Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 25, Number 125, Decatur, Adams County, 26 May 1927 — Page 1

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ARTER DULY RESENTED TO DECATUR LIONS

lial Installation Os Chib iccurs At Banquet And Dance Y VISITORS ARE PRESENT ■L charter for the Lion’s Mos Decatur. No. 1.503, was ■presented last evening by ■ict Governor W. W. French, ■ishawaka, and accepted by ■dent Burt Mangold with a Kise to make this a model ■ meeting all the require- ■< and obligations and high B- of this great internationKd-. of men. K event occurred at the Decatur S|ry Club, first event to be hold ■L modern and spacious commy center, and was attended by lirg delegation from Cort Wayne. K. officials and Lions from var■ci'ies Mayor Krick, representsSs|of civic organizations, the press ■oilier guests. Banquet Opens Event ■ 7 o'clock, the guests were ush- ■ n'o the dining room where four ■ tables were arranged with a ■a table in front of the speakers ■ llie guests of honor. The room ■tuautifully decorated with flowKnd colors and emblems of the Band there was a spirit of relaxgood cheer, pep and genuine ■w- hip. perhaps the largest event Ks kind ever given here. Before ■ were seated, the crowd sang ■Mriea." and the invocation Was #’i iy the Rev. IJon Harry Thomp- ■ The dinner was delicious and 8 nicely prepared and served by IS. Maude Dorwtn and her assistants ■ Don Farr orchestra furnished !)’ music and. upon the least protion, the Lions roared out their 8, led by Leo Kirsch of this city. ■ Bob Prigge, of the Fort Wayne b It was a fine old time and well jti u ted. ■ Herman Myers Toastmaster It it o'clock. President Bur; Man--11 rapped for order, gave a short ■ome and introduced Herman My- ■ Charter night chairman and toastiter, who responded -by giving a lory of the organization of the P and who. during the entire evek kept the crowd happy with his 6 introductions of speakers. He ■ented Bob Shimel. deputy district fernor, Fort Wayne, who kept the Bis and guests in a good hum; r with ■stories and closed with the states' that he was proud that his club I been privileged to organize the Jntur Lions. The toastmhster read ■umber of telegrams and letters I<<<IVTIXI KI) ox PAGE TWO, EALTH TESTS | ARE IMPORTANT prly Physical Examinlions For Children Urged By Health Authorities — Fourteen children of pre-school age St. Mary's township were exantin[Wednesday afternoon at the Pleafl Mills school buijding by represenlives of the child hygiene division Ithe state board of health. The exaltations are being made tree Os |rge in each township of the county I s week and. next. Today, the exaltations were being made in Blue pek township. The children of KirkD township will be examined al the Hdand high school building all day pay and on Saturday, the Treble Unship children will be examined at B St. Paul school building. Next i'k, examinations will be held in p nch township on Monday; in Monp and vicinity on Tuesday; in Jef°on township on Wednesday and In abash township on Thursday. Aside from emphasizing the impor fee of protection of all children (CONTINUED OX PAGE FIVE)

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Charges Against Four Mexicans Are Dismissed The charges of public intoxication filed against four Mexican laborers at Geneva. Monday, were dismissed today in the court of Henry Dickerson. Justice of the peace at Geneva, when the four defendants agreed to leave town and the prosecuting witness asked that the charges be dropped. Tho four men were arrested as the result of disturbances which oceured Sunday afternoon. COMMENCEMENT DATE IS FIXED .lune 8 Is Date Selected For Annual County Eighth Grade Graduation The Twenty-first annual Adams county eighth grade commencement will be hel 1 at Geneva. Wednesday, June 8. tho date being finally selected by Clifton E. Striker, county superintendent. The commencement exercises will be held at the Geneva M. E. church. Mr. A. E. Martin, of Goshen, former superintendent of the Indianapolis public schools, will deliver the commencement address, and diplomas will be presented to the graduates by Mr. Striker. A class of about 200 pupils will be graduated from tho eighth grade and receive their awards. The grading of the final papers will bo completed within a few days, at which time the names of the succesful contestants will be announced. Details for the graduation exercises are being completed by Superintendent Striker and. among other features. will be the taking of a group picture of the class and county board of education at the Limberlost Cabin former home of Gene Stratton-Porier at Geneva, now the res dence of Dr. and Mrs. C. R. Price. Mr. Martin, the commencement speaker, is well known in Indiana and is actively engaged in educational work. Parents and friends of the graduates will be invited to the exercises and an invitation is also extended to the public to attend. Superintendent Striker stated that the gradiiales would bo advised as to the complete details for the commencement either by letter or through the press. The final eighth grade examination was held on May 16. tho applicants sot diplomas taking tho new achievement tests. — o Mother Os Berne Man Dies At Bluffton, Ohio Berne. May 26 Mrs. Kathrins Battnigaitner. Stager. 68. mother of Ralph Stager, of Berne, died at TON’.O o'clock Wednesday morning at her home in Bluffton, Ohio. Death was due to heart trouble. Mrs. Stager was a sister of Mrs. Anna Beer. Mrs. Mary Moser. William and Peter Baumgartner. of Berne, and John P. Baumgartner. of Fort Wayne. Other surviving children are: Mrs. Della K. Neuenschwarder, of Foil Wayne; Howard and Herman Stager, of Bluffton, Ohio, o Nephew Os Decatur Man Drowns At Cincinnati Rolland Stiller, 23, of Kendallville, a nephew of Janies Murphy, of North Fifth street, Decatur, was drown yesterday at Cincinnati, Ohio. The body has not been recovered, according to word received here this afternoon. The young man was a son of Mr. and Mrs. A. J. Sailer, of Kendallville, and was studying for the priesthood at Cincinnati. Another young man was drowned with Sailer, it. is said. Former Bryant Man Dies In Illinois George Steen. 35, former resident of Bryant, died at Lawreeneville, Illinois, Tuesday night, according to word received by relatives. Mr. Steen had been an invalid al! his life, suffering from epilepsy. He was a son of Robert Steen. The body will be Returned to Bryant for burial in the Gravel Hill cemetery.

BRITISH-SOVIET BREAK NEARS AS COMMONS VOTES Severing Os Relations Considered Certain; Vote Is Due Tonight RUSSIANS SEE WAR IN BACKGROUND By Clifford L. Day (United Press Staff Correspondent London, May 26 — (UP) Debate, which must end tonight in a house of Commons vote for the rupture in relations between Great Britain and Soviet Russia, began today shortly after 4 p. m. As the debate began it was inconceivable that the commons, with a tremendous conservative majority, would fail to grant the desire of the cabinet that relatjons be severed. The Government today issued a white paper containing seized Russian Documents. The documents were those cited by Premier Baßlwin in the house of commons Tuesday when he announced the government's desire to break relattions. They were illustrative of alleged hostile and anti British activities on the part of the Russians. One section of the paper dealt with discoveries in the Arcos raid here and the remainder contained foreign office documents especially concerning alleged soviet activities in (Tina. It was understood that tho members of the soviet embassy and trade delegation, numbering about 250. would leave for paris Saturday. ‘■Pushing Toward War" Mosqojw. May 26 -(UP)— England is pushing toward war by breaking off diplomatic relations with Russia, M. M. Litvinoff. assistant commissioner for foreign affairs, believes. “The break in Anglo-Soviet relations is not the result of the Arcos raid,” Litvinoff chargtd in a statement to the press. “The raid was the result of the intention to break off relations “This can only mean that England <COXTIX' !•!» OX PAGE .<IV» INDIANAPOLIS BANK ROBBED Two Young Bandits Escape With $4,000 In Daylight Hold Up Indianapolis. Ind. May 26- (UP) — Two young bandit,s armed with revolvers robbed the Central State bank of $4,000 today, and escaped. Assistant cashier Orville Dendo was the only employee inside the bank. Cashier J. L. Bray had left on an errand a few minutes earlier. W. R. Herne, a client of the bank also was present. As Horne walked through the door to make a deposit, one of the bandits stepped up fron? behind and pressed a revolver against his back. The second bandit entered at this junction, scooped the cash into a blacksatchel and started for the door. His companion followed. From the time they reached the doorway, the bandits dropped out of sight. No passerby saw them although more than one hundred persons were close enough to have observed what was happening. Cashier Bray returned at the moment that a police automobile answered the alarm. —— Ladder Bearing Two Firemen Is Blown Down Indianapolis. May 26. — (UP) —Two city firemen today are recovering from serious injuries received when a 50-foot ladder on which they were standing while aiding in repair work at an engine house, was blown down by a sudden gust of wind during a storm yesterday. They are Earl Seaner, 30, and Louis Haas, 40. Both men are suffering from fractures, cuts and bruises

Decatur, Indiana, Thursday. May 26, 1927.

Banquet Speaker Edward Lee Hawk Edward I-ec Hawk, president of the Cleveland Institute, Cleveland. Ohio, was the principal speaker at the charter night banquet of the Decatur Lions Club, held at the Decatur Country Club last night. FOFCJOGIVF FOURTH DEGREE Six Decatur Men To Receive Work At Fort Wayne Sunday Afternoon The exemplification of the Fourth degree of the Knights of Columbus will take place Sunday afternoon, May 29, at the Catholic Center building Fort Wayne, under the auspices of the Fort Wayne K. of C. Council. Included in the class of 150 candidates from all parts of the state, are six Decatur men. namely Rev. Joseph Hession, assistant pastor of St. Marys Catholic church in this city; W. A. Klepper, N. R. HoHlthouse, 11. P, Schmitt, R. J. Harting and A. R. Hotthou«e. The ceremonies will begin at 1 o'clock (daylight saving time) Sunday afternoon and will be attended by several hundred Fourth degree members from throughout the state At 2 o'clock, the degree work will bo exemplified and at 6:30 o'clock a banquet will be served in the auditorium of the Community center building. The affair will be formal and, on Saturday night, a formal ball will be given in honor of the candidates. Several of the Fourth degree Knights of Columbus in this city are planning to attend the af.ifir. 0 Section Crew Has A Narrow Escape Berne, May 26. Members of the Berne section crew on the G. R. and I division of the Pennsylvania railroad had a narrow escape from injury and possible death Monday afternoon when a barn in which they planned to seek shelter from a storm was blown down just before they reached it. Tlie barn was located on the William Rawley farm. Just as Donald Davidson opened the door to step in the wind started its work. The entire roof was torn off and timbers hurled in verey direction. 0 COOLIDGE TO VISIT INDIANA President To Speak At Memorial Dedication In Hammond. .June 14 Washington, D. C. May 26 —(UP) — President Coolidge will go to Hammond, Indiana, to dedicate the WicketPark Memorial there, June 14, it was announced at the white house today. The stop probably will be made on the President's west bound trip to his prospective summer vacation site in the Black Hills of South Dakota. The president will make a speech at the dedication exercises at 2:30 p. in., central standard time. 0 Two Miners Killed In Blasts; Sixteen Injured Wllkesbarre, Pa., May 26. — Two miners were killed and sixteen others were Injured this afternoon by two explosions at the Woodward mine of the Glen Alden Coal company.

MURL DOLL IS FUGITIVE FROM ASYLOM AGAIN Willshire, Ohio, Man Saws Way Out Os State Hospital For Insane DECLARED SANE BY HOSPITAL PHYSICIANS Muri B. Dull, 30. of Willshire, Ohio, who was adjudged insane at an inquest hold in Van Wert. Ohio, recently, and committed to the Ohio state hospital for the insane, at Toledo, has made his second escape from that institution within tlie last four weeks. He made his second escape Monday night, by sawing an iron bar from a window. He has not been apprehended. According to word received from Paulding county. Ohio, officials the hospital physicians had declared Dull sane and preparations were being made to turn him over to Sheriff Betts of Paulding county who holds a warrant for his arrest in connection with the robbery of the Farmers and Citizens bank of Payne Ohio, April 12. Several persons identified Dull as the man who drove the automobile in which the two bandits escaped after holding up the bank. First Escape on April 27 Officials at the Toledo hospital stated that Dull escaped from one of the strongest rooms in the asylum. His wife had visited him during Monday afternoon, they state. He made his first escape on April 27. by walking out of the hospital when inmates were being changed in rooms. laite the following afternoon, he was arrested at Van Wert, by Van Wert policemen, and was returned to the hospital a few days later. It is reported that Dull remarked to Van Wert officials that he would be out again in two weeks According to word received from Paulding, the officials of the state hospital did not agree on the sanity of Dull when he was sent to the asylum, but after thirty days of observation, they gave a unanimous opinion that he was sane. o EVACUATE TWO MORE PARISHES Hundreds Os Families On Move to Escape Overflow Waters In Louisiana New Orleans, La.. May 26.—Evacuation of two more Louisiana parishes started today as flood waters sweeping through the crevice at McCrae, on the Atchafalaya river, spread southward into overflowing bayous. in northern Iberville parish and west. Baton Rouge parish hundreds of farmer families were on the move. New Orleans. La., May 26. — (UP) —Flood talons today seized at Hie Stately and historic old estates of New Orleans as waters crept through Point Coupee parish from the v. ide crevasse of the Atchafalaya river. Near Innes the mansion were Zachary Taylor once lived is now deserted. Its present owner, with all plantation workers, has fled before the approaching waters. The mansion is locked and the fine old furniture is piled high within the house. A score more of these famous old houses of the southland are in the direct path of the waters. All will be inundated within a forthnight, engineers believe. Between 150 and 175 square miles of the parish will be flooded by tonight, engineers believe. Parishes to the south probably will feel the full brunt of the flood Within a few days. .Junior Band To Hold One Practice Each .Week It has been decided that the Junior Band will hold only one rehersal each week this summer, instead of two as contemplated. Tlie band will practice every Tuesday evening, in the Decatur high school gymnasium, from 7 to 9 o'clock. There will be no rehersal tonight.

Feast Os Ascension Is Observed Today Tlie feast of the Ascension of Jesus Chi Ist Into Heaven was observed today in St. Mary's Catholic church. The day is a holy day of obligation and one of the six principle feast days observed by the church. The masses were held the same as on Sundays. Ascension day is observed in commemoration of Christ's ascension into heaven, which took place 40 days after His resurrection. RUNAWAY GIRLS CAUGHI Al BERNE Three Lima High School Girls Apprehended By Berne Town Marshal Three young girls who ran away from their homes in Lima. Ohio, Monday afternoon, were apprehended in Berne, Tuesday evening. By Amos Neuenschwander, town marshal. The girls were found at the E. ('. Bierie home on West Main street. They gave their names as Margaret Snyder, 17; Dorothy Wier. 14; and Lenore Horne, 14. Tlie girls were' turned over to F. H. Chapman, chief probation officer of Allen county, Ohio, Tuesday night. According to the girls' stories, they left Lima at 12:30 o'clock Monday afternoon. They had attended Lima South Side high school, where they are sophomores, dur.ng the forenoon. Leaving Lima, they headed for Wapakoneta and were picked up by motorists and taken to. Wapakoenta, then to Celina and later to Bryant. All of the girls swore frequently in telling their stories. Attract Attention at Berne On Monday evening, the three girls were brought to Herne by two Bryant men. While walking the streets of Berne, the girls attracted considerable attention and finally Marshal Neuensciiwander began watching the girls. When they noticed tlie officer coming toward them, they ran and made their escape, going to tlie tile mill east of Berne. There they were picked up by two married men. they told the officer later, and were taken tor a ride. The marshal followed them. They returned to Berne a few minutes later and picked up another man and started for Fort Wayne. The men tried to get places for the girls to sleep in b<ort Wayne, they said, but could find no suitable place-and brought the girls back to Berne. About 2 o'clock Tuesday morning, the three girls were taken to the Bierie home where a bed was provided for them. Clinton Bierie, taxi driver, told his father that he had found the girls out on tlie state highway while returning from a trip to Fort Wayne. He said the girls had been dropped off there by someone, so lie bi ought them back to Berne. Officer Calls Lima Learning that the girls were at the (CONTTN l KO ON F SGB *< <' SOUTHWESTERN PART OF STATE FLOODED White And Patoka Rivers And Smaller Streams Ars Out Os Their Banks Terre Haute, Ind., May 26.—(UP) —Floods held southwestern Indiana in their grip again today as a result of heavy rains along the White and Patoka rivers and several other smaller streams were also reported as out of their banks. The Wabash river which was receding yesterday from a 21-foot maximum, had turned upward again today, passing the 20 foot stage here four feet above the flood mark, after having dropped to 19.6. Only from the lower points in the Wabash bottoms have residents been forced to flee, however, whereas on the White river, near Petersburg!! in Pike county and in Daviess and Knox counties residents were being forced to evacuate an enormous damage to growing crops and farming operations were reported. Bus service has been suspended between Vincennes and Washington over the state road due to White river being over the highway. Hundreds of acres of wheat, alfalfa and land either iplante dor prepared for planting to corn is under water.

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100.000 PEOPLE UNITE IN HONORING AIRMAN AT PARIS Flyer Cheered As Youth Who Has Improved Am-erican-French Relations GREAT RECEPTION HELD IN CITY HALL Paris, May 26.--Captain Charles Lindbergh today spent the most amazing day in the 25 years of his life as the statesman and the people of Paris combined to do him honor. One hundred thousand Frenchmen, women and children, cheered Lindbergh from the Arc de Triomphe to the city hall. Within the massive structure Lindbergh was toasted again, not as a mere airman who hail flown across the Atlantic, but as a youth who had improved the relations of America and France by his daring. Enthusiasm Is Great Paris, May 26.—(UP)—Surpassing in enthusiasm the welcome accorded any single American excepting only Benjamin Franklin. Woodrow Wilson and John J. Pershing. 100,000 Frenchmen and women today defeningly acclaimed Capt. Charles A. Lindbergh as he rode swiftly down the Champs Elysees to the rue Rivoli. The New York-to-Paris flier was enroute to the city hall, where he was to be tendered a formal reception by the historic city of Napoleon, the Bourbons,, the Murats and Roliespierires. A large part of Paris declared a holiday in honor of the airman. Before LJndbergh arrived to drive through the avenue which has resounded to marching tread of victorious troops and other heroes before him, the Champ Elysees contained between 15,000 and 20.000 men. women and children, many of whom had been waiting several hours for a glimpse of the hero. For this afternoon, at least, IJndliergh belonged to Paris. He was her favorite son. About 8.000 persons were packed 50 : ,t the city hall when Lindbergh arrived lor the time-honored ceremony equivalent to receiving the keys of an American town. During the ceremony inside the city hall, 20,000 persons outside shouted his name and cheered. The Garde Republicaine was holding tlie crowd with difficulty as the thousands fought for places from which Lindbergh coulil lie seen as he came out. The capital of France was claiming Lindbergh as its own. The city officials created a new flag in honor of Lindbergh. One side of the flag bore the French tri-color, << OX'I'I X l El) OX PAGE FIVE) CYCLONE HITS PLAINFIELD, IND. Property Loss Is $25,000; Other Cities Visited By Storms Wednesday Plainfield, Ind., May 26. — (UP) — This village today is repairing the damage done by a cyclone which yesterday unroofed houses and caused property loss to the extent of $25,000. A heavy hailstorm which followed levelled crops nearby and demoralized electric and telephone lines. Columbus, Ind., May 26. — (UP) — Francis Shaner, 14, of East Columbus is recovering today from painful Injuries received when she was struck by flying metal in a tornado here yesterday. Thousands of dollars’ worth of damage was done by the twister. Petersburg!), Ind., May 26. —(UP) — Two and one-half inches of rain fell here last night. All streams in Pike county are at flood stage today, and at Little, Ind., six miles south of here, tlie waters are higher than in 1913 and people are being rescued from their homes in boats.

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