Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 29, Number 67, Decatur, Adams County, 19 March 1931 — Page 1

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I Nine Indiana Men Are Given Letters BloominKton Ind. March I!) tl'l’) Varisty letter awards were recoin I mended lor nine tneniliets of the in Idtanu University Baseball team a' I their annual banquet here |;:s j nig ill and Ben Miller Waldron was (liosen honoraty captain of the 111 i t Hill team. Those voted letters were Joe Zoller. East Chicago; Ben Miller, Waldron; Paul Jasper, Fort Wayne, Claron Veller, I,inton; Alfred Camp bell. Shelbyville; William Blagrav 1 Washington; Maurice Massy, India-! napois: Vic Bauer. Cary, and BetInard Dickey. Fort Wayne. YOUTH INJURED IN AUTO WRECK W.H.Bockman of Minneapolis Seriously Hurt Last Night W. il. M. Bockman. 21. of Minneapolis. Minn., was injured in a collision which occurred a mile west ol Monroe on federal highway 27 at 4:30 o'clock Wednesday afternoon. Mr. Bockman was riding wita j Paul France, 22, also of Minneapolis. and the young men were driv- I ing south, enroute to Hichmond to visit with relatives. The other motorist. Albert Wolter of Albion, an insurance mam; was driving west xind struck the' Fiance car at the intersection of the | road and the state highway. Mr. Bockman was thrown through the right door into the side ditch. I • lie was unconscious for sometime j land was taken to a Berm- physician i where it was learned his injuries , were serious. Both cars were badly damaged i and were taken to Berne garage-; ifor repair. — o EIGHT PERSONS ARE DROWNED I Steamship Hera Crashes on Rocks in Norway Last Nijfht Oslo. Norway. March 19 —(U.R) — ' Eight persons were known dead today in the wreck of the steamship Hera, which crashed on the rocks off Hammerfest at midnight Wednesday in a snow storm. The missing included an eight year old girl and four stewardesses. At least 56 persons fought their way to safety, most of them swimming to shore despite the freezing water. The Hera, a Norwegian ship of 10S0 tons, was going at full speed when it struck the rocks. The forepart of the vessel was rammed high on a rocky cliff and the stern dipped under the water. The crew and passeners began a long and dramatic struggle to reach safety on the shore, which was only a short distance away but- was separated from the ship by a cold and heavy running sea. A reeches buoy was rigged , after many attempts and removal of the passengers began. Six persons fell from the buoy and were drowned. Another passenger died of exhaustion. The survivors still were six miles from any habitation and > all of them were suffering from . cold and the strain of the rescue, i They walked to Havoysund. where ; 28 passengers and 34 seamen, arrived yesterday. The Hera was en route from Kirknans to Bergen when wrecked. ■ John G. Hoffman Is Reported Still Serious The condition of John G. Hoffman. Adams County Commissioner I who has been suffering with flu pneumonia at his home in Preble township for the past ten days, remains about the same today. The attending physh-ian stated that al ' thougHi his condition is reriotts. h“ will no doubt recover. i. 0 Fourteen Lives Lost When Steamer Sinks i l Ixmdon. March 19—(TTP)-- Th? s Steamer Chang-Kiang struck the ; rocks off Heihan islands near Halmen on Monday and sank with a > loss of 14 lives Lloyd's was advised , from Shanghai. i The vessel was a total loss. > The French gunboat Marne was j standing by taking the crew and passengers on board.

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GIVE PROGRAM SUNDAY NIGHT Missionary Society of Zion Reformed Church To Give Program The Woman's Missionary Society of the Zion Reformed church will give a special program next Sundav night at 7 o'clock presenting phases of tlie Stewardship of Time, Talent, Money. Prayer and Life in song and reading. This program is also a part of the Stewardship program as carried on by the local church during the present year. The program is in charge of Mrs. Chris Lehman, the president of the society and the following program will be given: Organ Prelude Miss Lulu Gerber Invocation. Part I. Stewardship of Time. Hymn—" Take Time to Be Holy." Scripture Portions Mrs. Chas. Brodbeck Story—“ David Livingstone" Mrs. A. R. Fledderjohann ! Male Quartette—"Don't Forget Jesus" Leo Kirsch, H. Graber, C. Lehman. O. L. Kirsch. Part 11. Stewardship of Talent Reading—"My Purpose" Mrs. Erwin Miller (CONTINUED ON PAGE EIGHT) NOTED AVIATOR IS FORCED DOWN Four Destroyers Start Search For G. W. Brophy Today Manila. P. I . Mar. 19.—(U.R) — Four United States navy destroyers began a search today for G. W. Brophy, Los Angeles aviator, who was believed to have been forced down in an isolated section of Luzon while flying from Hongkong to Manila. ■ Brophy left Macao, Hongkong, at 8:50 a. m. today with fuel estimated sufficient to carry him until 6:50 p. m. A ship reported sighting his i plane 15 miles out of Macao but since then no word has been received. Naval authorities ordered the destroyers Paul Jones, John D. Ford, Truxton ' and Peary to start the j search around the island of Luzon, while the Philippines broadcasting company issued a request for information as to Brophy’s whereabouts. Brophy left Shanghai a month ago-on a proposed non-stop flight to Manila hut was repeatedly forced down by engine trouble. Feast of St. Joseph Is Observed Today The feast of St. Joseph was observed today in the St. Mary s Catholic church. A high mass was celebrated at seven-thirty o’clock this morning and classes at the St. Joseph’s Catholic school were dismissed for the day.

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Decatur, Indiana, Thursday, March 19, 1931.

i rancis Stephenson Undergoes Operation Washington March 19 (Special) -Francis M. Stephenson, star re porter of Hie Associated Press staff iin Was lington, is recovering sa’islactorily from an appendicitis op< ra I |tlon performed at the Garfield hosIpital here Wednesday. He lived in Decatur for a number |of years as a boy, his father being Rev. I). T. Stephenson, former pastor of the Methodist church there. .The operation was performed by | Dr. Coitpal. former physician t‘> President Coolidge. DECATUR MAN BUSY IN RUSSIA <’ ' i Fred Chronister, Employed at Batum, Hopes to Come Home in July — ! Fred Chronister .son of Mr. and , Mrs. George Chronister of this ci'?-, who has been assisting in the construction of a $4,000,000 refinery Batum. Russia, tlie past year, lias [written his parents that he is hop-' ’ing a: d expecting to complete ,i's part of the job by July and then re- . I turn to the states. I His letter dated March Ist said in [part: “The weather here continues (delightful, with spring apparent./: just around the corner. Have heard (a good deal about the winter an t spring rains but so far they iavn t shown up. Hope they don t for I <1 sure like to gel this job finished and get out of here because 1 am plenty I tired of it. Two of the fellows leave | Batum tomorrow for home and they l are like a couple of eaged tigers tonight. One of them has been in Batum sixteen months and the other ore nine months. They sure will be glad when New York heaves into sight. It begins to look like I shan't get awy from here much before I July ewt with lots of good weather ! and with no operating troubles. I Hope Evelyn and I see yon soon o —— Third Suspect In Bank Robbery Held Indianapolis, Mar. 19. U.R) -An Indianapolis youth, Donald Dudley. 21, was held here suspected of being Hie third member of a bandit trio that robbed the Scircleville, Indiana, bank of $1,400 February 19. Bank officials and witnesses of the holdup were to view Dudley today. John Hitch, 23, and William Lejcar, Chicago, are the other two suspects. Both have been identified by bank employes, police said. 0 I Milo Black Funeral Services Sunday Funeral services for Milo Black. Evansville business man who died Monday, will be held at the Presbyterian chare!) in this city. Sunday afternoon at 2:30 o’clock with Rev. Harry H. Ferntheil, pastor, officia*ing. Burial will be in the Decatur Cemetery. The body will be brought from I Evansville to Fort Wayne Sunday (morning, and from there will be I brought by a local ambulance to the 'home of Mrs. Jane Acker. 227 Sou‘h i First street where it will be until ‘the funeral services.

sence from Washington, it is considered unlikely that any attempt will be made to visit Cuba or Mexico. On map is indicated by a solid black line the journey of President Hoover in his tour of the West Indies, with a pratable extension of the trip as indicated by the broken line.

CHARGES FILED AGAINST HYDE Wells County Highway Superintendent Charged With Malfeasance Bluffton Marell 19 —(Special) — I The board of, county commissioners !in session here Wednesday afternoon., set Thursday April 2, at 9 a. in. at the time tor a hearing on the charges filed in commission-j ers’ court against Coun’y Highway Supt, Charles E. Hyde, alleging I ■malfeasance in office. Th° charges. I jeontained in four I were prepared by County Attorney i E. C. Vaughn al the direction of t:<e commissioners, who by a vote ot I two to one instructed the county atitorney to prepare the charges, i The four specifications relate to [the same specific charge in sub(stame that without warrant by law. Supt Hyde from January. 1928. unItil January of this year, employed liis wife, Hazel B. Hyde as an assit-1 taut in (is office paying her at ‘lie i (rate of 35 cents per hour, for days j [of 10 hours each, and that provision I ■for her pay was made by creating ; an additional district, known as No. [29. and allowing her to craw war-( ! rants for her pay by filing claims ■as superintendent of district 29, where as a matter of fact roads des [ignated as in this district were nit(CONTINUED ON PAGE EIGHT) —o CLAIMS JUSTICE RETONELECTION Alleges Portland Justice of Peace Bet on Last Election • Indianapolis March 19 -(UP) [What legal action may be taken a I gainst a justice of the peace who jbets on elettion returns was being pondered here today by Attorney General Janies M. Ogden. A complaint from a Jay county Hilizen Leon Crowoil was received , iby Ogden protesting against an al(leged bet on the last general election made between Charles W. Me- . laughlin Portland Justice of Peace and Lee Crowell also of Portland, i out of which a court suit for collec- ' tion has developed. The complaint charges that after . tlie money had been given to Rob- , ert Antrim as “stakeholder,’’ M<- , i Laughlin attempted to recover his [share, S2O. Antrim refused and M<- ■ Laughlin started suit to recover. V. E. Funk, deputy attorney general, said the matter would be let 1 entirely to the Jay county pros’cutpr. o j Body Truck Goes Into Ditch This Morning Berne, Ind., March 19 —(Special•—A long truck carrying automobile r bodies, turned over three-fourths of a mile north of Berne at two o- ) clock this morning. The driver, who i- was enroute from Auburn to Con s nersville, fell asleep. The car bodies s were badly damaged and a wreckt ing car from Portland was called to 1 clear the highway. The driver was ’uninjured.

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WOMEN INMATES AT ST ATE VII IE THREATEN RIOT - - - Six Hundred Guards Patrol Walls And Corridors At Joliet SIX BUILDINGS ARE BURNED BY CONVICTS Jo’iAt. 111.. Mar. 19. — (U.R) — i Women prisoners, confined across ’ the street from the riot-scarrAl I old penitentiary here, threatened! an outbreak shortly before noon . today, Mrs. Bertha Finnegan, matron, reported to Warden HenIry (’ Bill. One hundred and forty-five women are imprisoned in the cellhouse and are threatening to rise in riot. Mrs. Finnegan told the hari ard warden. The matron refused an offer of | additional guards but carried 21 I i tear gas bombs across the street Ito tlnow at the women in case they rose. Warden Hill said an outbreak in the women's quarters, where the inmates were out of their cells, would be difficult to quell as guards could not use clubs or guns. 'l’-nsion at the women’s cellhouse has been increasing daily during the recurring riots of the last five days at the old prison on the edge of Joliet and at Stateville. four miles away, most of which was destroyed yesterday by fire and rioters. The women are held in leash by women guards and if additional forces of men were suddenly , (CONTINUED ON PAGE EIGHT) ' FAMOUS ITALIAN FLYER IS KILLED Col. Umberto Maddalena, Two Companions. Killed In Crash Pisa. March 19—(U.R)—Col. Umi berto Maddalena. famous Italian flier, was killed here today when his seaplane crashed off Marina j Di Pisa. Lieut. Fausto Cecconi, who was j Maddalena's companion on many distinguished flights. also was killed in the crash, as was another officer, whose name was not ascertained. It was understood they were testing their seaplane in preparation for a flight from Italy to the Panama Canal this summer. First reports said the wings of the plane, collapsed and fell into I the sea. while the fuselage came I down on the beach of the royal estate at San Rossore. Witnesses said the fliers tried to escape with their parachutes I but failed to get off in time. Col. Umberto Mafddalena was one of the greatest of Italian fliers. He piloted the plane which first sighted the survivors of the dirigible Italia when it was wreck- ' ed on its North pole expedition and carried food to them. In 1929 he planned a. flight from Rome to New York but the plan never materialized. He made several endurance flights with Lieut. Fausto Cessoni and in June. 1930, they set a new mark of 67 hours 15 minutes and also a new distance mark over a dosed circuit. Maddalena and Cecconi were members of the Italian seaplane squadron which flew across the South Atlantic to Brazil last year under the command of Air Minister Italo Balta. • o Bernita Kleine Dies at Nine This Morning Bernita Kleine, infant daughter of Mr. and Mrs. William Kleine of Madison township, Allen county, died at nine o’clock this morning, r The infant was born on March 11, 1931. . Surviving are the parents, a sis■jter, Marjorie at home, the grand--parents, Mr. and Mrs. Fred Kleine -of Hoagland and Mr. and Mrs. HenCry Bradtmiller of Allen county. I Funeral services will be held Sats urday afternoon at two o'clock at -(the home neat Williams, with Rev. >!Treu)zch officiating. Burial will be S in the St. John's Lutheran Cemetery north of Decatur.

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I Funeral Services For Mrs. Meibers Friday Funeral services for Mrs. Mary i K. Meibers, pioneer Decat or woman i who died al ker home on West Mon[roe street, Monday evening, will be I held Friday morning at nine o’clock at the 'st. Marys Catholic church. Pall bearers will be her great nephews, who are Robert Meibers, Jesse Niblick, Ralph Reed. Francis Wertzberger, Bernard Clark, and Lawrence Voglewede. Interment will be in the St. Joseph Cemetery. ONE MAN KILLED IN TRAIN CRASH Two Others Injured Seriously Near Monticello Today Monticello; Ind., Mar. 19 (U.R)— Engineer George Harlow. 55, of. : Indianapolis. was killed today | I when he failed to stop bis freight; train at a switch and crashed ; head on into a standing Monon ! passenger train. Two others were ■ injured in the seven I miles north of here. Investigation indicated that i Harlow probably misjudged distance and the speed and weight of his double-header train which was supposed to pull onto a siding to permit the waliting passenger train to pass, en route to Chicago from Cincinnati. Harlow’s fireman, Grant Wilbank, saved his life by jumping from the engine. The passenger train's engineer and fireman. John Miller and Art Robinson, were injured in the crash. None of the passengers was hurt. Frank I.ewis. general superinj tendent for the Monon at Lafayette, said tlie railroad's inquiry i had Been completed, with responsibility for the collision placed on Harlow's error in judgment. Logansport, Ind.. March 19 —(UP) —One man was killed and two others injured seriously early today when a Chicago-bound Monon passenger train crashed head-on today with an Indianapolis bound freight train at Guernsey seven miles north of Monticello. The dead man was George Harlow. 55, Indianapolis engineer on j tlie first engine of the double-head-er freight train, who was crushed Ito death in his cab. Granw Wilbank 45, Indianapolis, Harlow’s fireman, (escaped injury by jumping before jthe crash. The injured were John W. Miller 150, Indianapolis, engineer on the passenger train, both legs broken below the knees, and Art Robinson, 30, Miller’s fireman, who suffered body injuries. They were taken to a hospital. The only story of the accident was given by Claude Smith, engineer on the second engine of the freight. He said that the freight running fast, had passed a switc) before it was able to stop. The line was cleared for traffic after Using blocked for over an hour. Although neither the passenger locomotive nor the first engine of the freight train was derailed. they were damaged badly and could not lie used. With the second freight engine, the freight train was moved to a siding, and the same engine used to take the passenger train into Chicago. Further information disclosed that the passenger train was standing on the main line waiting ■CONTINUED ON PAGE TWO) | Two Communists Die In Riot In Germany Dusseldorf. Germany, Mar. 19(U.R>—Two communists were killed | and 14 others, including four po-) lieemen, were wounded today when communists attempted to reach the city council chamber for a demonstration in favor of labor demands for municipal budget provisions. —— o Labor Official Is Killed by Gangsters Chicago, Mar. 19—(U.R)—William , J. Rooney, business agent for the Sheet Metal Workers Union and a • prominent lalor official, was klll- ■ ed today by three men armed ■ with sawed-off shotguns. Rooney had just left his wife and children at his home in ■ Austin, awes side suburb, when : the men fired three volleys and . fled in an automobile. i Police and union officials were ’ unable to find a motive for the slaying.

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RESCUE VESSELS CARRY SUPPLIES FOR SUFFERERS Fear of Starvation Lessened With News of Arrival Today SHIPS BREAK PATH THROUGH ICE FLOES St. Johns, N. F.. Mar. 19 —4Q.RX • Food, medical supplies and a doctor reached the starving and injured survivors of the wrecked sealing ship Viking today, after a tremendous battle with the ice that buried rescue ships from Horse Island. The rescuers, spurred on by frantic pleas from the sufferers on tlie island, made a super-human effort, and a party from the steamI ers Imogene. Beothic, and Sagona I dragged a dory loaded with supplies across the four miles of treacherous, broken ice to tlie is--1 land. Dr. Moore accompanied the rei lief party. Before they reached I their destination they were met by 'men from tlie island, who had set out across the ice in a desperate attempt to reach the ships. The men from the island were supplied with food and continued to the Imogene, from which they will lie transferred later to the Sagona. Tlie relief party pushed on to the island to aid those still remaining there. The Imogene is the nearest of the seven relief ships to the island, but it is four miles away and unable to force its way through the heavy ice. A northeast gale, with snow following rain, broke early today and was expected to reach the vicinity ot the Viking disaster soon. Grave concern was felt lest men be caught on the ice going to or coming from tlie rescue ships. The captains were advised of the approaching storm. A heavy sea was running and made rescue work exceedingly dangerous because of the shifting and grinding of the ice. St. Johns, N. F.. Mar. 19. —(U.R)t— The crews of seven rescue ships at the scene of the Viking disaster off tlie northern coast of Newfoundland united today in a valiant effort to carry food and medical supplies to survivors on Horse Island, "regardless of difficulties." Both rescuers and survivors defied the increasing dangers of a snowstorm and a strong wind which blew cold from the northeast. in an effort to get food to the island where the natives as well as (CONTINUED ON PAGE THREE) o Farmer Kills Two, Commits Suicide Buchanan, Ga„ March 19—(UP)Tom Latham, a farmer, killed his wife and daughter, Erline 6, today seriously injured four more of his children and then committed suicide with a shotgun. Latham attacked his family witli a hammer, in addition to the dead Grady, 12, Beryl, 10, T. J. 15; and C. B. 8. were struck with the hammer. Srady and Beryl were not expected to live. T. J. Telephoned officers of tlai tragedy. Temporary insanity was blamed by ofifeers for the farmer’s acts. _ o RECEIPTS SHOW RIG INCREASE Income Tax Collections Take Big Jump At Washington Washington, Mar. 19.—(U.R)i— Income tax receipts took a jump today. Collections tabulated March 17 totalled $48,129,417 as compar- ; ed with $32,158,048 for the same day last year. i This brought total collections for ■ March this year to $106,254,208, an i increase over the same period last ■ year, when they were $99,666,010. I This, however, cannot be taken as an index of total collections for the ‘ first quarter as the tabulation rei ports fluctuate from day to day. i , The deficit took a decided ad1, vance today, increasing to $735,1138,522, due to payments into the. ‘ | sinking fund totalling $391,660,000. , ' (CONTINUED ON PAGE EIGHT)