Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 29, Number 200, Decatur, Adams County, 24 August 1931 — Page 1

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I, WORTHMAN "Ices return EDUCATION "s«j To Op en >c|)temmi i’i'ph* Must " t> V'3» I)ld 2WtERM is H \( ED * MH\otice HH ehil.lrcii nK«l*r 7. entPr |K| on opening day of M|fi rs t seni.-'-r. Septem- 1 Ail children who j Übrtvine six years of age j before tie first day of ■ajenjiiie day of the sec- | .January IS. || elv A I j ■M y F Warthman, Supt. Wnrtam.it: < superinannounced to — , hildren had to be six ■ fore Septem..nt. t "ci oir Septemifi : will become six ..r before Febra-.-nter the second on January IS. 1932. to Scr.ool Campaign 'to: the "back to ’ Mr. Worthmai’i the following statement1 i ptu\ ides cmof ; ofttable nature its people. How! * of ailith- throughout the! if sm h statement could. No young person in! who completed '• - are position to furi- practice that will a pers.-m f or life than an,! there is no tauter acwill more surely fit schooling M ( ,s t o f the most of the mischief. ■' law infringe tnos: of the crime come hands and idle minds, ■an/ot-t opr both. The best to law enforcement is ■■: ':>> ~.. ■ work for youth jH 1 h' ■~f students who will |B on opening day <rfi is ' hce that we’ are' j onttime to live in a good ON PAGE FIVE)

B"n Social Planned > ' ,, "i"l annual lawn social ■ >r ' 1 by die I nion Township i Will be held at the Arthur I . Thursday evening, I A splendid program, con--1,1 'reading, a demon:i - 't and dress review. 111 the Charge of the girls f üb. who will also conduct stand. !r , )ni thp socia] wH| “end a number of the at Purdue next is invited to atB' 1 * 1 social. f SEI CHARGE Bns ANSWERS gators Deny That K. Assembly Was One W< I runken Orgies” ■“• Polis. Aug. 24. — (U.R) — ■ a ,°' s of ,hp state joined toftiials of a charge by L. O. ■ secretary to Governor ' ealie - that members of KL' •’ general assembly were ■J In erested in getting drunk" ■ h , ■ , Ria ' a,ion - Chasey made Kl,'" s '' ' n an a<ldr ess in Marnight. J!! 8 * 1 ’ llei >tenant govered t'hasey’s statement as ton an<l '-infair, coming .. ‘ ow w| 'o ought to know Hush said he believed ■ J as ”° m °re drinking during Mt.. 'Stature than in any oth■B^^L 1 *- 6 PUt *red the legis■|ntinued ON PAGE FIVE)

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I Work for Jobless Relief ft F • II W ■ «i n’ I***! 1 jßrfSk .1 "1 ii] 17& y J Callao vSi ft K r i 1 Newton D. Baker. William Gt een. Walter S. Gifford , These six men. members of the group of prominent leaders in the nation's business, industrial and finance spheres named by President Hoover to work toward unemployment relief this Winter, will have as their chairman Walter S. Gifford, president of the American Telephone and Telegrapn Company. The remaining five, Bernard Baruch. William Green. Silas Strawn. Julius Rosenwald and Newton D. Baker, are all weli-kiV>wn authorities in their lines of endeavor, and will assist Mr. Gifford with relief measures.

ALLEN COUNTYFARMER DIES Frederick E. H. Lohmeyer Dies Sunday; Was Known Here i Frederick E. H. Lohmeyer, 55. Al- j I len county farmer died at 3:15 o'i clock Sunday afternoon at the Luth-1 | eran Hospital at Fort Wayne of ' I complications. Mr. Lohmeyer had been ill only a few days and >as re--moved to the hospital Saturday afternoon. He was born in Adams township, Allen county, June 27, 1878 and spent his entire life on a farm with his mother. Mrs. Sophie Lohmeyer. He was never married. Surviving is the mother; three' brothers, Charles and Frank. Fort I Wayne; William, at home; two sis-1 ters, Mrs. Mary Hartman, of near Fort Wayne and Caroline, at home. The body was brought to the William Zwick Funeral Home in this city Sunday and was removed to I the Lohmeyer home late this after- ’ noon. Funeral services will be held Wednesday afternoon at 1:30 o'clock fit the Trinity Lutheran church, where the deceased was a member for many years. Rev. Karl Wyneken will officiate and burial will be in the church cemetery. FLYING YACHT MAKES READY Do-X Prepares Motors For Trip To New York From Miami, Fla. Miami. Fla., August 24—(UP) — The 12 motors of the German flying yacht DO-X were groomed today for the flight to New York, which will be made with two overnight stops. The plane will fly low over coastal cities so residents may have a close glimpse of the giant craft. The start was planned for tomorrow, with Charleston S. C„ the first overnigfit stop and Norfolk, Va., the second. More than 5,000 Miamians inspected the DO-X yesterday as it rested in the Dinner Key Seaplane base. An example of the power of the plane’s motive units came when a commercial seaplane landed nearby and began drifting periously toward the DO-X. One of the 12 motors was cranked and the powerful backwash of the propeller blew the small plane out of danger. o Attend Yearly Meet Rev. and Mrs. F L. Lanman and Mr. and Mrs. Manley Foreman and daughters Roseyln and Kathleen and son Bobby attended the yearly meeting of the Maple Grove Christian church southeast of Berne Sunday.

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Estelle Taylor Teady To Give .Jack Freedom Hollywood. Aug. 24—(U.R) —"Jack i Dempsey can get any kind of a I divorce anywhere he wants to get i it and I won't oppose it.” Estelle ! Taylor, film actress, whose mari riage to the former world's cham- | pion went on the rocks, declared | today as she left for a vaudeville i tour of the mid west. Miss Taylor filed a divorce suit ( in Los Angeles courts as soon as j Dempsey sought his freedom in i Rerjo. Nev., and had made it • plain that she would do her best jto have any decree granted to 1 Dempsey declared invalid. In fact, one of Miss Taylor's charges of cruelty, incorporated in her divorce'complaint, was Jack's action in filing the Nevada suit, DOLLAR OIL IS PUT IN EFFECT Governor Murray Wins Victory After Martial Law Is Used Oklahoma City, Aug. 24.—(U.R) — Victory in his battle for $1 a barrel crude oil came to Gov. William H. (Alfalfa Bill) Murray while the Oklahoma governor was out the state engaged in a struggle against unemployment. The Phillips Petroleum Company, a major crude petroleum purchased in the mid-continent area, was the first large oil buyer to post the {1 price. It was effective as of 7 a. m. Sunday. The $1 price came within 48 hours after all major purchasers in the mid-continent field, excepting the Sinclair companies, had boosted the price approximately 30 cents a barrel to 70 cents. A crude shortage suddenly developed in Oklahoma and Texas because of martial law decrees, closing some 4,000 wells. Curtailment of one-fifth of Kansas' daily average production of slightly more than 100,000 barrels a day added to the crude famine. 'CONTINUED ON PAGE TWO) 0 — Accident Is Fatal Gary, Aug. 24 —(U.R) —Anton Cosiba, 54, owner of the Lake county Monument and Cut Sfone compan).', died in Mercy hospital today a few hours after his automobile had crashed into the rear of a street car on Main street. Two Marines Killed Washington, Aug. 24 —(UP) —Tw Washington, August 24 —(UP) — Two Marine aviators were killed in a plane crash yesterday at Corinto Nicaragua, the Navy department was informed today. Radio reports to the department saij) sargeant Leg Clark of San Diego, pilot of the plane, was killed instantly. Private Richard M. Campbell died a few hours later.

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Decatur, Hndiana, Monday, August 24, 1931.

DECATUR YOUNG MEN IN MISHAP Herman Kuhn And E. W. Boeker Injured When Two Cars Collide Herman Kuhn. 25, and E. W. Boeker. 23, Decatur young men were injured when the car in which they were riding was hit by a car driven by Fred Williams of Hartford City at 5 o'clock Suilday afternoon. The accident occurred at the intersection of. state road 16 and 3. near Kings-1 land. Mg, Kuhn was unconscious for sometime after the accident and was brought to the Adams County Memorial hospital. He suffered I a number of cuts aml bruises and minor injuries but no tames were broken, and the attending physician stated today that his injur-1 ies are not serious. Mr. Boeker. ' the driver, received a had cut on j his left arm aijd his back was! bruised. None of the occupants of the Williams car was injured. The two Decatur young men w-ere returning from Huntington where they had attended the races and were driving east on, state road 16. The Williams car was going north on state road three and hit the rear end of the (CONTINUED nN PAGE TWOI NOTEO GAMBLER IS KIDNAPED John Lynch Held For $250,000 Ransom By Kidnaping Gans Chicago, Aug. 24—(U.R)- John J. Lynch, 50. nationally known handbook syndicate operator, was reported held today by kidnapers , who threatened to kill him unless $250,000 was paid at once for his release. Lynch is said to be one of the wealthiest gamblers ai(d handbook operators in Chicago. He is part owner of the General News Bureau, which furnishes information to bookmakers throughout the country. Reports that Lynch had be<m | kidnaped were heard Thursday, the day he last was seen in Chicago. The reports were not made public, however, until last night, when the Daily Racing Form, a turf newspaper, announced it would pay $25,000 reward for information which would lead to his i release. Just where the abductors kidnaped Lynch was not known. He has living at his $525,000 home near Lake Geneva, Wis. He drove here Thursday on business (CONTINUED ON PAGE TWO) o UNOYSGET BIG OVATION Aviator And Wife Royally Received At Nemuro On Arrival Nemuro, Japan, Aug. 24. —(U.R)— Shouting residents of Nemuro today took Col. and Mrs. Charles A. Lindbergh to their hearts in giving the fliers their first scheduled welcome to the country which thus far has been to them a land of fog Instead of orange blossoms. From the moment the Lockheed monoplane landed near Nemuro wharf until the aviator and his wife were tucked under the speciallymade quilts at Nibici Inn, their appearance was the signal for prolonged and vigorous cheering. This little seaport of the eastern (CONTINUED ON °AGE TWO) o Girl Escapes Injuries Betty Troutner, small daughter of Charles Troutner of Pleasant Mills, escaped with only minor cuts and bruises Sunday afternoon when; a Ford coach driven by Miss Ruth Rowe, Poneta, and occupied by three other girls, skidded in loose gravel and upset, 5 miles south of Bluffton in the Hoosier highway. Miss Dorothy Musselman received a fractured collar bone.

Fliers Return Home New York, Aug. 24.—(U.R)—Russell Boardman and John I’alando, the Massachusetts fliers who piloted their plane, Cape Cod, from Floyd Bennett airport to Istanbul. Turkey, steamed into New York today with the non-stop long distance flight mark. The metropolis extended the Boston aviators-—ln accordance with their wishes—a welcome as simple and quiet as others have been tumultous. The Excalibur on which the fliers embarked at Marseilles was met at quarantine by a committee appointed by acting Mayor Joseph V. McKee and headed bv George S. Hand. BERNE CHORUS I PLACES FIRST — Wins High Honor At Chicago Musical Festival Festival Berne Aug. 24 —(Special)— The Berne Community Men’s Chorus won first place in the second annual Chicago Music Festival held at Chicago, Saturday. The final contest was held Saturday afternoon in the Gold Ballroom of the Drake Hotel. Five choruses took part in the final contest with Two Rivers. Wis., winning second place. Saturday night the Berne chorus sang the winning! number, ‘Pilgrim's Chorus,” by Tannhouser befor 450,000 persons in Soldier’s Field. The program was also: bioadcast over, the radio. Men's choruses from Ind>na. 111 ! inois, Wisconsin. lowa, and Michi- j gan were represented in the music I festival. Members of the Berne j chorus include Harold Reusser, director, David Embler, Emerson Neu-j enschwander, C. A. Nagel, Ira [ Sprunger, Harry Lelchty, Clifftou Gilliom. Waldo Stauffer. E. W i Baumgartner. Arthur Fox, Leslie I Lehman, C. T. Habegger. Ervin Dro,! Harold Kattman, Johnson Biery, I Arley Habegger. Omer Neuensch-! wander. Verdi Reusser, Clifton Leh-, man, Grover W. Sprunger, F. J. ! Wiems, Leo H. Stauffer, Freeman I Bulkholder. Carl Amstutz Menno E.' Stauffer. Howard Gilliom, Gordon Liech’y, Sylvan Habegger, Carl; Luginbill, Milo Habegger. Edward I E. Liechty, and Lawrence Lehman, i J. W. JOHNSON DIES SUNDAY Father of City Treasurer Expires After FiveYear Illnss Jacob W. Johnston, 77, well known retired farmer died at his home, 617 Winchester street at 12:35 o'clock Sunday morning of cancer and complications. Mr. lohnston had been ill five years and was bedfast the past six weeks. Mr. Johnston was born in Washington township. October 23, 1854. the son of Thomas and Eliza JohnI ston. He was united in marriage to Sarah E. Burkliead, 52 years ago last April. He spent his entire life in Washington township where he was a farmer until 11 years ago • hen the family moved to the present residence in this city. The deceased ws a member of the Washington M. E. church, tor many years Surviving are the widow, seven children, Mrs. Mary Alice Grim, Fort Wayne; John Johnston. Fort Wayne; Mrs. Ada Martin, Decatur; Thomas Johnston, Washington township; Mrs. Ed Arnold, southwest of this city; Douglas Johnston, Garrett, and Mrs. Anna Jahn, near 1 South Whitley; 16 grandchildren and four great grandchildren. A sister, Mrs. Rebecca Chaney of Plymouth and a brother. Barton Johnston, also survive. Funeral services will be held Tuesday afternoon at 1:30 o'clock (Central Standard time) at the home and at two o’clock at the Washington M. E. church with Rev. E. L. Johnston officiating. Burial will be in the Beery cemetery, west ’ of this city. o Two People Enrolled Two Adams county students were enrolled at Central Normal college at Danville. Indiana, for the summer term which closed last Saturdday. They were Floyd Johnson and Margaret Price. Waldo Wood Is president of the college and N. W. Pinkerton is dean.

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(PLAN CULINARY | FAIR EXHIBIT Exhibitors Asked To Get Articles In Early; Committee Has Job The Art and Culinary Department of the Decatur Free Street Fair, September 15 to 19, will be in charge of Miss Nellie Blackburn, assisted by the Mesdames Fred Linn. Will Winnes, and C. D. Lewton. ! This department is one of the in- | leresting attractions of the fair I and will include articles of paintj ing, embroidery, crocheting, culin- ' ary, and many other articles. A difficult task is experienced leach year in arranging the hundreds | of articles about the hall provided I for the display. Unusual .difficulties will be experienced this year on account of the limited time to arrange the articles. Entries can be made in the exhibit until six o’clock Tuesday, September 15. and judging will begin the following morning, allowing an exceedingly short time to prepare the display for the judging. The cooperation of exhibitors is asked A sufficient amount of time is needed for entrants to register, get entry blanks and tags, and prepare their lists and tag their articles. The articles must then be sorted and classed according to the section in which it will be placed. The art pictures will all have to he hung about the display room, quilts ar- ! ranged, and other articles placed so that the workmanship can be ex- ; amined. Last year more than one thousand ; articles were exhibited in the art I and culinary department, and an entire day was devoted to preparing I the various pieces. i According to the rules of the de- ; partment this year, no article can I be entered for premiums in this de--1 partment unless made or produced I in Adams County. No award will be made on an article that has been i awarded the premium more than ; twice previous to its present exhibition. o_ Hearing- To Be Tuesday A hearing on the issuing of bonds i for the improvement of the Hocker road in Monroe and the Reusser road in Berne, will be held Tuesday at the court house. A representative from the state board of tax | commissioners will conduct the j heat ing. Remonstrances were filed ■ against both road improvements. , o—; Fruit Drive Planned The Civic Section of the Woman's Club is preparing to launch its annual fruit drive for the Adams County Memorial Hospital. Any person desiring empty cans in which to prepare fruit for the use at the local hospital is asked to call for them at the Nichols Shoe Store. o LEGIONNAIRES ARE IN SESSION Retiring Commander Is In Favor of Larger Veterans’ Hospital Anderson. Aug. 24.—(U.R>— An increase in the number of beds to be provided in the new U. S. Veterans' hospital in Indianapolis was urged today by Floyd Young, Vincennes. retiring state commander of the American Legion, at the 13th annual state convention here. Work |on the hospital is nearing completion. Young stressed the need of disabled Hoosier veterans in making a plea for increased facilities: “It must not be said that our government had billions for bombs, guns and bayonets, and cannot appropriate sufficient funds to take care of the disabled men who bore the brunt of the World War.” he said. Payment of the remaining por(CONTINUED ON PAGE THREE) BULLETIN Indianapolis, Aug. 24—(U.R) — The state tax board today refused to sanction, a bond issue for construction of the Albert Huser road in Blue Creek and Monroe townships, Adams county. The board said the indebtedness caused by the proposed issue would go beyond the constitution*! limit.

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Body Identified - ■ . Ann Pattison, 32, identified as the woman who was slain and: whose body was found beside j railroad tracks in, Silver Lake, | Wisconsin. i REPORTS ARE ALL COMPLETE Wickersham’s Half Million Dollar Crime Library Is Filed Washington, Aug. 24—(U.R) — A library on modern crime-—l 4 volumes compiled at a cost of half a millioit dollars—was finished and filed today in President Hoover's office. Submission of a report declaring that the foreign born are more law abiding than are the native (:brn American, completed the library. It comprises the findings of the Wickersham commission, on law enforcement and observance. It is the result of a two-year inquiry hailed as the most extensive and earnest effort of any nation to ferret out the reasons why its laws are not better enforced and (CONTINUED ON PAGE SIX) o THREE LINED TOWALLsSHOT New York Has Minature St. Valentine Day Shooting New York, Aug. 24—(U.R)—Gangsters re-enacted Chicago’s Valentine day massacre miniature last night in a blazing, deadly defy to New York’s crime-sickened citizens mobilizing tonight for a war on crime. Their ghastly sense of humor led them to back three young men against a wall opposite a slaughter house in( a deserted section of Brooklyn, where the victims faced a firing squad of four. One was killed. The other two may die. Seven died in the Chicago massacre. The three Brooklyn victims stepped from a sedan in the pitch Jilack stench of the slaughter house district, their faces reflecting their fear of the death they faced, their hands held high in the air. Four men stepped from the waiting automobile to the curb; a fifth remained at the wheel. There was a moment of deadly silence, broken only by the idling of the motor of the car at the curb. Then guns blazed. They blazed their defiance of (CONTINUED ON PAGE THREE) o Will Patrol River Lafayette, Aug. 24. — (U.R) —Six deputy state game wardens are camping along the Wabash river i here against use of fish nets and traps. Plsns of the officers, working under the state conservation department, include dragging the river between Delphi and Clinton. Already the river has been covered from Delphi to Americus, and between Carrolton bridge and Delphi, yielding six twine set-nets and 18 wire traps, according to Roy Rohrabaugh in charge of the work in the Lafayette district.

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COALITION IS BEING FORMED BY MACDONALD First National Government Since War Is Being Organized PREMIER WILL HOLD HIS POST London, Aug. 24. — (U.R) — !The labor government resignled today, but J. Ramsay MacDonald, its leader, remained as premier to guide Great Britain through a desperate financial crisis at the head of a national, or coalition, government. MacDonald called on the iking and informed him of the 'state of affairs. The nation's second experiment with a socialist government, after a little more than | two years of depression and financial weakness, ended in the government’s inability to solve the problem unaided. The king commissioned MacDoniaid to form a new ministry, including labor, conservative and liberal elements. As in the days of the war. when the parties joined hands to present a united front against the enemy, the new government will go to work at once to bolster Britain's faltering credit, impose rigid national economies, and raise a $600,000,000 budget deficit. The government’s resignation came late this afternoon, after the 'anxiety of trouble of the last week had been climaxed by a day of momentous decisions, and manyrumors. It became certain that the government would resign early in the day, but MacDonald clung to office until he was certain of his course. He called at Buckingham palace at 4:15 p. m. (11:13 a. m. New York time) anti left at 4:35 (CONTINUED ON PAGE THREE) Q Martha Hyerly Dies Berne, Aug. 24 —(Special)—Miss Martha Hyerly, 47. of northwest ot' here died at 9 o’clock Saturday morning at the Wells County Hospital following an operation for appendicitis. Surviving are the following brothers and sisters: Mrs. Joel i Kipser, Mrs. Levi Frauhiger, Albert, Jesse .and WiWlliam Hyerly the following step-brothers and sisters, Amos and Harry Dubach an t ] Mrs. Sally O. Kaehr of near Craigville. Funeral services will be held Tuesday afternoon at one o’clock at the home and at two o’clock at the Christian Apostolic church, with burial in the church cemetery. o Roy Shideler Killed Roy Shideler, 48, was killed at 6:30 this morning as he was preparing to haul logs to the saw mill on his faint in Huntington. county. Shideler had gone iiuo the woods and was loading logs on a wagon when one of them fell, pinning him beneath it ami tearing his head from his shoulder. He is survived bfy the widow and nine children. The Shideler family lived in Jefferson township. Huntington county. DEMANDS TAX LAW CHANGES Prison Board Chairman Says Taxing System Must Change Soon Indianapolis, Aug. 24.—(U.R) Immediate changes in Indiana tax laws to forestall a "partial breakdown in the government” were urged by John Moorjnan. Knox, head of the Indiana board ot pardons, in a letter to Governor Harry G. LesIfb. Included in changes sought by Moorman were a 100 per cent increase in auto licenses, a 2-cent Increase in the gasoline tax, and adoption of numerous luxury taxes. He asked Governor Leslip to call a special meeting of the legislature to handle the "great emergency.” Moorman predicted that 60 per (CONTINUED ON PAGE FIVE)