Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 29, Number 69, Decatur, Adams County, 21 March 1931 — Page 1

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■iktaojudbes ■ E.BPLM ! 11) BE INSANE H, tur Man Ordered To Kinomi State 11 os- , ■ital For Treatment ■riOX FOR NEW ■rial TO be made L* r ' 2 -: ■djudge.l in- '» need, Kment ami was ordered com-| ■ t „ the Ki' hnioud , ■ fl , r detenti"n- ■ are and j ■ , , H sn ' ml -in'l’-i’- Hem >' E, r in tn.' Adams Circuit morn in*I ntz aii"i i’.'' * >l,llg r. Khat he would lib' the usual Kiens ami a """"" ■ lt p.-n- •! I" H'o Adams K court March 6 and con- ■ over to March The court ■j ease nil b r advisement ■ ; .; '.'us made thn ■hi K s ,. r who Ims ben confined A'ams county jail since] ■uber 14. ll'd" was brought i Konrt at about 1«»: 30 o'clock | ■ morning by Sherift Burl ■i stated he had exam- ■,:> evid. m " presented at ■wring and had determined t.rv. reni '■ I'M win Opligcr is ■rt insane, is in need of hos■sre and is a proper patient ■ea.ment in a hospital for the ■°. that his being at large is . ■mns to the community.” | ■o'irt in making his decision ■stated, 'that lie (Opliger) ■ legal scttlem- nt in Adams ■' that lie can be conveyed ■ hospital for insane without ■r to life and 1 do hereby ■ said Oplis-er committed to ■ncnil state hospital at Ricli- ■ for detention, care and ■nent in said hospital until , ■tall Ip restored to health or )red or d-< barged according I l«-' The clerk was ordered fply for a iniission papers at f'ger "as arrested on Xovoin--14. 193 d and an insanity inI w"< held tiie following day. L. E. Somers, and Dr. F. XV. , wire named by the court to ' •ct the inquest and their re-J recommended that Mr. Oplik placed in an institution for ■ML An appeal was taken the case was set for hearing NTIXUEn OX D AGE THREE) o nth Charged With Ticket Scalping iianapolis. March 21.— <U.R> — fes of ticket scalping were •gainst Morris Cohen, 19, Inipolis. arrested yesterday near Butler I'niversity fieldhouse. ■ the state high school baskettournament is played. Police Cohens high prices for tickets ■ games had resulted in his I reported to authorities. IKE MEN SEEK UTILITY J 0 8 tot Appointment To “ohc Service Com mis- ; •J Simmons Mentioned Napolis March 21 —(UP) * applications for a position on “Ou. Service Commission have received in the office of CoverHar| y G. Leslie. JMMates seeking the iob of Cal•Mclntosh, Worthington whose °'ofdee expires April 30, In L 8 , King ’ s *'eeter. banker, ... . a . n<i former state senator; Ve J ba rg. North Vernon at--7' and Bernard B. Shively. Mar of the Shively-Spen-nch created the commiss ■blineiy served in the state senI h n 8 '” 1 1913 - 311(1 in 1916. - Democratic nominee for , senator. rZ'J' f’ immons ’ Bluffton, state itiv " at Ve dui ln « th e last legled a SBlon ' a ' ao 1138 been menIt th? a sllcces sor to Mclntosh. fton , s ßame time ' Howard Ellis' lßnluL e .i COmmission expires, but *.H“ said '- ,lere wp re no McMlii. 9 to ' Poßt of Hany Hana 't' 1 ? wll °se term on the y 23 industrial board expires

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IM. E. Brotherhood * To Meet Monday The Men’s Brotherhood of the (Methodist Episcopal church will | meet in the church. Monday evening lat 7:30 o'clock. A short business I meeting will be held after which short talks will he given hy Avon I Burk. Dan Tyndall, Leigh Bowen, C. D. Lewton, V. N. Krick, E. 1). I Colter and C. L Walters The talks I will pertain to the work of the committees or divisions these men rep . resent in the Brotherhood. I After the meeting the March sei- i tion of men will have charge of aj special program and social hour. I Refreshments will be served and ' I the public is invited. No admission | will be charged. GERMAN WAR LEADER DEAD Hermann Muller, Former Chancellor of Germany Died Last Nijrht Berlin, Mar. 21—(U.R) Germany today mourned the death of a Hermann Mueller, former socialist j I coalition - government chancellor - ' who gained world recognition as 4 i one of the German state-men who signed the treaty of Versailles. ’ Mueller, one of the leading post-j war statesmen in republican Germany, died last night after a long ■ fight for life. His condition had ! become steadily worse after an; operation last Saturday. < Pneumonia developed and death resulted at 10:46 p.m. Thursday’ night a blood transI fusion was performed. The doc-' tors held little hope for his recov- ■ ery and he sank steadily until his o death last night. ; I Mueller wae the most influen-' tial moderate leader in the social- ' ist party. It was believed that his I death probably would be felt at ( once in the party's policies. The, 8 radicals are urging stricter observ-. ance of the socialist platform. When Mueller returned from | i Versailles in 1919 after signing D the treaty ending the war with . Germany's defeat, he remarked ; * that the mission was "the saddest i 1 of my life." He was foreign min- ! ’ ister in the cabinet headed by’ ( Gustav Bauer in 1919. After the war, Mueller, already 0 a leader in politics, took an active I part in organizing the political 1 machinery of the new republic. J He became foreign minister id the Bauer regime. The cabinet fell in March. 1920. and Mueller ' became chancellor until the fol-1 1 lowing .Tune, when the Catholic c Central party formed a coalition ( cabnet. following elections. Born in Mannheim, Germany, in | 1 1876. Mueller had a varied and I thrilling career. At 23 he was | ' editor of the socialist newspaper. ] Gerlitzer Volkzeitung. and contin-| s tied in that capacity for seven | ‘ vears. In 1907, he became a mem- , ' her of the directing board of the ' German socialist partv. a position he held until his death. . a Purdue Professor [ £ Seeks A Divorce a Indianapolis, March 21—(UP)— IA divorce suit was on file in superior court here today as a sequel t r lone of the numerous mysterious . ! bombing which have shaken Indiana v during the past year and a half. William F. Heidergott, 54-year-old instructor of practical mechanics in Purdue university, who was in- | jured critically when a bomb ex- h Iploded beneath his auto last Noveni- g ber. seeks a divorce from Mrs. fi Louetta Heidergott, on a charge ot f infidelity. ’ p No clue to the bombing in which I s Heidergott was injured, ever ha« s been revealed. The explosion came just as he was preparing to drive his rflachine from the garage at West Lafayette. Mrs. Heidergott explained that , the divorce suit was “by mutual agreement” and would not be con- ■ tested. p There are five children in the fa- 1 • mily two of whom live at their home h in Indianapolis. v o B Spoke To Pupils i Rev. A. B. Brown, pastor of tue t ■ Baptist Church, spoke to the pupils o ■ of the Central School building, a' t . the chapel period, held Friday morn s Ing in the auditorium. 11 Rev. Brown proved to be an inter T ' esting speaker and told many of hie b life’s experiences while living on ii > the ranch in the West. ‘ 1 ’ Preceding the address, Evelyn Ad- ) ams played a piano solo, and the a i seventh grade chorus sang a muni- ti cal number. 11

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Fly to Rescue Viking Survivors ■■■■■■ill h. “Ml wt-Jr' 1 i "-W J* j rlMiMl Above is Sikorsky amphibian whit'h left Boston yesterdday for Newfoundland to render aid to' marooned survivors of the sealer Viking, film exped'tion ship which was sunk following explosion. Below ' are shown the four aviators who will pilot the ship. From left to n "lit, they are: F. Marion Cooper, , Major Roy Gates, Bernt Balchep and Randy Enolow. i

STORM HAMPERS RESCUE WORK Strong Gale May Prevent Rescue of Men On Horse Island St. Johns. Newfoundland. March 21-XU.R)—A strong northeast gale. Hewing snow and rain, piled up the shifting ice floes arotnid Horse Island today and threatened for the second time the danger of starvation to 108 survivors of the Viking disaster, marooneel on the rescue ship Sagona. Government officials viewed the situation with grave concern. Captain Kean of the Sagona reported hy radio that the food supply was rapidly diminishing, and that the ship was badly overcrowded. Contrary to first reports, the Sagona was sent to the island with only- a small quantity of food. The steamer Prospero was hurriedly dispatched to the relief of tlie Sagona with a supply of food last night, but it was feared that the light vessel would be unable to break through the thick barriers of ice. which are holding the other rescue ships motionless. A new checkup today showed that 12 survivors of tlie explosion of the sealing ship still were on Horse Island, six of them too badly injured to walk Doctor Moore, who was attending them, started to walk from the island to a rescue ship over (he ice yesterday and was nearly caught by the storm, which came up suddenly. He retreated to the island. The minister of marine fisheries here expressed the opinion Miter talking with captains of sealing vessels that there was "no possible chance” of finding any of the missing men alive. Even if the missing men. among (CONTINUED ON PAGE SIX) 0 Southeasterner Hits Florida Coast Pensacola, Fla., March 21 —(UP) Barges were beached and shipping hindered here today when a 48-mil-gale accompanied by heavy ram fall struck the coast. Velocity ot the wind'was higher than had been predicted by weather officials. Even steamships felt the force of the storm. o Anderson Youth Killed By Shot Anderson, Ind.. March 21—(UP) j —A shot fired in the dark from a parked auto proved fatal to Stanley Tyska, 20. center for the St. Mary's high school basketball team, as he was returning from an independent basketball game near here last night. With Tyska in the car wenfour other members of the team. The Youths told police that (is they neared the parked auto, oiie of them shouted for the driver to turn on his dim light so tney could see the road. As they passed the motorist fired. Tyska, sitting between two other boys in the back seat, was struck in the head. He died in St. John s Hospital here an hour later. Special forces recruited by police! and the sheriff here we-e ordered : to hunt for the slayer, but no clues had been found by today.

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Decatur, Indiana, Saturday, March 21, 1931.

Miss Spring Arrived Today Chicago, Marell 21 —(UP) The ' official advent of Spring today meant to the midwest the end of a winter that was one of the most unJ usual in the history of Government I weather "records. Outstanding in many ways, the winter just ended was particularly remarkable in this section in that it was one of the three years since 1870 when the temperature never 1 (once dropped below zero. ’ It was an unusual winter also in /that less rain fell than in almost any year since 1880 and the only ’ storm of any severity did not occur ’ until the season was almost over. ; The month of January was one | Os the driest and one of the warni- | est in the history of the weather | bureau and the mean temperature ' for the entire winter was 6.1 degrees , above the normal 26.3 degrees in ’ | Chicago. During the last month, when a se- | vere storm swept the country, the riean temperature was lowered sevyet al degrees for the season. The 16.4 I inch snow which fell here March 7 and S was much more than on all /other days of the season combined. UNION SERVICE ON GOOD FRIDAY Protestant Churches To Observe Three Hours At Reformed Church Good Friday, April 3, the day on which the Christian world commemorates the Crucifixion of Jesus Christ, will be observed witli a Three Hour Union service of t|ie I Protestant churches at the Ziotr Reformed church. | This service will begin at twelve I o'clock noon and continue until three o'clock. The general theme lor [the program will be “The Call from i the Cross.” The detailed program had not been arranged the Rev. 11. H. Ferntheil. president of the Decatur Ministerial Association stated today, Unit each minister particpating will J be alloted twenty rnnutes for a sermon. Special musical numbers wdl be furnished by groups and choirs representing the different churches. The churches which will partici-' pate in the program are. Methodist Episcopal, United Brethren, Pres- | byterian, Baptist, Christian. Zio.-i /Reformed and First Evangelical. The public is invited to attend the Union service. Separate services (will be held by the St. Mary’s Catholic church and by the Zion Lutheran church on Good Friday. o Cashes Draft And Then Disappears Martinsville Ind. March 21—(UP) —No trace had been found today ot Elva Rhea, 54. farmer living near Eminence, who cashed a ¥1,350 draft for his mother-in-law, Mrs. Rodey Blung, then disappeared. o — Legion Meeting Monday The regular meeting of the American Legion will be held Monday |night at eight o’clock at (he Legion I Hall. All members are urged to be | present.

HOOVER WORKS ON ADDRESS President Hoover Nearing Porto Rico; Begins Preparing Speech Aboard U.S.S. Arizona, at Sea, March 21.— (U.R) — (Via radio) — President Hoover took time out today from his holiday routine of sleeping, playing medicine ball, and generally getting a good rest, to I give consideration to tlie speech he will make in Ponce, Porto Rico. , Monday. I Although Secretary cf War Huri ley brought along much data for the President’s use. Mr. Hoover j hopes to make his visit one of observation rather than decisions, j From the first he has insisted that his ten-day vacation cruise to Porto I Rico and the American Virgin Islands be strictly devoted to getting a rest from official cares. Administration officials regard Theodore Roosevelt, governor geni eral ot Porto Rico, as the best I governor in the history of the island. it is believed the President's ‘visit will strengthen Roosevelt's I position and also inspire confidence jin the natives that Washingt is 'interested in their welfare and j problems. I The officials believe that federal laid to the island has been more ''than generous. The $10,000,000 ' hurricane relief fund was more in I proportion to population than the ; money appropriated for domestic j drought relief. government (also allows the Porto Ricans to | keep the income and customs taxes I collected under federal laws, and (the island receives the same projection under tlie tariff act as do the states. Except fur lliis ten-minute speech, which he will make in reply to Gov-ernor-General Roosevelt's address of welcome; President Hoover will avoid, so far as possible, any official engagements. A formal ship's inspection was ordered for today when the President was to make a tour of the 'battleship, meeting all the officers, j Tropical white uniforms were ord- ! ere'd worn. T o ' -Wabash Street Car Service Abandoned i Indianapolis. Mar. 21.—<U.R)i- The Indiana Service Corporation late yesterday was authorized by the Public Service Commission to abandon its street car service at Wabash and substitute motor bus transportation. Evidence submitted at a commissioner's hearing showed that the company had operated at a loss each year since 1924. o Boy Drowns In White River Friday Indianapolis, March 21. — (U.R) — Harry Akers, 11, was drowned here yesterday when a small raft upon which he was playing was swept into the stronger currents of White river and he jumped into the water. His body was recovered. It was the second drowning in Marion county fol the year.

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QUIET REIGNS AT PRISONS Convicts Locked in Cells At .Joliet And Stateville i Prisons Today Joliet, 111., Mar. 21.- <U.Re Com , parative quiet prevailed but nat-'. icnal troops remained on guard to-| ( day over the Joliet and Stateville.| prisons where riots of the last I, week have resulted in three deaths', and property damage in excess ofi, , $500,060. ' i The danger of further serious' ! rioting apparently had been remov-' led. Almost all the convicts remained locked in their cells 24. hours a day. Many of the men who had been on bread, coffee and water diet fori a full week were in an ugly mood.! but they could do no more than shout their protests. Members of a special legislative | :committee who were present yes-' I terday when a mild uprising broke | j loose planned to call two religious I j men as today's principal witnesses Itn the inquiry to determine the! cause of the riots. These two men, the Rev. Fr. | Elijius Weir, Catholic chaplain, ■and the Rev. George Wliitmeyer, | who was a chaplain until recently, I held widely different opinions as jto tlie causes of the disorders. 11 Wliitmeyer contends lie resigned as chaplain in protest to what he considered cruelty to prisoners. ■ Warden Henry C. Hill, however. ’ says Wliitmeyer was discharged. It has been charged that Whitmeyer helped incite the convicts by i telling some of them that “what . j this prison needs is a good riot." . Father Weir, on the other hand, jis a staunch supporter of Warden Hill. He contends that prisoners have been well treated under Hili 1 and that the whole troulAe lies in I ’ the state's system of indeterminI ate sentences, rather than with of- | (CONTINUED ON PAGE SIXi .Io 2 . Nine .Jurors Picked For Share Trial Minneapolis, Minn., Mar. 21. —<U.R) I —Witli nine jurors selected to hear I I the trial of Phillip (Flippy) Share 'I on murder charges, the district ' ] court was adjourned over the weekend. Share is accused of the fatal of Sam Miller, Minneap- ’ | oils book-maker. 0 TO REORGANIZE ; FARM BOARD 1 i President Hoover Desiri our of Appointing Able Men to Board t Washington March 21 —(UP) — ’ Reorganization of the federal farm 1 board is being nndertaken by Pre- ' sident Hoover, his associates revealed here today. ’ Mr. Hoover is represented as being eaper to appoint prominent ■ farm leaders at the head of this ■ government agency, to see what ’ they can do about the critical situaI tion agricultural is now facing. The appointment of Samuel H. Thompson, president of the Amerii can farm bureau federation is be- - lieved to be a part of this new presii dentlal policy. Following is believed . to be a part of this new presiden- - tial policy. Following shortly will be the appointment of another outstanding farm organizer to replace Samuel R. McKelzie of Nebraska, who will resign June 15. l L ? Canadian Liner Runs Into Fog k ______ ’ Glasgow, Scotland — March 21 — > (UP) —Two hundred passengers at board the Canadian Pacific liner I Mont Clare were removed by stun II boats today and latlded on rocky - Island as the Mont Clare lifted dani gerously after it went aground in a i heavy fog. The Mont Clare was believed, to be badly damaged. o L No Clue To Robbers ‘ of Evansville Bank Evansville, Ind.. March 21 —(UP) ' Authorities here were withou: ’ clues today to six men who late yes- > terday robbed the North Side State I bank of cash and securities aggre- ? gating between SIO,OOO and $20,000. Six bank einployes and three pat--4 rons were forced hy the robbers to i lie on the floor while cages were; Rifled.

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Habeas Corpus Writ To Be Filed Soon Akron, ().. March 21 —(UP) —A petition for a writ of Habeas Corpus to secure the release of Paul F. Kassey, charged with criminal syndicalism mid attempted sabotage against the United States Navy's great dirigible "Akron” will lie filed Monday in the court of appeals, his attorney, Mrs. Yetta Land, announced today. : The announcement was made after tlie attorney, noted for her defense of Ohio Syndicalism cases had protested a continuance of $20,000 bond ordered when the preliminary hearing was continued until next Thursday at request of tlie i state. o UNEMPLOYMENT REACHES DEPTH More Than Six Million Men Idle In January; Slow Improvement Washington, Mar. 21. —(U.RT — I Secretary of Commerce Lamont today fixed the total of the nation's unemployed at 6.050.000 at tlie depth of the business depression in January but offered encouragement. with the official estimate at this high figure, of a slow improvement since. This figure represents the estimate of able-bodied unemployed who were seeking work on the basis of the department's new census. The administration estimate, based on a careful liouse-to-honse canvass by 4,700 enumerators in 19 large cities, is two-and-half times the unemployment figure announced by the census bureau as of last April, is higher than the count of the American Federation of Labor, and approximates that made by opponents of administration policy in the senate. “This special census of the unemployed was undertaken during the month when unemployment normally reaches a seasonal peak" j Lamont said, “and also at the I time which we believe was the highest point of abnormal unemployment due to the effects of the world-wide business depression.” Lamont arrived at his estimate by taking the total of unemployed in the 19 cities surveyed on April I. 1930, which was 775,565. the number jn January. 1931, which was 1.930.666. and applying the percentage increase, 149. to the total figure for the whole country last April 1. which was 2.429.062 under the revised April 1 figure. In addition to the 1.930.666 unemployed in the 19 cities, there were 368.148 persons having jobs but laid off without pay. more than two and a half times as many as last Apt il 1. These were not counted as “unemployed." but Lamont said “an indeterminate number of them properly could be classed among the jotlless.” Tlie percentage of unemployed to the total population varied from 6.5 per cent in San Francisco to 11. per cent in Detroit, the automobile manufacturing center. Lamont said his estimate "assumes that the percentage increase of unemployment since last April has been as great in the rural areas and smaller cities as in the large cities covered in the census, and also that there has been no migration of unemployed persons from the smaller towns and rural sections to the larger centers of population. “If, as has been reported, there has been a movement of unemployed persons to the larger cities, it can be concluded that the total .CONTINUED ON PAGE SIX) o Balchen Forced To Give Up Trip St. Johns New Brunswick Bernt Balchen was forced to give up his attempt to take off for Newfoundland to go to search for Viking victims today when an overload of fuel prevented his huge anthibian plane from leaving the water. o Mrs. Hal Roach To Seek A Divorce Las Vegas. Nevada March 21 — (UP)—Mrs. Hal Roach is in Las Vegas to secure a divorce from her husband, motion picture producer, the United Press was informed today. Mrs. Roach was said to have come here under an assumed name about December 15. and has been living in a private home, awaiting j passage of 6 months residence here before she may apply for a divorce.

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LOGANSPORT IS DEFEATED IN SEMI-FINAL Score 23 to 17 Favor of Muncie; Wiley And •Greencastle Play SEVERAL UPSETS IN TODAY’S CLASSIC BULLETIN Butler Fieldhouse. Indianapolis. Mar. 21. — U.R> — The Muncie Bearcats defeated Logansport. 23-17, this afternoon. Muncie now goes to the finals and will play the winner of the Wiley - Greencastle game. Butler Fieldhouse, Indianapolis, Mar, 21.—<U.R> — Top heavy victories by Greencastle and Wiley of Terre Haute in ; the lower bracket this morni ing completed the quarter fin'als of the 21 annual high 'school basketball tournament. Greencastle and Wiley went to the semi-finals at 3:30 this afternoon with the latter a alight favorite, to meet the winner of the Muncie-Ijogansport same an hour earlier in tlie wind-up of the clan- , sic at 8 o'clock tonight. Greencastle was never headed by Elkhart but the first half of tlie Rushville-Wiley contest was on ! even terms. Rushville finishing one ! i point in the lead. Muncie remained as the only . team in the semi-finals that has L ever won a state championship, ( lightening the interest, after the . great number of up sets which has i befallen tournament plays this . year since the sectional gums opened two weeks ago. : Butler Fieldhouse, Indianapolis, Mar. 21. —(U.R) — State high school ' basketball champions of the past ■ two years were eliminated from ‘ the 1931 race in two brilliant bus- • ketball games here this morning, ' leaving only Muncie among recent ' champions, in the running for the ' i crown. First Muncie defeated Washing- [ ton, last year's champions, 21 to 19. Then Ixigansport, considerable 1 of a dark horse iu the tourney, as- ’ tonished the 15,000 spectators with a 25 to 21 victory over Frankfort, 1929 champs. Logansport was ' headed only once in the game, and then only for a matter of seconds. Muncie and Logansport were matcher in the first semi-finai tilt this afternoon, at 2:30, with heavy ’ odds that the victor would win the final game tonight. Greencastle won its way into the semi-finals with a surprisingly easy 29 to IS victory over Elkhart, and will meet the winner of the Rushville-Wiley (Terre Haute) game in the second semifinal ' (CONTINUED ON PAGE SIX* AX MURDERER FOUND GUILTY I Terre Haute Man Found Guilty of Killing Wife; Death Recommended Terre Haute, Ind., March 21— (UP)—A verdict of “guilty of first degree murder” was returned by a jury in Vigo Circuit Court here la'.e yesterday, after deliberating two hours, against Lawrence Johnson, 22, ax-slayer of his 16-year-old wile. 1 The death penalty was recommended. Judge John P. Jefferies set Mar. 1 27 for sentencing after defense at- ' torneys indicated they wished to file a motion for a new trial. 1 Johnson was arrested on the (CONTINUED ON PAGE SIX) o Prince of Wales Continues on Trip Bennos Aires. March 21—(UP) — i The Prince of Wales and his bro- ■ ther Prince George, ended their visit at Argentina today and depart- • ed by plane for Montevideo, capitol of Uruguay. > Plans from the Argentine navy ( escorted the Princes on their jouri ney. The Prince of Wales opened , the British Empire exhibition and ■ will visit Brazil before returning to . England.