Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 25, Number 154, Decatur, Adams County, 30 June 1927 — Page 1

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LIERSW REQUEST b, RETURN El Hop From Ha T " jejeS :z >: “ soon »» t^‘ r p,i ' ne reconditioned. These youthful dared the eleniet. « honor" planned to d«et» al further today *i‘h commander of the/awal

of the V. S arm) • This was the foremost The Purdue Univeisity Agi iciilural vursition while tliey sp< ir( li l tes and short course .-.tu b :i:< verm*hours las' night > 1 umni Association was formed last a friemis at • officers an a nl ?lit at a meeting cf men of the Stain Haw ‘it 111 ' , * Id i as t night at the office of the afternoon of sleep. ' Still Have Hopesmty Agent. W. J. Krick was elected , o..»e>al Lewips., K. F. Bowen, vice-president and Although General .erdav -nothing doing wit). Mann, secretary treasurer. 1 ' r . ovnressed theifhe newly formed organization is an store first e»pie. ■ . enochal hop arounty organization, formed t r th' nvikl* 111'1* “J" unofficially rose of promoting acquaintances, artnv onH'vin ■ • that ts Washingtoremote social activities amon<-. tin opinion return slighter Purdue Agricultural students: the worn, mv ‘ vv !Kl ntv .change ideas and boost each othremote possibility- ■ stobe a gala ‘d to renew closer contact with th • -qj Wish heroes of wtionaMiky-wuwi depart ob ained only a fleeting gibs of the school. thev landed and while Mills in Attendance whislmd away to -the hotel O. Mills, field representative of ?ng army automobile yesieie was present at the meeting * After making official cabld the members of the new ■rPn i lewis and Rear Adltion of the activities cf the State McDonald, commandant of Itnie Alumni Association and <>l teenth naval district, and Oosimilar county organizations. r Farrington, today the iutlined a method of recoe mt ion tube guests at a communitytanding faint operators it- the attended by 750 persons at-ho have Trail at least an eight ander Young hotel. training course at the I’niverReception This Ever I Tonight they were to be yeai at the big Purdue b.-ni-I a dinner by Col. John Ruling Farmers Co-ifen i, ,-c | . fhs, v .,v> HwaHa'eld a | Purdue .fflTiwe’J in |i -ice, idliowed by a receptim, certificates are av. ■ it . I Lewis in the ballroom of uner of two gld n , 1 Hawaiian hotel. ~ v , Hundreds, of requests sot —_ 0 | .tors' presence at social s3{) QOO F()r ■ havp bon filed with the al. . I war Department FirHCS hl Auto Wreck I Washington, June 30-(I A ■ department off cia s oi‘ ' , arfling S 3O 00(l to ■ their yesterday ‘’ ec,sl ™ was r(Ull rned by u itiry ■ turn hop from to U of Maxim- IIa « I,ins of | against John A. ScTtma.lt B (lovrixrun ox VA6R inapolis, in the H ■.drici;< M o .. at Danville today Thi didi t council ‘ ieil »efore jiidgi B BluLt OUnUUL' sued he d- f. n BB| irfes sustained in ’ll ''h'" HOLDS PI' enl at E!ie tsviih S ions Die From H Annual Summer Wave In Chicago ■ School At Berne ~ ~ ■ (’losing Events This- ; — intense heat i ■ Berne. June 39-l Special „ ) . ()]owjnK h , H • Democrat)--The annual Sumi_ ■ School, held each year by the < . Berne, closed today with ■ Grove ' at ,he . cns ters announce! H-' M town. Approximately 800 pet pl . ()| ,., b|x M -handed in their names yeste> v , s Hiaxiinul „_1 dM nifying their intention of :' tlipn> migllt b „ -he picnic. ir Frillay Reii, f will Mi A platform was erected , ()f |]lul)(1( . r ■E gram and large tables wer> from the Community Auditt c ,... iVnifc th grove for the picnic dim‘“'til ‘..r* u i,,,.. B Rev. Tilden H Gaddies, of c 'Orahle VV 011.IH Ohio, who is lite principal T . II . ■' 1,1 the Adams County Holiness bj ‘ sj ‘ 4 ( ' )f tion camp meetings, now in s|i , l ( . arlv , ti .,y. *t Monroe, was the principal t() , n imat the picnic, today. ( hop cff for r .,h, : - The annual commencement i ■H the Bible School will be hel iather repol ts have BB evening, in the First Menonite ‘. ljg))( atte nipi 1,111 The Rev. Mr. Alspach ,of Bluff , ilsajl , ni()n( ,,,| ; , m- "H deliver the commencement ad. Kalia j imnii"l'a | '' l > total of 384 pupils were enrolle. ltislac(()ry p,. sai-l school this summr.

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Alleged Accomplice In , Murder Seeks Release Columbia City. Ind., :! „ .. (rP) —John Baumgartner of Elkhart, who has been held as an aeeontpb. . in the alleged murder of Franklin Tini er, Warsaw cigar store eb r! win, d appeared last Jan. 2S, y,.. ~f , | iX m ,„| a petition in the Whitley circuit court for a writ of habeas corpus t 0 obtain his release. His pe'ition was based on the fa, t that Tucker’s body has nev r been produced and declares that since no crime has been proved, il , h no right to hold him. The petition probably will be , sidered ar the July term of court. LOCAL PURDUE MEN ORGANIZE oi 1’ s IV. .1. Krick Elected President Os New Alumni Association

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1 T»E “AMERICA” AS SHE TOOK OFF FOR PARIS 1 ■■ ——W g II «■ _ ■ . ' .-.-. n. 1 * ms. i J* * —i * ■ * - » o • ’ ■ I. ’ M *• Telephoto shows Fokker monoplane “Amcrictt", after it made a successful take-off from Roosevelt Field yesterday, starting the Hight from New York to Paris. Commander Byrd and three companions, Lieut. Naville. Bert Acosta an I Berni Balehen. were aboard the America.

VETERAN AIRMAN WILL FIT H C RE Delmar L. Snyder. Former Army Aviation Instructor, To Be Here Sunday Delmar L. Snyder will appear at 11 , | Bellmont Park witli his flying circus. Inext Sunday afternoon. Ollier amusements will be professional motor- ■ cycle races and auto polo. Mr. Snyder was an aviation in-

structor in tin- I.'. I S, A nay.. .during the World War, has I been I'lyffig more I than 10 years and has more than 3.000 flying hours to his credit. The Flying Circus will present a full program of aerial stunts, wing walking and parachute jumping. Included rd"

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, in (he program, will be a number of stunts performed just oil the 11 ‘ i ips and resulting the highest degree • of gk.ll for their successful execu"'ciadys Rov. billed as the world's „ 10 d daring aviatrix, will stand atop one <>f the airplanes, while looping 11)( , a nd perform other daring acrobatic feats. ■ while speeding 1 through the air at. more than .0 miles per hour. ' A large number of entries have already been received for the motorevcie events. The most prominent entries include Art enpolis, Minn.; Reuben Held, of Mil ' SX;. W s.. Cecil French Mason citv lowa. and Jim Cunningham. Oregon. 11l To date. 10 entries have been received. Entries may be made ' up until starting tme Suniiay. ' The auto polo teams have arr ted I a re now making preparations to for Sunday’s game. ’ Roy Anadell Return* From Visit In Gary Roy Anadell. one of Decatur high * school's Star athletes, returned yes- - terday from Gary, where he has been since school closed in May. Roy ex- ' p ec ts to spend the remainder of the ! summer here working and getting into coiid . ;iou - for the football season hex. . tali.

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Indiana Man Arrested I At Celina, Ohio, Tuesday Celina, Ohio, .June 30 —Deputies Bernard and Brehm aresled'Harry Herring. blacksmith, of Indiana. Tuesday evening at li o'clock on a charge of possession cf intoxicating liquor and i placed him in the county jail over night. He was arraigned before Probate Judge ('. S. Johnson Wednesday morning at 11 o'clock, where he plea lguilty to the was fined slmi ami costs. Not being able to his fine he was committed to the county jail. o RULING IS MADE : — . I Supreme Court Holds I hat Warrants Issued Only On Belief Are Invalid | Indianapolis, Ind., June 30 —(I P) ■ Tlie state supreme court handed down| i today a ruling placing a cuib on tin isI snance of search warrants in probibiI tion cases. i In a majority opinion written by | Chief Justice Julius C. Travis, it held, that search warrants issued in liquor 1 cases on affidavits based only an be- ' | lief are not valid. This means that evidence obtained under such warrants must be ruled I out of court. Scores of cases, pending in Indiana courts may be affected. o ? Evans Woollen To Speak At Dedication Os Marker Indianapolis, June 20.— (UP)-Evans Woollen, Indianapolis banker and Democratic presidential possibility, is to be the principal speaker at the , Memorial marker dedication, four miles south of Noblesville, Ind., July 4. The marker has been erected along , the roadside to commemorate the site , of lhe home of William Conner, first English-speaking settler in central Indiana. Just a short distance from the marker Conner's brick house still stands. It was there in 1829 that the commission appointed to select a capitol site 1 for the state assembled. Indlanap'olis was chosen and four square miles donated by the federal government ' for the purpose. Conner was one of the founders of ' Noblesville and the marker was proi vided by the Hamilton County Historical Society and the Society of Indian.'. Pioneers.

ABRAHAM BEER DIES IT BERNE Well-Known Retired Farmer Dies Suddenly Os Dropsy And Heart Trouble Herne, Juno 30.— (Special)—Abraham Beer, 68, retired Adams county i . ( farmer, died Wednesday afternoon at his home on Jefferson street. was sodden ami was due to dropsy and heart trouble. i \ir ;- had '■ ' I home for the last five weeks and at I times his condition was regarded critical, but his death was unexpected? I He had just exchanged a few words | wi h J. F. a friend, yesterday afternoon, when death seized him. Mr. Beer was born in Monroe township, December 14, 1859. He was a son of Mr. and Mrs. Christian Beer. On December 18, 1883, he was married i to Anna Sprunger, who died July 18, * 1885. Two daughters were born to | this union, both of whom survive. They are Mrs. Ezra Sprunger, of In(lianapolis, and Mrs. M. A. NeuenschI wanner, of Bluffton. On August 29, ,'IBB6, Mr. Beer was married to Katharina Lichty, who survives. Mr. Beer is survived by his widow, two daughters, four brothers, Isaac, of Monroe township, Jonas, of Oklahoma, Christian C„ and Eli. of Monroe township; and two sisters, Mrs. John Wittwer and Mrs. William Fox, of near Berne. Funeral arrangements have not ’ I been made. Warsaw Man Proves It Is Hot Today; Fries Egg On Railway Rail

Warsaw, Ind.. June 30— Proving that it was hot today, M. E. Robinson, fried an egg on the rails in frotv of the Pennsylvania passenger station I here today. The temperature took a jump to 100 degree after reaching 08 late Wednesday. Dr. Frohnapfel To Take Motor Trip To Minnesota J . - t Dr. H. Frohnapfel and family will leave Sunday by motor for Walker, f Minnesota, where they will en.oy a i- ten days vacation and look. after i- business interests. Dr Frohnai-tel s i- office will be closed during his absence.

'Wells County Farmer Hangs Himself In Barn Bluffton, June 3# Mux Jacobs. 65. farmer living four miles south of Liberty Center, committed suicide lute yesterday afternoon by hanging himself from a ladder in the barn of Ills farm located Just across the road from the Bell store. The body was found by his grandson. Clyde (.rover who gave health ;ys the cause of the act. Funeral arrangements have not yet been made. He is survived by his wife, Mary, ami the following children 4 Ralph Jacobs, Ml. Zion: John Jacobs Kansas City,'Kan : Mrs. William Mendenhall, of Illinois; Mrs. Nervia Kingman. of Illinois, and a sister. Mrs. Sa rail Van Camp. U. S.-BRITISH RIFT REMOVED British Willing To Accept Parity With U. S. In All Classes Os Ships Washington! June 30. — (United Press) Secretary of State Kellogg announced today the United States had received assurance that Grout Britain is willing to accept parity witli this government in all classes of ships and desires that Geneva negotiations be conducted on that basis. The British assurances transmitted through the American arms delegations at Geneva were accepted by Kellogg as removing difficulties arising during th° last week. London. June 30.— (UP) —An official naval conference communique issued at Geneva announced that the techn’cal commission had reached provisional agreement regarding destroyers and destroyer flotilla leaders, tile Exchange Telegraph Company's Geneva correspondent raided today. The correspondent added that tile communique announced submarines would be considered Friday. Full agreement had been reached regarding the first category of de- : r:v, cr<' i u.- < 01’1 (■■SpOhdehi said o'--■hafl'iwrmr-d.- H ■ ir-wrted tiny woii'ld be limited to 1.500 tons in displacement and 20 knots in speed. Their limit, he said, would be fixed at 15 C 1 years. The Exchange correspondent, in another message, said he had learn- ■ ed reliably that the United States 1 delegation today rte<|eiW)d authority from Washington to discuss the batI tlesliip question, but only on condition that there should be no attempt > to modify the 5-5-3 ratio between the United States. Great Britain anil . Japan. o “William Reiter Dies In Fort Wayne Hospital . William Reiter, age 62, brother of . Henry and Charles Reiter of Adams ■ county, died Wednesday at the Luther- • an liospitan in Fort Wayne following ■ an operation for hernia. Until about ■ three years ago. lie was employed at the Bass Founry, being employed 1 there for 40 years. He is survived by a widow, three children, Harold. Clarence and Wilma, and one brother, Fred, of Minnesota, besides the two brothers who live In this county

Funeral services will be held at 2:00 , o'clock at the home and at 2:16 , o'clock from the Lutheran church, Fort Wayne, the Rev. 11. C. Luehr and the Rev. P. L. Daifhefeldt officiating. Burial will be made in Concordia cemetery. o Policemen Are Cited For Meritorious Conduct Indianapolis. Ind., June 30—(INS) William Miller, motorcycle policeman who arrested Mum ice I). La Tour, firebug who set fire to three Indianapolis churches, has been cited with three other officers for Meritorious conduct. The other tlree officers cited were . Sgt. Otto Pittit and patrolmen Hoagi land and James OBrien who arrested two filling station bandits.

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FLIER REPORTED SIGHTED OVER CITY OF BREST Success Believed Certain For Third U. S. Plane To Try Trans-Atlantic Hop REACHES MAINLAND AT 3:28 P. M. (E. D.T.) Bulletin Paris, June 30.—(U-P.) —An unconfirmed message reported that an airplane resembling Commander Byrd’s passed over Landivisiau, 25 miles east of Brest at 8:50 p. m. (3:50 p. nt. E.D.T.) Paris, June 30.—(U. P.) —A message from Brest reported that Commander Byrd passed over the citv at 8:28 p. m. Paris time, (3:28 E. I). T.) Paris, June 30.—(1J. P.) —A special United Press radio station today intercepted a message from Ouessant radio station to Cherbourg, saying that it had lost touch with Commander Byrd. Cherbourg replied that it also had lost touch. New York, June 3(1. (United Press) Commander Richard Byrd in the monoplane “America”. apparently had reached the French coast late today, but the course he followed was uncertain. Messages made public here by Grover Whalen as having been relayed by radio from the \meriea. and United Press and (French line reports from France agree that Byrd flew near Ouessant Island and Brest in mi<l-aflernoon. Dodges English Channel Earlier reports purporting to come from Byrd's plane, as well as bearing reports to the plane Grom the British battleship. Revenge, had placed the America near Plymouth, England, northeast, jit Brest. If the reports were correct, he had turned from his direct course to Paris to dodge the English channel, when- storms had been reported to him by the British weather bureau. New York, June 30. — (UP) —Commander Richard Byrd's monoplane America, after feeling its way through heavy fog all night, today was speeding on toward Europe through squally weather, reports received from <cox vim tat os i-ti.t-: two> MERCURY SETS NEW HIGH MARK Heat Wave Continues With Temperature Higher Today Than Yesterday A new high temperature record for the present season was established today when, al 1 o'clock this afternoon.

the thermometer on the Peoples Loan and Trust Company building registered 99 degrees. The highest point reached by the same thermometer yesterday was 95. The temperature recorders established at various places on Scond street vary somewhat, but the average Is around 94 degrees in the shade. Weather forecasters say that the heat wave will continue at least tomorrow and probably Saturday, with no let up until the first of next week. Last night was the hottes night of the present season, and the sun was out blight and early this morning. Farmers say that the weather Is ideal for the corn crop, but it is the genet al consensus of a pinion that a heavy rain is necessary tor the assurance of a good crop. Macadam roads areheavlly coated with dust, and many yards in the city are badly In need of rain. ■h

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