.50 tor adults, ami SI.OO for students. Single admission price will be 50 cents and may be paid at the door. Bockewitz conies highly recom mended as one of the best entertainers of his particular line of ptogram. One of his outstanding acts is where he uses two easels, both of which are taller than he is. His lighting effects is another thing that attracts much attention and comment from his audience. He has several special stunts that bring forth laughter and exclamations of surprise and wonder from his audience. One of these feats is when he writes upside down, a sentence supplied from the audience while at the same time he reads aloud portions of a story from a news paper. Those who plan to hear and see Bockewitz are urged to be at the high school auditorium promptly at eight o’clock tonight. o —— Sr. M. Vera Enrolls For Special Classes — Sr. M. Vera, principal at Decatur Catholic high school left last Saturday for Evanston, 111., where site will enter Northwestern University for special work. The local principal has been granted a I leave of absence during the first semester. 0 China Has New War Peiping, China, Sept. 29—(UP) — The Chinese Civil War. which appears to have been ended last week by the interventio nos Manchurian forces in behalf of the National I Government at Nanking. Threatened a renewal of hostilties today. Gov. Yen Hsi-Shan of Shansi province, who retired as head of the Rebel Northern Government when the Manchurians occupied Peiping announced at Taiyuan-Fu that the Northern regime would be re-estab-lished and Shansi Troops would oppose the Nationalists. ■ o Anderson Girl Wounded i Anderson. Ind., Sept. 29. —(U.R) — Eight-year-old Rosa Lee Martin, Anderson, was wounded seriously when accidentally shot with a bullet discharged from a gun in the j hands of a 10-year-old playmate. Police reported the child. Ernest Moore, playfully aimed the gun at the little girl, not knowing it was loaded. She was shot in the shoulder. o Irvin Wilson Arrested Irvin Wilson of this city was arrested this afternoon by Chief of Police Sephus Melchi and is being held for Auglaise county. Ohio officials who ordered his arrest on a criminal charge. The officials from Ohio stated they would come to Decatur immediately for the man.

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DEMOCRATS OF NEW YORK MEET IN CONVENTION Governor Likely to be Renominated Without Any Opposition HOOVER GETS HEAVY ATTACK Convention Hall, Syracuse, N. Y„ Sept. 29.— —New York Democrats assembled in their state convention today, I struck what observers believed to be the keynote on which they hope to make Franklin Roosevelt the democratic candidate for the presidency in 1932. In speeches and in informal discussions. they devoted more to onslaught of the administration of President Hoover which they charge with failure of leadership and with responsibility for the industrial and economics depression, than they did to state issues. Tammany Hall was much in evidence. John Curry was an active participant in conferences and in the convention. So was former Governor Alfred E. Smith. S nator Robert Wagner was the temporary chairman while a Tammany man was made head of the platform committee. After a day of speech-making and committee meets, the actual nominations for tlie state ticket will be made Tuesday. It is generally understood that Governor Roosevelt will be nominated by the unanimous vote of the convention. Former Governor Smith’s presence was his first attendance at a state political meeting since his defeat for the presidency in 1928. He appeared in great spirits and was meeting with other leaders in a number of important committee hearings. —o Former Decatur Pupil Is Honored at Muncie Lee Brentlinger of Markle, formerly of Decatur, a son of L. A. Brentlinger who for a number of years was principal of a Decatur school and who now is a minister at Markle, was recently elected president of the Junior class of Ball’s Teacher College %t Muncie. Lee, who attended Riley school in Decatur, is in his third year at the normal college is junior editor of “The Orient", yearbook of the college and is feature editor of Ihe Easterner”, school newspaper. Nutrition Lesson To Be Explained Tuesday Miss Aneta Beadle, state nutrition leader from Purdue University will be in Decatur Thursday, October 2, to conduct the fourth nutrition lesson for the leaders of the Adams County Home Economics clulw. This lesson will have to do with winter storage of vegetables and comparison of better packs of canned goods with the poorer packs. Plans will also be made for an achievement day program. for the Home Economies clubs. BEET HAULINC BEGINS TODAY Local Sugar Mills to Open As Soon as Sufficient Beets Arrive Sugar beets began to arrive today at the Decatur plant of the Holland-St. Louis Sugar Co. and probabilities are that actual sugarmaking will start in the next week or ten days. Lifting lias Started throughout the territory ’ and soon as a sufficient number ’I of cars arrive at the local plant 1 the entire factory will start oper--1 ations. ’ Tests show that the sugar eon- : tent this year is good, and if weather is favorable for the next few weeks a successful sugarmaking campaign is forecast. Trucks were busy today hauling ■ beets from nearby fields. In some f instances the farmers are hauling ; their own beets, taking advantage -of the higher rate pair Tor the t product delivered at the factory, t iNo one is able yet to determine > just how long the mill will run during the coming campaign.