Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 29, Number 225, Decatur, Adams County, 23 September 1931 — Page 1

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JHIBITION >CUSSED BY .legionnaires Thousand Service fpMi pack Convention m l,all T,,day Hness is af* CHIEF TOPIC Mich.. Sept. 23. lul'dc" rni' ‘l. «^B| ( ,reiiiosl 'luestion to I'' 1 l,v •’(IJMHt veterans who UkH.,l nib- I’ l I'"' 1 l'"\ the Aiiieruaii Legion ■al convention. Me iction. it miv. might KI Io the convention ■BwboL remained highlv Seine doubt was K r . ... killed as an issue repelled out. | es prohibition nie-t talked of issue (b erates after Presi- ... re Monday I ) government for • Prior to his ■ •>... 1,...,, had been con- .. problem, but expressed to abide bv his sugges.Un- became an prohibition. . oininittee. a sub- .. ■ , .lutions < omvoted night to report ■ ■ mending -a the Volstead act. I - en'hat arguments in . principally whether the a .1,1 leal organiza--ider a question ' rod political. -■■ i •■peal or modidimil.l ! a urged. For the ' m.n expressed ' - favoring a change. nn< ar.' going to have ' well give i oii. i t the taxes," M< or Bossy Gillis of ■ ' Mass. "Scrap proand pti.-perity will reconiiin nts were: Morion. Cleveland: ha- iimsidered a dry H ,l1 " want either modifi or - .1 lloai.r, Detroit: "The by teetotalers. «.m»s beer.” Eldi'ti. Cleveland, Ohio. ” i".'iidment to receive " :i ' ” ■ ment or rejection ■” American people.” W" American people right opportunity to exBB " ’ " and settle the one? and for all.” T P. Howard. Malden. ()N o AOR TWO ) Iter mains I BEING LAID ynntendent HarrufT ■“Men Busy on Local I Improvement job <>f laying the new water South Fifth street will be et «l this week and word of ■ h| ig the new line on North will begin next week. ■ llaratf. superintendent of the ■ " '>r department stated tothe replacing of the on South Fifth street and ; ®. Six,h street, a block of main s t Adams street between ■"i and Thirteenth street, will 1,11 Work °n this stretch arl af,t ' r the Sixth street iniis completed. /■'li- • xi avatlng is being done ■ n ' 31111 **r- Harrutf stated that s men were employed on th’e ■ "HI require about one month ■t"Pl<‘te the job. replacing of the lines covers E Enur * ) ’ oc^a ail( t was made g ary because the old pipes ■ in several places.

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Dr. Franklin Plans Special Lecture Series Dr. E. T. Franklin of Winfield, Kans., brother of Rev. B. H. Franklin of this city, is moving his family to Decatur, while he is engaged in research work in the field of religious experiences, under the guidance of Columbia University and the University of Chicago. Dr. and Mrs. Frank and family will make thjeir home at 331 South Third street while in Decatur. Dr. Franklin has consented to give a special series of lectures on Wednesday nights at 7:30 o’clock, the regular prayer meeting hour, in the Methodist Episcopal Church. The first of the series of lectures will he given tonight, and anyone Interested is invited to attend these ! services.. o — GRAND JURY TO MEETTHURSDAY Jurors Take Day Vacation Today; Probe Will Continue The Adams county grand jury recessed Tuesday night until Thursday morning, but according to information from a reliable source, the jurors are not completed with a half dozen or so cases they are investigating. No intimation has been made as to what is being probed but it is said that a murder indictment will be among those returned. Joseph Everett, St. Marys township. is being held in Adams county jail charged with murder since last June 29. The charge was filed in a justice of peace court mid later transferred to circuit court for grand jury investigation. Other cases which it is believed are being investigated include a Humber of alleged bootlegging places in the county and also the use of slot machines and gaming devices in the county. It was said Tuesday that the jurors visited the Adams county jail, but no reason for the visit was given. Elmer Magley, convicted of a rape charge some time ago and returned here from Pendleton reformatory to face the grand jury is still being held in jail. He appeared before the jury Tuesday, but no one would divulge what case he is Iteing questioned in. Magley now faces a charge of breaking jail and it was learned Tuesday afternoon that that case would not be dismissed. It is probable that his sentence on the jail breaking charge will not commence until he serves his present five-year term. Board Is In Turmoil Muncie, Ind., Sept. 23 —(UP)— Authorities were convinced today that boasts of Fred Orbigg, 39. selfstyled "Bad man," that he had committed murder, forgery and deserted from the army, were the product of a fanciful and perhaps an unsound mind. Officials of the Indiana department of criminal identification failed to find any fingerprints on record resembling those of Orbigg. Authorities at Logan, W. Va., where Orbigg said he had killed a federal agent, said there was no record of a slaying there for many years. Nor had federal officials any record of the prisoner being wanted as a deserter. Orbigg's release was expected today. -O 11 ■ “ Dairy Group Elects The Dairy Herd Improvement Association met at Monroe high school building Tuesday evening and re-organized to continue the work for the ensuing year. The testing year begins October 1. Officers elected include Otto D. Bieberich, president; Peter B. Lehman, vice-president: Peter D. Schwartz, secretary. These officers then appointed Henry Aschleman and E. H. Kruetzman as directors. Noah Rich and Menno Steury were appointed on the program committee. The vice-president, Peter B. Lehman! will act as chairman of the program committee. The directors will meet soon to consider applications for the position of cow tester to fill the vacancy made by the resignation of the present tester. Mr. G. A. Williams of the Dairy Extension department at Purdue University was present and gave a discussion on the present status and future outlook for dairy work.

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CHINA-JAPAN CONTROVERSY IS DISCUSSED League Os Nations Attempts To Settle Oriental Trouble FIRST PLAN IS REJECTED New York. Sept. 23—<(J.R) —The ■ League of Nations continued its i efforts to arbitrate the dispute I between China and Japan in Manchuria today, summoning a meeting of the council for 7 p in. The Japanese delegate was understood to have received new instructions from Tokio. Japanese troops were reported moving in Northern Manchuria ami there was some Russian concern. Unconfirmed advices said Soviet troops were mobilizing at Manchuli, on the northwestern frontier. Japan rejected a league plan for sending a mixed commission to' Manchuria to handle the problem, and preferred a Chinese suggestion for a joint commission between the two countries. It was announced from Nanking, however, that China preferred the league to handle the problem and withdrew the suggestion for direct negotiations with Japan. A Japanese offer of food for flood relief in China was rejected ' as “hitter bread.” Harry 5 ahne Is Speaker Harry Yahne, of this city was the I speaker at the regular night meeting of Decatur Lions I club. Yahne explained several educational systems and urged a scholarship fund for worthy young men and women, unable to finance their own college education. The meeting was in charge of Herman Myers, chairman of the week's program committee. Trustee Faces Ouster ‘ i Muncie, Ind.. Sept. 23 —(UP) — Ouster proceedings have been filed here against George L. Hawkins, center township trustee, by prosecutor Paul Leffler, who cited 25 instances of alleged malfeasance. WAGE CUTS TO AFFECT MANY Steel Concerns Decide On 10 Per Cent. Reduction; Others Expected New York, Sept. 23.— (U.R) — Income of a million wage earners will be reduced and earnings of their industrial corporation employers will be buoyed if the entire steel, industry follows its leaders and cuts wages. The wage cuts announced late yesterday by United States Steel Corporation, Bethlehem Steel and Youngstown Sheet and Tube, will affect aliout 300,000 employes. Os them 220,000’ are U. S. Steel employes. Okher independent steel producers expect to follow the industry's leaders will bring the number affected within the industry itself to 400,000 employes. And industries closely related to the production of steel employ about 600,000 men. it was estimated today. Meantime, General Motors also has announced sliding scale salary reductions, affecting about 40,000 persons; and the United States Rubber Company announced it would go on a five day week Oct. 1, thereby, in effect, cutting salaries and wages about 10 per cent. Announcement of the steel indusI try’s wage cuts revived speculation concerning a reduction in railroad wages. In that connection, the Iron Age tomorrow will say: “In finally recognizing the necessity of cutting the coat to fit the cloth, they (steel producers have set a precedent which it is now believed the railroads must follow whether they obtain pabTial relief through rate advances or not.” Financial Interests, it was believed, would view the reductions as a (CONTINUED ON PAGE TWO)

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Decatur, Indiana, Wednesday, September 23, 1931.

Boy Admits Slaying I w df ' f I I \- I j nJ " ■BK < V 'Xe 1 j If To while the hours and perhaps forget the sting of conscience, James Perry Swank Jr., 15-year-old high school boy of Lowell, Ind. who killed Eugene Duckworth. 69. gasoline station owner, plays soli taire in his cell at Crown Point. Ind. The boy’ in explaining his act said he needed the money for books.

IOWA FARMERS FIGHT GUARDS — Tuberculosis Test Law Not Approved; Troops Begin To Arrive Tipton, la., Sept. 23—(U.R)—Embattled farmers from the county in which President Hoover was born were arrayed today against I, men of the lowa National I guard sent here to enforce the state cocmpulsory tuberculosis test law. Arrival of the troops, who march ed unmolested behind their company colors to the Cedar county fairground where (hey are camped. was the signal for an outburst of jeers and hoots from farmers i lining the sidewalks of this hith erto peaceful village in the heart 11 of one of lowa’s richest farming districts. The farmers, however, were without the weapons they used Monday when armed with pitch forks and clubs they drove 65 ] special deputies from the farm of J. W. Leaker, The deputies attempted to test Lenker’s cattle. Farmers will be arrayed against farmers if the rebellious cattlemen decide to fight the guardsmen as they have all other officials who have attempted to enforce the law. For the detachment of troops I sent here by Gov. Dan W. Turner (CONTINUED ON PAGE THREE) SHIPS SEARCH FOR LOST FLIER North Sea Islands To Be Combed For Cramer And Companion London, Sept. 23 (U.R) —Ships in the North Sea kept “careful watch” today for Parker Cramer. American flier lost on a flight from Greenland to Copenhagen. The search was requested by the United States embassy last night in a radio message broadcast by the British Broadcasting Corporation in the hope that Cramer •and Oliver Paequette, his radio operator, might have found refuge on a North Sea Island. The wreckage of their plane was found off the northern coast of Scotland by a steam trawler last week. The B. B. C. message said: "We are requested to announce to shipping in northern waters and i inhabitants of islands off the north ■ east coast of Scotland that, from' (he wreckage discovered, it Is lie-1 lieved that the American aviator Cramer may be alive on one of the islands off the norrtheast coast of Scotland. It is requested that a careful watch be kept.”

Fire Loss Is $30,000 Kendallville, Ind., Sept. 23—(U.R) —Fire, believed to have been started by thieves after they looted the W. C. Stoman hardware store at Helmer, east of here ; razed most of tlie business section of the village today. Five build ings, several sheds, and their contents. were destroyed. Damage was . estimated at $30,000. Fire fighting equipment front! Kendallville, Wolcottville. Ashler and Hudson answered calls for aid. Their efforts were hampered, however, by inadequate water. The postoffice was among tin buildings destroyed. Fred Randall and his son. living above one of the burned buildings, barely escaped being trapped by flames. Helmer was without organized fire protection. FREEPORT GETS REFORMED MEET Midwest Synod Goes To Illinois City Next Year, Vote Shows The First English Reformed church of Freeport, 111., will be host to the 1932 convention of the Mid west Synod of the Reformed Church it was decided at the meeting. Tuesday afternoon by the delegates attending the eleventh annual convention at tlie Saint John's Reformed Church in Fort Wayne. ■Freeport. 111., was chosen the 1932 convention city. Rev. Gerson ] S. Engelman, is pastor of the host I church for next year’s convention One of the outstanding events of the Tuesday’s program for the convention was the Missionary Banquet which took place in the Banquet hall of the St. John's Church, at six o'clock Tuesday evening. The entire membership of the Girls Missionary Guild of the local church and a number of the members of the local Women’s Missionary Society attended the banquet. The address at the banquet was given by Miss Carrie Kershner of Philadelphia, Pa., and during the evening program. Rev. C. E. Schaeffer, D. D„ president of the General Synod of the Reformed Church, delivered the sermon. The morning and afternoon ses(CONTINUED ON PAGE TWO) — o Taxpayers To Strike Wabash. Ind., Sept. 23—(U.R)—A taxpayers' strike, headed by a I group of farmers, loomed in Wabash county today. According to reports reaching I county authorities, a secret organization has been formed to support the strike. It will refuse to pay township or county taxes until officials take some action to reduce levies, it was reported.

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TESTIMONY IN f CASE STARTS Remonstrators’ M o t i o n j Overruled As Session Opens Today Judge Henry Kister opened court this morning exastly on the hour nine o’clock standard time and ruled on a matter he had under consideration. the objections of the renfonstrators to the report of joint drainage board and the engineer. for the Wabash river drain, tlie motion being overruled and the court sustained the motion to correct the reports on the grounds that certain parts were improper. The case proceeded today with identification of records and the testimony of witnesses to the signatures of tlie members of the joint drainage board. Mhjs Bernice Nel-| son, clerk of the Adams circuit court was the first witness, follow ed by Thomas 1. Stewait, clerk of the board and Frank L. Kloeb, who served as prosecuting attorney and county attorney of Mercer county from 1921 to 1925. Following this week those interested in the trial will get away from the time confusion as the time here will revert back to standard time Sunday morning. So far there has been no testimony regarding the benefits and damages and only technical matters to make the- record as complete as possible. Attorneys for the remonstrators are objecting to each move in the case and the fight will be earnest though no doubt tedious. FARM MEETINGS ARE SCHEDULED Corn Borer Control To Be Demonstrated Here At Two Meets Farmers are invited to attend a demonstration on the low cutting] I of corn which will be held Monday September 28 on the Henry Coyne farm on State Road 27. 1% miles north of Monroe at 1:30 o’clock. The meeting Tuesday. September 29. will be held on the Otto Ewell farm in Preble township at 1:30 o’clock in the afternoon. Surveys made (his year shdw that the European corn borer is steadily increasing in numbers in this section. With a new attachment the entire stalk can bln removed from the field. The use of the attachment is not only valuable in controlling the corn borer but it leaves the field in good condition for sowing wheat or for discing in oats next spring, it is said. The fields in which the demonstrations will be held have been carefully scouted and those hills which are found to be infested were tagged by the scouts. This will make it possible for the farmers present to observe the work of the boreh It will also help to show how difficult it is for the .CONTINUED ON PAGE THREE) KILLER MAY - PLEAD GUILTY Young Lowell Boy, Who Killed Watchman Has Admitted Murder Crown Point. Ind.. Sept. 23—(U.R) —Perry Swank. Jr.. 15-year-old high school football player, may plead guilty when arraigned in criminal court on a charge of murdering Eugene Duckworth. Ixtwell filling station owner, in a holdup. Swank was bound over to criminal court in a preliminary hearing yesterday before Magistrate John E. Crust. He was visited in his cell by his lather, an East Chicago steel mill worker. Th? elder Swank, who has six other children, urged him to plead guilty. The son indicated lie would do so. Young Swank, who had looked forward to playing on the Lowell football team during his sophomore year, confessed killing Duckworth’in an attempt to obtain money with which to buy school books. He got S4O. but burned it in a fit of remorse.

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Refused Job, Mayor’s Brother Ends Own Life Milwaukee. Sept. 23 —(U.R) —Geo. F. Hoan, 60, the brother Mayor Daniel W. Hoan refused a city job because he did rtot want to I favor a relative in hard times, hanged himself today from a banister in the mayor's private garage. George Hoan. a laborer, had been out of work a year. Coroner Henry Grundman said Hoan had tied a rope around his neck and secured the other end to the stair top. then slid down the banister. Mayor Hoan was at Madison, attending a conference of mayors and county officials to plan public works so unemployed can be given jobs. EARLY CLOSING STARTS MONDAY Thirty-one Retailers Sign Petition; Will Meet Soon. Report Thirty-one local merchants have signed the petition circulated several weeks ago which wil close retail j stores at 5:30 o’clock each evening except Saturday starting Monday September 28. According to sponsors of the petition only a few refused to sign the petition. It is thought that the signers will meet before next Monday to decide finally whether they will carry out the plans, resardless of the fact that some stores failed to sign the petition. A number of the local grocery’ stores, confectionery stores, one clothing store, two hardware stores and others did not agree to the early closing. | Those who signed the'petition include: John T. Myers C 0.,; Niblick and Co.; Holthouse Schulte Co.; Morris Five and Ten Cent Store; Kaoger Grocery (Kraft 1; Teeple’ and Peterson; Beavers, Fryback and Beavers; Paul Edwards; A.'C. Douglass; Kroger Grocery Co. (Melleson); H. P. Schmitt Meat Market; Pumphrey Jewelry Store; C. E. | Baughman; R. C. Keller; A. ancl P. Tea Co.; .1. J. Newberry Co.; E. F. , Gass and Son; Miller-Jones; Lee J Hardware Co.. J. Charles Brock; Charlie Voglewede; National Five . and Ten Cent Stores Co., Lankenau’s; Mutsehler Meat Market; Vitz i Gift Shop; Decatur Electric Shop; W. H. Zwick and Son; August Wal(CONTINUED ON PAGE TWO) COOL WEATHER IS PREDICTED Late Heat Wave To End Shortly, State Weather Man Savs t Indianapolis, Sept. 23. — (U.R) — Cool weather is in store for Indi- ; ana for an indefinite period it was > predicted today by the U. S. weath- > er bureau. Showers, general over the state, were to end this evening ' shortly after the arrival of Autumn at 6:24 p. m., central standard time. Low temperature areas extended over the entire middle west today, ,1. H. Armington, senior meteorolF ogist, said, with cool weather general over such a wide section, he believed there is little likelihood that Indiana will again suffer from the heat this year. I The highest temperature recorded in the state yesterday was at Vincennes, where the mercury reading was 96 degrees. ’ Indianapolis, Sept. 23. — (U.R) — ' Temperatures averaging 17 degrees 7 above normal were favorable for i maturing of late crops during the f ■ past week, the report issued today . by the U. S. weather bureau here, i related. VTitually the entire corn crop in - the state is out of frost danger, the - report revealed. Cutting for both a shock and silage has started in i most areas. As shocked corn is t drying rapidly, husking may be a started earlier than usual this fall. (CONTINUED ON PAGE THREE) 3 0 BULLETIN I Peping, China. Sept. 23—(UP) — I Foreign military attaches were in | formed today that the Japanese had . 1 entered North Manchuria and were n nearing Harbin. ,1 Unconfirmed advices said Soviet t forces were mobilizing at Manchuli, border point.

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STANDARDS OF LIVING CAUSE MUCH CONCERN Administration Will Stand Pat On Former Cut Disapprovals OPINIONS ARE DIVIDED Washington, Sept. 23.—(U.R) —Determination to maintain American standards of living was voiced in official circles today as Washington studied the announcement, of wage cuts made in the last 24 hours. Labor leaders, withholding formal comment, seemed generally indignant. On behalf of the President it was 'said today that the anxiety to mainItain standards of living which ha has expressed heretofore has not been altered in any way. The President made nn statement. however, and his secretary, Theodore Joslin, refused to answer any questions on the subject. Secretary of Labor Doak. said that the wage cuts were “much regretted” by his department land added that the administration's stand against wage reductions “has not been altered in the slightest degree.” Economists in the labor department feared the effects of the reductions upon economic recovery, a view’ not shared by all sources in Washington. Several authorities, some of them close to the President, felt that while reductions were far from desirable, there might be some beneficial results which would accrue should revised wage policies actually succeed in improving the t situation of fundamental industries such as steel. Mr. Hoover was represented by one source usually well acquainted with his position on such matters as feeling that wages should re- ' main at their present levels at least as long as rents remain high. Government reports from tlie country generally have failed to record any notable reductions in rents thus far. The administration, it is said, has ' not in any way forgotten pledges made in 1929 by industrial leaders against wage reductions. While these pledges cannot be regarded as forever binding, tlie general policy of the administration was described as unaltered. At the American Federation of | (CONTINUED ON PAGE TliUEi:) Legion Will Vote I Detroit, Sept 23 - (U.R)— The American Legion will vote on a resolution to submit the prohibition question to a nationwide referendum. The resolutions committee voted . 25 to 19 to submit file question to the delegates. Loaders say there is no doubt the former soldiers, their minds made up to demand a return of beer, will pass a resolu- ’ tion. A subcommittee was named to ' draw up the resolution. MARION KILLER : IS UNDER GUARD Wallace Teal Taken To State Reformatory To Forestall Violence * Marion, Ind.. Sept. 23 —(U.R>— I Wallace Teal. 35, was being guardp ed in tlie state reformatory at ■ Pendleton today, charged with tlie “ fatai stabbing of Mrs. Anna Galbreath, 30. his housekeeper, and II w’itli shooting her mother. Mrs. e Lucy Lloyd, 53. Teal, captured ’ three hours after the tragedy, was 11 taken to tlie reformatory for pro 8 tectfon. p Police believed that the return [• angered because Mrs. Galbreath . planned to leave him today to live with her mother. The were cleaning their prospectlv? home when Teal entered. , After stabbing Mrs. Galbreath, j according to police reports. Teal obtained a shotgun and fired at Mrs. Lloyd as she fled from th? ( house. Several slugs pierced her j baejc Physicians said she had 'CONTINUED ON PAGE TWO)