Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 29, Number 203, Decatur, Adams County, 27 August 1931 — Page 1

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■IL PLANS JiE MADE FOR ■bwkt K n -. CounlF Institute K Be Held Sep' -m her V 2-3. In This City "Hoi* SPEAKERS K oBIMNED ■ H. Tapy. pro- 1 HL i'li.-'-'iiology anti MH..' ■ a! W;ib;i4i ctilh'ge . Ke: ’ and ( . L.| ihn-' r oi state IK' "■!! I ’ e the i annual Ail-j . '■>' I nst.t, iaiii m this city , . September 2. ... ’ atig'-d tor |K. am* «■ F d'i< aand Mr. all address of K«. rk ■ 1:1 with >*'" . • the entire. i o clock in !■. al Decatur <,;:.«>! rymti.i-ium. .cn 'll C. E. , barge and will and miro th- speakers. - - signaled as ■ a. ilia'. In K^ day. - - • ■ county i (’minty in. hides - ■n.vr v : • \ i>\ge eight) ■ Baptists Hohl Picnic Uapti-t church is <'■"■' will honor their for■r paster it. v o. E Miller and of Mitchell. and their pastor. in v. A B. Brown family with a picnic at the Metnori.il Park on Winstreet, tonight. Rev. an,l Miller will . erne to this city Lak“ We or , where they the past month and will tile ninlit the guests of Mr. Mrs Charles Sanders of of Monroe, ■MI members of the church and r fam:!.are invited and are ■ ®“”t at the park at 6:15 ■lo<k. ■onie-Coniiiig Saturday ■Th" Wren Community Homeyß"l-’ "ill |„. held at Moser Me- ■“" al Park. Wren. Ohio, on SatAugust 29. Specialties of - v Wil! he b«nd music, male ■•nets, good speakers, a ball ■J* and other amusements in- ■ ln " a flnwnl The public is ■"™ to attend. ■p 1 Mren School hand under ■ direction of otis Danner, ■ fn "Hl furnish music for the ■ya lll * night home-coming. was ■ city today and played sev■Mtumbers on the court house WON PROBE PROMISES LIFE * n ® te Committee To Call new Witnesses In Investigation Wg S a h t l i nKtOn ; Aug ’ 27 —(U.R>— Inon's n °f bishop .Janies Canmith T niPa ’ gn aKainst Alfred E. ,„] " 1928 Promised to take a ly ,Ur » today. - bef ° re the Nye Benate 'ork • " ere E- 0. Jameson, New 1 Wh ° Be ,58 ’ 300 con ’ Ittiocratt? he Virginla anti-Smith »ng-dr» f eam Paign started the iarrou.h" 0 "‘ in( J ulr y. and Ada L. th 0 deft a ,)18h °P’ 8 secretary u M the committee and rei ßce ‘ ’ teßt -ty on her last appearyesterday pored |C()f »ri.\'UED ON PAGE SEVEN)

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| Rochester Gets Hatchery Washington, Aug. 27.—<U.R> The I Commerce department announced I today approval of the Rochester, I Indiana, site for a Federal fish hatchery. The hatchery is to proI pagate pond fish native to that I state. About 100 acres will be acquired east of Rochester. Construction of the plant Is not expected to begin : before next summer. KIDNAPED MAN IS RETURNED .John Lynch, Gambler, Reported To Be Back At Summer Home | Chicago, Aug. 27. (U.PJ John J. j Lynch, wealthy publisher of racing 'information, was reported back in i his home at Lake Geneva, Wis., to[day after being held captive almost I a week by kidnapers who threatented to kill him unless $250,000 rani.som was paid. Although several hours later no ■official report of the release had | been made to police either here or . iat Lake Geneva, reporters standing guard in the vicinity of the I iLynch estate reported that the abduction victim drove home in his own car at 4:30 a. m., and retired l immediately. All driveways about l the home were barricaded and no * one was allowed to enter. With the reported return of | I Lynch, authorities turned their at-1 I tention to the hunt for Alphonse! •‘Scarface All" Capone, whom they wanted to question about reports that the gang leader had acted as 1’ go-between in paying the kidnapers* (CONTINUED ON PAGE FIVE) ; DEATH SUMMONS LESTER MC GILL Professional Wrestler and i Boxer Dies Here Wednesday Night Almond Lester McGill. 30 professional wrestler and zoxer, died at 9:10 o'clock Wednesday night at the Adams County Memorial Hospital of complications. Mr. McGill was i removed to the hospital a week ago for medical treatment. The deceased became ill two I weeks ago while he was visiting an aunt and uncle. Mr. and Mrs. Dan Weidler of this city. He was a wrestler and boxer and came here from Louisiana where he last appeared in the ring. Mr. McGill was born at Magley, April 22, 1901, the son of Harry and Elizabeth McGill. He was confirmed in ‘he local Zion Reformed church several years ago. Surviving is the mother, Mrs. Elizabeth McGill of Santa Anna. Cal., the father, Harry McGill of this city; three brothers. Paul McGill of Phoenix, Ariz., Gerald and Fred McGill of Fort Wayne, and a sister. Gladys McGill of Phoenix Ariz. Funeral services will be held Friday afternoon at two o'clock (D. 8. T.) at the S. E. Black Funeral Parlors with Bev. A. R. Fleddei Johann’, pastor of the Zion Reformed church of this city, officiating. Burial will be in the Decatur Cemetery. The body was brought to the S. E. Blaok Funeral Parlors where, friends may view it until the funeral. Endurance Race Ends Fort Wayne, Aug. 27 —(UP) —A foot which slipped from a pedal and became entangled in a wheel brought the bicycle riding marathon here to a sudden encl after a new record was established. Eugene Bobilya, Alton Kennedy and Lowell Welters are the new champions. They pedaled 711 hours and 18 minutes, passing the former mark by 106 hours and 1,300 miles. o Parsons Re-Elected Veedersburg, Aug. 27 —(UP) — Dr. J. B. Parsons. Indianapolis, was reelected superintendent of the White Rivor conference of the United Berthren church at the annual assembly here. He has held the post for 10 years. Sessions will continue through Sunday, when pastorate assignments will be announced.

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MATRIMONIAL AGENCY BROKER I BEING SOUGHT I Widow And Three Children Sought Following Disappearance CARRIED ON LOVE AFFAIR I Chicago, Aug. 27 (U.R) —Fiftytwo ardent love missives that ■’ Cornelius Orvin Pierson wrote to 1 Mrs. Ada Eicher, comely Park j Ridge widow, were scanned today j I’y police of the suburban village i for clues to the whereabouts of the persuasive Fafrmont, W. Va„ 1 matrimonial agency broker and to i the face of the widow and her , three children. Police Chief H. W. Johnson,' of Park Ridge said he feared the widow and her children, Greta. 14, Harry, 12, and Anabel. 9. who were last seen at their home June 22. had been murdered or spirited away and held captive. In belief Pierson, who descri!> ;ed himself in letters to Mrs. I Eicher as "a civil engineer, 42, ' with an income of S4OO a month ' and rich royalties from gas. oil | I and other properties.” might have I gone Lack to West Virginia. Chief I Johnson wired police there. An answer frotri Chief C. A. i Duckworth of Clarksburg. W Va„ * today said that he expected to ’ arrest Pierson shortly. Johgson characterized Pierson s * activities as ‘‘dubious and obviously arousihg suspicion.” ‘‘W-j want to question Pierson I about the disappearance of Mrs. . Eicher and her family,” Johnson I said. "We want to know why the 1 West Virginia man took charge of I I her home here after they disap-1 I peared, why lie told us the family | l had gone to Colorado on a" visit (CONTINCEIi ON °AGE TWO) Gates To Be Speaker — Bloomfield, Aug. 27 —(UP) —The first address of Ralph Gates, Columbia City, newly elected commander of the American Legion in Indiana. since being elected, will be here* next Saturday A banquet will be given in his honor by the Bloomfield Memorial post. Gates is expected to outline his program for the year in this address. HOME-COMING IS ANNOUNCED North Pleasant Valley Church Plans Annual Church Picnic The annual Home Coming will be observed at the North Pleasant Valley Church, located two miles east and one mile south of Monroe, Sunday, August 30. Rev. Ira Johnson of * Lynn will be the principal speaker for the Sunday service, and addresses will also be given by other able speakers. Three services will be held throughout the day. The morning worship period will follow the regular Sunday School session, the afternoon period will follow the regular Sunday School session, the after- ( noon program will begin at 2:30 o’clock (C.S.T.) and the evening service at 7:30 o'clock. Dinner will be served in the schoolhose at the noon hour, and all persons are invited to attend this celebration and to bring well filled ) baskets. Following the Sunday program, a revival service will start at the chinch and will be held each evening of the following week. Warehouse Is Fired Shanghai, China. Aug. 27—(UP) —The warehouse at the headquarters of the Texico Ail Company In Shanghai caught tire today. Binning oil was carried down the flood- , ed Fhangpoo river, endangering hundreds of houses, Sampans and Junks. , Huge steel drums were hurled 200 feet in the air. The smoke and flames were visible to rtnlles. The fire which began at 3 P. M. still was in progress five hours later ■ Damages was expected to exceed $260,000.

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Decatur, Indiana, Thursday, August 27, 1931.

' «51,000,000 Bride 1 Abb ■ S gSIWB » Mi. and Mrs. Whipple Van Ness Jones in their honey moon suite in Chicago after choosing an elopement and justice of the peace instead Os a church wedding, with orchids and soft music. They explained that they slipped away from their parents’ Summer homes at Oconomowoc. Wis.. to Waukegan. 111., whee they were married. Mrs. Jones was Miss Mary Sue McCullough of St. Louis, heiress to the $51,000,000 fortune of the late John 1. Beggs, utilities magnate. Mr. Jones, a 21-year-ol<l Harvard student, is the son. of Mr. and Mrs. Frank W. Jones of Milwaukee. Blessings of their parents followed them.

COUNTY BIRTH RATE IS HIGH' j 1 ! t June Figures Show 16 Deaths in Adams County And 31 Births Os the 16 Adams county deaths j during the month of .June this year, Ji nine people w? more than 65 years of age, according to the In- j d.ana State Board of Health bulie- ‘ tin Two were under one year of age and one was between the ages of' five and 15 years. The other deaths J were of people between the ages| of 15 and 65 years. The Adams! county annual death rate is 9:6, ac-' | cording to the bulletin. The state rate is 11.1. Os the Adams county deaths, four were due to cancer; one homicide; one influenza and one accidental. Others were of miscellaneous > causes. 1 The bulletin states that there were 34 t.irths in the county during June, making the county birth rate per thousand people, 20.4 The state rate K 15.9. Tl.e Adams county birth rate was i the eighth highest in the state and the death rate was sixty-first. o PORTUGAL RIOT BELIEVED OVER Government Withstands Efforts To Overthrow; Warfare Is Ended Adolfo Darosa ftHRDLU SHR < Lisbon. Aug. 27 —(UP) — Tae government of President Antonio 1 Oscar Carmona appeared today to ' have dominated a brief but bloody 1 revolt in the capital. An official statement said the revolt was quelled and order maintained throughout Portugal. Lolay troops quickly routed the revolutionists with infantry, artillery, and machine gun companies, ] and bombing planes. Rebel forces were concentrated , inside Lisbon proper. The down , town streets were quickly cleared of civilians. Fighting occurred in various parts of the capital. Bombs and grenades exploded in central streets. Unofficial estimates placed the dead at 40 and the wounded at 260. I ‘ prisoners numbered at 250, includ- ' Ing Col. Ultra Machado, former 1 army officers hostile to the gen- 1 (CONTINUED ON PAGE TWO) 1

Big Elephant Killed Peru. Aug. 37 —One shot from a high-powered rifle, placed directlv between the eyes, ended the lile of Snyder, largest elephant in three circus herds here. Snyder, trainers said, became unmanagaby ( soon after being returned las’, fall. They feared he would snap the heavy chains which held him. Snyder's quick demise recalled to trainers the difficulty they had killing another rogile elephant here several years ago. Thirty shots from a high-powered rifle tailed to down him, and he finally was killed with poisoned apples. Snyder was 30 years old and weighed four and one-half tons. REVOLT LEADER BADLY WOUNDED Dr. Arias, Leader of Successful Revolt Is Shot By Judge Colon, Panama, Aug. 27 —(UP) — Dr. Arnulfo Alias, prominent surgeon and leader of a successful revolt here last winter, was shot and senously wounded last night during a meeting of the municipal | council. Ramon Amestica. a city judge, denied shooting Dr. Arias bit* police held him on an open charge while they investigated the ownership of a revolver of the caliber of one with which Dr. Arias was v otiuded. Dr. Arias is a Harvard graduate and a brother of Dr. Harmodio Arias, Panamian minister to Washington. Dr. Arias was presi ling at a council meeting when he was shot. One bullet struck him in the neck and and another in the side. He was rushed to a hospital, where physicians said he would recover. o ———— Study Club Meets The Religious Study Club met Wednesday night at the home* of Miss Grace Coffee. Miss Helen Hain read an interesting paper on "The Passion Os Christ". It was decided that the club would have a picnic Saturday morning at Sunset park. o Zeppelin Plans Flight Friedrichshafen. Aug. 27. (U.R) —The Graf Zeppelin will s'art on a flight to Pernambuco, Brazil, Saturday at 11 p. m.. it was announced today. The Graf will make two flights to Brazil and return during the next few weeks, according to present schedule.

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SUSPECTSENT TO WISCONSIN Indian Half-breed Arrested At Indianapolis Waives Extradition Indianapolis, Aug. 27.—(U.R) —Joe Miller, a half-breed Indian, whose trail authorities followed through three states in hopes of solving a baffling murder, proved as undecipherable as tile crime with which he was charged, when arrested here late yesterday. Kenosha, Wis., police tracked Miller through Illinois, Indiana, to Ohio and back to Indiana in their search for the slayer of Mrs. Anne Patterson. Mrs. Patterson, strangled to death, was found beside a desolate road near Stiver Lake. Wis. Authorities' theory was that she was slain during a drinking party, which the half-breed attend- 1 ed. ’ Placed under arrest while his wife and two sons looked on, Miller was sullen and defiant. He refused to comment on the charges he faced, ■ or his actions during the past two weeks. He offered no resistance to being returned to Wisconsin, and ' started back with authorities last ‘ night. Police learned that Miller, who also known as John Williams and Lester Faust, knew that the description of the man sought in connection with the murder tallied with his own. They were told that while at a rooming house here he had joked about the similarity and laughed at the possibility of being captured and charged with the crime. A few days later, however, the descriptions brought the arrest at | (CONTINUED ON PAGE EIGHT) BANKERS VISIT WITH HOOVER Secrecy Veils Trip of Four New Yorkers To White House —■— Washington, August 27. — (U.R) — Presidents of three New York banks ■ conferred last night at the White i House with President Hoover and Eugene Meyer, governor of the Federal Reserve board. The bankers were: William C. Potter, president of , the Guaranty Trust Company. Charles S. McCain, president ot' the Chase National Bank. George W. Davison, president of the Central Hanover Bank and Trust Company. James T. Lee, vice president and a director of the Chase National 1 Bank. Meyer arranged the conference, it was said, at the White House. Theodore Joslin, secertary to Mr. Hoover, revealed today that the conference had taken place and named the four New Yorkers. None at the White House would discuss the subject matter ot the meeting. I 0 POPULATIONS' CENTER SHIFTS New Mark Is Located Northeast Os Linton In This Sttae Washington, Aug. 27. —(U.R) - The new center of population of the United States is now 2.9 miles north east of Linton, Ind., the bureau oi the census announced today. This point is 31 miles southeast by south of Terre Haute, and 33.6 miles northeast by north of Vincennes, in southeastern Indiana. The director of the census pointed out that the population center had moved 22.3 miles west and 7.6 miles south between 1920 and 1930. The 1928 center was located 8.3 miles south by southeast of Spencer. Indiana. The greatest movement west was during the decade from 1850 to 1860, when (he center advanced 80.6 miles; the least was between 1910 and 1920 when it advanced only 9.8. Total westward movement from 1790 to 1930 was 589 miles. “The closeness with which the center of population in its west(CONTINUED ON PAGE EIGHT)

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GOOD OLD TIMES I Bloomington, Aug. 27. (U.R) — j There will be one barber shop | in Bloomington where the once inviolate privileges of men will i not be transgressed. O. W. Sciscoe, a veteran bar- j her, announced that women would be barred from the new shop, which opened under his management today. O O ‘WITCH WDM AF IS ARRESTED Nine Deaths Will Be Investigated Following Woman’s Arrest Detroit, Aug. 27.— (U.R) — The bodies of nine men, believed buried with cash from their own insurance policies, may be exhumed by police in efforts to determine whether Mrs. Rose Veres, 48, “witch" landlady, speeded their deaths. The woman, a tight-lipped, shrunken figure, who, her neighbors in Detroit's Hungarian colony blame for all manner of evil and witchery, was held today on a technical charge of murdering Steve Mak. 68. Mrs. Veres’ eldest son, William. 18, also is held. Their arrests came quickly after Mak's death yesterday after a plunge or fall from a ladder propped against an attic window at the woman's rooming house. Four witnesses to the fall said Mak appeared to have been pushed off the ladder or thrown from the attic window. Mrs. Veres insists he fell. At any rate, Mrs. Veres was beneficiary in his insurance policies, police point out. Circumstances of Mak's death, however, have become incidental to police who are chiefly concerned with the manner in which nine other men. either husbands or roomi (CONTINUED ON PAGE TWO) Hoosier Auto Fired On Chicago Heights, 111., Aug. 27. — (U.R) -Gunmen in a speeding autoI mobile today riddled with bullets the automobile in which Mrs. E. A. Husselman was treated at a hospital for hits from glass shattered by the bullets. The gunmen were outdistanced despite the fact that part of the steering wheel of Husselman's car was shot away. PRISON DOCTOR IS MURDERED Three Armed Convicts Start Disorder in Hospital At Marquette Marquette, Mich., Aug. 27 —(UP) Dr. A. W. Hornbqgen, acting stireon at the Marquette branch prison was shot to death today by three inmates in the prison hospital. A guard, Joseph Dowling, was wounded before the rioters were subdued. Waiden James P. Corgan said he was at a loss as to how inmates Germano, Dover ami Rosburg, obtained the guns. Guards kept the disorder from spreading to other parts of the pri | son. Each of the three convicts was armed, it was said. The attack started in the hospital shortly before 8 A. M. Nearly two hours later pAson officials were too busy quieting the prisoners to give details of the outbreak. o Former Geneva Man Is Death’s Victim In Ohio John Premer, former Geneva man, died at two o’clock Wednesday afternoon at the home of his son, Hiram Premer at Middletown, Ohio. Death was caused by heart trouble. Mr. Premer was a former charter memlier of the Poneto K. of P. lodge. His body arrived in Hart ford City at 1:30 o’clock this morning where iuneral services will be conducted at 10 o’clock Friday morning at the Wesleyan Methodist Episcopal church. Rev. John Croy, pastor, will officiate and burial will be at Mt. Zion, In Jay' county, six miles Northeast of Portland. Surviving is one son, Hiram.

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NEW CABINET MUST REDUCE ALL EXPENSES United States, Japan To Be Asked To Join Reduction Plan STIMSON IS IN LONDON London, Ans’. 27- (U.R) i Reduction of naval construc--1 lion may be one of the eeon- , • oinies effected by Britain’s new national government. Naval sources said today there was a possibility that the naval building program might be slowed down while the new eabinet of Prime ■ Minister J. Ramsay MacDonald sought drastic reductions in national expenditures to make up a $600,000,000 htadget deficit. It was understood that ar.lv re- ' duction in the naval program would be preceded by approaches to the United States and Japan. [ co-signatories with Britain to the London naval traaty, to discover if they would consider reciprocal ■ action. The miners federation executive committee decided today to support the trades union and the labor party in their opposition to the national government. I It was understood that representatives of the minpi\ would meet later today with (he T. U. [ I C. general council, the national ’ ; executive committee of the labor party, and the consultative committee of the parliamentary labor party to outline “vigorous opposi- • tion” to the new administration. ’ The Social Democratic federa--1 tion( today sent a manifesto to workers to resist by every possible means the government's “policy of reaction and degradation.” The manifesto said the coalition minister's economic program was to be effected primarily at the expense of the unemployed and cuts • (CONTINUED ON PAGE SEVEN) i o BULLETIN Albuquerque, N. Mex„ Aug. 27. I —(U.R) —Sam Baxter, 23, alias Al Casey, said to have been sought three years on charges of murdering two deputy sheriffs at Lafayette, Ind., was captured here to- | day, after he was shot in the leg, I by a policeman. On a tip that be was working on construction of a water tank, two policemen tried to question him but he broke away and started to run. One of the policemen I fired several shots and struck him in the leg. He was taken to a hospital and placed under guard. King Funeral Friday Funeral services for Nolan King Fort Wayne man who died early Wednesday morning, will (be held ■ Friday afternoon at two o’clock 1 (D. S. T.) at the Chalfant-Cutshall ‘ Funeral Parlors, 801 West Berry street. Fort Wayne. Interment will • be in the Prairie Grove Ceme'ery near Fort Wayne. ■ Mr. King died at the St. Joseph i Hospital following an operation for ■ gall stones which he underwent Monday. He had been ill for five , weeks. The deceased was the father o£ I Fred King of his city and formerly I lived here where lie was well known DO-X ARRIVES AT NEW YORK > Leisurely Cruise From Germany Ends On East l . Coast At Noon Today • New York. Aug. 27. - (U.R)—The f Do-X, great German flying boat, was sighted at New York at 11:15 a. m . EST., today, at the end of its leisurely cruise around the Atlantic • from Europe. The great air liner, carrying ’ some 60 persons on the last lap of j her long journey made the 300 mile 1 flight up the Atlantic coast from 1 Norfolk, Va., in three hours and ' one minute, averaging 100 miles an ! hour. It left Norfolk at 8:14 a. m. 1 A great cheer went up from linn--1 dreiis of throats as the great ship, (CONTINUED ON PAGE FIVE)