Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 29, Number 165, Decatur, Adams County, 14 July 1931 — Page 1

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Vol. XXIX. No. 165.

Tear Gas Routs Strikers II ft .•ui.aoßjgta Ry ■ W.: I ( i ? - Wr ' klfe There simply isn’t any cornel jack against tear gas. Strikers and rioters involved in the General Fabric Corporation walkout at Central 1 Balls, R. 1., discovered that when police exploded a cloud of the blinding gas when a threatening crowd advanced on the plant of the textile concern. Strikers and their sympathizers are shown retreating before } the barrage of gas in the foreground. Ann Bulac, 22-year-old organizer of the National Textile Workers' Union (insert), helped incite th<e ' strikers to I ioting.

RECEIVER SUES STOCKHOLDERS — Preferred Stock Owners of Hardware Company Are Made Defendants Seven preferred ( stockholders of | the formet Liechty Brothers and Co. hardware store at Monroe which ' was destoyed by fire in 1929. were ! made defendants in suits brought • today .by c L. Walters, receiver fori the concern. The defendants are John Rich. Nellie Luginbill. Anna Sprunger, Albrecht Reusser, Catherine Beer. Baibara Gilliom and Jacob Scherer. I The complaint alleges that fol-1 lowing the fire, which destroyed the store and contents, the preferred stockholders were paid by the company. When liquidation was completed it was found that the business did not pay out and each of the preferred stockholders was assessed the proportionate amount to make up the deficit. The cases will be set in September term of Adams circuit court I Mr. Walters, the receiver also is I attorney for the plaintiff in the! case. KIRKLAND TERM IS PROTESTED Petition Asks For Investigation By Attorney General’s Office Indianapolis, July 14 — (UP) — Protests against the one to Ip year prison sentence given Virgil Kirkland, convicted in connection with the death of Arlene Draves, came to the attention of Attorney Genet al James M. Ogden today. A copy of a petition being circulated in Lake County was sent Ogden by state Senator C. Oliver Holmes, Gary. The petition asked the attorney general’s aid in investigation of Kirkland's second trial. Several juror*, it related, claimed they thought they were voting for a death penalty for Kirkland, under the Indiana law which makes that sentence mandatory for murder following or during criminal attack ( Ogden said he could not direct an investigation but could assist the! latke County prosecutor. Robert I Estill .in any inquiry he saw fit to conduct. o BULLETIN Chicago, July 14. — (U.R) — Wheat prices today fell to within a fraction of the all time low figures of 50 3 8 set in 1894. Quotations fell off one cent from yesterday's close but were stopped at 50J/ 2 cents or t/ t of , a cent from the bottom price of 37 years ago.

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Murder Trial Starts Vernon. Ind.. July 14.— (U.R) — Lawrence Cook, Cincinnati, went on trial here today facing first de- | gree murder charges in connection i with the death of his wife. Nellie , Cook, on Thanksgiving Day, 1929. I A special session of Jennings circuit court was called for the trial. Mrs. Cook died in an auto accident while she ami her husband were returning from a visit with her parents near Medora. A murdjer indictment against Cook was returned following an investigation (of the crash. Cook was held in the : Indiana state reformatory for safe i keeping, then brought to the I county jail at Brownstown, and returned here for the trial.SUSPECTSNOT IDENTIFIED Witnesses Are Unable To Identify Four Men At Middletown, Ohio Middletown. 0., July 14—<U.R> — Two witnesses of the SII,OOO holdup of a bank at Hartford City. Ind., a week ago today failed to Identify four suspects in jail nere as among the five bandits who committed the iohfl’ery. clarence Clapper, a salesman,, and James W. Williams, a grocer, , viewed the men. The two wit- . nesses were accompanied here by , John Speidel, Hartford City chief of police, Henry Smitli, patrolman, , and Tom Morrow, private detec- , tive. Before returning home, Speidel ; said he would send fingerprints taken at the hank to Police Chief , Otto Kolodzik of Middletown to be compared with those of the sunpects. Police here expressed ICONTiNUED ON PAGE TWO) o GRANITE TO BE , MEMORIAL BASE Limestone Interests Lose I In Battle With Clark Commission French Lick, Ind., July 14.—(U.R) j —Vermont granite will be used in exterior construction ot the George i Rogers Clark memorial at Vincen- 1 ; lies, the federal memorial commis- ‘ L-lon decided as it let the hid for ■ the monument to W. R. Heath com- ' pany, Greencastle. The Heath com- 1 pany bld on the entire project was 1 $773,800. Acceptance of the Heath bid, ’ which was based on Stansted gran- ! Ite, was in opposition to pleas of 1 Indiana limestone interests. Sen- ] ator James Watson, Representative Albert H. Vestal, and Frederick 1 Schortemeier, counsel for the Indi- * ana Limestone company, led the 1 i (CONTINUED ON PAGE TWO) I

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Decatur, Indiana, Tuesday, July 14, 1931.

BONDS BOUGHT BY LOCAL BANK Scheimann Bridge Issue Sold To Old Adams Co Bank of This City The $25,000 issue of four per cent, bonds for the building of the Scheiman bridge in Preble township, brought a premium of $350.00 The bonds were awarded to the Old Adams County Bank of this city, high bidders Six bids were received by County ; Auditor Albert Harlow. The premiums ranged from $225.14 to $350 The bids were Union Trust Com., pany Indianapolis, $272; Fletcher Savings and Trust Co., $288; Lin coin National Bank, Fort Wayne, $225; Hill Joiner and Co, Chicago, $225; First State bank, Decatur, $295.14. The bonds will be issued in denominations of SSOO each. Three ssoo bonds will become due every six months, beginning in 1932. One thousand dollars will be paid in the ninth year. The bonds bear four per cent Work on building the Scheimann bridge will commence in the near future. Yost Bros., of this city have the contract for building the bridge, i The bridge spans the St. Mary’s | river and the structure will be comi posed of two 100 foot spans. It will be built of steel. TAXPAYERS TO HOLD MEETING Public Is Invited to Union Township Meet Monday, July 20 A meeting of the taxpayers of Union township will be held al the Kohr school house Monday night, July 20 at eight o’clock. The purpose of the meeting, according to Martin Kruckeberg, local chairman, will be to interest taxpayers in tax problems and to encourage the reduction of taxes in the township for next year. A speaker from the Indiana Tax- | payers Association, Indianapolis, of which Harry Meise formerly of Decatur is president, will address the meeting. A local unit of the Taxpayers Association will be formed it was stated. The public is invited to the meeting and subjects of interest to farmers and to taxpayers in general will be discussed at the meeting. (CONTINUED ON PAGE THREE) —— o— Missionary Is Captured Peiking. China, July 14 —(U.R) — The United States legation today was informed that bandits had captured another American missionary, Lacey Sites, in southern China. The legation advices said Sites, h Methodist, had been captured near Luang-Ling-Tsun, Fukien province, on July 8, while travelling in the interior. The bandits held him for ransom.

Public School Library Was Organized In 1903\

Mismanagement Causes School Library of Early Years To Vanish Note: This is the second of a series of articles concerning the history of the Decatur Library system by Miss Annette Moses, Librarian. The third article will appear in Thursday's Dally Democrat. In 1903 the school board and city superintendent felt the need of a Library and asked that a tax of 3 cents on a dollar, making about $450.00, be levied for Library purposes. As our taxable values grew this levy gradually increased until we were having a tax of about $600.00 per year for a Public School Library. There came a time, however, when the Library tax apparently ceased to grow. The funds were drawn regularly but few books were bought. These about balanced those given out or lost each year. The Librarian was used as supply teacher and sometimes for weeks at a time no one

Starves Rather Than Go To County Infirmary Laporte, Ind., July 14.—(U.R) -Peter Colson, 71, starved to death rather than go to the county poor farm, Dr. C. E. Burleson, county asylum doctor, said today. For months O. A. Ludlow, manager of the unemployment relief organization here had urged Colson to go to the county farm. He steadfastly refused. Colson collapsed in the courthouse yard here from undernourishment and failed to respond to treatment. REMODELING BIDS REJECTED Council Turns Over Improvement of City Hall To Committee The city council in special session last night rejected the bids filed j by local contractors for the remodeling ot the city hall building! on Monroe street. The matter was placed in the hands of the electric light committee of the council and O. L. Vance, chairman, stated that new bids would be received by the council in August. The specifications will be revamp ed, Mr. Vance stated. The improvements will be held to a minimum. The specifications will call for a new front, minor repairs td the stairway, a window at the south of the building and installing toilets. The present floor will be used and linoleum will be used to cover it. The original plans called for a terrazzo floor. This item and changing of the plumbing will be eliminated. It is estimated that the improvements will not cost more than $4.000 and possibly less, Mr. Vance stated. W. E. Moon was low bidder at $5,895 on the speciations adopted sometime ago. Offices for the city clerk and city treasurer will be installed on the first floor and no changes will be made on the second floor. POLITICIANS STRUCK AGAIN Second Book Published Concerning Faults Os Government Officials Washington, July 14 —(U.R) —The , capital was regaled today with a second anonymous and biting por- , trayal of its leading personages. . Only a day after publication of “The Mirrors of 1932", which dis- , sected potential presidential candi- i dates, the firm of Horace Liverright , brought out "the Washington merry go-round.” It is a caustic volume ; that takes its readers through , Washington political and social life recounting much gossip on the way. Herbert Hoover might have re- i mained a hero if he had not been l elected president, the writer says, i “Before the ruthless realities ami 1 ' i ON PAGE THREE!

could get into the Library excepting between four and five o’clock in the afternoon, because the , Librarian, paid with library funds, was teaching in the place of some teacher who was ill. The Library was never open on Saturday or Sunday. Almost every summer it was closed the entire summer. Through the effort of one ot the . literary clubs of our city it was finally allowed to be open one day in the week during the summer. Every year it had to be looked ' after and considerable effort used 1 to get the Library open this one day in the week. One of the city superintendents helped the pupils to give entertain- 1 ments in order to buy the leading 1 magazines and papers for the 1 Library, in order to help the pupils 1 kepp up to date in the current ' events. There was a magazine rack ' in the upper hall, which the pupils had access to, but the next super- ' intendent cleared it all out. to the ' regret of the patrons of the school and the loss of the pupils. Some 1 'CONTINUED ON PAGE TWO) <

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FLIGHT ENDS WHEN FLIERS LEAP SAFELY French Monoplane Is Wrecked; One Aviator Is Injured ALL THREE CLEAR PLANE Irkutsk. Siberia, July 14—(U.R) — I The daring trans-continental flight lof the French monoplane Hyphen I from Parjs was at an end today, the three fliers having leaped in parachutes to safety when their plane was forced down about 300 miles west of Irkutsk during the night. The fliers, Joseph Le Brix, Marcel Dorest and Mechanic Mesmin, were reported safe at Schiorga i station on the trans-Siberian railj way. One of the aviators was re- ! ported injured in the leap as the | plane shot to earth near Nijneudinsk, nearly two-thirds of the way to Tokio, Japan, their non-stop goal. The airplane which <hey deserted in their sored leaps was not found. Searching parties went in quest of the machine. The fliers were expected to proceed to Moscow.. They asked to go by airplane, and aviation authorities were understood to be inclined to lend them every facility. The end of the flight came suddenly after hazardous flying over Europe and the desolate, sparsely populated stretches of western Siberia. Le Brix and Doret v, ere following the route taken by Harold Gatty and Wiley Post, world fliers who recently spanned the Asiatic continent in the Winnie Mae without serious mishap. Harbor Grace, NFD., July 14--(U.R) George Endres and Alexand(CoNTINUED ON PAGE THREE) Sunday School Council Will Hold Meeting The United Brethren Sunday School council will meet tonight at 8 o’clock in the United Brethren Church. D. R. Schafer will have! charge of the meeting. Mother( Daughter Are Reunited After Years Logansport. July 14. —(U.R) —Mrs. Mabel St. John, 23. and her mother, Mrs. Pari Wilson, were united today after 21 years, during the entire time they had lived not more than 25 miles apart, hut efforts of each to find the other had been unavailing. Mrs. St. John was placed in an orphans’ home when 16 months old by her mother, who became separated from her husband. When Mrs. Wilson returned later for the child, she learned that it had been adopted by a family whose name could not be revealed. Mrs. St. John came to the county clerk's office here several days ago to inquire if her mother had been remarried. A newspaper reporter heard her story and the reunion rest Ited. Mrs. Wilson, who was remairried, has four other children. FALL TO SERVE YEAR AND DAY Term Changed So Aged Man Can Go To Texas Jail On Request Washington, July 14.—(U.R)—Sentence on a charge of accepting a bribe passed against former Secretary of Interior Albert B. Fall was amended today to permit the aged, ill man to pay his penalty in a southwest jail. On motion of Frank J. Hogan. Fall's counsel. Justice Jennings Bailey in District of Columbia Supreme court changed Fall's prison sentence from a year to a year and a day. The change automatically puts Fall in custody of the department of justice which may determine the place of imprisonment. The department of justice has obtained the consent of the warden of the New Mexico state prison for confinement of Fail there. The next step will be to issue an order for his confinement. Fall then must enter a cell.

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Extends Domain !MB BBMh I Norway has officially occupied a part of eastern Greenland that Denmark has claimed sovereignty over for many years. An expedition of Norwegian youths recently (planted their flag on the contested territory and the Norwegian claim formally signed by King Haakon (above) has been announced. Denmark reports it has done everything possilile to prevent disagreement with Norway, but will defend its rights at The Hague. WARMWEAfHEF IS PREDICTED Corn Temperatures Are Promised; Farmers Say More Rain Is Needed Warm weather was on the Adams county weather hill-of-fare for today and Wednesday, according to state forecasters. A rising temperature was predicted for all day today and a warm night was promis- i ed. The weather will be a great aid to corn, farnfers say, but some rain is needed in most parts of the county. The sun of the last three weeks has dried out fields and gardens and while some rain has fallen, it has not been sufficient, farm(CONTINUED ON PAGE TWO) INSTITUTE TO ATTRACT MANY About 36 Young People From Decatur To Attend Conference About 36 members of the Epworth League of the Methodist Episcopal church of this city will attend the Epworth Forest Institute at Lake Webster the week of July 19 to 26, it was announced today. The institute will begin Tuesday morning when the first classes will be held. Special services will be presented Sunday and Monday nights as a preliminary to the week's program. The mornings will be spent in special classes on various subjects of interest to tho young people. During tl\e afternoons recreations such as water sports, tennis, picnics, parties, and boat rides will be enjoyed with special programs being presented in the evenings. (CONTINUED ON PAGE THREE) o Reports Large Yield Theodore Beatty, living 7 miles northeast of this city in Union township, today reported receiving a very large wheat crop for the year. He thrashed 6 acres of wheat Monday which yielded 260 bushels, averaging a little more than 43 bushels per acre. BULLETIN Basle, Switzerland, July 14. (U.R) — The Hoover plan was made effective today when the council of the banks for international settlement agreed cn a method by which Germany’s unconditional Young plan annuity may be made to the bank in monthly installments. Germany will pay 41,666,666 marks tomorrow,, representing that part of the unconditional annuity due France, which, after it has been guaranteed by France and 5,300,000 marks deducted for 1930 survey of the Young plan loan, will be placed to Germany’s credit. i

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ALL BANKS TO REMAINCLOSED; LOAN AWAITED Government Hopes High For Restoration On A More Sound Basis COMMUNISTS EXCITE MANY By Frederick Kuh, UP Staff Correspondent Copyright 1931 by UP. Berlin, July 14.—(U.R)—Germany’s financial machinery stood still today, with all banks closed and trading in securities and commodity markets suspended. The public was dazed and confused, wondering what to expect, with the better-in-formed fairly confident the government would find away out and a big international loan would come to prevent crash. The feverish excitement of the last few days had abated somewhat into a sort of dull apathy. Nevertheless the cries of women before locked bank doors, clamoring for money to buy bread, and | the exhortations of communist agitators in the Rhur, Germany’s "Pittsburgh area," gave to the scene still a touch of desperation. Banks were closed under presi. dential decree for today and tomorrow, but it was hoped they could reopen Thursday, in time to distribute funds to meet wage and salary payments. The bourse was closed for the week, and commodity exchanges followed suit, in a strenuous effort to prevent panic, runs on banks, and particularly a drain ou the big banks through withdrawal of foreign currencies from Germany. Germany, long schooled in the hard discipline of years ot the “verboten” era. responded stolidly to the emergency measures. Rain fell heavily in Berlin today, and seemed to calm after the hectic excitement of recent days, though tension still prevailed. Even the news that the Bank of International Settlements at Basle had agreed to a renewal of credits to the Reich —with prospect of in(CONTINUED ON PAGE SIX» o Soldier Who Swallowed Teeth Chokes To Death Washington, July 14 —(UP) —Two false teeth which he swallowed at breakfast three days ago brought death today to a private Olaf Nelson of Fort Bliss, Tex. Nelson, a husky soldier 30 years old, was brought to Walter Reed Hospital here yesterday after a cross- country dash in airplane ambulance. Surgeons labored over him last night as long as his ebbing strength would permit. They were unable to remove the bridgework, only an inch and a halt long. Four previous efforts at Fort Bliss had been unsuccessful. Prongs of the bridge work had pierced Nelson's esophagus, the delicate passage to the stomach. Pressure of the obstruction, combined with throat disturbances created by admission of air througli the punctures, slowly choaked his life away. He died just before 7 A. M. o BABY STATION TOBE JULY 17 Mothers Are Invited To Bring Children To Health Station The Adams County baby .health station will be held at theZlecatur Public Library hall, Friday, July 17, it was announced today. The station will be open from 9 o'clock (DST) Friday morning to 4 o’clock (DST) Friday afternoon. Dr. Dorothy Teal and Miss Nancy Gibbs, R N., of the state board of health will have charge of the examinations and will be assisted by a committee from this city. All mothers of the county are invited to bring their children under 3 years of age for tree examinations.. Those in charge especially urge all mothers to have their babies examined at this station as there will be no station held during the month of August.