Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 26, Number 65, Decatur, Adams County, 16 March 1928 — Page 1

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I BOY IS KILLED | IN MOTORCYCLE I ACCIDENT HERE I Thirteenth Street I MOTHER BOY HAS | A ‘ J NARROW ESCAPE I wi'liam SntihTK 1024 Went Ad--12 street. was killed instantly , ■ • A'clock Thursday evening, when ■ thrown fun his motorcycle on South IThirtoentli sum-t. near the edge ot His skuli was fractured and ■ his left l‘K broken just above the ■ Lilian and a friend. William I pniinnvind. 16, son of Mr. and Mrs. Ir s A. Drummond, of this city, were I ihlin,' their motorcycles side by side ■ and were said to he going about 20 I miles per hour One of the motorI mien swerved toward the other and I handlebars locked, wrecking both I BM-tiines. The Drummond boy jumpI M from his motorcycle and secaped I with only minor injuries, but the othI rr motorcycle and its rider struck a I tree near the side of the street. I Killed Instantly I The Sutilcf boy was dead when I picked up by a motorist who was folI lowing a few rods behind the boys, i I The boy sustained a severe fracture I of the left skull. I The two boys had purchased their I motorcycles only a short time ag-> I ra<l were learning to ride. The Drum I mond boy had had his machine about I iwo weeks while the Sutilef boy obI mined his only last Sunday'. I William Waldo Sutilef was born I near Monroe, in Adams county, DeI lumber 14. 1911. He lived in BluffI 'on for seven years, coming to DecaI tur two years ago. His father died ten years ago next Mar. For the last I uro years. William had beeen living I with his mother and step-father. William Thornton,. In addition to the mother and step father, three sisters arrive. They are Mrs Beulah Har- ! lish, of Bluffton; Mr» Mary Barrick ot Fort Wayne, and Miss Minnie Suti iW, at home-. [ Funeral services will be held Sunday afternoon at 1:30 o’clock at the residence on Adams street, and at 2 o'clock at the United Brethren church with the Rev. Cecil R. Smith officiating. Burial will be ipade ih the Pleasant Dale cemetery. Laborer Electrocuted Greencastle. Ind March 16—(INS)— Accidentally touching a live wire, Clarence R. Butler, 21, of Staunton, Indiana, laborer at the Indiana Portland cement company here, was instantly killed today. DEAM FUNERAL SET FOR MONDAY Relatives Os Decatur Woman From Kentucky Arrive This Afternoon Funeral services for Mrs. Jessie beam, whose death occurred at Frankfort Kentucky, early yesterday morning. will be held at the heme, 225 West Adams street, at 2:30 o'clock Monday ntternocn, with Rev. Harry H. Fernfltlel, of the Presbyterian church, in ’■‘large Mr. an( j rs Burl Townsend ani! children and other members in the funeral party arrived at 1:30 o’clock this afternoon over the Pennsylvania from their home in Frankfort. A breakdown of the train in which they were traveling occurred last even tng just as they were leaving Lexing'tun. and it was necessary to bring the '"’•y of Mrs. Deam home by automode arriving here about 2:15 o'clock tils afternoon. A large number of ’’lends of the family met the funeral Party when they arrived this afternoon.

Atlantic City Abandons Annual Beauty Pageant

Atlantic City, N l . j„ March 16.— and after most ' »eful consideration, Atlantic City llas turned thumbs down on the an“"•U beauty pageant. < , nih. lPlC wi " l)e no P ara de of beautiin/ gowned American girls in bathn Mi * tS a ' 01IR the boardwalk for the ■ Pose of selecting a "Miss America’’ ] W s ? ear ’ or aliy other year. For, It Hoi dfccil * suc h spectacles are Hily representative of young

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Literary Genius J 9 I « I Mss Myrtle Johnston of London is acclaimed by English critics as a real lind. In addition to her literary talent, she is graced with her share of beauty and charm REACH DETOUR Dog Team Beats Airplane In Race To Town Isolated By Snowdrifts Detour, Mich., March 16 —(U.R) —(By Telephone)—Primitive transportation beat the most modern of methods today in the race to bring supplies to Detout. isolated for two weeks by snowdrifts. A dog team driven by Dr. John F. Deadman arrived early tloday with food and medicine for the village. Dr. Deadman brought 100 pounds of food and medical supplies to the village. which has heed without medicine and almost without food for days. The dog team won an easy victoryover an Army Airplane which had been en route to Detour by easy stage? for two days. —wb —— Col. Lindbergh Spends Day In New York City New York. March 16-(INS)-Colonel Charles A. Lindbetgh is in this city today on one cf his mystery trips. He was uncommunicative on his arrival as why he had come or where he was going. He arrived at Cut tiss Field, accompanied by Thomas G. Lamphier, Commander of the first pursuit group, United States army air set vice, and J T. Ttippe, who is interested in Air Mail routes between New York and Boston. They had flown from Washington. —o Search For Miss Smith Leads To Convent Today Northampton, Mass., Mar. 16. —(INS) —Search for Miss Frances St. John Smith, missing college freshman, today led to a convent on the outskirts of Quebec City. Acting on a new clue, furnished by James M. Martin, conductor ot a Springfield to Montreal express, authorities will visit the convent this afternoon, it was announced here. —o— School Superintendents Visit Decatur Thursday David O. McCombs, superintendent of schools in Allen county and G. O. Simpson, superintendent of schools in Steuben county, were visitors in the city yesterday and. spent the afternoon with M. F. Wcrthman, superintendent of Decatur public schools. In the evening the school superintendents were th guests of the Rotary club. Short talks were given I>m them at the meeting.

American girlhood but are largely a "congregation of girls seeking peisonal advertising and profit." Instead, plans may be considered for some other form of annual event designed to broadcast the name of Atlantic City. Beauty contests have come in for severe criticism and residents of the city have taken the matter to heart. The decision to do away with the pageants was reached after weeks of general discussion among citizens.

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FORMER BERNE MERCHANT DIES Peter J.Baumgartner, Former Hardware Dealer, Dies Os Dropsy Berne, Mar. 16— (Special) —Peter J. Baumgartner, 74, former Berne hard ware dealer, died of dropsy at 6 o'clock Thursday evening, at his home cn North Jeffer son street. Mr. Baumgartner had been seriously ill since New Yeat's Day and his death had been momentarily expected for some time The decease! was born in French township, November 5, 1853, and was a son of Peter and Ferna Basinger Baumgartner. He spent all of his life in Adams county with the exception of two years, while he was clerking in a hat d ware store at Bluffton. For 33 years, Mr. Baumgartner was a partner in the film of Baumgartner Bro thers. local hardware dealers. On Jan uary 24. 1944 he was married to Bertha Sauer, of Flench township. Surviving are the widow; four child ren, Homer, of Los Angeles. Grover, of Berne. Mrs. Harve Cassee, cf Chicago and Carl of Fort Wayne; two sisters. Mis. Anna Beer and Mrs. Mary Moser, of Berne; and t<o brothers, William, of Berne, and John I’., of Fort Wayne. Three children. Elroy, Horac f and Mahale, preceded their father in death. Two brothers and one sister Jcnathan, Christian and Katy, are deceased. also. Funeral set vices will be held at the residence Sunday afternoon at 1:30 o'clock and at the Cross Reformed church of Berne, of -whiclr the deceased was a member, at 2 o'clock. The Rev. C. W. IL Sauerwein, assisted by the Rev. B. Ruff, will have charge of tire services. Burial will be made in the M. R. E. cemetery. Bandits Shoot Cashier And Watchman Os Bank Madison, 111., March 16 (IMS)-Four bandits shot E. G. Baltz. cashier, and Flank Smith, watchman, of the First National Bank here today, in a holdup in front of the bank and escaped with payroll money estimated to be from $12,000 to $15,000; The robbers escaped in an automobile headed toward Granite City. Smith was only slightly wounded in the arm, but Baltz may die. Several posses were organized to search for the robbers. o Four Men Killed In New York Train Wreck Valley Falls, N. Y„ Mar. 16.—(INS)— Four men were instantly killed sevral were injured, and homes in nearby towns were damaged when three mills of the Hercules Powder eom-->any, located on the state highway between this village and Schagtieoke. xploded this morningCROSS IN SKY PHOTOGRAPHED Decatur Man Has Unusual Picture; Thursday’s Phenonema Explained Following the unusual phenomena which were visible in the skies Thursday afternoon. Jesse Rice, proprietor of the Murray Hotel, brought a kodak picture to the Daily Democrat office tliis morning, which showed a perfect white cross that appeared in the eastern skies during the summer of 1916, just prior to the opening of the World War. The picture was snapped about 4:30 o'clock in the afternoon in the hills of eastern Ohio. It was after the picture was developed, that Mr. Rice discovered that the unusual phenomena had been unknowingly photographed by him. Hundreds of people viewed the cross in the heavens at that time, but Mr. Rice stated his only vision of it chanced to be in the picture which he snapped. In explanation of Thursday s ' strange rainbows around the sun, Miss Annie Whines has furnished the Daily Democrat with a copy of Hick's National Weather book, which forecasts an elecyro-magnetic crisis in the earth's journey around the sun as follows: “The periheriobi point (the point when a planet is nearest the sun in it’s orbit) of the great planet .Jupiter is reached on March 15, which occurs only once in a whole revoluticn of that great orb around the . sun. This may cause much electrical unrest, and especially at this annual electro-magnetic crisis in the earth’s journey around the sun.’’ /

Decatur, Indiana, Friday, March 16, 1928.

Hinchclitle Always Avoided Unlucky “13” Until Start Os Flight •I London, March 16.—(U.R) —Captain Walter Hlnchcliffo always had avoided the unlucky “13,” it. was revealed today, and yet he started on a transAtlantic Hight attempt on March 13. Mrs. R. E. Hinchc’.lffe, the ace's mother, said that it seemed strange her son should have started on that 'ate. after avoiding thirteen all of his life. “All his life he avoided thirteen, ’’ Mrs. Hlnchcliffe said. “He would no teven occupy a room numbered thirteen in a hotel.” The mother refused to give up hope for the safety of her son ns did the .'lyer's wife. STATE TOURNEY . IS UNDER WAY Fort Wayne, Kendallville And Delphi Eliminated In Basketball Classic Field House, Indianapolis, March 16 —(INS) —Clinton, Bedford and Anderson were the winners inthe first three games this forenoon in the final tournament of the 1928 I. H. S. A. A. basketball race, which opened today at the new $650,000 Butler university field house More than 13,000 rabid spectators witnessed the three struggles. The scores of the first thiee games were: Clinton 22. Central high of Fort Wayne 21; Betford 34. Kendallville 17. Anderson 27, Delphi 19. Referee Fred Griffith's lek was hurt inthe’f s ifa ihoti .31ot in the first half of the Clinton-Fort Wayne game. During the second half the injured leg began t) swell. Griffith was finally forced to leave the floor and his place was taken by Dale Miller Birth Byah was the umpire. Scores of this afternoon's games. Muncie 16: Central of Evansville 9. Martinsville, 21; Rochester 20. To Investigate Deaths Os Four Marine Fliers San Diego, Calf., March 16—(U.R)An official investigation by the Unite ates Marine Corps probably will be started teday into the deaths of four Marine aviators. The four were killed Thursday when two airplanes in which they were flying locked wings and fell. They were lieutenants J. D. Swartwout and R. V. Dewine, Corporal H. C. Cappell and private H C. Bailey, —oExplosion Kills Three New Castyle, Wyo., Mar. 16. —(U.R) — ”hree persons were killed and four seriously injured by explosion of a an of kerosene in the home of Wiliam Siegler, saw mill worker, here today. The dead, all members of Siegler's imi’y, are: Eva, 2; Anna, 3; and darguerite Siegler, S. o Two Motor Tourists Killed Terre Haute, Ind., March 16—(INS) — Mr. and Mrs. Daniel Rost, of Zanesville, Ohio motor tourists were killed at Martinsville, 111., east of here, today when their car was hit by a Pennsylvania passenger train. o—<—• Slayer Appeals From 2-14 Year Sentence; Gets Life Term Instead Peru. Ind., Mar. 16.—(INS)—William Kiefer, former Kokomo poolroom operator swapped his 2-to-14 year manslaughter sentence for a life term be- . cause he wasn’t satisfied with the outcome of his first trial on tile charge of shooting to death. Mrs. Catherine Russell, his alleged paramour at : Kokomo on January 14, 1924. The first trial resulted in the man--1 slaughter conviction for Kiefer with 1 the 2 to 14 year sentence. Kiefer appealed to the state supreme court, 1 obtained a reversal and the case was ■ remanded to Howard county for re- ‘ trial, after being brought to Miami ' county on a change of venue. The second trial, however, resulted in a conviction on a second degree inurd- ‘ er charge. Last night circuit Judge ’ Hurd J. Hurst overruled a motion for a new trial and sentenced Kiefer to ’ life imprisonment at the Michigan City penitentiary. , Despite the defendants tough luck I in seeking a new trial, his attorney. I A. G. Manning, again has announced i that an appeal would be taken to the Indiana supreme court.

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FLOOD VICTIMS BEING BURIED — Searchers Continue To Find More Bodies; Many Unidentified Los Angeles, March 16—(U.R)—The mmensc task of burying the dead in the St. Francks dam flood disaster was started todaj' while searchers bodies of victims. continued their efforts to locate more Reports of the number of dead anged between 275 and 300. Additional bodies were being found slowly. Many are yet unidentified, owing to nutilation. Bluffton Finn Buys Big Piano Company i Bluffton, March 16—Announcement was nude herp yesterday of which B. K. Settergren, president of the It. K. Settergren company of this city successfully negotiated the purchase of the Estey piano corporation a $250,000 concern which manufactures pianoes and organs. The Estey line of pianos will be manufactured at the Bluffton plant of the Settergren company as soon as details are worked out. Full details will not he known here until Mr. Settergren arrives home frem the east, but it was understood here today that the plant here will be enlarged considerably and the force of employes increased. 0 — — 32 Republican Editors Bolt; Form Hoover Club Indianapolis, March 16 —(INS)—Defying the endorsements of the Indiana Repubican Editorial association of the presidential boom of U. S. Senator Jarnos E. Watson, Indiana headquarters of Herbert Hoover today announced ihe formation of the Indiana Ropub'ican editors “Hoover for President Club.” The list of officers of the new organization includes two former pre?ilents of the Indiana Republican Ediorial association. The membership n the Hoover club of editors includes ’2 of the leading editors and pub'shers of Indiana G. O P. newspaers, according to Oscar Foellinger. 'cover’s state manager. o Child Killed By Truck Indianapolis, Ind., Mar. 16. —(INS) — \n inquest was opened here today 'nto the death of Effie Capps, 7-year--I'l school girl, who was instantly kill'd when run over by an Acme-Evans ompany flour truck at court and '■lackfo’-d streets. The truck backed into the child. There were no eyewitnesses to tlie tragedy. Charles ’ttssell, 31, was the truck driver. TIIBERCIiLIN TEST TO BEGIN IN FAU Bovine Tuberculosis Eradication Work In Adams County To Be Delayed Dr. F. H. Brown, state veterinarian, Indianapolis, in a letter received by the Dafly Democrat expressed the opinion that the inauguration of the bovine tuberculosis eradication work in Adams county will be started sometime during the late summer or fail of this year. The* county commissioners signed the contracts for the carrying on of the work at the March ses- . sion of the board. The contracts have been forwarded to Indianapolis. Dr. Brown slated that the work . would be delayed until a State or Fed > era] inspector would be available. The . test will be applied to all herds of catte in Adams County, particularly those herds in the county used for breeding . and dairy purposes. Following are excerpts from Dr. . Brown's letter: When this work is inaugurated, li- . censed, graduate, accredited veterinarians who are practicing their profesi sion within the County of Adams will , be given an opportunity to participate t in this work under the direct supervision of the State and Federal inspec- , tor in charge of the work. These men . receive pay front the County as indi- , cated in the contract. It is hoped by ! this Department that we will be able to detail a sufficinet number of inspec- , tors and obtain the services of a sufficient number of accredited veterinj arians practicing within Adams County , that an Inspector may be placed in CrOXTIMI'ED O.V PAGE THREE)

Aviatrix Killed j . - / 1 / " | p ; n Lady Carbery. wife of Lord Cat ' l>ery, who has spent sever'd years in the United State, was instantly killed when her plane went into a tailspin and crashed at the flying field 1 at Nairobi. East Africa. Reports say that her husband was a witness of the accident. 1 TWO FIRES OCCUR AT INDIANAPOLIS One Life Is Lost, Three Firemen Injured And $150,000 Damage Done Indianapolis, Ind., Mar. 16 (INS) — One life was lost, three firemen were] injured and more than $150,000 of property damage was done by two fires here early today Hallie Pafcny, 20, a maid at the home of I. Wolft*. wealthy second hand car dealer, was suffocated in a fire vhich destroyed the Wolfe garage vhere the servant quarters were located. A spectacular down town fire destroyed the three-story building and stock of the Bethard Wall Paper company. 415-419 Massachussetts avenue, with a loss estimated at $150,000. Three firemen were injured fighting his blaze. They were: Myron Gj, Sears, headquarters company, broken ankle. John Stewart, pumper company No. 5, broken ankle. Alfred Underwood, pumper coniany No. 5, sprained back. —o I Missionary To Speak At Pleasant Valley Church Miss Laura Arms, a returned misnonary from Jamaica, will speak at the Pleasant Valley cnurch, Sunday ■norning al 10 o’clock and Sunday avening at 7 o’clock. The public is urged to attend. 0 City Firemen Make Early Morning Run The Decatur fire department was called to the home of Ezra Brandy berry, corner of Eighth and Adams streets, at 6:45 o’clock this mtrnlng where a small chimney fire had started. The blaze was extinguished in a few minutes. Loss was estimated at about $5. Trap Shoot To Be Held At Portland Sunday ■ Portland, March 16—A trap shoot ■ will be held in this city at the IzaaJt ■ Walton grounds, one mile west on the : Water street road, Sunday, March IS, at 1 o’clock. A number of prizes will be awarded to the winners. All lovers of this - sport are invited. o Wonder of Wonders Congo nntives tire said to register great amazement nt seeing a match strike fire. A patent lighter In the same circumstances would probably 1 paralyze them.—Detroit News. Fine Strand of Gold A sample of gold wire drawn so ’ fine that 3,500 yards weigh only one ’ ounce attracted much attention at an exhibition of gold and sliver wire 1 drawers held not long ago In Englund. —Compressed Air Magazine.

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HOPE RENEWED FORHINCHCLIFFE AND COMPANION Three Persons Report Having Heard Airplane Motor Early Thursday FORESTS ARE BEING SEARCHED Greenville. Me., Mar. 16.—HNS) —Renewed hope that Captain Hinchcliffe and Miss Mac Kay were alive after their trans-At-lantic flight was kindled this afternoon by three persons who distinctly heard the motor of a large airplane droning above the great north woods of Maine. The roar of the motor awoke Mr. and Mrs. John Dyer, the former a caretaker at a camp on number one ranch road. The time was 5:45 o'clock a. m. yesterday. Five minutes later, tlie cook at a logging camp on the Ranch road reported hearing the plane. Search Being Made Washington. Mar. 16. — (U.R) — The forest northeast of Greenville. Me., is being searched following two reports that a large plane was seen to descend in that vicinity yesterday morning, the Canadian legation today informed the state department. The plane, according to the legation, might possibly have been that of Captain Hinchliffe. Three Days Elapse New York, Mar. 16.—(U.R)—A world that admires gameness today reiunctantly prepared to write down the names of the Hon. Elsie Mackay and Capt. Walter Hinchliffe among i (hose the North Atlantic has lured to death. ■ Three days passed since the two started in tlie American-made monoplane Endeavor from Cranwell airdrome. England, on a flight to North America. Their gasoline supply provided them witli a maximum of only 45 hours in the air, even if their stamina had been aide to stand more. Belief grew their plane had cracked up in a North Atlantic storm and that the one-eyed war veteran and pretty Brit’Sh woman were dead. There was a possibility of course, they might have shared the fate of Harry Hawker, Commander John Rodgers, Ruth Elder, or Francesco de Pinedo. — —— ANOTHER SCHOOL DUILOING BURNS High School Building At Straughn Destroyed Early Today Straughn. Ind., Mar 16—(INS)—The high school building of Straughn was destroyed by a file of undetermined origin early today with a loss estimated at $75,000. Tlie blaze had its origin in the coal room in the basement. This was the fourth Indiana school fire of consequence since January Ist. The other fires were: January 30—Sheridan high school i destroyed by fire with loss estimated at SIOO,OOO. February 4 — The Sharpsville high school destroyed by fire witli $75,000 loss. February 17.—The Union township high school, nine miles west ot Franklin destroyed by fire with loss of $40,000. Everything was lost in the local fire this morning. The blizzard that prevailed whipped the flames. The fire department from Newcastle was called, started the trip but returned when advised the building was doomed. —o * Welby Hunt Wants Share Os Reward For Hickman Los Angeles, March 16—(U.R) Welby Hunt, former bandit pal of William Edwatd Hickman, has applied for a share of the reward offered for Hickman's capture and conviction, asserting he gave authorities the first clue i to the child slayer's identity. I ■ , Hunt, convicted with Hickman for i the murder of Ivy Toms, a druggist, ■ said he desired the money so he might . give part of it to Mrs. Ruth Toms, widow of the victim.

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