Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 26, Number 134, Decatur, Adams County, 6 June 1928 — Page 1

I WEATHER Cloudy tonight, Thursday probably fair, somewhat warm»r-

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Trans-Atlantic Flight Race Between Girl Fliers Probable

CHEWS OF TWO PLANF.S RUSHING PLANS FOR HOP Miss Mabie 801 l Prepares For Flight As Weather Delays “Friendship” PACIFIC FLIERS MAY resume flight today SI. Johns* N.F., June (» (U.R) Spurred on bv prospect of ;t trans-Atlantic flight race with Miss Mabel 8011, the crew of the monoplane Friendship today was waiting impatiently for a crosswind to abate and Hermit them Io take off for England from Trepassy Bav. Miss Amelia Earhart,' Wilmer Stultz, her co-pilot, and Lou Gordon of the Friendship's crew read in local newspapers today of Miss Boll's efforts to start a tlip-ht. Miss Earhart was restless and deeply interested in having a woman competitor for the honor of being the first woman to fly the Atlantic. She and Stultz admitted finally that the great secrecy they have maintained regarding their plans was due to fear that some other plane might start across. Miss 801 l Rushes Plans New York, June 6. —(U.R)— Miss Mabel 801 l today continued plans for start of a trans-Atlantic flight. She hoped to start before the airplane Friendship leaves Trepassy Bay wilh Miss Amelia Earhart at the controls. Miss Boll’s Columbia has been tuned at Roosevelt field for a flight and the engine is in good shape. Wright experts said. The machine still must he fueled. Pacific Fliers Ready Sydney, N. S. W., June 7—(Thursday) (U.R)—Capt. Kingsford - Smith and his crew of the airplane Southern Cross hope to take off from Suva. Fiji islands, at 3 p. tn. today, he radioed here today. Kingsford-Smith added that lie hoped to reach Brisbane at daylight Friday. The take-off from Suva, KingsfordSmith said, would be made at Naselai where there is a three-mile stretch of (CONTINUED ON PAGE TWO) JUNIOR BAND HAS A NEW DIRECTOR David Rice Employed To Succeed Prof. J. C. Cafaro, Who Resigneed Announcement of the resignation of Prof. J. C. Cafaro, of Fort Wayne, adirector of the Decatur Junior Bind, and the employment cf David Rice, of this city, as his successor, was made today by M. F. Worthman, chairman of the boys work committee of the Rotary Club, which is sponsoring the band. The band is expected to endorsi the employment of Mr. Rice at its n meeting. Prof. Cafaro, who was engaged f direct the band when it was organized 22 months ago, has accomplished much with the youthful musicians and he has worked untiringly with them. The band has appeared in public concerts many times and has attracted much favorable comment. In substituting his resignation as director. Prof. Casar stated that his time was nearly all taken up with work in Fort Wayne and that it was difficult for him to come to Decatur and return to Fort Wayne without losing much time. Mr. Rice's considered one of the best musicians ever turned out by Decatur He has directed bands in many parts of the country. At present, he is on a leave of absence from the Pennsyl vania state school for boys, at Morganza, Pa., where he has ben directing the boys' hand for the last year. A fire destroyed several buildings at the school recently, and Mr. Rice will not be called back to resume his work with the band until the buildings are rebuilt, probably next October. In the meantime, he will devote his time to developing the Decatur Junior Band. The Junior Band plans to give a series of nine public concerts on Liberty Way this summer, starting within the next two weeks. The band gave a series o f concerts lust summer, also.

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RE-ELECTED in Mrs. Carrie Haubold Mrs. Carrie Haubold was re-elect-ed a member of the Decatur city school board at a meeting of the city council last night. Mrs. Haubold, who is secretary of the board, will begin here third term of three years next August. DAYLIGHT 8 A YING PETITION KILLED Council Votes Down Petition For Adoption Os Fast Time Here The petition, bearing 165 signatures and asking that daylight saving time be established in Decatur this summer, was voted down by the city council in session last night. The Judiciary committee, to whom the petition had been referred, reported last night, “that because of not having an available fund to hold a special city election that the petition be denied.' The report was approved by the council as a whole and setl.'ed the daylight saving matter for this year, at least. Opinion among the citizens of Decatur was divided cn the matter and as the petition contained only a small number of names and did no* represent a majority, the council did not feel justified in allowing the petition. The suggestion of holding a special city election was dismissed on the grounds that the city did not have an available fund to pay the cost of the election. To Open Swimming Pool As soon as the weather permits the council intends to open the swimming pool at Rugg Memorial park. The matter of employing a supervisor was referred to the Public Safety committee, who will work with M. F. Worthman, superintendent of city schools, in arranging a schedule and providing supervised amusement at the pool. If the weather permits, the poo! will be opened sometime next week, it was stated. Many improvements have been made at the poo! fhis year. The city has built additional spray or cooling ponds at the water works plant, which will afford a more ample supply of cool, fresh watei- for the swimmfng pool and make it possible to change it often. The committee met last night and is working out plans for the use of the poo! and the employing of a. supervisor, and announcement will be made in a few days, it was said. o LARGE NUMBER ON DAIRY TOUR Nearly 250 Persons Enjoy Tour And Basket Dinner At Bellmont Park Despite the cold weather and a drizzling rain which fell during most of the day, nearly 250 persons took part in the annual Adams county dairy-legume tour today. When the party stopped at Bellmont Park, for a basket dinner, there were sixty automobiles and 231 persons, by actual count. The dinner was one of those that only farmers' wives can prepare. Two long tables in one ot the buildings at the park were loaded down with all kinds of good tilings to eat. and despite the enormous appetites of the many P ersollß . P re !' (CONTINUED ON PAGE TWO)

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MRS. HAUBOLD GETS THIRD TERM ON SCHOOL BOARD ’City Council Re-elects Secretary Os Board To Membership COUNCIL LETS STREET CONTRACTS Mrs. Carrie Haubold was re-elected a member of the Decatur school board by the city council last evening. Mrs. Haubold has been a member of the board for the last 6 years. She is secretary of the board and will begin her third term next August, when the board reorganizes. The other two members of the board are Dr. Burt Mangold, president and M. E. Hower, treasurer. Award Road Contract Macklin and Zehr, road contractors of this city, were awarded the contract for the Nuttinan avenue improve inents. Only one bid was filed on the job, the east end of the street from the Pennsylvania railroad tracks east to Fifth street and the west end of the street, west from the Pennsylvania tracks to Twelfth street were let as separate jobs. The contract for the improvement ot the street covers three feet on each side of the main track, which is to be improved by the township. The entire street will be improved with concrete and from Fifth street west to Twelfth street will be 28 feet wide. The bid on the west end of the street amounted to 17,439 and the east end to $4,027.90. Sidewalks and curb are included in the improvement. Alley Improvement Ordered The plans and profile for the improvement of the Miller alley, between the Miller Bakery and Zwick and Myers store, west to Third street and from Monroe street north to the alley intersection, were filed and approved. Oo objections were filed against the proposed improvement and a hearing will be held on June 19. The alley will be improved with brick. Flasher Lights Ordered A resolution ordering the Chicago and Erie railroad and the Nickel Plate railroad to install flasher signal lights at the Winchester. Line. Tenth and Thirteenth street crossings was filed and adopted by the council. The railroads are now installing these flasher lights, in compliance with an ordinance passed by the council a few weeks ago. The watchman at both the crossings on Winchester street ((OXTIXIED ON PAGE SIX) LIONS TO GATHER AT INDIANAPOLIS Several Members Os Decatur Club To Attend State Convention Dr. Burt Mangold, president, Douglas Haney and Roy Mumma will represent the Decatur Lions Club at the annual state convention of Lions to be held at Indianapolis next Monday and Tuesday, June 11 and 12. The delegates were elected at the regular meeting of the club last night. Several other members of the Decatur club will attend the convention. All sessions of the convention will be held at the Caypool hotel. The first tiling on the program will be a golf tourney for Lions, Monday morning. Later on Monday, there be a tour of Indianapolis, taking in points of scenic, historifcal, cultural and industrial interest. At 12:15 o’clock, Monday noon, there will be a luncheon and general get-together, with an address by the district governor of Lions in Illinois, Joseph R. Adams. The first business session of the convention will be held at 2 o clock Monday afternoon. A banquet will be held Monday evening and a breakfast for officers will be held Tuesday morning. Another business session will open at 9:30 o'clock Tuesday morning and the final session, at which time officers will be elected, will open at 1 o'clock Tuesday afternoon. Mayor Slack, of Indianapolis, will deliver the address of welcome Monday afternoon. Other speakers (CONTINUED ON PAGE SIX)

Decatur, Indiana, Wednesday, .June 6, 1928.

Smith Likely To Be Second Choice Os Indiana's Delegates Indianapolis, Ind., June 6—(INS) Supporters of the presidential aspirations of Governor Al Smith today claimed that the New York man would be the second choice for president of the delegation chosen Io attend the Democratic national convention to represent Indiana. The delegation was committed to the favorlte-sou-candidate. Evans Woollen of Indianapills, however, as long as he remains in the race. The Smith men said that they were greatly encouraged by the action of lhe tenth district caucus which took a formal note to designate Smith as second choice. Il was the only action of that nature, but other district leaders , said Smith was gaining ground. COMMISSIONERS CLOSE SESSION Buy Two New Trucks For County; Let Contracts For Coal The county commissioners in continued session this morning, purchased two Graham Bros., trucks, each of 2-ton capacity, from the Saylors Motor company of this city. C. R. Saylors represented the motor company and the price quoted for each truck was R 2.260 or a total of $4,520 for the two. The trucks will come fully equipped. Bids on seven other makes of trucks were filed with the commissioners and the selection was not made netil late last evening. Extension Os Time Granted Amos Stoneburner and Frank Martin, viewers on the Henry Krick drain petition, filed a petition asking for an ■xtension of time ami were granted until Ju'y 2nd to file their report. To Receive Hoad Bids Bids for the construction of three roads, one a hard surfaced road, will be received by the jaunty commissioners next month. The Isaac I.eltman read it) Berne, extending west (rent the brick pave n.< nt to the to*’: ship line, will he hu:d surface,i. The other two roads, the Peter t'ox, in Hartford, and tire Charles Njfiler in St. Mar?** townshit), will be macadam roads. C.-al Contract Awarded E, L. Carroll an ! Son, of this city, received the cont. act for furnishing next wit* ?1 'a supply of coil at th' court noise, jail ana county infirm ary. The hid for West Virgi th) coal at the .-minty farm was $4.40 per lon. for Pocahontas at the jail. $6.25 a ton •ind for W >st Virgo ia at the court house. $5.10 a ton. To Receive Bridge Bid) Specifications for three b.-i’ge improvements were Hied by En; neer Both and adopted by the cornu.iss,oners. Bids will bo receive' next month. The improvements are the .rn't ijrlt.ge in Feeble towiislna. the Prance biidge in St. Marys ami the Mesehberger reta'ning wall in Hsrtford to ••. ;„-hip. A retainng w-.'l along the i'least nt Mills-Willsh’ <• road, known as the Devi! t) Backtor,.?, will also b- • onstructea The cort missioncr's adjourn*•) this afternoon after a busy three day session —o Bluffton Stores To Be Open Two Nights A Week Bluffton, June 6 —(U.R) Following the regular meeting and banquet of the Bluffton Chamber- of Commerce Monday evening, the members who are business firm managers, met in another special, session and at that time voted to keep their stores open, beginning next Tuesday night, .lune 12, on two evenings each week, Tuesday and Thursday. They voted to keep their stores open until 9 o’clock on those evenings and at the same time voted to discontinue keeping open on the 6th and 21st of each month, which was formerly the piano factory pay nights. /The Tuesday and Thursday night opening rule will now have the stores open on three nights each week, Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday. The decision to keep open two extra nights a week was reached when the merchants decided to afford their farm trade better opportunity to get service at the stores. It was thought that farmers generally are too busy to do much of their trading in hours other than those which come after their regular working time.

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Col. Lindbergh Visits > Indianapolis Today Indianapolis. June 6 (U.R) -Colonel Chatles A. Lindbergh, traveling ove’-1 the ccuntry to select cities which will be on lhe line of the Transcontinental Air Transport. Inc was in Indianapolis today. He paid the city a sitrpiise visit by landing unannounced yesterday after noon. Asked whether or not Indianapolis would be on the new route, he replied no route as yet has been selected. The present tour, he said, is (ot a general sin vey of aviable -tops. "I)t aw your own < on.clusloiu". he BANKOFFiCiALS VIEW PRISONERS Efforts Being Made To Connect Prisoners At Hammond With Robberies Hammond, Ind.. June 6.- (INS) — Three men and two women held by Hammond police were to face officials of two Indiana banks here today for passible identification as robbers who held up the bank officials and escaped with SIOO,OOO in the last two years. In one of the robberies, that of Lafayette, Ind., a police captain was killed when he attempted to prevent the escape of the bandits. Four other robberies in oilier parts of tile country were charged to the I quintet. Those’ held: Edward Meadows, once held in connection with a $97,000 bank robbery in Kansas City; Charles Makley, alias Owens; Lee Wheatley. Mrs. Lee Wheatley and Mrs. Edith Owens. A chance remark of one of the men in a Hammond saloon led to the investigation which brought about, lhe arrests. Police believed the prisoners have laken part in lunik robberies at Linn Grove and Portland, Indiana; Kansas City, St. Henry, Ohio and one in Pennsylvania. Muri Lyba.rger, cashier of the bank at Linn Grove, Monday identified Markley as the leader of the gang (it bandits that held him up March 27, last, and escaped with $1,600. Three other members of the alleged gang of bank robbers are held in Ohio jails, it is said. A man known as “Sport." Smith, who is held at Toledo. Ohio, has been identified as a member of the gang that held up the Linn Grove bank, it is reported. “Red" Custer and Eddie Axe, two alleged members of the gang, are being held at Wapakoneta, Ohio,

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DEATH CLAIMS : DECATUR GIRL, Miss Irene Hesher, 19, Dies Tuesday; Suffers Nerv- < our Breakdown Miss Irene Hesher, 19. who has ‘ been suffering from a nervous break- ’ down for several months, died at the ( home of her parents, Mr and Mrs. John Hesher, 21:1 South Seventh t stieet, yesterday afternoon at 3:30 * o’clock. . Mrss Irene Elizabeth Hesher was I born in Lima. Ohio, on November 7. 191)8. She lived in Cragiville, Fort Wayne and Honduras before she moved here with her parents. The last six years were spent in Decatur. For two years, up until the time of her fatal illness last winter, she ■ I was employed in the Waring Glove factory. She attended the Methodist church and was an active member of her Sunday school class. Surviving are two brothers. Ed and Robert Hesher, of this city; one sis- , ter. Mildred, also of Decatur; and a i host of friends. Funeral services will be held Fri- ; day afternoon at 1:30 o'clock, at lhe ; home, and at. 2 o'clock at the Methodist church. The Rev. R. W. Stoakes , will officiate. Burial will be made in the Decatur cemetery. BERNE CHORUS TO SING HERE Male Chorus Os Mennonite Church To Give Sacred Concert Here Sunday The male chorus from the Mannonite church of Berne will render a sacred concert at the Zion Reformed church next Sunday night, beginning at 7:30 o'clock. The Mennonite singers appeared at the local church about a year and a half ago. and their program was received with much appreciation. The concert is being sponsored by the Girls' Missionary Guild of the local church. A free will offering will be lifted, which will be used for i mi-s/onary purposes. The entire > membership of the church is urged to . turn out to hear these talented sing- - ers. The public is also cordially invited. A detailed program of the concert will appear in Friday’s paper.

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BLUFFTON MAN HEADS TICKET OF DEMOCRATS Frank C. Dailey Is Unanimous Choice Os Party As Gubernatorial Candidate BIG DEMONSTRATION FOLLOWS SELECTION Indianapolis, Ind.. June <>. UNS) Frank C. Dailey, <>l Bluffton, was nominated as Demoeratie candidate lor governor of Indiana on the first ballot by lhe Democratic slate convention here this afternoon. The nomination of Dailey became assured when Monroe county, lhe sixty-third ctounty to vote, cast its twelve votes for Dailey, giving him more than the 593 votes necessary for nomination. Carl Cue. of Frankfort, one of the managers lof the campaign of John E. Frederick, of Kokomo, for the gubernatorial nomination, then arose and moved that the nomination of Dailey be made unanimous. Election Made Unanimous Earl Crawford, of Milton. another candidate for the Democratic nomination for governor, seconded Cue's motion. Amidst great cheering, the motion was adopted. The result of the finstballot: Frank C. Dailey, of Bluffton. 878 votes; John E. Frederick, of Kokomo. 275 votes; Earl Crawford, of Mlton, 22 votes; George R. Dale, of Muncie, 10 votes. Dailey was high man of the seven candidates for the Democratic nomination for governor in the primary tleelion May 8. He received about 50,000 more vxttes than John E. Frederick. his nearest opponent, but he did not get enough votes to be assured the office. Therefore, as in the (COATIS' SD OK I'AGH SIX) O Bryant Man Arrested On Charge Os Larceny Portland, June 6, — (U.R) —Gid MeCroskey, a resident of Bryant, has been arrested on a charge of larceny. McCloskey appeared in open court and ills bond was fixed in (he sum of $1<)«) by Judge Williamson. John J. Paxspn went on the bond as surety and McCroskey was released. McCroskey is accused of stealing a quantity of goods in Beata reek township.

WEATHER MAN PULLS TRICKS Mixes Up Rain, Sunshine, Cold And Warmth During Last Two Days With the mercury chasing up and down the thermometer with uncertain regularity and showers occuring every few hours with slow drizzles interspersed. residents of Decatur and Adams county have been treated, or rather subjected to a variety of weather during the last forty-eight hours. Following a hard, cold rain Tuesday morning, the sun peeped from behind the clouds and the temperature shot upward twenty degrees within u few hours. Several other hard showers occured during the afternoon and evening, but the temperature remained comfortable until early this morning when it took another tumble, with the result that top coats and slickers were none to warm. The mercury started a gradual climb, however, and at 10:30 o'clock the thermometers registered about 57 degrees above. The weather forecasters predicted partly cloudy weather for tonight and Thursday. with warmer temperature by Thursday. There has been a heavy rainfall during the last few days and the rivers and smaller streams have swollen, some of them going out of their banks. Corn fields are covered with water in many places aud farmers will be unable to till the soil for several days. However, if the temper- . ature rises, the rain will greatly bene- ; fit the growing crops. The stream running through the > golf course at the Decatur Country j Club has left its banks and it is doubt- - ful if it will l>e possible for golfers .- to get on the course again before Sati urday or Sunday, even if no more rain falls.

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