Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 25, Number 209, Decatur, Adams County, 3 September 1927 — Page 1

WEATHER Generally fair tonight and Sunday except tomewhat unruled m aouth portion.. SliOhtly cooler tonight-

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SCHOOLS READY FOR OPENING NEXT TUESDAY Complete List Os City School Teachers Is Announced Today principles meet MONDAY MORNING Thr school officials reported this morning that everything is ready for tlv» opening of school Tuesday mornin... September 6. 1927. Fumigation t;f the buildings will take place this afternoon and evening. All principals will meet Monday morning at nine o'clock in Mr. W'Hitman's office and all city teach- ' ers ini hiding the principals will meet Monday morning at ten o’clock for orianizat on purposes in the high school auditorium. I The following is a list of instructors teaching in the Decatur Public schools 1927-1928: North Ward El'rabeth Peterson. First Grade TYeila Sellemeyer, Second Grade Serena Hornada, Third grade John R. Parrish. Pen., Fourth grade. South Warjj Eta Acker. Prin., First grade Mariella Hower. Second grade Effie Patton. Third grade Mrs Hazel Curtis. Fourth grade Riley Building Ruth Vizard, First grade Nell Winnes, Prin.. Second grade Florence Haney, Third grade Bertha Bunner, First grade Central Building Naomi Gilbert, Fourth grade « Margaret Moran. Fifth grade Kathryn Dorwin, Sixth grade. < Bera Marie Manley. Sixth grade Glennys Elzey, Fifth and Sixth grade Nellia McGath. Fifth grade 7th and Bth Denartmental Matilda Sellemeyer. History & Civics Neva Brandyberry, Geography and Physiology Grace Coffee, Penmanship & Grammar Bryce Thomas, Arithmetic W. Guy Brown, Prin.. Arithmetic High School Walter J. Krick. Prin.. and B'ology Blanche McCrmy, Commercial Sigurd Anderson. Commercial Ji’seoninc Myers, History f- English Ralph lyndaH, History and Football Florins Michaud, Latin and French F Howard Marshall. Physics and Maud Anderson. English Mathematics A. R Adams. Chemistry, Mathematics Verneal Whalen. Public Speaking Mary Burk. Domestic Science Amo< Ketchum. MantinJ Training Dessolee Chester, Music Catherine Martin. Art Jeanette Clark, Physical Training (girls) Herb I Curtis, Physical Tra'ning I boys) Lucile Kain. School Board Br. Burt Mangold. President Carrie T. Haubold. Secretary " E. Hower, Treasurer Angie Pirk,, ci er k. M. F. Worthman. Superintendent. FRED BULMAHN IS FOUND DEAD Adams County Resident Dies Os Apoplexy While Working Fred Buimahn. prominent Root lewnship farmer was found dead in the bam on his farm at 5:30 o'clock ‘ a9t bight. Death was due to apoPiexy. a son discovered the body, after Mr. Buimahn had not been seen i°r some time. It is thought that he died about 4 o'clock. i Mr. Buimahn had lived most of his e in Adams county. He was a btemher of the St. Johns Lutheran ehurch. Surviving are the widow, and our children, Theodore, Raymond, iußo and Esther, ail at home. Two brothers, Henry and William 'iimahn of Root township and four ®isters, Mrs. August Selking, Mrs. Fhrls Selking, Mrs. Chris Macke and ■’rs. Henry Berning all of Root towns,!i P also survive. Funeral services will be held Mona >' afternoon at 1:30 at the home ar,u at 2 o’clock at the St. Johns Luthfran church. Burial will take place the St, Johns cemetery.

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Dan Habegger Qualified For Ton Litter Medal Dan Habegger of Monroe township will be awarded a silver medal in the ton litter contest as a result of having fed a litter of ten pigs to a total weight of 1919 pouhds in 180 days. The pigs were hand-fed, receiving ear corn, ground oats, gruond barley and buttermilk. They had access to blue grass pasture and received some tankage. During the last part of the feeding period, they were fed commercial hog feed. Although Mr. Habegger's litters did not reach the ton, his accomplishment is commendable in that but very few spring pigs average 192 pounds at 180 days of age. DEATH CLAIMS HENRY MUNCH Dies Friday Afternoon After Illness Os Several Years Duration Henry N. Munch, 67. of near Monroeville died yesterday afternoon at 3 o'clock at his home following an extended illness. Death was due to carcinomia. He had been ill for several weeks. Mr- Munch was well-known in Decatur and Adams county. Surviving are the) widow, Mrs. Mary Munch: two sons, Clem and Edward, at home and one daughter Miss Agnes Munch of Richmond. Indiana. Funeral services wil be held Monday morning at 9 o'clock at the Sr. Rose Catholic church of Monroeville, of which Mr. Muncn was a member. Burial will be made at the Monroeville Catholic cemeterq. Liquor Cases Postponed The cases of the state vs- James Sprague and Harve Sprague, charged separately with violating the prohibition law. were postponed in Mayor's court this morhing. C. J. Lutz, sitting as special judge will hear the cases. Mr. Lutz was unable to be here today and Ahe cases were set for next week. 0 Clothing Stores To Close All four local clothing stores will he closed all day Monday, September 5, in observance of Labor Day, it was announced today. Practically all other local stores will close Monday. Q Shelbyville Girl Killed Shelbyville, Ind., Sept. 3. —(UP) — Eva Margaret Diewester, 7-year-old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Diewester, was fatally burned at her home near here when a quantity of coal oil exploded. The explosion occurred when the girl touched a lighted match to an oil soaked prepared fire, preparatory to helping cook dinner. Wife Os Newspaperman Expires In Colorado Denver, Colo., Sept. 3.—(UP) - Mrs. Catherine Bussing, wife of Wilfred C. Bush ng, advertising director of the Denver Rocky Mountain News and Evening News, and formerly business manager of the Evansville, IncL Press, a Scripps-Howard newspaper, died here today. Mrs. Bussing came to Colorado several months ago for her health. Levine Changes Plans London, Sept. 3.—(lNS)—The plan of Charles D. Levine to fly to New York today in the monoplane Columbia has been deferred because of unfavorable weather. All is in readiness for the flight, for which Captain R. W. Hinchcliffe has been engaged by Levine to act as pilot. —o Another Plane Ready Paris, Sept. 3— (INS)—Leon Givon and Paul Corbu, the French aviators who started yesterday morning on a non-stop flight to New York and returned to Le Bourget flying field after two hours in the air, may take off today or tomorrow in a new attempt to span the Atlantic by air.

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i WOMAN KILLED • IN ACCIDENT I Mrs. Charles Niezer Dies i Following Automobile Accident Friday ■ Mrs. Rose Fox Niezer, 51, wife of • Charles M. Niezer, president of the First National Bank, Fort Wayne. ’ died at 3:30 o'clock this morning at the Sacred Heart hospital, Garrett, Ind., of injuries received In an automobile accident Thursday afternoon near Laotto. Death was attributed to hemorrhage of the lungs, in the accident Mrs. Niezer's chest was crushed and her skull was fractured. Mrs. Niez- | -r. together vwth her son, Louis, age 19; her maid. Clara Eickhoff, and her chaufftlur, were enrodte to Itonie , City, when tjie accident happened. Her son, Louis, was driving the car. Mrs. Niezer and her maid were ridng in the back seat of the car. The accident occurred at two o'clock. The Niezer boy stated that he was go ng about 45 miles an hour when lie saw a light coupe about 500 feet ■ ahead, also going north. He said | that he signalled his intention of gong around the coupe, occupied by Mr. and Mrs. Frank Drake of I-aotto. Mr. lYrake stated that he noticed some friends on the porch of a home ■ along the rode, apd without warning i and apparently without knowledge that the large touring car was behind him. swerved his car to the center rs the road and directly in the path of the (Niezer car. Tlie Niezer car struck the front fender of the other car. causing the . latter to turn around but without damage. In order to avoid a serious collision w'th the other car. young Niezer. headed ;is car into the ditch I In so doing he lost control of the car, after which it crashed into a tree. Mrs. Niezer was the only one of the party not thrown from the car. . She was thrown forward against the front seat and knocked unconscious. The other persons were thrown thiongh the windshield and the front windows they receiving cuts lacerations about the face and arms, but no one. besides Mrs. Niezer was ■erknisly injured. At first hope was extended for irovrivi bd ox i-k.e two; FLIGHT PLANNED BY TWO WOMEN Prepare For Over-Seas Trip To Tokio Or Possibly France New York. Sept. 3. — (INS) —Undaunted by the fact the two other women who braved the perils of transoceanic flying met with apparent disaster, a new overseas expdition by airplane was being planned today by Miss Frances Wilson Grayson, real estate broker of Forest Hills, Long Island, and Mrs. Grace Ancker weal- . thy sportswoman of Aiken, S. C. According to plans announced here , by Miss Grayson the pilot and navigator on the proposed flight will be men. According jo present plans, Miss Grayson and Mrs. Ancker will flv across either the Atlantic ocean ) * to France, or across tile Pacific to Tokio. According to Miss Grayson, who will command the expedition, the f ight will start, within three weeks, 1 a Sikorsky Amphibian plane will be used in the attempt. Test flights are expected to start almost immediately. The decision of the two women to make the flight comes at a time ’ when the fate of another member of their sex who dared such a project ’ is still unknown. x The Princesd Lowenstein-Wertheim, who left Upavon, England, with Captain Leslie Hamilton and Lieut. 001. F. F. Minchin in an attempt to fly to Ottawa, ’ Canada, never reached her goal. ’ And it is feared the brave noblewo--1 man lost her life with those of her ' comrades. Another woman who -. attempted a trans-oceanic flight from t Oakland, California, to Honolulu, t Miss Mildred Doran, lost her life in, “the venture.

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DECATUR CLUB ’ AWARDED PRIZE Mrs. Cecil Moser Wins Award For Rotarians At Kendallville Meet The Decatur Rotary club, through the singing of Mrs. Cecil Moser, wris awarded tlie first prize at the groupe Rotary meeting lield at Kendallville last evening. Mrs. Moser sang several songs as the local club's part of the program and her singing was so widl received by the more than 300 present. that the judges awarded her the first prize. Other clubs gave stunts and a few of the clubs had ladies; to sing for their club. Seventeen people fiom this city attended tlie meeting, a few going in tlie afternoon to play golf at the Kendalville Country Club. Charles O. Grafton, governor of Indiana Rotary clubs made the principle talk at tlie meeting Dore B. Erwin president represented the Decatur club at the business session. < o — No Trace Os Redfern Rio De Janeiro, Sept. 3.—(INS) — Efforts of government authorities to find some trace of Paul Redfern, missing Georgia-to-Brazil solo flier, have so far failed, government officials announced today. o World Fliers Start Fifth Lap Os Trip Bagdad, Sept 3—(lNS) —The round-the-world fliers, Edward M. Schlee ami William S. Brock, hopped off here at 7 o'clock this morning for Bender Abbas, Persia, on tlie fifth lap of their Epoch-making flight. Schlee and Brock arrived here at 9:30 last night from Constantinople The}- are well in advance of mevio.is attempts to circle the globe. FLIGHT DEVELOPMENTS By International News Service 1 — Capt. Frank Courtney hopped off for America from Plymouth, England, in the “Whale.” 2 — No trace of the “Flying Princess" in the plane “St. Raphael.” 3 — “Pr de of Detroit” left Bagdad for Persia today. 4 — Givon and Corbu plan second takeoff from France for America. 5— -“Royal Windsor” expects to hop off again today for England. 6— Sir John Carling flight to England deferred until tomorrow. 7 — Levine’s flight to America postponed. 8 — “Old Glory’s” flight to Rome postponed. 9 — No trace of Redfern. 10 — Woman plans new trans- | Atlantic flight.

COURTNEY TURNS AIRPLANE BACK Unconfirmed Radiogram Says Flier And Passenger Are Returning London, Sept., 3. — (UP) —A wireless message indicating that head winds would prevent Captain Frank T. Courtney's Dornier Napier flying Whale from continuing with the first leg of its trans-Atlantic hop was in tercepted today by the S. S. Adda. The message purported to have been sent from the Whale. It was addressed to the S. S. British Duchess and read as follows: "Making for Coruna too much head wind to reach Azores.” Tlie message was signed “Downer." F. W. W. Downer is navigator of Courtney's plane. Coruna is a Spanish seaport on the A’lantic ocean about 320 miles north west of Madrid. There is a fine harbor there suitable to the purposes of the Whale if Courtney desired to alight. London, Sept. 3. —(INS) —Captain Frank T. Courtney, British airman who hopped off from Plymouth at 6:25 this morning to fly to the Azores has turned back toward Coruna, Spain, said a radiogram received here this afternoon. London, Sept. 3. —(INS) —An unconfirmed report was received here this afternoon that Frank Courtney who ; hopped off at Plymouth, England, for the Azores had turned back and was heading for Coruna, Spain. Plymouth, Eng.. Sept. 3. — (INS) — Witli a mysterious millionaire Can- ’ adian as a passenger, Captain Frank ■ J. Courtney hopped off from here at 6:26 o’clock this morning to conquer the Atlantic ocean by air. Besides tlie mysterious passenger, whose identity was not disclosed and who was reported to have paid $7,500 for the privilege of making tlie flight, Courtney was accompanied by R. J. Little, engineer, and F. W. Downer, navigator. Captain Courtney has described his flight as a scientific attempt to prove the feasibility of regular airplane service across the ocean. He expects to receive constant weather reports from official weather bureaus in England and America and trans- ~ # K OMIM III* ON PAGE TWO) ■ q DUVALL MAKES ANOTHER SHIFT Johnson Is Appointed City Controller When Buser Otters To Resign Indianapolis, Sept. 3.— (UP) —Another switch in the administration of Mayor John L. Duvall has made Claude F. Johnson, former chief of police, city controller, to make way for him, William C. Buser. the mayor's brother-in-law, stepped out of the job. Tills development followed resignation of tlie board of safety and the i police department civil service commission and appointment of Claude M. Worley, investigator for the Marion county criminal court, as chief of police in place of Johnson. These changes in the space of three days had th© city hall buzzing today. Johnson earlier in the week had been offered the city controller's job to make way for Worley, but declined. He changed his mind yesterday, and upon being made a second offer, accepted it although the new board of safety had made him captain of detectives. The did board of safety resigned rather than make Worley chief of police as Duval! had asked it to do. The civil service commission quit declaring that the changes in the police department had dealt a blow at the civil service plan which Mayor Duvall instituted several months ago. The mayor said Euser intended to enter business,.but there were reports that lie might remain in the administration.

Weather Threatens To Stop' London To London Flight I Caribon, Maine, Sept- 3 —(INS) — Unsettled weathur conditions today threatened to delay the start of t'aptain Terry Tully and Lieut. Janies ! Metcalf < n their interrupted flight from London, Ontario, to London, England. The Trans-Atlantic plane "Sir John Carling'' which was damaged when the fliers were forced to land here after losing their way in thelfog. has been repaired, and Tully and Metcalf ar ■ awaiting only favorable weather for J their take-off. ELKS CARNIVAL ■ PLANS COMPLETE!, Final Arrangements Made j For Week’s Festival And Dance Final details have been arranged for ’ the Elks fair and charity bazaar to b > ' given in this city during the week of September 12 to 17. The big tent, which will be placed on Liberty Way, will arrive here next week and be erected at once. Walter Wilkinson, exalted ruler of the lodge ami general chairman of the fair committee, stated this morning that all committees were working for the success of the week anil that every effort was being made to please those who attend the fair and bazaar. Beautiful and useful articles will be sold at the tent and the patronage of the public will he appreciated. The General Electric band will fur k nish music every evening at the tent. A dance will lie given every night froty ten to twelve o’clock at the KnigHts of Columbus hall and a special orches tra lias been engaged for the week Invitations have been extended to Elk's lodges in nearby cities and it is expected that many visitors will come here and participate in tlie big program, the proceeds from which will be used in carrying cut the Elk's charity program. 0 Aged Lady Dies At Her Fort Wayne Residence Mrs. Rosa Frame, age 83, grandmother of Roy Frame, died Friday morning at 6:30 o'clock at her home, 1418 Taylor St., Fort Wayne. She was the widow of Ingham Frame, who died in 1896. Mrs. Frame was a lite long 1 resident of Allen county, being horn in Alboite township. Surviving are one daughter. Mrs. William Coblentz; four sons, John H., Norris, Edward and , F. L. Frame, of Fort Wayne. Besides Roy Frame, nine other grandchildren also survive, uneral services will he held Sunday afternoon at two-thirty o'clock. o Daughter Arrested When Father’s Body Is Found Radsville, N. Car.. Sept. 3.—(INS I Investigation of the disappearance of P. Smith Petty, 50-year-old mill overseer, reached a climax a Jnoon today when Mrs. Alma Petty Gadlin. 20, liis daughter, was arrested and charged with the murder. The arrest of tlie woman followed ' the finding this morning of Petty's ■ charred remains in the basement of ■ the Gadlin home here. It was be- ‘ lieved Petty’s body had been in the ■ basement for months. Neither Mrs. f Gadlin or her husband said anything * when the warrant was served. i o Will Sing Here ’ Mr. and Mis. Guy C. Latchaw of ' Evanston, Illinois will sing at the ■ Methodist church tomorrow morning. ■ Mrs. Latchaw is a sister of Mrs. Dan 1 Tyndall of this citv. f . „ Senator Shoots ’Em i f Bedford, Ind.. Sept. 3.—(UP) —Sen. - Arthur R. Robinson doesn't take any t back seats when it conies to provids ing a meal of wild game with a shotv gun. r The Senator, while the guest of >. former state Senator Charles M. Lanz, o at Fairyland Lodge, near here, got up s in the wee hours and went out and i- bagged enough squirrel to provide a real breakfast.

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PASSENGER AND ! COAL TRAiN IN HEAD-ON WRECK Accident Occurs Close To Francisco, Indiana, Early This Morning SEVERAL COACHES ARE DERAILED Francisco, Ind., Sept. 3.—(IN S) —Three railroad men were killed, two others were probably fatally injured and at least 25 passengers were more or less seriously hurt when speeding Southern Railway train No. 2 bound from Danville, Ky„ to St. Louis, Mo., crashed head-on into ' a Big Four coal train of fifteen cars which was waiting on a spur a mile west of here early today. The crew of the Big Four coal train had failed to close the switch on tlie main line. The passenger train travelling 50 miles an hour ran head-on into the coal train, demolishing tlie engines of both trains, derailing the express, mail, and combination smoker and baggage cars of the passenger train and a niinilwr of the coal cars. The dead were: Thomas Nelson. New Albany, Ind., engineer of the Southern Railway train. Leonard Wilson, Princeton, Ind., i fireman of the Southern Railway rain. W. £. Anderson. Petersburg, Ind., fireman of the Big Four coal train. Those seriously if not fatally injured were: George Fluhrer, Petersburg. Ind., engineer of the Big Four coal train W. IT. Young. Louisville, Ky., express messenger on the passenger train. The bodies of Nelson and Anderson were taken to a Princeton morgue while Wilson died two hours after ihe accident at the Methodist hospital at Princeton. The injured passengers were taken to tlie Methodist hospital at Princeton in ambulances sent from Prineton. It was said that all the injured passengers would recover. The Big Four railroad has accepted full responsibility for the accident it w;is said here today as railroad and county officials opened a double barreled probe into the crash. Decatur Young Ladies To Enter Nurses School Tlie Misses Alice Clark and Anna Murtaugh of this city, botli graduates of the Decatur Catholic high school will leave Monday for Indianapolis where they will enter the nurses training school at St. Vincent hospital in that city. The St. Vincent school is one of tlie best training schools in the stateo FIGURES SHOW BIG INCREASE Gas Tax Collection F o r August Shows Heavy Advance Indianapolis, Sept. 3. —(UP) —Gasoline tax collection in Indiana for the month of August totaled $1,052,812 - 68, according to the regular monthly report of A. N. Bobbitt, gasoline tax collector. • This figure was an increase of $105,626.84 over the same period last year, the report showed. This year’s figures represent the amount of money . paid as taxes on 35,092,756 gallons of ■ gasoline. Including the amount of tax paid, ■ Indiana motorists spent approximately $6,250,000 tor gasoline during Augf ust, 1927. Os the total amount of , taxes collected $32,498.73 was refund- > ed to persons who used gasoline for 1 purposes other than for propelling i motor vehicles upon the public highways.

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