Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 29, Number 68, Decatur, Adams County, 20 March 1931 — Page 1

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diwfflll SEARCH -JWING MEN liteo today ■ i Xl® Balchm And Two ,"" sn Banions Leave in • for Horse Wand i'ARIA ■>; \| ri;March 2'> — U.R) — ■jalchen. vouthtul hero ■- a perilous air advenP Brteu for the far north X* conduct an act ial ■for missing members ■ xealer Viking expedi- ■» 4 4 Bnt silver-winged Sikor. ■iphibion. with Balehen ■controls and two other aboard. took off from rs . ■irport at lo;*.:: a. tn. eSt.. vr te<l flight to St. .John, re. schodnio.l I II route ■ Island. Newfoundland. ftl tikeoff was perfect, run of about 200 yards r? i.-.ft the odor covered , ■: the plane s nose lifted ■ ’5-niile northeast wind. s . Amphihion < limbed slowit attained an altitude of w feet and within three ■ was lost to view, heading At northeast. beside Balchen as the off was Randy Enslow. Charles A. Lindbergh. in ’he roomy cabin was ■ (’. Cooper, directing the in behalf of Dr. I-ewis ■ of New York, father of issell. one of those missthe Viking disaster. distance to St. John. N. at Tto miles and hoped to land there with- ■ tears. ,\fter refuelling at he and hi- associates plantake off immediately for if unfavorable ' fri.m si John yesterlanding conditions pert'--i About 15 minutes ■ the dHay-'l takeoff. Balchen I) !>ri»-t far.-wa ii radio speech ■ Columbia lm..kup of 77 stapresent at the field could his words above the roar Sikorsky's two 45(1 liorsemotors. posing for news reel talkand Iris companions. J) ■die wii'a. i.iml the rigors of ( . r weather, stepped into the i|. listened briefly to the purr ct> ■ motors. f und it smooth and |?l limn sped down the SV ■ , , had waited hours during ii| Aniphibion finally got (I ■tinl'El) on PAGE EIGHT) 1 B" Jackets ■ Guests of Lions of the Deeatur high HB basketball team were guests Uion's Club, at the regular held in the Christian Tuesday evening. A ban- ■* as ser ved by the ladies of and talks were given rl ' B. Horton, CltalDwight Schnepp, and Snedeker. (Bs If move office I POST OFFICE ■ Un ty Agent’s Office ■y Be Moved to New ■ost Office Building B race Archbold, county agriSB 1 agent has received a quesre concerning his needs for m witb the intimation that ■. have quarters in the new ce building now under conhere. B "'as also informed that if the K Jn" la<le he WOu!(1 be f,lrn ' ■. new offiee fixtures and ■ p a space 20x20, probably bas Pment of the building B | prance on the west sifie. K ‘s done in almost all cities HiT>/o gt)Vernment owns their Kai L™ ° ffice bei ’ig a semiKe nP ' the letter stated. ■ „ (1 agents office 18 now ’Bt hm? the Becond floor in the ■county'* an,? is mail,taiued b >’

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| Easter Cantata To Be Given March 26 The cantata, "Eastertide" will be presented by pupils of t.ie Adams iCounty high schools at the Menno nite church at Berne, Thursday eveiiiing, March 26, instead of March 27 las previously announced. The date | was changed because of the senior ]< lass play at Berne, which will be March 27. j Those who will sing vocal solos I are Woodrow Yoder. Hartford town ship; Leopard Runyon. Wabash I township; Doris Foreman, JefferIson township; Dolores IxingenbeiIger, Monroe; Jean Houk. Kirkland 'township; Dorothy Baker. Hartford township; Austin Merriman,- Pleasant Mills; and Albert Shifferiy, Pleasant Mills.

TRICKERY USED TO KILL BILL Walter Myers Charges Senate With Deceit In Killing Tax Bill New Albany, Ind.. Mar. 20. —(U.R) —Walter Myers, Democratic speaker of the house of representatives during the 1931 general assembly, made his first public explanation of his belated signature and alleged mutilation of the individual income tax bill in a speech before some 200 Democrats at a Jackson club meeting here last night. Charging that the Republican senate attempted to "railroad” a revised income tax measure through the house by “deceit, trickery and legislative fraud." Myers said he felt compelled to “tell the truth” concerning hfs signature of the bill as of March 10, when the /losing date for the legislature was March 9. “After the Democratic house had passed a complete income tax law in two bills. Republican politicians in the Senate killed the corporation income tax bill in order to put the individual income tax law in such shape that the courts could not sustain it,” he said. "Then tlfby attempted to jam through the maimed and crippled bill by trickery, deceit and legislative fraud so that they could fool the people by saying that some kind of an income tax law had been passed and so that they could use it as a club to try to knock out congressional reapportionment. “Just before adjournment, lieutenant Governor Bush endeavored to intimidate the speaker of the house because he refused to become a party to the trickery practiced in the senate. “The statement that the bill was mutilated was false. Even the Governor fell from the dignity of his office to speak of mutilation. If the Governor told the true version for vetoing the income tax bill, on the same ground he should have vetoed the congressional ieapportionment and appropraition bills. “To be valid, both the individual and corporation bills had to be passed. “If Lieutenant Governor Bush is sincere, let him explain what happened to the concurrent resolution providing that the tax survey commission be continued for two more ■ years in order to study how a i sound means of tax relief might be I brought about.” I Al Capone Wins Tilt In Court Chicago, Mar. 20.— <U.R>— “Scari face Al" Capone won a tilt with the law today when his vagrancy hearing was continued by Judge Frank N. Padden until April 3, while the state amends its complaint against the notorious gangster. Capone slipped into the criminal courts building through a rear door and rode up to Padden's courtroom in an elevator reserved for county jail prisoners. He had on his best courtroom smile and a brown ensemble- —suit, shoes, spats, hat and tie. Spectators left the Leo V. Brothers trial in an adjoining courtroom to gap at Capone. o Gar Wood Breaks Speed Boat Record Miami Beach, Fla., March 20— (UP)—Gar Wood of Detroit broke the World’s speed boat record on Indian Creek here today, averaging 100.6 miles per hour in two official trials over the mile course in his latest creation, Miss America IX. The old record was 98.76 M. P. H. held by the late Sir Henry Segrave of England.

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TWO RIOTS ARE SUBDUED TODAY AT PRISON Convicts In Cell Block “F” Cause Trouble As Investigation Starts PRISONERS ARE LOCKED IN CELLS Joliet, 111,, March 20—(UP)—Two riots occurred in quick succession today among 723 convicts in cel l block “F” of the Stateville peniten-l,:a-y. The Prisoners were locked in itheir cells, unable to carry out their ; threats of violence, when the second i l uprising occurred. They broke out into jeering, cursi ing and shouting, hurling every loose article they could find through the bars of their cells. Joliet, 111., Mar. 20—(U.R>—Members of a special legislative committee admittedly were so puzzled tney "did not know where to start” as they assembled today to investi- ! gate convict riots which have claimed three lives and resulted in I more than $500,000 damages at Stateville and Joliet penitentiaries within a week. As the legislators inspected ruins I of seven Stateville buildings, prep-; oratory to opening their formal I hearing, 600 of the 700 guards mo-1 bilized during Wednesday's mutiny and fires remained on duty. These enforcements included two! i companies of National Guards and 1100 state police. They were sta-l tinned inside and outside the mod ' ■el Stateville prison and at old Joliet, where the first riot was held last Saturday. A total of 4,702 convicts are in the two penitentaries. Other guard# were about the- worn'en’s prison, where a riot was threatened. This unit is across the ! street from old Joliet. j All except 680 of the men at old I Joliet remained locked in their I (CONTINUED UN P‘GE EIGHT DEATH CLAIMS FRANK BROKAW Well-Known Decatur Citizen Dies at Hospital Early This Morning B. Frank Brokaw, 72, well-known retired farmer of this city, died at the Adams County Memorial Hospital at 12:38 o’clock this morning following an illness of ten days of complications. Mr. Brokaw was removed to the hospital Thursday afternoon. The deceased was born in Kosciusko county, Ohio, December 28, 1858, the son of William and Eliza Young-Brokaw. On November 25, ISBO, he was united in marriage to Ellen Kline, who survives, together with three children. They are Vesta Brokaw of Monmouth; Chancey Brokaw and Mrs. Ruth Marbach of this city. .Eight grandchildren also survive. One grandchild preceded the deceased in death. A brother, William Brokaw of Cleveland, Ohio, and three sisters, Mrs. Laura McKinley of Cleveland, O„ Mrs. Lillie Peeler of Portland, Oregon, and Mrs. Sarah Ellen Robbins of California, also survive. Mr. and Mrs. Brokaw celebrated their fiftieth wedding anniversary in this city last November. Funeral services will be held Sunday afternoon at 230 o'clock at the home, 710 High street, with Rev. Charles Tinkham of Warren, formerly pastor of the Methodist, church here, officiating. Interment will be > the Decatur cemetery. — o Classes Dismissed For B. B. Tourney The regular classes at Decatur high school were dismissed at two o'clock this afternoon, and a radio was installed by a local merchant so that the pupils could listen to the broadcast of the state tournament basketball games. o Plan to Open Golf Course on Easter Bernard Clark manager of the Decatur Country club stated today that plans were being made to open the golf course on Easter Sunday, April 5.

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Guard Against New Riots at Joliet -k fWI J® I hMHr'iwlw “.. State highway police marching into old Illinois state penitentiary at*Jidiet. 111., where they will be stationed as a precaution against new outbreaks.

PUPILS TO GIVE ANNUAL PLAY North Ward Pupils To Present, “Under The Sea”, March 27 The pupils of the North Ward School will present a musical ptay entitled “under the Sea” in the School auditorium, Friday. March 27. John Parrish, principal of the North Ward School announced | today. The presentation by the North I Ward school pupils is an annual J event, and heretofore lias been of a I flower garden nature. This year an entirely new arrangement for the small children has been chosen, entitled “Under the Sea." The scene of the production is laid in 'he bottom of the sea, ami the audience can fancy ; tself transported to the very bottom of the | sea where little mermaids skip gaily [about. They are greatlv alarmed 'when they discover a human child ' which had fallen into the sea when a boat tipped over. The Sea Queen, merboys. school ■master Porpoise, and little oysters all have prominent parts in the play land these parts will be taken by the I pupils of the school in clever appropriate costumes. The game of (London Bridge and a school scene add much to the clever lav. Tickets for the play were placed on sale Thursday, and may be pro(CONTINUED ON PAGE EIGHT) o HOOVER GETS ON OEGK EARLY President Appears on Deck of Arizona While Sailors Do Work Aboard U. S. S. Arizona, at Sea, March 20.—<U.R)— Even the President of the United States must regulate his habits to the routine aboard a battleship on a “shakedown" cruise, President Hoover found today. Relaxing with pleasure on his vacation cruise to the VlrgitW Islands and Porto Rico, he got up before 7 a. m. and went on deck for exercise. He found the sailors up before him, however, and busy at a good speed through a calm was forced to forego his contemplated workout with the medicine ball and return to his quarters. The warm waters of the gulf stream laved the big warship as she ploughed steadily southward at a goo dspeed through a calm 1 sea, with only a gentle swell. The weather was warm and the sky overcast, with occasional drizzles. The Arizona had covered onefifth of the distance to Porto Rico , at 8 a. m.. when she was 300 miles east of Charleston,

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Navy Orders Search For Lost Aviator Manila. P. 1., March 20—(UP) —I All available United States Navy, units in the Asiatics were ordered I converged today to search 27,0001 square miles of water for Willlair i G. Brophy missing American aviator | Convinced that Brophy never reached the Island of Luzon on a I flight from Shangitai to Manila. ' Rear Admiral Charles B. McVay. I Jr., marked two wide areas off Hu ! Phillippine Islands as the centers of 'the search. DEATHFOLIOWS BIRTH OF CHILD — Father Killed on Way to i Store to Have Prescription Filled — . | Greenfield. Ind., Mar. 20. —(U.R>— i Clarence Brooks, 35, local laborer. was killed by a Pennsylvania passlenger train here at 10:48 last night, 1 while driving to a drug store to fill a prescription for Dr. J. L. Allen, who'was attending his wife in jOiaternity. The child was born almost at the [ moment that the father was killed. I The engine to Pennsylvania passI enger train No. 214 was de railed (when it struck the auto, and was i held up nearly three hours while a I wrecking crew put it back on the 'track. No passengers on the train ; were injured, however. Brooks was driving Dr. Alien’s I machine. He ran onto the tracks ! from an alley, and was unable to i get out of the train’s’path with the , machine. Witnesses said he had | ample time to jump, but apparently I was determined to save the borI rowed machine. The widow and six children survive. Muncie Fans Buy Bogus Tourney Tickets Muncie, Ind.. Mar. 20—(U.R)— Many Muncie residents expecting 1 tp attend the state basketball tourney which opened at Indianap- • olis today will find someone elsp occupying their seats, it was feared today after Fred Cosgrove, In1 dianapolis, was arrested here on • a charge of selling counterfeit > i tickets for the game. The counterfeit was detected by > a woman after a large number ' were believed to have been sold i at $5 each. Cosgrove Bed but was • arrested later at the home of velai tives. o Tax Collections Show Big Drop 1 Washington, March 20 —(UP) — ‘ Income tax collections reported to the treasury today of Match 18 [showed a sharp drop under those ■ collected on the same day last year > $88,691,515 as compared with $214, > 524,500 collected on the same day last year.

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KASSEYPLEADS NOT GUILTY t l" I Man Charged With Plot To Destroy Dirigible Pleads Not Guilty Akron, 0.. Mar. 2(1. — (U.R> —Paul F. Kassey, 37, charted with a plot I to destroy the world’s largest dirigle, the Akron, pleaded not guilty I today to charges of violating the [Ohio criminal syndicalism laws. "By spoken word and by word of mouth," Kassey, a rivet inspector for the Goodyear-Zeppelin Corporation, was charged with communicating to fellow employes a plot to'destroy the Akron, now in i process of construction for the United States navy, as the great lest lighter than air craft ever deI signed. The plea of not guilty was entered before Police Judge Frank Harvey after officials quoted him with a confession and a boast that he was "more valuable to the com ; munist party than 100 ordinary ' communists." Bond was fixed at ! $25,000 which he was unable to i provide. He was returned to jail lto await preliminary hearing toi morrow. The inference of a political plot shied officials somewhat from their preliminary belief that the asserted machinations were self-contriv-(CONTINUED ON PAGE EIGHT)

TO GIVE PLAY AT MONMOUTH (Seniors And Juniors of Monmouth School to Give Play Mar. 25 The Junior and Senior classes of I the Monmouth High School will present the play entitled. “Marys Castle in the Air”. Wednesday night March 25, in the Monmouth high school auditorium. The date for the play had first been scheduled for Thursday, ( Mairh 26. but due to a conflict with i the cantata to be presented by the [Adams County high schools at Berne ion that night, the date has been changed to March 25. Tickets which I have been distributed and which I bear the first date will be good when presented at the door of the auditorium on Wednesday night. The play is a three act comedy drama written by Lillian Mortimer, and takes place during the month ot' June, in a little village called Meadowdale, near New Yoik City. The plot is an effective dramatization of a daughter's loving self sacrifice. Left penniless by a business failure ot her father, who has committed suicide, and with a blind mother to support. Mary is the shining example of a girl strong in ad- . versity. The cast of characters is as fpl- ; lows: Mrs. Jenkin:! —a neighbor of the (CONTINUED ON PAGE EIGHT) FONERAL TO BE HELD SUNDAY Services for William J. Cowan, 65, to be Held At Pleasant Mills I Funeral services for William J. Cowan, 65, former Decatur man, will be held Sunday afternoon at I the residence, 1211 Orchard street, Fort Wayne at 12:30 o’clock, and ,at the Pleasant Mills Baptist . church at two o’clock. Rev. W. H. . Day of Bluffton, will officiate and i burial will be at Pleasant Mills. Mr. Cowan died at the St. Joseph's Hospital at Fort Wayne, - Thursday morning at three o’clock • of complications which resulted I from an accident 12 days ago in i which he suffered a fracture of the - right leg when struck by a truck. The deceased lived with his son Russell and was employed at the American Cable Corporation plant I in Ft. Wayne for the past 15 years. Surviving are the wife, Mattie; . the son, Russell of Fort Wayne; , three daughters, Mrs. Alta Moser < [ and Mrs. Emma Kline, both of Fort Wayne, and Mrs. Ada Zimmerman ■ of Elkhart; a sister, Mrs. William .(Rider of Monroeville; a half-sister, ’ I Mrs. Lavine Cummings pf Sheldon, Mo., and 10 grandchildren.

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Jury to Try Long Secured at Portland Portland, Ind., Mar. 20—(Spec ial) The Jury trying the' case of Joseph A. Long, prominent produce man, charged with criminal assault, was secured late yesterday and the trial got under way today with Judge W. H. Eichhorn, Bluffton, presiding as special judge. Roscoe D, Wheat, Portland and P. E. Kenney, Celina, are attorneys for Long. Zoe M. Wyatt is the prosecuting attorney. Owing to the nature ot the case a special court reporter, T. 11. Pauhnan, Fort Wayne, has been employed to take the evidence. STATE OFFICERS TO ATTEND MEET Knights of Pythias Plan For District Meet to be Held March 26 Plans were completed at a meeting last night for lite district meeting of the Knights ot Pythias to be held at the K. of P. Home in this city on Thursday, March 26. The meeting will be in the nature of a get-together of Knights of Pythias from Adams. Wells and Whitley counties and will be attended by state and district officers. It was decided not to hold an initiation in connection with the meeting. The evening will be devoted in carrying out an interesting program and addresses by state officers. Carl R. Mitchell, Indianapolis, grand keeper of Records and Seals will attend the meeting. Other K. of P. officers who will attend are Edwin R. Thomas, Grand prelate and Thomas Roach, district deputy grand master, both of Fort Wayne. Judge Dore B. Erwin of this city past grand master of the Indiana Knights of Pythias will give one of the principal talks at the meeting. Hon. ('. L. Walters, Decatur attorney will also address the Knights. Henry Dellinger, chancellor commander is in charge of the program. o BOYS WEEK TO BE OBSERVED Week’s Program for Boys of Decatur To Open On April 26 Boys Week. April 26 to May 2, will be observed in Decatur again this year and the program of activities as outlined by International Boys Week were adopted by the Decatur Rotary club, sponsors of the program, at a meeting of the club last evening. Chairmen were also named to carry out the program and final details will be completed at a meeting of tlie Rotary club on March

Following is the program of activities for the week: Sunday, April 26 —Boys Day in ,church, Avon Burk, chairman. Monday, April 27 —Boys Loyalty Day, Dr. Fred Patterson, chairman. Tuesday, April 28—tloys Day in school. M. F. Worthman, chairman. It was suggested by the committee that fathers visit their children in school on this day. Wednesday, April 29 —Boys Day in Athletics. Ferd O'Brien. Coach Herb Curtis, chairman. Ribbons will be awarded to contest winners. Thursday, April 30 —Boys Health Day and evening at home. Dr. C. C. Rayl, chairman. Friday, May I—Boysl—Boys Day in citizenship. John W. Tyndall, chairman. Saturday, May 2—Boys Day out of doors. Bryce Thomas and local (CONTINUED ON PAGE EIGHT) o — Bandits Use Machine Guns In Hold-Up Philadelphia, March 20 —(UP)-— Eleven men? armed with sub machine guns and sawed off shotguns, held up the 70th Street and Elmwood Avenue branch of the City National Bank shortly before noon today. Working with, military precision, six of the bandits covered the three tellers, four clerks, six cifstomero and special officer and a patrolman and then forced them into the vault Hastily they scooped up 335,000 and dashed out through the crowds which had congregated as news of the holdup spread.

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BLUFFTON IS DEFEATED BY FRANKFORT Favorites In Tourney Roll Up Nine-Point Lead Over Bluffton SECOND ROUND STARTS TONIGHT Butler Fieldhouse, Indianapolis, Mar. 20.——Frankfort will oppose Logansport in the second round of the quart-er-final in the Indiana high school championship basketball series al 9:30 a. m. tomorrow, by virtue of the easy 28 to 19 victory the Hotdogs won this afternoon from Bluffton. Morning Games Indianapolis, March 20. — (U.R> — Muncie's Bearcats and Washington, defending state champions, will meet on the Butler fieldhouse court at 3:30 tomorrow morning for tho first quarter-final game of the twenty-first annual high school basketball tournament. Muncie opened the championship tourney litis morning with an easy 37 to 16 victory over Kendallville, but the second contest was a far different story. Dejernet, negro center for Washington. who has been the hero of championship play for three years, brought victory out of what appeared to be almost certain defeat, with two field goals in the last minute of play, overcoming a threepoint lead. The last one went through the hoop five seconds before the game ended. The final score was 23 to 22. Washington. 1930 state champions, eliminated Shortridge <h Indianapolis from the running, 23 to 22, in as thrilling a battle as ever was waged in a tournament in Indianapolis. “Big Dave” Dejernet. Washington's negro center flashed under the hoop five seconds before the end of the game, to loop the winning points, duplicating his feat of a minute before. The half ended witli Washington | leading, 13 to 11, but three minutes before the final gun it looked like a Shortridge victory—and a sensational upset. The fieldhouse was a bedlam (CONTINUED ON PAGE EIGI1T) 0 Gov. Roosevelt Asks For Walker Data Albany, N. Y„ Mar. 20.-(U.R)— Gov. Roosevelt today called for all legal data bearing on charges made against Mayor Walker of New York, preparatory to devoting himself to a week-end study of the accusations on which the city affairs committee based the petition for Walker’s removal. Faced with a situation almost unprecedented insofar as its bearing on the official and political fortune of men prominent in national as well as state affairs is related, the governor maintained what he termed a judicial silence. , o YEGGS ROB BANK IN EVANSVILLE Five Bandits Get Away With $17,000 From North Side Bank Evansville. Ind., March 20 —(UP) —Five bandits robbed the Nor h Side State Bank of Evansville ot' $17,000 late today, and escaped in a green sedan while police were enroute to the bank. The bandits drove down to the- center of town and escaped in heavy traffic. Herman J. Solke, 30, cashier, wan struck over the head with one of the bandit's revolvers, when he stepped on the burglar alarm. Eight other employees were forced to lie on the floor while the robbery was going on. o Rogers Caldwell Is Indicted For Fraud Nashville, Tenn.. Mreh 20 —(UP) —Kogers Caldwell, president of the defunct Caldwell and Co., and the Bank of Tennessee here, was indicted by the Davidson county grand jury today on (barges of accepting deposits after he knew the bank to be insolvent.