Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 28, Number 83, Decatur, Adams County, 7 April 1930 — Page 1

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K RACES If PREML 1 PRIMARIES fliciiP- I ile Candi•flfor County Offices Saturday fllKMtit RATS I \RE IX RACES iH nr.dieted in , -. -. ; -v elections |H •...,! will tlv f«»r ■ • rk < cand'|H i-ountv and .. .. tight for the 'dilations for ;> . • ' of declarHM, . ..ro nnh’ll.lira ! rank-. .>•' St Mar»' s has -. township. t i>. I ■ .« rsliip .John . nomin- ... la<’k of in . offices have - I I- - um-nnesed in inntl ter'" as T< r Grandstaff is . i lier I'ai ty for . han Nelson 1 .inks ■; inc attorL. Watit. ;nibii< an party. -1. which i since the remain The connKit ’ -xt four years will i ■ ' Matthias Kirsch '". I’iiinigartner. at Ktßi I/'.: .’ second district: Hk! -in third district and ■i|-- :i :'n district. There from the pres EtoKi- I'.-idunlin Biting tiled hi: the second ■Mir of Janies Hend- .> present town is the Reptlbli.:i'. • ■■ judge of the 26th ON PAGE THREE) RS SPECIAL miMIl MEET ■v Council to be AskBdpor Allowance of IBlrcdtre Claims Jesse ('. Sutton of the Court has filed a BMon with County Auditor Bstt Ha: ...x for a special meetcounty council for the Mos considering and making for costs in connecthe proposed dredging of river. the request for meeting of the council. RM*t asks the county council I’WMopriate $4,753.96 for the B®®' of claims allowed in the P* <4 the William Fenuig et al These costs were *■ hy Judge Alonzo L. Rales and certified to the for payment. The V comity commissioners rePay the claims. I Mat'gest items in the claims by the court are, A. J. PM'iKineer. $1,302.40; Samuel EB commissioner, $1,045.30; 4) I Stewart, commissioner Marguerite Miller, steno- ■ $400; Homer Teeters, lr and mileage, $250; Amos |ont burner, commissioner, K to the amount of $896.4:1 triiken from the allowance by Judge Bales. The orig--11 Presented to the county ' $5-650.39. ca ll for the special meeting been given, but in all prol> the matter will be submitt- , council for action at a late.

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Will Retire Soon ' ' ' fc/ John T. Myers, who lias been in | business in Decatur for 36 years today announced that lie would -e- ; tire from the clothing trade. Mr. : Myers and son, Herman, conduct the John T. Myes and Son clothing store here. L. E. OPLIGERIS OFFICE SEEKER Decatur Man Seeks Democratic Nomination for Seat in Congress Lawrence E. Opliger, of Decatur, attorney and former well-known school teacher today announced his candidacy for congress subject I to the decision of Democratic vot-. ors of the eighth congressional district. In announcing his candidacy. Mr. Opliger issued the following statement: . . .‘4. aw formally aunouisee my candidacy for nomination as representative in Congress from the Eighth Congressional District ol Indiana nt the primaries to be held May 6. 1930. having previously declared by intentions last December and duly filed the same on March 15th with the Secretary of State. You will remember me as the candidate for Congress two years ■.go, on the Democratic ticket, in the primary. “For more than twenty years. 1 was engaged in the public school teaching professions, as a teacher, high school principal, town nr city superintendent, and was at three | different times elected County Superintendent of the Adams County Schools on the first ballot, being unanimously supported by both the Democrats and Republicans alike, signifying that active and progressive administration was eminently successful and satisfactory. Have been quite active for many years in Democratic politics and a former precinct committeeman and a member of county and citv election boards. “Having been admitted to the Bar and since then actively engaged in the practice of law during the past several years, and have had legal practice and defended cases in the Justice of the Peace Court, Circuit Court and the Superior Court in Indianano’.ls, and have been quite successful in my defense. "Acquired a high school, normal, college and university training (CONTINUED ON PAGE TWO) —o — ADAMO. BUTCHER IS CANDIDATE Decatur Attorney Seeks .Judgeship on Demo-cratic-Primary Ballot Adam C. Butcher of this city Saturday afternoon filed his declaiation at the county clerk’s office as a candidate for the democratic nomination for judge of the 26th judicial circuit and today began his campaign. ’ Mr. Butcher has spent most ol his sixty-one years in Adams county teaching school when a young man and for about twenty years past has studied and practiced law. He has for a number of years served as a justice of the peace in this city, this being the only office he has ever held. He will canvas the county during the next four weeks and will take an active part in the democratic campaign during the fall contest. Mr. Butcher is the fourth in the contest for the nomination.

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NATION TO PAY TRIDUTE TO DR. WILLIAM WELCH Dean of Peace Time Life Savers to be Feted By Nation WILL OBSERVE 80th BIRTHDAY Washington. April 7.-IU.R)-World-wide tribute will be tendered tomorrow to a man who never led ! an army Uto battle, made a transI Atlantic flight, or did anything ex- ! cept toil in his laboratories on | tedious work which has saved the lives of uncounted millions —Dr. William H. Welch of Johns Hop- | kins. Baltimore. He is an unassium'ng hero of the great silent battle between man and germs, tile age-long peace-time war whose casualty list every year is greater than those of the whole World War. Scarcely a inan, woan or child anywhere has not been benefitted by Welch’s work. Though in his own profession his achievement has made him dean of I his colleagues, he has labored 55 I years without as much world acI claim as has come within a few months to a pair of funny-men on the rad o. But tomorrow he will lie So years old and at the end of one of the most useful lives of his time, the debt which humanity owes to him will be fittingly acknowledged, j (CONTINUED ON PAGE SEVEN) o < Raudenbush Triplets Have Birthday Party Roscoe George, Robert William and Ruymoud Hiatier FkaudujjhusU. triplet sons of Mr. and Mrs. Homer Raudenbush. celebrated their seventh birthday. April 1. They were born In Apt il 1923. This is their fit st year in school, the building they attended being located on the farm where they were born and known as the Raudenbush school, on the county farm road. Betty Shoaf and Richard Martin who are in the same class as the triplets enjoyed 'the biithday dinner witli them. i WINTER STAGES REAL COMEBACK Temperature in Adams County Drops to Below Freezing Another touch of winter swept into Decatur and Adams county late Sunday night ami today freezing temperatures were recorded in all i. pa.ts of the county. State weather forecasters said the unse.asonal conditions would not last long. Rain began falling about 10:30 o’clock Sunday night and the mercury dropped several degrees. The abrupt drop however, came between midnight and 6 o’clock Monday morning. Temperatures of 30 degrees were reported In Decatur, Monroe and Geneva. A strong wind accompanied the temperature drop an dcaused the temperature to seent many degrees | colder than it actually was. The I skies were cloudy most of today I but predictions were that rising temperatures would follow soon and I that seasonal weather would return I 1 by the middle of the week. z-t Gaskill To Supervise Hospital Landscraping J. M. Gaskill, well known landscape gardnener was employed ’o . take care of the Shrubbery of the . Adanw County Memorial Hospital i law for the season, and to set out . 100 shade trees for the beautifying . of the grounds. This appointment s was made at the regular business session of the hospital board held i Saturday afternoon. , Prof. Mosemiller Dies - Bloomington, Ind., April 7 —(UP) i —Funeral arrangements were com- , pleted today for Prof. Charles Mosei miller, 63, for 30 years, a faculty member of the Indiana University ■ romance language department, who I died at his home in Bloomington • yesterday of paralysis. Prof. Mosemiller was a graduate i of Indiana and Johns Hopkins universities.

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PETITION FOR RIVER BRIDGE 261 County Residents Ask for New Bridge in Preble Township petition waft filed today with the board of county commissioners for the building of a new bridge, across tlie St Marys river in Pro-1 ble township, taking the place of > the old wooden bridge commonly known as the Scheutnann bridge. The petition was signed by August Gallmeyer and 260 others The petition stated that the present bridge was unsafe for traffic and that a new bridge be erected at the site of the old bridge. The old Scheutnann bridge is one of three wooden covered bridges in the county. It is one of the oldest bridges in the county and within recent years the abutments have been damaged by high waters *and the girders under the bridge are weak ening. , ' ,The county commissioners examined the condition of the bridge I several months ago and expressed j an opinion at the time that some-1 (CONTINUED ON PAGE SEVEN) Morris Bleeke Hurt In Factory Accident Morris Bleeke suffered a painful [injury at about nine o’clock this morning while employed at the Decatur Casting company. Mr. t Bleeke was operating a sand mixer i when his right arm was caught in i the machinery. The muscles of < the arm were cut, the arm hacked t in several places and a large piece t of flesh cut from the arm. > He was taken to the Adams < County Memorial hospital where < medical attention was given him. • The attending physician stated ■that the arm was not broken, but 1 | that it was likely that skin would • I have to be grafted on the arm. MAD BULL GORES 1 KAHNERT YOUTH I Boy Suffers Broken Leg ' And Bad Bruises; Will Recover Keneth Hahn art, son of Mr. and Mrs. Joe Hahnert of Blue Creek township was injured Sunday morn- , ing when he was knocked down and gored by a bull in the barnyard of | his parents' home. The bull, evidently became suddenly enraged and rushed at the boy, knocking him down, then gor- , ing his severely. The boy suffered a broken leg and was badly bruised about the hips. A physician was summoned immediately anti the young man's injuries were dressed. He was reported to be slightly better today but still suffering extremly from pain. Mr. Hahnrt stated that he would dispose of the bull immediately.

Five-year-old Donnie Shrader smiles happily at the gifts from his mother, which he was permitI ted to take with him when he left the Detention Home at Pittsburgh. Pa., where he ; has been held while hts mother and her alleged lover, W. Glenn Dague, were convicted ot the slaying of Corpora) Brady Paul and both sentenced to death. (International % NawarveD

BULLETIN Hartford City, April 7.— (Special) — The Rev. B. H. Franklin of the Avondale Methodist church of Muncie will take the place of The Rev. Ross W. Stoakes as pastor of the Decatur Methodist church it was announced here late this afternoon. Rev. Stoakes was assigned to the Methodist church at Alexandria. The Rev. D. V. Williams of Monroe was returned to that charge for another year. Rev. Glen Bryson was appointed to the Decatur circuit taking the place of Rev. W. H. Blocker who retired, from the ministry. Rev. W. P. Fallis was assigned to the Method st church at Geneva, taking th,[ place of Rev. N. P. Barton who retired from the active ministry. Rev. George F. Hubbertt was assigned to the Bluffton church. Rev. F. S. Burns of Peru was assigned to Pleasant Mills and J. T. Bean was, assigned as district superintendent. VAIN BOONE IS SPEAKER HERE Addresses Members of Men’s Class of Presbyterian Church Vain Boone of Fort Wayne, for merly of this city, addressed the members of the Men's Class of the Presbylreian Sunday School Sunday morning. Mr. Boone gave an interesting talk and told of the rapid growth ot the Bethany Presbyter ian Sunday School of Fort Wayne, of which he is a member. This Sunday School now has a membership of more than 700. Mr. Boone was the first speaker of a series of programs planned by Judge Jesse C. Sutton, president of the class, and other active mem-’ bets in an effort to bulid up the class and install general enthusiasm into the entire Sunday School. Judge E. E. McGriff of Portland has been secured to speak to the class on next Sunday morning, and ex-Governor James Goodrich of Indianapolis will address the members on Sunday, April 27, which is the final Sunday of this special campaign. Plan Joint Dairy Meeting in County Thursday, April 15, E. A. Gannon, chief of Purdue Dairy Extensbn Service will talk to a joint meeting of the Dairy Herd Improvement Association and the calf club members of the county 4-H. Mr. Gannon will talk on the “Dairy Outlook’’. Amos Neuhouser of the Hoosier Milk Co., of Bluffton will give a practical talk on "Better Quality of Milk." The calf club boys will elect offleets and select the time and place ot their next meeting. All boys and girls who expect to be calf club members should be signed up by April 15.

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PLAN TO RETIRE FROM BUSINESS .John T. Myers and Son Clothing Store to be Closed Out Announcement was made today that John T. Myers and Son, clothing merchants, would sell their ipresent merchandise and retire I from tile retail clothing Held in j Decatur. The announcement came a week after Mr. Myers. Sr., had Isold his other store at Bluffton to Ralph Tyndall and Burl Masterson. ; Mr. Myers stated that he was <iuitting business on the advice of his physician. He lias l»een in poor j health for the last year and stated [today that he planned to spend the next several months recuperating. I John T. Myers came to Decatur from a farm south of the city 36 years ago. His first position was with the clothing concern of Kern, Brit son and Beeler. For a few : years Mr. Myers was connected witli a local hardware store and then returned to the clothing (CONTINUED ON PAGE TWO> COMMISSIONERS HOLB MEETING Monthly Session Begins Here Today; To Last Two Days The board of county commissioners met tonay in regular session. The forenoon was devoted to the checking up ami allowing ot bills and disposing of routine office matters. Tuesday will be road and bridge day in the commissioner’s court. Bids will be received for the improvement of three roads, including one hard surfaced road. This road is the Benjamin Biting road, running south from Thirteenth street to the intersection of State road Number 27, southwest of Decatur. The stretch of road to be improved is about a half mile, it ■will be improved with concrete. The other two road improvements are the C. O. Manley and the William L. Frazier road improvements. These a/e macadam , roads. , Several bids for supplies will he , acted on by the commissioners at Tuesday's session. Firemen Make Run Sparks from the chimney of the Ernst Schlickman Livery and Feed barn on East Monroe street damaged the roof slightly Sunday mornHng at 11:30 o’clock. The local fire ' department was called and after a ' few minutes, extinguished the • flames The total loss was estimated ■ at $2.00. i n Chick Meetings Will Be Held April 16 All chicken raisers will no doubt be pleased to know that William , Kohlmeyer, poultry expert of the Purdue Equipment Station, will be .' tn Adams county and conduct two , chick schools on Wednesday, j • April 16. The morning session will be I held in the auditorium of the Dej catur Public Library at 10 o’clock. I I The afternoon session will be f held in the auditorium of the Berne - Community hall at 1:30 o'clock. | Mr. Kohymeyer will be pleased 11 to answer any and all questions on the feeding, care and management of chicks. Man, Known Here Is Victim of Paralysis Relatives here received word of . the death at 3 o’clock this morning of Fred Hammell at Pasaaic, New Jersey. Mr. Hammell was a nephew ’ of the late Judge D. D. Heller and ' had visited herb on several occasions. He w.as reared at Bowerston, e Ohio where he taught school when 1 a young man, going to New York ■' CUy some twenty years ago where he served as auditor of the Child ■• restaurants until about a year ago p when he was stricken .with paralysis. He was fifty-seven years oifl and a unmarried. Funeral services will be e held at Bowerston probably Thursday.

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i Suzanne Sellemeyer Is able to Carry on Conversation With Ease The remarkable ability of a two year old baby girl, daughter of Mr. and Mis. Albert Sellemeyer, of For' Wayne formerly of Decatur was toldl in a recent edition of a Fort Wayne I newspaper. The story was accom-l punied by a photograph of the child. The article is as follows: A little two-year-old girl, with' bobbed blonde hair and big blue eyes, sat on the steps of her home playing with a doll and some neigh-, her children. j' A stranger approached and ques- . Honed. "Is this where Sellemeyer’s, Hive?" I 1 "This is tlie home of Albert Sei- : lomeyer,” the little tot i eplied with 1 1 startling perfection of speech. "1,1 —- —— | (CONTINUED ON PAGE THREE) o CHICAGO PLANS PRIMARY DAY Candidates Make Final Drive for Votes in All Races Chicago. Apiil 7. — (U.R) —I-ast minute campa’gn salvos swept Chicago's political battleground todjy as police perfected plans to avert possible bloodshed at tomorrow's primaries. From downtown theater stages. Ruth Hanna McCormick and Senator Charles S. Deneen, principal contenders for the Republican nomination for the United States senatotship. hurled tirades, the last of the campaign in open meetings. Rad O addresses by each tonight will place the problem in tli hands of the electorate. I’iayers fot' a peaceable election rose from congregations in SOO churches Sunday. More than 1000,000 Chicagoans, remembering other primary days when murders, bombings, sluggings and wholesale frauds blackened the city's name, joined in the -ervices. Police hnnonneed today that they were ready for any eventuality. AU members of the force have been ordered out for 12-hottr duty tomorrow. Extra guards have been assigned to polling places and squads in antomob les will he held at the hoard o’.' election commissioners to speed the scenes of emergency. Charges of 'propaganda of misrepresentation'' came from both Mrs. McCormick and Senator Deneen today. Both the fiery woman candidate, the daughter of Mark Hanna and the widow of Senator Medill McCormick, and the veteran political strategist, Deneen. ridiculed the congressional record of the other. The campaign windup was even more hectic titan forecast by the bitter weeks dining which the candidates x hav - stumped the en tire state. Mrs. McCormick challenged what she termed Senator Deneen’s "record of silence” in the senate, “the debating body of the national leg slature." "In five years in that debating (CONTINUED ON PAGE BIGHT) DR. GREGORY TO SPEAK AT MEET Purdue Extension Man to Address Audience at Kirkland Gym On Thursday evening at 7:30 o’clock. April 10, Dr. C. T. Gregory.! ' plant pathologist of the Purdue Experiment station will give a lantern slide talk on "Corn and ' Corn Hout Rot" at the Kirkland high school gymnasium. I A niimbei of the members of the Decatur Chamber of Commerce and L. E. Archbold, county agent, will ’ accompany Dr. Gregory and after . the talks, sandwiches, coffee and , ice cream will be served. I The Kirkland young men’s quar- , ,tet will entertain w th some vocal . numbers. The county agent is ! particularly anxious to have as > many of the fi acre contest men and - one-acre contest boys present as possible.

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PROSECUTIONS ARE GROWING AT RAPID RATE Attorney Genera! Says Court Congestion Is Less Than It Was TESTIFIES TO PROBE GROUP Washington, April 7.- (U.R) Prohibition is bring enforced so wetl the department ol justice is confronted with tt frave nroNem as to what to Ido with all the violators who are being convicted. Attorney (ieneral Mitchell told the senate judiciary committee today in an executive session. I’rosecntions are increasing, convictions are increasing and congestion of the courts is diminishing. Mitchell asserted. He cited statistics which were not made public showing how (great had been the stimulus of 1 prosecutions during the first year of the Hoover administration as < onunr- <1 with the last year of the Coolidge administration, although he did not mention the administrations. His argument was so convincing that Chairman Norris of the committee announced he would withdraw his resolution calling for a senatorial inquiry of enforcement conditions it' friends of enforcement generally continued to oppose it. Mitchell did not oppose the revolution, but said he did not think it would do any good. He saw no necessity for it since enforcement is progressing so rapidly, he said. The attorney general urged, however. that congress enact immediate legislation to create mon. jails and jailing facilities for prohibition prisoners. He said twice as many men were in Atlanta penitentiary as the place could ordinarily hold. A barracks was bought at Leavenworth penitentiary in Kansas to care for the enormous increase in the prison population there, he said. Norris questioned Mitchell about (CONTINUED ON PAGE SIX) 0 Decatur Man’s Uncle Dies at Bucyrus, O. Jacob Hildebrand. SO. uncle of Ed Green of this city, died at his home in Bucyrus, Ohio Sunday morning Funeral services will be held Tuesday afternoon at 2 o'clock at Bucyrus. Mr. and Mrs. Green left this afternoon to attend tin; funeral services HAWKS FETED IN NEW YORK Glider Plain Pilot Arrives in East; 15,000 Witness Landins New York, April 7 —(U.R) —New | York paid tribute today to Captain I Frank M. Hawks, the first man to cross the continent in a glider towed by an airplane. Out of a leaden sky yesterday afternoon Hawks glided his powerless craft within sight of 15,09(1 people wailing in the drizzle it Van Cortlandt Park, and brought the "Eagle’’ down to earth in a series of graceful spirals, ending the eight-clay trip from San Diego. Calif., in schedule time despite handicaps and a rough trip from Buffalo. The flier, who also holds the records for non-stop flight across the country, was greeted by his wife. The crowd cheered and appeared about to mob Hawks, but were kept back by mounted police. Hawks exhibited blistered hands, caused hy an all day battle with controls a« the light craft was buffeted alcout by head winds and air currents. Questioned about tile I possibility of future air trains car--1 rying passengers and freight, he merely said Hwy were possible I developments. The glider has other advantages which, in Hawks’ opinion, are 1 j even more important, he revealed -in a radio speech. He said it c provided a less expensive form of 1 aviation experience, and ought to c serve to make flying more popular.