Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 27, Number 180, Decatur, Adams County, 30 July 1929 — Page 1

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THINK woman IS CONNECTED WITH CAWEFTCASE Officials From Several Cities! Confer Al Paulding, Ohio, Today lOC KL OFFICERS ' AIDING IN PROBE Officials of Dnatur, Columbia City J Homewood. HI.. Jackson. Mich., and Liling. Ohio were conferring this | ,n,.noon wiili department of justice Hi n tie’ a' Paulding, concerning t Ora SmUh L William Band, arrested last ’,ek at Homewood. 111., and Ernest enlth at Paulding, in what is bebv officials to be the rounding ~n ;1 gang of alleged automobile | thieves. . , SMiff Harl Hollingsworth and dis of Police Sephus Melchi left , hi .- morning for Paulding and will rem.in there all day. aiding federal j .uihorities in further probing the I «(*• , . ! Woman Believed Involved Police officials here were given a I -tp" today from an authoritative ! source that a woman, now residing in I Pert Wayne, formerly of Decatur, i rjs directly connected with the case. I ' The woman's name is being withheld pending questioning. It is understood that she will be technically arrested and held for questioning late today or tomorrow. While no statement had been given at Pan’.ding at 3 o'clock this afternoon. it was generally decided by the officials in conference that the men should be tried in the South Bend division of the Federal court, because ; it is nearer the central point of investigation than Chicago. It is thought that the trio held at Homewood will be brought to South Bend the latter part of this week. A complete confession from the three held at Homewood was brought to Paulding today by federal agents, but Hie confessions have not yet been made public. 0 . — Joseph E. Hennings, Philanthropist, Dies Martinsville, Ind., July 30. — 'U.R' — Joseph E. Hennings, 65, philanthropist, hanker and member of the board of trustees at Indiana reformatory, died at a sanatarium here of a heart attack. Henning, whose home is in Anderson. became a patient here 10 days ago. He formerly was connected with several hotels and was a direc'or of several other organizations. His estate was valued at $300,000. WILL CONTINUE UNION SERVICES Protestant Churches Decide To Hold .Joint Meetings During August Hue to a large number of requests that have come to the Ministerial Association of this city, asking that he Sunday evening union services of the several Protestant churches of 'he City be continued, it has been decided to continue the union serv-l(-es during the month of August, closing on Sunday evening, September 1. Splendid interest was shown in the ''mon meetings during the month of my and those in charge are hopeful 'hat the attendance and interest will Wow even larger during August. A cordial invitation t«t extended to the general public to attend these servregardless of church affiliation. 'he United Brethren church, which ''’operated in the union services durjh* July, ilas asked to be excused com the remainin' yer es, due to ''tact that the a -nr i conference of that church wdl convene soon. Ihe following < aedule has been ranged for the ~‘mi services: Sunday, Augus, Baptist church, sermon by Rev. R. W..Stoakes. sern' n,a ' -August 11—M. E. church, sermon by Rev. R. B . Hurt. chn>- ili | <ld '' August 18 — Evangelical ennreh. sermon by Rev. O. E. Miller chur nday ’ 25 ~ Christian derman. Berm ° n ReV M ' W S ""’ chui-jy 1 ’ S * >p,eml, er 1— Reformed thmeh, sermon by Rev H H pern

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High Cost Os Living In United States Not So High, Comparatively Washington, July 30.—;U.R>- Th-> “high cost of living" In the United states isn't so high when price statistics front other countries are considered, according to da'a obtained from the federal reserve board today. While the retail price of food in the United States was 52 points above pre-war costs during June, food prices in Bulgaria were 2. 760 points higher and in Czechoslovakia food that cost $1.0(1 before the war now retails for $9.06, The general cost of living in tli“ United States was plaited at 157 points compared with 100 points before the war Finland's statistic* showed the cost of living in that country was now 1.210 points. 48 ENROLLED IN AUCTION SCHOOL Twenty-Nine Students Answer To First Roll Call; New Instructor Here Forty-eight students were enrolled for the opening of the nineteenth term of the Reppert Auction School. Monday. Twenty-nine of the students arr,ved Monday, while others are expected to arrive during the next few' days. There are enrollments from twenty-three states and two provinces in Canada. Seventeen states were represented in the roll call Monday morning. The Reppert school , has a national reputation, with grad-1 nates in every state in the union and everv province in Canada. New instructors are added to the staff from time to time. Colonel L. C. Hoover, of Holyoke. Colorado, a I graduate of this school, has been added te the staff of Instructors and I made his first appearance at the school yesterday. Colonel Hoover has made a decided success as an auctioneer and should prove a valuable instructor. He is also a member of the National Realty Auction company, of Decatur. Col. Reppert has converted the art room unnderneath the grandstand at Bellmont park into a dormitory for the students. Eighteen students are quartered there at present. More cots have been ordered by Col. Reppert and arrangements will be made for accomodating more students. The stqdents were getting under way this morning, all anxious to master the profession of auctioneering. Colonel Roy Johnson, of Decatur. one of the instructors, also a graduate of th's school, has arrived i home from a circuit of sales in Ten- ! nessee and was on the job this mornng. The auction students will make their first bow to the public on the <■; art house square. Saturday afternoon. when they will conduct a genuine auction sale of furniture and merchandise of all kinds. Free prizes will be given at these auctions as usual, and the students will furnish p’enty of entertainment. These sales will be conducted every evening. The (CONTINUED ON PAGE TWO) Boy Scout Saves Life Os Foreign Statesman Vienna. July 30—<U.R)~An unconfirmed report from Prague, capital of Czechoslovakia, states that a Boy Scout today saved Foreign Minister Eduard Benes from drowning at Chlumetz, where Benes is spending his summer vacation. Benes is known to be a good swimmer and the report lias raised much wonderment here as to the circumstances. o Three Killed When Train Hits Automobile Princeton, Ind., July 30. — (U.R) Throe members of a family were killed and five other occupants of an automobile injured slightly near here when the machine was struck at a crossing by astring of freight cars. The dead: Mrs. George Demmett, 38; Dora, 17 months, a daughter, and Raymond, 7, a son. Mrs. Demmett’s husband was injured slightly. . o Man Fined And Jailed For Spanking His Wife Evansville, Ind., July 30. —(U.R) —E<l- - Seibert, 36. who spanked his wife because she talked to some neighbors he does not like, was fined $25 and sent to jail for 30 days.

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Aids Farm Board K IF' J| A..- N JI ■ikw-.tii • • Vill s ■ ■ * — - -■"nr ■' * • XM • Mi'is Lucy Hennon of Lima. Ohio only woman farm co-operative association manager and the only woman delegate at the federal farm board meeting at Chicago last week, told of the farmers' needs.

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New York, July 30.—(U.R) —New York crowds are hard-hearted. You could walk the streets for a year and never get as much as a friendly glance A young man collapsed at Broadway and 88th street last night. A crowd gathered. He was heard to mutter something about being hungry. Someone in the crowd slipped away and reappeared with coffee and sandwkhes from a restaurant. The young man at- 4 and collapsed again. An ambulance arrived, and the doctor announced the young man was starving. There was a movement in the crowd, a bat was passed and in a few m«*' utes a purse of SIOO was collected. EARTHQUAKE IN TURKEY Smyrna. Turkey, July 30.— U.R)— A slight triple earthquake shook Smyrna today, alarming the whole population, j No damages were reported. DEATH CLAIMS CHARLES ERVIN Employee Os Nickel Plate Railroad Company Dies At Hospital Here Charles Ervin, 77. of 716 Elm street, died at J: 10 o’clock this morning. Tuesday, July 30, 1929. at the Adams County Memorial hospital. Death was due to a complication of diseases, with which Mr. Ervin has been ailing for the past five years. His condition grew worse Saturday evening, and Sunday evening he was removed to the Adams County Memorial hospital. The deceased was born October 15, 1851, in Somerset, Ohio. A son of Mr. and Mrs. James Ervin. He united in marriage with Lucy Murray, who preceded him in death seventeen years ago For the past forty years, Mr. Ervin has resided in Decatur, where he was employed as a car inspector for the Nickle Plate railroad. He, was a member of the St. Marys Catholic church. Surviving are five daughters and one son, Blanch, Edith. Ethel and Velma Ervin, all at home; Dorotha Ervin, of Fort Wayne; and Ralph Ervin, of Del phos. Ohio. One grandson also survives Mr. Ervin has no brothers or sisters. Funeral services will be held at St. Marys Catholic church at 9 o’clock Thursday morning. Burial will be made in St. Joseph’s Catholic cemetery. — 0 — BERNE PEOPLE IN ACCIDENT Berne, July 3ft-(Special)—Mr. and tits- Howard Lehman, of Berne, escaped serious injury, but their automobile was badly damaged, in an autonobile collision at Rockville, Saturday afternoon on their way home from Turkey Run and the Shades of Death.

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woman who had'Stopped her car at the scene took the young man away, promising him a night’s lodging and train fare home. The young man was Ernest Barber, 23. a recent graduate of the University of Virginia, who had come here with his diploma and high hopes to make his fortune, but had been unable to find work. When he collapsed he had not eaten in three days. FAMINE MENACE LOOMS IN CHINA Forty Million Persons On Verge Os Starvation; Cannibalism Is Rampant Peping. China. July 30 —(UP) —The International famine lelief commission reported today that 40.000.000 persons were on the verge of starvation in Chica and that canibalism was iampant in Kansu province, where 13 American. British and French Missionaries and priests have died from Typhus in the last six weeks. The famine was reported to be more far reaching and more devastating than any which China, has experienced in the last century. North and western China were practiculaily affected, the situation in Shensi and Kansu provinces especially was complicated by severance of railway communications due to cival wars delaying famine relief trains for several weeks. Drought Is Extensive The drought this spring in north China has been more extensive than last year, covering most of the area previously affected and seriously damaged the crops in provinces which a year ago were fairly prosperous. In spite of the efforts of famine relife workers the reports indicated that seed gbain was not supplied in sufficient amounts to ateas stripped of all ■surplus by prolonged famine and by the depredations of soldiers and bandits. As a result only partial crops were sown over large areas and even these have been greatly curtailed by by unfavorable weather conditions. The mission board's report said that several of their workers, foreign and Chinese, literally lost theii minds from the dreadful sights they have been forced to witness. The mission compounds in many places have been surrounded by hundreds of dying persons who have cried feebly for assistance which the mission workers were unable to provideThe bandits, reported to be on the increase, are partly professional robbers, but a large number of them are desperate persons, ordinarily law-abid-ing farmers who have joined these bands in a final effort to obtain enough to eat. They have attacked towns and villages, engaging in desperate battles with the inhabitants with the sole object of obtaining food.

Cattle Industry In Need Os Buxom Girls And Rain

LEGIONNAIRES PICK DELEGATES

Leo Ehinger, Paul Graham And Lloyd Baker Named Delegates To Convention Leo Ehinger, Paul Graham and Lloyd Baker were elected delegates from Adams Post No. 43, of the American Legion, to the state convention. at a meeting of t.he local post last night. The convention will be held at Richmond. August 24 to 27. Alternate delegates chosen last night are Otto Gaso. Flank Schumacher and Dee Fryback. A large delegation from the Decatur post will attend the convention. A large s'iver loving cup, to be known as the Perry Faulkner trophy and to be awarded each year to the poet in the eighth district making the I greatest showing—in the membership! drive, has been purchased through the Keller Jewelry store in this city and is on display there. France Conter. commander of (he post in this city, has received instructions from James Patchell, of Union City, eighth d’strict commander, to keep the cup here this year. Adams post made a wonderful showing in the membership drive this year, going far over its quota and exceeding all previous membership records here. The cup was named the Perry Faulkner trophy in honor of Mr. Faulkner, ’ a past state commander, who rendered the eighth district much good service. It was decided last night that at least sis een crews start out from ! Decatur next Monday to advertise the I Decatur free street fair, which the 1 Legion post will sponsor September i 10-14. The fair lioosters will cover all teuatory witbin a radius of front 35 to 50 miles of Decatur. Voiunte-rs and cars are wanted for the trips. The national convention committee plans to call on all members of the post who are contemplating going to the convention at Louisville this fall, sometime this week, in regard to chartering a pullman car for the trip. — o — HELD FOR SHOOTING Newcastle. Ind.. July 30. U.R) —Bfi lieved to be wanted in Monticello, i Ky., for shooting and wounding the I father of a chum. Porter Guthrie. 14, j was held for Kentucky authorities toI day. The youths was alleged to have escaped bailiffs during his trial in | | Wayne county. Kentucky, last June. o ELLEN E, KELSEY CALLED BY DEATH Aged Woman Dies Os Apoplexy At Her Home Near Salem, Sunday Mrs. Ellen Elvira Kelsey, 83, died at her home near Salem, at 7:30 o'clock Sunday evening. July 28. 1929. Death was due to apoplexy. Mrs. Kelsey had been in fair health for her advanced years until 10:30 o clock Saturday night, when she suffered a stroke which resulted in her deftth the following evening. The deceased was born in Michigan, where she resided until about forty years ago, when she came to Adams county and located on the farm near Salem where the remaining days of her life were spent. Her husband. Edgar Kelsey, preceded her in death eight years ago. A son, Albert Kelsey, resided at the old homestead with his mother. She was a member of the Salem M. E. church. Surviving are three daughters and three sons as follows: Mrs. George Gott, of Wellington, Ohio; Mrs. Hollie Young, of Rockford, Ohio; Mrs. A. J. Heffron, of Fort Wayne; Willlard Kelsey, residing on Decatur route five; Albert Kelsey, who lived at home; and Arthur Kelsey, of near Salem. Eight grandchildren and one great grandchild, also survive. Two brothers and one sister reside in Michigan. / Funeral services were to be held at 1:30 o’clock, standard time Wednesday afternoon, at the home. The body will be taken on the 3:36 p. m. Erie train to Wellington, Ohio, where it will rest until Thursday at the home of the daughter, Mrs. George Gott. Burial will be made Thursday afternoon at Huntington. Ohio, a town just ten miles distant from Wellington.

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Packers Sigh For “Curves” While Cattlemen Pray For Rain Kansas City, Mo., July 30.- .'U.R) — While packers read fashion notes and sighed for the Buxom girls of the gay nineties, cattlemen today read the weather report, watched the sky, and prayed for rain. The cattlemen of the cornbelt and ] the southwest need a break in the weather and the packers, behind the plate, ask ,the fashion pitcher for some “curves." If each could have what he wants, the cattle industry today would be in a fairway towards ’ recovery. 1 Receipts at the-Kansas City live-]] stock market —for the present the] I country's and perhaps the world's 11 greatest clearing house — reached a|l high mark for the year yesterday with ( 22,354 tattle and 3.862 calves. Yet it I (CONTINUED ON PAGE TWO) | o SUIT AGAINST BANKDBOPPED 1 i C. O. Krugh Has Suit For i $20,000 Against Ohio City Bank Dismissed 11 Van Wert, Ohio, July 30—The suit of C. O. Krugh for $20,000, against ’the Farmers bank at Ohio City, was dismissed Monday, “without prejudice." This action followed a motion filed by Krugh. Saturday, asking that the case be dismissed and agreei ing to pay approximately SSOO in [ costs. Krugh, who bought livestock at 'Ohio City and did his banking business at the Farmers’ bank, was indicted by a grand jury of Fort Wayne for issuing cheeks without sufficient funds in the bank. This indictment was later dismissed but last February Krugh sued the bank, claiming the books of the institution were wrong and that he had approximately $20,000 to his credit. The bank's books showed he had an overdraft of slightly over S4OO. Jesse F. Beam was appointed as special master commissioner to take evidence and report to the court on the matter. Howard L. Kay, Lima, public accountant, was employed to go over Krugh’s account with the bank for two and one-half years before it was closed. He reported erri ors amounting to about $7 over this period but declared the bank's figures approximately correct. Concert By General Electric Band Postponed I The General Electric band concert, which was to have been held Thursday evening, will be postponed until the same time next week, due to the fact that so many members of the band are out of the city ou their vacations. The regular program will be resumed, however, next week. o Willshire Man Admits Drunken Driving Charge C. B. Brandberry, 26, of near Willshire. Ohio, pleaded guilty to a charge of driving an automobile while intoxicated when arraigned in court before Squire W. J. Semple, at Van Wert, Monday afternoon. The charges were filed against Brandberry by Sheriff A. L. Fleck, of Van Wert county. Brandyberry was arrested Sunday afternoon, by Sheriff Fleck, one mile north of Willshire near the St. Marys river, after his automobile had gone into a ditch. It was reported to the sheriff thjht Brandyberry's car had sideswiped two other automobiles before the accident. Sentence was withheld by Squire Semple, pending a hearing of the circumstances in the case, set for Wednesday morning. r O District Convention Os Evangelical Synod Opens Bethany Park, Ind., July 30.— JJ.R) — Attendance of 250 was registered here today at the 14th national convention of the Indiana district, Evangelical synod of North America, which will continue until Friday. Department heads of the convention are music, A. B Mayer, Tell City; 1 recreation. Miss Schaffer; kitchen I and dining room. Mrs. Cliff Brinkman, Cumberland; and morning Bib'e i study, the Rev. F. Auhlman. Cumberland.

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ST. LOUIS PLANE IS STILL IN AIR AFTER4I4HOURS Pilots Spurn Request Os Sponsors Os Flight To Come Down LINDY GIVES THEM AN AERIAL SALUTE SI, Louis, July 30 (U.R) Hours tiller a virtual order went into the skies here today ‘’requesting’’ Dale Jackson and Forrest (I’Brine to terminate the longest flight in history in point of time, their “St. Louis Robin’’ remained aloft. It passed its 414 hour of consecutive flight at 1:17 p.m. As if reluctant to cut short their amazing achievement to say nothing of relinquishing some $3,000 extra living pay daily, the pilots refused even Io answer the request to land. Exert Financial Pressure St. Louis. July 30.—(U.R) Financial pressure was brought to bear on the pilots of the “St. Louis Robin" today in an effort to induce them to return to earth. Promise of extra flying pay “on the basis of 500 hours" if 'hey wo lid descend was wired to Dale Jackson and Forrest O'Brine by Frank 11. Russell, vice-president of the Curtiss Airplane and Motor company. Lindy Salutes ’Em St. Louis, July 30 —(U.R) —Apparently spinning the idea of having its wings clipped, the St. Louis Robin remained in the air here today and at 11:17 a.m. completed its 412th consecutive hq,ur. During the morning, -while uncer- _ tainty prevailed about a virtual order to the Robin to come down. Col and Mrs. Charles A. Lindbergh arrived from the west ami gave Pilots Jackson and O.Brine an aerial salu'e. later leaving for New York. St. Louis, July 30.- U.R? —Maj. Wiliam Robertson, sponsor of the epochal endurance flight of the St. Louis Rabin. announced today that he was sending aloft a message ordering Dale Jackson and Forrest O'Brine to land their craft today. At 9:17 ant., they had been aloft 410 hours. Maj. C. Ray Wassail, refueling chief and his aide. P V. Chaffee, immediately went aloft bearing this message: “Come down today. “Maj. William B. Robertson." Earlier today the pilots of 'he plane, Dale Jackson and Forrest O'Brine. dropped a note which threw a pandemonium of activity over Lambert field. The note read: “Get ready, we are coming down—some time. Ha. ha.” 'CONTINUED ON PAGE FIVE) 0 , HOOSIER FLIERS TO SEEK RECORD Two Indianapolis Fliers To Start Assault On Endurance Record Indianapolis. July 30. —(U.R)— lieports current here today were that two Indianapolis fliers will take off within two weeks in the most modern airplane ever assembled for an assault on the Refueling endurance record held by the St. Louis-Robin. Plans for the flight, shrouded in utmost secrecy, were understood to call for a $20,000 plane with an additional $40,000 available for the flight itself. The ship, to be latge, will be equipped with radio, heaters, toilet and a bed room, according to reports. The name of the plane, understood to be under construction, will be selected by the public in a contest. It will be a regular 12-passenger plane and removal of seats will make room for the bedroom and other facil- . ities which other pilots have not had, > it was said. 1 It was said that Lieut. Laurence I Genaro will be one of the pilots. I —— o— • World War Veteran. 1 63 Years Old, Dies 1 Goshen. Ind. July 3(1 —(UP)—Wil- • Ham Brooks. 63, who claimed to have s been the oldest Indiana volunteer in ■ the World War, died at his home here. He formerly was city clerk.

TOURTiOME PAPERLIKE ONE OF THE FAMILY