Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 27, Number 175, Decatur, Adams County, 24 July 1929 — Page 1

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| if CORO BROKEN. I SI. LOUIS FLIERS I CONTINUE FLIGHT I Monoplane Still. Aloft After fl ‘ 970 Consecutive Hours ■ Os Flight ■ phots determined ■ TO S'l A) Il’ 300 HOURS I st Louis. July 24.-(U.P)- | Pounding -oil ’he hours with Si monotonous regularity, the St. ■ J>uis K' ,bin monoplane carried) g on in its enduranee flight today i ■ apparently determined to sta\ j ■ until its record reaches 300 I plane passed its. 270th | Ml hour of consecutive flying at Bmt p m < s ’- "" iay - p iio,,< Da,e B Jackwn and Porrest O Brine reportM inc "everything o. k. except that a B couple l,( cylinders sound like they H lure a toothache." ■ St Louis. Jiily 21.- (U.R) -Congratun latorv telegrams, promises of wealth ■ and ..ff. rs of theatrical engagements. IM poured in upon Dale Jackson and KS Forrest Oilrim today in recognition ■ of their record-shattering endurance ■ m the SI Louis-Robin. M But they kept right on plugging ■ W at ,h '“ ,:,Sk ° f a,llli ”k ho,lrS tO H the refuelling record of 247:43:32 ■ they established at 3:00:32 p. m. yesHB terday. At 0:17 a. m. today they had |M increased tie ir achievement to an ■ even 263 hours. BM — — o ■ Alleged Murderer Taken B Into Custody At Richmond BH Richmond. Ind.. July 24 —fUP) — ' Ml Horace Peters, 22, charged wit'll first M degree murder at Osgood in connecMl ti° D with the shooting Feb. 24. of MabMl *■! ' an Asdol. !:•. was taken into costMI °dy by 10. ,1 authorities. The young ' Mt woman died TuesdayBB — o ■ Robert .1. Aeschlinian, ■ Age Five Years. Dies M Robert .1 Aeschlinian, 5. son of Joe ■ Aeschlinian. of west of this city, died M !llis morning following an operation! Hl yesterday for the removal of tonsils. ■ The lad was born in Adams county, H but moved with his father and their ■ family to Wells county a few years M H Robert Aeschliman was born in HI October. 1923. His mother, Lena H Moser Aeschlinian, preceded the boy j in death. Suiviving. besides the fathH er. are the fidlowing brothers and K sisters, all at home: Elva, Dora. Hl Homer. Roy. Millard.; and Herman. ! Hi A sister died a little more than a M ,ear a kO. ■ Funeral services wil be held ThursH d’Y afternoon at. 1 o’clock central HI standard time, at the house and at 2 I [ “clock at the Christian 'Apostolic BB church. Burial will be made in the M utarch cemetery. | MW. DIES IN I PENNSYLVANIA fl H . arr > Thompson Receives fl Message Today Announcfl ing Relative’s Death H • Harry \\ , Thompson family reS' wived a telegram this morning, an- ■ nouneing the death, yesterday, of Mr. H 2 flra » 8o n , « eldest brother. James H ““Paon, of Latrove, Pennsylvania, fl °f d’’’ not stat e the cause B nt J dea,h ’ but relatives here are M been eip^"" 1 " lat he have fl ed as a ,° cuted ’ as he was employfl ®otors at thL° w trat ° r ° f powerrul B Company’ i Westln ßhouse Electric B The P a “ f in ritt «’ aa fßh. E children th^' 1 ?! aves fn,,r orphaned fl W lavin' pTJ and an ‘» fa ”t fl Za eP’deuHc si th ® influen - H sisters atoA SIX brotllers and four fl *hi tl?",' ViVe ’ a “ of wh ° m reI ‘l° fM r'ThomX Wl ‘ h eXCep ‘ fl ’ChurXv mlndn 68 W,U J ’ eld 8 10 Inabibtv f » at Utr °y«' Due fl * lt hstand the 7 t° E - MlS ' Thom P s on to B at lha present ' P ‘° Penns ylvania E an<l family wln „“ e ’ Mr - Thompson E a b « win i " ‘ a end the funer ’ fl for a Proposed* e here 0,1 Au BUF't 3, fl Natives P th roil n ‘ onth ' s vacation with B Pei *WlvaX 8 OUt ,he state °C

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Motorcycle Policeman Killed In Accident Indianapolis, July 24.—(U.R) Roscoe C. Shipp, motorcycle policeman, died In a hospital today of Injuries received when his machine overturned as he pursued a speeder. Sh.'pp was said to have been traveling 82 miles an hour when the motorcycle struck an auto, hurling him to the pavement. After the accident, the patrolman talked to fellow officers and later was taken to a hospital where a leg amputation was performed. He died after the operation. TO STATE FAIR — I Home Economics Clubs Os County To Select Winner I Through Contest The five Home Economics Clubs in Adams county are planning to Rend a girl to the State Fair School at Indianapolis again this year. Any girl between the ages of 16 and 25 years, living in Adams county, is eligible to compete for the trip. The state fair school is held in the Women’s building at the Indiana State Fair grounds each year. The school starts a week before the opening date of the state fair and continues throughout I fair week. Girls and young women are given instructions in cooking, sewing and housekeeping bv members of the Home Economics staff of Purdue University. Adams county has been sending a girl to the State Fair School each year and those who have gone in former years report the trip very instructive and an interesting one. The tuition and travelling expenses of the winner, amounting to $25, will be paid by the Union, Root, Kirkland, St. Marys and Monro«-French-Wabash Clubs. A contest will be held at the Peo?>les State Bank at Berne on Saturday afternoon. August 3, at 1 o'clock. The contest is open to any girl between the ages of 16-25 years, living in Adams county. Each girl is to make and exhibit three articles: first, % dozen button holes, made on firm white muslin; second, a set in patch made according to 4-H Club directions which may be secured at th? county agent’s office, and third, a white loaf cake made over the “Swansdown” Butter cake recipe on (CONTINUED ON PAGE TWO) o PROF. SNOOK GOESONTRIAL Task Os Selecting Jury To Try University Professor For Murder Begins Court Room. Columbus. 0., July I 24,—-(U.R)—Prof. James Howard Snook formerly of Ohio State University, went on trial in common pleas court here today for the murder of 24-year-old Theora Hix. medical student at the university. Promptly at 9 a. m. Judge Henry Scarlett ascended the bench and looked out over the court room filled witji spectators who had been waiting since 8 a. m. when the doors were opened. About 150 spectators were seated while probably 50 more were allowed standing room. Snook was brought immediately into court. He took one short appraising glance at the audience and seated himself carefully between his attorneys. The jury filed in and calling the roll began immediately. There were 69 men and 16 women on the panel. Snook hardly glanced at the veniremen, ranged siaiMlfjig outside the rail, but kept his eyes on his hands, which he twiddled nervously. Now and then he would give a glance to the court, but his attitude in general was calm and depressed. Judge Scarlett outlined the duties of jurors to the panel and impressed the particular responsibility in a murder case. The business of selecting the jury began immediately. Bobo Men To Face Trial Here August 8 The trials of William Bunner am! ’’’rank Swank, of Bobo, charged in Mayor’s court with violation of til) prohibition law, were set for August 8 at a hearing held last night. Both men entered pleas of not guilty to the charge against them.

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‘Robin’ Clin gs to Clouds • . -J ..■ . - - t' ■ . - - . >. ... \ JI ■ **» * The St. Louis Kobin, above, piloted by Dale Jackson and Forest O’Brine, having broke the previous world record for refueling enduranee flight, was still aloft this afternoon, with more than 270 consecutive hours of flying to Its ciedit. The plane is shown in flight over Lambert Fiela, St. Louis.

LIMBERLOST IS POPULAR CAMP Total Os 270 Boys Have Used Scout Camp So Far; Furnishings Donated Camp Limberlost is proving to be a most delightful and popular camp to the Boy Scouts. John L. Anguish, scout executive, reiterts that 270 Scouts have already used the camp. The maximum to be accommodated at any time is about 125. The significance of these figures is more fully appreciated when it is remembered that the Scouts from the Anthony Wayne Area in camp during the entime summer season last year totaled in the neighborhood of 246. Going to camp this week are nine troops from Fort Wayne, two from New Haven, one from Garrett and one from Lancaster Center. Many of the furnishings for Limberlost cabin are being donated. The council acknowledges the following: One bed-room has been furnished by Francis George and mother. Mr. George, now a member of the U. S. navy, was formerly a member of Scout troop 8 and assistant Scout master of troop 22. Furnishings for another bed room have been prpvided by Merlin S. Wilson, while troop 26 of the James H. Smart school has donated the neces(CONTINUE! 4 ) ON PAGE TWO) — — o J.M.BREINERTO RECEIVE HONOR Moose Lodge To Bestow Fellowcraft Degree On Decatur Man Aug. 19 J. M. Brelner, of this city, today received a post card from James J. Davis, former secretary of labor, who is director general of the Loyal Order of Moose, informing him that he is one of a large number of Moose in the United States who have been chosen to receive the Fellowcratt degree. The degree, which is an honorary one, will be conferred on Monday afternoon, August 19, in Detroit, in connection with the national conventon of the lodge. The Fellowcraft degree is the highest degree in the Moose lodge and to attain it is a distinct honor. L. C. Helm is the only man in Decatur, at present, who has received the degree. The honor came as a complete surprise to Mr. Brelner, he being unaware that lie had been recommended f<> the degree. He has been a hard worker in tbe local lodge and is a past dictator. At present, he is a trustee of the lodge. ——((—•—o —• — Vigilantes To Hold Shoot At Berne Thursday A shoot will be held al Berne, Thursday afternoon, by the Adams County Bankers vigilance committee. The shoot will start at 2 o’clock, central standard time-

Decatur, Indiana, Wednesday, July 24, 1929.

ONLY 78 WORDS USED IN CONTRACTUAL PART OF KELLOGG-BRIAND PEACE PACT Washington, July 24.—(U.R)—Exactly seventy-eight words form the contractual part of the Kellogg-Briand treaty. They are divided into two articles of almost equal length, as follows: Article 1: “ihe high contracting parties solemnly declare in the names of their respective peoples that they condemn recourse to war for the solution of internetlonal controversies, and renounce it as an instrument of national policy in their lelatioiis with one another." Article 2: ‘’The nigh contracting parties agree that the settlement or solution of all disputes or conflicts of wliatever nation or of whatever origin they may be. which may arise among them, shall never be sought except by pacific means." More than 50.000 words of international correspondence was required to produce these brief paragraphs

CLEAN ROOMS OF INDUSTKIALASS'N. Directors Also Make New Rules For Use Os Rooms By Public Now locks have been placed on the doors of the Decatur Industrial Association rooms over the J. and J. grocery and the rooms have been cleaned up and placed in condition. The board of directors, at a recent meeting, made new rules concerning the use of the rooms. A key for the rooms can be secured from the president. Dick Heller, or from the secretary, William Linn. The person who is respdnsble for the use of the rooms for any kind of a meeting is also responsible for cleaning the rooms and returning the key. A small deposit will be asked until the key is returned. All organizations and committees are welcome to use the Industrial Association rooms, according to the officers, and the only request is that whoever uses the rooms, place them back in condition. Each director of the association also will be given a key. Anyone desiring to use the rooms Is asked to communicate a day or two in advance with either the secretary or president of the association. —o - — Walther League To Hold Ice-Cream Social The Walther League of the Emanual Lutheran church, northeast of Decatur, will hold an ice cream social next Sunday. A program of interest will be given. The church is located three miles east and one and one-half miles north of Decatur. —.— (•)— —- Hoover Can Not Alter Flood Control Plan Washington, July 24 —(UP) — At torney General Mitchell has given the war department an opinion bolding decisively that President Hoover has no authority to alter the Mississippi •river flood control plan as suggested by some middle west congl essmen. OLDEST ELK DIES Logansport, Ind, July 24 —(UP) — Burrel Booth, 95, oldest Elk in Indian# died at his home today of paralysisHe had been ill two weeks.

Buys Valuable Police Dog To Guard Garage; Robber Takes It, Too Isehin N. J , July 24—(UP)—Maxwell Rule’s garage was robbed so often that he purchased a valuable police dog. His place was entered again, the robbers taking 98 cents and the dog. . o DRIVER’S LICENSE REVOKED Lebanon, Ind.. July 24. (U.R) Another Indianan has had his drivers license revoked. Fred Lucas, who was convicted of operating his automobile while intoxicated, was fined S4O and his license revoked for one year by Mayor Paul Tower in city court. o FARMBUREAU HIRES MANAGER J. I). Winteregg, Os Berne, Employed to Take Charge Os Work In County Joseph D. Winteregg, of Berne, was employed Tuesday by the board of directors of the Adams County Farm Bureau, to serve as bureau manager. The board of directors include: Grant Owens. Alton Wherry, Ed Neuhouser, Andrew Fuelling, Mr. Dilling, William Yager, Fred Blum. Ralph Meyers, Noah Rich, Ed Springer, Sol Mosser, Albert Burke ami C. O. Green. Dean Byerly has been acting manager of the bureau, but he has resigned, and in the future will have charge of the farm bureau insurance department. exclusively. Mr. Winteregg will assume charge of the organization. legislation and purchasing work. Seventy-five counties in the state now have a Farm Bureau purchasing organization, doing an annual business of from $50,000 to $350,000. The total business of the state farm bureau in 1927 was forty million dollars, while last year, it amounted to nearly sixty million. A gain is being shown this year. Mr. Winteregg will visit other counties in the near future and formulate plans for putting in the entire service here. E. J. Fricke, state organizer for the farm bureau, attended the meeting of the directors of the Adams county bureau, yesterday, when Mr. Winteregg was employed.

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Farmer Falls Into Binder; Seriously Hurt Harley Handwork, a farmer residing near Gleiimore, Ohio, was seriously injured late Monday afternoon, when a team of horses he was driving to n grain binder, tan away. Mr. Handweik fell into the binder and his left leg was amputated just below the knee. His right leg was fractured just above the knee. also. The injured man was taken to the Van Wert county hospital, at Van Wert, where his condition is reported fairly good. He is a son of FredHandiwork Q . ".I- - CLUBS TO TOUR COUNTY AUG. 2 Dairy Calf Club And Sugar Beet Club To Join In County-Wide Tour Plans for the Dairy Calf Club ami Sugat Beet tour, to be held on Friday August 2, have been completed, according to County Agent Ferd Christen. It v.as at first announced tha only calf club members would be visited, but it has recently been decided to combine the tour with the Beet Chin ami visit a number of sugar beet plots that are on the route of the tour. Eleven stops will be made at various points in the county where club members will show their calves and sugar beet plots. At each place, the club members will give a short talk on how be cares for his calf or how he has haldled his acre of sugar beets at the case may be A picnic dinner will be held in the D. J. Mazelin grove at noon. The public is invited to attend the tout and alredy a number of local business men have signified their intention of attending. A number of out-of-town people will be present, including W. V Kell, of the Vhilean Nitrate company. A representative of the Indiana Farm Bureau and jHsssibly an extension man from Purdue will be present. v The tour will start promptly at 8:30 o’clock. Standard Time, at the home of Ralph Christy, one mile north and three-fourths west of Monroe, where a calf belonging to Eloist Christy will be seen. The next stop will be at I lei en Mitchell’s and Glenn Rupert’s, east of Monroe, to see calves and sugar I beets, then to Dan Habegger’s to see calves and sugar beets, (also a field of peppermint). The fourth stop of the morning will be at Calvin Steury’s to see calves, then to I/>rine Rich’s to see a calf and then to David Mazelin’s for basket dinner After dinner, the the tour will proceed to Dan Steury’s (CONTINUED ON PAGE TWO) RUSSIAN TROOPS ON CHINESE SOIL Panic Prevails In Manchuli As Red Army Crosses Border By D. C. Bess, UP Staff Correspondent (Copyright 1929 by CP) Harbin. Manchuria, July 24. —(U.P.)— A technical invasion of Chinese territory by Russian troops lias occurred at Manchuli. on the northwestern border of Manchuria, the vanguard of refugees from Manchuli who reached here today informed me. Panic prevails in Manchuli, they said. The refugees told how Russian troops advanced quietly over the border and encamped near the city. The sight of the troops and their tents spread terror among the polyglot population of Manchuli, and ageneral exodus began. The Chinese troops hastily retreated into the city. Six armored Russian trains also appeared in sight of Manchuli, where they remained.* The Chinese military commandeered farmers’ carts and horses and forced coolies to build three lines of trenches north of Manchuli. Soldiers were sent into the trenches. The residents of the city, fearing that war would break out momentarily, fled in great numbers, along the railroad. London, July 24 —(U.R)—Russia and ’ China continued today to mobilize their fighting forces, concentrating them along the Manchurian border, . and to make menacing gestures from I behind their frontier lines in spite of the repeated promises of Moscow and Nanking that they were seeking a . peaceful settlement of the war charged dispute arising from China's seiz- , ure of the Chinese eastern railway. According to reports reaching here (CONTINUED ON PAGE TWO)

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KELLOGG PEACE PACT PROCLAIMED IN EFFECT TODAY Impressive Ceremonies Are Held At White House In Washington JAPAN’S RATIFICATION IS RECEIVED TODAY Washington, July 24. —(U.R) — The Kellogg peace pact was treated as a proposal to the conscience of civilization in an address by President Hoover ii* the east room of the White mouse today marking the formal inauguration of the new world antt-war treaty —the first of its kind in history. The president called upon the nations of the world to unite “to extend the policy which it so nobly sets forth.” Washington. July 21. (U.R) The Kellogg-Bria lid treaty in which nearly all the nations of the world for the first time in history pledge themselves to renounce war as an instrument of national policy, became officially effective today when the Japnese instrument of ratification was deposited at the state department by Ambassador Debuchia. The Japanese document of ratification wan officially deposited exactly at noon E. S. T. at which moment the Kellogg pact became officially effective throughout nearly all of the world. The document, bearing the great seal of the imperial Japan, was delivered by Ambassador Debuchi to Secretary of State Stimson in the diplomatic room of the state department. Washington. July 24. —(U.R) — The gods of war were blasphemed as graven images and false idols today when diplomatic representatives of 41 nations assembled in the historic east room of the White House to join President Hoover in impressive ceremonies proclaiming effective the Kel-logg-Briand treaty renouncing war as an instrument of national policy. Great Step Forward Prejudging all acts of aggressive warfare as illegal under the terms and usages of international law, the treaty marks a new mile stone in the post-iwar quest off world diplomacy for a formula to effect lasting peace. Forty-six governments have deposited formal notice of ratification with ihe American state department and 16 others declared their determination to ratify as soon as the necessary legislative steps can be taken in their respective parliaments. “It is a direct blow to the instiuttion of war. even to its very vitals.” said Foreign Minister Briand of France, in eulogizing the pact at ihe signatory ceremonies in the famous Salle Des Horloges in Paris last August. Former President Coolidge. in whose administration the treaty was negotiated and signed by 15 world powers, and former Secretary of State Kellogg, wife) conducted the delicate negotiations through seven trying months, were honored guests (CONTINUED ON PAGE TWO) W. A.KLEPPER SPEAKS TO LIONS Discusses Importance Os All Men Being Constructive Builders "All men were eieated to be builders, and there is a place for the small builder as well as for the large one.' said W. A. Klepper, general manager of the Cloverleaf Creameries, Inc., in an address at the weekly luncheon meeting of the Decatur Lions Chili, Tuesday evening The man in a small community who serves his community well and helps build it. is just as important as the leadeis in the various professions and industries in the large communities, declared Mr. Klepper. The speaker pointed out the difference between constructive and destrouctive builders. Preceding Mr. Klepper’s address. Miss Majorie Hall, of Newcastle a niece of A B. Hull, of this city, favor ed the club with a group of vocal solos accompanied at the piano by Miss Helen Haubold, club pianist. Mr. Hall and Felix Graber were in charge of the program last night.

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