Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 27, Number 284, Decatur, Adams County, 30 November 1929 — Page 1

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ACHIEVEMENT DAY OBSERVED BY 4-H CLUBS Several Hundred Meet At Berne Auditorium For Premium Awarding F M. SHANKLIN IS CHIEF. SPEAKER Several hundred Adams counl> ■•( sidrnts. members of the 1-11 clubs, their parents and others interested in boys’ and girls’ farm club work braved the subzero weather Friday night and attended the Achievement day program sponsored by the l-II chibs at the Berne Community auditorium. An interesting program was held I and premiums were awarded to all i winners in the various phases of ! club work. Great forward strides were made in boys’ and girls’ farm work during the year and tire members of the clubs were highly praised by the speakers. Mi.Mss Elma Steury, whose yearling I calf won county and state blue ribbons and sixth place at the national livestock show at St. Louis this year received a great ovation when she was called on to receive her award in calf club work. i < unty Agent Ferd E. Christen presided at the meeting as master of Following several musical selections by the Berne high school orchestra, Mr, Christen introduced F. M. Shanklin, head of state 411 club work of Purdue University. Mr. Shanklin gave a brief resume of the year's work and, also of the origin of 4-H club work. He urged the members to create more interest in the dub work among neighbors in order that all boys and girls on farms in Adams county would have-tbe advantages of the work. The Misses Rose Habegger, Lorina Liechty, Ruth Mazelin and Agnes Habegger composed a "dairy maid quartet" which rendered a vocal selection to the audience. Mr. Christerr then introduced W. A. Klepper, of the Cloverleaf Creameries, inc., who awarded county prizes in the calf club work. Mr. Klepper praised the work done by the boys (CONTINUED ON PAGE TOliliE) DEATH SUMMONS JACOB SCHERS! - Well-known Kirkland Township Farmer Dies At 6 o’Clock Saturday A. M. Jacob Scherry, 77. lifelong resident and successful farmer of Adams county, who has been confined to his bed for the last ten months, died Saturday morning at six o'clock. Mr. Scherry has been ill for some time and death was said to have been due to complications and infirmities. He was the son of Christian and Catherine Miller Scherry, both of whom were born in Germany. The parents are deceased. For many years Mr. Scherry made his home in Kirkland township, three miles south and one-half mile west of Peterson. He was born February 9, 1852, and at the time of death was 77 years. 9 months and 21 days old. He always maintained the occupation of a farmer, and proved to be a successful one. He was a member of the St. Luke’s Reformed church, in which he was confirmed on March 21, 1869. He is survived by his wife, Carrie Biehl Scherry, to whom he was married on June 24, 1878. The children who survive are Mrs. William Reppert of Fort Wayne; Lewis Scherry of Upper Sandusky, Ohio; and Will Scherry of Kirkland township* Two children preceded their father in death. Mrs. Caroline Craft of Decatur is the only living sifter of the deceased man, although five brothers and sisters, Daniel Scherry, Christian Scherry, Fred Scherry, Mrs. Fred Schwartz and Mrs. Lewis Fruchte, are deceased. Eleven grandchildren and three great grandchildren also are living. Funeral services will be held Monday afternoon at 2 o'clock at the Zion church, two miles south of Kirkland, and burial will be made in the Zion cemetery. Rev. A. R. Fledderjohann, pastor of the Reformed church of Decatur, will officiate.

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Ruth Sundvrman Is Slightly Improved I Miss Ruth Sunderman, daughter of I Kev. ami Mrs. M. W. Sunderman. I who has been seriously ji| u t t he Adams County Memorial Hospital in [this city for the last week, Is reportp'd to be getting along nicely. I Miss Sunderman became critically! | ill about a week ago with pneumonia jand was removed from South Bend, where she is a teacher in the schools, to this city where she has been s patient at the .oral hospital. Miss Sunderman is not out of danger, but hopes are held for her recovery. COLO WEATHER CONTINUES HERE , Street Thermometers Register 3 Degrees Below Zero This Morning Temperatures in Decatur and Adams county dropped to the lowest mark ever recorded in November last night and this morning the mercury registered at 3 degrees below zero at 6 o'clock. J. 11. Armington, state weather forecaster predicted slightly warmer w>ather for Sunday, but he stated tile rise would be slow and 1 Sunday would be cold. State weather statistics show that in 1882 the mercury registered zero on November 29 and 30, but it is believed that 3 degrees below zero is the coldest weather ever reported in Adams county for November 30. Cold weather held sway all day Friday and street thermometers started dropping toward sub-zero marks about 6 o'clock Friday night. At 10 o'clock local street thermometers roistered about a degree below zero. The temperature at Geneva and Berne! was reported about a degree warmer. The subzero weather was general throughout northeastern Indiana today, and little relief is promised before another day. While furnaces were being taxed almost to capacity for heat for homes, no fires were reported. Fire Chief Jack Friedt issued a warning today for all people to carefully inspect their furnaces during the present cold wave in order that fires might be averted. Furnaces in several local homes were burned out during the last 24 hours and furnace men are working day and night repairing them. The sun broke through the gray (CONTINUED ON PAGE FIVE) Former Decatur Woman Dies In Wells County! Bluffton, Nov. 30—(Special)—Mrs. Daniel Bailey, 81, life long resident of Jefferson township, Wells county, died Friday night at her home near Ossian. Death was due to pneumonia. Mrs. Bailey was born in Decatur, October 15, 1848 and was the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Frederick Cook. Her husband, Daniel Bailey, died April 29, 1928. Surviving are three children, Mrs. Henry Mackey of near Ossian, Manford Bailey at home, and Charles Bailey of Ossian. Funeral services will be held Sunday afternoon at 1:30 o’clock. Burial will be made at Ossian cemetery. FEDERAL COURT IS POSTPONED Fort Wayne Hearings To Be Delayed Until After Others Are Held Announcement was made today that the annual Federal court scheduled to start at Fort Wayne next Tuesday De cember 2 had been postponed indefinitely because of the heavy docket of the court at Hammond and South Bend. ' No intimation was made when the Fort Wayne session would be held, but it is understood that the delay will be of several weeks duration. The December term of the Fort Wayne Federal court is of interest to Decatur and Adams county people inasmuch as three Decatur men will appear during the session. Ed Miller and Floyd Death will be tried on charges of violation of the prohibition law’ and F. J. Schmitt will be sentenced. Schmitt entered a plea of guilty several weeks ago at South Bend before Federal Judge Thomas Slick.

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♦ - ♦ ANY ICE. LADY I While Decaair’s some 5,500 people were shivering around the kitchen stove and the front j room fire-place toehjy, a horse' and yellow wagon came rumbl- | ing down the street with a load I of ice. On the rear of the wagon was Ed Whitright, Decatur iceman, making his regtt- | lar deliveries. Ed said that business wasn't | so extra good today, but that I he would make his route zero | or no zero and he added that people would be surprised at I J the amount of ice sold on a . j zero day. 1 KRICK TO NAME - * OFFICIALS-SOON Seven Appointive Offices to Be Filled In Next Ten Days Mayor George Krick announced today that he would make his official appointments in the next ten days. Mayor Krick has eight appointments to make. They are chief of police and two marshals; fire chief; secretary and two other members of the board of health and city street commissioner. The appointments will become effective January 1, 1930. Other members of the city famUy are city attorney and superintendents of the city light and power plant and of the water department. These appointments are made by the city council. Mayor Krick also names the members of the various committees on the city council. He will not organize the committees until after the first of the year, he stated this morning. The mayor also stated that he would have a message, outlining several city projects for the next four years, which the council would have authority to undertake. The mayor will read his message to the council at an early meeting in January. The new city officers will assume office the first week in January and following the Organization of the city council, the mayor will appoint his committees. Goshen’s New Mayor Will Make Changes Goshen, Ind., Nov. 30 —(UP) —The •Goshen police force will be reduced from 7 to 5 men and the officers ot' street commissioner and assistant fire chief will be combined, Clell E. Firestone, newly elected mayor, has announced. Economy promoted the move he said.

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INSTALLATION TO BE MONDAY Deputy Sullivan Will Preside At K. Os C. Ceremonies In Decatur The installation of officers of the Knights of Columbus Cpuncti, No. S6l will take place Monday evening at eight o'clock at the K of ('. Hall. District Deputy Donnelle Sullivan of Huntington will be in charge of the ceremonies and will install the officers. Following the ceremonies, a lunch and entertainment will be given. Dan M. Niblick, grand knight of the Decatur council and his staff of officers will be installed. This is the third time that Mr. Niblick has been Installed as grand knight. H. P. Schmitt is the deputy grand knight. The officers were elected last October. Members of the local council are invited to attend the ceremonies and the program which follows. o Train Switchman Gets Surprise After Crash Chicago, Nov. 30 —(UP)— A crash sounded from the middle of a long freight train standing across a Chicago Heights intersection early today and switchman C. H. Anderson discovered an automobile had crashed into the side of a freight car. A man and woman were in the wreckage badly hurt. He carried both to the caboose, then turned a lantern on their faces. The woman was his wife. Mrs. Nellie Anderson, mother of their three children, and the man was his friend. George Newhiuse. Both were in a critical condition in a hospital today. Anderson lias not decided whether to forgive them. He said the Anderson and Newhiuse families had Thanksgiving dinner together. L- ' ~ He Vlho UucHs Usi Lauqhs best; • .But HE NEVE* LAUGHS . 1

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BYRD REACHES SOUTH POLE AND RETURNS SAFELY Is First Man To Fly Over South Pole; Trip Takes Less Than 24 Hours HOOVER SENDS CONGRATULATIONS New York, Nov. 30. (U.R) The New York Tinies, The St. Louis PostDispatch and newspapers affiliated with them in publishing reports from Commander Richard E. Byrd's Antarctic expedition, announce that Commander Byrd has safely returned to his base. Little America, alter a successful flight across the South Pole in which he surveyed much adjacent territory. The flight was without mishap and everything worked well. The American nation, from President Hoover down, and scientists and explorers throughout the world joined today in hailing Byrd s flight to the South Pole as the greatest exploit of the career of adventure which he began at the age of twelve. Byrd is the first man to have flown over the south pole. He is tic first to have flown over both the north and south polos, for just three and a half years ago he flew from Spitzbergen to the north pole and back. He is the second man to visit both poles. Capt. Roald Amundsen discovered the south pole in December, 1911, and three days after Byrd flew over the north pole. Amundsen crossed ft by dirigible. Amundsen's dash of 1.738 miles to the south pole and back to his base required 97 days of tortuous travel by dog team. Byrd and Ills three companions accomplished approximately the same distance in less than 24 hours. Byrd took off from his base at Little America on Thanksgiving afternoon. At the controls of the expedition’s specially equipped tri-motored Ford plane was Bernt Balchen, who was pilot of Byrd's flight across the Atlantic. The plane was named the Floyd Bennett in honor of Byrd's pilot on the Arctic flight. Bennett died of pneumonia contracted on an attempt to rescue the crew of tile German airplane Bremen, which land- ( <ovitxt Eli <ii i'vgi: i i»i i<< r — — O PARENTS URGED TO ATTEND MEET South Ward Orangization Invites All Parents To Tuesday Meeting Tile Parent-Teachers Association of the South Ward school of which Mrs. Fay Smith Knapp is president, has arranged an interesting meeting for the fathers and mothers of the city for next Tuesday evening. December 3. Dr. Ada E. Schweitzer, head of the child hygiene board of the state board of health will deliver an address at the meeting, which will be heild at the South Ward school building on Winchester street, at 7:30 o’clock. The association considers itself fortunate in securing such an able speaker and has decided to extend a city wide invitation to all the parents to attend the meeting and hear Dr. Schweitzer. Tire South Ward Parent-Teachers association’is one of the active civic organizations in the city and interesting programs are sponsored by it in the interest of child welfare, promo tion of better schools and civic pride. o Tunney Gets Offer New- York, Nov. 30. — (U.R) — Gene Tunney, retired heavyweight champion, has been offered a position as president of the New York Colineum Sporting club, to succeed Jess Me Mahon. The coliseum board of directors dispatched a wireless message to Tunney offering him the position, but have received no answer. Tunney is en route to New York on the steamship Vulcania, which is due to dock Sunday. Inasmuch as the former champion has reiterated several times that he is through with boxing it is considered unlikely that ho will show interest in the coliseum offer.

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Motorists And Birds Gets Consideration Indianapolis. Nov. 30 (UP)- Motor- , ists, squirrels and birds were given! consideration in two announcements! by state departments today. Hoosiers were reminded that such unusual cold as has prevailed during the current wave, causes much suffering to wild life, and asked to place' liberal quan.Jties if crumbs where they will be available to birds. The maintenance division of thel highway department announced that; thin coats of gravel are wing distribut ed on steep grades and curves on st iAe roads, to safeguard motor traffic. RETAIL STORES HAVE BUSY DAY! Heavy Demand For Winter Clothing Reported By Local Merchants With the sharp drop in the nu-renry aiding, all Decatur retail business houses reported heavy trading Friday and Saturday. Willi Thanksgiving out of the way all merchants were preparing sot the heavy pre-('hristm.i- tnisl ness. Local stores ate being deco’tiled for the holiday season, and 'housands of dollars worth of new Christ mas merchandise are being displayed In the various stores. Many great vaittes are offered by local merchants. With :.ie thermometer hovering a-| round the zeio mark all day Friday, men's furnishing stores in the city reported a heavy day of trading. Winter clothing was the biggest seller and litis included underwear, socks, overeo its and sweaters.. Women's stores reported heavy sale: in women's winter clothing rni uru.; store owneis stated togas’ that cold medicines of various descriptions were heavy sellers. All local garages were swamped with alcohol orders Friday, after the s’tflden drop in temperatures ami many auto drivers waited too long and were forced to have their radiators repaired. New battery sales also were reported by all local auto equipment dealers. Local merchants announced todav they were prepared tor the Christmas trading season and that their prices would compare favorably with ’ rose of any Wherchants in northeastern Indiana. s o BULLETIN Yankee Stadium, New York, Nov.! 30. —(U.R) —Notre Dame's football team defeated Army here this afternoon, 7-0 in a great football classic. Elder, Notre Dame halfback intersepted an Army forward pass and ran 97 yards for a touchdown in the second quarter. Cagle, Army's star backfield player got loose for a 70-yard run in the fourth quarter but was stopped on the Notre Dame 30yard line. Other scores: Navy, 0; Darthmouth. 0 (half). Detroit, 0; Georgetown, 13 (half). —o —— Council Committee Is Ready To File Report Indianapolis, Nov. 30 (UP) A city council committee has closed its investigations into charges of land fraud purchases brought up at the last election by Charles AV. Jewett, former mayor. A report is expected Monday. The committee has refused to indicate what its report may be. MEMBERSHIP REPORT FILED J Adams County Has 742 Red Cross Members With Few Sections Unreported The annual drive for the Red Cross roll call has netted 742 members in Adams County. Miss Annie E. Winnes. county secretary anounced today. The drive terminated Thursday and the final report was computed today for National headquarters. Although Miss Winnes filed her report of 742 members several rural districts have not yet turned in their results of the drive. No-reports have been received from Hartford, Jefferson, Bobo. Monroe. Peterson, and Monmouth. The committee in charge hopes that these reports will he filed tn the next few days. The final report for lust year Included 844) memberships for Adams County and the report to date this year falls short nearly 100 members.

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TAX REDUCTION IS ON PROGRAM FOR FIRST DAY Both Houses Appear At Capitol In Happier Mood For Session COALITION IS STILL STRONG Washington. Nov. 30. <U.R) lln a happier mood than al the lend of the special session a week ayo, congress was reassembling todtiy for the opening of the long session next ■week. fax reduction is to he the first and biggest order of business. The leaders of both the House and the Senate have become so optim stic during the brief recess they predict a law will be enacte I within two weeks making the taxpayers a Christmas gift of $160,000,009. The reductions of one per cent rill along the line will Is 1 made effective upon payments for March, but speedy enactment of the legislation is plan tied in order that business houses may be assured of it in planning their budgets for next year. A resolution of 5 words or lees is now being framed by the legislative drafting service for Chairman Hawi \v lof the House Ways and Means com- ' mittee. He will introduce it as soon as the House is called to order at noon Monday if it is ready by • that time. His committee will meet Wednesday to hear Secretary of Treasury Mellon as a matter of form. Mellon is to tell the committee the state of the nation's finances. he believes, warrant the reduction )ie has recommended. -4:a<ier a stringent limited debate rule now being prepared by Chairman Snell of the Hr. . • rt.los rt r tte -. the resolution wil. be p shed hrough the. House Thursday or Friday. Snell speed is not unusual in the House, but similar spe<Ai in the Senate would be extremely unusual. There is some opposition to the nt'-a-(CONTINUE!' ON PAGE TWO) STOCK SHOW IS OPENED TODAY Huge Parade Os Stock Is Feature of First Day Os Exposition Chicago. Nov. 30. (U.R) The domed International amphitheater at the stock jards today housed the greatest stock farm in the world as 12,400 head cattle, horses, swine ami sheep pataed on the opening day of tile thirtieth annual international live stock show The cream of herds and flocks from 35 states, five Canadian provinces, England, Scotland and Australia, augmented by the most lavish display of grains and hay ever entered in the international hay and grain show, comprised a $5,000,000 panorama of agricultural prosperity. Magnitude of the show did not daunt American youth. More than 1.200 boys and girls entered auinjals and grain or hay exhibits, or had enrolled for judging contests. Emma Goecke. 16-year-old farm girl i from State Center, la., pinned b- r I hopes on a 11 month-o.d steer. Last year her brother, Clarence Goeeke, sold the grand champion he had entered for $B.l, jo and Emma has been using part of that money to pay her way at the Anns argricultural college. Her entry is a full brother of last 1 year's winner and she says he looks (-very bit ns much a champion. Three Oklahoma boys won the noncollegiate live stock judging contest held as a preliminary to the opening of the exposition. The winning team. Cleat Willhoite, IS, and John Ramsey, 16. both of Claremore, and Otis. Munson. 18, of Talala, score 1.592 , points out of a possible 1,800. Safety Pin Removed Anderson. Ind.. Nov. 30—(UP)- A safety pin which was lodged lit th • throat of Robert Lindsay, IS motvhs, • son of Mr. and Mrs. Robert Lindsay, ' Summitville, was successfully removt cd last night. The baby is recovering.