Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 29, Number 107, Decatur, Adams County, 5 May 1931 — Page 1

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HES OPPOSED MOPENINC OF - Biff matter iy Opposed to Question tur POSITION ON NT KsTIOX ( LEAKED (U-R) —Julius |{ h ., i: .. the board of ( ,f United States 1 1,1 11 iii'iierce. declared ■H WH |C most unfortun■jL,|,.i 1,, tariff in the next congress." ®, i.j.. the internation- < ’mnmerce conventhis statement, reference he , Ktc Girit'i adjustment in his K e Atlanta City last week. C|Z Eel |, • ■: pr. letl in some '■ ’* KK as a suggestion for reOK ( a b y Smoot tariff >'-ssi,,n of congress r. iiai J ’I by some as sigof his close friend-I’r.-ident Hoover. o English Aviator Killed 'A|HT"»' nith Africa. May Commander (lien tint the ni'llionaire British “charmed life." to have been killed Mcfasli in the mountains of roceived here said j was found 16 Van Reenen. in the ■ letwecn Xatal and the State Kidston’s vis-j ’ was found on one of • ..■tales, the report said. H the plane and both were 05. bfi Johannesburg this ■mill in a i’oss Moth plane to \ gale was blowing -“■» 1 ‘ took off. ■CHER AND ■WHS KILLED =Bc;tic Ends In Tragedy ■k‘ii Train Kills TeachNTBiand Two Children IH. day 5. tU.RF School — up' hose memories was f - forever the picture of their ; ,ml twi , p] ayrnatefl being on a trestle and ground to ■H b >' a pasfeager train were ''dl •■'. coroner’s jury 1 they had seen. tf ‘" lie:'. Miss Helen Stfott, ai her 26th birthday when she failed in an to throw three chilthe trestle as the shriekbore down upon them. ~ in saving one Peterson, 8, but there time io reach two others. as if hypnotized, wait<i, i n the path of the SWINT.NtJEr) ON PAGE SIX) o ■CESS TO BE f MED IN JUNE I'css Ileana, Daughter Queen Marie to larry Archduke arest, Roumania, May 5.— rincess Ileana, 22-year-old 5r of Dowager Queen Marie, married in June to Archnton Von Hapsburg, epi--11 a Vienna motion picture >y. -Wagement of the princess, romances since the time of t to the United States with ther have been widely pub,wasa announced officially tht. 1 and the Archduke escap,y from ail chaperones and _ n ln excursion to FriedrichMarie, mother of the prinST' 'i° llas been chaperoning to Switzer■)nUNUED ON PAGE SIX)

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Heiress Missing l ■* I ? Missing from her home for two weeks, Doris Dempsey (above), 15-year-old school girl, daughter of a wealthy, York, Pa., family is being sought in New York by police at the request of her father, William Dempsey. It is believed the girl left her home in quest of a career.

TWO BRIDGES TO BEPAINTED Contracts Let on Mesh-berger-Shimp Bridges; Coal Bin Bids Filed The county commissioners awarded contracts this morning for paintin;? two bridges and received bids for building a coal bin at the south- / west corner of .the court house building. Alfred Daniels was awarded the painting contract on both bridges. He was the low bidder. The bids filed were: Meshberger bridge, French and Hartford townships: Smith and Carr, $273.75; Morningstar Bros., $148; Alfred Daniels, $120; John Cramer $165.00; Shitnp bridge. Wabash township: Smithand Carr $384.50; Morningstar Bros. $176; Alfred Daniels, $140; John Cramer $187.50. Bids on coal bin were filed by Charles E. Hammond, Yost Brothers, Decatur and Noah N. Schrock, Berne. On one set of plans the bids ranged from SI6OO to $1833 and one another set of plans from $1385 to $1733. The contract will not be awarded at this time, the commissioners stated as the appropriation was not made by the county council. It is likely that the county council will lie called to consider the matter. BOY GDEST OF HOOVER IS HOME Bryan Untiedt, Hero of School Bus Disater, Arrives Home Today Downer, Colo., May 5 —(UP)— Bryan Untiedt, 13-year-old hero of the Pleasant Hill school bus disaster, arrived in Towner today as happy as a boy could be at the end of as great adventure as a boy could have. Bryan climbed down, the steps of his railroad car with his eyes as big as saucers as he looked out upon the handful of residents of Towner who met the train. Back from a visit with President Hoover, Bryan was looking for some one! it was apparent. XV hen he didn’t see whoever it was he was looking for he seemed a little abashed. By the time a few photographers had focused their camel as the smile had gone from his face. None of his family was at the train to greet him, nor were any of his playmates from the Pleasant Hill school. There were just nine children from Towner who had stopped at the railroad .station enroute to their own school and half a dozen grownups in the welcoming party. - {CONTINUED ON PAGE THREE)

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SCHOOL PLAY ISANN9DNCED Cast For Catholic High School Play, May 8 and 10 Is Announced The pupils of the Catholic high school will present a clever fouract comedy, “Trapped," in the Catholic high school auditorium, Friday evening. May 8, and Sunday evening, May 10, at 8 o'clock. Tickets are on sale by the students of the high school or admis- j siqn may be paid at the door. Music lovers will be delighted with the orchestra numbers that will be rendered. Synopsis of Play The pivotal event of the story is the arrival of Mr. Orla T. Baker of the Toyal Grand Oil Corporation, the character depicted by Edward Vian, who comes to board with Mr. and Mrs. Goodenough, as played by i Marcellus Miller and Flotilda Harris. The humorous plot is eventually' unravelled by Dr. Jim, the Goodenough's son, the role enacted by Robert Halthouse, and Nate Spooner, an amateur detective, | played by Leo Dowling. Nate and ; Hannah, the part played by Mary Helen Lose, decide to go into the movies and their practicing presents some very funny interludes. Mrs. Goodenough's brother, Lase, has, in some sort of a swindl.e lost his money and his sweetheart, and is now sour on the whole world. I Mary Jane, Mrs. Goodenough's sister, for some unknown reason has become a man hater, and Miss Tuttle, an elderly lady, is busy locking for her Romeo, whom she seems to find during the Course of the clever play. The cast of characters, in the order of tlwir appearance, is as follows : _■ Nate Spooner, amateur detec- • tive Leo Dowling Hannah Spriggins, would-be movie star Mary Helen Lose Mrs. Goodenough, Dr. Jim's mother Flotilda Harris Ephraim Goodenough, Dr. Jim's (CONTINUED ON PAGE SIX) KING ALFONSO LENDS SUPPORT Former Snanish King Not To Hinder Success of New Republican Control Madrid. May 5 —(U.R)— Fortner King Alfonso was quoted in an interview with the representative of the newspaper ABC today as saying he had “decided Absolutely to place no obstacles in the path of the republican government, which for me abjure all is now the government of Spain.” “I am sincere and my action in the future will demonstrate my loyalty to this prapoisition? the exiled king was quoted as saying to Juan Ignacio Lucatena, director of the newspaper in an interview in London. “I want all persons whether they I be monarchists or republicans, to know that I will be sincere, no matter how my words may be misinterpreted." Alfonso . said. "Monarchists who wish to follow my lead should not only avoid raising obstacles for the republican government, but should support it in whatever may be patriotic measures.” It was recalled that, in his last message to the people, the former king said he had not renounced his rights to the throne b|ut merely had absented himself from Spain to await the outcome of the June elections, which will be considered as having the character of a plebiscite on the possibility of a return of the monarch. He has been quoted as saying he would abide by the outcome of the elections. —o — Cooler Weather Is Predicted Wednesday Indianapolis, May S—(UP)5 —(UP) Another drop in temperatures was predicted for Indiana tonight by the weather bureau here. The mercuty may go as low as 45 degrees, it was forecast by J. H- Armington, chief of the bureau. Rain may accompany the colder weather in some portions of .the state, armington said. Wednesday’s temperature will not be higher than 60 degrees, it was predicted.

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Decatur, Indiana, Tuesday, May 5, 1931.

County Treasurer Receives Money From Unkown Source Who sent County Treasurer Ed Ashbaucher $8.50 in cash in payment of taxee? Mr. Ashbaucher wool <1 like to know who the ]>eraon is so that he can be credited with the payment. The remittance in currency and 50 cents in silver was mailed from Decatur on April 23. The money was wrapped between two sheets of ruled writing paper, but no name was signed to the papers and ' Mr. Ashbaucher is at a loss to know who sent the money. In mailing the letter the person clipped Mr. Ashbaucher’s name from the legal notice which appeared in the Daily Democrat last month and pasted it on the envelope. There was not a trace of handwriting in the communication. Mr. Ashbaucher will file the remittance in his office and if the person who sent it will call at the office his tax reteipts will be marked “paid” and the transaction cleared up.

SCOTTISH RITE HOLDS MEETING Annual Spring Consistory i Opens At Fort Wayne This Morning The annual spring Convocation of the Scottish Rite consistory, valley of Fort Wayne, opened at Scottish Rite Cathedral at Fort Wayne this morning. There were 47 members in the spring class, and this number was to be increased by about 25 when the degree from the fourteenth to thirty-second were scheduled. The Decatur members of the Scottish Rite presented the twelfth degree to the class at 1:30 o'clock this afternoon. The twelfth degree is the Grand Master Architect. Almost all of the 120 members of the organization! from Adams county planned on attending part of the three-day affair. The annual banquite will be held Wednesday nightand Thursday night the thirty-sec-ond degree will be exemplified. The Convocation will close Thursday night. It is expected that more than 3,000 members will register during the three days. Brandenburg Funeral To Be Held Wednesday Military funeral services will be held Wednesday afternoon ait 2 o’clock daylight saving time, for Henry E. Brandenburg, father of Mrs. Ida Chronister, who died at the home of Mrs. .Chronister, 935 Mercer avenue, Monday morning. Funeral services will be held at the Chronister hotrfe, with ithe Rev. C. R. Lanman Officiating assisted by Rev. Harry Thompson. Burial will be made in the Decatur cemetery. SOCIETIES TO MEET JONE 12 Adams County Christian Endeavor Societies Decide on Annual Meet The date for the rally of the Adams County Christian Endeavor societies has been set for Friday, June 12, the officers of the district Christian Endeavor Union decided. The Union comprises Adams, Huntington and Wells County, and the business of the meeting was to set dates for the county rallies in each county, including a district meeting. The meeting place has not been selected. Tuesday, June 9, is the date chosen for the Huntington County gathering, and the Wells county union will hold its meeting in ccAinection with the district meet on Tuesday, June 23, at Bluffton. The afternoon will be devoted to the county session, followed with a joint meeting in the evening. The (program for the district rally has not been definitely decided, and the name of the speaker for the evening will be announced later. A young people's banquet will be held at Bluffton preceding the joint meeting on June 23.

$60,000 TAXES STILL UNPAID County Treasurer Says Tax Collectors Will Come Into County Ed A. Ashbaucher, county treasurer. estimated today that about $60,000 of the spring installment of taxes went delinquent. Several hundred receipts remained in the office of the county treasurer today. Monday was the last day to pay the spring installment without the 10 per cent, penalty being added. Mr. Ashbaucher stated that the state board of tax commissioners had informed him that they were going to send tax collectors into the county in the near future. The collectors will try to liquidate taxes on personal property and real estate. The spring installment of taxes amounted to more than $400,000. j Receipts yesterday were estimated. at SBO,OOO. Remittances received! through the mail today were accepted and the taxpayer given the advantage of the one-day of grace. The total of delinquent taxes this year was greater than in former years and the same condition exists throughout the state, Mr. Ashbaucher stated. The state board insists that the taxes must be paid and therefore the employing of the special collectors in a number of the counties of the state. o Gecode Girls To Give Dance Thursday The Gecode Girls Club of the local General Electric plant will sponsor a series of dances and summer activities during the summer season, it was announced today. The first of the series of events to take place will be a dance which will be held in ithe Knights of Columbus Hall, Thursday night. Dancing will begin at 9 o’clock and continue until 12 o'clock with music furnished by Dee Fryback’s eight piece orchestra. Tickets may be procured from members of the Club, or at the door. o SUNDAYSCHOOLS TO CONVENE Jefferson And Monroe Townships Organizations to Meet Sunday The Jefferson Township Sunday School convention will be held in the Maple Grove and Mt. Cartjiel churches in Jefferson township, Sunday afternoon and evening. The afternoon session will be held at the Maple Grove Church Sunday at two o’clock and the evening session at 7:30 o’clock will be conducted in the Mt. Carmel church, when Clifton Striker will be the principal speaker. Following is the program for the meeting: Afternoon Session, 2 o’clock Song, by congregation, led by Marcus Luginbill. Devotionals— John Mason Song—Mount Carmel Address—ReV. Piety Reading—Lenora Lusk of Maple Grove Short Talk—Miss Frieda Lehman Secretary Report Instrumental Music —Bethel Offering, song by congregation, and benediction. Evening Session, 7:30 o’clock Song by congregation, led by Ray (CONTINUED ON PAGE SIX) O Sorority To Hold Flower Sale Saturday The Psi lota Xi sorority will conduct a flower sale in the Obenauer building' north of the Elberson Service Station, Saturday. May 9. Flowers will be sold for Mother’s Day and furnished by the Carl Fisher Greenhouse. The proceeds of the sale will be used by the sorority for charitable purposes, in this city. Persons desiring to leave orders for flowers to be delivered on Mother’s Day or on Saturday, may call Miss Dora Shpsenberg at her home on Mercer avenue. Miss Shosenherg is the chairman of the committee in charge of the flower sale, and other members of the committee are Miss Berniece De Voss, Mrs. Robert Hejm, Mrs. Leigh Bowen, Miss Fan Hammell, and Mrs. Gerald Smith.

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BANKED AND WIFE HACKED TO DEATH President of Mississippi Bank And Wife Are Killed And Buried Water Valley, Miss., May 5 — (UP) W. V. Wagner. President of the hank of Water Valley, and his wife were found murdered near their home here today, their bodies hacked with an ax. Wagner's body was buried in a shallow grave about 75 yards from their home and his wife's body in a like grave 200 yards away. The double slaying was discovered by a negro cook when he went to the louse to begin his morning’s work. The cook noticed blood around the yard of the house and oni the doorsteps. Failing to arouse anyone in tile house he became alarmed and notified sheriff Charles Doyle. Doyle went to the house and forced open the door. In the house he found a blood-covered ax mid in , lite barn a bloody coat. (Officers discovered the bodies after following a trail of blood from the house. Signs of a struggle were seen in the house. Officers be-1 lieve the couple was attacked by the killer who after slaying thbm with an ax dragged their bodies away and hastily hurried them. Wagner’s body had been buried in an orchard bordering the yard. Brush and sticks had been thrown (CONTINUED ON PAGE THREE) RECORDS ARE SOUGHT IN CASE New Court Action Will Bring Local Man Into Marion Court Indianapolis, May 5. —(U.R) — Efforts to force Dick Heller, clerk of the House in the last legislature to bring all records pertaining to house bill 6 into the circuit court trial contesting the bill, were started here by James E. Deery, i city attorney. Deery contends! that Heller has refused to exhibit the official records. # Heller stated here this afternoon that the charge that he refused to exhibit any of the legislative records is false. He said that as soon as the records were completed. he returned them to the legislative bureau and that all records were properly signed. He also wishes the public to know that he had no connection with any conspiracy or any other fraudulent acts during his service as clerk of the bouse. His statement was made because his name has been frequently mentioned in the newspaper reports concerning the litigation between the bus companies, cities and the secretary of state over the publication of the acts. o GENEVA PLANS DEDICATION Izaak Walton League To Grant Charter; Meet To Be May 15 The new Limberlost chapter of the Izaak Walton League, at Geneva, will receive its charter on the night of May 15, according to word from state headquarters for the league. Two speakers of note will attend the charter night banquet and will deliver addresses, it was said. Col. Everett L. Gardner, Monticello, state president of the organization, will be the chief speaker at the affair and L. H. Dunten of Fort Wayne, state secretary of the Izaak Walton League will deliver an address concerning state plans and activities. The Geneva chapter of the league will have a number of projects to sponsor. Men of southern Adams county already have been organized to continue the effort started two years ago to dedicate a large artificial lake in southern Adams county to the Limberlost legend. Other projects will he to beautify the Limberlost region in Adams and Jay county and to make it a state playground, according to word received from state headquarters.

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111 in Paris I ♦ W zjr Cares of State temporarily cast aside, on receipt of news that his mother. Mrs. Janies Roosevelt (above) was ill in Paris, the Chief Executive of the Empire State made preparations to hasten to her btedside at the French capital. 4-H ROUND-UP - ON AT PURDUE Boys and Girls From Over State Gather at Purdue For Annual Meet Lafayette. Ind., May S—(UP)5 —(UP) — The fourteenth annual Indiana 4-H Club round-up opened at Purdue University here today, to continue through Friday. Today's program included preliminary work in judging contqpts. A health contest also was started, with winners to be announced Thursday afternoon. The boy and girl adjudged the healthiest in Indiana will lie entered in an international contest at Chicago next fall. Gir( Club Members also were busy in clothes making, canning and baking conmpetition, while the boys competed in judging sheep, beef cattle, poultry ami eggs, bogs coni’, horses, dairy cattle and identification of birds, woods and insects. WALTHER LEAGUE HOLDS MEETING - • Organizations of InterRiver Zone Met at Flat Rock Sunday The third semi-annual rally of the Inter-River Zone of the Indiana District of the International Walther League, was held in Flat Rock, near Hoagland, Sunday, May 3. This zone is composed of six leagues, namely. St. Paul’s near New Haven; Christ at. Woodburn; Immanuel near Decatur; St. Paul's in Convoy, Ohio; St. John's near Convoy; and Flat Rock, near Hoagland. The afternoon session was led in meditation By Rev. Acker of Monroeville, pastor of the Flat Rock Lutheran Church. The members were welcomed by Mr. Koeneman, president of the Flat Rock League, and the response to the hospitable welcome was tendered by Harold Reidenbach of Convoy, Ohio. A business meeting followed and the election of officers was held for the ensuing year. A. F. Werling of Woodburn was chosen president; Victor Bleeke of Deca(CONTINUED ON PAGE SIX) o Vacancy On Memorial Committee Filled Indianapolis. May 5 (UP) —Mrs. Lafayette Lavan Porter. Greencastle, was appointed to the India na George Rogers Clark Memorial commission’ by Governor Harry G. Leslie. All other commissioners were reappointed. They were the Rev. Francis R. GaVisk, Indianapolis; James A. Woodburn, Bloomington: Mrs. Ed Jackson, Indianapolis; Lee Burns, Indianapolis; Frank C. Ball, Muncie; D. Frank Culbertson, Vincennes; Lew O’Bannon. Corydon; Cfem J. Richards, Terre Haute. Thomas D. Taggart, French Lick; William Fortne, Indianapolis, and Ewing Emison, Vincennes. Mrs. Porter takes the post left vacant by the death of Mrs. Anne Studebaker Carlisle. South Bend. The appoinments are for four years, beginning last March 14.

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DEPUTIES DIE IN MOUNTAIN STRIKE AREA More Than 10 Wounded In Open Warfare; Men Get “Kill” Orders MACHINE GUNS ARE IN ACTION Harlan, Ky., May 5.—W-RU-Deputy sheriffs and more than I a score of entrenched men [fought a battle today in the mountains near Evarts, Kentucky, in the heart of the coal 'strike region. Three deputies were known to have been killed, two others reported dead, while three iof the entrenched mountaineers ' were believed to have lost their i lives. , The number of wounded was | estimated at more than ten. A deputized force of 50 men, I with tear gas bombs, rifles, anti machine guns was hurried to the scene, ordered to "shoot to kill” by I Sheriff John Henry Blair. Deputies James Daniels and Ott Lee and Howard Jones, were the known dead. They were among the first to fall when the car in which they and other officers were patroling a highway, was fired on by men who had thrown up a barricade of cress ties. Daniels was killed as he trained a machine gun at the barricade. (CONTINUED ON PAGE THREE) o Young Girl Is Held Ottowa Canada May 5—(UP)— A seventeen year old girl was held today on charges of slaying her mother with a pair of ecissors and a knife, in their east Rockland home, 23 miles from here, after her sister informed antorites she suspected the girl. Three Die In Flames Greeley, Colo., May S—(U.R) —A mother and two small children perished today when their home ’ was destroyed l>ty fire which authI orities declare was incendiary. James Foster, 48, father of the I children, was arrested and charged with arsen and homoci le. Tlie dead were: Mrs. Mertyl Foster, Darline Foster. 19 mQnlhs, and Geraldine Foster, 4. Mrs. Foster told officers before dying that her husband bad saturated their beds witli gasoline* and then set it afire. o BULLETIN At 3:45 (D.S.T.) this afternoon the county commissioners had not decided definitely if the court house clock would continue to operate on standard time or be set ahead one hour in keeping with daylight saving time. Two of the members are agreed that the clock should be set up because the county offices are operating on daylight saving time. The city of Decatur, the banks, business houses, schools and churches have been operating on the fast time since April 25 and with the court house clock running on standard time much confusion is experienced. o MUNCIE COUNCIL IN NEAR RIOT Mayor Dale And Council Have Fight When Charges Are Made Muncie, Ind., May 5 (U.R)— A near-riot during council meeting here last night, precipitated when Mayor George R. Dale opposed charges being read against the flty administration, was quelled by police. Orders hurled by counciltnen. for police to eject Dale, were not obeyed by the patrolmen. Sheriff's deputies were called but. arrived after quiet had been restoi ed. Dale seized the gavel of President H. L. Parkinson when Tod Whipple, local lawyer, read charges of misfeasance, incompet(CONTINUED ON PAGE SIX)