Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 29, Number 9, Decatur, Adams County, 10 January 1931 — Page 1

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gilOl OCK IS feROKEN ON ■ RELIEF BILL Leaders Spree < (inference In Senate sAate balks I ON \PPOINTEES Jan. 10.—<U.R) ■flU House deadlock over riflohf relief legislation was LXn toduv bv adinnnstrawho decided al aWeeling of the steering >«■ to force a conierSwith the Senate Monday a special rule. leaders hope in this way 01. $15,000,000 amendfor human food, added by (’gllenate aad opposed by Presiddß Hoover. of tills amendment (hats lif bill has been held up for fivaAlays in the house. When the which originally called purposes, came back to flOo'" 1 " with the senate amendLaguardia. Repn., N.Y'., objected to a conferunless as aired that food would be available to city 1 jBDi rs as well as farmers. continued to object successive day. the house went into session otluv the Republican steering |on>ri.’tee was tailed to devise a ajecia’. tale under which a confenh can be held despite objectins. Senate Balks :i. Jan. 10. — (U.R) • — PMdent Hoover called in AttorMitchell today to 9* an immediate reply to the aaatt- demand for return of the (bw itlons of tiie new power HjKiseionei s. the White House was officially in advance of the displtch of this message, it was that Mr. Hoover planned toßfuse the senate's request. senate voted. 44 to 37, last to reconsider the confirms- 1 tions of Chairman George Otis ati"! 1 ornmissioners Marcel and Claud L. Draper. ■ —— Man Is Named Chairman Jan. 10. — (U.R) — F Remy, former appellate judge, has been named chairof tip legislature committee Indiana Bar Association. He fbeds William A. Pickens, who pied following election to the P of Marion county superior — -o—lehouse Flag At Half-mast Today lianapolis, Jan. 10.—(U.R)—The bn the dome of the statehouse [at half mast as a token of Ining for the late Representi George L. Saunders, whose was buried at Bluffton today, r —oPUCANS TO CO BACK HOME Iroad Company Disses Laborers and Will Employ Local Men rre Haute, Jan. 10—(U.R)—All can laborers employed in conition work on the Big Four >ad here have quit work and ue given transportation back «ir native country by the railit was announced at the i °f I’. L. McManus, assistant ■tntendent of the Terre Haute ion today. Manus said the aliens had all Work this morning and dements for their transportaout of this vicinity as soon as Paychecks are received, were ■ made. They will be sue- '? in the jobs by local unem--1(1 workers. « decision to dispose of all lab orers at the two conon camps west of Terre was reached today after a >. more than 100 unemploye Hauteans marched to the ’ and demanded work in Vigo county be, ' t 0 local taxpayers." MB**'

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Decatur Student Chosen for Glee Club Miss Arline Becker, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. T. L. Becker of this I city, who is attending school at the Ball State Teachers College in Muncie, has been chosen a member of • the Madrigal, the college Glee Club jit has been learned. The Madrigal ils made up of persons having the I best musical voices In the school, and members of the glee club go to various towns and cities to sing for special events. Miss Becker is musically talented and plays several musical instrui merits, besides singing. : MAY INTRODUCE! J NEW BANK BILL Representative Earl Crawford Considers Protecting State Deposits ■ Indianapolis, Jan. 10 —(U.R) —Legislation to protect deposits of public funds in state l>ank.s was being considered today by Repre--1 sentative Earl Crawford. Milton, he told the United Prass. If en- !' dorsement of the state bankers ' I association may be obtained, Crawford said he would probably ' Introduce a measure patterned ’ after the lowa law. 1 A special fund would be set up in tiie state treasury, under terms of the proposed bill, which would be used to pay losses of public funds in failed banks. - Money in the fund would come from interest on public depositories and from ! premiums now paid on gurety bonds. The bill would differ from the' lowa law in that restrictions would be imposed with a view toward ( preventing weak banks from re- ' calving public funds. Limits also | . would be placed on the aggregate l lof public deposits that any one bauk..<.'°uld. X'iuw4«rd said, t The legislative committee of • the state bankers association late i yesterday announced its legisla-[ .‘ivP program, which included a bill for making the state banking commissioner the liquidating agent (CONTINUED ON PAGE FIVE) FLIERS RESUME I PARIS FLIGHT ' Lieut. Maclaren and Mrs. Hart Left Today For Azores Islands Hamilton, Bermuda, Jan. 10 — (U.R) —The seaplane Trade Wind, ! carrying Mrs. Beryl Hart and Lieut. William S. MacLaren on a flight from New York to Paris, departed at 11:15 a.m. (EST) to-, day for the Azores Islands. The plane arrived here from Nor-| folk on its second attempt to make [ the first stage of the flight from New York to Bermuda. It was delayed a day by weather conditions between Bermuda and the Azores Islands, in mid-Atlantic. The distance from Bermuda to Norta, on Fayal Island in the Azores, is slightly less than 2,0001 miles. It is an over-water flight from one small island group to another and requires skillful navigation, as did the flight from Norfolk to Bermuda. The Trade Wind, a fast white plane, was repaired while in Hamilton harbor after the flight from the United States, having developed a slight oil leak on the trip. It is carrying a "pay" load to Parts for the purpose of demonstratlng the feasibility of such service. The fliers hope to continue from the Azores to Paris, landing in the Seine river. 0 I Crime Investigator [ Home Ransacked , Indianapolis, Jan. 10. — (U.R) —1 Laboratory work on crime and its i cures was forced upon Leo M. Rappaport, Indianapolis attorney and member of the governor's crime commission, at his home last night. While with his family in the downstairs of their home, Rappaport heard noises on the second ( floor. He reached the top of the , stairs in time to see a birgular ( jump through a window to a porch < roof and escape. t Although every second floor room t , had been ransacked, no loot was c taken. 1

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DECATUR MEN RETURN TODAY Three Who Attended Postoffice Bidding at Washington Return Home Postmaster L. A. Graham, Paul Graham. Republican county chairman and Cal Yo-t, local building contractor who submitted a bld for building the new Decatur I postoffiee, have returned from I Washington, D. (’., where they attended the opening of the poet--1 office bids. Mr. Yost’s bid on the postoffice was $75,322 for brick face and $77,755 for stone face. There were , four other blds higher than his ranging from $76,600 to $86,000. I The latter bid was higher than tiie estimate and was not considered. The low bid, as stated in Thurs--1 day's Daily Democrat was submittied by Anderson and Company, Chicago. It was $51,900 for brick face and $53,012, sos stone face. The next lowest bid was submitted by James I. Barnes of Logansport. The latter's bid was $57,950 for brick face, $63,500 for stone face. Mr. Y’ost stated that the contract would not be awarded until the government had made its investigation of the bids and bidders it was considering. Mr. Yost i thought that the contract would be awarded this month. He did not figure that his bid would be conidered. While in Washington tiie Decatur men met President Hoover and had luncheon with Senator Janies Watson and Congressman Albert Vestal. Sale of Offices To Be Investigated Indianapolis, Jan. 10. — (U.R) — George R. Jeffrey, district attorjney, was expected to return to Indianapolis from Washington^.'C7 i today, prepared to open a federal grand jury investigation into alleged sale of postoffice positions in the first Indiana district. I Jeffrey left Washington last night after conference with officials of the department of justice. Files and records of the investigation, resulting in dismissal of four Indiana postmasters, were turnsd over to him. The grand jury is expected to meet February 2 when Jeffrey, possibly with aid from the department of justice, will/lay evidence before the jurors. o Widow of Indiana Preacher Dies Today Warsaw. Ind., Jan. 10. —(U.R) — Mrs. H. W. Bennett, 72, widow of Rev. Bennett, who held many pasI torates in lowa, Indiana and Illinois, died at the home here today i of pneumonia, after a brief illness. o BANK RECEIVER TO START FEB. 1 Bert F. Herman Asks Judgment On Deposit In Geneva Institution Suit was filed in Adams circuit court today by Bert F. Herman, asking permission to file suit against James W. Barr, Receiver, and Lizzie Crawford and Weslev Pontius Permission to sue was granted by the court. Barr is receiver for the Farmers and Merchants State Bank of Geneva. The plaintiff seeks judgment of $1,500. The complaint alleges that the plaintiff’s grandmother, Mrs. Ellen Pontius deposited SI,OOO in the Geneva bank, receiving a certificate of deposit, and that the money was deposited there for the use of the plaintiff. The complaint further alleges that at the death of Mrs. Ellen Pontius, James W. Barr, as receiver. (CONTINUED ON PAGE FIVE) o Youth Pleads Guilty To Assault Charge Everett Poindexter, 19, plead guilty before Judge Dore B. Erwin, in Adams circuit court today, to a change of assault and battery, fil-1 ed by Mrs. Luck Fry, of Blue Creek i township. The youth was fined $3! and costs and committed to the: county jail as he was unable to stay the docket.

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Tips Hat at 24 Ounces ' kfln Mi We* ’N: ■<' — ' ... r 1 w »f N $ 3 I c ‘ • 1 r .4 t ML p- \ 1 / ' 7 Bl H I 1 1Using a derby hat for a cradle, Ruth Angeline Hein, the world's ; smallest baby, has made her debut at Cedar'Lake, Ind. She weighed but 14 ounces et birth and boasts only 31 ounces now. after a month. She’s perfectly normal, -ays Dr. A. H. Farley, shown with her. Just ; to show how tiny she iS, Dr. Farley slipped her whole arm through a ring from his finger. •

I " ~ —— CHICAGO GANGS ’ LIST ONE MORE I Roadhouse Manager Taken For Ride by Rivals Late Last Night Chicago, Jan. 10 —(U.R) — The . body of Anthony “Sherlock" GasI terino, believed by police to have been “taken for a ride” by rival alcohol dealers, was found early today in the tonneau of an automobile in a deserted neighborhood on the far south side. Gasterio was manager of a roadhouse between Chicago and Hammond, Ind. Police pointed out that several gangsters of Italian de-cent had been killed in the past few weeks, supposedly in an “alcoholic war.” Capone Helped Officers Chicago, Jan. 10 —(U.R)—“Scarface Al” Capone, struggling to recapture fading underworld profits, was credited today with being the agency through which Leo Brothers was trapped and accused of the murder of Alfred J. Lingle, Chicago Tribune reporter, seven months after the spectacular shooting. The information, uncovered excluively by the United Press, has its beginning in the days when Lingle, ostensibly a $65-a-week reporter, was dipping into underworld profits to the extent of thousands yearly. From that point, when the racketeering reporter iCONTINUED ON PAGE FIVE) o — Three Stockholders , Bring Suit Today Chicago Jan. 10 —(UP) — Three stockholders of the $67,000,000 Missouri-Kansas pipe line company filed suit in the federal court here today, seeking to wrest control of the company and 16 subsidiaries from Frank P. Parrish, its organizer and the present board of difectors. The action. brought by Herbert M. Hart, Harper M. Morgan and Edgar V. Godley, of Cincinnati, peeks appointment of a receiver tor | the company and its subsidiaries, 'and accounting for their funds, removal of the present officers, and an injunction restraining them |from carrying out their duties.

School Children Are Saved By Driver ' Rochester, Ind., Jan. 10.—(U.R) — , Twenty school children were savjed from probable injuries by the | quick wits of Marry Osborn, driver p I of the Richmond township school hack in which they were being taken home yesterday afternoon. Osborn caught a glimpseWn his mirrow of a machine coming di- > rectly at the hack just as he was preparing to discharge passengers. He shouted to the children to rush I forward in the back. The last r child had barely had time to comply, when the driven by Frank I Ferguson, 22, Burlington, crashed into the hack. BERNE SERVICE MAY START FEB. 1 Postmaster Rohrer Announces Word From Con. Vestal Friday J Berne, Jan. 10 —(Special)—Posti master Fred Rohrer has received ■ word from Congressman Albert Vestal that city mail service may be . started here by February 1. Free , mail delivery is assured for Bernt i but getting ready by the first of : next month may be impossible. Local carriers must be certified ! and proper arrangements made for eceiving and disbursing the mail. • Postmaster Rohrer has urged local residents to obtain mail boxes and place them so the service can begin as soon as possible. Guy Eley and Karl Hilty have , been named carriers, and will cover routes twice daily when the free delivery is instituted. o I Democrats Will Name Heads Monday Night Indianapolis, Jan. 10, — (U.R) — Democratic members of the house of representatives will gather in caucus Monday evening to select a majority floor leader and a cau- ' cus chairman. Outstanding candidates for the two positions are Earl Crawford, Milton; Fabius Gwin, Shoals; Delph L. McKesson. Plymouth; and Herbert P. Kenney, New Albany.

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1931 DOG TAX REMAINS SAME Commissioners Do Not Change Rates; E. M. Ray Is Re-appointed The county dog tax for 1931 will 1 be the same as paid last year, tne county commissioners fixing the tax [ this week. The tax on dogs follows: male I dog and spayed female, $2.00, a year ’ unspayed female, $5.00 a year; each • additional dog .$5.00 a year. Tlieso rates have been in effect for the, past few years. The dog tax is col- [ o ted by the township assessor and ' turned over to the township trua-1 tees. x Ray is Re-Appointed E. M. Ray, Berne, was re-appoint-ed a member of the board of trustees.of the Adams County Memorial Mr. Ray was appointed tor a year term, beginning January 1, 1931. [ He has been a member of the board I since its organization in 1920. The other members of the board are A. T. Smith, Decatur; Frank Heiman, Washington township and Mrs. 1 J. McKean, Linn Grove. Material Bids Feb. 3 Bids from firms and individuals .or furnishing highway repair ma- ; terial, including stone, gravel, planking etc., will be received by i the board of county commissioners I on February 3. A petition from the city of Deca- | .ur for the extension and buildinc I of an electric line in Monroy town I ship was filed with the board. No [action was taken on it. The final report of Ralph Roop, superintendent of the A. F. Thieme drain was filed and approved and the superintendent discharged. o American Legion Meeting Monday . A called meeting of the American I Legion will be held Monday night [at ’he Legion hall. Oyster stew and < .a big fee l after the meeting. Any loI :al legionnaires wishing to attend ■ I the district meeting at Portland I Sunday are requested to meet at LeI gion hall at 1 p. m. Sunday. There . will be room for all who wish to go. STOCKS RALLY : ON MARKET ;l . U. S. Steel Leads List and Average Gain Is Higher Today 5 New York, Jan. 10. —(U.R) —Unit- ’ ed States steel led a substantial t [ rally on the stock market today after the whole list had moved irregularly lower in the early tradj I ing. According to preliminary calculation, the Dow, Jones &' Company Industrial average advanced 1.50 points to 17168 and the railroad average 0.40 points to 105.44. Sales totaled 778,650 shares, compared with 1,547,790 shares last Saturday. Steel rose to around 144 against [ iCONTINUED ON PAGE FTVEI . 1 Q Winchester Bank Granted Charter Indianapolis, Jan. 10 — (UP) — i Granting of a charter to Farmers and Merchants bank Winchester, to ’[assume the assets of the Farmers ’ and Merchants bank there, closed December 3, was announced today : by Thomas D. Darr, deputy state ‘ banking commissioner. ! The new institution will take ' [over assets of the defunct bank and [meet all obligations, Barr B#id. EdII gar L. Monks is president; J. D. I Miller, vice president, and Ira E. ■ Smithson, cashier. The bank is capitalized at $50,000 ’ with $5,000 surplus and deposits of ' $400,000. Barr said. > — r —O Centenarian Whole Show at Anniversary t Rochester, Ind., Jan. 10. —(U.R)— The guest of honof at the golden ■' wedding anniversary celebrated ■ yesterday by Mr. and Mrs. E. L. i! Myers, at their farm home near t here, was Myers' mother, Mrs. - Salome Myers, 101. [ So extraordinary was the presence of the centenarian parent at , such an occasion, that she “stole i the show” from the celebrants, - each of whom has seen a mere 70 | winters.

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Ft. Wayne Fugitive Is Arrested Today Indianapolis, Jan. 10—-Ray ('aid-! well. 34, was arrested here today on a charge of being a fugitive, at [ the request of Fort Wayne author!- ■ ties. Caldwell, arrested two years af- [ ter he was alleged to have shot ’’harles Russell, detective sergeant I while fighting for possession of a I gun, Is charged with being a coml nanion of Forest Jacoby in the robherv of an oil company collector at Fort Wayne. Jacoby now is held at [ Fort Wayne. o ASK REMOVAL OF ! WELLS CO. HEAD Malfeasance Charged To Charles Hyde, County Highway Superintendent Bluffton, Jan. 10 — Removal of County Highway Superintendent Charles E. Hyde from his official position is asked in a petition filed with County Auditor Paul Scott, addressed to the board of county commissioners. The specific charge made against Mr. Hyde in the re;uest for his removal is malfeasance in office. Unless the board should be called into special session here can be no hearing on the peti,on bfore the next regular meeting of the board on Monday, February 2 Among more specific allegation against Supt. Hyde is that on one occasion he visited a stone crusher ■near Zanesville in an intoxicated condition and gave liquor to the men employed by him; that he made trips to Fort Wayne for re pair parts and unnecessarily took two men along with him and paid for their time ou( of county funds; that he had county employes move coal from one residence to another residence into which he moved, working on county tima; that he ailed to take care of county property properly and on one specific occasion allegedly permitted a belt [ belonging to the county to lie out j in the weather became rotted and. ruined, and that Mr. Hyde himself had taken and had permitted his ■men to take gasoline belonging to land bought for the high department and used the same for private use I without paying for it. Mr. Hyde declared that the ’ | charges are false and that when he was given opportunity he would prove his innocense of the charges, and asked that judgment of the pubde be withheld until he had oppor-! tunity to refute the allegations. Regular Services Will Be Held Tonight The regular prayer meeting and ; revival service will be held in the I United Brethren church tonight. [ lev. R. 'E. Vance, pastor of the i church announced today. The pray■r meeting will begin at 7 o'clock, followed with preaching service by Miss Mary Olive, and special musical numbers by Miss May Raul. A fine interest has been shown in ‘he meetings during the first week, and five conversions were made last night. The public is invited to these meetings. County Jail Rules Certified to Sheriff A list of rules for the Adams ‘ county jail, submitted by the state board of charities, was certified to Sheriff Burl Johnson today oy Jildge Erwin. The rules are practically the same as In former years with few minor changes. o Endurance Flyers Land, Set New Record Los Angeles, Jan. 10. —(U.R) —The 1 new world's endurance airplane refueling flight record for women is 122 hours, 50 minutes, and was set by Miss Bobbie Trout and Mrs. Edna Mae Cooper. After landing their Curtiss-Rob-in plane, the lady Rolph, at 5 201 p. m. yesterday, the girl fliers estimated they could have 1 gone on for many more hours had .not their backer, Joseph L. Martin, ordered them to stop because residents near the airport complained about the incessant roaring of the airplane motor overhead. The new record is almost three times as great as the former record of 42 hours. 16 minutes, set last summer by Miss Trout and Elinor Smith of New York. It is, however, only a little more thau one-fifth as great as the men’s record set by Forrest O’Brine and Dale Jackson of St. Louis.

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TWENTY MINERS ENTOMBED IN ' BIG TUNNEL Lands’ide Buries 20 Miners in San Francisco Water Tunnel MEN ARE LIVING; RESCUE WORK ON Livermore, Calif.. Jan. 10. —(U.R)— Announcement was made at the portal jif the Mitehell tunne’ at 7a. m. (P.S.T.) todav that it would be “at least another five hours” before rescue of the 20 entombed workmen could be effected. The latest word from the interior of the long tunnel, nutting the estimated time for the rescue at about noon, was given out bv Clerk M. .1. Lyons of the I letch lletchy project. All Are Alive Canro Mitchell, Calif., Jan. 10.— (U.R)—"We're alright, all of us. Plenty of air. Don't worry. Keep digging." A thin, metallic voice, sounding like a single ear phone on a small radio set, brought this cheering news in jerky phrases through a i four inch pipe in Mitchell tunnel today. At one end of the pipe was a rescue squad, working frantically to remove a slide of rock, dirt and broken timbers that <!ioked the bore. Livermore, Calif., Jan. 10. —(U.R) A thin metal tube early today rarried air to 20 miners entomb d by a landslide 750 feet below tho surfaie of the Hetdh Hetchy tunnel. Electric “muckers" and rescue squads of drillers tore at the mass of debris from the outside in an effort to reach the men. The tunnel, a San Francisco water project, was the scene of two disasters which last year claimed the liveso f 19 men. The cave-in occurred at 6:30 p. m. yesterday when a thick wall of dirt and stone suddenly collapsed between the 20 miners and the entrance to tunnel. Mine officials declared that an airline carry- [ ing a sufficient amount of oxygen I to keep the entombed men alive - I had not been destroyed and that i there was no immediate danger. Through the pipe messages were exchanged between rescuers and entombed. “We are all right. No one killfed,” the men flashed to the out- [ (CONTINUED ON PAGE FIVE) 0 Second Semester Starts January 19 The second semester of school will begin Monday, January 19, Superintendent M. F. Worthman announced today. AIL parents who ■ have children 6 years of age on or before February 1, are requested to send them to the respective war ! building on January 19. o — WANTS CALL FOR RED CROSS MADE Judge Payne Urges President Hoover to Make National Appeal Washington, Jan. 10. —(U.R) — President Hoover was urged today by Judge John Barton Payne of the American Red Cross to issue an appeal to the nation for a special $10,000,000 relief fund. Mr. Hoover took the recommendation under advisement and a statement was promised later ■ from the White House. Payne reported that demands upon the original $5,000,000 Red Cross relief chest had increased during the last ten days to such an extent that more money is absolutely necessary. The Red Cross chairman said the increased demands were coming particularly from Arkansas and Kentucky- They include, he said, not only requests for food to alleviate unman suffering but also for feed for livestock. "For the first time in the history of the Red Cross we have (CONTINUED ON PAGE FIVE)