Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 28, Number 107, Decatur, Adams County, 5 May 1930 — Page 1

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t William Dawson, of Minnesota, - was recently appointed by Presi- - dent Herbert Hoover to be the new i United States Minister to Ecuador. ■ Mr. Dawson has been in the diplol mafic service for fifteen yearn and ■ has he’d numerous important ; posts. DEATH CALLS DECATUR LADY . - ■ Mrs. Mary C. Archhold Dies Saturday Night at Her Home Here Mrs. Mary C. Archbold, 81. prominent Decatur woman and widow . arfTnei late James M. Archbold died ; at het home on North Fifth street. Htfmrday night at 9:45 o’clock. • Death was due to infirmities. I Mrs. Archbold had been in fail- > ing health for the past five years. She was born in Adams County, > April 1, 1849, the daughter of Abraham and Mary Sommers. On November 9. 1869 she was unit ed in marriage to James M. Arch- > hold who preceded her in death August 14, 1911. One Son. Allen Archbold also preceded her in death. Surviving are three daughters. Mrs. Jesse A. Swartz anil Mrs. Thomas Kern of this city, and Miss Jennie Archhold who has been re- - siding with her mother in this city. - Seven grandchildren, H. L. Kern - and*Mrs. Lewis Armstrong of Deca- • tur; Mis. Hoy Gaunt of Huntington, i Mrs. Albert Johnson of Kendallville i Harold Swartz of Fort Wayne; Mrs. Russel Baumgartner of this i city, and Miss Margaret Kern of i Fort Wayne, five great grandchild- ! ren, and a brother. David Sommers of Deca ur also survive. The deceased resided on a farm t in Wells County several years ago. then moved to a farm in Adams ' County where she resided until 1912 Since then she had lived in this city. She was a devoted member of the Baptist Church of this city all hetlife. Funeral services will he held at ; the home on North Fifth stree*, ; Wednesday afternoon at 3 o’clock. . Daylight Saving time), with Rev. . 0. E. Miller, pastor of the Baptist church, officiating. Burial will he ’ made in the Decatur Cemetery. 0 Many Pay Taxes On Final Spring Date A rush was on at the county treasurer’s office today, the lust day to pay the spring installment of taxes ' without an added penalty. Last Sa - nrday the receipts were $52,900 and County treasurer Ed Ashbaucher stated that he believed today would be the largest day. More than SIOO,000 in May taxes are due. o ELECTION RETURNS Complete primary election returns will be received by the’Daily Democrat Tuesday night. As the ■ votes from the different precincts are received they will be totalled ■ and the results will be given to those who call. The polls will not open until seven o'clock, daylight saving time and will close at seven o'clock DST. The contests on the Democrat ticket are for congress, judge, clerk, treasurer, sheriff, assessor, commissioner in the second and third districts and in several townships for trustee. On the Republican ticket the only contest is for the congressional nomination. Phone ONE THOUSAND for election returns.

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REV. SUNDERMAN RETURNED HERE L. . T I Linn Grove Evangelical, Pastor Goes To Kokomo Zion R"V. M. W. Sunderman, pastor | of the First Evangelical church of} Decatur for the last two years was I returned to this city for another year by the Evangelical conference which closed Sunday at South Berni. Rev. I. G. Reorder pastor of the Berne Evangelical church was re-; turned to his charge for another, year. Rev. J. M. Kistler of Port-! land was assigned to the Linn' Grove Evangelical church ami Rev.) F. J. Stedcke, formerly of Llnni Grove was sent to the Zion Evan-, geliegl church of Kokomo. Fine reports on church conditions were read at the conference! which was in session all week at South Bend. A pleasing report was the one on church financial conditions in the face of the gen- 1 eral depression. Every church re-' ported financial gains. Rev. Sunderman was appointed president of the east district council. a position he held during the closing year. The Decatur church had a fine report to file at the conference. Rev. Sunderman came to Decatur from South Bend two years ago and since lie lias served at the Delatin' and Calvary churches, gains in finances, membership and general condition of the churches have been reported to the conference. o — Niblick Store Closed Niblick and Co., Dry Goods store will remain closed until Thursday morning because of the deatli of its president. John Niblick. COMMISSIONERS HOLD MEETING !■ Board to Adjourn Until Wednesday; Much Buss iness Received The county commissioners met in regular session today, it being the May meeting of the board. The forenoon was devoted to checking up and allowing of bills. The board will not be in session Tuesday on account of the primary election. The members will ' meet again Wednesday at which time a number of business matters will come up. Bids will be received for the repairing and building of four bridges, including the county farm bridge, south of Decatur. Bids will also be received for the improvement of the Mary J. Nib- , lick road in Jefferson township. At the June session of the board ■ two more roads will lie ordered , sold. Th y are, the North Point . and the Anvtutz. road in Wabash j township. RADIO SCHOOL t WILL BE HELD H. W. Thompson to Con- ! duct Night School and Repair Shop 11. W. Thompson, iff this city, radio engineer for the A. C. Dayton Co., for tlie last several months announced today that beginning May 15 he would conduct a general radio service station in Decatur. Mr. Thompson will also conduct a night radio school starting June 1. Decatur headquarters for the ( t adio doctor's office and also for the , school will be announced later. Mr. , Thompson stated that he was platin- , ing to install all the latest radio , repair equipment and that he would personally supervise both the repair , wot k and the radio school. ( The night school /already lias ' 20 students and Mr. Thompson said that the first class would be limit- ! ed to 25 students. Although train- ' ing in radio repair work will be given. ' The repair department will be maintained for all makes of radios 1 and the entire county will be cover- 1 ed by the repair department. Mr. ' Thompson has been a radio ntanu- 1 fact urer and engineer for several 1 years and a number of the first t radios in Decatur were built by him. t

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Decatur, Indiana, Monday, May 5, 1930.

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John Niblick Mr. Nilitick. pioneer Decatur 'merchant and banker died at the Niblick home in Decatur Sunday ,morning. Mr. Niblick was one of the city’s most prominent (always active in business, church and civic circles. JOHNNiBHCK -- DEATH’S VICTIM Prominent Decatur Merchant Dies at Home Sunday Morning John Nib’ick, 77. life long resident of this city and president, of the Niblick and Company store, di|d Sunday morning at 3:29 o’clock at his home on West. Jefferson street, following a ten day’s illness of influenza and a thma complications. Mr. Niblick and his brother. | Daniel Niblick, were owners of [Niblick and Company Dry Goods store, one of Adams County’s leading department stores. Mr. Niblick became associated with the business world at the age of 15 when ho joined his father. Jesse Niblick, whose dry goods business was a lineal and logical successor of a stock of merchandise established in a log house in Decatur more than 75 years ago. Mr. Niblick was connected with the business for the past 62 years during which time he had served as president. and his brother,’ Daniel, served as secretary. John Niblick was born in this city, January 8, 1853, the son of Jesse and Catherine Closs Niblick. On May 18. 1876 he was united in marriage to Mary A. Studabaker, who survives together with three children. Mrs. A. D. Suttles of this citjP. Mrs. O. P. Edwards of O., and Mrs. H. H. Stoner of Cleveland, Ohio. A son, Burton S. Niblick, preceded the father in death in the past year, and another son. Jesse David, died in infancy. A brother, Daniel, and two sisters, the Misses Mary Catherine Niblick, anil Amelia Niblick, all of this city, and six grandchildren also survive. In addition to his business life, (CONTINUED ON PAGE SIX) o STOCK PRICES ARE RECOVERING Many Leaders Gain at Close of Today’s Market Session New York, May s.—(U.R)—Recoveries of one to nearly 5 points were made by leading stocks today before midafternoon following further necessitious liquifation through the early dealings. Under the leadership of U. S. steel, vanadium, American can. Standard Oil of New Jersey and many of the amusement shares, part of the drastic declines of last Saturday were retraced. Strength in these pivotal shares discouraged further attempts by bearish professionals to resume the downward movement and a more optimistic feeling swept over the financial community. With most of the forced liquidation cleaned up, vigorous short covering operations went ahead in various sections in the early afternoon.

MORE THAN 300 I YOUNG PEOPLE ATTEND MEET Dr. F. I. Patterson is Chief Speaker At County C. E. Meeting CHURCH FILLED TO CAPACITY More than 300 Adams county young people, members of Christian Endeavor societies heard Dr. Fred 1. Patterson of this city at a county meeting held at the United Brethren church at Geneva Sunday night. The Geneva church was crowded to capacity for the meeting. Dr. Patterson spoke on Christian Endeavor work and his audience responded to his fine address. He emphasized tile opportunity which young people itad in that field, of work and urged all young people to join together in ‘the finest and greatest work" of the present day. Dr. Patterson gave a brief history of Christian Endeavor organization and told of the constant growth of tlie organization. Miss Elizabeth Cooper, Indianapolis, state secretary of tlie Christian Endeavor society was present ami gave a short talk on the state convention to lie held at Indianapolis June 19-22. A large delegation from Adams county is expected at the state convention. Lewis Armstrong county president of the society presided at last night’s meeting. Several countywide meetings are being planned for the summer months and in all probabilities the next meeting will be held in the north part of the county and the third meet will be . held in tlie center. Much interest in the young peoples’ work is being shown, and all churches of tlie county were represented at tlie Geneva meeting. 0 — Civil War Veteran Is Seriously 111 William Long, 91, a veteran of the Civil war is at tlie point of death at the home of his daughter Mrs. William Lautzenhizer where he has been visiting the past two weeks. He had been making his home witli a daughter and came to Blue Creek township a short time ago to visit a while. No hope is entertained for his recovery it was reported this morning. Begins Solo Flight Croydon Airdrome, London, May 5. — (U.R) —Miss Amy Johnson, 22, began-a solo Hight, from London to Australia at dawn today. Miss Johnson planned to make her first stop tonight at Vienna. The young woman was flying a Gypsy Moth plane, and said her route would take her to Constantinople, Aleppo, and Bagdad. o MANY EXPECTED AT UNION MEET Many Tickets Sold For Thursday Men’s Meeting in This City Almost every available ticket for the Decatur men's Union meeting and banquet, scheduled for next Thursday night at the First, Evangelical church at 6:15 o’clock, was sold Sunday by committees at the various i’ortestant churches. Indications are that a capacity crowd will hear Rev F. H. Rupnow, of St. Johns Reformed church, Fort Wayne chief speaker at the meeting. Each church received a proportionate number of tickets for the banquet-meet, and since only a 11m fted number of men can be accomodated at the dining room the ticket committee is anxious to have a complete report. Several churches i .- dictated they would like to have additional tickets it any are available. The meeting is being sponsored by the Evangelical Men's Brotherhood and Is the second of a series of "get-together" meetings for Decatur men. Oscar L. Gttlihur of Fort Wayne, magacian and ventriloquist also is scheduled to give an entertainment at the Union meeting. Rev. Rupnow is regarded as one of the leading men’s speakers of Indiana.

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OFFICIALS ARE | NAMED SUNDAY Reformed Church II a s Election of Officers Here Sunday The Zion Reformed church congregation held Its annual election of officers and business meeting yesterday afternoon and tlie follow-1 ing were elected: elder, J. Fred Frnchte; deacons. Ralph Yager and Fred E. Kolter; trustee, Charles Beineke; benevolent fund treasur-l er, F. L. Litterer. All offices are for a term of twoj years with the exception of trus- ' tee which is for three years. The treasurers of the various ’ auxiliary organizations handed in! ’ their annual reports. The total} current fund receipts were $4,166.14} with all bills paid and a balance left in the treasury. Tlie benevolent fund showed a total of $1,112 - 26. These figures do not include the totals of the auxilitary organizations. The two major improvements during the past year were the [ purchasing and installing of a Schantz pipe organ and the interior decorating of the church at an approximate cost of $7,500. The treasurer of the organ fund reported an indebtedness of only $8751 with still some pledges left unpaid. 1 Requests having been made by} the General Synod of the Reform-1 ,ed denomination that congregations change their fiscal year from May 1 to January 1. the next annual business meeting will be held on the first Sunday in January, 1931. The recent every member canvass 1 was made for only eight months 1 and the next congregational report 1 will be an eight months report. RED CROSS IS ! HIGHLY PRAISED President Opens Annual Meet of Organization Today Washington, May 5. (U.R) — The } work of the American Red Cross was praised by President Hoover I today in a brief address at the opening session of the organization's annual meeting here. The president said the Red Cross “represents the spiritual quality, charity and sympathy of a nation to the helpless,’’ and that the organization hrdd "a great responsibility in its preparedness for } ready and instant action.” The president spoke before more than 2.000 persons crowded in the limited capacity of the auditorium at the U. S. Chamber of Commerce. In the doorways and in the patio outside another 1,606 were group ed. Mr. Hoover said: ‘‘lt gives me a great deal of pleasure to participate in the convocation of the meeting of the officers of the American Red (CONTINUED ON PAGE SIX) o Seizure Is Upheld Washington, May 5. —(U.R) —Government seizure and forfeiture of bottles, barrels and other equipment which bootleggers can use} was upheld by the Supreme court today in a case appealed by a Pittsburgh bottle company. Wells County Resident Ends His Own Life Bluffton, May S—(U.R)—HI health was believed the cause of suicide of Alonzo Simmons, 79. whose body was found banging from a beam in his farm near Petroleum last night. Mr. Simmons is a brother of Abram Simmons, prominent Bluffton attorney and an uncle of Virgil Sinimnos, eighth district Democratic chairman. 0 _ MERCHANTS TO CLOSE All Decatur business houses are asked to close Wednesday afternoon from 2:30 o’clock to 4 o’clock during the hour of funeral services for John Nib- ; lick. Business will be resumed after 4 o’clock Wednesday af- | ternoon. ♦ •

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Senator Walter F. George, of I .Georgia, may be selected to sue-j i eed Associate Justice J. C. McReynolds, of Tennessee, who has j indicated a detire to retire. This is seen as a move by the Hoover [administration to keep Southern Democrats in line for the conflrmiition of Judge John J. Parker, of North Carolina, as a member of [the Supreme Court of the United States. MILLIONS LOSf ON EAST COAST Fires Destroy Scenic Beauty and Do Great Property Damage New York. Mav s.—(U.R)—Almost the entire North Atlantic seaboard —n region famous for its picturIcsque beauty—gazed today on acres :of blackened ruins that lay in the I wake of destructive fires. Seven states were directly affectled by the property damage, which [ran into millions of dollars. Ali though a majority of the widespread conflagrations were under control, officials feared further loss in some sections should winds continue today. General damage resulted from I apparently harmless grass fires which were quickly fanned into destructive blazes by brisk winds. Although the fires left marks from Delaware to New Hampshire, no deaths were reported, and few injuries. The most disastrous fire occurred at Nashua, N. H., where sparks | from a locomotive started a $5,1 900,009 conflagration. The city was virtually under martial law today. (CONTINUED PAGE TWO) TROOPS READY IN INDIA RIOT Gandhi Arrest May Result in War; Army Awaits Result Bombay, India, May 5. — (U.R) — Strong forces of British and Indian , troops were ordered mustered for | any emergency in the chief cities of India today as the Mahatma M. K. Gandhi was put in a British jail —his most dangerous battle front in the nationalist campaign for independence. Bells tolled in Bombay, signifying a nationalist call for a day of mourning as the man whom India's ■ millions call the "great soul” was placed in Yeroda jail in Poona for an indefinite term. No formal charge was announced. Hartals — days of cessation of work which are tantamount to paralyzing strikes—were declared in many cities where all shops were | tightly shuttered and barred. Only Moslems and some factory workers hesitated to join the Bombay hartal. which was started under the eyes of heavy patrols of soldiers. Troops ami armored cars patrolled Ahmedabad, when a hortal paralyzed business; Peshawar was thronged by troops; the wife of the Maratma led demonstrations at Jala pur where a hartal was declared; all business ceased at Havsari; the Surat district, where Gandhi was arrested, observed a day of mourning and processions of hartals were reported for various smaller centers.

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BELIEF THAT GANGSTERS MAY TRY DELIVERY Ten Men Arrested But Are Released Later; Guards Are Added iCONVICTS ARE DIVIDED OFF Columbus, 0., May 5.—<U.R) ! — Extraordinary precuations to guard against escapes were taken at the state penitentiary today co-incident with rumors that gangsters on the outside were planning a delivery. Pass regulations were made so stringent that even soldiers attached to troops guarding the prison were required to show countersigned passes to got through the gates. Six men were arrested near the prison walls as suspicious characters, but were released after they proved they were unemployed, seeking work. Unrest still prevailed within the prison where more than 1,200 convicts were secregated last week, 650 of them in a wire-enclosed stockade. Prisoners in the stockade were lined up and marched out Sunday while soldiers searched their quarters. They were said to have found two shovels, which had been used in starting a tunnel. No weapons were found. Convict reprisals also continued. Charles Haimovich. Cleveland lifer, was attacked twice and cut, presumably because he gave evidence in Cleveland last year tliat resulted in his partner, George Williams, being sentenced to death. Another prisoner. Rufus Deeds, Lawrence county, was badly beaten, supposedly because three years ago he tipperl prison officials when an escape was being planned. His condition was described as serious. Isolation or removal of ringleaders of the rebellion which has flourished sporadically since tlie cell-block fire two weeks ago, went forward today. o Hicks Brothers Are Here Buying Horses Job and Venus Hicks of Holyoke, Mass., are here this week buying draft horses and chunks, medium priced. These men have been coming here for several years and still maintain this the best horse market the land of the best people on earth and the nicest farms they find any where. They wdll be here all week and are being assisted by E. J. Ahr. The Hicks brothers used to come here years ago when this was famed as the big market of the middle west Then they dropped out for a half' dozen seasons but last fall slipped in and bought a car of extra good ones. They were so well pleased they decided to return as often i ns they can. They are real Adams county boosters. o FEW ACCIDENTS FATAL IN STATE One Killed by Auto Accident; Drowning Takes Toll Indianapolis, May 5 —(U.R) — A single death from auto accidents which occurred over the week end maintained the good record which week-ends of 1936 have registered to date. C. W. Coneway, 69, Indianapolis pedestrian, was struck by an auto land injured fatally Saturday night. Anthony Walters, 37, IndianapoI Ils, died of auto Injuries which, however, were suffered a month earlier. The body of Ellery D. Mark, 40, South Bend insurance man, who disappeared Feb. 16 was found in St. Joseph river near Niles, Mich. Three-year-old Charles Pappert, Fort Wayne, wandered to the St. Joseph river near his home and fell to his death in the water. His body was found an hour later. A stove explosion resulted in death of Mrs. Mary Gibson, !’O, Anderson. (CONTINUED ON PAGE SIX)