Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 23, Number 222, Decatur, Adams County, 19 September 1925 — Page 1

DECATUR DAILY DEMOCRAT

' | XXIII. Number 222.

(MNII DISPLAY Os FIREWORKS CLOSES FAIR crn Indiana I air CONCESSIONS LEAVE Hans For Next Year’s Fair Not Complete; Break Even Financially Rain wain hampered the closing day of the 1925 Northern Indiana fair and held the attendance down. The nee program was called off after one beat of each race had been run in a drilling rain. After the shower of the early afternoon a fair sized crowd gathered at the midway for the evening performance. The fireworks and grandstand acts were held as scheduled and last night s display was said to have been the best =hown. Mr. and Mrs. E. B. Wllliamwn sere busy all day today issuing the premiums and finishing the other work connected with the fair. Mr. Williamson said thl safternoon that ho had not definitely decided whether , or not he would act as secretary of the fair next year. The Thursday crowd was the largest of the three days. It being the only . day on which rain didn’t interfere. I It is thought that the management i will have an even break financially.' owing to the good Thursday crowd I ind rain Insurance received Friday. I Concessioners were busy all day to- ! day piling stakes and making ready I for the fairs next week. Most of the . exhibits and concessions at the local ! fair will go to Logansport and Bluffton where fairs will be held next week. Mr. and Mrs. Williamson will be in this city for several days, arranging their business and will leave some time the latter part of next week tor their home at Goshen. They have ma* many friends while in this city conducting the fair and this commuinty I opes that they will retnrn again next season. Litter Is Heaviest Weighed In County The litter of ten pure bred Chester . White pigs entered in the Ton Litter . contest by Erwin Fuelling, of north of this city, weighed a total of 2,655 pounds when weighed in at the age of ISO days, instead of 2.565 pounds, j as was reported in the Dauly Democrat Friday. This is the heaviest litter weighed in Adams county this year, being just 200 pounds heavier than the next heaviest litter, one fed by Leonard Sprunger of Berne, which weighed 2,465 pounds. Bank With Denosits Os §3,500,000 Closes Doors Denver. Colo. Sept. 19. —The Globe National bank with deposits of $3,500. W 0 closed its doors this morning by voluntary action of officers. The board of directors of the bank was in session shortly before noon but no statement regarding the condition of the bank or the reason for suspension was issued and officials or the federal reserve bank disclaimed any knowledge of the situation. o— 1 HIM “RED" WILLTEJTCASE Communist Member Os Parliament To Fight Ban From America London, Sept. 19—Shapurjl Sakalatula, British communist member of M'liament, barred from America by nited States Secretary of State 'Hoggs withdrawal of his visa, ''ants an “investigation and defense '' °re a special comittee and the bar 0 Amertca public opinion.” He told the United Press today he a made this request in answer to cab egram from the American Civil ! erties union, offering to pay the 6 expenses of a test case on the Kel >ogg ban. Sapiatv ala is ready to go to Amera t 0 stand the test. he fiery Parsee protested bitterly Cnn ." 9t what he termed President “torenu 68 and Secrethr - V Kellogg’s withn . and cowar <Hy exclusion" wt »out a heariQg Os

Annual Bluffton Street Fair Opens Tuesday Night The annual Bluffton free street fair will be given next week, opening Tuesday night, September 22. and closing Saturday midnight, September 27. The fair has become a great annual home coming event for Bluffton and Wells county and Bluffton plans on entertaining great crowds, night and day. The fair is held on the paved streets, with all features of g county fair, with the sole exception of horse racing. Big open-air free acts are pro. vidcd, while the midway Is crowded with concessions of all kinds. o — GIRL LEAVES HOMEiMARRIES Daughter Os Mr. And Mrs. Steve Hondi Disappears Mysteriously EthtC Hondi. sixteen year-old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Steve Hondi. residing three miles south of Decatur on the John Colchin farm, mysteriously disappeared with a man in an automobile Friday morning and last night was found in Fort Wayne, married. The girl’s parents thought she had been kidnapped and considerable commotion was aroused until the girl was located. Mr. Hondi left home yesterday morning to take some children to school. Ceaving Ethel at home with her mother. While Mrs. Hondi was Jin an upstairs room and before Mr. Hondi returned, the girl disappeared. The father saw an automobile stop and a man grab his daughter and put her in the automobile, he said, shortly before he reached home. The car hurried away. The father notified the sheriff and -word was sent to police headquarters at Fort Wayne. Later the father went to Fort Wayne and the girl was located. She had been married, but not to the man who abducted her. It was learned this morning that Mr. Hondi was arrested in Fort Wayne last night on a charge of disorderly conduct and spent the night in jail No charges have been fi'ed against the girl’s abductor. _— o- — Klan Riot Staged In East Brookfield, Mass. East Brookfield. Mass., Sept, 19— State pence today began an investigation of a K. K. K. riot, in which several anii-klfcasmen were slightlv injured and a member of the klan was shot here late last night. David Foote and Paul Wheelock, alleged klan sympathizers, were held pending investigation of the turbancePci'ice Chief Stephen Quill was mobbed, overpowered and disarmed by klansmen during the riot, which followed a klan pow wow on the Boynton farm between here and West Brookfield. TWO CHILDREN ARE KIDNAPPED Two Masked Men Snatch Girl And Boy From Bed In Massachusetts South Weymouth, Mass.. Sept 19— Snatched from their beds by two masked men, Shlif.ey Fisher, four-year-old daughter of Austen L. Fisher. and her three-year-old brother. Jack, were kidnapped from their father’s home here early today. The little girl was sleeping with her grandmother, Alda A- Fisher. A window of the room was open. The child’s grandmother was awakened by a noise in the room. At first she thought Shirley was getting out of bed, but soon discovered there were two men in the boudoir. Before Mrs. Fisher could get out of bed. the intruders, each carrying one ' of the children, escaped through the window. The father and an uncle, Roy W. Fisher, were ad’eep on n veranda on the other side of the house and knew nothing of the kidnaping, until awak- ■ ened by Mrs. Fisher. For nearly a year the children’s I parents have been separated and the mother has been living in Lowell. Police of Lowell have been asked to question the mother in the belief she may b able.to throw light on the I mystery.

Gets New Trial / „ Jhi gw Mv ccy. ) Norman Selby — Kid McCoy, of the prize ring—now in prison for the iteath of Theresa Mors in Los Angeles, will get a new trial, a higher’eourt having ruled the trial judge erred in his instructions. TRAININGSCHOOL TO OPEN MONDAY Larger Enrollment Expected From All Churches Os This City The churches of Decatur are making a drive to secure the largest possible number of members from their respective churches for the Community Standard Training School. The benefits that each church may receive from rhe srhooF will be tn a large measure directly proportional to the number of students from their churches they can secure. Last vear the various churches of Decatur enrolled the following number of students: First Evangelical, 20; First Methodist, 18; United Brethren, 15; Presbyterian. 12; Reformed. 10; Pleasant Dale Brethren, 9; Christian, 6; Baptist, 5; Union Chapel United Brethern. 4; St Paul Christian Union. 2; Methodist Circuit. 1; Calvary Evangelical. 1. It is anticipated that all the churches will be represented in th» school by a larger enrollment this year. Advantages Are Listed Some of the particular advantages of the Community School are as fo.’lows: 1. It enables the students of each church to sit under the best teaching talent the community can produce. 2. The large number of students lends enthusiasm to the student body, and guarantees a successful completion of the work begun- • 3. It enables each church to have the advantage of different courses at once, thus teachers may at once have special preparation in their various departments. 4. It provides a broad interchange of thought through large classes representing the various churches. 5. The fel’owship with Christians of the various churches of the community is an added inspiration to Christian workers, and tends to lead to community Christian activity The first semester will begin Monday evening and wllll run for twelve Monday nights, beginning at 7:15 o’clock. Sessions will be held in the Central School bui’ding. The enrollment Monday night will begin at 7 o'clock). Students should generally pay the registration fee of SI.OO a term at the opening of the school. Text books for the courses will be at the school and can be secured. Monday evening. It is important that all who are planning to attend the school should be present the first night. Students should bring note books with them. o James Ginley Taken To State Penal Farm Sheriff John Baker made a trip to the state penal farm at Putmanville today, taking James Ginley, of this city, to the farm to serve a sentence for violating the state prohibition law. Ginley was convicted in city court recently.

Decatur, Indiana, Saturday, September 19, 1925.

MONTANA HAS SNOW STORM Four Inches Os Snow Reported At Helena; Temperature Near Freezing Havre, Mont., Sept. 19. —A heavy storm in western Montana today interrupted communications and hampered traffic. Four Inches of snow was reported at Helena and a snow storm was raging between Havre and Cut Bank all morning. Te'egraph lines were carried down. The temperature was around freezing. —o Street Car Motorman Killed During Hold-up St. Louis, Sept. 19. — (United Press) —A street car motorman was killed and a woman dangerously Injured when a purse snatcher grated a woman's handbag on a street car shortly before noon and shot his way to freedom. The shoting was near the end of the car line, in one of the residential neighborhoods. The purse snatcher boarded the car at a downtown intersection and sat behind Mrs. Sophia Wisniewski, who was carrying SSOO in her handbag. As the car neared the end of the line, the robber grabbed the woman’s bag. She resisted and in the scuffle the robber drew a revolver and shot Mrs. Wisniewski. The robber ran to the front of the car. demanding that the motorman. J. M. Jameson, open tne iront door. Jameson refused and was shot and killed. The robber leaped from the car ano made his escape. o_ Another Heat Wave Sweeps Over Indiana Indianapolis, Sept. 19 — Indiana sw-eltered today through another heat wave. The temperature in Indianapolis was fifteen degrees above normal early this morning and other points in the state reported excessive heat. The highest temperature here yesterday was 91. the hottest September in many years. Temperatures for the month of September to date is 8 degrees above normal and if the present wave continues Indiana will have its hottest September in history, according to J H. Armington, of the local weather bureau. -o BAPTISTS ELECT DECATUR PASTOR Rev. Miller Named ClerkTreasurer Os Salamonie Baptist Association The Rev. O. E. Miller, pastor of the First Baptist church of this city, was elected clerk-treasurer of the Salamonie Baptist Asocsiation at the eighty-fifth annual meeting held at the First Baptist church in Muncie this week. The Rev. H. N. Spear, pastor of the First Baptist church of Bluffton, was elected moderator of the association to succeed C. E. Bell, of Decatur. R. Roy Henderson, of Montpelier, was re-elected vice-mod-erator. The convention came to a close on Wednesday afternoon, following an address by Rev. Dinsmort, of Indianapolis. who placed before the convention the proposition of adding $50,000 to the annual gift for the girls’ school supported by the church, at Sendai, Japan. Miss Mary Jessie, principal of the Sendai Girls’ School, spoke Wednesday morning and related to the gathering the conditions existing at the school. In the business report placed before the convention, it was shown that 120 delegates from Muncie, Bluffton, Decatur, Dunkirk, Liberty Center, Montpelier, Newcastle, Pleasant Mills, Poneto and Warren were registered. Efforts are being made by the various churches to be well represented at the state Baptist meeting, which will be held in Terre Haute, October 13 to 15. Weather Generally fair tonight and Sunday; except priobably thunder storms in extreme north portion. Warmer in extreme north portion

Tired . ■ ' * X. /Me \ I f rOhc-S* J ' w. ¥ ■ 4 ! ■ I % IK ■; z . V’ > Hither and yon rushes the heir to the British throne. Here, in Buenos Aires, the Prince of Wales’ tired look tells of the strain he undergoes. INQUIRY BOARDSTUDIES DATA Aircraft Investigators Acquaint Themselves With Nation’s Air Efforts (By William J. McEvoy, United Press Staff Correspondent) Washington, Sept. 19 —Taking advantage of the voluminous aviation data and information already submitted. the various members of President Coolidge’s special air inquiry board today began acquainting themselves with the government's air efferts. ■ The board has disbanded for the week-end, but each member has with him a complete set of the printed testimony taken last session by the house aircraft committee. Other documents offered by the war and navy departments also are available for study. Members of the board believe they work can be greatly facilitated if they educate themselves on the broad aspects of the issues involved in the existing aviation controversy. With this in view, considerable attention is being devoted to the testimony of Colonel William Mitchell, air service critic, before the house committee. —o Two Persons Injured In Wind Storm At Vera Cruz Bluffton, Sept. 19. —Two childrenMary Wenger, daughter of Fred Wenger, and Leonard Reynolds, son of Ray. mond Reynolds, suffered cuts about their heads at the V«-ra Cruz school, six miles southeast of here yesterday, when tire high winds which swept Wells county blew in window panes and shattered the glass over them. Although these were the only injured reported as a resuit of the storm, trees were blown down, buildings were unroofed and crops ruined in many sections. At Vera Cruz, the roof of a barn, owned by John Wetrick, was carried several feet from the building by the wind and then crashed to earth. A windmill on the Ulrich Heiniger farm was wrecked and fences, trees and small buildings were blown down between Uniondale and Ossian. .— o Conservation Commission Chairman Will Resign Indianapolis, Sept. 19 —Wiliam A. Gothrie, of DuPont, announced he will resign as chairman of the state | conservation commission. Gothrie has been a member since its formation in 1919. It was understood Governor Jackson asked for Guthrie’s resignation, following the tangle over salaries of members. The commission held a conference on the recent action of two members in cutting the salaries of Richard Lieber and tw oassistants. The conference was to be resumed this afternoon. Gothrie said he would quit because he was no longer able to work in harmony with the governor. It s not known who will succeed him.

Jay County Farmer Chops Off Cow’s Tongue Portland, Sept. 19. —Shank Whetsol, a well-known farmer living northwest of Dunkirk, accidentally Inflicted u painful wound on one of his cows last week. Mr. Whetsei was cutting corn with an axe on a wooden block for his chickens and had chased the cow away a couple of times. The cow came up from behind Mr Whetse] and stuck its tongue on the block just as he brought the hatchet down. A large piece of the cow's tongue] was severed and Dr. Painter, the veterinarian, was called to renaer medical aid. SWIMMING POOL WALLS FINISHED Cement Work On Pool Expected To Be Completed By Next Week Pouring of concrete in the walls of the now city swimming pool, being constructed in Water Works park, was completed Friday. Orval Harruff, city engineer, who has charge of the construction stated today that work on the floor of the pool will be started Tuesday or Wednesday of next week. The forms around the walls will be torn away next Monday. Mr Harruffff said that about four days would be required in which to pour the floor in the pool. The reinforcement irons have been tied together and are all ready to place in the bottom of the pool. Tne work ot tying the irons together, forming sixinch squares, consumed nearly a week. There are 33.600 square feet of iron to be used in the floor. Thousands of square feet of iron were used in the walls, also. Five ladders were fastened in the walls of the pool anil steps will be built at the shallow end. The depth varies from one foot to eight and one-half feet. As soon as the floor has been laid in the pool, work will be started on the construction of the bath house at the north end of the pool. The bath house will be compleled this fall and everything will be in readiness for the opening of the pool as soon as the weather is warm enough next spring. It will be necesary to make a fill around the pool before the cement walks can be built around the edge. It has not been decided whether the walks will be built this fall, or whether the dirt around the pool will be permitted to settle until spring before the cement is laid. A high wire fence will he erected around the pool this fall. o Gasoline Price In Omaha Drops To 13.9 c Omaha, Neb., Sept. 19. — (United Press) —Gasoline prices in Omaha have dropped five cents in two days as the result of a new pnase of the middlewestern price war. Independent stations quote dthe fuel today at 13.9 cents a gallon, including a two cent state tax. — _o FOUR PERSONS ARE NATURALIZED Final Citizenship Papers Issued to Adams County Residents Today Final naturalization papers were isued to four Adams county residents today, making them full-fledged citizens of the United States. Hearings were held by Judge Jesse C. Sutton this morning and this afternoon Those receiving their final papers today were: Burkhart Lehman, of Berne, a native of Switzerland; Edward Kratzer, of Monroe route 2, a native of Switzerland; Julius Haugk, of Decatur, a native of Germany; and Mrs. Anna Barbara Winnes, of Decatur, a native of Germany. o Francis Corbett Heads Central Catholic Seniors Francis Corbett, former resident of this city and a brother of Mrs, Fred Fullenkamp, of Decatur, was elected president of the senior class of the Central Catholic high school ot Fort Wayne, at a business meeting of the class, held Friday. Corbett distinguished himself as an orator last year.

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BERT MORGAN IS DISMISSED BY YELLDWLEY A. IL Harris Named To Succeed Morgan As Indiana Prohibition Director OTHERS DISMISSED New Dry Chief Starts House Cleaning By “Firing” Many Sleuths Indianapolis. Sept. 19.— Bert D. Morgan, acting deputy federal dry administrator for Indiana, today announced that he had been summarily dismissed from his position by E. C. Yellowley, administrator for the Indiana - Illinois - Wisconsin district. A. 11. Harris now an assistant in Yellowley’g office, has been named to succeed Morgan. Any further changes in the Indiana dry force will be made by Harris, who at one time was in the internal revenue service at Indianapolis. Harris formerly lived at Jonesboro, Indiana. Chicago, Sept. 19.—(United Press I —The first important act of E. C. Yellowley, new federal prohibition administrator for the Chicago area, was to fire nine dry sleuts, several of (hem among the best known agents in the service. This action, aeeoring to the letters of dismissal, sent out yesterday, was “for the good of the service.” Two of the discharged agents. .Al Johnsan and Archie Benson are responsible for the present predicament of Terry Druggan and Frankie Lake, millionai ? brewers now scerving terms in the county jail. Johnson and Benson seized several truck loads of beer leaving breweries owned by Lake and Druggan. tints revealing tor the first time that al though the millionaires were behind the bars they still were able to guide the destinies of their vast beer interests. The summary discharge of the nine agents is only the beginning of a sweeping reorganization of the federal dry force in this district, according to Rev E. E. Ewing. Yellowley's assistant. Ewing said 35 more agents will be dismissed when Yellowley returns from Baltimore where he is testifying in a booze case. Visiting Bandits Run Afoul Os Hard Luck On Chicago, Sept. 19.—(United Press.) —Three visiting bandits, attracted by tales of ricl.es to be gained in Chicago by a steady-going gunman, ran afoul of hard luck on their first job. They were holding up Albert Martini last night when Detective Sergeant Thomas Connelly happened along From long experience and thorough knowledge of the book of etiquette, Connelly knew “what was wrong with this picture’’ and he drew his gun. He cornered the three in an alley, killed one, wounded another and the third surrendered. The dead bandit was Sam Russo. The wounded man is Frank Giarantime. 18. New York City, and the third said he is Fred Fargo, 29, of Gary. Ind. Fargo said Russo was from the east. The three met here a few days ago, attracted by reports of “fat money,” he said. FLOWER BED CONTEST ENDS Civic Section Os Woman’s Club Plans To Award Prizes Next Week The Civic Section of the Woman's Club will award prizes next week in the Flower Bed contest which was entered /into last spring by 241 contestants. Awards of five dollars, three dollars, and one doi'lar will be given the three children having the most attractive flower gardens. In the event that Inspection ot any child’s garden has been overlooked, the members of the department request that Mrs. Ben Dover, Mrs. Jesse Burdg, Mrs. Ed Ahr or Mrs. Farr be called by Monday. Much interest has been shown in this contest and members of the inspecting committee report many beautiful and attractive beds in the different parts of the city.