Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 29, Number 138, Decatur, Adams County, 11 June 1931 — Page 1

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HIKERS HEAR hPROBLEM (DISCUSSIONS ■■York Research Ex(ert Talks To State Blank Convention ■EZER MAY Eg be president June 11.—’-U.R; financiers here for the Ku. convention of the scan.. Bankers’ Association Kvcption turned to the sec-! ■dd» 's program today. Dr. Kiel!) Edie, of the Capital Keek h Company, New York Et address the conven-i K n ch state tax reductions. ■ J l ' iat business conEiml -a mild return to normal in KSh- made by Justin H. Moore, Ku Irvine Trust Company. New K). [ The low point in industry E nk'hed in January, 1931, he that since then a Kijylrise lias been noted. Ely! of the principal reasons for E ylt» is based on the reports I front the cotton Moore said. “They show Kt bp' i large and small orders KBit reo-ived from all parts country. The cotton Indus'de first to indicate the normalcy after Hp depression.” tii.it attacked taxation of * - i fbe Wickersham liq Kfid::..- and reviewed legislaby the 1931 legislature. Caved before the convenM. Niezer, president of fiFJlrst .u i Tri-State National Kr,k and Trust Company. Fort Earm, loomed as the next presi- ' '" association at the elecKgs ■ held tomorrow. Niezer KpIN’UED ON PAGE EIGHT) ■over plans JKE ANNOUNCED To Arrive At Monday IK Afternoon June 11. U.R' Mnl' '' ' Hoover will board a spe< |^Ku : t. i (range, Va . Sunday begin his western speak- :' was announced today White House. '■?)* executive will go to Camp late Friday or early SaturIMKti uly a few personal guests. H to Orange, about 25 b' olll the camp after dinner night. Other members of Pt' 1 ’’ 1 will board the train in tnents call for his artival iEmE' 4 * 11,1 »<>liw. the fllst fi! °i>i ,|ii « hi''- Monday afternoon lb !■■ vr-eted there by (lovernoi Paul R. Bailsman, presi■K tie- Indiana Editorial |KBi At the governor's mansion will receive 150 members association and their a delegation of G. A. R. lIKINTINUED ON PAG® SIX l ■UGH. STATE ■RAP IS ENDED Between !talMGovemment and Vat|(ican About Settled June 11—(U.R)t —The conBB rsv between the Vatican and government was regt'ivi practically settled today, alformal conclusion of neiiohad not been reached. ■ Satiations of several high ofIK' in the Vatican and the govg®ient were expected to take Uy following the settlement of Pacelli, papal secretary MP 114 ' who has been instrumental negotiations, will resign, otic IWnfirmed report said. It was f® v ed certain that a number of |*jB 8 most likely would be remov|Kr soon as a settlement is reachHN’TINUED ON PAGE EIGHT)

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Woman Doomed to Die in Chair - - I 1 Ji Wb w JIB t omu. £M| V & i >■ £'*'•> v'v \ 1 > x Mrs. Maude Lowther, 23, who was found guilty of murder by a jury at Jefferson, O. Since the jury returned a verdict of murder in the first degree, it made mandatory sentence to electrocution ati Ohio penitentiary. Mrs. Lowther! was convicted of the murder of Mrs. Clara Smith, the wife of her I paramour, on May 29, 1930. CtE. RALLY TO BE AT BERNE — Annual County Meet To Be Held Sunday At Mennonite Church The Adams County Christian Endeavor Rally will be held in the Mennonite church in Herne, Friiday evening at 7:30 o’clock (CST). I Homer C. Augsburger, vice-presi-■dent of the county organization will i preside at the meeting in the absence of Lewis Armstrong, former I county resident and president. I The district rally of the organ--1 ization will be held in the Bluffton | community building Tuesday eve--1 ning, June 23, and the Wells county I rally w ill be held in connection with ' that meeting. | Kenneth Timmons, trustee in the I National Christian Endeavor organization, will be the principal speak- ■ er at the Berne meeting, Friday ■ night, as well as the district rally ’ in Bluffton, June 23. Following is the program which has been arranged for the county rally, Friday night: I (CONTINUED ON PAGE EIGHT) o GIRL’S BEATH TO BE PROBED Famous Detectives Are Called to Aid In Mysterious Murder Case 1 New York. June 11 —(U.R)—The aid of Scotland Yard, London s great detective organization, was sought today in an effort to unravel one of the most complex mysteries ths city has followed in ypars—the death of 25-year-old Starr Faithfull. Cultured, beautiful and with a host of friends among the best .people of New York and Boston, the daughter of a well-to-do family living in an aristocratic corner of Greenwich Village has left in the wakie of the tragedy which over- ’ took her early this week a life record both fascinating and sordid, and one which presents a confusing horde of theories to invest!- ■ gators. I A diarv, kept since the young - womans’ school days, appeared • likely today to yield fresh clues • in the strange case~ (CONTINUED ON PAGE EIGHT) — o — Prayer Hour Planned The Friday evening prayer hour - wl n be held at the St. M»ry’a Cath | olic church Friday evening at 7.30 . o’clock. The month of June is dedij cated to the Sacred Heart of Jesus < and at the services tomorrow evening re-dedication of the d ’ the congregation jto the SfiCred ’ Heart will lake place. Children and i adults will attend the services.

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KIRKLAND MAY FACE TRIAL ON DEATH CHARGE Lake County Prosecutor Studies Possibility of Re-trial COUNTY HAS PAID SIO,OOO Valparaiso, Ind., June 11 - (U.R) Possibility of the re-in-dietnient of Virgil Kirkland on murder charges in the death of Arlene Draves, last November, was raised today in State’s Attorney Robert G. Estill’s announcement that he might seek to have the former Gary athlete brought to trial for the third time. As Kirkland began a one to 10year sentence at Pendleton reformatory after being re-sentenced on his conviction at the second trial, Estill indicated he would seek another trial by re-indicting Kirkland on two counts which I were dropped in the second trial. These counts, murder by a blow 7 I from the fist, and murder by a blow from a blunt instrument, were upheld in the first trial, in which the Gary youth was sent(CONTINUED ON PAGE SIX) o — New Motive Sought I Shelbyville. June 11—(UP) —A I new motive for a suicide attempt was advanced here, when Mrs. Selza Souders, 23, said she shot herself three times because her husband refused to allow her to help him carry a load of firewood to their home in Morris. Souders was struck by one of the bullets and both were taken to a local hospital where Mrs. Souder's death was expected. oGIRL'S MORALS ARE ATTACKED Pantages Attorneys In Attack on Character of Young Beauty San Diego, Calif.. June 11.— (U.R) —The morals trial of Alexander Pantages and three others had resolved today into a review of the character of Lydia Nitto, who said she was 17 years old and that she attended a wild party with Pantages in a local hotel last October. Miss Nitto was pictured as delinquent long before the night of the party, as a willing participant in the merrymaking and as a girl who thought chiefly of the money she had been promised. Counsel for the four defendants accused her in challenging her testimony on the ground that it' there was a conspiracy she herself was a party to it. “I doubt if the state supreme court would hold that it is possible to contribute to the delinquency of an already delinquent girl,” shouted Edgar Luce, deense attorney. (CONTINUED ON PAGE SIX) FORMER HEAD OF COLLEGE DIES Dr. C. E. Goodell Killed In Automobile Mishap In Illinois Bloomington, 111.. June 11 —<U.R) —Dr. Charles E. Goodell, 69, former president of Franklin College, Indianapolis, was killed and three other persons were injured, two of them critically, last night, when nn automobile overturned 16 miles from here. Dr. Goodell was en route from Springfield, 111., to Chicago accompanied by Henry D. Hughes, a teacher's agency director, and Miss Anna Guthrie, and Miss Jennie Eddy, both nurses. The four had attended a convention. The accident occurred when their machine sideswiped another motor car, and overturned several (CONTINUED ON PAGE SIX)

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Decatur, Indiana, Thursday, June 11, 1931.

Presbyterian Program To Be Given Sunday 0 o The annual Children's day program at the local Presbyterian church will be given next Sunday night at 7:30 o'clock, it was anI nounced today. Following is the program: Song, “I Think When I Read ’ That Sweet Story.” Opening sentences. Prayer, Rev. H. H. Ferntheil. Piano Solo, Kathryn Knapp. Song "Beautiful Garden of Prayer.” by Helena Rayl, Marjorie De- ] ( Voss, Kathryn Engeler, Margaret Campbell. The Garden-Song’s and recita- ; tions by primary and intermediate I • | departments. II Responsive reading, “Following . J Jesus.” Talk, “Sunday School Missions,’’ ' Dr. Fred Patterson. “At The End Os The Rainbow”, I ■ Missionary dramatization by the I junior department. i ■ I Offering. Song, “In The Garden.” , EXPERIMENTS I ! ARE CONDUCTED ! Varieties of Corn Are i Planted In County To Ascertain Best i Two interesting experiments are being, conducted on two Adams county farms this summer according to O. B. Riggs, representative of Purdue University, who was here today visiting with County Agen» ' L. E. Archbold and farmers of the ' county. One experiment is the planting ! of several species of early corn on the John E. Heimann farm in Wash 1 ington township. The experiment is 1 an effort to ascertain which variety of corn will grow best in this coun- ‘ ty. I Similar experiments are being made in 25 other counties of the state. Woodburn's yeliow dent, and White cap dent have been planted at the Heimann farm. When the corn is ripe in the fall a general meeting of farmers interested in It he experiment will be called. Mr. Riggs stated that Mr. Heimann will permit any one interested to examine the various corn plantings at any time. The other experiment is with fertilizer, 0-12-0; -12-12, have been used in plots of corn planted on the Aeschliman farm. The exj periment is being conducted to asr certain which fertilizer will give the best results in southern Adams a county. I Mr. Riggs stated that he was starting plans through County Agent Archbold for a meeting of interested farmers in the county next ' fall. : LEGISLATORS . STAGE BATTLE r f Illinois Assembly Is In Uproar As Party Lines Are Drawn y Springfield, 111., June 11—(UP) ' Fists flew and books were hurled during a tumultous night session which climaxed a day of strife in the Illinois legislature over proposals to reapportion the state and help Chicago out of its financial difficulties. Booing, hissing, hurling of law I hooks and actual fisticufs directly k in front of the speaker’s desk, mark- ' ed last night's session which republicans and Democrats line up solidly against each other over the quesI tion of splitting the state into 27 new congressonal districts. The republicans, who hold a mapority of 81 to 77 in the house, had just succeeded in getting a vote ') on the question of adopting their i- caucus amendments, when the ■, trouble started. » Thomas J. O’Grady (Dem., Chis cago) rushed to speaker Shanahan’s a desk, and grabbed the roll call pad. s Shouts of "robbers,” and “Porchclimbers," arose among the repub1 (CONTINUED ON PAGE EIGHT) 1- 0 a Wealthy Girl Missing s j Warwick,, R. I. June 11 (UP)— A niece of John D. Rockefeller, Jr. j Miss Ruth Aldrich, 19, was reported r missing by relatives late last night. I but Warwick police announced today they had been advised the girl had been located and was safe.

YOUNG PEOPLE GET APPEALS : FROM PARTIES ■ s Democrats And Republi- 1 cans Seek “Collegiate” Type of Voters F F BOTH PARTIES |n PLAN MEETINGS * li Washington, June 11 —<U.R)~ The 1; much berated younger generation, j. blamed for almost everything since > f tlie World War except prohibition, • is being "rushed"—in the collegiate I sense—bv the two big political |, £■ parties. ‘ q Republicans took the lead with |j, their national conference of young I p Republicans twhich opened here to-1 y, day. Democratic speakers, and ■ - Republicans too, have made aj ( number of appeals recently to i young voters, the latest being by I Mrs. Nellie Taylor Ross, vice-chair-. I man of the Democratic National ■ committee at Knoxville, Tenn., last night. The reason for this solicitude over the young folks is that by November, 1932, about 8,000,000 will be eMgbUe to cast their first I votes for president. With a close race anticipated by managers in (CONTINUED ON PAGE SEVEN) ——o Hay Cutting Starts ■ c Farmers of Adams County are t cutting the first crop of Alfalfa hay this week. Several farmers have reported that the crop is not as v good as the first cutting a year ago. a but it is believed the second cutt- d ing may be better. j The regular time for cutting Clover hay will be the latter part of June and indications are that this crop will be a little under that of ( a year ago. s LOOP BANKS TO 1 HELP OTHERS 1 V Millions At Disposal of Smaller Banks In j Chicago Area a c Chicago. June 11. —■'U.R)I—Millions 1 —Millions of dollars were held in readiness to-i* day for immediate transfer from ■ I loop banks to outlaying institutions ' f which weathered runs in the wake 1 1 of a financial upheaval that forced bank closings during the first half J of the week. "We already have sent out mil- j lions and stand ready to send out t addional millions if necessary,” de-1 1 dared Arthur Reynolds, chairman 1 1 of the Continental Illinois Dank and Trust Company, a billion dollar in-1 stitution. “Some of the strongest neighborhood banks in Chicago have been subjected to heavy withdrawals,” . he said, “but conditions appear to J be improving, uneasiness is subsiding, the public confidence in the banking situation in general is being restored." Six banks which failed to open j yesterday brought to a total of 24 the number of neighborhood insti- s (CONTINUED ON PAGE SEVEN) ‘ 0 J G. A. R. TO CLOSE MEETING TODAY: 1 I State Convention Will i Name Officers, Site For 1 1932 Conclave 2 i Newcastle, Ind., June 11. — ; (U.R)* — t Selection of a city for the 1932 meeting of the Grand Array of the j Republic was to lie made by veter- t ans attending the fifty-second en- 1 campment of the organization here t today. Previous balloting resulted in a deadlock l bewteen Terre Haute Richmond and Marion. Election of officers also was to be held. A report to the convention re- ( vealed that during the past year S 14 posts went out of existence, leav- 1 ing 102 in the state, witli an aver- « age membership of approximately four. 1 The annual campfire was held 1 last night after the parade. George ‘ —— c (CONTINUED ON PAGE SEVEN) 1

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o — — 0 Children Day Planned 0 (| The Mt. Tabor Methodist church will hold a Children’s Dav program next Sunday evening at 7:30 o’clock (standard time) at the church. The public is cordially invited to attend this program which will be as follows: Song, "In the Garden of Promise.” Responsive Reading. Prayer Rev. H. E. Matteson Response Song, “A Garden Fair." Recitation Don Cottrell Recitation Freddie Matteson Recitation Jimmy Daniels Recitation Gene Beabout Song, "The First of All.” Recitation Betty Tumbleson Recitation Marie LaTurner Exercise, "God is Love.” Recitation Mary LaTurner Recitation Doris Matteson Primary song, "Children's Praise.” Exercise, “Sowing Time." Song, "God is Love." Exercise, “Children’s Day.” Recitation Elywan Rauch' Recitation Earl Cottrell (CONTINUED UN PAGE EIGHT. DEATHCALLS WAR VETERAN Henry Egley, Former Berne Man Expires In Florida Hospital Funeral services for Henry W. Egley, 51. former Berne man and cousin of Mrs. Dan Tyndall of this city who died Tuesday at the government hospital Key West, Fla.. ■ were held at the government home at St. Cloud Fla today. Mr. Egley died of injuries received while serving with the U. S. Army in France. He was hurt when struck by a Y. M. C. A. truck shortly after the close of tlie war and had been under the care of the government since his return to the states. Mr. Egley served overseas for eight months with the signal corps and held the rank of first sergeant. He was also a veteran of the Spanish American war. After the Span-ish-American war he re-enlisted with the regular army and served in Alaska during the boundary trouble there. He organized the Jim Eby Post, No. 857, Veterans of Foreign Wars at Fort Wayne and was its first commander. Surviving are three brothers, Noah Egley, Fort Wayne: Samuel Egley and Milo J. Egley of Berne, five sisters, Mrs. Edward Moser, Berne; Mrs. Kattie Rich, Grabill; Mrs. Fannie Popp. Peoria, 111.; Mrs. Emma Oyer of Texas, and Mrs. Ella Ulrich, Bloomington, 111., and his father, Jacob Egley, Berne. FORMER BERNE RESIDENT DIES John Rohrer, 61, Dies At Fort Mayne Following Heart Attack Berne, June 11 —(Special)—John Rohrer, 61, formerly of this place died at his home in Fort Wayne at 5 o’clock Wednesday evening of heart disease. He had enjoyed his usual health until Wednesday morning when he became seriously ill. Mr. Rohrer was born at Canton, Berne, Switzerland, June 6, 1870. In In 1996 he was united in marriage to Emilie A. Welty of Berne. He resided in Berne where he was connected with the Berne Milling Company until 1919 when he moved to Fort Wayne. He was employed as a mechanic at the Bowser plant in Fort Wayne. Surviving are 2 sons, 3 daughters 2 sisters, and 2 brothers, including Fred Rohrer of Berne. One son preceded him in death. Funeral services w)>ll be lheld Saturday afternoon at 2 o’clock at the Mennonite church at Berne and burial will be in the M. R. E. cemetery. o * —— Chinese Minister Quite Washington, June 11 — (UP) — Chinese minister to the United States Chao Cru Wu has tendered his resignation to the Nanking government it was learned today. The minister will call at the White House at 11:45 A. M. to say good ] bye to President Hoover. An official announcement und explanation of his action will he made at tlie legation later.

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Farm Boy Astronomer to Enter College Ji ! P <! I PC ' I u Clyde Tombaugh, 25-year-old ■ Kansas farm boy. who discovered j the new planet, Pluto, in March of I 1930, is to enter college. He will ’ enter the University of Kansas next Fall. Tombaugh, who was employed at the Lowell Observatory at Flagstaff. Ariz., was the first person to note a spot on a photographic plate that was later identified as the ninth planet in the solar system. He was honored by the Royal Astronomical Society of Great Britain, and his discovery was hailed by astronomers as one of the greatest of modern years. mSEMENWILL" HEAR CONNER County Agent Arranges Meet In Adams County For June 18 In the meeting held with *he horsemen of Adams County recently the county agent was asked to arrange a June meeting and secure J. D. Conner, Jr. secretary of the Belgium Breeders Association as the principal speaker. Mr. Conner, Jr. will be in Adams County Thursday June 18. A tour is being arranged tor the afternoon starting at the Court House at Decatur at 1 o’clock standard time. The evening meeting will be held at Monroe high school at 7:30 o'clock standard time. Horsemen desiring to get acquainted with Mr. Conner will have an opportunity to do so on the tour and at the various stops made. Mr. Conner also is President of the National Benjamin Frankfiin High Way Association and he expects in the morning to visit with J. H. Heller a member of the Executive committee of the National Association and with W. A. Lower as director of the Indiana organization of the Benjamin Franklin High Way Association. The gold medal colt club committee. Henry Dehner, chairman Frank Singleton, Leon Neuenschwander, William Mitchel and Edwin Neu'houser are getting enrollments in the Indiana Livestock Breeders Association so that suckling colts of this year can be enrolled in the gold medal colt club. Suckling colts making 650 pounds gain in one year will be allowed to compete in the gold medal colt club classes at the local street fair and the Indiana | state fair. o_ Preacher Steals Auto Newcastle, June 11—(UP) —Police said they had a confession today from Rev. Geam Poer 34, a Lowell, Ind., minister that he stole the auto in which he has been visiting his parishioners for the past three months. Rev. Poer has been preaching since March in a Mooreland church. Police said that he confessed having stolen his auto from R. C. McGuire. Newcastle. Man Killed In Plane Smash Near Toledo, O. Toledo, O„ June 11.—(U.R)' —One man was killed und two injured when a Chicago plane crashed at the Hocking Valley hump, near Walbridge. Ohio, shortly after 11 a. m. today. The wrecked machine was a passenger plane, it was said, bound or the trancontinental airporto here.

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PUBLICATION OF 1931 ACTS MAY BE HALTED iMayr Demands Definite Answer Before Publication Is Ordered OGDEN READS THREE OPINIONS Indianapolis, June 11.—’U.R) — Possibility that the suit over publication of acts of the 1931 legislature may be carried to federal court was seen today with announcement by Frank Mayr Jr., secretary of state, that he wanted a definite answer on whether the acts can be published without house bill 6. I Mayr gave a tentative order diI recting publication of the acts i while awaiting an opinion from At- | torney General James M. Ogden, i who was weighing the three opin- > ions handed down by the state su- | preme court. Indianapolis, June 11. — (U.R) — State officials here today were expecting that publication of the acts of the 1931 legislature would proceed at once, probably without inclusion of the act that delayed the printing for two months—house bill 6. Their opinion was based on a. tentative order sent by Frank Mayr Jr., secretary of state, to Fort Wayne printers, directing them to begin publication, despite an opinion handed down by the state supreme court yesterday which refused a writ of prohibition which would have dissolved an injunction preventing publication of the acts. • Meanwhile Mayr was seeking an interpretation of the three opinions issued by the high court. He also was expecting verification of an oral opinion given by Hugh Merrifield, deputy attorney general, ordering publication of the acts without house bill 6, an appended note explaining that it was omitted because of litigation. (CONTINUED ON PAGE SEVEN/ o Trustees Re-appointed Indianapolis, June 11. —{U.R- Rp* appointment of three Purdue University trustees was announced by Governor Harry G. Leslie. They are Mrs. Virginia G. Meredith, Ixiayette; Robert A. Simpson, Vincennes, and David E. Ross, Lafayette. Charles O. Williams, Richmond, was reappointed a member of th© state teachers’ retirement fund. 0 Tow-Ins Are Halted Indianapolis, June 11. —(U.Rj— Despite was temporarily afforded local motorists today from the most objectionable of the new traffic code provisions, witli announcement that no further impounding of autos will be practiced until after next Monday’s council meeting. After nearly a hundred machines had been towed in for violation of parking ordinances, it was learned that a flaw in the statute raised tlie question of legality of the procedure. Tlie city's legal staff has announced, however, that the tow-in clause will be repaired, and impounding resumed next Tuesday. — o HOPE REMAINS FOR LOST MEN Efforts Continue to Raise Sunken Submarine Today Hongkong. June 11. —(U.RVEfforts continued today to raise the Poseidon, British submarine sunk off Weihaiwei, North China, with 18 men on board. Nothing officially was known here of a report that the Medway, one of the rescue ships, had communicated with eight men said still to be alive on the Poseidon. The fate of all 18 remained in doubt here. --British naval authorities said the Poseidon was rammed by the Chinese merchant ship Yuta and sunk Tuesday. A communique said the submarine was on tlie Yuta's star(CONTINUED ON PAGE EIGHT)