Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 27, Number 191, Decatur, Adams County, 12 August 1929 — Page 1

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| Vol. XXVII. No. 191.

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HAGUE MEETING 15 RECONVENE ON WEDNESDAY Adjournment Comes After ‘ Hopes Had Been Abandoned For Success ENGLAND FIRM IN PREVIOUS DEMANDS Ttle Hague. Aug. 12.U.R)-After ' T ;rtualb all hope for a successful outcome for the reparations confer-1 fi H v here had been abandoned early today an adjournment of the financial rommhsion. in which the crisis ■ rests, was voted until Wednesday I Morning. The acfon was taken in an effort to gain time for the delegates to iron out the differences occasioned by Englund's so far unwavering demands for : a revision of the Young plan annuities for Great Britain. Only Dr. Julius Curtius, German mnister of economics, and Signor Piielll of Italy were heard by the commission in brief addresses before the adjournment was taken. Th- virtual abandonment of hope ■ for success of the conference followed publication by the English delegation of a message which Premier Ramsay MacDonald sent to Chancellor of the Exchequer Philip Snowden, sternly and stalwartly backing up l Snowden's position before the conference. Louis Louelteur, French minister of labor, cleverly obtained another lease of life fi r the conference when at the close of Curtiss’ and Pierelli's speeches before the financial commission on ; deliveries in kind, he explained that I' bisown declaration was so long thati it would be impossible to finish it to-' day and suggested the until Wednesday. Snowden readily agreed to this. — It was expected that in the meantime redoubled efforts would be made through private negotiations to find ■ a solution for the critical problem which confronts the conference. Persistent rumors that J. P. Mor-' gan had arrived here secretly and dined last night with the .British treasury expert at the conference, F. W. Leith Rose, were denied emphatically today. The United Press was informed that the French and Belgian delegations had hoped to persuade Morgan i and Thomas W. laimorft, his partner to come here, but that Morgan preferred shooting grouse in Scotland, the season having opened today. To Receive Bids Onr Safe Bids for furnishing a new safe in the County Clerk's office in the court house, will be received by the board ! of county commissioners on Tuesday September 3. Plans and specifications for the new safe are on file In the County Auditor’s office. G.M.SYPHERS SUFFERS INJURY Well-Known Farmer Falls 1 roni Wagon As Horses Lunge Forward G ,M Syphers, 65. well known St. Marys township farmer, was painfully hjured at about ten o’clock this mornhtg on the Phil Gephart farm, -southeaßt of Decatur, when he fell from a wagon load of wheat and b. ike the toniur lame in his left leg. Mr. Syidiers. was assisting his neighMr. Gephart, in thrashing. He was Pacing the wheat in the wagon and "U > d to climb up on the wagon, when e horses gave the wagon « jerk and m 1 t 0 the grou “ d breaking his leg.. a J/ Syphers was bro *'Kht to the Ad®s f ounty Memorial hospital at once l ef J oeal Physicians set the broken l ,l(? bone of the leg was split and P ottuded through the flesh and Mr. aitBHC S suffered greatly until medical attention could be given to him. thicken Thieves Busy M hen Family Is Gone ’■obanon, Ind., Au. 12.—(U.R)—Two red fifty chickens, all that were stolen ° f Jan ’ eS Click ’ 65 ’ were familv S nday while members of the Claev Were at th « hospital where in a k f V ’n 8 dyln ofo in 3nries sustained **« Wedne r sda y . a Wag °" h * B fam

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New Papal Secretary j i * -. ' Bl , ' * Cardinal Justinian Seredi, pres- 1 ent Apostolic Archprimate of ‘ Hungary, is reported to have , been selected as the new Papal ( Secretary of State, succeeding , Cardinal Gasparri. Cardinal Seredi is an authority on Can- , on law and has often been i called upon to settle puzz>'ng t questions concerning it £ (Inlernntlnwal } 13 KILLED IN ■ TEXAS MISHAP: i Trains Strike Truck Killing J 13 Members Os One Texas Familv J t Dallas, Tex. Aug. 12 —(UP)— For 1 weeks Mrs. Sl*rwood B. Badgett had * premised her eight young daughters a , trip to the Railas Zoo. Yesterday they loaded a truck with picnic lunches and with E. S. Henry and his family of c four as guests drove merrily to the 8 city. On the return trip the machine 8 was struck by a Texas and Pacific Fly- ' er and 13 of the 14 passengers killed. Investigators believed today that a f crack in the pavement near a grade 1 crossing 18 miles east of Dallas was a responsible for the crash. According to Claude Chapman, Mesquite, believed 1 to have- been the only witness, the i truck stalled in the hole, finally its t engine roaring so loudly that the t whistle of an approaching train was i drowned, it pulled onto the tracks. £ The truck was shattered and bodies < of the victims scattered along the track for hundreds of yards. The 14th member of the party, a daughter of Mrs- Badgett, was in a Dallas hospital today expected to recover. Mrs. Badgett was 42 years old; Henry was 55. The other victims ranged in age from 3 to 19. J. T. Vanter, engineer and G. T. Martin, conductor of the passenger train, said they noticed the truck halted several yards from the track as though 1 to let them pass. Just as the train was several hundred feet away they said the machine leaped directly onto the 11 acks. —— o Painters Start Work On Presbyterian Church t { Cramer and Jackson this morning t began the work of redecorating and re- ( painting the Presbyterian church. The f building will be given a new coat of , paint both inside and out and the t walls will be done over. Besides this the trustees and a spe- t cial committee have authorized sever- ; al changes in the Sunday school sec- ( tion where two rooms will be parti- , tioned off. Ajight will be placed in fiont of the church and an electric , sign added. > The work is to he completed during , this month if possible, •while Rev, ( Ferntheil and family are absent on j their vacation, during which time ■ there will be no chuch services. Provincial Is Named - Chicago Aug. 10 —(UP) —The very t Rev. Eugene Creegan, C. P-, of Brook- i lyn N. Y. has been named provin- , cial of the passionist fathers in the > western province, it was announced at Inimaculat -Conception Monastery in < Norwood Park today. < Father Eugene succeeds the very ; Rev. Jerome Reuterman. The office is 1 not a new one for him, however, as he i filled It for two terms prior to Father Jerome's election in 1925. Rev. Justin Smith. Peoria, 111., was i named rector of the Monastery at I Louisville, Ky.

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BOY DROWNED AT MUNICIPAL SWIMMING POOL Two Hour Effort To Revive Fails; Accident Occurs Sunday Afternoon BODY RECOVERED IN SHORT TIME Death won over the life of William Murtaugh, Jr., aged 9, son of William Murtaugh, of this city at the Decatur Municipal swimming pool Sunday afternoon as a dozen men and two nurses worked over the lifeless form cf the lad, who had been rescued from the waters of the pool by Charles House of Monroeville after he hail been under the water for only a few minutes. Artificial respiration and the pulmotor failed to stimulate the boy's heart action, but a group of valunteers worked under the supervision of a local physician for more than two hours before giving the lad up as dead. The hoy had left his home without the knowledge of his parents and had gene into the water during open hours at the pool without a chaperone. He had worked his wav into deep water by hanging with his hands onto the iron pipe that encircles the pool. Suddenly his hands slipped off the railing and he sank to the bottom of the poo). Other youngsters who saw the lad said that he failed to come to the top of the water. Cries for help immediately brought divers and the boy was brought to shore by Charles House of Monroeville in about five minutes, according to witnesses. The drowning occurred at 4 o'clock. Artificial respiration was started at once and a physician was called. In a few minutes the pulmotor arrived at the scene and it was used for a while hut no heart action was shown. A group of volunteers took turns at giving artificial respiration for more than two hours before hopes were abandoned. The drowning was the first ever to happen at the Municipal pool since it was taken over as such. Sunday afternoons are open hours at the pool and any child under 12 years of age is not permitted in the water without a chaperone, according to the rules of the board of safety. (CONTINUED ON PAGE THREE) 0 CONFERENCE IS OPENED TODAY Local Epworth Leaguers Enrol I At Annual Lake Webster Conference Epworth Forest, lutke Webster, Ind., Aug 12 —Thirty young people of Decatur are among the hundreds registered here for the annual week's conference of the Northern Indiana district of the Epworth League of Methodist churches. The young people with several chaperones are housed in the cottage owned by the Decatur Methodist church. Registration and “getting acquainted>” were the highlights of today’s program and at 7 o’clock tonight the first general conference will be held at which time plans for the entile week will be outlined. That the Decatur young peopjle are having a good time was evidenced by the fact that they w< > 0 leaders in several parades an I other activities, which made up the irfolmal part of the first day’s progl ,im. Classes will be held each morning and the afternoon- will lie devoted to supervised swimming, boating and various games. The Fort Wayne- cist - cl of the League has a large enrollment at the conference, and the De c.itur group is one of the chief divi sions. Last year at the conference the Decatur group of Leaguers originated the cortference parade and this year it was put on the official program. Al. memltrs of the conference will have a parade tonight with each church hav’,.g a special stunt. The Conference will come To a close next Sunday, it is expected that bes re the meet closes more than 2,0<)0 will be registered.

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Tlie Rev. Ross W Stoakes, pastor of the First Methodist church in this city, can do more than preach tlie gospel and administer to the spiritual needs of ills flock. .Rev. Stoakes is a builder nnd tnecnunital genius and lie demonstrated t it Saturday evening when he came' home wit It a “house on wjieels" hook-1 ed to tlie back end of his automobile. ■ The house is to be used on a camp- j ing trip to Oden. Michigan, which Rev. and Mrs. Stoakes and sons. Ross Jr., and Max will enjoy for the next three weeks. Rev. Stoakes built the house by himself. By designiting it as a house we mean a home, for it is all of that. Some might call it a trailer, but it looks more like a moving van and after you inspect the interior, you call it a house. The house is six feet wide and 12 (CONTINUED ON PAGE TWO) O ATTORNEYS MIX AT SNOOK TRIAL Hot Words Exchanged Between State And Defense Today BULLETIN Columbus. 0.. Aug. 12.— (U.R)—The defense in the Snook-Hix murder trial rested its case at 2:35 p. m. today. The defense did not call on alienists in an attempt to prove the defendant, Dr. James Howard Snook, insane. Otto Phillips, detective who aided in the examination of Dr. Dr. Snook, after his arrest, was immeditaely called as the state's first witness in rebuttal. His evidence was designed to impeach that of Dr. Snook, who had denied a long list of statements allegedly spoken in his examination. Court Room. Columbus, 0.. Aug. 12. —(U.R) — Hot words were passed by Prosecutor John J. Chester Jr. opening today's proceedings in the Snook-Hix murder trial in cross-examination of John F. Seidel. Seidel is a member Os counsel defending Dr. James Howard Snook, who is accused of the murder of Theora Hix. “You say you have known Dr. Snook for 20 years?” queried Chester. “Yes sir,’’ said Seidel. “Is it not a fact that when you came to police headquarters to take up Snook’s defense that you asked a detective to point out Dr. Snook to you?" “1 didn't and anyone who says I did is a liar.” Chester flushed lint Judge Henry L. Scarlett demanded order and cautioned the attorney to “proceed with his I questioning in a regular way. "Well, don’t bite my head off,’’ Seidel snapped at Chester. “Nobody is going to bite your head off.” answered the prosecutor. “It wouldn't taste good.” EXPLOSION IS FATAL Houston, Texas, Aug. 12. — (U.R) — Explosion of hn ammonia tank condenser at the Phenix Diary yesterday caused the death of L. A. Robertsrfn. 35; Chester Hilton, 30, and Robert Williams, 25 The men were repairing a leak in the ammonia line. VERA MAST HAS TOES AMPUTATED • Garden Spade Drops On Foot Severing Two Toes And Injuring Another Vera Mast, four-year old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Burt Mast who reside in the southwest part of Decatur suffered a painful accident late Saturday afterno vhen two toes of her left foot were amputated and another was almost cut completely off when a garden spade which her brother Curtis was using dropped on her foot. » Curtis was working in the garden at the time of the accident and just as he completed tlie work of spading some ground, Vera ran toward him. Without looking up Curtis dropped the spade into tihe ground and it was caught across the little girl’s foot. The second and third toes of the foot were completely severed and the fourth toe was cut more than half-way off.A physician was summoned at once and he expressed hope that the fourth toe might be saved.

CAR,STOLEN AT MONROE LAST MONDAY FOUND Lawrence McKinney, 19, of Mill Grove, Arrested And Admits Theft Os Car CHICKEN THEFTS ALSO CONFESSED Lawrence McKinney, 19. of Mill Grove. Blackford county. Indiana. Is in the Adams county jail, having confessed to stealing a Foul coupe belonging to J. E. Ankerman. of Guthrie City. lowa, at Monroe last Monday night. Ankerman had picked the lad up at Rem’ngton, Indiana, and had brought him as far as Monroe. He had gone into a garage at Monroe to get a road map and the young man drove away in the car. Ankerman immediately came to Decatur and reported the incident to Sheriff Harl Hollingsworth. Without much of a clue Adams county officials immediately began to work on the case. Last Thursday, through the co-operation of Jay county officials and state police Hal Ayres, a suitcase, which had l>een in the stolen automobile was found near Pennville, Indiana. Going on the theory that whoever stole the car might live or be acquainted around Jay county, an inquiry brought about the fact tliat persons living in Pennville and Dunkirk had seen a car of the same description. Saturday night the young man was questioned by state police Hal Ayres at the home of his brother-in-law, Hershell Shatto at Dunkirk and lie admitted stealing the car. Earlier in the evening the boy had turned over several times in the car near Pennville. The car was badly damaged and McKinney received a painful cut on his left arm. McKinney and the stolen car were brought to Pori land Saturday night and p’aced in the Jay county jail. Sunday morning he told his story to Sheriff Hollingsworth and Ayres. He also confessed -to the theft of some chickens in Jay county and implicated his Brother-in-law. Shatto. McKinney said t.hat when he arrived last Monday night at Dunkirk he told Shattto that the car was stolen. Shatto told him he would fix it alright, according to the confession. The numbers on the car were changed and Shotto drove the car all week, McKinney said. When officials examined the car at Portland Sunday morning they no(CONTINUED ON PAGE THREE) DEATH SUMMONS DECATUR LADY Widow Os Late Lewis C. Hughes Dies After An Extended Illness Mrs. Nancy Bell Hughes, aged 63 years, died at the Adams County Memorial Hospital this morning at 615 o'clock Death was said to have been due to cancer. She was the widow of the late Lewis C. Hughes. Nancy Bell Hughes was born August 15, 1865, the daughter of John and Margaret Durr of Monroeville, both of whom are deceased, and died August 12. 1929. She was united in marriage to Lewis C. Hughes who has been deceased since 1924. No children were born to this union, but a step daughter. Mrs. Laura Gifford, of Fort Wayne, survives. Other surviving relatives are the brothers and sisters, Fred Darr, of Mendon, Michigan; Mrs. Leiza Potts of near Monroeville, and Mrs. Catherine Platt of this city. During the past two years of her life, Mrs. Hughes has been suffering with cancer and has been a patient at the Adams County Memorial Hospital several times for treatment. Two weeks ago she was taken to the hospital for treatment and succumbed to her illness this morning. Since her (CONTINUED ON PAGE TWO) o— Glen Kizer Arrested Glen Kizer. 21 of this city was arrested Saturdy night by chief of police Sephus Melchi on a federal charge ■ f desertion from the United States Army. Kizer enlistd in the army at Fort Wayne last week but failed to report for assignment. He will be t turned over to army officials at Fort Wayne today, it was reported.

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May Leave Hague * 1 Phillip Snowden, British Chancellor of the Exchequer announced that he will leave The Hague soon unless the demands made on behalf of his country are granted. England apparently stands firm in her intention not to accept a reduced share in the distribution of German reparations. (Intel nauuMi Newaicel) VIOLENT DEATHS TOTAL FOURTEEN Indiana Toll Os Week-End Accidents Includes Three Traffic Accidents Indianapolis, Aug. 12. — (U.R) —Fourteen violent deaths in Indiana over the week-end include one slaying and three traffic fatalities. Andrew Thompson. 50, was fatally beaten to at Delphi by Frank L. Heistand, 29. They are said to have quarreled over a girl. Roy Strange, 3, Muncie, suffered] fatal injuries when run over by a truck from which he had been taking ice. Harold York, 20, Yankeetown, was fatally injured when a truck he was driving was stiuck by the Indianapolis and Southeastern electric freight car at a crossing four miles,west of Connersville. Eugene McGuire, 25, Laurel, was killed by a Big Four train at a crossing south of Connersville when he jumped from a track in fear that it would be hit by the train. Bernard Lewellyn, 9. son of Harry Kosciusko county school superintendent, is dead of injntiesl suffered when he was caught in the blades of a mowing machine. His right leg was mangled. , Wade H. Bell. 51, Spanish-American war veteran, is dead at Evansville, a (CONTINUED ON PAGE TWO) Corn Borer Scouts Employed By State W. B Martin and R. R. Dobbs, corn I borer scout-- who are working in Ad ems County, - ailed at the Daily Democrat ot’fii •! S. t-irday evening ami asked that a correction be ma<i_> in desingating th ‘ui as federal scouts. The men are n.it federal scouts, but are employed by the Department of Conservation, division of entomology, State of In-l’.n-a. The scouts have completed their work in Pubic, Root and Union town- j ship and are t ow working in Washing ton township They state that they have found the coin borer in several of the townships They are tceduled to inspect the corn in all of the twelve townships in the county and will continue their work unti. ccery township has been inspected. Ora Smith Begins Reformatory Sentence Sheriff Harl Hollingsworth and Wayne Burger left this morning tor Pendleton where they will deliver Ora Smith, sentenced last week in Adams circuit court to 1 to 10 years in the state reformatory for issuing a fraudulent check. Smith was riding in the stolen car which his brother Roy Smith was driving two weeks ago at Homewood, Illinois. He was taken with his brother and William Bland of Paulding, Ohio, to Chicago, and placed in federal jail there, but later was release-1. He immediately returned to this city and was arrested on the check charge, on which he pleaded.

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TREMBLOR IS MOST SEVERE IN BUFFALO Other States Also Report Quakes But No Serious Damage Is Reported QUAKES EXTEND INTO CANADA New York. Aug. 12.—(U.R)—Earthquake shocks centering around Buffalo rocked all of New York state and parts of New Jersey, Pennsyvlania, Connecticut and Ontario commencing at about 6:25 E.S.T., today. The shocks were registered strongly on eeismograiphs at John Carroll university, Cleveland, and Georgetown university, Washington, D.C. Estimates of (the duration varied fiom a few seconds to a full minute for one qf the tremlors. Skyscrapers in New York City swayed slightly and many persons felt the earth shake under them, nut no reports of damage were received. As far away a.- Sayre. Pa., pictures were shaken from walls am: glassware wn« overt timed. LASAS FOFR MINUTE Buffalo. Aug. 12. —(U.R) Two severe shocks, believed to be earthI'.take tremb shook the northw- 1 rn se-tirn <f New state today shortly after 6 a m.. C.S.T. The shocks, one protracted for apI proximately 60 seconds, followed im mediately by a slighter trembler, rocked buildings, shook windows ai-J I rattled dishes but did no serio .s dam age. Cities reporting the shocks were Buffalo and environs, Niagara Falls. N. Y.; Niagara Falls, Ont.; North Tonawanda. Albion and vicinities along the shores of Lakes Erie and Ontario. QUAKE IS REGISTERED Washington. Aug. 12. — (U.R) — A "sharp” earthquake, apparently ceilI tering about 245 miles north of I Washington was registered on the Georgetown university seismograph (CONTINUED ON PAGE TWO) _o Berne Dentist Reported To Be Slightly Improved Mrs. D. C. Neuenschwander of Berne, mother of Dr. Harry Neuenschwander, well-known dentist of Berne, stated in a telephone conversation late this afternoon that Dr. Neuenschwander. who was taken to the Michigan University * Hospital at Ann Harbor, Michigan, Friday, was resting much easier Sunday afterinoon. Dr. Neuenschwander was injured several weeks ago in an automobile accident! and his condition became very critical last week. He was removed to Ann Arbor Friday and physicians were to notify relatives at Berne tonight whether an operation would be advisable at this time. The j attending physicians expressed some | hope for his recovery. ASSESSMENTS OF STATE HERE —* — Auditor Compiling Figures And Pro-Rating Them To Various Townships Copies of the state’s assessments tor banks, railroads, pipe lines and utilities in Adams County, have been received by Albert Harlow. County auditor. Mr. Har'ow has started the work of compiling the assessments and distributing ti e valuations to th- twelvu townships in the county. It is not known what the assessments will total this year. This figure will not be obtainable until the. vaiuat'ons have been distributed among the townships In the case of the railroad* and utilities, the valuation is given at so much a mile and then the a-iditor n.vst pro-rate the figures to the town--1 ship-: according to the number of miles t of railroads or utility lines in the ceria.n taxinc unit. The state assessments last year to--1 ta’ed $5,400,001). This v'aluatio”. is add ed to the local assessments whie’i go to make up the total net assessabl-- valuation in Adams County. The county auditor is also busy 'his week making up the budgets of estimated expenses necessary for the operation of the county government next year.

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