Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 26, Number 78, Decatur, Adams County, 31 March 1928 — Page 1

WEATHER Fair tonight and Sunday. but •‘>"7 cloudiness in north portion. Slowly rising temperature.

CRACK PASSENGER TRAINS WRECKED

SLEET STORM IS BLAMED FOR RAIL CRASH NEAR LIMA Score Os More Persons In Hospitals As Result Os Pennsylvania Wreck ONE FLYER RAMS OTHER FROM REAR Cleveland 0., Mar. 31.—(INS)— Reports received in Cleveland over the radio from Fort Wayne, Ind, division point of the Pennsvlvania railroad today revealed a score or more persons were in hospitals at Lima, 0., from injuries received in a collision of the Broadway and Liberty ' Limited, crack Pennsylvania trains which occurred there last Many others suffered slight cuts and bruises, the reports stated. Dtect communication with Lima was impossible today as all telegraph and telephone lines were down. Communication Line Down According to the reports received here, both trains were running in the same A broken communication line caused by the sleet storm was blamed for the wreck. The engineer on one of the flyers. Henry Strasser, was reported the most seriously injured. One of his arms was amputated, according lb the word received here. Survivors Reach Pittsburgh Pittsburgh. March 31 —(INS) - -Matter-J ed. bruised and hours overdue, more than a hundred survivors of the wreck of the Broadway a|d Liberty Limiteds, two of the crack flyers of the Pennsylvania railroad, arrived in Pittsburgh today, from Lima. O. where more than two score of their fellow passengers were injured in a rear-end '’olliaion of the two trains. The majority of the surviyors continued on eastward after having been brought here from Lima in a special train made up of the remnants of the two flyers. The injured brought here had been treated on the train at the scene of I th ewreck while those seriously hurt remained in hospitals at Lima. The vicinity in which the wreck occurred had been isolated by a blizzard that swept through the district yesterday,. METHODISTS TO VOTE ON MERGER North Indiana Conference. To Vote On Merger With Northwest Conference Fort Wayne, March 31—(INS)—The Eighty-fifth annual North Indiana Methodist Conference this afternoon voted overwhelmingly to defer action for four years on the proposed merger with the Northwest Indiana Methodist Conference. Fort Wayne, Ind., March 31—(INS)— The 85th annual north Indiana Methodist conference today was to vote on the proposed merger of the North and Northwest Indiana Methodist conferences. The general belief was that the merger proposal will be defeated because legal authorities expressed the opinion to the merger committee that such a merger would invalidate the North Indiana Conference’s rights' to $361,000 oollected for preachers’ aid in the conference. I he conference delegates today continued the balloting to elect two more elegates to the general conference "i Kansas City pext May. Thus far our of the six delegates have been chosen. Rev. W. T. Arnold, superintendent of the Muncie district, was e ected general delegate on the 14th ballot. Ihe conference committee on the Proposed new ministerial pension plan reported to the conference that it ought the plan was too intricate and 10 complete. The committee therefore "commended that the conference look tti favor on the general plan and ’ ■ the Kansas City general confer*'p to make a thorough study of it n< resubmit it to the annual conferCPS in Methodism for further disssion. This report was adopted by the conference. T, ’ p names of ten young men were '''"cd on trial at the conference and le P' ace d in studies of the first ’ . r ‘ Ti’ose yo” ;g men will receive apPo n tmentß t 0 the|r fjrst cha geg at ■ session of the conference.

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Vol. XXVI. No. 78.

American Fliers Set New Endurance Record Jacksonville, Fla., March ’ll—(lNS)— George Haldeman and Eddie Stinson Friday afternoon set a new endurance record for sustained flight in an airplane, bettering the former mark made August 6, by Johann Risticz and Cornelius Kdzar, German fliers. Haldeman and Stinson landed at 1:14:10 p.m., their time being 53 hours. 36 minutes and 41 seconds Tills bettered the former record by one hour, 14 minutes and 10 seconds. When the fliers landed tliey still had gasoline in the tanks and the motor was still running. JUVENILE ACTORS SCORE GREAT HIT Ninth Annual North Ward Play Pleases Large Audience Friday Night The annal North Ward play, given by the pupils attending that school under the direction of their teachers and principal, proved to be one of the best given by the children. This was the ninth consective year of play production for tho North Ward grade pupils. The Decatur high school auditorium was filled to capacity for the play "Goldilock’s Adventure” was the name of the little operetta presented. which was just as pretty and entertaining as it could possibly have been made. It was based on the old fairy tale of the “Three Hears” The title role of ’ Goldilocks” was played l y Lois Sovine, aged 8 years, and her enunciation, interpretation of the part, stage presence and acting was practically perfect for one of her years. Dressed in a pink ruffled organdy dress, and wearing long curls, she was an exact reproduction of the “Goldilocks" of story book fame. Her smile and pleasant stage personality won her audience from the first anti she held their utmost attention throughout the entire three acts of the play. The first act of the play was a garden scene at Goldilock’s home. Her mother, played by Alberta Peel, had invited a group of her little playmates to attend a birthday party in happy little Boldileck’s honor. When she sees her little friends approaching. Goldilocks skips menily out to greet them and they all return with a “happy birthday" dance and song and presents for their hostess. The playmates were: Jeanne Anderson, Maiv Jane Beery, Barbara Burk, Ardis Brintzenhofe, Jean Freeland, Marcia Garner, Loris Hitchcock, Ruth Margaret lyimble, Bereneice Kreischer, Florence McConnell, Betty Smith, Anna Jane Tyndall, Pauline Tumbleson, Mpxino Smith, William Buek, Robert Harmon. Guy Koos, Junior Leonard Merryman, Raymond Meeks, Dick Schafer, Junior Zerkel, Max Smith, Roger Arnold and Tommy Summers. As the party disperses, Goldilocks begs permission of her mother to accompany her friends for a short distance on their homeward way. The favor is granted with the warning that she is not to go near the woods. Goldilocks promises and the children are off as the curtain fulls on the fiist act. Act two takes place in the woods where Goldilo<f:s has wandered, enchanted by the beautiful wild flowers which she is busy plucking Finally. she grows weary and falls asleep. “Pan” the Wood God (Billy Schafer), creeps stealthily in, sees tthe darling child asleep and, to give her wonderful dreams, he anoints her eye’.id# with his magic dream liquid. (CONTINUED ON PAGE TWO) HOLY WEEK TO BEGIN SUNDAY Palm Sunday To Be Observed In Churches Tomorrow Holy Week will be ushered in with the observance of Palm Sunday tomorrow. In the St. Marys Catholic church, palms will be distributed before the 9:45 o’clock high mass. The significance of the observance of Palm and Holy Week in the Catholic church is given in the following article, prepared by the Rev. Father Joseph Hession, acting pastor of the Ss. Marys Catholic church: "Palm Sunday commemorates Christ's triumphal entry into Jeru-*^**^*~-sz-vz-xz (CONTINUED ON PAGE TWO)

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Three Birthdays, AH In One I* w j Im < *' ■ * * * ■ *•*-. 'x » 4% k ■■ The three “R’s,” in former days, stood for "Readin’, Ritin’ and ’Rithmatic,” but in the Homer Raudebush family, residing south of Decatur on the county farm road, they stand for Raymond, Robert and Roscoe, Mr. and Mrs. Raudebush’s triplet boys, shown above. The lioys will celebrate their fifth birthday anniversarv Sunday, April 1. The above picture was snapped recently while the toys were engaged in picking up stones on the highway in front of the Frank Aurand farm, south of the city.

Walter Myers Recommends Alterations At Capitol

Richmond, Ind., Mar. 31—(INS)—Ironical alteiations at the state house proposed by Walter Myers, Democratic candidate for United States Senator, were the subject of laughter here today. Myers, making a campaign speech here last night, in reference to opponents advocating moderation in political warfare, said: “Let them make a Louvre and a I Westminster Abbey of the State House j and its grounds! Let them tear d >wn the monument to Governor Morton and replace it with an equestrain statue of Ed Jackson giving spiritual consolation to senator as he choakes to death on a corn cob. Let them raze the mejnorial to Vice-President Hendricks and in its place put a 18<x‘oon group of Senator Rrrtrtnmn and his ‘birds’ Rpcking together. Nearby let them erect the graven image of George V. C-cffin in the dress of a nurse bringing a little United States Senator out of the nowwhere into tlie here. "On the south side of the dome, let there be an oil painting by Rubens of Duvall and the six Indianapolis councilmen with robes and masks laid aside. “In tly» very deme of the Capitol let them construct a heroic figure of D. C. Stephenson as a party Moses breaking the tablets of stone as he declares himself the law in Indiana. "Close to the treasurer's office build a statue of Elder Hays piously counting his oil bonds and hiding them from public view in 'fences'. “Somewhere in the great outdoors let them enthrone Wizard Evans on a pedestal as Jove, nodding his hcoded head and sending forth his Huffingtons and his Orbisons to carry his orders from Washington so that the Hoi Prlli may tremble on the plains of Indiana. o PLAN FOR BIBLE MEMORY CONTEST All Children Urged to Enter Annual Contest To Be Held Soon C. D. Teeple, of this city, received a communication today from Nellie C. Young, superintendent cf the Children’s division of the Indiana Council of Religious Education, concerning the annual Bible Memory contest, held by the Council of Religious Education. All children are urged to enter the contest, but Miss Young explained that each year the pupil entering should select a different topic in the contest. The idea of asking each contestant to select a new topic each year is to familiarize the child with as many different chapters of the Bible as possible and place the Bible ahead of the idea of winning the contest. Leaflets concerning the Bible Memory ccntest have also been sent Mr. Teeple and a more definite announcement concerning the annual event-will be made in a few days it was announced today. o .. — Pupils Os South Ward Entertained By Teachers A party was given the pupils of the South Ward school building by the teachers at the last period of the day, Friday afternoon. The children made Easter baskets, which were filled with candy eggs and rabbits by the teachers.

Decatur, Indiana, Saturday, March 31, 1928.

CARRIE S. KEEN DIES LAST NIGHT Sister Os F. M. Schirmeyer And Mrs. Phoebe Rice Dies At Richmond Mrs. Carrie Schirmeyer Keen, aged approximately 61 years, died at 11 o’clock last night Friday March 30 at Richmond, from a stroke of paralysis. She was the daughter of Charles L. and Amanda M. Schirmeyer and was born in Decatur. The husband. Wm. Keen, preceded her in death three years ago. Surviving are two brothers and three sisters, as follows: F. M. Schirmeyer of this city. Wm. Schirmeyer. of Alaska, Mrs. Plieobe Rice, of this city, Mrs. Elizabeth Young, of Belt Montana, and Mrs. Emma MoConehey, of California. Mrs. Young was with her sister at the time of her death. The deceased was a member of the Christian church at Richmend. Funeral services will be held in that city Monday afternoon, at 2 o’clock, with Inn lai in the Richmond cemetery. Local relatives are expecting to attend the funeral. 0 “Dry Ice” Making Device Demonstrated In This City Today Did you ever see “dry ice” or ' someone make “dry ice" with a temperature of 110 degrees below zero? It's just frozen air and that isn't hot air either. The Cloverleaf Creameries, Inc., of this city has a gas tank which makes I ti.is dry ice. the gas from the tank 1 i being expelled through a little container. which freezes the moisture in the air. A little cake of this dry ice will last for several hours. The dry ice is so cold that it will freeze mercury. Heber Humbarger. plant superintendent of the Cloverleaf Creameries, held a detnonstra-t'o-n with the gas tank at the Daily Democrat office this afternoon, and much to the wonderment of his watchers showed them how it worked The dry ice can to used for refrig- ' crating purposes. Rat!road-? are us- ! Ing it to some extent now’ in their refrigerator cars. The man who invented the gas, it ! is said, is working on the plan of using the dry ice for home frigera--1 tion purposes and if that time comes, well good-bye to the ice man. o i Three Men Fined In City Court Friday Night Lloyd Baker, Kenneth Beard and Jerome Omlor, all of this city, enter- ■ ed pleas of guilty to a charge of pul>liq intoxication when arraigned in city 1 court before Mayor George Kirck last night. The court fined each $lO and costs. Omlor and Baker also suspended sentences on the penal farm of sixty days and six months, respecI Lively. I ■ Parents Os 10 Divorced , Indiana Habor, Ind., Mar. 31.—(U.R) ■ —Mr. and Mrs. Sam Spivak, married 32 years and the parents of ten chil- ■ dren, were divorced here on a suit by the wife who alleged cruelty.

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SLEET DAMAGE BEING REPAIRED Telephone And Light Company Linemen Busy; Sun Melts Ice Today Telephone, telegraph and electric light linesmen of Adams county today continued their work of rebuilding and the mass of tangled wires and broken poles was slowly being untangled. Telephone communication was still severely crippled, but local telephone officials stated that their crew was working had to establish communication as soon as possible. Telegiaph Instruments were ticking again today and it was thought that communication had been permanently established over that rout*. The city light crew worked most of yesterday repairing the main lines and establishing power for the various factories in Decatur. It was thought that most of the lines to operate homes would to mended by tonight. Several homes were without lights last night. The sun today soon melted the sleet, which was (threatening more damage, and the present danger was practically over by noon today. An accurate estimate of the loss in the county was impossible today, but utility officials stated that it would lotal thousands of dollars. Practically every farmer in Adams county suffered some loss to trees. Many large trees in Decatur also were ruined by the sleet and wind Friday night. o Farmers Report Damage To Fruit Trees By Sleet Farmers report some damage to fruit trees as a result of the sleet stoim Thursday night. Many of the cld apple trees were torn to pieces, like the maple trees in this city, but the cherry and peach trees, although damaged some, were not injured as much as the others. The maple trees in this city were greatly damaged and along certain streets it loks like “no man’s land”. Amos Fisher city street commissioner. and his force of men were busy yesterday and today clearing the streets of limbs and brush. The broken limbs have been piled on the lawns and some plan of having them babied away will be decided upon by the city street department. Baby Os Willshire Couple Dies Here Delores Jean, four-month- old baby of Mr. and Mrs. Jack Brasher, living south of Wilshire. Ohio, died at 11:30 o’clock this morning at the Adams County Memorial hosiptal, in this city. I Death was due to pneumonia, following an illness of bowel trouble. The baby was the only child in the family. The body was removed to the home of the parents and funeral arrangements had not been made today. The father is employed in this city at the A. R. Ashbaucher Tin Shop. NANCY J.MUMMA EXPIRES TODAY Aged Woman, Well Known Here, Dies At Daughter’s Home Near Monroeville Mrs. Nancy J. Mumma, died at 7 o'clock this morning, Saturday, March 31. 1928. at the old Mumma home place, two miles south of Monroeville Death was due to infirmities, she being 82 years, 3 months and 20 days old. Nancy J. Mumma was the daughter of John and Margaret Friedline and was born December 11, 1845. On' October 18, 1870, she united in marriage with George W. Mumma, who preceded her in death. One son, Wm. Dennis Mumma, died in infancy. One daughter, Mrs. Clara R. Lare, lives on the Mumma home place. it was with this daughter that Mrs. Mumma resided at the time of her death. The deceased was a member of the United Brethren church at Monroeville. One brother, John D. Friedline, of Monroeville, survives. One brother, Emanuel Friedline and two sisters, Mrs. Sophia Reiter and Mrs Elizabeth Anderson, are deceased. Several cousins and distant relatives are residents of Decatur. Funeral services will be Tield Monday afternoon, April 2, at 1:30 o'clock at the residence, and at 2 o’clock at Lire United Brethren church at Mon. roeviHe. Burial at the Monroeville cemetery.

Logansport Gets Next Methodist Conference Fort Wayne. March 31 —The Broad I way M. E. chinch at Logansport war selected as the next, meeting place | of the North Indiana M. E. Conference. Tlie Logansport church received 103 votes, and the First Methodist Episcopal church at Hartford City ntjiety. One the tenth ballot Dr. W. W. Wianl, superintendent of the Fort Wayne district, was elected delegate to the general conference at Kansas City. OLD HOME WEEK WORKERS MEET Finance Committee Makes Plans For Conducting Drive On April 3 Enthusiams prevailed at the meeting of the Old Home Week finance com-j mittee at the Industrial Association rooms last night, and a general com mittee, which will be divided into teams to make a concentrated drive for funds, has been selected. All met”bers of the drive committee are requested to meet at the Industrial Association Rooms, Monday night, at 7:30 o’clock, to receive further instructions concerning the drive for funds The Committee is as follows: Mayor George Krick, Raymond J. Harting E. W. Lankenau, C. C. Pumphrey, Dani Niblick, John Stults, Herman H. Myesr Joe Lose, Oscar Lankenau, H. P. Schmitt, Dick Heller, C. E. Peterson Henry Schulte, Vincent Bormann, Charles Hite, H. J. Yager, William Linn, Ray Kohne, Lawrence Kleinhenz W. A. Klepper. The finance committee will notify each member, personally, of the Monday meeting, and plans will be laid at that meeting concerning the drive. The di ive will lie made Tuesday April 3, and every store and manufacturing concern in Decatur will be visited. The Old Home Week Chib will be continued for any interested person and memberships can be sekuied at any local bank. As soon as the fund ■ have been raised, the finance committee wil report to the general committee for the affair and the project will be under way. The consensus of cpinion of practically every business firm in Decatur is to have the biggest and best celebra-' tion Decatur lias ever had and every person will be called on for aid. All members of the drive committee are urged to lay aside other business Monday night and assist in the gett-1 ing the drive started off in fine shape I -—* o Hoagland Man Injured When Auto Hits Ditch Roy Johnston, who resides near Hoagland, was injured at 7 o’clock last night when his automobile went into the ditch two miles south of F rt Wayne, on the Wayne Trace. His car was totally wrecked. Johnston was taken to the St. Joseph hospital in Fort Wayne where his injuries were treated. He received serious cuts about his face and hands. Johnston claims he was forced into the ditch by an oncoming car. o Germans Postpone Flight Indefinitely Baldonnell Flying Field, Dublin, I Mar. 31. — (U.R) —As bad winds and rain continued across the Baldonnel flying field today the Junkers airplane, Bremen, was wheeled back into its hangar and the start on a transAtlantic flight postponed indefinitely. GOOD FRIDAY TO BE OBSERVED Protestant Churches To Hold Union Service At Methodist Church A union church service in observance of Good Friday wil be held in the Methodist Episcopal church here next Friday between the hours of 12 o’clock noon and 3 o’clock pm. under the auspices of the seven Protestant churches represented in the Decatur Ministerial Association. This has bee nan annual event in this city for the last three years. With each succeeding year the Go?d Friday services has been growing, both in power and scope. As in former years, the local pastors are asking that all places of business (CONTINUED ON PAG® FIVE,

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SUDDEN DEATH OF SEN. WILLIS WIDELY MOURNED Ohio Presidential Candidate Dies Suddenly As He Prepares To Deliver Speech DEATH STRIKES WITHOUT WARNING Delaware, 0., Mar. 31. — (U.R) I—Ohio, “the Mother of Presidents,” today embraced in death its favorite son for the 1928 rel publican presidential nomination I—Senator 1 —Senator Frank B. Willis. Willis died last night as a I great crowd gathered in a homecoming at his home city to listen to his address, aimed towards his own presidential candidacy. “I feet ill," Willis said as the Columbus republican glee club sang “At the End of a Perfect Day.” A few minutes he was dead. Demonstration Precedes Death There was a great demonstration for Willis during the evening. The Kiwanis club banqueted him. Later he stood at a reviewing stand —silhoutted against a sky reddened by torches and watched his townspeople parade in his honor. For more than 30 minutes he watched the ’ parade and once or twice complained, in an undertone, that he had inhaled some of the smoke from tlie red flares. Then he went to the Gray chapel of Ohio Wesleyan university which was filling rapidly witli admirers. He was led to the place of houor on the platform and tlie leading citizens of Delaware joined him there. Many well known Ohio republicans also were on the speaker’s program. A glee club furnished the musical part of the program, it was a varied program and the singers were just in the midst of Carrie Jacob’s Bond’s melody when Willis complained of feeling ill. Mrs. Willis was at his side. She did not realize the seriousness of her husband’s illness and did not accompany him out of tlie ball, remaining behind to hear the g>e club finish "A Perfect Day.” and begin “How Can I Leave Thee?” Outside the chapel Willis fainted. (CONTINUED ON PAG® FIVE. XLMEOA HAGGARD CALLEO BI DEATH Monroe Township Woman, Aged 75, Dies At Home Os Daughter Today Almeda Haggard, 75, died nt 5:30 o’clock this morning. March 31. 1928, at the home of her daughter, Mrs. Jess Erp, in Monroe township. Death followed a lingering illness of tuberculosis. Mrs. Almeda Haggard was the daughter of Uri and Margaret Mix. and was born in Auglaize county. 0.. November 17, 1852. in early life she came to Adams county, where she spent practically here entire lifetime. Her husband, John Haggard, preceded her in death. Mrs. Haggard had been in poor health for some time. During the lest few years of her life she had divided her place of residence, living part of the time with her son, Walter Meek, in Chicago, and with het itoighter, Mrs. Jess Erp, in this COtim ty. About ten months ago, she wan brought to the Erp home from Chicago, and was ill at the time. Her condition gradually grew worse until death relieved her at the above mentioned hour. The Wowing children and stepchildren survive: Harry Haggard, of Pontiac, Michigan: Walter Meek, of Chicago, and Mrs. Grace Erp, of Decatur route nine, all children of the deceased; and Henry Haggard, James Martiu Haggard, John A. Hag- - gard, Mrs. Roberta Noffsinger, Mrs. > Cora McCain, Mrs. Retha Roe. all of t Monroe, and Jason Haggard, of Hollit day. North Dakota, step-children. Four brothers and sisters preceded . Mrs. Haggard in death. There are 39 grandchildren and step grandchil--1 dren, and twenty-nine great grand- , children. r Funeral services will be held at 1 n o’clock Monday afternoon atthejeise Erp residence in Monroe township, and at 2 o'clock at the Monroe M. E. , church. Rev. Foster, of the Monroe _ church, will officiate. Burial will be made in the Ray cemetery.

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