Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 24, Number 173, Decatur, Adams County, 23 July 1926 — Page 1

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»CABINET |$ COMPLETED if POINCARE Franc Advances In Value A« New French Cabinet 1 Is Formed MI CH FAITH IS ‘ Bl ACEO IN BODY Paris. July 23.-( United PreM.)Rurmond Poincare today completed ' hi, cabinet slate, with the exception | of two portfolios, and immediately parted for the Elysee palace to ad,lk president Doumergue of his (Aiwntents. Shortly after Poincare conferred T jth Doumergue. it was officially an enured that the last two cabinet portfolios had been filled. Henri Queille. who had been tenta selected for the ministry of Htrimiture. was definitely established u that post and Andre Fallieries was oeiected for the ministry of labor. Poincare, who vigorously opposed ratification of the Meilon-Berenger dels funding agreement without vital amendments. and who is the man repansltde for the French invasion an.i ortipation of the Ruhr in 1923 apparentiy has succeeded in creating the r.intllt'on cabinet which many persons believe to be essential to the succor of French finance. The franc, the morning after Herriot formed his cabinet opened at J’o.jß to the pound sterling and 47.40 tn the dollar. Today, as Poincare completed his cabinet, the franc olosthe dollar ■ j The cabinet list was as follows:' lender and minister of (Insure--Poincare. Minister of justice— Barthoti. Minister of the interior —Carraut. Minister of foreign affairs —Briand. Minister of public works—Tardieu. Minister of tommerce-Bokanowsky. Minister of Colonies Perrier. Minister of war —Painleve. Minister of the navy—Leysues. Minister of public instruction — Harriot. Minister of pensions—Marin. Minister of agriculture-Queille. 'lter!" 17 r> . ueaerter Cao ant Indianapolis, Ind.. July 23.— (United Press» Morton Powell, 24. giving his home as fxiuisville, Ky., was held here today as a deserter from the army RED CROSS SENDS INSTRUCTOR HERE Expert Swimmer Arrives To Give Instructions At Pools In County J D Saffor, representing the American Red Cross, arrived in this city fHterday afternoon and will give lessons and Instruction s to Adams 'T’wltnmers under the auspices of the Hcd Cross association. A permanent schedule has not yet been arranged, but Mr. Saffron is planDlog to go to the various swimming Places in the county at least twice each week. The remainder of his time ’"HI be spent each week at the Decatur htunicipal pool at the Water Works Park. fcrne. Geneva and Preble are other 'owns In the county have swimming W>ls and Mr. Saffron will give instruidons at each of these places. His inductions are free and under the auspices of the county and national Red f’-ross organizations. XU persons in the county interested ’HI be given lessons in swimming lostructioos in life-saving. Mr. Aftron U a member of the Purdue wwijty swimming team and is one 0 die best swimmers in the state. He ’’l remain in Adams county until ‘’’Member 1. Perß °'*’ desiring special instruc- - s"'“ 111 dimming and lifesaving may Saffron at the local swimming I[p 1 ,llf ' rps < of this week. Next week " will announce his per,o(>nt schedule for Adams county.

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Jesse Mellett, Former Anderson Mayor, Arrested Indianapolis. Ind., July 23. tUnlt rd Press) -Jesse Mellett. 38, former mayor of Anderson, today faced charges of disorderly conduct and driving an auto while Intoxicated following the collision of two au.os het*. Mel,ett told arresting officers he was not driving the car in which he was found but that the driver fled after. th° cra-h. He resisted arres' and two officers were called to aid the patrolman I:, taking him into custody. ANOTHER HEAT WAVEJSCOMING Weather Bureau Forecasts Another Rise In Temperature Indianapolis, Ind.. July 23. — (United Press)—After a brief respite from the terfffic heat. Indiana today received the unwelcome warning that another rise in temperature Is due. Warmer weather was predicted for northern Indiana today and for the rest of the State Saturday. Cooling rains brought some relief to parts of the State yesterday, but in the central section there was no rainfall, although temperatures were somewhat lower than on Wednesday. Ten Killed When Bus Overturns On Grade Nsack. N. Y., July 23. —The terrildy crushed bodies of seven women and three children lie in the Nyack hospital morgue, killed in the crash of a heavy motor bus loaded with 51 members of the mother a club of Plum Beach. Ridgewood. Brooklyn. The vehicle overturned last night on a steep grade at Sparkhill, Rockland county. N. Y.. as the party was returnl.g from an excursion to Bear mountain. Twenty-five seriously injured are in the Nyack hospital and 16 with minor injuries were trans ported across country to the Poplar Street station in Brooklyn and distributed to their homes. — —o —— Social Tonight, | fcnworlli i-e..oue’" tii ' 'jyeuTaii Chapel will give an ice cream social and parcel post sale on the church lawn, five miles west pf Decatur, tonight. Refreshments of all kinds can he obtained, including sandwiches. The public is invited. 0 _ Liquor Sold On Leviathan. Washington, July 23.— Investigation was started today by prohibition officials into charges made by the association against the prohibition amendment that liquor was being sold and served on the S. S. Leviathan, which is owned and operated by the government. ’ Padlock proceeding against the largest ship afloat may be instituted if the charges are sustained. GIVES DISTORT OF ADAMS COUNTY 0. L. Vance Speaks At RegI ular Meeting Os Decatur Rotary Club ; 0. L. Vance gave an interesting re- . view of early history in Adams - county at the weekly meeting of the - Decatur Rotary dub last night. Mr. I Vance’s talk was interesting, giving many fine "yarns’’ of early life in I this and neighboring counties. - Mr. Vance began his talk by ex- . plaining that Adams county was, at > one time, a part of Randolph county. > and later was made a separate county • with two townships. Then as time 1 went on, the county was divided into the present 12 township. The talk contained many events f worth knowing. At the close of Mr. p Vance’s talk, John W. Tyndall, who t also has been active in disclosing his- - torlc facts of the county, added a few lines to what was already said.

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STEINER GAINS HIS FREEDOM Berne Man Furnishes $lO,000 Bond For Release On Manslaughter Charge Hugo Slelii,r, of Berne, was released from the Mercer county jail at Celina. Ohio, where be had been held since Tuesday morning on a charge of manslaughter, when he furnished bond in the sum of SIO,OOO late Thursday evening. He returned to his home in Berne last night. The bond was a surety bond, drawn up by the Aetna Casualty and Surety company, of Indianapolis. Omer W. Shooley represented the company in drawing up the bond. The manslaughter charge was filed against Steiner as a result of a collision between an automobile driven by him and a car filled with a pa«-v from Swander, Ohio, one mile east < f Celina last Sunday. Two women In the other car. the Misses Clara and Kffte Shearer, age. 65 and 66 yeas, respectively, were fatally injured tn the accident. o — — Petitions Os 150 For Clemency Are Denied Indianapolis, Ind., July 23. —(United Press.) —Oovernor Jackson today denied the petition of 150 persons serving sentences in state penal institutions for executive clemency. No pardons or paroles were granted by the governor, the only clenency extended being the commutation of sentences for twelve persons. Nine other cases were continued until a later session of t<«- state pardons ltoa.rU iJith* l>P tuJl dJS’ 1 posal. The governor’s action followed recommendations of the state pardons board on cases heard at its July meeting. The report of the board was approved by the governor without change. I ue report of the board is believed to have established a record by failing to recommend a single, parole or pardon. MANY WITNESS, WATERCARNIVAL Crowd Os More Than 400 Attends Contests At City Swimming Pool i A crowd of more than 400 persons attended the water carnival held at the city swimming poql last night. The various events were hotly ccnI tested and interesting. An admission i of 10 cents per person was charged and a totaltof more than $25 was realized. The money will be used in buying medals for the winners in the ; city tennis tournament, which starts next week, and in paying for the printing and other expenses connected with the tournament. J. D. Saffron, representative of the American Red Cross who will spend the next several weeks at Adams epunty Swimming pools, instructing swimmers, was present last night and aided Coach Curtis in handling the water carnival. The winners of the ■ different event* are requested to see Coach Marshall at the swimming pool to collect their prizes. in the vater basketball game, the only scoring tl-’ne was by Fred Mylott in the second I air. When he dropped 9 in a field goal, giving the Water Spaniels a 2-0 victory over the Water Logs. The first half ended 0-0. Several personal fouls were called on each team. The lineups were as follows: Water Spaniel.-.—Cole, forward, t persona!; t Haubold. forward; J Myiott, center; Marbaugh, guard, two personals; F. ’ Mylott. guard one field goal and one & personal. Water Logs—Somers, forward. one personal; Reynolds, forward 5 Gerber center; DeVor, guard one personal; Saffron, guard, one personal. 9 In the diving contest, the contes- ’ tants performed a front’dlve, a jack ’ knife, and a swan dive. H. Elzey won first; Sutilef, second; and G. v (CONTI Sll/SD ON PACK TWO)

Decatur, Indiana, Friday, July 23, 1926.

i Trapped Moonshiner Empties Liquor On His Bed Mattress' Ixigansport, Ind., July 23 tUnltml Ptms) Ixigaixport officers were confronted with a new perplexity to«iey in their efforts to enforce the State bone dry prohibition law. 'They will a.’k an opinion as to whether a mattress soaked with liquor is evidence of violation as the latv As the iaiders entered a home here, the owner poured five gallons of liquor on the mattress. H. C. POTTS DIES AT FORT WAYNE Former Decatur Resident Expires Thursday After Extended Illness Hi.am C. Rotts. 64. a resident of Adams county for thirty years, died yesterday afternoon at 2:30 o’clock at a hospital in Fort Wayne, after an illness of five years, due • a complication ol diseases. Mr. Potts moved to Fort Wayne from this city two years ago. Surviving are four sons, Ralph. Clarence, Glenn and Lawrence, of Fort Wayne; four daughters. Miss Etble, of Indianapolis, Miss Ida, of Decatur. Mrs. Romy Brelner, of Decatur. and Mrs. Carl Schug. of Berne; three brothers. Samuel, Albert and Peter, of Fort Wayne; and four sisters. Mrs. A. Crabill. Mrs. Albert Voirol. of Fort Wayne. Mrs. Harvey Sprague, of Decatur, anu Mrs. William Culley, of Toledo, Ohio. Funeral services will he held at the school house in Monmouth at 3 o’clock Saturday afternoon, with bur ial in the Monmouth cemetery. Detective Makes Trip To Canton Underworld Canton. Ohio.. July 23. —(United Press)—Detective Ora Slater, head of the outside forces attempting to run down assassin* of Don R. Mellett, Canton Daily News publisher, murdered in the back yard of his home a week ago, went alone into the “Jungle" earsiihiiooncd to th.- underworld by a telephone message. Slate: went to hit\ unknown informant, held a one hour conference and emerged highly elated over the outcome. He refused to divulge the nature of information gained. — o LDCAL PASTOR TO GO TO KENTUCKY Rev. E. A. Ball To Conduct Revival Meetings At Leighton, Kentucky The Rev. E. A. Ball, pastor of the local Church of God. will leave Sunday for lA'ighton. Ken'urcy. where he will conduct a revival meeting. Mrs. Bal! and their son will accompany hint. He will be gone about three weeks. Rev. Ball has conducted several revival meetings in several states and has always met with great success. Miss Nellie Hawkins, of near this city, will accompany the Ball's to Leighton and will assist Rev. Ball with the meetings. Miss Hawkins Is a graduate of the Church of Cod seminary, at Anderson, and has -bpd considerable experience will) revival meetings. During the absence of the past >r. the regular meetings will be held at the local church under the leadership of Lew Revnolds and Elmore Cook, of this city. The same weekly and Sunday schedule of services will he observed as has been this summer. o NO STORY TODAY There is no installment of the serial story, “The Girl in the Mirror” in the Daily Democrat today, owing to a lack of space caused by the large amount of advertising carried by the merchants. A larger installment will be printed on Saturday.

GOOD PROSPECTS FOR TON LITTERS Several Adams County Hog Feeders Have Chance To Win Laurels "Don’t count your chickens before they are hatched" Is a pretty sass old rule, but that doesn’t mean refraning from planning ahead, in the opinion of several of Adt.ms caunty ton litter feeders who have been interviewed recently by 1,. M. Busche. county agent. Although a ton litter isn’t a ton: litter until the scales say it weights a ton. there's no harm in figuring and speculating a little, and probably no man who has the honor of feeding a ton litter can say truthfully he was not quilty of a vision months ahead of seeing his pigs bring the scale beam up to the ton mark on their 18(»ih day. One of the spectacular prospects is a litter of 7 pigs being fed by Benj. D. Mazelin, of Monroe township. Ben weighed his pigs when thev were f)l days of age and they tipped the scales at 742 pounds, an average of 106 pounds. This means they must each gain a shade more than two pounds each day, during the next 89 days, in order to make the ton. This is not at all impossible, but will keep Ben on his toes to do it. John W. Blakey, whose litter of 11 purebred Durocs won county honors last year with a total weight of 3070 pounds, is in the lace with 8 pigs. Johns father. Henry Blakey, is again feeding the litter. When seen a few days ago, the pigs were doing fine, and although ton litters of only 8 pigs are pretty scarce, they bid fair to make it without difficulty. Fred M Bleeke. whose litter of 10 weighed 1387 p unds last year, is attempting to repeat with two prospects, of 9 and 10 pigs, respectively. The pigs are doing well. Albert Davison, young St. Marys township farmer is attempting to make the ton with 9 purebred Poland Chinas He lias them on blue grass pasture in the orchard, is feeding them a small amount of ear corn, with ground oats ami wheat slop in the morning and evening and whole oats a! noon. His .CONTINt'Kn ON PARK THHEE) Q— - •lEWH WELLSBEING DRILLED Adams County Continues To See Much Activity In Drilling There continues to be much activity in the Adams county oil field. A large number of wells are being pumped daily now. The production of the wells varies from 3 or 4 barrels to st) or more barrels per day. The Harmon ' well on the Niblick farm near Berne continues to be the banner well. George S. Ijacknett, of Pittsburgh, has spudded in well No. 2 on the Sipe ' farm in Bllue Creek township. No. 1 ' on the Sipe farm is producing between ‘ 10 and 12 barrels per day. Haney and Schulte farm are rigging up on No. 7 on the Schulte farm in Blue Creek township. No 6, which was ' brought in the first of this week. 1 was put on pitYnp Wednesday morning • and lias been pumping steady since ' then. There is a nice production of ’ oil and no water in this well. There 1 is a good showing of gas. also. The ' daily production of the well can not ■ be determined until the oil has been ' pumped off once. Several wells are being drilled near ' Berne. There appears to be a good ’ poo! south and west of Herne. > A deep test well will be drilled in the Hotmire pool in the south part of Jay county, on the Hotmire lease. The drilling will be done by Christman, of Selma, Indiana. One of the natural flowing wells in 4his field will be selected us the deep test aud will be drilled 400 feet into the Trenton rock Oil operators who know this field believe a deep test well will strike a larger pool of oil than was found higher up. We’.ls drilled in at greater depths farther west, in Randolph and Delaware counties have tapped this pool and wells making from 400 to 1,000 barrels have been the result.

Murder Occurs At State Village For Epileptics New.-astle, Ind., July 23. I United Press.) Henry county authorities and officials of the Indiana Village for epileptics today Investigated the killing of Thornton Watts, 52. a patient at the farm, by Ray Tannehill, 37, of Columbia Cuy, another patient. The two men were pitching hay when Tannehill became enraged at the manner in which Watts was throwing the hay and hurled a pitchfork at him. killing him almost u stuntiy. One of the prongs pierced Watts’ heart. CONFERENCE IS HELD NEAR BERNE Defenseless Mennonite Delegates Hold Annual Meeting This Week Berne, July 23—The annual conference of the delegates of the De fenceless Mennonite churches was held at the Mennonite chu.eh west of here, Tuesday and Wednesday. The convention, which usually follows the conference .as omitted this y«ar, but will be continued next year. Despite heavy loses during the year, through the unfortunate closing of the Bank of Meadows, the conference voted to continue the support of the Foreign Mission work. Another matter of importance, was the resolution read to the dedegates by the Defenseless Committee of Elders, who met with a like committee from the Missionary Church Association at Fort Wayne last March, to discuss plans for closer coope ration. A resolution on the death of their beloved bishop, the Rev. C. R. Egie. was adopted by the delegates. Numerous candidates for ordination were examined by the Elders and the following were presented as ready for ordination: Harry Bertschf. Levi MeiOthers licensed were: Robert F. Shelinger. Jerry Sander. Aaron Slagle. Emmanuel Rocke, and Sam Ehresman. rard. Emanuel Becker and Irving J. ;<lopf»nstine. The new offic-rs of the conference are: Elder J. K. Gerig chairman, Rev. C. E. Rediger, vice-chairman Elmer !•! R.UPP, secre'ar). >.ouiu ui UUBiees; .a. j. ntuiuii. lian man ; .amo-’Seuhau.ser. assistant chairman; Charles Becker, secrefaty. treasuere; Moses Roth, J. C. Hertche, Noah Stacky, D. M. Zimmerman, Jchn Slagle and Henry Diller. o Strikers’ Wives Appeal To Mayor Duvall Today Indianapolis, Ind.. July 23.—(United Press) —Fifty-one women, wives and relatives of striking street car men. today appealed to Mayor Duvall to take a hand in settling the strike. They marched to the city hall and waited outside the Mayor's office for two hours while he conferred with political leaders. "We've got to do something or we'll starve,” the spokesman of the delegation said. WILL CELEBRATE MISSION FESTIVAL Members Os Zion Lutheran Church To Gather In Doehrman Grove, Sunday The members of Zion Lutheran congregation will gather at. the Doehrmann Grove one half mile east of the Friedheim Lutheran church Sunday, July 25 to celebrate their annual Mission Festival. For that occasion, two services have been planned, one to begin at 9:30 a. m. and the other at 1:30 p. m. The Rev. Ad. Eggers, of Wapakoneta, Ohio, will occupy the pulpit in the morning service, and the ■ Rev. M. Frosch, of the Blakey Settlement. this county, formerly of South America, will preach in the after- • noon. All friends of Mission work are cordially invited to attend. The i Friedheim band will furnish the > mu.de. All kinds of refreshments can be had at the stands.

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NEW RAILROAD BOUGHT WITHOUT I. C.C, APPROVAL Interstate Commerce Commission Investigates Van Sweringen Deal NEW ROAD BOUGHT IS IN VIRGINIA Washington. I). ('. July 23.--(Unit-ed Pres,) —An investigation of one of the numerous Van Sweringen Nickel Plate railway acquisitions, was initiated by the interstate commerce commission today to determine why the Union Trust company of Cleveland. Ohio, purchased all the stock of the Greenbrier and Eastern railway company of West Virginia without asking the commission's approval as required by law. The commission, in an order today announcing the investigation, said the purchase was made for the Chesapeake and Ohio Railway company, also controlled by the Van Sweringens. The commission will investigate all circumstances surrounding the transaction. including the price paid. The (Ireiwibier and Eastern is an eleven mile road in West Virginia. o — — Lightning From Clear Sky Kills Two Children t Bloomington, Ind.. July 23. —(Unit- , ed Press) —A bait of lightning out of . a clear sky struck a farmhouse near here late yesterday, killing Viola r Williams. 8. ami her little brother. Paul, 4. Another child was stunned by the , stroke of lightning and the Father Otis, was knocked down as he stood . on th“ front po:cb of the home. Fire followed the lightning holt but neighbors rushed to the house and extinguished the blaze before it had done much damage. — o Horse Race “Bookie” Fined At Hartford C’ty • Frank Peacher. of Dayton, Ohio, was fined $5 and costs, amounting tn sl7- “ oil. tn city c 0.,.; a< Harttoru t tty ’ UrTursirj'/.of < •.ndiict ing . a gambling pool at (lie Montpelier , race track, where a race meet is in i progress. Peacher was operating as a “bookie" during the races, having procured concession space for the purpose of selling refreshments. MRS. MOSER TO SING IN CONTEST I Decatur Woman To Be Heard Over Radio From i Chicago Saturday Night Mrs. Cecil Moser will leave tonight for Chicago, where site will reprei sent Adams county In the district radio broadeasting coriiest to be held 1 at station WLS, at the Sherman hotel. Chicago, Saturday night. .Mrs. Moser will broadcast about 8 o’clock. The i program starts at i:3O o'clock tomorrow night and will last until each county representative in this district 1 has completed the program. The entire city is invited to listen r in on WIjS tomorrow night. Mrs. Moser was selected as Adams county’s . representative front more than a . dozen entries at a contest held re- » cently at the Adams theatre. Her , part of the program tomorrow night - will be a series of vocal solos, j Mrs. Moser is the only lady soloist j on the program, tomorrow. Anyone t wishing to wire congratulations to f Mrs. Moser may reach her by addresss ing the telegrams iu care of Hotel s Sherman, radio station. WLS. Since •- the winner is determined largely by i the number of telegrams receive.l. all • persons are urged to wire congratulate tions. Several civic organizations e and booster units In lAecHtur e have signified their intentions of hMpn ing Mrs. Moser win the district con test.

DECATUR has a plentiful supply of pure water, obtained front weiLs 400 to 450 feel deep