Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 24, Number 135, Decatur, Adams County, 8 June 1926 — Page 1

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petition for a NEWPAYEDROAD IS FILED TODAY Improvement Os Road Past Country Club Sought In Petition NEW ROAD SOUGHT AT MONROE. ALSO A petition for either u brick or <Oll crate road, commencing at the south rnd of Mercer avenue in this city and extending southeast to the intersection of the county farm road, was filed with the county cMnmfsatoners today- The petition asked that the road be improved .under the township road law and that it be paid for by Washington township. It was specified in the petition that the road be improved cither with brick or concrete. The proposed road improvement passes the Decatnr country club and extends on southeast for about a half mile. The route is one of the important highways leading to Decatur. It passes in front of the Adams County Memorial Hospital and term inates at the intersection of the road hailing to the county infirmary. The petitioners ask that the road he improved twenty-two feet in the center thereof to the corporate limite and then eighteen feet beyond the city limits to the end. More than 150 names were attached to the petition and Attorneys Fruchte and Litterer appeared for the petitioners. The improvement is about one mile in length. No Motion was taken on the petition as it is not likely that the road he improved until next spring. Monroe Files Petition A petition signed by a number of taxpayers in Monroe and Washington township# asked that a road in the town of Monroe, beginning at the intersection of Hocker street, formerly known as state highway number ‘;1. be improved with macadam and known as (lie Marti Macadam road. The petition was not acted upon, as It is not known if sufficient funds are available in the townships for the building of the rood. <j Giant Still Discovered Near Fort Wayne Today Fort Wayne, Ind.. June B.—(United Press.) —Police today hunted owners of a giant still discovered here when linemen traced a tapped power line. The plant consisted of six tanks each of which had a capacity of nearly 400 gallons. Investigating $20,000 Fire Hammond, Ind., June B—(United8 —(United Press) —investigation was started today into the cause of the blaze which did $20,000 damage to four coal elevators of the Uechkan supply company here. All Hammond firemen were called out to fight tile blaze, which threatened the company’s entire yards IDENTIFIES TOOL LEFT BY THIEVES Lewis Gehrig Says Brace And Bit Was Stolen From His Work Shop The brace and bit used by the thieves Sunday night in their attempted robbery at the McConnell and Sons wholesale tobacco store was identified last night by Lewis Gherig. Mr. Gherig said that vendals had entered his shop on West Adams street and stolen the brace and bit and also a saw blade some time during the weekend. Mr. Gherig also stated that on several occasions thieves bad entered bis buildings. Police are working on . several clues and are making efforts to identify the cap, which was left by the robbens in their hurry to get away. It is thought that by ascertaining where the cap was purchased a tan glide clue can be secured, and the thieves apprehended.

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Vol* XXIV. Number 135.

Children (live Flowers To Patients At Hospital The children of the scend grade of the Dally Vacation Bible school taught by Mrs. Frank Downs, brought large bouquets of flowers to the class room this morning. At the close of the school hour, the flowers were taken to the patients ut the Adams County Memorial Hospital. HENRY WHITE IS CALLED BY DEATH 1 Prominent Resident Os 1 Preble Dies At Hospital Monday Night s Henry White, 47, prominent Preble > citizen ami engineer at the Indiana ) Pipe Line station at Preble, died at r 9:62 o’clock last night at the Adams • County Memorial Hospital, after an illness of several weeks. Death was due to Addison's deseasn. I Mr. White had been ill for some I time and .about two months ago. he 1 was taken to the hospital where bi; condition was serious for several days, latter, he returned to his home and ’ his condition was improved. Several I days ago. Mr. White was returned to the hospital for medical treatment I and he gradually became weaker until death relieved him last night. Henry White was the son of Mr. M and Mrs. R. D. White. He was horn July 7. 1579. at Mendon, Ohio. When 13 years of age Mr. White became . employed with the Standard Oil Com- . pany. and for 35 years he has served , that company in various capacities. , In early life. Mr. White was united 1 in marriage to Cora Kettel. who surI vives. Tv this union, two sons were horn. They are Noel 11. White, who is employed at the Decatur works of E the General Electric Company, and Niles A. White, who. until recently. ) was a student at Indiana University. 1 The Whites moved to Preble from . Ohio more than 18 years ago. and Mr. r White was always actively engaged in | all the community affairs of that town. He was well-known and he- ! loved in the entire county, and his ■ many friends extend their sympathy > to the family during their bereavement. Two brothers, Frank White, of Oklahoma, and Clark White, of Ohio, and two sisters Mrs. Jeanette Ballinger. of Ohio, and Hrs. Hattie Dodge. ! of Decatur, also survive. Funeral services will be held Friday afternoon at 1 o’clock from the home ' in Preble, and 1:30 O’clock from the , Methodist church iu this city, of ' which Mr. White was a member. The Rev. A. R. Fledderjohann. pastor of the Zion Reformed church, will have charge, assisted by the Rev. If. N, I Covert, Rev. Mr. Keiser and Rev Mr. - Hygema. Burial will take place at 1 St. Marys, Ohio. • — —o —— Former Decatur Eolith 1 “Snapped” With Coolidge Francis Stephenson, former Decatur young man, was one of a group of newspaper correspondents photographed recently in company with President Coolidge. The photo appeard recently in The Shrine MagaI zine, in connection with a story entitled, “There’s A piece in the Paper." Mr. Stephenson i-s a correspondent foi ■ the Associated Press news service, assigned to the executive mansion at Washington, He has had a steady rise in the journalistic profession. He i„ a son of the Rev. Mr. Stephenson, “ former pastor of the First Methodist church in this city, and a brother ’ of Miss Helen Stephenson. Instructor ‘ O s physical training for girls in the t Decatur high school during the year ! just closed. Voters Go To Polls In Florida Today i Miami, Fla.. June 8-(United Press) . -Florida went to the P°” s ln the , primary today. Although seven cam , didates are in the race for the three , national posts to be filled, the prospoets of Mrs. Ruth Bryan Owens. , daughter of the late William Jennings ’ Bryan, who is seeking the no ’ n " ,a ’ , tion to congress from the fourth disX, was the most widely discussed.

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TITLE ID DLD CEMETERY IS GIVEN TO CITY Deed Transferring Grounds From County To City Delivered Today MEMORIAL PARK PLANNED BY CITY The deed transferring the old cemetery grounds on Winchester street from the county to the city of Decatur for park purposes was signed by the county commissioners today and delivered to Mayor Krick by County Attorney Henry H. Heller. The deed conveys the tract of giound to the city, with a stipulation that it can be used by the city, but not sold, mortgaged or otherwise transferred. If the city surrenders title to the property or attempts to sell or otherwise attempts to transfer it, the condition is that the title passes back to the county. Several weeks ago, the city petitioned the county commissioners to convey the title to the ground to the city, so that steps could be taken to beautify the pace ami turn it into a meiuoria park. The city pans, after due notice has been given to the pub ic, to remove the graves in the cemetery, to convert it into a city park and if efforts along this line are not blocked, the cemetery will be made into a city park next spring. o Want to Abandon Bus Line Indianapolis June 8 A petition to abandon the bus line between Fort Wayne and l?m was fled today with the state public service commission by Henry Taul, receiver for the Fort Wayne Van Wert and Lima traction company. The petition said the company's operating revenues totalled $335 in April, from the line against operating cost of $1,649. o Dies In Doctor’s Office Elwood. Ind.. June 8. (U. P.) Stricken with an attack of heart trouble. Mrs. Nettie McMillan 51, died while awaiting irea'ment in a ductor’s office yesterday. o BAND IS READY FOB CONCERTS Arrangements Completed For Concerts At Opening Os Swimming Pool Plans have been completed for the two free band concerts to be given Friday and Saturday nights of this week at Water Works Park, in connection with the formal opening of the municipal swimming pool, by the General Electric band, according to the committee in charge of the con cert and entertainment. The concert each evening will begin at 7:30 o’clock. Refreshments stands will be erected and will be run under the auspice's of the General Electric band. A bathing suit aud

ILIVVVIIV cap will be presented to some person each night. Tickets for the presentation will be sold by employes of the local works of the General Electric. Tickets may be purchased at the park on either night before the presentation. A bingo stand also will be erected, according to present plans. Proceeds from the concession stands will go toward sending the General Electric band and fire department as a separate unit to the firemenli Convention at JniManapOlis later this month. Previous to this year, the local fire department and baud were combined with the Fort Wayne works. Employes this year decided to go as separate units, and devised the concerts as a means of raising the funs necessary. The public is cordially invited to attend the opening of the pool and the free band concerts. In case of inclement weather, the concerts will be held whenever the swimming pool is formally opened, the committee announced today.

Decatur, Indiana, Tuesday, June 8, 1926.

Cat Came Back But Only After Much Persuasion Minneapolis, Minn., .lime 8. (United Press) A cat meowed from u tree top around 27th Avenue for two days. The cat had gone up after a bird and a heavy wind kept It up against Its Inclinations. Even fire department ladders couldn’t reach the cat and on the second day neighbors implored firemen to “do something.” The firemen did. They cut down tlie tree and tlie eat came down with it unharmed. 0 .— CONTRACTS LET FOR TWO ROADS Bieberick And Arnold Get One Road; Finley Striker Gets Other One i Contracts for building two maca- i dam roads in Adams county were i awarded by the county commission- 1 ers this morning, the successful bidders being Keberick and Arnold on , the Behnke road, in Root township, | and Finley Striker on the Schwartz 1 road, in Berne. The two roads will be improved with macadam and each is about two , miles in length. The Schwartz road included several streets and intersections In Berne. Monroe township. The blds filed with the commissioners follow': The Bohnke Road. Arthur Zehr, $13,874: Finley Striker. $12,406; Julius Hnngh. $11,991.56; Phil Sauer, $11,(170; Bieberick and Arnold. $11,574. The Schwartz Road. Arthur Zehr, $11,869; Finley Striker, $8,799; Christian Eicher, $9,800; Dennis Striker. $10,582.75. These two roads will be improved this summer, together with several other roads which are in the process of being improved. —o Bread And Water Diet For Violators Os Liquor Law In Nebraska Upheld Lincoln, Neb., June 8. — (I nited Press.!—The Nebraska supreme court today upheld the imposition of a bread and water diet for the first twenty and th ( > last twenty days of a two months sentence for violation of state liquor laws. The case was an appeal from the findings of Judge Orville Chat of Burt county. As the result of the opinion written by Justice W. H. Thompson with his associates concurring. Ray - Carson aud Thomas Nelson face forty days of light fare iu the county ’ jail. o - 1 Looses Hand in Bread Mixer Warsaw Ind., June 8 -Guy Zolinan. 15, of Argos,suffered the loss of his right hand today, when the member i was torn off by a bread mixing mai chine in a Warsaw bakery where he I had secured a job. I —o

Rev. Atchinak To Speak At Monroe Friends Church The Rev. Vartan Atchinak, a native of Asia Minor and director of the Bible lands Gospel Mission of Syria, will preach at, the Monroe Friends church at 7:30 o’clock Wednesday evening. The public is invited to at--1 tend the meeting. Rev. Atchinak will 1 be the principal .speaker at two-day convention of Uhe Young Peoples So- ’ ciety of the Middle District of the Mennonite General Conference, to be held in the First Mennonite church, ’ of Berne, Saturday and Sunday. ' KNOW YOUR STATE ’ INDIANA, in the heart of the hardwood timber belt, dropped ’ from first place in 1919 to twenty--1 third in 1925 in timber production. f Indiana is inaugurating a reforest- ' atlon program under tlie direction > of the State Conservative Com--0 mission. ■ H ■ I —■

ORY LEAGUE TRIO SEEKS DISMISSAL I OF CHARGE AGAIN; Another Motion To Dismiss j Contempt Os Court Pro- I ceedings Is Filed POINTED DENIAL OF CHARGES IS ENTERED < (United Press Staff Correspondent) Indianapolis, June 8. Another motion for dismissal of the contempt of court proceedings against three of flcials of the Indiana Anti Saloon League, was filed today with the state f supreme court. < The motion was presented by James t t. lngham, consul for Dr. E. S. Schu- t maeher, league superintendent, Jesse < Morton and E. A. Mlles, league ut- 1 torneys, the trio accused of contempt ' At the same time Bingham entered a pointed denial of all the points f raised by AttorTley General Gllliom 1 in his bill of Information asking that ' the men be punished for contempt of * court. Bingham served reply ami . said there was no intention on the part of a Schumacher to holo (he supreme * court in contempt of its liquor law r decisions in his annual report. He also assnrled that Miles and Morton were not responsible for publhation of the report. o Stolen Car Is Found t North Os This City t t An automobile belonging to E. A. I Englehart, of Galion, Ohio, which was stolen tn Riiryrns. Ohio, early last 1 Sunday morning, was found by She- 1 riff John Baker, yesterday evening The car, a 1925 model, two-door Overland sedan, was found in the ditch at 1 the side of the Adams Allen county ' line, three miles east of Williams. ’ Persons living in that vicinity said ' the car had been there since Sunday evening. There was no gasoline in ' the tank ami one tire was punctured, hut the car was not damaged, otherwise. There were golf clubs, golf shoes ami balls and a letter bearing Mr. Englehatt’s address in the car. Sheriff Baker recoved a card this morning telling of the theft of Mr. Engelbart’s car ami offering a suitable reward for its return. WANT COVERED BBIDGE REPLACED Old Scheumann Bridge In Prehle Township Doomed; Bridge Fund Low The old Scheumann bridge spanning the St. Marys river, on the Scheumann road in Preble township, northwest of Decatur, is doomed. It is one of the few wooden covered ■ bridges in Adams county. A petiiton ' was filed with the county commissioners today, signed by 190 taxpayers in Root and Preble townships, asking that a new bridge be erected ' in Its place, due to the fact that it , is out of repair and lias been con- > demned as unsafe for traffic. The old Scheumann bridge is one , of the familiar landmarks in this , county and is known to fishermen - and motorists who have frequented 1 the place and the adjacent surrounds Ings on outings. It spans the St. „ Marys river at a very important point » and is located on one of the main L > traveled highways in the county. County Council Called Sufficient money is not available in the bridge fund to rebuild the several bridges which need repair now. The specific appropriations for the bridges which have been improved this year were made last year ■ and cannot be used for other pur--1 poses. The county comtnisisoners have asked for a joint meeting with | the county council and the auditoi was authorized to call the county council for July «, a! which time the bridge funds and other appropria tions will be taken up

Educational Motion Picture To Be Shown "Buck Home", a three reel motion pietote showing work on the farm and ii remedy for keeping the young boys on th*- farm, will be hown ut the K. of ('. hall, W<-dm sduy night The pitore Is along the eduai'tlonal line. FATHER AND SON ARE SENTENCED Sentences Are Suspended As Both Promise To Go Straight In Future John Deßolt ami John Deßolt, Jr., father and son, wor. arraigned in I circuit court before Judge Sutton this morning, the former for failure to provide for is wife ami two minor children, nnu the latter for petit 1 larceny. Both pleaded guilty and were sentenced. Tlie son, 17 years old. was arraigned first. In an affidavit signed by 1 Henry C. Berning, ho was charged i witli stealing an 8-gallon milk can. I,ocu! police officers found the can, filled with gasoline, buried near the Deßolt home Sunday. The boy. after a short conference with his father in the court room, entered a plea of guilty. The court fined him $3 and costs and sentenced him to serve from 1 Io 8 years in the Indiana State Reformatory. The sentence was suspended and the youth placed on parole to the superintendent of the state r< formatory. Judge Sutton lectured the boy for several minutes, telling him that be would ba sent to the reformatory to serve his sentence if he over got into trouble again. Tile boy was charged with larceny once before In an affidavit filed In the circuit court. The affidavit charging the elder Deßolt with failure to provide for his family, was signed by his wife, Amelia Deßolt. He entered a plea of guilty, admitting to the court that he had not provided sufficiently for his wife and children. He told the court he had been drinking, but refused to divulge the name of the party from whom he obtained the liquor, saying that be got II from a Fort Wayne man whom lie didn't know. Tlie court fined hint $1 and costs and sentenced him to serve six months on the state farm. The sentence was suspended on condition that the defendant provide for bis family. —o Court Holds That Search On Suspicion Is Illegal Indianapolis June B—Tlie state supreme court today ruled that it is unlawful to search an automobile on mere suspicion that it contains liquor. The decision was given in ordering a new trial for Rolla Boyd, of Evansville, on the ground that his conviction in ilie Vanderburgh county court of transporting liquor was illegal because the men who arrested him were not armed with a warrant to search his ear. — . o

Coolidge And Mellon Vo Be Invited To Speak ( in Indiana Next Fall ( Indianapolis. Ind., June B—(United Press)—lndiana Republicans today prepared to invite president Coolidge and Andrew Melon, .secretary of the treasury, to sp«uk in the state during ! the campaign next fall. I Harry Fenton, secretary of the state . committee, left for Washington to arrange for a conference with the J President and secretary Mellon on , Thursday. Clyde Wulb, state chairman. Lawrence Cartwright. Eighth district B chairman, ami J. T. Moorman, treae surer of the state committee, will r leave for Washington tomorrow to s extend the invitation. i. Decision to ask president Coolidge r and secretary Mellon to make cam- -. paign addresses in the state was s reached at a conference, of the state h committee and candidates for state ,r officials here yesterday. y Wulb also submitted a proposal for ea statewide gathering of republican 1- workers in Indianapolis the latter part of July.

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SEN. CUMMINS COOLIDGE CHOICE IS OVERWHELMED Former Senator Brookhart Wins Republican Nomination For Senator LEAD IN EXCESS OF 50.000 VOTES DesMoiitcs, Lt.. .1 ii n<• 8. (I'niled Press) ('.<»!. Smith W. Biookhtiil's lead ovei* Senator Albert B. Cummins for the republican senatorial nomination mounted to more than tII.INH) votes this afternoon. Beturns from 1,803 precincts of 2.117 gave Brookhart, Ititi.03U; Cummins 115,590 and Clark, 53,112. Claude It. Porter was leading Ills opponents for the democratic nomination by more than 4.000 votes on the basis of returns from 902 precincts. H|s pterdenttage was abpuj tlie 35 percent required for nomination. The vote was. Porhr. 15,225; Ray Files, 8,364; J. Murtaugh. 6.667; George Finch, 2,740. Dex Moines. lowa. June 8. — (I nited i'ress)—The lowa farm vote today had apparently repudiated the national administration by naming Smith W. Brookhart as the republican nominee for the United States senate. Returns from more than one-half of the precincts of the state this morning indicated that Brookhart, progressive proponent of agricultural relief had defeated Uw veteran senator. Albert B. Cnmuiiu-,.. by juore Ifean 30,000 plurality. Some politicians estimate that Brookhart will pile up a lead of 50.000 to 70.000 votes over Cummins, close friend of the national adniinfstratioa. by the time the final ballots are counted. in the democratic race Claude R. Porter had a good lead over J < Murtaugh with J. R. Files running a good third. So complete wax tlw rout of lowa s senior senator today that even his own supporters admitted his defeat, so far as the early returns were considered. The defeat of Cummins and. the nomination of Brookhurt, a farm hloc leader who was defeated for his senate seat in 1924 by Daniel J. Steck only after a senatorial recount, can easily be considered as answer of the lowa farmers to the national administration’s farm policy. Deal To Merge Coal Mines In Indiana And Illinois Is Revealed I’iekncyville. 18.. June B—A deal to merge 41 coal mines in Indiana and southern Illinois is behind the sale of the assets of the Southern Gem coal coporation it was revealed here today. The deal which will Involve a bond issue of $17,000.ouo and working capital of $5.000,000 will include 17 mines in Indiana and the remainder in south-

mn Illinois. SAND PIT BLAST KILLS SIX MEN Premature Explosion Os Dynamite Takes Toll In West Virginia Berkley Springs, W. Va., .lune B.— (United Press.) — Six men are dead and another is in a critical condition following an in a sand pit of the Berkley Springs Lass Sand company. The dead: Oliver Moon. Irvine Henry. George Wall, Romanis Dawson, Hmory Mil ler. J. W Miller, Filmore Norris whs in a critical condition at a Hagerstown. '.ld , hospital and is not expects dto live At a coroner's inquest it was found ! that the deaths of the men were I caused by a premature explosion of dynamite lute yesterday.

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