Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 26, Number 208, Decatur, Adams County, 1 September 1928 — Page 1

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10 PONTOON discloses fate If ARCTIC FLIERS Fishing Boat AVIATOR’S FRIENDS IDENTIFY WRECKAGEj Oslo. Norway, Sept. 1 ? (UP.) Roald Anitm<ls< a and Ins com- , anions who Hew out over the Arctic to aid survivors of the wrecked dirigible Italia plunged to death in Barents Sea on l| H . night of June 18, it appeared almost certain today. \ broken pontoon brought into Tromwe by the fishing boat Brodd has been identified as belonging to Amundsen’s plane, the Latham. Wreckage Is Identified The pontoon part, was Identified first bv photographs as belonging to the Latham. Later, the French conmi at Tromsoe informed the United Press that the pontoon was identified by friends of Amundsen's who witnessed the start of his flight. The consul said there was no doubt the pontodn belonged to the plane. Authorities were planning to recall all rescue ships searching for Amundsen as soon as it was made official. The pontoon was found in the open pea between Bear Island, which is half way to Spitsbergen and the I northern coast of Norway. It was i badly rusted and appeared to have 1 been torn violently from the wing I of the plane. 11 was estimated the accident probably occurred between 7 p. m. and 8 p.m. June 18, midway from I Norway to Bear Island. New Auctioneer To Locate In Decatur Orville Ruck, of Wapakoneta, Ohio, a graduate of the summer class of the Reppert School if Auctioneering, has accepted a position as assistant auctioneer to Col. Fred Reppert and Col. Roy Johnson, with oflces in the Peo pies Loan and Trust company building this city. Mr. Ruck is considered one of ’lie host in ins class and feels that it was ;t dwidi-it honor and advantage to be offered this position He Isa young man with a pleasing person“lily and a good voici. He made many Mends while attending the school — Q Wendell B. Ashcraft Visits Friends Here Wendell B. Ashcraft, of Ada, Ohio, visited here yesterday and called on Mends < f hjg late father, William E. Ashi raFt. The senior Mr. Asin raft, who tunnelly edited the Decatur Journal several years, was stricken witli paraysis a year ago today and died Sepletnhei 4 of last year. Mrs. Ashcraft ami son reside in Ada. where Wendell recently completed his college course, [hey expect to move to California “ion. Wendell is a talented piano-accord-nis’ He has appeared as a head"’er on musical programs in many hrs and communities, and has often 6*veu recitals. RURAL SCHOOLS lODPENMONDAY ■^ nu al Summer Vacation *o End Sunday For Rural School Pupils Irkt' 100 ', ,lells in ali l,f tl,e rura ' d * B ’ « of Adams county will ring inc ’ n^x ’ Mo »day morning, aqnounc vacati'* 1 ent ' of ,be annual summer tatl °n period. The schools in til T, ai > ' Decatur will not open unlienJ e I S ' l ay mornin «> <lne to Monday J h ‘ school buildings throughout ?l ‘‘aned" ky | hi * Ve been !horo «ghly ”Hng L , matle ready for the op- I engj ° f Hehocl - The trustees have for “he term* ° f Capable lnß ' r »ctors lhe T! 'e 0 r ® , Bre Beven h >Bh schools in ““<1 IS’’ oUtßide thoße in Be ™e Hartr T a ey K ‘ rklanrt son towLn- ! ord township, Jeffernin 'Hh ant ni M ° nrOe ’ Geneva . Montim, f 0 "1 , P easant Mills. In addi'“hsolidated ’, Bchools ’ there are Strict tichooV' 16 Rellools and raany

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Argentine Envoy eA I'M - — V I < v « •M’ A. ■< Manuel Malbran, newly-ap'pointed ambassador to the United States from Argentina. He will assume his post in Washington in the near future. Legion Post To Meet Next Tuesday Evening All members i f Adams Post No. 43, American legion. are urged to attend the regular meeting of the post to be held In Legion Hall, Tuesday evening. Sept. 4, at 7:30 o’clock. Members of the executive c mmittee are asked to lie present for a special session to be held following the post meeting , oCITY SCHOOLS OPEN TUESDAY Enrollment Equal To Or Larger Than Last Year's Enrollment Expected i The public and parochial schools of Decatur will open for the 1928-29 term Tuesday morning. The public school teachers will hold a meeting at 10 o’clock Monday morning, at which time M. F. Worthman. superintendent of the city schools, will outline the year's work. The first year pupils in Decatur high school, as well as those pupils who have been transferred here from other high schools, have been registering at the high school building during the last two days. Other pupils were registered at the close of sclicol last spring. Indications are that the enrollment in both the public and parochial schools will be about the same as last year, with a possibility of a slight increase. Children who are six years old or who will be six on or before January 18, 1929. will be permitted to enter the public schools next Tuesday morning, at 8:15 o’clock. Following are the pub’ic school zones of the city, as outlined today by Mr. Worthman: All first, second, third and fourth grade children living in territory bounded by G. R. & I. railroad, corporation line on the north, St. Marys river on the east and Adams street on the south, will attend school at North Ward. All first, second, third and fourth grade children living in the territory bounded by Adams street, St Marys river, corporation line on the south. G. R. & I. railroad on the west will attend school at the South Ward. All first, second, third and fourth grade children living in rhe terr', tory r bounded by corporation line on the north, G. R. & I. railroad on the nv r««;F Twin —— o Near Seasonal Weather Forecast For Next Week Weather for period September 3-8; for the region of the Great Lakes No preceptitation of consequence likely first half of week, but shower period may occur during latter half; No marked fluctuations in temperature indicated and readings will be mostly near seasonal normals. - Levi Linn Injured In Auto Wreck Near Bluffton Levi Linn, formerly of Decatur, and senior member of the firm of Linn and Saurer, of Bluffton, suffered three fractured ribs when his car collided with another car driven by Joe Stewards, three miles east of Bluffton, last, night. The accident occurred when Mr. Linn failed to see a wagon driven by a man named Reinhard.

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First Span Os Extensive Air-Rail Trans-Continental Passenger Service Started

Chicago, Sept. 1. (U.R)-The first span of an extensive air and rail transcontinental passenger service was opened here today. P.anes operated by the Transcontinental Air Transport, Inc., through •its subsidiary, the Northwest Airways 1 ■inc., will connect at Chicago and the (win cities, Minneapolis and St. Paul, with through limited express trains to and from the east and west. Piloted by veterans of the air mail lin powerful Ford cabin planes, passengers will save approximately eight hours between Chicago and the twin cities, and a full business day between eastern points and the Pa e'fic northwest. The planes will leave here regular ly at 3 p.m., arriving at St. Paul at 7 p.m. Southbound planes will leave I 11 Minneapolis at 8:30 a m. and St. Paul 4 at 8:40 A.AL, arriving here in three I 4 hours and forty minutes. The route ' r to be followed, carefully marked and well lighted,'was develojied by the United States department of coin-j merce. r Plans for the service were outlined | by the technical committee of the i Transcontinental Air Transport, headed by Col. Charles A. Lindbergh, who . is also consulting aeronatical engineer for the Pennsylvania railroad. The line opened today will form one of many auxiliaries and feeders! , for the main transcontinental line,) now being organized between New I fork. San Francisco and Los AngeFarmer Shoots Flash Light Out Os Thief’s Hand — Laud, Ind., Sept. I—(lNSf— Casper r “Cap" Bell, farmer living south of here 1 ! was awakened by a noise emanating . I from his chicken house. He got his ' I shotgun and started an investigation. From a strategic position "Cap” spied a thief -with a flashlight moving about near the hen coop. Taking aim at the flashlight “Cap” cut loose with his shotgun. The light went out. there was a howl of pain and a few moments later the sound of a roaring automobile speeding off. Further investigation revealed a shot-specked flashlight lying on the ground near the'ckicken house. "Cap" had shot it out of the thief's hand. "Cap" reported the matter to Sheriff J. M. Haynes. 0 TO GIVE PRIZES TO MASQUERADERS Masquerade Parade To Feature Closing Event Os Old Home Week Walter Wilkinson, chairman for the big Mardi Gras celebration two weeks from tonight, closing Old Home Week, reports great interest in the affair and predicts a great windup to the most , successful week ever presented in this; . section. The masquerade parade will, of I course, be the feature, with bushels of confetti being thrown from upsta’r windows. Judges for the parade will be Chalmer Porter, W. A. Lower. E. 1 . W. Lankenau, Mrs. Edgar Wicks and ! Mrs. J. F. Arnold Prizes will be awarded as foliows:- ! Most comical jazz band SIO.OO Most comical lady costume —55.00 Most comical men’s costume—ss.oo Most comical boy's costum—s2.so Most comical girl's costume—s2.so 1 Most comical couple — $5.00 Most comical fat man —52.50 Most comical slim man $2.50 Mcst comical fat woman $2.50 Most comical slim woman —52.50. “Get your costume ready and have a couple cf bushels of fun while mak ing the closing night of the week a good one" is the advice of the Commit--1 tee. Flares cf red fire,, which will burn fifteen minutes, will be given to the I marchers. 0 _ Serves 30 Years As Soldier Without Harm; Shot By Young Cousin Kokomo, Ind., Sept. I.—(U.R) —Fate has delt Emory Powell, 55, an ironi leal blow'. After thirty years as a ! soldier without coming to harm, he j lies at a hospital suffering from a . bu'let wound inflicted by the icci- , dental discharge of a rifle at the hands > of his cousin Ned, age 9. The accident occured while Powell, Ned and the latters brothers Jack, 11, I were hunting turtles along the Tippecanoe river.

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i les. Mayor George W. Dahl of Fargo, N. D., W. 11. Stracehan. and C. H. Trembly of the Northern Pacific! railroad, and J. Caldwell of the Chi-1 cago. Mllw ikro St. Paul ami Pacific I J will be mong the passengers on the initial flight from the north. Dahl purchased the first ticket. Other railroads which have ar- ! ranged to handle the Service are the Pennsylvania and the Great Northern. The planes have accommodations 1 for 12 passengers. The planes are driven by three 400-horsepower motors, have a cruising speed of 115 miles per hour, and a maximum sjleed of 140 miles per hour. VACATION SEASON TO END MONDAY Activity To Be Resumed In Many Lines Tuesday After Summer Lull Labcr day will mark the end of the vacation season and next Tuesday w ill i see much bctlvity in the lines that ' have been at a standstill for the past I three months. Business will be at a standstill over 1-iibui Day. hut will again resume its usual course Tesday morning. The public, Catholic and Lutheran schools will open Tuesday morning. ! The Adams Circuit court, altliougli 04-o 4 - i fifcially opening on Monday, will not ! get undec way until Tuesday morning. ' Court has nut been in session since ! June.. The county commissioners and 'he county council will be in session Tuesday. The county budget and tax rates will be adopted by the ccuuty council and the commissioners have a busy session ahead of them. The city council will meet Tuesday evening. Members of the township advisory beards and the trustees of school boards will also meet on Tuesday and fix the tax rates for their respective taxing units. The political parties will get into action following Labor Day and the next I two months will see much activity in j the races for President, state and ■ county offices. o Amelia Earhart Unhurt In First Plane Crash Pittsburgh. Pa., Sept. 1 —(INS) Ame- | lia Earhart first woman to span the I Atlantic* by airplane, was none the worse today following the first smash up of he rflying career. Miss Earhart and her passenger George Putnam, New York publisher, escaped serious injury when, in landing at Rogers field last night, the wheels of the plane hit a rut, smashing the landing gear and left wing ant’ damaging the propeller. i_o PLAN ANNOUNCED DY RADIO BOARD — Plan For Reallocation Os Broadcasting Stations Is Made Publis Washington, Sept. I—<U.R) —A plan for reallocation of the country’s broadcasting facilities providing for an equal distribution among the five radio zones whs made public today by the federal radio commission. Large stations having a minimum power of 5,000 watts ate assigned forty of these channels, and there are to be eight clearer channels in each gone. The plan provides, that only one of these stations shall operate on each of the 40 channels during night hours. In this way, the commission expects to insure clear reception of radio programs to listeners in all parts of the country. The commission plan also .calls for distribution of the other 34 cleared channels for regional broadcasting service. This will permit 125 full time stations of the local type. Throughout the reallocation program, wide geographical spacing was observed between stations on adjoining channels to eliminate obpectionable "cross talk" There will be 150 full-time positions for 250 to 1,000 watt stations, pnd 40 I positions for stations of more titan 5,000 watts. Summarizing by zones, this will permit each. of the five regions to (CONTINUED ON PAGK TWO}

COMMITTEE OF CORN BELT FOR GOVERNOR SMITH Middlewestern Farm Organization On Record As Favoring His Candidacy LIKE SMITH’S STAND ON SURPLUS PROBLEM Des Moines, la, Sept. 1. — (U.R) The coin belt committee, representing almost every important farm organization in the middle west, was on record today as in sympathy with Governor Alfred E. Smith, democratic nominee, for the presidency. The committee adopted resolutions praising the demociatic platform I stand on farm relief and stating the alleged shortcomings of the republicans. The committee claimed to I represent 3,000,000 farmers. Resolution Adopted Reiterating the committee's faitli in the McNary-Haugen bill and remarking on President Coolidge's veto of that bill, the resolations said: "The democratic p’atform pledges the party to enact legislation that will prevent the price ot Hie surplus determining the price of the whole crop. It recognizes the principle that the cost of dealing with surpluses must be distributed over each | marketed unit of the commodity whose producers} are benefited by such assistance. "The Democratic candidate takes his position squarely on this platform. He points out in his acceptance speech that the tariff is ineffective and of no value upon crops of which we produce an exportable surplus, and lie declares, as does the democrat it-phrt form, in favor of legislation to make the tariff effective on such crops. He promises his leadership in an earnest effort to bring this about by proper legislation. Farmers in the wheat growing states where their! main cash crop is now being marketed at a half price its cost of produc- ' tion and without a trace of benefit > from the 42 cent tariff, are fully j aware of the failure of the tariff to be effective in case of a surplus." CONFERENCE OF MENNONITESENDS Berne Man Re-elected Secretary Os Middle District Mennonite Conference Berne, Sept. I.— (Special)— E. W. Baumgartner, of Berne, was re-elect-ed secretary of the Middle District Mennonite conference, at the sessions of the conference held at Wadsworth, Ohio, this week. Other officers elected were: Paul E. Whitmer, dean of the Wltmarsum Theological Seminary at Bluffton, Ohio, president; the Rev. E. J. Neuenschwander, pastor of the I Ebeneze church near Bluffton. Ohio, | vice-president. / Delegates from the First Mennonite I church of Berne, who attended the conference, were Ben Sprunger, John Eicher, Jerry Liechty. D. J. Sprunger and Eli Luginbilll. The Rev. C. H. A. van der Smissen and three members of Mr. Baumgartner's family, also attended. , New members were elected to the following committees: Educational committee —Dean Noah E. Byers of Bluffton College. Program committee —Rev. J. E. Amstutz. Trenton, Ohio. Evangelization committee—Rev. N. O. Blosser, New Stark, Ohio. Trustee — J. H. Tschantz, Dalton. Ohio. Rev. C. H. A. van der Smissen of Berne was elected to serve as German secretary which however is not an executive office. Rev.' van der Smissen is editor of the Bundesbote, which is the German organ of the Mennonite church. Wayland. lowa, was selected as the place for the 1929 conference. The dates will be decided by the confer ence executives. Those who attended the Wadsworth conference, from here, report 1 good and interesting sessions. Dean 1 Whitmer, the new y elected president. 1 delivered a’ series of very fine Bible lectures. He succeeds as conference 1 head Rev. S. M, Musselman, pastor of ’ the First Mennonite church at Bluffton, Ohio.

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German Ace Here ■1 —r s’ H '. I JV 1 n • Captain Jack von Wiegand, former ace of German flying service, who vanquished gallant Quentin Roosevelt in air combat in France. The ex-enemy flier is in United States to obtain footing in commercial aviation. DECATUR LIONS TO BROADCAST Club To Give Half Hour Program At Fort Wayne Tuesday Evening | A half hour's program of music and 'other entertainment will be broadcast | from radio station WOWO, in Fort ! Wayne, next Tuesday evening, by the Decatur Lions Club, it was announc!ed today. The program will follow immediately after the Columbia chain program, will ends at 9 o’clock (central standard time). Songs by the entire Lion Club will open and close the program. Roy Momma will read one of James Whitcomb Riley’s poems; Paul Sauer will sing a group of vocal solos and Cliff Saylors and Mrs. Dan Tyndall will appear in a group of vocal duets. Rev. Harry W. Thompson will make a fourminute talk in which lie will tell about Decatur's Old Home Week, to be held September It) to 15, inclusive. Decatur radio fans are invited to tune in on WOWO Tuesday evening, from 9 to 9:30 o'clock. Decatur time. Sow Attacks Boy Who Picked Up Little Pig Spencer. Ind.. Sept. I—(INS1 —(INS) —Attacked by a huge sow when he picked up a little pig in tier litter, 5-year-oid Lloyd Munsey of Indianapolis, was almost killed by the enraged sow in an apple orchard cn the John IL Smith faun, at Pottersville, southwest of here Only the presence of mind of Lloyd’s 9-year-old brother Paul, who seized a club and belabored the sow. prevented the sow front killing the youngster. The boy’s left forearm was broken and his right collar bone was fractured and he was bitten and bruised. o — ■ Flower Show To Be Held At Fort Wayne This Fall Fort Wayne. Ind., Sept. I.—(U.R) — With more titan 60 floral and historical floats already guaranteed for the fall flower festival here this year, Charles J. Steiss, civic secretary of the chamber of commerce has forecast that the coming show will be one of the largest ever staged. The flower show this year will be one ot the features of the "Fort Wayne Hospitality Da4s" celebration, Sept. 13, 14 and 15. NO PAPER MONDAY Tn pursuance of an annual custom the Daily Democrat will suspend I publication for one day on Monday, i September 3, in observance of Lai bor Day. Business will be suspend- . ed throughout the city, in general, and there will be no rural mail deliveries.

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RUDY (IF WOMAN IND IN DITCH i.IAR NEWCASTLE Murder Believed To Have • Been Committed With Hammer; Head Crushed VICTIM BELIEVED TO BE 30 YEARS OF AGE Newcastle, Sept. 1—. —— The body of an unidentified woman, about 30 years old, her head beaten into a pulp apparently with a hammer, was found in a ditch on a side road leading to the main Newcastle-Mun-cie highway, about two miles northwest of this city today, by Frank Trout, a farmer, and his son, Walter. The Trouts were driving along the lonely side road in a wagon when they spied an object wrapped in a white bed sheet, lying in the ditch. They stopped to investigate and were horrified to see the rigid gray eyes of a dead woman staring up at them from the bundle. The two men rushed to the Jphn Foster farm home, about a quarter of a mile away and telephoned Sheriff Elmer Cannon. Officers Called Sheriff Cannon and Coroner V. T. Davis rushed to the scene at once. The coroner said the woman had been dead since late yesterday. Near the body lay tjie woman's shoes, of a slate color. Apparently, the victim had been slain elsewhere, her body deposited in the ditch and the shoes thrown after iter. Sheriff Cannon said. There were no suspicious automobile'tracks found anywhere near the scene, the sheriff said, after an insp'ectioh of the road. The Fosters told h:m they heard no suspicious noises during the night. Rum Runners Suspicioned Sheriff Cannon expressed the belief that the woman was connected with some liquor running gang and had been killed by rum runners. The case paralleled that of the woman found slain and burned near Crown Point on August 16. the authorities believe. Although the body of the woman was fully clothed, with the exception of the shoes, the sheriff was unable to find any initials or any clue to her name. Nor was there any trace of the weapon witli which she was beaten to cleat it. Coroner Davis believed a hammer had been used, because of the several round holes found in the head. Description of Victim The victim of the killing weighed about 100 pounds, had black bobbed hair, gray eyes and was about 5 feet and 5 ■ lies tall. On the little finger of th ft hand was a ring. Fastened m tring around the neck was gold piece. oman had on a black, voile I a... md pink underwear. She wore | gray hose. On her black dress was (CONTINUED ON PAGE TWO) LIMBERLOST DAY PLANS EXPLAINED All Schools In County Plan To Dismiss So Pupils May Attend Event C. J. Lutz, well-known Decatur attorney. spoke to the teachers assembled for the closing session of the Adams county teachers' institute here Friday afternoon, regarding the program for Limberlost Day, Tuesday, September 11. during Decatur's Old Home Week. All schools in the county w!ill be dismissed for that day. in order that the children may take part in the dedication of Elephant Rock, in the court house yard, as a memorial to the late Gene Stratton Porter, beloved Adams county author. The school children of the county subscribed to a fund for bringing i Elephant rock from its former locaj tion In the bed of the St. Marys river southeast of the city to the court house yard. Mr. Lutz, in his talk yesterday, expressed the hope that not a single child in Adams county would be deprived of an opportunity to take part in the dedication of the memorial here September 11,

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