Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 29, Number 211, Decatur, Adams County, 5 September 1931 — Page 1

WEATHER lly cloudy torig« Sunday: h and central ions

SEPTEMBER GRAND JURY IS SUMMONED

I [overleaf Dairy Day Will Be Held Here On October 14

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DECATUR DAILY DEMOCRAT

No. 211.

Vol. XXIX.

♦ ♦ NO PAPER MONDAY * *— There will be tio issue of the Daily Democrat Monday, which is designated as Labor Day. Business in Decatur will he at i a standstill, with almost all retail stores remaining closed throughout the day. The county and city offices will be closed all day. O — O BUS DRIVERS GET WARNING Final Instructions Are Given To School Bus Drivers At Meet Thirty-three Adams county school hits drivers attended a mass meeting at Monroe high school Friday I night to receive final instructions I before schools open Monday. The I drivers stated that their buses w'ere ready for the annual fall school term. State Police Lieutenant Guy Sears of Redkey delivered a short i address at the meeting, urging the [drivers -to take no chances with I lives of children at stake. He ; warned them concerning the rules ' [regarding buses stopping at rail-' ! road crossings. Walter Mentzer. state school in- j i spector of the secretary of state's I office also told the drivers of the J new regulations concerning buses ■ and drivers. “Let's avoid accidents as much! (as possible." Mentzer urged. "Each (year children lose lives in school bus mishaps because of avoidable accidents.’’ , -A warning also was sounded against the dangers of poisonous j gas coming from the motors into | the coaches. C. E. Striker, county superintendent of schools presided at the | meeting, which was attended hy | eight of the 12 township trustees. CENSUS SHOWS 5,233 MALES

— Sexennial Enumeration Taken By Trustees In Adams County The sexennial enumeration of male persons over 21 years of age shows a total of 5,233. according to the reports by the township trustees to the county auditor Three colored persons reside in Blue Creek township, the only persons other than white people listed in the report. The reports filed by the trustees show the following population figures for male voters in the 12 townships and incorporated towns 1 n the county: Union, 218; Root, 353; Preble. 251; Kirkland, 214; Washington, 308; S*. Marys, 234; Blue Creek, 224; Monroe, 375; French, 191; llartford. 296: WabMh, 324; Jefferson. 196; Decatur. 1,230; Bertie 494; Geneva. 242; Monroe, 83. The enumeration Is made every six years by the township trustees and copies of it are sent to the auditor of state. o Ohio Man Dies Here i Ira Miller. 43 of 300 South Broad way. Spencervile, Ohio, died at one o'clock this morning at the Adams County Memorial Hospital follow- ! ing in operation he underwent last Tuesday for appendicitis. Mr. Miller was the son of Mr. anil Mrs Frank Miller of Spencer.i'.!e. and was employed as an oil man. I He was married and was later dl- ( vorced. The body was taken to the i home in Spencerville today where 1 funeral services and burial will tie i held Monday. o Library Will Close The Decatur Public Library will be closed Monday in observance of Labor Day, Miss Annette Moses, I librarian announced today. Library patrons are also notified that beginning on Tuesday. September 8. the winter schedule of library hours t will be ill effbet. The library will open at 12:30 o’clock each after.noon and close at bine o'clock.

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18 BABIES ARE EXAMINED HERE Health Station Draws Many Children; Next Station Oct. 16 Eighteen babies from Adams County were examined at the county Baby Health Station which was conducted in*the Public Library hall Friday. Os the total number or babies examined, nine were new J babies, and nhie were those which ! had been examied before, and returned to note growth and progress | made. The slogan for tjje baby Health [ Station is "Keeping Well Babies Well," and a large number of mothers in the county have taken advantage of this Health station, and brought their children to be examined. Mrs. Charles Knapp and Miss Erna Lunkenati of the (’si lota Xi sorority had ritarge of the registra tion. Friday. The Adams County Baby Health Station was started in Decatur in (CONTINUED ON PAGE FIVE) BAXTER ADMITS I TWO SLAYINGS Is Returned To Fafayette; In Hospital But Will Recover Lafayette, Sept. S—(UP)—A5 —(UP)— A detailed account of the murder of Deputies John Glove and Wallace. McClure was obtained from Samuel Baxter, 23. police announced. The confession was given as Baxter lay in a hospital recovering from gunshot wounds suffered as he attempted to avert arrest in Albuquerque, N. M. The deputies were slain February 7, 1928. en route to the reformatory with Baxter and John Burns. Both had been convicted on a charge | of robbing a West Point restaurant', j Burns was soon captured, confessed h and was sentenced to life imprisonment In state piison at Michigan

I City. According to Baxter's confession I he and Burns were riding in the | hark seat of the automobile. Baxter i j using a wrench he found there, I I struck the officers on the head, af- ' ter which Burns took McClure's ■ gun and shot, both deputies. Baxter said. As McClure tried to battle them, Burns shot agrfin, Baxter said adding that Burns fired one more shot when McClure began to regain (CONTINUED ON PAGE FOUR) HOODLUMS BURN POWERS' FENCE Murder-Garage Fenced In And Admission To Visit Charged Clarksburg. W. Va., Sept. S.—(U.R) —Hoodlums burned a fence today 1 around the garage where Harry F. Powers, matrimonial agency Bluebeard, killed and buried two women and three children. Police said they believed the fence was burned by persons who objected to paying 25 cents for the privilege of seeing the murder scene. Police said there was no one at the scene when they arrived. The fence had been torn down, saturated with kerosene and set fire. There was no crowd about the Jail today and no other demonstration in the town, police said. The property in Quiet Dell, six miles from here, was lea*ed to a man by the name of McClure hy Mrs. Luella Strouther Powers, Powers' wife, who owns the property. Thousands had been going to the garage where the gruesome killings took place. Police attempted to stop payment of admission but the tenant constructed a high hoard fence and as he had a lease police could do nothing. Police said they had no clues as to the identity of the persons who (CONTINUED ON PAGE FOUR)

ONLY DAILY NEWSPAPER IN ADAMS COUNTY

President Greets DO-X Crew | L ■ — * - '* * V-3 Officers of the German flying boat, DO-X, now at New York, were presented to President Hoover at the White House hy the German Ambassador. Dr. voir Prittwitz (left of the President). Capt. Fritz Hammer, commander of the air leviathan, is at hte right.

Phi Delts Plan To Hold Dances Fair Week The Carl Brenner orchestra from Fort Wayne has been secured by the local Phi Delta Kappa fraternity to play for the dances which the i fraternity will sponsor for four I nights during the Decatur Street Fair. The dances will be held Wednesday, Thursday. Friday and Saturday nights. September 16. 17, 18 and 19, in the Masonic Hall, hnd will be conducted on park plan. The social committee, comprising Cecil Melchi. Eugene Durkin, Don Leßrun and Roger Bebout, wili have charge of the events. The fraternity is completing plans for a Hallowe’en masquerade ball which will be held at the Decatur Country Club, during the latter part of October. The definite date o7 the hall has not been decided vet. MARY STOOKEY EXPIRES TODAY i Decatur Woman Succumbs Following Emergency Operation Mrs. Mary Magdeline .Stookey. 35, wife of Fred Stookey of 224 South Second street, died at 3 o'clock this morning at the Ad-j ams County Memorial Hospital; following an operation for appen-; dicitis which she underwent last Tuesday. Mrs. Stookey was horn in Hart-! ferd City, July 20. 1896, the daugh- j ter of Frank and Lillie Templeton-j (CONTINUED ON PAGE SIX, Auto Accident Is Reported Near Decatur i j Two cars collided this morning olf State road No. 27 north of Decatur at the intersection of the Poe road. Both cars were headed south * and the car ahead was reported to he turning east just as a big sedan • came up behind, striking the other car with great force. The front car was thrown into the ditch, came out and skidded two hundred feet ! witnesses state. Occupant* of the 1 car were slightly injured, one lady ! having her arm dislocated at the shoulder and others were bruised It was stated. The cars were considerably damaged and wdre towed to Fort Wayne. The names of the occupants could not he ascertained. Ort. On January 26, 1913 she was ’ o Congressman’s Son Killed In Accident i " ~ Pipestone, Minn., Sept. 6—(U.P) . —Arthur H. Greenwood. Jr., son of Congressman Arthur H. Green)- , wood. Washington, Ind., was kill- , ed instantly today when an automobile in which he was riding overturned in a ditch north of . here. , Greenwood, who was a surveyor, was returning to Pipestone from Crookston where he and the two , companions, John W. Graber, , Pittsburgh, Pa., and A1 T. Murphy Cairo, 111., had been making a government survey of altitudes.

Decatur, Indiana, Saturday, September 5, 1931.

SIX MARKSMEN ARE SELECTED County Representatives at State Shoot Chosen At Geneva Friday The six men who won the pistol and rifle matches in the elimination contest shoot held i v the Adams County Protective Association at Geneva Friday, will represent this county at the state contest to be held at Fort Ben-' jnniin Harrison on September 28. i The shoot was held at Stuckey range, south of Berne and was | sponsored by the Adams County Banker's association. Dan Grille, Gei(°va, Leona ;d Baumgartner, Berne and Sheriff Burl Johnson of Decatur were the ' high three in the pistol match. Fred Schurger, Decatur, David: Dubach and Fred Dubach, Berne, were the high three in the rifle matches. The scores made by the men in ! tlie pistol match, out of a possible j 11 0 shots at 15 and 25 yards wer’, I Grille 86; Baumgartner 79; Johnson. 75; Schurger. 73. In the rifle match, out of a possible 75 shots at 200 and 500 yards, the scores were Schurger. 64, David Dubach. 03: Fred Du- • i bach, 59; Baumgartner, 58. Lieut. A. D. Reid of the 11th i Indiana Infantry will be in charge i of the state contest. DOOLITTLE TO ENTER AIR RACE New Record Holder Is Tuning Plane For Big Cleveland Event > Cleveland, Sept. S—(U.R) Major i James H. Doolittle. scientist, ' mechanic and ace flier, today was to supervise preparation of his • transcontinental record-smashing Laird biplane for the Thompson • trophy race, speed classic of the i(attonal air races. Planning an assault on the American land plane speed record. Doolittle was to replace the Wasp i Jr., motor, which carried him ■ across the nation yesterday In 11 hours, 15 infinites, with a superi charged engine of the same design. He predicts he will add the Thompson trophy and a , speed mark to the three records shattered in his coast-to-coast . dash. Although his trim little "Skyways Buzzard" hurtled across the continent and hack to Cleveland In less than 13 hours the former ! army test pilot plans to increase J Its speed hy 40 miles an hour before the Thompson race, scheduled for Monday. He also will ' add 110 horse power. 1 Doolittle was to pilot officials • of the oil company which em- ’ ploys him to the air show here ' from St. Louis, where he flew (CONTINUED ON PAGE SIX)

Stnte, National And International Nevra

STATE FAIR IS | OPENEDTODAYj MANY FEATURES Boys And Girls Day Is Observed; 79th Event Begins BIG CROWDS ARE EXPECTED Indianapolis, Sept. 5. —tU.R) —Indiana’s 79th annual state fair opened i today with the first of the eight- j 'day program dedicated to Hoosier boys' and girls’ clubs. Weather was favorable as judging of the boys’ and girls club exhibits began. Children tinder 12 years were admitted free. Attendance on the opening day last year was 9,008, and indications were that this might lie equalled today. Indianapolis streets were decorated with displays of corn and wheat, topped with posters and bunting. Exhibits in the departments of fine arts, domestic arts and applied arts were judged yesterday, with Edward R. Sitzman, Indianapolis: ! Mary and Elizabeth Overbeck, | Cambridge City, the major blue ribbon winners. Members of the state board of agriculture tvere entertained last night at a dinner prepared and served hy girls attending the home economics school held at the fairgrounds in connection with the state fair. William A. (Billy) Sunday, evangelist, will speak to boys and girls tomorrow morning and to an adult I audience In the afternoon. On Monday, Labor Day, the fair program will be dedicated to the istath's working population. TuesI day will be American Legion day. Farmers' Day is Wednesday. Adi mission to the grounds may be paid by farmers with a bushel of wheat (CONTINUED ON PAGE FOUR) UNION CHURCH SERVICES OVER Protestant Churches To Conduct Separate Sunday Night Meets i After two months of Union Sun- • day night church services, all local Protestant churches will conduct 1 separate meetings Sunday night at their own places of worship, it was announced today by the committee in charge. During the months of July and August, joint services were held [ each Sunday night. Six of the services were in charge of local min--1 j isters and two of the services were 1 in charge of laymen of the various churches. . The meetings are held during the vacation months, because a number of the ministers take vacations during the summer and also because many church members are away r from the city during July and , August. ' Good crowds marked the meet- ' ings this summer and those in t charge expressed the belief that the 1 meetings did much good toward ! concentrating the public toward the one objective cf all churches. ) o Gerke Funeral Held i L Funeral services for Florence - Gerke, Adams County girl who was - fatally injured in an auto crash 3 at Chicago, Wednesday afternoon, r were held this afternoon at one 3 o'clock (C. S. T.) at the home, six t and one-half miles northeast of this city, and at 1:15 o'clock (C. S. T.) - at the Sc. Peter's Lutheran church - Rev. L. J. Ilornseif pastor, officiat--1 ed and burial was in the church f cemetery. 3 O [ Negro Ends Own Life 1 Indianapolis, Sept. S—(UP5 —(UP) —Ed Duncan, negro, hanged himself in lilh cell at the city prsion here lust night, shortly after he confessed v slaying his wife. Mrs, Duncan’s body was found along White River. She had been hammered to death.

Price Two Cents

Eye for Beauty Seems like "carrying coals to Newcastle" to send beauty to Killarney, famed for its lovely lassies, but that is exactly w'hat Lord Castlerosse. Irish peer, is going to do. He has selected Miss Kay Meehan (above) of Philadelphia, as a typical Irish-American beauty to represent the United States in the Killarney Lakes Festival, to I be held next year. VACATIONS TO END MONDAY i Schools, Court, Will Open Monday And Tuesday In County With summer vacations ending this week-end and Labor Day, hand- i reds of Adams county school children are planning to return to their schools next Monday ad Tuesday. Rural schools will open Monday and j Decatur and Berne schools will j open Tuesday. The Parochial schools of the county also will open Tuesday for the annual fall terms. All schools except those in Decatur will oper-1 ate on central standard time and the city schools will operate on daylight saving time until the last of September. Adams circuit court opens the September term Monday morning. It is not likely that there will be much business transacted the first day, hut the calendar will he arranged for the term, which will be one of the busiest in the history of the local court. Both the civil and criminal doek(CONTINUED ON PAGE FOUR) OIL FIELDS IN TEXAS OPENED Great East Fields Are Producing Again; All Guards Are Silent Kilgore, Tex., Sept. S—(U.R) — The great East Texas oil field, a modern Eldorado that threatened to ruin the entire petroleum industry, today was reopened for production. Col. L. S. Davidson, second in command to Brig. Gen. Jacob F. Wolters. heading the 600 troops occupying the area, announced that tlie field's far-flung wells had beer, opened at 7 a.m. pursuant to the railroad commissioner’s order. Operators and producers had been notified yesterday and last night hy telephone and through the press that valves of their t wells might be reopened after remaining idle since Aug. 17. Giant wells, many of them capable of yielding as high as 40,000 barrels daily, were restricted to 225 barrels per day. The entire field, containing more 'CONTINUED ON PAGE TWO! Truck Driver Killed Brazil, Sept. 5— (UP) — Victor Weese, 28, Brazil, was killed when . the truck he was driving crashed , against a utility pole here today.

YOUR HOME PAPERLIKE .T)NE OF THE FAMILY

JUDGE ERWIN CALLS PROBERS TO MEET FRIDAY I Murder Case And Several Others Scheduled For Investigation NELSON TO HAVE CHARGE Judge Dore B. Erxvih* of ; the Adams Circuit court to- ! dav announced that the Adams County grand jury ( would he called to meet on Friday, September 11. The session promises to he a busy one as several criminal charges will in all probability be probed bv the jurv. Prosecutor Nathan Nelson will qonduet the investigations and it is expected that several indictments will be returned. One of the cases which it is known the grand jury will take up will be the case of Joseph Everett. 53, charged with the murder of Doras Werling, 27, local G. E. employe, who died on June 29 after being shot by Everett. The shooting occurred along the bank of the St. Marys river, near Pleasant Mills, following an argument Everett had with Werling and several of his companions I I who prepared to go in swimming in the river where Everett had a trout line stretched. Everett became incensed anil fired two shots from an) automatic revolver into Werling’s body. One bullet pass--1 ed through the heart and Werling died a few seconds later. Everett had been bound over to the grand jury since his arrest pnd has been held in the Adams I county jail without hail. Other charges to he probed hy the jury are the attempted robberies at the McConnell and Sons wholesale tobacco house on July ’| 21 by William Dixon, and Pearl Hogston. The two men were cap- ! tured as they tried to enter the building and have been held in

I (CONTINUED ON PAGE SIX) FREE CANNING STARTED HERE Twenty Quarts of Tomatoes Stored For Use Among Unemployed A farmer brought a bushel and a half of tomatoes to the city hall where the United Charities took charge of them. The Ladies of the Baptist church canned them in canh furnished by C. D. Teeple and twenty-one quarts of tomatoes are now stored as a start for the provisions to take care of any situation that arises next winter. Several bunches of fruit have come in and it is expected the Ladies Aids will be busy next week. The committee asks us to announce that if farmers will donate a little wheat it can be exchanged at the Geneva mill for flour. They will also appreciate potatoes or any thing else that can be stored until needed. There is no cost to any (CONTINUED ON PA(*C SIX) CHARITY GETS OVER 2 MILLION Township Trustees Os State Spend Large Amounts On Poor Indianapolis, Sept. 5. — (U.R) —• Township trustees spent $2,606,456.13 for poor relief in Indiana in 1930, it was revealed in a report issued today by John A. Drown, secretary of the state board of i charities. Brown said the amount and the number aided were “the greatest in history." i During the year, 51,058 families, including 225,039 persons, were aided, tile report showed. In addition. assistance was given 10,849 persons without families. No administration expense was included in the amount spent. Cases were all non-instrutional. The ON PAGE SIX)