Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 29, Number 156, Decatur, Adams County, 2 July 1931 — Page 1

WEATHER Partly cloudy; local ihowers tonight and icsaibiy in southeast PJ biortion Friday mornllCng; not so warm totlght, and in east south portions Friday. RT

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"PH TEACHERS 'CNHIBH SCHOOL - AND CENTRAL >ar mL. —i — er. ane Dorwin And Clara ppQrt Employed; Four 'lew Ones At Central the I 2 IANGE MADE AT THE NORTH WARD A. F. Worthman, superindent of city schools, today tounced the complete list of chers for the wards, CenI and Decatur high schools, —j’inai selections were ap™ved by the Decatur school in session last evening, rs "he list includes one new n .rd teacher, one transfer at ■North ward, two new high s>ul teachers and four new teachii: in the fifth and sixth grades at , j;| Central building All other 2ft.. there were retained. High School Changes eane Dorwin. Decatur young i, son of Mrs Maude Dorwin, selected to fill the vacancy „jsed by the resignation of Clifi Richards. Mr. Dorwin will h history, English and public I aking in the high school. tr. Dorwin was graduated from 1 >4 Teachers’ college, receiving his J. degree in June. He is a grad- «, 8 of the Decatur high school, fiss Clara Keppert, Decatur, ?her at Jefferson township high 00l for several years, was selectuljo fill the vacancy caused by resignation of Miss Jessie 1 >rt, Latin and mathematics in > f Wtor in the high school. Miss t ipert was graduated from Indi- - University. She received her dew|| in 1929. n ' fiss Short has accepted a posit in the Clinton, Indiana, high 00l and Mr. Richards lias acted a place at the Mishawaka Ib school. Ward Changes fiss Florence Magl e y, who Ight the second grade at the tth ward last year was transred to the North ward building, | 'feeding Mrs. Robert Mills, re- ’ ned. diss Helen Shroll, daughter of and Mrs. Harve Shroll of this V, will fill the vacancy at the ith ward. Miss Shroll was graded from Mrs. Bluker's college, liana polls and taught last year in - South Hend school. Central Changes ’’our new teachers will he inuotors of the fifth and sixth ides at the- Central building. The new instructors at Central 1 be. Miss Mary Katherine hug. arithmetic. Miss Schug is daughter of Mr. and Mrs. John hug of this city. She was gradual from Northwestern university t month, Receiving an A.B. de--10. Vliss Electa Oliver, teacher in ot township last year, will teach ‘ding and penmanship at Cen-! i d. Miss Oliver has had nine | irs experience as a teacher. CONTINUED ON PAGE FIVE) ARREDFROM ‘ GOBI DESERT hinese Refuse Permisuon to Ray Chapman Andrews To Explore Pleping, China, July 2—(UP) — >y Chapman Andrews, widely iown American scientist, was - rred from conducting his proposi expedition into the Gobi desert * the Chinese authorities today. In a comminique explaining their titude. the Chinese officials rerred to Andrews' "arrogant attide” and Baid he had been “exvating valuable scientific materT 1 from Chinese territory under liver of passport for hunting The Andrews expedition had been Iganlzed ami planned to start Inthe Mongolian desert area shortThe Chinese, however, have tieen | aking ft Increasingly difficult and lie government’s commission for of antiquities tofCONTINUED ON PAGE TWO)

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Vol. XXIX. No. 156.

Forty Cars Entered In Greenville Race Greenville, Ohio, July 2—Forty j four cars and drivers have been declared eligible for tlie speed championship races for the “Dutch” Bauman Memorial Cup, Sunday, July i sth, by officials of the Greenville Motor Speedway. Twenty one addi- ’ tional entries will be ruled upon within the next day or two. Large cash prizes will be given the winners. BUSINESS WILL CEASE SATURDAY No Delivery of Mail And Stores Will Close on . Holiday The Decatur Post Office will be closed all-day Saturday, July 4, and there will be no delivery of mail in the city or on the rural routes. Postmaster L. A. Graham announced today. The door of the post office will be open, however, and persons wishing to mail stamped letters, or secure mail from their lock boxes may do so. All business houses of Decatur and the hanks will be closed in observance of the national holiday. No public program has been planned for the day. Following the usual custom the Daily Democrat will not be published Saturday in observance of the holiday. DUS BILL PROBE IS CONTINUED Marion County Grand Jury Adjourns Matter Until Next Session Indianapolis, July 2 —(U.R>-A retiring Marion county grand jury today recommended that its investigation of fraud and conspiracy charges alleged to have accompanied passage and signature of House Bill. 6, a bus and truck regulatory measure, bo continued by the next grand jury. Th,e jury reported to Judge Frank Baker, of Marion criminal court, that it has “been unable to complete investigation of House Bill 6. due to the absence of important witnesses and lack of time, and recommends that the next grand Jury continue the investigation.” Testimony is Given Indianapolis, July 2 —<U.R) —Testimony by Dick Heller, Decatur, clerk of the house of representatives during the last legislature, and Edgar D. Bush, lieutenant governor, marked the first day’s hearing in circuit court here on a petition to halt publication of House Bill 6, bus regulatory measure. Heller related his visit to Governor Harry G. Leslie with a petition of Russell Dean, Marion county representative, to recall the bill. Heller testified that Governor Ijcslle told hint that the bill had been signed, but could be | recalled if Dean persisted. Henry W. Marshall, Lafayette, and Ehen H. Wolcott, Indianapolis, were with the governor when the peti,CONTINUED ON PAGE THREE) o Chicago Man Named To Purdue Staff Lafayette, Ind., July 2—(UP) —Ap pointment of H. E. Young, Chicago, , as g member of the agricultural extension staff of Purdue University , here was announced today. Young, who has’ been editor of several farm journals, will promote home gardens for industrial workers. o | Newspaper Publisher Gets Day Jail Term South Bend, Ind., July 2 -(U.R>— Clay Metsker, former publisher of i the Plymouth, Indiana, Democrat, pleaded guilty in federal court < here to a charge of making false circulation statements and was fined S4OO and costs, and was I sentenced to serve one day in jail, i

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EVERETTNOTTO BE ARRAIGNED UNTIL MONDAY Man Charged With Murder of Doras Werling May Plead “Self Defense” JUSTICE OF PEACE IS OUT OF CITY Joseph Everett, charged with the murder of Doras Werling, probably will not he arraigned in ttie Justice of Peace court until next Monday, Sheriff Burl Johnson, stated this afternoon. ’Squire A. C. Butcher in whose court Everett will be arraigned. Is out os' the city and will not return until the first of the week. The charge was filed by Dr. J. M. Miller, deputy coroner, yesterday. Everett is charged with t lie killing of Mr. Werling, following a controversy Monday night on the banks of the St. Marys river, arising over the Incident whether Werling and several companions would hie permitted to swim in the river where Everett had a trout line set. The man talked at the Adams county jail with attaches concerning the case and lias intimated that he will request the court to appoint an attorney for him. It was learned that he had requested that R. O. Parrish, Fort Wayne, he named. The appointing of an attorney cannot be disposed of until Everett is bound over to the Adams Circuit and then it is not known what action the court will take. “ Everett may enter a plea of I “self defense,” it was stated. This I information was obtained from conversations with him. If the defendant is held on a j first degree murder charge he will not be eligible to bond and will lie forced to remain in the Adams county jail until his case comes up next fall. Funeral Held Today Funeral service for Mr. Werling was held at three o'clock tills afternoon at the Zion Reformed church in this city, the Rev. A. R. Fledderjohann, pastor, officiating, assisted by Rev. 11. W. Day, pastor (CONTINUED UN PAGE EIGHT RELATIVE DIES OF PNEUMONIA Charles Pilliod, Relative of Decatur People Dies At Greenville Mrs. Theodore Graliker received word today of the death of her bro-iher-in-law Charles Pilliod 56, which occurred at his home in Greenville Ohio, Wednesday afternoon at 3 o'clock. Death was due to pneumonia. Mrs. Pilliod who was formerly Miss Edith Wemhoff of this city, is a sister of Mrs. Graliker. Mr. Pilliod became ill about five weeks ago when he and his wife came to this city to attend the funeral of Mrs. Pllliod'H mother, Mrs. Mary Wemhoff. His condition gradually became worse on his return home. Tlie deceased liad resided in Greenville, Ohio, for a number of years, and was one of the officers in the Union Province Company. Previous to living at Greenville, he lived at l’iqua, Ohio. Surviving are three daughters, Charlotte, who is a nurse at the Good Samaritan Hospital in Cincinnati, Ohio Rose Mary and Margaret at home. Two sisters and two brothers also survive. Funeral services will be held Saturday morning at 9 o'clock (DST) at Greenville, Ohio. o St. John’s Picnic To Be Held Sunday The St. John's congregation will hold a picnic ai tlie school grove, on the Decatur road, Sunday afternoon, July 5, beginning at 1:30 o'clock (standard time). Rain interrupted a picnic that was held a week ago and the program planned for that time will be given next Sunday.

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Decatur, Indiana, Thursday, July 2, 1931.

Denies She Was Kidnaped I i„ m W Iwf -d W Wmmk *.<&:■ r j ? iMfl - r . ' Arita Jensen Bosch, 15-year-old 14-ide of Leslie Busch, son of wealthy and prominent residents of Larchmont, New York suburb, smiles happily at the photographer to prove her happiness and to show her 20- ! \ year-old husband that she has courage to deny her father’s charges that 1 she was kidnaped. Busch's mother, a member of one of President Hoover’s research commissions, has welcomed the couple at her showplace estate while maintaining that there was no kidnaping and that ! , the youngsters are in love.

ALL DAY PARTY ' AT GOLF CLUB. t Members to Enjoy Golf Matches And Picnic at j Country Club I £ Members of the Decatur Country £ Club and their families will enjoy £ an all day picnic and golf program at the clubhouse, Saturday, July < fourth. The program will start at s 10 o'clock in the morning with a i men's golf tourney, and various t events wil be held during the (lay, 1 climaxed with fireworks at 8:30 1 o'clock at night. i The day's evepts include a men’s medal tourney for nine holes of golf | a picnic dinner at noon; a mixed two-ball foursome tournament of nine holes at two o'clock in the afternoon; a bridge party for ladies at two o’clock; a flag tournament at four o'clock; a driving contest at seven o’clock and fireworks from 8:30 o’clock until 10 o'clock, ] Herman H. Myers will be in charge of the first event and prizes will be awarded to blind bogey, lowgross, and low net. Robert Mills will be in charge of the second event ( and prizes wil be awarded Dr. J. ( G. Neptune will have charge of the bridge tournament, with prizes be- ‘ ing awarded the high scores for (CONTINUED ON PAGB TVVOi 1 j 1931 ACTS ARE I DECLARED LAWS, Governor Leslie Issues j Proclamation Declaring Acts Effective Indianapolis, July 2 — (UP) — Citizens of Indiana went übout their business as usual today, complaining about the hot weather but unmindful that there were 179 newstate laws to be obeyed. With a proclamation from the office of Governor Harry G. Leslie at 4:65 P. M. yesterday, acts of the last general assembly became laws. The proclamation gnve 11:30 Tuesday morning as the hour the laws became effective. It was then that the last county clerk, Mrs. Alvina Killigrew, Lake county, signed a receipt for copies of the acts. Promulgation of the ads has been delayed übout two months ‘because of the investigation of house bill 6, a bus and truck regulatory measure, said to have been affected by conspiracy and fraud. (CONTINUED ON PAGE EIGHT)

Funeral Held Today For Houard Baby Funeral services for Chester Houard, Jr., infant son of Mr. and! Mrs. Chester I. Houard, were held! this afternoon at 1:30 b’clock (CSj T) at the home, three miles northwest of Monroe. Rev. Jay Smith, j pastor of the Zion church officiated and burial was in the Ray cemetery ; at Monroe. The baby was stillborn at 7:30 o'clock Wednesday evening at the home, near Monroe. Surviving are the parents, Chester 1. and Ilessie Wolf-Houard, a sister, Devona, and a brother, Ivan, at home. The grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. E. S. Houard of Fort Wayne and Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Wolf »f west of Monroe, also survive. GRAND JURY TO COMPLETE WORK Final Evidence Gathered By Body Investigating Poison Plot Lebanon, July 2—(UP)—Completion of the grand jury investigation of the poison deaths of Virginia and Alice Jean Simmons was expee'ed here today. During its first day of inquiry the jury heard testitnon from 10 witnesses regarding the family reunion here June 21 at which the girls died after eating sandwiches filled with strychnine capsules. (CONTINUED ON D AGE TWO! Stores Open Friday Night - - Decatur stores will be open Friday night to accommodate week-end shoppers. A few stores, including meat markets and drug stores will be open a short time Saturday morning. The other stores will be closed all day In observance of the Fourth of July. Decatur stores are offering hundreds of bargains for the week-end shoppers today and Friday. Grocery and meat market specials for the holiday and week-end dinners are pule llslnsl in to nigh t’ s DailyDemocrat. The big free attraction will l>e held Friday afternoon at 2:30 o'clock (DLT) and the public is cordially invited to coni" to Decatur. You'll feel like celebrating over the Fourth If you take advantage of the bargains In merchandise offered you by Decatur stores.

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NINE DEATHS IN INDIANA FROM INTENSE HEAT I Torridity Adds to Fatalities In State; Mercury Climbs To 104 EAST GETS RELIEF FROM HEAT WAVE By United Press Nine more lives were added to the rapidly mounting number of \ deaths from the heat wave, ai United Press survey of Indiana j revealed today. Six of the victims died of heat prostrations; one was drowned and two were killed by lightning which accompanied a j storm in central Indiana. The hottest point in the state ' | yesterday was Ibelieved to have ' | been South Bend, where the mercury climbed to 104. Farmers, in ■ the midst of the wheat harvest, reported many additional deaths ' among farm stock. Agriculture experts at Purdue University an- i : nounced that the hot spell had i ! advanced the wheat one week, the ! grain ripening rapidly under the j blistering sun. William J. Williams, 73, died a i few minutes after he suffered a ! heat stroke. Frank Paddack, 56, died at his , | home near Darlington after being , (CONTINUED ON PAGE FIVE) 0 1 BIRTHS EXCEED DEATHS IN APRIL Mortality Report Shows 33 Births And 20 Deaths In Adams County A report of all births and deaths | in Adams County for the month of ] April, 1931, was received today I from the State Board of Health. According to the report there were! ( 33 births and 2rt deaths, and the , rate per 1,000 population for Ad- , ams county was 19.8. ] Os the 20 deaths reported two i were under one year of age; two i were from the ages of one to five years of age; nine were over 65 years -of age. Lobar and Broncho-pneumonia claimed four lives; accidents, one; cancer, four; and influenza, two. The report shows that according to the United States Census the total population of Adams County is 19,957 and the total population of I the state of Indiana is 3,238,503. The total number of births in Indiana during the month of April, 1931, was 4,144 and the total number of deaths was 3,311. The annual death rate, according to the ' report, for Adams county is 12.0 1 and tlie annual death rate for In- 1 diana is 12.2. : ‘CONTINUED ON PAGE TWO! REPORT ON BIBLE SCHOOL GIVEN I Enrollment at 1). V. B. S. M as 269; School Was Self Supporting Mrs. Frank W. Downs, principal j of the Daily Vacation Bible School which closed here last Sunday, to- j day filed her final report for the summer term of school. ( According to the report there was j a total enrollment of 269 pupils. , Os this number 77 were in tlie kin- J dergarten department, 108 in the ( primary and 84 in tlie junior de- ( partnient. There were 124 pupils ( present every day, and 64 who only { missed three days. Tlie school contributed $25,00 to ( Olivet Institute of Chicago, an interdenominational organization, to be used to furnish outings for underprivileged children of the city. ' Tills money was a part of the morning collections in the school, Mrs. Downs reports. The primary department made toys so run orphanage and filled (CONTINUED ON PAGE EIGHT) i

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Head of Farm Board Flays Grain Dealers Washington, July 2. —(U.R) —Chairman James E. Stone of the Federal Farm Board charged today that grain traders were attempting to discredit the hoard's work in order to prevent the country’s farmers from organizing. Stone said the traders were attempting to dictate the hoard’s policy but said he did not propose to allow them to interfere. FIRST SERVICE SUNDAV NIGHT Program Prepared For Union Service at Evangelical Church The first of the series of Union Services to be conducted by the Decatur Protestant churches each Sunday night during the months of July and August, will he held in the First Evangelical Church on Winchester street, Sunday evening. The Protestant churches of ihe city, with the exception of the United Brethren Church will participate in the union services during tlie two summer months, and the services will be held at a different church each Sunday. The program for the first meeting, Sunday night, will be in the charge of tlie laymen of the churches and will begin at 7:30 o’clock (D. S. T.) The laymen will also have charge of the August 2, service. The men’s chorus, comprising four or five singers from each of the churches, will sing special musical numbers at the first Sunday night program, and C. J. Lutz, local attorney, and C. L. Walters, will he the principal speakers. Fallowing is the complete pro(CONTINUED ON PAGE THREE) o Falls Out of Boat And Drowns In River Vincennes, July 2. —(U.P.)—Frank Hager, 54, retired farmer, was drowned in White river near here today after the boat from which he was fishing was overturned by a log. James Martin, who was fishing with Hager, clung to the log until aid arrived. AGED SCIENTIST DEATH'S VICTIM I)r. Babcock W ho Invented Method of Butterfat Test Is Dead Madison, Wis„ July 2.—(U.R)—Dr. Stephen Moulton Babcock, 87-year-old scientist, who invented the standard butterfat testing method and spurned the opportunity to become a millionaire by dedicating it to the public, died hefe last night, it was announced today. The inventor, whose method of determining milk’s butterfat content lias been the basis of building up dairy herds and grading milk throughout the world, was busy at his scientific explorations almost up to the hour of his death. Born at Bridgewater, N. Y., Oct. 23, 1843, he was graduated from Tufts college in 1866, studied at Cornell University and the University of Gottingen in Germany, and served as the New York state experiment station’s chemist before joining the Wisconsin University faculty in 1887. Three years later he made the discovery that revolutionized dairying methods. He perfected the application of acid and centrifugal force to a milk test which separated the butter fat from other ingredients and allowed an accurate determination of its percentage in the whole. “The test is not patented” were tlie words Dr. Babcock used in an(CONTINUED ON PACE THREEI Volunteer Firemen W ill Meet Tonight A special meeting of the Decatur Volunteer firemen wll be held at the Fire Department on Seventh street, tonight a 7 o'clock (D.S.T.)

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GREETS FLIERS IN NEW YORK Around theW'orld in Eight Days, 15 Hours, 51 minutes; Break Record GUESTS TODAY OF CHEERING CROWDS Paris, July 2—(UP) —Joseph Lebrix announced today that he would start at 4 A. M. tomorrow i lon a flight around the world hopeing to beat the Post-Gatty record. Lebrix, who attained flying fame with Dieudonne Costes in the Trans-Atlantic plane Question Mark, and other long distance flights, will be accompanied by Marcel Doret; he said he hopes to make a circle of the globe in four steps—Paris to Tokio, Tokio, to San Francisco San Francisco to New York and New York to Paris. New York, July 2.— (U.R) — Wiley Post and Harold Catty, pilot and navigator of the sil-ver-white airship Winnie Mae, i in which they completed yesterday the fastest voyage ever made around the world —in eight days, 15 hours and 51 minutes—awoke today to find . a wildly enthusiastic nation at , their feet. Their bodies numbed by the grinding strain, their ears still , throbbing from the roar of the motor, their hunger for food and sleep only partially allayed—for it was not until after 1 o'clock this ’ morning that the applauding crowds permitted them to go to bed—they had still to undergo the ordeal — and the thrills of a formal recepI tion by the city of New York, with all the traditional tumult and applause that accompanies such events. But the dogged determination that held them to their course from New York to England, to Germany, Russia, Siberia, Alaska, and ’ jan obliging, though modest, willingness to please their backers and the people themselves, led them to i forego what would have perhaps ■ pleased them more — another 12 ' hours of rest. Neither one of these amazing men would admit, even when he was i practically forcibly sent to tied last night, to being exhausted. “I could do it again.’’ Rost .stubbornly persisted, and Gatty echoed his words. Yet it seemed to those who watched them tumble out of I I the big monoplane at Roosevelt Field, and who followed them I through roaring multitudes to the Ritz-Carlton hotel, late last night, that they must he near the crack- ■ ing point, at times the seemed to be walking in their sleep. Questions—because of their deafness — had to be shouted. But the questions were always willingly answer- ■ ed, not boastfully, hut respectfully and modestly. The reception committee, after ( consulting with C. F. Hall, wealthy ! oil operator, who hacked the world--1 girdling tour, had arranged to hurry the men to their hotel and make [ (CONTINUED ON PAGE FIVE) REPUBLICANS SELECT TICKET i W illiam Harrison, Mayor 1 of Louisville Heads t Kentucky State Ticket Lexington, Ky. July 2 —(UP) — , Hopes of the Republican party In . Kentucky in tlie November Guber- . liatorlal election today rusted with I William B. Harrison, 38 J year<ild . mayor of Louisville. Harrison was . chosen G. O. P. candidate by accla- , mation as the Republican state con- , vention came to a close. Not only was Harrison nominated , without a dissenting vote, bat his . entire ticket was carried to over whelming victory, with one or two l exceptions. John C. Worsham, Henderson hanker, wus chosen Candida!,e for Lieutenant Governor. Early evidence of discord dimmed ' as file Harrison Machine gained power. Judge W. T. Davis, a cousin of Governor Flem I). Sampson, was nominated for attorney general. (CONTINUED ON PAGE TWO)