Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 30, Number 10, Decatur, Adams County, 12 January 1932 — Page 1

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E. J. BULGIN LL CONDUCT REVIVAL HERE Lily Known Evan jt To Be At MethoLt Church Here kIGN TO I AST 3 WEEKS Lhvood -I. Bulgin. PortLre,, nationally-known i 6jst, who in the last 25 has converted more Loth) people will conI t'hree-week EvangelisIvival service at the list Episcopal church Larting next Sunday fjgin is known throughout Ln as one of the greatest L in the profession today. L| io have the appearance Luu Lincoln anil those who L and have heard him talk L h? is just as plain and [forward as the great warIsident. Lmerville Light, former loin- lias written local people It list "Dr. Bulgin is in a I himself Rev. Benjamin L said today dial his church | innate .in getting Dr. BillLn -e his busy schedule had Leek break in it and it was I much effort that the EvanLally consented to assume Lrship of annual revival at [atur Methodist church. Ilir Uiilgin. comes Charlie Lashington, D. C., Revival Ller and noted singer. Mr. [ill organize a large < horns [ring the three-week period. L service of the series will ■ext Sunday morning. [ittees tn charge of the v.ir ■ses of the revival will be fed in a day or two, Rev. I said and a number of •service , each week also will ' funced later this week. Lider Mellon Charge [ington. .lan. 12 — (UP) — Bummers of the house judifimmittee announced today |e 'sufficiency" of the ini[ent charges against soere- | treasury Mellon would ho [red tomorrow at a public WO MUN HSPEAKER Ity Christian Endeavfally To Be Held at p rne January 15 I Lehman of Chicago. 111., [the principal speaker at the [tounty Christian Endeavor lliieli will be held in the Piral church in Berne. FrtBslu. January 15, at 7:30 Bsr number of young people Bite Christian Endeavor wolf the Zion Reformed, ChrisPiled lhethren and EvtlngelIhrih here are planning to [the rally. •king |s the complete pro[Pfelmle M rs . a. C. Smith I Rev. 1. O. Roederer •Rational song. f Guy Eley l Carl Luginblll P Quartet Decatur I s . C. A. Lehman. Chicago |l*tion Review. |iP Period. I Benediction. bulletin Jan. 12—(U.R) L n ' ,e< * States circuit F 0 a PPeals today conr 'he Leavenworth r n *es of Guy Emerich, r "ayne. former Allen Py sheriff, and George L| ~o n conviction of F iquor law conspirL < ar^es ' They were |"t«o year sentenceM g Judge Thomas W.

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Noted Evangelist Coming- Here ? 7 V # * . hr. E. .1. Bulgin Dr Bulgin. wit > is regarded as one of the greatest Evangelists in •he nation will start a Him week Revival tampaign at the Methodist Epis. opal church litre next Suiniay morning

STENGLE HEADS LEGION POST Berne Druggist Succeeds Rev. Berntheil As Post Commander Ernest Stengle. He tie dru.'gist. Tuesday night assumed comman dership of Adams post. American Legion at the first meeting since the death of Commander Harry Ferntheil. Sl< ngle was elected from the position of first vice commander to that of Commander. IThe post membe.s elected Walter .1. Bockman. second vice commander to till the vacancy. Vermin Aurand, formerly second vice com niunder automatically became first vice-com ma nd or of the organiza tion. Bockman, l»y virtue of his of i< • also was named a member of the post executive committee. Hai'.y Hitter tonrth district Commander attended the meeting held here last night. Hitter was accompanied to Decatur by Fred Lynch. Kmidallville. chairman of the loin th district child welfare committee of the American l.egion. Steig.le stated last night in as sinning his office that he planned to car. y out the program set out b> the late. Rev. Ferntheil. The present membership of the local post is 17!) and Stengle urged that the quota of 275 membets bp reached in tlte next few weeks. The local post always i.s one o. the first in the state to rea< h its quota. COUNTY CLUB HEARS CRAIG Bluffton School Superintendent Speaks on “Youths’ Problems’’ O. M. Craig, superintendent of the Bluffton schools, was the principal speaker at a meeting of the Adams County superintendents and principals at tlie Pleasant Mills high school. Monday evening. His subject was "The Problem of the American Boy and Girl.” Special music and a miscellaneous musical program was presented by Henry Snyder, principal of Pleasant Mills high school. Frank E. Day, Wells County school superintendent, ami Orlen Fortney, trustee of St. Mary's township, were special guests. The next meeting of the Adams County organization will be Moss day evening, February 1, at Kirk land high school.

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■ ■ • Officers Installed • the ue.w oll'u'ers ot the Pyth- ’■ ia.i Sisters lodge ;vere instated at the meeting of the o. gauization held in the Knights of Pythias | home. Monday night. The installin,. officers were the ,M. lames W. F. Beery. Ed Ahr, [and Homer Lower. Fallowing a:e the officers installed: Past Chief. Mrs. A. I). Suttles most excellent chief, Mrs. Grant i Fry, excellent Senior, Tillman | Gehrig; excellent junior. Mrs. Fred . Ahr; Manager. Mrs. John Sehug, mistiess of records and c irrespondi nee. Mrs. S. E Shamp; Mistress of linanee. .Mrs. Delton Passwater: protector. Mrs. Giles Porte.-, and guard. Mis. Lloyd Ahr. FORMER LOCAL MAN IS KILLED — John Hoopengardner, 59, Will Be Buried Wednesday At Ossian Funeral services for John Hoopengardner, 5!), a former garage operator here, who was accidentally .killed by a train Thu.sday after- , n on. will be held at 2 o’clock Wednesday afternoon at the Methodist church in Ossian. The Rev. G. A. i Snider pastor of the church, will be in charge, and burial will be made in the Oaklnwu cemetery al 1 Ossian. Mr. Iloopengaidner was instantly killed Phu sday afternoon about three o’clock, when hit* automobile was struck by a'train at Tuscola, I ill . where ho was working at a ?arI age. | The deceased operated a garage pat Ossian and Decatur, before goI ing to Illinois. die was born in Jefferson townI ship, Ap il 20. 1872. the son ot' ’ Lewis' and Lydia Lepper Hoopengardner. He was married to Miss Martha Quackenbush who survives, i together with three sons, Von and Harry of Fort Wayne; and Clayton of Cleveland. 0., Five brothers, WilHani Burdell and Benton of Ossian; ; David of Fort Wayne, and George who resides in the West; ami two 11 sisters, Mrs. W. D. Goshorn and (CONTINUED ON PAGE FOUR) o Settle Refuses To Help Name Committee Indianapolis. Jan. 12 —(UP) —The . movement for a special session of the state legislative to provide tax- , atlon relief was jiven a definite set back t ulay when William H. Settle, ; president of the Indiana Farm Bureau, refused to assist in the appointment of a committee to draft a legislative program.

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FIVE CONFESS GAS THEFT IN ADAMS COUNTY Five Young Men Say They stole Gasoline Belonging To Adams County ARE RELEASED UNTIL SATURDAY Four Adams county young men and one Wells County vouth pleaded guilty late Monday afternoon to Judge D. B. Erwin, in Adams Circuit Court to petit larceny in connection with the theft of 80 gallons of gasoline from the county highway department in Hartford township. Those who admitted the theft were: Dwight Bryan. Wells County. Harold Guyot, Hartford township. Frank GJendenning. Hanford township. Charles Glendenning. Hartford township. Jesse Clark, Hartford township. None of the young men have been in trouble before, according to evidence brought out at the hearing. Judge Erwin recorded the pleas of guilty anil released the men until Saturday morning at 9 o'clock on their own recognizance, at which time sentence will be imposed. The quintet was arrested late Monday by Sheriff Burl Johnson as(CONTINUED ON PAGE FOUR) PUMPHREY GETS SCOUT HONOR Local Man Awarded National Medal; Retained As Vice-President Fart Wayne, Jan. 12 (Special) —C. C. Pumphrey, Decatur business man will be honored at Foit Wayne tonight, at the annual meeting of the [Anthony Wayne Area Boy Scouts at the Chamber of Commerce building. Mr. Pumphrey will be awarded a Silver Beaver medal, which is one of the highest honors given for hoy scout club work. by International Scout oi ganization. The awards will lie made by Sol A. Wood, former judge ot the Fort Wayne Circuit Court. Others to receive the same awards are L. H. Moore of Fort Wayne, president of the area; C. iH. Johnson. Fort Wayne, neighborhood commissioner; J. M. Wilson. Boy Scout master of Fort Wayne. Mr. Pumphrey will be retained on the Board of Directors, as vicepresident of the area council, it was also announced. The awards will be made at the annual meeting which will be attended by several hundred men from the Anthony Wayne area, including boy scout masters, commissioners, and board members. L. H. Mooie. president, will probably be renamed tu this office tonight; it was stated. o — .. DAWES DENIES ASPIRATIONS Says It Is Insult To Say He Is Not Loyal To President Hoover I Chicago. Jan. 12 —(U.R) —Ambassador Charles G. Dawes considers it insulting that anyone should even intimate that he would swing his support from President Hoover "in any possible way or under any possible contingency.” The former vice-president issued a formal statement last night answering newspaper hints that he might not be as strong a Hoover supporter as he once was. Dawes last week announced he would resign as ambassador to London and many rumors followiml, among them one that he might become a candidate for the Republican presidential nomination In 1932. Upon arrival here Saturday he spiked that rumor in char(CONTINUED ON PAGE SUU

Decatur, Indiana, Tuesday, January 12, 1932.

Relative of Local People Dies Sunday The Mesdatnes James Strickler, Homer Templin and Clarence Hilyard of this city have leeeived word of the death of their aunt. Mis. Rose Masters, 91, of Antwerp. ().. , who died Sunday. Mrs. Masters formerly resided here, and made her home with Mrs. Elizabeth Durr of Pleasant Mills for several years. She is survived by four daughters. Her husband preceded her in death a number of years ago. IFune.al services will be held Thursday morning at 9 o’clock at the home of a daughter. Mrs. James (Sexton in Antwerp. POWER PLANT HAS RESERVE — Fund Takes (’are of Improvements And Retirement of Bonds ; I The accumulation of cash re (serves in the electric light funds of lithe City Light and Power Plant is | a safeguard against the borrowing | of money for making improvements ■Lit the plant and to the distribution ;'and for paying old bonds which ■ were issued against the plant in ■ 11920. I Aside from current cash balances Hon hand January 1. 1932. the elec ,| trie light department had a reserve (balance of about $70,000. | About $30,000 of these surplus ■(funds will he expended in rebuild •|ing the up town circuits of the new electric distribution system and I for making necessary improvements lat the city plant. In 1920 when the city was faced iwith the demand to increase proI duetion and supply additional cur- | i rent to the new General Electric 11 Plant and to the Decatur easting (Company and to local industries [which were then enlarging facilities, it was necessary to issue $50.[OOO worth of bonds by the electric light department. This money was (expended for new boilers and dynaI nios at the plant. Ahead of this issue was $25,000 for Hie water de- . partment, which several years ago , | was paid off in full. ;j The $50,000 bond issue did not I become due until 1930. The first Jbond of $5,000 was paid on January 1, 1930 and since that time $5,000. . J together with interest has been j (CONTINUED ON PAGE FOUR) NAVY OFFICER ORDERED HELD Navy Commandant Ordders Massie Held Until Further Naval Orders Washington, Jan. 12.—(U.R) —Orders directing the navy commandant at Honolulu to refuse to surrender I Lieutenant Tltomas Massie to the ■ custody of civil authorities until • official notice to do so is received . from Washington were issued to ■ day by Secretary of Navy Adams. : Adams instrucled Rear Admiral Yates Stirling Jr., commandant of the Hawaiian naval district, to keep Massie, charged with the murder of a mixed blood native, under naval supervision. Stirling was ordered to report to the department before Issuing any H commands to the contrary, so that officials here might sanction his action. ■ Adams said there was "nothing unusual’’ connected with his order, adding the navy “is trying to do the right thing by all concerned.” He denied that Massie is being ■ retained by Hie navy in order to > secure a change of venue for the I trial of the young naval officer and ; his three companions—Mrs. Gran- ■ ville Fortescue, A. (). Jo.nes and E. ■ J. Lord, enlisted men. Massie has been reported as 1 waiving his rights to a naval court ■ martial. ’ -'CONTINUED ON PAGE FIVE) ► 4 , NOTICE .| ■ ■ All children who are six years . ( of age on or before February , (1, may enter school for the sec- . | ond semester beginning next | . | Monday morning. | M. F. Worthinan. I

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ILOWER TARIFF i MIGHT BE AID, DIETRICH SAYS j i German Minister of Finance Believes Reduction Would Be Sound APPEAR TO BE CONFIDENT ( Berlin, Jan. 12 I UP) Downward j revision of tari.f banners tlie world over would create "a new situation I with i expect to Germany’s capacity I to pay her world ward deJHs and I reparations’’ minister of finance I I He. man Dietrich told the United ■ Press today in an exclusive interview. ( Germany believes that the presi ent world distress —aggravated under the pressure of reparations— I will lead Ge. many's creditors to a | final solution. "That is why every I effort must be made tn keep the Lausanne conference sitting until an ultimate solution is attained,” I Deitrich said. The report of the Young plan ad- ( visory committee at Basle confiraii f d that conditions upon which the | ■ authors of the Young plan based ■ their findings have not been real-I ! izzeil,” Hie finance minister contiii- H i ~e,> ’ "Germany feels handicapped by tariff increases, contingent systems I I placed on imports, and embargoes I introduced in many countries desi pile tlie fact that both Dawes and j (CONTINUED ON PAGE FOUR) REVIVAL DRAWS LARGE CROWDS — Evangelical C h u rc h Is Holding Annual Evangelistic Campaign I I The revival meetings at the First i J Evangelical church, will continue [each night, this week at 7 o'clock.] [There will he 15 minutes of pray-I, ler, proceeding each service. Ernest | Foreman will lead the gospel song service, assisted by the regular I church choir. , l Mrs. Eugene Runyon and Mrs. ! Henry Adler will sing a special 1 nii.nbe.' Tuesday night. The Rev. M. \V. Sunilerniann, I pastor-evangelist will preach on: “Peace, The Possession of Ade[quale Resources." The public is most cordially invited to these serI ; vices. There will lie children's meetings on Wednesday. Thursday, and Friday afternoons immediately after school. Il is the conviction of the pastor if all people would rally their spiritual forces; give themselves to God in earnest prayer and Holy de- ■ votion. this would bring prosperity quicker titan anything the human race can do. The human race needs to get back to God. Rev. Sondermann stated. Everybody that be- . lieves this is asked to prav for the (success ot these meetings. Our ■ hope is not in man, but in God, the . pastor said. [l Big crowds have been attending tlie services and interest is high. LAVAL CABINET OFFERS TO QUIT French Cabinet Members Offer To Resign When Premier Sees Fit 1 Paris, Jan. 12— (UP) —Mem- 1 ! bers of Premier Pier,re LaVal’s Cab--1 inet placed their resignations at ■ his disposal today. The cabinet members adopted the same procedure as foreign minister 1 Aristide Briand, who placed his resignation at LaCal's disposal several days ago. LaVal was thus tree to accept the collective resignation of his > cabinet or to replace Briand anil the late minister of war Andre Mag inot. It was believed Briand would be replaced and would accept a permanent post at Geneva. LaVal conferred with Briand befoie the caibinet meeting and said he was "in complete accord" with > (CONTtNOTSD ON PAGE THRl’i ,

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Song Leadt 1 !* Charlie Clark Mr. Clark is well-known as a singer and song leader. He will come to Decatur with Dr. Bulgin and will conduct the chorus at the Methodist Revival which will start next Sunday morning. LOAN COMPANY HOLDS MEETING Officers Re-Elected And 5 Per ( ent Dividend Is Declared All of the former directors of the Decatur Savings and Loan Association of this city were re-elected at the annual meeting of the stockholders hehl at the company's office in the Paul Graham building Monday. The direcfiir.s elected were Paul Graham, Irrir Farr, 11. Frohnapfel, J'. L. Walters. The directors ‘renamed all the former officers. They are. M. Kirsch, president; C. E. | Bell, vice-president; Carl Purnphrey. vice-president; Mr. Graham, (secretary-treasurer. Tlie other di- ■ rectors are Albert Mutschler, A. R. Ashbaucher, Fred t. Patterson, Paul l.ichtensteiger, and Charles Fuhrman. An excellent financial showing was made by the association. Un- | divided profits for the year totaled I $6,019.61. A five per cent dividend, payable this year was declared. The amount of running slock in tlie association is $128,560.23. The (CONTINUED ON PAGE FOUR) COUNCIL HOLDS BUSINESS MEET Employes’ Salaries Are Considered; Will Meet Again Thursday A business session of the city council win held Monday evening at the city hall and tinancial reports for the year were gone over. The subject of wages and salaries of city employes was also discused by the councilmen, but no action was taken on reducing the wage schedules now paid. City firemen, city policemen and employes at the city light and power plant and in the water department come under the head of city employes. Superintendents of the two departments are also classified as city employes, that is their salaries are not fixe.xd by law. as is the case of mayor, city councilmen and other elective and appointive civil officers. Wages and salaries of department heads and employes of the light and water departments of the city plant are paid out of funds of these two departments and do not affect tax rates. The salaries of firemen and policemen are raised through taxation. Another meeting of the council will be hold Thursday evening and the matter of wages and salaries will be given further consideration. oWilkerson Is Promoted Washington, Jan. 12 —(UP) — Federal Judge James H. Wilkerson Hie silver-haired juris’: who sent Al Capone to prison for 11 years, was nominated today by President Hoover for advancement to the. United States Circuit court of appeals, seventh district. The jurist's outstanding record in breaking gang power was seen by observers as the reason for his selection by the president.

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SUPREME COURT JUSTICE ENDS LONG CAREER Was Only Surviving Civil War Veteran Holding High Office HEALTH GIVEN AS CHIEF CAUSE Wtishiiiglon, ,I;iil 12. (UR) !- Justice Oliver Wendell’ Holmes lodtiv resigned tts a [ member of the ( nited Stales i supreme court. The resignation has been accepted. President Hoover announced the retirement of the patriarch of tlie American bench at noon today. .1 The aged justice, in a letter to Mr. Hoover, said lie left the supreme court witli deep regret, but that the condition of his health made his resignation necessary. In a letter of acceptance, Mr. Hoover expressed appreciation fur Holmes' long and honorable service on the bench. He knew of no American who had inspired su< h respect and devotion. | Justice Holmes read his last opinion in the supreme court Monday. It was one upholding tlie legality of a conviction in a liquor case from Eureka, Calif , although it was shown that the defendant had not had possession of liquor himself. It was a partie(CONTTNUED ON PAGE SIX) jNINTH PERSON 1 IS IMPLICATED Thomas Goslin. Negro, Is Charged With Complicity In Robbery Hartford City. Jun. 12 (U.R) - Thomas Goslin. 55, negro, was questioned here today regarding I i his alleged Implication in robin-tv J the Citizezns State Bank last July S. Authorities said they hail linked him with eight other persons, including former Sheriff fra. Barton, of Blackford county, who faces charges of conspiracy and participation in the \ Idup Goslin was arrested at l.alityctto after officers hunted him rnoro than a week. It was alleged that Goslin admitted h|eing acquainted with Mrs. Hazel Green, Muncie, one of the suspects, and that lie served as agent between the bandits and Barton. He reputedly sheltered the bandits at Lafayette after the robbery, then drove them to Chicago, for which lie received S2OO of (lie loot. o ——'— Auto ( rash Fatal Plainfield, Ind., Jan 12 (UP) — An auto crash on the National road near here brought instant death to Philip H. Smith, 55. Indianapolis. A. C. Polhumus. Fort Wayne, driver of the machine which collided with the one Smith was driving was njured slightlv. ‘BRAINWORK IS PROFIT MAKER' Dr. Andrew Boss Talks to Farmers Gathered At Lafayette Today Lafayette, Ind., Jan. 12.- (U.R) — Brainwork, not hard labor, brings the profits in farming, Dr. Andrew Boss, of the Minnesota Agricultural Experiment Station, asserted at the annual agriculture cotifereneo at Purdue University today. "It is the farmer’s ability Io direct his efforts and dose wise business transactions, rather than labor of his family or mere power abreast of technical farming knowportions of his earnings,” Boss said. “The farmer who keeps ahrest of technical farming knowledge and wlio takes advantage of opportunities is the farmer that succeeds.” Class work started today in all ( branches of tlie conference, and (CONTINUED ON PACIW SIX)