Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 27, Number 114, Decatur, Adams County, 13 May 1929 — Page 1

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INDIANA HAS 15 VIOLENT DEATHS CORING WEEK-END Suicides and Auto Accidents Responsible For Majority Os Fatalities viVE PERSONS COMMIT SUICIDE Indianapolis. May 13-(U.R)-Fifieen persons were dead in Indiana, victins of violence over the week-end. lauded in Ihe toll were five adcides. D c. Fonts, 50. Anderson, killed himself by shooting while despondent over being demoted from a locornotve engineer to fireman. John Schneider. 62, New Albany, killed himself by taking poison, the result of domestic trouble which Mnrteil last November when he insisted on supporting Herbert Hoover for president while his wife favored .Smith Mrs. George Miller, 60, committed suicide by drowning in a cistern at per home near Dulda. She had been In ill health. C. W. McCutcheon, 50, drowned himself in the Wabash river at Bluffton An injury to his head suffered in an automobile accident is believed to have deranged his mind. Auto Accidents Take Toll Miss Gladys Ray, 23, is dead at Anderson as a result of swallowing poison while despondent over a love affair. Linday Hays, 13, of near Hoover, was killed there when a truck in which she was a passenger was struck by a Chesapeake & Ohio passenger train. Mrs. Mayda Bowen, 36, Lima, 0., was killed instantly when the automobile driven by her WffSßßYitt collided with one driven by Isaac Deal, Brazil, on the National road at Billtown. Mrs. Delia May Swange, 49, East Columbus, died ten minutes after she was struck by an automobile driven by George H. Smith, Elizabethtown. A man (relieved to be Frank Blue, about 55, Chicago, was killed at South Bend when struck by a train. Frank Garrett, 29, Chicago, died by smothering after falling into a bin of r.ck dust at Hammond where he was employed in a fertilizer plant Francis M. Fleming, 60, a township assessor, was killed instantly when two automobiles collided at Greensbutg. James Rush, 28, Detroit, structural steel worker, employed in building the Big Four railroad bridge at Jeffersonville, was struck by a rivet which fell 85 feet, striking him on the head and causing him to fall into the Ohio river. V Roy Zellars, 46, was injured fatally when he fell from a windmill derrick near Rochester. Lulu Bevis. 52, committed suicide by taking poison. Virgil Lewellyn, 12, dtowned in a pond near his home at Jeffersonville. Two Brothers Killed When Airplane Falls Long Beach,' Calif., May 13—(UP)— The motor of an airplane failed here fusing the plane to crash from an a ”itude of aoo feet and resulting in !of Raymond and Gordon brothers. Gordon was Noting the ship at the time. M-o FIDENCE SAME IS WORKED °ne Man Is Swindled Out $35 In Game At Circus Grounds Here mwi COnf^ PnCe gatne ’ conducted by a I- al tbe circus grounds, was n ' lg ’* ,0 late Saturday aftercm i s eF a pßrßon attending the clr|3s in beeil sw * n< U e d out of about thosJ 1 aß ' 1 ' same, according to old i>° Saw **’ was a ’’eplica of the could 1° Ka,np ' where the players One et ° n a ce,taln number. s wimn» i' rsotl is l eported to have been tor nied th° Ut °*‘ a *’ out 35 and, w|ten inar re8 t , he was jußt as liable for be ret., S , man wll ° swindled him, The *?? *° filp Pha 'Bc 3 . removed 7 man an K RWIe ” vVere fan rA„r r 0? the B r °unds and the eil to ~„Q . Uc,in 8 the game was ordercity, ll 'ain from running it in this

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Daughter Fights Her Dad For Public Office Lindcnwald, N. J„ May 13-(tfP)— A father unit daughter ate opposing candidates for tax collector la this new borough. The father. John A. Hoeflinger, has been endorsed by the Rooster party and the daughter, Mrs. Viola E. Schumacher, is running on the regular Republican ticket. "The Republicans must have her hypnotized,’ said Candidate Hoefiinger retired from business. "There are no hard feelings”, said Candidate Schumacher, mother of two sons and present Clementon township sidewalk assessment clerk. MRS. A. M. HENRY EXPIRES TODAY Decatur Woman Dies This Morning Following A Lingering Illness Mrs. A. M. Henry, 75, died at 5:25 o’clock this nuriling, Monday, May--13, 1929, at her home at 919 North Second street. Death was caused by a complication of diseases, with which Mrs. Henry had suffered for the past two years. During the last six ■months, however, her condition had failed rapidly. Mrs. Molanci Hatred Henry was horn July 3, 1853, near ..Hoagland. Had she survived until June 3, together with her husband, she would have been privileged to celebrate her Golden Wedding anniversary. The deceased was a member of the Methodist Episcopal church at Hoagland. Surviving are the husband, A. M. Henry; one son, Enos Henry, of Augusta. Georgia; and one grandson, Max Henry. Three surviving sisters are Mrs. James Raudebush, of Laotto; Mrs. Susan Miller, of Hoagland, and Uu. Ellen Holmes, of Decatur; and two surviving brothers are Newton Herrod, of Laotto, and Enos Herred, of Hoagland. Two sisters and three brothers preceded Mrs. Henryin death. Funeral services will be held Wednesday- afternoon at 1:15 o'clock, central standard time, at the residence and at 2 o'clock at the M. E. church in Hoagland, the Rev. Mr. Schumaker officiating. Burial will be made in the Antioch cemetery. Enos Henry, of Augusta, Georgia, together with his wife and son, arrived in this city Friday evening, and was with his mother at the time of her death. —o Airplane Instructor Killed Eureka, Kan.. May 13. —(U.R)— Kenneth Graham. 20, was killed anil a companion, Dick Dobbs, a student flier, suffered minor injuries, when an airplane piloted by Graham crashed here last night. Graham was an experienced pilot. The plane went into a nose dive when about 500 feet in the air. SINGS GROUP OF NEGRO SPIRITUALS Colored Soloist Gives Program At Baptist Church Sunday Evening A very interesting and inspiring service was held at the Baptist church, lasl evening, and a large audience responded heartily. After a brief period of devotion, led by H N. Shroll, the Rev. O. E. Miller introduced the subject and program of the evening by outlining the rise of the negro spiritual. He said, in part, that “the negro folk song arose out of the heart of the negro race in their time of suffering and slavery. The spiritual is deeply religious, often very primitive nevertheless fuilof pathos and experience. The' spiritual of the negro was a mighty power for morale among all troops in the World war. The folk song is a very important factor in the development of American music. Through the negro song and music there is being created a better understanding of the race and an appreciation of their contribution to human civilization.' Rev. Miller then Introduced Mrs. Naomi Phillips, of Fort Wayne, colored soloist, who sang most acceptably a number of spirituals. .Irs. Phillips has a sweet soprano voice and sings with deep feeling the songs which have meant so much to her A quiet spiritual, Impression was felt in the audience as the singer brought her message in song.

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disagree in Death of Harvard Student I /. • —iMMw " j/- :»•« * u» fSB fT' ftI .3 alt [W| 'te ; ft • ft v L 3-." ' The Invest:,’ati'-n into finding the dead bodys of Walter T. Huntington, left. Harvard student of Windsor, Conn., ha- not definitely revealed whether the young man took his own life or was killed by some unknown assailant. He had conic to his home, above, at Windsor for a week-end visit and was to lave returned to college the day following his death. MedicAl Examiner Castello finds tile case is hontic’de. but County Detective E. .1. Hickey- holds to his theory of suicide. Clues are now being run down which may reveal the ex ; stenee of a g rl in the case who met Huntington in secret trysts near the spot where his body was found.

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PORTLAND YOUTH DROWNS IN RIVER W. 11. Cunningham, Brother Os Mrs. Jesse Cole, Drowns In Potomac W. 11. Cunningham, 21. son of Mr. and Mrs. John W. M. Cunningham, of Portland, amt a brother-in-law of Jesse Cole, formerly of this city but now residing in Madison, Wisconsin, was drowned in the Potomac river, at Washington D. C„ Saturday. The youth was a graduate of the Portland high school class of 1923, and was a junior in the Georgetown Schoo! of Foreign Service. Mr. Cunningham was riding in a canoe with two fellow students, when it capsized as it was drawn into a whirlpool. Although he was a strong swimmer, the young man never reached shore. Cunningham told his comrades to switn to shore and that he would tow in the canoe, but the swift current, of the Potomac swept the boy down stream and into another whirlpool, in which he disappeared. Mt. and Mrs. Jesse Cole, who for the past month have been visiting with the fotmer's parents, Mr. and Mrs. Jesse Cole, Sr.. North Fifth street. Decatur, had gone to Portland to visit over Mother.’s Day with Mrs. Cole's parents, Mr. and Mrs. John W . M. Cunningham, and were there when news of the tragedy was brought to the home. Jesse Cole and Russel Cunningham, the latter a bother of the unfortunate young man, left Sunday afternoon for Washington, to take part in the search for the body. The mother collapsed when news of the drowning was received, and is under the care of a physlciap. — 0 Moose To Hold Special Meeting This Evening The Loyal Order of Moose will hold a special meeting tonight May 13. at eight o’clock. Several good speakers from Fort Wayne Lodge No. 200 will be here. James Ford, Edwin Thomas and O. W. Miller will be present. Lunch will be served and a good attendance is requested. Engineer, Demoted, Ends Life Anderson, Ind., May 13. (U.R)—B. C. Fouts, 50, tor many years a Big Four locomotive engineer, committed suicide by shooting due to despondency over being demoted to fireman, lack of business is said to have caused the demotion.

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Thomas S. Perkins Taking A Course In English Composition At Cleveland "You can’t teach an old dog new tricks,” reads an old axiom, but Thomas S. Perkins, former Deca fur resident, is one person who does not believe in axioms, al least that partieu lar one, if it was intended to pertain to men as well as dogs. Mr. Perkins has enrolled in Cleveland University. Cleveland. Ohio, at the age of 70 years. He is taking a course in English composition, in order that he may be better able to translate the many interesting experiences of his life into storeis. Mr. Perkins was born and reared near Ossian and later resided for many years in Decatur. He was married to Miss Violet Blossom, daughter of the late L. R. Blossom, Civil war veteran who died here last winter. Mrs Perkins died several years ago and for the last eight or ten years. Mr. Perkins has been residing in Cleveland with his son, Hugh. Mrs. Perkins was a sister of Mrs. Arilla Burkhart, 733 High street, Decatur. Mr. Perkins has traveled extensive-' ly in the United States. He has already written considerably, including some poetry. He is a well-versed stu(CONTINTTED ON PAGE TWO) GRADE SGH9SL3 PLAN CONTESTS Music Contests Arranged For First Four Grades Os Ward Schools The music contest of the first four grades of the North Ward, South Ward and Riley sfchool will be held Tuesday evening, in the high school auditorium, at 7:30 o’clock, daylight saving time. The best boy and girl soloists of each ward has been chosen, and will compete. Each grade of the wards will have a chorus, while three chdrttses will also be formed from each grade, making competition keen. Miss Hazel Gleason, who judged the high school elimination contest, and who is supervisor of music in the Marsh Foundation Schpol in Van Wert, will act as judge. The entire program will appear in tomorrow’s edition of the Daily Demociat. The parents are asked to please observe the time and place of the contest. The different grades will be assigned to special rooms at the high schpol building to assemble the choruses.

SUNDAY SCHOOL WORKERS MEET IN CONVENTION Large Crowd Attends Washington Township Convention Here Sunday GEORGE SAUNDERS DELIVERS ADDRESS Mrs. W. A. Lower, of the First Presbyterian church of this city, was elected president of tile Washington township Sunday School Association at the annual meeting held yesterday afternoon at the Evangelical church in tliis city. C. E. Bell, of the Decatur Baiptist church, was elected vicepresident of the association. Other officers elected were: Mrs. E. Baughman, United Brethren chuich, secretary-treasurer; Francis Girod, Reformed church, superintendent of administrative division; Virgil Krick, Methodist church, superintendent adult division; Ray- Smith, St. Paul cliureli, superintendent young pe pies division; Mrs. Elmer Anspaugh, Evangelical church, superintendent children’s division. All officers were elected for a one year term. George Saunders Speaks Hon. George Saunders, joint representative of Adams and Wells counties in the state legislature and editor of the Bluffton Banner, was the chief speaker during the afternoon. Mr. Saunders urged the Sunday sch"ol teechers to consider the age of Hie pupils and not try to teach 16-year-old pupils with 90-year-old methods. Mr. Saunders praised the value of the church in present, day education. His address was well-received. C. D. Teeple, retiring president of tlie organization presided at. the meeting and introduced the various officers, old and new, and also introdue(CONTINUEP ON PAGE SIX) LARGE NUMBER MAKE COMMUNION Class Os 166 Boys And Girls Make Solemn Communion At Catholic Church Impressive ceremonies marked the First Holy Communion services at the St. Marys Catholic church at 7 < ’clock Sunday morning, when a class of 166 boys and girls made their solemn communion. This number included those who made their first communion and those who had made their private communion. The members of the class, together with those .who had made their private communion, marched from the school house into the church, where seats were reserved for them. The Rev. Father J. A. Seimetz, pastor, officiated at tlie services. A high ma.-s was celebrated, during which time the communicants renewed their baptismal vows. Tlie members of the class approached the communion rail, where Father Seimetz distributed Holy Communion to them. The original numlier in the fiist class was 90, but several of the boys and girls were unable to attend the services on account of sickness. Several were confined to their homes with measles. In the afternoon, the members of tlie class were enrolled in the scapular of Mt. Carmel and received their certificates and candles of their First holy communion. —o Domestic Quarrel Over Presidential Election Results In Man's Death New Albany, Ind., May 13.—t'U.R)—As the outgrowth of a quarrel which occurred last November when John Schneider asked his wife to vote for Hoover and she insisted on casting her ballot for Smith the 62-year-old farmer set fire to his home and committed suicide by taking poison here. The dying man was found yesterday by neighbors who rushed to tlie blazing home, in a field beside him was a seven page letter to the newspapers weighed down by two Bibles. It told of cruel treatment at the hands of his wife, Mrs. Anna B. Schneider, who recently sued for divorce. The letter explained that Mrs. Schneider often had expressed the wish that her husband "burn up" and that lie was granting her wish by taking acid.

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Decatur Girl Is Honor Student At Wittenberg pi Ingfield, Ohio., May 13 Wittenberg College here annually hold.'i recognition serviies for students who have excelled in the class room and In tlie laboratory. It is tlie occasion of tlie annual Honoi Day banquet. Students wlio hold high places are officially presented, stand and receive the joined applause of undergraduates and ' faculty. Among those who have been in the select “brains’’ class for the past two semesters at Wittneberg College is Florence Drage, of R. R. No., 1, Decatur, Indiana. 5 ( o SEN.BROOKHART STRIKES BACK Accuses President Hoover Os Calling A “Pseudo Session Os Congress” Washington, May 13.—(U.R)—Sena-! tor Smith Brookhart of lowa struck back ia the Senate today at those who have been calling him a “pseudo Republican” by accusing President Hoover of calling a "pseudo" special session of congress to enact a pseudo farm relief bill.” “That’s where the spuriousness, the fraud and the conterfeiting conies in,” Brookhart shouted to a crowded floor and a gallery filled with distinguished persons, including Mrs. Alice Roosevelt Longworth and Mrs. Doily Kanns, figures in Washington's social dispute who sat together in tlie vice president's row of the gallery. The lowa senator said the pending farm l>’ll adds nothing more than the 1923 law already provides through the intermediate credit banks. That law was found to be inadequate to meet, tlie farmers’ needs, he said. The new one also will be inadequate, Brook,hart declared. Brookhart said lie made 2BW speeches for Hoover in the campaign, telling the farmers tlie president hail fixed tlie price of farm products in war times and now would do it in peace times. The Republican national committee sent out n million and a half copies of liis speeches, lie said. But since tlie election, “none of the standpatters have even consulted me about farm relief,” Brookhart added. “I do not wish to detract from the credit which is given Senator Borah l>y persuading Mr. Hoover to call this extra session during tlie campaign,” he continued, “but I spoke to Hoover about it as far back Jas uly 12. I had been in Georgia investigating some standpat maneuvers in postoffice appointments. “Mr. Hoover readily assented. Dr. Work was present. It was suggested that, in order not to ruffle the feathers of President Coolidge, they would make it so that the special session would be called if no action was taken in (lie regular session. “Now I am called a pseudo Republican. I put it in the congressional driectory that I am a progressive I Republican.” SOUTH WARD TO STAGE OPERETTA Children Os Grade School To Present “Midsummer Eve” Next Thursday Tlie children of the South Ward school will present the operetta, “Midsummer Eve.” next Hhursday evening, May 16, beginning at 7:30 o’clock, at. tlie Decatur high school auditorium. More than one hundred children will appear in the operetta, which is a fairy play in two acts. The setting for the play takes place in the out-of-doors. Tlie play lias been carefully directed by Miss Eva Acker, Mrs. Herb Curtis, Miss Florence Magley and Miss Effie Patten, teachers at tlie school. The teachers have also been busly engaged in making many fancy and attractive costumes which will add much to the spectacular effect of the production. Children of the school have been selling tickets for the play for more than a week past and are working hard to make It a success both financially and artistically. o— Resignation Demanded Newcastle, Ind., May 13. -- dJ.R; — ■ Mayor Strod Hays, Democrat, has asked Dean L. Ross, democrat, city • inspector of weights and measures to resign, charging inefficiency.

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HEAVY RAINS IN STATE CAUSING FLOOD DANGER U. S. Meterologist Predicts Lowlands Will Be Inundated Soon WABASH AND WHITE RIVERS AFFECTED Indianapolis, May 13. (U.R) All rivers in Indiana may be expected to rise rapidlv and in|undate many lowlands as result of recent heavy rains. .1. il. Armington, United States meteorologist, here said today. “The rainfall during the last 48 hours has been heavy throughout the region drained by the Wabash and White rivers,” Armington said. "In that period 1.67 incites fell at Farm[land, head of the White river, and 2.49 inches at Anderson. “Without further rains, White river may be expected to go to 13 or 14 feet. At this height many lowlands will be inundated.” Heavy Rains Along Wabash Contributing to flood danger along the Wabash river. 3.49 inches fell ut Covington, Ind., during the last. 48 hours and 3.70 Inches at Crawfordsville. the meteorologist said. At Tergrellaute the Wabash had reached a stage of 14.2 feet this morning, a rise of 7.7 feet in 24 hours. The stream was expected to go near flood stage, 16 feet, without further rains. Vincennes, with a flood stage of 14 feet, reported a 9.8 foot stage peached today and Mt. Carmel, where flood stage is 16 feet, retorted a 14.8 foot ' level. E. B. Gauker, Os Geneva, Moves To Indianapolis Geneva, May 13—(Special)—E. I). Gauker, prominent Geneva man, has accepted a position as cashier of the Globe Inidernnity company, in Indianapolis, and will move his family to that city Tuesday. Mr. and Mrs Gauker will reside at 1115 Taxedo street. Mr. Gauker served as cashier of the Farmers and Merchants bank in Geneva for several years. o— Judge Baltzell Undergoes Operation For Appendicitis Indianapolis, May 13.—(U.R) Federal Judge Robert C. Baltzell was operated on at a hospital here today for acute appendicitis. His condition after the operation was reported good. All civil cases set for trial in federal court the next two weeks have been postponed. o To Seek New Trial Os “Hot Car” Case Indianapolis, May 13. —(U.R) —Motions for new trials preparatory to fil'tig appeals will be presented May 24 by attorneys for three defendants convicted Saturday of motor theft conspiracy by a federal court jury, it was indicated today. After three days of evidence and arguments, the jury convicted all four defendants: Joseph M. Huffington, former Indiana klan agent; Louis A. Wilkerson, Vincennes; Sheldon M. Beanblossom, former Evansville klan secretary, ami Leo Baldwin, Albany. N. Y., alleged “brains” of the motor theft ring. TRUCK AND BUS CRASH; 5 KILLED Sixteen Other Persons Injured In Tragedy Near Monroe, Michigan Monroe, Mich., May 13 — (UP) — Five persons were killed and sixteen others wele injured when a passenger bus struck a freight truck near here yesterday. The bus was bound from Cleveland to Detroit. The bus driver. E. D. Warring of Cleveland, and Godfrey Frovarp, of Detroit, the truck driver, were held by police pending an investigation. Warring said the truck was parked without lights. The truck driver denied the charge. The dead: Harold Westerman. Chicago, F. .1. Giaff, Detroit; Mrs. Emma Narettus, Los Angelesg, Frank Clnderich, Centerville, Iowa; and a girl tentatively identified as Mildred Proctor, of Palnsvllle, Ohio.

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