Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 29, Number 65, Decatur, Adams County, 17 March 1931 — Page 1

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■THER RIOT WKS OUT IN * JOLIET PRISON I’ri'on Band Khts During Relodaj WOWK TS \RE mjl RED l\ MELEE U- :up p.trl t.f the |B- ji| v prison Ur H started r<'h‘'':i -al Imlay. L ' amm- Owniselves ■V.; ;ai*< rot h-tir with M . ■ .1 music K l ■; ' ".’-'-V down own accord. ronvici.AH.. ;.v, ■ and bat■Km'.'- '- -lil.’lltl.'. was Ha ||.; l H I . ■ ■ I'tank m.h .1- « "l the outfee !<■.... . ■ th<- riotI |M limping i"«ai (f t lie hos- | M From . Hard learn- : ■ ' ■ l i;t t•I ■ a •> . HtirU « er.- . :■ d into tln-ir pieieil I by Km — lias been ,| a y art. about :i ’ band- < left til.- a speci il 1 ’ day eoncert. < «!: a • rioting. 1 riians. oid< , llt d inmelee. The I ' ■ young men i ■ONTINUED OV PAGE SIX. ||K ■ o — ■- Ida Shadley, 56, ■ (harmed With Murder ■thill... 101., m,.. 17.-—u.p),-Shadley has been inon a first degree murder ■P by tie Pa-p,. county grand ■ h ronneeti.-n with the death j ■?r husband. William. 64. on ■k 12. 1930. body was found on the B" 1 ’ llis I'aui near Atherton. A ■><l on the head indicated that ' ■><l been struck, and died of 1 ■injury. J ~ 11 ■eral Services ■ Wednesday Afternoon services for Miss Elnora Central school student, and ■™ r of Mr. an ,| Mrg Rufus ■" of Schirnteyer street, who ■sAdams County Memorial ■™. Monday. will be held Wed- 1 afternoon at 1:30 o'clock at 1 ■ "'me. and at 2 o'clock in the ' ■"’’'angelital Church. The Rev. ■ • Sunderman, pastor of the 1 »'». will officiate, and burial will 'Pin the Decatur cemetery ■ ' o RED STORY WINS SEALED pan Kii| ed As Paraped Husband Lies in | Same Room Mar - 17—<U.R>—The | M he m y*derious killing I todav ' Vln Beach - 64, was lockled hn tde mind of her parats a h ß “ k* l ' 1 ' who watched, lielpit'J, was s 'ain, but could use I „ wha L bad happened becould neither move nor «U| S k!? e rooni in whic h the .th W IX °f hi« wife )ay, ■today M ound tyP police late id lav e s was Beml -conscious was ™ the bed which r a strok° nt "v e<l v Wn weeks aKO ' Mrs rL ? earb y was the body •th rags Ch ’ her tbroat stuffed >-- IS^l vail Sl (1 the theory NTINUEO ON page TfIREE)

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Care Should Be Used In Pruning | Shade Trees Dent Baltzell writes that pe>s.ons should have an understanding of trees and how they grow before prunning is start- I ed —Cuts should be sealed. Decatur citizena take a great i deal of pride in their shade tree< i and the subject of pruning and I taring for them Is of interest to all. t. In only a few cases, do you ever see a beautiful tree deliberately cut down, but there are manv cases when good intentions about pruning them work just the oppo-. j site and the tree is injured be-1 cau«e of a lack of knowledge as i i how to do the trimming. Dent Baltzell, Adams County ! farmer, who formerly was employed by the Davey Tree Expert Comi pany. Kent, Ohio, writes an article j (CONTINUED ON PAGE THREEIj DISTRICT LATIN MEET SATURDAY Two Berne Students Are Entered In High School Contest High school Latin students who will be entered in the district meets of the annual state high school Latin contest were announced today by Mrs. Adele K. Bittner of the Indiana university extension division. These students represent the winners of the county meets which were held February 28. Included in the list of county winners are Amelia Ringger, and Herbert of Berne. The meets will be held next Saturday, Mui h 21 aeeorduuc to present plans. The contest is divided into four divisions, representing the different stages in the I study of Latin, and w inners are I chosen in each division. Some counties did not enter students in ail divisions, Mrs. Bittner explained. The winners of the district meets next Saturday will be entered m the state meet which will be held* at Indiana university April 3. The! annual convention of the Classical I Assoiiation of the Middle West.and] South will be held at the university | the same week-end thus giving La tin teachers accompanying stato l contestants an opportunity to at-1 tend the different sessions of ‘he convention. First place winners in each of the four divisions at the state meet will be awarded gold medals and second and third place winners will receive silver and bronge medals. This contest is sponsored each year by the university and the classical section of the Indiana state teachers' association. Approximately 400 schools entered the contest this year. O — Fort Wayne Members Guests of Phi Delta Eighteen members of the Fort Wayne chapter of Phi Delta Kappa attended the Good Will meeting at which the members of the local chapter were hosts, Mondaj evening. The out of town mem bers sat in the regular meeting o: the organization, during which plans were made for the Decatur chapter to attend a Get Together rtieeting similar to the one last evening to be held in Fort Wayne April 13. Addresses were given by Mr. Marker president- of the Fort Wayne | chapter, and Jerry Buckmaster of Fort Wayne, formerly of this city. A social meeting followed the business session, and the social committee had charge of the entei tainment. o — Baltimore Suffers Heavy Snowfall Today Baltimore, Md., Mar. 17 —<U.R) Paltimore and the eastern half cf Maryland lay under a heavy blanket of snow today. One death was attributed to the st rm when a 71 year-old num suffered a heart attack after a fall or slippery snew. The snow continued to fall until early today. In the suburbs the covering reached a depth of ten inches. The eastern shore was the hardest hit by the storm. Roads in practically every county were blocked, telephone and telegraph lines hampered and train service delayed after an all-night blizzard piled up from 15 to 20 inches of ' snow.

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METALWORKERS AMBUSH SQUAD OF OFFICERS Four Special Deputies Are Wounded In Gun Battle LABORERS AID IN DISPERSING MEN East St. Louis. 111., March 17. — (U.R) A squad of special deputy l sheriffs was trapped in ambush I today by m arly 100 striking metal ! workers who opened fire with shotI s ns and revolvers from behind a semi-circle of 25 automobilefl, exchanging more than 100 shots with the officers, four of whom were wounded. The strikers were driven off, I carrying several wounded with them, when a group of workers | armed with shotguns came to the I aid of the deputies. The deputies were on their way | to a Mississippi river ferry landing to give- protection to St. Louis laborers employed by a construction concern, when they drove into the trap. The strikers, who had protested against the importation of the St. Louis workers, were lying in wait in a hollow near an abandoned farm house. They bad parked their cars In a semi-circle across the road where they could catch the deputies in a cross fire. When the deputies' car reached the trap the strikers leaped up from a weed-filled ditch alongside the road, and fired a volley of shotgun slugs and revolver bullets at the officers. The deputies stopped their car and returned the fire of the strikers as they’ ran for cover. The'battle was heard Tiy Winters working on a nearby railroad embankment. They armed themselves with shotguns and went over the embankment. Before they were within shooting distance the strikers re-entered their cars i CONTINUED ON PAGE THREE I AGED DECATUR | WOMAN IS DEAD Mrs. Mary Meihers, 88, Dies at Home Here Monday Night Mrs. Mary K. Meibers, 88, pioneer Decatur woman, died at her home, 1127 West Monroe street, at 7:20 o'clock Monday evening from complications. Mrs. Meibers had been ill since February 13, and had been bedfast the past two weeks. She was born in Kilflheim. Germany, November 18, 1842, the daughter of Charles Joseph and Mary Kucher. She came from Germany to Buffalo, New York where she lived with an uncle and aunt. Mr. and Mrs. Charles Gill’g until she was fifteen years of age. At that time she edme to Decatar where she spent the remainder of her life. She was a member of ■me of the first families to settle in Decatur. On March 12. 1861 she was united in marriage to Bernard J. Meibers, who preceded her in death in 1914. To this union were born six children, three of whom survivd. They are Charles O. M’ibers, Miss Mathilda Meibers, ard Miss Eulalia Meibers, all at home. Three children preceded the deceased in death. Surviving is a half brother. M. J. Wertzberger of this city. Two si.hers, Agnes Hutker and Louisa Spuller, a brother Charles Kurber, and a half brother, Anthony Wertzberger preceded the deceased in death. Funeral services will be hold Friday morning at nine o’clock at (CONTINUED ON PAGE SIX) — o— Monthly Masonic Banquet Tonight Plans are complete for the monthly Masonic banquet at 6:30 this evening and a crqwd of one hundred is expected to attened. Two candidates will receive the Masters degree at the meeting to follow the work to be given by a team made up entirely of past masters a>f the local lodge. Among those who will participate ift David E. Smith 33, of Fort Wayne, who for years was active in the work here.

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Decatur, Indiana, Tuesday, March 17, 1931.

Death Trial Begins j.® wk 4* w •<• I '1 ! I ‘t.. 'dffl Leo V. Brothers (rightl. who went on trial in Chicago for the murder of Alfred (“Jake") Lingle, newspaper reporter. Brothers is shown leaving the bullpen tor the courtroom. He denies he is the man who killed “Jake" Lingle.

VIOLENT BLAST I ROCKS DENVER Home of Colorado Liquor Lord Demolished by Explosion — Denver, Colo., Mar. 17 —(U.R)—j . The echoing thunder of a tremen dons explosion brought gang war- . fare home to Denver today. A violent IJast, two minutes . after midnight, demolished the . tiwo story brick home of Pete Ca - ; lino, southern Colorado liquor' lord who had sought to extend his I i field of operations to Denver. Ixx’ated in the heart of one of i Denver's most fashionable resi- j detitial sections, the house was re-; duced to a pile of bricks, timber] | and steel, by the blast. Firemen and police searched the wreckage for bodies today. Carlino, Ills wife and seven children had, until a week ago, occupied , the home, but it was reported Carlino, already in fear of his life after an assassination attempt a month ago, had fled Denver with liis brother. Sam Carlino. Mrs. Carlino and the children were reported to have left a few days ■ ago. Search of the wreckage was spurred on, however, by stories of neighbors, including the parents of Governor George Parks, of Alaska, who live in an adjoining home, (CONTINUED ON PAGE S'X) ■ WILL TRY SHARE IN MINNEAPOLIS — No Attempt at Extradition •to Be Made Until After Trial — Minneapolis, Minn., March 17. —' <U.R>—lndiana authorities will make: no attempt to extradite Philip ’ “Flippy" Share to Columbia City. ] Ind., until he has been tried herei on a charge of murder, it was re-1 ported today. Share’s trial on a charge of killing Sam “Doc” Miller, a Minneap-i olis underworld character, is sched- ‘ uled to start Friday in district . court. Meanwhile, it was reported tliat a witness brought here from Columbia City had identified Share as a bandit who participated in a! bank robbery there. The witness was Alonzo Hire. Miss Alice Bender, a bystander, was fatally wounded during the robbery. William Seder, a former Indiana* deputy sheriff who came here with I Hire, was unable to identify Share. He was said to have been knocked ] . unconscious just as the robbery* , started. , Sheriff H. O. Strickler of Colum-, ; bia City, who brought the witnesses to Minneapolis, indicated that additional witnesses may come here i and attempt to identify Share more positively.

'Federated Clubs To Meet Thursday. Mar. 26 —— — A meeting of the Adams County I Federation of Women's Clubs will be held Thursday evening Marell 26 instead of Tuesday as had been planned. The meeting will be conducted in the Library Hall beginning at 7:30 o'clock and a special program has been planned for the evening which will be o interest to all club women. Mrs. A. M. Decker of Anderson, tchairman of the Eighth district. Imay attend the meeting, and it is 'hoped that every member of the ■ clubs in Adams County will attend the meeting. Preceding the program Jan important business session will ibe held. _ o TIPTON MAN HAS RETURNED HOME Merchant Missing Since Laftt October Returns Suddenly — Ind'anapoiis, Mar. 17 —(U.R) -A I reappearance fully as mysterious ias the disappearance, has bcm enacted by Louis R. Haas, Tipton merchant, who gave no explanation to his family and relatives, upon his return yesterday front Tampa. Fla. Haas left home October 25, 1930. saying he was going to Chicago. and had hot been heard from since. Yhstdrday he called on itis | sister. Mrs. R. Harry Miller, Indiiminpolis. and a brother. Albert I Hans. Noblesville, then left for ! Rensselaaer, where bis family has [ lived since shortly before th'o disappearance. I Neither Haas r.or his relatives | would ' xplain the disappearanc? land reappearance beyond the coni tentlot. of Mrs. Thomas G. Karsell. : Bloomington, that it was due to a j nervous break kwn induced by excessive dieting. i Relatives hav> asked not I to visit Hear, tot a few day c, M r s. J !< afnell said. Ilans I , ■ recealed that h> •.ent direct from Tip on to Tampa, tc’id I’ups live' l then c t tinuously si.ice. o Kendallville Man Found Dead in Truck Kendallville, Ind., March 17 — The body of Mack Manning, 55, Ken dallville, was found beneath his , light truck where it left the road land overturned last night. William Vaneft. Cromwell, found the body, with the skull crushed. Coroner Herald Shew, Kendallville, was investigating. — ■ o Held For Violation of Narcotics Law J Michigan City, Ind.. March 17--J (UP)—Warrants charging violation I of Federal narcotics laws were servied here on Joseph Cohen, alias Bud 1 Coleman, and Patsy Demartini. U. S. Deputies said they seized ' opium in Cohen's auto, and that 1 Narcotics were found in Demartini's room in a local hotel.

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Survivor Tells Story Os Terrible Disaster

RAR TO FOLLOW REGULATIONS Local Bar Not to Admit Members Until Supreme Court Acts The Adams County bar in a 'special session held Monday in I lb* court room of the Adams Circuit court adopted a resolution to ‘lie effect that applications lor admission to the Bar would not be aitid upon until the Supreme Court of Indiana published regulations governing qualifications for attorneys. The recent session of the legislature Senate Bill No. 162 giving the state supreme court exclusive juris diction to admit attorneys to practice law in all the courts of the stat - under such rules and regulations as It may prescribe. Applications tor admission to the ■ Adams County Bar will be deferred until the supreme court issues the regulations. At the meeting held yesterday former Judge J. T. Merryman, president of the Bar presided and Henry B. Heller acted as secIretary. No applications are on file lat this time for admission to the bar, it was stated. Claims Wife Saw Too Much Basketball | Noblesville, Ind. Mar. 17 —(U.R) — | A divorce complaint befitting to I‘his season in Hooslerdom. was on t: e here today. H Robert H. Hines charges tiipt 'lbis wife, Mahala, attends so many i ■ basket!till gamea that her liouse- . | hold duties are unpardonaly J neglected. . I They have been married since ' 1 last May. .I 0 i Funeral Held For Sheriff - Fisher Today ■ Monticello, Ind., Mar. 17.—(U.R) | —Funeral services for Sheriff Ray i Fisher. White county, who was slain by Scott Talhutt, bank robbery suspect, Sunday, will be held I here tomorrow afternoon, under 1 ' auspices of the American Legion. Scott Taibutt, who killed the I.sheriff, his brother, William, and ‘ i himself, was to be buried beside ' his brother in a double service. ! this afternoon. o Indianapolis Woman Dies by Asphyxiation * Indianapolis. March 17. — (U.R) — . Accidental asphyxiation was be- ; lieved responsible for the death here last night of Mrs. Kenneth E. McConnaughay, 33.. whose body was found in .the kitchen of her home. ; with both burners in the gas ovifen turned on, but not lighted, MARIEMOSERJI, DIES THIS A. M. Passes Away at Home of Son East of Bluff ton Early Today Bluffton, March 17 —(Special) — Mrs. Marie Reinhard Moser, 71, widow of Elias Moser, died at the home of a son, Joe Moser, five miles jeast of Bluffton, at one o'clock this I morning. Mrs. Moser had been in I failing health since last fall and had been bedfast for the past nine weeks. The deceased was born in Wells county December 20, 1859, thi son of Daniel and Fanny Frauhigcr Reinhard, both of whom were natives of Switzerland. Her husband preceded her in death November 24. 1922. Surviving are the following children: Mrs. Martha Bauman, Berne, Kansas; Joe Moser, near Bluffton, Mrs. Homer Gerber of near Decatur; Amos Moser. Berne; Mrs. John Moser, near Bluffton; Edward and Elmer Moser, Craigville; Mano Moser, Bluffton; Elias Moser, Fort Wayne. Brothers and sisters surviving are; William and Joe Reini hard, near Bluffton; Joel Reinhard, near Craigville; Mrs. John Fiechter, Mrs. Gideon Lantz and Mrs. Jacob Kaehr. Funeral services will be held at t the home at noon Thursday and at ' the Christian Apostolic church east of Bluffton at one o'clock.

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'i Henry Brown Describes Horrible Scenes on ( Ship And Ice Following I Explosion. i Editors Note: The following -lej scription of the Viking disaster by one of the survivors was reI reived by the United Press cor-! i respondent at St. Johns after reI pea ted requests for an eyewitness j account had l>een sent to Horse 1 Island. The difficulty of communication witli tlie island delayed ] the messages for hours. By Henry Brown Survivor of the Viking disaster. 1 (Copyright 1931 by United Press) Horse Island, Newfoundland. Mar. 17 —(By radio to St. Johns) I ■ —'(U.R) —All hands on the sealing - ship Viking (lying off Horse Island were settling away for the night—- • some lying in their berths smok- ■ Ing and some singing hymns — ' when tlie ship trembled as if we (CONTINUED ON PAGa. SIX) ; o SCOUT CAMPAIGN PROVES SUCCESS More Than SSOO of Quota In Decatur Has Been I Raised ■ The campaign for funds for the! > i Boy Scout budget is meeting with i'“great success”, James L. Kocher, ione of the generals in charge of tlie t Idrive announced this morning. More than SSOO of the $750 bud- . get has been raised, Mr. Koehe.1 stated, and several of the soliciting teams in tlie up-town district hovel > not yet or <anvassed th-i I districts assigned to them. Mr. Kocher and members of the |general Scout committee urged soli|citors today to make the canvas at r [once and complete the job this week Very few persons have refused to I donate to the fund and most of them ■solicitied were enthustiastically in ' I favor of raising Decatur's quota of budget. The campaign in Fort Wayne was ,icompleted yesterday with subscripjtions totaling $18,593.75 This was j S7OO more than the city's quota of '; the first year of the two year budiget. Kendallville, Rome City and Ligonier rallied their quotas on he I first day of the campaign. The facilities of the Ed Hoffman jßoy Scout camp at Rome City ate I available to Scouts in the Anthonv [ j Wayne Area council an din adjdition organization and adminstra- . ition assistance is rendered by gen- . leral headquarters in Fort Wayne to Jthose cities aifiliated with the Area | council. ; o_. Invalid Brothers 1 Die at Logansport Logansport. Ind., Mar. 17. —(UR) —Dari Lidgard, 13, and Kenneth . Lidgard, 16, brothers, whose in- • validism since birth has made it impossible for them to either walk or talk, died here yesterday withI in a few hours of ane another. Both were victims of pneumonia. They will lie buried tomorrow in a special casket to be deposited in a single grave. o Dr. Albrecht Speaks At Berne Monday Night Berne March 17 —Dr. W. A. Al- : brecht head of the soils department i of the University of Missouri spoke : on, “Russia, the Land of Promises" ; at the Berne Chamber of Commerce . meeting Monday night. Dr. Albrecht recently returned i from Russia, where he attended the i International Soil Congress to • which he was sent as a delegate . from the Missouri College *of AgriI culture and experimental Station. Schroeder Is Taken To Michigan City Indianapolis, March 17. — (U.R)' — ! Harold Herbert Schroeder was takI en from the Marion county jail to- , day and started the auto trip to t Michigan City, lnd„ where he will . serve a sentence, im- . posed by a Marion county criminal , j court jury last week. . | Schroeder was convicted of man- > I slaughter, on a charge of killing the unknown man whose body was t found in the Schroeder auto near I Indianapolis last May 31. Both t the body and the auto were nearly destroyed by fire.

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SEALER VIKING IS WRECKED OFF NEWFOUNDLAND Total Number Rescued Today Reaches 120; Some Badlv Hurt l FEAR 3 AMERICANS OX BOARD ARE LOST St. Johns, N. F., Mar. 17.— (U.R)—Two more sealers of the 25 missing from the wrecked Viking reached Horse Island today, making the total survivors 120. Advises from'the island said others were exjpected to be found alive. Rescue ships fought their way through heavy northern seas late today to the rescue of the 120 battered and destitute survivors who had found precarious refuge on Horse Island, a barren rock off tlie northeast coast of .Newfoundland. Two ships, the Foundation I Franklin, and tlie SagonQ, carrying I five doctors and five nurses, as well las food, blankets and medicine. I were expected to reach the island between 4 and 6 p. m. (A Massachusetts amateur radio station picked up reports they had arrived already). Some of tlie survivors, especially Captain Abram Kean, Junior, were !in bad shape from injuries or exposure. and needed prompt attenItion. The remaining 25 of the 143 aboard the Viking, including three American explorers, have not reached the island and it was feared they were dead. St. Johns. N. F., Mar. 17.—(U.R)— iThe survivors of the wrecked seal•er Viking, half starved, sufferin ' from exposure and many of them injured, were cared for by the inadequate facilities of barren Horse Island today, while a full estimate of the tragedy surrounding them was slowly being pieced together by the radio from tlie island. The latest word said 118 survivors ha d struggled across the treacherous ice floes to the island since Saturday night, when the sealer blew up and burned. The remaining 25 of the 143 persons aboard were missing, and it was feared they were dead. They included the three Americans —Varick Frissell. New York explorer; Henry J. Sargent, Boston explorer, and A. E. Penrod, of New York and Connecticut, camera man. The news from the island was being sent out by Miss Ottis Bartlett, the operator of the Feeble Horse Island transmitter. The first coherent statement by ('apt. Abram Kean, Jr., of the Viking, who is on Horse Island badly injured, was sent out today. Kean .CONTINUED ON PAGE SIX? o- » Pietro Cardinal Maffi Dies Today, Aged 73 Pisa. Italy. Mar. 17.—<U.R>-Pietro Cardinal Maffi, one of the most prominent members of the Sacred college, died today at the age of 7,3. Death of the cardinal, who was considered for the papacy upon two occasions, was caused by hear! trouble and pneumonia. The news was communicated to Pope Pius and King Victor Emmanuel, long close friends of the cardinal. BOMBS EXPLODE IN BELGRADE Army Officer Killed By Blast; No Others Are Injured Belgrade, Jugoslavia. Mar. 17— (U.R) —Three bombs exploded in front of public buildings in Belgrade tojlay at 5:30 a. m. A fourth bomb failed to explode until examined by an army officer, Major Rekalovitz. He set the lioinb' off accidentally and received fatal wounds. The first bomb exploded in front of the office of Hie tourist ministry; the second in a garbage can in front of the military academv; 'and the third in front of the war ministry. There were no casualties other than the army officer. The fourth bomb was hidden near the sidewalk in front of the old army barracks.