Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 23, Number 215, Decatur, Adams County, 11 September 1925 — Page 1

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FARMER KILLED BY TRAIN AT BERNE

Crew Os Seaplane, Rescued Alive, Tell Os Experiences

pfrS-1 FOUND DRIFTIN6 WITH bceancurrents Five Members Os Crew In Fairly Good Physical Condition RESCUED BY SUB Catch Rain Water To Drink; Merchant Ship And Airplane Sighted (United Press Service) Saved al the end of an heroic adventure of the air and sea. Commander John Rodgers and j four naval aviators, crew of the' seaplane PN-9-1. which was) missing nine days after an at-; tempted flight from San Francisco to Honolulu, slept the deep of exhaustion at Lihue, aj little island town in the Pacific' toJav. while the whole nation; reioiced at their rescue. Pound dnfting helpless in the grip of ocean currents, which in another day would have swept the seaplane bevond the teach of searchers, the P\’-91 was towed to the island of Kauai in the Hawaiian group by th° United States submarine R 4. Five Days Without Food Seeing their adventure through to the finish, although they had been for the past five days without food, ) the galant airmen remained with their craft until it had been beached; at Lihue. Then the flyers told in a few simple phrases the story of their unparalleled adventure and went to bed. "We were confidnt we would be rescued and we were,” said Commjnder John Rodgers. "That's about all there is to it” The airmen's supply of food ran out after the fourth day. They had not stinted themselves, expecting' each day to he picked up. They knew their comrades in (he navy would be searching for them. Air-plans la Sighted Once they saw an airplane, off in the distance and their hopes rose, but the plane flew off without sighting: them. At another time they saw a mer'■hant ship on the horizon, but the PN-9-1 was a mere speck in the rttigh or on the crest of the waves and the steamer, too, passed on without coming to the rescue. When finally they were sighted (CONTINUED ON PAGE SEVEN) DISCUSS PLAN FOR MEMORIAL Committee Meets With Contractor Regarding Moving of Elephant Rock A- M Meads, contractor of Convoy. Ohio, was in the city today, and a committee planning the Gene Stratton Porter Mem(ortal htfld an inflortnaJ meeting with him this morning! Mr. Meads is the contractor who says it ■s possible to move Elephont Rock from the bed of the St. Marys river, ■ x miles southeast of here, to a site 1,1 this cl, y where it might be dedicated to the memory o f Mrs. Porter, amed author and former resident of ’his county. Mr. Meads has agreed to move the ro ‘k fr Oni thp bG(I of the rjver at a 'ast ot $350, providing the Gene ratton Porter Memorial committee 'titles to have It moved. A meet■ng of the committee appointed from '" e Roman's Club and from the* *catur Rotary Q u b will be held with! to' Striker, county chairman of 1 me Memorial Association, next Monat' " Vening at the Industrial room*,' LT, 11 time preliminary plans will! cn m lu USSed ' Members of these two; „ “ ttees are urged to attend the' o’„/ " B which W -H be held at 8 0 clock.

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RETURN FROM EUROPE Miss Josephine Knuf And Mrs. Helena Berling Arrive Back In U. S. After Trip Abroad. Miss Josephine Knuf, housekeeper lat the Cat ho le parsonage, in this icity. arrived home this afternoon from a three months' tour und visit In Europe. She visited with her mother in Germany for a month. Miss Knuf and Mrs. Helena Rerling left Decatur about three months ago and arrived In this country last Tuesday. They visited in the countries of England. France. Be.glum. Italy and Germany. Mrs. Beiling's daughters, Mrs. Paul Bredie and the Misses Mae and Genevileve Berling, went to New York to meet their mother and the four wf I not rethni home until Sunday. having gone to Yonkers to visit their daughter and sister MUCH INTEREST IN FIRE STORY Discussions Arise Over Location Os Stores In Fire Os 1882 Owing to the discussion that has arisen since the publishing of the Decatur fire anniversary story in yesterday’s Democrat, over who was in business in the various buildings that were burned in the fire in ISS2. the following list has been gathered I from the 1882 file of the Decatur j Democrat and with the aid of several pioneers of this city: Millen Burns' harness store was in the Old Adams County Bank building; the W. C. Erwin Bakery was in ! the Holthouse. Schulte Clothing store; Huffman, assignee of Hills toy and notion store, was in the Callow and Kohne building; 11. C. Bieberich's saloon was in the E. F. Gass building: John Borden's harness shop was in the J T. Myers Clothing company building; Tillbury's confectionery 'store was in the Hoosier Grocery location; Bottenburg and Blossom, butchers, were in the Joseph and Lange building; C. E. Albers and Son. grocers, and Jesse. White. ..gunsmith were in two building where the Peoples Shoe store is now situated; John Brock’s store was where Charles Brock's store is now located. Barkely and Steel, grocers were in the Baughman building; Whipple and Lose, barbers, were in the First National Bank building; Peter Porting's saloon was where Lose Brothers Billiard hall is now located; Schafer Brothers were located where the Schafer Hardware company is now: Charles Weibler also hid a part of the present Schafer Hardware company building and conducted a butcher shop; J. W. Place, confectioner and John Miller, barber, had buildings where the Daily Democrat is now located, and Jacob Martin had a bakery where the Vance and Linn Clothing store is now. The locations were obtained from Nick Miller and H. L. Confers, with the aid of several other citizens of Decatur at the time of the fire. — ■ - o Pole, Struck By Truck: Falls On Boy, Killing Him Vincennes. Ind., Sept. 11. —(United Press) —The Knox county coroner today investigated an unusual auto accident which cost the life of four-year-old James Balthus late yesterday. An auto driven by Albert Ashby, of ' Edwardsport, sideswiped a truck while travelling at high rate of speed and crashed into a telephone pole and knocked it down. The pole fell on the little boy. playing in the yard of his grandmother’s home and crushed his skull. Ashby was hold for investigation. ’Enrollment At DePauw ' On Opening Day Is 411 Greencastle, Ind., Sept. 11.—(United Press.)— The first day of registra•tlon at Depauw University brought an i enrollment of 411 students. The number for the first day last year | was slightly over 300.

SCHOOLS HULU j FIRST CHAPEL PROGRAMTODAY 1 ■ -1 • Superintendent M. F.Worth- ‘ man Speaks To School Pupils PLAN NIGHT SCHOOL' Central School Pupils Have ) i Program Today; Classes , Under Way t ,) First high school Chapel exercises ! •I of the school year were held thisj | /morning in the high school auditor-i ( lint. Superintendent M. F. Worth-J, man gave an address on “What Con- , stitutes A Good Student.” Mr. i 1 Worthman explained what the teachj ers expected from the high school ' pupils and what in turn the pupils I should expect from the teachers. i Songs and music composed the remainder of the chapel program Most class conflicts and other first 'I week school difficulties have beenad- ; justed, according to Principal Walter Krick, and it is expected that strict class schedules will start next week. l Miss Josephine Myers, history in- , structor. arrived in this city yester J day and began her duties at the high , ! i school today. Miss Myers has been , /touting Europe this summer. Maurice , ; Kennedy, physical training instructor ; I and athletic coach of the local ■ schools, has been substituting for ; Miss Myers the last two days. Night School Opens Tuesday J It was announced this morning (CONTINUED ON PAGE EIGHT) ' o MONROE RESIDENT > DIES AT HOSPITAL Mrs. Etta Hendricks Succumbs To Operation For Gall Stones .1 Mrs. Etta Hendricks, ago 61, of Monroe, died at the Adams County)' Memorial hospital, in this city, at two o’clock this morning following a second operation for the removal of , call stones, performed yesterday. Mrs. Hendricks lived only a few hours after her second operation. I The deceased had been a lifelong resident of Adams county. She was , born in Washington township n . 1864. She was the daughter of James and Laura Johnson. In 1881). she was united in marriage to MiUard Hend- .) ricks, who with one daughter,. Ethel . Haggard, of Fort Wayne, survives. . Two grandchildren. Auburn and Wava Haggard, of Fort Wayne, also survive. Mrs. Hendricks had three sisters, Mrs. Ella Haley, of Portland, Mrs Susie Gross, of Lakeland. Flor- , ida, and Mrs. Lew Williams, of De- , catur, all of whom are living. Two ’ hails-sisters and one half-brother are living also. Mrs. Hendricks was a member of the Royal Neighbors Lodge of Monroe and a faithful member of the 1 : Friends church. Funeral services wj'l be held Sunday morning at ten 1 o'clock from the home in Monroe and ' at 10:30 o'clock from the Friends ' church. The Rev. Whitenack will be ' in charge. Burial will take place in ' the Ray cemetery near Monroe. o American Farmer Now On Even Basis With Others i Chicago, Sept. 11.—The American farmer can now stand on his own fete! and match his prosperity with other' classes, B. W. Snow, foremost crop expert, declared today In an exclusive interview with the United Press. Farmers have benefited by raising prices for their products during the i last three years and they are now as i well off and on an even basis with' - other classes. Snow said. •I This is not only my opinion, but is 1 i confirmed by reports to the bureau ) of economics of the department of • agriculture and the general reports to the department of commerce.

Decatur, Indiana, Friday, September 11, 1925.

ONE YEAR IN PRISON Leopold And Loeb, Slayers Os Little ; Bobby Franks, Finish First Year Os Sentence. — Joliet, Sept. 11—Nathan F Leopold, Jr., and Richard Loeb, mil'onare t'hcago youtjis, today completed the first year of their sentence of 99 years and 1 fe for the murder of Bobby Franks, young son of another Chicago millionaire. Leopold, who started prison life as a worker in the shoe factory, has been advanced to a “wnite collar' clerkship of the plant. Loeb has graduated from the chair factory to the position of "straw boss” of the i prisoners whose duty it is to keep the prison yard clean. Dr. Walter Martin, prison psychiatrist, says the mental condition of the two youths is good. Loeb suffered a mental breakdown several months ago. but is now fully recovered ASKS MERCHANTS TO DISPLAY FLAGS Manager Os Fair Urges Decoration Os City For Exposition Next Week E. B. Williamson, general manager of the Northern Ind ana fair, which opens at Bellmont Park next Tuesday evening, urges the business men and citizens to display their flags next week during the fair. Mr. Wil liamson stated that the display of 'the American Flag helps create enthusiasm and that it gives a good Impression to visitors Race horses for the big meet have started to arrive at the local barns and indications are that there will be 75 or more horses next week. Two >of the races are already filled. Mr. | Will arnson stated. Several entries have been secured from North Manchester and Van Wert, Ohio, where fairs ate being hold this week:. Final plans for the big week are being made! W. A. Fonner, superintendent of the poultry department urges farmers in this county to exhibit their poultry in the show, wb/ich will he ope of the largest ever, held at a county fair. —. o CATHOLIC HIGH HAS 61 PUPILS Enrollments Made This Week; School Opens Next Monday Sixty-one pupils have enrolled in the Decatur Catho'ic high school and in the commercial department of the school, which will open next Monday. There will be twelve pupils in the senior class of Ihe high school this year, six boys and six girls, and increases are expected in each department. Registration of high school anti commercial pupils was made last Monday. Sister M. John Berchmanns will be the instructor in the music department of the school. She will teach vocal and instrumental music and enrollments in this department can be made now. The opening of the Catholic school was delayed a week on acount of the new school building on Fourth street not be ng completed but according to plans, everything will be in readiness I next Monday for the opening of the fall semester. It is expected that the enrollment in the grades will be largler than a year a ß°- an increase havj ing been made every year for the last ' ten years. Sister M. Vera is principal of the Catholic school and she will be as- ' sisted by a staff of twelve other com- ; petent Sister teachers, who will teach iu the grades and in the high school. Weather Showers and probably severe local thunder storms tonight, clearing Saturday morning. Cooler tonight and in east and south portions Saturday.

COOLIDGE DEALS WITH MITCHELL DISPUTE TODAY President Confers With Wilbur And Davis Regarding Charges CABINET MEETS Commander Os San Fran-cisco-Hawaii Flight Hits Back At Colonel By Ludwell Denny, <U. P. Staff Correspondent) Washington, Sept. 11. — (United Press. > —President Coolidge, on his first day at the White House after, his return from vacationing, dealt with the Mitchell aircraft contro l versy. Following a full cabinet meeting, I the president was closeted in a long conference with Secretary of the I Navy Wilbur and acting Secretary of War Davis, whose departments Cold onel William Mitchell has charged | with criminal negligence. San Francisco, Sept. 11. (United I Press.)— Captain Stanford B. Moses.) commander of the trans pacific Hawaiian flight project, today struck back indirectly at the charges of inefficiency hurled against naval aviation by Colonel William Mitchell. "The personal telegram I received praising the ability of Commander Rodgers of the PN-9-1 as a navigator! emphasizes the need of having navalj officers for naval aviators rather than ,' (CONTINUED ON PAGE EIGHT) ENRAGED YOUTH SLAYS FATHER Illinois Boy Turns Gun On Himself After Mortally Wounding Parent Harrisburg, Hl., Sept. !!.—fUnittv'. | Press)—Enraged after being ordered back to work in a cornfield after complaining of feeling ill, Kenneth Baldwin, 17, shot his father, Walter Baldwin, and then dashed to a nearby woods and committed suicide. The double tragedy was on the Bald-1 win farm in Pope county, not far from I here. The father and son had been in the field working and after a visit at ; the farm house young Baldwin complained of having a headache. The I father ordered him back to work, ae- ! cording to reports here The lad ran into the house and obtained a double barreled shotgun. He wrestled with his mother who stood in the door to bar the youth’s leaving the house, dashed into the barn yard and fired both barrels of the gun at his father. The older Baldwin reeled and dropped to the ground, mortally wounded. The youth then appeared to be pan-ic-stricken. ran around the barn yard several minutes and disappeared in the farmhouse. When neighbors ape.ared he was seen to cut across a field and enter a dense thicket that surrounds the Baldwin homestead. The neighbors started in pursuit but were halted when a single shot was heard. F'resing on into the woods the neigh; obr sfound the body of the young boy. He had committed suicide by shooting himself in the head with the gun which he had used in slaying his father. Mrs. Baldwin, nearly crazed by grief, said she had no idea of what had caused her son to fire the fatal shots. He and his father had ben on good terms until the argument over the boy's returning to work in the field. n CHICAGO GRAIN CLOSE Wheat: Sept $1.50; Dec. $1.49%; May $1.53%. Corn: Sept. 96%c; Deo. 86%c; May 89%c- Oats: Sept. 39%c Dec. 42%c; May 46%c.

AVIATORS RESCUED Two Airmen Held On Charge Os Aiding Rum Runners After Hydroplane Is Wrecked. Westerly, R. 1., Sept. II. —(United Press.)—Rescued from drowning after their hydroplane had been wrecked off Watch Hill, two aviators were held by the New London coast guard today on a charge that the comprised the connecting link between shore liquor interests and the ships in rum row. According to Lieutenant Commander Young, the aviators came from Hyannis, Cape Cod, in a hydroplane. Hurled into the sea when their plane was wrecked, the flyers were rescued by the coast guard. Later they were put aboard a patrol boat and taken I to New London where they will be detained pending the inquiry. MRS. O'BRIEN DIES SUDDENLY — Margaret O’Brien, Found Dead In Bed At Home On Monroe Street Mrs. Margaret Alice O'Brien, age | 68. of West Monroe sireet, was found dead in bed this morning by her husband, John O'Brien. Death is said to he caused by a goiter, which has been the cause of her illness for the . last several years. Mrs. O'Brien has not been in good health for several | years, hut her condition was not thought to be serious and the news ot j her death was a great shock to her many friends and relatives. Mrs. Margaret Alice O'Brien was born in Jay county. Indiana, in 1857. I She was the daughter of John and Phoebe Scott. Tn her early life, she i married William O’Brien and they ) moved to Blt/’fton. To this union | were born four children. One daughi ter. Bertha, preceded the mother in death several years ago. William I O'Brien, local manager of the NorthI ern Indiana Gas and Electric company, Ferd and George, all of this city, together with the husband, John. I survive. In 1916. Mr. and Mrs. O’Brien and their children moved to Fort' Mayne, and in 1921, they moved to this city. The deceased was a devoted member of the St. Marys Catholic church. She has no living brothers or sisters. One brother, one sister, her father and mother all preceded her in death. | Funeral services will be held MonI day morning at nine o'clock from the St. Marys church in this city, and j burial will take place at the St. Jos- ! eph cemetery, west of Decatur. The ) Rev. Father J A. Seimetz win nave I charge. 0 Hileman Funeral To Be Held Sunday Afternoon Funeral services for G. R. Hileman. owner and proprietor of the Riverside garage, who took his own life with a shot gun at his apartments on Madison street Wednesday morning, will be held from the home of his father, Ervin Hileman, near Willshire, Ohio at 2 o’clock Sunday afternoon. The services will be conducted by the Rev. Mr. George, of I Mount Victory, Ohio, and the Rev. i Somerville Light, pastor of the First) Methodist church of Decatur- Burial will be made in the mausoleum at ' Willshire. Word has been received from Mr. Hileman’s only daughter. Mrs. Theodore Robbins, of Englewood, California. stating that she will arrive here Saturday evening. Wants Office Os Vigo County Sheri ft' Probed Terre Haute, Ind., Sept. 11.—(United Presn.)—After a heated discussion in city court here today, Charles Whitlock, attorney, vowed that he would go to Indianapolis today and demand that Governor Ed Jackson investigate conditions In the office of County Sheriff Ray Foncannon. Whitlock state that city, county 'and federal prisoners in the Vigo ' county jail were being given liberties not due them.

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JOSEPH MILLER DIES WHEN CAR IS DEMOLISHED Accident Occurs At 6:30 O’clock This Morning; Man Partially Deaf TRAIN RUNNING LATE Through Passenger Traveling At Raoid Pace To Make Up Time (Special to Da’ly Democrat > Berne, Sept. 11. — Joseph T. Miller, age 61, an Adams county farmer residing 3 and one-half miles east and one mile north of here, was killed instantly when a south bound passenger train one the G. R. & I. railroad struck his automobile at the Main street crossing here, at 6:30 o’clock this morning. The train was traveling at a rapid rate of speed in an effort to make up lost time. Mr. Miller’s body was hurled fifty feet. En Route To Brother's Home. Mr. Miller left home this morning to go to the home of his brother, Dan Miller, in Monroe township, to assist in cutting corn. Although he did not usually come thorugh town to go to his brother's farm, for some unknown reason he came to the business section of Berne this morning. He was driving west on Main street as the fast passenger train came into town. Mr. Miller was said to be partially deaf and it is thought that he did not bear the approachiu£ train. He drove his car directly into the path bf the speeding train. Skull Is Crushed. The train hit Mr Miller's car, a Fora touring car, squarely and hurled it several feet, entirely wrecking it. Mr. Miller’s body was thrown clear of the wreckage for a distance of about fifty feet. One of his shoulders was broken and his skull was crushed. He gasped only a few times after persons rushed to hit side. The train, which was a long one, stopped when the rear coach was about lOd feet past the crossing. Train Four Hours Late. The train was due into Berne at *■ ''•s a.. m, but had been delayed and it was 6:31 a. m. when it passed the station here, according to the station agent. The train almost struck an automobile in Decatur, also, the train crew stated. The automobile was stopped a the edge of the track, barely out of the train’s path, the engineer said. The train did not stop in Decatur. This is the first accident at the (CONTINUED ON PAGE EIGHT) )C.E. PLANT HAS LARGE PAYROLL Employes Get $11,334 A Week; Company Officials Address Rotarians The average weekly payroll for the last four weeks at the Decatur plant of the General Electric company has ) been $11,334.00, Walter S. Goll, gen- | oral manager of the Fort Wayne and Decatur Works of the General Eleci trie company told the Rotarians at a meeting of the club last evening. Mr. Goll, who headed a party of General Electric officials to Europe last summer, gave an instructive and interesting talk on conditions as he 'found them in Europe and a thorough summary of industrial and working 'conditions as they existed in the large industral plants there. Mr. Goll ' traveled in England, France, Italy, 'Switzerland, Belgium and Germany. The. General Electric company has ' several large manufacturing plants in those countries and in Germany is associated with the A. C. C. com--1 pany. one of the largest industrial plants in Europe. 1 | Manufacturing conditions In Ger•thany today are about where they y were before the -war, Mr. Goll said. 5 1 In other words they have not pro(CONTINUED ON PAGE SEVEN)