Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 27, Number 248, Decatur, Adams County, 18 October 1929 — Page 1

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TRAIN STUMS TfIJCXi INJURES TWO OCCUPANTS I/w Williams And Gerald Penrod, Bluffton, Are Injured In Mishap U’CIDENT NEAR PETERSON TODAY [ ( .\v Williams of Blull lon his slip-son Gerald Penrod * V ,.. T injured and Hie automo-’ bile I ruck ill which they were •ii |< was completely demolish,<l'when a west-bound Clov-j passenger train struck (|im automobile at a crossing a pile west of Peterson at 11:15 o’cii'k today. Williams and Penrod were return-I jn .. t , Bluffton after making several | deliveriw for a Wells county whole-1 sale grocery concern. Williams was ■ driving the truck and apparently he fail’d to see the approaching train. The engine of the passenger train struck the truck broadside and cartful it down the track more than 200 rurds. Both occupants were thrown from the machine. The two men were taken on the train to Bluffton where an attending phvsician stated both probably would recover. Wi’liams received a frac turtd nose and deep scalp wound and as* core leg injury. He also received several minor cuts and bruises. Young Penrod, who is a Bluffton Irish school pupil and well-known athle’e received a deep cut on his | ’.eft arm and possibly a fractured arm and several other cuts and bruises The truck was completely demol-. ished by the impact of the collision. — — o —— Mt. Pleasant M. E. Church To Hold Rally The Mt. Pleasant Methodist episcopal church will hold a big Rally and Home Coming at the church, Sunday. October 20. Sunday school will be held at the regular time Sunday morning, at 9:30 o'clock and preaching at 10:30 o'clock. At the noon hour a basket dinner will be served. The afternoon's program will begin at 1:30 o’clock, and several interesting events have been planned, including musical selections by the Sprunger Quartet from Berne, and the Gaust family of Portland. Several addresses will be delivered during the afternoon. A good time is anticipated and th * public is invited to attend the meeting. —f—o DATES SET FOR COUNTY MEET Sunday School Convention Os Adams County To Be Held Next Week Plans are being completed for the Adams County Sunday School convention to be held October 23 and 24 at Geneva and Pleasant Mills it was announced today by Clifton E. Striker, president of the county organization. The meetings on October 23 will be i held at the Methodist church at Geneva and the October 24 meetings will take place at the Methodist church at Pleasant Mills. A large crowd is expected to attend all sessions of the two-day meeting. Among the speakers will be Charles I.izenby and E. C. Albertson, both of Indianapolis, who are well-known state Sunday School workers. Mr. Striker has asked all Sunday School superintepdents of the county to announce the meeting places and dates of the coming conclave at the various Sunday School sessions next Sunday morning. While the meetings are especially tor members of the various Sunday Schools, the public is invited to attend, Mr. Striker stated today. Monmouth High School Plans Halloween Party A public Halloween party and fair to be held at Monmouth high school, north of Decatur, Friday night October 25 was announced today by off!tials of that school. There will be all Mirts of stands and other entertainntent and awards will be made for the nest masked person at the fair. An admission prize of 10 cents will •e charged at the door, and there will te plenty of entertainment' for adults '. nd children. The public is cordially invited.

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Mother Wants Him > Ime - w >•. SISI w ML* James Frederick Smith, 11-year-old adopted son of the late Detroit mil- 1 I lionaire. Jamas W. Smith, who left j him all of his estate, is the center of a court fight being waged by his mother to regain his custody. The boy is now a cadet at Howe Military School at Howe, Indiana. FORMER WREN WOMAN KILLED Mrs. Russell Pease of Pauld-I ing Killed When Train Hits Auto Wien. Ohio, October 18 —(Special) The community of Wren was shocked and gtief stricken today on hearing of the death of Mrs. Russell Pease of Paulding. Ohio, until a few weeks ago a resident of this town, who was killed near Latty, Oh.io, Thursday when a Nickle Plate freight train struck the automobile which she was driving. Mrs. Pease was driving south on state road number 9, accompanied by two children. Robert. 4 and Jaunita 3, The train struck the automobile as it neared the center of the tracks, throwing Mrs. Pease out of the car and mangling her body. She was killed instantly. Robert Pease suffered a broken leg and possibly some internal injuries and Juanita Pease was less seriously injured. Both children were rushed to a Fort Wayne hospital. Surviving besides the two children with the mother at the time of the fatal mishap are two children Pauline and Bernard and the husband, Russell Pease who is employed at a Paulding garage. Two brothers Earl Mosier of Wren and DeWitt Mosier of Fort Wayne; two sisters. Mrs. Sadie Greulach of Fort Wayne and Miss Lula May of Wren and the mother Mrs. Nelson Mosier of Wren also survive. The funeral arrangements have not yet been completed but it is understood that the body will be brought to Wren and funeral services will be held from here. o— — Rotarians Enjoy Interesting Program James Kocher was in charge of the program given at the regular meeting of the Decatur Rotary Club last night. Talks on Rotary were made by O. L. Vance and Dore B. Erwin. A feature of the program was the read--1 ing of an article from the Rotarian magazine, by Paul Graham, which lie translated from the Spanish language into the English language. The article contained several hund- ■ red words and Mr. Graham translated the entire story. Mi. Graham, who is a former school teacher of Alams county, studied the Spanish language sev- . era! years ago. , Hotel Fire Toll Reaches Nine Today Seattle. Wash. Oct. 18—(UP)—The I death toll of the Portland Hotel fire • reached nine today. s Twenty-four hours after the old building, a rooming house far laborers, I was destroyed. Jchn Miller, 59. a raiTi road wot ker, died of his injuries. i Meanwhile, a pyromantiac who is be- • lieved to have set the disasterous fire was sought by police.

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STIMSON WILL 1 HEAD U.S.NAVAL ; PARLEY GROUP ! u - —*'■——— ( Possibility Looms That One ( Or Two Senators Will Be Included DAWES’ NAME IS CONSIDERED i Washington, Oct. 18 —(U.R> — Henry i L. Stimson, secretary of state, has < been selected to head America's delegation to the five power naval liinita- I tlons conference in London next January, it was learned today. The selection was made by President Hoover who is withholding official announcement at the present. Whether the secretary will be the only delegate apparently has not been decided although the names of < several senators and at least two k ambassadors to European courts have been mentioned, unofficially, as possible delegates. The possibility of one or more senators being named by the presi- f dent to work with Stimson was based on the fact that any treaty resulting from the conference will be subject c to senate ratification. t Charles G. Dawes, American am- ( bassador to Great Britain, and Hugh S. Gibson, ambassador to Belgium, ’ are others said to be considered. Gibson and Rear Admiral Hilary Jones, S. N., retired, were named * delegates to the tripartite naval limi- . tations conference at Geneva in ’ 1927, by President Coolidge. Japan Accepts Washington. Oct. 18—(U.R) — Japan’s 1 I acceptance of the invitation to a ! January naval conference in London I was made public by the state depart- ‘ inent today. The Japanese communication concludes with a brief, pointed plea for real naval reduction and not mere limitation. Japanese emphasis upon this point recalled President Hoover ' and Prime Minister MacDonald’s ’ failure to agree upon reduction in the cruiser category of warships which ■ is the most important of all classes ■ to be discussed in London. MOTHERS' CLUB - IS ORGANIZED Local Ladies Elect Mrs. C. W. Knapp As Head Os New Organization branch of the National Child Conservation League of America was organized at the library Thursday night under the direction of Mrs. Mary B. Norman, national organizer. This is a national organization of which Dr. Winifield Scott Hall is the ■ president and its purpose is to protect and strengthen American child life. The league believes that the mother must be brought to a realization and the needs of the child and should be prepared to meet those needs. It . aims to build a firm foundation for i and to supplement the work of f the I schools and other public agencies for the welfare of the child. The new club will meet on the second and fourth Friday of each month at the Public Library. The first meet--1 ing will be held November 8, at. 7 o’clock. ’ The following officers were select- : ed and will guide the destiny of the club for this coming year Mrs. C. W. ■ Knapp, president; Mrs. W. L. Linn, vice-president; Mrs. L. S. Armstrong. ' secretary; Mrs. Paul Graham, treas--1 urer; Mrs. A. R. Fleddejohann, press ' reporter; Mrs. C. C. Langston, director of bureau of exchange; Mrs. C. O. Porteh, chairman of the program com- ' mittee. Miss Nettie Moses and Rev. 1 A. R. Fledderjohann were named hon--1 orary members of the organization. Ogden Rules Staff May Be Increased Indianapolis, Oct 18 —(UP) — The r staff of state oil inspectors may be increased as the need arises and all > fees collected by the oil inpseetion de--5 partment may be spent by that department, Attorney general James M. OgI den ruled in an opinion today. , Oil inspectors are appointed by the L food and drug inspector and the governor and should they decide to go the - limit, expenses for oil inspection would s amount to more than $350,000 per annum.

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Berne Man To Speak At Evangelical Church I Mr. E. M. Ray of Berne well-known layman of the Evangelical denomination, will sp- ik at the Firs! Church in De< at nr miring the morning worship next Sunday Mr. Ray is a member of the Commission of Finance cf the Evangelical church representing the Indiana Conference. He will spe k upon: “The General Budget of the Evangeli- i cal Chu.ch." The address will be full of information, as to how the money is seemed ami who the beneficiaries ire This service lias been arranged bv the First Evangelical Church, purely for the purpose of information and no special offering will be‘taken. Every member is urged to be present. Many inte: 'Sting questions, will be answere<l' DOHENY TAKES STAND FOR FALL Says Friendship Was Cause Os SIOO,OOO Unsecured Loan • Washington, Oct. 18. —(U.R) —Edward 1 L. Doheny, 73-year-old oil multi-mil-lionaire, told a jury in the District of Columbia supreme court today that friendship prompted his unse- , cured loan of SIOO,OOO to former Sec- . retary of Interior Albert B. Fall in ; 1921 and concern for the safety of i the United States his leasing of the , Elk Hills naval oil reserves in 1922. Fall is on trial charged with accepting the money from Doheny as a bribe for the subsequent leasing of the government’s California oil lands to Doheny's pan-American f etroleum company. The aged oil king wept as he testified in Fall’s defense that Admiral J. K. Robison, naval engineering chief in 1921, expounded to him the “imminent danger of our country from the naval preparations Japan had made.’’ Doheny said he met Robison through his late son, "Ned” who served on Robison's ship during the war. Robison convinced him. Doheny said, that the great oil tanks constructed by Japan constituted a menace to the United States. Consequently, he agreed as a condition to the Elk Hills lease to build oil tanks for the United States navy in Hawaii "for national defense reasons only”. _— 0. ' Gasoline Tank Drivers’ Strike Thought Settled New York, Oct. 18. —(UP) — The strike of the gasoline truck drivers here apparently was broken today, and the men were returning to their jobs. Gasoline was more plentiful than it had been any time in the last four days. Union leaders denied the strike was lost, but admitted conditions for them were worse than they were two days ago. o — Condition Os Local Man Remains Same A telephone message from the Methodist hospital at Fort Wayne at noon today said that the condition of J. S Peterson who was injured n an auto mobile wreck Wednesday night was as good as could be expected. He rested easy last night and had the first sleep this morning he had had since lie was injured. O LOCAL PEOPLE TO ATTEND MEET K. of P. District Meet Scheduled For Tuesday At New Haven The first district meeting of Knights of Pythias lodges in the eighth state district since a complete reorganization of the state lodge will be held at New Haven next Tuesoay night, October 22, it was anounced today. The eighth state district now includes Adams. Allen. Wells and Whitley county lodges and an organization meeting of the new district is scheduled as the first business at the New Haven meeting. , musical program will follow the • business session. Several local lodge members are planning on attending i the meeting and local lodge officials ■ stated today that all persons who de- > sired to go. should get in cotnmunicaI tion at once with one of the lodge • officers. State officials of the lodge will be present at the meeting.

M.F. WORTHMAN RE-ELECTED AT TEACHERS' MEET Decatur Man SecretaryTreasurer Os NorthEast Association ONLY OFFICER TO RE RE-ELECTED Fort Wayne, Oct. 18.—(Special). —M. F. Worthman, superintendent of the Decatur public schools was re-elected secretarytreasurer of the Northeastern Indiana Teachers’ association at the annual election here this afternoon. Mr. Worthman was the onl yofficial re-elected. Ray Kuhns, principal of the Pierceton high school was chosen president of the association and Miss Roma L. Milnor, of Rome City was elected vice president. The annua! convention will close with a mass meeting tonight. State Association Elects Indianapolis, Oct). 18 —(UP)—Miss Katherine Howard, principal of the Frankfort Public Schools, was nominated for presidency of the Indiana State Teachers' Association this morn- v ing at the business meeting of 'he an- ( nual convention of the association. Ballotting on Miss Howard's name began immediately and leaders considered her election certain. ■ Southwest Meet Starts Evansville —Oct. 18 —(UP) — Two thousand members of the southwest ern Indiana Teachers’ Association con-j vetted here today for the 23rd annual convention. Noted educators from various parts of the country were on the program. An outstanding feature of the meeting was a moclwueeting of the League of Nitions assembly, in which 300 Evansville high school students participated. The students were garbed in the dress of their respective countries ' and spoke the languages of the nations they represented. SPEAKERS SAY LAW IS WRONG Noted Surgeons Believe Prohibition Is Harmful And Wrong Chicago, Oct. 18 —(U.R)—Two men high in the medical world were on record here today as asserting that prohibition is a failure and passage of the 18th amendment has been a distinct setback to the tendency toward temperance. Dr. Edward Martin. Philadelphia, past, president of the American College of Surgeons, and Dr. C. Jeff Miller, New Orleans, its president-elect, told colleagues attending the annual convention of the college that they always had been opposed to abuses of alcoholic liquors but were convinced prohibition was wrong in principle and actually harmful in effect. Their findings received the approbation of their fellow surgeons. Prohibition is a magnificent effort, yet I see no evidence that it ever has been enforced, nor any probability that it ever can be enforced," said Dr. Martin. i “I agree with Dr. Martin,” said Dr. Miller. "I believe that temperance and the education of the people in temperance was making wonderful headway when prohibition cant e along. People had found it good policy to be temperate. There was a day of good drinkers and vast intemp erance in this country, but it had passed. The time had come when in s the medical profession we no longer > thought the good drinker was the • good doctor and that we true in most 1 lines of endeavor.” , Since the passage of the prohibition amendment, this tendency toward - temperance had been inhibited, both - surgeons agreed, and there had been t a distinct swing toward over-indulg- - ence in alcoholic neverages. “In spite of prohibition,” howev/r. Dr. Martin, said, ‘‘more people die ? from overeating than from overdrinks ing. In fact alcohol, properly used at ? or after middle age, is a blessing. At s such time it prolongs life, adds joy - to the living, lubricates social inter- - course and. to quote the ancients, is B a gift from the gods. At the same • time, abused, it is an unmitigated curse.”

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Announce Engagement > r jk JI v mu Mrs. Lita Grey Chaplin, divorced wife of Charlie Chaplin, and Phil Bauer. stage comedian, photographed in Milwaukee shortly after they announced their engagement to wed. OerslameT IN CLUB WORK Several Adams County Young People Get Purdue Trips » Winners in the 4-H Roys and Girls clubs have been announced by County Agent Ferd E. Christen. The standings in the cal?, sewing and canning clubs already have been computed and the awards in the Sugar Beet and Corn clubs will be announced as soon as the records have been completed. It has been planned to award all club prizes at a 4-H club banquet which probably will he held about the first week in December. Prizes in the calf club are being given by the Cloverleaf Creameries. The Sugar Beet club is being financed principally by the Continental Sugar company. The sewing, canning, corn and also the sugar beet clubs are receiving financial aid from the Decatur Industrial Association, the Woman's Farm Journal of Berne, the Berne Equity Exchange and the business men of Berne. Each organization will have a representative present to award prizes at the annual club banquet. The trip winners to Purdue in the calf clubs were Ernest Schwartz, spring class; Elma Steury. fall class and Solomon Mosser. second year class. Trip winners in the sewing and canning clubs were, Verrea Roth, Leah Griffiths, Amy Schenck, and Mary Jane Kunkel. Other winners in the calf club were: Lois Beard, Helen Mitchell, Juanita Lehman, Pollyanna Lehman, Lester Mitchell, Noah J. Schrock, Kenneth Hirschy, Mary L. Schwartz. Anna Liechty, Eli M. Schwartz. Amanda Bieberich, Frederick Duff. Eli Habegger, Dora Steury, Elo:s Christy Hulda Steury, Richard (CONTINUED ON PAGE TWO) Two Killed When Airplane Crashes Yorktown, Ind.. Oct. 18 — (UP)—Two men are dead today as the result of an airplane crash near Yorktown yesterday. Harry W. White, 38. chief pilot at tlie Silver Fox airport near Muncie, was killed instantly and his passenger Paul Karlen, 26. died of injuries. Alleged Auto Thief Killed In Indianapolis Indianapolis, Oct. 18 (UP) Charles Jackson, alleged automobile thief, was shot in the hip by state policeman Charles Bridges when he attempted to ' escaped from the officer in front of the ■ skate house today. Jackson died on his way to the hospital. William Travis, Fr O . arrested with Jackson in a garage, was • held by state police. He is said to have i tried to draw a gun on Bridges when ■ Jackson broke away. I The two were being taken to state police headquarters.

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TWO WOUNDED WHEN ROBBERS MAKE ESCAPE Three Enter Bank And Loot Vault As Three Others Stav In Car ALARM SET OFF BY BANK CLERK BULLETIN Richard Chamberlin, cashier of the First National bank of Peru, which was rohbecj at noon today is a son-in-law of Mr. and Mrs. George Flanders of this city. Mr. Chambelin was not in the bank, at the time of the robbery, according to a telephone conversation between Mis. Flanders and her datghter Mrs. Chamberlin. Mrs. Chamberlin was uptown shopping at the time of the robbery, and tearing the shots she arrived at the bank after the bandits had f ed. Peru. Inil., Oct. 18. <U.R) Six J bandits held up and robbed the First National Bank of Peru today, escaping with approximately -SaO.OtH) and wounding a policeman and a bystander. Three of the men remained' in the car at the curb while the remrining three walked into the bank whore 15 customer.' and • 't i' re transacting businessThe 23 persons were reed to lie on the floor while two- f the men emptied the vault of all tv illable i urrancy and ;he other stood guard at the door. As the bandits lef.t the bank two of them fired at a policeman and a man standing npar by. The policeman was shot in the foo* anil the bystander suffered a leg wound. Whil • the robbery was in progress one of ihe clerks pressed the police alarm. Police at the station called the bank to learn the trouble. The bin■llts fo'ced a girl clerk to answer the phone and say there was nothing wrong but that the alaim hid bt■ n pressed by mistake. The robbery was the thirl daylight bank robbery in Indiana, in the lasi three days. Fifty ci’stoniers and eight clerks were in the bank at the time of the robbery and were forced to lie on the floor while two of the bandit ■ looted the vault. Three of the men stood guard at the curb and one held a un over the people in the bank John D. Rainey, policeman w is running to the bank from police h ad<iu liters when he was shot in the loot. H. L. Howenstein. Michigan I’itv, Indiana. came around the < orner of tee (CONTINUED ON PAGE FIVE) INFORMATION MADE PUBLIC Whisky Corporation Was Real Business Venture. Books Show New York, Oct. is—(U.R)-further knowledge of the ingenious operations of the gigantic bootlegging syndicate smashed by the government was gained today from the voluminous documents Seized during the raids of tho oganization's numerous branches. Authorities learned that the syndicate was to the rum-running industry what General Motors or United Staten steel are to legitimate business, its board of directors met in weekly sessions around a quartered-oak table at a mid-town office here, tallied the profits and declared dividends, just like Wall street financiers. A profit of $2,1101),00(1 in six months was shown by the rum corporation’s books, federal authorities said. The directors split these earnings according to their investments, some drawing seven per cent and others as much as 23 per cent. Os unusual interest to the government were notations in two of tho i seized books indicating that large sums, often running Into five figuri-s, were paid as protection to local of . ficials in New Jersey. i The name of “Scarface" Al Capone. > Chicago gang leader now doing time ■ in Philadelphi: 1 <a :■ : ' tins i without a permit nana It ' .d its way into the Im ’ .tigatii-. . ! MASTER IS RE-ELECTED Elkhart. Ind.. Oct. IS- (U.R) - Jesse i Newsom of Columbus was te-elected Master of the Indiana State Grange a at its annual meeting here, the ninth time he has received, the honor.

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