Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 27, Number 127, Decatur, Adams County, 28 May 1929 — Page 1

weather Mostly cloudy tonight and Wednesda'y, with probably local showers and thunderstorms. Continued warm.

COL LINDBERGH AND BRIDE “VANISH”

ADAMS COUNTY ASSESSMENTS 8R0P593.457 Valuation of Personal Property Totals Only $5,182,890 This Year ONLY PERSONAL PROPERTY INCLUDED The valuation of personal property In Adams county for 1929 took a drop of $9:1,457. as compared with the total of a year ago. County Assessor Jay Cline stated this morning, after compiling the totals as turned in by the township assessors. The assessed valuation.of personal property this year is $5,182,890. The total last year, as assessed by the township assessors, was $5,276,347. Corporations Not Included The above total does not include (anything except personal property. I Improvements to buildings and value lof personal property held by corporlations are not included. I A decrease of nearly SIOO,OOO was [found in Berne this year, according to [the figures turned in hy the assessor. | The valuations for the townships follow: Union, $227,975; Root, $349,[708; Preble, $307,127; Kirkland, $194,1878; Washington, $301,532; St. Marys, $135,431; Blue Creek, $200,756; Monroe. $409,042; French. $218,530; Hartford, $338,036; Wabash, $341,197; Jefferson, "$169,636. i The assessed valuations in the incorporated towns are - Decatur, sl,169,327; Monroe, $45,256; Berne, $621,197; Geneva, $126,647. There was a loss of about $200,000 jin the value of money and notes on [hand. March 1, 1929, this being the .largest single loss in the individual items assessed by the assessors. —— 0 Nine Miners Killed In Alabama Mine Blast Birmingham, Ala., May 28. — U.R) — The bodies of nine dead and two injured miners were removed today from an explosion-wrecked shaft of the Connellsville mine of the YolandeConnellsville Coal and Coke company. A shift of 12 men were trapped in the mine by the explosion. Workmen toiled throughout the night before gaining entrance to the shaft. The two injured men probably will die, physicians said. Little damage, was done to the main shaft which goes to a depth of l.fiOO feet. 0 Wheat Price Continues Decline On Board Os Trade Chicago, May 28. — (U.R) — Millions of dollars were added to the losses suffered by the farmers in the drastic commodity declines of the past few months today when May wheat, after falling below the dollar mark for the first time since 1915 in Monday’s trade, dropped to 98c a bushel with first sales on the board of trade. On the basis of average crops Yields, over $125,000,000 in potential agricultural income was wiped out yesterday in a further collapse in the grain and cotton markets. NEW SECURITY COMPANY OPENS 1 ranklin Security Company Starts Business In Schafer Building Today The’ Franklin Security company opened for business here today, with offices located on the second floor of •he Schafer building. Lloyd Reasoner, of Hartford City, is in charge of •he office, the fourth opened by this c °mpany, which has a capital of $600,0,, ° - The company has industrial blanches in Huntington, Bluffton and Decatur with the home office at Hartford City. A. N. Pursley is president, James Cronin, Jr., vice-president, and Raymond Maddox is treasurer. The company will do a chattel mortgage business here, loanifig as loi 'g as twenty months on easy payments and up to S3OO. Later, if the “eld warrants it, they will do a discount business as they do in the other Places where they are located. The >nen connected with the Franklin are iigh grade and have had years of experience in banking.

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Marion Man Killed In Wreck Near Kendallville — ■ Kendallville, Ind.. May 28 —;U.R,— Thomas Walsh, 70, Marion, was instantly killed and four other persons injured when an automobile in which they were riding went Into a ditch two miles south of here today. The injured included Mr. and Mrs. Alvin Brewer, Frances Webb, and Martin Eisenhart, all of Marion. None was seriously hurt. Walsh, who was driving, failed to see a turn in the road. 0 AIRPLANE RACE IS UNDER WAY East St. Louis Is Goal Os Five Groups Os Roaring Speed Planes East St. Louis, ill.. May 28. —(U.R) — A new air classic—the Gardner annual trophy race—opened today with five groups of speed planes roaring along the ’‘spokes” of an imaginary wheel whose hub Is the park’s airport here. Six of seven starting planes are speeding southwest from Buffola, N. Y.. two northwest from Jacksonville, Fla., one northwest from San Antonio, Tex - ., five east from Denver, Colo., and three southeast from Fargo, N. D. Tlie last plane is due here at 7 p.m. after trips ranging from 660 to 790 miles. Winners and second place planes in each heat will race to Indianapolis, Ind., and back Memorial Day for a $5,000 gold purse donated by Russell E. Gardner, president cf the Gardenr Motor company. Departure of the planes on Thursday will be timed so that they may round a pylon at the annual Indianapolis speedway automobile races, from which word will be flashed back here by radio. San Antonio, Tex., May 28 —(U.R) — Earl Rowland took off from San Antonio at 7:50 a.m. CST today as the only entry in the San Antonio-St. Louis leg of the Gardner trophy race. Announcement had been made at Winburn Field that the flight would be postponed until Wednesday due to bad weather but clear skies that followed permitted the start to be made. Reynolds Funeral To Be Held On Wednesday Funeral services for Hershell Reynolds will lie held Wednesday afternoon. at 2 o’clock, daylight saving time at tlie residence. The Rev. Ross W. Stoakes will officiate and burial will be made in the Decatur cemetery. o17 PASS SECOND DIPLOMA EXAM Total Os 234 Pupils Complete Work In Rural Elementary Schools Seventeen pupils passed the second eighth grade diplomas examination in Adams county this spring, making a total of 234 to be graduated from the elementary grade school- of the county this year, Clifton E. Striker. county superintendent of schools, stated today. A total of 33 pupils took tlje second examination, five of them having been unable to take the first test. Several who failed on the first examination, did not take the second one. The county eighth grade commencement will be held at the community auditorium in Berne at 1 o’clock, standard time, Thursday afternoon, June 13. H. C. Kleckner, of Lagrange, a lecturer, will deliver tlie address. Those who passed the second examination and their grades are; Preble Township Herbert Blomenberg, 404. St. Marys Township Wendell E. Mann, 598; Kenneth Workinger, 422; Russell Edgell, 559. Lloyd Sheets, 458. Monroe Township Junior F. Ray, 41’4; Mildred Edwards, 407. French Township Harold McCune, 400. Kirkland Township Glen Girod, 437; Harold Worthman,404; Berena Zimmerman, 420. Wabash Township Florine Lehman, 409; Edith Sprunger, 416. Union Township Agnes Miller, 475; Edward Geimer, 457.

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Col. Charles A. Lindbergh and his bride, formerly Miss Anne Morrow, daughter of Ambassador and Mrs. Dwight‘AV. Morrow.

JUNIOR BANDS PLAN CONCERTS First Os Series Scheduled For Next Tuesday Night, On Liberty Way Weekly concerts. will be given on Liberty Way during the months of June and July by the Decatur Junior bands, it was announced today. The first of these concerts will be given next Tuesday evening, June 4. The first concert will ire givon jointly by tire first and second junior bands. Thereafter, the two bands will give separate concerts. Tlie two bands will meet together on Monday evening for a practice. Dave Rice, director of the two bands, is preparing a schedule for classes and rehearsals during the summer. Regular class lessons will be held every Wednesday afternoon from 1 to 4 o’clock. The cornet class will meet at 1 o’clock; the clarinet class, at 2 o’clock; and the bass section, at 3 o’clock. The second band will meet every Thursday afternoon at 3 o'clock for rehearsal. Mr. Rice will give out the shedules on Monday night. At present there are 32 members of the first section and about tlie same number in the second section. The more experienced musicians are in the first section. Invalid Child Dies At Home In Berne Berne, May 28— (Special)—Faye llcne, five-year-old invalid daughter ot Mrs. Millard McKean, died at 2 o’clock Monday afternoon, following a short illness of pneumonia. The death occured at the A. A. Lehman home. The child was taken ill Saturday, and was believed to be developing measles. A sudden change for the worse in her condition at noon yesterday, resulted in her death two hours later. Surviving are the mother and two brothers, Gorman and Robert. Duvall Must Serve Jail Sentence, Court Holds Indianapolis. May 28.— (U.R)—Former Mayor John L. Duvall must serve the 30-day jail sentence and pay the sl,000 fine assessed by special Judge Cassius C. Shirley in criminal court in October, 1927, state appellate court ruled today. The high court overruled the court's sentence prohibiting Duvall from holding public office. o — Child, En Route To School, Killed By Truck Indianapolis, May 28—(U.R)—Hurrying to arrive in her schoolroom on time, Betty Burkert, six-year-old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Charles Burkert, dashed into the street in front of a truck and was run over and killed today. Patrick Higgins, who was driving the truck, was held by police on $5, 000 bond on charges of involuntary manslaughter and speeding.

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Was On The Water Wagon, But Police Jailed Him Anyway Hartford, Conn., May 28.—(U.R)— (Janifer Grant was on the water wagI on. Tiiat’s where police found him. But police said lie was drunk. Grant wa ‘iteu on a charge that hasn’t bee; aferred in years in locol polio. . v,urt. that ot "driving a horse-drawn vehicle while under (lie influence of liquor. HIGNWAYOOAHD RECEIVES BIDS Bids Totaling $1,463,176.32 Submitted On 76.229 Miles Os Road Indianapo'is. May 28.—(U.R)— Bids for 12 paving projects, involving 76.229 miles of road, were opened today by tlie Indiana state highway commission and will be checked for the next few days before contracts are awarded. Low bids totaled $1,463,176.32, one of the largest lettings of the year. When the contracts are awarded 276 miles of paving will have been provided for this year. There will be TOO more miles of paving contracted for in the next two lettings which conclude the year's program. Bidders were present at the commission offices today from Ohio, Kentucky, Wisconsin. Illinois and Indiana. —_ o Tariff Bill Passed By Lower House Today j Washington, May 28—(UP)— The nation’s 38th tariff bill, with duty rates highest in history, was passed by the huise and sent to the senate today.

Perhaps a philosopher, philosophizing as is his want, might reason thus; “man if of few days and full of trouble,” and add —“what do folks amount to anyway?” A babe is bort’ and years are added to blfl little history, he dies grey bearded and ’tis as a stone cast into a placid pool, the tiny wavelets soon disappear and all is quiet again. We humbly do not subscribe to such reasoning. The quotation stated, that lie might have philosophically used, meant something else altogether. Man is of some consequence. On August 28, in the Year 1805 One hundred and twenty-four years

Adams County, Way Back When— Before 1890 A “Story” Made Up Os a Group Os Stories About Pioneer Life And Events Which. Collectively, (io To Make Up The Interesting History Os The County. By French Quinn.

OCEAN FLIGHTS STILL DELAYED Weather Conditions Over Atlantic Keen Two Planes Land-Bound Ohl Orchard, Me., May 28.—(U.R) — Continued unsatisfactory weather conditions in various sections of the North Atlantic kept the French and American monoplanes Yellow Bird and Green Flash on the beach here today. Originally, with a trans-Atlantic air race in prospect, a spirit of rivalry had pervaded tlie American and French camps, lint today found waiting aviators in mutual sympathy over the freakishly adverse weather which has held (hem land-bound for many days. Rene Lefevre and Arineno Lotti, Jr., navigator and radio operator, respectively. of the Yellow Bird, wore still in New York., awaiting a favoraide weather report from Dr. James H. Kimball, meterologist. Jean Assolant, their pilot, was in O’d Orchard, overseeing final preparations for the projected flight to Paris. Pi'ot Roger Q. Williams and Navigator Lewis A. Yancey of the Green Flash, who hope to make a non-stop flight to Rome, stated there was no possibility of a take-off before tomorrow at the earliest, and that weather forec:|sts were not particularly promising. o Two Decatur Men Held In Jail At Fort Wayne Nate Haley and Frank Hower, both of Decatur, are being held in the Allen county jail at Fort Wayne on charges of public intoxication. They : were arrested Saturday night. Their i cases have been set for a hearing on Saturday.

ago, four short years before Abraham Lincoln’s birth —and he was of some consequence — one Samuel L. Rugg was born. Down in Oneida county in the state of New York this event happened and then and there started something that has had a profound influence on some of us and others cf us who live in tlie capital of Adams county, Indiana. Samuel was a genius. He was ambitious, a worker and a student -.nd lie was most certainly one with a vision. Until 1832, Samuel did one thing and another but In 1832 Indiana claimed him as her own. Samuel had (CONTIM ED ON PAGE I’Ol 111

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Mrs. Willebrandt Has “Nothing To Say” Today McAlester, Okla.. May 28. — <U.R>— Mrs. Mabel Walker Willebrandt, en route to Waco, Tex, where she will receive a doctor of laws degree from Taylor university, stopped off here between trains today. "I have nothing to say in regard to my reported resignation at the present,” Mrs. Willebrandt told the United Press. "Erroneous reports often get started in Washington.’’ o— LAW INQUIRY OPENS TODAY Hoover’s Law Enforcement Commission Holds First Meeting Washington, May 28 —(UP) —President Hoover's national law enforcement commission, which assembled in tlie cabinet room at the White House today for its first meeting will not in qulri into the merits, or demeiits, of prohibition as a natlohal policy but will limit the scope of its inquiry to ways and means of giving effect to law generally. "As so many of our members have come from such great distances,” said George W. Wickerstam, chairman of the commission," we feel that we should accomplish as much as possible at this meeting. We will begin immediately to outline our program.” All eleven memliers of the commission were in Washington for today's meeting. They were luncheon guests of President Hoover before the scheduled caliint ifoom meeting at 2:30 P. M. "Contrary to what seems to lie the general public conception of the task outlined for the commission,” said Wickersham in an interview witli the United Press" “I see the question of prohibition as merely one aspect of the large problem of law enforcement.” Mrs. Elizabeth Porter Dies At New Athens, O. Tocsin, May 28. — (UP) —Dick Porter. who resides near Tocsin, received a telegram. Sunday telling of the death of his mother, Mrs. Elizabeth Porter, at lier home in New Athens, Ohio. Death occnred sometime Sunday, but tire message did not give the cause of death. It is thought that deatli was due to infirmities, as Mrs. I’or'er was 88 yeats old. Surviving are four sons. Mr. Porter and daughter, Mary, and Ralph Por’»r daughter Alice, left Monday morning tor New Athens to attend the funeral services, which were to lie held at 1 o’< lock this afternoon. SCHAFER MEETING TO END TONIGHT Dealers And Salesmen To Be Guests Os Company At A Dinner The meeting of salesmen and dealers of the Schafer company, local wholesale hardj.vaie concern, which lias been in session at the company’s office since Monday morning, will be brought to a close tonight. J. E. Willis, assistant sales manager and P. T. Marinack, service engineer of the A. C. Dayton Radio company, Dayton, Ohio, addressed by dealers and salesmen today. The purpose of the meeting is to acquaint the dealers and salesmen witli the new A. C. Dayton radios. Models of the "Navigator", the new A. C. Dayton radio, are on display at the Schafer company's office and have been viewed by the dealers and’salesmen. The salesmen were in conference yesterday with Robert W. Bennett, vice-president, in charge of sales if the A. C. Dayton company. The A. ('. Dayton company, this year is furnishing its own tubes and a specially built speaker The new models have been received with great approval from the dealers and tlie outlook for record breaking sales this fall is good, men acquainted witli the company stated today. The dealers and salesmen will be tlie guests of the Schafer company at dinner tonight at the Rice hotel. o Tocsin Bank Case Set B.nffton May 28 (UP)— The (rial of Grover Eisner v. irvln Wesson mid other stockholders of the defunct Too sin batik has been set for September 7 ir (he Wells circuit court. The rise involves several Decatur people who were stockholders in the institution.

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DESTINATION OF HONEYMOON IS WELL GUARDED Air Hero’s Plane Leaves Roosevelt Field For Unannounced Destination WEDDING COMES AS BIG SURPRISE Curtis Airport, Valley Stream Long Island. May 28. (U.R) Information here late today was that Col. Lindbergh's Falcon biplane had departed at 3:30 n.tn. for Portland. Me., with Kandy Enslow, a friefld of Lindbergh, at the controls. Roosevelt Field, 1. |„ May 28 (UP) Col. Charles A. Lindbergh’s Falcon biplane left here this afternoon for at: unannounced destination, with William Croswell at the conttols. Another man with him declined to reveal hie name. The departure of the machine —ordered to be ready at 8 A. M. today strengthened suggestions that LindI ergh might be going to use It from a ..ecrel hopping off place, for his honeymoon journey. Englewood, N. J., May 28.—(U.R)— Col. Charles A. Lindbergh and his bride, Ambassador Dwight Morrow’s daughter, Anne, have “vanished.” Trace of them was lost late yesterday after they had been married without advance notice, in the Ambassador’s stately home here. From ’hen to afternoon today definite word of tlie whereabouts of the once "lone eagle” was lacking. While every means of modern locomotion were -pressed into service to trace the honeymoon couple — airplanes, boats, motor cars the Lindliergh's hid secure from the curious. Whereabouts Kepi Secret Englewood. N. J., May 28.—(U.R)— Out of the millions of persons who discussed the marriage of Col. Charles A. Lindbergh and Anne S. Morrow, barely a dozen could say today whet Iler the flier and his bride were honeymooning at sea, on land or in the air. And the dozen wouldn't say. it was the same dozen who gathered under the Blue Larkspur and the Columbine in the Morrow' drawing room yesterday to see Dr. William Adams Brown, professor of systematic theology in Union Theological Seminary. pronounce an abbreviated form of the Episcopal and Presbyterian marriage ritual. Outside. Englewood and the rest of the world went on its work-a-dav way in the spring sunshine, unaware that great things were happening up behind the white walls of the big house where the ambassador to Mexico lives when in the United States. Today you could take your choice of three rumors as to tlie destination of the couple when they motored casually down tlie Morrow drive in Lindbergh's sedan after the ceremony, Just as they have done any number of times in the last three weeks. Lindbergh's Blue Fair on plane was fueled and tested at Rooseveil Field. N. Y„ and it was reported that he ami his bride had hidden somewhere in New York last night and would fly on a honeymood today. (CONTINUED ON PAGE TWO) RAINS CONTINUE; DAMAGE FEARED Heavy Rain Falls Here This Morning; Farm Work Is Delayed A heavy rain fell In Decatur and this community this morning and farmers throughout this part of tlie country expressed fear that, if the ruin continued, damage would be done to the crops. Most of the corn has been planted during the last ten days in Adams county, but many farmers fear that heavy rains will rot the seeds. Weather forecasters said that tlie tain this morning would not last long and that fair weather was in store the latter part of the week. North of here, in Allen county, much of the corn land has not been plowed yet and the rain will slow the work of preparing the ground. It was said this morning by several farmers from various parts of Adams county that a majority of the Adams county corn crop already had been planted

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