Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 29, Number 99, Decatur, Adams County, 25 April 1931 — Page 1

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MAM FOR ■SSIDNARY jfeETPLAMNED terian WornHostesses to Ft. |l|lne District Meet ■begin I I o\ Tl ESl)\> \\ m.m's M.ssioti- , the PresbyterI— v.iil be hostesses Ph annual meetV snail's National r , .. Missionary SoBFthi I-“ft Wayne Pres■f» it. this city, Tuesday April 28 and i;_ will be held in the ( liaeeh, and Mrs. J. ■Kr. ili linnan of the hospithe ■iJ,... ' Missionary Sohr.,. of the p! been ■k, il principal events of . place at the meet- ■ by Mrs. the Presbyt.> Islampttr, Inißfeiin" is the complete proil-,. o-day sessMorning. 10:30 o'clock Mrs. (’. L. Mae-1 Service of! Meditation. Theme,] Mrs. A. P. | k < Lurch par- i Session. 1:15 o'clock el in the Prayer S A. Siewert. i. Me. Th,:'. and Prayer. Mrs. I). B. Erwin, el Decatur society. of committees. Las' We Met—Mrs. Char- •• • ■ ..riling secretary. Mj* r Sr.l’rlall L. Clark. Associate MemA. P. Bourns. i o Stewardship — II I lettsmanperger. nal Missions UpMiss Helen Streeter, ■■m,-' National Miss-h-us. I Have Prom|BINUED ON PAGE THREE) Mies Show Increase ti®’ Bend, Ind., April 25—(UP) i sales in March exof any other month |®!epteiiJ>..r. 1929, R. Ersio of the Studebaker HB*’'" announced. April sales reveal,.,| ar ,, above those in Lie first three months year were 17,366. compared for the first Quarter of reported. Shipments were 7,011, 65 per cent in |.ebruary. Earnings to 35 cents a share on st,,, after preferred divirevealed. B.R.CLOSES ■annualmeet ■ Policies Adopted At ■inclave Will Be Put I In Force ■shnigton, April 25. — (U.R)i — |H tsl r« of the American Revolutheir 40th continentoday, after adoption ■ c °mprehensive political pro■.*'’ft’lt AOOO women who BU’ 1 Mie meeting are expected through their local or■“tions. Daughters for the week end- ■ e de Pression for Washington ■ 8 and florists. But the econ- ■ Problem which most agitated ■ ' men this week was Soviet ■■an exports. ■ Prohibition the Daughters ■ lent this year, after an em- ■ lng experience in 1930 when ■" ae was raised and was discontroversial. ■NTINUED ON PAGE TWO)

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Vol. XXIX. No. 99.

Rock's Successor Orff Jr > 1 r W Ik /-•*..-. Maaß Jesse Harper (above), of Wichita, Kansas, is returning to Notre Dame to become director of athletics. Harper was athletic director and head football coach at the South Bend seat of learning in 1913, when the late Knute Rockne was a player on the “Irish" team. Rockne became Harper’s assistant in 1914, and in 1918 succeeded him as coach. 200 EXPEDTED AT CONFERENCE Evangelicals of Northern Indiana to Meet Tuesday At Berne Church More than 200 delegates are expected to attend the seventy-ninth annual session of the Indiana Conference of the Evangelical Church which will be held in Berne beginning Tuesday, April 28 and continuing through Sunday, May 3. The churches at Berne and Linn Grove Circuit will have charge of the entertaining of the delegates, and the pastors* of those churches are Rev. I. G. Roederer of Berne, and Rev. J. M. Kistler of Linn Groye. Morning, afternoon and evening sessions will be held in the Trinity Evangelical Chftrch in Berne with the exception of the Religious Drama on Saturday, and the Sunday services. Delegates from the 78 Evangelical churches in Indiana. 2 from Kentucky, 5 from Illinois, and 5 in Ohio, will lie present at the conference. Following is the program for the first three days of the meeting: 5 Tuesday, April 28 2 p.m. Annual meeting of the Conference Board of Examiners, Rev. D. O. Wise, chairman. 4 p.m. Address “The Pastor Preacher" — Dr. E. W. Praetorius, Cleveland, O General Secretary of Religious Education. 10:30 Committee on nomination of Board of Examination meeting. 7 p.m. Annual* meeting of the Conference Board of Religious Education. 7:30 Service under the auspices of the Conference Board of Examiners, Rev.' D. O. Wife, chairman. Music by Berne Choir. Address, “The Pastor Teacher,” Dr. E. W. Praetorius (CONTINUED ON PAGE TWO) o —— Seek Man’s Identity South Bend, Ind., April 25.—(U.R) —A gunman whose identity was guarded by his dying victim was sought here today following the murder of George Perry, 40. Perry, shot in an auto at the home of his father-in-law, John Canniff, cursed officers when they asked the identity of his assailant, and told them he was shot “by a friend." Mystery veiled Perry’s occupation. It was said that for several weeks he had been expecting to be bumped off.” Mrs. Perry cocked her feet upon a table and smoked a cigaret when police questioned her, they reported. Perry was slain as he returned in an expensive auto and parked it in the garage at the home. When he left South Bend Wednesday he traveled by airplane, it was reported.

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CLOCKS MOVE AHEAD TONIGHT Fast Time To Start At Midnight Tonight; To Last Four Months BULLETIN The county commissioners instructed C. C. Pumphrey, who has charge of the court house clock, that the clock at present will remain on central standard time, ' regardless of the fact that by a city ordinance, daylight saving time will be effective in Decatur starting at midnight tonight. Daylight saving time, which moves clocks ahead an hour, will be effective in Decatur starting at midnight tonight. The fast time also . will be effective in Fort Wayne, > Auburn, Huntington. Hammond, ■ East Chicago, Gary and number of • other cities in northern Indiana. ! The fast time will be in use 1 throughout the summer months until the last Saturday in September • Local factories and business hou- ! ses will operate on the new time I schedule, it is understood. Decatur’s two moving picture theatres will continue to operate on central standard time, managers of the two houses stated. It was not known definitely today i whether the court house clock i would continue on the present time i schedule or would be turned back. (CONTINUED ON PAGE SIX) Trustee Is Guilty Boonville, Ind.. April 25.—<U.R>— Smith Abshier. 73. former Ohio - township trustee, was awaiting sen- , fence today, after being found ( guilty on charges of embezzling $55 1 from township funds. He faces a • prison term of two to 21 years,: I o—i Cardinal Visits Pope > Vatican pity, April 15. — ,(U.R> — > Pope Pius today received Cardinal > Mundelein of Chicago in audience > for an hour and 20 minutes. FIRE SWEEPS - RESORT TOWN Summer Colony In East , Wiped Out; Damage Set At $1,000,000 Lenox, Mass., April 25. — (U.R)i —A ’ disastrous fire swept the fashion- ■ able summer resort colony in the Berkshire Hills here today, destroying the largest hotel, several cot- ! tages and a large stretch of woods - before it was brought under con- , trol. Damage was estimated by the • Lenox police department at $1,000,- . 000. i Hundreds of volunteer first fight- ■ ers from Lenox and other villages in the picturesque resort section i near the western Massachusetts i state line battled all night against the blaze, which started about 1:15 > a. m. and at one time threatened to wipe out the entire resort. The first started in the hotel and i soon spread to several surrounding I cottages. Sparks simultaneously ignited the surrounding timber, which burned rapidly. Only a few persons were living • at the resort, since the regular ■ season does not start until June 1, and it was necessary to call fire companies from Pittsfield, about 20 miles distant; Lee, and Stockbridge to aid the local firemen. The Aspinwall hotel, leading hostelry in the resort, was burned to the ground. It was a 400-room structure. Only the caretakers were in the place when the fire, of undetermined origin, started. The police department received no report of deaths or injuries in the blaze, although hazardous conditions were encountered in fighting ito Legion Members Asked To Report Monday A. M. All members of Adams post, American Legion are asked to meet at Legion hall Monday morning at 8:30 o’clock to attend the funeral of William Murtaugh which will be held Monday morning at 9 o’clock. The local post of the Legion will have charge of the services.

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Decatur, Indiana, Saturday, April 25, 1931.

Turn Up The Clocks Beginning at midnight tonight Decatur will go on DayI light Saving or Eastern time. Before you go to bed tonight shove up the hands of the clock one hour. You'll lose an hour of sleep tonight, but will make it up on September 26, when Central Standard time will be observed again. Church services Sunday will be held on Daylight Saving time/ pastors of the churches announced. COMMITTEES ARE ANNOUNCED L. A. Holthouse Names Standing Committees For Local Elks Standing committees for Decatur lodge No. 993 of B. P. O. Elks have been named by L . A. Holthouse, exalted iUer. The committees will serve until April 1, 1931. Eight committees were appointed by the Exalted ruler. The members of the various committees are: Elapsion *of dues —Charles Holthouse, Herman Ehinger, Frank Schumacher, A. L. Colchin, G. F. Eichhorn, A. C. Foos, J. M. Ehrsam House committee —J. G. Niblick Dick Tonnelier, Charles Weber. Mothers Day--Flag Day committee —A. R. Holthouse, E. B. Adams Fred Fullenkamp. Relief committee — C. J. Lutz, Phil Macklin. William Parent. Entertainment committee C. G. Coverdale, R. A. Stuckey, Dick Ehinger, W. A. Klepper, Dick Heller. Memorial Day committee—F. E. I France, Arthur Hyland, J. T. Merryman. Auditing committee — Dynois Schmitt, Wiley Austin, Harry Fritzinger. Christmas baskets — Dr. Roy Archbold. John Fisher, M. E. Hower Members of the lodge are invited to the home and to attend the meetings of the lodge which are held on the first and third Wednesdays of the month. o — Giri Tells of Murder Flint, Mich., April 25.—(U.R)— Theories of spurned love, jealousy, revenge and her own plea of seif defense were matched today by detectives who were puzzled over Miss Helen Joy Morgan's story of how she overpowered 200-pound Leslie Casteel, shot him to death and left his body at the side of a ro(|d near a cemetery. Prosecutor Ralph Freeman said first degree murder charges would be filed immediately against Miss Morgan, who is 27 and whose mother, Mrs. Carrie Morgan, is said to have made upwards of $1,000,000 in California and Chicago real estate. ROOT TOWNSHIP WOMAN EXPIRES Mrs. Mary E. Fuelling Is Death’s Victim After Long Illness Mrs. Mary E. Fuelling, 53, wife of Henry F. Fuelling, died at her home in Root township at 12:30 o'clock Saturday morning of heart trouble and congestion of the lungs. She has been ailing since January 1, 1931 and was bedfast the past nine weeks. She was born in Germany, May 3, 1878, the daughter of J. J. and Elizabeth Zilly Heidegger, who now reside at Portland. On December 30, 1900, she was united in marriage to Henry F. Fuelling who survives together with the following children: Paul at home, Rudolph, Root township, and Mrs. Benjamin* Gerke, Union township; two grandchildren, and two sisters, Mrs. Frank Heiley, Fort Recovery, Ohio; Mrs. Henry J. Fuelling, Portland, and a brother, Jacob Heidegger, Portland. Mrs. Fuelling came to America when she was 9 years of age and resided at Portland until her marriage, 30 years ago. Since that time she had lived on a farm in (CONTINUED ON PAGE SIX)

urge crowd ATTENDS PLAY ■« Il I ■ • Riley School Show Is Well-Attended; Band Is Big Feature A capacity crowd enjoyed the musical play, “T&d's Inspiration,” featuring the Riley Harmonica Band at tne high school auditorium, Friday night. The play was presented by pupils of the Riley Building and much praise was I given the cast of characters and members of the band for their, pleasing performance. The play was directed by the | teachers of Riley building, and . Miss Florence Haney had chtfrge; of the Harmonica Band. The story takes place at Merry- ■ ville School where a group of I I boys and girle under the direction of Prof. John Gentry, played by I Ned Johnson, have just learned to play the harmonica and are very proud of their accomplishment. The part of Jimmy Carroll, the lovable fat boy who is called : “Tad” Isy his schoolmates is play-[ ed by James Vance. He is extremely enthusiastic and anxious] to go on a “concert tour” and ' derives an inspiration for the first [ performance of the school band. Sara Jane Matthews, one of the schoolmates who is recovering from a serious accident in which she almost lost her life, is just able to be about in a wheel chair. ] While she was absent from school I the Harmonica band has been | formed. The part of Sara Jane | was aldy portrayed by Miss Ruth i Virginia Baker. This situation and the fact that ] Sara Jane’s birthday is only a] few days off. is the bai m for < t “Tad’s Inspiration" to give their ] first concert for Sara Jane. Other characters in the play i who played their parts very well ] are: Patty, Sara Jane’s chum, Miss Marjorie Miller; Bob, Ben, Tom and Frank, friends of “Tad", Carl Miller, Jack Eady, Bobby (CONTINUED ON PAGE SIX) OR, KELLEY IS STILL MISSING Police Raid Gangsters’ Hangouts For Clue To Alleged Kidnaping St. Louis, April 25. —(U.R)i —Police raided known hangouts of hoodlums and gangsters today in search of a clue to the disappearance of Dr. D. Kelley, wealthy physician who was lured fronj his home by a fake sick call Monday night. More than 20 petty gangsters were questioned and later released. Detectives were convinced Hr. Kelley was held captive for ransom by a band of organized kidnapers accused of a dozen recent abductions' in the middlewest. A “board of strategy” organized by members of the physician’s family and friends persisted in a denial that letters demanding payment of SIOO,OOO for the safe return of Dr. Kelley had been received by his wife. The board declined to reveal (%e contents of two special delivery letters addressed in pencil to Mrs. I. D. Kelley. Carroll W. Jlarlan, judge advocate of the board of police commissioners, and chairman of the “board of strategy,” said no communication of any kind had been received from Dr. Kelley or his captors. Mrs. Kelley, herself an heiress to an oil fortune, refused to see anyone but close friends, but was said to/ be bearing up well under the strain. (CONTINUED ON PAGE SIX» q—_____ Elkhart Youth Wins Bloomington, Ind., April 25. —(U.R) —Thomas Procter, Elkhart, won the Indiana high school oratorical championship in the final round of the annual state high school discussion league contest held at Indiana University here. Charles Feibleman, Indianapolis, was second, and Henry White, Rushville, third. Other contestants in the finals were Ernest Pinson, Washington; Robert Plummer, Bedford; and Harold Molitor, Auburn. The contestant spoke on “The Chain Store System.”

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GOVERNOR TO TESTIFY SOON IN JURY PROBE Tells Judge Baker He Will Be Glad To Testify At Early Date FRAUD CHARGE INVESTIGATED Indianapolis, April 25. —(U.R) — Governor Harry G. Leslie will ] testify before the grand jury next; ' week as one of the chief witnesses I i in the probe into alleged conspir-1 ' acy ami fraud in the passage of . House bill 6 l»y the 1931 legisla- ■ ture. In private conference with ! Criminal Judge Frank P. Baker, who ordered the investigation, Leslie today said he “wanted to go before the grand jury as soon j as possible.” Baker said Leslie will be given an opportunity to offer his voluntary testimony either Monday or Tuesday, when ! the jury resumes its quiz. | Filing of an answer to the suits Iby Muncie and Indianapolis, in ! which the conspiracy is charged, by representatives of the attorneygeneral's office, is awaited in circuit court. The-suits, seeking an injunction against Frank Mayr Jr., secretary of state, to halt publication of the j bill as an Indiana statute, charge that legislators and others, con- ' spired, mutilated the liflll and had it rushed through during the con-| I fusion of the last hours of the i ] legislative session. | The suit alleges that an effort I was made to have the bill returnI ed to the assembly to “correct a I ffifetake,” but that Leslie would I not permit the action, and later (CONTINUED ON PAGE SIX) o Conductor Is Killed Greencastle, Ind., April 25. —(U.R) —William E. Harris, 51, conductor of the New York Central railroad, was killed when he stepped from the rear of his train into the path of a switch engine here. He had been in railroad service 30 years. Gangster Jailed Again Chicago. April 25. — (U.R)' — The freedom granted George “Red" Bar ’ ker, public enemy, by an Illinois Supreme court mandate proved short lived and the labor racketeer and gunman today again was behind bars, this time in Cook county jail. Barker was released from Joliet penitentiary yesterday on a Supreme court ruling, but five minutes later he was arrested by ] state's attorney’s police on an old I charge of carrying concealed weapons. One hour later he was in a cell at the county jail, vainly waiting for someone to furnish his $lO,000 bail. DEATH CALLS C.C.D.SCHEUMAN Aged Preble Township I Resident Dies at Home of His Son Friday Conrad C. D. Scheuman, 85, ITfe long resident of Preble township, Adams county, died at the home of his son. August Scheuman, Friday afternoon at 4:30 o’clock of complications. Mr. Scheuman had been bedfast for the past two weeks. The deceased was born on a I farm in Preble township where he resided until a few weeks ago when he went to the home of his son, also in Preble township. He was the son of Conrad and Christiana Wiebke Scheuman and was born December 18, 1845. He was united in marriage to Marie Stoppcnhagen on September 29, 1870. She preceded him in death on September 25, 1924. (Surviving are the following children: August and Ernst, Preble township; Mrs. Eliza Hartman, Preble township; Mrs. Sophia Doehrman, West Plains. Mo.; Mrs. Clara Fishbach. Fort Wayne: Conrad L.. Preble township; Mrs. Marie Doehrman, New Haven, and Mrs. Bertha Moellering, Allen 1 (CONTINUED ON PAGE SIX)

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Envoy Arouses Ire .. ■ '■ '■ l ? Ambassador Irwin B. McLaugh-, lin (above), United States Envoy] to Spain, whose alleged derogatory] remarks about the cabinet of the I new Republic have aroused con-1 sideralfle recentment, which ntay ] result in his being declared per ! sona non grata by the new government. CERMAKFACES - ] NEW PROBLEMS Chicago Mayor Returns From Vacation; Must Raise Large Fund Chicago, April 25 —(U.R) —Driving i untiringly ahead in his determinai tion to “clean up" Chicago and ultimately to reduce taxes by cutting down city expenses. Mayor Anton J. Cermak today faced the added problem of raising $3,775.(100 to satisfy 14,000 unpaid school teachers. Fresh from his vacation in Florida, Cermak plunged into his new tasks with the announcement that while appointment of his cabinet was important he was concerned first of all with the problem involving money saving. As yesterday was pay-day for the school teachers and there was no money to pay them with, that was one of the first difficulties he had to contend with. Another $400,000 needed to pay off civil service employes also was lacking. Democrats who had hoped Cermak immediately would fill 3,000 vacancies caused when he discharged that many of his predecessor’s appointees were disapI He indicated many of the joins might not be refilled at all and few of them anytime soon. Indicating the thoroughness with which he said he would wipe out unnecessary expenditures, one of his first orders was to discon(CONTINUED ON PAGE TWO) A. G. Hermann Dies Cincinnati, O„ April 25. —‘(U.R)I — -— August “Garry” Herrmann, one of the best known figures in major league baseball and former president of the Cincinnati Reds, died unexpectedly here today kt the home of his son-in-law, Karl B. Finke. o Will Inspect Cattle Otto D. Bieberich visited in Decatur today and stated that L. D. Orr of Liberty, Indiana, state director of district No. 8 of the Holstein Breeders Association will be in the county April 25, to in- | spect. Holstein cattle for the purpose of locating some show cattle. He will be accompanied on this trip in the county by Otto D. Bieljerich and Roy Price. o Trustees Are Elected A meeting was held in the First Evangelical church Wednesday night for the purpose of electing five trustees of the church, for a period of three years. The trustees chosen were: Charles E. Hocker. .1. Earl Butler, Eugene Runyon, Henry H. Fuhrman, and Henry Adler. Class leaders for the Wednesday prayer service were also chosen, and T. L. Becker became class leader with Elmer Anspaugh, the assistant class leader.

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ESTIMATES FOR 1932 REDUCED MANY MILLION Executive Expenditures For Coming Year Are Increased Considerably LOANS NOT ACTUAL EXPENSE Washington, April 25.— — Federal expenditures next year will be abQUt $315,000,000 (millions) less than this year if present estimates hold good, President Hoover has announced. Estimates for the fiscal year starting July 1 are $4,119,230,642, Mr. Hoover told newspapermen late yesterday, as comI pared with $4,435,029.132 for the | current year ending June 30. and I $3,994,152,587 last year. At the ] same time treasury figures reveal]ed that the deficit has reached a ! new higli mark of $801,000,000 (mil- | lions). The President, while expressing I pleasure at the prospect of eeono- ] mies next year, yet pointed out I that the paper savings of $315,000,1000, $203,000,000 represented savings in the veterans bureau, and constituted largely a matter of ’ bookkeeping. Actual expenditures i during the year will change these estimates considerably. At the same time he said loans to veterans on their adjusted comI pensation certificates soon will I reach the billion-dollar mark. About $912,000,000 has already been paid out, and applications are on hand for $140,000,000 more. This will be met by new treasury loans, which will increase the pnblic debt but will not be counted as actual expense. In general, the figures as presented by Mi*. Hoover showed primarily (CONTINUED ON PAGE TWO) _— o Veterans Will (Jet Civil Service Aid Washington, April 25 — (UP) — President Hoover issued an executive order today changing the civil service law so as to give greater preference to disabled veterans. The executive order amends the civil service law in accordance wi’h the recommendations of a commission that Mr. Hoover appointed to investigate the situation. o Stephenson Makes New Effort To Force Court Indianapolis. April 25 —(U.R) —Au effort to force Judge Fred E. Hines in Hamilton circuit court to rule on the error coram nobis petition of D. C. Stephenson for a new trial, is contained in a petition by his attorneys to the supreme court, asking that the Hamilton circuit court be mandate*! to refile the petition. Judge Hines rlued that be had no jurisdiction in the case, which is pending before the supreme court. Stephenson was convicted ins 1925 on a charge of murdering Madge Oberholtzer, Indianapolis. He was formerly Ku Klux Klan leader in Indiana. CHILDREN TO BE EXAMINED Local Dentists Join In State-Wide Movement For “Better Teeth” Decatur dentists, working in conjunction with a state wide healtu program for children, will examine teeth of all grade school children in Decatur next Wednesday, it w is announced today. All local dentists will assist in the examination. The offices of the local dentis’s will be closed al! day Wednesday, it was stated today. Cards showing defective teeth of each child or showing a perfect set of teeth wi’.l be sent to the parents of the children by the examining board. The dental examination is a part of a state-wide child health plan. The local dentists also will give each child a small tube of tooth paste, gifts of the Pepsodent Tooth Paste Co., and will give them instructions concerning the brushing and earing for teeth.