Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 27, Number 283, Decatur, Adams County, 29 November 1929 — Page 1

WF-AfHER Generally tonight and Saturday. Continued cold to night. Ri.ino ternperature Saturday ifternoon.

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I TEMPERATURES I CROP SHARPLY I IN MIDDLEWEST Thermometers Here Register From Three To Five Above Zero HEAVY SNOW IS REPORTED Winter came riding into I)e---c tvr and Adams county WedP"«lay night on the crest of a s h»-n drop in temperature and n finding snow flurry. The mer. -tarted to taper off toward p'A freezing mark about 6 o’-fnck Wednesdsv night and the amn ontinued Thursday jr~ i nwe «t point early this U was the coldest weather of the season. and state weather forecasters me little hope of an early break in the unseasonal weather. The winter at mosnhere is general throughout th" middlewest according to reports and at some noints as much as 8 inches of snow is reported to have fallen. N’cr h of Decatur and throughout northeastern Indiana a heavy snow fell Wedne day night and Thursday morn Ins leav'ng roads and streets in an icy tid dangerous condition. Hundreds of minor automobile accidents were ro--1 ported throughout the northeastern part of the state over the holiday Local garages and filling stations were busy all day Thursday towinc in automobiles which had either sk'dded I into ditches or had frozen up. Hundot g.illons of denatured alcohol were sold in Adams county in the last 24 hours, according to garage proprietors. The thermome er at Indianapolis registered four degrees above zero at 9 o’clock this morning, an unuspally low temperature for that city so dhrly in the winter. Below freezing temperatures were reported throughout the midwest. Local coal dealers reported a heavy run on whlesale coal bins. It is highly probable that the cold weather will continue for several days according to J. H. Armington, state weather forecaster at Indianapolis. According to late dispatches the cold wave extends through parts of Oklahoma and Alabama where below freezing temperatures are reported for the ((’ONTINUED ON PAGE SEVEN) —n O Berne Council Buys New Fire Equipment Berne. Ind.. —Special to Daily Demo crat—Nov. 29 —The town council in session here Tuesday night purchased a new American LaFrance fire engine truck and pumper. The engine is capable of delivering 600 gallons of water per minute and is of the latest type. The truck will be delivered December 28. The price paid for the truck was $8,750, less an allowance of $1,500 for the old apparatus. The new truck and Pumper will give Berne modern fire fighting equipment and will be a great improvement over the present equip went. MEMORIAL WILL BEHELD SUNDAY Local Elks To Pay Annual Tribute To Members Who Have Died IgJUis Crosby, pact exalted ruler of Fort Wayne 8.P.0.E1k,s lodge and Past district deputy will be the chief •'peaker at the annual Decatur 8.P.0. Elks memorial services Sunday. The Program, to which the public is cordially invited will start in the lodge room of the Home at 2 o'clock. The Memorial Is an annual affair held in memory of members of the local lodge who have died. C. J. Lutz of this city will deliver the “nlogy to deceased members. Following is the program: Processional . . Mrs. L. A. Holthouse Opening by Exalted Ruler Lead, Kindly Light Dykes Male Quartette Ritualistic Work At Eleven _ Crosse Quartette Eulogy Clark. J. Lutz Nearer, My God to Thee Sweney ' Quartette Memorial Address Louis Crosby 8.P.0.E. Fort Wayne 155 Send Ont Thy Light Gounod Quartette Closing Ode Auld Lang Syme

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Former Pre tenlVSon Heads Commission gs - , j| James R. Garfield, recently appointed chairman of President Hoover’s Commission on Conservation and Administration of the Public Domain. Garfield is the son of former President Garfield ami at one time filled the post of Secretary of the Interior. THANKSGIVING PASSES QUIETLY Family Reunions And Several Indoor Events Mark Annual Holiday With an old fashioned brand of weaiher, Thanksgiving Day was observed mostly with indoor gatherings, i family reunions and dinners yesterday. Business was at a standstill. The weather was cold, with a strong wind blowing and snow covered the ground. During the.day the thermometer dropped and by night hovered around 16 degrees above zero. It was one of the coldest Thanksgiving days in several years, the kind the pioneers talked about and if it had not been for the closed automobiles few people would have ventured outside. A Union Thanksgiving service was held by the Protestant churches Wednesday evening at 7:30 o'clock at the United Brethren church. Pastors of the different churches participated in the service which was well attended. At the-St. Marys Catholic church and the Zion Lutheran church. Thanksgiving services were held Thursday morning. All the retail stores, offices, banks, postoffice and industrial plants in the city were closed for the day. Restaurants reported a small business during the day. The moving picture theaters gav» special matinees in the afternoon and a basketball game between the Fort Wayne Hoosiers and the Decatur General Electric club team was played at the Decatur high school gym last night. A dance was given at the Decatur Country club bythe Beta Sigma Alpha fraternity last night. No fires were reported throughout the day. Hundreds of family dinners and reunions were held and the women of the St. Marys Catholic church served a Thanksgiving dinner and supper at th( . K . of (’. hall, several hundred people attending. Catches Large Chicken Hawk Near This City , Dewey Andrews, of this city, brought , a large chicken hawk into Decatur to- ■ day which he caught after shooting I Preble yesterday. The hawk measured 53 inches from the tip of : its wings ami is said to be one ot . the largest ever caught in Adams When Andrews shot the hawk, one . wlllg was broken and it was unable ,o fly away. It is still very much J alive The strange bird will be mounted, Mr. Andrews said. o— / 4 ( GAME TONIGHT The Decatur high school girls’ , basketball team will play Garrett high school girls at Deca- j , tur high school gymnasium at ; 8 o’clock tonight. A preliminary game between two oral , r teams will start at 7 odoct The public is invited to attend [ the giyne*-

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JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL AWARDS < ARE ANNOUNCED Pupils Receive Pins For Scholarship Efforts In Second Six Weeks MANY PUPILS WIN AWARDS Junior high school scholarship awards for the second six weeks of the current school year vere announced i today by Principal W. Guy Brown. I Prof. Brown stated that the general ! average of the school was improved l and that several pupils received awards this term for the first time. Following is a complete list of pupils who were awarded Leader and Digger pins for their scholarship abi-1 lity:: Leaders Eight A:—Richard Mailand. Glenice Tyndall, Virginia Miller. Mary Maxine Brown. Eight B: —Marie Teeter. Helen Suttles. Ida Mae Steele, Barbara Krick, Pauline Hakey, Roselyn Foreman, Marjorie DeVoss, Mary Cowan, Ellen Uhrick- Joyce Riker. Mildred Flesher, Marcella Gilbert. Ellen Gephart, Faye Eicher, Myles Parrish, Dale Johnson, James Cowan. Bob Arnold. Seven A: —Mary Kathryn Tyndall. Maxine Humbarger, Jacob Moyer. Jun-1 ior Kelley, Paul Hendricks. Seven B: — Kathleen Odle, Louise Kiess. Martha Erma Butler, Jeanette Beery, Alice Jane Archbold. Sephus Jackson. Madeline Spahr, Eola Myers. Martha Jane Linn. Marciel Lathenuan, Evelyn Kohlis, Helen (|iy, Mildred Gause, Harriet Fruehte, Mar ha Elizabeth Calland. Pauline Affolder, Janies Harkless. Six A: — Fern Zimmerman. EUleen Wells. ' Six B: -Ruth Porter. Agnes Nelson. Margaret Kelley. Billy Schafer, Harry Moyer, Thelma Gage, Adaline Gum ble. Five A: — Kathryn Kohls. Jeanette Christen, Jane Krick, Virginia Breiner, Alice Kathryn Baker, Kathryn Chapman. Donald Arnold. Lewis Fennig. ' Arthur Sunderman. Diggers Eight A:—Forest Baker, Bob Hammond, Eugene Knodle. Harold Teeter. Beulah Richards, Charlotte Butler, Gertrude Brandyberry. Eight H: —Marcella Williams. Genevieve Koos. Ruth Foughty, Helen Becker, Bob Odle, Milton Huffman, Ralph Fugate. Harold Blythe. Helena Rayl, Kathryn Engeler, Win. Saundersr Seven A: —Clark Win. Smith. Seven B: —Kathryn Hill, Calvin Magley, Clifford Jolly, Richard Brodbeck, Marjorie Johnson, Gladys Doan. 6 A: —Bob Krugh, Bob Fuhrman, Loyd Myers, Gerald Clingenpeel, Mary Ann Bauman. Cover McClure. Six B: — Bob Ashbaucher. Carl Evans. Floyd Ely, Keith Smitley, Madeline Crider, Robert Engeler. 5 A:—Harold Zimmerman, Catherine Jackson, Catherine Murphy, Elaine Gaffer. Five B: — Bobby Worthman, David Macklin, Eugene Friedt, Richard Girod, Arthur Poling, Richard Teeter, Ralph Steele. Margaret Delhi, Robert Beavers, Lawrence Anspaugh. Rosella Heare, Lewis Smith, Donald Bixler, George Engle. Russel Andrews. WILL PRESENT BIBLICAL PLAY Evangelical Young People Os Van Wert Will Present Play Here A Biblical drama entitled “One Os The Nine” will be presented at the First Evangelical Church in this city Wednesday night December 4 at 7:30 o'clock by the Young Peoples League of the Van Wert, Ohio. Evangelical church. The play is taken from Luke 17: verses 11-18 and is interesting and inspirational. The same cast presented the play at Berne last Sunday night, and was said to be one of the best dramas given there tar some time. Ship Car of Horses Hicks Brothers of Holyoke. Mass., shipped another car load of horses to the east today. This is the fourth shipment within the last few months They expect to ship another load within two weeks. Ed Ahr represents the firm here.

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Catholic Ladies Are Hostesses At Thanksgiving Party ♦ ♦ More than 4(10 people attended the annual Thanksgiving dinner, supper and party given by the ladies of the St. Marys Cat).ode parish at the locpl K. of C. h ill Thursday. The program star ed at noon with a turkey dinner. In the afternoon games including Bridge, Five Hundred and Bingo were enjoyed and at 6 o'clock a supper wes served. The supper was attended by about 300 local |.e pie. Mrs. Frank G.tlig. had charge of the kitchen; Mrs. William Lose, had charge of the games; Mrs. Emma Perry had charge of ihe dining room and Miss Celia Smith assisted all chairwomen general supervisor. SEAL SALE TO START MONDAY Tuberculosis League Will Begin Annual Christmas Seal Sale Here

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W. Guy Brown, county chairman stated today. The chairman together with the committee in charge is busy today ma'ling out letters containing seals for the teachers and individuals of this city and the rural districts in order that the campaign may begin Monday. The sale of these seals is the sole means which the Anti-Tuberculosis Association has of obtaining funds to use in fighting the disease and every citizen of Decatur and Adams county is urged to purchase these seals and help stamp out the tuberculosis. The total number of seals sold in Adams county in 1928 was 70,197 and the chairman stated today that indications are that there will be many more sales this year. The officers of the Adams County Tuberculosis Association includes (CONTINUED ON PAGE SEVEN) o Miss Ella Mutschler Is In California Mrs. Ben Shroyer received a letter today front her sister. Miss Ella Mutschler, formerly of this city, and now located in Los Angeles, California, in which Miss Mutschler asked that her regards be given to all her Decatur friends. Miss Mutschler is representing ’be J. M. Pitken Company in Washington, Oregon and California, and will be located in Los Angeles for several months. o— Asks For Commission Shanghai, Nov. 29 —(UP) — Acting under instructions from Nanking, Chiang Tio-Ping, Chinese minister at Berlin, today forwarded a proposal for a joint commission to determine responsibility for the border situation in Manchuria to the Soviet Gobernment, through the German ambassador at Moscow. The proposal suggested the formation of a committee composed of an equal number of Chinese and Russian delegates, headed by a chairman from some neutral country, to investigate the Chino-Russian situation. The proposal suggested that each country withdraw troops 30 miles from Manchurian border, (pending settlement of tlie probly.

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SALVATION ARMY DRIVE TO START HERE MONDAY Beta Sigma Alpha Fraternity To Have Charge of Solicitation COL. PURDUE TO HAVE CHARGE ' The annual financial drive cf the | Salvation Army will start in Decaturj next week beginning Monday, Decent-i her 2 and continuing throughout th', week. It will lie sponsored by the Beta i Sigma Alpha fraternity of this city. O to Wise, president of the fraternity will be general chairman and will be assisted by Dick Engle, Lyle Maionnee, and Rusvl White. Tliis*committee with the-other members of the j 11 fraternity will solicit the people and i organizations cf this city in behalf oil' the Salvation Army. William John Purdue, well known 1 Salva: ion Army worker of Grand Rap-• , ids, Mulligan will be here to person- > ally supervise the work. He will add-1 , ress the fraternity at the regular meet-1 - -ing Monday evening in the club rooms 1 over tile Winnes Shoe Store: The first contribution of $25.00 wis ] reported today and was given by ihe . Adams Post of the American Legion B which heartily endorses the drive, j Last year the Beta Sigma Alpha fraternity had charge of Uie drive and r was successful in obtaining more than . $5,000 for the cause. During the week every organization in this community | ’ will be invited to contribute to the cause of the Salvation Army, the 1 chairman stated today. i o Bandits Surrender i 1 Mijncie, Ind., Nov. 29.—<U.R> — Irving v Jones and Albert Nickerson, wiio were with Angus Cox, bandit slain during ,l a gun battle witli officers near Hart-' ford City Saturday night, have stira rendered to police here. They have I confessed to eight recent robberies ini I Indiana, at Newcastle, Muncie, Ander-I v son, Winchester. Hartford City. Union City and Summitville. o s George Coffin Resigns Indianapolis, Nov. 29.- (U.R) —Resignation of George V. Coffin as seventh district Republican chairman was in I the hands of the Republican state committee today. r It is understood that Omer Hawk- - ins, Marion county chairman, will call f a meeting soon to select Coffin's suej cessor. r Coffin left Wednesday for Rochesr ter, Minn., where lie entered a sanitarium. » _2 o Tells Os “Club” Rule )- ' Kansas City, Mo.. Nov. 29.—(U.R) — Land barons rule the wooded hills of northeastern Oklahoma and northwestern Arkansas with hickory switch and squirrel rifle and terrorize th" g poor and illiterate into peonage, the Kansas City Journal Post said today t in a copyrighted article sketching the r background of the ‘‘torch murder’’ of ’■ Connie Franklin, war veteran who II sought to reform the region. REVIVAL WILL n • BEGIN SONDAY ■ u Rev. Bryan To Supervise Religious Revival At Buelah Chapel A series of Revival meetings will start Sunday night at 7 o'clock nt Beulah Chapel Melhodiet Epis •opal church, Rev. Glen Bryan, pastor an nouheed today, Rev. Chester Grace will serve as his own Evangelist and has prepared a series of inspiring addresses. Great, crowds are expected to attend the services and other Methodist churches, members of the Decatur circuit are expected to send a great num ber of members to the meetings. —— — c> — Ralph Steel Is Slightly Improved The condition of Robert Steele, 10 year old son of Mr. aud Mrs. Charles Bteile. 1122 North Ninth street, who has been critically ill with small pox at his home, is reported to be a little improved today, and hopes are held for his recovery.

New Year's Day, terminating on out tlie holidays, continue throughDecember 2. and begin Monday, osis league will of the TuberculChristmas Seals The 1929 sale of

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v. lit- Sues Walter Hill. I'.inpirc Builder's Son | ™ K* ’ ! ''' 1 f ' ’ll 1 , J l */ Mrs. Mildred Rcihardson Hill, tor-j |mer stage star, who has filed suit for I divorce from Walter Hill, youngest 'son of the late Janies J. Hill, rail imillionaire, in Livingston, Mont. ARUTHUR HALL ’ DIES THURSDAY Local Business Man Dies Following Operation At Indianapolis Hospital Arthur Hall. 36. Ford automobile dealer of th‘s city, and prominent local business man died at the Methodist Episcopal hospital in IndianagHilis . Thursday night at 1(1:30 o'clock. Mr. I Hall underwent an operation Wednesday morning for hernia. His condition was not regarded as serious until late Wednesday night. About 1 o'clock Thursday afternoon it. was necessary to apply artificial res--1 piration and only slight hope was held 1 for his recovery. At 7:30 o'clock last | night a telephone message from Mrs. Hall stated that Mr. Hall was failing to respond to the physicians efforts and that it was feared the end was near. Death came at 10:30 o'clock. Several years ago Mr. Hull underwent an operation for hernia. During the last few months the ailment returned and it was necessary to per form a second operation. Mr. Hall went to Indianapolis lust Tuesday afternoon and the operation was performed Wednesday morning. Arthur Hall was born in Spiceland, Indiana, June 12. 1893. He was educated in the Spiceland schools, l iter going to Indianapolis where he resided until coming to Decatur. June >2.1928. In Indianapolis Mr. Hall was an executive in the branch factory of the Ford Motor Co. He came to Decatur in 1928 and purchased the Ford agency, which he had since conducted. He also was affiliated witli the Hail.and Talmadge Building Co. of this city, a concern organiz(CONTINGED ON PAGE SEVI4.N) o— Fort Wayne Babe Dies Fort Wayne. Ind.. Nov. 29. (U.R) Death of Mary Ann Redmerski, 6 months, was caused Thursday from burns she suffered Tuesday when a kettle of hot water near her crib tipped over. o Soldiers’ Bodies Are Returned To America New York. Nov. 29. (U.R) —ReclaimI ed at last from the frozen Siberian I soil of which they felletnf shrdßcccv angel campaign more than 11 years ago, tlie bodies of 75 of America's World war dead were returned today to tlie land for which they died. Probably the last of the A.E.F dead to be brought, back to this country, they were honored not only by delegations of veterans from their home cities and states — especially from Michigan, from which most of them came- lint by representatives of the military forces ot the nation and Hie city of New York as well. — o — . — I f WILL GET SCORE ! | The score of the Decatur Cath- I I olic h'gh school Commodores j and Ashley high school basket- , i ball games to lie played at Ash i ley tonight will be received at > this office. Call 1000 or 1001 £ after 10 o'clock if you want the, s | score. 11 t ,

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DYNAMITE CAP EXPLODES AND INJURES YOUTH Man Accidentally Shot By Fellow Hunter In Hartford Township LOSES SIGHT OF ONE EYE Two Adams county people. Cedric Tumbleson, 15-year-old son of Mr. and Mrs. Ernest Tumbleson. of north of Decatur and Vilas Burry, farmer, residing near Linn Grove and father lof five children, were seriously t injured over the Thanksgiving I holiday by the accidental explosion of gun-powder. Physicians I todav stated that both probably would recover. Both received serious eve injuries. Cedric Tumbleson bail found some dynamite caps on a culvert, where workmen had left them following the completion of construction work. The lad was playing in the barn-yard of the Tumbleson farm home Wednesday night. He though the caps were i harmless and started to place them | on tlie points of a pitch fork. The lad shoved a cap over one of tlie points and when the steel struck I the powder the cap was discharged. I Tlie lad was badly burned about the face ami hands and his eyes were seriously injured. He was brought to the Adams County Memorial hospital where his injuries were dressed, Tlie attending physicians stated that they would not know Ln about three weeks whether tlie boy would lose his sight it is feared that one eye 1s injured so badly that sight of one eye might be impaired. Tlie lad was removed to the Tumbleson home Thursday night following examination by physicians. Man Is Shot Vilas Burry, farmer residing near Linn Grove and bus driver for Hartford township high school was accidentally shot in the face by his brother-in-law. Clark Smith, of Fort Wayne, when the two were hunting Thursday afternoon near the Burry home. Sixteen shots were taken from the man's face and one shot pierced tlie left eye exactly through the center. Burry and Smith had gone to a nearby woods to hunt rabbits. A ralehit appeared from some underhursh and Smith fired a shot, missing. He aimed again and fired a second shot, it striking Burry. * The injured man was rushed to tlie Blackford county hospital at Hartford City, on advice of a physician who was called to the scene. One of Indiana's prominent eye-specialists examined the injured man at Hartford City. Advice from tlie hospital today stated the mini was resting easier, but that no hope was held for (he sight of the injured eye. Most of the shots have been removed, the physician stated today. Burry was torn about the neck and face but those injuries were not regarded as serious. CLUB AWARDS WILL BE MADE Boys And (Jiris Clubs Os Adams County To Attend ; Annual Meet At Berne 1 AU Adams county boys and gir)s dull members will meet at tlie Community auditorium at Herne tonignt, where the annual awards in the various club contests will lie made. About 50 awards will be made In the club contests, including suits of clothes, ! deposits in banks, trips to Purdue 1 and cash awards. , The annual awarding event is an , important part of the club work program, and It is expected that many boys and girls will attend the meet- > ing from all parts of the county. I The club work, which was sponsori ed by Decatur and Herne factories. | Decatur Industrial Association and I Berne merchants, is in charge of I County Agent Ferd Christen. The i dull work lias become one of the important parts of the annual Adams • county agricultural program. A. D. Suttles of this city is the Industrial Association mvr-v-utative of I the county con; ittee. S'" c l local men are planning on a teliding the program at Berne tonight.

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