Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 29, Number 174, Decatur, Adams County, 24 July 1931 — Page 1

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• City Swimming Pool Is Open For Adults | Complying with numerous requests that the municipal swimming pool remain open in the eveiugs for adults only, W. Guy Brown, supervisor of the pool announced that on Monday, Wednesday and Friday night from 9 to It) o'clock the pool would remain open. ’ Only adults are permitted to use the pool during this hour, Mr. Brown stated. GILLIOMWILL ' DEFEND CITY Special Counsel Retained By Decatur In Public f Service Hearing ' < Fortner Attorney-general Arthur ’ Gilliom. has been retained by the 1 City of Decatur as special counsel ( to appear before the Indiana Public j Service commission at the hearing ( to be held in Indianapolis Tuesday ( on the complaint filed by the In- , diana Service corporation. Ixtcal city officials and City At- ( totney J. Fred Fruchte will also appear before the committee and | make a fight against the complaint , of Indiana Service corporation. The | Service corporation contends that , the City of Decatur Light i/id Pow- , er plant has no right to extend its 1 j electric lines in Madison and Mon- ' roe townships tn Allen county and ! at Monmouth, north of Decatur,! where the power lines of the Ser-. vice corporation are located Attorney Gilliom represents about ' ( ♦SO utility plants in the northern part , of the state and since leaving office has become active in the util- - ity field. Farmers served by the Decatur light and power plant are well pleas led with the- service and the local | plant has more than an ample capacity to take care of all the demands I •for current The local plant hast been extending its lines throughout I this community and now has about 1 50 miles in service. o Worthman Is Speaker M. F. Worthman, superintendent • of city schools, gave an interesting talk before members of the Decatur Rotary club last evening. Mr. . Worthman spoke j)n "Education" and the new system of teaching. The new method was explained by Mr. Worthman and test questions , I were passed among the members of the club to answer. O. L. Vance . | had charge of the program. o INDIANA HIGH IN ILLITERACY I 43,721 Over 10 Years of Age Are Unable To Read Or Write ! Indianapolis, July 24-(UP) —In- [ diana. with 43,721 persons above 10 years of age unable to read and write, ranks thirteenth in the United States in illiteracy, it was revealed in a report of the National advisory committee on illiteracy made public here today. During the 1 past decade the illiteracy dropped j from 52.034, until now only 1.7 per cent of the state's population cannot read or write. _ Twelve counties have more than 600 illiterates, according to the report- These are Clark. Lawrence, Madison. Allen, Knox, Laporte. Vigo Vanderburg, St. Joseph, Marion and . Lake. The number of illiterates 1 range 32 in Ohio county to 10,195 . in Lake county. It includes 22,510 . native whites, 13,536 foreign born , whites, 5,605 negroes and 2,070 oth- , er races. , o , Fletcher To Quit Post N _ t Washington, July 24 — (UP) — I Henry P. Fletcher told the United I Press today that he would resign . as chairman of the tariff commls- , slop effective September 15. f Fletcher said that when he accepted President Hoover's appoint- . ment he did so for a period of one year to organize the work of the I commission.

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ECONOMISTS DISAGREE ON - MEET RESULTS 1 Two Americans State World Problems Must Be Considered ONE SAYS IT IS FIRST STEP (Copyright, 1931. by (lie UP.) New York. July 24.—(U.R)—Tariffs and other world trade barriers, world disarmament and cancellation of World War debts must be considered by future world conferences, two internationally recognized economists agreed today while disagreeing on results of the world economic conference just concluded in London. Dr. Irving Fisher, in a statement to the United Press, hailed the London conference as “a great success." It is however, “merely a first step” toward restoring world | business stability, he said. Colonel Leonard P. Ayres of Cleveland said "the outcome ot the world conf' rence is disappointing but not disheartening." He added that "the more fundamental problems relating to reparations, governmental debts to tariffs and trade 1 barriers will have to be considered 1 in future conferences." • Fisher's comment added that “what was most needed was a reduction in the American Tariff, and 1 a reduction in the debt owed to the : United States by the allies on condition the allies correspondingly re- - duce Germany's reparations bill." Other world needs he listed as ; "world disarmament, and other assurances of world peace, includ(CONTINUED ON PAGE ETVE) LOCAL PEOPLE TOUR INDIANA Three Rural Letter Carries, Wives Return From Trip Mr. and Mrs H. E. Zerkel. Mr. and Mrs. Charles Maloney, and Mr. and Mrs. Harry Crowuover have returned from an extensive tour through southern Indiana and Kentucky. They attended the Indiana Rural Letter Carrier association at Bloom-1 ington, as delegates, representing •he rural carriers of Adams County. The party crossed the Ohio River I at Evansville, and toured Kentuckyvisiting many interesting historical places in each ot the states They visited Vincennes, West Baden and French Lick in Indiana. an<) manyother cities. One of the interesting tacts made known at the Rural Letter Carriers convention was that the government had raised the weight limit on parcel post matter to 70 pounds for all zones, and the size to 100 inches in length anil girth combined. •The charge on all parcels measuring over 84 inches and weighing under 10 pounds, will be the same as the appropriate zone charge as a 10 pound parcel. It was especially urged that the public learn to use the parcel post method of shipment, on account of the safeness and cheapness of transporting the parcels. The parcel post method reaches every post office in •he United States and rural toutes, and the cost consists of only the amount it takes to carry on the business. BULLETIN Avalon Country Club, Indianapolis, July 24—(UP) —Miss Elizabeth Dunn. Indianapolis today recaptured the Women's state championship she lost in 1928 by defeating her 17 year old Lafayette opponent Miss Alice English, 1 up in 18 holes. Experience took its toll on the 10th green when Miss English, already down 3 literally "blew up" and took a three putt from 4 feet away from the pin, to halve the hole at 7. Had she played anything short of "duffer golf" on that hole, she might have won with her brilliant comeback thenceforth.

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Decatur, Indiana, Friday, .July 24, 1931.

Woman Slapped for Smoking; Slapper Gets Jail Sentence 'F mb r 1 VL F ' / /'/ -' j . .. • wroMj Mrs. Marjorie Palecco (left) of Indianapolis, who was slapped by (' W. Hardwick (right) because she smoked a cigaret on the street in Indianapolis. Hardwick, who is an insurance salesman, was arrested and sentenced to ten days in jail and fined SSO.

PRINCETONBAR [ TO PROBE CASE Court's Action To Be Investigated By Fellow Attorneys Soon Princeton, July 24. — (U.R) — The Gibson County Bar Association moved today to “sustain the integrity of the Gibson Circuit court’’ by ! directing an investigation of the 1 sentencing of John Tooley, 13. to | an eigbt-year term in the Indiana; Boys’ School. , A committee, made up of Henry Kister. T. M. McDonald and Thomas Duncan, was named to invest!-, I gate the case, report its findings to the association, and semi a copy of 'the report to Governor Harry G. ' Leslie and to newspapers, it was I understood the committee would! uphold the record of Judge Claudel Smith, who sentenced Tooley after; first ordering him to leave the I county. The boy. regarded by the! court as incorrigible, was charged. with stealing a cleaver and tongs frem a blacksmith.' Tooley case was closed as! far as the court was concerned when a report explaining the sen-i fence and outlining the history of Tooley, was sent to Governor Les-1 lie. Judge Smith said. He asserted! that he would take no furUier action unless so ordered by the gov-| ernor. MONROE HAS NEW TEACHERS ' Faculty For School Is Announced By Trustee; To Name Others Soon i The faculty for the Monroe school has been completed for next year. | Noah Rich, trustee of Monroe town 1 [ ship announced Thursday. The re-, mainder of the teachers to teach I in Monroe township have not all' been contracted with but will be; in a few days, Mr. Rich stated. Virgil Wagner will again be principal at the Monroe school, and Rolland Sprunger will succeed Mr Lahr Miss Vesta Rich of Woodburn will take the place of Mrs. John Parrish of Decatur, and Miss Lavon Christner will succeed Miss Carter as mule Instructor. The grades will be taught by Lloyd Bryan, Miss Ruth Gilbert, and Miss Mardelle Hocker. New plumbing equipment has been installed in the Monroe school build- [ Ing. and the school is being placed in condition for the September term of school. Mr. Rich also stated that the Beer school building. District No. 4 may be closed next fall. Only a few pupils are enrolled in the school. To Conduct kindergarten Mis. Carrel Cole will re-open her private kindergarten at her home on First street in September Parents who are interests din enrolling their children in the school are askeib to call Mrs. Cole as 146.

Union Service Sunday At Reformed Church The union worship service for [cooperating Protestant churches of this city will be held next Sunday night at the Zion Reformed church, beginning at 7:30 o’clock. Rev. M. W. Hunderman. pastor of the Evangelical church, will preach the sermon, bringing a message on the subject. “Life Eternal.’’ The Young Men’s chorus of the ■ Zion Reformed church, directed by 1 Noel White, will assist in the serI vices with special chorus selec'tions. Miss Lulu Gerber will preside at the organ. The intense heat having abated i and with the united interest of all the churches the speaker should greet a large audience at this serALLEN COUNTY WANTSHOGSTON ______ .Judge Erwin Refuses Request For Prisoner For A While — Allen county probation officials ! communicated with Judge D. B. I Erwin here today stating that if the Judge would release Pearl I Hogston, held here in connection ! with the attempted robbery of the i McConnell and Sons wholesale tobacco house last Wednesday morning. they would return him to the state reformatory. Hogston is now on parole from I | the reformatory liieing sentenced from Allen county some time ago for robbery. . Judge Erwin stated that he would I not release Hogston immediately from the local jail inasmuch as the man might be needed here to obtain some information. Officials from Hartford City ' were here today to talk to Hogston ' and his partner. William Dixon. I There have been two cigarette I roblieries in Hartford City in the l last few weeks and officials there believe there is a possibility of ' linking the men held here with | those thefts. It is generally believed by local | officials that the men were members of a theft ring, ' connected pi ol ably with several cigar store "fences.” o Fifteen Are Arrested Indianapolis, July 24. —(U.R) - Fifteen persons, six of them women, faced blind tiger charges today after Indianapolis police spent last i night in a concentrated drive 'against small liquor operators. Two truckloads of equipment and evidence were taken by police. Hundreds of bottles of home brew were destroyed. o Gangster Is Killed Chicago, July 24. — (U.R) — John Bukovatz, 22. whose wife told poi lice he had been a bootlegger, was found murdered in bed today in the same room in which his two chil'dren were asleep. i Bakovatz had been shot once in the neck and stabbed with an ice ■ pick. His body was discovered by jhis brother-in-law.

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MILITIA SENT TO CARRY OUT BRIDGE ORDER Oklahoma-Texas Dispute Unsettled; Governor In Drastic Action STATE SENATOR IS IN CHARGE Durant, Okla.. July 21 (U.R) Thirty Oklahoma national guardsmen to<l a y marched to the toll bridge over the Red river here andi put into effect a proclama-' lion of martial law issued bv Gov. W. 11. (Alfalfa Bill) Murray. The soldiers lore orders to use force if necessary to prevent persons front crossing a toll bridge across the stream between Durant and Denison, Tex. Invocation of martial law for the first time in eight years in this state was resorted to by Governor Murray as a dramatic climax to a controversy that has raged for a week around use of toll bridges and free spans linking 1 Oklahoma and Texas. Governor Murray, whose administration has been marked by many 1 spectacular moves “in the interest of the common people,” insisted that the two states, joint owners of the free IJridges, throw them open to traffic immediately in defiance of a federal court injunction in Texas. Gov. Ross Sterling of Texas, multi-millionaire oil man, expressed the same desire to have the bridges opened but said "it must be done in an orderly manner i without violation of terms of the | injunction." | When .Governor Murray learned

i that owners of the toll span be-, tween Durant and Denison were ; planning to tie his hands by in- 1 junction, he ordered out the guard. He directed the guardsmen “to (CONTINUED ON PAGE THREE', o Woman Burns To Death Webster, Mass., July 24—(UP) — ! A prospective bride was burned to death here early today when fire destroyed the cottage which was to have been her future home The fire occurred at Ponit Breeze on Lake Chaigog. Miss Jennie Christopher, 30, who was to have been married soon to Owen MaMrch, was trailed in her bedroom. FIRES RACE IN THREE STATES Grave Fear Is Felt As Flames Take In Large Section of Country Missoula, Mont., July 24. —(U.R) — Driving cattle and wild life in great herds before them, Hames roared and crackled through the forests of three western states today and threatened to create one of the most dangerous situations in the history of the section. A score of fires, swept along by high winds, were burning unchecked through thousands of acres of timber, grass and brush lands in Montana, Idaho and Wyoming. Millions of dollars in property damage was threatened. Hundreds of head of cattle and wild life already had perished. Additional fire fighters were requested at almost every fire. The over taxed forestry service, faced by ffres which threatened to be worse than the holocaust year of 1929, was near the exhaustion of its resources. Most serious of all were the fires which raged out of control in the Nez Pierce National Forest in Idaho, and the Beaverhead Nation--1 al Forest in Montana. Twenty-five hundred acres in the Nez Pierce forest were ablaze, and a high wind ' was driving the conflagration directly toward Big Hole Pass leading to the Beaverhead forest across 1 the state line. A crew, of 500 men fought val(CONTINUED ON PAGE FIVE)

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Lightning Strikes Home Crawfordsville, July 24. — (U.R) — Another addition to the freak antics of lightning was on record here today. During a local thundershower,' lightning struck the home of Mr.l] and Mrs. Ronald McAllister. A heel was torn off one of McAllister's shoes. A doll in the arms of Barbara Jean, one of three small children, was scorched, and all the ] timbers in the home were blackened. Both parents and the children were shocked by the bolt, but none' was injured. SEARCH PRISON 11 FOR DYNAMITE — Joliet Prisoners Confined To Cells While Guards Make Search BULLETIN Joliet, 111., July 24—(U.R)—A crudely devised gasoline bomb capable of causing a heavy ex- t plosion, was found today in Stateville prison as guards started a cell-to-cell search of the penitentiary buildings on reports that certain prisoners were plotting a break. The bomb and a homemade fuse were discovered in cellhouse C shortly after the guards had uncovered several roughly made knives. Joliet, 111.. July 24 — (U.R) Squads j of state police patrolled the walls, ’ and every convict in Stateville prison was confined in his cell today as 1 guards searched systematically for j i dynamite and arms which is was ' I rumored had been smuggled into the penitentiary. '. Determined to prevent a recurrence of the riots of last spring in <CONTQnnED ON page SIX.

o . — LOCAL PASTOR ON COMMISSION Rev. B. H. Franklin Is Named Director of Epworth institute Rev. B. H. Franklin of this city was elected commissioner for the Epworth Forest Institute of the north Indiana conference of the Methodist Episcopal church at a meeting held Thursday. He will serve for one year and will represent the Fort Wayne district. Other commissioners elected include. Kokomo district, P B. Smith; I Richmond district. A. P. Teeter; | Wabash district, W. E. Pittinger; I Warsaw district. C. C. Wischmeier. delegate-at-large, F. A. Hall. The commission is empowered to nominate candidates for offices in the institute, to elected Saturday and to set regulations for the institute grounds for the 1932 season. The Thursday afternoon program of the institute was the dedication of Boyville building, called the Moore building The Thursday evening program was a pageant, "The Light of the World" More than 40 young people from the local Epworth League is attending tile institute this week. ——o Noted Surgeon Expires Rochester. July 24 —-(U.RX — Dr. Howard Shafer, 61, head of Woodlawn Hospital here, tiled today of an illness which began three years ago. He had not been active in the hospital since January, 1925. His left leg was amputated yesterday in a last effort to save his life. Dr. Shafer, one of northern Indiana’s best known surgeons, had been head of the hospital since 1916, when he suceeded his father, Dr. W. S. Shafer, who founded it is 1906. He was a graduate of Physicians and Surgeons Medical College and practiced there before coming here. He was a member of the American Medical Association and the Indiana Medical Association. Surviving are the widow, one daughter and two sons. Funeral arrangements have not Ween completed.

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SATISFACTION EXPRESSED BY WORLD POWERS Financial Experts toWork Out Details of Moratorium At Once MELLON WILL CONTINUE TRIP London, July 24 —(U.R) — The statesmen of seven nations were en route home today after conversations this week which resulted in at least temporary financial relief for Germany. They left details of their program to be worked out by the financial experts who have been here all week also, waiting until cabinet members of the seven powers decided how far their governments could go to aid Germany. The financial experts will work out the details of the Hoover plan for a war debt holiday and make recommendations on how to proceed to put it into effect for a year without disrupting budgets. Secretary of State Henry L. Stimson said he would leave tor Berlin tonight. He did not intend to accompany Chancellor Heinrich Bruening and Dr. Julius Curtlus, German foreign minister, he said. Hut would hold informal conversations with them during his brief sojourn in Berlin. Stimson indicated he wanted to resume his informal talks in Berlin about arms limitation, in preparation for the Geneva arms parley next February. He already has seen Mussolini and the French. Andrew Mellon, called into the . London conference by President Hoover, said he would resume his interrupted holiday. Premier J. Ramsay MacDonald plans to fly to Berlin Monday, to join Arthur Henderson, British foreign secretary, there for informal conversations with Bruening and Curtlus. He and Henderson are returning the visit of the German cabinet leaders to England, when they conferred at chequers. Premier Pierre Laval and ArisI tide Briand, French foreign minister, returning to Paris, indicated they might go to Berlin shortly for further conversations on the new Franco-German rapprochement. returning the Germans’ call in Paris. Germany as a result of the cori(CdNTINUED ON PAGE THREE) Testimony Is Heard Indianaolis, July 24 —(UP) —Testimony by Harry Boggs, accountant was being taken today in the hearing on the Southern Indiana telephone and telegraph compapy’s petition tor an injunction against the Public Service Commission. Special Master in Chancery Samuel Dowden is hearing the evidence- — o Snake Bite Is Fatal Washington, Ind., July 24—(UP) The bite of a copperhead snake, suffered by Jess Correll, 28. farmer, a week ago, resulted in his death today. Correll was bitten as he. picked up a kitten in a hayloft. It was the first death from snake bite reported in Indiana this year. FEDERAL AID UNCOLLECTED State Gets Less Than Million; Money Has Piled Up, Report liirKTuapolis, July 24.—(U.R) -Indiana slate highway commissioners have collected 14ss than $1,000,000 of the $7,713,442.57 federal aid which piled up last year, it was revealed today, despite statements from the commission's publicity agent that only about $260,000 federal aid money lay “unobligated.” Ralph Simpson, chief clerk for tlie highway department, said today another $1,000,000 would be collected by the end of July, making the total of normal and emergency federal aid obtained about $2.000,000. Department records showed that on January 1, $7,713,442.57 federal (CONTINUED ON PAGE SIX)