Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 27, Number 33, Decatur, Adams County, 7 February 1929 — Page 1

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TEACHERS win NIHT IN FUHT «LEGISLATURE ffefinTely PoSpLned In b«* er House nil! for psychiatric ft 181. H DEFEATED Steie a tenure bill today when • on education rereport indefinitely postpon- ! Freeman Cromer-Mnrden bill i Jhi.-h would lim't application of the Jt first second, third and fourth ( and exempt rural districts . 1 , 11)n its position. | lodianapo'is. 7eb. 7.-(U.R)-Hoos- < m .spend $1,000,000 annually to exi Ji.it bulls at the State fair grounds L the legislature will refuse $300.I » fora hospital for the mentally ill. ; f Senator <'. Oliver Holmes. Gary, told , 1' He state senate today just before his Miatric hospital hill was defeated. Ust session the bill passed the ( Late but was killed in the house, j Today it mustered but 13 favorable ( I rotes. I [ "Indiana is backward and archaic , j caring frr the mentally sick, - ’ Ilclir.es asserted in opening his cant- | pajtn for passage of the bill which ws on third reading. It had receiv- , jia favorable report from the finance j KMiitree. ( The bill required $.100,000 for a hospital for mental diseases to be added , Io the Indiana University group of j : fctjitals. | i Senators opposed the measure on in economy basis. / Indianapoiis, Feb. 7. —(U.R)-*— An rtrupi end to the effort Lu_xemove : eontro! of the Butlerville farm colony fr feeble-minded from James H. I lichen. brother of former. Governor ■ Bl Jackson loomed in the house of 1 I repre entat ives today. ■ The house committee on benevolent 1 and scientific institutions was pre- 1 Jared to return a unanimous report ! for indefi/iite postponement of the ' Moorhead-Lochard bill, for separate control of the institution. The hill passed the senate Friday, 33 to 15. ,!l(r Senator Robert L. Moorhead 1 charged that children in the Butler- ' rite institut on were ‘ treated like 1 tots and not adequately provided 1 for. i At present, the Butlerville colony ' . M« the state school for feeble-minded Wo. at Fort Wayne, are jointly ( "intended by the ex-governor’s Winer. Indiana WomanTo Get $50,000 For Being Nice To War Veteran W nu mil ‘°, ll- ° - Feb - ~~(UP) -Cora C. 1 * of Indianapolis, will receive SSO. 1 , ei ‘ aase she was courteous to Clar- 1 dun. ' I '' erl s ’ a 1 ivil war veteran. 1 hniias A ' l{ ' e,lca “>Pnient in the 1 th T Ferris dled recently and b - «L hl3 WIU niade I ,ublic here, < tanJ i tso '°°" to Ml3s Willis “be- 1 ■ M sl, e was courteous." , M MISSING IM IS UNSOLVED I • btet Cl ue To Whereabouts « roans Terre Haute biri Proves Futile i Ltlorf . 10 '- vea r-old Edith Mae niyste, J' ™ ntinued 10 be shrouded in feir eieventl/a 38 - authorities began Althn,, ? th days search. liven the Beveral clues have been d. V 8 all hr earellers 111 ‘he past few ■ I The a S ’ e prove “ falseH v L CIUe ’ Biven ‘hem by a I "to* shaft abandoned j Prov ed futne bUr; " Hke &th ’ ho P ° rted thal “ man I *‘y to the mi U ‘ e a “ d in< l ul red the tove awav ? De ' She sald he later ' r ‘le of speed ' ° m Shaft at a h, * h ! ’'’Say'VnT lß ® l6 '’ the mine late i f b» ■hiasine repor ‘ e<i no trace of i ' l? sa ek ws«’a.’ alt hough an old guns Ed “h mT! h scovered - i ,er selling , d Bappea red Jan. 27, as- , • > Sat si " > “•''Weh.X" 1 " purcl »««a « i ’ gto 'he D rnnH ? 8 gUm and act, ord- < a ®an in an M^° r, K t rOVe away wi,h a ° automobile. ,

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Home Talent Play To Be Given At Mt. Pleasant The Mt. Pleasant Bible class will present a three-act play, Friday and Saturday at the Mt. Pleasant school. “The Winning of Joy" Is the title cf the play to be given ami an excellent cast has been rehearsing diligently for the pant few weeks. Admission charges will be 20 and 35 cents. Specialities will be given between acts. , —— -o COMMISSIONERS REJECT ALL BIDS New Steel Furniture For Treasurer’s Office Not Purchased The county commie doners, in continued session this morning, rejected all the bids filed for furnishing new steel furniture and counters i.i the county treasurer’s office. The board will readvertise for bids to b? teceived on Tuesday, March 5. A few changes will be made in the specifications, it was stated, and this wet one reason why the board rejected the blds. The lowest bid for installing the furniture was about SI,BOO. The commi slotters will also receive bids at the March meeting for furnishing one or more road scrapers to the county highway department. The board has not decided how many scrapers will be purchased and (he notice to bidders will ash for the right to purchase one or more at the price submitted. No action was taken on the bids for furnishing stone and road material. Blds were received Tuesday, but the contract has not yet been awarded. The commissioners inspected roads today, going over the routes of several i reads which taxpayers have petitioned i to be improved. o i Public Invited To Central School Lincoln Program The public, esperdaily the parents of the pupils cf the Decatur grade schools are invited to attend the Lincoln day p. jgram to be g ven in the Decatur high scaool gymnasium. Friday afternoon. at 2:45 o’clock, under the auspices of the Central school. The admission charges will be ten cents for children ami twenty-five cents for . .dult Judge Charles Edward Bull, of Hollywood, California, famous impersonator of Abraham Lincoln, will give hl-s impersonations. Judge Bull appeared at the Catholic school auditorium here recently and delighted a large audience with his entertainment. The Centra] school orchestra will furnish mus’.c for the entertainment Friday afternoon. All pupils cf thew ard school; have been invited to attend. o—, 0 —, — Blind Preacher Pleads Guilty To Bigamy Charge Marion. 111., Feb. 7— (U.R)—The Rev. Joseph M. Benton, 54-year-old blind Pentecostal preacher, pleaded guilty Here today to a charge of bigamy and was sentenced by City Judge J. RClayton to 1 to 5 years in the state penitentiary. The aged pastor married Selinda Clendenin, 11-year-old school girl op. December 22, 1928, but admitted in court today he was not divorced from his f'rjt wife now living in B'yth?vllle, Ark. The recond marriage was nntiiH (~ DECATUR CHURCH TO HOLO REVIVAL I Series Os Evangelistic Services To Open At Evangelical Church Sunday The First Evangelical church, on . Winchester street, will open a revival next Sunday. The pastor the Rev. M. W. Sunderman, will bj his own evangelist. Various committees have been appointed and have their work well in hand. A committee on prayer meetings will supplement the public worship, by having prayer meetings in various parts 1 of the city, during the day and two prayer meetings in the church each evening for one-half hour proceeding the evening service. The pastor will direct the islnging, but will be ably assisted by the choir and pianist. The first meeting of the entire series'will be a children's meeting on Friday night, Feb. 8 immediately after the close of school. This meeting will 1 be of vital interest to all grade school 1 children. There will be services each night < next week, except Saturday. 1

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“Is Zat So” To Be Repeated This Evening The hriin.il pert rtnal>ce of the home talent play, “Is Zat So” which was presented to a capacity audience nt the Decatur iiigh school auditorium Monday night, will he given at 8:1.. o’clock this evening in the Catholic school auditorium. Many tickets have been sold and another large audience is anticipated. The play was produced Monday night under the auspices of the Civic D jpartment of the Woman's Club. Tonight’s performance will he sponsored by the Lions Club. The play is one of the recent Broadway comedy hits and is one of the best home talent productions ever staged here. LINDY RESTING IN CANAL ZONE Arrives At Destination Three Minutes Late; Starts Back Sunday Cristobal, C. Z., Feb. tU.K—CoI, Charles A. Lindbergh enjoyed a short rest today after making the first delivery of ail mail from the United States to the Panama Canal Zone. Recreation, including possibly a hunting trip with Canal Zone fliers, will occupy most of his time until his departure Sunday on the return trip to Miami, Fla. Insisting throughout the three-day I flight that he was only an air mail, pilot again and must not he treated as a world celebrity, Lindbergh only smiled his appreciation of the cheers of 2,000 people who welcomed him at France field here. “We must protect the mail." he said as he helped unload the six hags tn th e Canal Zone. Lindbergh kept the code of the mail pilot .u mine the entire time he was I as the controls of the Skirosky Am phibian plane. Flying straight and 1 fast from city to city, lie brought the p'ane to rest on France field at 4:03 p. m. yesterday, three minutes behind the time announced three days ago for his arrival. He was asked about a report that President-elect Hoover had offered him a post. “There's no authority for such a ; Statement," he replied. The route back tQ the United States will be the same as that followed i here. Lindbergh plans to leave France i field early Sunday morning, arriving t in Miami Tuesday afternoon. Lindbergh was accompanied here by Col. John A. Hambleton, vicepresident of the Pan-American Airways company, which has the Miami- i Cristobal mail contract, and by Harry : Buskey, mechanic and radio operator. I

Decatur, Indiana, Thursday, February 7, 1929.

BOY DIES OF , I TYPHOID FEVER I Robert Gordon Girod, 13, Dies Here Today; Others In Family Are 111 Robert Gordon Girod, 13. eldest son of Mr. and Mrs. Eli Girod, of 331 /North E.eventh street, died at 11:551 o’clock this morning, Thursday, February 7, 1929, of typhoid fever. The lad had been ill for the past five - weeks. One brother. Richaid, is just ab’e tc be up and the father is still confined to his bed, both having suffered a siege of the same disease. Robert Gordon Girod was born I April 10, 1915. He was a pupil in I the eighthe grade at Central and had attended school regularly up until his fatal il ness. He is a member ot the Un'ted Brethren Sunday school. , Surviving besides the parents, ard 1 one brother and two sisters, Richard, Violet and Mary. One sister, Ruth, preceded him in deatli ten years ago, having d ed at the age of two years. Funeral arrangements have not been made. o Mothers-In-Law Are Not So Bad At Times, Muncie Man Discovers Muncie, Ind., Feb. 7. — (U.R) —Jokesmiths who jibe mothers In-law wi’l find it hard to laugh this off. Tilman C. Kennedy, arrested on a charge of falling to provide for one of h's three children, was defended tn court by his wife's mother, who testified the wife and mother refused to live with Kennedy. Circuit Judge L. A. Guthrie refused J to punish Kennedy and intimated thal 1 if h's wife sues for divorce he may be granted custody of all of his children. 0 Two Suspects In Sturgis Bank Robbery Are Cleared i Sturgis, Mich.. Feb. 7 —(UP) —Ralph A. Wood, Wyandotte, Michigan, contractor and Cecil Holt today were cleared of complicity in the $75,000 1 robbery of the Sturgis National Bank when assistant pro ecutor James T. Sloan petitii.ned Juslice (’. L. Hauer ‘ for dismissal of the charges. Hauer, who previously had held the men under $50,000 bail each. Immediately dismissed the charges. Wood and Holt then left for Detroit. 0 Noted Baker Dies Chicago, Feb. 7. —(U.R)—William B. Ward, president of the Ward Baking corporation, died of heart disease late yesterday at his desk. He would have been 45 years old Saturday.

PLEDGE SUPPOST FOR LIMBERLOST PARK PROPOSAL French Quinn Confers With State Officials, Senators And Representatives SURVEY PLANNED FOR NEAR FUTURE Col. Richaid Lieber, director rs the | state department of c onservation, as-i sured French Quinn, of this city, in a conference held in Indianapolis Wed- ] nesday, that he and his department were in heaity accord with tne proposed project of establishing a state park in the Limberlost territory in Adams and Jay counties made nationally famous by the late Gene Stratton-Porter. < Mr. Quinn met witli Mr. Lieber and ( Frank L. Wallace, state entomologist,' yesterday at the state house and talk- ' ed over the possibilities in connection s with the proposed park. The c.mserva- | tion < fficials were enthusiastic in their | support of the plan. Cooperation Is Assured The eonfeience was held with Mr. Lieber, Mr. Wallace, Mr. Quinn and j state senator Thurman Gottschalk of ( Berne; Geoige L. Saunders, of Bltifft ii, reprsesentative from Wells and Adams counties, Judge E. E. McGriff, of Portland, state representative from Jay county and W. D. Cross Jr. of Ge- ( nova. The state representatives from these districts also assured their cooiMuatton to Mr. Lieber. Mr. Lieber informed Mr. Quinn, who represented the Geneva L’.mberlcst association, that he would send engineers of the department at once to t ie • proposed sitea in Adams and Jay conn- 1 .its for the purpose of establishing “Llmberlost Park", ascertain c.'sts. means of drainage, etc. About 1,200 acres of land are under consideration as a site for the proposleJ aitus£. wk. opt of which it is pro-, ■posed that a lake of approximately 600 acres be made and the balance r.f land be utilized for park purposes and the restoring of the tree and plant growth indigenous to the Limberlost swamp section and give national promienence and interest to milions of people through the waitings of the gifted authoress. Mis. Porter. Col. Lieber further stated to the men present that he would personally inspect and superltnendend the surveys. Much interest has been manifested by the three coutnies, Jay. Wells and Adams, in the proposed state park and ICOXTIM EF <»>’ I’AGK SIX) — o SCOUT OATH TO BE BROADCAST Scouts Os Anthony Wayne Area Council To Be Recommitteed Friday Night For the first time in history, the Boy Scouts of the Anthony Wayne Area Council will be recommitted in the Scout oath and the Scout law over the radio. These exercises will be conducted by Scout executive, John L. Anguish, promptly at 7:45 o'clock on the vening of Friday, February 8, over Station WOWO, Fort Wayne. The time is one half hour earlier han the nation-wide recommittment due to the time when the broadcast is available at WOWO. All troops, so far as possible, are asked to arrange for the use of a receiving set and to be ready at the time announce I for the recqmmittment. Troops who do not have access to receiving sets will arrange for their own recommittment. The recommittment comes on the bi'.thday of .scouting, marking 19 years of achievement of the Boy Scouts of America. The scout oath and the scout law to which Boy Scouts universally will remotnmit themselves on February 8, are as follows: The Scout Oath On my honor I will do my best: To do my duty to God and my country, and to obey tile scout law; Ta help other people at all times; To keep physically strong, menially awake and morally straight. Scout Motto: "Be Prepared". Scout Habit: “Do a good turn daily". The Scout Law A Scout is trustworthy A Scout is loyal A Scout is helpful A Scout is friendly A Scout is courteous A Scout is kind A Scout is obedient A Scout is cheerful (.CONTINUED ON PAGE TW-S

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Child Crushed By Auto Driven By Its Mother Plainfield, Ind., Feb. 7.-,U.R)— While backing an automobile from a garage, Mrs. Taylor Johnson, crushed her 3-year-old son, Richard, to death beneath its wheels. According to the mother, Richard, was standing near the garage door and. slipped beneath the machine's wheels. The boy's head was crushed badly. o ITALY AND HDLY SEE END DISPUTE Differences Lasting Since 1870 Are Settled; Official Announcement Made Rome, Feb. 7.— (U.R) -Diplomats of 25 nations gathered in the Red Hall of the Vatican palace today and heard Pietro Cardinal Gasparri, papal secretary of state, announce that the holy see and the Italian government had settled their differences after a dispute lasting since 1870. Cardinal Gasparri, with great dignity. made the announcement, in a few simple words. The entire ceremony occupied less than 15 minutes. Caidinal Gasparri said: “An agreement between Italy and the holy see has been reached. It will lie consummated firstly with a treaty of reconciliation and secondly, with a concordat.” The agreement will be signed on Sunday in the historic church of St. Jehu Lateral), the "Mother Church” j of all Christianity. Cardinal Gasparr: | will sign in behalf of the pope and i P.'.mier Benito Mussolini for the i Italian government. The reconciliation restores the pope to status as a temporal sovereign, of which he was deprived when Italy seized the papal state in 187<>. Its terms, in brief, provide for alight enlargement of the present Vatican grounds and its establishment as a sovereign state: payment of an indemnity for church property taken over by the government in 1870, an i exchange of diplomatic representatives between the Vatican and Italy. Spuhler Funeral To Be Held Friday Afternoon Funeral services tor Mrs. Barbara Spuhler will be held Friday afternoon at 2 o'clock at |he family residence o» St. Marys street, the Rev. A. R. Fledderjohann officiating. Burial will be made in the Decatur cemetery. Manchester College Librarian Is Missing North Manchester, Ind., Feb. 7. — U.R) —A search for Lawrence W. Schultz, librarian at Manchester college here who has been missing since Tuesday night, was resumed today. Schultz attended a committee meeting, took a friend home in his automobile "find has not been seen since. I He drew’ S3OO from the bank Mon-1 day. NEW BLIZZARD SWEEPINGWEST Western States Experiencing One Os Worst Winters In Many Years Chicago, Feb. B.—(U.R)—From snowbound and blizzard swept portions of the west today came additional tales of hardships and heroism to be entered in the history of one of the worst winters the people ot this section of the United States have experienced in many years. A new’ blizzard was sweeping out of the Rocky mountains where deep snows and ice have isolated villages, disrupted rail service, Stopped airmail planes an dbrought unusual phenomena to the skies. Denver reported the intense cold and snow had caused the appearance of “sun dogs" or mock suns, one purple and the other red. Trunk highways :n Utah were blocked by snow and the air mail plane from Lios Angeles was forced down in a blizzard at St. George. Roads out ot Denver were made impassable by snowdrifts and in the business section of the Colorado capital two street cars were thrown off their snow-hidden tracks.

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AMENDED DILL IS PASSED BY HOUSE TODAY President Coolidge Expected To Sign Measure Without Delay APPROPRIATION FOR WORK IS NEXT STEP Washington, Feb. 7. --(U.R) — Congtess today sent to President Coolidge for signature legislation authorizing construction of 15 new cruisers and. one modern airplane carrier for the navy. The house withoiit a record vote adopted the senate amendment to the cruiser bill and thus virtually ended the fight for new 10,000 ton cruisers as the president is expected to sign the measure. Proponents of a big navy then plan to rush an appropriation of about $12,475,000 for starting construction wotk on six of the ships. $225,000 For Guns Chairman Britten of the naval affairs committee said $2,000,000 will be allocated to each of six keels to ba laid between now and June 30, about $250,000 will be allocated to navy yards for ship ways for building the craft and $225,000 to the naval gun factory for turning out weapons for the ships. The 15 cruisers and one plane carrier will be completed and commissioned over a period of three years at I a total cost of about $274,000,000. —o Jensen Forced Down In Solo Endurance Flight Mitchel Field. N. Y.. Feb. 7.--tU.R)~ Marti A Jensen. w)w» ncmi'wV ■ Lnw* Roosevelt Field at 9:04:05 a. tn. yente’.day in his plane Gleen Flash in an attempt to set a soln endurance record, splashed through the mud to a graceful landing here at 2:10 a m. today. A s hortage of fuel in his main gasoline tank caused him to abandon his attempt to heat the mark of "s’a hours set by the late Royal Thomas. — —o 200 Cases Os Ale Found In Truck After Wreck Gary, Ind., Feb. 7. (U.R)—John How--1 ard, 22. Detroit, and William Osborn, 22, Chicago, were held in jaii here today, after the finding of 200 cases of alleged ale by police following a crash between the truck in which they were riding and an automobile. Police said they were forced to chase the truck some distance before i hallting it, after the crash. The alleged ale was valued at $6,000, by authorities. STOCK MARKET BREAKS SHARPLY W ild Selling Causes Worst Break Since Last December; Losses Are Heavy — New York, Feb. 7.—(U.R)—Wild sell ing of the stock exchange in early dealings today brought the most severe break since the debacle of last December. Stocks were thrown overboard and losses ranged to 15 points before leading issues met support. News that the federal reserve had warned member banks to curtail brokerage loans together with a rise in the rediscount rate at. the bank ot England brought selling orders from all parts of the country. At noon, the market was unsettled and irregular, but the prospect of 5 per cent call money brought buying into the market. A treasury department official's calming utterances from Washington and the revelation that the reserve board had not consulted Secretary of Treasury Mellon may have acted to steady the market slightly. There was a tendency to credit the anonymous utterances to * Mellon himself. Sales in the first 30 minutes totaled 1,328,600 shares, or at the rate of i more than 13,000,000 shares for the entire session. ( all money renewed at 6 per cent, - unchanged from the overnight charge. • This renewal cause'l resumption of I buying in many sections of the list by traders who hud sold out their holdings earlier in the week. ■s

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