Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 26, Number 184, Decatur, Adams County, 4 August 1928 — Page 1

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POLISH FLIERS BELIEVED LOST AT SEA

I ASSESSMENT on I UTILITIES HERE I SHOWS INCREASE 1 K Higher Than Last Year ■ TOT al this YEAR ■ rO, U IS .$5,123,740 T ,„ u-ssment <f railroads] ■ UN!.., -in Adams County for' ■ \ j; . ~.,iab!.- in 1929. Shows an ■I ~v,' r last y, ‘ ar : MM ' , jn „ -n . ertitii .itioli received I' ' '"" Mani " jaberg. MM ' T:i.. ’"'A. ' lll ' -t.it'-’s .isscssnient MM ru.lNM'lo and utilities as|MH ' board, is $.-».4?3.MM -p p ... ..aieiit las’ veal was $.,.- M| Mr. .labeig "as busy today p i ;lr , ij, assessments among ’lie |M| 1 incorporated towns. BH| Railroad Assessments Largest ■H Washing! n and St. Maiys town|B| aftiount HM >' nf townships, while the city. ■■ ,• ■■ ..;....) the largest distri- ' ■■ - v !1 l,r ,lIP I' 1 ”' 1 "*'' 1 ga hi ’' ns ' ■■ . ■■■ 'ad* have file l.llg o MM ■ 1 bi. ago am! Erie a’’d IMM ■■ I'' ■ a ,| :.i 1 aih ads le id 'he MM i- : 'lie Nick’d Plate being third. MM! T- ! -■’ ""I'.-.n of the assessmenis MB CH 11 odin a few days. Mr. ' BB J. ami 'he totals for each MM taxing unit "ill be published. ■B \ i'i, a' whete the increase MB 'milt- came this year MM i made toady today. Th" MM ' ■ ■’ l 1' ■ MB " I r r uji k anil i"ii|- i Mb* ' road being abandoned : ■■ wmelinie .igo. MH “ ” ■ 11 -— |H Furl Wayne Hoy, Age 9, ( K Steals An Automobile bM| l’"" " vim. Iml . August 4 —(U.R) — ] BB I* t.ald X : .m, 9, is a case toay for MH "Ifi.ers as a lesult if stealUMb ' ■ ii m.'em.ibile, |]is small size en■■M al,lpl ' ' lini 111 barely reach the fontMM ‘ bis operate the car. which beMM lougwl 10 Ar, ' iui ' °ttBB When first taken into custody, he HB *•* 1 mime, and although in his MM "'i Im,i- .mil in the piesence of relaMH ii'’-. Ti-!, ! mit a back doot in flight MH M ' l " us l l .' ! "i''d later by a state policeman. ■■New Traffic Signal Is ■ Placed In Operation M| , 111" new automatic traffic signal MB v'" :!l ib' intersection of Second BM and Monroe streets was placed in op--3M el . alii ."’ ,his mori ‘ing. The new de[M ""' s ''uu lmred in the pavement and BEI ext. mis upward for several feet. The M overhead type signal has been BE .ikon down and will be placed at anMM s’reet intersection, it is sai<i. I TO HIVE PLAY somy night II Home Talent Play, “InheriB tance To Be Presented B At D.C.H.S. Auditorium H Arrangements are all complete for Bm ' e ''^ sp ntation of the home talent Ml , P 'v ," inl "' ,itan «!".’ at the Catholic El „”’>l audttoiium. Sunday afternoon. H ening' eve " illg and Wednesday evil wiO h | Slln(lay u| ternoon presentation Ml y„ „, e a niatln ee for children, only. Ml fnr m eatS Wlll be I ' eßer ' r ed for the peril *wo o'clolk" 11 dOOrS WiU be ° Pened at I for Th L doora WUI ol,en at 7: “5 O'clock IE church . eVenlng Performance. The II Hie ] trustees Wl >l have charge of ■I Tickets n> ‘T' also of t!le tick et s - II th(l Rexall'n Bett ‘ ed for a,lytime at II and Son , 8 BtOre> John T ' M ye r « Il audim We ° F at the d °° r of the II ''ill’S'nnt "’. U ? ic for the Production II Tr «*Fri S toe r Ti e CaPabl<? dlrectio “ of ' II ‘hestra wi , he Personnel cf the or- ! director T beas . fol,ows; P' a »o and B Makhno Fnstoe; Fim vo'in II s axaphone r" & ? d C,arence Durkin; H f ' 6( lrie v n ( . ornell " s Durkin; trumnet I I Pingree- g ewede ; trombone, M. *y». Pred Cnsle: ” d I I P(1 '<> I>ass°nr g ' r ' S haVe been selet ’tII ri( ' la Fllllenk BramS at the d °O ts : PatRosentaJ cm™”' Mary Jane Colchi "' t I I ‘"ary Miller i' 1, Mary Ann Lose, I Miller and Helen Hain. i

DECATUR DAILY DEMOCRAT

Vol. XXVI. No. 184.

Romance Isn’t Dead—Quite *■ t - Ati f Mb WBXl* it • ■' ix - »

I Maybe George D. Noeb’.ipg. Greenwich Village habitue and scion of wealthy Philadelphia family, is a throwback to the age of chivalry—or something. At any rate he fought a duel for his “lailye fair" and then tried to take his life because he couldn’t get a job as an actor. The lady in qftes Jon, Bally ! Netcong, is pictured consoling him in Knickerbocker Hospital, whither he : was taken after leaping 75 fee’ to the hard pavement in Morningside park. He's going to recover, marry Bill and live hapirily ever after.

Mother Reunited With Son, 11, After 10 Years

Indianapolis, Aug. 4.— (INS) — Mrs. Verna Wegerley of Indianapolis and her 11-year-old son, John Wiley, were happily reunited here today aften ten long as the result of John's jonrney to Indianapolis which landed him at the Marion county detention home. The mother read an account in an Indianapolis newspaper how a boy named Dale Grover who had lived with his father, stepmother and grandparents at Liberty Center. Ind., had come to Indianapolis and had become lost in the big city. policeman found the boy and took him to the detention home pending the location of the mother. When Mrs. Wegerley saw a picture of the boy in the newspaper she exclaimed, “that's my boy'" She rushed to police headquarters and fro mthere to the detention home and claimed her long lost son. According to Mrs. Wegerley she was divorced in Bluffton, Ind., ten | years ago and was given the custody . of her son. Later she charged her former husband “borrowed" the boy promising to return him but never did. She explained she had no money to hire lawyers to fight a legal buttle for the boy as she "had to work to support her other children. Girl Falls In Front Os Spreader Wheels; Rescued Bluffton, Aug. 4.—Mildred Bauermeister, small daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Otto Bauermeister narrowly escaped death Thursday afternoon when she lost her balance on a loaded manure I spreader, on which she was riding to the field, and fell in front of the large loader wheels Her father hearing her screams jumped from the running tractor which he vas driving and stopped the team hitched to the spreader. He rescued the child just as the wheel started to pass over her body. The child escaped with a bruised arm amt hip. The child's mother recently submitted to a goiter operation at Fort Wayne Mrs. Bauermeister is re ported getting along very well. One Os Founders Os The Indianapolis Speedway Dies Indianapolis, August 4 (U.R) — Janies A. Allison, 55, who with Carl Fisher founded the Indianapolis motor speedway, is dead at his home here today. Death came last night and was caused by bronchial pneumonia. Allison had been ill less than a week He was stricken ill less than a week ago while on his honeymoon at his summer home at Port Washington. L. I.

ONLY DAILY NEWSPAPER IN ADAMS COUNTY

Natlunnl And lulrrnntlunal New*

Patients At Hospital Annoyed By Automobiles Turning On Driveway Complaints have come from friends of patients at the Adams County Memorial hospital that automobile drivers who use the drive in front of the building as a turning table, cause the patients much uneasiness. The lights from the cars glow through the windows and worry the patients and the noise does not help any. The past several nights, it is said, several motorcycles have been running up and down the new pavement, making much | noise. Everyone is asked to remember that there is a quiet zone near the hospital and not do any thing which will excite the sick persons. Those in charge of the hospital will appreciate any effort made to provide quiet and to avoid the needless reflection of lights in the windows at night. VARE RALLIES AFTER RELAPSE Condition Os Senator-Elect Shows Considerable Improvement Atlantic City, Aug. 4. — (U.R) — After a relapse that at the time was regarded as the beginning of the end. Senator-elect William S. Vare, Philadelphia Republican leader rallied and j today a bulletin said he was in the best condition since he was stricken last Wednesday night. While Vare's recovery still is in doubt, ills physicians are more opti mistic than any time during the past three days Shortly after 10 a.m.. it was said he continued to hold his own. o — South Whitley Banker Gets Threatening Letter Columbia City, Ind.. August 4—(U.R) —Search was under way here today following receipt of a death threat sent to Harvey Kreidier, President of the Farmers' state bank of South Whitley. The note was found attached 1 to the brake lever on Kreidler’s automobile. It threatened death to the banker. I George Archer, 21, who police say confessed that he and his cousin, Ben Smith, South Whitley, attempted to obtain $6,500 from Kreidier by blackmail. unless Smith obtains a suspended sentence. Smith still is in jail. Both Smith and Archer still face the blackmail charges, though Archer was released on bond. f

Decatur, Indiana, Saturday, August 4, 1928.

■lodge Suspends Man’s Fine For Stealing Loaf Os Bread; Gives Him $3 — Indianapolis, Ind.. August 4-(INS) ! — Municipal Judge Paul C. Wetter | fined Fritz Keenan, of Indianapolis, i one dollar and costs when Keenan pleaded guilty to stealing a loaf of biaad because he was hungry, then | suspended the sentence and dug into his own pocket and presented ' Keenen with $3. Keenan told the court he stole the , bread because he had been out of | work for three months and was ' bioke and had nothing to eat all day yesterday. For a similar theft, victor Hugo's ; heio. Jean Val Jean, received a life ! sentence. —-—— o TOLL OF BLAST | STANDS AT 23 Little Hope Held For Recovery Os Several Others At Vincennes Vincennes, Ind., August 4 4U.R) With the deaths of Paul Hougham. ' 25, James Graves, 20 and George Bi uce. 34. the death toll in the Indian Refinery explosion at Lawienceville. | 111.. Wednesday, had mounted to twen-ty-three today. Os the twelve still being treated here little hope is held for seven. Only two men have recovered sufficiently to be disehaiged from the hospital. —o John Oscar Beck, Indiana Writer, Drowns In Creek Lafayette, Ind.. August 4. — (INSy - John Oscar Beck, 47, a writer and prominent Lafayette resident, met his death in Wildcat Creek, two miles north of Dayton, wh£n he plunged into i a deep hole in an attempt to save ids | son. John from drowning, and was I drowned himself. Beck could not swim. The son, John, was rescued by another son, Oscar. The latter was unable to locate his father's body after he had brought John to the bank. Beck's body was later found lodged against a log. efforts to resuscitate the victim were unsuccessful. Beck and his two sons had gone wading in the creek to get relief from the intense heat. Pythians Make Plans For Old Home Week Tlie Knights of Pythias committee for Old Home Week met last night and decided to take an important part in the Fraternal Day program. Fifteen to twenty Pythian lodges from surrounding cities will be invited to participate. There will be a fortyfive minute special feature in front of the Pythian Home on Third street during the afternoon, with a speech by one of the national lodge officials, if it is possible for him to come here, a band conceit and a good time. It was also decided that members will | take part in the night parade. o Berne Young Man Is Fined For Speeding Berne, Aug. 4.—(Special)—Pleading guilty to a charge cf violating the automobile speed law, William Reichert, local young man, was fined $lO and costs, to $17.70. The arrest was made Wednesday evening by the night policeman. Oliver Heller. This was Reichert's second speeding offense and several weeks ago he paid a fine of about $lB for illegal possession j of a raccoon. Bill, Well-Known Bull Dog Owned By L. C. Waring, Killed Bill, nineteen-year-old Boston bull dog, belonging to L. Waring, of this city was fatally Injured last evening about 7 o'clock, when he was struck by an automobile, dying a half hour later. The uog was hunting his master, who had been up street and had gone on ahead to the American Security Company's offices. Bill had evidently missed him and had come back to look for him, crossing Second street in front of the Economy store, then turning started back east across the street, when a south bound sedan struck him. He was cairied to the sidewalk and Mr. Waring who had come back to look for him. took him to his home, where he died a few moments later. Bill was a popular dog, intelligent, friendly and almost able to talk and, since 1909, had been an almost constant companion of his owner.

ANNOUNCE PROGRAM FOR OLD HOME WEEK

SALUTES TO OPEN BIC CELEBRATION Full Week Os Unequaled Entertainment To Be Given Here Sept. 10-15 —' — Salutes of the rocket's red glare and bombs bursting in iar will signify that Decatur's Old Home Week is formally opened on Monday evening. September 10, and for the next five days a program unequaled in entertainment will be given in this city for the thousands of Old Home Comers and guests who 'will attend the big celebration. The tentative progiam arranged toplay casts for the formal opening of , the week's program with the firing jof salutes at G o'clock Monday evening. followed by a parade of city officials and Old Home Week committees and the turning over of the key of the city to F. M. Schirmeyer. chairman. by Mayor George Krick and the welcoming of guests. Many Bands To Play Concerts by a half dozen or more bands, free acts, a pageant, depicting Adams county yesterday and today, a farm and industrial exposition, fra- ! ternal day. addresses by United 1 States senators, governors, authors and men of note and closing with a big Madri Gras are several of the features of the week's progrant: There will be a thriller every minute. Thu week is filled with so mttdh wholesome entertainment and pleasant surprises that it is impossible for one to grasp all the proposed plans and describe it in a few lines. As the week progresses, the program will unfold with the result that the week will be one of the happiest and most enjoyable ever lived in Decatur. Notables To Be Present The committee has promises from U. S. Senators James E. Watson and Arthur H. Robinson, Governor Ed. Jackson; Frank C. Dailey, Democratic candidate for governor; Harry IG. Leslie, Republican candidate for governor, and others that they "'ll! attend the program . Tuesday will be known as “Limberlost Day.’ - The Gene-Stratton Porter Memorial known as Elephant Rock, placed in the court house yard in this city, will be formally dedicated. On that day. many famed authors and statesmen will attend the event. In the evening, the first production of the pageant “Adams county, yesterday and today,” will lie given. Mrs. James R. Blair and Miss Margaret ICOVTIXITD <>X PACK TWO0 —— BLIND PIANIST ISONPROGRAM Program For Special Service At United Brethren Church Announced The following is the program to be ! given at the United Brethren church. Sunday night. The fourteen-year-old blind pianist, Reginald Cliffton, of Wren, Ohio, will render several piano ■ numbers and the people of the com- | munity will want to hear this boy who has been blind from babyhood. The local choir will lender several selections. The program will begin at 7:30 o’clock. Piano Solo —“In the Garden” Mills Reginald Cliffton Praise Ye Jehovah. Gound Awakening Chorus Gabriel Choir Devotionals Duet Selected Mrs. Hill and Mrs. Hebble Piano—.“ Stars and Stripes” Sousa Reginald Cliffton “Press the Battle On" Morris “I Will Not Fear” Gabriel . Choir Piano Solo —“Farewell". Etude. Reginald Cliffton Offertory. Sermonette ..... Cecil R.» Smith “Whosoever Will May Come” , Chandler Choir Benediction «

By The United l v re«a nnd InternalloutU Nen« srrvhr

Over a Million y • - ■. [-V '» J, Wallace Hynd, 15 years old, recently out-freckled thirty other boys for the fieekfe 'championship of Kenosha, Wis. He has worn the crown for j two years and says that he stopped i counting after the first million. ; SETROBINSONri DAILEY COMING U. S. Senator And Nominee For Governor Coming For Old Home Week 11 Senator Arthur R. Robinson, junior. U. S. senator frem Indiana, and Frank l , C. Dailey, Democratic nominee for governor of Indiana, are planning to at- ■ tend the Old Home Week, celebration in Decatur on Tuesday, September 11, i which will be observed at "Limberlost Day" in tnemcry of the late Gene Stratton Porter, former Adams county author. Their letters in reply to the invitations sent to them by the secretary of the Old Home Week committee, ire . as follows: . United States Senate Committee on Pensions July *!4. 1928 Secretary Old Home Week, . Decatur. Indiana Dear Mi. Quinn: I have your let’er ’ of the 17th instant, which I have noted carefully. Mi s. Gene Stratton’Porter was a wonderful woman and a tremendous in--1 fluence for good. She was always an inspiration to our people and with her genuius added lustre to the fame of Indiana. 1 should like very much to be present on September 11th, for the Limberlost celebration and will come if at all possible. With kindest, peisonal regards, beI lieve me yours sincerely, Arthur R. Robinson. I Indianapolis, August 3rd 1928. Secretary Old Home Week Decatur. Indiana. My dear Friend: I have been trying ' to make arrangements to be with you on "Limberlost Day" and have succeeded. I saw Dick Heller this morning and told him that 1 would be with you. 1 am not sure whether Mis. Dailey will be able to attend, but she will try to do so. My very kindest regards. Very truly, Frank C. Dailey 1 o Three Persons Solve Problem In “Inheritance” Wm. Gass, Mrs. Leon Gass and August Heiman have been named as the three winners in the contest which has been conducted in connection with the play, "The Inheritance”, to be given Sunday and Wednesday evening at ‘he Catholic school auditorium. The contestants were required to figure "Toph’s “salary, the agreement being that he receive I cent the first day. two cents the second day, the sum of ’ the previous day doubling each successive day. Three correct answers were turned in, but those desiring to 1 learn these figures are requested to attend the play Sunday evening. Prizes have been awarded to the i winners, each having received $1 and foul' tickets to the show. The contest ' and presentation cf the prizes was conducted by the Board of Trustees of St. Marys Catholic church. •

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PLANE REPORTED SIGHTED FLYING IN WIDE CIRCLES - ~ « Weather Conditions Between Halifax And New York Are Unfavorable DENSE FOGS HANG OVER EASTERN COAST New York August 4—(INSI — Dense fogs hung over the Atlantic seaboard from Halifax to Nantucket light today as the two Polish fliers were believed to be nearing American waters. Complete reports of weather conditions had not been received at noon, bi t the U. S- weather bureau announced that flying conditions between New York and Halifax were decidedly unfavorable, I owing to wind, rain and fog. London. Aug. I. -<INS)-.ln-dications that the Polish transatlantic flyers Major Louis Idzikowski and Major Casimir Kuala had lost their earings and wire sweeping in wide circles over the mid-ocean in efforts to find their route, were contained in a radiogram received this | afternoon f'om the steamship Amakura. The Amakrua reported sighting the ] pane at 5 o'clock this morning. C'MT I in the position of 46.20 north and 20.- | 40 west. An earlier report, received by wirei less from the Norwegian steamship | Aztec at 2:40 o'clock, Greenwich I mean time, put the location of the 1 Polish plane at 44.22 north and 24 - 08 west. Comparison of the two locations showed that the plane had traveled eastward instead of westI ward as it had lost approximately j four degrees. The plane approached the steamship Anakura from the west, circled the vessel and then disappeared towards the north flying very rapidly. The silver gray biplane was about 500 feet in the air when it appealed in the early morning haze over the ooean. The flyers evidently sought to learn the name of the steamship (Covtixifii ov irivß. Mutilated Bodies Os Man And Woman Found Chicago, August 4.— (INS) —The bodies of a man and woman, brutally mutilated by blows of an ax were found by police here today . Apparantly the victims had been attacked while they lay asleep in bed. The man was rushed to a hospital where his condition was said to be serious. The woman was dead. According to police, the house had been ransacked. A bloody ax lying on the floor in a bed room was the only clue left by the marauder. PLANNING FOB FARM ISTITUTE Changes Made In Culinary Department Os Union Township Farm Institute iALhough the date fer the Union township farmers' institute has not lieen set, Marilynn Wherry, chairman of the culinary department, lias started plans for the various contests in her department of the institute. The premium list will be changed this year. Since a majority of the girls are in school, there will lie no “under 18 years" division. This "ill not bar girls cf that age from entering the contest however, if they are present. The breed exhibits will lie judged on the points of the score card used by the U. S. department of agriculture. Those not familiar with this score card may get the extension bulletin, No. 87, at ' the county agent's office. The bulletin fully explains the score card and ■ contains several good receipts. The ■ number of premiums, and the amount . of each have not been decided upon, but prizes will lie awarded in the fol- • lowing classes: > White bread, whole wheat bread, > white cake, dark cake, and canned ) goods display of four quarts, consisting of vegetables (choice of two of thereof J string beans, red beets and carrots: 1 (two cr three) plums, peaches and t peats. Women who plan to enter exhibits in . tile show are urged to clip this item for future reference.

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