Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 29, Number 181, Decatur, Adams County, 1 August 1931 — Page 1

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BOUNTY’S NEW VALUATIONS APPROVED

,1b sham Soup urges ■newsystem M ■ -s. i3^K- t Says Police Sys|s Dominated By Politicians WOULD n 1OR( E TESTS Aug- 1 (UR) American police strucE limn the lowliest patroldu- politician who his destiny, was ElLi-,.1 today by the commission. few exceptions, Ej)lic< forces were repreK| W i i>. dominated bv eor--eluiiiiistensl by :i . ~l ~r incompetent exei, fear of their Kill ».:!. !■■ isonnel severely I IA sketchy training. intelligence, inadequate equipment, conditions was Kafir!'.efly ell til'- control oxerKs L p.iiitu i.ins over appoint- . hiefs. This conK t m: .."ion concluded. I ■ 4 i' l designation of int executives who are rewith su-. lt kaleidoscopic Kfit tlu-v have little oppor- ■ iliarize themselves ■th tjeir duties. ■ui:..n'. police were analyz- ■| ; study, the comninth publication. It public by the White said there has been Klflo- public confidence in the our country.” due to “the failure of the police to >poi ■ ■ f ■ ■ with surrounding the added. ■tp • <nks and for worried and ■■hit .-ntploy.•< ." The fanul appointing police 1 was outlined, with the his man on the 1 I' 1 sticians’ recommenda■HMtnil with the new chief long he will be ISmti appointments, the report ■id,jqsually are the result of kt* outcry against the incumk " I'-en such outcries, fre- ■ inspired l.y interested polir become too loud, the mayor the chief. The report new chief was likely to man, who proI fCONTIxrEP ON PACK SIX) ■ 1 Sales Are Small li,!i " wheat is being sold season. Elevators FW"' 1 ' 1 sa,PS - The Burk Eleipany shipped three cars last month, which is con--11'1' former year's aver- '• farmers are feeding of corn and other many intend to hold it di.it the price will go up. ■dberghs ■SAVE OTTAWA Iml Stop Sched uled For ■ose River; To Cross I Mountains a ' Ont., Aug. I—(UP)—Col. E ta, >' and his wife E.T !1 to, 'ay for their venture PWI’’ 1 ’’ 'ittle travelled area of Elrfe aSt Canada en route on l'M-'fi* liOn air j° urne y to Tokio. flew from here at 10:50 AT - for Moose Factory. nd e,Rtl wore “ le same easy LJI? I " Ventional attire ‘ h at he short flights in the UnitErvJ r' Whcn he and Mrs. LindEs lni, ’‘ d into the P‘ ane - He Et<Xt 8 . 8 ? d in a grey Buit and IndH With soft col ‘ar. Mrs wore ri,li »K preeches. a and a white helmet. LWwgh spent more than an FWnkcrtng with the engine and E-2? ' Up wl, ile Canadian and IJf an officials looked on. fitial wttve of his hand, ■ T - n UED ON PAGE SIX)

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Vol. XXIX. No. 181.

Plan Special Service -The members of the Epworth League of the local Methodist Episcopal church will sponsor an Echo service in the church auditorium, Sunday night at 6:30 o'clock. Special musical numbers will be features of the program, and the installation of officers will take place. All church members are invited to attend this special service. The members of the Epworth League are also planning a picnic which will take place at Second Creek, Tuesday evening. FLOOD CLAIMS FOUR VICTIMS Water Wall Breaks In Kentucky Causing River To Go Wild Covington. Ky„ Aug. 1. — (U.R) — Volunteer workers today were draging the swollen waters of Lick Creek, eight miles southwest of here, for the bodies of four of five persons drowned when a six-foot wall of water swept through the creek channel. The body of Mrs. lola Lucas. 27, was recovered near the spot where she disappeared. Those believed drowned besides Mrs. Lucas are: Mrs. Martha Miller. 31, Mary Lou Harvey, 5, Mrs. Lucas' twin children. Ruth and James, 7. All are from Covington, and had left the city to escape the heat. Preceded by a cloudburst, the wall of water was believed to have swept through the narrow creek channel before the victims could reach safety. First reports from the scene told of the heroic efforts of Fred Lucas, father of the twins, to save his family. According to the reports, Lucas was oh the creek bank when he saw the wall of muddy water sweeping through the channel. He ran toward his wife and had clasped her hand when the water rolled over them, sweeping the children away. His wife was torn from his hold as IjHcas struggled in the swirling waters.

SUMMER TERM BEGINS MONDAY Students Start To Arrive For Auction School To Be Held Here The Reppert School of Auctioneering will open in this city Monday August 3, for the mid-summer term. This will mark the twenty third term of the local school for auctioneel’s. About thirty-six students are expected to enroll in the course, and more than 15 states in the union will be represented Col. Fred Reppert .president and founder of the country's best known school, will open the annual term of school with an introductory address Monday evening. Headquarters uptown for the school, and registration offices will be on the second floor of the Peoples Loan and Trust Company Bank building, and recitation rooms will be located at Bellmont park, east of Decatur. Col. Karl Gartin of Greensburg: and Col. Guy Pettit of Bloomfield lowa, will arrive in this city Sunday evening, and will comprise a part of the faculty for the school. The same curriculum will be conducted this term as in previous years. The first public auction will be held Saturday afternoon. August 8. Among the first students to arrive in the city are: G. Carl Butler of New Tazewell. Tennessee; Michael Duffy and his two sons, of Springfield, Ohio; Patil Glick of Paris, Illi nois; H. H. Horst of Chicago; and Fred Wright of Aurora, Nebraska o — Showers Are Forecast Indianapolis. Aug. 1. — (U.R) — Scattered showers were forecast for today and tomorrow in Indiana by the U. S. weather bureau. Temperatures next week probably will be lower than during the past week, in which the mercury has gone above 90 daily, officials of the Weather bureau believed. In July there were 14 days on which the temperature exceeded the 90-degree mark. The peak of the mouth was ot July 1 and 17, when the mercury touched 97.

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LINDBERGHS AT OTTAWA v! r'z <Mawif JRr - Tai® >■ j 7 .Wa M®” nl WMHBE wSEran * jIl iHMBBSEI ■KoH n v. - •*« * ...w. <■> Hanford Mat Nider (left). United States minister to Canada, is shown here as he greeted Col. and Mrs. Charles A. Lindbergh upon their arrival at Ottawa. Canada, their first foreign stop on their flight to the Client. This picture was flown back to the United States by James G. Hall, anti-prohibition crusader, in new t ecord time.

RODERTDAITES TAKEN TO JAIL Faces Fraudulent Check Charge; Was Employed On Federal Building i Robert Baltes, member of the 1 * I ( firm of Baltes and Son of Fort I 11 Wa.vne, formerly -Sub contractors!. for the brick work at the eral building here, was arrested Friday night at Monroe by Sheriff Burl j Jojiusou on charges of issuing irau- ( dulent checks. The checks are alleged to have been issued to a number of workmen at the federal building. It was stated by one of the workmen that!, when be attempted to cash the check, payment had been stopped on the check. The stopping of payment of labor checks followed the discharge of Baltes and Son as subcontractors by Anderson and Co., after several weeks of arguments between local brick masons, workmen and the Fort Wayne firm Baltes was scheduled to be ar- i raigned in Mayor's court late this ' afternoon or Monday. He was unable to furnish Ixind and is being held at lhe Adams county jail. o HOOVER MAKES NEW SUGGESTION b Wants To Sell Surplus Wheat, Cotton On Liberal Payment Terms < Washington. Aug. I.—(U.R) —Presi- i dent Hoover has suggested inform- 1 ally to the German government that 1 it might be of economic assistance I ’ to the Reich if the United States) 1 farm board were to sell it substan- ' tial quantities of wheat and cotton l on liberal terms. No reply has I' been received. The suggestion was made through Ambassador Frederick M. Sackett I in Berlin. State department offic-! 1 ials said the suggestion was made ' on American initiative, that no 1 German action prompted it. It was ‘ described as a "feeler.” German embassy officials told 1 the United Press today they had 1 no knowledge of the proposal. The farm board has been seeking for months to dispose of its surplus wheat and cotton aboard. Agricultural interests in the wheat I belt have urged the board discon- I .CONTINUED ON PAGE SIX) o Neptunes Will Return Dr. James G. Neptune who has i been vacationing for the last Month i in Minnesota will return to this city Sunday. His dental office will be open again Monday morning. Mrs Neptune, who has been visiting in i Minnesota and Wisconsin for the I last two mouths will also return I home Sunday. i

Decatur, Indiana, Saturday, August 1, 1931.

Doherty Tells Sheriff He Will File Charge Don Doherty Informed Sheriff Burl Johnson this morning that he was going to file an affidavit against Elmer Jergens. charging him with assault and battery, as a result of a fight the two men had about one o'clock this morning in front of the Bertha Stevens apartment on West Monroe street. Doherty was knocked down by Jergens, it was claimed. There were a tew wjpiessea u> lb,e tight and Policeman Arthur Clark was called later. Neighbors were aroused by the brawl Doherty told Sheriff Johnson that "it aint through jeolously that I am going to file the charges.” I Sheriff Johnson did not see the ‘ tight, but met Doherty in a restau- ’ rant early this morning. Late 'his 1 afternoon Doherty stated he would i not file an affidavit. DARROW BARS PARDON EFFORT — Says Stephenson No t Eligible If Court Orders New Trial Michigan City, Aug. I.— (U.R) — The expert counsel of Clarence I Darrow, upon which D. C. Steph enson was depending for release I from a life imprisonment sentence, I today stood as a barrier between him and a pardon from Indiana i Istate prison. Darrow, who recently appeared' (before the Supreme Court in Steph-' enson's behalf, said he had learned more about the case and now would oppose a petition for pardon. "We did not know anything about the pardon petition previously," Darrow j said. ‘‘This is not a case for pardon. The case is pending before the Supreme court and should be I passed on by the court.” Darrow added that if the high [court reversed Stephenson's con viction on a murder charge "it, (would mean he was never guilty.” j Stephenson told visitors at the ] prison, just before Darrow and oth- : er counsel conferred with him, that i he had “placed his hope in God and Clarence Darrow.” After the conference Darrow said the next move would be to file a brief with the Supreme court. 0 Calls For Petitions All Adams County farmers who have petitions against the milk house ruling are requested to send them at once to Theodore Ewell of Preble township, who will file them with the State Board of Health. The time for filing is September 1. and Mr. Ewell stated today that he is anxious to get the petitions and send them in at once. Various meetings have been held [ in Adams County the past few ' weeks discussing the new ruling in regard to milkhouses, and a. number of petitions opposing the ruling have been signed by farmers from every township in the county.

PREMIUM LISTS ARE PREPARED 2,300 Copies Will Be Mailed To Patrons In Next Few Days Premium lists for the Decatur Free Street Fair’s agricultural exhibits are ready for distribution. Lpo Ehinger, in charge of the publication of the lists announced today. All premiums in every department are listed in the books. Ehinger stated that 2.300 books would be mailed to farmers and ■others interested in this community Monday and Tuesday. He also I said that a supply of the books I would be retained at his office in the Lenhart, Heller and Schurger [suite where they could he obtained [free of charge. The annual fair and agricultural exhibit will be held here September 115 to 19 inclusive. The premium book also contains names of all department heads and committees in charge of the various shows. Entry fees and premium awards are included. Patrons of the local exhibit are [asked to watch for their copy of the book. All copies will be in the I mail by Wednesday, Ehinger said. WORLD FLIERS BEHIND TIME Forced To Land And Are 10 Hours Behind Post And Gatty Moscow, Aug. I—(UP)—1 —(UP) — News from Omsk that Clyde E. Pangborn and Hueh Herndon. Jr., hail landed there instead of making their intended non-stop flight to Irkutsk was viewed today as an indication I that their chances for a round the j world record were seriously dirnnedj In taking off for a 2,700-mile stage [ the Americans had hoped to make ( up a considerable share of the time : they lagged behind the record schedule of Post and Gatty. This amounted to 11 hours when they left Moscow. But in wandering from their course, making a forced landing in (CONTINUED ON PAGE SIX) 0 Two Students Killed Madison Wis, Aug. I—(UP)—Two1 —(UP)—Two university students were killed and two more seriously injured here last night when their car crashed headon into a street car. Miss Olive Cray, Monon, Ind., and Charles L. Thompson, Madison, w tre fatally injured in the accident, i Miss Althea Sullivan, Indianapolis ' Indiana hud Orville C. Leonard, Kenosha were in the hospital today seriously hurt. Police said the car, which was almost demolished by the M’ash, was owned by Miss Sullivan.

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MANGOLD NAMED PRESIDENT OF SCHOOLDOARD V ote Tax Rate Cut At Annual Meeting Held Today REORGANIZE BOARD AT MEETING At the reorganization nieeti ing of the Decatur school i hoard held this morning all j officers were re-elected and ' I decision was made to reduce the school city’s tax levy for next year five cents on the! hundred dollars. Dr. Burt Mangold was elected 1 president, Mrs. Carrie Haubold, | secretary and M. E. Hower, treas-1 urer of the board. The members ■ of the Hoard have served in these ( capacities for the past several j years. Dr. Mangold has been | president of the board for the past - five years. To Reduce Tax Rate M. F. Worthman. superintendent I of city schools, who attended the meeting this morning stated that i the board decided to cut the 1931 tax levy five cents on the hundred dollars. The school city's rate this year is $1.42. Next year's rate will tie reduced to $1.37 on the hundred dollars. This reduction is made despite the $300,000 loss in the city's net valuations this year. The budget will be reduced from , $92,480.00 to $89,229.22. From this total $6,500 is deducted for school transfers, making the net total to lije raised by taxation. $82,700. Mr. Worthman stated that the ' reduction in the tax levy would be . made in the sinking fund and in the special school fund. The tuiftmn ftiml levy cannot be reduced, Mr. Worthman stated. | The proposed rates for next year on each SIOO of taxable property in the city are. 52 cents special ' school; 10 cents sinking fund: 75 cents tuition fund; total $1.37. There will be a saving of SI,OOO ' in the sinking fund outlay next J - i (CONTINUED ON PAGE SIX) PERRY DETAILS ARE PRESENTED I One-Eyed Romeo Hears Story of His Life Told By Attorneys Eagle River. Wis., Aug. 1. —(U.R) —Additional details of the amours of George W. E. Perry were expected from the 40-year-old former today at his trial on , murder charges growing out of the i honeymoon death of one of his , seven bigamous wives. Circuit Judge C. M. Davison ordered a special session today f<r , cross examination of Perry and presentation of final arguments. It was expected the case would be given the jury late today or Monday. » In a surprise move, tlie defense i called Perry to the stand yesterI day to refute charges that he kill- - ed Mrs. Cora Belle Hackett on their : honeymoon at Lac du Flambeau in 1 July, 1930. - Pery’s tale was that of a man . constantly pursued by women. He > revealed circumstances attending ■ his eight marriages—one of which > was unknown to prosecutors. He 1 wept as lie recounted the affair with i Mrs. Hackett. A crowd which had r braved violent rainstorm packed the courtroom. r The one-eyed Romeo—he is blind 1 in the right eye—said he met Mrs. Hackett in Chicago after advertising for a travelling companion to California. They were married, he <CONTUfVKD ON PAGE 8IX» > ■ 0 __—_— i Austin Is Identified t Sheriff Hurl was notified today by the department of 1 Bureau of Motor Vehicles, Indianna- , polis, that the Austin automobile . found in the stone quarry at Will- < shire, Ohio, was registered in the , name of Mrs. Lula Alive Baumgart- / ner. 828 Walnut street, Fort Wayne The license plate numbers were ’- 410,312. It was understood that the s insurance company made a settlement with the owner of the car.

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Local Concern’s Truck And Automobile Collide A truck owned by McConnell and Sons of this city and driven by Andrew Bailey and an automobile driven by Mrs. Ray Kimes of Roanoke collided at a road intersection, |a mile north and two miles east of Liberty Center, at 8:30 o’clock Friday morning. Mr. Bailey escaped uninjured but Mrs. Kimes received several bruises on her knees. The Kimes car was slightly damaged anjl very little damage was done to the truck. I A corn field at the intersection that obstructed the view of the drivers was blamed for the mishap, i CAPONE JUDGE LEAVES ANGRY CAPONE BEHIND Wilkerson Maintains Plan For Jury Probe of Capone Bargain WILL TAKE MONTH’S REST I Chicago, Aug. 1 —(U.R) - Federal Judge Janies H. Wilkerson prepared today to leave for a month’s vacation 1 in Michigan anti thus to withi draw for the time being at ! least from the national fur- | ore he created when he told , I.Alphonse (Scarface Al) Cal pone that “a federal court I cannot be bargained with." Behind him the 62-year old jurist i j was leaving, first of all, an angry, , frightened Capone who had planned to go to prison for a few years , but now must stand trial on , charges which may prove far more | ( serious than those to which he pleaded guilty with the understanding his sentence would be comparatively light. Behind hinv. also, the judge , whom gangsters long have feared I was leaving ‘embarrassed’’ offi- ■ cials in Washington and away cleared for what possibly may be- , come one of the most sensational criminal trials in history. Demands from a Minnesota senator for a congressional investigation of admissions that the department of justice agreed to a "deal” with Capone was another direct result of the turmoil which Wilkerson started before he said. “Now I'm through, I" take a rest.” I Two days ago Judge Wilkerson had the opportunity to send Capone to prison at once for failing ; to pay income tax and conspiring to violate the liquor law 5,000 times. So sure then was Capone that ( (CONTINUED ON PAGE SIX) i o DALY FIGHTS SALARY CUTS i State Prison Warden Opposed To Reductions Proposed , Michigan City, August I—(UP)1 —(UP) — Walter H. Daly, warden of the Indiana state prison, brought out the r first opposition to the proposal by 1 John Moorman, chairman of prison trustees, that wages of the institution's employes be slashed from 10 ; per cent to 7% per cent. Daly asked , to be give an opportunity to show j why the wages should not be cut ; liefore Moorman s proposal comes j up for action August 28. I Moorman’s resolution .Which is I contrary to the campaign against pay reductions being waged by PreI sident Hoover, as introduced at a meeting of the lioard yesterday Upon a motion made by Michael Foley, 3 the resolution was tabled until the e next meeting. . Daly pointed out that many of the prison employes were already paid on a low scale. "There has been no reduction in their rents and in only a few of their living expenses,” he [. said. t 0 Pool To Be Cleaned e I- W. Guy Brown supervisor of the e city swimming pool at Water Works - park stated today that the pool e would be closed Sunday and Mone day and probably all day Tuesday In e order to clean it. The water will be !- run out Sunday and the pool cleaned Monday and Tuesday.

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ADAMS COUNTY ASSESSMENTS ARE ACCEPTED 17 Counties of State Ordered To Increase Their Valuations WORK HERE IS APPROVED Indianapolis, Aug. I—(U.R) Boards of review in 17 Indiana counties were ordered today to increase valuations, during which assessors of every county appeared before the board. The valuations in the 75 other counties were permitted to remain unchanged. The counties -In which alterations were ordered were Daviess, Bartholomew, Decatur. Greene, Floyd, Harrison, Howard, Knox, Monroe, Montgomery. Newton. Orange, Scott. Sullivan, Switzerland, Washington and White. The board directed the county officials to meet on August 4 to consider the changes, to take such steps as necessary, and report to the state board by August 10. The statement issued by the board in connection with the changes said: “The board finds and determines that in order to accomplish a just and fair equalization of assessments either as between classes of property and as t|etween local (axing units, and as between the different counties of the state, so that the same may be in harmony with assessments in all taxing units and counties, the changes should be made by j the respective boards of review.” The state tax board accepted the Adorns county figures and no changes will lile made here. The review board here included Ed A. Ashbaucher, county treasurer: Albert Harlow, auditor; John Felty, assessor, and John Mosure and W. A. Ixiwer. the latter two named by Judge D. B. Erwin. o Youth Is Drowned Indianapolis, Aug. I.—(U.R)—Francis Mangold, 17, 4as drowned when he stepped into a deep hide while swimming in Fall creek. He was the son of Frank Mangold, assistant circulation manager of the Indianapolis News. His death was the third by drowning here in three days and the fourteenth of thayear. o ».» Beer War Is Blamed Chicago August I—(UP) —War between rival beer runners over the Lake county territory was believed by police today to have led to the slaying of Matt Hoffmann. 33, of Wilmette. Hoffman’s body with bullet wounds in the head, was found last night in a cornfield near Aptakisic, Lake county Mrs. Hoffman told authorities today her husband was called out of bed Thursday night to deliver two half barrels of beer to a road house. According to Jack Hackney, owner of the roadhouse, the beer was ordered on behalf of a man known as Jake Schreiber. EXPDESS HOPE FOR PRICE RISE Wheat Sells In Chicago For 48 Cents; Operators Are Optimistic Chicago, Aug. I.—(U.R) —Traders In the Chicago grain pits expressed little alarm today over the fact , that July wheat had dropped to 48 cents, the lowest figure in the history of the board of trade. “Things are not hopeless," declared Harvey S. Williams, president of the Grain Market Analyst's Club, in discussing the sale just before yesterday's market close of 200,000 bushels of July wheat at the record low figure. Williams and other traders blamed the unprecedented decline In wheat prices to glutted markers the world over rather than to speculators. In expressing confidence, Williams pointed out that when wheat reached its previous , low level of 48% in 1895 that senti(CONTINUED ON PAGE SIX)