Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 29, Number 166, Decatur, Adams County, 15 July 1931 — Page 1

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'lgillON IN ■linn IS OFF ■OVER MILLION or __ — Kxor leltv To ReprefS County At State . July 2S "B FKJHT H AM increase \sm >soi- John Fel|h (Ti notified to attend I Mi . ~i . ..nuts assessors ’ 1 nesday, I I'riiv stated that he Kwld <»|>|>os< ;lll ' inerease .i I,\ |ii.' state hoard of |^^^K|Hliiissa'ilei's relati\O io ETm'smii'lil "f personal in Adams county, i, li. .■ I 'lia’ final figures tjME assessed valu mH loss million dollars. compiled today year, valuation on 8e.!.-.---li? v' al $-12.234,6.9. EL was $::.!.49’1.22’t. \ mptions ~\. options this year over last millioll more will be shown in .a 'EX and ' i s 111,1 known what KJi,., Mard will take on ..f railroads. Hanks E sfi.ities. 'a’. - n -.'sni'-nt of utiliK Ki>r and banks in this last year was $5,301,999. would furthKiaii tlw roiintVs net valuaI 9 f,,r iliis year show 1 E • r,,al '“*i ate . u».improvements on real - KK'< v'.N To these totals is state's assessment for Kt yt M.-r""ave exemptions year total $1.558.500. ■Faltltiiins have decreased over and it is not known it board will attempt to ■tr-.liurizi.ntai increases on P°r pal Eoperty Mr Felty believes E|. nts h.-re reflect r value of property. I —o — at New Coal Law iraiso. July 15 — (UP) — than buy Indiana coal for institutions, as required by Indiana Statute. Porter counkniissloners have signified lention to install oil burners, nmmissioners found that the h In which they could avoid Indiana coal, which they I'd is too smoky and lacking I units, was to change the lirely >1 VN ill Be Opened k'ert. Ohm, July 16.—(Speche municipal swimming pool opened here July 21. The I hyated on th* Van Wert kinds and a dedicatory profill be held the day the pool M. Lights have been strung bathers tan use the pool — o— EXCURSION ANNOUNCED Picnic To WalJ Park Will Be Id August 12 fenth annual Methodist hool excursion to Walk. Toledo, sponsored by | dist Episcopal Sunday Decatur will be held it was announced today iniittee in charge. » Os people have been oncernlng the excursion n agreement was reachlekel Plate officials and Ives of the Sunday ay union will leave Bluffton ie morning of August 12' ■<M» at Decatur, Pleasant ‘shire, 0., Ohio City, and Delphos. ouncement next week Ihe price of tickets and “sting will made by Hee, it was said today.

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‘Champlin Oil Executive Makes Airplane Tour L. A. Snyder, of Enid, Oklahoma and C. S. McFarland, of the same city, arrived in Decatur today by airplane for a short visit with H. <). White and son who operate a gasoline filling station here. Mr. Snyder is vice-president of the Champlin Refining Co., of which Charles Champlin of this city is the district representative. Mr. Snyder stated that he was making a tour of Indiana in the Interest of his company calling on district and local representatives. The plane landed at Decatur Country Club on the third fairway. From here the Champlin executive will go to larfajette, Indianapolis, land other Indiana cities. NO RELIEF IS BELIEVED NEAR / — Second Heat Wave of Summer To Continue Forecasters Say (By United States) The third day of the second heat wave in Indiana within a month brought no promises of relief. The forecast of the United States weather bureau here was "fair and warmer." The only hope for relief lay in local thundershowers, the forecaster said. No reports of rain have been received from the est. they revealed, adding that there was no likelihood that the mercury would drop within the next 24 hours. Showers which fell in scattered portions of Indiana late yesterday were too light to be of appreciable value. One death and two heat prostrations reported yesterday as I the mercury ranged between 95 and 98 at the li rd test points. Harry Crage, 69, died while working on n farm near Connersville. His death way believed superinduced by the heat. Thomas Haase. 71, an Indianapolis city employe, was 1 prostrated while working on a street. Richard, Ooley suffered a sunstroke near Bloomington. Vegetation was reported to be parched near Anderson, where no rain has fallen since July 1 Yesterday the temperature there was 95 degrees. A similar temperature was reported in Seymour. At Bloomington thermometers registered 98. Water stages in White river and Fall Creek were reported to lie | the lowest of the year. Authorities said there was no danger of water shortage, however. o Yacht Goes Aground Provincetown. Mass., July 15— (UP) —140-foot steam yacht. Wanderlust. with its owner. John Tilton. wealthy Miami Fla., lawyer ami 11 companions aboard, went aground in a thick fog two'miles south of the race point coast guard station early today. The craft was stranded on the beach and. the sea being smooth, was believed in no immediate danger. It was expected the yacht would be floated by Coast guard craft at high tide, about noon. Suspects Are Captured Lawrenceburg, July 15 —(UP) — Three men were captured here today as suspects in the gang that wounded Sheriff James Mulbert, of Deadborn county, in a running gun battle. Two others were being sought. Hulbert said that when he attempted to halt the men, riding in two autos bearing Kentucky and Colorado licenses, they fled and opened fire. Hulbert returned the fire, wounding three of the men slightly. Charles Bolte, investigator for the state department of criminal identification came to gateo Irish Settlement To Hold Annual Picnic Sponsored by the congregation of St Mary’s Catholic church R. R. 2. Geneva, Indiana, popularly known as Irish SeSttlement, the annual picnic will be held Sunday, July 26. The outing will be featured by a chicken dinner to be served by the ladies of the parish. Musif will be provided for the picnic and entertainment features for children and adults are scheduled. The outing is open to the public with proceeds for the benefit of the church.

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HOOVER PLAN IS IN FORCE GERMANS SAY ' Reparations Payments Are Withheld; Condition Still Serious MANY STRIKES ARE REPORTED By Frederick Kuh, UP Staff Correspondent Berlin, July 15 — (U.R) Government officials said today that Germany regards the Hoover plan in force and is abstaining from all reparations payments. Germany, an official Said, will not make the one month's unconditional payment of 51,000,000 marks "normally" due. today. German officials said Britain and Italy recently had declared their renunciation of the unconditional < payments, while France yesterday informed Ambassador Walter E. Edge that Paris did not expect Germany to pay. Belgium has been silent on the subject. The question of continuance of deliveries in kind and delivery of German railway bonds to the International Bank on condition that an equivalent sum be given Germany immediately as a loii, will be left to the experts conference starting in London Friday, German officials said. The Wilhelmstrasse advised the United States that Germany had made no offer to suspend building of its second "pocket" battleship, the "Ersatz Lothringen," although an informal offer had been made to refrain from appropriating funds for building the third. Negotiations for a large foreign ' credit remained deadlocked because the bankers made their <rmseiw dependent on an intergovernmental accord, which hitherto has run | against the stone wall of the French | political demands. Germany's pres- ! ent course appeared to be one of ■ “self-help.” with rigid internal economic measures in force to pull her out by her own bootstraps. The newspaper Tageblatt published au unconfirmed report that Paris was considering inviting Chancellor Heinrich Bruening and Foreign Minister Julius Curtius to (CONTINUED ON PAGE THREE', o APPARITION DRAWS CROWD 4 Mystery Is Unsolved By Chicago Police; Hundreds Kneel Chicago, July 15 —(U.R) — Police were puzzled and hundreds of persons stood in awe today of what was declared to be a miraculous appearance o's an image of the Virgin Mary upon the side of a three story brick building on the South Side. Everything was quiet and serene in the 1100 block on South Ashland avenue last night when a passerby suddenly noticed the image upon the wall and dropped to his knees. Another passerby noticed him, glanced up at the wall at which the kneeling man was staring, and dropped down be-side him, others followed. Soon there were so many kneeling figures in the street that traffic was blocked. The police and fire departments were called out. Officers found that the dim but clearly defined image of a woman holding a child disappeared when lights were flashed upon it. They determined from this that the image, about 15 feet in height, was a reflection from some statue in the neighborhood. In an effort to prove the image (CONTINUED ON PAGE TWO) .— o - Marketing Is Discussed Turkey Run, July 15 —(U.R) — Marketing of the 1931 fruit crop and control of insect pests were discussed at the annual outing of the Indiana Horticultural Society which opened here today. Prof. C. L. Burkholder. Purdue University, was to lead a discussion tonight on handling of the peach crop. John N. Dyer, Vincennes, president of the society, presided over the meetings, attended by more than 200 fruit growers.

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I‘Avoid Wage Cuts’, Sheaffer Urges * * aifcr i Kik Ik i 2 Avoidance of wage cuts during 1931 was urged by W. A. Sheaffer, president of the W. A. Sheaffer Pen Company of Fort Madison, la., in a statement issued at Chicago upon his return from- an extensive sales trip through the United States and Europe. Mr. Sheaffer asserted that if wages stay up at present levels during 1931 there is an era of prosperity ahead for the United states that will surpass, any this country has ever known. MISHAP OCCURS AT CROSSROADS Kenneth Mitchell Hurt When Truck Turns Over South of City Kenneth Mitchell of this city was injured when a Yost Brothers truck which he was driving was struck by a car driven by C. L. Oliver of Monroe'at 3 o’clock Tuesday afternoon. The accident occurred four mijes south of this city on mud pike at the Colchin corner. Mitchell was driving north and Oliver was driving east when the collision took place. The truck was hit with such force that it turned over twice in the ditch, injuring the driver and badly damaging the truck. Mitchell was unconscious for sometime.’and received several bad bruises and cuts. Oliver was only slightly injured, receiving a few minor cuts and bruises. The Oliver automobile’ was badly damaged. The attending physician stated today that Mitchell is not seriously injured and will recover, but his injuries are quite painful. He was removed’to his home following the accident. DEPUTIESMUST BE RESIDENTS Attorney General Rules Collectors Must Live Where Work Is Done Indianapolis. July 15—(UP) —An opinion issued here by Attorney General James M Ogden held that special deputy tax collectors must be residents’ of the county in which they are employed The ruling was given on request of Lawrence F. Orr, chief examiner of the state board of accounts. The opinion was an interpretation of law passed in 1927 authorizing count treasurers to employ deputies in collection of delinquent taxes. Ogden, in the opinion, regarded the part of the law which provides that any Indiana resident may be employed as a special deputy, as unconstitutional. o Diamond Gains Freedom Troy, N.Y., July 15—(U.R)—Jack "Legs" Diamond. 16 years a racketeer, lias defeated New York’s most imposing attempt to put him behind bars; it was his 25th arrest and he had been convicted on his first arrest only.

RAIL LEADERS | START FIGHT i FOR INCREASE ; Representatives Tell Commission Story of Depleted Funds * WITNESSES TO BE SUMMONED Washington, July 15— (U.R)--Th? nation's railroads, opening their fight for increased freight rates, brought to the interstate commerce commission today a story of deplet -d earnings and of finandistrust which they said had | lessened their ability adequately to serve the pulflie. The commission's hearings on Ihe railroads petition for a 15 per cent general increase in freight I rates and charges began with the main hearing room, on the 11th , floor of the commissioner’s building, crowded with auditors. Dr. Julius H. Parmelee, director of the bureau of railway economics, was the first witness for the carriers. He said that despite the , most rigorous economy and greatest operating efficiency the railroads had not been able to make a fair living during Hie past decade. Parmelee gave a detailed account of the financial condition of the railroads, describing their declining rate of return, the falling off of traffic and the increasing cost I of operation per tonnage mile. As the hearings began the scene was one of confusion. Approximately 500 persons crowded the hearing room, a third of them standing. The hearing room was I hot. Proceedings l*'gan before a | shirt sleeve assembly. Commissioner Baltliaser H. MeyI er. senior commissioner in charge of the case, opened the proceedI ings with a statement outlining the scope of the hearings. Henry W. Dikle. acting as general counsel for the railroads, then began producing witnesses and statistical exhibits. Before putting on his first witness, Dikle said the railroads had amended their original petition for a 15 per cent general freight rate increase to except coal and coke. The railroads desire to maintain (CONTINUED ON PAGE TWO) 0 — FASCISTS MAKE REPLY TO POPE Controversy With Holy See Continues; Directorate In Meeting Rome, July 15.— (U.R) —Alleged lies in the recent encyclical of Pope Pius XI on the Fascist state and its controversy with tlie Holy See were protested in a statement issued by the directorate of the Fascist party. The directorate, meeting under the presidency of Premier Benito Mussolini, issued its anticipated reply to the Pope’s scathing encyclical, sent secretly by trusted messenger to Paris for distribution to the world. The reply protested alleged lies in the encyclical which "defamed the Grand Balilla (youth’s) organization tor which thousands of Fascists are giving their activities." The directorate urged all loyal Fascists to work for the success of the Balilla. Plans for the development of the Balilla youth organization were approved for the coming year. Three major declarations were outlined in the Fascist directorate's statement with reference to Pope Pius's encyclical. They were; 1— Protests of criticism of the black shirt’s oath. 2 — The "indignant rejection’’ of the Pope’s statement that the Masons would return to power in the Fascist party. ‘CONTINUED ON PAGE TWOI —4 O Hundreds At Green Water A crowd of several hundred : ipeople visited Green Waters, popular swimming pool, north of Decai fur last night. Many persons from i out of town enjoyed the cooling i waters of the bathing pool. The I entire parking space was filled with automobiles.

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Vallee’s Mother Dead Westbrook, Me., July 15 —(UP) — I Rudy Vallee’s invalid mother, who lielpe<Khini become the idol of Radio millions, died today with her favorite son at her bedside. Death came to Mrs. Katherine L. Vallee, 61, shortly before noon after a gallant three-year struggle against heart disease, high Idood pressure and complications. 0 TWO AVIATORS START FLIGHT Hungarians Take Off From Harbor Grace Early Today Harbor Grace, N. F. July 15— (UP) —Another attempt to fly across the Atlantic began today when George Endres and Alexander Magyar, Hungarians, left here with I the intent of flying to Budapest. | The start was at 11:25 A. M E. S. I Time. The flight differed from numerous other attempts chiefly in that it was undertaken not merely for adventure or to advertise a motor oil or tooth paste, but as political propaganda.. The plane is named justice for Hungary and the object of the flight as explained by its backers Emily Szalay, a meat packer of Flint, Michigan is to “call attention to Hungary's wrongs, particularly under the Trianon treaty.” Conditions for the start of the flight was favorable. It was warm and clear, with a moderate southwest breeze. The fliers said they expected to make the crossing in 2& hours from Harbor Grace. o Plan Another Meeting Washington, July 15 — (UP) — Government officials will .hold further conversations with representatives of the troubled soft coal industry, secretary of labor Doak announced at the conclusion of a two-day meeting with leaders of the united mine workers. A general conference under government auspices to work out methods of aiding the industry was urged at this meeting by president John L. Lewis of the mine workers. Operators, at an early session with secretary of commerce Lamont had expressed doubt that such a conference would be helpful. Doak did not indicate whether the additional preliminary conferences would embrace operators, labor representatives, or both o Second Venire Questioned Vernon, July 15 -—(UP) — Questioning of a second venire of 20 tnen was started here today in the trial of Lawrence Cook, 22, on a charge of murdering his wife, Nellie, on Thanksgiving Day, 1929. The special session of Jennings Circuit court was called yesterday with 50 veniremen, and this group was exhausted before evening without obtaining a jury. o NEW RECORD IN WHEAT YIELD All Crops Beat 1930 Marks In Indiana; Wheat Is Best Lafayette, July 15—(Special)— With a yield of 22 bushels to the acre indicated for the entire state, the wheat crop In Indiana was reported on July 1 at the highest figure since crop reports were begun in 1866, according to the July report of M. M. Justin and C. D. Palmer, agricultural statisticians of Purdue University and the U.S. Department of Agriculture. Wheat is remarkably uniform over the entire state, with long straw, heavy stand, and well filled heads. Plumper wheat of higher test weight has been produced in other years, but apparently there never i has been such a generally good crop, according to the Purdue men. All crops were reported at above the average condition on July 1, with the combined acreage of all crops higher than it has been for five years, largely as a result of favorable weather during planting seasons. The acreage of corn is (CONTINUED ON PAGE TWO)

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House Is In Uproar London, July 15 —(UP) —An uproar was caused in the House of Commons when Hugh Dalton, parliamentary foreign under secretary, declined to answer a question by Edward Marjorlbanks, conservative who asked “whether it was the policy of the government to support France’s demand for political guarantees” in connection to the loan to Germany. Although Dalton remained silent, many of the Lahorite members shouted "certainly not” ITiie undersecretary previously had explained that pending any conclusion of the Present negotiations,’ any comment that might be made jon the situation would be "premaIture ” o Barber Shop Bombed Bedford, July 15—(U.R)—Attempts of local barbers to slice the price of shaves to the pre-war level of 15 cents was blamed today for the bombing of the Marley Brothers i shop here. DECATURMAN IS ON PROGRAM W. F. Beery To Be Toastmaster At State Convention Banquet* W. F. Beery, local rural mail carrier and song leader and chaplain of the Indiana Rural Letter Carriers Association, will be toastmaster at j the annual banquet of the state or-| ganization’s convention which will ; be held this year at Bloomington starting Sunday and ending Tues-' day, July 21. Several local people, including Mr. and Mrs. Beery are planning on attending the annual event. Among speakers at the convention will be Congressman Arthur H Greenwood W. L. Bryan, president of Indiana University and Paul McNutt, dean of the Indiana University law' school. Headquarters for the convention ' will be at the Graham hotel. Sight-' seeing trips through the Blooming-1 ton stone quarries and mills and a trip to Brown county are on the program for the three-day meeting William Black of Uniondale is president of the state organization. The and installation of officers will be held as the final event Tuesday afternoon. The Ladies auxiliary will meet at Bloomington during the same days. Hot Weather Returns Chicago, July 15. —(U.R)— Hot weather returned to the middle west today. Hundred degree temperatures were born toward Chicago from the south and west by a torrid wind and the mercury was expected to reach 95 here before the end of the day. The weather bureau forecast temperatures in excess of 100 degrees in Nebraska and Kansas and saw little indication lor relief at least for another day. New Low Price On Wheat Is Reported Chicago. July 15. — (U.R) —A new-all-time low for wheat future on I the Chicago board of trade was ■ reached today when July wheat declined to but rallied to 51%c as traders leaped into the pit to take advantage of the sensational drop. The bottom price—)4c below the all-time low of the 50%c set in July, 1894—was hit shortly before the ■ close of the session. , o Winds Batter Coast Gulfport, Miss., July 15—(U.R) — High winds of from 50 to 60 miles an hour velocity battered the Mississipipi gulf coast today, damag- ’ lug numerous private piers and piling up small boats on the shore. The tropical storm, sweeping up from the southeast, caused high ' tides, that splashed over sea walls ■ and covered with spray the beach 1 boulevard here. Widespread wide damage was reported by telephone and telegraph I companies. Accident Is Fatal ' Logansport, July 15 —(UP) —Mrs. |. Ella Frye, 72, was killed last night , when the auto driven by Stephen ’ Watkihis, 77, struck fresh gravel . and went over a 20-toot embankment. Watkins was unhurt.

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WICKERSHAM REPORT SCORES JUDICIAL PLAN Would Remove Courts From Politics; Scandal Is Reported REPORT FILED WITH PRESIDENT Washington, July 15.—(U.R) —Throughout the nat io n scandal marks the work of police, traffic ami magistrates’ courts, the Wickersham commission told President Hoover in its eighth report entitled “criminal pro- ■ eeedure.” issued today by the While House. "Taking the country as a whole. • there has been and continues to be scandal in connection with these inferior courts in noteworthy contrast with the almost uniformly clean record of the superior courts during a century of immersion in politics." tlie commission, concluded, witli the exception of one member. "Apart from all other considerations, arbitrary methods, incompetent magistrates, tribunals governed by petty politics, and slovenly iproceedings at the point at which the great mass of the population come in contact with law eoforce- ; rnent give a bad impression of the 1 administration of justice as a 1 whole and most seriously affect | respect for and observance of law 1 generally. "In short the atmosphere of the ' inferior criminal courts create in | the minds of observers a suspicion of the whole process of law enforcement which, no matter how unfounded, greatly prejudices respect for the observance of law." The commission urged that all t the courts be taken out of pollj tics. It suggested many changes I in methods at' proceedure-—particu- ■ larly selection of more competent I judges, enlargement of their pow- | ers in handling cases, simplification of the system Os review, elimination of the fee system, and abandonment of the frequent practice of trying to make a criminal out of a traffic law violator. The Mooney-Billings case in California was cited as a "shocking" example of the crudity of the (CONTINUED ON PAGE THREE) o - To Control Auto Speed Indianapolis, July 15 — (UP) — Speed of autos on the Dunes highway during the week-ends will be held at 4” miles an hour, it was an nounced at headquarters of state police here today. Drivers will be required to travel not less than 40 miles an hour and none will be permitted to pass another, it was said, virtually making the minimum and maximum speeds identical. Chief of state police Grover Garrott said the speed regulation wax being attempted because the Dunes highway was believed to the second most heavily travelled road in the country. By the new regulation he hoped to keep a continuous, line of autos moving at the same speed on the highway. • J. W. REYNOLDS HURT IN MISHAP Two Autos Collide At Street Intersection Tuesday Evening John W. Reynolds, 336 Oak street, received two fractured ribs and a number of bruises when the car which he was driving an<] a <ar driven by Mrs. Clyde Butler collided at the intersection of ' Jackson and Third streets, at 7:39 o’clock Tuesday evening. Mr. Reynolds was driving north on Third street and Mrs., Butler was driving west on Jackson street. Mr. Reynolds received two fractured ribs and a nuntber of bruises, and the attending physician stated today that an X-ray will be taken to see if there are any other internal injuries. It Is not believed his injuries will prove serious. He is reported to be resting well at I his home today. Mrs. Butler was not injured. Both cars w'ere damaged