Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 27, Number 188, Decatur, Adams County, 8 August 1929 — Page 1

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jew FOX RANCH ORGANIZED BY. • decaturmen 2 . Silver Fox Farm PFN-BUILDING I PE NOW UNDERWAY Work started today on the bu’lding t, , otto silver fox farm at Fort Re-overy. Ohio. The farm is Was h ,ili and W'dl nvn '“' *"*’ manc » ed | b y two Decatur men, Boyd Andres an 40P Schmitt. Mr. Andres also is L, t miner of the Blue ami Silver ftß Ranch, a mile east of this city Tll ,"new ranch at Fort Recovery ' will b.’ incorporated in Ohio and Mr. Vi 'ires will he president ami general m nacei of the concern. The plant will <over several acres cf ground and tl „, latest and newest type of steel 3 nd fences will equip the ranch. Tt.iuvfive pair of silver fox have been purchased for the new farm and the plant is being built in order to take care of at least 35 pair. The new pl'nt will also have an ice maclllKe and automatic refrigeration to take care of the food. The new plant will be known as the Fort Rdeovery Silver Fox Ranch, Inc. Mr. Schmitt, who conducts the Fort Recovery Rendering Co., will l he vic'-president and assistant mantfer of the ranch. Mr. Andress, who until Saturday was employed at the Schmitt Meat Market in this city, will deVote his entire time to the management of the two ranches. At the new ranch, a one-acre pasture also has been installed where the animals will be •turned loose at pelting time each year, Mr. Andres has been in the fax .ranch business here sot several years. He and Dallas Brown have conducted the local natch since its beginning a tetr years ago and the ranch has grown from a 5-pair farm to a 30-pair ranch The Decatur ranch will not be directly connected with the new organization. but the anima's from bote ranches will bo paired together, when necessary for sales. Mr. Andres > villon inue to make f>( eatur his r> sHence. o Fulton County Judge Dies At Rochester Rochester, Ind., Aug. B.— U.Ri — Reuben R. Carr. 65. Fulton county circuit judge, died at his home here. He had been ill since December. He was born in Cedar Rapids, la., and was admitted to the Indiana bar at Logansport in 1895. WOMAN IS KILLED Gary, Ind.. Aug. B.— U.R -En route home to prepare dinner, Mrs. Rose Rosenweic. 31, mother of two small children, was killed when strfick by a train at a crossing. Witness, s said Mrs. Rosenweig stepped from the path of one train drectly in front of another. LOtAL PASTOR ATTENDSSCHOOL Rev. A. R. Fiedderjohann At Summer Conference At Winona Lake Winona Lake. Aug. B.—(Special)— ™ v. A. R. Fledderjohn, pastor of the 'ton Reformed church of Decatur is tending the Winona School of Theology. at Winona Lake, Indiana. Th s school is a high grade theologinstitution, which conducts sumt sessions only, and students of nous denominations gather from •oty states of the union, from Cm anil llom foreign countries. It c 8 pastors, teachers, and laymen. • arses are offered toward the reguThJi ° g ‘ Cal <ieKrees - Bachelor of ogyi ±'o Master of Ar,s <*“ theol- • and Bachelor of Divinity ' lows n lie , ers 01 the Bcho °' ar “ ** folPlot' i » W ; E Siederwolf, director; Mr c v o luffinan » 0.0.. Dean, and Thu /' Sawtelle ' Pteftidebt. Ing Drofe" lty '* made up of outs-a’"l-e,t Inst tutt”" 8 fr ° m Anwrica ' B Si-cat-'ty in ’ ,s ' eaeh man an authorteacher amnh rtment ’ “ S “ Uth °’ a,,J J.A Huff’;’ ' s year Includes Dean »• Jo? n F n Lea,,t '- S K« y -r. Glover Dr u K . e " ga ’ Drß ober*H. ** Kyi - **

I .Mother Os State Accountant Dead Columbus, Ind., Aug. 8. — ;u,R) - Funeral services were held today for Mrs. Rose Pence, 75, mother of Lawrence F. Orr, chief examiner of the state board of accounts, who died of complications superinduced by age. Mrs. Pence came here front Oxford, 0.. more than 60 years ago. She first was married to John C. Orr, local lawyer. — o . ORA SMIIH GETS I ITO 10 YEARS Pleads Guilty To Charge Os Issuing Check Without Any Funds Ora Smith, 21, of Decatur, was sentenced by Judge Jesse C. Sutton, in the Adams circuit court late Wednesday afternoon to serve from one to ten years in the 'lndiana State Reformatory. at Pendleton, after he had pleaded guilty to a charge of issuing a fraudulent (heck. » Smith was at rested at Homewood. Illinois, a few weeks ago. with his brother, Roy Smith, and William Bland, the latter of Paulding. Ohio, on a vliarge of stealing an automobile. All three were taken to Chicago by- - authorities, since the car in i which they were r'ding at the time I 1 of arrest had been stolen in Paulding. Ohio, and driven into Illinois, making the offense a federal one. Later, Ora was released by the authorities at 1 Chicago and he returned to his home s here, where he was arrested on the s bad check charge. t Smith was alleged to have given a 1 check for $25.00 on a local bank to ' Dierkes Brothers, of this city, without having money in the bank. 0 J Quarantine Is Effective ' Goodland, Ind., Aug. 8. (U.P.) -A 30- ] day quarantine on dogs was ordered | into effect here after several persons. , I bitten by dogs, showed traces of rah- £ les. One of the canines was killed and I its head sent to Indianapolis for ex-1 1 amination. , , I RUSSIAN PLANE STARTS FLIGHT■ “Land Os Soviet” Begins Long Trip; New York , Final Objective i i Moscow, Aug. 8. —(U.R) — Russia's , bid for a place in the aviation sun ; began at 2:50 a.m. today (7:50 p.m.. | Wednesday, E.S.T.) when the huge , two-in stored plane ‘‘Land of the Soviets" roared away from the mili- . tary flying field here, bound for . Omsk, en route to New York. The plane's four occupants expect. ( to fly over frozen Siberia and Alaska, stop at Seattle and San Francisco on , the western coast of the United States, head eastward to Chicago and , reach their goal on the eastern seaboard. Omsk, the immediate objective of j the multi-atbp flight to New York, is . 963 miles from Moscow on the Irish River at the confluence of the Om river and is the capital of Akmolinsk in Asiatic Russia. The first, leg of the flight is expected to take the four Soviet aviators who man the ‘ Land of the Soviets” onethird of the way to the Siberian Pacific coast. The itinerary which the fliers had in mind when they took off covered approximately 12,420 miles. The avia’ors who are attempting to call world attention to Russia's development of aviation — the Soviet Union now has mor aj than 100 aircraft in service over 11,700 miles of lines—are Shestakov, Bolotov, Sterlingov and Fnfayev. The plane they are using is Soviet-built with foreign mo‘ors.« 1 The fliers carry a Russian letter of greetings to Mayor Walker of New York. They expected to arrive at Qmsk this afternoon. o —- McClure Gets Continuance The trial of John McClure, of east ' of the city, who is charged with pos-c. ssion of intoxicating liquor, has been continued in mayor's court. The case was scheduled to come up for a hearing this afternoon. McClure is at liberty under $250 bond. He was arrested by Sheriff Hurl Hollingsworth Saturday night, following a raid on the McClure residence.

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Notables to Make Tc-'< 1 *- I ' nl'WbsK * •'-Bf gillie z • Al The passenger list of the Graf Zeppelin, on her world tour, will include a distinguished assortment of travelers. Among the eighteen will be Lieut. Commander Charles E. Rosendahl, left, of the United States Navy, noted lighter-than-air craft expert. William B. Leeds, right, the tin plate king, will also make the journey.

Liner Fails In Effort To Break German Record I New York, Aug. B.—(U.R)—The Cunatd liner Mauretania failed by slightly more than four hours today in an attempt to break the North German Lloyder Bremen's record of 4 days 17 hours 42 minutes for cross-1 ing the Atlantic from CherbourgThe former pride of the seas, slowed down by rough weather, reached Ambrose lightship at 10:36 am, E DT. She left Cherbourg at 12:52 p.m„ E.D-T., Saturday.. * t The voyage was matte in 4 days 21 « hours anil 44 minutes, several hours ( better than the Mauretania's best pre vious time. The ship reached quar- J antine at 11:42 a m. — —o < MACY CONVEYOR i IN OPERATION; , : ( First Portable Machine Os < New Local Concern At Decatur Lumber Co. , i The Decatur Lumber company is , now using conveyor No. 1. first port- i able manufactured by the Macy com I pany of this city and those who have watched it operate at the yards on 1 Seventh street unanimously declare it the best machine of its kind on the market. I The conveyor is painted orange < and black and is attractive as well < as complete and perfect in design and workmanship. Twenty similar ma- 1 chines are now being turned out and it is expected that within a month 1 the plant will be going on full time. 1 Salesmen wyi start out next week and the next two or three months should bring many orders. The new machine operates automatically and is designed to save labor, breakage and time. —o FEDERAL SCOUTS ORDERED AWAY William Scheakel Orders, Corn Borer Scouts Out Os Corn Field The report of R. R- Dobbs and W. B. Martin, federal corn borer scouts who are making a survey in Adams coun'y, shows that several infested hills of corn were found on the farm of William Scheakel, in Preble township, despite the fact that Mr. Scheakel objected to the survey and ordered the two scouts off his farm before they had completed their inspection. In ordering the scouts off hie farm, Mr. Scheakel stated that he had no confidence in the federal corn borer control work and was positive the scouts would find no specimens. The scouts left their report with the local postmaster. The report, shows that 32 row's, of corn in a seven-acre plot of corn on Mr. Scheakel’s farm were scouted and that ten infested hills were found. (CONTINUED ON PAGE FOl II)

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LITTLE HOPE FOR BERNE MAN Well-Known Dentist Near Death; Result Os Auto Mishap Few Weeks Ago Berne, Aug. 8. — (Special) —Practically no hope is held for the recovery of Dr. Harry W. Neuenschwander, prominent Berne dentist, who was injured in an automobile accident on May 10, in which Harvey Moser, also of Berne, was fatally injured. Dr. Neuenschwander did not appear to be seriously injured at Jhe time of the accident, but during the last several days serious trouble has developed in his head. He has been unconscious most of the time for the past week. He appeared to be slightly improved today and was conscious part of the time, but the attending physicians believed the improvement only temporary. Specialists from Fort Wayne hav/> been called in to diagonsis Dr- Neuenschwander's case. They believe the trouble is caused either from a tumor, abscess or hemorrhage of the brain directly back of the- eyes. Dr. Neuensch wander's relatives have been summoned. One brother, Prof. Milo Neuenschwander of New York arrived last night, and another brothel-. Dr. Wilbur Neuenschwander of California is expected to arrive Friday. Dr. Neuenschwander worked at his dental office until last Friday morning. when he began to suffer severe pains in his head and was obliged to return home. o COMMISSION RULES Washington, Aug. 8. —(U.R) - The inlerestate commerce commission ruled today that the Cincinnati, Hamilton & Dayton Railway Co., did not need the commission's authority to acquire the Indiana, Columbus and Eastern Traction Co., and the Lima-Toledo Railroad Co. o Highway Right-Of-Way Settlement Thought Near A. J. Phelps of the right-of-way department of the Indiana highway commission, is at Berne this week continuing efforts to secure a route for state road No 27 through that city. For a year the ques ion cf how the road will go through that place has been discussed, three routes having been suggested. Ohe of these passes through ground owned by the school board and this has been marked off by the. attorney general and holds the law takes care of such a problem, another on Harrison street is out because the necessary width cannot be secured. This leaves only the line through the Mennonite church grounds an,d attempted settlement with that organisation is: nciw in progress, an increased offer having been tendered by the state. So tar there has been no agreement but it is reported that chances for a settlement without condemnation pro ceedings are better now than they have been since the controversy started. " Efforts to get the matter straightened out so a contract can be let next month ate being made.

SNOOK TELLS 1 OF HIX AFFAIR . I Says He Struck Girl In Self- i Defense After Threats f Os Death Court Room, Columbus. O„ Aug. 8. —(U.R) —Dr. James Howard Snoot, testified today that he struck Theora Hix with his mechanic’s hammer in seifdefense because he believed she would kill him and because she was inflicting excruciating pain upon him while in a high emotional frenzy. He could not remember striking her more than four blows, be said. The attack followed a conversation I] tn which she had cursed his mother and threatened the life of his wife, he said. As he went into the details of the tragedy, his steel nerve broke ami for two minutes he wept on the wit- , ness stand. Between the striking of the second and third blows with the hammer Snook said he twisted the girl's arm , “nearly off." She cursed him and he | struck her the third blow. “But I was too weak," he said, ( ‘and could not hit herliard. She rolled out of the seat and caught her hand in the door and as it slammed I hit her one hard blow when she was out of the car.” He insisted it was at that point that his memory failed. He charged that Miss Hix had given him a sandwich which may have contained excitants as they drove to the New York Central rifle range th o I night of the murder. She had t<>ld i him. he said, that she also had eaten one. “Did you intend to kill her?" he was asked. “Heavens no!" he answered. “She was a good friend of mine and I never would have done it." Telling of their last automobile ride, he said they reached the rifle range about 9 p.m., and drove in. <( OX'I'IM El) (It PM.r. I’OI 111 BERGER WILL BE BURIED FRIDAY Family Os Socialist Leader Receives Many Messages From His Friends 'Milwaukee, Wis., Aug. 8. —(U.R)—ln this city where Victor L. Berger first nurtured the seeds of socialism and whence he broadcast his ideas for helping the- laboring class, his body lay amidst garlands of flowers today. The veteran socialist, who four tinfes was a congressman and who mixed journalistic activities with his persistent endeavors in behalf of Am- i erican workers, died yesterday. 22 days after he was struck by a street car. From all over the United States and from Great Britain, too, came messages of condolence to the family of the statesman and editor whose wartme trial for conspiracy to violate the espionage law only accentuated his popularity with the laboring class, of which he was an outstanding leader. Funeral services have been set tentatively for Friday afternoon at the Forest Home chapel here. Plans also were under way today to have the body lie in state, perhaps in the city hall. « o EFFORTS FAIL TO OPEN MINE Bono Coal Co., Mine At Dana Is Still Closed Due To Strike Indianapolis, Aug. B.—(U.R) —Effoils of Attorney General James M. Ogden to aid worker-owners of the Bono Mine company to get their , shaft at Dana in operation proved futile again ' today. * The mine is not in operation, al1 though deputy attorneys general obtained a hoisting engineer for the shaft last Tuesday by making a special trip to Illinois. This engineer had worked at the 1 mine last week but was frightened away by four masked men. Assured of adequate state protection he (promised to return to work and Ogden’s office reported the mine in operation Wednesday. He failed to (COXTIN VEO OX PAGE 1’04'11)

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German Stowaway Is On His Way Home Gloucester, Aug. 8. — (U.R) Albert Biisclikla. Westphalia, Germany, youth who crashed ?nto the front pages of the world's press a few days ago as the “stowaway of the Graf Zepnelin." in company of an immigration inspector, left for New York this morning to be placed aboard the HambergAmerican liner Thuringa. sailing tills afternoon for Germany. PREMIUM LIST IS COMPLETED Decatur Free Street Fair List Includes More Than 2,000 Awards Ptemium lists sot the Agricultural Show to be given in connection with tile Decatur Free Street Fair, September 1(1 to 14. inclusive, were completed today and will be mailed to every farmer in Adams county, the premium list committee announced. Tile list is one of the most complete ever published and contains 2,000 premiums, which will he distributed Fair week in the various shows to lie held in connection with the Fair. Anyone desiring to obtain a premium book is asked to call at the office of County Agent Ferd Christen or at tile Graham and Walters building. The lists will be mailed out this week. Chait men and chairwoman of tlie various shows are listed along .with with the various awards which will be made. Tlie departments include: Dairy, swine, poultiy, pet stock, general ag ricultural. flowet. Women’s Economic and Four-H show One of the new features for Adams county is the pet stock show. Robert Helm is chairman of the committee in charge of this show. Keen competition is expected in several divisions of this department, and many entries already have been made. There are several people in Adams county specializing in the raising of various pets and the pet show will occupy a prominent tent on the midway. A complete program for the fair is published in the book of premium lists (COXTIXI ED OX PAGE FOl It) SECRET MEETING IS HELD TODAY French And German Reparation Delegates Confer On V ital Issues The Hague. Aug. 8. —(U.R)—Aristide Briand. premier and foreign minister of France, and Dr. Gustave Stresemann. foreign minister of Germany, met secretly early today, the latter slipping into Briand's apartment. Tlie two were closeted for a long time discussing the vital issues at stake between France and Germany. Briand suggested that the Rhineland be evacuated three months after tlie Young plan goes into effect and the first installment of the reparations bonds have been commercialized on world markets. Briand emphasized that this piethod of procedure was essential to the French government which thus would be enabled to show the French chamber of deputies and the people that the Young plan was functioning before the Rhineland was relinquished. Observers at the reparations con-1 ference are convinced that the British attack against the Young plan which aligned the Balkan powers alongside England contains political implications and that Great Britain thus is aiming to strengthen it« influence among nations like Rumania and Jugoslavia, which are France’s allies, and which ever since the war have been far more subject to Paris than to London control. By fighting tlie Balkan countries' reparations battle, besides its own. Britain is deemed likely to strengthen British prestige in the Balkans at France’s expense. May Invite Americans The Hague, Aug. 8. (U.R)—— J- PMorgan and Thomas W. Lamont, American bankers, may )>e invited to attend the international reparations conference in session here and lend their aid and advice, it was reported today. Sources close to tlie French delegation said Morgan and Lamont, who are now in England, will be invited by tlie French to participate and that the utmost effort will be made to obtain their participation in the conferences of the finuncail commission as experts.

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GIANT AIRSHIP STARTS FIRST PART OF TRIP Will Make Stop In Germany; 22 Passengers Are Aboard SHIP IS SITED 750 MILES OUT Lakehurst, N. J., .Aug. I.—(U.R) —Freed of the ropes that bound her down for three days here, the Graf Zeppelin was pointed toward her home station at Friedrichshafen, today on the first portion of a pioneer commercial flight around the world. By tonight the great dirigible should be churning a wake of moonlight toward mid-Atlantic, her blunt nose surging eastward toward the Irish coast. The Graf soared away from here at 11:42 e.s.t., last night, circled over New York an hour later and then straightened away on tier course. The Zeppelin's removal from this hangar and the launching into the air were miracles of motion. Only five minutes were required to walk her 776-foot hulk into tlie open. Seventeen piinutes later she was alott, . four motors in hoarse chorus and the fifth beneath the stern silent against greater need farther north. Her commander. Dr. Hugo Eckener. hoped to follow the Lindbergh trans-Atlantic trail with its favorable tailwinds if weather permitted, but at 7 a. m.. the Zeppelin's position flashed to the navy at Washington showed she was veering to the south from Col. Lindbergh's course. At that hour the Graf was about 300 miles east of New York and was milking 75 miles an hour. in the Graf's cabins are 22 passengers, tn the hold a cargo of mail and freight aggregating about two tons. After stopping in Germany at Friedrichshafen, the Graf will visit Tokyo, fl.v across the Pacific to Los Angeles and return again to Lakehurs,. "The misison of the Graf Zeppelin." said Eckener before departing, “is not to make money—it is to prove to your financiers that commercial transportation by airships is safe, feasible and potentially profitable." Soeed About 60 Miles Boston, Aug. 8.-(U.R) —The Graf Zeppelin at 11 a. m. e.s.t. was believed to be approximately 750 miles almost due east of Lakehurst, according to compass bearings taken by various stations along the New England coast, and computed by naval communications here. Because the signals of the Graf's transmitting set were getting weaker as the dirigible pushed eastward on its round-the-world flight, the communcations officer here said the latest position computation might not be accurate. According to a naval computer the Graf Zeppelin apparently was proceeding at a speed of approximately 62.58.83 miles an hour. DESERS WILL READ New York, Aug. 8. —(U.R) —A $5,000,000 estate is disposed of under the will of Marquis Charlotte Elizabeth Desers, cousin of the late Chauncey Depew. Columbia University will receive $200,000 and the Fifth Avenue hospital SIOO,OOO. TWO ARRESTED ON LARCENY CHARGE Archie Smith And Wife Admit Theft Os Chickens Near Decatur Archie Smith and his wife, Gladys Smith, of Monroe, were arrested by Sheriff Hollingswor h, Wednesday evening, on a charge of petit larceny, in connection with the theft of seven chickens from the farm of George Cramer, three miles east of Decatur last Monday night. Smith and his wife were brought i to Deca'tur and placed in the county jail, but were released on bond later I in the evening to appear in court liefore Mayor George M. Krick here at . 8 o'clock tonight. The man and womi an have confessed to the theft, acI cording to Sheriff Hollingsworth. The chickens stolen were Silver ■ Lace Wyandotte hens and they were - marked. The chickens were sold at ; Monroeville and later identified by Mr. Cramer.

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