Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 25, Number 208, Decatur, Adams County, 2 September 1927 — Page 1

WEATHER Fair tonight, Saturday Incroating cloudiness. Not much change In temperature.

MISHAP AND DISASTER MARK FLIGHTS

ADAMS COUNTY INSTITUTE IS CLOSED TODAY Week’s Session Closes With Fine Addresses This Afternoon teachers are ready FOR SCHOOL OPENING The annual Adams County Teachers Institute came to a {lose this afternoon after a week s session at the Court loom of the Adams County Court House. Tite meeting was one of the most successful ever held in this county ami those attending say that every program was fine. Two sessions were held each day and the attendance for the week was one of the largest ever reported. Much interest was shown by local peoplb and several visitors attended each session. The Rev. R W. Stoakes. pastor of the Methodist church had charge of rtevotionals nt the opening of the morning session. (Trace Hobson continued her instruction in music and led the Institute i nsinging several songs. Dr. Roscoe Gilmore Stott entertained an apprecative audience with his address, “Birds I would Like to Shoot. And Others." Dr. Stott declared that God was all for harmony, hut that there were many human birds out of harmony. He drew a few striking analogies The dove, he explained was the citizen who affects nothing. The parrot, he said, was a citizen who doesn’t do much of his own thinking. “There are physical mental and evan spiritual parrots,", the speaker continued. “The vulture is the person who lives upon the decay of society, lie loves gossip and scandal.” Rut the robin," stated the speaker, “is the human, lovable, optimist who says ‘spring is coming - . “The lark portrays the finer, nobler sentiments of life and the eagle takes the hard places, isolated and rugged." Dr. Scott closed with at beautiful dramatization of the last supper. Professor Lillian G. Derry spoke on “Italy, Yesterday and Today.” The speaker gave an interesting account of the home, civic and moral life of the present day Italians and compared it to the past. The same speakers were scheduled for this afternoon on the, closing program. A short business sesion probably will be held late this afternoon.

Officers Sieze Byrd Plane Ottawa, Ont., Sept. 2—(UP)—Canadian customs officers have seized th- - monoplane in which commander Richard E. Byrd flew to Toronto recently, with French air minister Boga.iowski aS a passenger, the Canadian department of national revenue announced today. STORES WILL CLOSE MONDAY Labor Day To Be Observed In Decatur By Suspension Os Business Business will be suspended in Decatur Monday, September 5, In observance of Labor Day. Practically all stores will be cloesd, most of the business houses, however, will remain open late Saturday night to take care of the week-end trade. Ihe Western Union telegraph office will be closed with the exception "f an hour in the morning and an h °ur in the afternoon. The General Electric factory will be closed all day Monday. 1 here will be no publication of the Daily Democrat. Mail service also "’ill be suspended all day Monday and Sunday hours will be observed at tho Post Office. Banks Will Cose The three Decatur banks will be 1 msed all day Monday in observance Labor Day.

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Will Hold Festival At Pleasant Mills —■—■J. „ There will be a minature Booth Festival at th<- school house at Pleasant Mills. All the donations to the Booth Festival at Fort Wayne will be brought tn at the time of the entertainment ami play to be given by the Epworth League. Empty can will be there io exchange if desired. The entertainment will begin at 7:30 instead of 8:00 as previously announced. There will he two reels of movies run beginning at 7:30. One comedy, "Pot Roust" and one strictly religious, “The Good Samaritan." Remember tlie date, September 2nd at 7:30 p. m. at the high school. Do not forget your fruit and donations. ERWIN GIVES ROTARY REPORT Local President Tells Os Annual Meeting Held At State Capitol Dore B. Erwin, president of the Decatur Rotary club, made the principal address at the regular meeting of the Rotary club last evening. Mr. Erwin gave a repott of the executive conference held at Indianapolis two weeks ago and made an inspiring talk following his repent. M. F. Worthman, supei intendent of schools, chairman of the boy's work committee, submitted a program of activities for the year which the club adopted. Several new projects were included in the program for this year which in the program for this year, the first object to have the attention of the membership being "the back to school campaign" under way nowMotor to Kendalvilt* Several Rotarians and their wives went to Kendalville this afternoon to attend an inter-city meeting with the clubs of Croupe two. including Decatur. Among those who attended the meeting weie Dore B. Erwin, W. A. Ixiwer, (’. ('. Pumphrey, Eno Lankenau, James Cowan. Dr. and Mrs. Fred Patterson, Mr. and Mrs. France Confer. Mr. and Mrs. C. O. Porter, Mr. and Mrs. Will Bowers, Mr. and Mrs. Sim Burk tnd several others. A dinner will be served at the Elks club tonight and Mrs. Ceci! M ‘ser of this city will si;,s

ing the evening's program. Miss H > ■ Haubohl will be the pianist. o Will Preach In West Elder J. L. Kline of near Honduras left today for Cairo, Illinois from which town he will go to Missouri. Kansas and Arkansas to conduct evangelistic campaigns during September and October. Mrs. Horace Dodge Is Bride For Second Time Honolulu, Sept. 2—(UP)—Mrs. Horace Dodge. Jr., divorced wife of' the automobile manufacturer's son. today was the bride of Benjamin F. Manning,, young army Lieutenant. Mrs. Dodge and Manning were married without previous announcement in the presence of only two witnesses Kenneth Harlan, the actor and Jerome Weller. •Manning's first wife was killed in an automobile accident. Mrs. C. B. Smith Undergoes Operation In This City An operation for the removal of gall stones was performed on Mrs. C. H. Smith of Detroit at the Adams county Memorial hospital at nine o’clock this morning. Local physicians performed the operation. Mrs. Smith, rallied from the operation and although her condition is serious, her condition is quite satisfactory. 0 Harve Rice On Vacation Harve Rice, veteran city mail carrier is taking his vacation this week. Mr. Rice has been on the city mail route for the past 17 years and has been in the services the longest of any mail carrier in Decatur. Mr. Rice delivers the mail on West Monroe street and in the west part of the city.

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63-YEAR OLD PRINCESS LOST IN ATLANTIC // , w .. > M ■ Twa ;1‘ ,i.. .wiSSßsrfSi Above is the first photograph of Princess* Lowenstein-Wertheim taken ' shortly before the “St. Raphael" took oil for Canada. The plane is more (han 21 hours overdue and is thought lost.

PROGRAM WILL RE PRESENTED Reformed Societies Will Give Program Next Tuesday Night The Woman's Missionary society, the Girl's Missionary Guild and the Mission Hand, of the Zion Reformed church, will render a program Tuesday, September 6, at 7:30 p. m. in the church auditorium. All the members of the organization are urgently requested to be present and friends are cordially invited. Refreshments will be served after rhe program, which follows: Hymn, 54. "Nobody Told Me of Jesus” Hymn 64. “Servant of Gori" Devotion —Isaiah 54, verse 13: Mark 10, verses 13-16—Mrs. F. Heuer. Prayer —Miss Eleanor Reppert Hymn. “The Children Hosanno” Vocal solo, “My Task"—Mrs. Dallas Goldner "The New Book.” A Straight Way Toward Tomorrow—Mrs. B. Elzey Vocal solo "Sowing the Tares”— Della Sellemeyer The New Book, “New' Paths for Ok! ( Purposes”—G. M. G. delegates. • jf'sFion Band, “I'll Be A Sunbeam.”! Address—Rev. A. R. Fledderjohann Hymn. “O Ziun Haste" Mizpah Benediction. FIGURES SHOW GUST ADVANCES — First Grade Pupils' Books Cost Less Than Others In County

Book lists and supplies needed by pupils in the grade and high schools | in Adams county have been published j and from now on until late next week I book dealers will lie busy supplying. the wants of school children. It will cost parents slOl for the books required by a first grade pup:' in Decatur As the child advances, so does the cost of education and when lie or she reaches the Eighth gtade. the pupil's books and supplies will cost $11.60. if the child enters high school the parent's cost of education that is for books and supplies, will drop a few dollars. A Freshman's sunplies will cost SB.BB this year. Then the cost goes up until the senior year it reaches a total of sl4 48. The price of the different books and supplies needed by the pupil were given in the lists published by rhe Daily Democrat. In the rural schools or those under the supervision of County superintendent Clifton E. Striker, the cost of starting a child in the first grade will be SI.BB. The cost then goes up each year as additional books are added tlie Eighth grade will have $12.18 invested in books and supplies. Several of the books used in the schools were changed this year and on the opening day of school each pupil will lie furnished with a list of the books and supplies for the school year.

Decatur, Indiana, Friday, September 2, 1927.

No Paper Monday As has Ireen the custom for several years, the Daily Democrat will I suspend publication Monday September 5 in observance of Labor | Dav. In case tlure is any ne>fs of importance, bulletins will be placed in the windows. D.C STEPHENSON ASKS RELEASE Appeals, Through Attorney To Federal Judge Thomas Slick —— South Eend, Sept. 2.—(INS)—D. C. Stephenson. Indiana's most famous life prisoner, through his attorney. William Brooker, of Michigan City, ti»s afternoon sought the aid of tho Federal court in his fight for freedom. Brooker tiled a brief petition in federal• court here asking a writ of habeas corpus for his client on the ground that Stephenson was being hei’d unjustly in pr'son for the murder of Madge O’oerholtzer. U. S. Judge Thomas Slick imrned-1 iately set September 8 as the hearing date of arguments on the petition. The petition for the writ did not go into details of the case, it mere- ■ ly sought to obtain the opportunity, to argue the ease n federal court and Judge Slick granted this Brooker explained it was absolutely necessary for Stephenson to have private conferences with his attorneys in his fight for freedom and this was being denied him. Ossian People Injured Victor Wilson and son, Paul, of Ossian, were slightly injured at noon today when the car in which they were driving collided with a truck on the state road near K ngsland in Wells county. Both were cut about the face and arms, but neither was scriou-i'y injured. Another son, Ralph Wilson, was uninjured. J o Sylvan Runert Improved After Serious Accident Peru, Ind. Sent 2—(UP)—Sylvan I. Rupert, in a serious condition for a time after being injured in an automobile accident ten days ago, has shown marked improvement since tho arrival at his bedside of his fiancee, Miss Lucille Oliver, Monroe The accident prevented their marriage, which had been set for the last of last week. o— — Winchester Street Opens To Limited Traffic Today Winchester street wil be opened to limited traffic tonight, I*. L. Macklin, one of the contractors who improved the street state dthis afternoon. The street will be opened to passenger automobils. Heavy trucks and horse vehicles are rot allowed to use the street, because of the damage they will do to tho street. Tito street will be opened from the Adams street inter- • section, south to Oak street.

TUESDAYISTAX DAY IN COUNTY County Council Will Fix Tax Rates For Adams County Sept. 6 Next Tuesday. September (’.th will be tax day in Adams County. The county council will meet Tuesday for the iiuip.se of taking up the county budgets and fixing the tax rates under their jurisdiction. The levy for bridges. county highway repair, and the geneial county tax levy are fixed by the county council. Although the county council passes on the levies ia the different townsTfrps "for Tfl> tovviishup road bond and interest funds no changes are made in levies, because the township lias created the debt for the roads already built and the money asked for in the budget must be bad to pay the bonds and interest as they become due. The levies in practically all the townships for this purpose will be higher next year. The general budget for which the general county levy is made includes all items of expense in the operation of the county government, including salaries :f county officials, county farm, jail, court house and others. A special levy for bridge repair and building is also made. The county bond and interest fund for paying the bonds and interest on the Adams County Memorial Hospital and the Smith Bridge, north of Decatur will be about the same next year, alth’.agh the K'ovrix i i:n ox I’xt.i: mxi o — VALUATION MAY EFFECT ROADS

Decrease May Prevent All Townships From Building Next Year In view of the decreased valuations of farm lands, ordered by the state board of tax commissioners this year, it is doubtful if any of the townships in Adams county can build roads next year. The'cut in valuations reduces taxable property in this county about $3,000,000- According to law a township can bond itself up to 2 per cent, of the net valuation and in a few of the townships under the old values they were unable to build roads last year or this year. With the cut in valuation effective this year and no increase for next year, many of the townships will not have sufficient ere dit to build roads. Washington township used up •' * entire credit this year with the building of the Hurst, Wemhoff and Schulte hard silt faced roads and in the townships where only a small sum was available for road building the cut In valuation will make it impossible to yield a credit sufficient for new reads. The road building program for t'ui t year is about completed and those roads petitioned for during the yeawill have to be carried over until the township has the credit available to build them.

Portland Man Killed Near Tiffin, Ohio; Tiffin, ()., Sept. 2. -HNS) Roman Bundshue, 33, Fremont, and Ralph Wilt, 28, Portland, Ind., were killed on the Fremont-Foatoriu road, near here early today when the machine Bundshue was driving exploded after leaving the road and striking a telegraph pole. Bundshue was caught in the wreckage and his body consumed by the flames, while Wilt was thrown clear of the wreckage after his clothes had been covered with bunting gasoline. Bundshue was dead when the burning wreckage was discovered, while Wilt died while being removed to the Fostoria hospital. DUVALL NAMES WORLEY CHIEF New Safety Board Also Appointed To Fill Vacancies Indianapolis, Sept. 2. — (UPt<—A new chief of police and a new board of safety ruled in Indianapolis today, a. result of an upheaval in Mayor John L. Duvall's administration The new board of safety was appointed by the mayor after the old board had resigned with the explana’ion that it chose to get out rather than yield to Duvall in a matter of principle—-the appointment of Claude M. Worley as chief of police. The new board fulfilled Duvall's wishes by making the appointment. Worley succeeds Chief of Police Claude F. Johnson, who was made a captain of detectives. Worley resigned from the police depar: ment because the old board of safety reduced him from chief of detectives to lieutenant. He has been an investigator for Judge James Collines of the Marion county criminal court since then. The new board, composed of Fred W. Connell, president: Ira Haymaker and Robert F. Miller, was sworn in several hours after the old board had quit. Jerry Kinney was made chief of detectives. Other changes in the police department may follow. o- — Local K. Os C. Lodge To Have Informal Dinner An informal dinner of the Decatur Assembly of the Knights of Columbus will be held at the K. of C. hall, Wednesday night. Sep'etnber 7th. Dinner will be served at 6:15 o'clock. The members are urged to be present and a short program will be held following the dinner. Recently a new class of candidates were made members of the local assembly and a report of the meeting at Fort Wayne will be made. o Girl Falls To Death Hammond, Ind., Sept. 2- — (INS) — Miss Mildred Streba of Indiana Harbor fell from the second story of her home as she leaned against the railing of a porch last night and was so badly injured that she died soon after being taken to the Gary hospital.

o John D. Andrews Oldest Living Member Os 160th With the death yesterday of Lee Martz, Civil war and Spanish American war veteran, John I). Andrews, of this city becomes the oldest living member of the 160th regiment of the ’ Spanish American war. At the next convention of that regiment to be held next, spring, Mr. Andrews' picture will be placed on the badges as the oldest living member. o

World Fliers Leave For Bagdad After Day Delay Constantinople, Sept 2. (INS) The round-the-world plane “Pride of Detroit", piloted by Edward F. Schlee and William S. Brock, hopped off at 1 5 o'clock this morning for Bagdad. Because of the twenty-four hour dei lay here, caused by difficulty in obtaining a permit to fly over Turkish territory, no stop will be made at Aleppo in their flight to lower the roundi the-world record of twenty eight and one-half days.

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ONE PLANE IS LOST; OTHERS FORCED BACK No Word From Missing “St. Raphael”; Search To Be Conducted INC LEM EN T W E ATI! E R IS BIG FACTO R (By United Press) Mishtip ;ii)(l perhaps actual disaster marked the three attempts Io cross the Atlantic which have been in progress since early yesterday morning. The London to Ottawa plane St. Raphael, in witch the 63 year old Princess Anne of Lowenstein-Wer-theim was a passenger, still was unheard from today, although approximately 50 hours had elapsed since its flight started. The Windsor. Ontario to Windsor, England plane "Royal Windsor” carrying Ph i Wood and G. A. Schiller, wh:>h left Windsor. Ontario, yesterday morning, was forced down at Mt. Johnson near St. Johns, Quebec, last night. Danger of fire forced the landing. The [ißane was little damaged and the fliers wired their representative at Windsor, Ont. They expected to start agai n by 10 a.m. They hail spent the night at St. Johns. The London. Ont. to London. Eug’and plane of Terra nee Tully and James Medcalf, lost its way in th» tog last night, and was forced to Caribou, Maine. They hoped to resume the flight today. Leon Givon and Pierre Corbu. French aviators, took off at dawn in Furman biplane “BluoiSrd” on an attempted non-stop flight from Le Bourget. France, to New York. Fog fori-, d them to return (o the field an hour and 45 minutes after starting, and their flight was at. least postponed. Charles A. Levine and his now British pilot, Waflter Dinchcliffe. awaited in London definite word from the plane Saint Raphael before deciding whether to fly westward over the Atlantic or eastward in an attempt to set a distance record. In Cologne, and Dessau, Germany, German aviators awaited favorable weather to take off on non-stop flight to America. Paul Bedfern, who last week attempted a non-stop flight from Brunswck, Ga„ to Rio De Janeiro, was still missing, though hope survived that he.may have landed in the swamps >r jungles of Venezuela, the Guianas or Brazil and may yet be alive. Hope for the seven missing Dole fliers in the Pacific has been abandoned completely. The W 11 am Randolph Hearst plane “Old G’ory," continued to await favorabe weather at Roosevelt. Field. N. Y. for its proposed New York to Rome flight. Early morning Indications today were that the start could . < oxti x i ox i-k.i: uii.iit) c

M’CRAY GREETS MANY FRIENDS Will Take Short Rest Before Assuming Business Career Indianapolis, Sept. 2. —(UP)—Warren T. McQray slept under the same roof with his family for the first time, in three and one-half years last night and faced the future today with confident courage.

One ordeal that he dreaded probably will be spared him. Witnesses who appeared before the Marion county grand jury this week eliminated necessity of the former governor testifying about the charge he was offered a slo,oofl_hr-ibe a few months before he was sentenced to the Atlanta federal penitentiary for using the mails to defraud. Although Prosecutor William H. has not decided not to call McCray, it is unlikely the former governor will have to appear. This probability lifted a load from (CONTINUED ON PAGE TWO)

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