Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 29, Number 113, Decatur, Adams County, 12 May 1931 — Page 1

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I IK STIRRED RIOTING IN CITIES -— ■— ■ Are Burned; K. Attack Catholic ■n Institutions Hstii.l I X ABATED —' — i ■Ly William H. Lander ■p rr „ sial) Correspondent. ['• Io United Press) :!M ril |. May 12. <U.R) - rr< | by Jiili-monarch-K anti-religious enlhuscontinued to attack fin- II) churches, con!ini| other Catholic i;i^H {|lll o throughout Spain a iii^^K s |s, monks anti nuns their resiliences in cities. law was 111 *°V ce 111 " A k !;■ Seville. Cadiz and Alioccurred in MalISt 'a c.uilleii.i. where serious was reported. The govern”.r troops to Guillena. liliishop I'T Seville ordermonasteries and convents 1 after the mobs had the Jesuit convent. the church and the Church s . Priceless art ob- . p and sacred artiburned in the public; mob twice attemptto the Jesuit monbut troops repulsed them. ■hjrC. May 12.—(U.R)—Anti-re-hatred which flared in j spread rapidly through es today, fanatical " setting fire to convents, other religious instiKMa'tial law was declared in and Cadiz. ~ :iob set fire early today to convent, the Episcopal and the building housing jffirTINUED ON PAGE FIVE) . G n ’•■F Township 4-H g I ( lul) Elects Officers — Township •1-11 Club met lin®' 9 fust im-eting of the year at Gs Sanna - Harriet and Kunkel, under the leadof Mrs. S. P. Kunkel and Moses. Officers were and resulted as follows: Betty Frisinger; vicent. Pauline Hakey; secreBeihold; treasurer. Kunlul: press reporter, Alice yfiy’ld. song and yell leader. • Kunkel; monitor, Elma .• all( ' Pianist Pauline who attended the meeting Mary Jane Reber, Betty Frisi't«K Ser ' E:izabeth Beihold, Pauline Avonel Bieliold, Alice Jane Edna Beane, Elma June Eleanor Johnson, Harriet Hoselyn Foreman, Phyllis ■»<fan<l, Marguerite Kitson, Vera dt* 1 ■atMld, Sauna Kunkel. Charlotte '"ow. ' ,iel '' Bernice Cable, Mary H^ 118 Kunkel, Ardis Brintzenhoff. ■ ele « ihintzenhoff. Elizabeth Reed, ■ml Gwendolyn Parrish. ‘ |UM MAKES INEW AIR MARK — i#| t'. ncan Fl* er Betters me F rom London j To Berlin •,i< ————— lln ' May 12 ~^.R) — Capt. .'titHVt M. Hawks, American speed !,'■ br °Ee the London-to-Berlin ( record by more than an hour tAi he arrivetl at the Templehof ,ii I rome after a two hour and ! iißßnute flight. • ( i^9 icial calculation subsequently I B’ e exact time of the flight I ® Vo hours and 57 minutes, with ”'^HB v erage speed of 204 miles an as compared with the time and a halt hours made by | ■lrishman, Capt. Neville Stack. iwHßiPt. Hawks said that he enll'lihie fog w hile flying over -'■^■® n glish Channel. Mita Proceed to Stockholm on he said, to attend the gy lßh Aeronautic, exposition.

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South Seas Follies Beauty ii • i ! —# i 3 JMp S W' k M * v p t 1 'UiPn I *■_ . 4 Florenz Ziegfeld, well known for his ‘‘glorified’’ girls, lias gone ’way to the South Seas to get his latest example of the feminine face and figure divine. Reri, shown on left, in her native dress, is contrasted sharply on the right, where the beautiful Polynesian enacts the role of an American miss to perfection. Reri was discovered c«i the Isle of Bora Bora by a movie producer seeking a star for his picture ‘‘Tabu.” The new addition to the Follies knows no English, but speaks French.

DRAMA SCHOOL PLANS PROGRAM Decatur Pupils to Present Musical Entertainment Here Friday Miss Coreinne F. Bittner will present her first Footlight Frolic at Decatur Catholic high school, Friday evening. May 15, beginning at 8:15 o'clock. The Frolic will be given by Decatur's Dramatic School which was organized six months ago. Special attention has been given to costumes and the special numbers which will be given in costume ers and Dairymaids.” "Here Comes the Sun" I’m yours” "Telling it to ; the Daisies” “Sweet Jennie Lee” "Sleepy Town Express,’ and “You’re Driving Me Crazy". The program will be given by children as young as three years old and the public is invited to bring small children to the performance. Rehearsals have been held for the past several weeks and the Frolic promises to be a good production. Following is the complete program : Dutch kiddies In Person The cross lady Patsy McConnell A Little Girl's Secret Ruth Gillig Walkin’ By Baby Back Home Patsy R. Edwards, Harold Luley Johnny at tlie Zoo Robert Kuhnle My Grandfather Jane Kleinhenz Sleepy Town Express You’ll See One Umbrella Built For Two Rainy Day I’als On Sunday Night Mary M. Terveer Our New Baby Patsy R. Edwards When Irish Eyes Are Smiling Harold Luley What Three Kittens Did Ruth Vogelwede Grandma’s Angel .. Monica Schmitt Isn’t That Sad? . .... (CONTINUED ON PAGE TWO) o— Threat Is Carried Out Hollywood, Calif., May 21.--4U.R)' —A joke which he made about her culinary ability caused Mrs. Eleanor Fisher, 27, former New York dancer, to commit suicide, her husband James B. M. Fisher, motion picture executive, told authorities today. “You’ll ruin my stomach with this bum cooking," Fisher said he remarked jestingly after his wife had burned the peas and scorched the steak for last night’s dinner. “If you don’t take that back, 111 kill myself,’ 'he said his wife replied. . ~ i „ “Go ahead," he said he told her, still thinking the conversation all in fun. , , . . Mrs. Fisher, he said, rushed into another room, obtained a gun and shot herself through the head, dying a few minutes later while he was taking her to a hospital.

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Rev. Matthew Wortman To Be Bluffton Pastor Rev. Matthew Worthman of Pol-1 I and brother of Martion F. W”orth-1 1 man. superintendent of the Decatur schools, was tendered the pastorate of the Bluffton First Reformed Church. Sunday, by a unanimous vote of the congregation. Rev. Worthman was a guest minister at the Bluffton church Sunday land will begin his duties as pastor about June 1. He will succeed Rev. W. A. Alspach, who left Bluffton several weeks ago to accept a call to the Hale Memorial Reformed Church at Dayton, Ohio. Rev. Worthman, who has a wife anil one daughter, lias been in the ministry for seven years, and for the last five years has been stationed at Poland. , GHICAGO OPENS 'RENAISSANCE' New Era Greeted With Parades, Bands And Many Celebrations Chicago, May 12 —(U.P) Milling throngs, gaily decorated streets and stores, tlie blare of’ bands and a public stubbing of Scarface Al Capone heralded today what civic, religious and political leaders declared was the beginning of a new era in Chicago. Planned as a ten-day celebration of the city’s “renaissance” after its “dark ages" of gang rule and business depression, the “All Chi- ’ cage Jubilee” had become even more than that. It was a popular uprising. The spirit of the times was demonstrated last night as bands inarched down historic Michigan avenue, playing in unison: “Happy Days Are Here Again.” It was demonstrated even better perhaps by 96 cleaners and dyers who sent word to Al Capone that “Chicago is through with gangsters" and that his services as an » “organizer" would not be needed. While police continued their drives against gangsters with (CONTINUED ON PAGE TWO) Boy Prodigy Killed New York. May 12.—<U.R>—Roy . Sloane, 26, boy prodigy and former Columbia University student, who ! attracted nation-wide attention from Sing Sing prison through use I of his knowledge of the law, gained . while behind the bars, was shot to death today in a water-front case. His body was riddled with slugs ! from shot-guns, operated, police said, by four men. i Patrolman John Peraglia, who detected a sign of life in Sloane''. ■ body, took him to Jewish Memorial ■ hospital, where he died soon after being admitted.

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SCHOOLS PLAN GYM PROGRAM —————— Physical Training Instructors Plan Inteersting Drill Series A physical education demonstration will be given by pupils of the Decatur public schools and high school at tlie high school gymnasium. Monday and Tuesday. May 18 and 19, it was announced today by Coaches Jeanette Clark. 11. L. Curtis and Burchard Horton. Tlie Monday night program will He given by the primary pupils of the want buildings and the Tuesday evening performance will be given by Central school and high school pupils. Both evenings the programs will begin at 7:30 o’clock. The demonstrations will consist of various drills, dances, and exercises taught in the physical education classes and many of the events will be given in costumes. The purpose of the demonstration is to give the piblio a dearer idea of what is being done in the physical education department of the city schools. An admission of 25 and 10 cents will be charged to cover the expense of costumes and putting on the program. Following is the Monday night program: "Indian Dance,” —South Ward, 1 "Ding Dong Bell" —Riley, 1 (CONTINUED ON PAGE FOUR) WOMAN,KNOWN HERE EXPIRES Mother of William And A. A. Kist Dies Monday At Portland Home Charlotte I. Kist-Johnson of Portland, mother of William G. Kist of Fort Wayne, a former job foreman at the Decatur Democrat office, died at the Rufus Watson home in Portland, Monday afternoon at one o’clock, following a several weeks illness. Mrs. Johnson was a member of the Methodist Episcopal church in this city and the Eastern Star chapter here. The deceased became ill several months ago with an attack of gangrene of the right foot, and was recovering from this when she suffered a brain rupture two weeks ago. She was born in Bristol, near Elkhart, September 10, 1851, the daughter of Alfred and Mary Jane JaquesGarrison. She was first united in marriage to William Marshall Kist of Warsaw in 1871, and to this union three sons were born, A. A. Kist of Portland; William Garrison Kist of Fort Wayne; and Frank (CONTINUED ON PAGE TWOj LESLIE PLANS FOR MEETING Governor To Be Host To 22 State Chiefs Last of Month Indianapolis, May 12 —(UP) Special reception committees will ’ meet Governors of 22 states who have announced they will attend the Governors conference at French Lick June 1 to 3 it was announced at Governor Harry G. Leslie's office here. The executives will be met at the Indiana state line and escorted here where they will be guests of Governor and Mrs. Leslie at a reception May 29. Saturday the visitors will attend the 500-mile speedway race and a dinner that night at which E. V. Rickenbacker world war ace, will speak. ' The group will leave Sunday for French Lick, stopping at Martinsville for lunch. A business session is planned for the first two days of the meeting. The officials’ wives will be provided special entertainment. The offical banquet will be held the first night. The final day of the conference will be devoted to a tour of the BloomlngtonFßeKlfokd Stone quarries, for which a special train will be provided.

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Country Club To Name Officers Wednseday I All men members of the Decatur Country Club are invited to attend a stag banquet and election at the Country Club Wednesday night at 6:30 o'clock, it was announced to- i day. Following the banquet officers for the year will be elected. Plans will lie made for tournaments, parties and other club activities, for the entire season. Club Manager Bernard Clark announced t today that all banquet reservations 1 must be made by Wednesday noon. 1 o I HERMAN MYERS TO OPEN OFFICEj! I Decatur Man Will Be < Graduated From Law School This Month Mr. and Mrs. John T. Myers have received an invitation to the com- i mencement exercises of the Cum-j’ berland Law school at Lebanon. Tenn., on Wednesday, June 3, at which time their son, Herman H. ' Myers with 161 others will be graduated. Herman however by taking a special examination which he passer! successfully will not be required to remain for the closing exercises and will be home next Monday. Herman is a graduate of the Decatur high school and Indiana University. He will open an office here and expects to practice law immediately. Some interesting facts connected with Cumberland Law school are given in circulars from that institution, showing that during 'he past nine years there have been 10,707 graduates, including two members of the United States supreme court 14 federal judges, fifty congressmen, nine United States senators .seven governors and hundreds of men successful in professional. business and political life. Mr. and Mrs. Myers will be back in, their home on North Fifth street after June Ist. o Receivership Is Asked* Indianapolis May 12—(UP) — A receiver for the Meyer-Kiser corporation. an investment and securities concern, allied with the Meyer Kiser bank, which was closed today, was sought in a petition filed in superior court here today by Blessing F. Fischer. MIDWEST BANK MEETING OPENS South Bend Is Host To Group of Financiers For Two Days South Bend. Ind., May 12. —(U.R) —Bankers of 12 states, here for the Midwest Regional Savings conference, continued their two-day session today. Addresses by financiers and business meetings were on the program. A. C. Robinson, Pittsburgh, gave the keynote of the conference in | an address on bond investments. | I "Bankers who have placed their ! funds in ‘old standby' issues need fear nothing from the economic depression,” Robinson said. He exi plained that the depression may be ~ traced to economic reasons, but that bankers must share the responsibility. Robinson advised each banker to study his particular situation, and 1 cited as the chief causes of bank i failures, the lack of carefully deI vised investment programs, imL proper investigation of bond issues, [ inexperienced personnel in the bank, and lack of integrity in foreign agents. He recommended that , 10 per cent of a bank's bonds be . government securities. Other speakers were Rome C. i Stephenson, South Bend, president I of the American Bankers’ Asso- ■ elation, W. R. McGaughey, presi- . dent of the Illinois Bankers’ Asso- , elation, and Kent M. Andrews, Laporte. ! BULLETIN Indianapolis, May 12 —(U.R) —Dr. Robert Judson Aley handed his resignation as president of Butler University to the board of direc- . tors today, effective July 1. t Doctor Aley became president of Butler in 1929, after serving 11 > years as president of the Univers sity of Maine. Desire “to write, travel, and play” was given by Dr. I Aley as his reason for leaving the school.

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BIDS RECEIVED Bf CODNCILMAN Electrical Planning Engineer To Be Hired At Friday Meeting Proposals from three engineers to prepare plats, plans and specifications for the new electric distribution system in Decatur were received by the City com 311 in session Monday evening and were taken under advisement until Friday evening. The firms who submitted propos-1 als were Froehlich and Emery Engineering Co., Toledo; BevingtonWilliams, Inc., (‘harles Brosmnan, both of Indianapolis. Mr. Brossman submitted the low est price for doing the work. His offer was $2,000. The bid of Froehlich and Emery was $3,950 and that of Bevington-Williams. $4,000. The engineers agree to prepare maps of the present distribution j system, new plats of the proposed l I system, showing in detail the building of the lines, location ot poles and transformers and connections to the premises. The work is to be laid out in units so that the city can do a part of the work each year, it ie proposed to start rebuilding the lines beginning at the city plant on Third street running south to Marshall street, then east to the alley between First and Second streets. Tlie lines on Second street Prom Marshall street south to Adams street and on Monroe street west of Eighth street to the corporate limits would be rebuilt this year, M. J. Mylott, superintendent of the city plant stated. (CONTINUED ON PAGE FIVB) o Laborers Make Effort To Settle Differences' Indianapolis, May 12. — <U.R)i — Craftsmen of several trades today | started independent conferences with employing master craftsmen, in an effort to settle wage disputes. They disregarded arbitration proposals made by the associated construction employers. Labor groups persisted in their refusal to accept 20 per cent reductions, requested by the employers organization. Meanwhile approximately 50 per cent of the city’s construction work was tied up. oO’Hara Is Wanted On Indiana Liquor Charge; Indianapolis, May 12 —(U.R) The I largest liquor ring in Indiana since prohibition was adopted, numbered Edward "Machine Gun" O’Hara, now under arrest in Chicago as a suspected member of Fred Burke’s gang, as one of its leaders, federal authorities here charge. , O'Hara is wanted here on charges of being connected with the huge liquor distillery business conducted in the vicinity of Clin- . ton, Ind., along the Wabash river. , o COURT FACES NEW PROBLEM Indiana’s Counsel Says He Will Base Case On White Man’s Promise J Peru, Ind., May 12 —(UP) Echoes of days when painted redskins revouaced on the tanks of t'he Wabash. reverberated here aw descendants of those warriors gathered in ' a council of war today to defend ! one of their tribe against the White man’s law. Pete Mongosa,, 22 was arrested ' on charges of shooting fish. Clarence Godfrey, who traces his an- • cestry to a line of Miami chieftains t called the council, and, in the ntan- - ner of his forefathers, laid the - groundwork for the court battle. “When the treaty and sale of re- - servation was made in Wabash valley a century ago” Godfrey told the council. “It was undertood the redman, could -hunt and fish with- • out restriction by game laws. Does 5 this charge mean an Indian boy is p to be prosecuted because the pale- - face has forgotten his promise?" Godfrey with some t of White men’s legal methods, said 1 an attempt would be made to take ■ the case to federal court if Mon- , gosa was found guilty in city court I today. He promised a test to see whether a state could override a United States guarantee.

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Heroism Rewarded <1 "3 I* I ■ Am ■wj? liSI J; | ' w * Awarded the lA-onze Medal and! $1,600 in cash by tlie Carnegie Hero Fund, pretty Annetta Bren-, neman, of Factoryville,. Pa., aged 1 19, takes her place in the roll of honor of civilian heroes honored by the institution. Miss Brenneman won her award when she risked her life in saving Frank P. Demeck from drowning. Although the girl weighs but 112 pounds and Demeck 175, she brought him ashore after he had stunned himself by knocking his head on the bottom of a canoe coming up from a dive.

MAI EXTRADITE GANG SUSPECTS Nebraska Wants Three of Six Alleged Bandits In Chicago Chicago. May 12. --(U.R)- Max Toiwle, Lincoln, Nell 1 ., county attorney, announced today lie exported to bring extradition proceedings against three of the six gangsters arrested at East St. Louis, 111, last Friday charging them with tlie $2,800,000 Lincoln Bank robbery. The three, Jack Britt, Thomas I Connors and Howard Lee, identified by bank robbery witnesses, indicated they would fight extradition. Towle said he expected to win over the claim of Illinois authorities, who have identified the same trio in a $15,000 Plano, 111., robbfery. A fourth gangster, Edward (Machine Gun) O’Hara, was ordered held for tlie department of justice at Washington, pending issuance of fugitive warrants in two Terre Haute, Ind., murders. The other two, William McQuillan and Tommy Hayes, not identified in any crimes may be freed on habeas corpus writs. A sliowup every hour during tlie night was the detective bureau’s reaction to the habeas corpus suit brought by Louis Piquett, attorney. Among witnesses who viewed the men without identifying them were understood to be principals in tlie kidnaping' of Dr. Isaac D. Kelley, wealthy St. Louts physician, and Fred G. Blumer. Monroe, Wis., ixrewer. Clarence Nachtrieb Dies of Heart Attack Word was received here late this afttrnoon of the sudden death of Clarence Nachtrieb, aged 50 of Dallas, Texas. Mr. Nachtrieb died . this morning from a heart attack i and his brother Bob Nachtrieb, of . Telode, left for Dallas this after- . noon. Mr. Nachtrieb is the son of C. R. Nachtrieb. who makes iiis • home in this city witli his daughi ter, Mrs. Roy Archbold, West MonI roe street. , ■ o— Files Answer In Case i i Indianapolis May 12 —(UP) —An - answer to a petition filed by a resident of Francisco, Gidson County, i seeking an order from the public I service commission to force the s Southern Railway to erect a signal • at the crossing there, was answered L in a petitio nfiled by the railway j company today, which contended i that a warning was not needed at the crossing.

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FORMER GARY GRID STAR TO FACE RETRIAL Attorneys Confer After 12 Jurors Are Selected To Hear Case SECOND TRIAL GETS UNDERWAY Valparaiso, Ind., May 12.— I(U.R>—A jury of 12 men, eight of the mfathers, was obtained today and sworn to try Virgil Kirkland, 20-year-old Gary football player, for his life on first degree murder charges growing out of the death of his sweetheart, Arlene Draves, 18 - year -old high school girl, during a wine and j gin party last November. | Qualification of the jurors to im- | pose the death penalty if found justified by the evidence became more significant when Prosecutor John Underwood struck out two ot the counts in the Indictment 1 against Kirkland, leaving the two i under which Indiana law makes the death penalty mandatory upon ' conviction.

The jury was completed when state and defense agreed on Marion Trowbridge, 28-yearold former policeman, as the twelfth member of the panel, after two weeks and one day had been consumed in questioning almost 400 veniremen. The other eleven members of the jury which will decide whether Kirkland was guilty of causing Miss Draves’ death by criminal assault or attempted criminal assault are: Charles Walters, 39, railroad agent, no children. A. W, Fleming, 64, farmer, two sons, 25 and 21; two daughters. 37 and 27. Harry Casbon, 25, metal worker, infant son. George McVicker, 57, carpenter, two sons and two daughters, all married. Robert Brady, 38, laborer, two young sons. Hugh H. Morrow, 64, farmer, three sons. 38. 28 and 26, and one daughter, 20. (CONTINUED ON PAGE FIVE) Grand Jury To Probe Blackmailing Charges Indianapolis, May 12 — (UP) — George Taylor, 56, Indianapolis, was bound over to the Grand Jury today on a change of writing blackI mail letters to several Indiana business men. Bond was set at $5,000. Taylor was arrested May 3. Police said he was waiting for SIOO to be placed at a designated spot by an intended victim. Police Chief Warns of Garden Destruction Chief of police Seph Melchi stat ed today that several complaint had come to him about chickens destroying gardens. Citizens from several parts of town are complaining Chief' Melchi stated. A city ordinance forbids persons letting chickens run at large and several pro perty owners have threatened to kill the chickens unless they are penned up. o WALES TALKS ONECONOMICS PrinceUrgesCareful Consideration of Present Conditions Manchester, England. May 12 — (UP) —‘The Prince of Wales, speaking before the Manchester Chamber of Commerce today, gave earnest advice to British industry to meet world conditions, including those raised by tariff walls, to keep British trade from suffering. ■‘l think, and I am sure you all agree" the Prince said, “That we have come to a point when we must consider carefully the advlsibility in many cases of manufacturing inside tariff walls, thus at least ensuring that instead of losing our markets completely, we will be sure of them wanting British raw materials." The Prince's remarks were taken to suggest that British manufactur(CONTINUED ON PAGE FIVE)