Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 25, Number 155, Decatur, Adams County, 1 July 1927 — Page 1

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Pertion (riven To Abandon Traction Line

OPERA® I CEASE® I JULY f- ■ W I I Public SenMB lon Sound DeaflK lM 1 COMPANySk ' sKue The Publi<B> li ' of India^^B 1 1,1 of and Decatur abandon the Ir '* - Km en Dtvnhflan* •' »>• According k <1 bv the S< the li»>. the traction v Cease tween 'uh by gtving a <■' d'scontinuance 4jth< To Cease Robert M. of the Indiana Sei per ators of the liiJßfl a I'l. phone that, although fa miliar with the company would th line any longer than fit a 1 > each day meant »'fl,>s- it When advised had fixed any a th rty , day period Fu> -I stated that in ih< quired notice vwKii witlin j. 10 days after •bring the ali.ait August 5. g The Public sets out in its 8921. ar- . proved June 24. W.iyne *’ Decatur TractioK filed a petition with a-kinc that permpsnn ttfltinu.- thline be.granted. ®|l3. a " ing was held in m” bj>-< Itions were th- grant ing of the petit To Leav-K'crr f !1 The vomm:ssii«H t ] ie t rar . M t <>n company tb«B, ;i and | I tear up the tra®ln Decatur J ano Fort WayneH retain the ’■ track leading 1 ate limits of DeKwithin the fl ci ‘y. by placing ■a’-nv the fl 'racks and puttin^B ; f ;.r B ’ to the satisfactionß.it. i> -i fl ties. The line ißKfs Hnb fl vard, Fort Waynßto ■> l-’tr'■ Wayne corporate Kili <jß l°_’ hp Indiana B e . r i-n B

tCONTIWUftij 1 MRIEDPISJUE MADE FOBUffl Local Peonle I To (’dJ brain The Hr th In g VariouSy s | Picnics, week-eni®t I ik pf - - : H tourneys and auto tfili ; i« in' isl *d»on local peophK, ( ■ the Fourth. No r>B . Is fl in this city Mondavß, ' observe the day B () . jfl local people are p|.B. . fl| 'he lakes in northe-K jj fl| Local golf f ans „ -fl es for the day. and B, nut loads wii motor to < ■ : to spend the day * taking advantage of■, li.ltf Monday and ..rfßini’i"l ’ips to Michigan, oli .] Indiana. ■ Considerable actig is HR schedule for this < iiy|„ ( | :ir .' ; Plying Circus will l>| ad i^fl il ' m °nt park in connefi.) ' fl '‘ r races and Kame JBW/ The eighth distrii , >nf' , flW (ia 'he American Lei iolv. ! fll c l< the Decatur Counti| r .iub. I '"fl| iv ' ' ha n 500 visitors ua ‘end the all-ady gesAn ' I at yice men. I |l

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PYTIMSM NBIffICERS Marlin flu Alsburg Elected ( liiinßlor Commander Ol'flecaiur Lodge

Alsbatg. of IM* I''*.'’ elen. d (■cUli’rCi’mnian’lH- e: • il Ki o' Pjthia* ■' annual es officers he. niHif. was eW* n : Adams was (till.■(^Beeuelected are as M flkoti. Klnier Chase Hoover; Inn. H II Outer gua l Il - officers will I - .-.I ;r >r»eeting of the I .■i.aWfodheck. John L ' »-■ “ S’* ” .’i. grand lodge tn v election ot off disposed cf. fl_ .

M.iAfoses To Ra turn ■)in World Tour Julv Moses, da "' Cd Moses, o' r h left. Nev 11,lor a trip ar on the Monti* Tease!, !• d' j: r.ve Jtllj 3. Mose-*. the far e; t^flvM gained ba. a IfllCtpe Good H i l l. "Gs a i ,:ti‘-' ■f

|Bttrted Mohtuniiit’dan fl ft Speak Ih if Stindii) B>A?r. Mame.i M"' Kief God in i' Spin for another s.-i'ic*' 1 Siind.i.' ' ■fat f;3O c’cloek- Itev. Mmawi ■winfoui laiiguaj’e ’ and the ■’’*'•> ■f young man’s life and eoaver I Bjfrom iMohammedanism faith ; ■•• missionary spirit within his Ifc He probably will demcnstrat" Ifummeqan prayer here Sunday Rev. Motawi recently was Mated from the Andr*son Bible Wiandt Seminary and. as soon as Weans can be provided, he will re■to Egypt, his native cauntry, as •wionary. The public is Invited m f Limr here. KTjJ*———■—

laily Democrat Will ‘Not Issue An Edition On Monday, July 4th rhe Daily Democrat will not Issue edition on Monday. July L •* p loyei) of the paper being given Nation on that date. People are ited to telephone or bring a<lilts of their trips, family dins picnics and other activities on Fourth to the Daily Democrat nday. f< r publication In the P«P’ on that day. ’here Will be a general sttspenQ of business in Decatur on Mom Practically all stores will be sed and there will be no mail deriec either city or rural. The usholiday hours will be observed the postoffice. ■*

— — L_ ~ Aviators Here Have Great Praise For Byrd And Crew Eieul. Delmar L. Snyder An d Miss Gladys Roy, Here For i I lying ( ircus, Know Os The Many Dangers Lurking In Fog; Both Tell 0 f Their Experiences; Promise Many Thrills For Spectators At Bellmont Park Next Sunday Most persons fail to realize how much danger Commander Hie,hard E. Byrd and his courageous crew of three men in their monoplane America” encountered when they were forced to Ilv ne irlv all the way from New York to Paris through a dense fog. but Lieut. Delmar L. Snyder, former army aviation instructor, and Miss Gladys Boy, one ot the world's most daring women ! fliers, who are in Decatur to take.

I part in the Flying Circus at Bellmont I Park. Sunday, know from experience Jihat many dangers lurk in the dense ifo;. banks, and today they had heaps I of praise for the-, courageous battle II put up by Commander Byrd and his I crew. Has Narrow Escape I Lieut Snyder today told of one cf i his experiences with fog. During the I World War, when he was stationed ! at Fort Sill. Oklahoma, he went up in I plane one night when there was a , deti-e f>g hovering the over land. lie wen* up above the fog and flew for several minutes. Knowing that i there was a high hill nearby, known ns "Ixtokout Mountain." he paid pari tfcular attention to Jijs bearings. When he nosed his plane down to land, he plunged into the fog and, of course, was unable to see in any direction. When he had descended several the fog grew thinner and there directly below him, less than 10(1 R ej, was the top of the high hill. He had missed fcis bearings sightly, du- to the fog; and started t.> descend dlreCTir over the hill. Ilsaw the hill quickly enough, however, to right his plane and avoid a crash, but he received quite a thrill. I used to think it was a lot of fun to ascend above a fog,” said Lieu*. Snyder, ‘‘and to see the sun shining down on it, but now I always avoid iog whenever I can.” Lieut. Snyder has been in the air i i;>re than 3,000 hours. His longest l-:t> OX I’AOE EIGHT) -

R.C. REYNOLDS IS ROTARY SPEAKER Local Manufacturer Gives Talk On Stokers At Meeting Os Club Last Night R. C. Reynolds, manager of the stoker department of the Decatur Foundry Furnace and Machine company, gave an interesting talk to local Rotarians at the regular weekly meeting of that organization at the K. of C. hall last night. Mr. Reynolds explained the pro<ess of a storke in the making and asI ter it lias been installed. Proceeding Mr. Reynold’s talk, C. C. Pumphrey, president of the local club, delivered his final charge to the club. Mr. Pumphrey will he succeeded as president of the club by D, B. Erwin. next Thursday night. Mr. Pumphrey gave an interesting talk urging that the club continue the work it had started, and asking that all members cooperate with the new officers as well as they have the last year. New officers will be installed at the regular meeting next Thursday night. . ,

Decatur’s A Fast Town; Hours Fly By Like Seconds Here This Morning When Big Town Clock Goes “Crazy”

Yes, sir! Decatur’s a fast town. There’s no denying it. Hours went fleeting by this morning as rapidly as timepieces in most cities tick off seconds. When the town clock on the court house tower began striking the hour at 10 o’clock this morning, someone looked up to note the correct time of day, and he saw the minute hand doing an airplane propeller stunt and the hour hand revolving Just one-twelfth as fast. In a short time, everybody on Sec ond street was looking up and many

Decatur, Indiana, Friday, July I, 1927.

i ■ 1 i I * j# gfF BwWfl IO Miss Gladys Roy larceaudience’ WITNESSES PLAY “Hulda Os Holland”, Given By St. Marys Chorus Choir, Pleases Audience Despite the extreme warm weadher, a large crowd attended the home talent paly, "Hulda of Holland", given by the St. Marys Chorus Choir in the auditorium of the Catholic school building last evening. The play was in three acts, the scene taking place in Scheveningen. Holland, at the home ot Peter- Oats,' descendant of the great Jacob Oats. The stage was beautifully decorated , with the flower of Holland, the tulip, predominating in the decorations. Hand-made tulips were make by Mrs Adrian Wemhoff and added much to the beauty of diffirent stage settings. special musical numbers were given (< <>vrixtu:i> ox i‘<<;)■: ich.hti

heads popped out from office windows to see the time fly. The clock struck at ehch revolution of the hour hand. The clock ran down in a short time and the bands stopped at 3:30 o'clock. Clarence Beavers, of the Pumphrey store made an investigation and found that the escapement, tvhich regulates the movement of the clock, had slipped off. allowing the wheels to move unmolested. He replaced the part and started the clock off again at its usual pace. No damage was done, as far as •could be learned, and no one punched their time clock too early.

OHo Fetters Dies At His Home In Pennville Otto Fetters, 40, former resident of New Corydon, died Thursday forenoon at his home in Pennville. Death was dul to heart trouble and a complication of diseases. Mr. Fetters was a butcher in Pennville. He was born in New Corydon and spent his entire life in Jay county. Surviving are the wife and seven children, also three sisters, Mrs. Henry Muth. Geneva; Mrs. Ellis Butcher, near Pennville; and Mis. Buckingham. New Corydon. Funeral services wil be held at the home at Pennville, at 2:30 Sunday afternoon and burial will be at Geneva. POSTMASTER AT TOCSIN INDICTED Charged With Embezzlement Os U, S. Funds; George Yake Indicted Among the 15 indictments received today from Indianapoils by TJ. S. Commissioner William D. Remmel, is one charging Virgil H. Kreigh, postmaster at Tocsin. Wells county, with embezzlement of government funds. Kreigh was indicted by the federal grand jury at Indianapolis in its recent session and Is alleged to have taken $2,957.76 in government funds. George Yake, of Adams county, was indieted for impersonating a federal officer, as a result of an episode at Fort Wayne several weeks ago. while he was serving time in jail as a federal prisoner for liquor law violations. Among the other indictments return ed by the federal grand jury were: Dalpole Kaier, Archer E. Smith and Frank E. Kenna, of Columbia City, for violation of the national banking law. o Many Study German Bloomington, Ind.. July 1 Twice as many students are enrolled in course in German at Indiana University this summer as during any other summer the last five years. APPEAL MADE BY PASTORS, MAYOR Everyone Asked To Refrain From Shooting Firecrackers On Sunday A joint appeal, a Idiessed to the Dall; Democrat f.-.un George MKrick, mayor of th-' City of Deca’ur. and members o f the Decatur Min>«teial association asks that everyone refrain from shooting firecrackers on Sunflav. especi dly in the vicinity el the churches, rt.ring the hours of worship. Last Sundav. through the thoughtlessn * s of Ixu s, several church rer vice? were d!stur l >ed because of the shooCng of fi-ecrarkers. A city nrd'nance forbids the shooting of firecrackers on Sunday and viola ors are liable to r:rrr-r.t for disturbing the publb: peace. Mav.r Krick and t’.r memtters of the Decatur Min sterial t isolation, however, appeal to the civic pride of all citizens not to s’.oot firecrackers Sunday during the time of worship. The appeal addressed to this paper ictida: "Editor Daiiv Democrat; — The Mayor of the City of Decatur and ’he members of the Decatur Ministerial Associ-.t'on appeal to the * itize s of til.'* community, asldns; them to refrain ironi and as far as possible, prevent the exploding cf firecrackers on Sup lay, in the vicin*ty of the churches during the timeset **»• public worship. Last Sunday serJces were disturbed by the thoughtlessness of those who sh"*t flrerrickers noa* - the churches during 'be time serv < es. We appeal to the boys not t*> do this ani request that quiecness be the order during the hours of public worship. "George M. Krick, Mayor of Decatur “Decatur Ministerial Association."

MONOPLANE "AMERICA" LANDS IN ENGLISH CHANNEL AFTER FLYING OVER FRANCE FOR HOURS IN FOG

Byrd Summarizes Last Hours Os Flight; Landing Wheels Break When Attempt Is Made To Land On Sandy Beach. MONOPLANE IS BADLY DAMAGED Ver-Sur-Mer, Fraqpc, July 1. (United Press) — Commander Richard E. Byrd, still tired alter his heroic flight and its nerve-testing finish, today summarized the last aerial hours of the America’s flight Io France. “We were trying to land on, the sandy beach,” he said. “Our landing wheels broke. Our ship skimmed on out to sea. We returned safely in our rub-1 ber boat." I “I thouht, but I was not sure, that I was over Paris around 2 o’clock this morning,” Byrd added. “But for a long time I did not - know where I was.” As he talked, what appeared to he the wreck of the America was being pounded by the channel seas. But the fliers themselves were safe. Fliers Are Exhausted Byrd and Lieut. George O. Noville were up. though still tired after a log- ' like sleep of only six hours. Bert Acosta and Bernt Balchen, exhausted, were still sleeping. The United I'reas correspondent found the America lying like a brokenwinged bird off the beach. Back-fuselage, wings, and tail were brokeri. 1 In the center of the big single plane there was a hole, two feet in • diameter, into which the seas were pouring. The undercarriage had been swept ! away. The three propellers were broken. 1 The plane itself was tied to the ' shore by ropes, but, because the tide had come in while it was moored there, it was floating, and the seas were buffeting it. Byrd continued his story. Forced To Land “Shortly before 5 o'clock we found it obviously necessary to land. “We tried our hardest to get down safely on the sandy beach. But our wheels struck the ground 100 hard. They were off. and we and the plane skidded on out a hundred yards into the sea. t “When we stopped, w-e thought it a good time to test the boat we had brought along. "We climbed in, all four, and rode safley ashore in it.” Commander Byrd continued that after reaching shore, he and his fellow voyagers made their way to the village, a mile away. They went to the home of Mayor Georges Bonnet, he said, where the motherly Madame Bonnett’s first thought was to go through her husband's wardrobe and get them clothes to replace the drenched garments. already stiffening) with salt water, they were wearing. They had been standing tiredly, it seemed from Byrd’s story, apparent, ly afraid of wetting the furniture. Byrd and Noville volunteered to leave Mayor Bonnett's modest home, able, to harbor only two of the four. Acosta, the pilot, who had borne the brunt of the work, and Balchen, remained and went to bed. Byrd and Noville went further into the village, and found refuge at. the low-ceilinged fisherman’s cottage : occupied by Municipal Councillor i Coiffier. Thftre, welcomed with hospitable solicitude, they gladly went to bed at 6:30, Byrd said. Byrd and Neville slept until 12:30. They had not waited at. Mayor Bonnett’s 'to get tbs dry clothes Mme. P.onnett had sought. 1 While they were waiting for clothes • less saltlly reminiscent of their a-1- • ventures of the night, Byrd and Noville went, to the beach. They save dall possible important portions of the airplane’s equipment.

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Fliers Paddle 300 Yards To Shore In Rubber Boat; Pass Over Paris And Le Bourget Field Before Landing. FOG IS ENCOUNTERED i THROUGHOUT FLIGHT Ver-Sur-Mur, France, July 1- ’ (United Press)— Through eyes ■ bloodshot by sleepless nights 1 and a night-like day in thick I Atlantic fog. Commander Richard E. Byrd today surveyed '.the broken frame of his monoIplane America. I It lay, moored to fishing |boats off the beach here, floating sluggishly above such waves .of the outgoing tide as did not wash over its battered surface 'and into a 2-foot hole in the center of its single plane. Forced To Land A few hours earlier, gasoline almost expended, crew exhausted after I more than 40 hours of fighting fog. rain and wind, the America, faced : with the urgent necessity of landing I somewhere had picked what its crew 1 thought was a soft spot as dawn revealed a stretch ot sandy beach. The plane sped down, its roaring 1 motor echoing through the sleeping ■ village nearby. Its wheels struck the ! beach hard, the wheels came off. and ■ the America Itself skidded into the | sea. Come Down In Channel Ver-Sur Mer, France. July 1. — (UP) —After hours of blind flying in ( impenetrable darkness, rain and fog, Commander Richard E. Byrd and his ’ three companions in the monoplane i America came down In the English i channel, 300 yards from shore, at daybreak today. They ended their amazing flight across the Atlantic from New York . by paddling ashore, in a little collapi slble rubber boat they had taken 1 along with them. News Is Circulated From Ver-Sur-Mer news of the landing of Byrd’s monoplane had been relayed to the Mayor of Bayeux 12 miles inland. He telephoned to Caen, the provincial cap.’lal, and to Paris They had accomplished two things: First, they had completed the third American trans-Atlantic flight whthin 40 days. Secondly, they had proven that fog, terrible enemy of airmen, was not unbeatable even when it attacked at its worst at the end of a battle in (CONX IX) ED ON PAGE FIVE) o HEAT WAVE STILL GRIPS COMMUNITY Only Temporary Relief Forecast; No Casualties Reported Here With a prediction of “possibly ’temporary relief”, the heat wavu continued its third day in this community today, with the thermometer hovering around the 95 degree mark at noon. Predictions of weather forecasters ’ were that there would porbably be sowers in some parts of the state either Friday night or Saturday. , The relief, however, forecasters say, , will be only temporary, aud most of , nevt week will be hot. No casualties , from the heat have been repot td in Adams county, thus far, but many pro- , strations have been reported in othef I communities cf the middlewest. Chi cago was the hardest hit, with 18 deaths in two days. Columbia City, al- . so, reported one death from the heal Only a few white clouds wer° noticeeable in the sky today, and the s sun was shining down most of the I- day, giving out a burning heat. There i- was practically no breeze. Yesterday’s hot weather stretched into the night, t and the thermoniter held about steady t. througout the night. 1 •

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