Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 29, Number 182, Decatur, Adams County, 3 August 1931 — Page 1

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HR LEADER K$ OPINION ■IN WAGE WAR! ■dr <ts Between Cut on Sdei> And Miners' ■I Salaries ■tions H I’OK INCREASE York. Aug. 3—<U.R>— v Woll. vice president . .\ii| l ’ric:in l-’eiler.ition I pl.iced before Kjl.lic lor in.lament the! ■■ ill. I nited States H, n „ reducing instead of wages, . action of the Rockecontrolled Colorado id Iron Co. in slashing wages 16 per cent, action came in an appeal p. Rockefeller. .Jr., to ree qU wage level ordered inrC F. & I- mines last F&I wage cutting poll-'y to “world bitterness, inssension, chaos, and world according to Woll. (raised the United States mpany for reducing divistead of wages as ‘‘a rethose who would encour-•age-reduction policy.” ibor official's appeal was ad in the Colorado Fuel situation. Last week lephine Roche, president ocky Mountain Fuel comich had announced its in>f keeping its wages at ing level, also asked for tion If. the C.F.&I. Co. of ?r wage of $6.52 a jay. pany had announced a fete $5.25. ■eal need is for general spread increases in wages ttions." Woll said. I not difficult to understand and of a certain class of anal tankers to have the f English, German and workers reduced ’to corto the reduction in prices odities.’ It is equally cleqr y demand a reduction in as of American workers permit competition with nets of other lands. ■vident these international ■ ■ . are interested in enS and maintaining a low «UEP ON PAGE THREE) ares Own Funeral ). Aug 3.—(U.R) —Gns Johnrecent ly bought a black “preparation for own undertaker thought it tor it is not unusual, he men to buy their coffins n to the casket. John'Ugh embalming fluid one body, directed that ■Co in reserve, and bought a 1 emetery. He also new outfit of clothes. <ln was found yesterday in coffin, dead. The gas iumse were all turned on. wearing the new clothes. ■ chosi W asa harp, upon the of which the fingers of his lay. EON GAINS ~ I IN STRENGTH ■"tor Seriously 111 At ■'* Orange Home; ■ Bulletin Issued Mt Orange, NJ., Aug. 3—(U.R) A. Edison, ill at his Park home here, contingain steadily in strength ■ find took, an active interest ■ s of tlie <lay, a hopeful in- ■"■ according to his physi|y r Hubert S. Howe. issued this forenoon ■ Edison had a good night, ■pt seven hours. He is in ■nt spirits and is taking ■ interest in outside affairs j |!> has for many days.” ■on, seriously ill with Mia- ■ and gastric ulcers, has ■ marked improvement since ■lapse Saturday, but in view ■ years probably never will ■■• SUED ON PAGE THREE)

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RAIN BRINGS AIDTOCROPS Adams County Gets Two Heavy Rains; Corn Is Making Progress Rain fell in almost every part of Adams county over the week-end L and gave promise of the best farm;, crops raised here in many years, according to farmers' statements., today. Unless there is too much rainfall in the next two weeks, al big yield of corn will be forthcom-1 ing from Adams county . land, it 1 was said. The oats crop is average in i most places. Chalnrer Brodbeck thrashed 438 bushel on 6.18 acres of land for an average of 71 bushel to the acre. On another tract of land covering 12% acres 856 bushel made an average of I 68% to the acre. The oats on these farms are about 10 days earlier I than usuali"Brodbeck stated. The heavy Saturday rain was a I great boon to the wilting corn; fields and the only concern now ! is that’too much rain might drown out some of the corn. This is not ( believed probable however. ; More rain fell Sunday in parts I of the county and showers were' scheduled again today. o_ Prowler Loses Life Indianapolis. Aug. 3.—(U.R) —John C. Gnas, 28, Evansville, was shot to death here by a man who said he fired upon a peeping prowler. Gnas dragged himself from the home of Harley Cooke, where he was wounded, and died a few hours later. Cpoke said that he had seen the prowler near his home frequently and that neighbors had also been alarmed by him. A bullet hole in Gnas' auto was believed to have been caused by a shot which Cooke said he fired at the prowler several days ago. . — o Brutality Is Charged Indianapolis, Aug 3—(UP) —Alleged "Bloody Brutality” of policemen was attacked in (wo telegrams from purported communist societies in Gary and Hammond on file today with Governor Harry G. Leslie. The telegrams asked for the release of men arrested by Gary police Saturday night during a public demonstration. 4)ne was from the Gary chapter of the Mutual Aid Society, protesting against “bloody brutality of drunken policemen aifd gangsters.’’ The other, signed by G. A- Fritz secretary of the unemployed council of Hammond, charged "brutal slugging by Gary police of peaceful workers bonding a peaceful meeting.”

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Showers Bring Relief Indianapolis, Aug. 3. —(U.R)—Scattered showers, which ranged from a drizzle to brief, heavy downpours,) [brought temporary relief over thel I week-end from a week of unseason- i ably high temperatures, but forecasts today indicated clear weather I ahead, with rising temperature. The U. S. weather bureau here i registered 94 degrees before the levelling shower yesterday, and the i mercury was the lowest in many ■ days this morning, with cloudy : skies and a good breeze. I The precipitation was not general enough to bring statewide reI lief. OIL INDUSTRY AWAITS ORDER Oklahoma Governor To Issue Shut-Down Order During Day Oklahoma City, Aug. 3—(UP) — ■ Its "nerves on edge” as the result of a week end of anxious waiting for | Gov. William H Murray to issue his ; anounced shutdown order for Olkahoma oil areas, the oil industry lookI ed to the chief executive for action today. Cicero Murray, chairman of the oil states advisory committee, advised the United Press that the governor would issue the order during the day. "I am sure the governor will issue the order," the chairman said. “The rumor he intends to make the order without the use of the state military forces is without foundation.’’ The governor declined to comment on his threat to call out the national guard. He had proposed shutdown of oil fiends until the price of crude oil rose to $1 a barrel. Saturday had been the deadline for major oil purchasers to meet his demands. Oil men believed the governor was drafting an elaborate brief of the oil situation to be the basis of a United States supreme court test of the legality of the state interference. Cicero Murray told the United Press the edict had been written and rewritten several times because the governor wished to make his position impregnable. p Bomb Is Exploded Belgrade, Serbia, Aug. 3. (U.R) — A bomb placed on the Munich-Zagrab-Belgrade train exploded today bt tween Zentun and ZemunNovigrad, Jugoslavia, killing three and gravely wounding 16 passengers. The assailant was unknown but police suspected a Bulgarian communist or other political terrorist.

The assailant was unknown but police suspected a Bulgarian communist or other political terrorist.

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Decatur, Indiana, Monday, August 3, 1931.

RURAL SCHOOLS OF COUNTY TO OPEN SEPT. 1! Trustees Will Present ! Petition To Hospital 1 Hoard at Next Meet HOLD REGULAR MEETING TODAY All rural grade and high schools of Adams county will open Monday. September 7, it was decided at a meetini*' of the Adams County board I of education held in the office of Clifton E. Striker, county superintendent, this morning. Plans for the opening of school were discussed and each township trustee stated that every effort will be made to decrease the expenses of operating the schools this win- ' ter. Janitor fees and expenses | other than teacher’s salaries will: be lowered, it was stated. A partial list of the teachers to : be employed for the winter term 1 was submitted by the townshin i trustees, and a complete list will i be announced soon, it was stated.; Petition Hospital Board A committee composed of T. R. Noll, trustee of Washington township; Ed Stahly, trustee of Wabash township and David D. Habegger. ■ trustee of Blue Creek township I was appointed to submit a petition to the Adams County Memori (CONTINUED ON PAGE THREE) o COMMISSIONERS HOLD MEETING Regular Business Is Disposed of At Opening Day of Session The board of county commissioners met in regular session this morning and devoted the forenoon to checking up and allowing of bills. The board may establish several policies relative to claim allowances out of the poor funds, their purpose being to reduce expenses as much as possible. One question which the commissioners were discussing today was [the paying of hospital bills in ma-1 (ternity cases for the poor. Several cases have been filed by township trustees fn the last year. Field examiners for the state board of accounts have advised the ' county commissioners that poor relief did not include or mean that | hospital facilities should be furnished the patient at child birth. The poor fund which is in the hands of the trustee, is payable only on al(CONTINUED ON D AGE TWO) ANNUAL REPORT FILED TODAY Hospital Has Served More Than 5,000 Hn Eight Years Time The Adams County Memorial Hospital was opened to the public on July 29, 1923 and since that time has served more than 5,000 people of Adams Cotnty and adjoining counties, according to a report filed by Miss Emilie C. Christ, superintendent. Miss Christ shows in her report that there were a total of 5,014 cases since the opening of the hospital, eight years ago. Os that number 1340 were major operations; 553 minor operations; 793 medical patients, 430 maternity cases; 433 new' born babies; 1,194 tonsillectomy operations, 111 fractures; 72 accident patients; 13 burns;) 30 eye and ear ailments, and 45 X-rays. The eight year report was filed in connection with the annual report presented to the Board of Hospital trustees at the regular meeting held Saturday, August 1. o Brotherhood Will Meet The Evangelical Men’s Brother hood meet in the church tonight at 8 o’clock. The July Section of which J. O. Tricker is the chairman will be in charge of the program for the evening.

Woman Badly Hurt In Alleged Drunken Fight Lafayette, Aug. 3.—(U.R) —A fight in a swimming pool, allegedly the climax to a drinking party by the participants, resulted in critical injuries to Mrs. “Babe” Rice, 34. Mrs. Wilma Reed, 24, w’ho was charged with striking Mrs. Rice on the head several times with a hammer, was held by police, and her husband. Dave, likewise was held for investigation. o TO HOLD SHOW IN COURT HOUSE i Flower Exhibit Will Be Placed In Corridor For Street Fair Permission to hold the flower show of the Decatur Free street fair in the corridor otf the court house, was granted today by the board of county commissioners. James Cowan, superintendent of the flower department and his committee will make all arrangements for the flower display and the central location of the exhibit is expected to be one of the most popular places in connection with the street fair. Mr. Cowen stated that it was planned to have the west end of the corridor for the commercial flower exhibits and he has the assurance from florists that sufficient cut flowers will lie on hands to make this corner a place of beauty. The flower exhibits of Adams county people will be arranged in the center of the corridor and along the walls and the committee plans to have it arranged in such away that hundreds of people can view the exhibits. Besides the commercial growers division there will be four other exhibits in the show, namely the garden cut flowers, flower baskets, miniature garden division, and general flower division. Prizes total $2lO for the show. Court Reporter Back Miss Anna Smith, Adams Circuit court reporter, returned today from Rome City where she spent a 10day vacation. HELLER NAMED JUDGEPRO-TEM Judge Erwin Will Be Away From City During Month of August H. B. Heller, local attorney today was named judge pro-tem of Adams circuit court to serve from August 5 to August 27 during the absence from the city of Judge D. B. Erwin Judge and Mrs. Erwin wilj, leave Wednesday for Oden, Mich., where they will spend the month. The order reads that “Henry B Heller is hereby appointed to take care of all regular business of Adams circuit court from August 5 to August 27. It is the usual custom to name a judge pro-tem, when the regular judge is absent from the city. In vacation insanity cases and criminal cases where the defendant wishes to plead guilty can be heard, other eases are continued to the regular term of court. The September term of Adams circuit court will open Monday September 7. and Judge Erwin stated today that he would be back in the city by that time. A judge pro-tem receives a salary of $lO a day when actually engaged in the court's business, according to a provision of lawo M ill Hold Kindergarten Mis. Harriett Myers-Mills will reopen the “Bonnie-Jack'’ Kindergargarten at her home on 228% North Fourth Street in September. Children are being enrolled from the ages of three up to school ;/.e. Parents interested in the kindergarten are asked to call Mrs. Mills at 1267. Italian Flier Killed Rome Aug. 3—(UP) —Gapt. Goivanni Honti. attached to the highspeed flyihg squadron at Desenanzano. was killed Sunday when his plane weht into a nose-dive at Lake Garda while he was training for the Schneider trophy races next month in England.

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AUCTIONEERS REGISTER FOR SUMMER TERM Col, Reppert Opens Annual Summer School With Address TWENTY-ONE ARE PRESENT The mid-summer term of the Reppert School of Auctioneering opened this morning with 21 students answering the roll call. Several more are expected to arrive today. The forenoon session of the school, which is bf‘ing conducted at Bellmont Park, was opened .with an address by Col. Fred Reppert, founder and organizer of the famous school. Col. Reppert outlined the work for the midsummer term of the school. Talks were also given by Col. Earl Gartin of Greensburg, and Col. Guy Pettit of Bloomfield, lowa. The Reppert School of Auctioneering is one of the most famous schools of its kind, and more than 15 states of the union are represented in the school this term. The first public auction sale will | take place Saturday, August 8. Those who registered in the school today are as follows: G. Carl Butler, New Tazewell, Tenn. Fred A. Wright. Aurorp, Neb. Michael Duffy, Springfield, Ohio. Phil Glick, R. R. No. 1, Paris, 111. Emmet C. Duffy, Springfield. O. H. E. Horst, 1951 W. Congress St.. Chicago, 111. E. C. Orr, Oshkosh, Nebr. CONTINUED ON PAGE THREE) ■■ ■ 1»- — — ~ - Show Entries Closed The Gold Medal Colt Club entries closed July 31. The following 28 farmers entered 37 colts, eleven of which are purebred colts and eligible for registry: Glen Rupert, Robters Teeple, Dan D. Kauffman, Gail Cook, David D. Habegger, Win. Mitchell, David Wynn, Ronert Myers, John Mefriman, Ed. Neuhouser, Albert Beer. Walter Lehman, Henry Dehner, Jr., Henry Dehner, Sr., Edward Scherer, Joel Neuensshwander, Rufus Hirschy, Oscar Steiner, Franklin Mazelin, M. M. Lieciity, Frank Habegger, Calvin Liechty, Leon Neuenschwander, Harrison Miller, Joseph Peel, Menno Mertz, Teeple Brothers and Clarence Reppert. These colts will show in the Gold Medal Colt Club classes as yearlings providing they make 659 pounds gain one year from the day they were weighed for suckling colts. The Gold Medal Colt club is a project sponsored lly the Purdue University Extension Department under the aupices of the Indiana Livestock Breeders association. o J JUDGE ERWIN PRESENTS PLAN Would Force Non-Sup-porters To Work For $1 Day On Roads Adams county men who fail to provide for their wife and family won’t have it so easy by going to jail as soon as a plan started this morning by Judge D. B. Erwin and the county commissioners starts working. Judge Erwin visited the board and showed them a statute whereby persons held in the county jail for failure to support can be used on county road work. Every day the men work, a salary of $1 00 a day is turned over to the family by the county. The man so convicted of failure to support is under the supervision at all times of a deputy sherif and ater (CONTINUED ON PAGE THREE) 0 Schindler Heads Board Berne, August 3 —(UP) — The Berne City schools’will open Tuesday, September 8. it was decided at a re-organization meeting of the Berne School board held at the high school building. this forenoon. Officers for the coming year were reelected president, Grover W. re-elected president, Governor W. Sprunger, secretary and Hiram Liechty, treasurer.

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Cancer Foe . i Mr I*Dr. Maud Slye of the University : of Chicago, who demonstrated to an assemblage of University of Chicago medical men that th? tendency to cancer is definitely subject to the Mendellan law of heredity. Dr. Slye, who has bred pud performed autopsies on 98.00<) animals during her twenty-three years of research on the heritability of cancer, presented the health and disease history through four generations in the life of a single strain of lalwratory mice. By inbreeding the progeny of a male cancer-free mouse and a female of cancer-ridden parentage through four generations Dr. Slye found that 11 per cent of a family of 205 mice developed cancer. SfOLENAUTO - IS RECOVERED Sheriff Johnson Captures Chicago Young Men; Both Confess Sheriff Burl Johnson arrested two Chicago youths Sunday morning on charges of stealing an automobile and transporting a stolen automobile, which they wrecked Saturday night at about 11 o’clock while trying to make the turn on state road No. 27 near the Bert Johnson farm, south of Decatur. The men, Allen J. Phillips, 19, and Theodore Peters, 25, lx>th of Chicago, are held in the Adams county jail and probably will be charged with violation of the Dyer act. The two men were arrested about seven o'clock Sunday morning while they were hitch-hiking on State road No. 27, near the Hines school house. Following their accident they slept in a barn on the Johnson farm and started out early Sunday on foot to Greenville, Ohio. Sheriff Johnson was called about three o'clock Sunday morning and towed in the wrecked automobile. He learned later that the boys had started to walk south and when he came near them in his car they flaged him and asked him for a ride. He asked them where they were going and they said Greenville. He then ordered them in his car and drove to the jail. Through communication with (CONTINUED ON PAGE THREE)' ■l■i,■,■ ■ ■ ■ ■■■ l ■ Doctors Are Puzzled , Wabash August 3—CUP) — Phy- . sicians today puzzled over the man- , ner by which, they said, John Alexander, 74, suffered a leg fracture. Alexander, the physicians said . suffered a cramp in his leg while , sleeping. The" contracting muscles pulled the leg back under his body I until the bone snapped, they report- . ed. — o_ New Flight Is Planned Istanbul, Turkey, Aug. 3 —(UP) — Russell Boardman and John Polani do, American trans Atlantic fliers, ■ probably will attempt a non-stop i flight from Istanbul to Calcutta s next Thursday, they said today, i This intimation followed a period of uncertainity and inspection » of their Bellanca monoplane to de- . termine its fitness for furthest ravel . after setting a new world distance - record. The craft was found in good shape.

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WICKERSHAM GROUP PRAISES FEDERAL PLAN Says Cases Are Disposed Os Quickly In Federal Districts SUGGESTIONS ARE SUBMITTED Washington, Aug. 3.—(U.R)— Increasing use of the federal district courts "for the kind of offenses ordinarily designated as police court offenses” was reported today by the Wickersham commission. The commission transmitted to President Hoover a minute study of the federal court tor Connecticut for three years ended June 30, 1930. It found that by the end of that period minor prohibition cases had increased so greatly that they constituted 81 per cent of the criminal docket there. Despite the growing number of cases the court was found to be handling them expeditiously and with “a complete absence of procedural delays and difficulties which commonly are thought to be inherent in and peculiar to the system.’’ Great numbers of weak cases are dropped by the federal enforcement agencies and prosecutors. "Bargaining” with defendants to plead guilty also speeds up the court's work, the commission said. As a result there were 682 convictions in the 740 criminal cases in the three years. Ninety-two per cent of them were on please of guilty, in 585 prohibition cases, there were 537 convictions. Sixtyfive per cent of the prohibition eases were disposed of on the day the information or indictment was filed. Eighty per cent of them were disposed of by fines. In all the 740 cases there were only nine jury trials. "The falling of the jury into almost complete destitute is most striking," the commission said. Eight of the trialswere in prohibition cases and three of them brought convictions. Evidence of the “bargaining sys(CONTINUED ON PAGE THREE) o Bagley Funeral Held Berne, August 3—(Special)—The burial of Abrham Bagley former resident of this place who committed suicide at his cell in the Fort Wayne city jail last Thursday afternoon, was held in the M. R. E. Cemetery at 10 o'clock Saturday forenoon. The body was brought to the Bierie and Yager Funeral Parlors, Friday afternoon where friends were allowed to view it. — o Cases Are Postponed The case of the State of Indiana vs. E. J. Miller and Harold Cline tor posession of slot machines was postponed until two o’clock Tuesday afternoon by Mayor George Krick when the cases came up in mayor's court and attorneys for the defendants stated they wished to file a motion to quash the affidavits. Ed. A Bosse of Decatur and Fay Leas of Fort Wayne are attorneys for the defendants. o PERRY STARTS LIFE SENTENCE 40-Year-Old “Romeo” To Begin Term Today In Wisconsin Prison Eagle River, Wis„ Aug. 3.—(U.R)— George W. E. Perry, the 40-year-old former railroad brakeman who confessed to marrying seven women illegally after deserting his family in 1929, today faced lite imprisonment as a result of his conviction on charges of slaying Mrs. Cora Belle Hackett, his fourth wife. Sheriff Thomas McGregor and two deputies planned to take the one-eyed Romeo—Perry is blind in the right eye—to Waupun penitentiary today. A jury returned a guilty verdict against Perry Saturday night, after deliberating less than two hours. The former brakeman was charged with first degree murder after Mrs. (CONTINUED ON PAGE THREE)