Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 25, Number 76, Decatur, Adams County, 30 March 1927 — Page 1

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HINA STILL IN TURMOIL: NATIVES STCNEREFUGEES •— Foreign Troops And Sailors Converging I pon Shanghai; V. S. Ship Fired On cANTONESE I* R o M I S F TO PREVENT VIOLENCE ,n ('hhi-i in turmoil to(hv with foreign troops and sailors converging upon Shanghai. the richest port m the orient. . „ . e , • I Marshal Chang Kai-Shek, Cantonese coininander-in-cliiet, promised to use all his inllu;.nce to prevent the use ol Violence against the foreign communities at Shanghai. Th? U. S. S. Font was fired on above Woosung and replied with machine gun and four-inch gun fire. Information from the IT; S. consul at Chefoo that the situation there was becoming worse caused the I'. S. S. Preston to start for Chefoo from Shanghai. Forty seven British and American refugees were stoned at Anking when they were boarding the U. S. S. Hulbert. Chinese fired 500 shots at the forTatung, at Nanking, but the vessels eign-owned steamers, Luncho and and passengers escaped injury. Mission is Looted Washington. March 30. —(United Press)—The American CathoUu-JUis-. sion at Fuchow in Kaatung Province was reported today to have been looted, and its fathers have fled to Koshow. Other missionaries leaving Nanking were stoned. Admiral C. S. Williams, Asiatic (COXTIXTED OX PAGE FIVHI o Geimer Baby Dies Shortly After Birth Funeral services were held at 2 " .ittcrnocn fcr. the Infant babe of Mr. and Mrs. Merman Geimer. of east of this city. The babe died a short time after birth at 3 o’clock this morning. Services were held at St. Mary’s Catholic church and burial was made at the St. Joseph Catholic cemetery. COUNTY W. C. T. II TO MEET APRIL 6 Annual Institute Os County Organization To Be Held In This City The annual institute of the Adams • ounty Women's Christian Temperance Union will be held in the Evangelical church in this city on Wednesday. April 6. An interesting program is being arranged for the one-day session. The various unions in the county will send representatives to the insti'»te. The Decatur union will act as host at the meeting. Friend! of the organization are invited to attend the 'nstitute. Several interesting talks will he given. —o Senior Play Again Draws Capacity Audience Another capacity audience witness'’he second and final performance " ’he play. “The Rejuvenation of unt Mary," produced by the senior ’ass of the Decatur high school, in e high school auditorium last night. *as said to be the largest second ’”g it audience that ever attended a n. e l. lt " r school class play. The oritim was filled on both nights of the production. The cast did even better last night an on the previous evening. Not a " n * e mistake occured during the er ormance last night. Members of 1 senio rclass again provided music between acts.

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Public Career Os “Peaches” Browning Gets Another Setback Pittsburgh. Mar. 30 —(United Press) The public career of Peaches Drowning received another setback today when Charles Lazaro, proprietor of the Flotilla Night Club, announced the wife of Edward West Browning of New York would not appear as hostess and dancer next week. He had previously announced Mrs. Browning, whose husband recent,ly was granted a decree of separation in New York, would appear "regardless of the attitude of the police or I the public." He refused to reveal the reason for his change in plans. o CAL E. PETERSON SPEAKSTO LIONS President Os Industrial Association Commends Cluh On Its Work ■■■ ' ■ ■ Cal E. Peterson, president of the Decatur Industrial Association, spoke at the regular meeting of the Decati'ri Lions club at the Industrial rooms lasi ' night. Mr. Petersen commended the! Lions of this city on their program of community welfare and asked them to cooperate with the Industrial Association. Following Mr. Peterson’s address, the regular weekly business of ti>> club was transacted. Officers of the club announced that the formal installation of the charter for. the. local club Whuld be'maile'as soon as'the dining room at the Deactur Country Club was completed. Lions from all over Indiana and western Ohio will attend the instalation. which will be in charge of the Fort Wayne club. The Fort Wayne organization will attend the function en masse. RADIO BOARD HARD AT WORN Federal Commission Seeks To Regulate Traffic On 96 Channels Os Air Washington, March 30.—(United Press) —The federal radio commission turned its httention today to regulation of traffic on the existhig 96 channels of the air. The commission sought the advice of experts on how tar wave lengths should be separated to prevent interference in reception. in the Tight of views of ail branches of the industry, the commission will probably turn a deaf ear to demands for widening of the broadcasting band, it was intimated. Discussion on this subject yesterday failed to produce a single backer of the proposal. Broadcasters, engineers, manufacturers and amateurs gave ominous warnings of the results that would follow extension of the band below 200 meters and above 500 meters. This extension, it is claimed, would provide additional air channels for new stations. Broadcasters and manufacturers claim the public is satisfied with existing stations and does not want any more established. Engineers agree receiving sets now on the market could not pick up stations opera.'ng below 200 meters. Tho n c operating above 550 meters, they claim, would interfere with S. O, S. calls from distressed ships. Extension below 200 meters would drive out amateurs, Spokesmen for this group claim. While considering the question of the space between wave lengths, the commission also had before it a proposal by E. A. Beane, commerce department supervisor for the Chicago district, for elimination of interference. By a simple readjustment of the frequencies of stations, Beane insists interference will vanish.

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TOWNS FLOODED AS MISSISSIPPI LEVEES GIVE WAY Thousands of Acres of Land Inundated In Arkansas; No Deaths Reported REFUGEES CARED FOR IN BOX CARS Litle Rock. Ark.. March 30—(United Press) —Swallowed up by a wall of J muddy water, a dozen small towns ol j Desha county . Arkansas, today were almost completely under water, while ; f.antic efforts hie being made by workmen along the Mississippi river front to prevent further floods. Ijevees at a half dozen villages in the Area —known as Laconia Delta — were reported here to have given way late last night, letting the river into thousands of acres of crop land. Danger warnings broadcast since 3 o'clock yesterday afternoon gave residents of (he area time to Hee with most of their mi vable goods, it was reported, and no deaths had occurred some livestock was lost when the vat cr swept over the land. Residents of the Area are being provided for in homes outside the flood district and in nearly four hundred ‘box cars at Snow Lake. The Missouri Pacific Railroad has sent officials to provide what relief may. be available. The Mississippi has been rising for some time fed by nothern rains and yesterday afternoon reached a 50-ioot stage at KnoWtfrnr. Th* there was one of the first to go out. Henrico. Laconia and Knowlton are thought to have suffered greatest damage. The towns are cn marshy ground. The total propitiation of the three villages is less than a thousand however, and the damage is therefore comparatively small. Efforts to strenghten the levees began late yesterday afternoon when several hundred workmen gathered at the weakened snots. Several places ; were saved by rapid work and today| I gangs are continuing their efforts in other threatened places. Families began arriving in droves at (( OXTIXI KD OX PAGE THREE) EXTEND DATE FOR ENROLLING Bovs And Girls Get More Time In Which To Enter County Calf Club Carl E. Amstutz. David J. Mazelfn, H. E. Zerkel and A. Z. Smith, members of the county calf club committee which has general direction of the calf club work in Adams county this year, met at the Bank cf Berne last Monday evening. J. D. Winteregg. Roy L. Price and L. M. Busche met with the committee. in reviewing the work accomplished thus far, it was found that approximately 25 boys and girls have enrolled in the First Year Calf Club, thus far. Since this is considerable under the number the committee has set out to reach, the enrollment date has been extended to April 15. All those who wish to enroll are urged to enroll at once, so they are sure not to be overlooked. Steps are being taken to locate suitable calves for those members who have not or will not obtain them themselves. It is said one trip and possibly more will be made to another part of the state where good calves can be purchased ffom purebred herds that are in cow testing association work, giving the prospective purchaser some assurance that the calf is of good producing blood. Some of the members and their parents have stated they will buy nothing for the club work except it be from a tested dam, as purebreds are not necessarily high producers. So those who are hesitating with their enrollment because they do not know (CONTINUED ON PAGE THREE)

Decatur, Indiana, Wednesday, March 30, 1927.

Two Americans Are Kidnapped In Mexico Washington, D. C. March 30.—(United Press)- Mexican-American differ | ences were aggravated today, though I not necessarily to a critical point, bj . Mexican bandit kidnapping ot Eagar Mouls Wilkins and his 18-year-old son, both American citizens. Consul 1). G. Dwyer had notified the State department the son was released and sent to Guadalajara and Mexican authorities, pursuing the captors of the father, had clashed with bandits who escaped. The pursuit is continuing and state department advices indicate the authorities are prosecuting the search with all vigor. — o W. P. MERRIMAN DIES OF INJURIES Fall From Hay Mow Proves Fatal To Blue Creek Township Farmer Injuries sustained when he fell twenty feet from the hay mow in the barn on his farm to a wagon below, Tuesday morning, proved fatal to William I’. Merriman, 51, prominent Blue Creek township farmer, and Mr. Merriman died at 5 o'clock yesterday evening, without regaining consciousness after the fall. A fractured skull caused his death. ’Mr. Merriman was unloading straw into the barn from the wagon and was standing in the hay mow door above the wagon when he lost his balance while pulling on the trip rope attached to the hay fork, and fell to the wagon, alighting on his head and right shoulder. Mr. Merriman was a son of Mr. and Mrs. Elisha Merriman, and was born in Blue (’reek township. March 3.1, 1875. He would have been 52 years old tomorrow. Twenty-nine years ago, Mr. Merriman was married to Victoria Riley, who survives. Mr. Merriman was a member of the Salem Methodist Episcopal church. He ’ taught school tor 23 years ami had'j ' spent the remainder of his life farming. Surviving, besides the widow, are, one brother, Lem Merriman, of Decatur; one sister, Mrs. John Meyers, of Blue Creek township; and the following children; Russel, of Decatur; Elisha, of Toledo, Ohio, and Omer, Beryl and Austin, at home. Funeral services will be held at the Salem Methodist church at 10 o'clock Friday morning, with the Rev. F. A. Shipley, of Pleasant Mills, officiating. Burial will be made in the Salem cemetery. DEARTH FORGETS HIS STATEMENTS Muncie .Jurist, On Trial Before Senate, Is CrossExamined Today Indianapolis. Ind., March 30. (United Press)— Judge Clarence Dearth, of Muncie today was subjected to rigid cross examination by house manager prosecuting impeachment charges against him before the state senate. Dearth was unable to recall a number of statements made during his ex-

amination on direct testimony by defenese attorneys yesterday. He answered more than a score of questions by the house managers regarding his previous testimony with the statement that "I don't remember or that I can't recall." Judge Dearth insisted that this memory was ordinarily unusually keen. He lacked the composure that marked his first appearance and at frequent Intervals drank a glass water. It was indicated Judge Dearth would be on the stand most of the day, and the defense will probably rest its case tomorrow. Under tills schedule closing arguments will be held Friday and a final (CONTINUED ON PAGE FIVE)

HOPE OF AVERTING STRIKEOFMINERS l< SHATTEREDTODAY! t { Suspension Os Work In Dis- 1 trict No. 11 In Indiana Begins Tomorrow , DISTRICT NO. 8 t MINERS TO WORK < V" ■ I Terre Haute, Ind.. Mar. 30. — (United < Press.)—AU hope that a suspension : of mining in district 11 tomorrow night might be averted was shattered . this afternoon. John Templeton, vicepresident of the Indiana bituminous I association, said his organization would not keep the mines open under terms of the Jacksonville agreement pending settlement. The proposal of th<* policy committee of the United Mine Workers that •(he mines remain in operation pending negotiation is not acceptable to Indiana be said. Large Mine To Operate. Brazil, Ind., March 30. — (United Press.)—The Big Bend Coal company with an annual output of 200,000 tons of black coal today signed up with officials of district eight United Mine Workers to continue operation under the old scale until a general settlement is effected. The Big Bend company is the largest producer in the black coal fields of Indiana. Officers of district eight will meet here tomorrow as other companies nave ‘indicated a willingness to eon tinue under the present scale. The operators of district eight, a small district In west central Indiana, pursued a similar policy of continuing pending settlement during the wage crisis of 1922. 0 Laborer Held On Murder Charge East Chicago. Ind., March 30 —(United Press)—Salvas Inyalis, employee of the East Chicago plant of the Youngstown Sheet, and Tube company, was I Wetoday on a charge o r> inier following an argument at the plant I which ended when Inyalis shot anti killed Apolonia Martinez, a fellow employee. 0 RDRAL SGHDDLS ARE ABANDONED One-room Schools Near Willshire And Wren, 0., Abandoned In Merger The school districts in the vicinity of Wren and Willshire, Ohio, have been changed by the Van Wert county board of education. Thirteen one-room schools in the county were eliminated in a merger which created two new centralized school districts. One of the new school districts will be known as the ten district, and will be composed of the Harker, ' Center, Hurless and Special Number 2 districts of Harrison township; the Wren village district and sections 1, ' 12. 15, one-half of 16, 17 and 18 of ' Willshire township. The change ■ leaves no separate Harrison township district.

Another new school district was created with all the remaining territory in Willshire township and Willshire village district, which will be known as the Willshire school district. The new Willshire and Wren districts are to operate on the centralized plan and to furnish transportation to students to schools located now in Willshire and Wren. It was considered likely that the transfer of territory and creation of two new centralized districts will necessitate additions to the Wilishire and Wren buildings and probably to the Tully-Convoy centralized building. The three north school districts and special district No. 1 of Harrison township were transfered to the Tully(CONTINUED ON PAGE THREE)

New Book To Reveal Political Intrigues Os I). C. Stephenson Indianapolis. Ind., Mar, 20—(United Press)—Prosecutor William H. Reiay of Marion county today made no comment on a personal investigation if a book sub! to be readv ter publication here aad advertised as con'trlning "startlL.g revelations" of the allege i political intrigue of 11.I 1 . C. Stephenson former leader of the Indiana Ku Klux Klan. Accompanied by Deputy Prbsecut'T John Nlblaek Remy went to the offices of the publishers of the 1- >ok and obtained information on the (iccuments and papers belonging t.» Stephenson th. hook is said to con .ain, i o FORMER BERNE RESIDENT DIES Wesley Nussbaum Dies Os Dropsy At Lutheran Hospital In Fort Wayne.

( Wesley Nussbaum, 32, of 2912 Euclid avenue, Fort Wayne, a former re- • sident of Berne died Tuesday morning . at 11 o'clock, of dropsy, at the Luther- , an hospital in Fort Wayne. Mr. Nussbaum was a son of Mrs. Ella Nussbaum of Berne. He was a ’ member of the Anthony Boulevard , Presbyterian church in Fort Wayne. Surviving, besides, the mother, are: thew idow; two sons. Clyde and Merlin; one daughter, Fern, nine brothers, Frank Fred, Edwin, Wilbert Innhart. Albert; Victor; John; Hirman; all of Berne; four sisters Mrs. Florence Stuckey, Mrs. Everett Reynolds Miss Lydia and Miss Edna, all of Berne. Funeral services will be held at the Anthony Boulevard Presbyterian church in Fort Wayne at 11 o'clock. Thursday morning, and at the First 1 Menonite church in Berne, at 2 o’clock Thursday afternon. Burial will be made iu the M. R. E. cemetery at 1 Berne. FOURTH LENTEN SERMON BIVEN Rev. Girardot Uses Subject “On The Threshold Os Eternity” Tuesday Night Another audience which filled the church heard the Rev. Father Charles Girardot of Bluffton, deliver the fourth of his series of Lenten sermons at St. Mary’s Catholic church in this city last evening. Rev. Girardot’s subject was, "On the Threshold of Eternity." The Rev. Father Hession conducted the services of reciting the Litany of the Sacred Heart and Benediction tin the Blessed Sacrament preceeding and following the sermon. Rev. Girardot’s sermon dealt with man’s last minute on earth and of his preparation for the life in eternity. In part he said: "There is a moment in the lives of all men that, will decide forever their fate. This is the last conscious moment before death. O, awful moment that decides for us eternal happiness or unhappiness. How important that we should never lose sight of that all-imlportant moment upon which our eternity depends. It is a critical moment, the like of which never comes again in this life or after; a solemn moment, which is the end of time and the beginning of eternity that telling moment, the most important in our lives, in which will be announced the irrevocable sentence; the blissful moment for the just, that sinister moment for the unrepentant sinner. The decision rendered at that eventful moment will never be altered throughout eternity. | For those who during life earnestly i and frequently consider this moment, Its terrors will be diminished. “There are people who are not im(CONTINUED ON PAGE FIXE)

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FEAR AT LEAST 250 MINERS ARE LOST IN DISASTER Pennsylvania Coal Mine Is Scene Os Tragedy; Several Miners Escape EXPLOSION FELT FOR MILES AROUND Johnstown, Pa.. Mar. 30. (I niled Press) With 350 men still entombed at 1 :3<> o’clock today in mine No. 3 of the Pennsylvania Coal and Coke Co. at Ehrenseld, 15 miles east of here, fears were entertained that at least 250 of the men were in the area ol an explosion that wrecked the drift mine at 12:30 o’clock today. At 2:30 it was reported sev-

eral men had escaped byway oi an air shaft, from section No. 18. but that they knew nothing of Hie fate of their fellow workers. No one had entered the mine at 1:45 p.m„ pending arrival of mine rescue teams from Johnstown and elsewhere. Medical Aid Arrives Johnstown hospitals sent ambulances. doctors and nurses. The Johnstown chapter of the Red Cross sent four nurses end two first aid teams, and towns in the many mining centers of Cambria county have sent aid of all kinds. The mine is a drift operation normally employing between 500 and 600 men. but has not been working full. Safety lamps were used and officials are at loss to account for the exploslon. Houses hundreds of yards away were knocked off supporting props. The explosion was felt for miles around. At the Cresson office of the company it was said that in lack of definite information the hope was held that 100 men may have escaped the explosion and may be rescued. Eight Entombed In Illinois. Harrisburg, 'll.. Mar. 30.—(U. P.) — Little hope was held out by rescue workers today for recovery alive of eight entombed by a gas explosion in (CONTINUED ON PAGE FIVE) CITES REASONS FOR CONVERSION U. B. Pastor Emphasizes Atonement And Reformation Os The Individual Your past life, your present life and your future life were three reasons for persons deciding for Christ as discussed by Rev. Smith last night at the United Brethren revival. The revival continues to hold great interest. Two persons bowed at the altar last night and others took a stand for Christ during the day. The Rev F. N. Myres and wife, of Craigville, were present and gave three selections on the mandolin and guitar last night. One of the numbers, ‘‘My Name in Mother’s Prayer," made a deep impression on the congregation. Rev. and Mrs. Myres will be present again tonight. In the sermon discussion the pastor emphasized the atonement and the fact that reformation of the individual was not the complete plan, but that God asks all to bring their past life of neglect and sin and let Christ take that, as therein is forgiveness made possible. Then in the present life we need the abiding presence of the Christ in order to live the Jesus way of living. And then the future holds in store two worlds or two places, 1 one with Christ and the other where ' he is not. The presence and witnes- ’ sing of Christ in the life here, secures ' the presence of Him in the next world. The services begin at 7:30 o’clock this evening.

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