Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 29, Number 116, Decatur, Adams County, 15 May 1931 — Page 1

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’Lining p la nt sSe located s|||N THIS CITY Concern Seeks Contracts of i Kjams Co. Farmers n —— to I Ist \rt at once 0 ■ liffltlCE to farmers Kuiß’iH' ix '»f Adtms r»nniy. in planting an acre asked to on .Monday for contract. i gt tomato canning factory, -.■■contracts for 75 to < K acres of tomatoes this i Kr. will be established in , ■pm at once, according to 11 ■jßceiveil here today by!, 'anchor, president 1 1 liecatur Chamber of i Jfame i was received by Mr. er from Ross W. Morris, iKt-nilf Indiana, with whom ■n|U' -■ i..t< '!. stating that lie | I^Kssui dates had decided to u factory here, providing for 75 to TOO acres of to Bhslriiiiiil be secured this year. iBlMw i- suggested that 75 one- < be obtained. from Mr. Morris' ■Wei. o. decided to establish Decatur providing you 75 acres tomatoes and not KSd TOO acres first year. We , route company at once, '■feata-' sld per ton. Company ’ picking baskets free of| ( Fine southern open grown special variety ■t Sipressed to Decatur plants _Be loll.us per thousand cash, ge mac 11 prefer to liave several ea< not growing over one Preferably 75 groweach first year. This >. y for large yield. We contracts printed and nffißgward first of week. Tomalie set last week in this Lav.- the 75 acres spoken I Pym yers of the board of direct■KnUED ON PAGE EIGHT) | Murderer Is Convicted May 15—(UPl-Convict-after a record breaks which lasted only a few llW Fl|,tl Snli 'h was under sento serve 50 years in prirunning amuck on April 8 ■ llalsllall Field department MB:. 1 : engaging in a gunfight in the deaths of two Pfflßid wounding of another. witnesses testified against was the only defense witdied as he told that his was starving when he at,l" ’’°l<lup which resulted lEW 11 "" 1 '"«■ It took the jury an a llalt to lintl 111111 puilt -'’ last night. BIEW BOARD ||IS APPOINTED I B e Erwin Appoints W. Lower And John J iMosure to Posts j B Mosure, of Linn Grove, formof Adams county and Lower, of this city, today lF'W la,n, ‘d by Judge D. B.’ Erwin tlle A^anis county '|" u W of review which will open its ’I BB sesa * oll June 1. 11 ■ court, according to the statIBB I3I ’ one Democrat and one il ' an to serve on the board. J|.'^B‘ owe r is the Republican apIJH ail d Mr. Mosure is the I Bcrat representative. two men appointed by the r“W an d the three, ex-officio mem■aS Alllert Harlow, auditor; Ed A. |p^P uc Ler, treasurer and John ;| *B assessor will meet in the ■ sL^B Sor ' s office for 30 days for the |! B® l3 ot reviewing th'e tax assessrecently made.

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Heiress to Wed I ■■ nr < .®l w few * ■ft WIW WK® QWI I Miss Rosemary Baur, Chicago’s 1 richest heiress, daughter of Mrs. ' Bertha Baur, will become the bride of Bartie Hull, eldest son of W. , Perkins Bull, K. C. Announcement < of the engagement was made Wed- i nesday. Rosemary is 20 years old < and her fiance is 2S. Bartie Bull's , father, besides being a king's coun- < sellor, is an intimate friend of the t King and Queen of England. The t marriage will take place in the i fall. LEGION WILL ~! I ASK COMMITTEE; — j Commission Sought To , Study Depression By Legion Executives 1 Indianapolis, May 15. — <U.R)i — 1 The American Legion will urge President Herbert Hoover to form ; a representative commission to i study the causes of economic de- 1 pression. the Legion’s executive I committee directed yesterday. i The executive committee, meeting at Legion National headquarters here, directed Commander . Ralph T. O'Neil to call upon Hoover to select the commission from representatives of labor, industry, capital, finance, agriculture and other elements of the national life. “We urge that such commission analyze charges that have been made than the financial and business leaders failed to recognize .the warning signals fully one year ahead of the depression,’’ the committee set forth, “and also failed to sound any warning that might have minimized the depression.’ The recommendation was made after a special Legion unemployment commission, led by Howard (CONTINUED ON PAGE SIX) o —— —— AID FORCE IS ON EXHIBITION Army Planes Assemble at Dayton For Great Air Demonstration Dayton, 0., May 15—(UP)—The government assembled its army an strength today for the most gigan- ■ tic aerial spectacle in 15 years The annual army air maneuvers. Swooping out of the skies from < “zero” posts, - airports where they spent the night—more than 600 of the 672 fighting ships which will participate An the demonstration began arrving this morning. Virtually the full complement of the army's air defense will be concentrated here when the maneuvers to be climaxed with an "attack on the city of New York, May 21. get underway tomorrow. Not since the world war when the United States, weak in aerial defense, mustered air Armada second only to England's has tlie army (CONTINUED ON PAGE EIGHT) Huntington Man Named Indianapolis, May 15.—(U.R>—Dr. J M Hicks Huntington, was named president of the Indiana Institute of Homeopathy at its sixtyfifth annual meeting here. Other officers elected were: First vicepresident, Dr. L. G. Dill Logansport- second vice-president, Dr. 1-. A. Beardsley, Frankfort; secretary, Or. J. S. Salabaugh Jr. Nappanee, and treasurer, Dr. Sollis Runnels, Indianapolis.

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“RECONSTRUCT SYSTEM”, POPE URGES IN TALK Catholic Head Makes Most Important Address In Years IS BROADCAST OVER WORLD Vatican City, May 15.—*U.R) Reconstruction of the world’s | entire economic system to bring about a more equitable distribution of wealth between capital and labor was set forth as a principle today by Pope Pius XI in the most significant pronouncement of the church on social conditions since the time of Leo XIII. — ; The Pope, addressing 7,000 pilgrims of various nationalities gathered to celebrate the 40th anniversary of Pope Leo’s famous encyclical on labor, “Reruni Novaruni ’’ read a summary of his own forthcoming encyclical, reaffirming and elaborating in the light of modern conditions his precedessor’s pronouncements. The Pope’s summary was broadcast from the Vatican City radio station and rebroadcast in America. so that millions were enabled to listen in on the historical occasion. In the past, the Pope said, there has been an unquestioned excessive and unjust disproportion of the commodities of life between capital and labor, and immense riches were accumulated in the hands of the few while the proletariat had nothing of their own save their hands and the sweat of their brow. "Therefore,’’ he continued, “it is absolutely necessary to reconstruct the whole economic system by bringing it back to the requirements of social justice so as to insure more equitable distribution of (CONTINUED ON PAGE FIVE) o WAGE PROBLEM ISSETTLED Indianapolis Craftsmen Resume Work After Agreement Indianapolis, May 15. — (U.R)| — Work on Marion county building projects to cost several million dollars was renewed today after employers and craftsmen yesterday drop their wage scale disagreements. After the several building crafts refused to accept a 20 per cent, wage cut, or to submit the proposition to arbitration, J. Emmett Hall, secretary of the Associated Construction Employers, announced that work would be resumed at a wage scale fixed by the’unions, understood to be the 1930 scale. Construction work here stopped May 1 when the Employers Association announced a 20 per cent wage cut upon all construction craftsmen. Local unions refused to accept the cut and later refused to arbitrate. The workers pointed out that in the past all wage agreements were entered into at conferences between employers or master craftsmen and the workers, and that the Associated Construction Employers were usurping a power denied them. The position of the employers was set forth by Hall in a letter to Harry B. Dynes ; Indianapolis, repthe united proceeds of capital and labor. “Thus will be achieved that up(CONTINUED ON PAGE FIVE) o Banker Attempts Suicide Indianapolis, May 15 — (UP) — Hospital autorities were attempting to save the life of John Pullen, 50, former official of two state banks which closed in December, after he failed in an effort to end his life here today. He was found unconscious on the floor of his garage with the engine of his auto running. Physicians said he had an even chance to live. Pulleu was president of the Citizens’ State bank and vice president of the Maple Road state bank. He had continued as director of the former after it was taken over by the Fletcher Trust company.

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Decatur, Indiana, Friday, May 15, 1931.

John Beeson Named Governor of Rotary Michigan City, Ind., May 15.— —Dr. John H. Beeson, Crawfordsville, a dentist, is the new Governor of Indiana Rotary, chosen at the state convention which closed here yesterday. Robert E. Heum, Richmond, was elected delegate to the International Rotary conventio nto he held at Vienna, Austria, this summer. The 1932 state convention practically is assured for Indianapolis, as the Capital City was the only one extending an invitation. Selection of the meeting place will be made at an assembly of district presidents and secretaries to meet |on call of Dr. Beeson. PLAY PLEASES LARGE CROWD South Ward Pupils Are Characters In Operetta Given Here The Decatur High School auditorium was filled to capacity, Thursday night, for the play presented by the pupils of the South Ward School “The Land of Dreams Come True." The operetta, which is in three acts, pleased the large audience. The play opened on a playground where a group of children are enjoying a holiday, Margaret Hoffman as Betty, one of the little girls in the group refuse dto play the games with the other children, and seems to be searching tor something. When asked what she is hunting Betty tells them she is looking for magic berriee, which, when eaten will enable the “earth people’’ to enter a “Land of Dreams Come True.” Betty and three other children Bob, Peggy and Paul, the characters depicted by James Christen, Maxine Bailer and Robert Porter. respectively, find the berries and eat them, and soon tall asleep. Eight little pixies, Billy Brown. Paul Baumgartner, Robert Eichhorn, Robert Lord, James Baxter, Robert Egley, Robert Collier, and Harry Massonee. steal quietly from the forest and with magic incanta(CONTINUED ON PAGE EIGHT) o j Moser Trio Returns After Tour of World Miss Della Moser of this city spent a few hours this morning in Berne visiting with he rsisters the Moser trio, well known evangelistic singers who have just returned from a World tour. The women visited in 2,800 different cities and report an enjoyable trip. They will broadcast a program of sacred songs over radio station WOWO at Fort Wayne Sunday morning at 8 o’clock (D. S. T.). o PAVING GRAFT CASE TO JURY State Highway Builder Faces Charges of Padding Reports Bloomington. Ind.. May 15 — (UP) —The jury in the conspiracy case of Ralph Rogers. Bloomington stone contractor, who holds state highway contracts, continued to deliberate today. Rogers is charged with padding check-off reports for the state highway department, although recently the highway commission has award ed him several contracts. The jury deliberated until 9; 30 last night when they were ordered locked up. Today no verdict had been reached and it was reported several ballots had been taken. Differences between the state highway department and attorneys general prosecuting the case was brought out in closing arguments. Earl Stroup, deputy attorney general, admitted upon questioning by the defense attorneys that the two deparments have conflicted in the case. — o — Roy Kalver Transferred Roy L. Kalver, son of Mr. and Mrs. 1. A. Galver of this city, who for the last several years has been with the Paramount-Publix Corporation at Chicago today was transferred to the Paramount theatre at Detroit. Mr. Kalver will be managing director of the Detroit theatre. The promotion is effective at once.

UNITED PRESS MANAGER HERE Mark Knight, Indiana Manager Visits Daily Democrat Today Mark Knight. Indianapolis, state manager for the United Press news service, of which the Daily Democrat is a member, was in Decatur today. Mr. Knight is making a business tour of clients in northern Indiana, with a view to bettering the service to readers of newspapers. Almost every daily newspaper in northern Indiana is a member 01 the United Press service. The latest new member of the group ia the Bluffton News-Banner .which joined the news organization today. News of tne world, especially Indiana, comes to the Daily Democrat office by means of three daily 'etters from Fort Wayne, where the letters are received by printer machines and by a telephone call direct from Indianapolis every afternoon. In addition to this daily service features are sent direct from the New York office of United Press each day. Mr. Knight stated that his organization was always seeking new methods of gathering news and wae always striving to please the public. Knight has been Indiana manager of the United Press for almost three years. He is directly responsible for the sending of state news to the many United Prese clients. BULLETIN Indianapolis, May 15 —(U.R) — Hearings on a motion to dissolve a Marion Circuit court restraining order against publication of the 1931 legislative acts because of the investigation of House Bill 6, a bus regulatory measure, was to be held this afternoon. The motion is the state’s first step to obtain a writ of prohibition from the state supreme court to block enforcement of the order preventing publication. It was expected the writ will be filed immediately with the high courts, should Judge Harry Chamberlain deny the petition to disolve. FORMER LOCAL WOMAN NAMED Mrs. L. G. Ellingham Is Appointed To State Board of Charities l Indianapolis, May 15. —<U.R>— ApI pointment of four new members of I the board of state charities was an- . nounced by Governor Harry G. I Leslie. The Rev. Francis H. Gavisk, pastor of St. John’s Catholic church, Indianapolis, was reappointed for another three-year term, beginning last March 10. F The term of the Rev. William J. Sayers, pastor of the First Friends Church of Richmond, does not expire until next March. Harry Schloss, Terre Haute, was ‘ appointed to replace Rabbi Morris M. Feurlicht, Indianapolis, as a Democratic member. Miss Gertrude Taggart, Indianapolis, was appointed to succeed Mrs. Julia Belle Tutewiler, Indianapolis, ’ as a Republican member. ’ Mrs. Lew G. Ellingham, wife of the editor of the Fort Wayne Jour-nal-Gazette was named to replace W. H. Eichorn, Bluffton, as another ’ Democrat. , Mrs. Florence Hinchman Ham, I Knightstown, was succeeded by (CONTINUED ON PAGE FIVE) o Assessments Are Fixed i Indianapolis, May 15.—(U.R>—The 5 state tax board here fixed the 1931 4 assessed valuation of several Indi--4 ana railroad and traction properties. Included in the group were: i Southern Indiana Gas and Electric ) Company— interurban properties—--3 reduced from $180,500 to $129,810; Evansville Street Railway property reduced from $1,913,410 to $1,238,620; Dayton & Western Traction Company, reduced from $19,436 to i $9,820: Central Indiana Railway , Company, reduced from $219,614 to , $193,114; Lake Erie & Fort Wayne, .. unchanged at $38,260; Indiana Northern & South Bend, reduced a from $46,752 to $42,283; Muncie & - Western, reduced from $45000 to - ed from $43,500; and Louisville & t New Albany & Corydon Railroad, reduced from $50,710 to $34,280.

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POISON WEEDS ARE FOUND IN PASTURE LAND Death of Two Cows Is Traced to Wild Cherry Growth In Fields SPECIALIST IS ON INSPECTION A poisonous plant grown on the pasture land of the Jacob Neuenschwander farm in Ad- i ams county was diagnosed as wild cherry sprouts by O. C. Lee, weed specialist of Purdue University and L. E. Archbold, county agricultural agent, following a thorough investigation Thursday afternoon. Mr. Neuenschwander reported tli,e growth to County Agent Archbold after two Holstein heifers had diet! and another cow had become seriously ill. Mr. Lee was in Adams county inspecting land formerly infested with Canada thistle and quack grass which was treated with a special application last | year. About 35 farmers of the county accompanied Mr, Lee and the county agent to Neuenschwander farm Thursday and much (CONTINUED ON PAGE TWO) Library Gets New Book The Decatur Public Library is in receipt of a work from Rev. Leon-1 1 ard W. A. Luckey of New York: City, “Fourth Volume Standard Geniological Encyclopedia of the 1 first families in America,” just off 1 the press and sells for $22.00. , | The volume is up-to-date and : complete in itself, has over 2,000 ' I records and more than 8,000 J lineages and a list of nearly 2,000 immigrant ancestors, with vast historical information, interesting and a most valuable add!- ’ tion to the library. Rev. Luckey in his letter writes. “If you do not have a copy in the Decatur library and would like one, seeing the city of Decatur is my own native town and the old home interests are so very dear to me, I will gladly furnish you with one of the very best bound copies—only awaiting word from you.” The trustees and librarian gratefully acknowledge the splendid gift and invite all persons of the city and county interested in Hie work to call at the library and enjoy it. Tile people of Decatur remember with great pleasure the gift to this City of the expense of the adornment to the court house ground given in momory of his father, George W. Luckey. STATE WITNESS IS NOT FOUND I Prosecution Seeks Arrest of Witness In Kirkland Murder Case Valparaiso Ind. May 15 —(UP) — One of the state's principal wit- > nesses in Virgil Kirkland’s first . trial on-charges of murdering Ar- , lene Draves was declared today to . have disappeared when the second trial started three and one-half weeks ago. ! Prosecutor Robert G. Estil inter- . rupted his re-persentation of testimony against the young Athlete to dispatch an order to Sheriff Roy Holley of Gary for the arrest of Victoria Leonard 38-year-old waitress Miss Leonard sweetheart of a ' youth awaiting death in the electrie chair in Illinois for the murder of a banker vanished as the second trial of Kirkland started without notifying the prosecution of her departure, and has not been seen ; since Estil announced: He declared the state considerr (CONTINUED ON PAGE SIX) o 1 Sullivan Man Elected > ' Indianapolis, May 15 —(UP)— ’ Joseph P. Stratton. Sullivan, was , elected president of tne Indiana asi sociation of personal finance coml panies at the sixteenth annual con- : vention held here. ) H. H. Burrell South Bend was t chosen second vice-president. St rat- , ton succeeded W. S. Nicholas Clinton.

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Slain Crusader i Raymond E. Gilyard (above), first ' selectman of Seymour, Conn., was shot and killed in the town build- ' ing by a group of unidentified men . who apparently had been lying in[ ( ambush for him. Gilyard had been], crusading against liquor law vio- , lators. Police believe some bootlegging faction is responsible for the cold-blooded murder. —, _ i BERNE MAN IS ROTARY GUEST 1 Ferdinand Weins, Born In India Is Speaker At Local Club ■I I Ferdinand Weins, of Berne, born !in India, when his parents served ' as missionaries to that country, spoke before the Decatur Rotary club last evening on “Why England I cannot withdraw from India" • Mr. Weins lived 17 years in India t and is a student of affairs of the ’ Orient. He attended school in India i and is conversant with conditions - there. “England cannot withdraw from India because of the division among ; (CONTINUED ON PAGE FIVE) AGED DECATUR WOMAN EXPIRES Mrs. Sophia E. Beineke Dies Thursday After Long Illness Mrs. Sophia Elizabeth Beineke, ■ 83, well known Decatur woman I died at 8:45 o’clock Thursday night at her home. 815 West Mon- ’ roe street, of complications. Mra. Beineke had been ill for several months. She was born at Magley, Preble township, on September 20, 1847, the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. EberI hardt Fruchte, both deceased. On I November 11, 1869 she was united in marriage to Frederick Beineke, who preceded her in death several . years ago. The deceased lived on ' a farm near Magley until about 25 years ago when she moved to this city. Surviving are three sons, William Beineke of near Logansport. • John and Charles of this city; . five grandchildren; one great ■ grandchild; and two brothers, • John Fruchte of Fort Wayne and I Henry Fruchte of Magley. One > daughter, Elizabeth, preceded her In death. Mrs. Beineke was confirmed by • Rev. Peter Vitz in Salem Reforfh--1 ed church, August 18, 1861 and for ' the past several years was a devout member of the local Zion • Reformed church. I — — •• (CONTINUED ON PAGE SIX) f 0 To Patrol Highways Indianapolis, May 15 —(U.R) — Twenty-five state police, under Chief Grover Garrett and Captain . Rex Risher. were assigned to Secretary of State Frank Mayr Jr., today to handle Indiana traffic to the Kentucky Derby at Louisville Saturday. Each patrolman was assigned a s section of southern Indiana road . to police, and tiwo officers were . placed at the Indiana ends of the . Ohio river bridges at New Albany and Jeffersonville. Major patrols 8 will be on road 150 between Vin- . cennes and the river and on 31 i. between Indianapolis and Louisville.

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HOOVER SHOWS MUCH INTEREST IN CONDITIONS Legion Resolution Is Awaited at Capitol; Depression Noted GREEN MAKES NEW STATEMENT Washington, May 15.—<U.R) —President Hoover is closely following agitation concerning the maintainance of existing wage scales and unemployment relief. Queries about the American Legion stand for a new industrial conference and the statement of William Green, president of the American Federation of Labor, threatening strikes to resist wage reductions were met at the White House with the response: “Mr. Hoover is as interested in maintaining the American wage scale as any man alive.” The resolution the American Legion executive committee adopted yesterday at Indianapolis has not yet been received by tile President. It urged him to assemble banking, business and labor leaders in a new non-political meeting to inquire into the causes of the economic depression and unemployment. Organized labor is fully prepared to resort to strikes if necessary to prevent depression of wage scales. Green informed the United Press yesterday. Amplifying the statement issued I Wednesday by the executive council of the federation in which resort to strikes was hinted at and several large companies were sharply criticised tor wage cuts. Green said: "We feel that we are being driven to the point where we must resist attempts of employers to reduce wages, even though, it may be necessary for workers to go on strike. Because employers assured the President of the United States they would maintain wages, we feel there is a moral obligation pn all employers to carry out that understanding. It was made with the | chief executive of the nation and given in response to an official request he made to employers and to labor.” The labor federation repeatedly lias maintained that it has doue its utmost to keep its part of the agreement. which was to forestall strikes as far as possible. While it is conecede that local strikes will occur in individual mines and factories and that in the last analysis the (CONTINUED UN PAGE EIGHT > o « Brother-In Law of Local Man Expires Mr. and Mrs. Carl Luse of this city received a telegram, informing them of the death of Mr. Lime’s brother-in-law, Br. Wess Davis, of Madison, Wisconsin, who died following a spinal operation. The funeral will be Friday morn ing at 9 o'clock at the Fairmont Funeral parlors in Crawferdsville. Indiana. Mr Luse will return to tills city the latter part of the week. INDIANA IN LICENSE WAR Frank Mayr, Jr„ Warns Georgia Officials of Truck Impounding Indianapolis, May 15—(U.R) —Secretary of State Frank Mayr. Jr„ today wired notice to Georgia offiicials that any truck bearing a Georgia license and travelling on Indiana roads will be Impounded until Indiana license plates aro (purchased. Tlie reason for the Georgia blacklist is the impounding by Georgia authorities of a truck owned by Ward Hiner and bearing an Indiana license. Mayr sought to secure did of G. H. Carswell, Georgia secretary of state, in obtaining release of the truck. Carswell sent Mayra lengthy letter setting out that under a new Georgia statute, the public service commission now has juris(CONTINUED ON PAGE THREE)