Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 29, Number 39, Decatur, Adams County, 14 February 1931 — Page 1

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Commander of Yankee Division Is Dead Boston, Feb. 14 —(UP) — Major . general Clarence R. Edwards, retip < ed, who became a hero of two wars ! j during 39 years of military service 1 j died at 7:o* A. M. today. The war-time commanaer of the L’titlt (Yankee) division, known to his doughboys as "Daddy," was 71 j years old. Death followed closely a second operation performed yesterday to relieve an intestlonal disorder a- 1 gainst which the celebrated soldier i had waged a gritty, month-long fight ‘ at Phillips house of Massachusetts j general hospital. FORMER DECATUR MERCHANT DIESjj Samuel Acker. 59, Dies Suddenly at Home In Denver, Colo. Samuel Acker. 59. former Decatur merchant, died a! his home in! Denver, Colorado, at (>: 30 o’clock 1 0 Friday evening, according to word received by relatives here today. The message did not state the A cause of death, but It is believed , death was sudden. Mr. Acker was associated in the 5 clothing business in this city with O. U Vance, twenty years ago, ( and later engaged in the clothing and general merchandise business at Geneva, at which place he re- | sided several years. He and his family left this city for Denver, fifteen years ago, because of the noor health of Mrs. Acker. Since that time he engaged in the clothing business at Denver. The deceased was born in St. ] Marys township, and spent the 1 greater part of his life in Adams | county. He was the son of Erwin | arid Jai)e Acker, of whom the ‘ mother,, bjrs. Jan*. Ackain-JUitvives and lives in this city. The de- a ceased's first wife, Fannie Acker, '■ preoedeed him in death many ( years ago. He later remarried, 1 and is survived by his wife, to- - gether with four children: Mrs. 1 Ernest Reieheldeffer or Geneva; Mrs. Forrest Huntington of Indi- 1 anapolis; Stanford Acker of Los * (CONTINUED ON PAGE SIX) e Root Township Gets New School Hus — i: A now school bus was delivered | j today to Phil Scheiferstein, trustee { of Root township, by Saylor Bros., ( local Dodge dealers. The bus is j mounted on a Dodge Bros, car and j w-ill be used in hauling the children to and from school. ( o * ( Wabash College Wins I < Oratorical Honors Crawfordsville, Ind., eh. 14 —(UP) * —Oratorical honors among Indiana 1 college students went to Wabash * college here for the tenth time last 1 night, when John M. Plummer Jr., 1 third year student, defeated repre- f sentatives of seve nstate schools. Glenn Stahl, Evansville college, 1 placed second; Ralph Lawson, manchester, third; and Paul Duncan. Butler, fourth. Frank J. Creal represented Notre Dame, E. Orville Johnson spoke for Earlham, Charles Masterson for Purdue, and Patrick Cuddy for Franklin. Daniel Carroll Dies At Home In Toledo Daniel Carroll, aged father of Frank Carroll of this citv, died at his home in Toledo, Ohio, Wednesday night at 11 o’clock. Death wa.due to heart trouble. Surviving besides the widow, are three sons and two daughters. Fun- i eral services will be held in Toledo, t Monday morning. Frank Carroll left Wednesday i morning to be at the bedside of his i father, and Mrs. Carroll left for Toledo, this afternoon. i o Cincinnati Fireman Killed In Fire Cincinnati O. Feb. 14 —(UP) — One fireman was killed and three others were injured early today when they were trapped under a falling wall while fighting a fire at the H. B. Smith paper box company j plant on*the water front here. Damage was estimated at $50,000. Edward Braebender, 37, who was killed, was buried under the debris and several hours elapsed before j ihis body was recovered. Those injured were Edward Heffron, 36; |John Oldiges, 46, and John Mullen, j 27.

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Courtesy the Journal-Gazette The Estelle Peabody Memorial Home of the Presbyterian church, pictured above, located at North Manchester, Indiana, will be opened for guests in the near future. Dr. E. C. Lindsay is superintendent of be home. The homo was made possible through the generous gift of Mr. James Peabody of Los Angeles, Cal., ns a memorial to his wife and had its inception in the suggestion made by the Rev. Harry Ferntheil, pastor of (lie Presbyterian church of Decatur and local Preshv erian church officials, who petitioned the Presbytery to se< ure such a home. Rev. Ferntheil and Rev. Lindsay were selected to propose such a project to the Synod. Tlte offer of Mr. Peabody’s was then made to the Synod and uc.-epted. Persons entering the Home must be In general good health. 65 years of age and a resident of Indiana. A board of 15 trustees operate the home, of which the Rev. Ferntheil is the secretary.

LEO KIRSCH IS f MADE CHAIRMAN; l I Local Auto Dealer Will ! Act as Chairman of Mem- € bership Committee — _ Leo Kij Rcli local auto dealer, has | ‘ accepted tlfe chairmanship membership committee of the' j Chamber of Commerce, the appoint-; ‘ ment being made today by A. R. Ashbaucher, president of the organ- 1 liation. * Fiitoen other men were named to the committed and a meeting of i the committee members v.-ill be held ' Monday evening a: seven o'clock j at the Chamber of Commerce rooms i to make plans for launching the j ( membership drive. The members of the committee i jare: Robert Helm, Harry Knapp, | John Stultz. I). M. Niblick, Dee Frjbaek, Elmo Smith, Charles Langston, Will Bowers. James Koclier, George Appleman, Perry Short, Felix Maier. Clayson Carroll t A. C. Bell Herman Yager. Every merchant, professional malt < and manufacturer will be solicited i‘ to enroll in the organization. Tno j dues are five dollars a year. Six other major committees were appointed yesterday by Mr. Ashbaucher and plans are under way to make 1931 an active one for the . Chamber of Commerce. With a , united community membership i: much can be done. Mr. Ashbaucher i, stated and every person interested |, in the welfare of llecatur is invited to join the organization this year. OPPOSE BIRTH CONTROL BILL Opponents of Measure Appear Before Senate Committee to Defeat Bill Washington Feb. 14-(UP) —Op-j ponents of birth control appeared j i before a Senate committee today!, to urge defeat of proposed legisla ! tion which would liberalize federal , laws so as to permit physicians, , Clinics and medical schools to teach methods of contraception. A score of representatives of religious reform and fraternal organ izations contended the proposal was "immoral," would open the mails to “indecent literature," and would en courage “free love”. The arguments were heard by | Senators Gillett, Repn., Mass., ano Bratton, Dem. New Mexico, before whom proponents of the measure testified yesterday. Senator Gillett introduced the hill in question. Its i advocates led by Mrs. Margaret. Sanger contended tlm legislation ; was needed to prevent disease sur ; sering and hardships and to prevent ' too rapid increases in population. The opposition today was opened ; | by Ralph Burton counsel for an or-!' ganization called Jhe Sentinels of ; ‘ (CONTINUED ON PAGE FIVE) h

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Decatur, Indiana, Saturday, February 14, 1931.

Masonic Lodge Will Hold Annual Banquet I Dan H. Tyndall, master of the Masonic lodge, announced this morning that arrangements have been completed for the monthly banquet of the local lodge to be , held at six o’clock next Tuesday evening. The dinner will be served j promptly and following this an interesting program with Rev. Earl -Kltsworth of Van Wert as prln- , ciple speaker. Charles Balleat, a ( 33rd degree Mason, also ol‘ Van | Wert, will attend the banquet , which will be followed by the regular session of the lodge. Tickets are fifty cents and every member is urged to attend. These events during the past two years have proven most enjoyable and have added much interest among the members. CABINET HEADS i RESIGN TODAY; Spain Appears Headed Toward Republican Form * of Government Soon Madrid, Feb. 14. — (U.R) — After! years of dictatorship, martial law and rebellion, Spain appeared to-1 day to be moving toward a republican form of government withj such rapidity that the political vi -l tors themselves were uncertain! what the next move in the consti- ( tutional regeneration of the country would be. Within the space of a few hours i the government of Premier Gen. Damaso Berenguer resigned and; the king received a decree suspending the parliamentary elec-] tions scheduled for next month, j The next logical development ap-i pea red to he the convocation of ai constittuional assembly to draft a: constitution replacing that of 1876, under which the country is still] governed. King Aifonso began consultations immediately after the cabinet’s resignation with leaders of the liberal party, who forced Berenguer’s resignation, and also with the Duke of Maura regarding the formation ( of a new government. The Dukei of Maura expressed the opinion | that a coalition government, or a so-called national concentration,] would be formed. Briefly summarized, the eveuis (CONTINUED ON PAGE FIVE) Central And Berne Play Opening Game The schedule for the eighth grade blind tourney was drawn this afternoon shortly before time for the opening game. Decatur Central and Berne meet in the first game with St. Joe and Jefferson meeting in the second contest. The winners in this afternoon’s ] games will play in the finals at. 8 ] o’clock tonight. The two arternoon i loosers will play a preliminary (game at 7 o’clock.

AUTO AND TRAIN F CRASH, TWO DIE;' Two Other Persons Ser- ( iously Injured in Crossing Accident Today Hammond, Ind., Feb. 14 (LUO —|i Two pennons were killed and two!, others injured seriously here early 1 today when a speeding auto.! i whose driver disregarded warning i signals, crashed into the side of ■ a freight train. ; 1 The dead were Joe Dihlay. 45, j * a steel worker living at the Ex- * change Hotel. Chicago, and Miss • Elizabeth Johnson, 20, of Streator, ( Illinois. 1 Miss Laura McDonald, 22, 454 Polk street, Gary, suffered a skull fracture and broken rigid leg. [ Lester K. Greene, Kenwood l i (CONTINUED ON PAGE FIVE) o Goshen State Bank To Liquidate Goshen Ind. Feb. 14 —(UP) —Tha State bank of Goshen was closed today by the board of directors and announcement made that it will be liquidated ami business discontinnled. j A. G. Hoovens president of the I City National Bank was named >iquidating agent. Officials o: the bank said positive j ly that depositors will lose nothing. The bank was capitalized at SIOO,|OOO. Deposits were approximately '5500,000. ANDERSON CITES ! FACTS ON GAME Assistant Notre -Dame Coach Says Elks Have No “Kick” Coming Souh Bend, Ind., Feb. 14—(U.R) —- The demand of the Los Angeles Elks for an accounting of the expenses filed by the Notre Dame I all-star team which played a char- ] ity game on the coast Christmas ; day, was received placidly by I "Hunk” Anderson, assistant Notre I Dame coach. “The Elks have no kick coming” Anderson said. Anderson.said it cost $14,000 to take the regular Notre Dante team to Los Angeles without spending 10 days there in advance of the game. He said he believed tile I Elks received an itemized account from one of the team officials. The reported statement that the game grossed $65,000 with only SI,OOO net to the Elks, prompted Anderson to say; "That may be their own fault.” He said he understood the Elks were to get 2 per cent, 60 per cent going to newspaper charity funds, and 20 per cent to a promoter.

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CLOUDBURSTS IN I ARI2ONA CLAIM! LIVES TODAY Two Persons Are Drowned, Six Missing In Cloudbursts Near Welton SEVENTY-FIVE CARS MAROONED BY FLOOD Yuma, Arig., Feb. 14 — (U.R) I wo persons were drowned and at least six others were missing today as a result of cloudbursts which swept the hills back of Welton, I Arizona. The known dead, yet unlden-1 titled, were members of a party of four whose automobile was swept from the road by flood waters. Bodies of the other two had not been recovered at daybreak. Four other persons who were believed missing were living in tourist camps which were swept away by the torrents. The water poured out of the liills for a distance of one-half mile with a maximum width of 300 feet amt swept directly through Welton before losing force. A mile and a half of the southern Pacific tracks was reported washed out at one point. Seventy-five automobiles, including a Pacific Greyhound stage with its passengers, were reported marooned two miles east of Welton. The avalanche of water, five feet high and 300 feet wide, rushed down Coyote Wash. Two bridges, one in town and (CONTINUED ON PAGE SIX) Otto Weis Purchases Decatur Auto Laundry Otto Weis well known Decatur imati has purchased the Decatur Auto Laundry, located in the Ed Boknecht service station building |on Monroe street. Mr. Weis took possession of the business today and , will continue to operate the auto j laundry under its former name. ! New equipment was recently installed in the laundry. The business was established several years ago by Gregg Brandyberry being the first auto laundry in Decatur. EXPECT HOOVER TO VETO BILL President’s Associates Say Government Can Not Stand Financial Burden Washington, Feb. 14.—(U.R) —A studied silence carrying the impli cation of a veto is living maintained at the White House toward tho compromise 'bill to increase the loan limit on World war veterans adjusted service certificates to 50 per cent of their face value. House leaders, meanwhile, prepared to pass the measure Monday under suspension of rules. A majority also is reported to favor the bill in the senate, and early action there is anticipated. While President Hoover has made no public statements concerning any of tile various veterans' relief proposals, his associates in the administration —particularly Secretary of Treasury Mellon — have indicated he considers most of the plans dangerous. The financial condition of the government involved in the proposals has been the subject of frequent conferences between Mr. Hoover, Mellon, Undersecretary of Treasury Mills and veterans affairs administrator Hines. The latest of these conferences was followed last night by a letter (CONTINUED ON PAGE FIVE) Countv Red Cross Fund Totals $354.80. The Adams county contributions to the Red Cross relief fund total $354.86 according to a report today i by Miss Annie E. Winnes county secretary. The report follows: Previously reported $301.40 - Two at Monroe Ind. 5.00 William Michaels 1.00 Dr. E. G. Coverdale 5.00 General Electric . 29.13 ’ Hattie S. Obenauer 10.00 i A Friend l-°0 Envelope ...... 3.00 , Loose Change -33 Total $354.86 \

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! Head of Creighton University Dies t\ v\i w . mam • Father W. 11. Agnew, S. J..1 • president of Creighton University i of Omaha, Neb., and former pres-! • ident of Loyola University of • Chicago, who died at Rochester,! ‘ Minn., Friday, where he recently - underwent several operations for j cancer. TEACHERS FACE COURT CHARGES r Smithville High School ;■ Teachers Must Answer Provoke Charges 1 Bloomington, Ind., Feb. 14. — (U.R) —A school tangle involving three! j teachers and a township trustee, t was scheduled for the first episod*i t in the untangling process today, with Harry Hays, principal, and J. D. Knight, teacher, in the Smithville high school, in court on charges, of provoking to commit assault. Hays and Knight had refused to give up their posts at the command of Jewett Tatum, Clear Creek township trustee, when Tatum's j successors arrived. Tiiey charged j that they were victims of a politi-j cal frame-up, and that Tatum does! not have the final decision in suchi matters. According to Hays, tlie differem, V ces originated when he insisted up-! t- on dismissal of William Hopper, i- 40,- an instructor whom he said 3 girl students had accused of ntak- " ing improper advances. Hopper s finally resigned, and is scheduled 0 to appear before a grand jury on e charges of a 16 year-old girl, o Pupils at the Smithville school arose in vehement defense ot' Hays y and Knight yesterday afternoon a when Sheriff Ray Stephens of Mone roe county came to arrest the instructors. A student walk-out was s threatened, but temporarily halted i- by intercession of Fred Anderson, j „ (CONTINUED ON PAGE TWO) Local Youth Wins Award At Detroit e Bernard Wemhoff son of Mr. and )- Mrs. George Wemhoff of Decatur, - has been awarded a $lO prize by the . Detroit Times for the best review £ of the motion picture. "Dance, Foob s Dance”. The local youth is a freshman at the University of Detroit s and competed with fifteen other r journalistic students in the contest. o County Bee-Keepers Held Meeting Tuesday j The Adams county Bee-Keepere Association met at. the Amish s Christian church in Monroe towni! ship Tuesday night. C. O. Yost, y chief of Apiaries, State department y of conservation, was the principal speaker. Mr. Yost is very optimistic as to the outlook for bee culture in Adams county and states that a rigid inspection will take p’ace again this year. A meeting j will be held in Decatur, Saturday, March 14 at which details for the inspection will be worked out. This meeting will be held in the Chamber of Commerce room in Decatur.

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DROUGHT RELIEF MEASURE NOW GOES TO HOUSE Senate Adopts Interior Department’s Compromise Relief Bill THREE MONTHS FIGHT COMES TO AN END Washington, Feb. 11. (UR) The Senate todav approved ; the *2<MHKUKM> drought reI liet compromise. The Senate voted to adopt I the conference report on Ithe 'interior department bill. I lie report now goes to the House where speedv adoption is e\peeted. The compromise is in the form of an amendment to 11lie interior department bill. The administration views tho | appropriation as primarily design* ied to rehabilitate credit in the drought areas. But under an interpretation by Secretary of Agriculture Hyde, borrowers may use (CONTINUED ON PAGE FIVE) Indicted For Murder Under An Old Law Gary, Ind.. Feb. 14. — (U.R) — -V murder indictment has been l brought against James H. Rin k. Chicago, tinder an old Indiana staltute. i Rork is survivor of what ho claims was a suicide agreement, with his former wife, Frances Brown, Chicago. He said he shot himself twice and then his wife fired a shot into her body. He survived, but she was dead when police took them from an auto on the Dunes highway last ~juonth, the revolver still clutched in her hand. Under the old Indiana law, the survivor of a suicide pact is held guilty of murder. o Albert S. Bond Rites Will lie Held Mondaj — Fort Wayne, Feb. 14 (U.R) - Funeral services will be held at the home Monday at 11 a.m. for Albert S. Bond, 67, president of the Packard Piano company, who died yesterday after Ireing struck by an auto Thursday. He was Allen county's eighteenth traffic accident victim of the year. Bond had been suffering from j heart trouble and the coroner be- ! lieved the shock of the accident I caused deatli rather than the j injuries. New Tickets Printed For Play Monday Tickets for the home talent play. “Wild Oats Boy”, to be given by the Civic section of the Woman’s club at the Decatur Catholic high school Monday, February 16, are printed on light blue paper and hear the date of the performance. Persons going to (lie play are asked not to confuse the tickets of February ninth, with the tickets good for next Monday night. WEDDING PLANS END IN TRAGEDY Man Who Was to Have Been Married to Richmond Girl Today, Killed i Richmond, lnil., Feb. 14 —(U.R) * A Valentine day wedding which was to have been the leading social ' event of the season in Richmond, was broken up today when George Maurice Peffer Jr., 23, of Piqua, Ohio, the bridegroom, was killed in a collision of flip auto in which he was riding, and an interurban. The collision was head-on, two * miles east of Richmond. Thad 1 Braffet, Richmond, driver of the ' auto, and John Rubens, Piqua, the ’ other occupants were tioth injurk ed seriously, but will recover. * physicians said. Peffer was to have been married ' this afternoon to Miss Dorothy ’ Helen Augustine, daughter of the ? , Rev. and Mrs. R. Howard M. ' Augustine. Her father was to offi- ’ | ciate, and scores of guests were ? | present for the event, which was to have been held In the Presbyp! lerian church of which lie is pas(CONTINUED ON PAGE SIX)