Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 29, Number 126, Decatur, Adams County, 27 May 1931 — Page 1

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Blandgets DlO YEARS ■jravescase {K]|i Gun Threats And t ney's Arrest ■ Hanse Turmoil OUT J SHORT TIME BULLETIN BiKlian ipolis, May 27—(U.R) —VirGary athlete, should HL be n sentenced to from 5 to m the state prison after MK'ictic n on a charge of assault K battery with intent to commit iKfinal attack in connection with K death of Al lene Draves. AttorKy Ger ral James M. Ogden told K jii&e and prosecutor in the telephone today. :®gde> said the 1 to 10 year iKtence in the state reformatory today in Porter Mfcuit court was an error. ProseUnderwood told the general he would start IlKHuniess the judge changed Ind., May 27.— ■Wiryil Kirkland. 20-yea'r ■ Gary athlete, awaited senof from one to ■ years in prison on charges ■ assault and battery with to attack Arlene ghvej. whom he said he lovfor whose death he sentenced to life im- ■ Flit f|ghts in the courtroom, ardefense attorney on bad reported threats of ( and other sensational de-' marked the end of second trial. prevailed for hours verdict was returned. Re■ortstlai at least two of the jurors they were sentencing to die. led to heated de-1 prosecutors for a third! protests were droppi d after arguments' pittf- verdict must stand regardItiry of farmers received the 3:25 yesterday. A short time efense Attorney Ronald C. i was arrested (in a bad harge filed in Butler county, He was taken to the jail Kirkland sat, white and ng, awaiting the verdict. Grant Crumpacker had outx possible verdicts, ranging 'quittai to murder by atin Indiana carries a death penalty. mB: 25 last night the jury proKirkland guilty of one of ®fflw>st minor of the six charges, it later was claimed some ON PAGE FIVE) —o Are Questioned ■lvan, Ind., May 27. — 'U.R!' 1 - held in connection gBWe fatal assault on Mrs. John Merom, during a robbery. '-<> be questioned by police men, Charles Garbot and B Armstrong, were arrested in B ! ' wo Persons, who told posaw the assailants leave house, identified the susIto WORKER I IS INJURED ■*d Marhenke Suffers Bctured Leg When Hit ■By Piece of Steel ■ ,,(J d Marhenke. Decatur Route gifered a fractured right leg at ■oel ll'uesday afternoon when ■as accidently hit by a piece of B while unloading stone on the ■am Aiumann road, between B road 27 and Hoagland. ■. Marhenke was working on ■aving of the William Aumann ■ when a clam shell picked up a ■ of steel, swung it around, ■the steel hit him in the leg. Es was brought to the Adams B*ty Memoria Hospital where it ■ learned that both bones of the ■were broken below the knee. ■ leg was also badly crushed. He Reported to be resting well to-

DECATUR DAILY DEMOCRAT

Vol. XXIX. No. 126.

Station Abandonment Hearing Set For .June 9 The Public Service Commission of Indiana, Indianapolis sends out legal notices that hearings will'be held at Bluffton on Tuesday, June 11, relative to the abandoning of the stations of the New York, Chicago and St. Louis railroad at Keystone and Curryville, in Wells county. The hearings will be held at the Court House in Bluffton. The hearing on the Keystone petition will be held at ten o'clock, and the Curryville petition at 11 o’clock. The petilon to abandon the Keystone station reads, “to close, discontinue and abandon its station and make same a prepay station '. The petition for the Curryville hearing reads, ‘to abandon its pre- | pay station at Curryville”. Complying with the legal notice of the hearings will he published in the Decatur and Bluffton newspapers. 0 MANY ATTEND DISTRICT MEET Bluffton To Entertain Pythian Sisters At 1932 Convention The twenty-first annual convention of the Pythian Sisters lodges of District No. 4. was held in Marion, Tuesday. The counties included in this district are Huntington. Wabash, Miami. Grant, Blackford, Wells, Adams and Jay. A large delegation of members from the local chapter attended the meeting, which was in two sessions, the morning meeting opening at 9 o'clock, and the afternoon sesstion at 1:30 o’clock. Mrs. Delton Passwater of this city, district deputy, presided over (the meeting. During the morning [session, registrations were made, the meeting was called to order, and Mrs. S. E. Shamp of this city, led the assembly in prayer. The Grand and Past Grand officers were introduced to the delegates present at the convention. I Mrs. James Bain and Mrs. Jessie t Hurdg of Decatur were introduced |at the meeting as past grand offic(CONTINUED ON PAGE FOUR) DECATUR GETS 1932 MEETING M. E. Missionary Group To Meet Here At Local M. E. Church The Fort Wayne district convention of the Women’s Home Missionary societies of the Methodist Episcopal Churches of the north Indiana conference was held in the Methodist Church at Auburn, Tuesday. Those from Decatur who attended the convention were Mr. and Mrs. E. N. Wicks, Mr. and Mrs. Dan Sprang Mr. and Mrs. Homer Lower and the Mesdames John Rex. F. H. Nichols, O. L. Vance, J. M. Miller, Sam Butler, Henry Heller. R. D. Myers, A. D. Suttles, C. D. Lewton. and the Misses Catherine Mangold and Margaret Peoples. Decatur was chosen as the convention city for the 1932 convention oi the district, and the meeting will be held in May of next year at the local church. The all-day convention Tuesday was largely attended, and the officers of the organization were reelected for the next year. Mrs. Fred Mills of this city will again serve as vice-president; Mrs. EL N. Wicks district Mite Box secretary; Mrs. R. D. Myers, Thank offering secretary. A noon luncheon was served. and the young peoples banquet was a feature of the evening meeting. W. T. Rowley Is Dead Word was received here this morning of the death of W. 1 • Rowley of Columbus Ohio who died at his home Tuesday night. Mr. Rowley was the father of Mrs. Glen Hill and is well known here having visited here frequently. o Movie Stars To Wed Hollywood May 27 (UP) Carole Lombard former Sennet bathiug beauty confirmed rumors which have been current for several months bv announcing today that she and William Powell motion picture star will be married in the near ' future.

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( Four .Who Died in Plane Crash - X MEsT** V 1 /l J /’***! ™ ■ ijL'aj “jjSgj I \ £ ; ~ A as ,t > I Foor were killed when the Chicago Daily News tandem-engined Bellance plane. Blue Streak, crashed i near Wheaton, 111., Tuesday. Those killed were members of the crew, all shown in this picture: Left to i right: Robert Gormley, mechanic; Lewis S. Rice, radio operator and assistant navigator; 'Shirley J. > Short, pilot; Richard R. Peck, co-pilot and photograp :er. “Copyright 1930, by the <’hieago Daily News

TO TAKE BIDS j ON ROAD PAVING Stretch Between Here and Monroe Will Be Paved This Summer , Bids will be received by the InI diana state highway commission . on June 16 at Indianapolis tor the construction of the stretch of road on state road No. 27, north of Monroe and extending south to where the new Berne pavement begins. The commission will receive bids for three types of pavement, rock | asphalt, bituminous concrete and | asphaltic macadam. The stretch to be improved is 2.275 miles. The width of the road is 20 feet. The stretch of road north 1 of Monroe, following the new route established last year, is ready for the top surfacing. The stretch west and south of Monroe to a point 5.01 miles north of Berne was improved several years ago by the state, but was not made a hard surface road. Contractors may secure plans, ‘ (CONTINUED ON PAGE FIVE! o i Legion Seeks Flowers ♦ i The American Legion of Decatur ■ has asked the members of the Women's Relief Corps to prepare the sprays and wreaths to place on the soldiers’ graves of the Decatur cemeteries on Decoration Day. I All persons having flowers they wish to donate for these sprays, • are requested to bring them to the i Christian church Friday, before 1 noon. Assistance in making the ! wreaths will also be appreciated. MORE RACERS ARE QUALIFIED Speedway Entry List Closes Tonight; 40 Expected To Start Indianapolis, May 27 —(UP! —A last minute rush of autos to qualify for the 500-mile American grand ‘ prix Saturday prevailed today. The last of five time trial days. Nine more names were added to the list of starters yesterday, but ! nearly half the total entries had ' not yet taken their tests. The origin al 72 was cut by deaths and withdrawals to 65, but only 33 have taken their required four lap spin for qualification. It more than 39 pass ■ the 90 mile and hour mark, the slow ■ est will be dropped from the list. 1 The Cummins Diesel engine will complete the field for 40. Three strong threats for major honors Saturday appeared on the (CONTINUED ON PAGE SIX)

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Decatur, Indiana, Wednesday, May 27, 1931.

X I IfOdd Fellows To Attend Fort Wayne Lodge Meet The local Odd Fellows Lodge has befen invited to attend the meeting of the Harmony lodge of Fort Wayne next Thursday evening, May 27. The Third Oegree will be conferred on a class of candidates. Tlie Harmony lodge confers this degree on the last Thursday of each month. All members who wish to attend this meeting are requested to lie at the Odd Fellows Hall, Thursday night, not later than 7 o'clock (D.S.T.). o SCOUT PICTURES TO BE SHOWN Activities of Boys At Limberlost Made Into Moving Pictures A motion picture reel showing the activities of Boy Scouts at Camp Limberlost last summer will, be shown at Decatur high school auditorium Thursday night at 8 o'clock. Parents of Scouts. Boy Scouts and all interested persons are invited t< attend free of charge, showing oi the pictures will be in charge of C. A. Danielson, acting executive of . the Anthony Wayne Scout area. Mr. Danielson was named executive when John Anguish resigned ■ recently. A permanent head of the area will not be named until tall, it was announced recently at the Chicago offices. The list of directors to have charge of activities at Limberlost camp at Sylvan lake for the Anthony Wayne area. Boy Scouts of America,was announced yesterday. (CONTINUED ON PAGE FOUR)

SAVE BY SPENDING Gloomy, old man Depression will be buried under an avalanche of Dollars and loads of merchandise as shoppers within a radius of 30 miles of Decatur turn out to take advantage of the Bargains offered by local merchants in the Twin Dollar Days—Thursday and Friday. It’s city wide and every store, from grocery to department store is giving you more than a dollar's worth for your money. Read the advertisements in tonight's paper and profit by putting your Dollars to work. —Turn to—

Page Winnes Shoe Store 2 Holthouse Drug Co 2 Baughman 5 & 10c Store 2 Theatres 2 Miller-Jones 3 Nichols Shoe Store 3 Pumphrey Jewelry Store 3 American Home Shop .... 3 Morris 5 & 10c Store 4 Holthouse Schulte & Co 5 Vitz Gift Shop 5 Schmitt Meat Market 6 Mutschler Meat Market 6 S. E. Hite Grocery 6

Don’t forget to fill the Market Basket with and meats for the Decoration Day holiday and week-end. Meat markets will be open Saturday morning, other stores will be closed.

CHICAGO WOMAN HELD IN JAIL Police Probe Death of Fifth Person; Murder Charges Denied Chicago May 27, — (UP) —While Mrs. Margaret Summers remained in the county jail today tearfully denying that she had poisoned four members of her household in order to collect their insurance, police began an investigation into the death of a fifth possible victim. A coroner’s jury yesterday recommended that tlie woman be held on murder charges as a result of the deaths of a nephew, her husband, and two roomers by arsenic poisoning. It was said she collected a total of $6,284 In insurance upon the deaths of these four; Thomas Meyers 17-year-old nephew, Thomas Summers, her husband; Thomas Lanagan and William Reinan, both peddlers and roomers in her apartment. Their deaths occurred with in tlie las: three years. The fifth person believed to have been a possible victim was Mrs. Summers' brother, Louis Meyers, father of Thomas. He died August (CONTINUED ON PAGE FIVE) 0 Last Rites Conducted For Wren, ()., Farmer Funeral services for A. J. Gephart, Wren, Ohio farmer who died at his home Monday morning were held this afternoon at 2:30 o'clock (Eastern time) at tlie German Lutheran church at Wren with Rev. Fetlierolf officiating and burial was in tlie Decatur Cemetery.

z Page Appleman Grocery 6 Callow & Kohne 7 Lankenau’s 7 Teeiple & Peterson . .. 7 Economy Store S Fisher Greenhouse 8 Mrs. M. Moyer 8 Vance & Linn 8 McDuffee Tire Service 9 C. A. Douglas Co 9 Saylors Motor Co. 2-5-7-8-9-10 Niblick & Cd 10 John T. Myers Co 10

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EMPLOYMENT PROBLEM TO BE SETTLED SOON Labor Secretary Representative Here to Settle Labor Differences STATE UNION LENDS HELP The question of whether the desire of the government to employ local labor at prevailing wages on the construction of all feedral public work, will be carried out has now reached the office of Secretary of Labor Doak at Washington and il is expected that definite action to decide the matter will be. taken within a day or two. David Lewis, secretary of the brick mason's union at Fort Wayne was here today with Ted Roberts, also of the Fort Wayne union, representing the state organization and for the purpose of meeting Mr. Harry Dynes who has been assigned by the department at Washington to make a complete investigation here. Mr. Lewis received the following telegram from Mr. Gleeson, secretary of the International Union: ‘‘Washington, D. C. May 26. 1931. “David Lewis, Fort Wayne, Ind., “At our solicitation. Secretary of Labor Doak, has assigned Commissioner Harry Dynes to proceed to your jurisdiction for the purpose of giving necessaty attention to difficulty existing in connection with (CONTINUED ON PAGE FIVE) Foley Funeral Held The funeral services for Miss I Mary Ellen Foley who died at the Lutheran hospital in Fort Wayne Sunday night were held at the Edna Jaberg residence on First street, at 2:30 o’clock (DST) this afternoon. Rev. A. K. Fledderjohann. pastor of the Zion Reformed church will officiate and burial will be in the Decatur Cemetery. SAYS LESSON IS OBTAINED J. A. Farrell Tells Delegates World Has Learned Lesson New York. May 27. —(U.R>—“Whatever the losses sustained during the past two years, the world has gained materialy by the chastening discipline of hard times,’’ James A. Farrell, chairman of the National Foreign Trade Council, said today at the opening session of the National Foreign Trade convention. “Demands have been made,” he continued, "upon industry to repair defects in the economic structire; to abandon policies that violate fundamental laws, and to apply more scientific methods in overcoming obstacles to readjustment to new conditions. This house cleaning has been rendered necessary by the derangements of a war which caught the western world in a (CONTINUED ON PAGE TWO) CHURCH. STATE BREAK FEARED Threat Becomes Imminent; Fascists Hold New Demonstrations Rome, May 27—{U.R) —The threat of a breach between the Catholic church and the Fascist state was feared to be becoming more imminent today. Fascist students held renewed demonstrations against the Holy See. They marched through the streets of Rome shouting: “Down with the Pope!" One group of 200 youths burned copies of the Observatore Romano, semi-official Vatican newspaper. The students' action followed renewal of the controversy going on between the Fascists through their newspaper, the Lavoro Fas(CONTINUED ON PAGE TWO)

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Auto Racer Killed at Indianapolis I J|* Joe Caccia. 31, crack racing driver of Bryn Mawr, Pa., who with liis mechanic. Clarence Grove. 23, was killed Tuesday at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway when his car, out of control at 100 milee an hour, plunged over a retaining wall and caught fire. HOTELPLANS ARE AWAITED Rumors of Options On Local Ground Reported By Builders Huntington is among the towns listed where it is proposed to build Tourist Hotels and contractors in that City have received plans and specifications for a building costing approximately $50,000. The hotels are proposed by the National Autohaven Company. Chicago.- and it is proposed to build hosteirfes in several cities in Northern Indiana, including Decatur, Warsaw. Columbia City and Plymouth. According to information received here by contractors bids are to be received by the company in Chicago on June 6. Local contractors have not yet secured plans and) specifications for the building. No information has been obtained relative to the location of the (CONTINUED ON PAGE TWO) TWO WOUNDED IN GUN BATTLE Grocery Owner, Detective Shot By Fleeing Indianapolis Yeggs Indianapolis, May 27. —<U.R>—The owner of one of tlie citys largest chains of groceries and an Indianapolis detective were wounded critically in a gun battle with two bandits who attempted a downtown daylight robbery today. Lafayette Jackson, owner of the chain of Standard groceries here, who started the fight in Federal and U. S. supreme courts against tlie Indiana chain store tax law, was sliot in the head and abdomen by one bandit. The robbery occurred a( one of tlie Standard groceiTes, Detective Charles E. Bauer, passing the store as the bandits ran out, received tlie loads from both barrels of a shotgun at short range. Tlie bandits obtained nothing. Someone in the store turned on a tear gas chamber and flooded the store with the irritable gas. One witness who saw tlie bandits escape said there were three or four others waiting in the auto. He said at least fifteen shots were fired by tlie detectives and bandits. The shotgun blazed from the rear of file bandit machine as it roared away, he said.

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NEW SECRETS ARE SOUGHT BY EXPLORERS Balloon Believed To Be i Almost 10 Miles High; Men Are Sighted TO ESTABLISH NEW RECORD BULLETIN Paris, May 27. — (U.R) — Professor Piccard’s balloon, reports reaching here, said was last sighted near Murnau, Bavarian Alps, at an altitude of 15,000 feet, facing a thunderstorm. The hour set for normal consumption of the balloon's oxygen supply had pass- ' ' ed. Augsburg, Germany, May 27.— <U.R>. — Two students of science drifted toward the borders of the ether today, rising probably higher than man has ever been before, in a search for a glimpse of the secrets of the universe. Professor Auguste Piccard, gray-haired, spectacled professor of physics at the Uniiversity of Brussels, and Chas. Kip- . fer. his assistant, shot toward tlie stars in a sealed aluminum carriage ; attached to a large balloon, rising at tlie rate of 300 feet a minute : when their balloon was released at 3:57 a. m. today. Reports from various points as they drifted over an area of several hundred miles in Bavaria and near Lake Constance on the Swiss border, indicated that they may hliave reached a height of ten miles Ilin the stratosphere, or the upper I belt surrounding tlie earth, where I the air becomes rarer and rarer and merges into etheral space. In the intense cold of the upper regions, human life is impossible. Two of the scientists <liad oxygen in tlielr sealed chamber to keep i themalive. and depended on the di rect beat of tlie sun against their aluminum cage to keep them sufficiently warm. Piccard, a grave, quiet student, father of four children, expressed no interest in the adventurous as- , pect of the voyage. What lie sought was light on the mysteries of the cosmio rays and the play of the atoms in space. »z««» (CONTINUED ON °AGE TWO) o ="“ Two Brothers Die At Interval of 24 Hours i Martinsville, Ind., May 27.—-U.R) —Jacob Fishel, SS. a Civil War vet- ! eran living here, and his brother. William Fishel, 76, Morgantown, died within 24 hours of one another. —- Will Sponsor Movie The boy’s Sunday School class of the Methodist Episcopal Junior church, taught by Mrs. B. R. Farr will sponsor a benefit movie. Thursday and Friday nights, June 4 and 5 at the Adams Theater. The picture will be “City Streets" wit.i Gary Cooper and will also Include the attraction,“Fifty Million Frenchmen.” Tickets for the movie will be sold by the boys who are between tije ages of 1 and 14 years. CROP REPORTS OPTIMISTIC Rain Absorbed by Soil In State, Federal Report Reveals Indianapolis Ind. May 27 —(UP) Heavy rains during the early part of tile week were mostly absorbed by tlie soil the weekly crop report of the United States weather bureau issued here today revealed. About normal sunshine prevailed but temperatures were abnormally low with frost in central and northwestern sections the report said. Growing conditions were given as fair. Planting is nearly finished hi the state, Progress of wheat continued good but cutworms were reported in corn. Growth of oats was reported to lie slow but its condition was given ' as generally fair to good. Blackberires were reported to be blooming iu southern districts.