Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 29, Number 20, Decatur, Adams County, 23 January 1931 — Page 1

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armers Receive Awards Ats Annual Club Banquet Thursday

ffIdHELD tmonmouth mhhtorium re Than 200 Persons tend;O.F. Hall. Purdue. Is Speaker k GROWERS AND urymen HONORED (t one of the largest and t delightful community lings ever held in Adams | fc merit and achieve-1 k awards were awarded to ] L county farmers at the tenth annual farmer’s banheld in the community at Monmouth, Thursday fc than two hundred persons Ld the meeting, including L, Decatur merchants, memhf the Rotary and Lions clubs a number of women. O. F. lof the departnv nt of educa- | Purdue university, was the ppal speaker. Lty Agricultural Agent L. E. Ltd was general chairman of [meeting and E. W. Busche. L and Adams county's first iter Farm=r" presided as toastier. .Music was furnished by Fryback's eight-piece orchesBd Carl Habegger. Berne manlier, conducted the comity singing. Le meeting was a mingling of |K, dairyman, father and son, jnd and wife, merchant and ■ye and good will and cheer lejidenced on every hand, kh the cooperation of the Itr agent, the farmer and city I the meeting was made possKnty Agent Archbold called [Msembly together and asked i Her Harry Ferntheil, pastor be First Presbyterian church of Icily to invoke the blessing. Bowing the chicken dinner ft was prepared by a commit-1 of women and served by a | p of girls, Mr. Archbold turnF meeting over to Mr. Busche. ft first speaker on the pn> I was Mrs. Dale Moses, who I a brief history of the Adams ft-’ Home Economics club, r* clubs are now organized in [county, the Root township I being the first one. r° Bieberich. president of Miins County Dairy Herd Impent Association was preF and read the list of names PMers and presented the men Hn s raved honor rolls. Herds Kfc? 300 pounds or more of r r iat yearly were given the F The dairymen who reF the awards are: .Mr. BiebPTINVKD On page SEVEN) HIELEAGUE WTSTUESDAY r' Ve Team Will Meet pland Here; Affirmative at Eaton Ei R |char<is ' coach of the L., J , Bchool debating teams hebat ° day tllat resular lea ' L eni '„ S W ‘“ B,art “ext TuesLivt When tlle Portland asCvJ ' eani Wl >l meet the local L ® at the Library Hall L nt ' , lle latest will include Principal Ctor nr c R ,“ 88el Sherman, inphl E 8 8h ' a " ot Garreti’e'tea® 6 6Veni “& the local 2 t in " j0 ' ,rney t 0 Ea Tln a ,|L„ h . e afrir mative team I te on the same subLit Thn', 1 '^ 1 ' 681 is tlle debate t*’aynec?nt ay ,. eVenln K. when |> De,aw tral 8 “egatlve team I Llbr ary 8 H a an ir p at,Ve tea ‘ n fral la r Wall. Fort Wayne t 0 have one of k... and 6 »L lng teams ot the F’dtodrao? 6 Rebate here 18 ■tebgrs a recor d crowd. | Include nl! 10cal “ttirmativo LiK" Hain ' Richar(i I al,e “>ate an?* 1 Betty Fr ‘sFfativt. t Pa ’ an<l “’■embers of [*«. I’M, w’J 4 El ‘

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Pendleton Minister Speaks on Crime Wave Dr. W. R. Cady, prominent minister of Pendleton, spoke to the pupils of Decatur high school at their regular chapel period this morning, on the subject, "The Crime Wave and its relations to dur penal institutions." Dr. Cady has spent the greater part of bis life at Pendleton and her; I made a special study of the penitentiary there, studying the prison I and the inmates. His familiarity I. with the institution made his talk especially interesting. in connection with the address. I Dr. Cady showed a number of stereopticon views of scenes inside the prison walls at Pendleton. LOCAL WOMAN'S SISTER DIES Mrs. Ora Jones, Sister of Mrs. Mary Fugate, Dies Thursday Mrs. Ora Idella Jones, 54, sister of Mrs. Mary Fugate, of this city, died at the Lutheran hospital at Fort Wayne, Thursday morning at 7:20 o'clock after a week's illness of complications. Site was a member of the First Evangelical church of Fort Wayne. Surviving am the husband, Frank Jones; a son. Frank. Jr.; the mother, Mrs. Caroline Miller, all of Fort Wayn?; four brothers, Wil son and Howard Miller, both of] Fort Wayne; Ralph Miller of; Knoxville, Mich., and William Mil! ler of Adrian, Mich., and three sisters, Mrs. William Hockemeyer of Fort Wayne; Mrs. Will Mauller ot Wreij* 0., and Airs. Mary Fugale of this city. Funeral services will be held Saturday afternoon at 1:30 o'clock at the residence, 2520 John street. Fort Wayne, and at 2 o’clock at tile, First Evangelical church. Rev. E. I Garfield Johnson officiating. Burial will be in the Lindenwood cemetery at Fort Wayne. o APPEAL FOR REG CROSS FUNDS Nation Hears President Hoover And Others Ask For Aid New York. JAn. 23.— (U.R) — A radio appeal for help in raising the $10,000,000 brought relief fund sought by the American Red Cross I was made last night by a group ofj distinguished speakers, including President Hoover, former Pr-esi • dent Coolidge, former Governor Al ! fred E. Smith of New York, Will! Rogers, Mary Pickford, Mrs. Aug ! ust Belmont, and John Barton] Payne, chairman of the Red Cross. The speeches were made over the National Broadcasting System. President Hoover spoke from the White House in Washington, former Gov. Smith, Miss Pickford and Mrs. Belmont spoke from the stud- . ios of WEAF, here, and Rogers ’ from Little Rock, Ark. Coolidge was at his homo in Northampton, Mass. It is “unthinkable that any of . our people should be allowed to i suffer from hunger and want," the President said. He pointed out • that tne people in the drought area • lost “a large part of their crops. I and many thousands are even short of food supplies." : “It is iu the heart of the nation I that I am appealing tonight," he ■ sdid. “It is a call to citizenship ; and to generosity in time of trial, but it is a call for protection to our 1 greatest American institution of i (CONTINUED ON PAGE SEVEN. o World War Veteran 1 Found Badly Hurt i i Calumet City. 111.,-Jan 23 —(UP) — • Thomas Cummings, 40-year-old war [ veteran ot Gary Ind., was found un- ; conscious in an alley early today, ; his head cut and his pockets turned inside out. > Physicians of St. Margaret’s hosI pltal of Hammond said he may have - received a fractured skull.. Cumins Ings was wounded, gassed and shell - shocked in the world war. i Cummings said he has a sister in Kankakee, 111.,

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AGRICULTURE BILL PASSED BY SENATE I . Bill Appropriating $214,000,000 For Next Year Passed in One Hour RELIEF FUND BILL SENT TO COMMITTEE Washington, Han. 23. (U.R)—Th ' senate today passed the agriculture appropriation bill providing approximately $214,000,000 for the next fiscal year. The bill now must go to conference. The bill was passed by the senate in one hour. While the senate was acting, speaker of the house I rmgwortb formally sent the interior department bill to the appropriations committee today for hearings in an effort to defeat or reduce the $25,000.000 Red Cross relief fund. Chairman Cramton of the subcommittee which has charge of the measure, announc'd to the house it was his plan to call Red Cross officials tomorrow to testify regarding the appropriation. The senate now has passed four of the 11 major supply bills. The house has passed five. Those passed by both houses are: Treasury-postoffice bill —now in conference. Interior department bill —before j house appropriations committee for action on senate amendment to give ] $25,000,000 to the Red Cross, Agriclture department bill. First deficiency bill, including senate amendment to provide $3.-1 <OOU,d(Ht medical relief ui draught j areas, added after original passage of bill by house. The house also has passed the war department supply bill, which is now awaiting senate action. The eight bills yet to be acted I upon by the senate must be passed by both houses before March 4 to avoid an extra session. By this action late yesterday and today in pushing through the first ■CONTINUED ON THREE) o Larjje Crowd Attends Schafer Company Show A large crowd attended the free show at the Cort Theater this morn!ing( sponsored by the Schafer Hard ware Co., in connection with the tractor conducted by the company today. The show gave pictures of the first McCormick reaper, built in 1831. An exact reproduction of this reaper is also on exhibit here ] today. A free lunch was served at noon at the K. of C. Hall. __o TWO LOCAL MEN ARE INDICTED —- Raymond Eyanson And George Yake Indicted By Grand Jury , Raymond Eyanson. Decatur painter and George Yake. Adams county farmer were indicted by the Federal grand jury in session at South Bend Thursday. Eyanson was indicted for forgery and Yake was indicted for violation on the national prohibition law. The charge against Eyanson was ! filed last September 29, after it was alleged that be passed fraudulent $lO bills on three Decatur men. By 1 pasting a figure ten over the figure one on the one dollar bills, it was ’ charged that Eyanson attempted to ■ pass them for $lO bills. These fake ’ bills were received by Perry Short, ■ John Brickley and Sam Baller and Eyanson was arrested by local authorities. The case was then taken up by Federal autorifles and transferred from the Adams circuit court ; to the Federal court. Eyanson has been free on bond. Yake was arrested last October . after several federal prohibition agents purchased liquor from -him. He was taken to Fort Wayne and ’ charges of violating the prohibition law were filed against him. Yake has been arrested several times be- , fore for violating the prohibition ! The federal grand jury persons in the Fort Wayne'division of federal i court were indicted yesterday. Eight of the indictments were kept secret.

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Decatur, Indiana, Friday, January 23, 1931.

Tax Chief and Her Accuser k Ai' car mil Ji While Mrs. Myrtle Tanner Blacklidge (right). United States collector of internal revenue tor the Chicago di trlct, insists she was the innocent victim of a card sharpers’ plot in a Springfield. 111., hotel, Edward R. Litsinger (left), member of the Cook County (Illinois) Board tn Review and prom nent Chicago lawyer and business man, charges he was iobbed of $5(1,000 in a scheme engineered by Mrs. Blacklidge.

Large Crowd Expected Here For Saturday Local merchants are preparing for a large crowd here Saturday, January 24. the special six weeks shopp I ing and gift day. The program will ] begin at one-thirty o'clock The grocery and food advertisments and : other advertisments in tonight’s Daily Democrat offer shoppers hund ' reds of excellent bargains for the | special shopping day. WANT HOOVER TO EXPLAIN President Urged to Clarify Interpretations of His Position Washington, Jan. 23—(UP) — An effort was being made in some quar ters today to induce President Hoc- ] ver to clarify the various “interpre- ] tations" of his stand on revision of i the 18th amendment. At the White House it was Said ] that the President might offer an I explanation later today though noth- ] ing definite had been decided. Unofficially there has already; come from the White House in ] formally t!ie explanation that in ' standing against the possible pro-! poseyl revision suggested in the I Wickersham report. President Hoover did not imply he necessarily ] was gainst all revision. It was .insist i ed he has an “open mind" on the ] question Senator Simeon 1). Fess, i chairman of the Republican National committee, after first saying the I president's message meant the Re .; publican party would be dry in 1932 ] later said what he meant to say was I that the President had tin open] mind regarding revision of the ISth ! amendment but was against any | plan which would throw prohibition | back into the hands of Congress in away that would harass it for a hundred years. Meanwhile Senator Millard E. Tydings Dem., Md„ was temporarily blocked in an effort to bring up (CONTINUED ON PAGE SEVEN) o FARM SCHOOL AT MONROE Marketing School Changed From Berne as Previously Announced Jos. D. Winteregg, manager of the Adams county farm bureau, announced today that thq farm bureau marketing school will be held at Monroe instead of at Berne, as previously announced. The meeting will open at 7:30 P. M. Saturday I January 24. Good speakers have] been obtained and a profitable ] meeting for all attending is expect- j ed. This school is the first of a ser-! ies of eight to be held weekly in i Adams county. The other meetings will be held each Thursday evening for the following seven weeks in the Monroe high school building.

FOUND GUILTY IN THIRD TRIAL Dreyfus Rhoades, Who Twice Escaped Death Penalty, Is Sentenced Princeton, Ind., Jan. 23.—(U.R) — Dreyfus Rhoades today was sentenced to two to 21 years Tn tlto state prison by Special Judgti Charles (). Baltzell after a sealed | verdict of guilty of voluntary man-! slaughter was read in Gibson court this morning. The jurors returned the verdict! ] after deliberating five hours. Rhoades, twice previous senteni ced to die on a charge of murder] in the slaying, April 1, 1926, of Simon Carle, Vincennes policeman, ‘ broke down and cried when the j verdict was read in court. His I moth r. who has been with him ] throughout his two trials in Gibi son county, was not in the courtI room today. Arrested on a charge of first de- ] gree murder when Carie was shot l while questioning Rhoades, and Al- ] bert King after they had allegedly | passed counterfeit money. Rhoades | entered a plea of guilty and was ; sentenced to die in the electric . chair. King was tried, convicted, ] and sentenced to life imprisonment ■ (CONTINUED ON PAGE SEVEN) MRS. BOYS TELLS OF COURT WORK — Probation Officers Handled 15,000 Cases During Past Year Plymouth, Ind., Jan. 23. —(U.R> —Indiana probation officers during 1930 cared for 15.000 eases of children and adults, according to Mrs. Fiori nee Riddick Boys, Plymouth, state probation officer. Mrs. Boys said the state probation department, is cooperating I with Indiana University in an effort to compile, analyze and interpret more complete statistics regarding crime in Indiana, its causes and the extent which probation serves in prevention. There now are 130 probation officers. Among those recently appointed were: Mrs. Faye Smith Knapp, Decatur; Arthur .1. Meyer, Mrs. Annie Laurie Wells and G. Earl Cunningham, Fort Wayne; Mrs. Retta McGeath, Hartford City; Mrs. Charles Wolford, Linton; Carlton Shuck. Franklin; Curtis U. Wolfe, Vincenjnes; Fred E. Todd, Greencastle; J. ! Walter Mclnery, Mrs. Jerome R. | Dumont. Mrs. Francis Strauss, and I Mrs. Ella Strombeck, South Bend; ] Mrs. Eva Thorp, Bluffton. Mrs. Boys will speak in Decatur next Tuesday evening at the Decatur high school under auspices of the South Ward Parent-Teach-ers club.

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RILL TO AMEND VOLSTEAD LAW IS INTRODUCED Senate Bill Favors Submitting Law to States; Propose Tax on . Oleo LEGISLATURE IN WEEK-END RECESS Indianapolis. Jan. 23.—<U.R) I —lndiana legislators closed] their second weeks activities] at noon today, the house toj meet at two p. m. and the senate to meet at 11 a. m. MonI day. Representatives were un-; usually active as they looked forward to the week-end recess, and passed three measures and killed nine. Fifteen measures, approved by committees, were adI vanced ‘to second reading when brought before the house. The senate advanced two bills to second reading, passively heard introduction of a resolution aimed at modifying the Volstead act, and beard the state tax board attacked as being “unsympathetic’' toI ward the legislature attempt to re- ] duce property taxes. Among Dills killed in the house I were those providing for deduction of the l°gal contract rates from 8 to 6% a year; exemption of the Federal government from gasoline taxes in Indiana; authorizing payment of expenses of a committee junket to the Indiana state prison: increasing the pay of Grand and LCNTINUE*'- UN PAGE THREE) Union Twp. Farmers Institute Jan. 29 ] The Union township farmers in- ] stitute will be held in the Emanuel Lutheran school building in Union ; township, Thursday, January 29. | Sessions will be held in the morning, afternoon and evening. Pre- ] miums will be awarded for agricultural products, baked goods and school displays. There will be two! speakers, Mrs. L. G. Vannice, of Amo, and C. W. Harlan, of West Lafayette. — o Devoe Jurors Still Deadlocked Today Los Angeles, Jan. 23—(UP)—The weary jurors in the Daisy De Vo> grand theft case returned to Judge William C. Doran’s court room a* 9:30 A. M. PST. today and were locked up for further deliberations jon the fate of the former secretary |to Clara Bow. I The jurors—seven men and five women-all showed the effects of I the long strain they have experienced since they received the cas? | late Wednesday. The jury gave no indication that it was nearer to a verdict than last night when it was ordered to a hotel for the night, apparently hopelessly ■ deadlocked. CITY WELFARE” WORK CROWS Many Contributions Have Been Received; Office Open Daily For Gifts • Many contributions of canned i goods, flour, and clothing have been - received by the City Welfare Committee at their headquarters in the - City Hall building in response to an . appeal issued on January 8. The committee appreciates this cooperation and announcement wa-> , made today that all contributions may be brought to the City Hall each evening and Saturday be- ' tween the hours of 4 and 6 o’clock Mrs. George Myers or some member ' of the committee will be there to receive all contributions. The committee stated that child- ■ ren's clothing that has been out- ’ grown is needed more than any- ■ thing else at the present time. Members of the City Welfare Committee are Cal Peterson. Mrs. r G. E. Myers. Joe Lose. Roy Mum- ■ ma, Adolph Kolter, M. A. Frisinger, ) Burt Mangold, Leigh Bowen. Henry • Graber, Emery Hawkins, and M. F. Worthman.

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Men Charged With First Degree Murder — Salem, Ind., Jan. 23. — <U.R) — ('barges of first degree murder I have been filed against John and | Pleas Spurlock in connection with the murder of Patton Gibson on Sunday, December 14. First degree burglary charges have been filed against Dan Alonzo and Gilfred Gibson, sons of the | murdered man, who participated in Hie sensational jail storming December 27, in an effort to avenge ’ their father's death. o MEN QUESTION WOMAN FORGER 1 Decatur Merchants Fail to Identify Hartford City Woman John B. Stults and H. F. Kraft ; were unable to positively identify Mrs. Andy Berrier, of Hartford City as the woman who passed worthless checks at the Home Grocery and North Second street Kroger store, in Decautr, last Saturday. The two local men, accompanied by deputy sheriff D. M. Hower, were at Hartford City Thursday afternoon to question Mrs. Berrier concerning the checks passed here. Mr. Kraft stated that the woman held at Hartford City was not -‘he one wanted here, but Mr. Stults said , that while he thought the woman in j question was the one wanted, he I could not make a positive identification yesterday. Mr. Kraft stated that I the woman who passed the worthless check at the Kroger store had purchased merchandise from him several times previous and that he was sure Mrs. Berrier was not th? guilty person. The Hartford City woman at present is out on $2,000 bond at her - home on charges of passing four j worthless checks on Blackford i county merchants. These checks' were passed Saturday afternoon and the woman held there has been identified by all four Hartford City merchants. FAMOUSDANCER DIES ATJAGUE Pleurisy Claims Life of Anna Pavlova, W orld Famous Dancer The Hague. Jan. 23.—<U.R> —Anna Pavlova, world famous dancer acclaimed as one of the greatest art- , ists of her time, died here at the , Hotel Des Indes early today. She was stricken with pleurisy Tues- ! day. Pavlova would have been 46 , years old on January 31. She contracted a chill*,en route to The , Hague when she was forced to reI main in the open air for a long I time due to a railroad .wreck near Dijon. France. She was ill when she arrived here and her condition became critcial yesterday afternoon. Pavlova's rise in the dancing world brought her the same position that was accorded in the theater to the gfeat Sarah Bernhardt. ' Her triumph in America was sensational. Her engagements included not only the usual “star" prei sentations in the opera houses of great cities, but also performances in small towns, in amusement halls and small vaudeville houses where the name of an European 1 actress was scarcely known. Pav--1 lova was credited with giving an ' entirely new artistic conception to ’ America, and public adulation was 1 her reward. Twenty years ago she aroused ’ England and the United States to ’ extravagant admiration in the balJI let, "The Death of the Swan." Critics considered this the height . of her achievement, although “Les ]. Papillons" (the Butterflies) and , “Valse Caprice" also brought her unusual praise. Pavlova made her first appear- . ance in London at the age of 25 . and achieved instant stardom. During her career she appeared in all } the British possessions, including . India, where she made an exhaus- • five investigation of ancient dance , forms. India hailed her as a per- ?’ feet interpreter of the country's (CONTINUED ON PAGE SEVEN)

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DEMOCRAT WINS SEAT IN STATE LEGISLATURE Virjfil Simmons, Bluffton Attorney Won by 1,032 Votes Over Myers SPECIAL ELECTION HELD THURSDAY Virgil M. Simmons, Dem'ocrat, of Bluffton, who was i elected joint representative to the state house of representatives from Adams and Wells counties in a special election held Thursday, will probably take office Monday. The Democrat majority in the two counties was 1,032 votes. Adams county voters cast their ballots more than two to one for Simmons but the Wells county race developed into a bitter fight, witli the Democratic nominee finally holding a lead of 58 votes when the 35 Wells county precincts were all reported. The newly elected representative is expected to take office next Monday. The official vote must be certified by the clerks of the two counties and presented to the sheriffs, Burl Johnson, of Adams county, and Luster Bowman, of Wells county. According to law, the two sheriffs will meet in the oldest county. ,in this case, Adams, and they will I then certify the election of Virgil ]M. Simmons. This meeting will probably be held this afternoon or I Saturday and the certificate of election will be available for Mr. Simmons to present Monday in time to take his seat for next week’s session. The total vote east for Virgil Simmons in the two counties was 3,774; Dillon Myers. Republican | candidate, received 2,742 votes. I Adams county gave 1,776 ballots to Simmons and 802 for Myers, a Democratic majority in this county of 974. The Wells county vote was 1,998 Democrat, and 1.940 Republican, a majority of 58. Simmons tailed to carry only three precincts in Adams county. North ami South St. Mary's and I Berne B precinct. Sixteen of the j thirty-five Wells county precincts I were carried by the Democratic I (CONTINUED ON PAGE SEVEN) VV oman Helps Cops Take Negro Bandit i Indianapolis, Jan. 23 —(UP)— A Woman who refused to give up $636 in jewelry and money without a fight, was responsible for the arrest of Blaine Burnett, negro, last night after he bad escaped with her purse Mrs. Catherine Edie gave chase when Burnett grabbed her purse and ran. She pursued him closely for five blocks, emitting lusty vocabulations the while. Police first heard then they saw —the chase, and grabbed the luckless negro. o SULLIVAN BANK CASHIER GUILTY Richard Kirk, Shelburn Bank Cashier Found Guilty of Embezzlement Sullivan, Ind., Jan. 23.— (U.R) — •Richard Kirk, former cashier of the Shelburn State Bank, was found guilty of a charge of bankers' embezzlement by a jury in Sullivan circuit court. The jury deliberated three and one half hours. Special Judge Humphreys was expected to pass sentence on Kirk today. The trial was shortened at least, a half a day when attorneys for the defense decided against having Kirk testify in his own behalf. In a previous trial, which resulted in a hung jury, Kirk had been placed on the stand and subjected to cross examination by the prosecution. Jess Bolinger, former president of the bank now serving a term in the state prison for forgery, testified he had never told bank employes he had placed a larg > amount of forged paper in the bank but said during cross examination that Kirk had been aware of th ■ bank's insolvent condition.