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Brother Os Rev. Seimetz Dies At Michigan City John Seimetz, of Michigan City, brother of the Rev. Father J. A- Seimetz pastor of St. Marys Catholic church, in this city, died Sunday morning at his home following an extended Hlness of heart trouble. Mr. Seimetz had been in poor health for several weeks. Funeral services will be held Wednesday morning at the St. Marys Catholic church, Michigan City, ami Father Seimetz will leave tom rrow to attend his brother's funeral. — ■ £ Blue Creek Stone Company Incorporated Indianapolis, Mar. 18. (U.R) —The Blue Creek Stone company, of Deatur, Ind., wi h crpital stock of slu.ono was incorporated today. The objects of the corporation are to “quarry, mine or otherwise extract or remove stone, gravel or other materials from lands.’’ The incorpotators are Theodore W. Baker, John Hisey and Lee Boehm. LESLIE SIGNS 716 MEASURES “Chain Store" Bill And Amory Probe Measure Among Those Approved Indianapolis. Mar. 18. —(U.R)- Two hundred and sixteen bills were in the stack that went to the state printer today for incorporation in the acts of 1929, repre.-enting the legislative enactments of the 76th general assembly of Indiana approved by Governor Harry G. Leslie. Except for measures beating emergency clauses to make them operative <mmedia*«ly, the new laws will not become effective until the acts are iwitrted. prolwldy afwmt May ISAside from changes they effect in the civil and criminal laws of pie state, the measures carried one fact of significance for all Indiana residents, the certainty of a sharp increase in the state tax rate, now 23 cents. Appropriations for the fiscal biennium exceeded $55,000,01)1), more than greater than two years ago. and threaten to boost the tax rate to 31 or 33 cents. Fifty-one bills were approved by the government before the dealine on executive action fell at midnight. To the 16 already vetoed, were added 30 by the "pocket veto" route. Os 800 bill- inlttxidvr'od dn Ihe legislature, 537 failed of legislative enactment and 50 never reached the governor. Important among measuures approved Saturday were the “chain store” bill to increase state revenues by an amount variously estimated at from $2,000,000 to $4,000,000 a year; the armory prebe measure directing the state board of accounts to make an exhaustive investigation of the state’s armory building program and to supervise future expenditures in this direction; the corporation law recodificat/on measure and five companion bills; the Repnblian organization bill giving women equal voting powers with men in party organizations; and the Cooper bill removing ihe 40-mile-an-hour speed limit on slave highways and placing responsibility for safe driving on the operator. D. C.H. S. HONOR ROLL ANNOUNCED Thirty-two Pupils Or 40 Per Cent Os Enrollment Included In List Thirty-two of the pupils of Decatur Catholic high school are on the honor • roll for the past six weeks. This number represents forty per cent of he enrollment. Those on the honor roll are: Seniors —Carl Kohne, Roltert Rumschlag, Agnes Baker, Elsie Brnnnegraff, Margaret Kiting. Mary V. Hyland, Heden Lengerich, Frances ; Schultz. Patricia Teeple. Juniors —Lawrence Beckmeyer. Bernard Wemhoff, John Schmitt. Leo Schultz, Edith Lengerich, Viola i Schmitz, Helen Voglewede. Sophomores — Herman Alberding, ; Leo Dowling, Herman Faurote, Thomas Voglewede, Richard Wertzberger, Flotilda Harris, Monica Heimann, Mary Gase, Mary Kohne, Genevieve . Lengerich, Mary Helen Lose. Freshmen —AJoysius Geimer, tfnomi Faurote, Florence Lengerich, Rosel’.a • Lengerich. Mary Wertzberger. o
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Held For Linn Grove Bank Robbery II I . I ~ I 1 X. I ’ ■■ trTS. s Courtesy Fort Wayne Journal Gazette. . , , , . ’ . , „ rtoliert F. S imiff. 36, of Foit Wayne, shown above, is held in tine Adams county jail here in connect on with the robbery of the bank at Linn Grove, fast Thitrsdar M* 4»*<-b«e|t identified by Muri Lybarger..cashier rtf lie bank, as one of the two bandits who committed the holdup.
Trustee Elected By Salem Cemetery Ass’n. Those interested in the Saler.t cemetery met in' the First Evangelical church, Saturday afternoon, to elect a trustee to fill tile vacancy caused by the expired term of Dan Helm. The election resulted in 'he re-election of Mr. Helm for a term of two years. Dallas Spullerjis the Cher member on the board. ' It was resolved that no person shall be permitted to bury in the Salem cemetery without the permission of the tiu-tees. Other resolutions were adopted, looking forward toward the improvement and beautification of the cemetery. WATCHMEN ft) BE RETAINED ■ Men To Continue To Guard Erie Crossings After Signals Are Erected "The city council will not permit the Erie railroad to dispense with the services of watchmen at the Mercer avenue and Winchester street crossings until the public is satisfied with the flasher signals. A. 11. Ashbaucher, member of the city council and chairman of the committee on public safely, stated this morning. The Erie railload is erecting the flasher signals at the Mercer Avenue and Winchestei street crossings now. The signals are being placed in the center of the street. Sometime ago, the council passed an ordinance permitting the railroad to erect the flashers at these two important crossings, but have a provision that the railroad would have to maintain a watchman at the crossings until furthet order by the council. Property owners living beyond the railroad tracks want the services of a watchman because of the number of school children passing the crossing evety day. The council will not permit the watchmen to be removed only in case the flashers prove satisfactory and the citizens are willing to make the change. Flashers have been erected by the Nickel Plate railroad on Winchester street, but the services of a watchman are also given by the railroad. Fire In Anderson Hotel Anderson, Ind., March 18 —(UP) Fire in the Grand Hotel routed guests in night clothing, Sunday and caused a loss estimated at SIO,OOO. Four fire companies fought the flames an hour before getting them under control.
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LIFE OF CHILO IS DISCUSSED —, South Bend Woman Speaks Al Evangelical Church Here Sunday Mrs. B. G. Thomas, of South Bend, superintendent of the Childrens. Division of the Ind ana Board of Religious Education of the Evangelical church, spent yesterday at the First i Evangelical church in Decatur. During the Sunday school, Mrs. I Thomas was with the Beginners ajtd [Primary departments. At the mornling worship hour, she addressed the I congregation on: “The Child in the . Midst." Some of Mrs. Thomas' statements : are as follows: "God has placed the children in our i midst. They have come from Him. full of promise, ‘complete in possibilitie ', having within them powers which may he trained either upward or downward and childhood is the time of easy adjustmen'. “Childhood of today is the foundatio not our national and religious structure of tomorrow, and no amount of ornamentation in the finished build ng will atone for a faulty foundation. “Our children are molded by what we are and no' by the sound of what we say. “In disposition, in speech, and in manner the child is a product of the i home environment. “Without in the lea t knowing it, or intending to l>e so, the child is a living proclamation to the world of the cultural, the moral, and the religious atmosphere he breathes in the home. He learns these things by uncons: ! o 11 ini'ta'fm: he absorbs them, appropriating the good and the bad alike and btf’ding them into IJs character long before he is old enough to know what is happening. “No child can have a normal spiritual development whose home is not the most imp. riant factor in his early religious training. “If we would have God a part of the child's consciousness, then God must be a part of the house consciousness, and the habit of meeting him in prayer each day must he ■ cultiva'ed. "To neglect building the right habits in childhood may leave a fatal weakness in the foundation upon which the higher spiritual structure is to rest."
MOOSE TO VOTE ’ ON PROPOSAL TO ; ERECT BUILDING I % Lodge Members To Vote 1 Tuesday Night On Plan For $30,111)0 Addition SUPREME LOI4C.E TO , HAVE FINAL DECISION — At the regular meeting of the Ad- | ’ ams lodge cf the Loyal Order of Moose I Tuesday evening, the question of ap- j . proving the tentative plans and going l ; ahead with the building of a modern addition to the Moose home on Third j street will be voted on. I A pteliminary drawing has been made by W. E. Moon, local architect ’ I and contiactor, fi r the building ol a | $3(1,1)06 addition to be located at the i rear of the lot. the present building ■ being used as an entrance and lobby : to the new building. Large Building Proposed According to the tentative plans, prepaled at suggestion of the Moose lodge building committee, composed of Mat I’.reiner. chairman, Herman Gillig, Ed Green, Ralph Burnett and Martin Jaberg, the building would cover the entire space at the rear of the present home, in addition to occupying a portion of the lot where the back end of the present building would be removed in order to accomodate the new adit ion. The proposed plans call for a building 64 feet long, running north and south, and 76 feet wide, itinning east and west, two stories high with a basement under the entire building The basement room would extend s.«ve’.al feet above ground, making it possible to place windows atound the fmildiitg and giving the basement the same advantages of an unstairs floor. Estimated Cost Near $30,C00 The pioposed plans call for a modern fireproof building, built of brick concrete and steel. It is estimated that the addition will cost between $25,000 and $30,000. The first floor would contain a dining r :om about 30 4>y 50 feet in dimensions, a men’s and ladies club room, a kitchen anti rest rooms. The second Hoot would be the lodge room. This room would be about 62 feet by 63 feet, with two stairways leading to the second flocr. The Moose lodge would like to build the new addition this summer ano, if the membership favors going ahead with Ihe building, the question will be submitted to the Supreme lodge having final jurisdiction in the matter. (CONTINUED ON PAGE TWO) PLAN MEETING AT HOAGLAND Goodwill Meeting For Farmers Arranged For Next Wednesday Night Another farmers’ meeting has been j arranged by the Agriculturtal Com-1 mittee of the Decatur Industrial Association to be held at the Hoagland high school building on Wednesday evening. March 20, at 7:30 o'clock I This is the second cf a series of good will meetings which are being held in the vicinity of Decatur by the Indus trial Association, cooperating with a number of local firms and business houses. « Several short talks will be given by local business men and farmers in the Hoagland community. The principal address of the eevning will be delivered by Dr. A. J. Brock of Toledo on ‘Diversified Farming". Dr. Brock has spent several years in Germany, studying the methods of farming practices by the German people, and he i$ well qualified to deliver an address of interest to farmers. Motion pictures will also be shown by county agent, Ferd Christen. A free lunch of icecream, weiner sandwiches and coffee will lie served. A number of Decatur business men are planning to attend the meeting. Everybody is invited to attend. Logansport Man Is Suicide Logansport, Ind., Mar. 18. — -.U.R? — Believed to have been despondent over ill health following an automobile accident eight weeks ago, John Kern. 60. committed suicide at his home here today by shooting himself. Kern, using a shot-gun to end his , life, nearly blew the top of his head away.
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Flood Death Toll Is i Expected To Exceed 100 | Montgomery, Ala., Mar. 18. —(U.R)— Gov. Bibb Graves announced today that rescue workers had informed him the death toll in the Alabama floods would exceed IbO. Only seventeen bodies have been recovered. Troy, Ala., Mar. 18—(U.R) Martial law prevailed in Elba and Geneva, Ahi., today. W. E. Persons, of the ] Alabama National guard, clamped on the lid after Col. Milton Stone, of Gov. Bibb Graves' personal staff, reported insufficient gnnnlpmen were in t.he flood areas. Waters in the Elba section have receded, leaving 15,000 homeless, but Opp. Ala., where 300 Elba refugees were taken after rescue, is reported isolated and calling for medical aid ’ and food. Selma, Ala., where 1,000 are without shelter, is reported in ; straits almost as serious. t o ‘ FOURTEEN DIE . IN PLANE CRASH I l ( Lone Survivor Os Accident May Die; Motors Os Big Ship Falter Newark. N. J., March 18 —(UP) — Delmont Parsons, one of the two persons who escaped death yesterday when a sightseeing plane crashed into a freight train near here yesterday died shortly after 6 A. M. today in StJames Hospital. Parson's death reaised the toll of life to 14. leaving Lou Foote, the pilot the only survivor. Foot is suffering f:om multiple fractures of the skull and hospital autorlties said he had only slight chances of recovery. Fairure of one and perhaps two motors was blamed today for the crash, the worst accident to heavier than air meltine in the history of Ametican aviation near here yesterday. Officials of the Colonial Airways, Inc., operators cf the plane which was knifed in two by a steel freight car called a meeting early today, after • which they told the United Press they were certain that Pilot Lon Foote, realizing that something was wrong with his engines, was trying to make a landing when the plane crashed against the train. They denied reports that Foote had had only 120 hours of flying experience. He has been a pilot for ten years they said, with a total of 2,000 bouts with the type of plane in which he barely escaped death yesterday. The plane, loaded with sightseers, had just left the Metropolitan Airport for a flight over New York City. Caper Iginrotte, sitting in an automobile nearby, saw the huge nickle craft flash past a chimney, heading sharply for the ground. He lost sight of the plane when it went beyond a railroad embankment. But he noticed one of the three motors sputtering, he said, and another one seemed dead Two towermen of the New Jersey Central Railroad were Ihe next to see (CONTIXUEF ON I'AGK SIX! BAPTIST CHURCH OPENS MEETINGS Good Attendance Present At Sunday Services; Continue All Week The series of special revival meetings at the Baptist church began yesterday auspiciously. The attendance in all the services was excellent. The ' Bible school has increased materially by the organization of a new class of young people. In the evening ser- ’ vice, a large and enthusiastic choir assisted in the music, under the lead- • ership of Mrs. C. E. Bell, with Mrs. i C. E. Peterson at the piano. The Rev,' O. E. Miller, pastor, used . for the message, “God obligated to . us." The speaker said .that God has ■ self-obligated himself to us, not beI cause of any merit on our part, but > because of His grace and love. "God has pledged himself, and to us, to love us, to provide for our needs, to make away for our salvation, our im- - mortality, ultimate perfection. He is t faithful for He cannot deny himself. ■ His oblgation to us is a strong ini ceutive to us to obligate ourselves to s Him." During the day, three young men 3 made public confession of faith. Ser--1 vices will be held each evening this week at 7:30 o’clock.
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FORT WAYNE MEN ARRESTED; ONE IDENTIFIED HERE Robert SinnitT Identified By Cashier As One Os Two Who Robbed Bank MARKED MONEY < LUE LEADS TO ARREST An aflidtivil was iirepaied this afternoon by I’rosecutor Nathan Nelson against Robert SinnitT, charging hank robbery. ‘ViinilT will be arraigned late this afternoon or tomorrow in Adams circuit court, it was slaled. Muri Lybarger, cashier of the Bank of Linn Grove, was .it Foit Wayne this morning, but was unaLi’e to positively identify Jack Gaither. 27. a friend of Sinnlff. who was under suspicion in the bank role bcry case. Gaither was held on a federal capias for a liquor law violal.ion and will be held pending further investigation. Lyliargvr and others who saw the bandits last Thursday will return to Fort Wayne later this afternoon to further establish” identily, if possible. Robert VV. Sinniff. 35. of Fort Wayne is in the Adams county jail and has been identified as one of the bandits who held-up and robbed the Bank of Linn Grove last Thuisday evening of $2,500, and as one of the bandits who has robbed banks at Pennvile. Petroleum. Wawaka and Burkett within the last year. Sinniff was captured late Saturday night in Fort Wayne as lie was returning to his room at ihe Delmar hotel. which he formerly operated unde-’ the name of Hotel Hayes. Sinniff was taken into custody by Detective Sergeants Peter Junk and Joseph Brennan. of the Foit Wayne pilice fence. Brought Here Saturday Night Sheriff iTarl Holingsworth. of this county, and Forest Huntington, of the Indiana Bureau of Criminal Identification. who had worked all day Saturday on the case, were notified immediately and they brought the alleged robber to this city. Sinniff was identified by Mini Lybarger and Floyd Yahney >f Linn Grove, the fol nit r the cashier of the bank which was looted last Thursday and the latter who saw the bandits leave the bank Bank officials of four other cities, also came to this city yesterday and positively identified Simniff as one of the robbers who had looted their banks during the past (<’ovri' i » wr> nx park Twin PLAN FOR GOOD FRIDAY SERVICE Protestant Churches Arrange For Annual ThreeHour Service Here The Ministerial Association of this city has made plans for the annual Good Friday union service of the Protestant churches of the city, to be held from 12 o'clock noon to 3 o'clock p. m., on Good Friday. March 29. The Good Friday union service has become a meeting of great interest and inspiration to a large audience in attendance each year. The general program will be followed this year as in the past witli seven brief messages by the seven pastors and special songs by the seven churches. A detailed program will be published at a later date. The service will be held in the Zion Reformed church. A number of the churches will be holding special services during passion week, so that the spirit of the afternoon service on Good Friday ' will, without doubt, be of even greater 1 interest than heretofore. It is hoped that the business houses will be closed during the period as in previous ! years. > Chickens Are Causing » Damage, Police Are Told • Several persons residing in the i north part ot the city have complained to police that neighbors' chickens i have been scratching up freshly seed- • ed lawns and flower beds. Owners 1 of the chickens ate requested to keep them at home.
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