Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 27, Number 70, Decatur, Adams County, 22 March 1929 — Page 1

j WEATHER ... and thundShower* ers torm. P rob ? U ' y and S.turdiy. Moderate «<•"” perature.

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iuinu hit tv TORNADO; THREE RILLED ■eras St ,)ead Are Children rnNFUSING REPORTS aboiit storm heard Birminfil':""* Ala., Mar. 22- ~ (U.B-AI least three persons 'u ro ki ||e.l bv a tornado which dttvLsl the villn.ue ot Merrellin eastern Alabama .today. Al, three of the .lead were negro school children, killed ,l« It* nOstt'i' wrecked Ihc village Klwol h'«f- Mrs - M j ■ tv Nixon, proprietress ol th« village general store, a.hised , overlong distance telephone. . Maxwellb. in, Ala.. Mar. 2 -’- _(U ‘* ) v ~ i I tornado struck a negro school, two _ * S west of here today Two pupils ; „ re reported to have been killed. M |j Maxwellborn said eight or , ten person* were injured. The twister did not strike here. Others Reported Killed Jacksonville, Ala.. two miles east o( Merrelton. reported eight persons i killed and a score injured. A negro i school was reported demolished and about thirty buildings blown down. Confusing rep, rts of the progress ' o( the twister reached here. Maxwellborn said he heard Lincoln, west of here, had been hit, but Lincoln was reported oxer the telephone only a heavy hail and high wind was felt there and no damage wtu noted. < Anniston, to the south, reported a jhone call near tlie vicinit'.y of the "Yepro school house, brought the information that two children had been killed and several injured. o Flood Waters Rising In Alabama; Danger Crows Montgomery, Ala., March 22 —(t T P) —Flood waters of the Tallapoosa and Coosa rivers were tising rapidly north of here today after heavy rains adding new danger to hundreds of flood refugees. Flood gates at Goroan and Martin dams on the Coosa have been raised in view of the rise, after having been closed with the recession of the stream in its banks during the past several days. Funeral For Mrs. Hocker To Be Held Saturday Funeral services for Mrs. Mary I. Hocker, of Elkhart, will be held Saturday afternoon at 4 O’clock at the home. The Rev. A. H. Doescher, pasi°r of the First Evangelical church at Elkhart, will have charge of the ser'lces. Butial will be made in the Grace Lawn cemetery at Elkhart. ARRANGE MORE FARM MEETINGS Meetings Scheduled Fo r Monroe And Hartford Township Next Week Two more Farmers meetings will be 11 next week in Adams county. A tkeiing will b e held at the Monroe “ gft Bchool building, Monday evening next week. March 26, and at the “druont township high school build--5 Saturday evening, March 30. The .v niee ting is being sponsored by nn,? nroe Industrial Association, coj la . ng wl ’h the Decatur Industrial torri d ": a,ul the nieetiiig in Hartthe M° W , n > Ship is being sponsored by ami J? eshberger Brothers Stone Co., will J , v ßailk 01 k’ llll Orove. These kind ,w e , last ,wo meetings of this county iV" 111 b ‘‘ hel(1 ,hroilgl >out the “ nly this spring. Princtno, A Brock ’ ot Toledo, will be Hartmni-s BPeUker at the Monroe al ‘" talks win to * n ship meetings. Short men amt made by local business by p ollm 0 10,1 Pictures will be shown chairmn,,', Agent E- E. Christen. The he j . J or th e Monroe meetl4 will Kean wl2 en^‘ CkS ’ an(l Dr 0 M( " Hartford , l 38 chairman of the lunch wm , townshi P meeting. Free Ari 'tutgemem< 1 8fe h Ved at both meetings, tor the Op 8 lave been completed the Berne irt meeHng ton,Kh ' antl ing, meeting on Saturday even-

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y!ay Be Appointed j E‘ II ||i Sam McCorkle, young district at-: 1 torney of the 77th Judicial District of ‘ Texas, has been recommended for 1 place on Mr. Hoover’s proposed pro- ' hibilion commission. McCorkle is noted as vigorous enforcer of Volstead Act. ■ - i Ralph Roop, County Surveyor, Has Operation — - 1 Ralph Roop Adams county surveyor i took suddenly ill last night from an at- < tack of appendicitis and was operated ; upon at midnight at the Adams Conn- i ty Memorial hospital, for the removal of the appendix. He was resting real well today and it is expected that he t will get along nicely. PYTHIANS HOLD COUNTY MEETING Rank Os Page Conferred During Meeting Held In This City Last Night The second meeting and banquet of the Good Fellows Club of the Knights of Pythias lodge, was held last evening, in the K. of P. Castle HaU. Tlie meeting was conducted by A. D. Sutties, toastmaster, and the very interesting program consisted of addresses by Hon. Thurman Gottsehalk. of Berne, and Prof. W. Guy Brown, of this city. The banquet was served by the Pythian Sisters, in the dining room of the K. of P. home and at the conclusion of the dinner, a county meeting of the Knights of Pythias lodges was held. The meeting was in charge of Gartli Hoover, chancellor commander and Joseph Elzey, deputy chancellor commander, for Adams county. Delegations attended the meeting from Berne and Geneva. Rank work was conferred on one candidate in the rank of Page. The next banquet of the club will be held Thursday, April 18, and the committee, headed by John Zimmerman, requests that every member of the Knights of Pythias lodge join the Good Fellows club. o —- Dr. Branch Reported To Be Recovering At the hospital, where he is reported to be recovering from a serious operation which he underwent a few dajrs ago, Dr. C. H. Branch, Decatur physician, today wrote the following note and sent it to the Daily Democrat : “Word has come to ine of the kindly interest (hat is being shown over me, and my recovery, and I take this means of expressing myself. A time like this is one when friends are appreciated. The -first three days, I suffered intensely, hut today I am better and it looks now as though 1 will recover and I shall be glad to be back among my friends. Dr. C. H. Branch." — o E. W. Jeffery Resigns As Head Os Berne School Berne, March 22 —(UP) —E. W. Jeffery, superintendent of the Berne schools for the last several years, has resigned his position here, he announ ced today- Mr. Jeffery has not announceded his plans for the futureThe school board is considering several applicants for the superintendents position, it Is said. Mr. Jeffery came here from Perry township high school, near Selma, Indiana. He holds a M. A- degree from Columbia University.

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DEATH TOLL OF MINE DISASTER MOUNTS TO 41 Sixteen Others Remain To Be Accounted For In Pennsylvania Tragedy TWENTY-SIX BODIES REMOVED FROM MINE* Parnassus. Pa., Mar. 22 A check at ‘.l P. M. today showed that II miners were known to have lost their lives in the explosion yesterday at the Kinloch mine of the Valley Camp Coal company, officials announced. Sixteen miners remain to he accounted for. Twenty-six bodies have been removed from the mine; one miner died in a hospital, and the bodies of fourteen others accurately checked, rescue workers said, remain to be lifted from the mine on stretchers ibis afternoon. Bodies Found In Group The bodies of the fourteen men were found grouped together in a chamber of the mine some distance from the foot of (tie shaft where the explosion occurred. Based on these figures, approximately 300 miners wen at work in the mine when the explosion occurred fifteen minutes after the night crew had left the workings and the day crew had gone to work. Company officials previously announced tha’ not more than 260 miners were at work at the time. Lecature To Bo Given At Union Chapel Church Vardon S. Latsch, pastor of the Union Chapel United Brethren church, one mile east of the Depit school building, will deliver a lecture on the subject, “The Bible, its origin and how we received it,” on Sunday evening, March 24, at 7:15 o’clock. The public is invited to attend. FUNERAL PLANS ARE ANNOUNCED Late Rites For Oliver T. Hendricks, Os Monroe, Set For Saturday Funeral arrangements for the late Oliver T. Hendricks, whose death occurred at 2:30 o'clock, Thursday afternoon, at his home in Monroe, will be held Saturday afternoon at 2:00 o'clock at the Monroe Methodist church, the Rev. E. M. Foster officiating. Pall bearers at the funeral will be E. W. Busche, Wm. Mitchel, Wm Keller, David Fuhrman, Jacob Longenberger. and John McKean. Mr. Hendricks was born May 3, 1844, in Harrison county, Ohio, and came to Indiana with his father in 1849. when he was five years of age. He has resided in and near Monroe practically all his life. The deceased was a great worker in the Methodist church having been active iif church duties since 1870. He was class leader of the first class in Monroe which was organized in 1870. For the past twenty years, he had served as the treasurer of the Sunday school. On October 30, 1870, he united in marriage with Mariatta Walton, who proceeded him in death August 1, 1914. On November 1, 1910, he united in marriage with Maria Walton, a sistei of his first wife, who survives him. No children were born of either marriage. Surviving are the following brothers and sisters, J. W. Hendricks of St. Petersburg. Florida; Jim A. Hend ricks, of Monroe; Mrs. Hattie Sells, of Monroe; and ‘Mrs. Minda Albaugh, of Denison, Ohio, together with many more distance relatives. i> Levees Continue To. Crumble Along Mississippi March 22—(UP)—Crumb ling levees along the Mississippi river in Illinois, lowa, Arkansas, Ten nessee and Mississippi today Inundal ed thousands of acres of rich farm lands, sent each farmer hurrying t< the uplands and corps of workers tc the dikes in an effort to save othej districts from being flooded. Illinois, in the vicinity of Quincy was the hardest hit by the highesi stage of the Mississippi river in 2( years. Indian levee, six miles north ol Quincy, mumbled under constani pounding of the river, whipped ts greater heights by a high wind.

Decatur, Indiana, Friday, March 22, 1929.

Solitude Erases Smiles From Faces Os Alleged Bank Bandits Held Here

Sit’ing in separate cells at the Ad- | ams county jail, where they have plenty of time to think over the last few years of their lives, Elmer Wood, Jack Gaither, Robert Slnlff and J Ph'l'ip Chamberlain uren't the same smiling men that they were when they appeared in the Adams circuit court « this morning to ask for more time in j which to enter a plea on a charge of bank robbery. Elmer Wood, 41. eldest of the four alleged robbers, doesn't like being In Jail a bit. He smiles when people are around and makes a brave front of affairs, but in his heart lie is sick and tired of life and all that life has in store for him the next few years. Wood is married and his wife and one son are living near Pennville, in j Jay county. His home life lias been a happy one and he has managed to make a livelihood as a railroader. He drifted into tho company of the other three men because he ended his railroad run at Fort Wayne and on! many occasions he stayed all night at the Hayes hotel, which Siniff man-1 aged and where Chamberlin and: , Gaither also roomed, when they were off their train runs. Wood stated this morning that he , had never lteen in jail in his life nn- . til taken into custody at Richmond last Tuesday morning. He said that . he felt that he had received the best treatment possible since in custody . of Sheriff Hail Hollingsworth in this . city. Wood said that “Spot" was one oi l (lie finest men with whom he had ever come in contact. He was un- . happy this morning when interviewed after his appearance in court. He , smiled on his return trip to the jail, but soon after his arrival his face became stern and he faltered and chok- „ ed when he told of his wife and son. Wood has not vet made a statement regarding his guilt or innoc. nee. ■ Jack Gaither appeared in better mood today than lie has since hir, arrest Tuesday. He was still more or less- nervous, but appear/d rested and anxious to get the whole tiling over with. Gaither was shaved this I morning and his clothes, which fitted him well, were pressed when he eniCaNTlXt'kll ON I’AtiK TUItKK) Son Os Former Berne * Couple Dies At Ft. Wayne lister Eugene Amstntz, 9, sou of Mr. and Mrs. John E. Emstutz, of e Fort Wayne, formerly of Berne, died -of peritonitis, at 5:05 o’clock this - morning at the Methodist hospital, in 1 Fort Wayne. The child was born at 9 For*, Wayne, February 2, 1920. Snrt viving are the parents, one brother, - Dale, and two sisters, Dorothy and 1 Phyllis. i. Funeral services will be held at the . F'rst Missionary church in Fort Wayne at 2 o'clock Sunday afternoon, with the Rev. W. O. Klopfenstoin, of 1 Fort Wayne, officiating. Burial will be made in the M. R. E. cemetery, we. t of Berne. e 0 d John L. Judav Celebrates J His Eighty-Ninth Birthday I- John L. Juday, father of Mrs. Al 1 Burdg, celebrated his eighty-ninth 1 birthday anniversary today. Mr. 8 Juday, is probably the oldest Civil :l War veteran in the county. For the past five years he lias made his home ’■ with Mrs. Burdg, and has been quite L ill since Christmas, but was able to 11 sit iij) today. r — r o Beta Sigma Alpha To Hold Meeting Tonight i- > f A special meeting of the Beta Sigma I Alpha fraternity will be held in the fraternity’s club rooms, above the j Winnes shoe store, at 7 o’clock this y evening. Negro Confesses To Club Murders At Gary i Gary, Ind, March 22 —(UP) A )- series of ax murders and beatings that d have spread terror in Gary was bel- lieved solved today when Gillis Mack it 28-year-old negro, confessed that he n clubbed a young man and woman and o stood by while a companion beat a 20o year-cld girl to death and then attackr ed her. Mack has been under arrest since ! r, Wednesday, after the body or miss it Josephine Adorizzi was found in a 6 vjacant lot-. (A (bloodstained hateihet if found in Mack’s home, was used to it club Miss Adorizzi to death, he said o while he stood guard. He refused to name his companion.

CHILDREN TO i BE CONFIRMED Several Lutheran And Reformed Churches To Confirm Classes Sunday Confirmation services will lie held in a number of Lutheran and Reformed churches in and near Adams county Sunday, March 24, commonly I known as Palm Sunday. In the Decatur Lutheran and Reformed churches, confirmation serv- . ices will be held later. Several 'churches will confirm on Pentecost Sunday. The classes which will be confirmjed Palm Sunday arc: j Schuinm, 0., Lutheran Church: j Velma Hoffman, Louisa Roehm. Edgar Dietrich, Velma Mercle, Thecla j Belnert, Elmer Gt rinann. Fuelling Lutheran Church: Lorinda I Wietfeldt, Florence Gerke, Frieda Buslck, Vera Franz, Lorinda Hoekeineyer, Elvira Hockemeyer, Florence Sauer. Theodore Ilobrock Jr. Preble Lu heran Church: Esther Koeneman, Mildred Kirehner, Helen Ehlerding, Esther Bieberlck, Viola Ewel', Edgar Welling, Oscar Werling, I Wilbert Kirehner. Flutroek Lutheran Church: Helen Franke, Edna Melcher, Hilda Wiegraann, Helen Melcher, Esther Franke. Edna Herderhorst, Luella Gr, trail, Mathilda Hockemeyer. St. John’s Lutheran: Elvira Koeueraann, Ida MBler, Norvin Sclieumann, Walter Schroeder, Carl Henry Jieckuionn. Hari*!d Bulmahn. Bleeke Lutheran Church: Clara Kruckeberg, Norma Bieuz, Harry Sohamerloh, Raymond Reinking, \\ i! bert Steele. ANNOUNCE HOLY WEEK SERVICES Zion Reformed Church Announces Series Os Special Services Holy week services will be held at the Ziou Reformed church beginning next Sunday, the general theme of the services being, “Surveying the Cross on Calvary.” The confirmation services, which are usually held on Palm Sunday, will be shifted this year to probably (he second Sunday in May. Holy week services will be held on Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday nights. These services will climax with the three-hour union Good Friday service, which will be held at the Reformed church from 12 o'clock noon to 3 o'clock P. M. A sunrise service will be held on Easter morning at 6:30 o'clock. Holy Communion will be celebrated at | 10:30 o'clock, at which time an infant baptismal service will also be held. ! In the-, evening at 7:3u o'clock the church choir will render an Raster i cantata, entitled. “The Resurrection Song." Special offerings will be lifted on Raster Day. All the evening 1 services will begin at 7:20 o'clock. A complete program of sermon suojects is herewith announced: General theme — “Surveying the Cross on Calvary.’’ Sunday morning, March 24 — “We i See a Kingly Courage." > Sunday night, March 24 — “We See ■ Ourselves as in a Mirror." i Monday night, March 25 —"We see our Sins Captured.” Tuesday night, March 26 —“We see the World's Folly." Wednesday night, March 27 —“We ' see Our Eternal Gain." Thursday night, March 2S —"We see ' the Preservation of Life Through Death.’’ ' Friday,.March 29—Union service, 12 , M. to 9 p. m. I Easter Day Sunrise service at 6:30 a.m. —"The Words of Jesus About Life Unending.” 3 Sunday School at 9:15 a. m—“ The s Future Life." i Easter service at 10:30 a. in.— t "Rising With the Conqueror.’’ i Easter cantata at 7:30 p. m. —“The 1 Resurrection Song.” > A cordial invitation is extended to jail.

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Brilliant Wedding This is the most recent portrait of Princess Martha of Sweden, who was g.ven a deafening welcome when i-lie arrived at Oslo, Norway, together with Prince Olav of Norway, for their wedding which occurred Thursday. DEATH CLAIMS WAR VETERAN Walter Wilkinson, WellKnown Decatur Man, Dies At Home Here Thursday Walter Henry Wilkinson, 33, wellknown Decatur man and World War veteran, died at his home on North Fifth street at 3:45 o’clock Thursday afternoon. Mr- Wilkinfton took sick with tonsilitis a few days ago and quinsy developed. His throat was lanced and yesterday morning he suffered a hemorrhage. He lapsed into a coma about noon and failed to rally. Ereamic poisoning is given as the imI mediate cause of death. Mr. Wilkinson was a son of Harry I and Minnie Wilkinson and was horn in Decatur. October 7. 1895. lie spent his childhood Here and on April 27, 1918, he was inducted into the U. S. : army to fight in the World war. He ’ sailed for France with Company C., , 315th Ammunition Train, in June, 1918. While abroad, he was transferred to the 115th Trench Mortar outfit. After i the close of the war. he spent some time with the U. S. Army of occupa- . tion in Germany, but was returned to the United States and discharged at] ; Camp Sherman, April 4, 1919. i Several years ago, air. Wilkinson | i was married to Berniece Berger, who : survives. Other surviving relatives are four children, Dora Jane, Harrv Walter, Phyllis and David; the mother, Mrs. Minnie Wilkinson, of Decatur, and one brother, Warren. air. Wilkinson was a member of !h» aiethodist church, Adams Post No. • 43 of the American Legion, the Moose • lodge and the Elks lodge. He had i served as exalted ruler of the Elks . and dictator of the Moose. For the ; last several years, Mr. Wilkinson had followed the occupation of a plumber. . He was an active worker in the Democratic party. Funeral services will lie held at the residence at 2 o’clock Saturday after- . noon, with the Rev. R. W. Stoakes, pastor of the Methodist church, offi- > dating. The Elks and Moose lodges will conduct ritualistic services at'the , residence and the Legion members will conduct a military funeral at the > cemetery. Friends may view the body at the » S. E. Black undertaking parlors this evening. The body will be removed , to the home at 9 o’clock Saturday i morning. - Bank Robber Gets Life Sentence At South Bend 3 South Bend, Ind., March 22 —(UP) • —Edward Krakowski, 22 year old hank robber, was sentenced to life imprisonment by circuit judge Cyrus E. Pattee today. Krakowski had plead- ' ed guilty and asked for leniency but the court, after finding that he spent 9 six years in reform schools, applied the extreme penalty. Krakowski robi bed a building and loan association office here of SSOO in January.

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FOUR MEN ASK FOR MORE TIME TO ENTER PLEA Auto Identified As Car Used In Linn Grove Robbery Is Recovered GUNS, AMMUNITION YOUND IN AUTO Kliikt Wamkl, 11. .liit k (laitli<>r, 1*.~), 1 iitlu't l Siltin’, mid I. I’lTHlip ('.hambt-rlm, .‘sl. allied bandits, weir nrraii>n<’d in Attains circuit court litis morning nn cliiii’i’cs of luink robbery. All four men asked for mure lime in which to plead. With the four men separated in the Adams county jail, local officials, aided by several state police and detectives, continued to pile up evidence to be used against the four men. Two of thp men, Siniff and Chamberlin, have been connected with the Linn Grove bank robbery March 11, 1929 and all four have been identified with the Linn Grove robbery of 1925, ‘'officers claim. Auto Is Located Police Lieutenant Frank McCormack. of Lebanon, member of the state police department ami a broth-er-in-law of Chamberlin, was in Decatur yesterday. He received information from a friend in Columbia City which aided in securing the Nash sedan which lias been identified as the car in which the 1929 Linn Grove robbers made their escape. Officer McCormack, Forrest Huntington, Detective Sergeant Joe Brej nnan of Fort Wayne, Deputy Sheriff j Clarence Elixraan, of Fort Wayne, and ! Special Deputy Sheriff Arthur Hyi land, of Decatur, went to Fort Wayne yesterday afternoon where they located a private garage, retitep’jby Chamberlin. Guns Found In Car In the garage, which adjoined a residence in Fort Wayne, the car was taken into custody and brought to Decatur. The inen had a clever way of changing automobile license numbers with the aid of black tape. The numbers on the Nash had been changed from Indiana 382-637 to read Indiana KS2-537. Other sets of plates also were foiutfi in the car. A Smith-Wesson .28 calibre revolver, loaded, and a 12 gauge slu t gun also were found in the car, together with ammunition and several prepared adhesive tape bandages. Several boxes of big headed tacks, thought to be used in getaways in order that pursuers would puncture their tires on the tacks and stop, were also found. The evidence was all returned to this city and turned over to state's attor- |'| \ | r*\ |>4RK. 'I’WOi MINISTER GIVES TALK ON COURTESY Rev. U. W. Stoakes Speaks At Weekly Meeting Os Decatur Rotarians “To act courteously and to be courteous is tlie same difference as between acting like a gentlemen and being one", said the Rev. R. \\- Stoakes pastor of the First Methodist church in this city, in an address on “Courtesy", before the members of the Decatur Rotary Club last evening. Defining the art of courtesy, Rev. Stoakes said, “Courtesy comes from within. Courtesy is an act of kindness performed with politeness, it grows out of recognition of right relations. It draws from the rich resources of education, culture, refinement, environment, circumstances and the individual capacity for appreciation. Yet no one can give it birth. Courtesy, like common sense, is the characteristic of a person who has hapily discovered that he is only one of the many and that there are other pebbles. While exceedingly common, it is not so much so that it can he bought and sold in the market place. It is a thing not to be obtained but attained, said the Rev. Stoakes. I “One may act like a gentlemen be- • cause lie has read books on etiquette and still not be a gentlemen”, is the -way Rev. Stoakes classified the difference between acting courteously and being courteous. I Nomination of diieetore for the en- - suing year were made at the meeting last evening. The election of directors will take place on April 24.

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