Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 27, Number 292, Decatur, Adams County, 10 December 1929 — Page 1

| WCA fHER I Occasoirtal rsln ight and Wedu.iy. No decidknange in tempill re.

SENATE ORATORS HAVE ROSY SESSION

■IST'S WIFE ■FSA99HESS B OCM CL'JB ij n » l .irrr 1 >a\ ison Talks g \ri In Brittany” I To Club iAm \TTEND | i INK PROGRAM Hi i i Wu> members tin- Wornevening in tinrir.m. She spok" on "Art the Ar. tile Hrittany, toil ,| ■ftfegflmM meet to preserve the i the r lie' cotorlul people anil i. I mu. ■lW§?Du' iron heg.in her talk !>> ■i of Brittany BH>'. who live there. She ■B they dung to their obi .ml mannerisms while world advanced ii" »v civilizations and the colorful existimes and ■IBt with rich material for to her description several paintings which |r. Sisou sketched while in These works, along others painted by Mr. Hfl^Bwere featured in the art last week Fort ■ESjky the Fort Wayne <’h itnl> j Mrs. Davison's talk Maßlar business session of the held, after which Mrs. Krick opened proiram by singing three songs, aeat the piano by Mrs. r rrt W Haubold - ThP K P eakev I ml eiiing. Mrs. Davison, was by Mrs. John T. Myers. Bnßnairnian of Die Art DepartWoman’s Club. [ crowd of clnh members were privileged to hear excellent talk and pain.lugs which site exIBi the Library auditorium

PCOII hljt HEAD Ip SPEAR HERE Rigdon ot I Normal \Y ill ,'HHSaIk to Teachers f or. Butiuui aigiioii. in' sidi'ti < ESBiHe Normal (’'lilt's-' "ili Decatur gradt ami high wrlusolHeacliM's at a Teachers' Imewftiglto he held in the High ■School Auditorium, Timstlaj ■ v « 11 ■ yßSr' l "' l "*'* ,alk 1111 snl) PJust Teaching School." B e lHh to this city highly tve an a speaker ItSttMAMtin and Instructive talk for BBBHBIcr's. ■ fljfc-apdon is on*' of the leading y * n Indiana, and spends B&nte# ®Bie addressing teachers HHHH of a similar I mGRbs the seiond professional PfSHSMBI has been presented c> l^Ppplteachers this year. l||M|Mayor-elect I Braces Court Action ■ Crowngpoim. Ind , Dec. in il l') I ■ !l| t4*BHVhite, (i,,foaled candidate I a* Mayor in the recent elect ion. 1 step yesterday | tnurt action to prevent It. O JuhnI *OO, lAuhljcnn candidal e, fitom EH^^Htice. I-I "MB; 8 attorneys filed a ih-clat i 1 "" ®t fcldgment in the circuit court | l * c h in|effect, is t suit to mandate I ’•> City Klerk of Gary to issue an i 'k'Sttoa certificate to White. This | the I dt onjthe grounds that .lohnsou - 1 Iho federal penitentiary f —>*» hln| from holding office.

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Indianapolis Crime 'V ave Still Unabated Indian ipolls. Dec. 10—(UP) A . hotel robbery headed the bill of three holdups during the night, us Indianapolis’ crime wave continued with no sign of abatement. Vei n Richmond, hotel night clerk wtia forced to turn over the slOl in his till; two men held tin Lesley Patterson. Taxi driver, for $6.75 pocket change, and S4O was taken front S. Mtihl Pharmtey. SEAL SALE IS PROGRESS* Three Rural Schools Reach Quota and Ask For More Seals Tlte sale of Christmas seals among the rural districts is progressing rapidly and fine results are being reported. W. Guy Brown county chairman, of the County Tuberculosis League, announced today. Three rttr. I schools have sold 100 per cent of their quota and have written to the county chairman’s office for additional seals. They ate Washington Township, District 3, Pauline Steele, teacher; Monroe Township, District 8. Melvin Sprunger, teacher, and Preble township, District 5. Elizabeth Leyse, teacher. Mr. Brown stated that the rural districts are evidencing more interest In the seal sale than in former years and several additional ardent are expected this week. Indianapolis Man Gets Life Sentence Indianapolis, Dec. 10 —(UP)—A Marion county criminal jury found Charles E. Brown, 45, guilty of murder in the second degree for the shooting of his wife, Mrs. Alma Brown, 45. A life sentence is mandaory. Brown admitted the shooting but pleaded tm -was temporarily insane because he had seen his wife leave x dance hall with another man. The Indiana statute which requires a court to appoint a sanity commission to examine a man who has made an instanity plea while on trial for murder, was held unconstitutional by Judge Thomas Garver Just before the case went to the jury, it was the first ruling on constitutionality of the law. The lodge said that a sanity hearing would tend to make a man testify against himself, which was not permitted by law.

Centennial Os M. E. Church Is Celebrated The Centennial celebration of the feunding of the Methodist Episcopal Church in Willshire, Oltio, was observed Sunday, by a large number of members and former attendants rs the church. During the morning service. Rev. J. H. Uatt shall of Antwerp, Ohio, delivered the address. Rev. R. B. Williams, president of the Ohio Northern University at Ada, Ohio, was the speaker of the evening service. The affair was an all-day service •ind the afternoon session was de"oled to musical numbers on the Bibra harp and the Jubilee quartet. The history of the church was read and several members of the church old inten sting incidents of church memories. Mr. and Mrs. Delton Paeswa'er and daughter, Miss Fern Passwater, of titis city, former members of the church were piesent. o Construction Starts South Bend, Ind., Dec. 10—Construction will start immediately on the $1,000,000 Bendlx Corporation expansion program, it was announced after permits were granted the company to build two new units to its plants. First construction will he on a $50,000 administration building and a $25,000 experimental plant. Asks Death Penalty Jeffersonville, Ind.. Dec. 10 — (UP)-The death penalty is demanded by the state for waverly Hilliard, 43, negro who killed Constable George W. Kirk, 69. The defense in pleading insanity. The negro shot the -'fficer because the latter had ejected him as a tenant from a house* witnesses for the state testified.

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Dr. Curtis?, well-known German statesman, was recency selected to till the post of Foreign Minister vacate by tlie death of the late Gustav Stresemann.

AUTO STRIKES CONCRETE POST Ed (Motts) Sether Is Injured and Car is Badly Damaged Ed M. (Motts) Sether, local business man, escaped serious injury at 11 o'clock Monday night when tlie Dodge touring car he was driving struck the concrete signal post at the Erie railroad crossing at the Mercer avenue intersection in the sou.h part of Decatur. Sether apparently became contused at the lights on the signal and struck the cement standard, which is located in the center of the street. The car was completely vrecked. Sether. who was riding alone at the lime of the accident received several cuts and bruises but none of a serious natur'e. A local physician was called and after the injuries were dressed, Sether was able to go home. The car was towed to a local garage today, but it was slated that it would be impossible to repair it. The front of Ihe automobile was •ompletely demolished.

ADAMS COUNTY LADY EXPIRES Sophia E. Scherry,64, Dies At Home in Preble Twp. This Morning Mrs. Soph'a E. Scherry, 64, widow of the late Henry Scherry, died at her home a half mile west of Preble at seven o'clock this morning. She was stricken with a cerebral hemorrhage on Thanksgiving morning while dressing to go to church and was found by her daughter a few minutes later. Mrs. Sglierry had remained in a semiconscious condition during the past week, lapsing into a stale of coma on last Saturday, from which she did not recover. Mrs. Scherry was the daughter of Et nest and Elizabeth Worthman and was born in Preble township, March 29, 1865. She was received into the membership of Salem Reformed church at Magley at an early age and was a faithful member until her death. She was united in marriage to Henry Scherry on August 1, ISBS. Her husband preceeded her in death July 12, 1921, as did her youngest daughter Emma, who died October 8, 1925. She Is survived by one son, Rev. A. L. Scherry, pastor of Christ Reformed church in Orville, Ohio; one daughter, Mrs. John Gerber at home; six grandchildren, two sisters, Mrs. Fred Slickman and Mrs. Henry Fruechte; two brothers, Lewis Worthman and August Worthman. and a great host of friends. Funeral services will be conducted on Thursday afternoon at 1:30 o’clock from the home and at 2:00 o’clock from the Salem Reformed church at Magley with the Rev. David Grether In charge, and the Rev. O. J. Engelman, a former pastor assisting. Interment, will be made in the church cemetery.

Decatur, Indiana, Tuesday, December 1(1, 1929.

Mayer Child Burned When Hot Water Spills The two-year old son of Mr. and Mrs. Wilbur Mayer, of Jefferson ".treet was painfully burned when lie pulled a pan of boiling water over cn him, while playing about the house. The child received burns on the leg and foot, but the Injures are no; regarded as serious.

DEATH CALLS LOCAL WOMAN Widow of Late George Syphers Dies Following Major Operation Mrs. Francis Syphers. 80, lifelong resident of Adams county, died at 3:30 o'clock this morning at the Adams County Memorial hospital Death followed an emergency operation which Mrs. Syphers underwent Sunday night. Mrs. Syphers had been in ill health for the past three years during which time she has lived with her daughter, Mrs. Fred Shafer of this city. Sunday afternoon the aged lady was removed to the local hospital where sh" underwent an operation. Mrs Syphers was horn April 1, 1849, the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. John Runyon, two miles east of Geneva. Later in life she w-as united in marriage to Ora Smith who died. Then she married George Syphers who died 12 years ago. Surviving the deceased are the following children, Mary Shafer, Mis. Jane Ritter, and Mrs, Dora (CONTINUED ON PAGE TWO) Thomas Renominated Washington Dec. 10 -(UP) — Post master nominations sent to the Senate today included Ralph C. Thomas of Biuffton, Indian i.

WORLD COURT TO BE OPPOSED Opposition Group In Senate is Growing as Vote Approaches Washington, Dec. 10.—(U.R) —A foimidab'.e apposition is preparing to contest adoption of the Root world court formula when President Hoover sends the proposition to the senate for ratification. The old Irreconcilable group which fought against the League of Nations treaty in the senate still controls the senate foreign relations committee and most of its members have expressed themselves publicly or privately against adoption of the Root scheme. •Included in the group are Chairman Borah of the committee. Senator Hiram Johnson, Repn., Calif., and Senator Moses, Repn., N. il. Both Borah and Johnson declined to comment on the signing of the formu'a yesterday at Geneva, but expressed themselves ready to fight out the issue as soon as the tariff bill is out of the way. Moses declared himself formally (CONTINUED ON PAGE TWO)

The four pretty girls shown above with the new Foreign Minister are his daughters, and are typical of modern young German womanhood.

LOCAL LADY'S MOTHER DIES Mother of Mrs. David Campbell Expires at Biuffton Monday Mr.'. John Crosbie, 75, of Biuffton well-known in this city and mother of Mrs. David Campbell of Decatur died at the home of Mrs. Henry Hunsicker in Biuffton Monday uftei noon. Mrs. Crosbie had been in ill health for some time and her condition had been regarded as serious for some time. Death was safe! to have been due to complications. Surviving are three sons, Janies Cro'bte and Homer Crosbie of Biuffton and Harry Crosbie of Fort Wayne and one daughter Mrs. David Campb 11 of Decatur. Funeral services will be held Wednesday afternoon at the home of Henry Hunsicker in Biuffton at 2:30 o’clock. Burial will he made at the Biuffton cemetery. Local Girls Scouts To Hold Christmas Party Tri-Kappa troop, number 1. Girl Scouts of America wiil hold a Christmas exchange party at tlie home of the troop leader, Mrs. B. vee Thomas, next Thursday night at 7 o’clock. All members of the local troop will exchange gifts, one name having been drawn by each Scout. The party is an annual affair and is looked forward lo with much interest among Ljie members of the troop. Beginning tonight the members rs the Decatur troop will sell Eskimo pies at all General Electric basketball games as a means of raising funds for their treasury. Revival Continues At Pleasant Mills Revival meetings are still in progress a tlie Pleasant Mills M. E. Church. This week is Win My Chum Week. Thursday evening C. D. Teeple of Decatur will he the speaker and will take as his subject "Crusading With Christ". It is hoped that a large number of young people will attend these meetings. Good attendance and good success has marked the revival ser vices which have been held for the past two weeks. o Miners Refuse To Work At Taylorville Taylorville, 111., Dee. 10 —(UP) — More Ilian a thousand miners refused to go lo work today when they reported and found four Peabody mines guarded by the muzzles of machine guns and rifles in the hands of 600 National Guardsmen. The miners merely refused to work saying they were not strik ing but that union principles forbade them to wotk under the protection of soldiers. The soldiers were called out last night to prevent disorders after a mob of armed strikers had threatened to cause bloodshed. All five Peabody mines in this vicinity were put under guard. One mine was not opened today and the other four shut down.

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D.C.H.S. HONOR ROLL TOTALS 32 STUDENTS Naomi Rumschlag Leads All Pupils With Highest General Average 15 FRESHMEN ARE ON ROLL Thirty-two pupils at Decatur Catholic high school were listed on the high school honor roll for the month of November it was announced by school officials today. Naomi ltumschlag, a freshman, received the high honor of making tlie highest average in all subjects. Miss Kumsclilag's average for November was 95 5-6 per cent. Tlie Freshman class had the most pupils on the honor list; ihe Juniors were second; the Sophomores were third and the Seniors were fourth. Following is the complete honor roll: Seniors John Schmitt, Helen Voglewede, Edith Lengerich. Juniors Leo Dowling, Arthur Krick, Richard Wertzberger, Flotilda Harris, Helen Teeple, Mary Helen Lose. Mary Kohn4, Monica Heiman, Henrietta Spangler. Sophomores Naomi Faurote, Florence Lengerich, Barbara Jane Keller, Mary Wertzberger, Patricia Holt house. Freshmen Mary Ulman, John Junk, Dolores Klepper, Lucile Miller. Margaret Rumschlag, Edward tleimer, Mark Schurger, Naomi Rumschlag, Agnes Gase, Annette Lengerich, Mary C. Leonard, Charles Kruse, Dorothy LaFountaine, Dorothy Heiman, Ma y J. Colcbin. —o —— Yeoman Lodge Buys $5.00 Health Bond The Voeman I.odge of this city his purchased a $5 Health Bond from the Anti-Tuberculosis League of Adams County, W. Guy Brown County Chairman announced today. Many local organizations have been taking advantage of I his method of helping fight tuberculosis.

BOY IS STRUCK BY AUTOMOBILE Kenneth Hoffman, 10, of Southwest of Decatur Sustains Injuries Kenneth Hoffman, 10, son of Mr. and Mrs. Otto Hoffman, residing southwest of Decatur, was run over and injured about 4:30 o'clock Monday afternoon near the Hoffman home. The lad was brought to the Adams County Memorial hospital where his condition was repotted as favorable late this afternoon. Kenneth had come home from choo.l and some of the Hoffman family had taken him over to his grandparents to sell some Christinas seals. When the Hoffmans returned to their home, the lad jumped out of the car and ran into the path of a cut' driven by Lewis Sprunger of Berne. The Sprunger cur struck the lad and knocked him down, the front wheels passing over his chest in the heart area. The boy sustained several deep scalp wounds and his chest was badly bruised where the machine passed over his body. A physician was summoned and Kenneth was brought to the local hospital where his injuries were dressed. It was stated by the attending physician tilts afternoon that the boy probably would recover unless Infection set In. Ben Hurs Plan To Motor to Fort Wayne The local Ben Hur Lodge received an Invitation yesterday from the Fort Wayne organization, to attend the meeting which will be held in, the Central School building on Lewis and Barr street. Wednesday evening. A large number from this city is expected to attend the meeting und a good time is ant icipated.

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County Principals Will Hold Meting • • The principals of the Decatur grade and high schools will motor so Gciiev t tonight where they will join with the principals of every school in Adams County at a joint meeting at the Gouevu High School Auditorium. The Domestic Science classes of Geneva High school will serve a luncheon at 6:30 o’clock after which the program will lie given. Principal Vitz of Pleasant Mills will have chnge of the program. LAD KILLED BY LOCAL AUTOIST Ray Hermes Struck By Auto Driven By Norman White, Decatur Ray Bermes. 6, son of Mr. and Mis. Louis flermes of near Monroeville was killed when struck by an automobile Monday afternoon (riven hv Norman White, 18, son of Mr. and Mrs. Hail White of Monroe ville and hrotbr of Itussel White, manager of a filling station in the we-t part of Decatur. White, who conducts a filling static ti in Monroeville and also is a grain buyer for his father was on tils way to the Hermes home to purchase some grain when the accident occurred. The Bermes home is located on the Lincoln Highway near Monroeville. The Hermes lad was standing in front of the home awaiting the arrival of his sister from school. The boy ran across the road to get a newspaper from the mail Ikix and as he returned the ear driven by White struck him. White picked up the hoy and rushed him to a physician's, office at Monroeville but death occurred almost instantly. Dr. Harry G. Erwin Allen county coroner, returned a verdict of accidental death due to a fractured skull >v»d White was absolved. He stated that he was unable to avoid striking the child. Surviving the accident victim are the patents, three brothers. Owen, Paul and Robert and three sisters. Darlene, NeoEa, and Eulalia. The body was taken to the Harper funeral home In New Haven and funeral arrangements have not been announced. —— -—o — Two Bandits Sought

Indianapolis, Dec. 10 —(U.R) —Two bandits driving a large sedan were l.e'ng sought in Indiana today for a series of five robberies committed in Illinois and Indiana during the night. Authorities believed the same naif robbed the Urbana Hotel, Urhana, 111., of $200; a hotel at Paxton, I 1., of S6O, and hotels in Kankakee, 111., Lafayette, Ind. and Indianapolis, of varying small amounts. The bandit car was last reported on sttite road No. 9, traveling toward Anderson, Ind. One bandit was described as being about 6 feet, 1 inch tall, anil 30 years old. The other was about 5 feet, 8 Inches tall, and 25 years old. o French Township Babe Dies At Biuffton Today Roger Willi inis Feichter, infant son of Mr. and Mrs. William Felchter, residing seven miles east and two miles south of Biuffton, French Township, Adams County, died at five o’clock this morning in the We'ls County Hospital, at the age of 1 month and 3 days. The baby had been ill for 3 days and was removed to the Hhosfptal yesterday suffering with convulsions. Besides the iiaients, 1 brother, Herman and a sister, Dorothy, survive. The funeral for the child will be held at omj o'clock Wednesday afternoon at the home and at two o’clock at the Christian Apostolic church, east of Biuffton. Burial will be made in the church cemetery. 0 ♦ — ♦ GOOD FELLOW CLUB j ♦ — ♦ Previous total $ 83.15 American Legion 33.55 Mary Louise, Lois Jean and Helen Catherine Frank 1.00 So Ch» Rea 10.00 Total 127.70

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COOLIDGE MAY ASPIRE SENATE SEAT IN 1932 Hoover, Grundy and Governor Fisher Share in Sharpshooters’ Attack LITTLE WORK IS COMPLETED Washington, Dec. 10.—<U.R> —The senate sharpshooters had a field day today shooting shafts, some sarcastic, some bitter, at President Hoover, Calvin Coolidge, Joseph P. Grundy, Governor Fisher of Pennsylvania, Senator Gillett of Masschusetts, ■oid 138 country editors of Minnesota. Chairman Caraway of the senate lobby investigating committee, fil'd a devastating report criticizing U.undy. the Pennsylvania tariff man, who now Is reported likely to he named to the senate to take the placed barred to William S 4. Vare. He quoted Grundy’s own words admitting he had influence in high tariff legislation and pointed at Grundy’s large part in obtaining funds for the Hoover presidential campaign last fall. Then he said that not Governor Fisher of Pennsylvania who may appoint Grundy, but ’’the people who bought and paid for the office the governor now occupies” ire offering Grundy the seat. The lobbying committee resumed its Inquiry today and learned (lom H. C. La kin. president of the Cuba company, that he had employed Edwin Shattuck, Washingon attorney, because "he was a personal friend of President Hoover and C.hnirmau Smoot of the senate finance committee." Other witnesses in connection with the activities of legislative agents concerning the sugar schedule of the tariff hill, will he summoned. Julius H. Barnes, chairman of the board of the United Stales Chamber of Commerce, has been called to testify concerning It’s alleged campaign against the Federal farm board. The committee report pointed mt partly through Grundy's activities the tariff bill as> reported by the finance committee recommended raises in the case of 42 industries which would add profits, of ✓- --- .. - — ftQT (CONTINUED ON PAGE TWO*

PATHE BLASTS FATAL TO NINE New York Film Studio Wrecked By Seven Sudden Explosions New York. Dec. 10.- (U.R> — Seven explosions in rapid succession swept the Path? company's sound film sudios at Parke Avenue and 130th s.reet, today, killing nine persons, and Injuring others. The explosion came Just ns a stage in a rear studio had been prepared for the recording of a film by Eddie Elkins ami his 14 musicians. In a room above 30 women of the ensemble were gathered, In their filmy and scant costumes, awaiting their cal! for a ballet. As the recording was to begin there was a sudden flash—the first of tlie explosions. Those In the studio began to make for the exits but six more explosions followed in rapid order, cutting off escape for many. The second explosion brought the first fatality. Then the others took their toil as flames spurted from behind, around and through .he big black velvet drop which had been set at the rear of the stage. Os the dead 'five were men and four were women. Their bodies were brought from the building and laid on the curb while ambulances and tire apparatus came through the streets from all nearby staltons. Four, tire alarms were turned in and seven ambulances were sent with instructions to lake the Injured to the Reception, the Harlem ami the Knickerbocker hospitals.