Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 26, Number 89, Decatur, Adams County, 13 April 1928 — Page 1

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BREMEN BELIEVED SIGHTED OVER U. S.

Itownship high SCHOOLSHAVE 83 GRADUATES ■List Os Graduates From I Rural Schools Announced By Superintendent I COMMENCEMENTS BEGIN NEXT WEEK | Eighty-three pupis will be graduating from till- seven rural high schools I of Adams county this spring, the list I of graduates being made public today I by Clifton E. Striker, superintendent lof the -county schools The comI mencement exercises will be held on I consecutive nights, beginning with I the Geneva exercises next Tuesday I night The Monroe commencement was to have been held next Monday nieht. but it has been indefinitely nostponed on account of an epidemic of smallpox which is prevalent in the town and community. I The dates for the different contnemements are as follows: Geneva, 'Tuesday, April 17; Jefferson township, Wednesday, April 18: Monmouth. Thursday, April 19; Hartford township. Friday, April 20; Pleasant Mills, Saturday, April 21, and Kirkland township, Monday, April 23. Commencement Speaker Named Mr. Edward O. Snethen, prominent ' Indianap iis attorney, will deliver the I principal address at each of the commencements. He is a commencement •peaker of wide experience and high I recommendation. K rkland township has the largest number of graduates, these being a class of 19 seniors completing the high school course at that school. The other schools have the following number of graduates: , Geneva,' 18: I Hartford, 15: Jefferson, 10; Monroe. 7; Pleasant Mills, 11; Monmouth JI. Baccalaureate services for tmch of i the graduating classes will be held next Sunday evening. Following is a list of the graduates: Geneva—Waldo Aspy, John Dunw ddie, Ernest Striker, Bryce Bauserman, Frances D. Cook. Bernice Biery, Lowell M. Long, Albert M. Stahly, Augusta Farlow. Hubert L. Brown. Clarnell M. Chew, James L. Frave), Robert K. Thompson. Edna G. Lewis, Mary E. Wheat and Donna V. Campbell. Hartford—Fltrine Augsburger. Nerval Banter, Roscoe Banter, Frank Glendening, Dale Heller, Stanley Hoffman. Glenn Holloway, Louise Neusbaum, Florence Fusey, Russell Pusey, Marshall Reynolds, Marshall Scroghani, Vaughn Shoemaker, Flossie Studh.r, and Ruth Yoder. Jefferson —Lewis Arnold, Walter Amstutz, Burdett Burk, Esther Bollenhacher. Emma Fogle, Martha Butcher, G'.ennis Kenney, Helen Ray, Hibien Ra.v and Marcella Robin Monroe— Donald L. Elzey, Hubert Keller. Ruth E Schwartz, Vale Maurice Smith, Emma M. Striker, Genevieve L. Walters and Jay J. Yost. Pleasant Mills —Albert J. Davison, Charles A. Dague, Marion R. Smith, Richard F. Evans, Louise Gertrude Johns, Thelma L. Johnson, Irene Durbin. Clifford Whittredge, Goldie Dellinger, Doyle Johnson and Clyde O. Troutner. Monmouth — Otto Ixiuis Boerger, Luther Frank Brokaw, Richard Kitsen Wagoner, Catherine Elizabeth Weidler and Ralph Eugene Wilder. Kirkland —Theo. I. Bauer, Dorcas C. HOVTIVI HD ox PAGE EIGHT? NAME SPEAKER FORMEMORIAL French Quinn Selected To Deliver Address At Moose Memorial Sunday A memorial service for departed members of the Decatur lodge of the Loyal Order of Moose will be held Sunday afternoon at 2 o'clock, at the Moose home in this city. All members of the Decatur lodge and their famines are invited to attend the service. french Quinn, of this city, will deliver the chief address of the afterneon and an impressive service has ,een planned. The meeting is open to ah members and .their families, and ’t is expected that a large attendance will mark the annual affair. Besides the ritualistic program a nd the address by Mr. Quinn, there "Hl be a program of vocal and instrumental music. The meeting will start Promptly at 2 o’clock Sunday afternoon.

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J Enthusiasm In Bremen Flight Is Dampened By Politics In Germany Berlin, April 13.—(INS)—Popular enthusiasm in support of the Bremen ttiglit was slightly dampened today by the entry of politics. Most of the papers deposed the jstoiy of Roehl’s flight as the feature of the day and gave the Milan bomb ing preference. The democratic papers were especially tiled up against the flight because the fliers displayed the old b'ack, white and red imperial flag instead of tlie black, red and gold republican emblem. COMMENCEMENT PLANS ARE MADE Baccalaureate Services And Commencement Dates At Pleasant Mills Announced Baccalaut eate exercises for the graduating class of the Pleasant Mills high school will be held at the Peasant Mills Baptist church, Sunday night, at 8 o’clock, it was announced today. The Rev. Mr. Day, pastor cf the Pleasant Mills Baptist, will deliver the address. The public is invited to attend the services. Commencement exercises for tlie Pleasant Mills graduating class will be held Saturday night, April 21. at 8 o'clock at the Pleasant Mills Methodist church. E. O. Snethen, Indianapolis attorneywill deliver the commencement address, it was announced today. Mr. Snethens, who is a forceful speaker, has had much experience in 'delivering commencement addresses. He will deliver several ether commencement addresses in Adams county this year. o Hoosier Groceries Stores Sold To Kroger Company Cincinnati, 0., April 13 —(INS}-- Purchase cf the 73 Hoosier stores, and Indiana chain groceries, by the Kroger grocery and baking company, was announced here today by W. H. Albers, president of the company. Approximately $500,000 was involved, he said most of the stores are in the Fort Wayne district. The Kroger chain now includes about 4.000 stores.

The Hoosier company owns one store in Decatur, while the Kreger company has two, here. U. S.PROPOSES PEACE TREATY Proposes That Six Great World Powers Combine To Outlaw War Washington, April 12.—(U.R) —Despite French opposition to a sweeping, unqualified renunciation cf war, the United States proposed today that the six great world powers and other interested governments join in a treaty forever outlawing war of every nescription as among themselves. -The proposal was embodied in a note of which copies were simultaneously delivered by the American ambassadors to the foreign offices in London, Berlin, Rome and Tokio. o Charlie Birger Gets Short Stay Ot execution Benton, 111., April 13—(U.PJ-Charlie Birger, Southern Illinois gang lord, has escaped for four days at least the gallows on which he was to have been hanged this morning. The Franklin county circuit court last night granted a four day stay of execution to permit a hearing on Birger's sanity on Monday. Birger was convicted ot complicity in the murder of Mayor Joe Adams of West City, 111. His two aides, Art Newman and Ray Hyland, are serving life sentences for their part in the crime. ,c Teacher Has Smallpox; Pupils Are Vaccinated Akron. Ind., April 13—(U.R)—Every student and teacher in the high school here will be vaccinated immediately against smallpox. There are 220 students and 11 teachers.

An order for vaccination was issued when it was discovered one of the teachers was suffering from smallpox.

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-j. Sinclair sits in at trial . , , W> r 1 ' - ■ i w • ~-K ill-- - e For the second trial of Harry Sinclair, oil magnate, charged witli conspiracy to defrand the government in connection with the Teapot Dome oil leases, Mrs. Situ lair accompanied her husband .to tlie Washington court.

Two Decatur Giris Get Attractive Ofter To Join Chautauqua Aileen Baker 'and Violet Squires, juniors in Decatur high school, have received an attractive offer to join the Rural Chatauqua company, to play in a girls’ saxaphone sextet. The offer was made to the girls by Ethel Hadley, r representative of the Chautauqua company, and provided for a year’s contract at a salary of S2OO and expenses per month. Since the girls have another year in high school, they were advised to turn down the offer, despite its attractiveness, and to finish their high school work. Both young ladies are taienteij musicians and, no doubt, have a bright future ahead of them. They are members of the Decatur Junior band. o ■ BANKING FIELD OVER-CROWDED State Banking Commissioner Comments On 12 Bank Crashes This Year By Joe Sullivan, IN'S Staff Correspondent Indianapolis, Ind., Apr. 13. — Overcrowding of the banking field in Indiana is responsible for the epidemic of bank failures since January 1, 1925, Thomas Barr, assistant state banking commisslone rsaid today in commenting upon the twelve bank crashes thus far this year. "Too many banks were chartered during the boom at the close and immediately after the World war," Barr said. "When the boom passed and normalcy returned there wasn't enough business for all these banks." Added to this Barr said came the improvement of highways and the more widespread usft of automobiles which enabled rural depositors to go quickly to the cities and take advantage of the larger and more centrally located and naturally stronger banking institutions, thus depriving the smaller country banks of much business. By the return to normalcy in the banking industry Barr said he meant the passing of the period of price inflation especially in farm lands. Scores of banks that made loans on farm land at the high valuation prevailing at the close of the war were unable to liquify these loans when normalcy returned and consequently passed out. They were victims of “frozen assets." “By far the greatest cause of the difficulties of the smaller country banks today, however, is the automobile age with its improved highway systems and fleets of motor cars which enables the farmers to get to the larger cities quickly and make use of the safer banking facilities there," Barr pointed out. Commenting on the closing of twelve Indiana banks with deposits aggregating $3,538,000, since the beginning of thig year, Barr said that eleven banks failed during the corresponding period in 1927. “Most of these bank closings have (CONTINUED ON PAGE SEVEN)

Decatur, Indiana, Friday, April 13, 1928.

KIRKLAND TO GRADUATE 19 Baccalaureate Service To Be Heid Sunday; Commencement Next Monday The baccalaureate service for the graduating class of the Kirkland high school will be heM tn the "Kirkland community building. Sunday night, at--7:15 o'clock. The Rev. A. R. Fledderjohann, pastor of the Zion Reformed church of Decatur, will deliver the sermon. The Kirkland commencement will be held Monday night, April 23, ir\ the community building. The commencement address will be delivered by Mr. Edward O. Snethen, Indianapolis attorney. There are 19 graduates at Kirkland this year. Following is the program for the baccalaureate service: Piano march, Miss Sue Zimmerman. Invocation, Rev. D. M. Byerly. Hymn, “All Hail the Power of Jesus Name", Scripture reading. Rev. S. 1,. Cover Music, Magley quartet. Sermon, "The Unexplored and Unknown," Rev. A. R. Fledderjohann. Music, Magley quartet Benediction, Rev A. R. Fledderjohann Mrs. Coolidge Returns From Mother’s Bedside Washington, April 13 —(lNS> — Mrs. Calvin Coolidge returned to the White House this afternoon from a three weeks sojourn at the bedside of her mother, Mrs. Lemira Goodhue, at Northampton, Mass. Her stay at Northampton is said to have benefitted Mis. Coolidge who was ill when she left Washington. She will return to Northampton should her mother's condition become worse. o Urges Return To Pre-War Taxation Washington, April 13 —(U.R) —Return to the pre-war taxation basis was ndvoiated today by Felix M. MrWhirter of Indianapolis, representing the United States chamber of commerce at a senate finance committee hearing on the house tax reduction bill. . — -o — Bluffton Man Victim Os Practical Joker; , Gets $25 Hotel Bill Bluffton, April 13— (INS)— George Redd of Bluffton is up in the air over a $25 hotel bill which he has received for the alleged stay of four days at the Hotel Roosevelt in New Orleans, La. The joke is that Redd has not been out of this city for a year and his plenty of proof of that according to his story. Several months ago a note came to he Bluffton Evening News from New Orleans. as a news item, that Redd was registered at the Roosevelt Hotel there. Redd thought It was a great joke at that time. Now that he has received a big bill for his alleged jaunt the thing doesn’t look so funny to him according to his friends. Redd is now busy convincing the hotel management that he has never darened the doors of its establishment.

DECATUR MAN IS MISSING iSEARCH BEING CONDUCTED John L. Hoopengardner Not Seen Since Tuesday Night; Foul Play Feared CARRIED SMALL AMOUNT OF MONEY Police today were asked to aid in nvestigating the disappearance of John L. Hoopengardner, 58, proprietr of a gasoline filling station in the orth part of Decatur. Mr. Hoopengardner was last seen by his family when he left his home in the north prut of the city to attend a meeting cf the Odd Fe.lows lodge, ot which he was a member. Mr Hccipengardner came to the Masonic hall and stayed about a ha t’ hour, leaving about 7:30 o’clock, according to lodge members. He was later seen on the streets and conversed with several friends Tuesday night. Hears Knock At Door

About 10;Go o'clock Tuesday night, some one knocked at the door of tlie Hoopengardner home, but before Mrs. Hoopengardner could get to the door, the person who knocked had left. The Hoopengardner family statexl today that Mr. Hoopengardner had always been a man of temperate babits and they are inclined to believe that he met foul play. Tho theory that Mr Hoopengardner left Decatur was exploded when it was learned that Tuesday afternoon he made a deposit at a local back of t.ne daj's receipts and it is known that he had only small change with him when he disappeared. Police are working on several theories. Some new foot-prints were traced to tlie edge of a stone quarry in the nffriTTpart cf the city Wednesday and the quarry was dragged. There is no evidence, however, that Mr. Hoopengardner ended his own life. —o DAYLIGHT SAVING PETITION REVIVED Proponents Os Change In Time Are Circulating Petitions In City Petitions are being circulated in Decatur, asking that the City Council adopt the daylight saving plan in this city during the summer months. The plan is being fostered by several of the local factories. It was stated today by those circulating the petitions that they will present the signatures at the regular meeting of the council Tuesttay night and ask them to pirss on the resolution. The opinion of the council is divided on the question and, at present, it is not known definitely whether the "summer time” will be adopted or net Several local factories will adopt the daylight savings time, regardless of what the council decides, it was stated today. Last year the General Electric plant in this city adopted the schedule and it was stated that that concern will adopt the time again this year. Although no petitions are being cir■ulated by opponents of the plan, it t said that there is considerable opposition. o Autos Collide At Street Intersection This Morning An automobile driven by Ed Fugate, ot this city, collided with a Ford ssupe driven by Florence Biggs, at the Fourth and Madison street intersection about 7:30 o’clock this morning. The Ford was almost completely demolished. Miss Biggs who teaches school in Adams county, was on her way to school when the accident occurred. She was driving south on Fourth street and Mr. Fugate was driving west on Madison when the accident occurred. The occupants of both cars escaped without injury, but both cars were damaged. Cat Mothers Baby Rabbits Vevay, Ind., April 13 —(U.R) —Two young rabbits are being mothered by a cat at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Charles Bodey near here. The cat brought the rabbits to the house after all but one of several kittens born to her were killed.

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Indiana Boy Is In Third Grade During First Year In School Mt. Summit, Ind., Apr. 13. —<U.R) Tills is the first year in school for Salem Shively, young son of Mr. and Mrs. Eugene Shively, but he is in the third glade and in a test given by Misses Ward and Henry of Ball Teachers College Phychology department, was found to have the mentaltiy of a Junior high school student in the subject of (mathematics. o . GOVERNMENT RESTS CASE Prosecution Concludes Its Conspiracy Case Against H. F. Sinclair Washington, April 13 —(U.R) —The government today concluded its conspiracy case against Harry F. Sincla r, lessee of Teapot Don-", except tor two important bits of evidence of which rulings will be announced Monday. “Tlie government rests,” Owen J. Roberts, chief government prosecutor old the court and Jury. The trial was in its fifth day. It took one day to pick the Jury and a little over three days to present the government’s case. Justice Jennings Bailey then adjourned the court until nine A. M. Monday, Tlie government’s concluding evidence advised the jury that Albert B. Fall, secretary of interior who leased the Teapot Dome naval oil reserve to Sinclair asked neitiier attorney general Harry M. Daugherty nor the solicitor of the interior department E. S. Baoth, for an opinion as to whether tlie lease was valid. a Gangland’s Guns Boom Again; Man’s Body Found Chicago, April 13—(INS) —That gangland guns had boomed out another deadly serenade was evident today with the finding cf a man’s body on an isolated prairie in South Chicago. The body was that of an unidentified man, aged about SO. Tlie scene was scarcely a stone’s throw from where bandits recently held up a Grand Trunk mail train and escaped with $133,000. o . FARM BILL GOES TO LOWER HOUSE

Senate Gives McNary-Haug-en Measure Vote Os 53- 1 23; Sponsors Elated — By Geoi ge R. Holmes INS Staff Correspondent Washington, April 13. —The battlescarred McNary-Haugen farm bill, a football of big time politics for several years, was headed straight for President Coolidge’s desk notwithstanding the warning signals hoisted against it by the White House. Its passage in the senate by the surprising vote of 53 to 23 was accomplished under the adroit generalship of Vice-President Charles G. I Dawes, ably assisted by those who do i not want to see Herbert Hoover nominated for president at the Kansas City convention. It now goes to the house, where its passage also is considered assured. Its sponsors hope to have it through the lower chamber and deposited on the White House doorstep by May 1. o Marion Man Speaks *At Rotary Club Meeting William Blake, electrical manufacturer of Marlon and president of the Marion Rotary Club, delivered an address before the Decatur Rotary Cub last evening. Mr. Blake spoke on "The/Rotarian—His Responsibility to His Community." He cited examples how the individual Rotarian could help his community and what factors made up a good community. His address was greatly enjoyed. o Held For Stealing Pants Indianapolis, Apr. 13.-(U.R) —William Thomas Minton. Jr., Evansville, was held here today in default of a $1,500 federal bond, under which he was placed on charges of stealing 83 pairs of pants from an interstate freight shipment.

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GERMAN PLANE BELIEVED SEEN OVER NEW YORK Large Monoplane Speeds Over Gotham In Southeasterly Direction REPORTED SIGHTED AT VARIOUS POINTS New York, Apr. 13. — (INS) — Crowds in New York filled streets shortly before 2 p. m. today when a large monoplane flying very high was seen traveling at high rate of speed in a southeasterly direction. While it was impossible to dentify the plane definitely many who saw it believed that it was the trans-Atlantic plane Bremen because of the build of the wings. Huge Crowd At Field Mitchell Field, N. Y„ Apr. 13.—(INS) —Between 5,000 and 10,000 men, women and children were massed back of the ropes at the flying field here this ifternoon., patiently awaiting the arrival of the German plane Bremen, which left Dublin, Ireland, at 5:38 a. m„ Thursday, for Mitchell Field. Police lines were thrown out and the vast throng was lield back ot the ropes. A ring of motorcycle police encircled the field. Many of the visitors stood on top of parked automobiles, on buildings and other vantage points. An atmosphere of supresesd excitement prevailed over the field as reports came, to the field of a plane, posisbly the Bremen, having been sighted at various places over Novia Scotia, Brockton, Mass., and later heading toward New York. Everything was in readiness at the field. Many Reports Received

New York. Apr. 13.—UNS) —After a flurry of unconfirmed reports that the German trans-Atlantic plane Bremen had been sighted at several points in Novia Scotia this afternoon found the plane still .missing and overdue According to calculations made by pilot Herman Koehl before he hopped oft' from Dublin at 12:38 o'clock yesterday morning. Koehl had planned to reach the American coast line this morning. At 1:20 o'clock this afternoon near ly 37 hours had elapsed since the Bremen hopped off for Mitchell Field. It was reported from Kingsport, Nova Scotia, that Sapt. Barkhouse, of the Canadian steamer Arras had sighed a plane he believed to be the Bremen at 9 o'clock e.s.t. but the Canadian government department of marine at Ontario announced this afternoon that no confirmation of the Barkhouse report had been received. O G Farmer Kills Grey Wolf Near Zanesville Today Ellis Denny, a farmer residing near Ganesville, shot and killed a grey wolf this morning. The animal had been attacking the livestock on Mr. Denny’s farm, he said. The wolf was taken to Bluffton today by Mr. Denny. This is the first wolf reported in this part of the country for some time. o—< —— BIDS RECEIVED ON ROAD NO. 27 State Highway Commission Takes Steps To Pave Road Near Decatur Indianapolis. April 13.—(U.R)—Additional proposals on which the state highway department has opened bids will combine to further improve Indiana roads during the coming summer. The proposals, low bidders, counties, mileage and roads include: Road 27 in Wayne and Randolph counties, 12.85 miles, Hayes Construction company, Indianapolis, $266,533.42. Road 2 in Deleware and Blackford counties, 14.49 miles, N. B. Putnam, Fort Wayne, $301,666.60. Road 3, Wells county, 8.26 miles, i P. P. Putnam, Fort Wayne, $105,376.i 60. ) Roads 3, 9. 15, 20, and 27 in Wells, i Allen, Noble, Lagrange, Wabash, Elks hart, Stueben, Adams, Dekalb count ties, 66.95 miles, P. B. Putnam, Fort Wayne, $162,5844.19.

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