Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 27, Number 199, Decatur, Adams County, 21 August 1929 — Page 1

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(HI ANXIETY ffLT FOR TSO SWISS AIRMEN “Vniinff Switzerland" and Youthful Pilots Unheard of lor 38 Hours HTTLE HOPE FELT 10 i’or their safety > TJM t anxiety was felt here today ov ,r the fa e of the two young Swiss '«• cskar Kaeser. 21. and Kurt Scher' 22. who took off Monday I Joni Lisbon, Portugal, to fly across I Atlantic to New York. ■ ant (EST) today their plane, ’ TMM Switzerland, was 50 hours ’ v aom Puncal Field at Lisbon Ld unheard from for 38 hours since tt p 3SS ed over Terciera Island in the ; Azores at 1 pm. t EST) Monday. The ,t an e carried a little more than 500 f nllons of gasoline which experts at Roosevelt field here estimated could [ |»>en it in the air not longer than | 40 hours. The merest fragment of a hope was ' held that the fliers might by some miraculous good fortune have made ; the New England coast somewhere ) tween New York and ('ape Cod in a .aiselv settled region from which a repott of their presence would come slowly. This tenuous optimism was based on the report of Dr. James H. Kimball. meteorologist at. the government weather bureau, here that dense fog banks were rolling over the seas from Cape Race to Halifax but that the more direct, if longer, route, from the Azores to the American roast was comparatively clear. Sen. Thurman Gottschalk Addresses Local Club State Senator Thurman Gottschalk, of Berne, told of his many experiences in the state legislature, at the tegular weekly meeting of the Decatur Lions club held last night. CliffNd Saylors presided at the meeting in the absence of Roy Mttmma. Senator Gottschalk discussed briefly interesting laws and told of other events of recent legislatures. Boyd Dellinger of Willshire entertained the club with several musical numbers on the harmonica and guitar. The program was arranged by Dr. Butt Mangold, who acted as chairman of the evening and introduced Mr. Dellinger and Senator Gottschalk. Georges Clemenceau Is Seriously 11l in France Paris, Aug. 21.-((J.R> -Georges Clemenceau, the aged wartime Premier of France has been taken suddenly ill at his cottage at Les Sables D’Qlonne. on the Bay of Biscay in Vendee. A doctor was summoned from Paris today. The physician said "the Tiger" was over-fatigued and advised a complete rest. Clemenceau is 88. ).-* 0 MAN ENDS LIFE Marion, Ind., Aug. 21 —(UP)— A stick was used by Everett Jones, 2fi, to fire .. shotgun which tore his heart out. The body was found late last night on a highway near Gas City. No motive for the suicide was known. o—rar clubs HOLD MEETING Two Adams County Clubs •Join in Interesting Meet and Social Approximately 200 people attended the Dairy Calf Club and Cow Testing esociation meeting held at the Monroe high school building at Monroe ast evening. A short business seson was held by the calf club and ans were discussed concerning the 'tty calf club show to be held at eatur on Wednesday, September 11. were appointed by the for Ca!v ' n Steary to arran se The ■' s concer » in R the calf show Oitn “ n ° adinß committee consists of Jams ~B lebericb - Frederick Duff and «mes Moses. / dVu” Habegger, CalvinS'eury and the J 'J? f aZelln wiU erect ,ie tails >n aPDnim > nt ' Four memb ers were Curine 7. t 0 10 ° k after the calves week^Calvin Steury. Reub(CONTINUED on PAG H TWO? ~

Frenchman Prepares Plane I For Another Ocean Flight! I Paris, Aug. 21. --(U.R) Dieudonne I Coate, famous French trans-Atlan'ic | aviator, arrived at Ijeßourget airdrome at 11:45 a.m. today, tested the (wtrele'n apparatus of his plane and placed it n the hangar. Everything was apparently in order and ready for another early attempt to span the Atlantic by air from east to west. Coste, who with Joseph Lebnfx. 1 has a south Atlantic crossing to his 1 credit, turned Itack a few weeks ago when 400 miles east of the Azores on I a flight from Paris to New York.: when he found that head winds were | causing him to use gasoline so rapidly that his supply would be exhausted before reaching the American continent. He returned to his home hangar at Villa Coublay, a suburb of Pai ls, and ’ immediately began reconstruction in the plane of larger tanks, announcing' he would make another attempt. TRACTION CAR STRIKES TRUCK Man Killed and Six Are Injured in Crash near Newcastle, Today Newcastle. Ind., Aug. 21. —(U.R) — One man was killed and six persons injured when a Union traction passinger intel urban crashed into a truck, left the rails and overturned at a crossing near Springport. 11 miles north of Newcastle late yesterday. The truck driver, Donald G. Watts, 22, Greenwich. 0., was killed instantly. The injured, some of whom wese taken to a hospital in Muncie, were: William Adams. Springport; E. E. Smiley. Shelbyville; Doembos Henry, Chicago; W. E. Dauz, Detroit; Henry Ehlers, Indianapolis, conductor, and W. E. Garnisou, Newcastle, motorman. None was believed injured seriously. Apparently in a hurry. Watts, foreman for the N. D. Putnam Construction company of Fort Wayne, toad contractors, drove in the path of the interurban and was struck with a terrific impact. Watts was thrown clear of the wreckage. He sustained a fractured skull. The truck rolled under the wheels 'of the interurban and derailed it. The interurban turned on its side and skidded several feet, coining to »stop when it was caught between two poles. ■' County Coroner Ralph Niblock, Middletown, was to conduct an inquest today. The interurban was the same car hat killed more than 20 persons when it crashed into a bus trailer loaded with members of the Sahara ’ Grotto near Indianapolis in October 1927, traction officials said. o JOHN SCHNITZ IS FOUND DEAD Heart Attack in Night Is Fatal to Well-Known Decatur Resident John Schnitz. well known Decatur citizen, died early this morning from a heart attack at his home on West Madison street. Mr. Schnitz went to bed last evening about 9 I o’clock, apparently in good health. | About 1:20 o'clock this morning his wife heard him coughing and strangling and went to his room where she found him dead. ’ John G. Schnitz. son of Gottleib and Sarah Schnitz, who are both deceased, was born March 31, 1973. near Andrews, Indiana, and died August I 21, 1929. He was the last one of the , children to die. He was united in . marriage to Sarah Vollmar, Novent- . her 20. 1896. The widow survives. . To th4s union were born four children I three of whom survive. They are > Mrs. Leslie Baumgartner of Fort t Wayne; Merrill Schnitz and Wilhel ‘ (CONTINUED ON PAGE SIX) Buys Notion Store I C. H. Miller, manager of the Morris 5 and 10 cent 'store in this city, has . purchased a five and ten cent store , at Wauseon. Ohio, and will move there ‘ to take possession of the store Septf ember 1. Mr. Miller has been manager ’ of the Morris Store here for several months. The manager to succeed him has not yet been appointed.

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COUNCIL BEGINS COMPILATION OF ANNUAL BUDGET Will Reconvene Friday to Complete Work of Making Tax Levy TO PUBLISH BUDGET NEXT SATURDAY The city council started work las’ j night on compiling the budget of esti-l mated expenses for next year and will meet again Friday night to complete the job. The budget will be published Saturday. In all probability the total of the budget will l>e about the same as last year. The gross total last from otherrevenues of about SIO,OOO. The tentative figures in the budget for next year show a gross total of about $57,000, with a credit of about SII,OOO. It Is figured that the same tax rate. 71 cents on the SIOO, will raise about the same amount of money for next year, as that used this year. The valuation figure used last year was $6,418,140, while the valuation certified this year to the citv clerk iq. $6,588,240. The figures in the bn.l- ( get. pruned last year down to the , very cent, tsand about the same for next year, exept in one item for new equipment under the head of public safety. This item includes an appropriation for SI,OOO for additional fire hose bought this year and the last payment on the new fire truck. The charges for water hydrant rentals and ornamental street lighting are the same, although additional lights and hydrants have been installed within the last year. The rates, in addition to the civil city’s levy, which go to make up the total city rate are, school board, state rate, uewnship poor, all th? county levies and the library levy. The new tax rates will be fixed on September 3. 0 TAX RATE SET Marion, Ind.. Aug. 21 —(UP) —The Marion 1930 tax late has been set at $1.04 on the SIOO valuation. VIOLATORS TO BE ARRESTED Mayor Says Motorists Must Obey Laws When Going to Scenes of Fires "Arrest a few of them and bring them up in mayor's court" was the order given to Fire Chief Jack Friedt by Mayor George M. Krick last night, when the Fire Chief rethat motorists were following the trucks to the scene of fires and hampering the drivers in getting ty the fires. The fire department answered a call about 8 o’clock last night to the Charles Heare residence on North Second street. Chief Freidt, following his return from the fire, reported to Mayor Krick, while the council was in session, that many motorists made a wild dash for the fire, getting ahead of the trucks, running alongside and hindering the drivers from getting to the scene of the fire. Mayor Krick gave the fire chief orders to arrest violators, of the city ordinance, which prohibits motorists from cutting in ahead or following the fire trucks at a closer distance than 400 feet. Fire Chief Freidt also reported that several motorists broke through the safety line, which is always established around the scene of a fire. This is a serious violation of the ciiy ordinance. The damage to the Heare home . was about $25. The fire originated in a clothes closet and was put out with the aid of chemicals. Fire on Vessel Is Reported by Radio New York, Aug. 21. —(U.R)— The Radio Marine Corporation today received a message from the steamship , Yalza that she had passed the vessel Quamista-Hamburg abandoned and on fire. The Yalza message said that at 9 Greenwich meantime (5 a.m. EDT) she passed the Quamista in latitude 29.30 north, 58.15 west. ‘‘Quamista Hamburg abandonee! and on fire," the message said. "For- 1 ward hold well down in water. Danger to navigation. No sign of crew."

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Sweden’s Queen 111 wii 1 L'' •* ' 'IB:? i e *IL I -Wv. >■ z . Her Royal Highness Queen Viclotia of Sweden lies seriously ill at Mainau. , Germany, on Lake Constance, her ancestral home. The queen has been , confined to her bed for two months ( suffering with bronchitis and fever, which at her advanced age of 67. is , feared will prove fatal. DECATUR GIRL IS ARRESTED Margaret Fingland Is Held In Ft. Wayne on Worthless Check Charge. Margaret Fingland, 19. of this city was arrested yesterday in Fort Wayne and admitted to police of that city that she had passed worthless" checks at various For’ Wayne stores totalling about $l5O. Miss Fingland left Decatur last Saturday with her father's automobile and her parents did not know where she was until last night, when notified by Fort Wayne police. The girl was staying at a Fort ! Wayne hotel. She had bought several dresses, coats, and ether clothing at several Fort Wayne stores and had used fictitious names in signing the checks, police said. She purchased a dress yesterday afternoon and when the clerk went to the telephone to call the bank to see if the check was good, Miss Fingland started to leave the store. She was arrested and after questioning admitted passing the worthless checks at other stores. All of the clothing was recovered in her hotel room, and she is being lieid for arraignment in Foit Wayne. The automobile belonging to her father, William Fingland, of this city also is being held from him. Miss Fingland returned to Decatur this afternoon, being released on a bond of SSOO. She was charged in Allen circuit court with issuing fraudulent checks. Trial date has not been set. PHIL SAUERS GETS CONTRACT Will Build Extension to Pavement in Monroe For Town Trustees Phil Sauers was, this morning, awarded the contract for building the extension to Patterson street in the town of Monroe, one block, at his bid of $3,450. Contract for the main part of this street. 18 t'eet wide, was let by the county commissioners last month and the trustees of Monroe then asked for bids to widen the pavement on Patterson street. Half of the distance will be six ieet otr each side of the eighteen feet and the balance nine feet, with curb. Patterson is the main street of the town and this will provide a fine thoroughfare. The work will be done by Mr. Sauers as soon as Macklin ft Zehr have completed the eighteen foot section which will be in the next few weeks. Ths contract let by the commissioners also includes two other streets in the town. The main street will, when completed, be from twen-ty-four to twenty-seven t'eet wide.

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COUNCIL AWARDS TWO CONTRACTS —— . Yost Brothers to Build Improvement on Rugg Street Sewer The city council in session last ' evening awarded two contracts and disposed of several other matters, be- ; fore meet’ng in continued session to i take up the compiling of the budget, i The contract for building a new , sewer outlet and basin to the Rugg ■ street sewer was awarded to Y'ost i Bros., contractors of this city, on their bid of $1,349. This was the only bid filed. The contract for gathering and dis- I posing of lite garbage within the city was ho John Hill on his bid of S3BO. Mr. Hill was the only bidder. The past year Mr. Hill took the contract for nothing. His new contract will start September 1 and as no appropriation was made last vear for garbage disposal, an arrangement wi’h Mr. Hill until the first of the year will be made by the council. A communication from the officers of Adams Post of the American Legion asking that SSO be included in next year's budget, for the giving of a suitable program on Memorial Day, was filed and referred to the finance committee. An appropriation for S4OO from the general fund for the payment of state accountants in the examination of public records and the paying of extra policemen, was passed and adopted by the council. A letter from S. E. Shamp, local agen' for the Nickel Plate railroad, asking that the arc light above the eomiThny's tracks on Winchester street’* be removed was referred to the electric light committee. The railroad company maintains an ornamental street light near the crossing and the flasher signals at the crossing. Bills were read and allowed and an informal session of the council followed. ONE 8080 BOND ISSUE IS SOLD Three Others Offered by County Treasurer Fail to Receive Bid Four road bond ’ssues, totaling $25,680, were offered at sale this mottling by County Treasurer Ed A. Ashhaucher and only one issue, that of the Daniel O. Reinhart road in French township, amounting to $4,160. was sold. The Bank of Borne purchased the bonds, paying par and accrued interest. No other bids were submitted on either of the issues. The bonds pay four and one-half per cent interest and are non-taxable in the state of Indiana. They mature in 10 years. The bonds offered on the other three roads were the Charles Ahr road. St. Marys township. $2,960: William Yager road. Kirkland township, $6,560; Andy Zeser hard surfaced road. Washington township, $12,000. The bond market throughout the country has been at a standstill, due to the high interest rate fixed by ihe Federal Reserve banks and the heavy speculation in stocks, which has diverted much money from the bond market. General Electric Band To Give Concert Thursday The final band concert to be given here by the General Electric band until the week of the Free Street Fair, will be given Thursday night nt 8:30 o’clock on the Niblick lot corner of Liberty Way and Third street. A good program has been arranged and the public is invited to attend. Several features besides the regular program have been planned. — . o —— SALEM STORE ROBBED Thieves broke into the general store of George McAlhaney at Salem, south of here, last n'ght and escaped with about $6.00 in cash and several dollars worth of merchandise. Entrance was gained by battering the lock on the front door. County officials are working on the case.

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Scout Jamboree is Filled With Thousands of Interesting Events The following letter Is the second of a series being written by Janies Burk, son of Mr. and Mrs. Avon Burk of litis city, who is attending the Scout Jamboree in England as a delegate fiom the Anthony Wayne Area. The Decatur Daily Democrat August 12. 1929. Dear Foils: The Jamboree is now drawing to a close and a great many interesting things have taken place since we left the boat. Out trip over war rather uninteresting since only 90 American scouts and the entire Canadian Contingent of 210 scouts were aboard. Os << ovrixt i:i» ox page t'oi it) “OLD SETTLERS" WILL MEET HERE Meeting Will Be Held in Connection With Street Fair, September 11 Plans for Old Setlters’ Day, Wednesday, September 11, to be held in Decatur in connection with the Free State Fair, are being rounded out this week by French Quinn, chairman of the event, and those in charge say that this day wilt Ije one of the biggest of the five-day event. The day will be in honor of all old settlers of Adams county and a countywide committee has been appointed to assist in arrangements and also to assist in staging the Old Settlers’ parade, which will be the highlight of the day's program. The committee includes: Mr. Quinn, chairman; Frank M. Schirmeyer, John Niblick. Judge J. T. Meryman, Judge J C. Sutton, J. H. Heller, J. \V. Bossee, Clat k J. Lutz, Mrs D. D. Heller, Mrs. Fred Heuer. J. W. Tyndall. Mrs. B. W. Sholty. Mrs. Fred Linn. Louis Armstrong. Fet’d O’Brien. Adams County Committee Monroe—James A. Hendricks, Erwin Stuckey, John Crist. Berne — Christ Neuenschwander. Dr. Harry O. Jones. Jeff Lehman. • Geneva —A. G. Briggs, Kenneth Shoemaker. Salem—G. C. McAlhaney. Linn Grove—Dr. J. O. McKean. St. Mary’s Township—Jacob Bartlett. John ('. Cowan. Robert J. Mann. Washington Twp.—F. Marion Andrews, Elmore Cook Philip Carper. Preble Twp. — Ernst Worthman, Chalies Kiess, Fred Schueler, Otto Buck. | jvj (CONTINVKD ON PAGE FIVE) MORE TROUBLE AT HAGUE MEET Refusal of Italy to Concede Reparations to England Is Serious The Hague. Aug. 21—(U.R) Final efforts of France. Belgium and Japan to get Italy to slice her reparations with Great Britain and thus saye the reparations conference here failed today. $ Italy informed Great Britain that no Italian reparations concessions were possible. Alberto Pirelli, the Italian delegate, visited Philip Snowden, the British chancellor of the exchequer, today and announce)! that Italy is unable to yield atty of her share of reparations. o Sixteen Continue in Women’s Air Derby Douglas, Ariz., Aug. 21.—(U.R) Slightly uneasy because of the troubles which have beset their adventure since they left Santa Monica. Calif., Sunday, entrants in the women's air derby of the national air races resumed their eastward flight today. At two minute intervals, starting at 6:20 a.m., 16 pilots took off on the Iqp which will end at Midland, Texa '. tonight. Engine trouble caused Elizabeth von Mack. Detroit, to return here, shortly after her plane left the ground. She expected to make a second start.

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INSPECTION IS I MADE BEFORE SHIP DEPARTS Third Leg is Across Northern Pacific Ocean to Los Angeles, Cal. HOPE EXPRESSED FOR NEW RECORD BULLETIN Tokio, Aug. 22. (date is correct in Japan)—(U.R)—The flight of the Graf Zeppelin to Los Angeles was postponed temporarily today after it had started from its hangar and was preparing to rise. The zetppelin had been walked from the hangar wheO it was discovered that a rear engine had been damaged and the airship was returned to the hangar. An hour before the Zeppelin had been started from the hangar Dr. Hugo Eckener, the cqmmander, had completed his final inspection. The motors were tested. The setting was perfect for a takeoff. A full moon was shining and a mild cool breeze blew across the field. Tokio, Aug. 21. (U.R)— His goal a trip of 20.000 miles around the globe in 12'4 days of actual living time, Commander Hugo Eckener gave the Graf Zeppelin a final inspection tonight prenaratorv to starting at I a. m. (2 p. m. EST), across the Pacific to Los Angeles. Behind him lie 11,080 miles already covered from Lakehurst. N. J., to Tokio. across tjie Atlantic, Europe and Asia. It was accomplished in fix days. 13 hours and 15 minutes. Ahead of him lie the vast stretch of the northern Pacific and the comparatively easy flight across the United States from its west coast back to Dr. Eckener refused to specify his exact route across the Pacific before starting, but aviation experts considered it certain he would take a great northward circle, swinging past the Kurile Islands to the south, over the Aleutian Islands and southward to Seattle and Los Angeles. That route would be 6.118 miles. A straight line flight to Los Angeles would be 5,300 miles. Assuming that the zeppelin will take the northern route, the complete world itinerary follows: Lakehurst to Friedrichshafen 4.200 miles. Friedrtchehaffen to Tokio. 6,880 miles. Tokio to Los Angeles (estimated), 6.118 miles. Los Angeles to Lakehurst, 3,050 miles. Total, 20,248 miles. On that lias's, the Graf Zeppelin has flown so far 11,080 miles in 6'4 days, and has 9,168 miles vet to accomplish in six days to achieve its schedule. If Eckener arrives at Lakehurst by August 29. he will have set a new elapsed-time record for circling the globe. —. o REED PLAN ADOPTED Washington, Aug. 21. —(U.R) —A modification of the Reed domestic valuation plan of fixing tariff rates, was adopted as part of the new tariff bill today by Republican members of the Senate finance committee. PICNICKERS GET AN EARLY START Total of 1,225 Board Special Train for Annual Methodist Picnic The Methodist Sunday School "Picnic Special’’ left the Cloverleaf statlion at Decatur on scheduled time this morning, and hours before ’.lie train pulled away from the city, - bound for Walbridge park, for the ■ annual allday picnic, children ami - grownups gathered at the local s a- , tion. There were 1.205 paid fares on the r special train and including Cloverleaf ! employes, who received company 'passes, 1.225 people made the trip. , At the Decatur station. 700 picknick- ’ ers boarded the train. At other points, tlie following number of paa- ' sengers were taken on: Bluffton. 76; Craigville. 26; Peter--1 son, 19; Pleasant Mills. 77; Delphos, J 26; Ohio City, 21. and Willshire. 260. ’• The (rain will return to Decatur late tonight. .Ik -Ml

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