Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 29, Number 215, Decatur, Adams County, 11 September 1931 — Page 1

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0 o eat, LADIES! | It cost Attorney Herman Myers two boxes of candy to file his cases in Attains circuit court today and the women of the Court House will be kept jjweet for a while. There are two rules among attorneys in Adams circuit court: When more than three cases are filed against the same person l>y the same attorney on the same day, one box of candy ' is due anitowing: When the case number turns to double "0", more candy is due. ! Both occurred this morning when Myers and C. J. Lutz I tiled IS cases against the Bank of Linn Grove, et al. KLEPPERTELLS i DAIRY HISTORY J I Local Creamery Manager Addresses Votary Club Here Thursday W. A. Klepper. general manager of the Cloverleaf Creameries. Inc., of this city, gave an interesting* talk on the history of the Dairy Industry, before members nf the Decatur Rotary Club last evening. “The history of the dairy industry is a very Interesting one. It is one of the oldest industries oft which we have a record. It dates I back to the early jieriod of AOOO | 8.C., in Swizerland." said Mr. | Klepper In his opening remarks. Mr. Klepper’s talk dealt vHth) both production and distribu-i tiom of dairy products throughout the country and a summing up of what a great industry the dairy . busimtss and its products was. “The total production of dairy I products in the United States in | 1»27 amounted to about three billion dollars.' Mr. Klepper stated. The speaker gave figures showing the increased consumption of dairy products over a period of i it ONTINUKD ON PAGB TWO) ° 1 Swimming Pool Open The return of hot weather has again made the Green Water bath ' ing pool a very popular place and i many persons have gone in swimm I ing the past few days. Cal Yokt. manager of the pool an l nounced today that next Monday the privileges of the place would be extended free to everyone who wished to swim in the cooling water ) of the bathing [tool. Persons mtrst | produce their health certificates, Mr. Yost stated. The pool and bathing house will he open all day and any person with a health certificate may go in swimming free of charge any time Monday. TEMPLETON IS CAUGHT TODAY I zklleged Killer Held In Wabash Jail On Murder Charges Wabash, Sept. It,— (U.P) —Emery Templeton. 40-year-old World War veteran, wanted for slaying Mrs. Sam Eccles at her home near Pioneer, and Wounding his wife seriously, was captured by Wabash police tour miles south of here on the Lafontaine road today. E. M. Graves saw Templeton walking along the road and recognized him. He summoned police, and Patrolmen Spar and Dye captured him without a struggle. Templeton was removed to the Wabash jail, where he was to be questioned later today. A crowd soon -assembled, but there was no (CONTINUED ON PAGE EIGHT) BULLETIN The Adams county quartet won third place in state competition at the Indiana state fair today __o_ Murder Is Charged — ( Evansville, Sept. 11. — (U.R) —Ira Turpen, 42. was bound over to the grand Jury without Bail when arraigned here on a charge of having forced his wife, Mrs. Maude Turpen, 29, to drink the poison which caused her death.

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ASK JUDGMENT AGAINST BANK Bank of Linn Grove De-, fendant In Cases I’iled Here Today Judgments, totalling $10,850 against the Bank of Linn Grove, its stockholders and Mini Lybarger. liquidating agent are sought in 19 separate suits filed by depositors of the former banking institution. in Adams Circuit court. The Bank of Linn Grove was a ) private bank, organized in 1910. The bank ceased operation Jone 2. 1930. The complaints were filed by Attorneys Herman H Myers and C. J. Lutz on behalf of the 19 depositors. The complaint sets out . that the bank was a private concern and consequently the stockholders are responsdble 100 per cent tor deposits. All stockholders and heirs of former stockholders are made defendants in the case Jointly with the bank, its directors, officers and Muri Lybarger, as liquidating agent. Following are the 19 plaintiffs and the amount each seeks: Glen Bossert. $100: Joseph Eckrote. $550; Ethie Risley. $800; Sam Gentis, $2,000; Losier Eckrote, $250; Peter D. Kizer. $2,500; Cora Bossert. $375: Joseph Meyer, $150; Peter Fox, $600; Esther Eckrote, $250; Jacob Bossert. $350; Christ Liechty. $350; Melissa French, $350; A. J. French. $950; Walter Linn. $175; Homer Bossert. $150; John Thomas, $150; Ernest Strahm. $150; Marion Shinn. $650. Legion Plans Meeting All members of Adaihs post Am eriean Legion are asked to attend a special meeting tonight. Plans will be completed for the Decatur Free Street Fair and final instructions to sub-chairman will he given. The post also will complete plans I to attend the national American Legion convention at Detroit September 21. The state champion float entered by the local post will be taken to the national conclave by Yost Brothers of this city. MEETINGS TO BE RESUMED • Holy Name Society To Commence Monthly Sessions Next Sunday The monthly meetings of the Holy Name Society of the St. Mary’s Catholic church wjll be resumed this month with the mem begs of the society attending the seven o'clock mass Sunday morn ing and receiving Holy Communion during the service. The members are asked to meet at the Catholic school building at 6:45 o'clock and march to the church in a lardy. C. J. Voglewede president of the society announced today. During the summer months the meetings wore dispensed with and Mr. Voglewede urges all members to be in appearance Sunday at the first meeting of the fal season. The business and social meeting of tlie Society will be held Monday evening at eight o’clock at the K. of C. hall and Thomas Hays, manager of the Better Business Bureau of Fort Wgyne will address the meeting. Mr. Hays is an entertaining speaker and the meeting promises to be one of great interest to the members. — o Band To Convention Indianapolis, Sept. 11. —(U.R) — The all-state American Legion band of 125 pieces will lead the Indiana delegation to the national Legion convention in Detroit. September 21 to 24, it was announced at state headquarters. Cly d e Snoddy, Bloomington, revealed that the band had raised within S2OO of enough money for expenses, and the deficit was made up by the executive committee. Installation of new state Legion officers, headed by Ralph F. Gates, Columbia City, will be held here October 4. the executive committee announced.

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Decatur, Indiana, Friday, September 11, 1931.

Fighting for a Life JPWI. • N?’.. / \ 'IF 1' ■ ’ V w ' Precious serum brought from Buffalo by planh, then rushed to Billings Memorial Hospital at Chicago, is injected into the arm of Mrs. Carrie Nelson of Chicago, afflicted with the rare and usually fatal Addison’s disease. Dr. Knute Reuterskiold (left) said the serum.! obtained after a nationwide appeal had been made, would last for three) or tour days—then more must be obtained. The other physician is Dr. John Van De Erve.

GENEVA HAS ' LIONS GLOB ' —7 I ’ t Decatur Lions Instrumental In Securing i Limherlost Charter —” 1 Members of the Decatur Lions • club motored to Geneva Thursday * night where final arrangements 1 were made for 28 Geneva citizens to receive a charter from Lions, inter- ' national. The Geneva Club will be I the second in Adams county and 1 the Decatur chib will have charge I of the Geneva Charter night Octo ’ her 8. Eli Stucky was elected president . of the new organization and M. O. | Smith was chosen as secretary. I The Decatur members were instru mental in securing a club at Ge nevh. Lions, prominent in the state and international organization will attend the Charter night program 1 of the Geneva organization it was I. announced today and Decatur ol * fleers will preside in the installation. The roster of the Geneva club includes prominent Geneva business and professional men. BELIZE STRUCK i BY HURRICANE I Honduran Capital Destroyed; 150 Lives Are Believed Lost ' < Boston, Sept. 11.—<U.R> The city » of Belize, capital of British Hon- 1 duras, was destroyed by a hurri- 1 cane yesterday, and about 150 lives were lost, according to a dispatch 1 to tropical radio headquaters here today. The radio dispatch was received from the tropical radio's New Or- ; leans station. The manager there > reported he received the following information from Tela at 8:54 EST: "Belize destroyed by hurricane] yesterday. About 150 lives lost and 1 half the population is homeless. I; Several hundred persons were in- ] jured. The government radio sta tlon probably will be out of commission for a week. Have requested Tela to get all information possible. Will advise you further.’’ New York, Sept. 11. (U.R> The ' airport manager for the Pan American Airways at Belize, British Honduras, reported to the headquarters here today that a hurricane had struck Belize yesterday with tremendous damage. Unofficial reports, the Pan American representative reported, said' 200 were dead. The Pan American has a regular] airline which left Havana this morn-: ing with one stop over at Belize.

« ■ Alex Watson Recalls 1911 Shooting in City Way back in 1914 at 5 o'clock on a i ohb-grey evening, Alex Watson, of New York out to "see America first” was shot by a companion in a little shack near the Elick tile mill in the south west part of the city. The bullet grazed the wind pipe and for days his life hung by a thread. Drs. Smith and Parrish attended him and finally pulled him through. This morning Alex dropped in to say hello and to recall ’the story He visited Seph Melchi who was marshall at that time rounded up fourteen tramps and whose work was considered extraordinary. He i (CONTINUED ON PAGE TWO) WOMAN TELLS OF BOAT ATTACK — Stories of Mother And Daughter Correspond, Police Believe Syossett, 1,1.. Sept 11.—(U.R) — A willing "guest” at Mineola police headquarters, Mrs. Benjamin P. Collings slept last night under the protection of Long Island police, seeking to recover Iter shattered senses after a night of what she had described liysterially as "piracy, assault and murder” aboard her husband’s motor boat, the Penguin. She was taken into Oyster Hay. L. L, today to re-enact the events. Police continued to drag the waters of Long Island Sound for traces of her husband, retired civil engineer, believed to have been killed and thrown overboard by off shore pirates or rum runners, while they checked over certain discrepancies in Mrs. (’idlings’ amazing story of terrorism. The disconnected st,ory of Mrs. ('oilings, who was found adrift in another motor boat miles from the scene of the tragedy, is said to coincide in its main points, however, with that told by five-year-old Barbara Collings, the only unharmed occupant of the Penguin, who was picked up yesterday morning by a fisherman while the little cabin motorboat was drifting aimlessly near Oyster Hay. Nassau county authorities, furthermore, attributed many of the (CONTINUED ON PAGE I’IVE) 1 ■ o .lames Burk Pledged To Phi Kappa Psi James Burk, son of Mr. and Mrs Avon Burk, who is enrolled as a freshman at the Indiana University this fall, has been pledged to the i’hi Kappa Psi fraternity, according to word received here. James was graduated from the ; Decatur High School last year and ] was prominent in the activities of i the school.

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BANK TO PAY i DIVIDEND SOON < Peoples Loan to Distribute 8 Per Cent. Early Next Week Checks tor eight per cent pay- i in'nt to depositois of The Peoples Loan and Trust company will be j mailed next week, C. L. Walters, i attorney for M. Kirsch, liquidating j agent, announced today. The checks will probably be , placed in the mails Tuesday or Wednt da j, Mr. Waite s stated. 4 Mr. Walters stated that all the " $25,000 based on the total deposits I of $320,000 folowing the closing of | the institution. * The eight per cent distribution I brings tlie total amount distributed to depositois to 53 per cent., three former distributions having been made since the bank closed in June Every effort i» being made to collect the notes owing the institution and to complete the distriijulion as rapidly as possible, Mr. Wai tprs stated. • Farm is sold The deal for the sale of the Hogs- ’ head farm of 100 acres, located in 2 Washington township, southeast of ( ' Decatur was completed today. Fred 1 Mutschler, president of the Mut 5 I schler Packing company purchased * (CONTINUED ON PAGE EIGHT) 0 _ j BERNE PEOPLE i MADE CITIZENS Mrs. Mathilda Nagel And Robert Gerber, Jr.. Take Citizens’ Ooath Two Berne residents, former citi- 1 zens of Switzerland today became citizens of the United States, successfully passing the government’s requirements and the government inspector's examination. Robert Gerber. Jr. and Mrs. Ma- 1 thilda Nagel, both of Berne were ' examined by government represen- ' tatives Edward Kennedy of Cincin- 1 nati before Judge D. B. Erwin in 1 Adams circuit court. Following the quest ioningk : "1 - 1 mission was granted by the Court Court and Miss -Bernice Nelson, county clerk, administered the oath, making each a citizen. Witnesses for each applicant testified that each was a fit subject to become a citizen, and the applicants then answered a num j her of questions concerning tlie government of the United States Both surrendered citizenship to Swtzeriland and both denounced anarchy and communism. o l GUARDS GALLED TO STOP RIOT: I Martial Law Rules In Arkansas Town Following Religious Scrap Jonesboro, Ark., Sept. 11- (U.R) -—A national guard unit, armed witlt tear gas bombs, machine guns and side arms, patrolled Jonesboro streets today to prevent further disturbances between opposing factions of a preacher and a Texas evangelist. The guardsmen were mobilized deputized last night shortly before the opening of the tent meeting of the Rev. Joe Jeffers, youthful appearing Baptist. Governor Harvey Parnell was expected to declare martial law today. Jeffers was warned by (’apt. Harry radridge, national commander today that Gov. Parnell 1 had authorized arrest of Jeffers “or in escort to take him out of town" if the evangelist "used H’ONTINUED ON PAGE FIVE) i o Niezer Resigns Post In Bank Association ■ Indianapolis. Sept. 11.—(U.R)-W. ; A. Collings, Crawfordsville, was chosen president of the Indiana ■ Bankers' Association at a meeting I of the organization’s administration f council here. He succeeds C. M. Niezer, Fort Wayne, who resigned.

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MIGHT BE RIGHT! I I It was a tense moment for j Robert. Gerber, Jr., here this ) morning when he was being examined for citizenship by Edward Kennedy, Cincinnati, gov- , ; eminent representative, before ) | Judge D. B. Erwin. Kennedy had asked young | Gerber "who would become , i President of the United States ) i if President Hoover died? Without mu c h hesitancy, , ) Gerber replied, "Franklin I Roosevelt.” : , He was admitted to citizen- : ship and received a hearty wel- | come from Judge Erwin. LEGION DAY • IS WEDNESDAY I Many Legionnaires Are Expected to Attend Local Fair Wednesday i One of the big events of the De- ' catur Free Street Fair which starts ' in this city Tuesday, will be the ' American Legion Day on Wednes- ' day, September 16. In connection with the special features of the day, £ will be a parade of American Le- ! gion Drum Corps and Bands in the 1 evening. 1 A large number of American Le- 1 gion drum corps from northern Indiana and western Ohio are ex- 1 pected to be in the city Wednesday ’ evening and take part in the parade ' These visiting corps and bands ' will also compete for prizes in the 1 event which promises to be one of ' the largest parades ever held in this city. The march down Second street will start promptly at 9:15 o’clock Wednesday night (D.S.T.) and will pass the judge’s stand from which the prizes will be awarded. —o Mrs. Kuebler Is 111 Word has been received here that Mrs. W. A. Kuebler of Los Angelos, Calif , a former resident of this city, is at a hospital in Los Angeles critically ill. Mrs. Kuebler has been quite ill, and may submit to an operation. LUTHERANS TO HOLD FESTIVAL Annual Mission E vent Planned For Church Here Sunday Zion Lutheran church will celebrate its mission festival this Sunday. Arrangements have been made by the local pastor. Rev. Paul Schultz, to carry out the celebration in the two languages employed in the regular services at tlie church. In the forenoon the German language wil Ibe used, services beginning at ten o’clock. The speaker for this service will lie tlie Rev. E. R. Truelzsch, well known pastor of St. John’s Lutheran church on the Decatur Fort Wayne road. The regular Sunday school and Bible classes will convene at nine o’clock. Festival services in the English language haye been arranged for the evening this coming Sunday, seven o’clock marking the beginning. The evening speaker will be the Rev. Paul A. Barth, pastor of Trinity Lutheran church of Elkhart Indiana, Pastor Barth is recognized as an outstanding speaker in the Missouri Synod of the Lutheran church. He has been on many speaking tours in various sections of our country in the interest of Valparaiso University and other organizations. BDtli services will be held according to fast time, A hearty invitation to tills festival is extended to the public. o— Cowen Seeks Entries James Cowen, superintendent of the flower show to be field next week in connection with the Decatur street fair, visited the schools In the city today and urged the children to enter exhibits in the miniature garden display. The flow er show will be held In the corridor of the court house. Mr. Cowen asked for the cooperation of the children In connection with the show and invited them to bring their exhibits.

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MURDER CASE TO BE PROBED; BAILIFF NAMED Judge Orders Jurors To Probe All Criminal Cases Pending J. E. ANDERSON NAMED FOREMAN The Adams County grand jury, September term, met at 9 o’clock this morning in the jury room of the Adams circuit court. Judge 1). B. Erwin charged the men with their duties of office and stressed the desire for the jurors to investigate alleged gambling and liquor law violations in the county. The jurors are Janies E. Anderson, Washington township, foreman; Carl T. Habegger, Monroe township; Alfred Daniels, St. Marys township; Benjamin R. Far low, Wabash township; Otto Fuelling. Root township and Reuben Rinehart, French township. James Touhey, of this city was appointed grand jury bailiff and was sworn in following Judge Erwin’s charge to the jurors. The ctJurt then appointed Mr. Anderson fore man and told him his instructions. In accordance with the law the grand jury will first invetigate charges against all criminals held in the county jail and all persons on bail for criminal offenses. Then, according to tlie Court's instructions, the jury will probe all other misdemeanors and felonies coming to their knowledge, concerning citizens, public officials ami others. The law also specifies that the jurors shall visit and inspect the county infirmary and jail. Prosecutor Nathan G. Nelson will assist the jurors in questioning witnesses and preparing indictments if any are returned. The jury members retired to their room following the instructions and after a short session adjourned for today. It is believed tlie session will last several days. It is believed that the first investigation of tlie grand jury will be concerning the death of Doras Werling. Pleasant Mills young man. who was shot and killed on the shore of the St. Marys river at Pleasant Mills last June 29 by Joseph Everett, following an argument over swimming and fishing in the river. Everett surrendered immediately following the fray to Sheriff Burl Johnson and has been held in jail since. He was arraigned in the court of Justice of Peace Adam C. Butcher and Squire Butcher ordered Everett bound over to the grand (CONTINUED UN PAGE EIGHT! o Bijj Mushroom Found Two unusually large mushrooms were found in the woods on the Dal las Spuller farm, five miles east of Decatur, today. The mushrooms which are of a white variety, were found by Sanford Richards and Eleanor Burand of Toledo, Ohio. The larger of the two mushrooms has a measured circumference of 24 indies, and is eight and one half inches in diameter. The other measured 21 inches in circumference ami is eight inches across. HOPE VANISHES FOR AVIATORS Pacific Flivers Long Overdue; Death Believed A Certainty Seattle, Sept. 11. (U.R) Don Moyle and Cecil A. Allen apparently sacrificed their lives inalie North Pacific in the name of aviation. Belief that tile two young fliers who set out courageously to fly from Tokio to Seattle in a second hand monoplane met death in a plunge Into Hie ocean was general today. No word came that could lie deem cd authentic of any airplane (hit reasonably could lie supposed to lie theirs. No trace had been found by ships of throe nations detailed to search for them. One possibility remains that 'CONTINUED ON PAGE TWO!