Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 28, Number 294, Decatur, Adams County, 13 December 1930 — Page 1

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IONFEREES AGREE ON HOOVOR PROGRAM

lIIT BETWEEN ■OVER,SENATE ■[COMES WIDER ■ . dent Restrained flni Disposing of Unemployment Funds ■iNSON I WINS ISSUE Dee. 13.— (U.R) dispute has been fl to ;he issues aggravatbetween Presi’fllloover and the senate. M-ity Leader Robinson ( {* this latest point of *fl! Hoover objects to an ' ' made by the seni)i,. emergency untniployJK H ‘| The change, suggested and adopted uuanifl< without debate would preer from disposin'.' appropriated as he may fl house sent the bill to the fl with a proviso that Mr. could transfer the sums in the bill from one in .my other and Robinsi f1.,! thu was, in effect a lump ipriation. Forthwith it from the bill, fl Hoover today apparently flp'ot.-s the possibility of ]■: du,tight relief legislation fl!/--- insists it shall appro.‘HUI. And he objects, loss sharply, to the sen “in of th.- unoinptov flat- ‘ House r-publican i.-soi ting to ' very 9Hjui“ mientary maneuvi-t 'lie senate’s $60,000,000 bill from reaching the jfItiTINUED ON PAGE SIX) fl Rites Are Held flor Tennessee Senator fl '“i>. Dec. 13. (U.R)' In i ban.her strangely quiet a! ... ut debates. President and ■ titer distinguished oflast night in tribute Slater Overman, whose ended almost 28 years service in the upper congress. gray casket was removed |Hbt"ief service and taken to X. ('., for burial this as Mr. Hoover were groupof the senate and the ■ the supreme court and dipcorp, Mrs. Overman am! daughters were seated the casket. Curtis opened tiewith a brief statement: ■Ft all knew him and loved fl Rev. Z. T. Phillips, senate delivered the funeral or assemblage was Senator Simmons, Overman's col who chine to Washington |fl at the same time and had closest friend. fl'ions' I ,oor health prevented accompanying the body Inoss PLAN ■argergarrse :fll Dodge Dealers flase Building Next ■to Present Place Saylors Motor Company, for Dodge Bros, motor car.-, its business and has room adjoining its sales fland garage on North Firs' jWB rhe room was formerly oc by the Decatur Auto Latin |H "ew room will be used as a and this department ol will be enlarged tow 'ith the body rebuilding and |H| repair department. Clifford *£ ! ' anno,,nc ed- Besides the agency the company conIK a general garage. f'odge auto sales room is ‘ n the south room and used located In the center buildcompany now occupies with a frontage of 100 f ee; (NV 1 * 1 street. jgH® a ylors Motor company was h ere fj Ve years ago by and Leo Saylors.

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Vol. XXVIII. No. 291.

I Senator Overman i Dies at Capital I

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i' Senator Lee slater Overman, 76-year-old North Carolina Demos crat and one of the deans of the ■ Senate, who died Friday at Washs inglon from a heart attack.

: DAMAGE SUIT ; IS SETTLED 1 Jury Finds for Defendant After 12 Hours of , Deliberation j After being out from 7:15 o'clock ( Friday night until 7:45 o’clock Saturday morning, a jury in Adams cir- ! cult coArt found for the defendant and allowed the plaintiff nothing in a $5,000 damage suit entitled Fern Kramer vs. F. W. Powlisch. venued here from Allen county. ■ The plaintiff, mother of Max Atkins, crippled boy who was allegedi ly injured in September 1929 when - knocked from a bicycle by an autot mobile driven by defendant, sued Powlisch for $5,000 for caring for , her son while he was recuperating > from the accident. i A motion for a new trial is now ~ pending in the case of Max Atkins. by his next friend vs. Powlisch on which action a jury here Inst year awarded plaintiff SB,OOO. it is under- ’ stood that the new trial motion is ’ on wrong instructions given the jury and it is believed probable the ’ new trial will be granted. ! The Kramer vs. Powlisch case ’ <Jrew much attention and many 1 pupils of the two Decatur high • schools attended the trial which lasted since last Thursday. 5 The jury was instructed night and sent to the jury room at 1 7:15 o'clock. It is understood that the voting at once favored the de3 fendant, but that one or two jury - men refused to change their opinion until this morning. r The verdict read: “We the jury find for defendant r Roy Johnson, foreman. 1 It was read this morning when court convened and the jury was ! discharged. Sapp. See and Glenn of Huntington and C. J. Lutz of De- ' catur represented defendant and Hartzell and Todd of Fort Wayne and D. B. Erwin, Decatur repi esented plaintiff. _ o 1 Would Reduce Costs ’ Indianapolis, Dec. 13. -—(U.R>— duction or elimination of the tost of school bocks to Parent* I* °ne 5 of the legislative aims ot the In diana congress of parents and teachers, Mrs. G. G. Derbyshire, chairman, announced today. The congress' legis latlve I ’ aram favors the principles < f state ’ school aid; increased hospital an f health commission, - :^Se 9 for .tXo T - ’ duction of forces in state depa t- > meats dealing with human welfar . f —— — Trial Period Extended 1 Indianapolis. Dee. ■ trioSZS , the Nor t tlie ded‘ ““days S De: by the service ’X" - <,Perati ° n ’ 1 will be made.

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ROAD CREDIT IS ANNOUNCED f OR TOWNSHIPS, Total For All Units In County For 1931 Is $204,107.96 I CREDIT LESS THAN 1931 The twelve townships in! Adilins county will have al credit of $201.107.96 avail-' ah e for new road construe-! lion in 1931, according to the estimate sheet prepared by! County Auditor Albert Harlow. The 1931 credit is SIO,OOO less than the 1930 credit, the amount available at the beginning of this year being $214,357.04. The total debt in the 12 townships for roads on January 1, 1930 was $590,805.87. Baeed on the net valuations in each township the two percent bond limit yields a total of $669,413.36, Prom which is deducted the outstanding debt, leaving a credit of $78,607.49. To I this is added the credit for pay- | ments to be made in 1931, bring-j ing the total credit up to $204,-1 107.96. Washington township with $51,I 472.56 has the largest credit and Blue Creek township with $5,670.76 has the smallest credit. New road construction will begin shortly after the first of the: year ami it is likely that the! board of county commissioners will grant petitions and order them published at the January meeting of the board. A table showing the available credit in every township is published in another part of this paper. — o —- Patrolman Is Appointed Indianapolis. Dec. 13— (UP) — Ralph T. Garrard, Newcastle, was named as a patrolman on the state police force late yesterday by Chief Grover Garrett. o LESLIE PLANS TO PROBE RUMOR Governor to Investigate Accusations of Fraud bv Oil Inspectors Indianapolis, Dec. 13. — (U.R) Governor Harry G. Leslie probably will take action regarding accusations that several state oil inspectors have defrauded the state cf inspection fees, it was learned today. Yesterday he called Attorney General James M. Ogden, Charles Edwards, deputy attorney general in charge of shortage collections, Dr. William F. Ring, state health director and James I. Inlow, chief oil inspection clerk, for a conference. Inlow functions under I. L. Miller, food and drug commissioner in King’s office. Miller was out of the city and since he is legally chief of the oil inspection department, another conference was arranged for next Monday. Yesterday’s conference was secret hut it was learned that the governor wants the oil inspection muddle straightened out before the 1931 legislature meets. Six shortage reports, involving $25,002.41, have been presented to the governor and turned over to Edwards for collection. The inspectors’ charged with shortages explained that they reported more Inspections than col lections, and that if any money is owed it must he from the oil companies. Inspectorship appointments are made with approval of the governor and Leslie is anxious to see the matter disposed of to avoid legislative criticism. Ticket Seller Robbed Cayuga. Ind., Dec. 13.—(U.R>—Two young bandits held up and robbed John Ewbank, ticket seller at the Cayuga-Montezuma high school basketball game last night, shortly after the game at the school gymnasium. The robbers missed a large amount of money lying on a table.

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Decatur, Indiana, Saturday, December 13, 1930.

Macadam Road Bui Debt Township Jan. 1, 1930 D Union , $ 28,628.38 $ Hoot 51.176.10 | I’reble 40,937.30 Kirkland 22,416.00 I Washington 162.823.92 | St. Marys 20,523.90 Blue Creek 27.971.44 Monroe 108.310.04 French 18,530.74 Hartford 31,463.18 Wabash 52.998.87 Jefferson 25,036.00 KE ■ | Good Fellows Club M w The Niblick Dry Goods Company I donated five dollars worth of jloth- ‘ ing to the Good Fellows Club and ! the John T. Myers Clothing ComI pany also donated clothing amoun'i ing to ten dollars. ' i Other contributors to the Good Fellows Club today are as follows: Previous total s2o2.fft> Mr. and Mrs. Paul Saurer 1.0 ) Friend .45 Nancy Bell 1.00 Total .... $204.51 8 DEFENDANTS AREACQDITTED Government Witness Disappears in Liquor Trial at Fort Wayne Fort Wayne, Ind., Dec. 13 —(U.R) Disappearance of Conrad Bivens, former federal prohibition agent, caused the collapse of the government’s case against Charles Zimmerman, former Steuben - county sheriff, and seven Fort Wayne men. A directed verdict of not guilty I was ordered by Federal Judge Thomas W. Slick in federal court where the men were tried on changes of conspiring to violate the prohibition laws. A motion for directed verdict cf acquittal for Guy Emrlck, former Allen county sheriff, who was on trial with the others, was denied. Ten other defendants also were denied a motion for a directed verdict of not guilty. Bivens has been the object of an extended search and was said to be the key witness in the case against Zimmerman, who now lltes in Portland. o Will Award Printing The board of county commission ers will meet in special session Monday for the purpose of receiving bids for the furnishing of blank books, printing and office supplies for the county offices for 1931. It was understood that the Fort Wayne Printing Company, Fort Wayne, and William B. Burford of Indianapolis would bid on the material. The Fort Wayne Printing company has the contract this year. BANK BANBITS ARE CAPTURED Road Gang Captures Bandit’s In Southern Part of State Vevay, Ind., Dec. 13. —(U.R) —Two men who robbed the Florence, Ind., Deposit Bank of $750 yesterday afternoon, were placed in jail here last night after being captured by a road gang near Patriot. The robbers gave their names as William D. Houghton, 25, and William Henig, 22, both of Evansville. Mrs. Perry Dugan, bookkeeper, was forced into a vault while the men took the money from the counters, and escaped in an auto. A barricade was built by the roal construction gang, and they were provided arms. Scarcely had the trap been laid until the rob bers appeared and were ensnared. The auto used in the robbery was said to have been stolen in Detroit. ——•—o — Newspaperman Dies Memphis, Tenn., Dec. 13.—(U.R) Jotin J. Elsert, promotion editor of the Memphis Press-Scimitar, died here today after a brief illness. He had been a member of the newspaper’s editorial staff for 12 years. His newspaper career included work on the Dallas, Tex.. Dispatch, Houston Press and Evansville, Ind., Press.

ilding Limit for 1931 Paying on 2% Building Available for j H-bt in 1931 Limit Roads in 1931 i $8,817.88 $ 28,467.20 $8,656.70 11.443.74 59.605.44 19.873.08 8,931.70 45,071.34 13,065.74 5.544.tH) 34,766.38 17.894.38 30,847.70 188.448.78 51.472.56 4.781.58 40,823.98 25,081.66 5.654.32 27,987.88 5,670.76 24.704.80 110,909.08 27,303.8 i 5,648.46 29,946.52 17,064.24 6,517.06 30.897.52 5,051.401 7,035.22 ’ 51,816.28 5,852.64 5,584.00 25,672.96 6,220.96 STORES PLAN FOR HOLIDAYS Colored Lights Along Business Section Are Placed by Citv 1 1 The Christmas lights, strung on ' Second street from Marshall street south to Jefferson street will be. lighted tonight, M. J. Mylott, sup-! erintendent of the city light and, 1 power plant stated this morning. I More than 800 colored lights I have been erected by Jhe city ■ light and power plant and current I for lighting them will be furnished by the city plant free of charge, j The lights contain nearly all the I ‘ colors of the rainbow and add, much to tlie appearance of the, shopping district. Many Decatur stores will remain open at night starting Monday. 1 The clothing stores announced to-1 ■ day they would remain open each 1 night from, now until Christmas until 8:30 o'clock. Other stores in various lines I also will remain open, some until 8:30 o’clock and some until 9 o’clock. Many people in the Decatur trading radius visited local ! stores today and took advantage of the many Holiday bargains. 1 ■ Billy Hale Is Injured Little Billy Hale son of Mr. and Mrs. William Hale Geneva had the misfortune of having h>s thumb crushed Friday. While playing he turned a table over which caught his thumb under the leg. It was necessary for the doctor to amputate the end of the thumb. 0 EXAMINATION WILL BE HELD High School Equivalency Examination Set For Decatur, January 31 A high school equivalency exam- ! ination will be held for Adams ■ count ypeople in Decatur Sunday ; January 31, it as annouwnced to-; . day by C. E. Striker, county superintendent of schools. The examination will be in all subjects taught I in accredited high schools of the state and those successful will re-1 ceive a state diploma, equal to n , higii school diploma. I Any citizen of Adams county, not now a pupil of an accredited high school can take the examination. Any pupil of a high school in the ■ county, not accredited, also Is entitled to take the examination and if I successful will receive a diploma, similar to accredited high school (diplomas and will be entitled to en- > ,— (CONTINUED ON PAGE SIXi , o Receiver Is Appointed Indianapolis, Dec. 13. — (U.R) — ’ Horace Holmes was named receiv- • er today for James F. Huteson, • nationally known realty operator, • and the Indiana Estates Company, ’ by Judge Linn D. Hay. He will > serve also for William M. Doeler and Mell J. O’Keefe, other officers ! in the company. 9 Shopping daus till Christmas r 1 1 NZ A > 1

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REVOLUTION IS BELIEVED TO BE CHECKED Spanish Government Issues Statement; Rebels Capture City LEADERS TO BE PUNISHED Madrid, Spain. Dec. 13 —(U.R) — i The government of Prenrer Gen. I Damaso Bt rtnguer claimed today I that a revolutionary (which started 24 hours ago <n the Franco-Spanisli border had been crushed. Loyal federal troops, operating against the rebels from the little I Pyrenees town of Jaca, defeated the insurgents in a running fight (along the Ayerbe road. Official 'reports said more than 100 of the (revolutionaries had been captured and the remainder were fleeing in disorder. Unofficial board advices said “a number were killed or wounded" j in fighting in the Jaca region. "The rebel movement at Jaca jhas been quelled,” the captain geni era! of Aragon announced. "You may take it that the Jaca I movement is ended," said General I Berenguer. as be left the palace asI ter a conference with King AlI fonsc. The government announced that it would be "inexorable in its punishment" of the revolutionaries, who were said to be led by Col. Julio Mangada. Major Galen and Majcr Rubio of the Jaca garrison. The rebel forces, defeateel near Ayerbe, fled back to the forttlied regions of Jaca, unofficial reports said. More loyal government troops were crowding into the scene every hour. Reliable indications were that the uprising would be crushed completely within a short time, although the, rebels bad sworn to "fight to death.’’ “I don’t know whether the censor will pass what I am going to tell you," General Berenguer jokingly told newspapermen. "Federal forces which left Zaragossa today united with troops (CONTINUED ON PAGE FIVE) o— BULLETIN Football final: Army 6; Navy 0. o— Cross Funeral Held Funeral services for Raymond A, Cro=s. who died at the Adams County Memorial Hospital Thursday morning, were held at 10 o’clock this morning in the Christian I church in this city with Rev. ('litj ford Lanman, pastor, officiating. Burial was made at Mt. Etna. WOMAN KILLED AT FORT WAYNE Lovers’ Quarrel Believed Responsible Fo r Double Shooting Fort Wayne, Ind., Dec. 13 —(U.R) Mrs. Lillian Hedrick. 53, Fort Wayne, wae wounded fatally at Iter home here today by her lover. Charles H. Railsom, 51. he tyld police as they removed him to a hospital for treatment of two selfinflicted bullet wounds. Mrs. Hedrick died soon after she was taken to a hospital. Neighbors found the man and woman lying side by side on the floor of Mrs. Hedrick's house, x It wae believed the two lovers had quarreled. Although Mrs. Hedrick is married, she was not living with her husband, it was said. Ransom was in a serious condition, but was able to tell authorities what had happened. o Local Men Entertain for Prominent Banker Officers and directors of the Farmers Cfedit Corporation of Decatur, an organization which loans money at 6 and 6% per cent to Adams county farmers on chattels, entertained with a dinner at the Rice Hotel Friday night for Ralph E. Sams, manager of the Intermediate Credit Bank. L. E. Archbold also was a guest of the organization.

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Will Confirm Class at Lutheran Church By (he solemn rite of confirmation an adult class of three will lie taken into the Lutheran faith l in a special service this Sunday. The pastor of the church, Rev. Paul W. Schultz, statee that the elans has received instructions in the principles of Christian doctrine for the past three months, and gave evidence of their Christian knowledge at an examination held Thursday evening. Two of the class will also receive the sacrament of holy bapUsrn. Those to be confirmed are: Mrs. Margaret Scheiman, Mrs. Florence Blecke and Mr. Troy Woodruff. The service will begin at ten o'clock, and anyone wishing to attend is welcome. The pastor's ■ address will be based on the words of scripture found in Romans 8,1 38-39. CONTRACTS ID DE LET SOON New Bridge to Connect Indiana-Illinois; To Confer on Bids Springfield, 111., Dec. 13. —(U.R) — Award of contracts to construct a bridge over the Wabash river at Mount Carmel which would link the states of Illinois and Indiana will be made as soon as approval cf Illinois' decision in the matter has been received from the Indiana highway officials at Indianapolis, it was stated at the offices of the state department of public works and buildings here today. Illinois, it was said, already has decided on award of the contract but out cf courtesty to Indiana will not make known its decision until Indiana has had an opportunity to look over Hie bids. Contracts for certain grading and for fil-ins to the Illinois approach also have been approved for awarding but will not lie announced until next week. Under a joint agreement the two states will share equally the cost (CONTINUED ON PAGE SIX) THREE DANDITS ARE EXECUTED ‘Ury Baby” Bandits Go To Death Calmly At New York Prison O sining. N. Y., Dec. 13—(U.R)The three "cry baby" bandits, the oldest 22 and the youngest 19, went to their deaths in the electric chair at Sing Sing prison last night — one bewildered, another repentant and the last with cheery bravado. The tliroe lioys—Janies Bolger, 19. James Butler. 20, and Halo Ferdinand!, 22—were executed for the murder of James Bauer, Westbury, L.1., druggist, during a hold up, a few" hours after Governor Franklin D. Roosevelt had refused to extend a one-day reprieve. Butier was the first to die. The current was turned on and five minutes later at 11:05 p. m., he was pronounced dead. Ferdinand! was the next to enter the execution room He was pronounced dead at 11:17. Bolger, youngest of the trio, walked up to the chair with a firm step. He was smiling broadly. "Gentlemen," be said as he took his place in the chair unassisted, ”1 die like 1 lived—with a smile on . my face." i He was, adjudged dead at 11:23. Canon City. Colo., Dec. 13 —(U.R) . —William Moya, 26, was hanged at the state penitentiary here last i night for the murder of Joseph Zemp, aged Denver recluse, during a robbery lasi January. Five People Injured Canton. Miss., Dec. 13 —(UP) Five persons were slightly injured ’ near here early today when nine cars of the Illinois Central passenger train, were derailed. The accident, which-occurred at ■ 2 A. M., ws believed caused by a : broken rail. Passengers in the six ■ pullman ears were shaken, some be ■‘lng pitched from their berths. Service over the line will be rei sumed by noon today, officials said, i The accident occurred ono mile south of Canton.

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BELIEVE BOTH HOUSES WILL ACT FAVORABLY 1 Unemployment Bill to Become Law Before Christmas Day ROBINSON CLAUSE OUT Washington, Dec. 13. (U.R) An agreement was reached hy house and senate conferees today on the administration unemployment bill. I 1 hev reduced the total api oropriation from $118,000,(XK) to sll (>,000,000 and reI tained the flexible clause I permitting President Hoover ‘discretion in allocating funds. The conferees eliminated the senate amendment by Democratic Floor Leader Robinson restricting the president's power in distributing the appropriation and also reduced from $5,000,000 to $.1.00,000 the appropriation for constructing roads on public lands. The conference report must be pa sed upon by the house and senate. The senate and house are expeeled to take final action early next week, after which the measure will go to President Hoover for his signature. Thus the administration’s major relief bill will become a law before Christmas. The conference agreement was a victory for the house and (he administration. Only two changes were made in the original house bill and these in matters of appropriations One was the $3,000,600 for roads on public lands, for which the senate had voted $5.000.000, and the other an agreement for $3,000,000 for forest reads. The original house bill provided $110,000,000 and the senate bill $118,000,000. Retention of the flexible clause was an especially notable victory for the administration, since Democrats hail sought to eliminate grant of this authority. o Former Decatur Man’s Funeral Is Held Today Funeral services for Grover C. Miller, former Decatur man, who died at Johnson City, Tennessee, I were held at 11 o'clock this morning nt tb<' Chalfant and Cutshal! funeral parlors at Fort Wayne, with Rev. Arthur J. Folsom officiating Burial was made in the 1. (). O. F. Cemetery at Marion. — — —o Erie Train Crashes Into Auto: Three Die Wadsworth, 0., Dec. 13.—(U.R) ‘ Three persons were killed and two ’ others injured perhaps fatally when their automobile was demol- . Ished by an Erie freight train to- > day at a crossing in the center of ' Wadsworth. Ths dead are Milo Aver, 29: his ’ daughter, Donna. 8; ami Virgil ’ Wolf, 35. Mrs. Aver, 28, and her ' daughter, Evelyn. 7, were reported near death in Wadsworth hospital. ! The car and its occupants were ’ hurled 100 feet by tile force cf the Impact. BODUS MONEY ■ IS REPORTEO ( — i Federal 10 and 20 Dollar Counterfeit Bills Are Circulated ‘i j Indianapolis, Dec. 13.—(U.R) —SevI eral counterfeit $lO and S2O bills have been passed in Indiana, fed--5 eral secret service agents revealed teday in warning store-keep rs and individuals to exercise care in accepting paper notes of those denominations. The counterfeit money is crude- ~ ly dt vised, it was reported, and 1 can lie easily identified by careful e , examination. The S2O bills bear the serial t number A20797433A. scries of 1928, s with the check letter 1128 above x Andrew W. Mellon’s signature, the ~ announcement said. Two sell -s of counleifelt $U> bills have been >. found. One is a federal reserve I. note, series of 1928. and the other ea gold certificate, serial number A11926444A.