Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 27, Number 185, Decatur, Adams County, 5 August 1929 — Page 1

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VIOLENCE CLAIMS thirteen lives OVER WEEK-END 4uto Accidents, Suicides, \nd Despondency Are Chief Causes other accidents 0 CAUSE DEATHS lßdlMaP olkAu R . 5.-;U.EV-Violence ," ~3 lives in Indiana over the "rt-end. a survey by the United ' press showed today. [ after being married two days, Eli,h., Bourn, 70. committed suicide at hk farm home near Stilesville by fir)E a bullet into his head with a remlver. He had been in ill health. Charles McGuire. 5. was killed in St. ■ whnn y when struck by a passenger Xanuel Miller. 40. died of injuries [ when kicked by a mule at Ms home in Rochester. The mule's toaf opened an incision made by a t nrent operation. I After predicting “I ll be the next Bpt ," Armitta Craig, 74, was seized with asevere pain and died at Darl- ) Upon Believed to have Iteen seized with : a heart attack. Robert Dietz. 42. Chitgo wholesale grocer, dropped dead ; while playing golf at Goshen. ! Struck by a string of freight cars, • fewer Lavelle, railroad switchman, ns killed at Anderson. j Eight year-old Riley Noble was killed at Terre Haute when struck by an , aawmobile while crossing a street. > Fred Htmn. 35, died in an ambulance H Terre Haute while en route to a , (CONTINUED ON PAGE TWO) O > s Plans Are Completed For Mt. Tabor Social ; A very interesting program has ken planned tor the musicale and ice mam social which is to be held at tie Mt. Tabor Methodist church, at Bobo. Ttiesda' evening, August 6. at o'clock (central standard time). The musicale kt being sponsored by the Epworth League of that church. The complete program is as follows: prelude, Mrs. Nellie Jackson; W congregation; devotional. Rev. Hocker; song. Berne chorus; piano •oio. Mrs. Floyd Meyers; song, Junior ttesrne; song. Meyers brothers quar- ! tete; reading, Dorothy Walters; solo, 1 Hrs Oliver Brodbeek; song, Mens i choriis, Decatur; piano solo, Viola ► Carter; song. Berne chorus; song. : Meyers brothers quartette; piano dw-t. Nellie Jackson and Mildred 1 Helm; song. Mens chorus, Decatur; reading. Dorothy Walters; piano solo, Mrs. Floyd Meyers.; song, Berne chorus: short talk, Rev. Blocker; st*?. Herne chorus; benediction. : Following the musicale, ice cream 1 *lll be served on the church lawn, i ad the public is invited to attend. F. 0 IMYNNECLEM WINS CONTEST "ill Represent Adams Co., . At Indiana State Fair Economics School ' .to?I*’ 1 *’ • Marilynne Clem of Union ’'udiip was chosen to represent AdI county at the state fair school ! ai.? hsl(l in c °unection with the In- ! . ?. Bta,e ,air at Indianapolis. ‘it ( . air aun^**r exhibits were made 1 »hpr P eop,es State Bank at Berne I ttdav < '° llteS ' Was hel(I laßt Sat- : ■ Miss Flora Franz of Berne her I?., Udge of the exhibits and ) Fa,). r Was very commendable. to' * rl Wati required to bake a . make si!£ buttonholes and comthe hl" 6 ' h ‘ Patch ' Mra Oem ‘>ad •«« w , aT P on a!1 exhibits I'oaf.,.' lec are<i the winner. The bXZ" th a,,y g,rl or you,,K i s years nt the ages of 16 an, l I *tarts a age ri’ e state fair school 4 and bef ° re tl,e falr 0,1 Au *- Ms until h UeS throu « h f or (two 7h ? h f the fa!r °f,ch«ol, M rs % At the s ‘ a t« fair •trhctions n em Wi " receive in ' M cookl,lg - sewing and M tartar Her expenßes which in- * th' 2? aDd tuition will be paid ‘‘tmughout r ,. Home Economics Clubs a of »h COUnty ' Slle will give W Day ‘ ‘ Work at ‘he Achieve--on>icßn>icß Cl 2° f the H °me Econtla|e during <> Cb Wl " '' e he'd s°me--8 the month of November.

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Judge Refuses Order To Confiscate Auto South Bend, Ind, Aug. 5. —(U.P. — I Efforts of the federal government here I to have a liquor transporter's automobile confiscated under the old international revenue law which were balked by the ruling of Federal Judge Thomas W. Slick, probably will be carried through by the district attorney cti appeal to the circuit court of appeals at Chicago. Judge Slick, in refusing t-’ confiscate the automobile of Russel Cowan, Ft. Wayne rum runner, said the district attorney's argument for seizure was as untenable as it was ingenius and did not aid the court in an honest effort to apply the letter and the spirit of the law. In this case the government prosecuted the driver under one law and sought to seize his car tinder another. This is the second recent instance in which Judge Slick has refused to confiscate liquor carriel s. He has been severe with government agents who have used ingenious meth-uls to entrap liquor law offenders. o ADAMS COUNTY WOMAN EXPIRES Mrs. Marie Reppert Dies Saturday At Home Os Mrs. Ed Fruchte Mitt. Marie Reppert, 70, died of acute indigestion and heart trouble at 6 o'clock Saturday morning, at the home of her daughter, Mrs. Ed Fruchte, near Magley. Mrs. Reppert, widow of Christian Reppert, had been making her home with her children for the last six years. For a while she lived with her son. Whiter Reppert. near Magley. letter she resided with her daughters, Mrs. Edward Fruchte- Last January she went to Freeport, Illinois, to live with her daughter, Mrs. R. A. Worthman and her son, George. Last Friday Mrs. Reppert came here to attend the Repi>ert family reunion and to visit for a few weeks. She was taken ill with heart trouble and indigestion Saturday morning and died that evening. Mrs. Reppert was a daughter of William and Margaret Spies and was born near Findlay, in Hancock county, Ohio, October 1. 1858. She was married to Christian Reppert May 7. 1878. He died twenty-three years ago Mis. Reppert was a member of the Magley Reformed church. Surviving are eight childten, Edward Reppert. Walter Reppert and Mrs. Edward Fruchte, all of Magley; Geotge Reppert and Mrs. Ralph Woithman of Freeport, 111.; the Rev. Chatles Reppert. of Stony Plain. Alber a, Canada; Mrs. Jason Hoffman, of West Concord. Minn., anil Elmer Reppert of Fort Wayne. Four sisters survive, also. They are Mrs. Emma Vits, of Indianapolis; Mrs. Tillie Hagen, of California; Mrs- Huldah Diehl, of Lafayette, and Mrs. Charles Miller, of Decatur. Two sisters preceded her in death. Funeral services will be held at the Fruchte residence Tuesday afternoon at 1:45 o'clock and at the Magley Reformed church at 2 o'clock (standard time). The Rev. Otto Scherry will have charge of the services. Bprial will be made in the Magley cemetery. o CEYLON WOMAN DIES SUNDAY Mrs. Alneda Stroup Dies Following Birth Os Child Sunday 1 Geneva, Aug. 5. — Mrs. Alneda Shanks Stoup. 43, died at her home just north of here at 7 o’clock Sunday night Death followed the birth of a baby Sunday afternoon at 2 o’clock. The baby lived. Surviving besides the husband John Stoup are two small Children. Mrs. Steup was a member of the Ceylon Methodist church of near Geneva. > Funeral services will be held Weanesday afternoon at 2 o'clock at the Ceylon Methodist church and burial .will be made in the church cemetery. ' „ Family Escapes As Car Takes Plunge New York, Aug. 5— (U.P.—A family of five escaped injury when their automobile plunged 30 feet into Phoenicia lake Jacob Lanter, his wife and three children were rescued by passersby who leaped into the lake and pulled the family through windows of the sedan.

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Graf Stowaway To Return To Germany Immediately

I-akehurst, N. J., Aug. 5.—(U.R> — Seventeen-year-nld Albert Buschkla would have been kneading dough today in a German bakery but for his trusty bicycle and a coll of rope which enabled him to stow away on the trans-Atlantic dirigilie Graf Zeppein. Abert has been ordered to Goluchester immigration station, Philadlephia, to be sent home but before summary sentence was passed on him here he told assistant immigration commissioner James L, Hughes all about it. In the words of Dr. Hugo Eckener, Graf Zeppelin commander, Albert “had an ingenious idea.’’ Eckener explained: “This stowaway of ours was a foolish youth with romantic ideas who wanted’to ride in an airship. The benighed young man got his bad Ideas from your famous American slowaway, (Arthur Schreiber. who secreted himself abroad the French Yellow Bird before its recent trans-Atlantic flight.) “But our stowaway had an ingenious idea. He hid in the roof and leaped to the top of the Graf Zep--1 pelin as we started. We locked him in a special room so he would not commit further nonsense. He will be punished in Germany to discourage the stowaway habit." • —n American Killed In Auto Wreck In England London, Aug. 5. —(U.PJ-Henry Porch, believed to have been an American talking-picture engineer, was killed, and two of his countrymen. Raymond King. Rochester, N. Y., and Richard W. Kirkpatrick, were severely injured early today when an automobile which King was driving crashed over' a parapet of a bridge across the Thames river at Staines. 19 miles! southwest of London. lying was uneonseiotis at 11 a. m.,| but hospital attaches said Kirkpatrick’s injuries were less critical. The trio in their car plunged 25 feet into the Thames. The American consulate here said it was understood that all three were engineers employed by a talking motion picture concern. Highway Department Sends Out Warning Indianapolis, Aug. 5- —(U P. —Officials of the state highway commission today appealed to motorists to be more careful while driving along highways where workmen are employed. The request foi "more sane driving" came after one employe on a state road was killed and another injured when they attempted to flag an automobile while protecting fellow workmen. COOL WEATHER VISITS COUNTY - Follows Several Hours’ Rain j And Causes Mercury To Drop • Unusually cool weather for August arrived in DDecatur and this community Saturday following a several hour rain, and while the weather forecasters predicted warmer weather today, the mercury was slow t.o rise and it was estimated that it would take several hours before seasonable weather returned. A cool breeze was apparent all day Sunday the day was ideal front the motorists' standpoint. Farmers say that the Friday and Saturday rains were worth thousands of dollars to their crops, and that the accompanying wind was not sufficient to do any harm. The St. Marys river rose several feet Saturday and was slightly out. of ite banks in low places. The golf course at the Decatur Country Club ■was under water Saturday and Sunday, but officials at the club said the water was receding swiftly and that the course would be in playing condition either Monday night or Tuesday. Tie Wabash river In the south part of the county was out of banks in a few places, but roads were all paesabie. The heaviest rain of Saturday, apparently fell between Decatur and Mduroe where for several hours water was over the low- places in the roads. The water was quickly drained, however. and no damage was reported. The cold weather was general throughout, the county, and Sunday evening the thermometer registered the lowest in Decatur* that it has for several weeks. Warmer weather is predicted for tonight and Tuesday.

Decatur, Indiana, Monday, August 5, 1929.

Wins Edison Contest 4 — - ~ v - I-' ** F i Wilber B. Huston, of Seattle, Wash, won the Edison Contest in competition witli youths from every Staue in the Union at the Edison plant. West Orange, N. J. Upon completing the college education he will receive, majoring in mechanical subjects, under Edison’s guidance, he will be launched upon a career sponsored by the wizard of electricity, to see if he can lie developed to succeed the inventor in carrying out some of the great work he has planned. JOHN MG CLURE IS ARRESTED Officers Take Alleged Moonshine Whiskey And Home Brew In Raid John McClure, residing a short distance east of the city on the Bellmont road, was arrested on a charge of i possession of intoxicating liquor at 10 o’clock Saturday night, following a raiil on the McClure residence by the sheriff and two deputies. McClure's case has been set for a hearing in mayor's court at 4 o’clock this afternoon. Sheriff Hollingsworth stated that he found four half pint bottles of moonshine whiskey and a large quantity of home-brew beer at the McClure residence. McClure was locked in the county jail Saturday night and was unable to provide bond for bis release. ADVERTISING UP FOR STREET FAIR Legionnaires Are Erecting Signs Throughout This Part Os State Thirteen automobile loads of Decatur American Legion members started out at 8 o’clock this morning in all directions advertising the Decatur Free Street Fair and Agricultural Exposition to lie held here September 10 to 14. inclusive. Signs advertising the big show will be distributed throughout this community for a radius of 50 miles. All sizes of signs and hand bills are being circulated. Besides the advertising campaign today, a committee will be present at all fairs and street carnivals In this locality during the next month to advertise the local celebration. Concessions for the local exposition are practically all sold and the stands will be alligned down the center of Second street, making a mid-way on each side of the street and leaving the merchants' display windows open. A large banner will be stretched across the street in this city this week v (CONTINUED ON PAGE TWO) John W. Garrett Gets Foreign Post Selection Washington, «.ug. 5. —(U.P.)—Appointment of John W. Garrett, Baltimore, Md., banker to be ambassador to Italy was formally announced today at the White House.

'CORN BORER IS INCREASING IN ADAMS COUNTY Federal Scouts Report Increased Infestation In Union And Root Twps. WILL CONTINUE TO INVESTIGATE HERE / An increase of ftom 500 to 700 perl cent in corn borer Infestation in Union j and Rkx>t townships, Adams county,) dining the last two yeats. is reported by two federal corn liorer scouts, who are making a survey in this county. The snouts will make an inspection in every township in the county while here. Sot far, only Union and Root townships have been inspected. The first coin borer inspection was made in this county two years ago. at which time a few borers were found and the county placed under quarantine. No inspection was made last i year. The scouts are selecting three fields of corn of early planting in each township. The pest appears to be attacking the early corn As many as thirteen infested hills have been found in a single row "f porn about 1 forty n< ds long, it is reported. The scouts are finding as many as four borers in a single stalk of corn The borei s are found in the ears, the stalk and the tassel. The hoiers are doing no appreciable damage to the c<;n crop here this year, in fact, it will be three or four years, at the present rate of increase in infestation, before the b-'iers damage the crop to any great extent, it is said. However, the pest is multiplying rapidly in this pait of the country, it is repeated and present control ine’hods only tend t« check its spread. Under the quarantine regulations, no coiji or corn fodder can be taken from this county into a evunty where no corn borers have been found. Neighboring counties are under quarantine, also. Persons desiring to see specimens of the corn borers and their work may do so where the federal scouts are at work, but none of the corn can be taken from the fields. Q Nineteen Bodies Recovered Ostend, Belgium, Aug. 5. — U.P.; — ; Nineteen bodies had been recovered j today, 12 persons were still missing and 29 were in hospitals recovering i from injuries as the result of a collision of two launches off the seawall I here yesterday, within 100 feet of I thousands of persons. i The famous watering place of Os- ’ tend, filled with vacationists, many of them Americans, was aghast at the 1 tragedy. o— — 2— TRUSTEES PLAN SCHOOL OPENING Rural Schools To Start September 2; Most of Teachers Hired Sevetal details pertaining t-> the opening of the rural schools of Adams county were discussed at the regubULJi l mtlily meeting of the township trustees, heftUin the office of the county superintendent, Clifton E. Striker, today. The schools will open on Monday, September 2. The new school bus driver law was discussed, also. It provides that all drivers of school busses must be 21 years of age or older. Mxrst of the trustees reported that teaching corps for the year were complete. A few vacancies remain to be filled, however0 National Guardsmen At Camp Knox, Ky. Camp Knox, Ky . Aug. S.—(U.P.) — Indiana National Guardsmen, in attendance at their annual two weeks’ summer camp, had their first test of soldier life today as routine work was started. Most ot yesterday was occupied by registration and other preliminary duties. Today the men were awakened at sunrise and started on their two weeks’ course. All the units arrived in good condition and were assigned sleeping quarters and issued their equipment. The last outfit to arrive was the recently mustered headquarters company of Ft. Wayne, which replaced a company from Goshen.

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Driverless Automobile Collides With Another Machine; Is Captured A driverless automobile caused i considerable excitement on Second street this morning when it ran several feet in reverse and crashed into another car which was parked in front of the court house. The excitement started when F. J. Schmitt attempted to crank his Dodge coupe, which was parked in front of the court house on Second street. The gears were set in reverse and one turn of the crank started the motor. Mr. Schmitt gave the crank a toss into the street and started wildly in pursuit of his car, which was running backwards. He jumped onto the running board just as it crashed into a Ford coupe, belonging to Bernard Loshe, and shut off the motor. A small hole punched into the radiator ot Mr. Loshe's earr represented the extent ot damages. BRIDGE PLANS ARE APPROVED l Commissioners Will Receive Road Bids At Meeting Here Tuesday Specifications for six bridges and one retaining wall were filed with the county commissioners and ap ; proved by the board teday. The auditor was ordered to advertise for bids on the bridges and retaining wall to lie received on September 3. The bridges are the Meyers and Oakley bridge in Blue Creek township; the Bleeke bridge in Union township; the Waltmeyer bridge six miles north of Decatur on the Ad-ams-Allen county line; the Weber bridge in Washington township; the Bentz bridge in Union township and the Christen bridge in Root township. The retaining wall is known as the Johnson retaining wall. The commissioners, meeting ’or their regular monthly session today, spent the forenoon in checking pver and allowing claims. This afternoon, they held a joint meeting with the Allen county commissioners for the purpose of accepting the Stephenson macadam highway on the county line in Union township. Tuesday will be road day with the commissioners, four roads being advertised for sale tomorrow. One of the roads for which the contract will be let tomorrow is the Andy Zeser toad in the south part of Decatur, which will be paved with concrete. The other three roads, which will be macadamized, are the Charles Ahr. road in St. Marys township; the D. O. Reinhart road, in French township; and the William Yager road in Kitkland township. Evacuation Starts For Hartford Twp. Addition | Linn rove, Aug. 5. — (Special)—Work on (he excavation for the new addition to the Hartford township central schio'd building, near here, was stalled this morning. Harry Meshberger is in charge of the excavating. L. E. Wickersham, of Logansport, has the general contract for erecting the building. The addition will be two stories high and will contain an assembly room and a combination auditorium and gvmnasium. ELLEN PONTIUS DIES SATURDAY Aged Wabash County Woman Expires Following A Paralytic Stroke Geneva, Aug. s.—Mrs. Ellen Pontius, 82, of six miles northwest of Geneva, died at her home Saturday night at 11:34) o'clock. Death was due to infirmities and paralysis. Mrs. Pontius was the daughter of Josephus and Elizabeth Martin. The husband, Daniel Pontius, died more than 50 years ago. Surviving are two children, Mrs. Elizabeth Crawford <f near Geneva and Wesley Pontius, .at home. Two sisters, Phoebe Wagoner og Decatur ami Emma Shaupp of Los Angeles. Cal , and a brother Morton Martin of Geneva survive. Funeral services will be held Tuesday morning at 10 o'clock at the Hartford township Methodist church. Burial will be made in the church cemetery.

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GIANT AIRSHIP 1 WILL TAKE OFF ON WEDNESDAY “Round - The - World” Trip Will Start On Time Officials Say FLYING TIME HERE GREATLY REDUCED By Lyle C. Wilson. UP Staff Correspondent Naval Air Station, Lakehurst, N. J., Aug. 5.—<U.R/—Refueling the Graf Zeppelin for her round-the-world flight began today about 14 hours after her arrival here on a non-stop flight from Friedrichshafen, Germanv. She is scheduled to leave Wednesday. Ninety-five hours and 20 minutes was the dirigible's fixing time from the take-off in Germany until she was pulled to the ground here like a lassoed steer at 8:30 p m . E. S. T., yesterday. It was not until 12:50 a. m„ today (hat a harassed ground crew was able to overcame a gusty wind to place the zeppelin in the security of the hangar. Most of the intervening time she had been moored to the smaller of two masts on the landing field. The Graf brought, a mixed burden of passengers, a stowaway, a chimpanzee, a gorilla, one grand piano end 000 canary birds. Dr. Hugo Eckener. commanding the Graf, bettered the time of his journey last October by 17 hours and 26 minutes. It was on that tempestuous trip that winds ripped ihe Graf's fabric and threatened her with disaster. The journey just ended wai without accident, Eckener said. Like paying guests a( a circus, the crowds which thronged this field for hours awaiting the Graf's arrival left before the best part of the show, which began when the Graf was unhooked from the mooring mast and headed for the hangar. Throughout the hangar operation Capt. Ernst Lehmann, Eckener’s second in command, remained eilent in the Giafs control cabin. By his presence there he accepted responsibility for whatever might happen to his ship while iteing housed by his American hosts. Capt. Hans Von Schiller, of the zeppelin watch staff, was the German landing officer. Finally the Graf was shoved home, dwarfing the Los Angeles by the immensity of her 776 feet of swelling bulk. Plans to begin immediate refueling were abandoned, largely because of lack of manpower. The ground crew had bl<en on duty jus* 18 hours when relieved shortly after midnight. Eckener was assigned quarters on the station but most of his crew slept aboard ship. The 19 passengers, in(CONTINUED ON PAGE TWO) o DEATH SUMMONS AGED RESIDENT Jacob P. Moeschberger, Os French Township Expires This Morning Jacob P. Mclescjiberger, 84. wellknown French township resident, died at his home early this morning. Death was said to have been due to a complication of diseases. Mr. Moewchberger had resided in French township his entile life and was well known throughout Adams county. Jacob P Moeschbergpr was born in French township. December 15. 1844. At an early age he decided to follow the farming profession and lie devoted his entire life to farming When a young man he was married to Mary Aeschliman of Berne, who pi eceded him in death many years ago. Later, Mr, Moeschberger was united in marriage to Rosa Ashbaueh- ■ er, who also preceded him in death, A daughter. Mrs. Hem' Aeschlh man, wfio resides on the home place, and a stepdaughter, Mrs. Levi Atz, sutvive as do six grandchilren and two brothers. The brothers are William Moeschberger of near Decatur and Crist Moeschberger of French township. Five sisters and three brothers preceded Mr. Moeschberger • in death. Funeral services will be held Wednesday morning at 9:30 o'clock at the ■ Berne Reformed church, ot' which *Mr. Moeschberger was a member for • rnanv years. Burial will be made at the M- R. E. cemetery, west, of Berne.

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