Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 28, Number 306, Decatur, Adams County, 29 December 1930 — Page 1

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ffEEL MERGER HELD INVALID W COURT TODAY Lon Dollar Merger Dislowed in Common [pleas Court of Ohio (TORY FOR CYRUS EATON [ounuslown, O.j Dec. 29— I _ The billion dollar Lgstown Sheet & Tube fipanv - Bethlehem Steel boration merger was rati- | bv Sheet & Tube sharejilcrs last April, was held Eid bv Common Pleas be David G. Jenkins toL decision was a victory for L §• Eaton, dynamic Cleveland bier and largest individual L £ Tube stockholder who Et the <v>nsolidation on the Ed that it was tinged with E and would result in losses Eil.iOil to fellow stockholders. Eton's original opposition to consolidation was based on jes that the negotiations were Med secretly by James M. phell. chairman of the board. Frank Purnell, president of st & Tube, and Eugene G. r, president, and Charles M. rah. chairman of the board, of Mem. > and his associates massed ons of dollars and threw them a spectacular proxy fight but met defeat when Sheet and > shareholders met and ratithe amalgamation by a may of 58,000 votes. ton charged more than 100,000 ts of stock were voted illegalUul immediately filed injunci suits to block the consolidate suits were filed last spring, mgs began in June and the (was concluded in September. (I arguments were heard in Ocir and the court’s decision toiwas the climax. k pro-merger forces are exfed to file an immediate apl They intimated the decision hTINUED ON PAGE THREE) Fugitive Is Arrested lire Haute. Ind., Dec. 29. <U.R) treated here as a fugitive from ■gton, Ind., Fred Cowan, 24, hvington, was held in jail toawaiting arrival of Fountain Hy Sheriff Thomas Robinson, kturn him to that city. Sheriff Ibison, who asked local police Bfrehend Cowan, said the fugI was charged with robbery. I o withdraws Cash Plan bshington, Dec. 29 —(UP)—SenIVandenburg, Repn., Mich., an iced after a call at the White Be today that he had given up Itoposal for cash payment of adpl compensation to war veter|»n<] is now working on a compise plan. wdenburg, the original chamlot cash payment, said it would possible to put it through Dele of administration opposition, hid. however, he had submitted pli'omise arrangement which is B ‘sympathetically” considered. ttOVERY MAI CREATE LIFE tificial Cells are Brought Into Existence By Chemist By United Press Science Correspondent bright, 1930, by United Press) sveland, Dec. 29 —(lI.R> —Artificells, brought into existence le laboratory of Dr. George " ■ 8 at the Cleveland clinic, may 1 a link between the lifeless the living, it was revealed tola an exclusive interview with Crilp bv the United Press. Ie cells procreated by division as do many living unicellulai tals such as the Amoeba, and 8 exhibited reactions to oxygen to poisons similar to that of K cells. trther research may reveal that ' are primitive cells resembcltuore nearly the cells of cancer Whence throwing INTINUED ON PAGE TfIIIEE)

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Kin Hubbard Funeral * Held This Afternoon Indianapolis, Dec. 29.—(U.R)—A notable list of America's authors. 1 artists, and newspaper men comprises the honorary and active pallbearers announced for the funeral - here this afternoon of Kin Hubbard, famous Hoosier caricaturist and' ■ humorist. Simple funeral services, conduct ed by the Rev. Frank S. C. Wicks, pastor of All Souls Unitarian church Indianapolis will lie held at 2:30 p. in., (‘ST.. and will be | broadcast over radio station WF BM. Burial will be in Crown Hill . cemetery, Indianapolis. (CONTINUED ON PAGE THREE) . o ADAMS COUNTY WOMAN EXPIRES I Mrs. C. W. R. Schwarts of ’ Monroe Township Dies Saturday Night i Berne, Dec. 29 —(Special)—Mrs. , Minnie Schwartz, 40. wife of C. W. ~R. Schwartz of Monroe township, , died at her home, northwest of Berne, Saturday night at 11:10 o'clock from tuberculosis from > which she had suffered for many years. She had been bedfast for the past two months. • She was born at Berne, December 14, 1890, the daughter of Philip and Anna Lehman-Sprunger. On June 16. 1910 she was united in marriage to Christian W. R. Schwartz. Surviving are the husband and eight children, Ruth, Ernest, Vera, Harold. Virginia, Anna Jane, and Gertrude, all of Berne, and Mary Schwartz, who is employed at the Cloverleaf Creameries at Decatur. Thei.father, Philip Sprunger. and the following brothers and sisters atso-fiirvtve: "Mrs. Wifflam Norf of Wabash township; Mrs. Leon Neuenschwander of Wabash township, Mrs. Menas Wulliman and Mrs. Menno Eicher of Monroe township. Miss Maryann Sprunger, at home; Robert Sprunger of Monroe, and Arthur Sprunger of Goshen. Funeral services will be held Tuesday morning at 9 o'clock at the home northwest of Berne, and at 9:30 o'clock at the Mennonite church at Berne. Burial will be in the M. R. E. cemetery. Meshbergers Entertain Harry and Oscar Meshberger, owners of Meshberger Brothers Stone Co., entertained at a noon - dinner today at the Rice Hotel for I the Adams county commissioners. ' The party was especially in honor ■ of B. F. Breiner, president of the board who retires January 1 after having served on the board for nine years. Following the dinner, the commissioners gave short talks. Those attending included: Mr. Breiner, George Shoemaker, John Hoffman, Messrs. Meshberger, Ralph Roop, ' Albert Harlow, Ed Ashbauchcr, Phil Macklin, Chris Eicher, Harvey LaFountaine, Dick Heller and the Misses Aleta Harlow and Alice Lenhart. Woman Ends Own Life Hartford City, Dec. 29 (Special) ‘ Mrs. Sarah Left'ingwell, 82, of Hartford City, committed suicide at 9-30 o'clock this morning, by shooting herself in the temple with a 32 calibre gun, at the home of her daughter, Mrs. Hen Dranner of , east of Montpelier. Hi health was , thought to have been the cause of the act. . , „ 1 Mr-. Leffingwell is a sister of David Townsend, superintendent of the Blackford County Infirmary. Bandit Gets SIO,OOO New York, Dec. 29.-(U.R)—The Paramount Motion Picture theatei, in the heart of Times square, was ; held «P early today by a bandit . W ho escaped with at least SILOO6, , and caused the audience at a mid- . night performance to be held insic e i the theater while a searc « ■ . i carried on. __ i Bandit Is Captured i * Columbia Vity, Ind.. Dec 29-(UP).-Richard Wiseman. 16. Day . I nn Ind was disarmed and ini- . operated by Frank Meitzier. form- , • '’MeSr grabbed the youth's gun , mnk Hwne. urrlv.d.

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CLAIM CASE IS BEING TRIED Jury Selected and Examination of Witnesses Starts Today An estate claim case. Mary C. Harshbarger vs. Permelia Harshbarger estate, was being tried before Adams circuit and a jury of 12 men today. Claimant seeks to collect $567 from the Permelia Harshbarger estate for services rendered. The jury was impaneled this I morning and the examination of witnesses by claimant's attorney started this morning. It is likely I that the case will last at least two days. An effort will be made to finish tlie case before January 1. as I). B. Erwin, judge-elect, who takes office January 1 is attorney for the heirs. Attorneys for the claimant are Judge James Moran of Portland and Judge J. T. Merryman of Decatur. Claimant alleges that for a period of more than six years she made numerous trips to the home of her sister-in-law and that she rendered service to her while she was ill. The case is unusual because most claim cases brought to the Issues docket are heard before a judge, without the services of a jury. The case is conducted much the same as any civil case would b *' 161 —— o Bank Suspect Admits Part In Theft Plans Warsaw, Ind., Dec. 29.— (U.R) — Steve Krechemeyer, 35, has conI fessed, according to Sheriff Frank McGill, that he took part in the plot to rob a bank in Etna Green a week ago, but he contended that he saw his mistake and broke uway from iLmgaaig bafiige the rob : bery at Seward. One companion was killed, and three others have been given long term prison sentences. Krechemeyer said he did not participate in the kidnaping of Calvin Pressnal, 79, mail messenger in Etna Green. He was expected to be arraigned today. o WARRANT LAW HELD INVALID Indianapolis Judge Decides Against Wright , Bone Dry Section Indianapolis, Dec. 29. —(U.R)-—The Wright bone dry law’s provision that private property can be searched on a warrant issued under an affidavit of “information and belief" was held unconstitutional today by Criminal Judge James A. Noilins. In a written opinion of a case where a man and woman were charged with the unlawful possession of a still, Collins held that the 1925 dry law is faulty because it takes from the courts the right to use discretion in issuing warrants. The ruling paved the way for freeing Mr. and Mrs. Minnie and Milke Krist, of charges in an indictment returned against them by the Marion county grand jury almost a year ago. Their arrest January 13, 1930, was made under a search warrant “issued without a proper hearing and for the sole purpose of obtaining evidence to cause the arrest of the defendants—-all in violation of his constitutional rights, the judge ruled. Collins sustained the motion to quash the indictment. o Pastor’s Granddaughter Baptized Here Sunday A very inf eresting scene took place during the baptismal service at the First Evangelical church on Sundav morning. Among the children to be baptised was the little granddaughter of the pastor, Rev. M. W. Sunderman. The little Miss was presented at the altar by her parents. Mr. and Mrs. R. C. Hosterman of Charleston, West Va. The little lady received the name Syiyia May The altar decorations consisted of two beautiful baskets of flowers and a plant. The Hostermans are leaving todaj for Crestline to spend the remainder of their vacation with the parents of Mr. Hosterman.

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Decatur, Indiana, Monday, December 29, 1930.

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Miss Helen Lee Doherty, utilities magnate’s daughter, is shown here at her coming out party at Washington, D. C., which cost $50,000. l . She made her debut Saturday before Vitv President Curtis and 1.000 guests.

TWO MEETINGS f ARE ANNOUNCED ! 4 ■ i Farmers Are Invited to , Attend Lectures to Be i Held at Monroe ~ !t Two Important farm meetings by | ( two Adams county organizations , were announced today. Members of: the Adams county Dairy Herd Im-i c provement association will hear Charles C- Dobson, state veterin- , ' arian, Monday, January 5, at Mon- ( roe high school building. Mr. Dobson will explain the state i i control plan for Bangs desease, j commonly known as abortion a-11 mong cattle. All dairymen in Adams county, whether members ct I th? association are invited to atI tend the meeting. It will be held in the evening at 7:30 o’clock. The Adams county Farm Bureau will conduct a feed school Tuesday ■ night January 6 at Monroe high school building at 7:30 o’clock. H S. Angster will deliver an address on “Rations For A Dairy Cow.” Mr. . Angster is a farm bureau state rep- ( resentative and is well versed on . 1 his subject. , Maul E. Engle, poultry feeder, , i will discuss the poultry feeding sub- ‘ ■ ject- This is the first Farm Bureau ■ school planned for 1931. Women also are invited to attend the meeting. The school will be under the ~ . directions of J. D. Winteregg, conn- ; , ty Farm Bureau manager. . POSSE SEEKS ) , FEOD SLAYERS “Law of Hills” Prevails In Southern Indiana Following Murder ! Salem, Ind., Dec*. 29 —(U.R) The ' laws of the hills ruled today in this section of Indiana as citizen s 1 posses searched the countryside ’ tor two brothers who helped renew the ancient Tennessee feud be- ’ tween the Gibsons and the Spurlocks. The town of Salem virtually was under martial law. The body of one of the last of the Gibsons ■ was in a morgue. Another of the family was in jail. Two others were fugitives, the objects of the , countrywide search. Sheriff MFI- - ton Trinkle and two deputies, one of them his wife, were in hospitals . seriously wounded. More than 20 years ago the j Spurlock-Gibson feud began in • Tennessee. Others of the hill ' (CONTINUED ON PAGE THREE) ’ ——o ! Board To Hold Meet The Board of Guardians will meet ■ Tuesday afternoon at 3 o’clock in . the Library Hall. As this is the ■ last meeting of the year a full attendance is desired.

Edward Auman Infant Lives But Short Time Funeral services were held this afternoon at 2:30 o'clock for Junior Auman, infant son of Mr and Mrs. Edward Auman, who died this morning, fifteen minutes after birth. Burial was made in the St. John's Lutheran cemetery. Surviving are the parents Edward and Friedr Drake- Airman and three sisters, Stella, Gertrude, and Dorothy all at home. The granuparents. Mr. and Mrs. William AAuman, and Mrs. Mary Drake also survive. The infant died at the home 7 miles north of this city on the Allen county line. BUILDINGWILL START EARLY Public Construction to Start as Soon as Possible, Head Reports Washington Dec. 29 (UP) — A total of about 1800.000,000 In public and semi-public construction is in such shape that actual work can be started within the next few months Col Arthur Woods, chairman of the President's emergency committee for employment, announced today. The estimate was based on reports compiled by Franklin T. Miller, of the committee, who received reports on construction amounting to more than $2,000,000,000. “All of this work which is ready to begin has advanced beyond the stage of procured funds, selection of sites, litigation, and other steps which fr intently delay public construction," Miller said. Included in the building projects ready to begin shortly af?‘ state, municipal and county buildings, schools, and highways. “The normal annual construction in this country amounts to SIO,OOO, 000,000,” Miller added, “of this, 35 to 40 per cent is for public'works, and five per cent for Federal works. We have received reports for sl,853,733,000 of public construction, and our reports are coming in at the rate of about $80,000,000 a day. “The reports indicate that a very substantial amount of work which is not dependent upon commercial returns from rentals, manufacturering, etc., will be under way shortly, provided only that plans can be completed and contracts let." Miller said the President's committee had been making every effort to remove the obstacles which are delaying actual construction. Will Start Revival Revival services will begin at the. Pleasant Valley Church located 1 mile south and 2 miles east of Monroe, January 4. Rev. Frank Byrd of Winchester will deliver the sermons each evening, and Miss Juno Kessler of Van Wert, Ohio will have charge of the singing Services will begin each night at 7 o'clock, and the public is invited to attend these meetins.

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COMMISSIONERS CLOSE RECORDS Special Meeting Is Held Today to Complete Business of County The county commissioners met in special session this morning for tlie purpose of allowing bills and closing the record for the year. Claims were checked and allow-! ed by the commissioners during the, morning. This afternoon the com- 1 mlsioners visited the County Highway Garage, recently purchased and inspected some of the equipment in the building - The highway department is now using the garage and some of the highway's equipment has been moved to tlie building. Henry Dehner of Union township and Jess Michaud of Berne were named appraisers to take the annual inventory at the county farm on January 1. 1931. The appraisers, the county commissioners and County Attorney Henry B. Heller will be the guests of Superintendent and Mrs. Harvey La Fountaine at the infirmary at dinner on New Year’s day and will assist in taking the inventory. It is expected that the total appraisement will be less this year, due to lower market val-' ties on machinery and live stock. ' The commissioners will meet a- J gain Thursday at the auditor's of- ‘ flee and elect a president of ‘he (CONTINUED ON PAGE TWO) DECATUR MEN IN ACCIDENT jear Driven hy Carl Kohnej Is Destroyed; Occupants Unhurt Five Decatur young nvn escaped serious injury Saturday night when the automobile, driven by Cail Kohne, in which they were riding turned over and went down a steep embankment and was completely demolished near Lafountain. Indiana. The men were returning from Lafountain where three of them had participated in a basketball game The occupants besides Mr. Kohne were Dick Stoneburner, Carl Smith Dick Engle and Robert Hill, Stoneburner was unconscious for a time, but his injuries were not regarded serious. The accident happened about two miles east of Lafountain. The car had come up a steep hill and Mr. Kohne failed to see a turn In thu road just at the bottom of the decline. He applied the brakes of, the car and the slippery roads caused the car to skid to the embankment and turn over. The local men were taken to Lafountain where their injuries, consisting of minor cuts and bruises were dressed. They later were brought to this city. All the occupants were able to be up tills morning, and none was thought to bo badly hurt. NORTH DAKOTA CAPITOL BURNS Four-Story Building Is Completely Destroyed By Fire Sunday Bismarck, N. D., Dec. 29. —<U.R) —Departments of the Nortli Dakota state government were taking up temporary quarters in halls, ! hotels, office and public buildings today while officials pushed plans for erection of a capitol to replace the histoic structure which burned Sunday. In the smouldering ruins of the old capitol were the ashes of documents and records which it had cost thousands of dollars to col(CONTINUED ON “AGE TWO) o - vase”r uneral Is Held Funeral services for Wilma Marie Case, Decatur high school pupil, who died at the Adams County Memorial Hospital Friday morning, ■ were held at 1:30 o'clock this afternoon at tho home on North Elev- , enth street, and at 2 o’clock at the United Brethren church. Rev Cecil R. Smith of Ligonier officiated and was assisted by Rev. R. E. Vance . of this city. Burial was madejn the Decatur cemetery.

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OFFICES TO CLOSE The offices of the Clerk. Andj tor, Recorder, and Treasurer In . the Court House will be closed ; Wednesday afternoon so that , | the county cfficials may make . out their quarterly and annual , reports. The offices will close at 11:30 o'clock Wednesday forenoon and those having any j 1 business to transact in any of | the offices are requested to | take care of It Wednesday | ; morning. 1 The < ffices will also be clos- . ' || ed on New Year's Day, it was ] announced. - - ♦ AUCTIONEERS GATHER HERE Mid-winter Term of Reppert's Auction School Begins Today The annual mid-winter term of Reppert's Auction School opened in Decatur today and at 2 o’clock' , this afternoon 36 students had 1 ! registered. About 10 more were: expected to arrive late this afternoon or Tuesday, Col. Fred Rep-! | pert, president of the school stated j Tlie class rooms are located in! the Hensley building on South Second street and the second floor of the building has lieen converted into a dormitory where most of the students will reside during their i three-week stay in Decatur. All members of the Reppert sac-l ulty, including Col. Earl Gartin of I Greensburg, and Col. Guy Pettit i lof Bloomfield, lowa, arrived Sun-j > day. Classes started at noon to-' day after the morning was devoted to organization an 1 registration. Col. Reppert opened the school with a welcome address and then i explained the various phases of; auctioneering which would be; taught at the present school. The daily auctions, held by the; class for the public will start next Saturday afternoon, it was announced and they will bo held in the Hensley building. Col. Reppert will have direct charge of tlie school this year, as usual, and will be assisted by his staff of faculty members including many of the greatest auctioneers in the country. Club rooms for the students have been erected in the Hensley building and headquarters for the school are maintained in the Reppert suite of rooms in the Peoples Loan and Trust building. A complete list of students and the regular class notes will lie published in the Daily Democrat Tuesday. o_. Maniac Is Held In Slaying of Women i ■ Blackwell. Okla., Dec. 29.—(U.R) • —Lyman Constant, 34, former in- - mate of the state hospital for the i insane at Norman, was held at Enid today by Kay county officers for investigation in the attack and slaying of two school teachers near Tomkawa Sunday. Bodies of the two women were I found along the highway Sunday j i afternoon by a farmer. They had been shot in the head, dragged from the machine and attackc'd. The assailant escaped in their automobile which was abandoned on U. S. highway 77 about 10 miles nortli of Perry. The victims were Jessie Gritj fith, 24, and her sister, Jexle, 35, daughters of J. S. Griffith. ; ° Borah In Discussion S s Washington, Dec. 29 — (UP) — e Senator William E. Borah of Idaho 1 has entered the current discussion of a third paity movement with tho 8 assertion that such a development would be without practical value at I this time. I_ The veteran leader of insurgent - republicans said, however, that realignments in legislative matters were taking place on vital issues. “My observation and reading lead me to the opinion that new parties cannot lie successfully organl' ized by a tew men or a tew leaders, II however sincere they may be," ” Borah said in a statement Sunday. Fraternity Buys Bond t The Phi Delta Kappa Fraternity j purchased a $5.00 Health Bond B from the Adams County Tubercul e osis League, W. Guy Brown, chairman, announced today.

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12 CONVICTS MAKE ATTEMPT; ARE CAPTURED Cell House Is Opened But Guards Stop Progress of Men ARE REGARDED AS DESPARATE Michigan City, Ind., Dec. 29 — (U.R) — Twelve men characterized by Warden Walter 1 Daly as the most desperate in the state prison here,attempted to gain liberty from D cell house today. Joseph Burns, of Kosciusko county, serving life for murder, made a key from a spoon and opened the cellhouse door, Daly said. Guards frustrated the attempt, and a cordon of police and firemen quickly surrounded the institution to help maintain order. Buras, who was charged with committing murder during a bank ■ robbery at Culver, Ind., in 1925, succeeded in opening the door to i Ilh cell and then released tlie other 11 men. They attacked Guy Rurklow, prison guard, sitting tit a (desk in the cell house. Burklow yelled a warning to tho guard in the adjoining cell house, who notified prison officia's. City {firemen and police were called, th 1 tiremen given ritles and statioir d I along the prison wall and the police entered the building to assi; t the guards. Burklow held the prisoners, who I were unarmed, until reinfore - I ments arrived, and the rebellion 1 was put down without a shot b. - ing tired. Although the disturbance lasted : 50 minutes, prisoners in other sections of the institution didn't even ■ know of it. The 12 desperadoes had fashioned a rope from lied clothes, which they apparently planned to throw (CONTINUED ON PAGE THREE) Marshal Joffre Worse Paris, Dec. 29. - U.R) —The condition of Marshal Joffre continued ‘"‘very grave" this afternoon. A bulletin issu-d at 3p. m. said: "Maishal Joffre's condition is very grave and he is extremely weak. (Signed) “Professor Jean Louis Faura, “Professor Marcel Labbe, “Professor Bene Lerklr. "Dr. Raoul Bowlin, “Dr. Rene Fontaine." o Masonic Children to Be Guests at Party ! Children of members of the local Masonic lodge are invited to ’ attend a Masonic children's party at the local Masonic hall Wednesday afternoon, it was announced to- ' day. The party Is being given by 1 the local lodge. Various forms of children's entertainment will lie provided and child- ’ ren of all ages are invited. The par- ' ty will start Wednesday afternoon 1 at 2 o’clock and will last until 5 I o’clock. FACES TRIAL FOR LYNCHING First of Four Indicted in Marion Lynchings , Goes on Trial B Marion. Ind., Dec 29. —(U.R) The t first of the four men to go to trial t on charges of participating in the lynching of two negroes here last t August 7, was Robert Beshlre. ,t whose ease was call.d in Grant s circuit court today. i. Others whose trials were schedS uled for this week are Everett Clarke, Phillip Boyd ami Chester i- Pease. Two others are charged, '• but have not been arraigned. Th y are Asa Davis and Arnold Walter. '■ A venire of 50 was called today, and it was doubtful if that would be sufficient from which to select a jury. y Deputy Attorneys General Merl d M. Wall and Earl Stroup were coni' ducting the state's case with assisr- tance of Harley Hardin, Grant county prosecutor.