Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 25, Number 95, Decatur, Adams County, 21 April 1927 — Page 1

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||OHDITIONS in ■stricken area II CROW ALARMING Bitvecs Continue To Give M Way: No H o p e Os I Immediate Relief If! i-ST NOT DUE I before ten days Bp, United Press Disease attacked refugee camps M rea today. New I ■vers hurst ill various sections Klhe Mississippi valley, ravish- ■ by high walers, more thousare homeless, more lives K- bee:: !i st —and there is no of immediate relief. !■ Outbreak of contagion in twq Rrkaasas refugee camps alarm-uinhoiiih-s who are seeking to profor :!’.(■ homeless in concentraCold and rain have al■l wii'n file flood waters to cause I i ath and suffering. H C.imp (. editions are not the most I ianitary and resistance of the,, flood j■: tine io disease has been lowered suffering. Camp conditions are not the most H Tin disaster appears, in figure as : IB Dead: At least GO. Tornados accompanying the heavy rains which the rivers killed 100 more. . It Hs O ared th ■ death list is much heavbut many inundated areas have been penetrated. B Injur* <1: Estimated at 300, not in- | lluding an estimated 500 refugees ■irk in toneentration camps. ’■Homeless: SO 000. This number is increasing hourly. I Property damage: Many millions. Blamage has lieu variously estimated Hit J20.0it0.000 to $50,000,000 or more But an io .-urate figure is impossible B) obtain because of the nature of the Ba magi. 11 The most dangerous threat today ’ll.-tjjsoa se was 111“ n ■ Misouri i iver. v aluab.e propertv borders the river bank in Kansas city. The Kansas City, Kans., Bide of the river has already been looded. Crest Due In Ten Days Washington, April 21. — (U.P.) — Tbe crest of the midwest floods will reach lower Mississippi river regions in about ten days and the worst affects will be felt between May 1 and 15. the war department was advised today hy army officers on the seene. Supplies of tents to house refugees have been exhausted in the four central army corps areas anti the eastern area has been called on for additional canvas. five thousand pyramidal tents left Quartermaster headquarters at Philadelphia today in two special trains comprising 17 freight cars, and 2-500 mor ® teats were being loaded at 'he same point. Soldiers worked all night on the loading. Army officers reported 204,000 tent Pins have been sent from Columbus Ohio. AH the supplies were dispatched to St - Louis, Mo. — o Community Meeting At luandy berry School Friday The public is invited to attend the ’““huinity program to be given at ,lb ‘ Brandyberry school, Friday evenin R. April 22. Dinner will be served at 6.45 o’clock. Following the -dinner' a program will be given. Com“unity singing and an addres by o'. • Xante, of Decatur, will be features. ‘ 11,lr ed Worthman, Arthur Suttles/ an 'l Lyle Mallonec, Decatur high S( 00l pupils, W i|] f ur nigh saxophone atl! l clarinet music. The trio will r °adcast from Fort Wayne Saturday 11 dng. Mrs. Vera Owens and Miss orence Bigga. teachers of the ran dyberry school, and the pupils wl ge she puhlic t 0 attend this affair, 111,1 will mark the closing of the school year.

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ACCEPTS POSITION IN SAN DIEGO, CALIF. Miss Doris Erwin. Decatur Gir', Resigns Position In Chicago Miss Doris Erwin, daughter 'f Mr. and Mrs. Dore U. Erwin, of Decatur, returned to Chicago this week, after a short ,?Tcation witlt iter parents. Miss Erwin has resigned her position as director of girls work at Howell House a Bohemian community b ine in Chicago. and has accepted a pottition as recreational director in a Spanish community house in San Diego, Calif >r nia. She will leave to take charge pt her new position on May 2. The home at San Diego is supported by a number of wealthy Church people of that ci'y and the position accepted by Miss Erwin is a fine one. “IRISH EYES” IS PLEASING COMEDY Large Audience Enjoys Play Staged By St. Mary’s Dramatic Club The three-act comedy. “Irish Eyes " given by the St. Marys Dramatic club, under the auspices of the St. Agnes Society < f St. Mary's Catholic church, was well received by the large audience which attended the production at the Catholic high school auditorium last nigh'. The stage settings were beautiful and the lighting effects were unique. The' play opened wIHi a sceneTn .TolTn Brady's apartmen' on Riverside Drive. N. Y„ the characters in the opening scene being wealthy Joint Brady, played by Joe Hirschinger; Lanty Lannigan, who took a double role of butler and piper, played by Martin My’.ott; Eileen Brady, daughter of John Brady, played by Miss Reg'na Murtaugh; Dan Riley in New York, played by Clayson Carroll, and Shane O'Brian, played by Herman Omlor. The scene then shifted to many years ago, to a cottag.' near a fishing village, county of Galway, <■ m»..

GLEE CLUB TO GIVE CONCERT Girls’ Glee Club From Heidelberg College To Sing At Reformed Church. The Heidelberg Girls' Glee Club, of Heidelberg College, Tiffin- Ohio, will render a sacred concert at the Zion Reformed church, on Friday night, at 7:30 o’clock. The c'tib has twentythri e singers and will appear vested. Miss Phoebe Settlage is the capable director wi.h Miss Caroline Briesemeister as accompanist. Music-lovers will enjoy this program. A free-will offering will be lifted. The public is invited. Following is the program: Prayer of Thanksgiving Kremser Cod Is Love Shelley Great Is the Lord Harker The Glee Club Be Thou My Guide Lowell Prayer Perfect Bassett The Quartet Good Christian Men Rejoice 14th Century Melody arranged by Mansfield Listen to the Lambs Dett The Glee Club Reading Selected Marian Laubach King of Kings Shelley Holy Redeemer Donizetti x The Glee Club Grand Aria (Organ and Piano) Demarest Mises Zav and M. Alspach I Will Exa’t Thee Harris Tlie Glee Club Send Out Thv Light Gounod The Quartet ' Inflamatus et Aceensus (Stabat Mater) Rossini Miss Settlage and the Club Take Joy Home Bassett Miss Settlage Gold and Silver Dr. M. I Park Old Heidelberg .' Traditional Sweet Alma Home Power The Glee Club I

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Clyde Walb To Address Decatur Rotarians Tonight Hon. Clyde Walb. of La Grange, Republican stale chairman, will be thi guest of the Decatur Rotary club at lhe regular luncheon pieeting this evening. Mr. Walb is coming at the invitation of Mayer George Krick, who will present the well known Hoosier citizen at the meeting. Mr. Walb will talk on “Indiana". o TRAIN HITS AUTO: DRIVER ESCAPES Irvin Wolf, Os Bluffton, Escapes Serious Injury Near Craigville Irvin Wolf, of Bluffton, escaped serious injury last, night when the auto in which he was returning to Bluffton from this city "was struck by a **-o*MW Craigville, at about 9 o’clock. olf had been to tli’is ci'y on business and was returning, When the accident occurred. He drove directly onto the tracks near Craigville before seeing the train. The train struck the side of his car and carried it some distance down the track. Wolf was thrown from the car and. when found, he was unconscious, but he soon regained consciousness, and was able to be up today. The car was completely destroyed. The tarin stopped and the members of the train crew picked the man up, [and took him to Bluffton on the train. Wolf regained consciousness before arriving at Bluffton. Mr. Wolf conducts a second hand automobile sales lot at Bluffton and he had been visiting friends and looking after business in this city yesterday. o TO FORM DISTRICT SCOUT BODY TONIGHT Members Os Organization Committee Os Boy Scouts To Form Permanent Organization Members cf the Boy Scout organization committee will hold a meeting, in the Industrial Association club rooms this evening, at 7:45 o’clock, at which time reports will he made on the financial campaign for the Scout area council plan and a permanent organization of the Adams county district will be formed. Representatives from the local district to the are i council will be chosen. The meeting tonight has been called by E. W. Lankenau. chairman cf the organization committee. o Defense Rests Today (Jefferson, 0., April 21. — (U.P.) — defense rested today in the trial of Floyd Hewitt. 17, for murder in connection with slaying of Mrs. Brown and her son, Fred, Jr., 5 years old.

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[PYTHIAN DRILL TEAMS CONTEST! District Contest In This City , Tonight; Fish Fry Precedes Contest i Ml members of the local Knights of Pythias lodge are invited to attend ; a fish fry an I meeting at the home l< night, at fl 15 o'clock. Following the supper, a meeting and district dei eree team < on(est will be b?l,l. i Teams from several lodges 'a the district will comicte in the I,” I work t’er the district title. A local team lias Iteen entered in the contest and has a splendid chance to win first place. Thesreg’i’ar meeting of the Peal lodge will precede the district contes' and all members are urged to * be present. o dIIIK4S.yP.EIL f : THREE-DAY MEET I. • [ Churchmen Aporove Plan For Old People’s Home / At Kendallville * ' ' ■ Fort Wayne, April 21—The three- , day Lutheran educational conference of Fort Wayne vicinity opened yesterday at Concordia Lutheran church [ with 129 pastors and teachers of Lutheran institutions in attendance. The meeting was opened in the morning with an inspriational servI ice and celebration of holy commun- ! ion. Following this service Rev. Phflip Zimendorf, pastor of St. Paul’s Lutheran church at Gar Creek, spoke . on the educational ideals of the Lutheran church. The conference approved the program of establishing an Old People’s home at Kendallville for Lutheran I churches. The need for It new home I for aged people was presented by Rev. Bruno Poch, superintendent of: the Lutheran Deaconess association [ of Fort Wayne. It was reported to the conference that the Children’s Friend's Society, of Fort Wayne, and the Orphan’s Home society, of Indianapolis, have combined their child welfare work. A placement agent, is to be employed within the near future to care for work of both societies, it was announced. Several hundred pupils of the Concordia parish school gave a musical program entitled “Jesus Rose Vic'priously,” following the inspiratioiv.il service. The conference was organized with Rev. Philip Wambsganss, pastor of Emmaus Lutheran church, Selected as chairman. Rev. Bruno Poch was named secretary. , Rev. Philip Wambsganss, president Io fthe conference, urged in his ad- , << O.XTIXt l-:i> <(\ PAGE SIH EX)

SURVIVORS TELL OF MASSACRE BY MEXICAN BANDITS Between 55 And 100 Persons Killed In Attack Os Bandits On Train COACHES BURNED BY THE BANDITS Mexico City. April 21 (I'nitied Press), Survivors, including Americans, of the massacre of passengers on a GuadalajaraMexico City*train at La Barca arrived today so unnerved and shaken by their terrifying experience that they were unable to give wholly coherent accounts of the shambles. The government announced that 55 persons were known to have been dead. American survivors estimated the dead at. about 100. Mr. and Mrs. N. Dockwith, residents of Guaralajara, and Mr. and i Mrs. Watson and the latter’s daugh- ! ter were among the survivors who I reached here today. The Watsons | are British. “It was horrible beyond words,” Dockwith said. Statements of survivors indicated that the attackers did not deliberately burn passengers aboard the train but that some wounded persons were unable to leave the cars when the raiders ord<<<*xtimi:i) nv i*v<.r. mx> ■ A~° GOLD WAVE IS DUE TONIGHT Freezing Temperatures And Snowstorm Forecast By Weather Department Chicago. April 21.— (U.P.) —Freezing temperatures accompanied by a snowstorm was forecast for the middle west bv the weather department to- 1 ~ eWMUM. -i >f •’.« northwest and will remain an I indefinite period, forcasters said. Low temperatures of 30 degrees were predicted, and it was said that buds and flowers in this district would have small chance of survival if the cold spell lasts more than 24 hours. Temperatures as low as four degrees above have been reported in cities throughout the west. p HARTFORD TOWNSHIP TO GRADUATE SIXTEEN Annual Commencement Exercises To Be Held At Linn Grove Next Saturday Night The annual commencement exercises of the Hartfort township high school will be held in the Evangelical church at Linn Grove next Saturday evening, April 23. The program will start at 8 o’clock. Senator L. A. Pittenger, of Muncie, will deliver the address. There are 1G members of the graduating class this year. They are: Carl | Moser. Versal l.eora Watson, Marcus I William StaiU.y. Thelma E. Steiner, Willis C. Lehman, Ruth E. Clendenen Christian E. Gerber, So'oman J. Eicher, Edna May Cooper. Homer Augs burger, Fern A. Neusbattm, Charles M. Myers, Florence May Gerber, Donald Eckrote, Helen Spiehiger. and Ervin Felber. o BULLETIN An unidentified man was killed about 3:30 o’clock this afternoon when he was struck by an Erie passenger train at a point between the St. Marys river bridge and the Pioua road crossing east of the city. The man was walking on the track and apparently failed to hear the approaching train. The county coroner was called to investigate. It was thought that the man was a stranger.

f Three Persons Are Prostrated As Heat Wave Hits New York New York. April 21. — (U.P.) Cool winds before nightfall will end the brief advance visit of summer which yesterday sent to unseasonable 88's and 90's along the eastern seabord from Maine to Virginia. weather bureau forecasts said today. Three persons were prostrated in New York, where the mercury touchled 88 the hottest April 20 in the 50year history of the local weather bureau. Portland, Me., Boston. Baltimore and Washington reported 90-degree maximums and other cities on the seabord were not far below. SERIOUSLY HURT IN 10-FOOTFALL Abe Bagley Is Seriously Injured In Accident At Countv .Jail Here Abe Babley, of Berne, who has been confined to the Adams county jail for several days, awaiting commitment to the state penal farm for violation cf the state prohibition laws, was pain fully and srriously injured yesterday when he fell 10 feet from a ladder in the jail yard where he was assisting in sem? work. Mr. Dagley was rendered unconscious by the fall and late this afternoon he had not completely regained consciousness, according to the attendin', physician. Mr. Bagley received a fracture cf the pelvis bone and hip join, and also a severe bruse on the head. He had been assisting Sheriff Harl Hollingsworth witli work around the jail, awaiting committment papers to start serving his term at the state penal farm. Sheriff Hollingsworth had been supervising the work and Bagley and William Thompson were helping him. They were trimming the trees i.i the (COXTIXtED OX PAGE SIX> O GETS PROMOTION Manager Os Gas Office Here Is Transferred To Western Ohio District William S. O’Brien, manager of the local office of the Northern Indiana Public Service company, has accep'ed a position as district manager of the West Ohio Gas company, an Instill interest, and will have his headquarters at St. Marys, Ohio. Mr. O’Brien will have the management, of three properties, including the ones at St. Marys. Celina and Wapakoneta. Ohio. The properties under his management are valued at several hundred thousand dollars and serve several thousand people in that territory. Mr. O’Brien has been manager of the local office for the past seven years. Previous to becoming manager of the Decatur office, he was connected with the local plant under '.he management of the late George Mount. He has been with the company for about 20 years, having been employed in Fort Wayne for several years. The new position is a promotion and given Mr. O’Brien in recognition H'OATIM I I> OX PAfiE X I l O Johnson Funeral To Be Held Tomorrow Funeral services for Henry Franklin Johnson, who died at his home in this city Tuesday night, will be held at the United Brethren church at 10 o’clock Friday morning, with the RevCecil R. Smith, pastor of that church officiating. Burial will be made in the South Salem cemetery. The remains have been removed to the Emery Hindnlang residence, 935 Harrison street.

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MILLION DOLLAR SUIT COMES TO A DRAMATIC END Ford-Sapiro Case Ended When Judge Holds Juror Guilty Os Misconduct FIVE WEEKS OF TESTIMONY LOST Detroit, Mich., April 21. (Uniled Press) The For<l-S;ipi-ro million dollar libel suit came to a dramatic end today when Judge Fred M. Raymond granted a motion declaring a mistrial. The motion was presented by the attorneys for Henry Ford who charged Mrs. Hoffman, one of Hie members of the jury, had been guilty of conduct prejudicial to Ford and that a fair trial was impossible. Five weeks of testimony were thus swept as de and became valueless. Date for a new trial will be set. Judge Raymond listened to an hour and a half’s argument by William Henry Gallagher, counsel for Sapiro, and Stewart Hanley, counsel for Ford, regarding the motion before making his decision. The judge then launched into a review of the matter. He bitterly complained of the newspaper attitude of publishing for public record many phases of the case which “should be have been editorial wisdom not published.” He denounced publication here late last night and this morning of “columns and columns” about the various affidavit and arguments made for and against the motion and position of the counsel. "As a matter of fact." Judge Raymond said, “the affidavits were not a ma'ter of court record until 9:30 a. m., today. Yet so exact was the knowledge carried to the public that it was not necessary for me to lis'en here this morning to the arguments of counsel, tor I might already have known about them.” o PRESRvtfry hot ns C. J. Lutz. Os Decatur, Elected Trustee Os Presbytery At Session In Pierceton. Atortney Clark J. Lutz, of Decatur, was elected a truste of the Fort Wayne presbytery of the Presbyterian church, at the annual spring session of the church body, held in Pierceton. Tuesday. The other trustees are O. N. Heaton. Fort Wayne; Clarence R. McNabb, of Fort Wayne: M. L. Green, of Garrett: and E. L,. Arnold. Elkhart. Kenneth Schafer, son of Mr. and Mrs. John Schafer, of Decatur, was examined for ordination nt the meeting of the presbytery. Mr. Schafer will be ordained in this city on Friday. May G. He has accepted a call to the pastorate of the Presbyterian church at Polo, Illinois. The following commisioners were chosen to attend she general assembly of the Presbyterian church at San Francisco. May 25: Dr. F. N. Palmer, of Warsaw; the Rev. W. M. Elliott, of Garrett: alternates, Dr. E. C. Lindsay, of Columbia City; the Rev. M. E. Runden, of Kendallville; elder commisioners, W. F. Timbrook, of Osian: A. E. Kelly, of Ligonier; elder alternates. G. H. Cregier. of Goshen, and John McCoy, of Lagrange. o Woman 81 Years Old Is Attacked By Fiend Muncie. Ind., April 21—(UP)—Mrs. Margaret. Williams, 81, was near death at her home in Albany today while the fiend who attacked her along a lonely road was still at large. The aged woman was offered a 1 ride in a nautomobile to the home of her bro’,her but instead was taken into the country where she was crim1 inally assaulted. Hl>r body 4 today I I was covered with bruises and tuts ■ and attending physicians held her • condition critical.

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