Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 27, Number 250, Decatur, Adams County, 21 October 1929 — Page 1

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FORMER DECATUR RESIDENT DIES JIIPDENLYINWEST August H. Sellemeyer, Form- \ r Lumber Dealer Here, Dies In Los Angeles :—. WILL RETURN BODY HERE FOR BURIAL —, -4 " •* V H. Sellemeyer. 68, former lumber dealer and resident of De- ,.. nr. died suddenly Saturday evening at his home in Los Angeles, ('alfnnia. Ute telegram announcing tin- rad news, causing a shock to his nr ei> i. latives.and friends here. T!i,. telegram received Sunday mornlie: tiy Decatur relatives read: Lus Angeles, Calif., Oct. 19th — Father died suddenly tonight, probably appoplexy. Burial and funeral at Decatur. Mother and I leaving here with body soon as possible, probable Tuesday. Will wire upon leaving J. 0. Sellemeyer.” f >n respbnse to a telegram from here asking for route and exact time of leaving, the following message was received Sunday: •Los Angeles, Calif., Oct. 20: Leaving Tuesday at six p. m.. Union Pacific to Council Bluffs and (’. N. <£.- \V m Chicago. Jesse.” The remains will arrive here Frill v afternoon at 2:57 o’clock over the I Erie and will be taken to the home of Mr. and Mrs. Fred Reppert, from where the funeral' services will be I held Saturday afternoon at two o’clock and at 2:30 o’clock from the Reformed church, of which the deceased was a member. Rev. A. R. Fledderjohaun will have charge of the ser-| vices. Mr Sellemeyer was the youngest iX the five children tn his famijy and is the first to be called by death. He was horn in Prebie township, September 5, 1861, the son of Ernst anil Christian Sellemeyer. When a young man he went to Fort Wayne where he learned the wagon makers trade, coming here in 1885 to open a shop on First street. Four years later he became associated with his brother-in-law. Mathias Kirsch in the lumber business business and continued as a member of the Kirsch-Sellemeyer company until five years ago when he sold his interest to Col. Fred Reppert and moved to Los Angeles, where he lias since resided. Surviving are the widow and two children, a son, Jess 0., of Los Angeles and a daughter. Miss Esther, of Chencho, China, the latter now serving her eleventh year as a missionary in China. Other relatives include one ‘CONTINUED ON PAGE SIX) O PLANS FOR BUDGET DRIVE ARE MADE Zion Lutheran Church To Help Raise Next Year’s Budget For Synod (Special to the Democrat) Fort Wayne, Oct. 21. —Members of the Zion’s Lutheran church of Decatur will have a part next month in helping raise $2,750,000 for the 1930 budget of the Missouri synod of the Lutheran church. Plans for raising this amount of money was outlined here Sunday afternoon at a meeting of 200 representatives of Lutheran churches of Fort Wayne and vicinity. The conference was held at St. Paul’s Lutheran church with Rev. Frederick Randt, vice-president of the Lutheran Synod of the United States, as the Principal speaker. The Decatur delegates to the meeting were headed by Rev. Paul W. Schultz, pastor of the Zion’s Lutheran church of Decatur. The budget for next year calls for an additional appropriation of $200,Obs) above this year’s budget. The additional fund in 1930 will be used for expansion work of Lutheran Missouri synod churches throughout the country. she Central district of the Missouri «ynod, in which the Zion Lutheran church of Decatur is located, is scheduled to raise $350,000 as its part for , 1930-synod budget. The Central 'strict of the Missouri synod comTrises Lutheran churches in Indiana, °*>io and Kentucky. Thirty-six churches were represented at the meeting. All the delegates ued to support the campaign for the $2,750,000 quota.

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Young Man Has Arm Injured In Auto Jam Brice llauserman, bookkeeper at the | People’s Loan and Trust Company was painfully injured about six o’clock last evening when he was struck by a ea: I driven by I W. Muy He was standing j on J.Tferson street west of the Fiberi son filling station when the accident happened. Brice had heed driving west cf Jefferson street when his car brush ed anothet due to the fog. He got out to see if he had caused any damage but found the other car had gone on. He walked out in the street to enter his own car and was struck by the Macy car. The handle of the door penetrated his right arm near the shoulder, cu.ting a s -v re gash and his face was bruised when he was thrown to the street. - o— WOMAN’S CLUB TO MEET IN FT. WAYNE Fortieth Annual Convention Os Woman’s Club Opens Convention The Fortieth Annual Convention of the Indiana Federation of Women’s Clubs will convene in Fort Wayne, Tuesday, October 22. The meetings will center in the Fort Wayne Wcman’s Club, at the chamber of commerce building, and most of the activities will be enjoyed there. The keynote of the convention will be "Our Stewardship” and many interesting events have been planned for the state meeting. A number of Decatur women will attend. Following is the program for the entire week: Tuesday 9:45 a m —Meeting of Advisory Board Woman’s Club auditorium. 1:00 p.m. Council meeting— Convention hall. 3:00 p.m., Informal Opening of Convention —Convention hall; Club Collect, Presentation of Pro(CONTINUED ON PAGE THREE) Q Day-Old Baby Daughter Os William Smith Dies Thelma Josephine infant daughter of Mr. and Mrs. William Smith of South Thirteenth Street. died Sunday night at 11 o’clock. The child was born Saturday morning. Death was due to weakness from birth. Surviving besides the parents is one brother, James, and three sisters. Nettie. Esther .and Oliver. Mrs. Nettie Roop of this city and Mrs. Eliza Dishong of Kingsland are grandmothers, who also survive. The funeral was held at the home at 1:30 o’clock this afternoon with Rev. R. E. Vance officiating. Burial was made in the I. O. O. F. Cemetery at Monroeville. o Floyd Hunter Admitted To Veteran’s Hospital Leo Ehinger and Frank Schumacher motored to Dayton. Ohio, yesterday, accompanying Floyd Hunter who entered the hospital for wot Id war veterans located there. Floyd has been suffering from sinus trouble for a week and will receive treatment at the Federal hospital. “Dutch” and “Shucks” stopped en route home at Muncie to attend the eighth district meeting of the' American Legion held yesterday. BBOTHEB DIES AT PORTLAND Clement Kelly, Brother Os F. E. Kelly, of Decatur, Dies From Paralysis Portland, Oct. 20 —Clement L. V. Kelley, 66, brother of F. E. Kelly of Decatur, R. R. 6, died Friday evening at his farm home seven miles northeast of Bryant. He had been ill for two years following a stroke of paralysis. He suffered a second stroke Thursday which caused his death. He is survived by two children, Murlie Switzer of Bearcreek township, and A. C. Kelly of Wdbash township; one grandson, Lae Kelly; one sister, -Mrs. Sarah Helmer of Ceylon and three brothers, William and Perry Kelly of Wabash township, and F. E Kelly of this city. Funeral services were held at 1:39 o'clock sun time Monday afternoon at the New Corydon M. E. phurch In charge of the pastor, Rev. Osbun. Burial was made in the Riverside cemetery near Geneva.

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Classmates Laugh at Him; Student Kills Himself Chicago, Oct. 21. —William Benes Jr., 20, University of Chicago student who had everything to live for, elected to die for no apparent reason at all. Discovery of the suicide's body yesterday in his rooms In Gates Hall on the university campus shattered a dream that Inspired his mother and father before he was born. That inspirational vision moved them from Bohemia, where opportunity was meager, to America, where hope was high. It was their dream to lift their children from the humdrum toil of the old world into the class of the brain workers of America. They were happy when Junior was born. They were proud when as a child he gave promise of extraordinary brilliance. He shot through the elementary schools. He was graduated from Morton high school with the highest honors. The way he studied at the university made them visualize a triumph greater than their early hope. But, somehow, he did not fit. All the while he was at the university Benes never made a real friend. For a time hie defense was a cynical affection of boredom. But he was human. He wanted company. He determined to break into the cameraderie of the others. He bought dancing shoes, resolved to attend next Tuesday's regular campus dance. He burst suddenly into another student’s room last Monday with an invitation to the theater. The other laughed. “I saw that show weeks ago,” he said. Benes was repulsed, embarrassed. Sugar Company Starts To Operate This Morning The Holland St. Louis Sugar company began operations this morning, the machinery starting at six o’clock About 250 men were put to work in . the mill and in the yards. More than 8.000 tons of beets are now on the yards and more are coming in everyday. Indications are that the eighteenth annual campaign wil be a successful one and the condition of the beets is good. ALLEGED BANDIT BELIES ON ALIBI Testimony For Defense In Pennville Bank Robbery Case Presented Today Portland. Ind., Oct. 21. —(U.R) —Testimony in behalf of Charles Ross, charged with robbery of the Pennville bank September 3, was being offered in Jaycircuit court today, where the trial has been in progress a week. The defense is relying upon an alibi to obtain acquital of Ross and has also offered testimony of 20 character witnesses. Rollie Bales of Dunkirk, relied upon by the state as its chief witness, told of being in a poker game with Ross a few hours after the robbery, and said he had a roll of bills about two and a half inches in diameter, but that most of them were of |1 denomination. Bales estimated the total amount was S2O to S3O. Among points on which the defense is relying is uncertainty of Miss Blanche Morrical, assistant cashier, as to identity of the bandit. At one time she identified Walter Jackson of Hartford City as the robber, while he was in custody as a suspect. o Limberlost Trail Markers Are Here The new metal signs to mark Limberlost Trail have arrived and a’re being put up this week between Decatur and Portland, one of them is displayed in the window of the Daily Democrat office. The pointer is a feather, indicative of Mrs. Porter’s life study of birds of the Limberlost. o Knights Os Pythias To Attend District Meet Members of the Knights of Pythias who wish to attend the district meeting at New Haven, are requested to meet at the K. of P. home not later than 6:15 o’clock Tuesday evening and away will be provided.

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|- ; Ends Life 'rt il. > r J / f R ,i «.../ William Benes Jr., brilliant student at the University of Chicago, who committed suicide because he failed to win social success. “I'll get something to exterminate myself,” he told Louis N. Schwartz, another student. Schwartz laughed. The following morning he called Wallace Black, a law student, into his room and said: “Look here —a bottle of poison to kill myself.” Yesterday morning Benes’ body was found. FRENCHWARHERO FIGHTS OFF DEATH Georges Clemenceau Rallies From Heart Attack Which Almost Caused Death Paris, Oct. 21. —(U.R) —Georges Clemenceau, the indomitable, fought off death today and rallied from a heart attack that almost ended his great career. The aged Tiger, who was the bulwark of France against her enemies during the war, stubbornly refused to submit to his great enemy, when all during the night h? lay gasping for breath dad was kept alive by injections of camphor and oxygen. "It’s not for this time,” be whispered to Dr. Charles Laubry, the eminent heart specialist, as he rallied after five administration of oxygen. His marvelous spirit and sturdy physique overcoming the handicap of his 88 years and his weakened heart, Clemenceau was able to be moved to a chair, the sitting position giving him relief from the choking, smothering sensation of his ailment. The heart condition is complicated by a slight pulmonary congestion. In all, 11 oxygen treatments had been given from tlie time of Clem(CONTINUED ON PAGE SIX) O AUTO WRECKED BY ERIE TRAIN Auto Belonging To Ed Shoe Goes Os Road And Gets In Way Os Freight An accident occured on the Preble road, at the Erie crossing, near the White brother's country home, last, evening, when the automobile owned by Ed. Shoe of this city, was completely demolished by a freight train on the Erie railroad. Mr. and Mrs. Shoe and their family were returning home from Tocsin, and owing to the rainy weather, Mr. Shoe was unable to see, and got off the road as he crossed the railroad tracks. He asked the assistance of a person who approached, who informed him that the freight train was due any time. Mr. Shoe quickly moved the members of his family from the auto, just as the freight train came around the bend, struck the car, and carried it down the tracks about eighty rods. The machine was completely wrecked, but no one was injured.

SUNDAY SCHOOL CONVENTION TO OPEN AT GENEVA Adams County S. S. Will Open Convention Wednesday At Geneva THURSDAY’S SESSION AT PLEASANT MILLS The Adams County Sunday School convention will be held this week, the sessions to convene at the Methodist church in Geneva, at 7:30 o’clock Wednesday evening, while the Thursday 1 meetings will be held Ht the Methodist church at Pleasant Mills. The convention will enjoy a ban quel for state, county, township ami local Sunday school officers, teachers, ministers, workers and friends of the Sunday school, at six o’clock Thursday evening and tickets may be secured at 75 cents per plate, from Clifton Striker, president; Benj. Teeple, secretary; Manes Lehman. Monroe; Earl Shepard, Geneva; C. D. Teeple or Mrs. W. A. Lower, Decatur. A good attendance is desired. The program for the event follows: Wednesday Evening—7:3o P. M. M. E. Church, Geneva Song Service In charge Henry Muth Invocation Rev. D. R. Lusk, Geneva Special Music.. Indies' Chorus, Missionary Church Offeriiig. Speciaj Music ...Young Men’s Chorus Address Mr. C. R. Lizenby, State Supt. Young People's Div. Announcements. Benediction. Thursday Forenoon—9:3o A. M. M. E. Church, Pleasant Mills Song Service. Devotionals Rev. Bragg, Willshire, O. Music .... Linn Grove Address Mr. E. T. Albertson, State Secretary of Indiana Council of Relig. Education. Duet Berne Address Mr. C. R. Lizenby Benediction. Thursday, 2 P. M. Song Service In charge of Manes Lehman, Monroe Devotfonals Rev.J F. Blocker, Decatur Report of County Officers. Music. (CONTINUED ON PAGE SIX) SEVEN MEN FOUND GUILTY OF MURDER Union Organizers Found Guilty of Second Degree Murder Os Policeman Charlotte, N. C. Oct. 21 —(UP) — A superior court jury here today found the seven union organizers charged with the second degree murder of Police Chief O. F. Aderholt, of Gastonia, in a strike riot guilty. With little show of emotion th? defendants accepted the verdict which may mean a sentence of 30 years in the penitentiary. The jury submitting its verdict to the court, through foreman John L. Todd, after 1 hour deliberation found Fred Erwin Beal, George Carter, Win. McGimmif, Lewis McLaughlin, Clarence Miller, K. V. Hendricks, and Joseph Hairison. guilty of charge. When asked its verdict on the remaining two charges, assault and conspiracy the jury became ambiguous in its answer, as Judge M. B. Barnhill, ordered it back to return a specific verdict, on those two accoun’s. After further deliberation the jury returned a verdict as “guilty as charged in the indictment”, which also included assault and conspiracy. Judge Barnhill, in response to requests of defense atorney, asked' the jury who returned a whole of their verdict, each member individually indlt eating his vote on each count. The jury was told to retire again, however.'When juror, J. A. Helms told the court he found the defendants guilty of assault with a deadly weapon and not of slonious assault as charged, Judge Barnhill then adjourned court until 12:30 P. M. Fire Department Puts Out Small Roof Fire A roof fire was reported Sunday morning at 8:45 o'clock at the William Chronister residence, 716 High S'reet. The locftil fire department made a run to the residence and extinguished the flames. Slight damage amounting to $lO was reported. The residence is occupied by the George Scheiderer family.

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Myers Store At Bluffton Is Damaged By Fire Bluffion, Ind., Oct. 21 —The stock In the basement of the John T. Myers clothing store here was slightly damaged by smoke as the result of a file which originated in the basement of he ipom in the same block, the I. O. (), I . occupied by the Thomas E. Mil-l<-r ding store. Damage to the drug store was estimated at $2,000. The blaze originated In the basement of the drug store and was discovered by a daughter of Mrs. Curtis Fulton living across the street and who happened to be hitting In the automobile in front of the house She gave the alarm and no doubt thus averted a serious blaze. LAYMEN’S MEET IS UNDER WAY National Council of Catholic Men Open Convention At Fort Wayne By A. M. Paulison (Special to the Democrat) Fort Wayne, Oct. 21.—The business sessions of the ninth annual convention of the National Council of Catholic Men opened here today at the Cajholic Community Center with over 690 delegates present. C. J. Voglewede was the delegate from Decatur. The first sessions this morning was devoted to reports by Walter T. Johnson. national president of the council; Francis R.Lowther, national treasurer; Charles F. Dolla. national executive secretary, and Rt. Rev. Joseph Schrembs. D. D., bishop of Cleveland, who is the episcopal chairman of the National Council of Catholic men. Charles M. Niezer, former president of the board of directors of the Catholic Community Center, and president of the First National bank, of this city, spoke at noon today to the delegates on "The Purpose of the Catholic Community Center.” Mr. Niezer’s address was followed by Rt. Rev. Msgr. Charles E. Baden, director of the Fenwick, a Catholic Community Center of Cincinnati, with a talk on "A Successful Center.” The afternoon speakers included J. P. Boland, secretary of the Catholic Truth Society of England: Catechist Ixiretta Smoth of Victory-Noil Training School. Huntington. and Rev. E. V. O'Hara, executive secretary of the Catholic rural life department of the National Catholic Welfare conference. An audience of over 2,090 persons greeted the visiting priests and laymen on the council’s program at the Shrine auditorium Sunday afternoon. Among tlie prominent Catholic men on the platform at this opening session were Rev. John F. Noll, D. D., bishop of Fort Wayne; Most Rev. John T. McNicholas, O. P., S. T. M„ Archbishop of Cincinnati; Rt. Rev. Joseph Schrembs. I). D., bishop of Cleveland: R. Rev. John Burke, C. S. P., of the National Catholic Welfare Council. New York, and William S. Benson, retired U. S. navy admiral. The Sunday afternoon session was in charge of Maurice C. Niezer, temporary chairman. Speakers at the meeting included William C. Geake, mayor of Fort Wayne; Rev. J. M. Lonergan, past national chaplain of the American Legion, and Rt. Rev. Schrembs. who gave the keynote address of the convention. o CAR PLUNGES INTO SIX FOOT DITCH R. A. Lehman Os Berne Escapes Serious Injury W hen Auto Leaves Road Berne, Ind., Oct. 21.—(Special)—A Ford touring car driven by R. A. Lehjnan, of this city, plunged down a six foot embankment and ran into a creek. The accident occurred three miles north of Berne on Federal highway 27, at about three o’clock Sunday morning, when Mr. Lehman was returning from Fort Wayne and fell asleep, thus losing control of the car. The car landed on all four wheels instead of turning over. The driver was only occupant in the car and was slightly injured, receiving several bruises and cuts. The car was badly damaged, having a wheel broken off, three fenders smashed, the steering wheel broken off, the windshield broken, and the body badly bent and crushed. Mr. Lehman is the son off Mr| and Mrs. A. A. Lehman of Berne.

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TRIBUTE PAID TO INVENTOR OF ELECTRIC LIGHT » President Hoover Goes To Dearborn To Take Part In Great Program FIFTIETH ANNIVERSARY IS OBSERVED TODAY Dearborn, Mich., Oct. 21.--(U.R)— Turning luick American history to a page and setting of half a century ago. President Hoover joined Henry Ford and Thomas A. Edison here today in unique ceremonies commemorating the fiftieth anniversary of the discovery the electric light. Leaving bis luxuriously equipped special train at Dearlxirn transfer the President and his party accompanied by Mr. and Mrs. Ford and Mr. and Mrs. Ed’son boarded a reconstructed Grand Trunk train of the Civil war era for a thrilling two-mile trip, at about eight miles an hour, to Smith's Creek station. During the brief ride. Edison took up the fruit butcher's basket he had used 65 years ago in his first business venture and reenacted his old trade by peddling his wares to the President and Mrs. Hoover and the small party of distinguished guests who rode with tl{om in the baggage car which was Edison's business office. In one corner of the old fashioned baggage car stood the rehabitated chemical laboratory in which the famous inventor conducted his first experiments. In another corner was a tiny hand press from which he ran off copies of "Train Intelligent" tor his patrons on every trip. President is Greeted Detroit, Mich., Oct. 21.—(U.R)—Enthusiasm undimmed by a slight drizzling rain, a huge crowd today paid tribute to President Hoover as lie rode from Henry Ford's reconstructed early American village at Dearborn to the city hall here to make a brief address as part of Light's Gohlen Jubilee in honor of Thomas A. Edison. The President's speech of less than a minute in honor of Edison and thanking almost 100.900 who braved the rain to hear him, was followed by a tremendous cheer from the erowd which filled Campus Martius, the site of city hall. All along the route of the trip from Dearborn to city nail, persons stood in the rain to voice their ap(CONTINUED ON, PAGE THIIEE) JUDGE SPARKS IS NAMED FOR PLACE Rushville Man Will Succeed Judge Anderson On Court Os Appeals Bench Washington. D. C., O f. 21. lU.R) — Nomination .of Judge William M. Sparks of Rushville, Ind., as judge of the seventh circuit court of appeals at Chicago, will be sent to the sena*e by President Hoover within a few days, it was understood today. Appointment of Sparks to succeed Judge A. B. Anderson was recommended to the President Saturday by Attorney General William Mitchell, after he had considered several men for the post. At the direction of the President, his secretary notified Senators James E. Watson and Arthur Robinson of the department's recommendation. Sparks was the special judge who tried D. C. Stephenson, former Indiana klan leader, at Noblesville. Sparks selitcnced Stephenson to life Imprisonment at the state prison after a jury found him guilty November 14, 1925, of the murder of Miss Madge Oberholtzer, Indianapolis. It has been said that if Sparks should take the Chicago judicial post and Stephenson were granted a new trial by the supreme court that Sparks could not try him and no other judge could be named in Sparks’ place. o Plans For Bridge Over Wabash River Approved Washington. Oct. 21—(U.R) Plans of the Indiana state highway commission for construction of a bridge aero.® the Wabash river at Vincennes Ind., to replace an existing bridge also were approved by the war department today.

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