Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 29, Number 137, Decatur, Adams County, 10 June 1931 — Page 1

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in percent i j| MURDERERS ! BE CONVICTED St Shows Two LargB’ities Have Hard BLblems In Courts "SECTIONS II Bl'.l OW NORMAL -111110 1(1 —(U.R) >ixi lesser forms JHiiicide appear to pre■lpouliarly dilTicult probK ii ; the two largest cities York and Chicago, the WickerKg] Lommission report on prosecution show a Btklisparity between suehomicide prosecutions and prosecutions for i.eame presented does K* . i lai defendant have less ll.'- .hancp of leaving free man. Milwaukee which are described as relatively effi-i. ni prosecution, are able only 42 per cent of KB killers who ejiter their .u’o in 1926 convicted "• r <ent an,i New Y " rk punishment in only 5.6 the homicide cases her courts. In the large New York cities, the perof conviction was 34.3 and Kansas City anil St. M Mo - ’’ was 40 - Cincinnati K* ..-e-fiil in 36.8 per cent of , cases. 'BSL- for Milwaukee, where -Bl fccemaee was 72.9. convicB’ l -obtiery trials varied only > to 44.2 per cent. record against was with respect to burglary, resulting in conviction Kits York obtained conviction ■ tii. per cent of its trials and in 35.5, while the others ,rom 36 t 0 65 per cent is marked similarity in Mk obtained in cities of under i Bar- atid in rural areas. In citKjjf that class in New York, in homicide, robbery M Brglary trials were 30. 30 and ■ pet ret', respectively. In eight urban Illinois counties, the on pagf six; Wig Club Holds Sleet at Rumple Home Adams County 4-H Pig club Bl 81 i - home of Henry Rumple! >i. mwnship last evening is a 4-H Pig club and helped the boys a balanced ration, using B join,- grown feeds that were . ,ti their respective farms, idea was to make the ration Bwononiiral as possible and still well finished pigs. will ty> held later at the one of the boys in which Be n:- .< i-s will be instructed the pigs in the show preparation for the show boys in the pig dub are. Koldewey, Kenneth HirB| Harold Schwartz, Solomon John Mason, Jr.. James B Bll ' Harold Thieme and Edgar BP'b'dd Koldewey was elected Solomon Mosser. viceand John H. Mason, secBl — o Baffic code PUSES FUROR Banapolis Has New Wide of Parking Regli ulations In Effect ■janapolis, June 10 —(U.R) - Wirings which accompanied enof Indianapolis, new B n - no-p al king traffic ordinance Ute first two days of the ha u grown to a rumble toFS as merchants in the downHy area joined with motorists ■wrotestiug that several points gMk ordinance are unjust. |lyarly a hundred autos had been £JJ£jp ( o garages and impounded Bntinued ON PAGE FIVE)

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[Adams County Parmer faces Check Charges Gerhardt Marbaugh, young farmer residing in Adams county was taken to Fort Wayne today by police officers of that city to face a charge of issuing a fraudulent check. Marbaugh recently issued several worthless checks in Adams county, but later made them good, according to Sheriff Burl Johnson, I and no charges were filed here. M. G. Miller of this city also was taken to Fort Wayne a few days I agos to face a fraudulent cheek charge., according to Sheriff Johnson. PLAINTIFF IS GIVEN VERDICT Kaleel Stephan Gets $12,000 Damages In Case Tried Here Kaleel Stephan, Fort Wayne, was awarded $12,000 damages in his i suit against Clark Fruit Co., of I Fort Wayne by a jury in Adams circuit court late Tuesday night. The jury had been out less than four hours. Stephan, who according to his complaint was injured several years ago when he fell into an elevator shaft at the Clark Fruit Co., building at Fort Wayne. He filed a suit some time ago in Allen superior 'court where a jury awarded him a judgment of $4,500 on a $lO,000 suit. The defendant appealed the verdict to the Indiana appellate court j where the decision was reversed in favor of the defendant. The case I was then venued to Adams circuit court and the amount of the suit was raised from SIO,OOO to $25,000. 1 | (CONTINUED ON PAGE SIX) CARPENTER AND SMITH IN JAIL Two Men May Remain Until Fall Term; Myers Named Defender Unless SSOO bond is obtained by Ora Smith and Ira Carpenter, held in the Adams county jail on charges of larceny in connection with the theft of some harness from a farm east of Decatur, the two men will be forced to remtain in jail until the September term of court, it was believed today. Both men were arraigned recently and pleaded not guilty to the cltarges. Under the poor law. Judge D. B. Erwin named Herman H. Myers attorney for the men? Be-1 cause of the crowded calendar for | the rest of this week it is not believed time remains for the two to be tried before court adjourns Saturday. Mr. Myers stated today that he did not know whether either of the (CONTINUED ON PAGE FIVE) SUNKEN SHIP IS LOCATED Hope Held For Lives of 15 On Sunken Vessel Near China Shanghai, China, June 10—(UP) —Hope for the lives of some or all of the 18 men trapped in the sunken British submarine Poseidon off Weihaiwei was held out in dispatches from there today. The messages were conflicting, however. One said that all the men had been saved. The other said the submarine tender Medway had located the submarine, in 120 feet o water, and that eight men were known to be alive in it and could be saved. London, June 10-(UP)— An exchange telegraph dispatch from Hong Kong today said it had been officially announced the Poseidon, sunken British gubn ’ arl " e located off Weihaiwei, Northern ( 'Efforts to raise the submarine were proceeding, the dispatch said The Poseidon sank after ac ° ,a yesterday with the Yuta, a Chinese '(CONTINUED ON PAGE SIX)

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NURSES JOIN UNPAID GROUP; FUND SHORTAGE iChicagoSituation IsGrow-l ing Worse As No Help Appears Near 19,352 PUBLIC AIDES UNPAID Chicago, June 10. — (U.R) — More than 2,000 nurses employed to care for the poor and [sick joined today the ranks of i Chicago and Cook county emIployes who are working withlout pay because local govern- | ments cannot collect taxes and therefore have no money to pay them. The county’s failure yesterday to pay off its 2,236 nurses boosted to ja total of 19,552 ’the number of I county and city employes suffering i directly because of the shortage in . funds #hich Mayor Anton J. Cermak and other officials have described as “a crisis." A total of approximately $50,009 was due the nurses, but the county could not pay. Employes who already were working without promise of immediate remuneration included 13.240 regular school teachers, 1,450 substitute teachers, and some 2,626 other workers in the department of education. Possibility of the county borrowing money to pay the nurses appeared remote inasmuch as the | Continental Illinois Bank has not yet been paid even the interest on ' I some $3,000,000 which it lent for salaries in 1929 and 1930. While county officials faced this new emergency and admitted frankly they did not know how they were going to settle it. Mayor Cermak and other city officials conferred over plans to solve the city's financial problems, which have become so serious that Cermak is considering discharging 50.000 era- , ployes and jusT letting the city (CONTINUED ON PAGE FIVE) O St. Paul Picnic Will Be Held Next Sunday There will be a picnic at the St. Paul Lutheran Church, one half mile north of Preble, next Sunday 1 afternoon, June 14. Everybody is in- ' vited to this picnic. o SEES FINISH OF DEPRESSION k—■ "New York Banker Says Curative Measures Are Being Developed Indianapolis. June 10—(U.R)—Curative measures for the present depression already have been well developed, in the opinion of Justin H. Moore, counsellor on economic conditions for the Irving Trust Company, New York, who spoke before the Indiana Bankers’ Asso- ! elation convention here this afterI! A curative is hinged upon knowlI edge of the cause, Moore said.» He | attributed the depression chiefly ' to speculation, but also labelled it an “economic repercussion from the war, which resulted in overbuilding of plant capacity and other structures.” Agriculture, he said, also underwent a change, resulting in redistribution of the world's wheat supplies. High tariff and land speculation were alluded to as minor causes. (CONTINUED ON PAGE SIX) Indictment Is Quashed Marion, Ind. June 10 —(U.R) —An indictment against Guy R. Brackin, former president of the Farm’ era’ Deposit Bank, Montpelier, charging him with embezzlement, was dismissed here today on a motion of Harley Hardin, prosecutor. The case had been venued here from Blackford county. The Blackford county council recently refused to make an appropriation of SSOO to assist in the prosecution of Brackin. who was indicted approximately two years ago. Hardin announced that he was not prepared to prosecute and filed the motion for dismissal. The trial was to have started next Monday.

Decatur, Indiana, Wednesday, June 10, 1931.

Garden Flowers Grown In His Own Greenhouse Jimmy Cowen Grows Hundreds of Plants In His Own Greenhouse To Landscape Beautiful Flower Garden at Home; Flowers And Raising Them Is His Hobby. Nearly every person bus a hobby now-a-days. With some it’s golf, fishing, walking, motoring, writing poetry, making after-dinner speeches or in general doing those things which appeal to one most. Others like to while away the time in a restful mood, enjoying the thrills ami secrets of a good novel.

With James Cowen, general i manager of the Decatur Casting Company his enjoyment and recreation comes from flowers, seeing them grow and following an active program in beautifying the grounds around his home on North Fifth street. The writer prides himself in knowing this busy landscape gardener and horticulturist pretty good and through friendship will i refer to him as “.Jimmy.” Jimmy’s latest venture in promoting the growing of flowers, shrubs and trees for the terraced garden south of his home, is a modern and well designed greenhouse. Jimmy is naturally an optimistic fellow and he is even trying his hand at growing tomato, cabbiage and cucumber plants and what we mean he has evidence to show for his experiments. Jimmy’s greenhouse is a lean-to to the south end of his garage. It is about 18 ?eet by 8 feet and right now he has several thousand plants growing. The greenhouse also has its own steam heating system and late last winter, following the completion of the building the plants and seeds just had to grow where it was 75 degrees in the shade. South of the greenhouse Jimmy has a small plot of ground which he calls .his nursery. And he doesn't mean for anyone to step ov|er the hundreds of plants which

FOUR IN COUNTY GET DEGREES Adams County Students Take Part In Three Commencements Fotft’ Adams county young people! are listed on graduating lists of two I state universities and one far-west university according to announcements received in Decatur. Robert Frisinger, son of Mr. and Mrs. M. A. Frisinger of this city and William C. Baker of Geneva were Adams county’s two graduates from Purdue University yesterday. Frisinger received a bachelor of science degree in mechanical engineering. He was graduated from Decatur high school and then entered Purdue. He will return to Decatour. tor a short vacation before assuming a position. Baker received a bachelor of, science degree in Industrial educa-1 tion. (CONT.NUED ON PAGE SIX) STATE OFFICER IS UNDER FIRE Office of Insurance Commissioner Reported to Be $2,500 Short Indianapolis, Jufte 10—(UP) —A Marion county grand jury investigation of the $2,500 bond shortage in the office of John C. Kidd, state insurance commissioner, has been ordered, it was announced today by Lawrence F. Orr, chief examiner of the state board of accounts. The shortage was made up by a bonding company, but nevertheless the report of two field examiners, disclosing the deficit, will be submitted to the Grand Jury, Orr said. Explanation of the $2,500 shortage, in Liberty Bonds, is made in the report by Charles Unger, former securities Clerk under Kidd. Unger said that while clipping cou-1 (CONTINUED ON PAGE FIVE) Scout Troop To Meet Notary Scout Troop will meet tonight at 7:30 o’clock at the Decatur High School building. This will be the last meeting of the troop before the Court of Honor next Tuesday and all scouts are asked to be present.

he is nursing there. A small fence encloses this baby garden from the rest of the lawn. He is also growing several dozen evergreen trees. Several years ago Mr. Cowen had a landscape artist prepare blue prints for his garden and with much time and effort and a knowledgie how to grow flowers an<f plants, Jimmy has developed it into a beauty spot. A few more years of growth will make it a show place. , The garden is a square and the border around it contains about every kind of flowjer, shrub, bush and garden tree listed in the beautifully colored nursery catalogs. Jimmy knows what he wants in the way of flowers and plants and he does not believp in confining liis taste to just variety or color. The inside of the garden is carpeted with the softest and greenest grass you ever looked at and when you walk on it. it’s like treading on Brussels carpet. The beauty of this lawn is not broken with a single weed or plant. At the wess end stands a gazing globe reflecting some of the beauty of the grounds. Our knowledge of flowers is shamefully limited and to rattle off th? names of all the different kinds of flowers, shrubs, trees and (CONTINUED ON PAGE FOUR)

Concert Draws Crowd The first band concert of this season was held on the Central School grounds. Tuesday evening, and was attended by a large crowd. After playing forty five minutes, the band was forced to discontinue ! on account of the rain. New music has been secured for I the band, several numbers of which I were played at tlie concert last ! evening. Rehearsals are being held i twice each week and every effort is ! being made to entertain the public with good music during the summer season of concerts. o RAIN IS AID TO SOME CROPS Drought Apparent Few Inches Under Ground; Corn Is Retarded Indianapolis. June 10. —(U.R) — . Favorable conditions for cool ! weather crops prevailed during the past week, according to the I report issued by the United States weather bureau here today. A i few light to heavy showers retarded the growth of corn and progress of cultivation, the report said, but wheat continued to advance rapidly, despite winds which flattened a portion of the crop in central and nothern areas. Oats made fair to good progress but was considered too short in central region . Some was heading in the southwest. Corn was only fair in northern areas, due to the cold weather, bfut progress was better in the south. Reports of cutworms continued to arrive from all sections, the bureau said. Rains benefitted dry regions but charts showed that soil in some sections was still dry six inches below the surface. A large crop of strawberries was expected* in the south. Onlonp and tomatoes were reported in good condition. —o - Academy Transferred Terre Haute, Ind., June 10.—<U.R) —Commencement exercises for the last class to be graduated from the academy at St. Mary-of-the-Woods were held yesterday. Academy classes have been transferred to the Ladywood School at Indianapolis, also a Cathplic insti tutlon, to relieve over-crowded conditions caused by growth of college classes at St. Mary's. College instruction will be continued here.

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TELEVISION BIG FEATURE OF RADIO SHOW Engineers Predict Common Use of Sets Before Many Months WILL RETAIL AT LOW PRICE Chicago, June 10. —(U.R)i —Televis11 ion lias passed the novelty stage > and soon will come into general ■ use in the home — with receiving sets selling for S3OO and less —eni gineers and technicians declared i today at the Radio Manufacturers’ I Association convention. Despite rapid improvements in i the perfection of simultaneous I broadcasting of sight and sound, : several years' experimentation will be necessary, technicians said, before television approaches the per- . section of sound broadcasting or talking motion pictures. Television — together with about . $1,000,000 worth of radio exhibits—was on demonstration at the convention. In attendance were 25,000 dealers and manufacturers of radios and radio equipment. "Within six months we plan to . have available a console model tele- . vision receiving set for home use at a price consistent with present . radio costs," said Hollis Baird, chief ■ engineer of thp shortwave and television corporation of Boston and New York. Other announcements and predic- ’ tions made by Baird’s company included: 1. Probably 100.000 television ! home receiving sets will be in oper- : atipn in America by next fall. I i.— Preparations are being made (CONTINUED ON PAGE SIX) GROUP TO MEET HOOVER NAMED Police Warned of Possible Communistic Demonstrations In City i i Indianapolis, June 10 —(U.R) — ’ Seven persons, who will comprise ’ a committee to greet President and Mrs. Hoover here next Monday, were named by Paul Bausman president of the Indiana Republican Editorial Association, which is sponsoring Mr. Hoover"s visit. i Committee members, made up of sou Republican publishers and three public officials, are: Oscar G. Foellinger. publisher of the Fort W r ayne News-Sentinel; Mrs. Sam- ' uel E. Boys, Plymouth, wife of the vice president of the association; Mrs. Harriett Toner, publisher of the Anderson Herald; Senator James E. Watson; Governor Harry ’ G. Leslie; Mayor Reginald H. Sul--1 livan, Indianapolis, and Bausman. : (CONTINUED ON PAGE SIX) LESLIE VIEWS G. A. R. PARADE I ! Governor, Sen. Watson [ And Others M atch 200 Veterans March ; > Newcastle, June 10. —(U.R) —Gov- ! ernor Harry G. Ijeslie, Senator James M. Watson and CongressI man W. H. Larabee. were in the s reviewing stand hese today for the annual parade of the G. A. R., ent campment, which -is in session » here. The Civil War veterans, ap- ( proximately 200 of whom are registered will lead the parade for two l city blocks and then take their s places in the reviewing stand 1 while the other marchers pass. The annual campfire will be held tonight, at which George M. Barnard, Indianapolis, will be the speaker. ) Business sessions occupied the ? attention of both the veterans and • auxiliary organizations this morni ing. S. M. McNair, Martinsville, ap- ■ peared to be the strongest candidate I for state commander of the G. A. R., at elections which, will be held ■ tomorrow. It was not anticipated j that he would be opposed. Marion - was the only city which had bid for the 1932 encampment.

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Evelyn Jane Graber Is Lions Club Entertainer Ainos J. Graber, sales manager of the Cloverleaf Creameries, Inc., of this city, had charge of the program presented before members of the Lions Club, Tuesday evening. Following the dinner served in the Christian church basement, little Evelyn Jane Graber, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Amos Gralifer, sang a group of vocal solos an I John Gilliom of west of this city played a number of guitar and accordion selections. ALL ENTRANTS MUST REGISTER Flower Show Attracts Many; Free Seeds To Be Given Children Those who desire to enter the Flower garden contest being sponsored by the Civic Section of the Woman's Club this summer, are requested to register with a member of the committee in charge, Mrs. E. W. Lankenau, general chairman announced today. Several people have not registered but intend to enter the contest, and Mrs. Lankenau urges them to register as soon as possible. Members of the committee with whom registrations may be made are Mrs. Lankenau. Mrs. M. F. Harris, Mrs. A. D. Suttles, Mrs. A. R. Ashbaucher, and Mrs. Earl Butler. Many beautiful gardens have been planted and several individual flower displays have been entered in the contest, Mrs. Lankenau reported. Indications are that many people of this city are turning their attention to beautifying their lawns and gardens. Children who would like to plan' a garden to enter in the contest may have seed by calling Mrs. Lankenau. Several people who had a surplus of seeds have donated them to the committee for this purpose. Gives Markmanship Show Tex Terry and his Texas rangers gave an exhibition pistol shoot this afternoon at the Fred Schurgej' range west of Decatur. Sheriff Burl Johnson and Policeman Arthur Clark were among those who competed with Tex and his cowboys. Tex is an expert with the gun. He rode with the Texas ra.ugers for about five years and in 1927 won tlie national pistol markmanship title. He and his rangers are now appearing in vaudevile. LODGES PLAN SERVICES HERE Memorials Will Be Held Sunday Afternoon; Prof. Jonas Tritch Coming Memorial services by two lodges and women’s auxiliaries next Sunday were announced here today. Prof. Jonas Tritch, principal of International Business College at Fort Wayne will be the chief speaker al the annual Knights of Pythias memorial services to be conducted here next Sunday afternoon. it was announced today. An appropriate service is being (tlanned by the committee in charge and the complete program will )4e announced Friday. Prof. Tritch formerly resided in Decatur and was an instructor In the commercial department of Decatur high school. Ho lias held his present position al Fort Wayne for a number of years. The Odd Fellow and Rebekah lodges of'Decatur will unite in a memorial service to be held next Sunday. The service will be held at Decatur cemetery and will ' start at 2:30 o'clock. Members of both lodges are asked to meet at the Odd Fellow hall at 2 o'clock iSunday afternoon. In 1 case of rain or inclement weather the services will be held at the hall. Picnic Is Announced The members and friends of the Emmanuel Lutheran Church located in Union Township will hold a ’ picnic, Sunday afternoon, in the grove one-half mile north and one 1 mile east of the church. A program will be given during 1 the afternoon by the children, and ' anyone desiring to attend the picnic, may do so.

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DESTROYER IS DISPATCHED TO CHINESE COAST Renewal of Uprising Is Believed Imminent In Southern China AMERICANS TO BE GUARDED Peiping, China, June 10.— i (U.R)—United States authorities ' acted today to protect American lives and property from possible attacks by Chinese communists in the south. The U. S. S. Pillsbury was ordered to Foochow, on the coast in southern China. The destroyer is attached to the American fleet on duty in Asiatic waters. The dispatch of the Pillsbury wa: described as a precautionary meas ure, indicating the American authorities — naval and diplomatic — feared communist uprisings might result in a renewed attack on Foochow, a treaty port of Fukien province. Missionaries were reported assembled in the interior of southcentral China, long menaced by roving bands of alleged Chinese communists. The missionaries were said to be ready to evacuate should the communists attack. The situation apparently has taken a turn for the worse, necessitating the presence of an American warship in southern waters. Foochow has been menaced by communist forces in the last 18 months, and a renewal of the “red" uprisings has been indicated in dispatches from the south. , Gen. Chiang Kai-Shek, head of the harassed central government at Nanking, announced he is leaving , for Kiangsi province, south of the Yangtze river, seat of requent communist revolts. General Chiang, in a United Press interview this week, declared that the communist “armies’’ were the most serious menace to the peace of China and that he in- ! tended to lead the government . forces against them personally. He promised to exterminate the bandit-communist bands which ! have infested tl»e mountainous re- • gions south of the Yangtze, or "die i in the attempt." , Nanking leaders considee—lbe ■ communist menace more serious than the rebellion which has broken out at Canton, in the soutli, where several former Nanking politicians and military leaders have , (CONTINUED ON PAGE THREE) o ■ | More Chicago Banks Plan To Liquidate Chicago, June 10 —(U.R) —Three , more Chicago neighborhood banks i dosed today, bringing the total for the week to 22. , They were the Northwesters Trust and Savings, the Second Northwestern State, both on Milwaukee avenue, and the Lincoln f State in the black ijelt on South I State street. Their capitalization f was respectively. $1,250,000. $350,f 000 and $400,000. , The closings today were laid to heavy withdrawals coincident witii the unrest which developed over , ers and the other closings. ’ the week-end with three big mergThe closings tied up approximately $23,000,000 in deposits. The ’ Northwestern Trust and Savings had $16,948,000; the Second r Northwestern $4,510,000, and the Lincoln $2,410,000. o — WRIT DENIED i IN HIGH COURT i Publication of Acts of > 1931 May Be Held Up Indefinitely Indianapolis. June 10—(U.R)—A writ of prohibition to dissolve the injunction which prevents publication of the Acts of tlie 1931 legls- ’ lature was denied by the Indiana ■ Supreme court today. When the 1 axis will become statutes now is 5 problematical. ’ Chief Justice Clarence R. Martin, who wrote the majority opin- ’ ion of the court suggested that, the 1 acts could be published without (CONTINUED ON PAGE FIVE)