Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 28, Number 264, Decatur, Adams County, 7 November 1930 — Page 1

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ESTAL GETS NINE VOTE LEAD OVER BALL

.jffIUTSWIN •f CONTROL Illi I.WDSUDE ML, Will Remain In Kblican Control I n--9y There Is Upset ■ districts Ki I \ REPORTED ME CULLETIN N .. 7-(UPi—A deaci- ■ .j-riocrats and repub|K|[ the house of representaa Fa •> er-Laborite hold.KgLc ;l ng vote and republithe senate, seemed later returns today. unofficial figures from flEttu contest, that for the at large from 111.. Yates. incumbent Re Uetbit. Demo. ®htiis bit s. the house lineup 2'7: Democrats 217. lineup is: doubtfl.l contest for she r Kentucky but latest rethat that would be which would make the y tR. Nov. 7.—(U.R>—A M' mulled by Republi.aHnl -i house of represent--Y'ii iiy the Democrats today as the probi>i the 72nd conreturns from outlyin the closely districts today tii i following distribupower: Senate: <at ■ ts; Democrats, 46. 1: doubtful (Keno'y for majority. House ■Mik.col-, 21 I Democrats, 219; 21k. i iio , insem ss of sev- - i:i luiißo. this disti ibuunt lie considered today however. There seemed ■S|iluC' ml that there would Mr. < ir.tests and recount.-; - inverse tlie result returns before the convenes. |Moiiu of the tabulations rams which remained however, would not the c.-ip-ral political com"i the new congress, as 'he unofficial returns. control of the senate to the Republicans, de■F'ir lark of a majority, beHf’ « is not possible for the to emerge with more votes. It seemed today |Mie Democrats would obtain EI) ON PAGE EIGHT)

■cut MEET K ANNOUNCES IglUnt Dale Church Of- | V to Conduct MeetI I In County service will be held in SSfcasant Dale church of the located one-half mile B s ® )f 1111 Kirkland high school By*’- i township, next Sunday. IV Schultz of Manchester EF'- x "i’th Manchester, a niemrHthe District Board of Rrlig- | t W ( ' l "' I 'lion, will be present at fir ,la . v " leet * n K. and will speak I W interest of the work of the HBay morning, Rev. Schultz W livsr a s «rmon on the subAt six-thirty o’clock evening an important moth(l daughters meeting will be all mothers and girls of ■lurch are urged to be pressame time, Rev. Schultz p et the men and sons of the H 1 in a similar meeting. ■ evening service will follow \W important meetings, and the pastor will talk on the work ■ church camp on Lake Wauev - D. M, Byerly is the pasthe Pleasant Dale church, public is cordially invited 'ffl es c special meetings.

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High School Holds Armistice Day Chapel A special chapel program celebrating Armistice Day was conducted at Decatur high school this morning at the regular chapel period. when Rev. Harry 11. Fernthell pastor of the Presbyterian church, addressed the pupils on the subject of the Meaning of Armistice Day. His talk was interesting and well presented. Miss Gladys Schindler, music supervisor, had charge of the singing of old time war songs that were popular during the World War.

FORMER LOCAL WOMAN EXPIRES Mrs. Martha Poling, 62, Is Victim of Long Illness Wednesday Night Mrs. Martha Lavetta Poling, 62, wife of John W. Poling of Portlan l and formerly of this city died at her home. 515 West Main street, Portland. Wednesday night following an illness since July of complications. The deceased was the daughter of Samuel and Malinda Burkhead and was corn on a farm southwest, of this city. September 9, 1868. She was united in marriage to John W. Poling, who survives with two grandchildren. Two children preceded her in death, Arlie E. Poling an.l Alma Helena Moriow. Surviving is a grand daughter. Martha Jane Morrow, the husband, and the following sisters and brothers: Mrs. J. H. Burnette of Latte Ohio; Mrs. Amy Augenbaugh of this city; Mrs. Oden Hughes of Fort; J. W. Burkhead of Toledo, Ohio; Wil liam R. Burkhead of Georgia, and Mrs. Myrtle Perrin of Oakland, California. Funeral services will be held Saturday afternoon at 12:06 o'clock at th* Methodist Kpsieopal church at Portland with the pastor, Rev. H. R. Carson, officiating. Intermen* will be made in the Decatur cemetery o Revival Meeting Draw Much Interest Here The revival meetings at the First Evangelical church is Increasing in interest from night to night. The pastor, Rev. M. W. Sunderman announced to the congregation last night, that Prof. Gerber and family, from the College of Missions, Fort Wayne, would be present all day next Sunday. Prof. Gerber is no stranger in Decatur. He has been here upon several occasions, and has made many friends in our city, by the fine manner in which he conducts the music. He is a master song leader, a beautiful slinger, and with the assistance of his family works various combinations of music to the great delight of his audiences. Rev. M. Herner, who has been preaching each night this week will again bring the message tonight at 7:15 o’clock, when he will speak on: "God's Gacious Appeal." There will be no services on Saturday night.

Brookhart Makes Ofler To Vote With Democrats Washington, Nov. 7. —(U.R) —Senator Smith W. Brookhart, Republican, lowa, announced he would vote with the Democrats to organize the next senate if they would adopt a program “to correct the evils of Mellonism.” ——o —— Pope Calls Consistory Catican City, Nov. 7—(U.R)—The Pope probably will hold a consistory on Dec. 15, at which the mcst Rev. Pietro Fumasoni-Biondi, Apostolic delegate to the United States will be nominated as a Cardinal. Dr. Fumasoni-Biondi, archbishop of Dioclea, was appointed apostolic delegate to Washington on Dec. 14, 1922. The United States does not maintain diplomatic relations with the Vatican, but an apostolic delegation was established in Washington in 1893 and has been maintained there continuously since. Dr. Fumasoni-Biondi was born in Rome on Sept. 4, 1872. He was ordained in Rome in 1897 and in 1916 was consecrated archibishop of Dioclea, in the samte year he was appointed apostolic delegate to Japan. He was appointed secretary of the Sacred Congregation of the propaganda in 1921-

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SUGAR COMPANY TO PAY GROWERS ON NOVEMBER 15 Total of SBOO,OOO Will Be Distributed Through Local Territory ACREAGE IS EXTRA LARGE The Holland-St. Louis Sugar Company of Decatur will pay to the beet growers in the company’s, territory a bout SBOO,OOO on November 15. This huge sum represents payment for approximately 100 000 tons of beets delivered to the company during the month of October. In Adams county the payment to growers amounts to about $125,000, local delivery of beets lieing paid for at the late of $8.25 per ton delivered at the mill. This Is one of the largest single payments ever made by the sugar company and the average price per ton is near eight dollars a ton. The price delivered at the company’s weigh stations is $7.50 per ton. On October 1, there were 1,700 acres of beets not yet harvested. The average per acre this year is about 12 tons to the acre, making the total beet crop about 120,000 tons. The beets are in good condition ■ this year and the run will be longer than in any former year. The average slicing is more than 1,000 tons a day. o Severe Frost Recorded Warsaw, Ind., Nov. 7 —(UP) — Northern Indiana experienced the most severe frost of the season to1 day, with the mercury In Warsaw at 15 degrees. Water pipes in a Warsaw trench five feet deep, in which plumbers had been working, were frozen solid this morning.

PROCLAMATION ISSUED TODAY President Says Nation Has Much to Be Thankful For This Year Washington, Nov. 7 —(U.R)—-The United States has much to be thankful for, President Hoover declared today in his annual Thanksgiving proclamation. This country has suffered far less than other world peoples in existing difficulties, Mr. Hoover stated. It has been free from discord, peace has been strengthened and progress has been made in arts and science, he added. Fixing Thursday, November 27, as the national day of Thanksgiving the president called upon the citizens "to remember that many of our people are in need and suffering from causes beyond their control.” The proclamation suggested that “a proper celebration of the day should include that we may be sure that every person in the community, young and old shall have cause to give thanks for our institutions and for the neighborly sentiment of our people." The proclamation follows; "By the President of the United States of America. “A proclamation. “Notwithstanding that our forefathers endured the hardships and privations of a primitive life surrounded by dangers and solaced only with meager comforts, they nevertheless bequeathed to us a custom of devoting one day of every year to universal thanksgiving to Almight God for the blessing of life Itself and the means to sustain it, for the sanctity of home and the joys that pervade it, and for the mercies of His protection from accident, sickness or death. (CONTINUED UN PAGE EIGHT O— Will Demand Recount Bedford, Nov. 7 —(UP)— Congressman James Dunbar, Republican, New Albany, today announced his intensions to request Congress to make a recount vote cast in the 3rd. district congressional election according to the unofficial results Eugene Crowe, Bedford, Democ., defeated Dunbar by 263 votes.

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Decatur, Indiana, Friday, November 7, 1930,

In Dad’s Footsteps F . i -nW.c-yX 4. <• v.; w ’ / ! \V. ▼ / i a z I ' k •- w '-'fß it t ? - - fe •* ' 4 J’ ** * ' ’«■ / ’-I ml ; /S. Z/ v v i jiß < t w t'-i' Remarkable sons of a remarkable father, Senator Robert LaFollette ' (left) and Governor-elect Phil LaFollette. who are carrying on the progressive tradition of the late Robert M. LaFollette in Wisconsin, photographed upon their arrival n Chicago for a short visit. Phil, only I 33, was elected governor of his state Tuesday by a majority of about ■ 200,000. Robert is 35.

L. G. Ellingham Host At Ft. Wayne Dinner L. G. Ellingham was host last everirtig at a dinner given at the Keenan hotel in Fort Wayne and it was | a most delightful event. The guests I included the members of the com-' mittee which sold the stock for the' Old Adams County bank in the recent campaign, the officers and di- 1 rectors of the bank C. 1.. Ayres ot ■ Detroit. C. J. Lutz of this city and a number of the :eadfng bankers of Fort Wayne. Interesting talks were I made by C. M. Neizer, E. G. Huif-, man, Arthur Hall. J. R. McCullough,l Harry Hogan. C. J. Lutz. J. W. ! Tyndall, Harry Fair. G. T. Burk, I Chalmer Porter, Albert Scheiman,! Avon Burk. A. D. Suttles, Mr. Ayres and others. Mr. Ellingham presided, i _o— Woman Foils Bandits Plainfield, 111., Nov. 7 — (U.R) —I Funds of the Plainfield State Bank 1 were saved by Miss Florence Lund when she refused to open the teller's cage of the Plainfield State! Bank to three bandits today. The bandits fired nine bullets at; Miss Lund from close range, but they rebounded harmlessly from the bullet-proof glass of the cage. I SNOW PLOWS TO BE PURCHASED County to Receive Bids December 2; Steps to Be Repaired Bids for furnshing two snow plows to the county highway department will be received by ‘he board of county commissionsr on Tuesday December 2. The plows will be used with trucks of tractors and in case of heavy snow storms next winter th? main roads will be opened as quickly as men can be put to work. The steps leading to the county highway superintendent's office m the basement of the court house will be repaired by Yost. Bros., on their bid of S2O. Final report in the matter of the Dierkes drain as filed by Ralph Roop, engineer in charge The re-1 port was approved and the engineer dismissed. In the case of the Otto D. Webber drain, the report of the drainage commissionrs was filed and approved and the drain referred to Ralph Roop, engineer for construction. The small stretch of road running south of the termination of State road No. 16 east of Decatur was ordered vacated by the county commissioners. The petition for vacation was filed by Fred Harmon.

POLICE RAID GANG QUARTERS Find Records of Chicago ' Gangster And List of Illicit Traders Chieago. Nov. 7. — (U.R) —Pclice , ('under Chief Investigator Pat Roche |of the state's attorney’s office conducted raids today upon a hotel ' i suite and another apartment occu- ; pied by Terry Druggan, gangster, i They found records which, they I said, appeared to tie the list of i Druggan's her custeomers. They | found letters indicating he had h gang connections from Los Angeles! jto New York. In a secret panel ini ; the wall they found a machine gun, i cevene r volvo s and mm muon. I They found, also, much liquor, and other guns. ji But they didn't find Druggan,! I who yesterday was "too sick" to iappear in Judge John H. Lyle’s I court, where he was wanted on a charge of being a vagrant and 1 where his SIO,OOO bond was forfeitled because he wasn't there. The raids on Druggan’s apart- | meats were ordered by Judge Lyle, | who doubted the story of the gangi ster’s attorney that Druggan was I "too sick" to face trial. Druggan is one of the most notorious of the 26 gangsters named as "Public enemies’’ by the Chicago crime commission. He was one of the first arrested after Judge Lyle ord'red that all "public enemies" be charged with vagrancy under the stirct law of 1574. After his arrest, his hearing was delayed several times upon his attorney's plea that his client was ill. The gangster was one of the notorious Druggan-Lake team and in addition to the vagrancy charge, there is a charge pending against him that he evaded payment of income tax. The government claims he and Frankie Lake made millions of dollars by operating breweries during the years immediately following the advent of prohibition. The records found in Druggan's hotel room were turned over to government officials for use in the income tax cases. o Gun Wounds Fatal Terre Haute.’ Tnd., Nov. 7. —(U.R) —Gunshot wounds received by Ted Griffith, 12, while hunting Oct. 25, were fatal to the youth in a local hospital. Paul Pierce. 15. who was hunting with Griffith, said the youth was wounded when his gun discharged as he poked it into a pile of brush.

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WALWEMHOFF IS CHAIRMAN OF REO CROSS Well-known Local Man Naimed Chairman of County Drive SERVICE CLUBS TO LEND All) Wai Wemhoff, Decatur! I monument dealer, has accept-j led the chairmanship of the I annual Red Cross membership! 'drive, which opens, Tuesday,] November 11. Mr. Wemhoff will be general chairman of the annual roll call drive and district chairman will be appointed at| Berne, Geneva, Monroe and other placer in the county. Decatur's two service clubs, the Rotary and Lions clubs, have volunteered to make the solicitation in Decatur for members. Individuals from both clubs will make up the teams who will canvass the city. Citizens will be asked to join, it being a voluntary decision on the part of the individual. Coercion will not be used in any instance. In all probability the general solicitation in Decatur will start on Sunday. November 16. As most I of the men who volunteered to do I the work are working it will be I impossible for them to get away from their business on Tuesday, | November 11, the opening day. The membership fee is SI.OO. Fifty cents of every dollar remains in the local county chapter treasury, to be used in case of local disaster.

Dog Killed By Bandit ' Chicago. Nov. 7—(UP) — Policeman Jce Morority today pronounced a six word benediction over the body of a ragged, homeless dog who gave his life in an effort to aid the only man who had befriended him. Mutt —for that was the only name he had —used to call regularly at the back door of Don Russell’s drug store for food. Policemen, including Morarity, gave him his name. Last night three youths robbed Russell's store. Mutt and Morarity started after the bandits, two of | whom went one way, the other another. One of the bandits shot Mutt. The flash from the gun showed Morarity where the bandit had gone. Morarity caught the bandit, who said he was Peter Kulik. Morarity reutrned to Mutt’s body "I’m sorry I called him Mutt," was the benediction. LYCEUM NUMBER TO BE TONIGHT Alva Ball Company To Give Concert Here At 8 o’Clock The Alva Ball Company, headed by the noted musical characterise Anitak Ball, will present a program of vocal and instrumental music at the Decatur high school auditorium, tonight beginning at 8 o'clock. The program will be given under the auspices of the Senior class and is the second of a series of four lyceum programs to be given during the winter. Miss Ball is a versatile musician who plays novelty piano numbers; gives dramatic readings; character sketches in make-up; sings soprano solos, in Spanish, Indian. Colonia! and Gypsy costumes; plays accorI dion solos; whistles solos; plays harmonica solos, and costumes vocal solos with her own guitar accompaniment. She is a graduate of the College of Springfield, Missouri, has studied voice with Sonnine of London, whistling at the Agnes Woodward School of whistling in Los Angeles, and accordion with Pietro and Santucci. She has had extensive experience in Chautauqua and lyceurn work and her program promises to be entertaining. Appearing with her will be Miss Ramona, who plays piano accompaniments, violin solos, and sings in harmony with Miss Ball, making a program of duets and harmony singing. The public is invitedto attend and I hose who have not purchased season tickets may pay single admission of fifty cents at' the door.

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.lames Burk And Carl Lose Rotary Speakers James Burk, Decatur high school senior and Carl Lose, junior of the Decatur Catholic high school were speakers at .he regular meeting of tlie Decatur Rotary last evening. Mr. Burk spoke on the advantn, ;‘S of a high school education and that it was every boy's ambition today to go to college. Mr. Lose spoke on atl.letics in school and how school sports created an interest in school work among the students. Their talks were interesting and well delivered. A. R. Holthouse had charge of the program. COUNCILMEN TAKE OFFICE NOVEMBERS Seven Members of Adams County Council First to Begin New Terms DEMOCRATS UNOPPOSED The first public officals, elected last Tuesday, to take office this year are the memners of the Adams County council. An organization meeting of tho newly elected members will be held Saturday, November 15 at the county auditor's office tor the purpose of taking the oath of office and electing a president of the board Mathias Kirsch. Decatur banker lias been president of the board for several years. In all probability he will be re-elected. The members of the board are Mr. Kirsch, William Baumgartner Berne, August Conrad, Ben Eiting, Henry Dehner, Decatur, Janies Kinney, Geneva and Everett Banter, Hartford township. > Mr. Eiting and Mr. Banter are the new members of the board. A special meeting of the county council will be called sometime in December for the purpose of making appropriations. Certain county funds are exhausted and it will be necessary for the county council :o make appropriations from the general fund before the bills can be paid.

COUNCIL WILL SURVEY STATE Counties to Be Organized To Cope With Unemployment Conditions Indianapolis, Nov. 7. — (U.R) —Action was under way teday to organize the 92 counties of Hoosierdom for a war against unemployment. Under the direction of the executive committee of the unemploycouncil, which grew out of the Governor's unemploymr. nt conference yesterday every county is to be brought into the campaign. Creation of jobs, rather than dispensing of charity, is to be the business ot this statewide organization, it was definitely decided at the council meeting. Elmer Stout, Indianapolis banker who presided, appointed a committee at once to select on» man in each county to organize a county committee of not fewer than five. The council committee, which will make the county appointments consists of Governor Hairy G. Lesle, Robert M. Fenstel, Indiana insult utilities chief; Dr. James H. Greene, manager of the cooperative department of the Studebaker corporation; Jess L. \ Murdeta, state highway commissioner; John M. Frederick, Koki mo manufacturer, and Stout. This committee will report to the council next Wednesday, with the county appointments and a plan of work to be accomplished. The latter will be based on promotion by both state and local committees of jobs on public work and in private industry. Frederick emphasized at the council meeting the importance of public work now, and derided the economy program being fostered by many public officials. He is president ot the Indiana State Chamber of Commerce. "We must be ready for a long pull n this project of getting jobs for the unemployed,” Frederick (CONTINUED ON PAGE EIGHT)

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INCUMBENT IS BENEFITED BY CLERK'S ERROR Vestal Apparently Has Won by 9 Vot.‘s Over Claude C. Ball RECOUNT TO BE DEMANDED Muncie, Ind., Nov. 7 (US) Albert 11. Vestal, lit'inib ican, was given a victory over Ctaiide Ball. Democrat, in tlie Eighth (Indiana) Congressional district, by the canvassing board, tiller the most important and sensational seesaw race in the slate's political historv. An error in the thirty-first precinct. Washington township, Delaware county, added one vote to Vestal's total, and took 11 from Ball's, giving the Republican a nine-vote plurality. The district total, as corrected, was: I Vestal, 44.202; Ball, 44,193. Prompt issuance of the certificate to Vestal was expected. A re-count petition, upon convening of congress, was expected to develop. This made the state congrcssonal alignment: Republican, 4: Democrats, 9. o Hoosier Found Guilty Charleston. 111., Nov. 7. <U.R) —■ Jacobus, 33. Whiting, Ind., was 1 > be taken to the southern Illinois penitentiary at Chester today to begin serving a one to 14-year sentence after Judge C. A. Shuey denied a motion for a new trial in circuit court. Jacobus was convicted of manslaughter in the fatal slioatiag of J. D. Icenogle, Mattoon groc r. Do. sense attorneys indicated an appeal may be taken. —— o — Lynchers Are Acquitted Walhalla. S. ('., Nov. 7. <U.P.' - Ten remaining defendants charged with lynching Allen Green, negro, here, last April, were acquitted by a jury in Oconee county court, today. Those acquitted were John Sanders, John Stevens. Grady Lee, Harold Matthewson, Nelsen Matthewson, J. Dandle Harris, Tillman L<eaed, Will Smith, Alvon Jones and Mayor R. L. Ball' ntine. Seven other defendants against whom charges were brought were freed when the charges were quashed Wedm sday find yesterday. Tlie case of the ten men was given to the jury late yesterday and the verdict returned after a night spent in deliberation. TRAIN BANDITS GET PAYROLL Southern Pacific Train Stopped And Baggage Tarin Is Looted Berkeley, Cal., Nov. 7 —(LLR) —A Southern Pacific passenger train was stopped and robbed today by five masked men, armed with submachine guns. The bandits carried out tlie rol>- , bery with the efficiency of the notorious Fleagle gang, which ha •> been broken up through executions and prison terms since it robbed the same train one and one- . half years ago near Martinez. The Fleagle gang's loot was ! $16,000. The robbery today may have included the $40,000 payroll of the Columbia Steel company, which was being sent to Pitts- ’ burgh. 1 The train, No. 36, was two min--1 utes out of Berkeley, en route to • Stockton, when the engineer saw ■ a railroad tie across the tracks, 1 and applied the brakes. c As lie did, one bandit jumped into tlie cab and covered engineer ' and fireman with a portable f machine gun. 5 Three other men burst in upon 1 the crew of the express and mail j car, covered them with rifles, and > took their choice of registered mail of undetermined value. > The fifth bandit walked up and , down beside the passenger cars, t fingering another automatic rifle, but no passenger Attempted to ) interfere.