Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 29, Number 256, Decatur, Adams County, 29 October 1931 — Page 1

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LLEGED SHEEP THIEVES ARE ARRESTED

ns move ■rM CREDIT ■ding pool ■ Hold ( Until price I' Obtain■|e For Crop ®MENT ■ H Willi HELD M' , , lU; itl IZ. II i< >ll of K, Io enable huhl their corn - ere beino itoes the |H ( ii ?J! I~| IK.rations. ■L i,ii,l ih ■■ I'l m ■- saaih. |H ■H\ ■ ■ o-t.-■! tin' .xii'iided to k IjM report.-- '-raiding the $ I federfunds. ted in i-a- funds to any .. « i., nsidi'red for |MI Imard - funds availA n ■ ndopt-d late today. : ' any capital that -.'ail,--.! - 'ii th. farm was d as likeh :: < uanizat ions w'rtii ■• 1,, join in thof the plan. ■ncEP ON page TWO) ■apinii Is Revealed ■oiid hid i ip. --(U.R>- > y were dishers today through the of employes at a gar- ■ Frank J Hall. 17. Marysand !ii, Newman. 17. were arrested. admitted, police said. Htv abducted and robbed ■ £ Loekhardt, 24. and Miss ■irhards. 2.-,. both of whom tn., kidnapers’ ear when ■re arrested near Richhad given chase to ■th'tie on the tip from the ■ attendants. t' l ' Artist Sought ■>! stores and individuals ■rd cheeks for a young girl ■si'ed Decatur and Fort ■ last Week have had the ■ returned by a local bank ■ "not sufficient funds. The ■»re several checks in De■®akin» a small purchase ■«nty five cent* to one dol- ■ receiving the balance in ■ More than SSO was written ■ •' and her balance at the f" I '' * 2O - She gave her adflreratur rural route one. |ORADO HIT SNOWSTORM r s t Enjoys First pr Weather; ColdI' eather Forecast r°' Oct - 29-~-(U.R>—Driving f r,ns ip. southern Colorado L, n "‘ <l by generally frigid P ures throughout the mids a »d scattered snow and |. n . Orthern Minnesota, WfsL" the Dakotas today her- " ' ear ’s first general cold n Ainds whipped the snow L n J Z L a , rii fury ’ reports from i' "Vo, indicated. . The' L. , rean Predicted more FHct ° W6r ,Gm P era tures for F? ' ,ol * r ‘ a '9 were ! , ''UED ON PAGE FIVE)

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Vol. XXIX. No. 256

MUST HAVE LIGHTS! ; Harl Hollingsworth of this I city, state motor policeman, . | has received instructions from | Police Lieut. Guy Sears, that , all Amish rigs in Adams county must have bright lights on the | vehicles. He was ordered to • I arrest all violators. A number of accidents have | occurred near Berne recently, j when motorists were unable to | see the Amish rigs, without | lights, being driven on the | I road. LAST FOOTBALL GAME OF SEASON Decatur, Bluffton To Mix Here Friday At Niblick Field Tickets are now on sale for the final football game of the season for i Decatur high school Yellow Jackets. The Hortonmen meet Bluffton Tigers, Decatur's foe of many years standing at Niblick field here Friday afternoon at 2:30 o’clock. Schools will be dismissed at 2:15 o'clock Friday afternoon, and the Decatur Junior band will lead the high school rooting section to the field. (Adult tickets are selling for 40 cents and school tickets are selling for 25 cents. Most of Decatur's crippled players are back in condition and will see action in the final game. Saturday morning Coach Tiny Horton will turn his football squad over to Herb Curtis for basketball practice. Both Decatur and Bluffton have experienced a series of reversals thia season on the gridiron and neither team has won a game. Regardlews of 4hat a real thriller is predicted for Friday because Decatur and Bluffton games always are interesting. Tije Yellow 1 Jackets and their rooters will occupy the west side of Niblick field and the visitors will have benches along the east side j Word from Bluffton is to the effect j that a number of fans, hopeful of | winning from Decatur, will aceom I pany the team. A big turnout is expected from Decatur. The game will start promptly at 2:30 o'clock to insur a complete game before dark. -Q Ogden Makes Ruling 1 Indianapolis, Oct. 29 —(UP) —A separate application must be made . licenses for each store in each ‘ group. Attorney General James ; M. Ogden ruled today in an opinion to L. C. Johnson, chain store tax administrator. Johnson is rapidly consumating plans to make operative the state s chain store tax , recently upheld by the U. S. Supreme court. oOGDEN ACCEPTS JURY REQUEST Attorney General Will Testify Concerning Marion Corruption Indianapolis. Oct. 29.—<U.R) —Attorney General James M. Ogden will appear before the Grant county , grand jury to present information which he contends will show that the city of Marion is overrun with vice and corruption, it was announced today. Ogden said he had accepted the invitation extended by E. E. Gowing, foreman of the jury. The attorney general, who made first charges against the city in a speech at South Bend, said he would take letters and other information gathered by an investigator. The invitation read: “The grand (CONTINUED ON PAGE TWO) O Will Open Repair Shop M. Kirk Smith, Adams County man, announced that he will open an auto repair shop in Berne within a few days. The garage will 1 be located in the former Artificial Company building on North Jefferson street in Berne. Mr. Smith plans only to engage in auto repairing and battery charging. He has had many years of ex- ■ perience as a mechhnlc. j

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GOVERNMENT OF BRITAIN i STARTS PLANS Cabinet Moves To Stabalize Pound Sterling Immediately WORLD MEET IS EXPECTED London, Oct. 29. <U.R) The overwhelming victory of: I the national government in I the general election was seen today as a most important . step toward restoration of ! the world's general economic I stability. The government, in a cabinet meeting today, was to begin work on a program expected to include stabilization of the pound sterling, a tariff program, an empire conference, international reparations conferences, and other measures of international importance. King George received Prime Minister Ramsay MacDonald in audience at Buckingham Palace at 9:20 a.tn. according to procedure, the prime minister would outline the situation to the king and confer on the terms of the king’s speech to be read at the opening of parliament. The speech, actually an outline of the government's policies, was | expected to emphasize the neces-! sity of measures to restore a favorable trade balance, establish j confidence abroad, and rehabili- ! tate industry. The state opening of parliament has been set for Nov. 10. A speaker will be elected, members I sworn in, and other formalities attended to a week earlier. MacDonald remained with the king 50 minutes. A small crowd cheered the prime minister when he left. MacDonald proceeded to 10 Downing street where Sir William 1 Jowett, attorney general, and larrd Chancellor, were awaiting . (CONTINUED ON PAGE TWO) LABORERS DIE IN ACCIDENT Truck Trailer Breaks And 1 Crashes Dovyn A Steep Embankment Ma: ion. Ark., Oct. 29—(UP)—Six persons were killed an<F'2l others injured near here today when a trailer broke lose from a motor truck and plunged down a six foot embankment spilling its cargo of cotton pickers. All of the dead were from Marieta. Miss., a little farming community located in North Mississippi. The truck and trailer were enroute to the Stillman plantation which is near Lepanto, north of here. The dead included a two year old baby being carried to the field by its father. Wiley Nichols, who with others in his family was going to the plantation for a days work. The father also was killed. Mrs. Ollie Allen and Miss Alvie Commins, sisters, and Herbert Gilmore were the others killed. The mother of the two dead girls was riding in the truck cab with Perry Eason, driver of the machine. Eason said first indications that something was wrong came when the truck suddenly plunged ahead. He set the brakes, and looked back to see the big trailer clash oft the highway and burry its nose in the soft earth. Physicians were sent to the scene of the wreck from Marion and other communities nearby. None of the injured was reported in critical condition. PARK ON CURBS. | Starting Saturday morning, automobile drivers will be perj' mitted to park their cars along the curbs on Second street, Chief of Police Sephus Melchi stated today. The center parki ing was placed in effect a week ’ ago.

Decatur, Indiana, Thursday, October 29, 1931.

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1932 LICENSE PLATES HERE Auto Plates Range In Numbers From 425,201 To 429,200 For 1932 The 1932 auto license plates for I Adams county will range In num- ' bar from 425.201 to 429.200, the four I thousand sets being received by | J. L. Ehler, manager of the local ' license bureau. The plates go on sale December ' 15 and the law requires that they [ be displayed on automobiles by Jan uary 1. The Secretary of State has for several years extended the time I 'to February 1. The plates have a green back- ; ground with white letters and fig- i ures and are the same size as the I 1930 plates. They are made at the! Michigan City prison by prison la- ! bor. The total number of plates distributed in the state for next year is 750,000. At Portland 5,000 plates were forwarded; 5,000 at Bluffton. 3,700 at Angola, 5,800 at Warsaw and 3,400 at Kendallville. License fees are the same for 1932 and auto owners are requested to get their plates from the bur ; eau in their own county. o HOOVER GROUP SUGGESTS PLAN Unemployment Committee Gives 10 Rules On Making Improvements Washington, Oct. 29 —(UP) —President Hoover's organization for unemployment relief prescribed to the nation today a potent pill of 10 ingredients “to be taken promptly" as a panacea for its aches and pains. This prescription was in the form of a special report drafted by the | organization's committee on em i ployment plans and suggestions and ' was designed'to stimulate business; and turn the tide of unemployment. I The 10-point program Included a j recommendation lor formation of another huge credit pool similar to the $500,000,000 national credit corporation. Bankers were urged to assume a more "liberal and encouraging attitude" in their credit policies. Employers who discharge old employes to hire younger men at sniallar salaries and those who have refused to shorten hours to give work to more men were denounced as "both selfish and inhuman" by the committee. Federal and local governments were urged to spread work as much as possible, regardless of civil service restrictions or other regula(cont:nued on page sixi

Halloween Dance Is i Scheduled For Tonight 1 The Phi Delta Kappa Fraternity will give a Halloween Dance at the Decatur Country Club, tonight, from 9:30 to 12:30 o'clock. Carl Brenner and his orchestra from ; Fort Wayne will furnish music for ‘ danring. . Subscriptions Tor the affair are | being sold for SI.OO per couple and i Che social committee, comprised of ' Cecil Melchi, Eugene Durkin, and I Don Lebrun are in charge of the ■ arrangements. Guests may come en masque if they so desire. Decorations of the ball room will be in keeping with J Halloween season. FORD EMPLOYES ! GET SALARY CUT I Minimum of $7 Reduced To $6 In Revision Os Salaries Detroit. Oct. 29—(UP)—The Ford Motor company quietly is readjusting its wage scale, reducing the 1929 "prosperity dollar" increase. The present minimum pay of $7 | set by Henry Ford more than a year I ago later a conference with Presi- ' [dent Hoover at Washington, probably will be reduced to the old base of $6. Higher paid employes will suffer reductions in proportion. Ford had hoped to d stimulation to return of prosperity when he announced his $7 scale in the face of a rapidly decreasing business. The present wage reductions however, are in line with a recent t interview by the motor magnate in ' which he said he did not see any immediate spectacular business revival in sight. Departmental heads are handling Ford's wage cuts. These evecutives < practically are reorganizing their I’ entire staffs, adjusting a “seniority scale” of increase which has been j < effect in most plants. Under this | 1 system employes received period!- ' I cal increases and higher executives I were said to feel that many work- 1 I ers are being paid more than their ’ 1 proportionate ability warrants. j< The changes are going on slowly, p .At each department "lays off" its 1 help for mechanical changes eoinei- 1 I (CONTINUED ON PAGE FOUR) < o Senator Watson Will 1 Speak At Berne Friday 1 The Berne Chamber of Commerce J will entertain the members of the f Fort Wayne Chamber of Commerce Friday night at the Berne Auditor lum. A big delegation from Fort | Wayne is expected and U. §. Sena-; tor James E. Wats»n will deliver | an address at the meeting. The ( meeting is one of several Interest- t ing meetings planned by the Berne - Chamber of Commerce this year.

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DENIES CHARGE | IN POISON CASE Mrs. Simmons Continues To Testify; Case Nearing Finish Lebanon, Ind., Oct. 29.— (U.R) —I There was no bichloride of mercury' of corrosive sublimate in the Hancock county farm home of the Simmons. Mrs. Carrie Simmons, charged with the strychnine poisoning! of two daughters, told jurors here, today*upon cross-examination. Ben Scifres, Boone county porse- i cutor, said in his opening state-j ment that he would show that ' Alice Jean and Virginia Simmons! had been given bichloride of mer-1 cury about a week before they died after eating poisoned chicken sandwiches at a reunion picnic here | June 21. Dr. R. N. Harger, toxicologist, i purportedly had reported presence [ of bichloride of mercury in organs of the girls, but his statement was ' not admitted to court records. Mrs. Simmons, calm and appearing more rested than the jurons, I said the health of Ijer daughters was good until they were stricken at the picnic grounds. She said that so far as she knew they had taken no medicine containing bichloride of mercury, and denied that she gave any poison to them. Mrs. Simmons testified that she knew, nothing about such poisons. .CONT’NUED ON PAGE SIX) CHARACTER IS FOCAL POINT Libel Trial of Nan Britton Continues In Toledo Federal Court Toledo, 0.. Oct. 29—(U.PJ— The . reputation of Nan, Britton was the focal point, of attack again today by the defense, seeking to acquit C. A. Klunk. Marion. 0.. on a charge of libeling Miss Britton i through a book which denies her: daughter is the child of the late President Warren G. Harding. Miss Britton asks $50,000 judgment for Klunk’s part in distributing “The Answer to ‘The Presi-J I dent's Daughter'." Smilingly, Miss Britton withstood a sharp attack on her char-' niter levelled by three former | school chums at yesterday’s session. Mrs. Mary Catherine Hade. | Mrs. Ellen Lucille Stahl, and Mrs. Helen Grigsby, all of Marion, averted their faces before, her j steady gaze as they testified that l ns a girl.her reputation was had. Mrs. Hade narrated a story of I a nude bathing party which she said Miss Britton attended, although she could not remember (CONTINUED ON PAGE FIVE) o INTERNATIONAL BANK PLANNED Short Term Credits To Be Changed Into Longer Notes Paris. Oct. 29.—(U.R)—Plans for creation of an International Credlit Bank to transform the immense I total of short-term credits invest|cd in Germany into credits of from i three to five years were revealed here today. The United Press learned that Emile Francqui, Belgian financier who discussed the plan with President Hoover at Washington, hah accepted an invitation to proceed |to Paris from the United States and confer on the proposal with Premier Pierre Laval and Minister of Finance Pierre Etienne Flandin. It was understood President Hoover, governor of the Federal Reserve Board Eugene Meyer, and governor of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York George L. Harrison, approved the plan and that the fate of the scheme depended upon French financial support, which was not entirely assured. The International Credit Bank would cooperate with the Bank for | International Settlement at Basle and would, through processes of discount, transform short term (CONTINUED ON PAGE FIVE)

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C. E. Field Secretary To Speak In Decatur Miss Elizabeth Cooper, Field Seci retary of the Indiana Society of | Christian Endeavor, will deliver the | main address at the convention of I the District Union of Christian En- | deavor at the Zion Reformed church i in this city, Tuesday, November 10. I The district includes societies in I Adams, Wells and Huntington counJ ties and Homer (' Augsburger 'is | president. Miss Cooper will speak on the subject of cooperation of individual union with larger unions. She is re- | pitted to be an interesting and dramatic speaker and her lectures are I convincingly and clearly arranged, j with her messages carrying con- . victlon. Anyone interested in the , work of Christian Endeavor is in- | vited to attend the meeting. oWOULD DISCARD i ALLTOWNSHIPS — Former Tax Board Member Mould Eliminate Unit to Save Money Indianapolis, Oct. 29 —(UP) —Elimination of all Indiana townships as a move to bring economies in government and reduction of taxes upon real and 'personal property was advocated by Will A. (Hugh, Greenfield, former member of the state board of tax commissioners, in an address before the county Commissioners' association of Indiana last night. He warned against a general sales tax as a measure to relieve the taxation burden, and contended that the 4-cent gasoline tax in Ini diana is as high as it ever should be I “I advocate as a method to re--1 duce real and property tax the elimination of all township lines; the taking over of schools, now managed by township trustees, by a county board of education to be esI tablished by law; the placing of all township roads with the county highway superintendent under supervision of the board of county commissioners; the placing of the care of the poor-in a county board of j charities and the establishment of | (CONTINUED ON PAGE FIVE) EDISON WILL IS PROBATED — Property, Bonds Given To Two Sons; W idow Is Cared For I Newark, .N. J., Oct. 29—<U.R>— I All shares of capital stock. Thomas A. Edison, Inc., are to be divided equally between his two sons, Charles and Theodore Edison, according to the will of the inventor. filed for probate today. The sons also are given as tenants in common, the land and premises known as the Edison Laboratory. Charles and Theodore Edison also were bequeathed all of the inventor's shares of the Edison Portland Cement company and all the income debenture bonds by that company. Shares <V capital stock of the Pohatcong railroad and promissory notes due from the cement company also are left to Charles hnd Theodore. There was no provision made for the widow but a supplemental statement of the testator said: “My dear wife, Mina Edison, is already adequately provided for through gifts from me and otherwise and for this reason I make no provision for her in this will.” Edison's property, known as the Oxford quarry property, also was left to Charles and Theodore. (CONTINt’RD ON D AGF, TWO) o_ Newhauser Is Returned Berne, Oct. 29 —(Albert Neuhauser of BeAe, who has been a patient at the University of Michigan Hospital at Ann Arbor for the last week, was removed to Berne today. Mr. Neuhauser underwent an operation last week for a growth on the brain which is thought to have been | caused by an injury received a year ago at the Hoosier 'Milk Condensery at Bluffton According to a telegram received frogn the hospital Wednesday, Mr. Neuhauser was very low.

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GRAND LARCENY CHARGES FILED AGAINST THREE Sheriff Arrests Alleged Sheep Thieves; One Admits Theft SEVEN SHEEP ARE RECOVERED Spinton Dailey, who resides southeast of Willshire and Fred Farve and Benjamin Farve of Blue Creek township were in the Adams county jail today facing charges of grand larcenv. Dailey was arrested last night bv Sheriff Burl Johnson and the two Farves’ were arrested by Sheriff Johnson today, so lowing the theft yesterday of 22 head of sheen from th" Samantha Young (arm, south of Decatur. Dailey is said to have told Sheriff Johnson that he and the two other men under arrest drove the sheep away from the Young farm yesterday and that they planned to sell the animals. Seven of the sheep were found at the Dailey residence and were returned to Mrs. Young. The other sheep have not been recovered. Dailey’s bond was fixed at $2,500 and it is expected that the other bonds will be set at the same figure. Mrs. Young called Sheriff Johnson about 9 o’clock last night, and after an investigation it was decided to question Dailey. When asked alxmt the missing sheep. Sheriff Johnson said Dailey admitted his part in the theft. The three alleged thieves will be arraigned Friday or Saturday in Adams circuit court on charges of grand larceny. Mrs. Young was in Decatur today assisting Sheriff Johnson and Prosecutor Nathan C. Nelson gather the evidence. . •> —o Thomas Arkle Clark * Today's Youth Urbana, 111., Oct. 29. — (U.R) — Thomas Arkle Clark, dean of men emeritus of the University of Illinois. paused in his task of raking [leaves from his front lawn today and summed up his attitude toward the young folk of the colleges and universities. “They are not as bad as they appear on the surface, these young people of ours,” said the whitehaired “friendly philosopher" who has helped thousands of college boys solve problems ranging from financial muddles to campus romances. "There is nothing the presentday young person dislikes so much as being laughed at and there is nothing that irritates him or her so much as being thought unsophisticated. So the college hoys and girls broadcast their irregularities. "But today's college boy is a lot better than he says he is and, in general, better than his father was, although he doesn't want you to think so. The same goes for his sister.” Dean Clark speaks with modest (CONTINUED ON PAGE FIVE) KILLER AWAITS FINAL PAPERS Winnie Ruth Judd's Attorneys Fisht Extradition Os Phoenix Killer Los Angeles, Oct. 29 -<U.R) Winnie Ruth Judd tossed restlessly on her cot at the county jail today while a last desperate attempt was made to prolong her stay in Los Angeles. She does not want to return to Phoenix, where she assertedly killed Hedvlg Samuelson and Mrs. Agnes Annie Leroi, her former companions, and stuffed their bodies in trunks for shipment to Los Angeles. She pleads that she is too 111. that her wounded left hand hurts too much to permit her removal. But Arizona authorities were (CONTINUED ON PAGE FIVE)