Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 29, Number 278, Decatur, Adams County, 25 November 1931 — Page 1

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■bandits ■in SIO,OOO ■tNpti'tnal Bank LootWAt Noon Today of ■ 1 All Cash Brs ARE 1 |1 IXIHNG TRAIL ■fctHftr.l City. Nov. 25 Four armed b;mK hell >i|> :m< l robbed the Kt Nitiolial Bank at MonlK>rcf >IO,OHO in cash and Em at 11:55 o'clock K INCH mi", and escaped in KutAii >bile. ■The Bandits headed east Her towarris Kt SV th’ ii were believ'd ■avfrjoi r oitli and thi n bar k ■t gfl ■ > L.iv.' turned north ■■■ w>-i of XJontpelier and ■» noA again. ■be W'I’' 1 ’' entered Hie front bank building. As Kr Caar- ' D. M. Tewksbury, KidMHof tlie bank, ran to his ■m at tlie rear of tile inMH 1 Xl ’liang(d 1n i All H .unmanded Pella bookkeep.-r eashler and ■k lifers to lie on the floor. Ks ter ’ ■ employees in th" ■k bten.l th" cages, and or I .ornl: to While I bandits were in tic " ‘'lei's of Muti' i" ■ L I 1 a’liiina of Tilltoll, tv." Kkle »a ! " iiiilroad detectives,: the bandit autoON PAGE FIVE) RMEW MILLER I ILL IS FILED Batepisposed of In 1917 ■ißiAnd 1920 Codicil I Clause "I Andrew Miller 1 ■ 1 I Miller filed bond in the sum 1 'Flo' lust ord.-rs ■’ll JIM rlobts. Tlie Miller h >m to the ■ »«'jli" lives and then to a K. Miller, at ■ten of SIOO was given to ■■l'athdic saying masses for Mr. liter. goods widow. ■ * "* tllG estate including Casper ami I' a. ■ er Mfc.v-riiinrs ( ,f th. will, iurthe If ordered to be given to as much as needed fli rents and profits are to ■jH ED ON PAGE F 'IVE) li LEADERS RESENT plans -®^‘ n ’ands Including NBt Debenture To ■Committee Pgßton, Nov. 25. — <U.R) |rSH al le ®ders today urged the equalizallwSB 1 ' 11 Btabi!,zation ot ’ silver I measures of aiding the Ct ra ** i,er ' master o[ t!,e Xatf «>teg<'. testifying before the MSBri cultural committee, adfci>tTl2 e ex P° r t debenture. He that the “federal reL W**' m has not fulfilled its . farm dollar, lie said. L,® sfrth but 54 cents. L ? ai M A ’ ° N eal. president of l**telean Farm Bureau Feder the equalization fee LJ I> JW or disposing of surplus K ■ Wl>u| d “aid in making the on farm crops,’’ he 0J W UED ON PAGE TWO)

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Vol. XXIX. No. 278.

Docatur Women Attend I Wells County Meet The Mesdames E. D. Engeler I John Tyndall, and John S. Peter 1 son of this city attended the Wells County Federation of Clubs held ' jat Bluffton Tuesday afternoon, and I gave reports of the Indiana State Federation of Clubs which was held | at West Baden, recently. The three Decatur ladies were delegates to the Indiana Federation meetings, representing local clubs. Mrs. U G. Ellingham of Fort Wayne gave a report of the Child’s Conference which was held in Washington, D. C„ which she attended as a representative. The Wells County meeting was held in the Public Library building at Bluffton, and was largely attend-1 ed by Wells County clubwomen. ; o STABILIZATION FAILS, COTTON SHIPPERS SAY Association Charges Farm Board’s Activities Have Failed VOICE GRIEF AT CONFERENCE Washington. Nov. 25 <U.R) i --The American Cotton Ship-j pers Association charged to-1 day that the cotton stabiliza-l lion activities of the federal j farm board have been “tin utter failure.” J. W. Garrow of Houston. | Texas, a member of the asso-i ciation, appearing before the! | senate agriculture committee, demanded a special congressional investigation of the board’s cotton operations and urged passage of further legislation designed to aid the cotton farmer. The association represents 1,-1 900.000 producers and claims to, market 75 per cent of the nation's I cotton. Garrow listed nine charges j which he demanded congress in-1 vestigate. They included: 1. The stabilization operations undertaken by the board have | damaged, rather than benefltted. the producers of cotton and have I utterly failed to achieve the pur-1 pose for which they were intended. 2. The actions of the cotton j cooperatives are dictated from I Washington and their officials are! •(CONTINUED ON PAGE FIVE) ■ RICH CHICAGO RESORT RAIDED Gold Coast Club Is Captured By Federal Dry Agents Chicago, Nov. 25. — (U.R) Prohibition agents invaded the Swank SIOO,OOO club Teodora on the neat North Side today. They seized what they estimated to be SIO,OOO wore of choice liquors and arrested four men. Fifty gold coast patrons of the exclusive club to which admission is only by cards were allowed to leave. Agents said the club was owned (CONTINUED ON PAGE TWO) —" — o Club Leaders Meet The leaders of the Adams County Home Economics Clubs met Tuesday afternoon at the home of Mrs. E. W. Busche at Monroe, to make plans for a stunt night to be held in the auditorium of the Decatur Catholic high school on the evening of Tuesday, December 29. Each of the eight clubs will put on a side-splitting sketch not to exceed 10 minutes in length Mr. Dahner, who has been developing a 4-H club orchestra In the various township high schools, will furnish the music for the evening. Tickets for the stunt night will be in the hands of the Home Economics Club women at the reasonable price of 20 cents each. The proceeds of the stunt night will be used to pay the expenses ot the leaders on their trip to attend the Agricultural Conference week nt Purdue University, held during the week of January 11 to 15.

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’ 51 THREE CHARGED ; WITH SWINDLE Indianapolis Subdivision Sales Concern Is Charged With Fraud Indianapolis, Nov. 25 — (U.R) - Three men, who are alleged to i have operated a SIOO,OOO real estate fraud in Indianapolis, were under arrest today in Los Angeles and San Francisco, according to I word received here. Federal agents in Los Angeles; arrested William N. Dosier. .James E. lluteson and M. .1. O’Keefe were captured in San Francisco. The men operated the Indiana Estates company here. They fled when county authorities liegan an Investigation of their activities. The federal grand jury indicted the men last September on charges of using the mails to defraud. I Arrest of the men followed a search by A. C. Garrigus, postal Inspector, who traced them to Buffalo and across the country to California. In Buffalo they were said to have operated the Buffalo Estate company, an activity similar to the one they operated here. It was alleged that they collected SIOO,OOO in down payments for | (CONTINUED ON PAGE FIVE) COURT ACTION IS THREATENED Commissioner Cuthbertson Moves To Stop Indiana Truck Concern Indianapolis. Nov. 25. — (U.R) — Court action was threatened by Harry K. Cuthbertson, Public Service Commissioner, today, to stop what he termed illegal operation of numerous truck lines hy Tom Snyder, manager of the Store Door Delivery Corporation. Cuthbertson’s threat followed his dismissal of Snyder’s petition to operate 21 truck lines in Indiana. He flayed Snyder for his repeated efforts to obtain sanction for truck line .operation, and his expansion of truck lines despite the commission's refusal. Snyder taunted the commissioner by remarking that “we will op(CONTINUED ON PAGE FIVE)

Decatur, Indiana, Wednesday, November 25, 1931.

Youths’ Meet Planned A district Youth's Conference of the Christian Endeavor societies of the Evangelical churches will be Held in the Evangelical church at Cenna, Ohio, Friday, November 27. Rev. W. L. Dauner of Kendallville, will be the principal speaker at tlie conference which will be in two sessions, morning and afternoon, closing with a banquet at 6 o'clock. Dinner will be served in the church dining hall at the noon hour, and an interesting program is being planned for the event. A large number of young people from , the local Evangelical church are I planning to attend. GOLD WEATHER HITS MIDWEST Temperatures Drop In All Parts of Nation During 24 Hours Chicago, Nov. 25.— (U.R) —Gales from the west set the midwest shivering today, ended a late fall heat wave and forecast advance of the blizzard which took two lives in the Rocky Mountain region. Snow fell in the northwest, driftling heavily before the strong i winds. Late fall shipping on the Great Lakes was impeded as the storm whipped up huge waves. Storm warnings were posted. In the west where Norman Potter, 36, air mail pilot, and Mary Snow, W. lost their lives in the j blizzard, the storm had abated. Temperatures were rising and all highways had been cleared of snow drifts. In the midwest where temperatures held above 60 degrees generally, thermometer readings fell sudden to below freezing. Snow was confined to northern Wisconsin, Minnesota and the Dakotas but forecasters predicted a general fall over the region. Communications were damageil by the high wind and by sleet. (CONTINUED ON PAG® FIVE) ♦ ~ NO DEMOCRAT . There will be no publication I of the Dally Democrat Thurs- j day in observance of Thanks- | giving Day. There will be no “j I city or rural mail deliveries. I 1

r — nr mnr[police seek MURDERCIDES . • I Woman Is Slain With Sash Weight In New York Apartment N » New York, Nov. 25. —(U.R) -Appar- ’ ently the victim of a sashweight ! assault, Edna Pearson, 29. was t found today in a dying condition i on the second floor hallway of an > apartment house in the Bronx. She was taken to Lincoln Hospital with a fractured skull and lacerations which police believe in- 1 dicate she had been brutally beatI en. A trail of blood led from the i!spot where she was found to the, roof of the building where police I I came upon a sashweight and a pair I | of silk pajamas in a pool o: blood. Police claimed also they had |; found bloodstains leading across (the roofs to another apartment building and into an apartment !where it was claimed Miss Pearson had been a guest. • o Auburn Doctor Dies i f Auburn, Ind., Nov. 25. —(U.R) Dr. s Ulysses Grant Souder, 65, founder of the new Souder Hospital here, . died in the hospital after an ill- ; ness of five weeks. The hospital . was opened last October 31. , ; o— BANK SUSPECTS FOUND GUILTY I Two Indiana Bandits Are Found Guilty of Possessing Burglar Tools i Ottumwa, la., Nov. 25. — (U.R) — Robert Kelso and Frank Brown of [ Indiana, were found guilty by a jury in district court today of I charges of possession of burglary tools. The jury returned a verdict after deliberating 40 minutes. Kelso and Brown were arrested with Melvin Furlong at the Ottumwa Country Club when a veritable arsenal was discovered in their automobile. Furlong was convicted last week on a similar charge and will be sentenced Nov. 23. Sentence will be passed on Brown and Kelso on Dec. 10. The maximum penalty is i > 15 years In prison.

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ROBERT SHAFER, KNOWN HERE IS MISHAP VICTIM i Bluffton Athlete And Basketball Official Killed Tuesday WAS RETURNING FROM DECATUR Bluffton, Iml., Nov. 25.— Speciti! Hobert Shafer, 23,1 son of (). E. Shafer. Fordj dealer of this city, was in-| stantly killed about midnight! Tuesday when his auto! struck a cement bridge railing on Slate road Hi, a short distance west of Tocsin. Shafer, who was well known in athletic circles anil in liftsiness circles in this city, was returning home from Decatur where he had attended a basketball game. He was alone in the car. His death was due to a fracture of the neck. County Coroner Wil-; liant Thoma stated today. The car did not overturn. The force of collision evidently threw Shafer forward and caused the left door of the car to open. His body nearly fell out of the car. It is believed the young man fell asleep. The wreckage anil body was discovered by three Bluffton men early this morning. They were' George iStover, Harold Lee and a! youth named Shinier. Mr. Shafer is a graduate of the Bluffton high school, being a j member of the 1926 class. He attended the University of Michigan for several years. He has been associated with his father in I the automobile business since Completing bis college work . He is survived by his father, one brother. Ernest Shafer of Wisconsin: a sister, Mrs. Howard Allen, Bedford and a half-sister, Elinore at home. (CONTINUED ON D AGE TWO) —————————■ — Farmer Is Acquitted Mt. Vernon. Ind.. Nov. 25 —(U.R) | —David Benthall. 28, dairy farmer near here, was acquitted on a charge ot involuntary manslaughter growing out of the death of I Edgar Blackburn. Blackburn suffered a skull fracI tare during a fight with Benthall I over pecans from a tree which I overhangs their adjoining farms. I Benthall contended that he struck | Blackburn in self defense. SUGAR CONCERN PROBE IS ENDED Watson And Davis Refuse To Testify At Senate Hearing Washington. Nov. 25.—(U.R)—Refusal of Senators Watson, Repn„ Ind., and Davis, Repn., Pa., to testify in a senate investigation ot their speculation in sugar stocks has brought to an end the inquiry. Hearings terminated yesterday morning after the lobby committee's investigation had presented Evidence to show that Davis and Watson had bought stock on favorable terms and without cash. The inquiry was primarily concerned with the political activities of the B. G. Dahlberg Sugar Companies. Dahlberg was shown to have contributed to both major political parties in 1928, and to have been active later in the interest of a tariff on sugar. Both Watson and Davis voted for the tariff, and both received Dahlberg sugar stock on highly favorable terms, but no evidence was ((•<IXI IX I i: 1 > OX PAGE TWO, Conference Date Set The Thirteenth annual Indiana History Conference will be held in the Claypool Hotel at Indianapolis, Friday and Saturday, December 11 and 12, it has been announced. The conference Is held under the auspices of the Society of Indiana Pioneers, Indiana Historical Society and State Historical Bureau. 'All literary sessions will be open to the public. A program is planned i for each session dealing with hisI torical events of Indiana.

Price Two Cents

Local Case Reversed H. M. DeVoss, Decatur attorney today received word that the Indiana Appellate court had reversed a decision of Judge J. C. Sutton in the case of Farmers and Merchants bank vs. William Messil, on notes. When the trial was held in Adams circuit court, Judge Sutton, then sitting as judge ordered the jury to return a verdict in favor of the bank. Mr. DeVoss, representing Mr. Messil appealed to the higher court where the finding was reversed in favor of the defendant. — o NEW VENIRE IS I DRAWN TODAY .Judge Orders Last Fifteen Names Drawn Out Os County’s Jury Box Another special venire ot fifteen prospective jurors for the Everett murder trial at noon today, completely emptied the box and it is probable the jury commissioners will be called in Friday to replenish I same. Those included in the last venire are: Cecil Melchi, Decatur. Christ W. R. Schwartz, Monroe township. Jacob Graber, Monroe township. Waldo Lehman, Monroe township. Hugh Daniels, Washington township. I Leo C. Kohne, Washington townjship. . Ernst Stengel, Monroe township. Marcus Lehman, Monroe town- | ship. Charles Bahner, Monroe. Dallas Brown, Washington township. Menno S. Leichty, Monroe. Perry Ggg, Decatur. Frank Kuntz, Monroe township. (CONTINUED ON PAGE FIVE) o RED CROSS TO FINISH DRIVE Annual Roll Call Will Be Completed Thursday Afternoon The annual American Red Cross drive which opened in this city on November 11, Armistice Dav. will l ! dose on Thursday, November 26, ! Thanksgiving Day, Miss Annie E. Winnes, county secretary announced today. 'The receipts of the drive this year will average about the same ’ as in former years, Miss Winnes I stated although a definite report can . not be made at this time. Several I of the solicitors have not made reports of their collections to the secretary, and Miss Winnes desires , j that these reports be made as soon as possible. Anyone who still wants to join the Red Cross is invited to see Miss Winnes or it any solicitor knows of someone in his territory who wants to join, he is asked to call on that ■ person and receive the membership. Miss Winnes will be required to 1 file a preliminary report with the National headquarters on December 2, and a final report on December 9. According to a new ruling made | this year by the Red Cross assoeia--1 tion, 50 per cent of the total re- ’ ceipts of the drive will be sent to the National organization, 25 per 1 cent will remain in the local Red 1 Cross fund, and 25 per cent will be ■ turned over to charity work in this city and county this winter. 1 o .' Two Autos Collide Two cars were slightly damaged at 9 o’clock this morning at Monmonth, when they collided as one . was being driven from the Lytle garage there. As R. O. White of this city was driving through Monmouth from the north, Harley Ward of Monmouth, who had stopped at the garage t there, drove out to the pavement , in front of the White car. The cars were only slightly damaged ’ and no one was hurt. . o League To Give Play ■ The Emmanuel Walther League of Union township will present a i play entitled, “Now, Adolph," in I the schoolhouse, November 28 and - 29. The play will begin at 8 o'clock each evening, standard time.

YOUR HOME PAPERLIKE ONE OF THE FAMILY

45 QUESTIONED BY ATTORNEYS; I MANY EXCUSED Judge Edwin May Permit Tenative Jurors To Return Home MORE NAMES ARE CHOSEN —♦ JURY AT 3:15 The tenative Everett murder ! | trial jury at 3:15 o’clock this I | afternoon included: Charles Gage, Root township, | j farmer. H. F. Ehinger, manager Citii ; zens Telephone Co., Decatur. Henry Schulte, clothier, De- ■ | catur. i | Bert Haley, plasterer. Deca- I : tur. Wilmer Worthman, Kirkland i j township, farmer. ■ i John A. Hendricks, Wabash i township, farmer. A. D. Suttles, insurance man, i j Decatur. | Oscar Laueknau, dry goods, ! i Decatur. • | E. D. Epgeler, retired rner- | chant, Decatur. | Enos Lehman, insurance man, I Berne • | Clement R. Gottschalk, manI ufacturer, Berne. . | Dore Anspaugh, Jefferson [ | township, farmer. « At 3:30 o'clock this niternoon, the state anti defense had failed to complete selection of a jury to hear evi- . dence in the Joseph Everett murder trial. Indications at that hour were that the third dav of the trial would pass without the selection of a jury. Fortv-five veniremen i had been called. i I Judge D. B. Erwin said that if , there were no objections from attorneys and if the jury had not I yet been sworn to sit as a jury, k| he would permit the tentative members to go home over Thanksgiving without the surveillance of a bailiff. There will he no court Thanks- ( giving day and the trial will be , resumed again! Friday morning. I Tha afternoon session started today at 1:30 o’clock. The Court ' excused Eugene Farlow because ■ he was physically unable to serve. Venireman number 42 was called ot fill seat number 6. Ho gave * Ills name as John A. Hendricks, * Wabash township and lather of 5 11 children. He stated that he 1 was not opposed to capital pu-.i---1 Ishment. The state them challenged 9 Vance Mattox because he said he 3 was opposed to capital punish--1 ment. Venireman number 43, taking seat 9 was Hugh Daniels. 1 Daniels who is a telegraph oper--3 ator for the Erie railroad. He f stated that he had called on Ever- ’ ett two weeks ago; had an opinion 1 and was opposed to capital pun- ■ ishment. The state excused Dau- > lels for cause. 3 E. D. Engeler, venireman 44 'CONTINUED ON PAGE TWO! ; o GANDHI MAY ■ BE DEPORTED ; Threats Sent to Indian Leader; Elibank Lead- ( ing Fight London, Nov. 25.— (U.R) — The 3 Mahatma Gandhi lias been threat--3 ened with deportation if he foments further disturbances in In--3 dia. 3 The threat came last night in a ■ demand by Lord Elibank, former 3 under-secretary of state for cols onies speaking in the House of 3 Lords. 1 “Gandhi frequently has told us that he wants us out of India," ■Lord Elibank said. "If that is his proposal, let us do unto Gandhi what Gandhi wants done unto us." 3 Lord Elibank suggested that the i leader of the nationalists be sent i to some island archipelago, such as 1 the Adaman Islands, if lie coni|tinues his campaign against British rule in India.