Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 27, Number 186, Decatur, Adams County, 6 August 1929 — Page 1

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m US RESULT OF heavy rainfall f* Break Causes Flood vo lives are ‘ reported lost I is Vegas, Nov., Au«. fi - ( U.W . ljulcfiold Dimi in Arizona. I about I<H> miles front Las V f„as, wont out last night undor pressure of a cloudburst in | |]| ( . nioinilains, according to ro'r|.; received hero early lodav. Vo lives wete known to have been r | inhabitants had been warned ,Ml hail time to flee to Maher ground. ; Hundreds of bead of livestock were jrtwned as the waters swept through tht' vi latte and c overed the valley. The ’own of Bunkerville also was j reported caught by the cloudburst. Ail residents, however, escaped to the hIK, it was said. The Los Angeles highway was impassable for some l distance. Three deaths have been reported in t’oudbursts in California and Nevada. Engineer 1.. Quinn and an unidentified fireman were killed when a freight train on the Tonopah and T.awater railroad went through a washed-out bridge near Baker, Calif. Another man was drowned near Milan, Calif, the sheriff's office at LI Centro learned. o — ■ — Cattle Testing Costs Adams County $4,848.54 j The testing of till herds of cattle in Adams county for tuberculosis duriug the last two years cost the county a total of $4,848.54, according to a report compiled bv Albert HcM'bcw. county auditor The sum of $2,047.09 was spent for the work in 1928, w hile $2,801.45 was spent t lii.s year. The work was completed several days ago. , o Gov. Trumbull Revokes Supreme Court Finding Hartfoi l. Conn., Aug. f>.— (U.P.) — Gov. John N. Trumbull rebuked the state's highest judicial tribunal—the supreme eourt of errors—in his message today to a special session of the general assembly called to validate more than 1,500 laws declared by the court to have been unconstitutionally signed. In his message the executive declared the court had interfered with his duties as chief executive officer of the state. UTO STRIKES PRISON DETAIL Guard Near Death And 12 Prisoners Are Injured Near Pendleton Pendleton, Ind., Aug. 6—(U.K —An effhet of the Indiana state reformatory was near death and 12 inmates been treated for cuts and bruises as the result of being struck fan automobile while walking along a highway. The accident occurred when Mrs. C Lm 1- ’ I>olltiac ' Mich., drove her " ‘” to the prison detail to <• striking another automobile. th ° '“, a, ' ker ' offk ‘ er charge of tail, who was injured seriously the accident, was struck first as much in ir PloWed ilUo the *fot>P striki,, , ht mdl “’ er of a howling ball and left, 6n Pi " S ' tossillg men fight lenLm ? a J' mire ’ assistan ‘ superinKjyiV he reformatory, after bentandere I ’ rushfi '' t 0 the scene, comtook ihc f a ? slnK automobiles and Z VlCUms t 0 the Pf> a on bosA nderson takpn to a hospital at received ’ a V er f U was diK< l( )sed he injuries ~ nre(l skull and other for recover* en< a “ tS Said his chances were slight, iclan ' who' took oy s reformator y Phystured ° ° Q ° k char & e the 12 inhtm, their'i„n d , n ° ne was Berluua ly consisting 0 f ' BB f ° r the moßt part Mr, p, ° f cuts a U't bruises. Anderson h er a ’ S ° Was takpn to a ’> leal. ' hospit »l. She was hyster-

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A Ticklish Situation I - * • i ~—~ Psychopathic tests will be made upon Arthur Gerken. above, 11-year-old boy of Rochester, N. Y., charged w.th shooting and fatally wounding Henry King, his 13-year-old playmate. Since the boy is not yet 16, his alleged crime is not punishable by death or life imprisonment, nor can he be charged with juvenile delinquency. REPORT CAUSES STIR IN MOSCOW Says United States Sent Secret Notes To Several Countries Moscow. Aug. 6. —(U.R)-Official Moscow was astir today over a report that the U. S. government was making an effort for international intervention in the current conflict between Russia and China. The report, unconfirmed but said to have emanated from sources considered “absolutely trustworthy,” said the U. S. government had sent con fidential notes through Secretary of State Henry L. Stimson to Great Britain. Japan, Germany, Italy and France suggesting formation of an unbiased commission to determine causes of the dispute which arose from Nanking’s seizure of the Chinese Eastern railway and to fix responsibility for the conflict. It was stated that Secretary Stim son also suggested the commission was to be empowered to find methods for future administration of the disputed road, to prevent repetition of tlte trouble, and that pending a complete settlement a foreign manager, from a country not directly interested, he appointed to tukp charge of (CONTINUED ON PAGE EIGHT) o Chinese Missionary Visits Birthplace Near Tocsin Mr. and Mrs. F. M. Gossard of Tocsin, ltad as their guests the past week the former’s brother, Dr. J. E. Gossard and wife and daughters Helen, Marion and Dorothy and son John, of Foo Choo, China. Dr. Gossard has made three missionary trips to China and has spent practically twenty years in that country. They arrived by boat at Vancouver, British Columbia, several weeks ago and from there motored to Chicago and thence to Tocsin. With the exception of their oldest son who was born in Chicago the rest of their children were born in China. Dr. Gossanl was horn and raised on a farm just two miles north of Tocsin and is weti known in this com munity. The Gossards. left Saturday evening for Westminster, Ohio, to visit his mother, Mrs. Adeline Gossard. Mr. Gossard is undecided as to whether he will return to China or remain in the United States in the future.

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MOTORIST GIVES HIRER A “LIFT" AND LOSES AUTO .1. E. Ankerman, Os lowa lias New Car Stolen From Monroe Monday WAS DRIVING TO ROCHESTER, OHIO Yesterday, J. R Ankerman, cf Guthrie, lowa, “gave a lift" to a young man hiker. Today, Mr. Ankerman was accepting rides from other motorists, his own automobile having disappeared wit It the young man he befriended when lie stopped to obtain a road map at the Haines garage in Monroe, about 6 o’clock Monday evening. Mr. Ankerman was en route from his home in lowa to Rochester, Ohio, to visit relatives. At Remington, Indiana, he picked up a young man who was coming east. The youth, who appeared to be about. 18 years old. wus a good driver and, as Mr. Ankerman Was not accustomed to doing much driving, he turned the steering wheel over to his passenger. The young man appeared to be appreciative and did not arouse th*“ suspicions of Mr. Ankerman. Several times, they stopped at rilling stations and res'aurants and the young man made no attempt to get away with the car. At Fort Wayne. Mr. Ankerman told the young man that he wanted to take route No. 24 out of that city for Ohio, but the latter said that they would have »o take route No. 27 south and then go east into Ohio. When thev reached Monroe, Mr. Ankerman decided to get a road map and study the routes. While Mr. Ankerman was in the filling station looking at a map, the young man drove away in Mr. Auk-, erman’s car. Stm Burk, of Decatur, who operates an elevator at Monroe, brought Mr. Ankerman to Decatur ■and the theft was reported to police and Sheriff Harl Hollingsworth. Mr. Ankerman spent the night at the Rice hotel and this morning rode to Lima, .Ohio, with another guest at the hotel. No trace of the stolen car has been found. Mr. Ankerman. who is a tailor, stated that he had nearly S2OO worth of clothing in his car. The car was a new one. having been driven only about 1,000 miles. The (CONTINUED ON PAGE EIGHT) RICHMOND PLANS FOR CONVENTION Indiana Legionnaires Will Meet In “Quaker City” August 26-27 Richmond, Ind., Aug. 6.—One “f the largest and most complete programs ever presented to a state convention is the one released today by the local convention committee of the American Legion. .. The convention will lie held here on August 26 and 27 but the entertainment and fun starts on Saturday, Aug. 24. Advance reservations indicate rhat the attendance will lie the largest to attend a state convention in the tiistory <n the organizaion, in Indiana Local officials state that many items of entertainment are not included on the official program bufctll can he assured that they will have no spare mo;nents. Registration will open Saturday, August 24 at 10 a. ni., and will continue until late Monday, August 26. The big 40 and S parade, banquet and wreck will he held on Saturday night. Midnight shows and dancing for everyone will take place every night and will he free to registered guests. Sunday morning will be given over to rifle and pistol contests. Sunday afternoon is the mammoth entertainment program ami will include many features such us drum corps contests, bunds spectacular acts, bathing beauty contest, etc. The convention session will be on Monday and Tuesday mornings at 9 a.m. and the joint session on Monday will be addressed by Major General Dennis E. Nolan, commander sth corps area U S. Army. Tlte mammoth convention parade will take place promptly at 2 p m. on Monday, August 26 and should attract thousands to this city. Plans are being made to care for five thousand actual registered legionaires and auxiliary members.

' Decatur, Indiana, Tuesday, August 6, 1929.

John McClure Pleads “Not Guilty” To Charge Joint McClure entered a plea of not guilty when arraigned in city court before Mayor George M. Krick on a charge of possession of intoxicating liquor, at 4 o’clock Monday afternoon. Hla case was set for a hearing at 2 o’clock Thursday afternoon. Attorney H. M. DeVoss appeared as counsel tor McClure. The defendant's bond was fixed at $250, which he fulled to post. McClure was arreeded Sunday night by Sheriff Harl Hollingsworth, following u tab! by the sheriff and two depot'os on t lie McClure residence on the Belltnont road, east of the city. A quantity of alleged moonshine whiskey and home-brew beer wus confiscated by the officers. CONTRACTS ARE AWARDED FOR FOUR HIGHWAYS O. W. Macklin Is Awarded The Zeser Road; Striker Gets Other Three Roads MACKLIN UNOPPOSED ON HARD SURFACE Contracts for building one concrete and three macadam highways in Adams county were awarded by the county commissioners today. The contract for the Andy Zeser concrete road in Washing'on township was awarded to O W. Macklin, of Decatur, while Dennis Striker, of Monroe township, was the successful bidder for each of the other three contracts. Only one bid, that of Mr. Macklin. was submitted on the Zeser concrete roqd. His bid was $10,939. The road Is located on the west side of the Adams County Memorial hospital, in the south part of Decatur. Mr. Striker’s bids on the three macadam toads were as follows: William Yager road in Kirklind township, $5,780; D. O. Reinhart toad in French township. $3,558; Charles Ahr road in St. Mary's township, $2,450. All four roads will lie completed liefore winter. Other bids submitted on tlte three macadam toads were: Yager road —Chris Eicher, $6,300; Beiberieh and Arnold, $5,984; Phil Sauer, $6,088 8 Reinhart road —Chris Eichei, $4,000; Warren M. Striker. $3,660. Ahr road —Beiberieh and Arnold. $2,474; William Davis, $2,600; Phil Sauer, $2,540; Glen L- Chronister, $2,515. The commissioners were still in session this afternoon, but planned to adjourn late today. Tlte mutter of awarding the two scholarships to Purdue university, awarded annually by the county, was scheduled to come before the board tliis afternoon. Tomorrow the Adams county commissioners will go to Ft. Wayne to hold a joint meeting with the Allen county commissioners for the purpose of finally accepting the Stephenson macadam road improvement on the line between the two counties. Tlte commissioners from the two counties viewed the road Monday afternoon. FIVE KILLED IN TONG WARS Outbreaks Occur In Four American Cities In Last Two Days New York, Aug. 6.—(U.R)—Tongmen's guns have killed five persons and wounded three others in four cities in the last two days, despite threats of U. S. Attorney Charles Tuttle in New York to depart national Tong leaders and any other Chinese unable to prove their right in this country. The casualty list: Boston —Two Hip Sing Tongmen dead; <yte shot at and missed. New York —One Chinese of undetermined Tong membership t\ead; Hip Sing restaurant -owner and woman patron wounded. Chicago — One Leong Tongman dead; another dangerously wounded. Newark —One Chinese, kinsman of Hip Sing Tongman, dead. The warfare, according to those wise in the way of Tongs, arose thru belief by Hip Sing men that the larger and wealthier on Leong Tong was proselyting its members.

REST ROOMS IN COURT HOUSE TO BE KEPT OPEN Commissioners And City Agree To Keep Rooms Open Day And Night POLICEMEN WILL GUARD PROPERTY Starling tonight, the public comfort stations in the Adams county court house here will lie open day and night and on holidays and Sundays. Heretofore, the comfort stations have been open only during hours that the cottr' house was open. The county commissioners and city officials reached an agreement today, whereby the county will keep the comfort stations in order and the city police will patrol them during Ihe hours that the court house is closed. The court house custodian will he in charge while the court house is open. For some time, there has been a general demand for public comfort stations here and the county eommissioners ami city officials were petitioned to take some action in regard to the matter. Recently, a petition was circulated by the civic department of the Woman's Club and was signed by hundreds of taxpayers in all parts of the coun'y, asking the county commissioners t*i keep t-ie comfort stations in the court house, open every day and night. The commissioners and city officials stated today that the present arrangement would be tried out for a month, at least, to see if the public appreciated the move and if the comfort stations were not damaged or misused by the public. — i — -o — NOTRE DAME SCHOOL CLOSES South Bend, Ind., Aug, 6— (U P.) — More rtmn 13b otudeuts in the summer school cf the University of Notre Dame will be graduated tonight. Dr. Daniel O’Grady of the department of philosophy will deliver the commencement address. o HE’LL STOP AFTER THIS Newcastle Ind., Aug. 6.— (U.P)) Because Sherman Hyso, of Muncie, would not stop his machine and let Arthur Poor, Newcastle, alight, the latter drew a knife and slashed' him in the side, Hyso told policeThe wound was 12 inches long. Poor escaped. MONTH'S MILK PRODUCTION OFF Hot Weather And Failing Pastures Are Given As Two Causes For Drop Milk production during the month of July in the herds belonging to members of tlte Adams County Dairy Herd Improvement Association were somewhat lower than the previous two months according to the monthly report of R L. Price, local’tester. July is generally a low month f>r milk production. Hot weather, flies, falling pastures and dry cows are the reasons for the drop. However, tlie records of the cattle in the Adams County association are very good in comparison witli those from other counties. Most members are now feeding ensilage and no doubt milk production will increase during August. The average production of tile 10 high cows wa3 1534 pounds of milk and 53.9 pounds of butterfat. One cow in the association produced more than 60 pounds of butterfat during the month, eight cows produced more than 50 pounds of butterfat, 40 cows more than 40 pounds of butterfat and 113 cows produced more than 1 pound of butterfat daily during the month There were 300 caws in the association under test during the month of July. The ten high cows were owned by D. . Mazelin, Dan Steury, Mrs. Burton Niblick. C. W. R. Schwartz (two), Noah Rich. Joint J. Schwartz, Dan Steury (two), and Dennis Striker. Tlte five high herds were owned by D. J.J Mazzelin, C W. R. Schwartz. Jacob J. Svhwaitz, John. J. Schwartz and Steury and Schwartz. BEAR HURTS CARETAKER Kokomo, Ind., Aug. 6. —(U.R) —Tom Harrison, 71, caretaker at an amusement park here was injured when clawed by Minnie, a black bear. Harrison, who has been employed at the park 19 years, received a torn leg and deep scratches.

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Will Remain in Office ' ■ M Ym Ift. .. J Hugh S. Gibson, above, United States Ambassador to Belgium, hal been asked by' President Hoover to remain at his present poet, and is one of the five men who will probably retain their ambassadorial positions. Dwight W. Morrow, below, is also expected to retain his Mexican post. OFFICIALS WILL CONTINUE PROBE Sheriff Hollingsworth Goes To Chicago To Confer With Alleged Thieves Sheriff Harl Hollingsworth and the sheriff of Paulding county. Ohio, went to Chicago today, to continue their investigation of the alleged interstate automobile theft ring, uncovered two weeks qgo with the arrest of four young men. two of whom were Decatur residents. William Bland, 16, of Paulding, and Roy Smith, of Decatur, are being held in jail at Chicago, in connection with tlte car thefts. A brother of the Bland boy accompanied the two sheriffs to Chicago today. Ernest Smith, of Paulding, is being held at Toledo, Ohio, on a federal charge in connection with the alleged auto thefts, and his brother, Ora Smith, of Decatur, is in jail here. Ora was released at, Chicago, after being held several days in connection with the alleged thefts, but was re-arrested on a charge of issuing a fraudulent check when he returned to this city. o Old Adams County Bank Directors Are Re-elected The annual meeting of the stockholders of the Old Adams County Bank was held at 10 o’clock this morn ing at the counting room in this city. G. T. Turk was elected chairman with Leo Yager and J. G. Niblick as telle. 1 and clerk. Tlte polls were open from 10 to 12 o'clock, resulting in the reelection of all the members of the old board, including J W, Tyndall, G. T Burk, L. C. Waring, \V. J. Vesey, L. G. Ellingham, J. G. Niblick. Leo Ehinger, F. M. Schirmeyer and J. H Heller. The regular dividend was declared and the annual report showed a splendid condition. The new boardi will meet this evening to organize. J. M. Fitch Is Eighth District Census Taker Anderson, Ind,, Aug. 6. — (U.P.)— State Senator J. M. Fitch, Muncie, has been appointed supervisor in tlte Eighth district for the 1930 census enumeration, according to an announcement here. Taking of the census is scheduled for next April.

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PREMIER BRIAND . RESPONDS TO VAN 6LOKLAND Six Powers Represented At Important Meeting At The Hague NO DELEGATES FROM THE UNITED STATES BULLETIN The Hague, Holland, Aug. 6.— (U.R) —Great Britain’s objections to the Owen D. Young reparations plan accented by Germany's creditor nations at Paris in May were brought to the front at once today as the six creditor powers assembled for an effort to liqui date the remaining financial and political questions of the war. After an opening session in the morning, the delegates met in secrek this afternoon and Philip Snowden, British chancellor of the exchequer, at once expounded Britain’s attitude toward the Young plan reviving numerous vital British objections to it. The Hague, Aug. (i. <U.R) Spokesmen for France an <1 Germany stood on the same platform here today at the opening of the reparations eonl'erence and voiced appeals for good will and fraternity. Aristide Briand. premier and foreign minister of France, responded to the welcome of Dutch Foreign Minister F. Beelaerts Van Blokiand when the conference convened at 11:13 a.nt., and was followed directly by Gustave Stresemann, brilliant foreign minister of Germany. “We come here for the most difficult task,” Rriand said, ‘‘but 1 am certain that with good will we can succeed and in so doing we will serve not only the interests of the nations directly involved but humanity as a whole. ! am convinced that every nation now understands ihe lesson or interdependence of nations which the great war taught us And when we leave the Hague I am sure we will have made one more contribution towards peace.” Stresemann said the deliberations of the conference would not be purely economic and financial but of a highly political nature. “While the entire conference should resuit In a new worldwide economic orientation,” he said, “it should also result in a new collaboration on a basis of equality, fraternity and the tallest sovereignty o! the nations which participated in the war.” (CONTINUED ON PAGE EIGHT) DR, ECKENFR TELLS OF PLANS Gives Storv Os Probable Perils In Store For World Tour Lakehurst, N. J , Aug. 6. U.R' —Perils unknown to even such hardy adventurers as trans-Atlantic fliers await the Graf Zeppelin on its round-the-world flight, in the opinion of Dr. Hugo Eckener, commander of the dirigible. The long cruise is scheduled to start from here Wednesday at midnight and 60 men worked today at the job of refueling the great airship. They were filling her both with hydrogen, the lifting gas, and ethane, the fuel gas. and it was expected the work would not he finished before tomorrow evening. Dr. Eckener believes the most formidable obstacles in the way of realization of his dream of an aerial circumnavigation of the world will be encountered in the silences over the Siberian thundra wastes, between Friedrichshafen and Tokio. Grave as the dangers of transocean passage are admitted to tic, powerful radio stations sputter essential information front either shore, stores of well wishing surface ships are ready to pick up, and if necessary, re-transmit those weather observations to their aerial competitor. Upon the basis of this constant flow of data, navigation officers of the Graf Zeppelin chart their winding course. Asia offers no radio protection to aerial navigators. There are not even adequate maps. For land marks, Eckener must utilize the great rivers (CONTINUED ON PAGE TWO)

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