Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 29, Number 66, Decatur, Adams County, 18 March 1931 — Page 1

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w BURN TO >TH IN HOTEL «AT LYNN Bother I’eikOiH SevBlv Injured Inis ■ ’ Morning Bl COMPLETELY |K;TR<HLI> H>i>\> Vl . u.p> ■ l .n. -tailed in a niiniaim" unit' course' ■ in a! l-a- tloalhs. f l" ,! "' l "‘ r |H '''’ 1 ■ |virtually <1 Bohl '"'l of ' >" lk an '* hud Is'cii toiti’d in the pi :;ii a in. when police Brf" e " still s< ’ ugl,, two ■L).., remain' d uno■ counted . Ull | |;r, . ■ mnounced ■ other oi ciiptints of the had heeti !•>< at ed. At ■ ■ missin-: Yellowing tlm blaze. ■ ~■■ th" I lu'dieS M». Harvey. • !• ik. and a J| Yount: St. AlI -Mar; I.;, nil. wei" found on the K. ■ ... Iteniamin .or.?. • N ) and OliBos Mb from the hotel's sole fire • • -trick- . j!: on. sts, and into lit" to t-, featured i a:'- air 'ofc* id a oi a.in had 1 the iason.int. the fire, though -room lios- ' -. a:u a to wly-installed ' ■ and Me scores ctn-st.s in their hours ai'tf r the fire had 1 i-. > of 12 missing ■ ■inr Harvev, Mrs 11. D. Whit- i ■A. X Young. Clinton Mills, j ■l Seeley, Fr.-il Dennett. M. A. ■Uo Bugoy A. Giitusten. Oil■other and .'ummin WiessMlspse of three floors of the ■dory hr: k building impeded Mum for bodies. Police be■el sriiu- an. sts unaccounted Miapeil and li ft the scene, hut ■ considered it certain some Muz had perished. ■re were "■ registered guests ■ hotel, the largest and one of MMest in Lynn. Several on ■ lower floors escaped with ■ONTINUED ON page SIX) Irial Quartet To I Broadcast Thursday V Imperial Male Quartet of M county will sing over radio UOWO. Thursday afterBetween one and 1:30 o'clock. Biuartet includes Ernst Fore-1 BCrorge Yaney, Russel Baum■er' and Clifford Mann, Adams BY young men. I ~ o— KSONARIES MED IN CHINA ® American Women »Hed Last Sunday While Asleep “'tag. China, Mar. 18.—(U.R)— ■ merican women missionaries 1 ied last Sunday at YunanBm Were: Mrs ’ Vera M - White Wash., and Mrs. a -1. Miller, daughter of ' ■ artin of Spokane, Wash. women were killed in their ,'l° c ' l *' < * re n in the house e n °t harmed. ' tahands of the women were rder• n< '* Was ' ,e^eve( l that the It wl. \ erft eommitt e<l by a sereg. ' ,a<J been discharged. No ■ la d been made, however. tenti« 1 0m T 1 were Sev enth Day n '>st missionaries. saia r . n ' eSßages frotn Yunan-Fu hen ./ve unidentified American tag “ o a( >een ki Hed in rioting man. C ° U P d-etat,” which was in the later dis-

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Tirade School Pupils Attend Werst Funeral —_ i More than 100 pupils of the I | seventh ahd eighth grades tit Cen-1 i iral building, classmates of Miss I Elnora Worst, (laughter of Mr. [ ! and Mrs. Rufus Worst, who died at the Adams County Memorial ‘ hospital Monday, attended tlie funerul services held at the First! Evangelical church this afternoon ( at two o’clock. Intimate friends of the deceased served as flower 1 girls and pall beaters. Rev. M. I W. Sunderman officiated and inter-; ment was made in the Decatur I cemetery. WOMAN TO FACE MURDER CHARGE — Mrs. Ida Shadley To Be Returned to Terre Haute On Charge Loe Angeles. Mar. 18 —(U.R) — Mrs. Ida Shadley. 56. held in the county jail here, will be returned | to Terre Haute. Ind., in about one week to face a charge of murder in connection witli the death of her third husband on their farm near that city. The sheriff’s office said that In- 1 diana officers will leave for Los Angeles immediately to take Mrs. into custody. In her cell Mrs. Shadley repeat-1 ed that she was innocent of guilt : In the deatli of her husband, Wil- J liatn Shadley, 75, in March, 1920. “He went out into the barn to get some hay for the sheep,’’ she (CONTINUED ON PAGE SIX) HUNDRED MASON ATTEND BANQUET ; ~ ’ ’I Two Candidates Initiated by Team of Past Masters of Lodge One hundred Masons, including' a number from Willshire. Monroe- : ville and Geneva, enjoyed a de11’ ions chicken dinner at the hall I here last evening and there followed one of thf most enjoyable 1 ' meetings ever held in Decatur. ’ ' The event was planned and man- ' aged by Dan H. Tyndall, master of the lodge and the young man > is being credited with a happy idea. Two ' candidates. Floyd Baker, and Amos Yoder were initiated into the order and the work was put on by a team made up entire-! ly of past masters of the lodge. The old boys showed the young fellows that they still know liow and there was not a hitch in the program. David E. Smith. 33. was in the master’s chair. L. C. Helm, senior warden. Judge J. T. Merryman, junior warden, John W. Tyndall, senior deacon and the other places of importance were ablyfilled. The occasion was also a reunion, many members attending who had not been able to l*e present for some time, among them being J. B. Corson of near Monroe, one oT the old timers and who enjoyed every minute. Judge Smith, one of the best, posted Masons of the state, gave the work impressively and lie and those who assisted him were highly complimented. At. the j banquet, seventeen past masters including five from other lodges | ! were seated at the table of honor, they being D. E. Smith, H. B. Heller, O. L. Vance, Ed AshbaUcher, James Anderson, L. C. Holm. I. T. Merryman. Cal E. Peterson, R D. Myers, Norman Lenhart, J. W. Tyndall, and N. E. Helmer, C. l Schaefer, Carl Buyer and S. W. Hale of Geneva and G. D. Mercer (dONTINUED ON PAGE SIX) _ o Logansport Youth Is Selected Captain Evanston, 111., Mar. 18—(U.R)-— Bob McCarnes. of l.ogansport, Ind. has been elected captain of the Northwestern basketball team for next season. McCarnes played center on the championship team turned out by Northwestern last season. Eight major letters and ten minor letters were awarded to the members of the squad last night by Coach Dutch Lonborg. The major letters were won by Capt. Bert Riel, Watseka. 111.. (’apt.-elect McCarnes, John Whelan. Dubuque, la., Joe Reiff, Frank Marehall. Bus Smith, Elmer Johnson and Saul Farber, all of Chi-1 cago.

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At left are shown some of the members of the far north moving Picture expedition which sailed in the old sealing vessel Viking, shown at right. The fate of many of them Is unknown and may never lie known. Others have managed to save themselves. L. Varivk Ftissei (indicated by arrow), explorer, movie director and nephew of of Governor Gifford Pinchot of Pennsylvania, who was the leader of

SIX SUSPECTS ARE RELEASED Only One Person Remains In Custody In Mystery Death Case — Chicago. Mar. IS.- (U.R) — Newj 1 ! clews in the mysterious forest pre-1 I serve murder of Norma Newby re- ' suited today in release of six of the i seven persons held for question- ; ing. Only Frank J. Murray, married, ; sales engineer who secretly carried , on a 17-year romance with the loop waitress, remained in custody and Morton Grove police said he was held only as a material witness for, -the inquest tomorrow, j The evidence which sent jChiell | William Collins of the county highI way police on a new track in the; investigation wks the discovery in ( j Jonesville, Va., of Murray’s Marmom automobile and word that it, ! had been abandoned there by two; j men who answered the description j j Murray gave of the men who slug-1; j ged him and kidnaped Miss New-!, by March 2 In the Elk Grove forestj- , preserve. Those released were Mrs. Sarah ’ I Murray, his wife; Esther, his! j daughter; Daniel Murray, a broth- I 'er; Arthur Dorion, street car conductor engaged to Miss Newby, ali though ignorant of her secret roj rnance with Murray, and Dorion’s two brothers. The Marmon automobile was found March 3 or 4, according to Sheriff Thomas B. Fleenor, who checked the numbers with Chief Collins by telephone. Sheriff Flee.CONTINUED ON PAGE SIX» BLUFFTON STORE TO DE REOPENED Store Destroyed by Fire Will Open in New Location Bluffton, Mar. 18. — Announcement was authorized today ifj’ William R. Barr, head of the Leader department store which was i destroyed by fire on the morning i of February 5, that the store will I |, e re-established in a new location directly across the street from the building that was destroyed. Mr. Barr announced th' 1 lease of the McFarren building, at Main and Market streets. The store that was destroyed 1 was Bluffton’s largest merchantile establishment, and the building leased for the new store of the same name is almost as large as the one destroyed and is all in one large room, whereas the old store was divided into four rooms. Mr. Barr announced that the McFarren building will be remodeled for tire new store, including (CONTINUED ON PAGE SIX) .———-o— John G. Hoffman Is In Critical Condition John G. Hoffman, Adams county commissioner and wpil-known citizen of Preble township is seriously ill with pneumonia following an at- j tack of Jhe flu. He has been ill for ] ten days past but was up and down I until Monday, since when he has been quite ill. His condition this afternoon was considered slightly improved.

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Decatur, Indiana, Wednesday, March IK, 1931.

Two Men Questioned For Bank Robberies I Noblesville, Ind., Mar. 18. —(U.R) —Robbery of several small banks | in central Indiana, as well as other small robberies, formed the basis of questioning of Maurice Parton,'. West field, and Glenn Hutchens. ' Hortonville, under arrest here. Both suspects are friends of Ralph Gifford, now in jail in Indianapolis, where lie allegedly confessed to participation in robbery of tlie New Augusta bank. Parton and Hutchens were ar- • rested at tlie request of the state i board of investigation and jdenti- i flcation. i o I , WILL OBSERVE , FOUNDEh'S DAY k - ( M. E. Missionary Society To Give Special Program Thursday The Women’s Foreign Missionary ! Society of the Methpdis* Episcopal' i church will observe the 62nd. anni[versary of Founder’s Day, witli a'; I special program at the church, |i (Thursday evening at 7:30 o clock. Following is the program which (; (has been planned:: Devotionals —Mrs. Jack Friedt. Hymn—Congregation. Reading. “Founder’s Day”—Mrs. Delton Passwater. Playlet Standard Bearer Girls. I Solo —Mrs. Dan Tyndall. Reading—Patsy Edwards. Duet-Sara Jane Kauffman and! Edwina Shroll. v ; Reading— Charles Champlin. Jr. Playlet- “Rebuilt Auxiliary Mem-i her” Mrs. Charles Champlin, ( Mrs. Paul Edwards, Mrs. E. W. Johnson. Benediction The committee in charge of the arrangements for the celebration includes Mrs. C. L. Walters, Mrs. Ed. Ahr, Mrs. Fred Ahr, Mrs. Ed Beery, and Mrs. George Harding. All members and friends of the society are invited to attend this special ( service. o_ District Meeting of K. of I’. Lodge Here ■— I A district meeting of the K. of P. lodge will be held in Decatur, Thors- i day. March 26. All members of the ; Iqcal lodge are urged to attend to- , morrow night’s meeting of Kekionga lodge No. 65 to aid in making | anangements for the district meeting. i o Will Choose Trustee For Salem Cemetery A trustee for the Salem Cemetery ( Association will be elected at a meeting at the First Evangelical church i nDecatur, Friday afternoon March 27 at two o’clock. o x - May Face Charges For Posting Placards Contrary to a city ordinance a bill poster for -a Fort Wayne theater tacked large placards on the telephone and electric light poles in Decatur this morning. The man asked Chief of Police Melchi if the pla cards could be posted and he was informed that a city ordinance proj hibited tacking the bills on poles in the up-town district. A few min‘utes later he started to tack the bills on the poles. They were removed shortly afterwards by Chief Melchi and an affidavit will probably be issued for the offender.

the expedition, is mistsing. The sealer Viking, chartered by the film expedition, went down after a blast in the magazine where powder was stored for the blasting of ice. The map indicates the scene * f the catastro" he in White Bay. Newfoundland. All craft available are rushing to the scene. International Illustrated News photo

MALDAUGHERTY IS SENTENCED Convicted Banker Given 10-year Sentence; , Fined $5,000 Washington Courthouse, Ohio, I Mar. IS—(U.R)—Mai S. Daugherty,! 68. former president of the defunct Ohio State Bank and brother of former U. S. Attorney General . Harry M. Daugherty, convicted of, misusing funds of the bank was ( sentenced to 10 years in the! state penitentiary and fined 35.000 by common pleas Judge Charles S. | Bell today. Daugherty was’ convicted March 4 He was charged specifically ' with misapplying $5,350 of •funds: of the bank. Tlie court, in imposing sentence, overruled a motion lor new trial. The judge asked the aged banker whether he had anything to say before sentence was passed. ! “I have nothing to say,”. Daugli-1 erty answered. "Has bounsel for the defendant anything to say?” tlie judge ask-j ed. ' Nothing,” replied Ray R. Maddux. one of the defense attorneys. ( “Tlie court." said Judge Bell, j “will make no comment further! than to say that the evidence war-( ranted the conclusion arrived at by the jury.” The judge then pronounced i sentence. Judge Bell granted Daugherty 20 days in which to perfect an' appeal. Daugherty was tried on one of (CONTINUED ON PAGE SIX) TAX RECEIPTS SHOW DECREASE — Collections on March 16 Considerably Lower Than Previous Year Washington, Mar. 18. — (U.R) —Income tax collections ' tabulated on March 16. the final day of collection for the firs; quarter, were shown to be $13,100,362 as compared with $18,148,963 tabulated on; March 15, last year, the final day for returns in 1930. These amounts represented the actual income of tax receipts tabulated and deposited in the bank on March 16, when the first quarter installment of this year's taxes were due. This does not necessarily represent an index of tax collections, though the treasury expects an appreciable drop in collections for the first quarter as compared with last year, when they were $628,000,000. Some estimates have placed this decrease at as much as $100,000,000. The total of income tax collections for the first quarter will not be known for several days. The treasury will receive daily reports from collectors such as the one today, as the tabulation goes forward at the various offices. The March 16 payments brought total collections during March this year according to the daily treasury statement today, to $58,124,904, as compared with $67,507,962 for the corresponding period in March last year. Total laxes collected through (CONTINUED ON PAGE SIX)

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19-Year-Old Woman Commits Suicide Indianapolis. Mar. 18. —(U.R)—! With her two-month-old bpby lyI ing in a crib nearby, Mrs. Clara I Bush. 19. committed suicide by ' hanging at her home in Drexel Gardens, near here. The body was ( found suspended in a doorway by ' Iler husband, Clay Bush. The husband, overcome by j shock, made two attemptH to seize I a gun from a deputy investigating lhe case, and end his own life. He , was arrested on a charge of vag- ! rancy for his own protection. The couple had l*>en married two years. MILLION DOLLAR ! SUIT IS FILED f-- • Stockholder Files Suit Against Chairman of Corporation Cleveland, O„ March IS—(U.R)— ■ A suit involving tlie transfer of; $45,00d:‘T03 in cash, stocks and I (other securities was filed in com-1 i mon pleas court today against I ( Cyrus S. Eaton, chairman of the ( j board of Continental Shares, Inc.. I and the Foreign Utilities, Ltd., of, | Toronto, Canada. The suit was filed by Attorney ( Chaarles S. Wachner, Continental , stockholder, in behalf of himself ( and other shareholders of all ( tlaasses of capital stock of the I company. The suit, which is tlie second stockholder Action brought against | Eaton and Continental within 24 ! hours charged that on or about ; October 10, 1930, Eaton, in domj inant control of Continental, I caused the concern to enter into ! a contract with Foreign Utilities, ' Ltd., whereby Continental purchas!ed from it $45,400,000 in foreign l utilities securities. ( Acting as a fiscal agent, the | Toronto concern was organized j i for the purpose of handling sub- ( stantially al! of Eaton's financial transactions, tlie petition charged, j (CONTINUED ON PAGE THREE) o Decatur Firn: Files Incorporation Papers Indianapolis, March 18—(UP) — The Conter Ice Cream Co., Inc., of Decatur, today’ filed articles of incorporation with the secretary of state. Stock was given as 100 shares having a par value of SIOO each. H. L. Conter, Gary; L. F. Conter. and L. A. Holthouse, both of Decatur were incorporators. BULLETIN Joliet, 111, Mar. 18.—(U.Rl—A new outbreak of rioting and fire at the 1 model Stateville prison was reportjed late today. Four infantry troops of Illinois National Guards were ordered to the prison and the Joliet National Guards and High School R. O. T. C. were called by Warden Henry C. Hill and thronged about the prison when the fire flared out of control and destroyed the dining room and part of the inner prison. Extra police from Joliet and all available fire apparatus were mobolized about the circular penitentiary battling the fiaines. The prison was closed to everyone except soldiers and guards immediately after the rioting and fire started. No immediate reports on casualties were available.

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Key-Hole Listener No Recourse At Law Valparaiso, Jud., Mur. 18. —<U.R)There is no recourse at law for the keyhole-listener, Jud g e Gra 11 I Crumpaeker ruled in a directed verdict in Porter circuit court. George Morris, East Chicago, was charged 'with slaying Elizabeth Coleman, who while listening at a keyhole, was the victim of a stray bullet allegedly tired by Morris during a quarrel with his wife. Judge Crumpacker ruled that there was insufficient evidence, in giving his directed verdict for acquittal. o CONTRACT FILED FOR LIGHT LINE City Council Approves Extension Into Root Township The contract for the Root township electric line extension, servI ing a dozen patrons in Allen county, in the vicinity of Boston, I Indiana, was filed with the city council last evening. The contract was approved by I the council. Work lias started on the erecting of the poles. The line starts at the Massilon church, extends east and north to Boston and, 12 farmers have already contracted for service. ' The city light and power plant has built and extended several electric lines in the northeast part of the county and in Madison township, Allen county. Report is Filed The report of the auditors of the Indiana Public Service commission who audited tlie books of the city municipal plant was filed with the council last evening. The Public Service commission’s auditors I credited the water department with earnings of S6OO more and the electric light department with earnings jof about $6,000 more than shown in Hie annual report made by W. Curtis Pease. All funds were found to be in balance and the additional earnings shown in the reports came about in allowing items of expense land depreciation. The Indiana (Public Service commission is jchecking the records of all munici- | pal plants in the state. Discuss Street Cleaning | Following the presenting of specifications for the cleaning of streets I and the suggestion that the job be let to individuals, under supervision of the street commissioner, a discussion arose between the councilmen. Councilman H. F. Linn moved that Second street, from Jefferson, Liberty Way. Madison and Monroe, between Second and Third streets, be cleaned every I CONTINUED ON PAGE SIX) OFFICERS NAMED BY ASSOCIATION ——— i Mrs. C. O. Porter Elected President of ParentTeachers Mrs. C. O. Porter was chosen president of the South Ward ParentTeachers Association, at the meeting which was held in the Soutn j Ward school, Tuesday evening, as- 1 ter school. Other officers named were Mrs:. W. G. Brown, vice-president; Miss Mary Suttles, treasurer; and Miss Florence Magley, secretary. Following the election of officers, Miss Effie Patton gave an interesting address on “Founders Day”, in which she told of the founding of the Parent-Teachers organization which took place in Lynn, Massachusetts in 1895. Later the organization joined with the National Congress of Mothers. M. F. Worthman talked on, "Ths Value of a Parent Teachers Association to a School ”. The pupils of the third and fourth grades of the school presented a clever playlet entitled, “Courtesy Counts”, and the pupils of the first and second grades sang several songs. Fourth Lenten Sermon Is Given The Tuesday evening Lenten ser-. vices were held at the St. Mary's Catholic church last evoning. The Rev. Father Charles Girardot of Fort Wayne delivered the fourth oi his series of sermons.

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SHIP CAPTAIN REPORTS FOOD IS EXHAUSTED * Viking Skipper Wirelesses ' Message Asking Aid STORMS LESSEN ANY CHANCE AT RESCUE St. Johns. Nfd., Mar. 18. (U.R) — Starvation threatened the survivors of the wrecked sealer Viking at Horse Island today while storms lessened any chance that mare cf their companions might be found alive on the floes. Capt. Abram Kean, Junior, skipper of tlie Viking, who reached Horse Island witli some 12b of his men, revealed tile pitiful plight of the survivors in a wireless message to one of tile sliips trying to reach the island witht supplies. The message said: “Do you think it is safe for my men who are able to travel out to your ship to attempt it and if possible get transferred to other ships? I Provisions exhausted here.” Little hope was felt that Variclc Frissel, young New York motion picture producer an d explorin’ would be found alive. The injured skipper of the sealer Viking, Capt. Abram Kean, Jr., aided in directing the search of rescue ships for survivors of his cwn crew today while the remainder of his men at Horse Island, many injured and all in need of food, scanned the icy seas restlessly for the approach of supply vessels. Rescuers had picked up six men. making a total of 130 out of an estimated crew of 143 accounted for. Captains aboard the rescue sliips worked their men at top speed for they feared that hope would have to be abandoned for any of the> Viking’s crew not picked up by tonight. Six men were rescued today after 40 hours exposure witli little food or water, and one was so badly bitten by frost that amputation of his feet was feared necessary. Capt. Kean kept in touch with the rescuers by radio. The relief ship Sagona was stopped by pack ice four miles from Horse Island and Capt. Kean sent an urgent appeal for dispatch >f supplies across the ice. The scanty (CONTINUED ON PAGE SIX, Evansville Man To Be Buried Here Funeral services for Milo Black 40 year old business man of Evansville, who died Monday, fallowing an appendicitis operation, will be held in this city, accordng to Word received here Tuesday. Mr. Black had been associated in business I with the Holland Furnace Company in Evansville for a number of years. Mrs. Black, is the daughter of Mrs Dora Myers of Hartford Township, and the niece of Miss Eva Acker of this city. Surviving besides the wife, and Mr. Black’s father, are two brothers Funeral arrangements have not been complete drvaiting word from one of the brothers residing in Los Angeles. California o- ' CHARGES MADE AGAINST MAYOR Gov. Roosevelt Makes Public Committee's Findings Albany, N.Y.. March 18 —(U.R) ■ Governor Franklin D. Roosevelt today made public the charges against Mayor James J. Walker of New York City, filed by the city affairs committee, which requested the mayor's removal from office. The governor declined to comment on the charges. It was explained on his behalf that as ho. assumed the role of judge it would not be witliin his province to make comment. The charges alleged misfeasance and said Walker had failed | "properly to administer the government of the city." “He has failed properly to administer the government of the ; city in the interests of the people. “He has ignored conditions of (CONTINUED ON PAGE TWO)