Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 29, Number 61, Decatur, Adams County, 12 March 1931 — Page 1

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ELLIOTT JAMES GIVES PROGRAM Final Lyceum Course Program Draws Large _ Attendance — i A large audience enjoyed the ! scientific lecture and detnonstra-; Itions given by Elliott James at the! high school auditorium, Wednesday (evening. The program was the final ißedpath Lyceum course program of [the season, and was sponsored by I the senior class. Mr. .Janies conducted all of his ! (experiments with.liquid air a mix ■ture of the gases of the air at 312 (degrees below zero. Ry introducing liquid air to certain well known substances, they immediately lose their known properties and many unus jual feats can be performed. Some of the experiments which Mr. James performed was making. a candle of kerosene t'ta' burned, freezing mercury hard enough to drive a nail, freezing a soft rubber | ball so that it broke like glass, freezing alcohol, freezing a lead bill so that it rang and freezing raw j beefsteak so that it was brittle like glass, Liquid air generates power the same as steam, and several ex-1 peritnents showin gits great power were given. He described the process of making liquid air. and told his audience ; that because it is expensive to oh-1 tain it is not used commercially, j Another reason is that as soon as it is exposed to the air it evaporates | j (CONTINUED ON PAGE FIVE) I Offices Are Robbed At Hartford City Hartford Citsr, Ind., March 12 — (UP) —Offices of the County Tri'a(surer and county clerk of Bickford (county were entered hero last night (and theft of $37.88 was reported. I Bert McGeath, treasurer, and Robert L. Newbauer, clerk, said nohir.g i was taken but the money. Authorities said they pad clues which might lead to arrests. Society Will Hold Annual Easter Sale — The Woman’s Missionary Society] of the Zion Reformed church will j have their annual colored Easter, egg sale at Mutschlei*'s Meat Mar ket on Saturday April 4th, beginn-1 ing at 9 o'clock. Anyone desiring to , order colored eggs may leave their orders by calling Mrs. Fred Litterer-i or Mrs. A. R. Ashbaucher. - o — Attend Meeting At Chattanooga, Ohio County agent L. E. Archbold and Otto D. Beiberich attended a meet-| ing sponsored by the Crampton Car | neries in cooperation with Ohio, 'state university, is for the informa,tion of farmers desiring to raise canning crops this year. E. R Lan'cashier and Dr. DeLoach were the principal speakers.

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High School Youths Given Sentences Li-lanon. Ind.. Mar. 12—(U.R) Two Lebanon high school freshmen, who were arrested late ( Tuesday night after Frankfort po- ( lice had ehot off two tires of I their auto and punctured their gas i lank in a fucillade from sawed off I shot guns were sentenced to re- ' formatory terms of from 1" to 10 years today. The youths, Delmar Dickerson. ( 18. and Richard Higgins, 17. pleaded guilty in circuit court before Judge John Hornaday. The youths admitted they stole an auto owned by Clifford Parr. I I :ba non. at the basketball tournament last Saturday night. GEORGE COLE TO ASSUME OFFICE Takes Office as State Superintendent of Education Monday Indianapolis, Mar. 12.—-<U.R) —The ( much-discussed but never settled text book problem, will be the prin--1 cipal and most urgent inheritance of George C. Cole, Democrat, Lawrenceburg, when he succeeds Roy P. Wisehart as superintendent of public instruction in Indiana. Wisel hart has announced. Cole will take office next Mon- | day. with the problem of deciding i what text books are to prevail in | Indiana during the next five years, (demanding immediate attention. I “I could go ahead and adopt the texts" Wisehart said, "but I'm going to leave that to my successor." A meeting of the state board of education will be held immediately after Cole's induction into office, (and the new- texts may be decided upon at that time, although no announcement has been made on this subject. | Several bills affecting selection (of textbooks were up for discuss--1 ion in the legislative session just [adjourned, but none was adopted, | and the problem remains just i where it was during the period of ! heated arguments three months j ago. At that time consideration of (bids before the commission was [ deferred until after adjournment of [ the legislature, in the belief that Isolons might pass some legislation [on that issue. Sen. Robinson Will Go To Philippines ______ Washington. March 12—(UP) — Senator Robinson, of Indiana, rankling republican member of the Seriate territories committee will leave here tomorrow for a 35-day stay in | the Phillippines investigating conjditions there. Robinson said after a call at the White House today that he intendled to inquire into the proposals for Phillippine indenpendence, now pending before the territories committee.

Decatur. Indiana. Thursday, March 12, 1931.

STORMS CAUSE I SUFFERING AND DEATHINFRANCE — Entire Villages Along Rivers Are Evacuated After Floods MANY FAMILIES ARE RENDERED HOMELESS I Paris, March 12 (CP) —Floods : and freezing temperature spread I offering and death along almost I every river in France today as ! storms which swept southward i from the British Isles continued in Europe. Entire villages along the Seine. I Loire, Rhone. Lot and Meuse val . ! leys were evacuated ami thous- ' amis of families were homeless The Loire broke its levels and [ isolato l several villages, cutting i off electrical power and causing | minor landslides in the region of Vendome. About 10.00(1 families ! were driven from their homes in j various parts of Frame amt suf ■ sering was acute, particularly in i the central highland districts. The Paris region was covered | with snow, which halted the Enghien races and increased th'' danger of serious floods along the' Seine embankments. The Seine ! 'HINTINI'HP ON PM'.E SIX, ALL ROADS IN COUNTY OPENED Drifts Cleared Away By County Highway Dept.; Plows Do Work i ' County highway superintendent Chris Eicher stated today that all the side toads in the county which (were partly closed on account of ti e snow drift would be opened to- , |day. j The snow plows were put to use last Monday and the roads opened .as quickly as possible. The snow and wind Monday night closed sevjeral of the roads after openings ‘had been made eaerlier in the day. ’ Mr. Eicher stated. j The Pleasant Mills and Brandy1 i berry school opened again Tm sda; , 1 (after the roads leading to them i ! | were opened. The school truck.-; : were unable to get through last ; Monday at these points. The main roads were all opened yesterday. Mr. Eicher stated and , [today the remaining side roads [ were opened to traffic. , The snow which fell here Satin- [ I day and up ty Tuesday was the ! . heaviest of the winter and in some , , places the drifts were four feet deep . Mr. Eicher stated. Fire Causes Slight Damage At Geneva — Geneva (Special) March 12- , The local fire department was cali-1 , ed to t le residence of G A. Howel manager of the lumber yard, where a roof fire was reported, this morn- , ing at nine o’clock. The fire was j caused by a spark from the chimney [ • and very little damage was done to , f the roof. ANDREW SOURS DIES AT GENEVA 1 Wells Cou n t y Native Passes Away At 9 A. M. Today ) t Geneva —(Special)— March 12- ) Andrew W. Sours, 81 year old- resit dent of Geneva, at his home t here this morning at nine o'clock, i A complication of diseases was to have been the cause of his death. Mr. Andrews was born in Nottingham Township, Wells County. April 19. 1849. the son of Samuel ' and Cynthia Houdeshell Sours. He was married to Martha Runyon ' Sours, who died ten years ago. No ' children were born to this union. The deceased resided in Notting- “ ham Township, a retired farmer, 1 until a year ago when he moved to ' Geneva. A foster-daughter, Miss Mary Runyon, lived with her father Land took care of him. He was a ' [ prominent farmer, and a member of the I. O. O. F. lodge. He had been a member of the Christian Church (CONTINUED ON PAGE FIVE)

| Will Broadcast Song Written by .John Lind P. (1. Robbins stuff organist at ' Istation WOWO. Fort Wayne write; (that the composition, "Al (he End i of the Day” by John Lind ofs'inein- y iiaii. former Decatur resident, will 1 be broadcast from that station ala part of the Indiana program, on .Thursday March 19th at 10:30 P. M. Mr. Lind, who lias visited here th)'. | week, has a number of friends who] (will Im waiting at the end of the MRS.H.N.SHROLI NAMED OFFICER . Decatur Woman Chosen Vice-President of Association Mrs. H. N. Shroll of this city was, I elected vice-president, of the Women's Missionary conference of the i Salamonie Association at the annual business meeting held here| ] Wednesday afternoon. Mrs. R. Rov! Henderson of Montpelier was re-1 elected president, and Mrs. A. L. i Wilt of Montpelier was named sec-iretary-treasiirer. Muncie First Baptist church at, Muncie was chosen as the confer-, (ence center for the meeting next i year. The principal address of the as-j iternoon was delivered by Miss Clara Lingley. Burma. India, who | spoke on a missionary subject. She | I exhibited many pictures and cur- • ! ios from India and her address was I greatly enjoyed. Special music was furnished by . [the Bluffton church and Mrs. A. R. [ Brown and Mrs. ('. E. Bell of this I city. I The ladies of the Decatur church I presented a one-act playlet. Sew ing for the Heathen.” The scene . represented a Ladies Aid S iciety getting a box ready for a missiou- , ary. and the cast of characters included (he Mesdames Ge'tys Parmer. H. N. Shroll. Will Winues. S. E Hite. S. E. Shamp. Alva Baker. C. | [ E. Peterson. R. A. McDnffee. and Mary Blossom. The meeting of the Salamoniea [ Association took place on the 43r<l 1 anniversary of the Baptist church trONTINTTEn OV page SIX. GOVERNOR SIGNS T A X MEASURE Budgets Must Be Kepi Within That of 1930 Under Bill Passed Indianapolis. Mar. 12 —(U.R) —- Local government officials must hold their budgets during the next j ■ two years within the 1930 budget. ■ ! under terms of a bill that became j a law today with Governor Harry I [ G. Leslie's signature, j The bill was the Hoffman-Loch- ( ard measure providing that offi-1 i cials may use their own descretion I in fixing levies, for which a legal I minimum npw is fixed, but the , i aggregate must not exceed the [ I budget of 1930. Another bill approved was a banking law amendment requiring; I banks to obtain charters for all [ branch banks from the state banking department. It prohibits | establishment of branches in ; towns in which a bank already is [ I located, or outside the county of i I the parent Hank. Banks in towns 'of more than 50.000 wpuld be per- [ j niitted to operate one branch bank for each $225,000 in paid up capi-1 tai stock. Nine bills were signed by the | governor last night, and 52 still l awaited action. Among measures signed was one which would' allow the city conn cil of Logansport to increase the mayor's salary from $2,000 to $5,000. Another amends the 1921 ' act providing regulations for main- . tenance of municipally owned hos- • pitals, to include South Bend. Mad Scramble Starts In Lake County Today Hammond, Ind., Mar. 12—(U.R) - . A mad scramble has been started in Lake county by congressional i aspirants, now that Governor Har- : ry G. Leslie has signed the re- ■ apportionment bill making this t county the first congressional dis • trict. i Some 30 candidates bobbed up i from all parts of the county the moment it was learned that the I bill had become law.

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PORTLAND LADY IS SUFFOCATED THIS MORNING Mrs. Ellie Bowers, 15,Dies! Attempting To Save | Papers — FIRE MARSHAL TO INVESTIGATE FIRE Portland, Ind.. March 12 —ll l’i The body of Mis. Ellie Bowers, 45. was found in a bedroom of her home [ here this morning, where she a; j patently was suffocated while altemptinv to gel some valuable pa; -[ ers from a closet while the home was burning. The body was lying on the floor, with the head in the closet. A clot'll was wrapped about the face. The right side of the body was badly I burned. Iler husband. George Bowers.; turned in the alarm. The home was badly damaged by i flames. An inquest was to be held today : Start Investigation Indianapolis. March 12—(I'P) —; Virgil Quinn, operative in the state fire marshal's office, left Indianpi polis for Portland today, to conduct an investigation into the fire which 'early today damaged th“ home of ! Mr. and Mrs. George Bowers, and in | I which Mrs. Bowers was burned to 'death. No indication was given as to the [cause of the investigation. Three Houses Are Burned at Heltonville Heltonville. Ind.. Mar. 12 —(U.P) ■(' [This community today was seek-1 ing means to prevent recurrence >i disastrous fires which yester-j 1 day burned three . houses and [ I threatened 15 others. The fire started from sparks from a defective flue in the Clar- P ' ern e Wagner home, destroyed it, and damaged two adjoining houses, d | Firemen savesl other homes by j [ forming a bucket brigade. [ Frank Robers, Bedford Water 1 I company employe, was severely lent while attempting to slash ! telephone wires hear the burning, I houses. o Judge Overrules Motion By Defense Washington, Marih 12—(UP)- ; ; Justice Jeyton Gordon of the Dis-1 [trict of Columbia supreme court, ■today overruled a motion for a dirlected verdict of not guilty in the • trial of former representative EdI ward E. Denison, of Illinois. Charyled with possession liquro in his [office in the house office building. — 0 Nearly 25,000 Apply For Bonus Payments I Indianapolis, March 12— (UP) — I Nearly 25,000 world war veterans I have applied for loans in Indiana on I the recently adopted provision allowing (hem 50 per cent on their [adjusted compensation certificates, lj. IT. Ale. regional director of the • Veterans' bureau, announced. Cheeks are being mailed out at i [the rate of 700 daily, and nearly $650,000 lias been sent to veterans. , I Ale aiil ALLOT FUNDS FOR DEVELOPMENTS Secretary of War Allots Large Sum For Improvements Washington. Mar. 12. — (U.R) — Secretary of War Hurley, acting on the advice of the chief of army engineer, today allotted $52,819,245.75 for river and harbor developments in many parts of the United States. Largest of the allotments were $2,266,000 for improvement of the Mississippi river between the Ohio river and St. Louis; $1,812,000 for deepening the Mississippi river between the Illinois and Wisconsin i rivers; $2,120,000 for improving the Mississippi river between the Wisconsin and Minneapolis; and $7,059,800 for a deeper channel -jn the Missouri river. Other allocations: Examinations, St. Louis district, ■57,500. (CONTINUED ON PAGE SIX)

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On Witness Stand y* - Evelyn O'Hara (above), former secretary to Gerald Buckley, the radio announcer of Detroit, fur whose murder tnree men are on trial. Miss o'Hara> is testifying [ a.-'ainsl the men who are charged • with tiring the fatal shots that I tik need the v o>< > of the fearless:; announcer of the automobile city.; MANIAC KILLED IN NEW JERSEY Slain by State Troopers After Firing Farm Buildings Morristown, N. J. Mar. 12 —(UP) ' —An unidentified maniac, who set '■ fire to three buildings on a farm near here and then tried to prevent | firemen from extinguishing the' blaze was slain today by state troop ers who tired to frighten him. ; Mrs. Gilbert Welsh, answering a 'knock at the front door, was conIfronted by a man who shouted: ' ' I've burned yon out. Your barns are on fire.” The maniac knocked Mrs. Welsn [down and ran into the house win re Welsh grappled with him. The man tore himself away. Firemen found the 150 cattle in the barns had been turned out. The man reappeared and tried to pre- ( CONTINUED ON PAGE SIX> LA FOLLETTE IS SPEAKER TODAY Ad d resses Progressive Conference at Washington, D. C. Washington. Mar 12. (U.R) De daring the administration has [ lacked "either the will or the courage” to meet a crisis in which 25,000,000 people have suffered privation in tlie midst of plenty. Senator Lafollette, Repm, Wis., called upon members of the progressive conference today to search for a remedial program which independents could support with their balance of power in the next congress. "We do not expect to draw up such a program in two days time", I he said, "but we believe our govI ernment can be made to function [ in relieving the appalling suffering, I that exists, and in prevention of I the recurrence of the disaster of | widespread unemployment.'' Lafollette led a round-table disI lussion on unemployment and industrial stabilization. Others participating included Leo Wolman, unemployment expert; Robert I*. Scripps, president and editorial director of the Scripps-Howard newspapers, and George H. Soule, oi' the Laltor Bureau, Now York, and t-ssociat.e editor of the New Republic. Senator Norris. Repn., Neb., was scheduled to follow as leader of a discuss’on on public utilities the last subject on the program of tne two.lay cor/'erence, whii-lt ends tonight after hearing report's ot committees on i>lans for formulating legislative proposals during th. summer. Wolman in his speech advocated three major remedies for unemployment They were: 1. "A universal system of public employment agencies calculated to facilitate the bringing together ot vacancies and unemployed workers." 2. Exercise of control over public construction, to enable expansion in times of need and construction in tinms of prosperity. (CONTINUED ON PAGE SIX)

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CHINESE SHIP IS DESTROYED BYBLASTTODAY River Schooner I’achi Is Scene of Tragedy This Morning DEATH TOLL MAY BE IN( REASEI) LATER Sliang .ai, Mare!. i2 —;UP) - Two hundred passengers h.st their lives [today in an explosion -iboard the .river steamer Paehl, the Shanghai (harbor master officially announced. The Paehi was a total loss. Shanghai. March 12 —(UP) —The [explosion of a small Yangtze rive'schooner with a loss of possibly 225 • lives was revealed todav when the [revenue steamer Ahuentao reachled port with 119 survivors of the a<- ; cident. The ('liuentao also carried the I bodies of seven victims of I le iir“ and blast aboarti (he steamer Paehi. The captain of the latter vessel [said there was an unknown number j missing. The accident occurred Wednesday night off big tree beason, 6') [miles from Shanghai. I The captain of the Panchi sai 1 100 soldiers boarded the ship a' Woosung and virtually took posI session. He asserted cigarettes, car- [ lessly thrown by the soldiers. <am- ; ed the fire and the explosion. ! The captain said about 250 passengers were board the Panchi when ' I the soldiers arrived. He feared 225 may have lost. i their lives on the vessel. j The Panchi was owned by the .[Fata company. Boy Tired oi School, Sets Building Afire Marion. Ind.. Mar. 12—(U.R) - [Fred Bailey. 14. was tired of school, so iie set fire to it. ho I confessed to state 1 arson invesliI gators last night. | Bailey had just been transferrled to the Washington school | building, and could see no other I way of avoiding completion of (lie [ term, he said. The fire was discovered before* it had gone lieyond control, and I was extinguished witli small loss. [ He was released on bond to R. L. I Bailey, probation officer. 0 ; , Legislator Badly Wounded In Arkansas Little Rock, Ark.. Mar. 12.—(U.R) — Representative W. I McCabe | was mysteriously wounde*d today, 'a few hours before adjournment o:' [the Arkansas legislature, and tak|en in a critic al condition to a hos- • [ pital. Hotel officials said McCabe had ' been drinking and created a disturbance. H. G. Lansdale', Atlanta. [ who occupied a room across a hall • [from McCabe, telephone the* hotel , i clerk that “if you don't stop that | rumpus, 1 will.” the clerk said. Lansdale was arrested. J -1 ) — FUNERAL IS HELD THIS AFTERNOON Rites Held tor Mrs. Daniel I Schumacher, Adams County Native Funeral services were held thi< afternoon at two o'clock in Pandora . Ohio for Mrs. Daniel Schumacher, [aged 63. who died at her home iti i Pandora. Tuesday morning. Deat ; ’ t was due to pneumonia with whic h , she had been seriously ill for sour.' . time. Mrs. Sarah Gilliom Schumacher was born one-mile south of Berne, . January 12. 1868. the daughter of . John and Marianne Sprunger Gilliom. When about twelve years old. . Mrs. Schumacher moved with her . parents into the Swiss settlement . near Bluffton, Ohio, where she lived . until her death. She was united in marriage to Mr. Schumacher, in 18 • 87. and four daughters and four sons > I were born to this union, all but one [ Os w'horn survive. . i The funeral services were held in the Grace Mennonite church in [Pandora, of which Mrs. Schumachei was a member.