Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 29, Number 125, Decatur, Adams County, 26 May 1931 — Page 1

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■GIL PLANS - KfeUILDINC OF I POWER LINES ■peering Contract e.'?yjLled To Toledo, O. Iflrm: Start Soon WILL f BE REMOVED .‘?®*'he k’itv council in special ’H»y«iori la<’ evening selected '?*rehli'h anti Emery, engin’'mSET of Toledo, Ohio, to pre'•’J®e»a'ls and specifications -«(® m VjK fol- the new electric Eributioii system in Deca- '■ ifhe dd.do engineers were ”'-i#Bected after members of the ■’HEtric light committee visitcities where the engiuwere seeking the local a,,d su fervi-se<l *" ibution systems. and Emery were ema Hilary of $2,500, which ’’'SBIIO 11"’ drawing of the plat city, the plans and for the work and the of the installing of the Bids In July ‘i.j® Bl require three or four prepare the plans, the Eiaws informed the council. , .q,-rar-tors will probabin .Inly and work started on rebuilding lire 1 ‘Beond treet line about August 1. informed the en--I,ul ,11 “ city would like to tft** 111,1 P° leß a,ul wires re ’ ; t,''Bved 'i"oni the up-town business ■jnby September 1. so that -*B Bet- -1 would be cleared by nil ißpet fair week. ■’'■fcae irst unit in the rebuilding of ■hnß entire • -leetric distribution sys"»B ■ ih-eatur will be from the nafßrLftlit and Power Plant, south ’’’‘■Marlhal street, then east to the ff First and Second UN CAGE EIGHI IUP I EME COURT STUDIES WRIT “loffiße Bill 6 Case Is BeI fore Highest Court of State ■lndianapolis, May 26. — <U.R> — ■sarin; on the petition of Attor- ■ w npra l James M. Ogden for ■writ of prohibition to halt further Bion preventing publication of J the 1931 legislature followrilß * Slli * contesting house bill 6 '.IB 8 •* for May 26 by the state court. writ, if granted, would void •jl® *W lll ction granted in circuit "i-Blirt preventing publication of the petition contended that 'iff 8 ! ''“fry 0. Chamberlin, who injunction, had no juiisin the case. . injunction was obtained by and Muncie following that conspiracy and fraud Jjß‘ ea f e ' l passage of the bill, which control of truck and bus , 'B le8 r ri)l " 'owns and cities and f it in the hands of the Public Commission. — o— — • — ■son fire g TRIAL CLOSES PMton Crate Changes It 11 to Second Degree ■ I Murder Today Crate Dayton convict on charges of first degree murgW» connection with the Ohio I fire last year, may ft llis p ' eat to guilty second | He murder, it was learned toCrate’s trial was resumed the court ordered a recess i /■ the convict's attorneys coni'‘B 011 the possibility of changing HB Pa - I a preliminary conference, | B Cecil Randall adjourned t’® 4 until 1:30 P. M. and intimat I S decision as t° whether such a f B'ould be given at that time. II St tietense ’ 8 Plan to change its | Br eca me known after the state

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Fate of Fort Wayne Men Is Up To Court Terre Haute, Ind., May 26. —KU.R> —The fate of Lawrence Rump, 20, and Roland Dibble, 19, both of Fort Wayne, charged with robbery of a filling station here last month, was taken under advisement by Judge John P. Jeffries after they pleaded guilty in circuit court. In the robbery one of the youths used an iron pipe to inflict painful injuries upon Kenneth Layman, station attendant. A charge of robbery with a deadly weapoar, carrying a mandatory life sentence, was dismissed by Prosecutor Charles Whitlock. More than 25 Allen county citizens appeared to testify as to the good reputations of the youths, who were defended by Samuel Cleland, Democratic chairman of Allen county. MERCHANTS ARE PREPARING FOR RARGAIN DAYS — Many Special Offers to Be Made In Every Retail Business STORES OPEN FRIDAY NIGHT Double Dollar Days in Decatur, next Thursday and Friday will offer to the thousands of people within the Decatur trading area some of the greatest bargains of first grade merchandise in many years. This is evidenced by the many special offers of bargains «in advertisements appearing in the Daily Democrat tonight. Many other purchases at almost spectacularly low prices will appear in advertisements Wednesday, and Thursday nights. The Dollar Days, sponsored by the Decatur Advertising Association, will cover all lines of merchandise, officers of the association stated today. Practically every Decatur store is offering “specials” for the two big days, and the values are quoted far below the retail prices of neighboring towns and cities, according to a check up of offerings. The double bargain day is being offered because Decatur stores will be closed Saturday, May 30, it was explained. Groceries, meat markets, clothing stores, dry goods stores, millinery shops, hardware stores, variety stores, shoe stores, drug stores, electrical shops, furn(CONTINUED ON PAGE SEVEN)

JUDGE HUGHES PROGRESSIVE Chief Justice Fought By Progressives Is One of Them By Raymond Clapper, UP Staff Correspondent Washington, May 26. — '(U.R)* Though his appointment was fought last year by senate progressives who regarded him as too conservative, Chief Justice Charles E. Hughes has become an outstanding champion of so-called liberal principles in recent decisions of the supreme court. His dissent in the conscientious objectors cases is the latest and most vigorous instance. The man who is said to have lost the presidency in 1916 because he failed to shake hands with Hiram Johnson of California, Roosevelt’s running mate in the progressive movement, has taken his place on the supreme court with that famous pair of dissenters, Oliver Wendell Holmes and Louis D. Brandeis. (CONTINUED ON I’AGE SEVEN, o Cabinet Sees Prosperity Washington May 26 (UP) — President Hoover and his cabinet have made a study of the economic situation and after today's cabinet meeting announced they found many factors that are favorable. A one sentence statement was given to the press by the White House reading: “The President and his advisers have been going over the economic situation and have found many factors that are favorable.”

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Riot at Vandalia Prison x ■■ •••'\wsk3*** . „ ... -4- ■ | a . i * r.i, i I . i ■ j „1 A" I. I i tahOww wrSBHI - , Wffiß ’ .-yx..- AS, ■ : -4 Rioting started at the Illinois state prison <farm, near Vandalia, when guards’ shotguns turned back an attempted escape, which had been “tipped off" a week ago. Four prisoners made a break for freedom. i'he p.isoners scaled two successive barbed-wire barricades. They were two hundred feet beyond it when guards saw them. When they Ignored commands to halt, the guards opened fire, wounding all four. Inside the barracks the convicts knew of the attempted escape, and the shooting was the signal for pandemonium. Within a few moments the dining hall am! dormitories 2,3, 4 and 6 were in flames. Photo shows the ruins of one of the dormitories.

Adams County C. E. To Meet Friday Night The Adams County Christian Endeavor Union will hold a rally in Berne, Friday evening, June 12. The meeting will take place in the Mennonite church,' beginning at 7:30 o'clock (CST), and Kenneth Timmons of Eaton, formerly state president of the Christian Endeavor, will address the young people of the societies in the county. All societies in the county are [invited to the rally and special effort is being made to have each in- | dividual organization in the county ■ represented. JUNIOR BAND ELECTS HEAD Harold Teeters Named President of Musical Organization Harold Teeters was chosen president of the Junior Band, at the business and social n.'eting of the organization which was held in the Decatur high school building, Monday evening. Other officers chosen were: Vice-president, Edward Martz; secretary, Bernadine Kolter; treasurer, M. F. Worthman; grade secretary, Harry Moyer; high school secretary, Mary Katheryn Tyndall; recording secretary for publicity, Vera Porter. During the meeting a photograph was taken of the forty members comprising the band, in their uniforms and with their instruments. Plans were made for the summer concerts which the Junior Band will sponsor each week during June and July. Definite dates for the con certs will be announced later. Following the business meeting, ice cream and wafers were served. SHOWMAN AGAIN FACES COURT Alexander Pantages Is Charged With Contributing To Minors San Diego, Calif., May 26.—'(U.R) —Alexander Pantages, multi-mil-lionaire showman, and thfree others faced trial today in Judge L. N. Turrentine’s court on morals charges involving' minor girls. Interest centred about the threatened exposure by Williarp Jobelmann, Pantage's former press agent, of a Hollywood organization charged with supplying girls as party companions for wealthy business(CONTINUED ON PAGE SEVEN) -t— o Funeral Plans Made Funeral services for Abraham Bullinger who died Sunday afternoon at his home in this city, will be held Wednesday morning at 1045 Elm street, and at 10 o'clock 1045 Elm street, an dat 10 o'clock (DST) at the United Brethren church with Rev. R. E. Vance officiating. Burial will be in the Ray cemetery at Monroe.

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, Decatur, Indiana, Tuesday, May 26, 1931.

BIBLE SCHOOL OPENS MONDAY 250 Pupils Expected To Attend Summer Training Here Approximately 250 children of this city will attend the opening day of the Daily Vacation Bible School which will be held in this city beginning Monday, June 1, it was announced today. At a recent meeting of the Deans, principal, and faculty members a detailed program for the school was worked out and final plans for the school were discussed. Enrollment excluding kindergarten pupils exceeds 150 and with additional school children and the kindergarten department the total enrollment on the opening day is expected to be 250. Deans A. R. Fledderjohann and H. H. Ferntheil and Mrs. Frank Downs, principal, have asked local pastors to place special emphasis on all members of the various (CONTINUED ON PAGE THREE) o Band To Give Concerts The Junior Band will play both days of the Double Dollar Day to be held here Thursday and Friday, it was announced today. The band will give a concert Thursday afternoon from 2 to 3 o’clock and on Friday night from 8 o'clock to 9 o’clock.

Two Great Days Decatur merchants are preparing the greatest feast of bargains ever offered the public for the Twin Dollar Days Thursday and Friday The first of the Dollar Day advertisements are published in tonight’s edition of the Daily Democrat and nearly every line of business is represented. And talking about bargains—just take a glance at the hundreds of items offered you as Dollar Day Specials. Due to the general closing of business houses on Saturday, in observance of Memorial Day, the grocery and meat market week-end specials will be published Wednesday and Thursday and Dollar Day bargains in food stuffs will be offered you. If you want that Dollar to do its duty and earn dividends for you put it to work Thursday and Friday and do your shopping at the Decatur stores. You’ll be surprised and more than pleased to learn what a Dollar will buy and you have no idea what the bargains In merchandise are until you visit the stores and see for yourself. Turn to the advertising pages in tonight's paper and read the following ads — Page Page MeDuffee Tire Service 2 Citizens Telephone Co. 4 Beavers Fryback & Beav- Teeple & Peterson 5 ers 2 Douglas Co. 6 Saylors Motor Co M. Moyer 6 2, 3,4, 6,7, 8 Fisher Greenhouse Co. 6 Economy Store ... — .... 3 Louisa Braden 6 Lee Hardware Co 3 Mutschler Meat Market 6 Callow & Kohne 3 Country Club 7 Lankenau’s - 3 Holthouse Schulte & Co. 7 Chas. Voglewede 3 Niblick & Co. 3 Theatres 3 John T. Myers Co. 8 Vance & Linn 4 B. J. Smith Drug Co. 8 Watch Wednesday and Thursday’s paper for a greater array of Dollar Day Bargains.

Juvenile Theft Ring Is Believed Broken Lafayette, Ind., May 26 —(UP) — Arrest of 10 youths and two girls, ranging in age from 13 to 20, was believed by police to have solved a series of auto thefts and highway holdups here within recent months. The latest youth arrested -was Harvey Schfidler. 17, charged with shooting Murray P. McKee, 20, Purdue university student, when Mckee resisted a holdup May 9. Sehfeidlers anegea partner in other crimes, Francis Haley, 18, was charged with auto theft and asj slating in robberies two of which : occurred near Frankfort. RAIL VALUES TO BE LOWERED iState Valuations To Be Reduced From 5 To 7 Per Cent. Indianapolis. Ind., May 26 —(UP) Valuations of railroads in Indiana are expected to be lowered from 5 to 7 per cent from the 1930 valuations when final hearings before the state tax board are completed, it was said here today. More than $25,000,000 has already been cut from the 1930 figure. The 1931 reduction in railroad valuation was made in view of depleted earnings due to the depression, the board pointed out. According to a financial statement in the .CONTINUE' > ON PAGE THREE)

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TAX RECEIPTS TO BE VALUABLE License Applicants to Present Poll Tax Receipts In Indiana — i Automobile licenses, motor vei hide registration licenses, drivers' 1 licenses, fishing and hunting licen- ■ ses and other permits, secured from ’ | the state, cannot be obtained hereafter unless a receipt by the bearler shows that poll tax is i>aid in I full, according to interpretation of .a bill passed by the 1931 General I Assembly. I The bill, known as House Bill I 293, is titled: “A bill for an act II prohibiting the issuance of certain I licenses to persons who do not have receipts or other evidence showing J that they have paid their poll tax." The law will become effective throughout the state as soon as the acts are declared by Governor Harry G. Leslie. It was indicated i i recently at the State House that i | the acts will be published in the > 1 next few days. They have been • i held up through litigation in Mar- ■ ion circuit court concerning the . legality of House Bill 6. The quesi tion is being argued in supreme ’■ coprt today.

The new license law will make the burden lie on the official who issues the license or permit and one clause of the law sets out that the official violating the act shall "be guilty of a misdemeanor and upon conviction shall be fined not more than 125." The act also provides that a person applying for a license before tax-paying time, shall show receipt 1 for poll tax of the last preceding year. The act was written and introduced by Representatives Earl Crawford and Roy Street and was (CONTINUED ON PAGE SEVEN) WOMAN HELD IN DEATH OF FOUR Chicago Lady Is Charged With Poisoning Four For Insurance Chicago, May 26. —(U.R> —Four persons who died in the home of Mrs. Margaret Summers, leaving her as the beneficiary of insurance policies, were killed by arsenic poisoning, Dr. Clarence W. Muneljlberger, coroner’s physician, testified today at an inquest in which the highest prosecuting officials of the county joined. Mrs. Summers, dark, short and stout, still wearing a black dress and black coat as mourning symbols, moaned in protest against the accusing testimony offered by Dr (CONTINUED ON PAGE SEVEN) Dog Taxes Are Due Saturday, May 30, will be the last day to pay delinquent dog tax, it was announced by trustees, today. Those who do not pay the tax on or before that time are liable to prosecution.

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Television Sets To Be Built In State Indianapolis Ind., May 26—(UP) Manufacture of television sets expected to be adaptable to any radio, will be started here by the National radio and television company, it was revealed in articles of incorporation filed by the company with the secretary of state. The project was said to be backed by Chicago financiers. Council for the company said the device had been found euccessful aL distances up to 260 miles and was capable of reproducing movies stage plays and news events. Production was expected to begin as soon as a factory site was selected. MEMORIAL TO BE HELD HERE ON SATURDAY Legion to Sponsor Annual Program In Memory of All Soldiers REV. FERNTHEIL TO BE SPEAKER Honoring the soldiers and sailors who were killed during the World War, the Civil War and the Spanish American War, Adams Post of the American Legion will conduct Memorial services here, Saturday morning, May 30. The program will be in charge of the American Legion, with Dee Fryback, chairman. Veterans of the Civil War, the Spanish American War, and World War, together with members of the Women’s Relief Corps, Boy Scouts, Girl Scouts, and school (CONTINUED ON PAGE FIVE) KIRKLAND FATE TO JURY SOON Final Arguments Are Heard Today; To Jury Late This Afternoon Valparaiso, Ind.. May 26. —(U.R>— The testimony Henry Shirk and and Paul Barton gave when they became state's witnesses in Virgil Kirkland’s second trial on charges of murdering Arlene Draves was assailed by defense attorneys today as the case neared the jury. Ronald Oldham, Chicago attorney, who presented the defense’s closing arguments, declared that Barton and Shirk, who testified Kirkland led criminal attacks on Arlene during a Gary liquor party, were "dirty, filthy rats.” Prosecutors John Underwood and Robert G. Estil, were to present the state’s final summation, after which Judge Grant Crumpacker had /a list of 60 instructions to read. Kirkland’s fate was expected to go to the jury around 5 p. m. Oldham declared ironically that although the state objected to making prohibition an issue in the trial, it constantly referred in the testimony to liquor in an attempt to arouse the jury’s prejudice against Kirkland. He charged the testimony of Barton and Shirk was the result of a deal by which the youths hoped to escape trial on the same charges as Kirkland, with whom they were indicted. Oldham called attention to the refusal of two other defendants, David Thompson and Leon Sanford,

(CONTINUED ON PAGE SEVEN) o Phi Delts Motor To Huntington For Meet Sixteen members of the local I’h! Delta Kappa fraternity motored to Huntington, Monday evening, where they attended a social meeting of the fraternity chapter there. While present at the meeting the announcement was made of the anniversary banquet of the Decatur chapter which will be an event of June 8, and the dance which the fraternity wili sponsor June 18. Those who attended the meeting at Huntington were Clarence Beavers, Glen Beavers, Chester Brandyberry, John Burnett. Roger Bebout, Joe Elzey, Richaid Engle, Don Gage, Harold Heller, Don Koos. Jerome Keller. Herman Lankenau, Herman Omlor, Edgar Steele, Harry Sheets and severeu Schurger.

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MECHANIC AND DRIVER KILLED IN AUTO CRASH Car Goes Over Wall And Burns Up In Qualifying Round SECOND WRECK IN TRY-OUTS Indianapolis. Ind., May 26 —(UPi —A race driver and his Mechanic were killed at the Indianapolis motor speedway on a practice run this morning when their auto leaped the outside wall on the southeast turn, crashed into a tree and burst into flames. The driver was Joe Caccia. 32, of Bryn Mawr, Pa. Italian born, the mechanic was Clarence Grove, 23. both bodies were charred. The car was a Jones-Malay Special, a Miller-motored straight eignt Caccia Ijad not qualified the car, but w*s tuning it up to be ready for the 10 mile run this afternoon. Groves was dead when rescuers reached the burning machine and Caccia died a few minutes later. It was the first fatal accident of the 1931 racing season here. The southeast curve where the Jones-Maley Special left the track has long been recognized as the dangerous turn of the course because of a slight depression in the middle of the curve. Track experts said Caccia made a habit of overriding on the turns, attempting to pull his racer out of natural spins rather than allowing it to naturally right itself. Groves was dead when rescuers reached the burning machine and (CONTINUED ON PAGE FIVE) May Oust Governor Nashville, Tenn. May 26 —(UP) — A resolution creating a special house committee to consider articles of impeachment against Governor Henry Horton needed only six signatures today to pass the lower chamber of the State Legislature. o Congressman Expires New York, May 26. —(U.R) —Rep. Matthew V. O’Malley, 54, of the seventh congressional district, Brooklyn, died at his home today. He was a Democrat. O’Malley was elected at a special election early this year to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Congressman John F. Quayle. His term started March 4 Death apparently was caused by heart disease. o Murder Is Confessed New York, May 26 —(UP)—Howard Vincent Bridgetts, 29. sought by police for three days, walked into a police station here today ami admitted, police said, the slaying of Dr. Joseph Loughlin, a Brooklyn surgeon, in a pistol duel in the Dunes of Marine Park. Worn from the loss of blood, due to a wound in the left arm, Bridgetts told police he was tired of hiding and wanted to “get it off my chest." he said lie had spent the time between Saturday night, when Dr. Loughlin was slain and the time he surrendered, attending movie shows and wandering the streets. FOUR KILLED IN PLANE FALL Chicago Daily News Is Owner of Ship That Crashes to Ground Chicago, May 26 —(U.R)— Four men were killed today when th<» Chicago Daily News twin-motored Bellanca airplane crashed two miles north of Glen Ellyn, a western suburb. The dead were Shirley Short, pilot and famous flier; Richard K. Peck, co-pilot; Lews S. Rice, radio operator and Robert A. Gormley, mechanic. The big plane was wrecked and apparently all the crew was killed Instantly. The plane was making a series of test flights over a measured course between Curtiss-Reynolds airport and Serena, 111. It had completed one round trip and was on the first lai( of the second when the crash occurred.