Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 29, Number 148, Decatur, Adams County, 23 June 1931 — Page 1

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■XPAYERSTO lOSE NOTHING ■ OFFICIALS SAY ’■ Debt Holiday Will (Simulate Business, Is KT General Belief Kls says ■ IT MAY HELP .lime 23 <U.P) American taxpayer s t<> lose nothing in the I * inn miller the Hoover! moratorium plan, acto ollieials here who ■ that the temporary loss 1r tn usury would he 01lbv the general good hi reviving business. l W'y turns the tide, this will dal I goixl investment for; s treasury.” was the way ■, secretary Ogden L. Mills adding that the upswing SI." k market gave every that it would turn the chairman Carl Williams ' ■, f,. ( |eral farm board likewise the Hoover prop'is•■bullish news of the best for Ameriean agriculture, advances in wheat and were said by Williams to indication of what might be ■. if the debt negotiations successful. treasury would lose $246.- ■ in "topping of foreign debt in the next fiscal year. July 1. Os this total. 1 tX.uoii.ihiO, representing in Mt. ...uld be available to oper the rest s63,o<ii>.imhi pal being applied to th.. debt under the law. temporary adition to the would be offset in time, it held, by increased revenues would follow recovery of treasury deficit at the en I I •<-al year. June 30. is .-x- - lx around $850,000,00 1. of Treasury Mellon has a deficit for the next fisyear, but has not estimated —— ■stinted ON PAGE THREE) ■ Deficit Is Reduced ■ si. Jun.. 23 —(Ti’i The deficit declined furl het to $564.704.11114 due to income lions of $18,992,042 talm■lun I me 20, the treasury daily showed. brought the total of income ■coll.-it ions in June to $273,652.collections in June through las- year were $497,063,979.1 ■* far in the fiscal year, which j ■ June 30, the government has ■t $4,129,101,090, while receipts ■ been $3,264,306,186. —o Bo Bank Officials ■ Get Three-Year Terms York, June 23—(UP> — Per- ■ K Marcus and Saul Singer, ofof the now defunct bank of States. Today were son'. :.. ihiee to six years imprison ■ ea. h for felonious misappli. a- ■ i’s funds of the bank’s subsidSinger, son of Saul Sin- ■ was given an indeterminate I '' three were convicted Satur after a 12 weeks trial. BART EFFORT I FOR NEW MURK ers To Attempt New World Flight; Leave For Harbor Grace ocsevelt Field, N. Y., June 23 — 1 — Wiley Post of Maysville, and Harold Gatty of lais An--8 departed at 4:55 a. m. EST., l >' for Harbor Grace, Nfd., on first leg of an around the world 'I hi ten days in an effort to Br the record held by the Graf Pelin. “ e flyerg expected to land at bor Grace about 11 a. m„ and ! °ff for Berlin, Germany, tour r “ later if weather conditions e favorable. They will spend intervening hours refueling checking their Lockheed Vega ® monoplane. They estimate it Continued on page six.

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Society Flier il i Zv Ji! I i F , 7 f > ■ -m ' x"-***." tc* -.-rcty.-’.'s v Aline Rhonie, society aviatrix, of New York and Long Island, is shown here in her new plane at 1 the Long Island Aviation CountryClub where she won several | events in the recent air shows. | Miss Rhonie ("Pat” to her friends) I is the former Mrs. Richard Bamberger. She is well known in society sports circles. YOST BROTHERS TO OPEN POOL Green Waters Will Be Opened To Public On Thursday, .June 25 Announcement was made today that the Green Waters bathing pool I would be opened to the public on , Thursday, June 25. i The pool, located north of Decajtur, west of state road No. 27, is a ; spring fed body of water and was . excavated years ago for a stone quarrjr. The pool and grounds are owned by Vost Brothers of this city. The east end of the pool was recently reconstructed, part of it filled in and a sand bottom placed in the pool. The water slopes from about two inches to five feet in the center, where a diving board has been erected. A sand beach has also been placed around the pool. A modern bath house has been built on the south bank and every convenience will be furnished the bather. Yost Brothers announced that family tickets would be sold, the cost of the tickets starting at $5.00 and ranging up to SB.OO for the year. Single admission tickets to the pool will be 15 cents if the bather furnishes his own suit or 20 and 25 cents if suits are provided by the management. A schedule of prices is published in I tonight's issue of the Daily Democrat. Yost Brothers hope to make the place one of the enjoyable recreation centers in northern Indiana and invite the public to visit Green Waters on the opening day and during the summer season. o STONE CONCERN FILES PROTEST Indiana Limestone Is Banned For Vincennes Memorial Structure Indianapolis, June 23—(U.R)—Refusal of the state to consider Indiana limestone in accepting bids for the $1,500,000 George Rogers Clark memorial at Vincennes has roused Indiana companies in a protest to Governor Harry G. Frederick E. Schortemeier. attor- . ne y for the Indiana Limestone company, conferred with the governor, asserting that the use of the local product would mean a saving of half a million dollars ■ he project. No statement was , given out following the conference. - but it was understood that Governor Leslie would make an inquiry. ; specifications for bids, to be I accepted July 9, strictly i "(CONTINUED ON °AGE TWO) , Crash Fatal To Man Indianapolis, June 23i crash between an auto and a r ! tion rar took the life ->; ' Heid 70 here. The man was hurled ‘ from the auto and died of injuries suffered when his head struck concrete walk.

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MAGLEY WILL FIGHT CHARGE 1 ——— Prison Records Show Escaped Convict Has Served 15 Months Just before leaving for the Indiana reformatory, Elmer Magley, ' who was arrested in Hart, Mich., Sunday morning by Sheriff Burl Johnson and Special Deputy Chas. Baxter, filed a written motion for I the appointment of an attorney to defend him in the grand jury inI dictment charging jail breaking, j In accordance with the law,, any man charged with a crime, who can show to the satisfaction of the court that he has no funds. Is entitled to an attorney. The written motion asked that Ed A. Bosse, who was named by Judge J. C. Sutton to represent Magley in the 1930 trial be appointed to defend him in the jail breaking trial. Bosse was named attorney and Magley indicated that he wbuld fight the grand jury indictment next fall when the case will be set. Sheriff Burl' Johnson and Chief of Police Sephus Melchi took Magley to Pemjleton yesterday to start serving his 5 to 21 year term for rape. An interesting angle developed when the Magley committment papers were presented at the reformatory. The papers issued in March 1930 were presented and (CONTINUED ON PAGE TWO) o Convict Is Injured Pendleton, June 23 —<U.R) — One negro was in the state reformatory hospital here today with a skull fracture, the result of ill feeling between two inmates which came to a climax in a fight in a workshop. — Joseph Fuller, 25, negro, was allegedly struck on the head with k hammer wielded by Robert McAllister, after threatening McAllister with a pair of shears. Fuller was sentenced from Marion county for burglary, to three to ten years, and McAllister was serving a 10-year term for robbery, inflicted in Vigo county. BLIMP BRAVES CHICAGO STORM I Worst Storm of Season Strikes Chicago Monday Evening Chicago, June 23. — <U.RJ — For . more than two hours the Goodyear . blimp Mayflower was tossfed about t ever Chicago last night in the grip [ of a terrific rainstorm that took I tour lives and caused much property damage. Thousands of northside residents watched the blimp’s progress and deluged police and fire departments with reports of its threatened de- , struction. Although watchers re- | ported the ship was barely skimming tall buildings in its "battle against wind and rain, R. E. Greene, Evanston, a passenger, said it was . never lower than 1,000 feet and in ’ no distress. During the storm, Donald Keller, 12, was killed by lightning as he hunted golf balls on a golf - course; one woman fell dead of - heart disease ,as she waded across 4 a downtown street, and two per4 sons were killed in traffic accidents i due to the storm. About 25 homes i were struck by lightning. Wind Damages Wheat ’ Terre Haute, June 23 — (UP)— ' Thousands of acres of wheat in I Southwestern Indiana, which was 1 almost ready to cut, was damaged 1 heavily by the high wind late yesJ terday, farmers reported today. , The grain was nearly matured - and was not expected to rise again . to allow cutting without heavy loss. 5 Tree limbs littered the streets I here after the storm, and numerous ) windows in homes were brokien. Hoover Takes Canvas Washington, June 23 — (UP) President Hoover is taking a comi plete canvass of the entire member- - ship of the New Congress to ascertain the sentiment toward his war I debt and reparations proposal. Ihe < White House confirmed reports toi day that such a canvass was being made.

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Lions To Entertain I District Head Tonight I Harry E. Northam of Michigan City, newly elected district governor of the Lions Club, will be the honor guest at a meeting of the Lions Club to be held at the Decatur Country Club, tonight. Wives and sweethearts of the members will also be guests. Mr. Northam will be the princi- < pal speaker, and will deliver an address after the dinner which will be served at 7 o’clock. Gus Wehmeyer, Perry Short and Herman Myers are in charge of the pro- ! gram. NEW MINE RIOT CLAIMS LIFE Storekeeper Is Shot And Four Miners Are Wounded In Battle Pittsburgh, June 23 —(U.R) — A stone proprietor was shot to death as he stepped from the porch of his store and four miners were wounded totiay in the second fatal outbreak in the western Pennsylvania bituminous strike in two days. The storekeeper was slain when coal and iron police and special deputies attempted to disperse a picket line of 75 men who had gathered in front of his store in Arnold City, Fayette county. In a battle between striking miners and sipecial deputies at Wildwood, Allegheny county, yesterday one miner was slain and 11 wounded. At Arnold City the picketeers httempted to stop a truck carrying men to work in the Somers mine of the Pittsburgh Coal company, near Pricedale, police said. Six officers were guarding the truck. The strikers spread across the highway to prevent the truck passing. As the officers in their car arrived, rocks and stones were (CONTINUED ON PAGE SIX) o May Advance Credit Washington, June 23 — (UP) — ’["here were informal intimations here today that the Federal reserve board has under consideration the I possibility of a credit advance to the German Reichbank as an accompaniment of the Hoover Moratorium program. Eugene Meyer, Jr. Governor of the federal reserve board told the United Press no action had been taken but that it was impossible now to forecast what might be done. —» K —o Farm Meeting Planned There will be a special farmer’s • meeting in the Kohr Schoolhouse, located in Union Township, Monday i night, June 29, at 8:30 o’clock for : all farmers of that township. Spe- . cial speakers have been secured to talk at the evening’s program, and i al farmers are urged to attend the I i meeting. II o — THIRTEEN DIE : 1 BY VIOLENCE 1 Drownings Outnumber Other Tragedies In Indiana Monday j ■ Indianapolis, June 23. — \U.RII — 4 Drownings continued to figure heav- ’ ily in the unabating toll of violent deaths in Indiana, as the week end heat wave, mingled with scattered thundershowers which did little to reduce temperatures, held the state in its grip Monday. 1 Three of the eight persons who l lost their lives seeking relief from the heat, were victims of drowning; three were killed by autos; I one died of injuries in an airplane ! accident, and a woman was killed ! by a streetcar. s Those who drowned were Paul s Desler, 19, Fort Wayne; Raymond Ringham, 14; Terre Haute, and Mary Nicoson, 15, Brazil. Autos accounted for the deaths of Mrs. Viola Marshall, 36, Ben _ Davis; John Regg, 34, Michigan k City, and John E. Head, 70, Indian- •. apolis. Robert Keelsing, 19, Pendleton, r was illed when his home-made aire plane crashed. i- Mrs. Louise Seick, 65, Richmond, g lest her life when struck by a street car.

POISON CASE 1 PROBE REVEALS > NEW EVIDENCE! t Greenfield Druggist i\d- t mits Sale of Strychnine ' To Unknown Man PARENTS TO i BE QUESTIONED Greenfield, June 23 (U.R) — I Solution of the poison inys-l tery, which look the lives of two girls at a reunion in Lebanon, today appeared to be hinged upon authorities’ ability to trace the persons ■ who purchased 60 grains of ‘ strychnine at a local drug store ten davs ago. Hancock county officials, aided by Boone county officers, learned from Sam Gaippen, a clerk in the , Early Drug company, that he had r sold 60 grains of the poison to , an unidentified man about ten | days before Alice Jean and Vir- , ginia Simmons died after eating poisoned sandwiches at the family ( reunion in Lebanon. , Other drug stores were being , checked to learn if strychnine had , been issued to other persons re- < cently. . Both Mr. and Mrs. John Sim- i mons have I'een questioned closely but neither had explained how | the poison was placed in the sand- , wiches. Simmons, recovering from | effects of the poison, said he had | been in the drug store about the , time the poison was believed to . have been purchased, but he was , not identified by Cappen as the (CONTINUED ON PAGE TWO) 1 Lightning Hits Homes Indianapolis, June 23. — (U.R) — Lightning struck three homes in ' northern Indianapolis during the ' thunderstorm last evening, and disrupted electric service to some 700 families. None of the dwellings was damaged extensively, and no one was injured. STEPHENSON CASE RE-SET Habeas Corpus Hearing Postponed When Change of Venue Is Asked Michigan City, June 23 —(UP) — Hearing on a habeas corpus petition for D. C. Stephenson, serving a life term in the state prison for the murder of Madge Oberholtzer, was continued uptil Thursday morning in LaPorte Superior court today by Judge Harry L. Crumpacker after the defense counsel had asked a change of venue. Stephenson appeared in the court room with John Moorman, prison trustee; Warden Walter Daly, and two guards. Attorneys for the prisoner immediately asked change of venue and 1 Judge Crumpacker, of Porter Circuit court as candidates to succeed him on the bench during the pro- ‘ ceedings Thursday. Stephenson’s attorney struck off the name of Judge Link. Jdseph Hutchinson and V. Ed Funk, Deputy attorneys General, asked that they ’ he given two days to consider which (CONTINUED ON PAGE SIX) I o 1 1 T. H. I. and E. Is Sold a Indianapolis June 23 — (UP) — Properties of the Terre Haute, Inj dianapolis and Eastern Traction company were sold at Public Auction today to B. P. Shearon. secretary of the Midland United Com- \ pany an Instil convern, for $2,500,0(10 , Shearon was the only bidder. 1 Tlie sale was made by Elmer W. Stout receiver for the company under orders by Judge Russell J. Ryan Marion Superior Court, and is sub--1 ject to confirmation by Judge Ryan next Monday. 3 Service on leased lines operated 1 by the T. H. I and E. under Stout’s 1 receivership since April 21, 1930 ’ has been abandoned. The majority of the bonds were 9 owned by the Midland United Com- ’ pany, giving it control of the common stock of the Terre Haute TracI, tion and Light company, which is 1 pledged as collateral security for the bonds.

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Heavy Rainfall Aids Crops, Farmers State A steady rain, lasting for several hours, and believed to be general throughout the county, fell here early this morning, bringing additional relief from the first heat wave of the season and bringing much aid to crops and garden patches. Farmers of this community stated that the rain was a lite saver for many of the crops and that more rain could be used at this time. The temperature dropped several degrees today following the downpour. REVIEW BOARD TO END SESSION Last Meeting Will Be Held June 30; Week For Computation — The Adams County board of re- . view will conclude its session on Tuesday, June 30 and the next , week will be devoted to making , final figures and changes where , necessary. Very few taxpayers have appeared before the board this month with objections to their assess- I ments on personal property. A I number of individuals have been called before the board relative to assessments turned in by corporations and partnerships. Owners of oil wells in the south part of the county were before the board today and valuations of the properties were discussed by the board. The board did not make public if changes were made or if the assessments were left as originally made. The total valuation in the county ; of personal property will be lower this year it is assured and that is' one reason why much sentiment in favor of lower tax levies on the part of the county, township and other taxing units is advocated this year. It the valuations drop off. the rates will have to he increased unless the budgets are reduced. o Ton Litters Nominated William Linn and H. P. Schmitt local business men and L. E. Archbold county qgent members of the nominating committee for ton litter work report the following farmers who are continuing the contest: C. W. R. Schwartz, 1 litter; Otto Hoile 4 litters; Enoch Habegger 1 litter; Benjamin Mazelin 3 litters; John Heimann. 2 litters; Henry Heimann. 2 litters; Amos Kirchhofer 2 litters; L. F. Sprunger, 2 litters; Ardon Mosser, 1 litter; E. S. Christen, 1 litter, and Dan Habegger Jr., 1 litter. H. P. Schmitt is offering SSO prize money this year on the contest. o Youth’s Body Recovered Fort Wayne, June 23 — (UP) — Paul Desler, 19. was drowned in St. Joseph river near here while swimin ing with several other youths. The body was recovered. o SEEK KILLER OF RACKETEER Motion Picture Operator Union Leader Is Put On Spot Chicago, June 23.—(U.R) —Prosecutors searching for the ilapper gunman dressed in white flannels who killed Jacob Kaufman, insurgent member of the Motion Picture Operators’ Union, said today they had uncovered a gigantic racket in the Chicago local of the union. A letter which Kaufman wrote three years ago and filed away "to be opened in case anything happens” was believed by police to have become important evidence both in the grand jury investigation of union affairs and in the search for the operator's slayer. In the letter, Haufman accused Thomas Maloy, business agent of the union, of threatening to "take him for a ride" and told of a severe beating in Maloy’s office. 1 Maloy and two of his assistants in the union surrendered late yes- | terday, but refused to testify before the grand jury unless granted immunity. The union chief told newspaper reporters, however, that 1 he knew nothing of Kaufmans (CONTINUED ON PAGE SIX)

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Threatened! Patrick E. Crowley (above), president of the New York Central Railroad, has been terrorized for • the last few weeks by a succession of mysterious letters demanding $25,600 and threatening his life and the kidnaping of his two daughters. The railroad executive and his family are being closely guarded while authorities seek the author of the threats. BEET FACTORY ~ MAY RE-OPEN Consolidation Looms Among Several Sugar Mill Companies Mt. Pleasant, Mich., June 23.— (Special)—lnfluential interests are at work to bring about the organ-! ization in 1932 of a company that 'would take over the control of the manufacture of beet sugar in Michigan and the northern areas of Ohio and Indiana. Holders of bonds of several defunct corporations, men prominently identified with the Michigan Sugar company and others who have financial interests in the industry, are back of the project. 'CONTINUED ON PAGE TWO) o — LESLIE SCORES HIGHWAY GROUP Governor Says Representatives of Firms Are Cause of Trouble Indianapolis, June 23 —(U.R) — Constant warring of road materials representatives came in for a slashing attack by Governor Harry G. Leslie, along with a mild rebuke to the highway commission, as organized before the resignation of Jess Murden, Peru, in reply to a Greenfield delegation seeking early action on widening of US-40 from Cumberland to Greenfield. Leslie criticized the highway commission for letting a contract on that stretch, after receiving bids on three different types of asphalt. He said the action did not comply with the law requiring that three distinct types of paving —brick, cement and asphalt—be specified in contract letting, and thus explained the decision to receive new blds. After condemning the retaliatory measures of "Black Top" and “cement" interests in their quest (CONTINUED ON PAGE SIX) Students Start Riot Vienna, Austria, June 23 —(UP) — ■ Anti-semetic rioting broke out at Vienna University today after the . Austrian constitutional court had , nullified a university regulation de- . priving Jewish students of the right > to vote on University affairs. Ten > Jewish students were seriously in- . jured. Holmes Changes Mind i t Indianapolis. June 23 —(UP) —Ans other conquest was chalked up to ) the heat wave today, with an official apology registered by Ira 4 Holmes, militant lawyer with Judge . Clarence E. Weir of Superior court. Holmes mopped his brow and reI canted ills statement of Saturday ( that he "would rot tn jail" rather t than pay a $25 fine for contempt of 8 court. Thereupon the judge yielded . a bit, and reduced the fine to sls, whereupon the case was dismissed.

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RUTH NICHOLS INJURED WHEN PLANE LANDS Warm Weather Beckons Fliers To Prepare For Number of Flights LINDBERGHS HOLD INTEREST I (By United Press) With Miss Ruth Nichols, New York aviator, in the hospital at St. John, N. B„ and her plans for an immediate flights to Europe smashed in the wreckage of her LockheedVega plane, preparations for five other noteworthy at- ' tempts at ocean crossings went ahead today. Holger Hoiriis and Otto Hillig were at Harbor Grace, N. F. D., waiting for a favorable moment to attempt a flight to Denmark. They were disappointed that Miss Nichols could not take to the air simultaneously with them, to give the flight the aspect of an international race. Wiley Post ami Harold Gatty, of Los Angeles, were on their way from Roosevelt field on a proposed I flight around the world in which !fhey hope to beat the Graf Zeppel- | in’s record for the complete circle. They left Roosevelt Field this i morning. Clyde Pangborn and Hugh Herndon, Jr., were tuning up their plane for a projected world flight. No definite plans for a takeoff were announced, however. Captain George Endreas and Alexander Magyr, Hungarian aviators, were preparing at Roosevelt Field for a dash that, they hope, will end in Budapest. Col. Charles A. LfnUßergh and Mrs. Lindbergh were making careful preparations for their proposed trip by air to Japan, but no date has been set for the take-off. In a telegram to his New York representatives today, Clarence Chamberlin, personal representative of Miss Nichols, advised them that the young woman was “in good spirits," and not seriously Injured. Her plane, however, is a complete wreck, and it will be necessary to procure another it Miss Nichols —— | (CONTINUED ON PAGE SIX) Tells Kidnap Story 1 Indianapolis, June 23 —(tfP)— Richard Cosgrove, Fort Wayne, reported to police here that two men kidnapped him last night, forced him to drive them five miles out of the city robbed him of $4 and then 1 ordered him to drive back to in--1 dianapolis. Cosgrove is living temporarily at ’ the Columbia Club here. , o • 1 Band Concert Tonight i The Decatur Junior Band wi.il present its weekly concert tonight, June 23 at 8:30 o’clock, on the Cen- ' tral School grounds. Following is 1 the program: ’ March I. B. A.—Waters f Overture—Cinderella —Rosekrans ' Waltz — Desert Flowers —St. Clair ’ Religious Fantasy, Songs of Glory ' —Dalby 5 Romance —Morning Songs —St. I Clair. Popular Numbers. Star Spangled Banner—Keys, r — o SEARCH RUINS FOR VICTIMS ' Fire Loss Estimated At 10 i Million; Atlantic City Has Fire t 1 lSt. John. N. 8.. June 23—(U.R) — ’ Salvage and rescue workers searched the blackened ruins along the west side of St. John harbor today for possible victims of the fire which destroyed property for - 500 yards along the waterfront 5 yesterday. Norman Herring, formerly of i Hackensack. N.J., was the only B person reported missing. He was • reported last seen crawling toward " a vault in the United Fruit Co. f offices, in a lAiilding already in r flames. F The fire destroyed 11 docks 1 with their sheds and grain convey1. (CONTINUED ON PAGE TWO)