Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 27, Number 172, Decatur, Adams County, 20 July 1929 — Page 1

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Vol. XXVII. No. 172.

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PREMIUM LISTS fO»FARM SHOW being printed Apiculture Show For Free Street l air Divided Into Nine Departments FUN I) OF $3,000 provided FOR SHOW Th. task <>f compiling the premium llsts for the various uepartments of gricnltural -how io be held here ■ tiol , with the Ametiean Lefair. September 10-14, inil , i.e, has been completed anti the H , s hivi . been turned over to th prina The r.remittm H«t» will be ready f„r .listrilnttion about August 1. The agricultural show has been <ll- - mm nine departments, namely poultry farm pioducts. horses, swine. Ln rattle, art and cullinffry flowers, not stock ami 4 II club exhibit. A chairnun has been appoined tor each <le|K rttnent and he is forming his own organlzation. Fund Being Raised The finance committee has practical!:. completed in drive for $3,000 far the agricultural show. All of the money donated by the local merchants and industries will be used for the farm show The money has been apportioned among the various departments sot premiums and other incidental expenses, most of it being for premiunc The exhibits will be located in various parts of the business district tints being obtained for all of them with the exception of the flowers and the art and cullinary exhibits. Competent judges will be employed 10, tach department. Ferd Christen, rouniy agrit ultural agent, is general chairman of the agricultural commitIm 4 0 — ( Dr. Snook To Go On Trial Next Wednesday Columbus. O, July 20—(UP)—Tha sanity hearing set for Monday for Dr. James H. Snook, confessed slayer of Theora Hix. Ohio State University medical Co-ed. will be waived an 1 Snook will go on trial Wednesday oi. a first degree murder charge, it was announced today. The decision to waive the hearing •as made after it was learned that three court alienists who examined the former instructor would report he was sane on the night of June 13, when Miss Hix was slain, it was said. E. 0 Ricketts, chief of Snook’s counsel, infoimed common pleas judge Henry Scarlett of the decision and the Wt immediately set Wednesday as the date for the beginning of the mttr•*f trial. The ttial originally was set for Monday. three fliers killed Toledo, July 20-(UP)—Three men Wre luiriied l() w h en an lln j4 en . tmed plane hurst into flames after trashing to the ground on the WilSpllker farm about 5 miles south m Perrysburg. Ohio today. Though there was no identification Wais u t the Transcontinental airpor. san] they were certain it was not mad plane. Several ambulances were wled from Toledo. RUN RUNNING AIRMAN CAUGHT Police Believe They Have woken Up Canada-Indi-ana Air Rum Line 4«k? n T 011 ' M j h " 20.—(U.R) Here «n UP " llat sta,e l M)lite beP1ane,.,.," a ( ' ana< la-Indiana air<ers a J r, ’ nnln K organization, offiOetroit" y I,owar(l Bolyard. 32. whet, hev? a " d BelXed h!s Plane I ■ found 14 cases of whiskey (tev - ‘ane shortly before dawn to•hlch I? 8 ’ elieve(l 'he field in »'op on IHmV’! lande<! Was the first on his trip t 0 Iri(iiana O'* have informa ''ion that dating at I '"" K I>!ane has been op<hyX r. t a Week ’ ” Ut *°' ” 1 ”« been 1 V 0 asceptain "’here ,___2j anti,l| g Previously. KICKED by HORSP A(la| n« r, Cminty Ch ’. Os Prench township, T . h '“s<lay morning 88 , ‘ )alnrnll - v injured ‘ db Tahorse "hit S " he was kick ' ]' (or the dav'« ° be Was harnessing hlni 1 kne B p \° rli : Tbe hit Mi “ aid win be i»n r “ g conai<l erable be laid up for a few days

DECATUR D AILY DEMOCRAT

Bird’s Eye View of Wreck BihifekS:. ■ •- - Bird’s eye view of the scene of the wreck of the Colorado express near Stratton. Col., taken shortly after the disaster. In the foreground is the highway and a few feet beyond i ■ the railroad, with wrecked cars strewn about as so many paper boxes. Crowds of people gathered to look at the gruesome sight, but are held back by the high waters, still white with foam and twisting and churning from a storm. At right, a railroad derrick tugs at a cou It, attempting to drag’it from the water. International Illustrated News photo

PAYS FINE ON LIQUOR CHARGE Fort Wayne Man Pleads Guilty To Charge Os Making Liquor At Bluffton Bluffton, July 20 —Jesse Carter of Fo: ; Wayne, one of four men arrested as a ieuslt of a raid at the Ben Sha-fer-farm in Union township last Monday, a )4ea of guilty in circuit, court here Friday tn a charge of mana factoring intoxicating liquor and was fined S3OO and costs and given a suspended penal farm sentence of six months. He paid the fine and was released A second count in the affidavit was dismissed. Harvey Bigsby and Ben Miller of Fort Wayne and Ben Shafer, Union township farmer on whose place tlie still is alleged to have been operated were in jail here witli bonds fixed nt $5,000 each. They may lie in court Satui day. When Carter was arraigned he told the court that he had no interest in the still that was operated on the Schafer farm and that his only connection with the outfit hud been that he had hited as a mechanic to install the distilling outfit. He admitted he had knowledge of the purpose. A provision of Carter's parole is that he is to refrain absolutely front having anything to do with liquor- He is to report in writing once weekly and in person once each month to Mrs. Mary Daily, probation officer of Wells county. Carter is scheduled to go on trial next Monday at Fort Wayne on an involuntary manslaughter charge, according tol statements made here. He expressed confidence here of acquittal He was driver of a machine in a collission at a street Intersection in Fort Wayne last April. One passenger in his car was killed. o Bixler Funeral To Be Held At Berne Sunday Berne, July 20.—(Special)—Funeral services will be held at the Mennonite church here at 2 o'clock Sunday afternoon, for Franklin G. Bixler, former Berne resident, who died Tuesday at his home in Cheyenne. Wyoming. The body was expected to arrive here today. and be taken to the home of liis mother, Mrs. Anna Bixler. ‘ The Rev. C. H. Saukatt will officiate at the funeral services, and burial will be made in the M. R. E. cemetery, west of town o Motorist Admitted He Was Speeding, But He Couldn’t Plead Guilty Albuquerque, N M. July 20 —(UP) — “I'm charged ,with speeding I|. R. Smith unashamed, explained to Judge Ritt. Hastily scanning his docket for the second time. Judge Ritt failed to find the charge against Smith. Smith he was speed ing. Still the judge was perplexed "I can’t find any charge against you. Case dismissed." tlie judge said after scratching his head and looking over the docket for the fifth time.

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Gasoline Tax Money Rapidly Taking Place Os Liquor Revenues Indianapolis. July 20. - (U.R)—Gasoline receipts are rapidly filling the gap left when liquor revenues were withdrawn from Indianapolis city coffers, City Controller Sterling R. Holt revealed. Liquor revenues amounted to $305,600 in 1916. dwindling to $12,312 in 1918. Gasoline tax receipts have jumped from $108,500 in 1926 to $164,000 in 1929, an increase of 50 per cent, and at tlie present rate of increase will surpass within fight years the amount previously received from liquors. s A. B. Good, deputy city controller, believes consumers of malt should pay twice what the consumers of gasoline pay. WILL PROTECT MEN AT MINES Officials Provide Machine Guns, Tear Gas Bombs At Indiana Mine Dana, Ind., July 20.—(U.R) Miners at the Bono coal mine here, where a demonstration occurred several weeks ago, will return to work Monday under protection of machine guns, tear gas bombs and probably rifles, officials of the company have announced. The mine, operated on a co-opera-tive basis, was closed after a group of -allegedly union miners attacked workmen employed at the workings. Tlie employed men were forced to run a gauntlet, several being injured. Merl Wall and George Hufsmi'.h, deputy attorneys general, who investigated the affair, said the mine would be re-opened and that kwo machine guns and eight deputies would be on hand Monday to prevent re-occurrence of the demonstration. The deputies also announced that state aid would lie unnecessary unless the machine guns and other preparations proved inadequate. Flood lights also may be intailed to protect the miners at night, the deputies said. In a report to James M. Ogden, attorney general, the de]Mities said the co-operative miners were satisfied with plans to return to work and that was expected to be run off smoothly Monday." Sheriff Newland, Vermillion county. also was to aid in guarding the mine, which has been watched by a special guard and reserve groups since the outbreak. o Dale Huey Able To Leave Portland Hospital Dale Huey. 22, of Fort Wayne, who was seriously injured last Sunday when the automobile which he was driving turned over on U. S. highway NiT 27, north of Portland, was removed from the Jay county hospital at Portland to the home of his parents near Geneva, Friday. His condition is reported considerably improved. Huey's nephew, Gerald Haviland, was fatally injured in the accident.

Decatur, Indiana, Saturday, July 20, 1929.

DEATH CLAIMS BURTON NIBLICK Well-Known Decatur Mar Fatally Stricken With Spinal Meningitis Burton S. Niblick 40, well-known De catur man, died of spinal meningitis at the Adams County Memorial liosp tai, at 4 o'clock Friday afternoon. Mi Niblick was stricken about four hour earlier. He had been working on his dair farm, the Homestead Dairy, just eas of the city limits, yesterday forenoon When he came into the house at noon Mrs. Niblick remarked that he lookei bad and asked him what was wrong Without replying, he laid down on tin davenport and immediately went inti convulsions. He was removed to tin hospital and physicians worked hili gently to relieve him but without avail death coming at 4 o'clock. Mr. Niblick was a son of Mr. am Mrs. John Niblick. 222 West Jeffrr son street, and was born in Deeatui May 20. 1889. After attending schoo here, he attended Howe Military Ara adenty, Gem City College at Quincy Illinois, and Ohio Weslyan University at Delaware, Ohio- After being employed in the Adams County Ban! here for eight years, Mr. Niblick wai forced to resign his position on ac count of ill health and he entered tin dairy business in holies of regaining his health, which he partially aceom plished. However, his health had beet poor for the last few years. The deceased was a member of the Methodist Episcopal church, was f Scottish Rite Mason and a membet of the Masonic Blue Lodge. Surviving ate the widow, Bessie Nol Niblick; one foster daughter. Mist Mamie Niblick; his parents; and threr sisters, Mrs. A. D. Suttles, of Deca tur. Mrs. O. P. Edwatds, of Leipsic Ohio, and Mrs. H. H Stoner, of Cleve land Heights. Ohio. Funeral services will b eheld at the residence east of the city at 2:'30 o' clock, daylight saving time. Monday afternoon, with the Rev. Ross W Stoakes, pastor of the First Methodis 1 church, officiating Burial will be made in the Decatur cemetery. o Blame Head Injury For Criminal Tendency Indianapolis, July 20. ~(U.R)-Hor ace Messenger, Illinois youth await ing federal grand jury investigation on motor theft charges, remained in the Marion county jail today as the result of failure of efforts of his attorney to obtain iiis parole to pet mit an operation to correct possible criminal tendencies. The attorney, E. C. Mills, Virginia 111,, state senator, told Federal Judge Robert C. Baltzell, Messenget received injuries to his head in an automobile accident which he believ ed caused criminal tendencies. 0 Gives 160 Acres To Muncie For Airport Muncie, Ind., July 20 —(UP) —Albert Johnson manufacturer, has announcer the gift of a 160-acre tract of land tc Muncie as a landing field. A recent survey of the tract by en gineers showed it was A-l for an air port ' -

STILL CONFISCATED IN SAME BUILDING 19TH TIME; EACH “BIGGER AND BETTER” Briar 11'11. Ind., July 20— (U.R) - Federal authorities have suggested •hot (bis city change ita mime to '‘Stlllvllle." For (he I‘tih t me a building here Ims been raided and a still confiscated. Police said that each time they obtain "a bigger and better one," just . bout in (lie same place as its predecessor. The lnts‘’t plant, in operation when the officers arrived, was capable of ’i iiiinini''' K>() gallons. A vat containing la,mm gallons of mash and 225 galii.lm of alleged alcohol was obtaiped. i.rne-t Fossi. and his 18-vear-cld son, Pete, were said to have h?en operating the still.

Three Survivors Os Last Man’s Club To Carry On

Veterans’ Club Os 314 Members Dwindles To Three S . Paul. Minn.. July 20 (U.R) -A sad endurance contest will pass another milestone toward its conclusion here today when three surviving members of the last man's club sit down to dinner before their famous bottle of Burgundy wine. Forty-tour years ago 314 members of company B, First Minnesota Volunteer infantry organized the club with the understanding that the last surviving member should drink the health of his comrades in the mellow beverage. Today there are only three survivors—John S. Goff, 87. St. Paul. Charles Lockwood. 87, Chamberlain and Peter Hall, 92, Atwater. Minn. Friends Are Invited But the three will not be alone at what may be their last re-union. Last year's dinner proved such a dreary affair the veterans decided if they met again to invite all members of their regiment. So today their table at the Minnesota Club will be set for eleven guests and there will be no empty chairs to represent those who have answered the last roll call There is little doubt as <o who will have the honor of opening the dustcovered bottle. Hall has been failing rapidly the last few weeks and it was only after stubborn argument (CONTINUER ON PAGE TWO) SLAYERS THINK ACT JUSTIFIED Michigan Couple Claim Victim Was Responsible For Many Deaths Kalamazoo, Mich.. July 20 —(UP) — Still confident that tney nave averred a series of “evil eye" deaths by killing the 75-year-old resident of a home for the aged, and dropping her body into a well, Eugene Burgess, 53, and his wife, waited with calmness today while county authorities prepared to file murder charges. Paul Tedrow, prosecutor, said he could find no evidence to substantiate the charges in Burgess” confession that their victim. Mis. Etta K. Fairchilds was responsible for hundreds of deaths through black art. The couple and their daughter Eugenia. 17, and son. Burnett, 27, are be ing held in the county jail hereBurgess in his confession claimed the ills of his daughter were caused by Mrs. Fairchilds, and he also believed she caused the death of his mother But no one else here harbored the same fears, nor had Burgess discussed his dread of Mrs. Fairchilds with anyone else until he had beaten her to death. To Hold Open House At New Bungalow Hall and Talmadge. building contractors of this city, announced that open house of the new bungalow erected by them at the corner of Tenth street and Nuttman avenue, will be iieid tonight and ail day Sunday. This is the first of several houses which this firm hopes to build in the west part of the city, near the industrial section, where many of the employes live. All material used was furnished by Decatur firms. A picture and description of the bungalow will be found on page six of tonight’s Daily Democrat. The public is invited to visit the houseo Scottish Rite Masons To Attend Niblick Rites The Scottish Rite Masons will have charge of the Burton Niblick funeral Monday afternoon. All Scottish Rite Masons are asked to meet at the Mr.sonic hall at 1:30 o’clock Monday afternoon.

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PLANE PASSES WEEK IN AIR Fliers Optimistic As Endurance Flight Continues At St. Louis, Mo. St. Louis, Mo., July 20.—(U.R) - Feeling like “fighting cocks," Dale Jackson and Forrest O’Brlne attained the one week mark here today in their monoplane assault on the refueling endurance record. At 7:17 a.m. their St. Louis-Robin, which left the ground at 7:17 a. m. 'ast Saturday, passed its 168th consecutive hour and its Challenger motor chugged merrily. "We feel like fighting cocks," said a note dropped by the flyers to their wives and friends at Lambert-St. I.ouis field. "We have plenty to eat and sleep like tops." Keeping them aerial company, the Missouri-Robin, similar Curtiss-Rob-ertson monoplane piloted by Joseph Hammer and W. Gentry Shelton, attained 69 consecutive hours at 7:34 am. It went aloft at 10:34 am. Wednesday. "Both motors sound just as pretty as they did when the flights began," an attendant at 'the field told the United Press early today. “They'll be up there a week from today or you can shoot me on sight.” Everything appeared in favor of the St. Louis-Robin, even to the weather, which for seven days has been as calm as an inland lake, wi h stars shining brightly by night, and the sun unclouded by day. Wives of tlie men have taken up residences near the field, and frequently go aloft with refueling planes to cheer them. They brought word down yesterday that Jackson and O’Brine appeared in excellent spirits. That perhaps was due as much to the choice food the wives had prepared as to tlie solid sleep the men reported they were getting. A rab-bits-foot and a four-leaf clover, taken up by Jackson and sent up by a friend, respectively, appeared to be no hindrances. Yesterday was wash day aboard the St. Louis-Robin, with button-less shirts flapping from the cat-Wtilk leading to the sturdy motor. Jackson's wife, learning “Red” had lost those buttons when a gust of wind billowed it out like a sail, promptly sent up a sweat-shirt, which lias no buttons. Comforts aluiard the monoplane include facilities for daily spongebaths. and for the daily shave. Whenever tlie men land, they will step out of the monoplan eready tor a theater party. Jackson and OBrine must remain aloft until 2:0tl p.m. next Tuesday to equal the record of 246 hours 43 minutes established recently at Culver City, Calif. o Many Boy Scouts At West Point And Annapolis To the youth of America who lives up to the Boy Scout oath of: —On my honor 1 will do my best to do my duty to God and my Country,—To keep myself physically strong, mentally awake and morally straight, there is a gieat reward, for among the cadets at the Military Academy at West Point and midshipmen al the Naval Academy. Annapolis, sixty per cent are former Boy ScoutsO Showers And Heat Wave Predicted For Next Week Weather outlook for the period of July 22 to 27. For the region of the Great Lakes: Oecassiional showers probable first half of week, followed by generally fair latter half; temperatures mostly above normal first half, cooler latter half.

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RUSSIA, CHINA REMINDED OF KELLOGG PACT Both Nations React Favorably To Reminder By U. S. Secretary Os State CHINA EXPRESSES DESIRE FOR PEACE By United Press Both Russia and China reacted favorably today to Secretary of State Stimson’s reminder that they were adherents to the Kellogg pact and no fighting was reported aknigl the Manchurian border. Chinese Minister Wu, gave assurance China did not wish to take the aggressive, and Stimson’s reminder, transmitted to Soviet Russia by Foreign Minister Briand of France, caused enthusiasm in Moscow. Although the Soviet press continued to make lineals against tlie ‘■Chinese cutthroats." official Moscow seemed greatly relieved at the* action of the United States, concurred in by France. Great Britain and Japan. Mobilization Continues Both China and Russia, so far as was known, continued tlie mobiliza* tion of 'troops, but there were no clashes between the concentrated forces. Dr. C. T. Wang, foreign minister of the Chinese Nationalist government, was expected to make an official statement with regard to China's a.and on Russia's note breaking off all diplomatic and trade relations between the two countries. Chiwig Kai-Shek, head of tlie Chinese government, issued a statement denying that the seizure of the Chinese eastern railwaj was he first move by China to confiscate all foreign interests in China. More Troops To Border Mukden, Manchuria. July 20. —(U.R) —Five additional brigades of Manchurian troops were ordered to proceed to tlie border in the vicinity of Manchuli, on tlie northwestern border of Manchuri’a today. Reports were received here yesterday of clashes between the combined Chinese and White guard (Czarist) troops on the Manchurian side and the Soviet troops on the Siberian side of the border. Feeling Runs High Harbin, Manchuria, July 2b. - (U.R) —Feeling reached high tension here today as military forces patrolled '.he streets, replacing the regular police force, under the dictates of martial law. All "suspicious Rusrians" were detained for questioning. U. S. Is Peacemaker Washington, July 20. (U.R) The United States government, taking the lead as peacemaker between Russia and China, today expected early and favorable replies to its warning 'that both countries are bound by tlie Kellogg Br and Peace treaty to renounce war. Confidence I hat the Kellogg pact » *z *x^-*-*-xz->z>* cCONTIjrt'EP ON PAGE I'IVTU BUILDING SHOWS LOSS IN INDIANA Total For First Half Os Year Lower Than For Same Period In 1928 Indianapolis. July 20—(U.R) Indiana's building total for the first half of 1929 amounted to $27,479,576, which was a decrease of $6,260,540 from the first six months of 1928, according to a national survey of building conditions pust. cmpleted by S. W. Straus & Co. Kokomo took first honors in the six months comparison with an increase of 485 per cent over the same period a year ago. Other gains were Shelbyville 105 per cent. South Bend 60 per cent. Michigan City 53 percent, Fort Wayne' 33 percent, Muncie 18 percent, and . Richmond. 10 percent. In tiie comparison for June witli June, 1928, tlie following outstanding increases were noted: Huntington, 1.028 per cen't: Anderson. 518 per cent; Terre Haute, 207 per cent, and Logansport. 131 per cent. Evansville, Fort Wayne. Kokomo. Muncie, Richmond, and South Bend, also made gains in this comparison.

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