Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 25, Number 210, Decatur, Adams County, 6 September 1927 — Page 1

weather Cloudy and unsettl. fd tomoht and Wednesday- Warmer In northeaet toniflht.

OLD GLORY STARTS FLIGHT TO ROME

| County Budget For 1928 Being Pruned By Councilmen

FINAL ACTION ON budgetexpected TO BE MADE TODAY [ Reductions Made In Several [ Sums Asked For In VarI ious Departments I |\( REASE IN RATE | THOUGHT NECESSARY I The county council, in sesI sion today, had not approved) || |he budgets and fixed the counI (y. bond and interest, bridge | and highway repair levies at I o'clock this afternoon, and | in all probability the final acI lion of the board will not be I taken until late this afternoon. I The board completed the checking | up of the items in the general budget I awl in several cases the appropria- | tions asked for were ent by the ■I councilmen. | The appropriation for *3.000 for I I the bovine trfterculosis* eradication | | tests was left In the budget, being one | I of the new items asked for in the I budget. The appropriations for the I various budgets and other items in I the budget were left about the same. : Cut Is Forecast I It was believed that the total of the I I budget would be cut. in view of the I pruning made in the budget, hut the I exact f gures were not available at I press time. j What action the commissioners and I county council will take on the coirttI ty highway repair budget was not I known at press time. The budget I asked for $97,000, not taking into I consideration the $.13,000 received by I the county yearly from the state I gasoline tax. This tax has always I been placed in the county highway I fund, but it was not listed in the I budget and at press time no definite I action had been taken by the counI cU - I It positively can be stated that the county tax rate will be higher than a year ago. because of the $3,000,000 cut in farm land values, ordered by the state tax board. In order to raise as much money for next year as was raised this year, the rate will have to he increased on the decreased valuations. Irish Flier Forced To Postpone Flight Dublin, Sept. 6.—(lNS)— Capt. R. H. Mclntosh, Irish trans-Atlantic flyer who had hoped to hop off tods for America, had to postpone the fight on account of fog. W. R. 0. TO HOLD PICNIC SEPT. 10 Members And Husbands, G. A. R. And Spanish-Amer-ican Veterans Invited A picnic and program will be given •ty the W. R. C. at the Samuel Chronister home, 935 Mercer avenue, Saturday, September 10. Besides members hf the W. R. c. and their husbands, a H old soldiers, members of the G. A- R., and Spanish-American war veterans are invited to the picnic. The Rev. Harry W. Thompson, pas,n'' of the First Christian church of ’his city, and French Quinn will deliver addresses during the day. Bertha Twibell, department presid(, nt of the W. R. C., and Mrs. Elizabeth Kelly, p as t department president, both of Montpelier, Ind., will a| so deliver talks at the program. Those who attend are asked to bring basket dinners with them and Pn k>y the day. Mrs, Ida Chronister. President of the local W. R. C. organization, extends a cordial invita,lon to the soldiers, and members of W. r. p to abend the picnic, ’ransportation will be arranged for ” ’hose who do not have away to Aet to the Chronister home, will Please call Mrs. Chronister.

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. Judge Webster Thayer, of ; Worcester, Mass., is confined ito bed with nervous breakidown as result of nervous strain over Sacco-Vanvetli decision.

t COMMISSIONERS ARE IN SESSION Bills Checked And Allowed; Drain Petitions Up For Hearing, Also The county commissioners me' in ( regular session this morning and the ( forenoon was devoted to cheeking ard allowing of monthly bills. ( Yesterday being Labor day, the com- ( missiouers did not meet the Monday'.; , business was disposed of today. Early this morning, tlie commissioners and ] County Surveyor Dick Boch in. de a tiip of inspec’ion over several roads , and "Iso inspected several bridges. , During ‘he September session, con- | tiacts will he awarded for furnishing supplies at tlie county infirmary and other detail matters taken up. This afternoon, the board held a hearing on the petitions for the Henry Krick drain ( in Washington township and the Janies K. Niblick drain in Kirkland township. The petitions for these two improvembents were filed two months ago letting. The petition for the Krick drain proposed that a drain be built from tlie Schnepp farm, south of Decatur ami west through the west part of the city and terminating in the old Holthouse ditch. A remonstrance has been filed against tlie improvement. o Official Board To Meet The cfficial board of the First United Brethren church will meet Wednesday evening at the close of prayer meeting. c f TRAINING SCHOOL TO OPEN SEPT. 19 Fourth Annual Of School To Be Held In Central School Building The fourth annual Community Standard Training School will open in the Central school building, Monday night. September 19. the Rev. R. W. Loose, dean of the school, announced today. Registration and enrollment will be held cn Friday evening, September 16. The training schools conducted during the last three years have been highly successful. The local school has received much commendation from state and national training school authorities. The attendance has been large each year, with a steady growth manifested.

ONLY DAILY NEWSPAPER IN ADAMS COUNTY

Decatur, Indiana, Tuesday, September 6, 1927.

PLANS ARE MADE FOR FUNERAL OF WAYNE WHEELER Final Rites For Leader In Dry Movement Are Scheduled For Wednesday DEATH OCCURS AT BATTLE CREEK. MICH. Columbus, 0., Sept. 6. I IN'S I -The forty state superintendents of the National Anti-Saloon League will act A as honorary pallbearers when the body of Wayne B. Wheeler, late general counsel of the league, Is borne to its final rest here Thursday afternoon. Funeral services will be conducted from Central Methodist Episcopal church, from which Wheeler's wife was buried two weeks ago, following ■her tragic death in the explosion of an oil stove at their Michigan summer home. Rev. Albert Schatzman. pastor of, the church, will conduct the funeral, and national officers of the league, including Dr. F. Scott Mcßride, general superintendent; Dr. Ernest H. Cherrington, general manager of publication, and Dr. Howard H. Russell, founder of the league, will assist in the funeral services. World Mourns Death Battle Creek. Mich., Sept. 6—(IN'S) —Tlie ranks of reformers and the world at large today ■mourned the death of a ligitni mijqji* iu the history of the country, a man credited with being the moving force behind the passage of the most vehementlydiscussed amendment ever added to the constitution of the Untied States. He was Wayne B. Wheeler, general counsel and so-called generalissimo of the Anti-Saloon League, who died at a sanitarium here late yesterday afternoon from a • complication of kidney trouble and heart disease. Wheeler's body, which was taken to a local undertakering establish ment. was to lie removed to Columbus, Ohio, by his son and a friend. Dr. Howard Hyde, later in day. To Be Buried At Cleveland It was understood that Wheeler's body would be laid to rest near that of his wife in lhe family burial plot (CONTINUED ON PAGE TWO) FEEDS THREE TON LITTERS Joseph P. Habegger Repeats Feat Os Last Year; Several See Weighing Those who think it is impossible to produce ton litters when a large mumber of pigs are geing fed together should ask the opinion of any of the thirty men who attended the ton weighing at Joseph P. Habbeger’s Thmsday afternoon. Mr. Habegger fed a drove of 53 spring pigs, 46 of which were in five litters he nominated in tlie ton litter contest last spring. Three of the five litters successfully passed the ton mark at ISO days of age. Tlie weighing was done by a group ot fanners who gathered to inspect ‘he porkers which Habbegger has fed to a marketable age in such a short time. The weights of the litters were as follows; Twelve pigs, 2901 pounds nine pigs, 2018 pounds., nine pigs 2,215 ponds; eight pigs, 1.860 pounds; seven pigs, 1,606 pounds. The remaining seven pigs which had been fed along with above Ijtters were of approximately the same size of those entered. When induced -to tell how he has been able to attain such success in feeding hogs, Habegger stated he was careful to see that all the quarters of the sows and pigs were disinfected thoroughly and kept clean as possible Bedding was changed every day for the first week or two. "The iniport(CONTINIED ox page: two;

1 Long Distant Flying (By In ernational News Service) Today's developments in the various long distance flights; 1— Levine postponed flight from England. 2— Royal Windsor and Old _Glory ready to start from Old Or- ... chard, Maine 3— Courtney, in Spain, awaits be ter weather. 4—Macintosh, in Ireland, held up by adverse winds. 5 Brock and Schlee flew to Calcutta from Allahabad. 6 Sir John Carling hopes to leave for England today. 7- No trace of Redfern. JACKSON ADMITS PART OF CHARGE Confesses He Asked McCray To Appoint McDonald As Prosecutor Indianapolis. Sept. G—(INS)- Governor Ed. Jackson, in a formal statement issued today, admitted he had asked Governor Warren T. McCray to appoint Janies E. McDoland, India- ! napolis lawyer, tlie favorite cf the D. (’. Stephenson political machine, as Marion county piosecutor to succeed W. P- Evans, son-in-law of McCray. However. Jackson denied additional . details of the charge of Boyd Guriev I editor of the Indianapolis Times, that he had offered McCray SIO,OOO and immunity from prosecution for the finan- ’ cial manipulation that resulted in McCray’s sentence to the federal prison at Atlanta in exchange for the ap- ' pointment. The statement was made in a formal communication to Gurley. Jackson's statement declared that Jackson went to the office of McCray to plead for the appointment of McDonald be cans'- he had been recommended byBishop H. 11. Font, of Indianapolis, head of the local district of the United Brethren church, had ' recommended McDonald. Bishop Font was enroute to Decatur. 111., today and could not be found. Grand Jury at Work Indianapolis. Ind., Sept 6 —(United Press)- Refreshed by theii Labor Day vacation, Mai ion county's grand jurors today vigorously undertook an in quiry into several aspects of the I). ('. Stephenson political scandal,which has affected Indiana for many months months. That they were continuing their probe into the alleged attempt to 1 frame Thomas H. Adams, Vincennes publisher, and Boyd Gurley, Indianapolis editor, was indicated by the summoning of Miss Freda. Miller. 1 young notary public, who was said to have 1 recorded an affidavit sought by ' one of Stephenson's henchmen, i o *— i New Football Feature By Sol Metzger Starts In Daily Democrat A new football feature, which is guaranteed to interest all football > fans, starts in the Daily Democrat today. This newspaper has made I arrangements with Sol Metzger, 1 former coach of Pennsylvania Uni- • versify. North Carolina Univers- ’ ity and other universities and cols leges, to write a football article for -each day. The articles will be illustrated with drawings made by I Mr. Metzger. Metzger js a successful coach who knows the "inside" s of football. His ability as an artist enables him to vividly portray the s scoring plays of Yost, Warner, > Roper, Rockne, Wade and the s other great coaches of the counf try. — reproducing their thrillers 1 more clearly than a photograph could illustrate them. Start today r and read all of these articles by Mr. Metzger.

1,337 CHILDREN ENROLL TODAY IN SCHOOLS OF CITY Public Schools Have Enrollment Os 937; Catholic Schools Have 400 ENROLLMENT TOTAL MAY BE INCREASED School bells rung today lor ' 1,337 public and Catholic school 1 I pupils in Decatur, marking one ) of the largest total enrollments (•ver recorded in this city, lhe public school system has 937 pupils enrolled in lhe grttde and high schools and lhe Catholic schools have an enrollment of 100. Superintendent M. F. Worthman stated today that possibly 50 more public school pupils would enroll during the week. All schools started at 8:15 o'clock this morning. The grade school pupils were dismissed to secure their books and returned at 1:15 o'clock this afternoon, for the first session. ! High school pupils had been notified already what books to purchase and their classes started at 8:15 o'clock for the entire day. 937 in Public Schools In the four grades at the Central school there were 356 pupils. They were distributed as follows: fifth grade. 91; sixth grade, 76; seventh grade. 93. and a'ghth grade 70. The Three ward buildings. with first, second, third and fourth grades had enrollments as follows: South ward. 107; Riley building. 94. and North Ward, 105. Walter J. Krick, principal of th? Decatur high r-chool. stated at noon today that the exact number of high school pupils had not yet been learned, but he estimated the enrollment to be 275, about the same as last year. M. F. Worthman, public school snp- ’ ■ ■ ■ ; .hsy— <::*>■ the schools would start at 8:15 o’clock in the mornings and dismiss at. 11:50 o'clock for the noon recess. The afternoon session will be from 1:15 o’clock until 3:30 o’clock. The ward build ngs will convene classes at the <coxtixi i:i> ox pace twoi ’PHONE COMPANY HOLDS ELECTION Officers and Directors Elected; Plans For Underground Cable Enlarged The directors and officers of the Citizens Telephone company were elected at the annual meeting of the stockholders, held last night. The hoard of directors is composed of Leo Yager, S. E. Hite, C. .1. Voglewede, C. E. Bell ami H. F. Ehinger. The officers are: Leo Yager, president; S. E. Hite,'vice-president: C. J. Voglewede. treasurer, and H. F. Ehinger. secretary and manager. It was decided at tlie meeting last night to rush the plans for installing the underground cable system in this city, providing the right of ways can lie secured from certain property owners, together witli consent from the city and county officials and rail roads to go through the streets and alleys, under the court house and under the railroad right of ways with the cable ducts. It is thought that little difficulty'if any will be experienced in obtaining the right of ways and permission as underground cables are being laid in many other cities in this part of the country and the system is proving to be the logical system for the best of service besides eliminating the unsightly poles on the streets and in the alleys. The stockholders voted last night to enlarge their plans for the underground system. It was decided to (COXTIXI ED ON PAGE TV O1

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Mrs. Rachel Lord, widely known as "America's Sweetest Soloist," will sing til the ('.hurch of God in this city. Wednesday evening. Tlie public is invited to hear her.

ABAMS COUNTY YOUTH ARRESTED Ohed Gilliom Faces Serious C harges At Bluffton After Hitting Child Bluffton, Sept. 6 (Special)—Obed Gilliom, 20. son of Orel Gilliom, of Adams county, was released under SI,OOO bond in city court here dlls morning, alter charges cf r ekless driving an 1 f ii’ure to report an accident had been filed against him as result of his automobile running down Wentzell L iles, 6. son of Mr. and Mi's Clarence Bales, ot' Bluffton, at a stieet intersection here last night. The child was not seriously injured. The child was crossing the street when he was struck by the car. The driver of lire cat; did not stop after hitting the child, but William Mcßride, Wells, county co.ronei. witnesse 1 the accident and he iiuiiiedly climbed into an automobile and pm sued tlm fleei ig car. Afler a chase of some distance the coroner caught the fleeing car and he brought the driver, Gilliom. back to this city Vidas Roth, also cf Adams county was riding with Gilliom. The charges were filed against young' Gillion last night and lie was locked in the county jail. This morning. Gilliom'? father, and Sam Aeschliman, of Bluffton, furnish ed bond for the young man’s release. His case was set for a hearing in city court at 9 o'clock Wednesday morning, September 14. ALLEGED DRUNKEN DRIVER ARRESTED Finley Kelley, Os Geneva, Faces Charges In City Court Here Liquor and automobiles don’t mix very well and Finley Kelley, of Geneva found that out Saturday night. He was driving his Ford automobile near Ge neva when it collided with a car driver by Frank Fogle, of near Geneva. Mr. Fogle and his wife got out ol their car after the collision and shovec Kelley's car back so they could both continue. Kelley refused to wait un til the Fogles got out of his way and he started his car, running over Mrs Fogle and knocking 'Mr. Fogle down The Kelley car then struck the ditcl ; and went over into a field Kelly go ; out of his car and ran. Frank Steed i of Geneva, was with Kelley at the tint -of the accident. Sheriff Harl Hollingsworth was m ; titled of the incident later Saturda » night he arrested Kelley and place him in the Adams county jail. Charge t were filed in city court here agains •- him for driving a car while intoxica o ed and also for public intoxication. <<:<>x VINI IJD ON PAGE TWO)

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IBERTAUD, HILL AND PASSENGER HOP OFF TODAY Start Os Trans-Atlantic Flight Is Made From Old Orchard. Maine HILL AT CONTROLS OF THE BIG PLANE Old Orchard'Beach, Me., Sept. 6.— (INS) —“Old Glory” raced along this broad white beach this afternoon, swept gracefully into the air on a northwest ; breeze and started on its norv stop flight to Rome. Those aboard the ship were Pilots Floyd Bertaud and James j DeWitt Hill, and Phillip Payne, . managing editor of the New I York Daily Mirror. ■ | Just before the start, Hill and ’ Bertaud Hipped a coin and Hill won tlie toss and took the controls for the ’ long hop. Old Glory will wing her way down lhe main coast over the bay of Funday by Cape Sable, th< n overseas to Bordeaux down to tlie Alps and over those mountains to the eternal city. Declared Fit For Hop I The New York-to-Rome plane, which had been held at Roosevelt field, L. L, because of had weather, came here 5 Saturday evening. Since her arrival she has been inspected by government agencies and pronounced fit for a trans-Atlantic hop. il All this forenoon, mechanics went >f over every piece of mechanism to i- make sure Old Glory was absolutely si in gqoil condition. s Shortly after noon. Bertaud. Hill j. pml Payne came to the plane and . superintended the placing abroad of (i provisions. The provisions included i a quart of soup, a <lazei each cf hamt cheese, chicken ami egg sandwiches, I four quarts of toffee, a quart of orange ade and nine gallons of water. ( The word went down the beach that . Old Glory was going to hop off and . a large crowd gathered at Paine Point, where the machine was park3 ed. It had been expected that the , ito»ai Windsor. ;he Winusoi-OUiSiio,’ to Windsor England, plane might , come here to join Old Glory in the I trans-Atlantic jump. However, the Royal Windsor remained in the mud at Scarboro Field, seven miles ine land, and will not take off for Harbor I Grace today. World Fliers In Calcutta Calcutta. India, Sept. 6. — (INS) — q The Pride of Detroit, round-the-world v airplane, arrived here at 11:2(1 this morning after encountering rain on y (CONTINUED ON PAGE TWO) o- , PASTOR RETURNED J TO UA CHURCH — The Rev. Cecil R. Smith Is Reassigned To Decatur l ’ Church For Year The Rev. Cecil R. Smith, pastor of thg Decatur United Brethren church x was returned to the Decatur church, a for another year at the closing of the 1S eighty-third annual conference at Wie' nona Lake, Sunday, when th? assign- ” ments were announced by Bishop H H. Foul, of Indianapolis. fl Re*-. Smith starts today on his third year as pastor of the local church. b Since his coming to this city, the 1 church lias had a healthy growth and •’ the church members join with the ens - tile community in welcoming the pasn - tor back for another year. ” The annual conference, which closed ot with the reading of the ministerial as•b signments for the, year Sunday noon ne was one of the finest in every respect ever held by the St. Joseph confe l '- 10 ‘ ence. according to those who attenday ed. e, l Other assignments in tills locality ;es were as follows: Craigville, Franjk >st Myers; Fort IWayne Calvary, F. P. a, ‘ Overmeyer; Fort Wayne, South Wayne Street church, M. K. Rlchardson; Monroeville, Ottis I- Uncapher.

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