Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 28, Number 266, Decatur, Adams County, 10 November 1930 — Page 1

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DAMS COUNTY FARMER BADLY INJURED

■■as ISSUED ■(JVEBNMENI ■ CLEAR UND H I '■rnmenl Lot To Be Read', for ( on(ruction Soon IHtMASTER gs GIVES ORDER v - \\ ;l . |i'i eivrd here toi A. Graham, Decato serve nothe tenants on the .. h-; |.,i. corner Third M| and Liberty Way to K the premises “within K.,. from November 20. 1 served on th- . ~„i.n GraNiblick owns the ~n I ,• 'rite building ;l j!,-v d to the Oilier other building dwelling. vacation ": the property 'lie steps required 'I,.- ground for the " be re.-rived 'he latter Pecemfi 1 '. • .. required shortly for , government. itHinediately upon , f serve written .. for the elearr c Ilf wii Hi’.i fill days from No ?>. Il'"" ' which date rent paid." the letter read, keep ill close touch with SHliatter and '.'port from time th- progress made in of the land." ..i. id to tlie governor Mrs. Niblick anil for ten nr mere ’.lt" buildings therea. - t. leased by .Mrs. Nibtit ; Alb rt Vestal* reword a Vo l k ago that bids ■H'- Imlilina in' tiie new postof- - - during the latu of 11.-'in:.or. Work on the tiie building will |^Ki dii.r'iv after tiie first of o Mwo Hurt In Mishap Patton and Orland Bell of thei, ear fan into a tree m - I the Elmer Plumber home I'.eiy Sunday morning, young nu-n were returning n clo. k Sunday morning they both fell asleep, and ■ driver. Mr. Bell, ran into a by tiie side of the road. Patthrown through the windand r-. eived several bad about his face and neck. His Mr. Bell was also cut the face. Ford . dan in which they |M* ft'litu- »a.< completely demolby the accident, and the men were taken to Ossian Sowards where their were dressed. ■HI PLANS | FOB BED CROSS ■cnihership Drive Will M^ art Here Next Sun|B day Afternoon was made in the alur churches Sunday that the Red Cross Roll Call would in this city on Sunday, Nov Mber 16. of Decatur’s two service , 8 ’ tae Notary and Lions clubs, BE? ron duct a city wide soliciation Wm*m»>ere. annual Roll Call opens with ’ Bt ce I,a y. Tuesday, November ■’ ’’it since the men who will do solicitation cannot canvas 'he n until Sunday, the drive will ■ Postponed until then. Mai? ~'V einlloff ‘s genera! chair- ■ ot the campaign. Between (10 1 men will make the city cannoth Sunday. ■z^ I '. ia ' s ° l e< ' Cross emphaK\j. memhers hip fee remained ib? CoUnty ’ t 0 ,)e used in ©vent ■enib aßter ' On this basis if I’ooo 1 ’ 000 E li Th are secure<l as one dollar Kll i-o ? Adams County chapter ■ Ce ve |soo of the amount.

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Vol. XXVIII. No. 266.

NEW BRIDGE SERIES i The attention of readers of i the Daily Democrat is called i to the fact that starting tonight. and continuing each i I Monday and Saturday, a nereis of instructions on how to play | Auction and Contract Bridge will be published. The feature j is written by Wynne Ferguson, | one of the nation's authorities | on Bridge. 1 ~t I DRY LEADERS PLAN ATTACK ‘ z Hope to Gather Sufficient Control For Prohibition Law Washington, Nov. 10. —(U.R) —' l While members of the Wickershain law enforcement commission strug- I gle over the prohibition problem, preparations are being made i among dry forces to meet, with 1 a strongly organized counter attack, any challenge to federal prohibition from whatever source, either in the old or the next congress, it was learned today. The proposal now und°r discus- 1 sion is understood to look to creation of an organization ot nationally prominent business lead-L ers, to emphasize the economic benefits of prohibition. Business leaders played a large part in forcing prohibition through because they felt it was beneficial economically to the country. But after the 18th amendment was adopted their interest lagged and . the job of carrying on the fight tell to church leaders, the Anti-1 Saloon League, W. C. T. U., and similar groups. Many dry leaders have been impressed with the apparent effectiveness of anti-prohibition propaganda and the use that has been made by wets of business men with well-known names. They j propose now to call back into the fight some of their former supporters in the industrial world. President Hoover, while secretary of commerce, in one of his reports, attributed the economic progress of the country in part to prohibition. Drys believe that emphasis on this note is what they need now. The law enforcement commis-' sion which continues in session; this week has become much dis(CONTINUED ON n AGE TWO' —, o ADAMS COUNTY WAR VET DIES William Smith, 82, Dies At Granddaughter’s Home At Muncie William Wrey Smith, 82. for years a resident of Adams County, died Sunday at the home of his granddaughter, Mrs. James Logan at 510 Windsor street, Muncie. The body was removed to the Moffitt Piepho funeral home, and later taken to Pleasant Mills, his former home, for funeral services, which were held this afternoon at 2 During the Civil War Mr. Smith was a member of Company C. 38th. Infantry. Surviving are five great grandchildren and the granddaughter. _ Paris Bank Is Closed Paris Nov. 10-(UP)-The Munroe and Compagnie Bank suspended payments temporarily today. There was a run on the bank Saturday according to a spokesman tor the institution which is connected with the John Munroe bank in New York. New Junior Champion Rockland, Me., Nov. 10.-<U.R> — An 18-year-old youth who took his first airplane ride little more than a vea r ago held today the junior , speed records for both the eastward and westward crossings of the United States. The young aviator, Stanley oynton of Lexington, Mass., acquired his second record when he landed hiß scarlet Curtiss-Cessna mono- , plane at Scarboro airport at 4.20 p m. yesterday, thus completing.a • flight from Los Angeles in 20 hours 29 minutes.

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JURIES DRAWN FOR NOVEMBER TERM OF COURT Grand Jury Likely to Be Called to Probe Misdemeanors Here COURT STARTS NEXT MONDAY Grand and petit juries for the November term of Adhms circuit court which will convene next Monday morning, November 17, with Judge J. C. Sutton, presiding over his last term of court, were drawn today by Commissioners John S- Peterson and Martin L. Smith, and County Clerk Bernice Nelson. The grand jury of six men was drawn as follows: Harmon Gillig, Decatur; Phil Schieferstein, Root township; Frank Hiestand, Jefferson township; John Hilty, Berne: George Ohler. Union township and Samuel Baumgartner, Wabash township. While no call has been issued for the grand jury to convene it is generally thought that both will meet during the coming term of court to probe whatever misdemeanors in the county are brought to its attention. The ' grand jury convenes twice each year, unless otherwise called by I the presiding judge. The petit jury, which will sit as a jury to try all regularly called cases of the Adams circuit court is: Otto B. Weber. Root township: Thomas Rawley, Wabash town-1 , (CONTINUED ON PAGE THREE) o— HEFLIN SEEKS INVESTIGATION — Alabama Senator Alleges Illeganl Payment of Taxes By Opponents Washington. Nov. 10 —(U.R) —Senator J. Thomas Heflin, Democrat, Alabama, today asked Chairman Nye of the senate campaign exI penditures committee to investigate the recent election in Alabama in which Heflin was defeated by John H. Bankhead. Heflin charged “skullduggery to the extent of 75,000 votes ' in the election. He alleged illegal payment of poll taxes, the throwing out of thousands of split ballots, solicitation of absentee ‘votes, the lavish and corrupt use of money, the intimidation ot voters and the counting of ballots, contrary to the way they were cast. Under the Alabama state law. Heflin said, voters outside of the state must make requests in writing for absentee ballots, but there were thousands of instances in the last election where the ballots were sent to the voters without their asking for them and with (CONTINUED ON PAGE THREE) LIEBER H ALTS LEGAL ACTION Sonservation Head Says Magazine Will Publish Attack Retraction Indianapolis, Nov. 10. (U.R) Legal action against publishers of Outdoor Life, national sport magazine, by Richard Lieber, director of Indiana’s conservation department, has been stopped, Lieber said today. , . . The move was contemplated following publication of an article written by H. H. Evans, Newcastle in which the director was charged with malfeasance in office, and coercing his employes to give funds for political purposes. Lieber said the magazine had published a "retraction and an apology" in its December issue and he considered this action sufficient proof of the publishers' regret for publication of the previous article. The director said the retraction and apology followed a week's investigation of activities of his department by two officials of the (CONTINUED ON PAGE THREE)

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Decatur, Indiana, Monday, November 10, 1930.

Santa Claus Will Visit Decatur If Invited

Listen children! Do you want to see Santa Claus, his reindeer ami Eskimo friends from the North Pole. A radiogram reached the Daily Democrat today, bringing the news that Santa Claus would visit Decatur sometime in the near future if the little boys and girls wanted him to come. Santa Claus, that loveable old gentleman, who makes hearts glad and mellow on Christmas day, is a bout ready to start on his annual trip around the world. He and his Eskimo helpers and those mischievious reindeers who takes his sled over the root's, will start on the

$650 DAMAGE DONE BY FIRE Roof And Part of Home Destroyed at Adrian Lenhart Residence A roof fire which originated from sparks from the chimney damaged the roof and upper floor furniture of the Adrian Lenhart residence on Meicer avenue, Sunday forenoon at 11:20 o'clock, with a total loss of $650. Os that amount $l5O was damages done to the furniture, and the remaining SSOO was damage done to the roof and upper story of the house. The fire was well under way when a neighbor, Mrs. Frank Brokaw saw the flames and reported the fire. The local fire department was I called and after 20 cr 30 minutes •extinguished the flames, keeping the loss at $650. Jack Friedt, city fire chief, stated today that the fire had originated from sparks from the chimney. The entire root was burned from the house and part of the house also was burned. The furniture in the upstairs rooms and clothes belonging to the occupants of the house were also damaged. The residence is owned by Mrs. Jessie Burdg and tenanted by Mr. and Mrs. Adrian Lenhart. A few weeks ago a double car garage, be longing to Mrs. Burdg and located on the same lot was completely consumed by flames end hotn cars, one belonging to Mr. Lenhart and the other belonging to Clyde Butler, were demolished. The north part of the Lenhart residence was also damaged by fire at that time but had since been repaired.

HEAVY DEATH TOLLINSTATE Mild Weather Causes Crowded Roads to Become Hazardous Indianapolis, Nov. 10. — (U.R) — Death stalked the highways upon which nature smiled with a warm, bright sun in Indiana over the week-end bringing ohe of the heaviest tolls of the current season. A do»en deaths, nearly all of which occurred on the highways, were recorded. Leading the list was the crossing crash near Anderson late Saturday in which Harley Nelsen, 28; Guido Speedy, 31, and Clifford Thomas, 43, were killed. At Hammond, two men were killed when their auto was turned into a telephone pole to prevent collision with a locomotive. They were Henry Wyra, 26, and John K'dbla, 28. John R. Anderson, 49, Pennsylvania brakeman, died in Logansport of injuries suffered when he fell beneath a switch engine. Nathan Corn, 79, died in Evansville of injuries suffered in collision of two autos. A ditch cave-in buried Joseph Scham, 20, in New Albany, and he 'CONTINUED ON PAGE TWO) Get $2,500 Haul At Theatre In Whiting Whiting, Ind., Nov. -0. —(U.R)— While a pair of comedy bandits performed on the screen inside the Hoosier theater last night, two genuine bandits forced theater manager Michael Evan to open the safe, tied his overcoat over his head and left by automobile with $2,500.

long journey from the North Polo in a few days and if the boys and girls of Adams county, through the Daily Democrat, send him an invitation to come, he will stop over here for a whole day. . As soon as the Daily Decocrat learns that the boys and girls want Santa Clans to visit them, a message will be sent to him and it is hoped that he will accept the invitation. Word must be sent to him within the next day or iwo. If you want him to visit Decatur and bring his reindeer, write the Dailv Democrat the invitations will be forwarded to “him.

Safe-Blowing Gang Is Believed Broken Up Warsaw, Ind., Nov. 10—(U.R) —A I band of’ safe-blowers which has been working in northern Indiana for two months, was believed broken up, with arrest here today of Frank Jarne-, 45, Pittsburgh. Pa., and Harry L. Stetson, 35, of Des Plaines, 111. ' Th(» men were captured soon after allegedly concealing revolvers, dynamite cape and fuses, and ■ nitroglycerin, at the rear of the storage shed of the Peterson Lumber company. It was discovered a short time later that robbers had forced entrance to the office of the Indiana Refining company filling station, : and knocked off the combination to the safe, but had failed to open the inner compartment. Police from Fort Wayne, South Bend and Elkhart were en route to Warsaw to view the men, in hopes of identifying them as perpetrators of crimes in those cities. o— ———

DEATH CALLS DECATUR LADY Mrs. Emma Neadstine Is Victi mos Long Illness; Funeral Tuesday Mrs. Emma Neadstine, .86, well known Decatur woman, died at the home of her son, Frank Neadstine mi North Second street, Sunday afternoon at 4:10 o'clock from cancer with which she had suffered for several years. She had been bedfast for the past eleven weeks during which time her condition was critical. . She had spent the past thirty years of her life living with her son Frank and had resided in Adams county and this city. She was a member of the Lutheran church of this city. Mrs. Neadstine was liorn in Knox County, Ohio, March 17, 1844, the daughter of James and Maryann White, both deceased. In 1859 she moved with her parents to Indiana and later came to Adams county where she spent the greater part of her life. On April 30, 1862 she was united in marriage to Frederick Neadstine, who preceded her in death many years ago. Surviving is one son Frank, of (CONTINUED ON PAGE THREE) FLYING BOAT ON FIRST TRIP Do-X Leaves Amsterdam This Morning For New York on Trial Amsterdam, Nov. 10. —(U.R) The German flying boat DO-X took off from the Zuyder Zee for Calshot, Southampton Water, England, at 11:45 today. Two of the giant ship's 12 motors were started at 10:07. local time and the craft moved slowly from her mooring place to the opening water. Several hundred spectators cheered as the ship made ready for the next hop of the flight to New York. Passengers were ordered aboard at 9 a. in. A Dutch patrol boat, maneuvering alongside the DOX yesterday, rammed the flying boat and holed cne of her pontoon supports. Five hours was required to make repairs. Twenty-one passengers were aboard for the journey to Calshot. The majority were continentals. (CONTINUED ON PAGE FOUR)

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RAPID HARVEST CAUSES DELAY 111 Growers Mill Receive Full Checks December 15, Court Rules i I Because of the fact that the beet ■ harvest this year ha? been so rapid , that the sugar could not be manufactured sufficiently rapidly to meet the financial requirements, the payday for farmers which had been fixed for next Saturday has been i postponed until December 15th by • order of the federal court. The notices sent out however assure full payment at that time. The following notice has been sent to each grower of beets: To our Growers: Due to the extraordinary rapid manner with which the harvest has progressed and the consequent, i movement of an unusually large | tonnage of beets, the operations of . the receivers have been carried on under very heavy cash outlays. I .While eighty percent of our total | beet crop was delivered in October the amount of sugar and pulp pro-1 duced from the beets to date has| only been the normal capacity cf our plants; thus, we have been unable to accumulate sufficient pro- j ducts on which to realize the re-1 quired amount of money to meet! the November 15th payroll. We are, therefore, forced to ’ (CONTINUED ON PAGE TWO! —O Infant Babe Expires

John Amos Wolfe, infant eon of Mr. and Mrs. De Witt Wolfe, residing six miles southwest of Toe-1 sin died at 5 o'clock Sunday evening. The infant was born last Thursday and is survived by the parents, two brothers and four sisters. Private funeral services were held this afternoon at 2 o'clock at 1 the home in Tocsin and burial was | made in the Elm Grove cemetery nt Bluffton. o Beery Funeral Held Funeral services for Mrs. Harve Beery were held this afternoon at two o’clock at tiie Antioch church. The Rev. J. Higama of Pottsdam, Ohio, assisted by the Rev. Winger of North Manchester, officiated at ■ the ceremony. Burial was made in the Antioch cemetery. Rev. J. F. Bright of Montpelier, Ohio, is a brother of Mrs. Beery, and did not officiate at the funeral services, as was announced. BANK BUSINESS IS APPROVED Poneto Bank Receivership Approved By Circuit Court Judge Bluffton, Ind., Nov. 10 —Special) Judge A. W. Hamilton, of the Wells circuit court, has approved the final report of William A. Kunk,el, Jr., receiver of the Bank of Poneto. This was the first Welis county bank that wae closed, the receiver having been appointed November 19, 1924. The report shows that in the interval between the last current report, filed October 24, 1928, and ne final report, bearing date of October 31, 1930, there was received in cash by the receiver the sum of $4,087.91. The assets on which the receiver could realize had previously been virtually exhausted and late in October the receiver offered (CONTINUED ON PAGE THREE) o Berne Has Two Fires Berne, Ind. Nov. 10—(Special) — Two fires were reported to the Beitief ike department Saturday afternoon, damaging the houses and furniture of both places with severe loses. The first call was reported at 1:30 o'clock when the James Heare residence on East Main street caught fire from a defective flu. Firemen were able to save the building,but th roof and much of the furniturew as destroyed. At 5 o’clock another call was received when the home of Pev. H. E. Trops on Sprunger street caught fire from an overheated stove in the basement of the house. Much damage was done to the furniture a,nd interior of the home from the smoke and water but the flames were extinguished before much damage was done by the fire.

Price Two Cents

Threatens G. O. P. 7 fl w *** • Senator Smith W. Brookhart, I Republican of lowa, who threaten'ed the Republican plurality in the Senate with a statement asserting 'he would join the Democrats for organization of that body if they would support a program he outlined, including the export debenture principle of farm relief.

LE. ARCHBOLD IS REFLECTED County Agricultural Agent Gets New Two-Year Contract Today Lawrence E. Archbold, of this city, was re-elected Adams county agriicultural agent by the Adams. I county township trustees in regt»i lar session this morning. Arch-1 bold was elected for a two-year term starting January 1. 1331. Mr. Archbold has served a little more than a year as agricultural agent, succeeding Ferd Christen, who resigned to take a position with Allied Mills, more than a I year ago. Archbold is a graduate! [of Purdue University and lias built l a constructive Adams county program during the short time be has held the important agricultural post. Mr. Archbold stated today that he hoped to continue his present program and add more to it as interest warranted additions. He has in the last year organized several women's home economic clubs, boys and girls clubs and also has brought to Adams county more than a score of agricultural experts to assist the farmers with their many problems. Tiie law gives the township trustees the power to elect an agricultural agent and also the power to determine the number of years the officer shall serve without a re-election. Archbold’s work was highly recommended by tiie trustees, and no other person received any votes iat the meeting.

Attorney General Gets In Tangle With Symons Indianapolis, Nov. 10. —(U.R)—The state banking department tangled legally with Attqrney Gsneral James M. Ogden today over appointment of receivers for the City Trust Company and the Washington Bank and Trust Company, Indianapolis institutions. Ogden filed a petition several days ago. in circuit court, for appointment of the receiver. Luther F. Symons, banking commissioner, sought to have this petition dismissed. to pave the way for filing a similar document in superior court number five, and probate court. Arguments were held in circuit court today on the petition of Ogden to dismiss Symons' action. The bank commissioner made it known that he desired the receiver for the City Trust appointed by Judge Joseph M. Milner in superior court, and the receiver for the Washington bank in Judge Malilon E. Bash’s probate court. Since tiie attorney general is legal counsel fcr all state departments, but is at logger-heads witli the state banking department in this matter, Symons announced that lie had employed Clair McTurnan, attorney, to represent him.

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THREE OTHERS INJURED WHEN AUTOS COLLIDE Julius Reichert, Wabash Township Most Seriously Injured BOTH CARS BADLY DAMAGED Berne, ln<i„ Nov. 10. (Special) Julius Reichert, 57, Wabash township man. was in a critical condition at his home near Berne, this afternoon suU'erinAi injuries received in an automobile collision which occiirred this morning at ti:3O o'clock at the Oak Grove school house corner, 2 miles east and 3 miles north of Berne. Mr. Reichert was the most seriously injured, receiving a crushed chest and several broken ribs together with a number of other injuries. Hi.s recovery was doubtful this afternoon. Others injured in the crash were Paul Moser Reichert. 20, who received a deep scalp wound; Miss Estel Campbell, 20. who suffered several cuts on both her legs, and Mrs. Sarah Hettier, aged woman, who received a bad cut on her right forearm. Mr. Reichert, together with Carl Moser Reichert, his adopted son and Otto Moser, a hired hand at the Reichert farm, were enroute to the Reichert homestead in Monore township where they expected to shock corn today when the accident occurred. The other car. a Ford, was driven by Miss Estel Campbell, a school teacher at Salem, who was accompanied by her brother. Walter Dale Campbell, 7, and her grandmother. Mrs. Sarah Hettier. They were returning to the home of an uncle. Walter I Campbell, where they reside, after spending the week-end visiting with their mother. Mrs. Florence Campbell of Greenfield. The Reichert car was going north and was struck by the Campbell car, which was being driven at a rapid rate of speed, causing a crashing impact. The Reichert car turned over into the ditch, and the Campbell car ran into the school yard nearby. Otto Mcser, and Walter Campbell were uninjured in the crash. Both cars were badly damaged and were taken to a Berne garage for repairs. The injured in the accident were taken to physicians where their injuries were dressed. Attending physicians stated this afternoon that all w'ould recover except Mr. Reichert, whose recovery is still doubtful. Ramsey Auto Destroyed The Chevrolet coach belonging to Mr. and Mrs. S. B. Ramsey was completely demolished Friday evening at 7:30 o’clock when a Ford touring car struck it head on at Fort Wayne. George Ramsey, son of Mr. and Mrs. Ramsey, who is visiting his parents on a month's leave of absence from the United States Navy, was driving the car at the time of the mishap.

BANDITS RAID INTERURBAN Man And Woman Passengers Hold Up Others Near Indianapolis Indianapolis. Nov. 10.— <U.R) — A holdup by a man and woman on an inbound Indianapolis & Southeastern interurban near Fountaintown Sunday was reported to police today by traction company officials. While the man held the motorman, William Walker, Rushville, and five passengers, at bay with a gun, his shabbily-dressed companion took SSO, two watches, and an i vercoat. They leaped front the car and escaped in an auto they had planted near the holdup scene. The bandits boarded the ear at Fountaintown and about one mile east of the village, tin* woman produced a gun which she levelled at Walker. Handing the weapon tm the man, who wore a blue liandk/ chief mask, she searched the p/ engers / Walker surrendered $12./ rence Dunn, employe cl / (CONTINUED ON PAG/ '