Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 29, Number 255, Decatur, Adams County, 28 October 1931 — Page 1

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Football Victim W w i Cadet Richard B. SheridanJ (above), twenty-one. whose neck! was broken during the football game between 4nny and Yale. I played at New Haven, died from the injuiy, although some of the best medical specialists endeavor-i ed to save his life and did prolong it artificially. Sheridan, a fast end for the Army gridders. came from Augusta. Ga. SECONDSTREET IS COMPLETED jContractor Bans Heavy Traffic Fo r Week; M ork Is Finished Sacond street, front Five Points,' no. th to the intersectlou of Third and Fifth streets, was opened this] morqfng... Heavy loads, curb parking and , rough usage of the improved street will not be permitted. O. W. P. | I Macklin, contractor stated today. | The street is opened to through i tra.fic aad parking in th ■ center of i the street will be enforced until the j balance of the street thoroughly dries and hardens. Marshall street between First and I Fifth streets, Glos.) street, Park ; street and Washington street, which extends northwest front the end of' Second street are also improv <1 and .opened to traffic. All of the streets I were improved under the three-1 I mjle road law, paid for by a bond | ‘ issue in Washington and Root town-1 ships. Second street is improved with | Kentucky Roek asphalt and con ; | tractors state that the street will! i grow better with use. becoming as i smooth as floor and as hard as a ! roek. Work started on the streets about , Octrber 1 and with firm weather! most of the time the improvement . was rushed to completion. o —— Case Finally Closed Indiana Harbor, Ind.. Oct. 28 — (U.R) —A strange case of legal pro-1 cratsination was disclosed her"! today following the sentencing of Pan Popovich to a two to 14 year prison term. Seven years ago Popovich was convicted on a charge of obtaining money under false’ pretenses. I He carried his case to the state j supreme court. As the' years passed anel no decision was returned. memory of the conviction dimmed. Then the supreme court affirmed the conviction. Popovich was brought into court to be sentenced on an almost forgotten conviction. He was 39 when tried, and 46 as he prepared to serve his term' Popovich was found guilty on a charge of swindling Joe Porosack of $735. It was alleged that Popovich told Porosack that for $735.! needed to settle the estate of a | wealthy California contractor, ho would share ltd a $30,001) legacy. Porosack said he furnished the money, but obtained nothing in return. — ■ o~~— - ■■ —■- Party Planned Friday Pleasant Mills high school pupils and teachers are sponsoring a Halloween and bqx social party Friday night at the high school building in that town, it was announced today. The public is Invited to attend. Besides booths, concessions, bingo stands, masquerade contests, a Imxlng carnival is planned and u good time is promised all who attend. The committees in charge are doing everything to make the party a success.

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DIRECTORATE IS UNCHANGED First State Bank Officials Declare Regular Dividend No change was made in the direc- ! torate or in the list of officers of I the First State Bank of this city, I tile annual meeting of the stock- ! holders and directors being held Tuesday, The officers of the bank are, C. A. Dugan, president; J. W. Vizard vice-president; T. F. Graliker, cashier; R. E. Glendening, assistant ! cashier; 11. Krueckeberg teller. The board of directors is compos- . ed of P. W. Smith. Richmond, chair- ] man; Mr. Dugan, Daniel Sprang, Dynois Schmitt. Mr. Vizard, Theodore Hobrock. J. P. Braun. The semi-annual dividend was declared and a small amount added to the banks surplus account, Mr. Dugan stated. An improvement in general conditions has been noticed. Mr. Dugan stated, both in local and eastern markets and it is the belief of many that the trend will be upward. Activity in regards to'buying and I resuming of plant operations in cities have been reported in the past 60 days and although no one I looks tor the peak to be reached in the near future, it is predicted conditions are adjusting themselves in a satisfactory manner and in keep- | ing with safe growth. Laxity Is Condemned South Bend. Ind., Oct. 28.—(U.R) i —Laxity of the South Bend police department in dealing with liquor cases was charged by Federal Judge Thomas Slick as he continued to , hear indictments returned by the ‘grand jury last week. • After Mrs. Gelic Jacadicz, rest- , aurant operator, pleaded guilty to | liquor charges. Judge Slick asked: "What's the matter with the police department? Why don’t they handle cases like these?” "The government isn't supposed to clean up the community," Judge Slick concluded. WILL FIGHT " EXTRADITION Mrs. Judd Does Not Want To Be Tried At Scene Os Crime Dos Angel s, Oct. 28 —(UP) — Winnie Ruth Judd will fight extra i dltion to Phoenix "every step of the way." h?r attorney. Louis P. RisI sill, announced today. Mrs. Judd xvill not go to trial in Phoenix, the scene of the murder of Agnes Leroi and Hedvig Samuelson I "if we can prevent it" he added. "We exp-ct to demand a change j of venue when, and if, Ute defendant is removed to Phoenix. "Public sentiment might preclude a fair trial in the same city where Mrs. Leroi and Miss Samuelson were ' slain.” It was believed Mrs. Judd wished that her trial be held in Nogales, : Santa Crouz county, if a change of venue could be arranged. Word front Phoenix indicated that should a change be granted, the trial probably would be held at Florence, Pinal county, site of the state penitentiary. — -o Gage Funeral Held Funeral services for Miss Louise Gage, beauty parlor operator who died Sunday night at the Adams [ County Memorial Hospital, were i held this afternoon at 1:30 o'clock at the Gage home in Monmouth, and at 2.00 o'clock at the Presbyterian church. Rev. H. H. Ferntheil, pastor, officiated. Burial was in the Decatur Cemetery. Members of Mrs. M. A. Frisinger's Class of the Presbyterian Sunday School, of which the deceased was a member, acted as flower girls. - ——Q 1 ■ ■ Rail Dividend Cut Philadelphia, Oct. 28 — (UP) — Pennsylvania Railroad today reduced its dividend from $3 annually to $2 annually. Directors declared a quarterly dividend of 50 cents, pay able Nov. 30 to stockholders of record Nov. 2. In the preceding quarter the dividend was reduced from $1 annually to $3.

Decatur, Indiana, Wednesday, October 28, 1931.

.Ruth Sets Mark. ’ \ f I sL, t I -a '■ ExH F F 3 <■ - This most recent picture of Ruth Nichols, society aviatrix, was taken a short time before she hopped ! off from Oakland. Calif., in an [ 1 i effort to set a new non-stop record ' from the West Coast to New York. : While Ruth failed in her original ‘ purpose, she is believed to have I established a new non stop mark I for women by flying from Oakland 1 to Louisville, Ky„ a distance of! 2,100 miles. > - ———.,; ROAD PROGRAM | IS ANNOUNCED ) State Plans Include Pavement Near Monroe On Road 27 i , Indianapolis, Oct. 23. — (U.R) — Road paving work which will cost approximately $2,000,000 will open Indiana's 1932 highway program, it | was announced by William J. Tit-1 u?, chief engineer. Bids for the .‘work will be received November | I j Nearly 90 miles of- state roads: will be paved, the work to be done > on eight highways. I Projects on the first 1932 letting! jare: Road 49. 1.02 miles in Porter count, south of Dunes State Park; road 57, Petersburg to Washington, 1 12.61 miles in Daviess and Pike counties; road 18, Marion to Roll. I i 14.71 miles in Grant and Blackford , counties; road 25, Delphi to I,afay-| ette, 14.3 miles in Tippecanoe and Carroll counties; road 16, ade to road 53, 14.58 miles in Newton and 1 1 JaJsper counties; road 43, Clover- ! dale south, 7.12 miles in Putnam ' and Owen counties; road 29. Madison to Versailles, 23.06 miles. Jef- ‘ t'erson and Ripley counties; U. S. ' 27, 2.37 miles in Monroe and Ad- ' ants counties. LIBEL SUIT IS BEING TRIED I " I Nan Britton Seeking $50,000 From Harding's Defender Toledo, O„ Oct. 28.—(U.R)—The defense moved today to defend the character of a former President as witnesses resumed testimony, at- ' tacking the reputation of Naii Brit- ' ton. whose book "The President's Daughter" attaches paternity of her child to the late President War- ’ ren G. Harding. Miss Britton is suing C. A. Klunk, Marion, 0., hotel keeper, for $50,1 000, alleging libel through bls dis- ' trlbutlon of “The Answer to 'The President's Daughter',’’ a rebuttal publication. (CONTINUED ON PAGE FIVE) O Joseph Zehr Improved (The condition at Joseph Zehr, Adams County farmer who was injured seriously when he fell from an apple tree on his farm, west of Geneva, Tuesday morning Is greatly improved today. Mr. Zehr was removed to the home of his son. Preston Zehr in Herne, following the accident. f

I William Baumgartner Is j improving From Injury William Baumgartner. 72, member of the Adams County Council | who underwent a minor operation at the Adams County Memorial Hospital last Friday was removed to . his home in Berne, today. Mr. Baumgartner suffered torn muscle.i in his right leg and a broken right ' knee cap when he slipped and fell i as be was about to step into a boat, i Friday. The accident happened when Mr. Baumgartner was fishing I in the Wabash river. M.F. WORTHMAN GIVES ADDRESS Decatur Man Speaks At Meeting Honoring Foun-, der Os Mooseheart I M. F. Worthman, superintendent ] lof tlie Decatur schools, delivered; an address before nienilrers of the!. Moose Lodge, the W. O. M. 1.,, and I friends at the Moose Home, Tues-j day evening, on the subject of] “Mooseheart.” The meeting was held to honor the birthday of Senator James J. Davis, founder of : Mooseheart. I Mr. Worthman explained MooseI heart, its growth, and the educational system of that institution, j He has visited this place a number 'of times and urged all members of ! the Moose Lodge and their friends Ito visit it and see the wonderful work being done. Mrs. Will Noll was chairman of ; the program. Mrs. Dora Cook gave la brief history of James J. Davis land his life preceding the address Iby Mr. Worthman. Special music I was presented during the evening’s I program by the Wolford orchestra, jand Mrs. David Teeple. At nine jo'clock Mrs. J. M. Breiner, ksnior regent of the W. O. M. L.,.had | charge of the nine o’clock cereiraony and the closing ode of the chapter was sung. Refreshments were served at the close of the program and a social time was enjoyed. Mrs. Will Noll, Mrs. Cecil Gause, and I Mrs. Archie Long comprised the jcommittee in charge. FRED SCHAFER FUNERAL HELD ——— Local Stores Close As Oldest Active Decatur Merchant Is Buried | Funeral services were held at ! 2 o’clock this afternoon for Fred • Schafer. 80, who dieil Sunday ‘ night following an automobile I accident which occurred several days ago. All local stores and Adams circuit court closed during the services. The funeral was held at the Schafer residence on Monroe street. Rev. Beniamin Franklin, pastor of the Methodist Episcopal church, had charge of the services. The eulogy was delivered by C. J. Lutz. Burial was made at Decatur cemetery. Members of the Kekionga ehapI ter of Knights of Pythias lodge, of j which Mr. Schafer was a charter . member, conducted lodge rites at | the cemetery. Business men friends of Mr. Schafer and his son, ('. C. Schafer, acted as pall-hear-ers, and members of Hie Tri-Kappa sorority of which Mrs. W. H. Bell, grand-daughter of Mr. Schafer is president, were flower-bearers. Mr. Schafer's death marked the passing of Decatur's oldest active business ntan and one of northern Indiana’s pioneer hardware merchants. The active pall-bearers included: Dr. E. G. Coverdale, J. H. Heller. Dr. Roy Archbold. G. H. Wehmeyer, C. E. Bell. Charles J. Voglewede. Resolution Discussed Indianapolis, Oct. 28—(UP)— (A resolution favoring immediate renewal of county public Improvement programs was to be voted upon at the annual convention of Indiana County Commissioners here today. The resolution urges elimination of "Red Tape” in improvement projects, and. requests each county to participate in the program. The annual dinner of the association will be held tonight. W. A. Hough, Greenfield, will discuss mer-j ger of townships.

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MRS. SIMMONS DEFENDS SELF IN POISON CASE Emphatically Denies Charges Os Murdering Her Two Daughters JACKSON IS AGAIN NAMED Lebanon, Ind., Oct. 28.—(U.R) I —A cool and well-poised farm ! mother today related from Hie i witness stand her defense I against the state’s charge that I she murdered her 10-year-old I daughter. Apparently wholly at ease, I speaking slowly and stoftly, (Mrs. Carrie Simmons traced I for the jury her movements j leading up to the fatal picnic here | June 21 at which her daughters, J Alice Jean and Virginia, died of | strychnine poison, after eating | pressed chicken sandwiches made by their mother. "I did not murder Alice Jean,” she said in reply to one of the first questions put to her by Charles Tindall, defense counsel. She kept her eyes centered on Tindall as she spoke, occasionally glancing at iter hands, which she held in her lap. and now and then sweeping the jury witli her glances. “Did you ever conceive any though or have any desire to kill Alice Jean?” Tindall asked. “No, 1 never had no malice like that in my heart." Then Tindall asked her if she ever harbored a desire to kill George. Dale or Elizabeth, her surviving children, or her husband. John. “Xo.' I never did " “Have you ever thought of killing anybody?” Again the reply was "no." (CONTIVC!?)) ON “AGE TWO’ Bank Suspect Arrested Washington, Oct. 28 —(UP) —PolI ice wsre informed today that Albert J. Curley, 34. of St. Louis, arrested here with two others this week, is wanted in Pennville, Ind., in connecI tion with a batik robbery. Percy M. Fitzgerald, 38. and William Pitney, 31, were arrested with Curley. In their hotel room wer. found ion, guns and tools said by police to be suited to opening safes. They will be arraigned here on vagrancy charges. Red Cross Officers Will Meet Thursday The Red Cross Executive Committee will meet at the Winnes Shoe Store Thursday evening at 7:30 o'clock for an important business meeting. Due to three vacancies on tire Executive Board, election of new members will take place, Thursday. Other business, including an entirely different proposition for this year's campaign. will be determined. o MURDERS WIFE; THEN HIMSELF Niles, Michigan, Scene Os Death. Suicide; No Motive Is Ascertained Mlles, 111., Oct. 28—(U.R) —Frank Names. 47. Niles chauffeur, shot and killed his wife, Hattie, 42, while she slept and, turning the pistol on himself, committed suicide here early today. Bodies of tlie two were discovered i»l their bedroom by two sons. Edward, 21. and Chester. 18. end Arthur Hoppe of Benton Harbor. Mich., a lodger. Hoppe told police he had been ‘awakened about 2:30 a.nt. when (CONTINUED ON PAGE FIVE) “Jim” Colchin Improved Fred “Jim" Colchin of Sou(h Fornax street, is suffering from an Infection in the right arm. Mr Colchin took ill last Sunday. The Infection started In a finger and spread through the arm to the arm pit. He was reported better today and the attending physician believes that : his condition will continue to ini- | prove.

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Dempsey’s Next? Jack Dempsey, who was recently divorced at Reno from Estelle Taylor, will marry Lavon Vincent, former beauty prize winner at the University of Utah, according to rumors current in Salt Lake City. Dempsey recently went on a hunting trip with the girl's father, Joe! G. Vincent, Utah financier and sportsman, SOLD TODAY Jacob Zehr Awarded Contract On Property Rights Bid Joseph Zehr was awarded the contract for constructing the William Stahl drain in Hartford township on a property right bid of $1,243,001 which was also submitted by John Dehner. Work on the drain will begin within the next 30 days, it was stated by Mr. Roop. Other bids on the diain were Yost Brothers, $1,536.00 Chapman and Mqgley, $1,800,001; Ben Whitstone, $1,870.00; Bart Boice and Son, $1,899.00; George Finnig and Son. $2,240.00. o — 2,000 ACRES OF BEETS PLEDGED W oodburn Farmers Sign First Acreage at Tuesday Night Meeting Two thousand acres of beet acreage were pledged at a meeting of farmers held at Woodburn Tuesday night, according to a telegram received at the Daily Democrat office today from E. J. Kricke, division manager of the Indiana Farm Bureau, who had charge of the meeting. Following an explanation of the fifty-fifty plan to the farmers of the Woodburn territory, a number of farmers suggested that pledg<\ be taken at once and before the meeting dosed 2,000 acres had been pledged. It has been decided by the farm I committee in charge of securing acreage in the Decatur plant's territory that acreage limit of 20 percent, will be placed on all farms. In other words it was explained, no farmer will be permitted to sign for more acreage than 20 percent, of bis total amount of farm land. Another meeting to secure pledges will be held at Monmouth Friday night of this week and on November 4. a similar meeting will be held at Van Wert. Those in charge say that farmers are anxious to grow beets in 1932. Mr. Fricke's telegram is as follows: "Decatur Democrat, "Decatur, Indiana. "■Woodburn meeting big success. Two thousand acres sugar beets pledged. May have to restrict acreage to twenty percent, of total land farmed per grower. "Indiana Farm Bureau Co-Oper-ative Association. E. J. Fricke, District Manager. ’’ Q Fall Proves Fatal Columbus, Ind., Oct. 28.—(U.R) — Injuries suffered in a fall from a ladder caused the death of Frank C. Tellman, 64. Bartholomew county commissioner, at his farm home.

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COALITION IS VICTOR AFTER BITTER FIGHT MacDonald Returned To Parliament Over Labor Opponent At Home PATRIOTISM CHIEF CRY London, Oct. 2X (U.R) - .1. Ramsay MacDonald, socialist prime-minister, ted the conservatives and their allies to a smashing victory in yesterday’s general election. His former labor parly was crushinyly defeated in the coalition government's appeal to the country for a "doctor’s mandate” to solve the economic crisis. Labor, which on dissolution of parliament was tlie largest party | with 280 seats, emerged from the . people's verdict witli less than 50 I seats, returns today showed. The national government probably bad more than 550 and the conservative party alone close to 500. It was an astounding victory for MacDonald, the wartime pacifist and outcast, who led the labor party to the rule of the country and then deserted It for what ho deemed the country's good. Fighting MacDonald and the conservatives, the party was almost destroyed. Its leader. Arthur Henderson, and nearly every one of its prominent members, failed of reelection to parliament. The country voted away from advanced political theories and Pack to conservative principles, j including endorsement of the gov- ■ ernment’s stand for a tariff. Co nmunist candidates, of whom there were 25, were annihilated. Many of them lost their 50 pound deposits because of the negligible vote they polled. These deposits are put up in advance but sacrificed if a certain percentage of votes is not polled. MacDonald himself achieved a personal triumph by being reelected from his constituency of Seaham, in Durham. When hu deserted labor for . a coalition government, he and J. H. Thomas, who followed him. were read bitj terly out of the party and Mac- ■ Donald was asked to resign by the labor voters of Seahani Both won in the election. MacDonald defied all political alvice and insisted on being vitt(CONTINUED ON PAGE TWO) o— —— Local Men Not Hurt Robert Gass and Vincent I'.i. ntan of this city escaped serious injury Tuesday afternoon when the auto driven by Mr. Gass swerved off the pavement on state road nnm'lx-r three, north of Bluffton, near tile Fort Wayne-Bluffton interurban crossing. The pavement was w -t and as Mr. Gass applied th • brakes the auto skidded into the ditch and then back on the road. Mr. Borman was thrown forward and bruised his nose. The auto was slightly damaged. MRS. WECHTER DIES TUESDAY Wife Os Frank Wechter Dies Following Illness Os Tuberculosis Mrs. Della Wechter, 70. wife of Frank C. Wechter. died at hor home east of Berne at 4 o'clock Tuesday afternoon of tuberculosis. Mrs. Wechter bad been 111 for the past three months. She was born at Willshire, Ohio, the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Frank; Foster, both deceased. Surviving is the husband Frank: C. Wechter. formerly trustee of Blue Creek township; a son. Eugene, of Speed; one grandchild; n step-mother, Mrs. Horace Kohn of Willshire, Ohio, a stepsister, Mis. John Wechter of near Willshire, Ohio; a foster brother. Charles Larmier of Logan, Ohio; a niece, Mrs. Paul Edwards of tills city Funeral services will be held Friday afternoon at 1:30 o'clock at. the home and at 2 o'clock nt the Maple Grove church. Burial will be at Salem.