Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 23, Number 134, Decatur, Adams County, 6 June 1925 — Page 1

[l. XXIII. Number 134.

1 AIN HITS INDIANA THIS AFTERNOON

ill VESTON BANK fefiW 53,890 B FOUR BAN® go I,try Occurs Just After Rank Is Opened Early This Morning Hyt ape in auto n £i dits Believed To Be ■jo feigners; Cashier ire s Four Shots I i'nlte-1 P ' Serv< . I |^K, l :il to Daily Democrat I I 7o|ir bandits, believed to li< I f(Sf iynvrs, today robbed the | Fb '“ bdc Bank here of $3,000 I inTasli and securities worth I sev al Inindred dollars, (.harh s I Cwhart. cashier, had just op the bank when the bandits I dffne tip to the curb in a blue M'lir.t bandits entered the covered him and forced 3i to stand with his hands up. ng the wall, at the rear of room while they looted the 1 and cashier’s cage. ip fourth bandit remained in the the motor running while J robbery was in progress. Two , Russell Hubler. 12, and his her, Raymond, 14, entered to de*3B. Russel) saw the bandits aad thrust the money in his clothes > noys Were forced to _j.mi at the rear of the loom. }i the bandits hacked out and ed into their car Gephart ran to cage and grabbed a gun and fired | itqtr times. I of the shots took effect The a hanpits drove the car a mile north I el of town and jumped into another |. carl and fled. I was believed that the lour | sftt the night near the town All I were roughly dressed. I had just unlocked the safe | anti the money drawer in the cage the bandits entered. o RANB JURY IS PROBING MURDER restigation Double Murler Os Howard Fisher And Katheryn Berbers filliam Richter, special deputy riff of Allen county, who ordered ward Fisher and Miss Katheryn piers away from the Adams school lie a short time before they were dered on the Hessen Castle road ' Fort Wayne recently, was to be *d to testify today before the n county grand jury investigatthe double murder. Richter was si in yesterday, but did not test Ithe grand jury telling him he Id be notified when to appear n. am going to tell the grand jury I know ami that is all i am ta> I the deputy sheriff stated lasi it. the witnesses yesterday newspapermen who worked on !' murder story, Robert A. Buhler, prney; a girl who was in a party l< h was held up on the night bep ihe murder about half a. mile hi the spot where the death car ’ found. I do not know who held us up.’ I girl said just before she went P the grand jury room. “I was I scared that I could not see.” Miss Marie Berbers, sister of ithryn Herbers, was recalled yes'day morning. Russell Kreisel•yer, living dn the Moeller road, d Edward Richter, brother of the futy sheriff, also testified yesterh Two or three days more will be iulred to complete the investiga it was said.

DECATUR DAILY DEMOCRAT

Marshall’s Alma Mater To Hold Memorial Sunday t—h Crawfordsville, Ind., June 6 tint lied Press.) — Thomas R Marshall’ , alma mater will honor his memory in I j special memoiial services to be held | ’ on the campus it 4.30 o’< Im i. Sunday ■ afternoon. , !>•'. G. 1, Mackintosh, president of , th college, will preside at the ser vices for the former vice-president m ihe I iiiird Stales. Chai.o Harding and Emerson Bal bird t'i a wfordsville attorneys, will uei vet addresses on Marshall s lit, ian a 'Undent at Wabash college and Ju: a .-tatesman. in later life. Ma.shall was a graduate of the! I > lass of 1573 of Wabash college ami | so. thirty years had been a i uste.. of I I tile Institution, taking an active pari - |in plan for its advancement. REV. BEMER NMKDTOUV Decatur Young Man To Say First Mass At Local Church Sunday > — | Impres: iv.- and solemn ceremonies 1 wi'l mark the services to be held ’at , . ihe st. Mart . (’athnll? L a' t/n- 1 thirty o’clock Sunday morning, when the Rev. Father Leonard Deininger, of this city, who was ordained to the j priesthood this morning, will say bis '' ‘ first mass. 1 important in its own significance, j 1 Ihe services to be held will render ■ the occassion all the more impressive. ' A solemn high mass will be held and a jiuuiber id’ invitations have been ex L ihe LUtUda of the newly ordained priest to attend ' the services. The Knights of Column.e 1 will march from the school building ' to the church and attend the mass. Father Deininger will act as celebrant of the mass and assisting him in the sanctuary' will he the Rev. Father .1 A Seimetz, pastor of St. Mary’s t’.itbo lie church, who will be archpriest, Rev. Otto A Peters, asistant pastor 1 of the local congregation, deacon; Rev. Anthony Kroegerf of Logansport, former assistant pastor here, snh dea con of the ceremonies. Rev. diaries Thiele, pastor of the St. Peter's church Fort Wayne, will deliver the sermon duting the ma is Three Dectttur men who are completing their th.-o'o •i< al studies at Mt. St. Mary’s Seminary. Norwood, Ohio, near Cincinnati, avhete | Rev. Deininger received his degree, | together with one of his classmates, will also participate in the services. Joseph Hession, of Mt. St. Mary’s, wil act as master of ceremonies. Anibro e Kohne, will be the thurifer. ami Simeon Schmitt and Gerald Durkin of this city the aeholytes. The boys’ , (CONTINUED ON PAGE TWO l “DICKIE" LOEB : IN A DEURIUM Physicians Fear For Sanity Os One Os Slayers Os Bobby Franks ' Joliet, 111., June 6.—(United Press.) — Richard Ineb, millionaire’s son. who ' is serving life and 91) years for the . minder of Bobby Franks, school boy, is in a delirium in the Joliet peniten- , tiary hospital today. ’Dickie” has been violent for much of the past : hours, it was revealed am) prison ; physicians fear for his sanity. Attorney Clarence Darrow, who ’ saved Loeb and Nathan Leopold, b s r companion in the murder, from the gallows, prophesied that Loeb would ■ become insane Inside of five years. t Dr Herman Adler, prison surgeon. , who has Loeb under observation, said today that Ihe youth’s mind was f temporarily unbalanced. The present , case grew out of an attack of meanFor a time Dr. Adler and prison j officials thought Loeb was shamrn ng. J He threw articles at guards and raved ( | for hours, calling for "Buddy.” Bud- ’ dv is ’’Patches” Reinhart, Loeb’s girl 'companion on much of his night, I nrinr tn the murder j mi a? -» k* •— j

TO SAY HIS FIRST MASS SUNDAY ..i ■ REV FA THER LEONARD DEININGER Son of Mis Magdalena Deiningei of this city, who was ordained to the Catholic priesthood by the if. Rev. Bishop Francis Howard, of Covington, Ky .at the Cathedral' in Cincinnati. Ohio, this morning. He will say bis first mass at the St Mary’s Catholic church in thia city, Sunday morning, at ten thirty and impressive ceremonies will mark the occasion. - 1 - e- 1 ’ ~e~

CROPS SUFFEBIN6 «'» .. HMM I,'ll .— -** MDCH FROM HEAT Farmers Say Crops Are “Burning Up”; Much Hain Needed ’’Farm crops are burtrng up", ae cording to prominent Attains county farmers who ab.D nay that nnlest a rain comes xton heavy losses will c'; periettceil throughout tit-- middle wst. I'rovided a heavy rain lulls no.m it is believed that al !«•:. t part of the crops ma> b<* sa v ed. Gardens are greatly In need of rain ami fruit trees are said to he in the ,r t toiidil.oti foi tin time of year they have ever been. A thick dust i covering, most vegetation, be.ng blown from the roads. All roads are covered from one to six incites with dust and the air in the country is thick with it. Some say that it will take several inches of rainfall before the roads are affected at all noticeably. No ram ha: tallrn in Adams county for several days. Two weeks ago today there was a heavy frost and Um thertnorilMer dropped to about 31. degrees, Imlay tlie IliermomPfer i.-eistics close to lull degrees. t) Elkhin i Man Finds ( heck lie Lost 13 Years Ago Winona Lake, Ind., June f> t United Press)Thirteen years ago D. I'Smith, now u res'deni of l.lklmrt and a former resident of Warsaw. Io I a check fm s4l.' It has Just been found ill good Stale of proservatimi umli r a desk at a \\ inonti I tike imsiness place Hut Smith probahlv is mu th»" s4l in that the concern issuing Urn check, the Winona Mej-caiiti'e co., has been out of business nrniiy years -- | Women’s Clubs Dedicate Old Fauntleroy Home West Baden. Ind.. June 6 —(United Press, Fifty delegates to the biennial council of the General Federation of Women’s Clubs left today for New Harmony. Inti., for the dedication of the old Fauntleroy home. The Fauntleroy home, now the property of the Indiana Federation of Women’s Clubs, was the scene of the establishment of the first soman’s club in America in 1859. The final session of the convention ' was held last night. Mrs. John D. Sherman .of Denver, Col., reviewed tlie work of the session and urged him delegates to ; carry out its pro j gram among thjir respective clubs.

Decatur, Indiana, Saturday, June 6, 1925.

- - "s's, 1 ", JUST FOLKS Don’t fail to read the new tea ' tore in the Daily Democrat ths ■ evening —a poem by Edgar A. Guest, one of the greatest of mod ern poets. Beginning today, the Daily Democrat will print one of Mr. Guest's poems, under the head "Just Folks,” each day. Th? poems will he found on the edi torial page. Turn to that page and become one of the thousands ot daily readers of Mr. Guest's poems. SWISS YODLERS SING AT BERNE Noted Artists Please Largt Audience; Give Another Program Tonight Berne, June 6—(Special to Dail: Democrat)—One of the. best enter tainments that has ever been give, in Berne was presented in the com miinity auditorium last night by twi famous Swiss yodlers, Yost am Wutiderle. The auditorium was fill ed to capacity with interested listen ers. These two yodlers are noted th< world over for the singing and yod thig and their catchy songs. The sang several Swiss anti several Eng lish selections, ami they drew grea applause. Yost and Wunderleaare on a ton through the country and have sum over radio many times, and have beet heard by local persons. Having a open date tonight, the two men th tided to stage another program hen as the audience requested it. At 1 mission last night was twenty-ftv and fifty cents, but the price will b only twenty-five cents to everybod tonight. It is expected that anothe large audience will be present o Carl Cotton Released At Request Os Wis Bluffton. Juno 6—Carl Cotton wt r released from jail yesterday afte ■ noon, when a charge of failure to pr vide was dismissed at the request < > Ids wife, who filed the chan ’ against him. She said that she ha i faith in promises he has made to he i A civil action to collect a $2,000 fc felted bond is still pending again i him. _________ '■ I" * Weather Generally fair and continued war tonight and Sunday \

ORGE ECONOMY TO PREVENT fl. WATER SHORTAGE

I (Consumption Os Water In Decatur Increased 300,000 Gallons Friday WARNING IS ISSUED Pumpers Shut Down Tonight While Boilers Are Cleaned Tlie use of water in Decatur increased 300.000 gallons yesterday, according to a statement issued today hy Orval Harruffff, city engineer and .• uperintendent of the city water department. A warning has been issued asking persons to conserve on the use of water, especially in the evenings in order to ward off any possibilities of a water famine. The two reservoirs receded in depth eight fret yesterday, with the pumps work ing at top-speed. Six feet of the loss was gained last night, but Mr. Harruff expressed fear of a further loss tonight if the people used so much water for sprinkling, purposes because the pumps would have to be turned off for several hours while the boilers at the water 1 works wpfp clpanpd. All available wells are being pumped al capacity speed, it was (CONTINUED ON TWO) ; o ■ 289 PUPILS IN BIBLE SCHGOL First Week Os School Is Over; Not Too Late To Enroll The first week of the Community Daly Vacation Bible School closed yesterdav with a good enrollment con ’ sidering the extremely hot weather which prevailed during the past week There w* r«* 289 enrolled and there was a steady increase in enrollment ■ from day to day Special efforts will w be made in Sunday school of I lie var - ions I rotestant churches in the city to increase the enrollment. It is not too late to enroll, but those who in 6 tend to enter are urged to enroll Mon day as only four more weeks of the school remain. The school will continue untjl July ]y 3, and plans will he made soon for the , r . closing day. Parents are urged to see , n that their children are present at the n . school every day. as considerable dis m tinction is gained if they are present 1( | every day. The dean of the school, W ||. Guy Brown, is anxious that the pa nJ rents visit the school They are «el jpL'ome any morning The ela ses ar> ( j. held every morning from SStu nnti »y it o’clock

«• o at Young Ladv Killed 111 When Auto Overturns re n Indianapolis. Ind.. June ft (United jn Ptess)— Mike Minardo, 19. was held U ‘ i under high bond today on a man- | slaughter charge for the death ol " l Miss Bertha Wright, 21, who was killed when Minardo's auto overturn- , ml on the Rockville road near here last night, Minardo, according to statements to the coroner, was driving at a speed of 50 miles an hour when his auto side-swiped another machine, swervfCiid from the road and turned a loop- ' the loon before it. came to a stand still. erro-' o of . ge Heat Causes Two Cows ad To Go Crazy Near Bluffton er. or- Bluffton. June 6—Two cows on a nst farm near this city went crazy late yesterday from the heat and injuret several other animals in a pasturt where they had been placed. Aftei considerable work the two insane ani mt nials were strapped to a fence an< j died soon after

RAIN BRINGS TEMPERATURE DOWN IN PENNSYLVANIA AND EASTERN OHIO: FURTHER RELIEF PREDICTED

Decatur Residents Trying Every Known Method Os Keeping Cool; Mercury i Soars Up To 97 In Shade Shortly Alter Noon. The sixth tiny of the worst heal wave ever recorded in Jiine broke eariy iitis morning and old Sol was shining down, in all his glory, on a sweltering middle west. All slates in this part of Ihe country report record temperatures for this time of year. For the sixth continuous day, Decatur has been literally “boiling” tinder the penetrating rays of the hottest June sun ever recorded here. Older citizens of the county say they can not remember when a hot spell of this length ever struck this community. Early this morning various tht-rmo meters in the Imsine 1 s section of («• catur varied from to 92 degrei* and the mercury continued to soar until it reached previous records made earl ler this week. No relief is in sight j for another twenty four hours, accord ing to state dispatches. All known methodi are being rl erted in an effort to keep cool. El< < • I ric fans, yard cprinkline. swimming 1 pools, cold drinks, motoring In the j evening and a “core of oilier methods [ are being exhausted hy persons almost frantic with the extreme heat. 'I he temperature at night is slighth lower, but not sufficient to alleviate the day temperature. At noon toda.x 1 the thermometer in forul of tlie Peo i pies Loan ami Trust company reg ■ I tered 9< in the shade and was ,ti:l ’lowly climbing to higher marks A cloudless sky gave vent to the sun’ ■ rays in an almost scorching man ner The air aas till and onlj a frequent hreese aided in combatin/ the weather. The highest temperature of (tie week was recorded yesterday, it being 103 degrees in the shade, but | probabilities are that tlie mereur i will extend a degree or two higher to day. I ~ Postpone Dirigible’s Trip | Lakehurst, N. J.. June G. I>. partur. .of the dirig Ide lais Angeles on it I (light to Minneapolis for the Norse centennial celebration was postpon led until 11 p. in. today. Hot weath ler was given as the cause of thr I postponment. ■

BUY CHAIRS FOR | SCHOOL BUILDING Trustees Buy Chairs And Window Shades For Catholic School The tru'tees.of the liecatur (,'ath olio school awarded contracts last eve uing to two local concerns for the furnishing of opera ami auditorium chairs and window shades in tlie m w school building on Fourth street. The Yager Brothers furniture store received lite contract for the furnishIng of tlie chairs in the auditorium and in tlie gymnasium They will also furnish Ute chairs for tlie balcony in the auditorium. These chuirs will be fastened to the floor, while the chairs in the main amlitorium can be used. Good sized and comfortable chairs were selected by tlie trustees. Niblick and Company was awarded the contract for furnishing u I the window shades in tlie new school building. A tinted cambric shade ,a-.l ed "Luxor", was selected. The shades are of tlie finest materia) and will lie hung by center Installation, whereby 1 the top shade can he lowered anti tlie 5 bottom shade raided or vice ver a. 1 Niblick and Company will hang the 9 shades. r , Work on tlie new school building b 1 progressing nicely and tlie buildin) 1 will he ready for occupant'}' by nex fall

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Relief In Sight I or All Localities Soon According To Weather Bureau; Number Os Deaths Is Still Growing Today. U NITED PRESS SERVICE) Indianapolis, June 6— (Special to Daily Democrat) —Rain hit this city at about three o'clock this afternoon. It is expected that the downpour will extend io most parts of the state in the next few hours, and kt least within the next 24 hours. Lightning and hail accompanied the long anticipated rain, which had all the promises of a good drenching. ('(ihnnbiis, Ohio. June 6 Ruin and hail cooled the fevered brow of eastern Ohio today. Mi rem v fell 12 degrees from 95 at Bellaire in the Ohio valley. The country for miles was peltered with rain and hail New Philadelphia reported a rain storm at one p m The first break in Ihe terrific heat wave which has blttnkeled the east part of the United States since Monday, came late today in Pennsylvania where rpin drove the temperature from N 2 to 77 in two hours. About Hie same time eastern Ohio was hit by a hetixy storm. Ihe same relict is predicted hy Ihe weather bureau for other eastern states soon. A survey at 3 p in. by the United Press showed the following deaths in the past 21 hours: (Ireatei - New York, 31; New Haven, Conn., 10; Philadelphia, ‘25; Pittsburgh, 5; Detroit. 5; Chicago. 1; Baltimore. I; Wilmington, Debt., 2; ( leveland, ti; Aihany, N 'i . (I; Indiana, I; Boston. 2. Wasluiigion. Jiiiih •'« The long

it ON TIMED ON PAGE FIVEi NiTMnWOMERS REVOLT IN CHILE

Storm Plant Buildings And (lain Control Os Chilean Nitrate Companies Santiago. Chile, .him- tl il’nited Press.) Following tlier storming of plant buildings, nitrate workers are in control of the Chilean nitrate cunt panics at Cornua and I’ontevedra an.l hare forced some other plant) to suspend work, according to advices from Iquiipie early today Three trains with troops utpl field artillery hive been despatched Io tile acene of the trouble The storming of plants came as a climax to Inst week's agitation n the nitrate fields, wheie authorities start ed a cleanup of communistic elements. Yesleiday the workers stalled a drive against the Coruna works, kill iug two policemen and wounding one clerk and theti plundered the buildings. Marthll law was reported established al Alltofogasta and Tarapaea. i An earl'er P’.ienos Aires message reported that machine guns hud been landed from a cruiser to proceed against the rioters Leaders of the 'general strike, out of which the storming areas, were reported to have been arrested, this however, only spurring the strikers to ’outburst i against the plant Assaults against company offices - weie reported in Cortina. Canton, Alto and San Antonio, in a regular battle s hetwee nthe authorities and sir kers. 4 Red flags vyie carried by tile well; t [ era who sought to get others to join their mn.eimt. ... ■ ■