Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 28, Number 299, Decatur, Adams County, 19 December 1930 — Page 1

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APPOINTMENTS CAUSE NEW SENATE WAR

IUNTY BUYS WILDING FOR IIGHWAYDEPT. or (Jarage Building d to Commissioners By Decatur Bank ,L STORE ROAD MACHINERY e Adams county commis>rs today closed a deal he purchase of the Portara're building, corner and Jackson streets. It be used by the county vay superintendent as a y garage. e deal also included the dwelling south of the , building. Tile property has itage of 100 feet on First and extends west 132 feet tckson street. The garage ig is 66 feet by 132 feet and structed of cement blocks increte. It was build several ago by L» A. Holthouse, ediate possession of the ty was given to the county iy department by the Old County Bank, owners of place The consideration was The place will be as the County Highway j ■race several years th-- county rs have considered of a building for a county The highway department ; gi;' trucks, a number of . -racti.r and other ■:r which is stored in < vein! throughout motor vehicles and road will be moved to in this city. highway also ilo its own repair work on at.d road machim-ry Chris mty road su|'- > -ml- t" t'.at he planned to .inpioy lititm who would do 'l it keep the trucks ami rmol main running ord* r. Ei her stated that he wotiiu ,ving some of the I, to tlm garage building th s ami that all assistant road and empb'y,-> ■e department would b • instrmtMl nt.it.- all trucks and m Um county garage. |Mrhe jo; base of the garagwith the policy of fl . onimission ami . 0.u,:,; the stat in owning an ! |^B"-.'in F their garages as p1... ■ ■ their equipment vehicles and machinery. commissioner* have not \, - what they will do with the |B aning building. At present it rented and until a diniand is fot it this same policy will be carried out. garage building is in I has an office in the m.rtheouier of the building and a sh< p in the rear of the build The commissioners do m t dn making m a at present. 1) Porter has occupi d tlm for a number of years. I! - move his garage and auto agency as soon as a location secured. ■[ o Kirs damaged I OCCIDENT -■'ortland Wom e n Cut H When Auto Is Struck g At Intersection December 19 t Special t automobiles collided h. re Thursday and turned over ;;t ■ street intersection near section on state road 2,. of the occupants was in hut both cars were .sadly dam One auto caught fire but the were extinguished before ■‘"h damage was done. An automobile driven by Mrs. Dr. ■wley of Portland and occupied two other Portland women an t children was going toward r tlan.| on the state road. A cat ■ tTe n by a Mr. McKaig of PetroUtn was going west on the interstreet and failed to stop. McKaig car turned over on side. The Markley ear turned ■ er °n its top with all four wheels the air. It caught fire shortly al- ■ er the mishap. The occupants ot B" )| h cars escaped with only mime' Biuries.

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99 \ ears in Prison * J*l». '-MwMWtoSB ' .a.“jflr ’ll MM VW-"' » . .S.:a<<.>S' .- Rudolph Hegovic (left). 19-year-old Cicero, 111., high school youth, who was sentenced to ninety-nine years in prison for the slaying of Mrs. Mary Pelletier. Berwyn, 111., housewife, lact May. Hegov*ic, who insisted on .acting as his own attorney during the trial, protested his innocence. He is shown here in court with a bailiff.

WOMEN SPEAK ATROTARYMEET Mrs. Mabclle Myers, and Florence Holthouse Are Speakers Two/ women speakers gave talks at .rjii* IkcaW Rotary club U»r evening, the speakers being Mrs. Mabelle Myers, county attendance I .officer and Miss Florence lilolt I house, a member of the Good Fel j lows committee., Mrs. Myers talked on the work of the county attendance officer and of her experience with several of the children and families in the| county. The attendance officer urged cooperation of school patrons with school authorties and recommended that counties look after the health of school through the agency cf] county health nurses or some other office. She stated that much of i the delinquency and subsequent law j violation came from the underpri- j vileged child and not from the pupil who was graduated from high school. Miss Holthouse expressed her appreciation for the Rotary club's donation towards the Good Fellows club. A collection was taken up and $52 was contributed to the (CONTINUED ON PAGE FIVE) 0 — DAVID PARRISH WINS CONTEST Son of Mr. and Mrs. R. C. Parrish Gets High Journalistic Honor David Parrish, son of Mr. and Mrs. R. C. Parrish of Fort Wayne, formerly of this city, was awarded first place in a national journalistic contest, it was announced today. Young Panish attnded school in Decatur during his first and second years. The ycung man is a pupil at South Side high school. Parrish heads the list of ten national winners Tn the news writing division and because of this honor, his winning news article is published in the December-January issue of the Quill and Scroll Magazine His subject was “The News Writing Contest." Florence Rhea Talley, of Richmond, Va., placed first in the national news judgment contest and Keith Huntress South Portland, Me., won first in the editorial writing contest. The nine-other national winners in the news writing competition .re- Feme Vesecky. Kansas City, Kam; Melvin Watson, Lynchburg, Va • J- W. Magaw, Pittsburgh, Pa., Bert Gilden. Bridgeport, Conn.; Geo1 .ge Zahner, Minneapolis, Mtnn Frederic M. Pumphrey, St. Josepn, Mo Jewel Wilbanks, 1 liesen, Sz, Harold Frederick, Evans ville. and Hermione Lynn. Milwaukee, Wis.

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“No U-Turn” Signs Are Placed in City Signs reading. “No UTurn" have been erected on the sigtyjJL—iight' corner of Second and Monroe streets. A city ordinance forbids the I making of a ”U” turn at this point. ' hut motorists violated the law and thS signs were ordered by the council. They were placed on all four sides of the sign today by Amos Fisher, city street commissioner. I The making of a “U" turn is also i forbidden at the comer Mstdisoil- . and Second streets. ■j 0 Governor Goes Home Indianapolis, Dec. 19 —(UP) — ■ j Governor Harry G. Leslie was taken ' ■ home today from the hosiptal where I I he underwent a sinits operation i Tuesday. He was recovered satisfactorily it was reported. —— -o ■' — - Club Purchases Bond The Woman's Club today purl chased a SIO.OO Health Bond from ' the Adams County Tuberculosis ; League, W. Guy Brown, chairman j announced. o MURDER CHARGE MAY BE FILED Evidence Being Gathered In Effort to Send Gangster to Chair J Chicago, Dec. 19— (U.PJ-Evidence jis !>• ing gathered against Scarface Al Capone in an attempt to send I him to the electric chair on a | charge of murder, it was learned today. Pressing the inquiry is Judge John H. Lyle, of the municipal court. “Capone has become almost a mythical being, hut he isn't a myth —he's a reptile", Judge Lyle told the Chicago safety council last night. “He deserves to die. and he will if we can help." Judge Lyle disclosed that the vagrancy warrant he issued against Capone is intended to bring the Chicago gang leader into custody for efforts to indict him in connection with two gang murd- . era-. The state's attorney’s office confirmed Lyle’s announcement. One assistant has been assigned to assemble evidence against Capone on which to charge him, when and if he is arrested, with slaying of Joseph Howard, another gangster, in a saloon in 1924. The vagrancy warrant against Capone has not been served, it (was indicated, because of a desire to strengthen the chances of an indictment. Tlie unsolved murder of “Big Jim” Colosino, whose leadership in the underworld passed to Capone, also is being investigated. The state’s attorney’s office revealed the new hope of trying Capone on murder charges was based on a belief that witnesses who would not talk in 1920 when Colosimo was slain and others who . were mute in 1924 when Howard was killed would testify now.

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Decatur, Indiana, Friday, December 19, 1930.

RDM BUNNERS SINK VESSEL; ARE CAPTURED Contraband Liquor Is Lost When Ship Is Fired Early Today CREW FACES FEDERAL CHARGE New London, Conn., Dec. 19.— <U.R> —Pursued by six coast guard patrol boats, the crew of the speed boat Albertina set fire to the* rumladen craft and jumped into the water off Vineyard Light, near New Bedford, Mass., early today. Reports received at the coast guard base here said the crew had been rescued and placed under arrest. Coast guardsmen boarded the blazing Albertina which had been saturated with gasoline, and obtained samples cf her cargo to use as evidence but were unable to quench the flames and the rum boat sank.

The capture of another suspected mm runner, the 50-foot speed I boat Hither of New Bedford, was ■ announced by the coast guard here. The Hither, without a cargo, was apprehended running without lights southeast of Block Island. It war; brought here and the crew placed i ' .under arrest for violation of the navigation laws. Coast guard authorities here believed the crew of the Albertina would be taken to Boston or New I Bedford, : 0 Rev. Franklin Speaks to Pupils at Central ' ■ Rev. B. F. Franklin addressed the pupils of the Central school building this morning, at the regular chapel period. A Christmas program was the feature of the chapel, and the members of the. fifth and i sixth grades took part in the pro- ■ gram with special numbers. Evelyn ; Adams and Lois Sovine of Miss ■ Naoqii Gilbert’s 6A class sang a duet. “Christmas Bells”. Marguerite Staley, a pupil in Miss Moran's 5B class gave a reading, “A Visit From St. Nicholas ”, after . which Miss Dolores Buckmaster's t 5A class sang “Santa's Coming”. ; Jeanette Wiinnes and Zulu Pcri ter represented Mrs. Herb Curtis' 5A class with a duet, and the entire 5B and 6B classes taught by Mrs. Curtis closed the program with the singing of “Under The, Stars.” 0 — Two Hurt In Mishap Portland, Ind., Dec. 19 —(UP) — Two persons were injured critically and four others were cut and bruised last evening when an auto crashed into a hay baler on state road No. 67 four miles north of Portland The critically injured were Mis. Henry Becker and Carl Betz. Each . suffered a skull fracture. , Violet Brookman was cut about I the head; Gilbert Betz suffered a fracture of the right leg and Mrs. I Feba Straube and Dallas Betz bust tained minor injuries. o )JE » t | Good Fellows Club L r ® I The Rotary Club donated the largest contribution of money to I the Good Fellows Club up to this time today, when it gave $52. This places the total amount far over I the SIOO mark. Previous total .... $375.83 Rotary Club 52.0 U Decatur Daily Democrat 5.00 ' Friend LOO Bob, Dick and Pat Briede 1.00 Friends -35 Total. .-1438.18

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Moose Charity Dance Will Be Held Tonight More than 900 tickets have been ‘ sold (or the Moose Charity dance 1 to be given this evening at the Knights of Columbus hall. The Hoo I sier Serenade™, a six piece orches-1 tra will furnish music for the dunce [ Nearly every Moose lodge in the country held a charity nance this | year, the proceeds from which go to the Mooseheart, the home fm j children and in providing a Merry ■ Christinas for children throughout I the country. Members who have not I yet turned in their tickets are re-; quested to do so today as the cou-1 pons must he sent to Mooseheart. AUTO LICENSE BUREAU MOVED 5.100 Plates Moved to New Quarters on Madison Street J. L. Ehler. Adams county auto license representative, todaystarted the task, of moving 5,100 pounds of license plates to the new auto license bureau at the new offices in the Adams County Auto company on Madison street. The license platen, weighing one pound a set. were sent to Paul H. Graham, retiring representative.; lai-t summer, but the political ‘ change in Inddana last November, necessitated change in, management of license bureaus throughout tlie state. Ehler signed his contract with Frank J. Mayr, secretary of state, Thursday at Fort Wayne and received orders to prepare to open the bureau so that sale of license plates could start December 26. Miss Betty Macklin will assist at the license bureau and Ebler stated today that during the rush season for the next two months he would employ another aesMtatH i The west offices of the Adams' (CONTINUED ON PAGE TWO) j —W——-OH— ———— Murder Still Free Nashville, Ind., Dec. 19.-—(U.R)i — No trace had been found today of Pau! Brown. 28, slayer of his parents, despite the various theories that have been followed in the search. One report, wholly unverified, was that Brown was seen on a street in Bloomington with a woman whom he had kno,wn when the two went to Purdue University. ADMITS MURDER OF YOUNG GIRL Negro Ex-Convict Says He Attacked Yo u n g Teacher; Killed Her Maryville, Mo., Dec. 19. —(U.RX — Raymond Gunn, negro ex-convict, confessed early today, according to an announcement by State's Attorney Paul R. Jones, that it was he who on last Tuesday attacked and killed Miss Velma Colter, 20, teacher, in her country school four miles from here. Fearing that the posses of farmers and town people who had been searching the countryside for two days and nights might suddenly turn into an uncontrollable mob. authorities rushed Gunn away from Maryville by automobile. It was understood he was taken to St. Joseph to be questioned further. The negro was arrested last night after Jones had pieced together bits of circumstantial evidence which the prosecutor said indicated Gunn was the slayer. Gunn confessed, Jones announced, after several hours of questioning. Through unusual detective work, Jones had built up so strong a chain ot evidence that ,he said, Gunn's confession virtually was unnecesary. Yet the arrest was a complete surprise to almost everyone else in this Missouri town. Linking together tiny bits of evidence, each one apparently weaker than the last, Jones finally became convinced that Gunn, who cnce served a pentitentiary sentence for an attack upon a girl student, was the assailant who beat and mutlliated Miss Colter after attacking her. A heelprint left by the attacker j in the halt-frozen mud outside the school house figured largely in the (CONTINUED ON PAGE FIVE)

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INDICTMENT IS QUASHED IN BANK CLOSING Portland Men Released From Bond After Affidavit Is Dropped 'CLAIM ERRORS WERE CONTAINED Portland, Ind., Dec. 19. — j(U.R) —An indictment against j • President Thomas W. Shimp I and Vice-President Roscoe I).! I Wheat, of the Jay County | Savings and Trust Company, 'here, was quashed today by (Judge Frank Gillespie in Jay circuit court. The court held that the indictment, charging the two officers | with accepting deposits after they knew tlie bank to be insolvent, | contained errors. Tlie bank closing was said to have been due to theft of a large amount of money by Cashier Clyde D. Bechdolt, now serving a prison sentence. The indictment returned several | months ago after the Portland ‘ bank closed created much comment in this part of the state. Both Shimp and Wheat are well known in Decatur. Wheat is a former Jay circuit court judge. Tlie charge was receiving money for deposit after having knowledge of the bank’s insolvency. Gun Shot Is Fatal Plymouth, Ind.. Dec. 19—(UP) — Arthur Trover, 16 was killed today when the shotgun he leaned against ja t»ee, while hunting, slipped and | discharged. Parents, Three sister.; and three brothers, survive O Plan Special Program A special Christmas program will . take place at the Sunday services in the Union Chapel church, 3 miles north east of Decatur, on the old Van Wert, Ohio road. Morning service will begin with Sunday school at 9:15 o'clock, and Santa Clans ■ will be a visitor at this service. The Christmas entertainment at ■ the evening session, will start at ; 7 o’clock. Everybody is welcome to these meetings. o —— Geneva Masons Elect Geneva, December 19 —(Special) Arch Haughton was elected worshipful master of the Geneva Ma--1 sonii; lodge at the annual election of officers held Thursday ’ night. Other officers include: I Daniel Grile, senior warden; Alvin Windmiller, junior warden; Clarence Shepherd, secretary; Earl Shepherd, treasurer ami Carl Buyer trustee. All officers will serve for a period ot one year except the - trustee who will serve for three ' years. The Eastern Star and Masonic 1 lodges will hold a joint installation I some night between Christmas and ■ New Years. i o HOUSE, SENATE FAIL TO AGREE I I Conferees Deadlocked on Important Administration Bills Washington, Dec. 19 — (UP) — 1 House and Senate conferees failed . to agree today on controversial amendments made by the senate to the $116,000,000 unemployment re- ’ lief bill. 1 Senate conferees held out for the ’ couzens amendment which provides ’ that only local labor of at least 901 day residence can be employed on ’ projects financed from the emergency fund. They also refused to f recede from two local amendments ’ which would grant Alabama and ' Georgia certain federal aid road > funds without requiring state funds • to be expended in like amount. I Tlie bill again goes back to the t senate for reconsideration. It was understood that the most serious point of difference was over ■ the portion of the Couzens amend,'ment which provides that not only must local labor be employed but that the highest “prevailing wage scale” must be paid.

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Stricken ■ ... W * *1 I • I ,B , " n-. m \ •* V I I. Janet Gaynor, film star, who was operated on for appendicitis in a Honolulu hospital. She had been vacationing in Hawaii with her mother. iNsfifufno - BE HELD HERE — AU Teachers of County to Attend Meeting at Central Saturday A county wide teachers institute will be iield ai Central achool in this city Saturday and all teachers ! in the county will attend, it was announced by County Superintendent C. K. Striker. Dr. Paul Weatherwax of Indiana Univer ity will deliver the chief lecture during tlie morning session and Henri Bordeaux of Indianapolis will give the afternoon address. Other features also will be held during the day's program. Superintendent Striker announced that semester examinations for all rural schools would be held next Monday and Tuesday and schools will adjourn Tuesday evening for the Christmas vacation. The second semester will start January 5, it was announced. o BOAT TRAGEDY CLAIMS LIVES Seven Believed to Have Perished When Launch Capsizes In Sea Dillon's Beach, Calif., Dec. 19.— j <U.R) —Coast guard patrol boats cirI cled the swift current at the mouth of Tomales Bay today in an effort to find the bodies ot five women aYid two men believed to have perished when their pleasure launch capsized. Two fishermen, hurrying ter the 1 rescue, were themselves thrown into the water and forced to swim a mile to land after one of the terrified women being towed to safety upset the rescue craft. Certainty that all aboard the launch had drowned grew as searchers returned after an allnight hunt along the short. Identity ot the victims was not known definitely. The tragedy occurred when the launch motor suddenly went dead while battling against the strong current. Those aboard called for help as their boat was sucked into the tide and carried toward the sea. Two brothers. Grant, 22, and Armand Gary, 24. fishing nearby, heard the shouts. When they reached the powerless launch, the seas had begun to run high. After several unsuccessful attempts they got a line to the launch and it was grasped by tone cf the women. The brothers had two of the women on their small boat and were dragging a third to safety when a wave capsized the launch. At the same time the third woman, who was hysterical, reached the rescue craft. In attempting to lift herself up she upset it, (CONTINUED ON PAGE FIVE)

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G. 0. P. GROUPS ■ SERVE HOOVER SECOND NOTICE Contested Appointments May Cause More Trouble For Administration APPOINTMENTS ARE DELAYED Washington, Dec. 19.— <UR> —When the smoke of President Hoover’s battle with 1 congress cleared away today he found himself confronting ! prospective contests with his own Republican organizations which may overshadow his , troubles of recent weeks. The New York City district I attorneyship and a Minn sot a ' judgeship offer him th® most in- ; voived problem in appointment ; lie has yet had to face. In both instances Republican organizations have served notice upon Mr. Hoover that they want one man. in New York City it is Keyes Winter, behind whom is aligned the new republican state (hairman. Kingsland Macy, the president's old friend and ally. Charles D. Hilles, and the New York state delegation in the house. In Minnesota it is Ernest Michael, Minneapolis attorney, whose name has been urged upon the president by the whole Minnesota house delegation and by Senator | Schall, the only republican senator frem that state. The New York situation is further complicated by the activity ot the original Hoover organization i there in behalf of Allan Fox for the dislxiQL alUnaieysliip. Among Fox's chief sponsors is Mr Hoover’s friend. William Hill. Unless Mr. Hoover follows the demand of the republican b adet < of these two states, it is believed lie will alienate their allegiance. There already have be n indirect threats that he will lose the .support of some of them, particularly Rep. La Guardia. Rtpn., N. Y., it he chooses to disregard reccmmondations concerning tlie two v ry important judicial posts. With 1932 coming on and Mr. Hoover's opportunity for r> nomination being discussed, the peliticians here have generally expected Mr. Hoover might find it easier to grant tlie wishes of two such strong groups within his party. There is no indication about thn choice for Hie Minnesota judgeship for which Michael is being boosted. It is a newly created office and may be permitted to remain (CONTINUED ON PAGE SEVEN 1 —o —— Officers Are Elected The Calvary Evangelical Church elected the following Sunday School officers on Thursday night. Superintendent: Chalmer Miller Assistant Superintendent: Curtis I Miller, Secretary: Earl Harman, Treasurer: Fred Harman. Pianist; Doris Shifferly. Chorister: Mrs. James Darr. WIFE KILLER FOUND GUILTY Murder Charge. However Changed to Manslaughter by Verdict > Indianapolis, Dec. 19 (U.R) t— I Ernest Pryor, 32. Martinsville, tot day was found guilty on a charge • of voluntary manslaughter, by a > Marion criminal court jury. i The verdict carries a penalty of two to 21 years in the state prison. I Pryor had been indicted on a . first degree murder chirge by a • Morgan county grand jury, after j deatli of his 20-year-old wife, Thelma. It was charged in the true bill j that Pryor killed his wife by ad- • ministering arsi nic in a drink, itti--1 der a pretense of preparing mediI cine for her. j The jury reached an agreement a last night, but the verdict was I opened and ttrad in court at 9 a. • m„ today. I Judge Collins called Pryor before , the bench and sentenced him im(CONTINUED ON “AGE TWO)