Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 29, Number 224, Decatur, Adams County, 22 September 1931 — Page 1

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■RIFF NABS ■HISKEY; ONE I IS ARRESTED ■ e) r Rinjr With Port'■|e still Believed i ® ncinerc(l In Raid ■ (111, NELSON ■ |[| l.l’ SHERIFF -■,. ill tlv> !><>Qt-(■ti.-MX }■. >me iii Adams v was discovered Lite night when Sheriff "■j! ,1 Hsoii. < hiel' of Police Mel. hi an<l Prosecutor K c \el<o:i raided the L.rm northeast u’. > li'i ated a large -of moonshine whisth! barrels ■ L J< ai'J arre-ted Harry «Im li a numAllans nuinty anil Ohio IM, . 1- believed Io ■ I: alleged i portable still u >. mash is ready. ’. > tile farm and ... s ~ ~| on to another mash is ready. alined Ihe raid 'ip received from ■:. ii.tim.’ party that moved on from . ■ asof whiskey. «!>— . iml Ilirseliy were -a Vlams county jail i- charged in a cira." .lax it w ith viola! ion pmliiliit law. He was al ■ intoxicated at i>f Um arrest and for a M li. concerning which is believed ■xTIXI Kl' > tX PAGE THREE) ■partment ('rumbles ■)U>i>d|>h.a s. pt 22.- RJ.Rt M man was killed, a man and ■ir. xx.a. I. it j.-d beneath tons and a score of perwere Him...l, one critically, a We .: Philadelphia apartMt house collapsed today. - • r. men were recovering ■ bodv from the debris, they lie’ mat. and woman, pinned B*r the debris, calling to each Br Tin rescue workers then B-t-il their attention towards Keating them. I Prepare For Trial ■thanon, Ind. Sept. 22—(U.R)— Bpernil v< nite of 150 talesmen ordered by Judge John W. Mnaday in Boone circuit court ■Btieipatimi of the trial of Mrs. ®ri" Simmons, which will open K»y The special venlire is in y* 111 tn 'he regular panel. Sts Simmons, whose homo is B Greenfield, will be tried on a B degree murder charge growJ nut of the strychnine poison 801B 01 of her daughter, Alice Jean, H’ht> died jt a family reunion B June 21. Mrs. Simmons is Br .blither first degree murder Bhimnt charging her with the B» death of another daughter, Bma. 14. who also died at the Bion. WEZZLER IN MIE'S CHARGE freago Banker Turned Per To State After I Long Questioning | tn'?* 0 ' Sp ' )l 22—(U.R)—Walter L ?“■ ’he bank employe who [L , in the market, and then I ““led and lost $3,666,000 more pn < ttort to win back the origin has been turned over L„ ~B tate for the ftrst tin >° fc. arrest a month ago. I " ■ had been held in custody [ etectives employed by the P ental-Illinois Bank and Trust L the hillion dollar concern Lu I ~h lle worked and from L ” waa charged, he took F money. Is m. ' f° r a I'lfht sentence i .loL" made an,i he need expect horneTTb anooi »“ced State’s BBt[ ; John A ' Swa »80n in com“U“B on the case.

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To Boycott Goods Tucson. Ariz., Sept. 22—(U.R)—A boycott on all California manufac-l tured goods in retaliation for the continued imprisonment of Thomas J. Mooney and Warren K. Billings, was voted by the Arizona state federation of labor in convention today. By a vote of 31 to 1. the delegates asked all union men in the state to refrain from purchasing articles made in California until full pardons are given Mooney ami ' Billings, convicted of the 19161 preparedness day parade bombing ill San Francisco. BRYAN TAKEN TO RICHMOND — Adams County Man. Injured In Fall, Fails To Answer Treatment Sheriff Burl Johnson took Noah Bryan to the Richmond State Hospital this afternoon. Bryan was committed to that institution for treatment several days ago and today he received orders to report. The man was injured when he fell from a wagon several weeks ago. striking his head on the road. The mishap occurred east of Geneva when Bryan was returning from the Celina, 0.. fair. He has been insane since the accident. After Bryan's recovery from the mishap he was brought to the Adams county jail where he has since [ been held. Local treatment has fail-1 ed to cause the man to regain his mind and it is believed that a few ! months at the state institution | might aid him. o GASS STORE IS RE-ORGANIZED Local Ready-to-WcarCon-’ cern To Be Continued Under Same Name The E. F. Gass & Son ready-to-wear store, closed this week to complete an inventory and form a new organization to operate the store, will open in a very short time, owners of the mercantile; establishment stated today. Mrs. Adeline Gass, wife of the late E. F. Gass, who founded the! store in 1912, will be in active! charge of the store when it reopens, assisted by her son R. O. Gass, Huntington merchant, who will act as buyer for the store. They will be assisted by Mrs. I Daniel Zeser and Mrs. Vincent Borman, daughters of Mrs. Gass. William Gass will ha#.- charge of the clerical (Apartment and will be assisted by Mrs. Emma Pennington and Mrs. Olga Baker, former clerks in the store. Announcement of the formal opening of the new store will be made soon. Mrs. Gass stated. It was also stated that a children's and junior department would he installed in the store and buyers for the store will go to the eastern markets each week to purchase the latest style in wearing apparel. Mr. Gass, the founder of the store died August 9 and since that time the store has been operating tinkler an administrator's sale. The sale was concluded Saturday. o— Witnesses Are Called Indianapolis, Sept. 22 — (UP) — Testimony designed to show that the equipment of the southern Indiana telephone and telegraph company is in a deteriorated condition was introduced in the rate injunction suit before Samuel Bowen, special master in chancery here today. William J. Erny, farmer of near Jasper, testified that the company's wires and poles were inadequate. He said 45 per cent of the farmers in Dubois county would remove their phones if the rates were increased, asked by the company. His testimony was supported by Mayor George Wagner, Jasper; Mayor Edwin Lukameyer, Huntingburg, ami other witnesses. ——o Bird Bath Presented Mrs. Hans Bruns of rural route 3. Decatur, was successful in receiving the biid bath which was presented by the Acker Cement Works, Saturday night.

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ELMER MAGLEY CALLED HERE FROM PRISON Man Who Escaped .Jail And Was Captured To Face Grand .Jury NATURE OF CASE SECRET Elmer Muglcv, who was i convicjetl more than two years at»o in Atlants circuit j I court on it charge of rape and who later escaped from the j jail and after several months | of freedom was captured in , Michigan a few months ago hv Sheriff Burl Johnson and taken to the state reformatory at Pendleton to serve his sentence of five years, was hack in the Adams county iail today. Magley was called back by the Adams county grand jury for questioning. it was learned today. No information was released as to what Magley would be questioned concerning and the entire move was of a secret nature. The summons was handed Sheriff Johnson and he was ordered to bring Magley here as soorf as possible. Magley was taken from the Pendleton institution last night and brought to the Adams county jail, under guard. No one has . been permitted to talk to him. It I is understood he will be question- ; ed either today or tomorrow and it has not been learned whether he would be taken back immedI lately to the reformatory or would j be kept here. Delegates State View Detroit, Sept. 22—(UP)—X 1 View I that prohibition is not an issue of the American Legion, was adopted by Indiana's 45 delegates to the NaI tional Legion convention here. They announced that they would oppose any move to bring the issue before the convention. Rue Hinshaw, Carmel, Ind., introduced the motion to avoid the prohibition problems, at a caucus of Hoosier delegates. Fort Wayne and Gary representatives were in favor of a stand for modification of dry I laws, but Indianapolis, Terre Haute- ; and other delegates opposed them. Despite the plea of President I Hoover that veterans retrain from ■ asking for bonuses or pensions during the depression, the Indiana delegation reaffirmed its stand in favor of cash payment of the bonus. STORM SWEEPS MIDDLEWEST Six States Affected By Bad Storm; Nine Are Known Dead Kansas City, Mo., Sept. 22.—(U.R) Violent wind and electrical storms, which killed nine persons, broke the long September heat wave in I the midwest and southwest today. The storms swept six s last last night and early today, injuring at least a score of persons, leveling farm buildings and piling splintered communication poles along highways. Three fatalities were reported in Oklahoma, two in Missouri, two in Kansas and one in lowa and one in Wisconsin. The storm also caused extensive loss in Illinois. The dead: Janies Holt, 17, Oswego, Kansas, struck by falling timber. C. N. McNinole, 94, Oswego, Kan., crushed by falling tree. (CONTINUED ON i'AGE SIX) - oSupport Money Stops Jeffersonville, Ind., Sept. 22. —(U.R) —Women with children who obtain support money with divorces from former husbands, must forego this source of income after remarriage in Clark county, Judge George C. Kopp ruled in circuit court here. Judge Kopp announced that men who marry divorced women with] children must thenceforth support the children by the former marriage or marriages, and that the fathers are thereby relieved of such financial responsibility.

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Just Before Crash -..11-L....JJWI ,> - LL G ■ ■ i iow - ** ,-.i ill v (’apt. James Goodwin Hall, former army aviator, and Peter J. Brady, chairman of Mayor Walker's (New York) committee on aviation, | just before taking off on a flight which ended in a crash on Staten | Island, N. Y.. killing Brady and injuring Hall.

SUMMER DAYS NEARING END Last Day Similar In Temperature To Hot Days Os July, August Indianapolis, Sept. 22. — (U.R) — Summer hade farewell to Indiana today with the same sizzling temperatures that baked the state throughout most of July, August and the first two-thirds of September. With autumn ready to step into sway at 6:24 P. M. tomorrow. Hoosiers wondered whether the new season would lie just another date on the calendar, or whether ft would react to the seasonal promise of the U. S. weather bureau, with some relief from mid summer heat. Summer apparently planned to make its farewell bow in a blazing, 90 degree sun. The mercury started at 76 degrees here at 7 a. m., mounted one point in the first hour, and four points in the next. Forecaters predicted tliat it would reach 90 before the long promised I showers brought a recession late this afternoon. Yesterday's maximum temperature was 90 degrees which, however. was only 3 degrees above the maximum for the same date last year. o FLIERS SAFE ABOARD SHIP — Rescue Story Is Told By Captain of Russia Bound Freighter New York, Sept. 22. —(U.R) —Three aviators the world had given up as 1 lost ami whom fate cheated of success on a trans-Atlantic flight almost within sight of land were safe aboard a ship today after floating for a week on the wreckage of their plane. They were Willy Rody, young German who brought the Junkers monoplane, Esa with money he inherited; Christian Johanssen, a Dane, who secured as pilot; and Fernando Costa Veiga, youthful Portuguese adventurer who joined the party at Lisbon, Portugal. the starting point of their i flight. Costa Veiga had an Injured leg. but the hut the others were unhurt., They were rescued yesterday afternoon off Newfoundland by the 'CONTINUED ON PAGE TWO)

Phi Belt Fraternity Plans Fall Activities ♦ ♦ At the regular meeting of tlie 1 local Phi Delta Kappa fraternity! in the Phi Delt Hall on South! Second street. Monday night. the|i fall program for Hie organization 1 was outlined. Among tlie interesting plans for the fall and winter season are the Hallowe'en party for members of the fraternity, their wives and! sweethearts which will he an event | of October 8; a musical comedy. ‘‘Why Not?” October 15 and 16; the Masquerade Ball for the public at the Decatur Country Club. I Thursday, October 29; and the New Year’s Ball. At the meeting last night, the mem,ls i rs also decided to install a (CONTINUED ON PAGE SIX) STATE POLICE IN STRIKE AREA f 200 Laborers Join In Sympathy Strike; No Pay Is Cause Indianapolis, Sept. 22. — (U.R) — State police wore ordered today to a conduction camp on state road 36. near Rockville, to preserve ord er during a sympathy strike which has thrown nearly 200 laborers out of work. Meanwhile John .1. Brown, director of tlie state highway commission. asked Attorney General James M. Ogden what steps lie should take to get the men back on tlie job. The strikers were said to have rebelled because of failure of employers to pay them money due prior to August 21. when they were working for the W. C. Johnson Com pany, which went into bankruptcy. Immediate cause of the strike was said to have been dismissal of O. G. Harrison. Russellville, a truckdriver. Harrison demanded his (CONTINUED ON PAGE SIX) Divorce Decree Granted Evansville, lud„ Sept. 22.—(U.R) Mrs. Susie VanOrman, wife of F. Harold VanOrman, hotel operator and former lieutenant governor of ; Indiana, was granted a divorce decree in probate court here. Mrs. VanOrman. who previously had filed for a divorce ami with [drawn the suit, charged cruelty I and incompatibility. Mr. and Mrs. VanOrman have three sous.

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INFESTATION OF CORN BORER IS INCREASING _ I Scout Report Reveals Increase In Every Adams County Township DAMAGE NOT ESTIMATED Infestation of the corn borer in! Adams county has shown a decided i increase in 1931 compared to 1930, according to a report filed by state scouts who inspected corn acreage in every Adams county township. The estimated damage to the | crop in this county was not announced, but if the infestation increases each year as it has the last year, it is believed Hie damage will be greatly felt in a few years. A thorough examination was made here and scouts worked in! the comity for several weeks. The I gain was general through the! county, ami the increase was more than doul.Je in each township, the! report shows. Efforts will be made, it is understood to curb the increase of corn (UONTINI’ED ON P4GE SIX) Reppert Cries Sale Cols. Fred Reppert and Phillip Glick, local auctioneers, conducted ! a pure bred Hereford cattle sale! at Converse, Ind.. Monday. Col. ! Reppert reports that the cattle brought an average price of $94 ! i per head, including young cattle. I i A larae crowd was present ami i tile bidding was lively. IOWA GUARDS I ENFORCE LAW Tuberculosis Testing Law Causes Stir Among lowa Farmers Tipton. la.. Sept. 22 —(U.R) —The ! rumble of marching men and the I clatter of galloping horses heralded the arrival today of 1,800 guardsmen, as Cedar county went under martial law in lowa's battle I to enforce its compulsory bovine i tuberculosis, testing law. Mobilized from a score of cities, the guardsmen arrived aboard special trains to quell a farmer revolt tliat lias simmered for months in Hie courts and broken into open violence on numerous occasions. Yesterday afternoon the outbreak occurred that led to the deI cision to call out the guard. Sheriffs and their deputies from many eastern lowa counties were led by Joe Newell to the farm of Joe Ix-nker near Willow junction. There were 65 of the officers, well armed and instructed to protect state veterinarians as they carried out the tests on Lenker’s cattle. Newell, formerly a special agent of the Illinois Bankers' Asswiation, took his force to the (CONTINUED ON PAGE TWO) ALARM SYSTEM USED BY THIEVES Master Cracksmen Operate Buzzer System As Warning To Them Chicago, Sept. 22 —(U.R) —An electric buzzer system tliat the master cracksmen who looted vaults of the Wicker Park Safe Posit and Vault Company of $160,000 installed to protect themselves during the 10 hours they took for the job was as good a clue as police had today to their identity. Tlie buzzer gave an inkling of the foresight and thoroughness of the 4 robbers, who pressed oxyacetylene torches, sledges and chisels into use to cut through three-inch tempered steel plates and a six-inch concrete floor. Every move the cracksmen made was interpreted by police today as evidence of more than I usual precaution. They chose the! week-end for th l robbery. They entered Into the basement of the (CONTINUED ON PAGE TWO)

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i Commissary Is Refused Kokomo, Ind., Sept. 22— (UP) —A proposal by Walter Koontz, Center I township trustee, that a commissary store be established for poor I relief, was quashed in a ruling by I Judge Ogen Gifford, Tipton. Judge Gifford held that there is no provi- | sion in Indiana statutes for such action. Ihe ruling was an answer to a I Demurrer against an injunction sought, against Gifford by 23 retail store owners. Council for Gifford said the ruling would be appealed. DREDGE CASE RECORDS SHOWN Many Exhibits Offered In Wabash Drain Case By Attorneys The Wabash River dredge case ■ was passing through one of the ; draggy sections today witli little of I special interest. The day was de- | voted to tlie identification by offii cials of the records, blue prints and reports as regards the filing, of the engineers reports and other documents in Mercer county, Ohio. Judge iKister's court is now' being held in the dining room of the K. of *B. Hall where the attorneys, court and officials are comfortable and well pleased with the newly ai ranged quarters. Forty exhibits have already been ; offered in the case and it is really j just started. About a dozen witI nesses including A. W. Fishbaugh. j engineer and surveyor, Celina. Or- ' al H. Batr, clerk of the Jay circuit court; Homer Teeters, Jay county engineer in charge; County Clerk Sharpe of Bluffton; Ralph Wright, | county engineer of Mercer county I and F. D. Kuckeck, his assistant of : Celina. Every point is being contested and objections continue to be 1 ottered to each matter of imporj tance offered by the petitioners. o One-Man Convention Oolumhus, Ind., Sept. 22 —(UP) — For the third consecutive year Sylvester Mabe, 88, was the whole convention at the annual rally here of the sixth Indiana volunteers. Three other survivors of the regiment were too feeble to attend. o— Agreement Is Reached Muxden, Manchuria, Sept. 22 — (UPl —Japanese and Russian officials appeared today to be in agreement over the Japanese occupation of Muxden despite reports from Harbin of violent Russian reaction SETTLEMENTS NOT LIKELY World Problems Depend On United States’ Action. Premier Says Paris, Sept. 22.—(U.R)—Two of the most important world problems, reparations and disarmament, will continue unsolvable unless the United States understands the French viewpoint, Premier Pierre Laval said today. In receiving Karl A. Bickel, president of the United Press AssoIciations, Laval said definitely be has decided to visit Washington in mid-October. if the cabinet approves the plan on Friday. Laval will go with the expressed hope of promoting a better understanding between the two countries. The French viewpoint on the two problems, he insisted, is not unyielding nor has France an ambition to domineer over Europe. He indicated his desire, in visiting the United States, to journey beyond the seaboard, to Chicago to get in touch witli mid-western opinion. (CONTINUED ON PAGE SIX) o Man Killed In Blast Harisburg, 111., Sept-. 22 —(UP) — Albeit Farmer, 21. was killed and his cousin T. S. Farmer, 18, critically injured today, when an explosion believed caused by a bomb wrecked an automobile truck they ! had borrowed. Police examined the wreckage after the explosion and said they found wires indicating that an infernal machine of some kind had been placed under the hood. •

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GOLD SUPPLY DISTRIBUTION PLAN SOUGHT Snowden Explains Plan And Hopes In Radio Address To Nation CRISIS STILL GRIPS NATION London, Sept. 22. —<U.R) ! British fin:tnci:il and political I leaders today looked hopeI’nllv to an international conference to restore economic health to the world through a redistribution of the world’s gold supply. With the budget balanced on’paper and suspension of the gold standard lor six mouths approved by parliament and King George in record time, expetts considered a conference for redistribution of gold the next move in untangling the world economic situation. War debts and reparations may be included. Speaking of the necessity of a remedy for the conditions under which the United States and France holds 65 per cent of ths world's gold supply, Philip Snowden. chancellor of the exchequer, said in a radio address: "We willingly call an international conference for this purpose. It has been made clear to us that such a move is unwelcome to some other parties. It may be that the present crisis will Itring home to them the necessity for some concerted action." Snowden took the opportunity to refer to the large number of bank failures that have occurred outside England during the world depression. "British hanks are safe." he said ‘CONTINUED ON PAOK SIX» o Law Suits Dropped New York. Sept. 22. (U.R)—David Sarnoff, president of tlie Radio Corporation of America, announced today that suits against the corporation by various independent radio manufacturing organizations had been settled. The announcement said that all anti-trust law suits against the Radio Corporation had been dropped. They were brought by numerous radiw equipment manufacturers, who alleged the corporation had violated the Clayton act. Man’s Record Probed ‘Muncie. Ind. Sept. 22 (UP) — Tlie boasts of Fred Orhisg, 39. a self styled "Bad Man." who claims to be a murderer, forger and ary deserter, were being traced by Muncie author ities today. Orbigg was arrested when he was found in a farm home near here. When a fineer print officer went to Orbigg's cell to take his impression. he found Orbigg "sanding" his fingers on tlie cement wall to rear t’he prints. Orbigg told officers that he w’as sought for the murder of a federal agent at Logan, W. Va.. for desertion from the U. S. Army, and for forgery at Bluefield, W. Va., His fingerprints were sent to West Virginia authorities and to Indianapolis and Now’ York. SEVERAL DEALS ARE COMPLETED Col. Roy Johnson Says Real Estate Business Is Making Gain Roy Johnson, local auctionoor and relator, reports sei era real estate sales which he completed recently. A six room house on South Eleventh street, belonging to William Fingland sold to Simon J. Bowers of Kirkland township. Mr Bowers will move here. Charles Hunt purchased Hie 95 iacre Ellis Springer farm at public auction Monday. The farm Is located in Blue Creek township Ho paid $4,000. Ira B. Fuhrman purchased an acre of ground in Bellmont park, east of Decatur. The* Joseph Minch farm of 17 acres in Root township was sold to Mrs. Freida Miller by Col. Johnson.