Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 28, Number 249, Decatur, Adams County, 21 October 1930 — Page 1

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BSON NEL OF Eubank Eannounced ■ w Tvndall. Pres.; ■ .Meibers Cashier of K.\ ( |'in> ( '»unty Bank K|>t scheumann ■vE\ PROMOTION 9 Jeunls were being ■ ’ nl.n for the re-| ■- of t he Old Adams Il'iiik Wednesday The doors will be 9i to the public at 8:30 and business will be fled as usual. nipptiny of the board Mrectors last night the ning of the v .iH-lnTir. of the state was adopt'd made for am! ■ lection of the bank foiV.'. Tyndail. president. T vice-president, H Mniliers. cashier. manager of ■' .i.-partmellt and cashier. K G.nmwv Kitson, chief v, l!s -;., Holthouse. book- \ ..•. runsit clerk, will lie employTyndall wa- elected presl|Mot a.,, i, , nl; in November of 5... HH.i .a.- late Charles -k. and has served con■tit since, lie has a wide .m i Ids standing iu h d greatly in the pci: the bank. With |H'- ved as agent for .tie- ■ the bank closed ■ it. Mr. Tyndall is a tnem■S''- if'T> mlall Company ha r- been prom- ■- official and bankhere. Burk is one of the veteran B*> Hoard of directors |Mkr y ars lias serv> d as viceHe is president of tlie Eievatoi ( omioin.v. and is an cim.ervative busE Meib.-rs, cashier, is a man oi banking experience, connected with the ■»> lb. fall of 1918, enter|^Br- v Pies of bookkeeper, after his discharge ■ featti■ . He has served as ■tot cashier since 1922. Sl 'l" maun, who has been connect. ,| bank e '"’b'l ami mortgage departthill will also serve as assistr. which capacity he has B for several years. He is ami i.j s acquaintance county is large. During lanipaign Mr. Scheumann incessantly and was inselling fifty per cent ■untinued ON PAGE SIX) lIIIH, KNOWN HERE. EXPIRES ■*ard Sketchley, Neph■w of Albert Glass Is g Poison Victim • ■ " rt Glass received word late ■‘ rday of the death ,of his ■**'• Edward Sketchley, 18, SanB 5? Ohio, young man who is ■ , llllftn in this city. Death oc- ■ a Monday at the Good SamB“" Hospital, Sandusky. ■* e youn « man died after an ■ 8 of three ' veeks during which ■ * led f!l,ni carbon monoxide B He had been employed ■’ "J" crea m maker for the past B. a . or a number of years the ■th?' spent Hie summer months ■ « year living with Mr. and ■L, 111 this city - and 18 web B»n here. ■ 'l'ing is the mother, Mrs. r Sketchley and tw ° sisters, ■o’ aud i'Quise of Sandusky, Etrh?”' the father, William F chl sy of Auburn. | nerai services will be held | h „? y n ’ orn ing at 9 o’clock at Itna.l?. 1 " Sandußk y. Burial will LWe t IR ? he Ridge cemetery at I" w «t, Ohio.

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Poor Receive $25 A Day From Estate Valparaiso, Ind. Oct. 21—(UP)The for sight of the late Herman Kanwiseher has assured the poor ot this city $25 a day from his $12,000 estate. Predicting that hard times were coming. Kanyischer willed the estate to the needy, and ordered that each of his pall bearers and hack drivers fr> given $lO and a keg of 1 beer. 0- ; PLAN TO RELIEVE UNEMPLOYMENT President Hoover Meets With Committee Today; Work Three Days Washington, Oct. 21 —<U.R) —lndividual suffering this winter will be prevented by administration measures now underway to relieve unemployment, it was said at the White House today on behalf of {’resident Hoover. It was estimated approximately 3,500,000 persons are idle. The immediate program, it was said, is for a survey of the problem looking toward cooperation of municipal, state and federal agencies. Welfare laodles and similar organizations will be drawn into the iplan. Selection of Col. Arthur Wood, former New York police commissioner to take charge of the development of an organization to handle the unemployment problem this winter, was announced. These developments took place today immediately following the first meeting of President Hoover’s special cabinet committee, appointed to deal with unemployment. At the same time, Secretary of War Hurley announced the war department was prepared to institute the three-day-week on flood control project along the Mississippi river if necessary to provide more employment in that area. ‘‘Three days a week would double the number of employees and at least would be a meal ticket," Hurley said. He promised the war department would spend every dollar it had available, the expenditure of which would require employment of labor. While these measures were being taken by the federal government, municipal authorities and citizens in numerous localities were moving DIES WHILE ON VISIT SUNDAY Mrs. Bertha Brookhart, 43, Dies Suddenly Sunday at Affolder Home Mrs. Bertha Brookhart, 43, former Adams county woman, died at the Ed Affolder home, 4 miles Southwest of Berne, Sunday evening at eight o'clock from complications which followed an operation she underwent several weeks ago. The deceased, together with her husband, Joseph Brookhart, and family, was spending the day with the Ed Affolder family when she became ill Sunday morning at 10 o’clock. She was il> during the remainder of the day and died Sunday evening at eight o'clock. She was born in Biue Creek townhip, Adams county, September 22, 1887, the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Dye Ferguson, who reside 211 miles southwest of Willshire, Ohio in Blue Creek township. She spent the greater part of her life in Adams county# and for the past three years has resided on a farm near Salem. Surviving are the parents, Mr. and Mrs. Ferguson, the husband, Joseph Brookhart, and two children Nellyn, age 9, and Gilbert age 7. One daughter preceded the deceased in death. Funeral services will be held Wednesday afternoon at 2 o'clock at the Salem M. E. church and burial will be made in the church cemetery. ( Turkeys Will Not Be Expensive Indianapolis, Oct. 21 —(UP) —Tur- : -vs will not be an expensive item of Tanksgiving menu this year. Indianapc '> nackers predicted today. Today’s was at 15 cents a pound, with the 'top fore cast at about 20 cents. ~

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Attend Y. M. C. A. Convention b-' 1 . 5.- <■. -x -< --t "• -utA' Four of the prominent speakers who attended the opening session of the sixth national convention of the Y. M. C. A. at Chicago. October 20. Left to right are President William J Hutchins, Dr. Erich Stange of Cassell. Pruss.'a, general secretary of the National Alliance of the German Y. M. C. A.. Dr. Adrian Lyon and Dr. Robert Seneca Smith.

Maynard Elected VicePresident of Embalmers J. U. Maynard of this city was elected vice-president of the National Embalmer’s Association of America at the national convention held at Atlanta. Ga., last week. Mr. Maynard was a delegate to the convention from Indiana. Mr. and Mrs. Maynard returned from Atlanta last night and report an enjoyable and educational trip through the cotton belt. While in Atlanta they visited the AAlanta prison and also the panorama building where the battle of Atlanta, historic Civil war battle, has been painted about the interior of a 3(10 foot wall. Enroute to their home they visited many of the well known mountains such as Sunset mountain, Look-out mountain, and Stone mountain. “BUGS” MORAN IS CAPTURED Notorious Chicago Gangster Arrested on Vagrancy Affidavit Waukegan, 111., Oct. 21.—(U.R) — George “Bugs" Moran, notorious gang leader and one of the 26 men listed by the Chicago crime commission as, "public enemies" was captured today by six officers who surrounded him in a cottage at Cassidy's resort, on Bluff Lake, near here. Moran was arrested by officers from State’s Attorney A. G. Smith’s office. They charged him with vagrancy and Smith said he also might charge the gangster with carrying concealed weapons. “We just don’t want him arcund here," the state’s attorney told the United Press shortly after the arrest. Moran was rushed to North Chicago, 111., arraigned before Judge Harold Talleet, charged with vagrancy and carrying concealed weapons and his bond was set at $50,000. Failing to furnish the bond, he was hurried back to the Lake county jail here. Smith said Moran would be prosecuted iu Lake county under the vagrancy law and probably then be tured over to Chicago authorities, who have been seeking him for weeks on a vagrancy warrant issued by Judge John H. Lyle. Moran, who lost seven of his followers in the St. Valentine's Day massacre a few years ago and who was reported "chased" from Chicago by his enemy. Scarlace Al Capone, submitted to arrest without offering resistance and readily admitted his identity. He told the officers that he had spent most of the last few months at a resort near Minn., had been in this vicinity for two weeks and had just come to the Cassidy resort last night. Moran for years has been one o f Chicago's most notorious gang leaders. He formerly ruled on the near north side and was Capone's strongest foe, but after seven of his men were mowed down by machine gun fire in the St. Valentine’s Day slaughter and his chief lieutenant. Jack Zuta, was killed In a Wisconsin resort, his power waned and he fted. Capone has been recognized gang ruler in ■ all sections of the city since. The warrant against him in Chicago was Issued several weeks ago at the same time Judge Lyle issued similar warrants against all of the "public enemies,” including Capone and his notorious brother, Ralph.

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Decatur, Indiana, Tuesday, October 21, 1930.

LEGION HOLDS FUNERAL RITES Electrocution Victims Are Buried This Afternoon at Decatur Cemetery Funeral services were held this afternoon for Hugh Hitchcock, 32, and Ivan Baker, 35, who were electrocuted early Sunday morning when the wrecked automobile they were pushing away from a lamp post came in contact with a live wire. Military services were held for each of the men. iwho were World War veterans. Members of Adams post, 43, American Legion, served as pall bearers and full military services were conducted tor each victim at the Decatur cemetery. The JHtchcock funeral was held at the United Brethren church at 1 o'clock with Rev. B. H. Franklin, pastor of the Methodist church officiating. The Baker funeral was held at 3 o’clock at the Presbyterian church with Rev. H. H. Ferntheil, pastor of that church and state chaplain of the American Legion presiding. > War veterans from Decatur and nearby cities attended the services. Messages of condolence were sent the families of the two men by the local Legion post and also by the 139th Field Artillery association, of whfch Hitchcock was a member. Buy Planes For Brazilian Army Washington, D. C. Oct. 21 —(UP) — The navy department today released contract to buy a number of two seater airplanes available for light bombing purposes, in order that the Brazilian government may purchase them for use in fighting rebel forces. Announcement regarding the airplane contracts was made shortly after secretary of navy Adams and Admiral William Pratt, chief of naval operations conferred with secretary of state Simpson. CUP PRESENTED TO THE STUFF Loving Cup Presented to Ravelings Staff at Chapel Exercises Today A special chapel program took place at the Decatur High School this morning, at which time the silver loving cup, won by the local high school for the 1930 issue of the year book, "Ravelings” was presented. James Burk editor of the 1931 edition made the presentation speech, and Principal W. G. Brown gave the acceptance address for the high school. The cup will be a, permanent gift of the high school. The Kentucky Harmony Singers, who will present a musical program in the liigh school auditorium this evening, also sang a group of negro melodies at the chapel period. ' L-o Bank Robber Is Given 15 Years Logansport, Ind., Oct. 21—(UP)— • Joe! Stamter, confessed robber of the Twelve Mile State Bank, was sentenced to 15 years in the state reformatory wheji he pleaded guilty at arraignment today.

Revival Services to be Continued This Week The revival services which opened last week at the Pleasant Dale | Church of the Brethren, located ona half .mile south of t Kirkland High Schol in Kirkland Township, will lie continued this week, with a very fine program planned for each night. The Rev. I. J. Kirder evauge- j list from Huntington has conducted the meetings and large crowds have been present each night. Rev. Girder will speak tonight at the church, beginning at 7 o'clock, on the subject of "The Doctrines of the Church of the Brethren". Wednesday night, the male quartette of the church will render special music, and the Imperial Male quartette of Adams County will present a musical program Thursday night. Rev.’ D. M. Byerly, pastor of the church, will assist in the meetings I each night. Tlie public is invited to attend. CLUB WOMEN HOLD MEETING Federation of Women’s Clubs Gathers at Indianapolis for Meeting Indianapolis. Oct. 21.—(U.R) —Indiana clubwomen gathered in Indianapolis today for tlie three-day meeting of the Federation cf Women's clubs. Delegates represented more than 36,000 Hoosier women. Two meetings were scheduled for today to be devoted largely to discussions of club mechanics. Ai meeting was held this morning of] the advisory board including an in-1 stitute of department heads and district chairmen. An afternoon! meeting was to be held for all of-j fleers and department, district and county chairmen and club presidenti. A general meeting tonight will be addressed by Mrs. Edwin F. Miller, Peru, president, and Dr. Homer P. Rainey, president of Franklin college. Mrs. F/ank J. Sheehan, Gary, former state president, was scheduled for an address on “How May Wo Strengthen the Federation." Reports of officers were to lie heard at today’s meetings. Among important resolutions to be pres nted the convention was one from Mrs. A. W. Bacon, Mishawaka, chairman of tlie committee on cooperation for the blind. She recommends that the clnbs cease payment into the organization's scholarship for Hie blind, but add their funds to an SII,OOO foundation fund of the state board of industrial aid. Tlie money will be used to place blind women in hemes for the aged, she said. Other resolutions were expected (CONTINUED ON PAGE SIX) Government Opposes Reader Advertisement Chicago, Oct. 21.— (U.R)- Frederick Tilton, third assistant postmaster general, epeated today his department warning to newspaper publishers to be on guard against “forced publicity in an address to delegates of the Inland Press Association convention. "The efforts of advertising agents and national advertisers to obtain ffee publicity in the form of ‘readers’ reached the point where it was necessary forth? department to speak in August and I believe our campaign against the 'reader' form of advertising has been successful.” Tilton said.

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LB. WILES WILL I GIVE ADDRESS FRIDAY NIGHT Prominent Fort Wayne Man Chief Speaker At Prosperity Meeting MEETING TO BE PUBLIC J. B. Wiles, manager and jndus-j trial commission r of Fort Wayne I will deliver the address at the public confidence meeting sponsored by the Lions club of Decatur, next Friday evening at the Decatur high school building. Mr. Wiles is a man of wide experience and through his efforts and the support of the Fort Wayne Chamber of Commerce has accomplished great things for that city. His subject will be "What is the Matter with America.’’ His talk will be of great interest and benefit to the people of Decatur and members of the Lions club who are sponsoring the “start the clock week,” in an effort to revive business and restore prosperity, extend an invitation to everyone to attend. The program will begin at 7:30 o'clock. Dr. C. H. Branch, president of the Lions stated today. The chairman of the meeting will be appointed at the Lions meeting this evening. Decatur is getting a wonderful start towards better things and conditions here are improving. This week marks the reopening of the Old Adams County Bank, which fact releases many thousands of dollars to depositors. Start the clock w c ek is being observed nationally and the program arranged by the local Lions club is on° of the most effective planned by any Indiana club. —o — Evangelical Church Is Holding General Meet The General Conference of the Evangelical Chinches is being held in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, and many advanced steps in church work are under consideration. The General Conference is held every four years and all Evangelical churches are included in the conference. During the present meeting, the time limit for ministers was* removed; and the following were elected as the American bishops: M. T. Maze of the Eastern Area; J. F. Dunlap of the East Central Area; L. H. Seager of the Central Area, which includes the Indiana Conference; G. E. Epp of the North Western Area; and J. S. Stamm of the South Western Area. Rev. W. L. Bollman was elected general treasurer of the Missionary Society; Rev. W. B. Cox, treasurer of the Church Extension Society; Rev. Edwin Frye elected editor ot the Evangelical Messenger; with E. Mock as assistant. Raymond Veh was elected editor of the Crusader, the young people’s paper. KILLS FAMILY: ENDS OWN LIFE Wisconsin Man Murders Wife and Four Children, Then Committs Suicide Washburn, Wisconsin, Oct. 21—< (U P) — George Froeeth, assistant (postmaster of Washburn for 20 years, murdered his wife and four children today and then committed suicide. The bodies were discovered shortly before noon when Postmaster W. A. Robinson went to the Froseth home, when he did not appear for work. Froseth, who was 60, used a carpenter's hammer to kill his wife, Edith, 50. and their children, Neil. 12; Adelaide and George, Jr., twins. 9, and James, 6. George, Jr., apparently had struggled with his father before he was killed. The boy’s body was found in the kitchen while those of the rest of the family were found in their beds upstairs. Chief of Police James Long, who 'broke into the Frosetli homo when he was called by Robinson, said apparently Froseth had become demented and slain the family systematically.

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600 Chinese Burned To Death Today Shanghai, China, Oct. 21 - (UP) — Six hundred Chinese were reported burned to d -ath or drowned in a fire on tlie Wuchow river front today, according to dispatches from Hong Kong. The fire started in a riverside restaurant and spread rapidly destroying semes of boats and buildings, the reports said. SCOTTISH RITE MASONS MEET Annual Fort Mayne Fall Convocation Opens at Cathedral Today The annual Scottish Rite fail convocation for the Valley of Fort Wayne opened today at the Fort Wayne Scottish Rite Cathedral. Members cf the order from Decatur have charge of presenting the twelfth degree of the lodge of Perfection initiation. Earl Blackburn, will preside asThrice Potent in presenting the degree and his twin brother. Paul Blackburn, of Chicago, will be the candidate to receive the work. There are 132 members in the class this fall, including several from Decatur. The Convocation will last three days, closing with the presentation of the thirty-second degree Thursday night. More than 75 Adams county Scottish Rite Masons are planning to attend the annual event. Other Decatur men who will participate in the presentation of the twelfth degree this evening include Dr. Fred Patterson. Dan Tyndall, Albert Fruchte, Sim Burk, Charles Burdg, C. O. Poter, Bowen, Wilson Ix>e, Charles Langston, O. L. Vance, C. E. Peterson, and Dick Heller. 0 — STATE PAVING IS COMPLETED Highway Commission Reports Completion of 81 Miles of Road Indianapolis, Oct. 21 — (UP) — Eighty-one miles more of paving were completed by the state highway department during the fiscal year ending October 30 than any other year in the department's history, it was pointed out today in a report by Director John J. Brown. At total of 560 miles, including 445 miles of concrete and 115 miles of retread, was laid. Last year paving totalled 479 miles. Projects were completed from six to eight weeks earlier than usual due to exceptionally good construction weather. Listed among the major projects of the year were the following; sixty miles on US-50 between Washington and Loogootee, and between Seymour and Versailles via Norta Vernon. Forty miles on Road 6 between Ligonier and Kendallville and between Hobart and Westville. Five miles on road 49 near Chesterton; 64 miles on road 43 from Crawfordsville to Pulaski county line, and between LaCrosse and Wanatah. Nineteen miles on US-27 between Bryant and Berne and from Fort Wayne to Auburn; six miles on US--24 completing pavement from Fort Wayne to the Ohio line. Eighteen miles on road 7 from Bloomfield to US-4L south of Sullivan; 24 miles on road 67 from Sandborn to Worthington. 12 miles on road 2 from Lowell to Hebron. Nine miles on US-36 from Montezuma to Illinois line. The major projects in which existing pavement was intended were; Five miles. 40 feet wide, on US--31 from South Bend to Michigan line; 6 miles, 40 feet wide, US-40 from Indianapolis to Municipal Air. port to Bridgeport; one mile 30 feel wide on Roads 1 and 27 from Fort Wayne; one mile 40 feet wide, US roads 12 and 20 near gary. The department completed 16 miles of grading to make a cut 75 feet deep through solid rock on US--50 between Loogootee and Shoals. Dr. Black to Speak Dr. W. W. Black, of Indiana University will deliver an address “The Pyschology And Pedagogy of Reading'' to the elementary teachers of Adams county at their first county meeting Saturday at Central school building auditorium.

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EXPLOSION CATCHES 667 MEN IN MINE Rescue Work Starts Immediately and 382 Are Brought to Safety BELIEVED THAT 60 MEN M ERE KILLED Aachen, Germany, Oct. 21. — (U.R) An official muster oi" workers at the Wilhelm Coal Pit which was wrecked by tin explosion early today showed that 285 men were missing. An official announcement said (it) had perished in the disaster. The official muster showed that (>67 men had descended Into the mine this morning, of which 382 were rescued, leaving a total of 285 dead or still entombed. The rescue squad summoned from all neighboring cities were in communication with one large group of miners entombed on the lowest level of the mine and had hopes of saving * most of them. Seventy-six men were taken to hospitals at nearby towns, four cf them dying during the day. Berlin, Oct. 21.—(U.R) —An explosion in the Wilhelm mine near Aachen (Aix-la-Chapelle) early today was believed to have killed at least 38 men, while the fate of hundreds of others was undetermined. Estimates of the dead and injured varied from a few dozen to hundreds. More than 60 w re known to have been injured. Intense confusion as hundreds of relatives rushed to tlie mine made the work of checking the casualties difficult. While some 2.0(0 men were reported at work in the pit at the time of the blast, it was believed that many of them reached the ground through connections with other pits and tunnels in the large mining area. , The cause of the explosion was not determined, but the ignition of an explosives depot some SOO feet beneath the ground was given officially as a possible cause. It was believed also that fire damp might have caused the blast. The disaster was at first reported one of the worst of its kind in the history of the Aix-la-Chapellt? region, scene of numerous mine accidents in the past. Rescue workers had difficulty learning how many men were entombed. Many of the workers who had been shaken or slightly injured went directly to their homes after merging from the mine, hut their exact number was not determined. (CONTINUED ON PAGE SIX) o MUSKEGON PLAN IS SUCCESSFUL Merchants do Business as “Buyer’s Strike” Ends; Sponsored by Club Muskegon, Mich., Oct. 21.—KU.P'; —The drive by Muskegon clubmen to end the “buyers' strike" and bring about a return of prosperity through a “spend a million a week” campaign was so successful that merchants today urged adoption of similar drives in other cities. Incomplete reports, from representative business houses disclosed that business increased several times during the campaign week, that stocks were depleted, old bills paid, hundreds of thousands of dollars of idle money put into circulation and the way cleared for the business men to aid manufacturers by purchasing new goods. During the campaign, which was started by President L. H. Rietuyk of the Kiwanis Club, 300 members ot seven clubs pledged themselv s to spend SIOO each in a week. They also succeeded in getting many other men to spend like amounts. Merchants aided by offering bargains and banks by lending money at unusually attractive inter: st rates, with special savings inducements. “One of the most surprising results of the campaigh,” Rietdyk said, “was tlie increases in Hie automobile, coal and hardware sales.”