Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 29, Number 210, Decatur, Adams County, 4 September 1931 — Page 1

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Following His Famous Father ■'•w 'fcfeMl 'LSJK «-r W • o £ ■ iSIIRIr ***” r oJOrWS^O§BtiaSl'^£''J)-1 ‘ Great Britain's new coalition Cabinet presents the unusual situation of father and son holding portfolios. We all know Ramsay MacDonald. Britain's distinguished Premier, but his eldest son, Malcolm' (both above), is a newcomer to the worlds political field. He Ims just been appointed Under-Secretary for the Dominions.

COLLEGE LIST IS ANNOUNCED Twenty New Entries Are Listed From Local High Schools At least 20 of the 1931 graduates of the Decatur Public and Decatur Catholic high schools will I enter colleges, normal and nurse’s training schools, religious and manual training schools this fall. M. F. Worthman, city superintendent of schools announced today. 1 Os the 21 graduates of the Decatur Catholic high school, five have already signified which school they would attend. They are. Leo Dowling, Indiana University; Artijur Krick. Daytou university, Dayton, Ohio; Mary Kohne and Edna Schultz, St. Agnes Convent Normal. Fnn Du Lac, Wis: Teresa Raker, nurse’s training. South Bend. W. Guy Brown, principal of the Decatur Public school stated that 15 of the 50 graduates had decided to enter institutions of higher learning this fall. They are. Keith Brown. G. E. Engineering school. Fort Wayne; James Burk arid James Engeier, Indiana university Medical school; Chalmer Debolt, Butler university; Georgia Foughty. Indiana Central Normal, Indianapolis; Helen Hain. Victory Noll. Huntington; Paul Hanctier. Indiana university extension (CONTINUED ON PAGE SEVEN) SAILOR MUTINY NEARING CLOSE Agreement With Mutineers Believed Probable In Few Hours Sanitago. Chile. Sept. 4 — (U.R) —— Reports ot agreement "in principle" with mutinous sailors controlling the entire navy were heard today while the province remained under a state of siege, censorship was maintained, and warnings against communistic control of the government were issued. Terms of the agreement were not made public. Negotiations were conducted between the mutineers' committee and Rear Admiral Eduardo Von Schroder abroad the battleship La Torre at Coquimbo. The government declared a state of siege (martial law) in the province of Santiago and was prepared to extend it to other parts of the country. Crowds were prohibited from gathering in the streets after nine P. M. Strict censorship on newspapers and telegraphic and cable transmission of dispatches was established throughout the republic. No one was allowed to leave Santiago, except by train, without (CONTINUED ON PAGE SEVEN) o John Kiracofe Here Johii Kiracofe of Dixon, Montana, formerly of this city, visited here today with friends. Mr. Kiracofe has lived in Montana for a number of’ years and teaches school in the Dixon schools. He also has a small farm there. He visited with his father. N. I. Kiracofe at Wren, Ohio, and will return west Saturday.

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’•J ». •i v all'll i 11111 *ll .-s. Lack Os Food Given As Cause Os Death Columbia City. Sept. 4.—(UP) —A! physician who investigated the death of Robert Lee Johnson, 13 ' months, son of Mr. and Mrs. James i A. Johnson, repoited today that he i succumbed from lack of proper food. The family of five persons, the. physician said, had eaten only one loaf of bread in 10 days, subsisting on fruit and vegetables another . child in the family is suffering from . malnutrition, the physician report- ; ed. I LAGRANGE MEN START OUSTER Prosecutor Attacked For Alleged Liquor Interest Bribes i Lagrange. Sept. 4.—(U.R) —Sworn ' , statements that Ralph Foster, prosecutor for Lagrange and Steuben counties, accepted gilts for protec- ., tlon of alleged bootleggers, were in I possession of laigrange residents today. They were obtained in conJtinuation of a battle to oust Foster. iand were expected to be filed with . !the Lagrange-Stenben circuit court. Foster met the charges against i him by saying that they were the result of his plan to ask a grand I Jury investigation of the recent ’ closing of the Lagrange County Trust Company, now in liquidation. Foster's statement, however, that Senator R. N. Walter, secretary of the Trust Company, had been removed from connection with the liquidation, was denied by Luther i F. Symons, state banking comtnisI sioner. i Petitions asking an investigation 'of the bribery charges, and Foster's removal if they were found ■ true, have been filed with Attorney General James M. Ogden. Bicycle Rider Killed Kendallville, Sept. 4.—(U.R) —Dale Engle, 15. son of Mr. and Mrs. El- : den Engle, living near here, was i killed instantly when a truck struck '(the bicycle on which he was rid--1 ' ing. R. H. Wileman. member of the 'Purdue University extension deI partment. skidded the truck into a | ditch in an effort to avoid the crash. • Neither he nor his companion, M. ' F. Miller, also of the Purdue staff. . was injured. LINDBERGHSTO : FLY TO CHINA Americans Get Permit To Fly Over Japan; To Leave Soon . I Tokio, Sept. 4 —(UP) —Col. and Mrs Charles A. Lindbergh plan to fly direct to China when they re1 sume their “vacation tour" about Sept. in. Aviation authorities announced the Lindberghs had received per- - mission to fly from Tokio to KagoI shina via Osaka. From Kogoshima - they will fly to China across the i Eastern Sea. i It was understood that Col. Lind- • beigh definitely had decided to visit > Nanking, the Chinese capital, al- - though the exact route to be follow- • ed after reaching China was not revealed.

Decatur, Indiana, Friday, September 4, 1931.

WILLIAM IDLER ROTARY GUEST Tells Local Club of Experiences In Alaska Recently William Adler of Preble, who returned recently from Alaska gave an interesting talk before members of the Decatur Rotary club last evening. Mr. Adler spent IS months in the land of the midnight sun and was ‘employed by the U. S. government ’ in building a bridge across a river . near McCarty. He told of his trip in travelog | style and told of experiences on the | voyage from Seattle to Stewart, Al- | aska. Mr. Adler stated that the ' southern patt of Alaska was a delightful place to live and even though the temperature dropped to 40 and 50 degrees below zero, it I was a dry cold and that a person ' did notxHnd it much. He told of a trip he made to the j great copper mines owned by the . Guggenheim interests and how the metal was mined. He stated that I the man who discovered the mine j was paid SIO,OOO and that up to I 1923 the owners had taken out more I than $100,000,000 worth of copper I It is estimated that the mines will I yield three hundred million dollars more of the precious metal. The bridge which the government built was for the purpose of transporting gold from a mine near McI Carty. There was no other traffic I over it. Judge Dore B. Erwin was chair-1 I man of the program. — „ I Exhibits Big Peaches Frank Carroll, well known barI her of this city, brought to the Daijy Democrat office today a few ' peaches which he picked from a tree in his back yard. The peaches are about as large as a baseball and are almost as round and smooth. Frank stated he picked more than a bushel from the tree. o Three Die In Crash Noblesville, Sept. 4. —(U.P) —Heavy rain which veiled a traction cross-1 ing. was blamed for the death of a father and two children. In a crash near here. The auto in which they were returning to their Noblesville home was struck by an Indiana railroad traction car. The victims were Roscoe Gibson, 45; Agnes, 9, and Harry, 4. Gibson and his son were killed instantly. Agnes died in a hospital. o AIR DERBIES ARE STARTED Fliers Will Complete Races At Cleveland: Speed Is Shown Los Angeles. Sept. 4 —(U.P) —The Los Angeles-Cleveland air derby started today when eight aviators piloted their speedy planes down the long runway at United Airport. Burbank, and headed eastward in a race for a prize of $15,000. Three of the pilots had difficulty in getting their heavily loaded planes off the ground and narrowly missed telephone wires surrounding the airport. They I were Harold S. Johnson, of Chi-1 cago, Captain Ira Eaker, armyi flier, and Colonel Arthur Goebel,' of Los Angeles. The names of the pilots, their machines and time of departure follows: Lou Reichers, Arlington. N. J., Lockheed Altair. 1:20 a m. Walter Hunter, Robertson,, Mo., (CONTINUED ON PAGE THREE) o Phi Delts Make Visit Nine miners of the local Phi Delta Kappa fraternity motored to Celina Ohio, Wednesday evening, where they were guests of the Phi Deit fraternity members of that city at a social meeting. Those from this city who attended the meeting were Joe Elzey, John Burnett. Eugene Durkin, Jerome Keller, Severin Schnrger, Glen Beavers, Gerald Smith. Don Gage and Edgar Steele. The local fraternity members will entertain the Celina. Ohio, organization at a social meeting here, September 14.

[ Bootlegger Drops Dead I As Agents Raid Place | Knox, Sept. 4.— (U.P) —William Horner, 73. fell dead behind the bar in the Travelers Hotel here as federal dry agents started to raid the place. He collapsed while the war- , rant was being read. a The raid was one of several conducted in the Bass Lake region. ( Thirteen men were arrested. LEGION TEAM : SEES BIG GAME ; Decatur Junior League ii Team Visits Cincin- < nati Ball Park Members of the American Legion junior baseball team which was j sponsored in the county junior lea- ( gue by Adams post, motored to Cin- 1 cinnati yesterday where they witnessed the Cincinnati-Chicago national league baseball game. The 15 boys were taken in auto-| t mobiles furnished by Legion mem- j bers. Besides seeing the 10-inning. affair which ended in a 3-2 victory for the Reds the boys were taken 1 on a tour of the Ohio city. The team returned here late last J j night. The Legion team was coached this season by Hubert Cochran. While in Cincinnati the local base- 1 ball players were guests of the Cincinnati club’s management, and each boy was admitted to the game ' free of charge. ROAD SHAKE-UP IS IMMINENT • 1 1 At Least Two High Officials Slated To Lose Positions Indianapolis. Sept. 4. — (U.P) —ln- : diana state highway commissioners 1 returned to their homes today after attending a stormy three-day session which ended with the an-| : nouncement that at least two de- 1 partmental executives would be dismissed. Purportedly acting upon Governor Harry G. Leslie's proposal, the commissioners were said to have designated Owen Boling, assistant to director John J. Brown, and Omer Manlove, garage superintendent, for dismissal. It was indicated that William J. Titus, chief engineer, and A. R. Hinkle, maintenance chief, had been placed on probation because of their infer-repartmental differences over cement and "blacktop" as’ highway building materials. Ouster threats were understood to have been voiced against even higher officials in the highway service. (CONTINUED ON PAGE SIX) o Mayor Starts Pruning Muncie, Sept. 4.— (U.P) —Three brothers of Clarence Hole, councilman who fought for drastic reduction in the city's tax rate, were first to feej the ax of Mayor George R. Dale in the resultant economy program. Mayor Dale liad vigorously opposed the tax cut. but the council overrode his wishes, cutting his budget severely. Dewey Hole, parks superintendent. and Ed and Frank Hole, parks employes, were dismissed by Dale. o MOTHER, FIVE CHILDREN DIE Auto Plunges To River At Columbus, ()., Thursday Night • Columbus, 0., Sept. 4 —(UP) —A Columbus mother and her five small children were drowned near here late last night when their automobile pluuged from the highway into the Scioto river. The was saved. Those drowned were; Mrs. Sarah Jane Reichley, 29; her children. Conrad, 9. Juanita, 6. Robert and Raymond (twins) 4, and Charles 2. Patrick H. Reichley, 31. the husband and futher. was thrown clear of the automobile as it left the road. The others were pinned In the car which tell into 20 feet of water.

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POWERS' PROBE IS CONTINUED Believe Mail-Order Love Slayer Might Have Accomplice Clarksburg, West Va., Sept. 4.— i (U.P.) —Theories that West Virginia's | famous mail order lover had a worn-1 an accomplice were developed today during investigation of the five killings confessed by Harry F. Powers, matrimonial agent. Checks, letters and other written • messages purporting to be from the | pens of principals in the murder orgy of Quiet Dell, were believed to have been forged—and in the hand writing of a woman. Handwriting experts believed that a check on the account of Asta Buick Eicher, widow and mother of three children among the slain, was forged by a woman. They said the same of a letter purporting to be from Mrs. Dorothy Pressler Lemke written at Uniontown, Pa., to her sister, Mrs. Charles Fleming of Worcester. Mass. The letter told of the collapse of the love-hungry woman's plans for marriage to the postal lothario whose name she had obtained from! the American Friendship Society of Detroit. ' It indicated she was going abroad. Mrs. Lemke, it was learned, ob-1 tallied her first husband through a matrimonial agency. This was true, (CONTINUED ON PAGE SIX) o War Veterans Pass Resolution To Modify Kansas City. Mo.. Sept. 4. —(U.P) —Veterans of Foreign wars in annual encampment today by resolution demanded modification of the | Volstead act and repeal of the National prohibition amendment. The vote came after arguments that American homes were being invaded by "an army of federal agents, snoopers and spies because of a radical departure made in the basic principles of our government while 2.000.000 veterans were overseas fighting for principles of Liberty.’ o Team Is Entertained The members of the Lions Club entertained the Adams County champion baseball team with a banquet in the Christian church basement. Tuesday night. Lion head emblems were presented to the. boys. Herb Curtis introduced the boys, and gave a short talk. CAPONE TRIAL DATE CHANGED Gangster Will Appear In Court September 10, Attorney Says Chicago, Sept. 4—(UP) —Date of Al Capone’s trial on charges of income tax evasion was postponed today until Sept. 10. Capone had been ordered to appear in l Federal court Sept. 8 but U. S. District Attorney George E. Q. Johnson said he had learned Judge Wilkerson would not be sitting that day. The Federal grand jury directed to seek evidence of violations of the prohibition law subsequent to those covered in indictments already returned and which might be prosecuted under the Jones act was not expected to report before Sept. 10. Mexican Is Executed Nevada State Prison. Cason City, Sept. 4 —(U.P) — Luis Cejas, 27-year old Mexican who killed a Chinese in a fight over an exGerman “countess," was executed In the tiny lethal gas chamber of Nevada state penitentiary at 5:44 a. m. today. A single inhalation of the deadous little convict into unconsciously hydrocyanic gas sent the nervness. Fourteen minutes and five seconds later two physicians outside the chamber pronounced him dead. Eighty witnesses peering into the airtight house through newly polished windows saw the slayer wait smiling and grimacing for death.

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New First Lady ■ Here is the charming Mrs. Martin S. Conner, wife of Mississippi’s Governor-elect, who takes office January 1. Mrs. Conner and her husband are extremely popular throughout the state. He is forty years old and a farmer-lawyer. STORES MAY CLOSE UGLIER Petition Is Circulated To Close Stores At 5:30 In Winter A petition is being circulated I among Decatur merchants in an effort to have all retail stores close: at 5:30 o'clock each afternoon dur-; ing the winter months. It &as re- i ported today that a number of the local merchants have signed the petition. Opinion among retailers is divided on the feasability of closing i stores earlier than 6 o’clock, which | lias been the usual closing time here for a number of years. No definite announcement has been made yet by those urging Hie early closing, but it is understood that if a majority of the local merchants sign the petition the plan will be tried for a while. • Some merchants have stated that regardless of what is done on the I petition that they will continue to | observe the 6 o’clock closing time] for week-days and all merchants I will continue to keep their stores open on Saturday nights. It is explained by the early closing sponsors that there is seldom any business between 5:30 and 6 o'clock during the winter evenings and that a saving can be effected lin light and heat by cutting off a half hour each day. o Baxter Is Returned Lafayette. Sept. 4 —(UP) —Samuel Baxter 23, Alias Al Casey, brought (here from Albuquerque, N. M„ to answer a charge of first degree murder .was held in a Lafayette hospital today tor treatment of a shattered shin bone suffered last week when he was shot by a policeman from whom he attempted to escape in Albuquerque. A heavy police guard was maintained at the hospital to prevent his escape. Baxter is charged with I ' killing two deputy sheriffs in 1928 He continued to maintain that he is Casey, not Baxter. Police said, however, that their identification ' is positive. o ... Names Are Omitted The names of two sisters of Miss Florence Gerke, 16-year-old girl who was fatally injured in an accident, Wednesday afternoon, were omitted from a list of surviving relatives. They are Mrs. Flora Bullermann and Mrs. Clara Klepper of Fort Wayne. o To Probe Poor Fund i Indianapolis, Sept 4 — (UP) — Charges that a Lawrence township . advisory board member had violat- . e<l the law by selling poor relief sup- - plies, tile prices of which he help- • ed establish as a hoard member, - were investigated by county,prosei cutor Herbert Wilson today. Wilson said he would attempt to > determine whether criminal action r I could be taken against George • Herr, the board member. If facts • warrant (he said, the case will be turned over to the garnd jury.

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TWO CRIMINALS GET SOLITARY CONFINEMENT Gene Algers, Notorious Criminal Linked With Attempted Break TUNNEL BREAK WAS PLANNED Michigan City. Sept. 1. (U.R) An attempt by Gene Alger, one of Indiana’s most notorious criminals, an <1 Charles Holmes. to escape from the state prison here, was revealed when the two were placed in solitary confinement today. A carefully executed plot which failed only because Alger and Holmes got confused in their directions while penetrating 700 feet of underground sewer, was disclosed. The attempt, which was made yesterday, was discovered when guards noted the absence of the two prisoners while they were still wandering through the sewer tunnels seeking the outlet, far outside the prison walls. Alger and Holmes entered a heat tunnel running between the powerhouse and the shirt factory. They dug directly down through this to a 24-ineh sewer, only two feet beneath the heat tunnel. The sewer contained six inches of water and sewage. Alger was >#ked. and Holmes clad only in i his underwear. They started tn I the right direction, but wandered ' about and finally under-estimated i the distance covered. They ; attempted to make an exit through a heavy concrete manhole cover inside the walls. They were engaged for considerable time at this task, and guards, menfwhile | advised of their absence, noted I the disturbance. Neither prisoner l resisted capture. o School Strikers Riot Pittsburgh. Sept. 4 —(U.R> —First disorder in the strike of 200 high I school students against a new I trolley fare ruling of the school I authorities occurred today when | the fender was torn from a street car and a poster was tied to the , side of the car. A group of about 20 boys, strik- ( ing against payment of only half their transportation to school, surrounded the car at Haysville Junction, near Hays borough an.l jumped on the fender. The fepd->r was torn from the ear. The poster was tied to the side of the trolley but was removed by the inotorman. Liquor Proves Fatal Indianapolis, Sept. 4. — (U.R) —Investigation of an alleged blind tiger was opened here today following the death of Walter Hamilton, 15, from alcoholic poisoning. Mr. and Mrs. Pari Davis who. Hamilton's companions said, sold them the liquor, were arrested. Gayle Stevens, 18, Verle Jeffrey, 14, and Marion Hopper. 15, said they and Hamilton purchased the liquor before going fishing. They told police that all drank, but none felt ill until they returned home, when Hamilton was stricken. He died within a few hours. URGES SUPPORT OF PRESIDENT Senator Watson Says Hoover Administration Is Success Tell City, Sept. 4 (U.R)— A call to the citizens of Indiana to return to economic optimism was issued by Senator James E. Watson, in his address at the Republican reorganization meeting of the new eighth district. The correct mental attitude toward business condition» will go far in dispelling depression fears, he said. Watson discussed relief plans of President Hoover, predicting that there would he little suffering In Indiana this winter. Watson, who left immediately after his address for Indianapolis (CONTINUED ON PAGE EIGHT)