Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 26, Number 230, Decatur, Adams County, 28 September 1928 — Page 1

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SAYS PEOPLE FAIL TO GRASP FLORIDA PLIGHT Red Cross Official Says Magnitude of Disaster Not ' Realized By Nation IOCAL DONATIONS FALLING far SHORT Washington. Sept. 28 — Cms headquarters announced today ~t t h ( > West Indies hurricane relief fund now totals $3,042,313.81. •We have been unable to put airo .s to the country the desperate (trcumstances we are in. The tragedy is literally indescribable." said Howard M. Selby, chairman of the West Palm Beach chapter of the American Red Cross, during a confer eme in Washingt. il. this week. Mr. yolby had gone to Washington to lay before the national headquarters of the Red Cross the story of desolation anil agony in the storm-ravaged and flood-swept regions of his state, and h’ sought to impress the degree of suffering borne by the survivors of the disaster and to accent the need of help. Thousands Are Dead Mr. Selby said that in Palm Beach county alone there were at least two thousand three hundred dead. The property damage is fifty millions. Fifteen thousand human beings are homeless, destitute anti entirely dependent upon charity for such comfort and sustenance a« they can procure. There are four or five other counties which suffered from the hurricane In magnitude the disaster Is twice as bad. says Mr. Selby, as the calamity which was visited upon Florida by the great hurricane two years ago this month. Officers of the Adams county chapter of the Red Cross stated today that they believed the people of Adams county do not fully realize the magnitude of the disaster which has be(al'en Florida. They offered this explanation for the slowness of local people to make donations to the relief fund being raised, rather than to a lack of interest or sympathy. Adams county’s quota in the national fund is $1,025 and only about S2OO has been so far. Miss C. Adelaide Barker, field worker cf the American Red Cross, of Washington, D. arrived in the city today in the interest of the Porto Rico and Florida relief and the twelfth Roll Call of the American Red Cross. o — Special Service At Antioch Sunday Night There will be a special service at me Antioch church next Sunday eveoing at 7 o'clock. This meeting will held in the interest of Sunday «h o! work and Charles Teeple and Miss Anna Winnes, of Decatur, will be 111 i barge. The public is welcome to attend. Railroad Men Endorse I rank Dailey’s Candidacy Indianapolis, Sept. 28.—(U.R)—Frank ■ alley s candidacy for governor of 'v Democratic ticket, today was S'en the endorsement of the Indiana ‘■Sislat.ve board of the Brotherhood -oeoniotive Firemen and Enfcine n which embraces 5,000 members ln the state. H LIBRARIAN IT i. H. S. NAMED Helen Christen Resigns J ank Position To Accept New Post her’no -,V e ' en Christen has resigned and h ' at thp First National Bank will . pginn *ng, Monday, October Ist ian " e ® DT l’ , °ye‘l as high school librarT’hristnr ' e high school. Miss school H> Wl ' aßßume fu: ‘ charge of the therein )l,ily aIHI a ” ( ’ u,iPS devolving sehS Sho 18 a cf the 'he dint ' We I <lua " ,le< l to assume eeted 8 ° r wlli< h a' l ® has been seiseveral J 0 Macy, who for the past an<i BeM-L ( Pai S 11118 acted as librarian c °ntimie ? ry 10 the Scho °l Board, will Ing onlv • er Becretari al duties, workMls s c .' he a f tel noons - ’he noshf ' ,iu Ap Plcman has accepted fottnenv s’m thp Flrst National Bank y held by Miss Christen.

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French Township Men Are Fined At Berne Berne, Sept. 28 (Special) -Ray Booth, of French township, v.-as fined $1 and costs, amounting to $29.30. when he was found guilty in the o urt of Squire Stengel. Wednesday, on a < harge of provocation. The ease resulted from an alleged alien ation be- j tween Booth and BLrdsil B. King, also cf French township. King had previously paid a fine as a result of the trouble. NEW FIRE SIREN TO BE PURCHASED New Alarm To Be Placed In Tower Os City Hall In Near Future An electric siren, to be sounded as a fire alattin. will be purchased by the city council and placed in the tower on the city hall, A. R. Ashbaucher, chairman of the committee on publicsafety aim umed today. Bids for furnishing the siren are now lieing received by the committee and the selection of the device will be made in the near future The electtic siren will do away with the fire alarm at the city light and power plant. Until the siren is purchased, the old alarm at the city plant will be sounded in case of fire. The sounding of the whistle at twelve o’clock. noon, and the < urfew at 8 o’clock in the evening has been discontinued. Several weeks ago. the matter of blowing the whistle at 12 o’clock and at 8 o'clock was brought up before the council with the recommendation that the practice be discontinued. Residents near the water works complained of the distui bance when the whistle was sounded. The cm few law was never enforced and, as practically all towns have discontinued the practice, the city counc!T decided to fall in line. The new electric siren will be sounded only in case of fire, it was stated. It was suggested that an arrangement be made with the Citizens Telephone company so that the siren could be set off from the central office, thus saving a few minutes time in sounding the alarm. o Berne Man Suffering From Injury To Eye Berne. Sept. 28 —(Special)—Paul Shoemaker, of Berne, is a patient at the Methodist hospital in Indianapolis suffering from a severe injury to his light eye. sustained in an accident two and one-half months ago. While drawing a tack from some furniture at the Beine Furniture factory, where he is employed as an upholsterer, the tack struck his right eye. It appeared to be a slight injury but he was given medical attention and after two days he resumed his work. Lately his eye became inflamed and. he was taken to the leading eye specialists of Indianapolis and Chicago, and X-rays were taken. The rays disclosed a small piece of steel had lodged in the back of the eyeball and this was removed at Indianapolis last Monday. He is unable to see out of the eye but there is now a chance that the sight may be restored. The oculists said this was a peculiar and difficult case and he would have to remain at the hospital several days longer. o— — Contract Let For Markle Community Building E. P. Mossburg and son have been awarded the contract for the remodeling of the latge building at Markle secured some time ago by a community association into a new community building. The contract was awarded for $1,900, and the building is to be remodeled, ready for occupancy by Thanksgiving. Work is now under way A new roof is to be constructed, new hardwood flooring installed and walls finished in brown tile effect. There will be a playing floor 40 x 90 feet in dimensions and a stage 18 x 60 feet. The new building will fill a long-felt want at Markle. o Commissioners To Meet In Terre Haute In 1929 Fort Wayne, Ind.. Sept. 28—(U.R)— The 1929 convention of the Indiana county commissioners’ association will lie held in Terre Haute, it was decided at the close cf the annual convention here. Officers elected for the coming year were: Orin Lake, Allen county commissioner, president; William H. Linton, Crown Point, vice-president; and ohn McGregor, Indianapolis, secretary and treasurer. Delegates to the convention visited Allen county institutions yesterday.

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SMITH ELATED BY RECEPTION Hilarious And Friendly Welcome Accorded Candidate At St. Paul, Minn. St. Paul. Minn., Sept. 28— (U.R)--Gov. Alfred E. Smith left St. Paul at | 11:45 a.m. today for Milwaukee where he will deliver a campaign speec h tomorrow night. ’’We're going to give a nice little* talk in Milwaukee.” Smith said. I ’listen in everybody.'’ St. Paul. Minn., Sept. 28. — (U.R)* Gov. Alfred E. Smith will move his campaign caravan today in to the Lafollette stronghold in Wisconsin, carrying with him a program similar to that by which the* elder Lafollette retained his power in the state until his death and which sent his son "young Bab" to Washington to fill his place. The Democratic candidate, in his two-day stay in Wisconsin, will make a bold bid for the I afolette support in his presidential race. A victory there* would give him 13 electoral votes. Smith Is scheduled to leave here at 11 o’clock this morning and airive in Milwaukee at 8:30 tonight. Tomorrow night, the Democratic candidate will speak in the city auditorium Milwaukee will have to go far to rival the enthusiastic reception Smithreceived in Minnesota and the wildly exuberant hearing he received here* last night, a hilarious, boisterous friendly meeting which sent Smith to his hotel with still"greater hopes of carrying this state. The audience of between 13.000 and (CONTINUED ON PAGE TWO) o— Decatur People In Auto Accident Near Bluffton Bluffton, Sept. 28 —(U.R)— Manuel Englemau, of Decatur suffered a scalp wound about five inches long, when the automobile in which he was riding struck a culvert and turned over twice at the side of the road, about four and cue-half miles north of here, shortly after 12 o’clock this morning. Engleman was brought to the Wells County hospital here where he spent the night but he was removed to his home in Decatur this morning. The car in which Engleman was a passenger was owned and driven by Joe Sowaids, of Bluffton. Other occupants of the car were Fred Karns, of Bluffton; Hazel Scotten. of Fort Wayne, and the Misses Velma Walters and Winifred Kitson, i f Decatur. All received many minor cuts and bruises but Engleman was the most seriously hurt. The car was practically demolished. Sowards said he attempted to pass another car and just as he t.a e<i out. the car he was attempting to pass turned out to pass the car ahead of ft, and Sowards struck a culvert. SUNDAY SCHOOL PLANS PROGRAM Presbyterian Sunday School Plans Promotion Day Exercises Sunday The end of the Sunday school year will be celebrated at the First Presbyterian church, next Sunday morning with promotion exercises and a program prepared by the classes of the school. A special offering will be taken for missionary religious education. The program to be given is as follows: Prayer, by Mrs. S. D. Beavers. Primary Department Recitations — Mary Ann Ferntheil, Margaret Moses and Albert Ferntheil. Song—Catherine Aft’older. Readings — Katherine Knapp ( and Jimmy Christen. Junior Department Recitations — Robert Beavers and Lewis Smith. Piano Solo—Ellis Squires. Reading—Pauline As folder. Recitation—Psalms 23 and 24, by Mrs. J. R. Horton's class. Intermediate Department Quartet— Mary Madeline Coverdale Ruth Macklin, Dora Shosenberg and Bernice De Voss. Reading—Myrtle Fuhrman. Piano Solo —Bernice Gloss. Reading—Mary Madeline # Coverdale Class exercise — The intermediate catechism, by Mrs. Fernthell’s class. Presentation of diplomas and certificates of promotion, C. D. Teeple, superintendent. Address —C. J. Lutz.

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Family Row Ends t ~ TO '* SOtlOk I J ’C If ■ Mrs. Cornelius Vanderbilt, Jr., formerly Mrs. Mary Logan of Chicago, who is said by friends to have been responsible for the recent reconciliation between her journalistically inclined hisband (inset) and his millionaire father. Gen. Cornelius Vanderbilt of New York, who have been estranged for four years due to differences regarding the desirability of a tabloid newspaper career. The Vanderbilts, who were married a h. If hour after the brides divorce at Reno, are in New York on their honeymoon.

NEW PAVEMENT NEARLY FINISHED Top Coating Being Placed On State Road Between Monroe And Berne The stretch of road on State road N.\ 27, between Monroe and Berne, will be opened in tlie near future, it was stated today. Tin* road is being coveted with Kentucky rock asphalt, giving it a smooth surface, like the Winchester street improvement in this city. A short stretch lias to be covered with the asphalt material and then the road will be c pen to traffic. On the Fort Wayne-Decatur road, the concrete has been laid within a short distance of the nine Mile house, state road men stated today. It is doubtful if the entire road from the I Adams county line to Fort Wayne can be improved until next spring. o RETIRED FARMER CALLED BY DEATH Amos McCune, 79, Dies At His Home Near Berne Thursday Evening Berne, Sept. 28—(Special)—Amos McCune, 78, retired Adams county farmer, died of a complication of diseases, at his home three and onehalf miles northeast of Berne, at 5 o'clock Thursday afternoon. Mr. McCune is survived by his widow; two children, Mrs. William Fleetwood, cf Monroe township, and George C. McCune, of French township* and two sisters. Mrs. Emma Hockenberry, of Kdorado. Kansas. Hockenberry, of Elderadro, Kansas. (COXTI V ’’Kl) ov im<;r TUDI O Warsaw Doctor To Head State Medical Society Gary, Ind., Sept. 28. —(U.R) —Dr Angus C. McDonald, of Warsaw, was elected president of the Indiana Medical Association for 1930, at the closing business session here today. Dr. C. E. Gillespie, of Seymour, had been named president for 1929 at last year's session. Evansville was named for the 1930 convention.

FORMER BERNE WOMAN IS DEAD Mrs. Levi Wulliman Dies At Home In Fort Wayne Thursday Evening Berm*. Sept. 28. (Special)- Mrs. Rachel Wulliman. 50. former resident of Berne, died suddenly at her h me, 1321 Green street. Fort Wayne, at 6:05 o’clock last night. Mrs. Wulliman had been tn (toor health for the last six months, but her death was unexpected. It is thought that a heart attack caused her death. Mrs. Wulliman was a daughter of Mr. and Mis. Jerry Luginbill, both deceased, and was born in Monroe township. Adams county. January 2.3. 1878. She was married to I>vi Wulliman. who survives. Surviving relatives, besides the husband, are: four children, Arley Wulliman, Myron Wulliman and Mrs. Arno’d Reinhart, all of Fort Wayne, ami Marcella, at home; four brothers, Noah. Elmer ami Wilbur Luginbill, of Berne, and Clinton Luginbill, of Chino, California; and three sisters, Mrs. Otto Neuenschwander and Mrs. Lewis J. Habegger. of Berne, and Mrs. William Lehman, of Van Nuys, California. Funeral services will be held at the home in Fort Wayne at 12 o’clock noon and at the First Mennonite church of Berne, of which the deceased was a member, at 2 o’clock Sunday afternoon. The Rev. C. H. Suckau. pastor of the Mennonite church, will have charge of the services here. Burial will be made in the M. R. E. cemetery, west of here. —- ———o —• Hoover To Speak At Madison Square Garden Washington, Sept. 28. —(U.R) —Herbert Hoover will speak in Madison Square Garden, New York, Oct. 12, it waa announced today. This change of date was made necessary because of inability to obtain Carnegie Hall for October 17 as originally planned. The Madison Square Garden speech of (he Republican presidential candidate will be under the auspices of the I’niiti League Club, the national Republican chib, the National x\ omen’s Republican club and the New York State Republican committee. Foreign relations will probably form the basis of Hoover’s talk. o William Allen White Returns From Abroad New York, Sept. 28—-(U.R) William Allen White, Kansas author and Editor. will return to the political battlefield "within 24 hours," he annaunced today on his return from a two-m nths European trip. He admitted having received SSOO for a speech to the national electric light association convention at Atlantic City, N. J., bes. re he sailed. JOHN COOLIDGE I DRIVER OF GAR ! President’s Son Taken To Police Station Following Auto Collision New Haven, Conn , Sept. 28. (U.R) — John Coolidge was driving an automobile of Governor John H. Trumbull when it became involved in a serious collision here Wednesday, a report by Policeman Henry 11.. Miller, witness to tlie accident, said today

to tne acciuent. sam louay. Previously, William Cunningham, chauffeur of the governor, had been reported the driver, when the car was in a collision which sent two persons to the hospital, one with severe injuries. Miller said he saw a light touring car driven by Wilfred Veno, a former Boston and New Haven hockey player, and carrying his mother, Mrs. Mary Veno, crash into the side of the governor's big sedan. A young man stepped out from behind the wheel of the sedan. This is Miller’s version of tlie conversation that ensued: "You were driving?” the officer ask(<d. ' "I was.” the youth replied. "Then you'll have to come over to the station with me,’ 'said the policeman. After an ambulance had taken Veno and his mother to New Haven hospital, where the former was reported in critical condition, the policeman took (COIMTINLEU ON PAGE THHEE)

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Nephew Os John Joseph Coming Here From Serbia John Joseph, well-known Decatur grocer, today received a telegram, via radio from the S. S. Leviathan, from his nephew, Chahin Halen, of B.trovtze, stating that he will arrive in New York on October 1, and will procede to tills city lor a visit with his uncle. Mr. Haten is a young man, about 18 years old, and has never visited America, in fact, lie has never seen his tint le in this city. ADAMS COUNTY IN NEED OF RAIN Eight Or 10 Weeks Drought Dries l T p Vegetation; Cisterns Are Dry This section of the country has been suffering from one of the longest dry spells in history. People who keep record of the weather state that the last good rain Decatur has had fell during last July. Since that time, there has been a sprinkle or two ,but the rainfall has been very small. One man said that the last heavy rain Decatur had was on July 5. Another person said there, was one during the last of July. With a political campaign on, it has been hard for a newspaper to keep record of the last rain, but anyway it has been eight to ten weeks since a downpour visited Decatur. Cisterns are dry atnl a person need not walk far to hear the other person complain of using hard water for washing. Hundreds of cisterns have been dry for several weeks and this 1 week has brought up the last drop in many others. The frost of the last few night is beginning to turn the leaves brown. The grass and lawns, dying from lack of water, are brown. Several grass fires have occurred within the last week. The green lawns are few and far between. The corn will begin tn harden since the frosts and farmers report no serious damage from the first week's visit to Jack Frost. The sugar beets are doing well. The cool, clear nights put lite sugar content into the beets and reports come in that, although the beet crop will be smaller than usual. Hie sugar content is higher. The beets suffer ed several weeks ago from a blight, but the dry, cool weather seems to have caused a reaction in the beets which make them produce more sugar. Tlie weather man predicts warmer weather in a few days and it is thought that the fall rains will soon visit this section of flu- country. ■* — o — Richard Lieber Honored Bv Two Appointments Richard Lieber, Indiana's conservation director, was signally honored this week with two important appointments. Both come as recognition of his splendid work in bringing natural resources of this state into more general judicious use, and the fact that he has set a model for tlie nation with state parks in Indiana. The first was appointment as the member from Indiana on the Corresp, ndence Committee of the National Parks of the American Civic Association. The well known Dr. J. Horace McFarland is chairman of the National Parks Committee. The second great recognition of his work came with Mr. Lieber’s appointment on the National Board of Advisers of the Queti-co-Snperior Council. This work has (p do with the development of a large National Reservation in northern Minnesota. o

Four Bombings Reported In Chicago Since Yesterday Chicago, Sept. 28—(U.R) —Four bombings have been reported to police here within the last 12 hours, bringing to 65 the total number of bombings here this year. The latest occurred early today when a bomb was tossed through the window of a south side store, causing property damage of $5,000 Walter Robinson and his two children were sleeping above the store were thrown from their beds, but were not seriouly injured. Matt Quail, owner of the building, said he knew of no reason for tlie bombing. The buildings under construction were wrecked by bombs exploded five minutes apart shortly before midnight. The owner of one said he had had trouble with the cement workers union. An ice -.irram factory and a small laundry were damaged by bombers yesterday.

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PLAN FOR NAVAL AGREEMENT HELD “UNACCEPTABLE" Polite, But Firm Notes Sent To Great Britain And Fiance Today WOULD PUT U. S. AT BIG DISADVANTAGE Washington, Sept. 28. —(U.R)— The Fnited States today,in notes I to England and France, politely but firmly rejected the AngloI French naval agreement plan as ' a basis for further discussion of naval disaramameiJt Secretary of Stats Kellogg, in identic notes to Great Britain and France, replied to their requests for “observation" on the Anglo-French plan, declared that program "is even more unacceptable than the proposal put forward by the British delegation at the Geneva conference last year.’’ Discards Desired Principle The new proposal the note said, not only would put the United States "at a decided disadvantage." but also "discards altogetner tlie principle of limitation as applied to important combattant type of vessel.’’ London. Sept. 28. — (U.R) — Alanson B. Houghton. United States ambassador to Great Britain delivered the American note on the Anglo-French naval agreement to Lord Cushendun al noon today. Houghton arrived at a side door of the foreign office five minutes before noon, carrying a large envelope in his hand. He had an attendant take him to Lord Cushendun’s office in a prit vale elevator. The note will be made public in the mnrnmg. and is eagerly awaited by the press and publip. Paris, Sept. 28. U.R. The American naval note was delivered without comment at 12:30 p. m. today to Philippe Berthelot, secretary of the foreign office, by an attache of the United States embassy. o — James Cowan Speaks At Rotary Club Meeting Tlie regular meeting of the Decatur Rotary Club was held last night. James Cowan, manager of the Decatur Casting company, had charge of the program and gave an address on the cocati nal service program of Rotary International. Mrs. L. A. Holthouse acted as pianist during tin* program. Rhoades Is “Seeing Indiana Jails First” Evansville, Ind., Sept. 28. — (U.R) — "Seeing Indiana's jails first" is the trip being taken by Dreyfu s Rhoades, alleged slayer of a Vincennes policeman, recently returned to that city after being at liberty 11 months fol- '' lowing a jail break. I 'When a change of venue for trial on a murder charge was granteu Rhoades, he was ordered taken to the Gibson county jail at Princeton. Ar- ' rived there, Sheriff Henry Mack of Vincennes took one look at tlie jail and decided it wouldn't hold Rhoades. ' He was then granted permision to ! bring the prisoner to the Vanderburg county jail here. TEACHERS TO MFFTTtraAY

ITIL.L. I lULVMfII Supt. J. C. Webb, Os Portland, To Speak At Monthly Meeting Os Teachers Superintendent J. C. Webb, of the Portland city schools, will be the pri- ' cipal speaker at the first monthly 1 meeting cf the Decatur public school ' teachers of the present school year, > to be held in the high school auditori hint next Tuesday evening, starting at ' 7 o’clock. The meeting will last for only one hour. • During the first part of the meeting, ‘ Mr. Webb will speak on the subject, “Teacher’s Retirement," and during > the last part, he will discuss "Effec--1 tive School Reading.” M. F. Worthman. superintendent of I the city schools, said today that he s plans to have a speaker from outside the city address the teachers each II month at these meetings. Parents, oths er teachers and the public in general are invited to hear these addresses.

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