Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 28, Number 283, Decatur, Adams County, 1 December 1930 — Page 1

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LAME DUCK CONGRESS GETS UNDER WAY

vtogram For First Adams County Corn Show Is Announced

iIIONS TO Held here ■ NEXT WEEK ■tts to Be Held at Kity Show Be--1 g»l ! ‘ December 8 IgjJnt and club Wali'S SCHEDULED ■rhe llTicial pi<>i»niin lor 1 v’s first corn Kv'jL l niber 8 Io 13th, K'iin|<Hince<l today bv 1.. ■ Ard|)" | d. Adams county fclie show, augmented with ■ xßßoxs and Girls club KnMawards. will be held ESh' l' ;, h building on Avon Burk is genof the corn show ■ entries will he received by ■ and L ■ ommittee at the city ■ cttlleis'.iy. December 8. Eela?.'' of interest to farmers .■ the Library. Deca- ■ kiglt ' "'i auditorium and a Bten®y !l>e women will be givKon tlhirsday afternoon at the Kgata*holic high school audiKie iMnplete program for the Kt Mo w s December 9 ■yjßc.'. entries must be in ■trait: i. Library auditorium Ka. i . 1-3 .p. m. Dr. C. T. ■pry an M. O. Pence in charge. December 10 low open to the public, ■tool, Library auditorium, 1-3 p. m. Ils Club Achievement pmbecatur high school audi|3o p.m. Irrday, December 11 now open to the public. |t. ‘Evolution of the by the Home Economics iAdams county in the DeItholic auditorium, 1:30 let, Corn and Calf Clubs pent (program,, Decatur pl auditorium, 7;30 p.m. pday, December 12 y Mr. Ralph Sams, official rniediate Credit Bank, b. on “Credits", 2 p.m. Corn Show ntries in the corn show gken all day Monday and until 9 a.m. in both men s classes. The show will In the city building on Mr. Avon Burk is 01 t * !e show and will be John E. Heimann. EdFWM'ED on d AGE TWO) o wuci Appeals Are i Reduced to 18 P<ta®)«>iis, Dec. 1. —<U.R)-There F c Oily IS liquor law violation HMtu the supreme and appelMrn during the fiscal year ■■October 1, as compared the previous year, |Mbown today in figures comdeputies to Attorney GenMS- —*—° ■IE POLICE ®E APPOINTED ■Police Chief Names *3 Deputies Today; ■ers to Be Named '■Oapolis, T> c , I—(U.R)— Apof 13 men as state ,i H en was made today by new state police said three more appoint|®night. be announced today rest would be forthcoming few days. '■B appointed lieutenants Hamilton, Sullivan; Risker, South Bend aviatWeir, Salem, and Al Indianapolis. named were: Guy William Wittimer, ®y; Ralph C. Liggett,, WarAipp, Fort Wayne: W. Demont, Knox; Roy L. aviator; Carl H. Greensburg; George /■L Indianapolis, and Fred Jyere ordered to report for K noon today.

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Boyd May Remembers Colder Thanksgiving We might have convinced some folks that this years Thanksgiving was the coldest ever known, but , not Boyd May, who recalls the one of 1876, when the thermometer wen'. 1 down to two below. Boyd is seventyseven years old but has a remark able faculty for remembering dates , and can go back to the days when the boys marched away to the Civil war. lie says Thai} sgiving day 1876 came on November 28th and was his wedding day. He came to town the day before to get his license from Bryon Dent. There was I six inches of snow ‘and that night the cold wave came but the wedd- • ing day was a happy one nevertheI less and no one minded the cool breezes very much. o NEW COLD WAVE GRIPS STATE — Temperature Drops to 20 Above at Noon; More Snow Is Predicted Indianapolis, Dec. I.—(U.P.) — Another cold wave was on its way toward Indiana today, scheduled to strike tonight with temperatures of abqut 10 degrees, according to the U. S., weather bureau. Forecast for fair skies indicated that no snow would accompany the wave. Higher tempeiatures Tuesday night or Wednesday temporarily will end the cold weather, it was predicted. — Chicago, Dec. I—(U.R1 —(U.R) —Riding in the wake of one of the most severe November blizzards in weather bureau history, a new cold wave •spread over the north central states today, drove temperatures almost to the zero mark and added greatly to the intense suffering already caused. Almost upon the stroke of midnight. as a new day and a new month came to Illinois, the new cold wave howled its way out of the north, whipped the Great Lakes into a fury, crippled air, rail and highway traffic and put at least one steamship in disstrees. Tlie weather bureau said the new wave originated in the area surrounding Eagle, Alaska, where ! it was 52 degrees below zero, siwept down through the Mackenzie river valley, through Saskatchewan ansi Manitoba, and, still retaining much of its severity, whistled into the Unjted States by (CONTINUED ON PAGE SIX) o New Albany Bank Resumes Business zNew Albany, Ind., Dec. I—(UP)1 —(UP) — The American Bank and Trust company of New Albany was to open for business today, after being closed for several days due to a misunderstanding which led to a run on the institution. It was the third Indiana bank to reopen recently after Temporary cessation of payments to depositors. Reopening of the American bank and Trust company bore approval of the state banking department, after a thorough investigation of its condition. — o * Will Not Contest Davis’s Seat Today Washington. Dec. I—(U.R)—Challengel—(U.R)—Challenge against the seating of Sen-ator-elect James J. Davis, Republican, Pennsylvania, probably will not be made today, Senator Nye, Republican, North Dakota, chairman of the senate campaign expenditures committee, said today just before the session convened. Nye said he understood Davin would not. present himself until after the committee had made its report. This report was not likely to be given to the senate today, Nye said. Doak Sworn In As Labor Secretary Washington, Dec. 1 —(U.R)—William N. Doak of Virginia, was sworn in today as the nation s third secretary of labor, succeeding James J. Davis of Pennsylvania. The oath of office was administered at 1:05 p. m. by Samuel J. Gompers, chief clerk of the labor department.

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PROMISES TO RETORN HERE CHRISTMAS EVE Santa Claus And Reindeer Leave In Sleigh to Return Later FOUND MANY GOOD CHILDREN HERE I Santa Claus leaving here Saturday night with his sleigh and reindeer slated that he would return Christinas Eve with toys and gifts lor the children and grown-ups. While in Decatur Saturday, Santa Claus met more than 11.500 children. He stated Saturday’ night that Decatur I had as many good children as any I town he ever visited and that he would not fail to return here on December 24. A large crowd was here Saturday to see Santa and his live reindeer. Those who viewed with skepticism the announcement that the real Santa and his tiny reindeer would be here, had the surprise of their lives when they saw him riding in his bright red sleigh, accompanied by the two Eskimo guides. Tautauk and Ertauk. Merchants were busy Saturday morning and evening with Christmas shoppens. Nearly every store was prepared for the city-wide preChristmas opening and many shoppers were here to take advantage of the first selections. Santa stated that he had many requests from children for toys and useful articles. He asked each child what they desired for Christmas and made notation of it in his great gift record. The reindeer attracted much (attention and the little fellows behaved in fine style, the contrast of brick streets being enough to scare any animal which lived entirely on the snow covered ground of the north. Santa carried a supply of deer moss with him and when the reindeer became unruly or wanted to run away a hunk of the green moss quieted their nerves. Santa urged the grown-ups to do (CONTINUED ON PAGE FIVE) BANK BANDIT IS CAPTURED Yegg Who Robbed Cumberland Bank Captured 10 Minutes Later Indianapolis, Dec. 1 —(U.R) — A bandit who robbed the Cumberland State Bank at Cumberland, east of Indianapolis, of $325 shortly before noon' today, was captured ten minutes later by Deputy Sheriff John Newhouse, Cumberland, and County Commissioner John Shearer. The bandit fled south from Cumberland in a small auto. Newhouse and Shearer, armed with a shotgun, overtook him and he surrendered as they covered him with the gun. He said he was John Fair, 31, Indianapolis, but police here said personal belongings and an identification tag in the auto revealed he was Ordia Bruce, Indianapolis. The l>andit had walked into the bank and scooped up the money while he levelled a gun at Miss Carrie Mae Huntington, bookkeeper. He fired one shot at William Hilkene, Cumberland, during the dasli to his auto, but the shot went wide. All of the money was recovered. It was the second holdup of the bank in ten months. o Street Car Money Taken By Bandits Cincinnati, 0., Dec. 1. — (U.R) — Three bandits seized a Cincinnati Street Railway Company collection truck here today and escaped with $19,000. They forced the driver and three guards to accompany them to the river front where they were believed to have fled into Kentucky. The money represented collections from company stations.

Decatur, Indiana, Monday, December 1, 1930.

First Lady Opens Charity Drive J I 'JOI 1 * Mrs. Hoover cuts the birthday cake at the second anniversary celebration of the Thrift Shop, in Washington, where a group of well known women in society in diplomatic Circles are conducting a philanthropic sale during the pre-holiday season. Proceeds go to the Children’s Hospital. the Children’s Country Home, the Child Welfare Society, and the Prenatal Clinic of the Columbia Hospital. ■

DRUNKEN PARTY ENDS IN DEATH Five Young Men Held for Death of Prettv 18-Year-Old Girl Gary, Ind., Dec. I—(U.R) —A cdroner’s jury returned a verdict today holding that Arlene □ raves, 18-year-olcf high school graduate, died of a cerebral hemorrhage and shock after a criminal attack, and recommended that five men who attended a drinking party with her Saturday night be held to the grand jury without bond on charges of first degree murder. The verdict was returned under an Indiana statute which defines a death after a criminal attack as first degree murder. Gary, Ind., Dec. I.—(U.R>—Five young men, all members of prominent Gary families, were held today in connection with the death of a pretty 18-year-old girl at a party where liquor was served. The body of the girl, Miss Arlene Gwendolyn Draves. was taken early Sunday to the home of Dr. R. O. Wharton, three miles from the residence of David Thompson, city fireman, at whose home she had attended the party with Virgil Kirkland, 20, former football star at Horace Mann high school. The five youths who appeared at Dr. Wharton's home with the body thought the girl merely had drunk too much, they said, and asked the (CONTINUED ON PAGE FOUR) o CLUB CHECKS TOBEMAILED First Distribution of Christmas Savings Checks Made Today Approximately $35,000, repres nting savings in Christmas Savings clubs will be mailed to members by the three Decatur banks this week. The Old Adams County Bank today issued checks amounting to about $15,000 to holders of Christmas Savings accounts for the past year. The First State Bank, formerly the First National Bank, will mail checks amounting to between $lO,000 and $12,000 an.d the Peoples Loan and Trust Company will mail checks amounting to SIO,OOO to their 300 members, on Thursday, December 4. , New Savings club will be opened at the three banks immediately after the Issuing of the Christmas Savings checks, and clubs will be arranged in denominations varying (CONTINUED ON PAGE SIX)

I w | Good Fellows Club $ I The annual Good Fellows Club! I opened Saturday with a $28.00 II contribution by the Delta Theta Tan Sorority, sponsors of the club. The second donation was ‘ received today and was $1.07 from a friend, making the total $26.07. The Delta Theta Tau Sorority each year sponsors a Good Fellow Club for the purpose of providing a happy Christmas for poor children of this community andjiave. set a goal of SSOO for this year. The amount received a year ago was $324 and the members are making a special effort to increase this amount to tlie quota of SSOO as much more money will lie needed this year. Boxes for contributions have been placer! in the three local banks and tlie Decatur Democrat office, and those desiring to join (he dull may donate any amount, by dropping their contribution in lone of the boxes. MOTHES JONES J DIES A FIGHTER Militant Labor Supporter Died Sunday; Was More Than 100 l Silver Spring, Mr.. Dec. I.—(U.R) I —Mother Jones died last night. • She died as she lived, a fighter. This daughter cf an Irish rebel t was more than lOi) years old. A c kindly heart, active spirit and vig- : orous body led her into a crusade ) for the laboring man. Often the way led through bloodshed and violence, but Mother Jones emerged unharmed to die in an old-fash-ioned farmhouse set in the tranquil Maryland countryside. Death ended the career of the I militant laborlte at 11:55 p. m. Dr. | 11. H. Howlett, driving rapidly over fog blanketed country roads from Silver Spring, arrived at 1 a. m., • in answer to an urgent summons. There was nothing he could do. ’ The news spread quickly, despite the isolated location of the farmhouse of Mr. and Mrs. Walter ■ Burgess where Mother Jones had i stayed, h,cr small figure propped in , - . (CONTINUED ON PAGE SIX

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MA YR BECOMES NEW SECRETARY OF STATE — Control of State Office Passes to Democrats At Ceremony Today WILLIAMSON IS NEW AUDITOR OF STATE Indianapolis, Dee. I.— (U.R) —j Democrats flocked to the. state-: house today to greet and pay hotn-i age to a s cretary of state, and al state auditor that came from their own tanks. The day was a memorable one for the party, as it marked the first time in several years that an important state office had been assumed by a democrat. A simple ceremony, including administering the oatli of office and a short reception, marked the induction to office of Frank Mayr as secretary of state; and Floyd Williamson as state auditor. D mccrats replaced republican:-, • CONTINUED ON PAGE SIX) 0 ILLS OF COUNTRY SUMMED IN TALK Esther Sellemeyer Gives Instructive Talk On China at Church Miss Esther Sellemeyer who for miire than ten years has been a; ms -sionary in the interior of China, | spoke at the annual Thank-offering service at the Zion Reformed church last night on the subject, "Tlie Real Opponents of China.” She pointed out in iter address that the hindrances and opponents to the progress of this great country are, appalling poverty; woeful ignorance; universal disease; official greed and corruption, and civil war. Tlie speaker enlarged on each one of these points j in a most interesting way and re- ■ lated her own experience and per- j sonal contacts with the people otj China. Miss Sellemeyer also stated that the population of China in round numbers is four hundred million of which three hundred million are illiterate; seventy million children in China are of school age of which five million are in the Mission schools and only one million in the government schools. “The hope of China is the education of tlie younger generation," the speaker stated. The program last night was in charge of Mrs. J. Fred Fruchte, thank-offering secretary. Mrs. Chris. Lehmann led in the devotionals. Mrs. Ben Schroyer and Mrs. Dallas Goldner sang “Oil, My Soul, Bless Thou Jehovah.” Miss (CONTINUED ON PAGE TWO) WRECKED AUTO CATCHES FIRE Geneva Men Skid off Road; Car Upsets and Catches Fire Berne, Dec. 1. —(Special).—The Berne fire department was called north of Berne, last evening at 10 o’clcck, where an accident occurred on Federal road 27. The car owned and driven by Fred Pyle of Geneva, skidded off the road, and turned over in the ditch, catching fire. Mis. Pyle was accompanied by Milton Augsburger, son of Mr. and Mrs. Jacob Augsburger of i Hartford township. Tlie two were enroute to Fort Wayne where they are employed. The car skidded On the icy pavement and turned over twice. The fire was put out witli chemicals, but the car was considerably damaged. Mr. Augsburger received a cut right ear and a bruise on his right arm, and Mr. Pyle escaped with a ' bad gash in the face. | — (CONTINUED ON PAGE TWO)

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Increase In Marriage Licenses For November Seventeen marriage licenses were issued during the month of November by County Clerk Bernice 'Ntlson, according to a report filed I today. This is an increase of two over a year ago when 15 licenses were issued during November. 1929. The hunting and fishing licenses issued during November shows an increase over last year of 28, there being 312 residence hunting and fishing licenses, and one non-resi-dent hunting license issued during | the past month. A year ago 284' I resident hunting and fishing li-j :< enses wi re sold. TWO INJURED IN AUTO WRECK Autos Sideswipe on State Road 27 And Two Men Are Injured Two Fort Wayne men received i minor injuries when the automo-j bile in which they were riding sideswiped a truck and ran into a bridge, near the Henry Berning farm on stat“ road 27. at 3 o’clock this morning. The men were Eugene Kessler, 2318 Bitter Road, and Francis Brown. :241 Elm street, Fort | Wayne. They were brought to the I Adams County Memorial Hospital after the accident. Mr. Kessler was driving his car north on the Fort Wayne-Decatur road near the Henry Berning farm when the accident occurred. Ah I lie attempted to pass a Kroger .truck his car sideswiped tlie truck, I striking a bridge at nearly the I same time. Both occupants of the Kessler car were injured, receiving a number of minor cuts and bruises. Their car was completely wrecked and was brought to this city by the Butler garage. The Kroger truck was not damaged, and tlie driver was uninjured. The attending physician stated today that both 51 r. Kessler and ' Mr. Brown are not in a serious (CONTINUED ON PAGE SIX) 0 COMMISSIONERS INJESSION Claims Are Allowed at Morning Session; Ditch Remonstrances Filed The county commissioners met in regular session this morning, it being the December meeting of the hoard. Bills w re checked and allowed this morning by tlie commissioners I and this afternoon tlie members of! the board made a trip to Hartford township where they inspected he Luther Martin road. The commissioners will receive bids tomorrow for the furnishing of two snow plows to the county highway department. The plows will be furnished at once and used by the highway department in clearing the roads of snow this winter. The commissioners will meet in special meeting on December 15 for tlie purpose of receiving bids for tlie furnishing es printing supplies, blank books and office supplies to tlie county offices next year. Another special session will be held during the last week of December for the purpose of allowing (CONTINUED ON PAGE TWO) Missionary to Speak . At Woman’s Club A very interesting program has been planned tor the public meeting of the Woman s Club at the Library this evening. Miss Esther Sellemeyer, a missionary, will speak on the subject. ’“Christianity ami China’s Religious Renaissance". Preceding the principal address of the evening, the Junior Arts Club will present a fifteen minute musical program. Tickets for the program are fifty cents, and may be procured from any member of the club or admission may be paid at the door.

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SESSION OPENS AT NOON TODAY IN WASHINGTON Communists Greet Solons With Demonstration; First Bill Filed FARM RELIEF AND TAXATION ON LIST Wnsliiiißton. Dec. 1 <U.R) Congress convened lothtv in :i short-lived mood ol Rtiietv. I'llie immediate business was I Io pronounce the senate and I house of the 71st congress in session and then to appoint committees to inform IhesiI dent Hoover of that fact. I After that adjournment was in 'order until tomorrow when PresiI dent Hoover's message will be j received. Five liundred or more average ' Americans — young-to-old, thin-to-j fat, iiomely-to-handsome — milled j In the two chambers preliminary ito Speaker Longworth’s and Vice I President Curtis' summons to order. They exchanged anecdotes or re--1 grets over tlie November 4 polling; snapped fingers at page boys: slapped each other on the back; poked each other in the ribs or they bowed decorous bows — depending on the political amenities to which they are accustomed and the degree of their friendship. Bald, Boutlneered Speaker Longworth brandished his gavel sharply and rapjH-ii a sharp tatoo. At the far end of the corridor linking the two capital wings. Vice President Curtis, handsome, well tailored, too, stood and rapped. Talk, here, there and in the galleries, faded. Tlie precis gallery scribbled tlie first paragraph of u story which will not end until those gavels sound again at noon March 4. Half way down tlie long corri(CONTINUED ON PAGE TWO) o Guards Frustrate Proposed Jail Break Joliet, 111., Dee. I.—<U.R> Guards of Joliet penitentiary, where Richard Loeb ami Nathan Leopold are imprisoned, frustrated an attempted jail break today when they disccvered six hack saws in a box of lunch being taken to a convict by a visitor. Warden Henry C. Hill refused to reveal for whom the saws were in- | tended hut he said that Clarence I Duval, 21, and Helen I both of Chicago, had been arrestled. Duval, it was said, was capjtureil while attempting to deliver the saws during visitors’ hour and lie implicated Miss Chapman.-' Parent-Teachers Club Meets Tuesday Tlie regular meeting of tlie South Ward Parent-Teacher’s Association will be held Tuesday afternoon at 1 3:15 at the South Ward School. Miss Esther Sellemeyer will be the speaker for the meeting, and will talk concerning the educational conditions in China. The public is invited to attend this meeting. o SEAL CAMPAIGN OPENED HERE Red Cross Seals Placed on Sale; First Health Bond Is Sold The Tri Kappa Sorority formally opened tlie annual Red Cross Christmas Seal sale today by purchasing a $5 health bond. W. Guy Brown, county chairman of the Tuberculosis League announced. Mr. Brown stated that the arrangements have been made to mall seals ' to citizens of this city and to the rural schools of the county today. No definite quota is assigned to each county, but Mr. Brown has set a goal of 100,000 seals to be sold in Adams County during the month of December. The total amount sold during the sale a year ago was 76. 256 and in order to reach the goal set tor this year 23.654 more seals must be sold. Mr. Brown, who has had charge of seal sale in Adams county for tlie past several years, is again in charge this year He was assisted by (CONTINUED ON PAOE FIVE)