Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 29, Number 173, Decatur, Adams County, 23 July 1931 — Page 1

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bc ® CONQUER ®SE:TOPLAY 3®UNCIE TEAM ( row d Attends i n u' Session: »t (re Good •**Hie has RE AT ( LI B 9: int ■ I.ions, junior lrnn and Muncie (j won the first two EgSot the < iehth district b.iselull tournev in in today ,■ I'.icr tin- auspi\nnrican Legion tlv district. The ni di< district meet yi IB 1,1 *l"' regional tourat Greensburg. AugGlendenning. an anil the support were too 'I: p-eatur Moose and wen the county tourney right to continue I t *t»y a verdict made numerous erin the face of the ragged much interest. Lions shortstop. the ball for two hits and Davis and Schultz each for singlea. pie Lions were and Schamerloh. For Wynn. Strickler. FrankII IMB>' and Florian Keller each Carl Ritter. Wynn and were the losing battery. if the win. the Lions Muncie at 4 o’ulock this to determine which team the final game to be Friday afternoon at 4 Alexandria 6-1 Both on even terms tor ’SH riNVEn on page six* July 23—(U.R>—A suit decree was on file against p. Harold Van of the Van Orchain. Cruel and inhuwas charged. Mrs. she’and her who formerly was lieutennt |mrw of Indiana, had niainf.c.iti' residences for a their three sons was Mrs. Van Orman. -o Meet Planned X" the local United 1 Hutch will hold a district 8e( «W Ciiday night at 7:45 ochurch. Dick Schafer hairman of the com- . us tiie meeting and program has been o ■TH ATTEMPT |FRUSTRATED Finance Minister IsHarget of Assassin's Gun , Cllina - Ju ly 23—(U.R> — ’ during attempt was made T. V. Soong, finance and acting president of his arrival train today. "as unhurt. Tong, an advisor in the minlstiy, was fatally i'■ ' Uni * seVfcra l Persons were " !J ?H including one of .Soong's "Sr jjß" la,k occurred at North ' ,llina ' ot tile Shanghaij, W 1 tailroad just outside the settlement. *or for/jp“' ot shan Kl»ai. The assauwiti K-*' a ’ ,oni *> and opened up an<l pistol fire as Soong party stepped off the -2*® er So(>n K himself to on PACE SIX)

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I Money Is Found At Charity Patient’s Home Shelbyville, July 23—(UP) —A woman who applied for admission to the hosiptal here as a charity patient, and who told her doctor she had no money to pay his fee. had 32,047 hidden in her home, Shelbyville police learned. Police were called to the home of Mrs. Leulla Young, on a burglary report. They discovered the hoarded, cash distributed over the house, it was not known if any had been taken by the thieves. $2lO AWARDS FOR EXHIBIT Flower Show Interest Is Growing; Committee Gets Entries i Prizes totaling 3210 will be a warded to winners in the flower show of the Decatur Free Street ' fair. . There are five divisions in the ’ flower show The commercial growers division is separate from the garden or amateur growers. The commercial growers are not permitted to en'er flowers except in the commercial display division. James Cowen, superintendent of the show stated. Due to the lateness of the season local persons are urged to plant and grow flowers now for exhibit i at the flower show. An effort for be- ( Ing made to secure a central and prominent display space for the , flower show and announcement of . the laation will be made in the near fature. i In the cut flower division the I prizes will be three, two and one . dollar for first, second and third i place. The different kind of flowi ers to be exhibited in this division i are aster, gladioli, zennia, marigold. ( (CONTINUED ON PAGE FIVE) INSANE MAN ' MURDERS FOUR Four Other Mercer. Pa.,l Persons Injured W hen Maniac Goes Wild Mercer. Pa.. July 23.—(U.R)—Four , people were killed and four others injured near here today by Marko Demofonti, who shot the four who t died and stabbed the others. The dead: ( Mrs. Marko Demofonti, wife of I the man. Mrs. Alfonso Focetti, Demofonti’s sister-in-law. Gacton Delaqua, a shoemaker. Mrs. Frank Yakelo. 1 The injured: 1 Mrs. Mike Denan, Flora Benan. Mrs. Pete Ciscilian and Tony Ciscilian, her 10-year-old son. Demofonti had been adjudged in--1 sane by a medical commission here 1 late yesterday and was returned to his home awaiting removal today. Walting until the men had left for work at No. 2 mine of the Sharon Coal and Limstone company today he seized a shotgun and shot i his wife and sister-in-law and then dashed wildly out of the house brandishing the gun. Delaqua, the shoemaker, was the first met and the demented killed levelled the gun at him. In quick succession he killed Delaqua and (CONTINUED ON PAGE THREE) J Disorder Breaks Out k f Sofia, Bulgaria, July 23 —(U.R) — ( Disorders broke out In several Bulgarian cities today during communist rehearsals for nation-wide , demonstrations planned for Aug. , 1 to urge a general strike. , At Yamboul, one workman was s killed and another injured when striking silk and tobacco workers ( clashed with police. Militia was summoned to disperse the rioters. , At Varna, 1,300 textile workers struck and several were Injured In fighting with police. Hundreds j were arres-ied at Sofia when ; police broke up meetings. j Nicholas Mouschanoff. mfnlstsr of the interior, threatened drastic , measures to suppress the disorders, including internment of communist deputies.

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DELEGATES IN AGREEMENT FOR GERMANY’S AID - Seven-Power Conference Ends Today; Temporary Plan Is Adopted “WELL PLEASED’’ IS CONCENSUS — London, July 23. — (U.R)—I The historic seven-power statesmen’s conference ended I today with complete accord on ‘ temporary emergency measures designed to save Germany from financial ruin. The statesmen rose at 12:20 p. m.. terminating the deliberations begun last Monday. The United Press was informed on reliable, though unofficial, authority that the plenary session which met from 10 a. m. until noon approved the report of the finance ministers, suggesting ways and means temporarily to solve the German economic crisis. Confirmation of the unofficial report that the plenary had approved the finance ministers' report was given the United Press by Tsutiec Matsudaira, Japanese ambassador to Great Britain and delegate to the conference. The delegates from the seven nations —the United States, Britain, France, Germany, Italy, Belgium, and Japan — appeared optimistic. They expressed the opinion that "'real progress” had been made toward solving the German financial debacle and in beginning. 4 Li^',. era es international co-operation unprecedented in history. America throughout the crisis maintained her leadership recently established in world political and economic affairs. The finance ministers' plan was in the main the 'second Hoover plan” although delegates preferred to call it the Anglo-American proposals. Premier J. Ramsay MacDonald, chairman of the conference, ex I pressed pleasure at the progress ! made. “We are very well pleased.” he | said. “Agreement between seven 1 powers is not easy to reach, but it 1 has been reached and will be of the greatest importance. It is likely to have great weight in helping Germany." The conference moved swifty toward its close at today's final vital (CONTINUED ON PAGE FIVE) o i— BORER SCOUTS CUNTINUE WORK Three Fields In Each Township Inspected By State Scouts Corn borer scouts, who etk-h year take the census of borers hi the infested area of Indiana, will continue to work in Adams county for the next several days, it was announced today-by Lowell DeMott, in charge of the work In northeastern Indiana. Two scouts are at work in each of several northern Indiana counties and each township is carefully inspected. Three fields are thor-' oughly examined in each township of each county before the scouts move on. “The idea of the-scouts is merely to ascertain how fast the borer's are multiplying in number,” DeMott said. "We will not force our way on any farm and if the farmers do not d4sire an inspection, our men will leave immediately.” The men working in this county started last Monday in Union town- ' ship- Each of the 12 townships will 1 be inspected and a general report will be made. —> Death Calls Publisher , Indianapolis, July 23 — (UP) — , John J Curtis, 74, President of the Bobbs-Merrill publishing company. ■ died in a hospital here after a slujrt ■ illness. He became ill soon after ar- . riving here from the west coast • June 29. Pneumonia developed, resulting in his death.

Decatur, Indiana, Thursday, July 23, 1931.

JMcGurns Sentenced £ * * I tl ./ - % W - I r - '•HEga I 1 * t ' Sr , ‘aS, vs I , “Machine Gun” Jack McGurn and wife, the former Louise Rolfe, who were sentenced in federal court at Chicago for violation of the i Mann act. McGurn, a Capone gangster, was accused of taking Louise 1 Rolfe, his blonde alibi, and whom he subsequently married, on a trip to Florida. McGurn was sentenced to two years? and his wife was sentenced to serve four months in the county jail.

HAWKS TRIES RECORD FLIGHT Famous Airman Leaves Today For Havana In New Record Effort BULLETIN Havanna, Cuba, July 23— (UP) —Capt. Frank Hawks arrives at Curtis Airport today and reduced the flying time between New York and Havanna by 27 minutes, establishing a new record of 8 hours and 8 minutes. He started back for New York an hour later. Floyd Bennett Airport, L. 1.. N. Y., July 23.—(U.R)—Capt. Frank W. Hawks took off today at 3 a. in. (EST) on a flight to Havana in an attempt to break the speed record between the two cities established last Saturday by James Goodwin Hall. The nqted speed pilot, who hoped to reduce Hall's record of 8 hours and 35 minutes to 8 hours and a quarter or less, planned to return immediately if conditions were favorable. “I’m flying down to have htnch with the ambassador,'' Hawks said. The plane was to be refuelled at Havana tor him to attempt to break the record for the return flight, whicft he now holds, at 8 hours and 42 minutes. Two refueling stops were scheduled on the southward trip. At Wilmington, N. C., ajid Miami, Fla. _ o ; — Appraisers Are Named , . L— Ed. Zwick and John Peters are the new appraisers for the German Fire insurance company of Preble township. Mr- Zwick and .Mrs. Peters succeed Gus Scheuman and John G. Hoffman whose deaths occurred recently. Mr. Peters was elected by the stockholders at the annual meeting and Mr. Zwick' was appointed by the board of directors following the death of Mr Scheuman. The company carries fire insurance policies on many properties in the north part of the county. Ed. Gallemeyer is president and Adolph Stopenhagen, is secretary of the company.

Discount Rate Rises London. July 23. —(U.R) —The dis--1 count rate of the Bank of England was increased one per cent today, to 3% per cent. The bank rate increase had been /anticipated. It was designed to ' halt the gold withdrawals which Iliad increased rapidly in the last few days, and also to check shortterm borrowings in London, pvhich had forced the commercial discount rates up almost equal to the 2% per cent bank rate. ———-—-—o MINE PROBLEMS ARE DISCUSSED Administration Will Study Ills of Industry In Near Future Washington July 23 —(UP) —One 1 of the sick giants of American Ini dusfry. bituminous coal mining, is Ito be given attention under admin- | istration auspices in the hope of | encouraging a long-delayed recovery. After a conf|rence with President Hoover, secretary of commerce Robert P Lamont announced inquiries had been sent to 150 bituminous operators asking if they would attend a Joint conference with miners ' in the near future. This joint conference was urged upon the administration by President John L. Lewis of the United mine wot kefs. Recently bituminous operators met with secretary Lamont but after two sessions adjourned in a pessimistic atmosphere with a feeling that little 1 could be done to help the situation. 1 The bituminous industry has been ' much in trouble since the war. Over production and labor troubles have 1 combined to make this one of the most harassed industries and one which has caused President Hoover much concern almost ever since ’ he became secretary of commerce 1 in 1921 The development of pipelines. of oil and gas for inuu.-’Ui il fuel, and the extension of hydro electric power which is estimated ' to displace 30,000,000 tons of bituI ‘ minous coal a year have added (CONTINUED ON PAGE FIVE)

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YEGG REVEALS | PART OF PLANS Dixon, Hogston Held Under High Bond; Six Others In Local Jail After several hours of questioning, one of the two alleged yeggs held at the Adams county jail in connection with the attempted robbery of McConnell and Sons wholesale tobacco house early Wednesday morning, yielded bits of evidence which j Sheriff Burl Johnson and Prosecutor Nathan Nelson lielieve will eventually cause lite arrest of others inmlicated in the attempted robbery. Sheriff Johnson would not reveal whether Pearl Houston or William Dixon furnished the new clues, but stated that he was positive the one who talked was telling part of the truth. The general belief of officials Is that the two yeggs had several accomplices and that two automobiles were to be loaded' up with cigars and cigarettes and taken to some other city where a “fence” is situated. Neither of the men has been able to furnish the 35.000 bond set Iby Judge D. B. Erwin when the warrants were issued and it is , likely both will spend the next several months in the Adams county jail. There is a probability that the evidence gathered in the case will be turned over to the September grand jury, which in all probabilities will be called to probe the fatal shooting of Doras Welling at Pleasant Mills a few weeks ago. I The jail today was crowded with eight prisoners, either servj ing time or awaiting trials. The ; census today showed the following: Jasper Bailer, serving sentence | (CONTINUED ON PAGE FIVE) ADAMS COUNTY GETS TAX SHARE School Fund Is Divided On Per Cauital Basis Among Counties Indianapolis, 23 —(U.R) — State, school officials announced here today the amount each county will be given as its share of the state school tax. The apportionment is based upon the 1931 school enumeration and grants approximately $1.35 for each person in the county within the ages of two and 21. Marion county, with an enumeration of 98.255, will receive the largest amount, $145,602.24. Ohio county had the smallest enuration, 877, and will recteive $1,181.65. The apportionment will divide $1,100,440.76, of which $23,391.58 will be additional money given counties conducting extra and special classes. The apportionments included: Apportion- Enumerment ation Adams $ 8,113.92 6,022 Allen 48,932.77 36,317 Blackford 5,266.90 3.401 The Adams county quota will be divided and distributed by County Auditor Albert Harlow early in September it was learned at the auditor's office today. The sum will be probated pe rcapi-ta to the various school cities and township school funds. —o Will Hear Arguments Washington, July 23 — (UP) — Arguments of shippers, agricultural , interests and others opposing the . proposed 15 per cent railroad , freight increase will be heard by the . interstate commerce commission beginning August 10 and extending throughout the month, it was an- , nounced today. Sectional hearings will be held at San Francisco; Portland, Ore., Kansas city, Mo.; Dallas. Tex,; Salt Lake City, Atlanta; Chicago and some oint in New England.

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Compromise Is Reached Indianapolis July 23 — (UP) — The war on wide parking restrictions in downtown Indianapolis, with inpounding of autos as the penalty for violations, was apparently ended today with a compromise by the city council on both points. Curtailment of the no-parking area, and the provision that passenger autos may spend five minutes loading and unloading, and trucks 30 minutes, in the restricted zone represented the council’s concessions to downtown complaints. It likewise agreed that payment of'l tow-in charges may be withheld, in 1 cases e defandants demand trial. o BOARD PLANS TO STUDY CASE School Trustees To Consider Princeton Boy’s Sentence August 3 Plainfield, July 23.— (U.R) —The board of trustees of the Indiana Boys’ Industrial School here an-1 nounced today that it would weigh the case of John Tooley, 13, Princeton, at its next meeting, which will be August 3. Tooley was sentenced to the school by Judge Claude Smith on a charge of stealing a blacksmith’s tongs and cleaver. The sentence, which followed an order for the boy to leave Gibson county, brought! many protests from Indiana resi-, dents to both Ji/dge Smith and Gov-j ernor Harry G. Leslie. The trustees pointed out that since the school is a training institution and not a penal institution, I the boy could be dismissed immedi- , ately. They countered the statement of Judge Smith that Tooley was unruly while serving a previous j term in the institution. "He was) dull, but not feeble-minded, and is! a likeable boy,” said Albert B. Snyder, a member of the board. Snyder also opposed Judge Smith s opinion that Tooley was an incorrigible criminal. “If he had been incorrigible, he would not have been sent home,” Snyder said. Indianapolis, July 23. — (U.R) —L. i 10. Chasey, secretary to Governor Harry G. Leslie, today approved the action of Judge Claude Smith, GibI son county, in giving 13-year-old 1 John Tooley, Princeton, an* eight-yea-r sentence to the State Boys’ School at Plainfield. “I think the judge did what was [ (CONTINUED ON PAGE THREE) o LINDBERGHS TO START TOUR , Famous Flier Plans To Leave For Orient In > Plane Next Week Englewood, N. J., July 23. —(U.R) —Colonel and Mrs. Charles A. Lind- > bergh will start their summer vai cation aerial tour to the Orient over i a route beset with fog and storms . via Point Barron and Nome, Alaska, some day next week, he told the United Press today. “The day, I wouldn’t say right now, but we’ll be ready any day after Sunday. One or two instruments must be put in the ship and it will be ready,” The Lindberghs will fly first to > Washington to complete arranger inents for papers they will need for i themselves and their plane, then > they will return to New York for i a possible overnight stop before 3 continuing their journey. j The trip over “the front yard of the north pole” to Japan and China will bt made in a Lockheed Sirius equipped with pontoons in which the two have made several short trial flights. I The chedule as far as completed, ’ (CONTINUED ON PAGE THREE) • 0 Youth Loses Life As s Motorboaf Overturns Warsaw, July 23—(JJP) —Fred-1 1 erick Stahlendorf, 15, Indianapolis, , was drowned aftei the motor boat in which he was riding alone, overj turned in Webster Lake. He was visiting here with his parents.

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GEORGE ADAMS IS CAPTURED IN FORT WAYNE Alleged To Have Murdered Two Federal Prohibition Agents IS CAPTURED EARLY TODAY Fort Wayne, Ind., July 23. —(U.R)—George Adams, 35, a ' paroled convict accused of shooting to death two federal prohibition agents in a gunfight on Stellhorn bridge, was captured by city police today on Roosevelt street when he j returned to the city to hunt a i doctor. Adams, shot in the neck in the i battle which developed when four federal agents attempted to trap him with a load of beer, offered no resistance. He was taken to a hospital, where the bullet was removed, and then was taken to jail. His injury, it was said, was not critical. Witnesses said Adams, who was paroled seven months ago from Leavenworth prison, was the man who killed John J. Wilson, 46, of Indianapolis, and fatally wounded Walter M. Gilbert, 33, of Cincinnati, in a battle which ensued when Wilson and Gilbert and two other fedttial agents attempted to trap him I at the bridge. The other two federal agents involve dwere C. E. Green of Portland Ind., and Oliver J. Gettie of Indiani apolis. They said they posed as I bootleggers earlier in the day and 'arranged for Adorns to deliver a load of beer at the bridge at 8 p.m. When Adams arrived, they said, he recognized Gilbert as the man who arrested him for bootlegging in 1929, and sensing that he had been led into a trap, he opened fire i with two revolvers. j Wilson fell first, shot four times, land died instantly. Gilbert went down in an exchange of first and Adams, blood streaming from the wound in his neck, staggered to his I ear and escaped to Fort Wayne where he was captured. Greeu and Gettie. who said they could not join the fight as their guns were in their cars, rushed Gilbert to a hospital, where he died an hour later of a bullet wound in his lungs. “I’m going to kill you! Adams j was quoted by Green as sayiifg, as he shot Wilson in the neck, ant sent two other bullets into hisljody. Adams offered no resistance to arrest, although he still cltftched the .45 calibre automatic pistol with which he had allegedly killed the two prohibition officers. Murder charges were to be filed lodaf against Adams, who was held in Allen county jail without bond. Bettie and Green suffered lacerations from a barbed wire fence, ‘CONTINUED ON PAGE SIXi o _—— Directors Will Meet Directors of the Decatur Chamber of Commerce are asked to meet at the Chamber of Commerce rooms at 7:30 o’clock tonight. Plans will be made for a general meeting of the body to be held in the next few days o CERMAK SPEAKS ON POLITICS Chicago Mayor Dines In New York With Governor Roosevelt New York, July 23.—(U.R)—Chi- , cago’s wet mayor, Anton J. Cerniak, was to lunch today with Gov- ■ ernor Franklin D. Roosevelt, a leading candidate for the Demol cratic presidential nomination, and ; before returning home planned to talk to Alfred E. Smith, the party’s standard bearer in the last presidential campaign. "There is only one thing for the Democrats to do next year,” Cermak declared before visiting Roosevelt, “and that is to adopt a forthright repeal plank. A straddle ' won’t* do. And the candidate will have to back tip the platform.” Some followers of Roosevelt have ' uiged that prohibitio nshould not be the big issue before voters in the next presidential election. (CONTINUED ON PAGE FIVE)