Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 29, Number 93, Decatur, Adams County, 18 April 1931 — Page 1

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WRICANS ARE MED FROM |kE A of riots || People Rescued BL, i Nicaraguan TertKHtory By Marines ■lies ■ I \RE SEPARATED * s < i "lain, in Missis- -«■•■ r.ulioi April 18.— return'"/■■'i"'' l '':" l soil today after , xp.-i i.'iices in Nicar- . of them and 'ld. •■!). grief stricken . loved ones and separi(. I heir families. of the Cefaln. rescue nissm^Bhil l "' Sta,ldard Fruit Company, whose were tl.e object of the ..narks near Puerto Caat half mast when the he entered tile mouth of the her way to New OrTh" bodies of two of ten . dead were on board. Cap- . arter-MTilli.i!.. T. Selser. .Jackson. ."ittfe^HS. -- - widow accompanied Cefal.i was to dock in New late today. w< re forced to rush " Ih> Cefaln when Marines eniiser Asheville failed to ive protection to AmerV Vegas ’ return ’ ii- X'-w Orleans, said today. Pevelle. refugee, said nathe district were in symGeneral Sandino but citizens there w;ere bit-»a.ain-t the failure of the Unitgovernment to give them protection. raids were reported in zas district. Dcvelle the Marines offered W Lloyd. IS, told of beB.k"l .’.own by the insurrect- ■ as In- was trying to escape, his face and head, he made his escape. Mama Aheran, Clarksville. ■. told a gruesome story of in■p atrocities. were chopped to pieces," Parts of the bodies were Tim heads of four men in the first outbreak were pl;ii-ed on stumps, their bodies lying nearby." m — —o 800 l I’lav Is Repeated presentation of the grade play, "Looks Like met with success in the high school auditorium, night, when the auditorium filled to capacity. IEtT' 11 111 P seven characters nM part in the three-act play his role in a splendid |B P and the appreciative V"<" enjoyed the youthful I^M 8 and actresses. Moyer and Robert Engetarried two of the princi- ... the play, were chosen H|B ,hp seventh grade pupils. or. l.cstra. comprising sixth, l,1: mill eighth grade pupils :l number of musical selecB 1 and tl.e doll dance, with '^B lia Ellzatath Calland leading dance was a picturesque Alt characters were "A" |HK! ~° — fl COAL MINE ■I UNION LOOMS ■ n(, is Delegates Hesitate K n Immediate Form- | ation Plans z K? I-"uls, April 18—(U.R) -Hesiof Illinois delegates to suptniniediate founding of a new coal miners union, sent ■htsentatives of 45,000 miners in ■■' states back to their locals M?*' wit!l an “agitation and eduIB."/' plan " the sole result of the 'B, 1 . 811,1 file" anti-Lewis conven- » here. SIL att ! tutle of the majority of K mnois delegates was that only 10,000 minKeth Btate ’ could not predict era ne w union would have t!' pport of thelr local unions, K’“-^~^2L^ ht be put on the ■ C ONTINUED on PAGE SIX)

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| , Again a Bride . f Slim < v /I; li W# AM IB * * ip* - * K I, Helen Twelvetrees, screen actress (above), who recently secured a divorce from Clark Twelvetrees, has become the liride of. Frank Woody, Hollywood realtor. | She said her second voyage on the; matrimonial bark does not mean , that she will abandon her career I in motion pictures. Formerlocal MAN PAROLED — Russel Barone, Convicted of Auto Banditry In 1921 Freed Word was received Friday by' Judge D. B. Erwin and County I Clerk Bernice Nelson that Gover- , nor Harry G. Leslie had paroled Russel Barone, 3fi, of Adams' county, convicted October 11. 1921 and sentenced to serve from five to 14 years and 10 years in the state prison, on charges of assault I and Battery with intent to kill and automobile banditry in con- 1 nection with the Preble bank rob-J bery on June 9, 1921, at which time Clarence Smith, cashier was seriously wounded and Edna Werling tank clerk, was slightly wounded. Word of Barone’s parole, after he had served almost 10 years of his sentence recalled Adams county's first attempted bank hold-up. Barone, then 26 years of age and Donald McDaniels, 23. were driven to Prelife by Eugene Cole. Fort Wayne taxi driver ataut noon on June 9, 1921. The two bandits entered the bank, while Cole waited outside in ,CONTINUED ON PAGE SIXI SIAMESE KING STARTS EAST Will Undergo Operation For Eye Trouble In New York City Vancouver, B. C., April 18 —(U.R) —Oriental royalty was speeding eastward today on a special train carrying King Prayadhipok, Queen Ramtai-Barni and their entourage to New York, where his highness will undergo an operation for hij eyes. Hectic day receptions prior to debarkation activities ended about 6:30 last night, and at midnight the regal train left here bearing an ill monarch and his loyal companion on their cross-country jour- ] ney. , The train will enter the United • Stales at Portal, N.D., late tomorrow 1 . Canadian officials will be i replaced there by Americans, who will escort the royal party to New York. Although King Prajadhipok admittedly was seriously ill and 1 (CONTINUED ON PAGE SIX) 0 —— < Woodmen Select Site Logansort, Ind., April 18—(UP) Indiana Woodmen of the world sei- ' ected Evansville as the site for the 1933 Biennial convention a| the i state gathering here.

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SOPHOMORE IS 1 DECATUR HIGH HONOR LEADER Miss Minnie Moyer Has Highest Grades; Four Tied For Second THIRTY-EIGHT ARE ON ROLL Miss Minnie Moyer, sophomore in Decatur high school led the honor roll announced by Principal W. Guy Brown at the close of the second six week's period of the second semester with 5A plusses ami one A. Miss Mary M. Coverdale, junior, Ival Newhard, senior, and Dick Schug, sophomore, tied for second place with 4A plusses and one A. Thirty-eight pupils are on the. I honor roll of which 13 are freshmen, 7 sophomores, 10 juniors, midS seniors. / Following is the honor roll: Plus Plus Minnie Moyer 5A 1A Mary Coverdale 4A 1A Ival Newhard .... 4A 1A ( Dick Schug w . 4A 1A Florence Lengerich' 3A 4A Eileen Burk 4A Kathryn Hower . . 4A Ethel Shady 4A Georgia Foughty . 3A 1A Mary G. Zimmerman 3A 1A * Ina Anderson 2A 3A Bernice Close 2A 3A Mary Catherine Toney 2A 3A Hildegrade Lengerich 2A 2A Eleanor Miller 2A 2A Kathryn Engeler 1A 4A Pstty Frisinger 1A 4A [Harold Mumma 3A IB ‘ | Bernadine Shraluka 3A IB [Doris Cook 1A 3A i Pauline Hakey 1A 3A lElva Anspaugh 2A 1A IB I Paul Hendricks 2A 1A IB * Jacob Moyer 2A 1A IB (CONTINUED ON PAGE SIX) i O ! TWO KILLED IN TRAIN WRECK Panhandle Express Hits ' Freight Train; Score I < Slightly Injured Altoona. Pa., April 18—(U.R) — ' Two trainmen were killed and a ( score of passengers injured, none , seriously, last night when the i New York-St. Louis panhandle express crashed into a derailed freight train on the main line of the Pennsylvania railroad east of here. W. J. Keane, Harrisburg, engineer, and R. E. Look, fireman, of the Panhandle express, were kill- ( ed instantly when the express . crashed into nine derailed cars of [ the freight. Mrs. Henry E. Veatch, Evansville, Ind., was slightly bruised and shaken up. Twenty passengers in the combination baggage car and coach and the first coach of the express, which with the engine and tender were derailed, were injured or shaken up badly. o 1 Will Practice Sunday Members of the Decatur Scottish Rite Twelfth degree are asked to meet at the Masonic Hall Sunday ' afternoon at 2 o’clock for the pur- ! pose of practicing. Arthur Vogel- ■ sang of Fort Wayne will meet with the group. 0 < 1 Abducted Man Recovers ' I Monroe, Wis., April 18.—'iU.RX — J Fred J. Blumer, near-beer manufacturer who returned dramatically ’ yesterday from a week spent in captivity of kidnapers, appeared today ‘ to have recovered completely from * his experience and went back to work in his brewery. Blumer received a delegation of newspaper men this morning and J revealed further details of his ex- , periences during the week ending ( yesterday in which he was driven , over Illinois in the hands of the kidnapers and finally released in ( Decatur. “Two of the kidnapers stayed ( with me all the time,” Blumer said, ( “and four part of the time. The ( two acted as my valets and now ■ I’m lost without them.’’

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Decatur, Indiana, Saturday, April IM, 1931.

Boys Get Lecture From Judge; Are Probated Six Decatur boys appeared in juvenile court this morning and confessed to their part in releasing a Pennsylvania railroad box car on a siding in the north part of Decatur last Sunday. The evidence i.s said to have shown that the Brakes of the car were not set and that a block had merely been placed underneath one wheel. The boys were playing in the north part of the city and one of them kicked the block from l>eneath the wheel of the car. The car ran a short distance and the boys stopped it. After playing tills way for a while the car gained such a start that the boys were unable to stop it and it ran down the track and turned over causing damage estimated at $l5O. The boys were given a lecture by Judge D. B. Erwin and were probated for five weeks to Mrs. Faye Smith Knapp, county probation officer. Each boy was ordered to report every Saturday. “ —■■ ■ ■ "*O CREAM STATION MAN IS SUICIDE Cloverleaf Creamery Representative at Auburn Shoots Self Auburn Apr. IS—Cloyd Titler 51 manager of the Cloverleaf cream station on West Eighth street in this city, died in the Souder hospital Friday from a self-inflicted shotgun wound. Mr. Titler shot himself at his home early Friday and was brought to the hospital in an ambulance in an effort to save his life but he died at 10:30 o’clock. The dotty was discovered by Mrs. Titler. She told Coroner John R. Clark that she and her husband were doing the morning chores shortly after daybreak. She nad been milking and she heard the shot but thought her husband had set a milk can down on the basement floor. She went into the basement and in the dark discovered her husband. The discharge entered the left side below the heart and tore off two ribs and part of the lung. Nervous trouble causing a breakdown is attributed as the cause for the act. Mr. Titleroperated a cream route in addition to acting as manager of the local station and he complained that lhe driving affected his stomach. Thursday Mr. Titler called William A. Counterman territory manager for the Cloverleaf creamery at Decatur an-1 tendered his resignation stating he could not carry on the duties of managing the station any longer, but promis<CONTINUED ON PAGE SIX. o Engle Funeral Sunday Funeral services for Clay Engle will be held Sunday afternoon al the home on Winchester street at 3:30 o'clock. Burial will be made at Decatur cemetery. 0 SPAIN PLANS GOVERNMENT Constitutional Meet Is Planned For Near Future In Republic Madrid, April 18 —(UP) — The unity of Spain under the republican government was assured today with settlement of the problem of Catalonian autonomy. Catalonia will be an integral part of the republic and details of its governmental system will be worked out by the forthcoming constitutional assembly the provisional cabinet of Niceto Alcala Zamora said in announcing successful conclusion of negotiations at Barcelona. Simultaneously the cabinet reiterated and amplified its policy of separation of church and state. The ministers decided to request all members of the clergy to refrain from mixing religious affairs and political affairs The cabinet also decided that all government officials would abstain from official participation in religious ceremonies as was the custom under the monarchy which supported the Catholic church. It was emphasized however, that the government would extend al! courtesies to the ecclesiastical authorities and that the ministers (CONTINUED ON PAGE SIX)

VIGILANTES ARE SWORN IN 21 Adams County Men Become Special Deputy Sheriffs of County Twenty-one Adams county men were sworn in as special deputy (sheriffs under the title of vigilantes :at the monthly meeting of the Adlams county Bankers association at Berne last night. Miss Bernice Neijson, county clerk gave the oatli or office to the men, and each vigilante was appointed a special deputy under Sheriff Burl Johnson for a period of one year. The vigilantes are distributed throughout the county, and are subject to the call of the Sheriff during bank robberies, riots and other cases when additional help is necessary. The vigilantes serve without pay. Theodore Graliker, of the First Statd tank of Decatur, chairman of the protection committee of the county association presided at the meeting which was attended by abotit 50 members of the association, vigilantes and guests. The meeting followed a banquet. M. A. Laird, of the detective department of the state Bankers' association, gave an interesting talk on the duties of vigilantes and their relation to the community in which they reside. He urged regular practice shoots during the summer months. S. T. Garrison of the Remington Arms Co. told of of his experiences with guns during his 35 years as an employe and executive of the gun manufacturing company. He stressed the necessity qf cleaning and caring for fire arms to be used in emergencies. Judge D. B. Erwin and Senator Thurman Gottschalk gave short talks in which they praised the viIgilante organization and urged the members to continue their service to the county. Following the program a general discussion was held concerning firearms. o FIRE MENACES SIX OIL TANKS • Explosion of Unknown Origin Takes Life; Four Critically Hurt Kilgore, Tex.. April 18 —<U.R) — Fire raged today about a battery of oil tanks in the new East Texas filld. after a sudden burst of flame which caused the death of one man and critically! burned four others. Six 1,000-barrel tanks adjoining the Allen and Upchurch No. 2 Brightwell gusher, largest in the field, were threatened by the fire. J. W. Smith, 35. pipe line worker, died of his burns in a hospital here at midnight. The injured were in hospitals. The fire started early last night, with such suddenness that none of the victims was certain as to its origin. Confusion followed the disaster, which came after another fire nearby in which four persons were burned to death a few hours earlier. Telephone and telegraph service at the oil boom town have been continually overtaxed for months, and calls for aid were delayed. o Catches Big Goldfish Elkhart. Ind., April 18. — (U.R)I — Fred Lovett was telling a giant fish story here today, but of the one he caught instead of the prize that got away. While fishing near here Ixivett captured a "gold fish" 24 inches long, which weighed ten pounds, according to the manager of a sporting goods store where it is on display. Veteran fishermen called the catch, which was snared, a golden carp. 0 Auburn Stock Declines New York, April 18.—-(U.R)*—Au-burn automobile, the recent market sensation, crashed to 198, off 38 points from the day and nearly a 100 points from a few days ago. This abrupt decline unsettled the entire stock market. , Steel common dropped to a new low since 1927 at 130. A long list of special issues were driven to new lows for the year or longer.

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LIQUOR RING IS CAPTURED IN NEW YORK I Prescription Conspiracy Said to Involve More Than 100 Doctors RING LEADERS ARE ARRESTED New York, April IS.— (U.R) —A jliquor prescription ring involving ■nearly 100 doctors and with citywide ramifications was believed broken today with the arrest of five alleged ringleaders by Federal prohibition agents The quintet was taken in raids which netted 17 prisoners, including three from the Delta Kappa Epsilon fraternity, and was the second government blow against doctors and druggists for violating the prohibition laws. More than 30 persons were arrested in similar raids last February. Andrew McCampbell, New York prohibition administrator, said that 97 physicians and druggists accused of issuing prescriptions in bulk for the illegal withdrawal of medicinal whisky, were named in the complaint on which the five men I had been arrested. His agents, he said, had been investigating the syndicate for several weeks and | had purchased whisky in case lots and blank prescriptions in bulk frem the men. U. S. Grant, assistant United States attorney general, named Louis L. Kauffman, a salesman, as head of the ring. He is under $lO,000 bond on charges of conspiracy and transporting liquor. The others taken with him are: Kaufman's brother, Jacob; S. R. Smith, a pharmacist: Stephen Puleo, druggist, and Murray Fogel, a Brooklyn chauffeur. Fogel was held in $2,500 bail on charges of conspiracy and transportation. Jacob, Puleo and Smith were held in $2,000 on charges of conspiracy. Kaufman was dealing with more than 150 stores throughout the city, McCampbell said, while acting as salesman for a legitimate whisky ' and alcohol house. He is said to ' have supplied whisky under permit to druggists and then took it (CONTINUED ON PAGE THREE) o To Colonize Marshlands Willard, 0., April 18. — (U.R) — Plans to colonize reclaimed marsh lands near here today took tangible j form as 18 large tractors began plowing the 3,180-acre tract of the Ohio Farms Company’, which is sponsoring a project to start 300 ten-acre truck farms. Arthur F. Willoughby, manager of the company, said that the project will cost $1,200,000. He said that the company proposes to sell | the farms on lanjj contracts for $4,000 each. Three room cottages are to be constructed on each farm. _i o — WOMAN'S CLUB PLANS CLOSING Mrs. Faye Smith Knapp To Present One-Act Folk Play The formal closing of the Woman’s Club for the summer season will be held at the Decatur Country Club, Monday evening, April 20, at 8 o'clock when Mrs. Faye Smith Knapp will lie presented in an “Interpretative Reading'' of a one-act folk play. Mrs. Knapp gave the same reading on April 1, before the Woman’s Departmental Club of Indianapolis, at the closing of that organization. Music for the program will be furnished by a chorus from the Music Department, which will sing a song cycle in four parts, “The Awakening of Spring" by Mabel Daniels. All members of the club are invited to attend this formal closing and each may bring one guest — o Blind Man Marries Lawrenceville, 111., April 18.—(U.R) —William Gullom, 37, was on his honeymoon today with a bride he has never seen. She formerly was Mrs. Mabel Cook of Vincennes, Ind. Gullom has been blind six years.

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War Zone Leaders ■ t d I If 5 , g ' I W t f? 'i i Captain John C. Wood (upper) I and Major John Marston (lower) are in charge of United States | Marines who are battling Sandino yebels in the hills of northeast ; Nicaragua, where several AineriI cans and natives have been killed | in the guerilla warfare. DECATUR LADY EXPIRES TODAY L —— Mrs. Margaret Mayer, 7.3, i Is Victim of Heart Ailment This Morning Mrs. Margaret Mayer, 73, wife of Henry Mayer and well known Decatur woman 'died at her home, 713 North Second street, at 6:45 o'clock this morning of heart troulfe. Mrs. Mayer became seriously ill yesterday, but she had suffered with heart trouble for a long time. She was born in Bucyrus, Ohio, September 1, 1857, the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Conrad Streib. Surviving are the husband, Henry Mayer, and the following daughters: the Misses Celia and Sue Mayer of this city; Mrs. E. R. [Comer of Honolulu; Mrs. Minnie [ Spuhler and Mrs. W. A. Martin of San Diego, Cal., and one son. Marcus Mayer of San Diego, Cal. One brother, C. M. Streib of Los 1 Angeles. Cal., also survives. Mrs. Mayer was confirmed in the St. John's Reformed church at Bucyrus, Ohio in her youth. She held membership and was active in tile local Zion Reformed church for many years and was a charter member of the Ladies Aid Society of the local church. Funeral services will be held nt the home, where Mrs. Mayer has resided for fifty-one years, with Rev. A. R. Fledderjohann, pastor ot the Zoin Reformed church officiating. Burial will be in the DeI catur cemetery. The time of the | funeral will be arranged when word from the children in CaliI fornia is received. Krill Is Found Guilty Hillsdale, Mich., April 18—(U.R) -—Lawrence Krill, Hamilton, Ind., today was found guilty on a charge of robbing the Montgomery State Bank, Montgomery, Mich. The bank was robbedy November <J by a lone bandit. Krill later was arrested in Indiana and brought to Michigan after an extradition fight. The case went to the jury in circuit court here late yesterday afternoon and the verdict was returned early today. The jury deliberated all night without rest. Judge Earl S. Pugsley of Hart, who presided, will sentence Krill possibly later today. Automobile Destroyed Terre Haute, Ind., April 18. —(U.R) —lsaac Tucker lights his pipe at the cost of one model T Ford car in running "condition. After filling the gas tank to overi flowing, Tucker lighted his pipe before driving away. The gas on the i ground caught tire and the blazes i enveloped his car. Firemen were unable to save the automobile.

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EACH STATE TO HAVE BRANCH; PLAN STARTED C. W. Baker Is Named As Indiana Manager; Under Labor Secretary WILL CREATE NEW DIVISIONS Washington, April 18—(U.R) Secretary of luibor Doak hxlav announced an extensive reorganization of tlie federal employment service. t'nder the new pl:m, at 'east one employment bureau will he opened in each shite and the District of Columbia to cooperate with stale and local authorities. John R. Alpine, New York, was named as supervising director. The director-general will be Francis I. Jones, New York and A. D. Lewis, Illinois, will act as assistant director general. “There will be a co-ordinated service throughout the entire country." Doak said. “making available its good offices to all those seeking .employment in cooperation with free state and local offices. It likewise will undertake in the broadest sense to take care of interstate labor placements in co-operation with, employers and employees.” Doak said that the farmer labor service also will be enlarged, and the veterans placement service will be made nation-wide in scope. In addition, the industrial activities of the United States employment service will be reorganized on a basis affording opportunity of .placing employes in contact with jobs and giving employers a “ready field" from which to draw all labor necessary to carry forward any type of industrial work. Seven special divisions of the service will be created, each under the direction of a “co-ordinating superintendent.” The individual industries coming under the special divisions will be building trades, mining ami quarrying, manufacturing and the metal trades, transportation. needle trades, office and mercantile trades and the marine, seamen and longshoremen. A special director for the veterans service, the farm service, a chief clerk, a director of information and a special representative have been appointed. State directors who will supervise work in their respective areas (CONTINUED ON PAGE SIX) Q Barney Oldfield Here Barney Oldfield .famous automobile racing driver, enroute from California to New York stopped off in Decatur last evening visiting at the P. Kirsch and Son Agency. Oldfield is driving an Essex Coupe across the country without changing the motor oil and has completed his trip thus far without any mishaps. o Bandits Escape With SI,OOO Loot of Bank Arena, Wis., April 18—(UP)- — Burglars blew up part of the Arena State bank building early today, stole between SI,OOO and $2,000 and escaped after fighting off fire chief Waiter Hankerson and his son, Theodore, with pistols. ADD PARAGRAPH TO RESTRAINT Effort Made to Ascertain How Bill Passed Last Legislature Indianapolis, April 18.— (U.R) 1 —A paragraph charging conspiracy will be added to the complaint on file seeking restraint of publication of house bill 6, it was learned today, which will reveal in Marion Circuit court Monday the part played by Governor Harry G. Leslie in signing the bill It is alleged the governor signed, it in a form different to that in which it passed the senate. The addition of the conspiracy paragraph means that the process by which the bill was presented, enrolled and signed will be brought to light in court, it was said by (CONTINUED ON PAGE SIX)