Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 31, Number 134, Decatur, Adams County, 7 June 1933 — Page 7

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is RECEIVE ! r KIN OF 286 ■ES TUESDAY ■suit In This County fjost‘l- Than Most Oh- | servers Predicted ■iINELL and Mom. delegates vote Tues■v'sWpecial election shows voted in I'nvrepealing the Eigh>nth An" odnient bv plur277 and 286. in the total ’ the fact that the favorinc and op■sed to repeal did not reivelh' same number of al. Frank McConnell th? largest vote of the I candidates. Ills vote | Amos Ketchum, opKe(s r>’|»':tl. received the hirhthe two dry candidates.' was On this basis voted 277 wet. By Binglli. highest vote of each Kdidac in each precinct the ■jot® favoring repeal is in- ■ 2S6. Jacob Long, for dved 2.533 and Edison opposed to repeal - BjWdifc the largest totals of the for and against repeal. equal to about 62 pervote cast for the presidential candidates The vote was a ■te.-flrger than expected, esti ■taykiitic based on about a vote received by the follow: I For Repeal "gMefißnell ... 2.842 -I Long ... 2.833 ■ EjS Against Repeal IKaMim 2.565 l| One Vote precinct Berne, the two persons were writ ballot and a was cast lor names written on the Jim Frenchy and Nona ■ ■K:..;.. was provided on additional names. regularly 11 3*B Go t° Convention leading candid:i"s 'onnell. Decatur. dealer and Jacob known Geneva have the privilege Adams county's vote ■MB* convention in Itidi.ir i ■ The vote mandate for them to < of the Amend B^Bixt 'i't> ox pagk i-ivm Mnp/efe Returns IMBc! Wet Dry |*t 106 43 Marys . . .. ‘4O Marys 35 ashington 112 I'l Mine Creek 34 MBhie Creek 13 36 ' M-:... |rfß<o nro e 71 128] - 66 251 ijH Vabaah 33 711 1 | >h-Kirkland 55 64 [ FKA 66 141 35 238) ' IB v 66 197 ‘ A ■ » . 88 85 1 1- 192 143 j ' I B 2- A 237 1114 2-B 94 rW 3-A 204 100 1 2.865 2,579

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Suing “Kingfish” j w'l $ A recent portrait of Mrs. Ruffin G. Pleasant, wife of a former Governor of Louisiana, who has filed suit at Baton Rogue, La., against Senator Huey P. Long She charges the “Kingfish" with 1 calling her a “drunken woman” | and having her expelled from the ; State Capitol. DELAY NAMING BOARD MEMBER — City Council Postpones Election of City School Board Member The election of a member of the . Decatur school board was postponed by the city council last evening i until next Friday or later, a grist of busini-ss preventing the holding - of the election. The council adjourned in eantin-1 tied session to Friday evening. If j the e'l ction is not held then it will be carried over to the next regular ■ meeting of the board on June 20. It - ca.i be held at any regular nJ.eting in June, although for many years , it was held at the first meeting in I June. It was understood lucre were four candidati s for the place. Candidates mentioned for the place, j I are M. E. Hower, present member whose term expires this year. Dr. ! R. E. Daniels. A. 1). Suttles and Ira ; Fuhrman. The new member takes , office next August. Mr. Hower has 1 servi d two terms on the board. . The Democratic women’s organi-1 zatidn of this city, was understood I to favor the naming of a woman to I the board. It was stated they intended to address a letter to the j council asking that a woman lie 1 named. Since the term of Mrs. Car- I rie H..uibold, first woman member of the hoard ever to be named here | does not expire for another year it | is not likely that another woman will be named at this time. JAMES MATTERN AGAIN FLYING American Aviator Resumes His Round-the-World Elight Today Novo-Sibirsk. Siberia, June 7.— (U.R) — Jimmy Mattern, American aviator, was sighted at 1:10 a. m. (Greenwich meantime) today, en route to Chita. One ter a. m. G. M. T. is 9:10 p m. EDT and 6:10 a.m. Omsk time. Mattern was flying so high he was barely visible. Novo-Siz.irks is approximately 400 miles east of Omsk. . Omsk, (Siberia) U. S. S. R., I June 7 —(U.R>— Jimmy Mattern. I daring aerial adventurer, sped over the wastes of central Siberia today in one of the longest jumps of his attempt to fly alone around the world. He took off from Omsk airdrome at 3:10 a. m. (6:10 p. m Tuesday. EDT) with Chita, approximately 1.700 miles away, as his immediate goal. He was 11 hours and six min**(**>NT*N*n'Tr> ON PAGE SIX)

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FRANCE WILL DEFAULT JUNE DEBT PAYMENT French Government Likely M ill Not Pav Defaulted Dec. 15 Debt UNIMPEACHABLE SOURCE QUOTED (Copyright 1933 by United Press) Paris. June 7—(U.R)—The French government does not propose to pay either the defaulted Dec. 15 war debt payment to the United States or the one due June 15. Although the cabinet has not formally made its decision, the United Press learned the government’s attitude from an unimpeachable official source. The government. especially Premier Edouard Daladier, opposes payment for the following reasons: Firstly, they Know they would be overthrown by the Socialists and Nationalists in the chamber -of deputies if they paid. Secondly, they have been led to believe that Washington would prefer the debtor nations to default rather than voluntarily grant them revision. It was understood the French hope Britain also will default June 15. believing it would precipitate a general settlement and aid the success of the world economic conference. They be- ■ lieve the conference must be accompanied by a general . debt settlement as well as stabilization I of currencies, if it is to achieve anything worth while. Government circles said the only chance for a change of attitude on the part of the French population would be a gesture by President Roosevelt, which they now finally are convinced is impossible in the face of the attiHide of congress. French politicians argue now the same as they argued against former Premier Edouard Herriot, whose government was defeated (CON'I'INFEn ON PAGE FIVE) MANY INJURED IN MINE WAR One Miner Is Believed Fatally Shot; Many Hurt Bv Stones Springfield. 111.. June 7 —(U.R) — Seven miners and a special deputy were shot. \one probably fatally and a score of persons injured today in a pitched battle when 2,000 pickets attempted to halt operations at the Peerless mine of the Peabody Coal Co. Thomas Urban. 25, Springfield, employed at the mine, was shot in the abdomen and physicians believed he would die. Doth mon and women were in the concentration of pickets which marched on the mine as employes entered the shaft this morning. The battle raged until national guard reinforcements were rushed from Taylorville to quell the disputants. The pickets were members of the Progressive Minors Union which has been engaged in a struggle lasting nearly a year to break the. strength of the United ’’(CONTINIHW ON PAGE SIX) o — Poor Relief Cost Drops In Decatur T. R. Noll, Wellington township trustee, stated today that during the warm weather the supply rooms on North Third street would remain open only on Tuesday and Saturday forenoons. Previously they have been open both mornings and afternoons on those days. Prosperity Is slowly retunning to Decatur, according to Mr. Noll's records The regular families on the township's poor list have dropped from 325 last March to 250. The expense has dropped nearly half bec iuse of the amailler amount of fuel needed in the 'hot weather.

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♦ *! I HOW THEY VOTED Indianapolis. June 7. —(U.R)— j Following is a list of counties ! showing how they voted in yes- I I | terday's repeal election and the ! number of delegates each will i | j send to the state constitution- j | al convention June 26: For Repeal Adams, 2; Allen, 15; Barthol- | omew, 1; Blackford, 1; Brown, | | 1; Cass, 3; Clark, 3; Clay, 3; | - Crawford, 1; Dearborn, 2; Decatur, 2; Dekalb, 2; Delaware, | | 7; Dubois, 2; Elkhart, 7; Fay--1 | ette, 2; Floyd, 3; Fountain, 2; j [ Franklin, 1; Grant, 5; Howard, I 5; Jackson, 2; Jasper, 1; Jay, | ' j 2; Jennings, 1; Knox, 4; Lake, | 1 | 26; Laporte, 6; Madison, 8; j 1 ' Marion, 42; Martin, 1; Miami, i 1 | 3; Morgan, 2; Newton, 1; Noble j I 2; Ohio, 1; Parke, 2; Perry, 2; j Porter, 2; Posey, 2; Pulaski, 1; | ‘ . Ripley, 2; Rush, 2; Shelby, 2; j Spencer, 2; Stark. 1; Steuben, | 1; St. Joseph, 16; Sullivan, 3; | Tippecanoe, 5; Vanderburgh. ’ | 11; v ermillion, 2; Vigo, 19; j Warrick, 2; Wayne, 5; White, ; j 2. Against Repeal I Boone, 2; Carroll. 2; Clinton, 1 3; Daviess. 3; Fulton, 2: Ulb- ■ | son, 3; Greene. 3; Hamilton, | i 2; Hancock, 2; Harrison, 2; I , Hendricks, 2; Henry, 4; Hunt- [ ington, 3; Jefferson, 2; John- | j son, 2; Kosciusko, 3; Lagrange ] 1; 1-awrence, 4; Marshall, 3; I Monroe, 4; Montgomery, 3; Or- | j ange, 2; Owen. 1; Pike, 2; Put- | nam, 2; Randolph, 2; Scott, 1; | | Switzerland, 1; Tipton, 2; Union. 1; Wabash, 3; Warren, | 1; Washington, 2; Wells, 2; j Whitley, 2. »- ♦ OFFER AID IN OPENING PARK Decatur Men And Women Oller Assistance to Improve Nuttman Park A delegation of men and women appeared before the city council list evening offering their assistance in any program which the city might undertake to open the new Nuttman park, (northwest of Decatur. According to the terms of the offer made by J. D. Nuttman of Fort Wayne, offering the park to the city, a fence has to be constructed along the east side and at the south of the grounds. Finances prevent the spending of much money, councilmen' state. Mrs. C. L. Walters acted as spokesman for the women and offered the 'help of the women of the Woman's club, the Civic section and other organizations. Judge C. L. Walters, W. F. Beery Dr. N. A. Bixler aind C. C. Pumphrey suggested that the grounds be cleared a little, permitting people to visit the place and make it a recreation center. The committee would ‘like to install ovens on the grounds, making it possible tor pic(CONTINUED ON PAGE FIVE) TRUSTEESPLAN ANNUAL PICNIC C. J. Lutz Will Speak At Township Trustees’ Picnic Thursday C. J. Lutz, well known Decatur attorney will deliver the address at the annual township trustee’s picnic to be held at Lehman’s grove, Berne, Thursday, Following the basket dinner at noon, a program will be held in the afternoon, ('. E. Striker, county scfiool superintendent and president of the trustee’s organization stated. Besides the speaking, there will be music, instrumental and vocal. All present trustees and all former trustees and their families will attend the picnic. There are about 70 trustees, including the present holders of the office In the organization and it is expected that the entire crowd will number several hundred.

LET CONTRACTS FRIDAY NIGHT — City Council to Continue Hearing of Bids For Equipment The awarding of contracts for furnishing material and equipment at the City Light and Power Plant was carried over to Friday evening by the City council in session Tuesday evening. Following a session Tuesday afternoon when the council heard represenatives of the various compalnies bidding on the supplies, the regular meeting was held in the evening and further hearings given the salesmen. More than 30 men attended. It was impossible to hear all t'he men and due to the extreme heat in the council chambers, the council adjourned in continued session to Friday evening at 7:30 o’clock. Hearings will be given those who wish to present the merits of the material and equipment furnished by them and it is possible that contracts will be let Friday. Bids were- received on about a dozen items, including equipment and material. This equipment will augment the equipment at the city plant and is being installed withthe idea of increasi.rg plant efficiency and lower production costs. | The largest item of equipment is | the superheaters. Bids were received by the council on May 26. but due to the great number of items and specifications it was impossible to award chn- ► tracts immediately. Charles Drossman, consulting engineer of Indianapoilis, is advising the council as to the kind of equipment to be installed. He made a survey of the local plant, advising improvements and bids were , received for the equipment recom- | mended by him. o Mrs. Homer Ginter Taken To Hospital Mrs. Homer Ginter of Kirkland i towmship has been committed to : Easthaver. Hospital at Richmond . i ami will be taken to that place, ,! Thursday. Sheriff Burl Johnson and . ! Mr. Ginter will accompany her.

Q CYRUS CURTIS DIES TODAY Owner of Saturday Evening Post Dies Early This Morning Philadelphia, June 7.—(U.R)—Cyrus H. K. Curtis, newspaper man and publisher, died at ids home at Wyncote, a Philadelphia suburb, at 2:10 a. m. today after a lingering illness. Curtis would have been 83 years old on June 18. Funeral services will be held Friday afternoon at the Curtis home. At Mr. Curtis’s bedside were his daughter. Mrs. Mary Louise Curtis Bok: two grandsons, W Curtis Bok and Cary W. Bok; Mrs. John C. Martin, a stepdaughter, and John C. Martin, vice president of the Curtis-Martin newspapers; Mrs. Pearson Wells of Detroit, a stepdaughter; Dr. Martin E. Rehfuss, Philadelphia, and Dr. Freeman Brown of Rockland. Me. Mrs. Curtis died just over a year ago. May 31, 1932, shortly after her ‘ husband suffered a heart attack | from which he never fully recovered. Curtis’s life was in Hie American tradition the poor boy who made ••• * • (CONTINUED ON PAOE SIX) Bids Are Rejected By Commissioners The bids for installing equipment in the new comfort statlo i to be placed in the basemen under the northeast "corner of the court house, were rejected by tlie commissioners yesterday. August Walter, Harold Sautter and the A. J. Moser and Co., of Berne filed bids. Changes were made ini the specifications and bids will be received again, probably on June 19.

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HEAT WAVE IN MIDDLEWEST CLAIMS LIVES Deaths From Prostration And Drowning Mount In Hot Weather SEVERAL KILLED BY STORM IN EAST • I Chicago, June 7— (U.R) —Deaths ' I from prostration and drowning > mounted through the middle west - today as heat records tumbled in 1 the season’s first sustained hot 1 weather. Unless lake breezes of the last ’ two days continue, Chicago is due I 1 for 95 degree heat today, Fore- ■ caster C. A. Donnel, said. Con--1 tinuation of sweltering weather • that broke 22 year old records > yesterday was in prospect for 4 most of the corn belt. ' Eight deaths in Nebraska, Kansas and Missouri were attributed to the weather. Seven were ’ drownings. There have been 12: *■ drownings and 2 deaths in Wis--1 consin in 4 days. Four persons f drowned in lowa. There was one I prostration death reported in that state and 3 in Illinois. Two drown- ’• ed in Illinois. s Those 32 deaths were believed only a fraction of the total for the t nation. Many Killed Buffalo. N. Y.. June 7—(U.R) — A severe wind and rain storm struck western New York state B and Ontario province of I’anada today, causing an undetermined ’ I number of deaths and a heavy toll 3 I l-i (CONTINUED ON PAGE SIX) Q I ~ O“ “ -♦ ; * Results Os Nearby 1 1 Counties In Repeal Election Yesterday 1,4 ♦ Bluffton. June 7 —(UP) —lWell9 II county voted dry Tuesday by the > | small margin of 95 votes. The vote I stood: For repeal, 3,186; against . 3,281. 1 ' Portland. June 7 —(UP)— Jay

county was carried by the repeal- | ists by more than 400 votes. 36 of I | the 37 precincts showing for repeal I 3,882; against. 3,435. Fort Wayne, June 7—(UP) —AlI len county was overwhelmingly wet . ini Tuesday’s election, 81 of 83 precincts giving for repeal, 33,275 J against, 6,591. Huntington, June 7 —(UP) —Drys I carried Huntington by 436 votes. I complete returns giving for repeal • 14,813; against, 5.249. 11 —— Hartford City. June 7 —(UP)— ,! Repealists carried Blackford coun(l ty by nearly 300 votes, the com- [ plete vote showing for repeal, 1,879 (against 1.595. — ■ | Winchester, June I,—(UP) —Ran- | dolph county went strong for reten- ' tion of the eighteenth amedmeat, I tlie total vote showing for repeil, i 2,796; against 5.118. BLUFFTON LAD ELECTROCUTED Kenneth Arnold, 20, Killed Instantly bv Touching Electric Conduit Bluffton, June 7 — (Special)— Kenneth Arnold. 20, son of Mr. and Mrs. Oscar Arnold of this city, was instantly killed Tuesday afternoon When he touched an electric line conduit while doing cement work In the basement of a large dairy barn east of Bluffton. Arnold was rushed to the Wells county hospital, but all efforts at resuscitation were unavailing. Surviving besides the parents are two brothers. Charles and Roger, and two sisters, Evelyn and LuclHe at home. Funeral services wild be held at I 3:30 p. m. Friday al. the home, with I burial in Elm Grove enietery, east of this city. '

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Innocent Victim J 1 J a- :- j Not only has pretty Allene Genevieve Lamson become motherless as the result of the mysterious murder of her mother at Palo Alto, Cal., but her father, David A. Lamson, connected with a Stanford. University publication, is under arrest, charged with the slaying. The child is 26 months old. SITUATION IN STATE CHANGED Less Than Three Months Ago Indiana Had Stringent Dry Law Indianapolis. June B.—(U.PJ Less than three months ago Indiana had the most stringent liquor enforcement law north of the Mason and Dixon line. It was known as the Wright “bone dry" act and was on the statutes from 1925 until it was repealed by the 1933 legislature. Under its provisions an automobile driver was obliged to search occupants of his car for liquor. Otherwise he was liable to punishment for "transportation." Testimony of an arresting officer that he detected the smell of liquor on a person’s breath was sufficient for conviction. Tile Indiana search and seizure | act authorized city and county police to inspect any home in search of liquor but enforcement of this law led to a rising tide of sentiment against violating the sane tity of the home. The Wright law was supported by the Ku Klux Klan which was at the zenith of its power in Indiana in 1925. Last Stronghold Washington. June 7. (U.R) —Commenting the Indiana prohibition repeal vole. Jouett Shouse, president of the Association Against the Prohibition Amendment, today declared that the last stronghold of the dry forces had been broken down. Drys have proclaimed for weeks that the result of the election in IndFana would be representative of the country, Shouse said, basing their hope on defeat of repeal on the expectation that Indiana would vote dry. “The verdict handed down yesterday. therefore, assumes very definite importance," Shouse said. “If our dry friends are sincere, tliey should accept the conclusive answer." in - ■ —o Cut Weeds On Vacant Lots Within 10 Days Property owners in Decatur are ' urged to cut the weeds on vacant ' lots within the next ten days, ac- I cording to a notice published today Dr. J. M. Miller, city health commissioner. Weeds not cut within this time will he cut by city em- ; ployes and charged to the property i owners. Rev. C. P. Gibhs Reported Better Rev. C. Perry Gibbs, pastor of the Decatur Methodist church, is reported improving at t’he Methodist Hospital in Indianapolis. W. Guy | Brown visltied Rev. Gibbs Monday l and reported that the atteindlngSH , physician said Rev. Qibbs probably will be able to leave the hospital in j ia week or ten days.

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'LARGE CITIES LEAD STATE TO FAVOR REPEAL Indiana Becomes Tenth I State To Ratify Repeal Os 18th Amendment 252 DELEGATES LISTED AS WET Indianapolis, June 7. — — Indiana followed the example of nine other states today by voting almost two to one for repeal of the 18th amendment. Unofficial returns, complete except for a few scattering I precincts, showed that of the I 329 delegates elected, 248 j will be for repeal and 81 will favor prohibition. Tlie state constitutional convention will be held in Indianapolis June 26. The popular vote in 3.649 of the state’s 3,691 precincts was 549,500 for repeal and 302,973 against. First returns gave repeal candidates 252 seats and prohibitionists 77, ibut corrections in the unofficial tabulatio nincreased the latter’s total to 81. Randolph county, originally reported in favor of repeal, was found to have elected l>oth Its dry candidates. ' Returns from the missing precincts will have no affect on distribution of the delegates. From the time that first reports were received from northern counties the result of yesterday's election never was in doubt. Industrial centers provided the , voUta which placed Indiana on record as being opposed to pmfifbition for the first time since 1917 when (CONTINTTED ON PAGE FIVE) Rev. J. M. Frosch Speaks To Lions Rev. M. J. Frosch, pastor of the Emmanuel Lutheran church in Umion township, spoke before members of the Lions Chib at their regular meeting. Tuesday evening. He told of ids experiences in South America, where he spent twenty years as a missionary. Robert Zwick was chairman of the meeting. - Q- ' - 1.1 — Council Purchases Half-Ton Truck The city counieil in session last night purchased a one-half ton Chevrolet truck from the Neering Che vrolet sties for use of the city water department. The price of the truck is |6OB, with an allowance of SIOB for tradein of the old truck, making the net price. SSOO. Other bids submitted, prices given, were. Saylors Motor Company, Dodge truck. $560; P. Kirsch and Son, International trunk $544. The truck purchased is known as a canopy top truck. OVER HUNDRED ARE ENROLLED Delegates Enroll Today For Annual Epworth League Convention More than 100 delegates enrolled in tlie annual Epworth League convention which opened a twoj day session this afternoon at tlie local Methodist Episcopal church. Several more are expected to be i present for the final sessions, (Thursday, and reservations are being made for approximately 250 (Persons for the banquet. Thursday I evening. , Delegates are present from Adi ants. Wells, Alien, Dekalb, and Steuben counties. The program opened this afternoon witli registration at one 'o’clock. Marion Baker of Decatur gave the welcome address and Orval Bair gave the response. The principal address was given by Rev. P. B. Smith, who spoke on the subject, “Life Service." Following this afternoon’s meet--1 ing a cafeteria supper will be servjed in the church basement from five to seven o'clock.