Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 26, Number 76, Decatur, Adams County, 29 March 1928 — Page 1

WEATHER Snow tonight. Colder tonight In west a nd touth. Friday mostly fair probably snow in north part. Continred cold.

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business men DECIDE TO HOLD OLD HOME WEEK General Discussion Os Proposed Event Held At Mass Meeting PLAN FOR FINANCING AFFAIR WORKED OUT Old Home Week Club Committee ('. D. Teeple, chairman. M. J. Mylott, Dee Fryback, Paul Graham. Leigh Bowen. The above named committee has been appointed by F. M. Schirmeyer, general chairman of the Old Home Week committee, to have charge of the club membership. All interested persons will be personally solicited by the committee to become members of the $5 Old Home Week club. The committee will meet in the next few days. Decatur will have an Old Home Week next fall. litis was unanimously decided at a meeting of local business nun. and all interested citizens. More than 50 local people attended the meeting last night at the Decatur Industrial Association rooms and practically everyone present gave a favorable expression to the general committee. After a few preliminary words. Frank Schirmeyer, chairman, asked for a general discussion concerning Old Home Week. J. W. Wonso. local citizen and always a worker in civic affairs, was the first to-apeak Mr. Bosse urged that the plan be continued and that Decatur have a real celebration next fall. Vote To Hold Event M. J. Mylott. superintendent of the city light and power plant, also commended the plan and urged that the Oi l Home Week be given. Each man present had suggestions and finally M. F. Worthman. superintendent of the city schools, made a motion that Decattv' have an Old Home Week next fall, the date and general plans tn be worked out T>y the general committee. The motion was unanimously carred Woik will start at once on all phases of the big event. The finance committee will meet at once and devise a plan for securing sufficient funds. It is the plan, at present, to continue the Old Home Week Club fcr every person interested in the affair. To Assess Business Houses Business houses also will be assessed according to the present plan. and. . in cae the members of a firm already belong to the club, credit will be given them on their The Old Home Week Club will ch.se April 15, according to the plan presented last night, and in the meantime a special committee will call on everyone they think interested in the pan asking them to become members. It Is expected that the club wftt have at least 500 members.

Several persons were of the opinion last night that the affair should be made an annual event, and explained that in a year or two, the event would be financially able to carry itself without any sort of an assessment. That, matter will be considered later, after preliminary plans have been adopted for the 1928 event. Mooseheart Legion To Hold School Os Iristruction Members of the Moosoheart Legion in this city are planning to attend a school of instruction which will be held at the Moose home In Fort M ayne on April 4. Grand lodge officers to attend the meeting are Miss Katheryn Smith, of Mooseheart, 111., grand recorder, and Mrs. Nelle Ma‘Loney, of Indianapolis, state recorder. Representatives will attend from lodges in Auburn, Angola, Kendallville, Columbia City, Huntington and Bluffton. — o Sen. Ferris’ Successor Is Reported Selected Lansing, Mich., March 29—(INS) GovFred W. Green today declined to confirm a report he had appointed ArthurH. Vandenberg, Grand Rapids publisher, United States senator to succeed Woodbridge N. Ferris.

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Democratic Leader? I ) Joseph T. Robinson, Senator from Arkansas. has been consistently mentioned as the most likely choice I for permanent chairman of the Democratic National Convention at Houston next June BEYNOLDSFINET AND SENTENCED Jury Finds Decatur Man Guilty Os Violating Prohibition Law A jury in the Adams circuit court last n'ght returned a verdict finding Curt Reynolds, of Decatur, guilty of violation of the prohibition law. The jury fixed Reynolds’ punishment at imprisonment on the state penal farm for four months and a fine of $350. The vet diet was i eturned jbout 6:30 o’clock after the jury had deliberated about an hour. Reynolds was arrested following a raid by the police and sheriff Hollingsworth at his residence on the morning of February 5. He was found guilty when tried in city court before Mayor George* Krick and was fined SIOO and costs and sentenced to serve four months on the penal farm. Reynolds then appealed the case to the circuit court. In the trial here yesterday, the state produced two witnesses who testified that they bought liquor from Reynolds at his home. There were several men and women at the Reynolds home at the time of the raid. Members of tlie jury which heard the trial yesterday were: C. I). Teeple foreman, William H. Bitner, H. E. Butler, Henry Isch, John W. Knapp. Everett Banter, Frank Stump, Floyd Brandybeny, William Lenhart, Burt Haley. Frank Neadstine, and Warren Jones. •

PLAN SERVICES FOR HOLY WEEK Zion Reformed Church Announces Program For Series Starting Sunday Holy Week services will be held at the Zion Reformed church, beginning on Sunday, with sermons and special song z selections on the "The Cross”, On Sunday morning, the Confirmation services will be hel dfor the catechumen class. The first service of the Holy Week services will be held Sunday night and continue on Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday tand Thursday nights. All evening services will begin at 7:30 o'clock. A complete program of the sermon subjects and special musical numbers is herewith announced : Sunday, April 1 10:30 O’clock Confirmation Services—Subject "Keepers of the Word". Mixed Quartet —'May God Depend on You?" "Take Time to be Holy”. Sunday Night (In charge of the Young People) Subject—" The 'Must' of the Cross” Junior Quartet—" Must Jesus Bear the Cross Alone”? Vocal Solo—“ There a Lowly Cross on a Lonely Hill" Mrs. Dallas Goldner Monday Night April 2 Subject—“ The Burden of the Cross". Mixed Quartet—“ Beneath the Cross of Jesus,” and “Jesus I my Cross have Taken.” Tuesday Night, April 3 Subject—" The Power of the Cross”. Ladies Quartet—“ The Cross” and "At the Cross" (CONTINUED ON PAGE SEVEN) t

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CONFIRMATION SERVICES TO BE HELD ON SUNDAY Several Lutheran And Reformed Churches Near Here To Confirm Classes NAMES OF BOYS AND GIRLS MADE PUBLIC Palm Sunday is Confirmation Sunday in many of the Lutheran and Reformed churches' of the country. Several large classes are to be confirmed on that day. which occurs next Sunday, April 1, in the churches of this vicinity. The classes have been publicly examined in every in- ■ tance and confirmation services will be held during the morning worship hours. Zion Reformed Church, Decatur Rev. A R. Fledderjohann Members of the Confirmation class of 11128 of the Zion Reformed church. Decatur, are: Ethel Shady, Roland Reppert. Robert E'zey, Franklin Keller. Edgar Kiess and Hared Teeters. The class was publicly examined two weeks ago Sunday. The sermon to be given by the pastor Sunday will be on the subject, “Keepers of the Word." St. Johns Lutheran Church Rev. Trnelsch, Pastor Members of the Confirmation class of the St. John’s Lutheran church are: Emil Reiter. Henry Schuller, Frank Marhenke, Benjamin Marhenke Hugo Bulmahn, Franklin Scheimann. Doiothea Rossman, Regina Heckman, Olga Schroeder, Marie Humana, Alvina Droege. Emma Scheumann. Friedneim Lutheran Church Rev. C. B. Preuss. Pastor Members of the Confirmation class of the Friedheini Lutheran chgrch, all residents of rural rdute one, DeCatur, include- bWvhr-Rirtcfr, Paul Ntierge, itIIXTIVI fi> «v "»C.E FIVE! o Indiana Strip Coal Mines To Continue Operations Terre Haute, Ind., March 29—(INS)— Indiana Strip Coal MEfie operators have signed a contract to continue operations of their mines under the Jacksonville scale until March 31, 1929, according to an announcement here by Harvey Cartwright, president of district No. 11 of the United Mine Workers of America. The agreement will affect about 1,500 Indiana coal miners Cartwright said. The agrement to continue the old wage scale was reached after a conference of represenatives cf the mine workers and the Indiana coal-produc-ers’ association according to Cartwright. o Kerosene Blast Claims Third Victim At Medora Brownstown, Ind. Mar. 29 ——(INS) — The Medora kerosene blast has claimed its third life. Howard Gilbert 30 has succumed to the burns received when his home caught fire early Tuesday from an explosion of kerosene with which gilbert was trying to start a fire in the kitchen stove. Two of Gilbert’s children were burned to death in the fire. Mrs. Gilbert and a third child w’ere recovering from burns they received it was said today. o Pythians To Confer First Degree Tonight The regular meeting of the local Knights of Pythias lodge will be held at 7:30 o’clock tonight at the K. of P. home, on Third street, The First rank work wil be exemplified. A committee has been appointed to take care of building the fire during the illness of the regular custodian. All are urged to attend the meeting. Luther R. Wolford Returns To Decatur Luther R. Wolford, a blind man formerly residing in Decatur, returned here Wednesday evening, from Anderson and will visit indefinitely with his many friends. Mr. Wolford Is rejoicing that he is back in Decatur and refers to it as “the best town in the state”. He is an ardent booster for Old Home Week. He is very gratful to his friends who are making his residence in Decatur again, possible, by financing him with a room at the National Hotel. Mr. Wolford is more familiarly known among his friends as “Sweeney”.

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Wales Takes Another Tumble, But Remounts Steed And Wins Race London, March 29—(INS)— Allhough again thrown fiom his horse, Miss Moffat, the Prince of Wales today won the point to point race for officers belonging to the highland bilgade club. The race was run at Dockington. Surrey. When only three fences from the finish, the Prince was thrown ever his horses's head, but he was unhurt, and quickly remounted, finishing a quarter of a mile ahead of his nearest competitor. ORCHESTRA TO FEATURE PLAY First And Second Grade Pupils To Play At North Ward Entertainment One of the unique musical numbers which will be heard Friday evening, iu connection with the North Ward play at the Decatur high school auditorium, will be the Juvenile Orchestra, which is comprised of all first and second grade pupils with the exception of the drummer. Bobby Wcrthman, who hails from the third grade. Between the second and third acts of the play, the orchestra will play two numbers. The first will be “Rendevous" an intermezzo by Rococo, and the second number will be “Rocka-bye Baby,” which will also be sung by the little tots. The orchestra was organized in March under the direction of Miss Leila Sellemeyer and Miss Elizabeth Peterson, first and second grade teacheis at the North Ward school. The personnel of the orchestra and the instruments which they will play are as follows: Drum . Bobby Wortman Chinese Wood Drum Bobby Wort liman Xylophone Keith Hunt Cymbal Jean Freeland Tambourines. . Evangeline Fuhrman Berneice Kreischer Triangles John McConnell, Wanda Jones, Rosie Moyer Ch ines Anna Jane Tyndall, Mary Jane Beery, Barbara Jane Burk Jingle Bells— Billy Buck, Jeanne Anderson, Guj* Koos, Betty Smith. Sand Blocks — Betty Hamms, Roger Arnold, Ardis Brintzenhoft, Ruth Margaret Kiinple. Bird Whistles — Janet Schrock. Imogene Bright, Junior Poling, Betty Borges, Nina Eichar, Tommy Summers. Rhythm Sticks — Raymond Meeks, Marcia Garn er, Max Smith, Maxine Smith, Pauline Tumbleson, Doris Hitchcock, Leonard Merryman, Florence McConnell, Junior Murphy, Robert Harmon, Dick Schafer, Junior Zerkel, Gretchen Lough, lona Schnepp.

GERMANS AGAIN DELAY FLIGHT Unfavorable Wealth er Forces Postponement Os Hop-Off This Morning Dub'.in, Mar. 29. —(INS)—Because of unfavorable weather conditions and the sogginess of the ground at the Baldonnel airfield. Captain Hermann Koehl and his two companions today were forced again to postpone their take-off for America in the Junkers monop line Bremen. Everything was in readiness for the hop-off at five o'clock, the time set for the start today, and the fliers were loath to announce' another postponement. The plane had been trundled from its hangar a few hours before dawn and placed on the long wooden runaway specially built for the take-off. Mechanics had given the machine a final grooming and covered all parts with paraffin to keep the formation of sleet off during the flight down to a minimum. Signaling System Arranged Ixmdon, Mar., 29.—(U.R) —An intricate system of signaling to ships at sea has been arranged by the crew of the German airplane “Bremen,” which soon will attempt a flight to the United States, the Daily Chronicle said today in dispatches from Dublin. All ships known to be sailing the course the aviators have mapped have been advised of the flight and to watch for the airplane, the Chronicle said.

DR. SHUMAKER IS CHEERED BY M.E. DELEGATES • Anti-Saloon League Superintendent Appears At Methodist Conference IMPORTANT BUSINESS BEFORE CONFERENCE Fort Wayne, March 29.—(INS) Dr. E. S. Shumaker, superintendent of the Indiana anti-saloon league, was cheered for three minutes by the delegates attending the 85th North Indiana Methodist conference when he was introduced to the session today by Bishop Frederick Leete, ot Indianapolis. “The Methodists of Indiana, with a few exceptions, are for Dr. Snumaker,' the bishop said in introducing the dry leader. The most important action of the forenoon session today was the report of M Wright, of Logansport, secretary cf the merger committee on th*? proposed merger of the North and West Indiana conferences. Exhaustive Study Made Wight and his committee have made an exhaustive study of the proposal. He said tlie committee found that the conferences were about equal in strength. An almost fatal objection. however, to the merger was found in tlie leg.\l opinion. Wright said that such a merger would in-I validate the North Indiana confer- 1 »nce’s rights to some $361,000 given for preachers aid in tlie North Indi : ana conference. “An attorney informed us that the ' North Indiana conference probably I would have its rights to its preachers aid fund invalidated in the case of merger as these funds were given directly to the conference,” Wright r.eiMU'U’d. Logansport was favored in the fight with Hartford City for the next convention, according to conference officials. Tlie vote will be taken Fri day morning. At 7:30 o’clock tonight, the Rev. F. Scott Mcßride, general superintendent of the anti-saloon league ot America, will address the conference. o Mrs. Goodhue Fatigued After Restless Night Northampton, Mass., March 29—(U.R) —Mrs. Lemira Goodhue was reported fatigued today after a rather restless night, and because of her condition, her daughter, Mrs. Calvin Coolidge, decided not to visit the bedside until 3 p. in. Earlier in the day, hospital authorities had announced that the First Lady's mother had a comfortable night but at 11 A. M., Dr. Justin E. Hayes, the attending physician, issued this bulletin: “Mrs. Goodhue did not have as com-1 sortable a night as the night before I and is quite fatigued this morning as a result." o Partition Being Built In County Sheriff’s Office

A partition is being built in the sheriff's office in the county court house. After the partition is completed, tlie sheriff will have a private office in tlie rear. o Stinson And Haldeman In Air More Than 30 Hours Jacksonville Beach, Fla., March 29. —HNS) —Thirty hours in the air, Eddie Stlnsin and George Haldeman were still aloft at noon today, in their monoplane, and apparently are headed for a new world’s endurance flight. They took off early yesterday morning. All through the night the drone of their motor kept watchers on the beach awake. Favorable weather prevailed and the forecast was favorable for today. o New Town Well To Be Drilled At Berne Berne, March 29 — (Special) —The Berne town council has decided to drill another well for the town. The new well will be located somewhere in the Nussbaum addition in the north west, part of town. Depth of the well is to exceed 240 feet and a six-inch pipe be used. At present, the water circulates very slowly in the mains in the northwest part of town, due to the distance of the present wells from that part of town, The new well, it is said, will provide fresh water at all times for that part of town.

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Police Called Killers u • > WWHiCMH 4 Denounced by tlie Grand Jury as j guilty of “brutal, inhuman and astounding" conduct, Chief, of Police H. Leslie Quigg (above) of Miami and six of his subordinates were indicted and jailed on charges Os murder. ASSESSMENTSSHOW DECREASE — County Assessor Compiles Averages On Personal Property Valuations Count}' Assessor Jay Cane has compiled the averages of the personal property assessments taken by the township assessors for the first thirt’ weeks during the present tax ■as.-rese | ng seasoil. The averages are in most cases lower than the final averages for last i year. Farm implements arc a few ' dollars higher, milch cows one dollar hifcher, other cattle two dollars higher. It is expected that the assessments will be a little lower than a year ago. due to lower market prices ( for cattie, hogs, grain, etc. No idea as to the average assessment of farm lands and city or (own real estate is obtainable at this time, because the assessors will not make a report until the work is completed. It is expected that farm land and town real estate assessments will be 1 a little lower. The average assessments far tin* ' first three weeks' work as compared 1 with the final vales for last year 1 tCONTINI F.D OX PAGE I-I VE> KIRKLAND CLASS TO PRESENT PLAY I Juniors To Stage “Poor Father,” Friday And Saturday Evenings “Poor Father" is the title of u three , act comedy which will be presented Friday and Saturday nights, March 30 and 31, at the Kirkland high sehool gymnasium, by the Junior class of the Kirkland high school. The play will start at 8 o'clock and an evening of royal entertainment is I assured all who attend. Reserved seats are being sold for 20 and 30 cents, and may be procured from any member the class or at Hie entrance door tire nights of the play. o Blackmer Abandons All Business In United States Denver, Colo., March 29 —(U.R) —Henry M. Blackmer, former head of the Midwest Refining Company here, and self exiled key witness in the Teapot Dome investigation, has abandoned all business connections in the United States. Thomas A. Dines, chairman of the board of directors of the Midwest Company announced that Blackmer’s resignation from the board, Tendered in Paris, had been accepted. o Culver Student Picks Hoover Culver, Ind., March 29—(U.R)—Herbert Hoover is the choice of Culver Military academy students for President. At the close of a three-day mock Republican convention, the vote stood; Hoover, 310; Will Rogers, 21J7; Watson 7; Dawes 2; and Lowden, 1.

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REPORTS OF U. S. INTERVENTION IN ELECTION HEARD Candidates In Primary Election April 10 Receive Death Threats SENATOR DENEEN RETURNS TO CITY By C. C. Nicolet, UP Staff Correspondent Chicago, Mar. 29.—(U.R)—Reports of federal intervention to slop the ravages of bombs in Chicago and insure an honest primary April 10 blended with new death threats and political battle cries in Chicago today. There was little Io substantiate the rumors of U. S. interference, hut although such attempts always have failed before, the reports gained wide credence. One report was that Palmer Anderson, U. S. deputy marshal, had asked U. S. Attorney General Sargent for permission to commission 50(1 deputy marshals to stand guard at tlie polls. A similar attempt was made at the last state election, but Washington department of justice chiefs ruled that a primary was a state matter, not federal, and refused commissions for the deputies. New Ruling By Court It was said, however, that recent supreme court ruling made primaries integral pai ts of elections, and thus enabled the federal authorities to take action. Credence was lent the rumors by Senator Charles Deneen’s departure from Washington to direct in person his faction’s fight to take control of the republican, party iu Cook county and Illinois out of the hands of Mayor William Hale Thompson. stat«*'R*~Attorney Robert E. Crowe and Governor Len Small. Deneen was expected here late today. He decided to return to Chicago—which he left a few hours before a bomb wrecked his home here Monday night—when two of his supporters received death threats. Circuit Judge John Swanson, candidate for state’s attorney against Crowe, received a threatening telephone call late yesterday. His home was bombed Monday night, a few minutes after Senator Deneen’s. State Senator Herman J. Haenisch, Deneen candidate for republican committeeman in tire 46th ward, earlier yesterday reported to federal authorities receipt of a note threatening to “get” one of his three children and treat his home “like Senator Deneen’s." Haenisch’s opponent for committeeman is Mayor Wiliam Hale Thompson. U. S, District Attorney George E. C. Johnson, a Deneen supporter, charged in a speech before the Chicago Association of Credit Men last night that law had broken down in Chicago because petty politicians felt tree to promise protection and special privilege to criminals. He did not comment directly on politics or the bombings. State’s Attorney Crowe was understood today to be continuing preparation of evidence in the bombings for presentation to tlie grand jury. Although rewards of $65,0110 had been offered, no suspects were arrested in the Deneen and Swanson explosions. House Still Opposes Floftd Control Bill Washington, Mar. 29. — (INS) — Tlfe unparalleled action of the senate in passing a $325,000,000 flood control bill in less than two hours failed to wipe out today the stubborn opposition m a house group which is determined that the people of the Mississippi river va.ley shall pay part of the cost ot harnessing the mighty strea-in. Swift upon the heels of the senate’s action. Rep. Reid (R) of Illinois, chairman of the house flood control committee, filed a report for a majority of tlie committee favoring enactment of its own bill, which is almost identical in scope with the senate measure. Young Man Killed Borden. Ind., March 29 —(U.R) —Lowell Wells. 19. was killed instantly at a crossing here when a Monon mail train struck the automobile he was driving. He leaves his widow, Mrs. Mildyed Wells, a bride eight months ago i his parents. Mr. and Mrs. Robert Wells three brothers, and a sister.

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