Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 29, Number 178, Decatur, Adams County, 29 July 1931 — Page 1

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■OVER FACES I PROBLEM Image plan ■ministration Members K ; iv President Is I Crowded to W all lifF CUTS | I 1...1 Press ■ -tats correspondent. 1931. by I nit-.! Press I fcon, Jnlv 29 <U.R) Kind is urowin.H among E v persons in the atlmmKtion 11...' t’.’"'"i | " l lo ," v ‘ K brim'sloxvh trowdcd !<> ■wall in his effort to inain- ■ wasjes. This crowding. ■ htid. arises from a grow- ■ feeling in m.mv mtlus■s that wage or salary ■justmeiits.*’ anti tlividen.l K tb .i:> may I* unavoidable ■ business in some ■|, now a race between the ■to preserve b ivi.ig Kr and the accumulating defi■im vanishing earnings of a ■er of industries which are ■bg at payrolls. Which side ■ till depend on tile duration. L depression. Officials have ■tally quit guessing about Keident Hoover is continuing ■tight There was firm denial ■ White House statement yes■r that the president is stir ■nnc. Rut officials almost up ■he president’s door, talking ■tely. say that many concerns ■be unable to hold out against ■ tuts much longer. Some ■ already ceased to hold out. ■t it is emphasized, it some ■tm-s are forced to reduce ■alls or close their doors, oth■is a more (ordinal- -position I hive an obligation to the ■c Welfare to maintain wages ■wer possible. Bh United States Steel Cor■nan's reduction of its dividend ■ U to $4 and its announce- ■ that salaries of officers and ■ salaried employees were io ■NTINREd ON “AGE TWO) SLAUGHTER CHARGES FILED ■ Wayne Man Shoots friend Following AlI tercation In Home •tl Warn.-, July --(UP) ■«of manslaughter were filed ■ Arlington Wai-on here today ■ rwrtt of the slaving of Mich JtiwuiuK In the Watson home, f* held under SIO,OOO bond. F° rls to police were that WatI*™ 1 to the basement of his ■ intending -o commit suicide ■ M altercation with his wife. le","nI e " , " n who attemped to pre |«atwn from ending his life, I in in the struggle that fol- ■ •*» said. • ■“said that they arrived bareL, " to prevent Watson from | further attempts on his •«« »GIRLS HOLD MEETING nomen Fand"ih G u. e Coun,y Club Ptklan, M SBM Uah Griffith h'v',f t o , W " Hllip and Mildred pt Os a dem 110 " townst >ip had kiu/the tratlOn °" “ Th « Kr ih u ro, * r color8 '" at a hClub (hl Monroe township 4 H L |J* m °ming. The meetr building" thß Monroe hlgh ['"’tosented^ ®° | natrat,on tean > annual R n ,?a' aniß Coun ‘>’ at ;»•> ,« X" 1 ’ “ ' ,urd “ *"■ a^dem' 1 ’ th ® < ’ o,,n ty Wil! the “" Btratl< W 1 team to lst ip club. er ° f the Mouroe

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Court Holds Parents as Guilty as Slayer Son

J> «»«• . . . Grwßf * . W ■ IB . j WW C z, 452?! * kJr>* * x V ■ 4 Ok wi «NMr '■•■■■■■■■■■yv MM** n*i Amid a silence electric in its intensity. Judge Joseph Sabath in a Chicago court sentenced 15. year-old Varner Corrv to serve eighteen years in Joliet penitentiary for the,murder of Policeman Edward Smith, whom the boy shot in a school swimming pool room. In sentencing the Ixiy the judge said: “In careful study of the record . . we find that your parents have both utterly failed in their responsibility as a father raid mother and citizens in their lack of Interest and proper personal supervision over you. The court believes that they have thereby contributed to the commission of this crime.” Varney Corrv is shown here with his parents.

HEAT RELIEF IS PROMISED Showers Predicted For Parts of Midwest in Next Few Hours Chicago, July 29—(U.R)- Showers in scattered Idealities were promised today by weather bureau officials as relief from oppressive heat which has baked the nation from coast to coast for five days and caused nearly 100 deaths. Cooler weather was predicted for virtually every section of the country after a day in which temperatures soared to record shattering heights. The di ath toll in the southwest, including the imperial valley of California, was given officially as 68 for the last five days. Weather bureau officials said the heat wave in southern California and Arizona was almost unprecedent ed. Predictions were for continued high temperatures today. Needles, Calif., was the hottest city in the country with a temperature of 112. Yuma, Arik., reported 108 degrees; Fresno, Calif., 100, and Ix>s Angeles, 93. New England suffered under record heat that brought death to at least seven persons and caused innumerable prostrations. Boston's 97.4 degrees set a new all-time record for July 28. Forecasters predicted only slight relief today. Nine deaths ©ccurred in New York yesterday as the mercury (CONTINUED ON PAGE THREE! > — o Montpelier Officials Face Federal Charges Fort Wayne, July 29—(UP) —Harry Kelly, mayor of Montpelier? and T. C- Peterson city attorney, waived a preliminary heating and were at liberty under $7,500 bond each today. They were bound, over to the U. S. Grand Jury, which meets in September, if the Grand Jury finds probable cause, they will be held for the December session of Federal court Both, Kelly and Peterson were arrested on a federal charging conspiracy to violate national prohibition laws. They also were suspected of being connected with five persons arrested in a raid on the Montpelier tace track. o Former Monmouth Man Dies at Ft. Wayne Charles Glen Wolford, 27 year old son of Roy Wolford, died in Fort Wayne, Tuesday afternoon. The body was brought to the Yager Brothers Funeral Home in this city and was taken to the Monmouth cemetery where burial services were held at 4:30 o'clock Wednesday afternoon. Mr. and Mrs. Roy Wolford formerly resided in Monmouth, before moving to Fort Wayne where they have made their home.

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Mrs. Van R. Grant Undergoes Operation Mrs. Van R Grant, formerly of this city, underwent an emergency apendix operation at the Rensselaer hosital 'rttesday afternoon. Reports today were that Mrs. Grant is improved and the attending physician stated that hoes tor recovery were excellent Mrs.’ GranY HrYTie' mother ot' Mrs Dick Heller of this city. o Star Former Hoosier Kokomo, July 29 HIP) — Leon Waycotf, star in “Tomorrow and Tomorrow," written by Phillip Barry and produced by the late David lielasco, formerly lived here and in Logansport. He attended Indiana university at Bloomington. LLOYD GEORGE HAS OPERATION War-Time Premier Os England Critically 111 at His Home London, July 29 —(U.R) — David Lloyd George, 6S-year-old liberal leader and war-time premier, critically ill, underwent a severe operation at his Addison Road town residence today. Lord Dawson of Penn, physician to King George, conducted the operation for kidney trouble at 9:45 a.m. The following statement was Issued: "An operation was performed on Mr. Lloyd George this morning and the cause of the haematuria completely removed.” “Considering the severity of the operation, the patient’s condition so far is satisfactory.” laird Dawson was assisted in the operation by Dr. Howard Humphries, an X-ray specialist; and Dr. J. Swift Joly, a specialist in haematuria. the malady from which IJoyd George is suffering. It is a kidney ailment in which lesions develop, causing some loss of blood. Three nurses were in attendance during the operation on the popular. shaggy-haired , liberal party leader. An ambulance was held waiting outside the house, ready to rush Lloyd George to a hospital if necessary. Oxygen cylinders arrived shortly before the operation. Q Mandatory Sentences Blamed by State Group Indianapolis, July 29 — (UP) — Long, mandatory sentences for certain for by recent legislatures, was blamed for overcrowded conditions in Indiana institutiigis by the state charities board. The glowing number of insane persons committed to institutions also was cited as one of the causes for the large number of inmates-

Dtecatur, Indiana, Wednesday, July 29, 1931.

PICNIC PLANS ARE ANNOUNCED Usual Rates Prevail On Methodist Excursion to Toledo The annual Methodist Episcopal Sunday School picnic excursion to Walbridge Park Toledo, Ohio will be held Wednesday, August 12 it was announced today. Tickets went on sale today and may be secured at the following business houses: Vance and Linn Clotting store; John T. Myers cloth-j ing store; Nome Grovery; Nichols I Shoe store, and the Nickel Plate' depot. Herman H. Myers is chair i man of the ticket committee and ' Don Farr is the other member in I charge of the ticket sale. The price of the tickets will be the same as in former years. $1.50 for adults and 75 cents for children between the ages of 5 and 12 years. The train will 'leave Decatur at 6 o'clock x (GST) Wednesday morning and wil Istop at Pleasant Mills at 6:12 o'clock; at Willshire at 6:22 o'clock; at Ohio City at 6:40 o'clock and at Delphos at 7:10 o’clock. The excursion train will leave Bluffton at 5 o’clock (CST) and will stop at Craigville at 5:16 o'clock and at Peterson at 5:25 o'clock before coming to Decatur. The train will discharge the pash ".\"it.\tt:ii on page three) o PERRY TRIAL JURY FORMED Eleven Men And Woman To Hear Murder Evidence Against Man Eagle River, Wis., July 29.—(U.P.) Eleven perspiring men and a woman were in the jury box today at tlse opening of the second session of George W. E. “Jiggs” Perry's trial on charges of murdering one of six women he was accused of marrying bigamously during a Bluebeardian career which has had few parallels in modern history. Os the 12 jurors accepted tentatively, five were farmers, three merchants, two summer resort owners of this northland Indian country, another was a retired sabs man, and the 12th was the woman I Attorneys indicated some of [these probably would be excused and that the jury would be completed from an extra venire which Judge C. M. Ddvidson of Beaver Dam ordered Sheriff Thomas McGregor to bring today into the furn-ace-like courtroom. Blistering sunrays beat down upon the tiny court of justice as Perry, immaculately groomed, sat confidently waiting for the trial to start. The former Milwaukee brakeman had not disclosed what his defense would be except to declare that “even if I am a bigamist, I'll prove I'm not a Bluebeard?” Perry’s one legal wife, Mrs. Mary Perry, and their IS-year-old son. John, came from Milwaukee yes(CONTINUED ON PAGE THREE, o LINDBERGHS REPAIR RADIO Itinerary Not Fixed As To Time, Aviator States Today New York, July 29.—<U.R) —Mrs. Anne Morrow Lindbergh, as radio operator for her husband, Charles, on their pleasure trip by air to the Orient, was to make additional tests of the plane's transmitter today before the flying couple resumed their trip. Lindjiergh did not indicate whether they would fly to North Haven, Me., the summer home of his fath-er-in-law, Senator Dwight W. Morrow, where they were bound yesterday on their way from Washington when a thunderstorm caused them to land here, or fly to Ottawa, the first Canadian stop on their itinerary. “It all depends on the radio,” he said. "You know we wil) be out of telegraphic communication at many points and our itinerary is not settled as to time, so that is very important.”

Landlord Changes Mind Danville, July 29—(UP)—A land I lord who at first refused to accept SSO rent money gave in when 40 fanners faced Sheriff L L. Pounds and said they would not permit him to eject Mrs. Winnie Dunion and her four children from their farm near here. Mrs. Runion, whose husband, allegedly deserted her several months ago. was unable to pay her rent. Although IJ E. Jenkins, a neighbor attempted to pay it for her, Elija Smith, the landlord .refused to accept and obtained a court order ejeeting her. When the sheriff went to serve the order he was met by the far- [ mers and after a parley the money ■ . was again offered Smith. He accepted. KID TEAM SEES BIG LEAGUERS Lions Club Sends Junior Baseball Squad To Cincinnati The sixteen players of the Lions | junior baseball team Adams coun-1 ty junior champs, seven members ; of the Lions club of this city. Um- i pire Fiank Peterson ami team J coaches H L. Curtis and William Bell motored to Cincinnati today where the were guests of the Cincinnati Reds at their baseball game this afternoon with Brooklyn. The trip was sponsored by the local Lions club and was given to the boys because of the excellent record they have made so far this season. Ralyph Gentis, president of the Lions said. The trip was made in five automobiles. The club members who made the trip included Ralph Gentis, Harry Knapp, Robert Helm. William Linn, Dr. Bun Mangold. G. Il Wehmerer/ and Clifford Saylors. Besides witnessing the baseball game the boys were scheduled to make an auto tour of Cincinnati and its suburbs in both Ohio and Kentucky. It is understood that other team sponsors are planning similar trips for their boys. Every boy member of the Lions team was on hand from w here the ti ip started Herb Curtis was in charge of arrangements and three boys and 'wo men were placed in each automobile. GRAF HEADS - TOWARD POLE Zeppelin Make s Radio Contact With Scattered Receiving Points Friedrichshafen, Germany, July 29 —(U.FD—The dirigible Graf Zeppelin was believed cruising swiftly over Arctic ice toward the North Pole today. <9tcasional radio contacts have indicated the vessel has proceeded according to advance plans, with establishment of contact with the Soviet icebreaker, Malygin, as the outstanding fulfillment of schedule. To those aboard the Zeppelin the spectacular greeting and mail transfer at the Malygin probably (CONTTNUED ON PAGE SIX’! Keep The Home Paper Coming - - Old 1931 is half gone and those subscribers who have been renewing their sul)kcription at mid-year are asked to do so now. Notices have been sent to those in arrears and to assure yourself of receiving the HOME PAPER during the balance of the year your renewal should be sent to this office at once. For less than one cent a day by mail, the Dally Democrat is a greater bargain today than ever, with its added columns at' state, national, and home news, features and the superhuman feats of POPEYE, the Sailor man. We gather the news for you and the mail carrier delivers it to you postpaid, so all you need do is to send your remittance for another six month’s or year and the paper will continue to come. What's home without the HOME PAPER?

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Junior Band Summer C< FELTY RETURNS FROM MEETING State Tax Board Not Decided On Tax Action For County John Felty, Adams county assessor returned from Indianapolis last night where he attended a conference with the state l»oard of tax commissioners, relative to the personal property valuations in this | county. The state board neither affirmed nor rejected the Adams county valuations and Mr. Felty does not know what the final action of the board will be. The 1931 valuation of personal I property, as approved by the board |of review was $5,919,360. This total ;is about $900,000 under the 19301 I figures. . Mr. Felty oposed any increase |on the county valuations and informed the state board that the' I property had been assessed at its [ cash value and in compliance with | the law. Mr. Felty stated that a horizontal increase on Adams county would be unfair and that such an increase would not reflect •CONTINUED ON PAGE SIXi FIND AUTO IN STONE QUARRY Swimmers Locate Auto at Willshire; Had Indiana License Plates BULLETIN The Austin automobile taken from the Willshire, O. stone quarry Tuesday night was believed to belong to Herbert Baumgartner of Fort Wayne who is said to have reported the car stolen about 15 months ago. The car had 1930 license plates on it. An automobile, bearing an Indiana license, probably an Adams county license, was found in the stone quarry near Willshire. Ohio late Tuesday night, according to reports here today. Sheriff Burl Johnson, who received a call from Willshire Tuesday night when the automobile was found, was out of the city today and could not be located to verify the repoit that the car carried an Adams county number. The number was Indiana 410-312, according to reports. Several boys were swimming in the quarry yesterday and one of the boys found the auto while diving. With the aid of others, a rope was tied around the car and it was brought to shore. The car was taken to a Willshire garage and an investigation started at once. Prosecutor Nathan Nelson stated Adams county officers would probe the matter if it was established the car belonged in this county. CAPONE FACES PRISON TERM Gangster Scheduled to Appear in Court At Chicago Thursday Chicago, July 29 —(UP) Today was “scarface” Alphonse Capone's day at liberty. In 24 hours, the pudgy gang leader will hear Federal Judge James H. Wilkerson announce the sentence by which he will be punished for engaging in a gigantic liquor conspiracy which put millions in his pocket and for tailing to file income tax returns on his gains. Capone pleaded guilty to both 'charges, but was granted a stay of sentence to permit adjustment of his “business' affairs. Presumably those affairs have been adjusted, but the underworld gave no hint of who is to carry on the Capone gang enterprises while its leader is doing penance for his lawlessness. Before Capone Is sentenced. Judge Wilkerson has indicated he will hear evidence of (he extent of the gang leader’s Illegal activities.

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I Closes oncert Series Four-Year History of Local Musical Organization Recalled (By Bernard J. Wemhoff) “What a feeling, what a quivering sensation runs through our whole system as we stand watching the parades file by and the shrill voice of a youngster breaks the quiet, ‘Here comes Our Band!' "Yes, indeed, ‘Our Band,' composed of our boys and girls in their nifty uniforms, their band instruments glistening in the bright sun, their step perfect, their playing remarkable, every instrument in perfect unison. The beautiful banner Indicating our town, flying in the gentle breeze. It is 'Our Band’, our .CONTINUED ON PAGE SIX) RAIN NEEDED ~ REPORT SHOWS Growth Retardad Some by Lack of Moisture in Most of State Indianapolis, July 29 —(U.R) — Urgent need of further rainfall is the report from areas in the northeast, northwest and extreme southwest portions of the state, the U. S. weather bureau reports in its weekly crop and weather summary, issued today as of the week ending yesterday. Showers of the previous week [continued into the current week, especially in the southern half of the state, and were beneficial to all crops, the report says. “Corn generally improved, making good to excellent growth,” the report recites. “However, some limited areas in the northII east, northwest and extreme south- ’' west report urgent need of furth- ■ er rainfall. [ “Some rather severe injury was ■ i sustained in small areas by wind '! squalls and by hail. I “Apples and peaches are an abundant crop in practically all orchard areas, but in a few places ( are reported undersize on account 'I of lack of sufficient moisture.” o GANG BULLETS HIT CHILDREN I Italian Youth Killed; Four Others Are Injured ? In Shots ? i II New York, July 29. — (U.R) —MaI chine gunners for warring beer gangster shot and killed one youngster and wounded four others playing in dirty, untidy East 107th I street, playground of Harlen’s Itali ian children, police indicated toI day. The intended victim fled, unhurt, during the staccato of guns which ' splattered their lead over walls of a house where the children were at play. | Os the five innocent victims of | the gangster guntire one, Michael . Vengalli, 5, died today as result of jagged wounds in his thigh. His | brother. Salvatore, 7, was given a blood transfusion. And little Michael Bevilacqua, 4, I who was being trundled about in a baby carriage by an older cousin, may die from bullet wounds in the back and thigh received when the spurting machine gun missed ' aim and spattered its leaden hail > among the 25 or 30 children in the street and on the sidewalk nearby. ■ Fie also submitted to a transfusion. The “beer war” which resulted s in the shootings, police indicated, ■ was the direct result of federal (CONTINUED ON PAGE SIX) t 0 Will Sponsor Social i f An ice cream social will be given f tonight by the Ladies' Aid society of the Zion Reformed church on the J church lawn, starting at 5:30 o'1 clock). Home made cakes, candy, pie 1 ala mode, popsicles, pop. cracker * jack, ice cream and coffee will be . served. Pies and cakes will be sold Tables will be arranged. In case of , rain the social will be held in the s basement of the church. The public f Is cordially invited. Music will be . furnished.

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REPORTS STATE PLANES HEARD OVER IRELAND Visibility is Reported to be Bad; Times Correspond, Report TWO DIFFERENT PLANES HEARD London, July 29. —<U.R)—■ Two more American planes were believed to have flown across the Atlantic today. The planes, one flown by Hugh Herndon, Jr., and Clyde Pangborn, and the other by Russell Boardman and John Polando, had not been sighted, but reports from Valentia Island, on the southwest coast of Ireland, indicated that one or both of them had been heard flying over there. Both planes left New York at dawn yesterday and were due over Ireland at about the time the unidentified planes were heard. Herdon and Pangborn were headed direct for Moscow on an attempt to beat the Post-Gatty record around the world, and the other fliers were headed for Istanbul, Turkey, seeking the world straight line, long distance record. The first plane heard was reported in a private dispatch to London to have passed over Valentia at 1:15 p.m. A United Press dispatch later said a plane had been heard over Knightstown, Valentia Island, at 3:15 p.m. Later the Valentia wireless station said a plane had been heard at 3 p. m. oven Port Magee, on the coast only a few miles from Valentia A thick mist lay over the region and it was impossible to identify the planes. The general weather over eastern Europe was good for flying. o———————— Connell Funeral Held Funeral services for Mrs. Eleanor Connell, wife of Dr. C. V. Connell, well known civic leader who died at her home Sunday evening, were held at 9:30 o’clock this morning at the St. Marys Catholic church with Father J. J Hennes officiating. Burial was in the St. Joseph Cemetery. Flier Lands Plane Moscow, July 29 —(UP) — Miss An|)' Johnson, young British woman flier, who left Moscow this morning on her six day London to Tokio trip, landed at Kazan. Russia, at 2:25 P. M. Moscow time. Kazan is 250 miles east of Moscow. —-—.——o ( To Reorganize Group Plans for the re-organization of the Dairy Herd Improvement Association were discussed at a meeting of the officers and directors held Tuesday evening at the home of Noah Rich in Monroe township The reorganization will be for the com ing year beginning October 1. Officers and directors of the association include Otto Bieberich, president; Peter B. Lehman, vice-pre-sident; Peter D. Schwartz, secre-tary-treasurer, and Noah Rich and Jacob J. Schwartz, directors. o EXTORTIONIST SHOT TO DEATH 17-Year-Old Youth Is Killed When Officers Surprise Him Brazil, July 29—(UP)—Leonard Courtney, 17, was shot to death near here while fleeing after attempting to extort SSOO from Tom Mqdesitt, former Clay county commissioner,. Courtney was shot by possemen as he ran with a decoy package placed in a culvert. The decoy package was placed according to directions given Modesltt in a blackmail letter several days ago. Authorities and Modesitt waited in hiding near the culvert. Courtney and several other persons arrived in an auto, authorities said. Courtney obtained the package, and when ordered to halt, started to run. He fell with a bullet in the head. The other persons, none of whom was identified, escaped.