Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 28, Number 75, Decatur, Adams County, 28 March 1930 — Page 1

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ihv FOR WE COUNTY K DISCUSSED ('. Sutton (Jives to Club ■federation Today Btton LADY | t,l\ I s \HI»KESS drong that o-ritv will have a . 111. lollowanil disctiss..„w -v-dem at the ■| .'-a’ Mil of Clubs at the Public v. afternoon, r - <>f this citv • ’. k r address bbi'af" *vsteni. Fed- , Mrs. iiins; Hub HL 1 1 ■)!.. a plays in the I).- - was well- ■ made numerous dubs been active for Kg,. . . an I . .mnty Hub .innu'ii all parts of H -. , to the explanwhereby each unty would have Decatur Public ■r.i, -'D central point. according to Mrst - n.li.ii.a . onntiPH. B’fom Ms| -tent I.•> started it is HL .r the county to a central library. < ib'iie. Mrs. Sutton by Decatur Library; for the Decatur f..i;.c . cntral branch of Ml boanl serve the entire Ma:-- be given the com IM tin t'corded action has by the local board it is that a majority of the favors extension of the system to reach all townthe county. The commisthen may levy a tax for system „r on petition of 25 freeholders of each townmust levy a tax for the idea of the county system adults and children of all the i nnty access to thotts■W of books Mrs. Sutton in her to th- club women urged interested person be apin each township to obtain Msnatares to a petition and petitions be turned in to before their meeting. Mie Decatur Public Library has stated. “And you can My see what access to all these mean to rural resi■ntisted on PAGE TWO) |ATH SUMMONS tRNERESIDENT fhert Rawley, 24, Dies ■ Sanitarium Thursday ■After Year’s Illness ■me March 28—(Special)—Her- ■ -awley, 24, of Berne died ■•Sllay llight at the State Sani ■ at Rockville, where he was F ast December, suffering with F eulosis - Rawley became grad- ■ weaker since he was taken to I ani * a| itini and his death was •cted. fHiert Rawltjy was born in f e December 6, 1906. He was a l o ' Mr. and Mrs. W. J. Rawley, [ . whom survive. He was edttr in the Berne schools and 18 I 18 ag,) wa s united in marriage livX S'niih of Herne, who also [i Rawley contracted tuberculo F'out a year ago and his condi I ’l'anie such that it was neees- [ '° take i'im to the State Sailing t!le week before Christmas ' p remains will be returned to P e and funeral services will be Sunday afternoon at 2 o’clock fl Evangelical church. Burial , D ° nia( le at the M. R. E. ceme-

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Vol. XXVIII. No. 75.

Wells County Earm Brings $76 An Acre The Henry llilge farm in Wells I county was sold at public unction by the Johnson-Bui tlet Auction Co. of this city to Mrs. Daisy Richard. Mis. Rickard paid $78.50 an acre for the farm, which is the highest price paid in Wells ('painty in recent months. Mrs. Rickard stated she would move her family to the Hilge farm ftom her present location near Linn Grove and would personally supervise the farming. PRISON MUTINY ENDS IN RIOT Several Prisoners Hurt as They Are Driven Back To Cells State Penitentiary, Jefferson City. Mo., March 28—(UP)—A mutiny which ended in a bloody riot between pi isoners and guards in this century old prison which is sprawled out on the banks of the Missouri liver, today caused peniaten'iary officials to announce that from now on “this institution will be handled like a prison" and that the "days of Sunday School rule are over." A dozen convicts, their heads cracked, jaws broken and bodies bruised from the clubbing they re eeived yesterday at the hands of guards, were in the hospital today. Solitary confinement cells held nearly 80 men. many of whom are known as leadeis of the rioting. Warden Leslie Rudolph, for 20 years executive officer of the pri son and known among guards and prisoners as a "Square Shooter," announced that leaders had told him that the men intended to bun. he chair and twine factories. They intended this as a protes Tconti'nued'on PAGE SIX) ASKS BOARD TO FORM OPINION Congressman Says Dry Commission Should Probe System Washington. Mar. 28. —(U.R) —Rep. Linthicum. Dem.. Md„ leader of the house “wet bloc." announced today he would ask the Wickersham law enforcement commission to investigate operations of the government liquor dispensary system in Ontario, Canada, which was criticized as a failure before the house judiciary committee recently by E. C. Drury, former premier of Ontario. In view of the disagreement between Drury and the present premier, Howard Ferguson, over success of the Canadian system, which many wets advocate, Linthicum said the commission should make its own investigation. Linthicum had considered Inviting Ferguson to appear before the judiciary committee to counter Drury's charges that the Ontario system is a failure. Linthicum said he would not send (CONTINUED ON PAGE SIX) o — Irish Cabinet Quits Dublin, March 28 —(UP) — The Irish free state cabinet resigned today. Resignation followed defeat of the government last night by a vote of 66 to 64 on an old-age pension bill presented by the DeValera party in the Dail Eirann. — o — Brokaw Funeral Today Funeral services for Lewis Brokaw, who died Wednesday morning at the home of his daughter, Mrs. Agnes Cole of Fort Wayne, were held at 1 o’clock this afternoon at the Cole home, and at 2 o’clock at the Methodist Episcopal church this city. Rev. R. W. Shakes will officiate and burial will be made in Decatur Cemetery. The’names of Mrs. Effie Windsor of Chicago, and L. B. Brokaw of Fort Wayne, deceased brothers and sisters, were omitted from the death notice. ——o —— E. S. Moses Appointed Union Twp. Enumerator Ed. S. "Moses has been appointed to take the Census and enumeration of Union Township, beginning duties Wednesday April 2.

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LOCALPASTOR URGES YOUTH TO LIVE CLEAN O. E. Miller Addresses I. B. C. Students at Fort Wayne GREAT OVATION FOLLOWS SPEECH "What Is Your Life?’’, was the subject of an address delivered Friday morning to members of the 'nternatlonal Business College of Fort Wayne by the Rev. O. E. Miller, pastor of the First Baptist church of Decatur. Rev. Miller was accompanied to Fort Wayne by C. E. Peterson of this city. The address was given to the entire student body of the Fort Wayne college and the students listened intently as Rev. Miller explained that "life must be filled with the worth-while things, because time is fleeting." At the close of the address Rev. Miller was given a great ovation by the students. The address in part was: "In attempting to answer this question all the philosphies of the ages have been written. In discussing the question with you I should like to have you sit at the feet of Master Teacher who answers the eternal enigma not as a speculative philosopher but as one who speaks with authority. "First, what is your life in relation to time? 'You look old enough to vote, most of you.' Youth looks ahead to the .-.lowly coming months and years, old age looks back over the fast flying decades. 1 once knew an old lady in her 109th year and officiated at her funeral. To her the century and more had seemed to pass swiftly. “It is important that we fill full the fast fleeting days with those worth-while and permanent things. Plan not for death but for life. We must pass through l hat experience which we call physical death for this mortal mu.-t put on immortality. but the wise man lays his plans for eternity, not time onlv Soon we will be celebrating the glorious Easter when we rejoice that Jesus Christ conquered death and brought life and immortality to light. We need not fear death but hate it as an interloper, an illegal squatter claiming territory by right of since binding lease, an enemy cruel and heartless. Plan, then, for life, throbbing, thrilling, life reaching on and on out into the eternities beyond. "In the second place, what is your life in relation to material possessions? A man's life consisteth not in the abundance of things he possess. The Master illustrated (CONTINUED PAGE TWO) o SCHNECKBODY IS RECOVERED Former Berne Man Who Was Drowned January 9 Taken From River Berne, March 28 — (Special) — The body of Edwin Schneck, Chicago fireman formerly of Berne, who was drowned when he fell into the Chicago river last January 9 while making an attempt to jump from one fire-boat into another was recovered late Thursday, according to word received by relatives at Berne this morning. The body will be brought to Berne where funeral services will be held Sunday afternoon at 2 o’clock at the Mennonite church. Burial will be made at the M. R. E. Cemetery. Mr. Schneck was born in Missouri December 22, 1879. He was a son of Mr. and Mrs. Abraham Schneck. When a young man he moved with his parents to Adams county where he received his education. Later, the Schnecks moved to Fort Wayne, where Edwin Schneck was married to Grace Coop. Mt. Schneck had been a member of the Chicago fire department, for the last 20 years. He was well known in southern Adams County where he frequently visited his sister Mrs. Ralph Stager and his stepmother Mrs. Helena Schneck. Surviving ate the widow and a daughter Lorraine at Chicago; a half frother Irvin Schneck, Chicago a brother Albert Schneck at Fort Wayne and the sister and step mother at Berne.

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Decatur, Indiana, Friday, March 28, 1930.

Terrific Blizzard Hits Chicago Sil WW *■ t i _ .* ....-a:, II Tilli n- i W. WKW .. Motormen and conductors of the Cliictigo Surface Lines joined the vast army of workmen striving to put cars back on sched.ilc disrupted by the most violent blizzard in Chicago’s history.

K. OF P. MEETING WELL ATTENDED 250 Members Attend District Meeting Held Here Last Night Two hundred fifty member of J the Knights of Pythias lodge from', Decatur and all other lodges in the; district attended the district meeting held in this city last night. Among the prominent lodge men who attended the meeting were Edwin Thomas, grand master at arms; Special Deputy Grand Master T. N. Roach. Deputy James F. Beeber and Carlysle Duell, of Fort Wayne, and Win Pease, the latter from Geneva. The Decatur degree team conferred the work on a group of candidates from several lodges of the district. The degree was exemplified so well that the local team received several requests to present the work at other lodges. Another district meeting was planned for April 22 at Columbia City with the Columbia City lodge acting as host. The Decatur degree team will confer the Rank of Page at the Columbia City meeting. Following the initiation a social hour was spent at which time refreshments were served to 250 members. o Singers To Appear At D. 11. S. Tonight The Four Harmony Kings, a colored quartet from Indianapolis, will present a program of songs, duets, quartet numbers, and old southern j melodies tonight at the Decatur high school auditorium at S o'clock. The program will be given under the auspices of the Progressive Workers' Class of the United Brethren Sunday School. 5 CANDIDATES | SEEK OFFICES Several More Enter Democratic Primary; Errors Are Corrected Five more Democratic office seekers have filed their intentions of being candidates for county and towr ship offices subject to the decision of the primary election May 6. ■ James M. Foreman, of Blue Creek township filed his declaration to become a candidate for the office of Adams county commissioner'of the third district. John W. Shafer today declared his intention with the county clerk of running for trustee of Root township on the Democratic ticket. Phil L. Schieferstein of Root also filed his intention of being a Democratic candidate tor the office of trustee. A. C. Stoppenhagen of Preble township filed his intentions of (CONTINUED ON PAGE SIX)

Two Are Fined For Public Intoxication Dale and Kenneth Nettle. Adams county young men were fined $lO and costs in Mayor's court after pleading guilty to public intoxication. The fines and costs in each case amounted to S4O. The two | young men asked for 90 days in I which to pay their fines and ar Irangements were so made. DEATH CALLS DECATUR MAN Raleigh I, Jackson Is Victim of Pneumonia; Dies Thursday P. M. Raleigh Irvin Jackson, 58. Decatur man died at 4.20 o'clock, Thursday afternoon at the Adams County Memorial Hospital from pneumonia. Mr. Jackson had been in ill health all winter and his condition was considered serious for the past! month. He was removed to the local hospital Tuesday evening for medical care. The deceased was born near Geneva. September 9. 1872, the son of Martin and ’Abbie Price-Jackson, (CONTINUED ON PAGE TWO) URGES PEOPLE TO CAST VOTES iDrv League Head Asks That Digest Votes Be Returned Soon Indianapolis. Mar. 28. —(U.R) The nation-wide prohibition referendum conducted by the Literary D'gest today was branded as unrepresent-j alive of the real sentiment by the Indiana Anti-Saloon league. Contrary to advice from the national Anti-Saloon league, Indiana] drys have been asked by Superin-j tendent C. H. Winders of the Indiana league to vote when they receive a Digest ballot, according to E. A. Miles, attorney for tile state organization. Today the Indiana poll stands 19,779 for enforcement, 11.664 for nied flcation and 1 1,608 for repeal, a total of 49.051. The combined vet and moist vote exceeds the dry by 9.493. Miles said that neither Dr. Winders nor national officials of the league believe the poll to be of great significance. “I have spent a great deal of time in the smaller towns and rural districts recently and there are few, if any, ballots being sent out there,” Miles reported. "The ballots are going to the cities and largely to the wet centers in my opinion. “I know' of no woman w’ho has received one.’’ The national organization, in asking its members not to vote. (CONTINUED ON PAGE SIX)

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NETTEAM IS ENTERTAINED Mothers of Commodores Give Banquet for Team And Several Guests Mothers of the Decatur Catholic high school basketball players gave a banquet in their honor at the ■ Knights of Columbus hall at 6:30 [o'clock last night. All members of I the state c hampion squad, Coach and Mrs. George Laurent and fathers of the players were the honored guests. The Rev. J. A. Seimetz. The Rev. Joseph Hession, Mayor George M. Krick. France Confer, Marcellus Miller and Dick Heller attended the banquet as guests. Following the chicken dinner, France Conter .who presided as toastmaster, called on several of i the guests for talks. Rev. Seimetz I congratulated the boys for their fine I showing at both the state and na Itional tourney and commended Frederick Mylott for making the all-American basketball team. Mayor Krick conveyed official congratulations from the city of De’catur to the Commodores for their record in both tourneys. The father of each boy gave short talks and Coach Laurent gave a brief resume of the season and told of plans for the 1931 team. Two men who have attended Com modore banquets for many years gave farewell talks last night. They were George Wemhoff and Martin Mylott. whose youngest sons will be graduated this spring. Both expressed confidence that Commodore teams of the future would carry on in the same manner which has made five Commodore teams famous at National Catholic tourneys. Dick Heller, sports editor of the I Decatur Democrat congratulated | the team for its fine showing and expressed confidence that the 1931 I team would be just as hard to beat las this year's netmen. 0 BERNE MAY GET NEW BUILDING Adams County Town Is Listed for Post Office, Dispatch Says According to a news dispatch from Washington yesterday, Berne is scheduled to get a new postoffice building. Other towns named in the article to receive new buildings are Angola, Culver, Notre Dame, Garrc»r, Ligonier, Nappanee and South Whitley. Appropriations for the new postoffice buildings are included in the $230,006.,000 Federal contraction program bill and according to the news dispatch woyk on several of the buildings will begin this year. President Hoover is expected to (CONTINUED ON PAGE SIX)

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Demonstrations Will Be Held Tuesday P. B. Biown of the Purdue experiment station will be in Adams county Tuesday April 1 to conduct two hitch demonstrations. The first one will be held on the Ralph S. Myets farm, a half mile south of Hartford high school, beginning at 9 o’clock i in the morning. The second will be held at the Kukelhan Brothers farm located four miles north of Deca | tur at 1 o’dock ir* the afternoon. COLD WEATHER I BEGINS TO FADE Indiana Highways Are Again Open to Traffic; Snow Melts Telltale marks of a severe March . blizzard faded before the, bright- i ness of an early spring sun as the day dawned fair and moderately warm. , The weather bureau at Indianapolis forecast fair weather with ] slowly rising temperature, dispelling fears that the heavy snow would continue to tie up or hamper traffic. Most roads blocked by the snow were reported open for travel today, and those few in northern Indiana that still were covered with deep drifts were expected to be cleared early trslay. Highway officials predicted that ; warmer weather would melt the : snow rapidly, and that all traces of the storm will vanish in a fewdays. probably by the first of next week. Already most of,the snow (CONTINUED ON PAGE SIX) 0 Workman Loses Life New York. March 28— (UP)— ■ A half hour before quitting time today a workman in a water tunnel 600 feet underground deposited his com pressed air drill in a hole that already housed a stick of dynamite. A blinding blast followed. One man was killed and nine others injured. Herbert Browning 25, died of a fractured skull two hours after the accident. He and the other men in the small chamber were pilled upon one another and showered with chipped rock. The explosion occurred so far below the surface that no rumble was heard nor jar felt above. A crew of workmen in the tunnel a short distance away ran to the rescue and succeeded in bringing order out of ’ the human wreckage The injured were placed in bucket cars, ambulances were called and men taken io hospitals. o ! SCOUT TROOP RE-ORGANIZED K. of C. Troop Has 15 New Members; Paul Briede in Charge I. ■ . A reorganization of the St. Joe Boy Scout troop was formed last night at a meeting called by Charles J. Voglewede, chairman. The boy--1 selected the name of "K. of (’. I Troop’ for the new organization and 15 of the former members joined last night. Paul Briede, well known young man was selected as Scoutmaster of the new troop. Mr. C. R. Danielson assistant scout master of Fort Wayne attended the meeting and helped in the organization. He or ganized three patrols, had the scouts to select their leaders, names and calls and then turned the meet ing over to Scoutmaster Briede. The executive committee of the troop is composed of Mr. Voglewede chairman; H. F. Ehinger, Clayson Carroll, Joe Lose and Arthur Holthouse. The first meeting of the K. of C. troop will be held next Wednesday evening at the K. of C. hall at which time the boys will conduct their first session and make plans for u summer program. The committee wishes to secuie a permanent location for the troop and to lend whatever aid it can to promote interest in scout activities. Boys over 12 years of age are eli gible to join the troop and applications will be received by the committee. The K. of C. troop is one of several Boy Scout troops in Decatur and with the spring season at hand activities in scouting will be taken up. On Saturday. April 5, a Jamboree will be held at Fort Wayne and members of the K. of C. troop will attend.

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DISCOVERIES ARE UNFOIOEO AT CONVENTION 800 Experimental Biologists Are at Chicago For Session HEART FAILURE IS EXPLAINED Chicago, March 28 (U.R) New bulwarks against th«‘ microbes, poisons ami lunclional disorders that beset human life were announced today at the I niversily <d Chicago where 800 biologists attemled sessions of the Federation of American Societies for experimental biology. Age-old beliefs about the heart, brain, lungs and other organs were disproved and new vistas opened toward longer life and better health. That almost two-thirds of a man’s brain can l>e cut away without damaging his intellectual powers was the announcement of Dfl. Walter E. Dandy, noted Johns Hopkins University surgeon. Discovery of a new enzyme in the intestines and kidneys that is iMdievedi operative against histamine, the proteirf said to be responsible for autointoxication and some casee of surgical shock was reported by Dr. C. H. Best of Toronto, co-diseoverer of the insulin cure for diabetes. An experiment that would seem to show that death from "heart failure” in an individual with a normal heart is impossible unless an injury actually destroys the organ was explained by Robert W. Biddle of the University of Missouri. Dr. Dandy’s revolutionary experiment, in which he cut away large portions of brain in operating for removal of tumors, contradicted the popular theory that a big (CONTINUED ON PAGE SIX) 0 Legion Cast To Go To Portland Tonight The local American Legion cast which recently dramatized "Journey’s End" will go to Portland tonight, where the play will be given at the Portland high school auditorium under the auspices of the Delta Theta Tan sorority. Several other people from this city also are planning on motoring to Portland to witness the production. 0 — Get Good Price-For Hogs At Public Sale That it pays to raise good livestock was shown in the results of the public- sale at the Reinking Brothers’ farm east of Decatur yeserday, during which spotted Poland China hogs, including six brood sows, tour gilts and 25 feeding hogs sold sot a total of SBOO. The sale was cried by Johnson and Bartlett Auction Co., of this city. HOOVER URGES LEGGE TO STAY Asks Federal Farm Board Chairmen to Retain Office for Another Year Washington, March 28 —(UP) Chail man Alexander Legge of the Federal Farm board, an administration storm center for many weeks, has been persuaded by President Hoover to remain in office another year, it was learned authoritative!} today. His first year of service expires June 15. When he accepted leadership in the difficult task of helping the far mer, Legge expected to remain only a year. He left a SIOO,OOO a-year position with the International Harvester company and pl lined to lead the board only through the farm emergency President Hoover has ignored the opposition to Legge from the grain trade, led by Julius Barnes, an intimate friend and oftieial of the U. S. Chamber of Commerce. In the nine months he has headed the administration’s farm relief agency, Legge has established four huge national cooperative marketing associations to handle grain, cotton beans, wool and mohair. He (CONTINUED ON PAGE TWO)