Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 27, Number 208, Decatur, Adams County, 31 August 1929 — Page 1

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H, BEDLLND CO. IS SOLD TO FORT WAYNE CONCERN Site’s Oldest Poultry and Ei/g Wholesale House Changes Hands SHERMAN WHITE CO. IS NEW OWNER The H. Rerling Company, old- 1 est egg and poultry wholesale house in the state, established bv the late Garret Berling. m 1875 was sold today to the Sherman White Company, Fort "Mr * Berling established the egg and poultry business in this city three year ; ter his arrival in tills country from (1 rmany and the place has been operated continuously and success\falh since that time. It is one of the best known businesses of its kind in the country. The deal had been pending for severed days, but all details were not completed until last evening, officials of the Berling company, announced today. None of the real estate owned by the 11. Berling Company was involved in the transaction. The new owners of the business, will for the present, continue to occupy the wholesale house on South First street and officials of the Sherman White Companv hare announced that Albert Aeschliman and Paul Briede will be in charge of the local business. The members of the Berling family who have I>een identified with the business since their fa.her established it. will not be identified with the new owners. Joe Berling, senior member of the firm plans to ret’ve and to take a year’s trip abrogd. a u imnti as he < an" Arrange hU.J>iwliies» affairs. In commenting on the sale. Joe Berling made the following statement: "It is with great regret and only after long deliberation that we decided to take the action we have. We have been established here for 55 years and have shipped many cars of poultry, eggs, and butter that number well up in many thousands. Dur pack of eggs, the black “B” brand is nationally known and has always found a ready market. Years ago when turkeys were raised in large numbers, we dressed and shipped one car daily for the holiday markets and our pack was considered the best in the country. "Before the many creameries staffed. m v father was known as the largest shipper of packing stock butler In the United States and also expor.(CONTINUED ON PAGE FIVE) q. Tornado in Arizona Yuma. Ariz., Aug. 30. —(U.K) —Rescue workers forced their way through miles of debris today near Bard, Cal., where an electrical storm of cyclonic proportions struck late last night, leveling houses, trees and tearing down power and telephone lines. Bard, situated near Laguna Dam. has a population of about 2,500. Nearly every building was wrecked &»d hundreds of acres of farm lands laid low. ALLEGED BANDIT IS IDENTIFIED Fingerprint Experts Say Texas Man Actually is Kirby Davis Indianapolis, Aug. 31. - (U.R>—Pictures and fingerprints received from Dallas. Texas, were positively identified today as those of Kirby Davis, according to Forrest Huntington of ’he Indiana Bureau of Criminal Identification. The data was received by the bureau Friday. W hen arrested at Dallas Davis gave the name of Jack Harry Harris, Huntington said. He is wanted in Indiana for murder and bank robbety at Angolo, but the state will permit federal authorities to return him here f or trial. Davis will be brought into federal court for violation of the United k tateg statute covering interstate transportation of stolen automobiles, it has been agreed.

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C. D. Lewton Uninjured In Interurban Mishap C. D. Lewton of this city narrowly escaped serious injury yesterday afternoon when the Hoosierland Flyer |on which he was a passenger hit a iditching machine 200 feet north of I the station at Ossian. The interuri ban was damaged and several of the | passes?th wete (seijoiisly hurt, and [were taken to hospitals in Fort Wayne. Mr. Lewton was shaken up a bit but received no injuries and is able to lie .on the job again today. PET SHOW WILL BE ATTRACTION Unique Display of Pets Will Be of Interest to Fair Visitors A display that will no doubt attract a lot of attention at the Decatur Free Street Fair will lie the Pet Stork Show which will be held on the lots at the rear of the David Campbell fi’ling station, at the corner of Third and Jackson streets. The commit.ee in charge reports that a wide variety of exhibits will be on display, including rabbits, dogs, mink, ccon, birds, fox. and other pets. All kinds of fur bearing animals and song birds and many animals that are a novelty in this locality will be seen at the pet stock show A number of aitractive coops have been secured from the Fort Wayne Rabbit Association, and all animals on exhibition will be taken care of by an experienced man. Rabbits on exhibition will be fed special rabbit food furnished by the Reed Elevator Co. of this city. The August number of Indiana Rabbit Journal carried an artii le of this show and no doubt there will be rabbit men ami women present from al! over the state. Every detail has been worked out by the committee in charge to make the pet stotk show a complete success. A competent watchman will be in charge at all times to assure exhibitors of the greatest amount of protection. The committee in charge asks that all animals be brought in some time Tuesday if possible and aot later than 11) o’clock Wednesday morning. The show will be open each day from 10 o’clock in the morning until 10 o’clock in the evening. The pet stock show committee consists of Robert Helm. Supt. Wm. Kohls. C. .1 Miller, Boyd Andres. E. F. Bienz, Jack Teeple and John Joseph. The committee is making a last call for entries and any one desiring to enter animals should make arrangements with some member of the committee so that space may be reserved. Entries can made also at the place of exhibition on Tuesday or Wednesday morning of the fair. The pet stock department is offering attractive prizes, the entire list of which totals $275. One of the biggest features of the pet stock show will be the dog department in which practically every class of dogs will be represented. Several local breeders of pure.bred livestock have al- , ready reserved a large amount of space for their exhibits. Persons attending the street fair should by all means attend the pet stock show. o Yaney’s Kirkland Singers To Appear at State Fair Dean Byerly will take the Kirkland quartette, composed of George Yaney, manage) and Richard Arnold. Russell Baumgartner and Clifford Munn to Indianapolis tomorrow where on Monday they will take part in the singing contest which is being sponsored by the Indiana Farm Bureau as a state fair feature. The Kirkland boys will compete Monday for the honors in the thitd and fourth districts and if successful will sing again in the state contest on !■ riday, The winners wil Ising over WLS • station Monday noon from 11:30 o’r clock to 12:30 o’clock Standard time. Those who have heard Yaney’s boys say they will take the district and have a good chance for the state cantpionshin i No More Petting in Cemeteries at Warsaw’ ’ Warsaw, Ind., August 31 (UP) There will be no more petting parties ' in Oakwood cemetery here at night. 1 after receiving numerous complaints ! about the practice, the city council has . ordered the sexton, I D. Mayer, to close the cemetery gates at Sundown.

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ADAMS COUNTY SCHOOL DAYS DEGIN MONDAY All County Schools Open Monday Except Berne and Decatur BOOK CHAN GE S AR E ANNOUNCED The last day of vacation is over so. pupils of the Adams county schools. . Monday morning, throughout Adams county, school buses will grind out the r usual routes, picking up pupils and taking them to the various township schools. Schoo's will open promptly at S o’clock (central standard time l Clifton Striker, county school superintendent announced today. Books for the year’s work can be obtained at Geneva. Berne. Monroe. Liinn Grove and Decatur, Mr. Striker announced. It is urged by ihe county board cf education that pupils exchange as many books as possible, witli other pupils who no longer have any use for the books, thereby saving the expense of buying new ones. In some of the elementary classed changes have been made iu the arithmetic books and in all elementary grades changes have been announced in reading and writing departments. The changes were -made by the state department of public instruction. A complete book list for pupils of the county schools (outside of'Berne and. Decatur) is published in tonight's Daily Democrat. Elementary school teachers of Adams county were calk d to a special institute today, in order that they might learn the latest methods of instruction for the new books introduced in the grades this yqgr. All schools of Adams county, with the exception of Decatur public and parochial schools will be conducted on central standard time. The DeIl ilVriM ED OX PAGE FIVE) DEATH SUMMONS MARION ANDREWS Lifelong Resident of Washington Township Dies Follow ing Brief Illness Marion Andrews, 72, life-long resident of Washington Township died, last night at the Adams County Memorial hospital from Bright’s disease. He l id been ill for two weeks and a week ago yesterday was taken to the hospital for treatment. Francis Marion Andrews, the son of Thomas H. and Sarah Andrews, both deceased, was born December 21, 1856 in Washington township, and died Friday night August 30 at 7:30 o'clock at the Adams County Memorial hospital. On Decembei 8. 1881 he was united in marriage to Mary Ida Wiseley who survive® him. To this union no children were born. Besides the widow, two sisters survive the deceased. They are Mrs. Thomas Baltzell of Decatm. and Mis. George McKean of Granite City, 111. Mr. Andrews had been in good health until this summer when he began ailing. Two weeks ago he became bedfast and a week ago was taken to the Adams County Memorial hospital. He has been a farmer all his life, residing at Decatur route 5. He was a member of the. Washington township Methodist church during his lifetime. The funeral will be at the home, near Decatur, Monday afternoon at 2 o'clock (Standard Time) with Rev. D. V. Williams officiating. Burial will be made in the Ray Cemetery west of Monroe. Friends are requested to please omit flowers. Uncle of Decatur Lady Dies at Coldwater, Ohio Word was received today of the death of John G. Kuhn at his home in Coldwater, Ohio. He was an uncle of Mis. Julia Colchin. Mr. Kuhn died Thursday morning, and death was said to have been due to a heart attack. The funeral will be held at the Trinity church in Coldwater, Monday morning at nine o’clock. Mr. Kuhn was a former resident in this city, and his wife, Mrs. Kuhn, preceded him in death a year and a half ago.

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Three Decomposed Bodies 11 Found Near Elkton, Md. J Elkton, Mr.. Aug. 31. -(U.Ri-Thrt bodies, which had been burned and I partly dissected, were found in .1 wooded section near here today by workmen. The . bodies were wrapped in BalliI more newspapers dated July 21, 1929 j—and blankets. The bodies were discovered by John Snell ng. John Chamberlain and Joseph Movey. state highway department employes. The men were at work on the road when they came across the bundles. ] lying back some distance from til--road. SCHOOL ZONES ' 1 ARE ANNOUNCED • 1 M. F. Worthman Gives i Gives Rules of Zoning ’ and Attendance —— i Children who are six years of age nr who will be six years of age on or!' before January 20, 1930 will lie per-1 > mit'ed to enter school on next Tues- ' dav morning. September 3, 1929 at!' 8:15 o’clock. Superintendent M. F. < Worthman. said 1 The following are the school < zones: ‘ AM first, second, third and fourth - grade children living in territory bounded by G. R. & I. railroad, corp- • oration line on the north. St. Mary's t river on the east, and Adams street ' on the south will attend school at the J North Ward. * All first, second, third and fourth < grade children living in the territory ' bounded by Adams street, St. Marys -Iver. cornoration line on the south, I G. R. & I. railroad on the west will ' attend school a*, the South Ward. 1 All first, second, third and fourth 1 grade children living in the territory bounded by corporation line on the north. G. R. & I. railroad on the east. I coporation line on the sou’h, corpor- ' ation line on the west, will attend school at the Riley building. All fifth, sixth, seventh and eighth grade students will a tend school at the Central school building. Parents will please see that their. children will attend the respective i building, Mr. Worthman said. City schoo’s will open on next Tuesday morning at 8:15 o’clock. High school students will assemble for the whole day, while the grade students will be dis-missed after the organization period to secure their books and supplies. The grade students will return at 1:15 for tjie afternoon session. On next Monday morning the principals will meet at 9:00 o’clock and all teachers at 10:00 o'clock for organization purposes. o • GRAND JURY CONVENES South Bend, Ind., Aug. 31.—-(U.R) The Northern Indiana Federal grand jury convened today for investigation of charges that liquor dealing, vice and politics are linked in a powerful . group, virtually superceding the law 1n I.ake county. It was considered likely that approximately 100 persons would be indicted. SEVENTYLIVES DELIEVED LOST I Federal Authorities Begin Gruesome Task of Hunting for Ship Victims 1 San Francisco, Cal., Aug. 31. —(U.R) —Federal authorities concentra'ed today on the gruesome task of finding ' bodies of 70 persons believed to have died when the coastal line San I Juan sank yesterday after colliding ■ with the S. C. T. Dodd, oil tanker. Latest figures of the tragedy of the Pacific, which took place 50 miles south of here almost on the stroke of midnight, list 42 persons as having been rescued, with 7 thought to be dead. 1 There are many widows and orphans as a result of the sinking > of the 47-year-old San Juan, used as 1 a low-fare passenger boat to Japs I’ AugeLes. I Bodies of two women were recovI ered last night before the coast ■ guard cutter Tahoe moved from the - steamer lane a dozen miles oft Pigeon • Point. Neither body was identified. 1 The hunt for victJrcs of the collision 1 was resumed today when the first 1 rays of dawn broke through the fog along the barren bit of coast line.

ELMA STEURY YEARLING WINS BLUE RIBBON Adams County Entry at Indiana State Fair Gets First Place FIRST TIME FOR WINNER IN COUNTY (By Simeon Schwartz) Indiana State Fair Grounds. Indi-| anapolis. Aug. 31 —(Special to t)ailv Democrat)—A yearling heifer, owned by, Mis® Elma Steury of Monroe township. Adams county, won first, place in the annual livestock show held in connection with the Indiana State Fair. The judging was comp’eted at noon today and when the blue ribbon was placed on Miss Steury’s entry. i‘. was the first time tnat Adams county ever received that high honor. Mies S:eury’s yearling heifer won the award from the best competition in the sta’ee There were 28 other entries in the class and the judging took several hours. The Steury entry wa the only one of five from Adams county which placed, and the official title for the Adams county animal now is ”1929 state champion Junior Yearling.” The judging this morning was limited to Indiana calf club entries, and the animals will be exhibited as such ' until Tuesday, when the open class' judging starts. Miss Steury will enter her junior yearling in the open . competition Tuesday, she stated this morning. Other Adams county-owned year-1 lings which were exhibited in the club class included animals owned by Calvin Steury, Naomi Schwartz. Ernest Schwartz and Martin Habegger. The Adams county club members are here .attending the state fair as guests of the Indiana Farm Journal and the Adams county calf club. King Piebe Annie Banostine. a registered bull owned by David F. ICOXTIXI El> OX PAGE FIXE) LESLIE DEFENDS PAROLE STAND Unleashes Attack on State Bankers Association and Its President Michigan City, Ind.. Aug. 31.— (U.R) —Gov. Harry G. Leslie's attack 011 the Indiana State Bankers Association and its president, A. G. Brown, Greencastle, at a meeting of parole trustees of the Indiana state prison, here last night was a subject of conversation today among politicians. Leslie's attack came when the parole board was considering release of Lee Spiers, member of a band who in 1919 attempted to rob a Gary bank in which a cashier was killed. Spiers turned state's evidence in the case, which resulted in conviction of his five accomplicesLeslie in his talk before the board reviewed recent charges by Brown that he was ‘‘opening prison gates to bank bandits.” “We are not going to let Spiers out until his parole is approved by the state bankers association.'' the governor said. Leslie, during the address, classed Brown as a “wisecracker” * * * “who did not know what lie was talking about." “No political influence. can reach this board,” the governor said. “My motive is to find good in these unfortunates and send them back to society. The bankers association is too critical and not helpful in improving conditions. “Lake county bankers can not expect us to hear their pleas for Spiers when the president of the state association takes us to task for paroling (CONTINUED ON PAGE SEVEN) —T o Decatur Boy Wins Essay Contest Prize Algo Sudduth, junior In Deca,fur High School, received word today of his success in being one of three contestants to win in an essay contest, sponsored by the Household Journal. The topic for the essay was “Companiate Marriage”. One of the three contestants will be chosen to journey to Hollywood, California, where screen and voice tests will be made, free of charge.

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Special Legion Meeting Called for Tuesday Night! A special meeting of the Adams post of the American Legion will be held Tuesday night aj 8 o'clock at the Legion hall in this* city. Final arrangements will be made for Ihe street fair, which the local post is sponsoring. All members who are planning on going to the national convention at Louisville al.-o are urged to lie present to make arangenients to secure a special coach. ARABS PREPARE FOR NEW ATTACK Concentration Reported on Banks of Jordan for Second Attack Jerusalem. Aug. 31. —(U.R) —Nomad I Bedouin tribes from trans-Jordania ( were concentrating on the banks of . the Jordan today, apparently for an attai k upon tJie Jewish settlements ( situated on the Palestine side of the . river. , The considerable British reinforcements which arrived from Malta early , today were expected to be dispatched to '-his new danger zone. Attacks or ( threats of attacks already have been , made by the Arab forces it was repot ted. The towns principally endangered were Mishmar. Hayarden and Menaham, the latter town named after the Hebrew name of Sir Herbert Samuel, i the first Jewish high commissioner of j Palestine. Chief fear lay in the belief that the traus-Jordai lans would ibe aided in their possible attacks by the Arabs of the surrounding Palestine villages. A government physician said in an j in'erview today more than 100 Moslems had been killed and about 300 wounded since the beginning of the disturbances. • The inhabitants of Rehaviv, a suburb of Jerusalem, were greatly alarmed late last night by the steady machine gun fire of the British troops, w’ho w-ere shooting to disperse a group of looters who were seen approaching an evacuated Jewish suburb. The main parts of the city were quiet and orderly. British police and pec'al constabularies have been established and had everything well in hand. Zvi Heller, nephew of Solomon Iximport. American millionaire philanthropist, died of wounds he had received when Arabs atMicked Hebron and attacked the students at the Rabbinical Seminary, it became ' (CONTINUED ON PAGE SEVEN) O Girl Scouts Enjoy Outing Friday Night You've heard of "fifteen men on a dead man’s chest" but here's one about “tifteen girls in an Essex Coach." The Tri-Kappa troop of the Decatur Girl Scouts had planned a picnic for Friday night and when they met at the Cen’ral school building yesterday I afternoon, it was discovered that the only available automobile to take the girls picnicking was the four-passen-ger coach belonging to’the troop leader. Mrs. Bryce Thomas. That fact didn’t dampen the girls' spirits any anil when the car pulled out, bound tot “Second Creek" all fifteen girls were in the car someplace anil when roll was called by the troop leader, immediately after arrival at the camp grounds, northwest of Decatur, all fifteen tumbled out of the car and answered "present”. A fine time was enjoyed by the troop and they arrived at the Thomas home late last night, tired, but filled with hot-dogs and ether good tilings to eat. 0 No Services Sunday at First Presbyterian Church , Due to the fact that tile improvements lieing made on the interior of the First Presbyterian church in this city have not been completed there will be no church services Sunday. Sunday school will be held in the Public. Library and Rev. H. H. Ferntheil ' will preside at the closing Union service at the Baptist church Sunday night o . Kem Williams Accepts Position in Fort Wayne l Kem Williams, former manager of • the Imperial Chevrolet company in this . city, has accepted -a position as sales manager for used cars with the Hendersen Adams company. Fort Wayne. - agents for the Graham Paige automo- > bile. Mr. and Mrs. Williams left today 1 for Fort Wayne to make their home in f that city. Mu Williams came here from Winchester a year and half ago.

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LAST MINUTE ATTACHMENT EFFORTS FAIL Ship Ready to Leave Its Hangar for Germany at 12 o’clock Midnight STOWAWAYS ARF2 FOUND ON SHIP Ntivnl Air Station, Lakehurst, IN. .1., Aug. 31.—<U.R> New honors beckoned the Graf Zeppelin today across the sea to her home hangar in Friedrichshafen. Protected by the navy against attachment proceedings of a man who failed in his effort to obtain round-the-world passage aboard tlie craft, the zeppelin was receiving last-minute ministrations from mechanics while food, cargo and mail awaited movement into her limited storage space. At millnight tonight the Graf is scheduled to start for Friedrichshafen in a trip which seems assured of establishing a new record for roundthe world travel. If the ship touches ground in Friedrichshafen before 7:07 a.m. (EST) Sept. 5. her record flight of 21 days, 7 hours and 32 minutes from Lakehurst to Lakehurst will have been broken in the flight from Friedrichshafen to Friedrichshafen. Cap'.. Ernst Lehmann, substituting on the last lap for Dr. Hugo Eckener as commander of the Graf, expects to reach the home hangar by 7 a.m. Sent. 3, and thereby clip two full days (from the record. The menace of legal proceedings did not interrupt the business of prepara'ion. Under Sheriff J. G. Holman of Ocean county attempted to attach the .zeppelin yesterday after Otto Hillig. Liberty. N Y.. had filed suit to obtain refund of passage money which he said he had given* in exchange for a ticket around the world. Hillig alleged the passage was cancelled by zeppelin authorities. Two stowaways were removed from the Graf Zeppelin today as final preparations were made for the journey to Friedrichshafen. The boys were found hiding in a cabin. They appeared to lie Italian descent and about 1G or 17 years old. One described himself as L. Fichen anil the other said he was ".lack." New Jersey state policemen took the pair to Toms River, N. J., about 10 miles distant, where an effort was to be made to learn more of their identity. o Good Oil Well Is Struck on Baker Farm A good oil well, with the best showing of the three drilled, was reported on Ihe W. C. Baker farm in Jefferson township. The well was completed Friday night and will be shot the first of next week. The three wells, all good ones, on the Baker farm are owned by the George Lachnet Oil Co. MUNCIE SELECTED Anderson, Ind., Aug. 31. —(U.R) —The 1930 meeting of tlie White River Conference of the Ihiited Brethren church will be held at the Riverside church. Muncie, it was decided by delegates at a session here. CROWDS CHEER HAGUE SUCCESS Biggest Problems of War Liquidation Have Been Settled hy Meet The Hague, Aug. 31.—(U.R) — Tlie political and financial conference of governments to liquidate the world . war was concluded today amid cheers of a huge crowd which collected to bid God speed to the delegates who had taken part in the most important conference in a decade. , By coincidence the successful con- ’ ference was ended on the 49th birthday of Queen Wilhelmina and streets were lined witli tlie flags of Holland and those of nations represented at ths negotiations. Bands stationed near tlie conference hall this after- . noon played the national anthems of / the various countries which had sent 1 representatives here to settle tlie iin--5 portant problems arising from the i.J world war.

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