Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 29, Number 56, Decatur, Adams County, 6 March 1931 — Page 1

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■jIIRMAN LEGGE ■IONS FARM Imposition ■tai Resignation Has ■e n Accepted by ■esident Hoover ■)[ XCEMENT WIL ■.WE LATE TODAY March C — <U.R) ''l' Ah xaf.il>-r I.»'gg<‘ as ~f the Federal farm be announc'd this as- ■ by Hi" Wliii.' House, the learned today. ■R Hi. imminence Mr. Hoover lias been accepted. James E. Stone . K' tobacco memboard, is tn be elevated chairmanship according to information. H Mele-Ivie. wheat memr ('. Teague, fruit and Cti'd. C. ' M" f"l---retirement about anjjjg tide !'■ « ill have then, while Teague anx- ■ back to the California exchange anil CaliGrowers .issociation ot V the is president. has solved as chairman suits *"< ,l " board's July 1. 11*29. He was perby President Hoover to the presidency of the Harvester Company the post. TTI since th" ■GI been MH to resign for the past year. was persuaded by Mr. Mr- to remain a iittle longer. to - and government ’ Legge was lost for a after he t ime here two years But his independence and he mu e had on Capitol before congressional lie always spoke his ;|( frankly, regardless of the re ami consequently often was j d ami misunderstood. I re, on. , ontroversy with i was over his remarks beM s.-iiat. agriculture commit£U which he was quoted by senators saying the board t / Y was depressing cotton Mwhich prices to increase conM * and absorb overproduces Senator ias, Dem.. Okla., opponent at that time, has been won over to Legge's policies and has pledgboard his support in the sen-

■ ■stinted ON PAGE EIGHT) . ■wmington Man Is ■ Killed in Collision B, Mklianapolis. Mar. 6—- (U.R) —E. last night when the auto ■Milch he was riding collided 1 a truck and another auto on ■« road No. 37. B. Hall, 24. Bloomington, driv- ■»( the machine in which Regest■’as riding, was not injured ser■ty. 1 was said to have struck a Parked at the side of the and skidded into a machine ■”’'” by Ellis Spoonmeyer, In■napolis. Regester was thrown ■ Jhe pavement, and suffered a batture and almost instant M MEETING | AT BLUFFTON B’shth District Federated K Hubs Meet Tuesday, I March 10 ■ Tht “ ai " lual convention of the In- ■ '', a Federation of Woman's Clubs ■ m ,«‘ Bhth Distrit will be held ■ Bluffton, Tuesday. March 10. All Ki‘. lOns of the convention will be ■ ' in the First Reformed Church ■ wort program will be given at Kir' i ocl{ Tuesday morning, folKork the lunclleon at 12 o’- ' ltle afternoon program will I J ■ Bln « 1:30 o'clock. Khini !er '‘? ,ions for the luncheon. K th h n be served by the ladies K.f v 6 Rernrlnetl Church for seven- j Kirs Ck e, : tS ' “bould be made with I Katn/s iar e8 Stur £’ s of Bluffton by ! Ko an a \ A" flub ladies are urged' ■ attend the convention.

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As 90th Birthday Draws Nigh ML ' ‘JJ*. f ™ Irf • l £. ■ F ";-l8 Supreme Court Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes pictured leaving the Supreme Court at Washington, D. C„ accompanied by Justice Harlan I. Stone Heft) and Justice Braudels (right). Despite the fact that he will celebrate his »»th birthday on March Sth, the grand old member of the 1 nited Staten Supreme Court is still going strong, after spending mon- than half his life on tile bench.

NOTICE TO ISSUE BONDS IS GIVEN Proposal to Issue $30,000 in Bonds For Scheumann Bridge Given Legal notice is given today by County Auditor Albert Harlow of the proposal to issue $30,000 worth of county bonds for the building of the Scheumann bridge, spanning te St. Marx's river in Preble towc-1 ship. The county coum il in session last Mondat autorized the appropriation and adapted an ordinance autorizing the building of the bridge an t • the Issuing of the bonds. 1 The county commissioners have; ordered the county highway super- , intendent to erect “danger" signs on roads leading to the bridge. The 1 bridge has been condemned as un-' safe for traffic and detours will be erected. The legal notice reads that the proposed issue of $30,000 worth of bonds shall bear interest not to ex» ceed four and one-half per cent, i.iterest per year. The notice also states ’hat "ten ' or more taxpayers other than those who pay poll tax only, who feel themselves aggrieved by such determination may appeal to the state board of tax commissioners for tur- i ther action by filing a petition there ; fore with the county auditor on or i before the expiration of 29 days from the sixth day of March. 1931.

The state board will fix a date for hearing thereon in this county". When the question of issuing tne i bonds was up last year a rernonstrance was filed by taxpayers, a 1 healing was held in the circuit court ; room and the state board ruled a- ■ gainst the issuing of the bonds. EMPLOYES FILE CLAIMS TODAY Eight Employes of Miller! Showcase Co. File Suit For Wages Eight employes of the Miller ‘ Show Case Co. have filed suits in i the Adams circuit court against the I local factory for collection of wages , duo them. One of the suits asks for a writ of attachment on the equipment and material while the others ask foreclosure of laborer's liens. The employes who filed the suits ' today are David Zehr, Robert Frit-| linger, Margaret Schumaker, Sterl-’ ing Peal, Wesley McDonald, John , Deßolt, Thomas Malley and Harry ’ Miller. Ed Bosse is the attorney for i the plaintiffs in all the actions file I today. The Miller Showcase Co. was es-1 tablished here only a few months i ago. The factory had previously i been operated at Fort Wayne but' ’eft that city when the building in, which the plant was located wa.< condemned. The factory is located I here in the Decatur Foundry build-|i ing. Huntington Lawyer Will Speak Tonight , The men of the Presbyterian'. I church will enjoy a banquet in the , church parlors, tonight at 6:15’ 'o’clock. Otto Krieg, an attorney of 1 'Huntington, will be the principal's speaker for the evening.

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1,000 Veterans Apply For Bonus Loans Daily Indianapolis, March 6 — (UP) — Indiana veterans are applying for loans on adjusted compensation certifiiats at the rate of about 4,000 a day. John H. Ale, regional manager of the United States Veteran's bureau. said today. Ale has applied for further funds to make loans, since it was thought the $400,000 first alloted would not. last this week. Applications to date total about 20,000 with loans being made at the rate of 1,000 daily. Fifty thousand of the 92.000 veterans in this state were expected dt seek the 50 per | cent loans. o Coughing May Save Life of Small Girl Evansville, Ind.. Mar. 6. —(U.R)> — ' A fit of coughing may have saved the life of 6 year-old Betty Joe ' Hinkle. For ten weeks the child had been i suffering from a Jung infection. The coughing dislodged a peanut kernel from the lung, and her condition was said to have shown almost immediate improvement. o PRESS ADOPTION OFRASKOBPLAN

Heads of Democrat Party Want Chairman’s Plan Adopted Washington, Mar. 6. —<U.R>— Undaunted by opposition of dry leaders, those in control of the Democratic party machinery will press for adoption of the Raskob "home rule plan" for prohibition modification in the platform for next year's presidential campaign. The assault of dry forces against this course at the Democratic national committee meeting here yesterday was staged with unrestrained fury. Never within memory has a national chairman been subjected to such sharp and direct criticism as was showered upon John J. Raskob. It was unprecedented tha,t a Democrat of the prestige of Senator Joseph T. Robinson, senate minority leader and vice-presi-dential candidate on the Smith ticket in 1928, should lash the party chairman to his face in such bare fist fashion. But Raskob and his backers remained confident that the issue must lie met and that it should be met in some way similar to that proposed. Party morale was shaken temporarily' at least by this outburst of feeling which provoked hissing and cat calls. The voices of dry leaders in and out of the party were being heard from today as men like F. Scott Mcßride, superintendent of the Anti-Saloon League, (CONTINUED ON PAGE TWO) o Condition of Loshe Infant Is Critical Kenneth Richard Loshe 17 month old son of Mr. and Mrs. Bernard Loshe was removed to the Luthei-. an Hospital in Fort Wayne Thurs day afternoon where he will receive medical treatnjelnt. Kenneth has been quite ill for the last 7 weeks, and his condition is regarded criti-

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SCOUT CAMPAIGN | OPENS TONIGHT I IN DISTRICT Campaign to Raise $750 In Decatur Opens With Meeting at Ft. Wayne DR. JAMES WEST TO SPEAK AT MEETING The campaign to raise Decatur’s share of the annual budget of the Anthony Wayne Area Council of the Boy Scouts of America opens tonight with a dinner and meeting of scout executives from Decatur and other cities to lie held in Fort Wayne at the Chamber of Commerce. Dr. James E. West, chief; scout executive of tile United States will deliver an address at the meeting and launch the drive to be in the counties and cities affiliated witli the Anthony Wayne Area council. A committee composed of James iL. Kocher. E. F. Ehinger, M. F. | Worthman, Judge J. C. Sutton, Avon Burk. E. W. Lankenau, and Ed Ashbaucher, has been named as a genral committee to arrange plans for the Boy Scout drive in Decatur. Decatur's quota this year is only $750. C. C. Pumphrey, county chairman explained today. Letters have been mailed to a number of individuals, firms and manufacturers asking them for contributions to the fund and the general canvass will begin next Monday, Mr. Pumphrey stated. “Scouting means clean, wholesome association with other boys and men, teaching him companionship and cooperation with others. Because of this I am for the program," M. F. Worthman. superintendent of schools stated today. There are nine counties in the i Anthony Wayne Area council. The i advantages and privileges of the iEd Hoffman I*oy Scout camp at' I Rome City are offered Scouts affliliated with the Area council. , Solicitors to canvass the business! (CONTINUED ON PAGE EIGHT) oIndiana President States Views Today

, Bloomington, Ind., Mar. 6. —(U.R) —The Big Ten athletic board can 'control its own affairs, without the assistance of the North Central Association, in the opinion of Dr. William L. Bryan, president of Indiana university. Dr. Bryan expressed his views positively to Major John L. Griffith, Big Ten athletic commissioner. Dr. W. J. Moenkhaus, Indiana faculty representative, and chairman of the conference athletic committee, took the rift between the Big Ten and North Central groups more lightly, however. He expressed belief that differences could be easily ironed out. BENNETTJURY IS DEADLOCKED Jurors in Bridge Game Murder Trial Have Not Reached Verdict Kansas City. Mo., Mar. 6.—KU.R) —The jury was deadlocked today in the trial of Mrs. Myrtle Bennett, charged with murdering her husband, John G. Bennett, after a quarrel over a bridge game. The 12 men to whom the case was given last night resumed deliberations at 9 a. m. The morning wore on with fto indications that a decision was near. Mrs. Bennett and her chief defense attorney, former U. 8. Senator James A. Reed, were in the courtroom early. Their worry was ■obvious as time passed with no prospects of a verdict. Mrs. Bennett shuddered as she entered the room where for ten days a crowd had watched the legal battle for her freedom. Today a handful of spectators waited for the verdict. James H. White, deputy in charge of the jury, said the jurors learned to play bridge last night after they ceased their deliberations. The shootting of Mrs. Bennett's husband followed a quarrel over a bridge game in which the wife raised a bid to four spades and Bennet went set.

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Local Men Attend Meeting at Bluffton Several members of th" local' chapter of Royal Arch Masons nt tended the Royal Arth convocation 1 in Bluffton. Thursday evening. A banquet was served in the Masonic Hall after which the regular imeeting was conducted. Those from this city who motored I to Bluffton last evening to attend , the meeting were, Earl blackburn. Cal E. Peter<on, K. D. Myers, J. T. Myers. Charles Burdg, and A. D SuttUs : SCHOOL PUPILS ji GIVE PLAYLET :| Members of 5A Class Present Play at Central School Chapel ' The metnlters of he 5-A class of the Central school, presented a tw< ! act playlet, "Mother Tongue's Party at the chapel period this morning J The playlet showed the most comjtnon errors in English, and their i corrections. II Act I took place in the home of •the Good English family, and Act _ 11 was the scene of a party in Mother Tongue's home. 1 The cast of characters who took part in the production follows: Mr. Good English—Clifton Mast. Mrs. Good English —Janet Schrock ‘ Servant —Mary Hurst. ' Mother Tongue — Zula Porter. I The Good English .Children —Lena Teeter, Junjor Ross, Robeit Bowman. LaVere Hakey and I Peggy Staley. [Usher —Jeanette Winnes. [The Mistakes —Mary Eichorn, Raymond Hakes, Beatrice Johnson. Rosie Moyer, Hilda Williams, I Pauline Light, Eloise Millisor, 1 Robert Sheets. Jean Bright, •i Max Odle, Emma Kahn. Eleanor Niblick and Robert Lehman Bad English—JanekS< hrick. Poor Enunciation —Peggy Staley j Incorrect Pronunciation— Lena Teeter. Following the clever playlet, the • orchestra of the school, comprising ' i Harry Moyer. Robert Ashbaucher. j I Richard Brodbeck. Robert Brodbeck ' Marceil Leatherman, Martha Linn. [ I Martha Butler, Eula Myers, Donald i Gage Donald Bixler, and Evelyn j (CONTINUES ON FACE SEVEN’

_ 0 — BERNE MAN IS CHIB GUEST Orval Smith. Berne, Talks on Furniture Mfg. at Rotary Meeting i Arvai Smith, manager of the I Homer Manufacturing Company, • Berne, gave an interesting talk on II the furniture manufacturing busj iness before members of the Decatur Rotary club last evening. His company manufactures upholstered furniture and as Mr. Smith stated, “despite the depression our company has been doing a fine business.’’ The company employs a number of men and is one of the progressive concerns in Berne. It is a subsidiary of the Dunbar Furniture company, the ' first concern of its kind to start manufacturing in Berne. Mr. Smith told where the raw materials for furniture were purchased. Burlap comes from India and other materials are shipped from Mexico, the southern states and from the east. The company carries in stock about 500 cover designs and have about 200 different models of furniture. All of the furniture is made to the customer’s specifications and Mr. Smith explained that every person had a different idea about a piece of furniture. Recently, Mr. Smith stated, that an order of 20 suites of furniture was made up and delivered to a concern in Loraine, Ohio, within 60 hours after it was received in the factory. Berne has three furniture making concerns. Sim Burk had charge of the program last evening. _o Miss Nellie Hawkins Will Preach Sunday Miss Nellie Hawkins will preach the Sunday evening sermon at the Pleasant Valley Friends church next Sunday the service beginning at 7 o’clock Miss Hawkins is a talented 'young woman and everybody is invited to come and hear her message.

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KIRKLAND TAKES WITNESS STAND IN OWN DEFENSE ■ Youth Facing Murder C harge Describes Scene of Death I DENIES FLEEING PHYSICIAN’S OFFICE Valparaiso, Ind., Mar. (i. U.RFi Virgil Kirkland climaxed today the ! tearful narrative of his love for Ar-[ | lene Draves and their plans to! marry, by acting out in a sombre courtroom setting the fall which i ■ the defense contends caused her' death. The 20-year-old Gary athlete used the witness chair to show the jury! ; hearing his trial on murder charg-' 1 |es how he leaned over Arlene with words of endearment just before • she feli. ' Barrett O'Hara, defense attor-1 ■ ney, tried to act the part of Ar-1 ' i lene in the courtroom drama, but j -Judge Grant Crumpacker ordered l hint to desist, ami directed Virgil; to demonstrate not only his own ' movements, but also those of his | 18-year-old sweetheart. ‘ ' With choking sobs that caused ‘ | O'Hara to beg repeatedly for a re ! I cess. Kirkland' admitted that he [ ' i had been intimate with Arlene — i ! "but not by force" —a few minutes i before she was overcome by the | [ I alcohol and wine she and Kirkland j I had been served. The scene was the dark, secludled porch of the David Thompson | • home on the evening of November ' 29, when Kirkland, Arlene and a; ' [ dozen others were making merry. | Arlene and Kirkland had joined! with the others in "ganging! ■ (CONTINVED ON PAGE EIGHT) ’ o Banker To Address Holy Name Members The regular monthly meeting of | the Holy Name society of the St. j | Mary's Catholic church will be held . Monday evening March 9 at the K. •of C. Hall-. j J. Herman Buetter banker of Ford [ Wayne will deliver an address to • the members. The members of the society will; ' receive Holy Communion in a body | Sunday morning at the seven o'-1 ( lock mass. The members are asked ' to m>et trf the Catholic school build I ing and then march to the church. o Rohloff Infant Dies At Toledo Hospital Word has been received here of I the death of the infant son of Mr. i I and Mrs. Harold Rohloff, of To | I ledo, Ohio. The infant died Mon-j ! day. in the Mercer hospital. Mrs ! Rohloff, who was formerly Miss| Margaret Kinzle. the daughter of i ( Mrs. Flora B. Kinzle, is also a ! patient at the hospital, and is re- i I ported to be recovering nicely. COVFfWMENT IS CHANCED AGAIN _ Second Provisional Government in Peru With- j in Last Week I Lima, Peru, Mar. 6.— KU-R) 1 —The ; quickly changing political situation in Peru was guided by a new provisional government today, the sec- , ond within a week, but the possibility of further changes and possi-' ble fighting did not appear definitely removed. The new government, headed by | Lt. Col. Gustavo Jimenez, arrested I the members of the aviation corps and seized the army's airplanes. The attitude ot the navy remained problematical. The navy and the air corps combined last week to overthrow provisional President Lt. Col. Luis F. Sanchez Cerro, and the flew provisional president is one of Sanchez Cerro's most loyal supporters. It was reported at the presidential palace early today that Col. Etllogio Castillo, commander of the northern military division, had revolted against the junta government of Judge Ricardo Elias, who resigned in favor of Jimenez. Castillo's attitude toward the Jimenez coup was not divulged. It was also reported that Cas(CONTINUED ON PAGE EIGHT)

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K. of C. Leader Dies W ‘j > | (MF *■*’ in - - ■-1 ' Edward Houlihan, three times [supreme director of the Knights 'of Columbus and long nationally , prominent in Catholic activities,! I who died Wednesday of heart dis-! | ease in his office in Chicago. ohjgeTtrTaTGETS UNDER WAY — Three Doctors Testify In L. E. Opliger Insanity Trial Today — The L. E. Opliger insanity hearing before Special Judge Henry B. Heller got under way in tile Ad- [ iams Circuit court at one-thirty i 'o’clock this afternoon. The court overruled the motion 'of the defendant’s attorney for it! [trial by jury on the grounds that the , statutes did not provide for a jury i trial in such cases. The first witness was Dr. T. J. j ..McKean, followed by Dr. L. E. Som|ers and Dr. F. W. Lose of Decatur. The latter two doctors testified that Mr. Opliger was suffering from ! "Dementia precox" They also test!- • tied as to t ie examination held on j Opliger at the Adams county jail] on November 15 and were both j cross-examined by C. J. Lutz, attoriney for the defendant. Four wit(CONTINUED ON PAGE TWO) BANDIT SUSPECT CAPTURED TODAY I J Bank Robber Caught As-1 ter Being Wounded In Battle With Posse Hockerviile Oklahoma March 6— (UP) —One of the three bandits who robbed the state bank of Treece. | Kansas, was reported captured ; when he was wounded in a battle I with a posse between here and Neoshe, Missouri, today. I Reports here were that the bandits car ran into a ditch near Neo[sho and that SBOO had been recovered. Cashier George Humble of th? Treece bank was shot through the leg during the robbery. I Treece, Kan., March 6—(UP* — I Three bandits looted the Treece ' State bank today, shot cashier [ George Humble and escaped with [ an undetermined amount of moiiey. Humble was taken to Pieher, Oklahoma hospital just across the border, where his condition was report’d serious. He said two of the bandits entered the bank while one j waited outside in a car. ; —: : I I ATTORNEYS TREAT CROWD WITH BOXES OF CANDY A custom has been started I in the Adams Circuit court by \ the attorneys. When a case is ! filed bearing the number of an [ i | even hundred the attorney til- i ing three or more eases at one time is also supposed to treat | the clerk and others in the , j room with candy. Today two boxes were forthcoming. At- ! i • torney C. L. Walters filed case j No. 13,900 and Attorney Ed A. ( Bosse, filed eight cases at one , [ time. They were both notified , | to bring a box of candy with them the next time they came > to the court room I 1 ' ♦ ♦ i

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[PENSION BILL IS VETOED BY I LESLIE TODAY Senate Upholds Governor’s V eto By Vote of 28 to 19 LESLIE APPEARS TO EXPLAIN HIS ACTION Indianapolis, Mar. tl. U.R) The I senate today sustained Governor Harry G. Leslie's veto of the old age pension hill, a few minutes after Leslie had personally appeared to explain his action. The vote was 28 to 19. A dramatic scene, accompanied by bitter attacks upon Leslie, accompanied the veto and the vote to sustain it. Senator James J. Nejdl, Republican, Whiting, who lias sponsored many such measures since he first Cook office in 1917 led t the de- | nunciation of the governor. "Tills is the first time," he said, • “that a Governor or President has • appeared in person to support his veto.” He charged that the message was misleading in every respect, and then accused Leslie ot "wanting economy, but only when he can take it out on the ‘poor devil',” "The Governor.” he said, “has never made a move to cut his own emergency fund or mansion maintenance fund. He is always strong for any appropriation for Purdue university.” The gallery was packed during ithe discussion. Nejdl was followed by Senator I George Simms, Republican. Terre I Haute, who said that Leslie spec SIOO a month last year for gasojline, and took $53,00*0 oi • f his ’emergency fund "with nn thought | of economy.” Nejdl's motion for consideration of the veto as a special order ot business at 2:15 p. m.. tomorrow, lost in a voice vote. Voting, with few exceptions, was jalong party lines, with Republicans ' standing by the Governor, and Democrats opposing him. The bill provided for a pension system, optional with counties, in which the county and state would share equally in payments of pensions not exceeding $25 a month to persons 70 years of age. an 1 lover. Although similar measures i had been introduced in many previous sessions, this was the first .time the bill had been passed by I lioth houses. I Leslie considered the bill worthy lof deep consideration, lie said. } Evidence that the Governor conI sidered the bill seriously was seen in his action in appearing before the senate to personally explain (CONTINUED ON PAGE SEVEN) o 1 Washington Herald Sold to Paul Bailsman Washington, Ind.. Mar. 6.—>(U.R) —Sale of the Washington Herald, Republican daily newspaper, to Paul R. Bailsman, of Monticello, Ind., formerly publisher of a weekly newspaper there, 'has been announced by the local owners, a stock company made up of several men. Bailsman will take ever Hie paper on April 1, it was announced. DUVALL UNABLE TO MEET FINE Former Indianapolis Mayor May Be Forced to Lay Out Term Indianapolis, March 6. — <U.R> — Failure of John L. Duvall, former Indianapolis mayor, to raise SI,OOO with which to pay a fine meted him a 30-day jail term upon conviction on a charge of violating the corrupt practices act. may leave him in jail for nearly three years. Duvall's term was up yesterday, but he must lay out the fine at the rate of $1 a day. unless the money is raised, or leniency shown. He charged that George V. Coffin, deposed republican leader of Marion county, has used his influence to keep friends from coming to his rescue with the money. Efforts were being made to have .Governor Leslie cancel the fine, thus freeing Duvall.