Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 29, Number 189, Decatur, Adams County, 11 August 1931 — Page 1

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ll YOUTHS |0 DEAD IN burned auto te ßelieve )}; orc lacked Before Kill•m Took Place STARTED 1 TO MOVIES — abnti. Mieli.. Aug. 11-| Jjvlninii'il Imhliis ol fount! C.li'iT.sml &l s \ two Ypsilml' youths | found in a I’litirred iqlhlc on tin' outskirts [ city todny. , four li:i<l .i|>|r"'cnti\ mbbtii Mini attaiked ht- air sot at in hv lin n' kit assailants, police fcfl: n Cold. 15, Cleveland: , l Harris. 1. i * 1»■ v, - l.i nil i T Lore. IS. Vpsilanti; ns VVliKitli I 1 ' Vpsilanii. of the girl's sltpp-r* was in ths dm li i - .‘i Hu' ears. n of a furious si nipple mod. attorn the machine, ,r with Id i S1 ’iiK ■ I 1 'ii id h. four vii i iii- li.nl oot been tw -its • b-l'l I'PethIttenil a mini' a' v -o p.m. tit. girls were vi-iting at the of I.”". - imi ' ii III) ire ts of one of them. interior ■>: the ■at ami the rriNTED ON PAGE SIX) ununity Singing to Be Held at Herne Coa.i.ursily 5. mg Festival ks place in Is i.’ti.iti Park in S'liiim i.i' : \ugiist linninp at . ■ lock, t(’ST), to interestiti_ ; 'opram has fkaned lor the event. This festival pn a- -tu he one i' ’trai-tions ibe spoiiser.'il in Herne, twitif is the complete protor the event: bus bj Dunbar Rand. ■ity Singimr l. <1 by Ern st don, Rev. J. I„ Conrad. Wperbunit, l..ii-e Herman ns Chorus, led by D. C. KMehwander. Qnnttf'. K: • u .m BurkhalUrst v: "i n. 1,, rtnule BurkHer, second violin; Verdi Sasser, viola: Hl.nlys Sirhind- , 'cello. * Coliee. Quartet, Leslie rttnan Verdi lb iiwt, Harry stdty, Clifton Lehman. Chorus of First Missionary lurch, led by Miss tilailys ilndler. * ? Quartet. L. 11. Smith, O. Smith. M. s. 1 . liman, HarI Eichenberper. Choru- of i{. foi med Church, dy Ernest Liro. t German Mixed Chorus, in sin parts, led by D. W Piece of music. Bolu. David I'.inbl r of West"ter Choir, Ithaca, N. Y. - ® oru *> two numbers by the Itdorus which will appear f"* Chicapoland Musical Wtal at Soldiers Field ChiA “Kust 22m1. Har&ld conductor. EN KILLED IN RAIL CRASH Demolishes Auto at u lew > 111-; All Motorists Die S\*. Allg - n ~ <U.P>— Milwaukee family of «« three Chicago relatives *en ~n stant '“te yesterJ l , helr automobile was asl fain of the Chica--1,., ee ' St - p «ul and Pael- * here" UU> Waukeßan road w /' r «' Bntno Woods. ,2 2 Blhe driver; Helen ; "w wife; David Woods. i Millie 80,1 ’ Jos eph Rut- , Bll !* aukee ’ Wood's uncle; C? W ! ki ’ llis wife; He “' kttkoiL : t . l ! eir 8on; Dots w _ ’'■ lhe lr daughter, it a !L retUrn,ng t 0 Dhlcahls 8 at ,he Uutkowski said. Accord(TlNtJED UN PAGE SIX)

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Crime Shows Decrease Indianapolis August .11—(UP) — Ct inte was on the decrease in Indianapolis in nearly every department during the first seven months of IS.II according to figures given out by tlie detective bureau. Stolen property up to August S, 1931 was $632,399.20 short of th • same period in IS3O, here were 341 fewer complaints. 293 fewer antes stolen. 88 fewer burglaries, two fewer murders, and 27 fewer arrest. 1- ., the report showed. GROUP PLANS FINAL REPORT — Wickersham Commission to Make Final Report in 10 Days Washington, Aug. 11. —(U.R) — Within 10 days the complete findings of the Wickersham commission on the state of law enforce- 1 nient and observance in the I'nit-i ed States will be laid before the! public. Eleven paper-bound volumes of j studies and recommendations on; subjects ranging from prohibition to police brutality have been pub-; Itshed. Three more are to be issued shortly. They deal with "Crime and the Foreign Born," 1 "The Cost of Crime" and "The Causes of Crime.” Officially, the commission expired July 1 along with the $500,000 appropriation with which congress financed its two years' work. Publication of its last report is lieing attended to by a small start wording in an obscure downtown office. Funds are heing provided from an undisclosed source. So far the commission has issu(CONTINUED ON PAGE SIX. DEATH CALLS PREBLE WOMAN Mrs. Amanda Ehlerding Dies This Morning of Heart Ailment Mrs. Amanda Bhlerding, 36. wife of Gust Khlerding, died at her home In Preble township, 4 miles west of this city at 6 o'clock this morning of heart trouble and complications. Mrs. Ehleriling became ill last Saturday and her condition was critical since Sunday. She was born in Prelle township, August 27. 1894. the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Charles Ewell. Surviving is the hushand and four children, who are Helen. Herbert. Dorothy and Lewis, all at home. A brother, Oscar Ewell J of Wells count 3 sisters, Mrs i Paul Myers, Mre. Otto Wefel and Mrs. Velma Schlaudrauf all of Fort Wayne, also survive. Mrs. Bhlerding was a member of the St. Paul Lutheran church in Preble township for many years. She spent her entire life in Preble township. The body was taken to the William Zwirk Funeral Hornwhere it will be until Wednesday afternoon when it will be taken to the Khlerding home. Funeral services will he held at 2:30 o'clock (Sun Time) at the home In Preble township with Rev. Robert Gaiser. paAtor of the St. Paul Lutheran church, officiating. Burial will hje in the church cemetery. o— — I Violators Are Arraigned Terra Haute, Aug. 11.—(U.R) — Nine prisoners brought here from Vincennes where they were arrested on liquor charges after raids last week, were arraigned before , U. S. Commissioner Claude Randel, and released on $2,500 bonds. The prisoners are Roy J. Wreststein, 43; Marvin Shepherd, 34; ' James A. McManus, 56; William Fisher, .49; Ed. B. Towers, 46; Fred B. Messel, 24; Charles Eukanles. 57; Sam Harrell, 51; and John H. Beard, 69. 0 ! Cubans Are Captured New York, Aug. 11. —(U.R) —A . small motor vessel, the Minerva, . with st* Cubans aboard, was captured by the Coast Guard destroy . er Wood, about 60 miles off At- [ lantic City today and brought into . New York. The Cubans were turned over to the Department of Justice here for investigation.

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The Colors Cio Marching By At salute as the Sixty-sixth Brigade goes by in review at Camp Giant, Rockford, 111., are. left' toriST Governor Louis L. Emmerson, Gen. Abel Davis, former commander of the Sixty sixth, in whose honor the patriotic demonstration was staged; Major Gen. Roy I). Keehn, commanding officer of the Thirty-third Division, and Brig. General John J. Garrity.

STRIKE NEARS j SETTLEMENT Hoover Dam Workmen to Return Soon, Report Reveals ' » Las Vegas, Nev., Aug. 11.—(U.R) —Officials of Six Companies, Inc., j predicted today work would be re- 1 slimed soon at the Hoover Dam Water and Power project where construction was stopped last week ; because of a strike In protest j against a eut in wages. . W. H. Wattis, president, said that although work on the dam ( was six months ahead of schedule j and a temporary shutdown would , lie beneficial in some ways to the company, it was not desirable because of the trouble of dismissing and re-hiring 1.500 men. About 1,000 men, those who did not take pqrt in the strike, remained idle, but were said to be ready to go back to work anytime. ' Most of 100 workers who struck | accepted their pay checks yester-l day although they had announced | previously they would refuse them.; In defending his company, Wat- j lis said in a statement that Six; Companies, Inc., was paying an average of 50 cents an hour and that he believed this was the highest wage being paid by any contracting firm in the country. THREE STATES WAHT WINKLER Legal Battle Certain of! Injured (iangster Regains Health St. Joseph, Mich.. Aug. 11 —(U.R) — A light for custody of Gus Winkler, bank bandit suspect, apprehended when he was injured in an automobile crash, seemed likely today with Michigan, Nebraska and Wisconsin authorities seeking him. Other states may join the contest. Winkler has been positively identified as one of the men who robbed a bank in Lincoln, Neb., last year, getting $2,500,000 in cash and securities. At the same time, Sheriff Fred J. Cutler said Wisconsin authorities telephoned him they had placed a warrant for Winkler in the mail. He is named ■us one of Fred (Killer) Burke’s aides in a hank robbery at Jefferson, Wis„ where $320,000 was j (CONTINUED ON PAGE SIX) o Discussion to Re-open Paris, Aug. 11 —(UP)— France has agreed to reopen naval negotiations with Italy at Geneva early next month, it was learned today. The conference probably will start coincident with the league of Nations council meeting it was said. It was expected that Premier Pierre Laval's anticipated visit to Rome would coincide with resumption of the negotiations. Tlie conference will endeavor to find away out of the impasse reached by previous note interchanges involving Italy, France and Great Britain.

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Earthquake Registered London, Aug. 11. —(U.R) —A vio- , lent earthquake was registered by I the West Bromwich seismograph iat 10:28 p. m. last night. The epicenter was estimated 4,000 .miles distant. 4 Faenza, Italy, Aug. 11.—(U.R) —j An extremely violent earthquake | was recorded last night by the t seismograph of Prof. Rafael Ben- ' dandi, famous Italian seismologist. | The tremor registered from a j southeasterly direction but was so! strong that it damaged the instru-1 I ments, rendering calculation of tli j ! distance impossible. REBELS FIGHT ' | CUBAN FORCES _ ! .Government Maintains a Military Grip on Island; Siege Reported ( Havana. Cuba. Aug. 11 —(U.R) - i I Brisk fighting l>etween rebel and I loyal government forces was re-; j ported near the capital today as' | the death toll in the Cuban revolt! reached ten. President Gerardo Machado signed a decree suspending constitu- i tional guarantees. A state of siege continued in the Province of Havana and Pinar Del Rio. The government maintained its, rigid military grip on the island, j Five more revolutionaries and j one government rural guard were slain in a battle last night at j (luanahacoa, 12 miles outside Ha- i vanA. Three rebels and one police lost their lives in earlier out-] ! break®. The fighting at Guanabacoa ! occurred when a party of nationalists attempting to overthrow the Machado regime marched on the nearby city. A patrol of rural guards attempted to halt the advancing rebels, meager reports (CONTINUED ON PAGE SIX) MERGER PLANS PROGRESSING Petitions for Referendum Circulated in Two Calumet Cities Hammond. Aug. 11 — (UP) — Nearly one-third of the number of signatures needed for a petition asking a referendum election on the question of consolidating Hammond East Chicago and other nearby towns in the Calumet district into one city have been obtained, it was announced today. "I feel satisfied that we will have the necessary number of petitioners by the end of the week," Frank J. O’Rourke, chairman of Citizen’s amalgamation committee said. If a majority of the voters in each city tavor the move, the merger would become effective at the expiration of terms of the present city officials, which In this case would be in about two years and five months.

SEEK REFUND ON NEW BRIDGE s State Highway Bo d y Seek $21,000 Return at Evansville — Indianapolis, Aug. 11.—(U.R)—The | Indiana State Highway Commission is attempting to obtain a re-! ' fund of some $21,000 on the con- ' ) tract price of the Evansville bridge! over tbe Ohio River, now under construction, it was learned alter! la conference between highway officials and representatives of the ! contractor. I After the contract was awarded, the War Department authorized [lowering of the clearance of the; j bridge by eight feet, resulting in a! t reduction of 1,200 yards of con-, | Crete in the structure. In answer to the state's request [for reduction, C. S. Zimmerman, [Kansas City, Mo, chief engineer for the Kansas City Bridge Comipany, contractor, said the comIpany was entitled to the full con- | tract price. He said part of his j overhead expenses had been dejtermined by the 1,200 yards of concrete not needed in construction, j Attorney General James M. Ogjden was asked for an opinion, and | took the question under advisei ment. FLIER FACES" ■ COURT MARTIAL Flight to Honduras Is Unauthorized by Authorities Floyd Bennett Field, Brooklyn, N. Y„ Aug. 11.— (U.R) —Captain Li--1 sandro Garay, Honduran aviator missing on what friends say is an unauthorized non-stop flight to I Tegucigalpa, Honduras, faces a cojirt martial if and when he lands i there according to advices receiviled lure today. No word has been heard of Garlay since he took off “here Sunday on what he described as a short test flight. Garay for sometime had been planning a non-stop flight to the Honduran capital. Officials pointed out that had he started for his native country he should have reached there late yesterday. It was learned that the Honduran government sometime ago asked the United States government 1 not to permit Garay, who is withl out a pilot’s license to fly. Garay did not ask permission of t the Department of Commerce, the State Department of the Honduran 1 government for the non-stop flight. i O— O STORES TO CLOSE At a meeting today of direc- i tors of the Decatur Chamber i of Commerce it was voted to • ask all Decatur business houses ! to close from 9 o'clock Wednesday morning until 9:45 j 1 o’clock, during the funeral ] s services of E. F. Gass. 0 —O

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jLINDBERGHS FORCED DOWN ! BY HEAVY FOG i j Fliers Make a Forced ' Landing 100 Miles from Nome, Alaska j SURVEY RUMOR NOT VERIFIED ‘ Nome, Alaska. Aug. 11.— (U.R)— j , Fog that swept in from the ice- j | j filled Bering Sea today caused i I Col. and Mrs. Charles A. Lind-j ! bergh to make tiie first non-s?lied-uled stop of their New York-to-1 Tokio vacation flight. Lftulbergh landed his black and ; yellow monoplane, sately through - | the fog in Kotzebue Sound, on the idge of thhe Seward peninsula, at 12:20 a.in. Nome time (3:20 a.m. PST) this morning. Mrs. Lindbergh wirelessed the Nome coast guard station that the plane would remain on the sound 1 until the fog lifts. 1 The Lindberghs were within ‘ about 100 miles of Nome, their ' destination, when the fog descended on them. ‘ They left Point Barrow, Alaska, i 1 at 8:53 PST last night. < The message said weather conditions on the flight were good tin- 1 ; til a heavy fog was encountered ' crossing Motzebue sound. The inland trip over rugged * country from Point Barrow to Kotzebue Sound was clear, but a slight headwind was encountered, Mrs. Lind'UergTi said in the mesi sage. ! She wirelessed that the plane ' 1 would rest on the sound until the 1 j fog lifts, when it will take off and ' ,! come on to Nome. : | arrives here, it 'CONTINUED ON PAGK SIXi CRAMER PLANE REMAINS LOST Storms Delay Searching Parties; Three Days Overdue -I , j Copenhagen, Denmark, Aug. 11 — i . j (U.R) —Hope waned today for the I safety of Parker D. Cramer, AinerI ican trans-Atlantic flier nearly .! three days overdue on the last lap I! of his flight over the storm-swept Atlantic. Storms delayed airplane search j parties planned under the direction !of Captain Riiser-Larsen, NorweItgian flier. Rjiser-Larsen was ready to lead a relief expedition out from Bergen, on the west coast of Norway, when the heavy weather lifts. Cramer, accompanied by Oliver Racquette, Canadian radio operator, had not been heard from since late last Saturday. The two left Sydero, on the Faroe Islands, at 1 p. m. Saturday on an 800-mile flight to Copenhagen, their goal. Their flight started at Detroit July , 27 and wasldesigned to map an air route linking America and Europe byway of Greenland, Icet (CONTINUED ON PAGE SIX) WILL CONTINUE TO GET SIGNERS Stephenson Aides not Heed Request from Former Dragon Indianapolis, Aug. 11. —(U.R) — - Indianapolis sponsors of a petition - seeking jtardon for David C. Stet phensott will continue to obtain - signatures to their document despite the former Indiana Klan f Dragon's request that the move he e abandoned. a Henry Kottkamp, one of the . sponsors, said he had received a letter from Stephenson, who is at ’ the state prison at Michigan City 1 life sentence on a murder conviction. Kottkamp announced lie would ( confer with the prisoner late today or tomorrow, but meanwhile the | petition would continue In circulation. He said he did not wish to continue indefinitely any move that would injure Stephenson's chance J (CONTINUED ON PACKS SIX)

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Motorist Is Arrested Kokomo, Aug. 11 —(U.R) —Razzie I Funk, 19-year-old Connersville boy, was a good Samaritan whose kindness was overbalanced by liquor, according to the story told local police by Jack Maunsos, Chicago hitchhiker who had accepted Funk’s proffer of a ride. After accepting the “lift” front Funk on the edge of Indianapolis, Maunsos commandeered the auto and drove to the Kokomo police station, where he surrendered his benefactor. Funk was charged with intoxication. ’ CHINESE BEAT TWO AMERICANS Are Members of Party Subjected to Beating in Orient London, Aug. 11.—(U.R)—Two j, American women were in a party 1 1 severly beaten by Chinese coolies 1 during a recent anti-foreign incident, a Hankow dispatch to the Daily Mail reported today. The American women were with j a British woman and four British! men subjects to the heating, the j dispatch said. They were conveyed to a police station after the attack, where Chinese authorities refused permission to communicate with the American or British consular officials in Hankow. Washington, Aug. 11.—(U.R) — Nelson T. Johnson, United States Minister to China, reported to the State Department that two American women, a British woman and four British men were attacked by coolies in Hankow on Aug. 6, after a Ricksha accident. The report from the legation said a British woman and a Mrs. Fielding, wife of an American naval officer, were taken to a Chinese jail and held incommunicado. They were released after being subjected to minor indignities. Walter Adams, United States Consul at Hankow, began an inquiry into the incident, Johnson reported. o Phone Cables Damaged Lebanon, Aug. 11.—(U.R)—Telephone service to about 800 subscribers in the southern section ot Lebanon and outlying rural districts was being restored today after a fire had damaged telephone cables. The cables were strung over a barn which was destroyed by fire. SAM COOK IS LOW BIDDER Church Trustees Vote to Award Bid at Meeting Next Monday Bids for the painting of the Sisters House and Parish Residence of St. Marys Catholic church were opened at a meeting ot' the church trustees, held in the Old Adams County Bank, Monday evening at 7:30 o’clock. None of the bids was officially accepted it was stated today, but the bids were openetfand taken under advisement. Sam Cool: was the low bidder for the painting of the houses and will probably be awarded the contract, it was stated. Eight other bids were submitted for the job. The contract for the > int and for coal were not awarded and bids will he further considered at the next regulat meeting of the trustees, to be held Monday evening August 17. The bids were submitted to the trustees subsequent to a notice published last week, and were opened Monday night. The price quoted by Mr. Cook for the work was not made public. Agreement Is Signed London, Aug. 11—(UP) —A formal portocol embodying measures to make the Hoover debt holiday plan effective was signed today at the foreign office. Signatures were affixed in the locarno room after brief speeches by various ambassadors and experts who had worked three weeks in ilovetuiling the Hoover plan into exis ting agreements. The signing was completed at 5:15 P. M.

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ANTI-DRYS TO REVIVE FIGHT TO MODIFY LAW Claim Depression can Be Aided with Change in Dry Laws CONCENTRATES ARE DISCUSSED Washington, Aug. 11— <U.R) — The irrepressible prohibition .question has forced its way to tbe front again from tlie temporary obscurity into which tlie economic depression threw it. An effort to get modification of the Volstead act as an economic relief measure is being waged hv anti-prohibition groups. Prohibition is expected to confront the administration, congress, and many candidates in the next campaign in two phases. Both are Being agitated with a sudden buret of activity One question is whether the grape industry shall continue to market a product and service it in home even to the final bottling of the resultant sauterne, claret. Burgundy, or other favored wines. This issue finds Mrs. Mabel Walker Willebrandt, once acclaimed the Joan of Arc of the drys, now supplying the astute legal brains guiding, the chief grape concentrate concern. Fruit Industries, Ltd., through the legal mazes so successfully that thus far Prohibition Director Amos W. W. Woodcock has not even brought a test case against that company. The other question centers on | Beer. Appeals are being made to ' modify the Volstead act to permit up to 4 per cent beer, claimed by wets to be non-intoxicating, as a means of relieving economic depression and adding to federal revenues. These two issues are tied togetlied by some who protest it is unfair to grant virtual government .CONTINUED ON PAGE SIX) Will Sponsor Dance The Phi Delta Kappa fraternitv will sponsor park plan <l|nces at th Q Masonic Hall during the Decatur Street fair, it was anounced today. The dances will be held each evening beginning Wednesday, September 16, and dancing will lie from 9 to 12:30 o'clock. Cecil Melclu, Don Leßrun, and Eugene Durkin, social committee, will be in charge of the dances. K. of C.’s to Meet F.ench Lick, Aug. 11—(UP)—The forty-ninth annual supreme convention of the Knights of Columbus will open here Sunday morning with registration of several thousand delegates and visitors. The first session of the Catholic! fraternal order of More than 700,009 in the United States, Canada, Cuba and the Phillippines will begin upon arrival ot Martin H. Carmody Grand Rapids, Mich., Supreme Knight, and William J. McGinley, New Haven, Conn., Supreme secretary. Governor Harry G. Leslie will welcome the convention Tuesday morning, immediately after a field mass which more than 10,0(0) persons are expected to attend. COURT FINDS POOLS LEGAL Baseball Tickets not (iamblins. Finding in lindianapolis Court Indianapolis, August 11—(UP) — Basebool pool tickets are not gambling devices, Judge William H. Sheater of Municipal court ruled today in discharging Denver and Sea Ferguson, negroes, proprietors of a printing establishment iaidi*!l last week. Police chief Michael Morrissey’s raiding squad found thousands of hooks of baseball pool tickets, it. was charged. Counsel for the prisoners held that Indiana statutes governing search warrants fail to classify possession of baseball pool tirtets Hi. an offense for which a warrant to search may he issued. He was upheld by the judge.