Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 30, Number 122, Decatur, Adams County, 21 May 1932 — Page 1
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,->HERS' LIST SIOUNCEDFOR 11332-33 TERM I |\su of Present fci.Ued to Return '“* Vai Season r r ' EV HERS K| \i(i OBTAINED ~1 teachers hi IlicJ u i jade and liio'h Bxis lor next 'ear was t.xiav bv M. 1siiix rinteiulenl also M<| llie resignations <>l i; S, liindler. th,. lieeatur high MBt 11. •! teachers taught 1,, (laugh’. . Hallbold will be Ku daughter of . r Kauffman of this . . w degrees K I'niversity next Bl .4,/ .. - A ll be made with . ■ :..' the salurBrf ■ w ,l! be regulate 1 .a.d the school a t beginning of the The K.vtiii • -ign the contracts KI time. It is likely that scale will be reduced a from fi to K| ■ amounts now paid |,..|> the grades school follow: ■ North Ward R. Parrish. principal: Delld SelleMagley. S' South Ward A. k<■' principal: ■ Patton. Mary Suttles V I Riley Building principal: Hull: Flor,■nee Haney. Bertha Central Building T 1 |MatSelle x ■ Blm| 1 I"' Hie Itl 188 ® choo ' p n < p M. ■ Siciud And": It A Adams. Hailbold. Kii'hjjß y Jeanette ('la 11. t T.i .-. I (avid Rice. ' uegin the Hl--’ week ■ Bahr is Stillborn Richard Thieim , miles northeast of this 1 HB >1 u -t::iborn daughter b r ''■<!■ 1 inidni/ht) Fridai MBh’ '.i>>t was buried in the 1.m1:., an Semetery this morning. are the parents. Kiel: 'I 1 Ida H'ocl,eine\er ■ ilia following brof’ter:S^V P ' Lydia. Alma. Erwin. \r tBB 1 '- Ifayniond all it home. HINCIL will Beet Monday <>f Peddlers’ |B m To Be Taken At I That Time (|W action on the adoption of oidinance was post BB I ')' the city council last night onlay evening. The conn H PM session about three hours. IM which time the ordinance op jt s fj rs [ an( ] s( . c ,,n,| changes will be made from drift as made by City , fW e >' J Fred Fruchte and a was made to meet in ( it- I session Monday. IJ| (lr ' ll! ‘ inM t-egulates peddlers inenchants, defines Eiiq 6 non -resfdent merchants j, B* P s a fee for soliciting husiDecatur.
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Wagner Is Instructor Virgil Wagner, principal of the I Monroe high sclio .1. visited here to play md will return to Muncie Sun ' I day. Mr. Wagner is un instructor In the history department of Ball's state teacher's college during the summer months. Friday. Mr. Wagner a.compan-1 | fed the Social Science class of 342 students on a trip to the Epileptic village at Newcastle. He has been I principal of the Monroe high school [for three years and will return 1 there for the fall semester. VALUATIONS ARE TOTALED Assessor Announces Values Placed by Township Assessors on Property Value of personal property items I aS assessed by township assessors ; in Adams county this year shrank more than one million dollars as compared witli tlie totals submitt-1 ed by them to County Assessor 1 John Felty. The value of personal property 1 in the county this year is placed I at $3,733,975. compared with $4,-( 765.206, last year. This total does not include all of the personal, property listed in the county, but ; only those items carried in the re-1 ports made to the state board of l tax commissioners. The total does not include the I value of personal property assess- [ tnents made by the state. The, totals include merchandise, live I stock, household goods, farm Im--1 plements. machinery, money and diamonds. The number of automobiles decreased 64. horses decreased 111, nudes decreased 10, while milk cows and other cattle increased. The number of sheep dropped about; 500 and the number of hogs increased more than 2.000. The values and number of items | assessed for 1932 follow: Money, number reported. 392.; $949,050: antomolnles and trucks, I 4,337, $518,945; diamonds and jewelry, 78. $1,732: farm imide-; ments. 1.551. $174,580; household goods, 4,359, $55;!.177: horses. I (CONTINUED ON PACE THREE! I WOMAN DRINKS I POISON; DIES f — Maggie Elzey Succumbs in Bluffton Hospital This Morning Bluffton. Ind. May 21 (Special! to Democrat) Mrs. Maggie Elzi v., 65. wife of Harvey Elzey, residing] five miles north of Bluffton, died at the Wells County hospital at 12:30 o’clock this morning of poisoning. Mrs. Elzey drank a portion of cart Idle acid at her home at 10:30 o’clock this morning. She. 'was removed to the hospital where, she died two hours later. No! reason for the act was given. The deceased was born near Ossian in Wells county, the daugh-| ter of J. Rodney and Rebecca Potee Young. November 27. 1866. She was united in marriage to Harvey Elzey on May 5. 1887. Three daughters survive: Georgianna and Mrs. N'ordyke of, (CONTTNItRP ON PAGE SIX! o Channel Recommended Washington. May 21. —(U.R) -Maj. Gen. Lytle Brown, chief of army engineers, today recommended to congress the dredging of a deep entrance channel and provision of other improvements at Indiana Har-' bor, near the southern end of Lake I Michigan. The initial cost of the project was estimated at $1,820,000 and annual maintenance at $53,000. Funeral To Be Sunday Funeral services for Mrs. John W. McKean. 75. who died at the Wells county hospital in Bluffton. Friday morning at 10 o'clock, will be held Sunday afternoon at 3, o'clock at the Mcßride Funeral, , Parlors in Bluffton. Mrs. McKean spent her entire life in Wells county, and for a number of years resided in Blufiton. Her husband preceded her in death 5 years ago. Surviving are 7 step-children, some of whom, live in Adams county. I
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Makes Successful Solo Flight 0r 1 L •/ y.--> s Wiw - - kl / j . _ — ——u first woman's solo trans Atlantic flight in an air- \ plane. Her goal was Paris, but because of a faulty j gasoline lino she was forced down near London- ■ 1 B 1 deny. Ireland Mrs. Putnam was unhurt and will - I i proceed to London, she said in a telephone conver- J Y sation with her husband in New York. ‘ ' ” ~~ jASSfSTANCE FROM HufeßY,]
LEGIONNAIRES PLAN PROGRAM Local War Veterans To Attend Catholic Church In Body Sunday I American Legion annual Memoi riil service.- will lie held in Decatur :Sunday anti members of Adams post 'of the Legion, Spanish <American War veterans ami the Women's Re'lief Coops, will meet at Legion hall fat 9:15 o’clock to attend the serI vices in a body. The group will leave Legion hall it 9:110 and will march to St. Marys Catholic church, selected for the services this year. All members of the three organizations are urged Ito be at Legi >n hall at the announced time Sunday morning. Rev. rather Joseph llennis will jdeliver the Memoiial sermon, and ' a section of the local church will j be reserved for the members of the three participating orgi inizations. The march to the church will be headed by Ernest Stengle. contmauIder of Adams post and he will be followed (by the Legionnaires, ( Spanish Ame: uan vets and Relief I Corps members. Lea Ehlnger is ] chairman of the Memorial for this year. o Accepts New Position W. D. Porter has accepted a position with Saylors Motor Company as a workman in the auto paint and body shop. o ENDRES KILLED IN PLANE CRASH Trans-Atlantic Flier Dies When Plane Is Wrecked In Italy Rome. May 21. — (U.R) — Captain George Endres, who made a transAt.antic flight from New York to Hungary in 1931, was killed with another Hungarian pilot named I llituny today when their plane j crashed in landing at the Littorio airport. Early reports .which later proved ! unfounded, said Alexander Magyar, 'who made the 1931 flight with Endres, also was kifled. I)o-\ Expected Soon Horta. Azores. May 21 —(U.R) — The German flying boat DO-X was expected to arrive in the har-i I bor here sometime between 5 and: '6 p in., est., this afternoon. On j the basis of navy reports putting ' her about 300 miles away shortly tjafore 2 p. m. The sea was calm and there was a slight south wind. Visibility was fair. A reception for mem- , hers of the crew has been arrang- | ed for by the German vice consul.
Decatur, Indiana, Saturday, May 21, 1932.
ISSUES WARNING I Reports today reached city | | officials that several young | vandals in the south part of | the city had made efforts to ) clog the fish pond at the WinI Chester street park, so the j | water would flow over the | banks, making the fish easy to | capture. •I | A watchman reported the incident and he turned the names j , \ of several young hoy» over to ; . authorities. Amos Fisher, street 1 | commissioner, stated that a . i watchman would continue to 1 i i guard the park the next few’ | •1 1 nights and that others would ; be reported if the incident was 1 I ■| repeated. FLOUR WILL BE SHIPPED HERE I I — ... • I 285 Barrels To Be Distributed Among Poor of City And County J O. B. Wemhoff, chaitman of the , ' Ad'ints County Red Cross relief i i comm'ittee has been advised by (National headquarters tliiit his ap- ■ plication for 285 barrels of flour has I been approved. The flour will be distributed ai mong the poor this year. Distribution, of the flour will be made I through the township trustees and | the United Charities of this city. | The flour will be stored in Decatur I (ntd will be distributed from the I Central warehouse. The flour Is milled frojn the I, government owned wheat, being a i part ot.the surplus held by the FedI eral Farm board. It is being distributed throughout the country and the I local Red Cross chapter, through J Mr. Wemhoff. made application for a supply several weeks ago. It is estimated th it about 275 families are in need and this number will increase by next winter. 1 The limit one family can receive is ■ twenty-four and one .half pounds 1 per week. 0 Four File Expenses Four candidates filed telr ex-' pense accounts with Milton C. Werl- 1 Ing, county clerk, today making a total of 13 that have filed. The accopnts are coming In rather slowly ' and the clerk urged all candidates to file their lists of expenses incurred during the primary election as I soon as possible. The final date for filing is June 2. Those who filed today are Clari committe enct-ETAO ~ ence Heiman, Democrat for Precinct committeeman, $2.40. J. C. Grandstaff, Democrat, for I : ' Ed A. Bosse, Democrat for prose- ' . cutor, $130.00;' Herman H. Myers, Democrat tor 1 prosecutor, $116.25.
1932 TATTLER GOES ON SALE ID. C. H. S. Year Book Is Published Today; Dedicated to Washington The 1932 Tattler. Decatur Catholic high school's yearbook, was . published today by the senior class of the high school. I The book is covered with a deep I blue imitation leather (ntojloy) flexible cover and is divided into seven books. The divisions are Administration. Seniors, Underclassmen, Activities, Athletics, Humor. and Advertisements. I The art theme for the book is I the George Washington Bi-centen-Inial idea and the annual is dedicated to George Washington. The Taltler contains many pictures of i the various classes, activities and events that occurred during the past I year and is a very attractive book. | Carl Lose is editor-in-chief and 'James Fisher is the business manager. Other members of the editorial staff include: Mary Ulman, assistant editor; Naomi Faurote, Geraldine Wait, copy editors; Mary Jane Colchin, art editor; Joseph Voglewede. photograph editor; Mary Wertzberger, school notes editor; Barabara Jane Keller, senior class reporter; Mary Colchin, Salome Schmitz, activities editors; Patricia Holthouse, editor of histories; Frances Lengerich, alumni editor; Robert Kleinheuz, Jerome Miller, sports editors; Edward Lose and Florian Keller, joke editors. Members of the managerial div(CONTINIIWD ON PAGE TWO! STATE PARK TO HOLD PROGRAM Abe Martin Hall Will Be Dedicated; Honor of Great Humorist Indianapolis, May 21. — (U.R) — Prominent speakers will head the Ist in dedication exercises tomorrow of Abe Martin Hall. Brown county state park, a memorial to i the late Kin Hubbard, caricuristhumorist. The new hall is centered in the district where. Hubbard's "Abe Martin’’ and other characters were made famous. It is two miles from Nashville. Governor Harry G. Leslie and Paul P. Harris, Chicago, founder of Rotary International, were to be principal speakers at the dedicatory exercises. Numerous special guests, including Indianapolis newspaper meh, were to leave for the park today, and spend the night in the cabin colony, a unique departure from customary park accommodations. (CONTINUED ON PAGE THREE) \
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COMMENCEMENT HELD HERE FOR 57 GRADUATES Sam Grathwell Delivers Annual Address; Attendance Is Large DANCE ENDS ACTIVITIES "What we believe determines j what we do, and whut we do controls uur destinies,” Sam Grathwell. trave er and historian of Cleveland. (>.. said Friday night, in his address to the graduating class oi the Decatur high school. In treating his subject, “Getting By Your Hoodoo." Mr. Grathwell sdd. ‘‘A hoodoo is somthing that we think can defeat us, and thinking thus, we often allow it to succeed.” The annual commencement program was given in the Decatur high school auditorium. Friday night at 8 o’clock, and the auditorium was filled to capacity with relatives and friends of the members of tlie graduating class. Fifty-seven students of the high school received diplomas for the completi >n of work in the school, and Hie diplomas were presented by Dr. Burt Mangold, president of the school board. Tlie invocation was given by Rev. M. W. Sundermann. pastor of the First Evangelical church. The graduating class was presented by Principal W. Guy Brown, and a few w'ell chosen words of congratulation were spoken by Superinten- , dent M. F. Worthman. The bene- ’ diction was given by Rev. B. H. Franklin, pastor of tlie local Methodist church. Special musical numbers were . played by the Decatur Junior Band, f under the direction of Dave Rice, ( band instructor. . Tlie freshman chorus sang a group of songs, with ( Miss Gladys Schindler, supervisor ! of music, in charge. | Mr. Grathwell, Hie speaker at tile , commencement exercises, presented his address in an interesting manner, interspersing it witli clev(CONTINI'En ON PAGE t'OlTtt) DALE, 9 OTHERS • FOUND GUILTY I Muncie Mayor To Appeal Case; All Released On Old Bonds Indianapolis. May 21 — (U.R) . Mayor George R. Dale of Muncie, 1 who. with nine other Muncie per- . sons, was Convicted on federal • liquor conspiracy charges, today ( scoffed at Hie verdict and planned • an appeal. , Tlie federal court jury returned , tlie verdict after deliberating from - 2 until 5 o'clock yesterday after- » noon. Raymohd Hoover, police garage mechanic, was acquitted. Judge Robert C. Baltzell set I lune 1 as the date for sentencing. The conviction carries maximum terms of two years and fines of $50,000 each. “It's nothing.” Dale said when he learned the jury's verdict. I “I was the victim of it frame-up. i've beaten so many convictions that I have lost track of them. I feel perfectly at home and I’ll beat this one yet.” ! Those convicted with Dale were Police Chief Frank Massey, Fred Ellis, member of the board of safety; William A. Parkhurst, police captain: Kenneth Horstman and Harry Nelson, detectives; Ray- • mond Powell and Dan Davis, pa- • trolmen: Ernest Flatter and Fred i Kuback. alleged bootleggers. , The federal government built . its case on testimony designed to show that Dale and the other city , officials consumed and sold confiscated whisky, permitted certain . vice games to operate, and bought i and sold political favors. It was alleged that the patrolmen were 1 (CONTTNItpjn ON PARK TWO) o Picture Is Omitted Ti'ie picture of Miss Dorothy Sum- ' rners, a member of the senior B. ''class in the Decatur Higli School ' was unintentionally ommitted from 1 the High school annual this year. Miss Summers recently won the ’ Adiims County Latin contest in Division one.
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Radios Congratulations Shortly before the opening of the graduation exercises In the Decatur high soiiool auditorium, Friday (light, a radio message was broadj east from a Louisville station exH pressing congratulations to the I members of the class. | The message was from Miss ( Gladys Ke n of Red Bird Mission, ] Ky„ and a former teacher in the 1 Decatur schools. A number of the members of the graduating class, h>id been taught in Miss Kern's classroom. Following is tfie message which 1 1 Superintendent M. F. W Tthman read before the class last night. Red Bird Mission, Ky. To the graduating class of Decatur : High School,, 1932. Congtatutations to all on this y.nir graduating day, especially to you, my former students. Best wishes and success. Gladys Kern. The message was heard by Gerald ' Cole, shortly before 8 o'clock Friday night, and presented to Supt. Worth man. CURTIS FIGHTS COURT CHARGES Attorney Is Obtained To Aid Lindbergh Fakir In His Fight Hopewell, N. J„ May 21.--(U.R) - 'Llohn Hughes Curtis' fight to pre-, ■ vent prosecution for his cruel I.jnd- | bergh hoax began today with ini dications of a court battle that may bring repudiation of parts of his "confession" of that hoax. The court fight was forecast by ■ retention of an attorney to represent the Norfolk faker —the first legal move on his behalf since state police announced his negotiation?' • "were a figment of his iniaginatioii.’’ Earfy stages of that fight will be 1 ' directed by W. C. Pender, a prone ‘linent Norfolk attorney retained by I relatives and friends of the boat j builder, now reposing in jail at Flemington. Curtis is held on a ’lmisdemeanor charge subjecting ■ i him to three years in jail and a 451.000 fine. , Pender, former law partner of i Federal Judge Luther D. Way. left Norfolk last night. Curtis professed to know nothing of Pender s retention. Pender was expected to 4move at once to obtain release of I Curtis on $l(l,00() hail. A court fight to free Curtis, it i was believed, would be based of j necessity on proof that Curtis was 4 not guilty of giving false information or hindering the hunt lor a I murder or kidnaping suspect. Or it would be based on extenuating circumstances. These extenuating circumstances have been discussed here and at I Norfork: , Curtis might claim the confessI ion was forced by state police. He might claim his early activity II was forced by Norfork rum-runners | with whom he is known to have associated ns a speed boat builder. It might be .claimed for him that (early negotiations were legitimate las far as Curtis was concerned; j that later he suspected, or learned (Ihe was dealing with fakers: that fjthe publicity received urged him [on witli the resultant fabricated and that finally a confess-; I ion resulted through fear of reprisI als by racketeers with whom he ( ((first dealt, it' he “squealed" on 1 1 them. 11 These theories are all based on j the assumption that “Curtis has not [ [told all,” a belief rapidly gaining; I [strength in Norfolk, and receiving [ . some consideration here, although > police say no basis for such a [[theory is known to them. . I Colonel H. Norman Schwartzkopt -[has declared Curtis innocent of I'any part in the kidnaping, and of [any part in the extortion plot which (extracted $50,000 in cash from Dr. > John F. (Jafsiel Condon. • However, police have not aban- ■ doned investigation of his activity i and his story else they would not (CONTINUED ON PAGE FOUR) O Funeral Is Monday Indianapolis, May 21. — (U.R) — Funeral services will be held here j Monday for Ward T. Martindale, j 53. director of field service for the American Farm Bureau Federation, who /died of pneumonia. Injuries suffered in an auto accident near Brownsburg May 11 were believed i contributory to his death. Martindale had been associated with the Farm Bureau since 1917.
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’ FIRST WOMAN TO MAKE SOLO OCEAN FLIGHT Flier Battles Storm In Spectacular Flight To Londonberry, Ireland PARIS WAS FIRST GOAL Londonderry, Ireland, Mav 2t (U.R) Throimh rain and fog with tin engine that slowly was giving awav Io the strain of many living hours, Amelian Earhart todav drove her red Lockheed niononlane safety across the Allanlie Io a landing in a naslure outside this city. She became the first woman to make a solo flight of the Atlantic and her magnificent achievement came five years to the day front the time Colonel Charles A. Lind- [ bergh flew safely into Paris from I New York. She was unhurt. The battering 4 the storm gave her craft during the long hours of the night when j she was over the black Atlantic I ‘ had not ruffled the serenity of the woman who once before was a passenger on a trans-Atlantic flight. “I was not much worried." she 1 said when she arrived hero from I the pasture where she had land’ed because her gasoline supplv was leaking away. "1 felt 1 wool % I be able to land safely. Os course ',l am very, very happy, but natur- | ally I am sorry I did not reach I Paris.” 4 It was 3:50 p. m. ('ST Friday when Miss Earhart calmly stepped “ into the closed cockpit of her rod ' [ Lockheed monoplane, waved a ’ | farewell to a few people and ■ ’roared away from Harbor Grace. -IN. F. Weather reports were fav- ( orahle teit as night lowered over the Atlantic, rain, fog and storms came into the path of the adventuresome flier. The exhaust manifold of her craft burned out. The gasoline gauge broke probably by the . force of the storm. The tempests [ battered her craft. No vessel I along the great circle route sightJed her. But in hei'enclosed cabin, she mused her plane along, peering forward for the first sight of I land. For tan hours she fought thn , elements, which had meant death Io so many other men and women fliers Finally this afternoon site [ noted her gasoline was beginning j to leak out through the broken ' . I gauge. | It meant the end of the flight. But by that time she had cottr1 ( ageously driven her craft awav l from tlie danger of a mid ocean landing and settled down on a field at Culmore, near Londonderry on the northern tip of Irei land. It was close by the spot i where the first trans-Atlantic flight—that of Alcock and Brown. British fliers- had ended. Londonderry. Ireland. May 21 (U.R)—Amelia Earhart Putnam was sorted to land at Culmore. near I here, today completing the first i <('(INTINUF.II <IN PAGE TIIItEI’D NICARAGUA I HIT BY QUAKE Several Killed In Tremor Which Is Feit In All of Country San Salvador, May 21. (U.R) An unknown number of persons were 1 reported killed in a violent earthquake which shook San Salvador today. The casualties occurred in the interior of Salvador, according to • reports, though some damage was done here. Communications at. some points were interrupted. The quake, of great intensity, occurred at 4:2(1 a. m., and was felt, in the greater part of the country. ( At Zacatecofuca. a majority of the houses were thrown down and the [ remainder cracked. Up to 8 a. ni . six dead and 21 injured had been [ taken from the ruins there. The . government and Red Cross sent re- , lief. I New Orleans, La.. May 21 —(U.R) (CONTINUED ON PAGE FOUR)