Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 27, Number 119, Decatur, Adams County, 18 May 1929 — Page 1

VVEATHCR Bain probable to* Light and Sunday. !Cooler Sunday and L north and we»t portions toniflht.

CLEVELAND HOLDS DAY OF MOURNING

Irmy airplanes ■ COLLIDE IN AIR; I ONE MAN KILLED ■>jlot a < Parachute Becomes ■ Entangled In Undercarriage Os Plane ■)THER pilot W JCMPS TO SAFETY I Columbus, Ohio, May IS.— U.R)—UnHhle to free* his parachute after it be EL entangled in the under-carriag» K ips flaming, disabled airplane, H.inn la*e Meadows, of Los Angeles, Kas killed today when his airplane Kid that of Lieut. A. F. Solter coliitlK| in midair north of here. Lieut. Holler jumped to safety just as his ■hip burst into flame. iM as Meadows leaped from the cockHit of bis ship he apparently jerked ■ho cord of his parachute which was Hliipped against the under carriage of Hie falling ship. He was dead, ids Hoily badly charred, when nearby reslHenls reached the wreckage. Motor Explodes ■ Lieut Solder's ship disabled by the Htupact. angled off in a northerly diH’ctiou. with Solter trying to free Himself from the cockpit. The motor ■iploded as he jumped and the craft Hurtled to the earth, a mass of tangHd wreckage and fabric. pi Sober's parachute became entangled in a tree but he was uninjured. ■Meadows' plane fell between the House and the garage at the Verniss ■Downier home. 9 Both ships were assigned to the 95th ■pursuit squadron from Rockwell field, ■Los Angeles, were members of the ■Blue Fleet participating in the army lair ground maneuvers over centra! ■and southwestern Ohio. I The squadron composed by 17 ships, ■ was enroute to Columbus on 3TUair ■ "raid" when the accident occured. ■ Solter said they spied a dozen roil ■army planes beneath them and were ■iwooping to "attack” when Meadows ■ plane crashed into the under-carriage I of his ship. I o ■ Rain And Cold Weather Forecast For Next Week [ Weather outlook for the period ot I May 2o to 25, 1929. I Fojr the region of the Great Lakes: ■ Mostly fair in west portion and rain ■in east portion first of week with I temperature below season normal: I showers by Wednesday or Thursday ■ with temperature above seasonal norI mal middle and closing days of week. G. E, Band Concert To Be Held On May 28

The G. E. Band concert, which was announced last evening, to be an f'tnt of the coming Tuesday evening, has been changed and will be l’tlii one week lrom Tuesday, May 23 nil Liberty Way. DEATH CLAIMS MONROE WOMAN Mrs, Eliza M. Johnson, 77, Dies This Morning; Funeral On Monday Monroe, May 18.—(Special)—Mrs. Kbza M. Johnson, 77, wife of Levi Johnson, died at 11 o'clock this morning. Saturday, May 18, 1929, at her lionie in Monroe. Death was caused h.v a complication of diseases with "Inch Mrs. Johnson has suffered since Ihe holidays. hliza M. Johnson was a daughter n f Jesse and Eliza Smith and was horn in Adams county, April 25, 1852. ur l ' le past eighteen years, she has iesicled in Monroe. She is a member 11 the Zion Christian Union church Douthwest of Decatur. Surviving are the husband and the (slowing children: Mrs. James Kessei ’ Ab Everhart, Jesse Johnson, 0 Conroe; Perry Johnson of Decanr, James Johnson and Mrs. Alta PiUner, of Fort Wayne; and Mrs. Emma Teems, of Toledo, Ohio. Three (' Udren preceded the mother in death. funeral services will he held Mon'a> afternoon at l o'clock, standard roe, at the residence, and at 1:30 °, c °ck, standard time, at the M. E. [■lurch in Monroe. The Rev. Vernon n Py officiate, assisted by the ev - V. Williams. .Burial will he “Ude in the Ray cemetery.

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Vol. XXVII. No. 119.

lovernor Fred W. Green of Mich

gan vetoed tile capital punishment bill recently missed by the Michigan Legislature, explaining that he believed it too rigid. The bill provided for the electrocution of first degree murdereis.

LARCE NUMBER SIGN EASEMENTS Enthusiastic Meeting Held At Preble By Persons Interested In Hoad No. l(i Fifty land owners, interested in state highway No. HI, about to lie taken over by the state commission between Decatur and Huntington, met jut the garage in Preble last evening to discuss the matter of signing the easements, a requirement before the road will he taken over for maintenance. The road committee of the Decatur Industrial Association attended (he meHing. offering such assistance as possible. Daniel Scherry, chairman of the highway sixteen association, called the meeting to order and named ,1. H. Heller to preside. After an explanatory talk on the purpose of the meeting, tiie chairman called on J. W. Tyndall. W. A. Lower, Avon Bulk, Jesse Rice, George Kriek and John G. Hoffman. Expressions were also made by a number of the land owners and then the easement blanks were passed out. These were signed by the folowing: Victor Hoffman, Edward B. Scherry, Benjamin Liniger, Peter Helmrich, Daniel Scherry, Chris Borne, A. W. Werling, Arthur E. Meyers, Hehry Ehlerding, Otto Koenemann, J. C. Grandstaff, W. M. Myers, Charles Fuhrman, Rudolph Linnemeier and John Gerber. Tiie meeting was an enthusiastic one and closed with the appointment of a committee composed of Edward Scherry, Milton Werling, Benjamin Liniger and Clarence Smith to canvas the farmers along the route and secure their signatures. Mr. Harkendorff, district deputy for the state highway commission, of Fort Wayne, telephoned this morning that he will be here Wednesday of next week to assist in seem mg the rights-of-way. He also stated that he had been asked by the state commission not to secure the easements on the east end of the road between Preble and Decatur until tiie route has been surveyed as it is expected some changes will he made. Tiie road officials would like to work out a plan to run the road straight west from Decatur on the Monroe street road, turning north along tiie Erie railroad and, joining the Preble road about two miles west of here. Farm Bureau Directors Approve Insurance Division Indianapolis, May 18.-(U.R>-Organ-ization of a life insurance department of the Indiana Farm Bureau Federation was approved at a special meeting of the board of directors here. Under direction of H. R. Nevins, the new department will sell policies to members. Hotel Clerk At 98 Years; Works Daily Stockton, Cal., May 18 — (VP> ~ Chai les Dubois, 98. claims to bethe oldest hotel clerk in the Lnlted U|ntPß ‘ He works daily at a local hostelry and greets guests with all the zes of a much younger man. He smokes four cigars daily and eats whatever his desires dictate. .. He was born in Switzerland. In 1860 he joined the Mexican revolutionary army of Benito Juarez, rose to the rank of a lieutenant and was one of those who witnessed tiie execution of Emperor Maximilian.

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U. S. Woman Shows Pluck American Woman, Passenger On Dirigible, Plans To “Stick With Ship” Toulon, May 18.— (U.R) —Mrs. Mary : Pierce of New York will stay by the crippled Graf Zepipe'in until the dirigible has been repaired and will he one of the passengers when the flight across the Atlantic to the Unit- 1 ed States ! s resumed. To Mrs. Pierce the forced landingj yesterday was just an incident, she 1 told a United Press correspondent to- 1 day. “I never slept better In my life than I I did last nlglil,” she said. “I am. ready to go hack on the ship as soon j as I)r. Eekener gives the word. I have not cancelled mv passage and I do not intend to. "The accident proves that you can’t plan to do anything and be certain of it. This upsets my plans, but I am going to stick by the ship. ”1 did not know we were in great danger and I don't be ieve yet that we were. No cue ran around the ship like you have often pictured persons would do at such a moment. No one told me we were in trouble and 1 did not know we were. But I admit I did not enjoy the ship’s bumping mu 11, ■ Dr. Eekener was remarkable during j I lie storm .” Marion Man Charged With Burning Own Store Marion, Ind., May 18. —(U.P) —J- 3 Van Kirk was under arrest at Pleasantvilie, Ohio, today charged with burring his own grocery store here April 14 with a loss of $4,800. Search for the men was begun when William Hacklier. 14, clerk at the store, told local tjfficers lie had stolen money and candy from Yan Kirk who discovered the loss and threatened to expose the hoy unless he set fire to the store. Van Kirk, a former Ohio State University student, denied the charge and said he was in Hartford City at the tmie of the fire. Trio Leap To Safety Before Auto Is Wrecked Indianapolis. May 18.—(U.R) -A split second before their automobile was crashed to splinters by a traction car, Oral Teal, 21, of Atlanta, Ind., his sister, Mrs. Karl Aldredge, Indianapolis and Sherman Pitzer, 21. Atlanta, leaped to safety. The motor had stalled while the car was on the track. The wreckage was scattered for 60 feet.

CONTRACTORS TO EMPLOY 40 MEN Large Force To Be Pul To Work On Addition To Castings Company Plant The Austin company, of Cleveland, contractors for the building of tiie foundry-type addition to the Decatur Castings company plant in the north part of the city, will put about to men to work Monday, A. B. Carmitclipl, superintendent of the construction company stated this morning. Men seeking employment are asked to get in touch with Mr. Carmitchel at the foundry. Ground will he broken for the new building Monday morning. The addition to the present foundry building will he 80 by 180 feet, giving the Decatur Castings company more than 14,000 square feet of floor space. The building will be modern in ever v respect and will be constructed of brick and steel, with the monitor type roof. ' The new addition is to be completed by June 15 and the Austin company will rush the wok to completion so that it can be turned over to the castings company l>y that time. The Decatur Castings company is now employing 150 persons and when the new addition Is completed about 50 more men Will be put to work. _—. o —■ Revival In Progress At Winchester Church Revival services which opened at the Winchester church, near Monroe, last Sunday, will continue for another week. Splendid interest is being shown in the services and the attendance has been good. The services begin each evening at 7:30 o’clock.

Decatur, Indiana, Saturday, May 18, 1929.

DEBENTURE PLAN ! OF FARM RELIEF! BELIEVED DOOMED Congress Takes Recess Over Week-End; Conferees Meet Monday ADJOURNMENT ABOUT JUNE 1 PREDICTED Washington, May 18.—(U.R) With glie debenture plan well on its way toward death, and n tariff compromise in the making, congress took a recess today before resuming heavy activities. The situation is shaping up so well from an administration standpoint that congressional leaders again are ta king alxmt adjourning around Juno 1 for a month or six weeks. By that time they figure the farm bill will have been ironed out and sent to the White House for signature, while the tariff bill will have been passed by the House and made ready for hearings ly the Senate finance committee. The House and Senate farm committees will meet Monday on the Senate side of the eapitol to consider differences in the relief measures as passed by the two houses. Chaiiman McNary of the Senate conferees, said he believed there would he little dispute in the committee about any of the differences except the debenture plan. McNary says if lie finds the House conferees I adamant against the debenture, l.e | will seek another vote on the plan in the Senate, or perhaps persuade the House conferees to go back for instructions. As the House conferees stand 8 to 1 2 in opposition to the debenture plan, 1 it is generally accepted that only the | means of its execution remains to be 1 devised. SEEK CAUSE OF ZEP'S TROUBLE Zeppelin Line Officials Plan Investigation; Sabotage Charge Denied Friedrlchshafen, Germany, May 18. —(U.R) —Zeppelin authorities here continued to deny today that sabotage was responsible for damage to motors of the Graf Zeppelin which caused her to come jierllously close to disaster yesterday over France. Considerable mystery surrounded the trouble “German efficiency” ! had built the motors well, but there I were suggestions that the Germans | perhaps had neglected to overhaul the giant machines at the proper timethe end of 20 hours’ running. Moored In Hangar Tou'on, May 18. — (U.R! — The crippled dirigible Graf Zeppelin lay moored in the hangar of the Cuers-Pierre-fitte air port here today like a chained monster, her strength completely spent. The passengers and creiv, for whom an attempted trans-Atlantic cruise to the United States was turned into a borrowing nightmare, were recuperating from their weird experience, nerve shattered, but happy and thankful. Some of them never expected to live through the ordeal. As the temp-est-tossed colossus of the air rode through the skies at the mercy of winds, mistrals and storms, many of the passengers thought detitli was certain, that the ship either would be dashed to the ground or be carried out to sea. Officials En Route Officia's of the Zeppelin line were speeding toward Toulon today to make a minute examination of the motors whose failure threatened the most tefrlble Zeppelin disaster since the war. Dr. Ludwig Duerr, constructor of the giant airship, was on the way from Friedrichshafen to study the machinery. When the Graf Zeppelin finally was landed last night three of the five engines were out of commission and one was nearly so. Even the one motor which was functioning was, used sparingly by the commander, Dr. Hugo Eekener. Its operation was such a strain on the metal work of the huge dirigible that it was feared the ship’s back might be broken. , As soon as daylight came today, tho ship’s crew began to examine the structure to determine whether the (CONTINUED ON PAGE TWO)

Al Capone At Last Finds Safety Inside Prison Walls

Peace And Security Come To Gang Leader First Time In Three Years — Philadelphia, May 18.— (U.R) —Peace and security, which Al Capone says he has been seeking for three years, came to him today behind the thick walls of Moyamenstng prison. For the first time since he became front page news because of Ills domination of the Chicago beer runners, life flowed placidly for the gangster who was arrested here Thursday and Indicted and hurried off to jail yesterday for one year for carrying a pistol. It remained for the law, Capone's bitterest foe, to provide haven for him In what some persons insisted was the most perilous hour of his eventful life. Delieve He Feared Rivals Today the crowds that hurried along Broad and Market streets were ready to accept as fact the report that Capone was driven to jail, not by tin* power of the police, hut by fear m death at the hands of rival gangsters. The rumor gained added weight from a statement issued by Mayor Harry A. Mackey who said lie believed Capone was "really glad” to go to jalh The mayor based his deduction on i the fact that Capone submitted soj easily to airest as he was leaving a motion picture theatre; on the fact | that the gangsters pleaded guilty | when facing trial on a charge ofj carrying concealed weapons, and on| the report that a gang council, which j met at Atlantic City to divide thoi lucrative tribute of the underworld | and establish peace, had broken up I after six days amid threats on the part of George "Bugs” Moran to "get” Capone. Offjrially jC’APpne denied all that, telling a tale of a formal meeting at Atlantic City at which elaborate articles of peace were drawn up and signed by Moran and himself. Capone explained that when he mas arrested here he was on his way to Chicago to tell his followers to put away their guns. The year's sentence which Capone and Frank Cline, his bodyguard, received r.,ay he reduced to 111 mon its by good behavior. In a few days, officials said, the two men will lie moved from Moyamensing to Holmesburg prison. When Capone heard the rattle of the key in his cell lock, he could think of nothing more blood-curdling to say than: “Please let my wife and children visit me once in a while.” AGED BACHELOR DIES SUDDENLY Joe Ruff, 71, Dies Os Apoplexy At Home Os Neither In Monroe Township joe Ruff, 71, of Monroe township, died suddenly of apoplexy, Thursday afternoon, at the home of a neighbor, C. W. Martz, where he had gone to exchange eggs for hatching. Mr. Ruff was a native of Vera Cruz. He was never married. Mr. Ruff sat down in a chair at the Martz home while Mrs. Mart/, went to the poult; j- house to gather eggs. When she returned, she found Mr. Ruff’s lifeless body lying on the floor in front of the chair in which he was sitting when she left the hose. The county coroner, Dr. Grandstaff, pronounced death due to apoplexy. One sister Mrs. Fannie Reinhart, resides at Vera Cruz. Funeral services will be held at the Christian Apostolic church at 10 o’clock Sunday morning. o Railroads Wants To Cut Rates On Wheat Flour Washington, May 18.— (U.R) —Eastern trunkline railroads asked the Interstate Commerce commission today for special permission to put into effect on one day’s notice emergency rate reductions on wheat flour shipped from Lake Erie ports to the Atlantic seaboard. A previous application of the eastern roads? providing similar reductions of 3.33 cents a hundred pounds on wheat for export lias been granted by the commission and today’s petition proposes the same rate cuts for wheat flour. The object of the reductions is to accelerate movement of ■wheat stocked in grain elevators before harvesting of this year’s crop.

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0. H, S, ANNUAL IS DELIVERED 1929 Edition Os Ravelings Issued; Dedicated To Gene Stratton Porter Two hundred and fifty copies of the 1929 edition of the D.H.S. “Ravelings”! were issued yesterday by the high school. All copies have been sold and more than half have been delivered. The publication is dedicated to Gene ; Stratton Porter and is listed as the i Limberloat edition in the national j and state contests in which it is 'entered. I The book h.is a flexible blue cover | which, for the first time in the nnInual’s history, has been sewed on. To correspond with the cover, a border of blue is printed on cream colored paper throughout the tiook. The printing and illustrations are all done in black. The lwok is divided into five parts namely: administration, classes, athletics, activities, and advertising. All except the last, is opened with a still life picture, an innovation with this issue. Miss Mildred Kelly was the faculty advisor in charge the make-up and literary portions of the book this year. Mi s Blanch McCrorv was in charge of the financial side of the work. Robert Heller was editor-in-chief and Harry Dailey was business manager. The book is published by the senior class and its purpose is to preserve a record of the years work. Next year’s staff has not been selected with the exception of Mary McIntosh and Chalmer Fisher, editor and business manager, respectively, who served as assistants this year and will automatically be advanced. —o — Bluffton High School To Graduate 73 Pupils Bluffton, May 18—(UP)—A class of i 73 pupils will lie graduated from Bluffton high school at the annual commencement exercises to he held on Friday May 24. There are 36 boys and 37 gills in the class. The commence-

ment address will be deliveied by the Hon. Samuel Grathwell, famous lecturer, who will speak on the smbject, "Getting By Your Own Hoodoo." o Bishop Fout Re-Elected Indianapolis, May 18.—(U.R) —Bishop Henry H. Fout, of Indianapolis was re-elected bishop in the United Brethren church at a conference in Lancaster, Pa., according to word received here today. The bishop's new tenure is for four years. United Brthren churches in Indiana, Illinois and Wisconsin come under his office. Fire In Michigan Owosso, Mich., May 18.—(UJ?)— I The entire Owoaso and Corunna fire departments were fighting .a blaze of unknown origin today that covered an entire city block here and was burning six oil tank cars and about. 300 tons of coal in the Square Deal yards. CONGRESS TODAY —(U.R) — Senate: Not In session. Interstate commerce committee continues hearings on establishment communications commission. House: Not in session. Ways and means committee continues tariff hearings.

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TRIBUTE PAID TO 123 VICTIMS OF CLINIC DISASTER May Victims Os Gas Have Excellent Chances For Recovery, Is Report CHEMICAL EXPERTS AID IN INVESTIGATION Cleveland, May 18.- U.P.) —Cleveland curtailed Its business today in an official "day of mourning’ for the 123 perspns killed by poison gas in Wednesday’s clinic explosions. Its sorrow was mixed with thanksgiving as word came that additional vlctihas of gas bail excellent chances for recovery. Those who so far have survived Inhalation of poison fumes will recover unless complications develop, Dr. William E. Lower, clinic director, said. Most of those suffering from the gas remained under close medical care in hospitals or at home. z Experts Have Theory Eleven nationally known chemical experts, conferring with ihe city’s special commission of inquiry yesterday. advanced the theory that the clinic was a huge chemical retort a* the time of the explosions. Gases given off by X-Ray film combined with tlie chemicals in the air Ip produce varying effects upon the victims, they believed. This, it was felt, explained why some victims showed traces of hydroeianic acid and bromine gas and the blood of others was poisoned by nitrogen peroxide and carbon monoxide. Illinois Has Largest Membership In Legion Indianapolis. May 18. — (U.R) - Illinois today maintained its distinction of having more Legion members than any other state following delivery of several thuosand membership cards to Legion headquarters late Friday hv Jack Cope, Chicago, who leaped from a plane over Mars Hill airport and floated to eaith with the cards. Cope was one of a party of Illinois Legionnaires who made the trip here in two planes. The first plane, piloted liv Captain Michael Rubner, commander of Aviation Post, Chicago, carried David L. Shlllingshaw, Illinois department commander, as passenger. Cope is famous throughout tho country for his parachute leaps. He made h : s first, leap in 1910. He made one leap from 10,000 feet several years ago, falling more than a mile before he opened his parachute. C. H. S. Senior Play To Be Repeated Sunday Night The repetition of the Catholic high school senior's play, “Who Wouldn't he Crazy,’’ will Ik* given at 8:30 o’clock Sunday evening, at the Decatur Catholic school auditorium. The postponement jn time is made so that those who wish to attend the Decatur high school baccalaureate services may do so. The baccalaureate services will begin at 7:30 o’clock daylight saving time. — ——o

NEW MANGER OF WESTERN UNION James Murphy, Former Messenger Boy Here, Becomes Office Manager James “Jim" Murphy, who until two months ago was messenger bov at the local station of the Western Union Telegraph Co., today was appointed stattion manager for Decatur. Mr. Murphy arrived in Decatur today from Delphi, where he has acted as operator for the last two months. Decatur is “Jim's" home town and he stated today that he was glad to return here as agent for the telegraph company, lie said that the company's policy of efficiency and service would continue as it has thq last year under the leadership of L. M. Baker, former agent. Mr. Balter, who came to, Decatur a year ago from Marion, will assume the management of the Western Union office at Warsaw, Monday. Mr. Baker stated today that he regretted very much ty leave Decatur, and that lie would always remember it as one 'of the finest towns in Indiana.

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