Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 28, Number 281, Decatur, Adams County, 28 November 1930 — Page 1

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Inta Claus Will Take Christmas Orders Here Saturday

■EER AND jIEISH WILL M ON STREETS H|r Merchants Plan With miilstmas Displays Kiildken nro BE GREETED ide Christmas shopHgLa;.' will be held SatBwjhwtion with Santa Kg- • here with his four were busy today the final touches to store decorations ing new stocks for Christmas shopper. K-. i ! Isis r- indeer will ’ nnay hi, ruing anil .lay. His reindeer Heidi an.l tlie snow in lime for these little HBk perform their antics. message to the ... this morning that d bute candy kisses ami that he want-rv.-n child in Adami visit here. He loves wants to hear their Katoi:' vhat they want him at Christmas and invited to bring the Saturday. B-w.l l;e uptown all day and -inc a busy man will not to shake hands with and caution them to between now and Santa's first pre-Christ- ' with his Bwv e made by the Decatur the Det -s a iation and forth • weeks daily story and trip from the been carried in thHp.oerat. Every child in the be.m reading of Iris heie and Saturday their |E be made glad with his appearance. e W hich aecomp uiy I trip are Donm-r. Blitzand Vixen, all foxy little BB'dl" w ill feel much at home 1 mp- rature and snow. o Hd BrotherSuccumhs b I . Nov. 28— I UP) - The death in one of families in Mundo .'e-ierday afternoon when t Kitselman. tin. droppwiiile playing with his Edwin Faye Kitselman BPy 1 '>•’•* I'ay in Rochester : apparently coming out in good eon|KF —o — IMG GETS ■OREL AWARD Kr Cabinet Member fK r ded Peace Prize » gor Great Work 28.—(U.R}—Frank B. former secretary of state Si W nilt 11 states and co-author Hriand of France of ■ K°KK-Briand pact to outlaw been awarded the Nobel BMfize for 1929. [■‘"l gave the United States ■^B (l Nobel prize this year. won the 1930 prize and Dr. Karl Landl?B *" e oc * £efe fl ei ' InstiNew York, received this f ■tizv fo r distinguished work l®»cine.. peace award was given rK> is >'op L. (). J. Soderblom, r-Wof Sweden, member of the academy, and author of | ( !® Pol,lKi< -' al works. His most. was “The Church and written as a Birge memorlB 8 understood that. Kellogg I Bfhbishop Soderblom would Oslo to receive their FW which amount to between [BNUED ON PAGE EIGHT)

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Vol. XXVIII. No. 281.

Revival Is Postponed The revival services hich were to have started at the Church of God on Cleveland street November 30, have been postponed until later in the winter, Rev. E. L. Bragg, pastor of the church announced. The meetings were postponed on account of the beet factory running longer than usual this winter, thus occupying the time of many of the church members. The church has been preparing for a revival. The pastor of the chunh Rev. M. Bragg who recently took charge of the church here, is planning to hold the revival after the first of the year. 5615,25 NETTED BT ROLL CALL Red Cross DriveNotQuite Completed Secretary Reports A total amount of $615.25 has been turned over to Miss Annie E. Winnes, county secretary of the annual Red Cross drive which closed Thursday. The amount received represents the contributions from this city, Berne and rural communities of the county, with the exception of Preble, Peterson, and three Decatur districts where no reports have been made. The total number of subscriptions received from the town of Berne and vicinity includes 233 members, and from Decatur, 382. Three more districts in this city, Peterson, and Preble are expected to send in an additional number of memberships within the next few (CONTINUED ON PAGE EIGHT) o ■

TRUSTEE FACES GRAFTCHARGES Lake County Man Charged With Illegal Use of Large Sums Indianapolis, Nov. 29. — (U.R) — John McFadden, Calumet township assessor. Lake county, was charged by the state board of accounts today with making illegal expenditures totalling $28,859.43. He was ordered to appear before the board December 2 to explain the expenditures. Although no definite statement was made, it was indicated that if McFadden fails to refund the money, the report will be certified to Attorney General James M. Ogden. Inclusion of personal telephone bills on county vouchers, over payment of janitors, assessors and office employes, and employment of a personal chauffeur paid witli county funds, (were included on the list of alleged illegal expenditures. McFadden, who was defeated for re-election this year, was called before the grand jury several weeks ago but no indictments were returned. Examiners making the report to the board of accounts were Orville (CONTINUED ON PAGE SEVEN) . 0 Gangster Surrenders to Be With Injured Son Chicago, Nov. 28. — (U.R) — “Dig Joe” Saltis, once described In court as “Chicago’s most cruel gangster’’ and sought for months on vagrancy charges in a drive to rid the city of “public enemies,’’ has surrendered to be at the bedside of his injured son. Saltis, who police say has been in retreat at his Winter, Wis., home since the hunt for him started, came back to Chicago yesterday after arranging to be allowed to obtain bond and continue on, unmolested, to his son’s bedside. Judge John H. Lyle, leader of the campaign to rid the city of gangsters, met Saltis in a police station, allowed the gangster to sign his own bond and told him that he hoped the Saltis boy soon would recover. “Even a hard-boiled jurist must have a heart in a case like this,” Lyle said. The Saltis boy was Injured seriously when struck by an automobile.

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CONTRACT GOES TO LOCAL FIRM Macklin and Zehr Low on Weber Ditch Job With $895 Bid Macklin and Zehr, local contractions were awarded the Otto Weber drain in Adams county today on tlie bid of $895. It was announced today by County Surveyor Ralph Roop, following the opening of the I four sealed bids. The drain will be constructed as Isocn as weather permits, Roop stated, but it is not likely it can I be built until early in the spring. Other bidders and their blds I were: C. L. Chapman, Columbia City, $1,100; Yost Brothers, $1,430; John Hendricks, Berne, $1,324. The bids were submitted at the surveyor’s office. o Welsh Singers Coming The famous Welsh Imperial Singers, who recently pleased an audience at Monroe with their singing, will present a program at Berne. Saturday evening. The singers who are under the direction of R. Festyn Davies, have made many European tours, and are world renowned entertainers. They will appear at Berne, Saturday, under the management of the Redpath Lyceum Bureau, A number of music lovers from this city will attend the program. 0 Admits Starting Fire Petersburg, Ind., Nov. 28.—(U.R) —A confession has been obtained from Charles Workman, 17, of Glezen, that he started the fire which burned for two days In Martin words, on the Patoka river bottoms, state authorities announced. o Child Burned to Death Louisville. Ky., —Nov. 28—(UP) —The badly charred body of Carrol , just 3. was found beneath the ruins of his bed after a fire had swept through the home early today. Eight other children, five of them brothers of the fire victim fled from the cottage during the tire.

MOONEY PARDON NOT EXPECTED Little Hope Remains For Pardon of Bomb Incident Chiefs By George D. Crissey, UP Staff Correspondent San Francisco. Calif., Nov. 28. — (U.R)—The United Press learned today from a usually reliable source that there is little, if any, hope that Thomas J. Mooney and Warren K. Billings will be pardoned from life prison sentences imposed after their convictions on charges of complicity in the San Francisco Preparedness Day bombing iu July, 1916. Comiputation of sentence apparently is the most they can expect, the United Press was told. Ten persons were killed and 40 injured in the Preparedness Day explosion, which rocked downtown San Francisco on the eve of America’s entry in the World war. Mooney and Billings were convicted at separate trials. They always have claimed they were innocent. Pardon petitions by both men are being considered. The Billings appeal is before the California supreme court, while that of Mooney is in the hands of Governor C. C. Young. Early next week, probably Monday, the supreme court will deliver to Governor Young its recommendation in Billings' case. Governor Young can not act favorably on Billings’ application unless the supreme court so recommends. Mooney, a San Quentin inmate, legally may be pardoned at any time but the governor insisted that the tw’o cases are similar and both men will receive the same treatment. Thus, if the supreme court flatly rejects Billings' appeal, it will mean that Governor Young will re(CONTINUED ON PAGE SEVEN)

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Decatur, Indiana, Friday, November 28, 1930.

Hunting New Faces Hrv ■ JB-u KCf v .a. - jF., > -..MM \ 1 St ; ■ i* Igr. < ■; s iff 1 h w I f IBMhI I h. W wg ? ? '/ BMfIKL • ©H o IHBIBBI ■■■Xi I feW-g Bk* Msß & t\ ) ' -M H pMKM I Thin trio of Hollywood folk shivered in the wintry Ida ts that greeted them when they arrived in Chicago, en route for New York. From left to right, they are: Eddie Cantor, funny man of the stage and screen; Mrs. Goldwyn ami her husband, Samuel Goldwyn, the film impresario. Mr. Goldwyn said that he was on his way to New York and from there to London in search of new faces for the movies.

Scale Machine Robbed A unique robbery was performed here Wednesday night, when some one evidently in need of money battered and broke the weigh-scales in front of the Peoples Loan and Trust Company bank, and took the pennies from the machine. The broken machine was first noticed by Chief of Police. Sephus Melchi, early Thursday morning. The robbers, who are believed to be boys, broke the scales in such a manner that the pei.nies deposited in the slot were removed. The exact amount is not known, but it is thought to be several dollars. Nocdues were obtained as to the identity of the thieves. LOCALWOMAN'S FATHER HURT F’erd Smith, Celina Is In Critical Condition From Explosion Ferd Smith, Celina, Ohio, fireman and father of Mrs. Fred King of this city is in a serious condition at the Otis hospital at Celina following a strange explosion which occurred*at the Ohio city last Tuesday. Mr. Smith was engaged in cleaning atld pumping out the city disposal plant. As water was sent into the plant there was a strong explosion, the second cf its kind in the last two weeks. Fire followed the blast. Mr. Smith received several major burns and his left arm was so badly shattered that it is believed it will be necessary to amputate it. The brick building near the plant was almost demolished antL. other homes and buildings for blocks around were shattered. It is thought the explosions have |>een caused by a discharge of natural gas near the disposal plant and several investigations are underway to determine the exact cause.

SAYS HOOVER IS STRADDLING Sen. Caraway Scores Action of Crime Commission and Failure By Lyle C. Wilson, UP Staff Correspondent Washington, Nov. 28. —(U.R) —Senator Caraway. Dem. Ark.,d escribed the Wickersham crime commission today as a cold storage device created by President Hoover to escape taking a definite position on the prchlbitlon question. "I presume,” Caraway said to the I’nited Press, "that the Wickersham committee is carrying out the wishes of its creator. "it is a cold storage commission. President Hoover was vague and undetermined on prohibition during the campaign. He is suspected new by both tlie drys and the wets. “But the president wants to keep this question on the ice until he decides there is a settled public opinion witli regard to it. And I believe lie would be satisfied to accept either side of the prohibition question after that. (CONTINUED ON PAGE SEVEN) o Miss Sellemeyer Will Give Final Address Miss Esther Sellemeyer, returned missionary from China will speak at the Zion Reformed Church next Sunday night at 7:30 o'clock. The occasion is the annual Thanksoffering service of the Woman’s Missionary Society and Girl’s'Missionary Guild. This will be Miss Sellemeyer’s final address in the local church before leaving for her home iin Los Angeles, California. Miss Sellemeyer has been filling a large number of speaking engagements since her return from China and her addresses have been interesting and well received by the audiences that attended. A cordial invitation to hear this final address in extended. A detailed program of the services will appear tomorrow.

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ADAMS COUNTY RESIDENT DIES Henry A. Meyer, 75, Is Victim of Death; Was Well-Known Farmer Henry A. Meyer. 75, a life long resident of Adams County, died at the home of ills daughter, Mrs. Orval Allspaw of Berne, Thursday morning at 5 o'clock. Death was due to a complication of diseases. Mr. Meyer had been ill for the last week The deceased was born in French Township, Adams County, March 10. 1855, the son of May Klopfenstein Meyer and Abraham Meyer. His wife, Bertha Gehrig Meyer pre ceded him in death 1916. Mr. Meyer had been engaged as a tanner in Adams County until several years ago when he retired and made bls home with his daughter in Berne. Surviving are the following daughter and sons: Mrs. Allspaw of Berne; Edward W. of Graham. Washington; Harvey E. of Fort Wayne; and Reuben J. of Monroe. The following sisters and brothers also survive: Mrs. Mary Aschleman of Linn Grove; Mrs Rosa Presdorf of LaGrange; Mrs. Lydia Redding of Geneva; Mrs. Emma Glancy of Bronson Michigan; and Jacob Meyer of Los Angeles, California. John Meyer and Eli Meyer of Decatur; Peter Meyer of Oklahoma preceded their brother in death. Thirteen glandchildren survive. Funeral services will be held in the reformed Church in Berne. Sunday afternoon at 1:30 o’clock, and burial will be made in the M. R. E. cemetery. The Rev. J. L. Conrad will officiate at the services HONOR ROLL IS MADE PUBLIC 4 Central Pupils Awarded Leader and Digger Pins For Merit The honor roll for pupils iu ths Central school building, for the second six weeks of the first semester, has been compiled by Principal P. B. Thomas, and is as follows: 6A Leaders Evelyn Adams, Catherine Jackson, Catherine Murphy, Harold Zimmerman. 6A Diggers Lewis Beery, Bob Broadbeck. 6B Leaders Alice K. Baker, Kathryn Kohls, Irene Sell, Jeanette Christen, Eugene Freidt, Lewis Fennig, Jane Krick, Arthur Sunderman, Donald Bixler. 6B Diggers Esther Fisher, Virginia Breiner, Mary C, Garner, Robert Beavers, Emma Marquart, Ralph Hurst, Richard Girod, Lawrence Anspaugh, Lewis Smith, Rosella Heare, Edna Beane. 5A Leaders Mary Maxine Martin, Roberta Bornman, Dwight Kimble, Ralph Steele. 5A Diggers Helen Brintzenhofe. 58 Leaders Rosie Moyer, Marguerite Staley, Gilbert Egley, Jim Krick, Zula Porter, Jeanette Winnes, Mary Eichorn. 5B Diggers Marjory Foughty, Eleanor Nil>lick, Lena Teeter, Janet, Schrock. Imogene Bright, Richard Jackson. 8A Leaders Catherine Brown. Martha Christen, Fern Irwin, Mary Kathryn Tyndall, Junior Kelley, Charles McGill, Jacob Moyer. 8A Diggers Paul Hendricks, Harold Kolter, Clark Wm. Smith. 8B Leaders Louise Kless, Evelyn Kohls, Marceil Lejherman, Jane Linn, Eula Myers, Kathleen Odle, Mary Jane Schafer, Madeline Spahr, Pauline Affolder, Alice Jane Archbold, Martha Erma Butler, Martha Elizabeth Calland, Harriet Fruchte, Helen Gay, Mildred Gause, Richard Broadbeck, William Elston, James Harkless. SB Diggers Marjorie Johnson, James Beavers, Sephus Jackson. 7A Leaders Naomi Ladd, Elizabeth Mellila, Mary Ogg, Eileen Wells, Eleanor (CONTINUED ON PAGE EIGHT)

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1 Plan Special Service The Women’s Missionary Society I of the Evangelical Churc h will present its annual Thank Offering serday evening at 7 o’clock. A returned day eveiug at 7 o’clock. A returned missionary from China will be the principal speaker for the evening. The program will also include two musical selections by the John Gage family, and a duet by Mrs. Henry Adler and Ernest Foreman. 1 The public is invited to attend l this annual Thank Offering service. DEATH CALLS LOCAL WOMAN Mrs. Mattie Harker Is Victim of Ailment of Several Years Mrs. Mattie Harker, 52. wife of Richard Hacker, died at her home, 915 Jefferson street, this city. Wednesday afternoon from Bright’s disease with which she had been suffering for the last eight years. On last Monday evening Mrs. Harker’s condition became critical and she was bedfast until her death. She was born in Ohio. August! 5, 1878, the daughter of Mr. and! Mrs. John McGill. She was married j to Richard Harker on February 10. 1900 and lived in Ohio until twelve, years ago when she moved to this | city. Surviving is the mother, Mrs.. John McGill, who lives on Line street, this city; the husband Rich-1 ard Harker, and the following children: Ersel Harker of Erie, Colorado; Raymond Harker of Kalamazoo Michigan and Mrs. Earl Miller of FcVrl Wayne. Four grandchildren, and a sister Mrs. Abe Schnepp of near Monroe, also survive. Three; sisters and two brothers have preceded the deesased in deadth. The deceased was a member of the United Brethren church of this city. Funeral services will be held Sunday afternoon at 1:30 o’clock at the home on Jefferson street and a*. 2 o’clock at the United Brethren chureh. Rev. Cecil Smith of Ligonnier a former pastor of this city will official and will be assisted by Rev. R. E. Vance. Interment will be in Decatur cemetery. UNEMPLOYMENT GRODP TO MEET — State Secretary (’alls Meeting of County’s Leaders Dec. 3 Indianapolis, Nov. 28.. — (U.R) —■ Plans for relieving the unemployment situation in Indiana this win- ' ter will be described to chairmen of the county relief committees

December 3. The executive commission, which lias been making a survey of nteds throughout the state, will lay its suggestions before the county chairmen at the meeting, it was announced today by John H. Hewitt, secretary of the commission. I Relief plans now under way in several counties will be discussed. The work already is well started, Hewitt, said, and results of the concerted drive to secure employment are evident. 1 The commission has not yet taken up the question of charity, and 1 Hewitt believed this phase of the situation will be delayed until the 1 1 need becomes pressing, probably 1 ' after the first cf the year. Fred C. Coxton, of Washington, will address the meeting of county ' chairmen on behalf of President ' Hoover’s national unemployment, commission. , ’ Hewitt said the commission was ' considering a plan to employ sev- , oral hundred men in the two state , ■ forest reserves, clearing underbrush and undesirable trees from the forests. This wood will be ' hauled to nearby towns and dis- , tributed among needy families, ’ Hewitt said. 0 Legion Founder Dies Kansas City, Mo., Nov. 28. —(U.R) —Col. Arthur J. Elliott, 48, one of ! tlie founders of the Legion, died today after an acute heart attack.

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WINTER STORM, BORN IN ARCTIC. POINTS TO WEST Middlewest Will Ha v e Storm More Severe Than First, Forecast ZERO WEATHER IS PREDICTED Chk’tigo, Nov. 28 <U-R> A ’ new snow slonti, born in th-* Arctic circle, rolled soiifhI eastward across the Canadian border todav in the wake of temperatures that reached I'd below at one spot in the frozen middle and northwest. The vanguard of the storm howled across the nlains ol North Dakota and struck first todav at Bismarck with its load of snow. Then it pointed southeast across the northwest, preliminary to powdering the middle west with snow within the next 24 hours. The new storm found virtually all the eastern half of the United 1 States from Canada to the Gulf frozen in zero or lower temperatures and approximately 100 persons dead, directly or indirectly, in the 10-day siege of cold weathI er ’ i The lowest temperature recorded today was in Rainerd, on the ■ plains of northern Minnesota whero unofficial thermometers registered !19 below. It was 10 below' in Du- , luth and 6 below in St. Paul when early alarm docks rang this morn- ' ing. In Wisconsin, Lacrosse re- ' ported 8 below and Madison 4 bei low. The suit-zero readings were rising, however, as the snow storm approached. Southward the mercury ranged higher but. still unseasonably low. Municipal airport in Chicago re- ■ ported 2 below: central Illinois reported from 10 altove to zero; Lafayette, Ind., in the northwestI ern part of the state, reported t> below. Other Indiana towns shivered as the mercury stayed around zero. It was so cold in Joliet, 111., that convicts in the state prison were excused from their tasks in tlio stone quarries. The lowest reading was 5 below, a new record for Nov. 28. Frosts nipped the citrus crops along the gulf coast and far into Florida. Asheville, N. C„ where northerners go to escape the cold, laid aside white flannels for overI coats when the mercury registered 20 above. J The cold extended to the eastern seaboard. New York reported 16 above and Pittsburgh 8 with weather bureaus predicting lowering temperatures overnight there and in New England. ' While temperatures will moderate late today and tonight throughout the middle west the prediction was for snow over the entire central forecast area. It will range. W. R. Lloyd the forecaster said, from flurries to a regular old-fashioned storm. I

THANKSGIVING IS OBSERVED Churches Observe Annual Day With Services; Dinners Held With the temperature hovering around zero all day, Thanksgiving was observed by a majority of the people in this community at home. Government thermometers showed the coldest Thanksgiving day on record. Thermometers in this city registered from one above to three below, Thursday morning. Despite the cold weather many persons attended Thanksgiving services in the churches Wednesday evening and Thursday morning. A union service of the Protestant, churches was held at the Zion Ilei formed church Wednesday evening the Rev. H. H. Ferntheil, .pastor of tlie Presbyterian church, delivering the sermon. A Thanksgiving high mass was celebrated at the St. Mary's Catholic church at 7:30 o’clock Thusday morning. The mass was attended by several hundred persons. A Thanksgiving service was held at the Lutheran church at ten o'clock Thursday morning with the pastor the Rev. Paul Schultz, delivering the sermon. On every hand there was expres(CONTINUED ON PAGE SEVEN)